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BANNER - HERALD
SPORTS
ATy roa . Sports Editors
Charlie James Ekes
Past Lyndon House
BY “DRIFTY” DRIFTMIER
Charlie James squeezed into second place in the Muni
cipal League last night by narrowly edging a fighting
Liyndon House team, 11-10. But they needed the one-hit
relief pitching of Uke Cape to tame the Lyndon batters as
the James boys came from behind to notch their fourth
victory.
Big Uke relieved his brother,
E'dridge Cape, with none out in
the top of the fifth inning. Four
runs had just scored for the Lyn
don nine to put them two runs in
front, Uke, fresh from his master
piece of mound wizardry against
the DeMolays last Thursday, took
over the hurling duties and re
tired the side.
A third of last night’s starting
lineup for Charlie James was oc
cupied by Capes—Dupree in left
field, Uke on secondbase and then
on the mound, and Eldridge, a
newcomer, starting pitcher. The
latter gave up nine runs on six
hits. Unbeaten Uke fired the third
strike by six enemy batters and
allowed one hit—a single by Rich
ard England in the seventh. It
was Cape's third victory against no
losses.
Trailing 10-9 in the last of the
sixth, Charlie James first sacker,
Leroy Bray, knocked in the tieing
tally with a sharp single and then
scored the winning run from third
base on a wild throw by Lyndon
House catcher, Onnie Mosely. .
With one out in the top
of the seventh, Lyndon House
tried desperately to regain
the lead when England reach
ed first on }is base blow and
took second when Howard Gilmer
was hit by the pitcher. But the
rally was cut short as Cape fan
ned the mext two batters to re
Fast Action Set For
Legion Field Friday
The Atlanta Tomboys and the Lorelei Ladies will provide
plenty of thrills and color when they meet on Legion Field
Friday night at 8 o’clock under the arc lights. Although
anything can happen when two such outstanding teams vie,
the Loreleis are rated the slight favorites in the exhibition
softball game. - e
The Ragland Ramblers of Nash
ville, Tennessee, and the Ladies
are the only two teams to defeat
the Tomboys during the 1952 sea
son.
The Tomboys will probably
throw their star iitcher, Ethel
Abbott, against the hurling prow
ess of Sarah Lewis, a veteran per
former of the Lorelei Ladies since
1943 and one of the top women
mound stars in the south. Miss
Lewis hails from Athens, Georgia,
and was a hig) scoring forward on
the Athens i&h girls basketball
team back in the early ‘4o’s. Ab
bott is a good hitter, plays any
position well and was selected on
ti;e All-Regional team in 1948 and
19851, .
Both teams are a rugged bunch
of gals and always play the game
hard until the final out. They have
taken up softball in a big way
and are sure to give the customers
added thrills along with their dou
ble plays and homeruns. The soft
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Major League
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NATIONAL LEAGUE
Batting -— Musial, St. Louis and
Atwell, Chicago, .322.
Runs batted in — Sauer, Chi
cago, 76.
Hits — Adams, Cinginnati and
Musial, Bt. Louis 106.
Home runs—Sauer, Chicago, 24.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
3Battlng — Goodman, Boston,
.336.
Runs batted in — Dropo, De
troit, 61.
Hits — Fox, Chicago, 118.
Home runs — Berra, New York,
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tire the side. A
John Thurston, who relieved the
Lyndon House starter Emerson
Heygood in the second frame, was
charged with his second defeat.
But he came into the ball game
with a four run deficit as Lyndon
House lagged 7-4. Thurston gave
up three hits in his five inning
stint but each one proved to be
costly as each of the three hit
ters scored. The losing mounds
man struckout five and walked
only one. Heyvgood allowed six hits
before going to the bench.
Leroy Bray and Bobby Joe Ful
ler, first basemen for Charlie
James and Lyndon House, kept
their teams in the tight ball game
with a triple and two singles
apiece—each also got two RBl's.
