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EIGHTEEN PAGES. WASHINGTON, D. C., JULY 21, 1940. * ~ --
Sirocco Runs Away From Gallahadion, Bimelech in $50,000 Arlington Classic
Win, Lose or Draw
By FRANCIS E. STAN.
The Rookie With the Something Extra
Between innings these days it is fashionable to bicker over the
merits of the major league rookie crop. With more than half the season
gone, practically all of the nomination speeches have been completed.
A galloping poll shows that candidates come from far-flung areas.
New York's votes are well split. In the Bronx there is a lively move
ment to back Pitcher Marv Breuer of the Yankees. A subway ride away
from Yankee Stadium finds Brooklyn’s big vote-getter, Shortstop Peewee
Reese.
Massachusetts is divided among Outfielder Dom DiMaggio and
Pitcher Herb Hash of the Red Sox. and Outfielders Chet Ross and
Carvel Rowell of the Bees. Michigan is supporting a home-grown candi
date, Southpaw Harold New’houser of the Tigers, and Ohio is throwing
all of its votes to the ticket of Lou Boudreau and Ray Mack, the short
etop-second base combination of the Indians.
Pennsylvania is strongly behind young Frank Gustine of the Pirates,
with the Athletics and Phillies offering little competition. And not the
weakest candidate is Sidney Charles Hudson of the poor, downtrodden
Washington Senators.
Word Spread That He Was a Big Leaguer
The folks down at Sanford, Fla., must be getting a bang out of this
fellow, Hudson. Sanford is committed to raising celery. For a little
town it turns out a lot of celery and Class D ball players. And from
the first time the Sanford natives saw Hudson they jumped on the
bandw’agon.
How does a fellow like Hudson do it? Let’s review the case. A couple
of years ago the long, lean boy came to Sanford as a first baseman.
Sid could hit Class D pitching. He played first base and in the outfield
and, finally, was pressed into service as a relief pitcher.
Then he began to start games in the box and when he wasn’t
pitching he pinch-hit and played first base or the outfield. Word spread
around the Florida State League that Sidney Charles was big league
timber.
The first time Washington fans heard there was a Sidney Hudson
was a year ago when Uncle Clark Griffith announced that he had bought ■
a pair of gangling Class D pitchers. One was Hudson, the other one
James Henry Dean. Nobody paid much attention.
Plenty of Other Pitchers Were Faster
But everybody paid attention when spring training started. Manager
Bucky Harris took one look and yelped writh joy. There wras a some
thing extra about this fellow, he felt. He got the ball over. He w’asn’t
fast, nor was he slow. He had a fair curve that broke low, w’here he
wanted it to break. i
There were some other pitchers around camp w’ho looked as good, at
first glance. Big Dean, his running mate at Sanford, was faster. Joe
Tinker, the old shortstop, was inclined to think Dean was the better
prospect. Besides, Dean showed Harris a knuckle ball. too. And there
were a flock of faster pitchers—Chase, Krakauskas, A1 Williams, Paul
Gehrman and Early Wynn.
But Hudson had that something extra. He fielded better and hit
better than most of the others. He had better control and he seemed
cooler in the pinches. Here, Harris decided, was his pitching discovery
of the year.
But it wasn't as easy as that. One day the Senators booked a special
exhibition game in Sanford to accommodate the little celery village which
wanted to look at Hudson in a big league setting. And Harris got a
shock when he saw the Sanford team.
The Sanford Team From Which He Sprang
It was a team of raw kids and hopeless veterans who couldn't play
higher than class D ball. Men and boys in ill-fitting, faded uniforms
.. . players who were no better than those on the good college teams ...
who threw the ball away and committed atrocious errors.
| This was the team, then, from which Hudson sprang. This was
the best club in the Florida State League. What must the other teams
be like? The teams from which Hudson won 24 games to gain recog
nition? Harris wondered. The other players wondered. The news
papermen wondered.
