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itiCmilQ JHitf SPORTS' C oirru»ilß* C-1 ** THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1955 Patton Leads U. S. Advance f- fjujt- «=' 'ff _ fjffe . MmjKSSf*\Jr£ . a Into British Quarter-Finals o Mr 4 faLir i|wrp? \j|| H McHale, 3 Other Harris Getting Five Straight by Roberts Americans Lose AMBLfjP H ' ajjBgWMBBjBM^' Pull Phils From Depths In FiftW Round Vindication at Br the Associated Press ble-header from Kansas City, ST. ANNES, England, June t Without collegiate-looking 3-1 and 6-1; the White Sox <JP). —Alan Slater of England edged 4-3, Robin Roberts, the Phillies could the Red Sox. and the ended Jimmy McHale’s fifth bid give the Pirates a good run for Tigers blanked the Senators, Expense for the British Amateur golf Griffs' the National League cellar. 9-0. Billy Joe Wr p^v But long Robin persists Duke Snider was the big gun in championship today as so as victory, hitting of Morganton, N. C., led Gromek Attempts in winning 20 or more games a the Brooklyn Patton ??. k 88. ;¦¦ ¦>:• VI season the Phillies will stay out three home runs and narrowly the advance of Americans int* To Keep Senators missing No. 4. His fourth try hit the quarter-finals. gp* - - ' of the basement. Roberts has Cup Blanked at Detroit won 20 or more games the past the right-field screen and he had Patton, a Walker player, years to settle tor a double. continued his fine play as he de- By five and 1955 will be no THE DUKE’S THEIR BOY—Brooklyn —Duke Sni- celebration of Brooklyn’s 11-8 victory. Holding BURTON HAWKINS exception Snider's last homer was his feated George Coleman of Mi- if he continues at bis ami, Okla., 3, all- der, who blasted three home runs and just missed a Slider (left to right) are Jackie Robinson, Peewee Star Staff Correspondent present pace. 15th, tops in the majors. Roy 5 and in an fifth-round match. fourth in last night’s slugfest with the Braves, gets Reese and Roy Campanella, each of whom contrib- Bucky The Phillies have won just 19 Campanella hit his 14th and American ,DETROIT, June 2. another all-American match, a lift from a trio of Dodger teammates during the uted a homer to the cause.—AP Wirepjioto. Harris is helping demonstrate games as they ride along in sev- Peewee Reese and Jackie Robin- In enth place, and Roberts has son also connected. While this 20-year-old Don Bisplinghoff of that it was a deficiency in ma- won Fla., 21-year- eight Including a neat was going on, the Braves cracked Orlando. trounced terial, rather than ineptitude by of them. Walker Cup HOMER BY 6 FEET prompted six-hit, 3-1 decision over the three doubles and two triples in old Bruce Cudd. a MISSES FOURTH the manager, which player Portland, Oreg., 4 departure from Washington. Cubs last night. a 12-hit attack. from his and 4. There was a flash of bitterness For a time, it appeared that This bombarding came at the Bucky the Michigan State alumnus expense of Gene Conley of the Bisplinghoff will meet Phil WIN, last fall when was axed Cup LOSE OR might Scrutton. British Walker Snider Isn't Unhappy as the Senators’ field boss, but not make the charmed Braves and Carl Erskine of the player, quarter-finals to- it vanished and Harris now can circle. He sputtered to a 3-3 Dodgers, who had hooked up twice in the mark on May 7, hardly the pace this in extra-inning duels. morrow. Scrutton defeated Guy By FRANCIS afford to view the discharge as season England, 6 DRAW STANN —He Had Bunt in Mind one of the more fortunate de- for a 20-game winner. But in A six-run fourth chased Conley Wolstenholme of velopments of his long baseball less than a month, he has won and a five-run seventh evicted and 4. BROOKLYN, June 2 (A>).—Two disclosed he had given orders to career. five games and shows a fine Erskine. Both now have 7-2 Another American Loses yards of chicken wire was all Snider to bunt should Peewee Now steering the Tigers, Bucky 2.30 earned run average. records. McHale, 39-year-old power from Reese, preceding ‘a Stanky and the Onus that prevent Duke Snider the batter Duke has superior talent at his dis- The only teams he hasn’t Nuxhall Handcuffs Giants hitter, was a member of tha joining the select group of seven in the eighth, get on. However, posal and has his club in fourth beaten are St. Louis and Cincin- sluggers are Redlegs got 1949 and 1951 United States AS PART OF HIS FAREWELL, Eddie Stanky gave the whose names in the Reese filed out. place despite injuries which on