Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 57, Number 75, Decatur, Adams County, 30 March 1959 — Page 6

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Braves Suffer 13th Exhibition Defeat Sunday, By EARL WRIGHT United Press International Things are getting so tough foi the Milwaukee Braves that thej can’t even beat the Cincinnat Reds. The staggering Braves suffered their 13th exhibition loss in 1! games Sunday when they bowec to the Reds, 7-3. The National League champion. 1 are having a rough spring but three factors made this a particu larly humiliating defeat. —lt came at the hands of theii favorite “cousins.” —The losing pitcher was War ren Spahn, Milwaukee's ace left hander. —The winning pitcher was Miguel Cuellar, a rookie left-handei who isn't eVen on the Cincinnat roster. All these facts made an impres sion on Birdie Tebbetts, th* Braves’ new vice-president, anc he let loose today with a blast al the Biaves' "complacency'' as • "as one of our big problems.” Tebbetts pointed out that the only competition for jobs on the Braves is at first base and sec_ond base and he accused the other players of “taking it easy throughout spring training. v He warned them' that only the wartime St. Louis Cards (1942-43-44) have been able to win three straight pennants in the last 35 years in the National League. The Reds oattereo Spahn, a 22 game winner last season, for six runs, including four homers, in five innings. Tonight & Tuesday NOTE—First Feature at 6:50. Z—"'4UWI MtfH ] Ingrid BERGMAN CwtWRfiEHS RobwtDOlAT* ■ HuaIiMUM33COP CUM W M u* > ALSO — Shorts 25c -50 c —o Coming Sun. — “Senior Prom” & “Life Begins at 17” PHOTO FINISHING Films Left at Studio Before 5:00 P.M. Finished At Noon Next Day SERVICE GIVEN 6 DAYS A WEEK EDWARDS STUDIO

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1 Milwaukee usually masters Cincinnati simply by showing up at the park. The Braves eased their way to the last two pennants by compiling an 18-4 marj£ against the Reds in 195? and a 17-5 record against them in 1958. Reds* Fifth Straight It was the same story when Milwaukee belted Cincinnati, 11-5, in their first 1959 exhibition clash • March 15. But No. 2 came up Sunday and the Reds teed off on Spahnie. , r Frank Robinson, Dutch Dottery er, Johnny Temple and Pete ti Whisenant nicked him for homers. Robinson also homered off Joey 4 Jay in the seventh. Cuellar al--8 lowed the Braves eight hits and d two runs in the first eight innings. It was Cincinnati’s fifth straight i S victory. it Frank Malzone, Willie Tasby, J- Jim Bolger and Ralph Terry were heroes and Willie Mays returned ir to action in other Sunday exhibitions. r ‘ Malzone’s two homers sparked the Boston Red Sox to a 9-7 victory over San Francisco, but the *’ Giants took the defeat lightly be'r cause Mays returned to the lineup ti for the first time since March 12. Mays, sidelined after suffering ' a bone-deep gash on his right leg . while sliding home, tripled off Ike t Delock in the first inning and slid into third to show he has fully 5 recovered. Pumpsie Green walloped a pinch-hit homer for Bose ton. Eddie Bressoud, Orlando Cee peda, Jackie Brandt and Andre Rodgers homered for the Giants. ® Orioles Edge Pirates Tasby, Baltimore’s rookie cenf ter fielder, hit two homers to help • the Orioles edge the Pittsburgh’ Pirates, 6-5. His second came 5 with two mates aboard in the sev--0 enth and won the game. > Bolger’s 10th inning homer with '' Carroll Hardy on base gave the Cleveland Indians a 4-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Bolger, an ex-Cub, hit his homer off Dick - Drott, who relieved Taylor Phil- • lips in the eighth. | Terry, a right-handed pitcher I the Kansas City Athletics, won I his own game with a two-run douI ble in the. fifth. The' Athletics ' edged the Washington Senators, 3-2, in a game called after seven innings because of rain. Rain washed out or halted Sunday’s three other exhibitions. Decatur Little League Will Meet Wednesday An important meeting of the Decatur Little League will be held at 8 o’clock Wednesday evening at the city hall. Officers will be elected and plans discussed for launching the 1959 season. All league officers, managers and coaches are asked to be presz ent, and any other interested persons are also invited. 14 Conference Games For Big Ten Teams CHICAGO (UPD — Big Ten basketball teams will each schedule 14 conference games next season, including home - and - home tilts against five opponents, according to conference officials. Besides meeting five teams twice, each squad will face four other loop foes in single games, two at home and two away. Six teams open the league action Jan 2, a conference official said, and all Big Ten court squads will be scheduled on closing night, March 5.

