To Revive Milwaukee's Chances
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-»M I »»¦¦¦ IW -¦•• ¦ I¥ gtoning SPORTS CLASSIFIED C-1 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1956 ? Cardinals Take Page From Past PJr ~ M 6? § 111 |I To Revive Milwaukee's * ¦¦ Chances ' . ¦¦ -r-^r Mk /• "¦-!. *£-*<?.£,<" ¦', Ninth-Inning fe*"' ¦Fritsch Named More Jitters Cut Dodgers' to lißfcak. Vv I ¦ Lead .001 By the AliocUted Frees | Boone carried the Tigers to a Quarterback 6-2 decision Baltimore and To The St. Louis Cardinals, who over victory hooked up with Brooklyn in | gave them their 11th in those! 'the last 12 games. stirring pennant battles of the Boyer Tags Erskine 19405, have stolen a page from Terps Saturday The Cardinals, who , beat the past to leave the Dodgers Brooklyn in the first major Tamburello Gets with a 1-percentage-point edge league pennant playoff in 1946, in the National League race. blew a 4-0 lead before riding in Orders to Report This time the Cardinals, 13% on Boyer’s two-out, two-run For Draft October 1 m W I games back in four place, aren’t homer off Carl Erskine. Gil 1! ¦ l concerned with*the flag, but they Hodges’ two-run homer in the By MERRELL WHITTLESEY jpMipF got into the act last night to seventh seemingly had given the If knock off the Frank Tamburello was out of Dodgers. 6-5, on Dodgers a fourth straight vic- Ken Boyer’s ninth-inning home tory. the picture today as Maryland run while second-place Milwau- Dodger plans Stan Musial, the kil- made to meet Syracuse kee was rallying to defeat Pitts- ler of old, singled to open the burgh, here Saturday afternoon with 6-4. ninth—ending a string of 17 virtually all-rookie quarterbacks. The Dodgers now have 10 consecutive batters put down by games left to play and have Roger Craig, Tamburello still had not made won I Ed Roebuck and one less and lost one less than Erskine following Musial's 25th up his mind whether or not to the year's eligibility upon Braves. home run (the 350th of his lose a re- Meanwhile, the Redlegs, by playing whose career' in the third. Boyer's turn from the service hopes were by two de- in the Terps’ first two games be- shattered killing homer was his-46th. feats at Brooklyn, plunged “We can’t seem to get fore his military induction, and nearer Just Coach mathematical elimination past that ninth inning,” Man- Tommy Mont was not as Curt Simmons (.1 F.SS WHO'S IN nil: of the American League using persuasion way and Robin ager Walt Alston of the Dodgers SFRlES—Chicago.—Clinching one or the Roberts of the whipped pennant by the New York Yankees last night would have been greeted other. Phillies said doefully after the game. probably them, 4-3 and 7-4. The Giants games had itnot come in dramatic fashion. Mickey Mantle (right), shown definite For three successive tha with a yawn, But it was just about split a pair with the Cubs, win- Dodgers have afoul of Stengel during a small victory celebration in that Tamburello, faces ning, run ninth- with Manager Casey the dressing who in- 8-2, after a 4-2 defeat. inning jitters. On Sunday, room, slammed his 50th home run with two out in the 11th innine to beat the duction at 7:30 am. October 1, Mantle Ends Brooklyn play Maryland Race led Cincinnati, 3-0, in Chicago White Sox and Billy Pierce, 3-2, and clinch a spot in the World Series. will not for this pulled year. Mickey Mantle’s 50th home the ninth but out a 3-2 —AP wirephoto. run wrapped up the Yankees’ victory after a Smoky Burgess Given Letter By Registrar seventh pennant in eight seasons. homer. On Monday night the Tamburello went back to Na- It came in the 11th inning to Dodgers took a 4-1 lead into the tional Selective Service Head- defeat and eliminate the White ninth, but the Reds tied it on ¦g-v- ii * Bring - homers by Bailey on NL, quarters in Washington 3-2, while Ed and Ja- the this ,v jBHb v, Sox. giving the £0 Yankees a tie blonski, threatened in the 10th morning with a letter from the . ...a .. <T ± ¦>: with their league WIN, LOSE OR Maryland registrar stating that record of 182 home runs set in and then bowed on Carl Furil- he would graduate in four years 1936. lo’s homer. Yanks Yell After if he were given the opportunity Mantle's two-out shot broke up The Dodgers, who send 24- By FRANCIS to continue his schooling. Billy Pierce’s bid for his 21st game-winner Don Newcombs DRAW *STANN against Poholsky victory. Whitey Ford won his Tom in the Tamburello said he understood TERPS’ windup the of the QUARTERBACK—John Fritsch, a junior 19th, his best total in the ‘ma- season between two one reasons his appeal from Carnegie, Pa., will take clubs today, had taken five in a Mantle's 50th for deferment was denied was over as No. 1 quarter- jors, but needed relief help from back 1 that a member of his Baltimore for Maryland Saturday when it opens its sea- Bob Grim in the 11th. Yogi Continued on Page C-4, Col. CHICAGO, Sept. 19 (IP).