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0 Frp.p PP. A A APRIL 16, 1938 14 M.S.C.-Purdue Dual Meet Due to Crack All Spartans' Home Records Today The Kind of Speed Needed in the Derby The Sportlight By Grantland Rice y- Lead Changes in Pin Tourney Averages Are Bested by City Teams Greer, Waite to Bear Brunt Boilermakers Boast a Strong Squad The Second Guess By W. W. Edgar- In keeping with his character he didn't squawk but went, back to the minor leagues and startm all over again. He came bark last year with the Browns as lien-tenant to Jim Bottomley.

JiP1 had been appointed, much to everybody's surprise, including his own, and wasn't ready for the job. Gabby is. Gabby is ready anything. He takes over a hardhitting ball club with no pitching Starting from the bottom of the heap, Gabby has much to gain and nothing to lose nothing, that is, except his job if he cannot bring about some measure of improvement. On Dangerous Ground Oscar Vitt starts in Cleveland, where some good men have failed! Cleveland's baseball temperament is unstable.

The hopes of tl-, fans are riding high one day and coasting to the depths the next. And too frequently the manage has been caught in the middle. Sharply critical scribes, noisily articulate fans' and, very frequently, ball players who huddled in cliques in' the clubhouse corners, lm wrecked the carpers of managers who huvo tried desperately to win In Cleveland. Oscar knows all this, of course fj t- 1 ii'r War Bridge. Al Mrs.

Mars Tiger Bridge. Running the fastest Kentucky Derby trial so far this season, Mrs. Ethel V. Mars' Mountain Ridge, left, attracted the eyes of many race followers Friday. He is shown working with Some Managers Look Ahead NEW YORK, April 15 Consider the major league managers as a new baseball season gets under way.

This season marks a new deal for three veterans, sees the launching of one big league career, and opens with at least one manager and maybe two or three others on the spot. The old hands starting in new territory are Bill McKechnie in Cincinnati, Casey Stengel in Boston and Gabby Street in St. Louis. McKechnie, successful In St. Louis and Boston, ranks in the estimation of most ba-sebull men among the two or three best managers In the game.

Bill is soft-spoken, quietly humorous and eauy to get along with when he thinks the other fellow is giving him a break. But his eyes can blaze and he can rasp and snarl when he thinks somebody is trying to put something over on him. Ball players who work for him like him and respect him. Few of them ever get out of line with him. Bill goes to a red-hot baseball town eager for a winner.

He will give the town a winner one of these years. Not this year, and everybody in Cincinnati knows that, so he should get off to a good start. Stengel and Street Stengel is no stranger in Boston. He played there for a while and is popular with the crowd. He was doing a good job in Brooklyn when he was tossed out.

He stayed out for a year, but he didn't get out of touch with baseball. He spent most of last summer in New York and, from a grandstand seat, watched the Dodgers, Giants and Yankees. McKechnie slowly but steadily was building a good ball club in Boston. This has been turned over to Stengel. He and McKechnie will be aiming at fifth place this year.

It should bo a lively tussle. Street Is ft gnarled nnd knotted, pipe-smoking, tobacco-chewlng old soldier, veteran of two wars and many a baseball campaign. He is no utranger in St. Louis, either. He won a pennant and a World Series there with the Cardinals in 1931 and then was bounced, presumably be-caiiHe he couldn't reieat in 1932.

WMf11 By Max Henkel EAST LANSING, April 15 (U. Coach Ralph Young, of Michigan State College, today predicted that sll except one of the track records wilt be broken when his track and field squad defcndB its undefeated homo record against Purdue University here tomorrow. Only the mile relay mark appears to be safe. Track records here are only a year old. Many of them were set by last year's Michigan State team which dedicated the new track by walloping the University' of Chicago and going on to an undefeated season on the track.

Victories over Notre Dame and in the State Intercollegiate were high spots of the 1937 season. WoodMra in Hurdles Capt. Bob Lcmen, of Purdue, defeated Harvey Woodstra in the low hurdles at the Butler Relays but Woodstra has consistently bettered his time In that event. Art Bodeau, of Purdue, won the mile run in the Illinois Relays and is a definite threat to the Spartans in that event, it is probable that Coach Young will shift Capt. Kenneth Waite from the two-mile to balance the event.

