Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 107, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 31, 1956 Page: 8 of 8
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%. wrrtgyripgg amemca*—Thursday, mat si, iwi
Yankees With Six-Game Lead Over
Sex E^mI Dodgers' Feat Is 1955
(By I'NITED PRESS)
The American Lf-atf'if p-nnant
net now hoj btoiine • a* bite a
runaway a.s loot year's National
Ulfw chajH*. thanks to the fan-
tastic klugxiiix power of Miikey
Mantle.
The- Oklahoma tron« buy crush-
ed a trMJienilotis home run in eath
(imr of the Memoiuil hay
double header to leoti the New
York Yankees *o t-.; anil wins
•r*r W;ishin(ftori--b. H*ttnic tlx'ir
AL lead to six full (jajiies over
til* tliicajo White Sox, the new
Mcnnd-piare tenants.
And nix games u exactly the
margin enjoyed at this holiday
Milestone Ust year by the Kr«n>k-
trn Dodifera .*.< they made a
Mambles of the NL race.
If Memorial Day cues down in
bajeball huttorv as tne itay the
Yankee* seiled command. m.intle
mast be the man who <ini it. His
homers not only were the <le-
rtdinff blows in each {tame, but
hitn «>ne-third of the way to Ruth's
mark, traveled 4K) feet deep into
th rijfht-center bleachers in the
fifth innnij; of the nightcap to
oieak a tie.
ry p-ir hir
of faaoe Kuth's pace in hi3 record
6IK-homer year.
Hoan Gars 440 h eet
Mantle's 2*>th homer, putting
The White Sox moved ahead of
| the Indians by beating them
twice. •>-.'! and in a 10-homer
doubl* hea«ler that saw two hom-
ers each by Vic Wertz and Pres-
1 ton Ward of the Indians and Less
Moss of Chicago. The Indians
hwwed in the nightcap only after
scoring six runs in the last of the
ninth.
The other two AL twin bills also
resulted in clean sweeps. The Bal-
timore Orioles nipped the Boston
Red Sox 2 1 and 5-4. each time
on a last-of-the-ninth run. Bob
Nieman singled home the first-
it ime winn>-r and Bob Hale did
the same in the second. Detroit
drubbed Kansas <*ity ll-.'J in their
morning game and won the sec-
ond .VI on Virgil Trucks' three-
hitter.
Cincinnati .scored the only NL
sweep and thus took second place
I from St. L Ul« by four percentage
points. Ray Jabfonski's three-run
homer made Johnny Klippstein a
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UNHAPPY LANDING—Looking like a bird stricken in flight.
Bernard Ralastre prepares to hit the pit after knocking down
the bar in the pole vault at Surrey. England, in the annual
meet between the Universities of London and Paris. Balastre
later beat the French junior record with 12 feet. T.5 inches
in the Motspur Park competition.
K-:i winner over the Cards in the
first, and a s:x-iun thml-inniiig
ijave the Redlegs the second, t -o,
in a trame held to seven innings
by rain.
Wild (iame Includes Fight
A wild twin bill at Chicago saw
the Cubs beat Milwaukee U>-!> in
the first game, uInch included a
fljjht between Kuss Meyer of (. hi-
••ago and Bill Bruton of the
Hraves, b> fore the Braves took
the second !!-!>. b«>bby Thomson
of the raves walloped four of the
to homer* in the twin bill and
drove in seven runs.
Brooklyn scored six in the sixth
to beat I'hiladelphia t>-5 in their
opener, but the Phillies smashed
14 hits to win the second 12 3.
But the New York Giants and
Pittsburgh Pirates worked hard-
est on the holiday—a total of 25
:nning;i. The Pirates won the 10-
inning opener 5-4 when Dale Long
ti ,pled home the winning run to
bleak a streak of l<> hit less at-
bats for him. .id the <>iants tmik
the 15-inning second 5-3 on A1
Dark's two-run double.
Baseball Crowds
Soar To New High
(By I MTKH PRESS)
H'hI penr.ant races and warm
ws athi i s< nt major-league base-
ball attend;.nee on Memorial Day
soaring appioximdtely 24 per cent
over .a^t veal's holiday figures.
A grand t' tal of 24"i.Hi:4 fans
paid their way into big league ball
parks y .-.teiuay, compared to a
toial turnout of I!K'.,i>4H last year.
Top croud ot the d y w:ts :t.>^ 42
.. see the Dodgers and the Phil-
le.s in Phii.uteipnia— e«-ond largest
National l ague crowd this season.
to;ip d only by opening ilay in
Milwaukee.
Til" average crowd jumped from
J4.U-4 to .10,1111.
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Flaherty To Get
Big Rune; Car
Through At Ead
By EI> SAINSBl'RY
INDIANA 1DLIS H'Ei—Freckle-
faced and red-headed pat Flaherty,
racing's ieal-life "Huck Finn."
gets a story-book payoff tonight
for shaking off two crashes with
the speedway wall in the past to
win the 4<>th annual 500 mile
classic at a speed of 128.4ao miles
per hour.
Flaherty, a six-foot, 160-pound
Chicago tavern owner, paced the
-peed.vay's fastest field in history
for the last 125 laps to earn a
guaranteed purse of $39,200.
