Detroit Receives Jolt
F rom Philadelphia, 4-3
With their eyes gleaming almost as much as the
trophies, swimming coaches Art Adamson, and
Emil “Mammy” Mamaliga look over a few of
the awards won by the College Station swimming
team this summer. Not shown in the picture are
the trophies which were won at the weekend meet
in Golfcrest.
Philadelphia, Aug. 29—(A 5 )—Pen
nant hopes of the Detroit Tigers,
now leading the American League
by one game, received a severe
jolt yesterday as they dropped a
4-3 decision to Philadelphia.
It was the A’s second triumph
in two days over the Tigers and
the victim was Hal Newhouser,
prince of the Detroit mound corps.
Little Bobby Shantz recorded his
seventh win and held the Tigers
scoreless until the eighth. Bob
Swift then homered. Two singles
and a balk resulted in a second fun.
In the ninth, Johnny Groth pound
ed another Shantz pitched over
the wall but it was too late.
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SPORTS
TUBS., AUG. 29, 1950 Page 3
Musial Holds Firm
As NL’s Top Hitter
New York, Aug. 29—UP)—Al
though his batting average tailed
off eight points last week, Stan
Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals
still held a firm grip on fist place
in the National League Batting
Derby.
The Ace St. Louis infielder-out
fielder has carved a .355 average.
Pittsburgh’s Johnny Hopp re
tained his second place rating with
a .340 mark. Jackie Robinson of
Brooklyn, defending champ, con
tinued to limp backwards. He’s
now batting .330.
Among the pitchers, Frank Hil
ler of the Cubs has compiled the
highest percentages, .833. He’s won
10 games while losing only two.
Alpine Wins Again
At Semi-Pro Meet
Wichita, l£as., Aug. 29—(A 5 )—
The Casa Grande, Ariz., Apcos
eliminated the Ijpwry Air Force
Base nine, Denver, from the Na
tional semipro baseball tourney
1-0 yesterday.
The Alpine, Texas, Cowboys pow
ered to a 7-3 second I’ound win
over the Worland, Wyo., Indians
on a 14-hit barrage. It was Wor-
land’s first defeat.
College Station Swimmers
Places Strong At Golfcrest
By RAY HOLBROOK
College Station swimmers end
ed their summer season this past
weekend at the Golfcrest Invita
tional meet where they won the
13 and under division Friday, took
second behind the Cor'k Club in
the girls’ and second behind Golf
crest in the women’s division Sat
urday, and finished in the run-
ner-up slot of the boys’ and were
third in the mens’ divisional Sun
day.
Amassing 62 points in the meet,
College Station was the unofficial
team champion (no team champ
ionship was awarded) with the
Cork Club second with 54 and
Golfcrest third with 44.
In Saturday night’s meet Cork
Club won the girls’ division with
30 points with 28 for the local
tankers, and Golfcrest followed
with 25 in a tie with San An
tonio.
Golfcrest and Texas Aquatic
Club won the boys’ and the mens’
division, respectively.
Pete Hickman of College Station
was the individual star of Friday’s
meet, winning the 33 l,/3 freestyle,
100 freestyle, 33 1/3 backstroke,
and swimming on the winning boys’
relay.
Pat Wilson of the Cork Club
was the outstanding mermaid Fri
day, winning the 33 1/3 freestyle,
100 freestyle, and the 33 1/3 back-
stroke.
College Station’s Nancy Hale
looked good placing second behind
Miss Wilson in each of the above
events.
Kay Parnell—Outstanding
Standing out among the per
formers in the girls’ division meet
was Kay Parnell, a local mermaid.
Miss Parnell defeated the powerful
swimmer Pat Trant in the 100
freestyle.
Miss Parnell is one of the pro
ducts of Coach Art Adamson and
has progressed steadily through the
season. The first place win ac
quired by Miss Parnell in the 100
was the only first garnered by Col
lege Station in the girls’ portion.
Jane Kneip, 15-year-old swim
mining sensation from San Antonio
was the star performer of the
women’s division, won by Golf
crest with 57 1/2 points. As men
tioned before, the locals were sec
ond with 47 1/2 while San Antonio
trailed close behind with 40 points.
Miss Kneip won the 200 and 100
freestyle, the individual medley,
and swam on the winning relay.
