Finance Jhmday j&pffe Obituaries ** TWELVE PAGES. WASHINGTON, D. C., SEPTEMBER 7, 1952 C Yanks End Nats'Winning Streak, Stay 2i Games Ahead of Indians Giants Wallop Dodgers, 6-4 and 7-3, and Trail by Only 4 Games Win, Lose, or Draw Mulloy, at 38, Hearn Homers Marrero Loses By FRANCIS STANN 1 ToFaceSedgman fay- jmc f THE SATURDAY EVENING POST agrees with Collier’s in While Winning After 6 in Row; its annual preview that Maryland will *' football be the country's |P" \ : aHP No. 1 team, although not one of the Post’s top 20 schools will ¦ opponent .H W W be a regular-season of the Terrapins. ... On the In Tennis Finals ? “j v:,, 4*KitNightcap Errors Cosily other hand, Notre Dame, ranked 12th, will 4 . play three foes among the Post’s leading Veteran From Florida Corwin's Relief Work Hoderlein and Yost seven teams and four among the “big 20.” . In the Collier’s preview Halfback Billy Hair Oldest Player Ever And Four Brooklyn Let in Four Runs; of Clemson is listed as an “unsung hero.” .. Bp To Reach Last Round w jm m Errors Decide Hits Evidently the magazine is not on the mailing f- Opener Four for Grasso list of the Clemson publicity department, (Picture on Page C-2) (Picture on Page C-2) * B y' By Burton Hawkins which has been deluging newspapers for weeks By Jk the Associated Press jJL By lh* Associated Press The late-blooming Nats wilted including complete with blurbs for Hair, a Jpl HILLS, Sept. ' ¦ NEW YORK. Sept. 6—New at crucial moments last night and FOREST 6. young their six-game winning color brochure on the man. Gardnar Mulloy, the 38-year-old York’s onrushing Giants swept a streak ex- Calumet Farms apparently is taking dead j double-header from the fretting pired as th-3 champion Yankees Floridian, took a few more slugs capitalized Washington aim on many of the big stakes still remaining |Dodgers today. 6-4, 7-3, to cut on the from his private fountain of youth j Brooklyn's National League lead to team's shoddy fielding, careless program. on the New York racing . Several today and softly stroked his way, four games. The runnerup Giants base-running and faltering clutch- days ago Real Delight, Mark Ye Well, Hill hitting to register a 5-2 victory rr,n *u B ‘*“- into the finals of the National won the opener with the help of Gail and the 2-year-old Bubbley arrived at four while Jim before 22,279 at Griffith stadium. Tennis Championships opposite • errors, Hearn Belmont Park for the meeting opening in mid-September. clouted home run and limited Tom Gorman, bespectacled Frank Sedgman, the 23-year-old a rookie None of the Eastern horse owners was on hand to cheer their I the Dodgers to four hits in the right-hander, followed Ray Scar- pats champion from Aus- arrival. Fred Kovaleski was given congratulatory on defending second game. borough and Ewell Blackwell to the back by New York tennis experts for his fine stand against tralia. m .. w HR A crowd of 49,011 fans saw the the mound and gave a brilliant Dick Savitt in the nationals at Forest Hills, but it’s a mistake In becoming the oldest cam- opener of the vital five-game se- relief performance to enable the ries. The teams clash in a single Yanks to hold a 2V game lead . paigner ever to reach the finals 2 to regard Kovaleski as a product of Washington courts. game tomorrow with Sal Maglie over the second-place Cleveland When the big fellow came to the Capital from Detroit not too in the tournament’s 71-year his- I tory, the Miami veteran a 1(14-5) opposing Rookie Joe Lan- Indians. The Nats lost ground to long ago he already was an accomplished player. treated j packed crowd of 15,000 to a bril- J drum (1-3) of the Dodgers. The the Red Sox and White Sox, but liant exhibition of baseline con- series ends Monday with a day- still are in a virtual triple tie for A WEEK AGO, when Billy Goodman of the Red Sox was trol as he defeated Hamilton j night double-header. third place. robbed of three hits because rain canceled a game before suffi- Richardson, 19-year-old former j Hearn pitched one of his finest Mickey Grasso led the team’s junior champion from Baton games of the year as the Giants 10-hit attack with . four singles as cient innings had been played, it jogged memories. Back in Rouge, La., 6—o, B—6. extended their winning streak to the the 1930 s the late Lou Gehrig had an even rougher experience. 