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5to? mm 'SPORTS- SPRTTS PAGE EIGHT JACKSON, TENNESSEE, THURSDAY, MAY 1954 WANT ADS 7.3333 mm South Side HflinniRDcrtes Pearsons On West State iasebaDD Tourney ABR HO A Parsons Hits Plentiful, Runs Scarce As Generals Bow To Chiefs For 22nd Consecutive Loss By JOHN D. GRAHAM Sun Sports Editor Following a script that has become synonymous with Jackson baseball, the downtrodden Jackson Generals out-hit Paducah's Chiefs but dropped a 9-6 decision to the visitors at Municipal Park Wednesday night. The loss was the 22nd in a row for Jackson. The Chiefs and Generals KITTY LEAGUE Won Lost Pet. Behind Inman, If 3 0 0 0 0 G.

Rogers, ss 3 0 0 0 1 Bibbs, 3 0 0 0 1 Blankenship, cf 3 0 0 0 0 Miller, lb 3 116 1 T. King, 2 0 0 11 1 Chumney. 3b 2 0 1 1 1 J. King, rf 2 0 0 0 0 Hays, rf 0 0 0 0 0 Rogers, 2b 2 0 0 0 0 Elizabethton Wins East Tennessee Baseball Crown JOHNSON CITY, May 27 () The Elizabethton Cyclones will represent East Tennessee In the state high school baseball tourna-ment next week at Memphis. Elizabethton won the regional tournament here yesterday by blasting Morristown, 15-5, for its 16th win in 17 games.

Eight Morristown errors made the going easy for the Cyclones. Three hits and a walk gave Moristown a 2-0 lead in the first but Elizabethton tied the game in the top of the third with a double, walk, stolen base, sacrifice and an infield out. The regional winners scored three more in the fourth and fifth, then slugged pitcher Paul Stroud for seven runs in the Kibler Elected To Baseball Post CHATTANOOGA, May 27 Floyd Kibler, secretary of the Chattanooga Baseball Federation for many years, was elected president of the Tennesse Amateur Baseball Assn. yesterday at a meeting of the group here. He succeeds Polk Crumbliss of Knoxville.

No definite site for the state tournament was selected, but it was reported Knoxville is the likely spot. Winner of the tournament will represent the state in the American Baseball Congress meet at Battle Creek, in September. Maureen Connolly Wins In French Tennis Meet PARIS, May 27 Defending champion Maureen Connolly of Union City 17 6 .739 Fulton 15 8 .652 2 Owensboro 13 8 .619 3 Hopkinsville 12 9 .571 4 Mayfield 12 10 .545 44 Paducah 10 12 .455 6V4 Madisonville 9 13 .409 IVt JACKSON 0 22 .000 16 Vz Tonight's Schedule Hopkinsville at Mayfield Madisonville at Union City Paducah at JACKSON Fulton atOwensboro Tom King. Then Gaines came up and he hit the first pitch out of the park for a two-run homer. This made the score 3-0.

Parsons scored its lone run in th fifth when Hugh Miller belted a triple and Lloyd Chumney sent him home with a double. From that point on, the Tigers were unable to score. Gaines struck out 16 men while fanning the side in three innings. Until the fifth inning, he had a perfect game and had whiffed 10. Parsons drove only one ball to the outfield except for the two hits in the entire contest.

In the afternoon game, yesterday, Covington's Byars-Hall downed the Bolton Wildcats, the Shelby County League champions, by a score of 10-4. Covington scored four runs in the first inning and added five more in the third. Bolton scored its four runs in the sixth frame and Covington added one more of their own in the same inning. The winning pitcher for Covington was Wayne Bobbins. Harrell was the losing pitcher as he gave up 11 hits.

MEMPHIS. May 27 The South Side Scrappers and Covington will meet each other tonight in the finals of the West Tennessee Regional Baseball Tournament as a result of victories over the Parsons Tigers and the Bolton Wildcats respectively. Don Gaines, ace righthander of the Scrappers, hurled two-hit ball last night at Bellevue Park and added a homer to spark the South Side nine to a 4-1 victory over the Parsons combine. Robert Bibbs, righthander for the Tigers, was the losing pitcher although he was very close to invincible except for two innings. A gopher ball in tlie fourth inning put the Scrappers in the lead and they added one more in the sixth.

The first three innings were scoreless as neither team could score a run against the superb pitching. Then in the fourth inning. Bibbs walked the first two men up in John Hunter and Bobby Beckett. The two Scrappers then executed a pretty double steal. Fred Hearn laid down a perfect squeeze bunt which brought in Hunter for the first South Side run.

