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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT rl‘ ' B B: S 1 egin deries BY JOE REICHLER Associated Press Sports Writer “Are the Detroit Tigers leaping out of the frying pan into the fire? Having escaped the “kill” with a comeback to salvage the last game of a near-disastrous three-game series with the Yankees in New York, the Tigers moved cautiously to day into the lair of Boston’s 10-in-a-row Red Sox. Manager Red Rolfe entrusted the task of halting the Sox to Paul (Dizzy) Trout, currently the hot test pitcher on the Tiger staff. Southpaw Mel Parnell, always a tough pitcher for Detroit to beat, was named by Manager Steve O Neill. ‘the Tigers yesterday overcame a 3-0 deficit to conquer the Yan keces, €-3. The Cleveland Indians swept a double header from the Senators in Washington 3-1 and 5-3, to climb into virtual second place tie with ¥he Yankees. The fourth place Red Sox won their 10th straight, :eu‘!t the . St. Louis Browns It"was Hal Newhouser who got the Tigers off the hook yesterday. He scattered four hits after the third inning to register his 11th victory, his first since July 17. A ecrowd of 44,078 saw the Ti gers send Tommy Bryne to cover auring a winning two-run rally in the seventh. Rolfe’s pennant hope fuls had started the Yankee left hander on the road in the sixth with a brace of runs. A two-run single by George Kell off relief pitcher Joe Page produced the ty ing and winning runs in the sec enth, The Red Sox came from behind with a ninth-inning rally to beat St. Louis. A grand slam homer by Vern Stephens with two out did it. Early Wynn won his 15th and Bob Lemon his 19th as the Indians picked up another half game on 1 r= Tigers. Larry Doby’s 20th hom er broke a 1-1 tie in the opener. wrooklyn’s streaking Dodgers chewed a half game off Philadel phia’s big Nationhal League lead by s ing a pair at Cincinnati, 1-0, 7:v;egteacher Roe pitched his sec ond successive 1-0 shutout in top-+ ping Ewell Blackwell in the open- ‘ er. It was Roe's 17th victory. 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Thewe 248 Many More To Suit You And Yeur Pocketbook . . . ' Neyward Allen Used Car Los W. Broad st. Across from Heyward Allen Motor Co. the Pirates in Pittsburgh. The rookie righthander scattered five hits for his sixth win, Clint Hartung’s pinch-hit dou ble drove in two runs in the top of the ninth to give Dave Koslo and the New York Giants a 3-2 victory over Max Lanier and the Cards in St. Louis. Fhe victory boosted the Giants to within one game of the fourth-place Cards. . . Boston’s third-place Braves split two games with the Cubs in Chi cago. The Braves won the opener 11-9, as each team tallied six runs in the ninth. The Cubs lost despite four homers, two by Hank Sauer. Frank Hiller bested Mickey Haeg nér in a second game hurling duel, ' 4-3. | {Maryland U. L To Open With | | V . rll YVeleran leam . COLLEGE PARK, Md. Aug. 25 __Football is just around the cor ner for the University of Maryland ;'l‘orrapins and head coach Jim Ta tum is preparing to invite his charges back here for the initial practice, September Ist. Once again, two a day sessions are in order with the first one starting at 6:30 a. m., and the sec ond at 3:30 p. m. In between times the squad members will get plenty of blackboard talks. Looking over the 1950 possibilities head coach Tatum says, “I have one consola tion, our team will be veteran.” In fact this is the first year of his four at Maryland he hasn’t had out the proverbial crying towel. However, the season hasn’t start ed and times change you know. In several posts, sophomores will be an asset. At quarterback, Johnny Scarbath and Beb De- Stefano will be helpful in backing up veterans Johnny Idzik and Frank Armsworthy. Scarbath is a good passer and showed up well in spring practice. DeStefano didn't