I THE !1l1t:MG DAILY TUESDAY, JULY 3, 1956 'filE MICUIGAN IPAILI ~Lk~SDAI, JULX 3, i~I5 Re diegs Edge Braves, 2- 1, To Tale First Place Gene from the 4' {SIFDELINES by Dick Cramer Pennant Predictions THE JULY FOURTH MILESTONE is just a day away and the usual mid-season conjectures on the ultimate outcome of the baseball pennant races are being heard everywhere. New York's Yankees will hold first place in the American League after the holiday doubleheaders tomorrow. In the National League, the leader may be Milwaukee, Cincinnati or World Champion Brooklyn. Tradition has it that the eventual pennant winner will be that team which holds first place on Independence Day. More often than not this has been true. The reason for the customary authenticity of this maxim is that by July Fourth all clubs have usually gotten into the habit of playing their normal brand of baseball and a definitely superior team has emerged, such as last year's Dodgers. This year the chances aren't too good that the old saying will again prove itself. Let's take the Senior Loop first. Here any club with a hot streak can take the lead, as the Pirates, Redlegs and now the Braves have shown. It seems that the team that gets hot last will win the pennant. Every club in the league, including the three present also-rans, seems capable of some sort of sustained drive. None seems able, how- ever, to sustain that drive for the rest of the season. Can Dodgers Do It?.,. SOME PEOPLE still feel that Brooklyn-a runaway victor last year- year-will again catch the spark that will pull it to the front. Cer- tainly the Dodgers' hitting potential has not been realized thus far this season. Most Valuable Player Roy Campanella is barely above .200 and Gil Hodges, Jackie Robin- * - son, Pee Wee Reese and Carl Fur- illo have showed only occasional X = R.flashes of their previously proved ***capabilities. But even of Dodger hitting does .'F I return to form, there is less reason 45 to expect the pitching to improve to last year's caliber-and pitch- ing, not hitting, is at a premium in the National League, Without an early season bulge }t $ F uto coast on, Brooklyn may not be w . i able to overcome the threats of so many strong teams in the RAY CAMPANELLA league. Other clubs, namely the ... not producing Cards, Braves and Redlegs have hitting equal to the Dodgers' best, and the Braves, Giants, and pos- sibly the Pirates can outpitch the Bums. Yet, any other team will find any hold it gets on the top spot- even if it be on the Fourth of July-to be equally tenuous. This year, the clubs are just as intent on stopping the leader as on becoming lead- ers themselves. They don't want a repeat of last year's uninteresting and demoralizing contention-less season. American League Picture .. . HAT SEEMS TO BE the chief interest of the American League squads, too--with some differences. The Yankees, conceded the best club "on paper" have been lead- ing all the way so far. Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra have done enough hitting and Johnny Kucks, Whitey Ford and Bob Grim have supplied most of the needed pitching for New York. There is much in reserve behind them. Still, the other teams have been sufficiently successful in stopping the Yanks occasionally to keep the race not only interesting, but also slightly unpredictable. New York has had its spurts and its slumps. There's no telling that after one of those slumps, the Yankees may find themselves hav- ing dropped out of first with a determined Chicago or Cleveland club ahead of them. If that occurs at the end of the season and if the National League continues its topsi-turviness, there may be no justification for expect- ing this year's leaders on Independence Day to be the pennant winners. Chicago Trounces Detroit;I Giants, Cubs, Red Sox Win By The Associated Press CINCINNATI-The Cincinnati Redlegs rode back into first place in the National League for the third time this season last night on the strength of a tight 8-hit pitching performance by Johnny Klippstein which produced a 2-1 victory over the Milwaukee Braves. A standing room only crowd of 28,635 saw the Reds oust Milwau- kee from the top spot in the league. It was a close pitching duel all the way between Klippstein and southpaw Warren Spahn, an old Redleg nemesis. TED WILLIAMS .. Boston's Mickey Mantle Als ton, Stengel Choose Remainder of All-Stars NEW YORK ()-Walter Alston of the National League and Casey Stengel of the American League yesterday announced their selec- tions to complete their squads for next Tuesday's All-Star Game in Washington. The men named yesterday will supplement the eight starting players already chosen to each team by the votes of fans across