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Bores Strategy
In 800: Just Steps on 1t

INDIANAPOLIS. May % up.
Bill Vukovich, who has an ex-
cellent chance Monday to be-
come the first driver to win
three straight 500-mile auto
races, explained his strategy to-
day.
II just stick my foot on it and
co." said Vukovich, a one-time
grape picker who has made a
fortune at the Indianapolis
Speedway.
II sit there and get tireder
and tireder, and wonder if the
cars going to fall apart" the
muscular little Slovenian says.
And then I tell myself, Bill,
if you don't win this you may
have to go back to work-and
drive a little harder"
Like most of the easy-going
racing clan, Vukovich is a great
kidder. But Walt Faulkner and
others who have raced against
him will tell you he's one of the
f1ercest competitors in the history
of the sport. He was wrecked on
three straight week ends early
in his career and kept on racing
in spite of mauled hands.
Bill had to give up the mouse
gray No. IA car in which he won
the last two 500s and would have
won three years ago if the steer
ing hadn't failed. The car.
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Busch Meeting Press
On Rumors About Stonkv

: Busch, the man who has the
answer, could not be reached
last night or early today, but
sports writer's here considered it
significant that Busch has not
come to Stanky's defense as he
did last July during another hot
spot in his managerial career.
In Rochester, George Beahon,
sports columnist for the Roches-
ter Democrat and Chronicle. said
last night he had learned posi-
lively that Walker would replace
Stanky within 48 hours.
Brother Of Dixie Walker
Walker left the ball park in
the middle of a close game with
Toronto last night. It wasn't
learned Immediately where
Walker went, but club officials
said they thought he had left
town.
Walker is a brother of Dixie
Walker, now a coach under
Stanky.
Speaking of the rumors, STAN
ky said:
People have been wrong be-
fore: I'm not going to let a little
rumor disturb me. ! thought it
was agreed that this was a young
club. that it might take two
weeks. two months or longer for
it to hit its best stride"
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ST. LOUIS. May % (P,.-
Fiery Eddie Stanky's status as
Cardinals manager was the SUBJ
ject of much conjecture today.
A wave of rumors here and in
Rochester, N. Y, say that the
former Giants infielder is out
and that Harry Walker. man
ager of the Rochester farm club,
Is in.
Stanky's status was due to be
cleared up today as August A.
Busch, jr., president of the club.
called a press conference for 3
pm. Washington at his st.
Louis County home.
Eddie said last night: II
intend to manage in St. Louis
for a good many years"
Bill Walsingham, Cardinals
vice president, also denied that
Stanky was about to make his
departure.
Rumors Get Into Print
The rumors began here sew
eral days ago as the club ended
a brief, but bad, road trip in
which they dropped six of seven
games and Eddie repeatedly dis
played some temper.
The rumors got into print yes
terday when ]. G. Taylor Sphinx,
publisher of the Sporting News,
said in a copyrighted story that
Stanky's tenure as Redbird pilot
is nearing the end of the road f."
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Curter-Smith Bout
Reset for June 70

BOSTON, May % (P).-The
world lightweight championship
fight between titlist Jimmy Car
ter and Wallace (Bud) Smith has
been rescheduled for Boston
Garden June 20. according to
Promoter Sam Silverman of the
Callahan AC.
The nationally televised fight,
with New England BACKED out,
was set for June /, but Carter
said he couldn't make the date
because of illness.
The National Boxing Associa-
ton put Carter on the unavail-
able list until he fulfilled the
championship contract against
Smith in Boston.
The June televised date will
be filled, instead, by a 10-round
feature between Willie Pep of
Hartford, Conn, and Joey Cam
of East Boston at the Boston
Arena.
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Maryland Series
With Tennessee
Opens Next Year

A four-year football series be-
tween Maryland and Tennessee
was announced today by jim
Tatum, head coach and athletic
director at Maryland, and Bob
Neyland, athletic director for
the Vols.
The first game will be played
in 1856, but the exact dates and
sites of the games have not been
announced.
These games will renew a
rivalry begun in the Sugar Bowl
game of 1852 when Maryland
upset Tennessee, 1918, to cap
a 1851 season in which the Ter
rapins were undefeated.
The 1856 Tennessee games
gives the Terrapins four outside
the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Others are against Kentucky,
Louisiana State and Baylor.
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D. c. INTERNATIONAL ENTRY SOUGHT
Swaps and Phil Drake
May Compete at Laurel