In the weights, Art Jenkins and Kmle Bremer, both of East Lansing, will carry the burden. Jenkins placed consistently on the recent invasion of the South. Greer in Dashes Wilbur Greer has yet to be defeated in the dashes. He is Young's choice to cut Tolmich's records in the 100 and 220-yard dashes. 'Turdue has a good man to head each event," Young Baid.

"In the SSO Alden Knapp won the conference with a time that we haven't been able to touch this year. However, I feel that we have a well balanced team. The Spartans have two other home meets this year. On May 7, they meet the University of Marquette, and on May 20-21 entertain the State Intcrcollegiates. Spring Grid Victim BARBOURVILLE, April 15 (A.

Steve Stamper, 20, star footba'l and basketball player at Union College, died today from injuries suffered Wednesday in pring football practice. Tiger Averages He walked into the job with his eyes wide open and against th warnings of some of his friends He knew it was a hard job, but he didn't hesitate to tackle it. And he has a great chance to put it over with a bang in his first year. (CopyriiM. 111.18) Thursday's Results BOXING MIAMI.

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Wirephoto Robertson, expected to ride in the Derby, was up on War Snarling Sixto Down to Work He Means Business in Morgan Bout By W. W. Edgar Sixto Escobar, the little Puerto Rican who holds the bantamweight championship of the world, is mad and he docsn care who knows it. He gave vent to his feelings shortly after he arrived at the Monroe Gym Friday afternoon to start training for his bout with Kayo Morgan Tuesday night at Arena Gardens. In contrast to the smiling little fellow he was last fall before he became ill and had to call off his bout with Morgan, he was snarling and grouchy.

"The kid's burned up," his manager, Lou Brix, explained. "He's been hearing a lot of things in the past few months and he's been told that Morgan and his handlers have accused him of running out of the match. And only last week he came to me and said he had heard he was even afraid to go to Detroit. Whitey Bimstein, the veteran trainer, calmed Escobar down as much as he could by explaining that it was just another fight and that he had nothing to worry about. But after Sixto got into the ring and started sparring, he noticed Morgan in the crowd watching every move.

Sixto stopped sparring and motioned to Morgan to move in closer. Then, as the round ended, he asked Brix to get Morgan a chair so he could see better. But by this time Morgan had headed back to Northvllle. Detroit Scores in A.B.C. Meet ll.A.r.

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Punchers bettered their league average by 222 pins to take first place in the handicap division of the City Bowling Tournament Friday night, and three other teams moved up with the leaders at Argyle Recreation The Mahon bowlers beat their league average of 715 on every game as they posted a 2367 count, with Bob Reynolds' 546 and James Stalker's 535 as the big series. This enabled them to go to the front by 20 pins over the sweated team of Bundy Tubing, which rolled on the same shift. The Kel-sey Hayes Hubs and Drums team, which hit 88 pins above average for the lead on Thursday's opening night squad, dropped back to third place. Lewis Creary's 502 and John Robb's 563 helped the Bundy bowlers to their 2683 score, 202 above their averages. Fourth place was taken by the R.

C. Mahon No, 2 team with a 2567 score, which was 83 above average. Fordson Tractors gained fifth position with a net of 73 and a gross of 2608. Heaters of Detroit Sewage Disposal Dept. moved into seventh place with a 2174 score, which gave them a net of 65.

Three full squads will roll Saturday with some of the city's best regulars scheduled for the 10 p. m. shift. Included In this group are the Korbelak Dentists, Mel Dorl's Rainbow Recreation, Bud Stemp-len's Harold Stoll team, Les Taylor's Riviera Five, Joe Chmura's Alcona Recreation and Charles Linkloglc's Winter Garden Recreation team. 130-Pound Impost Is Lifted on Coast LOS ANGELES.

April 15 (A. Santa Anita race track offi cials announced today that the maximum top weight of 130 pounds for horses would be abandoned at its next meeting. "Assignment of all weights will be left solely to the judgment of the racing secretary or handlcap-per," said Dr. Charles S. Strub, general manager.

