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clearing the base SHUisoN bail Mauch Appears Bet iivrLjiLji a I Discusses '44 Dodgers I Mart at 5norr ON PITCHING Leo His PROSPECTS It came up and the Dodger exhibition with By TOMMY HOLMES "We have fine material and By HAROLD BIRR if the pitching prospects stand Trenton, N. April 4 A couple of rookies who didn't figure in Manager Leo Duro-up we have an excellent cher'a opening day plans a fortnight ago have started a campaign to crash the left side chance of defending our of the Dodeer Infield Thev are Oene Mauch. oronounced Moock. as In turtle, and Smuts upon as the best shortstop in the squad and has usurped might start the National League Season, but the chances Aderholt, christened Morris. At Prsent.

Mauch is looked BUI Hart for regular duty. He the Air Corps reserves. That gave Manager Leo Durocher a chance to sit in the lobby of the Madison and let He look- to be called up around the middle of But ALL WfcLL. NLOLN LM AlVlf The long-postponed P. S.

A. L. sssssssssssssf VllSJsH sKfcajl sHk Hl sV IE form in his own mind. Batting the breeze around with the skipper for half an hour or so, you find the picture reasonably appealing, too. "Just give us a few breaks that we might reasonably hope for." said Durocher, "and we'll have a good baseball club under present-day conditions.

Give me Mickey Owen behind the plate, Big Schultz at first, this kid, Mauch, at short and Olmo in center field. That's all I ask. With Walker and Galan flanking Olmo in the outfield and the pitching I see we'll more than get by against the opposition we'll have this season." SHORTSTOP Perhaps, the most striking thing there is that Leo is so high on Gene Mauch. president of the student ship! finally held at the 13th Regiment Armory Saturday was NOT won by the New Utrecht but by Abraham Lincoln High. The Green team ostensibly clinched the championship in the very last event on the card, the relay, when its tram won and Lincoln finished third.

The relay victory gave New 1 trecht 22 points, Lincoln 19 and left DeWitt Clinton in third place with 17. But yesterday the New I'trecht Coach Browne phoned Schecter, the Lincoln coach, and informed him that the question raised about the eligibility of New Utrecht's starter in the relay, Leonard Streich. disclosed that Streich had not met the P. S. A.

L. requirements. This transferee from Erasmus had not attended the required 20 weeks in New Utrecht studies. New Utrecht, therefore, lost five points, which dropped It into a tie for second at 17 points, while Lincoln, picking up a point, became the team champion with 20 points. Also affected were the Bayside, Bryant and whatever team finished sixth in the relay.

Bayside. the second place team, became the relay winners and boosted its point total to 10 and put the school in seventh place. Bryant moved up to a tie with Erasmus and Stuyvesant with points. That there was a fly in the ointment that might upset the standings was noted in James J. Murphy's report in Sunday's Eagle.

jody at Fremont (Jai.) Hign NIZE SECOND lorn Flynn of East Boston, 135-pound champion in the Massachusetts Youth Committee-Boston Park Departmenf boxing tourney at Camp Edwards, gets encouragement between rounds from his second, Wac Corp. Judith Braun. Leo will look at you witn astonisnment you mm tnat me boy might be handicapped by lack of experience. "Ready right now," insists the Up. "That's because he's a natural.

He does everything right by instinct and can gain poise just as easy In Brooklyn as he can in Montreal. He may be our God-send this year. He's enrolled In one of those V-5 programs but it might be two or three months before he's called. By that time, Arky Vaughan may see his way clear to join us." Durocher regards Mauch as a better shortstop prospect than Peewee Reese when Reese was the young Californian's age. And Leo relates with relish the story of last Spring when Brooklyn almost didn't sign the kid at Ebbets Field.

Mauch isn't cocky but he is sharp and Intelligent enough to know that he has ability. He wanted a $3,500 bonus to sign and Branch Rickey believes that so much money is no good for a young boy. They eventually got together though. "It's cost me $1,500 when they did," says Durocher with a grin "because I was prepared to meet Mauch's demands The Gang, Horses Checking in Early By RALPH TROST Another 14 carloads of horses are due in today. Maybe not 14 but only 11.

