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Today's
Sports Parade
Oscar Fraley
United Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK OPI Strapping Eddie Mathews won’t
break Babe Ruth’s magic home run record of 60 round
trippers this season but the mauler from Milwaukee al
ready has proved beyond doubt that here is the man who
may better the Bambino’s mark.
As of the moment, handsome Eddie has 43 home runs
in 133 games. Discounting the date and all the other cam
aflouge, he is four behind the Babe’s record pace of 1927
in the matter of games played, for the Babe had 47 in 133
games. There is one gimmick that favors Eddie the
Braves have played two ties, so he gets 156 games against
Ruth’s season total of 154.
NEEDS 18 FOR RECORD
Nobody is going to surpass the Bambino's record
smashing September stretch run of 17 homers by much.
Certainly Mathews can’t be expected to get the 18 he needs
for baseball’s biggest record in the mere 23 games he has
left.
But Eddie is just getting under way in this baseball
business, and every sign points toward his eventually sur
passing the immortal slugger’s greatest mark.
Consider, first, that last season as a freshman he hit
25 homers. Ralph Kiner, whose seven - year reign Mathews
is ending, hit only 23 to win the title as a rookie Then,
too, Kiner at that time was 24 years old— but Eddie is only
21.
BIG AND STRONG
Mechanically and physically, Mathews has all the ne
cessary qualifications. He is big and strong, six feet, one
inch and 200 pounds, has a perfect swing and lightning
reflexes. Kiner had those attributes, too, but lacked the
power hitter behind him. Milwaukee will see that Eddie
gets such support.
The raves for Mathews came from all sections of the
baseball World, but two of the finest come from the ri
val Brooklyn Dodgers to compliment the swing and re
flexes which will keep Mathews front and center as a
home run swinger for the ages.
"You thing you’ve got the ball past him,’’ says pitch
er Carl Erskine, “and then he seems to hit it right out of
the catchers gloev.” “He has a fine level swing,” adds Ma
nager Church Drgssen, “and he is one of the few lefthand
ed batters who don’s seem to be bothered by lefthai>ded
pitching.”
One of the principal criticisms of Mathews is that he
strikes out a lot. It may be pointed out that Ruth did, too.
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Yankees Planning For World Series
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W. Sox Hopes
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NEW YORK IIP) The
; high-riding New York Yan
■ kees blithely turned to mak
, ing plans for the World Ser
ies today* now that they
have just about snuffed out
the last flickering pennant
i hopes of the Chicago White
. I Sox.
1 j Whatever forlorn hopes the Sax
i ( may still have been cherishing
[ were practically annihilated Tues
-1 day night when Mickey Mantle’s
j homer and Johnny Sain’s clutch
' I relief hu ling gave the Yankees a
I 3.2 win over the Sox before 45.003
i ahvays-hopeful fans in Chicago.
AHEAD 9Vi
\ The arc-light victory gave the
! Yankees a two-to-one triumph in
the crucial series and boosted their
.league lead to a whopping 9’.
j games. Moreover, it reduced the
"magic number" for the Yankees
to 15—they can clinch the pen
nant by winning 15 of their re
maining 24 games.
In that commanding position,
Manager Casey Stengel was frank
ly eveing his Wo Id Series stra
tegy today as the Yankees moved
into St. Louis for a series with
the last-place Browns.
Stengel Indicated that the series
is what’s on his mind now when
he said that veteran Allie Reynolds
would start tonight’s game against
the Browns. It’s a long-expected
move, a step in the re-conversion
of Indian Allie from a bullpen ace,
which he’s been most -f the year,
back into a starting pitcher who
can handle the same brilliant role
he did in last year’s World Series.
Whitey Ford, a leading candidate
for the job of pitching the open.
I ing game of the series, was Sten
gel’s nominee in Tuesday night’s
payoff battle with the Sox and
i he emerged with his 16th victory
However, he needed some brilliant
help from the veteran Sain to gain
it.
Phil Rizzuto’s two-run single in
the fourth inning and Mantle’s 17th
homer in the seventh had given
Ford a 3-1 margin, but he was
derricked when the Sox loaded the
fa ß DAlif Record, otiNN, a. c.
I bases with none out in the seventh.
I Sain came on and retired the side
I with only one tun scoring to •pre
serve the victory. Virgil Trucks
was the loser.
