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Show Hoop Jr. Wins Kentucky Derby In 71 st Running; Favorites Run True Pot Oa Luck, Darby Dieppe, 2nd and 3rd, Run True; Arcaro Rides Third Winner By LEO IL PETERSON United Press Sports Editor ) LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 9 c Hotifc Jr., bred to the racing purple of a Florida millionaire, splattered over the muddy track of Churchill Downs today to win the 71st annual an-nual running of the Kentucky Derby before a rain-soaked throng of 65,000. The fleet three-year-old of Fred W. Hooper, who moved mov-ed his breeding farms to Alabama after making his fortune as a contractor around Jacksonville, Fla., went to the post the favorite and ran up to that rating, leading from the start and winning going away by six lengths. Pot O'Luck, the second choice In the betting, ran second and to keep the odds running true to form. Darby Dieppe, the Third ranking favorite, was third in this richest derby of all time. The margin between the second sec-ond and third horses was a half a length, with Air Sailor nura- (feer four in the field of 16. ! That large entry gave Hoop Jr. not only the blanket of roses and glory that go with America's premier pre-mier horse race, but also $64,850 $115- more than Pensive won in the 1944 classic. Ridden superbly by the veteran vet-eran Eddie Arcaro, Hoop Jr. covered the heavy going of a mile and a quarter in 2:07. far off the record time of 2:01 2-5 set by Whirlawav in 1941 . . . .; A But the track was different today after almost three , continu- ous days of rain and that time was not considered too bad It appeared that the Hooper cham-. SyJSSLi3 1' E j "V k had it been necessary For Arcaro it was his third Derby victory tying him in that respect with Earle Sande and Isaac Murphy. His previous winners win-ners were Lawrin- in 1938 and Whirlaway in 1941. It was the first time the Hooper Hoop-er colors of yellow and purple had been carried in the run for the roses and Arcaro and Hoop Jr., carried them well. The victory vic-tory marked the fifth time in the 71 runnings of the derby that it was won by a horse which had won the Wood Memorial. Hoop Jr., took the second 'section of that race at Jamaica on Memorial day and just as he ran then, he ran today in front all the way. There was only a fraction of a second as they left the barrier that Hoop Jr., was not in the lead. He and Air Sailor, which finished a driving fourth, jumped from the gate together, and a stride later Hoop Jr., had a clear , advantage. He increased that margin mar-gin as they went along, with Pot O' Luck, Darby Dieppe and Air Sailor coming up fast in the crowded field to take the rest of the money There was a tremendous cheer from the crowd which had braved ! rain as the purple and yellow1 colors of Hoop Jr.. and Arcaro! were led into the reception grounds in the infield to receive' the gold and glory which go with j liic winning ui -wui-i ita a juuoi historic horse race. "I just let him run." Arcaro explained. "It was a breeze." Although the field was jammed with so many going and trying to keep on the best part of the water-logged track, there were no1 4 A new civilian shoe with trim military lines If you want a shoe that's smart enough' for business and sturdy enough for marching step out in Rob-lee's Rob-lee's "Parade". It's a favorite pattern of both Army officers and civilians. Full leather 'lined, heavy leather sole and rubber heel. Super quality fr om lace to sole! excuses for those finishing back of the winner. They just didn't have it when the chips were down in this race where they ask and give no quarter. It was an eastern victory and Kentuckians, who love their horses and back up their judgment judg-ment at the mutuel windows, not only had to be satisfied with second and third