Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 81, Decatur, Adams County, 5 April 1957 — Page 7

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SPORTS

Yankees Held To Two Hits But Win Tilt By UNITED PRESS In baseball, as in horse racing, there are always the imponderables to consider. How else could you explain the New York Yankees winning a spring exhibition game on only two hits and the Milwaukee Braves losing a game despite a 16-hit barrage? \ Eight spring time tuneups Thursday produced a staggering total of 171 hits. That’s an average of more than 21 hits a game. Yet the Yankees needed only one of those bingles to defeat the Philadelphia Phillies, 1-0. , — Robin Roberts worked the first eight innings for the Phillies, yielding only a safe bunt to Hank Bauer in the fourth inning. When Roberts was lifted for a pinch hitter, rookie Dick Farrell took over in the ninth and lost the game. Woody Held tripled and scored on Gil McDougald’s sacrifice fly. The Braves, meanwhile, outhit Brooklyn, 16-14, in a wild contest at San Antonio, Tex., but still lost out to the homer-happy Dodgers. Duke Snider unloaded two home runs and Carl Furillo, Gino Cimoli and Charley Neal each connected once to whip Milwaukee, ’l4-8 Elsewhere along the exhibition circuit, hits were a dime a dozen .. .or cheaper. The Baltimore Orioles, of all people, collected 22 safeties in whipping the Chicago Cubs, 18-5. Tito Francona led the Baltimore hit parade with four, including a home run, while Bill Gardner also homered for the Orioles.

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In another slugfest at Salt Lake City, the New York Giants broke a three-game losing streak With a 13-hit attack that wrecked the Cleveland Indians, 9-6. Allan Worthington went seven innings for the Giants and gave up eight hits, including two homers by Vic Wertz. The Pittsburgh Pirates assaulted Virgil Trucks for eight hits and four runs in the first two innings and hung on to defeat the Kansas City Athletics, 4-3. Gene Freese of Pittsburgh drove in two runs with two singles and also sparkled in the field. An impressive three-inning relief job by Ellis Kinder enabled the Chicago White Sox to edge the Boston Red Sox, 6-5, in 11 innings, while the Cincinnati Redlegs downed the Washington Senators, 54, on a 10th inning sirigle by Don Hoak. While all this hitting was going on, Sam Jones arid Hoyt Wilhelm who were acquired in off-season trades, pitched the St. Louis Cardinals to a 54 victory over Detroit Tigers. Jones struck out seven and scattered six hits in seven innings, while Wilhelm choked off a bases-loaded rally by the Tigers in the eighth. Annual Babe Zaharias Open Underway Today BEAUMONT, Tex. (UP) — Defending champion Marlene Bauer Hagge and 18 other top women pros started firing today in the fifth annual Babe Zaharias Open. Mrs. Hagge ruled a slim favorite in the 54-hole, $5,000 benefit affair. Proceeds go to the Zaharias Cancer Fund founded by the late and great woman athlete. The site of the tourney is but a short distance from the cemetery where the Babe is buried. She died of cancer last year. Robinson, Fullmer Will Meet May 1 CHICAGO (UP) — Sugar Ray Robinson, assured of another big payday for his May 1 middleweight title rematch with champion Gene Fullmer, 25, plans to continue fighting regardless to the outcome of the fight. Robinson, 35, who joined Fullmer and International Boxing Club officials in a contract-signing ceremony Thursday‘at the swank Tam O’Shanter Country Club, said he "wasn’t thinking of retiring.” —-■— Fruitless Search For Overturned Car Two members of the Adams county sheriff's department and a state trooper searched from 12:30 to 3 a.m. in a muddy, fogshrouded field today for a vehicle reported overturned. Deputies Charles Arnold and Robert Meyer and state trooper Gene Rash combed a large field along U. S. highway 27 south of Decatur near Connie’s Market after they received a call from a passing motorist. The motorist indicated that he saw lights bobbing up and down in the field and that it looked like a car was rolling over. The investigating officers were unable to locate, an overturned vehicle and could not even find tracks which would indicate that such an accident had occurred. Heavy fog made it impossible to see more than a few feet.

