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the spring until he'd shed his
hair, and not to run a filly be-
fore June /, if you wanted her
to win. Lookit his coat. He was
ready, eh?"
Two horses mean practically
vacation for the veteran, who'll
be IS on May 27. One summer
alone he claimed some so horses
for j. U. Grafton of Montreal,
and won about 100 races. But
Irvine has the same problem that
vexes most old-timers on the
turf today-no help. He claims
a man has got to live with
horse to take proper care of him.
Irvine was virtually living with
Prince Eugene, a Greentree
Stable castoff, who hadn't won
enough money to buy a postage
stamp some years ago when
he accidentally discovered the
horses trouble.
'He was a wind-Sucker." Bill
declared, but I didn't find out
about it until one night when
was sitting outside his stall
slipping a groWler of beer. 1
heard him knock rack of hay
off the wall, roll it into a ball
and suck wind through it. I
took the hay out of his stall and
he won a couple of races"
Started With Harness Horses.
Irvine, a short, Wiry man with
foxy grandpa manner of peer
ing over the rims of his spec
tacles, was born with a love of
horses in his heart. Nobody in
his family paid much attention
to horses, but Bill thought the
guy who drove the fire engine
was bigger than the President.
and he got up at 3 am. many
a day to hold the reins of the
bakers horse while he made his
daily rounds.
Bill is a Philadelphian and
his first job was with the Penn
Valley Stock Farm, a harness
breeding establishment long
since gone.
Bill, jr., a graduate of the
University of Virginia and a cap
tain in the Air Force during the
last war, apparently inherited
his dads love of horses. The
younger Irvine is a trainer, too,
but the old gentleman says he
can still teach him thing or
two.
They come after me and ask
Evening star., 1953-04-02
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ey the AsSocioted Press

NEW YORK. April q
Squared Away may turn out to
be the turf'S 1853 sprint cham
pion.
The Jan Burke 6-year- old
demonstrated yesterday that he
is ready for what could be his
greatest season in racing. The
ease with which he won the $25,-
O00-added Paumonok Handicap
at Jamaica emphasized the con-
sideration that must be given
him in future sprint events for
older horses.
And if he retains his sharp
form, Squared Away certainly
will be a strong contender for
championship honors when vot-
ing time arrives in the fall.
40,364 Turn Out.
Squared Always victory in the
Paumonok featured the opening
of New York'S 196-day racing
season before a crowd of 40,364
which wagered $2,960,207 on the
eighth-race card.
Packing top weight of 125
pounds, including Jockey Jimmy
Nichols, Squared Away made a
show of good field of sprinters
such as Hitex, Tagittarius, First
Glance, Count Flame and Bryan
G.
Breaking from No. 7 post posi-
ton, Nichols shot Squared Away
into the lead after the start.
Evening star., 1953-04-02
Top Horses Entered
In Blue Ridge Races
Special Dispatch TO The Stor

BERRYVILLE, Va, April O.
Some of the top horses and rid
ers in the area will be on hand
Saturday for the Blue Ridge
point point races, which get
under way at 1:30 pm. on the
Woodley farm two miles south
of here on Route IL.
Spanish Maid. winner Of the
Piedmont ladies' race last Sat-
urday, and Six Hundred, which
ran second. have been entered
in the Clifton Cup race. Nancy
Graham will be aboard Spanish
Maid and Sally Roszel on Six
Hundred. Also entered are Ag-
bid and Pepper Toes. Agbid
ridden by Amy Hitchcock, won
the ladies race at Rappahannock
recently, while Pepper Toes, rid
den by Barbara Graham, won
the junior race.
DR.. Ober and Corregidor,
heavyweight race winners at
Rappahannock: Mrs. Turner
Wiltshlre's Scotch Way, Old
Fashioned and Lady Beware
have been entered in the Kent
mere Cup race for heavyweight
riders.
Entries for the open race for
the Joseph w. Lewis Memorial
Cup include Big Breeze and
Black Fox Run. winner and run
ner-up in the open race at Pied
mont last Saturday; Henry
Loomis Jono and Ida McCar-
rolls Happy Quest.
Evening star., 1953-04-02
Irvine, Trainer of Sun Beau,
Recalls Biggest Racing Thrill

