Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 49, Number 203, Decatur, Adams County, 28 August 1951 — Page 6

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Giants Reduce Brooklyn lead To Five Gaines New York, Aug. 28.—»{UP)— You would almost think \ the National league race was tighter than the American today, tile way the Giants exploded their joy over moving to Within five games of Brooklyn, while the Dodgers couldn't even find much consolation in Ralph Branca’s near no-hitter. /Statistically, the excitement still belongs, to the American league where the Indians have a precarious one-game edge over the Yankees, and the Red Sox are five games behind in third. But emotionally, the unabridged madness was on both sides of the Brooklyn bridge. In Flatbush, as the last place, Pittsburgh split a double header with the Dodgers, to make it eight victories thete in 11 games 'this seasQn, and 11 wins against nine losses for the season, there was a growing realization that “this: thing could happen.” The swashbuckling Leo Durocher, never more excited in any base t -j ball battle of his lifetime, resorted to old superstitions as his Giants made it 16 in row for the longest I National league winning streak | since 1935. He now looks at the scoreboard two or three times a minute—"just to see how we’re doing.” v ! The aftermath of th,e big Monday slate of double headers was that the Giants won 5 to 4 in 12 innings and 6 to 3, while the-Dodgers blanked the Pirates, 5 to 0 on Ralph Branca's brilliant two-hit’ pitching, then succumbed |o» old difficulties as they lost, 5 to 2. Unnoticed perhaps, because they are no longer in the race, were the significant 6 to 3 j and 4 to 2 triumphs-by lhe third place Braves against the Cardinals. The Braves have much of, their schedule left w’ith both Brooklyn and New York and; they are playing their best ball of; the year. Also worthy of note Was the J doublewhitwashfng of, the Reds by the Phillies, 2to 0 and 3to because last year’s champs also are going to play a number of games with the one-two' contenders. In the only American league;

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gatne Daje Phflley h|t a homer to provide lefty Bobby Smmtz with his winning margin as the Athletics topped the Tigers, 1 to 0, on a seven-hitter at Detroit. \ Pittsburgh left Branca with only a brilliant. 12th victory instead of an immortal spot in the record books when Pete Castiglione drove a clean single to left to start' the ninth. George Metkovlch followed with a single he got on the letdown but Branca bore down to preserve -the shutout and the victory. \lt was well for Brooklyn that he did because in the second game, the Pirates made "three quick runs off Erv Palica in the first inning and breezed to their triumph as Clyde McCullough drove ; in four runs, two with a double and two with a homer. CarL Furlllo and Jackie .Robinson hit first-inning first-game homers in Branca’s triumph. Willie Werle, who like most left handers seldom wins in Brooklyn, pitched three-hit ball to gain the second triumph, although Vern Law had to save i\t for hiln with three hitless relief innings. In the first Giant triumph, the pressure was on all the way and it almost blew the valve in the 12th when the Cubs scored a run off Larry Jansen to go aliead. 4 to 3. But the indomitable New' Yorkers rebounded as Alvin Dark walked and Monte Irvin singled and took second op a throw-in. Bobby Thomson! drew an intentional pass and Whitey Lockman tied the score with a . bloop single that left the bases loaded and set it up for pincl>hitter Bill Rigney to drive in the winning run with a long fly. There was more ease to the second' triumph which was clinched with rallies that netted three runs in the first two innings. 'I The Giants made 12 hits, Eddie Stanky and U'hitey Lockman gettings three each, as rookie Al Corwin pitched six-hit ball to win his fifth game without a defeat. Warren Spahn struck out 11 batters to win his 17th game after which Max Surkont pitched twohit ball , for his 10th triumph in Boston’s sweep over the Cardinals. The Phillies nlade it three shutouts in a row over the Reds on’top of rookie Niles Jordan’s Sunday debut in the majors when first Jocko 'Thompson and then Ken Johnson turned the trick last night. Thompson won his three-hitter on Bill Nicholson’s two-run first-inn-ing homer while Del Wilber blasted three homers to account for all the tallied in Johnson’s second game * Yesterday's star —Del Wilber. Phillies— hit three home runs in , the second game for a3 to > triumph, becoming the first Philly player to get that many in a game since 1936 as the Reds were blanked twice, also losing the opener, 2 toO. 'EnglishmenHTsed .to brighten up their formal evening clothtes by wearing violently colored vests made of brocade, satin, velvet, or cashmere.

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Gavilan Choice In Welterweight Fight New York, Aug. 25 —(UP)*—Freewheeling welterweight 'champion Kid Gavilan was a 13-5 choice today to make a successful defense of his title tomorrow night in a 15-round “endurance contest” against Irish Billy Graham of New York. ' ' For boxing men were convinced that the televised bout at Madison Square Garden will be won by the battler with the most stamina over the rugged championship route. Few experts anticipate the fight, third meeting of these two men, will end short of the 15-round distance in a knockout. Neither man is reckoned to pack enough wallop to put the other away, especially since Graham never has been knocked off his feet, much less kayoed, and Gavilan has been floored but never stepped. So the experts were trying to weigh these two facts in advance of the bout: (1) Gavilan has twice £one 15 rounds without any trouble —in his loss to Sugar Ray Robinson and his victory over Johnny Bratton. Graham never has tried to go 15. (2) Graham appeared to be much stronger than Gavilan at the windup of both of their previous lt> round encounter’s—the split decision that Billy won on Feb. 10, 1950, and the split decision won by the Keed on Nov. 17, 1950. Both times Irish Billy looked ready to go five more rounds, while the Keed appeared tired. From the scoring of the two previous fights, there was little to choos# between the two men. If you total up the number of rounds won by each.»Gavilan had the edge by just a single round. Brazil is larger than the United States. \

