PAGE FOUR today's Sports Parade By OSCA& FRALEY United Fn» Sports Writer NEW YORK ® —. Ponderous Vic Raschi won’t say it bst he 6r determined' today to prove that tlfe New York - Yankees made a mistake when they peddled him to the sf Louis Cardinals. Bigi Vie, ypu’U remeaaber, was part of the two-way surprise of the off-season. After IT years in the Yankee cittiin he went to the Cardinals and Country Slaughter, r*> after 16 years in the Redbird organization, went to the Yankees. The deals weren’t connected but they left both men with the same bitter reaction. H Slaughter was outspoken about his disappointment at leaving old, familiar scenes. Raschi, ever the introvert, contemplated the switch with the reserve of a Supreme Court Judge and took umbrage only with the parting wArfe of the Yankees. 1 The inference was that Raschi was one of those guilty of “complacency,” a word exhumed by the Yankees to get „ thteir pehnaht-surfeited athletes “on the ball” in ah at teiipt tot a sixth consecutive flag. “As far as that is concerned,” Vic pronounced, “I’ll stknd on my record and I think it’s good enough.” t It would seem to be, indeed. A3 a member of the five in-a-row club, Raschi over that span won 92 games against oniy 40 losses. He had a 21-10 mark in 1949; led the Afner icaki League in percentages with a .724 mark in .1950 on 21 wins and eight losses; had a 21-10 mark in 1951 when : ho led the league in strikeouts; scored a 16-6 mark in 1952 | ‘ arid had a 13-6 record in 1953. it stands there in black and white that he tailed off • over the last two years. Which may be why the Yankees | j fcrifed to his $40,000 salary to $30,000 this season. Vic wouldn’t have any of it, and the next thing he knew he I wafc in a Cardinal uniform. A pronounced introvert who long has kept his own » counsel and a man who never joined in the horseplay of \ the Yankee family, Vic doesn’t pop off now. He becomes » a iharr with an icy exterior when he is asked to compare *sr tiye Yankees and the Cardinals. ; .“The Cardinals have a tradition of their own,” he • f - daps 4n what Id, for him, a long speech. “They, too, have I the spirit &nd the winning habit.” J. i Big Vic is civil, but that’s all. Yhere is no effort to • extend himself to-raake. friends or influence people. He | arihw.ers questions simply anif briefly Mt 'doesn’t elabo • rate. At 35, he has molded to a form which has hardened beyond change. But there is an ever more pronounced bulge to his de » tpj&nined jaw this year, a season in which he already has l wdh fi% games without defeat. He is in the best shape in j. yejtrs',,«wn to a Streamlined 200 pounds which is some lftless than when he wound up as a Yankee. But he still * losing streakart Ebbets Field by walloping the Dodgers, 10 to 1. “ft wasn’t anything,” he said briefly. “Someone would have dope it eventually. ” No jubilation was there. All you could feel was a grim so#t o# satisfaction. Raschi will be a big winner for the s%ds, bttt you know that even though they’re in another league he’s pitching every game against the Yankees. ■■El! '%J ■!"'.■ ■ lll 1." i " , , ijawM '■■ ■— .i ■■ SribßTfß nmm EN .... Beaton at New York (night) .. .. ®AJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS National League B Q N FE P - PRESS w L Fct iiii.ii teapot St. Louis 18 14 .563 W. L. Pet Philadelphia 16 14 .583 Cwveland '! 4) 10 .667 Brooklyn 15 14 533 Str* ;• ;■ « SSTSS it it Si CfiSuwv Cincinnati 17 16 .515 Bltoore 12 12 Chicago 14 14 .500 "Tj-tSigtrin \{> }g Pittsburgh 11 it 333 P«Jadel p hia 10 19 .345 Wednesday’s Results < * t ° n 717 - 292 Chicago 9 Brooklyn 3 pftroit St - Loul * 3 New Vork 0 Ndw York 3 cajlc^o^jj. 3 Milwaukee 6 Philadelphia 2 (night)' Cwvejantfs Boston 3 Pittsburgh 3 Cincinnati 2 (night) € -r- Pittsburgh at Brooklyn (night) ' I v. ■ • New York at Philadelphia (night) r «SSLi n, f Milwaukee at Chicago ■ - = —« (night) Cincinnati at St. Louts (night) I I 1 -w L I I' EAttfi i ji-v Tr ■ r K * ■ H g|.p o A TCn By ■l« I , I L J 11 Ysiikw Steamroltr Now In High Gear C ARL tvtmmiw ... I United Press Sports Writer. Belatedly, but; with the saw? old devastating force, the Yankee steamroller is in high gear again, leaving tl)e fan* ih -town after town with their hopes crushed and a. feeling that it wiH be the same old kind of monotonous pennant race in the American League. It is an old. familiar pattern; Enthuaiaam ran high in. Cleveland, teams started out brilliantly and diminated the early phase of the race. The Yankees faltered. They couldn’t evyn win at home. Theft they launched a Western trip in Cleveland and ths Indians took the first game. Boom. The ’xanir-as rebounded to take the next two. On they moved to Detroit where the Tiger were in first place, a completely rejuvenated team from the second division laggards of the last two seasons. 