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Golf Tourney for AllServicemen Tomorrow tit Red Run DETROIT TIMES, JULY 6, 1942 PAGE 11 SANDLOT ACTION-TWO MAKE CLEAN STEALS OF HOME J SPORTS I By LEO MACDONELL Every All-Star Game Ted Williams' Homer Is Good, But ’4l Tilt Off Passeau Was the Here Was the Tops Blow That Won LOTS OF CHANGES THIS YEAR “_J NEW YORK, July 6. —While the prominence of the players assures color in all of the midsummer classics, the super-thriller of the nine big league all-star games to date was the s|)ectacle at Briggs Stadium a year ago in which Ted Williams exploded a home run in a drama-packed ninth inning to give the American Leaguers their sixth triumph in the series. hitter for 1941, and currently Williams, the league’s leading *' ;> ** * '•••*„ ~ ¦**" the home run king of major league baseball, has added notoriety '..'fit* '*&.¦ -• . to his fame. As you know, the lanky Boston slugger was and given a lecture fined $250 JOE KMAZ.%. PARIS. BEATS THROW HOME \(iAINST ALTES by Joe Cronin for "loafing." It seems Ted took his time in run- ning between bases in a game in V Hub town. Batting in 17 h6me ' v\ runs and flocks and flocks of \ runs, it would be hard to visual- Benton May Start Jze Williams otherwise having much time to "loaf." With his draft status settled Tebbet+s gloriously, (Ted recently en- Florida listed in the navy and may be and York Put In Opposes called before the end of the V\ baseball season i the cause of Woos Williams’ temperamental Also Slated understand. Easier Field in flare-up is hard to jJHpWBg-r.; fe By LEO MACDONELL himself, in an apology. NEW YORK, July 6.—With the Majors to Pwas senior circuit representatives he betting favorites, the Americans NEW YOH£. July 6 —Appalled Big Race Today One Out From Victory and Nationals were girded to en- at the threatened collapse of its Florida assures ' gage each other here tonight in tourist business. j But, hack to that hair- } the baseball world that its '-- the first wartime big league All- winter! By LEWIS H. WALTER raising all-star game in Detroit W& Star game. will have plenty of room; iresorts Put In. the colt that was run- last July 8: I /BHHW The midsummer classic, start- for players, according to Frank manager the Jackson- ning mighty close to Shut and » of Out It looked as though Hie Na- £ ing at 6:30 p. m. f is expected to jwinchell, draw than 50.(XX) customers ville tourist bureau. earlier sea- tional Leaguers had the game more V’aldina Orphan this who will pay SIOO,OOO to the Winchell. fortified with a letter son. will take another run at the put away in cold storage. They W^s' major league’s bat and ball fund from Spessard L. Holland, gov- 3-year-olds at the Detroit Race ‘ within of re- * ' to send equipment to the service ernor of Florida, is in New York Track in the $1,500 Wolverine loop's Y* Icamps. All receipts over that to tell big league club owners and Handicap this afternoon. will to the Army representatives ‘‘the true facts.” By Conscript to set. figure go and j Beaten a nose by Navy Relief, be the “I was told by lakeland hotH- in $5,000 Handicap a Witji the leading, which will the Test Nationals beneficiaries of the game tomor- men that they will have plenty week ago Saturday, the 3-year-old to runners row night in Cleveland between of rfHim and want the Tlgerft son of Stimulus appears to have a said, ii base and two balls and one tonight’s winner and Mickey Coch- hack there,” Winchell little easier lot today in the mile < ft| The I rane’s team. i annual midsummer meet- and yards of the .‘-•rike on William *. T> exploded All-Star Service 70 Wolverine. 1 sis Either Spud Chandler or A ings of the American and National Bam. NELSON, ALTES, ALSO GETS HOME HARD WAY his four-base swat high 1 With his stablemate War mighty B Benton will he the starting pitcher leagues were to be held in sepa- which won last time out. he will off the the right ¦ for the American League against rate New York hotels today. After go as the entry of George T, Wil- *)old stands, ther.by giving his the Nationals. For the senior these gatherings wav scheduled a liams against five rivals. ue »nd circuit it is expected that either joint meeting with Commissioner lra K victory 7 to 5. CERBERUS IS THREAT . Claude Passeau or Whitlow Wyatt K. M. Landis. Yachts