me if I've applied for stall space
at this track or that one" IT.
vine told us. speaking OF racing
officials. But I always tell 'em,
like I tell the boy, the horses
will decide where we go. If
you've got half mile horses YOU
don't want to be around a place
like this, you want to be at a
half-mile track. When you have
a big" horse, you want to take
him to the races. Now Friendly
Frank, for example, belongs here.
I'd rather be the mayor of a
small town than a lamp-post
in a big city"
Biggest Thrill at PimlicO.
Irvine's biggest thrill in racing
happened at Pimlico a few years
ago when he was dangerously i'll
and facing a major operation.
He needed money for hospital
expenses, and Bill, jr., had a
horse the old gent fancied by
the name of Gain A Foot. The
son gave him to his father to
train.
Gain A Foot didn't have
much of a record-he'd won a
race or two, that's ALL" Irvine
recalled. Il spent three months
getting him ready, and when the
big day arrived 1 told as many
friends as I could find to get
down on him. He opened at
35-1. and l guess they thought
I was sick and out of my mind,
but somebody must have bet on
him because the price dropped
quite bit.
We'll, when they left the gate
Gain Foot just ate ground
honestly. I've never seen a horse
take such lead. I was stand
ing on the old clubhouse steps
at Pimllco and when he hit the
homestretch knew he had it
won. Then I suddenly pictured
that horse stumbling and break
ing his neck and, losing all that
money. I couldn't get it out of
my mind.
"They told me later blacked
out and fell down the steps.
When I came to, I was in the
ambulance and my boy was with
me. Pop he said, that horse
paid $32.' I said, Son, tell the
driver to keep going to the hos
pital. I'm gonna have that op-
Grafton right away"
He did, too. They fixed up his
ulcers and he hasn't had an ache
or pain since.
Evening star., 1953-04-02
Kenwood Golf Event
Won by Mrs. Ward

In a women's field day event
at Kenwood Country Club yes
terday Mrs. Desmond j. Ward
carded a 78 to win low net hon.
orS and Mrs. E. B. Lockett took
low gross honors with a 96.
Mrs. Frank Ebaugh took Sec
ond low net with an 50, the
same score posted by Mrs. G. w.
Wesselink. Mrs. Wesselink lost
out under the card matching
system. Mrs. G. M. Comment
of Belle Haven won guest prize
with a net IS.
In the first ladies' day golf
outing of the season at Argyle
yesterday Mrs. Jack Whidden
fired a 49-9-40 in a nine-hole
kicker" tourney. Mrs. Frank
Cush was second with 45-4-41
and Mrs. G. L. Frazier third
with a 50-8-42. Guest prize
went to Mrs. John Daily of
Manor.
Evening star., 1953-04-02
Denver Fans Blast Durocher
For Ducking Out of Gobfest

and snowless. there was a big
chill on for Durocher.
The newspapers threw printed
bean balls. The fans booed the
manager of many words at the
second exhibition, which Cleve-
land won, 1911.
Yesterday morning Durocher
told reporters:
I'VE aren't hitting haven't
got any pitching. Opening day
is getting close. Frankly, I'm
worried. I take all the blame for
not showing up at your ban
quet."
He also told New York news
man that since he headed the
Denver program last year, he
figured only to make an appear
ance this year.
Later. he told. reporters:
II had made it very clear that
was not to speak. When saw
myself listed as the principal
speaker, I decided not to CO."
Evening star., 1953-04-02
P|aYoff Jinx Works
Against Red Wings
In Vital Game Tonight
BY the Associoted Press

