Majors Cet Dramatic Start With 3 Shutouts, 10-Inning Thriller fretting J&faf J&pofis Lemon Gives One Hit Hurlers' Long Layoff MacPhail Suspension Washington, D. C., Wed., April 15, 1953 A-28** While Kellner Spoils Has Harris Worried; Believed Firs! Step
Yanks'l7-Year Mark Grasso Set to Play Toward Bowie Exit • By th* Associated Press By Burton Howkins Win, or major leagues’ script By Lewis F. Atchison Lose Draw The Postponement of the Nats Larry MacPhail’s suspension writers gave it the college By FRANCIS STANN old i first three games, due to deluged from Maryland racing, pending try for opening day. and blizzards, has Man- hearing the EVIDENTLY THE PROMOTION of the St. 1 fortified a before State Rac- department In seven games they came up ager Bucky Harris’ catching de- ing on April ap- Cardinals, operating new ownership, a good Commission 23. Louis under has with an extra-inning thriller won partment. but the layoff has him parently is only the first step deal to learn. On the face of it, Eddie Stanky, for example, by a Milwaukee rookie’s homer, fretting about his pitching. His toward the fiery sports pro- was far from politic the other day when he gave a welcoming a one-hit sensation by Cleve- j pitchers aren’t getting any work moter’s departure as president of committee in Milwaukee the back of his land’s Bob Lemon, come-from- and Harris fears wildness could Bowie. behind victories by Brooklyn and be a result. The commission's hearing the Chicago Cubs, the New York Catcher will take up only the The folks out that way are not quite Mickey' Grasso, who incident Yankees’ first opening-day shut- has recovered quickly in the clubhouse last Saturday to as cele- i from a back normal yet, what with still out loss in 17 years, a decisive bruised left hand, will be in the when MacPhail verbally lashed major league brating their new status as a Mmßmk setback for Robin Roberts, last j starting lineup when the Yan- out at several horsemen in lan- city. Two or three hundred townsfolk met year's best pitcher, and an expert kees invade Griffith Stadium for guage not generally heard in the the Cardinals’ train, intent upon bestowing i whitewasning of his former De- the delayed opener tomorrow. box seats. The State ruling body troit hospitality upon Manager Stanky and his : teammates by Virgil Trucks. Play will start at 2 o’clock—- will not concern itself with a later incident warriors, even though they are enemies of Even the one postponement unless showers forecast for to- in which MacPhail nad a special twist. The Boston night and tomorrow wreck plans was arrested on charges of being the new Milwaukee Braves. The grim, tight- Red Sox were forced to cancel again. drunk and disorderly, and for Brat they do lipped told them what could Doth games of a two-day series American Broadcasting Co. allegedly assaulting a State with their celebration and stalked off. with Washington because of announced today that the opener trooper in a traffic argument as Earlier, those Anheuser-Busch people snow—the first snowed-out will be telecast on a Nation- he was leaving the track. He is who bought the Cards from Fred Saigh had games in Boston since 1933. i wide network of about 40 sta- scheduled to appear in Hyatts- *“ * Held to 176,269. ville the bright idea of renaming Sportsmans ' rr cl Crowds tions. Both the afternoon and Police Court on April 20 Cold weather prevailed gener- night games be to those charges. . Park, which they purchased from the St. Louis Browns. It will televised answer ally, holding the total crowds to locally by WTTG. Yesterday the commission was to be called “Budweiser Stadium,” an announcement 176,269, almost 50,000 below Picks Porterfield, charged that MacPhail’s conduct Commissioner Ford Frick to take expectations. Masterson. has •which promptly caused Harris clings to original been “detrimental to the its hardy «|jf jSm ¦MjT' his action. In a matter of hours, Anheuser-Busch modified The souls who ventured choice, Bob Porterfield, to start best interests of racing” and is- out saw nip sued the order banning plans. Would “Busch Stadium” do? It would, Commissioner Milwauxee St. Louis, : the and will follow him from 3-2; Chicago edge season at 8:30 the At it was somewhat less commercial. Cincinnati, o’clock tomorrow night with race track pending the hear- Frick agreed. least, 3-2; Brooklyn whip | ing. ** * * Pittsburgh, Walter 8-5, and New York Masterson. Chuck Stobbs defeat Phila- will take mound Pierce Temporary A LOT OF THESE Johnny-Come-Latelys in sports have delphia. 