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Memphis ............ 69 61 .531
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Chattanooga ........ 55 75 .423
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YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL
RESULTS
, NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 4, New York 0.
Brooklyn 9, Pittsburgh 2.
St Louis 9, Boston 2 (night).
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Hardrocks
Win Cub Loop
Taking advantage of every hit
they could get their hands on, the
Hardrocks stole the Cub League
pennant from the hard-playing
Grubworms by a score of 10-5, in
the last game of the season at
Athens YMCA.
Carlton James pitched shut-out
ball for the 'Rocks, and brought
in three runs on his own, two of
which were homers.
Valdon Smith scored three times
for the winners, Tommy Kesler
crossed the plate twice, and Jerry
Jackson brought in one run.
The Hardrocks got nine hits,
made five errors, and received no
walks.
Bobby Thompson poled a smash
ing round-trip blow for the Grub
worms. Bobby Towns crossed the
g}ate twice, and Jim Hall, Tommy
atthews and Johnny Perteet
scored one run each.
The two teams drove neck and
neck into the play-off, after the
Hardrocks squeezed out a 4-3 vic
tory over the grubworms last
week,
In that game, Carleton James
also connected for a four-bagger,
gave up seven hits, and was backed
up with almost errorless ball by
his teammates.
Valdon Smith led the pack with
four runs, Emory Lavender
brought in two scores, and Billy
Seabolt, Bob Doster and Jerry
Jackson all crossed the plate once.
For the Grubworms, Bobby
Thompson made the circuit three
times, Johnny Perteet and Larry
Lavender both racked up two runs,
and Cleveland Garrison and Tom
my Mathews tallied one run
apiece.
The worms got seven hits, no
walks, and made three errors.
(Only games scheduled).
AMERICAN LIfAGUE
Detroit 7, St. Louis 1.
(Only game schoduled).
TEXAS LEAGUE
Tulsa 2, Dallas 0.
Fort Worth 6, Oklahoma City 4.
Houston 5, San Antonio 5.
Beaumont 3, Shreveport 1.
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION
Atlanta 4-6, Mobile 2-7.
. Birmingham 6-9, New Orleans
-0.
Chattanooga 5, Little Rock 4.
Nashville 10, Memphis 8.
| SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE
| Greenville 4, Columbia 3.
Charleston 11, Augusta 4.
Macon 9-3, Columbus 8-4.
Savannah 4-€, Jacksonville 1-1.
GEORGIA FLORIDA LEAGUE
Cordele 12, Americus 3.
Moultrie 7, Valdosta 1.
X Tallahassee 9-3, Thomasville
-T.
Albany 7-10, Waycross 5-5.
ALABAMA STATE LEAGUE
Brewton 11, Greenville 5.
Geneva 8, Andalusia 2.
Headland 8, Dothan 6.
(Only games reported).
Optimist Club Wins Ist Round
Tilt; Play Oconee St. lTonite
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Birmingham
To Have Pro
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Charity Game
Let Gotham boast of Broadway’s
brilliant beacons — until the 105
candle power beams of Legion
Field in Birmingham are turned
on for the first time come Sep
tember 9. Yessir! Legion Field
will be the best lighted gridiron
in the nation. The lights will
shine on two of the best profes
sional football teams in the Na
tional Football League. It will be
beak against claw when the Chica
go Cardinals clash with the De
troit Lions for the benefit of the
Children’s Hospital Building Fund.
The Lions claws have been
sharpened with the addition of
those great All-Americans, Leon
Hart of Notre Dame and Doak
Walker of Southern Methodist
University. Hart, six foot five
inch giant, packs around 265
pounds and is a rugged hunk o}
man to contend with, The “Doak
er” is a three-time All-American,
a fleet, nimble back weighing just
173 pounds. “Bo” MecMillin, erst
while Indiana coach, will master
mind the Lions efforts. The Lions
are the pre-season favorites to cop
the pro championship this year.
Lambeau’s Fifth Year
“Curley” Lambeau, head coach
of the Cardinals, starts his first
year with the Chicago pros. Lam
beau was a teammate of the im
mortal George Gipp of Notre
Dame. He organized the Green
Bay Packers in 1919 and served
as chief mentor there until 1949.
The “Dream Backfield,” composed
of Pat Harder, Paul Christman,
Elmer Angsman, and Charley
Trippi, would ease any coaches
worries. Rookie End Francis Pols
foot has proven to be a great
punter in the Cards training camp
and will be giving John Cochran
of Fairfield, Alabama, a lot of
competition even with Cochran’s
42-yard average last esason.
