Clubs Hot And Cold
In Big Free-For-All
By JACK HAND
Associated Press Sports Writer
Detroit’s march to the American League Flag appears
to have hit a snag in the east where the injury-ridden Tigers
have won only three of nine and dropped back toward the
pack.
The distance from the leading
Bengals to the sixth-place defend
ing Champion St. Louis Browns is
only 5 1-2 games today and it's
shrinking every day in what may
l^k the greatest free-for-all in the
|^P&tory of the circuit.
Inconsistency continues to be
the only consistent factor in the
pennant race with each club tak
ing turns blowing hot and cold.
After dropping two doubleheaders
in succession, the Washington
Senators turned on Detroit last
night and dumped the mtwice.
Cleveland, which has been
showing signs of life before hitting
Philadelphia, was bumped off in
both games of a twi-night double
by the Athletics, while the Brown
ies, struggling all year to stay
even with the .500 mark, turned
Yankee killers and beat New
York two games.
Washington’s twin pitching stars,
Dutch Leonard and Roger Wolff,
made life miserable for the Tig
ers, who have been hitting an ane
mic .210 on the current jaunt.
Leonard made a one-run lead stand
up from the fourth inning, 4-3.
with the help of a fine relay
thrown to the plate by Gil Torres,
cutting off the tying run. Wolff
was in control all the way, allow
ing only four singles in a 3-1 tri
>
umph.
St. Louis gave the Yanks a taste
of their own medicine—the homp
run-in winning 4-3 and 3-2. Sig
Jakucki and Boris Martin each hit
one into the stands with a man
on in the opener off Al Gettel. and
Milt Byrnes clouted one to help
Al Hollingsworth shade Floyd
Bevens in the second.
Bobo Newsom continued to go
ahead as fast as he traveled back
ward when he loot 12 straight as
he reeled off his third successive
success in beating Cleveland, 3-2.
on a four-hitter. Earlier Jesse
Flores, with the relief help of Joe
Berry, trimmed the Tribe, 8-3.
The Chicago White Sox took
advantage of Clem Hausmann's
wildness in the third inning to
start a five-run rally and go on to
a 6-3 nod over the Boston Red
Sox behind Ed Lopat.
Brooklyn thinks it knocked off
the first place Chicago Cubs in
the National but the Dodgers'
won’t know for sure until Sept.
15 when they play the ninth in
ning of a game "suspended" yes
terday at the end of the eighth
with the Brooks leading 10-4 The
Dodgers had to catch a train.
Bill Voisclle blew a five-run lead
and was batted off the hill as
Pittsburgh swamped the New
York Giants. 13-5, giving Walter
i Boom Boom) Beck his first vic
tory in a Pirate uniform.
The Phil-Cardinal game was
played Thursday in a doublehead
cr but the Boston at Cincinnati
tilt was put off until later to per
mit the Braves to make connec
tions for Pittsburgh.
Kiefer In Swim
Meet At Tar boro
TARBORO, July 21— (A*)— Swtm
;.Ur Adolph Kiefer returned to- ;
day to the scene of some of hi*
former triumph* to try for new
merits.
Now with the Bainbridge, Md.,
Navel Training Station, he tops the
| list of Individual stars entered In
the Carolina* annual national
AAU Junior and open swimming
meet.
Kiefer has smashed several meet
and pool records here and also
broke the world’s backstroke rec
ord formerly held by Johnny Weis
muller.
“Commando” Kelly
Is Leaving Army
ATLANTA. July 21. — (V)— The
“Commando”—a married man now
—Is leaving the Army.
Today Charles Kelly of Pittsburgh,
leaves Ft. Bennlng for Ft. McPher
son to get a special honorable dis
charge.
Kelly will be discharged from ser
vice under a special provision which
allows winners of the Congressional
Medal of Honor, save regular army
officers, to resign from the service.
The commando was actually eli
gible for discharge in May, but he
volunteered to remain in uniform
until “Here's Your Infantry” end
ed Its tour.
The bond-selling show, trained at
the infantry school at Ft. Bennlng,
was sent throughout the nation In
the Seventh War Bond drive.
Wade Hendricks, Jr.,
Home From England
Lt. (jg) Wade Hendricks, Jr., ar
rived here today to spend a leave
with his wife, the former Miss Pat
sy Short, after 17 months of service
with the Navy in England. He will
also apend some time with his par
ents In Statesville before reporting
for reassignment.
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CLUB STANDINGS
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W. L.
xChicago .. 50 31
Pet.
.617
St. Louis. 48 36 .571
xBrooklyn .. 47 37
Pittsburgh .. 43 41
New York.. 45 43 .511
Boston ...__ 40 42 .488
Cincinnati__ 38 20 .487
Philadelphia . 24 65 .270
x—Does not Include suspended
Chicago-Brooklyn game to be fin
ished Sept. 15.
