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oor Sidetracks' Citations Coaltown an Also-Kan ANSWERS TO By Frank William, ers Join JL ara WEDNESDAY "faeTfcep 'JJoARD OF TRATE(ry iMO Or-r-EMSE, to rainin ara Calumets Run 2-3-4 in Big 'Cap English Horse Sets de 1 1 1 Santa Anita Record Free Presn ire Service Calumet Farm sent its four "big hitters" to bat Saturday, but they all struck out. The great Citation tried hard to save the Nation's No. 1 stable from a shutout only to be upset for the third straight time. This week it was Charles S. Howard's Noor who did the job in the $100,000 Santa Anita Family Affair Ballplayers Quit Links for Drills But Work Doesn't Start for 3 Days BY LYALL SMITH re Pre hi Sports Kditor LAKELAND, Fla.

Winter's over as far as the Nation's major league baseball players are concerned. The advance guard of 10 Amer -f. A 3 Vfc." AmL BUT HE NEEDED a record-smashing performance to do it. The English-bred Noor missed the world record for a mile and a quarter by a bare one-fifth of a second in beating Citation by a length and a quarter. His time was a sensational 2:00 flat, paring more than a second off Seabiscuit's old Santa Anita mark.

Citation and his playmates. Two Lea and Pon'ler bet drntn 7 to 20 were figured to run one-two-three by many experts. They finished in that order, but behind Noor. Four hours before the Calumets went down to their stunning defeat before 65,000 at Santa Anita, Warren Wright's stable was disgraced at Hialeah. There 23,909 racegoers saw the speedy Coaltown finish out of the money for the first time in his life.

In 28 previous starts he had always come back with some part of the purse. M4SAR6A6MPUSn6D- SUU "TrtVNiiS ARE ACCOMPUSH SO -umo xmos COULD ftWr HOe "THE "3ACOKI ican and National League clubs' have already begun to converge on their Florida training camps, anxi'jiih to get into the swing of spring drills beginning Wednesday. A large group of Manager Red Rolfe's Detroit Tigers have been playing golf and doing preliminary work around this little Florida town. WHILE THE 10 teams get to work Wednesday in Florida, another quartet of clubs will go through preliminary shakedowns in California. Two others are training in Arizona.

For the first 10 days of training the clubs will devote their time to getting winter's kinks out of arms and legs. March 11 the squads will begin their annual "grapefruit league" season. Starting on that day, and run- ning until April 17. the major leaguers will play 363 exhibition games. A total of 118 will be inter-league affairs.

THE FLORIDA contingent will include the champion New York Yanks, and the St. Louis Cardinals, who will work out in St. Petersburg. The Red Sox will train as usual i. Sarasota.

Boston's Braves will encamp at Bradenton, while the Philadelphia Phillies will drill at Clearwater. Cincinnati will hold their sessions in nearby Tampa and the Washington Senators at Orlando. Upsets Fail to Stop U-M Buckeye Outruns McEwen in Fast Mile ANN ARBOR OP) Michigan overcame the brilliant performance of Ohio State's sophomore ace, Leonard Truex, and handed the Buckeyes their third consecutive track loss of the season, 62 to 52. Truex turned in the surprise performance of the evening by beating Michigan's Don McEwen in the mile run with a 4:10.7 effort. It shattered field house, ISABELLE TSCIIILTSCII Mother-son second in in Veteran heads Tourney on 6th Try Boslwick Teams wilh Viola Scotl for 1242 in Free Press Meet I -w" 11' 5 As of TODAY Cap Anson Blazed Way-Made Spring Drills a Must By LYALL SMITH BY DICK aawara isosticK nas Deen The Brooklyn Dodgers will Palmer Park mixed doubles bowling tournament every year since made the most of it under the again set up their mass popular pin meet was inaugurated.

i tion camp at Vero Beach. This' Apparently all he needed waslQO 7i HI TT" LAKELAND, FLA, Tiir nrrn-i'T mrr onrrccithe rirht combination annarentlv. t. v. t.

