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Show SUN DAY H ERALD rn Thompson's cSS WW Grd nd Slam Ruins Bums ) By CARL LINDQUIST United Press Sports Writer The jaunty Giants, turning a bomcrisis into a cake-wal- k, 7 l In -- '. fenslve purposes when we are when it's losing. ahead. "We have won numerous games "Little things like that, but I this season under unusual clr cumstances that In another seawouldn't call it platooning." easily might have gone the "Maybe you finally have in son left us in the other herited some of Casey Stengel's ruck. way andinto Yankee Sta-nluComing "I haven't platooned," said the luck," said one of the writers. for the last time, we had manager of the Indians. "I've "Could be," beamed Senor won 28 games by one run. x just had a lot of success with a Lopez. There was the ''time Allie little more here and there." HANK GREENBERG CUT IN Reynolds and the' Yankees had :'V:Such as?" to remind you that with a little in the first inning. beaten, "Such as taking out (Sam) help from the outside and a break us Then three relief pitchers pitched Dente, switching ( Bobby) Avila here and there, the Tribe easily no bit ball for us until we won to shortstop and using (Heinle) could have won three of the last in the 10th, 7. , Majeski at second base to get five pennants. more hitting That was, the case "We t were due for a few "Bob Lemon had an eight-ru- n over the Yankees in the first when Majeski hit the three-ru- n breaks," said General Manager lead homer to give 'us . a clean sweep Greenberg. "Fori four years it inning, y The first eight men of the . season s series' in Boston was mighty frustrating to see scored. Lemon making the first but wehad to struggle to and a game lead the Yankees mop up the Red out, win One. that Sox into in Yankee the Stadium. closing- days to beat coming ) -used (Wally) Weslake in us out The Red Sox at last SHORTAGE . right field at Fenway Park be gave us a lift by beating the WIRE il cause he was more likely to take Yankees three straight on their ST. , CLAIRE, Md.' (UP) Residents were without telephone advantage of that short left field last trip to Boston. wall than switch-hittin- g 'I don't have to tell any service eight hours here when a (Dave) 1 man that everything comes flhief climbed several poles strung Philley. ".(Bill) Glynn goes to first base your way when you re winning out along the Revell highway and in place of (Vic) Wertz for de- - A club can't do anything righi stole 500 feet of cable. : v r barded the Dodgers again Satur- avicious. cross day, pounding out a 13-- 4 victory appears to be .in that featured grand slam homer the situation with Pmvo'f Junior RiMbill Draerim. causht : By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor NEW YORK (NEA) Someone remarked to Al Lopez that he had caught up with Casey Stengel on platooning. u , , i: ":- 1 - ; I - - j ';-- , m I ,7 fire of verbal charges and counter-chargeface involved two faction! the unless jeopardy, ' by Henry Thompson and boosted a calm, realistic approach. After studying the voilent verbal. battle from as. an objective their National League lead to five 1 f seems to this writer as if both sides have full games. a position as possible, been at fault to some extent in the clash of words which threatens .Full of ' strut, Leo Durocher's to tear the Little League, Pony League and Chief League proboys, defeated Carl Erskine, the v: grams apart. All the animosity' stemmed from a letter which was mailed to ace of the Dodger staff, while parents of Little League, Chief League and Pony League players Ruben Gomez was, credited with and which suggested that a league registration fee of from $2 to $5 his 13th victory of the season for I!) b made for each boy' participating in the program, as a. means of New York. A y to cover funds of expenses. the operating eliminating soliciting The letter was ' signed by Phil Perlman. chairman or the The big fireworks came in the Recreation Board, who said Saturda"that he was willing Provo seventh inning when the Gianti -v in for, the letter but that he felt some scored seven, times. Relie. fii rnmtihiiitv" Tf accusations being leveled at him' were unfair an duntrue. . pitcher Jim Hughes walked Giant . Of course. It is easy to see why the junior baseball program reliever Marv Grissom to start fflcJals would e red as soon as the letters started reaching