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THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1947 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE PAGE THIRTEEN Turf Drama Present In "Preakness" By SID FEDER Baltimore, Md., May 8-- (AP) --Every once jn a while, one of those mystitlying touches of turf drama pops up, and horsemen, shrugging their shoulders, tell you "that's what makes horse racing." Today those touches mo- ved in on Saturday's Preakness picture, » A man who once practically gave a Preakness winner away is back owning half of this year's potential winner at a bar ain price, and a horse who got into Saturday's field on a rain check that cost $3,000 is on the verge of being scratched. ...The characters are Cornelius Vanderbilt . (Sonny) Whitney, whose Eton Blue will be carried by Phalanx, the colt who just missed in the Kentucky Derby last week, and Double Jay, 1946's second-best two-year-old, whose owners thought that he was such hot stuff they put up $3,000 to make him a supplemental eligible for the Preakness after the original entries closed. Winner of $77,650 last year, but a woeful failure in the Derby, the Jaybird's chances . rested to- day on a veterinary report. The medical man was summoned in a 'hurry yesterday after jockey Johnny Gilbert reported there appeared to be something wrong with the Jaybird after the colt turned his back on his dinner oats The vet looked him over and will report today. On his recom- mendation will ride the Jaybird's hope of being among the 12 or 13 who will be prancing to the post Saturday :fternoon. Two of the others, Mityme and Uncle Remus, are still somewhat doubtful, As for Whitney, he has the "big horse" this time--the horse who is given the nod to turn back Jet Pilot's bid to add the Preak- * meas to his Derby win, if anything in the field is going to do it. ty If baseball folks thought Branch Rickey gave them a headache when he brought Jackie Robinson int- the professional baseball fold. they'd better store up a larger stac: of aspirins for what may yet come through the relaxed barriers of Happy's hunting grounds. Down in Ayer, Mass., for instance there's a "break up Rita" move on In scholastic baseball circles. Shown above is the cause of the controversy, 17-year-old freckle- faced, Babe Ruthian-built Rita Briggs, catcher of the Aygr high school Here's Feminine Threat to Male Baseball Dominance '| to. sorry. shame and . then nine. For two years Rita has been the Ayer catcher. Last year she hit over .300 for the team that went to the lague final. According to her coach, Rita can hit, throw, run and go get those high fouls. But this year they barred Rita from playing in a boys' game, and touched off a controversy which became so hot it burned the fingers of those who legis- lated the ban. They have agreed to reconsider their decision. Wonder who's scoutin' her now? "He Went to Jail © Because He Balked At Pitching Chore 'Brooklyn, ~-- Bddie . Ohandler is the young pitcher who "spent & few hours in 8 Venezuelan Ev because he wouldn't pitch for i home club against the New York "Yankees. » this week-end, during : 's National League series iphia, Chandler will make , -his starting debut against Ben Chapman's Phillies. He was 'more 'worried about getting out of El Ca- Caracas. Jaboso in "YI was playing winfer ball in at 241: § {RI i shat (C R i - = dl EYES OLYMPICS ; Edmonton (OP) --A five-foot, 100- 'pound Edmonton gir] Nineteen-year-old Edith Skitch 3 holds more than a dozen titles in track and field events, in- «cluding one Dominion, one British Columbia and 11 provincial and dnter-scholastic. i Part of her athletic prowess is inherited from. her father and Another. Het father is an experi .enced wrestler and a former mem- "If we're lucky and get on the i track and field team, we'll be training all next fall and winter. not; guess I'll have to go to Varsity and take physical training." By MARGERY MILLER New York, May 3--Ladles have chased men from the hockey fields of this and other countries to take over a game that, until late in the 18th century, had been strictly the property of males. The route of men from fleld hockey has been so marked that now fellows fear incurring the tation of sissies if they try the game. There is nothing sissified about field hockey. It. is one of the more rugged sports in which women indulge. They won it from men primarily because