Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 51, Number 126, Decatur, Adams County, 28 May 1953 — Page 7

fTtURSDAY, may 28, 1953

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Many Racers To |Start Without * _■ Final Checkup I INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., UP —The i fastest racers ever to compete in | the Memorial day auto race may , start the 500-mile grind Saturday without a final test run. Nearly every sleek machine was ■ * torn down for repairs and ad just- | ments after qualification, trials ► and two days oftesting which ended. last Tuesday. The American Automobile AssociatiflSn, which rules the race at the Indianapolis Speedway, normally allows carbueration tests the day before the race but this year there was no indication the track > would be opened for such tests j Friday. Without a finalr check, many drivers will gamble on starting—- | and finishing — in the 37th annual | motor classic. Should last minute I defects be discovered Saturday, I the AAA will substitute a racer I from the alternate list. Drivers discovered extensive re- ' pairs were necessary! after the qualification trials and test runs late Tuesday. “Sure, you take a big chance tearing down the engine once you are qualified,’’ explained burly Bill Holland, the 1949 champion and second-fastest qualifier this year. “But it’s got to be done,” Holland said. "We found three cracked pistons in our car after it was qualified.” ~ Bill Vukovich. piloting the polesitting car. developed an oil line

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break which was not discovered until Wednesday. Jim Travers, his chief mechanic, hoped to have repairs made by tonight. The drive shaft of Spider Webb's racer was found faulty. Several other cars underwent minor repairs. Smiling Sam Hanks, third last year, said he would like additional testing 'time, but he put his full confidence in his pit crew. “They’ve taken that car apart and put it together so often it doesn't make much difference,” Hanks said. “Sure I would have liked to run 30 minutes to test the shocks, but some other cars could have used a lot more time.” O O I Today's Sport Parade ( (Reg. U. S. Pat Oft) | i By Oocar Fraley 1 ' I ; o NEW YORK UP — Russ Meyer winds up a three-day suspension today by being himself—and being (born 30 years too late —and ft’s enough to shake a man’s faith in ibaselrall and the Brooklyn Dodgers. “Rhubarb Russ,” as Meyer long hag ‘been known because of his proclivity toward impromptu donnybrooks, was given the heave-ho Sunday for “chesting” an umpire. He also was accused of making what iwas described as an Objectionable gesture, Personally, I thought he behaved with admirable restraint. ' - - It would have been far different in the “good old days.” ■Meyer was provoked only as a ■pitcher proud of his control could be. On 11 straight pitches, not one of them had .been called a strike. Back a few decades ago this wbuld have brought not only Meyer but all the able Dodger fans present swooping dovn'on the umpire’s swelling neck. The man in blue ordinarily would have needed a police escort out of town in such a situation. • This is not a defense of hasty, unbridled action because the umpirtes will tell you themselves that they’re always right.’But it is disturbing that the Dodger front office ordered (Meyer to hold himself incommunicado for the duration of his brief sentence. Because fans across the nation who for years have been satisfied with mechanical baseball long hav e been drawn to the Dodger banner on the theory that Brooklyn was the last outpost of a colorful era. Baseball in reqent years has bordered on the drab. The Yankee powerhouses set a -pattern for coldly scientific and systematic •play which all the other clubs copied. Except in a few instances, the players ceased being personalities and became cogs in a wellgeared and all to Silent machine. Players like Joe DiMaggio and Bob Feller were admired from afar for their great feats but the fans idolized the occasional characters like Dizzy Dean who popped off and then made their .point. In the baseball business world of today, players are warned iby the front office not to comment on controversial subjects or, as in Meyer’s case, not to talk at all. •Umpire Augie Donatelli. who threw the book at Meyer, is a man of unimpeachable integrity. If he said Meyer threw 11 straight balls, then it was 11. But unless my constitutional privileges as a fan have been revoked, I don’t have to think’h e was right every time. 1