Burke Takes Early Lead In Masters Open AUGUSTA, Ga. (UP)- Defending champion Jack Burke Jr., carried a shaky one-stroke lead today into the second round of the highest-scoring Masters Golf Tournament in 21 years. And that lead was in immediate danger of an assault by veteran pro Marty Furgol of Lemont, DI. Halted by darkness after shooting par golf for 17 holes Thursday, Furgol needed only a birdie on the 18th today to deadlock with curly-haired Jackie for the top spot. After today’s second round, the huge field of 100 will be chopped to the low 40 plus ties for the last two rounds — the first time the Masters has had to set any qualification test for its select field. A Strange Masters But then this is a strange Masters Tournament where no player in 100 could do better than Burke's one-under-par 71 on opening day. This is the first Masters since 1936, when lighthorse Harry Cooper, led the field with 70 in the first round, that only one player was able to crack par for the first day. A high wind, offshoot to tornadic conditions in the South, was one factor in the high scoring. Another was the contouring and placing at the pins on the expansive Augusta National greens which could double for heliports in an emergency. Burke got his lead on one spectacular hole, the 12th, with an eagle. His second landed on the brink of a creek but rolled away instead of into the water, and he dribbled a 55-footer into the cup. Below Burke’s standout 71, the Masters looked more like the interzone finals of the Davis Cup for tennis than an American golf tournament. Two Aussies — British Open champion Peter Thomson of Melbourne and Australian Open champion Bruce Crampton of Sydney — were grouped at par 72 with Doug Ford of Mahopac, N.Y., top money winner of 1957, and the two men who have won the Masters three times previously, Jimmy Demaret and Sam Snead. A Foreign Challenge The 73’s included two other British Empire men — veteran Henry Cotton of London and Al Balding, Canadian PGA champion from Islington, Ont. It was far and away the biggest foreign challenge to American control of the Masters in its 21 playings. AU four Britons were in exceUent positions. The two Australians. Thomson and the muscular Crampton, only 21 were finalists in the Australian Open with the kid winning. Night fell before the big field quite finished and Fred Haas of New Orleans who was playing with Furgol, also had a choice of finishing or waiting until today. He elected to finish and took a 74 although at one point on the back nine he had a chance to catch Burke. ~ ~ Northern Indiana Petition Approved INDIANAPOLIS — (IP) — The Northern Indiana Public Service Co. got permission today to serve 3,000 more space heating customers with patural gas in a 13-county area. Its petition was approved by the Indiana Public Service Commission. The counties are Lake, Porter, LaPorte, St. Joseph, Elkhart, Kosciusko, Marshall, Starke, Pulaski, Fulton, Cass, Miami and Wabash.

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Al Lindahl, Decatur Catholic high school coach, today anhbunced that Jim Costin, sports writer for the Fort Wayne News-Seritinel, will be the guest speaker at the DCHS basketbaU banquet, which will be held next Thursday evening at 6:30 o’clock at the Knights of Columbus hall. Members of the Commodores basketbaU team for the 1956-57 season wUI be honor guests at the banquet, and various awards will be presented to the team members during the evening. Tickets for the banquet, priced at $1.50, are on sale at the K. of C. haU, Holthouse Schulte clothing store, Leland Smith insurance agency, Wertzberger’s confectionery, or may be obtained from the players or their fathers. Reservations must be made no later than next Tuesday evening. Costin has been associated with the sports department at the News Sentinel since early in 1953, and also Writes a weekly sports column for the “Our Sunday Visitor. His father was for many years sports writer for the Chicago Tribune and sports editor of the South Bend Tribune. The Fort Wayne sports writer also assisted Charlie Callahan, director of the sports publicity

