iY 5, 1939

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‘ark Horses 0 Front With ain Forecast

By SID FEDER

‘Associated Press Sports Writer .LOU“SV1LLE. Ky. May 4 — It . k5 lkc mud for Kentucky Derby y, and those snickers at Chur- iii Downs today came from the bles of the "dark horses."

The weather bureau prediction r the ﬁrst. rainy derby since

aha won in '35 gave the muck- hvsrs like Technician. Challedon 5. Xnlapa Clown, as well as the’ lttlyacgarded outsiders such as iiillcngc. El Chico and Heather com, new hope to cope with the ecd cl Wiillam Woodward's fav- el Johnstown.

snseral other, like Porter's Mite, , E. Eoemjs bay sprinter; Jun- s airs St-rsl Heels. and Mrs. liel Mars’ No Competition. found a tugfi old world. The Mite 1; d:ﬁn tcly declared out of the .000 1 1-4 mile classic Saturday cause, his handlers explained, he us’, i~n't right."

Steel Heels‘ slim chances of rting hung in the balance as urr Bell and trainer Frank Let- ier argued it out. Bell didn't ink the hOms of the brown son

l-lnrry Baker were worth the I entrv fee.

Mrs. Mars ﬁnally decided to rt On Location, a bav coll: bv

dy-Cinema. rather than No mpefition. because of On Loca- n's recent workouts.

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Saint John Bowling Team 0n Visit Here

The Saint John city Ponce DWWUIIB team Will appear against two local teams in games of candle pins at the Charlottetown Alleys today They will bowl against a 1113115 team in the afternoon and against the Plymouth Rocks lad_ ies team in the evening,

Baseball's Big Six

(Billlﬂ! (ﬁrst 3 in each league ‘(30 or more at. bats)

I o. AB R H Pct. lhazzera, Browns 8 30 1017 .567 Ma)’. Phillies 12 as a 1v .447 Kuhel. White Sox 1a 5v 12 25 .439 GNEYIbETEY. Tigers 14 53 12 23 .434 Myers. eds 11 as a 1s .429 Heck. Cubs l3 53 8 20 .377

Runs Battcd ln-American Lea- gue: Greenberg, Tigers, 14; Hoag. Browns, 14; Selkirk. Yankees, 14: Wright, Enators. 13; Etlen Ath. letics. l2. National League: Good- man. Reds. 14; Cuccinello. Bees. ‘.12 Arncvich, Phlls. 10: Ott. Giants 10: Camilll. Dodgers, 10.

Home Runs-American League: ‘i-reenberg. Tigers. 4: Gehrlnger, Tigers. 3: Selkirk. Yankees, 3; Wil- lams, Red Sox, 3. National Lea- gue: Camflli. Dodgers, 3; Ott, Giants. 3: Goodman, Reds, 3;

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Royals Beat Orioles In Home Debut

MONTREAL, May ir-Maiiager Burlelgh Grimes and his Montreal Royab made their 1039 debut be- fore home fans a thorough success by frcuncina Baltimore Orioles 8-1 today. A welcoming crowd of 5.500 attended.

With left-handed Kemp Wicker Ditching a brilliant four-hit. game for his fourth win oi the season against no defeats, Royals pound- ed Harry Matuzak and Bill Hud- son, right-handers, for a dozen blows good for 1'7 bases. as they included three doubles and a triple. The victory gave R/yyals sole possession of second place. half a game behind the pace-set- tinil Jersey City Giants.

At Toronto an opening day crowd oi 9.000 sow cit-Leaf Jake Monty scatter six Toronto safeties to such good effect that Syracuse Chiefs carried ofi a 4-1 decision.

Rookie Babe Marchildon. who was lifted for a pinch-hitter in the eighth. and Johnny Pezzuilo who finished were 141411.61 f0!‘ 13 H165. but the former was fairly effec- tive in the pinches, leaving 12 Chiefs stranded.

With their new freshmen stars almost completely stealing the show, Buffalo Bisons inaugurated the home season with a 7-4 triumph over the league leading Jersey Giants before an overflow crrwd of l6 054.