But been use the track usually
throws additional money into the
pi i*e fund, the victor, who wiw
driving in his fifth speedway
chase, probably will get a laiger
••heck at the payoff dinner tenight
than the previous high tota1. $7*>,
1.;h paid to Bob Sweikert List year.
Flaherty got a break in irinning
ti< . While he was on hfe safety
lap, the extra tour run by ea'-h
car to insure covering the full
distance, his throttle linkage broke
and f ll off the car as he headed
into the winner's enclown-e.
I .anted Just Long Enough
Had it happened on the prev-
ious lap. he would have been un-
• ie to maintain r-peed. and prob-
ibly Sam Hanks. Pacific Pali
•sades. Calif., who finished only 21
seconds behind, wwld have beat-
"n him.
Flaherty became the sixth pole
winner to win the race, duplicating
a feat performed in the past by
limmy Murphy, Tommy Milton.
Billy Arno'd. hioyd Roberts and
Bill Vukovich. But when Flaheity
'.von the pole, he did it with a rec-
ord speed too, 145.05H m'les per
hour for one lap and 146.596 for
four.
For the first few miles yester-
day, in a race which set a track
record for accidents with 11, he
laid off the blistering pace of
more than 142 miles per hour hung
up by paul Russo, Jim Hathmann
and Pat O'Connor.
Russo crashed into the wall after
22 laps and both Rafhman and
O'Connor were forced to make pit
stops to give Flaherty a chance to
move ahead after 40 laps. He
stayed in front for two turns of
the' track and then backed off
again.
After 53 laps he made a 39-sec-
ond pit stop and after 75 laps he
went in front t stav.
Hon Freeland. Los Angeles.
Calif., was th/rd, Johnnie Parsons,
the IfKVl winner from Van Nuys.
Calif., fourth, and Dick Rath-
irann. Trenfon. N\ J., fifth.
Horn* Run Record
For Holiday Set
(By UNITED PRESS)
Big-league baseball saluted Me-
morial Day, 1956, with the great-
est home run barrage in history.
Twenty-six homers were hit in
the National League and 24 in the
American for a grand total of 50
—setting two records and tying
another for homer production on
a single day.
The NL figure topped the oW
leagi f record of 25, set on Jul}
16, *>50. The AL total equalled
the old league record of 24 set 'in
July 30, 1950, and the grand tot.il
erased the old mark of 40 tor both
leagues, set on Memorial Day,
I960.
Bobby Thomson of the Milwau-
kee Braves was the big slugg' r of
the day with four homers in a
twin bill against the Cubs, but
there were nine other players who
hit two each—i>tan LopaC of the
Phillies, Hank Aaron "f the
Braves, Ed Mathews of the
Braves, Mickey Mantle of the
Yankees, Hank Bauer of the Yan-
kees. Vic Wertz of the Indians,
Preston Ward of the Indians, Les
Moss of the White So*, and Harry
Simpson of the Athletics.
pounds.
'We're not tin* when hell start
again but he came out of the
uwe in good shape and we pl«in
to get him ready for a number of
■landicap races." Fitasimons said.
The fourth place money boosted
Nashua's career earning to $1,102,-
S65 but only J 157,450 of that rec-
ord total has been won for his new
owners.
Th« ideal pitch of an automo-
bile horn for msximum warnmj
would be about 4,000 cycles ^
second. However, that sound would
be objectionable to person t living
near the road so auto engineer!
compromise with a less p'-netrat.
ing sound.
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Postrono Winner
In Heavies Bout
NEW ORLEANS !U.P>— Speedy
Willie Pastrano looked more like
a contender for the coming elim-
ination rounds tor the vacant
heavyweight «r>wn after giging
Chuck Spieser a bloody boxing les
son for a IT-round split decision
last night.
Spieser, the third ranked
heavyweight climbed onto
Pastrano band wagon saying,
should go a long ways." The f
was televised nationally.
New Orleans born Pastram def-
initely put himself in the njidle
of the tussle for the heavy-
title with the victory.
Both judges saw the figl
relatively easy victory for/
year old Pastrano, hut fi
'Francis Kerscheval dis
the loud dismay of the
crowd. He scored it a •>
the Michigan State gr;
.fjrmer Olympic boxer.
Judge Ed Wolfe m.iAed it 8 2
lor Pastrano while Judge Pete
tia rruso saw it as Astra no 7-1
with two even. I'nit# Press had
it 7 2 1 for Past ran
Pastrano weigh) f i to
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HP'S ABOVE IT ALL —Bruce
Larson ha worked out a solu-
K to spring's muddy season
In Minneapolis. H« s conv erted
his bike rnto a two-story job to
set above the splash level oe
caasing motorists. Bruce didn't
^Thow he gets on or off the
wag.
Nashua Is Fourth
vn ■ cwi
(By I'MTED PRKSS)
Nashua, the thoroughbred mil-
lionaire, collected only *2,500 anil
fourth place in the Metropolitan
Handicap but he got a pat on the
back from his trainer for a "real
good race."
"I don't know how much he got
beat by, but he ran a real goini
race," Sunny Jim Fitzsimnions
said after Nashua failed to win
Belmon* Piirk's Memorial Day
feature under top weight of l.'ii
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