LONDON, May % (P.-Swaps,
winner Of the Kentucky Derby,
and Phil Drake. French-owned
winner of Wednesdays EPSON
Derby, may be matched in the
Washington, D. c., International
Turf Race at Laurel, Md, next
fall.
If so, it would be the first time
in 80 years the winners of the
two big racing classics clashed.
zev. Kentucky Derby winner,
beat the English champion, Pa
pyrus, at Belmont Park October
20, 1923.
John Schapiro, Laurel presi-
dent, said here yesterday that
prospects are fine" for a meet
ing of Swaps and Phil Drake in
the International November IL.
REX Ellsworth (co-owner of
Swaps is considering the invi-
tation for Swaps to run at
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owned by Howard Keck of Los
Angeles, has been retired while
Keck's engineers build a special
new supercharged V-8 for Vuko-
vich.
Monday Bill will drive a blue
car carrying No. 4, owned by
Lindsey Hopkins of Miami. It's
a year newer than the car in
which he won over 100000 for
himself and Keck. Pat O'Con-
nor of North Vernon, Ind. had
it in seventh place late in last
years race when a sudden storm
blew him off the track.
Vukovich is well satisfied with
the Hopkins Special, largely be-
cause Keck loaned Hopkins his
two master mechanics, Jim
Travers and Frank Coon. It's a
Kurtis-Kraft with Offenhauser
270-cubic Inch. four-cylinder en-
CINE. a special speedway car
called a roadster" in racing cir
Giles because the driver sits to the
right of center.
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HUNGARIAN WINS IN 3:5o
4-Minute Mile Beaten
By Three in One Race

LONDON, May % R.-Laszlo
Tabor of Hungary and Chris
Chataway and Brian Hewson of
Britain all ran the mile under
4 minutes today. Tabori won
in $3.50.
Chataway, a London brewer.
and Hewson of the Royal Air
Force both were clicked in
1888.
The race was an invitation
international mile event held as
part of the British games at
White City Stadium. A crowd
of $4,000 was in the stands de-
spite a raw, overcast day.
Run on Heavy Track
The track was heavy and the
temperature about so.
The race marked the first time
in history three men ever ran
under the 4-minute mark in
one race. Only once before, in
fact, have two men been under
the coveted time in one race.
That was in the duel between
Roger Bannister, first man to
achieve the long-sought A.
minute mile. and John Landy.
the current world record holder,
in the British Empire Games last
August.
Bannister won that race in
1888. with Landy trailing in
1896. Until then the only sub
4-minute miles were BanniS-
ter's first cracking of the myth
ical barrier in 1884 and Landy's
record Of 1858.
Tabori Five YARDS Ahead
Tabori finished five yards
ahead OF Chataway and Hewson,
the latter being just far enough
behind Chataway to be shunted
to third place.
Today's event was even more
remarkable than the Vancouver
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LEAD BOOSTED TO 3 GAMES
EorIy Runs BoIstering
Pitching for Yankees

Cy williams 1912-30 with the
Phils and Cubs for the major
LEAGUE pinch homer mark Of
nine. Hofman's only in his fifth
season.
Willy Mays cut the props from
Erskine's bid for a seventh vic
tory with a two-run homer In
the eighth giving Sal Maglie a
1910 lifetime mark against the
Brooks and his fifth straight
victory of the season. All of
the last IS runs scored off Err
skine. who has lost two. have
come on homers.
The Cubs couldn't edge up
as Brooklyn lost its sixth game
in the last nine because Gene
Conley won his seventh of the
season. Conley needed help
from Bob Bull after seven in
nings and Bull had to fan Ted
Tape to end it after loading
the bases in the ninth. Sam (No
Hit Jones lost it, leaving in
a three-run fifth after giving
six hits and six walks.
A three-run 10th extended
Philadelphia's streak with Herm
Wehmeier the winner after Andy
Seminick's two-run homer tied
1t in the ninth.
At st. Louis, Rip Repulski hon.
cred and doubled as the Cards
regained their hitting form for
IL hits to dump the Redlegs into
sixth Luis Arroyo won his fifth
with Paul LaPalme'S help.
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Wilson Of Maryland in the 440.
Holder of one of the best rec
ords this season, Wilson did no
better than fourth in his heat.
Crosby Day Of Georgetown also
was eliminated from the 440.
Pete Fedak of Georgetown
qualified for the six-man final
of the 120-yard high hurdles,
running 10 yards back of Charley
Pratt of Manhattan in his 14.3-
second heat. fastest of the three.
Fedak was ousted from the 200
low hurdles, however.
other Georgetowners who
made it were George Peyton in
the nine-man half-mile finals
by winning the second heat by
yards in 1855, and Paul Baron
celli. who got the sixth and last
place in the shot put with "a
feet 2 inches. Baroncelli missed
in the discus, however, with q
best toss Of las feet 3 inches
far below his best this season
It took 152 feet 5 inches to
qualify.
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De|awarePark
Opens 32-Day
Meeting Today
Special Dispatch to The Star