WHEN CAP ANSON took former naval base will have about; naval ha wi 1 1 Jiovp hnnt Of the Dodger varsity Lycirxwii rrscc rixcjj; Springs, a few decades ago, come March, he had no idea of becoming a trail blazer. Neither did Anson know he was starting something that will SPORTS blossom this spring into a project costing the 16 major league clubs a total of almost $1,250,000. Frte Press Photo TOM TSCIIILTSCII Free Press pin meet PETERS goia nunung in uie i-ree ir'ress- ineredient he reouired in his success formula was Viola i Scott. With Mrs. Scott as a partner, Edward boomed into the lead of the tournament Saturday night i at Palmer Park, with a 1242 score.

Both Bostick and Mrs. Scott collapsed pins at a rate over their respective averages. 1 EDWARO, WHO averages 163 I in the Tann Corp. and Evergreen Lutheran Leagues, cut loose with a 5S5 series on games of 169, 220 and 195. Viola, whose average Is 160 in the Grandmont Ladies and Palm Beach Ladies Major leagues, helped out with 179, 174 and 166.

The combination had a 138-pin handicap. Bostick has been bowline for THE LEADERS l-2 Yj0ia Scott-Ed ward Bostick isabelle Tschiltsch- Tony Tschiltsch Marge Waldecker- Phil nrthman 1227 Gertrude Klash-Joseph Klask i-rr 1200 1188 1186 Mildred Beich-Walter Beich Lenore Phillips-Peter Masi Evelyn Xagengast-Mark Weber 1185 1181 1180 1167! Helen Swider-Pete Pabra GaiIagher- Theodore Gazda Ella Meyers-Tony Meyers in all six of the Free Press-Palmer Park tourneys. Last year he collected $10 and the year be- All that Cap wanted was to pare the extra blubber off some of his ballplaying athletes who had spent the winter months acquiring paunch where paunch is not becoming. The Hot Springs junket lasted only a few days and cost the Sox practically nothing. Spring training, circa 1950, will start tns commS Wednesday, continue SPORTS CLASSIFIED SUNDAY, FEB.

26, 1950 SECTION Wayne Five Trims Akron Guzzo'sSl Points Set Victory Pace BY" HERB LEVITT Tartar basketball fans mav have suffered through a long and des- penny. Not that major league clubs can't afford it. Those weeks provide a manager an opportunity to get a line on new players and thus gives him the chance to go into the regular season knowing something about his performers. Those same weeks give all players a chance to acquire an early sun tan, get in some winter golf, and at the same time limber up muscles. perate season but they will longiio years and has been an entrant the Chicago White Sox to Hot for six weeks, and cost a pretty i a ei xi ciaim.

Alter inose seven uays, to lose pounds he never should off months. The pitcher has hurt a box office yet. Coaltown Runs Out Royal Governor Wins Widener in Photo MIAMI (U.R) Royal Governor won the $50,000 Widener Handicap at Hialeah Park by a neck in a stirring stretch battle with Arise, i Famed Coaltown, the 3-5 favor-; ite, floundered home fifth in the six-horse race, beaten 14 lengths in the mud. Going Away was third. I seven lengths back of Arise.

Then i i came First Nighter, Coaltown and' Loser Weeper. i IT WAS the first time Coaltown ever ran out of the money. In 29 previous starts he had won 20 i times- finished second six times an wound up third three times, Coaltown disappointing show- was attributed to two factors. First, he was burdened with 132 pounds, the highest impost ever assigned a Widener starter. Also, he was running over a muddy track, and the Calumet jet job never has shown a liking for an "off" track.

Royal Governor, Mrs. Esther du- Pont Weir's long-legged six-year- old gelding, caught Arise with i only 60 yards left in the mile-and- a-quarter run. i HIS TIME was 2:06. the slowest; I ever posted in the Widener. but it i was good enough to win $43,000 for Royal Governor.

Ridden by; Chris Rogers, the gelding was a' successful second choice in the betting at $7.90 for $2. if he Coaltown started as would make a runaway of the race, opening a lead of two lengths on the backstretch. After that he faltered steadily, to the disappointment of the crowd of 23,909. Jockey Ovie Scurlock later said that Coaltown "just wouldn't run in that kind of goo." The Scoreboard SATURDAY'S RESULTS BASKETBALL v- E. Kentucky 66 Marshall 6 V.

