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1 8 THC NASHVILLI TENNESSEANMondiy. Sept. 9. 1963 2 WTH ir -T- -r Homers Lead Way in Dell Finale euscner i nree mendous homer to open the Vol half of the same inning, and that set the stage for the blow in the eighth that ended the game, the day, the season, route in the opener for his third victory, getting into only two serious jams. Each time an error by Don Ross at third helped Lynchburg score an unearned run.

The first time was in the first inning and the second came in the seventh and final frame, when three singles followed an error on Jim Hicks' grounder to open the inning. The Vols played the double-header with a pitcher in left-field. Jim Churchwell did the job in the opener and Bob Colligan in the second. They were pressed into service because of illness to Dennis Waite, who had bronchitis, and Ray Bond, who is suffering a strep throat. By F.

M. WILLIAMS HARLIE TEUSCHER provided a home run requiem as Nash-ville bade goodbye to an old friend, professional baseball, yesterday afternoon at Sulphur Dell. Teuscher i three out of the park as the Vols swept to a pair of victories over Lynchburg, 6 to 3 and 2 to 1, the last in eight innings. There were 971 people attending final rites, bringing the season's total turnout to 54.485, lowest in Nashville history. THE LAST homer by Teuscher was a perfect epitaph to the famous Dell, ending its 103rd year as the city's official host to baseball people from coast-to-coast.

Is was as high as it was long and it barely cleared the short right-field screen. came to lead off the bottom half of the first extra inning of the nightcap. It wasn't a well-hit ball, but as Teuscher said afterwards, and as Nashville fans have said for years: 'Til take it." There was a touch of irony to the winning blow, counterbalancing somewhat the air of sadness that hung over the Dell on the day that almost everyone believes was the last for a professional game in the famed park. On the previous pitch by Lynchburg's Tom Richards, umpire Martin Springstead had called a strike. It brought a mild protest from Teuscher and a series of catcalls from the fans.

"I DIDNT hit it good at all," said Teucher, a husky former football player who is the property of the Milwaukee Eravcs. "It was a slider, and I got under the ball. But I'll take it." To the Sally League pen nant race, the games were meaningless. Lynchburg cinched the second half championship Friday night and goes into a playoff with first half champion Augusta tonight 'in Lynchburg to determine the 1963 league title. Lefty Frank Carpin was the loser in the opener.

He gave un four singles In the first inning, which produced two runs, and then was tagged Tor a bases-empty homer in the fourth by Tommy Satriano and a three-run homer in the fifth by Teuscher. IN THE nightcap, young Gil Downs, recently promoted to the Lynaox, got a one-run lead in the fourth inning when his mates pushed over a run off Larry Del Margo on three singles and a fly ball by Billy Eavidson. But Teuscher poled a tre Boxes on Page 19 and perhaps Nashville's stay in baseball. Downs gave up six hits and struck out eight in an impressive performance. GEORGE Miller went the iniiiiii in II II 1 1 fl I'll'ii'l'Mtai ii mum I Vol Faithful Well Rewarded At Old Dell's Final Rites 8g RAYMOND JOHNSON- They came not to praise Caesar but to bury him.

They were not Shakespear mm mwmmummmmJK ltFj i-t'-41lli zrt lis ft ft 2r-ipW flo ut lit ill ean fans, those 971 who came to Sulphur Dell yesterday to pay their last respects to the Nashville Vols They were dyed-in-the-wool lovers of baseball who came to see the farewell game in the nation's most historic park. They went away praising the Vols for a fine afternoon's performace, climaxed by Charlie Teuscher's home run, the blow which gave Southern League pitchers nightmares for more than GO years Charlie's drive, his third out-of-the-park for the day, gave the Vols a double victory for the faithful fans' memoirs. These fans, most of them fearing the worst but hoping something will turn up to enable baseball to continue here, came from many surrounding towns Quite a few of the spectators have been watching games in the Dell for a half century. "THERE OUGHT TO BE some way to revive baseball here," said K. O.

Haury, who has been a Vol fan since Newt Fisher was the manager Staff photos by Jimmy Ellis Outside the 103-year-old Dell, fans saddened over the prospects of never seeing another professional game in the park depart for home. Two youngsters, heads down, reflect the funereal atmosphere that existed even after a double win over Lynchburg. It's all overt Nashville's 1963 Vols head for the showers after the final game of the South Atlantic League season, and maybe the last ever in Sulphur Dell. Walking across the infield are Bob Colligan (11), Henry Mitchell (7), Fred Wall (5), Bob Lucas (4), Aubrey Gatewood (14), Ed Kikla (10) and Larry Williams (12) Nick by and Chris Haury, his uncle, the club secretary. "We've seen something die.

