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Pitchers' Recent Surge Puts Indians Well Ahead Tribe’s Power on Slab w in, Lose, or Draw By FRANCIS E. STANN « Increased as Gromek Only Citation Seems to Be a Lock This is the biggest sports month of the summer season, what Stars in Rout of A's with Rocky Grazlano and Tony Zale meeting again this week, Citation By the Atsociaftd Press after the Crown at Belmont on Saturday and Joe Louis going Triple Prom a “good-hit-no;pitch” team title on June 23. and Jersey Joe Walcott priming for their fight i of a few weeks "ago the Cleveland Of the three headline events, only the Bel- iIndians, leading 'the American mont Stakps appears to be a lock It's hard to League race, suddenly have burst see how Citation can lose against the brave few forth with one of the finest mound 3-year-olds who will face him for the $100,000 | corps In the majors. Remember when the Tribe’s purse staff was derisively de- Graziano will be a favorite over Zale on pitching scribed as “Bob Feller, Bob Lemon but the odds won't be Wednesday in Newark, and RAIN?” With the aid of Zale prohibitive. Although he is 34 years old, several postponements due to the has been too good and too game to write off. He’ll weather, Cleveland Manager Lou have to knock out Graziano, but chances are Boudreau was.in position to pitch Rocky also will have to stop Zale in order to win. Feller and Lemon almost exclusively first two weeks of the The heavyweight fight now looks to be the during the toughest to figure. After 10 years as champion, season. Of the Indians’ first 11 games Louis is learning that he no longer rates a big this year Feller pitched in five and over the Idleness and soft living edge challenger. Lemon in four. On the rare occa- with Francis Stann. have left him heavy and slow in comparison sions when the starter was other the t the even older but more lithe New Jerseyite who almost lifted than Feller or Lemon, the Indians’ * erown from Louis last December. fireman crew, headed by Russ Christopher and Ed Kli£man, had A New York Exile Isn't Too Rough to get busy. • Graziano and Zale, who may draw a gate of $450,000. are proving With the change in weather there also came about a in Cleve- it isn’t necessary to fight in New York to make money. When change land’s effectiveness on the mound. Graziano was barred in New York they went to Chicago and set a | No longer was Boudreau forced to record gate for a middleweight contest. On Wednesday they are [depend on the elements. His first certain of another record. pleasant surprise was the “dis- scene of some of the in New Jersey has been the greatest fights covery” of Rookie Gene Bearden as ring history. It was at Boyle's Thirty Acres, near Jersey City, where a first-rate starting pitcher to team Jack Dempsey knocked out Georges Carpentier of France in 1921.- up with his reliables, Feller and The crowd was 80,000 and the gate $1,789,238. ! Lempn. In that same year Benny Leonard successfully defended his light- Gromek Joins Winners. weight crown against Lew Tender in Jersey City before 54,658 cus- The young left-hander from tomers who paid $367,862. Helena, Ark., pitched a three-hit In 1923 Acres again when Luis Angel victory in his first starting assign- Boyle’s Thirty figured Ann Jim Thackara, men’s ment JJay 8, and has been DIVIDING THE SPOILS—Chairman Joe Jones of The Star’s. City of Washington the women’s doubles title; Gray, singles champ; single* Firpo stopped Jess Willard. Again the crowd was listed at 80,000, j hurlingj David splenmd ball since. To date Bearden1 tennis championships is shown preseriting trophies'at the tournairfent windup winner; Capt. Robin Hippenstiel, men’s singles runnerup; Dr. Johnsen, proving that so far as a fighter like Graziano is concerned it isn’t has won five games and- lost only yesterday at Rock Creek. Left to right, the players are: Sosie Girgosian and who shared the men’s doubles title with Capt. Hippenstiel, and Don Leavens, too rough to be exiled from New York. It's only a matter of 20 one. He has allowed only 10 runs Willie in women’s Charlotte co-winner of runnerup with in men’s doubles. from Madison Garden to Newark. The same rich Herbert, runnersup doubles; Decker, Thackara, minutes Square and 32 hits in 50 innings, an aver- will be a monetary vein is tapped and chances are the weather age of about five hits and two runs! mite cooler on this