Two Legs up on Triple Crown Pinch Hitter*
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Griffs Frustrated fundny skt SPORTS Garden C By Mantle. 6-5 TWELVE PAGES WASHINGTON, D. C., MAY 18, 1968 By BI'ITON HAWKINS i speed, grabbed the ball on the But luff Wrlttr dead run. juggled It. but held Mickey Mantle dui deeper- on. ately acroaa Griffith Stadium's J Thue the Senator*, only • rloae-cropped turf to make a -eme end a half ahead of the superb catch of a scorching last-place Whit* Sox, lost their liner by Plnch-hltter Julio , 1fourth game in a row as Bobov Shentx hi* straight Preakness, Beequer with two base for won fourth Captures oo Tim Tam a tame-ending out that pre- still the Senator*, who have served a 6-5 victory for the lost seven of nine game*, fell Yankee* over the Senator* yes- six game* back of the dratted terday. Yankee*, who have won 17 of game*. Up point Sena- their 33 The Senator*. to that the Oriole* and tied tor* extracted amazing Athletic* are had second with .500 efficiency from four previous for record*. Two Legs Up on Triple Crown pinch hitter*. Bob Malkmu* Third Lae* far Stobbs singled a* a pinch hitter and The Yankees, threatening to Roy Sievera socked a three-run blow the American League race homer in a pinch role In the wide open with scarcely a Lincoln Road eighth inning to whittle Wash- month gone, got near-maximum fMA ington's deficit to one run. 1 mileage from their alx hits off ¦ With one down In the ninth i four pitchers a* they Inflicted Beaten Again Pinch-hitter Alble Pearson > a third straight loss on Chuek * singled off Ryne Duren. and I Stobbs. who hasn't won. *....: ' it with two out Pinch-hitter Clint The Senators accumulated ¦ By Calumet Courtney walked. That left It 10 hit* off Bhant* and Duren By CHARLES M. EGAN up to Beequer, batting for Ed ut struggle making a stirring of ¦port, Sdltsr •( Th*Star Yoat. It, dropped eight but they May 17.—Tim game* back of Yankees BALTIMORE. Beequer (tabbed th* In Tam took another giant step While crowd of in- the lost column after moving triple crown a 14.335. half-game of toward a third cluding -safety patrol within a the lead- triumph Calumet Farm 5.013 week ago Thursday. for members, bellowed, Julio fouled er* a when he won the 82d Preak- Stobb* wa* shelled for three pitches, watched a . at this - a 1 off'three ‘ -ir v,. » \n the first Inning k i J a ness Stakes Pimlico ball, then laced a liner Into n afternoon before 36.912 howling , he walked Tony Kubek right center which screamed after fans—one of the bettingest “hit” when It left the anti .u;i derra to start tha, the bat. game. Hank Bauer sacrificed crowds that ever Jammed But the speedy Mantle tore 88-year-old race track. over with a furious burst ot See SENATORS, rage C-3 And. once again. Silky Sulli- van was a flop, winding up eighth, nearly 16 lengths be- hind. Tim Tam’s eighth straight victory—this time aver a fast WIN, LOSE OR track—was far more convincing than his Kentucky Derby tri- umph in the mud two weeks ! ly FRANCIS STANN ago. for this time he was a DRAW length and one-half ahead and going away from his perennial shadow. Isaac Blumberg’s per- sistent Lincoln Road. Os This and That At Churchill Downs May 3, royally-bred BALTIMORE, May the son of Tom 17.—This then must be the end of Fool-Two Lea didn’t get the the Bilky Sullivan saga. Pimlico officials admit that Silky lead until the last 50 yards probably was Instrumental in swelling the crowd to 36.913 or so and beat Lincoln Road topped only for a Preakness by 40,232 in 1946—8ut his by only a half-length, the same eighth-place finish, after coming in 12th in the Kentucky margin as In the SIOO,OOO- Derby, just about finishes him. As Bob Kelley put it, - Florida Derby at Gulf- stream Park March 29. ‘•They ruined a good by sending Silky to hunter the races." a Aa for Tim Tam, you’ve got to all but concede the Never Doubt Today Ismael Valenzuela, hia Belmont Stakes to him. one runs on . This all kinds of substitute rider, shot Tim Tara in He tracks and all kinds of weather. owns the 3-year- to the front at the turn into eld crop, even t(ie stubborn Lincoln Road who is making the homestretch and there a career of finishing Just behind. Discovery used to be never was any doubt about th* similarly frustrated when Calvacade was tops. And then TIM TAM DOES IT AGAlN—Calumet Farm’s brilliant Tim