STANTON, Del, May 3D.
Delaware Park opens a 38-day
meeting today with the $4,000
added Wilmington Handicap,
which has drawn a field of 10
well-matched sprinters.
Bryan Field. vice president
and general manager, predicted
a crowd of 10000 for the in
augural, despite competition
from Garden State Park, which
featured the $4,000 added
Colonial Stake, and Pimlico,
which is having it's 10th running
of the $100,000-added Preakness.
The 6-furlong Wilmington
will be having its 18th running
with a field headed by S. Dewey
Gottlieb's First Served under
the heaviest weight of 1T
pounds. The gelding is an
entry with Do Report, the only
coupling in the race. First
Served won Laurel's Capitol
Handicap under / pound less
than his assignment today.
Jockey j. A. Regalbuto was as
signed to both horses but prob
ably will be astride First Served
Ring King May Be Favorite.
Mrs. Ada L. Rice's Ring King,
who won the 1854 Chesapeake
and Cherry Blossom Stakes and
took a fast-run 6-furlong dash
at Pimlico in his IS debut,
could wind up favorite. He'll
carry ia pounds, including
Jockey Roger Leblanc.
c. V. Whitney's Fly Wheel. a
two-time stakes victor in Florida.
gets in at 116 pounds. Others
entered are w. L. Huntley's
Hilarious, ITO, Jockey Ray Mix
komen; Ella K. Bryson's Kinda
Smart, 1903, c. M. Clark; Alfred
Roberts Eatontown, lib, w. B..
Williams: Elkcam Stables Ifa-
body ia, r. L. Stevenson;
Maine Chance Farms Black
Metal, 109. no boy, and E. M.
OBrien's Brisuet, 108, OWE
Scurlock.
If all 10 go, the Wilmington
will gross $13,025 and net the
winner $4,000.
Post Time Is 1870
Veterans of Foreign Wars, the
American Legion, Knights of
Columbus and Muir Shrine Tenn
pie units parade before the first
race, scheduled for 1880 pm.
Drum and bugle corps, drill
teams and color guards will par
ticipate, with more than 400 men
expected to be in uniform.
Another appropriate program
has been arranged for Memorial
Day, with the Delaware National
Guard Band. a precision drill
team, rifle squad and two Patton
48 medium tanks on exhibition.
Mondays big race will be the
| $4,000 Brandywine Handicap at
a mile and three-sixteenths.
The stakes program offers more
than $350,000 in purses. The
entire program is built around
the Distaf Big Three, the Della
ware Oaks. new" New Castle
and the Delaware.
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LAUREL" Schapiro, currently on
a tour of European tracks. said.
I'm going to France after my
visit to England and I will try
to arrange for Phil Drake also to
make the race"
Phil Drake, owned by Nine.
Suzy Volterra of France, cap
tured the mile-and-one-half
Derby at EPSON by upsetting the
favored Acropolis, who came in
third.
After winning the EPSON
Derby in 1923, Papyrus was sent
to the United States to meet
zev, the. Kentucky Derby king,
at Belmont. Zev won by wide
margin on a muddy track.
Later the English commended
Papyrus was handicapped by his
English-style shoes, which were
more suited for turf than for
mud.
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MiddIecoff Plays
Exhibition Toduy