The only homerun of the ball
game came in the first on a tree
clipping roundtripper by Dupree
Cape. "
The victory enabled Charlie Jam
es to pull within one and a half
games of the league leading De-
Molays who have won five and
list one. The triumph also broke
the three way deadlock for se
cond place with the Amvets and
Sam Smith.
Tonight the bleachers should be
gacked as the old rivals Sam
mith and Charlie James swap
base blows. The winner will be
in second place in the tightening
league race,
ball queens are pretty, sure'nuff,
but they can play ball, too, and
what’s more, they're always in
there giving it that old college try.
Sportsmanship is a by-word
with both teams. No poor sport
lasts with these year-round athle
tes. Bhe girls won’t stand for it.
(The Lorelei Ladies finished third
in the 1950 World Tournament in
Phoenix, Arizona, and won the
Sportsmanship award).
Although suffering teveral beat
ings at the hands of the Lorelei
Ladies this year, the Tomboys
whipped the Loreleis three strai
ght fi\mes in the final playoffs of
the Metropolitan Championship of
1951. So, local fans can be expect
ing an action packed softball game
Friday night.
Admission will be 50 cents for
adults and 25 cents for children.
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Olympic Jump Mark
Snapped Four Times
HELSINKI, Jily 23.— (AP) —Another Olympic record
fell today as the fourth day of track and field competition
began in the big Olympic Stadium with qualifying trials in
three events.
The women’s broad jump mark
of 5.69 meters 18 feet 8.02 inches
was sbjected to a mass assault
and was smasned by four girls,
one an American, within a short
time after competition started.
Yvette Williams of New Zealand,
got off the best jump of the early
trials, clearing 6.16 meters 20 feet
2.52 inches, nearly two feet be
yond the old Olympic standard,
established in 1948 by Alga Gyra
mati of Hungary. The women’s
broad jump 'was added to the
Olympic program for the 1948
games in Londan.
Right behind Miss Williams in
the qualifying for this afternoon’s
final came Mabel Landry of Chi
cago with a jump of 19 feet 3.500
inches. Two Russian girls, Alek
sandra Chudina and Nina Dtjer
kina also exceeded the former
record.
American men, who have been
seting the pace in this unprece
dented record - breaking carnival,
contented themselves with ordi
nary performances as they had to
attain only comparatively -easy
qualifying distances.
All three 'American entries.
qualified for the Javelin throw
final without removing their
sweat suits, which served as pro
tection against raw, cold weather.
HELSINKI —(AP)— Russia
is leading the unofficial Olym
pic scoring parade with the Un
ited States in second place after
three days of competition.
Due to strength in the gym
nastic competition, the Soviet’s
athletes have piled up 136.5
points. The United States with
eight first in track and field has
scored 115.
Switzerrand, also strong in
gymnastics, vaulted into third
?lace yesterday with 49 points
ollowed by Japan with 26.5 and
Sweden with 21.5.
Franklin Bud Held of Lakeside!
Calif., got off the best American
toss, 225 feet 1.63 inches. Cy Young
of Modesto Calif., did 220 feet 8.03
inches on his second try after
missing on his first and Bill Mil
ler of Phoenix, Ariz., threw 212
feet 7.62 inches. The minimum
qualifying distance was 29 feet
11.74 inches.
Walter Ashbaugh, Cornell Uni
versity athlete from East Liver
pool, 0., and Jim Gerhardt of San
Antonio, Tex., qualified for the
final of the hop, step and jump in
the first half of the field.
~ Ashbaugh cleared 47 feet 10.41
‘ inches in the triple jump and Ger
hardt 49 feet, 1,77 inches. George
Shaw of New York, third Ameri
can entry, failed to qualify when
he fouled on the third try.
A distance of 47 feet 8.44 inches
was required to qualify. None of
the Americans is expected to be a
serious title gontender.
~ Bill Kerslake of Euclid, Ohio,
American heavyweight wrestler,
was eliminated right at the start
of the final day of mat competition.
Kerslake, starting with three de
merits, lost a decision to Bertil-
Andersson of Sweden. It takes five
demerits to eliminate a contestant
in wrestling.
