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Show SUNDAY HERALD TSiSSSEWJS PAGE 11 Parker Leads Netters Into Second Round In National Tennis Meet at Forest Hills Musial, Vernon Still Top Big League Hitters NEW YORK, Aug. 31 (Xl.PX Stan Musial of St. Louis, batting, .371, and Washington's Jim Vernon, Ver-non, hitting .342, led all major league batters today and it appeared ap-peared that those two first basemen base-men might take the 1946 National and American batting championships champion-ships unless such outfielders as Brooklyn's Dixie Walker and Boston's Ted William make a September spurt. Musial, sparking the Cardinal Card-inal pennant posh from the No. 3 position in the St. Louis lineup, has collected 47 hits in his last 112 times at hat His 184 hits, 99 runs scored, 39 two-base hits and 14 triples are also top figures fig-ures in National statistics. Vernon has led the American race since the last week in May, except for a two-day period in mid-July when Williams gained a one-point edge. Johnny Pesky of Boston and his teammate Williams, standing 2-3 in the American race, were one and two points, respectively, behind Vernon before yesterday's doubleheader with the Philadelphia Philadel-phia Athletics, but both Red Sox-ers Sox-ers ended the afternoon with a .338 average. Dom Dimaggio. however, moved mov-ed from a fourth-place tie to fourth position and upped his average to .328 by getting four hits in eight times at bat against .the A's. Luke Appling of the Chicago White Sox, hitting .325, was idle and Dimaggio's three-point three-point jump left him in fifty position. po-sition. . Johnny Hopp of the Boston Braves and Dixie Walker of Brooklyn were Musial's closest rivals in the National. Hopp, hitting hitt-ing .364, was maintaining a steady pace. His average was only two points under the mark he posted two weeks ago, but Walker's .344 was 18 points less than his July 16 average. , Johnny Mize of the Giants was still idle with an injured hand but his .339 percentage kept him in fourth place while Phil Cav-aretta Cav-aretta of Chicago and Sid Gordon of the Giants, both hitting .306, $$$$$$$$$$$$ 'flL sums ! $ $ $ :$ $ $ $ $ $ $ on Your Car even though your car $is not fully paid for $ $25 to $300 $ $ KEN HOUSTON, Manager $ VjiGgT' rflgt"! I J i I CAMERA FANS We Have the Following Items In Stock Light Meters Weston and G. E. Reflectors and Reflector Stands Drirers, Washers and Tanks Movie Film 8 mm and 16 mm Screens Chemicals Print Roller And Many Other Items Tune in KOVO Every Sunday at 12:30 for the "CAMERA CLUB OF THE AIR" STANDARD SUPPLY CO. S3 North Univ. Phone 14 77 BY STEVE SNIDER United Press SporU Writer FOREST HILLS, N. Y., Aug. 31 (U.R) Ranking American players, led by defending champion Frankie Parker and Pauline Betz of Los Angeles, whipped through first round matches in the U. S. singles tennis championships with one lone casualty today, blasting more than one-fourth of the bulging bulg-ing foreign field from the tournament. tourna-ment. All top-seeded players in the men's championship pulled through their opening matches on the widely scattered turf courts at the West Side Tennis club, but the women's seeding list took a shellacking when Dorothy Head, long-limbed San Francisco blonde, upset fourth-seeded Dorothy Bundy of Santa Monica, Calif., on the center court, 5-7, 6-2, 6-3. Parker,- Gardner Mulloy of Miami. Billy Talbert of Wilmington, Wilming-ton, Del., Tom Brown, Jr., of San Francisco, Bob Falkenburg of Hollywood, Calif., and Seymour Greenberg of Chicago, all seeded among the first 10 in men's singles, sin-gles, won with almost unanimous ease. The foreign list, however, dwindled rapidly, suffering major losses in Bernard Destremau of France and Enrique Morea of Argentina. Ar-gentina. Eight others including Tony Mottram and Capt. W. T. Anderson, of England bowed out along the way. Parker, champion in 1944 and 1945 while still serving as an army air corps sergeant, set the keynote by bouncing out Brendan Bren-dan Macken, Canadian Davis cupper, cup-per, 6-1, 6-1, 6-3. The little Pole from Milwaukee, Milwau-kee, now playing out of Los Angeles, An-geles, completely outclassed his opponent, relying as usual on his potent backhand to govern his strategy. were tied for fifth position in the National's big five. Significantly, the Cardinals backed up their newly-won first place honors in the National Na-tional by taking over the loop's fielding honors and by raising their club batting average av-erage to a first-place tie with Brooklyn. Both the Cardinals