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Nichols Returns To Top Form For Braves By FRED DOWN Knltfd Press Sparta Writer Curveballer Chet Nichols' second straight victory left critics of the Milwaukee Braves' big winter deal srfth the New York Giants at a to six runs in the ninth in- IMS for words Friday. Nichols, flashing the form that Washington Senators in the llth made him the National League's earned run leader in 1951, pitched Chicago White Sox, 3 to 2. in after- an. eight-hitter. Thursday night to pace the Braves to a 4 to 2 victory ever Ihe Pirates.

It was the Braves' seventh triumph in Bine games during which opponents have scored a total of nine runs. The 28-year old left-hander's return to form came just as the Braves were defending themselves tor Including lefty Johnny Anton- 3, in 10 innings oh Yogi Berra's two-run homer and the Boston Red Sox routed the Baltimore Orioles, 9 to 1, in American League night games. The Cleveland Indians rai- ning and won, 8 to 7, over the and the Philadelphia A's beat the noon games. Roberts yielded a leadoff homer to Bobby Adams and then retired the next 27 batters in order for his fourth win of the year. Roberts, who missed the first perfect game in the majors since Charley Robertson's classic in 1922, also pitched a one-hitter against the Braves on April 39.

Fourth In Row for Podres Johnny Podres scored his fourth straight victory for the Dodger although touched for 10 hits by Cardinal team which has lost 12 straight games at Ethels Field, ackie Robinson hai three hits, Including a double and triple, in Brooklyn's biggest often sive of the season. Wimte Irvin hit two homers an Willie Mays, Hank Thompson an Ebba St. Claire one each to lead the Giants to their fifth stralgh win. Larry Jansen received creditor his second victory althougl Marv Grissom pitched las three Innings. Thursday's star--Robin Roberts of the Phillies, who pitched a one hitter against the Reds, retiring the sst 27 batters in order.

By UNITED PRESS AMERICAN LEAGUE Brooklyn New York Milwaukee St Louis CHET NICHOLS Bftck In Form illl In the deal which brought them outfielder Bobby Thomson from the Giants. Nichols lost his first three Decisions for the Braves while An- Team ell! haa reeled off lour victories Philadelphia, fin games for the Glanto. Breaks Be Catcher Charley White broke a 1 to 1 tie with a two-run double in the fourth Inning when the fcraves assumed a 4 to 1 lead. iMlchols, who walked only three batters, pitched his way out of in the seventh when he eut Bob Skinner with the tying runs on base. Robin Roberts pitched his see- end one-hitter in 19 days aa the Phillies downed the: Cincinnati Reds, 8 to 1, in the other Rational League game Thursday while the Brooklyn Dodgers 'crushed the St.

Louts Cardinals to 3, and the Giants beat the Cubs, 6 to 3, in after- 'hoon contests. The New York Yankees defeated -the first-place Detroit Tigers, 6 to Team Detroit Chicago New York Cleveland Philadelphia Baltimore Washington Boston Pet. OB 12 7 10 1615 .14 10 .583 i 14 10 .583 10 13 .435 4 13 3.81 5 8 14 .384 B' 11 .353 8 Thursday's Remits Cleveland 8, Washington 1. Philadelphia 3, Chicago Boston 9, Baltimore 1. Tork 5, Detroit S.

Schedule Philadelphia (Keliner 2-3) at Chi cago (Pierce 2-3), night. Washington (Stobbs 1-2) at Cleve lend (Lemon 4-0), night. Boston (Nixon 1-1) at Baltimore (Turley 3-2). night New York (Byrd 1-8), at Detroi (Gromek 6-0). NATIONAL LEAGUE Pet.

OB 14 .609 14 10 .883 i 14 11 .560 1 12 11 .822 2 15 12 .520 2 Cincinnati 14 IS .819 2 Cincinnati it 13 .819 2 Aicago 12 .429 4 Pittsburgh 19 .219 Thursday's Results Brooklyn 10, St. Louis t. New York Chicago 1. Philadelphia 8, Cincinnati 1. Milwaukee 4, Pittsburgh S.

