Win, Lose Or Draw Native Dancer Barely Gets up to Win Thriller
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Resorts and Travel jhmflaa f<tf j&pffffe Sport News C **** FOURTEEN PAGES. WASHINGTON, D. C., IfAY 16, 1954 Busby's 4 Hits Futile, Indians Rally in Eighth to Beat Shea, 5-4 Navy Crew Beats Yale by Half Length for 26th Straight Victory Win, Lose or Draw Jim Homers, By FRANCIS STANN CHUCK DRESSEN IS the sensation of the Pacific Coast Takes League League with his handling of Oakland, a seventh-place club last year but now leading the league and threatening to make o$ with the pennant. ... In addition, the attendance . at . Lead .360 has soared. For the entire 1953 season Oakland played to only 130,045 customers; ? in a two-week opening home stand, the Vernon Also Slams Oaks have drawn 70,057 paid. fjff -Mm Homer, but Rosen, Paul Richards must qualify as the most imaginative of all big league managers, in- MP] Avila Follow Suit eluding Casey Stengel. Last year, it By Burton Hawkins may be recalled, one of Richards’ stunts Star Staff Correspondent .was to move his pitcher to third base so JffTJi CLEVELAND, May 15.—Ac- a southpaw reliever could pitch to one customed to bitter defeats, the batter. Last Friday Richards yanked his Senators acquired additional ' good-hitting first baseman, Bob , acidity for their outlook on life Boyd, and today sent Pitcher Bob Keegan (who delivered) when the Indians shoved across two runs in the eighth . to bat for him. Then he finished with “ inning to deal them a 5-4 loss. * Catcher ¦¦ - Sherm Lollar and Third Baseman . - • • •. - ¦ ¦ ¦ . It now has become not a ques- " Grady - Hatton on first base in a 4-3 win over the A’s. • ‘ . tion of whether the Senators will * Ralph Coan, the 16-year-old Gonzaga High School . • ¦: . ¦ . , ' • lose, but how. They’ve been de- .-"'-r ... y: ; feated in 12 of student who record 4:39.9 in :.-1^: v *•"* their last 14 set the Private-Prep mile of ¦¦¦ .'. ' . :•> • *. v** . .. : ... .. .... •: :' . A ¦’. y¦.¦ V ¦; ,*• .Y .. .>¦' ¦: Y' .. :. ¦ ¦ .. •- Y- -Y- ¦ -¦¦••••• •. , Y * games and four in a row, the Carl Coan, Y Y. y: .. achiev- recent Maryland Field Day, is the of ->• son ! , • . V' • •• ' ing their latest setback >•• after . • •' great Penn Miier of the early 19305. The elder Coan "'"..Y ¦ * . - W struggling ... is,'., .. to present Spec Shea . • • .. ... • . .• V • . - , * A s. - ’VS ~.y. \.y. Y '¦.¦¦¦¦¦. .. won the national intercollegiate indoor mile and swept the " . ; : ' .>! • . V.. '•• a 4-3 lead in .. the eighth. - v . ’ • ' Y . ' 4:13 ¦¦' •• posting ~ ¦" Baxter, Hunter and Wanamaker Miles in ’3l, ; ¦' '." ? narrow margin Y-t:-. '*Vy , ' r . ? That existed in *. the Y~ only momentarily, the Baxter. Young Coan is profiled today in ¦ for Bobby Catholic Standard. NAVY VARSITY EIGHT SURGING TO 26th STRAIGHT WlN—Navy’s unbeaten varsity eight (left) staves off a late-stretch bid from Yale Avila led off Cleveland’s eighth (center camera) with a game-tying • * * * nearest to win The Evening Star Trophy and chalk up its 26th straight victory in the Eastern heavyweight sprints home run championships off Hains Point yesterday. Penn was a close third. From the camera angle, Navy appears to have more than the official ANDY CREVOLIN, THE California automobile dealer who half-length distance at the finish. mopped up two weeks ago when his Determine won the A portion of the spectator fleet is shown in the background. (Other pictures on Page C-5.) Baseball on TV Kentucky Derby and his Imbros off SIOO,OOO —Star Staff Photo by Gene Abbott. Today. made with the ~..Xi(Lkee* v *' Orioles, Channel t. WMAR. a D.m Kyne Handicap, pardonably . * is cocky these days. Crevolin Tomorrow. now says Imbros can beat the great Native Dancer No television. Next televised *ame: at a Wednesday. vs. Orioles. Channel 5. Senators mile . WTTG. and Chtnnel 13. WAAM. M or less. Incidentally, eight of the 10 horses that pm. won SIOO,OOO races last year are nominated for stakes at Hollywood . Barely Park, which opened the other day. They are Native Dancer Gets Up to Win Thriller over the leftfield fence and Dave Determine, Correlation, Imbros, Native Dancer, Mark-Ye- Philley set the winning run in motion with a double to center. Well, Apple Valley, By Zeus and Rejected. ... A notable absentee is the Widener victor, Landlocked, who is in New O'Brien Wins Duel A1 Rosen, who had pumped a York, while Turn-to, winner of the Flamingo, has been Probable Pitchers two-run homer in the third In- Navy Fights AMERICAN LEAGUE ning, sacrificed and Larry Doby (2)—Porter- Straight retired. Off Washington Chicago