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Show SUNPIV HERALD rBigpaAuM?B PAGE 11 Tirnps To Ply Bngham City Here Sunday; Provoans Still Have Mathematical Chance w L 2 5 5 5 7 Pet. Pinney .8 Provo 5 Brigham .f. S Murray 5 Magna 3 .8oa .500 .500 .500 .300 By PETE OLSEN Provo baseball fans will be treated to two of the classiest baseball games of the season when the Timps meet the Brigham City Peaches nine at Timp Parle Sunday Sun-day at 2:30 p.m., and the tough Murray nine Monday at 6 pjn. here. Murray. Brigham and Provo are tied for second place with five and five. Murray defeated Magna last night 9-3 to go into a tie .with Brigham and Provo. Sport scribes and baseball fol lowers generally have climbed aboard the-Pinney Beverage "beer wagon", hailing them as the first half champions. While it is true, they do boast a three game lead over Provo Timps, Brigham Peaches, and Murray it is still not beyond the ' realm of possibility for either the Peaches, Murray or the Timps to tie them for the title. Which of these teams moves Into a contending position will depend on the outcome of Sun day's game between Provo and Brigham at Timp ball park. Both teams are primed for this con test and one of the best ball Bymeabond 7ins Anita Derby ARCADIA, Cal., June 23 U.R Buymeabond. shipped west after running Jixth in the Kentucky DQfcby1staged a great sprint in tfelfefrtretch today to beat the sensational filly, Busher, by a half a length in the eighth running run-ning of the $50,000 Santa Anita derby. Jay Paley's Best Effort, with Jackie Westrope up, was moving up at the finish, but trailed Busher by a length. J. K. Houssel's black son of Bimelech was only a 7 to 1 choice as the horses left the gate. The crowd backed Movie Magnate Louis B. Mayer's undefeated Busher down to 1 to 2, with the sudden scratching of Charles S. Howard's Sea Sovereign. Jockey Georgie (Iceman) Woolf, just returned from riding in the Kentucky Derby and the Preak-ness, Preak-ness, coaxed Bymeabond home in 1:50 in the classic for three year olds. Woolf gave a few fervent thanks for a minor controversy that had kept him from being assigned to ride Sea Sovereign. The surprising triumph gave fresh food for coast turf fans arguing the respective merits of Woolf and Jockey Johnny Long-den, Long-den, who was aboard Busher. Green Saved By The Bell to Yin NEW YORK, June 23 (U.R) Lady Luck changed the scriDt from "A bell for Adano" to "A bell for Harold Green" at Madison Madi-son Square Garden last night. The bell ending the sixth round saved Green, young Brooklyn welterweight, from a certain knockout and permitted him to continue on to a unanimous 10-round 10-round decision victory over Cpl. Fritzie Zivic, 32-year-old ex-champion, ex-champion, before 9,531 fans. Green was flat on his back in a neutral corner, and the count had reached "four" when the bell rang. Green's handlers hauled him to his corner and worked frantically and effectively to revive re-vive him. Zivic lost his first bout of 1945, after eight- straight victories. City Softball W L Pet. 20-30 Club 5 1 .833 Pleasant Grove 5 1 .833 State Hospital 4 2 .667 Rolling Mills 3 4 .480 Accounting .2 4 .333 Maintenance 1 4 .200 Production 1 5. .167 State Hospital took the fast Pee-Gee softball team into camp Friday night in the first major upset of the Season. The hospital crew played heads up ball to win by a 4-3 count. This victory throws the league leadership into a" tie and still gives four teams a chance at the first half title. Friday's Scores State Hospital 4; PI. Grove Accounting 13. Maintenance Accounting 5,' Production 4. 