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Detroit Tiger baseballer George Kell proudly holds
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BY STERIJNG SLAPPEY
Associated Press Sports Writer
The Southern Association’s big question — “Who will
meet the All-Stass?”’—still stands.
If Atlanta defeated Birmingham 5-1 last night the
Crackers look like the team to play the All-Stars July 18.
If Atlanta didn’'t defeat Birmingham, and Baron Manager
Mike Higgins is asking Southern President Charlie Hurth
some pertinent questions about the game, then Atlanta is
2 long way from ¢linching the All-Star host honors.
The g#cords today say that At
lanta Wn and increased its lead
over second place Birmingham to
three games. But Higgins charges
Atlanta manager Dixie Walker
with eommitting a baseball felony
by changing his pitching choice
after submitting his lineup to the
umpires.
. Hurth will decide if Walker is
guilty. If Hurth rules in favor of
the Mggins protest then Atlanta
Jeads by only one game and that’s
a serawny lead with five games to
go before the Sunday night dead
_line to determine who plays the
. For about a month the all-star
question has been the best in Dix
ie. The Higgins-Walker controver
, sy added to it last night in the
, first game of a doubleheader and
. what happened in the second game
| made the query better than ever.
" Birmmham and Atlanta stood
each er down for 16 #anings and
still didn’t decide who won. The
final score was 4-4.
x tie brought an end to the
’s big series of the sea
son with Birmingham winning
three fimes, Atlanta’s victory still
bracketed by question marks and
one game ending in a tie. .... ..
Al Hennencheck, who Higgins
claims was illegally entered in the
first game, was a brilliant choice
Jegally or not. He gave the barons
only two hits. One was a homer
by Fred Hatfield. Atlanta’s star
Rookie Ed Matthews homered and
trippled. :
Hatfield encored with another
homer in the second game which
was the big boost in helping Bir
mingham overtake the Crackers.
After the fifth inning Atlanta held
a 4-1 Jead but frittered it away in
the seventh, eighth and ninth in
nings. From then until the game
was stepped by curfew it was a
pitcher's batile between Birming
ham’s Earl Caldwell and Atlanta’s
Art Fowler.
A week ago Chattanooga com
plained about the pitchers the par
ent Washington Senators took
from the Lookouts. Now Chatta
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nooga fans should be celebrating
about the pitchers Washington
sent down. Two former Senators—
Dick Welteroth and Lloyd Hittie
—shutout mighty Nashville in
Sulphur Dell 3-9 in the first game
of a doubleheader., The second
game was another drawn out one
with Nashville winning in 11 in
nings 3-2. Nashville’s former home
run king Charley Workman hit a
homer for Cha'‘tanooga in the
first game.
..In the second game Bobo New
som was the loser but about ev
erybody loses when they're pitch
ing against a no-hitter for nine
innings. Pete Modica missed a
near perfect game in the ninth
when Chattanooga came to life
and scored wice. =
Mobile and New Orleans split
their doubleheader. Mobile’s de
feat in the second game 5-4 kept
the bears from taking fifth place
from the Pelicans. Mobile won
the opener 4-2, Pete Wojey had a
four-hitter to win the opener. Al
Grunwald tripled in the second
game’s seventh inning to win for
New Orleans.
The Little Rock Travs won their
21st game of the season with a
fine shutout pitching job by Art
McConnell. The. Travs. defeated
Memphis 3-0. The game was de
layed for two hours by rain and
the scheduled second game never
came off.
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YESTERDAY
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By The Associated Press
Batting: Sid Gordon, Braves—hit
fourth *“grand slam” homer of
season to give Boston 12-9 vic
tory over Phils in second game.
Pitching: Bill Wight, White Sox
—checked hard-hitting Tigers on
five hits to take opener, 4-1,
T ¢ P h ] l
igers, Phils
BY JOE REICHLER
Associated Press Sports Writer
The Phillies and Tigers to clash in the 1950 World Series
—that’s what the signpost says.
If tradition is to be upheld, then the second place Phila
delphia club in the National League and the first place
Detroit team in the American should win the flags.
For years baseball men have be
lieved the legend that the teams
in first plage on Independence Day
were almost certain to meet in the
World Series. That is only a half
truth,
Data for the past 15 years
show that 13 of the American
League pace-setters on that sig
nificant July 4 marker have
gone on to win pennants, In the
National League, only séven
have fulfilled this legend.
Of the eight trailing clubs to win
in the National, five rose from the
runnerup spot to overtake the
leaders. So it appears that the sec
ond place Phils, not the front
running St. Louis Cardinals, stand
almost as good a chance of win
ning the pennant.
Here’s the race today following
yesterday’s bargain bills:
Detroit leads New York by four
games in the American with
Cleveland five games behind and
Boston six and a half. St. Louis
tops Philadelphia by a game and a
half in the National, Boston trails
by two and a half and Brooklyn
by four.
Of the seven holiday double
headers played (rain washed out
the Athletics-Red Sox twin-bill
in Boston), only the Cardinals
and Cincinnati Reds won both
games. The Cards whipped the
Chicago Cubs, 4-1 and 4-3, to
pick up a full game on the Phils.