the nation. Alston named pitchers Clem Labine, Brooks Lawrence, Joe Nuxhall, Bob Friend, Robin Rob- erts, Johnny Antonelli and War- ren Spahn. Roy Campanella and Del Cran- dall will be the Senior Circuit's re- serve catchers. Other infielders selected were Ernie Banks, Junior Gilliam, Ted Kluszewski and Ed Mathews. Extra outfielders for the Nation- al League, which won the Dream Game last year, 6-5, will be Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Rip Repulski and Duke Snider. Stengel's American Loop choices included pitchers Billy Pierce, Jim Wilson, Tom Brewer, Frank Sullivan, Early Wynn, Ray Nar- leski, Whitey Ford and Johnny Kucks. Spare infielders chosen were Vic Power, Roy Sievers, Gil McDou- gald, Billy Martin and Ray Boone. Sherm Lollar will be the reserve catcher. Second line outfielders include Harry Simpson, Charley Maxwell and Jim Piersall. The American League has won 12 out of 21 All-Star Games, with its most recent victory coming in 1954. Spahn went into the game with a 36-12 record against Cincinnati. But his wavering control, par- ticularly in the early innings, helped create his downfall. Gus Bell, Redleg center fielder was the hitting hero of the Cin- cinnati victory. His first single contributed to Cincinnati's first run and his second one-base blow drove in the deciding tally. * *. * White Sox 9, Tigers 3 DETROIT-The Detroit Tigers failed for the 12th straight time on their home grounds, commit- ting four errors to let in seven un- earned runs in a 9-3 loss to the Chicago White Sox. The Tigers have not won a game in Briggs Stadium since June 15. The White Sox came from. a two-run deficit to score three times in the seventh inning on just one hit. They scored five more in the eighth to wrap up their victory. - * * Giants 5, Dodgers 2 BROOKLYN-Willie Mays and Bill Sarni banged back-to-back homey runs in the third inning to trigger a 5-2 victory by the New York Giants over the third-place Brooklyn Dodgers. The Brooks played the last two innings with first baseman-out- fielder Gil Hodges doing their catching. He took over behind the plate for the first time since 1948 when Rube Walker was lifted for a pinch runner and Roy Campa- nella was tossed out of the game for protesting a call third strike in a pinch hit role. Cubs 6, Cards 3 CHICAGO-The Chicago Cubs dug out of the National League cellar by defeating St. Louis, 6-3, yesterday as Warren Hacker duck- NEW HIGH-Charlie Dumas of Compton (Calif.) College breaks the magic seven-foot high jump barrier with a leap of 7'1" in the Olympic track and field trials at Los Angeles last weekend. Dumas' was only one of three world records set at the trials which produced the United States' representatives for the fall's Olympics in Australia. Lou Jones of the Army set a 400 meter dash mark in 45.2 seconds and Ohio State's Glenn Davis was record-timed at 49.5 in the 400 meter hurdles. Sport Shorts I-M Softball Teams Play First Games Intramural softball had its sum- mer debut last night with a flurry of hard-hitting and occasionally good pitching highlighting the ac- tion on South Ferry Field. Of the 22 teams in four I-M leagues, twelve clubs representing two leagues were scheduled last night. Bill Plasman turned in the top hurling performance .of the open- ing night by limiting Mathematics to just two hits as the Hornets trounced the Math team, 10-2. Plasman also struck out seven batters. Plasan's job was nearly equal- led by BDA's Cilff Purcell as he defeated Alpha Chi Sigma, 8-4. The losers' four runs came on only five hits as Purcell became the I-M leagues' leading strikeout artist with 10 in his initial start. A good defense was instrumental in Hospital's victory over Phar- macology. The Hospital team held Pharmacy to one of the night's lowest scores in winning, 7-3. In a free-slugging affair, Med Sox showed that they'll be one of the hitting powers of the summer competition. The Sox edged an almost equally strong-hitting nine from Bacteriology, 10-9. Chemistry won the only other contest of the evening by outscor- ing the Psychology 'B' squad, 7-5. Another scheduled game was won by Hardrocks by forfeit over Psy- chology dC' when the latter did not appear. Games in the leagues which saw action last night will be played each Monday and Wednesday. The other two I-M leagues-one with six clubs and one with eight-are scheduled to play on Tuesday and Thursday nights. This week, because of the mid- week holiday, I-M play will not resume until Thursday. IHairstyling for the Whole Family!' " 11 STYLISTS * AIR-CONDITIONGO * LATEST STA5S The liascola Barbers Near the Michigan Theater Major League Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE NewYork....... Chicago.......... Cleveland. Boston.