Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 175, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1954 Page: 5 of 7
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Bench Warners Sav Nians Scalp
In Close Contest With Athletics
By MILTON RICHMAN
1'nited l^ns Sports Writer
The tVv.'lami "b*-n< h" i.h fixing
thing .4 so that the Yankees' pvn-
nant chaiiom uu- ha.u.y wottft j
Wooden nirk.-l any nunc.
"I can't praise the fellows on uui
bench enough." Masiam-r Ai Lopvz
of the Imliwu declared Thursday.
"They've done a wonderful job a!!
Season ami without Vm. we might
Have been sunk."
There's no question that the In-
dians would have Mink Wnl
nesday night had their bench re-
serves failed them ajruil.st the
Athletics.
But Bill Glynn, who went in to
play first ba:se in the eighth in
rung, drew a walk off southpaw
Ai sima to open the loth and then,
after two were out, reserve catch-
er Hal Karagon, who also h id en-
teted the game in the eighth and
had appeared in only 3# contests
Sreviouslv this season, tripled to
rive in Glynn and give the T> iIv-
an uphill 4 to 3 victory over Phil-
adelphia.
Cleveland Keeps Lead
The victory. Bob Lemon's liHi.
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' •f the year, kept Cleveland 4 1-2
! teamen ahead of the Yankees, who
defeated the Orioles 5 to 1.
Thre,. Yankee homers, plus a
three-hit pitching effort by Ed Lo-
! pat. combined to hand the Orioles
he r 14th setback in a tew. Yogi
Berra hit his 17th homer and Hank
Bauer and Irv Noren each hit his
tilth to account for all but one of
i he Yankees' runs. Bobby Young's
j fourth-inning homer was the only
I run allowed by Lopat, who achiev-
I ni his llth conquest.
J Southpaw Billy Pierce, out most
! if the season whith an ailing arm,
| rained his seventh victory while
\ Hurling the White Sox to a 7 to 2
j'riumph over the Senators. The
| White Sox gave Pierce a seven-run
working margin in the first two
J innings.
I The Red Sox. scoring all their
! i >.ns in the fifth inning, overcame
i three-run deficit to beat the Ti-
-is 5 to 3 and dixnb within one
! oercentage point of fnorth place.
Doubles by Billy Console, Ted Wil-.
i!ti and Jackie Jensen were the
oiy blows in the five-run fifth. Wil-
a'd Nixon gained his 10tn victory
while Steve Sromek was charged
i vith his 14th setfcark. , 4 ,
A volley of five homers by the
Dodgers buried the Redlegs under
> 13 to 'l count and enabled them
• to move within 3 1-2 games of the
National League lead. Rain poat-
I poned the game between the pace-
t setting Giants and Cubs.
Five Dodger Home Raw
Gil Hodges and Rube Walker
i each hit two homers for Brooklyn
i « hi:e t'arl Furillo hit one. In addi-
tion to raising his home run total
to :!1, onlv three less than Willie
Mays of the Giants, leader in that
j department, Hodges also drove in
! three run to increase his total ts
1JOO RBIs.
] Stan Miwial, with three hits in
; five tries, took over the league hat-
1 ting^ lead with a .347 average a-3
the Cardinals took over fourth
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place by one percentage uoiiit with
a lopsided 13 to I) victory over the
Pirates; Rookie Uordoa Jones
hurled a five-hitter for his second
victory while his teammates col-
lected 16 hits, including Joe Cun-
ningham's ninth homer.
Milwaukee edged Philadelphia 4 j Tulsa
to 3 to stay seven games off the
pace. Errors by Richie Ashburn
and Bobby Morgan helped the
Braves to three unearned tuns and
Lew Burdette to his 12th victory.
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Team
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Oklahoma City
Houston
Sau Antonio
Fort Worth
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Beaumont
Dallas
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BY UNITED PRESS
AMERICAN" LEAGUE
Team
Cleveland
New York
Chicago
Detroit
Boston
Washington
Philadelphia
Baltimore
W
89
85
82
55
54
51
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39
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Results
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.443 34
.418 37
.333 47
.312 50%
Wednesday's
New York 5. Bai timore 1.
Chicago 7, Washington 2.
Boston 5, Detroit 3.
Cleveland 4, Philadelphia 3.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
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New York
Brooklyn
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Chicago
Pittsburgh
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70
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Wednesday's Results
Brooklyn 13, Cincinnati 2.
Milwaukee 4, Philadelphia 3.
St. Louis 13, Pittsburgh 0.
New York at Chicago, ppd., rain.
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Wednesday's Results
Houston 6-3. Shreveport 5-4.
Beaumont 5-5, San Antonio 2-9.
Dallas 5, Tulsa 3.
Fort Worth 8. Oklahoma City 1.
Thursday's Schedule
Dallas at Tulsa.
Houston at Shrevepo.t.
Oklahoma City at Fort Worth.
Only g&mea scheduled.
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Goofy TKO Given
In Garden Fight
NEW YORK, Aug. 26 <EE>—A
match with top-ranking Joey Giar-
delio awaited middleweight Moses
Ward Thursday, although his vic-
tory ov,r Tuzo (Kid) Portuguez
Wtdnesday night was de-glamor-
ized by muddled mercy.
