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NBA Backs Illinois
In Barring Fighters
Ousted by Army
•y tin A»ociot*d Prm
PATERSON, N. J„ Sept. 30.—The
National Boxing Association con
curred today with the Illinois Ath
letic Commission In “rejecting any
participant In boxing who has not
fulfilled his trust to his country.”
Hie action, announced by NBA
President Abe Jv Greene, was In con
nection with the status of Rocky
Graziano, middleweight champion.
Roy D. Keehn, Illinois commis
sion member, said in Chicago that
Illinois had accepted the War De
partment’s record of Pvt. Rocco
Barbella as that of Graziano. The
record showed that Barbella was
convicted, sentenced and dishonor
ably discharged from the Army on
a charge of being absent without
leave in 1942.
Will Check Into Case.
Greene issued a statement saying
the NBA would “most certainly
check thoroughly Into the newly
revealed circumstances Involving
nocxy uraziano, ana aaaea:
"Newspaper report* quote his
manager as saying that he has
official papers to show that, in some
manner, the boxer was cleared of a
dishonorable discharge. We shall
check wit hthe War Department
to get the true story of the entire
matter.
“If Graziano can establish his
innocence he will get every oppor
tunity to do so.
“Meantime, NBA concurs with its
member State of Illinois in reject
ing any participant in boxing who
has not fiulfilled His trust to his
country.”
Signed by Both Names.
“Graziano's application for a per
mit to fight Tony Zale here last July
16 was signed by both names—Rocco
Barbella and Rocky Graziano,”
Keehn declared in Chicago.
Keehn said the commission had
attempted to get Graziano's record
from the War Department before the
July 16 fight in which Graziano took
the title from Tony Zale by technical
knockout in the Chicago Stadium.
He said the request was refused.
Gov Dwight H. Green said that if
the information had been available
then, the fight would not have been
permitted.
Graziano, who live* in Brooklyn,
could not be reached for comment,
but his manager, Irving Cohen, said
in New York that he had in his
possession a letter from John D.
Fromm, assistant adjutant at the
Leavenworth prison, which he said
stated that Barbella's dishonorable
discharge was “suspended.”
Duck Stamp Sales Net
More Than 13 Million
Duck stamps shales netted more
then $13,000,000 for waterfowl res
toration and conservation since they
were first Issued in 1934, the Fish
and Wildlife Service has reported.
Since 1939, more than 10,000,000
of the $1 stamps have been sold to
hunters of ducks, geese and brant.
The largest number, 1,725,505 were
sold last year, according to the
AaeArfotoH Prncc
Cards Acquire Pitcher
ST. LOUIS, Sept. 30 (/P).—'The St.
Louis Cardinals have purchased the
contract of Pitcher Raymond Aus
tin Yochim from Rochester of the
International League, the club has
announced. The righthander won
14 and lost 15 for Rochester this
year.
Grid Coach's Son, 4,
Tips Dad on Foe
•y AtMciatod Prm
LEXINGTON, Va., Sept. 30 —
Washington and Lee’s football
opponents had better be wary of
intruders In their private huddles
this season.
The Generals have their own
version of fifth-column tactics.
When W. and L., recent op
ponents of the Quantico Marines,
retired for their half-time inter
mission confab, a W. and L.
"scout” went along with them—
undetected.
When Coach Art (Pappy)
Lewis, the W. and L. skipper, was
chided for employing such tactics,
hepleaded ignorance and asked
who the “spy” was. *
When told that it was his own
son, 4-year-old Johnny, Lewis
caught Johnny by the seat of his
pants and tried to wring some
Quantico secrets out of him.
Pappy asked, “What did they say
in the huddle, Johnny?”
Johnny's reply:
"They said, ‘Go get 'em.' ’’
Outdoors
In reporting game, fish and forest
ry law violations in West Virginia
which during the fiscal year ending
June 30 resulted in fines amounting
to $31,325, Chief
Conservation Of
ficer R. S. Har
ris of the Con
servation Com
mission makes
the following
atatement:
"Very little
change was no
ticed by protec
tors of the
amount of*hunt
lng and fishing
pressure the past
year as compared
to the first year
following the late BUI
war, nor was improvement shown in
the sportsmanship' of hunters and
fishermen as evidenced by the record
of prosecutions. It is sad to relate
that reports from the State as a
whole indicate a new low in the
number of true sportmen found in
our woods and along our streams.’’
He added that many hunters ap
parently think only of “getting while
the getting is good” and forget the
future.
