Page, DiMaggo Combine To Put Yanks Up Front By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor NEW YORK, July 26. — There are more good human interest stories in the Yankees than there were in connection with any other club in memory. Billy Johnson and Johnny Lin dell, the ugly ducklings listed fc trading mater5al in the spring, barely hanging on to lay glder. •ggs. Geore McQuinn’s remarkable comeback. And the account of a couple of guys named Joe, among them. DiMaggio and Page helped each other—and the Yankees, too. Page spent the better part of two campaigns with the New Yorks before DiMaggio returned from the Army, and much of it was wasted. Laughing Joe just never got around to cashing in on his tremendous pitching assets. When Jolting Joe DiMaggio climbed back inlo a baseball uni form a year ago last spring, Laughing Joe had someone to tie to. Joiting Joe was his idol and Laughing Joe attached himself to the big fellow like a trailer. They roomed together, undressed and dressed side by side in clubhouses rarely were apart off the field. DiMaggio is the very antithesis of Page. The Yankee Clipper has • tremendous sense oc oougauor. to his club and the fans, but he had been out thiee full years, had suffered from ulcers and, worst ol all, was carrying a terrific torch. DiMaggio got off a-whooping, but unwisely he was not rested an inning in 50-odid exhibition games that started in the heat of Panama. The result was that he saw awfully tired in mid-summer, when ho got to pushing for hits and bogged down frightfully. He was lower than the Browns are at the moment. it was at urns point tnai j-augn ing Joe Page did as much foi Jolting Joe as the latter has done for him this trip. It is extremely difficult to be down-in-the-mouth in the presence of an effervescent chap like the left-hander from the Pennsylvania coal belt. Page did a grand job of keeping DiMggio’s maind off his troubles until the Clipper closed well, but for a comparatively poor season for him. Some of DiMaggio’s best friends suspected he was finished the past spring. There was the operation for the removal of a spur on Di Maggio’s heel, the skin grafting job that followed, the special shoe required by the ugly crescent shaped wound cn the bottom oi the butt of his foot. DiMaggio had the courage to get into the lineup long before he should have. He suffered excruci ating pain batting and running. There were times when he felt that he would have to give up. It was Laughing Joe Page more than anyone else who kept him going until the heel healed. Meanwhile, Jolting J oe was slowly drumming into Laughing Joe’s head that a pitcher who C. W. DAVIS CO. WHOLESALE GROCERS Catering to the retail grocer, hotels, institu tions, cafeterias, baker ies and ships. We carry a full line of No. 10 canned vege tables and No. 10 can ned fruits. 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BOSTON AB R H O A Holmes, rf --- 5 12 3 1 Hopp, cf - 5 0 10 0 Rowell, lf-2b -.