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Show Monday Sept. 1, 1947 DAILY HERALD S 1 IP Helpsi 4 3 Locals Brea Ic Losing Streak; Surprise League's Top Team League Standings: , . W, L Pet Brigham City ... .. . . . 7 3 .700 Helper 8 4 .667 Finney .............. 7 ,l3 .583 Mima . A. 8 JM3 .4 X ......... . . 9 .250 Sunday's .Results: v Provo C Helper 3 ungnara v, magna y (game can ed by darkness). Tuesday's Schedule: Provo at Pinney Wednesday's Schedule: Helper at Pinney. BY DEMAK TEUSCHER , : f The lone Aueust victory drouth li over for the Provo Timps and the,Utah Distributors of Helper are out of the Industrial league lead after a four-run. sixth in ning outburst yesterday that, gave the Timps a 4-3 win and snapped uicu juaiiig Bureau ai ia Buaigiii. ; Lefty Marion Wankier sudden ' 1 .1 At A 1 1 J I it iuiiuu uic iwrui UHI IMU VMIICU him to five first half victories. and became the first Timp pitch ers to go the route in many morns, by chucking a seven-hit performance perform-ance that kept the Helper boys pretty well in check.- - The loss dropped the Helper crew out of the driver's seat in the league title chase, since the B tig-ham tig-ham City Peaches battled to a 7-7 tie with the Magna Millmen In a game called at the -end of the ninth because of darkness. The Timps scored all their runs In one inning, with Marlowe walk ing two and Wankier getting on via the hit by pitcher route. Three straight singles, two of them good for two runs each, provided the necessary victory margin. - Up until the sixth, Marlowe had held the Timps pretty well in check, while bis teammates had pecked away at Wankier for two runs in the second and one in the Wankier kept his hits pretty pell scattered and no Helperite got more than one blow off the husky southpaw. Mahlon Kas rhuson and Alva Jensen, with two hits each, paced the Provo attack. HELPER AB H O A Wilson, 2b 5 1 3 1 Dalebout, ss.. 4 1 2 2 Zaccaria, cf 4 0 2 1 Sluga, rf 4 1 2 0 Maroon, lb 4 1 10 1 Bailey, 3b 3 1 3 2 Peyton, If 3 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 1 2 1 0 0 9: 2 7 1 3 0 9 27 Woods, c ... 3 Marlowe, p .......... 3 xBabcock .......... 1 Totals 34 7 24 12 PROVO AB H O A Berge, ss 4 13 3 Bird. 3b ............ 4 12 2 Drake, 2b 4 Page, lb 3 A. Jensen, cf ........ 4 Overly, c 4 Rasmuson, rf 3 Brpoks, If ." 4 M. Wankier, p 2 Totals 32 x Batted for Marlowe in 9th. - Score by innings: Helper 021 000 0003 Provo 000 004 OOx 4 Errors: Maroon, Peyton, Berge, Brooks. Runs batted in: Drake A. Jensen 2, Overly, Sluga, Bailey 2, Runs: Berge. Bird, Drake, Page, Maroon, Bailey, Zaccaria. Home run: Bailey. Stolen base: Woods. Double plays: Bird to Page; Berge to Page; Zaccaria to WUson; Dale-bout Dale-bout to Wilson to Maroon; M. Wankier to Overly to Page. Base on balls off : Marlowe 2; M. Wankier Wan-kier 4. Struck out, by M. Wankier 5. Hitch, by pitcher, M. Wankier (by Marlowe). Umpires Abbiett and Santisteven. Time of game: 1:55. Booth Plays For Singles Crown In Montana Tourney GREAT FALLS, Mont., Sept. (U.R) Dr. J. Malcolm Booth, Bil lings, formerly of Provo, today will tmeet Ray De Berry, San Angelo, Tex., for the singles crown in the state tennis tournament. Booth, seeded No. 6. yesterday dumped the favorite, Wayne Cumming, Helena, 6-4, 6-1. Booth also will pair with Jack Burnett, Billings, against Russ Smith, Butte, and Dick Chauner, Bozeman, in the men's doubles finals. Vital Statistics About Decided in Baseball Season The population of New Mexico is approximately 6$5,000 arid is expected to grow to 700,000 by 1960. The Baseball Standings NATIONAL LEAGUE W L 49 55 58 62 71 71 74 75 Brooklyn 81 St. Louis 72 Boston 73 New York ....64 Cincinnati ...61 Chicago . 