Gallop Headlong Into Cellar
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Throng Forces Conrad’s 3-and-2 victory over Long Starting Stone Tom Armstrong of Scotland Tightened by By BURTON HAWKINS mm*L* "^KWjHJht came after eight Americans, in- Star Staff Correspondent cluding four of the leading con- To Take Curtain Call BALTIMORE, May 29.—Un- tenders, had been eliminated in PITTSBURGH, May 29 OP).— general . dependable Dean Stone, chased the second round this morning. Pirates and retired man- Friend, Long “I got chills all over. It was ager, in his last five starts and un- Only eight Conrad, -1 said he never had seen the besides who bigger than the one in Phila- e able to survive the fourth inning won his second-round likes of the given Long. match By the Associated Pres* delphia. I glad happened ovation • in four of those instances, tries yesterday, reached the afternoon am it This, . Pittsburgh people | “Never in my life did I see a again today for the as ! third round. in case you hadn’t no- in for the who i Senators ticed. is a brand-new year in tne : deserve it,” said Dale Long, who i crowd make a ballplayer take ai they seek a split with the Orioles Randolph, who heading went to the National League. And while it’ss threatens to outdo Mickey Man- curtain call,” Rickey exclaimed. before into New'York fifth round of the United States ,a long, long way September, , tie, in the clubhouse after last ifor a three-game series. to (In Washington today r ¦ % <~' Amateur in 1954 and won the I | night’s 3-2 Sen- x/- 'fv,-i«J\. , the circuit has a victory over Although Manager P^ *w ’vt |C'2b||! Egyptian I old hot race Brook-' ator Duff of Pennsylvania took Chuck Amateur championship! Shaping up. lyn. pitchers, last March, the floor of the Senate to join Dressen is short on HESITATION HURTS —Baltimore.—Clint Courtney of the Senators touches scored an easy 5- year ago. doing he’s long faith, for Stone and-4 victory A the National 1 He was his best to tell in the widespread tributes to on homeplate in the sixth inning of last night’s game with the Orioles, but he al- over Dru Montagu, remotely resembled a Englishman living League went into the Memorial 1 how it felt to hit a homer in Long. In his best oratorical hasn’t ready has been tagged out by Hal Umpire John Flaherty an in Biar- eight games, winning pitcher Catcher Smith. called Day milepost strung out behind [ straight- breaking style, the Senator Long's since he beat ritz, France. hailed April the play. When Ernie Oravetz grounded to Second Baseman Billy Gardner, Brooklyn, with the Dodgers en- . the major league record he set “extraordinary achievement" the Orioles here 21. Since Courtney hesitated before breaking for the plate. Clint, who spent Eliminated in the early ioying a six-game bulge . Saturday in Philadelphia. then he has been shelled by the early matches Billy and St. and his “courage and will to innings were (Dynamite) Louis and games “Have you got any left?”, fight Baltimore. Chicago. Detroit, scrambling madly for Bob Wiesler’s erratic pitches, had his troubles Goodloe of Milwaukee 11 J I back” to stardom after on Valdosta, Ga„ and back. Pittsburgh, going through ! somebody asked. failing Cleveland and Kansas City. the bases again in the eighth. The Senators lost in the 10th, 6-S.—AP veteran Frank on earlier trials in the Wirephoto. Strafaci of New its regular pantomime, was 18 I “Who cares as long as we keep majors.) Strangely, he hasn't been York. games charged to the rear and in the : on winning?” he replied. “Did Dodgers with a defeat. Randolph Faces Andrews cellar. The tried a version off you ever see a bunch of kids the “Williams shift” on Long, Stone never can accuse Dres- Gene Andrews of Pacific Pali- That was last year. Right , like this? They just keep bounc- i moving Shortstop Peewee Reese j sen of neglecting him. Dean sades, Calif., now a United States Pub- Milwaukee is winning what ; ing back when they’re supposed to the first-base side of second 3 failed to retire batter in his Speedway Dry, lic Links champion • to Athletics, in 1954, has been a two-way battle for be knocked out. base and shifting heavily last start