Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 88, Decatur, Adams County, 13 April 1956 — Page 7

FRIDAY, APRIL 11, IKi

SPORTS

Picks Dodgers And Yankees To Take Pennants By HOWARD SIGMAND (1.N.8. Sports Writer) BROOKLYN DODGERS The Brooklyn Dodgers sewed up the 1955 National League pennant by getting off to the fastest start in history. An epidemic of spring training tnjfuries and ailments may slow them down this year. However, the Dodgers still seem to have too much overall class and reserve strength for the rest of the league. Many of Wait Aleton's brightest stare are aging, but they should stand up for at least one more season. - The Dodger rundown: , , Catching—Roy Campanella , . . ’nuff said! Pitching — Sore arms and the navy induction of Johnny Podres have depleted the ranks, but the staff still includes such solid senders as Don Newcombe, Carl Erskine, Clem Labine and Roger Craig. Rookie .Don Drysdale, only 19. is the latest phenom. 1 Infield — Rookie Charlie Neal has nailed down second base, and Jackie Robinson is slated to alternate with ex-CMcago Cub Randy Jackson at third. Pees Wee Reese and Oil Hodges fixtures at short and first. Outfield — Two-thirds set with Duke Snider in center and Carl FurllKo in right. Transplanted infielder Jim Gilliam in left until Sandy Amoros recovers from sprained ankle. Consensus — Should repeat, but no shoo-in. NEW YORK YANKEES ” American League champions in six of the last seven years, the New York Yankees should be even better than last season, chiefly

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from the acquistflon of pitcher Maurice McDermott from Washington. » Shortstop is the big' Yankee problem. Casey Stengel has had o flock, of candidates working there but may open the season wies supposedly "washed up” veteran Phil Rlzzuto. The Yankees, job-by-job: Catching—Yogi Berra in great form and shooting for his fourth most valuable player award. Pitching—Excellen, with Whitey Ford, Bob Turley, Tommp Byrne, Maury McDermott, Don Larsen and Johnny Kucks as the bellweathers. Infield—'Muscular Moose Showron installed at first and army returnee Billy Martin at second. Gil McDougald will play third or short (after recovering from a freak spring injury. Meanwhile, it is Andy Carey at third and Rissuto or rookie Jerry Lumpe at short. Outfield—No worries, with Hank Bauer or Joe Collins, in right, MUckWy Mantle In ctenter and Bauer, Elston Howard or Norm Siebern in'left. Consensus — Should outclass all toes. ' • Decatur High Opens Golf Season Monday The Decantr high school golf team will open the 1956 season Monday afternoon, meeting Fort Wayne Concordia at the Decatur Golf club. Returning lettermen are Bill Zwick, a senior, and Paul Schmidt, and Ronnie Hesher, both juniors. Other candidates for the team include Richard Liming, a sophomore. and the following freshmen: Mike Beery. Jim Burk. Nick Conrad. Steve Edwards. Leroy Ratliffe and Jerry Scheimann. The balance of the schedule is as follows: AprH 19 —Central at Fort Wayne. April 23—Fort Wayne South at DeDecautr. April 24—New Haven at Decatur. April 28 —Kendallville at Decatur. April 30 —Elmhurst at Decatur. MAy 9—Garrett at Garrett. Mak 10—Elmhurst at Elmhurst. May \12 —Northeastern Indiana conference meet at Garrett. rd ta at Fort Wayne. - May 16—South Side at Fort Wayne. May 17—Sectional meet at Fort Wayne. Washington—The 1950 center of population in the U.S. was located eight miles northwest of Olney in Richland county and in the state of Illinois. Detroit- — The .automotive industry is the largest consumer of nickel for plating purposes.

Sluggers Take Over Spotlight In Exhibitions ®y International News Service If spring training is any indication, 1956 may be a record home run year in major league baseball. , Take Thursday's exhibition tilts, for instance. They wielded 15 round trippers in five games, an Average of three per contest. x J* 1 ' The Yankees and Cleveland were the big producers, however, ” "with tour apiece. The New Yorkers opened the bomb bay on Cincinnati, and despite a healthy Redleg counter attack in the home run department, won, s to 1. Hank Baue'r’s eight-inning solo blast was the final end deciding cannon shot of the day for the Yanks. But he had been preceded by Mickle Mantle in the second with none aboard. Elston Howard in the fourth with two on and Bill Skrowron in the seventh, none on. Wally Post, the Redlegs’ walloping rightfielder, cut loose with a three-run shot in the four-run sixth inning off Yankee reliever Jim Kotastanty. Cincinnati came ♦up With three more in the last half of the seventh to tie it up, but Bauer broke the stalemate in the eighth. •’ Rdcky Colaylto led Cleveland to, an 8-to-7 wln ttver-the New YY>rk Giants with two home runs, one of them with a mate aboard. Vic Wertz and Bobby Avila hammered solo shots for the Indians who outhit the Giants, 12 to 7. A pair of homers by Pittsburgh’s

