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(Ms And Tigers Clash Held
Of Stengel's Hurling Staff
CARL LUNDQllST
d Press Sports Writer
ItORK. June ?, 'll*'
Man Casey Stengel has
lany surprises in his two
as boss of the world
* ^<,r^ Vailkees, but
will be neater than if he
J>y the next three days
the Detroit Tillers with
dependable pitchers.
nkees went into the three-
game series in second place, two
percentajfe points behind the on-
lushmtj Tijiers, even though they
still are half a icame ahead in
the won and lost columns.
But what worried Stengel, who
has been desperately trying to j;et
the \ankee brass to swing :t deal
for some pitching strength, is that
three of the eight men on his staff
are almost a dead loss in the de-
pendability department.
At the same time the red hot
Tiger pitching staff has turned in
nine complete games in the last
10 and 11 in the last 13. The Tig-
ers now have a winning streak of
seven games, six compiled on their
current road trip. Their road re-
cord for the season is one of the
gaudiest of modern times, "it) wins
and just three defeats thus far.
The Yankees pitching scarcity
showed up again in yesterday's IS
to 2 drubbing by the Indians yes-
terday. Bob 1'orterfield, one of the
three "dead-loss"' hurlers, was
touched for seven runs and nine
hits in two innings and Don John-
son allowed the rest. Cleveland
had -1 hits including homers by
Joe Gordon and Jim Uegan.
Stengel must use his four top
starters, Vic Kaschi. Tommy By-
rne, Ed Lopat and Allie Reynolds,
and the ace reliever, Joe Page, a-
gainst Detroit. But that leaves on-
ly Porterfield, Johnson and Porky
San ford.
The Tigers breezed to an 11 to
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By OSCAR FRALEY
United Press Sports Writer
ARDMORE, Okla.. 'I H'_The big
Kuns in the National open were
building up the hazards of the
Xenon Golf Club's east course to-
day to the point where Ben Ho-
gan's record of 27H appeared safer
than money in the bank.
To hear the moaning an groan-
ing as the pros took their final
practice licks for tomorrow's open-
ing round, pars were scarcer than
$5 gold pieces and birdies were in
the same feathered class as the ex-
tinct Roc.
They were describing Merion's
t>,694 yards as a course where you
never get back a stroke you lose.
The rough, they said, had a mis-
er's grasp and the yawning white
traps were harder to get out of
than Coney Island on a hot Sun-
day afternoon.
Pointing to Olin Dutra's win-
ning 293 over these same acres
back in l!W4, Bobby Cruickshank
of Pittsburgh estimated that the
victor wouldn't do better than 288,
which would be a total of eight
strokes over par for the four
rounds. Another of the old guard,
Denny Shute, predicted a winning
score of 285.
Neither gentleman took kindly
to the suggestion that the yards
get longer as the hair gets thin-
ner. $
Hulking Jim Ferrier, the former
P. G. A. king, figured that wheth-
er the scores soared or were pared
down depended on the L". S. Golf
association.
8 decision over the Senators at
Washington, making 16 hits as
Pitcher Fred Hutchinson and
Johnny Groth led the way "with
three apiece. Hutchinson, coasting
with a big lead, might have made
it 10 straight complete games for
Detroit pitchers, but when Wash-
ington made four tallies in the
ninth, Paul Calvert came in and
closed them off.
The White Sox won their first
game in Boston since May 19 of
last season, 8 to 4, as two homers
by Gus Zernial and one each by
Eddie Robinson and Phil Masi got
the job done. Ted Williams hit his
14th homer for the Red Sox.
The St. Louis Browns came
within eight percentage points of
leaving the cellar as th*>v beat th
seventh-place Philadelphia A's, 6
to 5, with tlfe help of Owen
Friend's two-tun homer.
The St. Louis Cards tied Brook-
lyn for first place in the National
by beating the Philadelphia Phils,
5 to 4. Howie Pollet gained his
fifth win despite a four-run third
inning. Ed Kazak and Marty Mar-
ion homered to lead the Card at-
tack on Curt Simmons. The Phil-
lies now stand a half-game be-
hind the two leaders.
The Cubs knocked off the Dod-
gers for the fifth time in nine
games this season, winning a 10-
inning. T to H decision at Chicago.
Jack Banta walked home the win-
ning run. Bill Serena hit two Chi-
cago homers while Carl Furillo
and Tommy (Buckshot) Brown
homered for Brooklyn.
