PAGE SIXTEEN
THTTRSDAY. MAY 21. 1953
TIME OUT!
Bosox Vault Into Second Spot
Maybe we've been over-lrainins:
Johnson!"
Durocher
Optimistic
CHICAGO W After watching
his New York Giants slam 21 hits
and pump eight runs into one inn
ing against the Chicago Cubs,
Manager Leo uurociier uun
club finally has caught fire and
in ii firat. division.
suuti win ru ifc" '---
Both the number of hitsgood
for 39 bases ana uw w-""'
.iMi. lnnin in vesterdav's 115-6
massacre of the Cubs were season
.highs for the liltn - place - wn.
They now have won eight of their
last 11 games and four in a row.
.35 AVERAGE
During the four-game winning
streak, which goes on the line to
night against the Brooklyn Dodgers
in New York, the Giants have
scored 39 runs and collected 57
hits in 162 turns for a .352 team
average. ,
Eight home runs have been
lammed into the victory march
with Monte Irvln contributing three
in as many successive days.
In addition to Irvin, Al Dark and
Davey Williams had bleacher snots
In the Cubs' debacle yesterday.
Irvln has driven home 10 runs
In the last four games and he and
Dark have collected eight hits each
in- 19 trips. Whitey Lockman has
11 safeties In his last 19 times at
bat.
"In our poor start this season
we lost six games by one run and
that disproves the theory that my
pitching has been real bad," said
Durocher. .
"Our bfc trouble has been lack
of timely hitting. It has thrown
some of the pitchers off stride.
I'm confident guys like Sal Mag
lie Larry Jansen, Dave Koslo and
Jim Hearn will straighten out. I
think maybe we have started to
get those big hits now."
Travel Lodge
Wins Opener
Travel " Lodge clubbed out a 14-2
decision over Midland in the .open
ing game in the Women's City
Softball League last night while
Malln and Oregon Wool were
rained out after three innings of
play in a "no contest" game.
Malin was leading Oregon Wool,
4-2, when stormy weather stopped
the game
Friday night Midland meets Ore
gon Wool and Malln faces Travel
Lodge In games at 7 p.m. and
8:30 on Conger Field.
. By BEN PHLEGAR
AP Snorlswrlter
If the Boston Red Sox can figure
out some way to beat the other
Eastern teams they will be a real
pennant threat in the American
League. They've got the Western
clubs solved lor sure.
The Sox finished u; a profitable
home stand against the West in
sensational fashion yesicraay.
With two out in the 14th inning
the season's longest game -ei
Wilbur blasted his third pinch-hit
home run of the year to give them
n 3-2 triumph over the St. Louis
Browns.
Wilbur's blow off Don Larsen
propelled Boston all the way from
fourth place to second in the stand
ings, three games behind the pace
setting New York Yankees.
The Red Sox have the best In
teractional record in either
league. They burned up the West
early this month on a 6-2 road
trip "and then won six more and
lost only two when the Western
teams came in to visit Fenway
Park. ,
S-S RECORD
Against the Eastern clubs, how
ever, tlie Sox have won just five
while losing eight. They have a
chance to correct this immediately
since Philadelphia comes to Bos
ton for a three-game series start
ing today. Then the Sox take the
road In the, East,
The Eastern American League
clubs s a whole were downright
lnho-oitabie to their Western visit
ors during the intcrsectional sprles
and all four of them ended with
victories. The Athletics defeated
Chicago, 2-1. Washington whipped
Cleveland. B-3. and new Yom
trimmed Detroit, 9-8. All in all the
Eastern teams won 20 and lost 11
during the West-East meetings
wnich oegan May a.
In the National League the west
ern teams, playing at home, man
aged to gain the upper hand, but
only by a margin of 16 games to
13. In yesterday s linaies uincin-
nati thumped the league-leading
Philadelphia Phillies. 14-5: Milwau
kee bowed for the second straight
day to Brooklyn, 7-2: Chicago took
a 16-6 lacing from the New York
Giants and St. Louis won an 11-6
slugfest from the Pittsburgh Pir
ates.
31 HITS
Yesterday's action provided a
little of everything, from tne 14
inning duel in Boston to the 31
hit explosions in Chicago and St.
Louis.
