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BY JACK HAND
Associated Press Sports Writer
“There’s only one place to finish and that’s first.”
Rogers Hornsby committed this sage comment before the
season opened. His precocious St. Louis Browns act like he
meant it. Running neck and neck with Cleveland for the
American League lead, they sound like the big noige of
early season. » :
If the Browns keep winning
when they get home, Owner Bill
Veeck can forget any more free
beer nights for the customers. The
longabused Brownie fans float in
a purple haze of contentment af
ter three straight triumphs.
First Ned Garver. Then Tommy
Byrne. And now Bob Cain, going
the route against Detroit and
whipping his old Tiger mates, 3-1.
He allowed nine hits but most of
them were harmless singles.
That new Brownie lineup, with
on.y one third of the ‘sl personnel
still on the roster, ruined Hal New
houser’'s bright comeback hopes.
Prince Hal, making his first start
since last July 14, spoiled an ef
ficient job by throwing home run
balls to Less Moss and Bob Nieman
in the last two innings.
17 Hit Barrage :
Cleveland wated many of its
17 hits in running over Chicago
for a third straight thiumph, 5-3.
The heavy barrage included a 425~
foot homer by Luke Easter in the
fifth.
Mike Garcia, starting out after
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another 20-win season, threéw a
steady seven-hitter to beat Maryv
Grissom, knocked out in the three
run second,
Bobby Shantz, smallest pitcher
in the league, beat the World
Champion New York Yankees with
his left arm and bat to give
Philadelphia a 3-1 decision over
Eddie Lopat. The five-foot -six
pitcher scattered nine hits and
gave his team the lead run with
a looping single in the fourth,
breaking a 1-1 tie,
The Boston “rookie” Sox turned
the -heat on Washington for a 9-2
romp. Freshman Faye Throne
berry poled a homer with the bas
es loaded in the six-run sixth.
Throneberry didn’t do it all by
himself. Newscomers Sam White,
Ted Lepcio, Bill Henry helped him
drive in eight of the nine runs.
Walt Dropo’s homer provided the
other.
Brooklyn continued to pound the
ball as though Chuck Dressen ex
pected to open up his 1314 game
lead by Decoration Day In three
victories at Boston, the Dodgers
hammered 48 hits for a team bat
ting average of .378.
Want to see some batting aver
ages to arch your eyebrows? Give
a look at the Brooks.
Roy Campanella .583, Duke
Snider .571, Jackie Robinson .545,
Carl Furfillo .533, Billy Cox .389,
Pee Reese ,294, Andy Pafko .250
and Gil Hodges .133.
8-2 Romp
Furillo had four singles, Pafko
a homer and double and Ribin
son three singles a walk and one
hit by pitcher. No wonder Johnny
Schmitz who used to be easy for
the Braves, had an 8-2 roml:,.
Connie Ryan slashed a two-run
homer in the 11th to give Philadel
ghia a 5-3 victory over the New
ork Giants.
Del Ennis’ spectalular barehand
ed eatch of Willie Mays’ screamer
saved reliefer Jim Konstanty in
the 10th.
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The Dixie League opens its
inaugural baseball season
tomorrow afternoon with
Comer at Barberville, Farm
ington at Whitehall, Winter
ville at Diamond Hill, and
Nicholson at Oglethorpe
County. Alligames are sched
uled to start promptly at 3
D, m.
The Barberville baseball club
wishes to invite all interested base
ball fans in this area to attend
their games this summer. The
team will play its home games on
their new field located on Free
man Drive, just outside the city
limits, on the Danielsville High
way.
Barberville meets Comer Satur
day and Whitehall Sunday. All
games are scheduled to start at
three o’clock., The roster of the
Barberville team is composed of
local boys including Dupree ,Cape,
Eddie Tucker, Junior Collie, Buly
ba Elder, Thomas Spratlin, Bud
Fouche, Luke Coile, Theo Coile,
Johnny Simmons Lawrence Han
cock, Leroy Bray, Agnew Pea
cock, Bill Condon, Jerry Davis,
Sidney Moon, Chandler Ray, Lee
Ward, Charles Cheek, Weyman
Hanson, and Billy Bryant.
Athens-Cuban
Red Sox Set
For Two Tilts
Two games are on tap for the
Athens-Cuban Red Sox this week
end as they meet the Griffin Giants
tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock at
Brays Field and the Atlanta Pan
thers Sunday afternoon at 3.
The Red Sox will be seeking
their second win Saturday when
they meet the Giants. The Giants
will open their season in the con
test with the Red Sox.
The Cubans have shown promise
of a great season in their work
outs since defeating the strong
Covington Blue Caps 4-3 the earl
ier part of this week.
The Atlanta Panthers are com
posed of some of the former At
lanta Black Crackers of the Negro
Southern League and are expected
to give the locals some stiff com
petition,
Admission to all Red Sox games
is 75 cents for adults and 40 cents
for children. Special stands have
been set up for white fans.