The Giants kept uo their trium-
phal march through the west,
making it seven wins in nine
starts with a 10 to 4 victory over
the Pirates in which Bobby Thom-
son hit two homers and a triple
and drove in six runs. It was
Pittsburgh's 13th loss in 14 gam-
es.
The Braves made five runs in
the ninth to top the Reds, 8 to 3
at Cincinnati. Earl Torgeson get-
ting the key blow, a three-run
triple. Vern Bickford won his
fourth game, a seven hitter, Sam
Jethroe stole home and Walker
Cooper homered for other Boston
highlights.
Yesterday's star—Bobby Thom-
son of the Giants who drove in six
runs with two homers antf a trip-
a 10 to 4 victory over the
Pirates.
At Henderson
HENDERSON. Tex., June 7 <U.R>
-Outfielder Bill Sinton of the
Texarkana Bears will try. to put
Henderson's Oilers back on the
winning path in the East Texas
league.
Sinton was named yesterday to
succeed Burl Storie as manager of
the seventh-place Oilers. Storie
joined the Shreveport Sports of
the Texas league as a catcher sev-
eral days ago.
Henderson, which led the league
early in the season, will receive
four more players from Texar-
kana.
By N. York Yanks
NEW YORK. June 7 <UJ5—Tne
New York Yanks of the National
football league today announced
the signing of two rookie linemen
' "This is 2 fine course and the
best conditioned one on which
they've played in my lO years of
experience in the open," Ferrier
asserted. "Under current condi-
tions it might be 281 to win. But
it is up to the.U. S. G. A. If that
August body tightens the holes by
bud placing of the pins, the scores
will go up. If they usexbetter jud-
gement, the scores will go down."
Paul Runyan, the one-time
"little poison" of the fairways
who rates no better now than an
easy out, insisted that "there will
be no M's here." Fred Haas poin-
ted ta the rolling greens and the
heavy rough and insisted that
"every missed shot will cost a
stroke and there will be more mis-
sed shots than birdies."
Cary Middlecoff, the Memphis
dentist who is the defending
champ, estimated the winning
score at 282, but belittled his own
chances.
There was a lurking suspicion,
however, that the gentlemen of
the greens were only building up
the course for the added lustre to
be gained when they tear it down.
Hogan and Jimmy Demaret, two
of the favorites, wore large grins
as they finished a practice round.
Bantam Ben "guessed" that 280
might take the crown and Demar-
et risked being thrown out of the
P. G. A. when he set the total at
279.
How did they do in their round?
"Oh, I had an 81," Demaret
quipped.
"I had an 82," added Hogan.
Then they pointed at each other
and, in unison, said scornfully:
"Why he was playing beautiful-
ly. Must have had a «>7."
Somebody's going to get hurt
and the feeling is that it will be
old man par.
Abilene to Face
Odessa Tonight
For State Title I
AUSTIN, Tex., June 7 <U.R)—A
fancy-fielding Abilene schoolboy
team faces the tough Odessa
Broncs tonight for the state class
AA high school buseball champ-
ionship.
Odessa moved into the 9 p. m.
finals against Abilene last night
by beating the Marshall Mav-
ericks, 6 to 1 on Jack Whitt's
three-hit pitching in a second
round state tournament game.
Abili "e, moved into champion-
ship competition by throttling
Sherman. 12 to 2. in a game fea-
turing a triple play.
Second baseman Will Armstrong
of Abilene engineered the triple
play. With runners on first and
second, Armstrong speared a line
drive and whipped the ball over to
shortstop Charlie Dennis, who was
covering the bag, for the second
putout. Dennis threw to first be-
fore the startled runner could get
back tif the sack.
At the end of five innings, Abi-
lene was awardtd the game on an
interscholastic rule that ends a
contest when one club is 10 runs
ahead at that point. Horace Lov-
ing was the winning pitcher, giv-
ing up only two hits.
Odessa gave Whitt, who fanned
13 Marshall batters, the right kind
of hitting at the plate. Frank Gee,
a 15-vear-old sophomore, led the
attack with a second-inning triple
with the bases loaded.
Marshall filled the bases in the
last inning, but Whitt bore down
to retire the side without further
ado.
Sherman and Marshall will meet
in a consolation game at 7 p. m.
Abifene, Sherman, Marshall and
Odessa won first-round victories
over Beaumont, Amarillo, Waxa-
hachie and Laredo, respectively.
