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Sports Parade
By OSCAR FRALEY
United Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK OP) The Brooklyn Dodgers apparently
pulled the biggest bonehead play of the year and pos
sibly quite a few years when they “accepted” the resig
nation of Chuck Dressen and optimistically unstalled Walt
Alston as manager.
Dressen actually was fired because he couldn’t win
the World Series. Anybody, the Brooklyn front office fig
ured, should be able' to win the National League pennant
with this team.
But, obviously, just “anybody” can’t. Certainly it ap
pears as if Alston can, unless he changes his slow and un
sure tactics. He has, simply, slowed a hell -for - leather
ball club to walk until they are just about beaten.
He’ll have to start gambling, and so will the players, to
get back in the race.
And how that Dressen must be laughing at the Brook
lyn “brains” which announced before the season that “we
aren’t worried about the pennant it’s the World Series
we want.”
Birthday Greetings
Happy birthday: Today, Johnny Wyrostek 35, Glenn
Dobbs 32 and Paul Runyan 46, Tuesday, Mickey Walker
53; Wednesday, A. B. Happy Chandler 56, Johnny Mur
phy 46 and Claude Harmon 38; Thursday, Bruce Edwards
31; Friday, Larry Jansen 34.
The National League has been getting a bit cocky
about its four straight wins in the All-Star game, to be
played at Cleveland next Tuesday, but actually all that
does is match a former American League feat and the
American Leaguers ead in the overall box-score, 12 games
to 10 the American Leaguers won their four in a row from
1946 through 1949.
Durocher And McGraw
Memory Lane: Just 52 years ago this week the great
John McGraw began a 30-year stretch as manager of the
New York Giants in which he won 10 pennants and de
spite the sharpshooters, Leo Durocher might be there that
long, too, if he wins this one.
Because a U. S. senator had a race track on his es
tate, the 1954 U. S. Amateur golf championship will be
played in Detroit next month. Michigan Senator James
McMillan took up golf while serving in the Senate in the
mid-80’s.'Returning to Detroit, he had a course laid out
on the infield of his private race track which eventual
ly became the Country Club of Detroit.
Duke Snider of the Dodgers, leading the National
League batting race with a mark in the .370’s, doesn’t be
lieve ,he can maintain that pace until season’s end. The
Duke figures he’ll have too many strikeouts but hopes to
stay up around .345.
Dunn In^Sports
By ABE ELMORE
Hal Jemigan, local pro at Chi
cora Country Club, reports that
there were a large number of per
sons participating in golf during
the week-end. The heavy rain on
Friday put the greens in good
shape and the weather was very
good for playing, except for the
strong wind on Sunday. The wind
kept the scores very high but the
number playing did not seem to
mind /too much. The lowest score
shjt' over the week-end was by
, Frankie Steel of Lllllngton, who
s' had a 74.
The leaders at the present in the
EDUCATION!
A total of 59 college! serve North Corolino, with'
| individual enrollments ranging from 5,474 to less
,'fhan 30 students! In June, 1953, nearly 6,000 seniors j
earned college degrees. Os this number, 81% were t
white and 19% were negroes. Our hat is off to these
•line educational institutions which are contributing
greatly in making North Carolina a better place In
which to work, play and live.
Another contribution to more ptosont living sos North
Carolinians is the brewing industry's self regulation 1
program whor# brswors, wholosoiors ond /•tailors—■•
jki counties where molt beverages are permitted under
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for the legal sale of beer ond ole.
r - s North Carolina Division
Ringer Tournament are William
Corbett of Dunn and Frankie
Steele of Lillington, each of these
persons has a 60. William had
been leading during .the past week
but Steele cut one stroke off his
score yesterday to put the tourna
ment in a two-way tie.
The plans fcr the Annual Mem
bers meeting are all complete said
Jernigam The meeting will be dur
ing the afternoon and evening of
July 21, 1954. During the afternoon
Scotch Four Ball, and Driving Con
test will be held for the men, while
the Women will participate in a
Baseball Notes
From Dugouts
NEW YORK UP They say
In the dugout:
Third baseman Eddie Yost, dis
turbed by stories that he’s la line
• for Washington’s managerial Job,
insists he wouldn’t accept It even
if it was offered him.
“I still have several active years
left,” says the 27-year old Inflelder,
“and I never would consent to
being a playing manager.”
Some guys don’t know when
they're weU off, like Cub relief
pitcher Jim Brosnan who dreams
j of becoming a short story writer,
j For a fellow who can’t find his
shoes under the bed in the morn
| ing without his glasses. Clint Court
ney of Baltimore certainly has an
extra-ordinary eye at the plate. He
hasn't struck out even once this
season.
MARION TO COACH
Marty Marion of the White Sox
becomes one of the few men in
baseball ever to serve on both the
National and American League
All-Star teams when he takes over
one of the coaching lines for Casey
Stengel next Tuesday.
Mickey Vernon has pulled up his
batting average 80 points In the
past two months but nurses little
hope of successfully defending his
American League batting title. “I
got off to too slow a start,” claims
the Senator first sacker.