side of the Hudson. per game. Nats' Double Defeat Feller, with his five victories and! Citation Can Run a Distance two shutouts, needs no introduction, How they're going to beat Citation in Saturday's Belmont, short of course. Lemon appears to have wrested the No. 1 Marked Hudson's of hobbling the Calumet ace is hard to figure. Horse trainers are by rating from Feller by with three nature cautious of making claims, but Jimmy Jones, who trains with eight triumphs including shutouts. The Indian pitchers boast his father. Ben, for Calumet, can t picture Citation losing. seven shutouts, more than any staff Failure on Mound with later in the evening of Jones w'as talking newspapermen in the league. had home. “At Hawkins Preakness day at Baltimore, after Citation galloped The fourth starter likely is Steve By Burton he pointed out, “Citation the end of the Derby miie-and-a-quarter,” Gromek. The 28-year-old right- Sid Hudson's attempted comeback same held for in the Preakness was just warming up. The today hander from Hamtramck, Mich., after a shoulder injury forced him mile and three-sixteenths. I’ll be disappointed if he can’t go who won 19 games in 1945, twirled to alter his delivery, is proving in his start of longer than a mile and a half. a six-hitter first the rougher than he anticipated. The “He's a tough horse. If he weren’t, we wouldn’t have cam- season yesterday. Nats’ towering blond right-hander Gromek teamed with Lemon in has been shelled from the mound in paigned him so hard. Citation ran in Florida and beat older pitching the Indians to a pair of seven successive starts and only horses. He came up for the Derby in splendid shape. He was in victories over the Philadelphia Ath- once this season has he traveled for the Preakness, which as you know is-run on the same good shape letics, 5-3 and 11-1. The double- nine innings. uncertain track. Both at Louisville and Baltimore the a tough, rough, triumph increased the Indians’ first- Belted freely yesterday as the tracks were sloppy to muddy. place margin over the Athletics to Nats absorbed 10-4 and 11-4 defeats “Hell have plenty of rest between the Preakness and the Bel- 2t& games. by the dungeon-dwelling Chicago mont. maybe his longest rest in some time. Not that he particularly Record Crowd Sees A’s Lose. White Sox before a critical crowd Crown and we of Hudson was deait his fifth needs it, but that will be the last stop to the Triple A season-record Philadelphia 15,772, a loss. He has earned two de- won't take any chances. Don’t bet that Citation can’t run at least crowd of 37.900 watched Lemon help only cisions and it comes as a Jolt to the mile and a half. We think he can.’’ win his own game by collecting two j mild-mannered fellow who seem- of his team’s eight hits and driving had made the transition from in two runs in the opener. The! ingly overhand to sidearm Indians banged 16 hits off Dick hurling pitch- Wall and effectively. Rex Mays Hits Shirts Fowler and Bob Savage in the night- ing smoothly Swapping There was reason to suppose. after cap. Joe Tipton smacked five hits Sid the New York Yan- Fails to Chase including two doubles in five trips walloped kees, 9-1. on five hits in his first To Avoid Fallen Pilot to the plate. Ken Keltner s three that he was headed for his included his 14th home run start, By th« Associated Press Houtteman Jinx safeties Dale Mitchell is shown under Gil most successful season since 1040, the Associated Press of the season. got Buddy Goeltz, Columbia Country Club tennis pro, girls 15; Bogley, junior boys’ winner, and Teddy MILWAUKEE, June 7.—Rex Mays By when he won 17 games as a rookie. four hits in six times at bat and out the in the division of the tourna- who ruled the under 15. Ricky Willis (extreme smashed into a brick wall yesterday BOSTON, June 7—Art Houtte- handing prizes teen-agers’ Rogers, boys to ic- was Fowler’s That notion now is subject knocked in five runs. It ment at The (left to are: Janet tennis chairman at the to avoid hitting critically-hurt Duke ljian. young Detroit right- Columbia. players right) Lloyd, right), Columbia, supervised youngsters’ vision, for in 11 starts Sid has oecn first loss of the season after three tossed into hie in even shirts winner in the class; Miller, champion of the tournament. —Star Staff Photos. Dinsmore. path header, swapped home run Junior girls’ Polly around at the finish only twice rr.d victories.