The Daily Mail from Hagerstown, Maryland • Page 18

THE DAILY HAIL. HACERSTOWN, MD-. WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, The month of September has arrived on schedule, which means that football is just around the corner. This should be good news to most of the sports fans of this section who grow a little tired of the long baseball leason.

And with the Hagerstown Packets in or near the Piedmont League cellar for most of the summer, this has been an exceptionally long baseball campaign. The Packels are all but mathematically eliminated from any chance of finishing in the first division and gain- ing a playoff berth, so there will be no delay in getting the 1954 football season off on schedule in Hagerstown. When the Packets close out their home slate on La- bor Day, the playing field at the stadium will be converted from a baseball diamond to a football gridiron. The pitchers' mound will be cut down, goal posts erected and the field lined off in regulation football yardage for Ha- gerstown High School's grid opener against the Chambers- burg High Trojans on Friday night. September 10th.

The Hubs' initial test is still 10 days away, but Coach Mel Henry announced today that his Maroon and Gray gridders are already in top shape and rarin' to go. In fact, the HHS mentor just about has his starting lineup picked for the. inaugural tiit with Chambersbuvg. As things stand now, the Hnhs will field a first team composed almost entirely of seniors. Dare Wachter appears to have the quarterback position sewed up.

and the same holds true lor Charley hanin at fullback. Dick Ringer, Jack Long and Tubby Stotler are the leading halfback candidates. A pair of seniors, Billy Biggs and Charley Barnes, are expected to hold down the end spots, but they're getting plenty of competition from John McPltail and Monty Johnstone. Coach Henry will pick his tackles front among Dannie Sweigart, John Poifenherger, Dale Ehersole and Tom Howard, while Jack Slick and Mickey McGee are expected to get the nod for the guard positions. Gary Scott probably will'start at center, hut Joe Rosengren is ready to step in if necessary.

With one of the toughest schedules in Hneerstown High School's football history facing the Hubs this fall. Henry isn't making any predictions. Rut you can left by the gleam in his eye that Melvin is expecting big things from his hoys this season. Packets Opening Three-Game Set With Newport News Nine At Stadium Tonight Al Bennett Probable Mound Choice For Series Opener Against Dodgers "Appreciation Night" Slated Tonight With Fans Paying Anything They Want To See O'clock Contest. It will be "Appreciation Night" at Municipal Stadium tonight when the Hagerstown Packets return to their own backyard to open a three-game series against the New- News Dodgers.

Fans attending tonight's single tilt at 8 o'clock will be admitted to the ball park by paying any admission price they desire. This will be a new experiment for the Ha- gerstown club in an effort to boost the Packets' sagging home attendance. Manager Zeke Bonura didn't an- nounce his pitching choice for the series opener against the second- place Baby Bums, but it is ex- pected that big Al Bennett will get the nod for the Packets. Home Run Record Mav Be Smashed Bv Joe Bauman If the return engagement between Chiimnion Rocky Marciano and Challenger Charles runs to form, it is likely to be a dull affair. More often than not, rematchins: heavyweights after they have nut on an cxcit- fne brawl produces nothing to match the first thriller.

This is especially true in heavyweight championshin bouts. There is no guarantee that the second meetine between Marciano and Charles will be anything like their first bout last June. Marciano has improved on his earlier performances the second time around. Jersey Joe Walcott didn't last a round in their second meeting after a i put up such a brilliant fight when he lost the title to Rocky. Roland La Starza was knocked out when he faced Marciano the second time.

Even Ezzard Charles made a miserable showing against Walcott when they met in a return bout fol- lowin" Jersey Joe's knockout victorv. The second Joe Louis-Billy Conn bout was another dfrannointinq affair. Conn had nut up fiht a i the Brown Bomber in June of 1941. a Ri'lv was leading the champion hv a wide margin for 12 rounds when he suddenly found himself on the floor and beina counted' out. Enough boxing fans thought that Conn could win the championship from Louis to encourage Pro- moter Mike Jacobs to stage the return match and charae $100 for rincside seats.

Bold Billy was bent onlv on pro- tecting himself from complete destruction. Louis knocked him out after chasing him for eight rounds. The Packets are returning home i fifth place in the Piedmont i League standings, five games in back of the fourth-place Ports- mouth Merrimacs. Last night down in Norfolk, the' local team broke even in a double! smash it header with the pennant winning; Tars. Jim Coates hurled Norfolk! lo a 2-0 victory in the opener, but Tony Beardslee in a pitchers' duel to give the Packets the nightcap, 2-1.

