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PAGE FOUR Today's Sports Parade By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK (TP) Everybody wants to know; “What’s wrong with the Brooklyn Dodgers?” You can only get the answer by asking those close to the ball club. That means the men who travel with them every day and for various reasons can’t put it into words: Well, here’s what’s wrong: 1. Individually, the players are getting old. 2. The failure of overstuffed Don Newcombe and tem peramental Billy Loes. 3. The abysmal nosedive of Roy Campanella. 4. Jackie Robinson’s inability to play every day. 5. A managerial mistake which stiff - necked pride won’t permit the Dodger brass to correct. All of which sums up to a bitter situation from which even die-hard Dodger rooters give the National League's best team only an “outside chance” of coming on to win the pennant. Losing Their Drive The first reason needs no explanation. The Dodgers are getting old in the matter of years and, as result, drive. Going on to the second reason, pitching is ruining the books. Newcombe was counted on for 20 victories this year. He has virtually eaten himself out of baseball, as his record of six wins against six losses proves. Loes won 12 against six defeats last year and before Monday the proud young man had gone the distance in only two games for a mark of six wins against three losses. Campanella probably will wind up as the patsy. He should, even though you may debate whether it is fair. A year ago he was en route to Most Valuable Player honors with a batting average well over the .300 mark, 27 home runs and 96 runs batted in. The man with the mysterious hand ailment, uncorroborated by medical men, has a .199 mark at the plate, 16 homers and 40 runs batted in. Im agine what a difference that makes. Robinson In And Out Robinson has been in and out. You may well ask what difference one man makes. In this case, it is tremendous. Duke Snider, leading the league in hitting; Gil Hodges swatting the ball furiously, and Pee Wee Reese, having the best year he has had in the past five seasons, all are play ing as good as ever. Yet the Dodgers are staggering. The answer is that in the era in which the Dodgers have be come a National League dynasty, Robinson has been the real take-charge guy of the club. Then we come to the manager, . This corner has no argument whatsoever with Walt Alston, no axes to grind nor any differences to settle. But those close to the club breathe fire when they insist he is not a “take-charge guy” and brand him as a “man who simply isn’t effective.” He will take the rap, they intimate, because of “string pulling” by General Manager Buzz Bavasi in the front of fice. Bavasi they label as the “poor man’s” Branch Rick ey, with all of the Old Fox’s desires but little of his capa bilities. A case in point was the sending of Bob Milliken, a good pitcher, to Montreal. They brought up in his place Tom La Sorda, described by last year’s Manager Chuck Dressen as a “good Triple A pitcher.” But such don’t win pennants. Neither, those close to the club figure, will the Dodgers of 1954. Kneepants Playoffs To Begin Friday The Kneepants League play-offs will begin Friday of this week with the fourth and fifth place team playing a game and the winner will then participate further in the | play-offs with the other three j team*. • »f*7lT!l Ambulance Service Phone 2077 CROMARTIE FUNERAL HOME DUNN, N. C. BEST WISHES TO BELK'S DEPT. STORE Electric work for this remodeling and modernization program was done by members of our expert staff. When Bass does a job it's always done right. No job too large or too small. Call us for free estimates. BASS Electric Co. E. Broad St. Phone 3479 Dunn, N. C. The first place team, the Tigers, will meet the third place team which in not yet decided on Mon day August 9, and in the second game on that day the second place team will meet the winner of the fourth-fifth place team winner. These team winners will play a two out of three series which begins on Wednesday, August 11. One game will be played on Wednesday Major League Standings Major League Standing* By UNITED PRESS American League W. L. Pet. Cleveland 71 30 .703, Mew York 70 34 .873 Chicago 66 39 .629 Detroit 45 57 .441 Washington 43 56 .434 Boston 41 58 .414 Baltimore 37 67 356 Philedaelphia 35 67 343 Monday's Results Baltimore 10 Philadelphia 2 Washington 11 Detroit 6 Only games scheduled Tuesday’s Probable Pitchers Washington Stobhs 6-6 at De troit Hoeft 5-12. New York Ford 10-6 at Cleve land Mossi 4-1, night. Philadelphia Poiltocarrero 6-10 at Baltimore Larsen 3-13, night. Boston Sullivan 7-9 at Chicago Harsham 7-6, night. T Wednesday's Games Boston at Chicago Washington