Wallace & Co. in Semifinals
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' ,y Rigney H v rffgff Thinks “ |H|B - r- . T; ¦% Mnt SPORTS E0 C-1 While Sox Can WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MARCIJ 8, 1957 Edge Yankees Says Pennant Hinges Crippled On Three Top Players Maryland Facing Reaching Potential TAMPA, Mar. 8 W.—The Chicago White Sox can nose out the Yankees in the & American League pennant year, Wallace this Co. race in Vice President Johnny Rigney Semifinals says—if the top White Sox ‘ players reach their potential. FIRST EXHIBITION TOMORROW Rigney went down the lineups Deacons Gunning for Upset man for man. He put it this way: “Consider Jim Rivera, Nellie Senators to Inspect Over North Carolina Tonight Fox, Larry Doby, and Minnie By MERRELL WHITTLESEY i drop back to the role of under- Minoso. If three of these four ' Stir Staff Correspondent I dog against could reach his potential this ; Prospects the Gamecocks. A's Trade C„ year. I wouldn't look like a bad RALEIGH. N. Mar. B.—A Tar Heels Slim Choice prophet. | By BURTON HAWKINS |ing to decrease the Senators’ de- icrippled Maryland team and We know what each is The Tar Heels, for all their capable of doing. We need all [ Star Staff Correspondent sire for another centerfielder in i South Carolina and its one-man game. Grady No. 1 ranking, their All-America of them to do it together." ORLANDO, Fla., Mar. B.—The .yesterday’s squad He' 1 gang. Wallace, are sup- : ' went hitless in five chances and posed to be playing to see who;Rosenbluth. and their 25-game Senators launch a 34-game ex- I victon streak, will be SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. UP).— hibition schedule against Kan- ’ lifted the ball beyond the infieldI will be runnerup in the Atlantic an ever- ¦ , only so-slim favorite over the Dea- Billy Loes has been impressive : sas City here once. Jerry Schoonmaker ¦ Coast Conference basketball tomorrow and credited cons, despite the eight in workouts at the Baltimore : presence of Centerfielder Jim was with a triple when i tournament in the 9 o’clock latters’ camp ! Olson defeats this season. Oriole here, but the ex- • Pisoni and Shortstop Mike dropped his fly ball after semifinal game tonight. It will 1 says Baxes ’ a long Maryland Dodger his sore arm still in the Athletics’ starting lineup run while another center- be broadcast over radio station and South Carolina [ field bothers him and he has resigned indicates they'll be played for . candidate, Whitey Herzog, , WRC. each beat the other at home himself to a career I ’was hitless. Schoonmaker regular of relief purposes of inspection by Wash- other- The one everybody is talking ! during the season, the pitching. ington bosses. wise struck out twice and was 1 about is the 7:30 match between Terps losing by eight points at Loes showed a snapping fast safe on an error. -1Columbia and winning Baxes batted a mere .226 in 'North Carolina, the Nations by seven ball and a good curve pitching Jose at College Park. : 73 games with the A’s last sea-' ~ Valdivielso contributed a only unbeaten team, and its : bunting practice, but he said triple two , son, but the Senators aren’t ' and singles to the pesky rival at the other end of North Carolina won all three afterward that his felt “like in Jurges arm a spot to be choosey about short-: club’s attack, but the Tobacco Row, Wake Forest. : from the Deacons, by eight in SYMBOLS OF HARD WORK—Trainer George Lentz of the Senators that curve looked.” final, inspects stops at this point. Pisoni, like , Senators' bosses aren't ready to Reynolds Coliseum's 12,400 seats the Dixie Classic by three blisters on the hands of Dick Harris, of Buckv "The trouble is that after I 1 1 son Harris, former manager of Baxes a righthanded proclaim him a new sensation. long have been sold out for both points at Chapel Hill, and by five the rest awhile I'm not as loose hitter, 1 Washington club, who is making a determined bid for a job. Dick, who when batted only ; His hitting was encouraging. tonight night. : at Winston-Salem. I come back on the mound 1 .265 for Vancouver and tomorrow like his dad is a second baseman, is wearing a golf glove for protection on one but he plays centerfleld , but search for a shortstop hasn't The first-round games pro- again,’’ Loes said. and the been Record for Rosenbluth , hand and has tape on the other.—Star Staff Photo by John Mueller Senators are desperate for some- abandoned because of it. duced starring individual roles ; Those four : PHOENIX. Ariz. iA’).