places but the horse on which their sentiment was riding Burning Dream finished fin-ished a badly beaten ninth. He was the horse with which Col. E. R. Bradley had hoped to win his fifth Derby title before retiring from the game he has served and loved so well in his 85 years. Suffering from heart trouble, he was not able to be here and that was all right to the crowd, for they didn't want to see the old man's last derby hope fade in the mud. If he had to , t sentimentalists in the JSJ t Tant hfm To sel his colors go dowi to deeat t werc carried c,osi at'seven to two oop . paid8 $9.40. $5.20 and $4.00. "jPot O'Luck paid $4.80 and $3.60 while Darby Dieppel returned $4.00 for a $2 show ticket. After Air Sailor came Jeep, Col. C. V. Whitney's hope, which had won the first section of the Wood; Buymeabond, Sea Swallow, Fighting Step, Burning Dream, Alexis, Misweet, the only filly ih the race: Tiger Rebel, Bert G., Jacobe and Kenilworth Lad. Hoop Jr.. joined Gallant Fox, which did it in 1930; Twenty Grand in 1931, Johnstown in 1939 and Count Fleet in 1943 in the select group which came to Blue Grass land to win the derby after winning the Wood. When they straightened out after af-ter the starting gate. Hoop Jr. went into a one length lead over Buymeabond, which also broke fast, with Alexis third and fighting fight-ing Step fourth. At the half it still was Hoop Jr., by a length with Bymeabond running second, sec-ond, three lengths ahead of Alexis. Alex-is. At the mile pole, the field back of Hoop Jr., began bunching up. The winner still was in front a good length with Bymeabond second sec-ond and Air Sailor moving up to third, a length and a half back. Fighting Step was fourth with Jeep, starting to make his bid, moving up to fifth and Darby Dieppe running sixth, It was then Hoop Jr. opened up. He was leading by six lengths , KuilIS jiuu uic siitriin vvmi uy incduuuu lduin liuut in ml;iiu 1 j i j r .j ; r . u ; - 1 position, noiuing omy a nose advantage ad-vantage over Darby Dieppe. Jeep started dropping back while Air Sailor also began to lose ground? Pot O'Luck which had broken a poor 15th, steadily had improv- i" 1 i Fayorite Wins English Derby NEWMARKET, Eng. June 9 (U.R) Sir Eric Ohlson's Dante, the outstanding favorite, scored a two length victory in the mile and a half,English Derby at Newmarket New-market today before Britain's largest race crowd which included the king and queen. Dante coasted home two lengths ahead of Lord Rosebery's Midas with Lord Astor s Court Martial third. The victory was a triumph for I northern England, which last had saddled a derby winner 80 "years ago. It also was a triumph for Jockey William Nevett, who now has ridden three derby wfhners in five years. The colt came home amidst thunderous applause but few cheers from the bookmakers. Bet ting was conceded to be the heaviest the derby ever attracted, and Dante was a hot favorite. One Bookie estimated that the colt's triumph had cost him $100,000. There were thousands who did n't get to Newmarket because of the traffic jam Thousands beseiged Liverpool station and despite the fact that three extra trains were operated. hundreds were left behind. Many people had camped all night on Newmarket heath. Honolulu to See All-Star Game HONOLULU. June 9 U.R) The Pacific edition of the army newspaper Stars and Stripes announced an-nounced today' that an all-star game between American and Na tional league players now in the service will be played here June 24. Berdie Tebbets. former Cleve land catcher, will ' manaee the 'American leaguers while Billy Herman of Brooklyn will pilot tne Nationals. Lineups have not been announced an-nounced yet but there will be no trouble makini? iin two rrarlr learns from the following list of servicemen: ,,American Tex Hughson. Ted Lyons. Bob Harris. Walt