second place while Gone Fishin* (No. 11 near rail) noses out outcome after that. Chris there was Jamie K who finished behind Native Dancer in Tam the wire length and a half in front of Plion, (No. 3) a 125-1 shot, for third money. Others in the Rogers, the veteran who rated crosses a the Lincoln Road so skillfully in the 1953 Preakness and Belmont. persistent Lincoln Road to win the 82d Preakness yesterday photo include Noureddin (No. 6) and Talent Show (No. 2). Francis the Derby, did another swell Bob Wolff continues to educate such unlearned oafs as at Pimlico, with Ismael Valenzuela in the saddle. The —Star Staff Photo by Routt. job today, but his mount was this listener when, after Leftflelder Neil Chrisley allowed favorite paid $4.20. Chris Rogers whips Lincoln Road into no match for the Calumet a soft liner by Boston’s Don Buddin to fall in front of him champion even at the shorter for a single, Wolff sputtered: “Chrisley apparently was I mile and three-sixteenths. making some sort of a bluff.” What—with nobody on base I Lincoln Road, who was B*4 VALENZUELA IS HOPING to 1 despite his Derby showing If and when Floyd Patterson ever defends his heavy- Rush Beats Split Rowers hung on well and was 3V$ weight title against Roy Harris Shoot, you Orioles Yale the of Cut and Tex., lengths ah°ad of tnird fin- might be curious as to how the township got its name. Redlegs, 5-1, Calumet's Problem isher at the wire. It took a Henry Harris, father of the Texas heavyweight, explains close examination of the photo to decide third money, but the that many years ago an oil boom lured hundreds of un- Sox, With Red In 3-Hitter Set Eastern award finally went to the Vir- wanted strangers to nearby Conroe. “Them what stayed Is Too Many Riders ginia-bred Gone Fishin’, owned got «ut,” says. “Them what ran got shot." CINCINNATI. May 17 (IP).— and bred by Mrs. Richard E. Bob three-hit- By JOSEPH T. KELLY had to my at the ** * * Rush pitched x check horse Lunn. the former Liz Whitney. Meet sixteenth after Tie Senators ter tonight while Record Stir Racing Editor pole we came his Milwaukee Gone Fishin', who now has - BEVIGNE, s FRANK who used to coach track at George- BOSTON. May 17 (A ).—The teammates made the best of PRINCETON. N. J., May 17 BALTIMORE, May 17 out of the gate.” finished ahead of the publi- coaching Nebraska, hits, including UP). town and now is at had .11,000 people Orioles took an early four-run seven three —Yale’s smooth, poised Jockey Ismael Valenzuela in “I saved ground on the in- cized Silky Sullivan in four Boston, homers, and beat the Redlegs, at his Nebraska-Michigan State meet this week. ... When lead and checked a late varsity crew today broke the side. and when I called on him straight races, was a short nose the midst of his happy celebra- Rookie Ralph Lumenti got in trouble recently, Manager rally for a 5-3 victory tonight! 5-1. |( course and meet record today he ran for me. I knew at the ahead of a 125-to-l outsider, split of their day-night The 32-year-old Braves ; in winning the Eastern College in Pimlico’s crowded three-eighths we were going to Cookie Lavagetto came out of the dugout to talk with him. and a 1 tfon Edward J. Potter’s Plion, doubleheader. The victory hurler went all the way for his varsity heavyweight spring jockey quarters, after the win. When we got on top in ridden by Steve Brooks. After a moment or so, Lumenti interrupted Cookie. “Better victory against moved Baltimore into a tie with third one de- i rowing championship on Car- Preakness today answered the stretch, he saw the crowd Next to finish was the Crab- go back to the dugout, Skip," he advised, “before my arm Washington for second place. feat and was rarely in difficulty. : negie Lake. and started looking around. I grass Stable's well-liked Nou- ' every question with the poise gets cool.” Don Buddin’s three-run The Braves lost no time! Pennsylvania came on to hit him and he ducked a little reddin, who was backed down jumping got The last pitcher to face Babe Ruth found in homer in the eighth inning gave on Tom Acker in the take second after the Harvard of an Arcano until he to a to the inside, but he wasn’t to 9 to 1 because he was “going ha 3 been inning. Johnny Logan getting the employ of the Colorado State Hospital. He is Jim the Red Sox the afternoon first stroke was catapulted out of tough one.