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Tuesday, July 29, 1952
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Stengel, Dressen Haven't
Been Canned Yet, But They
May Be Starting to Worry
By UNITED PRESS
Casey Stengel and Charley
Dressen are among the few man
agers they haven't got around to
firing yet in the major leagues
this hectic season, but the way
things were going for them to
day, they could well be envying
the other guys who got the boot.
For it looks as if the panic
could be on for both the Yankees
and Dodgers.
Despite the fact that both still
hold comparatively comfortable
leads, the immediate f uture looks
none too bright. Both Stengel
and Dressen couldn't be blamed
for wishing they didn't have the
cares that were lifted from the
shoulders of Tommy Holmes of
the Braves, Rogers Hornsby of
the Browns, Eddie Sawyer of
the Phils, Sed Rolfe of the
Tigers, and now Luke Sewell of
the Reds.
Hornsby, a bear for trouble,
bounced back into action as
Sewell's successor, but the oth
ers at the moment are enjoying
peace of mind which can't be
shared by the pilots of the two
league leaders.
Brooks Experienced
Brooklyn, which knows more
painful experiences about col
lapsing contenders than the
Yankee empire, suffered the
bigger case of jitters. Whipped
into submission four straight
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nals, their lead was reduced to
four games over the idle Giants
after Monday night's 3 to 2 de
feat. It was the sixth defeat in
the last seven games.
The Yankees are in their worst
slump since Stengel took over
the club in 1949. They lost five
in a row for the longest losing
skein in his regime, won a sec
ond game of a double header
to snap that in Detroit, then
lapsed into bad baseball again
Monday to lose a 12 to 2 de
cision. What could console them,
however, is that they still are
three games in front of second
place Cleveland, whereas at this
time a year ago, they were just
a bare half game in front of
runner-up Boston. Brooklyn,
however, had a fat and growing
lead of nine games at this time
in 1951.
Satch Starts. Wins
In the only other major league
game Monday, ol' Satchel Paige
started his first game of the sea
son for the Browns after many
distinguished relief perform
ances, and he gained a 6 to 3
victory over Washington. It was
Paige night at St. Louis and the
great Negro hurler was present
ed with many gifts. He had to
have relief help from Bob Cain
when he tired in the seventh,
but Cain protected the victory.
It was his seventh win, tops
for his brief but meteoric major
league career. Bobby Young was
the big Brownie batsman, trip
ling home three runs. Pete Run
nels drove in all the Washington
runs with singles.
Cost of Living Hint-
Go. To Ponca City Games
Ponca City, Okla. (U.R)
The Ponca Cily Dodgers want
to set a new national attend
ance record for Class D base
ball clubs and think they have
the right formula.
On Thursday night, fans at
tending ihe Dodgers' game
will get a pass for a future
game, a key chain, a $25 furni
ture sale . discount certificate,
a $10 jewelry store certificate,
a free quart of oil, discounts
on ice cream, a bar of soap
a pack of cigarettes, a minia
ture loaf of bread, potato
chips, comic books, toys and
even bags of flour.
Pass holders are out of luck.
The management wants 7,000
paying customers.
Sergeant Jose Ortega, chief
scout for Portola, discovered San
Francisco Bay in November,
1769.
PCL Real Dog-Fight This Year;
All Teams Have Chance to Go Up
By HAL WOOD
San Francisco (U.R) From
top to bottom the Pacific Coast
league is enjoying one of its
finest competitive years with
every club in the loop fighting
somebody else for a chance to
go up at least one more rung.
As play resumes Tuesday
night with Seattle at Portland,
San Diego at Sacramento, Holly
wood at San Francisco and Oak
land at Los Angeles, the race
shapes up like this:
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A two - team battle between
the Acorns and the Stars for
first place; San Diego pretty
well entrenched in third; Seattle,
Portland and Los Angeles fight
ing for fourth with only 2Vz
games separating them; and San
Francisco and Sacramento en
gaging in a tooth-and-nail en
counter to keep out of the cel
lar with only one game separat
ing them.
