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THE MORNING HERALD, HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND AUGUST Lust IP MP DUI JR un JP num nir II wtcf organization or there Is who about his business without making a into the limelight and lew really ftfcounl work and effort puts into the business! 9 like a well oiled machine. Suck Is sm ol Merle H. Beard, assistcmt generalj 4jl race meeting, Lawrence oesis nonon in Tight Huriers Bailie 2-0 Lose To York To Remain Point- Sfthifid--Braves Miss Out On ions ueieai the meeting comes to city as he Jft knowfl fey fee jEtaJosrity, kca bis work cut out There are many to be attended to cmd he personally sees to SI ihm finy taken carroi, During the winter montns he is fee job working lor the ptat that wiH sitske it conyisnt far million cad one items to crttead to amd how around to doing dl of them and remain un- asd appearing ess 1 a cucumber" no one will 99m has to listen to tne complaints that come to him over phone, in person, by letter and wire. He has to line up his workers and see thai a schedule work is drawn tap lor them whereby they will have the plant in tiptop shape at a certain PORTSMOUTH, Aug 21 Lawrence, Portsmouth righthander, whitewashed the league-leading Braves on four hits, 2-0, tonight the Merri- maes galvged the final game to the series after losing the first two. In gaipang his 16th decision of the Lawrence outpehed Tom Horton, the Hagerstows ace.

Despite the the Braves were able to hold on to their sins Piedmont lead over the Newport News Dodgers, who were beaten by 1-0, The 2wacs, showing complete of form, gave Lawrence Results New Yorlc 5, Philadelphia 4 Washington 9-3; Boston 1-7 Cleveland T-3; St. Louis 3-E Chicago 4, Detroit I Standings New York 82 Chicago 73 Cleveland 67 68 60 48 Detroit 44 St. Louis 42 lime, errorless support with eenterfield- er Neighbors and second basemwa link Cornwell executing the stzor plays of the night Eddie Neighbors batted in both Portsmouth runs in the second inning. Kten Guettler opened the second wifh a single to center- Then Mule Feete laid down a perfect bunt loir a hit, but when Horton first in SB effort to nip the nasaier Guettler went to third and Pcete raced to second oa the error. NelgjciihGrs dumped a single into left cesfter to bring the two across.

Hagertown's best scoring opportunity came in the top of the second. Ted Laguna led off with a single bjut Dick Guyton hit into a double play. Joe Blaie walked and Earl'Hrsh doubled to center, but Blake attempted to score on the blow and was thrown out at the ate by Neighbors. A spectacular running catch by Neighbours of Don Baminao's drive to left qmter prevented the Braves Durham's Blow feom sq tfing in the fifth. Hortoa- held the Macs in check after the second, in which the home team ccMlected three of their five hits off the ace righthander, who was lifti for a pinch hitter in the eighth.

Meanwhile, Lawrence didn't permit a runner to reach third base affer second frame. He fanned 0 Win NEWPORT NEWS, Aug. 21 Vana Durham, a Newport News product who gained friends, and fame here as a high, school athlete, brought sorrow to the home folks tonight when he slammed a home run over the left field fence to lead off inning and give the York White Hoses a 1-0 victory over the Newport News Dodgers. A crowd of 1,847 fens watched Durham drive Tony Cincotta's second pitch of the inning, out of the park at the 345-foot mark and deprive the' Dodgers of the opportunity of moving into first place in the Piedmont lieaigue's pennant race. Despite thfeir 2-0 loss to Brooks Lawrence and the -Portsmouth Merrimacs, the Hagerstown Braves remain atop, the league standings Boston Washington -Philadelphia 37 47 52 56 -63 72 75 81 Pet.

SB .689 .608 9 .563 14V .54816 .488 .400 34 .370 .34141 Today's Gernes Pitchers Philadelphia at New York -Fricano vs Ford (15-4) Detroit at Chicago Aber (3-3) vs Keegan (3-2) St. Louis at Cleveland--Pfflette (4-9) vs Garcia (14-7) Boston at Washington (night) Paraell (17-7) vs Masterson (8-10) Yesterday's Results Pittsburgh 7, Brooklyn 1 Milwaukee 5, Chicago 4 Philadelphia 7, New York 6 St. Louis 4, Cincinnati 0 Standings Brooklyn SI Milwaukee 74 New York 57 Cincinnati 53 Chicago Pet. .681 .612 GB 8 B--Lacroix 2, Davidson. RBI-Poole 2, Montiero, Giammarco, Wallace.

SB--Dean. S--Sangalli, Vines. DP--Burgos, Cantora and Pope; 38 St. Louis 65 53 .551 15Mj Poole. Burgos and Pope.

