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.
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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,
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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.
Dusty Rhodes suddenly becomes
a potent and Integral part of the
Giants and, like everybody else
on the payroll. Is rolling for them
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