The next man up. Bob Ginna-ven. popped out to the catcher. Totals 23 1 2 18 5 So Side AB HO A Randolf. If 2 0 0 1 0 Gross, rf 3 0 0 0 0 Hunter, cf 2 2 1 0 0 Beckett, lb 2 10 4 0 Hearn, ss 2 0 0 0 0 Ginnaven, 3 0 1 16 0 Gaines, 3 110 1 Sanders, 3b 2 0 0 0 1 2b 3 0 10 1 and clinched the win.

SHORT NOTES Tommy Cop-pedge. graduating Jackson High athlete, has worked out with Paducah for the past two nights Manager Hal Contini has been impressed and said last night that if Cardinal Scout Buddy Lewis of Memphis signs Coppedge to a contract, the Chiefs will be glad to get him No team can sign Tommy until he graduates on June 2. A story with pictures will describe the plight of the Jackson Generals in the St. Louis Post Dispatch Sunday Basis of the feature which will run in the photogravure section will be to tell the trials and tribulations of an independent minor league club. seventh, aided by four Morristown 'miennoe Wednesday's Results Hopkinsville 7-4, Mayfield 5-3 Fulton 9, Owensboro 4 Union City 14, Madisonville 7 Paducah 9, Jackson 6 San Diego, today, advanced to the women's singles finals in the French International tennis championships with a 6-0, 6-1 victory over Sylvana Lazzarino of Italy.

Many people in Ethiopa wear long, loose cotton tunics, largely for religious reasons. NATIONAL LEAGUE Totals 21 4 4 21 3 Parsons 000 010 01 South Side 000 301 4 SUMMARY: RBI Chumney, Gaines 2, Ginnaven, Hearn. 2B Chumney. SB Miller. HR Gaines.

SH Hearn. SB Randolph, Hunter 2, Armistead. Left Parsons 1, South Side 3. BB Bibbs 3, SO Bibbs 11: Gaines 16. Winner Gaines (l-0.

Loser Bibbs PB T. King. Owen, Murdaugh and Boswell. 1:25. PADUCAH AB A Wagner cf 5 0 2 2 0 Won Lost Pet.

Behind Milwaukee 22 14 .611 New York .21 16 .568 14 Brooklyn 20 16 .556 2 St. Louis 21 18 .538 2Vi Philadelphia 18 17 .514 3 Cincinnati. 19 19 .500 4 Chicago .16 20 .444 6 Pittsburgh 12 29 .293 12Vi Contini 2b 3 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 Phone 7-4461 1 1 6 0 4 2 214 N. Liberty 1 2 0 1 1 1 1 0 Mitchell 3b 4 Demichele lb 5 McCrary rf 3 Luckett If 5 Peterson ss 3 Cincotta 4 Francis 2 Pitts 0 Giants Have Winning Streak But Brooklyn Is Coming Foe Thursday's Schedule Philadelphia at Brooklyn. Chicago at St.

Louis Only games scheduled 3 11 0 0 0 0 1 0 close out their series here to- i night at 7:30 and Jackson then hits the road for three games at Fulton before returning here for a Memorial Day doubleheader. The loss brought Jackson within three games of the all-time Kitty League record of 25 straight defeats. Infielder Vance Byrd pitched creditably for Jackson last night but errors and walks combined with timely Paducah hitting proved his downfall. Using his curve to good advantage, Byrd struck out 10 Chiefs, but walked five. All but one of the Paduchans who drew bases on balls eventually scored.

Only five of the nine runs allowed by Byrd were earned. Jackson outhit the winners 11 to 9, running its hit total in the past seven games to 74. Although he was touched for 11 hits, Chuck Francis gave up but tour earned runs and came within one out of pitching a complete game. The Chief righthander was replaced by Bob Pitts in the last of the ninth when Jackson loaded the bases with two out. Pitts struck out Bill Hughes to end the game.

In two relief appearances during the series, the fireballing Pitts struck out seven Jacksonians in only 2 23 innings. He is a rookie fresh out of high school. Danny Meyers continued his potent stick work for the Generals by rapping a double and two singles and scoring three runs in four times at bat. Mnaager Lou Lucas and Harry Arterburn each whacked two safeties for Jackson. Big stickers for Paducah were Frank DeMichele with three singles and, two runs batted in and Joe Concotta with a double, triple and ringle in four trips to the plate.

Paducah jumped off to a 3-0 lead in the first inning but Jackson had tied the score at the end of the third inning only to see the Chiefs pull away in the fourth to a 7-4 margin. The Generals pulled to within one run in the sixth, but Paducah came up with a pair of unearned markers in the seventh Totals 34 9 9 27 4 JACKSON AB II A Factory Representative to be here Saturday to assist you in selecting a seat cover for your car. Wednesday's Results New York 2, Pittsburgh 1 Philadelphia 8, Brooklyn 6 Chicago 15, St. Louis 5 Milwaukee 7, Cincinnati 6 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 11 Luciano If 4 Byrd 5 Riles 4 Hughes lr 5 Meyers 2b 4 Lucas ss 4 A'burn cf 4 Jones rf 4 M'enazzo 3b 4 a-Kluck 0 AMERICAN LEAGUE Won Lost Pet. Behind Co-Favorites Advance In British Golf MUIRFIELD.