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Mercer, 5-4
Coach Albert Jones’ University
of Georgia tennis team won their
second dual match of the season
yesterday, beating Mercer at Ma
con, 5 to 4.
Splitting singles matches three
to three, the Bulldogs copped one
and three double to take the vic
tory.
John Gimma, Bulldog number
one man beat the Bears’ Sellers
Parker in two sets. Bob Smith,
Georgia number two, topped Keith
Benning and Charles McCullough,
Bulldog number five man won
over Mercer's five man,
Gimma and Smith took a three
set doubles victory over Mercer’s
Bert Schwartz and Parker while
MecCullough and Merritt Pound,
jr. won at number three doubles.
The Bulldog netment face L. S.
U. here Satursday at 2 p. m. on
the lvarsity courts behind Connor
Hall.
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CHICAGO, April 18.—(AP)—
The Journal of the American
Medical Association today spoke
out against the indiscriminate use
of pain-killing drugs to keep an
injured athlete in action. '
The publication, in an editorial,
expressed the opinion that:
The use of local anesthetics on
players hampered by such minor
miseries as sore arms or backs or
slight sprains apparently is grow
ing,
Men so treated run the risk of
serious injury.
The editorial set forth:
“The use and abues of local an
esthetic agents to enable amateur
and professional athletes to con=~
tinue active sports participation in
the face of serious injury is ap
parently becoming more wide~
spread.
“Hardly a mronth passes that
even the casual reader of the
sports pages does not find a ref
erence to the injection of ‘pain
killing drugs’ in connection with
some prominent athletic figure.
“Its use is so general that there
is reason to pelieve that trainers,
physiotherapists and~other unau
thorized persons are actually em
ploying injections of local anes
thetic drugs without proper medi=-
cal supervision.
“The various pressures, finan
cial or otherwise, that have made
winning more important than
playing have been aired thorough
ly during the last year. They have
been responsible for allowing
many yocung men to risk serious,
permanent injury for pay or pres
tige.
“Such indiscriminate use of pro
caine should not be tolerated by
those interested in the welfare of
athletes.”
Three Games
Set FFor Cubs
Tonight At Y
Three games will be played to
night by members of the Cub
class of the YMCA.
The games will start at 6 o’clock
with a tilt belween the teams of
Jimmy Kenney and Robert Honea.
At 7 o'clock the teams of Barry
Wenzel and Randy Terry will be
featured in a fray while Linton
Dunson and Jere Huggins’ teams
will take the spotlight at 8 o’clock.
In last night’s big league play
the Nats continued on their come
back trail, beating the first place
Uppies Puppies, 6-5. The game
was won by virtue of a big last
inning rally on the part of the
Nats. Two runs were scored in
that frame by virtue of a hit by
Fortson, and walks by Jim Hall,
Fred Nash, Jimmy Mercer and
Leathers, :
The Dunks also won their game
last night, beating the Lizards,
12-4. The mighty Dunks picked up
seven runs in a big fourth inning
drive apd it was in that inning
that they got five of their seven
hits.
Lady Golfers Begin
Invitational Plav
Approximately 80 women golfers teed off this morning
to begin the circuit around Athens Country Club golf
course for the gruelling pace of the lAnvitational Golf Tour
ney. _
Pvlayars from all over North
Georgia and South Carolina are
registered in the tourney.
“This is the debut of the Invita
tional Tourney to be held here, but
we hope to make it an annual af
fair,” according to Mrs. Dan Rob-
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The Athens Independent
League will open its 1952
baseball season tomorrow
afternoon at 8 p. m. with
games set for Goodhope,
Jefferson and Colbert.
All games will bedin promptly
at 3, accortling to Wendell Wilson,
league president, who announced
the opening schedule this week.
Bostwick will meet Goodhope,
Watkinsville will play at Jeffer
son, and Bogart opens at Colbert
tomorrow.
Three more games are on slate
for Sunday with the schedule
reading Jefferson at Bostwick,
Goodhope at Colbert, and Bogart
at Watkinsville. These games will
be played at 3 p. m.also.
Umpires work tomorrow’s games
will be Roy Parr or L. C. England
at Colbert, Wilbur Paul at Jeffer
son and Fred Kidd at Goodhope.
Sunday’s umpires will be Paul at
Bostwick, Kidd at Goodhope, and
England at Watkinsville.
All rosters for the six teams
competing in the league this sea
son have been posted at the Ath
ens Sporting Goods Store, and
schedules will be in the managers
hands by the end of next week.
Printing of the schedules has been
held up pending the outcome of
attempts of two more teams to
join the leazue this season, accord
ing to Mr. Williams.
The Independent League is
scheduled to have one of the fast
est amateur leagues in this section
of the state this season. Every
effort is being made to make the
league a first class affair, and one
that will stimulate real enthusiasm
among not only the players but
also the fans. %
~ Admission to league games this
season will be 35 cents for adults
and no charge for children.
L.ookouts On
Rampage In
Sceuthern
By The Associated Press
A Little Rock outfielder is swat
ting ‘a home run every night, but
even this prodigious feat takes se
sond billing to the awsome pow
er of the Larruping Lookouts of
Chattanooga.
