CLASSIFIED ADS fllHtfttlt Ssftti5 COMICS—RADIO-TELEVISION £ GENERAL NEWS i HvHiHy JSlUi ^5^0118 THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1951 - 4 Contenders Meet Head-on After 3-Day Lull Layne, Marciano Boston-Chicago Bill Win, Lose, or Draw By MERRELL WHITTLESEY Battle Expected to Draw 50,000 THERE WAS A DISPATCH from Canada the other day Tonight By th« Associated Press that told of Clayton Heafner quitting the at Major league , after the end of nine holes because of a dispute with the Rules taking three days out for the 's Quip All-Star Committee. It seems the tournament had been interrupted For Title Shot annual game, swings About Cadillacs Gets back into action today with most by a severe storm and when play resumed on the "* of the interest centered Results in Cleveland the pros were not permitted to clean the ball r Real Match Slugging four teams battling for the By th« Associated Brass on the green, despite the mud and water. With American League pennant. CLEVELAND, July 12. — Heafner the situation was an Forecast, Odds weeks in this thought The next two Somebody asked Casey Sten- emergency and that the balls should be Favoring Rex at 8 Vi-5 race will go a long way toward gel the other day why his Cleaned. When he was overruled, he picked deciding the championship and Yankee relief re- By the Associated Press the White Sox, Boston up and took the first home. The fact Chicago fused to ride in the Indians’ plane , July 12.—Rex Red Sox, and bull to the he was four over par at the time might jeep from the pen Layne and Rocky Marciano, each are well aware their last visit have influenced his decision. mound during hopeful of a chance at the of this. here. The incident was a of discussion topic heavyweight championship, trade Boston, one game back of the “They’re accustomed to rid- at the sectional pTo championship the other punches tonight in what prom- leading White Sox, tackles Chi- ing in Cadillacs,” the New ises to be 10 rounds or less of day and one of the pros was saying that while cago in the main dish as hostil- York quipped. real slugging at Madison Square ities resume with a his information was second-hand, he’d have twi-night Tonight the Indians will Garden. double-header at Comiskey Park. to side with Heafner when it came to the have a Cadillac convertible A title shot awaits the winner. The White Sox have a 14-game to haul in of the rules of and their inter- Merrr11 whim****, standing by any question And the men who make the bet- home stand, meeting all four of Yankee reliefers. is a on the pretation. The big guy fanatic subject. ting odds figure it’ll be Layne.! the Eastern clubs on their West- Heafner long has been one of the controversial figures In He is the 8V2 to 5 choice. ern tour. those same Red Sox in Boston. pro golf. He’s an independent, hot-tempered Southerner, born The other top-drawer attrac- The Red Sox play three-game pride of the Rockies from Lew- Rex nearly 37 years ago in Charlotte, N. C„ and that’s still his home Layne (left) and Rocky Marciano, two young heavyweight hopefuls who clash tonight tion is a night game at Cleveland, series in St. Louis. Cleveland and iston, Utah, and the likable, quiet in Madison Garden. —AP where the Detroit before going home. town. He is a 200-pounder plus, has thinning blond hair, Square Wirephoto. Yankees hope to get 26-year-old Marciano from Brock- back on the victory trail after Reynolds vs. Feller. bushy blond eyebrows, a blond mustache and in the last year have ton, Mass., almost identical their disastrous experience in (9-5) is the or two has developed a that has resulted in a slight records. paunch Snead Quest Coan and Noren Boston, where they dropped three Yankee hurling choice tonight alteration in his swing. Quality of Opponents Cited. Begins Boost Hopes straight last week end. The against the Indians’ Bobby Feller staff Layne’s record shows 34 vic- Yankees are. two games behind I (12-2). New York’s pitching is and the once Joe tories, one setback, two draws and Chicago, while the Indians are shaky great TOURNAMENT GOLF is his profession, but some think big Of Third Of Nats in Fifth-Place Drive 24 knockouts. Marciano has Straight four. DiMaggio is riding the bench with missed his calling. he could have been the white Burton Hawkins 1950 ace of the Phillies who now torn tendons behind his left knee. Clayt .Perhaps fought 35 times, winning 30 bouts By Dodgers Open Home at Stand. All- of the because it’s doubtful that knockouts and five deci- Star Staff Correspondent is a soldier Camp Atterbury, Joe was forced to skip the hope heavyweight profession, by by the Western Title Ind. Meanwhile, high-stepping Star game and may be out 10 days any man ever had more arguments, but as far as it is known, sions. Open DETROIT, July 12.