the trouble and when Whitey the parents of the players. They quite naturally felt that the recreation board had tried a "sneak attack" against them by Lockman and Alvin Dark folnot calling them into consultation before the, board mailed out lowed with singles, ol Preacher the letters. .r-- "" Roe came in to relieve Hughes,. ; TJttU Ponv Lei true and Chief Leaeue officials claim Time was . when Roe had a the junior baseball program is functioning in a smooth manner and magic touch against the Giants that there is no financial problem involved. They also feel as if the but L,Ai Saturday 'they touched him recreation board is sticking its nose into something that doesn't One concern big rlchtlv resoundingly. swing by SCORES UPSET Georgian, ridden by Cob McCreary scored an it 7In 'other words, the basebal people are asking the recreation Thompson and four men were upset Saturday in Washington Park Futurity in Chicago and board to leave: them alone and let them run the program as they rushing across the plate to clinch paid $57.80, $21.60 and $11.80 across the board. The race was se fit. Furthermore, they feel the many volunteer workers are the decision. And Roe still was worth $144,820 and $88,380 to the winner.1! doing a darn, good lob of running the leagues. .' (Perlman contends that, regardless of what the basebabll over in for more trouble. ' still has board supervision may lay, the recreation Thompson's homer made it i the city's junior baseball program). a walk, a sacrifice Bunt Tf plan and- and ptv tav nvr th nroffrm under the Don Mueller's single made of free hours nut who in the most of volunteer workers many long 3 Pete Wojey replaced before it .time wil quifand the whole junior baseball program will collapse the dejected Roe. JRay Katt folas a result, the baseball people feel. ; j.r Hal Pries by Revoked out of Athenia. homer to CHICAGO (UP) lowed with a two-ru11-officials of the leagues make it out Georgiana paid $57.80 to win There U no question but what the Headley's Georgian; a -l to place and $11.80 to show $21.60 board recreation the and that have several good talking points d Gilliam and Shotgun sider, upset the Junior ' with eonection Finished Well Back the in relations a of did public bungling job Sfiuba bit Brooklyn homers while Royal Note Saturday to win the Note finished well back Royal whole matter. Or at lent that's the way it seems to this writer. Katt and Thompson each' drove $144,820 Washington Park Futu- g as e. E. PershaU's Simmy, rid record-tyintwo lengths in should have called in the in four .runs for the Giants. To rity by It seems as if the U den by James Combesf took sec , time. an sort of became finale various officials of the leagues involved and explained day's ond mone of $30,000 in a .photo ' affair. ; as the board members see it, before mailing out letters to parents Royal Note, the Wilton stables over E. Gay Drake's Dogoon, what ;Thls would have been the diplomatic wy to handle it, but it Milwaukee moved to within entry who had Won five stakes earned $15,000. ' wasn't handled that way, so it is easy to see why the baseball Vk games of the doddering in eight starts this year,! went Simmy paid $10.29 and $6.80 "people saw red. Perhaps, if the. various league officials had, been Dodgers with a 4 victory over off at the odds-ofigure of 2 to 5, while Dogoon paid $6.40. Mrs called in first, the recreation board might not have deemed 'it Cincinnati on the margin of Del and until the stretch was in the H. C. Fruehaufs Parador fin ncessary to write the lettr at aU. 'Xfield. ished fourth for $10,000. second home run of top, three of the Crandall's Howver. the junior baseball officials are not all right and the the pressure from Jockey Georgian! ridden by Con Mc and his third in the cur recreation board all wrong by a long shot In the first place the rentgame .ddie Arcaro, who was trying for Carthy and carrying 116 Dounds had Crandall series. earlier junior basebal group probably made the mistake of storming into connected for a two-ru- n third straight victory in the picked up $88,380 with his third blast his the city, commission's chambers with fire in their eyes because Milwaukee lost the services, 16th at running of this . annual win in six istarts. The top prize two of the city commissioners knew little or nothing about the least for a he couldn't stave off the m his firsft stake triumph of stakes, of (rookie while, letter until approached by the baseball delegation last Monday finish fast of the Headley colt. W3.110. Gene who star. Conley, evening. It perhaps would have been better had the delegation con pitching ..... , came with lame back and a; Georgian'? time of 1:10 5 up sulted with board before going to th city commis had to leave the NO COMPETITION the . record set for the In the equalled game sion. If that had ben done probably a lot of the present furor would stakes by Curtice in fourth inning. The Braves re NEWPORT, R. I. (UP)l-- i Redhave been averted. 