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I Griffs Look for Yank Trade V -am /JBMKww!U> To Bolster Riddled Lineup , .. | .A^k_JMF mD Solving glaf Only 18 Players y^BI Reds OK for 3 Games, 4 !- ii- ... ,^_ Optioned ¦ 4*4 '#2vjf Nvr / >. Kralick Braves' Jinx By BURTON HAWKINS PORTS SUr Suit Wrlttr \Hh Si NEW YORK. May 9.—The THE EVENING STAR Senators’ maneuverability for * Long Washington, O. C., Saturday, May 9, 1959 At Last A-12 a double-header with the Yan- jyM. * jsj f ¦v lh» Auoclatrd Frau kees here tomorrow will be vir- *« tually kv w»f* It’s beginning to look m If impossible unless they U t /viTF x«w SEVENTH HOMER BEATS CHICAGO swing multi-player to- iyS\L catching r s trade ,; Reds at last [| •m A fr^ a the are day. for they must trim two V| E ' fjr V:, \ up with the Braves. players by midnight tonight, The Braves have beaten a further decimating a skeleton path to a pair of National i Colavito Puts Tribe squad. League pennants by trampling Exclusive of pitchers, it’s the Reds the past two years. likely that Manager Cookie In 1957, Milwaukee won 18 of In Front by Three Lavagetto will have only 11 its 22 games with Cincinnati. players at his command. Five Last season it was 17 of 22. Br the AnocltM Preu fifth in a row and sinking to 1 ill players remained In Wash- Now the Reds have taken i It seems that as long as .500 in fourth place, 5Vs games -1 ington and Cookie doesn’t ex- three of five decisions this sea- ¦ Rocky Colavito can swing a bat behind. pect slugger Roy Sievers to be son, winning three in a row i the Indians are going to be Bulllvan, the 6-foot-7 right- available for action here In a from the Braves for the first t tough to beat. hander. gave up only five singles i single game today or the f I 1 |M time since 1956. And they’ve > Cleveland managed only along with two walks while 1 double-header tomorrow. (Tone way—beating night Chicago, it the hard i three hits last at squaring his record at 1-1. The Entering tomorrow’s first Warren Spahn and Lew Bur- - but Colavito got two of them Red Sox got just three hits for game, barring alterations by dette. and drove in three runs, belt- seven innings, but held a 2-0 trade, Cookie will have only ing homer in the 1 19 Burdette's Streak Gone a two-run lead over Southpaw Billy O’Dell 1 players here. Sievers’ shoul- sixth to break a 1-1 tie and (1-1). They scored in the first der Injury slices the availabil- They junked Burdette's win- • give the Tribe a 3-1 victory, on a walk, passed ball, error ity 18. Seven of ning to those are streak at nine—five this s It was the seventh home run and Frank Malzone’s sacrifice calculated to be pitchers, since season—with 3-2 victory at 1 a tjof the year for Rocky who fly, then counted again in the (Jack Kralick optioned to night that only was Milwaukee last t was three shy of a Cleve- fourth on a walk and Don Bud- Chattanooga last night. COMEBACK ARTISTS—SiIky Sullivan and Roy in four months. Campanella, former Dodger gained a virtual first-place tie record when he walloped din’s double. r with the Braves. Going into land Five Remain Behind Campanella meet in the winner’s circle at catcher who was paralyzed in an auto accident, >{4l last season—and he’s made Sullivan finally got today game—another run-in some night and it is of approval. Though he bet $2 on another s 1 1 them good for 11 runs. Incl- breathing room in the seventh, Behind in Washington Hollywood Park last a case smiles with Spahn—the Reds are sec- are Silky, glory lad horse, Campy said, “Ilike horses that can come ¦ dentally, he didn’t hit his sev- when Boston scored three, with i First Baseman Norm Zauchin, mutual admiration. once the ond by a mere .009 percentage : year in 6-furlong, Wirephoto. enth last until June 8. Pete Runnels and Jackie Jen- ¦ Outfielder Albie Pearson. Catch- of racing, has just won the $7,500 back.’’—AP point margin. his 41st game. Now he’s Roy Campanella Purse in his first serious work sen hitting solo home runs. It; er Clint Courtney and Pitchers San Francisco also closed in,.