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Win, Lose, Or Draw Home-Game Schedule May Favor Yanks Slightly in Stretch Drive Browns Remain Team New York's 9 Gaines faf ppofls * Washington, D. C., Saturday, Aug. 18, 1951—B-14 •* To Beat, Trouncing Against Boston May 01 All-Stars Proves Help Cleveland th« or fty Astecietcd Press ly tho Associated Pres* Draw CHICAGO, 18.—Word was Aug. With the Yanks and Indians Win, out that old was to Lose, age beginning FRANCIS STANN igain neck and neck in the Ameri- By creep up on the Cleveland Browns Star Staff :an League pennant race, all signs Correspondent and the 1951 National Football ire pointing toward another coin- AUG. League season would see them CHICAGO, 18.—MID-AUGUST is too early for football ossing finish. The schedule for knocked from the pinnacle. and the 18th annual All-Star game proved it. About the kind- ,he final six weeks of the season All that has been revised today. est thing an eyewitness could say of the Cleveland Browns' nay provide a tipoft. are the The Browns still team1 The 33-to-0 victory over the College All-Stars was that it cost noth- edge, if any, tips slightly in to beat. They're a long way from to ravor of the Yankees who play 22 ing watch—for television audiences, that is. turned out to being pasture. )f their last 40 games in Yankee There were 92.180 in Soldiers of col- persons With the gusto and vigor Stadium. Cleveland divides its who as as the Browns Field, though, early the beginning lege kids, amazing Inal 40 on a 20-20 basis and Bos- the All- of the final period were getting the impres- sandbagged collegiate ton. four games back, faces an last to the sion that it was an incredibly dull contest. Stars, 33-0, night open jphill pull with only 16 at home football season officially before Many started to move toward the exits, there- ind 24 away. 92,180 fans in Soldier Field. one of the Nine big games between Boston by missing night's highlights. With An estimated 50 million more auvi new ui ft. llktxy Rive txxc v^xeve- four minutes left, Coach Herman Hickman’s saw the game on television. Gross land club the breathing space it All-Stars staged their march. receipts amounted to $428,000, in- big They needs. While the Red Sox and moved the ball to the cluding video and radio rights, for Browms' 47-yard line, Yanks knock off one another in the Chicago Tribune Charities, the only time they got out of their own late September, the Tribe could Inc. backyard. slide home, Easy Triumph for Browns. it was Cleveland plays only 16 games Actually, probably nobody's fault The Browns’ ridiculously easy with the other first-division clubs except the Browns; champions of the defunct over an bunch of triumph inept while New York has 19 and Bos- All-America Conference during its four-year rr.ntii tum graduated campus stars who never ton 17. Chicago, nine full games and came within 45 yards of the goal span champions last year of the new, enriched National off the pace, still has seven dates line gave the Cleveland team a League. They ivere too experienced and too big for the All- with the Indians, their victims of grand slam in pro football. Stars. And—as any team coached by that little yesterday. whip-cracker, For four years Coach Paul Paul must were in The New York-Cleveland series Brown, be—they condition. Brown's marvels won the All- next week may have an important Almost from the outset it was obvious this was not des- American Conference champion- bearing on the situation. tined to be an All-Star game to remember. There was too ship. When the league was dis- JONES TALLIES FOR BROWNS—William Jones (86) of the Cleveland Browns broke across the goal line in the second period Cleveland Beaten Twice. much much Mac solved, the team hooked up with Otto Graham, too Speedie and Dante Lavelli, of for a touchdown in last night’s game against the College All-Stars at Chicago's Soldier Field. Marion Motley (right) the The too much Dub Jones. the National Football League last White Sox, now an out- The Browns simply took charge and Browns takes out Tennessee’s Hill of the All-Stars. Chuck Ortmann of is at the left. —AP Wirephoto. year, and without in Jim (22) (49) Michigan sider in the four-club stayed in charge. flinching the race, stung so-called faster company, went on Cleveland twice, 7-1 and 8-3. to down the Los Angeles Rams for When the Yanks knocked off KENTUCKY'S was CRACK'YOUNG COACH, Paul Bryant, the crown in the December play- Second Session Roll of Still Castoffs May