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Washington, D. C., Friday, July 30, 1948—A—11 ***
Win, Lose, or Draw
By BURTON HAWKINS '
i Star Staff Corre* pendent
The Heavyweights Are Light on Talent
ST. LOUIS, Mo., July 30.—The housewife who descends stairs
to gaze upon a living room cluttered with partly consumed, stale
highballs, ashtrays taxed to capacity and the rug sprinkled with
crumbs has much in common with boxing fans when regarding the
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staring at a mess.
Joe Louis is a damp fuse compared to the
dark dynamite of his prime. He announced re
tirement, then was said to be reconsidering that
decision and wavering toward one more bout—a
farewell to flstcuffs with Gus Lesnevich. Those
tentative plans have been battered into oblivion
by Freddie Mills, current proprietor of the light
weight crown.
Mills flipped a wrench into boxing s gears
when he stripped the 175-pound title from Les
nevich, who made no gallant bid to retain his
property. In London on Monday night Lesnevich,
a 3-1 favorite, lost the championship in a dull bout
punctuated by the referee’s warnings to produce
more action.
It’s a sad commentary on the boxing industry that in the last >
two big fights among burly boys participants have necessitated con
stant reminders by referees that the customers would desire a rea
sonable amount of muscle flexing from the battlers.
Walcott Is No Thrilling Fighter
Only the blow-by-blow announcer of the Louis-Joe Walcott fight
believed that to be a stirring scrap. The customers were expressing
their disgust and the referee was forced to remind Walcott that the
idea of it all was to hit Louis occasionally. This so disturbed Walcott
that he claimed it cost him the bout.
The thought of the unorthdox, retreating Walcott as heavy
weight champion sends shivers of horror tingling along the spines of
most observers. He's no rip-snorting specimen. He's moderately
talented, but extremely cautious—a 34-year-old Journeyman heavy
1 weight who finds himself squarely in the championship picture strictly
due to the mediocrity of his competition.
If Louis retires as announced he will leave a muddled situation
in his wake, with Walcott, Joe Baski, Lee Savold and Ezzard Charles,
a light-heavyweight, as leading contenders for the heavyweight crown.
Charles has an August 9 date with Jimmy Bivins in Washington which
could detour his aspirations.
Lesnevich, had he hurdled the lightly regarded Mills, was to be
guaranteed $150,000 to risk the 175-pound title against Charles in
New York on September 22. That’s out now, of course, with the
Twentieth Century Sporting Club planning an elimination affair in
volving Charles, Savold, Baski and Walcott. Referees may be equip
ped with hose whips to flog ’em into action.
Paging Mr. Jackie Cranford
Mills gives no indication of becoming a champion who will capti
vate the public's imagination. So dull was his fuss with Lesnevich that
Referee Teddy Waltham threatened to halt proceedings in the ninth
round and call the episode no contest.
There's little left for Lesnevich now except to entice Mills into
another match, beat him and then re-enter the heavyweight scene
equipped with the prestige of the light-heavyweight championship.
If Mills prefers not to jeopardize his newly captured laurels Gus can t
erase the blot on his record and move toward loftier achievements.
This should be a time for remorseful reflection by Washington's
Jackie Cranford, who was two fights removed from a big money bout
in the heavyweight division when he was confronted with the frame
and fists of one Gino Buonvino at Madison Square Garden last winter.
Cranford displayed great reluctance to fight and thus was elimi
nated from consideration. Jaakie could get back in the midst of things
now. It seems. Allergy to activity apparently constitutes no barrier
to success in heavyweight ranks.
Pier&tti and Priddy Make Nats
Suffer for Letting Them Go
By Burton Hawkins
, Star Staff Corr#*pondan*
ST. LOUIS, July 30.—St. Louis
and Chicago, the supposedly soft
touch teams of the American
League, aren’t permitting the Nat*
to capitalize on those unhappy repu
tations. The Browns and White
Sox have kept the Nats in their
place—sixth place—and two former
Washington players chiefly are re
• sponsible.
Chick Pieretti, now the most
highly regarded member of the
dungeon-dwelling White Sox with
six victories, has accumulated three
wins at Washington's expense sines
being deposited on the American
League's trash pile last month.