get much of a chance to show his ability in the spring due to a brok en wrist but he has impressed the coaching staff during his fresh man year. At guard, Bobby Morgan and Dick Modzelewski will be vieing. Both boys played tackle in their freshman year but . Coach Jim Tatum switched them for bolster ing. That post is still quite vete ran with All-American Bobby Ward and Tom McHugh, John Troha, Chick Fry, Dave Christian son and Rudy Gayzur still holding forth. The end post, though, boasts three sophs who could just as well step into the offensive picture. They are Lewis Wiedensaul, Lloyd Colteryann and Johnny Alderton. ‘'The coaching staff is high on these three lads. All in all a rough season is on the agenda for the Maryland Terps, » o 4 f‘?, % W, ‘ 4 f ‘ % 2 . s ¢ g ar ey s 2 7 & 4 s 7 % R . ¢ 4 3 i L o i 4 By - % W R %0 e 27 ’?ﬂ ,) A & 25 l, A:.’_vﬁ:,:"; ;/‘?’,‘l o £ Rk’ 1 ssw’ ;{ i ’ “”;’%/ »;" 7 . 4 il "%i‘;, E’ﬁ; ; b SAc i B 8 ' e ? : ey I,‘ 2 o e . wit G s 5 LA T S Al i . s 2 FULL OF PEPS—VWillie Pep appears to be taking it easy on the shoulders of his five-year old son, Billy, at the feather weight champion’s Hartford, Conn., training quarters. Ac tually, Pep is on the ropes, where he hopes he won't find himself in his title match with Sandy Saddler at Yankee Sta dium, Sept. 8., Eg‘” STANDIN {%’ ’ SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION W L Pet. CAURSES T sOO B 80 B } Birmingham ........ 1. 571 575 ' Nashville .......... 76 58 .56% Memßhls ... 800 T 8 B 8 New Orleans ........ 65 68 .489 MRNe. e B 8 T 2 4 Chattanooga”. ........ 58.7% . 421 Little R0ek:....... . 44-80 7338 '~ SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE ‘ W L Pet NBeßn .oo vl e SRvanbhaeh ......;... 78 61 508 arumbia . ... 0.0 T 0 88 olmbuN L, ... T 8 6T 826 Charleston - .....,... 12 67 518 Greenville .....0... 81 70 445 AURUREE & ooy D 1 .70 A 6 Jacksonville ........ 54°83 .394 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pect. Deteolt ««.......... 441 813 Now York ......... 1545 819 ENeYelang ... i.s., A 8 BIIY e ARG R, - . Washington ........ 50 64 .439 CRIOREN .. .. avis i 522 1B Philadelphia ........ 41 78 .345 8. Toul¥y - . BT 3N NATIONAL LEAGUE : W L Pt Philadelphia ........ 73 45 ..619 Brooklyn ... .. ..., B 0 &1 QOBB BOBOR " ... ievaiis 088 58 D4B BE BDUR .. 0 208 58 New Xork .......5.. 8058 436 Chicagh............ 5186 436 Cinelnnat]l .. ... .00 47 88 40D Pittaburgh ... ... 48 10 3060 YESTERDAY'S BASEBALL RESULTS By The Associated Press NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston 11-3, Chicago 9-4. Brooklyn 1-7, Cincinnati 0-3. Philadelphia 4, Pittsburgh 2. New York 3, St. Louis 2. AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 6, St. Louis 2. Detroit 6, New York 3. Cleveland 3-5, Washington 1-3. Only games scheduled. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION Mobile 4, Birmingham 0. Atlanta 2-4, New Orleans 1-10. Memphis 5, Chattanooga 2. Nashville 8-5, Little Rock 2-7. SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE Macon 5, Greenville 3. Columbia 4, Columbus 0. Charleston 8, Savannah 7. Jacksonville at Augusta post poned wet grounds. GEORGIA ALABAMA LEAGUE Opelika 4, Rome 2. Newnan 8, Griffin 7. Carrollton 3, LaGrange 2. Alexander City 11, Valley 6. GEORGIA STATE LEAGUE Eastman 15, Vidalia 8. Jesup 7, Tifton 4. Douglas 11, Dublin 5. Fitzgerald 12, Baxley 8. GEORGIA FLORIDA LEAGUE Americus 7, Albany 0. Cordele 4, Thomasville 3. Moultrie 7, Tallahassee 6. ‘Railroad Schedules SEABOARD AIRLINE RY, | Arrival and Departure of Trains Athens, Georgia | Leave for Elberton, Hamlet and | New York and East— | . 11:22 a. m.—Air Conditioned. | 8:45 p. m.—Air Conditioned. ‘ Leave for Elberton, Hamlet and H East— | 12:15 a. m.—{Local). | Leave for Atlanta, South and E West— | 5:50 a. m.—Air Conditioned. 4:25 a. m.—(Local). 4:57 p. m.