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MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1948. THE MORNING HERALD. HAGERSTOWN. MARYLAND Curtis Turner Easy Half Track Victor In Conococheague Speedway Feature Wally Campbell Baker 3rd In 15-Mile Event Turner Covers Course In 16 Minutes, Six And Eight- Tenths Seconds--Crowd Of 4,000 Fons Witnesses Trock's Inaugural Program By JOE 8NYDER Taking the lead at the outset and setting the pace throughout, Curtis Turner of Christianburg, Va. roared to victory in the gruelling fifteen-mile feature stock car event at the new, lightning-fast Conococheague yesterday afternoon.

Turner, a consistent performer all afternoon in his brown-and-tan Ford, was an easy half-track victor over Wally Campbell of Trenton, N. J. He did the 30-lap grind in 16 minutes, six and eight-tenths seconds. Washington County League Standings NORTHERN DIVISION Yesterday's Scores Hancock, South End, 1. Middleburg, West End, 3.

Yesterday's Scores Smithsburg, 11-6; Harrystown, 6-15. Standings Hancock Middleburg South End Harrystown Smithsburg Won 14 14 13 6 5 West End 0 Lost 3 4 5 11 13 17 Turner hugged the inside rail' as the big 20-car field broke and he never relinquished it, picking up ground steadily until he boasted a comfortable lead after ten times around the half-mile oval. The second and third place battles furnished the fans wrth the excitement. Baker Takes Third Campbell finally took place honors with "Buck" Baker finish- Ing third, Buddy Sfauman fourth and Tommy Bradsh-aw fifth. The only local entrant in the event, Johnny Barikdoll, making his first stab at competing with the experienced drivers, finished far back in his blue Ford but received a big ovation from the sweltering crowd' for his spunk iness.

400 On Hand Over 4000 spectators witnessed the new track's inaugural program. The bleacherite-o were sent scurrying shortly before the utart of the first qualifying heat by a cudden shower but the skies cleared shortly thereafter and the track was none the worse for the remainder of the afternoon's card. A total of $3.000 was distributed in purses during flie program. Turner Takes- Match Race Turner, In, acldHion to hauling down top nioney in the feature, also took the special match race between the three cars turning in the fastest times of the day. He whipped Campbell by four lengths inthe added five-lap event, with Shuman trailing in the rear.

Co-owners Stanley Schetrompf and Mike Shank announced that a big car racing card would be offered for the track's second show next Sunday. Yanks Split Even WilhDelroilers Tigers Annex First Contest 9-6 On Home Runs As Yonks Win Second 11-10 Next Week's Card Harrystown at West End. Hancock at Smithsburg. Middleburg at South End. SOUTHERN DIVISION Yesterday's Scores Boonsboro, Gapland, 0.

Punkstown.6; Williamsport, 3. Keedysville, (forfeit.) Sharpsburg, 0. Boonsboro Blanks Gapland Tossers Jackets Retain Hold On First Place With A 5 To 0 County Loop Win Boonsboro retained their hold on first place in the Southern Division of the Washington County League by blanking the Gapland team yesterday by a 5 to 0 score. Henry on the mound for the Jackets allowed but five well scattered hits and was never in danger. Gilbert and Hartle led the attack for the Jackets with the former having a home run and a double while the latter came through with three singles.

Gaither for the losers collected two hits for as many times at bat. The fielding of the winners was of the best and four fast double plays nipped Gapland rallies. Boonsboro 101210--511 0 Gapland 000 000--0 5 3 Henry and Hartle; Younkins and Kaetzel. 'PAUL BUNYAN' OF THE GRIDIRON New York, Aug. 29 blowing a 9-0 iead the New York Yankees came back and scored twice in the seventh inning on Billy John's two-run homer to nip the Detroit Tigers, 11-10, today in the second game of a twin bill.