Left Philadelphia 65 55 61 68 73 Pittsburgh 41 86 .542 .483 .438 2S .381 .323 44 Today's Games Pitchers Brooklyn at Pittsburgh Roe by one percentage to (8-2) vs Hall (3-10) nine. HAGEHiJTOWN Zmn, 3fc Myers. cf Guy ton, rf Blake; lit miaucji, ss Horton, Xrenthe, AB 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 1 0 I 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A 3 4 9 1 4 0 2 0 0 0 2 4 3 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 0 1 29 0 4 24 IS MERLE E. BEABf) (Photo by Ewiug) Ho must pacify Horsemen requesting certain number SiaHs whss. there are not enough to grant the request Thtre are 10 laany details to attend to, in fact more than any one-hard boiled sergeant in the army could think ol dishing out io some raw rookie mat he has taken a dislike io.

tame Temoins in the background satisfied Io get his work out-and still have nine to meet with friends the racing game from various parts of the country. During his time in the racing game Merle Beard has xubbed shoulders with the best and tops in the business. He well liked in racing circles and respected in hall mile circles en wftH at the major tracks. Beard learned the game from the ground up some wisest men ia the racing game. No only has he a IhoTOiigh knowledge of the inside of the game but his value te iiio ost dike ean'H-seen at the Fairgrounds.

FOBTSlfOl'TH AB H. Bella "Eiocca, ss 4 0 1 2b 3 0 1 "Wheeler," Sb 3 0 0 Guettltir, If 3 1 1 Peete, rf I 1 I cf 3 0 1 lb 3 0 0 North, 1 0 Ijawrentce, 2 TOT4.LS 25 2 5 27 13 into force play for Horton in 8th. 000 000 000--0 020 009. OOx--: .587 for the Dodgers. Even in defeat the Dodgers had something io cheer about for their crack infield snapped, the Pied- moat's double play record by executing the 174th twin kiE of the season in the fifth inning.

Sam Mclain singled to open the frame. Pedro Arroyo then smashed a sharp grounder to shortstop Bob Lillis. Liliis flipped to second baseman Charlie Neal for one out and he keystoner's relay to first baseman Danny Lynk nipped Arroyo to complete the double play. Plate Umpire Bob Chisholm held up play and presented Dodger Manager Stan Wasiak the ball as the fans staged their most vociferous outburst of the year. officials and just plain followers the game am rest assured that a request is made of Merle iw will make effort possible to fuliSil it.

Is; thorough; and General manager Dr. Robert as well CES the Association officers and board of should certainly realize that they have an "ace" in Merle Hr Beard, for he is the man-behind the scenes that few hear about, ut the one who fiis into the machine at right and makes it tick. Wfco catt teB ifcot 100 to 1 shot might Hi cad Good Morning! FRANK COLLET Hiorton, Laguna. RBI-- Neighbors 2. 2E-- Hersh.

S-- Lawrence. DP to Myers; Lawrence Delia to Edwards: Damiano Zlnn to Myers. 2. Left--Hagerstowr 4, Portsmouth S. 1 Lawren.ce 2.

SO-- Horton Lawrence Lenthe 1. HO-- Horton. in 7 iunihss; Lenthe. 0 in 1. Wi ner 3.6-11.

Loser-- Hor- T-- A-- 320. Schwartz and Braica. Chicago at Milwaukee Pollet 4-6) 1 or Lown (6-5) vs Buhl (9-6) New York at -Philadelphia (2, wi-night)--Corwin (6-2) and Maglie (8-8) vs Konstanty (12-9) and Cincinnati at St Louis (night) --Podbielan (5-13) or Collum (6-9) MiEer (6-6) YORK AB A Lindquist, ss 3 "0 0 Buck, rf 4 0 1 Durham, 4 2 1 Kress, If 4 1 1 McCain, lb 4 0 1 Arroyo, 3b 3 0 0 i Jones, 3 0 0 2 Snyder, 2b 3 0 1 4 Adametz, 2 0 0 2 Fishes DENVER, Aug. 21 Eisenhower took today off for a ishing trip, keeping silence over the possibility of a meeting with Adlai Stevenson. tcayuc Results York 1, Newport News 0 Portsmouth 2, Hagerstows llichmoad'8, Lyacbburg 1 Ciubt W.

Pet. iHagerstowa 70 49 .588 50 .587 -Norfolk 66 Portsmouth 64 York 54 4S 56 61 68 71 .584 .533 .470 .419 .372 Lacroix's Wifdness And Timely Hittmg Rieh- A Mr III LYNCHBURG, Aug. 21 (B- Richmond's Colts took advantage of some wild pitching by Joe La- Lynchburg crois and contributed some timely fEidiinond bitting to score an. 8-1 victory over Tcnishfs the Lyachburg Cardinals here to- Lynchburg at York rjigkt Newport News at Norfolk Lacroix walked five men and all games jcheduled) of them scored. The Colts put together a pair of walks, three errros, two of them' by Lacrois on one play, four hits and a sacrifice for five runs ia a big fourth inning.