[matched that output in half was Jensen’s seventh, Runnels’ Russ Kemmerer and John Ro- replacing Los Angeles in third, . the time (21 games). second. monosky. Another pitcher, Bill just a half-game behind the 1 ? McLish Wins Fourth Narlrski Wins First Fischer, is here, but is recup- leaders, by whipping the Dodg- erating from a virus and isn’t games night’s success, the ers, 9-3. The Cubs are 1% s Last Singles by Harvey Kuenn expected to be ready for any- SILKY WINS CAMPY PURSE 3-2 ! fourth in a row for Cal McLish. back after a 10-inning, and Lou Berberet got the Tigers i thing more than a relief role. Jacobs Leads victory Louis. Philadel- - the unbeaten righthander, rolling Dixie Attracts at St. In the ninth against Thus, if Faye Throneberry phia regained a sixth-place tie padded Cleveland’s American Ray (1-3), ¦ Herbert who then departs, as anticipated, Cookie with Pittsburgh by beating the > league lead to three games was tagged for a tying triple Vertex to Receive By 4 Strokes and Frank may be forced to chase First Pirates, 8-1. once more as Boston by Bolling—who kept Frank Julio Becquer ) Sullivan whipped second-place right Baseman to the lop Riders to Burdette, who had won 10 on running with the win- outfield, switch Base- Milwaukee’s County Baltimore, 5-0. Detroit scored Hector Lopez bobbled Second In Oklahoma straight in f ner as man Reno Bertoia to first base Weight Today Stadium since last July, gave up } three in the ninth for a 5-4 the relay from the outfield. It Test May OKLAHOMA CITY, 9 ; and insert Herb Plews at sec- four of the Reds’ hits and victory over Kansas City in the was the first victory in six By th* Associated Press four-month layoff. He (AP).—Tommy Jacobs, 24-year- seven 1 ond. Throneberry has been [after a Today all of their runs in the first only other AL game scheduled. one-run decisions for the Tigers old professional from Whittier, Pimlico t filling in at leftfleld during the about 15 lengths be- Righthander Three years ago at Jamaica. came from inning. A two-run double by , Dick Donovan and it went to Ray Narleski. a hind to win by length. Calif., took a four-stroke lead By KELLY (1-1) gave ; absence of Sievers and Pearson. Millionaire Nashua stumbled to i a JOSEPH B. Frank Robinson and a triple . of the White Sox up four-time loser who won his his knees leaving the starting 3-year-olds entered into the third round of the Star Racing Editor ' all three of Cleveland’s hits in He is batting .100. Ten are City Open golf by Frank Thomas did the dam- first with two innings of perfect gate the Grey Lag Handicap. Delaware Valley Oklahoma tour- innings, getting past All this is inflicted in in the $25,000 Arnold BALTIMORE, May 9.—Nine age. his six relief. on the But Jockey Ted Atkinson hung Stakes at Garden State Park, nament today, with everybody but Minnie Minoso Senators at a time when the Goalby marathon-running grass horses on grimly and Nashua recovered with Brookfield Farm’s Inten- Palmer and Bob his 1 Mathews, Torre Homer and Colavito. Minoso singled Bob Cerv drove in three Yankees have their three crack competitors. are set for the 58th Dixie | City off to win the race by a head over tionally and Mrs. Ada L. Rice's closest with one out in the fourth in- Kansas runs Don 1 pitchers primed. They’ll em- Tommy posted rounds of • Handicap today at Pimlico as The Braves had 11 hits, but t Mossi with triple and sacri- Find. Nashua was on his way Rare Rice among those present. didn’t break through against ning, stole second and scored a a ploy Bob Turley today against goes entry 66-67 over the 6,640-yard par the Preakness colts marked l fice fly. The Tigers had two to becoming the top money win- | Rare Rice as an with 1 (3-1) 1 on Colavito’s single, 1 Hal Griggs and send Whitey of the 72 Twin Hills Country Club time for next Saturday’s 3- Brooks Lawrence until runs but only four hits—one ning horse of all time, and Cedar Brook. Five start- year-olfl classic. the eighth inning, when Ed j In the sixth, Minoso walked Ford and Don Larsen against eligible course and was in fine position • , Berberet’s second homer—for overy dollar counted. lers are for the Preak- Com, with two out and came across Chuck Stobbs and Camilo Pas- for his first win of the 1959 Greentree Stable’s Pop Mathews and Frank Torre eight innings. This is brought to mind be- iness. who the mile-and-three- homered. Lawrence, winning ; on Colavito’s smash into the cual tomorrow. Nashua, along SIO,OOO PGA tour. won upper leftfleld Catcher Frank House of the cause with As- The Louisville Handi- eights Dixie last year, is out only his second complete game ; deck.