Spell Philadelphia, 3-2, in a night game, talking about the game back in his hotel. “I felt real sorry for off Opens Injured Worrying Cleveland's lead had disappeared. the Buddha,” he said. (The Buddha is his term for roly-poly, The victory last night, ac- The Stubby Overmire Tommy complished with 325-pound Hickman of Yale.) "Those kids he was coaching many of the same At W. & M. in Probe Red Sox After Beating Nats Trouble for Redskins Byrne trade the Yanks made in players who have been with never had a went the June paid its second dividend in chance,” Bryant on, “and I’ll tell you why. Burton Hawkins an off-balance throw to Walt Browns since they were organized By two days. Byrne, pitching for St. “Any All-Star coach is working at a disadvantage. He's six Dropo to nip Sam. years ago, capped the streak Manager Steve O'Neil says In Game Louis, ended a 13-game Cleveland Of Athletes’ Records a got three weeks to make a team out of a lot of strangers. of spectacular Marrero, beaten four times In Forty-Niner championship there's wrong with the winning streak Thursday. Last th* Associated Press nothing row the Red Sox after Brown's key men have beeU playing for him for nearly half a sweeps. By by edging Lewis F, Atchison that couldn’t By night Overmire won his first for Second Worst Red Sox physicians them in his first outing against dozen years. Some of those pass plays from Graham to Lavelli Defeat. RICHMOND, Va Aug. 18 —A Star Staff Correspondent New York by going the route Such "old men" as cure, but he's fearful time may Boston this season, went the dis- and to could have made them in their Otto Gra- second meeting to dig into a sports against the A’s with an eight- Speedie—well, they sleep.” tance for 16th time in 19 SAN FRANCISCO, Aug, 18.— ham. Marion Motley, Mac at one the Nation's old- run out before his team regains the Yet a the All-Stars beat the Speedie, scandal of hitter. Boston hung in close by year ago Philadelphia Eagles, Dante starts. He had blanked Boston The Redskins will meet with Lavelli, Lou Groza, Lou est schools was begun heie today its health. Boston is only four up scoring three in the 12th to top so-called w'orld champions, by 17 to 7. for four on one hit until Rymkus. Bill Willis and Lin Hous- by the Boai'd of Visitors of the innings at least two and probably three 7-4. Detroit shaded “A games back of the American Washington. year ago," Bryant was saying, "the All-Stars had a great ton—all pressing 30 or more— Goodman touched off the fire- College of William and Mary League-leading Yankees and In- former teammates w'hen they St. Louis, 5-4. big line. Small backs, yes. but a big line. They chewed up the gave the collegians the second Members of the board have works in the 12th. dians. but Steve may be excused tangle with the Forty-Niners here Leo Durocher's Giants blew a And don't this factor: The weren't i worst beating ever absorbed in the to house when we Kinder Replaces Wight. •Eagles. forget Eagles promised “clean for little more life into their National of the any pessimism. Ted Williams tomorrow in their second close to the the Browns were. 18-year history series. get through” the series of investi- Chico disposed of appear- condition The Eagles were get- "I'm not counting on Lou Boud- League hopes by thumping the Only the Philadelphia Eagles' and but Goodman lashed old and it was gations begun four Dropo, ance on the exhibitipn circuit— ting showing.” 38-0 Wednesday, reau at all,” O'Neil said after the Phillies, 8-5. to cut Brooklyn’s lead blasting of Oklahoma Coach after the simultaneous a double to right and Vollmer's days resig- Red Sox traveled 12 innings to and that ain't good. to nine games. The Dodgers split Bud Wilkinson's All-Star group in R. N. single to left fetched him across. nations of <Rube> McCray, the a in the 1949 was whip Nats, 7-4, last night. Howie Livingston, a defensive pair Boston, winning IT WAS UNFORTUNATE that a better game failed to de- more lopsided. head football coach and athletic Vollmer continued to second when The "He's out with a broken finger. halfback: Hardy Brown, blocking opener, 3-1, for Carl Erskine, but was made for it and the of pros have now won 10 Cass Michaels bobbled the return velop. The night upward 92,000 director, and Barney Wilson, bas- Vein hurt his losing to Johnny sain in the Rames in the to six for the Stephens leg again back, and End Alex Loyd are with and the TV and radio set rivalry ketball coach.
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