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WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 1954 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE NINE IFh Lesndl Ami?ksini T Ik . By JOE REICHLER CLEVELAND I A slowly mending linger, a thing called pride and a big booming bat all played a prominent part in the American League's return to the winners' circle. The finger, pride and bat all belonged to one person, Al Rosen of the Cleveland Indians. The box score of yesterday's 11-9 American League All-Star victory over the Nationals shows it was a bases-loaded single by Nellie Fox in the eighth inning a real "bleed er" that drove in the winning runs to end the war of 13 pitchers in Cleveland's Municipal Stadium. But it was Rosen who, despite a painful and swollen index finger, blasted two home runs, drove in five runs and spearheaded the an nihilation of six of the National League's best pitchers. It didn't come to light until later that Rosen had asked Manager Casey Stengel to be taken out after the first inning because he felt he "might hurt the team." "Yes, I went to Casey before the game with the idea that I be taken out of the lineup," admitted Rosen in a.clubhouse interview after the game. "I didn't sleep a wink all night worrying whether I'd be a detriment to the team. "But pride got the better of me. Instead of begging off altogether, I suggested to Stengel that I give It one try because I felt I owned It to the tans who voted me on the team to bat at least once. ALTERNATIVES "Casey and I discussed three al ternatives play three innings, don't play at all or hit once and quit. Since Casey had no power to make any decision, he took the matter to Commissioner Ford Frick. The Commissioner decided to leave it up to me. I told Casey I'd like to go to bat once and then tell him how I felt. "Well, I struck out in the first inning and felt terrible. The finger hurt like the dickens it hurts more when you strike out but I didn't say anything to Casey. Call it foolish pride but I didn't want to bow out that way. If I had at least filed out, it wouldn't have been so bad. I might have quit then. But not that way. I wanted to bat once more. Well, the next time up I hit a home run. You can't Imagine the feeling. And would you believe it, the finger didn't hurt. . .not much, anyway." The homer, hit off starter Robin Roberts in the third Inning, came after the Philadelphia right-hander had walked Chicago's Minnie Mln oso and had given up a single to Cleveland's Bobby Avila. Ray Boone of Detroit followed with a home run to give the Americans a 4-0 lead. FOUGHT BACK The Nationals fought back with five runs against Chicago's Sandy Consuegra and Cleveland's Bob Lemon in the fourth, and added two more runs on a homer by Cin cinnati's Ted Kluszewskl in the fifth, forging ahead 7-5, after the Americans had scored again in the fourth. !sen was not through yet. fin ger and all. After Yogi Berra had singled in the last of the fifth, the 29-year-old converted first base man walloped a second home run. even longer than the first. This 400-foot drive tied the score at 7-1. Rosen got his third hit in the sixth, a hot single off the third base man's chest which didn't figure in the run that put the Americans ahead 8-7 in that inning, Al's walk, however,' played major part in the eighth when the Americans tallied three times to overcome a 9-8 deficit. The Na . tionals had taken a one-run lead when pinch hitter Gus Bell of Cin cinnati hammered a home run off Bob Keegan of Chicago, the sixth of seven pitchers used by Stengel, TEXAS LEAGUE . Trailing 9-8, the Americans tied the score on Larry Doby's pinch- hit homer off Gene Conley of Mil waukee. Singles by the Yankees' Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra pre ceded the walk to Rosen, carl Er- skine of Brooklyn, sixth pitcher used by Manager Walter Alston, replaced Conley and fanned Micke Vernon for the second out but Fox blooped a Texas leaguer in back of second base, just out of the reach of shortstop Alvin Dark, to chase in the winning runs. The victory ended the National's four-game victory streak. It was the first triumph for Stengel, who had not won one in four previous tries. It was by far the wildest of the 21 games of the series, which the Americans lead 13-8. New rec ords were set for most hits by one team, 17 for the American; most hits by both teams, 31; and most runs scored by both teams, 20. The six homers tied a record as did the two by Rosen and the five runs batted in by the slugging in fielder. A total of 44 players were used, 22 by the Nationals. The attendance was 68,751. I 1 a J i " v!!fy I MINIMI I , MKS-S.Mfcl Hill I irfl" Giants deceive IHIelp From their Sources More Sports On Page 10 & 11 By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor NEW YORK (NEA) Baseball Is a game of momentum and a club as hot as the Giants gets help from unexpected sources. An outfit traveling at an .829 clip. 39 out of 35, which is what the New York Nationals had done going into their second big series with the Dodgers in a week, carries