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Center Fielder Bill Bruton made the throw to home in time to nip Lockman. The Giants won, 1-0. —AP Wirephoto. Phillies Glad to See Cardinals Depart After Two Losses, Tie (Continued From Page C-l.) moved into first place had the Phillies lost last night, trimmed Cincinnati, 7-4. The Giants snapped a three-game losing streak with a 1-0 squeaker over Milwaukee and Pittsburgh trimmed Chicago, 4-2. In the American League, the Yankees whipped the White Sox.

Return to Top With Second-Division Diet The Brooklyn Dodgers, who won the National League pennant last year by feasting on the last four teams, are fattening up at their expense again. And today, after a 10-day absence, they’re back in first place after a strict diet of the lower-placed teams. The Dodgers won their fourth straight last night, a 6-5 uphill battle with the fifth-place Cubs. Prior to that they had won three straight from the last-place Cincinnati Redlegs. And of their earlier victories, three came over the seventh-place New York Giants and three over the sixth place Pittsburgh Pirates.

Courtneys rival 1 1 for the St. Louis catching job i The Browns received an immediate flood of ticket orders for the next Yankee series here in June as a result of that fradas. Major league owners have oe cation to be alarmed about at tendance. In five of seven games played Wednesday crowds were less than 4,000. There isn’t a drawing card in the American League, what with Joe Di- Maggio retired, Ted Williams in the service, Bob Feller past his peak and Mickey Mantle still on the upgrade. When Pete Runnels was batting .125 he said, “There’s only one way I can go—up.” He promptly dipped to .111.

The Red Sox lost ground to the pace-setting Yankees, who rallied for four runs in the ninth to nip Detroit, 6-5. Cleveland advanced to within one game of the Yanks, taking two from Washington, 7-0 and 4-3, and the Athletics moved into I third place with a pair of tri umphs over the White Sox, 4-2 and 10-6. Phillies Tie Dodgers. Brooklyn registered its sixth straight, edging Milwaukee, 4-3. The Phillies tied the Dodgers for first place in the National League, whipping the Cubs twice. 5-1 and 2-0, behind the pitching of Robin Roberts and Curt Simmons.

GENUINE PROJECT—When a man has worked he’s entitled to speak. Ellerbe had done his bit. Now, we thought: It’s disgraceful to invite colleges and hundreds of athletes with the college staff acting so disinterested and indifferent. The Tuskegee Relays should be a genuine school project. Ellerbe atop the road scraper was a one-man work committee. He was working for “The Major” who was taking it on the chin because of apathy and indifference. One Minute Sport Quiz 1. Can you guess within 50 feet of the U. S. ski-jump record? 2. How many games did the Yankees lead the Indians at the end of ’52 pennant race? 3.

Net loss: 352.701 (35 per cent). The National League, with 706.123, is almost 10 per cent be j low its 1952 total. The transplanted Milwaukee Braves, up 38.509 in two games, are one of four clubs to show an increase at the gate. The others are the Athletics (9,250), the Phillies (5,114) and the Redlegs (2.608). The Tigers. American League cellar-dwellers, are more than 100.000 admissions behind their 1952 fiture in their first 14 home games. They drew more than a million with an eighth-place club last year. The Indians are 67.325 in ar rears and the White Sox. 66,684. Brooklyn is behind 53.916: the Red Sox, 41,342; the Yankees, 37,512; the Cubs, 30,991 and the Browns.

The National League lead will be at stake as the Phillies open a three-game series at Brooklyn. Milwaukee will attempt to play its third home game of the Major League Standings Page C-3 year—the Braves have been rained out at their new home four times in six tries—with the Cubs as guests. St. Louis will be at Cincinnati and Pittsburgh at New York. Yankees at Fenway Park The Yankees put their game and-a-half American League lead on the line in Boston after a two-day layoff. The Indians, the Yanks’ nearest pursuers, invade St. Louis. The Athletics are at home to Washington and Detroit visits Chicago.

Homer Barrage Alters Races Braves, Giants and Nats Climb By the Auociated Preti A flood of home runs, offset in a few cases by pitching which made the Athletics, Phillies and Cubs appear futile, has shuffled the major league standings. Cleveland regained the lead in the American League and Brook lyn displaced the Phillies in first place by a half-game yesterday, i but the changes' among the lower clubs probably were more sig nificant.

All American League teams 1 are in the East and all National League clubs are playing in the West for the first time today. In addition to Cleveland's second crack at Ford, there's an- j other opportunity for revenge J tonight. The Browns plan to start Alva (Bobo) Holloman at Philadelphia tonight, and the Athletics will be out to prove that last week’s no-hitter by the rookie was all a mistake. Detroit is at Washington and Chicago plays Boston. In the National League, Brook lyn. leader over Philadelphia by half a game, invades Chicago. The Phillies are in St. Louis. Pittsburgh in Cincinnati and New York in Milwaukee. Pierce Wins Fifth. In yesterday’s only game.