- —Man- 1 son against Syracuse at Byrd Stadium. Berra’s single tied it in the One More Switcheroo ager Casey Stengel, draft board had said he would Fritsch sluggeri graduate a ninth. Mantle singled home the like the Braves,” Fred Mickey Mantle not in the usual four moves up as result of Frank Tamburello’s call for BROOKLYN, SEPT. 19—“ I did and the rest of years. the draft first Yankee run. Walt Dropo PROBABLE PITCHERS the pennant-winning He attended summer October 1. saying the Cardinals’ bench, "but I’ve Yankees year and Larry Doby homered for the Hutchinson was on are ready for "whoever wins school this to catch up with AMERICAN LEAGUE the his studies. White Sox runs. Washington at Cleveland—Abernathy switched.” The St. Louis manager looked across the diamond National League race.” Braves Sign Shortstop The Indians (l-O) vs. Lemon (19-14). Frank attended a quarter- PENNANT PICTURE reclaimed second Boston at Kansas City—Sisler (7-7 ) toward the Brooklyn dugout. "Look at those guys,” Fred “Bring ’em on,” Stengel shouted MILWAUKEE. Sept. 19 (AP).— place from the White Sox by vs Burnette (3-8). backs’ meeting with the coaches To Baltimore at Detroit—Brown (9-8) last night after his Yankees had The Braves have signed 18-year- W. L. Play hanging a double shutout on the vs Lary (18-13*. Pet. Behind said, wistfully. "They’re relaxed . loose.” this morning before going to Only clinched their 22d title with an old Connie Washington, a short- , Brooklyn 87 57 .001 in Senators, 1-0 and 6-0. The Ath- fames scheduled. their two-game Washington. But, as of now, he stop Milwaukee 88 58 .003 8 NATIONAL LEAGUE This was before Hutch’s Cards began 11-inning, 3-2 victory over the from Rockford, 111., to a t Cincinnati 83 «2 .572 letics trimmed Boston, 6-5, on a St Louis a* Brooklyn—Poholsky still is plans (24-0). White Sox on Mantle’s 50th not included in for 1957 contract with their Eau , GAMES LEFT ninth-inning homer by 1(9-12) vs Newcombe warfare with the National League leaders. As it turned out the Syracuse game. 1 BROOKLYN (10)—At home (6), Phil-i Lou | Milwaukee at Pittsburgh (night—* homer of the year. Claire, (Wis.) farm ; adelphia, 2; Pittsburgh. 3; Bt. Louis, 1 although !Buhl (17-8) vs. Friend <ls-10). The Yanks in the Class Skizas, Ted Williams (2-twi* the Cards licked the Dodgers, 6-5, on a ninth-inning, two- top Tamburello’s younger brother, Away (4). Pittsburgh, 4. Cincinnati at Philadelphia have finished on in seven of B Northern League. Washington i| MILWAUKEE («>—At home (3). Chi- had a homer, double and single ’night i—Acker (2-3) and Kliopatein Sonny, rushed Frank’s Away (3-0) run clout into the seats by Ken Boyer. This left the Brooks Stengel’s eight years at *he helm. from batted .478 last spring in his li cßgo. 3 (5), Cincinnati, 1; Pitts- Tor the Red Sox to lift his (11-11) vs. R. Miller and Haddi* Baltimore home to College Park ; year burgh 1: St. Louis. 3. (1 Mantle’s blast added zest to senior at West Rockford CINCINNATI (o»—At home (ft), Mil- league batting lead to six points. i ChicHO «t New York (2i—DrrtowtkT in front by a cigarette-paper margin but neither Hutchin- yesterday afternoon with a letter ; High waukee. 1; St. Louis. 4. Away (4), I'i-'A) and Hillman <n-m « Surkont ;the end of a dull American: School. 'Chicago, 2; Philadelphia. 2. A grand-slam homer by Ray (2-2 i and Maraoncri (5-fli switcheroo guys seem of a mind to favor from the Maryland State Review- son nor other League race. Itwon the pennant, '• Board, tied the American which said Frank's ap- other than Brooklyn. League rec-| peal was denied by vote ord of 182 homers by a 5-0 thinking, hit one; of the Board. The Dodgers, they are also have all the best club—the Yankees of 1936—and; of the schedule that remains. They have—after this after- made Mickey the only Yankee Asking for Records other than Babe Ruth to reach noon's finale with the Cards —only nine games left an<J Frank immediately came to the 50 mark.