—Removed By th« Associated Press Pitching for the Fort Wayne Brooklyn Dodgers, riding on an or more. never lost one. He has threatened to a lot of guys in But the experts like Layne be- from the shadow of seventh 8 punch place last national -game margin over the sec- The Indians and Yankees bavs cause of the caliber of the op- DAVENPORT, Iowa, July 12.- club, year’s semi-pro the but hasn’t because nobody has called his bluff. I at least temporarily, the Nats have ond-place New York Giants in nose, only Sam the Wes champions, Simmons allowed only the played 11 games this year and ponents he has met. They like Snead, drawling : raised their sights and now covet National He is the tough guy of golf. two hits in winning, 1-0. Cass League, open a 12-game New York has won eight. The !_____ Virginian, started out after mor< fifth held the place, currently by home stand. The , i Indians are slated for a One of the Baltimore pros was telling about an incident in cash and glory today in the West- Michaels and Noren got the only 13-game to faltering Tigers. The Nats get a beaten seven times in 11 Fight Be Shown ern tournament. Washington hits, both singles games home stand, then move East July the $15,000 Eastern Open last year at Mount Pleasant. Heafner Open golf chance to slice into Detroit’s 4>/2- wfth one of bonus Brooklyn this year, start the 24 to start the whole thing over Bass marked On Slamming Sam picked up $10( iCurt, the few babies j was with Johnny Bass and on the first hole Keith's Screen game gap starting today, when Ebbets Field festivities in paired by winning a driving contest yes- who came through with flying col- tonight. jagain Yankee Stadium. After ball with a but up the ball a trifle The Layne-Marciano fight will they open a three-game series in Over in the Polo the his coin, apparently picked terday with a clout of 292 yards struck out nine of the Nats Grounds, leaving Cleveland, the Yankees held be- be televised here at the Keith's starting a 14-game road trip. jors, Giants are carelessly. The rules say the ball must be delicately Today he was off on what h< and walked four. prepared to defend play three-game series in Detroit Theater starting at 10 o’clock. There is little in the club’s road their and and so as not to clean the ball if there’s hoped would be a successful 18- Joe * and place against the St. Louis Chicago, then wind up the tween thumb forefinger, record to for the Haynes, The fight will be shown in addi- promote hope, Cardinals in an afternoon en- | trip with four at St. Louis. on it. hole opening spurt in quest o1 Julio Moreno divided the pitching any mud tion to the It Nats have won only 12 and lost 24 counter. The regular picture. his third straight Western cham- job for the Nats and allowed Cards are in third, Ralph Branca (7-2) has been Heafner walked over to Johnny and said, “Listen, Bass, will not be available over home away from home, but their recent one game back of the Giants. assigned the pionship. seven hits. Ferrick gave up the Brooklyn pitching and what a shot you are in the receivers. behavior gives rise to the suspi- The Red at chore Paul Minner (4-7) I’ve heard a lot about you big | If Snead is top man at the end only in the sixth on three Sox, moving a tor- against cion that they’ve perked up. rid with six of the Middle Atlantic section, but now you’re playing in the big jf the 72-hole test late Sunda> consecutive The clip straight wins, j Cubs tonight. The Dodgers six last singles. game the They’ve captured of the plan to send Mel Parnell (10-5) be thankful have a time. Hold that ball between your fingers or HI call a penalty way the chunky, aggressive afternoon he’ll pick up a S2.50C was played in a light rain before jean they big youngster outgamed Jersey Joe :heck and be the second tc eight games. and Leo Kiely (1-0), a 21-year-old lead, for they have quite an in- stroke on golfer a crowd of about 2.500. you.” Wolcott and came off the floor to Coan and Noren Click. rookie, against the White Sox in jured lift. vin three consecutive Western Bucky Harris’ most pressing The big figures in squelching the the first of their the stop hard-hitting Bob Satter- titles. problem now is attempting to games four- , regular left at field. Athletics' bid to grasp sixth place game series. The teams fielder since he was from IN THE WASHINGTON STAR Open two years ago First. fashion a second base clash acquired from the Nats were Gil Coan and passable Marciano, a crude fighter with Guldahl of was again tomorrow night and Satur- Chicago, has a swelling behind his Prince Georges, Heafner and Marty Furgol, the pro who called Ralph Chicago combination from among a group | a fair .eft a Irv Noren. They’re among the PGA and powerful right, the first. He started his record of hitters. He has day afternoon. i left knee and is expected to bie out for blowing on his ball in the recent National hottest hitters in the at slumping been has been fighting on the New Eng- •un in 1936 at the Davenport majors Chicago’s Paul Richards has ! of action for 10 days or so. In ad- in an that the alternating Michaels (.267) and tournament, were involved argument spiced land circuit since his present. In the last 11 games, Saul Rogovin (5-4) and Joe Erv Palica has a surprise split Country Club, site of the present (.255) at second base Dob- dition, final round. decision over undefeat- tournament. Noren has batted .488 and son (6-3) to shoot at muscle and will be sidelined previously and switching Gene Verble (.216) ready Bos- pulled on ed Roland La Starza in the Garden Sam “doesn’t know” about his Coan .405. ton, and the looks i for a week. They were playing partners, along with Dick Metz, and and Pete Runnels (.136) at management a last March. < thances. He said he isn’t Coan, apparently headed for his for a crowd of After the the 18th hole Furgol blasted his third shot out of a sand trap year ago playing shortstop. 50,000 for the Cubs, Cincinnati, Pitts- Both have trained to a ‘too well.” finest season since he joined the opening fireworks. The and St. Louis move “How fighters White burgh into almost into the cup on the par 5 hole. many, Marty?” club in takes an Weak Around Second Base. fine edge. Layne expected to “Sometimes you get a good start 1946, 11-game Sox have won 7 of 11 games from j Ebbetts Field to tackle the Dodgers the ball into the cup for It’s there the Nats have been Clayton asked, after Furgol tapped weigh in today at 192 pounds and ind keep building up as you go hitting streak against the Tigers Boston this year, four out of five before they make their next road 5 feeling great pain. Michaels an apparent birdie 4. “Four,” Furgol replied. “It’s in my Marciano 7 pounds lighter or ilong,” Snead said. “It was that He has boosted his season average in Comiskey Park. 'swing. i.A OOE ...TnMtl. A V,, A« A t V, A IaaAI.a', hasn’t excelled at book,” Heafner replied, “you grounded your club in the trap thereabounts. vay in the PGA (Sam won it). I ground-covering After Boston, the In other National League games, and Runnels, who came to the Both Equally Confident. i ioi, ueuer as i went along. I elite, while Noren has rebounded Athletics, Yankees and Cincinnati is at Boston and Pitts- on your backswing.” club from Washing- j Both are confident of The West Virginian is much from an early season slump to Chattanooga as a .357 ton invade at TTnrnrrtl VioataHlw rierUori that his rlnh tnnchpd t.hp sand and equally Chicago before the i burgh Philadelphia tonight. In hitter, got off to a poor start both victory by knockout. i nore definite on what he thinks ibat .319 White Sox end their home stay the American League, Washington irked Heafner even more. He further accused of offensively and that Furgol "I’ll knock him out within 7 i t will take to win over the par 70, Most of the Nats arrived here defensively. July 22. Then it’s some more of plays a day game at Detroit, while in the round and i Runnels has displayed no | teeing off ahead of the markers previously rounds,’ Rocky said. i,461-yard country club. this