Willie Mays’ comment on the
Dodgers’ announcement of one of
his homers over their public ad
dres system:
“I wish they wouldn’t do It any
more—especially if the Brooklyn
players don’t like it.”
BOUDREAU FORGOT
Lou Boudreau recently benched
Jim Piersall for light hitting .259,
apparently forgetting that he once
said he would keep the brilliant
defensive outfielder in the Red Sox
lineup ’even If he hit Into a double
play every time up.” '
Dick Littlefield, the fast-ball
pitcher who came to Pitsburgh
from Baltimore, was tickled to
learn the Pirates travel by plane.
He claims he never learned how
to sleep on a train.
One big league road secretary
has no problem distributing meal
money to the players. Armed with
the money, he goes up to the hotel
floor where the’-piayerrMfe S Uf?
ing, knocks on all their doors,
waits for them to poke their heads
out, then tosses the dough up In
the air with the shout: ’Fight for
it, ya sonsaguns. fight for It!”
hole-tn-one contest. Then during
the early evening supper will bp
served at *1.50 per plate. The pub
lic is invited to attend meeting.
The city Softball League will get
underway for their last five games
of the 1954 season tomorrow night.
The first game of the night wiH
be between Skinny’s Esso and
Johnson Cotton Co. The Johnson
team has been gettingi stronger
all season and have been beaten
only twice, both at the hands of
Skinny’s. Skinny was defeated 16-2
in his last game for his only de
feat of the year. The game tomor
row night should be one of the
better ball games of the season.
The other two games will be be
tween the American Legion and
the Jaycees. The third game will
be played by the National Guard
and Cannady’s Store.
There are five more games to be
played In the softball league. The
championship tournament begins
August 3. The way the tournament
will be played is that the teams
finishing in the No. 1 and 2 posi-
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Four-Square Tourney
Set For Tyler Park
The Recreation Department su
pervisors at Tyler Park report that
Volley Ball and Four Square were
the two outstanding games las ;
week.
Some of riie outtaodjng Volley
ball players are Harry Driver,
Howard Hodges, Ifike Winjama,
Harry Tart, Claude Pope, Hay Tay
lor, and Frankie Bennett. With so
much interest being Shown four
Volleyball teams are trying to be
organized by Wednesday July 14.
Anyone interested In playing please
see one of the tentatively team
captains, Harry Driver, Daley Ooff,
Howard Hodges, and Claude Pope.
The time far these games will be
between 4'oo o'clock and 7:00
o’clock.
A Four Square tournament will
also begin this week and the prob
able time will be from 10:00 o'clock
AM thru late afternoon and win
be played only on Monday. Wed
nesday, and Friday. The outstand
ing participants in this game so
far have been Willie Tart, Bill
Roberson. Kack White,: Larson
Bennett, Bill Joyner, and Billy
Parker.
A new Shuffle Board court has
been placed under the Recreation
Hut in the park during the past
week. Outstanding participants so
far are Anne Jemigan, Skinny .En
nis. Alton Bass, Beth Wilson,’Wil
liam Maynard.
Jackie Sturgill:
Domlno players for the past few
days.
It is hoped that flhrin#’the'next
week a Horseshoe tournament will
be organized. The Tyler Park su
pervisors hope that at least sixty
men will enter this event both for
the singles and doubles champion
ships brackets. The supervisors will
do the pairings in the double
championship bracket. Some of tlie
outstanding players have been, Mae
Barefoot, Oene Driver end Mayo
Smith.
One of the favorite games In the
park has' been rite Croquet set.
The game is becoming more popu
lar each day. Twq of the regular
players have been Becky Aycock
and Hannah White.
The Recreation Department hope
that they can have tournaments in
an the above mentioned games.
Anyone interested in participating
in these games are asked to, give
their names to the supervisors and
in what events they want to per.
tlclpate. , I
The Tyler Park supervisors. Kack
White and Paul Hollingsworth,
have reported there has been a
slight increase In the park partici
pation during the past week. They
hope that more youngsters and
adults will come out and take part
In the planned recreation program
during this week and the remain
der of the summer.
BROOKLYN UP star
Roy Campanella, frankly fearful
that paralysis of the left hand ‘will
end my career,” was scheduled to
Undergo a fateful medical examina
tion today.
tions will receive a bye: Team 3 ■
will play team 6 and team 4 will
play team 5. Team . 1 will then
meet the winner of the 3-4 game
and- 2 win meet thf winner of the
4-5 game. These two team winners r
win meet for the championship.
SPORTS
SHORTS
BOSTON UP Promoter Sam
Silverman hopes for 16,000 fans
and *60,000 tonight at his outdoor
10-round fight between lightweight
contender Oeorgle Araujo and wel
terweight Tony DeMarco In Fen
way Park It will not be televised.
PHILADELPHIA UP The
Philadelphia Athletics added an
other worry to their growing list
of headaches toady *— the lose of
hifrd-hitting Gus Zemlal from the
linfeup for the rest of the campaign.