Celia Buchan of Golfcrest pushed
Miss Kneip for high honors as she
ran off and left the field in the
400 and 800 freestyle and was sec
ond in the 200 freestyle.
Sunday’s meet of the boys’ divi
sion was easily won by the Golf
crest crew with' 74 points while
the College swimmers garnered
only 34, and the Cork Club finished
a poor third with only 12.
Weick Wins Only 1st
The only first place won in the
meet by College Station was taken
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by Dick Weick in the 100 breast
stroke. No individual won more
than a single first place in the
meet. Charlton Haddon from Golf
crest, however, won the boys’ 200
freestyle, and later in the men’s
division was victorious in t)ie 400
freestyle and finished second in
both the 200 freestyle and the
1500 meter swim.
Swamping the field in the men’s
division, the Tekas Aquatic Club
of Austin piled up 88 points whije
Golfcrest was second with 49 and
the local tankers totaled only 35.
The TAG swimmers won every
event but two— the 400 freestyle
and the 200 individual medley.
The individual medley was won
by Van Adamson, who ha? a knack
for swimming this paxiicular event,
gaining College Station’s only first
in the men’s class.
Other swimmers from the local
area to place in the women’s divi-
?ion include Martha Ergle, who
was second in the 100 breaststroke;
Patsy Bonnen, third in the 100
freestyle; Helene Boatner, who was
third in 300 freestyle; Nancy Hale,
second in the individual medley;
and Ann Copeland, second in the
800 freestyle.
Two relay teams—the sprint re
lay and the freestyle relay—also
won third places.
Girls’ Division
Placing in the girls’ division
from the local area included Miss
Hale in the 100 breaststroke; Miss
Copeland, third in the 100 back-
stroke; and Kay Parnell who was
third in the 50 freestyle. The med
ley relay was second behind San
Antonio.
Finishing behind Weick in the
100 breaststroke of the boys’ divi
sion included Wally Penberthy in
fourth place. Gayle Klipple was
runner-up to Haddon in the 200
freestyle and was fourth in the
individual medley of the men’s div
ision.
Tom Barlow was fourth while
Weick was second in the boys’
100 backstroke. A fifth place was
gained when newcomer to the
College Station swimming squad,
Ricky Boughton trailed in behind
a fine group of swimmers from
TAG.
Another fifth place was won by
Janies Baker in the 100 backstroke
of the men’s division, while in the
same class John Parnell was fourth
in the 400 freestyle and the 200
freestyle, and Aden McKenzie was
fifth in the 100 breaststroke, also
in the men’s division.
The relay teams won three sec
onds and two thirds. Finishing
second were the sprint medley, and
sprint (of the men’s division) re
lays.
Among the 13 year-olds and un
der, Albert Stevens was third in
the 33 1/3 breaststroke and second
in the boy’s diving. Joe Steen was
third in the 33 1/3 backstroke won
by Pete Hickman.
The relays finished first and
third, boys and girls, respectively.
The A’s scored twice in the sec
ond. The winning margin came in
the sixth. Barney McCosky sing
led, Ferris, Fain walked and Sam
Chapman doubled off the left field
wall.
White Sox 6, Yankees 4
New York, Aug, 29—(TP)—Chi
cago dealt the New York Yankees
a 6 to 4 setback yesterday. Right
hander Ray Scarborough stopped
the world champions on six hits.
Gus Zernial helped Scarborough
post his 12th triumph with his
21st home run, a two-run blow in
the fifth. The New Yorkers still
trail Detroit by one game.
Reds 3, Giants 2
Cincinnati, Aug. 29—UP)—Homer
Howell hit a homer in the ninth
yesterday to break up a pitcher’s
duel between Ewell Blackwell and
Dave Koslo and give Cincinnati a
3-2 victory over the New York
Giants. Blackwell scattered six
New York hits to even his rec
ord at 13-13.
Cardinals 3, Dodgers 1
St. Louis, Aug. 29—(A 5 )—Third-
inning home runs by Tommy Glav-
iano and Del Rice sparked the St.
Louis Cardinals to a 3-1 victory
over Brooklyn yesterday. Gerry
Staley posted his 11th triumph,
besting Preacher Roe.