They may not need it, but the
Boston Bruins will have a
"jinx" working for them tonight
in Detroit when they try to elm
mate the staggering Detroit Red
Wings from the Stanley Cup
playoffs.
A victory for the brash Bruins
would give them the beSt-of-
seven series, four games to one,
and send them into the final
round against either Montreal
or Chicago.
Montreal and Chicago, tied at
% in their semifinal playof,
clash tonight at Montreal.
A week ago Detroit looked like
a sure thing to polish off the
Bruins, possibly in four straight
games. The Wings had won the
opening game, TO, and looked
unbeatable.
But now it looks as if the
"playoff jinx" has caught up
with the Wings again. The
Wings have won five straight
National Hockey League titles,
to set a record. But in only two
of the last four years were they
able to go right through and win
the Stanley Cup.
Last year, Detroit won the cup
in eight straight games. The
year before, Montreal knocked
them out in the first round. That
was the year the Wings piled up
a record 101 team points in win
ming the regular season title.
In 1850, Detroit won the cup
but took IA games to do it. The
Wings played full seven-game
series against Toronto and New
York that year.
Toronto whipped the Wings in
four straight games to take the
Stanley Cup in 1949.
At Montreal, Coach Dick Irwin
figures both the Canadiens and
the Chicago Black Hawks have
received the breaks at home.
Irwin says his club will whip
Chicago tonight to take a 80
edge before moving to Chicago
for the sixth game.
And We'll finish it at Mon
treal III the seventh game" Irwin
said.
Evening star., 1953-04-02
Three Key Men Give
Hoyas Better Nine;
CIV Plays Trinity

In Pitcher Rube Waldele. First
Baseman-Pitcher Jack Vail and
Third Baseman Bill Wolfer,
Coach Joe Judge has three play
ers who figure to give George
town stronger team this sea-
son.
"On the days Waldele is pitch
ing we figure to be in the game
all the way" Judge said yester-
day. With a pretty fair de-
fensive club, due particularly to
Wolfer and Shortstop Dick Rat
terman, all we need is a bit more
hitting and We'll improve notice.
ably over last year."
Yesterday. in a game held to
five innings because of a sudden
downpour, Waldele kept the
Hoyas in the game with a neat
f1ve-hitter, and Georgetown
evened its season mark at IL
with a 2-1 win over Trinity.
Waldele allowed no runs after
the first inning.
MaSterSOn Comes Through.
A single by Wolfer, walk to
Vail and Ratterman's single tied
it up in the first. In the next
inning, Waldele set the stage
for the winning run with a walk.
He moved to second on an error
and scored on MaSterSon'S hit
through the box.
Today at pm. on the medical
field, Georgetown will try to
make it two straight when it
plays Lafayette. Bob Stuhr or
Bernie Foley will probably pitch.
In the only other college game
today. George Washington will
play return game with Trinity,
defeated Tuesday 14-6, and will
be out for it's third straight
victory Game time is 2::3O pm.
on the West Ellipse.
TerpS Beat Rutgers.
Rain shortened two other COL
lege games here yesterday Mary
land. behind the steady pitching
of Right-hander Connie Hemp
hill, doWned Rutgers, 5-3, in 512
innings at College Park. Tom
Baden, the Terps' left fielder, got
two hits and drove in two runs
to pace the attack. He drove in
one tally in the first inning and
came through again in the third
frame. scoring Chet Hanulak.
Hemphill hit a booming triple in
the fourth to drive in Don
Branik, who had reached first on
a single. Hemphill scored a mo-
ment later on Paul Dillioan's
single.
The sudden storm may have
come as a welcome relief to
Coach Dutch Schulze at Ameri-
can University. At the end of
the third inning, Colby led the
Eagles, 1872.
Virginia. with a 10-hit attack,
scored a Us victory over Penn
at Charlottesville.
Evening star., 1953-04-02
Oklahoma Governor Names
Thorpe Memorial Fund Group

seclusion with friends, refusing
even to give her address to the
mortuary directors, as she con-
Sidered funeral and burial plans.
Mrs. Thorpe has given no in
dication whether she hopes big
Jim will be buried in his native
Oklahoma, at Carlisle, Pa, where
he began his rise to fame, or
in Southern California.
"This is a matter solely for
Mrs. Thorpe to decide" said a
spokesman for a group of in
f1uential sportsmen which has
been Quietly helping make ar
rangements for the funeral.
Members of the group have cho-
sen to remain anonymous.
REST assured that Jim Thorpe
is not wanting in friends in
Southern California. He will be
rendered final rites in keeping
with his position in the hearts
of all his friends wherever they
may be-" the spokesman said.
Evening star., 1953-04-02
Top Golf Winners
Head Field at Start
Of AzaIea Tourney
BY the Assoeiated Press

