BASEBALL
KIDS AND CASTOFFS RUN
WINNING STREAK TO EIGHT
New York, May 9.-Thone astonishing Athletics to- day ran their winning streak to eight straight games— the season's longest-with two wins over the Detroit Tigers. Connie Macit's ragbag collection of kids and .castoffs, tabbed unanimously for a second division finish in pre- scason calculations, is not being taken seriously just yet, but one American League manager privately said, "Those fellows can steal this pennant because they have got a solid man in each position plus the best young pitching
staff in baseball."
Rosar doubled, i Dodgera' Prowed McCoskey and
Recso high- highlighting the nightcap's four- lighted with a four-run homer lo **LIN outburst, while Chapman's the eighth, driving in a total of three-run triple paced the opener, eight runs while Kiner homered in two successive innings accounting for five-runs-one on base in the fifth.
The Indians hung on grimly, tak ing two games from the Red Sox, with Ken Keltner's three homers during the afternoon, proving the big factor. He is now pacing tho Lengue with nine-two behind his total of four for the whole of Inst season,
Today's scores were:
AMERICAN LEAGUE
A tenth loning blow touched nf Chicrito the rally in the opener. In the New York nightcap, he set the vogue in the
fourth, which Doby doplicated with St. Louis.
one
man on base in the sevents. Washington Tipton did likewise in the sighth.
Cleveland Williams hit two for the Red Sox.
pltched lilfless
Yankees' Shea. ball for 0-2/3 innings while Hen rich homered with two on base and
McQuinn, Miller and Johnson
likewise with basca empty,
Senators' while
ora' Sullivan singled in two)
home In Vernon stole
de tepl.
to " took first place
double and single drove in four runs during two big innings. In the nightcap Dickson weathered Heath's and Russel's homers fasc settled down, but Wilks had Strike out Elliott with bases loaded In the ninth to save his gamu.
GIANTS SHUT OUT Giants suffered the season's first shutout while the Cubs' 'runs were both unearned.
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Phillies pushed the Reds into the cellar on combination of good pitching in both gumes, paced Del Emis two-run homer in the ⚫ opener and three hits aplece by Verban and Sisler in the nightcap. Heintzelman ran his scoreless in- ning string to 22.
ALL-AMERICANS
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The first Associated Press All-America collegiate basketball team, selected on a point basis by votes from 321 sports editors, is made up of Kevin O'Shea (top left), Notre Dame; Ralph Beard (top, centre), Kentucky; "Easy. Ed" Macauley (top, right), St. Louis; Murray Wler (bottom, left), Iowa, and Jim McIntyre (bottom, right), Minnesota.
TENNIS
FRANCE LEADS BRITAIN IN INTER-CLUB MATCH
Paris, May 9.--France was leading Britain nine to eight today as the tennis tournament in Paris between the International Clubs of the two countries neured its Anale.
With only one match left to play the outcome would either be a draw or a victory for France.
while the
he defaulted the match because of)-0-Associated Press.
veteran
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ALL THE SPORTS NEWS of The Day
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NEW GOLF
HAZARD
Golf is golf and let the hazards fall where they may seems to be the attitude of Mrs Thomas Dealy who keeps right on playing despite the wreckage of an airplane.
OLYMPIC PROSPECTS
By "RECORDER"
WOMEN'S ATHLETICS MORE
POPULAR THAN EVER
Fewer Hatchet-faced Girls
For London Games
Women's athletics have gained in popularity in Europe, Australia and South America in the last 12 years and so much so that sufficient pressure was brought to bear on the Olympic Committee to add three events to the programme for the London Games,
Standard events
These are the 200 metres dash, the long jump and shot put. hitherto had been the 100 metres dash, the 80 metres hurdles, high jump, discus and Javelin throws and the 400 metres relay.