at Detroit New York at Cleveland, night Philadelphia at Baltimore, night National League W. L. Pet. New York 67 37 .644 Brooklyn 62 42 .596 Milwaukee 56 46 .549 St. Louis 50 51 .495 Philadelphia 49 51 .490 Cincinnati 50 55 .476 Chicago 43 59 .422 Pittsburgh 34 70 327 Monday’s Results Brooklyn 2 Milwaukee 1, 13 inn. Only game scheduled. Tuesday’s Probable Pitchers Chicago Rush 7-11 at New York 9-7 or Liddle 4-3, night. St. Louis Raschi 8-5 at Brook lyn Erskine 12-10, night. Milwaukee Spahn 10-10 at Phil aedlphia Dickson 7-11, night. Cincinnati Podbielan 6-5 or Nux hall 4-3 at Pittsburgh Friend 4-9, night. Wednesday’s Games St. Louis at Brooklyn, night Chicago at New York Milwaukee at Philadelphia, night . .Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, night Cannady's Store Defeats Legion Cannady’s Store deviated the American Legion Friday night 14- 13 in one of the closest’ ball games of the entire softball season. A big seven run inning in the fifth frame gave Cannady’s their one-run mar gin which they were able to main tain. Click Beasley and Howard Hod ges pitched the victory so rthe winners while George Franklin Blalock was the losing moundsman. Hodges started the game but had to have relief work from Beasley. Jimmy Cannady and Ted Eason were the leading hitters for the I winners with three hits each. Teammates Harry Phipps and Gene Driver followed in the thir teen hit attack by Cannady’s. The losers were able to get 11 hits off Cannady’s pitchers but in the last inning they put up a strong rally that almost threw the game into a 14-14 tie. Cannady’s had a five run lead when the Le gion came to bat but were able to score only four runs. Cannady’s Drop Protest Cannady's Store failed to turn in their protest of Thursday night’s game with Johnson Cotton Co. Robert Cannady announced at the end of the game that he was en tering a protest to Commissioner Paul Waggoner about the time lim- and then on Friday a second game will be played and should these two teams tie at one win apiece a second game will be played that day to determine the winner, which will be declared the Kneepants League Champions of 1954. PAINTING 1 • f- •• ■ A For Belle's remodeling and modern ization program was done expert workmen. We are proud to have been the contract for this fine ptrbjej^* Whenever you have a decoratine probleß! c*B «* 1 You’ll be assured the highest tyt>6 woriOhAftehHkJErt - finest quality materials, the lfcdsf’ >k. t . i.'t'i • M. L. HI<3)HT Paint & Paper Store Benson Highway, , Phone 24M / . at i>4it» ftsooto, mat, a. ft Dunn In Sports By ABE ELMORE Two Dunn All-Star Softball teams .will be selected this week to play two Erwin Softball teams and the sponsors of the games will be the Lions Clubs of Erwin and Dunn. Henry Hutaff, Recreation Direc tor, said that Erwin had challenged Dunn to play these games on a home and home basis. The two Dunn teams will he picked sometime this week, either by a committee or the ball players themselves will pick their all-stars teams. The first game is scheduled to be played on Saturday night August 21 in Erwin and then a return game will be played in Dunn on August 25, which is a Wednesday night. i Last year these all-star teams | played each other and the games Carolina Caravan BY JAKE WADE CHAPEL HILL, N. ’fcke'e you may have received the Itapres sion that all we have done this summer is traipse around to'beach es, today w> will pass along some University of North Carolina foot ball stax gathered in long and ardu-. ous research on some of the hot test days. For example, if Carolina scores 66 points in any game this fall, it will be a new record,.. .The most the Tar Heels have ever collected in a gridiron contest was 85, again st Virginia Medical College in 1914 and against Wake Forest in 192*. . Ditto if the Tar Heels can accum ulate 483 yards rushing or 236 pas sing in any game... Most rushing yards ever made was 482, against The Citadel in 1939, and most pas sing yards 235, against Georgia’in. 1947. Tennessee Intercepted the most passes in one game against Carol ina, five in 1949. ..The Tar Heels’ passingest game was against Notre Dame in 1952, when they attempted 29.... The most completions 14. against Georgia in 1946 and 1951 and against L. 8. V. to 1949. . . Worst Tar Heel licking: 88-9 by Virginia in 1912....f0r a season the Tar Heels scored thje most txjlnta in 1914, a gaudy 369....i1ie 1949 team was Carolina’s best passing aggregation, the Tar Reels picking up 1300 yards In the airways.. . .Its best rushing team was the 1948 combination with 2,493 yards total led....The 1948 team had the best total offense (rushing apd passing), gathering in 3345 yards. SUMMER STAX! Klcklngest game, the 1952 number with Notre Dame, Bud Wallace booting 12 times... Longest run from scrim mage: 95, by one S. A. Ashe again st Trinity in 1891...