Cary Middlecoff was expected
to put a new course record in
the books today when the Mas
tiers champion plays an exhibit
ton match at Brooks Manor
Farms starting at 2 o'clock.
Middlecoff, the second money
winner of 1855, and Dewey
Ricketts,, the host pro, met
Charley Bassler of Rolling Road
and Fred Bolton of Manor driv-
ing range.
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race in that the favorite, Sander
Iharos Of Hungary. withdrew
from the race because he was
airsick yesterday flying to Lon
don.
Tabori is considered Hungary's
No. 2 miller. His best previous
mile was in 4:05.2.
Alan Gordon Of Britain took
the early lead and was followed
by Hewson. Chataway, Tabor
and Rolf hammers Of Germany
through the first lap. Gordon's
time was go.
They were in the same order
at the half, which was timed In
zoos. On the third lap Hew-
son took command with Chata-
way and Tabori on his heels.
The others faded back.
Hewson finished the third
quarter in 500. The three were
closely punched.
ABOUT 500 YARDS from the tape
Tabori tried to take the lead
but Hewson and Chataway held
him off. He tried once more on
the last turn and this time
began edging ahead.
He forged forward over the
last yards to finish with a COM
Portable 5-yard lead.
Bannister Sees Race
DR.. Bannister was in the
stands and saw the race. He
was the first to congratulate the
three new 4-minute milers.
Chataway later praised Ia
boris run. HE ran a wonderful
race" he said. HE was marvel
GUS"
John Disley of Britain finished
fourth in 400. Ralph Dunkley
of Britain was fifth in All.
And hammers was sixth in 4:l2.4.
Hewson. leading at the 1900
meter mark, was timed in S:43.2.
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HIGGINS DELAYS
WILLIAMS START
WITH RED SOX

BOSTON. May % (P.-
Slugger Ted Williams was
not in the Red Sox starting
lineup last night as the team
opened a brief home stand
against the Senators.
Williams got official Amer
lean League approval to play
earlier IN the day, but Man
ager Mike Higgins decided
not to call on Ted.
Though neither Williams
nor Higgins commented on
the fact, the cool. breezy,
57-degree night air appar-
emily had something to do
with the decision.
Williams, whose muscles
are not completely timber
yet, prefers hot weather for
playing and Higgins does not
want to hinder Williams
comeback progress.
Higgins said, Tied more
than likely will be starting
today"
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Seixus Meets
Dane Today

PARIS, May % R.-Six
Americans. including the Davis
Cup trio of Tony Trabert, Vic.
Seixas and Hamilton Richard
son. were among the is still in
running for the French interna-
tional tennis title today.
Two of the six, Seixas and
Bulge Patty of Los Angeles and
Paris. play today as one-half of
the fourth-round bracket sees
action. Seixas takes on Kurt
Nielsen of Denmark and Patty
meets jacques Brichant of Bel
GUM.
The other mems singles pair
Sven Davidson of Sweden and
Argentina's Enrique Morea in
one match and Philippe Washer
Of Belgium and Giuseppe Merlo
OF Italy in the other.
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Courtney loped home second in
his heat without trying, and
Sowell won his heat easily in
1:54.9.
Nothing happened yesterday
to change the complexion of the
team battle between Penn State
and Manhattan. Penn State
was hurt when John Moran
pulled up lame in the 440-yard
trials, but balancing that we're
unexpected eliminations for po-
tential Manhattan point scorers
in the discus and $50.
Another feature race today is
the mile. with such entries as
Les Vielbig of Syracuse. Ed Kirk
of Georgetown and Burr Grim of
Maryland.
One meet record was broken
yesterday when AL Cantello of
LaSalle tossed the javelin 228
feet 212 inches.
Among those Unexpectedly
eliminated yesterday was Burke
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Pitching Slump
Knocks Props
From Senators
Zouchin Drives In
10 Runs as Boston
Routs Griffs, 800
BY BURTON HAWKINS

