tanks Skid Down Hill without Benefit of Brakes The Monitor-Leader Golf Clubs Raise In the Some Leogue Now PAGE 8 Vital Series Dairy Team Halts THURSDAY JULY 2, 1942 $25,571 lor R. (. wilh Red Sox NEW YORK, July 2 (IP) The United States Golf As- Flyers’ Win Streak In This Comer sociation, which announced today that benefit tourna- Toko Foreshortened FORMER MICHIGAN GRID PLAYERS THREE Starts Friday ments held throughout the na- Affair, 9-3; Batter MAY SEE ACTION FOR BIERMAN; tion last Memorial Day week- Boston Club Con end netted at least $25,571 miX Soldier N. U. UNTOUTED infif Eagles Seize 3 Champs Right from member clubs for the Though the post team may Kick American Red Cross war By DENNIS BROWN dispute the fact, the Selfridge Out of First Place fund, is planning a similar Field Flyers came to the end of • SPORTSTEW: Army and navy camp officials are still fret- series of tourneys for the com- Plate from a 15-game winning streak last problem of whether or not officers will bo allow- 3rd ting over the BY JUDSON BAILEY ing holiday week-end. night as the Mount Clemens ed to play on football teams this Fall. . . . Out at the A'snriatrd Prr»s Sport* Writer service Dairy nine skidded them the University of lowa, where Bernie Bierman is sizing up the It has been some time since off victory ledge, 9-3.—, Jl*yy’s pre-flight team, they lined up a group of officers, most- anyone needed to feel sorry for Ten Hillcresf Only for the dispute ly former or pro players, for the benefit of pho- the world champion New York reason AH-Americans from the fact tographers the other day. Yankees, but their plight is get- Domination Protastad; would come that Gama the game lasted only four in- was the lineup, one which would delight the heart of ting more pathetic night and Here Winners Rally nings, being and staff; incidentally, it includes three former Michi- day. called because of a Bierman high wind at that time. How- Since marching boldly out of of GolfLoop Victory gan players. for 6-3 ever, both agreed to Ends—Bob Daley, Northwestern and Whitey Fraumann, Yankee Stadium nearly three outfits had a seven-inning affair, and the Michigan. Tackles—Forrest “Butch” Jordan and Bob Flora. weeks ago they have lost 11 out Battling for third-place hon- four frames would be a legal Michigan; Flick. Minnesota and Bob Weigandt, of 17 contests and last night saw Ends for Sales ors in the Twilight Softball Guards—Gene length for the shortened clash. Wisconsin; center, George Svendsen, Minnesota and Green Bay their lead cut League’s Red Division, the Ea- # DETROIT EDISON GOLF The Dairy team, to three games as they blew gles and Hillcrest traded places defeated in Packers. a Team W L Pet. two previous starts by Swisher, Northwestern and Chicago Bears: 5-4 decision to the Philadelphia last night as the Eagles snagged the sold- Backs —Bob Bookkeeping .... 7 2 .778 iers, Flyer LeVoir, Minnesota; Jim Langhurst and Dick Athletics. the show-position on the basis bounced three hurlers Vernal “Babe” Sales 6 3 .667 around while Billy State. pKI of a 6-3 victory. Gentz was Fisher, Ohio This was a reduction of IV4 Overhead 6 3 .667 tossing three- ball. The win- ANDRES REPORTED ON PAR WITH McCOY games in their first place margin Collection 6 3 .667 Wmm V 1r The game, however, was call- Lakes ners took a 3-1 lead in the first, Sports writers who have covered the Great Naval in a single day because of the Meter 5 4 .556 ed by Umpire George Frendt in Andres, the former Indiana stuck to the pace to make it 5-3 Training games report that Ernie straight ...... sixth the Hillcrest team ’ second Credit 5 4 .556 the and at the end of the third and then star who played with the Louisville Colonels of the American victory over the Service 5 4 .556 I ' entered a protest, which will be ' opened up in the season, looks to be on a par with Benny McCoy, 1 upon the end. fourth as catch- Association last Washington Senators. Engineers 3 6 .333 * ••• acted at season’s Ken- \ \ er Bob Craft doubled with the . . . year with the save in hitting. Andres hit .289 last Yankees were five Lighting 2 7 .222 The winners were lagging, 3-1, player Connie The held to bases loaded to drive in three of . . . you’ll recall, is the McCoy, . tucky team. hits by three Philadelphia pitch- Customers Accts. 0 9 .000 at the end of the fourth, but the counted Philadelphia Athletics paid $75,000 to sign after four runs in that Mack of the ers, but this was ’*ot what whip- Jack Strubank took over the frame. players had been declared a free agent from Detroit by the ped them. The champs held a For six weeks, the Sales De- mound duties from Vic Crane Lyle Bliss, third baseman and Czar Landis. 