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Show The Sport Spotlight Y UNITED PKESS Jimmy Dykes holds the record for White Sox managers. He's been on the suicidal job at Chicago five years and one day, with a contract for the rest of the season at least. John Henry Lewis, recognized by the national boxing commission in the U. S. as light heavyweight champion, indicated at Paris that he would return to this country without attempL.iig id sign for a, European bout. At Fimlico, Md., Hough Time owned by J. V. Christmas, Christ-mas, drove to a half-length victory over the favorite, Sun Egret, in the ltn running of the $",000 added Jenning handicap. . . . Jim Braddock, forme r heavyweight ' champion, cham-pion, joined Lou Nova's board of strategy at Nyack, N. Y., where Nova is training for a buttle with Muxie iSacr June 3. . . . Lou Gehrig received $227 a day for his new job of carrying the Yankee oa tcing order out to home plate and listening to the ground rules before each day's game. V esterduy's major league hero was Pepper Martin, who came dashing Home while Red Evans was going through an artistic windup for the only run in the St. Louis Cards' 1-0 victory over Brooklyn. The far western conference remains intact for another car with the announcement that Fresno State has reconsidered recon-sidered its withdrawal from .the organization. . . Green-berg Green-berg of the Tigers and Geh-ringer, Geh-ringer, of the same team, are lea.ling the major leaguers in home runs with four each. The White Sox have nicknamed their rookie catcher Ken Silvestri Hi-Yo-Silvestri. . . . Germany : made a clean sweep of its first round matches with Switzerland in the European zone play for the Davis cup. Remember Charley Colbert of the old St. Louis Cardinals? It took a severe attack of influenza to get him out of the Washington infield after subbing for hardhitting hard-hitting Cecil Travis. |