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Bradley’s Derby Chances Bright : Girl Bowler Rockets to Fame
BROOM FEARED
BY RIVAL STABLES
Rated Horse to Beat, While
Billionaire Also Gets
Consideration.
(This is the second of a series
dealing with outstanding Kentucky
Derby eligiblcs.)
BY ORLO ROBERTSON,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
EW YORK, April 6—Once
again the “hardboots” are
tuning up for their famous
yell. The report is out that
this is Bradley's year in the Kentucky
Derby.
It’s been four lean years since his
toric Churchill Downs last echoed with
that famous victory yell, but in Brook
lyn and Billionaire, Col. E. R. Bradley,
the master of Idle Hour Farm, has a
pair that may give Kentuckians a
chance to loosen their vocal cords
May 8.
Brooklyn is considered the ace of
the combination, although Billionaire
compiled the better record as a 2-year
old. Lightly campaigned. Brooklyn
started only four times in 1936. He
won two of his races, including the
Walden Handicap, and was placed
second in the Pimlico Futurity when
Privileged was disqualified, to earn
$11,595. Billionaire faced the barrier
in 14 races for a record of six vic
tories, a second, two thirds and earn
ings of $12,650.
One of Early Choices.
TN THE future books Brooklyn is one
of the choices at odds of 8 and
10 to 1, while Billionaire is quoted at
20 to 1. The latter, famous for his
early speed, may be used to set the
pace for his stablemate.
"I like him.” says “Derby Dick”
Thompson about Brooklyn, and that
statement amounts to almost a wild
burst of enthusiasm for the veteran
trainer, who has saddled four Derby
winners for Bradley. He's never voluble
When talking about his own horses.
Thompson considers Brooklyn his
best Derby prospect since the colt's
6ire, Blue Larkspur, ran fourth in 1929.
Clyde Van Dusen won that muddy
battle, but Blue Larkspur went on to
prove himself the outstanding 3-year
old of the year.
Since then two Bradley colts—Bur
goo King in 1932 and Broker's Tip in
1933—have g: en the “hardboots" a
chance to give vent to their feelings.
Previously the famous Kentucky Col
onel won in 1921 with Behave Your
self and 1926 with Bubbling Over.
Placed Above Pom poo n.
T> RADLEY and his trainer are not
alone among the horsemen in
picking Brooklyn, rather than J. H.
Louchheim’s Pompoon, as the horse
to beat.
“Looks like we’ve got Col. Bradley
and Dick (Thompson) to beat.” said
T. J. Healy, who is training C. V.
Whitney’s eligibles, Black Look and
Flying Cross, at Lexington, Ky.
“Brooklyn is unquestionably the
horse.”
To which Raymond (Sonny) Work
man, Whitney jockey, added, "Check
and double check."
The Bradley pair will receive their
final prep at Keeneland Park, where
one or both are scheduled to appear
In the $5,000 Blue Grass Stakes, nine
days before the Derby.
STOPS MATMAN, REFEREE
Gridder Nagurski Throws Both
From Mineapolis Ring.
MINNEAPOLIS, April 6 W5).—
Bronko Nagurski, fullback with the
Chicago Bears when he isn't wrestling,
scored a double victory In a mat af
fair last night—he knocked out Bill
Middlekauff of Florida, his opponent,
and the referee. Joe Gallop.
Middlekauff had a strangle hold on
Nagurski and the referee was en
deavoring to separate the men when
Nagurski suddenly arose. Both Mid
dlekauff and Gallop were tossed out
of the ring and knocked out. Billy
B. Hoke, co-promoter, took over the
refereeing and awarded Nagurski the
match In 21 minutes 57 seconds.
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Spilling the Pins
OLUMBIA LODGE NO. 174, I.
A. M. League will smash all
records for team entries in
the forthcoming Washington
City Duckpin Association tournament
if William F. (Bucky) Burns, president
of this 40-club loop which blankets
the Navy Yard, has his way.
The next several days, Bucky as
sisted by Abe Beavers, vice president
and Carl Kosack, secretary, will put
in extra leg duty at the Navy Yard
selling the idea.
