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THURSDAY, AUG. 5,

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Blues Are Next in Line For Redskin Killing

Game to Honor ‘Hump’ Pierce; Indians Dump Saints, 8-5, in Finale

By EDDIF. ASH, Times Sports Editor weatherman

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them inthe current Victory Field stand and still 10% games out oltish pitched better. ball than the!s.,

in front. The Tribesters the: job on the St. Paul Saints last night, 8 to 5, sweeping the fourgame series on a vain-drenched field and sending the Apostles out of town with a total minus record in Indianapolis in regular season| competition, 11 appearances and 11 defeats.

« Miscues Galore Eight errors were chalked up! five by the winning Indians. Makes no difference how they, perform, the Redskins have a why of finishing on the long end of the score. *The Indians now will take on Kansas City in a two-game set, fifst game tonight, with southpaw, Chet Johnson delegated to face the Blues on the mound. e Tribesters already have de:| teated the Blues 12 times in 17 clashes and aim to continue their sgperiority tonight. { “It will be observed as Hump | Plerce Night at the Tribe park in honor of the Indians’ veteran! tfainer. He will receive a lot of] ts and a sizable check from the ball’ club. The players and| Frank Sigafoos, chairman of the Appreciation Night Committee, have fixed up something special | for the popular bone cracker—| and will he be surprised. Over the Wall | In last night's contest, the In: dians jumped out in front in the first inning when Les Fleming belted a two-run homer, his 21st! of the season. | . Saints scored two uned runs off Cal McLish in the fourth and tied it up. Where-|

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score indicates. All five St. Paul runs were unearned. He finally got tired and Manager Lopéz

took him out after the seventh Juiteridee. 3b

and sent in Johnny Hutchings. No. 11 for McLish Lopez decided McLish had, worked hard enough under the’ slippery field condition and was fresh out of the;

with the losing Saints getting 12.

But the Apostles left 12 runners 3 i 3B, fray Metish |

stranded to five by Indianapolis. }* The Saints even lost a run in the first inning when Buddy ‘Hicks slipped afd Tell after passing third and had to go back. He {would have scored had ‘not the {slippery going upset him. The Redskins batted Pat Mec!Glothin out of the box in the

fourth inning and he was re- Safle

lieved by Jack Paepke, making 8 {his third appearance in the se-| ries. Paepke allowed only one hit in|

{miserable support, Time Marches On | The last out was made at 11:20. Because of the condition] {of the field, the action did not get under way until 845 and there was a 20-minute time-out on account of rain in the second {inning The Indians during the time-out and got into ia controversy with the umpires, {who were slow about r play. There was a baseball oddity in the third stanza. Jack. Cassini] ‘of the Indians smacked a triple | {after one out as his drive to center stirred up a lake and Earl

{42% innings but was the victim of is

Naylor, missed on an attempt for |

a shoe-top catch. Cassini then

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Tribe Batting

Rain... M20 19 3 urner i... 32 63 37 G46 IPELerS. ..4xve 8 3 11 Ji Fleming 87 132 113 a2 a one 66 136 3 309 » Wa 81 135 40 J04 ‘anus 108 116 64 28 eatherty ’ 1 27 23 2% {Cassin ... 79 114 49 291 {Qauss FT 16 31 20 .28 . 74 105 3¢ an kare in ¢ 38 265 1 13 32 21.28 o-Base Hits—Castigifone’ 23, Rikard

24, Beard 24, Fleming 22, Saffell 17, Cas-~ sini 16, Turner 13, pSutleridge 9, Gens 4 Bans 4, Lopez 3, ree-Base is at is, Sal 9, Cassini 5, er os ote s 2, 3 in ge, Ganss, | Weatherly, Lo | Home hin Fleming 21, Rikard 7, fell 4, Beard 4, Gutteridge 4, rh Ae 3, Kalin 3, Ganss 2 Lopez 2, Weatherly 3, Turner 2, Peters

olen Cas sini 30, Saflell 18, ard 11, Gutteridge 3 Turner 5, Riker 2, Castiglione, Flemin,

8, Lopez, Kalin orifice Hits — Cassind 16, Saffeil 8, | tiglione 5, Outteridge 4, Rikard 3,

en 2, Ganss, Turner.

- Brewers Shade Colonels, 8 to 7

Milwaukee shaded Louisville, 8

upon, the Redskins bounced back tried to steal home and was! {to 7, in an American Association

with two markers in the bottom! of the fourth by lining out four hits, In the fifth, the Saints fell apart and made three errors and the Indians scored four runs on, one hit and a walk. In the sixth, kicked the ball around, made two errors and’ the Saints scored three runs on three hits. That made it 8 to 5, and there was no further scoring. Cal Mc-

the Indians

erased. The Indians’ Tom Saffell, who had been getting one or more hits a game for a couple of weeks, went hitless in five “trips.” Paul Erickson, the righthanded {pitcher sent down to the Indians by the Pittsburgh Pirates, ported last night but did not] dress for active duty. Said his]

farm was sore.”

The rainy weather cut the attendance to 2926.

Norwegian Olympic Queen

‘Shames' U. S.

Sweater Girls

By FRED SPARKS, Times Foreign Correspondent LONDON, Aug. 5—One of the wildest spots in this oiviapic, world is the lounge of Southlands College, where the girls of 14 com- | peting nations spend their idle hours. ; I managed to visit the lounge after convincing the guards I was | —Five persons were in serious npt an agent of an Algerian white slave ring. i Three Italian girls were at the piano tickling the Xeys | into | racing car plunged into a crowd-

"Pm in the Mood for Love.”

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game last night. Wet grounds postponed the Kansas City at Toledo game and rain caused the Minneapolis at! Columbus game to be called off. | | Minneapolis moved : into undis{puted possession of third place. At Louisville, the ball players, {labored into overtime before Mil-| {waukee could gain the decision.| The teams were tied 6-all going) {into the 10th when the Brews

scored twice. The.Colonels came

back for a single score in their (half and were stopped short {when Glenn Elliott came in to put out the fire,

18 Are Injured In ‘Hot Rod’ Crash

OWOSSO, Mich, Aug. 5 (UP)

condition today after a ‘hot rod”

{ed grandstand at the Owosso

{A pair of American darlings) They're thinking of that shopping, Motor Speedway last night.

kppt time on banjos while a girl,

Dutch. lassies from Nor:

spree on Rue de la Paix, London

their trade, without success.

Hospital authorities reported

- from Holland sang a number in [stores have been trying to coax| that 13 other spectators were

| injured and released after treat.

way danced with each other and Prices are too high and, anyway, ment.

a Mexican girl—with curls like|the girls have had little free time.

cockleburrs—joined the party by| doing a socio ballet number. ® 8 = 2 |

ONE OF the girls from Norway smiled at me, I started to slump] to the floor. She was wearing | shorts, which looked as if.they| were whitewashed on her pink] skin. Her legs were long and| could model the hose of any] stocking house. And she shamed | all “the sweater girls on the Warner Brothers payroll. A trio of Argentine musclemen | came in—via the window. They applied fingers to lips, indicating they were here on the Q T and started to dance with three Brazilians. A few of the girls were discussing dates in their respective countries, a towering terrific from | Iceland said: “Weé love to make dates during a blizzard. We go sit in the| snow unti} it covers both of us.”| » . » |

ICELAND might have been al dark and cold continent to many | Yanks before the Olympics. Now| they'll always remember it—| thanks to the ladies. These creatures from Iceland have skin as white as unpas-| teurized milk. Their long, blonde hair flops over their shoulders.

And they're setting a fashion—|

the trousers of their blue gym suits have zippers, They unzipper, them just above the knees and let| them flap. The girls seem to prefer to date| men who participate in the same; sports. Maybe it gives them a| talking point. ‘A discus thrower] from Hungary has been “going| steady” with a discus thrower | from Canada. And a javelin

thrower from Italy —with the

most wonderful and blackest eyes I have even seen—is reportedly slightly bats over a javelin] thrower from Bermuda. = » ® |

THE SWIM teams are going to) Paris for an exhibition. That's the reason why many of the girls! are saving their precious dollars.

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A small near-tragedy occurred in the Empire Pool. An Irish girl| took a long underwater dive and

{came up minus her bathing. suit. YiA chivalrous lad from Portugal | wait Alston, manager of th

slipped in the drink and fetched | it to her, He swears he kept his eyelids shuttered. It’s unusual for girls to lose {their swim suits, Jut common{place for the me During W| water polo game between. Hun{gary and Spain, two Spaniards had to be protected by towels iwhen they finished the violent Y play without swim trunks. One of the most. nervous women in London is Mrs. Harry {Hainsworth of Buffalo, N. Y. She iis official chaperon for the track team. The girls must secure her permission before going out on a jdate. So far she insists every(body has been in line. But she {is worried about the days—and , inights—ahead when the track team will have completed competition and have time to think of boys and London bottle cliibs.

The Chicago Dwily News, Ine.

St. Paul Manager Fined by Lane

COLUMBUS, 0, Aug. 5 (UP St. Paul club in the American Association, was fined $25 today by League President Frank!

ity and considerable delay in leaving the field,” in a dispute at game July 31.in Louisville. Lane said that in the seventh inning of the game, which St. Paul won, 2-1, after 10 innings, | Alston complained of a second ® base decision by Umpire Harry King and was banished from the; field.

Hot-Rods Race Tonight There will be another hot-rod| racing program tonight at the W.| 16th St. Speedway. Sponsored by the Hurricane Association and] the, Mutual Racing Association, the first of the eight-lap elimination heats will start at 8:30 p. m.| ii trials are scheduled for 7|

Lane for “prolific use of profan-

BENEFIT GAME—Jack Efroymson (left), and Alvin Cohen

| give Mayor Al Feeney (seated)

his choice of tickets to the Min- | neapolis-Indianapolis Indians B'nai B'rith benefit game which will

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Dass. media a MeO. oe " be held Saturday night. The proceeds from the game will be used Ras 30 RUNS | 4 to purchase equipment for the Indiana Universi Kiner, Pirates... 28 Musial 23 in Indianapolis. Cohen is the local president of the B'nai B'rith, Samar Reds... Bi hee Chena 1 largest Jewish service organization in the United States.

. » Tribe Box Score ’ ST. PAL R HO A B 9. 2.9% 1 8% 9: -& 3252 TF 1% 1 e 0 % oo 1'3 1 "8 ¢ 1 :1-F 0:8 1: 1°'3 49% i 1 4 0% 0:1 9 :F of I 6 8 1° 6 : 5 12 4 8 3 a AB R H O A B® boll, Sof“ eiivanai 5 0 8 5 0 © joan, “0 AR ACS | Beard, ri 4 Y tp ie Fleming, 1b wd Ed RE Rikard, If oh AEE Ca wo 4 No a keg Te wg gop ag (Turner, ¢ ... “ne 81. 3-21 { McLish, - +38 0 02 9 Ty Po neenen ¢ 0 0 9. 0 2 rR aaa 3M 8 9 21 12 3 at Pads A inn a SH WR 4 000 203 5: ov Bae :

| over.

|The late Jack Hendricks was the 1917 manager.

PAST AND THE PRESENT—Thirty-one years ago, in 1917, the Indianapolis Indians won the American Association pennant and defeated Toronto in the Little | World Series. The agile left fielder for the FFREEFE Sto Tike womy ouaYOU | see him above chatting with Culley Rikard, the Tribe's current left fielder. Manager Al Lopez of the 1948 pennant-bound Indians slipped a cap on Reilly and handed him | a bat when the veteran strolled out on the Victory Field greensward to look 'em Reilly was a speed merchant in his day and usually led off in the batting order. {Mon, a Scottish bred trotter. In

Ben White, 75, of Orlando, Fla. is the foremost driver with four victories, and will try to make {it five this year behind Madison | Hanover. Sep Palin of Rushville, Ind., gained fame in the Hamble-| {tonian by driving the great Greythound to victory in 1935, He also; won last vear's race behind Hoot

{two minutes flat, for the fastest

‘Mal Whitfield Fails

In Double Victor Bid

Jamaican Wins U.S. Takes High

Mal Whitfield third.

His victory smashed American| hopes for a double champion in track. Those hopes were on Whitfield’s shoulders, for he had won the 800-meter run earlier this week and was one of the favorites {in the 400-meters today. Win Gold Medal However, the Yanks still won ia gold medal today when Lt. Sammy Lee of San Francisco |took the ‘men’s dive with Ohio State’s Bruce Harlan sdcond. : | Wint loomed as a threat to {Whitfield’s double-victory dreams all through the games. He fin{ished first in the semifinal’ heat this morning in 46.3 seconds, with Whitfield third, saving himself for the big one this atter-

oon, Obviously, enough. McKenley's time in the final today was 46.4 seconds, and Whitfield's 46.9, ’ Dave Bolen, University of Colorado speedster, was fourth! in 47.2 seconds, Morris Curotta)

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George Guida of Villanova sixth in 50.2 seconds. Lee's victory “maintained the American monopoly on the men’s aquatic competition, the Yanks

[held to date, ! | Previously, Wally Ris of Towa | {won the 100-meter freestyle title;

) Bill Smith of Ohio State the 400- women's 400 - meter free - style ® meter freestyle; the U. 8. four- swim.

(relay, ‘and Harlan the spring{board diving event.

4) third in the high dive,

{points on his optional dives--a {a flying one and a half reverse, la two and a half somersault cut-! laway and a three and a half {forward somersault— for a total {of 130.05 points. Harlan, who made his four op-| tional efforts a two and a half {somersault cutaway, a back one! and a half somersault straight, (scored 73.36 points for a total o 122.30.

Bob Mathias of Tulare, Cal, 3 the Olympic rowing competi- | Women's

17-year-old U, 8. decathlon cham-| | pion, finished second to P. Mullins | of Australia in his heat of the! { 100-meter sprint in :11.2, Mathias sand’ Simmons each | scored 787 points for their ef-| | forts in the dash and Mondschein| | 760. Mondschein Second

| Mondschein then finished sec-|

jond in the broad jump with a 22 the 4 inch leap to hold a deca-| thalon lead of 1514 points after!

Mike Capilla of Mexico WasiOyrtie of the University of Cali=|y to Karen ry er Ninth Heat=t, ig >: ee BE ony. Poland (062), . O-METER RUN

(Semifinals) bel, Arthur Win

{hand-stand cut-through reverse, lond heat. Hes . 2 Mortis is, Oulatta, Australis; 3. Mal White,

400-Meter Dash; Olympic Results

board Diving Event 1ronpoN, Aug. 5 (UP)—Sum-'

/maries of the seventh day of the

By LEO PETERSEN, United Press Sports Editor LONDON, Aug. 5—Arthur Wint, a flying Jamaican Negro, won! the Olympic 400-meter dash championship today with Americantrained Herb McKenley, also of Jamaica, second and Ohio State's]

Wint tied the Olympic record of 46.2 seconds set by William | Carr of the United States at Los Angeles in in 1932.

Yank to place in the first six in the broad jump.

of California finished second to Denmark's first heat of the women's 400meter freestyle qualifying swim.

Audrey Patterson of Nashville, "Pint meat_1.

Tenn. won the fifth heat of the Verenc Voroes. Hungaty.

Second 2. Jack Hale, 4 Hent

women's 200-meter dash today, the first time an American woman has wen even a heat in the Olympic) games track and field| competition. Swimmer Saved Denmark's Greta Andersen, one of the favorites in the Olympics 400 meter swim, collapsed Be

during a preliminary heat today Ha and was saved from drowning by |fested

Ndncy Lees of Portland, Ore, d a Hungarian swimmer. “Tne Danish star, who already ‘has won the 100-meter free-style

swimming championship, was oh onj 1 dis

{the last leg of her race suddenly she began to sink hen fore a startled throng of 6000,

of Australia fifth in 47.9 and| The crowd yelled, but it seemed! cher 1ichtenstein Heat—-1, H.

