Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 55, Number 202, Decatur, Adams County, 27 August 1957 — Page 7

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I Sox-Yankees Open 3-Game Crucial Meet By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer The New York Yankees, badly ’ mauled by that vicious Detroit Tiger, came stumbling into Chica-

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go tonight to give the White Sox their golden opportunity of 1957. If the Yankees ever were ready to be “taken,” they are now. Their 5-2 drubbing by the Tigers Monday, thanks to Al Kaline’s three-run homer, was their fifth loss in the last seven games! their league lead over the Sox now is down to 3% games—lowest point since Aug. 1; and their pitching isn't ready for the big three-game series opening under the Chicago arcs tonight. Instead of having an Allie Reynolds ready to hurl, manager Casey Stengel is calling Art Ditmar,

CITY GOLF LEAGUE CHAMPIONS fiifl Wil a ' < x ;1 ' u IM/I u S K PI * tHII I il Hr Mtoil «RJ IX U UlWf - bRMMw Fik/v Tfl y| iWmILfiR MME ' B Wra? SI 31 UK \ J 1 Wp' 7 ® \ /I WjL /a \-V I 'mßk T---* / fa H THE STEFFEN MOTORS golf team debated the GE Club team 5-0 Monday night in the league finale, a playoff between the first half winner, the GE club, and the second half of the season winner, Steffen Motors. Members of the winning team are pictured above in the clubhouse, from left to right, front row, Bob Helm and Ron Parrish; back row, left to right, John Hammond, Robert McClenahan and George Morningstar. (Staff Photo)

last year the losingest pitcher in the league, out of the bullpen to face either Jim Wilson or Gerry Staley. Out of action are ace lefties Whitey Ford and Bobby Shantz and the rest of the Yank mound corps is wobbling. Six-Game Streak The White Sox, riding a sixgame winning streak, were idle Monday while the Tigers were beating the Yankees for the second straight day. Mickey Mantle slugged his 33rd homer in the first inning with a mate aboard to put New York ahead, 2-0, bi*t Frank Lary shyt out the league leaders the rest of the way. Kaline slammed his 17th homer of the year in the first inning with two on to put Detroit ahead to stay and give him 13 runs-batted-in during the last four games. Harvey Kuenn singled home another Tiger run in the second and Charley Maxwell’s sacrifice fly delivered the final tally in fifth. If the White Sox can sweep all three games in the series starting tonight, they still will be a halffame behind the Yankees. But they'll be all even in hte only place baseball men say is important—the lost column. The Milwaukee Braves' headlong rush toward the National League pennant was slowed Monday night when they dropped a 4-3 decision to the Phillies, cutting their lead to seven games over idle St. Louis and Brooklyn. Braves Rally .The Braves rallied from a 3-1 deficit to tie the score with two unearned runs in the eighth inning with the help of Chico Fernandez' error. But the Phils loaded the bases against reliever Ernie Johnson with one out in the ninth and then pinch-hitter Ron Northey singled to score Ted Kazanski with the winning run. Rookie Dick Farrell was the winner in relief. In the \only other games scheduled Monday, the New York Giants trounced the Cincinnati Rediegs, 17-3, and the Boston Red Sox crushed Kansas City, l&rO. Home runs by Danny O’Connell and Hank Sauer led the Giants' 19-hit attack as they handed the Rediegs their 13th loss in the last 14 games. A 10-run seventh, inning featured the Red Sox’ j|(in with four homers in that big frame —by Frank Malzbne. Norm Zauchm, Ted Lepcio, and Jimmy Piersail. Malzone hit another homer, plus a double and single, to lead the Sox’ 19-hit assault. Fort Wayne Ousted In Pony League Tourney WASHINGTON, Ph, <W — Fort Wayne, Ind., was ousted from the sixth annual Pony League World Series Monday when Miami rallied for two runs in the seventh inning to score a 7-6 opening game victory. Fort Wayne held a 6-5 lead going into the bottom of the seventh. Dave . Smith squeezed home Joe Taylor with the tying run and Smith, who reached first on a fielder's choice, then scored the winning run on adouble by Don Sanz. | ■*' Taylor opened the inning witp a‘ bunt, single, advanced to second on an infield out and stole third. Big Klu Soys He Will Not Quit NEW YORK (UP > — Painwracked Ted Kluszewski insisted today he's “not quitting.” The big Cincinnati first baseman is only a part-time performer now because of a slipped disc in his spine but he says he isn't ready to hang up his mitt yet. “Maybe 111 undergo an operation this winter,” he said. “I haven’t really decided what I’ll do about the back. But I’m not going to quit baseball. My back still bothers me although it isn’t nearly as bad as it was during the spring." Kluszewski, who will be 33 next month, takes numerous pills every day to keep the pain i.n his back from becoming unbearable.

