AMUSEMENTS HilJmfll.V Qtf,, A CLASSIFIED ADS SPORTS JDUlIug JffluT WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1954 C ** Wynn's Top Triumph Leaves Yanks Dependent on Other Clubs

i i < Win/ Lose or Draw Doctor Reveals Champs Unable Conley Proves By FRANCIS STANN THOSE DISTANT RELATIVES, the Haves and Have-Nots Case of Mumps Be To Catch Tribe Difference in In , rarely have been so glaringly spotlighted as this # .v year. With a month of play remaining, Cleveland already ¦jr jb m IBfp has won more games than was necessary to clinch pennants Kayoed Gavilan ff H By Themselves National Race for many or most teams in the past. fl There is a chance that five clubs will Fight Now Expected Two-Hitter Jolts Kluszewski Captures wind up with 100 or more victories, mean- gs M WaßmL. ing the Indians, Yankees and White Sox in Sometime in October; Stengel; Pressure Homer Lead as Mays the and the Giants and Up On Lopez Is Eased Crowds Top Hitters Dodgers in the National, although the ll Substitute Lined By tha Axociatad Frau By tha Axociatad Dodgers would have to put on a real spurt. By tha Associated Press Fr»x The In- to Since there can be only two flag winners, PMILiADETiPHIA, Sept. I. jubilant Cleveland If the Dodgers fail over- means may yrin dians, to a man. were convinced take the Giants in the National this that three 1954 teams Welterweight Champion Kid MF it*—— today they had the American League race, they Can thank kayoed by ' ip^ the 100 or more and have no flag to show for it. Gavilan, illness 24 League pennant all wrapped up. Braves—particularly long Gene %" jߧlg 1 >k: ’ -tojP'* hours in advance of his sched- caution, , How many times has this happened? But either due to fear Conley, the former Washington title fight tonight against Only three, if the record books have been uled of popping off. or just plain su- State basketball star. Johnny Bratton, was found to- perstition, none was willing to When Conley stopped Brook- correctly read. The Tigers of 1909 finished ' day to have a case of plain, old- speak for the record. lyn, 2-0, with a three-hitter yes- runners-up Sox, despite . as to the Red an rr SUnB fashioned mumps. terday he was beating them for year / A1 Lopez, happy over even 100 wins. In that same the Cubs His illness cropped up so sud- B V jr ’s brilliant two-hitter the fifth straight time and turn- placed behind the Pirates, although winning 104. Then a denly last night tha{ it left a that led to Cleveland’s vital 6-1 ing in his second shutout against big jump in years to the Dodgers of 1942, who also won 104 complete blank in the usual victory over the Yankees last them. and ran second to the Cardinals. Wednesday night television fight night, came as close as he could Milwaukee, virtually eliminated schedule the actually from the race by lick- *** * across country. without claiming the a Nine hours before fight time, championship. ing at the hands of the Dodgers USUALLY HAS REQUIRED than 100 promoters up Sunday, gained split for IT no more victories came today with a biggest game thus a “This is the we’ve the four-game and to win a pennant. The most fabulous empire in baseball is substitute bout. Promoter Her- year,” he say series a 12-8 Taylor won all said. ‘l’d edge over Brooklyn for the year. that of the Yankees. They have won 19 flagV Only eight of man announced at noon we’re in the best position right games. that “in order to keep faith with And the Dodgers dropped 3% those teams wl>n as many as 100 now that we’ve been in all games behind the Giants. the fans” he has arranged a 10- BMBBMtoMNBW x*!? tomtoltotoi season. had nine champions at , but rounder Conley walked nobody in lift- featuring Feather- BIG KLU AFTER 46th teammates greet , the team’s slug- “We might still get hurt, but only five met or topped the 100-game mark. Three pennants weights Ike New HOMER— ing his record to 14-7. He fanned Chestnut of ging his 40th home yesterday against the Phillies in the game we know we can’t get killed. I’d have flown from the halyard at Griffith Stadium but in the York and Bobby Bell of Youngs- , after he , the league’s lead- at’Cincinnati. go undisputed in majors’ homer say they’ve really got their backs ing town, Ohio. » Later he also hit his 41st to into the lead the hitter, three times. Bobby 54-year history of the so-called “modern” Senators there never against the waD now.” » The telecast p.m. (Wash- derby, bat despite his efforts the Redlegs lost, 9-3. —AP Wirephoto. Thomson singled home a run in has