The original 18 teams entered in a
body two years ago at Columbia
through the efforts of Hugh Crawley,
its first president, and Jack O'Connell,
who had a big hand in organizing the
loop as chairman of the Entertain
ment Committee. Last year Joe
Fowler, sitting in the executive seat,
swung over 20 teams into the tourney
at Arcadia.
Bucky's goal is the entire 40 teams.
Entering its 34 teams in a
body several years ago the
Masonic League, long a big sup
porter of the Spring affair,
holds the record.
The crack Federal League will come
close to having all its 10 teams roll
ing, Ralph Fraser, Arcadia manager
and a great booster for the association
stated after he had canvassed the
loop last night. Fraser also an
nounced that the Columbian Heights
League would roll in a body on open
ing night, April 20 at Lucky Strike.
"DILL KRAUSS had the individual
championship of the Kilowatt
League today, following a final per
formance last night which gave him
an all-time average for the loop. His
aet of 419, marked by a 164 game, en
abled him to end the season with the
fancy average of 124.
Sales captured the team
championship, the combination
of Bosley, Edwards, Doyle,
O’Daniel and Shackleton fin
ishing two games in front of
Meter No. 1.
Schedule was in third place, two
games ahead of Old Timers. George
James’ 169 stood as high game for the
campaign.
■ptEFEATING its foremost rival,
Cold Streamers hold a one-game
lead in the A. & P. League today, as
the Worthmores bowed in a hard
New Du Pont-Designed Track
Blends Features of Aintree
And Leading American Ovals
General view of the new $1,000,000 Delaware Park racing
plant under construction near Wilmington, Del. Note the infield
trough designed for rapid run-off of rain water.
BY ORLO ROBERTON,
Associated Press Turf Writer.
WILMINGTON, Del.. April
6.—From England's grand
national steeplechase
course at Aintree and
America's foremost tracks came the
ideas that are being molded into Dela
ware Park—newest of the country’s
thoroughbred racing plants.
The $1,000,000 project, located 7
miles from this city, will be a com
posite of the finest features of other
courses, plus some personal ideas of
William du Pont, jr. It opens on
June 26 for the first meeting under
Delaware's new pari-mutuel law.
Du Pont is owner of Rosemont and
Fairy Hill, which won the $100,000
handicap and $50,000 derby on sue-'
cessive Saturdays at Santa Anita this
past Winter. He holds no office in
The steeplechase course at
Delaware Park is patterned
after England’s Grand Na
tional layout. Here’s a water
jump.
the association, which includes 25
stockholders, but is personally super
vising much of the construction.
Club on the Roof.
OUTSTANDING features include
two steeplechase courses, a slop
ing lawn fronting the grandstand with
its lowest point 5 feet above the track,
quarters for, the exclusive Delaware
Turf Club atop a grandstand seating
8,000, stables for 1,000 horses sur
Tounded by an electrically charged
fence, an outdoor saddling paddock
and convenient transportation with
terminals of two railroads less than
100 yards from the stands. Some five
miles of beautiful hedge border the
entrances and parking fields.
Du Pont has assisted in building
seven other steeplechase courses but
none, in his opinion, compares with
Delaware Park. Many of the 15 jumps
have been modeled after Aintree's
famed obstacles.
The inner jumping course is a mile
in length, with seven fences. The
other course is a mile and three
eighths, with eight jumps. It is unique
in that it leaves the track proper at
one point and runs nearly a half
mile into the country.
Several $10,000 Stakes.
ALTHOUGH the jumps were built
last Fall, steeplechase races prob
ably will be limited at the first meeting.
Du Pont is desirous that the turf and
fences be in perfect condition. He
figures the surface needs at least
another year before it can stand the
strain of daily racing.
Bidding for the best horses, Du Pont
has outlined a program which calls for
several $10,000 stakes, no race with a
value of less than $1,000, and a $1,200
feature event on days on which stakes
are not featured.
The number of stakes depends an
the length of the meeting. Right now
the track is limited to 20 days, but a
bill is before the Legislature which
would add another 10.
