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Today's
Sports Parade
By JACK CUDDY
United Press Sports Writer
NEW YORK IIP —The Baltimore Orioles have lost 14
games in a row and are bogged down in the American
League cellar today but Manager Jimmy Dykes still finds
room to praise outfielder Cal Abrams, once known as
"Branch Rickey's boy.”
"Abrams has done a whale of a job for us since he
came from Pittsburgh in May,” Dykes said. “He's pulling
the ball better and is one of the only guys who has hit
. consistently on this ball club."
Abrams, a 30-year old resident of Levittown, N. Y.,
who was born in Philadelphia but raised hardly more than
a fungo drive away from Ebbets Field, is batting .296 for
the Orioles, a far cry from the .146 average he had when
Baltimore obtained him from the Pirates four months ago.
Traded For Littlefield
Rickey, under whom Abrams broke in with the Dodger
organization, sent Cal to the Orioles in exchange for pitch
er Dick Littlefield. Most experts were surprised at the deal
since Rickey always spoke glowingly of Abrams’ ability
when both were at Brooklyn.
“That was one deal that worked out well for both men
! involved,” Abrams declared. "Littlefield has won nine
games since he went from this club to the Pirates and I’ve
• raised my average 150 points.”
Abrams broke into the big leagues with Brooklyn dur
• ing the tail-end of 1949 and after the Dodgers sent him
down and brought him back up three times, they dealt
him to Cincinnati in 1952. At the end of that year,
Rickey, who always liked him, acquired his contract for
the Pirates, for whom Abrams hit .286 and hit 15 homers
last year.
Called To Front Office
“In May of this year, though,” Cal recalled, “Mr.
Rickey called me into his office. He told me that my home
run production had been nil since ‘Greenberg Gardens’
were taken down in left field. He also said no one in the
National League wanted me, so it looked like I’d be in the
minors next year.”
But over in the American League, the Orioles were
looking for some batting punch and they felt Abrams
could supply it. So they took a chance on him and haven’t
regretted it since.
‘I was sort of shocked when I was told I was headed
for the minors,” Abrams said.
“I figured I was as good as some of the best players
around. After all. I have a good arm,. Lean run and. I .get
rhyßase hits. The'enly'things some of the big-name stars
may have on me is their five-figure contracts, that's all.”
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Carolina
Caravan
BY JAKE WADE
CHAPEL HILL. N. C., Bill
Wray Ward, Jr., of High Point,
who was a student at Carolina,
class of 1951, but dropped out to
join the Coast Guard and then
transferred to High Point College
in his home town, still later get
ting his M. A. here, is as strong
as ever in his loyalty to the Tar
Heels, and surely must be a walk
ing encyclopedia on football affairs
at this institution.
He frankly admits his erudition in
this field, and with a mighty red
face we concur in entirety, which
is away of introducing the fact
that he has written us a letter.
Pleasantly but firmly he calls at
tention In this epistle to the fact
that we have erred grieviously on
several points in our mid- summer
and early fall literature concern
ing the football Tar Heels of 1954.
First’ and inexcusably’ it seems
that we inexplicably withdrew
monograms from three of our can
idates. Our early rosters did not
credit letter distinction to tackle
Ralph Beaver, fullback George
Wallin and halfback Sonny Riden
bour. Bill informs us that these
worthies were awarded monograms
in the two-platoon year of 1952 al
though they were not repeaters
last season w’hen the one-platoon
pattern sharply reduced the num
ber of letter recipients. The man
is absolutely right. Thus, we now
have a prospective squad of |24
lettermen. instead of 21 as previous
ly advertised, and we herewith of
fer our apologies for the oversight
-to the players concerned. It won’t
happen again. ;
THAT’S NOT ALL! “I have
studied Carolina football since I
was 13.” writes alumnus Billy. “I
read six or eight sports pages a
day during the football season and
have a scrapbook of virtually every
game Carolina has played since
194(1 and probably two-thirds of
the otther Big Four teams. I know
the score of every Carolina-Duke
gajne since the series started in
1888. I can tell you the starting
lineup of every Carolina team since
1942, w’ith most of the reserves,
home towms, and whether or not
they w’ere sophs, juiors or seniiors
during a given year. Everybody
says I ought to be a sportswriter
or announcer, but I wouldn’t be hap
py unless I could wn-ite about
Carolina.”
