Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 133, Decatur, Adams County, 7 June 1954 — Page 7

MONDAY, JUNE 7, I»S4 .

SPORTS

Little League Season Opens Tuesday Night The Decatur Little league wiU open its second season Tuesday night at Warthman field, with two games on tap, and preceded by a brief opening parade and pregame cere monlee. Opening was originally set for last Tuesday but was postponed because of heavy rainfall over the .Memorial Day holiday. A parade will leave the court house promptly at 5:30 pm., headed by a police escort and the city fire brock. followed by personnel of the four Little League teams and league officials. The Decatur high school band will take part in brief ceremonies at the field, with .Mayor John MDoan throwing out the first ball to get the league Underway, The opening game of the 1954 season will get underway promptly at 6:15 o’clock, with the Yankees meeting the White Sox in the opener. This will be followed by the tilt between and Red Sox. All Little ‘League games are scheduled for eix innings, but no inning can be started after 9:30 o’clock, the seme rule as was prevalent last season. Managers of the four Little ij,eague teams are the same as I,lst season, with Roily Ladd heading the Yankees, Roes Way the White Sox. Gerald Vizard the Indians and Chet Kleinknight the Red Sox. Two Little League games are scheduled each Tuesday and Friday night. This year, a few games will be played on the new diamond at the Homestead park, and McMillen field can also be used for • Th« new swimming JIM 80. tutest selling and — most sensatianat tore of the 20tti Century. Beautiful plastic construction. Absolutely guaranteed. Send 11.00 tor each lure. Buy one for your friends also. Send check or cash. Mail Orders Only. <■ JAR TACKLE CO. F.OBOWMI Largo. Fla.

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the makeup of rained out games, if neceeeery. As usual, there is no admission charge for Little League games, with expenses of fielding the •teams, paying slnurance and all costs defrayed through contributions from business firms, industries, organizations and individuals. Indians Practice Here This Evening ' Gerald Vizard, coach of the Indians in the Little Legaue, has called a practice session for s;3ff o'clock this evening at Worthman field. All team members are asked tp be present. Major League Leaders National League Batting AB H Pct. Robinson, Bklyn. ..lid 45 .398 iMusial, St. Louis .. 187 72 .395 Jablonski, St. L. . 203 79 .884 Home Rune — Muslal St. Louie and Sauer Chicago, 18; {Mays New York, 16. Runs Batted In — iMusial St. Louis, 61; Jablonski St. Louie, 47; Sauer Chiqago and 'Ennis Philadelphia, 45. Runs — Muslal St. Louis, 50; Moon St. Louis, 40; Ashburn Philadelphia, 45. Stolen Bases — Temple Cincinnati,* 10; Bruton Milwaukee, 9; Fondy Chicago, 8. Pitching — Podres, Bklyn. 6-1 .857; Fowler, Cincinnati 4-1 .800; Conley, i.Milwaukee 4-1 .800; Grissom, New York 4-1 .800. American League Batting AB H Pct. Avila, Cleve 189 72 .381 Rosen, Cleve. 159 55 .346 Tuttle, Det 152 51 .336 Home Runs —- Rosen Cleveland, 13; Zernial Philadelphia, 11; Mantle New York and Vernon Washington, 10. Runs Batted In — iMinoso Chicago, 51; Rosen Cleveland, 49; Berra New York. Fain Chicago and Zernial Philadelphia. 36. Runs — iMinoso Chicago. 46; Fox” Chicago, 4fc Avila Cleveland. 4£. _ - Stolen Basgs —-. Rivera, Fox and M inoso Chicago. 7. Pitching - Keegan. Chicago 8-1 .889; Lopat, New York-6-1 .857; Reynolds, New York 6-1 .857; Consuegra, Chicago 6-1 .857,