"This does not mean that it will be compulsory to place more than 130 pounds on a horse, but if, in his good judgment it is necessary for him to do so, it shall be his privilege." White Sox Win Opener from Cubs Early Attack Gains a 5-4 Victory CHICAGO, April 15 (A. Combining five walks and four hits for all of their runs in the first two Innings, the Chicago White Sox downed the Chicago Cubs. 5 to 4, today in the opening contest of their three-game City Series. Each club collected seven hits Dykes crew getting theirs off Clay Bryant and Tex Carleton and the Cubs theirs off Johnny Whitehead and John Rlgney. The Cubs offense functioned effectively only in the third stanza, when the National Leaguers got three runs on four hits and a walk.

Tony Laz-zi'ii. New York Yankee cast'iff, appeared as a pinch-batter in the eighth and wns called out on strikes. Gee Walker hit a double. He Starts Year Right with a 165-Yard Ace Arnold Schultz, of 14174 Troes-ter playing his first round of golf this season, scored a hole-in-one Friday on the 165-yard ninth at Sunnybrook Golf and Country Club. He used a midiron into the wind on the shot.

Playing with him were Raymond Schultz and CulUe Allison. It was the fourth ace of the year at a Detroit course. Right in on p. at .11 Winl ORENZO PACK'S appetite has cancht up with him at last and the excess avoirdupois he accumulated while devouring ham burgers has just about ended his pugilllstic career. The other night down in Camden, N.

J.r the giant Negro, who once won the Golden Gloves heavyweight title and who was considered a good prospect to menace the title contenders, was dropped five times by Jersey Joe Wolcott, a comparative unknown, and finally knocked out. That was Jiwt another do-feat In the career of Laiighln' Lorenzo, hut the blow that east a blight over his future came yesterday when he was banned in New Jersey "for reasons based on his physical condition." In short, he' had eaten himself Into something resembling a balloon that Is easily punctured by a leather-covered fist. While New Jersey is the first state to actually ban the Detroit Hamburger Harrier, it is known that he no longer Is wanted in New York rings, has allowed his yearning for food to put him on the list of undesirables in Philadelphia and he has worn out his welcome in Detroit and Chicago for the same reason. Louis Pays Tribute THE home folks turned against Lorenzo little more than a month ago when he tired badly in his bout with Nntie Brown at Arena Gardens and was knocked out In the closing seconds of the final round. After the bout Lorenzo tried to explain his defeat by saying "It must have been something 1 ate." Pack's reputation for eating goes back to the days when he was just beginning to make a reputation among the amateurs.

The story often has been told of how on being aslced what he desired most for an appetizer prior to a steak dinner, answered, "I'll take a hamburger." And he didn't stol until he had devoured 2U of them. Then he dug Into the steak. His ability as a trencherman came to light on another occasion when Joe Louis, who is no mean eater himself, was being kidded about his appetite. "I ain't a big eater," said Joe. "You should see that Pack eat.

Why one time, he eat two gooses." Lorenzo Doesn't Melt ONE of the best stories concerning Pack and his appetite was brought to light shortly after he turned pro. His manager, noting that Lorenzo was getting wider through the middle than a box car, suggested that Pack wear a rubber belt and thus attempt to keep his weight down At considerable expense, he purchased a rubber shirt, a rubber belt and some other equipment intended to "boil" Pack down to something bordering on an ordinary heavyweight. His intentions were nil right. But Pack thought otherwise. Instead of wearing the rubber equipment in the gym to work up a sweat and thus melt off some of the blubber.

Lorenzo wore the rubber shirt and the rubbt belt only at the table. After the second rural he rebelled. "I can't make no headway with this stuff," he moaned. "1 get too uncomfortable when 1 eat with these things on and get all out of sorts so I can't work in the gym." That was the end of the rubber suit. Lorenzo went back to eating in normal attire.

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swimming titles three classes will be decided Saturday night in the Fisher branch pool. The divisions are junior boys, 14 years and under; senior boys, 15 to 17, and men, 18 and over. Fisher won in 1937. Detroiters' chances in the international events here April 27-30 will be determined to some extent the showing in the state meet. The diving final is on the afternoon program of preliminaries in other events which begins at 1:30 m.