4-1, in j the Friday President. National League against the Yankees, with Chico mistake. In baseball, particularly, they are encounters, and j Donald C. Lillis, chairman of made the same three American Marrero slated to make his debut the Bowie Board Uncle Sam for years has been League shutouts—Cleveland over 1 of Directors, treading on dangerous ground. against the Red Sox here Satur- named Howard S. Pierce, to learn Chicago, 2-0; Philadelphia over secre- studying the structure of the industry, seeking day night. Johnny Sain and tary of the Southern Maryland it violates interstate the Yankees, 5-0, and St. Louis whether it is a monopoly, whether over Whitey Ford are expected to start Agricultural Association, opera- out the Detroit, 10-0. for the commerce regulations, etc. Both in and of courts The day's largest Yankees tomorrow. tor of the track, to direct its crowd, Porterfield baseball has been fortunate. It still is classified as a “sport.” 53,698, watched give was primed for a affairs until after the hearing. Lemon up a Monday start. He had But if a stadium is to be named after a beer, or an auto- clean single to Minnie Minoso ¦ indicated There are rumors that Pierce ' his readiness by blanking the will be named to succeed mobile, or any of the dozens of DuPont products, baseball in the first inning for the first Mac- and Brooklyn Dodgers on four hits Phail, beginning with the fall will be asking for trouble. Mr. Frick moved with alacrity and last Chicago hit. Only three last Thursday other times did the White Sox GARVER INJURES LEG—Trainer Jack Homel of the Tigers examines Ned Garver’s leg alter 1 night, issuing only meeting. not be said for Mr. August Busch, jr. s, one base on balls. He'll have Judgment, which could get the ball out of the infield, the Detroit pitcher was injured while running out a double play in the third inning of last I There was speculation today promotion advisers. four night’s game between the Tigers and Browns at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Garver was jsix days of rest when he per- concerning MacPhail's although walks and two forms before imme- Since Frick’s crackdown on “Budweiser Stadium,” the errors gave them removed from the game, which the Browns won, 10-0. —AP Wirephoto. President Eisen- diate future if he is ruled six other base hower tomorrow, but Bob pre- off Toledo Club of the American Association has taken the hint, runners. Last year in his first for the remainder of the meet- start, Lemon, highest- fers to pitch more frequently to ing. Some horsemen bet- although technically a minor league club is out of Frick’s baseball's maintain his sharpness. were inherited the Brewers when the Boston paid pitcher, shut out the White j ting yesterday that he would realm. Toledo, which Sox on three hits. Langlois Edge Marrero Least Affected. never again set foot inside to Milwaukee, was set to call its club the Milwaukee Fetes Its Victors; Given “Os my starters. Marrero is Braves moved Bobo’s 1936 Feat Duplicated. Bowie, and he will not be al- 4, Sox,” not in honor of any particular brand of glass likely to be least affected by lay- lowed Glass At Yankee in the place during his that Toledo is proud of its total manufacture Stadium, Casey Louis ing off a long time,” Harris said, suspension. but to show Stengel ran up his St. Still Loves Browns Over Miceli in Bout More believed he fourth "so I’ll give the others a chance ! will resign. of the product. straight pennant. That was i Whoever of glass ? to swing into action first.” MacPhail This was not so flagrant as silly. heard about the thing the ly th* Associated Press By the Press Spec loudly announced last crowd Associated Shea, calculated to be a Saturday that . . . . Tonight he is through - socks? Glass . . . glass ashtrays . glass panes . of 23,534 had to cheer about be- MILWAUKEE, April 15.