Jersey Joe Walcott Is Rated As Third NIEIW YORK UP — The Ring magazine's -monthly ratings dropped Jersey Joe Walcott .only third place among heavyweight contenders today despite his dismal first - round knockout by Rocky Marciano on May 15. i Although 39-year-old Walcbtt indicated he had dome to the end of the trail as he sat out the kayo count in Chicago Stadium, he is still rated above Bob Baker, Dan Bucceroni, Tommy Harrison and Rex Layne, among others. Hazard Charles took over the top rating formerly held by Jersey Joe. Roland LaStarza of New York was ranked No, 2. Harry Matthews of Seattle was dropped out of the eight heavyweight list and was not ranked among the top 10 heavies. Manager Jack Hurley announced Matthews no longer could make the light - heavy and asked that he be rated as a heavy. But the ring’s staff declined to consider him among! the top 10. Tommy Collins of Boston, who was No. 10 among lightweight aspirants, was dropped into the featherweight class because of his bouncing around by lightweight champion James Carter. He u rated fourth among the feathers. Paddy Young of New York moved up to fourth place among the middleweights, and Pierre Langlois of France dropped to fifth 'because of his defeat by Joe Rindone. Rindone takes over the No. 10 spot.

Major League Leaders ! By UNITED PRESS Nationaj League Player & Team GAB R H Pct. Schst, St. L. 35 145 25 56 .386 Wyrosk, Phila. 28 101 18 36 .356 Ashbn, Phila 33 126 20 43 .341 American League Player & Team GAB R H Pct. Vernon. Wash. ~ 37 142 24 52 .366 Kell. Boston —(32 122 23 43 .352 Suder. Phila. 29 114 14 39 .342 HOME RjUNS: Campanella, Dodgers 16: Kluszewski, Reds 10;( Mathews, Braves 10. •RUNS BATTED IN:' Campanella, Dodgers 51; Dropo, Tigers 31; Vollmer. Senators 31. I RUNS: Mantle, Yankees 34; Minoso, White Sox 33; Snider,, Dodgers 31; Campanella, Dodgers 31- ' HITS: Schoendienst, Cards 56; Vernon, Senators Kuenn, Tigers 49. .1 PITCHING: Sijirkont, Braves 60; Parnell, Red Sox 6-0; Lopat, Yankees 4-0. Boy Sues Dad For SIOO,OOO Damages' Suit Is On File In Chicago Court CHICAGO, UP —A suit on file in superior coyrt today showed a one-ydat-old ’boyi hae sued his own father for UpO.OOO damdfces for negligence in an auto accident that injured the child and killed his mother, brother and aunt. The suit was filed on behalf of young William Matlsoukas, Jr., byHerbert Nudd, described in the action as the plaintiff's “next friend.” The child still lives with 1 his fa.ther. An attorney said the boy “might be allowed to appear in court.” The elder Matsouikas is insured, his attorney said, and the judgment would be paid by the insurance company if it is rendered. Attorney • John CL Phillips said the suit is based on an Illinois supreme court decision Nov. 20, 1952. tfeiat held that an individual could sue a mertbher of his own family or his spouse. The Illinois high court ruling is in general conflict with English common law whiqh holds that members of an immediate family cannot sue each other because it amounts to suing oneself. ) It was not knowi} when a hearing on the isufi would be held. The action grew out of an auto accident last October in Kendall county. A car driven by William Matsoukas, Sr., “collided with one driven by David Thifll, 25, of Stockton, 111. Thill is also a defendant in the suit. . The one-year-old ijlaintiff’s mother, Elizabeth, 28, his brother, Spiros, 23 months, and his aunt, Mary Nudd, were all killed in the mishap. i cl William Jr. wasl “permanently* injiired,’ r ™lhe suit said. Phillips said the boy suffered a akull fracture. Oi. ■•• ’ The attorney said the boy's father was “driving much too fast under the foggy,- drizzle conditions” the night of the accident. The first regularly scheduled, year-round airline in the United States was started Aug. 21, 1926 between Detroit! and Grand Rapids, Mich., by the Stout Air Sen ice. (■