been a club that won 100. at 10 Wynn’s ington time) will be by 19th triumph boosted the first off and Nobody in his right mind is going to buy any such theory carried games the CBS network. (It will be the Tribe’s lead to 6% Del Crandall provided the other five super-teams. over crestfallen Yankees, that in 1954 there are Every one—lndians, seen in Washington over WTOP- the who with his 16th homer in the Yankees, White Sox, Giants and Dodgers—has weaknesses. TV.) Injury Interrupts College Football Drills Open had expected to use this “cru- second. The lies elsewhere, and good place to look would Dr. Samuel cial” three-game series as a Kluszewski Passes Mays. answer a be Swetnick disclosed to mar- of the Cuban means slice the Indians’ MeimwhUe, in the second divisions. The Have-Nots have been incredible the nature Keed’s gin game showed ailment. has Promising In Area and Across Nation to a and a half. Fol- no effagrin over fact patsies. He said Gavilan Runnels' lowing this series, the Indians the that mumps on the left side, that his ? • Ted Kluszewski hit Nos. 40 and * * more *¦ * condition is not serious, and that for collegiate By tha Axociatod Frau and Yankees clash two 41 yesterday to move out ahead Football practice times in Cleveland. THIS IS PARTICULARLY true in the American League. he will be moved to his New York Test at Second Base football teams in the Washing- YORK, Sept. I—College in the home-run derby. Mays, by NEW It has been considered fashionable to joke about the Pitts- home auto this afternoon. By Burton Hawkins ton area started this morning, football came out of the moth- Lopat Faces Garcia. who has 39, moved instead into burgh Pirates, who are going to wind up in the National Quick Recovery Expected. with reasonably cool weather balls today as most of the schools Today Eddie Lopat, who has the thick of the batting race by Pete Runnels, second baseman, greeting 68 candidates at the country only try hitting a single, and sacri- League cellar for the third year in a row and for the fourth Gavilan “OH. in across the started their won 11 games, will to should be a Is looking better than University of Maryland, 60 at workouts—just days hopes goes fice fly as the Giants whipped couple days,” much fall 17 be- revive Yankee as he time in five seasons. Well, is, indeed, 35 games of the doctor Runnels, shortstop, George Washington and 35 at Whitey the Cardinals, added. Pete and fore the first Saturday program. against Mike Garcia. 5-3. back of the Giants. But looking at it another way, an Amer- though Manager Bucky Harris’ Howard University. Mays moved up to .338, only Saxton was plainly unhappy The coaches, including more Ford is due to face ican League team 35 games out would be in the first division. experiment must be interrupted through a new ones at tomorrow. take eight points behind Snider. over the loss of his title shot, All will go twice-a- than half-dozen If the Indians It is pointless to go into the respective merits of the two a few days, the Senators may day practice sessions until school major colleges, wasted little time either game. New York’s bid for The Giants jumped away to a now likely to be postponed—- against major circuits. For instance, who is to declare the Pirates, again—until be set at second base at last. opens, with Maryland and GW with formalities and got down to a sixth straight championship three-run lead Gerry some time in Oc- Staley, caught, then who are in the cellar and 35 games back, are worse than the tober. The Texan, who suffered the particularly pressed to get ready the problem at hand—how to may be finished. were won September 18 opening teach their charges to win games. in the fifth when A1 Dark singled, Orioles, Athletics, Senators, Tigers and Red Sox? Gavilan’s illness “cost me the loss of a fingernail as the Sen- for dates. A1 Rosen said what was on * grumbled today, ators beat the Tigers, 5-3, last Tom Johnson at How- A few have' only 10 days to the minds of many in the crowd | Henry Thompson walked and In the American League the Indians are operating at a title,” Saxton prepare Dusty Rhodes singles. Thomp- contending that he was in top night at Griffith Stadium, seem- ard had his gridders out at 6:30 as there are a scatter- of 58,859 at Yankee Stadium last tremendous pace. The runnerup Yankees and the third-place at his ing of games a week from Sat- night. son scored on Mays’ fly. Rhodes shape and would have won al- ingly has found himself .this morning, Coach Jim