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A-12 Sports THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. C., Friday, July 15, 1960 Mathews' Bat 1 Halts Braves' Senators Rely on Ramos *,wlbf I << .8 Slumps, Jinx JIB To End Mastery by Tribe W Wr Pirates' Lead Cut As Buhl, Burdette ' Get Best of Haddix * TWO $lOO,OOO MCFS ON CARD •• WWvJF *S X . -€«<&/ Griffs *¦¦ Seeking . ..?W WSFSN "JI. 3B By the Associated Preu to Finish ~, Fight WaMEgNSj S* V*t4RNNMfe Ed * Mathews was in a slump ~ To 1 * Boost Streak so bad he was even talking Mile Record Menaced about it. Milwaukee's slugging * • To Four third baseman hadn’t hit a Is Anticipated Games home run in 19 games, and his In Stakes By BURTON HAWKINS ? batting average was down to „iLJ Arlington Staff wß&sbSs&k ~IL_IIIMIM .266 with just two hits in 27 Star Writer ' By the AMoeieted Frew pounds at in 1932. JY trsi trips. By White Sox Arlington •I CLEVELAND, July 15—The \ Money-wise, the most impor- The record stood until Citation GEY jgf The second-place Braves 1 Senators, sizzling before the in- were tant horse races tomorrow are !; dashed a 1:33% mile at Golden stumbling along the same way, By the Associated Press -1 terruption for All-Star adven- the Monmouth Handicap and i-Gate Fields in 1950. Then, four nßliSr 'jMmbo losing 11 of their last 19 games. The White Sox enter the last r tures, return to work tonight Hollywood Gold Cup both years ago, Swaps lowered it to haven’t ' What’s worse, they had man- half of the American 5 hopeful they cooled and League 9100,000-plus events. But from 1:33% *t Park. beat Hollywood to it in aged to first-place Pitts- race convinced they will be in eager prove a four-game * a speed viewpoint, the big news A year ago the Brookfield burgh just three times in 13 the thick of the battle a series with their chief tor- <>.,’<o pennant may come out of Arlington Farm’s Intentionally, racing in tries. And they were 0-4 against all the -1 mentors, the Indians. way. Park, where the $50,000-added the Arch Ward Memorial at Ar- Harvey Haddix of the Pirates. The defending ch Refreshed by three-day a m pions Equipoise Mile is to be raced lington, matched Swap’s time , a vacation C®cf JBk They buried the slumps and open a four-game home series for the 21st time. “ which ended with an w under 121 pounds. Now 4- a the Haddix but last with Baltimore tonight, hoping ' exhibition last night at Phil- jinx good Year after Year, the . year-old, Intentionally is back Equi- the night with 4-0 victory at they can continue—or increase for the ‘ adelphia, Senators willsend a poise has produced speedy per- . Equipoise Mile with * BiwtesSEjN / m Pedro Ramos against Cleve- as Mathews the momentum that made • Pittsburgh walloped although none weight assignment of 126. ! formances, quite land’s Jim a home rim, a triple and a them one of the hottest in the Perry tonight in the as fast as when Equipoise The black son of Intent has to the All-Star 5 series opener. double while driving in three league prior himself the world mile ' 4jHMbm lowered raced once this only year, easily will stack behind the five-hit games respite. I Washington a runs pitch- record to 1:34% under 128 the i winning six-furlong Tobog- three-game streak ing of Bob Buhl and Lew Bur- The White Sox have won 12 - winning gan Handicap at Belmont Park. The Senators dette’s ninth-inning relief. of their last 17 games, beating • against Perry. BBrnil ' For 21 the Brookfield Cleveland five of six starts, 1 have won seven of their last "Jr I r xHHIHKNNNNfIfINE Trims Pirates' Lead in succes- WEEK-END SPORTS colt has a record of 11 victories, and 12 of but the In- sive meetings. They are three i, eight 17, The loss, in a 5 seconds and 2 thirds for i' dians also can display statistics First Baseman Joe Adcock of the Braves makes a effort for a coming make- games behind New York, the' ON RADIO-TV gallant earnings of indicate up game while the rest of the and 2 1 behind the In- $487,287. to they're unimpressed. pop foul off the bat of Gino CimoU of the Pirates in the first leader, /i inning clubs of last major league were resting dians—holding third place one Intentionally, who’ll be rid- Senators Have night’s in But a look at the fans tells Hope game Pittsburgh. approxi- after the All-Star den by Bill games, game ahead of the Orioles. Television Hartack, is expect- mately where the ball landed. Eddie Mathews hit his 17th homer and The Indians mainly are re- trimmed the Pirates’ lead to The Yankees return to ac- ed to draw his chief opposition J drove in three runs to lead the Braves to a 4-0 over the leaders. SATURDAY sponsible for keeping the Sen- victory four games. tion tonight against the Tigers from a field that Includes Fleet t ators out of the first division, His homer made him the man in to clear the Baseball Nasrullah Dunce only history rightfield It was during the All-Star ! in Detroit while Boston will be (122>, (121), stands in twice.