-2 'Fl PAGE FOUR THE Mi'rHTr A N n A TT.v PAGEaFOL' T 111 MIrUf!ThT UbATW11 7 THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1961 Blanchard Ties Homer Record, HOP-STEP-JUMP, DISCUS EVENTS: Boston, Silvester Challenging Polish World Track Champs I - n By The Associated Press NEW YORK-Four home runs, two of them in successive turns at bat by John Blanchard, gave the Yankees a 5-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox and pre- served New York's thin grasp on first place in the torrid American League race yesterday. Blanchard had homered as a ninth-inning pinch hitter in both the Friday and Saturday games at Boston and thus became the sev- enth major leaguer to hit home runs in four consecutive appear- ances at the plate. Ralph Kiner, one-time Pittsburgh great, did it twice. Mickey Mantle, who preceded Blanchard in the batting order, got his 39th of the year in the first inning and drew even with Johnny Mize, hitting star of a decade ago, in the all-time homer derby with 359. Babe Ruth had a career total of 714 and his 60 in 1927 is Mantle's target. The Yankees got eight homers in the twin bill with the White Sox Tuesday night and now have smashed 31 since the all-star game on July 11. They now have collect- ed 135 for the season. The major league mark is 221 by the New York Giants of 1947 and equalled by Cincinnati in 1956. The Yanks of 1956 top the American League with 190. All the Yankee runs were counted on homers. Bobby Rich- ardson opened tle first inning by drawing a walk from Ray Her- bert and scored ahead of Mantle. Then came Blanchard's first poke. In the fourth Blanchard's rec- ord-equally smash was followed by Clete Boyer's seventh of the year. It was his third in two games. Roger Maris, who got four homers Tuesday night to boost his major league lead to 40, went hitless. Orioles 5-9, Red Sox 1-2 BALTIMORE-Four Baltimore Oriole pitchers limited the Boston Red Sox to eight hits last night as the Orioles swept a twi-night doubleheader, 5-1 and 9-2. Billy Hoeft, Wes Stock and Hoyt Wilhelm combined for a two- hitter in the opener, striking out 14 Boston batters and leaving 10 base runners stranded.. Jack Fisher hurled a six-hitter in the nightcap as he won his fourth decision after nine losses. The Red Sox were held hitless for 91/3 innings from the fourth in- ning of the first game until Jack-, ie Jensen doubled to open the; fifth inning of the nightcap. Jim Gentile and Jackie Brandt each knocked in three runs for Baltimore in the second game. Gentile's 28th homer, off loser; Gene Conley (4-10) in the fifth inning, upped his RBI total to 93.- Brandt singled home one run in Baltimore's 3-run fifth, and two more during a 5-run eighth in- ning rally off Mike Fornieles. ; Jensen scored one Boston runi in the fifth when Oriole catcher Gus Triandos dropped the ball on a tag play at the plate. Jens4,A singled to knock in another in the sixth.1 Hoeft allowed one run in the1 opener before a blister forced him to retire in the sixth inning. Re-1 lievers Stock and Wilhelm each pitched two innings of hitless ball and struck out for apiece. Stock, the winner, is now 5-0. Baltimore scored five runs off1 Bill Monbouquette, four of them unearned, in the seventh inning. Two runs scored on the pitcher's bases-loaded throwing error. I Boston. catcher Jim Pagiaroni suffered an injury to his right thumb on a foul tip in the eighth inning of the opener and had to leave the game. i Cubs 7, Cardinals 6 CHICAGO-Pinch batter Bobby Will's two-out single with the bases full scored the winning run as the Chicago Cubs defeated the St. Louis Cardinals and Lindy McDaniel 7-6 in 12 innings yes- terday. After George Altman fanned to open the 12th, Ron Santo sin- gled and moved to second when McDaniel threw out catcher Sam- my Taylor. Santo took third on a wild pitch, and both Ernie Banks and Ed Bouchee were purposely t passed to fill the bases. Then Will came off the bench and stroked his 22nd hit of the 1 season on McDaniel's 2 and 1 pitch to score Santo. The victory, the Cubs' fifth in 18 games between the two teams thus far, enabled the Chicagoans to snap a five-game losing streak against St. Louis. Barney Schultz chalked up his fourth win among six decisions via his eighth relief role in the past 10 days. After