Today's
Sports Parade
By OSCAR FRALEY
United Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK Major league action is limited today
on the heels of the All-Star game but the action contin
ues fast—and often furious in the minors.
Certainly you couldn’t want much more action than
that in a recent game between Lewiston and Victoria in
the Western International League. It was a battle of ma
ny pitchers, Victoria using six hurlers as Lewiston won,
18-14.
But don’t sneer. This one is reminiscent of the 1946
World Series game between the Boston Red Sox and St.
Louis in which the Cardinals pounded out a record tying
20 hits. The bosox used three throwers in .the ninth inn
ing alone.
Mace Brown was kayoed and relieved by Mike Ryba.
He, in turn, was taken out for Clem Driesewerd. And
when Clem trudged into the locker room, he looked at
his predecessors and siged:
“Thank the Lord that’s over.”
ADVICE TO ALSTON
Manager Walt Alston must be in a mcod to give his
Brooklyn Dodgers a pep talk these days but he better be
careful. , ...
Sacremento Manager Gene Desautels passed up both
batting and fielding practice before a recent double-head- 1
er to give his battered warriors a long fire-eating oration
in the clubhouse. Then they went out-and dropped both
ends of the double-header.
The’minors also have given major league pitchers
something at which to shoot this season. That is a sea
sonal mark for “wildest pitch.” Ernie Nichols of Birming
ham wound up and threw the ball clean up into the
grandstands as the winning run laughed its way home
from third base.
BEAN BALLS PERIL HURLER
There has been much worrying about the batsmen
who are targets for bean balls, but pitcher Joe Stupak of
Nashville proved that even the pitcher is in danger in such
circumstances. Joe nicked three New Orleans batters in
a row--and when the third one charged him Joe suffered
a back injury in the resulting fracas which sent him to
the hospital. None of the batters was hurt.
. Emilio Cueche, who pitches for Havana in the In
ternational League, has been nicknamed “Little Indian.”
Which sounds to this corner like gilding the lily. Obvi
ously his nickname should be “Hoochy.”
Out in Wichita they had a double milking attraction.
In the scheduled, one, pitcher Bill Diemer competed a
gainst Bobby Winkler as part of a “Dairy Day” attrac
tion. In the unscheduled one, somebody milked the Wi
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Lee, secretary-treasurer of the local
Fire Department, stated today that,
the monthly meeting of the fire- (
men was held last night preceding j
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Sammy Snead
Has No Plan
To Retire Now
WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
W. Va. (IP)—Samuel Jackson Snead,
whose mighty driver has earned
him a golfing fortune none of
which is “buried in tomato cans”—
has put an end to rumors that he
is getting too old for the tourna
ment trail, end will soon retire to
his home course for good.
"As long as tne desire is there.
I’ll keep on playing,” Snead said
at a recent meeting of the West
Virginia Sportswriters Association.
“When the desire is gone, there’s
no use playing any longer.”
But Snead left you with the idea
that it’ll be some time before he
will lose the desire to go after the
big ones.
HOGAN WONT PLAY
"Sam, how about this series
they’re trying to arrange between
you and Hogan?”
“I’d like to play him,” Snead
replied, “but Hogan won’t play.”
“Sam, who started that stuff
about you burying your money in
cans in your back yard?”
“That doggone Jimmy Demaret.
I told him, “You better cut that
out, people are gonna start digging
up my back yard’.”
i
Snead reminisced about Demaret. I
“We were playing at Richmond one
time and Jimmy was taking an aw- !
ful beating. We got down to the |
15th hole and instead of his caddy
stopping, he went right on up to
the next green, way up on the hill.
Jimmy turned around to get his
putter and ( then noticed his caddy
way up on that hill. Jimmy said.
“It’s bad enough to take a licking
down here, now they’re running off
with my cluhs.”
Snead is hard at work at the
Greenbrier Hotel course making a
series of television shorts, demon
strating various shots. In between,
he give golf lessons.