Beardslee was handed his fourth (loss against 15 victories. The i Packet run was unearned in the i first following a one-out walk to Torn Falk. Wayne Crawford's, single. Miff Davidson's flyout and! Joe Hauser of Minneapolis in Mo Thacker's error allowing Falk 3933 an(l tie(1 BOD Brues of to score on the flyout. i Amarillo in 1948.

In the third. Beardslee walked In Probably the biggest night Garcia and Aldo Salvent forced of llis slugging career, drove Packet twirler. But Falk against hapless Saivent in after the latler had stolen second. This proved the win- ning run." Roscnzwcie's two-run single in the third inning of the first game; was all Coates needed as he stifled the visitors on two hits, both! singles by second baseman Dick Ackerman. Coates had a no-hitter entering the fifth when Ackerman grgcted him with a knock.

double-play lifted Coates out of the stanza after he passed a man. Ackerman picked up the othe safety for Hagerstown in the sev- enth but again a double-play pulled ROSWELL, N. Sept. 1 iTu- Ponderous Joe Bauman. the Ros- well Rocketeer, was within one home run of the all-time profes- sional baseball record today and he has six games in which to Jarring Joe blasted four hom- ers last night against Sweetwa- ter to not only set-a new Long- horn League mark for circuit clouts in one game but to bring his season total to 68.

He takes dead aim tonight against Midland for the two over-the-fence smashes that will wipe out the record of 69 set by Swectwater, which Hoswell beat 15-9. and further added )o his- recortl in the Class League for rbi's. He now has 214. a a has this mighty rec- Horst Captures Golf Tournament Flight In Potomac Editon Matchei. Paul Horst.

a junior engineer with the Potomac Edison Company in Hagerstown, copped top honors in the Vice-President's flight of the 1954 Potomac Edison System Golf Tournament. Playing in competition with golf- TS from over the four-state area served by the Potomac Edison System, Iloi'st swept through six straight matches to win the honors. Thirty-eight PE golfers com- peted in this year's tournament, one of the largest-in the history of he event. In the final match played on the Waynesboro Country Club course, met and defeated Clyde Gavilai KIN By Virus Infectim Welter Champ Forced To Call Off Tonight's Title Fight. PHILADELPHIA A viruf infection sent welterweight cham- pion Kid Gavilan to bed and again put off his apparently jinxed title fight with Johnny Saxton, this time until October.

The 28-year-old a was stricken so suddeny yesterday that neither promoter Herman Taylor nor the co-promoting International Boxing Club could come up with a substitute fight fur tonight's weekly Wednesday coast-to-coasl boxing telecast. It was the first time that a live TV fight of some sort could not be staged as sched- And Head Country Club. Pu-i omac Edison System Comptroller lenn T. Swisher made -entation. the Wins Golf Trophy lorst Strite of Martinsburg, 1 Horst received the And said il the trophy a dinner held fight ever was called off by illness on the eve of the contest.

It was first for Gavilan. too. He said he never had a fight postponed before in his eight years in United States, a record he had been very proud of. Taylor said he would start re- funding about $30,000 starting Fri- day or Saturday. The veteran pro- moter said the twice-postponed scrap would be held sometime in October probably in Convention Hall.

Gavilan promised Taylor that hi would fight then. Frank Wiener, chairman of the Pennsylvania Ath- ord for 132 games: 475 times at states served by the local utility. bat. 189 hits for an average of .398. 182 runs, 432 total bases, 33 doubles, 3 triples, 10 sacri- fices, 4 stolen bases, 147 bases on balls.

Paul Horst, left. Hagerstown, receives the Vice-President's Trophy from Glenn T. Swisher, comptroller of the Potomac Edison Com- pany. Horst won the trophy in the Potomac Edison System golf tournament in competition with golfers from over the four Indians Jubilant After 6-1 Win Over Yankees NEW YORK. Sept.

1 i.P-The jubilant Cleveland Indians, to a man. were convinced today they had the American League pen- nant all wrapped up. But either due to caution, fear of popping off. or just plain superstition, none was willing to speak for the record. Manager Al Lopez, jubilant Coates out irf possible trouble.

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standard-bearer Coblentz in the 3 ft 2 2 7-5, in the Independent League all-star game at Municipal Stadium The score was tied at 4-4 after seven frames when the Northern Mill FOLK Kosennvviir. ss rf i i Ih 3 a Wheeler. Sl 3 i 2b 3 Floyd. It 3 rf Coates. 2 The defending i meets Mrs.

John 18-hole finals for the 1954 club title among Fountain Head's fair sex golfers. Tourney awards will.be made on Labor Day. The men's club championshipj a to scorc the tnrcc run51 wnich event is scheduled to be completed turned the (ifle in the eighth on Labor Day, with a 36-hole final set for the championship flight. J. K.