The true winner of the game
will be your kids and mine! The
support of grid fans will assure
them that adequate facilities will
be available in time of sickness
and accidents. The Birmingham
Jaycees have turned over $40,000
to the Children’s Hospital in the
past two years.
Ducats are now on sale at the
Junior Chamber of Commerce,
Room 200, Hillman Hotel, Bir
mingham, Alabama, and E. E.
Forbes & Sons Piano Co., 403
North 20th Street, Birmingham, at
$3.00 each, tax included. Include
25 cents with each order for mail
ing and insurance. Kickoff is sche
duled for 7:30 p. m.
GEORGIA ALABAMA LEAGUE
LaGrange 16, Carrollton 4.
Griffin 2-9, Newnan 0-5.
(Only games scheduled).
TUESDAY'S BASEBALL
SCHEDULE
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia at Cincinnati
(night).
New York at Chicago.
Brooklyn at Pittsburgh (night).
Boston at St. Louis (night).
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Detroit at New York.,
Cleveland at Washington
(night).
Chicago at Philadelphia
(night).
St. Louis at Boston (night).
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION
Mobile at Atlanta.
New Orleans at Birmingham,
Chattanooga at Little Rock.
Nashville at Memphis.
TOMORROW’'S SCHEDULE
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brookiyn at Pittsburgh, 7:30
p. m.
Boston at St. Louis, 8:30 p. m.
Philadelphia at Cincinnati, 2:80
p. m.
New York at Chicago, 1:30 p. m.
AMERICAN LEAGVE
Detroit at New York, 1:30 p. m.
St. Louis at Boston, 1:00 p. m.
Cleveland at Washington, 7:30
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» Chicago at Philadelphia, 7:30
p. m.
THE BANNER-HERALD ATHENS, GEORGIA
Behind the effective pitching of Dick Saye, the Optimist
Club advanced last night in first round play of the Munici
psl Softball League playoffs, : =~ - eolne s e
With five runs in the first sup
plying a coasting edge, the Opti
mist downed the Athens Manufac
turing Company, 14-3. Saye was
never pressed, as his team hit and
fielded the best of the year, and
the Optimist hurler added insult
to injury with a couple of home
runs off Manufacturing tosser,
John Spratlin,
Tonight, the Oconee Street
Methodist Church Red League
champions battle Optimist in the
first game, beginning at 7 o’clock.
In the second game, Brince Ave
nue and Post Office tangle.
Tomorrow night there will be
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3-Game Series
By JOE REICHLER
Associated Press Sports Writer
Detroit’s pennant-hungry Tigers
and New York’s defending champ
ions faced one of the big moments
of the season today as they
clashed in the opener of a three
game series at Yankee Stadium.
With the pennant possibly riding
on each piteh, both managers—Red
Rolfe of the Tigers and Casey
Stengel of the Yankees—are shoot
ine with the best available.
Stengel nominated Allie Rey
nolds (10-11) his clutch pitcher,
in an effort to get off in front.
Rolfe countered with Hal White
(4-4), who shut out the bombers
the last time he faced them.
The two rivals met twe weeks
ago in Detroit in-a wvirtual first
place tie. The Tigers proceeded
to whip the Yankees three straight
and have been enjoying a lead
ranking from two-and-half to four
and-a-half games ever since. They
own a 9-7 season’s edge over the
champions.
Detrcit picked up a half game
on the rest of the field yesterday
when they slugged the St. Louis
Browns, 7-1, in the only game in
the junior circuit. Dizzy Trout, the
“comeback kid.” posted his sev
enth straight triumph with a four
hitter. Al Widmar was the loser.
Vie Wertz and Hoot Evers vro
vided more than enough for Trout
to rack vn his 11th victory against
two defeats. Each slammed a
three-run homer.
Philadelphia’s Phillies protected
their five-and-a-half game lead in
the Nationnl League, vanquishing
the New York Giants. 4-0. Curt
Simmons, brilliant 21-yvear-old
lefthander, pitched the shutout. He
allowed only four singles.
Larry Jansen was the loser. He
permitted 10 hits, including home
runs bv Willie (25) Jones and An
dy (17) Seminick. The other two
runs were unearned.
Don Newcombe's Slick hurling
and a double steal gave the Dodg
ers a 3-2 victory over the Pirates
in Pittsburgh.
Deadlocked at 2-2, the Brooks
pulled the winning play in the
fifth with runners on first and
third, two out and Jackie Robin
son at bat. Willie Werle was on
the mound when Duke Snider
broke for second. Catcher Clyde
McCullough whipped to second
basceman Danny Murtaugh. Jim
Russell broke from third and slid
in under Murtaugh's return throw.
