The Tennessean from Nashville, Tennessee • Page 44

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8'utnv sVi '-stt toward the National league pennant when they com- r-lpleted their humiliation of Brooklyn's bewildered t-1 I In ms. 1 1 to hv up.i' ol joining a lp, riri'lp icoui)ipd by PiU'hrrs I.p.i Atlanta: Hob Schultz. and Catcher Ixal Bpit'iTct, of who cic named on every ballot Birmingham placed six players on the 19-man srjiiid. Atlanta five. Chattanooga three, Nashville and New Orleans two each, and Mobile one.

Only Little Rock and Memphis failed to win a berth. The piescnt squad lists mi ip- peatprs ftlthuuph five nirnibers of lt year's team are in thp league. Hiifc'h Poland of the Vols will pilot the tPim. Luke Appling is to manage the All-Stars, on the strength, of Memphis' pennant-winning effort in '53, but opened the door for Poland when ho left the circuit to puide Richmond' new entry in thf International league. Supporting Lennon and Ilodiiv in the outtjeld are Pick Tettle- bach.

Birmingham, and Bob Montag and Pete Whi.enant of Atlanta. Tettlebach was the runnerup to Lennon in the voting, Ths Baron rookia was favored on 12 ballots, while Montag, on of the loop's top sluggers, compiled the same number of votes as Rodin, 10. Whisenant tied with teammat Chuck Tnnr for the fifth berth, but outnum- (Continued on Next Page) July 15. at site still umiot.ir-iii.rifd, hv Rub Inrmn anil Knr Riniin. its hard hitting outfipld- I IK TIip Vol slucpiTs wptp named to trip All-Star tiani announced vrsti'rday by sports wtitprs on daily nrwspnjiers in hp eight niPinhrr citirs.

l.t nnon. in rpcnving 15 votts. The victory moed the sizzling New Yorkers six and a half games' in front of the second-place Brooks and was their sixth straight over the collapsing runners-up. Brooklyn sent Ha ace pitcher, Carl Erskine, to the mound yesterday. But he was just another flinger to the inspired Giants, who slammed out 16 base hits in Bob Lennon Loop's JVo.

Sludger Eric Rodin Rookie Flash sweeping their secona inrt game set from th Brooks in th past 10 days. Willie Mays, the brilliant youns; Negro centerflelder. gave evidence One Picture Jells Siory of Surging Glanis, Slumping Brooks (mlrhis what was to come when pasted an Erskine pitch into tha left field seats with Don Mueller first in the onpnine innlne. That I Fans Who Wish To Back Vols JM CI I I .1 was No. 29 for Willie and he added cnouia ce ar rne uell loniqht No.

30 In the seventh off Rusi -du RAYMOND JOHNSONM Meyer with two men on. giving tha "Say. Hey" kid five RBIs for tha btixv afternoon. Fans, would vou like to show Mueller crept up on Duke Snider in the battmn race, boosting his averaae to .358 with three singles the Nashville Vols you appreciate this city having a baseball club in one of the finest leapues in the nation? if so. why not make a i date to visit Sulphur Dell tonijrht and see the club against Chattanoojra on its return to the hme park? It's true Those Vols are not one of the finest clubs in the nation They are not anion the elite of the Sunland Swat society As a matter of record they I are down in the basement, looking up Hut there is doubt if they are the worst club in the circuit even if their pitchers did perform as such during the month of June The curving has been right respectful in i the last five games, three of which they won.

Letters Supporting Vols Come From as Far as Alaska 1 Within the past week, letters have reached my desk from as far awav as the Klmendorf air base in 1 IS A ''( 3- fi, -1 and a double before Rookia Pete Wojey finally got him out in the eighth. Whitey Lockmsn hammered a pair of doubles and his 12th homer and Monte Irvin hit his 14th home run in the fourth. Ruben Ocmes, who goes to the hospital to have his tonails removed thia morning, held the Podgers to two singles in the first Fix Inning. He finished with a spven hitter, makinf? his record for the season. The paid attendance of 30.2a' would have been even larger ex-rept for the fact that some 4000 Unfit hole gang youngsters and looo hospitalized veterana and service men were preient.

In a desperate effort to pull the Brooks out of their tall spin. Man-airrr Walter Alston restored Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson to the stnrtlnsr lineup. Reese had misKed nine (tames due to a pulled leg muscle and Robinson had been benched twice within a week for weak hitting. Jackie finally broke a utrine of 19 hltless trips with a acrntrli "Ingle in the eighth. The Giants never let the Dodgers up all afternoon after they (Continued on Page 451 Alaska asking 1 hat everything possible be done to save baseball in Nashville A (II up there aks: "Has all the civic pride at home gone to h--l?" An old-time fan.

Kmmett Durrett, writes: "Tell the boys to keep on battling and if a guy makes an error, he feels bad enough anyway. So let the others tell him not to feel' too bad. Thev TOM POLK TIRE SERVICE 125 12th S. 5-277S FISK TIRES AP Wlrephoto inning game at Ebbets field. Russ Meyer replaced Erskine.