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Little League Teams To Practice Friday I I Two Little League teams, the Yankees and the Wtyte Sox, are scheduled to practice at 5 o’clock Friday evening at McMillen field. A)1 team members are requested to be present. Terveer President Os CIC Conference Datid Terveer, coach of theJDecatur Catholic high school, has been elected president of the Central Indiana Catholic conference, with Norb Getz, of Marion,'named secretary-treasurer. Huntington Catholic won t|iq baseball championship without a defeat in five starts. St. Mary’s of ,Andersop jvqn two. and lost three, the Commodores and St. Paul’s of' Marion won two and lost four each. Saxton Easy Winner Over Joe Miceli ' ’’ i■’ - DETROIT, UP — Johnny Saxton. the unbeaten 22-year-bld boxer from the Bronx, had his eyes glued on a September meeting with welterweight champion Kid Gavilan today after a vpnvinciijg decision over Joe Miceli at Olympia Stadium Wednesday night. Saxton nodded his approval as his manager, Frank Palermo, said “We’re fighting Gil Turner at Philadelphia next month. We’d like to fight Chuck Davey here in Detroit in July jind we’re going to fight Gavilan for the title in September.” Saxton was in complete command after the second round and had Miceli o’n the ropes most of the way.

QH - ■ ■ • • - Mm HIS 15-YEAR reign as mayor of Los Angeles at an end, Fletcher i Bowron (right) congratulates Norris Poulson, 57>year-old Republican congressman, who defeated Bowron. (International Boundnhoto)

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SPORTS BULLETIN CHAMPAIGN, HI. UP — Th? | Big Ten today voted to renew for tfwee years the Rose Bovyl contract with the Pacific Coast ( Conference, but left for negotiation the method of selecting competing teams. The group approved a resolution directing their committee tg negotiate final details of the agreement, and to ieek an arrangement under which each conference will select its representative on its own pattern!. , t- - Big Ten Golf Meet To Be Held Friday Wis„ UP—Sixty |pl-’ lege golfers will tee off Friday at ttjg Maple Bluff Country Club; in tba finnual. Big Tea meet. ; ; Favorites are Michigan. Ohio State and Purdue. Wisconsin, with senior Doug Koepcke, 1952 individual champion, was expected ,to press them.-. Plans Bill To Cut Game Broadcasting WASHINGTON, UP — A bi|l aimed at killing unlimited broadcasting and telecasting of baseball games will be submitted to the full senate commerce committee *»in the near future,” Sen. Edwin CJohnson (D-Colo.) said today. The measure was approved Wednesday by a three-man senate subcommittee. Johnson, the subcommittee chairman, is sponsoring tjie bill. , 1 ; * The baseball industry stopped regulating such broadcasts several years ago when the justice department threatened an anti-trust suit.

Campy Smashes 16th Homer Oi Season For Win NIBW YORK UP — Dodger Manager Charley Dressen, toasting baseball's newest home run hero with a highball made out of cherry soda ipop, said today Roy Campanella might break Babe Ruth’s record if “he just keeps on swinging easy.” But Campanella, smoking a big cigar in the (Dodger dressing room after his second homer of the ga/nje in the ninth inning beat the Giants 5-3, said “Nuts—J’m not trying to break Ruth’s record —I just wanna win ‘ball games.” “And I don’t know -what it is I’m doin’ right — I just knowright now I’m not doin’ mutfr wrong,” he added. Campy’s burner with tjwo men on 'base after an error by Alvin Dark kept the game alive, was his 16th of the season and his four runs •batted in for the game gave him a total of 51 — also far ahead of the all-time major league record pace.