The dry northeaster which blew
itself out Sunday night after kicking
up such a rumpus in Chesapeake
Bay that anglers were hard put for
sport not only cooled water tempera
tures, which have been abnormally
high, but we believe stirred up the
finny species to a better appreciation
of anglers’ lures. Small stripers still
are surfacing, but the big fellows
are down deep where the water is
cooler and only occasionally is one
hooked and landed by deep trolling
or floating crabs over the grass beds
fcnd rock piles.
DOROTHY CLARK.
—Star Staff Photo.
Girl Bowler, 17, Burning Drives
In Rosslyn With 117 Average
By Ben McAlwee
Off to a flashy start with an
average that nudges the 117
mark, youthful Dorothy Irene
Clark is the big reason why
Hiett’s Service Station quint
leads the Rosslyn Ladies’ League
with a nine-game winning streak.
Her 134 and 371 scores also are
season high for the loop.
The tall, slender and comely
17-year-old lass who attends a
modeling school, comes by bowl
ing naturally. Her parents. Mr.
and Mrs. George Clark of Arling
ton, long have been duckpin de
votees.
"Seems like learning about
strikes and spare went along
with my ABC’s,’’ reflected this
rising bowling miss.
Her mother Irene is captain
of the leading Hiett team, which
includes Margaret Cummings,
Virginia Greenwod and Lillian
Tapp.
This isn’t the first time Dor
othy has rolled her way into dis
tinction. Three seasons ago,
when 14, she was runnerup in
class F singles and all-events
competition in the Washington
Women’s Duckpin Association
tournament at Silver Spring. A
year later at Brookland, her 157
was one of the highest game
bowled in the annual women’s
city event.
This season she might have
been a member of the Rosslyn
Ladies’ Major District League
team, but she had promised to
roll with the Hiett Service quint
and both leagues are scheduled
on the same night.
Redskins' Taylor Has Two Good
Reasons for Becoming a Star
By Lewis F. Atchison
Those three scorching passes
Hugh Taylor grabbed for touch
downs against the Eagles last Sun
day were only the beginning of what
should be a banner season for the
altitudinous Redskin end. . . .
Two good reasons for Taylor’s
, scintillating performance are Tay
lor’s wife and 2%-month-old daugh
1 ter who have joined him here . . .
; "Bones” already has lost that wor
ried look and begun to put on the
pounds he needs ... he modestly
I wanted to thank Sammy Baugh
I for throwing the ball to him “when
; he could have picked out anybody
else to throw to” .. .
Completely overlooked in accounts
of that scoring spree were the flaw
| less place-kicking performance of
the Tribe’s Dick Poillon and Eagles’
John Patton . . . five in a row, each,
is worth a note . . . that makes 26
straight for Poillon, counting last
year’s boots . . .
Detroit claimed Rob DePruiter on
waivers from the Skins, and Don
Avery will go tc Wilmington . . .
Jim Gaffney is retiring from football
... Ed Clfers has been signed by
the Chicago Bears . . . Washington
could have used the big fellow last
Sunday.
There were enough Pennsy choo
choo officials on the Redskin special
—With Bill Leetch
We feel that this coming week end
conditions should be more propitious
and angling much improved.
Black bass fishing has picked up
in both the Shenandoah and Poto
mac Rivers over the week end. The
waters are clearing according to
reports, some of the moss is letting
go from the bottom and drifting
out, opening up new fishing water.
Reports coming from Triadelphia
Reservoir also are somewhat more
encouraging, cool nights having
chilled the waters to make the fish
more active. Barring more bad
weather, we'd say the fishing should
be much improved after tile first
of next week.
We have just completed a tour of
many of the large fishing tackle
manufacturing companies. Of inter
est to anglers is the fact that fresh
water fishing reels and split bamboo
rods in all probability will continue
to be scarce commodities during
most of next year. Shortages of cer
tain types of steel from which these
reels are made and a lack of sea
soned bamboo of proper quality, plus
a general lack of skilled labor, are
main reasons. Many of these com
panies are working double shifts,
farming out Jobs in an effort to
catch up. But the tremendous de
mand built up over the war years
will take some time to satisfy. Moral
—take good care of that reel and
bamboo rod for the balance of the
season.
AUTO GLASS
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Ample Parking Spaca
HERSON
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Sunday to put a team on the field
including Maurice Dash, superin
tendent of dining car service, and
Maurice Ulich, supervisor in charge
of the train.