—Air Conditioned. CENTRAL OF GEORGIA ] RAILROAD Arrives Athens (Daily) 12:35 p.m. 'Leaves Athens (Daily) 4:15 pm. SOUTHERN RAILWAY SYSTEM From Lula and Commerce Arrive 9:00 a. m. East and West Leave Athens 8:00 a. m. GEORGIA RAILROAD Week Day Only Train No. 50 Departs 7:00 p. m { Train No. 51 Arrives 9:00 a. m i . Mixed Trains. §s THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA Optimist Meet . U. Tonig Athens Manufacturing Company was the second team to be eliminated from the Municipal Softball League double elimination playoffs last night at Legion Park, as the Opti mist Club cut a last inning rally short to win, 10-7. | The winners battle Post Office | tonight, and the victor will move j into the finals against Oconee | Street Methodist en Monday. | Last night, the Optimist jumped | off to a quick 2-0 lead in the top of the first frame, and were never headed. Tommy Thomason, Opti { mist third sacker, hit his fifth home run in the playoffs, with the bases empty. . Going into the bottom of the seventh, Athens Manufactuyring trailed 10-2, but managed to rally for five runs before pitcher Dick Saye put out the fire. SBaye won his fourth game since the play offs began Monday night. Both Post Office and the Opti mist have one setback apiece, so the loser tonight will be eliminat ed. Both have been beaten by Oconee, who has already cleared the upper bracket and moved into J the finals. The Methodist are now waiting for an opponent. ! Post Office gave Oconee its | toughest rame in the playoff, ex ltending the church seam to the bottom of the seventh before los- Valdosta at Waycross postponed rain, TODAY’S BASEBALL GAMES NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn at Cincinnati (night). New York at St. Louis (night). Boston at Chicago. Philadelphia at Pittsburgh (night). AMERICAN LEAGUE St. Louis at New York (night). Detroit at Boston (night). Cleveland at Philadelphia (night). Chicago at Washington (2— night). SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION New Orleans at Atlanta. Mobile at Birmingham. Nashville at Little Rock.. Chattanooga at Memphis (all night). SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE Macon at Greenville. Columbus at Columbia. Savannah at Charleston. Jacksonville at Augusta. ESTERDAY YESTE STARS By The Associated Press BATTING—-Vern Stephens, Red Sox—hit a grand slam homer in the ninth innipg with two out to give the Red Sox a 6-2 victory over the St. Louis Browns. PITCHING — Preacher Roe, Dodgers—pitched his second suc cessive shutout as the Dodgers swept a doubleheader from the Cincinnati Reds, 1-0 and 7-3. He defeated the New York Giants,l-0 in his last previous start. Minnesota and Michigan State will meet on the gridiron for the first time in 1950. Jimmy Foxx went to bat six times in a game on June 16, 1938, and was walked every time up. SPOTLIGHT on SPORTS R R REGRER L ALL-AMERICANS All-Americans are making quite a name for themselves these days, in bold contrast to . . the old adage (459 lra!") ©\ that “Joe Blow 3 R 2 c‘: i L : will never . ﬁéamount to any ; 7\ thing even if he SRNAA 7 did make Al B American so r 8 " % three years.” For \ ‘ a moment, let's :j%, “ look back and SESAII LN ae What han. pened to some great football players, % Of course, a vast majority of these men play pro football or coach, but we find All-Ameri cans in high army and navy jobs, among college professors, dentists, doctors and business executives, They're great Am ericans by the same virtues that made them All-Americans— determination, intelligence, and the will to succeed. Did you know, or remember, that Frankie Frisch of St. Louis Cardinal fame was an All- American at Fordham in 19187 You'll also remember the names of many great All-Americans who were killed in World War 11, even greater heroes on the battlefield than on the gridiron —Dave Schriener of Wisconsin 