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Show Phalanx Comes Through To Win Belmont Race By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, May 31 (U.Pj Phalanx, acting at last like the big time colt that millions of turf fans had touted him to be, scor ed a stirring victory today in the mile-and-a-half Belmont stakes and threw the battle for three- year-old thoroughbred honors in to a muddle. Roaring to the front in the stretch in this most grueling of the triple-crown races, Phalanx put on a brilliant burst of speed to outlast .the long-shot Tide Rips, who finished fin-ished a fast-closing second head of another outsider, Tailspin. Phalanx, who disappointed his backers by falling as the favorite favor-ite in both Jthe Kentucky Derby and Preakness Stakes, had a new Rain Postpones Matches In Net Tournament Rain, which drenched the -clay courts at North Park brought an abrupt end to play in theUtah Valley net tourney Saturday and postponed all scheduled matches but four to Sunday. In the four matches played Bob Kirkpatrick defeated Kay Mad-sen, Mad-sen, 6-2. 6-2; Udell Clegg beat Harold Christensen, 6-3," 6-4; Dan Brewer stopped Richard Cook, 6-4 6-4 and LaMar Rawlings won over Orlin Wathen by default. Kirkpatrick will meet. Rawlings and Brewer will tangle with Clegg in semifinal matches in the junior division starting at 9 a. m. Sunday. Matches today will lower the field to the semi-finals in both the men's singles and doubles and to the finals in the boys singles, junior singles and the women's singles. The finals will be played either eith-er Monday or next week-end, depending de-pending upon which arrangement is most suitable to the players involved, Buck Dixon, tourney director, stated. The Sunday schedule: 10 a. m. Men: Robin Hip-penstiel Hip-penstiel vs. Jack Thurgood; Bob Williams vs. Chauncey Peterson; Bob Koch vs Paul Harmon, 11 a. m. Bill Koch vs. Alf Alder; Grant Hickman vs. Lyle Kill-pack; Kill-pack; Linn Rock wood vs. Joe Kenney: John Bennett vs. Lee Knell. 12 noon Koch-Koch vs. Jorgensen-Todd, 1 p. m.- Quarterfinal Quar-terfinal singles matches Men, 2 p. m. Hippenstiel-Warner vs. Larsen - Tucker; Braithwaite-Fronberg Braithwaite-Fronberg vs. Camp-O'Maue n; Kirkpatrick-Rawlings vs. Ken-ney-Killpack. 3 p. m. Ellertson-Williams Ellertson-Williams vs. Warner - Moody; Morris-Bennett vs. Alder Hickman; Hick-man; Knell-Tucker -vs. Dixon-Dixon; Dixon-Dixon; Thurgood-Harmon v s. winner of Koch-Koch vs. Jorgensen-Todd; Rockwood-Peterson vs. winner of Love-Winegar vs. Tay-lor-Calton. 5 p. m. Mens quarterfinal quar-terfinal doubles matches. 6 p. m. Women's semi - final singles matches. (North Park Cement Courts) 1 p. m. Women: Diane Hun-saker Hun-saker vs. Carolyn Harris; Beth Ashman vs. Mary Ellen Bennett; Ben-nett; 2 p. m. Marion Peterson vs. Coy Mulins; Emma Lou Warner War-ner vs. Violet Ruga. 3 p. m. Winners of 10 o'clock boy's matches. FISHERMEN! NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY! r ' ,-7- t 1 Li I ' -v , y-i LJ,w ? j, get A f A - . I . TV.. .. 1 "U. S." GRASS GREEM FLYWEIGHT BOOT Cleared sole and heel for traction. Shockproof insole. Adjustable inside knee harness. Rigid toe construction avoids stubbing. Gum reinforcement for rolling the skirt. No-bind skirt with removable crotch section for short-legged men. COMPLETE TOCK ALL SIZES rider today in young Ruperto Dpnoso, who succeeded the veteran, vet-eran, Eddie Arcaro. Donoso, who was tossed to the turf while riding Phalanx' as a two-year-old in the Waldcn stakes at Pimlico last fall, .-was aboard him for the first time since that accident Phalanx responded re-sponded to his gentle urgings as though the two of them bad a heart-to-heart talk before the race was run. Phalanx paid $6.60 to $4.20 and $3.70 across the board in the mutuels while Tide Rips paid $7.10 and $5.00 and Tailspin rewarded re-warded his backers with a $5.60 show price. Faultless, the odd-on post-time favorite, was unable to go the added distance and faltered sharply in the late going to finish fin-ish fifth, looking nothinj? at all like the speedster who had won the Preakness, and who had won eight out of 11 races as a three-year-old prior to today. Fourth