Wood Memorial Looms as Derby Hopefuls Stir Up and Pukka Gin Prime
New York race fans anticipate Jamaica’s Wood Memorial with Stir Up and Pukka Gin among favorites in the 25 000 event. Eddie Arcaro rides Stir Up and Ted Atkinson guides Pukka Gin as a field of 13 three year olds contests the mile and a sixteenth race likely to draw 50 000 spectators, a Jamaica record. Other likely starters include Lucky Draw Olympic Zenith Stymie Bel Reigh Autocrat Frisky Fire Bull Dandy Doggone Sweeping Time Plucky Maud.
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Jamaica
Whitney
Payne Whitney
Col. C. V. Whitney
Col. Whitney
Greentree
Lucky Draw
Olympic Zenith
Stymie
Bel Reigh
Autocrat
Frisky Fire
Bull Dandy
Doggone
Sweeping
Plucky Maud
George D. Widener
William Helis
Ethel D. Jacobs
Ray Mack quits baseball to obey draft ruling
Cleveland Indians second baseman Ray Mack, now at a war plant, said he considered a part time return but chose not to after a selective service board ruling. He would lose 2-B status if he played evenings or Sundays, so he will not return to baseball and will remain at the aircraft parts plant.
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Cleveland (Ap
Ray Mack
Selective Service Board
Draft Board
Mack
Indians
Madigan Plans Iowa Grid Practice for August
University of Iowa football coach Slip Madigan announced a month of summer practice starting August 1. The Hawks will train until September 1, take a one week break, then start fall drills September 7. The team opens against Ohio State October 7 in Columbus and faces eight major games through late November. Madigan will attend a Big Ten scheduling meeting in Chicago May 25-27 to help map 1945 and 1946 schedules before returning to California for a month.
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University of Iowa
Madigan
Oakland
Calif
Hawks
Ohio State
Columbus
Town
Midwest
Chicago
Iowa
California
Kearns Plans Savold Mauriello Bout for Chicago
Chicago promoter Jack Kearns said arrangements near completion for Lee Savold to meet Tami Mauriello in Chicago this summer. He plans an outdoor card at a major league baseball park with a potential $100000 gate, as part of his new Chicago promotion series beginning April 28 with the Montgomery-Peralta lightweight bout.
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Chicago
Jack Kearns
Impressario
Jack Dempsey
Mickey Walker
Lee Savold
Tami Mauriello
Kearns
Bob Montgomery
Joey Peralta
Savold
Mauriello
Red Pepper on Bench Coaching in Football
The column humorously catalogs bench coaching tricks in football from Joe Doak’s No 64 sideline show to Smith and 74 signals, noting collegians’ stricter ethics and the old bench practices. It highlights Slip Madigan’s defensive skill and a 1940 Iowa Wisconsin game anecdote, concluding with a joke on signals and a baseball tale of signal confusion that ends with a punchline.
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Joe Doak
John Smith
Carl Snavely
Cornell
Madigan
Iowa
Indiana
Hawk
Lynn King Becomes Instructor at Sheppard Field Texas
Atlantic friends of Lynn King, outfielder for the Kansas City Blues, learned Friday that he is now stationed at Sheppard Field in Texas where he has been made a physical training instructor.
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Atlantic
INS
Lynn King
Kansas City Blues
Sheppard Field
Texas
Navy Takes Him
ST. LOUIS INL Outfielder Danny Litwhiler of the St. Louis Cardinals passed his pre induction physical examination Friday at Jefferson Barracks and was accepted for service by the navy. He is subject to call for active duty.
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ST. Louis
INL
Danny Litwhiler
St. Louis Cardinals
Jefferson Barracks
Navy
Litwhiler Joins Cardinals After Phillies Trade
The barracks public relations office reported Litwhiler arrived with the Cardinals last spring in a trade from the Philadelphia Phillies. He participated in last season's World Series against the New York Yankees.
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Litwhiler
Cardinals
Philadelphia Phillies
New York Yankees
Quarterly NBA boxers ratings urge quick title bouts
Washington up Abe J Green president of NBA urged fast matches to settle lightweight and featherweight title disputes. The NBA released quarterly ratings led by divisional champions and logical contenders with boxers such as Joe Louis Billy Conn Gus Lesnevich Freddie Mills Lloyd Marshall Tony Zale Georgie Abrams Jake Lamotta Holman Williams Tony Martin Coley Welch Jose Basora Freddie Cochrane Ray Robinson Jackie Wilson Henry Armstrong Juan Zurita Sammy Angott Bob Montgomery Beau Jack Salt Bartola Willie Pep Chalky Wright Phil Terranova Manuel Ortiz Rush Daima Ernesto Aguilar Little Dado Kul Kone Yone Jack Patterson Peter Kane Alex Murphy listed among top contenders.
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Washington
Abe J. Green
National Boxing Association
N.B.A
Joe Louis
Billy Conn
Dimmy Blgins
Licht
Gus Lesnevich
Freddie Millis
Lloyd Marshall
Tony Zile
Georgie Abrams
Jake Lamotta
Holman Williams
Tony Martin
Coley Welch
Jose Basora
Freddie Cochrane
Ray Robinson
Jackie Wilson
Henry Armstrong
Juan Zurita
Sammy Angoth
Bob Montgomery
Beau Jack
Bobby Wifin
Sal Bartola
Wille Pep
Chalky Wright
Phil Terranova
Manuel Ortiz
Rush Daima
Ernesto Aguilar
Little Dado
Kul Kone Yone
Jack Patterson
Peter Kane
Alex Murphy
Pro Grid League cuts slate to eleven clubs after war
The owners of eleven NFL clubs meet to discuss contracting the circuit rather than expanding until after the war. They table five franchise petitions from four cities with potential revivals anytime, with talks of mergers like Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. Boston Yankees hint at a merger if all games stay in Boston, while schedule changes and bench coaching are approved. Bill Dickey hit eight homers in his final two years with the Yankees as the 1943 World Series ended.
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Philadelphia
Ernie Nevers
Anthony Morabito
San Francisco
Abe Warner
Baltimore
Sam Cordovano
Buffalo
Los Angeles
Bill Dickey
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