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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1948 THE DAILY TIMES.GAZETTE PAGE, THIRTEEN Big League Baseball Yesterday By RALPH RODEN Associated Press Sports Writer The Indians may be a vanishing race but you couldn't tell it to the baseball world today. Led by Manager Lou Boudreau, the Cleveland war party appears a cinch to clash with another species -- Boston Braves -- fOr 'the 1948 world-series wampum. Boudreau's tribe enjoys a two- game. ' lead the runner-up Yankees in the American pennant 'fight, with all having only four games The Indians gained this almost insurmountable lead Tuesday night by massacring Chicago White Sox 11-0 after the Red Sox and Yanks were ambushed in the afternoon, 4-2, and 5-2 respectively, by Wash- ington Senators and Philadelphia Athletics. The Indians can nail down their first flag since 1920 by winning three of their remaining four games, Should they divide the four games, the Red Sox or Yanks, by winning all of their four, could only tie the Indians for the pennant. The fact that two of the runner-ups re- maining games are against each other lessens the possibility of one of them sweeping all four. Lefty Gene Bearden turned in one of the best performances of his career in blanking the White Sox. The rookie held Chicago to four scattered singles, fanned five and walked two in hanging up his 18th victory against seven defeats. The Indians supported Bearden's classy job with a 13-hit attack that included homers by 'Dale. Mitchell and Allie Clark. Mitchell opened the game with a homer off south- paw Bill Wight and the Indians were never headed. Rae Scarborough and Carl Scheib were the boys who put a crimp into the flag hopes of the Red Sox and Yankees. Scarborough chilled ,the Sox on six hits in picking up his 14th vic- tory for the seventh-place Senators. Senators hammered starter-- loser--Joe Dobson for four runs «€: the second inning. Fe SSE Scheib had a more difficult time stopping the Yanks. He allowed 14 hits but three double plays got him out of holes. Scheib shut out the Yanks until the ninth when a single, walk and pinch-hitter Joe Collins' two run double had him on the ropes. However, Scheib settled down and retired the -next two batters. The A's scored a run in the first, inning and routed starter Vic Raschi with three more in the third on two singles, a double and triple. Raschi, seeking his 20th victory, previously had beaten the A's eight times without suffering. a loss. In the only. other game in the American League, St. Louis Browns clipped Detroit Tigers 5-3 on rookie Bank Arft's two-run eight-inning homer. Brooklyn Dodgers, engaged in a three-way battle in the National League for second place with St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates, downed the pennant-win- ning Braves 9-8 in 13 innings on a home run by Jackie Robinson. The victory pushed the Dodgers a game ahead of the Cards. The Cards, in front of Pittsburgh by a half game, had their scheduled night game with the Pirates rained out. New York and Philadelphia divided a doubleheader. The Giants won the opener 6-5 and the Phils the nightcap 6-3 in a game that was called because of darkness at the end of six innings. In the ab- breviated game Puddinhead Jones, down from Toronto Maple Leafs, drove in three runs for Phillies in a six-run outburst in the last in- ning. Chicago Cubs beat Cincinnati Reds 6-2 to tie the Reds for seventh place. Sports Roundup By HUGH FULLERTON, JR. ew York. Sept. 20--(AP)--Man- Billy Southworth of Boston "Braves made a shrewd prediction last spring when he said Bill Voie selle would win 15 games this sea- son, although Billy missed out on his forecast of 25 victories for War- ren Spahn . . . but it remained for shorty Young, the clubhouse at- tendant, to hit the nail right oa the head . . . serving as announcer at an intra-squad tilt in Bradenton, Fla., shorty told the crowd: "the next game will be , Sunday--and there will be no omission." , . . There hasn't been an omission all season as far as we can see. One-Minute Sports Page If Cleveland meets the Braves in the/ world series, they could put on quite a sideshow between Al Dark d Jim Hegan. (Bill Veeck might ven try it if they didn't sell out he park.) Dark was a high school