The defending light heavyweight
champion, Henry Wittenberg of
New York, was given one demerit
when he defeated August Englas
of Russia but failed to score a
fall. Neither was eliminated, but
Wittenberg now has four demerits.
More than 20,000 spectators
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGIA
turned out for the morning session
despite rainy weather and for the
first time since the opening cere
monies the 70,000 seat stadium
was sold out for the afternoon
events.
The big drawing card was the
javelin throw. This strenuous and
often dangerous exercise, which
has been banned from many Am
erican high school track meets, is
a national sport of this small coun
try.
Toivo Hyytiainen is the Finnish
champion. He and his teammates,
Soini Nikkimen and Eino Leppan
en, all threw the speer more than
70 meters about 230 feet in the
Olympics trials. Any one of them
could break the 20-year-old Olym
pic record of 72.62 meters 238
feet 7 inches held by another Finn,
Matti Jarvinen.
Records have been broken so
often in the first three days of
track and field—eight out of the
first 12 events — that the crowds
have come to regard anything less
than a record as a pretty poor
show.
Three nrore new marks went
into the books yesterday., Sim
Iness of Lins Angeles pulled a real
surprise by out-throwing defend
ing champion Adolfo Consolini in
the discus with a record of 55.03
meters (180 . feet, 5.85 inches).
Consolini, who finished second,
also bettered the previous record
which he set at London four years
ago.
Bob Richards of Laverne, Calif,,
raised the pole vault record to
within a fraction of 15 feet when
he cleared 4.55 meters.
And Herbert Schade, an effort
less runner from West Germany,
chopped three full seconds off the
5,000 meter record when he won
his heat in 14:15.4.
Olympic records were equalled
in the other two track and field
finals yesterday. Mal Whitfield of
Columbus, Ohio, repeated his 1948
success in the 800 meters and du
plicated his time of 1:49.2. Mar
jorie Jackson of Australia won the
100 meter dash for women in 11.5
seconds, the sanre as Fanny Blank
ers-Koen posted four years ago.
Georgia Golfers
In State Meet
Georgia golfer Lester Kelly
fired a 73 yesterday in the State
Amateur golf tfournament at
Augusta to tie for runnerup
medalist honors with Rollins
College’s Billy Key. Frank Mul
herin, Jr., of Augusta shot a par
72 for the medal.
Other golfers who qualified
included Nolen Richardson, Jr.
with an 80; Frank Stevenson
with a 75; and Wilkins Kirby.
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Last Session
Of “Y” Camp
Opens Today
The last four-week session of
Athens “Y” Camp opens today
with the incoming campers form
ing a capacity group along with
the boys that are staying the en
tire eight weeks.
On the agenda for this week is
choosing league teams, physical
tests, track meets, and ice cream
hike.
Tuesday night was the final
night for the first month campers.
Awards were given to the emble
winners, They are as followrg
Younger Boys Unit, Jose Valls,
Havana, Cuba; Pioneer Unit,
Johnny Ray, Atlanta; Cub Unit,
Matt Howard, Atlanta; Junior
Unit, Joe Singletary, Meigs, Ga.;
Senior Unit, Frank Putman and
Charles Howard, Atlanta; Cabin
assistants, Valdon Smith, Athens.
These emblems are given to the
best all-round camper in each
unit. Only those winners are eli
gible for the cup awarde% at the
end of the year to the best camp
er of the year.
The results of the swimming
meet held last Saturday are as
follows: |
Pioneer Unit |
Broaststroke — Johnny Ray,
Frank Scarbrough, Tom Sims. |
Backstroke—Roy, Walter Wine
burg, Sims.
Freestyle — Ray Hepner, Ray,
Sims.
Cub Unit
Breaststroke — Rocky Curtis,
Matt Howard, Ward O’Shea.
Backstroke — Curtis, Howard,
Russ Bowers.
Freestyle — Bowers, Curtis,
O’'Shea.
Junior Unit
Breaststroke—Jim Carlisle, Bill
Wofford, Bill Smith.