money of $5,000 went to Mrs. Robert L. Gerry, owner of the strong finishing Young Peter. Pe-ter. Because of the fact that only two horses who had run in the Derby and Preakness were in the Belmont today, the victory by Phalanx left the three - year - old . field without a legitimate title . claimant. Jet Pilot, winner of the Kentucky Derby, was not entered, and neither were several other three-year-old standouts including On Trust, the pride of the far west, who . finished second in the Preakness. Preak-ness. It was an unhappy afternoon for Arcaro, who had given up on Phalanx after finishing second with him in the" Derby, third in the Preakness and third in last Saturday's Peter Pan Handicap. Instead he switched to Khyber Pass, making a wrong guess as many a $2 bettor, and having to settle for eighth place in the nine horse field. Ortiz Retains Bantam Crown Against Young HONOLULU, May 31 OJ.R) Ruggedness and ring craftsmanship craftsman-ship paid off for Manuel Ortiz last night as he made his sixteenth six-teenth successful defense of the world bantamweight title, win ing a split decision over David Kui Kong Young, perennial Ha waiian challenger. Despite a low blow that forced him to fight the last two rounds virtually on one leg, Ortiz never ceased to carry the fight to his opponent. Turning out enmasse for the first title fight involving a home town boy ever held in Hawaii, 13,845 fans paid a gross gate of $56,469 to see Young evade the scrappy El Centro, Cal., champion. champ-ion. Twice he lost rounds on low blows as he frantically sought to stave off Ortiz' trip-hammer attacks. at-tacks. Young had the champion on the canvas twice, once on a low blow that stopped the fight for five minutes and a second time for a short one-count. In the past 36 years the nation's wood pile has been reduced by more than 40 per cent, according to U. S. forest serive. Giant Rookie Homers As Leaders Win , - H, v v . By MILTON RICHMAN United Press Sports 'Writer NEW YORK, May 31 (U. Rookie Outfielder Lloyd Gear-hart, Gear-hart, who burned up the Southern Association last season, led the New York -Giants to their fourth successive victory today when his ninth-inning home run gave the Polo Grounders a 10 to 9 triumph over Pittsburgh. Gearhart, former. Atlanta Cracker star, went to left -Held in the eighth inning and furnished the Giants the edge -after the Pirates had wiped out a three-run deficit. Art Herring, the fifth Pittsburgh Hurler, yielded the blow and was the loser. Sharing honors with young Gearhart were outfielder Bobby Thomson and relief pitcher Ken Trinkle. Thomson paced the Giant 15-hitattack .with four hits, including in-cluding his eighth homer of the season and Trinkle, making his 17th relief appearance of 1947, held the Bucaneers scoreless m the ninth to gain his fourth victory. vic-tory. Bill Rigney and Johnny Mize of the Giants also clouted homers to help New York remain in first place. Ralph (The Hawk) Branca of the Dodgers pitched masterful six-hit ball to give Brooklyn a 5 to 0 victory over the Boston Braves. The victory boosted Brooklyn into a third-place deadlock dead-lock with the Braves. The Dodgers hopped on Walter Lanf rahconi for four runs in the third. The winners added an insurance in-surance run off Glenn Elliott in the fifth when Reiser walked and crossed the plate on Carl Furillo's double. Karl Drews made his first start of the season for the Yanks and was the winner although requiring requir-ing Joe Page's help in the eighth. New York's victroy was somewhat marred when catcher Larry (Yogi) Berra suffered a split right hand in the seventh when1 hit by a foul tip off George Met-kovich's Met-kovich's bat. Three stitches by Dr. Mai Stevens closed the wound. Detroit retained its three-and-a-half game lead in the junior circuit with a narrow 5 to 4 victory vic-tory over Washington. Stubby Overmire of the Tigers was coasting coast-ing behind a 4-0 lead in the seventh when Stan Spence of the Senators hit a homer - with one on. Spence hit another home run with one on in the ninth but Dizzy Trout came on to retire the side. Washington made only four hits while Detroit belted Walt Masterson, Scott Cary and Milo Candini