star at Lake Charles, La., in bse- ball, football, basketball and irack and is a better than fair golfer. Hegan starred in the same four sports at Pynn, Mass, classical high . « . The only time Coy McGee, Notre Dame's speedy 146-pound halfback, ever was hurt on a college football field was when he stepped into a hole walking back to a huddle and sprained his ankle . . . Jack Dempsey predicts that within two years the fight game will be back where it was before the war . . . by that he means it will better. ' Pigskin Trail Hot football tip hereabouts is to keep your eyes on little Muhlenberg . Observers say the Mules hit the posadiy strong Boston U. team hard last Saturday that they Socked the fight clear out of the New Englanders. Muhlenberg also gave Rutgers quite a geing-over in a scrimmage . . . While Earl Blaik's 1948 army team was romping over Villanova. two Blaik school gradu- ates; Stu Hbleomb: at Purdue and Herman Hickman at Yale also, were doing surprisingly well. Now if An- dy Gustafson can spring something at Miami this week . . . Try a Times-Gazette classified ad today -- You can be sure it will pay BOWLING MOTOR CITY LADIES' MAJOR LEAGUE After a summer vacation away from the pins, the girls didn't make a very spectacular showing on opening night, last Monday. However, a few moie games under the belt should find them getting Back into the ola form again. One happy feature, of the evening was that no team had to suffer a white- washing, for even low gear is better than not moving at all. McCallum Transports, Lock's, Victory Billiards, Franklin Simons, and Hayden Macdon- alds each garnered two points from their respective ts, Of Furriers, Coca Cola"s, Pearl's Kearn's and Victor's Sports and Cycle. Only eight of the bowlers hit the 650 mark, and two of these were new- comers to the "A" ue. Veteran Olive Frise headed the list with a mice 789 (301). Also in the 700's were Dud Mills with 706 and Bea. Ross with 702. Mary Bircham rolled 684; Doreen Dob- bie 673; Helen Wiggins 655; Verna A Cooper 654, and Marj. Vaughan 654. On the vote that was taken regard- ing low bowler automatically sitting out, the decision went to the "no" voters, "B" League This league saw three of the ten teams jump right out into an early lead, with Burns' Shoes suffering a goose-egg at the hands of Felt Bros. and Alger Press and Saywell's each nabbing three points from Mitchell's and Henderson's. In the other two games, Dixon's Coal took the two count from Oshawa Dairy, and Jack Biddulph's trimmed White's Insurance by the 2 to 1 count, High individual totals were really scarce in this league. With their high averagé bowlers Of last year being ad- vanced into the senior league, thé girls may find it a bit tougher to make a good showing in the 600's for a while yet. However, the steady Im- provement which has been shown for the past few years, 1s bound to make itsell felt again befdre too long. Last Monday, Lil. Yourkevitch was high bowler with a top-notch 697 score. Greta Logeman turned in 627; Doris Angus 608; Leone Palmer 606; Tools Muckness 604. 'There will be regular league bowling next Monday night, but the following Monday being Thanksgiving Day, lea- gue bowling will bé suspended for one week. ALBERT ST. UNITED CHURCH Last Monday night saw our second night of bowling and by the good scores that were bowled, one would think these bowlers had bowled all summer. There were some lovely sin- gle games and also doubles bowled, by both ladles and gents. Jim Gordon was the star of the night with a grand double of 527, and Fred Coleman was next with 515, Reg Pike with 497, and also Bob Bent with 488. Barbara Cooper was the star for the ladies, with a grand double of 481, The Helicopters bowled the high team dou- ble of 2155, and the Head Pins bowled high single of 1105. We are very sorry that one of our old bowlers, Ed. Hol- land, who started a week ago, has had to take a leave of absence for a while, because he found that bowling was too strenuous for him, so soon after his re-' cent operation. We do hope, Ed, that you make a quick recovery and be back soon.~ Ed. was a lot of fun. and he will be greatly misséd. 