Sixth-Place Club Only 5 Games Back in Hot National League Race Rookie Bob Ross Due Griff Tears Up Noren Dodgers Faii to Third, Contract, Gives Irv To Start Against One With Pay Boost Face Serious Loss in Clark Griffith has taken of- ficial cognizance of young Irv to Newcombe Athletics Tonight Noren’s batting feats and all- Injury or Draw By Burton Hawkins around brilliance in his first By Jack Hand w to the major league season. The Associated Press Writor in, Lose, Bucky Harris, looking Sports | at same time Nats’ president tore up Irv’s By GRANTLAND RICE future and the Dust off those playoff rules. to his current original contract and replaced trying prod Nats, Ford Frick, your National League in Far West will trust Bob Ross with it with one calling for a high- Baseball Looking Up young may be headed for a six-club er NEW YORK, July 1.—Any baseball scout looking for a tip his first Griffith Stadium starting figure. showdown. of assignment tonight against the1 It was learned today that might keep his eyes adjusted to the Far West. In a season With July 4, traditional half- Athletics and hope for encourage- the Detroit Tigers’ manage- erratic in the two major leagues, the Pacific Coast way post, just around the bend, highly play ing developments. ment has done the same thing in one still can’t separate the men sector is moving up class. has the nucleus of a for Art Houtteman and Ted Harris from the boys. Toss out Cincin- Ted Williams, the Di Maggio brothers, in such as star pitchers who have steady club performers Gray, nati and Pittsburgh, and they’re and Doerr head the list of Cass Irv 19 between them. Joe Gordon Boby Eddie Yost, Michaels, won games all in the race. and a few others, but he Houtteman, big right-hander, stars now registered from Western fields, Noren and Boston, New York" and Chicago needs help. The 21- was the first pitcher in either a new crop is now about due. Here is a re- pitching closed in while Brooklyn, St. Louis year-old Ross, a left-hander who league to win 10 this season. from Byrnes, who usually has and Philadelphia were fumbling port George moved from Chattanooga two up the pace. Now it’s only five games most of the answers— could be an weeks ago, important from the first-place Phillies to Grant: This season’s Pacific Coast figure in Bucky’s plans. the sixth-place Giants and 1 Va far more has reserved his Bob Mathias Breaks League baseball has been interesting Harris opinion from first to fourth. n“Dear Ross, for in a relief ? and more like big-league ball than in any year concerning Lose one and you drop from at Bob since we’ve been out here. Big reason would appearance Chicago first to third. The Dodgers did showed signs of brilliance, but in Decathlon Record in seem to be due directly to high quality rookies the trick last night. They took his first start at .Cleveland he was from former a half-game lead into Shibe Park. stealing the limelight major battered the Indians. by After an 8-5 defeat by the Phils loop stars and yet the majors are putting on In his attempt to reconstruct Third Win ; Straight ithey were lucky to be third. wonder such brilliant displays you why they the Nats, beaten 7-6 and 4-2 by By the Associated Pres* I Since Memorial Day the Phils, Grantiand «ice. Philadelphia last night before were ever let go. j TULARE, Calif., July 1.—Young Dodgers and Cardinals have shuf- customers, Harris' chief “All this adds up to something potent at the box office ex- 12,219 Bob Mathias of Tulare has won jfled in and out of the lead. Now concern centers on his pitching. in and Los Angeles, and their sharply lower the National decathlon champion- the Braves want to get in the act. cept Hollywood Ross finds a Thus manager eager and No clubs in the league has been ‘take’ can written off as too much the ship for the third straight year he generosity by respective to him a regular berth if he give broken the world record in doing able to run away and hide from managements in permitting all home games to be televised. displays the talent to warrant it. i it. Now he plans a year’s holiday the .500 mark. The Phils are “No television at all in Portland or Seattle and only sporadic A’s to Start Shantz. from this gruelling all-round test only 10 games over it and the San Francisco and San Ross the Athletics will airings in Okland, Sacramento, Diego. Against of track and field prowess. Giants are just even. And the counter with