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Tropshooters
Aim for $7000
First Prize
Vandalia, Mo. U.R America's
top trapshooters trained their
guns on the $7,000 top prize 01
the "Baby Grand championship"
here Thursday at the Grand
American Handicap tournament.
A total of $17,000 will be the
illusive target Thursday as scat-
ter-gunners lire in the top pre'
liminary event leading up to
Friday's clay bird classic the
Grand America Handicap.
In Wednesday's class champ
ionships, Herbert N. Ferguson,
Fontana, Calif., took the top AA
division title by blasting 50
straight from the 1 6-year d line
nd then 25 more from the 25
yard line for a perfect day.
The 40-year-old citrus grow
er, who flew into Vandalia a few
hours before the firing began,
calmly knocked 200 birds from
the sky in the regulation shoot
ing to tie Bobbie Lee Stifal, Ca
ley, 111., and Arnold Riegger of
Seattle.
Both sharpshooters then mov
ed back to the 25-yard line
where the California marksman
banged another perfect 25. Stifal
missed four clay targets.
Yanks Dominate
Canadian Net
Tournament
Toronto U.K The Canadian
Lawn tennis tournament was re
duced almost to an all-U. S. af
fair Thursday with five Yanks
Sixteen Golfers Remain
In National Amateur Play
By BOB MYERS
Seattle W) Slxten survivors
of play, headed by former
champion Charlie Coe and such
strong challengers as Walker
Cup player Jimmy McHale,
allor Gene Littler and Crooner
Don Cherry, head into another
double round of match play
Thursday In the Men's National
Amateur Golf championship.
Coe, the 1949 champion, and
McHale are familiar names in
the national classic.
Littler and Cherry earned
their way into prominence by
producing the two most re
sounding triumphs of the fifth
round Wednesday.
Little, 22-year-old former
Junior star, with perhaps the
most brilliant play thus far in
the tournament, defeated the
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Oregon state Softball chair
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third baseman, after the final
night
holding berths in the quarter
finals. Dick Savitt, Orange, N. J., and
Art Larsen, San Leandro, Calif.,
headed the U. S. survivors and
were heavily favored to gain the
semi-finals Thursday.
Savitt was matched against
Gustavo Palafox of Mexico and
Larsen played tiny Felicisiimo
Ampon of the Philippines.
The other two quarter-final
matches pitted Champion Tony
Vincent of New York against Ed
Moylan, Orange, N. J., and Hall
Burrows, Charlotteville, Va.,
against Kurt Nielsen, Denmark.
Billy Graham
Admits Boxing
Is Hard Work
Chicago VPt At the age of 30,
and after 113 professional
fights, Irish Billy Graham is
willing to admit that it's hard
work being a boxer.
After polishing off rugged
Carmen Basilio, the upstate
New York former onion, grow
er, in 10 rounds at Chicago sta
dium Wednesday night, Graham
said:
"I always liked to fight and
can remember when I'd rather
fight than eat. But now it's just
plain hard work. The only thing
that keeps me going is the
chance at Gavilan's title."
The powerfully-built Graham,
who, in his Chicago debut, im
pressed ringsiders as the sharp
est and cleverest boxer since
Ray Robinson, will shoot for
Kid Gavilan's welterweight
crown in Havana, October 4.
British amateur champion,
Harvie Ward, Jr., of Tarboro,
N. C, 4 and 2.
Cherry, 28, from Garden City,
N. Y., well known in the east as
a professional singer, made it
another year of sorrow for
Frank Stranahan, the perenniaM
contender from Toledo.
Cherry, who has played
without acclaim In three other
nationals, defeated the hand
some Ohio strongboy, 3 and
one.
There were other surprises,
highlights and heartaches in
Wednesday's two rounds. Here
are a few:
Arnold Blum, Macon, Ga a
hot threat, cooled off before the
golf of Paul Johanson, Seattle.
Johanson came out of a tree,
literally, on the ninth fairway
to halve the hole and go on
to win, one up.
Ray Billows, ' Poughkeepsle,
N. Y. a three-time runner-up,
like Stranahan, will have to
wait a year to try again,
Johanson beat him, too, 5 and
3.
Marion Hiskcy, Twin Falls,
Ida., conqueror of 1950 chanv
pion Sam Urzetta, kept going
with twin wins, the' second over
dangerous Dr. George M. Train'
or, Rochester, N. Y., one up on
the 19th.
A 20-foot putt on the 22nd
hole earned a win for Jack
Westland, Everett, Wash., on
the 23rd over Raliegh Selby,
Henderson, Tex.
Coe had a rough time win
ning from John Levlnson, Nllea,
111., S and one, in the fourth
round, but easier against W, B,
Hyde, Olympia, Wash., 4 and 3.
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First Place by Nightfall
Unless th Yankees regain
use oia -ciuica loucn 'inurs-
day, they could be out ( I int
plaee by nightfall for the first
time since June 14,
And Manager Casey Stengel,
resting his aces, Allie Reynolds
and Vic Raschi for the big two
game show-down series with
Cleveland beginning Friday, en
trusted the fortunes of the world
champions to rookie Tom Gor
man in their finale with the
White Sox.