Tommy O'Bar's three hit pitch-
ing gave Abilene a 7-0 victory
over Beaumont. Sherman had to
go eight innings, one more than
usual in a schoolboy game, to shut
out Amarillo, 1 to 0. Marshall
turned back Waxahachie on Charles
Rabe's steady tossing, and Odessa
scored two runs 1n the top of the
seventh to whip Laredo, 7 to 6.
In NCAA Contest
AUSTIN, Tex., June 7
The University of Texas Long-
iiorns today faced the job of beat-
ing the Arizona Wildcats or relin-
quishing their NCAA baseball
title.
Arizona scored two runs in the
ninth inning yesterday to edge
the Longhorns 5, to 4, in the open-
er of a best two-out-of-three
NCAA district 6 playoff.
Texas took a three-run lead in
the first inning as partisan fans
cheered, but Arizona's Brad Tol-
son tightened up and allowed only
one more score in the ensuing
fight innings.
The Wildcats methodically came
from behind to tie tne game up
in the seventh inning, scoring a
single run in the second, fourth
and seventh innings.
Tony Morales and Chet Vasey
sparked the hitting attick on the
Longhorns' Murray Wall, who
went the distance. Each got three
hits, one a double by Morales.
Tolson had to leave the game
after tne eighth inr<in« when he
was pulled for a pinch-hitter. Low-
ell Bailey pitched the nintn inn-
ing and retired the side without
effort.
A victory by Arizona today
would put the Wildcats in the na-
tional collegiate tournament at
Omaha. Neb. June 15-22. If Texas
wins, the teams will play a "rub-
ber" game tomorrow.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1950— BRECKINRIDGE AMERICAN
A sleeping person changes his
position from 20 to «5 times a
night.
Cats, valuable mouse rs from
time immemorial, had a ceiling
price during the 10th century. The
price list was issued by the Welsh
King, Howel the Good. It provided
that a new-born kitten rated one
penny; an inexperineced one, two-
pence, and a co* wi*h a mouse al-
ready to its credit, fourpence.
tackle Jim Shampion from Mis-
sissippi State and guard Roger
McAuley from Texas Christian
University at Fort Worth.
Both men played on the victor-
ious South team in the blue-gray
game last December.
Oiers Win Over
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(By UNITED PRESS)
Tulsa's Oilers did not view the
seining invincibility of the Fort
Worth Cats with alarm today but
they apparently agreed their own
chances of winning the Texas Lea-
gue pennant depended on playing
up-to-the-minute ball through the
rest of the season.
With Fort Worth already seven
games in front of them, the Oil-
ers couldn't afford to lose last
night, so they pushed three runs
across in the seventh to overtake
Beaumont's Roughnecks. 6 to 5.
The Cats, playing their usual
flawless brand of baseball shut out
the third-place San Antonio Mis-
sions, 1 to 0. John Rutherford al-
lowed only five hits in stringing
up nine goose eggs.
The Dallas Eagles choked off a
threwun rally in the bottom of
the ninth to nose out the Houston
Buffs, 5 to 4. The victory put Dal-
las in fifth place, half a game a-
head of Beaumont. Little Walt
Lanfranconi was the winning pit-
cher.
Oklahoma City's Indians came
through with four runs in the top
of the tenth to beat the Shreve-
port Sports, 5 to 2. Each team
scored a run in the ninth to take
the game into an extra inning.
Tonight's games: Dallas at San
Antonio, Fort Worth at Houston,
Oklahoma City at Beaumont, Tul-
sa at Shreveport.
Loaded With Corn
ST. PAUL, Minn. ^.Pi—Minne-
sota farmers had more corn in
storage at the start of 1950 thmn
ever before since records have been
kept, according to the federal crop
and livestock reporting service.
The service said 181,409,000
bushels of corn was in storage as
of Jan. I. The total on the same
date in 1949 was 177,000,000, and
the 10-year average is 124,000,000.
Records have been kept since
1927.
Court Travels to Seeae
s a
DULUTH, Minn, iU.R:_Mrs. Til-
lie Elizabeth Englund, who cams
to this country from Sweden 40
years ago, has spent much of her
time trying to bcome an American
citizen.
Each time she was about to re-
ceive her final naturalization pa-
pers, illness intervened. The 62-
year-old woman suffered a stroke
and underwent eight operations.
When illness last prevented her
from appearing at a naturalization
hearing. Federal Judge Dennis
Donovan and two assistants drove
to Mrs. Englund's home at French
River and conferred citizenship
upon her.
More than 11,000 lives we re lost
in fires in the United States dur-
ing the past year, the leading cau-
se of which was carelessness in
the use of matches and cigarette
smoking.
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