57 Pittsburgh 54 Philadelphia 53 Sunday's Results Brooklyn 10, New York 4 St. Louis 15, Cincinnati 8 Chicago 6, Pittsburgh 3. Boston 3-2, Philadelphia 2 AMERICAN LEAGUE W m. i a a iew xorK oa Boston 69 Pet. .623 .567 357 .508 .462 .445 .442 .414 toetroit 69 Philadelphia 65 Cleveland 63 Chicago 63 Washington 52 at. Louis 46 Sunday's Results- New York 6-5; Washington 5-1 Chicago 7-3, Cleveland 3-1. Boston 5, Philadelphia 1. Detroit 11-10, St. Louis 2-1. L 45 56 60 62 . 61 67 74 82 Pet. .648 .552 .535 SI 2 .5081 .472 .413 .359 PIONEER LEAGUE W L Boise 32 23 Salt Lake . , 31 23 Twin Falls ...31 24 Ogden 27 27 Idaho Falls ......24 29 Pocatello 18 37 Sunday's Results-Salt Results-Salt Lake 2, Pocatello 6. Ogden 8, Twin Falls 5. ' Boise 4, Idaho Falls 0. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W L Los Angeles 84 San Francisco 82 Portland 80 Pet. .582 .574 .564 300 .453 327 Oakland Seattle Hollywood San Diego Sacramento .79 .76 .75 .72 .71 72 73 72 73 80 81 84 84 Pet. .538 .529 .526 .520 .487 .481 .462 .458 Sunday's Results Jortland 10-3, Los Angeles 2-2 Oakland 5-4, Sacramento 4-1 Hollywood 10-4, San Diego 6-2 Seattle 4-6, San Francisco 1-2. Br CORNEOUS RYAN United Press Sports. Writer NEW YORK. Sept! 1 OJJD Major-league baseball entered its final month today and just about the only things still to be decided are the final figures on. new attendance' at-tendance' records. - 'The Yankt e s are- ltVi games ahead In the American,, league and not even, a eol- lapse can keep them from winning. They Just had - a minor one and the Red. Sex and Tigers, apparently , too-baahful too-baahful to io np In front of air those, people, had mild collapses too. Brooklyn- Is seven-and-a-half games ahead of St. Louis in the National league, and, while would be quite possible for -the cardinals to rally and win the flag, the Redbirds never once this season have looked like the kind oi oau club which will roar through September with some thing like 26 victories in 27 games, which is what is needed, The Dodgers have only 24 games yet to play, and if they lost half ox them, St. Louis would have to win 22 of its 27 games to cop me pennani. Harry Walker of . the Phillies has the National league batting uue weii unaer control, with a mark of 354 to .320 for his near est rival, Phil Cavaretta of the Cubs. Ted Williams has whipped the aeiensive snm against him and seems to have a firm hold on most American league honors batting wun an average oi .340, runs scored with 103 and home runs with 27. Johnny Mize, with 44 homers, was expected to withstand any challenge by RalDh Kiner for slugging honors, and Ewell Black wen oi Cincinnati, already at 20 Victories, should be the top hurler. Brooklyn held its margin bv waiioping ine new York Giants, 10 to 4 despite Willard Marshall'! home run which gave the Giants a tie with the 1936 Yankees for ine au-ume team homer-hitting uue, rou) wiin xoz. St. Louis, still chasing the Brooks with hope if not with success, outlasted the Cincinnati Reds, 15 to 8, in a game in, which there were 16 walks, two wild pitches, a passed ball, 19 singles, four doubles, one triple and one home run. Boston split with th Phillies' The Braves won the first. 3 to 2, on jonn oain s xour-nmer and a timely single by Mike McCor miCR. which sentTiome the win, nlng run. Philadelphia won the second game, 7 to 2. Blix Donnelly Don-nelly pitched the route to win. Five successive singles in the sixth inning provided four runs as the Cubs trimmed Pittsburgh, o io o, oenina uoyie uae i six hit hurling. Tne Yankees won two from Washington, 6 to 5 and 5 to 1. Boston's Red Sox beat the Athletics, 5 to 1, as Williams hit a home run and single and batted in three runs. Detroit stayed two games behind be-hind Boston by drubbing the listless list-less St. Louis Browns, 11 to 2 and 10 to 1. Chicago downed the Cleveland Indians twice, 7 to 3 and 3 to 1. Mike Tresh batted in three runs with a single and double a Ed Lopat got his 10th victory in the opener. Off-Side Ploy Unseats Crippled Vet 1 " 11 i : 4-.? . " -'y- V N ",! LM. ; .