That business of gambling
with second line hurlers was
costly to the Yankees In recent
outings as National League
castoffs Johnny Schmits and
Johnny Bain were kicked
around by the White Sox so
lustily they soon could be
American League castoffs, too.
Sain, effective through most
of the season, faded fast in re
cent outings and lost his third
straight game yesterday, 12 to
3, following similar mistreat
ment of Schmitz in the opener
against the pesky White Sox.
Cleveland, which goes hot and
cold like faulty bathroom plumb
ing, scalded the Red Sox yes
terday with an 18-hit, 18 to 8
victory that featured a 10-run
fourth inning rally. That victory,
in which the Indians scored their
most runs for any game this
year, put them within game
of the top, or closer to the Yan
kees than they have been at any
time since June 14. On that
fateful day, the Yankees twice
Two Pitchers Active Today
Pitched Against Babe Ruth
By MILTON R1CHMAN
New York, u.R They say in
the dugouts:
They're not kidding when
they ask 41-year-old Al Benton
of the Red Sox how he pitched
to Babe Ruth.
"I pitched him low and in
side and prayed," recalls Ben
ton, who, as a Philadelphia
Athletic rookie, faced the Babe
in 1934. "He hit the most beau
tiful 'rainbows' you ever saw
and three out of five of 'em
were homers."
Bobo Newsom is the only
other active major league pit
cher around today who pitched
to Ruth. . .
If you're thinking of going
out and buying a. new home,
consult Joe Landrum of the
Dodgers first. He's an authority
on architecture and still is ma
joring in it at Clemson.
Fancy-stepping Jim Rivera of
the White Sox is just as flashy
on the dance floor as he is on
the base paths.. He's master at
all the steps from the waltz to
the rhumba ....
Several ball players sport
tattoos but one of the finer
pieces of art work consists of
two bluebirds in flight tattooed
across the chest of St. Louis
Brown infielder Freddie Marsh.
George W. Wilson, the Giants'
pinch hitter deluxe, was told by
JoeMcCarthy of the Red Sox
Bronc Business
Boss Resigns
Lewiston, Idaho Vft Bill
Leuschel has resigned as busi
ness manager for the Lewiston
Broncs of the Western Interna
tional League.
Leuschel said Wednesday
night the resignation will be
effective at the end of the sea
son. He has handled the Broncs'
business affairs since the club
re-entered the league last winter.
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defeated the Indians and went
in front to stay. Cleveland could
take over first by one percentage
point today if it wins and New
York loses.
The Indians, who also are
holding back a pair of aces for
the Yankees, named spot
hurler Steve Gromek to go In
the finale against Boston. That
leaves Mike Garcia and Bobby
Feller ready for the Yankee
series.
Chicago put over a six-run
rally in the fourth to kayo Sain.
The White Sox made 14 hits off
five Yankee pitchers, Sam Mele
in 1950, "You can win an out
field job on 15 other big league
clubs the way you hit, but
there's no room for you here."
Likewise, the Yankees gave
up on Karl Drews because they
claimed he got rattled with
runners on base but the lanky
righthander already has com
piled 10 victories with the
Phillies this season. He doesn't
rattle so easily any more. Ask
the Dodgers. He has beat 'em
three times. . .
Rookie J. W. Porter of the
Browns will go through life
without a first name because
his folks couldn't make up their
minds when he was born.
"My mother wanted to name
me James William," he says,
"but my father wanted to call
me Joseph Walter, so they
finally settled on plain J. W,
Gary Ready to
Play in Fort
Wayne Open
Fort Wayne, Ind. VP) Cary
Middlecoff, the Memphis den
tlst, hoped to make a good start
Thursday toward pulling $2,400
first money out of the Fort
Wayne Open golf tournament
winner of. a playoff over
Jack Burke, Jr., of Houston
Monday In the Kansas City
Open, Middlecoff said he liked
the looks of the Fort Wayne
Elks course as he started the
72-hole event.
The field of 98 pros and 20
amateurs also included Julius
Boros of Midpines, N.C., '.he
National Open champ, who le-ids
Middlecoff in pro circuit earn
ings about $34,000 to $30,000,
No player on the West Virginia
unlverstiy baseball team batted
.300 this season. Nevertheless,
the Mountaineers tied for second
in the Southern Conference
northern division.
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getting a homer. Gene Woodling
homered for the Yankees as Saul
Rogovin pitched five-hit ball for
his 11th victory and his second
against New York.
Luke Easter, making two
hits in the 'big Inning at Bos
ton, climaxed It with a grand
slam homer. Larry Doby and
Ray Boone also homered for
the Indians, whe got all their
runs In clusters, four la the
fifth and four In the seventh. '
Bob Lemon breezed to his
15th victory, although he gave
up 15 hits himself.