Hu;l there been any fans in Mad-
ison Square Garden, they would
have roared the roof off when Ref-
eree Ray Miller gave yonng Ward
of Detroit a goofy TKO victory
over Portuguez of Costa Rica at
1:23 of the fifth round;
Ft. Worth Oats
Appear Out Firsi
Time In 13 Years
(By UNITED PRESS)
The Fort Worth Cats were still
.ilive and scratching Thursday but,
unless a minor miracle occurs, it
ooks like the Cats will finish in
.he Texas League second division
r'or the fh-st time in 13 years.
Not since 1941 has a Fort Worth
,-lub missed the Shaughnessy Play-
offs and this is the best record of
.my Texas League club in that pe-
riod. In fact, no other team has
jeen able to finish among the top
t'our every year since the league
•tarttd up again in 1946 after
three years of inactivity during
World War II.
Wednesday night's 8 to 7 win
jver Oklahoma City left the fifth-
place Cats four and one-half
-tames from fourth-place San Anto-
>to, which split a doubleheader
vvith Beaumont, 2 to 5 and 9 to 5.
But the hill Fort Worth must climb
:ooks like Pike's Peak with less
than two weeks of play remaining
on the schedule.
In other games, Dallas knocked
Tulsa out of a tie for fifth into
sixth by beating the Oilers 5-3 in
10 innings, and Houston anU
league-leading Shreveport split
two, the Buffs winning the opener
6-5 and the Sports taking the night
cap 4 to 3 in 10 innings.
Fort Worth used the home run
ball to beat Tu'.sa as Frank Mar-
.'hio and Roy Hartsfield accounted
for half the Cats' eight runs with
■ >vt r - the - fence blasts. Marcio's
was a three-run homer iu the sixth
inning that sent Oklahoma City
starter Pete Taylor down to the
defeat.
Buzz Ciarkson's 36th homer of
the season with AI Stringer on base
in the 10th inning gave Dallas its
win over Tulsa. Joe Macko had
homered for the Oilers and Jodie
Beeler for the Eagles earlier in the
game.
Tulsa got only eight hits off Roy
Contreras, who went the distance.
Beaumont pitcher Jim Brosnan
stopped San Antonio with three
'lits in the seven inning opener, but
the Missions came back to win the
second game on Vachel Perkins'
seven-hitter in nine innings.
John Andre of Shreveport—the
pftcher of the year—went after
his 20th win in the second game
■igainst Houston Wednesday night
but didn't get ito. Joe Piercey, who
relieved Andre in the 10th, got
credit for the win when Buff pitch-
er Luis Arroyo wild-pitched the
I winning score across the plate.
Thursday night's schedule—Da'-
| las at Tulsa, Houston at Shreve-
port and Oklahoma City at Fort
Worth. Only games scheduled.
"jemt" was nearly empty.
The kayo was so technical that
no one in the Garden except Miller
and Dr. Vincent Narditeilo knew
why the nationally televised bout
hid been stopped so abruptly. Por-
tuguez, the most surprised man in
the punch emporium, still was on
his feet and apparently well able
to continue. He stomped furiously
but the about the ring.
NOTHING UKE IT
FOR WEIGHT-WATCHERS!
verages only . ..
calories per ouncei
—Unless there is a great rekin-
dling of spirit in the American
track and field ranks, United
States will lo«f? its world domi-
nance in the Olympic games—pos-
sibly in 1956, but no later than
1960.
So says famed Dink Templeton,
head coach of the San Francisco
Olympic Club, former Stanford
coach and now a radio sports com-
mentator.
"Constantin Adrianov of Russia
comes pretty close to hitting the
nail right on the head when he
said that the U. S. world superior-
ity in track and field is a thing of
the past," said Templeton.
"If we continue on our present
lethargic way, we will be a cinch
to lose the 1960 Olympics."
Kettert And Andre
Leaders In Texas
FORT WORTH, Aug. 28 (R --
Frank Kellert and John Andre
were named player and pitcher of
'.he year in the Texas League by a
poll of sports writers and announ-
cers Wednesday.
Kellert, who has played every
inning of San Antonio's 146 games
this season, was a strong first
place choice while Andre barely
squeezed out Fort Worth's Karl
Spooner in the pitcher's race.
Kellert leads the circuit in runs
batted in with 131 is a 29-year-old
veteran of three previous Texas
League campaigns. Andre toiled
243 innings in 31 games—16 of
them complete—and chalked up an
earned run average of 3.11 while
posting an impressive 19-8 record.
Both players will be awarded
plaques and $100 checks at a date
and site to be picked by their
home clubs.
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DALLAS, Aug. 26 0LB>—Defend-
ing champion Joe Roach of St.
Louis and medalist Willard Nash
of Dallas led the way into Thurs-
day's second round amateur match-
es of the United Golf Association
pro-amateur Negro national cham-
pionship tournament.
The professional field Will play
the first round of its 72-hole cham-
pionship Thursday with the toy fa-
vorites including defending cham-
pion Charlie Sifford of Philadel-
phia, Bill Spitler of Chicago and a
young Dallas ex-caddy, Lee Eider.
Former heavyweight champion
Joe Louis, 1951 UGA champion,
qualified with an 83 Tuesday which
ulaced him in the second flight.
But the famed Brown Bomber won
his first match Wednesday. It was
the first time Louis had failed to
make the championship flight.
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