Hudson was knocked out of the box in his first American League
game. He was knocked out again. He lost nine games and had only
two victories to show. Only his stauchest supporters, like those who
live in that little Florida town where the clean, seedy smell of celery
Is in the air. clung to the belief that he was a big leaguer.
And then one night in St. Louis he pitched a one-hitter against
the Browns. He won. 1—0. His dream of a no-hitter was blasted when
Rip Radcliff opened the ninth with a double. Rip went to third on a
wild pitch. None out, Radcliff on third with the tying run.
He's Still Won Six of His Last Seven
But Hudson is the rookie with the something extra. Radcliff died
on third base as the next three hitters went out and Hudson was off.
He whipped Chicago after that and then Boston. Then Philadelphia
and Detroit and Cleveland.
His streak was broken yesterday by the Browns. That doesn’t mean
anything. He’s won six of his last seven. We forget who, but somebody
said once that you can’t win ’em all.
The nomination of Hudson is not out of order. He belongs in
this rookie race. He rates right up with Boudreau and Mack and New
houser and Breuer and Gustine and the rest. When you stop to consider
the homely surroundings from which he rose, Sidney Charles is more
the rookie with the something extra.
Canadian Dubois Nails Angyal
In Upset to Challenge Burk
For Rowing Supremacy .
Bs the Associated Press.
RED BANK, N. J„ July 20.—A 29
year-old Belgian - born Canadian
established a foreign threat to Joe
Burk's American sculling supremacy
today by winning the senior singles
sculls over favored Joe Angyal,
Brooklyn fireman, in the 68th an
nual regatta of the National Asso
ciation of Amateur Oarsmen.
Theofeld A. (Ted> Dubois, an of
fice worker representing the Winni
peg Rowing Club and the only for
eign entrant in the 2-day classic,
beat Angyal by a full length in a
thrilling duel that, overshadowed all
other performances.
His victory qualified him to meet
Burk, the Penn Athletic Club’s 3
time national champion and Dia
mond Sculls winner, in the cham
pionship singles and Philadelphia
Gold Challenge Cup race tomorrow.
A third starter will be Frank Silvio
of the New York A. C., who won the
association singles last year.
Dubois, the Canadian national
champion, captured today’s feature
in 7:45:4 under ideal conditions.
Angyal, who broke Burk's string of
37 consecutive victories last year
and loomed the most serious threat
in the current regatta, held Dubois
even for the first mile of the mile
and a quarter race, but the powerful
Canadian pulled ahead toward the
finish.
The only double victory of the
day was scored by the Undine Barge
Club of Philadelphia, which re
tained its national title in the senior
145-pound eight-oared shells with
coxswain and then annexed a sec
ond crown in the senior 145-pound
quadruple shells.
The lead in the fight for the
Julius H. Barnes point trophy, how
ever, was taken by the New York
Athletic Club which scored 42 points
by winning the intermediate eight
oared sheila event and placing sec
L
ond in the senior four-oared shells
with coxswain, one of the two
“Olympic tryout” championship
races, which went to the Penn A.
C. for the second straight year.
Undine had 40 points, and tied for
third were the Penn A. C. and the
West Side Rowing Club of Buffalo
with 36.
The other “Olympic tryout” cham
pionship race was won by the De
troit Boat Club in the senior four
oared shells without coxswain. An
other national title went to the
Bachelors Barge Club of Philadel
phia in the senior quadruple sculls.
Eight more national champion
ship races are scheduled tomorrow.
The championship singles and the
senior double shells will be “Olym
pic” events as well.
Official Score
ST LOUIS. AB. R. H. O. A. E.