The Giants were rained out at
Chicago and the Phils kept pace
by defeating the Pirates, 3 to 1.
At St.
Louis, in a game limited;
to 7Vi innings by rain, the Cards
whipped the Braves, 9 to 2.
In the only other American
League game, the Athletics top.
ped the Tigers, 4 to 3, with a
three run rally in the eight. The
Browns and Senators were rain
ed out in Washington,
American Hockey
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NHL Relations
New York UJ9 The Ameri
can Hockey League's lend-lease
program with the National
Hockey League was terminated
Thursday in one of the most
drastic moves ever taken by the
AHL.
Apparently striving for more
independence, the board of gov
ernors of the AHL decided at
a meeting Wednesday night that
under no conditions may any
player loaned to their teams by
the NHL be recalled at any time
during the regular season or
playoffs.
In previous years, the NHL
clubs could recall players after
a 14-day period up to Feb. 15,
or after that date only if one of
their players was injured. This
tended to weaken AHL teams
and reduce their chances for a
playoff berth, t
The governing representatives
of the nine AHL teams also vot
ed to reduce the player rosters
to 13 men, including goaltend
ers, and announced the 1952-53
season will open Saturday, Oct.
11.
Fights Last Night
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outpointed Carman BaeiUo, 143Ve Canaa-
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Five Clubs Can Beat Yanks
By JACK CUDDY
New York U Mansier Paul
Richards ef the Chicago Sex
warned Thursday that "any one
of five clubs" may beat out the
New York Yankees for the
American League pennant nleas
the Yanks Improve their pitch
ing in a hurry.
Did the tall, rangy, sharp
featured pilot figure that his
White Sox still had a flag
chance, although they are now
battling with the Philadelphia
Athletics for fifth place In the
standings?
"I certainly do," said the for
mer Giant and Tiger catcher. "If
we could only generate aomei
power, we d be right up there
now. Our hitting has been unex
pectedly poor this season, but I
still hope to do something about
it."
And who were the other for
midable contenders?
The man in the gray road uni
form with "22" on the back an
swered quickly.
"You can go light down the
list Cleveland, Boston, Wash
ington and Philadelphia. Each
of those clubs Is tough.
"As a matter of fact, we've
found the Athletics recently the
toughest outfit we've faced.
They're a very dangerous outfit."
If Paul and his Pale Hose can
generate power and make a late-
season pennant bid, they will be
reversing the process of last year
when they made an early bid but
sluffed off in the stretch and fin
ished fourth.
On June 7 last season, the
amazing White Sox were la
first place, five full fames
ahead of the Yankees. They
fought for the lead until July
20, after which they began to
descend. A year ago today they
were in fourth place, 10 H
games behind the leading In
dians. Standing beside the batting
cage at Yankee Stadium today,
Richards stressed the fact that
Chicago's hitting had not sup
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"We haven't been getting the
runs," he said. "We've left 920
men on base. At least that was
the figure before Wednesday's
game, and I believe it's the most
in the league this season.
"And we've lost 20 games by
one run. Our hitting has not been
effective."
Panl hopes the return ef
Chiee Carrasquel to the short
stop post will add some pep to
his outfit. Chleo has been out
more than six weeks with a
broken finger en his right
hand. He returned to the Unc
ap Tuesday night for the first
ef three games with the Yanks,
Last season Senor Carrasquel
of Venezuela sparked the Chisox
and earned general recognition
at a shortstop who ranked sec
ond only to Scooter Rizzuto of
the Yanks.
Writen with the Chicago
alub say outfielder Sam Mele
has been the only consistent
hitter this season. His figure Is
about J8t and he has driven
In It rant. Although first
Backer Ed Robinson has about
.J and I BBL he hat been In
a slump recently. Likewise
outfielder Minnie Minos hat
been going hot and eold. Sec
ond baseman Nellie Fox it
showing signs of snapping out
of his terrific slump.
"If we can only get some ef
fective hitting, well still give
anybody a good fight,' Richards
concluded.
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250 swimmers from tlx Western
States and Canada will compete
in the Oregon Open AAU swim
ming and diving championships
here Saturday and Sunday. Clubs
in Oregon, Washington, Idaho,
California, Montana, Colorado
and British Columbia are expect
ed to tend representatives.
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in Oregon with regularity lately,
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Thursday in the national ama
teur golf championships here at
the field narrowed to 16 con
testants. Yost, the Portland sharpshoot
er, got by two opponents Wed
nesday while Dick Hanen of
Coos Bay and Roy Wiggins of
Oswego were eliminated.
Hanen lost to Jack Westland
of Everett, Wash., 9 and 4, and
Wiggins was eliminated by Dr.
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Y., 3 and 2.
Yost won his first match from
Billy Joe Patton, Morganton,
N. C, 3 and 2, and his second
from 17-year-old Jack Lumpkin,
Athens, Ga., 2 and 1.
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Ed Meister, Jr., of Willoughby,
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