RICHMOND Burgos, ss Sangalli. 3b Poole. If 3 Giamraarco. rf Montiero, cf 14 20 25 AS 3 2 0 3 1 1 1 2 0 0 0 Pope, lb 5 0 Santora, 2b 5 1 Olin, 4 1 Vines, 0 12 1 4 0 Pony League Title trmonf 'Shiii'Taik irks Frick Commissioner Wo rut That Moves Must Follow Baseball Law NEW YORK, Aug. 21 bail Commissioner Ford Fricfe flashed a caution signal today to over-ambitious civic groups and chambers of commerce who want 1 to move big league franchises by pointing out that baseball's legal procedure must be followed.

"I'm getting sick and tired of reading the papers about somebody talking of "building a ball park to get a big league club when, to the best of my knowledge, they haven't talked with the fellow who owns the minor league dub Is that town," Frick said. Frick Insisted he was not point, ing at Bill Veeck, owner who St has Louis been WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 to --Fairmont, W. a dark horse Browns' entry, defeated North Charleston, S. 7-6 tonight to win the second move.

annual Pony League World Series "Veeck has a problem and fee scouting the country for a place to i i TOTALS I.YXCHBUH6- Sullivan, ss Dean, of Davidson, rf Baselici, If championship before 7,500 fans. 2 2. i 11 Tallying four runs in the first 33 "i "1 27 inning and three in the third, the jWet Virginians managed to eke out the victory despite some shaky AB 4 0 1 4 0 I 4 0 2 1 2 Wallace, lb 4 Shepherd, Sanders, Sb Demarse, 2 Liacrolx. Balay, 1 0 1 2 10 1 4 knows what must be done," said Frick. "I'm just annoyed by all these stones about cities buying ball parks and talking about bond issues when they haven't even defensive play.

Jerry Wilson to the baseball people in Fairmont allowed only four hits i i i i TOTALS 32 1 1 27 10 Richmond 102 500 000--S 000 100 000--1 ojbut two of them were homers. Brockton, last year's rim- nerup for the title, beat ThOlens. of Chicago 3-0 in a consolation semi-final game behind the three- hit hurling of Dave Fisher. North Richmond 9. L.ynchburg 6.

BB-Lacroix 5, Vines 2, Balay 4. SO-Lacroix' 1. Vines 2, Balay 3. HO-- La'crbix, 5 in 3 1-3 innings: Balay, in 5 2-3. "WP--Lacroix.

"Winner-Vines 4-8. Loser--Lacroix 5-14. U-Burns and Holcombe. A-381. Yankees Victor Overtime Game 54 NEW YORK, Aug, 21 OB-Char-l ley Silvera's pinch single in the llth inning tonight gave the New York Yankees a 5-4 victory over Philadelphia's Alex Kellner in a wild ball game, finished under protest by Philadelphia Manager Jimmy Dykes who was ejected during a stormy ninth inning dispute when the Yanks tied the score.

Philadelphia 002 000 Oil 00--4 10 0 New York 100 100 101 01--5 14 1 Kellner and Murray; Kraly, Sain (8), Kuzava (10) and Berra "There is only one way ia the world to transfer a major le-ague franchise io a minor league town. That is an orderly process, outlined ia the baseball rules. "The first step is to satisfy the Charleston and Brockton will owner. All the agitation tomorrow for second place. AVERAGES By Frank CoHty Kayer Laguna Blake Guytoa Horton Barrett Zinn Concannon Eersh Damiano Notermacn Pizzitola Wilson Miller Lenthe Larson Bortz Ab 281 343 .244 274 48 372 431 209 218 264 64 48 60 72 69 47 61 1 47 83 64 99 23 69 Sb Sb HE EBI Fet 49 6 84 75 29 34 41 8 7 7 5 3 6 0 21 23 7 13 3 21 18 11 8 13 3 2 1 0 2 2 2 0 49 .295 54 ,283 34,.283 41 .270 7 .270 62 .259 45 .251 24 .239 23 .239 31 .235 11 .235 6 .229 5 .218 7 .208 7 .203 4 .170 11 .164 0 .000 jthe civic groups and chambers of commerce can be of no avail unless they first make a deal with the local owner.