WILMINGTON, N. c., April
2-The top six men on this
years professional golf money
winning list headed the field for
the fifth annual 72-hole $4,000
Azalea Open golf tournament
which got underway today at the
Cape Fear Country Club.
Topping the list with $6,73O
pocketed this year was Lloyd
Mangrum, Niles, ILL.,. who re-
turned to action to sharpen his
game for next weeks Augusta
Masters classic. Mangrum won
here two years ago. He has been
out of tournament play for sew
eral weeks.
The No. 2 winner, Cary Mid
dlecoff of Memphis, Tenn, is
only $500 back of Mangrum in
1858 winnings.
Tommy Bolt, Maplewood, N. j.,
brings the No. 3 bankroll into
action-$6,375. In fourth place
with $5,247 comes Lew Worsham,
Oakmont, Pa, recent Jackson
vile. Fla. Open winner.
Fifth is Doug Ford, Harrison,
N. Y, at $5,163, and sixth is
Ted Kroll, New Hartford, N. Y,
with $4,833.
Jimmy Clark, Laguna Beach,
Calf, who won last year with
a record 272, is back for another
shot at the $4,000 top award.
Also in the fold is the PGA
champion, Jim TurneSa, Briar-
cliff, N. Y, runnerup the last
two years. Sam Snead will not
compete.
A field of about lis will play
18 holes today and tomorrow
after which the entry will be cut
to the low so and ties for the
third round Saturday and the
final round Easter Sunday.
Evening star., 1953-04-02
Lloyd BruziI's Condition
Now Listed as Poor
BY the Associoted Press

DETROIT. April 2.-The con-
dition of Lloyd Brazil, 46, Uni
versity of Detroit athletic board
chairman, was reported un-
changed at Mt. Carmel Mercy
Hospital.
Brazil was stricken with a
cerebral hemorrhage Monday.
He has been taken off the "criti-
cal" list but his condition was
described yesterday as poor"
Evening star., 1953-04-02
Maryland House Votes
More Minor Track DaVs
BY the Associofed Press

ANNAPOLIS, Md, April g.
Twenty-six more days of racing
for the minor and harness tracks
have been passed by the Mary
land House of Delegates.
The bill sent to the Senate
yesterday would permit each of
the five minor horse racing
tracks to operate II days instead
of 10 and the four harness plants
"a nights instead of 20.
The additional days would
raise the number of horse racing
dates in Maryland to 246 a year.
The three major tracks, which
are not affected by this bill,
share 100 days.
The Senate Judiciary Commit
tee has buried a bill which would
have given the 3-mile tracks
eight more days. as we'll as the
same increase for the others ap-
proved by the House.
Evening star., 1953-04-02
Richards Sees Hope
OF Flag II Several
White Sox Get Hot
BY the Assoeioted Press