'Hie old crU?her roHed into action and the T gers were tamed three in a row. In Bal timore, where the fans are still a little awed just to have a big league team, they were satisfied for a double header split with the Yankee*, but at Chicago, last stop’ cn the first Western- tour the fans hoped for a "kill.” .. .. Chicago Fans Suffer .. The Chicago fans suffered most , cf all because the White Sox had two games all bdt won. yet iqst both in the- fina, innings as the Yankees ended their trip with 8" wins in 10 games, just' a length behind first place Cleveland. The ; Indians are on top only because : of a seven game winning streak , that started - significantly - the , day after the Yankees left town. An error by shortstop A1 Carras quel led to two unearned runs in the eighth Wednesday as the Yan kees tied the secre at 2-all. then they won it 3-2 in the ninth when Oil Me Dougald was hit by a Billy Pierce pitch, took third on Andy 1 Carey's single and scored on a force out as reliever Bob Grim gained his second victory. t Cleveland also scored two un- 1 earned- runs in the eighth to defeat f the Red Sox 5-3. while Detroit t beat the Athletics 4-3 on A] Kaline’s c bases-lOaded single in the ninth, ii and Baltimore topped Washington 5-3 on an eight hitter by come- ) backer Joe Coleman, who won his i third in a row and fourth -of the I season. ’ < Cards In First. H In the National' the Caleb took i i over first plaoe with a fiVg-'mt, 3-0 s I victory by Vic .Raschi Raschi- himself drove in the other run with a single in betrtinjr bis opponent, Sal Maglie. j Dodgers Fall Apart I Dee Fondy’s three-run homer I was the big blow as the Dodger* I fell apart and, nob oqly committed I three eirors, But yielded four walks I and a wild pitch, killy Oox hit a I Dodger homer! Bob Hueli, yielding i I three Os Brooklyn’s four hits, I gained his third victorv. I Ed Mathews hit his I homer and added a double to pS<* I Spahn to his fourth m I Philadelphia. j Dick- Hall hit a two-ruh AAgft I in the fifth' to tie the score at 2-2 I for the Pirates then Burkont I squeezq-bunted home the winning I run. Slnglss by Sid Oordon and. I Toby Atwell and a hit batsman I had loaded the bases. I Wednesday’S Star: Vic Raschi oG i] the Cardinals who- pitched them I into first place with his first Na- I tional League shutout and his fifth I straight victory a 3-0 five hitter J over the Giants. I SPORTS SHORTS BALTIMORE, Md. Ilf) With I the favored Correlation, Hasty I Road, Admiral Porter and fob free I already entered, a field of as many I as 11 starters appeared possible to- I day for Saturday’s SIOO,OOO Preak- | ness at Pimlico. There was; some doubt about | whether HaSt'y Road, the probable I second choice in the mile-and three-sixteenths classic, would run, even thought officially entered Wednesday. Harry Trotek, trainer tof the Hasty House .farm colt, said Wednesday before reaving (or Chicago. Vh|.t Hasty Rod might be scratched. who edged them <-3 yesterday in a game shortened to'five innings by rain. •, The two teams wind up thfAr rug- ) DODGT " 1 PLYMOUTH Naylor-Dickey wjnn, N.'e. affisart a««w vtfs r«M out lest night lp both ends of » | i ■ M “ rli Cold air circulates uniformly Plenty of -pace fW large water- Per foot B actrosting vi-flennee- throughout the fresh-food sec- melons or turkeys. Convenient, titan comparable older models. .' Hml trimbto any Clt- tion . . keeps food fresh any- easy-to-reach storage capacity. This completely new G-E is Mg- * ■ H to ,K Ji C *U n ! the cabinet—top. mid- Alh 11 ftk DE Dk BfHftkH JH H U I in Hie nightcap, shortened (o eight imring* bbeause of an 11:50 pja. curfew. FMR Md d stayed the start League pennant race, last night chalked up another victory, but stUl lost ground to the rampaging Spartanburg Peaches. While Asheville blanked Rpck , Wil, 7-0, second-spot Spartanburg picked up two shutout wins over i Greenville, 4-0, and 8-0. ATLANTA (IB The Memphis Qhicka knew today what it’s like to ■ be thoroughly beaten. 1 Birmingham last night trojnped i Memphis M-3 and while other teams THURSDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 20, 195 Jacksonville Manager Ben Ger- - . _ •m*— — 1 Ankelane* Service P Phone 2077 CROMARTIE FUNERAL HOME 1 DUNN, N. C. stopping a losing straak-he sinjk i ply puts Humberto Robinson on ti|s» mound. Robinson Inst night liftajd the sugg King Braves back on their feet wijjK a beautiful three-hitter, that topp<||