Bob Porterfield of Washington had a one-hitter. Last night Ford baffled Cleveland on one hit —a slow-rolling grounder that never got as far as third base. And Buhl, another Braves first-year man. mastered the Giants on two hits. Yanks Go Two-Up. Ford won his second game, 7-0, giving the Yankees a comfortable two-game bulge over the second-place Indians. Buhl lost his shutout in the ninth, but still triumphed easily. 8-1. The Yankee victory was a masterpiece by Ford, who re fused to sign his contract this spring until he got paid what he thought a Yankee was worth.

Til g h man’s SALTT I,IIXB Isl., who had 3 “big” fish, one about the limit. Inshore small skiff fishermen will collect in the areas of Herring Bay, Thomas Pt. Light Tolly Ft. Use bucktails and spoons with porkrind <fc get close to the bottom while trolling. Buy your tackle from FISHERMEN, not salesmen, at Mills Co., 9th E N.W. Wjjr s Pgr GIVING THE BRAVES A LIFT—Don Liddle (left) and Bob Buhl, a pair of ex-servicemen breaking into the major leagues with the Milwaukee Braves, talk over the two-hitters they pitched in helping the Braves move up to second place in the National League standings. Buhl beat the Giants Tuesday night on two hits, while Liddle pitched his two-hitter Sunday against the Cubs. —AP Wirephoto.

She hasn’t raced yet, and she takes all my attention now.” Cygni is a daughter of Stymie, one-time top money-winning horse of the world. The filly’s gione’s triple and a long fly by Ralph Klner, who went hitless despite a special batting practice session earlier in the day. The Cardinals opened up early on the Dodgers, routing Carl Erskine who had beaten them eight straight times before he could get anybody out in the first inning. Red Schoendienst hit two home runs for the Cards. Gerry Staley went the route for his fourth victory against one loss and contributed two errors in the third inning when the Dodgers scored all three of their runs.

LOVED THE PRAISE OF MEN MORE THAN THE PRAISE OF GOD”! THE TIGERS CAN DO LIKEWISE! I BEGAN MY INSPIRATIONAL EFFORTS WITH “BOOTS” WEBER, I BELIEVE IT WAS, IN THE CUBS’ OFFICE IN THE WRIGLEY BUILDING, CHICAGO, LATE IN APRIL, 1935. THE CUBS WERE GETTING OFF TO A BAD START, AND SO I HAD TO OBEY AN IRRE r .«STIBLE URGE TO REMEDY A SITUATION EXPERIENCE ENCOURAGED ME TO BELIEVE I WAS FITTED. I TOLD MR. WEBER OF THE WONDERS OF GOD’S CHRIST SCIENCE—“SECOND COMING OF CHRIST’’, TRUTH,—THE MESSIAH TO ALL PEOPLES!

Ha previously had blanked Chicago and Philadelphia. The Nats, who lost five deci sions in a row to left-handers, posted their sixth successive win over a southpaw. Harry Brecheen, who started for tha Browns, failed to survive tha first inning as the Nats splurged for five unearned runs after Second Baseman Bobby Young opened the gate with an error. One Game Out of Fourth. Washington's triumph, its seventh in eight games, was achieved to the accompaniment of the soprano screeching of 5,514 Ladies’ Day fans.

The scheduled double-header between Detroit and the Red Sox was washed out. In the National League, the Cincinnati Redlegs must have used up all their hitting power in the first game of their double header against the Dodgers. They won the opener. 13-5, on home runs by Jim Greengrass, Gus Bell, Ted Kluszewski and Wil lard Marshall. But in the nightcap, Carl Esrkine held them to one hit— a bunt down the third base line by Bell—as the Dodgers registered a 10-0 shutout. Erskine’s pitching snapped the Dodgers out of a four-game losing streak.

Dodgers equaled a modem major league record by leaving 18 baserunners stranded in the first nine innings. The game was being played with a time limit because Brooklyn had to catch a train, and the 10th inning was to be the last. The crushing blow came off Preacher Roe, who also threw a home run ball to Andy Semi nick in the fifth inning. Bud Podbielan pitched an amazing game for the Redlegs. He walked 13 men in the first nine innings—one short of the modern National League record —gave up six hits and saw one man get aboard on an error. Yet he was scored on only once, in the first inning when Jackie Robinson doubled after two walks.

Roberts Wins Sixth. While the Braves went down, the Phillies went up. Robin Roberts defeated Cincinnati, 6-3, for his sixth victory against two defeats. The Cardinals edged the Pi rates. 2-1, and the suddenly im proved Giants won their third in a row. a 6-4 deoision over the Cubs in 10 innings. Hank Bauer homered in the 11th inning with a man on base to give the Yankees a hard earned 4-2 triumph over the lowly Tigers, while the second place White Sox lost their second in a row, a two-hit 2-1 verdict to Harry Byrd and the Athletics. The loss pushed Chicago two games back of the pace-setting Yankees. The Red Sox defeated the Browns, 4-3.

Nothing suits him more than catch Ing both ends of a doubleheader All of this is a flashback to his days in the Negro leagues when he played morning, evening and nights find traveled a hundred or more tniles between catching stints. Love of the game, fiardwork and Splendid durability have made hima unique example of the catching art. This art despite Campy’s popularity is on the wane. There are really few good catchers. In the catching department most of the publicity goes to Larry (Yogi) Berra of the New York Yankees Sherman Lollar of the Chicago White Sox, Jim Heagan of the Cleveland Indians, Joe Ginsberg of the Detroit Tigers, Wes Westrum of the New York Giants and Del Crandall of Milwaukee Braves.