And perhaps not today but tomorrow. You know how things are these days. However, they're on Brooklyn P. S. A.

L. title," said 1944 Madison High baseball picture i Almost every member mm either seuon. the eight-man staff. Rocco Torre. Gene Satin and Joe Gorton been nominated to share the bulk of the hurling.

Groton is a lefthander with a slow curve. He is a at first base or in the outfield when he not taking his turn on the mound. Torre and Satin, righthanders, have fast balls with a good Vitalc Vernon Wenderoff. Stanley Gendal and 1 baum round out the ner. pitching ace of la Brilton.

nd Irwin Tannen-he staff. Sid Ros-if last year's team, it by the Dodgers and optioned Newport New: iciass In the Piedmont Haa Two Good Catchers Jack SJami and Herb Ruderman. reserve catchers from last season, are battling for the first-string assignment, while Willis Ellis. Aaron Jortner and Bill Malln are not to be counted out of the picture. Jortner and Malin were on the football A three-wav battle is on for the first base post between Jerry Wolf, Larry Henman and Sheldon a backon the football team.

Wunderlich is undecided on his sec- shortstop combina tion. If Bill Reardon hits he will start at second base and Capt. Marty Rivki'n will again play short. Should Reardon fall at the bat. Needieman 'will plav second.

Nor- man Hauser is a fixture at third uor. w.ui sub, 1 Galenter, Sid Middler a Torpey 1 basemen, i One Picket Post Open Two outfield bei enter, are set. Ed Weigers will oam left and Bud Moskowitz will again play center. Tony Caruso. of the basketball i team will flfht or a starting berth In right field.

Larry Michaels, George Gibson. Julie Rosenblatt, guard on football team. Allen Koenig and Warren 1 Collier are all outfield candidate. The schedule: i April 8. siur Hale and Ocean Academies Scene Of Women's Series Stars of the Eagle Ladies' League bowl for the benefit of the American Red Cross tonight In the Hale Academy.

3118 Pulton St. Leading the quartet is Mrs. Evelyn Jackson, who bowls for Alhee Square Blue. racing opens Saturday at Ja- with my personal check and I between 200 and 2,500 noble McKinney (the Indianapolis owner) for $5,000 the next day. NEWARK TAKEN BY Atlantic City, N.

April Catcher Billy Drescher from hoo uoiiins. surierinB with a Drescher, discovered by at Yankee Stadium in 1941, exniDiuon game witn. the Dodgers at Trenton, N. J. The Yanks may keep Drescher.

4P in the draft, if he shows promise this week. Centerfielder Johnny Lindell. suf- Ro()kle Jaclc Phllllps Xrenton rvnnl. sioan whTnlaved ivt Rookie Bruce the Giants" open Manager Mel Ots indicated. i "i kec! fni three hours.

Ott has had no reason to complain about weather conditions in the North. The Giants have been outdoors on 15 of their 20 days in camp. irmi "mi the rk PROBLEMS If Rickey consents to bring Mauch up from Montreal, Leo thinks that his shortstop problem will be temporarily solved. He admits that his present headache is at second base and third base. At the moment, he's fooling around with a couple of other non-Dodgers Smut Aderholt of Montreal at third base and Frankie Drews of St.

Paul, at second. Between them, they're enough to make any manager rip out his hair. Drews, for example, Is reasonably slick around second base but he doesn't look like he can hit his weight, which is around 175. Aderholt, on the other hand, is a good-looking left-hand hitter. But if he weren't a real good hitter, we'd have to go to work for a living.

Leo appears to think wind up with French Bordagaray at third base but Aderholt may stick around as a pinch-hitter. Drews, though, may be the Dodger second baseman. At the moment, he has no competition. Durocher, himself, at second? "Listen. Tom," said the Lip earnestly, "I could get my weight down and train into shape.