BOSTON, May 28.-There was
q time, even when the Senators
were getting their daily defeat,
when Manager Chuck Dresser
could point with pride to a
proficient but unclaimed pitch
ing staff. That was when they
were losing the close ones. Now
the outlook is bleak all along
the lineup.
If Camilo Pascual gets by the
first inning today against the
Red Sox without yielding a run
Dresser will recommend the
young Cuban for a medal. In
five straight games the Senators
starters have permitted at least
one run in the first frame, giving
up a total of IL in that mining
alone over that span.
Now the Senators ar being
stomped on regularly. Their
once highly praised pitching is
being greeted with affection, as
some 81 runs scored by the OPP
position in four games would
reflect. So today Washington is
attempting to avoid a fifth sue
cessive loss.
Ted May Play Today
The club dipped into sixth
place last night as the result of a
1870 battering by the Red Sox
before 15,775 fascinated specta-
tors. And if Ted williams re-
CARDS the weather as warm
enough today he'll be in the
starting lineup just to increase
the Senators boundless misery.
It was towering Morn Zauchin.
hitting a modest .214 entering
the game, who personally
wrecked the Senators last night.
He crashed three home runs and
a double to drive in ~ runs, one
short Of the American League
record held by Tony Lazzer; and
Rudy York.
Zauchin, 6-foot-4ha first base
man. had driven across only five
runs in "a games prior to last
nights explosion. He cloute6 a
two-run homer of Bob Porter
field to highlight a three-run
first inning. He clipped Dean
Stone for a grand slammer in
the second inning. added a run
producing double of Ted Aber-
nathy in the fourth and Dashed
Alternately for a three-run homer
in the fifth.
Record Bid Fails
With a chance to join seven
others in the record book in the
seventh by hitting a fourth home
run and to tie Jim Bottomley's
major league mark Of - runs
batted in. since Jackie Jensen
was on base, Zauchin went down
swinging against Pedro Ramos.
Zauchin stole the show, OF
course, but Grady Hatton also
socked a home run off Ramos
in the sixth. In all, the Red
Sox accumulated Is hits.
Somewhat overShadowed by
the batting display was the shut
out pitching Of Tom Brewer. a
hitherto hard luck pitcher, who
chalked up his first victory after
six defeats. He restricted the
Senators to six hits, marking
the 18th time this year that
Washington has been limited to
that meager hit total or less.
Brewer has pitched 10 sue
cessive scoreless innings against
the Senators. In 272s innings
against Washington he has per-
See SENATOR'S, Page ALL
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Crafty Casey Stengel has found
a way to ease his pitching trou-
bles. His guys have been betting
homers and scoring their runs
early and now the Yankees have
a three-game lead in the Amer
lean League.
Casey's had only Is complete
games from his pitching staff IN
the SO contests so far. When
Bob Turley, who had five COM
plete games. failed a second time
to make 1t six on May 20, the
professor worked out the new
formula.
The Yanks were a half game
out of first on May 20. Since
then. they've scored f1rst-inning
runs in nine straight games and
hit IL home runs to win eight
times for their league lead.
1t was the same formula last
night. They rocked Baltimore
for four runs in the first and
Whitley Ford coasted home for
his sixth victory, 60.
Cushion Helps Ford
Without the f1rst-inning sup
port, Ford might not have
claimed his fifth complete game
The Orioles got one run back
in the first, and another on
Chuck Diering's homer in the
second.
Eddie Robinson put the power
in the opening surge, tagging
loser Erv Palica for a three-run
homer. 1t was the fourth homer
in the nine-game stretch for
Robinson, and three have come
with two men on base.
The 34-year-old first baseman,
filling in for the injured Bill
Skowron and Joe Collins, who is
i'll, has leveled two of his three
run homers in first innings while
driving in IL runs and batting
800 since May 20.
Yogi Berri has been the big
guy in the nine-game move,
however. He's unloaded six home
runs, a pair OF them first-inning
blasts, and has driven home 19
runs while hitting .429.
Mantle Continues Streak
1t was the 18th victory in is
games for the Yanks. and Mic
key Mantle ran his consecutive
game hitting streak to 16 with
a triple and double. For the
streak, Mantle is batting .491,
knocking home 20 runs.
The Yanks moved up half
game with the victory as Cleve-
land was rained out at Kansas
City. Third place Chicago
dropped a 10 game to Detroit
and Boston clobbered Washing
ton, 1870, to take fifth place as
Norm Zauchin batted in 10 runs
with three homers-one a grand
clam.
In the National League. the
Giants cut a four-game losing
streak by beating Brooklyn and
Carl Erskine, 81, on home runs.
That left the Giants seven
games back of the Dodgers and
a game short of the Cubs, who
were sidetracked by Mil
waukee, Us.
st. Louis regained fifth place
by beating Cincinnati, IA.
Philadelphia won it's fifth
straight, So, in 10 innings at
Pittsburgh.
Billy Hoeft scattered six hits
for his fourth victory as
Detroit moved to within a half
game of the White Sox. Frank
House. benched since May II
with a 1877 batting average,
homered to beat Dick Donovan,
who had won five straight
At New York. Bobby Holman
reached a record His third pinch
homer of the season for the
Giants tied the game at IL in
the seventh and tied him with
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CockeIl to Tour Cunudu

NEW YORK, May 20 (P.-
Don Cockell, British Empire
heavyweight champion who was
stopped by Rocky Marciano last
week, plans to make an exhibit
ton tour Of Canada, starting
July Is.
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Fomechon Keeps Title

DUBLIN, Ireland, May % (4)
Ray Famechon of France,
retained his European feather
weight title last night by gaining
a decision over Billy Kelly, Brit
ish and Empire champion, in a
hereunder,