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Several Problems Crop Up as Redskins Near Training Start By Lewis F. Atchison On the verge of the start of their training season and with the opening exhibition game only about four weeks away, the Red skins already find themselves with more problems than any body anticipated. Steve Meilinger, a four-star special from Kentucky who does everything hut line the field, may be called to military service before the season gets under way. Laurie Nleml, a reliable defensive tackle, is undecided whether to continue with the Redskins, play with Vancouver in Canada, or remain in Wash ington, his home State, to work his ailing father’s farm. Gene Brito, a corking good end, apparently has made up his mind to live on the West Coast, whether or not he plays pro football. So has Halfback Johnny Williams. Paul Lips comb, the big tackle who moved to the Coast to become a beer distributor, hasn’t signed either. And, it seems significant that all these names, Meilinger’s ex cepted. do not appear on the club roster published yesterday. However, this could be one of the Redskins’ better seasons of recent years. Coach Curly Lam beau guided the team to a better tnan .500 average, with six vic tories against five defeats and one tie, last year for the first time since 1948. Improvement in some spots, as at quarterback, for example, offensive guard and end, could make the season interesting for home town fans, even if the Red skins weren’t up to the role of title contenders. But recent events have clouded that bright picture. With all the other brass in California, General Manager Dick McCann Was due to leave late today for the Los Angeles training camp. Rookies and veterans obtained from riv^l' Na tional Football League clubs dur ing the off season are due to re port Sunday. Holdovers from last year are scheduled to arrive the following Wednesday. That is when Lambeau and his staff will know exactly what problems he faces. A. L., 11; N. L.,9 NATIONAL. _ AB. R. H. O. A. I. Hsmner. 2|» 3 0 0 0 0 0 SehoMidmut. 2b 2 o o l 0 o Dark, u 5 0 112 0 Snider, es-rs 4 2 3 2 0 0 Muslal. rs-ll 6 12 2 10 Klusaewtkl. lb 4 2 2 6 0 0 Hodges, lb 10 0 10 0 lih ? f 8 Robinson. U _ 2 11 O 0 0 Maya, of 2 1110 0 Cam Danella. e 3 0 10 0 0 Burgees. « 0 0 0 l o 0 Roberts. « 1 0 o 0 0 0 1 Mueller 1 0 l o 0 O Antonelll. p 0 0 o 0 0 o .TThomai 1 O 0 0 0 0 Spahn. p 0 0 0 0 0 0 Grissom, p 0 0 0 0 0 0 6Bell 1110 0 0 Conley. D 0 0 0 0 0 0 Ersklne. p 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 40 ~9 14 24 "I ~0 AMERICAN. ... ~ , AB. R. H. O. A. X. Mlnoeo. ls-rs 4 12 10 1 Plereall, rs 0 0 0 0 0 0 Aril a. 2b 3 18 110 Keegan, p Q 0 o 0 0 o Stone, p 0 0 0 0 0 0 ODoby. of 1110 0 0 Mantle, es 6 1 2 2 0 0 Truck*, p 0 0 0 0 0 0 terra, e 4 2 2 6 0 0 osen, lb-8b 4 2 3 7 0 0 oone. 3b 4 1113 0 TVernon. lb 1 0 0 1; 0 0 Bauer, rs 2 0 110 0 Porterfield, p 1 0 0 0 0 0 4Fox. 2b 2 0 110 0 Carraaquel. a* 6-11540 Ford. t> 1 0 0 0 0 0 Conauegra. p 0 0 0 0 0 0 Lemon, p 0 0 0 0 0 0 SWllliam*. If 2 1 0 2 0 0 Noren. If 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total* 39 H 17 27 ~8 1 1 Doubled for Roberts In 4th. 2Struck out for Lemon In 4th. 3Struck out for Antonelli In 6th. 4Struck out for Porterfield in 7th. SHomered for Grissom in Bth. 6Homered for Stone in Bth. fßtruck out for Boone In Bth. National 000 620 020— 9 American 004 121 03x—11 __ Runs batted in—Rosen <5 >, Boone, Kluszewskl (3). Jablonakl. Robinson (2). Mueller. Avila (2). Bell (2). Doby. Fox (2). Two-base hits—Robinson. Muel ler, Snider. Home runs—Rosen (2), Boone. Kluszewskl. Bell. Doby. Sacri fice fly—Avila. Double play—Avila to Carrasauel to Rosen. Left on base*— National. 6; American, 9. Bases on balls—Off Ford. 1; off Roberta. 2: off Spahn, 1: off Conley, 1: off Trucks, 1. Struck out—By Roberts. 6; by Anto nelli. 2; by Porterfield. 