Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 50, Number 173, Decatur, Adams County, 23 July 1952 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1952

I SPORTS I

Trucks Hurls One-Hitter To Down Senators j ~ By UNITED PRESS tt took only one pitch, the first one he threw, to ruin his no-hit tdr but Virgil Trucks, the fire-ball iuy of the Detroit Tigers, was hUpitv today to settle for a one-hit. 1 to 0 victory ryveb the Senators that almost bis nq-hit effort against them last May 15. There were no dreams of matching the record of Allie Reynolds of the Yankees, Bly pitcher in American league history to hurl two no-hitters in a single season. Because Eddie Yost spoiled , that with a leadoff single on Trucks’ first ptteh. Thereafter, though, The right hander was, magnificent, talking only threeßatters and, retiring 'two of them on double plays. Only me|h camel to bat.~ What Was especially remarkable about Trucks’ performance was that he had been out of action .since July TD with a recurrenc4 of his old shoulder 'injury. It was i only hjs fourth victory agairisU 11 defeats, but it also was significant that in addition to—his no-hitter and one-hitter against Washington he turned in a tWo-Tiitter against Philadelphia. Big. Walt Dropo, hitting safely in his 11th straight game, drove in the winning )run with a first inning single and Collected two of the four hits off of Walt Mdsterson. tremendous showing overshadowed the onward march qf the Yankees, who topped the In-, dians twice. 7t03 and 8 to 1, to move five games ahead of the Red s'ox, who defeated the White Sox 4 to 2 on rookie Dick, Gernert’s two-run 13th inning homer, as Mickey McDermott won his'sixth, games in a relief role. Bitsy Bobby Shantz of t-he Athletics scored his

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17th victory against just three defeats 3 .to- 2 over the Browns on Joe Astrotli’s two-run tying homer and Billy Hitchcock’s single which drove in the winning run in the ninth. In the National league the Dodgers. leading 2 to 0 in the ninth, finally had to win 7 to 6 with five runs in the 10th. The Giants defeated the Cards 3 to; 2, Dave Koslo winning his 13th sitrhight game from them since Jilin© 11, 195.0. The Phillies won 14 to I and 8 to 1 decisions from the Pirates to hit the .50(1 mark for l the: first timje since Aprjl 17 and move within game of the fourth - place Cubs, who blew a 6 to 4 decision at Boston. { | i Shantz. far in front its the biggest winner in the gave up eight hits including homers to Jim Dyck and Bob Nieman before Astjfoth and Hitchcock rallied to savfi hii eighth straight win over the Browns in two years. The Red Sox scored three runs, two on Gernert’s hoirie/ off reliever Harry Dorish, in the inning. Chicago-scored lone riin in its half o| the inning, ft was Boston’s first win in 11 night rohd games this year. Sjbliy Sisti drovje in three runs witlp-.a ihqmer and single to pace Verne Bickford to his| sixth victory, Clndhgd scored alljof its runs on a grand slam honker by Dep, Fondy. ■ J: — 1J ■. Dienhart Advanced To Assistant Post 1 ■ \ LAFAYETTE, Ind. t P — Joe Dienhaift,|Purdue University freshman cdach for five years, today was advanced to Varsity assistant football eoaich. Bob Dbmoss will take over Dienhart’s pdst. i B . S ■ - v•’ County Pays SIJ>OO On Social Security The county commissioners have included |n their budget an item for the county to pay sl,s6’o.—jo|e and a half percent of the thrtetf percent social security paid by; all county departments ex> cept hospital and highway — instead of the $7,500 stated in yes-, terdays’ report. T AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ' 1 L Pct? G.B. Kansas; Cityol 34 -\.653 Milwaukee.4l 36 .629 1 2%St. Panj | 150 49 ,505 14% Minn- abdUs __vl 49 51 .490. 16 h ■Lo'ui-svi lj 48 5J .480 17 Indlantipqlis 46 51 .-IGS -|s% Columbß -13 59 .422, 23 ■ CharJeßji3s 62 .3CI \ 28% YESTERDAYS RESULTS Milwaukee 16-13, Lodisville J 2-5. ■ Minneapolis 5-7, ;Coluin-bus 4-8. Kansal City 11. Indianapolis LT St. Paul 4, Cha leston 2. 1 ..'j. J'- v — —B-

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MAJOR fjIATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. Brooklyn 60 22 .7.12 New Yorks 4 JJ .635 7% St. Louis 51 40 .SGO 1.1% Chicago 45 4.1 .511 >lB Philadelphia 45 45 ',500 19 Boston l 38 5U .432. .25 Cincinnati 36 54 .400 28 Pittsburgh 25 69 .266 41 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. New York 56 34 .622 Boston 50 38 .568 ij Washington 19 40 .551 6% ClCveltfiid ____ r _ 49 42 .53S 7% 48 4 1 .522 9 Philadelphia 46 12 ,14S 12 St. Louis 35 57 .§BO 22% Detroit 29 59 .330 26 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS . National League Philadelphia 11-8, Pittsburgh 4-1. New Yoik 3. St. Louis 2. Brooklyn 7, Cincinnati 6 (10 innings), Boston G, Chicago 4. American League New YoTk 7 r ß. Cleveland 3-1. Boston 4. Chicago 2 (13 innings). Detroit 1, Washington o. Philadelphia 3; St. Louis 2. | ' i. '

