Today's
Sports Parade
By OSCAR FRALEY
United Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK (IP)
sports performances but any way you look at it the hon
ors go to the “Babe” as once again she provided new
heart for the hopeless.
Because the Babe Mrs. Mildred Didrikson Zaharias
wrote another incredible chapter in her ever-amazing
sports saga as she captured the U. S. Women’s Open golf
championship. And she did it in the old manner, by a
runaway margin of 12 shots.
It capped a courageous comeback which none of the
other winners could match.
Thought She Was Through
For only 15 months ago just about everybody thought
the Babe was through, not only with competition but pos
sibly with life. A cancer specialist summed it up when he
3aid:
“I don’t know if surgery will cure her. But I will say
that she never again will play golf of championship cali
bre-
That was in April of 1953.
The Babe doesn’t talk about what went through her
mind as she prepared for what was to be a three-hour op
eration. But she was a fighter, always had been, and while
the lips quivered the chin remained firm.
That’s the way it always was with the Babe. Her al
most fantastic athletic career was built on gameness ang,
determination. It carried her to two Olympic champion
ships, through a professional basketball and baseball ca
reer, and into a golfing career as a reinstated amateur in
which she won both the British and U. S. Amateur crowns.
Then she turned pro again and, as usual, was far and
away the best.
Comeback An Inspiration
That’s when the Babe needed all her great courage
md determination. And of all the sporting events of the
past weekend, her triumph at Peabody, Mass., must be the
host inspiring to those still walking in the shadows.
The Babe proved again the soundness of the old cliche
that if you won’t be beaten you can’t be beaten.
Two months after the operation, she was walking the
fairways as a spectator. Then, slowly so as to husband her
strength, she began to play golf again. Last February the
Babe broke into the headlines once more by taking a Flor
toumament. Tiring badly on the last round, she almost
blew that one.
But the Babe knew that she had it licked. In between
visits to cancer hospitals to prove to others that they, too,
could win, she took the Sarasota Open in March and the
National Capitol Open in May.
Then came the big one, the U. S. Open she had won
twice before.
That she won it is a tribute. But how she won it is
remarkable.
Major Leagjie
Standings
' By UNITED PRESS
National League
r W—L... Pet.
N*w York 52 25 .675
Brooklyn 28 .632
Philadelphia 38 34 .528
Milwaukee 38 37 .507
Cincinnati 38 38 .500
St. Louis 35 41 .461
Chicago 27 46 370
Pittsburgh 25 52 325
Monday's Results
New York 10 Philadelphia 0, Ist
New York 4 Philadelphia 3, 2nd
Brooklyn 8 Pittsburgh 6, Ist ,
Brooklyn 7 Pittsburgh 2. 2nd
Cincinnati 6 Chicago 5, Ist
Cincinnati 8 Chicago 7, 2nd.
Milwaukee 8 St. Louis 6, Ist
Milwaukee 10 St. Louis 4, 2nd
Wednesday’s Games
New York at Brooklyn, night
Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, night
Milwaukee at Chicago
Cincinnati at St. Louis, night
American League
W. L. Pet.
Cleveland 53 23 .697
New York 51 28 .646
Chicago 48 30 .615
Detroit 32 41 .438
Washington 31 44 .413
Baltimore 30 46 395
Philadelphia 29 45 392
Boston 28 45 .384
Mendav's Results
New York 7 Philadelphia 4 Ist
New York 11 Philadelphia 2 2nd
Boston 14 Washington 0, Ist
Washington 7 Boston 1, 2nd
Chicago 3 Baltimore 0, Ist
Chicago 2 Baltimore 1, 2nd
Cleveland 13 Detroit 6, Ist
Detroit 1 Cleveland 0, 2nd, 11 inn.
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Indians And Giants
Still Holding Leads
By NORMAN MILLER
United Press Sports Writer
The Cleveland Indians and New
York Giants safely passed the In
dependence Day milestone with 3
1-2 game leads today, but who could
breathe easily with those perennial
pennant-winners, the New York
Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgem, in
such hot pursuit?
No one realized more than Man
agers A1 Lopez and Leo Durocher
how precarious was the road ahead
for their league-leaders and Just
how unreliable is the myth that
the clubs which lead the leagues
on July 4 eventually go on to meet
In the World Series.
. The Indians and Giants gained
their present leads as a result of
terrific June winning streaks. And
they knew well how those leads
could be wiped out in a matter
of days.
Indians’ Lead Cut
The Indians lost one game of
their lead Monday by splitting a
double-header against the Detroit
Tigers, while the world champions
swept a twin bill against the Phila
delphia As, 7-4 and 11-2. The In
dians won the opener, 13-6, with
the help of Billy Glynn’s three
homers but lost the nightcap, 1-0.
on Harvey Kuenn’s lltto inning
homer.
In the National League. the
Giants had to win both games from
the Philadelphia Phillies, 10-0 and
4-3, in order to preserve their lead
ever the Dodgem, who likewise
swept the Pittsburgh Pirates, 8-fi
and 7-2. The Milwaukee Braves
bea tthe St. Louis Cardinals, 8-6
and 10-4, and the Cincinnati Reds
edged the Chicago Cubs, 6-5 in 10
innings and 8-7.