Friday's Schedule St. Louis (Poholsky 0-1) atBrook- yn (Loes 1-0), night. Chicago (Rush 2-2) at New Tork (Maglie M). night. Cincinnati (Fowler 1-0) at Philadelphia (Dickson 4-2), night.

Milwaukee (Spahn 3-2) at Pittsburgh (Surkong 1-4), night. BIG STATE LEAGUE TEAM Pet. Tyler 19 10 .655 Austin 18 11 .621 Waco is 11 .593 Corpus Christi 17 15 .531 Galveston 5 14 .517 Harlingen 13 18 .419 Bryan 9 18 .333 Temple 10 20 .338 Thursday's Results Herlingen 4, Waco 0. Austin 4, Galveston 3. Temple 2, Bryan 0.

Corpus Christi 3, Tyler 0. Friday's Schedule Temple at Bryan, Waco at Harlihgen. Tyler at Corpus Christi. Galveston at Austin. BOBBY BATHES--Bobby Thomson, acquired by the Braves from the Giants, broke his ankle In a Spring training game.

Here he gives his healing leg a whirlpool bath under the supervision of trtJ.ier Charles Lacks. (UP Telephoto) TEXAS LEAGUE Pet. GB San Antonio Fort Worth Oklahoma City Dallas Tulsa Beaumont Shrevepprt Houston 18 14 .563 -18 15 17 15 17 15 15 17 18 16 19 14 20 Thursday's Results .545 .531 .515 .500 .486 .457 .412 Mangrum States Open Is Overrated By OSCAR FBALEY WESTBURY N. May slated Friday. Tulsa 3, Dallas 2.

(22 innings) Shreveport 7, Houston 4. Oklahoma City 9, Fort Worth 1 San Antonio Beaumont 4. Friday's Schedule Dallas at Tulsa. Oklahoma City at Fort Worth. Houston at Sfcreveport.

Ban Antonio at Beaumont. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Charleston Columbus (. Louisville 1, Toledo 0. Only games scheduled INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Ottawa S. Montreal 1.

Toronto'6, Rochester 6. Buffalo at Richmond, rain Syracuse at Havana, rain --The U. S. Open golf championship financially is the most ridiculously overrated prize in sports, former winner Lloyd Mangrum in Mangrum also said that when UP he won the open he was receiving J500 for an exhibition match. "People have been estimating for years that a win in the Open is worth from $75,000 to $100,000," Mangrum snorted as he competed in the Palm Beaoh Round Robin.

"Actually, the Open isn't worth to players like Sam that much." The he added vehemently, isn't even the most prized golf championship in the United States today. 'Ask of Ihe whether they would pro golfers rather win New Iberia Keeps Vangy Leadership By BUTTED PRESS New Iberia remains in first place the Evangellne League a game front of Crowley and Port Ar- Jhiir as the top three teams all won Thursday night contests and standings were not altered. New Iberia beat Lafayette 3 to 1, Crowley downed cellar-dwelling 'Lake Charles 5 to 1, Port Arthur jurtp record away from fellow Lone Star Meet Headed By High Jump Record Try COMMERCE, May 14 --48 seconds below the standard he "shut out Texas City to 0. aad Baton Rouge bested Alexandria 6 to 2. 5 The league leaders swept four (but of five games by downing 3 to 1.

New Iberia's Jim fStewart scattered seven nits to get -the win Righthander Allen Stiff set Lake (Charles down on four hits aa the Millers clipped the Lakers to 1 Manager Tony York and fArt Edinget helped the Miller if ause with homers. Only 388 chilled fans saw Baton 'Rouge trim Alexandria 5 to 2 be- the four-hit pitching of lefty Paul Krupa and four double plays. Gorcia homered with one taboaid in the third for the first ftwb Red, Stick runs; and Baton 'Rouge added another pair in the sixth after the Aces had tied it up. Jess Avila out fifth-place jTexas City on seven hits as Port Arthur's Sea Hawto made a sweep of the two game series JP--The Lone Star Conferen track and field championship star ed Friday and a two-team batt shaped up between defendin champion East Texas and challei ger Southwest Texas. the highlight of meet, how ever, will 'come Friday, whe Chuck Holding, East Texas senio will try to wrest the world's hig Texas Walt Davis.