DALLAS, Tex. UP The scram
ble of the ‘unknowns" for the 19th
annual U. S. Golf Associations Na
tional Publlnx championship began
today in torrid weather” that was
expected to help eliminate the old
er contestants and leave the field
to the hardier youngsters.
CHICAGO UP Vic Seixas of
Philadelphia, fresh from his West
ern singles triumph Sunday at In
dianapolis, comes here today to de
fend his title In' the U. S. Lawn
Tennis Association’s clay courts
tournament. Seixas was hard
presseq ,to, ffcrgt Western
singles titles, 7-8. 3-6, 2-6, 6-1,
over Hamilton Richardson,' 1 26-year
old two-tbpe collegiate champion
from Baton Rouge, La.. Who will
compete on the U. 8. Davis Cup
Uam this week at Jamaica.
' ERIE, Pa. UP Bobby Crulk
shank’s 137 didn't represent the
lowest winning score In the three
year history of the Erie Open golf
tournament today but the Pitts
burgh veteran Was the oldest vic
tor In the event. The Chartiers
Country Club pro—who won his
fired a seven-under par 137 Sunday
to Win the *i,oet) first prize.
Big Wrestling
Card Slated
RALEIGH—Make way lor Ra
leigh’s and Eastern North Carolina's
moat popular athletic team. That’s
be the Becker brothers, of course.
George anr Bobby Becker, the
handsome ind txflorful young tag
team of wrestling, headline Wed
nesday night’s grapple card at the
Memorial Auditorium here. They’ll
meet the, rugged team of Charro
Aztec, the Mexican bandit, and Pat
Fraley, the Yankee roughhouse.
The Beckers return here at 8:30
after a long absence during which
time they rested up from the wrest
ling ware. And to excited have rite
local tana Been above the duo, they
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Softball Team
Plays Tonlfe
The Dunn girls softball team will
meet JohnsoniLambe of Raleigh
tonight at 8:00 o'clock at the Dunn
ball park. This Is the opening
game of the season for the girls
and there will be no admission
charged.
Grace “Fireball” Beasley will be
on the mound lor the Dunnettes.
Grace was one of the outstanding
softballers last year and with her
excellent ptlchlng control she and
her teammates are ex||*cted to
handle the Johnaon-Lambe nine
easily. Grace’s battery mate will be
Sylvia Slaughter. Byivla is one of
the most versatile players on the
team but she plays her best game
at the catching position. She was
a regular on the team last year.
Tire remaining line-up will prob
ably be as follows: Janice Creech,
Ist base; Janet Hodges or Joyce
Canady, 2nd base: Melrose Tart,
3rd base; Mattie Ruth Godwin,
shortstop: Frances Surles. left
field; Rilda Hamilton, center field;
Mary Faye Williford, right field.
Henry Hut&ff, Recreation Direc
tor. has announced that the Dunn
girls have already received an In
vitation to the softball tournament
In Smlthfleld which begins July
19. The local girls were the run
ner-ups In the 1953 tournament.
picked Raleigh to start up again.
The rest of the card Is packed
with headline bouts, too. Anyan»
of the other bouts could go on top
anywhere else.
Prince Malaria and Firpo Zbyszko
■meet In a special bout, while Pate
Managoff meets KlnJl ShUbuJa in
the opener.* • . - . ■ ,
■«T In the leading ' livestock
State, ranking flat In the number
of cattle, sheep and goats.
DBS MOINES, la. UP An air
man stationed in Wyoming and a
WAF stationed In Michigan met
at the midway point, married and
then separated for anout ”70 days.”
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Kneepants Dodgers
Win First Game *
Kneepants League Standings \
Team W L Pet.
Tigers 2 0 1.000
Cardinals 2 1 .6671
Indians '. 11 .500 j
Athletics I 2 .333 j
Dodgers 1 3 .250
The Dodgers won their first ball
game of the 1954 KPL season Fri
day morning by defeating the Ath
letics 6-6 behind the two-hit pitch
ing of Jimmy Jordan and Larry
Godwin. The win for the Dodgers
was their first against three de
feats.
Leading the hitting for the win
ners were Horace Pope and J. D.
Pope with three for three and two
for three, respectively.
Bud Hudson was the losing
pitcher for the Athletics as he gave
up 8 hits and; 1 base on balls.
Tommy Jones and David Lee re
ceived the two hits that the A’s
were able to get off the two
Dodger hurlers.
Only one game was played Fri
day morning. The Indians were
supposed to play the second game
but they could not field a team so
the game was postponed ’til a later ]
date.
Dodgers AB R H !
H. Pope 3 1 3 i
A. Bass 3 0 0
B. Clifton 2 11
D. Bass 3 0 0
J. D. Pope 3 2 2,1
H. Ruark 3 0 O'-
J. Whittenton 11 0
B. Overman 1 o 0,
L. Godwin 11 1
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'Athletics AB R H
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D. Wellons 1 0 0
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J. Tart 2 0 0 t
David Dixon 2 0 0 1
T. Jones 2 11 s
J. Wilkins 11 oH
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Triples: J. Jordan.
Base on balls: Jordan 3, Godwin
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Strike outs: Jordan 2, Godwin 2,
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