The Tigers came from behind and won the opener, 9-6, on a pair of two-run homers by Dick Wakefield and Pat Mullin. The teams smashed out 52 hits during the afternoon and in the end, the second place ankees still trailed the pace-setting Boston Hod Sox by a game and a half. A crowd of 40,127 sat in on the twin hill to bring the Yanks' home attendance to 2,007,141, the third straight season they have gone over the twormilHon mark. Detroit 001 010 142--9 14 0 New York 100 005 000--6 8 2 Hutchinson, Benton, Houtteman and Wagner; Porterfield, Killer, Bvrne and Niarhos Standings Booneboro Williamsport Gapland Keedysville Funkstown Sharpsburg Won Lost 13 11 9 6 6 5 4 6 8 10 11 11 Detroit 000 005 500--10 17 0 New York 503 100 20x--11 13 0 Overmire, Benton (3), Trucks (7), Pierce (8) and Swift, Wagner (6); Page, Embree (6), Raschi (7), Lopat (7), Reynolds (9) and Houk. VFW GROUP MEETS The sports committee of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post will meet at the clubrooms tonight at 7:30.

All baseball players are requested to attend. SEE OUR BIG SELECTION OF A A and supplies R. M. Hays Bros. incorporated 2ft-SO West Washlniton Street I Willie Pep Will Fight Thursday New York, Aug.

29 Pep, the busiest champion in the boxing business, will be in there punching again Thursday night at Waterbury, where he meets Johny Dell, New York lightweight, in a non-title ten. The classy featherweight king fights almost every week. On Friday, Sept. 10, he is slated to mix with lightweight Paddy DeMarco in a ten at Madison Square Garden. The Garden winds up its Thursday night summer shows this week with a ten-rounder featuring welterweight contenders Tommy Bell, Youngstown, Ohio, and Doug Ratford, two-time conqueror of Kid Gavilan, of New York.

Next Week's Card Boonsboro at Funkstown. Keedysville at Williamsport. Gapland at Sharpsburg. Wehrle Is Ruled Out Of Tourney Memphis, Aug. 29 Wilford Wehrle of Louisville, 'Ky.

winner of numerous sectional honors, was declared ineligible today on the eve of the opening of the National Amateur Golf Tournament. The executive committee of the United States Golf Association announced in a brief statement that Wehrle "has violated the definition of an amateur golfer by lending his name for the advertisement of golf equipment." The body declined to elaborate on the ruling. Wehrle, who had qualified at Chicago with 142, was on hand and ready to swing into action tomorrow when 82 first round matches will be crowded between dawn and dusk at the Memphis Country Club. Told of the ruling, he returned home. ROY SCOUT SHOES BUFFALO BILLS LOSE San Francisco, Aug.

29 Francisco's high-scoring '49erg, behind a smart aerial game and tremendous ground power, opened the Ail-American Conference professional football season 1 here today with a 3544 victory over the Buffalo Bills. RECORDS Latest Releases. Children, Hill Billy, Popular and Classical. Whitesel Music Co. (Across from Post Office) Hagerstown Phone 2269 Cubs And Phillies Divide Contests Chicago, Aug.

29 Chicago Cubs divided a twin bill with the Philadelphia Phillies here today, losing the opener, 1 to.O, and then capturing the second, 10 to 4, before a crowd of 34,804. The Cubs pounded Curt Simmons and Sam Nahem for 14 hits in the second tilt, nailing down the decision with a six-run outburst in the third. Walt Dubiel outdueled "Dutch" McCall in the opener. In the nightcap Eddie Waitkus, who was making-his debut in the outfield, collected three singles. Bob Rush succeeded Ralph Hamner in the fourth and allowed only two runs the rest of the way for his third win.

The Cubs clinched the victory with six runs in the third. Philadelphia ...000 000 010--1 7 0 Chicago 000 000 000--0 8 5 Dubiel and Seminick; McCall and A. Walker Chicago White Sox Snap Macks Streak Athletics Win Opener Off Pole Hose 5 To 4 But Drop Nightcap 7 To 2 Philadelphia, Aug. 29 Chicago White Sox snapped a five- game Philadelphia winning streak today, by clubbing out a 7 to 2 victory in the second game of a double header. Carl Scheib pitched and batted the A's to a 5-4 win in the opener.