John Adams' banged up knee was
the most serious injury the Red
skins suffered. . . . Sal Rosato and
Jack Jenkins have bruised shoulders
and Bill Ward’s arch sagged again.
. . . Eddie Saenz and Ernie William
son emerged from the game with an
assortment of body bruises . . .
ditto for Bob Nussbaumer . . . the
latter's wife lost almost $200 worth
of clothing to an auto thief-the
same night.
How about a hand for Lil Eddie
Saenz, who is pounding the line like
a fullback, a 250-pound fullback,
that is.... Tom Farmer worked out
yesterday and Dick Todd is due back
today, and it should make a big
difference If they’re in action against
Pittsburgh although you can’t ex
pect a team to get more than 42
points a game . . . smartest crack
of the game was Dick McCann’s,
"It's too bad Sammy Baugh is so old,
or he really might have done some
thing against the Eagles.”
Philadelphia’ Bosh Pritchard will
be one of the fanciest and most
elusive ball carriers in the East if
Sunday’s exhibition was a criterion
. . . but Taylor ran away from
both Bosh and Steve Van Buren on
his 62-yard dash.
The Skins have 2,000 seats left for
Sunday's game, also that many tick
ets for all six home games.
FIGHTS LAST NIGHT
ly the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA.—Ike Williams. 140.
Trenton. N. J.. lightweight champion,
knocked out Doll Rafferty. 140, Mil
waukee (4).
CINCINNATI— Ezsard Charles, 173.
Cincinnati, knocked out Lloyd Marshall,
168.. Sacramento (2).
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Tami Mauri
ello, 109. New York, knocked out
George Pitch, 200. New Haven (6).
NEWARK.—Hal Anspach. 160. Mill
burn. N. J., outpointed Jack Kenny,
163, Livingston. N. J. (8).
A8BURY PARK, N. J—Young
Roundtree. 140. Philadelphia, outpoint
ed Joe Martino, 144, Vailsburg, N. J.
(6).
BALTIMORE.—Roy “Cyclone” Wil
liams. 160. New York, outpointed
Prankie Lacey, 159. Baltimore (12).
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Stribling's Decision
Over Cooper His 6th
Victory of Year
Ken Stribling is putting together
a nice little winning string. The
local colored middleweight fighter
now has six 1947 triumphs, marred
only by a draw against A1 Wright
back in January. He added to his
list last night by decisively decision
ing Billy Cooper of New Jersey in
the 10-round main event at Tur
ner’s Arena. It was the first indoor
card of the winter season and at
tracted a turnout of 1,110 customers
who paid a gross gate of $2,107.73
and a net of $1,563.87.
Stribling made the fight most of
the way. Cooper showed plenty of
respect for Stribling’s punching
prowess by keeping inside, but got
the worst of it. However, it would
have been worse had he indulged
In lnnfr.rartcrA tliurcrimv of mVileVi
Stribling shines.
Two first-round knockouts spiced
the prelim card. Puggy King used a
stiff right to stop Red Gaddis, who
previously had drawn with Puggy,
and Kid Wolfe ended his losing
string by stopping George Brooks.
Also a KO winner was Sunny Boy
Bunn over Billy Terry in the fourth
round. In other bouts Tommy Lar
ner won over Angelo Marini and
Lucky Stephens topped Buddy
Thomas, both in four-rounders.
Mrs. Platt, Mrs. Nicolson
Gain in Chevy Chase Golf
Mrs. Landra Platt and Mrs. Hugh
Nicolson advanced one round ahead
of the rest of the field into the semi
finals of the Chevy Chase women’s
club championship. In the biggest
surprise thus far, Mrs. Y. E. Booker,
medalist with an 86. lost 7 and 5 to
Mrs. Robert Bogue in the first
round.
Results:
Mrs. Robert Bogue defeated Mrs. Y. E.
Booker, 7 and 5: Mrs. Landra Platt de
feated Mrs. Philip Israel, 6 and 6; Mrs.
H. T. Bodman defeated Mrs. William J
Flather. Jr.. 4 and 2; Mrs. Webb Hares
defeated Mrs. Arthur Phelan. 7 and 6;
Mrs. Hugh Nicblson defeated Mrs. Wood
lief Thomas, 5 and 3: Mrs. Arnold Wil
cox defeated Mrs. F. L. Parks. 2 and 1
Mrs R. L. Johnson defeated Mrs. J. B.
Patterson, 1 up, 21 holes; Mrs. Kurts
Hanson defeated Mirs. E. L. Harrison, 4
and 3.
