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By BOB MASSEY United Press Sports Writer

MEMPHIS, Tenn. June 18— Memo to the Cincinnati Reds: You have a valuable piece of baseball property here—Ted

Kluszewski, the powerhouse Memphis Chick first baseman, who

major league star along the lines | of Zeke Bonura. Kluszewski hits the ball and , often. He looks a lot like the late Lou Gehrig, physically and when he cuts at a pitch. He has Gehrig's powerful frame—weighs | 225—-and a set of oak tree legs that duplicate those of the Yankee Iron man. Defensively, well—he’s no Hal | Chase. But neither has he been

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AMERICAN ASSOCIATION. (All Night Games) NDIANAPOLIS at Milwaukee, Louisville at Kansas Oity, Columbus at St. Paul. Toledo at Minneapolis.

AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland at Washingto ' St. Louis at ( € fnignt) Detroit at Philadelphia. Chicago at New York (postponed, rain).

NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia at St. Louis (night), Boston at Cincinnati (night, } Rreoklyn at Chicago. New ° ork at Pittsburgh.

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needs all the runs it" csn get. : Kluszewski is not particular | about the pitcher or ghe piteh |

o He's a lefthanded hitter, but he

nails southpaws as consistently as right-handers. Curves or fast Ted

balls, he hits’ them both.

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centerfield, he powers

has been his inability to | hits into right field. :

| of school to sign a pro | baseball contract. He was string end two straight

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scouts. He hit 352 In 90 for Columbia, 8. C., in the league last year.

And batting punch | wouldn't handicap the Reds.

in 46 when Indiana won ‘the conflerBut that 429 batting average he racked up in collegiate baseball naturally attracted big leaghe

Right now he looks like he's worth every penny of the $15,000 he was pald to sign a contract.) certainly © "

. MINIATURE CARS TO BUZZ SOON—Ground was broken yesterday in George Washington park by the city parks aad recreation department for a race track to accommodate miniature car racing fans. Shown (left to right] are Joe Olender, president of the Indianapolis Miniature Race Car association; Paul R. Brown of the parks department; T. E. (Pop) Myers, vice president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and Wilbur Shaw, Speedway president.

right field, Pat Mullin, Detroit\, left fleld, Ted Williams, Boston, center field, Joe Di Maggio, New Yjork; catcher, Buddy Rosar, Philadelphia. National League -— First base.

The Indianapolis Times is one of the newspapers participating in the

‘and Cardinals Extend Longest

Victory Strings in Major Sparring

By CARL LUNDQUIST, United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, June 18.—They arent off the hot seat yet, but those

,! Miniature race car hobbyists, who genial managers of last years pennant winners, Eddie Dyer of the (have been forced to go outside of Cardinals and Joe Cronin of the Red Sox. were beginning to feel today

haven't been directing their teams from an electric chair

been two

spoken of ‘as “doomed men” as their teams months of dog-fighting in the major league

was able to hit a consistent | winning stride. After that prolonged 'stretelr of sparring, four teams now are involved in red-hot victory streaks and the Red Sox and Cardi-|

stretch and while their teams are

winning, Billy Southworth’s Boston | Braves and Bucky Harris’ New | York Yankees are setting the pen-! {nant pace in the two leagues,

association here and in the Halder although their winning streaks are |

slightly shy of the Red Sox and

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Rain prevented the weekly outdoor wrestling show of the Hercules A. C. at the Sports Arena last night. Another card will be staged next Tuesday.

