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| A Tout’s |
| Report 1
By LARRY LAU
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The International Handicap
(Synopsis: The running of a
S50,000.International Handicap has
been announced by Mexican racing
officials. Its success has been far
ther assured by the ban on racing
in the U. S. Ali-Ben-Gay in the
meanwhile is shaping up as a solid
contender).
(Chapter six).
A mass migration of horses,
jockeys, trainers and touts began
to funnel into Mexico. Mexican
patriots clapped their sticky fing
ers with glee and opened the gates
wide. Hippodromo de Tijuana of
ficials swooned with delight, upped
the purses from $800 to $2000, and
their admission prices 600 percent.
Merchants in Tijuana shooed the
natives away from their shelves,
painted new price tags, broke out
their synthetic nylons and prepar
ed to reap the harvest.
This ill-constructed, short-turn
ed track, on the outskirts of a
squalid, mercenary town, had nev
er seen such a boom. Viva ’Merica!
. . . Viva Mexico, Viva. . . viva!
In his first three races, Ali-Ben
Gay scored easy victories. He was
enjoying himself immensely,' find
ing the American horses much
more tolerant, the climate delight
ful, and a bay filly named Bounc
ing Baby promising.
In all the history of the Hippo
dromo de Tijuana, there had never
been a $50,000 race, but there was
to be one! 250,000 pesos, to think
of it! . . And people did think of
^it. Nayer lay awake nights,
scratching his flabby shank, think
ing of the glory of it. His wife,
Jessica (who had a mustache,
three chins and hopes of having
an affair), also dreamed of it.
Pedro and Juan, crushing lice be
tween their fingers, scuffed their
bare feet through the yellow, vel
vet dust, and pondered on the mag
nitude of such a sum.
t'epe, tne tacno vender at the
track, made plans to have twice as
many tachos to sell. He picked one
up from the ground where it had
fallen off his wagon, dusted it with
his sweaty bandanna, and chewed
reflectively—all the while he was
thinking, he was absently pulling
on the whistle cord of his cart.
Owners of the “class” horses,
directing the war from their coun
try estates, were stirred to action
and (using their influence to se
cure rail space) moved their horses
across the country and into Mexi
co; they were thinking of the race
in terms of $50,000.
Saturday, the day of the Inter
national Handicap, was incredibly
bright. A great holiday crowd of
32,000 (of which 27,000 were Amer
icans with A books) was on hand.
Pushing, pummeling, laughting,
snarling, desperately studying the
Pushing, pummeling, laughing,
ning the “tout sheets” (published
by a canny group of men who went
broke playing their own "picks” in
the flagrant twenties), and some
how the swelling, straining stands
managed to absorb them all. There
were no individuals present, but
rather a blur that was a turbulent,
swaying, weaving mob.
(Chapter 7, the running of the
International Handicap, will ap
pear in tomorrow's Emerald.)
SAE Netmen Win Fray
Over Zeta Warriors
The SAE tennis team swept
"over Zeta Hall today when they
won their doubles by default and
Ed Decator, playing singles, de
feated Evans Cantrell, 6-2, 6-0.
Seven Straight--UO 19, Idaho 1
Sports Staff
Bernie Hammerbeck
John Smith
Dewey Roberts
A1 Pietschman
Baseball
Results
NEW YORK, May 3.—(UP)—
The Boston Red Sox, making a de
termined bid for the American
League pennant in what is re
garded as their “now or never”
year, slugged out a 9 to 4 victory
over Cleveland today for their
eighth straight win.
The Red Sox maintained
their two-game lead oyer the
New York Yankees, who heat
the defending champion De
troit Tigers, 2 to 0, on Allen
Gettel’s two-hit pitching.
Home runs by Rudy York and
Ted Williams paced a 12-hit Red
Sox attack which batted Red Em
bree from the mound in the fifth
inning, while Lefty Mickey Harris
won his fourth game without de
feat, spacing nine hits.
The victory before 10,360 fans,
followed three straight triumphs
over the Tigers, and indicated that
the Red Sox have both the consis
tent power and pitching to live up
to pre-season ratings, which put
them on a par with the Yankees
as flag favorites.
Gettel’s pitching and the hitting
of Charley Keller, Bill Dickey, and
Phil Rizzuto sent the Tigers to
their fifth straight defeat. Rizzuto
batted in Dickey in the third inn
ing and Keller homered in the
eighth. It was the Yanks’ 16th
homer in 17 games. Gettel held
Detroit hitless until Paul Trout,
the losing pitcher, singled in the
sixth inning. Hank Greenberg
twice was an easy out when a hit
would have meant a Detroit run.
St. Louis Browns defeated Wash
ington, 5 to I, when the Senators
blew up in the first inning and al
lowed four unearned runs and one
earned tally. Sam Zoldak was the
winning pitcher and Roger Wolff
the loser.
