WNWAY, JULY Is 1"1 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE W||| A , JULY 1 ilSli |PAGE THREE O . THESPOT By CY CARLTON 11r EAll-Star game on July 10th should prove a salient feature in Detroit's 250th birthday celebration and loyal fans will undoubtedly pack Briggs Stadium to the gills for the event. Al the imagery and color which goes with a great sports event will be present. However there are many basic flaws in the gen- esal makeup of the All-Star game which prevents it from becoming a real "dream game" in the minds of many. The most obvious flaw which turns the event from a game be- tween the best in baseball into a popularity contest is the method of selection of the participants. The players are picked by the vote of the baseball fans of the nation. The ballots for the convenience of the fans sae printed in various newspapers in these cities. * * * * THI method of selection has been used erratically since the game originated in 1933. At one time it was replaced by a meeting of major league managers who determined the players to represent each league. However, this was recently superceded by a return to the popular election method in order to stir fan interest in the game. The fallacy in this method revolves aroud the fact that the fans are not entirely objective in their choice of All Star candi- dates Personal dislike for a player's off-diamond personality san sway many votes. More serious is the fact that some of the newspapers participating in the poll actively campaign for local favorites and urge the fans in black glaring headlines to send in their entries so that "the old home town team" can be represented 'i the festivities. This occurs regardless of the fact that the home team may be floundering in the mire of the second division. Thus it represents a biased perversion of any popular election method in which participants are supposedly selected on the basis of in- dividual merit. it appears that the fans can not be completely relied upon to place partisan considerations above fair play since the campaigns of local papers to place hometown favorites on the teams usually meet with succes. ** M s late Judge Landis, one of the most incorruptable men ever as- sociated with the game of baseball once made an intensive investi- gation into the popular method of player selection for All Star games. .le reported that the system was inherently unfair because it was possible for one fan to send in as many ballots as he or she desired bectiose no names were required on any of the ballots printed in news- papers. He reported cases of 10,000 ballots being sent in from towns hsivig barely that population. He also mentioned cases in which hundreds of ballots were sent in from one locality, all with identical selections. It was through his insistence while baseball commissione that the popular election method was abandoned in favor of having the mana- gers select the players. On the surface, it appears that the most amicable solution to the problem would be to have the players of the two leagues select the participants. After all it is the players who are the ultimate element with which the game cannot exist. Therefore it seems fthr to have them select the participants since they should be the best source of knowledge of the relative merits of their opponents and comrades. In permitting the players this option, the problem of interesting players in performing in this game which has grown acute in recent years, due to numerous injuries to valuable athletes in the game, and general apathy of the management, would be partially averted. It is logical to assume that a player would be much more inclined to "give his all" in such a game when he knew that his selection was due to the high opinion of his fellow athletes, not to the bias of many rabid fans. However, the faults of the All Star game will not completely dis- appear if the popularity poll is eliminated. A comprehensive study of the game and its ramifications should definitely be made by the high ruling moguls of baseball before the 1952 game is played. This study should actively investigate the faults of the game as it now stands, and