Edward Burke, veteran head of
Havre de Grace, has been named gen
eral manager, John Purcell Turner is
racing secretary.
oor
fEED BOX
Apprentice Hubert le
BLANC rode the winner of
the last race Saturday at
Tropical Park and booted
home ACAUTAW, winner of the
first race on Bowie's card yester
day.
ACAUTAW loves the slop and
the boy that led the jockeys at
Tropical lost no time in going to
the front and making every post
a winning one. The favorite,
GOLDEN VEIN, finished second.
The hustling jock followed his
Initial victory with wins on KHAY
and COUNT ME. He finished sec
ond on CONSERVATIVE and was
nosed out for show money on his
only other mount, CRIUS.
If Le Blanc continues to score
so often, the race fans soon will
be playing the jockey instead of
the horse. “Sonny” Workman, a
local boy, once had many fol
lowers, but no jockey ever has en
joyed the popularity and following
that Tod Sloan, the originator of
the monkey seat, had before he
went to England to ride.
Boom Due at Jimmy’s.
SHOULD the bookmaking bill
^ that passed the Maryland
Senate Saturday become a law,
“Jimmy’s” place in nearby Mary
land should boom as never before.
The second floor, where black
boards once adorned the walls, will
not be sufficient to accommodate
the customers.
In the old days, “Jimmy’s” was
a unique establishment. It was the
only pool room in the country
that paid full mutuels.
The standard maximum price
throughout the land is 20—8—4
for win, place and show. When
the law frowned upon his oper
ations, it was his custom never to
book during the meets at nearby
Bowie and laurel.
fought match. Donald Hunt led the
pace-setters with 144 and 344.
The defeat of the Worth
mores cost them second place,
as Sultana and Red Circle
moved into a tie for the run
ner-up post.
Aline Gregg and Edith Meredith
shared honors in the What’s In a
Name League, with the former shoot
ing top set of 324 and the latter ring
ing up a 132 game.
Miss Meredith’s high game, inci
dentally. aided her M. I. N. teammates
to nip W. M. C. in the deciding game.
CTEVE BRODIE broke the season’s
^ high-game record in the Pro
curement League with a 165 for the
Romans. Brodie's set was 391, a lead
| ing factor as his team swept its match
I from the Gothic's. The Romans had
a set of 1,647, marked by a 575 game.
Normans, however, held onto the
lead in the hectic pennant chase with
a 2-to-l decision over the Orientals.
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The $25,000 license fee, which
Prince Georges County will exact,
probably will mean that Jimmy’s
will have a monoply. Few book
makers have that size bankroll.
Jimmy once furnished a fleet
of cars for his customers’ use, but
if race track betting becomes law
ful the establishment probably will
run full time, as the politicians
will not Interfere, and all that it
will need is several more acres for
parking space.
With Washington without racing
wire service and most of the rooms
closed, turf fans will run for the
only nearby oasis. No “invitation”
will be needed.
Rooting 'n’ Everything.
TIMMY’S place used to be the
** nearest thing, to a box seat in
the grand stand at the race track.
Important tracks over the country
were featured. The different fluctu
ations as shown on the approxi
mate odds board at the track were
shown on Jimmy’s blackboard.
The “off” signal was given in
addition to complete description of
the running of each race. Fre
quently two races were run at the
same time. Different tracks, of
course. The rooting of Jimmy’s
“clients” was just as genuine as
that at any race track.
Jimmy’s is located in Bladens
burg, Just beyond the District line.
When the District Commissioners
closed the road in front of the
place, a private road promptly was
built on Maryland soil, in the rear
of the “club house,” which in
truth is a large frame dwelling,
more like a country home.
New BUdensburg Road.
'T'HERE is much agitation now
A about the congestion at Peace
Cross in Bladensburg. Motorists
returning late from Bowie have
to go at a snail’s pace for miles
on account of the traffic on the
main highway.
It Is estimated that to build a
circumferential highway that would
relieve the congestion would cost
(12,000, and the Maryland State
Roads Commission has the plan
under consideration. It is strongly
backed by the Keystone Automobile
Club.
If Jimmy's is licensed, the place
had better get its Road Committee
together early, for the one road
that it now owns will not accom
modate the traffic.