Murrell Jones’ first 1946
home run, with two men on
base in the seventh inning, car
ried the Chicago White Sox
to an 8 to 5 triumph over the
Philadelphia Athletics. The A’s
got off to a four-run lead, but
Chicago tied it with a run in
the fifth and three in the sixth.
The national league’s first 1946
“crucial series,” pitting league
leading Brooklyn against the Car
dinals at St. Louis, was delayed
when rain forced postponement of
today’s contest.
A1 Jurisich pitched a four-hit
Crish, Johnson Top
14-Hit Duck Attack
MOSCOW, May 3.—Ore
gon’s undefeated Northern Di
vision league leaders rolled up
number seven here today,
swamping the University of
Idaho’s Vandals, 19 to 1.
Dick Lehl and Hal Saltzman,
the loop's top hurlers, shared the
pitching chores lor the powerful
Ducks and choked off all Idaho
attempts to score until the last of
the ninth.
Hard-hitting Tony Crish and
Spike Johnson led the Webfoot at
tack on two Idaho hurlers. Crish
banged out a homer and a triple
and Johnson had a pair of three
baggers.
The Vandals collapsed early in
the game and committed 10 errors
before the slaughter was over.
John Daily and Bill Car’oaugh vain
ly tried to stem the Oregon on
slaught.
Oregon opened the game with
two runs, picked up two more in
the second and removed all doubt
of the outcome in the third by
scoring five runs.
Not content with their nine
run advantage, the Ducks ran
wild again in the sixth to score
five more runs and then du
plicated the outburst of scor
ing in the ninth.
The two teams meet tomorrow
in the second and final game of
the series here. The victory today
gave Oregon three straight this
season over the Vandals.
Oregon .225 005 005—19 14 2
Idaho . 000 000 001— 1 8 10
Lehl, Saltzman and Rodiger,
Crish; Dailey, Carbaugh and Viro.
shutout to help the Philadelphia
Phils edge the Cincinnati Reds, 1
to 0. Emil Verban, obtained Wed
nesday from the Cardinals, walked
to start the seventh, stole second
and scored on John Wyrostek’s
single.
The Chicago Cubs also won a 1
to 0 game, topping the New York
Giants with the aid of good relief
hurling by Hiram Bithorn. The
Puerto Rican relieved John Schmitz
in the ninth and fanned Babe
Young and Bill Rigney with the
bases loaded. Bill Nicholson drove
in the Cub run.
Two errors by the Boston Braves
gave the Pittsburgh Pirates the
winning run in a 3 to 2 game. One
of the errors put the runner on
base and the other error, by out
fielder Carden Gillenwater on a
single, allowed the runner to score
from first. Ken Heintzelman al
lowed only five hits in winning his
third game against no defeats, and
it was John Sain’s first loss after
three wins.
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Probable Pitchers
For Saturday's Games
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York (Kennedy 0-0) at
Chicago (Prim 0-0).
Brooklyn (Behrman 1-1) at St.
Louis (Burkhart 1-1).
Philadelphia (Hughes 0-1) at
Cincinnati (Andrews 0-2).
Boston (Wright 1-1) at Pitts
burgh (1-1).
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit (Overmire 0-1) at New
York (Bevens 1-1).
Cleveland (Feller 2-2) at Bos
ton (Bagby 0-1).
Chicago (Haynes 1-0) at Phil
adelphia (Newsom 2-1).
St. Louis (Galehouse 0-3 or Hol
lingsworth 0-0) at Washington
(Niggeling 0-1).
Phi Delts Cop
Softball Battle
Phi Gamma Delta overcame a
four-run lead to beat out Kappa
Sigma, 11-10, n a seventh-inning
rally in Friday’s solo softball tilt.
Hathaway and Vacceleri of the
Delts got return tickets to thie
plate as they each tapped Bell,
Duck Divotmen
Swamp Vandals
MOSCOW, May 3.—The Univer
sity of Oregon’s golf team opened
its invasion of the Inland Empire
here today with an 18»/2 to 6»4
victory over the University of Ida
ho.
Webfoot George Kike paced the
victors with a two-under-par 7®
over the tricky course and cap
tured the medalist honors.
Oregon won the singles in the
morning round, 12 to 6, and cap
tured the doubles in the afternoon
plav, 6 to 214.
The Ducks meet the Washington'
State Cougars tomorrow at Pull
man.
It was the first northern divi
sion win for Oregon, badly beaten’
in the first match of the season at
Washington.
pitching for the losers, for a hom
er. These two runs were bolstered!
by singles and a walk to end the
ball game. Bell was reached for a
total of 13 hits,while winning pitch
er Schuchard gave up 11 hits.
Other games whicn were sched
uled for B'riday were postponed.
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