.560
.512
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W. L. Pet.
Detroit .. 46 34 .575
Washington. 42 36 .539
New York . 41 38 .519
Boston . 42 39 .519
Chicago . 42 40 .512
St. Louis. 39 38 .506
Cleveland .. 37 41 .474
Philadelphia . 28 51 .354
GAME RESULTS
AMERICAN LEAGUE
St. Louis 4-3; New York 3-2.
Chicago 6; Boston 3.
Detroit 8-1; Washington 4-3.
Cleveland 2-3; Philadelphia 3-8.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York 5; Pittsburgh 13.
Boston at Cincinnati (will be
played at later date'.
Brooklyn 10; Chicago 4 (unfinish
ed game. will be completed Sept. 15'.
Philadelphia at St. Louis (played i
as part of double header July 19).
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TODAY’S BASEBALL
(Eastern War Time)
NATIONAL LEAGUE
New York at Cincinnati, 3:30 p.m.
Brooklyn at St. Louis, 9:30 p.m.
Boston at Pittsburgh (2), 1:45 p.m.
and 3:45 p.m.
Philadelphia at Chicago, 2:30 p.m.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago at New York, 2:30 p.m.
St. Louis at Boston. 2:00 pm.
Detroit at Philadelphia. 3:00 p.m.
Cleveland at Washington, 3:00
TOMORROW S SCHEDULE
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia at Chicago (2).
Boston at Pittsburgh (2>.
New York at Cincinnati <2>.
Brooklyn at St. Louis (2).
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit at Philadelphia (2).
Chicago at New York (2).
St. Louis at Boston <2>.
Cleveland at Washington (2).
Lippy Leo Gets Fined
For Too Much Lipping
CHICAGO. July 21.—UP)—An ar
gument Manager Leo Durocher of
the Brooklyn Dodgers had with
Umpire Ziggy Sears at the Dod
gers-Chlcago Cubs game Wednes
day brought a *50 fine from Presi
dent Ford C. Frick of the National
League. Durocher, who was ban
ished from the game by Sears af
ter the argument, said Frick had
advised him here yesterday of the
fine.
NEWS MENTION
OF PATTERSON
PATTERSON SPRINGS.—Mr. and
Mrs. M. P. Jones and daughters,
Sue and Van Dulla, visited Sgt. and
Mrs. Edgar Sislc on Sunday after
noon.
Mrs. A. L. Neal returned to their
home last week after spending sev
eral days with her son, Robert Neal,
and Mrs. Neal of Fayetteville.
Sgt. Edwin Camp returned last
week to his base at Tampa, Fla.,
after spending an 18-day furlough
with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rol
lins Camp.
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Jenkins recent
ly entertained members of the men's
Bible class of the Baptist church
at their home here Friday evening
with a lawn party. Robert Green
and Clyde Loyd rendered string
music for the occasion. After a num
ber of games and contests, the hos
tesses served iced drinks, sand
wiches, cake and salted nuts. They
were assisted in serving by Mrs. J.
R. Dover and Mrs. Jesse Blalock.
Miss Dorothy Thrift of Cliffside
spent the week with Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Green.
Mr. ahd Mrs. E. V. Goodman and
children and Mrs. Anita and Judith
Frazer returned to their home from
Durham last week after spending
several days with Mr. and Mrs.
Jesse Lowery.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Harbison and
daughter, Alice Rose, of Durham,
recently visited in this community.
Austine Ellis recently entertained
the Intermediate girls of the Bap
tist church with a picnic at her
home,
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PAVOT GIVEN
ANOTHER TRY
AT JAMAICA
NEW foRK, July 20. —(/Pi— W.
M. Jefford’s Pavot, a badly beaten
tailender In last Saturday’s rich
Dwyer, gets a chance to redeem
himself today as he gets 11 other
classy three-year olds in the $50,000
added Empire City handicap at
Jamaica.
Trainer Oscar White says the
Belmont stakes winner didn't like
the deep going at Aqueduct and ap
parently the handicappers agree.
The son of Case Ace has been as
signed topwelght of 126 pounds and
is figured to be the 2 to 1 choice.
But the brown-coated colt will
have to be at the top of his form
to capture the mile and three-six
teenths race. Upsets have been the
rule rather than the exception for
most of the top eastern stakes late
ly and another easily could occur
today with such strong contenders
as Gallorette, Esteem, Darby Dieppe
and Coincidence in the field.
Eddier Arcaro, who rode Pavot last
week, will be up on the Greentree
Stable’s Coincidence which won the
Elmsford purse Tuesday. Arcaro is
the contract rider for Greentree so
Albert Snider will pilot Pavot.