Bobby Shantz, a little The Los Angeles area is rated as having more television sets in Throwing back the determined Dodgers were supposed to win by southpaw who has won six and lost home use than in any other city in the Nation on a population but futile challenge of William E. 110 or 15 games! seven. He will be trying to keep Here are two of the Nats’ new Bob Ross (left) and A1 both from Chatta- Newcombe Hit on Wrist. basis and now those home viewers’ absence from the grandstands (Bill) Albans of North Carolina, pitchers, Sima, up the A’s out of the cellar, a spot Ross is scheduled to make his first start at Griffith Stadium the Athletics to- The Dodgers looked like any- and harder on this 19-year-old Mathias rounded out nooga. against has hurt. All visiting teams squawk louder vacated with their triumphs they the two-night performance last night. Sima looked good against the Yankees a few days ago, despite defeat. thing but champions last night as point than they seem to do on being “robbed” by umpires. last night. night just before midnight with their two best pitchers—Don New- The came from Philadelphians these achievements: combe and Preacher Roe—failed behind twice to capture the first Seattle Has Best Rookie Southpaw He captured the crown, the first to hold the youthful Phils. game for Hank Wyse, who required “General feeling indicates Seattle has the best rookie left- man to do it three straight years. Doris Hart, Pal Todd Newcombe, hit on the wrist by relief from Lou Brissie. The Nats hander in Vern Kindsfather, closely followed by Hollywood's He scored 8.042 points shatter- Mike Goliat’s single in the eighth belted Wyse for three runs in the inning, may have been seriously of whom are overhand chuckers, ing the record that had stood for Ken Lehman, both strictly first inning, but the A’s bounced 14 years since Glenn Morris aston- Gain Quarter-Finals hurt. If he's out for any length possessing blazing speed, fine control, youth (21), the coolness back with four in the fourth off j ished the world by registering 7,900 of time, the Dodgers cause is of neither has ever Connie Marrero as Mike Guerra experineced major leaguers although played points for America in the Olympic gloomy. After Newcombe left the a two-run to higher than AAA and, for pitchers, are fine fielders and un- slammed triple high- Games at Berlin. In Wimbledon Tennis game with the bases loaded, Jim- light the uprising after two were Blood worth unloaded a three- usually good batters. Won’t Play Football. By th« Associated Press my out. Modest christened Robert run pinch double off Roe to break “The cream of the rookie righthanders are George Zuverink, Bob, 1.—Third Washington retaliated with an- WIMBLEDON. July a 5-5 tie. San and Bob Portland. I' Bruce, then disclosed that he plans ! Diego, Drilling, other outburst in the seeded Doris Hart of | three-run to off this Jacksonville, The revamped Cards sneaked “The down from the are in lay competition—after oldsters, majors, pitching grand fifth to grab a 6-4 lead, but the Pitts- a coming trip to Iceland this sum- Fla., was one of the favorites to past Brooklyn by mauling form especially Clyde Shoun and Groth of Oakland, both of A’s moved back into command That left the .Cards mer until possibly Olympic time in capture the women’s singles j burgh. 9-4. whom look good enough to go back up tomorrow. at 7-6 with three rune in the ionly three percentage points back 1952. crown of the lawn sixth and Brissie came to All-England “The batting averages out here afe ‘swollen,’ so I think, by along Nor is he going out for the Stan- of the Phils. retain that margin. Mickey Har- tennis championships, advanced from Santa Claus scorers except in the cases of Frankie Baumholtz, ford football squad this fall, he With Rocky Nelson, up ris gave the Nats no-hit pitching to the de- Columbus, on first base and Stan Los Angeles, .444; Chuck Stevens. Hollywood (former St. Louis added. He's got to spend his time quarterfinals today by ( after replacing Marrero with none feating Nancy Chaffee of Los Musial back in the outfield, the Browns) Artie Oakland .333 preparing for a career in medi- .386; Wilson, Negro, and Henry out in but it was in a for the sixth, cine. Angeles. I Cards conked Cliff Chambers Minoso, San Diego Negro, .340. lost cause. contributed a Gov. Earl Warren, back for the Miss Hart was joined by Mrs. 14 hits. Musial Joost’s Homer Does It.