against the whipped to thee fKjgt jm WIN, LOSE OR the long-driving but er- the lead with St. Louis, while the ! “At first I didn't think it was i right side against the lefthanded ¦j Before that he lasted only 2% ratic Goodloe, 5 and 4. Strafaci’s Pirates, ad libbing to steal the ; going in. (The fourth-inning batting first Long ? innings against the Indians, four seventh bid baseman. i Jmmvm for the British Ama- scene, are just a game back. drive Just did make the right- grounded out to Reese once and j innings against the Tigers and By STANN 33 teur title was spoiled by Dr. And where’s Brooklyn? Some- field stands, about 375 feet from struck out the last up.,jl‘/3 innings against Chicago. DRAW FRANCIS Cars Set for ¦ two times Frank Deighton. a Scottish phy- where south of the first division i the plate.) I just put my head Loses Distance Pointing up Dressen’s need sician, 3 and 2. —three games Title back in fifth. down and ran. When I passed In the clubhouse, the Pirates for pitchers is the fact that Randolph Bobby Bragan (Pirate I s only 1 met Andrews in one Braves Blast Cards manager) were giving Long Chuck Stobbs has been the 'of this and Pitcherr 'soo' afternoon’s third-round The Braves gave at third. I just shook my head. • Bobby Friend, who his Washington hurler to go the dis- A Real Big Little Man Tomorrow themselves a won s jmatches. genuine claim to the lead by ; because it was hard to believe. • eighth, a cheerful welcome while » tance in 20 games. ONLY PHYSICALLY IS WILLIE SHOEMAKER a little INDIANAPOLIS. May 29 UP).' Two more . But the big thing hap- pitching Senators’ well-liked Ameri- blasting the Cardinals, 10-3, last was what they posed for photographers. But isn’t the man. It took a big one to admit he goofed in the $109,800 —Hot sunshine was drying the : cans, Hobart Manley, jr., of Sa- pened next.” only shortcoming. Last night night—thus removing a screwy right, you Californian last Saturday Swaps beaten waterlogged Indianapolis Motor vannah, Ga.. You're all Long, but they right of when was a head and Pete Arend of! predicament that had them a Crowd Stops Show lost the distance | ran themselves out by Porterhouse after he seemingly Speedway grounds today after ' Deal, N. J. Goodloe i title.” joked a game here Baltimore tri- had the race clinched. followed and': llength short in the “games be- After Long trundled home with referring long 1 as a flash flood and the manage-: • Strafaci to the i Gene Freese, to a umphed. 6-5, in 10 innings. When “It wasn’t Swaps’ fault,” Willie admitted as he dis- sidelines. hind” column but still in first his 14th homer disappeared ment said the 40th 500-mile race! and jhome run that Brooklyn's Duke l they weren't dashing headlong mounted amid mingled boos and “He just gal- ! Hugh Squirrell, 23-year-old place. Pittsburgh made cozy dugout, roaring ! [ cheers. was would be run as scheduled to- I it into the the Snider hit over the centerfield head-down into out, ' Welsh student, edged Manley, by nudging the Dodgers, stopped : 1 and an loping along, pricking his ears in the stretch, and I eased up.” morrow. 11 3-2 crowd of 32.221 the show. fence with one man on base in displaying of . up. Herbert V. S. Thomson, 41- with Bob Friend winning They game 1 they were more It cost Rex Ellsworth, owner of the horse, a cool $43,700, There was a possibility of 1 his wouldn’t let the con- I the first inning. deficiencies. As a year-old West of Scotland eighth a Long their defensive Swaps $178,598. showers later today, but , cham- ' on two-hitter and Dale tinue until took a bow. As the players took their right and those who backed a total of There is the ; pion, eliminated 23-year- Long blasting r result they plopped back track proper, sloping Arend, 1 his eighth home They cheered wildly without a showers, dressed and departed. no measuring the prestige it cost the 1955 Kentucky Derby a 2%-mile University eight 1 in the cellar, a half-game be- expanse of asphalt and brick, old former of Virginia : run in straight games to iletup while Carl Erskine, Brook- Long remained in his uniform, one race he can’t win only ; golfer, l - hind the A’s and a full game be- winner.