Tuesday, September 4, 1951
THE BATTALION
Page 3
Philadelphia
Yanks;
Cleveland First
By JOE REICHLER
Associated Press Sports Writer
Philadelphia’s carefree Athletics
are going nowhere in the American
League race but they are having
a great deal to say which team
will win the flag.
Continuing their role of “spoil
ers,” Jimmy Dyers’ seventh plac
ers yesterday held New York to a
split in their Labor Day double-
header to dump the Yankees out
of first place.
Taking advantage of the A’s sec
ond game 3-2 win after the Yank
ees had copped the opener, 3-1, the
Cleveland Indians regained first
place by sweeping a pair from Chi
cago’s White Sox, 5-3 and 6-1.
Tribe Leads
The Tribe now has a half-game
lead oh the Yankees but must keep
a wary eye out for Boston’s unpre
dictable Red Sox, who whipped
Washington twice, 3-2 and 8-4, to
climb within four and a half games
of the top.
The Red Sox, who open a thfep-
game series in New York tomor
row, are very much in the thick
of things as they are only two
games behind Cleveland in the im
portant “lost” column. They have
played five fewer games than the
Indians. Nine of their remaining
games, however, are with the
Yankees. New York and Cleve
land face each other only twice
more.
Brooklyn’s Doodgers increased
their first-place margin in the Na
tional League to six games over
New York, defeating the Boston
Braves twice by 7-2 scores while
the Giants were dividing a pair
'Jvith the Philadelphia Phillies. The
Giants won the nightcap, 3-1, af
ter Philadelphia had taken the
opener, 6-3.
Cards On AVin Streak
Elsewhere, the St. Louis Cardi
nals stretched their winning streak
to seven straight with 4-1 and 7-1
triumphs over Cincinnati. Chi
cago and Pittsburgh split, the Pi
rates earning a seven-inning 4-3
win after the Cubs had captured
the first game, 11-10, in 12 in
nings. Detroit’s Tigers and the
St. Louis Browns divided a twin-
bill. The Tigers gained a 6-5 ver
dict in 13 innings only to have the
Texas Horse
Scores Victory
Chicago, Sept. 4—OP)—Curan-
j’erb won the $159,150 Washington
Park Handicap, richest mile in the
history of racing, by a scant nose
1'esterday with Oil Capitol second
l.nd County Delight third .
A crowd of 41,055, largest of
)he Chicago racing season, saw
the thrilling photo finish.
Curandero, owned by the fabu
lous King Ranch, property of Rob
ert Kleberg, Kingsville, Texas ran
the .mile in 1:34 3/5.
Yellmantown finished fourth in
a field of 19 starters. Two of Cal
umet Farm’s trio, Wistful and All
Blue, were scratched, along with
Dr. Ole Nelson, which reduced the
field from 22 original entries.
Curandero, with A. Gomez of
Havana, Cuba, guiding him, earned
$113,950 and paid $8.60, $4.80 and
$3.80 across the board. Oil Capitol
returned $6.80 and $4.40 to place
and show, and County Delight paid
$4.80 to show.
The victory was Curandero’s
second stakes victory of the season
in seven starts. He previously had
won the Equipoise mile at Arling
ton Park a month ago and finished
fourth in the Arlington Handi
cap. His purse of $113,950 yester
day boosted his season’s total to
$142,175 and his life time earnings
in four years of racing to $266,-
875.
The race and the chances of
five entrants were marred by fail
ure of one of the two starting
gates to open simultaneously with
the other. As a consequence, Calu
met Farm’s Bewitch, H. P. Head
ley’s Lithe and Jumbo, Hasty
House Farm’s Seaward, and Sam
A. Marson IPs to Market never
were in the running. The other 14
horses had a full two seconds ad
vantage.
Browns bounce back to win the
second game, 3-2.
Little Bobby Shantz and B i g
Bob Hooper combined to pitch Phil
adelphia’s second - game triumph
over the Yankees as the A’s con
tinued to have a lot of fun with
the contenders. Shantz did not
permit a score until he weakened
in the seventh. Then Hooper took
over and retired the last eight
Yankees to preserve the lefthand
er’s 14th win.
A’s Hex Yankees
It marked the third time in three
weeks that the A’s had shoved the
Yankees off the top perch. They
did it the first time on Aug. 12
with a double victory and again on
Aug. 19 with a 15-1 walkover. On
ly last week they whipped the In
dians twice in a row to knock
them out of first place.
Johnny Sain, veteran righthand
er. recently purchased from the
Braves, made a brilliant Yankee
debut, setting down the A’s with
five hits in the opener. A two-
run homer by Hank Bauer proved
the difference. A pair of singles
by Ferris Fain were the key blows
in the A’s victory.