Two Veterans Enter Speedway Classic INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — The entry list for the 41st annual Indianapolis 500-mUe auto race May 30 stood at 35 today. Veterans Jimmy Daywalt and Gene Hartley were named Thursday to drive cars entered by California owners. Daywalt, who. has been in the starting lineup of the Memorial Day racing classic for four straight years, wiU drive'the same car in which Bob Christie finished 13th in 1956. It was entered by H. H. Johnson of Chula Vista, Calif. Daywalt crashed on the 135th lap of last year's race after pla cing ninth in 1955. He was awarded the “Rookie of the Year” trophy in 1953 when he came in sixth. Hartley, who has driven in five previous Speedway events, will pilot a car entered by Jpe Madsaglia, Jr., of Santa Monica, Calif. It’s the same car in which Jimmy Reece finished ninth k»st year. Hartley’s best 500 showing was last year when he came in 11th. Light Heavyweights Will Fiqht Tonight DETROIT (UP) — Two of the hardest punchers to come along the light heavyweight pike in many a day meet tonight in a 12rounder for the right to try and knock the crown off the graying head of ol’ Archie Moore. Olympia Stadium promoter Nick Londes said a crowd of 10,000 will pay close to $25,000 to watch the nationally televised fight. Chuck Spieser of Detroit and Tony Anthony of New York at weigh-in time stood in the peak of condition, both well under the 175pound limit. Adams Central Class Play Is Postponed The junior class of Adams Central high school will present a play, “Reserve Two for Murder,” Wednesday at 8 p.m. at the school gymnasium. The play was originally scheduled for presentation tonight but was postponed because of conditions resulting from the ice storm.

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department at the University of "Notre Dame. Costin has also served as official scorer for the Zollner Pistons home games for the past three years in Fort Wayne. Commodore fans and any other persons interested in the team are invited to attend the April 11 banquet, which school officials hope to establish as an annual event

Revoke License Os Race Track Prexy MIAMI (UP) — Heavy-betting Saul Silberman was ready to take his chances on the Florida Supreme Court today to save him from losing his $4,000,000 Tropical Park race track. The state Racing Commission Thursday revoked the license of Tropical Park Inc. J because its president made huge bets “on credit” through the parimutuel machines and permitted his private telephone to be used for calls to a convicted Cleveland bookmaker. But attorneys for the stumpy, roly-poly millionaire said Silberman would apply by the May 1 deadline for Tropical's regular racing dates, starting shortly after Thanksgiving. In the meantime, an appeal will be rushed to the state Supreme Court. The commission plans to allot racing dates for the 1957-58 season on May 15. If the court rejects the appeal, Silberman would have to sell the track, close it, or consent to step completely out of its operation along with all his present associates. But the dapper little track chief snapped that “the track is not for sale” when newsmen approached him for comment on the race board’s ruling. Offer Reported To Purchase Redskins CHARLOTTE, N. C. (UP) —The Charlotte Observer reported today •in a copyrighted story that a Washington attorney has offered to buy the Washington Redskins professional football club with a view to moving it either here or to Miami. The story, by sports writer Dick Pierce, said attorney Ralph W. 1 Gardner made the offer to Redskins majority stockholder, George Preston Marshall. Oral Fulton Elected Moose Lodge Governor Oral Fulton was elected governor of the local Moose lodge at a recent meeting. Other officers are Leßoy Hoagland, junior governor; Edward Hurst, prelate; Noel Black, trustee; Harold Murray, treasurer. By virtue of his office as governor, Darrel Kreischer will be junior past governor. The newly elected officers will be formally installed Tuesday. April 30, with Lloyd Roth, immediate junior past governor, in charge. The officers will assume their duties May 1. Anthony Eden, Wife Rest In Fiji Islands SUVA, Fiji Islands — Sir Anthony Eden and his wife spent a restful morning in the grounds of Suva’s Government House today before leaving for Honoloulu on their way to Boston. The 59-year-old former British prime minister is en route from a new Zealand vacation for a medical checkup by Dr. Richard Cattell, who operated on him in Boston in 1953 for a bile duct complication.