Marius Russo pitched three innings for Newark Bears and H01 r-redit fcr a ‘1-5 victory over R0- rhvest-cr Red Wings as Johnny Noah's Bruins spoiled the Wings‘ opener for 13.590 paving wslem- ers.

Bucs Defeat

NEW YORK. May 4- (AP) - Bonvbing Bill Lee off the mOII-nd 1n the third inning, Brooklyn Dodgers handed Chicago Cubs their third straight setback 6-2 today.

Cletus Elwood Pcffenberger. for- mer American League playboy, started for Brooklyn and gave _up two singles and two walks. fvrcln in a run, before Van Mun o coul be rushed to the box in t e first. frame.

Thereafter Mungo held the Cubs scoreless until Stan Hack homer- ed in the ninth. Although old Ira Hutchinson finished the final in- ning, Mungo got credit for his first victory of the season.

Two home runs by Jim Tobin and John Rlzzo plus the effective one-hit relief pitching of Russ Bauers gave Pittsburgh Pirates a 6-4 win over the Phillies for their third straight triumph.

Tobin homered with two on in the second inning. Rlzm led off in the third with his roundtripper, sending Max Butcher to the show- ers.

New York Giants battled from behind to give rookie Manny Salvo his first pitching victory of the season and Lean Lonnie Warneke of St. Louis Cardinals his first. defeat 6-3.

The Cardinal: scored all their runs in the first inning when Jimmy Brown trippled and scored on an infield out and Johnny Mize clouted his third home run of the season after Oe Médwlck walked.

Salvo weathered this storm and gave up only four hits in the next. eight innings for a. total of seven.

AMERICAN LEAGUE NEW YORK, May 4—(AP)— Bobby Feller‘s old fault. wildness. caught up with him in Cleveland again today and gave New York Yanke§swa_10;6 IO-innlngiictory

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A meeting of all baseball play- ers in the eastern section of the cit-y anxious to try for a place on th-c Eastern Stars team this season ‘s called for tonight at. the Holy Name Hall at 8 o'clock sharp. Ev- eryone considering nlaving ball are asked l0 make it r, point to attend and all ar-e assured cf an even chance of catching a berth on the squad.

Blue Peter Still Epsom Favorite

(Canadian Press Cable)

LONDON, May 4—'I‘he Earl of Rosebcrys Blue Peter. winner of the Two Thousand, Guineas last Week, continued as 7 to 2 favorite to win the Derby at Epsom May 24 in the callover of odds at the Victoria Club here tonight.

Admirals Walk. second in the Guineas and 7 to l second choioe_ in Monday's callové}, to 10 to 1 with

eliopolis third favorite at 100 to 9.

Snooker

Carl McKenna, the winner of the first. section of the Provincial Snooker Tournament won his way to the semi-finals of’ tho second section when he defeated Ralph Bevan two games to one last. night Five players remain in the running and the draw took place following this match and resulted in Dan McCallum getting the bye. On Monday night Eric Larter meets Stan Ryan. and on Tuesday night Carl MsKenna meets Arthur Pet- erson The officials for last nights

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For Third Straight Win; Yankees Turn Back Tribe

over Cleveland Indium although the “slugging champions" were guthlt ill-ii for the second straight ay.

The Yankees drew a dozen pass- es to first and 10 of them came from Feller who won three games and lost none prior to today's cat- astrophe. Four walks, one single and an error supplied New York its four winning runs in the extra chapter.

Except for the second and third innings when he struck out five men. Feller was of! form. He gave up 10 hits before being relieved w1th none out in the 10th.

George Selkirk hit. his third home run of the season behind singles by Torn Henrich and Char- ley Keller in the fourth.

Washington's ﬁve-game winning streak and its hold on third place both gave way before Chicago Whitesox, who took over thethird rung by defeating the Senators 4-3. A walk and rookie Ken Silves- tri‘s homer in the second inning gave the 80x their first two runs oﬂ Ken Chase. Another walk and successive singles by Gee Walker, Luke Appling and Eric McNair brought two more in the third.

Jack Kramer, recruit hurler. won his second game for Si. Louis Browns by defeating Philadelphia Athletics 9-8 with Mel Mazzera and Myril Hoag furnishing the slugging.