nati, and that little matter may The one of their Walker Cup teams. He was a record books with four home runs . It was the rare well-pitched games and, St. Louis Cardinals he used to manage a sei\doff of a sort. second time in five occasion have stripped him of be taken care of during the Phils’ semiflnalist in the 1950 British in one game. years that Snider missed hitting Shortstop Harvey Kuenn, Third current home stand against the aided by home runs by Ted quar- "Within a year or two,” he predicted, “the Cardinals will (No. 14) Roy Amateur and reached the Those 6 feet forced the sweet- four hftners in a single game by Baseman Ray. Boone, Pitcher West. Kluszewski and ter-finals in 1952. have a great team, one that will stay great for a long time.” swinging centerfielder of the a matter of feet. On Memorial Steve Gromek and First Base- McMillen, had no trouble with Dodgers Phils Out of Doldrums Another American was beaten Well, maybe. They have some promising young ball to settle for three Day. 1950, the Duke smashed man Ferris Fain. the Giants. Joe Nuxhall held of Eng- and double, pretty In fact, the Phils themselves when Arthur Perowne players, question about it, but the other hand Stan homers a a three homers and a single Bucky has no particular Leo Durocher’s men to five hits. land, also former Walker Cup no on feat if the Duke did against Then, am- to be snapping out of the Nuxhall had four-hit shutout a mean even the Phillies. too, bition to pour it his long- seem a player, Gorpl. James K. Musial and Red Schoendienst, the pros, are growing old. the on doldrums. They’ve won nine of ninth, trounced miss record books as the he came up in the eighth inning friend, Griffith, until the when Willie Bernard, jr., Westboro, Mass., What Stanky was doing, innocently or otherwise, putting Dodgers Braves, a time Clark or 11 games. Although Mays of was defeated the with chance for four and. just to successor, their last hit his 13th homer with golfing night. embarrass his they are just a “unknown,” 6 and 4. his managerial successor and/or his ex-bosses on the spot. 11-8, last like last night, he sent a drive working above the Pirates Don Mueller on base. thought against right-field Chuck Dressen. It’s out in the standings, they are only Joe Carr of Ireland. 1953 cham- “For a minute I Ihad the screen. way, though, Luis Arroyo tossed his sixth pion hope Few real tears will be sfied in St. Louis now that Harry the fourth one, too,” that with Detroit four games behind the third- and chief British to Snider said "Do I that?” he boasting victory against no defeats for keep Walker has replaced Stanky. The Brat wasn’t born to the afterward. “I hit it real good, remember said five victories in six place. Giants. the title out of American with a grin. “Os course, I do. I games with the Senators, includ-. See BASEBALL, Page C-4 hands, quarter- Cardinal,, so to speak, and he never was highly in on' reached the popular but it sort of sunk me and had hit ing yesterday After the Phils scored two runs straight year the town. Stanky strictly was the choice one man, hit the screen. I have no idea two homers off Russ a 9-0 affair when in the fourth, it was merely a finals for the sixth of Fred Meyer (now teammate) and BillyHoeft chucked two-hitter. victory pitch was, a a protecting the with a 5-and-3 over Saigh, who owned the ball club at the time and shortly there- what the but it must another Donnelly. matter of Roberts England. off Blix 800 The Senators haven't won a lead, par- PROBABLE PITCHERS Richard Ashcroft of after was sentenced by Uncle Whiskers penance for have been a sinker.” pitching eighth game Briggs which he did with no to do was referring Miller was in the at Stadium. At- this morning’s fourth-round Snider to his last tempting ticular trouble. Ernie Banks hit AMEBICANLEAGUE In income tax discrepancies. eighth and I hit one off the screen. to deal them a fifth suc- matches, hit which came in the today his 12th home run for the Cubs Washington at Detroit—Stobbs (1-4) 9 of 11 Americans and That was even closer to being cessive loss here will be vi. (S-2). His new bosses, the big went along with inning. already walloped in the fifth for their only run. Gromek Chicago—Parnall (0-0) ye. four out of fiveWalker Cup play- , brewing people, He had a home run than the one to- Oromek, idle more than a week Boston at Stanky, who anyhow while they three homers, one each off Elsewhere in« the National Pornieles (4-2).