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Wednesday, June 6, 1951 THE BATTALION Summer Softball Teams Schedule Thirty Games Page 3 Thirty softball games will be un reeled during the next six weeks according to Dr. George E. Potter, chairman of the College Station Softball League. Member teams are the Indians, Yankees, Tigers, Pirates, Giants and Cubs. Each team is limited to 15 players, made up of citizens of College Station. Hank Mill has been named to manage the Indians and Bill Hen- sej will hold the reins of the Yankees. The Tigers will be led by R. B. Hickerson with K. A. Manning as pilot of the Pirates. Lucian Morgan and Aden Magee will guide the Giants and Cubs respectively. All games will begin at 5:45 p. m. on game days. Play will be on the Colege Park diamond on Park Place at the end of Eair- view on the South Side while the College Hills diamond is located on Puryear between Walton and Francis. The schedule for the first six weeks is as follows: June 8—Pirates vs. Yankees CH Cubs vs. Giants CP fj 11—Tigers vs. Indians CP Pirates vs. Cubs CH 13—Yankees vs. Tigers CH Indians vs. Giants CP , 15—Pirates vs. Tigers CP •^1 Indians vs. Cubs CH 18—Giants vs. Yankees CH Pirates vs. Indians CP 20—Giants vs. Tigers CH Yankees vs. Cubs CP n fo 22—Pirates vs. Giants CH Yankees vs. Indians CP 25—Tigers vs. Cubs CH First Round Ends Purdue Names Man To Succeed ‘Hank’ Henry “Hank” Foldberg’s re placement at Purdue has been named by the Purdue Athletic Di rector, Guy (Red) Mackey, the Associated Press reported last night. Ned Maloney, who has been a member of the San Francisco pro fessional football squad since his ^graduation from Purdue in 1948, will return to Purdue as varsity end coach, Mackey said. He will report July 1. 27—Pirates vs. Yankees CP Cubs vs. Giants CH 29—Tigers vs. Indians CH Pirates vs. Cubs CP July 2—Yankees vs. Tigers CP Indians vs. Giants CH 6—Pirates vs. Tigers CH Indians vs. Cubs CP 9—Giants vs. Tigers CP Yankees vs. Cubs CH A date for a picnic has yet to be chosen but during the course of the day the Tigers will meet the Cubs, the Indians will tackle the Pirates and the Yankees will en counter the Giants. The second round will end July 11 when the Pirates and Giants meet at College Park diamond and the Yankees will engage the In dians. Victim of Errors 'Mantle on Bench As Yanks Shuffle Cleveland, June 6 —(A 3 )—Mickey Nantle, the rookie New York Yankee outfielder, was benched for the second straight game yester day. Manager Casey Stengel shook up the lineup of his faltering world champions. Cliff Mapes replaced Maptle in right field. Other changes sent Joe Collins tq first for Johnny Mize and Billy Martin to second for Jerry Cole man. Coleman suffered a two-inch ?pike wound in his right forearm Monday night. Rickey Asserts Meyer Still OK As ‘Buc’ Pilot Pittsburgh, June 6—LP)— Talk of firing Billy Meyer of the Pittsburgh Pirates crop ped up anew yesterday as the Bucs wallowed in their famil iar cellar position. Nobody admits the National League’s 1948 manager of the year is on the hatchet block right now. General Manager Branch Rickey asserts he hasn’t given the matter any thought at all. He called Mey er at Boston and told him as much. Rickey knows something must be done to help the floundering club which has won only two games in 16. Maybe Meyer will be the fall guy for the dismal showing blamed mostly on sore-armed pitchers. But the bushy-browed Rickey in sists Meyer is a top field general. He not only said it once but sever al times. Coming here from Brook lyn, Rickey decided to keep Billy after long consideration. Reports that Meyer will be oust ed come up every time the team drops a string of games. The rumors are more persistant now. Pittsburgh’s sports writers are bit ing it hard. Some say he may be retired for ill health—he’s suffer ing from ulcers.