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raves9 Amazing. 1914 oraelbadk alBed HlaDif-Ceini4aaff-y5's Top OpseS Torrid Drive Gets AP Vote Stallings Club Was Million-to-One Shot By Joe Reichler " j NEW YORK, Jan. 23-W)-It is my greatest thrill," Said peppery little Rabbit Maranville today in recalling the Boston Braves On believable pennant and world se ries triumph of 1914. "We did something nobody, ever believed possible. Gamblers were laying 100 to 1 against us on opening day, with hardly any tak ers. They raisecTthe odds to 1, 000 to 1 after the first month. By July 4, after we had been in the cellar all but three days, you could have gotten a million to one." This "1,000,000 to 1 comeback of George Stallings wonder team is hailed as the half-century's greatest sports upset by sports writers and sportscasters partici pating in the Associated Press poll. On July 19 the Braves were running a sorry last in the Na tional leaeue, 11 games behind the leading New York Giants. The next day, after being in the cel lar for 97 of the season's first 100 days, the Braves emerged from the dungeon and started rolling. - Less than two months later, on Sept. 8, they took over first place and then went on to win the Na tional flag by 10 games. By a margin of 128 to 53, spprts writers and sportcasters acclaimed this the greatest surprise of the first 50 years of the twentieth century. ' ' - It won over such fabled upsets as Gene Tunney's victory over Heavyweight Champion Jack Dempsey in 1928 and Centre col lege's 6-0 triumph over Harvard In 1921. What happened to the Braves to change them from a door-mat for other clubs to a fighting, hustling ball club that knocked off every thing in sight? Its) difficult to explain the sudden change," Maranville said, "but I think Stallings, our manag er, was mostly responsible. "It Was a day early in July and we were on our way to Chicago for a four-game series with the Cubs," Maranville related. "We had just played an exhibition game up in Toronto and the local club there shellacked us, 15-3. "Stallings wa toned us troop in to the station and in a tone that dripped with disgust spat out, 'Big league, ball players, you call your selves,' eh! You're not even grade A sandlorters. I'm ashamed of you all.' : " .. "It was a terrible thing to say to us. The words bit deeply into lis. Nobody said anything but we were hurt. We vowed then and there we'd show up Stallings" Following was the result of the voting for greatest upset of the past 5(J years: - 128 Boston Braves' victory over Athletics in 1914 World Series. S3 Tunney's defeat o Dempsey In Ant title fitht inJ92S. . ' 40 Centre colWse's football victory ver Harvard In 1921. 24 Braddock's defeat of Baer for feeavjrweicht title in 1S33. . 21 Upset'a win over Man O'War la IS 19. 1J Schm lings knockout of Louis tn 1B3S. 10 Notre Dame's football win over Army In 1913. . T Dempseya knockout of Wiflard fal 1919. 7 Holy Cross football win over Bos ton collet la 1942. , 7 Navjs football tie wfth Army in 194 A. ' - V 4 New York Yankees World Series win in 1949. , j-j 4 Cincinnati's win over Chicago Whit Sox In 119 World Series. 3 Columbia's wl over Stanford In 94 Rose. Bcqpl. 2 Auburn's win over Alabama In footbau. 2 Chicago Bears' 73-0 massacre of Washington tn 1940. J Carnegie Tech's football defeat of riotro Pams in lias. Look and Learn By A. C. Gordon 1. What famous Englishman is generally credited with having in troduced tobacco into Europe? 2.- Of what kingdom was Fred crick the Great the ruler? J. Who was. the first victim of fratricide, according to the Bible? 4. What great French actress ap peared on the American stage, aft er one of ber legs had been ampu tated? . 5. What Is the kitchen of a ship called? . ANSWERS 1. Sir Walter Raleigh (1522 1618). 2. Prussia. 3. Abel, slain by his brother, Cain. 4. Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923). 