suggest changes to make it a more interesting event both from the standpoint of the fans and baseball ethics. Yankees Blow Chance for AL Lead Red Sox Np New York, 3=1 AsBrowns Drop White Sox. Brooklyn Smears Phillies Via Big Inning; Indins Continue Mastery over Tigers, 3-1 0 By The Associated Press Chuck Stobbs, 21-year-old left- hander of the Boston Red Sox, posted the first victory of his ca- reer over the New York Yankees yesterday and the triumph pre- vented the Yanks from taking the American League lead. Stobbs, a bonus player now in his fifth season with the Sox, turned back the Yanks, 3-1, on six hits. The defeat left the Yanks in second place, a half game be- hind the Chicago White Sox, who were upset, 4-3, by the last place St. Louis Browns. * * * IN OTHER GAMES, the Cleve- land Indians downed the Detroit Tigers, 3-1 and the Brooklyn Dod- gers cuffed the Philadelphia Phil- lies, 14-8. Stobbs, who will celebrate his 22nd birthday Monday, walked only one batter and spread the Yankees' six hits over as many innings. The conquest was his sixth of the season and the 29th of his career. Dick Starr, with help from Bob Hogue in the ninth, gained credit for his first victory of the season at Chicago. The triumph also ended a nine-game St. Louis los- ing streak. STARR, WHO has failed to go the route in six starts, had the Sox blanked until the eighth when they scored once. Pinch-hitter Don Lenhardt, a former Brownie, doubled home two runs in the ninth with two out to chase Starr. Hogue relieved and threw one pitch to Bob Dillinger, who flied out to end the game. Joe Dobson started for Chica- go and was tagged for all of the Browns' runs. Seventh inning Home Runs by Luke Easter and Al Rosen enabled the Indians to score their eighth straight victory over Detroit with- out a loss. The homers, off Fred Hutchinson, snapped ' a 1-1 tie. Easter also drove in the Indians' first run with a single in the fourth. THE TIGERS tied it up in the sixth with Vic Wertz doubling home George Kell who had walked. Early Wynn limited the Tigers to three hits in gaining his sixth vic- tory against nine defeats. The Dodgers made the most of five errors and nine walks to smear the Phillies. The Brooks sewed up the game in the fourth inning with a seven-run upris- ing that Duke Snider featured with a three-run Homer, his 17th of the season. Bubba Church, seeking his sev- enth straight victory, was tagged for three runs in the second and third innings before he was ham- mered out in the fourth. * * * RAIN WASHED OUT games be- tween the Chicago Cubs and Cin- cinnati Reds and the Washington Senators and Philadelphia Athle- tics. In National League night games, the Boston Braves shelled the New York Giants, 19-7 mak- ing n e w manager Tommy Holmes' Boston debut a fabulous success and the Cardinals beat Pittsburgh, 8-4. Earl Torgeson homered twice, in- cluding a grandslammer and Sid Gordon once, as the tribesmen cut loose with a 18 hit barrage to chase Giant ace Sal Maglie from the mound. Maglie in search of his 13th win of the season went into the sev- enth_ inning with a 7-4 lead but the Braves hammered eight runs across the plate in the seventh to take the lead. They scored seven more in the eighth off Al Gettel. Vern Bickford started for the Braves with Max Surkout getting the win in relief. The Cards chased ex-teammate Murry Dickson from the mound with seven runs in the fourth in- ning as Cliff Chambers held the Bucs to five hits at Sportsman's Park. SBaseball's BigSix Snead Cops Key Match In PGA Golf. OAKMONT, Pa. - (W) -Unpre- dictable Sam Snead grooved his shots in the face of a violent rain- storm and scorching comeback pressure to subdue Lloyd Man- grum, 3 and 2, and push into thej quarter-finals of the Professionalj Golfers Association toifinament. In whipping the tiger-hearted' Mangrum, the year's leading mon- ey winner and pre-tournament choice, Snead became heavy fa- vorite to capture his third PGA championship. He won in 1942 and 1949. * * * FIVE HOLES ahead -at .one stage, the belting West Virginian saw his wiry rival from Niles, Ill., level the match on the 28th after hostilities had been held up al- most an hour