Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 157, Decatur, Adams County, 5 July 1956 — Page 7

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Indians Whip While Sox In Little League The league-leading Indians wbipjed the White Sox, 18-8, in a Decatur Little League game Tuesday night at Worthman field. The second game between the Tigers and Senators was halted at the end of three Innings because of the league curfew, and may be replayed Saturday. League officials will announce the schedule later. The Indians put together three five-run innings in downing the White Sox. Three runs featured the winners' attack, two by Tossend, who drove in four runs, and one' by Cowan. The Indians and Red Sox are scheduled to meet this eveing at the Homestead, and in Friday's double header at Worthman, the White Sox meet the Yankees, followed by the Red Sox and Tigers. INDIANS " ”AB R HE S. Blythe, cf 5 I'2 1 G. KanaveL,ss, 3h 4 2 1 9Cowan, 2b4 2 1 0 Nicodemus, c 4 4 4 0 Townsend, lb 5 4 3 1 Landrum, 3b— --5 12 0 W. Blythe, ss .- 0 0 0 0 Kohne. rs 5 110 Schrock, p 3 2 1 0 Ballard, If .1110 0 TOTALS 36 18 15 2 \JVHITE SOX AB R HE ddle. 3b 4 0 1 o MinVh. 2b 1 6 0 .0 FinlayW-t' 2b .l-.. r ... ■ 1 Putteet. 2b ' 0 10 1 Raudenbush. lb ------ 2 2 0 0 Afar, If — 3 12 0 Gay; c-- 2 2 0 1 Fravel, ss 2 0 0 2 Baker, as 1 --0 0 .0 1 Egly. rs 1 0 0 1 M. Elliott, rs 2 0 0 1 J. Elliott, cf 1110 Tague, p1 .LJLI TOTALS 20 8 4 7 Score by Innin®. ' Totals Indiansl 0 5 5 2 5 18 White Sox —— 012 3 0 2 8 Runs Batted iff—Cowan 1. Nit'-' odmus, Townsendi, Schrock 2. Ahr 2, J. Elliott. Two Base Hits—G. Kanvel, Nicodemus, Kohne, Schock, Ahr. J. Elliott. Home Runs —Cowan, Townsend. Sacrifices —G. Knave), Cowan. Bases on Balls——Schrock ’ 14. Tague A. Strikeouts—Schrock 8. .Tague 3, Winner—SclixocJr Loser—•Tagiif.Umpire* L<ml Lytle _ Set Up Scoreboard At Worthman Field A group of city electricians were completing the task of assembling and placing the new combined baseball-football board at Worthman field today. J. Clark Maycfin. engineer at General Electric company. is assisting in hooking up the male of wiring and controls and it is expected that the board will be in operation soon. The fund, which has heached $2,024 at the present time, is nearing the gbal and should be finished this week. Native Os LaPorte Air Crash Victim LA PORTE. Ind. (UP) — Ted Kubiniec, a native of LaPorte. has been identified as one of the victims in Saturday's tragic airliner collision at Grand Canyon. Ariz. He was the sixth native Hoosier victim. Kubiniec was graduated from Indiana University and served ,in the Navy during World War “ft He was employed by the Ford ' Motor-Co. and lived in Detroit. W . I B I A *» I UNITED NATIONS Secretary. ' General Dag Hammartkjold (left) heads ■ group of J.N. ' leaders who greeted French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau (right) on his arrival in New - York. Pineau left for Washington where he will discuss the Algerican crisis and ether prob- - lems with Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles and other top U.S. officials. (IntaraatioiMt) j