Kentucky 58 Murray 51 Wash'gton 83 Wake Forest 67; Niagara Army Vermont Iowa Wayne Purdue Illinois Temple Lafayette Wayne Wisconsin Yale Case Colgate Rutgers Syracuse PuTdue Ohio State 82 Quantico 50 53 Penn Military 45' 52 Maine 59 Indiana 71 Akron 55 Minnesota 76 Wisconsin 90 St. Joseph's 67 Buffalo SWIMMING 41 -Cincinnati 44 Nor'western 64 Navy 50 Ohio Wes. 51 Rochester 40 Pittsburgh 53 Penn St. 54 Indiana 56 Michigan 41 53 57 39 74 46 34 40 11 16 24 35 30! 28 WRESTLING Cornell (la.) 19 Grinnell Rutgers 27 Temple Iowa 16 Minnesota lii a 1 Penn 21 Cornell Nor'western 40 Iowa St. Illinois 16 Purdue Michigan 14 Ohio State HOCKEY Army 7 Hamilton St.

Lawrence 6 Colgate TRACK Michigan 62 Ohio State 33 14 13 52 3 Brownies 'In9 ST. LOUIS (JP) Pitcher Bill Kennedy, Rookie Outfielder Don Lenhardt and Catched Sherman Lollar signed St. Louis Browns contracts. BULLETIN NEW YORK (U.R) Bill Slack, Michigan State's easy-striding distance runner, started the: Spartans' defense of their team championship when he won the mile run at the intercollegiate IC4A indoor track and field championships in the meet record time of 4:11. 9 I i i Blessing to Fat Men, Hurlers THERE IS A definite feeling in some quarters that the good ballplayer doesn't need six weeks to get into playing shape "to THAT WAS a shocker, but the biggest blow of all came in California.

Noor, who had run third behind Ponder and Citation two weeks ago in the San Antonio Handicap, turned in his greatest since Howard brought him to this country. In a sizzling duel down the stretch, he battled past the front-running Two Lea and then stood off a powerful bid by Citation. His payoffs were $14.80 to win and only S2.10 to place and show. The Calumets returned the legal limits of $2.10 for second and third Noor, a five-year-old, had the benefit of a 22-pound swing in weights parrvinp1 nnlv 110 tr CMtn- tion's top package of 132. He Entry Loses; So Does State ARCADIA, Calif.

(U.R) The Santa Anita Handicap was a remarkable race in more ways than one. Not only did Noor upset Citation, but an amazing was bet to show of which 8373,268 went on the Calumet entry. There was a "minus pool; of $42,057.75 for show and $17,669.19 for place in order to pay off the legal minimum of S2.10. But the track didn't lose a penny of the 859,726.94 because the money conies out of the state's share of the parimutuel tax. sterling handling of Johnny Long- den, moving to the front with a stretch surge.

TWO LEA tried gamely to hold him off, but finally faltered aiLci tut; uuniiiig rn aim citation passed her by a length, too. Fourth came Ponder with one of his typical belated charges. 4 1, In fifth place came But Why Not, who contested the early pace, followed by Miche, Solidarity, Moonrush, Old Rockport, On Trust and My Request. Noor, who ran third in the English Derby in 1948 in the Aga won it for him previously, but Noor earned the most a guaranteed $100,000. Howard is the only owner to walk off with the race more than once.

Calumet was thwarted for the second time. The defeat also cost Citation a chance to become the leading money-winning horse of all time. He collected only $20,000 as runner-up to send his total to $899,200, still short of Stymie's $918,485. TWO LEA collected $10,000 and Ponder $5,000 more for the Wright stable. Jockey Eddie Arcaro and Trainer Jimmy Jones had nothing but praise for Citation despite his defeat.

3 Years to Boston for the rights to Walker. THE CLEVELAND Browns also drafted Walker in the All-America Conference. When the National League merged with the AAC, McMillin had to make a deal with the Browns to keep his draft rights. 'The Browns took the Lions' second draft choice this year. Doak, 23, weighs 173.