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> Steffen Golfers = Win City Title The Steffen Motors golf team ' defeated the GE Club team, 5-0, ■ Monday night, to win the playoffs : of the Decatur city league sum- ’ mer golf tournament, Luk& Majorki, Decatur golf pro, said this , morning. J The 1957 city league champions j trailed in the first half of the season by XVi points, and ended up in • third place. The GE club won the i first half, which ended in July. i i During the second half of the season it was also quite close all the way, and GE finished second, just 1 point out of first place. I The winners of the first half then played the second half win- ■ ners Monday evening at 5; 30, and the Steffen Motors team won. In- [ dividual players and scores, with ; the Steffen player first, and the ’ GE player second were. Bob Mc- ; Clenahan over John Boufhan, 3741; John Hammond over George Laurent, 35-12; Ron Parrish over . Bill Mowery, 42-48 * and George I Mornirigster over Tom Haubold, . 42-50. Bob Helm was Steffen MoI tors substitute player. Other mem- ; I bers of the GE Club team were ■ Kenny Gaunt and John Geels. There were eight teams in the city league this year, Majorki added, and plans will, now be made 1 to have a bigger and better league next year. Bums Make Offer To I Stay In Brooklyn NEW YORK (UP)—City officials expressed hope today that the ■Brooklyn Dodgers’ new offer to build their own ballpark may keep the team in Brooklyn — but they were studying carefully the "strings” attached to the offer. Dodger President Walter O’Malley made the offer Monday at a special meeting With Deputy Mayor John J. Theobald and other officials. The offer boiled down to this: Forget about building a cityowned sports arena in Brooklyn, j Just condemn the land there; sell it to us at a "common sense" price; and we'll buiid our own ballpark. Immediate official reaction was mixed. One official declared that O’Malley’s move made “things look brighter in our plan to keep the Dodgers here.” Another insisted that O’Malley was asking for something that is "impossible and he knows it.” New Bowling League Meeting Is Thursday An organizational meeting of the new Fraternal bowling league will be held at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, at Mies Recreation, it was announced today. All team captains of teams already organized are asked to be present, as are any other lodge members interested in bowling in this league, which Is scheduled to bowl the late shift qn Friday evenings. Lodge heads who are interested in sponsoring a team are invited to call Miesßecreation, or be present at the Thursday meeting. Hoot Song Gets Pole In Hambletonian Race INDIANAPOLIS < UP) —Today’s 32nd annual Hambletonian, trotting's richest race, had a Hoosier flavor. “Those pills are the things that keep me goiiig,” said th.e muscular Redleg veteran, who was once among the most feared sluggers in the National League. So far this season, big Klu has been in only 58 games for Cincinnatt and In many of them he appeared solely as a pinch hitter.

Crawley School Gains Popularity INDIANAPOLIS (UP) — Marion Crawley, one of Indiana's most prominent high school athletic figures, believes his mid - summer basketball coaching school is here to stay. The Lafayette coach is originator of a two-week school concluded last Saturday at Taylor University. Nearly 150 boys ranging from 10 to 15 years old from Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York participated. The coaching staff, besides Crawley and Taylor athletic director Don Odle, included Elmer McCall, who piloted South Bend Central through an unbeaten season and the state crown last March; “coach of the year" Glen Harper, and talent from Pennsylvania and New York. “It was a big success,” said Ctawley. “We've learned a lot about basketball because we went right on the floor with the kids.” He said some of the out-of-state participants thought It was the “best clinic they’ve ever seen.” Crawley, whose teams gained the four-team finals of the Hoosier hardwood classic nine times and won the three championships, said he and Odle plan an expanded program for next year. “We’ll have larger facilities and will be able to handle 100 boys at one time,” he said. The boys shelled out SSO each for the one-week program. Besides first-class schooling, they received three meals a day and a “snack” at night, attended religious services and were entertained by professionals. Buddy Parker May Accept New Post DETROIT (UP)—Buddy Parker wasn’t talking much today about his coaching prospects in the National Football League, but he did admit he “could be” in line for a job with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Rumors and published reports have been circulating that Parke would not be long in finding a new job after he suddenly quit as heac coach of the Detroit lions. Parker denied one report las* week end which said he would be going to Baltimore to replace the Colts’ head coach, Web Ewbank. On the subject of a possible move to Pittsburgh, Parker re-, fused to elaborate further after admitting he “could be” in line for the coaching post. “I’d rather say nothing about it,” added. ■ »*i *V I < I 4*l 'I R r By UNITED PRESS National League W. L. Pct. GB ilwaukee 76 47 .618 it, Louis 69 54 .561 7 Brooklyn 70 55 .560 7 Philadelphia 63 61 .508 13% Cincinnati 62 62 .500 14% New York 61 67 .477 17% Chicago 48 73 .397 27 Nttsburyh 46 76 .377 29% Monday’s Results New York 17 Cincinnati 3 Philadelphia 4 Milwaukee 3, night (Only games scheduled.) Wednesday’s Games Chicago at Brooklyn (night) Milwaukee at New York i rati at Philadelphia (night) St. Louis at Pittsburgh (night) American League W. L. Pet. GB New York 79 45 .637 . Chicago 75 48 .610 3% Boston 64 59 .520 14% Detroit 63 61 .508 16 Baltimore 59 63 .484 19 Cleveland 60 65 .480 19% Kansas City 48 77 .384 31% Washington 47 77 .379 32 Monday’s Results Detroit 5 New York 2 Boston 16 Kansas City 0 (Only games scheduled.) Wednesday’s Games New York at Chicago (night) Washington at Kan. City (night) Baltimore at Cleveland • night) Boston at Detroit American Association W. L. -Pct. Wichita .83 53 .610 Minneapolis 80 60 .571 Denver ... 77 61 .558 St. Paul 74 63 .540 Omaha —— 71 68 .511 Indianapolis 62 74 .456 Charleston 62 77 .446 Louisville ... 43 96 .309 Monday's Results Minneapolis 7 Indianapolis 0 (lst> Minneapolis 7 Indianapolis 3 <2nd) Wichta 9 St. Paul 5 Charleston 3 Omaha 1 Denver 10 Lousville 0 Today’s Games Omaha at St. Paul Minneapolis at Denver Wichita at Louisville Indianapolis at Charleston

