European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 19, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                April 1948 the stars and stripes Page 9 Dillard establish world records writers Lardi vials clubs to end season in 2nd april Champion new York Yankees just Louis cardinals will meet fihe world series next o the nations top base Only after a ranged Battle in both the is Erica and National yanks were Given a slight Edge by the h5 scribes who it part in the annual associated the defending Amer league champions received 59 lir place ballots to 56 for the Bronx bombers the 975 to favor dodgers the votes were widely the red received 48 firs place votes 0 for the runner up Boston their Point total was 914 to b Tor the Hie biggest Surprise was the a i Yeai Lack of enthusiasm by the Niters for the dodgers chances to a Oisin their National league Cham Only 1jj thought the Dod jars would while four picked ten to finish As far Down As fifth the Brooks got second and third place votes to Edge out the new York giants to 718 Points to the bimts also got a surprising dozen us place cabs in cellar spot the Cincinnati reds were the nil other club to receive a first face one writer picked them the the other reds also received one last Frece the Only club to get least one vote for each of the tight the were Spires to snare fifth place by a tide margin Over the Pittsburgh 443 to the Chicago cubs won the Battle for the National league piling Only 207 votes to 213 for tit Philadelphia neither m first division no american league other a the Yankees and red 1 a selected to win the although Cleveland received nine we my place votes to five for the tigers nipped the indians for third 635 votes to 0 for the Anfe stripes Gas defeats Lenczyk lit women tolf final april 18 Champion Louise Suggs of Defeated Grace Lenczyk of 2 and in a brilliantly played North and South Golf tournament the 117pound georgian and her 20yearold rival played superbly under the Victory was the third in the North and South for miss s they halved the first six holes in five pars and a miss Suggs won the but miss Lenczyk grabbed the next two to turn 1 up each with a medal gets Birdie two Louise squared it with a Victory on and three halves followed before the first break came on the Short miss Suggs put her tee shot on the 174yard Hole about two feet from the Edge of the Green to the right of the and then chipped some 12 feet in for a Birdie i going one Sarazen stars cop Golf play Virginia april 13 Sarazen piloted his seven expert team to a disappoint ing thereunder Par 66 to capture a unique Allstar predictions that Par would take a drubbing fell Flat As Saracens specialists 5 and a team captained by Walter Hagen in the novel match play these Lect Field will swing Back to medal again a Short Hole play in the final 36 holes of the graces the Connecticut narrowly misses cup girls Iron shot on the 17th landed in a trap to the right of the miss had found the Green and her first putt was Laid Down nicely to within two feet the miss Lenczyk first blast in the trap rolled the Ball Only about two feet and her third got it but almost overshot the far Side of the finally stopping in the and that was it 148yard the Sarazen Chick Long Iron expert Byron Short Iron expert de fur troubleshooter Dick Chesapeake stakes won by citation Havre de april 18 that it was All a big mistake when he was beaten last Calumet farms Cita Tion came Back with a vengeance to decisively whip three other Kentucky Derby candidates in the Chesapeake the Calumet three Earold Winter Derby favorite who lost in a stunning upset to Helen signers saggy Here in the Chesapeake trial didst fool around in the stakes he went out and ran the others into the trimming Sylvester lab rots Bovard by four and a half James stewarts Almac was third by another five Putter Bobby Locke and Utility men Chandler Harper and Herman an Early two up for the first nine with a Mere Par 35 to the Hagen specialists the Sarazen ensemble split the filth and 13th the match was sewed up for them when Hagens squad flubbed the 14th and 15th holes with one overpay Hagens which posted a Sloppy included Driver Jimmy Long Iron expert Johnny Jimmy Demaret on the Short trouble Man Lew Worsh greens expert Jim Ferrier and Bob Hamilton and Lawson Little in the Utility the show went mostly to the Allaround Utility who were kept Busy As the captains called them in to bail the specialists out of Tough watch double stymie upset at Jamaica new april 18 sine Chance farms Knockdown from the limbo of Lor horses when he won the Excelsior Handicap at before fans who toe to see the worlds Chest make his inauspicious h8 debut the huge which had she tag Island race track bursting at completely overlooked Knockdown in the they sailed ride Jetwood farms double y the favorite