Master-son. Master-son. Bill Dickev, Rollie Hemsley, Joe Gordon, John Pesky, Walt Judnich, Freddie Hutchinson and others. National: Ray Lamanno, Gil Brack, Don La.ng, Lew Riggs. Stan Rojack. Nanny Fernandez, Stan Musial, Enos Slaughter. Max West, Mike McCormick, Schoolboy School-boy Rowc. The game is expected to draw the greatest1 crowd in Honolulu sports history. ed his position in the big field, began to move. But the Calumet farms horse, trained by Ben Jones who saddled sad-dled the 1939 and 1941 winners, did not have enough and al thIgh he SOQn tookfcover second i position, lie could not cut Hoop t OTS advantage. At the finish. Pot O'Luck was a good half length ahead of Darby Dieppe, which won by a neck over Air Sailor. The lattcr's advantage ov- er Jeep was three lengths. HOW TJEY SEND AMERICAN Friday's Results Boston 6, New York 4. Detroit 2, Chicago 1. St. Louis 1, Cleveland 2. Washington 0. Philadelphia Saturday's Results St. Louis 1, Cleveland 2. Boston 7, New York 13. Chicago 6. Detroit 7. Washington 3, Philadelphia NATIONAL Friday's Results St. Louis 4. Pittsburgh 3 (13 nings . New York at Boston, rain. Cincinnati 3. Brooklyn 7. Brooklyn 9, Philadelphia 1. Saturday's Results Cincinnati 1, Chicago 5. New York 0. Boston 4. Philadelphia-Brooklyn Piilsburg'h-St. Louis, night games. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE 2. in- W L 42 25 Pet. .627 .576 .507 .500 .493 .471 .464 .358 Portland Seattle Oakland ...... Sacramento San Francisco Los Angeles . San Diego Hollyv. ooci 38 3."i 34 Xi 32 33 .24 28 34 34 34 36 37 43 Saturday's Seattle 3 Portland Results San Francisco 8. 1, Los Angeles 5. In HM4, the United States pro-! nucta i.HaiMUO tons, of 25 com-, mercial truck crops for the fresh I ; market, compared with the aver-! lage of 6.390.000 tons a year during dur-ing the ID-year period of 1933-42. FLSHING TACKLE HEADQUARTERS Season Opens FRIDAY JUNE 13 GESSFORD'S, SUNDAY HERALD PlSX.V1SNCE0im"TAH PAGE 9 "Worm's A-Wigglin', Pop" 5- 'jtft&'Sfcfe X. v 4 '- -4 J- : is is. r f ? - . J 1 i Seven-year-old Billy Kirbv htlps his dad, Pete of radio fame, bait hooks as thev prepare for fishing expedition on the Cumberland Cum-berland river at Nashville. Tcnn.. Billy's toe is "wigglin too. Detroit To Be Hard To Beat Out Of First Place Spot By CORNELIUS RYAN NEW YORK, June 9 U.P Detroit's Tigers indicated today that they may be tough to dis lodge from first place in the American league as they rallied for four runs in the- Inst inning and a 7 to 6 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Trailing 3 to 6, the Timers wen! to work on Joe Haynes. the s-amc pitcher who hurled a one-hitter against them earlier this season in their half of the ninth. Bob Maicr and Bob Swift singled and relief pitcher Zcb flaton doubled. Earl Caldwell replaced Haynes and fumbled Skecter Webb's sacrifice. sac-rifice. Eddie Mayo then trinpled' and the ball game was orr Kati: was the winner and Caldwell the loser. The magic that makes stars out of ordinary ballplayers who tr'.c over center field for tli New Kearns Defeats Pinney's, 5 to 4 KEARNS, Utah. June 9 (UP Big Bill Schubcl, former Twin Falls, Ida., hurler in the class C Pioneer league, calmed the hats of the Salt Lake Pinncys leaders lead-ers of the Utah Industrial loin as the Kearns Eagles beat the Salt Lakers 5 to 4 here last night. The Eagles pounded out 'l hits in a game that wasn't as close as the score may indicate. Jack Graham and George Ki.sk, both former major league players, continued con-tinued their respective hit'ing sprees. Graham ret thre for four and Risk got three for five to ley el the batting attack. Joyce Comes Back To Beat Williams NEW YORK. June 9 (U.R' Willie Wil-lie Joyce, bushy-haired Negro from Gary, Ind.. rose from the canvas in the electrifying loth round at Madison Square Garden