The Giants collected !l nils, a
season's record, good for 39 bases.
ir smothering the Cubs. Monte Ir
vln. Al Dark and Davey Williams
homered for New York and the
attack also included three doubles
Tacoma Feels Serious
Depression in Sports
IIEUTENANT NOW
EL PASO, Tex. UPl J. D. Kim
mel, All-America tackle at the
University of Houston last season,
Is now a second lieutenant In the
U. S. Army. He reported to Fort
Bliss here recently. Kimmel was
a former West Point Cadet and star
of the Army line.
By FRANK WETZEL
TACOMA iff) Tacoma, a city
of almost 150,000 people,- took a
look at its professional sports
scene here this week, blinked, and
then looked ogam, mere was
nothing on view but wrestling and
an occasional boxing card.
Durlnir the past half dozen
years, professional football, bas
ketball, baseball and hockey have
given up the ghost here. The first
two died all over and there was
nothing unusual in their Tacoma
demise.
PerhaDs. the hardest blow fell
last week wren the Rockets with
drew from, the Western Hockey
League at least for tne iudj-m
season.
SMrts fiEures in Tacoma give
these reasons for the decline and
fall of Tacoma's sports empire:
1. Television.
2. Proximity of Seattle.
3. Strong trend toward active
participation in sports.
NOT UNIQUE
Points 1 and 3 above are hardly
unloue to Tacoma. And they have
hurt sports in other cities, Tacom-
ans are quick to point out.
But Muza Patrick, general man
ager of the hockey team, said his
sport wasn't hurt by the closeness
of Seattle.
"We gave fans the same thing
here so it wasn't necessary to go
the 32 miles to Seattle to see nocK-
ey. But I believe it was a big
factor in the loss of the baseball
team 18 months ago."
Robert Abel, Tucoma attorney
who was president of baseball's
from 1941 to 1952 and is now its
secretary, agreed that Seattle base
ball cut into Tacoma gates.
"There's only one pro baseball
team left in Western Washington.
In my opinion, there's no doubt
but what the Rainiers have over
shadowed the other pro ball clubs
In this area," said Abel.
TELEVISION
But he put the finger chiefly on
television.
"Did you see what happened the
n i g h t of the Marciano - Walcott
fight? Three of the strongest
minor leagues in baseball the
Southern and American Associa
tions and International League
either postponed games or played
in the afternoon so there wouldn't
be a conflict in time.
Both Abel and Patrick expressed
conlidence that pro sports would
perk up again, not only in Tacoma
but across the nation. .
Abel thought the novelty of tele
vision would wear off, and said
that civic pride and the desire of
fans to see home teams In action
would breathe life back Into play-for-pay
sports.
Patrick pointed out that partici
pation sports slashed attendance,
but wouldn't condemn them.
"It's healthy for the country. It
may hurt us, but still its a good
thing," he commented.
Certainly golf, bowling, bunting
and fishing have attracted more
and more people and turned them
into participants here. An esti
mated 10,000 people play golf reg
ularly on Tacoma's two. private
and five public courses.
LONG LOOK
Taking a long look at the situa
tion, Danny Walton, sports editor
of the News Tribune, summed up
liie situation thusly:
"Television is blamed for many
of the Ills which have befallen pro
fessional sports; but it is not the
entire answer, more the 'last
straw.' Excessive taxes, increased
competition from the participant
sports and several other factors
could be cited for the decline in
spectator sports. Such Is the trend
of the times; such is the changing
sports show. There is little that
can be done to change 'the course
of progress although there is a
ieenng oi nostalgia. . ."
At least some Tacoma fans feel
something can be done to change
the course of progress. Members
of a hockey boosters organization
here have started to work out a
plan whereby the sport might be
retained.
Some observers think they may
be able to do it, too.
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I and three triples. The victory was
the fourth in a row jor me im
proving Giants.
Curt Simmons, the Phillies' ace
left-hander who retired 27 Milwau
kee players in order after Bill Bru
ton singled Saturday night, couldn't
last four innings against tne Cin
cinnati Redlegs. He gave up seven
hits and seven runs before heading
for cover in the fourth. The Red
legs pulled out of the cellar and
Into seventh place with their tri
umph. which Included home runs
by Ted Kluszewski, Andy Semuiick,
Bobby Adams and Bob Borkowsltl.