-Longest kick off return, 95, by three worthies:: John McDaniel, against Florida, 1932; "Monk” McDonald, against N. C. State, 1922; and Gits McPher son, against Maryland, 1926.... Johnny Branch authored the long est punt return, 96 against Mary land in 1930. .And Bob (Goo-Gdo) it which was called pn his team. JohnsOn Cotton Co. was leading 11-8 when the umpjrgs called the time limit rule, but Cannady stat ed that there were ten minutes to be played, and that he would pro test the urop’a decision. Waggoner stated that the.protest was supposed to be turned into him within twenty-four hours in wriu ten form, but he had not received it. ' '■ i were very successful and with sup port, or backing, of the local Lions Club of each team the games should be very good. Paul Hollingsworth weekly re creation report from Tyler Park saya the participation in the park events is terrific. Such games as shuffle board, four square, horse shoes and volley ball are the lead ers of all the games played in the park. The interest in volley ball has become so great since the start of the volley ball league that the court is kept in constant use after mid-afternoon til almost dark. A large number of parties and picnics were held in the park last week. Most of these were a spread lunch affair, but the cook-out* are being used quite frequently. Gantt made the longest run with an intercepted pass, 100, against William and Mary in 1950... Andt according to the archives, Phil Jack son and Yank Spaulding collabor ated in the longest pass play, 78, against Maryland in 1929. Charlie Justice, as you have guessed, holds the most individual records of any Tar Heel player.... His single game highs: most td’s responsibility (run and pass), 4, against Texas in 1948 and Virgin-, la the same year; most yards pas sing, 198, against Georgia in 1949; total offense, 304, against Georgia in 194 g: most- offensive plays, 43, against Georgia in 1948.. His season records: most points scored, 72 in 1946 (tied with Jim my Ward, 1929); most td’a, respon sing, 911, in 1948; most total of sibility, 23 in 1948; most yards pas fense, 1,761, in 1948: most passes attempted, 135, in,1948; most punts, 70, in 1948... And he holds 11 car eer records. Art Weiner owns most of the pass catching Acords... ;walt Pupa was the busiest rusher in a single game, 32 carries against Maryland in 1947, .. ten Bußock completed the most paste* in a single fame, 13 against Georgia East year, remember?.... We 'haven’t seen many field goals in recent year*, and the only Tar Reels to kick as many as two in a singly fatnd were Bi;nn Hackney in 1924 and George Sparrow in 1925. ...Bob Cox converted 33 extra points in' 37 attempts in 1948 to head-’ that department...-. Hosea Rodgers did the most rushing over a season’d span. 174 In 1948. Harry Duhkle averaged '463 with 47 punit in 1939 tor national leadership, and even Ohoo Choo never reached that mark. : ; MORE TF STUFF!—It will be a new record if Carolina has more than three tire this-fan.. ..If the, Tar Heel* lose more than eight games (heaven forbid!)... .If they complete uiore than 94 passes, or attempt more than 213.. . .If oppon ents get Urea than six point* (would n’t that be nice?)...lf opponents score more than- 196, Which they did in 1949, including the Bugar Bowl game,.. .And If Carolina has an undefeated season (never can Double Forfeit For Two Teams Skinny’s Esso -and the National Guard had to forfeit to each other when neither of the teams good field a complete team Friday night. This had’ made the third consecu tive game that the Nati Guard had to forfeit; but It was the first for feit of the season for Skinny’s. Rathdr than give both teams a loss it was decided to call the game 'off.-' Aloes to either teams would have not effect the league stand-’ togs hi anjr way. Cacmady*k ABRH Rhipps, 2b 5 1 2 R.’Cattoady, If 4 .1 l driver. e» 4 2 2 H. Catmady, rs 4 10 R. Cahhady, e 4 4 3 Eason,'«f 5 13 o[eh»igan, lb 5 I T Muller, 3b •’ 4 11 AeWHey, p 1 3 o Hedges, p 10 0 ft.TMal ' 37 14 13 A* R R Tf 4 0 0 Ream, rs 3 10 Ouawk’-ag 2 11 Thmnp9pn,.2b 4 1 0 1 11 Wabj’Sk-': 4. 