But Dressen toasted his catcher and said — “He can do it if he just keeps swinging easy.” The homer gave Brooklyn a game the Giants figured they had already won on earlier homers by Hank Thompson and Wes Westrum that had more than countered Campanella's first four-base blow. Relief pitcher Joe Black picked vp an easy victory with one inning of aid to starter Billy Loes. Milwaukee stayed in front by 1% games in the National by defeating the Cubs 9-4, while the Phils end 2d a five-game losing streak by drubbing (Pittsburgh 14-2, then lost again 8-6. The Cards defeated Cincy 6-3: In the American League the Tigers and White Sox battled to a 2-2 15-inning curfew-halted tie as each team made 12 hits while the Yankees topped Washington 3-1, the Athletics defeated Boston J -3 and St. Louis ended a ninelosing streak with a 5-1 win over Cleveland which ended a four game winning streak. •Milwaukee showed Its usual bounce, picking up lour runs in the fifth after the Cubs scored four in-their Half, three on Hank Sauer’s homer. Aaidy Pafko’s three-run homer was th e big blow for the Braves and in the following inning they clinched matters- (by-sporlng-four more runs. Reliever Johnny Antonelli gained his ! third win. Robin Roberts picked up his seventh victory with a six-hitter as Bill Nicholson drove in six runs with a triple, double, and single but Pittsburgh refbuonded to win the second game with a six r;un rally in the eighth in whiqh Frank Thomas hit a two run single and pinch hitters Carlos Bernier. Joe Garagiola, .and George Metkovicn each drove in runs with singles. St. Louis scored four runs in the first lnn(ng as Red Schoendienst hit his sixth homer to give Mike Clark a good cushion for his first big leagde win which he achieved? with relief help from Al Brazle. IGus ZerniaVs homer in the eighth gav© Alex Kellner the margin for his sixth victory as the Athletics edged Boston. ‘Hoot 'Evers homered for the losers. Rookie Bobo Holloman scored ,his first victory since his no-hitter over the Athletics but needed relief help from Satchel Paige, who held Cleveland scoreless for the final 3 2$J innings with two hits. T*he Yankees picked up threehit pitching-from lefty Ed Lopat while Joe Collins, Yogi Berra and Billy Martin l>elted homers for all their runs. Harry IDorish pitched six - hit relief ball for 10 1-3 innings and yielded only one run while striking out seven 'but hig performance went to waste in the marathon at Chicago. Chicago had the bases loaded in the ninth, 11th, and 13th innings without scoring.

NOW OPEN I MEGARGELS COLF COURSE Mile East of Monmouth—Clubs furnished Free I 9 Holes 40c Come out and enjoy a short game of golf. The course was fertilized ‘ and re-seeded last fall. It is much .improved over last year. Enjoy Yourself—lt’s Liter Than You Think;

I AMERICAN ASSOCIATION ( W L Pct G.B. Kansas City — 23 14 .622 Indianapolis 23 16 .590 1 St. Paul 21 18 .538 3 Louisville 18 18 .500 4% Toledo 19! 21 .475 5% Charleston 17 20 .459 6 Minneapolis .... 16 22 .421 Columbus 13 21 .382 8% Results Wednesday Indianapolis 8, Columbus 6. Toledo 7, Charleston 2. Louisville 11, Minneapolis 8. Kansas City 8, St. Paul 1. NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. G.B. Milwaukee 22 11 .667 St Louis 21 13 .618 1% Brooklyn - 21 14 .600 2 Philadelphia 18 14 .563 3% New York ___L- 19 17 .528 4% Pittsburgh 13 22 .371 10 Chicago 11 21 .344 10% Cincinnati 9 22 .290 12 Wednesday’s Results Philadelphia 14-6, Pittsburgh* 2-8. Brooklyn 5, New York 3. St. Louis 6. Cincinnati 3. Milwaukee 9, Chicago 4. American league w L Pct G.B. New York 24 11 .686 Chicago 23 15 .605 2% Boston 20 16 .556 4% Washingtonl9 18 .514 6 Philadelphia ___'_ 17 22 .436 9 St. Louis ,_ 13 23 .361 11% Detroit 10 27 .270 15 'l Wednesday’s Results New York 3, Washington 1. Philadelphia 4. Boston 3. St. Louis 5, Cleveland 1. Chicago 2, Detroit 2 (15 innings, curfew). Democrat Want Ads Bring Results

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