'There is another member. who is missed this year and that is Rev. Sam- uel Henderson. His kind words and jovial disposition are certainly milssed. We would like to welcome three new members to the club again this week, Albert. Rundle, Eric Taylor and A Henning, and also one old bowler, Rob- ert Barrett, who is back, strong as ever, regardless of his age, which is 71 years Joung. Bumble Bees 3 pts. from Ants; Hur- ricanes 3 pts. from Zippers; Helicopters 3 pts. from Apaches; Heid Pins 3 pts. from Jets; Caterpillars 3 pts from Spi- ders. Ladies' high zingles: Ann Snudden 286; Muriel Parks ; Barb Cooper 258- 223; Win, Scott 224-201; Pearl Pike 223; Dorothy Coleman 218; Amy Sargeant 217; Ruth Follest 216; Harriet Johns 213; Flo Boylé 210; Beth Bint 200; Ann Lee 208; Blanche Norton 205; Bea Sim- mons 205-204, and Marion Fisher 204. Ladies' high doubles: Barb. Cooper 481; Ann Snudden 438; Win Scott 425; Amy Sargeant 416; M. Parks 414; Bea Simmons 409, and Ruth Follest 400. Men's high singles: Jim Gordon 300- 227; Bob Bent 297: Fred Coleman 206- 219; Reg. Pike 284-213; Morley Rora- beck 245; P. Neal 244; A. Allman 238; Jack Bent 230-204; Ross Clark 229; Stan Parks 224; Howard Bell 221; Alec Pol- lock 219, and E. Edmonston, 218. * Men's high doubles: Jim Gordon 527; P. Coleman 515; Reg. Plke 497; Bob Bent 488; Jack Bent 434; R. Clark 414; P. Neal 410; A. Allman 408: M. Rora- beck 407; Earl Edmondson 405, and Ed. Simmons 404. Team Standing Bumble Bees ... .s Hurricanes Helicopters Head Pins Apaches .. Je ts Caterpillars Co puuAALnS Dyer To Stay "In Card's Fold re. -- 8t. Louis, Sept. 20--(AP)--Eddie Dyer, tabbed by many persons a couple of months ago as on the way out, will manage St. Louis Cardinals two more years. Robert E. Hannegan, president of the National-League Ball club, an- nounced that he had come to terms with Dyer after a five-minute talk Tuesday night. Hannegan wouldn't say whether the oral agreement called for a pay increase. Dyer signed a one-year contract last fall shortly before Hannegan and others bought thé team from Sam Breadon, Writers figured Han- negan would find his own manager in an effort to get the team back in first place. However, Hannegan said in July he had the utmost confidence in Dyer's akility to pilot the Cardinals and said s0 again Tuesday night. Dyer's comment was: "I'm 7 Manager: Billy Southworth, in his third year. Last pennant: 1914. Leading hitters: Eddie Stanky, Al Dark and Tommy Holmes. Leading pitcher: John Sain, 17-12. Chances: Good, for {as club has pitching ' and hitting and a top-flight manager. The schedule is tough, for the team winds up against Brooklyn and New York. |] Jeft Heath, of. Sport Shorts. From Britain: . By: ALAN HARVEY Canadian Press Staff Writer London, Sept. 28.-- (CP)--Fore- casts that this would be soccer's '"'stormiest season ever" seem to be justified. Two of the game's out- standing stars are in rebellion. Albert Stubbins, Liverpool centre | forward valued at 20,000 pounds ($80,000), gave his club a tart ul- timatum: "Release me or I'll quit the game for good. Twenty-four' 'hours ' earlier, Wilf Mannion of Middlesbrough gave up football for a salesman"s job because his club wouldn't transfer him. . "I can't understand them," Man- nion said. "They know I am thor- | oughly unhappy--1I could never play my best for them again. "Little did I think as a kid, when I signed on for a year, it would be virtually for life." * + The blonde.haired Mannion no fly-by-night footballer. He too is worth £20,000 on the open market, and has been on England's inter- national side for 12 years. been with 'Middlesbrough since 1936, almost for 6s 4d. (about $1.25) a week, Now Mannion says he wants a change. He's like to play in the south and get a job on the side. 1But he can't play professional soc- cer unless Middlesbrough releases | him. And they won't. David Jack, Middlesbrough manager: "If Man- nion won't play for us he won't ever play League football again." * BF + Under football Association rules, a player who signs with a club is bound to that club unless placed on the transfer list, or released. In event of transfer, the entire fee --usually around £20,000, these days --goes to the club. All the player gets in a maximum salary of 12 pounds a week, plus a 2 pound bonus¥for a victory in rare cases. (The minimum salary is £5. After five consecutive seasons, a transferred player may receive a maximum bonus of $750--but payment rests with