Favourite for the championship at London will be Holland. The Dutch team will be headed by Fanny Blankers-Koen, 30-year-old Amsterdam matron, holder of four world records and much more feminine in appearance than Mildred "Babe" Didrikson, the greatest all-rounder in women's athletics until Miss Koen started `setting records five years ago.
metres in 11.5.
the Russian
them
Plel (Holland) Lille Purifoy (US)
Shot Put Sevrjukova. (Russia) Schluter (Germany) Micheline Ostermeyer
(France)
Eivor Olsson (Sweden)
17:11
17:0
CHINA'S NATIONAL GAMES
OLYMPIC DISTANCE HOPE SETS NEW RECORD
Shanghal, May 8--La Wen-ngau, China's Olympic track hope, made his first appearance before the largest crowd since the opening day of the National Athlotte Meet track this afternoon and skyrocketed hopes of his Ardent supporters by establishing a new national record for the 5,000-metre distance in 10 minutes and 8 seconds.
The former national record of 16 minutes 46 seconds was held by Liu Ching-kun, who also participated in the event this afternoon, finishing a poor third. Liu was ex- pected to be the one most likely to extend the record breaker but failed completely to challenge the champion at any time during the race.
A crowd of nearly 40,000 specta- tors watched Lau, the most renza- tional long distance runner in cent years, break into the lead after the Arst round of the track, At the half-way mark, like a lighten- ing flash, Yu Hsi-wei, the 1,500- metro national champion, in 。 supreme bid to sical the show, passed the champion to gain the icad for nearly 1,200 metres..
With only some 1,100 meires loft in the race, Lau suddenly broke loose and set a terrine pace to re- gain the lead, which he never re- linquished, and set a new national record. Yu finished second, some 100 metres behind..
CHESS
World Title For Botvinnik
9.-Mikhail
Moscow, May Botvinnik of Russia became the world chess champlon tonight when he drew with Dr Max Euwe, of Holland, after 15
moves.
Dotvinnik now has 12 points and even if he loses the remaining games of the tournament, he wil Bill be champion.
Today's track and Alek events witnessed many
In changes
pre- vious national athletic meet re- cords which were broken by the best crop of athletes ever to par- ticipate in NAM competition.-Cen-plause from the audience in the Hall
a tremendous tral News.
He mceived
op-
and
OUTDOOR EVENTS
of Columna where the tournament in being held when the result of bils UNLIKELY TODAY
game with Mr Euwe
WHs announced. Shanghai, Muy 10-A stendy-Reuter. downpour is likely to wipe out all but the indoor events National Athletic Meet programme, which includes the finals of all re- maining track and field events,
The feature of yesterday's events in track and field was the elimina tion of almost all remaining over-
scas
ore!
The of today's
game between Keres Smyslov was adjourned with the former on a better position,
Scores
Botvinnik 12%; Re- shetaky and Smyslov 0; Keres 8%; Euwe 3.-United Press.
With the crowning of the new Malaya's Hwang Nien-champlon, interest in the tournament
two, cheng-one of the
overeens went to the three-man just for se- athletes left-is favoured to win the cond place. Involved are the 'Rus- finals of the 400-metro hurdles. He slans Vostly Smyslov and Paul turned in the best time of
59.4 Keres, and Samuci Reshevsky, the seconds in winning yesterday's heal. US champion.
Malaya's
only Yang Chun-mei, other overseas
and Smyslov adjourned alhlete who fought his way to the finals of the 200- their game today after 40 moves. metre race, finished a poor fourth Reshevsky drew a bye.
With three more in one of the heats.
rounds to
go, Botvinnilc has 12 points, Smyslov nine, Reshevsky nine, Keres 8 and Max Euwe four.
DISCUS RECORD
Keres
An estimated crowd of 00,000 Jammed the Kinngwan Stadium to It was a solenn mument in tho
Chen Pei-ling,
of Tienisin, history of chess when referee Pro- throw the discus for 41.55 metres to fessor Vidmar proclaimed Botvinnik set a new national record.
with
champlon in a hall crowded
In the other anal of the day, enthusiasts.-Associated Press.
40: 5%1⁄2 Fuklen's Chen- Pel-ying won the 43: 7% ladies' broad jump with a leap of
1.03 metres.-Reuter,
42:101/
30:11
Alexandra Tjudinn (Russia) 30: 7
INTERNATIONAL CYCLING
FOOTBALL
Copenhagen, May 8-Willy Falck: Lille Wins French
Ingeborg Mello de
(Argentina)
Prelss Games girl.
