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NEW YORK iA",'P ?•' 'T ■! ,o .vak v ;{h the ln>ma- | weight championship,
the second lime in ■ ■ • ' ■ s'' 1 ' ih, under whose ! in an announcement here last
Sugar Ray Robin.■••n his 1 h - n d ibo middle- | week Robinson threatened to by
TWO OS Till ’*s ’ ■ . r - - - fp«jv;vsTf* of “Island Tn Thp Swn» M a fiew film, perl Mrs. H irry
.Rfljioote* wlf'i* <»i otic ' .it t hr program with wrsatilf 'ny |
tlfcvis Jr... *h** ' T-. < . f:*nc »?Hi. The premiere* a star-studded affair, i.n hed ;
fcfew York's 195? m: •• u r. . • ; ; ?*v; * -s r-f-iOTO).
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HEW YOH v
Gomes. the •
pitching act \*y
first pitcher in the • ~ ,■ ;
to achieve the 1
festtng every Ham ;n i',o :■■■
The lithe, tan Pi ■ rF
ted his eighth vi-to-v
three 10.- s
plac« Chlciiro Cn . •
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WINSTON - r i ■ r
Souths A rib"--.!
Classic wifi be re ,
Shore Field or]
and Twin r :
it the Nre
ef this Clsi , .
44th with ram
ust 18th.
The All-Star’, n mm r. •
headed by A. i. liomrr c
man. founder >.•
this Classic
this year's Classii :
the most, de v n:-i..i•> ,-v
the classic. For il- •- n.> >
years the Cl- .•- i-.i h-ti
at Memorial Stud-urn m •’
boro. This -n.
the third time to be v.i m i .’ui -
ton-Salem
The eommltfc* is >-
plans tn csiS ■ in
Fans from all i* ( . u
era States and - - f.-r
Washington, T» - The '!
Selecting fommi!u>f- 1 is
era! teams >n t
East and tvm uud th. •• ■
west to pick from to / • • I >■
selected South.
Already bids are eomiv n!•
the teams in t,ac'..
val and entertainxiu’nl Lie
classic, this v. < 11 in
to yestg*r year? The »;r
already is reecivinc oi-dvr; i :
kets and indicator! acroirl:: • •
sn early forcca.n. n. r
sibilit.v ihnl :.be B.o®o ,
Elrnie Shore Field will b •
WfINNER
| sfe® OjQGsf of Oil T’jtftiw s? i-*}it' opb*j ?t dewing ifes s x*h rotizd of their oo ot
| Beads *fe»fc«m. Turner won an. unpopular decision. and wtm krtse wife e broken
[■biood v®ws#l in uia ns shows* in photo, Photo)*
-oiiMds Oomez fashioned a:
■ u joo as 4.440 delighted fans |
In ’■ . pi .nuts victory, a %
to f t -hi. ;a nf the Milwaukee j
: r.sm-'’ aihwved only
j 1 .s? r !>i a-- jjo retired Hie j
i’n r iff t> liters in f ire him and
■ ■■;!. r j (iiirlr.g the for?
: u ,’i -o on .sale in the
■' ( ')■!•':n;i.- and the Ln-tnct of Co-.
. ■ July Bsh, The committee
u : on June 29 to select, a
' hi'' viill pilot, the South
! v( ar she South was piloted
- - Syj l Babe Davis. President,
' ■ ‘ < Koitfhcra Association and
• ; ; ’vV.n. fou-Salom Fond
:• committee has several
! ■ m Lie? to select- from for
Akins Beats Byars
In A 10-Rounder
NGKrOLK, Va. ,'ANP)~Con
a body attaci in
'
’ : ora-l in the latter stages,
.. h.envcight contender Virgil
bin 1 Akins of St Louis
l I. vVedn day night solved Wal
-1 r 'U' 'Hhwitet Byars lurging at
■ -Mi cupped a 10-round de
l in a nationally televised
-"-;t b- re. The bout, was the fea
•' the International Naval
- Review Week.
■, Akuie fti- i used an effective
'■-■ft .Lib lo !::»-ep his Boston. Mass.
■•lOP'innd. at bay. Byars broke into
! he mi ins by upsetting Garnett
i It was his first victory over Mil
waukee since his clash with Joe ;
i Adcock late last, season In ;
• that: game Gomez had to race to |
. *he protection o? hi.s team’s dug- j
; out alter firing a ball at Adcock It i
was reported that he became in- I
! furl a ted by certain remarks Ad- j
; directed at him
a manager this year and namely:
Charles U. Deßerry, former three
letter star ax AArT College, Monte
Ervin of South Orange. N J .
former star of the New York
Giants. William Allen of Colum
bus, Ohio and Raymond Fields of
Atlanta. Ga„ former manager and
owner of the Atlanta Black Crack
ers. Fans will watch all papers,
daily and weekly for information
about the Ail-Star Classic Aug
ust. 4th
'Sugar' Hart recently He is
! ranked 10th among the welters.