20-30 Club 9, Rolling Mill 2. WANTED ALL KINDS OF HIDES! Highest Prices Paid for BONES WOOL HIDES PELTS FURS and dead and useless animals. Pelt prices for dead and useless use-less sheep. Prompt Service UTAH HIDE & TALLOW CO. 3 Miles West of Spanish Fork PHONE-38- games of the year is in the offing. The Peaches are a colorful and classy team. Take the first six men in their lineup: they are tough for any hurler to face. The first four. Spence Startin, Bill Cowley, Jack Jackson and Earl Owen are all left handed sluggers of known ability. They are follow ed by Ray Jacobs, Bob Nadler and Les Lemon. In other words they have a great hitting club but since the June 8th deadline they haven't been able to sign up every ball player that has come through Kearns replacement center and hence are shy in pitching. However, they have a little left hander named Bond who will show Provo fans as nice a curve ball as has been seen here for some time. Manager Don Overly was de lighted to see Glen Berge out to the Salt Lake game Wednesday night. Mien dressed and even worked out a little which is amazing, considering the seriousness serious-ness of his spike wounds received in last Sunday's game with Magna. Mag-na. Glen hopes he will be ready for the Brigham game but it is doubtful. "Little Eddy" Lee Christiansen is not so lucky. In his crash he broke two ribs, cracked another and tore the ligaments loose on the entire left side of his chest. He was out of bed for the first time Thursday. "Eddy" says he will be ready in a week but don't you believe it. Manager Overly has not yet given up. Someone said, after the Pinney game, "Well, we will win the next half." Choc then quipped, quip-ped, "The first half's not over yet." Former Provo Star Breaks Ankle Wayne Tueker, star first aacfter for the Kansas City Blues, and former baseball star for Provo In semi-pro circles, suffered a broken ankle sliding into second base In a game In Kansas city against Columbus Friday, friends in Provo learned today. to-day. Last year Wayne played for the Brigham City Peaches and was manager of the Market Inn team which placed second In the state semi-pro tourney. He played for Provo and Pinney Pin-ney Beverage before that. TAKE WING WINS LINCOLN HANDICAP STICKNEY, 111.. June 23 (U) Take Wing, a seven-year-old son of Chickle, drove to the front in the stretch to register a popular victory on the 18th running of the $5,000 added Lincoln handicap, which rang down the curtain on the Lincoln Fields meeting at Hawthorne today. Tommy Holmes Takes Grip On Major Hitting Yith .385 By CORNELIUS RYAN NEW YORK, June 23 (U.R) Tommy Holmes, the Brooklyn boy who became a star outfielder for the Boston Braves, today maintained his grip on top spot among major league hitters with a .385 average for 54 games. Goody Rosen, star Canadian outfielder for the Brooklyn Dodgers, took second place in the National league with a .366 mark, twenty points above Tony Cuc- cinello of the Chicago White Sox, who led the American league with .346. Cuccinello's mark was below no less than five National league hitters. Phil Cavaretta of the Chicago Cubs stood at .354, Mel Ott of New York batted .353, and George Kurowski of St. Louis was at .J3i after Fridays day FULL VALUE! PES 2 ' Q LADIES - I with your If 71 L 1 1 iU . iKoJ Hn-rl )ht a friend. Smart styles to lr rhnnsp from Klarlrc mir satisfied with a suit tailored at Globe Tailors. Globe Jailors 144 West Center Ike Saw- Everything General Dwlght Elsenhower wanted to see a ball game so they took him to the Polo Grounds. But first he has to meet a couple of Waves , . Sewell, Three Brownie Men Fined $550 CHICAGO, June 23 (U.R) - Manager Luke Sewell of the St. Louis Browns and three of his players were fined an aggregate $550 today by President William Harridge of the American league for their roles in the player not at St. - Louis Wednesday night between the White Sox and the Browns. Harridee. basing his action on the reports of the three umpires who worked the game, levied the following fines: Sewell $250 for failure ta ex ercise control over his players. Pitcher George Caster $100 for deliberately throwing a ball into the Sox