Lakers Upset Hawks To Win t .... Western Title United Press International Rookie sensation Elgin Baylor i has Minneapolis fans excited to- . day over the club’s chances of i winning their first National Bas- > ketball Association championship i since 1954. Baylor, with 33 points, out- . scored St. Louis’ power-punch of . Bob Pettit and CliffHaga* Sunday to give the Lakers a 106-104 ■ squeaker over the Hawks and the . Western Division playoff title. I Minneapolis will meet the winner of Wednesday's Boston-Syra-t cuse Eastern Division finale for the NBA crown. The title round will begin Saturday on the home i court of the Eastern champion. , Syracuse tied the series at three-aU Sunday by beating Boston, 133-121 on the sharpshooting of Dolph Schayes and George Yardley, a ’ Baylor, the former Seattle AllAmerica who was the NBA’s ’ “rookie of the year” this season, saw his shooting efforts pay off ,as St. Louis’ defending cham- ’ pions outscored Minneapolis'- 14-4 ’ in the last five minutes for a near ' comeback victory. With 10 seconds to go, the Hawks took possession. Jack McMahon passed out .io Clyde Lovellete, who tried to feed Pettit for . the tying basket. Pettit couldn't shake loose and the ball went back to McMaiion. He shot and missed. Minneapolis grabbed the rebound and the division title. '. Pettit had 24 points and Hagan 22. Syracuse, refusing to give up on the tradition, sent the Eastern finals into a decisive seventh game with their War Memorial Auditorium triumph. It was the "old pros,” Schayes and Yardley, who turned the trick for Syracuse. Schayes. playing ’ with an injured toe that almost sidelined him, scored 39 points, while Yardley, who played all but the last minute of the game, tal--1 lied 32. Key baskets by Schayes and ; Yardley, after Boston had cut .the Nats’ lead to 113-109, gave weight 1 to Coach Paul Seymour’s boast that Syracuse would tie the se- ■ ries and go on to win it. Frank Ramsey had 26 points for Boston, while Bill Russell had 25. Art Wall Leading Azalea Open Meet WILMINGTON, N. C. (UPD - Art Wall, Jr., who says he would be happy just to get a par 72 in the brisk wind which has whipped the course Tor three days, went into the final round of the 11th annual Azalea Open golf tournament today with an impressive seven-un-der-par 209. Mike Souchak, who played against Wall on the Duke University course years ago, moved into the challenger’s spot in the third round Sunday, only five strokes behind. The Grossinger. N. Y. prband former Blue Devil football player turned in the day’s best showing with a 70 that gave him a 214 total. But Wall’s blistering 66 of Saturday enabled him to hold a steady lead with his 36-35—71 third round score. — Wall, of Pocono Manor, Pa., Souchak and Don Whitt of Borrego Springs, Calif., with a 215 total, were the only three players to come up below par through the first 54 holes of the $15,000 tourfiey. Behind them trailed first-day leader Bob Goalby of Belleville, 111., and Bert Weaver of Beaumont, Tex., with 218. two strokes I over regulation.

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International Loop Playoffs Tuesday LOUISVILLE. Ky. (UPD -Th< International Hockey League play offs open at Indianapolis and hen Tuesday with the Indjanapoli: Chiefs defending Turner Cu i champions. ' Indianapolis, whieh finished it fourth place — the same as las year—hosts second - place For Wayne in the opener of a bes four-of-seven series. Louisville, regular-season cham pion, meets Troy in a similar ser ies. In Sunday's 'regular seasoi windup, Troy edged Fort Wayni place Toledo, 7-3, with a 4-goa 4-3, and Indianapolis routed last splurge in the final period. Louisville’s Rebels copped th< league pennant with 71 points beating Fort Wayne by 6. Troj finished with 62 points, Indianapo lis with 56, Toledo had 46. Ex-Yankee Hurling Star Dies Sunday ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (UPD —Johnny Allen, a laniern-jawec fireballer who once was tht American League’s top pitchei and always a thorn in the sidt of umpires —a group he latei joined, died here Sunday at the age of 53. Allen, who was in the real estate business at the time of his death succumbed to a heart at tack. He was survived by his widow, Leta, and his son. John L Allen Jr., a student at the Uni ver slty of Florida. The lanky righthander, whe only had one losing season (his last) in 13 years in the big leagues with five different teams, compiled a grand total of 142 mrjor league victories against onl, 75 losses, including a 20-victoi.\ total in 1936 and 15 straight wins in 1937. But Johnny Allen always will be remembered in baseball for his explosive temper. And for the incident of the tattered shirt. One day when Allen was pitching for the Indians, he cut a slit in the right arm of the red undershirt he wore. But Umpire Bill McGowan ruled that the flapping shirt was distracting the batters and ordered Allen to change the Allen refused. The American League fined him $250. But Allen wound up making money on the deal when he sold the celebrated shirt to a Cleveland sporting goods store for a window display, Allen was born in Lenoir, N.C.; in 1905. He joined the Yankees in 1932. For four years he was a steady winner for New York but in midseason 1935 he staged a typical dressing room explosion in which he blasted Manager Joe McCarthy for use of a rookie outfielder, whose misplay had lost a game. The taciturn McCarthy never replied, but at season's end Allt-n was traded to Cleveland. It was one of the few deals that ever came home to haunt the Yankees, for in 1936 and -1937 at a time when such great pitchers as Carl Hubbell, Dizzy Dean, and Lefty Grove were operating in the majors, there was no better hurl* er in baseball than Johnny Allen. In 1936 tie had a 26-10 record. In 1937, despite arm trouble, he had a 15-1 record. After an arm operation in 1938, Allen never regained the pitching heights although he stayed in the majors with the St. Louis Browns, Brooklyn Dodgers, and New York Giants until 1944. Mission Unaccomplished MONTPELIER, Vt. (UPD — A city truck stopped suddenly while spreading sand on ice-covered roads to prevent skidding. A car behind it skidded into the truck, (causing S2OO in damages.