38: 01⁄4
of Denmark,
Dorothy Dodson (US) Edith Klempau (Chile) Frances Kazubski (US)
37: 11
37: 8
30: 8
Disc Throw
Won
an international
cycle race held here today. Cor Bijster,
of Holland, and Arno Pedersen, of
Denmark,
shared
30: 24% second place, with Karel Kaers, of
France, and
Cup Final
Paris, May D.-Lille won the Andre Blanket, of French football cup by defeating
next in that order.
Anni at Colombes Stadium here this
Fanny Blankers-Koen is so next best, the European fast that at one period she in- Champion, sisted upon running in men's Setsjenovn.
Unlike past Olympiads where the events and was allowed entry. She holds the world's record girls, with a few exceptions, were D. Reld (Britain)
either lenn and hatchet-faced or for the 100 yards dash in 10.8 seconds and has done the 100 much in the German fat frau trad-Nina Dumbadze (Russia) 146: 0341
tion, the Games at London will see Schultze-Entrup
Three people were Injured, in Lens by three goals to two in the cluding a 10-year-old girl, who was afternoon. The match. was watched some girls who will keep photogra- (Germany)
134:1114 stated phers trailing
all over the Niesink (Holland)
this 132: 83%
evening to be dying,
by ground.
00,000 spectatora. Waje-Gletklewicz (Poland) 129: 14 thrown from his machine among the when one of the competitors 5 Most glamorous of the lot in the Ingeborg Mello de Preiss
(Argentina)....
-128:03 spectators. Reuter. Russian disc-thrower, Niño "Dum Gudrun Eklund (Sweden) 127: 54 badze, n Georgian by raco, who Dobrzauska (Poland) 125: 74 looks like a alightly oversized bal-Hadegger (Austria)
125: 3 ierina, with 'Nancy Cowperthwaite, Gurli Hansen (Denmark) 120:10 Maureen Gardner, Mrs Blankers, Sevrjukova (Russia)
111: 84% and most of the Australian girls also
Javelin Throw easy on the eye.
158; 2 erma Bauma (Austria)
Motsjutsjova (Russia) 150:10
150: 414
In addition to this, she holds the high and long Jump records for women with....marks of. 5 feet...7% inches and 20 feet 6 inches. She Is also Netherlands women's champion in the shot pat.
SECOND GAMES APPEARANCE
the
the the
Here are the principal contendere with their best marks:
100 Metres Dash
HORSE SHOW Rome, May 9-France landed a double today by winning both events in the last day of the Horse
M. Vincent Auriol, the President of the French Republic, presented the cup-to the winning team:--- Reuter.
TRANSFER TO MADRID Prals. May -Two of the Stade Franculse leading players, Largi Baner (inside left) Show here.
and Marcel With a
faultless round of the six- Domingo (goalkeeper), have been
circuli,
Commandant transferred to the Athletic Club of teen Jump
Madrid, It was Gudín de Valletin won the Mani-
today. Reuter. event culun Cup consolation Princess Deterrnes in one minute 30-4/5 seconds.
3.
Anokinn (Russia)
Koning (Holland)
Wolf (Germany)
141:104
140: 0
Charlotte McGibbon
11.5
(Australia)
135: 1
11.9
Dammers (Holland)
134: 0
Italy was third Reuter,
and
(Argentina) 12.0
Rohenczi (Hungary)
132: 434
12.0
Lilly Carlstedt (Denmark) 132: 0
12.0
Alexandra Tjudina
12.0
(Russia)
12.1
It will not be Mrs Blankere Arst Olympic appearance at London, as she just managed to make Dulch women's, relay team at Berlin Gomes at the age of
LA: She is the holder also of the world record for
80 metres
high Fanny Blankers-Kaen (Holland) 115 hurdles and it will be in this event Stella Wolah_(US) that she will face the strongest Setsjeneva (Russia)
She has done 11.3. Noemi Simonetto competition. seconds, but has three close challen- Joyce King
(Australia) gers in Noem! Simoneito of Argen-Betty McKinnon (Australia) tina, Britain's 19-year-old Maureen Petersen (Germany) Gardner, and Russia's Nina Fokina Winifred Jordan (Britain) who have done 11.5.
Shirley Strickland (Australia) 12.1 Judy Canty (Australia)
12.1 In addition to these
12.1 challengers Zoya Dukhovich (Russia) there are Australia's Shirley Strick-Piel (Holland)
12.1 land, ranked No. 1 In Australia's Olympic team priority list, who hos done 11.6 seconds for the 00 yards high hurdles.