Friday night, and for two full minutes fought back gamely through the grdggIand cobwebs for another upset victory over Ike Williams, national boxing association associ-ation lightweight ehamn! n. ' Broad-shouldered Williams of TlCf.V,:,, ::..J.. r-.v ,. ; king in NB A. territory, bet he cannot count Joyce out as one of his minions. When Joyce gained th round decision over the Negro, it was his third S!i;t 10-Trm-ton ' torv it. their series of lour bouts. Young Williams, who wiestcd the NBA. crown Iron Juan Zurita at Mexico City in April, was not risking his title last nioh.t since both scaled over, the 135-pound 135-pound limit. Williams, favored at 12-5. registered 137'. pounds, heaviest of his career, and Joyce weighed 135'-. It was a hard, close fiht before 12,491 fans who paid a gate of $53,016. Inc. 17 NORTH UNIVERSITY mmeyi'mtm i ' s t 4 ym York Yankees worked agairi today for George 'Stainback, who stepped step-ped into' John Lindell's shoes and hit a three-run sixth-inning home run that broke the back of the Boston Red Sox and led the Yanks to a 13 to -7 win. A ninth-inning single by Myril Hoag of the Cleveland Indians beat the Browns for the second Mtak'ht day by a 2 to 1 score. The blow broke up a pitching duel between Ed Klieman of the Indians In-dians and Al Hollingsworth of St. Louis. Roger Wolff, traded by Philadelphia Phila-delphia to Washington for Bobo Newsotn, beat Ncwsom and the Athletics. 3 to 2, effectively scattering scat-tering 11 hits. In the National league, the going continued rough for thel New York Giants, who were shut out by Lefty Bob Logan and the Do. ton Braves, 4 to 0. The Chicago Cubs jumped on old Walter Beck in the first inning, in-ning, scoring three runs toward what finally ended in a 5 to 1 defeat of the Cincinnati Reds. City Softball ' Team W Pleasant Grove . 3 ; 20-30 Club 2 ; Maintenance 1 St. Hospital 1 ! Production 1 Rolling Mills 1 Accounting 0 L Pet. 0 1.000 0 1.000 .500 .333 .333 .333 .000 Friday's Results-Rolling Results-Rolling Mills 10, -Accounting 2. State Hospital 13. Production 5. Pleasant Grove 20, Maintenance Mainten-ance !. Monday's Schedule 6:30 Rolling Mill vs. Production. Produc-tion. 7:30 20-30 vs. Maintenance. 8:30 Pleasant Grove vs. Ac-cou Ac-cou nting. M.ike I'p Games Scheduled 7:30 Tuesday 20-30 vs. Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove. 7:00 Thursday State Hospital vs. Rolling Mill. ARMY SHOWS NEW MATCH CHICAGO, (U.R) The army Quartermaster Corps has demon-si demon-si cu-.t a match which lights when wet and can be struck any- w1"-! e. . C,--. ,f. r. Barbyi. cf 11,- Cnirago Quartermaster Depot said that because the tip and part of the wood have been immersed in a waterproof lacquer. the match can be ignited after six hours immersion in water. MURRAY VS. PROVO TIMPS TODAY 2:30 P. M. Payson-Genevo Game Tops Central League Provo Unless thwarted by rain teams of the Central Utah lea-sue lea-sue will swing, into action again Sunday, with the Payson-Geneva Steeler game, scheduled for Pro-vo's Pro-vo's Timp park, appearing to be highlight -game of the day. Other league contests will send the Provo Wildcats to Nephi and Levan to American Fork. Payson, along with Nephi, is riding at the top of the league at the moment, and Gene Hill-man's Hill-man's boys are just raring to take the always tough Steelers into in-to camp. After losing to American Fork in their opener, the Steelers looked look-ed like champions in their second game against Levan. which they won 6-1. However, they will face a little stiffer competition and will have to play top-notch ball for a victory over Payson. Assistant As-sistant Manager Huck Snow of the Steelers, said the game would start right after the Provo-Mur-ray game. Nephi also will be out to keep its record unblemished, when they play Dave Crowton's