"The second step is fo satisfy the league in whose territory you wish to move." Plaque To Gehrig Dedicated In R. Y. NEW YORK, Aug. 21 (A New York City paid tribute today to one of the greatest baseball players it ever produced--Lou Gehrig, the Yankee first baseman who set an all-time major league record fcy Braves Team 3998 647 978 179 53 36 549 .245 Pitebinf Eecords Won Horton 12 Lenth- 10 12 Sleek 13 Wilson 10 Miller .....12 Lest 3 5 6 10 13 Pet. .800 ..667 .667 .565 .526 .480 2,130.

consecutive games. Mayor Impellitteri, the late star's played with the "iron man" took part in a nostalgic ceremony during which a his memory" was dedicated at his birthplace, 309 East 34th Street When Lou Gehrig was born at that address on June 19, 1903, it was a four-story building, according to his mother, Mrs. Christine Gehrig. Today, it is a six-story laundry. TOTALS 30 1 6 27 12 Williams Shines As I WASHINGTON, Aug.

21 Williams blasted a three-run homer and thsree singles off Spec Shea to Boston's 7-3 victory over Washington tonight in the second jsc game of a twi-aight doubleheader after ithe Senators won the first (First Homers Aid Turner's In 3 To 1 Victory Coliseuis seat the City Ommereial Softball League playoffs info a tbird game yesterday fcy Cafe, i-1. before nearly 300 lans at Bes- The triampli evened the best-of-tliree series at one apiece. League President Ed- Goclove lias set the -for rest Wednesday ttt Park. borne runs feelped Junior kam best Hie Browsing Wtother rf their tight pitchers' jftttcnbiy. After the two to a 1-1 stalemate ianmgs, Bill Green poled a asfl in the fifth to give a edge, and Jim Wolf- duplicated that feat ia was all Cunningham, aeed- tKtctively subdued the the way, Both blows.

flratinthropen- Ayooih's single pTi knotted tW itotsid when i 1 Playoff Ends 4-4 Deadlock Yesterday evening on the Pony League diamond the Tortuga Pirates and Pony Express teams, battled through seven innings to a stalemate, the game being called at the end of seven innings by dark- cess with the score deadlocked at 4 all. The teams meet agaia on Sunday afternoon starting at 2:30 o'clock to the first half championship, they being tied at the end of regulation season play. Both teams in the final inning for scores ivith the Pirates looking like sure winners when they put across a singleton in the seventh-only to have the Pony Express come back with a rally to score twice and iie the game. Snyder had a homer in the fourth with a mate on base for the Pirates and also collected a pair of doubles to lead Ute attack. Pittinger doubled iff the aeventh for the Express and Dando singled.

Errors aided the Expressmen to knot the count Score: L. 011200 1-4 Ptny Exprttt 010 010 2-4 and UwU. Tht us4 oi cosmetics was ly developed ia Egypt 1,400 years Wrfort Chriat Boston GQQ 000180-1 4 3 0CG02223X--9 120 Dtiock and Whitt. and FitxGtrafd. (SECOND GAME) Boston 600 030 400-7 2 Washigion 60S SCO 9 1 Hem-y, Hudson, (6) and Niarhos; Shea, (9) and NEWPORT XBWS 'AB A Gionf riddo, if 5 0 2 1 0 Wasiak, 3b 4 0 0 1 4 Lillis, ss 4 8 0 2 C.

Neal, 2b 3 0 2 2 4 L. Colombo, rf 2 0 1 1 Glenn, cf 4 0 1 2 0 Elkins, 4 0 0 4 2 Lynk, 4 0 1 1 3 1 Cincotta, ,3 0 0 1 2 a-Keith 1 0 1 0 0 b-Mack 0 0 0 -0 0 TOTALS 3 4 0 8 27 16 a-Singles for Ciucotta, in 9tn. b-Ran for Keith, in 9th. Tork 000 000 100--1 Newport News 000 000 000--0 E--None. RBI--Durham.

HR-Durham. SB--Gionfriddo, Durham. S--Adametz, LlndquisL DP--Lillis to Neal to Lynk. Left--York 4, Newport News 10. BB--Adamets 3.

SO--Adametz 1. Cincotta 4. WP-ta. "Winner--Adametz 5-6. Loser--Cincotta 5-3.

U--Chishohn and Healy. Automobile drivers between the 45 and 50 ate involved in only "one-fifth the number of fatal accidents that happen to teenage drivers. Against Browns Robert Smocks 3 CLEVELAND, Aug. 21 UB Al Eosen ihit three home runs tonight for the! Cleveland Indians who won a twi-iEight Double header from the St Lotfis Browns. The third baseman clouted two ia the first game, which, the Indians won 7-3, and hit his 32jid of" the season in the Tribe's 3-2 nightcap victory which came an Bill Glynn's double in the 12th inning.

drove seven runs across with tle three wallops-- five in the opener and two in the second game. He BOW leads the league in homers, and runs-batted-in mark of 112 "also is tops. The ithird Rosen homer of the night $put the tribe ahead 2-1 in the fotirth round of the nightcap, but Dik Kpkos tied the score with a bonier in the sixth' off Dave Hoskins who allowed only five other 2iits. (First. Game) St.

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