morning after an overnight pro- the same, with Chicago opening 'Philadelphia is in St. Louis for s ficiency on slow rollers and said he would not have Furgol disqualified but would “I know what Marciano can do Soothingly rubbing the back of trip from Fort Wayne, Ind., where has an Eastern swing July 24—against twi-night double bill. only been a hesitant ■ thrower. He isn’t his block off. continued the but and what he can’t do,” Layne said, ris left hand in which a small they were shut out last night in an knock Furgol discussion, the same hitter Harris “and I feel confident I will stop 1 >one was broken last winter, Sam exhibition game by Curt Simmons, watched finally accepted the penalty. in him.” ;aid “272 or up to 274 should do , either, but in Richmond in Heafner Bucky is much In the PGA championship 1949, In anticipation of a slugging t.“ The 272 would mean eight attributing of Runnels’ slow won his first three matches, and his fourth-round opponent match rivaling the recent Jake La- itrokes under par for the route. Sollazzo, Basketball Fixer, start to under- standable nervousness RELINED at BRAKES was Jim winner of the recent Canadian and the Motta-Irish Bob Murphy brawl, Says Course Is being Ferrier, Open Dangerous. into some 15 000 fans projected the big time after current money winner. There’s no love lost between are expected to But Sam doesn’t think the field Pleads on 28 Counts leading Guilty being only a half season removed While You Wait pack the Garden. If they do the )f 96 professionals and 39 ama- those two. By *h« Associated Press from Texarkana of the State gate may run above $100,000. teurs will “tear the course up.” Big were when Heafner NEW YORK, July 12.—Salva- League. HIGH MILEAGE BONDED LININGS Several persons within hearing distance There will be no home television Neither does , the tore T. Sollazzo, ex-convict and "Runnels is nervous and Guaranteed 20,000 miles and eliminates of brake drums. walked up to Ferrier on the first tee. “We both know the rules. or radio broadcast. However, the mung man from Royal Oak, Mich., he scoring master fixer in the college basket- shows it” admits "but Heafner “and let’s them. “I don’t see need ; fight, which starts at 10 p.m. who overcame the of a Harris, any Jim,” said, obey any handicap ball BUICK s- V iEDT) will scandal, today pleaded guilty youngster figures to be. I’m going for conversation.” There was no further be telecast in 11 mo- ieformed left arm to become a 4 further conversation, 'to 28 counts of a 30-count indict- to give him the best #$4 50W tion picture theaters in eight star along the professional trails of it for a but Heafner shook Ferrier's hand when the latter won the ment charging bribery and con- while, him PONTIAC 6 I I icities—Washington, Philadelphia, Ed said it is the kind of a course playing only against ( quarter-final match, 3 and 2. spiracy. righthand pitching.’* ■ ■ Baltimore, Albany, N. Y.; Chicago, that “keeps you wide awake oi OLDS 6 RIVETED General Sessions Judge Saul S. Pete figures to sit on the Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Rich- you’ll jump into a double-bogey bench \ Labor 4 Wheels Streit set October 4 for sen- for ' Linings, Complete Va. hole.” today, Lefthander *° «> HEAFNER CALLED Snead in a Midwestern tournament a mond, iny DODGE tencing. was due to work against the Nats’ WHEELS ALIGNED & BALANCED few years ago. The course was not in the best of shape and Sollazzo is liable to a maximum . term of winter rules were in play. Snead, leading Heafner by a stroke five to 10 years in prison Harris is hoping for better suc- Detroit on each of the 27 counts of cess in the second half at the time, drove into a parallel fairway and teed his ball up Pays Last Respects of the sea- bribery, and one year on the con- son against the who IERVICE on a tuft of Heafner claimed that wasn’t because Tigers, have CLIFT'S I grass. legal, spiracy count. won eight of 11 games from the A winter rules in the fairway on which Snead was 1909 M St. N.W. 611 Md. Ave. S.W. applied only At Heilmann Funeral Nats. will use Don Harry Bucky John- ___ _ hi *1 6th end Independence In playing. the Associated Press son and By was reported near exhaustion aftei in other ST. 4795 p ME. 6232 The rules of golf do not recognize winter rules, so the inter- Probable Pitchers games here. DETROIT, July 12.