Bob Feller registered his 21st
victory and Steve Gromek spun a
brilliant three-hitter as the Indians
battered five Chicago hurlers for
21 hits. Cleveland scored early in
each game. Four runs in the first
two innings iced the opener and
Walker Shows Them Howl
Martin’s Sports Trail
Doak Walker, the Southern Methodist all-America
player now starring with the Detroit Lions pro
fessional team, shows two players at Boys Ranch
near Amarillo how to handle a football. Walker
made a short talk to the boys, then went out to
their practice. Walker watches 140-pound quar
terback Troy Black hand off to 142-pound fullback
Eddie Baker. In the Amarillo game the Wash
ington Redskins beat the Lions 10 to 7.
Leo Durocher’s Confidence
Pays Off With Don Mueller
By WHITNEY MARTIN
New York, Sept. 4—(A?)—It was
as if Don Mueller had put on his
best Sunday scowl, gripped his hat
until the skin over his knuckles
split, and strode to the plate snarl
ing “I’ll moider de bums.”
The New York Giant fielder did
just about moider the Brooklyn
bums, at that, with his five home
runs in two days, and his perform
ance might be considered as a re
ward for Leo Durocher, who nev
er gave up on, the slim guy.
Mueller Good
Last Spring Durocher was de
scribing how Mueller happened to
drop below .300 in hitting last year - ,
and in doing so he left the clear
impression that to his way of
thinking the young outfielder was
a pretty fair ball player, no matter
how he might look at times.
“Mueller was hitting .318 late in
the season,” the Giant skipper said,
“and I had argued that he would
finish with a higher average than
Dale Mitchell of Cleveland. It
looked like a cinch, as Mitchell
was hitting only .303 then.
“I’ll be darned if Mueller didn’t
run into a slump and go ought for
Aggies Fostered Familiar Cry
The familiar gridiron cry, “We’re
Building,” heard on many campus
es this fall, is one the Texas Ag
gies feel they pioneered in 1948
and 1949.
A&M suffered its worst seasons
in the college’s 56-year athletic
five tallies in the first inning puf 1 history in those two years. In 1948,
away the nightcap. the team lost nine games and tied
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The University of Texas will match its sweetheart, its star de
fensive halfback, and its football schedule with any rivals in the
country. The Sweetheart of Texas is Mary Esther Haskell, a
senior from Austin, while the halfback is Bobby Dillon of Temple,
a senior who has gained pre-season All-American rating.
the Texas Longhorns 14-14. The
next year, the Aggies won only
one game, lost, eight and tied one.
During those dark years, the
staff, students and former stu
dents were saying, “We’re a’build-
ing.”
The talented freshman teams of
1948 and 1949 were the results of
the building program at Aggieland.
A&M is expected to have a good
1951 season,- possibly bettering
their 1950 record by six wins.
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38. His average went down so fast
it practically was a blur.
“I’d have stuck with him if he
went ought for 100, though. He was
hitting the ball well, but right in
to the hands of the fielders. He
finished with a mark of .291.”
Maybe the fiery Giant skipper
was thinking of how his confi
dence in the youngster’s ability had
paid off as he whopped him on
the sole , of the . pants each of the
five times he rounded third base
after hitting him home runs in the
two-game series.
The Giants were the team which
should have shown nerves in the
serie^. They showed nerve, but not
nerves, and it was the pace-setting
DPA Splits Supply
Of Available Steel
Washington, Sept. 4—(A 5 )—The
Defense Production Administration
(DPA) divided up the available
supply of structural steel for the
last quarter of 1951 yesterday,
sharply scaling down requests for
construction not tied to direct mili
tary production.
Dodgei’s who showed signs of
panic, with Manager Charley Dres-
sen himself being anything but a
soothing influence.
Dressen Ill
Dfessen got out of a sick bedi to
sit on the bench, and it developed
he should have stayed in bed, as
they say.
His action in sending the remain
ing players on the bench to the
clubhouse after umpire A1 Barlick
had ousted five of the bums was
a childlish gesture.
It’s a cinch Dressen would not
have taken such action had the
Dodgers been in front.
The plodding trek of the players
needed only a covered wagon and
a few coonskin caps and muzzle
loaders to make it a replica of
pioneer days on the gleat plains.
Dodgers Off
Anyway, the Dodgers looked and
behaved in a manner not in keep
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take it all yet. In fact, they prob
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robust lead. But their manager
had better show better control if
he wants his pitchers to do the
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