As the Nats plunge into a five
game series with the Browns here
tonight they’re concerned principally
with stopping Jerry Priddy, also an
ex-Nat, who has compiled a ,413
Ann Gray Advances
With Big Net Upset
By the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA. July 30—Mid
dle Atlantic Champion Mrs. Ann
Gray, Washington, D. C., meets
fifth-seeded Betty Taylor, Haddon
field, N. J„ today in the semifinal
round of the Eastern States clay
court tennis championship at the
Idle Hour Tennis Club.
Second-seeded Deborah Welsh,
University of Pennsylvania star, will
meet Dot Byerly. Haddonfield. N.
J„ fourth seeded, in the other
semifinal.
Mrs. Gray scored a major upset
yesterday when she toppled Defend
ing Titlfst Mrs. Pearl Barandon,
Haddonfield. N. J„ 6—2, 6—0. Mrs.
Barandon, who won the title in
1945 and again last year, was top
seeded.
In another upset. Miss Taylor de
feated third-seedeC Sara Moore,
Washington. D. C„ 3—6, 6—3, 6—3.
Miss Welsh reached the semi
final bv defeating Mrs. Jean Lesko,
Haddonfield, N. J., 7—5, 0—6, 6—2,
while Miss Byerly defeated Mrs.
Margaret Graham, Washington, D.
C , 6—2, 7—5.
average against Washington pitch
ing this season.
Pieretti has been a major factoi
in Chicago's 9-8 edge over the Nats
this year and Priddy has enabled
the Browns to split 12 games. The
Nats aren’t getting anywhere against
the weaker clubs and keeping them
on a treadmill have been Pieretti
and Priddy.
Priddy has had an enjoyable year
against his former chums. He has
fashioned 19 hits, including 6
doubles, in 48 attempts. He has
scored 11 runs and batted across 10
more. Jerry has been heaping em
barrassment on the Nats en route
to what may be his most successful
major league season
The Narts will be battling the
Browns and a king-sized batting
slump which has seen them produce
only two runs in 20 innings, drop
ping two 2-1 games to the White
Sox. It was ironical that Mickey
Haefner and Sid Hudson, who
haven't been sensational, pitched
| commendably on those occasions,
yet absorbed their 10th defeats.
Manager Joe Kuhel, with the full
realization that the Nats will have
nothing to say concerning the pen
nant, plans to give Shortstop Angel
Fleitas a thorough examination
during the St. Louis series.
Mark Christman, 34 years old,
doesn’t figure in the Nats’ future
and Johnny Sullivan has been no
sensation in his trials at shortstop.
Kuhel is turning to Fleitas, a .354
hitter with Chattanooga before be
ing summoned to the Nats, in the
hope he’ll solve the shortstop situa
tion.
Ray Scarborough, most consistent
Nat pitcher this season, will shoot
for his ninth victory tonight. Ray
also will be bidding for his fourth
successive triumph.
The Nats paused in Lafayette,
Ind., last night long enough to take
a humiliating 7-5 defeat admin
istered by the Lafayette Red Sox
of the Indiana-Michigan Semipro
League.
Lafayette pumped Dick Welteroth
for six of its runs and six of its seven
hits in two innings and was aided
by six Washington errors—three by
Third Baseman Eddie Yost.
Slim Delion, battered for seven
hits in the first two innings, re
stricted the Nats to one hit in the
last seven. t
Baseball Standings and Schedules
FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1948.
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Results Yesterday.
Boston. 8; Detroit, 1.
Only game.
Games Today.
Wash, at St. Louis, 9:30
New York at Chicago tn>.
Phila. at Detroit (n).
Boston at Cleveland (n),
Games Tomorrow.
Wash, at St. Louis (n).
Boston at Cleveland.
New York at Chicago.
Phila. at Detroit.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Results Yesterday.
Boston, 2; Pittsburgh. 1.
Phila.. 7; Chicago, 4.
Brooklyn, 9; St. Louis, 6
New York. 5; Cine., 0.
Games Today.
St. Louis at Boston (n>.
Pittsb’gh at Br’klyn <n)
Chicago at New York tn>
Cine, at Phila. (n).
Games Tomorrow.
6t. Louis at Boston <n).
Chicago at New York.
Pittsburgh at Brooklyn.
Cincinnati at Phila.
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Olympic Mark Sfet by Swede, Then Tied by Yank
Cochran Duplicates'
larsson's 51.9 in
400-Meter Hurdles
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By Ted Smits
OLYMPIC STADIUM, Wembley.