and the Dodgers were batting .263 as a team. The Cardinals were fielding at a .979 pace, two points better; than the Chicago Cubs, but' Brooklyn's .970 percentage put them in a last-place tie with Pittsburgh in club fielding. j Dave Ferriss of the Boston Red; Sox, boasting a 23-4 record, was the leading big league pitcher and his string of 10 consecutive victories was still intact although the Detroit Tigers battered Ferris and four other Red S"ox hurlers in Winning a 14-inning game on Thursday. In the National. Ted Wilks of the Cardinals had a perfect 6-0 record but Kirby Higbe of Brooklyn, Murry Dickson and Howie Pollet of St. Louis were the league s top starting pitchers. Higbe had a 13-4 record. Dickson had 12 wins against four defeats and Pollet had 17 victories against seven losses. The St. Louis Cardinals scored only one run after the fifth inning during the entire world aeries of 1943. Thriftway Stores ALWAYS OUTSTANDING VALUES Net Stars Who Share Limelight At National Meet f ? ftr -, I AaS:s I J Among the stars who opened the national tennis meet Saturday at Petra. giant Frenchman (left) who copped the Wimbleton title; J brighter stars; Kay Stammers Menzies, who will try to halt' Amer defending champ, and America's number one Davis cup hope. Underdogs Club Leaders In National Loop Reversals BY CORNELIUS RYAN United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Aug. 31 (U.R) The underdogs had their day in the National league today. The last-place Pittsburgh Pirates Pi-rates thumped the leading St. Louis Cardinals, 6 to 1. while seventh place New York edged the Dodgers, 2 to 1. The results caused great mental anguish to both tha. Cardinals and Dodgers. The Cards could have tone 3' games ahead, a good lead, but were held at 2'2. And the Dodgers were bitter at losing a chance to gain. The rivals for the flag were beginning to show the strain. The Cards mare two errors, one by Marty Marion, "Mr. Short stop" of the league, and lost the game before they got a man out'nia, with the greatest number of in the first inning. The Dodgers' Eddie Stanky and Goody Rosen of the Giants got into a fist-fight in the fifth inning. in-ning. Both were chased. Rosen, an ex-Dodger, was spiked by Stanky as he slid into second base. Cinicannatl cut a Cub winning win-ning streak at seven games, stopping Chicago by 6 to 3. Three unearned runs in the first inning on errors by Bob Sturgeon and Lou Stringer String-er got the Reds off to a lead which rookie Clay Lambert protected to win his first miiar learn irlnrv m i Leading Hitter Stan Musial Stan Musial, Cardinal first base man. whose .371 batting average is good enough to lead both major j leagues. Musial is almost certain ; to cop the National league batting j title. j 31 i spell ine ena oi Ldiuonua s long The Boston Red Sox held their pigskin decline. 13 -z game margin over New York Fans accustomed to conserva-in conserva-in the American league. Boston ;tive and sometimes stodgy "Cal" took the Athletics, 4 to 2. and the football may not recognize the Yanks won over Washington, 4 "new" Bear eleven. Wickhorst. to 0. making his debut as head coach Floyd Bevens won his i6th'aainst Wisconsin here Sept. 28. game as he shut out the Senators1 win unveil a spread-formation on seven hits. The Yanks scored ' attack combining T-formation r v : XorJ t PA.y Aisy7; ; MTf fN)TlO(V TOHiwS Vjr DOOR TO osl c em.ii vm,.!i vm th i r ii three in the first on two hits off Ray Scarborough and an error. Ken Keltner's ninth-inning homer gave Cleveland a 3 to 2 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Ed Lopat, who won nine straight games from the Indians, was the loser, and Mel Harder the winner. Detroit at St. Louis was a night game. The Phils and Braves exchanged exchang-ed victories in a doubleheader slugfest, 10 to 6 for Philadelphia and 14 to 2 for the Braves. Golden Bears May Be Surprise Club BERKELEY. Calif., Aug. 31 (U.R) Big University of Califor- returning lettermen in its history. may be the "surprise" team of 1946 Pacific Coast college football. foot-ball. The underrated Golden Bears are primed for a "rags-to-riches" season. Coach Frank Wickhorst, radiating radi-ating optimism, hints California may exhibit the best speed and passing attack to come from Strawberry canyon in a decade. Not even Wickhorst expects the Bears to drive to the top his first season as head mentor. But they will have at least 31 lettermen. a new set of grid tricks, a "home" schedule and a revamped coaching coach-ing staff a combination that may i, . I r r - l ' r i i and single wing I n n d ' u a ,of, V I TidurinK tn a-v nineties, today I Frank Da Porto 94 a 5100.000 libel suit in fed - !whoniater district court against Navv Pre-Flight and Colorado: I Hobo News. ;Tr.ple-threater Ted Kenfield; and The suit, filed by Jack Lawlor. :Lou Jui kovich. former freshman ' attorney, charged that Sharkey O 1 . , . t -n ... 