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PAGE FOUR Today's .Sports Parade By JACK CIDDY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK (IP) Basebalf has comr up with quite a list of “yo-yo” players guys- who were just about to the end of their string then came back this season. There is no official designation for “comeback of the year" players but if there were the competition would be pretty brisk. B'fciokklyn’s “recharged battery” of Don Newcombe and Roy Campanella is sparking the Dodgers to their ear liest pennant clinching in history and has to top the list in the National League. Where would the Brooks be with out Big Newk’s 18-3 won and lost record or without Cam py’s .325 bat and his 85 runs batted in? Last year a dis couraged Newk, back from the Army and unable to har ness his old fast ball, wound up with a 9-8 total and won dered if he ever would get going again. Campy, playing with a smashed and patched hand, wound up with a .207 average and declared he would quit for good if his injury didn’t heal properly. . w • American League Candidates The American League has three top candidates and any one would be a fine choice as top comebacker at this stage of the race. They are pitchers Tommy Byrne of the Yankees, Dick Donovan of the White Sox, and outfielder Elmer Valo of the K. C. Athletics. Just imagine where the Yankees would be in this sizzler of a race without Byrne’s 11-3 record? Yet he was cast adrift in 1951 and had to kick around in the minors before he received another chance. And what about Donovan' with his 13-4 mark up to the time his appendix tired of solitary confinement and hollered to be let out? He’s about ready to go again and how those White Sox can use him. With Donovan, actual ly, it is more than a comeback because in four previous major league trials with the Braves and Tigers he never won a game and had a composite 0- 4 mark. He was a “never was” before this season. The Athletics will match Czech-born Valo, an all-out hustler with any comeback candidate in the business. He tried as hard as ever last year but the base hits didn’t drop and he wound up with a sickly .214 average. It would have been more than a pun, had he decided that discre tion was the better part of Valo this season and called it quits. But he has been back in action with the hottest bat in the league, compiling a .359 average that would make him eligible for the hitting had he played in enough games. As it is he has 79 hits in 220 at bats and has been in 84 games. Klaus Makes Good There are numerous other “rebound” boy 3 who arc showing that there is life yet at a time when it looked as if they might be riding an express train to the Baseball graveyard. Billy Klaus, who had a major league average of ex actly .000 before this season and who was about to be con signed again to the minors, caught on with Boston, “jell ed” their infield and is now batting .340. Scrappy Clint Courtney is rapping away at a ,323 pace for scrappy Chuck Dressen at Washington and the best he could show for a lifetime before this season was .323. Infielder George Kell of the White Sox, despite a chronic back ache, is batting .304 and delivering vital hits whereas he had a .276 mark for 1954. Walt called “the key Vnan in my infield” by Chicago Manager Marty Marion, is hitti.lg the ball long and often at a .291 pace which is away above his lifetime mark of .273. Hatcher & Skinner Funeral Home Phone 2417 ESTABLISHED IN 1912 Dunn, N C AMBULANCE SERVICE Charles Skinner Paul B. >revr MHttMijfl-iteLil >/ IM SUMMER THINkA* AtTQnOG With US OFWIUTEJ?,TOO - c W,m US 9\ we Hdve fins K now to take care ZK HEATINU3 OIL L~; r T l roß ’ sca* y° ur *okscco Curing Oi! Needs. 1: Ji -~ - -•• •*' ' ,r " tn ”’ •'■'*• '»«■ '-«-w-r Mo-.r Minor League Ball Has Lots Os Trouble By CARL LI NDQUIST j United Frew Sports Writer [ Minor league baseball is m j trouble as never before, and the, ! majors are to blame for it. i That is the feeling of minor : league presidents, whose cities 1 were involved in the 10 franchise | fold-ups that have occured already i this season. They feel the worst j !is yet to come unless there is; help from the majors. The principal complaint is that 1 the majors saturate minor league territory with radio and in some cases television broadcasts. The second "beef” is that the majors no longer are willing to supply financial aid by developing players through minor league farm sys tems. but instead are spending* money recruiting high - priced bonus