by a thunderstorm that blew down on hilly Oak- mont from the lower Allegheny River Valley. But Snead took an extra hitch in his belt, won three straight holes and closed out the tilt on the short 34th when an 18-foot Mangrum putt rolled to the tip of the cup and then squirmed away. Snead thus went into tomor- row's round of eight against 28- year-old Jack Burke, Jr., of Hous- ton, "baby" of the touring pro brigade, who eliminated Gene Kunes of Cleveland, 4 and 3. OTHER SURVIVORS during the long, wet and hectic day were Johnny Bulla of next door Verona, Pa., playing the best match play golf of the tournament; Ellsworth Vines, of Los Angeles, once the greatest tennis player in the world; Reggie Myles of Lansing, Mich., Walter Burkemo of Frank- lin, Mich.; the Veteran Al Brosch of Garden City, N. Y., and Charles Bassler of Catonsville, Md., who was carried 37 holes. B e s i d e s the Snead-Burke match, the quarter-finals send Bassler against Brosch, Burkemo against Myles and Vines against Bulla. Two former champions-tower- ing Jim Ferrim of San Francisco and Vic Ghezzi of Inwood, N.Y.- were third round victims, leaving the field still studded with dark horses. CHICAGO - (-> - Brooklyn's Dodgers landed more players in the All-Star game thaif any other team, final tabulation of baseball fandom's voting disclosed yester- day. In a record-shattering outpour- ing, the fans picked three Dodgers to start in the 18th inter-league game at Detroit, July 10. Phila- delphia's Phillies, Chicago's White Sox, Detroit's Tigers and Boston's Red Sox will be represented by two players each. * * * BIGGEST VOTE catcher was Stan Musial of the St. Louis Car- dinals, who rolled up 1,428,383 ballots in winning the Left Field nomination for the National League. Third Baseman George Kell of Detroit captured the vote crown last year. A total of 4,274,978 votes were cast in the poll conducted by newspapers, radio stations and magazines. Votes came from every state in the Union and from many foreign countries. The total vote last year was 3,- 167,362. The list of players chosen by the fans and their batting aver- ages follows: AMERICAN LEAGUE 1B-F. Fain, Philadelphia . ..356 2B--Nelson Fox, Chicago ...347 3B-George Kell, Detroit ....321 SS-C. Carrasquel, Chicago .284 RF-Vic Wertz, Detroit .....306 CF--Dom Di Maggio, Boston .341 LF-Ted Williams, Boston .341 C-Larry Berra, New York .303 * * * NATIONAL LEAGUE 1B-Gil Hodges, Brooklyn . ..274 2B-J. Robinson, Brooklyn .360 3B-Bob Elliott, Boston .....339 SS-Alvin Dark, New York .337 RF-D. Ennis, Philadelphia .292 CF-R. Ashburn, Ph'delphia .353 LF--Stan Musial, St. Louis .372 C-R. Campanella, Brooklyn .327 CASEY STENGEL, Manager of the World Champion New York * * * Dodgers Dominate All-Stars ROY CAMPANELLA ... one of three S * * * Yankees, will direct the American League entry. The Philadelphia Phillie's Eddie Sawyer will man- age the National League team. Each squad will be composed of 25 players, incuding eight' pitchers. All pitchers will be chosen by the managers. The managers can name any other players they please to the squad, and are not bound by the order of voting beyond the fan's first choice in each position. The complete American League team will be announced Monday morning and the National League's full roster will be published Tues- day afternoon. NELSON FOX of the White Sox was second in the balloting, gar- nering 1,419,428 votes. Jackie Rob- inson was third with 1,412,144 and Ted Williams fourth wtih 1,404,- 768. This will berthe ninth All- Star game for Williams, who holds a batting average of .417 for these games. The final tabulations upset several players who had been in the lead in the semi-final vote. The fans settled on Hodges, who has 24 home runs to his credit, over Pittsburgh's Ralph Kiner, who has 17 home runs, to start at First Base for the Nationals. Brooklyn's Pee Wee Reese lost out at short stop in the final count to Dark and White Sox's Ed Rob- inson was overtaken by Fain. The hot race for Short Stop in the American League went to Carras- quel over the Yankee's Phil Riz- zuto by 1,309,538 to 1,213,714. The Game wil be the 18th in the series. The American League has won 12 and the National League 5. OS U's Nieporte Wins Links Title COLUMBUS, O.