Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 52, Number 134, Decatur, Adams County, 8 June 1954 — Page 7

TUESPAY, JUNE 8, 1864

Dodgers Score 10th Straight Win On Monday NEW YORK (INS)—Brooklyn's Murder Incorporated had the National League convinced today that crime} pays and to prove it the Bums bad Roy Campanella steal ,home< The unlikejy sight of rotund Campanella pilfering the home dish occurred in the 14th inning Monday night when the Dodger's scored two runs to down the St. Louis Cardinals, 7- to 5, and extend their winning streak to ten straight games. Thus, the Brooks equaled the longest N. L. victory string of the season by Milwaukee, and main* tained their two-game league lead. The Dodgers won their latest game the hard way after blowing a three-run lead in the ninth. With two down in the twelfth, reliefer Joe Presko walked Gil Hodges and Campanella. Carl Furillo singled up the middle tor one run and Al Bra ale replaced Presko. Braale and everybody else ig-*-nored Campy and the hefty Dodger catcher made a mad dash | from third basd, sliding, hard into St.' Louis catcher Del Rice, who crumpled to the ground. Rice was removed on a stretcher and taken to the hospital. He sustained a spike wound and severe contusions of the lower right leg. Preacher Roe started for the Dodgers and allowed only four hits, including homers by Wally Moon and Stan Musial, for the first eight innings. He weakened in the ninth and after a double by Ray Jablonski produced a run, Jim Hughes came on and served a game-tying triple with none out to Bill Sarni. Hughes settled down magnificently, walking two men intentionally, and then retiring the next three in order without further > v Roe had been given a 5-to-2 lead by Duke Snider and the same Mr. Campanella. Snider smacked a triple, homer and double and Roy belted’, an eighth-inning homer, all ■ off starter Gerry Staley. Clem- Labine. who hurled the last- two innings for the Bums, was ttedlted with the win while Paesko was charged with the loss. The New York Giants stayed on '' Brooklyn's heels' 'by beatHig- the Milwaukee Braves. 4 to 2, before 31.071 fans,At County Stadium. Sal Maglie won his sixth game of the year with relief help from Marv Grissom. The Barber, given a 340-0 lead in the first- two innings, held the Braves to two bits until the seventh when they slammed out four hits and ended the frame with the bases loaded. This uprising produced only one run and the other run scored in the eighth when Eddie Mathews hit his 11th homer, off Grissom. Whitey Lockman hit a two-run homer off loser Lew Burdette in the second inning and t lie G Sants added an insurance marker in the

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■ ninth off Ernie Johnson on a walk, wild pitch and a Henry Thompson double. This was the only action in the National League and in the American League the Boston Red Sox moved intp fifth place by sweeping the Detroit Tigers in a doubleheader, 3 to 2 and 5 to 4 in 12 innings. The. twin victories gave the Bosox four straight over the Bengals. Rookies Frank Sullivan and Torn Brewer recorded the triumphs. Sullivan, Boston's stringbean righthander, yielded 11 hits as he bested Steve Gromek in the opener. Catcher Sqmmy White ac< counted for two of his team's runs with a single and a double. Milt Bolling singled home the winning run off Dick Marlowe in the 12th inning of the nightcap. Brewer, who gave up nine hits, struck out 11 men. The Tigers sent the game into overtime when Fred Hatfield pinch hit a two-run homer in the ninth. MAJOR , n AMERICAN LEAGUE Club W L Pct G.B. Cleveland -— 32 15 .681 Chicago 33 16 .673 New York —— 30 20 .600. 3% Detroit 23 23 .500 8% Boston 18 25 .418 12 Washington — 19 28 .404 13 Baltimore -— 17 31 .354 15,% Philadelphia „ 17 31 .354 15% Monday’s Results Boston 3-5, Detroit 2-4 (2nd, 12 innings). Only games scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE Club W L Pct G.B. Brooklyn 30* 18 .625 New York —— 28 20 .583 2 Philadelphia —25 20 .556 3% Milwaukee 25 21 .543 4 St. Louis 24 25 .490 6% Cincinnati- 22 25 .468 7% Chicago —... 20 26 . 435 9 Pittsburgh ... 16 35 .314 15% Monday’s Resutta Brooklyn 7, St. Louis 5 (12 innings). * New York 4. Milwaukee 2. Only games scheduled. Seek Death Penally For Confessed Killer Funeral Thursday For Latest Victim s NEW YORK (INS)—Boys and girls she grew up with a-nd with whom she shared dreams for the future today were to pay their last respects to Dorothy Westwater, 14, victim of a fatal beating, stabbing and rape. The oody ot the blue-eyed youngster, the fourth and last murder victim of John Francis Roche, was laid out in a simple white dress." She laj in a hardwood and white plush casket in the Abbey, nc’al home Uir-i-e blocks from the ballway of her East 66tb street home where she was attacked last - 'Wednesday: —————-- - No decision was reached by family until shortly before the funeral parlor was to* admit the public as to whether*the casket would be opened. More than 1.500 classmates, neighbors and friends were expected to view the body. On Thursday at 10 a. m., the Rev. A. Gately, of Pleasantville. N. Y a . a friend of the Westwaster family, will offer a solemn requiem mass at the church of St. Catherine of Siena. The youngster will be laid to rest in Calvary Cemetery, Maspeth, Queens. - In liis cell in city prison. Roche. 27, stoop-shouldered steam-fitter's helper slept, showing no concern. “The district attorney's office i«-’ dicated it would seek the death;

