Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 54, Number 190, Decatur, Adams County, 13 August 1956 — Page 6

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Klenk’s Edges Fort Recovery Sunday, 6 To 5 Klenk’s of Decatur nosed past Fort Recovery. ?-5. in a Western ■Buckeye league battle at Fort Recovery Sunday afternoon. After four scoreless innings, Fort Recovery scoredone In the fifth, but Klenk’s came up with three in the sixth on hits by Williams. Crist and Sinn, plus to Boweh and an error. After Fort Recovery scored ine In the sixth. Decatur countered with one in the top of the seventh on a hit by Reed, an error and William’s sacrifice fly. Reed drove in what proved to be the needed runs in the eighth; after a double by Hoehammer, a walk and stolen baeen Master*. j Fort Recovery rallied in the bottom of the eighth, scoring three runs on as many bits, with King’s two-run homer the big blow. Klenk’s will play at Cridersville . next Sunday afternoon. ..KLENK’S AB R HE Williams. If 4 12 0 Baven. cf 4 110 Crist, as 4 12 0 Hoehammer, lb ----- 4 12 0 Sinn. p. rs 4 0 10 Masters, 2b .— 3 10 0 Reed. 3b 4 1 i 0 Minnich, c ...—4 0 0 0 Hildinger. rs 3 0 0 0 Groves, p 10 0 0 TOTALS — 35 6 10 0 FORT RECOVERY AB R H E Metager, 3b 4 -0 0 1 ’Heiker, ss 4 110 J. Kaiser, cf —, 4 12 1 P. Kaiser, lb— 4 0 2 0 King, c 4 2 2 1 D, Kaiser, rs 3 0 0 0 Kamps. 2b- 3 0 2 0 Ramrael. If .4.—--x-— 3 0 2 0 Oblinger. p ; 4 110 TOTAL— 34 5 10 3 Score by Innings: .KLENK’S 000 003 120 6 Reed 2, J. Kaiser 2, King 2. Kamps. Two-base hits—Crtt, Hoehammer. Heiker. P. Kaiser, Oblinger. Home Run —King. Stolen Base —Masters. Sacrifices—Williams, D. Kaiser. Double Plays—Sinn-Masters-Crist, Kamps-P. Kaiser, Metxger-Kamps- . Sinn A, Oldinger 8. Hits Off—Sinn 10 in 8, Groves 0 In P. Kaiser. Bases on Balls —Oblinger 1. Wild Pitches—Sinn. Oblinger. Pasted Ball—King. Loser—Oblinger. Umpires—Elkons, Strickler. George Kell Injured When Hit By Pitch NEWYORK (TF) -George Kell of the Baltimore Orioles suffered a severe bruise of the right wrist when hit by a pitched ball Sunday in the first game of a doubleheader with the New York Yankees. The veteran third baseman will be sidelined two or three days.