Second round: Mrs. Platt defeated Mrs.
Bogue, 4 and *: Mrs. Nicolson defeated
Mrs. Wlllcox, 7 and 5._
Ivy League Comeback
On Grid Foreseen
By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—Forced
to operate well backstage while
Army hogged the spotlight the past
three years. Ivy League football ap
pears ready to come into its own
again this season with a hefty, ex
perienced Pennsylvania team prom
ising to lead the parade.
Yale and Harvard, which shared
honors with the Quakers last year
in a three-way title tie, are willing
and able to give Penn another
wrestle and Columbia threatens to
make the struggle a four-cornered
affair.
Cornell, which kept Yale from
winning the 1946 title outright by
deadlocking the Elis, who won more
league games than anybody else,
and Princeton, the team that con
tributed to the confusion by upset
ting Penn, figure to give the favor
ites some more unpleasant days.
The only teams which aren’t
given the slightest preseason chance
to come out on top are Dartmouth
and Brown.
Orange Bowl Hope
For Grid Losers
By fh» Associated Press
MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 30.—Pri
vate to Navy, Alabama, Holy
Cross, Rice, Georgia, Tennessee
and Villanova football teams:
The Orange Bowl isn’t off you
because of what happened Sat
urday.
"We aren’t eliminating teams
like these this early because of
a loss or a tie,” the Orange Bowl
Schedule Committee said after
scanning the list of fallen grid
iron goliaths. "This season
there’ll be few. If any, unbeaten
bowl eligibles by early November.”
"An undefeated record isn’t an
Orange Bowl requirement,” said
Van C. Kussrow, chairman of the
committee which will book the
game for Miami’s enlarged 60,000
seat stadium next New Year day.
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Hockey Lions Playing
Initial Pre-Season
Match in Ontario
Special Dispatch to The Star
BARRIE, Ontario, September 30.—
The 20-man Washington Lions
hockey squad gets its first test to
morrow in an exhibition against the
Philadelphia Rockets at Belleville,
Ont. That’s the same tram against
which they open their American
Hockey League schedule at Uline
Arena in Washington on October 14.
The Washington team also has an
exhibitioh test carded next Monday
night' against the Tulsa Oilers of
the United States League at Mid
land, Ontario, and reports to Wash
ington shortly afterward. The Lions
have been in training here for the
last 10 days.
Among the players Coach Jack
Riley likes are Bob Walton, veteran
right winger from the Cleveland
Barons, and Scotty Mair, another
winger from the Tulsa Oilers. Both
are excellent scorers, Riley says.
The Lions also have landed Kenny
Schultx, center, and Larry Arcnam
bault, winger or center, from the
Pittsburgh Hornets. Among hold
overs from last year's '.earn expected
to stick in faster company are Wal
ter Babey, Joe Ciuman and John
Carr-Harrls.
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Harness Race Permits
By Hit Associated Frost
BALTIMORE, Sept. 30.—The
Maryland State Racing Commission
met today to consider three appli
cations for harness racing permits,
including one whose proposal to
build a $1,000,000 plant at Pimlico
Airport has drawn Are from avia
tion Interests.
Prank and Howard Knipp, own
ers of the Pimlico Airport site, have
acknowledged optioning it to Balti
more Trotting Races, Inc., which
has announced plans to use two
hangars as part of their proposed
setup.
Opposition to the plan stemmed
yesterday from Charles Adler, jr.,
national councilor for the Balti
more Chapter, National Aeronau
tics commission. He said the chap
ter had appealed to the City and
State Aviation Commissions to
block conversion of the airfield be
cause it would “prove a definite
hardship to private flyers, especially
since the fields near Baltimore are
already overcrowded.”
Nine Giants- Sign for 1948
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 30 (/P).—
Manager Mel Ott of the New York
Giants today announced that nine
members of the club, including slug
ging Johnny Mize, Willard Marshall
and Walker Cooper, had signed their
contracts for next season.
Delaware's Unorthodox Style
Forces Terps to Shift Defense
me lerps are up against some
thing unusual on Friday ight.
Scouting reports on the Delaware
football team playing Maryland on
Friday night at College Park show
that the Blue Hens use about the
most unorthodox offensive formation
imaginable. It helps explain their
32-game undefeated string.
The Delaware team, says Flucie
Stewart, who scouted its 25-13 win
over Penn Military, uses a double
wingback formation with the block
ing back on the left, along witfi
an unbalanced line to the left.