—AP Senator* Alhambra They’ve whipped Washington Forbes Field Wirephoto. games, which don’t count in at Kansas City and Washington vs. Indians, . (113), Little Tytus j in nine of 11 WTOP-9, 2 p.m. (113) and (114). games, including regular season statistics, that at Cleveland. Olymar their last eight in a row. Five i Mathews mentioned the slutnp The White Sox are pinning Bowling Calumet Farm's eccentric c of those losses were by one run. he was trying to shake—and a lot of their hopes on their On-and-On Bowl the Champ, WMAL-7, was assigned 122 2 The Indians have won all five showed signs of shaking it by regular starters—Bob Shaw, pounds for the Equipoise after 4 p.m. r games played here. belting a two-run homer in Early Wynn, Billy Pierce and winning the Arch Ward Memo- Sports Mudcat 6-0 —who have Special Grant, certain to be Due Wednesday’s victory over Frank Baumann rial in 1:09% last Saturday. Players WTOP-9. 4:15 p.m. ¦ encountered in this series, will the American League at only broken even thus far. But Trainer Jimmy Jones de- LOSE OR be seeking his 15th victory with- W/N, Yankee Stadium. Pierce is 7-4, Baumann 5-4,, Hone to Racing cided the pass up Arlington out loss Oddly, the 4-7 and Shaw 7-8. If 1 a against Washington. lefthanded-hitting Wynn Sheepshead Bay Handicap, k race in favor of the mile-and- Mathews broke the alive and ’ Only two below the To slump that quartet comes 4:30 Monmouth games ¦ DRAW FRANCIS STANN Vote on 2d WTOP-9, pjn. a-quarter Handicap By against three lefthanded pitch- continues to get excellent sup- .500 level and tied for fifth- Monmouth Handicap, WRC-4, at Monmouth Park. On-and- It who from the ' place with the Tigers, the Sen- ers. was Whitey Ford port bullpen corps, On in the 5:30 p.m. ’ gets rich Monmouth gave up his All-Star jolt, and the Chicago club could be -1 ators hope to return home after ¦ stake with 120 pounds, three Haddix and Reliever Fred Green Golf B this seven-game trip even with All-Star Game tough. fewer than C. T. Chenery’s for top- the world. of were tagged his extra-base Al also is Top pro golf, WMAL-7, 5 ¦ Prospects rising I I Manager Lopez ’ weighted First Landing. If as hits at Pittsburgh. pm. s then would be enhanced, for NEW encouraged by the recent bat-1 | the Sievers: Perennial YORK. July 15 (AP).— Imany as eight start, Mon- the Senators willface the Roy Bargain Billy Bruton, Del Crandall of and SUNDAY • suf- ting heroics Roy Sievers mouth willgross with The baseball $lll,OOO, Athletics a FOR THE CHASTENED major league play- and Mathews each had three of -1 sering in four-game American League the pre- the solid hitting of Al Smith Bowling the winner netting the Braves’ hits $71,000. Iseries opening a home stand ers are expected to take a vote 15 against the (.321) and Minnie Minoso h i All Star heroics of Roy Sievers came a little too late. Be- Cham pion s p bowling, (The ' Pirates, and a dozen of them Monmouth will be Iagainst Western teams. soon on whether to drop the (.317). WMAL-7, 4 p.m. the , televised nationally by NBC Jim Lemon, who have tween time of the voting and the moments of truth were off Haddix, now 6-5 for j might secpndj All-Star Game or con- Casey Stengel, the Yankee from 5:30 the year. I to 6 p.m., with Ray used a rest, was the only Sen- in Kansas City and New York, Sievers became the hottest has mentioned the Radio tinue with two. manager, Haight of Washington call- ator subjected to the travel 17th for | baseman in the Mathews possibility of resting Roger the It will be hitting first American League and the Frank TODAY ing race. seen rigors accompanying the All- Scott, representative the major’s leading Bruton’s leadoff and Maris, in Washington over WRC- Star games.
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