everybody along with it. Thus we see one James Lamar Rhodes, who had an indifferent year in 1953, suddenly emerge as the most fearsome member of the Polo Grounds party. "Dusty scares the h out of those guys," beams Leo Durocher. The Dodgers have Rhodes' coun terpart In husky Walt Moryn, called up from St. Paul to make 12 hits in his first 25 times at bat for .480. AL. ROSEN booms for Americans NELLIE. FOX . single cinches game CLAYTON HANNON, Sports Editor TONIGHT'S BALLFARE MEN'S SOFTBALL at Conger Field 6:45 Elks vs. Round-up 8:30 Suburban vs. Bill's Place WOMEN'S SOFTBALL at Conger Field 6:45 Chiloquln vs. Big Y PEE WEE SOFTBALL. AMERICAN LEAGUE at Kiwanls Park 6:30 Eastside Electric vs. Motor Investment 6:30 Pelican Drive In vs. Fluhr-ers I PEE WEE SOFTBALL NATIONAL LEAGUE at Conger Field 6:30 Grems vs. Jaycees :30 Y.M.C.A. vs. M. L. Johnson Famed US Sports Writer Dies IN BRIEF By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BASEBALL CLEVELAND The American League defeated the National League, 11-9, in the annual All- Star Game. GOLF DENVER Hal McCommas, Southern Methodist sophomore, llluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu remained the favorite in the Na tional Publinx Tournament with a 5 and 4 victory over Sherman A. Conrad of Toledo, TENNIS CHICAGO W Top-seeded Tony Trabert took only 36 minutes to to dispose of Bernard Frank CHICAGO Top-seeded Tony of Evanston, HI., 6-1, 6-2, to move into the third round of the Na tional Clay Court Championships. RACING INGLEWOOD, Calif. Fail Molly ($14.70) was the winner of the Lassie stakes at Hollywood Park. NEW YORK Wl Orantland Rice, who for more than 50 years cover the top events in baseball, golf, football, tennis and racing, Is dead. He was 73. Known as the dean of America's sports writers,- "Granny" was stricken in his office yesterday while at work on his syndicated column "The Sportllght." He died in Roosevelt Hospital. Rice originated the phrase "The Four Horsemen of Notre Dame, which grew into a legend after the Army-Notre Dame football game of 1924. It referred to the Notre Dame backfield of Elmer Layden, Harry Struldreher, Jim Crowley and Don Miner. He saw Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth begin their careers as rookies and later said he considered them the best ball players of the thousands he watched. Rice started his career in 1901 with the Nashville News and later worked lor Porester Magazine, the Atlanta Journal, the Cleveland News, the Nashville Tennessean, the New York Evening Mall, the New York Tribune and the Bell Syndicate. He is survived by his widow Kaiherine. whom he married In 1906, and a daughter, Mrs. Fred Butler of Venice, Calif. Rice was born In Murfreesboro, Tenn., Nov. 1, 1880. Funeral ar rangements have not been completed. Until this season, Dusty Rhodes, who thrives on fast ball pitching. was bothered more than somewhat by a chance of pace. In the Giants' first game in Japan last fall, a Utile Nipponese pitcher pulled the string on him. "The word has even gotten over here," snapped Rhodes on his re turn to the dugout. "If I played at the North Pole, some Eskimo would throw me a change up." Either enemy Ditchers forgot about his weakness or Rhodes cor rected it, for when he manufac tured his fourth home run of the season, a three-run winning blast Into the right field seats at the Polo Grounds off Murry Dickson of the Phillies, the personate young man out of Montgomery, Alabama, was batting an even .500. with 18 hits out of 36 trips. He then popped up to go into the Brooklyn set with .485. The Giants must be hurtin' when Rhodes bats for Monte Ir vln," remarked Roy Campanelln of the Dodgers. But with the count 2 and 1 In the 13th. Billy Loes of the Brooks was foolish enough to give Rhodes a ball he could hit and Dusty broke up a most exciting game with a line single between Junior Gilliam and second base. With two outs and two strikes on him in the same situation the next afternoon, Rhodes repeated to tie the score, after which Wes trum won it with a sacrifice fly. Before being Inserted in the slumping Irvin's spot in left field, Rhodes had delivered 11 pinch hits in 18 tries. Bobby Hofman had belted seven pinch hits that fig ured in winning games. The Dodgers put a brain trust Andy High, Red Corriden and Ar thur Dede on the Giants in the double - header with the Phillies that preceded the Important Eb bets Field series. The scouts saw the Phillies pull a shift on Tiger Rhodes in his last trip, Shortstop Bobby Morgan to the right of second base, Second Baseman Granny Hamner way over and First Baseman Earl Tor geson on the line far back of first base. With tills alignment, the short stop would have thrown out Rhodes on four of his more re cent payoff hits, Including the two that cost the Superbas so much. But Rhodes, the natural pull left- hand hitter, has watched the ball drop saiely for Don Mueller though it had eyes. Is choking up his bat slightly and Is no longer pulling for the seats. He can poke the ball into left field. 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