Mazzera cracked out. two home runs, each with a mate on base. and a single to drive four rims across, while Hoag contrbuted a triple with two on the paths and two s'ngles to ba‘, in three runs.

Boston Red Sox came from be- hind to defeat Detroit ‘Tigers 7-6 with the aid of two homers bvTed Williams, ‘ookie outﬁelder, wh‘ch drove in five runs.

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D. McDonald 147 108 108 L. Corrigan '14 8i; 110-635 R. Duncan 153 120 129 L, McDougall 1a '11 se-oaz M, Dowling 83 123 110 1 Dougan 9'7 '18 B3~574 C. LeClalr 118 101 121 M. Canaght?!‘ 63 '75 96-574 V. Pineau 115 118 129 H. McAusland 72 61 68458 G. McMahon 89 121 124 _ G. Hughes 68 82 66-5o0 J. Hughes 85 112 96 B. Miclnnll B5 91 78-647 R. Doiron 133 114 112 M. Connolly 50 55 71-635 V. Coyle 112 100 113 A. Wisener 62 82 60-534 I‘1_ Y-Yemphlll 75 1Z1 '15 D. Coyle 81 73 92—51B A. Kelly 1Z3 117 108 Mrs. Kelly 43 60 44-495 Tonight. A! ‘I 0'Clock LADIES GENTS F, Tierney I. Rogers Geo Young M_ Dsugan C, McDonald V. Mclnnis J. Kenny q Qggdy B. Callaghan G. Doyle Rev. W. Keefe _._i_ T. Campbell 1)_ Qgf/wgy G. Lafferty J Kirwin Dick Brown M Clinton L. DesRoche N Kirwln T. McAdam D. Curley

UIIARLOTTETOWN ALLEYS

Last night at the Charlottetown Alle the Five Aces defeated Ted's Tax four points to one but were eliminated by one quarter of a point, needing four and one quar- ter points to win ird position.

The final standing of the City League is as follows: Ted's Taxi draws a bye with Jimmy's Taxi and Hoops bowling of‘! in the semi-finals which begin on Mon- day night at seven o-m- sharp-

Followlrlg the the scores:

‘Pod’ Taxi — — — — -- -— 3199

Five Aces — — — — — — 3339

High single-N. J. Clow. 2'18.

High three-N. J. Clow, 195

In the mixed elimination tour- nament. Praughi. and McKenna defeated Smith and McNeill by one hundred and sixty-ﬁve pins. final game this

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Simmerings Around The Sport Front

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Canadian Prels Stuff Writ-GI

NEW YORK. May 4—Out Chi- cago way they are singing the praises oi young Billy Marquart... The Winnipeg lightweight was hailed as a possible future oppon- ent. for world champion Henry Armstrong after Billy slashed his way to an impressive win over “Irish Eddie" Brink last night.... When “Billy the Kid" pulled the trigger on his right hand hayrnak- er. Brink urent down for counts of six and ﬂve....Gene Kessler, Chi- cago Times boxing writer said: "Billy is still several ﬁghts from the top row but he surely is 0n his way" “Look out Henry!!!

The current chill weather is tough on the ball clubs but tough- er on the pro golfers ...’I'he ball teams can get some cf their mon- ey back with doubleheaders later in the seasonmhut no matter what kind of season is ahead, rev- enue lost by golf orcs in lviarch and April is dead dinero.

Leland Stanford MacPhail moves up a step....Scrving as vice-presi- dent and business manager of the Dodgers. MacPhail has now been boosted to president to succeed the late Stephen MCKCCVEiZHlECldQﬂ- tally Leland Stanford rates every club in the National Lie-agile ex- cept the Phils a pennant conten- der....With Dodgers cracking the ﬁrst division today. he may be riizht....Detrolt industrialists are safd to have pledged $4 000.000 to validate a bid for the 1044 Olym- p cs.

Without Frankie Frisch St. Louis Cardinals don't seem the same at all .,.0i that rollickng crew that won the 1934 world series only three remain. . Pepper Martin. Paul Dean and Joe Medwiek....Ten years ago Hugh Forgie was a newsboy in Brantforcl. Ont...Now he's winding un a 40-week’ term at London's Palladium with his badminton act. a record run 1hr a variety turn.