; Akins is ranked fourth by Ring
, Magazine and fifth by the NBA.
The decision favoring Akins in
■ the hard-fought battle was tin
! nnirnous. Akins weighed 148 and
i Byars 144
i
The demand for industrial wood
products of ail kinds by the end
I of the century is expected to he
: from 65 to 105 per cent higher
ihan at present.
Check your lawns regularly for
diseases and insects.
pass the fBC in his proposed de
fense against Carmen Basilic, Wel
terweight champion, and cast his
lot with Emu Lance, independent
promoter, who is promoting the
coming Floyd Patterson- Hurri
cane" Jackson heavyweight cham
pionship fight.
However, Basiiio has refused lo
go along with the switch, saying
that if he challenges Robinson in
September, it will be done under
the promotion of the IBC
James D. Norris is president of
the sprawling boxing combine,
which now is under pressure by
the government to soil it stocks
in the major boxing arenas. The
government claims the IBC is mo
nopolizing boxing
o
BROOKLYN fANF> " Roy ;
Campanella last week set .< new
National League record for the
most home runs hit by a, catcher
The roe tun d backstop register
ed his 237th home run of hi. ma <or
league career off Milwaukee pit
cher Pay Crone, to exceed, by one
the former record held hv Gabby
Hartnett. It. was also the eighth
home run of the year for Campy.
Despite Campy’s contribution,
however, the Brewers downed the
Brooks, 7’ to 2 But Brooklyn ;
bounced back the following day to ;
outlast Milwaukee. 11 to 3, to tie
the Braves for second place in I
I the hotly-contested National Lea- •
i gue. race.
Tn the latter contest. Charlie 1
; Neal drove in four runs with a ,
j homer arid triple as ire helped i
| the Brooks end a four same los
! ing streak
it ij/ Y. --*
BT BILL BROWER
For ANT
S The layt time this acerb had
j a look Luke Easter was going
’ great in the International League
j Easier is the former Cleveland In
j dims 1 first baseman, now playing
I tor the Buffalo Bissons,
j In his first 35 games, the gigan-
I tic first baseman had hit 12 home
; runs and had driven in 37 runs
IHe was battnig round the ,320
| mark
When Easter was signed be
: the. Indians, it was predicted
‘by Hank Greenberg, among
others that he would someday
he recognized as a slugger -as
fearsome (or nearly so) as
Babe Ruth Luke never quite
fulfilled the expectation; for
that matter, who has? Bui Ear
■ i ter did crack a lot of home,
runs for the Indians « some
of them were among ihe long
-1 | ext ever hit in Cleveland’s
massive Municipal Stadium
His tola! output was 93 home
| runs in three full seasons and part.
|of another. Oddly hi-, most- pm
j ductive season was the one in
which the Indian?’ board strategy
fGreenberg and A1 Lopez, then
Cleveland's manager) apparently
had given up on the big fellow.
Easter had batted in 1C? runs
iri 1950 and 103 runs In 1951, had
' hit 28 and 27 home run in those
; j two years The Indians had br
- | come frustrated because they had
’ | been able to win a pennant At
] ing too well—the team still was
; the end of June, things were go
i chasing the New York Yankees
I Something drastic was decreead
Easter was released to the In
dianapolis farm club in ihe Amer
ican Association Luke felt, per
haps rightly so, that he was be
ing made a fall guy
When a reporter told him he’d
be- back, thai he find himself a
*ain m the minor leagues. Easter
replied:
"I don’t know what I’ll do down
there. Al! I can say is I’ll do my
best. Same as I did up here, I
always try to do rny best,"
The truth t hat was in his
brief career in the majors (It
spanned, about four full seasons)
Luke was never ar stale-bodied
athlete He was bothered bv bad
knees. In fact, when he w.-, . railed
up ov the Indians from San Di- |
ego in 1849, he had undergone j
surgery on his knees
But Easier did corns back He
played only 14 games with Indi
anapolis. He batted .340, hit 6 home I
runs and drove in 12 runs. Mean- !
while, the Indians really weren’t i
making much headway without i
him. So he was recalled.
IF or the rest of the season.
Easter was one of the hottest
hitters in the majors. He hi ip
eri bring the Indians out of the
doldrums so that ihey became
xtlohs challengers of the
Yankees for the third straight
year.
That season be had an over
all average of .263 (he wax
bHliny :’J” when he w»« sen*
dns.o » n is. miners). slammed
| 31 bom* run* and had 9? pryis
If was truly a remarkable
«*ieeback
Easter sever again reached such
heights in the majors. The next
.season he suffered a toe injury in
THE CAROLINIAN
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NO PLACE UKE 'HOME* THmfjs became rough or>d tumble
ni home plots when Gian l slugger Willie Mays leggeH mil <tn
1 assMo'flse-park homer against tho Phillies at th« Polo Grounds,
i Catch#* Joe Lontvstt lost the ball (top) when Willie o«ers!id the
bog, but "Say Hey" got back fust. (Ne-wspress Photo).