10—8. Nats remained a threat until Hasn’t Lost a Set. iflve games. The veteran right- the final out, but the failure of ... had been beaned by a pitched ball during an exhibition Lou who has hander, knocked out in his previ- his teammates in tense Yankees in Sedgman, sailed situations game Norfolk. ... day played Grif- in The next the through six rounds of play with- ous eight starts, gained his 13th made things easier for tha fith Stadium and Gehrig hit three tremendous triples on his out losing a set or really stretch- i victory of the season and his first Yankees. since August 1. came ing legs, first three times at bat. Then the rains and wiped his long trounced his left- jB Bp' Infield Error Costly. them off the records. Lou never was a lucky ball playet, as Gets Three-Run Jump. The Nats were getting no worse witnesses who saw Lyn L&ry lose the home-run championship | The Giants staked him to a 3-0 than a 3-2 beating until the ninth Mulloy Is Spared •lead in the first inning as they for Gehrig one day in Washington can testify. Early in the inning when Eddie Yost’s fumble little Johnny Rutherford put one bleaches: seats but'Lary, second Net-Vaulting "combed of Gorman’s grounder allowed two season Lou into the on Task for hits. Don caught four Mueller dou- runs to score. But Eddie was not base, thought the ball had been for a third out and At Close of Match bled and two outs later Monte past dugout. Gehrig, passing Lary, trotted third to the was By the Associated Press Irvin and Bob Thomson singled which would have enabled him v : >.; and Hank deprived of the home run to FOREST HILLS, N. Y., Ml ¦ Thompson doubled. Pennant Races beat out Babe Ruth. The Dodgers nicked Hearn for Sept. 6. Tennis tradition MICKEY MAKES A PROTEST—After being caught rounding first too far in the sixth inning by will calls for the winner to vault a run in the scond with the aid Two or three American horses be tendered invitations Phil Rizzuto’s quick peg to Joe Collins, the Nats’ Mickey Vernon and Coach Clyde Milan dispute < the Giants At a Glance the net and extend a consol- of a pair of errors but By Associated Press within the next two weeks to compete in the $50,000 Washing- Umpire Hank Soar’s call. Vernon’s single sent Pete Runnels to third but Rizzuto cut off the tha ing hand, but it wasn’t that came back with one in the third NATIONAL LEAGUE. throw. The ton, D. C., International at Laurel October 18. Already in out took the heart out of what looked like a promising rally. —Star Staff Photo. singles by A1 Dark, W L Pet. OB GL way today in the semi-finals on Whitey ,B3fl fly Brooklyn 84 48 22 the field for the jnile-and-a-half test are half a dozen from after 38-year-old Gardnar Lockman and Irvin’s ball. New York __ 80 62 .«0« 4 22 Ireland, Canada and Brooklyn’s last serious threat Remaining games: England, Argentina and three more invi- Mulloy defeated Ham Rich- Brooklyn at home (18)—Boston 3, pair of English and ardson, 19. came in the fourth when the Chicago 4. Cincinnati 2. Philadelphia tations have been extended to another Roberts Goes 77 Innings to Win Home Runs by Easter 3. Pittsburgh 2. St. Louis 2. Away It was young Ham who Dodgers scored twice on a walk, (6)—Boston New . did 3. York 3. another Argentine . It’s understandable if the Brook- racer. two singles and a fly ball to New York at home (It))—Boston the honors and it was just as 3, Chicago N. Y. Brooklyn 3. 2. Cincinnati lyn Dodgers take a dim view of Staten Island, . That’s well, for Mulloy probably No. 23 on by shorten New York'6 lead to 4-3. 3. Philadelphia 3, Pittsburgh 3. St. Homer Away (3)—Philadelphia where Bobby Thomson of the Giants and Karl Drews of the Ennis, 7-6 And Doby Give Tribe Louis 2. 3. would have landed on his By the Associated Press Giants PuU Away. AMERICAN LEAGUE. Phillies are neighbors. Last year in the final game of the kisser if,he had tried it. Ham Hearn clouted his third homer W L Pet. GB GL PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 6.—Del New York .. 81 58 .601 l7 National League playoff it was Thomson’s last-inning homer pounded: the veteran’s back of the season in the Giant fourth Cleveland 78 68 .674 2'/i 18 open 8-3 Win Over Browns Remaining games: . chair, Ennis’ home run to the 17th .