England, July 30.—Roy Cochran of
the Los Angeles Athletic Club tied
a new Olympic record of 51.9 sec
onds for the 400-meter hurdles
today only a few minutes after it
i had been established in the semi
| finals of the event at the 1948
games.
, 'The brilliant performance of the
29-year-old instructor at the Uni
versity of Southern California fol
lowed closely the record-breaking
triumph by Iarsson of Sweden in
the first semifinal heat.
In twice wiping out the Olympic
record of 52 seconds set by Glenn
Ha: din of the United States in
1932, the two hurdlers demonstrated
that the newly laid Olympic track
is lightning fast.
A crowd of 65,000 roared its ap
proval of the first record-smashing
in the track and field section of the
international sports carnival, re
vived after a lapse of a dozen years.
U. S. High Jumper Erased.
Soon after Cochran completed his
sparkling performance, the United
States suffered its first serious re
verse when Vern McGrew of Rice
Institute missed out in the high
jump final at 6 feet 2% inches.
McGrew, winner of the event in
the final United States tryouts at
6 feet 8 >4 inches, knocked the bar
off on his first try, ran under it on
his second, and hit it squarely on
his third and last.
George Stanich of the University
of California at Los Angeles and
Dwight Eddleman of Illinois both
stayed in the running, but any
hope of an American sweep, dupli
cating the 1936 effort in the high
jump, was lost.
While the United States was
making its dominance felt on other!
fronts, the distinction of setting an
Olympic swimming record fell |
to an attractive Dutch girl, Nel Van1
Vliet, who won her heat in the 200
meter (218.72-yard) breast stroke
in 2 minutes, 54.4 seconds. The!
old record was 3:01.9.
The United States basket ball
.earn, led by the University of Ken
tucky's Alex Groza, breezed past
Switzerland. 86 to 21. Groza poured
19 points through the hoop. >
The Philippines quint defeated
Iraq, 102 to 30; Czechoslovakia,
European champ, downed Peru,
38-30; Uruguay trounced Britain,
69-17, and Korea shaded Belgian,
29-27.
The water poio ouint aunaea
Uruguay, 7 to 0.
On the red-brick track at Wem
bley stadium, before a crowd esti
mated at 50,000, the fleet Americans
enjoyed their expected successes.
Mel Patton of Southern Cali
fornia, Barney Ewell of Lancaster,
Pa„ and Harrison Dillard of .Bald
win-Wallace college all won1 their
first-round heats in the 100-meter
<109.36 yard) dash and thus quali
fied for the second round.
Dillard Wins in Breeze.
Dillard took his heat by tliree
yards without apparently pressing
in 10.4 seconds, fastest time of the
preliminaries. Ewell was clocked
in 10.5 seconds and Patton in 10.6
seconds.
The United States trio of spring
board divers—Bruce Harlan of Ohio
State, Dr. Sammy Lee of Pasadena,
Calif, and Miller Anderson of Ohio
State, grabbed first, second and
fourth place in their preliminary
after the four compulsory dives.
Jeanne Wilson Lone Failure.
Wally Ris of Iowa, Keith Carter
of Purdue and Alan Ford of Yale
found little to disturb them in the
100-meter free style swim. Ris was
timed in 58.1 seconds, the same time!
posted by Alex Jany, powerful!
Frenchman who is the event favor-1
ite. Carter took his heat in 58.7 j
seconds and Ford, world record
holder, did 59.2 seconds.
It was only in women's swimming
that the United States march was
halted. Here Jeanne Wilson, Pur
due alumnae of Chicago, failed to
make the grade in the 200-meter
(218.72 yards) breaststroke.
The record in this event was
broken twice. . First Eva Szekely of
Hungary lowered it to 3:02.2 before
Miss Van Vliet, a visitor to the
United States last summer, dropped
it still lower. Actually Miss Szekely
was the first to break an Olympic
record but she hadn’t dried herself
on the pool rim before it was wiped
out.
Service Tennis Pits
Hippenstiei, Jones
The top-ranking tennis stars of
the Air Force and Navy were to
square off today at the Army Navy
Country Club for the right to meet
the defending champion Army team
tomorrow for the Leech Cup, em
blematic of service tennis su
premacy.