A crowd of 12,151 saw Phil Marchildon coast along on a 1-0 lead in the nightcap before shortstop Jimmy (Skeeter) Webb hobbled a perfect double play ball to pave the way for Chicago's three-run rally in the eighth. The Sox then continued their attack on Alex Kellner and Bob Savage. Allan Gettel went the distance for Chicago for his fourth victory of the year. One of the runs he allowed was a homer to Scheib in a pinch-bitting role with two down in the ninth inning. Altogether, Gettel gave up eight hits.

Scheib won his own game in the eighth inning of the opener when he tripled and came across cm Sam Chapman's single. Earl Mack managed Philadelphia in the second game as the intense heat got the best of Connie Mack and forced him to retire his home. Chicago 102 010--4 9 1 Philadelphia .000 012 llx--5 15 0 Gumpert and Weigei; Scheib and Rosar Pirates Score A Double Victory Boston Braves Knocked Out Of National Loop Lead By Twin Defeat Pittsburgh, Aug. 29 four run rally in the seventh inning gave Pittsburgh a 5 to 2 victory over the first-place Boston Braves in the nightcap of their doubleheader today after the Pirates had cap tured the opener, 6 to 1. A crowd of 30,276 watched the home club record the double win.

Although still in fourth place, the wins put the Pirates within three games of the league top. Vie Lombardi went the distance to win his seventh of the season against a similar number of defeats. Bill Voiselle lost his 12th of the year against 14 wins. Danny Murtaugh. Pirate second sacker, was the hitting star of the day with a double and a triple in the first game and three singles in the nightcap.

Boston Pittsburgh 000 000 001--1 7 1 100 012 20x--6 9 0 Spahn, Antonelli Chesnes and Klutt and Salkeld; Boston 200 000 000--2 7 Pittsburgh 001 000 40x--5 12 Voiselle, Hogue (7) and Masi Lombard! and Fitzgerald. Home Runs Deckle Games Al Boston Williams And TtbbtHi Win First Battle 10-2; Brownies Take Second 12 To 4 Boston, Aug. 29 runs decided both games as the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis split a double-header today before 27,522. crowd.

The American' League leaders won the opener, 10-2, and then were subjected to a 20-hit attack while dropping the nightcap, 12-4. Joe Dobson, who had been seeking his 14th win for almost a month, was Boston's starter 'and he had little to worry about after Ted Williams belted a three-run homer and Birdie Tebbetts uncorked a against Carl Drews and Bryan Stephens in the first inning. The second game was just about as one-sided. Lefty Mickey Harrir was clubbed for a homer by Ai Zarilla, the second Brownie to face him, and after he gave up three consecutive singles and a walk, catcher Johnny Moss slugged him for a three-run homer to boost Browns into a 5-0 lead. HOLDING two teammates, one on each arm, Is child's play for mighty Marion Shirley (what's in a 282-pound rookie tackle with the New York pro football Giants.

Shirley, like Paul Bunyan, mythical lumberjack hero of the northwest, does not seem to know his own strength. The players being held by Shirley are John Sylvester (left) and Steve fiieradzM. (International) ins Pair Off Giants Brooklyn Leading National League Dodgers Capture Pair Off St. Louis Cardinals 127 And 6 To 4 Chicago 000 000 034--7 11 1 Philadelphia 100 000 001--2 8 3 Gettel and Robinson, Tresh (8); Marchildon, Kellner (8), Savage (9) and Guerra. Cincinnati, Aug.

29 downpour flooded out the second game of a New York Giant-Cincinnati Red doubleheadec today, but Cincinnati won both games by identical scores of Danny Litwhiler's pinch hit single in the ninth provided the first game victory. The Reds were leading 3-2 in the last of the fifth and had two men on base when the second game was called. The defeats extended the Giants' loss streak to six. There were 18,605 spectators. A pinchhit drove in the Reds' winning run in the second game, too.

Augie Galan, who batted for Claude Corbitt in the fifth, connected with a single that scored Benny Zientara. There were two out when the game was called. Herman Wehmeier was the winner and Dave Koslo the loser. New York 110 000 000--2 9 0 Cincinnati 000 100 002--3 10 2 Jansen and Cooper; Fox, Peterson, Gumbert and Lamanno, Williams i a i i In Money Winnings Chicago, Aug. 29 won the American Derby at Washington Park yesterday and became the world's third richest money winner.

