Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 77, Decatur, Adams County, 1 April 1954 — Page 7

THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1954

Paul Richards Plans To Use Platoon System TAMPA. Fla., UP — Manager Paul Richards of the Chicago White Sox is shooting lor -the American league pennant this year and ha hopes to do it by following the system Casey Stengel used when he led the Yankees to the first of their five successive American league championships in 1949. Richards is planning to two- - his club, loading the lineup with right-handed hitter* when opposing southpaws and with left handed batters when facing right handed hurlers. Whether it will be successful is problematical because so much depends on whether some rookies come through along with a veteran of the baseball wars, Cass Michaels. Even if they do. it appears likely the White Sox could find themselves in trouble when it comes to power hitting and pitching. They have speed, a fine defensive club and on their 1953 records, the- best lefty --.righty pitching pair in the league in Billy Pierce and Virgil Trucks. Pierce won 18 while losing 12 last season and Trucks, who started the year with the Browns, ‘wound up with a 20-10 record, by far his best year in the majors. Bai&ball men doubt that they will wind up winning 38 games between them again this coming season. \ But even if they do, the supporting hurling cast is not an impressive one. Bob Keegan. 11-7 in 1953. will the No ( starter, while ' .two rookies are in the running to round out the big four—Jack Harshman, the former first baseman who won 23 at Nashville last year, and 19-year-old Tom Flanagan, a southpaw who has been the most impressive pitcher on the team in spring exhibition games. Sandy Consuegra (7-5) and Mike Fornieles (8-7) also will be spotted as starters, with Harry Dorish (10-6) and Luis Aloma (.2-0) the jbullpen specialists. Al Sima, who 'lren two wTflle losift tlftee With' the Senators last season and Don -..Johnson, who is up for another try Rafter winning 15 at Toronto, are other possibilities. Only two infield positrons are I seU-Nellie Fox at second base and ; Chico Carrasquel at short. Fox j has had trouble with the double ‘

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play at second but Is such a scrapVer that Richards likes him. But the Sox manager is not too pleased this spring with Carrasquel’s efforts. He doesn’t think his LatinAmerican fielding star is hustling like he used to. Ferris Fain, if he can rsgain his batting eye, will play first with rookie Bob Boyd to understudy him. But Richards is hoping that Fain can play every day so he can use Boyd as part of his twoplatoon system. That would put the long-ball hitter in the outfield when righthanders go against the White Sox. At third, Michaels * will start when lefthanders are going against the Sox, with Minnie Minoso, who ledHhe White Sox In almost every offensive department in 1953, taking over the bag when right-handers face the club. Otherwise it will be Minoso in the out-fit-id. He will play against all kinds of pitching. When southpaws pitch against the Sox, Richards hopes to use Johnny Grpth in center, Bill Wilson, who hit .311 for Memphis last season in right and Minoso in left. When righthanders go against them, it will be Willard Marshall in left. Jim Rivera in center and Ed Stewart in right. Fred Marsh and Johnny Lipon figure to win the infield reserve spots. Sherman Dollar will be the No. 1 catcher, but Richards is hoping that Carl Sawatski will improve on his .220 batting average with the Cubs last season so he can share the receiving duties. Lollar then would play against lefthanded pitch in g , Sawatski against right, with Bob Wilson the No. 3 man. Midnight Curfew Ordered By Hack SHREVEPORT, La.. UP —Man<ger Stan Hack established a midTghT~curfew -and banned “heavy card games’' before assuming command of the Chicago Cubs in today's exhibition game with the Baltimore Orioles. The new pilot, introduced himself to the Cubs Wednesday when rain caused cancellation of their game with the Orioles and said he felt "sure we’ll get along fine." Bull Montana Added To Wrestling Card FORT WAYNE, Ind. — Bull Mon tana,-the brawling Bostonian, has' been signed for a preliminary match on the big wrestling. program at the Coliseum Monday, April 12. Montana, an old Indiana favorite long absent from these parts, will meet Steve Novak, of Pittsburgh, in one of two prelims on the furmatch prgram which will be headlined by a U. S. heavyweight championship bout between titleholder Verne Gagne and wrestling’s meanest man. Hans Schmidt, the Terrible Teuton.