* What does Meyer say about it? “It is news to me.” And Rickey? “I have never given it a thought and I’m not giving it any. Why, I’m more surprised than the re porters to hear the story. It never entered my mind to change manag ers.” Meyer now is serving his fourth season on a contract calling' for $40,000 a year. The contract' ex pires this year. Anybody who knows Rickey thinks he won’t part with $40,000 when the job is only half finished —but he’s unpredictable as the weather. YlliS; Wtmmv h » |ip| ft 1 WwwAK •% mm ■I ;n,.. t / y ft Svxf vf■ r,« mi h Y lyfifft ||| ’Figuring Standings Is Complicated Job By WHITNEY MARTIN New York, June 6—(A 5 )—The late O. B. Keeler had been seated be fore his typewriter at the Palm Beach round robin golf tournament with his usually twinkling eyes expressing only dazed bewilder ment, who threw up his hands in despair, muttering: “Ah cain’t do it; ah cain’t do it.” O. B. had made the mistake of trying to figure out the tournament standings without the aid of slide rules, algebra, astronomy and six income tax experts, and he was helpless. It was pretty complciated in those days, at that with 16 play ers competing against each other grace milady's wrist i;.': The perfect accessory for every •j;' occasion! Bracelets sleek, brace- lets dainty, bracelets cute — we i;:- have them all. They feature your j:j: school seal to make them doubly cherished. Come in today and ^ see for yourselfl :j:;: The Exchange Store | “Serving Texan Aggies” at match play, each man playing simultaneous matches with the other members of his foursome in each of the five rounds. Change Scoring Method The scoring was changed a year or so ago so now all that is needed to compute the ■ standings is an elemental knowledge of the Ein stein theory. The players compete against each other at medal play in each foursome, so the plus or minus standing can be computed by comparing the scores for the round, iijgtead of by laboriously compar ing results on each hole. Probably the only man who doesn’t care how they score the event, which has its 1951 debut at New Rochelle, N. Y., tomorrow, is Bobby Locke, the muffin-cheeked South African. They could score it with a quart measure as far as he is concerned. Fits His Game It’s his baby, and he knows that the Wykagyl Country Club course is made to order for his straight game. He’s won it two of the three times he competed, and finished second the other time, so you can imagine him rubbing his hands gleefully and chortling: “That’s for me” as he tripped over his golf clubs in his haste to get to the nearest cable office to accept the invitation. A $5,000 first prize isn’t hard to take. He’ll naturally be favored to win in the four-day, five-i’ound event starting tomorrow, but he’ll have to shoot his game. Fellows . such as Lloyd Mangrum, Cary Middle- coff, Jimmy Demaret, Herman Barron, Chick Harbert, Johnny Palmer, Jim Ferrier and Chandler Harper in the field of 16 just aren’t going to lose by default. ti’- Fannin on Recall Basis St. Louis, June 6—(A*)— The St. Louis Browns sent Pitcher Cliff Fannin to Toronto yesterday on a 24-hour recall basis. Fannin’s departure makes room for infielder Kermit Wahl, obtain ed yesterday along with outfielder Pijul Lehner from the Chicago White Sox for outfielder Don Eend- ha^dt and an undisclosed sum. , George Brown . . . was last night’s losing pitcher as the Aggies errored to enable the Bryan-College Sports tag a 7-6 loss in eleven innings. Brown, with better support by his teammates could have been the winner as he entered the game in the ninth with a 6-4 lead only to see it dwindle and eventually to see it lost. Maglie Wins Ninth For Giants; Nats Blanked by Tigers Based on AP Reports Cincinnati at New York Sal Maglie turned in his ninth straight victory last night as he pitched the New York Giants to a 3-2 triumph over the Cincinatti Reds. His record now stands at 9-2 'after dropping his first two starts of the season. __ Harry Perkowski, Red starter had the Giants buffaloed until the seventh inning when they got to him for two runs. He had allowed only one hit until that time. Ted Kluszewski hit a home run in the eighth to reduce the Giant’s lead to 2-i. The Giant’s winning run was scored in the eighth as the Reds scored again in the ninth to make the final score read 3-2. Pittsburgh at Boston The last place Pittsburgh Pirates gave Paul La Palme support ex traordinary last night as they pounded out 21 hits to go with his five-hit, 8-0 shutout of the slumping Boston Braves. La Palme did not let a man get past first until the ninth inning when Boston catcher Walker Coop er singled behind a free ticket to third baseman Bob Elliott. George Metkovich led the 21- hit attack with two doubles and two singles while Ralph Kiner, Wally Westlake and George Strick- S land tabbed three safeties each. The Pirates equalled a major league record held by the 1905 Pittsburgh team when they strand ed 18 base runners in the