Hopes in the Wind

Chill wartime winds from Washington had numbed the sports outlook for 1945, but there were lukewarm currents in the air:

P: WPB said that its forthcoming order curtailing nonessential use of electricity would not be applied to night baseball. The hopeful saw it as an indication that the Government would not extend its horse-racing ban to other sports.

P: ODT ruled that its convention ban, at least for the present, does not include sporting events (example cited: a state bowling tournament would not be forbidden).

P: The Eastern Lawn Tennis Association decided to continue its 1944 policy of playing all possible tournaments this year.

P: Blacked-out horsemen seriously suggested that the 70-year-old Kentucky Derby be kept alive with a spectatorless, wagerless race this spring, looked wistfully to Washington for an O.K.

The lone cold breeze of the week blew out of the annual meeting of the U.S. Golf Association, which found the idea of reviving the U.S. Open distinctly premature.

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