The Maryland-bred Gallorette,
rated among the top four fillies of
the season, never has been out of
the money and finished a close sec
ond to Wildlife in the Dwyer. Ted
dy Atkinson who brought home the
Dwyer winner will ride the filly.
Chozen Breaks 20
Year Hit Record
NA8HVILLE, TENN., July 21—
(JP)—Harry Chozen, Mobile catch
er. tied a 20-year-old southern rec
ord last night.
Against Nashville he went hitless
his first two times at bat but got
a single to centerfield on the third
try.
That gave him hits in 46 con
secutive games, a record unequal
ed since Johnny Bates of Nash
ville ended such a hitting streak
two decades ago.
After his record hit, he went to
bat three more times, getting an
other single and a double.
Lt. Patty Berg
In Tam 0’Shunter
CHICAGO. July 21 —(AV-Lt. Pat
ty Berg of the Marine Corps, Wo
men’s Reserve, who won the all
American women’s open golf title
in 1943, will compete in the event
at Tam O’Shanter next week. Lt.
Berg, winner of the women’s na
tional women's amateur golf cham
pionship in 1938. is stationed in
Philadelphia. The women's open
is part of the $60,233 all-American
open and the all-American ama
teur at the Tam O’Shanter course
all next week.
SEEK RENT CONTROL
CHAPEL HILL. — (tf3)— Mayor R.
W. Madry today was considering
asking the Durham area rent con
trol office of the OPA to establish
rent ceilings here. The board of al
dermen has received complaints
that “exhorbitant demands” for
rent are being made here, he said.
An investigation of the complaints
is being made.
Sports Roundup
NEW YORK, July 21—(A5)—Elmer
Caffrey, a returned war veteran
who is playing for the Albany
Senators in the Eastern league,
broke into the lineup the other
night just in time to get into that
19-18 game Scranton won from
Albany . . . Caffrey went to the
plate three times against three
different pitchers in one inning,
when the Senators scored 14 runs,
and drew a walk and two hits...
By that time he probably wished
he was back in the front lines...
Prom Calcutta “Majah" Bob Ney
land, former Tennessee grid coach,
comments that he probably is the
only football coach who hasn’t
had an offer to work in one of the
new pro leagues . . Just give them
time . . . Lloyd Brazil turned up
for grid practice at Central Michi
gan college the other day and
Coach Ron Pinch is sorry to say
he is no relation to the U. of De
troit athletic director.
MORE AND MOORE
For three years of competi
tion in the Panama Canal zone
Mickey Harris, former Red
Sox flinger, never succeeded in
fanning ex-Cardinal Terry
Moore . . . Recently Mickey
pitched for Balboa, champions
of the Canal Zone league, in
a 16-inning tussle against an
all-star squad that included
Moore—and he whiffed Terry
three times while chalking up
some 20 strikeouts to win 1-0.
SHORTS AND SHELLS
Carol Freese, youthful Portland,
Ore., golfer who was one of the
sensations of the Chicago victory
tournament, never had been on a
train until she went east for that
event. Chances are she won’t try
it again soon . . . Wally Roetger,
U. of Illinois baseball coach, ar
gues that the Majors might as
well let players go through col
lege before signing them because
they won’t reach their peak, any
way, until after they pass college
age. Wally doubts if any Major
league pitcher can be a regular
before he’s 25— in normal times, of
course . . . Joseph Bohemial Lap
chick, St. John’s U. basketball
coach, is handing out cigars for
the arrival of his third child . . .
George Kerr, guard on Frank Lea
hy’s Sugar Bowl grid team of 1941,
recently was ordained to the
priesthood.
SERVICE DEPT.
Navy Lt. Mel Jones, the Dodg
ers’ former secretary who still is
keeping tabs on ’’them Bums” in
the Pacific, went into Okinawa six
days before the big invasion . . .
When his plane took off for Ha
waii 32 days later, it was in the
middle of an air raid . . . Mel, who
served through the Larry Mac
Phail regime, still thinks Okinawa
was rather rugged.
Hampden-Sydney Grid
Coach At Chapel Hill
CHAPEL HILL, July 21.— (/P) —
The new athletic director at the
Navy Pre-Flight school here is Lt.
Comdr. Herman E. Smith, former
Hampden-Sydney college football
coach.
He succeeds Lt. Comdr. Burton
A. Ingwersen, detached last month
for duty with a unit of the Naval
Air Technical Training command,
Chicago.
FARMERS URGED TO RELY ON NEW
SOURCES OF INCOME AFTER WAR
North Carolina farmers can grow
any crop that can be produced be
tween northern Florida and Canada
and grow it better, according to
Jesse Bridges, of the Union Trust
Company, Cleveland county's key
banker and member of the ABA and
State Association committees. "We
can make that boast with assur
ance as the result of more than 20
years experimentation in which our
farmers have termed up with ex
perts from their local and state
schools and with their home town
bankers and business men," he
added.
