E Two Four I-M Tournaments Begin f i's I By DICK KRAUS Daily Sports Staft GUS PHAN, the guy in the bleachers, baseball's bread and butter, finds himself in an extremely unfamiliar situation as the first postwar season approaches the midway mark. Whereas in former years, Gus from Brooklyn and Gus from Detroit could not only tell the uninformed who played what position for his re- spective favorites, but he could also recite at the slightest provocation the batting and fielding averages of the whole team. This bewildering season, Gus finds himself in the strange position of not knowing until just before the game who is going to play for his team. Almost every team in the two leagues has been revamping lineups so fast that if Gus misses a couple of ball games his lineup information is obsolete. Chief source of Gus's quick change headache during the current cam- paign has come from the inability of third basemen around the Major cir- cuits to hold their jobs. Only Cicinnati, with rookie Grady Hatton a hot corner fixture since opening day, seems to have escaped the epidemic of job lot quan- tities of third sackers. Both Boston clubs, both New York teams, Brook- lyn, Washington, the Chicago White Sox, the Philadelphia Phillies, and the Detroit Tigers all have had two or more men at third base since opening day., OF THE OTHER TEAMS injuries have at one time or another shelved such hot corner standouts as Ken Keltner of Cleveland, and Stan Hack of the Chicago Cubs. Mark Christman of the St. Louis Browns, vacated the third sack to fill in at shortstop while Vern Stephens was out with injuries, and Whitey Kurowski of the Cards, who was a holdout during the spring, sat out most of the early season games. Strangely enough, Gus from Joe Cronin's town has had more hot corner headaches than any other Gus in either league. He doesn't rate much sympathy from the rest of the circuit, what with his club a good se- ven laps in front of the field, but Gus from Boston has watched five dif- ferent third basemen in the seventy some games played thus far. Ernie Andres, the highly touted rookie, fizzled out and was replaced by Eddie- Pelligrini, Leon Culberson, an outfielder, Rip Russell, the ex-Cub first baseman, and finally ancient Pinky Higgins. Gus from Washington has also had quite a time keeping track of his third base guardians. Changes came so rapidly in the capital city that even the s ht of Sen. Bilbo playing third wouldn't have been a complete surprise. Sherryr Robertson, Gil Torres, George Myatt, and Bill Hitchcock, a waiver fugitive from Detroit, have all had a crack at the hot spot. Leather lunged Gus, the "Bum" fan has watched Lew Riggs, since released, Pistol Pete Reiser, imported from Flatbush center field, Billy Herman, traded to Boston, and Cookie Lavagetto, the current custodian, each try his hand at third. ON THE OTHER SIDE of the Brooklyn bridge, Gus the Giant fan looked on while Bud Kerr, Bill Rigney, Sid Gordon, and Mickey Witek took turns at third base. Over in the Bronx, Snuffy Stirnweiss and Bill Johnson have been stag- ing a ding dong battle for the job, with the latter holding a slight current edge. The Boston Braves have used three third sackers to date, Al Ro-' berge, now back in the minors, Nanny Fernandes, and at present Connile Ryan. Philadelphia's resurgent Phillies have confined themselves to two hot corner operators, Jim Tabor, the ex-Bo Sox belter, and Roy Hughes, a former Cub. In' the West the situation is much the same. The Chicago White Sox have used Dario Lodigiani, who was hitting .386 when he suffered an arm injury, Bob Kennedy, and Leo Wells, a rookie, while the St. Louis Browns have used Mark Christman, Bob Dillinger, and Johnny Lucadello. In. Detroit, Gus has seen his Tigers solve the hot corner problems, for not one, but three teams. The World Champions have cast off Pinky Higgins and Billy hitchcock, who are playing regularly for the Red Sox and Washington respectively. In addition to these two, the Tiger's Gus has watched Jimmy Outlaw and George Kell perform at the hot corner. Maybe it's a good thing that Gus has all these third basemen to worry about because while he is bound to have a hot corner favorite he is equally bound to find someone who thinks that favorite is a bum. This is a good thing because Gus is always happiest when he has spmething to argue about, and for this season, at least in the American League, he seems to have stopped arguing about the usual thing, namely, "who's gonna win the pen- nant." SKATING GOLFER ! Betty Jane Courtright Excels In Year Round Sports Actvity Pauline Betz Wins Singles At Winmbledon Brown, Kramer Score in Doubles By The Associated Press WIMBLEDON, July 6 "- Pauline Betz started an American avalanche with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over her Wightman cup teammate, Louise Brough, on the sun-drenched center court in the singles' final of the All- England tournament- at Wimbledon and from there on the gallery sat back and watched an unbroken string of four triumphs by the free-swingers from California. Tom Brown and Jack Kramer stamped themselves a potential American Davis Cup doubles com- bination with an impressive, slam- bang