Tigers Turn Three Hits Off Coleman Into 1-0Win Over Orioles
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Sport News jfcimdau JUlaf Jlpuffe Sport News C ** EIGHT PAGES. WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 18, 1954 Tigers Turn Three Hits Off Coleman into 1-0 Win Over Orioles Win, Lose or Draw Stretch Finish Garver Limits By FRANCIS STANN ONE OF THE OPEN cars in Baltimore’s big welcoming By Brazen Brat Ex-Teammates parade*for the Orioles, driven by a uniformed chauffeur but . otherwise unoccupied, puzzled watchers. Could it have been symbolic of the Man Who Wasn’t There, meaning Bill Veeck? . The suspicion is that Mickey Wins at Bowie To Five Singles Mantle, already in the doghouse with many |ggip||| 17,030 of the New York baseball writers because of ¦? See Favorite . BP^lJ)P | ¦%'; ", ~~~~ 9,955 Chilled Fans --’ ' i>WiiWwWiPIPWPki" r" -W- “a surly attitude,” is nettling Casey Stengel Beat Freedom Parley -up-' See Kuenn Score a bit, too. ... All Casey will say, however, |Kj-' Jjapsa is “it’s hard to tell him something and make • W\ By a Head in Slop Game's Only Run it stick.” J|Pr| llli By Lewis F. Atchison By th* Associated Press If you don’t feel as spry as once upon fillllM Star Staff Correspondent April a time, maybe these horse ages will explain ® BALTIMORE. 17.—Ned BOWIE, Md. April 17—Mrs. Garver shut out some of his why: Gallant Fox, oldest living of all M. Pistorio’s Brazen Samuel former teammates here today as Kentucky Derby winners, is 27; Omaha is Brat, who usually likes to get the 22 and War Admiral will be 20 the day out in front. csCme from behind Detroit Tigers turned three upcoming Derby May today win 23d running hits into a 1-0 victory over Balti- following the 1. .. wP|||lra|j|i to the of Their heydey was only yesterday to many the SIO,OOO added Rowe Me- tt more. : morial Handicap from a slim . gone rranci. stann. shivering of us. « . The Old Master is from A crowd of 9.955 was ! field of four rivals. South Bend, but Frank Leahy confides that he is turning treated to hot pitching as Garver, Surprising a crowd of 17,030 pen pal and will write a letter to each boy out for football by her switch in tactics. Brazen once a member of the opposition at Notre Dame ‘‘so he will know that I am interested in him.” when it was the St. Louis Browns, Princeton’s varsity crew, which got first crack at Navy’s Fishermon Wins Gotham Stakes by Four limited the Orioles to five singles. national championship boat yesterday, clipped 20 seconds Lengths. Page C-7 Joe Coleman gave the Tigeri ROW, ROW, ROW BOAT?—Princeton University’s 150-pound freshman a for off its time after Coach Dutch Schoch, 40 years old, climbed WHAT crew tried to make submarine start the three hits, two of them by Short- Brat won by a head from Leslie first annual schoolboy regatta and were grimly sinking out of the race after their shell hit a submerged rock near Three into the No. 5 seat and rowed a full mile in a time trial Jane Stable’s Freedom Parley stop Harvey Kuenn. In eight in- to Sisters islands above Key Bridge. Harbor Police Pvts. Frank Carr and Harold H. Riep came up for the rescue. The sodden to show the Tigers how it is done. Enos Slaughter give Mrs. Pistorio her third left to Coxswain Leslie Blatt, Stroke Charles Ernest Frank fiings and Howie Fox stopped continues to nurse his against the Cards because straight victory six-fur- crew, right: Woody, McCall, Elliott, Robert Bolgard, David Wil- grudge ' in the liams, Thomas Flagg, Peter Leibert and Jacques Read. them in the ninth. Meyer long tight they traded him to the Yankees. “Mr. (general dash. It was a finish The Tigers didn’t get a hit manager) told me it wasn’t that they thought I was with William H. Foales’ Just Sidney three-quarters of a until the fourth when Kuenn, through,” Slaughter says. “Itwas just that they were starting length further back in third last year’s American League a youth movement. I don’t know what kind of youth move- Shortstop place, and Brookmeade Stable’s Hunt for rookie star, broke the ice. Ray ment it is. That boy Joe Frazier (outfielder from Oklahoma Safety fourth by a similar mar- City), is 32, I think.” gin. Boone drew one of the two walks • issued by Coleman. Dropo • • • Brazen Brat was clocked in To Fill Senators Gap Walt y the good v * then UNTIL CORRELATION WAS scratched from time of .1:11 flat over