the club and is not compulsory. A plaver who refuses to sign and can't get' a transfer goes without payment of any kind during his period of idleness. Mannion who has taken a job explaining scientific poultry keeoing at agricultural shows, savs he had to dig Into his savings to get along during the hold-out period. LE Sweet Sorrow: Alex and Eric is | He has | | Bedser, England's famed cricketing | | twins, will soon be parted for the | | first time. Alex, the Test bowler, | | has been invited to go to South | | Africa in October with the Mary. | | 1ebone club. Eric isn't on the team. | "This puts a damper on the trip for. me," Alex said. "We've never | been apart for more than a day or | so before." | | Even during the war, the Bed- | ser boys had the same duties in the R.AF. and shared the same | room. | | rT | Sask. Roughriders ~~ ! Have Been Having | | Last-Minute Losses Regina, Sept. 20--(CP)--Don't try | and tell a Saskatchewan football | fan about the close game back in| 1922, He's seen too many of them | this year, | | And most of them in the Western | Canada Senior ' Football League | | went, against his beloved Saskatche | wan, Roughriders--considered by! many the most threatening team that ever decorated the basement of the League. It could have been an omen when | Ruffies opened their season with | an exhibition tilt against Toronto's Beaches Indians. The Easterners edged "Riders 1-0 by booting the | single point on the last play. | Riders bounded back with a | smephing 17-6 triumpti over the | defending ~ Western Champions, | Winnipeg. Blue Bombers, to open | the League in style. That was the | | last game they won, They've since | lost six. i | One was a clear-cut 12-1 trounc- ing from the burly Calgary Stamps. undefeated this season. But of the | other five two were lost by one. | point margins, one by a three-point margin and two by converted touchdowns that wiped out Rider leads. The point is, to the tearfu] Ruffie fan, the League doormats led in every one of the six lost games at one time--in five of them by a mar- gin which seemed to ensure victory. Most of the games were lost by spectacular opposition fourtti-quar- ter drives. But the team continues to pack in the fans, who still figure Riders may stop losing in the remaining five games left them of the gruell- ing 12-game Western Conference schedule, Jack Banta Hurls Royals to 4-0 Win Syracuse, Sept. 29--Allowing only five hits, Jack Banta hurled Mont-, real Royals to a two-game lead over Syracuse ' Chiefs in their best-of- seven series for the International League pennant by blanking the Chiefs, 4-0. DEER HUNTING LICENSES - NOW ON SALE! *» CAMP LICENSES * DOG LICENSES SMITH SPORTS 353 KING ST. WEST Open Evenings PHONE 472 ¥ x hd 0 * x 3 iy Tom Holmes, of Earl Torgeson, 1b MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS & FT 9 AMERICAN LEAGUE Batting--Williams, Boston, .366 7 atid batted in--DiMagglo, New York, 153. Runs--Henrich, New 133. Hits--DIillinger, St. Louis, 189. Doubles--Henrich, New York, 42. Triples--Henrich, New York, 14 Home runs--DiMagglo, New York, Stolen bases--Dlllinger, St. Louls, Strikeouts--Feller, Cleveland, 161. York; 39. 25. | Pitching--Kramer, Boston, 17-5, .773. NATIONAL LEAGUE Batting--Musial, St. Louis, .378. ao s batted in--Musial, St. Louis, 126. ' Runs--Musial, 8t. Louis, 131. Hits--Muslial, St. Louis, 223. Doubles--Musjal, St. Louis, 43. Triples--Musial, St. Louls, 13. Homer runs--Kiner, Pittsburgh, 40, Stolen bases--Ashburn, Philadelphia, 32 Strikeouts--Brecheen, St. Louis, Pitching ~-- Sewell, Pittsburgh, 13-3, | 202, Poriland (10). 143. | BOSTON BRAVES Eddie Stanky, 2b Bob Eliott, 3b ~--~Central Press Canadian YESTERDAY'S STARS By The Associated Press Pitching -- Gene Bearden, Indians, | held White Sox to.four hits, in pitch- ing Cleveland to 11-0 victory over Chicago and a two-game lead over runners-up Boston and New York. Batting Jackie Robinson, Dodgers, homered in 13th inning to give Brook- lyn an 9-8 viclory over pennant- winning Bosion Braves By The Associated Piess Los Angeles-"Lauro Salas, 128, Mon- terrey, Mexico, outpointed Manuel Ortiz, 123';, El Centro, Calif. (10) (non-title). Detroit -- Calif., stopped Benny a. AS). ' d, Ore. - Joey Maxim, 186, outpointed Bill" Pelersen, Billy Smith, 172, Oakland, McCombs; 172, Philadelphia--Lou Joyce, 1465, out- pointed Harry Hurst, 151';, Montreal | (10). STANDINGS | Im a---- INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Best-of-Seven Final Ww. L. Pct 1 3 Montreal sk Tuesday's Result ... 