42, “Waddy” Young of Okla homa ’3B, and other great stars. Take a good look at your all- American favorite today, for he might even be president tomor row. Make your next party a real success by serving fine import ed or domestic wines from GREEN'S PACKAGE SHOP. A finer refreshment cannet Le found. ing, 9-8. Optimist lost to the Methodist, 13-. Major League Leaders By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE Batting — Goodman, Boston .364; Doby, Cleveland .351. Runs — Stephens, Boston 111; DiMaggio, Boston 1086. Runs batted in — Stephens, Boston 124; Dropo, Boston 117. ' Hits — Kell, Detroit 168; Riz zuto, New York 154. Doubles — Kell, Detroit 34; Wertz and Evers, Detroit 29. Triples — Doerr, Boston and Woodling, New York 9. Home runs — Rosen, Cleveland 33; Stephens and Dropo, Boston 28. Stolen bases — DiMaggio, Bos ton 12; Rizzuto, New York 9. Strikeouts — Lemon, Cleveland 125; Rasch! and Reynolds, New York 122. Pitching — Trout, Detroit 11-2, .846; Wynn, Cleveland 15-5, .750. NATIONAL LEAGUE Batting — Musial, St. Louis .352; Hopp, Pittsburgh .343. Runs — Torgeson, Boston 91; Kiner, Pittsburgh 88. Runs batted in — Ennis, Phila delphia 104; Kiner, Pittsburgh 97. Hits — Musial, St. Louis 151; Furillo, Brooklyn 148. Doubles — Musial, St. Louis 37; Robinson, Brooklyn 33. Triples — Ashburn, Philadel phia 12; Jethroe, Boston, Snider, Brooklyn, Ennis, Philadelphia and Musial and Schoendienst, St. Louis, 7. Home runs — Kiner, 38; Pafko, Chicago 30. Stelen bases — Jethroe, Boston 29; Snider, Brooklyn 12. Strikeouts — Spahn, Boston 161; Blackwell, Cincinnati 145. Pitching — Hiller, Chicago 10-2, .833; Miller, Philadelphia and Ma glie, New York 1123, .786. . . Since ‘August, 1945. .. WEVE NEARLY DOUBLED THE R S R N KRR RO R ...and we’re still on the run. 0 What an expansion of telephone facilities for five short o © 4 years! The number of Southern Bell telephones in service has . oSR o : 4'”3 ey been increased from 1,805,980 at the end of World War II L gacdit N to 3,366,000 today—nearly doubled. Thus, in five years’ _ ‘ e time, we have achieved an increase in telephones as large as i ; 4 the increase for the first 63 years of our company’s history. (i o : v And bere’s more of the five-year picture of progress: J 4 RURAL TELEPHONES tripled .. . from 144,721 dqii ’ ; to 434,000. e g o LONG DISTANCE CIRCUITS nearly doubled, 13 ; b going from 9,300 to 16,500. g ; 7 ' AMOUNT OF MONEY INVESTED IN TELE- L . : o PHONE FACILITIES more than doubled, advanc- ' v il Bl ing from $389,600,000 to $837,000,000. o : SERVICE . » « clearer, faster and more dependable. o - The South has experienced five years of unprecedented ' : growth . . . and a tremendous upsurge in telephone demand in it ' ; town and on the farm. Meeting this demand has meant con- , s structing new buildings, installing new central i’% “ i j office equipment and thousands of miles of 4 i o wire on pole lines and in cables. For each % ; . § ;.": ': : telephone added today, these facilities are “ : e\ - - costing nearly twice as much as in 1945. \ ' : o i _ e e ' ['elephone service is one of the nation’s ‘;:5?:: L s {’% ; L , | great assets in any time of emergency. .:;:"::-.?5* ov é w’d v §=\ ) Our facilities and the skill of tele- . 5 ¢ i phone men and women weére never § R Dune : (oo .so far advanced as they are today. , ¢ g £ ; ; '-*ﬁ; may arise, they will be e eun ﬁ : . ; 3 e \6 AR ¥ s e e SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE AND TELESRAPH COMPAKY L ot s : ¥ i 4 e .- Ly % < beis? 4 SR ! s % i & ;, ~ 7 N g A T ,@‘ ”;.:»,?:7”_ ¢ g s & R & 5 e ey . 