It's a sad situation. Baseball is a fine thing for the kids. I come down here and relax. I can't do that fishing. I wish I had the money so I could buy it and keep baseball alive." wouldn't say discontinue Sulphur Dell," offered Fred Bates, one of the directors who lias had the same box seats on the third base side since 1929.

"I think we should explore all possibilities first to see what we can do. If we cannot come up with something better than By DON WEISS AKRON, Ohio (AP) still in the rough and chipped to within six feet of the hole. He took two putts from there and coupled with Nicklaus' birdie 3 on the same hole, that ended it for Palmer. Nicklaus. who had bogied'.

four of the six holes during Palmer's streak, followed his birdie at 3 with five straight pars keeping him in control over the fast-closing Boros. champion Bob Charles, who was last wrth a 77 for 147. Boros, who never really was in the fight until the last couple of holes, sank putts of 15 feet at the 13th, 55 feet at the 15th, 22 feet at the 17th and then four feet at the 18th for birdies worth an extra $10,000 to him. He took the second money of $15,000. IT WAS A big victory for the Masters and PGA champion from Columbus, Ohio, who more and more establishes himself as the No.

1 man in professional golf. Palmer, still gulping cortisone pills for a bursitis condition in his right shoulder, blazed from five strokes behind in a six-hole stretch and collared his young foe at the 12th. It looked like another of the great Palmer finishes the golf world knows so well until the 13th. TWO UNDER par during the fine comeback. Palmer pushed his drive to the right rough some 15 yards off the fairway.

About 50 yards ahead of him was a tree with low hanging branches. He tried to fade a two-iron around the tree toward the green on the 460-yard hole. Instead, the shot hit the tree trunk square and bounced away deeper into the rough. He got his third shot up close to the green, but was Their Cards: Par Out 454 434 34435 Boros 454 434 54537 Charles 464 435 34538 Nicklaus 443 434 45435 Palmer 553 445 33436 Par In 444 345 5333570 Boros 444 34J 533326 Charles 463 545 4443977 Nicklaus 534 343 5443570 Palmer 433 442 5543672 but saw his rally blown apart when he hit a low-hanging tree at the 13th and took a double bogey 6. The 23-year-old Nicklaus rapped in a 12-foot birdie putt on the same decisive hole and gained a three-stroke advantage.

PALMER cut it back to two with a four-foot birdie putt at the 15th but then faded and finished with 72 for 143. The 33-year-old Latrobe, star settled for consolation money of $5,000 as did the fourth member of the celebrated foursome, British Open 0. IS J'A ARMSTRONG TIRES All Full 4-Ply Jack Nicklaus harnessed a collapsing game in the face of a great challenge by Arnold Palmer and Julius Boros yesterday and won the $50,000 first prize in the World Series of Golf for the second straight year with a 70 for a 36-hole total of 140. THE CHUBBY Ohio teddy-bear upset after a run-in with two reporters, finished a single stroke ahead of Boros, the placid 43-year-old U.S. Open champion, who birdied four of the last six holes for a 69 and a 141 total.

Palmer, golf's No. 1 money-earner but hampered throughout the showdown with an ailing right shoulder, made up a five-shot deficit during one brilliant surge to pull even ML WILSON COILE TIRE BATTERY 1417 Church AL 5-6525 Jack Nicklaus habitual Winner SF Kicks Bums, rrl6 YEAR 90 proof fx tTw. Somuels Distillery smoji'to'u'NiT, Angeles reliever Ron Perrano-ski in the seventh inning to give the Giants their victory. (Turn to Next Page) after relieving Ken Johnson. Bruce complained he injured his arm.

For Spahn it was his 347th career victory and it came in time to keep the Braves in third place in the National League. GENE OLIVER clinched the verdict with a two run homer in the eighth inning to break a 1-1 tie: Though Don Demeter homered in the ninth Spahnie had things under control. The win for St. Louis marked we had, then sell." Haury "I don't like to go to fu nerals," commented Harold Buchi, another director who has had third base box seats for years, "but I had to come to this one. I definitely hate to see baseball die.

I feel like the bonuses have helped to kill it. I don't believe there were a half dozen players in the league this year who will ever make it in the majors. The kind of baseball we have had isn't worth tlue cost of the entertainment." "I'VE BEEN COMING to Sulphur Dell all my life," volunteered A. J. Smith a director who is in the feed and hatchery business.