The St. Louis Cardinals wrested
third place from Boston, defeating
the Braves, 9-2, in a night game.
Tommy Glaviano hit two homers
to lead the Cards’ attack on three
pitchers.
Cincinnati and the Chicago Cubs
were not scheduled.
Fights Last Nite
By The Associated Press
PITTSBURGH—Tommy Yarosz,
170, Monica, Pa., outpointed Floyd
Morris, 160, Pittsburgh (10).
CHICAGO — Tony Spano, 128,
Chicago, outpointed Billy Jay, 126,
Norfolk, Neb. (8).
NEW YORK—Armando Aman
ini, 159%, knocked out Al Hersh,
156%, New York (2).
BROOKLYN — Artie Diamond,
15534, New York, outpointed Tom
néy Ciarlo, 1461 Waterbury, Conn.
(8).
Planes with speeds of 1500 miles
per hour will be too much fox the
human organism. At supersonic
speeds, to make a turn of anything
less than a mile radius is to court
a ‘“blackout.” Already the ma
chines are better than the men
who must fly them.
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] another twinbill, when the two
| losers of tonight’'s games play at
{7 o'clock, and the two winners
battle immediately afterwards.
Athens Manufacturing draws a
couple of byes, and plays again
Thursday evening,
| Games this week will be played
| through Friday night, and will be
| resumed on Monday. The maxi
' mum number of playing days will
!run the playoffs through next
;Tuesdn.v, the minimum will end
|it on Monday. All of this, of
| course, if there is no interference
| in schedules, such as rain or any
other unforseenable incident.
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Billy Goodman
Paces AL At Plate
CHICAGO, Aug. 22— (AP) —
Young Bill Goodman of Boston has
replaced George Kell of Detroit in
the hotly contested American
League batting race.
Goodman, subbing for the iniur
ed Ted Williams in the outfield
and later for Walt Dropo at first
base, it hitting at a .357 pace in 80
games. Kell, who has been batting
leader for the past several weeks,
trails the young Red Sox outfield
er-first baseman by eight points.
The Detroit third baseman, last
vear’s league batting champ has
appeared in 113 games.
Cleveland’s Larrv Doby is in
third place with .346 in games
through last Sunday.
But Kell continues to ride the
crest in two specialized depart
ments, the most hits, 161, and the
most doubles, 34,
Others in the top 10 are Hank
Bauer, New York .340; Al Zarilla,
Boston .339; Walt Dropo, Boston
.329; Phil Rizzuto, New York, and
Dom DiMaggio, Boston, tied for
seventh with .326: Hoot Evers,
Detroit. .325; and Viec Wertz, De
troit 822,
Boston’s Vern Stephens still has
the most runs, 108, and the most
runs batted in 118. Bobby Doerr,
of Boston and Gene Woodling of
New York are tied for the most
triples, nine apiece. Al Rosen of
Cleveland is the leading home run
hitter with 33, while Don DiMag
gio leads in stolen bases, 12.
Detroit’s Paul Trout is the No.
1 pitcher in the league with an
.833 dverage on 10 victories and
two defeats. Bob Lemon of Cleve
land has the most strikeouts, 122.
Major League
- Leaders
By The Associated Press
Nationai League
Batting—Musial, St. Louis .361;
Hopp, Pittsburgh .343.
Runs — Torgeson, Boston 87;
Kiner, Pittsburgh 86.
Runs Batted In—Ennis, Phila
delphia 100; Kiner, Pittsburgh 97.
Hits — Musial, St. Louis 151;
Furillo, Brooklyn 142.
Doubles—Musial, St. Louis 37;
Robinson, Brooklyn 32.
Triples — Ashburn, Philadelphia
12; Jethroe, Boston, Ennis, Phila
delphia, Musial, St. Louis 37.
Home Runs — Kiner, Pittsburgh
37; Pafko, Chicago 29.
Stolen Bases — Jethroe, Boston
29; Torgeson, Boston and Snider,
Brooklyn 11.
Strikeouts—Spahn, Boston 155;
Blackwell, Cincinnati 138.
Pitching — Hiller, Chicago 9-2
.818; Maglie, New York 11-3 .786.
American League
Batting—Goodman, Boston .357;
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NEW YORK, Aug. 22—(AP) —
Stan Musial of the St. Louis Car
dinals is 20 points ahead of the
field in his bid for a fourth Na
tional League batting title. The
great infielder-outfielder is hit
ting .363. .
