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Show PAGE TWO . PROVO (UTAH) . EVENING HERALD, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 19S7 DONALD BUDGE WENS NGLI inn CROWN 2NNES Oakland Youth Too Strong For German California Star Overwhelms Baron Von Cramm in Straight Sets, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2 WIMBLEDON. Eng., July 2 (H - Donald Budge, 21-year-old Oakland, Oak-land, Calif., n-d-head, smashed his Way to the all-England Tt-nnis championship today by overwhelming over-whelming Baron Gottfried Von Cramm m straight r -siett-, G-.'i, G-4, 0-2. It was the first American victory in the men's singles since Ellsworth Vines captured the title in 1932. Budge neld the upper hand at most stages of the match. His victory made him the third United Unit-ed States player-to win the unofficial unof-ficial world's amateur tennis title .ince the reign of Big Bill Tilden ended in 1930. Sidney Wood of New York was the 1931 champion. Immediately after the match the players were escorted to the Attention, Curbstone Coaches! Manager Joe McCarthy ol the world champion New York Yankees, has selectee the American League team that will meet the All-Star National leaguers on July 7. Now, second guessers, let the arguments begin! ARGUMENTS conc-ern I n g where to get finest athletic equipment are easily settled by a ttudy of our quality stock. We offer the finest in sporting goods ... you golf, tennis, swimming fans will do well to let US outfit you. Examine our selection TODAY! royal box and presented to Queen Mary. Both bowed low as they were presented. Budge and the queen mother shook hands. Budge's victory caused many critics to believe that the U. S. Davis cup team was almost certain cer-tain to regain the Davis cup. Germany Ger-many is likely to be America's opponent op-ponent in the interzone final, with the winner challenging England for the trophy. Once past Germany, Ger-many, the U. S. team would be 1 to 5 favorites to defeat the weak English side. "I can hardly believe that I am Wimbledon champ,'' Budge said after the match. "1 did my best and I hope it was good enough for the spectators. Von Cramm certainly cer-tainly fought hard, especially in the last game when I was trying to get over my aces. I'll admit I was glad when Von Cramm muffed muff-ed that final return. I was glad it was all over." Defending champions in the men's doubles division, 1'at Hughes and C. ft. D. Tuckey of England, reached the finals by beating the Czechoslovakians team of Roderick Roder-ick Menzel and Ladislaus Hecht, G-2. G-2, G-4. In a mixed doubles semi-final Marcel i'etra and Mine. Rene Mathieu of France defeated Dr. Daniel Prenn, German-Jewish exde and Evelyn Deaiman oJ England, G-2, G-4. Sunshine Defeats U-l Sugar, 3 to 2 Sunshine Cafe's rejuvenated softball club defeated the Utah-j Utah-j Idaho Sugar company team of j Spanish Fork 3-2 in a torrid bat- tie played at Spanish Fork's light- ed field Thursday niht. 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The other bouts would bring together to-gether lightweight champion Lou Ambers vs. Pedro Montanez of Puerto Rico; Welterweight Champion Cham-pion Barney Ross vs. Ceferino Carciu of San Francisco; and bantam titleholder Sixto Escobar vs. Harry Jeffra of Baltimore or K. O. Morgan of Detroit. LOS ANGELES, July 2 (I H Jack Doyle, known as the horizontal horizon-tal heavyweight before he finally licked the ancient KingfLsh Lev-insky, Lev-insky, insisted today he will fight Joe Louis in London in the fall. Despite conflicting rumors from New York." said Doyle as he stepped from an airliner, -'you can aay for me, old chappie, that I will fight IxuLs." (A Now York announcement said Louis would fight Tom Farr, British emplire champion). "He will get 43 4 per cent of the receipts and I will get 32 per cent. It should be a ripping contest, con-test, wot." The Standing .. . American League Standing of Clubs W. L. Pet. New York 40 21 .656 Chicago 37 26 .587 Detroit 35 28 .556 Cleveland 31 26 .544 Boston 30 29 .508 Washington 28 33 .459 Philadelphia 20 39 .339 St. Louis 20 39 .339 General, Oscar Carlson's take Thursday COMMERCTAA LEAGtTE General Shop 2 0 1.000 tXX.' 1 0 1.000 Lions 1 0 1.000 Ownr i.'arLson's 1 1 JS00 20-80 0 2 .000 Thoma Grocery . . 