White So* Sweep Orioles
The Chicago White Sox twice
bounced the Baltimore Orioles, 3-0
and 2-1, while the Washington Sen
ators split with the Boston Red
Sox, winning the nightcap, 7-1. aft
er losing the opener, 14-0,
Glynn drove in eight runs in the
Indians’ opener to earn reliver
Art Houtteman his ninth victory.
Wednesday’s Gasses
Chicago at Detroit
Baltimore at Cleveland, night
Boston at New York
Only games scheduled
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on tife beet the South Atlantic
Leegul can offer tonight, gad the
indications are that the All-Stars
can expect the Jacksonville pitch
ing to be Just as hot as the Florida
sunshine.
Last ; night. Jacksonville broke
even irj a doubleheader with Savan
nah, bat the Indians could muster
a total of only eight bits Us the two
games ks the Brave hurlers put the
heat ok.
ATLANTA w lf the Southern
Association pitchers stomped throw
ing so ' many “gopher bails" there
wouldn't be a hotter hurler’s cir
cuit ini the country. The hitters
have been running things so far. but
recently the pitchers have taken over
and except for a heavy sprinkling
of home runs, the woodwielders are
now In the shadows. Last night hi
43 innings of baseball the pitchers
yielded only 29 runs, and U of
those tallies came as A result Os
homers.
THOMA9VILLIS, Ga. ffi Dong
Sanders of Cedar town, Ga., and the
University of Florida today added
the Piney Woods Invitational crown
to his impressive list of golf tri
umphs. Sanders, Southeastern ama
teur champion, turned back 17-year
old Frank Boynton of Orlando, Fla.,
4 and 2 yesterday in. the 36 bale
finals with three straight 'birdies on
the last three holes.
News Shorts
HANOI, Indochina W* French
Union troops erected a solid de
fense of Hanoi today at HadOng,
five miles south of the northern
capital.
GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala
(W More than 2,000 persons
suspected of pro-Communist politi
cal atrocities filled Guatemala’s
prisons and jailer today. Each was
promised a fair hearing. Hie new
military Junta said the roundup of
suspects was continuing.even though
jail cells no longer were available.
LONDON (W Prime Minis
ter Winston Churchill returps home
today to follow up his mission of
ironing out differences between the
Kuenn’s 11th- inning homer in the
nightcap snapped Cleveland's
it eight-game winning streak and
- earned George Zuverink the decl
-5 slon over Don Mossl.
1 Irv Noren drove in five runs with
1 two homers, a single and a sacri
t fice fly in the Yankees’ sweep. Joe
i Collins and Mickey Mantle horn
ered In the opening- game triumph,
. reliever Johnny Sain saving the
. victory for Harry Byrd, A flve-
I run sixth inning outburst clinched
t the second game for started Tom
; Morgan.
, The White Sox Billy Pierce
- opener for his best performance, of
pitched a four-hit shutout in the
I the year. Harry Dorish pitched shc
r hit shutout ball upta relived in
I the ninth inning of the second
; game.
Two Grand Siammen
Ted Lepcio hit a grand stem
homer in the Red 1 Sox’ opening
r B»»e rout against Washington and
i Roy Sieve** duplicated Our ttkt in
t the Senators’ nightcap, victory,
i Lefty Johnny Antoneili pitched a
three-hitter in the Gianpr opening
game triumph, Dusty Rhodes hit
i a horn erun in each gome; his
■ second blow with two am base in
, the fifth inning clinching the night
t «P- w UUe Mays also hit his 28th
homer in the second game.
Billy Loee won the Dodgers’ sec
l 1 ond game victory. In the opener,
I Walt Moryn hit his first major
1 league homer and Duke Snider his
■ 20th of the year.
; Ed Matthews lilt two homers, his
i first in the second inning before
I four-baggers by Del Crandall and
i Bill Bruton, in the Braves’ opensr.
I Warren Spahn won the nightcap.,
Bobby Adams singled home Cin
cinnati's winning run In the 10th
! inning of the first game, in which
I Bandy Jackson of the Cube hit tws
homers and Ted Kluszewskl of the
1 Reds his 21st. • r <
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last night and refee ted. the SttH*
JfeS, avflpgto* an toes inflict
by Durham at FayettOrtUe in the
afternoon. The Bulls hit ITliatti
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batten opened the attack to the first
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in Kinston early today and' was
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shooting last Might of Wflße Fate,
37, of la Orange.
WASHINGTON - m Jo
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book in tow* today after* vacation
of about t*w and wMtf weeks.
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WASHINGTON W President
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Rente today after a long hwrth of
Juty weekend at hte Mountain re
treat near here.
hfeeident plunged almost
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LONDON m Housewives
balked at. Britain*, rocketing meat
priem today and forped them down
As «pry»iing smithfield market
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wholesalers reported buying was
oft and prices were sliding from
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WASHINGTON (W The Fed
eration of American Scientists has
called for an overhaul of the gov
ernment’s security system as an
aftermath to the branding of Dr. J.
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David Bronstein of the Russian chess team studies Ms next move in
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