As a result of the close com
petition, attendance figures have
picked up all the way through
the circuit. Last week, for in
stance, 84,633 fans turned out
in the four series. Of course,
this doesn't compare with the
pre-television days when Oak
land and San Francisco used
to draw nearly that much in
one series, but it is a good gen
eral indication that the national
pastime isn't exactly dead on the
West coast.
Seattle-Portland Series
Oakland topped the home at
tendance last week with 26,155
fans for it long series with the
Seals; Hollywood drew 23,596
playing against Sacramento;
Seattle, rained out of one night's
revenue, still attracted 20,181
fans. San Diego, in the throes
of a slump, tailed off to 14,701.
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HASTY EXIT Stock-car driver Jim Merrell leaps clear of his
-careening auto as it rolls over during a race in Atlanta, Ga.
Merrell's car was rolled when he was struck from the rear while
trying to avoid another auto stalled on the track.
Softball Action Resumes Tonight;
Babes, Electricians
Action in the Medford Soft
ball league resumes tonight
with Andy's Jewelers playing
Camp White in the first contest
and Trowbridge and Flynn Elec
tric tangling with Eagle Point
in the nightcap.
In contests played over the
week-end the Medford Crater
Babes romped to a 20 to 0 vic
tory over Butte Falls in wo
men's competition and National
Guard defeated Trowbridge
Flynn, 8 to 1, in the men's
league.
J. Ingle pitched a one - hitter
for the Crater Babes and re
ceived plenty of help from her
teammates as they took a 2 toO
lead in the initial inning and
went on to add four more runs
in the second and another six
ih the third. After being held
scoreless in the fourth frame
Medford Driver Sets New Record
But Fails to Win Hardtop Races
Billy Rosenbaum, Medford,
set a new track record at the
Ashland Rodeo grounds when
he drove his hardtop racer for
a 25-second timing in the time
trials Saturday.
Rosenbaum was shut out
through the rest of the evening,
through, because he broke an
axle. This was Rosenbaum's last
race of the season, as his duties
as a crop dusting pilot begin
this week.
Ashland drivers monopolized
most of the first places. Ash
land's Gilbert Wall won the
main event' and Austin, of Ash
land, took the semi-main event.
The special event race was om-
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series mis weeiv. aan iiego win
attempt to get back in the pen
nant chase against the tail-end
Solons; and Hollywood, leading
the pack by one game, hopes to
pad its advantage against seventh-place
San Francisco. Seattle
and Portland always is a natur
al; and Oakland at Los Angeles
is just about as good.
San Francisco (U.R) Right
hander Johnny Lindell picked
up two more victories during
the week to bring his mound
record to 17-5 and a convincing
leadership in the Pacific Coast
league pitching race, according
to statistics released Tuesday by
William Weiss and including
games of July 27.
Next closest among the regu
lar hurlers is Fred Sanford of
Portland with a 12-4 mark. Lin
dell also leads the loop in strike
outs with 124.
Bob Boyd, Seattle first sack
er, is the top hitter with a .321
mark; and Tookie Gilbert of
Oakland leads in home runs with
21 and in runs-batted-in with
82. Carlos Bernier is tops with
the base stealers with 52.
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the Babes roared back with
eight tallies in the fifth.
National Guard Hurler Dick
Phillips gave up just three hits
in pacing the National Guard
nine to its victory. The Guards
men combined two hits and four
walks in the first inning to jump
into a 4 to 0 lead..
While picking up only five
hits of their own, the Guards
men took advantage of eight
walks and three Trowbridge and
Flynn errors, all by shortstop
Lou Schell in the third inning,
to roll up their eight runs.
LINSCORE:
Crater Babes 246 08 20 17 0
Butte Falls 000 00 0 1 8
J. Ingle and Stenson; E. Zimmerlee
and Shephard.