1: by Grissom, 2: bv Keegan, 1; by Ersklne, l. Hite—Off Ford. 1 in 3 Innings; off Roberta. 6 in 3 Innings; off Conauegra. 5 in H In ning; off Lemon, 1 in % inning; off An tonelli. 4 In 2 Innings; off Soahn. 4 in 3 i inning; off Porterfield. 4 in 3 innings; off Grissom. 0 in lli innings: off Kee gan. 3 In S Inning; off Stone, 0 in H inning; off Conley. 3 in % inning; off Ersklne, 1 in % inning; off Trucks. 0 in 1 inning. Runs and earned runs— Off Ford. 0-0: off Roberts. 4-4; off Con suegra. 5-5: off Lemon, 0-0: off Anto nelll, 3-3: off Spahn, 1-1; off Porter field. 2-2: off Grissom. 0-0: off Keegan. 2-2: off Stone. 0-0; off Conley. 3-3; off" Ersklne. 0-0; off Trucks. 0-0. Winning pitcher—Stone. Losing pitcher—Conley. Umpires—Rommel (A.L.i. Stewart <N L.), Psparella (A.L.). Ballanfant (N.L.). Honochick (A.L.i. Gorman (NX.). Time —3:10. Attendance—6B.7sl. Receipts —5292,678 (gross); $259,204.01 (net). Clair Bee Offers • Cash and 15 Draft Choices for Shue By the Associated Frost BALTIMORE. July 14.—Clair Bee. owner-coach of the Balti / more Bullets, says he has offered Eddie Gottlieb, Philadelphia coach, some cash and the rights to 15 players on previous draft and negotiation lists, for Gene Shue. Shue. who broke all scoring records at the University of Maryland, was the No. 1 choice of the Philadelphia Warriors in the last National Basketball As sociation draft. Bee didn’t disclose the names of the 15 players he would in clude in such a deal. However, the list would not Include any recent draftees or any of last year 1 * player*. Own A FORD? We need Fords tor buyers right away. It’ll pay you to get our big trade-in offer before you trade. Arlington MOTOR CO., INC. •tett mnn itont a 7-0707 a '' '"gfte-' ■ ■ ■ \ item M PE ' ' JM 1 BN •‘WSrBKb s.■ * < ■>-WwSMm*W Mj y,. ■ ’ b x sidg&S&L x hhHSHB ATTEMPTED STEAL OF HOME TOUCHES OFF RHUBARB-—Red Schoendienst stir* up dust and a rhubarb in bis unsuccessful steal of home in the eighth inning of the All-Star game yesterday. Catcher Tori Berra has tagged him out and Plate Umpire Bill Stewart makes the call. Stewart’s decision brought howls from Coaches Leo Durocher and Charlie Grimm. —AF Wlrephoto. Rice, Dean of Sports Writers, Still on Job as Death Comes (Continued From Page C-l.) After receiving his preparatory education at Nashville Military Academy and the Wallace Uni versity School In Nashville, he obtained his B. A. degree in 1901 from Vanderbilt, where he cap tained and played shortstop for the baseball team. He also played two years of basketball at Vanderbilt and was a promis ing freshman football player un til he suffered a series of injuries, including broken bones. Often a Befuddled Bettor. Rice loved golf and horses, confirming his opinions on the latter with visits to the sellers’ windows. Although he saw all of the great modern thorough breds raced in this country, from Regret and Exterminator to Man o’ War, Citation and Noor, and wrote expertly and even eruditely of the horses, he frequently was a befuddled bettor. It was not uncommon to see Rice in the press box at Churchill Downs or Belmont or Pimlico with a handful of $2 tickets on most of the runners In a single race. “I can’t beat the horses,” he would say with a wry grin, “but I have a lot of fun try ing.” Rice’s enthusiasm for racing led him to call the Seabiscut- War Admiral match race at Pimlico in 1938 the greatest sports event he ever witnessed. Golf was a game which fasci nated Rice, who delighted in sitting down with the leading players and talking of styles, techniques and form. Early in his writing career, he developed a format for a golf column—a lesson from the lips of the .great est stars. It remained one of his most widely read types of columns until his death. He rarely chastised an athlete, and when he did Rice wrote so that his culprit sometimes was unaware of the rebuke. Unlike many pf his famous contemporaries. Rice steadfastly refused to leave the