Some day the Bowie track peo
ple will realise the value of a
good road, and there will be one
built from the main thoroughfare
to the track.
With the increasing crowds and
so much motor traffic, no better
investment could be made than
a smooth, wide road from the
highway to the race course. It
would make motoring to Bowie a
real pleasure.
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GALLAUDET SLATES
FIVE TRACK MEETS
Eagles, Cards Are Among Teams
Scheduled—Veteran Squad
at Kendall Green.
piVE definite dates were lined up
for Gallaudet’s track team today
with the possibility that the Blues may
enter the Penn relays at Philadelphia
late this month.
Featured are intracity meets with
Catholic and American Universities,
with a triangular meet Involving those
three opening the Blues’ schedule at
Brookland on April 17. Gallaudet also
meets A. U. in a dual meet to close
its year on April 21.
Three other dates—with Randolph
Macon here on May 1, the Mason
Dixon Conference meet on May 8 and
with the University of Maryland
freshmen at Kendall Green on May
15—complete the schedule.
Joe Burnett, former local A. A. U.
Indoor record holder of the 800 and
1,500 meter distances, tops a veteran
squad of Conley Akin, Ray Atwood,
Kayo Workman, Rex Lowman, Will
Rogers, Olaf Tollefson, Dick Phillips,
Bob Clingpeel, John Henjl, Fred Cobb
and Alden Raven. Frank Davis, Jewell
Babb and Glenn Rice appear best
among the newcomers.
SOFT BALLERS READY
Ten-Team Sport Center League
Expects Big Season.
The Sport Center Sunday Morning
League is looking to a highly success
ful season this year, with nearly all
of its 10 teams sponsored and uni
formed. Victor Baratte is president;
J. W. Root, treasurer, and David
Lillis, secretary and publicity man
ager.
Old Milwaukee Beer will be one of
the newcomers to soft ball this sea
son and the other teams are Tivoli
Theater, Mayfair Laundry, Procure
ment Division, City College, District
of Columbia Dental Association,
Sigma Alpha Kappa, Dean’s All
Stars, A. A. A. and Bond Clothiers.
Stepping Ahead
GALT DAVIS,
Young bowling promoter of
Rosslyn, whose plant is pro
ducing so many entries for all
sorts of tournaments that he
is becoming nationally known
as a duckpin live wire. Davis
will be host to the George Ise
mann Siveepstakes, to be held
April 17, but is busy now
rounding up support for the
Washington City Duckpin As
sociation championships, en
tries for which close Satur
day. with the shooting to start
April 20 at the Lucky Strike.
—Star Staff Photo.
Sports Mirror.
By the Associated Press.
Today a year ago—Horton
Smith defeated Harry Cooper by
one stroke, 285 to 286, In Augusta
national golf tournament.
BUCS PICK FARM PILOT.
PRESCOTT, Ariz.—Hugh R. Mc
Mullen, former catcher for the Giants,
will manage the Pirates’ farm at
Paducah, Ky.
FOR NELL POWELL
Unheralded Charlotte Maid
Creates Sensation in Na
tional Tourney.
BY BOD THOMAS.
ANOTHER girl bpwling wow Is
on the way. Expert critics, like
Ben McAlwee, George Ise
mann and Galt Davis, to men
tion a few, say she can’t miss, this
comely young Nell Powell of Charlotte,
N. C., whose unfamiliar name you
see at the top of the standings in
four events of the National Duckpin
Bowling Congress ehampionship6, in
progress at Norfolk.
Yet her league average is only 99.
"After you’ve seen the lady shoot,”
says McAlwee, fresh from a visit to
Norfolk, "you forget about the average.
She's hardly more than a beginner."
Says Davis, sponsor of the cham
pion Rosslyn girls’ team: “If any
girl is to catch up with Ida Simmons
in the next few years, I’d say it would
be Nell Powell.”
Writes Isemann, secretary of the
National Duckpin Bowling Congress,
who keeps a constant check on bowl
ing talent from one end of the At
lantic Seaboard to the other:
"Nell Powell is a real comer.”
Needs Only Experience.
TV/f ANY a flash in the pan has won
1 1 a duckpin championship, so why
the fuss over Miss Powell?”