Capt. Robin Hippenstiei. the Air
Force's No. 1 racket swinger, was
scheduled to face Lieut. K. K. Jones,
big gun of the Navy from the Ana
costia Naval Station in the feature I
match today. Matches were to be-!
gin at 2 p.m.
Capt. Arthur Dreyer, who with
Hippenstiei hails from headquar
ters, U. S. A. F„ and Lieut. Elston
Wyatt from Monterey, Calif., were
to oppose in another top match.
Today’s pairings:
Sinrles.
Cant. Robin Hippenstiei <A. F-) v».
feteut. K. K. Jones <N.); Capt. Arthur
rerer (A. F.) vs. Lieut. Elston Wyatt;
Maj Thomas Bonner vs Lieut. Comdr.
J. R. Behr (N.l; Lieut. Col. A. J. Evans
iA. F.) vs. Chief Yeoman E. J. Serues (N.l.
Doubles.
Hippenstiei and Dreyer (A F.) vs. Jones
and Behr <N ); Evans and Lieut. W. H.
Shivar (A. F ) vs. Wyatt and Ensirn J. H.
Doyle (N.l; Bonner and Lieut. Robert O.
Wilson (A. F. i vs. Cant. J, N. Farrin and
Capt. W. E. Howard <N.).
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
Buffalo. 7; Syracuse. 0.
Baltimore. 0: Montreal. 6.
Toronto, 9; Jersey City. 0.
Roches ter1_7j_Newarbt_6^_______
Diet: Daniel Loughran, Inc.
OLYMPICS ARE UNDER WAY—John Mark, Olympic athlete from Cambridge University, arrives
at Wembley (England) Stadium with Olympic torch on last lap of journey from Olympia, Greece,
where it was first kindled. In background is sign proclaiming ideals of Olympic athletes.
. —AP* Wirephoto.
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Track Results in Olympics
OLYMPIC STADIUM, WEM
BLEY. England, July'30 Sum
maries of the opening day’s events
in the track and field games of the
14th Olympiad:
High Jump (qualifiers In forenoon trials
at 6 feet, Its inches): A. F. Adedoyin.
Great Britain: G E. Damitio, France;
Dwight Eddleman. U. 8. A.; 8. G. 8. Gun
ham, India; Pierre Lacaze, France: Her
cules Ascune. Uruguay: A. M Jackes. Can
ada; V. A. Jadreslc, Chile: B. Gundersen,
Norway; I. O. Honkonen. Finland; B. Lei
rud. Norway: Alan Paterson, Great Brit
ain; B. Paulson, Norway; George Stanich,
U 8 A.: J L. Winter. Australia: N. O.
Nicklln, Finland: Vern McGrew, U. 8. A.;
L'oyd O. Valberg. Singapore; Hans H.
Wahli, Switzerland: G. Widenfelt. Sweden.
400-meters hurdle (437.45 yards) (firs;
two in each heat qualify for semifinals).
First heat: 1—Roy Cochran, U. 8. A :
2—J. Andre. France: 3—H. Alberti, Ar
gentina; 4—J. M. Anaricico Rodemalt. Co
lombia. Time. 53.9 seconds.
Second heat: 1—Harry Whittle. Great
Britain; 2—J. C. Arifon. France; 3—
L. Petropoulakis. Greece; 4—Mohsin Khan.
Pakistan. Time, 5H.9 seconds.
Third heat: 1—J. M. Holland. New
Zealand! 2—A. B. Storskrubb, Finland;
:(—K Korulu. Turkey: 4—M D. Pope.
Great Britain. Time 54.fi seconds.
Fourth heat; 1—O. Missoni. Italy: 2—
R. Larsson. Sweden: 3—R. T. Unsworth,
Great Britain; 4—Lira S. Guzman, Chile;
5—Mario Rosas Ruiz. Colombia. Time.
53.9 seconds. „ , .
Fifth heat: 1—Dick Ault. U. S. A : 2—
Yves I Cros, France: 3—V. Christen,
Switzerland; 4—Liang-Chianns. China.
Time. 64.7 seconds. __
Sixth heat: 1—Duncan White. Ceylon;
2— Jeff Kirk, U. 8. A.; 3—A. Westman,
Sweden; 4—W. D. Larochelle. Canada.
Time. 63.0 seconds. . , __
100-meter dash (109.36 yards) (first
two in each heat qualify lor second
round) *.