4 Syracuse Monday's Result 2 Syracuse | Montreal .. Pittsburgh .. New York .... Philadelphia .. Cincinnati . 87 ou ults New York ......6-3 Philadelphia Second game called end of darkness. Brooklyn . . 9 13 inni A Chicago .... .... 6 Cincinnati Cleveland New York .. Boston | Pafladelphia . | Detroit |St. Louis ..... [ Washington | Chicago vane 49 ; Tuesday's Results Philadelphia .... 5 New York Washington . . 4 Boston Si. Louis... . 5 Detroit Cleveland 11 Chicago ... | International | League Action | | | Montreal Royals are only astep | away from winning the Interna- | tional Baseball League's Shaugh- | nessy playoffs and a berth in the | little world series. | Manager Clay Hopper's pennant- winning Royals downed Syracuse Chiefs 4-0 Tuesday night te take a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven final series. Hoppe. has selected right-hander { Al Zachary (4-3) to try for the | clincher tonight against Syracuse's | Dixie Howell (17-12). | Jaok Ban'a (19-7), a disappoint- | ment in the series up till Tuesday I'night; held the Chiefs to five hits, - |-all singles. The Royal right-hander | and loop strike-out king fanned | five and walked only two in out- | pitching Johnny Hetki. - | Banta and Hetki duelled on even | terms until the fifth when the | Royals broek a scoreless deadlock 'on Frankie Drews' error, a stolen | base and Lou -Welaj's single. The Royals .ieed the decision in | the eighth on Bob Morgan's two- run homer. Hetki bowed out for a ! pinch-hitter in the eighth and Frank Seward allowed the Royal's "final run in the ninth on Sam Jethroe's single and' Al Gionfriddo's two-bagger. Syracuse had Banta in trouble only in the fourth. With two on and {one out Frank Davis beal out an infield hit but Kermit Wahl was lout at the plate, Jim Bloodworth | to Clift Dapper when he attempted | to score from second. | Spicy Bits. From Other Sports Cols. Toronto, Sept. 29 --« CP) -- Now that Cleveland Indians are sprints ing for the American League pen- rant, Bossman Bill Veeck is getting a bit more respect, Some people who used to think he was juss plain crazy, now think l:e's crazy like a fox. A lot of' them thougiit Veeck was stark and staring when he shell2d out a reported $163,000 for pitcher Sam Zoldak. For few fans thought he was worth it. But Doug (Windsor Star) vauzhan suggests that if the In= cians win the flag "it would not be iar-fetchied to say that tuey could not have done £5 withcu' Zoldak." A Pitch In Time Doug relates (hat Zoldak first pitched for Cleveland in late June {and beat the Yankees 5-2. Since "Sam put on a Cleveland { yniform he his won cight games and los: six, a 571 percentage." «han figures that Zoldak gave r Lou Foudreau a pitching | "which would remain work- | able despite Lou's ixabi of tossing la dozen or more hurlers into a con= ! test." Cleuting Catcher Another vital factor in the In- éians' fla» hunt was the surprise kicting this year of catcher Jim Hegan, says Vaughan, "Over the stretch," reports Vaughan, "the collecied 39 safeties including nine doubles, two triples and a acmerun for a torrid 361 av=- bi it's Hegan himself, there isn't a soul in The Wigwam expects him to continue that pace but the opinicn is equally unanimous that his recently.acquired, flat-footed stence is going to make him a far more dangerous threat at the plate Cleveland, Sept. 29 Buried under requests for mote than a mil= lion tickets, the Cleveland Indians yesterday closed down the sale of reserved seats for the World Series 10 hours after the first applications were accepted. Tribe president 'Bill Veeck con= sidered putting the lowly bleacher seats of Cleveland Stadium up for advance sale to help meet the de= mand. Veeck estimated that "at least 80,000 persons and possibly 85,000 would be able to see each game which may be played here. The | previous series record of 74.056 fans | jammed into Yankee Stadium Oct. 1% 1947. ee -- BF. GOODRICH TIRES NOW Only... 1.85 SIZES 600x116 LIBERAL TRADE-IN ALLOWANCE! USE THE B.F. GOODRICH KING ST. at RITSON RD. OWN! _ A---- PHONE 247 AY) DUEELANer- PIN EINE