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Iskc&Bifirestone AMUSEMENTS BUSINESS Bieiting CLASSIFIED JHaf SPORTS ADS C-1 ' HX ». WASHINGTON, C., ?? Hfl^iMLi!^ '¦ m» j^lf D. THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1957 : BBLJJ - ; »*J| w*pß Wg Ci^ * my^: Ted’s Streak Again Proves He Decides Red Sox’ Fate Griffs Skunked HERB SURE OF SOME SIGHT IN EYE Burst of Homers Score, Just Waiting, Puts Boston on j' H ¦ 8 Heels of Yanks In Wesf Unless By the Aeaodated Press Love him or despise him. Tells Everyone Thanks cheer him or boo him ... but CLEVELAND, May 9 (/P). —In i east he said at first that he no baseball fan can Ignore Ted They lop Lary a darkened hospital room. Pitcher might quit baseball. Said Mrs. Williams or the fact that “The Herb Score waited out the hours ; Score: Kid,” after 18 years, is still “Mr. By BURTON HAWKINS without visitors today, knowing' :| “It certainly wasn't his fault, Big” of the Red Sox. ¦Ur BUS Correspondent he would have some sight in his : and I’m sure everything will Williams has been the heart DETROIT, May 9.—A winless injured right eye and wondering come out all right." and soul of the Red Sox attack western road trip-, perhaps for if it would be enough to let him i 11 Through General Manager since he joined the club in 1931. the first time in the club’s his- continue a brilliant baseball I Hank Greenberg, Score sent Mc- But not since 1946. when he led tory. confronts the Senators to- career. Dougaid this message: the team to its only pennant day unless they can overcome Thousands of baseball fans ; “Tell him that it’s just part of since 1918—and won the leagued the formidable obstacle repre- everywhere hope and pray with i the game. It wasn't his fault, most-valuable-player award to sented by Frank Lary’s accom- him. Phone calls about' him ill don’t hold any grudge or ill boot—has he demonstrated Ids plished pitching. light up the Lakeside Hospital: IIfeeling at all.” importance to the Boston cause Telegrams McDougaid played AT SCENE OF Liege (left), The Senators, countering with switchboard. and I for the as he has this PREAKNESS—Iron nose , Liege is held by Groom Wendell Griffin. At center mall flooding Yanks in their 10-4 defeat season* winner of the Kentucky and his is Camllo Pascual. will be striving are in to the In- here A typical example came yes- Derby, Calumet Al Filicomo, stable foreman, and at right Groom dians’ strikeout king. last night and got three singles terday stablemate, Gen. Duke, are led to their stalls after Bert Vinas. The two colts shown after leaving to avoid an 11th successive bat- when Ted smashed three are tering. They've Tell everyone thanks, the i in five trips. home runs and drove in all toe arriving at Pimlico yesterday to prepare for the train brought them from to lost nine in the southpaw Meanwhile, which Louisville Balti- West and will be glad to says. the Indians have runs as the Red Sox trounced the Prqakness May 18 at the more.—AP Wirephoto. leave The go Bud Daley, Baltimore track. Iron here for Boston. waiting will on through i recalled 24-year-old White Sox, 4-1, for their fourth today and at part of lefthander who has compiled a Washington least to- straight. The victory boosted has aceumulated morrow, Dr. Charles Thomas, eye ! 3-0 record since he optioned set of grisly was Boston within 11 percentage GEN. DUKE PREAKNESS DOUBTFUL a statistics. In ad- specialist, has Ex- . to San Diego late in April. Daley they’ve indicated. points of second place and only dition to those cited, tensive bleeding started Tuesday > was 11-1 at Indianapolis last dropped 14 of their last games a half-game from the league- IS night when a liner from the bat ; year j leading Yankees, WIN, and have lost 13 of 14 on the who dropped d OR of the Yankees’ LOSE Gil McDougaid 10- Bold Ruler Expected road. Their lone victory on a decision to Cleveland. felled Score. That hemorrhaging foreign held was at Baltimore r SBO,OOO AWARDED Streak Began With Return • has to stop before the tell-tale DRAW By FRANCIS STANN and in that 7-6 decision in 10 in- examination can be made. RIDER INJURED IN Tuesday night the .474-hltting nings At the Senators were pre- Dr. Thomas and Dr. Don Kelly Williams walloped a home run Pimlico Tomorrow sented six runs via walks, scor- reported Score's today : and two singles and drove |n By ing condition 2-HORSE CRASH JOSEPH B. KELLY arrives. If it comes up mud. he five runs in one inning by “slightly improved’’ three runs in a 4-3 triumph over Star Racing Editor contributing was and said NEW YORK, May 9 UP).