Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 38, Number 107, Decatur, Adams County, 3 May 1940 — Page 8

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RAIN IS LIKELY TO SLOW DERBY RACE SATURDAY Continued Rain Likely To Make Muddy Track For Classic Loulxvllle. Ky . May 3. <U.F) Louisville had a one-track mind again today as a handful of horsemen gathered shortly after dawn to name the field for the 66th Kentucky derby and that one track waa muddy Fur rain kept falling at Churchill ■ towns over night and although the temperature began to rise the * •Ilea Still were with clouds when the parade toward the rarutg secretary s office began thia J mottling Entries opened early ajnl trntnem and owners had until 10 a tn to drop the name* of their hopefuls into the little white box. There were few doubts aa to j Who would lie entered Then Wert•till eight certain starters, Hlnte lei h Pictor. Mioland. Gallahadion. i Human. Pit Sirocco and lloyal : Man All handa were obviously under j a strain aa the deadline for Amer ' Ua’s greateat horse race drew close Anxious eyes were turned 10 the aky aa the rival trainera either blessed or ensued the weather The Bradley stable wanta a fast track for Himeleih. but all iffijx-t barns would prefer a alow '

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heavy or muddy atrip The footing waa technically < laaaed aa alow aa several of the eligible* went out for their final blow-outs and light gallops Since the Chunhlll Downs oval dries ; y>-ry slowly It lieiaine virtually i certain that the surface could not I be really fast by race lime Saturday Hut alow or fast, wet or dry Btmmle retained hla position as the favorite Hope of lieatlng him waa ahandoni-d and - unless his vaunted speed la more seriously hampered by mud than anyone seriously believes the rival trainers frankly admit they ate shooting for second prigs As planes, trains and buses swelled the population of Louisville at a rate of 1.000 an hour, (here was a sort of minor boom ; tor Hit. Ten days ago the big tip I horse waa Mioland Earlier in the week It was Pictor. But today It was the hanger hustler who turned bat k the finest runners In the east last Saturday In the Wood memorial. Trainer Mai llirsch and Jo< ky Buddy Haas claimed they had setolid money prat lit ally won and I that they hadn't giien up on llim> - | lei h yet Surprisingly, many pen- | pie believed them A poll of ’ sports writers disclosed that Hit was a firm set ond choice. with Pit tor third Mioland fourth ami la tew scattered votes for Roman. 1 Then- was no mention at all of the | others STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE W I. Pt t C, B Brooklyn » I 'oai Cincinnati 7 3 700 2 New York 5 I 556 ’.' 2 Ch i< ago 77 .s®o 4 Pittsburgh 4 6 400 * Philadelphia 3 5 375 5 St Louis 4 7 3*4 54 Boston 17 111 7 AMERICAN LEAGUE W I. Pct G B Cleveland * 4 C*7 Boston X 4 667 Detroit 8 5 615 4 Washington 6 7 4*2 24 New York . 5 S 455 24 «t Um la 5 « 45* 24 Philadelphia 5 X 3X5 2 4 Chicago 3 < 273 44 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS National League New York 7. St Louis 4 Other games postponed, rain and cold American League Detroit 5 Washington 3 <it her games postponed, rain and snow.

GIANTSWALLOP CARDINAL NINE Collapse Os St. Louis Cardinals Surprise Os National League New York. May 3 <UP> Quite " aa shocking as lhe Dodg-rs' elet tri--1 tying start or the Yankee a lacka- ' dalslcal lieglnnlng Is the utter collapse of the St laiuls Cardinals, the leant experts picked to de- ’’ throne the Cincinnati Reds. ’ At St Utuls today the Cardinals 1 clash with the Boston Hees in a ’ battle to stay out of he Naional ' league cellar The Giants thrash ’ ■ed the Cardinals yesterday. 74. ' ' and plopped them Into seventh : place, only a game and a half ahead of the woeful Rees, adjudged 1 by many as the majors' weakest ball club The Cards have won only four 1 games out of 11. and two of the • victories may be traced to Dizzy ‘ ' Dean's nothing ball The Card* rapped him to cover twice, but he I Itnkily escaped with only one defeat charged against him Thus the Cards find themselves *4 game* off the pare at this <-arly date Sloppy pitching and ragged de- ! tense plus II errors in II games explain the plight •»< the Cardinals They have been hitting Well with Joe .Medwick Enos Slaughter. Don Badgett Pepper Marti nand Mickey (liken all well up in the 300 ; brackets The Cardinals Infield is a* tincertain a* the European situation 1 Jimmy Brown's broken nose ha* upset Blade* plans but all the Cardinal woes cannot be traced to him However, his loss ha* emphasized Just what a grand little ball player he Is and how important he is to the Cards The quit k er he gets back, the better for the Card* The Card* desperately n<-*-d an i other first t las* Infielder Johnny Hudson who hasn't played a single innhtg In Brooklyn, would do wonders for the Cardinal infield When I the Dodgers sold outti. Ider Mel Alrnada to the Card* Rochester farm many thought that whs the forerunner of a deal which would send Hudson to the Card* for a pitcher, possibly Bill M (less, btft so far the deal hasn't materialized The Giants won their belated western debut yesterday by slapping Curt Dails. Clyde Shouti and Harry Brecheen for 14 hits It waa the eighth game in eleven In which Shouti had appeared Hy Vandenberg and Cliff Melton let the Cards down with five hits with - Melton allowing only two in the last 6 1-3 inning* Terry Moores hornet with two on kept the Cards in the ball game until the sixth. Mir key Witek s horn- inside the park, on whirh the usually reliable Terry Moore tripped and fell, was the winning store Harry Danntng | led the Giants attack with four hita in five trtpa .In the only American league game Iletroit beat Washington. 52. moving within a half game of the league-leading Indians and Red Soi Harold Newbouser. rookie aouthpaw. outpitched rookie Sid Hudson allowing only six bite. Rudy York's hornet with one on base was the 14k blow in the Tiger attack. Yesterday's hero Harold Newhouser IX year-old lietrolt rookie, who southpawed his way to a 5-3 victory over the Senators and put his dub more firmly In third place o LEADING BATTERS -—*■■■*■■■■■* Amarican League Player Club GAB R H pct. Wright. Chicago II 43 T I* 4H» Fogs Boston . 12 Still* 410 McCoeky Detroit 13 511*20 3»2 I ( tamer. Boston 12 54 11 21 3«t Travis. Washington 13 4* 7 J* 375 i National League Player Club GAB R H Pct • Roe*. Boston X 27 « 11 407 l-efber Chicago 14 5* 13 22 4*o ' Young. New York *2*< 14 4«h> j | L Waner. Pirate X 24 7 • .275 ; ( Nkholosog. Chl'go 10 2* 4 12 357 q SVgsll -20 x. white unwatermarked mimeograph, adaptable for all kinds of mimeograph work and suitable for ink signature. 75e The Deeatur Democrat Co