But I can't play second base or anywhere without a throwing arm and I haven't got one any more. It would hurt me so much that I couldn't concentrate. I'd be like a boy trying to be the life of a party with a jumping toothache." PITCHING Durocher is more than hopeful about Dodger pitching provided, of course, that 1-A Whit Wyatt gets his anticipated 4-F classification on the various bone impairments he has collected over the course of an interesting career. "The way I see it," said Leo, "this will be a terrific pitchers' year because the established pitchers who are left the Coopers and the Wyatts will hardly ever lose to the opposition they'll face. And, who has good pitching? Well, the Cardinals have with Big Mort Cooper, Lanier, Brecheen Atlantic City, April 4.

cold and wet here yesterday the Yankees was called off. the picture of his 1944 Dodgers scnooi ana just, turnea 10. nut- could have sold him to Frank have it if they lose Elmer guuu uut uicie us a rP feast base- "Jake Pitler up at Olean tells pitch 2 SNKWCH pASCHAL AT SHEEPSHEAD BAY Atlanta. April 4 Frank Slnkwich and Billv schal, outstanding professional football stars, today were en route to Sheepshead Bay, N. for training in the Maritime Service.

Sinkwich. former University of Georgia All America back and 1943 player for the Detroit Lions, was sworn into the service here recently after passing an army examination. Paschal, leading ground -frainer of the pro learue In his first year with the New York Giants, had been a bomber plant worker here. shortstop is better scys Leo. He played through the entire Yankee game at Atlantic City Sunday and was the pivot man In the three double plays Prank Drews started.

He out of Freemont High School. Los Angeles; hit il for Durham last season and moved up to Montreal, where he didn't go so well. Faced the Stan "It takes a little while to grow ing in a new he says -in oology. 'The first two weeks at Durham I only had a .240 average. I figured that Hank Borowy would ter than I was Sunday, but got the stick in mv hand I forgot all about that part of it.

wnen I went to Brooklyn last Hummer to sign my Dodger con tract I faced another pretty hurler Whitlow Wyatt. That, of course, doesn't make me a big leaguer If noticed I didn exactlv knock off Borowy's earca but I've broken anyway, against a couple of good His father before him was an old Kansas City shortstop and always kept hammering into Gene that aay ne was going to be a big leaguer. The old man taught the boy the fundamentals of the Job and Durocher, Chuck Dressen and Red Corriden, all inflelders themselves, are putting on the finishing touches. the Yankees agree that Mauch a great prospect after watching Likes 'Em Low Aderholt may tse portfolio get the third Frenchy garay, but he has an outside chance. Now that Arkv Vauehi been silenced, Durocher wants to get all the punch he can manipulate infield with Drews a light sticker.

Aderholt can powder a low pitch. He figures that if vou lav off the high ones they will be balls. Usually a hitter kills a high pitch. Aderholt likes 'em sweet and low. Smutz is a graduate of Waki orest IN.

College, a teammate Tommy Yankee southpaw, now in service. in for baseball, tennis and basketball in college, where he played second base. He's 4-F in the draft. He came up with the Senators upon graduation. "But I eouldn't stick not with Buddy Lewis, Cecil Travis and Jimmy Bloodworth around." he confesses, grimly.

"It was too Played Under Maranville He kicked around the Washing- ion larms at unariotte, sunnglleld in the Eastern League and Chattanooga. At Springfield Manager Rabbit Maranville converted him into a third baseman. He came to the Dodgers in the deal that sent Roberto Ortiz back to the Senators and is under contract to Montreal. If he doesn click at I hot his fielding. But he's almost sure to" stay with the Dodgers as a utility infielder.

WIU Hurl Few Innings of Game For Red Cross A familiar that will bring back fond memories to the Ebbets Field mob will be enacted at the 1944 Red Cross War Fund exhibi- tion game between the Dodgers an the Phillies on April 13. Fs Freddie Fitzsimmons will put on baseball glove, step to the moun and face an opposing batter on again. Only one detail will be ami: rat reaaie win oe wearing a Philadelphia uniform. general chairman of the Brooklvn he WOUId Although Freddie hi cene of his baseball shifted still a Brooklvnite and owns a bowling center only a loud foul's from the Dodger park' This will be one of his rare ap- ince on the mound since he entered retirement. Another highlight of the game, full receipts of which will go to the Red Cros- appeal, will be the appearance of Frank (The Voice) Sinatra, who has consented to sing several numbers during a half-hour period of entertainment preceding the game.