Klenk's Beats Payne In Fed League, 5-1 Klenk's remained undefeated in Federation league play Sunday afternoon, defeating Payne, 5-1, at Payne, O. The Decatur team scored twice in the first inning on a walk to Bowen and hits by Crist, Hoehammer and Reed. Three more tallted in the second inning on another walk to Bowen, three Payne errors and Reed’s second hit. The locals were held scoreless on only twe hits the rest of the way. < Payne scored its only tally in the sixth on a hit. two walks and an infield out. Harnish scattered three hits over the first seven innings, and McCrory allowed only two blows in the last two innings. McComb Construction remained undefeated by whipping Club Manhattan, 11-4, and is tied for the league lead .with Klenk’s. Paulding was handed its first loss of the season, 5-3, by Monroeville; Rockford downed Kendallville, 8-3 in 10 Innings, and Colonial Oil defeated Three Rivers, 8-6. Klenk's will meet Kendallville in a Federation league game at Worthman field in this city at 8 o’clock Thursday night. Sunday, Klenk's will play at Paulding in an afternoon loop contest. • Klenk's AB R H E Bowen, If - r —— 3 2 0 0 D. Bright, cf —- 5 0 0 0 Crist, ss .—' 4 2 10 Hoehammer, lb 4 0 10 Reed. 3b — 4 0 3 0 Andrews, rs -.->-4 4) 1-0 Williams, rs 0 0 0 0 Hartzell, e 4 0 0 0 Kahle, 2b 4 10 0 Harnish, p 3 0 0.0 McCrory, p' 1 0 0 0 Totals — 36 5 6 0 Payne AB RHE Otten weller, 3b 4 11 1 Gramax, ss 3 0 0 0 Linden, c 4 0 10 Berryhili, lb, rs 4 0 0 0 Doster, p —3 6 2 0 Rosswurm, 2b — 4 0 0 1 Murray. If 3 0 10 Lopshire, rs 0 0 0 01 Moore, lb 2 0 0 0 Totals 28 1 5 3, Score by innings: Klenk's 230 ■ 000 DOO—S Payne ------------ 000 001 000 1 Pony League Teams Will Play Tonight Decatur's two Pony League teaips, the Cardinals and Braves, will stage an exhibition game at 7 o'clock this evening. No admission will be charged. Members of both teams are urged to be present. The game will be played at Worthman field. Ladies Golf League Standings Listed In-the Ladies golf league last week. Honora Haugk had low score of 50. Other low scores: Mary Archer 58.. Janet Lane 58,. Maxine Bauman 59, Ethel Mae Saiimann 51k. Standings W L Pct. Dub-Ettes ....7% 2% .750 Fore-Ettes 7 3 .700 Bag-Ettes 7 3 .700 Par-Ettes 5 5 .500 Drive-Ett.es ------ 2 8 .21)0 Elice-Etths. 125

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Lloyd Mangrum Wins Western Open Title CINCINNATI (INS) -r Veteran goiter ‘Lloyd Mangrum of Niles, 111., won the 51st Western Open championship on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff Sunday. Mangrum sunk an 18-foot putt on the first hole in the overtime for a birdie three to win the <2,400 first-place prize money and his first 1954 tournament. iMangrum and Ted Kroll of New Hartford, N. Y., were tied at the end of the regulation 72 holes with 77. iMangrum, who was in seventh place at the 54-hole mark, blazed a sizzling five under par 66 over the 6,800-yard Kenwood Country club course white Kroll shot a 67 to necessitate the playoff. It was the sixth in the 51-year history of the Western Open but the -first of the sudden-death variety. Kroll received <I,BOO for his second-place finish in the <15,000 tourney. Robert De Vicenzo, the South American champion from Buenos Aires, wound up in third place, with a 278 total with a final round of 71. De Vicenzo received <1,400. Jack Burke of Kiamesha Lake, N. Y.. finished fourth with 279 after carding his third straight 70. Burke won <1,200. Three players were bracketed for fifth place and spilt <2,500. They were Shelley Mayfield, Chicopee. Mass., Leo Blagetti, Sandusky, 0., and Gene Littler, Palm Springs, Calif., deadlocked at 281. Pat Schwab of Dayton, 0., was the low amateur with a 293 score. MAJOR ’ NATIONAL LEAGUE Club W L Pct. G.B. Brooklyn 29 18 .617 New York 27 20 .574 2 Milwaukee 25 20 .556 3 Philadelphia „25 20 .566 3 St. Louis 24 24 .500 5% Cincinnati 22 25 .468 7 Chicago 20 26 .435 8% Pittsburgh 16 35 .314 15 Saturday's Results Brooklyn 8-8, Chicago 5-3. New York 7, Cincinnati 0. Milwaukee T, Pittsburgh 0. Philadelphia 9, St. Louis 4. Sunday’s Results Brooklyn 6, Chicago 4 (10 innings). New York 3-2, Cincinnati 2-3. Milwaukee 5-4. Pittsburgh 0-6. Philadelphia 11, St. Louis 8. AMERICAN LEAGUE Club W L Pct. G.B. deveand 32 15 .681 Chicago 33 16 .673 New York 30 20 .600 3% Detroit -23 21 .523 7% Washington 19 28 .404 13 Boston 16 25 .390 13 Baltimore - 17 31 .354 15% Philadelphia „ 17 31 .354 15% Saturday’s Results Baltimore 2-1, New York 1-3. Detroit 6-4, Boston 0-5. Cleveland 4, Philadelphia 1 (11 innings!. Chicago 5, Washington 3 (Iff innings). (Sunday's Results Cleveland 2-7, Philadelphia 1-5. Chicago 5-6*. Washington 3-0. Baltimore 7-2. New York 5-5. "Boston Y, Detroit 1. The first cotton mill in America was built on James Island, S. C., in 1789, pre-dating by ope year one built in another state.