rlunpnK 54.6 1 4 fan. into a wild Goes .. starting Among might M6A Race ¦„ hrrn will be the pitcher. I matters they dis- The Williams entry would ap- demonstrstjon. With Bill Dickey out of the cuss are Jack Zeller’s suggestion pear to have dead aim on the hit in It was a tremendous drive, but not Ted’s longest lineup with injuries. Birdie Teh- of a shortened season and no purse were it not for the presence In Photo Briggs Stadium. He hit two there in 1939, one clearing the roof betts probably will be behind the southern training trip, and a pro- of Cerberus, the hard-hitting geld- plate while Rudv York Ls a likely posal that a protracted World ing owned by Bob Needham of Into Last Week and the other dropping on it. starter at first base. iSeries he staged this fall, with the Detroit. Cerberus, which earned Arky Vaughan, then a Tirate, and now with the Dodgers, The indications were that there early games at the parks of the the nickname of Little Iron Legs Finish Outcome of the race in the east beaio Tickets were winning clubs later meetings he up homers, after would sellout. and when racked three in a row the Metropolitan Golf in the seventh inning had hit the first of his two still available this morning. No played on tour, the excess profits at Churchill Downs, is coming By GEORGE E. VAN section of error, standing being go Navy Association won’t be determined Enos Slaughter had singled and gone to second on an room tickets arc to to the Army and Re- back to his best form. He’s been She may have seen better days sold and there would he a seat lief and the USO. third in his last three starts and until next Sunday when Hillcrest the Nationals ahead, 2. Vaughan bagged the second but Minx is still more than hold- putting 3to for every ticket holder. The tiekets finished three lengths back of Put opposes Beverly Hills at the latter! had laced out a >HI for SI 10 to $4.40. In in his last start, but he’s capa- ing her own with the younger sot of his homers in the eighth, after Johnny Mize club in the final round of the Beaten six times in nine starts ble of taking it all. and doing it with all the charm of two-bagger. That made the scqre 5 to 2 in favor of the Na- regular schedule. 61 the Nationals are desperately Mrs. H. P. Bonner’s Unbuttoned, another ageless beauty, Billie Nets tionals. The American League, in their half of the eighth, sliced eager to post a victory 1 here this Birlers Whirl which lost jockey Eddie Campbell Beverly Hills has the advan- again in our evening. They are especially de- when he stumbled out of the gate Burke, who is midst. tage. It kept its slate clean by the enemy’s lead to 5 to 3. sirous of a triumph in view of the Friday, will try for a little better You see this is Minx’ thirty- winning yesterday at Sylvan Glen. Golfer Williams’ homer came off Claude Passcu. who is expected super-disappointment in Detroit eighth year on the water as a 8-4. while Hillcrest was being last July when they had the 19*11 (Continued on Page 12) its defeat. see action in the all-star game here today. By a queer twist For U. S. Crown racing yacht. Most of the girls handed first 64-5*4. to contest apparently locked up in Bald Mountain, she used to play with long since Bald Mountain. of fate it left the unluekiest pitcher of the American League the safe .only to 10-e when Ted with only one defeat, also may SIOO Bond a home run into GLADSTONE. July 6 (UP) have gone ofT to the old ladies’ the White Sox. the winning flinger. Williams blasted Standings have to be reckoned with. It; this year, Edgar Smith of the third deck of the right field Walter Swanson. 24-year-old lum- home or wherever yachts go when plays Sylvan Sunday. Alaska, at Glen next Bv M. F. DRI KENBROD once again Smith is in the junior league squad, piloted this stands at Brigg-» Stadium with two berjack from Kodiak. and they begin to hog and open up at this Bvnd 21, Beloit. Wis.. The winner of section will McCarthy. mates on th»' runways. The Amer- James Running. AMERICAN LEAGUE the seams. join Duck Lake of the north sec- Nomination as Detroit’s No. 1 year by Joe 5 will be on the opfiosile ends of a winning icans won the game. 7 to W Minx has a hard time a tion and Warren Valley of the Hale America golfer goes to J. R. AMKRICA.N .NATIONAL whirling log today competing for L Pet.