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o- ■ ————■ I Today's Sport Parade] (Reg. 0. 6. Pet Oft.) \| By Oscar Fraley ■, < o e Summit, N.J., Aug. 28.—(UP) — Irritated at being called a “powder puff puncher,” welterweight champion Kid Gavilan promised today to turn his flashy bolo blow into a knockout punch when he defends the title against Billy Graham tomorrow. \ All of which goes to show you what a title can do to a man’s outlook on life. Up until the time the Cuban keed took the welterweight crown from Johnny Bratton, he made no \pretense of being able to knock 'anybody dead or even slightly unconscious. The keed dealt in light bruises and a rhumba tempo which piled up the points. The reliable report was that a man could be injured more severely if struck with a. chocolate eclaih But, as the champ, Gavilan doesn’t cai’e for that kind of conversation. “I weel knock hedm out,” he grated, referring to a question as to how tough it would be- to outpoint Graham. “And I weel do eet with the holo bpunch.” - That’s like saying that Uncla Tpm of the celebrated have flattened Jersey Joe Walcott, one of his contemporaries. 'For Gavilan’s bolo, up to and including this training moment, hasn’t flattened anything except the keed’s knuckles. It is a gaudy passage at arms designed to win the fans and influence the officials. Now the keed is of the rather outweighed opinion that his bold punch Is \the greatest five-f|ngered delivery since Fitzsimmons! came up with the slug to the solar plexus. This transition from Tabby to Tiger is what usually happens td members of the cauliflowered culj when they don the robes of rinf| royalty. It goes all the way back to John L. Sullivan. The Boston strong boy was content, at first, to whip Paddy Ryan. After that individual contestants didn't suffice. iohn L.’s favorite trick was to challenge the customers of various groggeries. en masse. Jersey Joe. the current end of the heavyweight line, had to take three whacks at Ezzard Charles to win the title. After his first two failures he still walked around like a man lucky to get in the ball park for free. But since his kayo of the elusive Ezzard, Jersey Joe has a new demeanor. They’ll tell you, along the fight beat, that front now on he’ll treat Charles as his’ personal oyster. Jake Lamotta is another case in point. Before winning the middleweight crown he lived in a £rusty shell born of hardship and fear of insecurity. The Bronx bull was as pleasant as an orangutang with the hives. After taking the title he found himself to such an extent that he even wanted to turn gentleman—a blow to boxing if not to the 400. . . ■ • U. S. Army frontline troops in Korea have received supplies from Japan by. airdrop within six after request. -r;

Willshire And Rural Youth Teams Victors t Rural Youth trimmed McMillen 4-2 and Willshire defeated V. F. W. in two softball games played iu the Decatur league at McMillen field Monday bight. In the first game Rural Youth scored four runs jon four hits and the/ committed two errors. McMillen scored two runs on seven hits and made one error. Willshire made four runs on two hits and had two errors and their opponents V.p. W. got one run on three hits and made a single error. Cincinnati Wichita In Regional Finals Springfield, 111., Aug. 28. —(UP) —Cincinnati and Wichita, Kan., teams'met on the diamond today ito decide which gets the American Legion junior basebail sectional championship. Both teams reached the finals by knocking over a hapless Menasha, Wis. nine yesterday. \ ' Cincinnati squeaked by Menasha, 1 to 0, and Wichita topped it with a 7 to 4 victory. I The pitchers were the heroes in both games. Wichita hurler Duane Wilson struck out the last Menasha man to face him when the Wisconsin boys had the bases loaded \ln the ninth inning and Cincinnati’s Ed Schneider held the Menashans to only two hits. Schneider had a no-hitter going until the seventh inning and was responsible for driving in Cincinnati’s lone run-in the fifth.

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MAJOR « NATIONAL LEAGUE \l WrL. Pct G.B. Rivoli y* 78’45 .637 New efrk 75. 51 .595 5 BoatoL 62 60 -508 16 Philadelphia ... 63 63 -.500 17 St. LOuis 58 63 .483 19 Cincinnati 54 71 .432 25% Chicago 52 71 .423 26% Pittsburgh 53 73 .421 27 A AMERICAN LEAGUE i s ’ ’ W. L. Pct. G.B. Cleveland — 79 46 .632 New York 78 47 .624 1 Boston 73 50 .593 5 Chicago 68 57 .544 11 Detroit — 58 66 .468* 20% Washington 52 71 .423 26 Philadelphia 51 76 .402 29 St. Louis 38 84 .311 39% YESTERDAY’S RESULTS ■>, National League New York 5-6, Chicago 4-3. (First game 12 innings). Brookiyiif 5»2, Pittsburgh 0-5. Philadelphia 2-3, Cincinnati 0-0. Boston 6-4, St. Louis 3-2. American League Philadelphia 1, Detroit 0. , Only game scheduled. INSURANCE PHONE 3-4300 KENNETH RUNYON Decatur Insurance Agency

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