-(P)--Tom Nie- porte of Ohio State-the lad who swings like a golf teacher In- stead of a student-captured the 1951 NCAA Golf Championship yesterday. He defeated teammate Don Johnson, 5 and 3, in the first one- school finale the 45-year-old NCAA tourney has seen. Nieporte was never behind after the 11th hole in the morning round of their scheduled 36-hole match. WELCOME TO MICHIGAN We specialize in " SHORT CUTS * PERSONALITY STYLES For your comfort r FAN COOLED SHOP r NO WAITING * 7 HAIR STYLISTS The Dascola Barbers Liberty off State By The Associated Press Player and Club G AB R HI Musial, Cardinals 63 234 50 86 Minoso, W'te Sox 65 223 61 81 Robinson, Dod'gr 67 242 51 86 Ashburn, Phillies 67 275 43 97 Fain, Athletics 67 242 31 85 Fox, white Sox 69 266 53 91 RUNS BATTED IN National League Snider, Dodgers.................. Westlake, Cardinals.............. Musial, Cardinals ................ American League Williams, Red Sox............... Robinson, White Sex ........... Stephens, Red Sox............. HOME RUNS Pct. .368 .363 .355 .353 .351 .342 54 54 49 70 66 56 i _.:.= I National League Hodges, Dodgers .................. 24 Snider, Dodgers .................. 17 Westlake, Cardinals............... 17 Kiner, Pirates.................... 17 American League Zernial, Athletics.................17 Robinson, White Sox.............. 16 Williams, Red Sox ................ 14 Wertz, Tigers ......................14 I Subscribe to the Three Yanks in Quarter-Finals Of Wimbleton Tennis Tourney 6 r MORRILL'S The Typewriter and Stationery Store TYPEWRITERS STUDENT Repaired 3 Ring Notebooks Sold Fountain Pens Rented Brief Cases Bought Stationery Greeting Cards WEBSTER-CHICAGO WIRE RECORDERS SPECIAL RATES TO SUMMER STUDENTS i on TYPEWRITER RENTALS G. I. Requisitions Accepted for Supplies Only Since Phone 1908 314 South State Street 7177 WIMBLEDON - W)- "Center Court Shakes," made worse by the presence of Queen Mother Mary in the royal box, proved too much yesterday for Hamilton Richard- son, the 17-year-old golden boy from Baton Rouge, La. He was dumped unceremoni6us- ly from the All-England Tennis Championships by Armando Vie- ira, The Champion of Brazil, as two of his American teammates, Dick Savitt and Herbie Flam, bat- tled their way into the quarter- finals. Major League Standings AMERICAN iv Chicago.......43 New York ... 42 Boston ........40 Cleveland .... 36 Detroit........31 Washington .. 25 Philadelphia 26 St. Louis .... 20 LEAGUE L Pct. 24 .642 24 .636 27 .597 30 .545 32 .492 39 .391 41 .388 46 .303 GB 3 10 16y/. 17 221 Post- NATIONAL Wv Brooklyn .... 42 New York .... 38 St. Louis ....,34 Philadelphia .33 Cincinnati3.. 32 Boston........'31 Chicago ........28 Pittsburgh ... 25 LEAGUE L Pct. 25 .627 32 .543 32 .515 34 .493 33 .492 34 .477 33 .459 40 .385 GB 5% j 71f 9 9 10 i 16 COMPLETELY LACKING the fire control he demonstrated in his sensational second round upset of defending champion Budge Patty of Los Angeles, Richardson bowed to Vieira's lightning service and brilliant net play, 6-3, 1-6, 6-3, 6-0. He won his only set, the sec- ond, while the dowager queen was out to tea. "Ham" also was do- ing all right until she returned in the third, but from that point on the youngster didn't win a single game and actually scored only 12 points in the final seven games. It was a severe anti- climax for the crowd of 15,00. Savitt, of Orange, N. J., banged his way past Josef Asboth, balding Hungarian veteran, 6-4, 6-2, 6-3, while Flam, who was runner-up to Art Larsen in the last U. S. Nation- als, outclassed Hans Van Swol of the Netherlands, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3. * * * LARSEN ALREADY had won his way into the quarter-finals with a victory yesterday over Torsten Jo- hannsen of Sweden. Thus, three of the eight survivors who will con- tinue play for the big silver cup on Monday are candidates for the next American Davis Cup team. Unfortunately, all three are packed into the upper half of the draw, so there can be no possibility of an All-American f inal. 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