contest. St. Louis at Brooklyn The high-flying Brooklyn Dod gers stretched their league lead over the St. Louis Cardinals to 4Vs games as they nipped the Redbirds 3-2 in the ninth inning yesterday. Big Roy Campanella delivered the game-winning blow, a double, to score Carl Furillo from first and stretch the Dodger win streak to four straight. They have won 12 out of their last 15 games. Joe Hatten, Dodger left-hander and George Munger,-Cardinal fast- baller pitched shutout ball for five innings and the Redbirds broke the spell with two runs in the sixth on run scoring singles by Stan Rojek and Billy Johnson. Chicago at Philadelphia As in the World Series against the New' York Yankees last fall, Jim Konstanty failed as a starting hurler last night wTen the Chicago Cubs licked the Philadelphia Phil lies 3-2. The Cubs touched the Philly ace reliefer for nine hits in his five inning stint, good for all three runs. The Cubs scored their three runs in one cluster in the fourth inning on a triple, tw 7 o doubles and a single. The Phils bounced back in the fifth with two runs, but brilliant pitching by Bob Rush turned them back in the late innings when they threatened to knot the score. The game ended with Ed Pelli- grini perched on third base with the tying run. He was running for Willie Jones who had tripled, missing a jiome run by inches. Washington at Detroit Gene Bearden scattered four hits among the Washington Nationals last night as he pitched a 4-0 shutout for the Detroit Tigers. Bearden, in winning his second victory of the season, allowed Mickey Vernon, Washington first baseman two hits, a single and a double for the only man to collect more than one. For the Tigers, the big gun was third-baseman George Kell with four straight singles in four ap pearances at the plate. Jerry Prid- dy homered for his third of the year. Vic Wertz, Tiger right-fielder saved Bearden’s whitewashing by grabbing a drive off the rightfield screen in the ninth inning. New York at Cleveland Another -winning streak was halted yesterday as the New 7 York Yankees blasted the Cleveland In dians 8-2 to clip the Tribe’s string of wans at nine straight. Allie Reynolds, New York’s big Cherokee righthander, tossed a five hitter at the Indians and his team mates backed him up with a 13 hit barrage, including homers by catcher Yogi Berra and third base- man Bobby Brown. The win enabled the World Champions to keep pace wuth the White Sox and maintain their sec ond place position, 3% games back. Boston at Chicago The red-hot White Sox have done it again—beaten the Red Sox that is. Randy Gumpert notched his fourth win without defeat by hold ing the heretofore powerful Bo- sox to eight scattei'ed hits as the Palehose. tripped the Bostonians 10- 2 yesterday afternoon at Comisky Park ip Chicago. The win yesterday was the fourth straight over the faltering Red Sox in three days as Chicago w r on the second of tw f o games Sun day, copped a double-header Mon day to go along with yesterday’s shellacking. The White Sox have now 7 won 18 of their last 20 starts, going dowm to the St. Louis Browns last w r eek and the Red Sox Sunday. Former TCU star, Jim Busby collected his first home run of the season in the eighth as the White Sox rapped out seven straight hits, good for six runs. They had scored four in the sixth inning. Dom DiMaggio continued on his hitting streak, now 7 gong through 24 consecutive games, by collect ing three hits in four trips to the plate. Philadelphia at St. Louis Dependable Ned Garver notched his eighth victory of the season last night as the St. Louis Bpowns lambasted the Philadelphia Ath letics 10-1. Garver scattered four hits but lost his shutout in the seventh w 7 hen Ferris Fain drove in the only Athletic run with a single. The Browmes have now won 14 games with Garver winning 1 more than half of them. He has an 8-3 record for the season. Aggies Toppled by Sports, 7-6 In Eleven Inning Marathon By Andy anderson Battalion Sports Editor The Bryan-College Sports tag ged a 7-6 loss on the Aggies last night in a game that lasted over three hours and went 11 innings. The winning run, scored after tw 7 o were out in the eleventh, was tallied among a mass of confusion and abruptly ended the contest which seemed destined to go on interminably. Jim Dishman, Sports shortstop opened the inning by gaining life on Yogi Candelari’s bobble of a ground ball. Cotton Brisbin