First heat: 1—Barney Ewell. U. 8. A.;
3— Alan McCorquodale. Great Britain; 3—
L. Laing, Jamaica. Time. 10.6' seconds.
Second heat; 1—Mel Patton. U. 8. A.:
2—I. Zanoni Hausen, Brazil: 3—J. V.
O’Brien. Canada. Time, 10.6 seconds.
Third heat: 1—Lloyd B. Labeaeb. Pan
ama; 2—B. Goldovany Hungary; 3—F. X
! Mahoney. Bermuda Time. 10.5 seconds.
Fourth heat: 1—J. J. Lopez Testa,
Uruguay; I—K. J. Jones. Great Britain.
—J. M. Meyer, Holland Time. 10.5
seconds. „ _
Fifth heat: t—Harrison Dtllar. U. 8. A :
2—H. Pereira da Silva. Brazil: 3—P.
Bloch. Norway. Time, 10.4 seconds
Sixth heat: 1—E. MacDonald Bailey,
Great Britain; 2—Haulcer Clausen, Ice
land; 3—A. Van Heerden, South Africa.
Time. 10.5 seconds.
Seventh heat: 1—J. F. Treloar. Aus
tralia: 2— R. C. Valmy. France; 3— G.
Csanyi. Hungary. Time. 10.5 seconds.
Eighth heat: 1—Rafael Fortun Chacon,
Cuba: 2—J. L. Bartram. Australia; 3—B.
L. McKenzie. Jamaica. Time. 10.7 seconds.
Ninth heat: 1—M. J. Curotta, Australia;
2—G. Bonnhofl, Argentina; 3—Raul Ma
zorra. Cuba. Time, 10.7 seconds.
Tenth heat; 1—G. G S. Lewis. Trin
idad; Z—E. Haggis, Canada; 3—W. Perez,
Uruguay. Time, 10.08 seconds.
Eleventh heat: 1—I. Vandewiele. Bel
gium: 2—J. Rodrigues de Morals. Portu
gal; 3—A. Labarthe Celery. Chile. Time,
ID.8 seconds
Twelfth heat; 1—M. Fayos, Uruguay;
2— E L. R Phillips, India: 3—L. Bartha,
Hungary. Time. 11.0 seconds.
800 meters run (874.9 yards! (first
round: first tour In each heat qualify for
semi-finals tomorrow):
First heat: 1—Marcel Hansenne.
France; 2—H. J. Parlett. Great Britain;
3— John W. Ramsay. Australia; 4—Karl
R. Volkmer. Switzerland. Time, 1:54.8
seconds.
Second heat: 1—Herb Barten, U. B A.:
2—Doug Harris, New Zealand: 3—C. T.
White. Great Britain: 4—R. Rosier,
Belgium. Time, 1:55.8 seconds.
Third heat: 1—Nells Holst-Sorsenscn.
Denmark; 2—B. Vade, Norwiy; 3—Bob
Chambers. U. 8. A.; 4—J. Brys. Belgium.
Time, 1:54.2 seconds. __ .
Fourth heat: 1—Arthur Wint, Jamaica;
2—F. A. De Ruyter. Holland; 3— J.
Barthel, Luxembourg; 4—V. Winter,
Czechoslovakia. Time. 1:63.9 seconds.
Fifth heatil—O. Ljunggren, Sweden;
2—R. C. H. Chef D'Hotel. France: Hans
Albert Streuli. Switzerland' 4—H. G.
Tarraway, Great Britain. Time, 1:50.1
Sixth heat: I—Mai Whitfield, U. 8. A;.
i Bengtfson. Sweden; 3—J. W. M.
; Hutchins, Canada: G. Tviayordome.
France. Time, 1:52.8 seconds.
Vaudeville Precedes
All-Star Ball Game
The Boys’ Club of Washington
All-Stars will meet the Allentown
(Pa.> All-Stars' tonight at Griffith
Stadium at 8:30 in the third annual
intercity all-star* classic sponsored
by the Optimist Club for fhe benefit
oi the Boys’ Club work fund.
Both teams boast the top scholas
tic baseball talent from their respec
tive areas. Playing for the Wash
ington team are such outstanding
stars as Bobby Johnson and Jim
Pantos from Central, Ed Claxton
from Georgetown Prep, Don Hall
and Don Snider from Wilson, Jack
Malarkey from Western, Jake Doh
ner, Gene Calnan and others. Sni
der, one of the top hurlers in scho
lasic play last season, is expected to
get the starting assignment.