for 12, including circuit clouts by Pat Mullin and Eddie Lake. The only night game scheduled W8s Chicago at Philadelphia in the National league. American League W L Pet. Detroit 24 14 .630 Cleveland 16 14 .544 New York .20 17 .519 Boston .19 19 .500 Philadelphia 18 19 .486 Washington 16 19 .463 Chicago 18 22 .450 St. Louis 14 21 .375 Saturday's Results New York . .200 220 200 8 12 0 Cleveland . ..003 001 000 4 8 1 Drews, Page (8) and Berra, Robinson (7); Feller, Stephens (6) Wolff (8) and Hegan. Winning Win-ning pitcher, Drews. Losing pitcher, Feller. Home runs Keller Kel-ler 2. Washington 000 000 202-44 4 2 Detroit 010 021 lOx 12 1 Masterson, Cary (7) Candini (8) . and Evans; Overmire, Trout (9) and Wagner. Winning pitcher, Overmire. Losing pitcher, Masterson. Mas-terson. Home runs Mullins, Lake, Spence 2. National League W L Pet. New York . 21 14 .596 Chicago 20 16 .556 Boston 20 17 .548 Brooklyn 20 17 .548 Pittsburgh 17 17 .500 Philadelphia 17 21 .447 Cincinnati 16 22 .421 St. Louis 15 22 .405 Saturday's Results - Brooklyn 004 010 000 5 7 0 Boston . . .000 000 000 0 6 0 Branca and Edwards; Lanfran-coni, Lanfran-coni, G. Elliott (3) Cooper (6) Beazley (9) and Masi. Losing pitcher, Lanfranconi. Home run Reiser. Pittsburgh . 032 002 0209 12 2 New York .140 300 011-10 15 2 Ostermueller, Singleton (4) Bagby (6) Strincevich (7) Herring Her-ring (8) and Kluttz; Budnick, Voiselle (3) Thompson (8) Trinkle Trin-kle (9) and Cooper. Winning pitcher. Trinkle. Losing pitcher, Herring. Home runs Rigney, Thomson, Mize, Gearhart. Chicago at Philadelphia, night game. CALL 300 For Nationwide Moving Service! Agents for Bekins, Allied Van Lines. Local and long distance moving Packing, moving, storage, crating and shipping We can move you to any city in the world. Utah's Finest Moving Service YELLOW CAB & TRANSFER CO. CALL 300 ANYTIME Driver r r Mauri Rose Victor In Speed Classic; One Driver Dies As Car Gets Out of Control By ED SA1NSBURY United Press Sports Writer INDIANAPOLIS ,May 31 i Little Mauri Rose, a mechanical engineer who drives high-powered racing cars for relaxation, stepped up for the payoff today, a check for $25,800 for his triumph tri-umph in the . 31st annual Indianapolis Indi-anapolis speedway 500-mile Memorial Day race. Rose, a veteran of 11 speedway speed-way races won his first unquestioned un-questioned victory in the 1947 event yesterday. But it was the second time he had piloted a car into the winners' enclosure. He was oo-winner of the 1941 classic. The new victdry, gained after a hard prolonged struggle with Bill Holland, driving a twin of Rose's victorious chariot, was preceded by violent death. William Wil-liam "Shorty" Cantlon of Indianapolis, Indian-apolis, was killed early in the contest when his car spun out of control and smashed into the wall on the southwest turn. Cantlon, 43, died from a crush ed chest, a broken leg and- intern- McKenley Leads Illinois To Big Nine Track Championship CHICAGO, May 31 (U.R) The western conference has staged the power-laden Illinois track team!event. captured the Big Nine outdoor i championship for the third sue-; cessive year today, scoring 691 points for the third largest total ever piled up in the 47 years the Negro Team to Play Softball Tuesday Night The funniest softball team in the world as well as one of the nation's best, will play in Provo Tuesday night when the Iowa Colored Ghosts clash with the Fisher Beer aggregation from the major league starting at 8 p.m. under the lights at Harmon park. J Sponsored by the Ute Post, 2162 VFW, the game is one of line nrsi or a series wnicn win I bring some of the better independent inde-pendent teams in the area to i Provo for games. Proceeds of these games will go to pay the ,city for bleachers purchased by the VFW last winter. The' Ghosts, who piay around the softball field much the same as the publicized basketball team of the same name, put on a real show, and turn the serious sport of softball into a laugh riot, but always put on a display of good playing. ! The colored team has played jail over the United States and has attracted top crowds in every city with the carefree antics and the 'razzle-dazzle way in which they Iwhip