Little League Farm Teams Open Friday The Decfttpr Little League’s minor league teams will open their season Friday morning At Worthman field, with two games on the schedule, starting at 8 o’clock. Two games will be played each Tuesday and Friday morning by the fo(ir farm teams, with the first game at 8 o’clock, and the second game at 9:36. •Managers of the farm teams are: Raymond McDougal, Indians; Jerry Gage, Yankees; Paul Gross, White Sox, and John Blllig, Red Sox. The roster of teams (©Hows: Indiana —Johnny Cowans, Joe Mwris, Ronnie Highland, Roger Harris. Kobne. Johnny Custer, Von Call. Ronnie Baker, Tom Colchln. Dick Landrum, Don WieJtcldt, BiUy Conrad, Donnie Poling. Steve Pickford and La Mar Taylor. Yankees —Herb Banning, Dave Sheets, Tom Cravens, Dan Poling. Davie Beery. Dennis Scott, John Dierkes, Pat Kelly, Bob Ladd. Tom Maddox, John Bedwell. Don Fawcett, Joe Geiruer, Benny Kolter and Richard Morgan. White Sox — Topi Mclntosh, Dave Gay, Danny Theobald, Max Elliott, David Biehle, Rex Strickler. Forest strjckler, David Magley, Jonathan Embler. Mike Nelson, Gary Coffee, Larry Macklin. Bob Theobald, Jerry Mdintosh and Jf.y DeVoss. Red Soy— Jack Dailey, Gary Robinson, Gary Werst, Michael Baker, John Kohne, Homer Whetston, Steve Gause. Gary BcKean. David Baker. Richard Fravel, Richard Hakey, Marvin Alverson. Barry Ellis., Danny Christen and Fred Frauhjgdr. Schedule For June The schedule for June (first game listed to be played at 8 a. m., second at 9:39 a. m.): June 11 —Red Sox vs Yankees: Indians vs White Sox. June 15 —White Sox vs Red Sox; Yankees vs Indians. June 18 —White Sox vs Indians; Yankees vs Red Sox. June 22—White Sox vs Yankees; Red Sox vs Indians. June 35--Indians vs White Sox;: Yankees vs Red S>ox. June 29—Indians vs Yankees; Red Sox vs White Sox. Wednesday's Winner To Meet Bobo Olson MIAMI BEACH.'FIa. winner of Wednesday night’s 10round nationally televised, fight between Ernie Durango and BHiy Kilgore will meet middleweight champion Bobo Olson July 7 at Chicago in a non-title bout. Sin ce Durando and Kilgore are not among the top 10 middleweights, the Olson fight is regarded merely as a tune-up for the champion before he defends his title Aug. 14 against Rocky Castellani in San Francisco. penalty for the confessed slayer. A grand |ury waste be asked to return first degree murder indictments before June 21. when Roche is'scheduled for a hearing in felony court. Meanwhile. the knife andbloodstained pipe found in Roche's car, along with two black-handled knives found wrapped in bis clothing left with a friend were turned over to Alexander O. Gettler, city toxicologist, for examination.

