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DECATUR SUNDAY Section Section II Sports Sports II Decatur Herald, Founded 1880 Decatur, Illinois, Sunday, May 5, 1946. Decatur Review, Founded 1878 Commies Who Make Their Debut at Fans Field Today Commies' Opener Assault Wins Derby; 100,000 Bet 3 Million (Continued From Page 1) ip Cltt FIST -H-il -HKu? W.I ATTENTION ALL HEAVY HAULERS! IMMEDIATE DELIVERY AT FREDE'S ON Illinois Wins Quadrangular West Point N. May 4 (AP) IT After being idle the first six days of the season, the Decatur Commies as well as their ancient rivals from Springfield will make their 1946 debut at Fans Field this afternoon in a belated opening of the I.I.I, campaign for the two clubs. Manager Harrison Wickel, cen Louis Gets Bloody Nose In Workout Pompton Lakes, N. J.

May 4 (AP) Joe Louis today started the boxing phase of his preparation for the defense of his heavyweight title against Billy Conn in Yankee Stadium on June 19 and got a bloody nose for his efforts. A left by Al Hoosman of Los Angeles brought a trickle of blood from Louis' nose but the champ followed by flooring Jimmy Bell of Washington, in the next round. Louis closed with a two round workout against George Fitch, a prewar sparring mate. It was the first time Louis had donned the gloves since Dec. 1945 and ringsiders voted about three to one that he looked good.

Some said, however, that he appeared slow. Conn Spars Greenwood Lake, N. May 4 (AP) Billy Conn of Pittsburgh, who opposes Joe Louis in the heavyweight title bout at Yankee Stadium June 19, went six rounds today with a trio of spar mates. in 72nd Running Warren Mehrtens. Other horses in the race finished as follows: 2 Spy Song; 3 Hampden; 4 Lord Boswell; 5 Knockdown; lmmflffr ter, named the following players to take the field shortly after 2 o'clock this afternoon: Left to right, Al Gallo, Herb Schmeideke, Steve 1 a Jerry Kamler, Howard Kelly, Melvin Hoey, Dick Anderson and Nick Vucovich.

(Herald-Review photo) St. Teresa Plays Cathedral Today in Springfiejd Maybe St Teresa's Bulldogs and the Cyclones of Cathedral High school, who were supposed to open the second half of St. Teresa's baseball here last Sunday but who were rained out, will tangle at 1 o'clock this afternoon on the Lincoln park diamond in Springfield IF. It's a big if, too, according to Father William Hamilton, St Teresa ahtletic director. He stated last night that Al Lewis, Cathedral coach, said yesterday that if no rain fell either last night or today in Springfield, and if the sun was out this morning, then the game would be played.

Stymie Equals Record Winning Jamaica Race New York, May 4 (AP) ivirs. Jacobs stymie equaled the track record for a mile and eighth today in galloping to an easy victory in the $30,000 added Grey Lag handicap at Jamaica. Bounding Home was second and Fighting Step third in the seven horse field. at Springfield Foe in Clubs' First Game BATTING ORDER Springfield Decatur Backmann, 2b Gutrwiller. If Fitzpatrick, rf Lutz.

lb Schamburg. ss Chlebeck. cf Gregory. 3b Kromcr. Gallo.

2b Schmeidke, cf Malaga. If Kamrer, lb Wickel. ss Kelly, rf Hoey. 3b Anderson, Vucovich, Schaack. Time 2 p.

m. (CDS.) Place Fans Field. Admission: Box seats $1.50, general SI, children under 12 years, 50 cents. Gates open at 1 p. m.

By HOWARD V. MILLARD Herald-Review Sports Editor The Springfield Brownies and the Decatur Commies, two ball clubs that have not been able to play a single game since their scheduled get away performance in the Capital City a week ago today, ctood a good chance of locking horns this afternoon at Fans Field. Stymied by the weatherman for fix straight days or nights, three 5 P. M. Monday Owing to the fact it is impossible to play night 'games as planned before the dim-out order, the second game of the Decatur-Springfield series will start at 5 p.

m. This will permit a full nine innings of play under daylight conditions and will also enable shoppers to get in a few licks before making the trip to the ball park. ef them when they were charted to engage each other, both clubs were on edge for today's opening performance. Not in a number of years have the two clubs opposed each other on the occasion of the season's first game but they will see a lot cf each other, having four major games scheduled, two in each city cn May 30 and July 4. Fans Field wasn't as far along in the finishing touches that were expected to be taken care of last week, but the fans from both cities will not be surprised and will still git down in a fairly good looking ball park.