Red Sox 15, Indians 14
Boston, Aug. 29—UP)—Cleve-
il Defeats
McGregor in
Nat’l Singles
Forest Hills, N. Y., Aug. 25
— (AP)—The crowd at the
national tennis champion
ships had to wait until dusk
to witness an upset in yester
day’s opening round of play, but
when it finally came it was a
beauty.
Don McNeill, now a 32-year-old
weekend player froni( Bellerose,
Long Island, knocked the props
from under Ken McGregor, youth
ful prodigy of the Australian Davis
Cup team, 9-7, 3-6, 6-4, 6-1.
McGregor had been beaten in a
five-setter Sunday by Tom Brown,
Jr., in the final match of the cup
challenge round. But nobody sus
pected that the likes of McNeil,
who won the title pack in' ’40 and
hadn’t even played in the tourna
ment the past three years, could
stand up to the 21-year-old Aussie
whiz kid.
Several seeded players dropped
first sets and were forced to play
serious tennis to survive.
Frank Sedgman of Australia, the
tournament favorite, made a shaky
start against Harold Burrows, Jr.,
a husky slugger from the Univer
sity of Virginia. He took a trounc
ing at the outset and needed all his
skill to win, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, 10-8.
Herbie Flam of Beverly Hills,
the No. 1 American since a sprain
ed ankle kayoed Budge Patty, like
wise, was forced to rally to sub
due Gilbert Bogley of Chevy Chase,
Md., by 3-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-4. Jaros-
lav Drobny, No. 2 foreign seed,
struggled uphill for a long time
before he finally disposed of Dr.
Arnold Beisser, Santa Anita, Calif.,
5-7, 9-7, 11-9, 6-2.
Tom Brown, Jr., who saved the
U. S. from a Davis Cup shutout,
took a first set hiding from Jack
Tuero of New Orleans, before win
ning 1-6, 6-4, 6-1, 6-4.
Gardnar Mulloy of Miami wasted
no time knocking out Tony Vincent
of New York City, 6-4, 6-0, 6-1.
John Bromwich, the veteran Aus-
tralian, was unable to play his
opener against Tony Trabert of
Cincinnati because of McNeil and
McGregor match was late.
land’s Indians, who tossed away
a seven run lead yesterday, blew
a 12-1 lead yesterday as Boston’s
battling Red Sox fought back for
a 15-14 victory.
The Basox pulled within three
games of Detroit. The victory was
credited to Rookie Willard Nixon,
fourth of five Boston pitchers.
Cubs 7, Phillies 3
Chicago, Aug. 29—(A 5 )—Three
successive home runs by Hank
Sauer, which brought his season’s
total to 26, highligted a 7 to 3
victory for the Chicago Cubs over
the Phillies yesterday in the first
game of a doubleheader.
Senators 9, Browns 3
Washington, Aug. 29 —UP)—
Washington battered Jack Bruner
and Rarry Dorish for 14 hits and
a 9-3 victory over the St. Louis
Browns last night behind Rookie
Jim Pearce, who gave up all the
Browns’ runs and five of their
nine hits in the ninth inning.
National League
W
L
Pet.
Philadelphia
76
47
.618
Brooklyn
67
49
.578
Boston
66
53
.555
St. Louis
65
55
.542
New York
62
57
.521
Chicago
53
69
.434
Cincinnati
49
71
.408
Pittsburgh
42
79
.347
American League
W
L
Pet.
Detroit
76
44
.633
New York
76
46
.623
Cleveland
76
48
.613
Boston
75
49
.605
Washington
53
67
.442
Chicago
50
74
.403
Philadelphia
43
81
.347
St. Louis
40
80
.333
Roughs Clip
Cats Lead to
Half A Game
Fort Worth, Tex., Aug. 29—UP)
—Beaumont cut Fort Worth’s Tex
as League lead back to a half
game here last night by taking
the deciding game of the series
from the Cats, 6-4, in 11 innings
‘Of Lace, Et AF
‘Gorgeous ’ Gussy Paving
New Era In Athletics
By WHITNEY MARTIN
New York, Aug 1 . (29—(A*)—A
young lady named Miss Gertrude
Moran has parlayed a pair of
lace-trimmed, er, unmentionables
into a I^OOO contract to play
tennis, thus paving the way for a
new era in athletics.
After this fabulous return for
staging a cross-country fashion
show every chick bountifully en
dowed by nature will get herself
a tennis racquet, a spicy ward
robe and an enterprising public re
lations adviser and start a private
campaign.