Holding, wh has cleared the covet seven-foot mark in practice with! the past month, first will take crack at his own conference re ord of 6-9? inches before shootin at Davis' world record of 6-il inches. A few preliminary events Frida will touch off 'the expected scrap between East 'Texas Southwest Texas. teams appear to have seve but Southwe Texas apparently has more dept and was favored to pile up a' poin margin on that 'Sam Houston, S. F. Austin, Lamar Tec and Sul Ross cut more deeply int the point column than figured.

Holding's high jump record an hat of the two-mile run seemed )e the only league records in ser Otis danger of being, broken. Frank Mendez, Southwest Texas has been clocked in 9:57 this year Roswell Has 1 Eleven Game Win Streak By UNITED PRESS The Roswell an 11- game winning streak go- Ing, threatened Friday to run away 'with the Longhorn League till. Rockets, by beating Artesla ft to Thursday night, widened lead to five games over Mid- Jand and Artcsia. Midland moved 'Into second place, by percentage with an 11 to win over Angelo. In other garnet, Sweetwater beat 4 to 1, on Steve Nunez' r-hitter, and Mike Rainey scat- Mi nine hits as Big Spring de- tied Carlsbad, to 2.

I- I Big Spring manager Bob Martin uid Ml brother, Floyd, got five its between them In the win over Two of the blows off came from fie bit of Odes- Second buemin Bob Bauer, tfiera a triple. 'My Robnett allowed Roswell fcur but was tUU beaten the ArUeta Wield collapsed Midland got Air Force Wraps Up FightTitle SAN ANTONIO, May 14--UP- The Air which didn't win a single championship a year ago wrapped up the 1954 inter-service boxing crown and six individuals titles Friday. In addition to the team and individual honors, light heavyweight Orville Pitts, an-Airman from Milwaukee, was named as the two- day meet's outstanding boxer. There was only one short boul on Thursday night's 10-flght card before at Lackland Air Force Base. Herbert Mickles, a soldier from Toledo, Ohio, scored a technical knockout over Harry Fleck of the Marines, from Frankfurt, Germany, in 2:20 of the first round, title with a total of 38 the Marines got 22, and the Navy and defending champion Army 20 each.

Flyweight Cliff Navy, Cairo, dectitoned Jtatt Herrera, Air Force, San Antonio; and light welterweight William- Morton. Air Force, Kansas City, declsloned ASc Haynw, Navy, felmi, set a year ago--the first time the event appeared on the conference program. Four other records aren't too far out of reach, however. Glenn Peavy and Charles Hall of Southwest Texas have come within an inch of the 13 foot, 1 inch pole vault record; Jerry Cook of East Texas has come within one-tenth ol a second of the 14.4 seconds high hurdles mark; four men have bested the shot put record of 48-3 Jn practice, and Joe Heyna of South west Texas has come doss to the mile and 880-yard marks. Maxwellls Favorite At Abilene Golf the Open or the world championship at Tarn O'Shanter," the dap- jer Mangrnm grinned.

"It's a mat- of money, that's all." "The open if wortn $5,000," he explained. "Up until this year, the world championship was worth $25,000 to the winner. This year the first prize, is going to be $50,000. Which would you rather have" There is an erroneous Impression, Mangrum aseerted, that th: man who wins the Open is deluged with offers for commercials, endorsements and exhibitions. "I would estimate that after I won the open in 1946 the best I did on endorsements was $3,000," Mangrum recalled.