4-0 lead at the end of four in- partment of the Detroit Edison then and after winding up the , topped the Dairy Seventy-four runs have been scored by the winning teams bat- nings. one of the runs being Joe Golf League, held title to first fourth struck out five straight ters with two for three. The the first three Fumble Softball League games here; after Hugh Mulcahy, left, is greeted by arrival at granting in DiMaggio’s 11th homer of the place. Then, three weeks ago, on Air Hillcrest batters before Bathers were aided by five Barney’s had 25 in each of its first two tilts, the Optim- Force Officers’ School at Miami Beach. Mulcahy, former pitching scored year. But then the Yanks fold- they suffered their first loss a walk immediately before the walks and two hit batters in put- this week and wracked up only 21 tallies in smoth- »tar of Philadelphia Nationals, and the big boy who lot home runs ists faltered ed up as they have done in four an upset by the Lighting depart- game was called. ting men on ering for the Detroit Americans are in the same league now'. first. Rickard’s. of their last five games. ment. Evidently inspired by Stru- M. C 032 4—9 6 FOOTBALL MUST BE NEAR—RELEASE HERE 2 They couldn’t score any more Since that time, they have not bank’s efforts, the Eagles gar- Flyers 012 o—3 33 Premier sign of the football season is the arrival of blurps themselves and they le* the A’s won a match and last night’s nered three runs in the fifth, Batteries: MC Gentz and from college publicity agents; Northwestern is first this year play course He's Only a Hacker, But— rally for two runs in the fifth on the Hillcrest golf though collecting only one hit—- Craft. Flyers, Hedges, McGee for a change, it looks as if the Wildcats won’t be touted as and, and tie the score in the seventh. saw the Bookkeepers, who had a by A1 Rachow—and (2), Rehkamp (4) and Collins. of the league favorites at least, not according to Pub- first last one Then in the ninth, with runners crept into a tie for added a pair more in the sixth licity Director Walter Paulison’s release. . . . Northwestern on first and second, Johnny week, taking over sole possession as a pair of walks were capital- collected only three hits, but long be remembered for its colossal flop of 1939, a year in Pastor Turns Down $150,000 will Murphy fielded of the title as they handed the ized when Warren Ray, right four walks and three errors in they raved into the national championship before which were and threw Customers Accounts a loss. The short, tripled for the 6-3 margin. the final two frames gave them started; they flopped like a long-shot when you’ve Luman Harris’ bunt the season into leftfield to allow the win- defeat for the Customers Ac- Play Tony Cataldo’s knockdown and an edge which they made the got $lO on the nose. their in Fight Money to Golf ning to cross the plate. Al- counts, incidentally, was snap throw of Strubank’s hard most of. z O A’s made 14 hits. ninth straight; they are the only BY SID FEDER hit ball to third was the out- Eagles 100 032—0 3 AGO TODAY—Hillcrest and Gowanie golfers together the 1 • TEN YEARS 8080 LOSES team still seeking a first vic- NEW YORK, July 2— (lP) “I wonder if that guy thinks standing fielding play, Strubank Hillcrest 100 200—3 4 4 scampered after balls dropped from a Detroit News autogiro Washington was held to five tory. You’ll never believe this, but they keep that k nd of dough on being thrown out. Batteries: Eagles Strubank, which circled each course and dropped several dozen balls onto hits in each game and the Red CREDIT TO OVERHEAD Jimmy Johnston was just about ice just so it’ll be fresh when- Only batter on either team to Petitpren (4) and Rachow. Hill- by parachute. De- the course Sox made twice as many. They Responsbile for the Sales speechless today. ever he wants it. Golf!—I’lltake get two hits was outfielder Ed crest Petitpren, Cataldo (5) downed Buck Newsom 3-2 in the partment demise as first-place For, Jimmy had just learned vanilla.” Snay of Hillcrest. The Eagles and Jones. Over- opener with a run in the seventh team last night was the that Rapid Robert Pastor is turn- and three innings of perfect re- J head Lines foursome, which ing back on a little matter of a Slammin’ lief pitching by Yank Terry and j posted a 198, paced by a pair of hundred and fifty thousand dol- then they captured the night-j 48's, by Thornley and Woehler. lars, give or tske a few thou- cap with the greatest of ease, Gerry Lozen carded a 43 for the sand, that he could pick up in Gets Boot for Loafing 7-1. Sales team but his teammates a few fights this summer. could not keep pace. The 198, “Just think,” moaned Jimmy, £?Bobo Newsom incidentally, was low team score derby hat Heavy Hitter Sockers’ second surge to 20 victories in 24 games' as he pushed back the /W/wf>h/ game of the of the