SAN ANTONIO. Tex, April 2.
The Chicago White Sox can
win the 1858 pennant, Manager
Paul Richards says.
I'VE aren't the best ball club
in the league on paper-the Yam
KEGS and Cleveland must be
ranked above us on that basis"
Richards admitted.
However, we're not too far
behind them, and any team that's
close has a good chance to win.
In order to capture a pennant,
four or five players must have
great years together. It's been
that way with every pennant
winner.
"Or you can take the cham
pionship if three fellows have
extra great years and two or
three others fairly good ones.
All that's necessary is that you
have the players with that sort
of a potential, and I believe we
have.
Minnie Minoso, Ferris Fain,
Vern Stephens, Nellie Fox, Sam
Mele, Chico Carrasquel and Jim
Rivera all have such possibilities,
and so have several of our
pitchers. like Billy Pierce, Saul
Rogovin, Tommy Byrne and Lou
KretloW.
Just let a few of them catch
fire and We'll be in it all the
way"
Richards said pitching was his
big problem as it was in 1852
when the White Sox finished in
third place behind Cleveland and
the Yankees.
Mound duty will be "some-
thing of a scramble like it was
last season, with Pierce and
Rogovin the starting mainstays.
Harry Dorish the finisher, and
the rest toiling somewhere in
between.
"You never know about pitch
ing" Richards declared. It's
the games most unpredictable
department. For instance, we
could suddenly have a wonder
full staff if Byrne. Kretlow and
Mike Fornieles come through.
But you can't figure on it,"
Byrne and KretloW are major
league veterans with a reputa-
ton for wildnesS. Fornieles is a
Cuban rookie obtained from
Washington in a trade.
I'm the final analysis" Rich
ards concluded, IF we are to be
a topf1ight contender all the
way. we have to do it because
of balance"
Evening star., 1953-04-02
BY the Associoted Press

DENVER, April 2.-The name
of Leo Ernest Durocher is in
shadow in Denver, regional
mecca of baseball worshiperS.
It isn't that the Lip called
the mile-high mountains mole
hills, the horses spawned, the
unSetS dull.
Some $50 baseball fans paid
four bucks apiece Tuesday night
to attend a banquet at which
the New York Giants manager
was billed as the top attraction.
The feed-and gabfeSt by Du-
rocher-was put on by the Old
Timers, highly respected sponsor
of a baseball program for local
youngsters. Leo failed to show.
The sympathy was warm on
snowy Tuesday after the Cleve-
land Indians walloped Duro-
cher's boys, LIS, in the first
game of an exhibition stand.
But yesterday, warm and sunny
Evening star., 1953-04-02
JanoWicz, 0'Briens Drill.
Al Pirates Minor Camp
By the Associoted Press

BRUNSWICK. Ga, April q
Three Pittsburgh rockies. who
achieved fame in other sports,
are in Brunswick for spring drills
at the Pirates minor league
training camp.
They include two college ALL
Americas, Shortstop Johnny
O'Brien, Seattle'S basketball
wizard, and Catcher Vic Jan
owicz. Ohio States football back
field star. The third is Johnny's
twin brother Eddie, a defensive
Standout on Seattle's cage team,
who is working out at second
base.
They came here with Coach
Clyde Sukeforth from the Pitts
burgh camp in Havana, Cuba,
and will work out until the Pi-
rates open the season at Brook
1yn April IA.
The three have shown we'll in
practice sessions, but lack expe-
rlence. That's why they were
sent to Brunswick.
Evening star., 1953-04-02
Field Of 50 Cars in Line
For Marlboro Races

More than SO cars are ex-
pected to compete in the stock
car races at the Marlboro Race
way Sunday starting at 1880
p. m.
Forty-seven cars were on hand
for the seasons opener last Sum-
day, all of which are expected
back.
Preston and Bob Welsh of Sill
yer Spring, Reds Fowler, Carl
Henderson, Paul Hollenbeck,
Mack Hanbury, Ray Byers, Sam
and Lee Hash, Pete Peters, Mike
Taylor, Shelby Colbert, Johnny
Jenkins, Tom Kinnamon and
Carl Pacifico are among drivers
expected.
Evening star., 1953-04-02
Hoyo Netmen to Play
Tar Heels Tomorrow

Georgetown's seven-man ten
mis- team, accompanied by Coach
AL Ritzenberg. leaves today for
matches with North Carolina to-
morrow and Duke Monday.
Ritzenberg named Herb Won
Urf, Jack Frisby, Bill Baker,
Lee Marin, Al McNabb, Jack
McFadden and Mike Foster in
that order as his singles team.
Won Urff and Frisby, McNabb
and McFadden and Baker and
Foster will pair for doubles.
Evening star., 1953-04-02
Western High Leading
AS Roin HuIts Come