—The At Miami starter when he recovers com- vases ST. LOUIS, April 15.—1 n the with racing in Maryland, but Sox, So the idea aban- cause Alex Kellner made the entire Milwaukee Braves team By tho Associated Press pletely from ailing has glass chins. But Glass never. was bleachers, in tne grandstand, in an arm. nobody took him seriously. Yes- Toledo Sox, world champions look like minor was on hand to take the plaudits upper pitched only two innings since doned and now the team is called simply the the deck and in the boxes, ! MIAMIBEACH. Fla., Apr. 15— ! terday, however, some leaguers the rest of the after- of townspeople, civic leaders and the fans love the Louis , March 17. • It’s likely Harris horsemen pending an improvement. • St. Pierre Langlois of France, the expressed the belief that the noon. baseball officials last night as a . will employ Spec in relief to ’*** * Browns. fourth ranking middleweight, is roles one-time baseball executive must The Yanks managed only five record-breaking crowd of 800 Particularly when the Browns favorite | bring him along gradually and a lady and her a 7-to-5 to even his go in the best interests of Bowie. FOUR YEARS OR SO ago from Dover. Del., | singles against the left-hander turned out for the annual Elks’ come up with a thumping first- score with Joe Miceli, the ; at the same time give him much- No. 4 MacPhail Plans Uncertain. husband decided to name a promising colt “South Pacific.” ; whose shutout performance was Club baseball banquet. game victory as they did last welterweight contender, in their . needed work. ; MacPhail was in New York Mrs. Nora Mikell and her hubby, although identified chiefly the first suffered by New York Earlier, the Braves captured night, blasting the Tigers half- 10-round television fight tonight Harris' rather thin pitching on an opening day since Bobo way back to Detroit, staff will be tested almost at the Monday night for the sportcast- ' with the sale of automobiles, were denied the name by the i their second straight victory by 10-0. in the Miami Beach Auditorium. ers’ banquet I Newsom of Washington bested defeating the St. Louis Most of the fans in the rtands ’ outset. In addition to the sepa- and told John O. Jockey Club. The smash show, “South Pacific,” was doing all Cardinals. Miceli, 24-year-old ex-soldier Needles, his assistant ¦ ! Lefty Gomez. 1-0, in 1936. The 3-2, on Bill Bruton’s 10th inning —there w'ere 11.804 on a windy, rate admission double-header to- at Bowie, without a horse plugging it, Jockey Club officials ruled. from New York, gained a split that he planned to remain right ! Yanks had won five straight hemer in the Milwaukee Stadium chilly night that had rain in decision Langlois ’ morrow, the Nats have a moan- there Mikells, acting quickly, submitted the openers. over in a pre- yesterday. Needles said he knew The disappointed The Athletics hadn’t inaugural. | the air—were talkative. They vious meeting in Brooklyn last ing and afternoon affair Monday name “Repertoire,” only they misspelled the word started on the plus side in five the idea the ’ at Boston on Patriots’ Day. nothing of MacPhail’s future substitute of “Major league baseball is a liked of Browns July. The Frenchman, a welter- plans. “Repetoire." The Jockey Club approved. A years. Vic Raschi, pounded pointed and pertinent challenge staying in St. Louis, but a Griff May Permit Flying. and it came out weight then, now is a full-grown Meanwhile, colt, to a of people betting early and often, was the loser to and I hope you unanimous vote of confidence Clark Griffith will be