Grace.. it _ 5 0 1 4 0 0
McQuinn, lb_ 4 0 0 7 0 0
Judnich, cf_4 115 0 0
Radcliff. If_4 112 0 0
Laabs, If_ 0 0 0 O 0 0
Berardino. ss __ 4 0 0 1 4 1
Clift. 3b _ 4 2 2 3 1 0
Heffner, 2b_ 3 0 1 2 0 0
Susce. c _ 4 0 1 3 0 0
Nlggellng, p_4 0 10 10
Totals _ 38 4 ~I 27 ~8 "l
WASHINGTON. AB. R. H. O. A. E.
Case, cf _ 4 1 2 2 0 0
Lewis, rf _ 3 0 0 1 0 0
West, it _ 1 0 0 3 0 0
Walker, If _ 4 0 0 1 0 0
Travis. 3b _ 4 0 2 0 2 0
Bonura, lb_4 0 1 11 0 0
Myer. 2b_ 3 0 0 2 4 2
Pofahl. ss_4 0 113 1
Perrell. c_ 4 0 0 8 1 0
Hudson, p __ 3 0 1 0 0 0
•Early _ 1 0 0 0 0 0
Totals _35 ~1 ~7 27 10 ~3
* Batted for Hudson In ninth.
St. Louis - 000 010 210—4
Washington ...._ 100 000 000—1
Rung batted in—Walker. Hener. Susce,
Grace. Judnich. Two-base hit—Pofahl.
Home run.—Judnich. Stolen bases—Case.
Radcliff, Clift. Left on bases—St: Louis
8: Washington. 8. Bases on balls—Off
Nlgreling. 1: off Hudson. 1. Struck out—
By Nlggellng, 3: te Hudson, 5. Passed
balls—Susce. 2. Umpires—Messrs. Mo
rtarty, Hubbard and Rommel. Time—1:50.
Attendance—3,000. «
Punchless Nats
Yield 4-1 Fray
To Browns
Can't Sock Niggeling
As Hudson's 6-Game
String Is Cut
By BURTON HAWKINS.
Creating little more than a faint
breeze with their futile swinging,
the Nationals allowed Rookie Sid
Hudson’s 6-game winning streak to
perish in the arid atmosphere of
Griffith Stadium yesterday as John
Niggeling chilled Washington with
a seven-hit brand of pitching to get
the St. Louis Browns a 4-1 victory.
Hudson's string of successes thus
was clipped by the same team
against which it was inaugurated
a month ago, but it wasn't exactly
the fault of the towering blond
right-hander. He was matched with
a knuckle ball specialist who was as
sizzling as the weather and his
mates wern't granting him any fa
j vors.
The floundering Browns, who only
I Friday clipped a 14-game losing
I string, staked the Nats to a 1-0 lead
in the first inning, but locked the
| score in the fifth, produced two more
runs in the seventh and added in
surance in the eighth as Walter Jud
; nich led off with a home run over
the right-field fence.
Case Gets Nats’ Tally.
Washington spurted into a mis
i leading lead when George Case beat
out a bunt, stole his nineteenth base
of the campaign, moved to third on
Buddy Lewis’ long fly to right and
scored after Gerald Walker lined
out Left Fielder Rip RadclifT.
Hudson was in a stingy mood in
the first four innings, allowing only
two singles, but in the fifth he was
nicked for the tying run as Har
lond Clift singled to left and scored,
through the medium of Shortstop
Jimmy Pofahls rancid relay to the
plate, as Don Heffner followed with
a sharp single to the same sector.
Buddy Myer tossed Hudson into
a mess of misery in the seventh
inning. Rip Radcliffe reached first
on the second baseman's high throw
to Zeke Bonura. Hudson fanned
Johnny Berardino. but Clift drilled
a single to center with Radcliff halt
ing at second.
At that juncture Radcliff and Clift
Q«t0tl*ted a double steal, with the
aid of Cateher Rick Ferrell's high
peg to Cecil Travis, prompting the
Nats to pass Heffner purposely,
thereby filling the bases and set
ting the stage for a possible double
play.
Two Runs for Browns.
George Susce beat out a slow
roller to Pofahl, however, scoring
Radcliff and leaving the bases filled.