It’s refreshing to know such a
THK DAILY Dtfrftt, N. O.
man. even If he has embarrassed
us by citing our delinquencies. For
example, he further call* attention
to the fact that in the Atlantic
Coast Conference yearbook, where
first and second team All-Ameri
cans are listed, our Carolina com
pilation overlooked great tackle Len
Szafaryn, who made Grantiand
Rice’s Look Magazine’s second team
in 1948. BUI spotted that one quick
and indeed Len did receive that
honor. Our records h&ye been cor
rected.
The other one on which he picks
us up is the curious listing of Al
bert Long as a junior. Bill knows
that he is a senior, and so do we,
and that he has only one year of
eligibility remaining, a fact with
which we also are acquainted. But
it didn’t come out that way in the
early rosters, and we thank our
correspondent for calling our at
tention to it. Ailbert becomes a
senior henceforth in all the ros
ters.
NEWS FROM NOVA SCOTIA!—
Baseball coach Walter Rabb has
been subscribing to a daily news
paper in Nova Scotia this summer,
and the evenings have been pleas
ant for him as he reclined in his
hammock on Hillcrest Road, per
using the sports pages of this
gazette.
The reason: rising sophomore
Jim Raugh, who will play ball here
for Walter and Bunn Hearn next
spring, is pitching for the Dart
mouth Arrows in the H-D league,
and he has made a marvellous re
cord, His earned run average to
date is 2.5, and while his 8-5 re
cord may not sound too impressive,
Jim has been the pitching rave
of the circuit. The other day he
established a new league record
when he went all the way Jit a
17-inning marathon a»si Ktmg trpt a
2-1 triumph. He saned 13, walked
only three.
Raugh, who is the son of one of
the Pre-Flight commanding of
ficers here during the past war,
won all five games he started for
Henry House’s Tar Baby freshman
team last spring. One of his wins
was a 13-innlng 2-1 victory over
the Wake Forest Deaclets. .And did
you know that Harry Lee (Rat)
Lloyd is mixing pitching with sec
ond-basing for the Norwood semi
pros this summer and has been do
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Major League
Standings
American League
W. L. Pet.
Cleveland 89 35 .718
New York 85 40 .680
Chicago 82 45 .646
Detroit 55 69 .444
Boston 64 68 .443
Washington 51 71 .418
Philadelphia si 82 .333
Baltimore 39 86 .312
Wednesday's Results
New York 6 Baltimore 1
Chicago 7 Washington 2
Boston 5 Detroit 3
Cleveland 4 Philadelphia 3, 10
inn;
Friday’s Games
Cleveland at Washington night
Chicago at Philadelphia, night
Detroit at New York, night.
Baltimore at Boston
National League
W. L. Pet.
New York 77 44 .636
Brooklyn 75 49 .605
Milwaukee 70 51 .579
St. Louis 59 64 .480
Philadelphia 58 63 .479
Cincinnati 59 66 .472
Chicago 48 75 .390
Pittsburgh 45 79 .363
Wednesday’s Results
Brooklyn 13 Cincinnati 2
Milwaukee 4 Philadelphia 3
St. Louis 13 Pittsburgh 0
Friday’s Games
Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, night
New York at M lwaukee, night
Philadelphia at Chicago
Brooklyn at St. Louis night
NEW ORLEANS (IF) A prom
inent educator today backed up
this charge that American athltic
officials lost a “cold war” battle
during the 1952 Olympic games
despite the denial of U. S. team
(Official Harold Berliner. Dean:
John R. Hubbard of Tulane Uni
versity’s Newcomb College declared
that absence of manners by the
American legation in Finland and
the U: S. Olympic administrative
staff lost the United States valu
able prestige.
55 baseball is a long way off, and
football will start next week.. You’ll
hear from us on the latter sub
ject.
Cleveland 'Bench'
Fixing Yankees
By MILTON RICHMAN
United Press Sports Writer
The Cleveland “bench” is fixing things so that the
Yankees’ pennant chances are hardly worth a wooden
nickel any more.