—A saddened a three-day vigil at his bier. The pretation was left up to the local committee. It ruled in favor AMERICAN LEAGUE. city paid its last respects today Heilmann children, Harry, Jr., and Washington at Detroit—Sanford (1-4) of Snead and that made Heafner so mad he not only didn’t vs. Cain (7-6). to Harry Heilmann, former great Mary Ellen, were at her side foi Boston at Chicago (twl-nlght double- finish first or second, but skied almost out of the money. header)—Parnell (10-5) and Klely (1-0) and slugger for the the funeral. vs Rogovln (5-4) and Dobson (6-3). When the touring pros threatened a split with the PGA New York at Cleveland (night)—Rey- Tigers. Close friends nolds (0-5) vs. Peller (12-2). two years ago, there was a compromise and a Player’s Advisory of Heilmann were Philadelphia at St. Louis (twl-nlght double-header)—Kellner (5-6) and was Funeral services were held this pallbearers. They included Waltei Shantz Committee was formed. A charter member of this group (7-6) vs. Wldmar (3-7) and Starr (1-4). O. NATIONAL LEAGUE. so that in one tournament morning at the Shrine of the (Spike) Briggs, Jr., vice presi- Heafner. He took himself seriously St. Louis at New York—Presko ot dent of the Detroit Baseball (6-3) a Little Flower in suburban Co.; Chambers (6-8) vs. Koslo (3-5). last winter after he had taken a divot out of green in a Royal Cincinnati at Boston Clair Berry, Tiger secretary, anc (night)—Ramsdell he fined himself $100. Oak, made famous in the 1930s (6-0) vs. 8urkont (7-6). temperamental outburst, Edwin W. Anderson, president oi Chicago at Brooklyn (night)—Mlnner by the radio priest, Father Charles (4-7) vs. Branca (7-2). the Goebel Brewing Co., Harry’! Pittsburgh at Philadelphia (night)— E. Coughlin. Pollet HEAFNER HAS BEEN one of the leading money winners for radio sponsor. (2-5) or Dickson (10-8) vs. Church Heilmann, who for the last 17 (0-4). Medinah at and last month at years and in 1949 at Chicago years had broadcast the Tigers’ Oakland Hills in Detroit, he was runnerup in the National Open games, died Monday of cancer championship to Cary Middiecoti and , respectively. He was 56. thousands his bier He probably will be on the team in the fall. Many passed at a funeral parlor here. Not Big Clayt occasionally gets a bad press and he asks for It. since the death of Henry Ford in HEAVY GRADE In the Cavalier tournament at Virginia Beach two Specialists 1947 had there been such an out- became in his HjSJ! years ago, a photographer persistent thoughtless pouring of mourners for a public demands for a picture and Heafner at the time said all reporters figure. As it did for Ford, the Plastic Fibre Cor* and should be put in a sack, a rope tied tight ICity Council adopted a memorial photographers 1931-51 Reg. 19.95 across the top and the sack thrown in the Bay. (resolution. At the jjxfS But to one of the newspapermen present that day he later Shrine of the Little Father Coughlin officiated presented a peace offering of a dozen golf balls. There were (Flower at requiem high mass. Burial was 1Q95 said he every time the strings attached, however. Clayt hoped in Holy Sepulcher Cemetery. _ I ^Jr Full Sets reDorter one, the ball would stick to the face of the club. Many of baseball’s leaders mmm mm* m mmsmmmmm marnm i a over stayed from Tuesday’s All- > Star game for the funeral. » Standinqs and Schedules The widow, Mrs. Mae Heilmann, I-y Major League ™ THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1951. I Plastic-Coated Re*-27so SUPER-FINE WEAVE Reg. 3210 I Fred Scolari I 1 -e "g I .21 „ I May Plastic-Coated Standing S e v -2 .* -0' ■£. '5 AMERICAN FIBRE ofClub, | Bullets Next Season I 1 > -J a. R95 FIBRE Results Yesterday | tf||]IO \ I Special Dispatch to The Star %PFullSefs Chicago H 7| 4| 71 5|10| M 49; 29) .628; No games scheduled. BALTIMORE, July 12.—Fred Boston 1 Saran Woven 32J30 CUSTOM MADE Ret. 42M | 4!—| 9| 5| 5| 7(101 7| 47| 29| .618! Scolari, one of the original stars ■Heavy Reg. New York .608! 2 of Game, Tod., | | 7| 4|-| 8] 5j~6| 8| 71 45| 29] the Washington Caps who went LUMITE to last season Wash, at Detroit. 3:30. Cleveland | 3| 7! 3|—113| 4| 6] 8| 44| 32! .5791 4 Syracuse after the N°Y.‘itCciev