200 Metres Dash
Joyce King (Australia) Caurla (France) Biggest disappointment of the past
(Britain) season was the failure of America's Sylvia Cheesman socinilte hurdler, Miss Nancy Cow-Zoya Dukhovich (Russia) perthwaite, to register anything betBirthe Nielsen (Denmark)
Setsjenova (Russin) for than 12.6 seconds in taking the American championship.
over
24.8
24.0
25.0
25.0
25.4
254
25.7
25.7
Lidl Christiansen (Denmark) Annete Weller (Chile)
25.8 Fanny Blankert-Koen (Holland) 200 Kiklova (Czechoslovakia)
.... 20.0
80 Metres Hurdles
11.5
11.5
11.0
However, America's giri athletes, though not reduced in numbers or enthusiasm since the Last Games, have been abysmally poorish the last two years and stand only a single chance of getting into the Fanny Blankers-Koen (Holland) 11.3 point-score at London, a bad let-Noem! Simonetto (Argentina) down since Los Angeles when they Nina Folina (Russia)........
Maureen Gardner (Britalu)
11.5 swept the board to take live of six Shirley Strickland (Australia) 11.0 events
Russta, if she enters, will give James (Finland)
Sjelokova (Russia)
11.0 Holland à formidable challenge with
Nancy Gourlay (New Zealand) 12.0 Franco (Italy) Anno Iversen (Denmark)
High Jump Fanny Blankets-Koen
(Holland).....
5:74 Alexandra Tjudins (Russia) 6:5
5:44 Itse Barends (Chila)
5:314 Micheline Ostermeyer (France Noemi Simonetto (Argentina) 0:3 Eckelt (Germany).
4:3 Colchen (France)
in one of the first of today's ter 8-2, 0-1 matches French Davis Cup player French pair of Joan Borotra and Australia a sirong outsider. Aus- Henri Bolel was leading Britain's J. Braugnon defeated Butler
and traila's chances for the team, cham R. E. Carter by one sei, 6-3, when G. P. Hughes of Britaini 6-4, 3-0, plonship depend largely on funds being available to send two more girls to complete the relay team
Latest news from Down Under is that Betty McKinnon and Juno Maston, two more sprinters, are be- funds Ing sent to the Games
a sprained hand.
Foul Ferct of. France
defeated
D. W. Butler of Britain 0-0 and 6-4
and J. E. Harper of Britain won 6-3,
1-0 and 0-1 over Bernard Destremau of France.
MOTOR-CYCLING,
up
Dudapest, Miny 0-Enrico Loren- specially raised for the purpose, and Britain's Eric Sturgess won a hard zette, of Italy, riding a Moto Guzzi, Australia's chances for taking the fought victory over France's first won the 400-ce class in the Hun-relay are second to none. ranking tennis player Marcel Ber-
garlan motor cycling Grand nard 12-10 and 0-2.
OTHER RESULTS Other results in the men's singles weret
Itogor Dubuc (Franco) defeated J. R Mansell (Britain) 0-3, 6-3,
H. A. Codham (Britain) 6-4, 6-9.
France took an edge over Britain
Prix
here today, covering the 280-klip- CLOSEST CHALLENGER · motre course in two hours 13 minutes 0.104 seconds..
Szabo, of Hungary, was second, and Rundsch, of Austria, third, bolli on Nortons.
Closest challenger to Mrs Blan- kors in the 100 metres will be Stella Walsh, who represented Poland in 1032. and again in 1038 but is now on American citizen and will run for the United States.
12.1
12.1
5:3
Galina Gancker (Russia) Hester Brand (South Africa) Judy Canty (Australia)
6:2% 5:27
5:2
Long Jump Fanny Blankeis-Koen
(Holland) Alexandra Tjudina (Russia) Koudys (Holland)
The 330-cc class was won by E. C. Houssus (France) defeated. Thomas, of Great Britain, riding
Velocette, in two hours 21 minutes In competition now for 22 years, Galls (Russia)
Miss Walsh Is near 40, but is still Vasiljeva (Russia). 43.20 seconds
Szalki, of Hungary, was second, as fast as over and has a recent best Brummann (Germany) by, winning two successiva doubles
also riding a Velocello, and Franz mark of 11.5, placing her on a par with Judy Canty (Australia) matcher. VR. Cólin and J. Thomas of Link, of Austria, third on a Norton. the Dutch girl. The two are. two- | Noemi' Simonatto" France defeated Mansell and Gai-Reuter.
fifths of a second faster than thè (Argentina)
20; 0 18: T 13: 7 18: 0% 18: 6 -18: 51%
10: 5.