HAIVIMERS TO TOUR.

(By The Canadian Press)

BERLiIN—West Ham Unitedsoc- cer team has accepted an invita- tion to tour Germany at the close of the current English campaign. The Londoners take the place of Everton, who declined.

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l Miniature Rifle Club Hold Annual Dinner

Captain D. N. Bell was re-eleet- ed president of No. 8 Signals Co. Miniature Rifle Club at the Club's annual dinner held lost night at the Armouries, with Major W. A. Smith elected as honorary presi- dent. Othcr officers included ER. Burke as vice-president. A.D. Mc- Masicr as secretary-treasurer and range officer and an executive composed of Messrs. Doug. Mayne, E. R. Burke and Foster Burke.

As is always the case the dinner proved to be another of the en- joyable affairs that the Club is noted for. with the reports of the various officers plainly indicating that the Club had enjoyed one of the brat seasons in it's history. Shooting among all members had shown a decided improvementwlth the Club team placing third in the Domin"on of Canada competition and Ralph E. Jenkins the ' ' the D:m‘ninn small ‘*~-~ Fons with a gross of 93 and Earl R. Burke t aggregate for the seasons with the brillani average of 96.3 ‘rlun: up in 3B shoots held during

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the cornering. 1n h..- remarks President Bell complimented the Club on the success that had at- tended its efforts this past year, and he sincerely honed that next year would agrtn mark ascason just amsucccssful if not niore so than the one just closed. _ Seixctarv Earl Burke in review- ing the year's work stated thatihe Club ho doubt had enjoyed one of its best years. The team that had competed in the Dominion of Canada shoot had placed third and the Club were at present awaiting the report of the Maritime shoot. 44 members had been enrolled for the season. the secretary stated. and attendances had been well k-cpt up during the various shoots staged durin: the season. The ﬁn- Hriﬁal POfVllllnn Cf the club was also sound and the speaker saw no reason wliy the Club could not have an even better season next year.

A. D. MacMastcr then gave a concise report ni the four Domin- ion competitions the Club had taken part in, giviny the various purposes and aims realized by the members taking part.

Fcilowing is Mr. report. on the shoots.

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Dominion Small Bore Competitions Class A-Possible, i800; Class B,

1746: R. E. Jenkins—l744 for 963$‘, E. R. Burke-Hid for 96.7%. (Majon-YIH fol 953%

A.D. MacMaster-lﬂlii for 96.16%. D. L. Rice-WW for 93.88%.

D. E. Mayne—l67'i for 93.16% W. H. Kelly—l6'l5 for 93.05%.

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Class A Possible 2400 Jenkins, Burke, MaoMaater, Biol I Class B Possible 2328 Major W.A. Smith, Kellyjvfayno, E. A. Smith.

Pain Aggregate

Class A Possible 1200 Jenkins. Burke-—l15'7 for 964%‘ lViacMasier. aim-its": for 94.58"?" Mai. W. A, Smith. Maytne-JISS

for 9411C. Kell , E. A. Smith-ION for 91.5%.

Other speakers heard during the evening were Lteutcnant Allan J. Mvitabe. Sergeant Hancock, and Mcssrs. Ralnh Jenkins. Art Spil- lett. Dow: Mavne. Foster Pickard and A. D. Maclviaster. .

Step-dancing by Frank Hughes, recitaiions by Angus MaoMastors, and then a sing song bv c7 as- sembled closed as delightful an r-ﬂalr as has been held in Itiha Club's history.

Music was supplied ‘nv Barry Yorsion on the piano and Keith Robinson on the guitar and har- mcvﬁca.

One of the most bleasing feat- ures of the evening was the pres- entation to Mr. William Smith, caretaker of the Armouries. Mr. Smith, who is well known by ev- ervnne connected with the ouries has rendered valuable ser- vice to the Cit-h in nast years and in a few brief woods thanked the Mvs for their nresent. after which ‘be entire assembly iolned in sir":- ina "Th" He's A Jolly Good Fch ow.’

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