Wildcats Wild-cats at the Nephi field. Although Crowtons' boys have rufforcd two straight defeats, they are still a' rather tough outfit to beat, particularly partic-ularly with Crowton himself on the mound. Knocked off three times running, run-ning, Levan, will be out to pull an upset, when they clash with Bun Bennett's once-beaten A. F. team. If Leo Wankier is in top form and fires them across for Levan, the Cavemen may have a rough time handling the south-county south-county boys. Wankier, hurled a three-hitter against Payson last Sunday, but lost a heart-breaker, when his teammates kicked the ball around in the field. He is unquestionably one of the better pitchers in the league. Devil Diver Wins 'Met' Handicap NEW YORK. June 9 (U.R) Greentree stable's Devil Diver, a one to two favorite, scored his third victory in the Metropolitan Handicap at Belmont Park today : when he rolled home four lengths to the good in the feature mile, event. ' Bclair Stud's Apache, second choice in the betting, broke on I top but couldn't hold the pace, and finished fourth behind Alex ! Barth and Boy Knight. I Devil Diver, timed in 1:36 2-5, returned $3.10. $2.40 and $2.30, while Alex Barth paid $3.40 and, $2.70 and Boy Knight paid $3.40.' The crowd made the race th most heavily played in turf his- tory, pouring $674,104 through the mutuels. Tickets Going Fast For Bing, Bob Show With ticket sales for the Bob1 Hope-Bing Crosby benefit golf match and show in Salt Lake June 17 today reaching 15.000. Mrs. George Worthen. Provo chairman, admonished all Provo-ans Provo-ans who want to attend, to buy remaining tickets here Monday. Tickets arc on sale at Hcdquist drug stores. Officials in charge of the show predicted a "complete sellout" before the famous pair arrive June 16. Proceeds of the match and show will go to the army's Bushnell General hospital at Brigham City, Utah, for construction construc-tion of a nine-hole golf course there. Provo Enters Semipro Tourney Entry of the Prqvo Timps, always al-ways a power in t&e State league circles, in the Utah semipro tournament tour-nament was announced Saturday by John Mooney, state commissioner. commis-sioner. Deadline for the entries is June 16, and already Ogden Arsenal, Hill Field, Wendover Wings and Salt Lake Pinney are entered. WANTED ALL KINDS OF HIDES! Highest Prices Paid for BONES WOOL HIDES PELTS FURS and dead and useless animals. Pelt prices for dead and useless use-less sheep. I' imp! Service UTAH HIDE & TALLOW CO. 3 Miles West of Spanish Fork PHONE 38 TIMP PARK . HOC Timp s in Good Spot to Take Industrial Leaque Lead By PETE OLSEN Provo Timps afe in the scram-' ble for first half honors in the State Industrial baseball league, and a win over Murray here Sunday Sun-day will place the locals in a favorable spot to take over league leadership. Brigham City Peaches, currently current-ly in second place with the Timps. play the league-l?adiri; Pinncy beverage team of Salt Li;ke. Both of these tusscls are loaded with possibilities. At precr:it Pinney leads the pack with live wins against two losses. T'ic Timps and Peaches are trailing by the scant margin of ore game. Junior Legion Baseball Opener Set For Tuesday The first game for Provo' Junior American Legion b:'soid! team is scheduled tor Tiie : Timp Park at 5::0 p m. v.th Bingham. This should prove to be a good itrr ' Provo's t"- ;r r " '""r-'i re was rt?te champion "r?st yc-r. j Games are bein- arra'-crd v Ith i Ogden. BriphruT!. 1! tpi r a-i A Price teams so the Provo te. :-i will get plenty of action be fere state tournament time. Some of the Provo boys w ho a-e showing to good. ::dv;.nia'.'e a:v: Elliott and Mack;.-. . :' Ford and Cole, pitch- r ! Green, Brown Grii f :t -. 1 Paramore. C-aven. Hi!': 'fielders: Keith, Whe'ie - I and Cloward. out'iohVr. is still plenty of npi-orti" any other boy ho cares t out and practice as t!