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Mirnu AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Club W L Pct. G.B. Indianapolis .- 33 17 .660 St. Paul - 27 23 .549 6 Minneapolis 25 22 .532 6% Louisville 26 24 .520 7 Columbus .... 24 26 .480 8 Kansas City .. 22 26 .458 11 Toledo 21 30 .412 12% Charleston — 21 31 .404 13 Monday's Results Kansas City 7, Columbus 1. St. Paul 9, Louisville 5. Toledo 5. Minneapolis 2. Indianapolis 6, Charleston 2 (14 innings).. Joey Maxim Scores Unpopular Decision NEW YORK (INS) — Veteran Joey Maxim scared a unanimous, but extremely unpopular eight* round decision Monday night over 19-year-old lightheavyweight sensation Floyd -Patterson at Eastern Patterson suffered his first professional defeat' after winning 13 bouts. He was a 5-7 favorite. A crowd of 2,350 booed the verdipt which established the 32-year--61d. former champ from Cleveland as the winner. Eleven boxing writers at ringside tabbed the televised fight in favor of Patterson, 1952 Olympic 165-pound champion. Referee Ruby Goldstein scored the fight 4-3-1 for Maxim. Judge Joe .Eppy tallied it 5-3 for ( Joey and judge Arthur Snsskind had it 7-1 tor the Ohioan. Patterson carried the fight to Maxim for the most part and ihottgh th ere w ere no knockdown? Maxim suffered the only, wound, a sliglit cut in the right eyebrow. •Saxfin weTgheT son 168. Trade in a Good Town — Decatur.

Duden Tops Record Qualifying Field CINCINNATI Duden. little' known professional from ■Portland, Ore?, topped a record ■ field across the nation In competition Cor qualifying berths in next week’s U.S. Open golf tournament. ! The 32-year-old Duden fired a pine-under-par 65-66-131 over the 5,877-yard Cincinnati Country club course Monday in pacing a local 1 field of 88. (Among other pro qualifiers in the various districts were Chandler Harper, Johnny Revolta, Deny Shute, Al Besselink, Johnny Bul- . lock and lEd Furgol. » ‘'Name” pros who b lis sed qualifying included Ed Porky Oliver at Chicago, and Johnny Palmer. Jerry Barber and Argentina's Roberto di Vicenxo at Cincinnati. The latter are alternates. Leading amateurs who got in under the wire included 1952 Brit- ( ish amateur titleholder Harvie Ward Jr., Gene Dahlliender Jr., . Billy JoePatton,Sam .JUrzetta L r 1954 British amateur runner - up . BlH'Caanpbell and Charlie Coe, who ! later -withdrew. A.tie led to a sudden death play- _* off iif CineiiinAti. 7 * "' ' j Thirteen golfers qualifled with scares of 137 or bdlow. leaving only two places open for five pros who tied at 138 at the end of the ! regular ion 36 holes. The contested slots were captured by Bob Toski and Boh Rosburg ot San Francisco jn a play- ' off. ' j Mel .Carpenter, ‘Harbor Hills, 3 0., professional scored a i.hole-in-L one on the. 262-yard 15t.h holefcte. J failed to qualify with a 144. Allen Coulter of" Richmond. Ind., also chalked up ap ace. He-cupped 5 the ball with one shot on tha 154- ' yard eighth hole. He also failed to r a T6O? 1 Other qualifiers included: l ~.. -DSwiiy Muil: rich. Austin. Minn.; Pete Tfcomp•>on,‘"Melbourne, Australia; Fred Wampler. Indianapolis; Art Wall Jr.. Pocono Manor, Pa.: Bob Inman, Tulso. Okla.:! Shelley Mayfield. Chicopee, Mass.; Bo Winninger. Oklahoma City; Paul McGuire, Wichita; Felice Torza, St. Charley- ML: Dick IMayer, St. Petersburg, Fla.; and Joe Taylor, Charleston. VZ. Va. . _ . National League's Attendance Higher CINCINNATI. O. (INS) - Naional League baseball officials say rhe attendance figures for the Hrsf tight .weeks of. the season show - in increase of 307,577 over last year. Sunday’s gate receipts brought the total to 2.436,062 for 188 games. This compares with 2,>28'485 in - 479 games through June 7. 1933. ; the eighth Sunday of last year. Chicago, New York and St. Louis registered the greatest gains. Milwaukee continued to lead the vague ifL gttbYidatice'and is ahead >f last year’s record breaking pace.