evening. ; placed his head gently in Crowd, straight doublehoader sweep and put a premium on the three- and with Takes game Medal of the evening went to his hands, “here I am with one over the Washington Senators. series between the Yanks to- “Chuck” Nicolai, who wracked real ‘live’ heavyweight around, Things Too Easy Early in the sec- and Red Sox at up a 35 for the Meter Depart- now that Louis and Conn are in * By BILL KING ond game, how- morrow and Saturday—with the possibility New York may ment. Vinnie Bearss posted a 38 the army. I’m getting offers for BOSTON, July 2 (/P) Un- ever, he appear- t: at mL lose control of first place. for the Lighting him every day—just look, Cleve- less penitence has replaced sulk- ed to take his crew.. Indians kept; Team victors last night were: land, Los Angeles, Toledo, Pitts- iness, the jmany-mooded Ted ?.imfc eh as-, wta' The Cleveland own sight of*he struggle for; Ovterhttfed, Collection, Credit, burgh, Detroit. And what* does Williams, the only member of ing a hit in left withm beating the Chicago Bookkeeping anci Service. The he say? He doesn't want to fight the hustling Boston Red Sox field and then the lead by White Sox 7-2 on the seven-hit play marked the ninth week of until the middle of August be- who challenges the home fans’ answered back hurling Lefty A1 Smith. The competition. cause he wants some time to rights to jeer at will, may feel when a specta- of Tribe scored seven in the j play golf. the disciplinary hand of Man- tor in that end runs first inning, routing Orval Grove As Jimmy talked, a telegraph ager Joe Cronin today when he of the grand- before he could get a batter out. : messenger delivered wires which T\,j|f reports at Fenway Park. stand yelled at The St. Louis Browns turned lop guaranteed Pastor 10,000 to fight For the third time since he him, “Don’t you Merchants loose a 14-hit assault to score in either Pat Valentino or Turkey joined the Red Sox in 1939, Wil- ever try to get .JHHEv:-. all but one inning and belt the Thompson in Los Angeles. liams, the American League’s Dff a dime?” 12-0 on the “So I called Bob up,” the Big .406-batting champion, was pull- Williams made Ted Williams five-1 hurling who Figure Noise related, “and what do you out of the lineup by hit of Elden Auker, .500 ed Cronin no secret of his annoyance thus became the first American think he told me; ’Pop, I feel yesterday when, irked by a when he came to bat in the third ImT* League pitcher to gain ten vic- 6th Inning Rally swell ... I just shot an 88. I’m spectator’s jibe, he sulked and inning and took two half-heart- tories this season. Home runs gonna keep playing this game loafed at the plate. ed swings before flying out to Beats Peschke, 9-3 quit the by George ricQuinn and Mike until the middle of August. Then Williams dressed and center field. That performance IMPERIALtook its first jump! Imperial hopped to the Chartak dressed up St. Louis' Rallying with a four-run as- maybe I’ll be ready to fight.* I—Jeepers! When K**2—What a park immediately and, after the brought a scattering of boos attack. jump to market it had the make-up of a high places in state after state. Here’s one game, Cronin, visibly annoyed from the 15,594 crowd. The jeer- sault in the sixth inning, the Action in the National League’ “success story”: In one state there were 332 by his star's display of ill-tem- ing became general in the fifth Merchants bounced Peschke, 9-3, champion whiskey—marvelous arome, to games with Imperial per, appeared undecided about when, with the Sockers leading was limited two in a Twilight Softball League Softball amazing smoothness, a flavor to cheer long-established brands ahead of the St. Louis Cardinals shutting his disciplinary measures. only 1-0, Williams sauntered to Blue division game last night to about. And experts agreed “Thiawhiskey's —now they’re all behind Imperial! Some any out the 4-0 .500 average. “I won’t make decision the plate with Lou Finney on climb above the Standings and the cuffing | going to top 'em all!** jump’nl until game-time tomorrow,” first base. After taking two The win was the Merchants’ DIVISION the Cincinnati Reds 5-2 in a BLUE Cronin said. “Everything will strikes without moving his bat, sixth in 11 starts. Team W L Pet. night encounter. depend on Williams* attitude.” Williams swung lazily and foul- Going into the sixth, in the Bar 69 10 0 1.000 The latter affair was perhaps' the Merchants The excitable Williams seem- ed and then, with an even more game at Griffith, Sears’ 7 3 .700 3 —Wfuit a jumper! Tut* the last start for both Claude j Jed by a slim, 5-3 margin, but ed in an unusually happy frame lackidasical effort, drove a siz- Spruce Inn 6 4 .600 a whiskey good enough to mind batting against Passcau and Johnny Vander George Helzer, first man up laid of while zling liner into left-center. Fin- Merchants 6 5 .545 hop that! Ihste Meer before the All-Star game down a successful bunt and after ahead like ney managed to score from first Business Men ... 