- team will not be chosen f time. Provo's junior team is : jand coached by I red Ceoj ! Charles Elliott. i . . : Ke!'-. . i., m- hnur -s. Ti.- re I'v ;.-! ) c o ; r, e n; .in r some Jamaica Purchased NEW YORK. Jur e '.) "J n' Despite De-spite a S4.00o.k' bid fi.,i.i multimillionaire multi-millionaire OH Man Willi;.:-! II -lis of New Orleans, J;;mi.ica iacc track was purchased tor disclosed amount from t!i politan Jockey c'ub tut la four other New York iiv There was no c): .mc bid of Helis. known as th en Greek" because o 1. .-investments .-investments since .. stable. an uii-3k uii-3k f o- by the George B. Wider te'r racing assoc r which operates V.-' nounecd the put . !i; Associated with 1 werc Theodore .1 dent of the Queens club which one. F. S. Von Stade. :-dent, :-dent, and Col. M . VV-t CI a ttic 'lea vl.r:'p. ; . :i -a-. v J.-i ke Aqncciuc rate;: a .; i . V, . j-;m pi re City present. Widcncr :if,-i t! : Winu was m f.-nu - ilk-71st ilk-71st running of i , K i:gh JKJ?M For Father's Day f ? -.Or 'ZyfLl ' lmmm&-i' arrow i :ifei-?: i'ik BIRTHSTONE I: M$m?$? - TIES j fetfef Hcrc'8 a Fathcrv Dar f &MfSS gift thaf9 sure of a big L ,1 WTW hand from the eld boy ! I; SftlgP 1 Arrow tic that hi. ' P V-ri'V;W -AJ The fabric is a cool, k I m-fifMtrS "cat knotting foulard ! --'W that', ideal for. summer I I f-'ff wear. A tpecial lining J - l::slWt&Mf 1 keeps wrinkles far, far ;;Wr M distant. A variety of ' mjfi'mW fM "' combinations- I 150 t HPJVER'S If Brigham tips the Beverage hoys and the. Timps take the Murray Smelterites in today's engagements, en-gagements, the league will be knotted up, tighter than a kid's shoelace. Chances of Brigham defeating the Pinney crew are extremely bright. They have a classy battery composed of a couple of big league players. They are backed up by a great team of fielders and hitters. Provo Timps are after today's same. Manager Overly will have his team at full strength and he should really have an array of -uggers to tec off on Frank Shepherd's knuckle ball. On paper Yalchcck, Page, Jensen, Smith. Overlcy and Berge should knock .he hide -off the ball. That's ex-;h ex-;h tly what they intend to do in this afternoon's game. Over'.y will likely start "Spot" Clcs'g on the mour.d. "Spot" looked look-ed plenty good in his first mound appearance against the Murrrv boys a week ago. He promises to be "hotter than a depot stove" this season and Overiy feels he is going to turn in many import-an' import-an' wins for the Timps. Gti:e time is 2.20 p. at Timp ball park Pocatello All-Stars To Meet Amateurs " SALT LAKE CITY. June 9 0J.R A.i a 1! -star team of high-riding ,. 1 trainees from the univer-y univer-y of iclano s southern branch aV ;eatel!o will meet a Salt Lake ty amateur feneration all-star lie here torjght weather per- . '"iliC. ""lie two squads are slated to . ; ura.ier tile ares at Community irk, but the weather man says oi:dy ui'.h scattered showers J :! : and. after a week of al-ci.tr.nwis al-ci.tr.nwis rain, fans here :e ir.cb.-.ed to believe him. by 4 Other Tracks Derby, the Colonel knew all the urtai's and agreed to the purchase. pur-chase. Sarazen First to Sign for Tourney CIIICACO. June 9 (U.R) Gene Sarazen, Brooklyn country club. New York, is the first entry on the 1945 All-American open golf '(nrney. offering the richest :. kes in golf history, sponsor Gorge S. May, announced to-i to-i . ,i . . Saraan's entry leads a field of 14') professional golfers expected to r-.mnete July 26 to 29 at Tarn O'Shanter country club here for a total of S57,773 in war bonds 1 and stamps. The U. S. Marines of 1773 were ' .".listed primarily for their know h-t'ge el the sea or maritime af- TICKETS : DIeachcrs 40c Grandstand (Includes Tax) 124 WeAT (Wfi.t OPEN MONDAY 'TILL 8 P. M. Si |