8 R o N : o % i ¥~ x ,“ By g % pid % b e, & & g “ \'}(. | ':'3 % ' g’ e @‘ STRONG ARM—The left el bow Ted Williams fractured in the AH-Star Game was strong enough to hold a three-pound er, one of several small mouth black bass included in a day’s catch of the Red Sox slugger at Round Pond, hard by Char lotte, Me. Kyle Rote of SMU scored mo;e touchdowns during the 1949 sea son than any other player in the Southwest Conference—l 2. In nine years as a head football coach, Henry Frnka has fielded teams that have won 58 games, lost 21 and tied four. Robert R. Neyland, in 18 years as a football coach, has seen his teams win 143 games, lose only 23 and tie 11. ¢ Ben Schwartzwalder, Syracuse football coach, has never had a team in a tie in four years of coaching his clubs have won 29 and lost 10. g Frank Leahy has been a head football coach for nine years and his teams have won 80 games while losing five and tying five. FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1950. N F j l BY SONNY HUFF Independent League Sports Writer Watkinsville and Diamond Hill will wind up their thre¢ game series in the Independent League tomorrow aftey. noon in Diamond Hill at 3 p. m. in what should turn out to be the best game of the season. The standings in this series now stand at 1-1, and whoever wins this encounter tomorrow afternoon will go into the finals in the Shaughnessy play-off, which is a three out of five contest, starting next week-end. In this' series between second place Watkinsville and fourth place Diamond Hill, Diamond Hill won the opening game on their field 4-3, and Watkinsville won the second game on their diamond 11-1. The starting batteries for this encounter will be Chapel Tate and T. Z. Veale for Watkinsville and either John Marshall or Dwight Strickland and “Red” Henderson for Diamond Hill. Comer Wins Protest The game that Colbert won from Comer last Sunday was played under protest, and at a hearing last Tuesday night, Roy Parr, president of the league, ruled that the game must be played over Sunday on the Colbert diamond. Grounds of the protest were that Colbert was playing an ineligible player and after investigation it was found that he was not eligible to play in the play-off. The rules of the league that were adopted at the beginning of the season*require that a player must play in at least eight games during the season before he can be in the play-off. The player in volved was Emmett Lyons, Col bert catcher. He played in seven games and started in the eighth game, but this game was called at the end of three innings. There fore it was not an official game since neither team was credited with a win or loss. The game was between Colbert and Statham, and since it would not help either team for the game to be played they did not reschedule it. The three managers in the play off agreed, however, that if Col bert would play the game off with Statham tomorrow and use Lyons in the game, that he would be eligible for the play-off because this would make his necessary eight games. w This game has been stheduled for tomorrow afternoon in Siay ham at 1:30 p. m. STANDINGS Watkinsville - Diamond Hill Series Team W L Pet. Diamongt il ........ 1 1 500 Watkcinseille -/ ... .»'1 .1 3500 Colbert - Comer Series Team . L Pt ooty oo 0 1.006 COmey o i e 0 1 .06¢ Sunday’s Schedule Comer at Colbert. m-—m ee e e Fights Last Nite By The Associated Press BROOKLYN — Pat Marcune, 125%, Brooklyn, outpointed Bill Bossio, 1203, Pittsburgh (8). WATERBURY, Conn.—Don Wil liams, 146, Worcester, Mass., out pointed Vic Cardelin; 14534, Hart ford, Conn. (12). Conventioneers AND ALL WHO TRAVEL ANYWHERE TO ANYWHERE Attend your out-of-town con vention or go on any trip by auto, train, plane, bus or boat and feel secure with $5.000 to $25,000 travei and all activity accident protec tion. Policy covers 3 days to 6 months, Costs as’ litile & sl.lO, CAREFREE TRIP INSURANCE v Issr~d Immediately by ° Howard T. Abney, Agt. 301 Southerm Mutual Bldg.

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Athens banner-herald. (Athens, Ga.) 1933-current, August 25, 1950, Home Edition, Page PAGE EIGHT, Image 8