About 50 per cent of the Terp play
ers never have heard of such a
formation, and 99 per cent of them
never have seen such a thing even
for one play. But the Blue Hens
use it as their regular system.
Most unbalanced football forma
tions have the strength to the right,
because that’s the direction in which
9 of 10 players run their best. To
cope with this business to the left,
Coach Jim Tatum must devise a
whole new defensive setup for the
Maryland team this week.
Among individual Blue Hen stand
outs are Gerald Doherty, Bill Cole
and Walter Marusa. Doherty is a
150-pound halfback who runs like
a scared rabbit, while Cole is 2
pounds more at the other halfback
and Just as fast. This Marusa now,
is a 5-foot-7, 225-pound guard (not
214 as it says in the program). “He’s
a real Mr. flve-tty-flve in the line,"
says Stewart, “and you Just can’t
move him."
Fordham Coach Ed Danowski,
whose Rams meet Georgetown at
Griffith Stadium Friday night, told
the New York Football Writers’ Asso
ciation yesterday that he was faced
with unhappy prospect of opening
his season against the Hoyas with
a squad which contains only six
backs. “At least we have won our
first game,” he said. “We beat the
freshmen Saturday, 21-12.”
Danowski had been basing his
defensive drills on the assumption
that Georgetown used the T-forma
tion, but was disturbed by scout re
ports that Coach Jack Hagerty used
his prewar spread about 90 per cent
of the time against Wake Forest.
“You can’t tell about this Hagerty,”
Danowski said. “Last year he started
with the T and wound up with the
double wing.”
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Jimmy Demaret, Ellsworth Vines,
Joe Kirkwood and Lew Worsham
will be the star performers in Bob
Barnett’s annual Pro-Senior golf
tournament at Chevy Chase next
Tuesday, the host club pro an
nounced.
Demaret, the third leading money
winner of the season, and Worsham,
Washington’s National Open cham
pion. visited Barnett yesterday dur
ing a stopover between the Chicago
International tournament and the
Reading '(Pa.) Open that starts
Thursday.
Best Cast in Tourney,
Barnett usually comes up with a
surprise or two in his attempts to
make the 18-hole event one of the
features of the local season, but this
year’s cast will be the best in the
20-odd years of play. Senior mem
bers of the host club team up with
Middle Atlantic and visiting pros
with the winner determind on
combined score, minus the handicap
of the senior.
Barnett was able to get the name
pros because they will be in this
section for the $10,000 Reading tour
nament which ends Sundav and thev
do not have another tournament
date for several weeks. A luncheon
will precede the afternoon tourna
ment.
Kirkwood will give his trick shot
exhibition in the late afternoon,
a repeat performance of last year.
Scoring Spree Last Year.
Kirkwood and Admiral Russell
Willson won the last event and in
the pro sweepstakes the pros went
on a scoring spree on a shortened
course as Mel Shorey shot 65 and
Kirkwood and Roger Peacock posted
66s.
Worsham and Demaret left today
for Reading. Three District pro6
will compete, A1 Houghton of Prince
Georges, Mel Shorey of Indian
Spring and Roger Peacock of Sligo
Park. Charles Bassler of Chevy
Chase Intended to play, but has
developed an acute case of the
shanks and decided to work it out
on the practice tee.
Wrestling Alligator
Returns to Turner's
The 12-foot wrestling alligator
will make its second appearance at
Turner’s Arena tomorrow night,
with Tuffy Trusdelle, the Florida
reptile hunter, and catch-as-catch
can expert, again doing the chores.
As an added feature June Byers,
the pretty Dallas, Tex., wrestler and
number one contender for Millie
Burke’s crown, will meet Mae
Weston of St. Louis. In addition
Big Babe Sharkey, the erstwhile
titleholder, will tangle with Big
Ben Morgan, the 340-pound six-foot
six Texas giant.
Meanwhile, the Hoyas stressed
passing and blocking, their weak
points in the 6-0 defeat at the hands
of Wake Forest, in their first drill
for the Rams.
George Washington, readying for
Saturday night’s game against Vir
ginia Military Institute at Lynch
burg, took to a local practice field
for the first time. The Colonials
drilled at the Armory field, and
after the peace and quiet at Camp
Letts, appeared dissatisfied. There
were too many spectators, especial
ly youngsters, for them to get much
work done, and a shift is contem
plated back to the field used last
year across the Highway Bridge in
Virginia.