Dodgers Boost League Margin To Two Gaines NEW YORK, (INS) —• Jackie Robinson hardly stands a chalice of being voted the National League's most popular player, bitt the fiery Brooklyn Dodger old definitely is In the running for ins second most valuable player award and batting crown. Robinson is the principal target of booing fans around the entire circuit. His critics accuse him of being an “academy award" player long on histrionics and short on temper. His recent bat-flipping incident at Milwaukee didn’t help. But mingled among it all is the age-old “if’ you can’t beat ’em, boo ’em.” This comes out of fear and respect for abiit-y. And Brooklyn’s jack-of-all-trades, as his most vehement critics agree, is a tough guy to beat. The 35-year-old Robinson, hobbled by a bum knee and a sore heel, is compelled to sit out more action than he cares to these days, but his presence in the Dodger lineup has proved to be one of the main factors in their rise to a two-game lead at the top of the league. Robinson, who was MVP and batting champ in 1949 when he hit .349, helped extend the Dodger winning streak to nine straight Sunday when he made four hits, including a homer, as the Bums bested the Chicago Cubs. 6 to 4, in ten innings. It was Jackie’s second four-hit game in a row and it boosted his average to a hefty .388 in 39 games, tops in the majors. Robinson’s single, one of four off reliever Hal Jeffcoat, broke the 4-4 tie in the critical tenth. Dee Fondy, Randy Jackson and Ralph Kiner slammed Dodger” starter Don Newcombe for homers and Robinson and Roy Campanella banged round-trippers off Cub starter Pau Minner. The victory went to Jim Hughes, his first of the season. The second place New York Giants and the Cincinnati Redlegs split a pair of 3-to-2 decisions: the HiWaukee Braves and j[he Pittsburgh Pirates also split. Milwaukee winning, the first, 5 so 0, and the Bucs taking the nightcap. 6 to 4, and the Philadelphia Phillies slugged the St. Louis Cardinals, 11 to 8. Cleveland maintained an eight percentage point lead in the American. league by downing the Philadelphia Athetics twice, 2 to 1 and 7 to ,5, whie second place Chicago swept the Washington Senators. 5 to '3 and 6 to 0. The New York Yankees and the Baltimore Orioles divided a pair. Baltimore won the opener, 7 to 5, and the Yankees took the second game, 5 to 2. Boston's Red Sox homered out a *-to-4 win over the Detroit Tigers. Monte Irvin’s eighth-inning homer broke a 2-2 tie and gave the Giants their win over Cincy and Bob Borkowskis single in the. ninth drove home the winning run for the Redlegs and Fred BaczeWski in the afterpiece. Veteran rjghthander Jim Wilson won his first 1954- start for the Braves with a brilliant four-hitter, hut the Pirates came back to nullify a grand slam homer by Ed .Mathews to take the second game.. Th’e Phillies scored six runs in the first inning, four on Bobby Morgan’s grand-slammer, and five in the eighth, to down the Cards. 1 St. Louis oiJthit- the Phils. 17 to 10. The Indians got only three hits in their opening game win over Arnold Portocarrero and the A’s. but triples by Dave Philley and George Strickland, plus two sacrifice fiys, admitted two runs in the second, off the 21-year-old rookie. Ancient Bob Feller won his second game despite the fact that he gave BP eight hits, one of them a homer by the same young Mr. Portocarrero. Art Houtteman was the second gamevtetoraetfter-Tribe • scored four runs in the fourth, three on a triple fry Hal Naragon. rookie catcher. Houtteman, shelled out in the seventh, contributed a homer, as did Larry Doby. "T The White Sox extended their latest winning streak to five straight with a sweep of the Nats. Two homers by Jim Rivera and Minnie Minoso’s two-run decider brought Sandy Consuegra his sixth win and then Jack Harshman blanked the Senators with a sevembitter. A four-run Oriole splurge routed rookie Bob Grim in the eighth in-