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Second Round Os Pony League Starts Today WASHINGTON, Pa. (UP) - Donora. Pa., meet® Waltham, Mass., and Miami plays Lufkin, Tex., in the winners' flight of the second round in the Pony League World Series double - elimination play today. Today's pairings of the losers in Monday's opening round pits Fort Wayne, Ind., against Maywood. 111., and Paducah, Ky., against La Mesa, Calif. Donora beat La Mesa, 9-0 in the first round as Chick Guifrieda pitched a one-hitter and drove in six runs on two homers. The Donora Hurler struck out 11 and walked only three. Miami rallied in the last of the seventh inning to beat Fort Wayne, 7-6; Waltham took Paducah, 3-1, and Lufkin scored five ninth-inning runs to beat Maywood, 10-9. Armstrong Wins To Get St. Nick Billing NEW YORK (UP)—Gene Armstrong, unbeaten middleweight of Elizabeth, N.J., gets a TV fight with Sugar Hart of Philadelphia at St. Nicholas Arena, Sept. 16, for scoring his straight victory Monday night at St. Nick’s. Promoter Teddy Brenner announced the match today. Armstrong, an underdog at 7-5, won a unanimous decision over Rudy Sawyer of New York in their TV 10-rounder before 1,484. Gene out-boxed and out-fought the favorite, who suffered his first defeat in 11 professional bouts. The winner weighted 151 pounds Sawyer, 148.

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Roberts Out As Starting Pitcher PHILADELPHIA (UP) - Robin Roberts, bullpen pitcher, looked at the record today and said that Robin Roberts, starting pitcher, had every opportunity this season. " Big Robbie, turned to forage in the bullpen after losing his 18th game of the season Sunday, was jolted with the announcement that he was dropped from a starting role with the Philadelphia Phillies. There was no mistake about that. "But,” he said, reflectively, “no one got more chance than 1 did. I didn’t pitch good ball. I don’t have any answer but then I didn’t have any answer when I was winning either.” "I always figured that pitching was a fast ball, a curve and control of them,” Robbie continued. "I kind of thought the only way out of it was to continue that way and something would come of it. We 11...” The 30-year-old right-hander, paid the National League's highest pitching salary two seasons back and cut an estimated $5,000 last year when he lost 18 against 19 victories, denied again there was any sore arm to bother him. And, he said, he was not ex-| erimenting with any new pitches' on the premise that being boss of a fast ball and a good curve was ' the primary equipment needed. "Maybe I’m*Sust stubborn—or 1 maybe that stubbornness is belief in one’s self,” Robbie said. “I always thought I could get along, j but this—well, ’ it’s a mighty long ’ slump.”

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The big right-hander listened attentively when it was pointed out the world seemed to be that his fast one wasn’t “alive” any more and that the b/.nper erdp of homers he allowed — now 35 — was harvested from that pitch. The disappointment at bullpen duty was secondary to the chagrin Roberts felt at his won-lost letdown this season. \ That's the main disappointment, not helping out when he had a chance to be up there in the pennant fight,” Roberts said. “That's baseball. A fight for the pennant and I didn’t help.” Williams Hangs On To Two Point Lead DETROIT (UP)—Ted Williams clung to a two-point lead over Mickey Mantle in the hot American League batting race today as the result of a standoff in their latest clash. Red Sox slugger Williams and Yankee blaster Mantle each had two hits in four at-bats in games Monday, each gaining one percentage point — Williams to .379 and Mantle to .377. Open Bowling | FREE . 1 Game Every Time You Get A Strike When The Striped Pin is the Head Pin! Afternoon - Women's League Forming. Mies Recreation