"I know the Sally League is supposed to be Double A ball, like the Southern League, but what I've seen this year is not. I thought we would see hustling because these boys are supposed to be on the way up. We've got too many who are not hustling." Individual Stock Offered to City "I would be glad to give what stock 1 have if the city would take over the park." said Bud Howell of Ciallatin who has been a Dell patron since 100:. "I think everyone in Gallatin feels the same way. Whenever they do away with this park, baseball will be gone from downtown." we expect ever again to have baseball, ice must keep Sulphur Dell," mused Charles Brazelton, Carter Shoe Co.

executive who played sandlot baseball here until lie was 44 years old. "Baseball has been my main recreation." "I used to know practically everybody in the park," said C. Reid Dow-land, the mayor of Skull-bone, which is in Gibson County. "You're only the fourth person I have seen today I know. I've been watching baseball here since 1911.

This is only the second time I have been in the park this year, due to all the traveling I have had to do, but I just had to come for the last rites." Hustle Would Bring Support "If they hustled like they did today, people would support the team," offered Buddy Beech of Clarksville, who has been coming to the Dell since his father brought him shortly after the turn of the century. "I'll keep coming as long as I can. Mort Reese hero comes with me. We'vf missed only one Sunday this year." hope we can sell the park to the city" said Carl Ormes, one of the directors who has seldom missed a Same. "Then they could lease it to some major league club and we could keep baseball.

If they sell it to some individual, the stands will be torn down by Christmas." "We used to have several carloads come up here every night," offered Norris Lovvern of Mur-freesboro, another director. "Now I have a tough time getting anyone to come with me. I hope a way can be found to save baseball here." Thoni Family Dell's Most Devoted Sulphur Dell's most devoted baseball family, the Carl Thonis who operate a farm off Murt'rees-boro Road near Mill Creek, are hoping that will buy the ball park, like many others I talked with during the final two games Carl, who is a director, his wife, two daughters and son have missed only three Dell games this year. When baseball was booming here, Mi's. Thoni used to come to the park at 5 p.m.

in order to get box seats for herself and her husband They (Turn to Next Page) FROM ASSOCIATED PRESS Trarren Spahn's 20th win, his 13th season to reach the magical number, and St. Louis' win enabling it to pain another game on thf faltering Los Angeles Dodgers, marked one of the biggest Sundays in National League baseball this season. It all started off in Philadelphia where Spahnie niowed down the. Phillies and Dallas Green 3-2. A FEW minutes later the scone shifted over the mountains from the "City of Brotherly Love" to Pittsburgh where the Cardinals bounced the Pirates 3-2 on the strength of Julian Javier's two-run homer.

About two hours later, this time much further west, the C01WEW GETTO we're dealing 'til they're gone! Honest-to-goodness new car bargains! TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE SSS SAVING DEALS Boxes on Page 20 San Francisco Giants rallied to defeat Los Angeles 5-3 in Candlestick Park. The net results left Spahn a prouder man and perhaps a step nearer the Cy Young award. Young holds the vecord of 16 seasons as the most times a pitcher has topped the 20 game mark. EVEN MORE important was the fact that the Cardinals crept to within 31" games of a Dodger lead that once looked insurmountable. In another senior circuit game at Cincinnati, the New York Mets set another team win mark if it's worth mentioning.

The Mets. who won only 40 games in their inaugural season last year, copped their 46th win of the season with a 32 win over failing Cincinnati. In a night game Ihl Woode-shiok cHino on in the ninth inning to chop off a Chicago rally and preserve a 2-1 victory for Houston. Cub head coach Bob Kennedy announced he was playing the game under protest when Woodeshick replaced Bob Bruce who had not completed pitching to one man CLOSE OUT SPECIALS TREMENDOUS DISCOUNTS WE MUST SELL EVERYTHING LARGE SELECTION These cars must be sold immediately to make room for '61 modelsmake an offer! Warren Spahn "And At My Age" its 11th triumph in the last 12 games. Javier's homer came with Dale Maxvill on first after a single.

After Javier's blast, Curt Flood doubled, took third on a fly ball and scored on Ken Eoyer's infield hit. EXCEPT FOR the third inning, Pirate starter Bob Friend limited the Cards to two hits until he left in the seventh inning. Ernie Brogllo got the win for St. Louis to boost his record to 15-8. Orlando Cepeda slammed a three-run homer off ace Los II I -i.

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