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.
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’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
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| “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
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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. WP—
Smith.
Dr. Carlton R. Lee
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January Tops
Trans-Miss
Qualifiers
Dallas, June 6—(A*)—Don Jan
uary, 21, member of the crack
North Texas State College golf
team, laid down a three-under-par
67 to lead the qualifying round of
the Trans-Mississippi tournament
yesterday.
The Dallas youngster found no
terrors in the exacting par 35-35—
70 6,655-yard-Brook Hollow course
but only three others in the bulky
field could better or equal regula
tion figures.
Don Schumacher of Dallas, who
in 1937 won the Trans-Mississippi,
finished late with a 68 for runner-
up honors in the battle for medal
ist.
Dale Morey of Dallas shot a 69
over the 6,655iyard Brook Hollow
course to finish just back of Jan
uary.
It required an 80 score to make
the championship flight of 64.
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