Western High led Woodward
School, 80. yesterday in base
ball game at Western when rain
halted the game after 3la in
nlngs. The contest will be re-
played if a suitable date can be
arranged.
Montgomery Blair and North
western High also were rained
out after three innings.
Evening star., 1953-04-02
Vermont Drubs Boiling
In nRuin-Shortened Come

Boiling Air Force Base, after
an impressive win in its first
baseball game of the season
Tuesday, took a l5-4 drubbing
from Vermont University yes
terday in a game held to seven
innings because of rain.
Vermont, led by Joe Dias, who
had three hits in four times at
bat, walloped four Boiling pitch
erS for IA hits, scoring six runs
in the second inning to lock up
the game.
Evening star., 1953-04-02
St. Bonaventure Names
New Basketball Coach
BY the Associoted Press

ny me HSSoCIOIeQ TISSS
OLEAN. N. Y, April Eddie
Donovan, Olean High School bas-
ketball coach, has been named
head coach at st. Bonaventure
University.
The brief announcement was
made by the Very Rev. Juvenal
Lalor, OFM, president of the uni
versity.
Donovan succeeds Ed Melvin,
whose contract expired Tuesday
and was not renewed.
Donovan, 80, is a St. Bonaven-
ture alumnus. He was freshman
coach under Melvin during the
1949-50 season.
Evening star., 1953-04-02
jacob NodIer, "a, Dead ;
Boxed os Terry Brooks
By the Associated Pres.

BOSTON, April Jacob
Nader, "a. who fought under
the name of Terry Brooks years
ago, died yesterday at Miami,
Fla. w.~le on vacation. He was
employed for 80 years in the
circulation department of the
Boston Globe.
He leaves his mother, Mrs.
Joseph Nader; a son, DR.. Sey-
mour Nader of Newton; a
daughter, Mrs. Mildred Winston
of Brookline; two brothers. Ed
ward of Boston and David of
New York. and a sister, Frances,
also of New York.
Evening star., 1953-04-02
Homer Ends in Death

CLARKSDALE. Miss. April 2
(P). - Ten-year -old Walter E.
Gates slammed hor-e run yes
terday and fell dead as he
crossed homeplate Walter, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Rodney Gates,
was playing baseball with his
fourth-grade classmates. The
parents said Walter died of a
heart attack.
Evening star., 1953-04-02
Browns Games Switched

CHICAGO, April 2 LP.-Six
day games involving the st. Louis
Browns have been switched to
night contests, the American
League has announced. They
are: At Cleveland. May % and
August 81; at New York, June 16
and September 16; and at Boston,
May 20 and August 4.
Evening star., 1953-04-02
TumbIing Course PIunned

A free course in tumbling for
boys between 13 and Is will be
held at Stratford Junior High
School starting April Is, the Ar
llngton County Recreation De-
partment has announced. Glasses
will be held on Thursdays from
Z to $3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1953-04-02
By the Associotsd Press

OKLAHOMA CITY, April q
Gov. Johnston Murray has ap-
pointed a Jim Thorpe Memorial
Fund Committee to accept
private donations and make
plans to bring back to Oklahoma
for burial the body of the States
famous Indian athlete.
Thorpe died Saturday at
Lomita, Calf, from a heart at
tack.
Gov. Murray said he will serve
as chairman of the committee
and the Daily Oklahoman here
will be custodian of any funds
which private citizens may wish
to donate.
Tentative plans call for burial
at a proposed Indian hall OF
fame park just east of Anadarko
LOS ANGELES, April 2. P.-
The body of Jim Thorpe lies in
funeral home while admirers
throughout the Nation await a
decision by his widow regard
ing the funeral and the ath-
lete's final resting place.
Mrs. Thorpe remained in
Evening star., 1953-04-02
Ann Gray Advances

MONTE CARLO, April 2 lPD.
Ann Gray of Washington.
D. c.. is in the quarter finals
of the Monte Carlo international
Tennis Tournament after beat
ing Mrs. Andre Varin of France.
6-3, 6-3. yesterday.