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Picks Yankees And Dodgers To Take Pennants By LEO H. PETERSEN United Preys Sports Editor TAMPA, Fla. (UP) -The Yankees easy, the Dodgers after another close race with the Braves and Redlegs. Those are the 1957 pennant predictions of this baseball writer after watching the 12 clubs training in Florida for five weeks and examining the reports on the four teams which conditioned in Arizona. Here's how this observer sees them finishing this year: American League: 1 —Yankees; 2— lndians; 3—Tigers; 4 — White Sox; s—Red Sox; 6 — Athletics; 7—Orioles, B—Senators. National League: 1— Dodgers; 2 —Braves; 3—Redlegs; 4 —Cardinals; s—Phillies; 6— Pirates; 7—Giants, B—Cubs. In the National League, there’s plenty of support for the Dodgers, Braves and Redlegs, who finished in that order last season with only two games separating them. The Dodgers get the nod because they won in 1956 despite the fact most of their stars had—for them—sub-par years. With the return of Johnny Podres, Dodger pitching figures to be stronger. Braves Standing Pat Milwaukee is standing pat on the club which finished a game behind the Dodgers last year. The Braves have pitching and a good bench, but they also have second base and left field problems. As for the Redlegs, they are the power club of the league, but they appear short on pitching. They also may have a third!base problem and do not have as good a bench as Brooklyn and Milwaukee The C a rd i n a 1 s figure to be stronger with the addition of slugging* Del Ennis and pitchers Sam Jones, Jim Davis and Hoyt Wilhelm. They lack a hard hitting center fielder and catching depth, however. Philadelphia has the pitching, but lacks a major league shortstop and power. Pittsburgh, too, has the pitching and probably the best defensive outfield in the league but falls short in long ball punch. There seems to be little hope for the Giants or Cuter Over in the American League, the Yankees are in a class by themselves. . „ A Close Battle The battle for second place promises to be a close one with the Indians, Tigers, White Sox arid Red Sox in the race. Cleveland rates the edge because of superior pitching. Detroit may lack solid pitching behind its big three of Frank Lary, BiUy Hoeft and Paul Foytack. The Tigers have power in Al KaUne, Harvey Kuenn and Ray Boone, but may be hurting at third base with Boone shifted to first. The White Sox have strength down the middle. That strength, however, is offset by weaknesses at first and third bases and Chicago may run out of pitching. Boston has the power and the pitching potential, but still is plagued with infield holes. AU those ex-Yankees figure to give Kansas City a much-needed shot in the arm but from this corner, the A's stiU look like solid second division citizens along with the Orioles and near-hopeless Senators. Annual Purdue Grid Clinic Opens Today LAFAYETTE, Ind. (UP) — The 25th annual Purdue footbaU clinic opened today with Paul (Bear) Bryant, head footbaU coach at Texas A&M as the featured speaker. Hie clinic annually attracts high school coaches from all over Indiana and the Midwest and concludes with a Purdue intersquad footbaU game. Others on the program include Bob Jauron, coach of St. Joseph’s footbaU team; Ray Graves, assistant coach and defensive speciaUst from Georgia Tech, and Jack Mollenkopf, head coach at Purdue. Truck Stop Robbed By Two-Gun Bandit WATERLOO, Ind (IF — A two gunned bandit armed with automatic pistols held up a truck stop on U.S. 6 here early Thursday and sped away with SIOB. The robbery took place in a freezing rainstorm which lashed the area during the early morning hours.

Boston, Montreal In Hockey Finals By UNITED PRESS The surprising Boston Bruins, who refused to quit despite sea-son-long troubles which included the retirement of goalie Terry Sawchuk, square oft against the high-scoring Montreal Canadiens Saturday night in the opening game of the Stanley Cup final series in Montreal. Out-hustling the bigger and more polished Detroit Red Wings, the Bruins capped one of the biggest upsets in sports this year by defeating the Wings, 4-3, Thursday night to gain the final round along side the Canadiens. Montreal battled through two minutes and 11 seconds of overtime before Maurice Richard’s rebound goal eliminated the overmatched New York Rangers, 4-3, to gain the final round. Thus both Boston and Montreal made it to the final in five games. The Canadiens and Bruins have met in the final twice before and on both occasions — 1946 and 1953 —the Canadiens gained the Lord Stanley Cup in five games. Like the semi-final series, the final set is a best-of-seven affair. Montreal’s advance to the finals hardly surprised anyone, but it was an entirely different story for the scrappy Bruins. Picked to fin-

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ish last in regular-season play, the Bruins moved in front early in the campaign and led the league through the first half. After Sawchuk quit because of a blood disease in mid-season, the club faltered until Don Simmons moved up from Springfield to take over the nets. Coach Milt Schmidt kept maneuvering and the chib finished third at the end of the regular campaign and in the process beat Detroit and Montreal seven times each. The Red Wings wound up first and Montreal was second. Trade in a good town — Decatur

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