In three games with Birming
ham’s proud Dixie Series cham
pions, the rampaging Tennesseans
scored 47 runs and pelted astor
ished Baron pitchers for a record
64 hits. They slugged Al Vincent’s
groggy club into a 15-7 defeat last
night after posting 14-5 runaways
in the first two games of the se
ries.
These amazing offensive fire
works, however, couldn’t com- |
pletely drive husky Hal Simpson!
from the center of the Southern |
Association stage. |
The Little Rock star belted his l
fourth homer in as many games
and was a defensive standout in
the Travs’ 3-1 triumph over New
Orleans. His two-run clout in the
fifth inning gave the champions
the odd game of the series and
his diving catch of Stan Wentze's
liner in the sixth’ started a double
play and prevented a Pelican tal
ly. Thanks to Simpson, who still
complains of an aching back, Milo |
Johnson registered his second suc
cessive mound decision.
erts.
; Mrs. O. B. Keeler, who is well
| known in golfdom’s circle, and
| Mrs. W. D. Tumlin, who is on the
‘Board of the State Golf Associa
tion and past president of the
lEast Lake Golf Association, are
| here today and might play with
| the “lassies of the links.”
{ The Fearsome Four—Dot Kirby,
Eileen Stulb, Effie Keaster and
Anne Twiliey—began the circuit
this merning at about 10 o’clock.
Athens entered 22 participants
in the Invitational Tourney and
they should show their skill on the
chip shots, drives, and putts to
day.
Mrs. Dan Roberts saitd that Mrs.
Ben Barrow, Tournament chair
man; Mrs. Garnett Daniel, Recep
tion; and Mrs. Felton Christian,
Decoration, are to be commmended
on their fine work in making the
tourney possible.
All golfers will be divided into
three flights according to handi
caps. There will be prizes for low
and second low scores in each
flight.
| To make the Invitational more
|interesting‘, blind hole prizes will
|be determined after each golfer
!has teed oi'.
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Clip Wildcats’ 9-5
BY ALVA MAYES, JR.
A big seventh inning rally by the Georgia Bulldogs was
enough to give them a 0-5 win over the University of Ken
tucky out on Ag Hill yesterday afternoon as the Bulldogs
came from behind to split a two-game series,
Five runs in that big s‘eventhl‘
‘inning clinched it for the Bull- [
dogs who saw three tallies scored |
Py the Wildcats in the first inning. |
Big Lead |
Tennessee’s conference cham
pions who play Coach Jim
Whatley’s Bulldog nine here to-
day and tomorrow on Ag. Hill
Field are led by five all-SEC
selections: three on the first
team and two second team
members. :
Bert Rechichar, 1951 Vol foot
ball captain, was an All-SEC
baseball cheice last year as an
outfielder along with pitcher
John Huffsteltler (8-0), and cat
cher G. P. Anderson.
..Second team choices were Vol
third baseman, D. B. Hopkins
and pitcher Billy Joe Bowman,
Al Parrish and Jack Young
blood, a pair of aspiring mounds
men for the Bulldogs in the next
few seasons, combined their tal
ents for the win with Youngblood
being officially credited. Parrish
started on the mound but was re
lieved in the fifth. Together the
two Georgia moundsmen allowed
the Wildcats only seven hits.
For Kentucky, three pitchers |
saw duty against bulldogs. Gene
Neff who played in the outfield in
Wednesday’s meeting with the
’Cats started the game but had to
be relieved in the sixth by Brum- |
back who lasted for the remain- |
der of the sixth. Day came on: inii
the seventh to relieve Brumback |
and wound up on the mound for '
the Wildcats.
The Bulldogs tabbed the three
Kentucky hurlers for nine hits in |
their nine run performance which
was also aided considerably by
three timely Kentucky errors.
The Bulldogs meanwhile were
credited with only one miscue in
conirast to their seven committed
in the Wildcats’ 6-4 win on Wed=
nesday. : 3
The Bulldogs met the Tennessee
Vols this afternoon in their fourth l
straight home game this week. |
This is also a two game seriesl
with another vie set for tomorrow
afternoon at 3 p. m.
“*The Vols are Southeastern Con
ference Champions and rated tops
in the conference this year. ; }
Scoring: 2
Kentucky: 300 000 1015 78 .
Georgia: 002 011 50x—9 9 1
Batteries: Kentucky,” Neff (6) |
Brumbach (7), Day, Anderson and I
Rowe. Georgia: Parrish (5), -
Youngblood, Hall.
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TODAY'S BAESEBALL
SCHEDULE
SOUTHERN ASSOCIA®IO-
Chattanooga &t Atlanta
Nashville at Birmingham
New Orleans at Memphig,
Mobile at Little Rock
YESTERDAY BASEBAL]
RESULTS
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Little Rock 3, New Orleans
Nashville 4, Atlanta 3.
Chattanooga 15, Birminghy,
Mobile 8, Memphis,
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