v Hp: scored Kuenn with the the $30,000 a sloppy track. An almost even- game’s only run on a single to Gotham at Jamaica yesterday-the Hbrse players were in a money favorite, the winnei paid Nearing Success center. $4.20, $3.00 and $2.20 across the fine dither the odds situation. ... In the Caliente The Oriole infield over board. By Burton Hawkins combination Freedom Parley returned of Billy Hunter, Bobby Winter Book Correlation is 2 to 1 in the Kentucky Derby, and Star Staff Correipondent Young $7.60 $3.20, while Just Sid- and Eddie Waitkus averted fur- ney. second April with Fisherman 4 . in the betting NEW YORK, and Determine co-favorites at to 1. choice 17.—The ther trouble by pulling the first at 3 to 1, paid Senators’ spent rainy But the morning line for the Gotham, a mile and a sixteenth $2.60 for show. bosses a of two double plays. Pet Bully Sidelined. day attempting to brighten their at Kuenn’s double, the only extra event, showed Correlation at 7 to 2, with Fisherman It shortstop situation today as they was somewhat of a hollow negotiated for base hit of the game, in the sixth only 2 to 1. victory for Ed Pellagrini of Brazen Brat with the Pirates, Sam Dente of the inning was the only offensive In the Metropolitan New York the price of golf Mrs. Ada L. Rice’s record-break- Indians move made by the Tigers. area ing and Jim Brideweser of continues upward, with caddies carrying single now getting Pet Bully, Alfred Roberts’ the Yankees. After giving up three hits in Eatontown and H. A. Kimball’s the . first two innings, $4 and $5 per round, excluding tips. What ball player Washington’s desperate search Garver Algasir on the sideline. Most of for a replacement for Pete Run- stopped the Orioles cold in can match Vic Wertz’ bad start—six strikeouts in the Oriole the crowd the hoped to see a duel nels neared success and the Sen- next five. Clint Courtney and outfielder’s bat? ... A from first six official times at note between Brazen Brat and Pet ators expect to fortify their in- Waitkus singled in the eighth Bully, who Harvey Miller, chairman of the District Boxing Commission only last Monday field within a day or two and ninth to no avail. and about hung up a new Bowie 5 NBA big wheel: “I seldom rave present-day talent Va-fur- Brideweser, demoted by the The best Oriole scoring oppor- (but) long mark of I think, given the opportunity, this kid can’t miss a 1:03%. Yankees to Kansas City, has re- tunity came at the start when Eatontown and Algasir fused to to title. copy . were report the farm club A good carbon of the qriginal Joe Rivers.” . Gil Coan and Vic Wertz singled early scratches, but Trainer and is enroute to California with egch other Miller is speaking of Cisco Andrade, fighting at 133 pounds Tommy behind In the first Kelly waited until the permission to swing a deal for inning. But there two out of California. last minute were out to see how the track himself. A resident of Los An- and Sam Mele filed out. Baltimore police admitted they were merely stabbing dried before declaring Pet Bully, geles, the 27-year-old Brideweser Detroit A.H.O.A. B.ltlmor. A.H.O.A. asked the a speedster, out of is unaware that the Senators are g-S when to estimate the throng that watched California 52.! !2 *<*22 Youn*,2b 3 0 3 * the race. anxious to him and left New Del na.lf 4 0 3 0 Wai’s.ib 4 111* Orioles’ parade, finally settling at 350,000 persons lining land Kuenn.s* 3 2 2 3 Coan.cf 3 1 2 n But Pet Bully’s absence didn’t York with the intention of get- Boone.3b 2 0 12 WerU.rl 4 110 the city’s streets and another 150,000 hanging out of office Dropo.lb 3 19 0 Mele,lf 4 0 9 0 detract from the excitement as ting a job in the Pacific Coast 3 0 3 0 St ens.3b 3 0 KaUne.rf 3 2 4 building windows. One thing certain, there had never the surprising Parley, League by trading to TutUe.ct 0 4 0 Hunfr.w 3 0 Q 4 Freedom himself a House.c 3 0 3 0 Murray.c 0 0 0 0 . tney.c been a welcome to match it in all baseball history. .... An with Jockey Stanley Small up, club which send an Garver .0 3 0 0 2Co 3 2 6 0 would in- lDlerlng 0000 oddity in connection with the extravagant 'procession was gave the crowd a thrill and flelder to Kansas City. Co’man.o 2 0 0 0 Brazen George Weiss, general 2Knkos 10 0 0 that Miss America (Miss Evelyn Ay) rode with the Woodlawn Brat a scare in a thrilling mana- Fox.o 0 0 0 0 stretch run.