end made stymie fond but at the end of the mile and sixteenth the payoff was at and across the Board on a horse who won the Santa Anita Handicap on 1946 and had not won a race double Jay returned and and stymie paid for donor was with Royal lets tide elpis and Basileu ii completing the Knockdown picked up for finishing the trip in while double Jay got for second find stymie added to the he had earned in 115 previous stymies greatest Ever won by any thorough is Navy wins mat title april 18 a a Navy team that included seamen and marines won the National aau senior wrestling overthrowing Cor Nell last years better old standards in shot hurdles april 18 mighty shot Charles and Baldwi wallaces Harrison gave olympic Hopes a healthy boost world record bettering performances at the Kansas Fonville tossed the 16pound bal 58 Ai Inch to top the recognized world Standard of 57 one Inch set by the former leu a Oslo Norway in Dillard won his 52nd cons Ccu o Harrison Dillard sets new record for High hurdles lakers turn Back to win nil title april 18 Minneapolis lakers Defeated the Rochester to win the championship of the National basketball the winning the championship playoff series three games to went in front in the first 10 seconds of play and never were the defeat ended Rochester reign in the the royals had won both titles in their previous two seasons in the Center George Mikan again was the 1 performer for minnea pitching in 27 bullets nip 7875 april 18 Baltimore bullets staved off a last half Philadelphia Warrior rally to win a basketball association of America playoff and take a commanding 31 Lead in the  championship competitive race As he skimmed the 120yard hurdles in Sec a full tenth of a second under the world and intercollegiate Mark established by Forrest spec towns in 1936 and equalled by Fred Wolcott of Rice in streamlined 195pound Predential let go his rec Ord toss in his second preliminary try when Only a few Hund red fans were in the he did try again in the afternoon but each of his four qualifying shots topped the Kansas relays Mark of 52 one and a half inches by Elmer Hackney of Kansas in director Frank univer Ehy of Colorado announced that the performances of both Fonville and Dillard would be recognized As Kansas relays records and that application for recognition a world Marks also will be Dillard won the High hurdles without being he broke fast and had a Good 10yard a Vantage Over runner up Clyde Smackover Scott of Arkansas at the Charles Baker of com Peting won the de Cathlon event with in sixth place at the end of the first five Baker came through in spectacular fashion to nose out Irving Moon Nous three time National aau Cham who second with four other meet records were established As the relays came up with one of its strongest Fields in other victors included Charley Parker of who won the 100yard dash in by who won the run in Forest who took the event in and Dwight who won the High jump with a leap of six five and five eighths Nycz april 18 new York University dominated the second Seton Hall relay winning four of the seven major events in the opening meet of the Eastern indoor cinder coach Emil von fillings violets took four titles and shattered three meet records with exactly eight Manhattan and Ford Ham divided the Pifher three titles among them while the Host expected to give Nyu its most serious finished As High As second in Only two Reggie National aau 800meter Champion and principal american olympic Hope at the was the big gun in the Nyu quadruple he anchored the victorious one mile and sprint Medley teams and squared accounts Seton Halls Phil Thigpen in the Jim Hugo Maiocco and John Nelson combined with Pear Man to win both the mile and sprint Medley while Nous Homer Warren Frank Svoboda and Ira Kaplan captured both the 440 and 880yard Nous time for the Spring Medley was wiping out the Mark of set by Seton Hall in last years inaugural the Nyu clocking of for the mile relay eclipsed the former record of j held by Seton in the the Violet teams Limo of clipped a tenth of a second off the meet Mark last year by the same quartet but its for j the half mile was eight tenths Oli manhattans the Only other record set came in the distance won by Villanova de Brown ill relays ing Dave Williams and George Thompson in the old Mark of was set by Nyu finished second in this event and fourth Iru the Fourmile wind ing up out of the Money in Only one which took three events last scored its Lone Triumph in the Fourmile relay when John Art John Flinter and Ignatius Rienzo won 120 Yards in Ford hams foursome of John Eddie Jerry con Nolly and John Ohare captured the two mile relay in a special invitation two mile run was won by Tommy National aau indoor mile Champion from the new York athletic in bearing Jack Milne of North Carolina by three