1949, and 6 behind the mained equalled in 1951 games wood Library the nation's oldest It also'seems to this writer that the baseball people have been . A Giants. a little unfair and a little too bombastic and venemous in their library operating in its original The to Headley Saturday attack against the recreation board in general and Perlman in The Braves had a 1 lead, building says comic books aren't was thepayoff second biggest in the his to worry about The 207- tory of the stake, particulars Regardless of what may have been said about him by mainly because of Crandall'3 a. thing exceeded only the opposition this writer still feels that Perlman has the best injfirst homer, when Cincinnati year-ol- d library says circulation by the $99,645 won by ' terests Hasty Road scored three runs in the seventh of its children's books is up 20 of the junior basebal program and players at heart !l" to tie the game and send it into per cent compared to last year. last year.It was a fast track, and the . "The board has never taken any action on the-extra innings. A walk to Bobby race went before a crowd 'of no recommendamade letter has the and matter suggested in Adams, and singles by Roy Mc j 27,403. .. eto the eommissloa," Perlman insisted Saturday. "It was tion ;:r Millan, Ted Kluszewski, and Jim ' sent out on to the the of the get public's pulse feeling Greengrass, kayoed reliever Chet : matter. merely , Nichols - and produced two runs. in and walked - "It also is not my intention to deny any boy the opportunity Bob Buhl came and n Lloyd to play 'ball because he doesn't have enough money to pay the fee. Johnny Temple 7 out to a beat hit drive in By UNITED PRESS If a boy couldn't pay the fee some arrangement would be made the ; tying run.' to pay it for him. NATIONAL !. LEAGUE M VRegradlcss of what may be said to the contrary," Perlman In the American League, De Brooklyn , 4. 000,001 201 4 9 0 continued, some merchants and firms are complaining that it is troit regained fourth . place by New York ;.!. 020 020 72x 13 13 0 hard on them to support the junior league program with Its re- one percentage point over the Erskine, Hughes (7), Roe (7): peated solicitations, for funds to be used in eonection with district Red Sox by defeating Baltimore Wojey (7), land Walker, Campa-nell- a and regional, tourneys, expenses and other operating costs. 4 while Boston was losing a (7); Gomez, Grissom (7) ; (Officials of the various Junior leagues have emphatically 3 decision to Philadelphia. . and Katt WP Gomez (13-- : LP denied that any hardship has been worked on firms and individuals Dick Gilliam HR Erskine Marlowe pitched 6 as the resuK of solicitations necessary for, tourney play and other (12th), Tnompson Vsra), K.au scoreless innings in relief to give '.: . , ' I expenses). (8th), Shuba (2nd). - , "And. with the proposal to expand the Little League program Detroit its triumph. He gave ' to include a third league in 19S5 in the making, it wtil be extremely up only four singles.' The Tigers AMERICAN LEAGUE three - hard to get additional sponsors unless we can give them some made 15 hits: including 2 Boston ; . ..J. 002 100 000 assurances that we won't be repeatedly asking them for money." apiece by Ray Boone and Harvey OOx s 200 002 4 Kuenn. One Boone was of hits 93 Philadelphia Perlman admits he is opposed to district and regional tourneys Nixon. Kinder ) and White. triple. for reasons other than financial. He would like, to see the regular and Robertson. LP Gray (3-league season extended and play terminated with the city The Athletics put over two' ). HR Nixon (1st). Nixon T runs in the sixth inning to give playoffs. Johnny Gray the victory although "Under the present set up of district and regional tour- he Baltimore . 