AMUSEMENTS—CLASSIFIED ADS A's, Tiger? Open Battle wfining ffatf Sports C For Second WASHINGTON, D, C„ WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23, j958 White Sox, Tribe Buried Deeper by Cerv and Hoeft »* tht AMMKt'd PrtM Stobbs Draws Chore of Trying The Titer*, rated possible contender*, and the Athletic*, pln.vinv liar contendere. to at It for the first time tonight after belting Chicago and Cleveland In the American To Check Yankees Here Tonight League'* early going. The Tiger*, with revived pitching, and the A's. off again on a spring home-run binge, Crowd of 15,000 Likely; are topped only by the Yankee wrecking crew. The A's trail by I'* games. Detroit by 3. Orioles' Jinx Extended Bob Cerv hit two of the A'* By BIRTON HAWKINS triple, and has been an octopus three homer* yesterday as they ¦t*r atafl Writer afield whipped for the Cleveland The Yankees, threatening to was fine defense fourth time in five trie*. 9-6 It col- Detroit out-htt, but make a shambles of the Amer- laboration bv Robinson and was 9-8. First Baseman backed up Billy Hoeft with five ican League race, move into Jim Marshall which choked off budding extra-base blows for an 8-3 tonight a Griffith Stadium with Washington rally in the Jf'' decision over the Sox. six-game winning ninth 'fthlte a streak, and yesterday. Rocky The Tiger* are *-l v». Chicago dreaming With one out. the Senators are ol Bridges The Yankees opened up for making hurried adjustments In and Bob Malkmus sin- gled off Billy O'Dell, they the first time, bombing Boston. the league leaders' thinking. and 13-7. for their sixth straight. advanced when plnch-hlttcr IfNew York keeps moving at Clint Courtney grounded out. Baltimore beat Washington. pace. It*present Interest In the The tying 4-3. League figures to run was on sec- TENSE MOMENT—Those in Yankee Stadium American ond base when Ed Cerv Hit* Nos. I and 4 fade hastily. The Bombers are Yost lashed for yesterday’s against the Red Sox hot grounder same winging, and it’s up to a to Robinson's gritted their this Micky The tops of! some- right. teeth at play, as A's. In the AL with body apply the brakes quick- The third baseman (left) and Hank Bauer flew toward 11 home runs in seven games, to knocked Mantle ly prevent a runaway It down, quickly each other after fly hit by Billy Con- clinched their third straight to scooped up the ball a ball oppose and fired solo on Cerv's three-run shot In the Chuck Btobbs wilfc it to Marshall, who dug the ball in the fifth inning. They did collide, but tonight's seventh inning that cushioned Johnny Kucks in out of the dirt to nip Yost not seriously, and Bauer moved away to let game, while Pedro Ramos will and Mantle make two-run homers by Cleveland's save the game. the catch. The Yankees won. Rocky Colavito and Chico Car- stack up against Whltey Ford 12-7, their seventh victory in eight starts. rasqurl Cerv. who alno had an in tomorrow’s Ladles’ Day Big Chance Wasted The Red Sox record is exactly the reverse.— Inside-the-park game. The Senators then will homer In the The jammed AP third, journey for a three- Senators the Wirephoto. has hit all four of his to Boston bases in the eighth 58 against game series. with none homers Cleveland out got only of but one run out of and has counted 13 his 14 it. After runs batted In against the Futile Against Oriole* Jack Harshman. the winner, walked pinch-hitter Tribe. There has been nothing un- Jerry Snyder and O'Dell predictable about the Senator* Yost. W/N, LOSE OR Billy Hunter's home run gave came along to yield a looping They love to play Bos- the A s 3-0 lead In the second to date. single to pinch-hitter Ed Fitz- inning re-, ton and they detest battling after Chuck Churn Gerald. loading 'em up. By lieved Bob Lemon. The veteran Baltimore. They're 3-0 against DRAW FRANCIS STANN righthander, in