'Star athletes don't make as much that way as people think they do. I remember I once received $200 a year from a breakfast cereal company over a Jour-year period. When I asked them for $400 a year we parted company." "I didn't get any more because I was the open champion, tfaough I did receive more requests for exhibitions," he said, "But the price didn't go op. "You can ask for more but getting it is a different story." Explaining his assertion that winning the Open wouldn't mean an extra dollar for such stars as Snead and Ben Hogan it isn't wort fnead and Hogan, Mangrum said 'they're i demand anyhow a one more title isn't going to make any difference." "Sure, anybody would like to win the Open, but financially it isn't going to do what people think." Mangrum drew agreement from his fellow pros when he asserted that the U.S. Goif Association should seed the leading scorers on the last two' rounds of the Open so that no one gets an advantage, and that the USGA should stop "tricking up" the courses with doctored traps and jungle-like rough.

Tulsa Tops Dallas In 22 Inning Game, Tying Mark By UNITED PRESS A Texas League record for the Innings. longest game played to a decision was tied Friday when Dallas and Tulsa battled 22 innings before Joe Ewkely with the run that gave Hatton to home Tulsa a to 2 victory. The longest i game prior to the four-hour, 41-jninute marathon wa Tulsa, on Aug. beat Houston, to also last seven innings for Tulia to take The ijnjest Texas League game In history was a 13-inning 1-all tie between Ban Antonio and Waco at game over Fort Worth by beating Waco uly 5, 1910. Bokelmua Wia John (Red) Miirtt, the league's Shreveport clipped Houston, to leading pitcher with a'9-0 record, pitched Innings before giving way Gibson came in totake the By UNITED PRESS Austin edged Galveston 4 to Thursday night to move Into se nd place in the Big State Leagu scant game behind loop-leadin Pyler.

Tyler lost to Corpus Christi to reduce their league lead on ame, and second place Waco fe own a notch as Harlingen won tha 4 to 0. Last place tempi eat seventh-place Bryan 2 to the other game played Thura ay night. Harvey Angelo came through In le clutch for Austin with a two last of the ninth home run tha when Tulsa loss. Dick Bokelmann pitched the Glen Gorbous struck a three-rua homer, his seventh, for the Catl in the second inning. Pisonl Homers in Ninth Jim.

Pisonl's three-run home rum in the ninth inning brought Ban Antonio behind for its to 4 wi -over Beaumont. "Two mea were out when Plsonl hit reliefer Vem Kennedy's fijst pitch. Beau- Caldwell Wins Fourth As Caps Blank Waco the win. In other games, fian Antonio recaptured first place by one-half Beaumont, 6 to 4: Oklahoma City edged Fort Worth, 9 to 7, and Frank Murray's single in the to Vic Stryska. Stryaka eighth inning, that drove in two- to the loth inning before runs, provided the difference in Oklahoma City's win over the Cats.

Americans Win At Barcelona BARCELONA, Spain, May 14-P--American entries, paced champion Tony Trabert iiicihriati, continued an almost un terrupted advance Friday in the a a International ten Ji tournament Mel Fox of Baltimore, was usted by Wimbledon champion Seixas of Philadelphia, 6-3, 3. Trahert had no difficulty In past Owen Williams of uth Africa in singles, 6-2, 6-2. en the Ohio star teamed with ixas to score 4 6-1 doubles ctory over the Spanish team of pxela and Solef Bardern. Tra- rt and Seixas represented the ilted States in Davis Cup dou- es last year- drive off the bat of Don Petschow two more, would have brought In one run'and put the tieing run on third. Steady five-hit pitching by veteran Rarlingen hurler Earl Caldwell blanked Waco 4 to e.

Four consecutive hits to the fifth resulted in three runs for Harlingen to pro- ride insurance for a lone run in the Corpus CJiristi came from behind score three' runs In the eighth nning with two'away to down the Irat-place Tyler Tigers 3 to 1. Tyer had previously scored "a lone unearned run in the fourth on a walk, error and sacrifice. Williams May ee Action Soon BALTIMORE, May 14 --UP Slugger Ted Williams of the Bosn Red Sox took his first look at new baseball park ursday night and promptly lab- e'd it "a pitcher's park." Then he hit five batting prac- pitches Into the right field achers. Williams, working out with the Sox, said he "is close to con- tion" and it Is possible he will used as a pinch-hitter during three-game series with the oles. won the ball game Galvsston.