The Reds pulled two and a
half games away from the last
place Pittsburgh by smacking
the Pirates twice, 8-4 and 5-4.
In a pair of swatfests, the Phils
trampled the Braves, 14-5 in the
opener, but Boston came back to
win the second, 12-9. The New
York Giants shaded the Dodgers,
5-4, in the first game but dropped
the second, 5-3.
Detroit lost a half game off its
lead when it divided a double
header with the Chicago White
Sox, while the Yankees gained a
victory and a tie against Wash
ington. After bowing, 4-1, the
Tigers struggled to a 10-9 vic
tory. The Yankees won the
opener, 16-9, then saw the sec
ond game halted by darkness
after nine innings with the score
deadlocked at 3-3.
The St. Louis Browns whipped
Cleveland, 8-3, after the Indians
won the opener, 8-7.
Yesterday’s fireworks includ
ed three grand-slam homers.
That tied a record for most
grand slams in one day. Ken
Wood of the Browns hit ene as
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Birmingham :.....» 47 81 608
Memphis ........".. 44 34 564
Noshville ... ...+« 48 98 2338
New Orleans ...... 38 41 .481
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Chattanooga ........ 34 47 ,420
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Cleveland . ...+... 42 30 .583
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.~ YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL
RESULTS
By The Associated Press
American League
New York 16-3, Washington 9-3
(2nd game 9-inning tie).
Chicago 4-9, Detroit 1-10.
Cleveland 8-3, St. Louis 7-8.
Philadelphia at Boston (2)
(postponed rain).
National League
New York 5-3, Brooklyn 4-5.
Philadelphia 15-9, Boston 5-12.
Cincinnati 8-5, Pittsburgh 4-4.
St. Louis 4-4, Chicago 1-3.
Southern Associ
Atlanta 5-4, Birmin 1-4
(2nd game 16 innings tie).
Chattanooga 3-2, Nashville 0-3
(2nd game (11 innings).
Mobile 4-4, New Orleans 2-5.
Little Rock 3, Memphis 0.
South Atlantic League
Charleston 5-4, Columbus 4-0.
Columbia 7-2, Savannah 0-15.
Greenville 2, Jacksonville 0.
Macon 14, Augusta 12,
Georgia-Alabama League
Opelika 7-3, Alexander City 5-
10.
Carrollton 7-4, Rome 6-3.
Griffin 15-7, Newnan 9-6.
LaGrange 8-5, Valley 2-10.
| Georgia-Florida League
| Americus 13, Moultrie 3.
{ Tallahassee 6, Albany 4. .
Wayeross 7, Thomasville 4.
Cordele 8, Valdosta 7.
Southeastern League
Vicksburg 5-6, Jackson 4-1.
Meridian 8-11, Pensacola 3-7.
Selma 4-3, Montgomery 2-6.
Gadsden 13-9, Anniston 4-15.
Georgia State League
Tifton 5, Fitzgerald 4.
~Eastman at Dubuin, ppd. rain.
Only games reported. ... &}
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
did Andy Seminick of the Phil
lies and Sid Gordon of the
Braves. It was Gordon’s fourth
home run with the bases full
this season, tying a record held
by seven others.
Gordon’s base-cleaner came in
the ninth inning of the second
game off relief ace Jimr Konstanty
to enable the Braves to overcome
a 9-8 deficit.
Brooklyn’s Don Newcombe fail
ed for the fourth straight time as
the Giants batted him out of the
box with‘a three-run eighth in
ning to win the opener. Don Muel
ler’s pinch-hit single drove in the
tying and winning runs. . A fine
relief job by Erv Jalica helped the
Dodgers snap a six-game losing
streak in the second.
Bill Wight pitched a five-hitter
for his eighth triumph as the
White Sox downed the Tigers in
the first game. A four-run first
and a six-run fifth provided De
troit with all its runsin the second
game. Johnny Groth’s triple drove
in two big runs.
Johnny Mize, who played first
base only because Joe DiMaggio
was forced back to the outfield
to fill in for the ailing Hank
Bauer, smacked two hits in
each game for the Yankees. He
baited in two runs in the cpen
er. Vic Raschi gained his 10th
triumph although he and Joe
Page were shelled off the mound
in Washington’s four-run eighth.
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Major League
L.eaders
By The Associated Press
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Batting — Reobinson, Brocklyn,
.371; Musial, St. Louis, .351.
Runs—Jethroe, Boston, 60; Rob
inson, Brooklyn, 57.
Runs Batted In—Kiner, Pitts
burgh, 59; Sauer, Chicago, 58.
Hits — Robinson, Brooklyn, 95;
Slaughter, St. Louis, 88.
Doubles — Robinson, Brooklyn,
26; Musial, St. Louis, 22. :
Triples — Jethroe, Boston, and
Musial, St. Louis, 6.
Home Runs—Kiner, Pittsburgh,
21; Snider, Brooklyn, 17.
Stolen Bases — Jethroe, Boston,
20; Reese, Brooklyn, 7.
