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...addition, the defense, led by Jay Byrne, will be looking for a fiscal tune-up against the Wildcats.Sailor JAY BYRNE, first string defenseman starts against New Hampshire...
Fresh from a cross-country concert tour, Metropolitan Soprano Helen Traubel turned up in Burbank, Calif, to check on one of her sideline investments: the hapless St. Louis Browns, midway through their spring tune-up. Part-Owner Traubel, in good voice, gave a pep talk to the players, then retired to a rooter's bench to watch her team win (6 to 5) an exhibition game with the Cleveland Indians...
...winnings: $541,275). Others which had to be given a chance at the weights: New York's Palestinian, California's On Trust and the 1946 Triple Crown winner, Assault. Noor, beaten three times in three starts at Belmont in the fall, was back in form; in a tune-up race, he broke the Hollywood track record for a mile and an eighth. Hill Prince had matched this with a smashing mile-and-a-quarter trial. Next Move had won two stakes races in two weeks...
...Inglewood, Calif., Mrs. Charles S. Howard's Noor, in a tune-up for this week's $100,000 Hollywood Gold Cup, over the field in track record time (1:48) for the mile-and-a-furlong at Hollywood Park...
...strong fourth in a six-furlong race. A fortnight ago (TIME, May 1), he ran second to the current Derby favorite, Your Host, in a race in which the California-bred winner set a new track record for seven furlongs. Last week Trainer Veitch gave Mr. Trouble his final tune-up in competition, sent him out in the mile-and-one-eighth (one-eighth of a mile short of the Derby distance) Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland track. Mr. Trouble drove home in front, three-quarters of a length ahead of Oil Capitol...