Your Host Leads Derby Field On Rail At Churchill Downs
Favorite Your Host drawn Post 2 for Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs with 15 top three year olds. Coast Comet favored to repeat status as likely 2 to 1 favorite in front of an expected 100000 crowd. Hill Prince and Middle Ground among top contenders while several others recruit for the mile and a quarter race.
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Tom Gray
Oil Capitol
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Prince
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Hollywood Pride
Nixon Clay Hosts Waco Veterans In Doubleheader
Nixon-Clay Collegians meet the Waco Veterans in a softball doubleheader at Butler No 1 Saturday night with a 7 30 p m start. Jackie Neal will pitch the first game and C B Sumrell or Bob Hardin the second. Waco arrives unbeaten through five games led by Cecil Ellis and Emory Nix. Dan Sorenson paces Nixon Clay hitters at .475. Rain postponed last Saturday forcing the doubleheader.
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Jackie Neal
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Bob Hardin
Austin
Cecil Ellis
Emory Nix
Invaders
Veterans Administration
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Collegian
UT, Rice Clash For Southwest Conference Tennis Crown
Texas and Rice meet at Penick Courts for the SWC team title with Texas seeking a split to clinch. Texas carries a 22-2 record, Rice 21-3, while key Rice players include Chick Harris and Jack Turpin, and Texas features Julian Oates and James Saunders in the top spots.
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Rice
D. A. Penick
Owls
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Jack Turpin
Bob Foley
Bill Fithian
Julian Oates
Steers
James Saunders
Clinton Nettleton
Charles Bludworth
Bernard Gerhardt
Aggies Edge Rice For Fencing Title
The Texas A&M Aggies won the Southwest Conference team fencing championship on Friday, with Rice taking second, Texas third, and Baylor last. A&M had swept round robin matches before the title series. singles events in foil, epee, and saber follow on Saturday. Texas had held the team title for five years before this win.
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Texas Aggies
Rice
Texas
Baylor
A&m
Yale Coach Blasts Major League Scouts as Ungentlemanly
Yale coach Ethan Allen denounces major league scouts for tampering with Yale freshmen. He says commissioner Chandler will review the issue at the next board meeting and warns such contacts intimidate students and harm college baseball. Allen cites effects on grades and morale.
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Conn
Ethan Allen
Yale
A. B. Chandler
Allen
Chandler
Connecticut Sports Writers Alliance
Kalamazoo
Mich
Spahn and Braves Dominate Reds 13-1 in Cincinnati
The Boston Braves blasted six runs in the first inning as Warren Spahn held the Reds to five hits. The offense added four home runs to power a 13-1 victory in Cincinnati on May 5. Spahn pitched strong support for the win.
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Boston’ Braves
Warren Spahn
Unearned Scores Help Tigers Win
Detroit capitalized on Washington errors to beat the Senators 9 to 6 as Dizzy Trout earned relief win. Vic Wertz starred with a trio of hits, and Irv Horen and Gil Coan homered for Washington. The Reds crushed Boston 13 to 1 with Northey homering in the ninth.
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Clyde Vollmer
Gil Coan
Vic Wertz
Irv. Horen
Coan
Talbert and Patty Reach Paris International Final
Paris May 5 Bill Talbert of New York and Budge Patty of Long Beach Calif reached the final round of the Paris International tennis tournament Patty defeated Bill Sidwell of Australia 6 3 10 8 6 2 while Talbert beat Frank Kovaleski of Hamtramck Mich 6 2 6 0 3 6 3 6
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Budge Patty
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France
United States
Bill Sidwell
Australia
Talbert
Frank Kovaleski
Hamtramck
Mich
Chandler to Decide Wakefield Playing Status For Yankees Or White Sox
Baseball Commissioner A B Chandler will decide next week whether Dick Wakefield remains with the New York Yankees or moves to the Chicago White Sox. Wakefield demands a 25 percent pay restoration to play and is staying in Ann Arbor as the matter awaits a ruling.
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Dick Wakefield
New York Yankees
Chicago White Sox
Walter Mallery
Chandler
Yanks
Wakefield
White Sox
Frank Lane
Chicago
New York
George Weiss
Sox
Weiss
Lane
Ann Arbor
Mich
Major League Executive Council
National Association of Professional Baseball Clubs
Longhorns Beat SMU Nine 7-2 in SWC Showdown
Texas toppled SMU 7-2 as James Ehmer allowed six hits and fanned ten. The Longhorns scored three runs in the second and fifth innings and added another in the eighth to stay one game behind Texas A&M in the SWC race. Kal Segrist Pancho Waghalter Richard Waghalter and Ed Burrows led the offense with timely hits. Gerald Jensen was SMU’s lone bright spot with two hits. Murray Wall is slated to start Saturday’s rematch.
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Bib Falk
Gerald Jensen
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Longhorns
Texas Aggies
Rice Owls
Murray Wall
Falk
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Pancho
Richard Waghalter
Ed Burrows
Pirates Rally To Beat Giants 5 4 In Sixth Inning
The Pittsburgh Pirates edged the New York Giants 5 to 4 as three runs came in the sixth inning on two hits and two errors. Harold Gilbert homered for the Giants and Eddie Stanky hit a leadoff homer for New York. Mel Queen earned the win with relief help from Bill Werle, while Gilbert's eighth inning blast provided the other big moment. A crowd of 31,785 watched Pittsburgh seize the lead with two runs in the fourth aided by two singles a walk and a wild pitch.
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Tookie) Gilbert
New York
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Giants
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Pirate
Stanky
Carroll Ockman
Mel Queen
Gilbert
Pirates
Froggies Rally Edged Baylor 6 5 in 11 Innings
In Fort Worth on May 5 the Froggies beat Baylor 6 to 5 in 11 innings as Bobby Stotts' high throw allowed Harvey King to score the winning run. Ed Mathee and Fred Copeland pitched well after a high scoring first three frames, Bill Barnes blasting a three run homer for TCU. The win moves TCU into third in the Southwest Conference standings.
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Bobby Stotts
Harvey King
TCU
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Ed Mathee
Bears
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Frogs
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Stott
King
Aggies rout Rice Owls 14-0 in SWC clash
Texas A M walloped Rice 14-0 as Pat Hubert pitched a near no hitter through six innings. Joe Savarino and Guy Wallace opened the scoring with errors, Wally Moon drove in two with a double, and Lary Calvert Deweitt Justice all produced runs. Hubert finished with a big win as the Aggies pushed across seven runs in the first and four more in the fifth.
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Yale Lary
Cardinal Nine Rallies Past Phillies 3 2
The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 3 to 2 as Dick Sisler collected three hits in four at bats. Robin Roberts took the loss for Philadelphia after eight hits allowed, with Del Ennis hitting a sixth inning homer for the Phils.
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del Ennis
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France Begins Drills For Channel Attempt At Texoma
Shirley May France arrived in Durant to train for a second English Channel attempt. She took her first plunge in Lake Texoma on Friday because outdoor swimming was too cold at her Somerset Massachusetts home, her father Walter France said.
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Shirley May France
English Channel
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Texoma
Somerset, Mass
Walter France
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