their enthusiasm for it was greater, not because the game was seft or easy plokings. v Field hockey had been played for some years by men when women bégan to try it. It gained a great popularity among English women, and in 1806 there were 10 women's clubs in England alone. One of the players, Miss Con- stance Applebee, came to the United States in 1901 to study -at the Har- vard summer school. SHé had no idea of bringing field hockey with her, but upon the request of Miss Harriet Ballentine, director - of physical welfare at Vassar college, she agreed to show how the game was played. Several Harvard pro- fessors volunteered to assist. With ice hockey sticks and an indoor baseball they began play. Miss Ballentine," delighted with the game, persuaded the English 'visitor to teach it to Vassar girls. Miss Applebee heard that 24 field hockey sticks had been left in the country by a disconsolate English- man who had tried unsuccessfully to interest American men in the sport. She collected them and began a tour of girls' colleges--Vassar, Smith, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr and Mt. Holyoke. Everywhere the girls received the new game with en- thusiasm. Miss Applebee's teaching on a large scale continued only until 1004, when she was engaged as sports and has remained so to the present time. In 1922 the United Margaret Villa, an All-American Girls' league star; Max Carey, inset. States Field Hockey association director of athletics at Bryn Mawr. Its effect was: widespread, however, and resulted in the organization of an American girls' team which invaded England. in 1920. Field hockey had become an international was formed, giving added impetus to the game in this country. Field hockey remains by far the most popular team game for wo- men in England. Since 1920 English girls have played international matches with Scotland (20), Ireland (20), Wales (16), United States (2), Germany (2), Denmark (1), Aus- tralia (1) and Holland (1). Their only loss was to Scotland in 1933. Now that the war is over, interna- tional matches will be back on their former scale. Canadian women have challenged Americans for the Girls Couldn't Get Into Big League Baseball So They Started a League for Themselves supremacy of North America, More Like It More and more girls are "going in" for field hockey as a result of having played and. liked it while in the services. There are now about 150 active member clubs of the USFH.A. At the end of the season there is a tournament which corresponds to the world's series of baseball. Top teams battle it out, and the outstanding individual players are named by a selection committee to the United States team. or the United States reserve team. Such an appointment is similar to being named a football All-American, Usually the fleld hockey appoint- ees pack up for a tour of Europe or Australia, where they meet out- standing aggregations, or else plan to be hostesses to visiting teams in this country. Crowds of about 10,000 normally watch the final game in the United States annual tournament, and the girls draw similar throngs abroad. Perhaps because field hockey was Introduced at the swankier girls' colleges, it has attracted and con- tinues to attract society ladies. Probably the outstanding player the United States has produced was Anne Townsend, member of a family prominent in Philadelphia soclety. - Best in United States She was the country best player for over a decade, having been named captain of the All-America team, 1023 through 1932, and 1084 through 1986. Anne was versatile. She handled three different field hockey positions with outstanding skill. Moreover, she was a 'good squash racquets player. A former president of the U.SF.H.A., she was a key figure in the development of field hockey on this continent, Because fleld hockey is not a major sport in the sense that tennis or golf is, its best players have falled to receive the publicity given to other sports lassies. But, judg- ing on an international basis, field hockey is the sport for women. Major League Statistics By The Associated Press NATIONAL LEAGUE 3 Batting--Walker, Brooklyn .417, Runs --Walker, Brookl 15. Runs batted in: , New York 15. Hits--Baum- holts, Cincinnati Doubl Jor n- yan, Boston, Hopp, Philadelphia '2, Blackwell, Cincinnati 24, Philadelphia, 4-0--1.000 AMERICAN LEAGUE Batting -- Lewis, Washington .419) a - Disageio, Boston and