— will be a definite starter. Our nothing more in the that “at this time appears I the White Sox. It is no coinci- May only year way of there i A Federal Jury awarded The Deadliest Position BALTIMORE. 9—Trainer trouble so far this an attack than a single to be no other complication." dence that Boston’s streak start- Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons Bold and a sacrifice fly. SBO,OOO to a rider whose leg day THE DEADLIEST POSITION on a baseball field is not told has been that Ruler car- X-rays to learn more about ed the Ted returned to the Pimlico officials today the ries us too far too fast. I don’t was broken when two race lineup after siege always manager’s seat on bench, although All Centertlelders Flop Score’s nose fracture and possi- collided a of virus. the the Chuck Wheatley Stable's Bold Ruler, think Bold Ruler willtake kindly ¦ horses head-on Ted’s value to the Red Sox is reason to argue. The deadliest could A complete pitching collapse ble cheekbone and eye socket in- ' while working out at a New Dressen’s friends have beaten favorite in the Kentucky to mud but I know Federal Hill juries best illustrated by the team’s Derby, has been the main ingredient of “willbe postponed for the ’ York track, court papers be the pitchers’ mound. would be vanned to Pim- will.” next day or so," the doctors 11- won-lost record for the 16 lico tomorrow from Aqueduct for Meanwhile, Jimmy Cal- the club's agonizing experience, said. showed yesterday, games a baseball approximately 100-plus Jones. There guarded optimism that Williams has played. Herb Score throws the SIOO,OOO May trainer, said there only but figuring prominently, too. was i Wesley E. Brite, a 37- Preekness 18. umet was in Dr. Thomas’ report last The team lost three of the four miles per hour. When the line drive that Oil McDougald Fitzsimmons intends an “outside chance” of Oen. has been the absolute failure of night year-old exercise boy of games Ted to run any that the 23-year-old pitcher missed. hit back at him struck Score squarely in the right eye it, Bold Ruler Prep, starting in the Preakness. centerflelder to deliver an will > Clarendon, Tex., said he was way in the Preakness Duke continue sight That’s the it’s been too, was going 100-plus miles per hour. It must have been Monday occasional hit. to have some in i riding Mrs. Fannie K. Hertz’ through years. 11/16-mile event at Jones made the comment after the eye. the In Ted’s 14 shocking sight. It to cause McDougald, Pimlico. Under walking Gen. Duke and Iron From their the Speedy Wave on October 17, active a was sufficient the conditions of centertlelders “The eye will saved,” seasons with the Red Sox, this Bold will carry Liege around the track this Senators have obtained two hit* 1 be Dr. 1954, at Belmont Park. they've finished swinging in all innocence, to announce a possible retirement. race. Ruler Thomas said. “It is beginning Suddenly in the second 124 pounds and Eddie Arcaro morning. in their last 46 attempts. Faye a riderless, run- division only once. The four “Ifhe loses his sight .i. lam going to quit this game," Throneberry. to clear up. I can’t tell yet the away horse, Star of years will ride him. A small field is Although Liege the l-for-32 since be- Roses, he was away, serving Unde Iron won ing acquired full extent of the damage.” smashed them, McDougald was quoted. “It is not that Important when it expected for the Prep, but Lou Derby, he is still the second- from the Red Sox, into Brite Sam. the team wound up sev- Pondfleld, has been the principal While Score is in considerable said. Both horses were killed enth, fourth, gets to this.” Pimlico’s executive di- stringer in the Calumet bam. sad sack pain, he seventh and sixth. today there, but he has company maintained a cheerful, and Brite suffered a com- Later Oilretracted that, calling it a spur-of-the-moment rector. announced the race At least that's the way the help in bantering Reds Crowding Braves will be regardless of the Whitey Herzog and Dick attitude with team- pound leg fracture. statement. run feels under the Calumet shed, bach, Tettel- mates and newsmen whff talked Another red-hot team, number of entries. great both hitting .182. Brite said Star of Roses the bat like some of the Notre with him ban put “unruly, Cincinnati Reds, McDougald is at his peak. So was Score, only 23 and Fitzsimmons and Arcaro have Manager Lavagetto before a was was vicious" and stretched their Dame teams of old.
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