“She's got the form, brother,” Mc
Alwee tells you.
“She has form and gameness,” says
Davis.
“For the raw makings of a star,”
pens Isemann, “I’ve never seen better.”
Thus it appears that all Nell Powell
needs to hit the top ranks and per
haps outshine the great Ida Simmons
is experience.
Miss Powell appears to have at least
one thing in common with Miss Sim
mons in the matter of shooting wooden
birds, meaning a dauntless attitude.
When the chips are down the Norfolk
blond is almost unbeatable for women
and there aren't a great many male
stars who, under the same conditions,
can match her scores.
Pours It on Tronsky.
JT WAS no kidding matter when
Miss Simmons recently engaged
Nick Tronsky in a five-game match at
Waterbury, Conn. The 23-year-old
girl gave the great stake shooter one
of the worst beatings of his career,
by a margin of 92 pins. True, Tronsky
was off his game, but he would have
had to be nearly at his best to have
won that night, for Ida averaged 136,
which is championship bowling in
any male competition.
Miss Simmons has a sharp physical
advantage over most girl bowlers, with
her 160-odd pounds well distributed
and her endurance almost remarkable.
Incidentally, there’s nothing masculine
about her except those sensational
duckptn scores which have made her
perhaps the outstanding figure In the
history of the game.
Inclined toward stoutness, she wor
ries over it and occasionally diets.
“But this,” she says, “doesn't help
much because it weakens me.” One
suspects that Ida’s willingness to bowl
any time, anywhere, ties in with the
inefficacy of diet, for she told the
writer a while back that sometimes
she’s “thoroughly fed up on bowling.”
As Rube Goldberg used to say, “They
all look good when they’re far away,”
i but Ida Simmons, close up, is a dis
tinct beauty, her hair quite a match
for Jean Harlow’s and her features
somewhat similar but firmer.
Nell Has Speed Enough.
T A POWELL, in her middle twen
ties, is described as a brunette,
of slightly better than medium size
and athletically graceful. She hasn’t
the speed of Ida, but enough to make
her ball extremely effective, as wit
ness the score of 393 she marked up
to gain the lead in singles at Norfolk;
her 340, which helped her team into
first place, and the 320 she con
tributed when she and her partner,
Lib Bradshaw, shot t# the front in
doubles.
She moved to the front in all-events
with 1,062, an average of 118. For even
a Simmons to land on top in all four
events of a national tournament would
20 YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR
VI/HAT will be the first game be
tween major league base ball
teams ever played on Virginia soil
was to take place at Norfolk be
tween Washington and the Phila
delphia National League team. The
president of the Norfolk club la
Barry, a former Georgetown Uni
versity athlete.
The annual Spring invitation
tennis tournament of the Chevy
Chase Club will be held on April
28. Harold Throckmorton of Eliza
beth, N. J„ won the event last year,
defeating Henry C. Breck of the
Columbia Country Club in a four
set final.
The tennis match scheduled be
tween Yale University and the
Chevy Chase Club has been can
celed by the former because of the
proximity of the war. Harvard's
tennis team, of which Dudley Mor
gan of Washington is a member,
plays here next week.
be a sensation. That a girl almost
totally without tournament experience
accomplished it is epic, even though
her scores may not withstand the
competition to come.
The Charlotte maid, we understand,
first bowled two years ago when she
was tutored by Katherine Vick, Nor
folk star, but remained out of regular
competition last season. Give her an
other season or two and, on the basis
of her showing at Norfolk, we'd say
that the Simmonses and Lorraine
Gullis and Lucile Young et al. will
be forced to move over for Nell Powell.
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DAVIS, M’LEOD MATCHED
Wee Willie Davis, gigantic villain,
and George McLeod will squism in the
semi-final to the Ed Meske-Jack
Hader feature grappling match at
Turner’s Arena Thursday night, it was
announced today by Promoter Joe
Turner.
In other preliminaries Hank Barber,
former Dartmouth foot ball star, will
tangle with Floyd Marshall, George
Lenihan will twrist with Ernie Powers
and Jim Coffield will toll with Ted
Key.
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He kicks up his heels—
is off with a snort!
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