Julian Javier lifted the Cardinals into a 3-3 tie with his first homer of the season in the eighth, the game turned into a slugfest. The Cubs took a 6-3 lead in their half as Ernie Banks, absent from the lineup as a starter for 11 straight games, stroked his 14th homer in a pinch batter role off Ed Bata. Banks' blast, his first homer since July 7, followed Billy Wil-I liams' single and an intentional pass to Sammy Taylor, anothera pinch batter. The Cardinals tied it up, 6-6, in the ninth when Ken Boyer doubled across the first run and Stan Musial used his second single of the day to drive in two more runs. * * * Dodgers 6, Phillies 1 PHILADELPHIA - Norm Lark- er clouted the first grand slam home run of his career last nightt as the Los Angeles Dodgers con- tinued their rush towards the top of the National League with a 6-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phil- lies. Larker, a line-drive type hitter,l sent a screaming wallop over the rightfield wall with Willie Davis, Wally Moon and Tommy Davis on base with two out in the eighth inning. Frank Sullivan, a right-t hander, was on the mound for ther Phillies. It was Larker's fifthc round-tripper of the campaign. "I was just trying to get the fatF of the bat on the ball," Larkere said afterward. The blow broke, up a tight 2-1t mound duel between Don Drys-c dale and Sullivan, who replaced1 Jim Owens when the latter left; after the third inning due to aa muscle spasm in his right should-t er. It was Drysdale's eighth win in1 14 decisions and his ninth straightv over the Phillies in a three-season7 span. Owens has won one and lost four.7 John Roseboro, elevated to thec third slot in a batting order thatt contained six lefthanded swingers,s drove in the first Los Angeless runs with a single in the third in-s ning. On the safety, Willie Davisf went to third and came inpas t Moon grounded into a double play. * * * Pirates 8, Giants 3 d PITTSBURGH - Pitcher Bob Friend broke a tie with a two-outV bases-loaded single in the sixthe inning last night, and Pittsburghs went on to defeat San Francisco 8-3. The victory halted the Pirates' five-game losing streak. The right-hander's hit to left field, with the game knotted 3-3, came after Dick Lemay walked Bob Clemente, gave a single to Don Hoak and walked Bill Mazer- oski. Friend, who was rattled for 11 hits in the first five innings, went the distance for his 10th victory against 13 defeats. H held the Giants to one hit through the last four frames. San Francisco starter Jack Salford held the Pirates hitless through 41/3 innings but was shell- ed for three runs on four hits in the fifth. Smoky Burgess got the first hit, a triple to left-center. A walk to Hoak and singles by Maz- eroski, Bill Virdon and Dick Groat followed. That rally stalemated the con- test as the Giants had scred three in their half of the fifth. Harvey Kuenn singled and scored on Matty Alou's triple, his sixth consecutive hit in the series. Wil- lie Mays then singled, sending Alou home. Mays stole second and came around on Ed Bailey's sin- gle. Lemay, the second of three Gi- ant hurlers, suffered his third loss. He has two victories. Mazeroski, with two singles, ex- tended his hitting streak to 13 games. Clemente, who walked twice, had his 13-game streak halted. * * * Twins 10, Senators 9 MINNEAPOLIS - ST. PAUL - Minnesota withstood an extra- base hit barrage by Washington last night and went on to a 10-9 victory over the Senators. A four-run sixth inning wrap- ped things up for the Twins and gave reliever Bery Cueto his first major league victory. He has lost three. . It took Ray Moore, the fifth Twins' pitcher, to preserve the victory. He came on in the ninth with men on first and third, one out and one run in. He struck out pinchhitters Chuck Hinton and Chuck Cottier. Julio Becquer drove in the ty- ing run in the sixth with a pinch single. Then, after Becquer went to second on an outfield fly, Len- ny Green sent the Cuban and thei walking Ted Lepcio across with aJ one-bagger up the middle. Harmon Killebrew's RBI double complet- ed the scoring. The Senators banged out a to-t tal of seven extra base hits, in- cluding three doubles, a triple and home runs by Chuck Cottier, starting pitcher, Benny Daniels and Billy Klaus. Klaus's was a three-run shot in a five-run Washington sixth inning. Marty Keough drove in the other twof with a triple, giving the Nats a1 7-6 lead. A total of 18,658 watched the Twins stake starter Camilo Pas-_ cual to 3-0 and 6-2 leads before the righthander was lifted in the sixth. The crowd brought Minne- sota's total attendance for the season to 747,820, or 4,416 more fans than the team drew the en- tire season uin bWashington.h - Lepcio clubbed a three-run homer for the Twins and Greent drove in four runs.] Dave Sisler, the third of fivet Washington pitchers, was the los- er of his fifth game in seven starts. 