Miss Moran is a better than a
fair tennis player, to be sure. But
she is not the best woman tennis
player in the world by any means,
and it takes the imagination a
little to believe that $75,000 worth
of people will turn over just to
watch her sterling play.
If this fashion and eye-appeal
influence spreads, we are in for
some tough times. Can’t you just
see gnarled old Casey Stengel ap
praising a rookie shortstop and
saying:
“My, my he’s just what we need.
Can’t play a lick, but that profile,
and the way he wears those knick
ers! He’ll really draw them in at
the gate.”
•
Tulsa, Aug. 29—UP)—The Tulsa
Oilers, scored six runs in the
fifth inning here last night to
capture the second game of a
Texas League doubleheader with
the San Antonio Missions, 8-5.
The Oilers dropped the first
10-1.
•
Oklahoma City, Aug. 29—(A 5 )—
The Houston Buffs broke loose for
four hits and five runs in the
ninth inning to overtake the Okla
homa City Indians and capture a
Texas League baseball game, 8-4,
here last night.
9
Dallas, Aug. 29—UP)—Lanky Red
Fahr, who is to report to the
Army and Navy General Hospital
in Hot Springs, Ark., for return
to active duty Wednesday, last
night pitched Shreveport to a 4-2
victory over Dallas
Texas
League
Team—
W
L
Pet.
Fort Worth
84
55
.604
Beaumont
84
56
.600
Tulsa
75
65
.536
Dallas
69
71
.493
San Antonio
69
71
.493
Oklahoma City
65
74
.468
Shreveport
57
83
.407
Houston
56
84
.400
Pausing a moment from their work of answering applications for
tickets to A&M football games are Ticket Sales Manager Howard
Nelson and Mrs. Bonnie Davis. At the present time, over 20,000
tickets have been sold with the majority of the ducats being bought
for the SMU and annual Turkey Day games.
Sports Round-up
Phillies Relief Pilcher
Is Sawyer’s Product
By HUGH FULLERTON. JR.
New York, Aug. 29 UP) — Al
though Eddie Sawyer, the Phillies’
manager, deserves the credit for
making a relief pitching specialist
out of Jim Konstanty, Jim had
quite a reputation as a “fireman”
in his college days at Syracuse. . .
In basketball he was the sub whom
coach Lew Andreas sent in when
he figured a set shot would produce
needed points. . . When heavy
weight boxer Caesar Levine was
hurt just before the 1939 intercol
legiate tournament, Roy Simmons
drafted Konstanty and he took
third place.
Jim was captain and regular
third baseman on the baseball team
but filled in at first on occasion
and pitched some for batting prac
tice. . . He didn’t become a regu
lar pitcher until well along in his
pro career. . . Jim wasn’t a fire
arm as a soccer player, his fourth
college sport. He was a ball of
fire on one of the better Syracuse
teams.
Another Syracuse alumnus in the
news recently was John Ward,
semi-finalist in the national ama
teur golf championship. . . When
Ward captained the university
team, his coach was Bud Wilkinson,
now the Oklahoma grid tutor. . .
Probably Bud taught him to drive
from a split tee.
Right to the Point
When Tom Nugent, V.M.I. foot
ball coach, was coaching at Hope-
well, Va., high school, his players
promised him a touchdown in their
big game against Petersburg in
honor of his new son. . . Tom said
if they got it, he’d name the boy
“T-D” . . . The kids won 30-0 and
Tom kept his word by naming the
youngster Terrance Daniel.
Last week the Nugent family
school’s publicity expert, Tom
Joynes, to figure it out that T-D’s
kid sister inevitably will be nick
named Pat—or P.A.T.D.
Shorts and Shells
Latest complaints of a football
“invasion” come from Arkansas,
where they say they can send boys
to Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana
and still have a fair home-state
team, but they just can’t supply
Kentucky too. . . Chuck Taylor,
the Coalport, Pa., welterweight, has
fully recovered from the leg burns
he suffered in an explosion in his
home and has begun training again.
Manager John Costello reports
Chuck weighs only 152, four
pounds over his best fighting
weight.