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Gene Freese subdued Kansas City, 1 to 1, at Fort Smith, Ark. Freese’s second shot broke np a 1-to-l deadlock In the tenth inning. Stan (The Man) Musisl and Hank Sauer, newly acquired from the Chicago Cubs, helped St. Louis numb the White Sox, 5 to 2 at Denver. Musial and Sauer both got off solo circuit clouts in the sixth inning when the Cards were trailing, 2 to 0. The blows tied the score and enabled the Cards to go Into an extra inning to collect the win. The Boston Red Sox overcame the homerun stigma to bpat the Philadelphia Phillies, 6 to 4, on solid base hits, even though Bowman and Roy Smalley each belted Jour-baggere for Philadelphia. Lanky (six feet six inches) Frank Sullivan started for Boston, but was relieved by Ike Delock In the sixth after dishing up Bowman’s two-run tap. Tommy Hurd took over in the ninth from Deloek who gave up one run in his three-inning stint. In two games played last night, the homer pace wasn’t quite so furious. Al Kaline smashed a three-run homer for Detroit tn the third, but Milwaukee's Ed Mathews duplicated the feat in the same inning to pull even and the Braves went on to win, 7 to 5. Lou Sleater got credit for the victory In relief. In. the only other game played Thursday, Brooklyn topped Baltimore with ease 7-2 in the Oriole's first home appearance of the 1956 season. VALENTINE, Neb. (INS) — The fecbetry County News recently promised a “great, late look in its next edition. On the front page of the weekly newspaper, it was explained that “we don’t aim to specifically run a historical publication but our pictures still haven’t arrived from the engravers.”

Auto Races Sunday At Celina Track CEDING, O. —- Big names In high-powered sprint care will start the CSRA-sanctioned racing season off with a roar here Sunday, resuming a sport absent for three years. Bobby Grim of Indianapolis,. last big winner here in hta big Offy, will start his campaign for the CSRA. championship that eluded him last season, when Ken Gottschalk of St- Louis, captured the crown. The program will start with time trials at noon, followed by three 10-lap events at 2:30 p.m., two 45-lap contests, and a 15-lap championship. Sam Snead Leading In Greensboro Open GREENSBORO, N. C. (INS) — Sam Snead, bidding for his sixth Greater Greensboro Open golf championship, was the man to beat todoaiy as he gained a one-stroke lead with an opening round five-under-par 66. Snead, a late finisher Thursday in the 112,500 event, took the lead away from Frank Stranahan of Toledo who had come in with a 67.

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Babe Zahartas Is Reported Better GALVESTON, Tex. (INS)—Babe Zaharias, who returned to a Galveston hospital three weeks ago for further cancer treatment was reported today as doing "pretty well” John Sealy hospital authorities said the famed woman athletels pains had subaided and that she was taking daily automobile rides with her husband, George Zaharias, a former wrestler. • I.C.'S. ’• •- ’ '■ AAU Clears Landy" For Races In U. S. NEW YORK (INS) — Protocol worked like a shot of novocain on sensitive AAU feelings today and as a result, world champion inlier John Landy will race in two California track meets next month. AAU President Carl Hansen of Oakland, Calif., announced Thursday that the way was clear for Landy, whose record Is 3:58, to pom pete in the Southern California

r«lay« at Lm Aacalaa May I and at the west coast relays in Fresno May 12. * ' - Hansen, in New York tor a conference with AAU secretary-treas-urer Dan Ferris, said: “There was never any question of our desire to have this tine amateur athlete, this world figure, appear in our country. I think we can say for sure that Landy will race here. We have ironed out the difficulty by cable.” The "difficulty” arose when Landy accepted without going through the AAU an invitation to run in California from Pete Rozelle, an airlines public relations official helping in the promotion of the

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IM6 Olympics. . "J Ferris almost caused Landy to cancel out when he charged that arrangements for the Aussie star's appearances had been made without going through, proper channels and in violation of international amateur procedures. Roselle quickly fulfilled AAU protocol requirements concerning Landy'a visit, and Ferris was soothed. Following the Incident, Hansen said: “Dan was exactly right. We can't have individuals running around sighing up athletes for international competltlbn. Our operations would be a complete mess.’’