dugout, thereby touching off the fisticuffs. Pitcher 'Sig Jakucki and In fielder Ellis Clary $100 -each for attacking and beating Karl Scheel, White Sox batting practice pitcher. pit-cher. Harridge exonerated the Sox players !from any blame In the flareup and stipulated that the fines must be paid in personal checks within five days. The fracas occurred in the eiahth inning of the game at Sportsman's park when Caster, after being knocked out -of the box by a four-run sox uprising, turned aid threw the ball into the Sox dugout in reply to the "bench jockeying" of Scheel. When Manager Jimmy Dykes protested to the umpires, most of the Browns swarmed the Sox dugout dug-out and concentrated their attack on Scheel, an ex-marine who had been giving them a merciless ribbing. rib-bing. m Cleveland today, Dykes - .ported that Scheel would be out of action for about 10 days. Art Passarella, umpire-in-chief during the St. Louis game,' said in his report that the Sox razzing which led to the flareup was "not out of line." MANAGER. PITCHER FINED FOR DELAY LOS ANGELES, June 23 0J.R)-4o Pacific Coast league directors to- The Southwest defeated South-day South-day fined Manager Earl Sheely eakt by a 4-3 count. Ted Dunn j Ti;-i r .t.l 2L . i t i y- and Pitcher Guy Fletcher of Sacramento for "causing general delay of a game" in Portland June 21. Sheely drew $50 and Fletcher $25 for threatening and profane danguage against Umpire Bob Kober. The two Sacramento men went to work on Kober after he called a ball on a Portland batter. averages. Holmes domination of the offensive of-fensive departments was emphasized em-phasized by the figures for hits, which showed him with 85 to 75 for second place Luis Olmo .of Brooklyn, and in runs scored, where he has 54 to 45 for Eddie Stanky of the Dodgers! Olmo has batted in the most runs 49 to 47 for Bob Elliott of the Pittsburgh Pirates and 43 for Holmes. No less than five Dogers were among the leaders in various batting bat-ting departments, which explains the Brooklyn lead in the National league. The usually hard-hitting American Amer-ican league could offer no comparable com-parable figures. Nick Etten of New York and Bob Johnson of Boston were tried for runs batted in with 39, and Johnston led in hits with 66. Leaders in the de and Top Coats for Men and Women TAILORED TO MEASURE SUITS BOTH for Other Groups 44 50 & 54.50 1 Share suit order husband or brinir specialty. MEN! Here you have a wide selection of woolens jmd styles to select from for smart appearance and comfortable com-fortable fit. You will be -Except the Ball Fans clamor for a aalate so Ike gives it to them. By now he has abandoned all hopes of keeping his own scereeard on Giants-Braves Giants-Braves game . . Lowly Phillies Slap Giants Down 2nd Time; Solons Win NEW YORK, June 23 (U.R) For most of this season it was a true saying that "there's nothing wrong with any team a series with the Phillies won't cure," but today's doings at Philadelphia indicated in-dicated there's nothing wrong with the Phillies that a series with the New York Giants won't cure. The downtrodden Phils, who stepped into the Polo grounds last Sunday and slapped their unhappy hosts down twice, beat the Giants at Philadelphia today for the second straight game, 9 to 8 in 11 innings. The Phils won twice. In the first inning they jumped on Bill VoiselVe, who once was the Giants' best pitcher, for most of the six runs they scored in that frame. However, as is the way with the Phils, that lead frittered away and they had to squeeze another run home in the 11th. Andy Seminick's sin- Midget Baseball League Opens Play Team Won Lost Pet. Southwest 1 0 1.000 Northeast ... 1 0 1.000 Northwest 0 1 .000 Southeast 0 1 .000 Next Weeks Schedule 6:30 p. m. Tuesday Northeast vs. Southwest. 