Hudson struck out Niggeling, but
Grace beat out a hit to Myer, who
stopped his grounder, but was in
no position to throw. Clift scored
and the bases still were crammed.
Hudson then whiffed George Mc
Quinn.
Judnich whacked his homer to
launch the eighth and Niggeling
protected that advantage without
drawing a deep breath.
Niggeling yielded Washington's
seven hits in the span of the first
four innings, when the Nats were
making motions of running away
with the game. After that, though,
the lanky right-hander retired 13
Nats in order, the next Nat to reach
base being Myer, who walked in
the ninth.
Niggeling was in considerable
trouble in these first four innings,
but with men on base he sparkled.
Pofahl doubled in the second in
ning with one out, but the St. Louis
pitcjier retired Ferrell and Hudson
on outfield flies to escape damage.
Lewis Is Banished.
In the third inning Washington
loaded the bases with two out on
Berardino's fumble of Walker’s
grounder and singles by Travis,
moved into the cleanup spot in the
batting order in a mild shake-up,
and Bonura. Niggeling evaded em
barrassment by forcing Myer to foul
to Clift.
Singles by Hudson and Case with
two out in the fourth inning placed
Niggeling in another unenviable po
sition, but he disposed of that situa
tion by retiring Lewis on an infield
tap.
Lewis was so incensed over Um
pire Hubbard calling him out on
that play, in which he raced Mc
Quinn to the bag. that he nudged
his nose under Hubbard's and un
leased his opinion of the umpire.
Hubbard ordered him from the game
and Lewis was replaced in right
field by Sammy West.
Washington's only threat to score
after those gestures came in the
ninth, when Pofahl, who had forced
Myer at second, moved to second
and third on successive passed balls.
He was stranded there as Ferrell
fanned and Pinch-hitter Jake Early
flied weakly to Judnich in center
field to end the game.
The defeat was Hudson’s tenth.
Baseball's Big Six
By the Associated Press.
Battlnr (Three In Eaeh Leant.)
Player and Club G AB. R. H. Pet.
Writhe White Sox.. 78 313 40 111 .366
Radellff. Browns — 81 311 47 110 .364
Finney. Red Sox 69 308 40 109 .364
Hayes. Philadelphia. 72 264 44 90 .364
panning. Giants -. 76 287 42 99 .345
May. Phillies _ 70 240 33 82 .329
Nicholson, Cubs_ 74 268 45 88 .328
Heme Runs.
American Leatue—Foxx. Red Sox. 21;
Trosky. Indians. 19: Johnson. Athletics, 19.
„ National Learue—Mile. Cardinals. 25;
Nteholaon. Cuba 16; Fletcher, Pirates, 12;
Rllto. Phillies. 12.
Rant Batted In. \
American Learue—Oreenberr. Titers.
79: Foxx, Red Sox. 70: Di Mattie, Yan
kees. 63.
National Learue—Mire. Cardinals. 61;
Nicholson. Cubs, 61; Fletcher, pirates. 61.
Late Sports News
On Page B-2
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IT WASN’T UNLUCKY—Sirocco, l*3-to-l shot, is shown winning
the $50,000 added Arlington Classic in Chicago yesterday by 7
lengths, with Gallahadion second and the highly favored Bime
I - ■
lech third. Gallahadion and Bimelech are partly obscured by
the finish pole. Dit, Alhalon and Andy K. finished far back in
that order. Sirroco ran the 1 >4 miles in 2:03— A. P. Wirephoto.
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY—Here’s Rip Radcliff, St. Louis outfielder,
sliding safely into third base, under Catcher Rick Ferrell’s high
throw to Cecil Travis, on the advance end of a double steal in
the seventh inning yesterday as the Browns whipped Washing
ton, 4-1. Harland Clift stole second on the same play and both
scored later. —Star Staff Photo.