Results Listed In Horseshoe League Results last week In the Adams county horseshoe league were as follows: Berne 6, Ohio City 3; Geneva 8-7, ' Preble 1-2 in a double header; Salem 6-5, McMillen 0-1. also a double header. Tonight’s schedule is Berne at Preble. Union at Ohio City, Geneva at McMillen, with Salem having the bye. High percentage men in the league are Maitlen 70, Knittie 62, C. Landis 58, Van Natter 58, Green 56. Walker 56, Schwartz 53, A. Buuck 51, Campbell 50, Christner 49, Neaderhouser 49. - Team Standings W L Pot. Geneva 6 1 .857 "Union,--- 5 1 .833 Berne ...—. 5 2 .714 Salem 5 t .714 Preble - .786 Ohio City- 1 6 .143 ...'£ 0 7 .000 Pat O'Connor Wins 200-Mile Classic DARLINGTON, S. C. (UP) — Pat O’Connor of North Vernon, Ind., led most of the way Wednesday to win the 20ff-mile big car race at Darlington International Raceway in a record-breaking speed of 124.883 miles an hour. The 146-lah average around the mile-and-three-eighths banked asphalt oval topped the previous big car record by about two miles an hour. O’Connor earned $3,750 plus S4OO accessory money. The 8,500 fans saw Jack Turner of Seattle, Wash., finish second in the 90-degree heat. Johnny Boyd of Fresno, Calif., passed George Amick of Los Angeles on the last lap to finish third. Amick was fourth. Indianapolis 500-mile race winner Pat Flaherty of Chicago, unbeaten in two previous starts this year. finished lift It the spot he tield urost ot the race. “ There were no serious accidents and no injuries. Elmer George of Indianapolis placed seventh. Gene-'HarHey-'OJ Indianapolis was relieved as driver after 70 laps by Al Keller of West Palm Beach, i’ia. O'Connor took the lead from Boyd after 12 laps and held it, driving the race in one hour 36 minutes 17 seconds. ~ . White Sox Practice Set This Evening The White Sox little League team is to meet at the Stratton ball diamond for practice tonight at 6:30 p.m. 4,029 Teams Now In Little Leagues WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. (UP) — One of every 12Jjpys between the ages of 8-12 /n the United Staftes and Canada/ now- are playing Lit-tle-League Jiaseball. Little League President Reter J. McGovern revealed that "4,029 leagues have filed franchise Applications for 1956,-against 3,6oo\leagues at the corresponding time of 1955. - ■ _ —r Maurice Harper Is Winner Over Miceli OAKLAND, Calif. (UP) — Maurice Harper, who had been trying to crash boxing’s big time for the past eight years, figured today that his victory over Joe Miceli finally had him started toward the welterweight title. - T guess J'in in pretty -good shape if I can beat a fighter like Miceli after being out of the ring since last August.” Harper said following Wednesday night’s unanimous decision over th® New Yorker. - Olympics Building Is Near Complete -MELBOURNE. Australia (UP) —The construction program for the 1956 Olympics is ”98 per cent complete." according to Patrick L. Coleman, chairman of ,the construction sub - committee. Among the problems remaining is the presence ofanewly-discovered water spring under the swimming pool -which threatens to destroy the pool. fS, -Z. (. : Mantle Is Uncertain Os Starting Today BOSTON (UPl,— Home runstar .Mickey, Mart tie of the New York Yankees'was an uncertain starter in today’s double-header against the Boston Red Sox because of-a knee injury suffered in the first ga’nie of Wednesday’s twin bill. - ' Mantie was fenced to .est-out- the seConff game Wednesffayz’SKhbngh the'Yankees’ trainer called'the in-, jury "not serious.” J’-.