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* Today’s Sport Parade * By Henry McLemore l.milsvllle, Ky.. May .1 'UR> Promise me you won't sny a word about It. Cross your heart and hope tn die; you won't tell a living soul Listen I've gut something good In the derby. A sle-per Now get this I don’t want to' tell you my tip If you’re going to run about the neighborhood* and give It to every person you meet Till* is confidential It came to me from a friend of mine who knows a trainer who knows a trainer clo»e to the stable I've got something that can't tnlss A cutey A hide that has Iw-i-n waiting for this spot Hl* < wner and trainei have waited three years until Just rhe right i face on the right day tame along f On Hatmday they’re going to I d-op him in a soft spot H- tomes! from a stable that not many p. ophknow ahowt He'll be carrying a strange and unfamiliar set of rttk* A mixture of white and - •••■ n U>:s of folks will shy away from this colt because of his little knnwn connections I m telling you again Don’t let any of these things frighten you off Don't pay any attention to hl* work* They don’t mean a thing —much Forget the track and how It Is Forget his past performances If you can And don't let that JiM'key who II be up make you change your mind Everybody knows he isn't the best Hut that s part of the plan Let me caution you against both

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erlng about his price Just bet ' him. no matter what he pays It Mill Is better to win at even money than to loae at 50 to 1 Another thing The fact that tny I tip has only run eight times lu-fore i doesn't mean that he Is a green hand, short of work and not ready 1 for such a race as the derby Von understand, of course, that when I speak of the det by I mean the Kentucky derby and not the Eng- ' llsh derby or the Arkansas derby or the Santa Anita derby or the Brown derby or Al Smith's derby, or even the lovely little town. Derby. <*onne< tlcut In short. I mwon the race which I once termed tlje blue gruss < la* ’ sic Tha' remind* me I wish to hell people wouldn't steal that line 1 made It up and I'm tired of every radio announcer advertising agency. and rival columnist using It. By this time you mn*t he a Mt eager to know this hot, saper- ! epe<|al straight from-tlie reedbox. hit <>f information All right, you'll get It Hu' honest, promise me again you won't spread It arout.d That would spoil everything Okay I believe you It'll just be Something lietween the two of US Sori of sweet, eh* Witter takes reader to heart and let* him In on good thing The horse la by Black Toney and laa Trionne The silks, green with white hou|M The rider. Freddie Smith The stable. E II Bradley. Code name Blmelech Keep your mouth shut like you promised and we'll get all of 1 to 10 — — Trade In • G»o« 3 >«n . Deeatur

I EUROPE FEARS NEXT • _.— (Custiwiikw num mob owot fall Even Britain, Itself, aa waa ad , mined by Chamberlain, may h< the object of a sudden German ••swoop" In which lhe newly acquired Norwegian Imaea would be of prime value Today these liases I were reported by Berlin to undergoing rapid development and Improvement. Most fears centered on the Mediterranean and Balkans where the British and French fleets have t>een strengthened and British shipping cleared out in preparation for operations which would he necessary If Hitler's Hcandlnuviaii victory encouraged Italy to enter the war at Germany's side P«sce Rumors By Polly Peabody On The Namsox front at Grong. Norway. May 3 (U.P> The Allied expr-dltlonirry force hastily abandoned Its coastal landing Iwse at Narnsos and rumors spread among dejected Norwegian troops today of efforts to negotiate peace with Germany The British and French troop* which have been preparing to face ' German troops at Htelnkjer. destroyed communication lines to th> north before they withdrew, but 1 great confusion among Norwegian civilians and soldiers made it diffi cult to determine the neat move or the next front in the Scandinavian conflict Some Norwegian force* In the Narnso* region reportedly began; demobilizing and header) for their 1 home* a* the Allied troop* with drew from their iraae north of! Trondheim, hut Norwegian officers could not confirm this The sailors appeared to be dlsi couraged by the Allied abandon t inr-nt of their coastal bane, but i | Norwegian officers said that many | rumors were apparently Irelna clr-| ciliated by Natl sympathizer* In ' an effort to demoralize the Nor * ■ w>-glan* and facilitate the advance i of German troop* northward ’ —o I i Candidates for public offii e In Montana may not spend more than 15 percent of one year's salary for . their campaigns.

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