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ning and won for Baltimore Us curtain-raiser with the Yanks. Allie Reynolds set the Birds down with five hits in getting the Yanks even. Mickey Mantle hit a tworun homer in thd nightcap. The Red Sox got all their runs on homers to down the Tigers. Ted Lepcio, Milt Bolling and Harry Agganls each hit one with a man aboard and Jackie Jensen slammed a round-tripper with the bases empty. Willard Nixon, with relief help from Ellis Kinder, was the Boston winner. North Side Coach To Bali State College MUNCIE, Ind , (INS) — John J. Hinga, Fort Wayne North Side high school basketball coach, steps up into the collegiate field this fall when he succeeds Bob Primmer, head basketball mentor at Ball State Teachers college. Primmer remains on the staff but gave up coaching because of his health. His successor was a Purdue athlete and formerly coached at West Lafayette. Plan Night Races At Lake View Speedway Bill Jones won the feature race at Lake View speedway at Clem’s Lake Sunday afternoon. Jim Rex was second and Phil Baker finished third. Zeke Handler's car was wrecked when it rolled over during the consolation race, but the driver escaped injur?,'. • Beginning next Sunday, the weekly races will be held at night, with time trials at 7:30 p.m., and the races at 8:30. Color Delay LOS ANGELES, (INS) — A top television production executive believes that color TV sets cannot be mass produced until 1956 and that the industry has promised the public "too much too soon” Dr. W. R. G. Baker, general manager of General Electric's electronics division and a vice president of the firm, said in Los Angeles that TV manufacturers face a bottleneck on 21-inch color tubes.

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National GoH Day Is Held Saturday NEW YORK (INS) — Although mighty Ben Hogan was tlite little big man who wasn’t there, an estimated 125,000 golfers tried over the weekend to best the *peerless fairway whit in the third annual National Golf day. A nationwide field of duffers, including Vice President Richard M. Nixon, a number of governors and senators, a blind man, a five-year-, old boy and a sprightly 83-year-old man, matched their handicaps against Hogan in a round of golf. Hogan, recovering from a virus attack, did not participate in the competition Saturday. Ben plans to shoot his .round at Baltusrol in New Jersey Saturday, June 12, at which time hie “opponents” can get another crack at him. v: Vice President Nixon, playing at the Five Farms club in Baltimore, scored a 94-22-72. Gov. Dan Thornton of Colorado carded a 73 and with a two handicap netted a snappy 71 at Denver and Gov. Allan Shivers of Texas. Ben’sFhome state, scored an 84-11-73 at Austin. Gen. Omar Bradley turned in- a net 74 at Atlanta, while Gen. William F. Dean carded a 109-29-80 at San Francisco. Blind Robert Allman had a 128-55-73 at the Overbrook Country Club in Philadelphia and Hoyt Shuler, a one-armed swinger, turned in a nifty 83-11-72 at the Orangeburg, S. -C. Country dub. At Sah Francisco, five-year-old Frankie Pye took three days to complete the 18 holes, but had a 137-69-68. In Detroit, 83-year-old C. M. Culver scored a 99-26-73. Charles Dudley, former southern amateur champion, had the best gross score. Dudley shot a 62-1-61 at the Greenville, N. C. Country Club. ”■ Six holes-in-one were reported with the longest, a 234-yarder, by Dick Stenard at the Amsterdam, N. Y„ Municipal Golf Ghih. The “Beat Ben -Hogan" contest is sponsored by the PGA and Life

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magazine and the money from a JI entry fee goes to the <l. 8. C. and the National Golf Fund. Dick Rosenthal To Play With Pistons FORT WAYNE, Ind., (INS) — Record Notre Dame scorer Dick Rosenthal is to play professional basketball with the Fort Wayne Zollner Pistons. Xhe Pistons, of the National Association, announced the signing of Rosenthal, but declined to name his salary. The Notre Dame athlete set an Irish basketball scoring record of 1,227 points in three seasons. He played center, but ißosenthal’s 6-5 won’t be lofty enough for pro hardwood work, so Piston coach Charlie Eckman said be will be switched to forward. i

AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Club W L Pct. G.B, Indianapolis .. 32 17 .653 Minneapolis .. 25 21 .543 ’5% Louisville 26 23 .531 6 St. Paul 26 23 .531 6 Columbus .... 24 25 .490 8 Kansas City .. 21 26 .447 9 Charleston ... 21 30 .412 12 Toledo 20 30 .400 Sunday’s Results Indianapolis 9-4, Columbus 7-2. Minneapolis 2-8, Louisville 1-4. | St. Paql 5-4, Toledo 4-0. i : MASONIC Regular Stated Meeting at 7:30 TUESDAY, JUNE Bth Ray Stingely, W. M.