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Persley Easy Winner Over Armand Savoie ST. LOUIS, Mo., UP — Arthur Persley, a 26-year-old lightweight •from Red Cross, La., today promised to make his future opponents candidates for disaster relief. Coming off a five-inonths layoff, Persley fgave Armand Savoie, his favorite ’ opponent, a severe beating over the 10 round ftoute at the St. Louis Arena to win a unanimous decision. Both Persley and the Montreal. Canada, battler, who was a decided favorite, weighed 136 pounds, but that was the limit of their similarity. — _ Persley took out after Savoie as soon as the bell rang for the first round, crowded him into his own corner and staggered the Canadian with a furious flurry of rights and lefts to the head. That set the pattern of a bruising setto, with Savoie on the defensive except for rare intervals. Savoie was cut under the eye, alongside the left ear, and suffered a badly battered nose as Persley carried the fight nearly all the way. The margin of Persley’s superiority was indicated by the scores of the referee, Bob Ingham, and the judges, Al Graff and Gene Farrell. Ingham scored it 55-45, Graff 57-43 and Farrell 56-44. 45 Now Entered In Speedway Classic INDIANAPOLIS, UP ■■■ Two veteran drivers and two rookies today jumped the entry list for the 38th annual 500-mile Speedway auto race to 45. Rodger Ward. Los Angeles?who has never finished in the money here, will drive for Dr. R. N. Sabourin, Flushing. N. Y., and Jimmy Davies. Pacoima, Cal., will pilot the same car in which he placed 10th last time. It is owned by Pat Clancy, Memphis, Tenn. Rookies who will be required to pass 100-mile driving tests are EtUtte Russo; Springfield, 111., and Larry Crockett, Columbus, Ind. Both will drive for the Federal Engineering Co., Detroit. Indianapolis Man Is Killed By Fall INDIANAPOLIS, UP — William Hall, 74, fell 20 feet from a ladder at the McCormick Lumber Co., here Wednesday and died a few hours later of injuries. - ’ Hoosier Is Killed As Auto Overturns EVANSVILLE, Ind,* UP — James E. Burke, 27, Elberfeld, was killed Wednesday when his car overturned on U. S. 41 here after hitting a curb.

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Roberts Says He's Set For Season Opener By UNITED PRESS Robin Roberts discounted a Grapefruit. League record which would shame a bush league pitcher ' today and said he “felt ready” to flash the form that enabled him to win 20 games in each of the last four years. "I’m sure I'll be all *right by opening flay aftei-yesterday's performance,” the Philadelphia Phillies' ace right-hander said. “I was getting worried but now my arm and back feel strong—in fact I never felt better.’ Roberts suffered his third defeat of tfce spring when Detroit pounded Tim for 13 hits in a 7-2 triumph Wednesday but he pointed out that he shut out the Tigers with only three hits -during the last four innings. * - — “Those were a mighty important four innings to me —the most important Vve pitched this spring,” Roberts said. “Steve O’Neill aske‘d me if 1 wanted to be taken outafter the fourth inning but I told him I felt I could go the distance.” Roberts, who had a 23-16 record for the Phillies last season, has been hammered for 40 hits and 39 runs in 31 innings this* spring but .Manager O'Neill was inclined to. go along with his star’s optimistic analysis. "•He’ll be perfectly all right,” O’Neill said. "He tells me he's all right now and he’s never let me down.” The Washington Senators and St. Louis Cardinals continued to receive outstanding pitching in Wednesday games but manager Casey Stengel was more bewildered than ever over the form of his world chaihpion New York Yankees. The amazing Senators scored their ninth -straight victory over Inajos league opposition wheT they defeated the ■ Cincinnati Redlegs, 9-2, with the aid of Frank Shea's six shutout innings. Tom Wright and Pete Runnels sparked Washington's nine-hit attack while Shea and Johnny Dixon limited the Redlegs to eight singles. Gerry Staley twirled two- hit, shutout trail for seven innings to lead the Cardinals to a 6-3 triumph over the Chicago White Sox and give Sts Louis a 14-8 Grapefruit League mark. Staley, an 18-game winner in 1953, has permitted only one run, one walk and seven hits in his last 20 . innings of pitching this spring. The Yankees, meanwhile, completed the poorest Florida training program in Stengel's six-year regime when rookie right - handers