To Make Sensational Catch
I
PITTSBURGH ASF- —Which
|is the faster,t., a hard-hit bare-'
! ball or Wj]li#» Mays?
i That- que;■tier, may seem 9 pros?
1 exaggeration, but not in the view
;of Bucky ‘Walters New York Gi
i ants hull pen coach Walters swore !
i the famous “Say Hey' kid' "out.-:
j ran" the baseball to make a sen- j
I sat-ional catch of Roberto Clem I
| onte's screaming line drive in a
1 game between the Giants and the
Pittsburgh Pirates here recently.
The patch. which drew rare
praise from several baseball
j experts present was described
by Willie a* “the he-.t ! ever
made’’ He said it v *a brifrr
than the one iy made against
! \ !<' Wertz of the Cleveland
Indians in Ihr 19M World’*
] Series.
I
—-At Ihe Ringside—
By Charles J, Livingston foi \s
bWUtffl Negro Frew,
{ THE BRIGHTER SIDE OF 'IMF
FISTIC PICTURE
j In -the last irsua the Ring:,id
reviewed the one* 2 famous heavy
weight division with gloom end
dismay Today we focus our atten
tion on the brighter side of the
fistic* picture. For where last week
« decried the dirge of talent
in the No. 1 division, today there
is cause for optimism in the con -
tras! provided in some of the oth
er classes.
These classes—perennially strong
for the post three docadts—ar
the middleweight, welterweight,
lightweight and featherweight di
| visions. In each are men of sock
j capable of exciting hnx-offic* r.p
--| peal. Each class has 9 worthy
j champion, and each boasts a ros
‘ | ter of capable challengers In fact
j these divisions are so well staffed
, j with talented mittmen, that com*
‘ pared *0 any of the toir, the
| heavyweight class appears a class
for novices
’ j Tlie middies are ruled by the
i mature but ever popular Sugar
| R.av Robinson, the crafty tan ring
; master who carved a notch for
| himself in boxing's immortal Ilall
i of Fame by becoming the first
I fist fighter to scoff at Father Time
j and survived to t* gam the title
j three times But Robinson, strat
egist though he is, is not wanting
for lively competition. For even
with Fullmer conquered and dis
counted. Ray still must reckon
with such proven challengers as
Charley Hume*, the rugged
Frenchman; Ellsworth (Spider)
j Webb. Chicago’s WiU-O-The-Wisp;
I Ralph “Tiger” Tones, all-action
| battler and one-time conqueror of
Robinson; Joey GiardeJlo, the
counterpuncher; Rory Calhoun, as
rugged as they come: Joey Oimn
bra; Bobby Boyd, hot on the come
hark' trail: Charley Joseph Now
Orleans sharpshooter, and Chcbo
Hernandez of Mexico. And any of
the 10 are capable of offering fnr
! an early season game in Chicago
j He did not return to action until
inidseason. While he batted .303 in
: 03 games, or hit only 7 home runs
i and had 31 RBIs,
Lopez decided that his useful*
! ness was at an end. Easter was
• consigned to the minors. He spent
j 3 couple of reasons in the Ameri
i con Association before going to
! Buffalo to become one of the first
I tan players for the twin
Easter wgs signed by Bilt Vccck.
when he was the major do mo at
Cleveland. He was sent, to San Di
ego, than a Cleveland farm Club.
Crowds flocked to Pacific Coast
League parks that 194 ft season and
Easter was one of the best mag
nets He unloaded some tremen-
I dous home runs and berme one of
the most popular players in the,
league's history. But his stay was
short Af'er being sidelined by
his knee operation, he was called
up to Cleveland to finish tbs seas
on.
If overshadowed the 6 to 5 loss
suffered by the Giants in the
name And long after the game
ended, they were Gill talking a*
bout Mays and his fabulous catch:
The catch came with Pirates
runners on second and first with
one out. with Ruben Oomez. pitch
ing. Picking out a, curve ball to j
his liking, Clements drove a!
whistler in the direction of left!
center fie Id near the light tower,
Leaving with the crack of
Hie bat, Withe fumed and
and ran like a scalded rabbit,
turning just as tie approached
Hie wall In sfiek up his glove
and snare the hall in the web
bing. Ills momentum parried
him info fbe wall but, alert,
he pushed himself a wav and i
rifled she ball info fb® infield
-1 midship opposition to Robinson
In the welterweight division.