the ball around on the field. Top attractions on the team are "CannonbaU" Boyd, who whips the ball in with plenty of speed; "Peewee" Williams, Les Wilkin son. Tarzan Hood, "Sweet Papa" Russell and "Mickey" House. I ihe tisher Beer quint, league- leading team in the Major league in Provo, will be headed by a group of local players who have made names for themselves on (both the baseball and softball field, and have, a good record for jthe season. STATE CAR INSPECTION Why not let us take care of this job for you before the rush starts? We can save you time and money by DOING IT NOW Free Pickup and Delivery WASDEN MOTOR SALES 1 t Phone 2650 1131 North 5th West Y our Oldsmobile Dealer " 'J ' ' - - r: ' - - '''Scfi al injuries at the track hospital minutes after he was carried off the track. He was the 38th person per-son to meet death on speedway property and the 15th driver to die on the track. For Holland, the Rose triumph was particularly bitter. The two men drove exactly the same type car. Both were Blue Crown specials spe-cials entered by Lou Moore of Ventura, Cal. Holland, making his first start on the speedway with a highly successful record on eastern dirt tracks, led the field for 142 of the 200 laps. He lost out on the 193rd turn of the two and one half mile track. Rose, pushinr his car to the utmost, passed the Bridgeport, Conn., star then and won going away. But he attained the title only after a desperate drive for the final 100 miles. He trailed Holland Hol-land by 57 seconds at the 400 mile mark; after 450 miles he was only 34 seconds behind, at 480 miles the gap was eight seconds, sec-onds, and then Rose, in a final punch, took the lead and won by 28 seconds Although the Champaign squad showed plenty of prospects pros-pects for the United States 1948 Olympic team, the star of both the Illlni and the meet was a man who probably prob-ably will be running against his teammates in the International Inter-national classic, Herb McKenley, Mc-Kenley, from Jamaica. McKenley was one of the two double-winners of the day, taking both the 220 and the 440 yard dashes, and he finished fifth in the 100 yard dash to total 11 puinis. nnwever, 111s inusi im pressive performance was on the second leg of the mile relay when he took the baton in fourth place and driving all the way carriea the Illinois colors to first on his quarter mile tour of the track. It was uncertain for whom McKenley Mc-Kenley would compete in the 1948 Olympics, but unofficial opinion said he would run for Great Britain, if the West Indies does not send a team to the International In-ternational classic. Bill Porter of Northwestern also took two events, winning both the 120 yard high hurdles hur-dles and the 220 low hurdles. He scored 10 of his team's 17 points. W i s c o n s 1 n't well-balanced squad was a poor runner-up to the Illini, with 30'i points. The Badgers were paced by Don Gehrmann, who took the mile run, and as a' team placed in eight of the 14 events. Ohio State and Michigan tied for third place, with 26 points each, while the final standing of the other schools was Indiana. 22, Minnesota 18'2, Purdue 92, and Iowa. 6. Only in 1924 and 1944 have more points than today's Illini total been amassed by the winning win-ning conference team. In the first year an earlier Illinois squad piled up 74 points an all time high, while three years ago Michigan won with 70. A . , t t BYU Distance Ace Vins Title In AAU Cross-Country SALT LAKE CITY, May 31 (U.R) Clarence Robison, Brigham Young university Big Seven con-ference con-ference middle distance ace, today to-day won the intermountain AAU cross-country race. Robison covered the 12 blocks around Salt Lake City's Liberty park in seven minutes, 55 sec onds. Bruce Gardner of Utah was second more than 50 feet behind the lanky Robison. Marvin Fitzgerald of Utah was third with Ira Hill of Utah State fourth and Eldean Bennett of BYU fifth. Master Sgt. Clyde Majtak of Fort Douglas, who won a national na-tional marathon while living in Baltimore before the war, had been the favorite but Martak finished a poor seventh. W J I M Vllieyara JOIIlS p-p 1 I imDOnOQOS 111 Victory Column Vineyard and Timpanogos soft ball teams