1 By The Associated Press \, Now that he has taken on all comers in the broad jump, Ralph Boston suddenly has found himself pressed into emergency service as a hop, step and jumper. The world record holder (27- 1%) from Tennessee A&I will be the No. 2 U. S. jumper against Poland Saturday and Sunday, and he already is thinking big. "Boy," he said today, "would I like to catch that world record holder against the wall and beat him." Boston was thinking about Jozef Schmidt of Poland, who holds the world hop, step and jump mark of 55 feet,10/ 4in- ches. This is a big event behind the Iron Curtain and around Po- land they can't understand why more Americans don't go in for it. Boston will replace Bill Sharpe, who was sent home to Philadel- phia Monday because of a bad leg. Ira Davis has the best jump ever by an American, 53-10, which he made at the Olympics in Rome last year. "I never have competed in the hop, step and jump seriously," said Boston. "In fact the last time I tried it was back in the states when I saw a prize list that awarded nice luggage to the win- ners. So I won a suitcase. "But I'll go at it to win this time. I don't know how far I can go, but I'm certain I should be able to do a lot better than, say, 50 feet." Schmidt, who has had an ap- pendectomy recently, as of late has been getting beaten regularly by his teammate, Ryszard Mal- cherczyk, who has a 53-11%/4 to his credit. If Schmidt doesn't improve, Boston may have to worry more about Malcherczyk. "I don't mind competing in both the hop, step and jump and the broad jump," said the angular Boston. "It was a tough break that Sharpe got hurt, so if I can step in and get some points, I'm happy to do it. "There's really not aneawful lot of difference between the broad jump and the hop, step and jump. I think there is more pressure on your legs in the spring in the hop, step and jump, but not much else except a lot of practice." * * * WARSAW O) - Big Jay Silves- ter, an Army lieutenant from Trementon, Utah, thinks he is ready to: 1) Break the world discus rec- ord. 2) Break another "impossible" barrier-200 feet. 3) Show the world champ how it's done. Silvester will have a chance to do all three in the United States- Poland track meet Saturday and Sunday. The discus is the big event on the program for the Poles. They have the co-world record holder in Edmund Piatkowski (196-61/2) and he's practically a national hero. "I'm ready as I'll ever be for the big one," said the confident Sil- vester. "I had a couple of fouls over the record in our meet with West Germany and another against Great Britain. "There's no doubt that I'm ready. I threw one 201 feet in practice the other day, so I know it can be done." Silvester said he has been build- ing up to this meeting with Piat- kowski all year. Against Russia, Germany and Great Britain, he knew he had nothing to worry about. Now he does. "I've been having one little problem," said Silvester, "that has me worried. I haven't been sleep- ing well and that can hurt an athlete more than anything else. You can't coordinate your muscles when you are tired. But I hope to get plenty of sleep before we hook up." A I 4 4 A d MICKEY MANTLE BROOKS ROBINSON . . . number 39 ... necessary run Palmer Determined To Take PGA Championship for Crowmn CHICAGO (A) - Arnold Palmer, determined to complete the cycle reserved only for the greats' of golf, begins his bid for his fourth major title within 16 months to- day in the PGA Championship at picturesque Olympia Fields. The bronzed, strong boy from Latrobe, Pa. - fresh and eager after winning the British Open 10 days ago - needs only the PGA Championship to put the fourth