As a matter of fact, the playing field was in better shape yesterday afternoon than has been the case on several opening days since the Commies returned to organ ized ball at.Staley Field in the spring of 1922. All New Faces It will be an entirely new cast for both clubs from the manager on down with Harrison Wickel, the Decatur pilot, making his initial appearance in the I.I.L and the same situation being recorded for Tony Eobello, the Brownie leader. The players on both clubs have been on the anxious seat for the last few days and Manager Wickel stated yesterday that he can't recall a group of players who were to anxious to take the field as the ones who will wear the Commie uniforms this afternoon. Both pilots are using practically the same lineups that they named a week ago last niRht although both have changed their pitching assignments with Nick Vueovich. a Ft.

Smith, Ark, boy being slated to open for the Decatur club. For Springfield it will be Schaack entrusted with the task of capturing No. 1 of the 13 game series between the two rivals for 1946. There is considerable similarity in the batting order -of the two clubs in that all of the infielders bat in the same position with out fielders paired against outfielder as are the two catchers and pitch' ers. Municipal Band Plays Manaeer Wickel is playing at ahortstOD for the Commies but Robello expects to look over sev- rral of the players before he moves Into the picture.

He is a power house hitter and could step up to that plate most any time. There will be very little fan fare with today's opening game, the main portion of the added entertainment being furnished by the Decatur Municipal band which is docatir.g its service for the afternoon. The Castle Williams post of the American Legion is presenting its color guard which will move to the flag pole in dead center field along with the band and the members of the two teams for the raising of Old Glory. Mayor Jim Hedrick will simply arise from his box seat, toss out the first ball removed from the first supply to come to Commie headquarters since 1942, and it will be presented to some fan as a souvenir of the return of organized baseball to Decatur after a lapse of three years. The continuous rain of the past week put a damper on the advance sale' of opening day tickets but should the temperature move up and the sun shine, baseball' officials look for a heavy gate tale.

Today 2 P.M. Three Giant Homers Rock Bruins, 5-1 Chicago, May 4 (AP) The New York Giants broke loose with a trio of home runs today to back up the five hit pitching' of young Monty Kennedy and defeat the Chicago Cubs, 5-1, before 5,560 fans who shivered in 42-degree weather. The victory evened the two-game series here. Johnny Mize and Ernie (Schnoz-zle) Lombardi were the big guns in the artillery attack the Giants launched against the Cubs' Ray Prim. Mize smashed two homers, and Lombardi had a homer, double and single.

Harry (Peanuts) Lowrey started the scoring when he slashed one of Kennedy's pitches into the left field stands with two out in the third inning. But the lead lasted only three or four minutes. Mize hit the first pitch of the fourth in ning into almost the same spot to tie the count. After four scoreless innings. Mize sent another of Prim's offerings clear over the right field bleachers and Lombardi followed him with another homer into the center field stands.

NEW YORK CHICAGO ABHO AB RItney. 5 17 Lowrey. 3b 4 2 2 Rosen, rf 1 1 2 3 0 1 0 1 Johnson, 2b 2 Stringer. 2b 1 Waitkus.lb 3 Cav'retta. If 3 Pafko.

cf 2 Nicholson. rf 4 Livingston, 4 Jurge. ss 3 Ostrowski, 1 Prim, 3 Erlckson, Gordon. If 4 Mizr. ib 5 4.

DiMaaslo.ef 4 Blattnrr. 2b 5 Ktt-r. 3b 3 Kennedy, 4 Totals 38 11 37 Totals Batted for Jurae In 9th. 29 5 35 Nrw York Chicago 000 ino on 001 OOO 0001 Error Lowrey. Runs hattri in Mir i Lombardi 2, Kennedy, Lowrey.