2 2 f.JWMdfti, h • s; 9 a. I uging *l*lllllo j I • I. ~lt*i iv Indians Defeat Tigers 3 to 2 The Indians defeated the Tigers 3-3 yesterday by scoring three runs to the last Inning on one hit, the only hit given up by Pitcher Thomas of the Tigers. The Indians had gone hitless during the entire game and had two outs In the last inning and two men on base when Jule Mann broke up Joe Thomas’ no-hit, vict ory. He scored the two runs on his hit to tie the game up at 22. Mann then scored by stealing bases and infield errors. Harry Tart, who was almost a victim of a nohitter, was the win ning pitcher for the Indians as he gave up only two hits to the losers. BUI Jemigan, the catcher for the Tigers, banged out both hits for his team and one of the hits was a double, the only extra base hit by either team. Indians AB R H W. Tart 2b 2 0 0 O. Tart If 3 0 0 J. Mattox ss 2 10 H. Tart p 2 0 0 J. Conn c 10 0 P. White 3b 10 0 L. Bennett cf 0 10 G. Wullenwaber rs 110 J. Mann lb 2 0 1 Total 13 3 1 Tigers AB R H W. Dixon If 2 0 0 J. Lamm 2b 3 0 0 R. Goodman lb 2 0 0 J. Thomas p 2 0 0 B. Jernigan c 2 2 2 C. Robertson 3b 2 0 0 B. McLamb ss 1 0 o M. Hyatt cf 2 0 0 R. Bryan rs 0 0 0 J. Holmes rs 0 0 0 Total 16 2 2 Doubles: B. Jemigan Base on balls: Tart 3, Thomas 6 Struck out by: Tart 11, Thomas 7 tell), It will be the first since 1898 when the Tar Heels won nine with out a lass or tie. If a Tar Heel catches as many as eight touchdown passes this fall, hell break Art Weiner’s record of seven in 1949... And unless we’ve slipped up somewhere In our re search, three touchdown passes caught by all individual in a single game would be a new record Weiner, Jeff Newton, Benny Wal ser and Bud Wallace are tied with ■two each And four touchdowns in a single game by an individual would be the first feat of that kind since 1915 when Alfred McDonald scampered across the goal line four times against Davidson (three others had done it earlier). ■The Tar Heels have intercepted four passes In two games, against BELK'S DEPARTMENT STORE UPON THE COMPLETION OF ITS REMODELING AND MODERNIZATION We are happy and proud to have been selected as the general contractor for this project at Harnett County’s largest department store. WE ARE PROUD of this project and also of the many others which we ave completed throughout this section as Harnett's No. I builder. When we do a job we do it well. If you're planning to remodel or buikb wr'll G* happy to give you a free estimate. 6 * B ® rfll Contraftpr TUESDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 3, 1354 Athletics Edged By Dodgers 11-10 Kneepants League Standings Team W L PercL Tigers 9 2 .818 Indians 6 6 .545 Cardinals 5 6 .455 Athletics 4 7 .363 Dodgers 4 8 233 Joe Thomas went into the ball game as a relief pitcher and hurled to only one man and was the los ing pitcher as the Dodgers defeated the Athletics 11-10. The batter hit the first pitch for a single anl rounded the bases when the infield began to make errors. The score was tied 10-10 but this run gave the winners their needed run for the victory. Larry Godwin and Horace Pope led the way for the Dodgers in hit ting with three hits apiece. The Dodgers had ten base hits, all sin gles. The Athletics nine hit attack was sparked by Joe Tart, Bud Hud son, and F. Newton with two hits each. Bud Hudson, Fred Newton and Jerry Wilkins each had double to lead the losers in the extra base hit department. DODGERS AB R H J. Jones 3b 3 3 1 J. Pope 2b 2 3 1 H. Pope lb 3 3 3 L. Godwin p 3 0 3 B. Jernisar. c ...... 3 11 A. Bass ss 1 0 0 B. Overman If .......... 3 0 0 J. Whittenton rs 3 0 0 D. Bass cf 11 1 J. Godwin cf 2 0 0 Total 24 11 10 ATHLETICS AB R H B. Allen rs 1 2 0 J. Tart 2b 3 2 2 B. Hudson p-c 4 2 2 J. Thomas p-c 3 11 J. Wilkins ss 2 1 1 Danny Dixon If 3 0 1 David Dixon lb 3 0 0 F. Newton 3b 3 2 2 C. Lee cf 3 0 0 Total 25 10 9 Doubles: B. Hudson, F. Newton, J. Duke in 1947 and againt South Car olina in 1949. Longest Carolina field goal on record, 45, by George Sparrow against Duke in 1925 The Tar Heels suffered their most defeats in 1951, going down eight times... Charlie Justice set nation al NCAA career punting and total offense records and also a total offense seas(on record Art Wei ner tied national NCAA pass re ceiving record in 1949 That’s enough for today... .Just wanted to let you know that we have work ed a little this summer, too. PRESS-COACHES TOURNEY CHAPEL HILL,....The annual golf tournament for football coach es, sports writers and press photo graphers, with the University of North Carolina host, will be held this year on Thursday, Aug. 19, on Finley course here. DURHAM—Opposing teams haV learned not to throw passes into the territory covered by Duke Uni versity Quarterback and Captain Jerry Barger. He intercepted sil and returned them 55 yards las season. SOUTHERN LEAGUE W. L. Pc* Atlanta 67 46 .59: New Orleans 68 47 .59 Birmingham 66 47 .58 Chattanooga 60 54 .52 Memphis 54 58 .48: Little Rock 48 67 .41 Mobile 48 67 .41 Nashville 42 67 38 Wilkins Base on balls: Hudson 3, Godwin* Struck out by: Hudson 5, Godwin White Give! and *°««r H> m His S!,S Favorite, Collar Styl in his favor* shhJM PRINCE'S I Dept. Store 1 E. Broad St. Dunn, N. C. 9
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