Other stars are being lined up for the show, which will start at 2:30 o'clock. Tickets for the game can be obtained at the Dodger office. 215 Montai or at the Knights of Columbus office. No. 1 Prospect Park West.

Lulu Costantino Beaten On Points by Miller Pittsburgh. April 4 flj.Ri Billv Miller. Pittsburgh, scored his 26th consecutive ring victory and the 14th in his current comeback by left-Jabbing his way to a 10-round split decision over Lulu Costantino, New York lightweight, at the Gardens last night. Miller weighed 131. Costantino 133.

Vince Dell Orto 133, New York, and Joey D'Amico, 137, Philadelphia, were disqualified in the eight -round semi-final by Referee Buck-Tlernan, who said "taey were not trying." Their purses were held pending a hearing before a Pennsylvania boxing commissioner. Phil Muscato, 170, Buffalo, outpointed Otto Blackwell, 166. Homestead 1 61; Nelson Cantl. Philadelphia. 162.

outpointed Buster Peaks, 164. Detroit (6i. WHEN OUT OF TOWN I REGISTER FROM BROOKLYN a I Indoor track and field champion CATCHER YANKS 4 (U P) The Yankees borrowed their Newark farm to replace knep mitirv Scout Paul Krichell in a trvout will join the Yanks for their Suggs' Boxing Vies With Davis' Punch Al Dav Brownsville's we wculi! ho office attraction, will engage Oscar Suggs. New England Doxer. tor ten rounds In tonight ring feature at the Broadway Arent Oscar is the son of the all-tim feather.

Chick Suggs. Davis' ring record is dotted with bouts waged against sluggers. He's never faced many boxers, especially skillful ones comparable to Suggs, who has exhausted the list of formidable opponents up New England way. The last time Davis went to post against a scientific ring-man, Johnny Jones, the same ring last November, belting Al was fortunate to get a draw verdict, Brownsville rooters, from advance indications, will be eager to see Davis return to the Arena after two important Garden engagements, one a minute-and-thrce-second knockout over Bob Montgomery and the other a ten-round battle with Beau Jack before a crowd which paid $135,000. Promoter Max Joss also has lined up action preliminary bouts.

In six-rounders Henry Jones will mix with "Dee Amos, Jimmy Morrison will encounter Patsy Gordon, Phil Cardig will collide with Doug Carter, and in fours Frankie Rosen will take on Georgie Knox and Sid Haber will box Jimmy Terry. Brooklyn Nine in Opener Saturday Columbia's baseball team, which has been working out for only a little more than a week, will begin its 1944 campaign of 20 games Sat urday at Baker Field by entertaln-'ling Brooklyn College, marking the beginning of Andy Coakley's 30th Still up in the air about his starting lineup, Coakley nevertheless has five first string veterans from last year's team available, and the oat- tery is expected to be the strongest Ames, who saw considerable action 1 last- season, probably will carry the are siegel did baseball. In his few workouts. will need considerable patching. Of Wa.lt Hakanson.

at first base, is left. Lou DUrrlvo, captain-elect and third baseman, has not reported yet due to his medical studios, while Bob Murphy will not be available because of iliness. and Bob Sandercock has been gradu- Lou Skv. Spurts Editor. Brooklyn tickets.

Prices arc S1.80 and I I their way, And by the time there'll be somewhere parKea in iong isiana Darns pncea irom wnatever Jonn D. Hertz might listen 1943 cnampion, uount fleet, down to cheap hayburners whose own hope (and how they hope) to just one race for the winning i represent more than the nag Unless Saturday turns sour, P.rhaps you won't believe it, but from Florida he found restaurant rt-servation for Saturday already filled Before he arrived frcm Florida, mind you. That's a tipoff on the situation. I haven't checked on the condition of the private parking lots in the fields, behind the houses, etc, but, what with the oil companies' ment of plenty, all yi holders had better be the Sees Betting Record Naturally, a new betting record will be set for opening day, regardless of the weather. Last year, at Thursday opening, the horse-minded poured $1,305,919 through the machines.