Two base htta Lombardi. Gordon. Home runs Low rey. Mize 2. Lombardi.

Double plays Blattner. Rieney and Mize: Riirnev nrt Mize. Bases on balls Kennedy 4: Prim 3: Erlckson 1. Strikeouts Kennedy 3: Prim 3: Erlckson 1. Hits off Prim.

7 in 71-3 innings; Erlckson, 4 in 1 2-3. Hit by Ditcher By Kennedy (Cavarretta). Losing pitcher Prim. Purdue Rally Knocks Over Buckeyes, 11-10 Lafayette, May 4 (AP) Purdue came from behind with three runs in the ninth inning to defeat Ohio State today, 11 to 10, sweeping their two-game series. The lead changed hands four times in the first eight innings.

Bill Donnally, Ohio State's start ing pitcher, was still in there with a 10-to-8 lead going into the last of the ninth, but the first three men singled to fill the bases. Donnally was replaced by Bill Schmitter, who walked in one run and was yanked. Dick Maeato came in and was greeted by a single that drove in the tying run and a fly that allowed the winning tally to score. Ohio State 010 300 24010 15 5 002 220 02311 14 6 Purdue Donnally, Schmitter, Magato and N. Ranz; Sherrier, Kemp, Ladd and Schimmelpfenig.

It's Assault by Louisville, Ky. Robert J. Kleberg's mighty stretch runner. Assault- (1), thunders across the finish line eight 1 bend and giving the infield its usual sardine can effect, went right along with the of this 72nd. running of the historic run by tossing a new world record 474 into the mutuels on the Derby alone, much more than the old high of $805,082 chalked up in the Santa Anita handicap last winter.

Over 3 Million Bet And from there they rounded out the program by treating the iron men to a new Derby-day record handle of $3,608,208, well over a million dollars more than the old high of $2,380,796 the 75,000 cus tomers wagered a year ago. From here. Assault can make some more history repeat. He climbs on a train Monday and heads for Baltimore and the Preakness, which his daddy also won before he was injured so badly he had to retire. The field of 17, too, was the largest in nine years to go to the post to the strains of "My Old Kentucky Home," largest since War Admiral whipped 19 others in 1937.

And few of them had any alibis once Assault cut loose on them, although the sleek, sturdy Lord Bos-well couldn't get through a switch he ran into on the backstretch just as he appeared about to start his move. Spy Song Early Leader Spy Song, who was the hope of Detroit automobile body builder Charlie Fisher to end a Derby jinx that has dogged him 17 years, took off in front as the out-sized field broke from the gate. And he was winging just as far as he could go, which was a mile, as had "been expected. That's where he had to make his stop for gas. But he lasted to take the $10,000 second place bankroll by a bare head.

That was his margin over the Delaware dandy, Hampden, from the Foxcatcher farm of Wil liam Dupont, Jr. Hampden might have taken second as a matter of fact, except that Jockey Job Dean Jessop ap pcared to have misjudged the fin ish and secjned to start pulling him up at the eighth pole. He realized the -mistake and the colt came again, but not in time to do better than the $5,000 third money And there was Lord BoswelL top- man of the three horse Maine Chance farm entry of Mrs. Eliza beth Graham cosmetics queen Elizabeth Arden, to the lipstick and face-powder trade. Lord Bos- well was in all kinds of trouble running his usual race from well back in the pack before he got clear and began burning up the track.

Knockdown Fades to 5th Just behind Lord B. came his team mate. Knockdown, the rangy, giant galloper who won the Santa Anita Derby last winter, but who didn't have it today because he tried to match speed with Spy Song for three quarters of a mile and faded to fifth. The third Maine Chance gee-gee in this first three horse entry in a decade which was even money in the betting was Perfect Bahram, who wound up a mild ninth. Virtually the entire way around, as Spy Song sizzled along with his jet-propelled speed, and Knockdown tried to keep up with him, there was the feeling that Assault was the one to watch.