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Decatur Team Edges Out Ossian, 5 To 4 Sauthine & Simennan of Decatur edged past Ossian. 5-4, in a B & L League game Sunday afternoon at McMillen field in this city. Decatur held a 5-1 lead after seven innings of play but Ossian (Shunted once in the eight and came back with two in the ninth but cow’d not push over the typing run. Knittie, in addition to hurling the victory, drove out three of Decatur’s eight hits. The S & S team, with a secondhalf mark of 4-1. will play Murray a| 1:30 o’clock next Sunday afternoon at Bluffton. OSSIAN AB R H E D. Baumgartner, 2b . 5 3 10 Van Meter, 3b. p 5 0 2 0 Trier, cf — 3 0 2 0 B. Patton, lb. If 3 0 0 0 lie Afee. ss. 3b 4 0 0 3 Melton. If 10 0 0 Smith, lb 3 0 0 0 L. Patton, rs— .4—— 10 0 0 M. Baumgartner, rs, ss 3 11 0 TOTALS — 36 4 8 3 DECATUR AB R H E R. Plumley, c 3 0 0 0 Gaunt, 3b — 3 110 Conrad, ss 3 10 1 Busse, lb — — 4 110 Knittie, p ---.i- 4 0 3 0 Ba-Hard, cf — 3 110 Sautbine. 2b-4 111 Bruton, If ——— 2 0 10 Pollock, If — 2 0 0 1 Reinking, rs —4 0 0 0 TOTALS 32 6 8 3 Score by Innings: OSSIAN 100 000 012 4 DECATUR 021 010 lOx 5 Mickey Mantle Gains On Home Run Record NEW YORK (UP) — MickeyMantle moved into a position today where he’ll break Babe Ruth’s home run record if he finishes the season as well as he started it. With 41 home runs in 111 games, the Yankee slugger needs 20 in his- last 43 games to set a new mark. He hit 20 in his first 41 games this season. MAJOR ;■ ™ National League W. L. Pct G.B. Milwaukee —. 65 42 .607 Brooklyn —64 44 .593 1% Cincinnati- 63 46 .578 3 St. Louis 55 54 .505 11 Philadelphia — 52 55 .486 13 Pittsburgh -Z-. 48 61 .440 18 Chicago 44 62 .415 20% New York 39 66 .371 25 Saturday’* Remits , Brooklyn 5, Philadelphia 2. New York 4, Pittsburgh 2. St. Louis 3. Chicago 1. Milwaukee 6, Cinncinnati 3. Sunday’s Results Pittsburgh 3-11, New York 2-3. Chicago 6-0. St. Louis 2-0 (2nd game called 9th, darkness). Brooklyn 7, Philadelphia 3. Milwaukee 8, Cincinnati 2. American League W. L. Pct. G.B. New York -..- 73 38 .658 Cleveland 63 45 .583 8% Boston ... 62 47 .569 10 Chicago — 56 50 .528 14% Detroit — 52 58 .473 20% Baltimore —— 48 62 .436 24% Washington 45 64 .413 27 Kansas City -- 37 72 .340 35 Saturday’s Results Baltimore 10. New York 5. Cleveland 8, Kansas City 5. Washington 6, Boston 1. Detroit 5, Chicago 1. Sunday’s Results New York 6-4. Baltimore 2-2. Cleveland 6. Kansas City 3. Detroit 5. Chicago 2. Washington 8, Boston 2.

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Ted Kroll Wins Tam O'Shanler, $50,000 Cash CHICAGO (UP) - Ted Kroll turned on the yellow light with three holes to play, but his initial acceleration put him so far in front he picked up golf’s biggest single prize, $50,000 cash, for a victory in Tam O’Shanter’s “World’’ tournanfent. "I started to play cautiously on the 16th hole,” Kroll said after his final round. ‘‘l knew that I could bogie the hole. I didn’t want to make five. I knew I was 15 underand that 12 under was the best score ahead of me. so I was playing to come in and beat that.” Even coasting he scored a final round 66. six under par, and registered 273. 15 under par, for the 72 holes to spread-eagle his challengers and win by three strokes over Fred Hawkins, El Paso, Tex., who had a final 67 for 276. The win for Kroll, four-times wounded in World War II who gained his first major tourney victory. might be worth as much as $150,000. In addition to the cash prize, the tuorney sponsor offered a contract calling for a minimum of $50,000 for exhibitions at SI,OOO per appearance and possibly providing for 100 shows. Hawkins earned SIO,OOO for his second place finish while Roberto De Vicenzo. Mexico City, posted a final round 65 for a 277 total and $5,000 third money. Australia's Peter Thomson took fourth with a 71 for 278 and $3,000. There was a four-way tie for fifth place, with Pete Cooper, ißirmingham, Mich., Jack Fleck, Davenport, lowa. Ed Furgol, St. Louis, and Burkemo, each getting, $2,050 for a 280 total. Four more tied at 281 for $1,500 apiece. Dick Mayer, St. Fla., Cary Middlecoff, Memphis. Frank Stranahan, Toledo, and Jerry Barber, Los Angeles. Marlene Bauer Hagge. the women’s money winning leader from Grossinger, N.Y., scored a last round 74 to w-in the $6,000 top prize for women pro’s w-ith 298. while Betty Jameson was second at 299 for $2,000. Anne Richardson, Columbus, Ohio, won the women amateur title with 309 and Ward Wettlaufer, Buffafei 3R3R: Wk“4W- then amateur crown With-290. Outfielder Breaks Texas League Record SHREVEPORT, La. (UP) — Shreveport outfielder Ken (Guettler smashed his 55th home dun of the season against Houstin Sunday, breaking a Texas League record that had stood for 32 years. The homer broke the mark of 55 set by Clarence Kraft fox Fort Worth in 1924. The 29-year Guettler wears glasses and he has a crippled right arm. f Mine American Association W. L. Pct. G.B. Denver 73 49 .598 Indianapolis 69 51 .575 3 ' Minneapolis 62 58 .517 10 Omaha ------ 61 61 .500 If A St. Pauls7 58 .496 12% Charleston 53 67 .442 19 Louisville 53 68 .438 19% Wichita .— — 51 67 .432 20 Sunday’s Results Indianapolis 8, Minneapolis 6. Omaha 3, Charleston 1. Wichita 7. St. Paul 5. Louisville 12, Denver 11.