Tatum and Mays White Sox have higher percentages than the league-leading new position. Terrapins an urday. victory really put the each drove in two runs. though Gavilan was a heavy fa- •started his houf “Our Sauer Breaks Record. Giants in the National. vorite. Harris has been thinking of later and Coach Bo Sherman Most teams will swing into ac- Yankees in an unenviable spot,” tion on September “To my of the Cubs broke But note the number of games the Tigers, Red Sox, Must Refund $30,000. Pete as a second baseman for took his Colonials to their Frog 25. On Sep- he said. knowledge, it League Taylor said he Island practice field at 8 o’cloek. tember 18, the first nationally first time that New York the National record and Senators, Athletics and Orioles have won. Note also that it would refund some time. He inserted Jerry it the tied the major league record about $30,000, starting Friday or Bnyder shortstop and to- The 7:30 aun. start for Mary- televised game will be Califor- finds itself in a position where is unnatural for Cleveland to have won 18 of 20 from Boston, at Berkeley do it by when he hit his 13th Saturday. The veteran pro- gether they’ve been giving Wash- land is an hour later than nia-Oklahoma at and it can’t itself. The this 18 of 28 from Baltimore, 16 of 20 from Philadelphia and In previous that could properly at Yankees have always been able season off Pittsburgh pitch- 17 moter said the twice-postponed ington a defense the team Tatum’s custom one come ing Cubs won of 21 Washington. scrap years. He Inaugurated a 6:30 the windup of the season be- to win the big ones. This time as the two, 14-2 from would be held sometime in hasn’t known all season. They’ve Sauer’s * cause it two titans. they Now, and 7-3. blow, his 35th ** * .October, probably in Convention figured in 12 double plays in the start at North Carolina in 1942, will test didn't. for the first of year, time was not Os the coaches who will be six years, they have got the came In the second OBVIOUSLY IT IS A SIQK, League. Hall. last five games, including three but daylight saving all time in game. rundown Axherican in effect then, and he believes on the spot, young Terry Bren- to depend upon somebody else. The Red Sox are trying to rebuild on and so are the Gavilan promised Taylor that last night. Kluszewski’s homers were he would go through with the it’s time for a change. Most of nan at Notre Dame will have the ’They’ve got to hope and pray Tigers. The Orioles, nee the St. Louis Browns, are supposed Runnels’-‘Hitting Improves. also off the grass cause to worry. He will be that beats us. The wasted as the Phillies beat the fight then. Frank Wiener, chair- the dew will be most Reds, 9-3, to halt an eight-game to be trying, but the road ahead is long and rugged. man of The shortstop - second base the Pennsylvania Ath- (See PRACTICE, Page C-3.) (See FOOTBALL, Page C-3.) (See AMERICAN. Page C-4.) losing streak. The real weak spots are Philadelphia and Washington. letic Commission, who was sum- combination has been one of As far as the Athletics are concerned,'it only moned from his night, Harris' major headaches. Run- seems to be a home last hitting, question of time before they will be transferred to another said that the champion would be nels or rather lack of it, placed on the “unavailable list” was another. But the 5-foot- city. But what has happened to the Senators is a shame. -11%, 170-pound Scotch-Irish- Washington until he went through with the is a one-team city, unlike Philadelphia and fight. man who led the team in pit- cTates of OLD GEORGE unlike St. Louis and Boston, where it became evident that a Originally, Gavilan and the ting his first full season in the 24-year-old majors years ago couple of clubs couldn’t be properly supported. But Wash- Brooklyn challenger two apparently . ington was—and still could be—the best franchise in baseball. were to have met in Connie Mack has regained his batting eye. He Stadium July 14, cham- collected tyo hits in four trips Now it is nothing. , but the ' pion got postponement last night, including a triple, to **** a because of an, injury to his right hand—- boost his average to .270. Only THE CROWDS ARE GETTING thinner, spectacularly, it an injury he Jim Busby, Mickey Vernon and said he suffered among regu- might be added, because the Legion is in town. Indeed, while losing to Carl (Bobo) Ol- Ed FitzGerald the Griffith Stadium is perhaps as restful a'place as could be son, middleweight champion, in lars show