victory over the highly rated Australian pair, Dinny Pails and Geoff Brown, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2, in the final of men's doubles. Brown, Brough Win in Mixed Doubles Brown later teamed with Miss Brough to capture his second champ- ionship by defeating Goeff Brown and DorothyBundy,g6-4, 6-4, in the finals of mixed doubles. The all-American final in women's doubles saw. Miss Brough and Mar- garet Osborne outlast Miss Betz and Doris Hart of Miami, Fla., 6-3, 2-6, 6-3, in a renewal of a long-standing feud. One Title Escapes Americans The only championship that es- caped the American contingent in the first Wimbledon since 1939 was the highly-prized men's singles, which towering Yvon Petra of France won yesterday with a five-set victory over Geoff Brown. Americans led by Bobby 'Riggs made a clean sweep in '39. Three of the newly-crowned Amer- ican champions, Tom Brown, Miss Betz and Miss Osborne, together with another Californian, Budge Patty, will fly to Sweden tomorrow to play a series of exhibitions Highlights - from the Sports World Parker in Finals RIVER FOREST, Ill., July 6-AP)- National champion rankie Parker, seeking his fourth meet title, bustled into the finals of the National Clay Court Tennis Tournament today by easily brushing aside veteran jey- mour Greenberg of Chicago, 6-2, -3, 6-2.1 Greenberg, clay courts champion in 1942 and 1943, was on the defen- sive most of the way as Parker toyed with his southpaw opponent to out- score him on placements, 42 to 20, and on points, 106 to 611. * * * Hogan Takes Lead COLUMBUS, O., July 6-MP)-Ben Hogan of Hershey, Pa., whose pockets already are bulging with almost $25,- 000 in 1946 golf winnings did just as expected today and moved out front in the chase for the $2,500 top money in the Columbus Invitational Open golf tournament. Little Ben rarely had a bad mo- ment as he fired a four under par 68 for a 36-hole total of 138. * * * Bobby Riggs Upset, PHILADELPHIA, July 6 -. () - Welby Van Horne, Nashville, Ten., today dramatically upset the world's professional tennis title holder, Bob- by Riggs, 4-6,, 4-6, 9-7, 6-4, 6-2 to gain the final round of the Middle States Professional Grass Court championship tournament. EntryLists Open forLate Applicant DIZZY TROUT * * * Tigers Win, 5-1 As Trout Gives Only'Four Hits DERMOIT, July 6 -(.')- Helping themselves to three unearned runs on three St. Louis errors, the De- troit Tigers whipped the Browns 5 to 1 today as Paul (Dizzy) Trout hurled a four-hitter for his eighth victory. Detroit collected only six hits off Bob Muncrieff and Ellis Kinder, who pitched the eighth, but St. Louis er- rors kept the game from being close. Muncrieff's error led to the first Tiger run in the second inning and John Lucadello's boot cost two more runs after two were out 'in' the sev- enth. Three of the Browns' four hits were bunched in the third 'inning, resulting in the only run off Trout, who struck out seven men. Third baseman George Kell, with three hits, drove in two Detroit runs. The Tigers got away in front with their second inning run on Mun- crieff's error, an infield out and Jimmy Bloodworth's single but St. Louis tied /it up at 1-all on hits by Hank Helf, Lucadello and Ver Stephens in the third. Eddie Lake's bunt single and Kell's rdouble to left put Detroitahead 2-1 in the fifth and a three-run out- burst din the seventh salted away the decision. Yanks N'sarrow Summer session intramural sports activities will get the starting gun this week in four fields as the tennis, golf, softball and basketball tourna- ments get underway under the direc- tion of Howard C. Leibee, Director of Physical Education for Men. Entries are still being accepted for all of the tourneys but only four more applications will be taken for the tennis singles which already has 44 applicants. Tennis Doubles Entries Open There is no limit on the number of entries for the tennis doubles tournament and teams may sign up until Friday. Matches in both the singles and doubles tourneys will be decided in three sets. Medal play in the golf tourney will begin next Saturday and the dead- line for entering will be Wednesday. To date more than 50 golfers have submitted entry blanks. In softball enough teams already have joined up to form the nucleus of four separate leagues, Residence Hall, Fraternity, Independent, and Men's Education.. Softball Leagues Begin Eight residence hall, six fraternity, and four teams in each the Inde- pendent and Men's Education divis- ions have submitted entries. Play in each of the leagues will get under- way this week. The Men's Education Major League Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE league will begin play on Tuesday. with the other three divisions start- ing later in the week. The tourna- ments will be round robin affairs and teams will play twice a week. While the response in the other Officials Wanted All persons interested in of-' ficiating in Intramural softball or basketball games are requested to report to Howard C. Leibee at the Intramural Sports building. three tournaments has been extreme- ly gratifying to the Physical Educa- tion department, entries in basket- ball have been below expecta'tions. To