babies. Says Frick Unconcerned Shelby Peace, president of the once-lively Kitty League at Hop kinsville, Kv., declared that "not even the commissioner of baseball cares what happens to us.” ‘‘Does Ford Frick look at what television and radio has done to the minors?" asked Peace. Maa isonville, Ky„ which had to give up this year in our league, has a beautiful park and adequate park ins facilties But the air was sa turated with television and radio. I know the big league announcers tell the people to go out and sup port- their local club, but who y the enthusiasm to watch a Kitty League game after listening to the glamour they spread around?” Jerry Donovan, president of the Class C California League, said i.i San Francisco that “the attitude seems to be we soon will have major league ball out here so the heck with the California and coast .leagues." The Venture club there, which is 60 miles from’ Hollywood, gave up and the franchise was shifted to Reno, Nev. “Pride in a local club is dead," Donovan said. “Everyone is majo” league conscious because of broad casts and telecasts Into our terri tory.” Clubs Threatened Daily Emmet Harty. head of the Cot ton States League at Greenville, Miss., said, “There never is a day that we have not been confronted with the probability of some club folding.” Harty said not only did the Pino Bluff, Ark., club fold and have to be transferred to Meridian, Miff., but that Hot Springs, Ark., “is on the verge of throwing in the spongs and on tile whole I am punch drunk from the beating I have taken all season." "Despite that. I have six towns who have signified their interest in operating next season,” he add ed. All I can say is that they are gluttons for punishment. In my own town of Greenville over SSO - has been raised by public sub scription since 1950 to keep base ball. I don’t think this can go on unless the majors take some revo lutionary step this fall.” Tommy Richardson, head of the Class A Eastern League at Wil liamsport, Pa., said! "The minors will be in trouble as long as a major league team is willing to give $60,000 to one untried kirb be* lefuses to pay SIO,OOO to operate a first rate minor league franchise where there is a chance for 18 piayers to develop while that one kid sits on a big leagu* bench" Radio-TV Hurts Albany The Eastern League, one of the older,f, and most stable, is in good shape, Richardson said, with a-- tendance up about 80,000 over last year even though Wilkes-Barre, Pa . had to shift its franchise to Johnston. Pa. An economic situation involving the habd coal area forced Wilkes- Barre to quit,” Richardson said "Now we’re okay everywhere but m Albany. Radio and TV are heavy competition there. They get broad casts and telecasts of the Yankee. Giants, Dodgers and Red Sox’ That’s too much for us to beat. Howard Green, president of the Big State League at Fort Worth! Tex., said radio had nothing to do with the failure of Galveston and Tyler in his loop Galveston Not Interested "Galveston dropped out because it was the world's worst baseball town a resort city of the rankest THE DAIt r mCOOD. DUNN. N. C, typp." Green said. “Baseball was too wholesome for a population more interested in gaming, night clubs and that which goes with both. Tyler dropped out because it imposed a burden on the rest of the league. Tyler conld have finished had not Galveston fal tered." Chattncey Devault at Bristol. Va. Tenn. headquarters of his Class D. Appalachian League, said, "Tnis is the worst financial year our loop has suffered." He also b.amed general condition of the coal fields for failure of the Welch. W. Va, franchise which was moved to Marion, Va. A O. Hadden, head of the Geor gia State League at Dublin, Ga , blamed local operations for the failure of the Statesboro, Gi, fianchise. "Statesboro had a bad ball club and poor atendance,” he said. Thursday: The remedies pro posed for minor league basball. MILWAUKEE, Wis. (IP! Big time auto racing, cast adrift re cently by the American Automo bile Association after 54 years of supervision, needs a commission t “just like baseball." Tom Marchese, promoter of the booming auto track here, said today. “I’m going to suggest that a commissioner be appointed when our temporary committee meets at Indianapolis in September," he said. CHESTNUT HILL. Mass. OP) Rain threatened today to throw the schedule of the 75th National doubles tennis championships fur ther out of kilter, perhaps forcing Shop with Confidence'. Choose Brands 1 on Know and Trnsl! Brands Sale! Pineapple Juice COSSM T^lll ■—— EVm .? f bake-bite^ eaiwv j«ne pus Bni 'hash" SHORTENING ) "‘ S | COLONIAL STORES | 2 \ AA / «9. BOffiST I pap) MEAT .. 