and final jewel in the crown of golf he's worn the last two years. Palmer is a 5-1 favorite to win the championship and become the third player of all time to com- plete professional golf's "grand slam." Winner of the Masters and U.S. Open in 1960, the muscular young pro from Latrobe, Pa., added the British Open crown recently at Birkdale. Now he needs only the PGA to complete the magic cycle achieved only by Ben Hogan and Gene Sarazen. Bob Jones, the great amateur of sport's golden era, won the U.S. Open and Amateur and the Brit- ish Open and Amateur in a single year - 1930 - but he was in- eligible for the PGA. "My ambition always has been to win the big four championships (British and U.S. Opens, Masters and PGA) in a single year," Pal- mer said, "but, failing this, I'll settle for doing it in two years." Palmer tees off at 9:54 a.m. over the famed Olympia Fields North Course with his chief rival for the year's golf honors, Gary Player of South Africa, and Don January of Dallas. Player, winner of the 1961 Mas- ters in which he beat out Palmer by a single stroke, is second fa- vorite at 6-1 and others fall back at even greater odds, including the defending champion, Jay Herbert, at 10-1 and Gene Littler, the U.S. Open Champion, at 12-1. Littler is a forlorn, forgotten figures in this 72-hole event, which has drawn a field of 168 ranking professionals. He has been prac- ticing in semi-privacy. The experts have given him hardly a tumble. "I'm not worried about it," said the taciturn stylist. "I'm playing all right." The star-spangled field of tourn- ament tourists and stay-at-home instructors includes 14 past win-, ners of the championship, plus a heavy flavoring of former Open and Masters winners. Sam Snead is seeking his fourth PGA and Denny Shute his third. None is yet in a position of challenging the five PGA victor- ies of the great Walter Hagen, who captured the third of his titles over this same course in 1925. It was here also that Johnny Farrell beat Bob Jones in a playoff for the Open Championship in 1928. Olympia Field's North Course is a rolling layout of 6,722 yards, toughened by new and heavier rough and 13 additional fairway traps. Snead and others have com- plained that its target area has been so slenderized that the course is grossly unfair. Richards Refutes Charges Of Ties to Texas Baseball .. Davis Cup Star Beaten As Froehling Advances HAVERFORD, Pa. (R) - Frank Froehling of Coral Gables upset top-seeded Chuck McKinley, U.S. Davis Cup player, 6-2, 8-6, yes- terday to reach the quarter-final round of the Pennsylvania Lawn Tennis Championship at Merion Cricket Club. Froehling, recent runner-up for the Irish Championship, cracked McKinley's service in the final game to win. He and McKinley are members of the Trinity Col- lege Varsity at San Antonio, Tex. In another upset, John Powless, U.S. Junior Davis Cup team coach of Aurora, Ill., defeated third- seeded Vic Seixas, Philadelphia, winner of the championship seven times since 1946. The score was 6-4, 2-6, 6-3. Jack Frost,' Monterey, Calif., came from behind Dennis Ral- ston, a Davis Cup player from Bakersfield, Calif., 4-6, 6-3, 6-4. Bob Mark, Australia Davis Cup player, put out the eighth-seed- ed American, Ramsay Earnhart, Ventura, Calif., 6-4, 6-4. Fourth-seeded John Douglas. Santa Monica, Calif., defeated Al- len Fox, U.S. intercollegiate champion from UCLA, -6-4, 7-5 after Fox was one point from win- ning the second set. The fifth-seeded American, Ron Holmberg, Brooklyn, N.Y., surged back from 1-3 in the sec- onn set to defeat Larry Nagler, North Hollywood, Calif., 4-6, 7-5, 6-0. Nagler held the U.S. inter- collegiate title last year as a UCLA student. BALTIMORE UP) - Manager Paul Richards of the Baltimore Orioles yesterday emphatically denied reports that he would quit the team next year to take a baseball job in his native Texas. A report out of New York said he would take over as general manager of the new Houston club when the Colts enter the expand- ed National League next year. Another report, published by the Baltimore News-Post, said the 52-year-old Richards would be- come manager, general manager, or both of the Dallas-Fort Worth team in the Class AAA American Association. "I'm not going to Dallas, Hous- ton or anywhere