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SOFTBALL STANDINGS
Team W L Perot
Skinny’s 10 1 -909
Johnson 8 3 .727
Johnson’s s s .<m
Legion ♦ 7 .364
Jaycees 3 8 .273
Natl Guard 2 9 .182
KNEEPANTS LEAGUE
Team W L Perct
Tigers ♦ 0 1.000
Indians 2 2 .500
Cardinals 2 2 .500
Athletics 1 3 .333
Dodgers 1 3 .33?
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Win All‘Star Game
CLEVELAND (ID Triumphant
American Leaguers pointed with
pride today to their 11-9 victory tn
the heaviest hitting of all AB
- games as conclusive proof that
their home run power Is not dead
after all.
But Tuesday’a »l-hlt, six-homer
Donnybrook left many National
Leaguers muttering about a “balk”
that wasn’t called and a “chip
shot” single that scored the win
ning runs.
In the days ot yore, there was
no doubt about American League
power the “Junior" league was
supposed to be the sluggers' league
and the National was the pitcLerW
league. Smce World War 11, the
situation was supposed to have
been reversed:
NL’S THUNDER STOLEN
But A1 Rosen’s two record-tying
homers and one each by Larty
Doby and Ray Boone completely
stole the thunder of the National
League in Tuesday’s contest. Only
Ted Kluszewski and Gus Bell of
Cincinnati homered for the Na
tionals.
“The long bail beat us," admit
ted National League Manager Wal
ter Alston of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
But Leo Durocher, manager of
the New York Giants and a coach
under Alston for this game, had
two other more bitter comments to
make.
His first concerned, the; disputed
play in the top of fchfe elgmOf ow
ning when, with the NL leading.
9-8, Durocher as third base coach
sent A1 Schoendienst of the St.
Louis Cardinals scooting,in an at
tempt to’Steal home against rookie
southpaw Dean Stone of the Wash
ington Senators.
CALLED OUT BY UMPIRE
Umpire Bill Stewart of the NL
called Schoendienst out at the
plate, but Durocher protested at
length that Stone had balked by
falling to come to a full stop in
his pitching motion.
“If he had stopped,” said the
vocal Leo, “All would have made
it. Only Stone got away with a
balk.”
Alston, as quiet as Durocher usu
ally is loud, agreed in a lower tone
that he thought Stone had balked.
“It cost us one run, maybe
more,” said the tall, balding Dodg
er pilot. “But probably more than
that one play, the long ball hurt
us.”
Durocher added, “Home runs all
over the place—so'what beats us.
A lousy 98-foot chip shot’’
REFERS TO FOX’S BLOOPER
Durocher was referring to the
bloop single delivered by Nellie Fox
of the Chicago White Box in the
last of the eighth with the score
tied. 9-9. two out, and the bases
loaded. As shortstop A1 Dark dove
desperately for the ball, two run
ners raced home to give the Amer
ican League the game.
For grinned around a big wad of
chewing tobacco and agreed. “It
was a helluva hit fcut a hit’s-a
hit, so who’s to complain.”
china forced the French today to
divert .bombers from toe. Reds’
supply lines.
For got his payoff hit against
reliever Cart Ersklne of the Brook
lyn Dodgers, who had just come in
and farmed Mickey Vernon of the
Senators for the second out. Nel
lie said it was a “very fast” pitch
and admitted he didn’t get a good
piece of the ball.
ROBEN TIES RECORD
Rosen, who came very close to
not playing at all because of his
swollen right index finger, tied one
record, held by Ted Williams of
toe Red Sox and the late Arky
of the Pirates, by hitting
two homers. He tied another Wil
liams record by driving in five
runs.
“That aorta puts me in with the
big rappers," said the Cleveland
Indians' slugger with a wide grin.
Rosen’s two blasts topped a fine
day for home town fans. Including
the work of Rosen and Doby, In
dians players collected seven of the
AL’s 17 hits and drove in eight
runs. In addition, former Indian
Minnie Mlnoso of thi White Sox
got two singles and a walk and
Boone of Detroit also is a former
Tribesman.