The victory brought his Calumet Farms owners $66,450, boosting his earnings in two years of campaigning to $651,750. With jockey Eddie Arcaro astride, Citation came in a length ahead of his stablemate, Free America. Walmac Farms' Volcanic was third. C6B1 Bench George Kell New York, Aug. 29 (JP)--George Kell, hard-luck third baseman of the Detroit Tigers, was removed to the medical center today with a broken lower right suffered when a hard bounder off the bat of Joe DiMaggio struck.him in the sixth inning of the "first game of the Tiger-New York Yankee doubleheader.

Kell was so dazed from the blow that he had to be led from the field by his mates and Trainer John Homel. His jaw was wired by Dr. Swanie Gaston of the hospital staff, who stated that Kell will be kept at the infirmary overnight. He did not estimate how long the player would be sidelined. St Louis ....110 000 000-- 2 6 0 Boston 701 020 OOx--10 10 0 Drews, Stephens and Parley Dobson and Tebbetts St.

Louis 532 002 000--12 10 1 Boston 000 300 001-- 4 10 0 Carver and Moss; Harris, Johnson (1), Hughson (3), CaldweU (8) and Batts. New York 110 00--2 7 1 Cincinnati 000 2--3 8 0 Koslo, Hartung (5) and Westrum; Wehmeier and Williams. Philadelphia 020 000 Oil-- 4 13 1 Chicago 006 002 02x--10 14 0 Simmons, Nab em (8) and Sem- inick, Lakeman (5); R. Hamner, Rush (4) and Scheffing. Green Bay Downs New York Giants Minneapolis, Aug.

29 (ff)--A final period rally and a 41 yard touchdown run by Ralph Earhart, Green Bay Packer back, gave the Packers a 7 to 0 win over the New York Giants in their National Football League exhibition game here today. Earhart converted for the extra point. The game was played for Minneapolis Catholic chanties with. sell-out crowd of 14,000. Pitt Pill Pounder By Alan Mover Tribe Splits In Games With Nats Washington, Aug.

29 (ff)--Jake Early's sixth inning double.off relief pitcher Bob Feller with the bases loaded was the big blow as Washington defeated Cleveland 5-2, in the second game of a double header here today. Cleveland won the first game, 6-0, on the 3-hit pitching of Bob Lemon as Joe Gor don slammed his 23rd homer of the year. Cleveland had nicked Early Wynn for a 2-0 lead in the second game but Don Black walked Sherry Robertson and Ed Stewart to start the Senators' sixth. Ed Klieman came in to retire Mickey Vernon and Mark Christman but when he walked Eddie Yost to fill the bases Feller was summoned to the mound.Early greeted him with a double off the right field fence -to score three runs: Cleveland 020 001 003--6 11 0 Washington ..000 000 000--0 3 3 Lemon and Hegan; Thompson, Harris! and Early St Louis, Aug. 29 took over first place in the battle royal for the National League pennant by defeating the St.

Louis Cardinals 12-7 and 6-4 today before 33,826, largest crowd of the season here, while Boston's 'faltering Braves dropped two to Pittsburgh. The double-barreled triumph put the Dodgers ahead of Boston jy three percentage points. A pinch single by Arky Vaughan the tenth inning drove in Pete Reiser with the deciding run in the nightcap. George Shuba scored when catcher Del Wilber fumbled Enos Slaughter's throw to the plate on the play. Stan Musial had put the Cardinals back in the game temporarily with a two-run triple to the right center field wall in the ninth to tie the score.

Jackie Robinson, the Negro star, paced the Dodgers in the first game with a homer, and single. Brooklyn 402 120 111--12 14 3 St. Louis 000 103 210-- 7 15. 2 Minner, Behrman and Campanella; Brecheen, Wilks, Brazle, Munger, Staley, Hearn and Rice, Wilber GRID DRILLS START Shepherdstown, W. Aug.

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