Tigers Jolt Yanks, 3-1, Hold
Edge at Top as Newhouser
And Greenberg Shine
• i
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 20.—The hopes
of the world champion Yankees for
getting back on the pennant trail
were given a rude setback today by
the Detroit Tigers, who clawed out
a 3-to-l victory to continue their
mastery of the American League.
The Yanks ran afoul of eight-hit
hurling by Hal Newhouser, Detroit’s
19-year-old rookie southpaw and a
persistent offensive led by Hank
Greenberg. The slugger had a per
fect day at the plate with a triple, a
double and two singles as his con
tribution to the Tiger total of 10
hits.
The Tigers started their trouble
against Red Ruffing, who gave up
one run and three hits in four in
nings before retiring with a sore
arm. Steve Sundra worked the rest
of the way, and Ruffing was charged
with his seventh loss.
The runs off Rufus the Red came
in the third inning when Red Kress
led off with a three-bagger and
eventually scored on a fly by Barney
McCosky. Kress and McCosky
greeted Sundra with a pair of
doubles and a run when he came on
duty in the fifth. And in the sixth
Greenberg tripled and scored on
Rudy York’s long fly.
This proved the end oL Detroit's
scoring, although the Tigers loaded |
the bases with none out in the 1
eighth.
The crowd of 16,868 got their only
kick in the sixth when Joe Di Maggio
extended his hitting streak to 15
consecutive contests with a single
that drove home Red Rolfe, who had
singled.
The victory kept Detroit a game
and a half ahead of the Indians, and
dropped the Yanks back to five
games off the pace. /
Detroit. AB.H. O. A. N. Y. AB.H. O. A.
Fox.rf . 4 0 4 0 Cr’s'tti.ss 4 111
M C'sky.ef 5 14 0 Rolfe.3b 4 113
G'hr'r.zb 5 13 1 H'nr'eh.rf 4 2 3 0
Gr’nb’t.lf 4 4 5 1 D'M’tlo.cf 4 1 2 0
York.lt) 3 0 4 0 Rosar.c .4 0 5 0
Hi(gins.3b 4 0 11 G'rd'n.2b 4 114
Sullivan, c 4 0 4 0 Mills.if 4 15 0
Kress.ss 4 2 2 3 D’lgr’n.lb 3 19 2
N’wh's'r.p 4 2 0 2 Rufflng.p. 10 0 0
Sundra,p. 10 0 3
Totals 37 10 27 ~5 Totals 33 * 8 27 12
Detroit _001 011 000—3
New York _ 000 001 000—1
Runs—Greenbers. Kress (Si. Rolfe.
Error—Sundra. Runs batted in—Me
Cosky <2). York. Dl Matfio. Two-bast
hits—Greenbert, Kress. MeCoeky, Dahl
tren. Rolfe. Three-base hits—Kress.
Greenbers. Sacrifice — York. Double
play—Kress to Gehrinter to York. Left
on bases—New York, 8: Detroit. 9. Bases
on balls—OS RufBnt. 1: off Newhouser. 1.
Struck out—By RufBnt. 1: by Newhouser.
4. Hits—Off Rufltni. 3 in 4 innings; off
Sundra. T In 5 innings. Losing pitcher—
RufBnt. Umpires—Messrs. Geisel. Basil
and Jtue. Time—2:20. Attendance—
j Reds' Lead lightened
As Walters Dusts
Off Giants, 5*1
Bucky Tosses 3-Hitter;
'Jinx' Lohrman Beaten,
Yielding 13 Safeties
| By the A**ociated Press.
CINCINNATI. Julv 20. — Bucky j
Wallers trotted out his hurling
handcuffs today, snapped them se- .
curely on the New York Giants and j
tossed a three-hitter to give the
Reds a 5-to-l victory for his 14th
'win of the year.
In tightening their grip on first
place in the National League, the
Rhinelanders got to their old “Jinx,”
Bill Lohrman, for all five of their
runs before he headed for the I
showers in the seventh. Lohrman
whipped them four time's out of five
last year, but he was well walloped
today as the Reds piled up 13 hits.