With a Saturday-opening and with the historic Paumonok on the card Apaohe reported in form of all horses for tnr. Apache Special the cash customers ought to bowl in a couple of million Just to give racing a gooc. start and to get the majority in their customary spot directly behind the eight ball. Practically the entire who's who of racing is in town. Owners, trainers, iockevs.

handlers, "infor- aren't they or most of them in I tlie army? Thats a question no race-goer should ask. for there's something about horse racing that brinn out the light and the old. The army doesn't want the light jocke elders. Funny, when you think about he heartbreaks and Uie other connected with racing. They but the regulars Just live on and on.

Ben Franklin's early to bed and early to rise maxim apparently migni try u. vision Other Records ar he filled at Aqueduct instead of at 'the i i.rtr the figure cautiously. But then cautious when they said there'd be more than $125,000,000 DODGER TINTYPES Introducing Bill Hart has floored no less than 2.312 unsticks. Mrs. Jackson sftctls are Lillian Williams.

Kay Mannion and Brow uuKUinCK, ULMU Ave WOUNDED IN UPROAR special to the Brooklyn Eagle Trenton, N. April 4 Seven members of the Dodgers and road secretary Harold Parrott visited the England General Hospital for wounded soldiers at Atlantic City yesterday. Those in the party were Manager Leo Durocher, Coach Chuck Dressen, Luis Olmo, Dixie Walker, Red Durrett, Tommy Warren and Gene Mauch. The ballplayers were besieged with baseball questions from the wounded men. Afterward, Durocher put on a burlesque pool game with Olmo, his favorite stooge of the tables.

He kept up his incessant chatter, took delight in talking the Puerto Rican out of many a shot and while Luis was shooting gave him a hotfoot. Leo had the recreation room in an uproar and when the Dodgers left they took with them the shouted well-wishes of Uncle Sam's wheelchair army. BURR. wagered last year. The actual wagering, through the machines only, was nearly $50,000,000 more The Florida record this year suggests that the $250,000,000 guessers were on the soft side.

Joe Mafone Wins, Fiorello Defeated Sortion nointtd Dvt car Xjjm'SeHU1 Lat of Seriet By Harold C. Burr and the rest. The Reds won't iwuuitr. iu one ciac wm nave ssColumbta Opposes icai unance mau niuuaiyii win. "I'm optimistic because of Hal Gregg and Bob Ch'pman.

All of a sudden, in my estimation, they are really good pitchers. Big Gregg has the stuff and it's my guess he's ready. All he has to do is to get the ball over the plate. Chlpman is throwing the ball harder this Spring. He was a strange case last year.

In batting practice he'd knock the wood out of your hands but in a ball game, he'd let up. striving too hard for control. "It's hard to put into words just how Gregg and Chip- frp0' Three Brooklyn Boys ojv-n Rochester Rings. April 4 Three man have improved. Maybe if you say they just have more poise you come close.

I only know that as soon as either one of them got into trouble last yeaV. I wanted to yank 'em out of the box. Now if they walk a batter or if somebody hits a long one, I'm not worried. I guess you might say that I have more confidence in them because they have come up with confidence in themselves. nees in the Navy of tnp team.

Two experienced nrrairam at th pitchers. Harry Garbett and Dick BETZEL ANXIOUS TO GET LOWDOWN ON HIS PLAYERS Rochester have won ers in intercollegiate i) 1 r.t: he athletes were Mace Siegel, a V-12 trainee; 5. John W. Bach won Alvin Edelstein, a civilian, and basketball. John Howie Dobel.

the basketball player ck and Eli Azelbank may be ot considerable help. All Trenton, ft, J. April 4 It's should have had a revolvii wise manager who knows his own ion our clubhouse There i ball players this year of the 'm. Heigh-ho. it either turnover Bruno Betzel.

headman at I of a famine. Seventeen thir Montreal. shooting rmol in the men and not one outfielder Mrs. Kay Olsen. The girls bowled in several acad-: emies last week for the bene! it of this organization.

Tonight, follow ing their contests in Hale, the quar- jtet will move to Ocean Recreation. 2080 E. 18th for another round. fowled a- 236 game petition last. Saturda and the Lawler Reds The Elites Ladies' circuit.

ah during the season Lillian has been a consistent bowler. She is the high average roller in the league and turns In many double centuries. Kay Mannion. who bowls for Law-ler Blue, zipped a 518 series three days ago. Many enthusiasts believe the young woman capable of hold-, ing her own against topnotchers.