turned in victories in j the first round of the Sharon-Orem Sharon-Orem league. Last week's games were rained out. Timpanogos won from Pleasant View, 10 to 1 and Vineyard defeated de-feated Sharon 13 to 5. The Windsor-Vermont game ended in a 5-5 deadlock at the end of the regulation one-hour time limit. w f ItV" ( Vi WHEREVER FINE (zszjfi I ' il f& f if, 1 -r ' If Iff !l j v W THE INTERMOUNTAIN1 'FAVORITE j i' ' MIHIg itlWINO COMMHf i SAIT iAKf cur j . k 11. r j Distributed by Western Distributing Co- Provo, Utah - - ' V wZ SUNDAY HERALD Sunday, June 1, 194f 11 Turnesa Stages Comeback To Win British Open Golf Title By ROBERT MEYER United Press Sports Writer CARNOUSTIE, Scotland, May j some of his closest friends, ho 31 OJ.R) Little Willie Turnesa of stepped up to the 10th tea de- , White Plains, N. Y., won the;termined to do something about . British Amateur Championship j". and did. He won the next five;-today, five;-today, defeating Richard D. Chap- holes in a row to even the match man of Pinehurst, N. C, 3 and 2. 1 looked like the guy who - in one of the greatest uphill 'apparently was beaten was going-struggles going-struggles in golfing history. ; to make a rout of it. Tr.,e w,o n th : But Chapman, like Turnesa. re- . I."!.::.-:.,:, odds were overwhelmingly !ST . Ti ; 1 k iwA amateur king came from behind holes down and didn't take the leafd until the 27th hole, in this gruelling all-American final. But once Turnesa went in front he ?!d h"f' "llh!n.ni."!oThhe 33rd and 34ti "hole, me pressure, liuscju uui uie 11111.11 on the 34th hole. It was the most brilliant comeback in the 25-year history his-tory of the tournament and one of the greatest the game has seen, since Chapman, playing sub-par golf, sained a 5 up lead over his little opponent, op-ponent, always a slow starter, on the first nine holes. That would have been, enough. to break the spirit of a less stout hearted golfer than Turnesa, but; . m. .,r to the White Plain, star it was a;! 1 'l" ' challenge and he accepted it. Army Grid Star Gets Dismissed From West Point WASHINGTON, May 30 The war department today announced an-nounced the dismissal of "George B. (Barney) Poole, all-American end of the Army football team, from the military academy at West Point for failure to maintain main-tain passing grades. The action was taken on the recommendation of the military academy that Poole not be graduated, grad-uated, because of 'academic deficiency." de-ficiency." Poole was a senior ca det. It was believed that Poole will play professional football. HOUSE & CAMP TRAILERS Selling These Out at Costl GET YOUR TODAY WHILE THEY LAST Wasden MdteSales 1131 North 5th West Your Oldsmobiteitfefiler U : - Encouraged "by the gallery of 2,000, which favored him and by fused to give up. Three more' times the Pinehurst shot-maker' went into the lead, but each timo !TlirnM -aM ' Th,n ,h h finally went in front on the 27th he shot Chapman stroke for stroke until the 33rd hole. Still Chapman refused to crack and it to win out. Turnesa birdied both holes while Chapman needed par on each. In the end, it was Turnesa ' deadly iron game which told the story. Shorter off the tea than his opponent, Turnesa always made up the distance when he brought him irons, and particularly his sand wedge, into play. His explosion shots from sand aiiu 11 1 a iiiv-inv a);i vowiivb ma, t ried true te the pin. Except for the first nine, when he needed 39 strokes, three over, regulation figures to Chapman's-35, Chapman's-35, Turnesa matched or bettered Carnoustie's tough 72 par. He shot the final seven holes in 26, one under par, and for the 34 holes was only one over par despite that first bad nine. Turnesa was the seventh American to win the crown and his triumph gave the U. S. both of Britain's major golf titles since Sammy Snead holds the Open championship. It also climaxed two weeks of golf in which Americans dominated Britain's fairways, winning the Walker Cup at St. Andrews two weeks ago. Turnesa and Chapman were members of the team. Besides Turnesa, Charley Yates, Lawson Little, Bobby Jones, Robert Sweeny and Jessie Sweetser have taken the amateur title across the ocean, Little twice. Phone 2lt - .. |