Bob Purkey and Fred Green pitched eight-hit ball to give the Pittsburgh Pirates an easy 9-3 verdict. Ft was the fifth straight loss and the 14th in 24 games for the Yankees. The New York Giants took advantage of rookie Rudy Regalado's double error to score three unearned rune in the first inning and went on to beat the Cleveland Indians, 4-2. It was New York’s ninth victory in 12 games with the Indians, who were held to seven hits by Jim Hearn and Don Liddles. The Brooklyn Dodgers outslugged the Milwaukee Braves, 10-7 despite two home runs each by Ed Mathews and Johnny Logan in the only other game. Gil Hodges homered for Brooklyn—a 450-foot blast off the second inning. • Lakers Whip Nats In Playoff Opener MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., UP — The Syracuse Nationals, belted out of their cockiness by the 79-68 deup hy the Minneapolis Laksrs Wednesday night, were a gririily serious lot today as they looked forward to the second game of the National Basketball Assn, playoffs here Saturday. Coach Al Cervi admitted he was jarred considerably by the Lakers' performance in quelling his Nats despite his switch from the expected fast break offense to a slow.-eontrol "It was the rebounds that beat us,” said Cervi, "and who’d have thought Lovellette would be that good against us.” The usually peppery Cervi referred to rookie Clyde Lovellette’s 16-point output in taking scoring honors for the evening. “We’ll have to win the next one or we are going to be in rough shape," said Cervi in sizing up the Nats' situation for the remaining games in the best of seven series. But there was no gloating from Laker Coach Johpny Kundla. “They kept us uncomfortable throughout the game and we've got, some improving to do,” Kundla eaid in pointing out that it was the Lakers’ fourth period spurt that made the final 11-point difference. Youth Confesses To Setting Nine Fires JEFFERSONVILLE. Ind., UP — A,-^l's- J >’ear-old Clarksville youth w’rffj could give no motive admitted Wednesday he set nine fires RIT year’s time, including a $15,00ff blaze at Jeffersonville high school where he was a pupil. The high school fire 10 days ago was followed Monday night by another at St. Paul’s Episcopal church, which did $3,500 damage.

Dolan is Convicted On Perjury Charge Conviction Sheds No Light On Money KANSAS CITY, Mo. UP — St. Louis policeman Elmer Dolan, once a hero for his part in capturing kidnaper Carl Austin Hall, was convicted Wednesday of lying about what he did with the $600,000 ransom money Hall was carrying. The perjury conviction, however, shed no light on where the missing half of the record ransom paid for little Bobby Greenlease is now. A federal court jury deliberated 3% tromrsneforrreturn ing a verdict that Dolan lied when he told a grand jury that he took two suit cases containing the money to a St. Lbuis police station at the same time the kidnap-killer was brought in to be booked. Defense Atty. Mark Hennelly announced he would ask for a new trial, and Judge Albert Ridge gave him until April 15 to file the motion, Sentencing was delayed until that date. Dolan and Lt. Louis Shoulders arrested Hall at the Town House

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Hotel in St. Louis last Oct. 6. Shoulders also has been charged with perjury tn connection with the disappearance of the ransom, largest ever paid, and will be tried April 12. Six government witnesses testified during the three-day trial that they were in the Newstead Ave. police station when Hall was booked, and saw no sign of the ransom suitcases. Dolan, the only defense witness, said he took the two suitcases in with Hall, then went back to the Town House and got a third suitcase, containing the kidnaper’s clothing. He said he took the third case into the police station about 80 minutes after the first two. Two government witnesses said they didn't see Dolan leave the hotel with the third suitcase, but one witness testified he saw Dolan come into the station with a suitease about an hour and a half after Hall was booked. The ransom containers were turned over to the FBI the day after Hall's arrest and a former FBI agent said they contained less than $300,000. \ ■’ Abe's Rifle GEORGES MILLS, N. H., UP— Clarence Collins owns the only

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rifle known to have been fired by Abraham Lincoln. The diary of Pvt. Bascom' of Newport, a Civil War sharpshooter, records that the president, on an inspection tour, fired the rifle. Collins values the gun at $1,500.

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