sports scepe after reaching the heights. Whereas such as Westbrook Peg ler, Quentin Reynolds, Heywood Broun, Ring Lardner and Damon Runyon sought other writing fields. Rice preferred to continue on the sports beat. Even when he dashed off a book of poetry he maintained his column and an Interest in sports that never waned. Saw Stars at Their Peaks. Although he knew the great and near-great in all walks of life, and was sought by them, Rice’s chief joy was to sit around an informal council table in a hotel room, boxers' gymnasium, baseball training camp or tap room and talk and listen of sports. He spanned the years as no other sports authority. ; He saw Jim Thorpe and Glenn Davis at their peaks. He watched Maurice McLoughlin and Bill Tilden, and also Jack Kramer. He compared Ted Ray and Bam Snead. Earle Sande and Eddie Arcaro, Jim Jeffries and Joe Louis, Wagner and Lou Boudreau. But he never forced an opinion. BEN HUNDLEY One of the World's Largest Tire Dealers for Over 30 Years 34 trol 5 S^. W ‘ (|f TUchermon 2-5100 1,753 of Our Factory Reconditioned * BLUE RIBBON TIRE & TUBE JBSB All Price* Ineled* T*x * fj J S 5.50x15 6.00x16 7.00x15 5.50x16 6.50x13 7.00x16 | i > 6.40x15 6.50x16 7.60x16 6.70x15 6.78X16 6.00x15 WBHMR^SeVI 7.10x15 7,60x15 8.20x15 W 6.00x16 Jeep Tires • 6-Ply • $5.00 ■ «. 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Then he would visit the Cardinals at their St. Petersburg training camp, inter view players, write his column, drive to Sunshine Park for the horse racing, dash off a maga zine article, try his luck at the night dog races and wind up the day by gathering more column material at a sports bull session. Picked Grid All-Americas. His death will confuse, more than ever, the selection of the All-America football teams. Rice became the acknowledged suc cessor to Walter Camp as the foremost picker iff All-America players, although, unlike Camp, he delegated scouts veteran sportswrlters in all sections of the land—to advise him. Al though all wire services also choose such teams, Rice’s selec tions for a national weekly rank ed on a par or outranked most others, such was the magic of his name. A well-preserved man who looked younger than his years, Rice began his newspaper career shortly after leaving college. He joined a semipro ball club that toured the Southern States in 1901, but by midsummer his parents advised him that a per manent job had been found for him in Nashville. The job was that of an assist ant shipping clerk, charged with marking goods for 10 hours a day, six days a week. Rice didn’t remain long enough to see a payday. Jumped at Reporting Job. When a new paper, the Nash ville News, was published. Rice applied forthe s job as sports editor. “There is no such job,” he was informed, but he was told that if he covered sports, plus the State Capitol, county courthouse and the customs office, he would be paid $5 a week. Rice, who later was to average well over SIOO,OOO annually, Jumped at the chance. After a year with the Nashville News, Rice came to Washington to join the staff of the Forester magazine, but illness cut short his tenure in the Capital and he returned to Atlanta, where he worked for the Atlanta Journal for three years. Then he joined the Cleveland News in 1905 and a year later went to the Nash ville Tennessean. That same year—l9o6—Rice married Katherine Hollis of p •jltifWi'if TO' - innp- a ifififi ifMinrn - 1 —AP Wlrephoto. GRANTLAND RICE. AmeriCus, Ga.