Movies of last Saturday’s losing
game at University of Virginia were
shown the players last night. Prin
cipal fault stressed by Coach Skip
Stahley was sloppy tackling, and
the boys will have plenty of work
this week in that department.
Down at Lexington VMI scouting
reports on G. W. call the Colonials
“the biggest team in the confer
ence, with a passing attack to be
feared at all times.” VMI got past
Catawba in its opener, 13-6. Stand
outs were Joe Gantt, Jack Hutchin
son, Vince Ragunas and Ray Tamilis
among the veterans, and Billy Stew
art and George Crowson among the
freshmen. “We have a long way
to go,” says Coach Slick Morton.
"George Washington will be bounc
ing back after a loss, and we can
expect the worst.”
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NEW LAUREL LANDMARK—Shown here is one of five photo
graphic towers recently erected in the extensive piogram of
improvements iust completed at the nearby race course, which
opens its fall meeting tomorrow. From them pictures will b«
taken of the running of every event as an aid to the official!
in checking on rules infractions. —Star Staff Photo.
The Doge, Sea Snack Headline
Opening Card of Laurel Meet
wniie workmen hurried to put
the finishing touches to improve-1
ments in parking facilities and other j
accommodations, some 1.000 horses
awaited the bugle call opening
Maryland's annual autumn racing
season tomorrow at Laurel. Post
time will be 1:30 throughout the
meeting. Between 500 and 600
horses stabled at Laurel, 300 more
at Bowie and 200 at Pimlico, and
track officials expected shipments
from New York to send the total
somewhere between 1,200 and 1,500
before the meeting is a week old.
Already on the scene are three
probable starters in the $10,000
added “Capital Handicap,” featur
ing the opening program. These in
clude two former winners of that
event, Air Patrol, Shamrock Stable's
crack sprinter who won last year,
and the Pentagon Stable's The
Doge, who won his division in 1945
when the field was split in two. The j
smart Christiana Stable filly, Sea
Snack, also is on hand and working
well.
An entry of at least 10 horses is
expected for the Capital, which
would make a real horse race of it.
Laurel officials believe the first 10
days of the meeting will be rather
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events shape up in New York. An
outbreak of dreaded swamp fever
in New England, followed by a
subsequent quarantine in New York,
has many stable owners puzzled and
uncertain about future moves.
Horses removed from New York
are not permitted to re-enter at this
time, and some owners are hesitat
ing about sending thoroughbreds to
Laurel for certqjn stakes as they
have done In the past. Polynesian
and Rippy are two outstanding cam
paigners expected to run at Laurel
who have not yet been shipped. It
is believed, however, that New York
will relax its ruling, as no trace of
the disease has been detected out
side New England.
The good 2-year-old Task,
owned by King Ranch, is slated to
ran in the Richard Johnson Stake
Saturday, and Alfred Vanderbllt’f
Final Touch, has been nominated
for the Maryland Futurity a week
from tomorrow. Twelve stakes will
be decided during the 25-day meet
ing, with the Washington, October
18, and ..Selima. October 25, both
$25,000 added, topping the list.
A turnout of 12,000 upward is
expected for tomorrow’s inaugural
and fans will And many improve
ments. Parking areas have been
enlarged and paved. New walks
have been laid and a battery of fans
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has been installed under the grand
stand to help eliminate the damp
ness.
Horsemen will find new curbs, gut
ters, roads and other improvement*
in the barn area. The track ha*
undergone repairs, especially near
the end of the last turn where
drainage was installed and soil
packed to smooth the surface. The
American Teletimer has been in
stalled and club officials, following
a policy inaugurated at Pimlico,
will use the Movie Patrol, providing
a complete motion picture of each
race for the use of stewards and
judges. Five steel towers have been
erected around the track for camera
operators.
Harmon to Quit Football
At End of Current Year
By the Associated Press
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 30.—Tommy
Harmon, ex-University of Michigan
gridiron great now playing for the
Los Angeles Rams of the National
Football League, said yesterday that
"this will be my last season as a
player."
He made his announcement at a
University of Pittsburgh football
luncheon. The 28-year-old pro star
added that he plans to concen
trate on radio work. He played
briefly and well last night for the
Rams as they routed the Pittsburgh
Steelers.
Hump De Cola to Boss
National Guard Boxing
Hump De Cola, veteran boxing
Instructor, will be in charge of the
District National Guard boxing
team when it reorganizes tomor
row night at 6 p.m.
The initial drill will be held at
the Guard's new and spacious ar
mory. De Cola expects a turnout of
at least 25 men.
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