1 w iiiii .k..w.ihaH heen lamnooned and car- : luu vja vn r w V. itu i vj nil inr ai iuca ' ;of his talented brother. "Joltin' , :Jim." Reinhard is the brother of Taie Rnh R.in hard. 'dated June 15. 1946. Other prospective starters in' The suit charged the Hobo. PITTSBURGH. Aug. 31 the fast, well-balanced backfield News drawing was not a good j The Pittsburgh Pirates today an-will an-will include: Little Joey Stuart. j likeness of Sharkey, but was "a nounced termination of its work-the work-the Bears" chief breakaway threat! composite of a sick calf, the home-'ing agreement with Birmingham, last VPar: Martin Fas ton snark -1 liest Careovle on the CODinZ Of Ala nt the mnthrn iiwiitlAn plug of College of Pacific's 19451 jteam: Blocking Backs Ed Welch.; giant baboon with Barnum and j was the first step in the recon-Jim recon-Jim Muir and Freshman Tim! Bailey." Istruction of the Pirate farm svs- Minahen. In the forward wall Centers Harry Pieper, 1942 standout, and John Elliott top a long list of returning veterans: Guards Jack lounger, Dave ishwayder, and: Nate -Shore: Tackles John Baker.! Henry Borghi. Larrv Stump, Doni Seaver and Gene Frazetto; Ends Ken Groefsema. Don Doerr. Dave Hirschler and Bill Diffenbaugh. Wickhorst. wartime head of the navy's pre-flight physical train ing program and for 15 years California's line coach, succeeds Buck Shaw. Shaw's one-vear "duration"' contract resulted in a dismal '45 season of four victories, five losses and one tie. Faulty Brakes Cause Hundreds of Accidents Don't give "trouble" a chance. Have your brakes checked here by experts. Relincd at low cost. You can depend on our quality workmanship. Forest Hills are these stars, both American and foreign. Yvon ack Kramer, runner-up to Joe Hunt in 1943 and one of America's ica's domination of the women's net world, and Frankie Parker, Long Way To Go Tami Mauriello has long way to go to get in shape for battle bat-tle with Joe Louis at Yankee Stadium, Sept. 18. The Bronx barkeep kept weight secret but showed plenty of suet as he started training at Jumping Jump-ing Brook Golf Club in Neptune, Nep-tune, N. J. Ex-Boxer Files Suit for Libel SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 31 (U.R) Tom Sharkey. a contender for the heavyweight boxing crown - , tooned ' by Bert Cassell. Hobo j News artist and three officers ofj the iia Dpr in a Npw York issued ' the Notre Dame in Paris, and a! -lilt: Jul iiici is I o v roi - old and a government waterfront guard here. The suit described hpi - r:MuA- : - o . i him as ' one of the all-time greats of pugilism and the hero of more than 300 ring battles. ' When hay fever victims sneeze, they usually sneeze in series of three, four or five. CVCOtOCy SE2: ex PURCY oAVS HIS WIFE. WRtreS 6HE'5 COM1MO HOME FROM ttEK. VACATION-"TO REST UP" Now's Ihe lime lo check up on your fall needs. And once you see our suggestions sugges-tions in quality merchandise merchan-dise at low prices, you'll want lo come here for them. 1. s v&, I V,' ' I,,,, , ii 0 Xi f t -- "T i"; .' 'T .:' ' ; . it- g ' " If- Sewell Resigns As Manager Of St. Louis Club ST. LOUIS, Aug. 31 (U.R) Richard C. Muckerman, president of the St. Louis Browns, announced an-nounced today that Luke Sewell, softs poken manager, has resigned "for the good of the club. Muckerman said Zach Taylor veteran coach, would take over as manager for the remainder of the season There was no indication as to; what Sewell's plans for the future were. The Browns play the Detroit De-troit Tigers tonight at Sportsman's Sports-man's park here, with the Tigers' left-handed star, Hal Newhouser, facing the veteran Nelson Potter. Pot-ter. Sewell. reached by the United Press by telephone at his hotel, indicated his resignation was forced and said he had no immediate im-mediate plans for the future. "I'm going to stick around St. Louis for a few days," he said. "After that I'm going to join Mrs. Sewell at Akron, O." He said he felt that with his years of experience in the major leagues he had a lot to offer another an-other club and would "look around." Rumors around the league had been current for some time that Sewell was on the way out. Muckerman made the announcement an-nouncement from the Browns' of fice. His brief statement said: "After a meeting with Luke Sewell in my office this morning, he gave me his resignation, effective ef-fective immediately, for the good of the club and I am appointing Zack Taylor acting manager." BRAVES HURT PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 31 (U.R) Danny Litwhiler. starting cen-terfielder cen-terfielder for the Boston Braves, land Mike McCormick, his re- placement, both were injured to- dl,:,,:., j kv, t.vn a hospital. 