Heath, St. Louis 13. Runs batted in--Williams, Boston 14. Hits--Dillinger, St. Louls . Doubles--Mullin, Detroit 8. Triples --Valo, Philadelphia, Philley, Chicago and Mele, m 3. Home runs--Wil- liams, Boston, and Heath, St. Louis 5. Stolen bases--Wright, Chicago 4. Strike- outs--PFeller, Cl . Pitching-- Kramer, St. Louis © MORE DRIVING COMFORT CTS FRON ® PROLONGS LIFE OF TIRE ® ELIMINATES ELS BALANCED! i DRIVE IN'NOW FOR FREE CHECK § 'B. F. GOODRICH King St. and Ritson noad Phone 247 STO Plans Civic Holiday Harness Race Meet Stratford, May 7--(CP)--Five classes, comprising 12 heats for purses totalling $4,800 plus a chesterfield suite, easy chair and stool, are on the progam released by the newly organized Stratford Turf Club for its Civic Holiday harness horse race meet, Aug. 4. |Buffal Topping the card is the Super= test three-year-old Trot, for an runs-- | estimated purse of $2,000, N. H. L. ALL-STARS WIN Nanaimo, B.C., May 8 (CP).-- | Montreal Canadiens and the Na- tional Hockey League All-Stars wound up their two-game exhibition series on Vancouver Island last night with the All-Stars register- ing a 6-3 win before 2,100 fans. The Stars dominated the play in the first two periods to build up a 6-0 lead before Canadiens came into. the picture. Max McNabb, Ted Lindsay, Mc- Caig and Conacher 'scored one each with Bill Mosienko getting a pair. Montreal scorers were Glen Harmon, with two, and Murph Chamberlain. Yesterday's Stars In Box and At Bat Batting, Terry Moore, Cardinals belted a two-run homer in the seventh inning to enable St. Louis to nip the Brooklyn rs 2-1, Pitching, Howie Pollet, Cardinals -- | Bosto Although in hot water most of the v he was superb in the pinches, leaving 11 runners stranded to win 2-1 over Brocklyn despite walking eight and yielding nine hits, Stafiding Niner INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Won Lost Jersey City ...... 11 5 ontreal ... - 8 Syracuse 1 xan 11 nesday's Results 8 Baltimore 4 yracuse at Toronto (2)--Postponed. Newark at Buffalo--Postponed, Jersey City at Rochéster--Postponed. Today's Games Baseball Personalities By The Associated Press Stan Musial, Cardinals--Although he failed to hit in lis one official time at bat (he walked three {tmes) Musial saved the 2-1 victory for the inals yith Fi brilliant fielding plays around ase. Jackie Robinson, Dodgers--Singled in five times at bat and was rol of an extra base smash when oentrefielder Terry Moore of the Cards made a spec- tacular running catch of his wicked ve. ewark at Toronto, 8.30; Syracuse at | gry Ni Buffalo; Jersey City at Montreal; Balti- more at Rochester, AMERICAN LEAGUE 4 hicsdo Won Lost Pet. Detroit . 3 Cleveland Boston .. 8 6 10 11 Results 8 1 9 9 «+ 8 6 6 6 dnesday's 6 Hank Greenberg, Pirates--Sat on side" lines with ailing elbow as Pirates lost to Braves 3-2. J Championship this year and then some of Golf's choicer senior lau- They've Got A "Hot Golfer' In 17-Year-0ld Ace Vancouver, May 8--(CP) -- At nearly every Golf Tournament some junior sensational pops up briefly, puts all the best divoters "Is heard no more." Vancouver claims the 'latest golfing junior genius, He is 17- year-old Bill Mawhinney -- but Coast linksmen swear he's no "flash in the pan." Ormy (Vancouver Sun) Hall expects Bill to ramp off with the British - Columbia Junior. Golf tackle---and probably carry off-- rels. Hall says Mawhinney has all the shots--a long hitter, a steady iron game and careful short play --and he muit have for "Giant- Killer" Mawhinney walked off with the Vancouver Match Play Open Championship last week, Victims of the par-busting ex- ploits of the beardless wonder in- clyded Stan Leonard often rated Canada's greatest golfer, Lyle Hurschman, B.C, Amateur Champ, and a couple of British Columbia's better Professionals. |80-YEAR-OLD RACER ENTERS FOOT RACE North Sydney, N.S. (COP).--Gil- bert Mason of Sydney, NS. who has lived for 60 years and raced for most of them, has -filed an eatry in a 10-mile two-man invitation race hopefully scheduled May 24. . The Sydney River Athletic Club, sponsor of the race, named two contestants--the other being Ben Buffet of New Waterford, N.S., who has hoofed it to Boston three times for the April marathon classic, but has never succeeded in finishing. Buffet, just completed 2 250-mile stop-go limbering up jaunt, has not replied to date. 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