his first the Red Box, 0-3 against the That was a tense situation, start for Roy Sievers since a winter elbow operation, Orioles. Even the Yankees was striding to gave three hit* the first and represent relief after what the the plate. He made a valiant In bid for homer left when he gave ud two more Senators have seen of Balti- a with a shot to center In the teeth of a strong Jim Lemon Its basic purpose, which is to furnish a detailed sum- only 15 hits. The Senators fanned and one and one make two, but this is a matter of subtraction so far as See Bob mation of a ball game in figures? Horst. the tall lefty who won were 4-3, yesterday SENATORS, Page C-4 Malkmus, second baseman for the Senators, is concerned. He fires to slipped defeated. As you must know, the old system tabulated a player s 20 m 1956. then to a in the comparative privacy of first after forcing Gene Woodling and thus takes off two Baltimore 9-11 record '57, went all the performance thusly: AB (at (hits), In 1.839 fans, being frustrated in Bob Nieman hit to Shortstop Bridges bats.i R (runs), H wav In his first victory as the PROBABLE runners. Rocky to start the play PO putouts) and A (assists). Now the categories are noble efforts to pull out the in the first inning of yesterday's game at Griffith stadium, won by the 1 Tiaers tore into Early Wynn lor game eighth AB, R, in the and ninth Orioles, 4-2. AP Photo. H and RBI iruns batted in). four runs in the first inn’ng. innings. PITCHERS The wire services and the baseball writers who cut up three on Charlie Maxwell’s homer. Hoeft gave up a home More than 15.000 customers AMERICAN LEAGUE f particular chemise all but ignored dr.cnsive » this a player's are expected to turn out for a New York at Washington Mickey Mantle. Yogi Chlcaao at Cleveland—Pitrrt out six and used a slow curve va >. -!* vs Gomex <2-0». April (?>.— Triandos, who catch three seasons, playing in weren’t it either. Milwaukee NEW YORK. 21 can ori the • for the Yankees, who also got at Cincinnati —Bur-: « • • In future fusses with Balti- dette — He .254 last “I LIKED IT better,” Cookie Lavagetto sa.d, "when I more—-snd the Senators may ;Law manager is not essentially interested in Sisler. ON TELEVISION I Cleveland for Southpaw Don through, Piersall, only to beat the Yanks ers will have to learn to stop the Red Sox will give a year older than putouts and assists guage. man Mossi. the Associated Press up baseman, as a defensive "Those two this year, was the loser. The Brooks Robinson a second a catcher Triandos. had his poorest year columns,” Boxing learned today. pitchers. for average Cookie explained, "show you whether the pitcher Red Sox had 13 hits, less That 39-year-old third base- and two The Indians in 1957 but he one Mike DeJohn vs. Nino According to the a young high of has his stuff. If the shortstop and second baseman have York, left man Valdes. informant. will thrown in catcher reached a 19 home runs than New but 13 has been a particular WMAL—7, 10 p.m. General Manager Joe Cronin of quite assists, day In i in addition to the veteran left- and drove in 69 runs, hitting a few and the pitcher happens to throw a lot on base for the second source of Irritation. He has Baseball the Red a Sox has offered Jimmy handed relief star sixth in the batting order. He of sinkers, you know he's got his stuff. row. It was their fifth collected eight hits In 10 tries. New York at Washington, ! Piersall, straight loss. centerfleld star, to the Triandos, 27. slammed 52 is regarded as perhaps the ’’The way it is now you can’t Including two home runs and a WMAR—2 (Baltimore) 8 p.m. ( Orioles in swap tell what the other an even for * home runs during the last Bee TRADE. Page C-4 pitchers are doing.” il Bill Summers, dean of umpires, was reluctant to speak for his colleagues. ‘‘Personally,” he