1 Litwhiler suffered a fractured pitched by Dick Mney in the first game. McCorm ck tore i cartilage in his left leg sliding I III111C? PIIU ISVWA " into tnira case in me secona game. . Cancellation of the agreement! tern in accordance with the plans of President Frank E. McKinney and other new owners of the club. Electric Motors and Generators Repaired Rewound Rebuilt Prompt Service on All Motors SHANE Electric Co. 351 W. Center Phone 1691 MOTOR Dickey Undismayed By Yanks Second Place Spot In Loop Editor's Note Guest column-1 ists are writing today's sport par-: ade while Oscar Fraley is va cationing.) By BILL DICKEY Manager, New York Yankees (Written for the United Press) WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 i P would like to have a pennant While the New York Yankees ' winner next season. So would L haven't done as well as I had w 'H certainly get together v.,..,4 s i Qjc ..,nd shape our plans with that expected in this 1946 pennant i . inrvi. ,mn tw. race, yet I cannot say that I am comes. bitterly disappointed with the re- We had quite a few yourig iad suits obtained thus far. You must down in our farm clubs awaiting remember that we are still fight-I the call to make a bid for posl- ,. . . ,. v,,1-v, jtions in the Yankee lineup, ng for first place even though I here's , prettv good lnfieldeV its going to be a tough job ifjby tne name of Bobby Brown, not an impossible one to bridge and two young pitchers coming the gap that separates us from "P from Newark. Brown has a the first-place Boston Red Sox. As the standing indicates, they ; are out there with a commanding ' lead. But where there's life.; ,v. j i.vr rJ there s hope and my players are: -in hI.h Lest It be forgotten, we're still in second place and intend in-tend to stay there if we cannot can-not do any better. And if we finish second to those campaigning cam-paigning Red Sox, I wouldn't exactly call it a particularly bad season. Unfortunately for ua the Sox got off to a flying fly-ing start. When they ran up a commanding lead everybody every-body waited for the crack. They're still waiting. A team like that is hard to beat and more power to them, although al-though I think they have plenty of the latter now. Many of the sports writers have asked me to furnish the answer to the perplexing ques- j tion: Has the war taken anything any-thing out of the players? And , with out going into a discussion of individual players, but speak- has in many cases a lot. But I am not going to be unduly pessimistic pessi-mistic about the ex-service men on our roster who have not come up to general expectations. Taking the case of Joe Di-Maggio Di-Maggio as an example. I would say now that I expect him to be the real DiMaggio when the 1947 season rolls around. He is just beginning to draw a bead on the American league pitchers and were it not for inuries and the handicap of getting off to a bad start, which naturally gets a guy down, he doubtless would have had a much better season. As for the much publicised report as to our reconstruc- Bayou Boxer Yins Debut In Garden NEW YORK. Apg. 31 0J P) Bernard Docusen of New Orleans, reputedly the "hottest" young welterweight in the country, made a winning debut at Madison Square garden last night; but he drew mild jeers intsead of wild cheers from the 13.229 fans because be-cause his mediocre showing lacked lack-ed the sparkle of his advance publicity. pub-licity. Docusen, slender and streamlined, stream-lined, danced his way to an easy eight-round decision over Paul Reguejo, an awkward, wild-swinging wild-swinging lightweight from Mexico. Mexi-co. The Phantom of the Bayou displayed dis-played speed and aggressive skill, but he was easy to hit. Moreover, his punch lacked its advertised explosiveness. Though Docusen out-weighed his opponent 140 pounds to 133. he failed to score a single knockdown. It was his 36th victory in 37 professional starts. Guadalupe Peak, which rears to an altitude of 8751 feet, is the highest point in Texas. IS! 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