—known to legions of friends as Miss Kitty. A daughter, Florence, became a well known motion picture actress. His husky voice, never divorced from its drawl, was familiar to millions of radio listeners. Rice, who attended his first World Series In 1905, helped to broad cast the first series to go on the air. That was in 1922. Attracted Attention In 1911. Rice began to attract na tional attention in 1911, when he joined the old New York Evening Mail as sports colum nist. He shifted to the New York Tribune in 1914 and remained until 1930, when bis home port became the New York Sun, now the World-Telegram and Sun, and his column became the most-widely syndicated sports feature in history. His column was syndicated by the North American Newspaper Alliance and Bell Syndicate. Rice’s newspaper career was in terrupted only once, when he enlisted as a private during World War I and rose to a first lieutenancy with the 115th Field Artillery by the Armistice. For a part of his time overseas he was attached to the Army news paper. “Stars and Stripes." Many of Rice’s poems, which appeared in book form as Songs of the Stalwart (1917), Sports of 1923 (1924), Songs of the Open (1924) and Only the Brave (1941), were adjudged by critics to be stirring, melodious and artful. One of his most widely quqted verses, which adorns In numerable gymnasium doorways and for mahy years has been recited at high school banquets, might well be his epitaph. It contains these lines: “When the Great Scorer comes To mark against your name; Hell write not ‘won’ or lost,’ But how you played the game.” Additional Sports on Next Two Pages | 3p.9i | ( »^ffi‘"-49' 00 1 ST. 3-1191 land PENTAGON AUTO SEAT COVERS 1 |» S. Glebe Rd., Arlington, Ve. • JA. 8-6737 HH TwoD. C. Girts Settle Junior Tennis Title Special Dispatch to The Star WHEELING, W. Va.. July 14. —Carol McCord and LorettS Lowe of Washington, D. C„ clash today in the junior finals of the Middle Atlantic girls and junior girls tennis championships. Miss McCord reached the title round yesterday by defeating Fern Lee Kellmyer of Charles ton, W. Va., 6—o, 6—l and Don na Floyd of Washington, 3—6, 6—2, 6—2, and Miss Lowe de feated Snookie Woods of Wheel ing in the semifinals, 6—3. 6—o. Erased from the junior division. Miss Floyd moved into the finals of the girls section with a 6—4, 6—o victory over Diane Kaldes of Washington. She will play top-seeded Pat Hubbard of Washington, who eliminated Ann Sinwell of Baltimore, 6—l, 6—l. In doubles competition. Miss Hubbard and Miss Floyd won a girls’ division semifinal over Pat Cochran and Martha Reeves of Wheeling. 6—o, 6—o, and Miss Sinwell and Julia Johnson of Baltimore downed Annie Lomax and Miss Kaldes, both of Wash ington, 6—2, 6—l, to reach the finals, which will be played to day. Ih the junior doubles semifinals today, Miss McCord and Miss Hubbard meet McGregor Stewart and Miss Woods, both of Balti more, and Jane Meleney of Be thesda and Sydney Burt of Wheeling play Miss Lowe and Miss Floyd. Baseball (Continued From Page C-l.) only a game and a half behind the Phillies, Jthough, and a few Thomson-manufactured base hits could get the Braves into third place. The Dodgers had some good news of their own. Johnny Podres, the 21-year-old rookie lefthander, who underwent an appendectomy June 23, is back with the club, although not quite ready to pitch. At the time he was stricken, he was sporting 7-4 record, the best on the team. Further more, Manager Walt Alston has been struggling along with just one southpaw—Preacher Roe— who has been used only in spots. The majors get back into full swing tomorrow. In the Na tional, Philadelphia plays a twi light-night double-header at Cincinnati; Pittsburgh visits Chicago for two games, while Brooklyn plays another night contest at Milwaukee and St. Louis entertains New York, also at night. There are three night games in the American LChgue—Chi cago at Washington, Cleveland at Philadelphia and Baltimore at New York. Detroit is at Boston for a day-night twin bill.’ Rosen's Ball Game Shows That Form Isn't Important (Continued From Page C-l.) the winning pitcher, Rookie Stone, furnished fuel fen- fan talk. Stone, who came Into the game in the eighth inning when the Nationals were in front, 9-8, and had runners on first and third with two out, was chosen because Snider was at bat. The lefthanded Brooklyn slugger had just put together two singles and a double. While Stone was facing the hitter, Red Schoendienst of the Cardinals broke for home. Red had a good lead, but Stone’s throw to Yogi Berra nabbed him to end the Inning. Leo Durocher and CharJle Grimm, the coaches, screamed balk, but Umpire Bill Stewart calmly dusted off the plate. Then, in the last half of the eighth, Stengel’s gang dusted off Conley and Ersklne. The Washington contingent of Bob Porterfield', Vernon and, of course, Stone, did all right, everything considered. Porter field pitched three of the middle innings and got hurt only when Ted Kluszewskl hit one of the game’s six homers with a man on base. This made it 7-5 for the Nationals In the- top of the fifth, but when Porterfield left in the seventh he was ahead, 8-7. Vernon was sent up in the eighth to bat for Ray Boone, a third-inning home run hitter and he looked at a third strike from Ersklne. But to show how Stengel coifld ♦ do no wrong, Mickey was used at first base m the final inning while Rosen was moved to third, his normal position. It was an extremely fortunate move because Virgil Thicks, pitching the ninth after Doby hit for Stone, walked Snider, the first batter. Then Musial, after fouling two pitches into the rightfleld stands, slammed a screaming drive down the first-base line. Only a very capable first baseman such as Vernon would have touched the ball. As it was, Musial’s smash nearly knocked Mickey down. But he blocked it and beat the i Cardinal star to the' bag to ease what might have been an ex tremely delicate situation. The spectacle, which increased the American’s edge to 13 games to 8. was one of those that kept spectators looking at the score- i board to see which side was in front. Stengel’s band climbed all i over Robin Roberts of the Phils for four runs in the third. Back came the Nationals to score five in the fourth off Sandy Con suegra of the White Sox. Bob Lemon put out the fire. The Americans tied it at 5-5 in their half of the fourth, but Sthe fifth the Nationals took e lead at 7-5. This lasted half an inning, or just long enough for Rosen to tag Johnny Anto nelli- for his second homer with Berra on base. Thus it was 7-7. In the sixth the Americans again moved in front, 8-7, with a run off Warren Spahn, but then the Nationals charged again in the eighthjphen Gus Bell hit a pinch homer off Bob Keegan to make 9-8. This was as short lived as their other two leads, thanks to Doby’* pinch-homer and Fox’s banjo single that wound It up. Kenwood Women Beat WGCC Tennis Team The women’s tennis team of Kenwood Country Club won three of four doubles and two of three singles in downing Wash ington Golf and Country Club, 5-3, in a match at Washington yesterday. JT# M r *. Galbreath (Kenwood defeated Mrs. Rit Cailin. 6—3, i Mr*. 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He had a third-round match with Sammy Giammalva of Houston and, should he beat Giammalva, another following with A1 Kuhn of Northwestern University. Trabert, top-seeded here, took the court briefly yesterday after 25 hours of steady traveling from Europe. He defeated Ber nard Frank of Evanston, 6-1, 6-2, in a second-round match that took only 36 minutes. Meantime, the men’s tourney lost its first-seeded player. Fred Hagist of Berkeley, Calif., seeded No. 6, was eliminated by veter an Seymour Greenberg of Chi cago, 6-2, 6-2. Another upset occurred in the women’s division, where third seeded Althea Gibson, Negro star from New York, was upset Plaza Sport Shop lOHi fir E St*. N.W. • REpublic 7-2545 Agents for A. G. Spalding & Bros . Open Thursday 9 A.M. to 9 P.M. • Free Parking Star Plaza SUMMER SPECIAL! ' (y Ref. S2OJO " vw SPINNING V OUTFIT . [tot- 99 ] I MB; I [ Rpl Jlr * Reg. $12.00 Spinning Real ...» # Reg. $7.50 Spinning Rod | • Reg. 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