He stands 5 feet 11. une weeK is enougn, i i i ii all else is repetition iurm naiuis swarming ail over me plaoe. The Chicago White Sox, St. Louis Browns, Pittsburgh Pirates and Chicago Cubs will train in California, while the Giants and Cleveland Indians drill in Arizona. EVERY" MAJOR league manager is faced with problems of varying degrees.

That even goes for Casey Stengel and his Yankees. The Y'anks' biggest problem will be first base. Johnny Mize and Rookie Joe Collins will battle for the post, with Tommy Ilenrich always available for drafting from the outfield. Rolfe will be casting anxious eves on the first and second base spots, where two newcomers to the Bengals will be holding forth. Tf Olei-rv Priiidv nnrl Dirk Kv- hoski can come through, then Rolfe might have the makings of a real contender.

i LOU BOUDREAU is faced with plenty of ifs in his Tribe roster. sr VL wucmci 20-game winner class. Other Indian question marks are Ken Keltner, aging third sacker, and Veteran Joe Gordon. He'll have to decide whether the old timers have another good year of baseball left in their bones. As far as the Tigers are con-, cerned, Rolfe may have to start the training season without two of; his pitching mainstays.

Hal New- i houser and Freddv Hutchinson. I the only two Tigers who are signed, have two days to get their' names on the dotted line. All of the other 39 Bengals have been financially satisfied for the 1950 season. They will start their 1950 campaign Wednesday morn- ing at 10. Spartan Fencers Cut Down Wayne Michigan State College's fencing team handed Wayne its first defeat in nine meets Saturdav, 14 to 13.

Previously in the triangular competition Wayne and Michigan State both conquered University of Detroit by identical scores, 19 to 8. While not subscribing entirely to such a theory, I do believe that the long training season is the special property of the fat man and the pitcher. varsity and meet records. LATER TRUEX came from behind to win the 880-yard run in the excellent time of 1:56.3 to become the meet's only double winner. Despite those performances, Michigan was able to build up a winning margin by sweeping the high and low hurdles and taking first in the dash and splitting the field events.

But attention was focused on the opening one-mile run where Truex was expected to pace McEwen to a good time, as he did a week ago when he paced Michigan State's Bill Mack to a 4:09.6 mile. THE LIMA, sophomore trailed McEwen into the sixth lap before making his bid. He held a two-yard lead going into the last lap and extended that to five yards at the tape. In addition to the three marks which fell in the one-mile run, Michigan's Ed Ulvestad established a meet record in the pole vault with a leap of 13 feet 8 inches. The old mark was made by Hunn, of Michigan, in 1935 of 13 feet 6 inches.

It was Michigan's second dual meet victory of the season against a lone defeat by Illinois. Midftlecoff -jr-k -M- Tf mm a fiflflVf ji'ttit in Texas Goli HOUSTON (JP) Cary Middle-coff increased his lead in the $10,000 Houston Open golf tournament to three strokes, taking a third-round 69 for a 54-hole 206. Tied for second at 209 were Le-land Gibson, of Kansas City, and Rod Munday, of York, Pa. Clayton Heafner, of Charlotte, N. had a 210, followed by Pete Cooper, of Ponte Verda Beach, and Chandler Harper, Portsmouth, at 211.

Jim Ferrier, of San Francisco, saw his course record of 65 for the par-72 Brae Burn Country Club layout send him into seventh place at 212. NOT FOR CAGERS Lucky Seven, Says Who? BOYNE FALLS, Mich. Gympess Wolverine High School dropped a basketball decision to Boyne Falls, 115 to 7. Joe Carson made 44 points for Boj-ne Falls. The Wolverine cagers lost three men on personal fouls and played the latter part of the game with four men.

Hockey NATIONAL LEAGUE Pts. GF GA DETROIT 29 16 69 177 131 Toronto 26 21 10 62 144 139 Montreal 21 20 14 57 130 123 New York 23 21 11 57 127 128 Boston 17 26 IS 47 150 179 Chicago 17 29 10 44 163 187 SATURDAY'S RESULTS Boston at Montreal, incomplete. New York at Toronto, incomplete. SUNDAY'S GAMES DETROIT at Chicago. Boston at New York.