MAJOR] AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pct. G.B. New York . 48 26 .649 Chicago 42 27 .609 3% Cleveland ■”> 42 29 .592 4% Boston - 37 84 .521 9% .Baltimore 33 40 .452 1414 Detroit 30 M .423 16ft Washington .. 81 47 .397 19 Kansas City — 27 46 .370 20ft TUESDAY’S RESULTS New York 4, Baltimore 3 (12 innings). Washington 6, Boston 5 (11 innings). Cleveland 9, Kansas City 3. Chicago 6, Detroit 0. WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS Boston 7-4, New York 6-9 (Ist game 11 innings). Cleveland 6-3, Detroit 4-1. Chicago 5-2, Kansas City 2-3. Washington 10-4, Baltimore 8-7 (2nd called 6 innings, rain). NATIONAL LEAGUE , W. L. Pct. G.B. Milwaukee 39 28 .582 —— Cincinnati 41 30 .577 Brooklyn 40 30 .571 ft St. Loijis 37 36 .507 5 Pittsburgh ... 34 35 .493 6 JChicago 29 38 .433 10 Philadelphia — 30 41 .423 11 New York „„ 28 40 .412 lift TUESDAY’S RESULTS Philadelphia 7-5, Pittsburgh 2-6 (Ist game’ completion of suspended game of May 13). Milwaukee 7, Cincinnati 0. Chicago 7, St. Louis 4. Only games scheduled. WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS Brooklyn 15-6, New- York 2-1. Philadelphia 4-4, Pittsburgh 2-8. Chicago 5-3. Cincinnati 4-4. St. Louis 6-1, Milwaukee 4-6. Ham Richardson Is Defeated By Hoad .WIMBLEDON, England (UP) — one report that Israeli forces Lew Hoad of Australia eliminated the last American men’s singles hope in the Wimbledon tennis tournament today w-hen he defeated Hamilton Richardson of Westfield, N.P„ 3-6. 6-4. 6-2, 6-4. Hoad’s victory set up dm allAustralian final match Friday against Ken Rosewall, who defeated Vic Seixas of Philadelphia in ■Wednesday's semifinal. Hoad and Rosewall were-seeded 1-2 respectively. in this year’s tournament. Richardson, the 23-year-old former U, S. Intercollegiate champion from Tulane University, had the upper hand only in the first set when he won in 22 minutes. The Yank forged a service break to go ahead at 4-3 and then clinched in the ninth game when Hoad double-faulted three times. Also on todays program were the semi-finals in women’s singles —one an all-American match and the other allßritish. Defending champion Louise Brough of, Beverly Hills. Calif., was favored over fifth-seeded Shirley Fry of St. Petersburg. Fla., in the U. S. affair. Angela Buxton and Pat Ward of Britain clashed in the other to determine which would become Britain’s first finalist since Kay Stammers in 1939. VMajor League Leaders National League Playisr A Club G. AB R. H. Pct? Bailev, 'Cin. 56 175 29 58 .331 L. 73 293 57 96. .328 Robinson, Cin., 71 259 56 79 .316 Aaron, Mil. 66 254 40 80 .315 L. .... 69 246 44 77 .313 American League Mantle, N Y. ... 73 272 69 101 .371 Maxwell. Det. — 62 200 44 71 .350 Kuenn. Det. .... 63 237 34 80 .338 Skowron, N.Y. 56 183 24 59 .322 Nieman. Balt. .. 56 190 24 61 .321 Home Runs— 29; Banks. Ctrba 1 ; Kluszewski. Redlegs 20; Boyer, Cards 20; Snider, Dodgers 19. Runs Batted In-Mantle, Yanks Til Wertz. Indians 60; Boyer, Cards.6o; Simpson, A's 59; Musial. Cards‘s7. Runs —(Mantle. Yanks 69-; Yost, Senators 57; Boyer, Cards. 57; Robinson, Redlegs 36;. Lopez, A's 54. Hits—Mantle, Yanks 101; Boyer. Cards 96; Ashburn, Phils 90; Runnels, Senators 89; Simpson. A's 89. Pitching—Lawrence. Redlegs lift; Pierce, White S«x 13-2; Craig, Dodgers 8-2; Sturdiv.int, Yanks 2; Brewer. lied Sox 10-3. ' Trade in a Good Town — Decatdr. Li*/ Leaguer /.( CAL*,eP....W6T V ■/? 7 GROUNDS.... ■