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!o ‘ o 1 Today's Sport Parade 1 (Reg. U. S, Pat. Off.) | By Oscar Fraley o- — : I—i1 —i : 1 0 HELSINKI. UP —Thb Tulare. Calif., Chamber of Comtnerct' had better get on the ball, lit has 'B unknown celebrity on \its haujds today - and a chance to I'lieconnj, the largest city in the United' States. Tilt magnificent nonentity is a j courteous young giant named Sim lue-'. All he did Tu»-Jay as the : -had««u - settl.d over Helsinki was to break the Olympic discus re- ■ cord with seven straight throws i :.n.d.. boost <he -htark -tu isu test | 6 1 •* : ;;chi's. ' Eve. ;• ■■■ utlßisi spints knows tl)a: Bob Mathias, the Olympic decathiea champion, hails from Tulare. Sim. in case you’ haven’t heard, uid you probably haven't', also is Horn that village of vitamin's. 'Bq, of even! nio: <o ihrpoii to the average father in tl|q United Sta <- are the vital statistics on j these two hvabh> monstlrs. Manillas is a well publicized lad of six | feet, three inches and 'some 220 i pounds. But get a load of this j Iness lad. He's six feet, six inches I arild .-(.ales 215 dreßed for the disgu - iiiarke i. ; , Any spot which .produces prize | packages id Litis c-aliijre for doting father- who dream of junior'.; future athletic exploits, is a doubhdyjrql cinch so be inundated by j: dreaming daddies with their entire families in tow. And it's a cinch that Sim’s daddy is just about delirious today. For the- big guy was better than sen ational to.-siiis the steellimmed plat er. Ail he had to hedit was Adolfo Cdnsolini, the- ovtrpiufftd Italian ] w'ao held ,the Olympic record, hur- ; ly Fortune Gordie n. the world re-j cord holder from the' United States, {ami just about evci'y other great : discus Jocke y in caiitivity. > ('■ u-o'it’i's Alympic record was ,'172-f'et. l-'o im-he-. So lne.-s '■trmiVd cut tkeire ;bef,:re so.m,<i .fan- and broke.' that mark on each i of his st ven ilirow.-. The 'm - ' n . •’ ISt: feet, G’i inchet. -eight feet 1% inches b< ter than the o’tl mark and four feet, 1% inches better than the Second place ConSoiini •ould do. Talking, later, the 22-y< ar-old Sim became) Tulipr's best real estate i-ah snian si rice the days wbqh (he- : -'jito-ii j til giants wete, voided. 1- r 'hi disih -* d that a' It!, when I he entered Higfi school Jie was six i f•■■et. two inches tall and weighed ! 210 pounds. At 18 when he graduated from hi"h school, he was six li t", six and weighed 2-10 pounds. So I can tell you right now that I’m taking my little bruiser, ""all nine month- old of him, and headit«r for Tulare. Sim has promised •; to cary our piano; and I’m dealing i with Mailjias to tote dur four. ' trunks and six suitclases. There's just one question I want. • the Tulare .Chamber of Commerce I to answer: i How go tqc fathers gq about the difficult business of reprimanding : sons like those? That Icould be a real problem. ’ _g—s » - Hijacking Dog Foiled MEMPHIS, Tenni.J’P — Mrs., George James doesn't' worry about Iter son feeding his doc. The youth\ at the window saw a big dog outside snatch the bone, he had given his pet. The youdglster dashed tip i.his bicycle, chased! the other doi and retrieved the bone.

STEEL STRIKE (Continued’From I'nuc Our) o? tfli*- Week. J 2. linemployment is nearly 2,OOO.Obo, Including the 600,000 steelworkers. r ? 1 3. The average wage loss for each steel worker's is about sG<>o. f 4. Total loss to the country so far lis $4,000,000,000. Tlijedeadlock; centered on a demand by the industry that a new afcreaknent provide a 15rday period at tjie start of the contract for workers to "escape” from the unibn. (Ifficials believe the parties are close enough on wages and oven the qrucial union shop issue so tijjat a settlement would come quickly if t!rt> “< scape” clause Olah could be worked out. ; FAVORS SEATING <Continiieil From I’nur One) laws of Texas?"; Tljjp challenge to the Shivers group was presented to the convention by William Proxmire of V. is<,j|uri.'in, an hlternale. The minority ripqrt aljso was signed by the credentials committee members from Colorado. Idaho, Michigan,' Minnesota, Montana, New Hainlpslilre, New Jersey, South Dako ai.Tennes.de. Alaska. District oi' Colinnbia and Hawaii. Temporary chairman Paul A. Dever then asked if there wfere ftny ;further miinority reports, but jhers were norie. This apparently

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meant there would be no challenge on the Mississippi csae which involved the same "regular” and “loyalsit” situation as Texas. \ The long - promised showdown fight over the credentials committee report boiled up on the convention floor almost immediately after the. fifth session of the convention got under way. > The fight over the recommended of the "regular” Texas . delegation pushed into the background the issue of the "loyalty” pledge. \ ■ House* Lasts Long EXETER, N. H. UP — part pf .the Old Garrison House here isi being -restored to its original Conditiotb so the town will have an old house to show visitors. The house, bifilt in 1650, still is occur pied. > ' I B 'B~'

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r ' 3 ni * ■- "■ - —\ j uB <■4 ? v' !BW 0 EEmhhl fe* - ■ IME| 1 , ' I |Lv , Ir*. iSLddBM TRIUMPHANT in the shot puL Parry O’Brien of the University of Southern California receives an Olympic gold medal from Ayery \ Brundage chairman of the International Olympic committee, for his winning heave Os , r »7 feet, 1.43 inches. Completing America’s grand slam in th< event, Darrow Hooper (left), Texas A. & M, was second, and Jin Fuchs (right), world record holder, was third. (Intcrnalionah

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