-v. ' , , , , ; . , (NEA TeUphoto) . Bystanders aid Hoe Adamcllc, crippled war veteran who was bowled from his wheel-chair by an off-side play during Chicago Rockets-Los Rockets-Los Angeles Dons game at Chicago. Adamcik and several friends, all patients at Vaughan General Hospital, were watching the game from sidelines. Elroy Hirsch of the Rockets is shown at right. The game., opener of pro football season, was won by the Dons. 24-21. Davis Cup Defense Rests On Shoulders Of Ted Schroeder NEW YORK, Sept. 1 (U.RV Ted Schroeder of Glendale, Calif., who continually surprises his critics by winning the big ones, went alter the Davis cup clincher today against Dinny Pails of Australia in a grim effort to checkmate a repeat of the debacle in 1939 when the Aussies rallied to win the cup after losing the opening two matches. As Schroeder faced Pails the situation was identical with the United States leading 2 to 1 and requiring only one more victory for a successful defense of the huge silver bowl. If Schroeder fails, it will be up to big Jack Kramer of Los An geles, U. S. and Wimbledon cham pion.-in the wind up against two- fist Jack Bromwlch of Australia. Kramer walloped Pails in the opener In straight sets and Schroe der downed Bromwlch in four on Friday but the talented Austral- Auto Racers Set For Mountain Rate COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo.. sept, l iu.R An even 10 drivers revved up spluttering automobile racers today for the annual dash to the top of Pike's Peak. The dare-devil gasoline gulp- ers naa a iz.5 mile course a treacherous gravel road peppered With hairpin turns. A mountain rain by-passed it yesterday, and toaay.it was billed as fast. iiouis unser. seven . times a winner of this uniaue comrjeti- uon, was the favorite to win to day's race. He set a new record of 15 minutes 28.7 seconds last year and before the "they're off" flag today he predicted that at least two drivers would crack that mark. One driver entered. Wavne Sankey of Delta, Colo., was scratched from the race because his car failed to meet specifications. specifica-tions. It was two inches short of the minimum. ' I) I) !) i i) u F c 0 rale N 0 o o THREE OUTSTANDING WHITES! VAN HEUSEN "400". ... With Genuine Van Heusen Collar 4.50 MANHATTAN MANFLAIR .... Short-Point Fused Collar ....... 3.95 Super colebrooke .... Regular Low Brand Fused Collar 3.25 Each Shirt made of high-count broadcloths Each Shirt sanforized shrunk Each Shirt with attached fused collars. ian doubles team of Bromwlch and bespectacled Colin Long put their nation back in the running with a most impressive victory over Kramer and Schroeder yes terday, 6-4, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4. Mize Faces Test In Homer Derby NEW YORK, Sept. 1 (U.R) The month of September today brought Johnny Mize of the Giants his sternest test in his attempt to break Babe Ruth's single season home run record can Mize hit 17 home runs in the 28 games he has left. With 44 home runs in 126 games to date, Mize stands two games ahead of Ruth's 1927 pace 44 home runs in 128 games. Ruth hit sensationally in September and wound up with a total of 60, leaving Mize with the necessity of hitting 17 more in order to set a new mark. Speed Flyers Compete In Air Race CLEVELAND. Sept LUJ - Twelve speed kings fight it out arouna toe pyions in me aw.uuu Thompson trophy, race today, America's Kentucky, Derby of the air. . The race Is scheduled to be flagged off at 5:50 pjn. EDT. There, will, be a special jet divi