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Cleveland And Brooklyn Take Double Headers By MILTON RICHMAN (United Preaa Sport* Writer) If the old Fourth of July tradition holds up, the Yankees will meet the Braves in the world series this fall, but don’t try to sell that old chestnut to the onrushing Dodgers and Indians. The two clubs In first place on the morning of July 5, so the legend goes, are destined to face each other in the world series. That would be the Yankees, who lead the American League by 3ft games today, and the Braves, atop the National League by only five percentage points. Cleveland and Brooklyn, how"ever, are playing the best ball in their respective leagues. As a matter of fact, they were the only clubs to sweep doubleheaders Wednesday, the Indians knocking over the Tigers twiee«A4»AaAXjU and the Dodgers taking a pair from the Giants, 15-2 and 6-1. The Indians, with a five-game winning streak, have won 14 of their last 16 games and now are only 4ft games out of first place. The Dodgers have copped eight of their last 11 games and are .only a half-game removed from the lead. Al Smith’s two-run triple in the ninth inning of the opener provided young Herb Score with his margin__of victory in Cleveland’s opening victory although Score needed relief from Cal McLish when the Tigers rallied for three runs in the last of the ninth. Smith also drove in a pair of runs in the nightcap as Early Wynn hurled a four-hit-ter for his ninth victory. The two defeats stretched Detroit’s home losing streak to 14 games. The Yankees split with the Red Sox, losing the opener, 7-6, when Jim Piersail singled home the winning run off Tom Sturdivant in the 11th inning and winning the nightcap. 9-4, with a 14-hit barrage that included homers by winning pitcher Don Larsen and Bill Skowron. Ted Williams and Billy Martin each homered in the first game, credited to reliever Leo Kiely. Mickey Mantle pulled a. ligament in his right knee while making a throw to the plate in the first game and missed his first game of the campaign in the nightcap. Southpaw Billy Pierce racked up his eighth straight victory and his 13th of the season when he pitched the White Sox to a 5-2 triumph over the Athletics in the first game but Kansas City capitalized on two to score three runs off Gerry Staley In the first inning of the nightcap and go on to win, 3-2. Alex Kellner scored his sixth victory although needing relief from Art Ditmar and Bobby Shantz. Washington defeated Baltimore. lff-8, in the opener, only to drop a 7-4 decision to the Orioles in the nightcap which was called after six innings because of rain. Senator owner. Calvin Griffith officially protested the.second game because he felt plate umpire Ed Hurley failed to call the game soon enough. Lefty Chuck Stobbs registered his seventh victory in the opener as Jose- Valdivielso homered and Ed Yost collected three hits. Reliever Don Ferrarese was the winner in the nightcap when the Orioles routed Hal Griggs and Connie Grob with four runs’ln the sixth. Yost homered for Washington, The' Dodgers pounded five Giant pitchers for IK hits, including homers by Roy Campanella and Duke Snider, in winning the opener. Don Newcombe picked up his 10th victory although he gave way to Ed Roebuck in the ninth. Lanky. 19-year-old Don Drysdale was the winner in the nightcap although he. too. needed relief in the ninth. The Dodgers, however, clinched the game in the first inning w-hen they knocked out“Jlm”Heafn with a three-run burst. St. Louis shelled Gene Conley, from the mound with a five-run rally in the seventh inning to defeat Milwaukee, 6-4, in the opener but Bobby Buhl's three-hit pitching gave the Braves the second game, 6-1. Ken Boyer hit his 20th homer in- the first game, which Murry,: Dickson won, while Hank Aaron slammed his ninth homer for the Braves in the finale. Ted Kluszewski hit three homeruns—one in the opener and two in the nightcap — but secondplace Cincinnati cbuld only manage a split against Chicago. The -Cubs won the opener. 5-4. with the help of homers by Ernie Banks and W r alt Moryn. while Brooks LawTence reeled-off his 11th consecutive victory without a defeat in pitching the Redlegs to a 4-3 triumph in the nightcap. Jim King drove in all of Chicago’s runs in the second game with a pair ■of homers while rookie Frank ZRobin son hit his 18th homer for Cincinnati. Kruszewskl’s three homers gave, him a total of 20. ■ Left-handed Harvey Haddjx scattered eight ; hits as c the Phillies heat the - 4-2. in the first pf two games, but Pittsburgh won t)>e nightcap, 8-4. Elmer Vaio hit. a pair of homers for the Phils fir) the opener and Marv Blaylock hit one. In the nightcap, Blaylock,