The remaining finals start 8 p. m. The men's 400-yard free style relay will bring together some of the city's ranking performers and will rekindle the Northern-Fisher rivalry. Andrew Clark, LeRoy Ogle, Wesley Webb and Thomas Miller carry Fisher's hopes. Northern's four will be selected from John Smith, Robert Mohr, Patrick Bradley, Charles Bigelow and Irving (Monk) Taylor, all of whom represented Rcdford High this season.

Tops in the individual events is the 150-yard back stroke matching Ogle, and Harold Beale and Sandy Sinkiewicz, of Northern. Northern will sacrifice a chance in the 400-yard relay by keeping Gus Sharmet out and saving him for the free style leg of the 300 medley, and the 40 and 100-yard sprints. Washington Crew Seeks Coast Title SEATTLE, April 15 (A. On th fickle waters of Lake Washington the University of Washington will risk its world rowing supremacy tomorrow ag.iinst. its oldest rival, California, in thirty-fifth renewal of the Paeille Coast regatta.

Between them the two crews have won the last five Poughkeep-sie varsity titles. Washington is the favorite largely because of three successive clean sweeps over California and a record of 16 consecutive victories in two years. Big Inning Does It ROYAL OAK, April 15 Scoring 11 runs in the fifth inning, Berkley High School opened its baseball season today with a 13-0 victory over Walled Lake. Lefty Ken Roth was the winning pitcher. WOODWARD AT GRATIOT or tester' i by HUz F5 Woods and Waters By Jack Van Coevering That Spawning Season Few sportsmen would shoot a pheasant off its nest, or a grouse while she is brooding her eggs.

Few real trout fishermen would go after brook trout during spawn ing time, even if this were legal. Most of us want to be pretty sure that bluegills and bass have completed spawning when we fish for them on June 25. Somehow or other, we figure that the breeding season is one time to let wildlife strictly alone. In contrast with this general trend of sportsmen's thinking, we have a strange urge to go fishing for smelt, walleyes and pike. Some would even like to fish for bass in Lake Huron while these fish are in the midst of their spawning season.

When fish are undesirable, we can understand this. Take the spawners and you keep the species in check. We belleveeVfor a long time that smelt are 'Tin-desirables." Experts on those matters are beginning to think better of smelt recently. When the evidence is conclusive that smelt are an asset to our Great Lakes waters, we might want to change our attitude to ward them during spawning season. At Escanaba, for example 300,000 pounds of smelt were taken through the ice, to be sold for as high as 10 cents a pound.

Eventually firm fleshed winter smelt may be a real economic resource. Then it will no longer be defensible to net them during the spawning runs, when they are worth only about two cents a pound. Teople are still divided over the merits of the pike, but in North- em Michigan, resort interests fav-; or this fish. This led to a rednc-1 tion of ice lines permitted in winter, but we still allow taking spawning pike in some streams. The Legislature gave the perch a respite from commercial fishing during spawning time, but permits taking perch with hook and line at any time.

Presumably the argument is that a single haul with a net takes as many perch as all the hook and line fishermen catch during the whole season. When w-e think of the thousands of people who catch perch at Quanniccassee and Tawas and on the Clinton River day after day, we wonder if their total catch may not be as great as that of the commercial fishermen. Who knows what this gigantic take during spawning time mav do to our perch Donula- jtion in the Great Lakes? Taking any species of desirable wildlife during its period of reproduction is poor conservation. Perhaps the time has come for a lot of us to be wondering why we should continue to take perch and pike during spawning season, especially if we want to see these species increase or hold their own. Old Country Football t.OVnON April 15 A TM British KM.USII I.FAfil fmit pivision PirmiPiftutm Rrormvi-'h Albion 1.

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Facts, comment, an occasional smile in Heilmann's play-by-play broadcast of Tiger games at home and away. Pvrfvt't (or Detroit Weather! The KNIT-TEX Topcoat A Cross-stripe Cliamhrav Up q.a r-r': Pcti'ect comfort for cold witm tven April Lipht as i ffjthcr. warm as tojst. Jr.d no nin'tcr how you wfnr ihc coiUr' best of all, it's ycr.umf Kmt-trx cksh ihn j'wjv! b.uid bcx fnh. ro.

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