date only two or three teams have submitted entries. A five or six team league is hoped for and the deadline on entering the basketball tourna- ment has been extended until Wed- nesday to give everyone interested a chance to sign up. In both the basketball and s ball leagues individual entries wi accepted and teams will be foi when there are enough unatta applicants. It is hoped that new dents and students living in pr: homes will take advantage of provision. Entries in all of the tournan arc being accepted in the offi the Sports Building. Yesterday's Resu AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 8, Philadelphia 5 Washington 4, Boston 0 Detroit 5, St. Louis 1 Chicago 3, Cleveland 2 NATIONAL LEAGUE New York 7, Philadelphia Chicago 2, 1, Cincinnati 0, St. Louis 12, Pittsburgh 4 Brooklyn 7, Boston 2 6 0 IV V T - V INE \VATCHES and 6 WATCH Boston .,.. . . New York..... Detroit ....... Washington ... St. Louis ...... Cleveland ..... Chicago ...... Philadelphia .. W 52 46 41 37 34 34 28 21 L"* 23 30 '32 34 40 41 43 50 Pet. .693 .605 .562 .521 .456 .459 .394 .296 NATIONAL LEAGUE GB 6 2 10 13 17i/2 18 212 29 GB 6 7 12 14 14 152 17 TWO WEEKS SERVICE. FOUR SKILLED REPAIRMEN. Brooklyn ...... St. Louis ...... Chicago ...... Cincinnati .... Boston ...:. Philadelphia. New York.... Pittsburgh .... W 47 41 39 33 33 30 31 29 L 25 31 32 36 39 37 41 42 Pct. .653 '.569 .549 .478 .459 .448 .431 .408 221 EAST LIBERTY STREEET 11 .---- I Boston Lead By ALYS GEORGE Now that summer is here, Betty Jane Courtright of Ann Arbor has turned in her ice skates for some! golf clubs and recently added to her laurels by winning a one stroke vic- tory in the playoff of the Women's District Golf Association Tourna- ment at Grosse Ile. The name of Courtright is a fami- lar one in local golfing circles. Betty ,Jane's father, Ray Courtright, was a member of the coaching staff at Michigan for. 17 years and piloted the linksmen t eight Big Ten titles in 13 years. Her brother, Bill, was a mainstay on the 1946 Wolverine golf team, which brought the only: Conference title to Ann Arbor this year. Not to be outdone by the other members of the family, Betty Jane's mother and sister, Mary Anne, also' get their share of birdies. Skating and Golf Good Combination Betty Jane finds skating and golf a good athletic combination, one she gets paid for, while she tours the links just for pleasure. When she was 14, Betty Jane began ice skating for exercise but, as she says, soon got tired of going around in a circle knd induced her parents to buy her a pair of figure skates so that she could take lessons. After attending the University of Michigan for a year, Betty Jane transferred to the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago where she joined a figure skating club. She put her ice skating prowess to profitable use when she and her sister appeared in a hotel ice show in Cincinnati, do- ing solos, duets and line work, but traveling with a show is not Betty Jane's idea of the right way to see the country. Coached Figure Skaters Last year she taught figure skating hopefuls at the Will Rogers Memor- ial Coleseum at Fort Worth, Tex., and will return there again this win- ter. Betty Jane found great enthusi- asm among the people down there for ice skating, and many of the towns have their own artificial rinks. One advantage of teaching in the south is that Betty Jane can spend her spare time out on the golf links, keeping in practice for the summer tournaments. She won the Ann Ar- bor City Golf championship in 1940 and 1941 and will enter that tourna- ment again this year after a four year absence. Hopes To Meet Marjorie Row In the state golf tourney, which gets under way in a week, Betty Jane will be out to dethrone Marge Row, the present titleholder. Betty Jane hopes to reverse the outcome of a match she played against Miss Row in 1942 here at the University, in which Miss Row defeated her one up on the 18th hole. Betty Jane says that if she had concentrated on either golf or figure skating, she might really have gone to the top, but she prefers the fun she gets out of both and wouldn't give up either one for the other. By The Associated Press Joe DiMaggio's long slumbering bat woke up with a bang and drove in four runs to pace the Yankees to a 8-5 win over the Philadelphia Athlet- ics, while over in Washington Mickey Haefner throttled the league leading Boston Red Sox, 4-0, to enable the Bronx Bombers to move within six and a half games of the lead. Haefner's conquest of the Cronin- men was his second within a week. Joe Grace launched a two-run attack with a triple in the first inning to give the Washington lefty all the margin needed. The Yankees got to Jesse Flores, the A's starter for four runs in the first inning but the Philadelphia club moved within one run of a tie in the third when they sent Cuddles Mar- shall to the showers. Randy Gumpert then came in and held the Mackmen in check. Big blow of the game was DiMaggio's 17th homer of the sea- son. Also prominent in the Yankee scor- ing was Charlie Keller who boomed a triple off the right field wall in the profitable first inning. 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