5. The gallery. TheyTl Do It Every Time By Jimmy Hatlo 1 LOWHEEL ABOUT THIS VERMIN SNEAKER OUVE PUT UP FDR MEMBERSHIP" J CAN YOO 6TVE US SOME DATA ON HIM? ANYONE THAT LOWHEEL SFONSORS CANT BE ANY 6COE7-.XM FOUSHINS IPAV J BLACKBALL RlfiHT NOW LISTEN TO HIM THE COvWfTTcc WANTS RATA,! AND WES TALKING THROUGH HtS HAT-A! hi HE'S ONE OF NATURES N08LEMENK4LL WOOL AND A YARD WIDE TRUE BLUE-A GENTLEMAN OF THE OLD SCHOOL-A MAN ONE CAN BE PROUD TO CALL PRIENDNEVER KNEW him to CO A MEAN THINS: A PRINCE J AN ASSET TO AN L0D6E-V OLD SCHOOLS right; cunkville RERDRiWATORyTO HEAf? LOWHEEL.VtXTD THINK n WAS 5K L GALAHAD HE WAS SHILLING FDSv LOWHEEL WANTS "TO GET ANOTHER RXJL BALL IN-AND EVERYBODY ELSS WOULD LIKE TO GET LOWHEEL. OUT- v I taw 1 Ifim im, mw riAiMtm stmmciits. v.. woi,p icn pHS MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE HAS TO WADE THROUGH MORE RCnON THAN AN OVERWORKED BOOK cRmc,, He Totals 268; Leonard 2nd. Haas Sizzles, Easily Smar.es 'Beach' By Bob Myers LONG BEACH, Calif., Jan. 23-OlVLong-hitting Fred Haas, jr., exploded a six under par 65 that blasted all opposition hopes and brought him victory in the 810,000 Long Beach Open today with a 72-hole score of 208. Title The tall 34-year-old New Or leans professional captured the $2,000 top prize in smashing fash ion, crushing the chances of his closest rival, veteran Stan Leon ard of Vancouver, B. C, in the duel down the stretch. Leaving such distinguished stars as Sam Snead, National Open Champion Carry Middlecoff, Jim my Demaret and others to languish in the disappointing shade of the also-rans, the New Orleans stylist thus ended the tournament 16 strokes under par for the complete distance. Runner-up honors went to Leo nard, who fired a 69 but wound up at 273, five shots back of the flying Haas. Haas. 1937 National Intercollegi ate champion for Louisiana State and a leading amateur in the south in the 1930s, shot one of his finest tournaments since turning pro in 1946. He had rounds of 70-66 67 65 for bis 268. He was hardly alone in the par-breaking busi ness, however, as the field re peatedly embarrassed par 35-36 71 for the Lakewood Country dub's lake-dotted course. Leonard had rounds of 71-66-67-69273. Tied at 274 were Middlecoff with a 70 today and Al Brosch of Garden City, N. Y., a new comer out here, with a 67 today. Three contestants were grouped at 275 ex-PGA Champ ion Jim Ferrier 71; former U. S. Public Links Champion Smiley Quick 71, and Marty Furgol, Albu querque, 69. Jimmy Demaret, whose 72-hole score of 272 tied for the lead with Ben Hogan in Long Beach's ini tial big time show last year, shot his second 71 in a row and fin ished 10 strokes back of Haas at 278. The pre-tournament favorite, Sam Snead, got a 68 today but it left him back in the 277 bracket Woolens Wait TrotterGame Equipped with a strong lineup and certain they'll prove to be much more than straight men for the noted Harlem Globetrotters team, the Salem Page Woolens basketeers are looking forward to their rassle with the negro whizzes next Monday night in the Willam ette gym. Game time will be at eight o'clock. The Woolens will toss at the talented enemy such stalwarts of the maple as Laddie Gale, 1939 Oregon All-American; the John son brothers, Jim and Bob, of Wil lamette fame; Frank Page and Al McRae, ex-Salem high standouts, and Waldo Unruh and Al Bellin ger, Viking stars themselves of a later era. The game will be a benefit af fair sponsored by the Junior Chamber of Commerce for the School Boys PatroL Tickets may be purchased at either Maple or Anderson Sporting Goods stores or from Gale at his Union service station on the corner of State and Church streets. TUESDAY'S BROADCASTS Pacific Standard Time Kilocycles: KSLM 1390, KOCO 1490. KOIN t79. KGW 828, KEX 1199 FM: Megacycles KOIN 101.1; KGW 100 J; KEX 92.3 llCiloivffirfl Maxim, Mills Scrap Tonight (Continued from page 12) Maxim has had four fights since last May, winning all. He out pointed Lesnevich, stopped Joe Kahut and Pat McCafferty and de feated Bill Peterson. The experts here give Mills little chance to win if the bout goes the full distance. But there is strong newspaper opinion that Mills will win by a knockout This, despite Maxim's record against stronger opposition than Mills has faced over a period of years. - Maxim has been stopped only once in his career by Curtis Sheppard in 1943. Maxim came back three weeks later to defeat Sheppard. Of seven London boxing writers who have made predictions, five pick Mills to win on a knockout Only one of the five suggests that Mills will stand a chance if the fif ht goes all the way. 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