6:00 p. m. Thursday Southwest vs. Northwest. The newly organized Midget baseball league got under way this week. This league is organ-zed organ-zed under the supervision of Marion Olsen and is part of the city recreational program. Boys between the ages of twelve and fourteen are eligible for participation. The city was divided di-vided into four sections and teams representing each section are in the league. V In the first round Xof play Southwest and Northeast got off flying starts with close wins was me winning piicner. ioe Knight and David Oldroyd were the batting stars. For the Southeast South-east Kent Lloyd played a beauti ful game at third and did some heavy stick work. In the other contest Northeast defeated Northwest by a 5-2 mar gin. Ralph Morgan and Earl WUde were opposing moundsmen, with Wilde getting the edge. partments: Batting (N) Holmes, Boston, 385; (A) Cuccinello, Chicago, 346. Hits (N) Holmes, 85; (A) R. Johnson, Boston, 66. Runs batted in (N) Olmo, Brooklyn, 49; (A Etten, New York, and Johnson, Boston, 39. Doubles (N) Holmes,' 18; (A) Cuccinello and Siebert, Philadelphia, Philadel-phia, 13. Triples (N) Olmo, Brooklyn, 7; (A) Stirnweiss, New York, 6. Home Runs (N) Lombard!, New York, 13; (A) Stephens, St. Louis, 10. Stolen bases (N) Olmo, 9; (A) Case, Washington, 13. Pitching (N) Cooper, .St. Louis-Boston, 6-1; (A) Ferriss, Boston, 9-2. games, the latest included in the EASEB BRIGHAM GTY V8 PROVO TIMPS TODAY 2:30 P. M. MURRAY VS. PROVO TIMPS MONDAY, 6 P. M. TIMP PARK . . TICKETS : Bleachers 40c Grandstand ....55c (Includes Tax) . Game Well, at least he gets a chance to watch one pop foul. When Braves' Nick Caller hit homer Ike was being Introduced to New York officials ... gle scored Vince Dimaggio who had walked. m The world champion St- Louis Cardinals stayed close on the heels of the National league-leading league-leading Brooklyn Dodgers by beating Chicago for the second straight day, 6 to 4. Buster Adams lefi the Card attack at-tack on Hy Vandenberg with a home run and a single. The single climaxed a three-run fifth inning and sent Vandenberg to the showers with the loss; The champions have won six of their last seven games. Despite frantic efforts to give the game away, the New York Yankees won over the Philadelphia Philadel-phia Athletics 7 to 6. Joe Page wild-pitched the first three Philadelphia Phil-adelphia runs home, Charley Metro hit a home run off Jim Turner in th4 eighth, and in the ninth Yank Third Baseman Oscar Os-car Grimes made an error that allowed the A's to tie. George Stainback's fourth hit drove in the winning run. An 'error by Bob Johnson cost the Boston Red Sox a 6 to 5 defeat de-feat at the hands of the Washington Wash-ington Senators. Johnson dropped drop-ped a fly in the seventh inning and two runs scored. That gave the Senators a lead Dutch Leonard Leon-ard protected- However,. Roger Wolff got the credit for his eighth win. Two night' games were scheduled sched-uled in the majors tonight Boston Bos-ton at Brooklyn in the National league and Detroit at St. Louis in the American. HOW THEY AMERICAN LEAGUE W Detroit 32 New York 31 Boston 29 Chicago ............ 30 Washington 26 St. Louis 25 Cleveland 22 Philadelphia 20 L 22 23 29 27 27 26 30 34 Pet. .593 .574 .527 .526 .491 .490 .423 .370 Friday's Results-New Results-New York 2, Philadelphia Boston 10, Washington 5. Cleveland 2-0; Chicago 1-3. St. Louis 8, Detroit 4. Saturday's Results-New Results-New York 7, Phil. 6. Wash. 6. Boston 5. Detroit-St. Louis, night NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pet. Brooklyn 35 21 .625 St. Louis 32 24 .571 Pittsburgh 31 25 .554 Chicago 28 24 .538 New York 31 28 .525 Boston 27 26 .509 Cincinnati 23 29 .442 Philadelphia A6 46 .258 Friday's Results St. Louis 5, Chicago 2. Pittsburgh 3. Cincinnati 1. New York 3-4, Philadelphia 0-5. Saturday's Results St. Louis 6, Chicago 4. Phil. 9, New York 8. Brooklyn-Boston, night (Only games scheduled). AIR SAILOR WINS DETROIT. June 23 ALP Air Sailor, T. D. Buhl's three-year-old which finished fourth in the Kentucky Derby, led all the way to capture the renewal of th $10,000 Whip and Spurs handicap at Detroit today. TIMP PARK - .