THE EVENING STAR Washington, D. C. B-6 Sports Saturday, April 23, 1960 . - , * Gardner ' Is s Choice • People ¦< r r < .. x k **Rw< ** Allison's i a> ji Au. Despite Heroics x v kLiwWt jX* ? -r 2 .< ’¦*¦ **z ’U/ % ¦’ •» ’ Mfr <•'Wk*-*’* . A- Pirates Near Tigers' Aces Winless, Both Are Stars As Griffs Lose ¦ ButTeam ~»~ Leads * 5-4 ... t X .r> . Top as Friend League Tough One, By the Associated Press opener on Al Kaline’s 15th-1 By BURTON HAWKINS Sa* Not one of the Tigers’ pitch- inning single at Cleveland and Star Stan Writer B w f '¦* ing "big four”—Frank then that series Washington baseball . 1 Jw„ >. ?••¦** Wife JgMMBI T/. Clicks Lary, swept on'J fans Again Jim Don Running, Mossi or Kaline’s ninth-inning home ¦ i have been seeking a new hero, Paul Foystack—has been a win- run. ; and while By the Associated Press they’re appreciative ner thus but home far, runs and Colavito, the ex-Indian, made ¦ i of the .591 hitting of Bob Al- This definitely is a new have the his singles put Detroit second Detroit homer good l lison and the pitching of Ca- season for Bob Friend, the (club for runs on top in the American two in the second in- : milo Pascual, is *< ~ Pirates’ right-handed pitching • who due to face ,sv “*^,’if.' League race. ning against Dick Donovan. the Red Sox this afternoon ace . at . , ¦. who had such bad a year ' ~ White i *• Bunning the no-hit right- Sox starter, and drew Griffith Stadium, *» ”*"• ' -»»>'«*“ , 'WiiiiTjWtt »-' '-•%»-¦ in 1959. they tempo- an ovation from 53.563 hander who shared the club fans— ; rarily have latched on to Friend away his second • Billy put a record at ~" '~ 3* opening-day crowd i Gardner a - - & b as man worthy of I. -¦•— straight complete-game victory Mojor Box Scores. B 8 ¦ r^7>- <? T~/-.--.J cTwh Page Detroit’s Briggs Stadium. Yost ¦ their devotion. with a seven-hit, eight-strike- » * •* ™ *-** tagged Donovan for a two-run • *-w lead with Defensive pyrotechnics the ? «*» out performance last Lary and Mossi with 1 by night as homer in the and then '-'*• fifth, , spry Gardner have w» , Pittsburgh beat the Milwaukee 17 victories last season, missed 1 captured Bilko gave the Tigers a 5-5 tie the imagination Braves, 6-2, and jumped into, in his first start yesterday, but ¦ of Senators' * x x with his first ~ '< American * * League ;*>. * (second place in the Tigers plunked. 1 followers, unaccustomed to - ¦• the National • st v Chicago •• ¦ - • -*<¦ /’*' **•*.' '"¦¦Wfe home run, off Mike Garcia in ! League out of tie for first 1 agile maneuvering around race. a place by the sixth. It sec- C. V. was Detroit's first ! base. Whitney’s Tompion (2) races to a were A handing the White Sox their ' ond The veteran Gardner length- Kentucky Derby eligibles. Pied d'Or (1A) year ago. Friend lost his home-opener victory since 1954. and-a-half over first A really is giving them what victory Windfield Fann’s Vic- of Calumet Farm was third after the first seven games and didn't loss, 6-5. two-out single they setting want. toria Park in win until his by Lou Berberet in the ninth Ford A<se in (3) yesterday’s $7,500 Forerunner pace. time was one-fifth one 11th start Openers Tompion’s 1:2155, just On Purse at on May 28. He didn’t gave the unbeaten Tigers their a Friday night when Alli- Keeneland where all eight starters off the track record.—AP manage 5-0 in home- Wirephoto. Ford, now : son collected four of two complete-game victories in third success, all on last-inning his team’s opener assignments, singled 10 hits in the a row until his 29th start on runs, after earlier homers ( course of a 5-4 by home run the first Yankee off loss August 24. And by then he had Rocky Colavito, Eddie Yost to Boston in 11 innings, it Hoyt Wilhelm in the third. lost 15 enroute to an 8-19 and Steve Bilko. was Gardner who captivated | The stubby southpaw allowed 7-5 FAVORITE IN season that made him the The Yankees moved Chi- .many in the big crowd of 16.707 LAUREL 'CAP topi j past the Orioles seven hits in seven 1 : loser with a brand in the league after shar- cago into second place, beating ' of second base World Records innings before giving way to , the lead for play hadn’t Tompion Adds ing victories with Baltimore. 