Looks like Kansas U. will con
tinue its monopoly on the big
seven fall two-mile race, which
Bob Karnes won the past three
years. Herb Semper, red-headed
K. U. junior, set conference rec
ords indoors and outdoors last
spring, then brought his time down
to 9:15 in 'the 'N.'C.A'.A'.' meet.
Georgia’s Wally Butts has cook
ed up a pre-season football train
ing schedule that has the boys
rolling out at 5:30 a.m. and drilling
from 6:30 to 8:30. . . Besides
getting them in condition for the
opener against Maryland, that pro
gram should make ’em mean
enough to whip anybody.
Goodman Remains
As AL’s Top Hitter
Chicago, Aug. 29—(A 5 )—Match
ing his team’s spurt in the pen
nant chase, Billy Goodman of the
Boston Red Sox last week con
tinued to forge ahead as the Amer-
was increased by the arrival of a lean League’s leading batter,
baby girl, who was named Patricia '
Dee. . . Since there wasn’t any
big game involved, it took the
‘The Strange Case of Joe Page’
Page’s Good Years, Bad
Years Follow Each Other
Anyway, we wish Miss Moran
well, and admire her ability to
make the most of her opportunities.
And when she wins a match could
you say her opponent took a pretty
fair lacing?
Seemed like old times to see
Glenn Davis’ name in the football
headlines again as the Los An
geles Rams outscored the Chicago
Cardinals the other evening.
Davis scores on 14-yard dash
. . . Davis sets up touchdown with
38-yard run . . . Davis throws key
block to pace way for score.
We didn’t see the game, but we
saw enough of the California
speedboy during his years at West
Point to make it easy to visualize
what was happening.
Admitting we never saw them
all, including those rated really
great, we still believe Davis was
the best all-around college back
we ever saw, The boy could do any
thing, and take the most tremend
ous bouncing amound without a
whimper.
The most vivid memories of him
are those dashes through a broken
field, or around end where his
speed made him a fleeting target
for tacklers. He was poetry in
motion, and apparently he’s lost
little of his class during his long
layoff.
New York, Aug. 29—UP)—If you
were writing a who-dun-it you’d
probably title it “The St r a n g e
Case of Joe Page,” or “The Mys
tery of the Four O’Clock Pitcher.”
It isn’t that the Yankee relief
hurler has been something less
than sensational this year. Any
body can come up with a lame
arm, even if pitching peanuts to
an elephant is the only exertion.
It’s just that Page’s good, years
and his bad ones follow each other
with the rhythm of a fence paint
er daubing every other picket. It
takes him a full year to recover
from prosperity.
In 1945, his first full year with
the Yankees, he pitched 102 inn
ings, had a 6-3 record and a com
mendable earned run average of
2.82.
The next year he slumped to a
9-8 record, and his E. R. A. zoomed
to 3.57.
In 1947 he was on the beam
again, his 14-8 record and game
saving performances being no lit
tle responsible for the club’s vic
tory in the pennant race. His E.
R. A. again was down, this time
to 2.49.
Prosperity Gets Best
Again prosperity got the best
of him, and his failure to come
through in 1948 possibly cost the
Yanks the pennant, and possibly
Buck Harris his job. He won' only
seven while losing eight, and his
E. R. A. graph when like this.
It stopped at 4.25.
Last year Joe was hot again
and his 13-8 record, his great
game-saving performances and his
2.60 E. R. A. again put the Yankees
in the world series.
He was the toast of the baseball
world, a leading candidate for
most valuable player honors, re
cipient of a fat 1950 contract, and
hailed as the man who lifted re
lief pitching from the poor rela
tions class to top hat and tails
dignity.
And now it’s another year, and
Joe is back where he was in 1948,
and 1946, and the Yankees aren’t
in first place. It does seem that
as Page goes, so go the Yankees.
DYERS* FUR STO RAO EH ATT EPS
XtCLOr’xCaJT
-College Station Representative—
LOUPOT’S TRADING POST
Goodman increased his percent
age nine points, from .357 to .366,
for a 12-point lead over runner-
up Larry Doby of Cleveland, who
had .354.
Doby climbed eight points during
the week, displacing Detroit’s
George Kell in the No. 2 spot.
Cleveland’s A1 Rosen marked
time as the home-run leader with
33.
Paul (Dizzy) Trout of Detroit
has the best pitching record on a
percentage basis, 11-3 for .786.
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