-----.. Baltimore........ Detroit......... Washington ..... Kansas City ..... 46 40 39 36 32 30 29 26 L 25 26 29 32 38 38 46 44 Pct. .648 .606 .574 .529 .457 .441 .387 .371 GB 31/ 5% 8 13/ 1412 19 19/2 NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pct. GS Cincinnati........ 40 28 .588 Milwaukee ...... 37 27 .578 1 Brooklyn......... 38 30 .559 2 St. Louis.........36 34 .514 5 Pittsburgh....... 32 33 .492 6r New York........28 38 .424 11 Chicago.......... 27 37 .422 11 Philadelphia.. 28 39 .418 111J TODAY'S GAMES Milwaukee at Cincinnati St. Louis at Chicago Philadelphia at Pittsburgh (Regular game to be preceded by concluding innings of previously suspended games. ed in and out of trouble a yield of 11 hits. It was Hacker's second the year. * * * Red Sox3, Senators WASHINGTON - Ike held the Senators to one despite win of 2 Delock tainted By The Associated Press WIMBLEDON, England - Dia- betic Ham Richardson and aging Vic Seixas, sure bets for the Amer- ican Davis Cup team again this year, struggled through to shaky victories yesterday in quarterfinals of the Wimbledon Tennis Cham- pionships. Seixas weathered a one hour and 20-minute first set aganst Allen Morris of Atlanta, Ga., to win 13-11. Morris pulled up lame in the second set and Seixas took the match 13-11, 6-0, 6-3. Richardson appeared to be on the way to' a beating when 'he rallied strongly in the third set to defeat Australia's Neal Fraser 6-3, 9-11, 7-5, 6-4. Lew Hoad struggled home over fellow Australian, Mal Anderson, 4-6, 6-1, 66-1, 13-11. Ken Rose- wall, Australia's second top man, won with supreme ease over Swed- en's rising young star, Ulf Schmidt 6-1,, 6-3, 66-2. Only one women's singles match was played Monday. Angela Mort- imer of Britain lost to Pat Ward, another Briton, 6-3, 6-0. Deadline for Bids DETROIT -- Groups interested in buying the Detroit Tigers base- ball team had until midnight last night to get their bids in at Briggs Stadium. Expectations were that the ul- timate successful bidder would have to offer between four and five million dollars for the team. Baseball TV Rights NEW YORK - Television and radio rights to the All-Star and World Series baseball games for the next five years have been sold to the Gillette Safety Razor Co., and the National Broadcasting Co., for 34 million dollars a year, baseball Commissioner Ford Frick announced yesterday. TODAY'S GAMES Chicago at Detroit Kansas City at Cleveland Boston at Washington Baltimore at New York hit in four innings of relief Mon- day night as Boston defeated Washington, 3-2. Helping Delock post his fifth win was Ted Williams, who col- lected two doubles and two singles in five chances and boosted his season average to .374. TAKES TWO TITLES: Olmedo Stars in NCAA Net Tourney Cleaning Bargains Give us one week to process and from the regular cleaning price we will give you 25% OFF By JIM ELSMAN Special To The Daily KALAMAZOO-Now the NCAA Tennis Championships of 1956 are history. . Long to be remembered in the vicinity of Kalamazoo College's Stowe Stadium, however, will be the steady performance of the new national collegiate champion, Alex Olmedo of Southern California. Faces Impossible Task Olmedo had an almost impos- sible task before him Saturday in the final round of the tournament. Not only did he have to face Jack Frost of Stanford for the singles title, but he was expected to team with Pancho Contreras only two hours later in quest of the doubles crown. Yet, the young Peruvian was the master of all. Like a panther, he covered the court, allowing Frost a first set victory, 6-2, and then quickly crushing his opponent in three straight sets, 6-4, 6-2, 6-1. What proved to be the differ- ence between Olmedo and Frost was the former's cool-headedness. Frost became rattled by a foot- fault call and by the slowness of the ball boys to retrieve stray shots. But Olmedo kept calm, just OS U's Jones Captures Golf Championship COLUMBUS, O. P)-Rick Jones of Ohio State won the 59th Na- tional Intercollegiate Golf Cham- pionship Saturday by defeating Houston's Rex Baxter, 4 and 3 in the 36-hole finals. Jones took advantage of his greater familiarity with the Ohio State course to oust Baxter who had been medalist in the opening two rounds of the week-long tour- nament with a 73-67-140. He succeeds Purdue's Joe Camp- bell who was eliminated in the second round of match play last Thursday. Houston won the tour- ney's team, championship to take over the crown from Louisiana State. waiting for his rival to make mis. takes. It was the same factor that led shortly afterwards to the Olmedo- Contreras victory in the final doubles matches. 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