0 2 -IKM) Thursday' Result General Shop 12, 20-30 club 2. Oscar Carlson's 9, Thomas Grocery Groc-ery 8. General Shop today was in its customary seat at the top of the Commercial Softball league standings. stand-ings. The Repairmen Thursday trounced 20-30 club. 12-2 as their big bats clouted out 16 base alts. Coy Harwood smashed a home run. and Earl Smith and Earl Carter did some fancy work with the stick. (Jordon Mitchell started on the mound for General. He was relieved reliev-ed by Dave Nelson in the fifth, but not because he was being hit. Both hurlers were effective, 20-30 club getting but five safe hits. Oscar Carlson's put over a last-inning last-inning run to defeat Thomas Grocery 9-8 in a torrid battle. The two clubs played about even all the way. the lead changing hands several times. Nelson and Weight homered for Thomas, while Hammond clouted a round-tripper for the winners. L. and D. Tregeagle pitched for Carlson's, while Roylance did the mound duties for the losers. DISTANCE RUN SLATED MILWAUKEE, Wis., July 2 ul; -The nation's premier distance runners will battle today for the 10,000 meters title vacated by Don Lash of Indiana in the opening open-ing event of the National A.A.U track and field championships. Lash, forced out of the meet by an appendicitis attack, set a new national record last season. Now favored are Lash's teammates, Jimmy Smith and Tommy Deck-ard, Deck-ard, and Eino Pentti of the Mill-rose Mill-rose Athletic club, New York. The 10,000 meters was the only senior event scheduled today. Thursday's Results New York 12, Philadelphia 7. Chicago 15, Detroit 8. Washington 3, Boston 2. St. Louis at Cleveland, postponed, post-poned, rain. I National League I Standing of Teams W. L. Pet. Chicago 39 24 .619 New York 39 25 .609 St. Louis 35 27 .565 Pittsburgh 35 27 .565 Brooklyn 27 34 .443 Boston 27 36 .429 Cincinnati 24 3S .387 Philadelphia 24 39 .381 Thursday's Results New York 8, Philadelphia 6. Chicago 6, St. Louis 3. Boston 4, Brooklyn 1. Only three games scheduled. -Y- -f j Coast League j Standing of the Clubs W. L. Pet. Sacramento 55 33 .625 San Francisco .... 55 35 .611 San Diego 52 39 .571 Los Angeles 47 41 .534 Seattle 41 47 .466 Portland 40 46 .465 Oakland 34 56 .378 Missions 32 59 .352 Thursday's Results San Francisco 6 10 0 Missions 3 11 1 Gibson and Monzo; I.amanjske, Osborne Os-borne and Outen. (Night games) Sacramento 5 8 0 Portland 2 7 1 Freitas and Franks; Liska and Tresh. Oakland 4 11 1 Seattle 3 11 1 Piechota and Baker; Pickrel and Fernandes. Los Angeles 6 13 0 San Diego 4 10 4 Thomas and Collins; Hebert and Starr. Sacramento Leads in Coast League Sacramento solons held a lead of one and a half games over the San Francisco Seals today in their current struggle for leadership in the Pacific Coast league baseball loop. They retained their margin through the medium of a 5-2 win over Portland's Beavers yesterday, yester-day, in a game featured by tight pitching on both sides. The Set;js, charging forward over the lowly Missions, registered register-ed their third straight win with a 6-3 verdict. Oakland's Oaks stole some of Seattle's swatting thunder to defeat de-feat the Indians, 4-3, for the second sec-ond consecutive night. Los Angeles defeated San Diego 6-4, in a free-hitting encounter to take the lead in the series between be-tween the third-place Padres and the fourth-place Angels. Four errors helped the Angels to victory. vic-tory. KI SS HALL DIES LOS ANGELES, July 2 ll-Rubs ll-Rubs Hall, said to have known more baseball players, umpires and clubowners than any other man in the world, died suddenly last night. Hall, 65, was secretary of the Association of Professional Ball Players of America. He formerly was a player and manager, and a scout for the Cincinnati Reds. The Fun Spot of Utah! 4 FREE DANCING Verdi Breinholt's Orchestra O Spectacular FIREWORKS DISPLAY Monday July, 5th O FREE AUTO PARKING ALL DAY SUNDAY, JULY 4th 50c Per Car Monday, July 5th K CENTRAL UTAH SCHEDULE SET Second half schedule for the Central Utah baseball league was announced today by