The Temple Eagles Bryan's remple Eagli 2 to 4 to I mont batted around for four runt in the sixth Inning as a crowd at out 4,700 at-Beaumont saw the Ex- six hit hurling of Hoppy Hatcher in a game marked by an umpire's decision that cculu have changed 0-behind the porters' game," since hall o-- TM SwedeT teamed was played off the wall by the Waco right-fielder in the last in ning a legal catch. If allowed, the the first 1954 opener was rained out. John Andre and Bill Trernel pitch eight-hit ball for against Houston. The Sports scored five runs in the ond inning and'Ed Mickelson hom- ered the fifth as the Sporta got Worth IfsPrfn In Prestige See WALSH REALTY CO. Ph.

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AB Pet. 97 25 37 .381 82 28 81 .378 94 18 35 103 81 37 110 13 39 AMERICAN LEAGUE .372 .353 .355 The 55,000 Abilene Open golf tournament got underway Friday with Billy Maxwell, 1952 national ama- champion and a recently- professional, in the favor- te's role. Maxwell, who can win the $1, 100 firsVprize money since this sn't a PGA sponsored event, sho five-under-par 66 in a practice ound over the Abilene Country Club course as did professional lardner Dickinson, Palm Springs Calif. Maxwell, from Fort Hood wouldn't be eligible for priza money under PGA sponsorship Ince he hasn't been a professional ong enough. Bo Wininger, Oklahoma City pro, nd Ernie.

Vossler, Fort Worth mateur, fired 67's in practice Turtle, Det. Avila, Cleve. Wash. Cleve. Boone, Det.

72 10 96 20 98 67 13 23 i Runs 'Sauer, Cubs ........10 Thursday. Also taking practice licks were everal other well-known profess onals--Fred Hawkins, Texas PGA from El Paso, Bob Ros urg, Chicago, who finished sixth this year's Masters tournament alph Blomqulst, Glendale, Calif, iiid Douglas, Biggins, Midland. There were 49 pros and 85 ama urs entered In the medal-play ent, which runs through Sunday. British Netten Favored EASTBOURNE, May 14-P-- Great Britain was a solid fav- ite to win Friday's doubles (itch and go on to defeat Brsiil the second round of the Eur- zone Davli Cup tennis com- titlon. The British easily won Tony Mottram deletted former S.

itar Bob Falkenburg, Musial, Cardinals Kluszewski, Reds Hodges, Dodgers' Mays, Giants Irvin, Giants Rims Batted In Muslal, Cardinals Rosen, Indians Bell, Reds Kluszewski, Reds Jablonski, Cardinals Sauer, Cubs Enis, Phillies Run Moon, Cardlnis Sauer; Cubs Musial, Cardinals Bell, Reds Schoendlenst. Cardinals 23 Hits Jablonski, Cardinals 39 Moon, Cardinals Musial, Cardinals Snider, Dodgers Pitching Lopat, Yankees Gromek, Lemon, Indians Podres, Dodgers Morgan, Yankees Garver, Tigers Rachl, Cardinals 88 26 25 25 25 25 2S 31 28 25 24 37 37 35 t-6 6-0 4-0 4-0 3-0 8-0 3-0 Schmelug to Officiate MILWAUKEE, May 14-IP--Max Schmellng has been ap- iroved as a guest referee of May 18 t-p, but Braiil gained a spilt for gtretz card here featuring German mid' dlewelght champion, Hans Streti. when Armando VMn outlasted Geoffrey I-J. signed by promoter to fight Billy Kilgore of Birmingham, in the main 10-rtund ewnt on a M-round Mil- Great State of Texas rCroaro any sin Bourbon iVV, 'I..