This 30 years of agricultural
development has been supported
actively by leading bankers of the
state, who long ago saw the neces
sity of freeing farmers from the
disastrous results of depending al
most wholly on tobacco and cotton
for Income and from erosion and
depletion of fertility of large areas
of land.
North Carolina farmers don’t fear
a depression which some experts
believe will come when the demand
for ^obacco and cotton grows less
after the war. Although land prices
have reached levels above the 1920
boom peak, the farmers have been
able to lay up financial reserves
from profits from flue cured tobac
co. and stands a recession. They
don’t expect the recession to be so
severe as It was after World War I,
and with reason.
About 20 years ago 35 banks In
North Carolina became concerned
over conditions existing in their
home neighborhoods. They found
that land was going out of produc
tion because of erosion and deple
tion of the soil, and the loss of
that income affected the whole com
munity. Those bankers decided to
do something about it, and today
the state has a sturdy anchor against
adversity in the 11,000 boys and
girls enrolled in the Future Farmers
of America, who are learning
modern agriculture in the schools,
and the 27,000 adults in practical
farming classes right in their home
communities.
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Tony Gets Prestige
Even Though Beaten
NEW YORK, July 21—(£*)—Tony
Janiro doesn’t have to take a back
seat to anyone in the welterweight
boxing division.
The 19-year-old Youngstown
lad was beaten by Montreal’s
Johnny Greco at Madison Square
Garden last night, but he waged
a furious battle against his more
experienced opponent and gained I
prestige in defeat.
The bout, watched by 14,971 who
paid $69,175, was so close that
both Referee Benny Leonard and
Judge Jim Hagan gave Janiro and
Greco four rounds apiece.
They awarded the fight to Gre
co, the 8 to 5 favorite, because he
finished stronger and won his
rounds by wider margin. Judge
Bill Healy and the Associated
Press scored it 5-3 for Greco. The
fight went only eight rounds be
cause Janiro’s age prevented the
usual 10 stanzas.
Service Men Eager
For Baseball Tour
MANILA, July 21. —(#)— This
sports-hungry Army headquarters
hopefully welcomed Navy Secretary
Porrestal’s request for a world
champion baseball tour, and Army
officials said the series could be
staged here.
Athletic officers of the base com
mand said Rizal Stadium would be
in top condition. The stadium, which
Babe Ruth and other touring big
leaguers inaugurated in 1935, now is
used for service baseball, softball,
football and soccer.
Officers said if the baseball cham
pions do visit Manila, every effort
will be made to insure opportunities
for men in all branches of the ser
vice to see the games.
Several former major and mi
nor league players and numerous
semi-pros now are playing in Manila
league games, and a strong All-Star
team could be formed to oppose the
champions.
LegioJ
Shelby
Washburn, ss
Bowen, cf . .
Cheek, lb . .
Hutchins, 3b .
Webber, rf . .
Paige, If . ...
Megginson, 2b
Weaver, c . .
Wilson, p
Cooke, p
Totals . _30 ’
Gastonia AB
Purkey, lb . 5 1
Harkey, cf__ 5 0
Davis, 2b__ 2 0
Runyan, c . _ 2 1
Queen, 3b . 3 1
Cline, ss . _ 4 1
Stewart, if . _ 4 1
Helms, rf . 4 0 0^
Torrence, p . . 3 0
Totals . .32 5
Shelby . 000 000 000
Gastonia . .. 000 100 13>
Two base hits: Stewart, R^
yan. Stolen bases: Bowen, Qu«
Stewart. Sacrifice: Queer. Ba
on balls: off Wilson 2, off Col
1, off Torrence 2. Strike-outs, [
Wilson 3, by Cooke 1, by Torrei
2. Hit by pitcher, by Wilson!
Wild pitch: Wilson 1. WinnI
pitcher: Torrence. Losing pitchj
Wilson.
Four Teams Enter
Non-Pro Tourney
WICHITA, KAS., July 21—(A .
The National Baseball congr^
today certified four 1945 state nc
professional baseball champio|
ship teams.
Two are army nines—Cham)
Field, 111., and overseas replaiJ
ment depot, Greensboro, N. Cj
and two are civilian teams—I
waukee, Wis., Allen-Bradleys
Middlesboro (Ky.l Lions.
President Ray Dumont said th^
clubs, winners of sanctioned stS
tournaments, would be eligible
compete in the national tournl
ment here August 10. Sherml
Field Flyers of Ft. Leavenwort
Kas., are the defending char
pions.
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