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The Red Sox established the longest winning string of the 1947 season yesterday when they downed the Browns at Boston, 6 to 5, for their seventh straight victory. Sam Mele hit a three-run homer to pace

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also hit a three-run homer for the Browns, giving them a 3-to-0 margin which Mele’s blow nullified. The Cardinals won the hard way, running their string to six at St. Louis with three runs in the ninth jon three walks and Stan Musial’s | game-breaking triple which defeated the Phillies, 7 to 6. It was the second straight game over the Phils that the Cardinals had broken up in the final inning. Joe Garagiola hit a homer and Musial also got two singles as relief pitcher Ted Wilks was credited with the victory. The Braves ran their string to four in a row with a 16-hit, 11-to-1

| victory over the Reds at Cincinnati.

was their eighth victory in and the fifth straight vic-

The Braves, who have 10 out of their last 12 games, have made 42 runs and 52 hits in their last four starts. Bob Elliott led the hitting with two singles

got a homer for Cincinnati to ruin Barrett's shutout.

Come Fromi Behind Rookie Carl Scheib of the AB won his second game over the Tigers in a week, 5 to 2, with a five-hit allotment at Philadelphia. The A's had to come from behind

and a triple while Grady Hatton!

to win with four runs in the eighth

Major League Leaders NATIONAL LEAGUE Pet.

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McQuinn, New Jorky 31 18 » on Detroit A 187 18 DiMaggio, New York.

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Clowns Play Tonight Tom Quinoes, left-hander, is slated to twirl for the Indianapolis Clowns tonight st Victory field against the Chicago + American

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burgh’'s regular first sacker, was injured just before the season opened, Hank Greenberg was switched from the outfield to first and Westlake drew an assignment in ‘the pasture . . .

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and went hitless, . . . ruling wipes out the two 's and Riddle’s batting aver\ge benefits. . . . So, he'll be up here swinging again when the

are pointing up to ng the darlings of Beantown

jclinid one recent day prior to an iafteraoon ladies’ day game, . . . ‘Manager Billy Southworth di- , the players went through

432 he miotions of various plays that!

.the public ad- " . Imagine ball players doing that 40 years ago.

o ” » GIMME THAT BAT. . . . Hoosier Dizzy Trout of the Detroit Tigers hopes to surpass the American league ‘home run mark for pitchers in one season. . . . The regyrd is nine, posted by Wes Fegrell. . . . Trout, who was launched) on the path te the big leagues by the Indianapolis club, has three round irippers to his credit as a 1947 starter.

# ” » WORTH RUNNING FOR. . . . With sugar rationing off, maybe some of the heralded horse track favorites will see the point and step out and win occasionally for their faithful backers. . . . There's nothing like| a loaf of the sweet stuff to tickle a bangtail's palate. | a " » > { BOYHOOD BONANZA... Last Sunday, Chivage police arrested | two ticket mvalpers outside the | Cubs’ park and confiscated 50 | tickets to the Cubs-Phillies game. «ss The retained five tickets i court and then passed aut 45 to baseball hungry kids eutside the gates.... It was a field day for the youngsters.

” » BIG LEAGUE STUFF sv + A} Yankee player “singled into a! double play” the. other day . . .! Gumpert singled and moved to sec- | ond on a sacrifice . . . Henrich lined |

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Blues Withstand Louisville Push Three and AT a epatated Kansas City in the American association today from its nearest competitors as the Blues withstood Louisville's determined bid in a close contest at Kansas City last night. Louisville, tied for second place with Toledo, fought ftom behind to

falter in the final inning and } 8 to . Toledo also failed to a pace with the leaders, decision to I Sapping Minneapolis. ¥ The St. Paul cellar dwellers F00s0. egged Columbus at St. Paul, 9 to 0. The Colonels drove Fred Woift, Kansas City s g pitcher, from the box in the six , counting three runs and knotting the score at sixe all. But then the visitors couldn't do much with his relief, Fred Brad

ley, and the Blues finally shoved {home the winning tally. ‘ 'Mrs. Herrick Wins 4 ‘South Grove Meet Low gross honors in the women's invitational tourney at South Grove yesterday went to Mrs. Rick Herrick of Frankfort with an 85. Miss Dorothy Ellis of Meridian Hills was a stroke behind in second place and Mrs. C. D. Anderson fol

lowed with an 88. Mrs. James King, Anderson, had 92-21—171 for low net,

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