- 4 112 0 Elliott, Cb _ 4 0 10 0 Torgeson, lb - 3 2 2 10 1 Ryan, 2b-ss -4 13 4 6 Culler, ss - 1 0 0 0 1 xF. McCormick - 1 0 0 0 1 Karl, p _-— 0 0 0 C 0 M. McCormick, If - 2 0 12 0 Camelli, c- 3 0 0 2 0 Masi, c _ 10 0 10 Voiselle, p- 1 0 0 0 0 Lanfranconi, p- 0 0 0 0 0 Fernandez, ss - 2 0 0 0 2 Johnson, p- 0 0 0 0 1 xxLitwhiler - 1 0 0 0 0 TOTALS _ 37 5 11 24 12 x—Flied out for Culler In 4th. xx—Lined cut for Johnson in 9th. ST. LOUIS AB R H O A Schoendienst, 2b _ 4 1115 Moore, cf _ 5 0 0 4 0 Musial. lb - 4 116 1 Slaughter, If_ 3 3 2 2 0 Northey, rf - 3 12 4 0 Kurowski, 3b _ 3 110 0 Marion, ss- 4 110 3 Garagiola, c _ 3 117 0 Hearn, p_2 0 110 Burkhart, p _ 10 10 0 TOTALS _ 32 9 11 27 9 BOSTON _ 200 102 000—5 ST, LOUIS_ 041 400 OOx—9 Errors: Miore, Slaughter. Runs batted Northey 3, F. McCormick, Musial, M. in; Ryan 2, Kurowski, Marion 2, Hearn, McCormick. Two base hits: Holmes, Three base hits: Marion, Northey. Sacri Northey, Ryan 2, Hopp, Torgeson 9. fwice: Hearn. Double plays: Culler, Ry an and Torgeson; Schoendienst, Marion and Musial. Left on bases: Boston 6. St. Louis 5. Bases on balls: Voiselle 1, Lanfranconi 2, Karl 1. Johnson 1. Strike outs: Hearn 2, Burkhart 2, Johnson 1. Hits: off Voiselle 3 in 1 inning (none out in 2nd); off Lanfranconi 2 in 2. Off Karl 5 in 2; off Johnson 1 in 3; off Hearn 9 in 5 (none iut in 6th); off Burkhart 2 in 4. Passed balls: Vamelli. Winning pitcher: Hearn. Losing pitcher: Voiselle. Umpires: Pinelli, Barlick and Gore. Time: 2:10. Attendanace: 26,003 (paid). SENATORS CLIMB PAST CLEVELAND WASHINGTON, July 26 - (JP) — The Washington Senators scored their fifth straight victory today by defeating Cleveland 8-4 and { moved into fifth place in the 1 American League. Cleveland, which one time held a four-run lead over Washington in today’' game fell back to sixth ; place. Cleveland pried four runs from Marino Pieretti in the first four ; innings, but the Senators pick ■ ed up two runs off Mel Harder in ; the fourth and added three more • in the fifth when they belted the ■ veteran right-hander from the i mound. Ed Klieman yielded three ; runs in the seventh. Washington collected 13 hits, in . eluding three each by Sherry Rob . ertson, Mickey Vernon and A1 Evans. The Indians fashioned 14 , hits off Pieretti and Milo Candini, , who replaced Pieretti in tha fourth and was credited with his ' first success of the season. CLEVELAND AB R H O A Mitchell. If - 5 13 10 Metkovich, cf _ 4 112 0 Boudreau, ss _ 5 12 2 4 Robinson, lb_ 4 0 1 14 i Edwards, rf - 5 0 2 1 0 Ke’tner, 3b - 3 0 0 0 3 Gordon, 2b _ 3 0 2 2 •> xFleming - 1 0 0 0 0 Doby, 2b - 2 0 0 0 2 Conway, 3b _ 1 0 0 0 2 Lopez, c - 2 12 2 1 Ruszkowski, c _ 1 0 1 o 1 Harder, p - 2 0 0 0 1 Klieman, p- O O 0 0 o xxPeck - 1 0 0 0 0 Lemon, p - 0 0 O 0 0 TOTALS -39 4 ]4 24 17 x—Fiied out for Gogdon in 7th. xx—Fouled out for Klienman in 8th WASHINGTON ABB H 6 A Yost, 3b - 4 0 12 3 Lewis, rf- 5 110 0 Robertson, If .1- 3 3 3 3 0 Vernon, lb - 4 13 8 3 Spence, cf - 3 0 0 2 0 Priddy, 2b _____- 4 115 2 Christman, ss _ 3 0 0 5 2 Evans, c __ 4 1 3 j j zSullivan _ -3 0 u 0 0 0 Ferrell, e - 0 0 0 1 o Pieretti, p- 1 0 0 0 0 Candini, p- 3 110 2 TOTALS - 34 8 13 27 13 z—.Ran for Evans in 7th. CLEVELAND - 102 100 000—4 WASHINGTON - 000 U'0 30x—8 Errors: Pieretti, (2). Runs batted in: Edwards, Boudreau, Robetrson, 2; Ver non, 2; Candidi, Priddy, Evans, 2. Two base hits: Boudreau, Gordon, 2. Three base hits: Robetrson, Evans 2, Sacrifices: Harder, Yost. Double plays: Kellner', Gordon and Robinson; Yost, Evans, Yost and Christman; Christman, Priddy