Mehrtens had him fifth at the half, fourth at the three quarters and third turning for home, always ready to run and always in position to zip out without trouble. From the eighth pole in, it was no contest as he clicked to the wire in 2:06 3-5, slow time for a Derby, although anything but freight train speed over a track rated only slow after six days of rain. Assault Pays S18.40 Third choice in the betting after his ambling fourth in the Derby Trial Tuesday a run, incidentally, in which it was apparent he was out to sharpen his conditioner and had no intentions of leaving his Derby race there. Bold Venture's son returned $18.40, $9.60 and $6.80 across the board to his supporters. And the Texans in the throng were really sending it in on him.

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2b 4 14 Henrlch. rf 3 Wakefield. If 1 0 0 DIMagglo. cf 4 Cramer, cf 2 0 1 Keller. If ureenoere.it li Etten.

lb Higglns. 3b 4 0 1 Gordon, 2b 2 12 a Richards, 3 1 4 Page, Mullin. 0 0 0 Murphy, swiit. ooo Trout, xxxx OOO CTvermirr. 2 0 4 Hitchcock.

xx ooo Caster, 0 0 0 Webb, xxx 1 0 Totals 31 8 35 Totals 31 40 Ran foj; Richards In 7th. xx Batted for Overmire in 7th. xxx Batted for Caster In 9th. xxxx Ran for Swift In 9th. Tigers Yankees 101 000 0103 000 300 Olx 4 Errors Page.

Dickey. Runs batted In Mayo. DiMaggio 2. Etten. Greenberg.

Page. Two base hits Keller. Dickey. Green berg. stlrnwelss.

Home runs DiMaggio. Page. Double plays Gordon. Rlzzuto and crtien: itizzuto (unassisted k-izzuio. Gordon and Etten.

Bases on balls off Page 4, off Murphy 1. Strikeouts by Page 4. by Overmire 2, by Murphy 1. Hits off Overmire. In 6 innings: off Caster.

2 in 2 innings: off Page 8 in 8 innings (none out In Bth: Murphy. 0 In Inning. Winning pitcher Page. Losing pitcher Caster. Elks Will Practise Two practise sessions will be held this week by the Elks club soft-ball team.

Wednesday night the squad will work out at Johns Hill park at 6 o'clock, and Friday night the team will drill at Torrence Park at the same time. Eight Lengths lengths in front of the field in the 72nd running of the Kentucky Derby here today under the skillful handling' of Jockey With Herbert McKenley bettering track marks in two events, the University of Illinois team won the quadrangular track and field meet today from Army, Dartmouth and Columbia with 80 points. Army scored 58y4, Darmouth 34 and Columbia 3. The speedy McKenley won the 440-yard dash in :48.1 and the 220 in :20.8 in his record shattering performances. The best mark in the 440 previously was :48.6, made by Roy Schiewe of Notre Dame In 1942.

The 220 mark of :31.1 was set by Wes Wallace of Fordham in 1939 and tied by Jack Morris of Army in 1943. Another mark was tied as Dwight Eddelman of Illinois leap ed six feet five inches in winning the high jump. The Illinois strength was centered in the track events, with Army and Dartmouth picking up most of their points the field. Colum bia's lone individual point-getter was Bill Berger, who picked up a third place in the mile run. The other Columbia point came with a fourth place in the mile relay, which went to Illinois in 3:23.2.

Pete Reiser Rejects 100 Grand Mex Offer St. Louis, May 4 (AP) Pete slugging outfielder-third baseman of the Brodklyn Dodgers, announced tonight he definitely had rejected an offer of $100,000 by the wealthy Pasquel brothers for three seasons with the Mexican baseball league. Reiser's announcement came after a one-hour conference with President Branch Rickey of the Dodgers. Rickey said Reiser had not signed a new contract with the Dodgers but was content to string along with the Brooklyns under his present agreement. With Pleasure; 15 Marine Victory; 16 Wee Admiral.

(AP WIREPHOTO) of the Kentucky Derby 9, u-r FCOE'S 6 Alamond; 7 Bob Murphy; 8 Pellicle; 9 Perfect- Bahram; 10 Rippey; 11 Jobar; 12 Dark Jungle; 13 Alworth; 14.