else," Richards said before last night's twi-night doubleheader with the Boston Red Sox. "The stories are baseless and have no foundation of fact. I have not been offered the kind of job they describe. "It's embarrassing to turn down jobs that haven't been offered," Richards said, "but what else can I do." Richards reiterated a previous statement thst he would not man- age another club after he leaves Baltimore, where his current con- tract. has two years to run. Referring to a general man- ager's post, he said, "I do not want a job that will confine me in the winter time." He said such con- finement was the "most onerous part" of his dual position as manager-general manager with Baltimore a few seasons ago. "It's nice to think you're in demand," he said, "but frankly I'm not awarP of it. I hope when I'm out of a job someone will offer me one." "I can't run theseother cities down," Richards added. "What if someone in Texas offers me four or five oil wells and $100,000 a year?" The New York report said Richards would be the general manager at Houston. q ZINDELL OLDSMOBILE Ann Arbor, NO 3-0507 41 Malone Fails In Speed Run DAYTONA BEACH (RF)-- Art Malone got the Mad Dog IV race care above 170 miles an hour yes- terday and went after a record 180 when a minor mechanical failure killed his hopes for an- other day. "It handles beautifully with the air foils," Malone said after tak- ing a lap around the 2.5-mile high banked Daytona International Speedway at 170.564 m.p.h. A few adjustments were made in the suspension system to shift a little more weight onto the left front wheen. Then Malone wvent back on the track in the specially built car to try for the elusive 180 and the $10,000 prize posted for the first one to make it, but a fuel pump failed him. F COLLEGE ALL STARS: UCLA's Kilmer Shines As Chicago Ties,. 14-14 a it b i a E a S' e p it Major League Standings AMERICANl New York x-Detroit Baltimore Cleveland Chicago Boston Washington x-Los Angeles Minnesota Kansas City x-Playing night LEAGUE W L Pct. GB 63 33 .656 - 63 35 .643 1 54 45 .545 103 54 46 .540 11 50 50 .500 15 45 56 .446 20/ 43 54 .443 20% 43 55 .439 21 41 56 .423 22 JA 35 61 .365 28 game. RENSSELAER (I)-The, College\ All Stars today displayed a blister- ing air attack, mainly behind the passing of Bill Kilmer of UCLA, to tie the Chicago Bears 14-14 in a full game football scrimmage. It was the collegians climactic tuneup before they take on the National Football League cham- pion Philadelphia Eagles in the annual All Star Game in Soldier Field Aug. 4 in Chicago. The All Stars spotted the Bears a 14-0 lead before quarterback Kilmer got them rolling in the second quarter. He completed eight of 11 passes, including six in a row, as the collegians went 80 yards in 11 plays. Kilmer's main targets in the surge were Aaron Thomas of Oregon State, Mike Ditka of Pittsburgh, Pervin Atkins of New Mexico State and Glyn Gregory of Southern Methodist. Atkins scored the touchdown ons a 22 yard pass from Kilmer. Atkins also scored the second touchdown early in the fourthI period on a four yard run. It George Fleming of Washington booted both extra points and also was just wide of making a 62 yard field goal. The Bears met a stubborn de- fense and were held to 77 yards rushing. They made good on 15 of 28 passes for 103 yards. The All Stars gained 156 in the air with 18 completions in 30 at- tempts. Bear fullback Rick Casares netted 40 yards on eight carries and caught three passes for 21 yards. I FINAL CLEARANCE of Van Boven's Semi-Annual Sale NECK WEAR DRESS SHIRTS Values to 8.95 Values to 5.00 Co 6 Now ;3"5 3for 11.54 . SPORT COATS 1/ZOFF India Madras, light and regular weights Other items on sale include wash 'n wear shirts, sport shirts, swimsuits, hose, etc. 4 i 11 YESTERDAY'S RESULTS New Yerk 5, Chicago 2 Cleveland 12, Kansas City 5 Baltimore 5-9, Boston 1-2 Minneapolis 10, Washington 9 Detroit 5, Los Angeles 4 (inc.) TODAY'S GAMES Cleveland (Grant 9-4) at Kansas City (Ditmar 2-5) Chicago (Pierce 5-6) at New York (Terry 5-1) (n) Boston (Stallard 0-0) at Baltimore (Hail 5-4) (n) Washington (McClain 7-10) at Min- nesota (Lee 2-2) (n) ATINALr. TEAGUE rf JB ": tI4a; ~~ .. '1 #' '.# gh g i. 2+' i 4} .'.4 iiy , }'' .K} ?:{+. Y;% xyy ' ::5 HEATHWARE - California Ii i I 0