5-0. as Whitey Ford ’ they glimpsed in Terry, who saved the second 22 the year before. and Ralph combined for ; years. Piano Jim Terry straight two-man shutout by ian eight-hit shutout, Kansas Gets Off Fast Carrying Pirates Near Top the Yankee staff. Rookie John Throw I City won its first, sending win- Two It the Gabler and Ryne Duren blanked The Senators hadn't Sought by was third straight I pro- less Cleveland a Derby Prestige to third defeat, the Red Sox four victory and fifth in six on hits > duced an infield double play Chalk games 4-1. Boston defeated Wash- Players' for the Pirates, moving them Thursday. this season until the first in- Hopes in ington. 5-4 in 11 innings, the Home within a half-game of front-i runs by Mickey Mantle ¦ ning last night and it other American was In Kansas By JOSEPH B. KELLY (develop. Reinzi is certain I League game. and Hector Lopez, the first for ¦ worth waiting Meet to running San for. After In Sprint Win Francisco. The Don Star Racing Editor fit Grant's of Giants took each and both off Wilhelm, . Buddin doubled off style riding as over all alone with Relief Pitchers Score Jim Kaat LAWRENCE. Kans., April 23 Walter he lacks but 10-8 decision made it a breeze for Ford, mak- ' to the M. Jeffords’ Piano > early speed can LEXINGTON, 23 I a over the Cubs open game, Pumpsie (APi.—The 35th 1 Ky., April A of relief Kansas Re- Jim • turn it in the late stages. at Chicago, while pair pitchers. Pete mg his first appearance. | Green was nicked by pitched may change the tune for on • <AP.)—Tompion’s first Ken- . the Cardinals a lays could to the Burnside and Tom belong field Last fall he won dropped Los Morgan, Ray Herbert, Kansas ball. Buddin then went thiKd Laurel’s bedraggled favorite ¦ the mile-and- toward the , Angeles to third City > 1 to ' tucky step Derby have men. players today when he takes s five-eighths Market Wise . place by beating the Dodgers, picked up Detroit’s vic- (righthander, gave up nine hits ; : after Frank Malzone flied deep 'iWas taken in a champion’s Jim Baird. East Texas State’s 11-7. tories behind starts Lary. I while beating the Indians for ¦ to right. on six rivals in the 47th run- • Handicap at Aqueduct. j Philadelphia whipped by ! ' two-time National (stride by the 5-2 future-book Mossi and Bunning. (the intercollegi- of the Laurel I Rounding out the field ; Cincinnati, 10-7. Morgan fourth time in a row since: ¦: Bobby Thomson grounded to ning $27,875 are favorite. The next step, less ate broad jump ! ' won his second with one per-! 11958. Norm Siebern and Bob /Harmon Killebrew, who threw champion, Handicap, the track’s oldest Alfred Muller's Charlesgate, Friend, who shut out Cincin- • than a week away, may prove j feet came up with the only record inning against the White Cerv hit consecutive, second- Jto1 second for the force. Pump- stakes race. 110, with Henry Block up, and nati on four hits Sunday, has in 1 i much more difficult. Sox. Bob battered sie yesterday’s opening compe- the Shaw, in his inning home runs off Rookie . plowed into Gardner at A crowd of about 20.000 is . apparently outclassed Gee- C. V. ridden allowed only one scoring inning Whitney’s colt, L first start the Hawkins second, but not before tition, breaking the oldest mark chee 107. in his last 18. Thursday, was Wynn and Cerv tri- . BiUy expected to make Piano Jim , Lou, by Willie Shoemaker, proved [ The Braves end- in the loser in relief for Chicago, giv- pled home another in a . had gotten off brisk throw to Relay’s books. ed his scoreless two- a the 7-5 choice in the mile-and- he's Derby material yester- string at 11 Baird jumped 25 feet 5!4 Big Double Payoff top ing up two hits and five walks run third. The Indians, who , Don Mincher to complete the an-eighth handicap the ’ innings when Billy Bruton despite day in downing seven other in 1% innings. double play. Inches to crack the 29-year-old tripled and gave up such sluggers as Cola- ' favorite jinxwhich has reached The big numbers but scored on an in- mark of 3 I produced I Derby hopefuls, his next Two walks and a single by vito and Minnie Minoso In the third inning, Gardner 25-4 » set by lowa’s field out. and Hank Aaron fol- in t serious proportions. In the last , the largest double of start in Blue Grass ( dashed Ed Gordon payoff f Thursday’s Colavito came ahead of Ber- trades, stranded ; ' far to his right, stabbed in 1931. 23 lowed with his third home seven runners races at Laurel, the public the 1960 sea- run : Maryland racing ¦ Stakes, probably will be against beret’s break-up single for the for a three-game total . Green’s grounder, unleashed his Today’s program offered two for 2-2 tie in the third of 28 ' choice has failed to win.