then singled to center field to send Dishman to second and both men were advanced by centerfielder Bill Davis’ sacrifice from pitcher George Brown to Bill Munnerlyn. Moon Passed on Purpose Wally Moon, Sports manager, was walked intentionally to load the sacks. When an attempted squeeze play failed to w 7 ork, Ag catcher A1 Ogletree pegged to sec ond trying to get Moon as he w 7 ent down after Dishman was tagged out trying to score. Ogletree’s throw went into centerfield and Brisben scored the winning counter. The Ags threatened in the first inning but failed to score. After Guy Wallace and Joe Ecrettewent out, Yale Lary singled to right field, Ogletree w 7 alked and Cande- lari also was issued a free ticket to first but John DeWitt struck out to leave the hassocks loaded. In the second inning, Hollis Bak er gained life on Jim Dishman’s low throw to first after making a re markable stop on the first base side of second and Munnerlyn sing led over second base. Baker was out at the plate as he tried to score on Pqt Hubert’s roller to the pitcher. Wallace’s Single Load Bases Wallace then singled to load the bases and Ecrette delivered a single to score Munnerlyn. Hubert came in with the second run of the in ning as Lgry connected for his second hit to short right field. With one out, Ogletree lined to first baseman Jim Tidwell who caught Lary off first fop an un assisted double play. The Sports broke into the scor ing column on Moon’s Walk, Tid- Avell’s single and Moon’s steal of both third and home in the second. Candelari opened the third with a single and eventually scored after DeWitt walked and Baker singled into right field. Baker came in to tally the Ags fourth marker when the Sports went berserk and threw the ball all over the park. One of baseball’s rarest decisions occurred in the Sports half of the third. After Dishman struck out, Brisbin walked and Davis struck out. Moon then slapped a pitch to right fielder Baker and the Ags thought they had retired the side but Umpire Don Thompson said no. Umpire Calls Balk He called a balk on Hubert and Moon again resumed his place in the batters box. On the next pitch Moon laced the ball over DeWitt’s head in deep center field for an apparent triple. Again Umpire Thompson called a technicality on Moon. He called him out for step ping out of the box and the side was finally retired after much be wilderment on the part of fans and players alike. Things were quiet for a couple of innings and in the fifth, the Sports added two more runs on two walks, an error by Wallace and a scratch single by Moon. Charlie Russell walked to open the sixth, advanced on Don Heft’s sacrifice and scored on Bob Tank- ersley’s overthrow of first for a Backstop single run which tied the game at four-up. Winning Runs? The Ags scored what appeared to be the winning runs in the top of the ninth. Martin Hamilton hitting for Tankersley walked af ter one was out and went to third on a hit-and-run single by Wallace. Wallace moved to second as the throw went to third, attempting to catch Hamilton going in. Both runners scored as Dishman mis judged a hard hit smash by Lary that went into left field. Two game-tying runs were put Don Heft . . . was the Sports catcher last night as the Ags were beaten in the eleven inning contest. Heft, handled Sports pitchers McClain and Smith in very capable fash ion. Major League MandtiW' *>aiffc™V.V,Av.V.'A7.V.^^ AMERICAN LEAGUE New York ....010 001 231—8 13 1 Cleveland 000 010 001—2 5 2 Reynolds and Berra; Wynn, Zuv- erink (9) and Hegan. HR—Berra, Brown. WP—Reynolds (5-4). LP— Wynn (4-6). Boston 001 000 001— 2 8 0 Chicago 000 004 06x—10 15 1 Nixon, Parnell (6), W. Evans (8), Stobbs (8) and Moss; Gum- pert and Niarhos. HR—Busby. LP —Nipon (3-1). WP — Gumpert (4-0). Philadel — 000 000 100—1 4 1 St. Louis — 222 010 21x—10 16 0 Kucab, Martin (2), Zoldak (8) and Tipton; Garver and Lollar. HR—Lollar. LP—Kucab (0-3). WP —Garver (8-3). Washington — 000 000 000—0 4 0 Detroit — 001 000 03x—4 11 1 Johnson, Harris (8) and Grasso; Bearden and Robinson. HR—Prid- dy. LP—Johnson (0-2). WP— Bearden (2-1). Today’s Pitchers New York at St. Louis—(night)— Ostrowski (2-1) vs Suchecki (0-1). Boston at Detroit—Taylor (4-3) vs Gray (1-5). Washington at Chicago—Marrei’o (6-1) vs Holcombe (4-2). Philadelphia at Cleveland—(night) —Kellner (3-3) vs Chakales (2-0). AMERICAN W. Chicago New York Boston Cleveland Detroit