asked to the Associated pretty too. Good enough have lot Milwaukee middleweight. J Press reported Milwaukee Success Story. meet it,” Commissioner Ford for Bill Veeck. the Brow'ns’ il- relax his long-standing ban on that Charles he'd win the Kentucky Derby. The battle will be televised Terry, manager of Frick told the banquet crowd. lustrious ow'ner, was missing. air, travel by Harris. The Nats’ MacPhail’s You have to be a little lucky, too. to get a crassly com- Bill Bruton, a grinning, hol- | nationally starting at 10 p.m. farm near Bel Air, said MacPhail low-cheeked Negro rookie who "Don't settle on your haunches Didn’t Like Baltimore Deal. boss permitted the team to fly or suggestion across, whether in racing, baseball There will be no radio broadcast. Washington has cancer of the throat and has mercial name and expect it to be self-support- Herb Martin, a 25-year-old St. (The from St. Louis to Ethel Mars was one of probably is the fastest man in | bout will be televised in been ordered not to use his voice . let's bowling. Mrs. Louisan, turned in his several years ago when coal . . upper or ho, skip the majors, continued to write ing.” the Washington area over a for years ago of deck seat and keynoted strike tied up railroads, at least two weeks. the luckier persons. Some one her promising : the Milwaukee success story Only Two Cardinals Attend. the fans’ WTOP). j but tone: has kept his Terry said the Bowie chief- fillies was unnamed. Mrs. Mars is closely associated with a with a bold as he homered National League President Although Miami fans may see otherwise club hand “I think it’s great ground-bound. tain was examined yesterday in enough, at least, to own the in the 10th inning to give that the fight television, Chris ; candy bar “Milky Way.” Close the Warren Giles said he was “glad club is staying here. Veeck? the on Harris is disturbed New York by Dr. James Moore, Way. any rate, a Braves a hometown triumph in the major I Dundee, the promoter in co- | about the works and name her farm the Milky At Milwaukee was don’t know about him. I overnight train hop who ordered him not to talk. over the Cardinals. Bruton’s leagues. It has and didn’t operation with the International effect an Nation-wide contest was promoted to find a suitable name fine facilities like that deal about moving them ; will have on his players when Needles said he thought Mac- 350-foot blast off the out- in Lou Perini (club owner) you Boxing Club, predicted a capacity prize-v/inning tag “Nation’s Taste.” to Baltimore.” - they Monday Phail had a contract with the for the filly. The was glove of Enos Slaugh- house of 3,900 and gate of arrive in Boston have stretched have the No. 1 baseball spirit.” (The a syndicate which purchased Bowie This, plus the “Milky Way Farm” connection, might American League didn’t SII,OOO. morning after playing the Red ter sent the 34,357 paying cus- Ony two Cardinals showed up like it either. |Elub last year and rebuilt the track. adverse comment by the Jockey Club, but it didn t. happy owners | Sox here Sunday. The Nats attracted tomers home from Mil- for the gathering, Enos Slaugh- vetoed Gave Up French Needles added that he didn’t ** * * Veeck’s motion to move Title. arrive waukee’s first major league j ter and Peanuts Lowrey. I wouldn’t in Boston until ' know the terms of the at a special spring meeting.) After his loss to Miceli, Lang- 8 a.m., would be rushed to a contract TASTE WASN'T A BAD racer, for a filly. She game in 52 years. The hard- j The' crowd of 34,357 paying whether it could be bought up. NATION’S Out in the bleachers of Busch lois gave up his French welter- hotel for breakfast, thence to the or earned victory, in which Warren fans who packed the huge $5 MacPhail is believed to own won the $25,009 Hyde Park Stakes at Arlington Park in 1936 Stadium, Mrs. John Lord, 31- weight title to campaign as a . ball park to play 10:15 game Spahn outpitched Gerry Staley, million stadium topped by some j a only small of Bowie