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Robinson Cleared For Throwing Bal CINCINNATI (INS)—Warren C. Giles, president of the National league, has cleared Jackie Robinson of any intent of throwing his bat into the stands last Wednesday night in Milwaukee. Giles said Monday in Cincinnati that he is convinced that the star Brooklyn outfielder did not Intend to toss away his bat which allegedly injured three pea-sons. The Incident took place when Jackie tossed his bat in disgust when he was put out of the Brook-lyn-Milwaukee game by umpire Lee Balianfant. Jackie has been fined |SO by Giles for prolonging the argument with the umpire. r In St. Louis. Robinson said the fine was for “renewing an argument with an umpire,” and added, “I'm sure everyone will agree with Giles —except my enemies—that the bat-throwing iwas an acciGiles said, that the incident was thoroughly investigated and that he has received a letter of explanation and apology from Robinson. He continued: “I wired Robinson in St. Louis that I am convinced Iteyond doubt that there was no intent whatsoever on his part to cause the bat to go into the stands.” Robinson reportedly apologized immediately to the persons who claimed they were hit by the bat. Harry Yelving-ton. an usher, said he was struck on the head by the bat; Two fans. Mr. and .Mrs. Peter Kolinski, said the bat struck them also. The couple employed an attorney in the case but said they are as yet undecided on any court action. '. ; Two Persons Killed By Minnesota Storm MINNEAPOLIS. (INS) — High winds with gusts up to 95 miles an hour swept over western and northwestern Minnesota late Monday causing the death of two persons.

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Archie Moore Wins On 6th Round TKO NEW YORK (INS)-r-Lightheavy-weight champion Archie Moore, weighing a 'bulky 189% pounds, stopped Bert Whitehurst of Baltimore in the sixth round of a scheduled ten-round non-title bout Monday night at St. Nicholas Arena. Referee Mark Conn stopped the televised contest at 1:09 of the sixth as Moore pounded away at Whitehurst’s unprotected jaw. Boogies Leaders In Soya League The Boogies team, consisting of J. Hammond, D. Bohnke, R. Hammond and R. Friend won 4% points from the Divot Diggers to take first place in the Central Soya golf league. The Ruffs won three from the Slicers, and the Dubs won 3% points from the Putters. Low scores for the week: G. Schultz 43, E. Hutker, Sr. 43, E. Hutker, Jr. 44, J. Hammond 45, H. Eley 47, G. Laurent 47, The blind bogey low score was won by G. Laurent with a low net score of 29. e-—.... League Standing W L Pct. Boogies 12% 7% .625 (Slicers J--,,-10% 9% .525 ! Dubslo 10. .500 1 Putters 9% 10% .475 Ruffs -..._ 9% 10% .475 Divot Diggersß 12 .400 Baltimore Orioles Sign Bonus Player BALTIMORE (INS)—The Baltimore Orioles signed their first bonus player today—2l-year old Bill O’Dell of Newberry, S.C., who pitched Clemson college to the 1954 Atlantic Coast conference championship with an 8-2 record. The amount of the bonus paid Che young lefthander was not revealed. O'Dell will jdin the Orioles in Boston today. He will be the only southpaw on the Baltimore staff.

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