Game Clinched in Sixth.
A three-run blast in the sixth put
j the game on ice. In this frame, an
error by Mickey Witek. who took
! over the Giants’ shortstop chores |
after Billy Jurges retired because
of the heat, and doubles by Ival
Goodman. Mike McCormick and
Harry Craft accounted for the runs.
Craft's two-bagger knocked the final
two tallies across.
Walters just toyed with the Giants.
He had a no-hitter for three frames.
Then, in the fourth. Babe Young's
sixth homer of the year ruined that
and gave the Giants their only run.
This tied the score, since Ernie
Lombardi's single had driven a Red
run home in the first. After Young’s
four-bagger, the Reds came right
back in their half of the fourth to
go in front again, never to be headed.
Walters, himself, accounted for this
run, sending it in with a long fly.
Homer Only Giant Tally.
Bucky was red-hot out there on
the mound. Except for Youngs
homer, the only hits were Tony
Cuccinellos single leading off the
fifth and Johnny McCarthy's pinch
double with one a wav in the eighth.
He walked four and fanned three.
N. Y. AB. H. O. A. Cinci. AB. H. O. A.
Moore.lf _ 4 o 1 n Werber.Mb ft n 2 2
Jurges.ss. 2 0 0 1 Craft.cf.. 4 2 4 0
Witek.ss. 2 0 0 1 Frev.2b 3 12"
Demae.cf 4 0 4 0 F.M'ck.ib 4 2 » 0
Young.lb 4 1 » o L'bardie.e 4 3 4 0
Danning.c 2 0 2 2 G'dman.rf 4 2 2 0
Ott.rf. .3 0 2 0 M.M'ck.lf 4 2 3 0
C'nello.3b 3 114 Myers.*s_ 4 0 14
W te'd.2b 3 0 ft 3 Walters.p 3 10 1
Lohrmn.p 10 0 2
Lynn,p__ 0 0 0 0
•McC'rthy 110 0
Jolner.p . 0 0 0 0
Totals 20 ~3 24 13 Totals 35 13 27~B
•Batted for Lynn In eighth.
New York_ 000 100 000—1
Cincinnati_ 100 103 OOx—5
Runs—Young. Frey. Lombardi. Good
man. M. McCormick, Myers. Error*—
Witek i2). Werber. Runs batted in—
Young. Craft |2>. Lombardi M. McCor
mick. Walters. Two-base hits—McCarthy.
Craft. Goodman. M. McCormick. Home
run—Young. Sacrifices—Frey. Walter*.
Double piays—Lohrman to Whitehead to
Young: Cuccinelio to Whitehead to Young:
Myers to F McCormick: Werber to Frey
to F. McCormick. Left on bases—New
York. 5: Cincinnati. R. Bases on balls—
Walters. 4. Struck out—By Lohrman. 1:
by Joiner, 1; by Walter*. 3. Hits—Off
Lohrman. 11 In n innings: off Lynn. 2 In
1 Inning: ofT Joiner, none in 1 inning. Los
ing pitcher—Lohrman. Umpires—Messrs.
Goet*. Plnelli and Reardon. Time—1:41.
1 Attendance—R 5R7.
1
McNeill Overwhelms
Kramer to Capture
Oriole Net Title
I
Mary Arnold Outshines
Alice Marble as Pair
Conquer Britishers
By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE. July 20 —Don Mc
Neill, the Oklahoma City youth who
is expected to challenge Bobby
Riggs lor the national men's singles
title this summer, today unleashed
the brand of tennis that has car
ried him toward championship
heights as he overwhelmed Jack
Kramer of California to win the
Mid-Atlantic and Maryland State
crowns.