Strikeouts—Spahn, Boston, 102;
Roberts, Philadelphia, 84.
Pitching — Miller, Philadelphia,
7-0, 1.000; Lanier, St. Louis, 8-2,
8@ AMERICAN LEAGUE
Batting — Kell, ' Detroit, .371;
Doby, Cleveland, .358. ;
Runs — Williams, Boston, 73;
Stephens, Boston, 68.
Runs Batted In—Williams, Bos
ton, 81; Stephens and Dropo, Bos
ton, 78.
Hits—Kell, Detroit, 106; Dillin
ger, Philadelphia, 95.
Doubles—Williams, Boston, and
Kell, Detroit, 22. :
Triples — Dillinger, Philadel
phia, 9; four players tied with 6
each. ;
Home Runs—Rosen, Cleveland,
25; Williams, Boston, 24.
Stolen Bases—DiMaggio, Boston,
§ four players tied with 5 each.
Strikeouts — Reynolds, New
York, 83; Raschi, New York, and
Lemon, Cleveland, 68.
Pitching — MecDernrott, Boston,
5-1, .833; Gray, Detroit, 9-3, .750.
Only 13 members of the original
Cléevelard Browns team of 1946
were still with last year’s club.
Optimist
Baptist
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The Municipal Softball
League resumes action to
night at Legion Park, with a
doubleheader, both games to
be aired over WGAU FM.
Starting time is 6:45.
In the opener, the Optimist Club
faces Prince Avenue Baptist
Church in a Red League affair.
Coca-Cola and Post Office tangle
in the second encounter — a Blue
League tilt.
Play in the Teen-Age Twi-light
Softball League begins tonight,
with Lyndon House playing East
Athens Baptist Church over at
Dudley Field; starting time is 6:30.
Tomorrow night’s schedule in
Teen-Age League puts Sporting
Goods in action against Watkins
ville Junior Civitan Club at the
Lyndon House (6:30), and Friday
night’s slate sees Lyndon House
battling Watkinsville at Dudley
Field ¢6:30).
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Prince Avenue ...... 1 1 .500
Oconee Street ....... 0 3 .000
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JATCER .. c s 3wl O 000
Lowell Tew, New York Yanks’
veteran halfback, once spent two
days and nights lost in a Mississ
ippi swamp but he’s never had any
difficulty finding opponents’ End‘
zones.
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WEDNESDAY’S BASEBALL
SCHEDULES
AMERICAN LEAGUE
St. Louis at Detroit (night).
Chicago at Clevcland (night).
Philadelphia at New York.
Washington at Boston (night).
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh at Chicago.
Boston at Brooklyn (night).
New York at Philadelphia
(night.
Cincinnati at St. Louis (night).
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION
Chattanooga at Little Rock .
Nashville at Memphis.
Only games scheduled.
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE
Greenville at Jacksonville
Columbia at Savannah,
Charleston at Columbus.
Augusta at Macon.
SOUTHEASTERN LEAGUE
Vicksburg at Selma.
Jackson at Montgomery.
Meridian at Anniston.
Pensacola at Gadsden. -
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GEORGIA-FLORIDA LEAGUE
Americus at Moultrie.
Tallahassee at Albany.
Thomasville at Waycross.
Valdosta at Cordele.
GEORGIA-ALABAMA LEAGUE
Alexander City at Rome.
Opelika at Valley.
Carrollton at Griffin.
Newnan at LaGrange.
TOMORROW’S SCHEDULE
AMERICAN
Philadelphia at New York.
Chicago at Cleveland.
(Only games scheduled).
NATIONAL
Boston at Brooklyn (night).
New York at Philadelphia.
Pittsburgh at Chicago.
Cincinnati at St. Louis.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1953,
Bulla Seits
Sights On
Golf Title
BY GLENN WILLIAMS
—(AP)—Johnny Bulla fig
ures it will take a new recoy
score to win the British Ope ),
golf champienship — and he
aims to set it.
The 72-Hole title grind beo:
this morning wit hthe first of {O,
rounds by 93 qualifiers who haq
scores of 153 or better for tv.
days’ trials.
Bulla, a Pittsburgh pro, led the
with a four-under-par 140 ove,
two courses.
His steady golf made him the
talk of the tournament. Bookmak
ers were regrefting they pegged
him at 25-1, making him a long
shot. compared. with. defending
champion Bobby Locke, favorite
at 4-1.
. .Usually. clear. .weather. with
light, gusty breezes has prevailed
here for the two qualifying days.
..“If it stays like this,” Bull
said, “I think it probably will take
279 or 280 to win and that's what
i sliotng ob” . .oivi ...
. .The record for the British open
is 283 set in 1932 by Gene Sarazen
on ancther course. It has been
tied feur times since. The open has
been played on this eourse eniy
once before—in 1928. I took 295 1,
win.
Locke blew up yesterday and
shot a four-over-par 74 on the
Troon course. He bobbed hislit: |
white cap and said grumpily, “290
ought to be safe here.”
The whole field plavs one round
today and one tbomhorrow, cutting
down to a maximum of 40 lowe:t
scores for Friday’s 36-hole stretch
run.