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Lew Burdette Beats Redlegs Third In Row By FRED DOWN (United Press Sports Writer) A pitcher for every occasion—that’s Fred Haney’s formula for keeping the Milwaukee Braves on top in the torrid National League pennant race. Bob Buhl is the key man with six straight victories over the Brooklyn Dodgers and Lew Bur■^Ete% -■’ ; -tWe- ? NbT* : -F : fWoy Wheh % comes to handling the slugging Cincinnati Redlegs. Burdette did it for the third time without a loss Sunday when he beat the Redlegs, 8-2, and enabled the Braves to hold their 1% game first-place lead. Burdette, raising his record to 14-7, pitcKed “a the Brayes raised their season’s edge over the Redlegs to 8-4. They’ve beaten the Redlegs eight of their last 10 meetings. The second-place Dodgers kept pace with the Braves when they walloped four homers in routing Robin Roberts and beating the Philadelphia Phillies, 7-3. Carl Furillp hit two round-trippers and Randy Jackson and Pee Wee Reese one each as Roger Craig received credit for his 11th win. Jim King knocked in three runs with a homer and a bases-filled single to lead the Chicago Cubs to a 6-2 decision over the St. Louis Cardinals and the teams then battled to a scoreless deadlock in the second game of their double-head-er. Stan Musial doubled in the sixth inning of the opener to tie Mei Ott’s National League mark of 1.071 extra base hits. The night-cap was halted, by darkness after nine innings. Bill Virdon’s two-run, fourth inning triple gave the Pittsburgh Pirates a 3-2 victory over the New York Giants and the Bucs then pounded out 17 hits to complete a sweep of the doubleheader with an 11-3 decision. Mickey ... Mantle slammed his 41st homer to go 13 games ahead of Babe Ruth’s record pace as the New York Yankees beat the Baltimore Orioles, 6-2 and 4-2, to increase their American League lead to 8% games. The second-place' Cleveland Indians beat the Kansas City Athletics. 6-3, when Rocky Colavito smashed a three-run homer in the eighth inning. Herb Score struck out 14 batters to raise his season total to 182 and record his 12th .victory. The Washington Senators made it nine wins in 13 games with the third-place Boston Red Sox when they beat them,. 8-2. with the aid of Jim Lemon’s 26th homer. Billy Hoeft fanned six and pitched an eight-hitter to give the Detroit Tigers a 5 2 triumph over the Chicago White Sox. Phil Rizzuto May Turn Broadcaster NEW YORK (UP) ■*- Shortstop Phil Rizzuto of the New York* Yankees will replace ailing Frank Frisch on a television interview show following tonight’s garpe between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants. 1 The show wMI serve a? an addition for a ■Baltimore-station -wMeli tajpew’ttr interest Ritzzuto in a broadcasting career next season. Trade in a Good Town — Puv- jl

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