better marks. found at this time. There are hardly any their bout in Chicago April 2. Runnels and Roy customers and the Sievers both figure to miss the ushers are as non-vocal as they are un-uniformed. Even in Went Through Eight Rounds. remaining two games with the St. Louis, when it was known the Browns were dead, the Gavilan’s manager, Angel Lo- Tigers, who fell to a fourth-place probably pez, tie with the re- ushers made noises, under orders to wake up the said the < Kid had a lump on Red Sox as the customers they often outnumbered. the left side* of his face yester- sult of their loss last night. Washington There is no super team this year, but there few day morning, but insisted on go- still is hoping to are a ing through sneak into the first division, be- poorly-handled outfits that can’t stand up to the top clubs, eight rounds of exer- cise to bring his weight down. ing 3% games .back. Sievers, who Senators of appeared and the are one these. He had scaled 155 pounds for only as a pinch-hitter Olson. Lopez said the champion last night, is suffering with a weighed 146% when he finished pulled leg muscle. Runnels lost Slugger's Shy the workout. a fingernail in a Collision with 68 Homers Two of Record Rookie Chick King. sty th« Aisociatad Ptwn Lopez said Gavilan had his runs against hapless Sweetwater, dinner and then complained Vernon, needing only two more which Roswell beat 15-9, ROSWELL, N. Mex., Sept. I. and about 7 p.m. that he wasn’t feel- hits to achieve 2,000 for his Ponderous Joe Bauman, the further added to his record in ing, well. Dr. career, is displaying signs of the league Swetnick, Gavilan’s Roswell Rocketeer, was within Class C for RBIs. personal physician was sum- weariness. The 36-year-old first one home run of the all-time He now has 214. moned. baseman probably will be given ;; Bauman has a rest record to- this record for Dr. Swetnick said then that after he reaches the 2,000 day and he has six games in goal, which could be tonight. (See SLUGGER; Page C-5.) Gavilan was suffering from a which to smash it. virus infection, had a temper- Mickey got one hit last night. Jarring Joe blasted four hom- ature of 101 degrees and an in- Schmitz Opposes Aber. ers last night against Sweet- flamation of the left parotid Johnny Schmitz, trying for water to not only set a new Probable gland (near ear). a By tha Axociatad the win, ¦ Longhorn League Frau ninth will pitch for the mark for one AMERICAN against bidding game but to bring LEAGUE. Commissioners Called. Senators A1 Aber, his season Detroit At Washington (night)—Aber for a sixth triumph, total to 68. (5-8) vs. Bchmlts (8-7). Wiener and his two fellow in the 19th Cleveland at New York Garcia game between the two clubs. The aim tonight against (16-7) vs. Lopat (11-4). commissioners, George He takes Jones and Tigers have Senators Midland for the two over-the- Chicago at Boston (2)—Pierce (7-S) John- Holohan, were called hur- treated the and Consuegra (16-3) vs. Kemmerer well, losing 11 times, and need fence smashes that will wipe (3-3) and Parnell (2-3). riedly to Gavilan’s suite along out (Only games scheduled.) all four games the record of 69 set by Joe with Taylor, Matchmaker Pete to take remaining . Moran to break even for the season. Hauser of Minneapolis in 1933 _ New York at Cincinnati (night)— and Saxton’s manager, and tied by Bob Crues of Ama- Bearn (8-8) vt. Nuxhall (8-3). Frank (Blinky) Palermo. The winner of the most-popu- Brooklyn at Chicago—Loes (11-3) vs. lar-player sponsored by rillo in 1948. Klippsteln (3-10). Just to make that contest, Pittsburgh sure there company, In at Milwaukee (ntght)-t- “were angles,” as put it, a brewing will be an- probably the biggest night Surkont (8-16) vs. Spahn (16-10). no he nounced tonight. of his career, Joe drove in nine '• Philadelphia at Bt. Louis (night)— Wiener called on two other The winner—- Dickson (8-16) vs. Lawrence (11-5). physicians either Eddie Yost, Busby or Ver- —Dr. Milton Kroun- given gold and Dr. Alfred Ayella, jr.— non—will be an all-expense to make independent examina- trip to the Orient. Each received Major League Standings SI,OOO for winning one of three (See WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1954. GAVILAN. Page C-4.) divisions of the contest. Petticoat An assortment of Communications .other gifts, The System .2 • w ranging from a new car to pairs AMERICAN. . I It. Pennant of tickets to Washington games, v 1U Picture * - . 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