DODGERS WHIP CARDINALS
That was the only night action >,
in the major leagues, but the chief
day game saw the Dodgers go on
a 17-hit spree to whip the Card
inals 12-5, and go 11 full games
ahead of Milwaukee in the Na
, i'.onal League race: The ‘‘magic 4
' number" for the Dodgers now Is 13.
'; For once, the Bums didn’t get
■ 1 any homers but Pee Wee Reese
. , and Jackie Robinson each whacked
. | a double and three singles to lead
the assault. Preacher Roe pitched 1
' the :oute for Brooklyn to gain his
; 10th, and perhaps oddest, victory
. of the season. Roe served up five,
count ’em, home run balls, but i
very thoughtfully served one of J
t ' them with the bases empty.
, Roe is a candidate to open the
; World Series, too. and Dodger
’ Manager Charley Dressen showed
’ that, like Stengel, he's thinking
t about the series when he remarked
. “aw, four of those homers would
I have been just fly ball outs in
Yankee Stadium.”
, The Dodgers open a two-game
. se ies with Milwaukee tonight that 1
. could be Milwaukee’s last chancr*.
It’s Russ Meyer hurling for the
, Dodgers tonight against, probably,
! Warren Spahn.
’ in other National League games
Tuesday, the Giants beat the Cubs.
10-9, when Dee Fondy's error set
up an unearned run to settle a
' slugfest which had seen homers
by Ralph Kiner, Roy Smalley and
! Bubba Church of the Cubs and
Dusty Rhodes of the Giants.
In American League games. A1
Rosen clouted his 36th homer and
i Ealy Wynn fanned 10 batters in
i gaining his 16th win as the In
i dians beat the Red Sox, 13.3; and
■ Ray Herbert's relief pitching led
i the Tigers to a 5-3 win over the A’s,
i despite Gus Zernial’s 36th and 37th
homers for the A’s.
There were no other games sche
i dulcd.
SCORES
By UNITED PRESS
Carolina League
Reidsville 4, Bur-Gra 0
; Winston-Salem 4. Durham 0
Saleigh 8, Fayetteville 4
Greensboro 7, Danville 6
Tar Heel I.earur
Playoffs
R. C. Owls 9. Lexington 0
Marion 11, Shelby 5.
FIGHT RESULTS
By UNITED PRESS
TAMPA. Fla.: Cleveland Williams,
Sports Shorts!
HOLLYWOOD HP The Holly- j
wood StaN, leaders in the Pacific
1 Coast League flag race, challenged
the St. Louis Browns of the Am
erica* League to a seven-game
series in an effort to prove the.
Stars play major league brand of
ball and were turned down. Rob
ert H. Cobb, president of the Stars. 1
hurled the challenge at Bill Veeck,
Browns chief, in a telegram Tues
day.
CAMP PEERY, O. (IB The
Marine Corps Cup and Scott Tro
phy were at stake today as service
marksmen raised their sights in
the .second day’s shooting of the
| national high-power rifle champ
i ionships here. In Tuesday’s firing.
|M-Sgt. Maxim R. Beebee. U. S.
MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS |
By UNITED PRESS '
National League ,
W. L. Pet.
Brooklyn 91 4® .695 i
Milwaukee 80 51 .811
Philadelphia 73 59 .553 |
1 St. Louis 70 59 .543
New York C 3 ft .431
Cincinnati 58 "3 .4-13
Chicago 50 81 38?
Pittsburgh 41 95 .301
Tuesday’ Results
New York 10 Chicago 9
Brooklyn 12 St. Louis 5
Only games scheduled.
Thursday's Games
Milwaukee at Brooklyn
Cincinnati at New York
St. Louis at Philadelphia, night.
American League
W. L. Pet.
New York 87 43 .669
Chicago 78 53 .595
Cleveland 77 54 .588
Boston 72 61 .541
Washington 66 67 .496
Philadelphia 52 80 .394
Detroit 49 83 .371
St. Louis 46 86 .348
Tuesday’s Results
Cleveland 3 Boston 3
Detroit 7 Philadelphia 5
New York 3 Chicago 2
Only games scheduled.
Thursday's Games
New York at St. Louis
Boston at Detroit
Philadelphia at Cleveland
Washington at Chicago, night
204, Tampa, outpointed Keene Sim
mons, 220. Bayonne, N. J. (10).
MIAMI BEACH, Fla.: Joe Sal
cone, 129, Warren, 0., drew witji
Harry Mujica, 133, Miami (F).
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