Musial has 151 hits — tops in
the loop —- in 416 at bats. He also
leads in doubles with 37.
Pittsburgh’s Johnny -Hopp is in
second place with a .343 average.
Playing in fewer games, Hopp has
collected 104 safeties in 303 tries.
Figure include games of Sunday,
Aug. 20.
Brooklyn’s Jackie Robinson, the
defending champ, slipped to third
place with .337. The Dodgers’ ace
second baseman, in a batting
slump, has 134 hits in 398 at bats.
Kiner Has 37
Del Innis of Philadelphia has
batted in the most runs, 100. Ralph
Kiner, Pittsburgh’s big gun, leads
in home runs, 37, and is second in
runs scored, 86, and runs batted in,
' 97. Boston’s Earl Torgeson has tal
lied the most runs, 87.
~ Frank Hiller has the best per
centage among the pitchers, .818
'The Chicago righthander has won
‘nine games while losing two. War
‘ren Spahn of Boston has struck out
the most batters, 155.
The 10 leading hitters:
Player and Club AB R H Pect.
Musial, St. Louis 416 78 151 .363
Hopp, Pittsburgh 303 50 104 .343
‘Robinson Br'lyn 398 77 134 .337
Furillo, Br’lyn 437 67 141 .323
iKluszewski, Cinn. 365 61 118 323
' Pafko, Chicago 384 78 122 .318
Wyrostek, Cinn.. 342 54 108 316
Enider, Brooklyn 433 84 .136 .314
‘Stanky, W, Y. ..381 82 119 312
' Mueller, N. Y. 347 41 108 .311
YESTERDAY
STARS
By The Associated Press
Batting: Vic Wertz, Tigers —
slammed his 25th home run with |
two on, singled and scored another |
run to lead the Tigers to a 7-1
triumph over the St. Louis Browns. 1
Pitching: Curt Simmons, Phil
lies—permitted only four singles ‘
as he pitched the Phillies to a 4-0 |
shutout victory over the New York
Giants.
Kell, Detroit .348.
Runs — . Stephens, Boston 108:
DiMaggio, Boston 100.
Runs Batted In—Stephens, Bos
ten 118; Dropo, Boston 113.
Hits—Kell, Detroit 162; Rizzuto,
New York 150.
Doubles — Kell, Detroit 34;
Stephens, Boston; Wertz, Detroit
and Rizzuto, New York 28.
Triples — Doerr, Boston and
Woodling, New York 9.
Home Runs—Rosen, Cleveland
gg; Dropo and Stephens, Boston
Stolen Bases—DiMaggio, Boston
12; Valo, Philadelphia and Rizzuto,
New York 8.
Strikeouts — Lemon, Cleveland
122; Raschi, New York 117.
Pitching — Trout, Detroit 11-2
.846; Wynn, Cleveland 14-5 .737.
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Stadium Set
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For Ist Tilt
By JOHN SHADIX
When the Georgla Bulldogs
' meet mighty Maryland in Sanford
Stadium on September 23 to bat
tle it out in the opening football
game of the seeason for the Red
and Black team, not only will the
Bulldogs be xeady, but also the
l stadium.
The $82,000 construction job
| which began on the south side of
| the Stadium last April is near
| completion. A shortage of cement
| and seat brackets has caused some
| delay, but Howell Hollis, assistant
| athletic director, said, “the work
| must be completed by September
| 2.7 He said he was satistied with
| the work already done.
| Concrete stands on the south
tside have been extended and are
i equally as high as the stands on
| the north side. A total of 19 rows
| containing ' 6,000 new ' redwood
: seats are almost complete. The
| new addition of seats will raise|
! the number of redwood seats from
30,000 to 36,000.
I James L. Smith, foreman, Still
well Construction Company, said
l the work was expected to be com
| pleted by August 29. A new con-'
?crete walk will circle behind the
| south stands just in front of the!
| press box. |
| Added seating will accomodate |
| larger crowds, which are expected
'as a result of athletic associationl
| plans to schedule top-flight com-!
| petition for home games. |
|~ The wooden stands on the north
| side of the stadium are also being
! repaired.
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clockwise, while in the Southem‘
Hemisphere they whirl clockwise.‘
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tomers to make prompt return of clothes hangers
to our solicitors or to a member plant of the Ath
ens Dry Cleaners and Launderers Association.
This emergency request is brought about by re
strictions placed upon the manufacturers of
clothes hangers.
When leaving apparel for cleaning at one of the
member plants please deposit sufficient hangers
to care for the return of the apparel. If you have
surplus hangers please notify your regular cleaner
and launderer.
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