112 000 000 4 11 0 gave up eight bases on balls to continue he and' few insists, "a neys," play players Detroit , . . . 022 210 OOx 7 15 0 have fun for two weeks or more after the rest of the league along with six hits. Joe Taylor Coleman,! Blyzka (3), Chakales singled home what proved to be players have quit This doesn't seem fair to me." and Moss, Murray (8) ; Aber, (6) the winning run in the Phila Herbert (3), Marlowe (3) and sure a "For pitcher, Lefty's r In addition, if the district and regional tourney play were done delphia Loser Willard rally. ). WP Marlowe LP away with, Perlman believes that at least J1000 would be saved. Nixon hit a home run, his first confident at the plate . . . don- House. iVA). he his before bats!' Blyzka jacket The junior league program officials, on the other hand, claim of the season, but it was in vain. ning that if the leagues didn't meet their tourney commitments they . would lose their national charters. There is no question but what both sides have made mistakes . and said things they shouldn't have said. But; that is al water under the bridge now. What is, needed now is clear-eye- d construc-" ' j uve approach to the subject free of emotion and bitterness.. J,...: ' . It is hopd that such an accroach will be made bv both sides when they meet Wednesday night, so that one of the best programs z K ever devised for the kids of America en continue to operate in v ' ;i s, ; 7-- 0, 8-- i four-and-a-h- alf 8-- 7." r , L . ' .. , Lu - t-- x- j Ibrr , the SHIRT that looks' jsg j 1 11 'I.I 11 V--- 7 tV M Arnmm . 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(6-3- All-St- ar J - 8) - ASSnlM (10-11- all-st- ar ; (5-4- -- VJL--- ' J I -- o Curtice Says, Redskins Will Bs Lucky to Finish Third x Written for NEA Service Icleus back, outstanding fresh- By JACK CURTICE jmen and 10 or 12 transfers who Head Coach Utah :are now eUgible an that plus SALT LAKE CITY (NEA) Joe Mastroglovanni t"Joe Alpha- For the past two seasons I've bet" we call him) to . run and picked my Utah team to win the t pass, and fullback George GaK uska to bit the line. " syune .unampionsnip. UUI should give . Wyo-Th- is season: things are differ;miM . SUte. v Mi tt. "II1C. 11. xveui. ent Utah just doesn't have the lls " becoming a horses and will be lucky to fin- -, greatshowing signs of two of the and quarterback . ish second or third. Rockies' in Carl best linemen 111 go along with experts in Ebert and Dave Kragthorpev picking Wyoming to win. Look far New Mexico to be rnu uicgens nas a good nn- - real championship threat, led by center Larry White. 1 don't believe Colorado A. and M., Den ver, Brigham Young or Montana can win the title, but all are im proved and will knock down favo rites. Look what did to us last year. underdog BYU 33-3-2 in our nationally losing only COLUMBIA, Mo. (UP)-Co- ach televised And we were gamel Don Fav-o- t scheduled two rough lucky. - i , ; v 7 - y V - 1 ' '' ; v.a Missouri Eleven Holds Tvo Rough Contact Drills workout Saturday for his four-touchdo- ZlS-pcu- The reason ? . V;--- - ' ; - 74 y-J-- t t " ' - sco tho can't see Utah nd fif. ; i,.- : V ; Tirs- - j. , i j . '' . " - " " . , " " . " ' - "H ( i : . GIANT IISSO Third Basemaa Hank Thompson is riding high in the Giant dressing room sup ported by hurler Ruben Gomes (left) and Catcher Ray Katt after the Durochermen slaughtered the Brooklyn Dodgers, 13-Siturday to put them five games in. front Thompson and Katt each drove in four runs, with the former's all coming on a grand - slammer in the Giant's seven-ru- n 'conference schedule csdefeated. seventh inning. Gomes was the starter and winner. (United Press Telephotb.) . nessta. - wn I versity of Missouri Tigers, but winning its fourth straiehttltle held off full scale scrimmage until Is lack of an experienced quarter- the team is In better condition. oacr ana weakness thrcogh the Friday, the Tiger lost tenv middle of the line. WH have good porarily, a lineman and gained, ends in Dave Germans and Or-ville Nellestein and a great puntpermanently, a haKback. A lip Infection fcreed er in Lou Mele, who can run, ' tackle Howard Robertson to the tOO. sidelines. Junior back Bob Mus- - The Skyline race should K vkm grave reported for practice after j closest In many seasons. I don't a summer of Baseball In Ilia- - see any team going through the Uni- ' "! 4, . x y sofftcno Ico!i x 1 .: in tho window at -- x' - |