Backstroke—Carlisle, Bill Smith
and Carson Smith (tie).
Freestyle — Wofford, Carlisle,
Charles King.
Senior “B” Unit
Breaststroke—Bill Stroud, Dean
Upchurch, Roland Powell.
Backstroke—Stroud, Upchurch,
Powell and Charles Hohenburg
(tie).
Senior “A” Unit
Breaststroke—Jim Hall, Valdon
Smith, Duane Hall and Charles
Singleton.
Backstroke — Hall, Smith,
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Truck Gives Up One
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BY JOE REICHLER
Associated Press Sports Writer
Baseball fans looked back to last night's thrill-packed
action and cracked, “What, no no-hitter?”
That's about the only thing that didn’'t occur in the
major leagues. And that, too, came within one pitch of
being accomplished. @ C U e
The star, (or was it victim?) of
that pitching ‘feat was Virgil
Trucks, already the author of the
American League’s sole no-hitter
of the 1952 season. The Detroit
Tiger “righthander gave up just
one hit, a single by Eddie Yost, in
hurling the Tigers to a 1-0 victory
cver the Washington Senators.
Yost's hit came on Trucks’ first
pitch of the game,
Other highlights included:
The New York Yankees swept a
doubleheader from the vanishing
Indians in Cleveland, 7-3 and 8-1,
to increase their first-place mar
gin over Boston’s Red Sox to five
games. The Yanks got 30 hits in
the two games.
Bobby Shantz continued on his
way to his 30-victory goal, pitch
ing the Philadelphia Athletics to
a 3-2 win over the St. Louis
Browns. Shantz yielded eight
blows for his 17th triumph against
three losses. Billy Hitchcock drove
in the winning run in the ninth.
Dave Koslo registered his fifth
straight success over the St. Louis
Cardinals this season, his 12th in
Brat, Bab Set
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Records In’sl
Right end Harry Babcock and
T-quarterback Zeke Bratowski,
both selected to the coaches’
1952 pre-season all-SEC team,
set three University of Georgia
all-time football records last
season:
Net Yards Passing—l,s7B yards
by Bratkowski, 10 games; old
reeord, 1,392 by Frank Sinkwich
in 1942, 11 games .... Yards
Gained Pass — Receiving—666
by Babcock, 10 games; old re
cord, 662 by Reid Moseley in
1945, 10 games . ... Most passes
Caught — 41 by Babcock in 10
games; old record, 39, by Dan
Edwards in 1947, 11 games.
Charles Singleton.
Backstroke — Hall, Smith,
Charles Howard.
Freestyle — Duane Hall, Jim
Hall, Charles Singleton.
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a row over them in three years as
the New York Giants earmed a
3-2 triumph on Hank Thompson’s
two-run homer in the sixth.
Brooklyn’s Dodgers met a four
run 10th inning by Cincinnati with
a five-run outburst of their own
to nip the Reds, 7-6, and retain
their 71-game bulge over the
Giants in the National League
race. Ken Raffensherger, third
Cincy pitcher of the inning, hit
Rube Walker with a pitched ball
1o force over the winning run.
Vern Bickford and the Boston
Braves spotted the Chicago Cubs
a 4-0 lead on Dee Fondy’s grand
slam homer and roared back to
win, 6-4.
The Philadelphia Phils climbed
to the .500 mark with a double
win over Pittsburgh, 14-4 and 8-1.
Rookie Dick Gernert rapped a
two-run homer in the 13th to give
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 195
Basham Hurlc
No-Hitter In
Y Baseball
Taking advantufe of a thiee.
run rally in the last inning
the no-hit pitching of thei ea
faim James Basham, his I€am
rocked Lewis’ team, 4-3, in 5 ..
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am singled to score the winy; g
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EXPERIENCED TRACK COACH
MORGANTOWN, West Va..
(AP)—Art Smith has been coech
ing West Virginia University
track and cross country teams
since 1924. Previously he coached
at the University of Maine, Mich
igan State and lowa State, Srith
also was the mentor of the U. §
Olympic track teams im 1914 14
1920.