“I can’t praise the fellows on
our bench enough," Manager Al
Lopez of the Indians declared to
day. “They’ve done a wonderful
job all season and without ’em, we
might have been sunk.”
There's no question that the In
dians would have been sunk Wed
nesday night had their bench re
serves failed them against the
Athletics.
But Bill Glynn, who went in to
play first base in the eighth inning,
drew a walk off southpaw Al Sima
to open the 10th and then, after
two were out, reserve catcher Hal
Naragon who also had entered the
game In the eighth and had ap
peared in only 38 contests previous
ly htls season, tripled to drive in
Glynn and give the Tribe an up
hill 4-3 victory over Philadelphia.
Lemon’s 19th Victory
The victory, Bob Lemon’s 19th of
the year, kept Cleveland 4 12 games
ahead of the Yankees who defeat
ed the Orioles, 5-1, but the Indians
knew they were in a fight before
overcoming Philadelphia’s two-run
lead. Sonny Dixon of the Athle
tics nicked for Al Smith’s first-in
ning homer, nursed a 3-1 lead until
the eighth when the Indians tied
the score on singles by Bobby Avila
and Larry Doby, an error by Jim
Finigan and Vic Wertz’s double.
Three Yankee homers, plus a
three-hit pitching effort by Ed Lo
pat, combined to hand the Orioles
their 14th setback in a row. Yogi
Berra hit his 17th homer and Hank
Bauer and Irv Noren each hit his
10th to account for all but one
of the Yankees’ runs. Bobby Young's
fourth-inning homer was the only
run allowed by Lcpat, who achieved
his Hth conquest.
White Sox Trim Nats, 7-2
l Southpaw’ Billy Pierce, out most
l of the season with an ailing arm,
■ gained his seventh victory while
hurling the White Sox to a 7-2
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triumph over the Senators. The
White Sox gave Pierce a seven-run
working margin in the first two
innings Chico Carrasquel and Min
nie Minoso pacing Chicago’s 12-hit
offensive with three hits apiece.
Eunky Stewart was the loser.
The Red Sox, scoring all their
runs in the fifth inning, overcame
a three-run deficit to heat the Ti
gers 5-3, and climb within one per
centage point of fourth place. Dou
bles by Billy Consolo, Ted Williams
and Jackie Jensen were the big
blows in the five-run fifth. Willard
Nixon gained his 10th victory while
Steve Gromek was charged with his
14th setback.
A volley of five homers by the
Dodgers buried the Redlegs under
a 13-2 count and enabled them to
move within 3 1-2 games of the
National League, lead. Rain post
poned the game between the pace
setting Giants and Cubs.
Hodges Powers “Bums”
Gil Hodges and Rube Walker each
hit two homers for Brooklyn while
Carl Furillo hit one. In addition
to raising his home run total to
34, only three less than Willie Mays
of the Giants, leader in that de
partment Hodges also drove in
three runs to increase his total to
100 rbi’s. Billy Loes picked up his
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10th triumph yielding all three Cin
cinnati hits, including Jim Green
grass’ 25th homer, in the seven
innings he worked. Jim Huges mop
ped up.
Stan Musial with three hits in
five tries, took over the league bat
ting lead with a .347 average as
the Cardinals took over fourtn
place by one percentage point with,
a lopsided 13-0 victory over the
Pirates. Rookie Gordon Jones hur
led a five-hitter for his second vic
tory while his teammates collected
16 hits, including Joe Cunning
ham’s ninth homer ....
Milwaukee edged Philadelphia,
4-3, to stay seven games off the
pace. Errors by Richie Ashburn
and Bobby Morgan helped the
Braves to three unearned runs and
Lew Burdette to his 12th victory.
The Asheville Tourists last night
cinched the Tri-State League pen
nant without lifting a bat or trap
ping a ground ball. The Tourists
had a night off but the Greenville
Spinners knocked off Knoxville.
5 to 4, in ten innings to kill off the
last mathematical chance the sec
ond-spot Smokies had of tieing for
the top spot.
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