10:4
On
fourth-THE TURF
announced
hero
INTERNATIONAL HOCKEY Arbar Wins The
Amsterdam, May 0-Holland beat 131: 214 Spain by five goals to nll, after The Germans have not been in- leading four viled
goals to all at half- to the Games. Their
best time, when the international men's marks aɑ glven for comparison.hockey festival opened here today.---
They won at Berlin in 1930.
Reuter.
Another Old Record
Book Mystery
By RUSS NEWLAND
San Francisco, May 9.This Olympic year serves to call attention to some remarkable man-made speed per- formances of another generation-especially some
marks registered by a Japanese runner..
The AAU official record book lists records recognised by the International Amateur Athletic Federation, but there is no mention of a 9 2/5ths seconds hundred yards by Minoru Fujii of Japan in 1902.
been
Prix Du Cadron
Paris. May 9.-M. Marcel Boussac's Arbar (Djebel- Astronomic) today won the 1,000,000-francs Prix Du. Cadron over two and a half miles at Longchamps by four lengths from Bayeux, with Tourment n further four lengths behind third in a field of eight runners.
All three carried nine stone. Arbar won easily, drawing away from Bayeux in the straight.
Arbar, ridden. by Charlie Elliot, started a joint favourite with his stable companion Cadir. and paid 12 francs for a win and 11 'for a place, both to
to 10-franc stakes, on the parimutuel.
Place dividends for Bayeux and Tha late Tom Andrews
Tourment were 20 francs and 10 of brings up a question-her this un-francs respectively. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, whose record heard of Nipponese sprinter boost settled many arguments in the denied his full due all these years? entrant, My Love, won the 500,000 M. Leon Volterra's Epsom Derby early part of this century, lists the feat of the swift Japanese.
Fuji ran it slower surface
turt which is francs Prix Hocquart for three-year thon American dirt olds, over one and a half miles, by In his 1010 compilation, Andrews cinder strips. If the time was ac
ond and a half lengths and samo has it as follows:
curately clocked, and who can from Turnell and Tlush Royal
it was not?-the "One hundred yards dash, 02/5ths prove
Oriental
Ridden by W. Johnstone, he paid seconds..
have been
89 francs for a win and 32 for a Q nine- Minoru Fuji at Tokyo fyer might University, Japan, November 14, second man today.
place to a 10-franc stake.-Reuter. 1902, on the grass. Sworn to by
AUSTRÁLIAN HORSE WINS officials of Tokyo University."
'San Mateo, Californio, May in
There seems
Itle doubt Fujil could get over the ground in
thol
Stop watches are split into tenha hurry. Andrews' book also notes The Australian racehorse Shannon seconds now. The world's record he was timed in 19.24 for the 100 scored his firat success in the United for the 100 yards is. 0.4 seconds set meters, the Olymple sprint dis- States when he won the San Fran- by Frank Wokoft in 1930 and equal-tance. Thus, too, would have been cisco County Handicap, with $10,000 led by Jesse Owens and Clyde a world record.
added, over one mile- one and a Jeffrey five and 10 years later re- The official mark now is 10.3 by half furlongs at Bay Meadowe here spectively and by Mal Patton of Owent
and In 1938
by Harold
in the track record: time yesterday in USC, last year.
Davis in 1941.
Until they come of one minute 85 3/5 seconds, it along, however, was 10,3 by This was one-fifth of a second According to a record hook, 38- Porby Williams in 1930 and Eddie faster than Sea year-old, the Japanese Fuji ron it Tolan in 1032, slower Ume than the 1090. Shannon, ridden by Johnny in similar time before any of the Japanese was credited with back in Longden, won by 10 lengths from Usted holders were born. That 1902.-Associated Press.
· Blacuit's time in
This nearest rival-Heuter,
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