39. \ ... AA / B "zr r tTcZZ ! WHITING 2 * \ /Jf c / j CHgKS PKIDE SALAD \ flKi mNF jfil -*** «• | ijfcABONI - 27. Free. Tender Creed \ Moetan’e Froeen Chieken | On: Pride Angel Food \ BOTS, J SNAPBEANS! POT PIES 1 CAKE \ ' A a . 2sr J 2 49 i ■ 49- /hmwi BESIDE EFIRD'S IN ERWIN Major League Standings Bv UNITED PRESS American League W. L. Pet. GB New York 72 47 .605 Chicago 68 "45 .602 1 I Cleveland 70 48 .593 l ! i Boston 68 50 .576 3’a Detroit 62 55 .530 9 Kansas City 48 70 .407 23‘J Washington 41 74 .357 29 Baltimore 37 77 .325 32‘i Wednesday’s Results Detroit 9 Cleveland 5 Boston 7 New York 1 (night) Baltimore at Washington, 2 games, twi-night, ppd, rain Only ft games scheduled. Thursday’s Probable Pitchers Kansas City at Chicago 2 Porotocarrero 3-6 and Herbert 1-6 vs. Trucks 11-6 and Byrd 6-6. Cleveland at Detroit Score 12- 9 vs Lary 11-11. New York at Boston Ford 13- 6 vs. Nixon 12-6. « Only games scheduled. Friday’s Games Kansas City at Cleveland, night. Detroit at Chicago, night. Baltimore at New York, night. Boston at Washington, night. National League W. L. Pet. GB Brooklyn 77 -39 .664 Milwaukee 65 55 .542 14 New York 63 55 .534 15 Philadelphia 60 61 .496 19 ' Chicago 59 64 480 21 V 4 I Cincinnati 57 63 .475 22 an extra day of play beyond the Sunday deadline. A downpour Wednesday washed out all but two matches. Club offi cials plan to “double up” their I schedule today, weather permit ting. American Leagueßace Still Up In The Air By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Sports Writer [ That American League pennant race is just as dizzy as ever today, foiks, so how about “time out ’ to toast a few of baseball’s obscurity boys, Ike Delock, Babe Birrer, Jim Bunning, Ramon Monzant, and Elroy Face. They get their names up in head-, lines about as often as the nice, quiet fellow who runs the corner grocery but Wednesday was their day to shine and they made the most of it. Delock, a second-line Red Sox pitcher who hadn’t won a game since June 29 and who hadn’t gone the route ail season, went in and stopped the red-hot Yankees with a five_hit, 7-1 victory that ended a seven-game winning streak De lock himsel. had been batted ou. by the Yankees in the early stages of that winning streak last week and with an attack that had ne ted 57 runs In the past five games, the odds against him looked formid able. The victory put fourth place Boston again within 3 1-2 games of the leading Yankees St. Louis 52 64 448 25 Pittsburgh 44 76 .367 35 Wednesday’s Results New York 5 Brooklyn 1, night. Pittsburgh 6 Philadelphia 4, night. Chicago 3 Cincinnati 2, night. Milwaukee 11 St. Louis 4, night. Thursday’s Probable Pitchers Brooklyn at New' York Spooner 5-4 vs. Hearn 13-10. Chicago at Cincinnati Minner i 8-6 vs. Nuxhall 13-8. THURSDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 18, 1955 ROOKIES DUMP INDIANS Rookies Bunning and Birrer, two peach-cheeked Detroit youths worked together to perform a sim ilar one on the Indians, the Tigers knocking them out of second place with a 9.5 triumph. The Tigers staked Birrer to seven runs in the first three inn ings but when he began to coast and Cleveland cut the margin to 7-5, Birrer took over and pitched scoreless three-single ball the rest of the way to gain his fourth tri umph. Idle Chicago took over sec ond place from Cleveland, a game behind the Yanks. In the National League, Monzant pitched the first complete game Dixie Crystais of his major league career, r*. tarding Brooklyn’s pennant-bound Dodgers with a 5-1 Giant victory in which he gave up eight hits, also striking out eight. It was almost the same sort of a night for Elroy Face of the Pi rates, who went the distance for the second time this yea rand gained his third victory, a six-hit 6-4 job over the Phillies in which his mates backed him wi' K jg hits. Second place Milwaukee, haif-a continent away from Brooklyn and just, about that far behind in the standings, cut the margin to 14 games by beating the Cardinals 11.4 on a grand slam homer by Del Crandall and two-run blasts by Andy Pafko and Ed Matthews, It was Mo. 32 for Mathews. HAIRCUT CHAMP CHICAGO, Aug. 18 (IP) Chris Hopballe, 82, claims the haircut ting championship of Chicago. He estimates he has cut 400,000 headi of hair in the 54 years he’s been a barber.
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