and then faded from the picture as a winner. But wasn’t year-old houswife, said she was middleweight. Since then, the with the Red Sox. The clubs a percentage she kept the Braves half a game m 21,000 the biggest turnout for i stock, and in the pur- with the Browns “all the w'ay. 27-year-old Frenchman has will again that afternoon, was on bad as a publicity outlet. front of the Dodgers and the Braves Boston last year. ; meet j only representative Giants. at This is where they belong. Ican’t beaten Rocky Castellani, Bobby chase as of Mr. and Mrs. Mikell. shortly after the name “South Pacific” Cubs. Milwaukee won the one- The shining new structure was Bucky would prefer that the blame Veeck for trying to make Dykes and Jimmy Beau and club charter plane tne syndicate. of “RcpLtoire,” must have done a double- game opening program Cin- filled and club officials said they i a for a flight was junked in favor at money,” Mrs.. Lord said, “but fought draw with Walter Monday. easily a ' | to Boston Sunday evening, en- Don Reed, Pimlico publicity take when another winner-to-be was okayed as "Kiss Me cinnati 2-0. could have sold twice as it’s a dirty deal move many tickets. to them.” Cartier. abling his players to get a night director, who has just returned Kate.” Discreet inquiries were made to the Jockey Club, Ken Raffensberger, who has Offers Tip to Veeck. lost more games in the National A chilly 20-mile an hour wind Langlois expects to weigh in of uninterrupted sleep. from Gulfstream Park, Florida, to develop was that as, a The housewife had a tip in apparently, but all that seemed League any whipped at about 160. Miceli will come All of the frills scheduled for was at Bowie yesterday, passing than other active the open stands under economics for the hard-pressed musical hit, “Kiss Me Kate” hadn’t started to run at the pitcher, dropped occasionally his 139th yes- sullen skies, which (See A-31.) (See A-29.) (See Page A-31.) as the the Veeck: “He ought to cut out all FIGHT, Page I NATS, Page MacPHAIL, same time horse. terday when Chicago scored two spilled light rain. However, that foolishness—fireworks and chang- unearned runs in the eighth fans forgot their discomfort and It is said the late Col. Jacob Ruppert once spoke of things like that—and use the inning Cincinnati, 3-2, like tearing the new stadium ing the name of his newly acquired ball club from “Yankees’* to defeat felt money to buy ball players.” 21,222 Chicago Bob apart when Bruton lashed one “Knickerbockers,” the a brand of his beer. When before fans. upper minority to latter Staley’s knuckleballs In the deck a Rush survived home runs by of Gerry the Browns, called on, Col. Ruppert declared that he was only joking. in the over the 4-foot wire barricade stockholder in Willard Marshall first Charles Johnston, wants “to see Ironically, the second-best pro basketball team is known in the sixth some 350 feet from the plate in and Ted Kluszewski the Browns stay here. But I’d But there is no affiliation register the victory. the tenth inning. as the New' York Knickerbockers. to them get a new owner. It Hit Three-Bagger Earlier. like to see with the Ruppert estate and, so, no questions are asked. Black Rescues Erskine. I don’t think Veeck has any more innings earlier the limber to prove something or other. The Dodgers bragged spring Two the Browns than what Just goes all youngster from Panola, Ala., interest in about their pitchers but they he can make out of them.” had tagged a Staley pitch to the couldn’t find one to So the route Back in the bleachers, P. F. same spot. It bounced once on on opening day. Erskine Meek, a salesman, put it Against Spivey Middleburg Spills Carl grass before skipping off this indictment the choice and the Pitts- the way: “The Browns in St. Louis? was fence and Bruton came in to i burgh Pirates got rid of him the like that. I hope they stay.” Hurt Jockey Phelps third base standing up ahead of I Dismissed in New York with a four-run outburst in the I Yep, they still love ’em in St. (y the Allocated Pros I fourth inning. Joe Black saved (See BRAVES. Page A-29.) Louis. And Exercise Boy j day for the 12.433 Ebbets NEW YORK, April 15.