- - I Ike settles to watch the game . and then It rained. Ob, well, maybe hell see one some day on neighborhood lot aUAbilene, Kansas. Steelers to Play tlephi; Wildcats Goes to Levan CENTRAL UTAH LEAGUE STANDINGS Payson ...4 0 1.000 American Fork 4 2 -666 Nephi 3 2 .600 Geneva Steelers 3 2 .600 Levan 1 5 .166 Provo Wildcats ..0 4 .000 Results Friday American Fork 8, Provo Wildr cats 3. Sunday's Schedule Provo Wildcats at Levan Geneva Steelers at Nephi Payson at American Fork Both of Provo's representatives In the Central Utah league, the Geneva Steelers and the Provo Wildcats, will play away from home Sunday, with the Steelers traveling to Nephi and the Wild cats going to Levan. Meanwhile, Payson, still lead ing the circuit with four victories victor-ies and no defeats, takes its perfect per-fect record, to American Fork for a game with Bun Bennett's second sec-ond place Cavemen. Undisputed possession of third place will be at stake in the Nephi-Steeler fracas, with both teams currently tied for that position po-sition with three victories and two setbacks. The Wildcats meet Levan in a clash that wilL determine which team will sink to the lower reaches of the league standings. At the present the Wildcats are still looking their first Victory, following an 8-3 defeat pinned on them Friday by American Fork. Levan has one win and five defeats de-feats so far. Utah Amateur Golf Tourney Paired to 4 SALT LAKE CITY, June 23 (U.R)? With contestants narrowed to four, Utah's best golfers today were battling for positions in the finals in the annual amateur golf champioaship tournament. Defendn)g champion Arnold Goff and21943 champion Ken Shell werfescheduled to play one of the semAfinal matches and the other was Id be played by Vera Bowdle and soldier from Camp Kearns, Earl Bell. IB IS AW IPAIETP V 338 WEST OGDEN SALT LAKE CITY VERNAL ROOSEVELT Pavot Wins Belmont Stakes; Favored Jeep Places Third By LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sportr Editor NEW YORK, June 23 (U.R) Pavot finally lived up to the promise he showed in winning the two year old championship when he took the 950,000 added Belmont- stakes, today, the last of e seasons triple crown -races. avot, which had won all eight races he started in last year but had finished in the money only once m two previous starts this year, joined Hoop Jr. and Polynesian, Poly-nesian, winners of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness respectively, in the select circle of three year olds as a result of his easy triumph. tri-umph. With Eddie Arcaro who rode little Hoop to his Derby victory, Pavot won going away, five lengths ahead of Wildlife. Jeep, the' favorite, waa third with Adonis fourth. . It wasn't much of a norse race after they reached the mile mark in this mile and a half stake, for Pavot, always up near the front, took the lead ai that point and steadily increased"-! margin. Jeep wasn't a factor until the run for home because tne coi. v Whitney colt started - a bad last and the distance he had to make Babe Zaharias Wins Western Open 3rd Time INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.. June 23 (U.R) Mrs. Babe Didrikson Zaharias Za-harias of Los Angeles today won the 16th annual women's western open golf tournament by defeat ZjJfif Dorothy German of PhiladeU anphia, 4 arid 2, in 34 holes. She is the only woman to win tne title three years running. Mrs. Zaharias, defending cham pion. won this one for her moth er, who died unexpectedly in Los Anseles yesterday, and she did it the spectacular way. The form er Olympic track star fired i Lrecord-breaking 72 over the first 18 holes of the Highland Country club course to take a flve-up lead which she never yielded .as she defeated Miss Germain for the second year running. The Philadelphia collegian bowed in the finals to Mrs, Zaharias Za-harias last year 7 and 5 and it was the same story this year as the Babe's smashing drives, sound iron game and blazing com petitive spirit carried her "to. an easy victory. . In breaking the previous course record of 73 set by Dorothy Ellis, former Indiana state champion. Mrs. Zaharias shot one of the greatest back nines in the history of women's golf. She shattered Dar 76 by four strokes. . She finished the first nine with a one-under par 36. one stroke less than Miss Germain. But it was on the back nine that Mrs. Zaharias turned on the pressure, as she put together an eagle and three birdies to break the challenge chal-lenge of her youthful opponent as well as the course record. Miss Germain took a 41 on the way back to Mrs. Zaharias three-under-par 36. A SIS CENTER Distributors Auto Lite - Ignition -Generators - Starters Blue Crown, Spark Plugs Borg-Warner Clutches -Gears - Parts Dayton Fan Belts Federal Mogul Bearings General Electric Bulbs Monroe Shock Absorbers Wagner Hydraulic Brake Parts WALLYGLOVER, Mgr. -UTAH STORES AT- SUGAR HOUSE PROVO (2) SPANISH FORK MT. PLEASANT up when they reached the atretcbr ; was far too much for him. Wildlife came from nowhere to V finish second. It was Arcaro's third Belmont stakes triumph, he previously " won the third leg on the triple crown With Whirlaway In 1941 ? and Shut Out in 1942. It marked the first time that Walter M. Jeffords took the coveted race : and ft netted him $52,675. Wild . life won $10,000 for owner Joseph M. Roebling by finishing second While Jeep won $5,000 as the third horse and fourth place was worm $2,500 to Adonis' owner, William Helis. Pavot's time on the fast track was 2:30 15, far off the race rec ord of 2:28 15 set by Count Fleet in 1943. Pavot, the second choice, returned $6.20, $4.50 and $2.90 to his backers, wiiauxe rjaid $6.30 to place and $3.10 to show while Jeep paid $2.40 for third. It was the first time since 1933 that a different horse had won each leg of the turfs Tiara- That year Lawrin won the derby. Dauber the Preakness arid Pasteurized Pas-teurized the Belmont. Pavot had finished fifth in the Preakness, five lengths behind Polynesian, and his only mOnejr-return mOnejr-return this season came in the withers mile when he was second sec-ond to Polynesian. But as a two year old in 1944, Pavot won a total of $179,040 in winning big eight starts. ' Polynesian was not eligible for the Belmont while Hoop Jr., suffered suf-fered a bowed tendon in finishing finish-ing second in the Preakness and' was retired for the year. Eight horses went to the post in this 77th annual running of the Belmont before a crowd of 42,832. Johnsport was the only withdrawal in the field of nine which had been named to go for the last pot of gold in three yeaf old stakes this year. After Adonis the finish was Sea Swallow, Burning Dream, the Dodge and Brookf ield. Ford Frick Waives Forfeit Rule On Non-Appearance NEW YORK, June 23 (U.R) Be-, cause the wartime transportation crisis is growing more acute. National League President Ford Frick said today that the league has waived its forfeit rule giving victory to the home team if the visitors do not appear. "For the rest of the. season we will encounter far more difficult times than previously," Frick explained, ex-plained, "and it will not be surprising sur-prising if some teams are unable to obtain the necessary travel accommodations ac-commodations to keep their playing play-ing dates." He added that it would be unreasonable un-reasonable to penalize those clubs for non-appearance. The National league president said that he believed that Will Harridge, president of the American Ameri-can league would announce a similar policy. AW PROVO, UTAH for Genuine MANTI RICHFIELD CEDAR CITY ST. GEORGE Nl i |