AL NO\V LEADS 13 TO 8
The American League triumph
made certain the Junior circuit will
retain the lead in the annual se
ries for at least a half-dozen years.
The AL now leads. 13-8, whereas
an NL victory, which had been
predicted, would have cut the mar
gin to 12-9.
The AL Jumped off to a 4-0 lead
in toe third inning on Rosen’s
three-run homer and Boone’s bases
empty blast, both off Robin Rob
erts of the Phillies. The NL re
bounded immediately with five
runs in the fourth on successive
singles by Duke Snider of the
Dodgers, Stan Musial of the Cards.
Kluszewski, and Ray Jablonski of
the Cards and doubles by Jackie
Robinson of the Dodyers and Don
Mueller of the Giants.
SCORES ON AVILA SACRIFICE
Bobby Avila’s sacrifice fly in the
same frame scored Chico Carrasqu
el of the White Sox with a tying
run but Kluszewski’s two-run hom
er in the fifth put the NL ahead
again, T-5. Rosen’s twin-run homer
in toe same frame again knotted
the count.
Avila .singled home another run
in the sixth to put the AL ahead,
8-7. Gus Bell’s two-run pinch-hlt
homer In the eighth put the NL
ahead, 9-8, and set the stage for
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Skinny’s Esso defeated Johnson
Cotton Co. lalt night by a 3-1
score to hand Johnson their third
defeat at the hands of Skinny’s
team. The ball game was a very
tight one in that there was low
scoring and a minimum of errors.
The score was tied at 1-1 in the
bottom of the fifth inning when
Garland Roebuck slngeld and Billy
Bayles hits a long fly ball to left
field that Daley Goff misjudged
and went over his head for a
home run. The two run homer by
Bayles provided the margin that
Skinny needed to take their tenth
win of the season against only on
defeat.
Mac Barefoot was the leading
hitter for Skinny's with two hits
in three official times at bat, in
cluding a double. Skinny’s team
did not get but seven base hits
which is very low for a bunch
of power hitters as is on the Esso
nine. The American Legion gave
up only 4 hits to Skinny’s when
they defeated him 16-2 for the
League leaders only defeat.
Shamrock Denning did not give
up but five base hits to the John
son team with two of the five
going to Doc Corbett. There were
not any of the hits collected by the
Johnson team that went for extra
base knocks.
The win last night practically
sewed up the 1954 Pennant for
Skinny’s as there are only four
games remained to be played in
regular league schedule. Johnson
had a chance of pulling the league
into a two-way tie if they could
have defeated S&.nny last night
but with their third defeat at the
hands of Skinny it was almost
impossible. Cannady's Store is the
third place team and to put the
league into a tie they would have
to win their next four games and
Skinny would have to lose his re
maining four.
Johnson AB R II
D. Goff If -301
D. Corbett c 3 12
B. Godwin 3b 3 0 1
W. Jackson ss 2 0 0
R. Tart 2b 3 0 1
B. Monds lb 3 0 0
Spell cf 3 0 0
H. Godwin rs 10 0
Newton rs 10 0
B. Bass p 2 0 0
Doby to tie the score in the last
of the eighth on his homer, and
for Fox to come through with his
bases-loaded single.
WEbNESfiAf AtttiRNOON, JtTt* 14,
total 24 1 5
Skinny’s AB R fl
B. Barefoot If 3 0 1
C. Hutaff 2b 3 0 1
M. Barefoot lb 3 12
S. Denning p ,201
T. Stevens c 3 0 0
G. Roebuck 3b 3 11
B. Bayles ss 2 11
C. Hartley cf 10 0
B. Twyford cf 10 1
D. Matthews rs 2 0 0
total 23 3 7
Johnson 000 100 0-1
Skinny's 000 120 x-3
Doubles: M. Barefoot
Homers: B. Bayles
Base on balls: Bass 1, Denning l
Struck out by: Bass 0, Denning 1
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