and Vernon. Left on bases: Cleveland, 12; Washington, 7. Bases on balls: Pieretti, ;2 Harder, 1; Candini, 1; Klieman, 2; Le-j mon, 1. Strike outs: Harder, 1; Candini, I 2; Klieman, 1. Hits off: Harder, 6 in 4 (none out in 5th); Klienman, 7 in 3; Lemon, 0 in 1. Pieretti, 8 in 3 1-3. Time of game: 2:15 Umpires: Jones, Mc Gowan and Grieve. Attendance: 14,327. WALTERS TWfRLS MIT SHUTOUT CINCINNATI, July 26 — t/P) _ Bucky Walters turned loose some cf his pitching mastery today, holding the Philadelphia Phils to two hits to lead Cincinnati to a 1 to 0 victory. The game was played in one hour, 28 minutes, the shortest of the season here PHILADELPHIA AB R H o a’ Albright, ss - 3 0 0 0 1 xxPadgett _ - 1 0 0 0 0 Wyrostek, rf - 4 0 0 2 0 Walker, cf- 3 0 12 0 Tabor, 3b - 3 0 0 0 1 Ennis, If - 3 0 0 3 0 Lakeman, c - 3 0 0 2 0 Schultz, lb- 3 0-0 9 1 Verban, 2b _ 3 0 14 2 Leonard, p _ 2 0 0 2 2 xRowe - 1 0 8 0 0 Donnelly, p - 0 0 0 0 1 TOTALS - 29 0 2 24 8 x—Popped out for Leonard in 8th XX—Fouled out for Albright in 9th CINCINNATI AB) H OA Baumholtz, rf_ 4 0 0 2 o Zientara, 2b_ 4 0 1 l i Hatton. 3b- 3 0 0 3 4 Young, lb- 3 0 0 3 4 Young, lb- 4 0 19 1 I Haas, cf - 3 0 10 0 I Yollmer, cf —-- 0 0 o o n Galan, If-H- 3 0 0 3 0 Lamanno, c - 4 0 1 4 a Miller, ss- 2 1 i ■> , Walters, p - 2 0 0 2 0 TOTALS - Mill's PHILADELPHIA- 000 000 000—0 CINCINNATI - 000 010 OOx-J Errors: Albright, Tabor. Runs batted in: Zientara. Two base hits: Lamanno Three base hits: Waler. Sacrifices- Wal ters Haas. Left on bases: Philadelphia “• ?as€s °" balls: Leonard I u, Walters 1. Strikeouts:: Elon^rd 1 Walters 2 Hits: off: Leonard 4 in 7 i Time:E 1:28.^Attendance:"^,^gErkUrth' | Who’s Telling Who, Doctor? LOS ANGELES, July 26—UP) _When posters used to adver tise Pete Ladjimi, 50, form er heavyweight wrestler, as “The Strongest Man In The World,” they may not have been far wrong. ' Hit by an automobile today and taken to a hospital, Lad jimi was reported by physi cians to have suffered “Pos sible fractured back, concus sion of the brain, possible in ternal injuries; condition se rious.” They told him he’d recover, but that he might be hospital ized a long time. Ladjimi, the indestructible, however, had other ideas. He got up off the operating table, put on his clothes, said “so long” to the astonished medics and walked home — a mile distant. From five to seven years are required to bring a new military plane through the design stage to production and combat testing. LEGION PLAYERS BAND TOGETHER WIN FIRST GAME The first game played by the Toledo-Stale Highcappers. . . . members of the Wilmington American Legion baseball nine which just completed its season. . ended in a 9-4 victory yesterday over the Alpha-Omega squad at 9th and Ann streets. Pedrick and Brissom hurlid for the winners, and Smith did The twirling for the A O nine. Under the direction of Ed Lewis, an attempt to keep the Legion squad intact for the re mainder of the summer has prov en successful. Members of the team are: J. Crowley, Hilburr., B. Smith, King, Lewis, Hobbs, S*nud enmire, Duval, Paknr, E. Crow ley, R. Eason, and Brown. A full schedule will be announc ;d by I ewis later. Mulloy Captures Seabright Title SEABRIGHT, N. 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