—Rookie . body fitting that description. Boudreau to Test Pitchers teams were the for Rosenbluth with his 45 survivors of a long day of bas- points. Wallace with Andre Rodgers continues to im- The Athletics regard Billy Milt Graff, second i 41, includ- baseman; iketball yesterday which : press in the New York Giants' Hunter, recently obtained from i also acquired from the South ing the last 14 by his team in Carolina started by stealing j its remarkable comeback, Hundley squad games. the Yankees, as their regular • after he hit 314 with Birming- one and by Slump shortstop, from 84-81. Maryland , Deacons, The 22-year-old shortstop , with Joe DeMaestri i ham last season, will be in the ! Duke. fol- Jackie Murdock of the WIN, OR in reserve. lowed with a pulsating 71-68 tri-'ithe coach-on-the-floor, who also LOSE If Irv Noren, another A’s lineup along from the Bahamas moved from with Vic Power. umph over Virginia, but prob- points. the second-stringers to the var- ex-Yankee, recovers from knee Gus Zcrnial. Lou Skizas, Hector i tossed in 22 operations ¦ ably lost Nick Davis with a se- sity yesterday and collected two , he’ll be in centerfleld, , Lopez, Pisoni. Baxes and Bill Terps Need Sharper Effort By FRANCIS STANN Fails which could convert into vere ankle sprain. to regu- Slow oits two at-bats the sur- DRAW in as Shantz. j Maryland must be sharper to- lars bowed, Rodgers, plus material. The gaudily-attired Tar Heels 3-0. who Manager Lou Boudreau will night. The Terps played another played for Dallas of the Texas test kept safely ahead all the way 1 Ragged Squad Game Playrd George Brunet, a lefthander, of their sca r e y tournament League last season, has six and helped Lennie Rosenbluth 1 hits Roy likely object and Ken Johnson and Eddie games against the and Virginia in trips—including pair Sievers. of to a new tournament scoring Cavaliers West 11 a of Blake, righthanders, 1 against Little the A's affections, won’t be in the record of points thumping ' came mighty close to losing to a 'Big' Guy doubles—in four games. Senators. pitched 45 in Mar. 8 UP).—To the Senators’ starting lineup. Brunet for team they had beaten three ST. PETERSBURG, FLA, Mar. B—There was an air of RICHMOND. He three clubs last season, Clemson. 81-61. And Wake 1 the surprise people, UP).—El- played a full game yesterday as compil- Forest, team * times. expectancy as the Yankees’ batting practice temporarily I of a lot of VERO BEACH. Fla. ing a 2-3 the that Carolina the Southern Conference bothering Coach Bill Jurges’ team defeated record with the A's. beaten, The Terps never have been halt and basket- bow trouble is Pitcher a 6-1 mark with Crowley. wanted to see is still in came to a the pitcher, sweating freely, walked off ball tournament moves into the Roger Craig and Outfielder Coach Cookie Lavagetto’s club. La., there. The popularj here because the foiks Carl and an 0-6 record at Deacons stayed ahead the mound. For the next hurler was the diminutive south- semifinal stage tonight without Fttrillo of the Brooklyn Dodgers 4-3, in a ragged contest marred Columbia. of N. C. State all the way to win, in this area read all year about S. C. Johnson was 12-9 at Co- ¦ paw, Bobby Shantz, whose showing this season could spell a a surprise team on hand Craig had to be relieved a by six errors. 66-57. Maryland's siow-poke basketball, and in lumoia, while Blake was 17-11 runaway in the American League race. with West Virginia a topheav.v squad game yesterday with a Pisoni. previously owned by N. C. State's defeat ended a ' even tnough it's not so. Added to Baltimore at Toronto. that, there was considerable of- If Shantz was nervous he gave no sign. He threw his favorite to walk off with its third sore elbow. “I've been throwing and the old St. Louis three-year reign as champion of * straight too Browns, drove in 86 Manager Chuck Dressen will ficial baiting by the Maryland began title. much," said the slim right- runs last the young conference, and was 1 warmup pitches and then to feed the hitters, throw- season despite his average.! See SENATORS, Page sorry squad yesterday, and the crowd About the only surprise of hander. low C-4 the last straw in a season ! ing loose and easy. From the sidelines Casey Stengel threw Like Jim Lemon, he struck didn't like that. At the finish all yesterday's opening round was Furillo said that both elbows out marked by fines for illegal re- 1 a glance at Jim Turner, his pitching coach. Turner grinned the hurt when he swings. 138 times—enough to make the cruiting. penalties by the NCAA. but a handful of Terrapin Club one-sidedness of all four wary—but EXHIBITION 1 and winked.