Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 129, Decatur, Adams County, 1 June 1956 — Page 7

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Kline Blanks Giants For 4th Win Os Season By MILTON RICHMAN United Preu Sport* Writer Roanie Kline, the ’’forgotten man" in Pittsburgh's spectacular rise, moved front and center today to receive his rightful acclaim with all the other Pirate heroes. While most of the cheers were going to fellows like Dale Long. Bob Friend, 0 Frank Thomas and Lee Walls, the 24-year-old Kline was toiling more or less in the background. He remedied that Jhilraday night, however, when he posted h|s fourth victory and second shutopt by blanking the Giants, 3-0, in a game called in the eighth inning because of rain. “A different guy picks us np in every game," says Pittsburgh manager Bobby Bragan. “One day it’s Long, the next time Friend and then maybe Thomas or Walls.” Thursday night it was Kline's tgrn as he limited the Giants to singles, allowed no walks and struck out three. It was quite a performance for the right-hander who had a sour 0-7 record with the Pirates In 1952 and won only six games last year after returning from service. Despite threatening weather sgiich finally turned to rain and hpfted the game with one out and

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the Pirate* at bat in the eighth, 15,123 fans turned out at Forbes Field and set up a thunderous din when Gene Freese smashed a bases-loaded double off Jim Hearn ip the fifthThe second-place Cardinals remained, a half-game ahead of the oprushing Pirates with a 9-3 victory over the Redlegs. Wilmer (Vinegar Bend) Mizell gained his fifth victory and had a two-hitter until the nipth inning when Gue Bell, Ted Kluszwwski and Frank (Robinson hit successive homers. The Cards hopped on Cincinnati starter Art Fowler for four runs in the first inning and added fopr more in th* second. Milwaukee held on to first place by crushing Chicago, 15-8, with a 15-hit bombardment that included five homers. The barrage of homer* gave the Braves a total of 15 for their three-game serie* with 'the Cubs, equalling the major league home run record for thrpe consecutive games by one club. Joe Adcock led Milwaukee’s home run parade with two circuits while Del Crandall, Bill Bruton and EL,Me Mathews each fait one. Jim King homered for the Cubs, who made the game look closer than, it actually was with six unearned runs In the ninth. Lew Burdette registered his fourth victory although he gave way to Red Murff in the ninth. Paul Minner was the loser. The Dodgers and PMllies were idle. Ip the American League, the Yankees increased their league lead to 614 games with a 9-6 decision over the Senators. The Yankees snapped a 4-all tie with five rung, in the sixth, sash-

loned yyrqp tW9 «P*o» sqd a wild pitch. Although the Yankees collected 12 hits, including a homer by Hank Bauer, Mickey Mantle, the league's leading hitter, went hitless. Bob Porterfield pitched th* Red So* to a 41 victory over the Oriole* In the only other American League game scheduled. Porterfield yielded only four hit* and collected three of Boston’s eight hits. The Red Sox scored two runs, all they needed, off Bill Wight in the first inning. Record Check To Flaherty's Speedway Win INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — A record check of $93,819 went to Pat Flaherty today for his victory in the 500-mile Memorial Day auto race. The Chicagoan's prize mopey, which include* $49,000 in Speedway prises and $19,050 in lap awards, will' hot all go to him, howpver. (Owner of Flaherty’s speedster, will decide how to spilt up the cash between the driver and the 'T« v. normally the pilot received 35 tp 40 per cent which, would give the freckle-faced Flaherty a check in the neighborhood of $37,000, give or take a thousand. Also included i» the winning jackpot were accessory awards worth $23,375- AU told, Flaherty won , the largest prize since the late Bill Vukovich collected $89,469 in 1953. The prize melon was split Thursday night as the board of directors of the United States Auto Cljjb convened, presumably to formulate technical changes for next year's grind with the emphasis on more safety and Increased interest in the automotive world. Sam Hawks,- Pacific Palisades, Calif., runner-up to Flaherty, collected43B,Bl9. DOti Freeland, Los Angeles, wbp finished third, .pron $?0,419. Fourth place Johnnie Pareons.Vsn Nuyg r Calif, got $15,769; and .Diek. Rathmann, Trenton, N. J, in fifth spot, took hoise sl6,- ! All 3T Starterr “shared in thd > Rookie bf the year honors went to Bob Weftti,’ M-year-old Oakland, qallf, ’ nWcohier to tie tb'O, who flpished .. J were IS the way the r«Bt of the rponpy. was distributed among the starting field bf 33 drivers: 1 Bob JSwrikert, Indianapolis, 1*7,594; Velth, $7,494; Jimmy Reece. Oklahoma City,. $6,044; CUff GrU--fith, Indianapolis, $6,194; .Gene die Agabashiam- Walnut Creek, calif, $3,644«j> Bob Christie. Grants Pass, Ore, $3,374; AJ fcriler/ 'West ; Palm Beach; Fla./sß.2s4;Eddie Johnson. Cuyahoga Falls. Ohio. $3,43*1 Billy Garrett, Burbank, Calif., $iOltr Duke Dinsmore, Dayton, Ohio, $3,094; Pat O’Conhor, North Vernon, Ind, $8,924; Jimmy Bryan, Phoenix, Aris, $3,144. Jim Rqthjnann, Miami, >3,564; Johnnie , Depver. $3,084; Tony Bettenhausen. Tinley Park. 111, $2,754: Ed Elistan. Oakland. 'C»lif.. >2.624; Jimmy Daywalt, Indianapolis, $2,594; Jack Turner, Septtie, Wash, $?,564. Keith An drew Colorado $2,834; Andy Linden, Manhattan Beach. Oglif, $2,504; Al Herman, Allentqwn, Pa, $2,474; Ray Crawford, Pasadena, Calif, $2,44|; Johnny Boyd, Fresno, Cglif, $2,414; Trey Ruttman, Linwood, Calif, $2,384; Johnny Thomson, Boyertown. Pa, $2,854; Eddie Sachs. Greensboro, N. C, alternate starter, SIOO. J . Big Cars To Race At Fort Wayne Sunday FORT WAYNE, IND. — New speed records'are expected to be established Sunday afternoon. June 3rd, on Dutch McKinley’s famed five-eighths mile asphalt high-bank on the California Road north of Fort Wayne with a full card of “big car” races to be staged. ' In action will be the most powerful racing cars in the world—cgrs more powerful even than (hose which established record 145 mpb qualifying speeds for the Indianapolis ”500” this year. The Central States Racing ’’Association of Dayton. Ohio, which will sanction Sunday’s races at the Fort Wayne "Speedway, has removed all engine restrictions for this card. As a resu't. mapy of the QCfenhausers, which wi'l be in competition, will be in tue 290 an/i 318 cubic inch displacement class. Thus, they will be more powerful than the entries in the Indianapolis‘’SOO” which are limited to a 271 inch maximum. i — 1 ft Tin cans are actually about 99 percent steel. . Commercial manufacture of grease began in the 1880's. Quadruplets occur once in about 766,000 births. Wyoming has about 1,925 miles of package.