Eugene Hill-man, Hill-man, Payson, league secretary. American Fork and Spanish Fork will pry the lid off the second sec-ond half play when they clash on the batter's diamond Sunday. Dividend, Divi-dend, first half champion, plays its first game Saturday, July 10, meeting Nephi on the Wheat City diamond. The schedule: July 5 American Fork at Spanish Fork. July 10 Dividend at Nephi. July 11 Spanish Fork at Helper; American Fork at Dividend. Divi-dend. July 14 Spanish Fork at American Fork. July 18 -Helper at Dividend; Nephi at Spanish Fork. July 24 Dividend at Nephi; Helper at American Fork (double-header). (double-header). July 28 Spanish Fork at Nephi. July 29 Dividend at American Fork. August 1 Spanish Fork at Dividend; Nephi at Helper ( doubleheader ) . August 4 Nephi at American Fork. August 8 Helper at Spanish Fork (doubleheader). August 11 Dividend at Spanish Span-ish Fork; American Fork at Nephi. August 15 American Fork at Dividend. August 18 Helper at Nephi; Spanish Fork at Dividend. August 22 -Dividend at Helper (doubleheader); Nephi at Spanish Fork. August 25 Spanish Fork at American Fork. August 29- Nephi at Dividend; American Fork at Helper. September 1 American Fork at Nephi. New Pitcher to Start Against Midvale Sunday . IIT'II 1 A A. It l fdM UDuni, laiesi piicning recruit to the rrovo semi-pro baseball club, will show local diamond dia-mond followers how it's done In the Southern Association league when he pitches against Midvale at 2 p. m., here Sunday. Hailing from Alabama where he enjoyed several successful sea sons in the Class AAA league, I Wilburn comes to Provo highly recommended. According to Manager Man-ager Lob Collins, the Alabama hurler has a fast-breaking curve and a smoking fast ball. Provo will be out to dump Mid-vale Mid-vale and by doing so move into a tie with U. S. Mines for lourth place in the final State Industrial Indus-trial league first half standing. Midvale has an eye on the same thing, since the suburbans are tied with provo at present. Midvale has a dangerous club, studded with such stars as Al Drake, Frank Reading, and Louis Valdez. Drake and neading are two of the best batters in the league, as is Smith, Midvale first-baseman. first-baseman. Provo will pit against Midvale a rejuevnated club. The Timps' batting has improved noticeably since the start of the season, and the fielders are playing better ball. Probably the most dependable hitter is Deb Dudley, catcher. Deb seldom comes out of a ball game with less than two hits. Last Sunday he poled a home run when the Timps played Midvale. Mid-vale. Fran Dudley, Glen Ginder, Frank Branting, and Lob Collins are other stickmen expected to I make plenty of trouble for Mid vale. The Timps possess one oi the best base runners in the league Blissv -, Hoover. Hoover also fields w,ell at second base and comes through with timely hits with regularity. Danny Solomon, recruit from Salt Lake Cjty, Will make his debut in centettield Sunday. Manager Man-ager Lob Collins expects the Salt Lake flash to add considerable strength to Provo's outfield. Provo will play Gemmell club Monday at 2:30 at Timp Park in a special holiday game. BOSTON BEES SET FAST CLIP NEW YORK. July 2 lH Although Al-though the Chicago Cubs slammed slam-med down the St. Louis gashouse gang three times hand-running and the New York Yankees blast ed out their 12th triumph in their last 1-5 games, t'ne headline news today in baseball is that the Boston Bos-ton Bees are careening along at the most amazing clip in years. The Bees have clicked off six straight and climbed to within one game of fifth plce. Last Monday the Bees were in the cellar. cel-lar. A pitching miracle happened to Boston. Danny MacFayden beat th Reds, 8-2. Jim Turner did it, 10A Lou Fette stopped the Dodgef 1-0. Frank Gabler did it by the same score. Guy Bus'n beat Brooklyn. Brook-lyn. 7-0. Then John Lannmg turned turn-ed the trick yesteiday, 4-1. The Bees pitchers blanked the Dodgers for 3ti consecutive innings. in-nings. The Bees club batting average Is .24G, lowest ill either major league. The only .300 hitter on the club is Gilbert English. 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