Except for a bitterly fought first
set, in which Kramer, the "giant
killer” of the tournament, matched
the Kenyon College star stroke for
stroke, the singles championship
play was all McNeill's way. The
scores were 9—7, 6—3. 6—2
Marble and Arnold Score.
Their match, played under a blis
tering sun and the highest tem
perature of the year in Baltimore,
was a climax to the opening con
test in which Alice Marble of
Beverly Hills, Calif., the national
woman s singles champion, and her
little doubles teammate, Mary Ar
nold. also of California, captured
the woman's doubles crown from
Mary Hardwick and Valerie Scott
of England The scores were 7—5,
6— 4.
The American pair had to come
from behind to win the opening
set after the English girls had built
up a 3-0 lead with pretty teamwork
and were forced to stave off a rally
that threatened to deuce their sec
ond-set lead.
Although the gallery expected
great things of Miss Marble, it was
Mis* Arnold who carried the brunt
of their fight and evoked cheer
after cheer with beautifully scored
placements against the high-rank
ing English Wightman Cup players.
McNeill encountered opposition
from Kramer in their opening set.
with Jack threatening twice to break
Don at crucial points. Finally, at
7- all, McNeill, showing superior
stability, scored a love game on his
service and broke Kramer to win
the set, as Jack hit two out, double
faulted and netted one. Kramer
never figured seriously after that.
Bobby Riggs and Selby Van Horn
reached the doubles final by beating
Gardner Mulloy and Henry Pru
soff in a great five-set match. 10-8,
6—3, 1—6, 3—6, 6—4 to qualify to
meet Jack Kramer and Ted Schroe
der for the men’s team honors to
morrow.
Tomorrow's schedule:
2 p.m.—Women's singles. Miss
Marble vs. Pauline Betz of Los An
geles.
3 pin.—Men's doubles. Riggs and
Van Horn vs. Kramer and Schroe
der of Glendale. Calif.
5 pm.—Exhibition doubles, Miss
Marble and Riggs vs. McNeill and
Nina Brown, England.
Outsider Victor
By 7 Lengths
In Big Upset
|
Derby Winner Second,
3 Lengths Ahead
Of Bradley Colt
By CHARLES DUNKLEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.
CHICAGO, July 20.—The $50,000
Arlington classic, graveyard of
champions, produced another stun
ning upset today when the bay
gelding. Sirocco, captured the event
at odds of 13 to 1.
Bimelech, potential 1940 3-year
old champion, went to the post at
odds of 3 to 5 and could do no bet
ter than third, three lengths be
hind Gallahadion, winner of the
Kentucky Derby which finished
second, seven lengths back of the
flying Sirocco, owned by Charles
T. Fisher, Detroit automobile body
manufacturer.
Sirocco, which never won a stake
previously as a 3-year-old. won so
easily that the crowd of 35.000 was
stunned.
He paid $28.20 to win. $8.20 to
place and $2.80 to show. The prices
j on Gallahadion. owned by Mrs.
Ethel V. Mars. Chicago, were $4.40
and $2.60. Bimelech, the prize
thoroughbred of 80-year-old Col.
E. R. Bradley, returned $2.20 to
show.
Sirocco Wins by Himself.
The field of six was well strung
out in the final dash to the wire.
Eight lengths back of Bimelech in
fourth place was Arnold Hanger’s
Dit. another 10 lengths away was
A C. Ernst's Alhalon and the Mills
dale Stable's Erratic Andy K was
last, five lengths behind Alhalan.
There was little actual drama in
the final sixteenth for Sirocco. With
Jackey George Woolf on his back,
he came romping home all by him
self. But until Sirocco bounded out
of fourth position to conquer the
leading Bimelech and Gallahadion
there was plenty of excitement.
Alter a quick start Andy K, which
sometimes forgets to run in a
straight line, bounded out in front,
showing the way to Bimelech as
he passed the cheering spectators.
Then Andy K began bearing out
' near the first turn, and try as hard
as he could Jockey Jack Richard
could not straighten him out until
* the rest of the field was rounding
| the turn.