—A per- i the By a Special Correspondent of The Star | Field faithful as the Dodgers jury indictment against William the range for four runs MIDDLEBURG, Va., April 15. i | found Spivey, former University of in the fourth and fifth against Major League Standings Earl Phelps, one of the top- Murry Dickson, the home-run- Kentucky basketball star, was i AMERICAN. NATIONAL. steeplechase specialist. Roy Campanella GB. ranking jockeys, * ball W. L. Pet. G.B. ! W\ L. Pet. today. - dismissed in the fourth with two Philadelphia 1 O 1.000 j Milwaukee 2 O l.(|(Jb was painfully injured here this homered l."«o New York 1 !a 23-year-old Spivey had Cleveland 1 O i Chicago 1.000 The on and Duke Snider followed St. Loui* 1 O l.OOtt . | 1 O Ja morning while schooling a horse Boston n 0 ! Brooklyn 1 O 1.000 Ja tried once on the charges, suit with one on base in the Washington O .not) J 4 Pittsburgh O 1 .000 l‘g been O O over brush fences at the Glen- dished up 26 Chicago (i 1 .<•<»" 1 Philadelphia 1. .••<•<> jury fifth. Dickson « .0(10 IJa •but the trial ended in a New York 1 .(>('<• 1 St. Louis O 1 1 '-a J|^Jair-flex home-run balls last season. ; Cincinnati O 2 .000 2 deadlock. wood race course. Detroit O 1 .000 1 Bobby sent the Yesterday. Judge Saul S. Streit of Gen- He was one of two casualties .Thomson Results Yesterday. Results schooling Giants away on top against Washington at Boston, snow. Milwaukee. 3: St. Louis. eral Sessions today threw out in a session which 10; 2. Easy-walking, shock-absorbing! Roberts at Philadelphia as he St. Louis. Detroit. O. New York. 4; Philadelphia. 1. the indictment oh a motion of brought out about 40 brush, hur- Philadelphia. 5; New York. 0. Brooklyn. 8; Pittsburgh. 5. Cleveland. 6; Chicago. O. Chicago. 3; Cincinnati. 2. Attorney Vin- dle and timber horses prepping belted the Phils’ ace for a home Assistant District run with Davey on base Games Today. Games Today. cent A G. O’Connor. for the Middleburg race meet Williams in the first inning. Roberts, who Washington at Boston, snow. Pittsburgh at Brooklyn. The charges grew out of the this Saturday. Philadelphia at New York. at postponed, St. Louis at Milwaukee postponed, rain. injured holds a lifetime edge over every Detroit St. Louis cold. New York at Philadelphia collegiate game-flxing basketball The other rider was Others not scheduled. exercise boy Cincinnati at Chicago postponed, rain. scandal. Kenneth Yowell, an (See BASEBALL, Page A-29.) Games Tomorrow. Middleburg I Games Tomorrow. The 7-foot Spivey, a one-time for Emmett Roberts. New York at Washington (2); 2 and , trainer. Several of teeth B:3ii. Brooklyn at New York, All-America player, had been Yowell's Boston at Philadelphia. i Philadelphia at Pittsburgh. accused of giving false informa- were knocked out and he suf- Bt. Louis at Chicago. Chicago at St. Louis. Cleveland at Detroit. '1 Milwaukee at Cincinnati. tion to a grand jury investigating fered a probable fracture of the Probable Pitchers game-fixing and bribery of jaw when a horse kicked him AMERICAN LEAGUE. A95 after falling a Washington at Boston, postponed, athletes. in the lace at snow and wet grounds. nine-day fence. was sent to Win- Philadelphia at New York—Shsnts | After Spiveys trial Yowell Hospital (24-7) vs. Reynolds <2O-B>. last January, the jury deliberated chester Memorial for Detroit at St. Louis postponed, cold. 14 hours, but was unable to reach treatment. (Only games scheduled.) a verdict. It deadlocked 9-to-3 i Phelps still was under observa- NATIONAL LEAGUE. tion at the Fauquier-Loudoun Pittsburgh at Brooklyn—Linden (0-0) for acquittal. ’ vs. Meyer (13-14). The District Attorney’s office- • Health Center some time after Ft Louis at Milwaukee, rain. try his accident. He was to I New York at Philadelphia—Corwin could have moved to him believed re-l) or Hearn