Giants blasted the Dodgers, 11-2, to take their sixth in a row from the Brooks and stretched their National league lead to six and a half games. NEW YORK Manager Leo Durocher (2) of the high riding Giants stands with Third Baseman Hank Thompson (16), next man up, as Dodger Manager Walter Alston (24) escorts Pitcher Carl Erskine (17) from the mound in fifth Bum vs. Bum Big Newk Pilot Norman Quits Travs LITTLE! ROCK Wi Manager Bill Norman of the Little Rook III ft IC I I I Travelers quit yesterday, alter his team last nine of its last 10 games III tJ I Is Miffed At Meyer BROOKLYN IV) Dodger Pitchers Ru.ss Meyer and Don Newcombe were reported yesterday to have almost come to blows in the Brooklyn clubhouse following their team's sixth straight loss to the New and seemed headed for the Southern association cellar. The 43-year-old pilot notified General Manager Ray Winder of 1 ld I the Utile Rock club of his decision yesterday. Norman immediately was assigned by the parent Detroit Tigers to scout the triple-A and double-A leagues for them for the rest of Jackson, Valdes Examined NEW YORK UP) Hurricane Tommy Jackson of New York and Nino Valdes of Cuba will leave their training camps to be examined today at the New York State Athletic commission for Wednesday's heavyweight bout at Madison Square Garden.

After the exams, Jackson will return to Green Wood Iake, N. and Valdes to Columbia, N. to conclude their training. jjl this seaon and 1355. A successor has not been named.

Winder indicated that he did not expect to have a new skipper for a series opener at Memphis tonight. Winder said that no one on the club at present would be chosen. However, an acting manager will be named from the club's present roster. Winder indicated that it might be Frank (Stubby) Overmire, a pitcher and coach, While it appears that Nor-man's resignation was his own idea, Winder has been in steady contact with parent Detroit officials in an effort to bring about a general shakeup of his sagging ball club. The last home showing by the Travelers drew crowds of less than 500 there were 283 paid customers Wednesday night againul Nashville.

Norman is the first manager to quit the Little Rock club in midseason since 1934 when Kmmett McCann was replaced in mid season. COGGDN Newcombe Russ Meyer do it in the big leagues. If they will do this, I know I will be out every chance I have, bo-cause I don't want to see Nashville out of the Southern league." Rev. Small Says Fans Remember Winning Teams "We remember when we had winning teams but forget that we must occasionally have a loser," remarked Rev. Faxon Small, pastor of West Nashville Methodist church.

"I agonize when our pitchers blow, but I haven't given up on them. They need our support now more than ever." The majority feel as these in en. tin .1 fete take the attitude that it would he a good tiling to transfer the club to some other city Hut wonder what they would say if they woke up some morning and discovered that one of the finest advertising mediums of iXashville had vanished? Nobody Pays Tonight But the Old Man Tonight is ladies night And the Knothole gang will be on hand Only the old man will have to pay The others get in free So why not bring him down and show the players as well as Larry Gilbert and Hugh Toland you want the club to remain here? Poland was quite happy over the pitching he received in the Little Rock series Dick Libby is no longer a softball pitcher At least he wasn't the other night. Hugh says Dick was throwing hard like he did last summer Speck Padget looked better than anytime this season as he spun a four-hitter and didn't walk a man Joe Margoneri had his stuff but was still wild So was Pete Burnside, who joined the club during the trip. Lennon's Omission as Unanimous Choice Only Beef Only complaint I can find with the Southern league's All-Star squad, piked by 1 of the circuit's baseball writers, is the onvssimi of Hob Lennon as a unanimous choice All but one of the scribes thought he deserved to be rated with Birmingham's Lew Berberet.

Atlanta's Leo Cristante and New Orleans' Bob Schultz But not a young man down 'at Mobile. This particular young man gave as his reasons for omitting Lennon: I he got only six hits in 21 at hats for a JS6 average in six games in the Mobile park; 2 he drove in only two runs; five of his six hits were singles, the other a double; I he struck out six times: 5 try to judge players on general averages against Mobile in Mobile's park. Mobile Scribe Picked Five Outfielders Over Bob Now here are the outfielders he picked over Lennon: 1 Tettlebach, Birmingham; '2 Kerr. Mobile; 3 Grate, Chattanooga; 4 Montag, Atlanta; 5 Porter, Chattanooga Tettlebach had a season's average of .348 with 5o runs batted in when the ballots were cast; Kerr was hitting with 1)2 BBls; Grate .333 with 37 RBIs; Montag .322 with 50 RBIs, and Porter .310 with 27 RBIs Lennon's record at that time was hitting .349 with 31 home runs, 104 hits and 84 RBIs Kerr received only one vote. As for their performances in the Mobile park, Montag had appeared in only two games, getting six hits in seven attempts, two of them being home runs Tettlebach had appeared in four games, getting four hits in 16 attempts for a average and had driven in three runs, two of them on sacrifice flies Porter had appeared in seven games, getting five hits in 23 attempts for .217 Ho had tnree RBIs Grate had nine hits for 23 tries, giving him a .391 average He drove in five runs Incidentally, Eric Rodin collected eight hits in 21 attempts, drove in six runs, and hit two home runs in the Mobile park But he wasn't picked by the Gulfport scribe.

The arguments of the Mobile youngster do not add up to those who know the slightest about York Giants. Both players denied it. Newcombe, however, admitted he "had a few words" with Meyer after the hot-tempered righthander had hit Monte Irvin, Giant outfielder, with a pitch in the seventh inning. Newcombe said he addressed some remarks to Meyer from the dugout after Rues had been knocked out of the box in the seventh. A few minutes earlier Meyer and Irvin had exchanged heated words while the Giant (Continued on Page 45) Vann Will Still Play WEST POINT, N.

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