Noel is the defending champion. AH told, there are six flights in the men's division. Northern Stars Win At Stadium Fair-Sized Crowd On Hand For All-Star Game Latt Night. The Northern Division All-Stars scored three times in the eighth and whipped the Southern Division. lu ur51 'TM 7-; th, TTMiTM.nrf.n» i New York Willie Mays as the YESTERDAY'S STARS Tilt- Pitching Early Wynn, Cleve- land Indians Hurled a i i a two-iiitter as the Indians trounced flic Xcw York Yankees fi-1 drop- ping the Yanks five and games back of Cleveland in the A i a League.

Batting Ted Kluszewski, Cin- cinnati Hedlcgs Hit his 40th and 41st homers and took the major league home run leadership from letjc Commission, who was sum- moned from his home at 9 p. m. last night, said that the champion 'would be placed on (he "unavail- a list" until he went through but cautious, after Early Wynn's the fight brilliant two-hitter that led to Gavilan's manager, Angel Lopez, (leveland vital 6-1 victory over saj( i he id had a on tht the New York Yankees last eft sid(! his face Tuesday morn- night, came as close as he could hut that he had insisted on going through eight rounds of ex- ercise to bring his weight down. Lopez said Gavilan had his din- ner in the evening and then com- plained about 7 p. m.

that he wasn't we've feeling well. Dr. Samuel Swctnick, i i personal physician, was sum- moned. He found that Gavilan was suf- i fering from a virus infection, had temperature of 101 degrees and SRcdlegs lost 9-3 ttj the Philadel-, 1 phia Phillies. a Seven i i by i I I i SH Flny.l.

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INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Richmond 3, Havana 1 (1st) Toronto at Ottawa, ppd, rain. Montreal at Buffalo, ppd, rain. Rochester at Syracuse, ppd, rain. last night. the South, CJruhliR slammed three.

nine put together three hits and a TM ir i i aml Clinc i nao A fair-sized crowd a present I without actually predicting the flag. "This is the biggest game have won all year." he said hap- pily. "I'd say we're in the he's! position right now that been in all season. "We might still get hurt but we know we can't get killed. I'd say they've really got their backs against the wall now." Cleveland's triumph boosted the Tribe's lead to 5Vj games over the crestfallen Yankees who had expected to use this "cru- cial" three-game series as a means to slice the Indians' mar- gin to a game and a half.

Fol- lowing this series, the Indians and Yankees clash two more times in Cleveland. The winning markers came ter two men had been retired. Ed Bachtell tripled off Ganoe and Martin drew a base on balls. After Stubits' triple scored both runners. Best replaced Ganoe on the mound I for the game which had been post-! LEAGUE OPENING poned twice previously by Tlle Hagerstown Mixed Bowling weather.

League will oaen their season on 001 00? 130-7 11 4 and gave up a single to South 022000001--514 1 plating Stubits. I Hi tonr J. Beard and Keller had three hits in fourjHessltr, E. Bachtell; Brining, Tal trips to pace the Northern squad, ibert, Ganoe, Best-and Knode, while D. Beard had 2-for-3.

For Crampton. The Semler-McFaddin Sporting a j'- September 19 at 2 o'clock. Goods Store donated baseballs foi the game. North an inflammation of the left parotid gland near the ear. Two other physicians made independent ex- aminations and agreed.

SMITH BY KO MIAMI BEACH, Sept. 1 (m -Wallace Smith, 142, Cin- cinnati, the sixth ranking light- weight contender, knocked out Ra- fael Lastre, Havana. Cuba, in 1:50 of the seventh round in a scheduled 10-roundcr last night. A crowd of paid a gross gate of $5,299 to see the program in City Auditorium. HAUKK.STmV.V Salvent.

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l.nypr a i 1 5 i I --Tylpi- i i A-- 1.718. Former Ring Champ Loses In Comeback SACRAMENTO, Calif. W-Lauro; jSalas, former world's lightweight champion, was surprised here last night in a comeback try. bowing to Pete Aguirre, Los Angeles, via a split decision after 10 rounds. One judge called it even but the I other judge and referee ruled in favor of Aguirre, both seeing it to 54W.

Aguirre, in at 131 pounds, built up a big lead in the early rounds but Salas made it close with his usual closing rally. Salas, showed the effects of over i year's vacation from the ring. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT 1 (Mr The Miami Beach, Fla. Wallace (Bud) i 142, knocked nut Rafael Lastre, Havana, 7. Sacramento, Calif.

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