The fun begins at 7 o'clock with
vaudeville acts, circus clowns and
bands on the program. At 8 o’clock
a special short game will be played
between representatives from radio
and press and a team made up of
former big league stars.
Earl Whitehill, Hal Schumacher,
Max Bishop, Joe Judge. Bill Werber,
Bozie Berger, Jim Castiglia, Buck
Jones and Pepco Barry will play
for the “old-timers,” while the press
radio gang will field such ‘‘estab
lished stars” as Eddie Cook, Jim
Gibbons. Walter Haight, Bill Brun
dage, Bob Wolff, Jerry Strong, Shir
ley Povich, Ray Michael and Les
Sands.
Olympic Protest
By Egypt Upheld
By the Associated Press
OLYMPIC STADIUM, WEMB
LEY, July 30.—Egypt filed the
first official protest of the
Olympic Games today—and its
claim was allowed.
The Egyptians protested
against the officiating in last
night’s water polo game in which
Hungary defeated Egypt, 4-2.
Officials upheld the protest.
The game will be replayed to
night with new officials.
The particular objection to the
officiating was not disclosed.
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Semifinal Net Foes
By the Associated Press
SOUTH BEND, Ind., July 30.—
Defending Champion Tony Trabert
of Cincinnati met eighth-seeded
Keston Deimling of River Forest,
111, in the semifinal round of the
Western Junior tennis tournament
today.
Second-seeded Gil Bogley of Chevy
Chase, Md., and third-seeded Dick
Mouledous of New Orleans met in
the second semifinal match.
In doubles play, Trabert and
George Gentry of La Jolla, Calif.,
opposed Bogley and Jack Yates of
Chevy Chase. Gerald Dewitts of
Vallejo, Calif., and Ernest Dubray
of San Francisco were to play
Tommy Boys of Forest Hills, N. Y.,
and William Long of New York City.
The semifinal matches in the boys’
doubles also were scheduled for
today.
Ray Clarke Is Hero
Of Gas Nine's Win
Ray Clarke of the Washington
Gas-Light Co. baseball team started
yesterday’s Departmental League
game against the Union Printers at
first base and smacked a triple and
single to lead the Gasmen’s 12-hit
attack.
After three innings of play and
the score tied at 2-2, Clarke toe*
over the pitching duties and hurled
his team to a 5-3 win.
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Giants' Pitching Staff
Suddenly Becomes
League Sensation
By Jack Hand
Auociatcd Pnil Sport* Wrltof
What happened to the New York
Giants’ pitching staff?
Spiders spin cobwebs in the Polo
Grounds bullpen. Starters finish
without relief. Fireman Kenny
Trinkle doesn’t even make the box
scores.
This strange situation has existed
for almost a week. Three straight
shutouts by Larry Jansen, Clint Har
tung and Dave Koslo have left the
National League reeling.
Seven complete games in eight
pitching starts have lifted the club
past the St. Louis Cardinals into
third place. The. hurlers throw
shutouts like honest-to-goodness
pitchers and not the humpty dumpty
throwers they are supposed to her
Koslo, particularly, has come into
his own in recent days. Two straight
no-run jobs, including yesterday’s
5-0 effort against Cincinnati, stamp
him as a most important factor In
the club’s pennant hopes. Before
that he hadn’t thrown a complete
game since May 9.
Wallops Grand-Slammer.
Walker Cooper eased Koslo’s task
yesterday with a bases-loaded homer
in the first after the Giants already
had scored one off Ken Raffens
berger. It turned out to be more
than enough, despite four straight
singles by the Reds’ Danny Lit
whiler.
Brooklyn clubbed the Cardinals,
9-6, permitting New York to take
over third place. Neither club gaiped
on front-running Boston which
edged Pittsburgh, 2-1. The Braves'
lead remains intact at 5 hi games.
It was the 12th victory in 16
games for the Brooks since Burt
Shotton returned as manager.
Bill Voiselle, who flopped with the
Giants after a brilliant freshman
season, collected win No. 11 for
Boston. He managed to weather
several dangerous situations and
drove home the decisive run with
one of his rare hits. Mel Queen
was tagged with his third defeat
in the second when he was chased
during a four-hit attack that netted
only one run.
PIEDMONT LEAGUE.