Crafl Hopeful e Os Athletics' i Improvement n (Editors Note: This is the 10th . dispatch on the prospects of the rt major league clubs in 1959.) 5t By LEO H. PETERSEN UPI sports Editor WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. <VD r- —Harry Craft is hopeful the Kansas City Athletics will improve in *n 1959. He doubts, however, whether ie they will be able to better their il seventh place finish of last year, t- “There are too many good clubs ahead of us,” he cautioned. ’ So, ie please, don’t class us with the s contenders or even with the first ™ division possibilities. We just - haven’t got it—yet. We will one of these years, when our youngsters start to measure up. "Until then the best we can aim for is to play .500 ball. I said i last spring I’d be happy, i' we ; won 70 games. Well, we won 73. Just say I’ll be happy this year with that .500 average.” For 1959 he lacks pitching, a ~ solid infield, long baL hitting and 1 almost everything else it takes to ® win a pennant. 'r His infield problem is such that ~ he plans to play his regular catch,r er, Hal Smith, at third base. Four First Basemen "He s going to be as good a .. third baseman as there is in the ■ s league,” Craft insisted He isn’t t . going to find any rival American lS League managers agreeing with ’ him on that point. He pointed out that he has four ’ first basemen — Harry Simoson, Preston Ward, Dick Williams and 0 Bob Martyn. All of them also can s play in the outfield. j But take any one of them at first, with Smith at third, the slick fielding but light-hitting Joe . DeMaestri at snort and Hector s Lopez at second, and what does he have in the way of an infield? e Even Craft admits is falls far a short of what it takes to make i- the American League’s first division. '■ Lopez is the big gun—he hit 17 1 homers and batted in 73 runs with ’ a .261 batting average in 1958. I However, he is the one player ? Kansas City has on the trading s mart. B The A’s won’t listen to offers for the hard hitting Bob Cerv or out- „ fielder Roger Maris. “They are the heart of our ball 4 club.” Craft reasoned. “We just ean’t let them go.” f So Cerv will be in left field wjth Maris in right and Bill Tuttle ,a good glove man, in center. 'That !. outfield is the A’s strongest deyr partment. I- Desperate For Pitching J Back of them are those four k first base candidates. Whitey Herk. zog and Zeke Bella, a .339 hitter (, at Denver last year. '• Infield reserves include Mike Baxes. Milt Graff, and Wayne II Terwilliger, drafted from Charleston. g With Smith playing third, Frank * House will do most of the catch- , ing with Harry Chiti in reserve. □ The A’s are so desperate for ’ pitching they even signed Russ . Meyer, who has been out of baseball for a year, and Art Houtte- ' mann, another veteran, for tryj outs. It looks like Meyer might make it. 1 Craft’s starters figure to be five z right-handers—Ralph Terry (11-13) b Jack Urban (8-11). Bob Grim '7-7), Rav Herbert <B-B> and veti eran Ned Garver (12-11). Southpaws Dick Tomanek (7-8) and Bud Daley (3-2) and righthanders (Torn Gorman (4-4) and Herbert, when he isn’t in the starting rotation, will form the bullpen brige ade. 1 With that array, it’s easy to unf whv Craft isn’t thinking , about the first division for 1959. - Ted Williams In Boston For Exams BOSTON (UPD — Ailing Ted Wiffipms, mainstay of Boston’s pennant hopes, was expected to undergo a lengthy examination by an expert neurosurgeon today to determine the seriousness of a bothersome neck injury. Though no definite information could be given until Williams undergoes a thorough examination, the very nature of his injury — described as a "pinched nerve’’— prompted fears that the colorful slugger’s career migljt be near an end. “Two famous inventors? Thomas Edison and Abner Doubleday!" I

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