said, "I liked the old way, I do think the new style of breaking down each Podres Masters Cubs pitchers performance is easier to read, however. Keep that style and bring back some of the old and you’ve got a box score.” But Not His Injury Habit * • • • Br th* Associated freu 1with Milwaukee's 5-2 afternoon EDDIE YOST, the young-old Senator, is a reflective Johnny Podres. the Dodgers’ victory at PitUburgh, hoisted 1 type. “It’shard to get used to, I guess,” Eddie said. "Let's southpaw ace, hasn’t lost his the champion Braves Into a wait and see. Maybe It's an improvement, maybe not. touch against the Cubs, but he share of first place for the first can t to Injury There are newspaper factors, aren't Space seem shake an time this season The Card- there? restric- jinx. inals Giants, 7-5, tions and so forth?” defeated the The stocky pitcher whose i in San Francisco in the only Most assuredly box scores must be restricted, not only curve and change-up carried other game scheduled. because of space limitations but because of toll charges and the Dodgers to their lone world The Dodgers drew 39.459 the need for speed. After the matter was carried from the championship in the 1955 fans for their first night game Senators’ dressing room and the umpires’ room to the Balti- World Series with the Yankees in the Coliseum. A near-capac- hasn't had an uninterrupted ity more boudoir there was a man talking who is both a base- crowd of 22.786 turned out year in the majors yet. Now a for the night game ball manager and a newspaperman, meaning Paul Richards. second at recurrence of last season's el- San Francisco. “Strikes me,” drawled the lean Texan, who bark in bow trouble him has sidelined Podres. 25. had 7-2, 7-2. 7-3 Waxahachie does some writing and edition on The Light, again. and 8-3 T records when ‘ may inter- that an awful lot of zeroes are coming over the wires. It not be serious, but rupted by one thing or another it cost him a shutout, perhaps Now you take that RBI column. You got a 1-0 or any low- In his first four years in the /}newed" even a no-hitter, as he gained majors. It was back trouble "AfouH&tiH scoring game and there are ball players, in 30 or more some- his second victory last night 1953, time, who knock an appendectomy in '54. don’t home a run. Result—a column of with a 4-2 decision over Chi- a stiff shoulder in '55 and mostly It’s waste of space.” cago—a club zeroes. a newspaper that hasn't beaten • after his back trouble sprung; The manager replaced the newspaperman: “Another him in five decisions since he him from the Navy in ’56) thei came thing I don’t like.” Richards said, "is that It puts more up in 1953. slbow business last season. emphasis on the hitters. There’s already enough atten- No-Hitter Until Six He gave only three hits and Podres didn't allow a hit for struck out three in his 6Vj in- tion on them. Doesn’t fielding and speed count for any- 5 2 Then Tony Tay- nings last night, but he walked thing any more?" u inninßs. lor beat out an infield hit four and had a 3-1 count on • in * * * the sixth and Ernie Banks hit John Goryl when he pulled out.' RICHARDS’ ORIOLES GOT out of the gate as fast as a long homer into the left field Clem Lablne came on in re-! any club, thanks to early meetings with the Senators. seats at the Los Angeles Coli- hes, fanned Goryl and gave up seum. In the only one hit—Banks' single oft STEGMAIER But their luck changed when they played the Yankees. seventh Podres the in in the ninth. Baltimore came to town after Bob Turley shut called it quits because of the screen left had elbow. The Dodgers also had only GOLD MEDAL BEER them out. “It sounded Just fine, reading the papers,” The Chicago defeat, coupled See NATIONAL. Page C-4 Richards said of Turley's performance, “but the guy threw of 140 pitches and, while he