Carmen Bssilio is top brass. How
j * ver, it. would take the battle
r-carred onion farmer quite some
time to run through his list of
- apabje contenders All lively
; competitors, they are Tony De
| . Tarco, Gasper Ortega. Isaac Lo
! '.art. Virgil Akins Johnny Sax
■ | tr 1. Vmce Martinez. Del Flana
> ! cm'. Charley (Tombstone) Smith.
i Ramon Fuentes and Walter By
. | ars With the exception of Saxton
| and Flanagan, all are capable of
J j putti" g Basilic to s stiff test
T’r> lightweights have Joe
Brov - as champion The tall, lan
ky warrior from festive old New
Orleans rules over the following
. j challengers: Duilio Loi, Italian
• ! threat; Kenny ’ Lane, the Michi
. | gan southpaw; Larry Boardman,
i the New Englander; Orlando Zue-
I j kia, Cuban campaigner; Willie
. { Towed, South African: Ralph Du
, nar. also from New Orleans. Baby
. : Vasqur?, Mexico. Paolo Rosi. the
j balding European; A1 Nevares.
j Mexican newcomer, and Johnny
| Gonsalves. California These men.
! too, arc capable of the stiffest
! championship competition.
A traffic mishap which impair
ed his vision put Sandy Saddler
on the sideline and ended his long
dominance of the featherweight
division Bin while he ruled he
was not lacking for competition
and the class boasts so many out
standing haulers that a recent
elimination between the top con
tenders was 3 smash hit. with box
ing fans With Hogan (Kid) Bas
se}’, Nigeria; Cherif Hamia.
France; Micue Berrios, Puerto Ri
co, and Carmelo Costa of "Flat
hush," N Y, contending, Bassey
and Hamia emerged as title chal
lengers, They will clash soon for
the right to succeed Saddler to
(he title. The Ringside is picking
Basscy to win
The other three divisions—light
heavyweight, bantamweight, and
i fi athcrweight—are not what you
would term impre -,mvp at the mo-
I ment However, with the ex’cep
| tion of the latter, none of the three
j seem as pauperized as the heavy
j weight division
The trouble With the heavy.
J weight division tr. raat it Is failing
! to attract new blood, whereas the
! middleweight, welterweight, light-
I weight and featherweight classes
I nre loaded with top prospects
I Yes, the spotlight is on the light-
I ci men
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fIM % w
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“Parents of a daughter are
usually the first to detect a j
i ring in a young man’s voice, j
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PLAYING TAG Tho reconf nip-and-tuck berthe bebacsen tfce>
Milwaukofl Braves and Giants at tbs Polo Ground? mas hvgaod
by a spirited rundown between Brave second sacks? Malteses
avid rujjrsr Rink- who tried to scons feea second so s tn&A
pitch, Pi>.— Ho didn t make it!! (Newsprsss Phcte),
to chase the runners bsrok to
second and first base
Joining Walters in Praising
Mays were Tommy Hennch, form-1.
or New York Yankees great, Bill!
R-ignev. Giants' field manager,!
and even the Pirates own Bobby !
! Bracan.
Hen rich said that up until the |
| time ho. saw Mays make the catch. 1
he considered a ca tch Joe. DiMag-j
cio made on Hank Greenberg at |
Yankee Stadium ,m if>3R as the |
No. I m-his hook "Now Joe’s catoh !
is No 2. and this one f Mays') is j
jNo 1." Hem tch commented
Said Rigway: T thought the j
ihail was uncatchabie and didn't j
j think Willie had a chance hut j
that's when he makes ’em." Bra-;
j can shook his head: "I don’t see;
i how he did it. It was the best I
| catch I ever saw. Te's the only j
player who ever could have I
caught, that ball." Walters added j
the clincher: "Willie just mi*-ran *
the hall. Uiaf’s all "
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STRAIGHT
BOURBON
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| w—'.sntoost.®. „mmnm n.
Jake Mintz, Noted
Manager, Succumbs
PITTSBURGH <ANF> Jake
\1 1 r? Is, former ro-ms ns-gsr of ex
heavyweight, champion Ezzard
Chsrles and one of the most con
troversial managers in boxing,
died in Montifglere Hospital hare
last week of 9 heart attack.
He was hospitalized only a few
day:,, having entered the hospital
after consulting » heart special
ist He had suffered a heart at
tack a week earlier
Mintz fawny, for his an
tics in and out the ring, first
managed Charles when she
latter was a middleweight' and
guided him to the heavyweight
championship Charles wort
the title June 22, 1919 by de
cisloning Jersey Jos Walcott
in 15 rounds in Comiskey Park
In Chicago He subseonently
lost the title to the same Wal
cott
Mints is best remembered by
television fans for putting on a
show which held up a return bout
between Charles and Walcott at
Forbes Field for more than ten
minutes
•Surviving Mint? nr* his widow
and a married daughter.