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MAJOR’ NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pct- G.B. Milwaukee 19 10 .655 — St. Louis ..... 23 16 .590 1 Pittsburgh ... 21 15 .583 1% Cincinnati 21 16 .568 2 Brooklyn ..... 19 16 .643 3 Hew York .... 15 21 .417 7% Philadelphia .. 12 22 .353 914 Chicago 10 24 .294 11% Thursday’* Result* Milwaukee 15, Chicago 8. Pittsburgh 3, New York 0 (8 innings, rain). St. Louis 9. Cincinnati 3. Only games scheduled. AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. New York .... 29 13 .690 — Chicago 18 15 .545 6% Cleveland .... 20 17 .541 6% Boston 20 19 .513- 7% Baltimore .... 19 21 .475 9 Detroit 19 21 .475 9 Washington .. 16 25 .390 12% Kansas City .. 15 24 .385 12% Thursday’* Result* New York 9. Washington 6. Bostop 4, Baltimore 1. Only games scheduled. Wyoming's first newspaper dates back to 1869. Denver — Colorado, seventh largest state in the Union, is about the size of New York, in compari•on pfarea.

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Pony League Teams Will Play Saturday Decatur’s pony League teams, the Braver* and Cardinals, will play * practice game at 3:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon at Mc.Millsn field, prepartory to the regular league season, which opens with a double header at Worthman field at 6:30 p.m. Monday. Ned Garver Placed On Disabled List DETROIT (UP) — Th* Detroit Tigers received clearance from Commissioner Ford Frick today to pitcher Ned Graver on the disabled list. Grayer sprained a tendon in his right elbow five weeks ago and has made only a brief relief appearance since then, - '■ - . ’ " ’’ ’ ’ ' " ' ■ I Tree* in s Good Town — Decatm |

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Women's Golf League Will Open Wednesday The Women's golf league w|U open Its season's play aext Wednesday afternoon st I;3Q eolockApy one interested in playing ip the league this season and who has not reported to the committee, may call Maxjne Maumann, 3-4027, or Ruth Harper, 3-3022. Each league member is urged tp play at least two game before June 3 and turn her scores In at thp club house or to Mrs. Baumann tp establish a beginning average. Trade in a Good Town t Decatur.

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Major League Leaders By UNITED PRESS NATIONAL LEAGUE player 4 Club GAB R H Pot. Long, Pitts. ... 38 146 28 55 .377 Boyer, St. L- 39 ls 6 31 58 .372 Aaron. Milw. .. 29 111 28 39 .851 Walls, Pitta. . r . 35 10V 23 86 .340 Moon, SL L. .. 39 136 29 46 .388 AMERICAN LEAGUE Player 4 Club GAB R H Pct. Mantle, N. Y. . 42 157 45 65 .414 Maxwell, Det. . 33 104 24 30 .375 Kuenn, Det. ... 39 161 28 56 .348 Berra, N. Y. ... 34 129 24 44 .341 dollar, Chicago 32 103 14 83 .320 HOME RUNS — Mantle, Yanks, $0; Long. Pirates 14; Post, Rad-

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togs 14; Boyer, Card*, Berra, Yanks, Sievera. Senator* and Bauer, Yanks, all 12RUNS BATTED IN — Mantle, Yanks 50; Boyer, Cards 41: Long, Pirates, 89; Musial, Cards, 85; Berra, Yank*, 35. RUNS — Mantle, Yanks. 45; Bauer, Yanks, 35; Blasingame. Card*, 32; Sievers, Senators, 31; Yost, Senators, 31. HITS — Mantle, Yanks, 65; Boyef, Cards, 58; Kuenn, Detroit, 56; Long, Pirates, 55; Goodman, Red Sox. 50. PITCHING —Lawrence, Stadlegs, 6-0; Ford, Lemon, Indians. 6-17 Brewer Red Sox, 6-1; Friend, Pirates, 8-2.