National Guard 440 Ox 8 5 0
T bridge & Flynn ....000 10 1 3 3
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itted because so many cars were
entered in the time trials.
The only Medford racers to
place in the main event were
Kodat, third, and Netherland,
fifth. Kodat was 10th in the
semi-main and Radke of Medford
was 11th.
Whaley, of Medford, won the
third heat. Dennis McCoy, Ash
land, won the trophy dash and
Swain, Roseburg, took the fi
nal heat. Other heat winners
were Janousek, Ashland; Scott,
Klamath Falls, and McCoy, Ash
land. Only one accident was report
ed. Bob Holcomb, Medford, was
slightly cut on the face when
his car flipped and rolled over
six times. Only first aid was
necessary.
Woman Keeps Coffin
In Death Preparation
Honey Grove, Tex (U.R) An
83-year-old Negro woman, who
thought she was on her death
bed in 1935 but who recovered
has kept a coffin with her since
then.
Mrs. Emma Hawkins said she
didn't have enough money for a
coffin when she was sick and she
pledged the Lord she'd buy a
coffin if she got well, "so I'd be
fit to meet the Lord like a body
ought to."
Mrs. Hawkins said she keeps
mothballs in the grey satin-lined
casket and it is just as good as
it was when she paid $65 for it.
Now, she said, it would be worth
three times that.
Many visitors come to see Mrs.
Hawkins and her coffin. She
doesn't object to pictures but al
ways refuses a standard request:
that she get in the coffin for a
photograph.
"I'm only going to get in that
coffin once," she said. "When I
lie down in it, I'm not getting
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Senator McKeller Faces
Tennessee Political Fight
Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) A po
litical fight involving the veter
an Sen. K. D. McKellar is shap
ing up in Tennessee, with the
political leader E. H. Crump in
McKellar's corner in a come
back role.
The white-haired Crump,
whose senatorial candidate lost
to Estes Kefauver four years
ago, hopes that the large Mem
phis and Shelby County vote in
west Tennessee will keep the 83-year-old
dean of the Senate in
his congressional seat.
McKellar, rated an influen
tial man in Washington, is pit
ted against Rep. Albert Gore,
44-year-old middle Tennessee
Democrat, in the Aug. 7 primary
balloting.
Has To Campaign
The Crump organization,
which is moving back into state
wide poltics, is' solidly behind
McKellar, who won re-election
in 1946 without even leaving
Washington. His friends did the
campaigning.
It is not known just what type
of campaign McKellar p'lans this
time, but a "whistle stop" rail
road tour has been mentioned.
Most observers expect McKellar
will be forced to wage an active
campaign to defeat Gore.
Gore has been going up and
down and across the state for
nearly two years, speaking at
civic club meetings, talking over
the radio arid shaking hands.
The winner of the nomination
is virtually assured of election
in the November general elec
tion. Gore was caught in a re-districting
squeeze in 1951 and his
fourth district, which he had rep
resented for 14 years, was elim
inated. He has been busy cam
paigning for the Senate ever
since then.
Fireworks Expected
Kefauver whipped the Crump
organization in 1948 to win elec
tion to the Senate and many of
his backers are lined up behind
Gore this year.
McKellar will have plenty of
powerful support himself and
most observers predict a heated
campaign.
Gore said he planned no per
sonal attack on McKellar and
was making the race on his own
record, but did add that " I have
no machine behind me."
Kefauver, busy with his cam
paigning for the Democratic
presidential nomination, is tak
ing no part in the battle but he
and McKellar have clashed often
and sharply on the Senate floor.
McKellar will equal the rec
ord for service in the senate, 36
years, upon completion of his
present term.
Wields Power
Noted for his quick temper
and loyalty to friends, McKellar
wields great power as chairman
of the Senate appropriations
committee. He is known, as the
"father of air mail service" and
as one of the first backers of
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Gore has been active in sup
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atomic energy program.
Now married and the father of
two children, Gore was only
nine years old when McKellar
was first elected to the Senat
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