Williams Back at Face single right, With World's Top field (3-2) and Marrero (l-(l) vs. Kee- thumped a to scor- The revised 1954 edition of the National Baseball Hall gan (4-1) and Pornleles (0-0). ing Philley. New York at Baltimore (2)—Reynolds of Fame book is worthy of a niche in a baseball fan’s files.... Discus Thrower (3-1) and Kuzava (0-1) vs. Koslo (0-0) Fourth Victory for Wynn. It’s the best By th# Associated Press and Larsen <(>-«). so,far put out by The Freeman’s Journal Co., Boston at Detroit (2)—Brown (1-0) Busby, struggling for Nip Klely (0-2) by Jim vali- Yale 26th But and vs. Gray (1-2) and Loses May Orioles Neck Y. FRESNO, Calif., 15. Cooperstown, N. Branca (2-0). antly but futilely to lift the Sen- folks Parry O’Brien, the world’s great*- Philadelphia at Cleveland (2)—Porto- ators out their contrib- Most might have a little trouble tweaking a putter, proved carrero (0-2) and Prlcano (1-1) vs. Fel- of slump, est shot his versa- ler (0-0) and (2-4). stranger’s nose in a movie and walking away unchallenged, Garcia uted four of Washington’s seven Triumph tility today when he defeated NATIONAL LEAGUE hits, including a first-inning but not the (2)—Schelb . Crew St. Louis Philadelphia Ted Kluszewski of Redlegs. Now the story Fortune Gordien, international Red Sox r 2*l at In 1:35.2 Mile (0-0) and Haddls (4-3) vs. Rldslk (1-1) home run. Jim boosted his aver- is told an record holder, in a great (0-0). of a time Big Klu, ex-footballer, attended a movie Malcolm Lamborne, Jr. discus By *hs Associated Press and Penson (Picture on Page .) age to to grab the American By throwing duel at the Coast Cincinnati at Brooklyn (2)—Wehmeler C-7 .360 in Ipioxville, while the Cincinnati club was en route north great varsity West BALTIMORE, May 15.—Ted (0-0) and Podblelan (2-1) vs. Roe (0-2) League batting Navy’s crew Relays. and Meyer (2-1) or Labine (0-1). lead. Williams got (2)—Conley from Florida. Leaving the theater, Kluszewski saw a finally into a ball Milwaukee at New York By John Chandler Wynn, rowed to its 26th consecutive vic- He threw the platter 184 feet (2-1) Early who struck out game today. The Red Sox slug- and Burdette (3-2) vs. Gomez Associated Press Sports Writer fellow in the back row who looked like his teammate, Harry tory late yesterday to win the inches on his final effort (1-3) and Antonelli (4-1). seven while yielding as many V/i ger went hitless in two trips to Chicago at Plttsbuagh (2)—Mlnner hits, Perko%ski, gave his nose a twist and said, “Honk, honk.” . ninth annual Eastern intercol- to outdistance Gordien for the (2-1) and Willis (0-0) vs. Friend (1-2) NEW YORK. May 15.—Native won his fourth decision. the plate and got no chances (O-O). Ted hotel, was legiate heavyweight sprint time since the two have met and Thies Dancer staged another of his I Shea, who has started five times When returned to the Pitcher Perkowski first afield as Joe Coleman pitched championship before a wildly competition. breath-taking matinee thrillers without winning, was handed a sitting in the lobby and it dawned on Kluszewski that he in Both are mem- Baltimore to a 2-1 victory, his cheering crowd of 12,000 at East bers of the Los Angeles Athletic today when he came from far third defeat. had inadvertently . tweaked someone Fortu- Potomac Park. third of the season against one back in the stretch to Busby ately unknown. Club. Gordien led with a heave Erskine Slops Cards defeat figured in all the Sena- for the stranger, perhaps, he showed enough common The 1952 loss. Straight Face by a long gray tors’ Olympic champions, of 182 feet 9'/2 inches until pinch- offensive operations. He sense not to tangle with Klu, who is built like Jimmy Foxx. Williams returned as a neck and win the $39,200 Metro- top-ranked crew for the race, O’Brien established his mark. hitter in the seventh inning staked Shea to a lead in the first beat an unexpected from with politan Handicap in near-record inning when Dave (Boo) Ferriss, a hot pitcher for the Red Sox a few off bid Gordien, former Minnesota Harry Agganis with the Two Hits as Error he banged his the fifth-seeded Yale eight star, the official on first i On time at Belmont Park. the years back, not only is pitching coach of the Louisville holds world tying run. After fouling two leftfield fence, nut Spee these include which finished just a half boat record of 194 feet 6 inches. drives It was the 20th victory in 21 fourth homer of the season over Colonels days but has expanded his duties to length behind in the feature of down the first base line, allowed the O’Brien’s throw was the best of Ted filed out to leftfield.