didn't give us many hits, no men- WILKES-BARRE, PENNA. tion was made of a lot of line drives we hit directly at somebody. STANDINGS | Tamburello "The Yankees made one double play that probably AMERICAN LEAGUE W. ” Turley. I’m you that „ L. Pet OB saved telling Stengel has a lucky New York 7 I Signs to Play Enjoy “Mountain Brewed STEGMAIER! City «7A jyji!wSO^ club, but at the same the Kanhaa ft 2 .714 I '4 time Yankees make their luck. Detroit S ;t 2 I'm convinced that the fastest club is the WASHINGTON .1 M .ftOO .1 Thirst-quenching... completely taste-satis- luckiest—and Baltimore :i :t mio a For that’s what the Yanks are—fast.” Cleveland a ft .a?ft 4 Browns Chlraan 2 ft *.**« *'t j Frank Tamburello, the Mary- Boston i 6 tying. Brewed . . . sparkling Somehow this record hadn't been heard. The Yanks l 7 ‘»6 land quarterback who was with Pocono I fast? All spring the White Sox. whom Richards used to GAME* TODAY drafted into the Army be- New York at Washinfton. * OS. Just manage, water ... refreshing ! were talking of their great speed. The Go-Go Chuavo at Cleveland. fore the 1956 football season Mountain yes as as Sox! Baltimore at Boston opened, signed today play The stolen bases! “Well win on speed!” Detroit at Kansas City, night. to * * * * pro footbAil with the Cleveland RESULTS YESTERDAY Browns. "FORGET ALL THAT STUFF,” Richards scoffed. “The Baltimore. 4 Washington. 2. New York. I'.*: Boston, 7. Tamburello, who led the Ter- fastest club in baseball is the Yankees. bases don’t Detroit, x Chicago. \\ Stolen City. It; A rapins to 15 straight mean anything today. Kansas Cleveland. victories GAMES TOMORROW and earned an All-America "Now you just break down the two clubs-Chicago and New York at Washington, 2. | honorable mention in 1955, still New you Chicago at Cleveland. had a year college York. Shucks, don't have to break 'em down. Baltimore at Boston of eligibility Don't even count Mantle. What kills the White Sox are Detroit at Kansas City. ’eft. He Is stationed at Fort NATIONAL LEAGUE Belvoir and is due to be Billy Goodman and Sherm Lollar. Do you that dis- think W L. Pet G B. charged in July. Goodman could put up a footrace with Gil McDougald or Chicago 4 2 BH7 Milwaukee 4 2 H*l7 Coach Tommy Mont of Bobby Richardson? Or that Lollar could run with Yogi Cincinnati 3 2 .800 *4 Maryland’s football team GEORGE M. MASON CO., INC. Ban Francisco 4 a .ATI *4 said Jjfe Berra? Ah ...! Los Angeles .'I 4 he would have .4‘Ml 1’» liked to have ' Philadelphia 2 a .400 l >4 ''' "You don't translate speed into stolen bases. Team Pittsburgh 2 4 ,aa.*l 2 had Tarabo back this fall, but 2900 Ninth Strwt, N. E. Bt. C // speed is just what it implies. The Yankees don’t have a Louis 2 4 .333 2 added. "Ican’t quarrel with his guy who steals 40 bases; GAMES TODAY decision." there’s no need of one. They go WASHINGTON, D. C. , Bt Louis at Ban Francisco Tamburello is 24 years old 1 from first to third. They score Milwaukee at Cincinnati in) || on a single from second. Pittsburgh at Philadelphia . years. "Whatever money he A visitor to Richards’ office, already taxed In seating RESULTS YESTERDAY gets from the Browns let's Milwaukee. A; Pittsburgh. 2. guess capacity by a couple of Congressmen, said, wonderlngiy, Los Angeles. 4 Chicago. 2 something like SB,OOO or Bt Louis, 7; Ban Francisco, 5. slo,ooo—could in handy," “I never hooked up the Yankees with speed. I thought Only games scheduled Mont comf they won with their and pitching said. "From us he'd get bats their depth.’’ GAMES TOMORROW ; a $750 scholarship." “They win with their speed, too,” Richards drawled. Bt Louis at San Francisco. Chl< ago at I,o* Angeles Even without Tamburello.I ‘‘lknow ... spent Milwaukee at Cincinnati in) I I've a good years appreciating it.” Pittsburgh at Philadelphia in). 1 Pft TAMBURELLO, Page C-I,