The fat man gets a chance have gained anyway during the 58thf nnnnrtnnitv tn hahv his arm silnnp- until it aain becomes i. 1 Khan's colors, gave Owner How-This was Violas first trip toi the pin meet. She came off credit-j" accustomed to throwing from 100 to 175 pitches each game. For the rest of the club, the long season is a breeze after the first week. The ball clubs themselves look on the lengthy training campaign as something approaching a necessity.

They feel that whatever money they spend as early as six weeks before the first ball is pitched in a league game is worth the price. After all, it brings baseball to the baseball fan just that much ably for her seven years of wnff experience. THEIR SCORE pushed Isabelle Tschiltsch and her son, Tony, into second place. Isabelle, a Dearborn housewife, and Tony, a Fordson High senior, had started the nament with a 1227 score on the first squad. m.

1 earlier and that fact never has Chandler Edict Started by Players remember what happened in the! final three minutes and 45 sec- onds Saturday night at the Coli- seum. Wayne University, led by little Al PTit nnint-hnnnv tr nnspt Akron University. 71 to 57, and a losing campaign on a hap-i GUZZO, PLAYING his final game tossed in 31 points a school L.V: 111 tliC lctL 1UUI JUUlULeS Willi a field goal at 53-53. He then sank a free throw to give Wayne a lead it never relinquished. The former Mackenzie High star tallied 13 field goals and five free throws.

1" wT against 17 losses. WAYNE (71) Kmhki.r Condon. 7 Ifi Vanchn.r 4 1 Wolfp.f 8 Mohr.c l.t S3 1 rkn.t Wulkrr.c 1 Staudt.f Totals 1 1 Totals Score at half: Wayne Akron De Tuscan Girl Leads Fencers i a Cowan, representing Salle de Tuscan Club, won the women's individual junior fencing championship Saturday at Down- town YWCA. Diane Bitting, of Highland Park High School, took second place. highly publicized college grid-ders of all time.

IT IS ESTIMATED that Walker received approximately the same salary paid Hart a little more than $12,500 a year. Their careers parallel each other. Both have won the Maxwell and Helsman Awards. Both i 17 '1 1 7 on -i 7 S7 COMMISSIONER HAPPY CHANDLER stirred up a little rumpus a while back. He shook a warning finger at several clubs which were making gestures of violating the March 1 training date.

DOAK FOLLOWS IIS HARTS FOOTSTEPS i ney remainea in tne leaa until Bostick and Mrs. Scott came along. Third place was held by Phil Northman, manager of the Warren Bowl Recreation, and Marge Waldecker, who combined for Northman, an All-Star bowler i who is inactive this year, shot 636, the highest total of the early round of the tournament. He had games of 202, 241 and 193. will come into training camps as newlyweds.

Hart was recently married while Walker announced his engagement to his college sweetheart. Doak will marry Miss Norma Peterson, of Dallas, on St. Patrick's Day. The acquisition of Walker ends a two-year struggle for the SMU star's services. The affair began when Detroit traded draft rights to Johnny Rauch i Walker Climbs info Lions' Cage for He read the rule which states in effect that players are not permitted to participate in organized drills with regular equipment in advance of the set date.

The Commissioner was doing only what the players wanted him to do. Remember in 1946 when the Yanks and Dodgers got an early jump on the other clubs they dipped down into Central and South America in February. By the time the other clubs got around to starting their conditioning program, the Yanks and Dodgers had played something like 15-20 games and were nearing mid-season form. And who yelled? The players. That's who.

Don't forget, they don't get paid an actual salary for training season activities. Many have winter jobs. They could envision a race among the 16 clubs to see which ones could get the earliest start. They also could see their off-season being pared closer and closer. So they asked Chandler to do something about it.

He did, by establishing the March 1 edict. That means no club can force its players to make an earlier junket down here to the land of oranges, sunshine and sandy golf courses with expenses paid, of course. Sturdy souls, these ballplayers. Me? I'd be easier to sway. BY BOB LATSHAW The second of the Detroit Lions' All-America twins has agreed to terms for 1950.

Coach Bo McMillin announced that Doak Walker, the three-time All-American from Southern Methodist, has signed a three-yar contract. Walker joins Leon Hart, also a three-time AU-American at Notre Dame, in the Lions' fold. They are perhaps the two most.