Dodgers another half step behind the Cards. The Yankees stretched their lead to 3% games over the idle White Sox by edging Washing ton, 6-5. The Athletics, hitless for five Innings, overpowered Boston, 9-0, in the only other American League game. The Cardinals made up deficits of three and six runs to defeat Cin cinnati, 11-9, to round out the National League action. Five Runs in First. The Giants slammed out five runs in the first inning against Brooklyn’s Joe Black and Ben Wade on a pair of back-to-back triples, a single, double and Bobby Thomson’s home run.

May 23, Manassas, Va. Finds Formula: Start Swinging' pounder, is an example of the tough road many a player has to travel when his career appears “ready made.” Tookie, christened Harold, was born in the baseball tradition, son of Larry Gilbert, long time Southern Association manager and present part-owner of the Nashville club. His brother, Charlie, played with the Dodgers, Cubs and Phillies. When Tookie reached 17 most of the major league clubs were battling for his services.

Mathews' Two-Run Homer Helps Milwaukee to Beat Cubs, 5-3 Spahn Gets Third Win With Lew Burdette's Able Relief Work By tha Atsociottd Prill CHICAGO. May 23 —Ed Math ews’ two-run homer and Lew Burdette’s able relieving helped long-idle Warren Spahn and the Milwaukee Braves to a 5-3 victory over the Chicago Cubs today. The Braves moved into first place in the National League as the Dodgers defeated the Phillies in a night game. Mathews’ key blow in the fifth inning was his eighth homer of the season and produced his 24th and 25th runs batted in.

Moreno Looks Good As Starter, Stopping Athletics on Six Hits By Burton Hawkins In a move designed to bolster their reserve strength, the Nats today acquired Outfielder Carmen Mauro from Brooklyn and sent Outfielder Ken Wood to the Dodgers’ Montreal farm club of the International League. The fleet 26-year-old Mauro, who batted .327 with Montreal last season, will join the Nats in New York tomorrow when they open a two-game series with the league-leading Yankees. Mauro, a left-handed hitter who throws right, batted only nine times with the Dodgers this season and failed to hit.

Speaker had a major league batting average of .344 setting marks of .386 in 1916, .383 in 1912, .388 in 1920, .380 in fx-.-r 11b RR jflUß| :v HELEN STEPHENS. 1923 and .389 in 1925. Toward the end of his career he played j one season with Washington in 1927 and batted .327. Lefty Grove to Attend. Lefty Grove, the former star lefthander of the Philadelphia j Athletics also has accepted an Invitation to attend. Lefty's best year was in 1931 when he won 31 games and lost only 4.

Campanula's one-man rampage brought the Dodgers’ season record against the Giants to .500 —four victories in eight games. But it didn’t gain them any ground in the hot National League race w'here Milwaukee kept rolling in front with a 9-4 decision over the Cubs. The second-place Cardinals also won. 6-3, over Cincinnati for their eighth success in their last 10 starts. The Cards trail the Braves by a game and a half with the Dodgers another half. length behind. Philadelphia, sandwiched between the Dodgers and Giants in fourth place, j smothered Pittsburgh, 14-2, in a twilight game but lost a night contest to the Pirates, 8-6.

Roy Campanella an opportunity to hit with two on and two out. Roy promptly lost the ball in the left field seats for a 5-3 Brooklyn victory. Yesterday, after leadlhg almost all the way, the Giants gave Brooklyn the winning run in the 10th on a missed third strike, a fielder's choice, an intentional walk and a passed ball. Brooklyn won, 7-6. Redlegs Tie Cardinals. The Dodgers now are in third place, a game and a half back of the first-place Braves. Mil waukee was idle yesterday while the Cardinals were held to a 10-10 tie in 10 innings at Cin cinnati. The game was called because St. Louis had to catch a train home.

And Doby Best Batten He Ever Faced Satchel Paige in the current Col lier’s the three best batters he evei1'faced? 1 "l 1 1 Josh Gibson, the late home run king of the Negro leagues, was the best, he says, with Detroit’s Charley Gehrhinger next, and Larry Doby of Cleveland, third. Recalling the pitchers he has known, Satch rates Bob Feller and pizzy Dean at the top. Richard Donovan is the author ’’of a three-part series on the great pitching star beginning in the current issue of the national weekly, out Friday. He points out that Paige is discomfited by the curo sity of reporters prying into him for treasures of the past. “Who’s gonna straighten out 2,500 ball games in my head?” the St.

Manager Jimmy Dykes gave them aday off, claiming they were too full of baseball. Dick Gernert of the Red Sox has hit seven home runs this season, all over the friendly left field fence at Fenway Park Pete Runnels has been benched twice this season 'by Manager Harris When Pete returned after the first layoff he collected three hits against Detroit After being benched the second time he returned to clip Sid Hud son of Boston for two hits.