3 7 .300 in New York Monday. Passcau why Imperial is America's base but the jogging Williams stealing two bases was driven in Peschke 3 8 .273 performed in his customary by Jackie Sierens. Johnny fastest-growing whiskey! Ask was content to stop at second. It Covered Wagon . 1 9 .100 Softball fashion, yielding five hits and Wm was questionable, however, 1 Johnson gained a walk and hurl- LAST NIGHT’S RESULT for it at your bar—or take scoring his 12th victory against whether he could have stretched er Harry Bates, who won a game It's five defeats Vander Meer on the Merchants 9, Peschkc 3. home a tryout bottle. Schedule it into a three-bagger by hust- a week ago with a grand-slam other hand lasted only three the seventh, doubled something too good to miss! ling. j homer in to RED DIVISION ABSzM THURSDAY innings and left the game trail- the score the two. Bates crossed Team W L Pet. Blue Covered Wagon vs. FOX TAKES OVER ing 4-2, B’lmer Riddle finished Willie Robert's safety. plate on H. & S 9 2 .818 Sears’ at Griffith Field. The crowd jeered him round- creditably and the Cubs were TWO-RUN HOMER T Leander Case ... 8 2 .800 Red eander Case vs. Owls ly when he was batted home and held to a total of five hits. The winners had taken a lead Hillcrest Studio . 6 5 .545 Club at Covered Wagon dia- the angry Cronin rushed from St. Louis’ success came on the in the first on Jackie Sierens’ mond; Schwarzkoff vs. Nesbitt’s the ugout and yelled, “If you six-hit pitching of Lefty Ernie Eagles 6 4 .600 two-run circuit blow and added Nesbitt’s 4 5 .444 at St. Mary’s. don’t want to play, get out of the White, who had been troubled on a pair more in the fourth two Owls Club 2 7 .222 Junior Kresge s vs. Moni- game.” Thereupon Williams con- with a sore arm earlier this sea- consecutive three base errors by . . 0 10 tor-Leader at Consumer's. tinued on to the clubhouse and son. An- Schwarzkoff .000 center fielder Sandrowski. LAST NIGHT’S RESULT Fumble Rickard’s vs. Bar- Pete Fox took over his left field was on in the other run tacked Eagles 6, Hillcrest 3. ney’s at Eagles diamond. berth. fifth. FRIDAY the During Williams* first spring The losers scored in second JUNIOR LEAGUE Blue—Bar 69 vs. Spruce Inn Set Summer after John Barry tripled aiTcl at St. Mary’s. training season with the club, Team W L Pet. Cronin ordered him out of an again in the fifth as hurler Ken A. & 9 1 .900 •Red H. A S. vs. Eagles at Barry s feat W. . Lovalvo duplicated exhibition game Atlanta .. 5 3 .625 Griffith Field. *in Bowling Meet on the Monitor-Leader when he expressed his displeas- and reached home catch- L. A: G 4 4 .500 Junior L. & G. vs. Merch- error. Another run, the last, ure over his failure to make a Mount Clemens and Macomb er’s Kresge’s 4 5 .444 ants at Consumer’s. sixth. W. long running catch of a foul by County bowlers will have an op- was added in the Gasow Boat 3 7 .300 with two singles in hurling the ball over the grand- portunity to end their two- Conklin, Merchants 2 7 .222 topped the losers’ stand. Later in that same sea- month vacation from the tourney three trips LAST NIGHT S RESULT Additional efforts while Sierens and the manager ordered him wars, if they wish, with partici plate A. & W. Merchants 8. son. boasted the 14, off the field because he had fail- pation in an individual over- Ken Vernier both Sports News figure for the Merchants. why ed to run out a grounder. average classic at the Centen- same FUMBLE LEAGUE II(5 Test* it's Peschke 101 011 o—3 6 4 Hr I \niC7m Additional sports news Williams began to nial Recreation, starting July 13, Team W L Pet. America's fastest- answer Merchants 200 214 x—o 9 2 I both local and national—will back hecklers here on June and ending Aug. 8 Barney’s 2 0 1.000 GREAT to Batteries: Merchants Bates jfcjjjj he found on Fafe 12. 14, when the Sockers won a The East Detroit pin site has Optimists 1 1 .500 and Helzer. Peschke —Lovalvo doubleheader from the Detroit announced a three-week tourna- Rickard's 0 2 .000 every bawling and Bourdage. FOR i Tigers. The fans booed him for ment with entrant _.y|||| I W a two-bagger in one day each week. on any day fV •*trl 1 freie *«*trel spirits loping after hit War Risk and m m «i Itr territory but a crowd of his choice. July 11 is the vaW«ttd hi* later All Sports Editor 1 C*Of4L N|*ni of 30,311 chered him ,when he deadlir.? for the classic, which Bombardment Insurance HHHHHI put the Winning run on third has an entry fee of $5, and a Written in4*r V. S. 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