Washington Philadelphia St. Louis 30 28 26 24 20 17 14 14 LEAGUE L. Pet. G.B. .732 .636 3y a .591 5 Vs .545 7 Vs .476 10 y 2 .405 13 y 2 .326 17 .304 18% 11 16 18 20 22 25 29 32 NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh — 001 230 011—8 21 1 Boston — 000 000 000—0 5 3 La Palme and McCullough; Sain, Cole (5), Donovan (7) Estock (9) and Cooper. WP—La Palme (1-0). LP—Sain (3-6). St. Louis 000 002 000—2 9 2 Brooklyn 000 000 111—3 6 0 Munger, Pollet (8) and Rice, Garagiola; Hatten, King (6), Ers- kine (8) and Campanella. HR— Hodges. LP—Pollett (0-3). WP— Erskine (5-4). Chicago — 000 300 000 — 3 11 2 Philadel — 000 020 000 — 2 5 0 Rush and Burgess; Konstanty, Meyer (6) and Seminick. WP— Rush (3-4). KP—Konstanty (2-5). Cipcinatti — 000 000 011—2 9 1 New York — 000 000 21x—3 7 1 Perkowski, Smith (8) and Pra- rnesa; Maglie and Westrum. HR— Kluszewski. LP—Perkowski (0-1). WP—Maglie (9-2). TODAY’S PITCHERS Cincinnati at New York—Ramsdell (3-6) vs Kennedy (1-1). St. Loins at Brooklyn— Staley (7-4) vs. Branca (3-1). Chicago at Pittsburgh—(night) — Schultz (3-3) vs Thompson (2-2). Pittsburgh at Boston—(night)— queen (3-5) vs. Spain (5-4). NATIONAL W. Brooklyn St. Louis New York Chicago Cincinnati Boston Philadelphia Pittsburgh 28 24 25 21 22 22 21 17 LEAGUE L. Pet. G.B. .636 .533 .521 .512 .489 .478 .447 .386 16 21 23 20 23 24 26 27 4% 5 5% 6% 7 8% 11 Little Leaguers Slate Game for 3:30 Thursday The Marion Pugh Lumber Co. Cubs, a Little League Na tional League team will tangle with the Conway Co. Giants tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 in Little League park adjacent to the Bryan Country Club golf course. The Little League, a small repli ca of the major league, has for its main purpose, training the smaller boy in the fundamentals of base ball and in sportsmanship so that he will be able to join teams of faster company as he grows pro gressively larger. In Mondays game, the Cubs broke a two game losing streak with a hard-fought 9-7 win over the Corbusier Cardinals. A big foui-th inning netted six runs when an error and three walks were fol- lowered by solid hits by McGuire, Hickerson and Helvey and a Card inal balk. Two- more Cub runs were scored in the sixth inning when, with two men on the base paths, Hel vey doubled to left field with a solid blow. The Cardinals forged into an early lead in the first inning as they scored three runs on a safe ty by Batten, an error, a two-base rap by Dwyer and another Cub niiscue. Hurler Miller then settled down to retire the side and con tinued his yoeman work for two more innings before being relieved by Feldman. In the fifth the Redbirds tallied again on hits by Carrera and La- Fever and in the sixth, threatened tq forge ahead by tallying two more runs on a walk, a base-blow by Harrison and another Cub er ror. A slow rain caused both sides to play rather ragged ball through out the contest but the Cardinal outfield appeared to have the edge insofar as handling the horsehide went. on the board in the Sports half of the ninth canto. Dishman, at tempting to make up for the bob ble in the top half, beat out a slow roller to short and was waved to second as relief pitcher Brown committed a balk. Brisben was safe on Candelari’s low throw to first and both runners advanced as Bill Davis laid down a perfect sac rifice. Moon was passed to load the bases. Tidwell drilled one down the first base line that got through Munnerlyn and Wallace into right field and Dishman and Brisbin scored. Moon was pegged out by Baker as he attempted to come all the way from first on the miscue. Tidwell was picked off second to end the inning and set the stage for the eventual game winning tal ly in the eleventh. Lary Big Stickman For the Aggies, Yale Lary was the big man with the stick as he collected three for six with Wal lace and Ecrette each connecting twice. Russell, with two bingles, led the Sports in the hitting de partment although Dishman and Brisbin both tallied twice. In his four inning stint on the mound, Hubert struck out nine men. The Aggies will travel to Conroe for a Saturday night game with the semi-pro nine of that city, composed of college students work ing in that area. The line score: A&M — 002 000 002 00— 6 10 6 Sports — 010 021 002 01— 7 7 2 Hubert, Tankersley (5), Brown (9) and Ogletree; McClain, Smith. (6) and Heft. LP—Brown. 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