sion without prize money, for service pilots at 3:20 pjn. EDT. Wagers. were; pretty evenly divided; on two ex-navy aviators, an airline captain and a test pilot, all having smashed, the standing 373 miles per hour record during uieir qualifying trials for the main Labor Day attraction at the National Air Races The former navy officers were Cook Cleland and Richard Becker, Beck-er, both of Cleveland, flying ex perimental FZG Corsairs. that have the most powerful engines in use today and which, topped 400 MPH m trial runs. Western air lines piiot Paul Penrose. North Hollywood. Cat. who qualiled at 390.9 MPH, was reaay to give the corsairs, both entered by- Cleland, .a run for their money in his bronze colored P-51 Mustang. The fourth threat to the 1946 record set by Alvin M. "Tex" Johnston, Bell Aircraft, test pilot, was Jay Demming, Niagara Falls, who will be flying the same P-39 Aircobra, "Cobra II," with which Johnston won the $16,000 first prize last year. He qualified at 386.819. The winner wilji receive another $2,000 if he breaks the current record. Penrose had extra incentive today, for the world's closed course racing record of 374 MPH which he set last winter in Miami, Fla., was toppled yesterday by Slevel Beville, Hammond, Ind. Beville, who will fly in jthe Thompson, raced a P-51, with which his buddy, Bruce Raymond, also of Hammond, won 4th place in the Thompson last year, to a $2500 first prize in the $5,500 Kendall trophy race for P-51 s. His speed was 384.602 MPH, Beville's exploit headed a Sunday Sun-day calendar in which air force let planes and souped-up ex- fighters raced to new highs. Tony Levier, champion pylon turner and chief test pilot for Lockheed aircraft, took individual honors with top winnings of $4,800 in two races. Levier whirled around the 15-mile 15-mile course at 360.866 MPH to take $2,500 for first place and $500 for fastest single lap in the $5,500 Ohio trophy race for P-38 lightnings. He drew down another $1,800 to become high winner in elimination heats and semi-finals of the $25,000 Goodyear trophy race for midget planes. The finals will be run today. Johnny Palmer F ires Hear Record Round to Lead in Vi'QpMQiil6urae SOS SALT LAKE CITY. Sent I (U.R) Former Jitterbug champ John raimer neid the lead in the $12r 500 western open golf champion ship today following a near-rec ord 64 in third round play at Salt Lake Country club. Palmer shot a 3 1-33 64 yester day to finish 54 holes of the 72-hole 72-hole tournament with a 201, fifteen fif-teen strokes under par.' Ed (Porky) Oliver of Wilmington.. Wil-mington.. Del., was two strokes behind the Badln, N. C, youngster with a total of 203. Oliver damped his second -shot of the 11th hole into crooked Parley's creek to lose a pair of strokes on the leaderv Bob Hamilton of Evansville. Ind., who was third with a 204. moaned that he wasn't on fop because be-cause "I just couldn't putt." Palmer came within a fraction of an inch of tying the course record rec-ord of 63. his third shot stopping on the edge of the par-five 18th hole. The record, tied yesterday by George Payton, of Hampton Roads, Va., has stood for 10 years. But the tournament leader picked up eight birdies and no bogies in his scorching play before a gallery of 5,000. Oliver ran into trouble on the 11th, going two over par, and then bogied the short 15th hole when he drove into the sand trap. Both Dick Metz of Arkansas City, Kan., and Ed Furgol of ln- tlac, Mich., came up with totals, Metz with a third-round 63 and Furgol with a 66. j,' Bobby Locke of South At ti rica got an eagle on the last . hole to ret a 66 and total of 206. to tie htm with ray ton. who shot a 67, and with Caly ton Heafnef of Charlotte, N. 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