Andy K Last All Way.
Andy K ran sixth and last in the
field all the way. On the back
stretch Dit took the lead, followed
by Bimelech, with Gallahadion and
Sirocco trailing, and the crowd be
gan to wonder when Bimelech
would make his challenge.
Then Bimelech pushed ahead and
was first by a head at the three
quarter mark.
Moving together, Gallahadion and
Sirocco came up on the outside.
The crowd looked on tensely as
the Bradley colt tried to keep the
lead, then faltered. He was all
through coming into the stretch
turn, where Sirocco was on the
outside and Gallahadion was closer
to the rail.
For an instant Sirocco swerved
to the inside sharply as he dis
placed Gallahadion from the lead.
Carroll Bierman took up Gallahad
ion, then sent him after the flying
Sirocco.
Sirocco continued powerfully to
win easily, while Gallahadion tired
but held second place safely. Al
halon and Andy K never were in
the race and Dit just for .three
quarters.
The race had a gross value of
$50,570, with $37,935 going to Fisher,
who watched his horse triumph.
Jockey Woolf said he knew he
was aboard the winner after Sirocco
entered the first turn.
“I had a strong horse under me,’*
he said..
Leonard to Pitch
One in Twin Bill
Dutch Leonard and Rene
Monteagudo will pitch for
Washington today in a synthetic
double-header with the St. Louis
Browns at Griffith Stadium, the
twin bill being created through
moving up an August engage
ment. Leonard will be seeking
his eleventh victory.
Elden Auker and Bob Harris
have been nominated to toil for
the Browns, with the first game
slated to start at 1:30 o’clock.
Tomorrow Washington will en
train for a Western trip, opening
against the Tigers at Detroit on
Tuesday.
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$3,066.30 Daily Double Hit by D. C. Turf Fan
Charles West Is One of Two Bettors on Hagerstown Combine
*
HAGERSTOWN, Md., July 20.
—Charles West of Washington,
D. C., was one of two lucky
wagerers who backed Puddles
and Beacon. Queen with a $2
note in today’s daily double
to be rewarded with a windfall
of *3,066.30 each when the pair
galloped home winners.
Sharing in the spoils was Wil
liam L. Morton of Brownsville,
Md., who also liked the prize
winning 7-8 combination. West
insisted on being paid in cash,
but Morton was satisfied with a
check. Both accepted their'
good fortune calmly, waiting pa
tiently to be paid oft while
astonished mutuel clerks and en
vious race-goers clustered round.
Neither would say how he hap
pened to hit on the combina
tion, but racing authorities
agreed they must have had good
a
hunches and not played tips.
Otherwise, they pointed out, more
winning tickets would have been
sold.
Today’s double is the second
largest ever to be posted in
Maryland. The State’s record of
$6,79430 was hung up on No
vember 16, 1938, at Bowie when
Charles P. and James Boy were
victorious.
! The American records for a
dally double is $10,772.40 for $2.
It was hung up on August 14,
1939, at Washington Park, 111.
j* The horses figuring in the win
ning combination were Joy Bet
and Merry Caroline.
Tommy Sullivan, who trains
J. Maddock's Puddles and Dan
Chamblin, who preps P. Deer’s
Beacon Queen, stated that their
charges would leave tomorrow
for Bel Air.
Ik
Chester Walters, who piloted’
Puddles that paid $88.40 in the
straight wagering and Willie
Kelly, who was aboard Beacon
Queen, also have decided to go to
Bel Air.
Unhappiest man at the track
was Sheriff Joseph Baker. He
sent a boy to buy him two dou
bles tickets. But when the boy
came back he didn’t have the
tickets the sheriff wanted so re
turned them.
That was a mistake, for the
tickets he returned were on the
winning combination. When the
payoff came the sheriff left the
track for the day.
BASEBALL
Doable-header
Washington vs. St. Lonii
AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK