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Lint Clips Red Birds, 5103 COLUMBUS, 0. Aug. 31 — Although

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urday in Louisville, losing, 3 to[he®» 2, in the ninth after pitching aj; ..

masterpiece for eight innings. In last night's contest here, Royce Lint lasted the route on the Tribe rubber, held the Red

The Indians threw a three-run rally in the sixth that put them . over the hump, since they already had one marker. The Tribesters collected 11 hits but their lone extra base blow was a double by Clyde Kluttz, y

Pitcher Hits Homer

On the other hand, the Birds.

smacked a triple and a homer as part of the base-hit production. “Cotton Deal, the pitcher, ‘hit the round tripper. Columbus was first to break into the scoring column when Deal hit for the circuit in the third. Thé Indians evened it wp in the fourth and the Birds regained the lead 2 to 1, in the fifth. Deal’s homer was an inside-the-park wallop that sailed over Dom Dallessandro’s head and rolled 440 feet, Lint, who got two of the Indians’ safeties, launched the winning splurge in the sixth. He beat out an infield hit, Ted Beard singled and Jack Cassini sacriced. Ss : Dom Hits in Clutch Nanny Fernandez walked to fill the bases with one out. Claude Wright, at second, fumbled Les Fleming's grounder, Lint scoring. Dallessandro delivered in the clutch and his single batted in two more runs, The Indians’ fourth-inning run was accounted for by singles by

Cassini and Fernandez and a

scoring fly by Fleming. In the

eighth, the Redskins tallied their er

fifth and last marker. Fernandez singled to left and raced all the way to third when Vern Rapp let the drive roll by him. Nanny then scored after the catch on a long fly by Flem-

i Ball Hops Over Scala In the fifth, the Birds chalked . up their second run. Ernie Logan hit to center and it was good for a triple when the ball took a high

hop over Jerry Scala. After two Nicoson remarking, “T'll be sat|isfled if we have as good season |

away, Logan scored on Bill Costa's single. : The Birds. kept fighting and worried the Indians in the ninth. Logan singled after one out and went all the way to third when the ball got away from Scala. The runner then scored. after the catch on Mike Natisin's long fly. Les Fusselman worked Lint for a walk and Fernandez snatched Costa’s low liner for the gameending out. It was Lint's © against only three setbacks and

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Runs batted in—Fleming 3. dro 3. Deal, Costa. Natisin, ~Kilutts. - Three-base hit—Logan. run—Dedl

Twe-base hits—Fernandes 33

Peters 6, Gutteridge 6, Dallessandro Weatherly 2. Three-base Kits—Beard 13. Scala 7, Fernandes 6. Conway 6. Kalin

Klutts. Weatherly.

Ganss 4, Cassini 3, Gutteridge J. Peters 3. Dallesandro, Weatherly.

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001 010 001-3 Dallessan-Two-base hit Home Sacrifice — Cassini. Double plays—Lint, Conway and Fleming; Natisin and Costa: Costa, Wright and Natisin. Left on bases—Indianapolis 7, Columbus Base on balls—Off Lint 3, Deal 3.

Fleming mind. Veeck's reply to that was { 22. Cassini 21. Kalin 18, Conway 16. Beard what might be expected: He was in a new spot . . . if and when 15, Scala 11, Turner §, Gans 7, Klutts T.i¢uing to win a pennant. No Such a situation materializes. |change > | Whoever takes over the Indians i, ioe Cassini 3. Peters 3. Gutteridge 3. Gans. | S5tablished that, if Bill has his

Home runs—Pernandes 19, Conway 13|/body else will he running thei ime Kalin 12, Turner 11, Fleming 11. Beard 5.(Tribe in 1050. Or "maybe the t : 8cals 3. change already has been effected’

Indiana Central's football sea-| | son has opened with Coach Angus white Sox more than once.

arks Up His {2st Triumph

left 12 runners stranded: «The victory, Haugstad's

three-and-one-half game lead in

more in the eighth. The Blues scored in the second, fifth and seventh, 8 In other games, Toledo took a |double-header at Louisville, 3-2

bill at Minneapolis, 5-4 and 5-2. Hens Overhaul Colonels ‘A single run in the fourth by

Just because she's slated to

against Toledo. The Mudhens| chores. Husband Frank

took the lead in the next inning X with two runs and they added an-| with five other lady drivers.

drive in the women's hard-to event today at ‘the W. l6th St. Midget Speedway, doesn mean Ruth Roessler isn't hs to

p + keep right on with her beauty driver of the hard-tops, gets

relegated to the mirror-holding job as Ruth slicks up for the race

other in the seventh. Louisville

bat. In the second game Toledo tal eight. lied omce in the third, opce in the, The Millers opened the scoring

scored one run in its last time at/to beat Minneapolis. The Brew-/the fifth. A final run by Mil|ers got 15 hits to their opponents’ waukee in the ninth ended the scoring. The Minneapolis Millers yesterfifth and twice in the sixth. The|in the second game with a single day called up Catcher Ernie Yelen

throughout his scouting assignment he kept in shape, and nursed that naughty limb along until the time came this month

“And while Brooklyn whittled

down the Cardinal lead in the'rained out in the only other lay- National League, the Boston Red!

Baseball Calendar

for him to inch timorously into the lineup for a comeback.

Holds ,318 Average

blazoned in the record books. There's a .313 batting average, for example. And ‘there are 18 runs batted in in 27 games plus eight home runs. They are vitally placed ‘home runs, too. Saturday against the Reds, Jeff blasted a homer in the ninth to tie the score, and another in the 10th to win it. And yesterday’ in a game with the St. Louis Cardinals—a team which has given the Braves fits all year, Heath slugged his way {to more glory. He hit a single, a double and a home run in four tries. He batted in four runs and

4 i C | move, Bo. less jill have to make up his mind that the sky isn't the limit anymore. Veeck has just about (scraped the blue yonder in his

But it seems to be pretty wel

‘lway and the price is right, some-

han 2.6 million fans last year.| : {It'll come through with about 2.2| and only the details are 1acking. | rim off “this season. . xn 8 i “ 2-8 = 5 | A GENTLEMAN, who has been] OBSERVERS estimate that, in associated with Veeck for a good an ordinary year, with an ordimany years, says flatly that the nary team, a home attendance of |guy knows more about what he’s/1.5 million would be tops. Guys doing than any baseball man he like Lou Boudreau and Bob ever knew . . . including an in- Fe who have exercised a percredibly sound judgment of play- sonal magnetism along with their ers. If that is true, then Bill is superability beretofore, aren't too in the same class with Branch long for the big time. It may be Rickey, the Dodger maestro, hard to replace either. which is indeed high rating. «4 It is taken for granted that But, if Veeck sells (or has Veeck and his associates have

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isold), it means he is getting out. tapped every source of fan reveVeeck tried” hard to buy the nue they could find. They have| He indulged in almost all types of| would go overboard, so to speak, Promotional activities which al if he thought he could get the nimble mind could conceive, Along| - (Cubs. He would like to own the With this activity, they built a |Giants, if such a thing were pos- team into a world championship

Last year the Greyhounds split sie Otherwise, he doesn’t see Outfit.

{even in eight contests and

{ six games.

| prospects joining the veterans.

| Paul Eicher is the top quarter- (or has) sold the Tribe and will back for the T-formation for the retire, for the time being, to the 11th victery|second straight year apd Bill seclusion of his Arizona ranch. and Bob There he will subscribe to a pe-

{Clark, Tom Barnes

fin- much chance of his continuance ished third in the Hoosier College in the game outside of Cleveland. Conference with four victories in 5 os &

Returning lettermen number 17, pare. with 25 freshman and sophomore yn4q two togethe

With Boudreau having the best all-round year of his life, with ‘Lemon and Bearden and Feller| . {winning more than 60 games| THOSE WHO think this way among ‘em, the Indians just got therefore, are putting two up to win the flag in an unprecer and making it gented playoff in 1948. They! tadd up to the fact that Veeck will 5114 have just missed, which would have made this season | more of an anticlimax than it is.|

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his sixth win as a starting pitcher, Harvey round out the remainder ribd of watchful waiting for an- can take out of a'sale of the In-|

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Grand Slam Homer Highlights Victory Buck Leonard hit a grand slam

home run to highlight the Homestead Grays’ 19-to-6 drubbing of

“a the. New Orleans Creoles last

night before 1600 fans at Victory Field in a Negro exhibition game.

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MacPhail did pretty well for him-| -

scored two himself for a 12 to 4 rout of the Redbirds. That didn’t make Boston a pennant contender, to be sure, but it meant something in the pennant

race. For while the Cardinals were tasting such an untimely de-

Ito a 4 to 3 victory over Pittsburgh

Lead Cut to 11} The St. Louis league lead thus

Struck Steal 14m 5, Deal 3. Hit b¥iGslonels got a run in the secondrun in the first and then added from Sioux City, Iowa, to replace I as Crank. Jmpirve land two in the ‘fourth. another in the third. Milwaukee/the banished Sal Yvars, Manager nop. = : _The Milwaukee Brewers broke evened the "score in the fourth Tommy Heath suspended Yvars ¥ up a 4-to-4 tie in the 11th inning and brought in two more men infor insubordination, Indians at Bat < < r . AB R H RBI SB Pet. | vie r= ls Bill Veeck Planning to Sell Out’ Fares 9 38 4 an ° * Kolin ........ U0 7 3 319 Cl | to) 5 ri i w d Dallessandre 20a meelevelan poriswrirers vvonaering Cassini 3 - " 3831 By JOHN P. CARMICHAEL, Times Special Writer [1947 pennant. Certainly he took os Beard 06 36 31 am! CLEVELAND, Aug. 31—The boys from Cleveland's three news- out a lot more than he put in/‘eat, the Brooklyn Dodgers rode Kiutts 21 10 © 27 papers are sweating it out these days, waiting to write what may be from the standpoint of cash... ? Turner 75 4 © .263 the final chapter of the Bill Veeck story there, Will he sell? Who But Veeck already has said that,/on Gil Hodges’ one-on home run Weatherly 11 9 0 2m What? .., Why? when he took charge of the In-/in the ninth inning. Canvas n.% 3 | One paper insisted, in a front-page editorial, that Veeck owed|dians, he had monetary assets of| Gutterides ...113 36 38 15 .aso!lt to the players and the fans to “come clean” with what he had in exactly $12.50.

In other words that guy has was cut to a game and a half.

pyramided a sawbuck and some into a personal triumph 19 games with the Braves this of which are rarely writ-/season, but it was strictly no-go {ten Into any sports history. He|yesterday. ought to have a little more than were peppered with 16 hits for 31 that when he leaves. The Tribe drew more|COPYTIEht, 1948, by The Indianapolis Times Brooklyn Pitcher Rex Barney!

rebuilding the middle of his line.

{Grath and Wendell Roberts, ends;

{Ivan Moreman and Verne Chan|dler, taékies; Francis LaRussa

Hennies Wins

His present line includes Bill Mec-|

Legion Tourney

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Aug. 31

and Virgil Hanson, guards, and (UP)—Preston H. Hennles, CoGerald Schroder at center. They/lumbia, 8. C., held the American {Legion golf championship today Dally, two-a-day workouts for with a 301 card for 72 holes at

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Connie " Mack Picks

«4. Yankees ‘By a City Block’

| CLEVELAND, Aug. 31 (UP)— (Connie Mack said today the | Yankees should win the American

| The venerable pilot of the | Philadelphia Athletics explained {that “there isn't much time left

Club,

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Va., was third fending " Muncie, Ind. with a 318.

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!the remainder of the week are the Whitemarsh Valley Country

Their opening game is against, Hennies scored two birdies All home and 10 pars in his final 18 holes games will be played on Saturday yesterday for a four-day total of jafternoon on the Manual High

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