LAST
Pittsburgh fell to last place by
pounding out IT hits. Red Schoen
dlenst drove home six of the Card
inal tallies with a perfect night at
bat. His four hits included a home
run, two doubles and a single.
Brooklyn stole six bases in hand
ing Milwaukee its first series loss
at home. The crowd of 23,450 who
watched the track meet in misery
swelled the Braves' home attend
ance to 302,667 for 13 home dates,
21.389 more than the club drew all
last season in Boston,
In a game filled with mtsplays,
the Yankees edged Detroit in the
last of the ninth on Gene Wood
ling's bases-loaded single. The
Yankees used 21 players, two short
of the record they set Sunday
against the Browns, and the 21st
man, Allie Reynolds, who came
in to pitch the ninth, got credit
for the victory,
TWO HITS
Frank shea throttled the Indians
on two hits for seven innings but
had to withdraw with a stilf neck.
The Indians picked up five hits
and three runs on his successor,
Johnny Schmilz, but the Senators
had sewed it up with six runs in
the seventh off Bob Hooper and
Steve Gromek. Bobby Feller, who
worked the first six for Cleveland,
was the loser for the third time
this season. He has won once.
Philadelphia's winning run
against the White Sox came in the
ninth when Billy Pierce, trying for
his sixth victory, . walked three
men, uncorked a wild pitch and
then watched light-hitting Joe As
troth deliver a run-scoring single.
Hogan Says
Field Strong
FORT WORTH, Tex. .HI Ben
Hogan. the talented Texan, led a
Held of 48 into the opening round
of the $25,000 Colonial National in
vitation tournament Thursday with
the laconic observation that "any
body can win this one."
Hogan, defending champion who
thrice in six years of the Colonial
has taken down the winner's
purse, agrees that it's the strong
est iield the tournament ever
knew.
Lloyd Mangrum, long one of the
game's best money-winners and
runner-up here last year, showed
Wednesday he again was a man
to be reckoned with as he blazed
a three-under-par 67 over Colonial
Country' Club's 7,035 yards. His
was the feature tune-up round.
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TOURING REAMES' course is a cinch for Dr. Charles Rugh
in this gas-driven buggy, now in widespread use throughout
the country. This rig seats four players and has room for their
clubs. The handy machine can climb hills with ease, covers 18
holes on one gallon of fuel. There's -two in use at Reames.
Ralph Macartney, owns the other one. They're great for golfers
who like the game, but not the leg-weary exercise that goes
with it.
Kaloine Leads Loop
With Second Straight
Kalplne leads the Men's City
Softball League after registering
.h ttruinht. victory last
night on Conger Field, a 12-4 wal
loping of the Elks.
Suburban Tavern wrecked South
ern Pacific, 10-2, in the first game
for both clubs.
Kalplne's Barnes poled a three
r., hnrn. run m the third Inning
as Kalplne erased a 0-2 deficit with
four runs and went on io tie "h
five in the fourth and three in the
fifth.
Gene Favell, Elks pitcher, gave
up- nine hits; Chet Ashby yielded
seven.
Suburban Jumped into a first-Inning
5-2 lead over Southern Pacific
with Young belting a two-run home
run. Then Gus Gustvang settled
down to blank the Southern Paci
fies the rest of tne way as tne
Tavern nine added three runs in
the second and one in each tha
third and fifth.
Both were flve-innlng games.
priri.v niErht Suburban meets Kle
wits In the 6:30 opener: Bill's Place
and Southern racuio tangle in us
afterpiece.
Line scores:
Suburban 631 01-10 t I
So. Pacific 200 00-2 3 7
Gustvang and Harris; Hafar and
Rummblehart.
Elks 020 20-4 1 S
Kalplne 004 S3-12 -t 3
Favell and Hunter; Ashby and
Barnes.
Gus Erlksen, coach of Syracuse
University's crew, was an alter
nate on the U.S. Olympic rowing
squad or 1036.
BOWLS 807
MILWAUKEE UPl Don Osep,
16-year-old lad bowling In the Luth
eran Center Men's League, recent
ly registered an amazing 607 total
in league play. Don's previous high
had been 698. scored two weeks
earlier. This is his fourth season
of bowling and he carried a 175
average.
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