1 Mrs. Olsen, a member of the Bell Blue quintet, has turned in several games of 20C or more this sea- student of bowling Mrs. Olsen is a for plenty of The spirit of Good; tarwlu -the A Lancaster Team Plays Bushwick Nine Sunday I The Bushwicks will start' 28th season at Dexter Park Woodhaven L. I on Sundav a hey meet Pop Brai Lancaster, ra ciuo in a game, scheduled to start o'clock. The Lancaster nine has helping the Bushwicks oprr for THE SPORTING THING time you give an oak user, be sure it isn't poison oak!" 1I.Ja "Next leaf cl 3 i of the basketball Bach was a forward on the bas- Game Room of John Martin's inni Trenton, N.

April 4 He came up to the Dodgers as a third baseman, but has passed most of his baseball life as a shortstop The higher he has climbed, the better he has done Double A ball has been Bill's dish His first year at New Orleans he had a troublesome set of tonsils But in 1942 he led the Pelicans with the otner evening. A blond young i ne naa a douoie-neaoer scneo- man with a deadly eye for the side uled and not a catcher. So he put pocket attracted the favorable notice 8 pitcher behind the bat in the first of Bruno for his marksmanship. game. And for the second game he "Who is that guv'" he asked tne eemf Pi'cher catching krtball team, which won 11 of its ever, he impressed Coakley as hav- 15 games.

He also was high scorer, ing distinct possibilities, totaling 172 points. His highest Two veteran catchers also arc ame score was 26. within one back Vincent Lolordo and Jim point of the all-time college record. DiLorenzo with Wayne Morgan, the Recently, Bach was awarded the erstwhile basketball ace, also a pos-alumni trophy as the mast, valuable sibility. runs batted in with 8 and last year, although he came up to the Dodgers for eight games and took part in only 133 at New Orleans, he was the bell cow at runs driven in with 104 in the Southern Until 1943 he was always a shortstop except for a brief stretch as a catcher with Harrisburg in the New York-Penn League Little Pat Ankenman showed up at Heinemann Park, New Orleans, with his shortstop's glove in his hip pocket and Hart was switched to third In 1936 he played semi-pro ball member of the team.

WYATT IN CAMP Pitcher Whitlow Wyatt, star righthander of the Dodgers, ar-rived at the club's training camp. for the club last was classified 1- hoped to be able ti part of the seasor ear, recently hut said he ilay the early between shots Greenleaf or somebody? That's Ted Klonowski, your outfielders." he was "Do tell!" echoed Mr. rtaht Betzel, gugntiy tasten aback. So far. he confesses that he hasn't a Double A ball player on his club, a fine state of affairs when you consider that the Royals are in the International League.

He' grabbed him. The wouldn't disturb Uncle Robbie He Just Named Joe turd ba.seman at Durham last said Bruno. "But they were a lot of guys named Joe. We We Know YOU Can Do It! BASEBALL Bring a service man with you to the Red Cross game at Ebbets Field Thursday, April 13. between the Dodgers and Phils.

If you can bring him. send him! There will be no free list. Every cent will go to the Red Cross. And the only way a service man can attend is on a paid-for ticket. Send a check made out to (he 1944 Brooklyn' Red Cross War Fund with name and address of service man for whom you wish to Harrisburg, Class wanted to send him Bill Hart to a Class loop and Bill didn't go He was released outright.

The next Winter he was sent to Duluth and was in on the winning of the pennant in the Northern League He was sold to Rochester and told to report to Portsmouth, Ohio, in the Middle Atlantic League Again his team captured the bunting and the playoffs Bill personally took charge of seltling the flag race with a homer with one on base The next campaign found Mm with Ashvill- in the Piedmont League Then the and now the Dodders No one has ever reminded him that he has the 1-A in the draft, 'iut has two punctured eardrums, not from listen ing to the kibitiees on the club. SPORTS 4 TUESDAY, APRIL 4, 1944 a UCKct and mall it to A'e'll see that gets the.