Norfolk, 4; Richmond, 0
Roanoke. 10; Portsmouth. 1
Newport News, XI; Lynchburg. 6.
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Lesnevich-Mills,
Zale vs. Cerdan
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NEW YORK, July 30.—A box
ing doubleheader featuring world
title bouts between light heavy
weights Gus Lesnevich and Fred
die Mills, and middleweights
Tony Zfcle and, Marcel Cerdan,
was Announced today by the
Tournament \Of Champions, Inc.
The bouts will be held in Eb- i
bets Field, Brooklyn, probably 1
September 23.
The bouts, the site and dates i
still must be approved by the New
York State Athletic Commission. ,
Andy Niderreiter, promoter for
the Tourney of Champions, said
that while the date still was in
definite the bouts would be held
on either September 23, 24 or.25.
Although the Cerdan-Zale bout
had been arranged previously, it
was not until today that the pro
motional group entered in the
light-heavy-weight picture. Les
nevich lost his title to Mills in
London on July 26 by decision.
23 Subpar Scores
Mark First Round
Of Western Golf
ty th« Associated Press
BUFFALO, N. Y., July 30.—'The
thick, rolling fairways of Brookfield
Country Club hold few problems for
the cream of America’s touring golf
crop.
The high-doilar pros wasted little
time yesterday in walloping ^he par
72, 6,663-yard layout with 23 subpar
rounds as the 45th Western Open
championship got under way with
$15,000 in the kitty.
Clayton Heafner, the hulking Tar
heel from Charlotte, N. C., took the
biggest bite of the day—a course
record-equaling 66. Right behind
him with a 67 was Ben Hogan, the
Hershey hot-shot and year’s top
money winner with $22,797 in prizes
in his jeans.
Surprise of the day was the 42
year-old, slight and balding George
Smith, Country Club of Buffalo pro,
who took down third position with
a 68.
The scorer also gave Dr. Cary Mid
dlecoff, the Memphis dentist, a 68,
but the good doctor called a penalty
on himseif on the 17th green where,
he said, he moved his ball while
flicking & cigaret paper away from it.
That put him in a seven-way
traffic jam at 69 with Bill Nary of
Phoenix, Ariz.; Skip Alexander of
'Lexington, N. C.; Stan Staszowski
of Winstead, Conn.; Mike Parco,
the driving-range pro from Ken
more, N. Y.; the ebullient Jimmy
Demaret of Ojai, Calif., and Ed
(Porky) Oliver of Seattle.
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Whitfield, in Dual Role,
Seeks Immortal Spot
As Olympic Runner I
ly tti« Awockit-d Prni
LONDON, July 30.—Mai Whit
field, the Ohio State sophomore who
doubles as an Army sergeant, has
cut out for himself an Olympic task
that, if successful, will place his
name among the track and field
immortals.
The powerfully-built 23-year-old
Negro middle distance runner is
fully aware of the back-breaking
schedule ahead of him.
Starting today he has to run
three 800s in three days of com
petition, take a day’s rest and then
compete in four 400s in two days.
This is all on the assumption he
reaches the finals—and Whitfield is
not only confident he’ll reach the
showdown race, he thinks he’s going
to win both.
After the individual double is fin
ished, Mai is entered in the 1.600
meter relay. Whether he runs for
the United States team is dependent
in great part on how the 6-foot.
165-pounder feels after his week
long efforts and also on whether
Track Coach Dean Cromwell think:
Whitfield can handle the two extrr
400s.
Whitfield’s ambition to become thr
first double winner in the middle
distances of 400 and 800 has at
tracted the attention of other mem
bers of his squad. Many of hi
fellow runners think Mai is goin
to make it, mainly because of hi
strength and confidence.
There’s one big obstacle in hi
path in the 400—Herb McKenley. a
tall Jamaican who competed in th
United States for Illinois and th
Shore A. C. of New Jersey. Whil
running and training in the State
Herb set marks of 46 flat in the 44 '
and 45.9 in the 400 meters The*
pending world records are almoi
incredible, but any one who ht“
seen McKenley move well out by,th -
300-yard mark can understand.
Whitfield's best time for the 4C'
is the 48.6 he ran in winning th
United States Olympic final tryou*
at Evanston. Yet, he feels he ca
take his friend McKenley.
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The Army tennis team defeat*
Justice. 4-1, yesterday in a Depart •
mental Tennis League match.
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