playing flrat tan, made two er* rora on’ the same play to help the Pirates score six runs in the flrat winner. Del Ennis homered for inning. Reliever Roy Face was the Philadelphia. Today's Sport Parade (Reg. U. 8. Pat. Office) By OBCAR FRALEY (United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK (UP) — Looking back on a few days away from the sports beat, the thing that strikes you hardest is the almost general interest in whether Mickey Mantle will break Babe Ruth’s home run record. It’s the first question you hear playing golf with an airlines captain on the Cairo run; sitting beside an elderly schoolmar'm on a sunny beach, or chewlpg the fat with a farmer in a rustic little hamlet near Goshen, N. Y. And even more starting to one inclined to be jealous of the glories of the past is the almost unanimous hope that the kid from | Oklahoma will make the magic

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grade. Ruth. It seems, has become a wispy legend, a vaguely remembered phantom whose awesome batt|jnc accomplishments have merely become lines In the reebrd book. But to the people living for day and tomorrow. Master Mickey is •‘my boy.” Others have approached the Babe’s great mark of SO home runs In one season, which he established In 1927. Yet sojnehow they failed, in one way or another, to capture the complete sympathy and support of the man on the street. Possibly Ruth's memory still was too bright when Hack Wilson blasted his theatening 56 in 1930 and Hank Greenberg walloped his 56 In 1998. The Babe was a living symbol then, a man high in the hearts of the fans. But WTiether Mantle makes it of not, in one way at least he undoubtedly has replaced Ruth by being taken into the hearts of the fans. And, as you. wonder whether he'; will surpass that record 60, it be-

comes fairly apparent that July and August wltyTie his months of decision. | r v . - Mantle up until July 2 had struck 20 home runs in 71 That put him eight games hp on Ruth, who hit his 2Sth and 29th in his 79th game. Yet the month by month breakdown is significant. Ruth hit spur in April, 12 tn M«y nine In June, July and August — and a rousing 17 in September. Mantle matched hl? four in April surpassed Ruth in May with 16, dropped off the pace with seven in June and began July with a pair. The all-Btar break is going to help slow him a bit but if he can surpass that nine total for July and as many more in August It will cut down that massive September load. \ One school of. thought is that, Trecause he is a switch hitter, he has an added edge. Ruth had to go all ‘the way as a left handed hitter against both right and left handed pitchers. Yet, as he movej down the stretch, Mantle will see more than his share of walks. No

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pitcher will want to be remember* ed as one wh4l Ijejped put him over the top. ’ ' ' < , , Stilt the feeling here is that ha will do it. It just doesn’t sefcin that anybody could fail with the kind of cheers he’a getting. M/MW American Association W. L. Pct. GB Denver .2, 52 BJ. .627 -— Minneapolis . a . 43 37 ,538 St. Pau! 40 37 .519 . 9 Indianapolis „40 37 .519 9 Omaha 41 43 .488 11«£ 'Louisville „.i. 37 4Q .481 12 Witchita 35. 45 .438 1534 Charleston ,31, 49 .388 19»4 Wednesday Results Minneapolis 10-5. SL Paul 0-9. Witchita 5-11, Louisfflle 4-2. Indianapolis 8-4, Charleston (h 5. Denver 4-7, Omaha 2-5.