aghs before those on the side-| lines began dashing toward her. Miss lees and a Hungarian named Szaatmarry reached the! : Danish swimmer first and held J

having won all five of the events her afloat until the completion of| |

{the race. All three Yanks qualified for) tomorrow's @ semifinals in the|,

Brenda Helser of Losi’

Olympic games: BASKETBALL Maxiee 88. Cuba 88, Eire Coechostovakia 54, Switzerland 28. SWIMMING MEN'S HIGH BOARD DIVING two events. He was the only| ; 1 sammy tae. DSA 12 USA, Ll 113.52: a 108.62: Peter Ann Curtis of the University, 100.38: 8 aay Christiansen, Denmark ¥

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Karen Harup in the MEN'S 1500-METER FREESTYLE

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(Preliminaries) in Jock heat and four fast. for tomorrow's semis

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vares of Brazil in 5:30.2.

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Atcording to unofficial agures,|' | Lee amassed an additional 98. sqjEinrup of 4 Denmark 2, 331.1.;

| Miss Lees qualified in the sec-|

Sweden swept the |3000-meter steeplechase with)" {Thore Jsoestrand first, Erik Elm-

{troen third.

U. 8. Crew Wins The U. 8. four-man crew with-!

jout coxswain won the opening | heat of the qualifying trials by | Décatnions te !deteating Britain by four lengths Go" vi Savelin, 1800

ition got under way

{time of 6:488 was the fastest clocked in the preliminary heats.

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MEN'S EPEE TEAMS

Hest /man team the 800-meter freestyle Angeles finished in a thrilling 3, D ure]

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Events Tomorrow

FRIDAY, AUG. § Ei

s 200 500 meters

on the |i3ioo meters reiny hosts. Thames River. The Americans’ {4x400 meters relay heats. Harrings Basketball (eliminations).

Jimmy McLane of Akron, O.,

won the second heat of the 1500- Hockey i ehminations

{meter freestyle swimming prelimi |

Henley naries’ by almost 30 yards over “ov'™¢ (preliminaries). Bisley i Free ge a bore, standing, 300 meters shootin

|second- place Jack Hale, of Britain.

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Additional Sports, Page 30

Barron’ s Pai

Leads Open Golfers

{ CHICAGO, Aug. 5 pen 90 top pros of America's golf circuit turned into the final half of the annual All-American Open | today. with Herman Barron, White Plains, N. Y., veteran, one stroke

{ahead of the field.

Barron, 1946 winner of the championship {the field this yedr, had a pair of 68s for a 136 total at 36 he holes and] ‘ia one-stroke edge on record;

{breaker Ralph Guidahl of Chi-

[cago. Guldahl set’ a new course rec-

ir of 68s

and most consistent of

| | {Ladies high {Men * 1500

Men's { fin

Water polo.

Yachting.

‘day, a 67, to take over third!

place with a 138. Lioyd Mangrum | had a 70 for & 139, Jimmy De-|

lord ef 64 on his first tour of this{marel was 70—141, Fred Haas

tourney links, but he fell apart on his second round for a 73 and a 137. Barron, meanwhile, was isteady despite bad playing conditions, and he seemed well on {the way toward his second title lin May's annual event. | Bad Day for Most { Yesterday's play was a bad day for all the pros, amateurs and { women in three-of-a-kind tournament. Tuesday, 34 pros and four amateurs smashed the par 72 on; the 6825-yartl course, but yester‘day only six] pros and one ama-| teur were aple to better perfect |figures.’ A high wind and cceasional] Yn plagued the early starters. So Bobby Locke, SBouth Africa's

Jr. a 71 and Ed Oliver fired, a 69 for a 130 and a tie with Mangrum for fourth,

sistency was Harold Brink, Grand Rapids, ,» he fired a 71 for a 140 total and first place in the men simon-pures. In the women’s open Patty Berg, Minneapolis, took over the lead with an 80, five midbay tn par, that was good for a midway to tal of 156,

istar, shot the best game of the

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