Scotland. May 27 The thre co-favorites America's Frank Stranahan and Bill Campbell and defending champion Joe Carr of Ireland won their ay to the sixth round of the British Amateur golf tournament today. Stranahan. victor in 1948 and 1950. turned back Alan Thirwell, the English champion, 3 and 2.

in the feature match of the morning round. Campbell, Walker Cup ace from Huntington. W. finished brilliantly to oust R. F.

Stevens of 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 Cleveland .24 12 .667 Chicago .24 13 .649 i New York ...22 14 .611 2 Detroit 18 13 .581 3'i Washington 13 20 .394 Baltimore .12 21 .364 10 vi Boston 10 19 .345 lOMi Philadelphia 12 23 .343 114 Thursday's Schedule Baltimore at Detroit New York at Washington Only games scheduled sixth loss in succession, 6-3. and Philadelphia shaded Boston 6-5 in 10 innings. Two pitching streaks were broken. Robin Roberts, a loser in his last seven appearances against Brooklyn, went the route to victors' in Ebbets Field despite a 10-bit Dodger attack. Eddie Lopat of the Yankees was beaten by Washington for the first time in 13 games, since June 26, 1951.

Tri-State Tourney In 2nd Day Of Play MIDDLESBORO. May 27 IP The second day's qualifiers in the Tri State Golf Tournament had their job cut out for them today. Scores posted yesterday included a 2-under-par 70 by John Pendleton of Knozville. and that was the target of today's rounds. Pendleton's closest pursuer yesterday was J.

L. Cloar of Middles-boro, who had a 75. A total of 37 golfers qualified on the first day. Match play starts tomorrow and the champion will be crowned Saturday. More material is handled in mining coal each year in the United States than was moved in the construction of the Panama Canal.

There are about 27 million people in Indochina. By BEX PHLEGAR AP Sports Writer New York Giant fans, still basking in the fading glories of 1951. bragged today about a five-game winning streak, then cautiously crossed their fingers. Brooklyn's coming The Dodgers invade the Polo Grounds for a three-game series starting tomorrow night against a Giant club that has been showing more signs of life than most experts expected. Leo Durocher's athletes have tended to streaks this spring and the last five days have been one of their good periods.

By whipping Pittsburgh 2-1 yesterday they took over second place, a game and a half behind Milwaukee. The Brooklyn series won't make or break the Giants. But if they happen to sweep three games, or even gain a 2-1 edge in decisive fashion, they'll find themselves In the midst of the hottest pennant talk since they knocked off Brooklyn three years ago. Brooklyn fell to third last night, half a game behind the Giants, by bowing to the Philadelphia Phillies S-6. Milwaukee won its ninth straight.

7-6 over Cincinnati. Chicago crushed St. Louis 15-5. In the American League the Chicago White Sox closed to within half a game of league-leading Cleveland by beating the Indians 5-4. Washington shaded New York 2-1.

Detroit handed Baltimore its Totals 38 6 11 27 5 Paducah 301 300 2009 Jackson 022 020 0006 a Ran for Byrd in 9th. SUMMARY: RBI DeMichele 2, McCrary, Meyers, Lucas, Contini, Luckett 2, Arterburn, Cincotta, Miii nazzo. 2B Jones, Meyers, Lucas, Cincotta. 3B Cincotta. SH McCrary 2.

Francis. SB Contini 2. Left Paducah 6. Jackson 8. HO Francis 11 in 8 23 innings with 6 runs.

BB Byrd 5, Francis 2. SO Byrd 10, Francis 9. Pitts. Winner-Francis. Muir and Sneathen.

2:40. Wednesday's Results Chicago 5, Cleveland 4 Detroit 6, Baltimore 3 Washington 2, New York 1 Philadelphia 6. Boston 5 (10 Australia. 2 and 1. Carr won over Harold Ridgley, 40-year-old master sergeant from Havertown, 2 up.

I The field now is reduced to 16. This afternoon's round will put the meet in the quarter-finals, Two other Americans Richard Davies, 23-year-old sailor from An-! nandale. and Maj. W. D.

Henderson of San Francisco also advanced to the sixth round, giving the United States four players among the final 16. SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION Won Lost Pet. Behind AUTOMOBILE SEAT COVERS Exchange Grabs Loop Lead In Milan Little League Race 21.88 Saran Plastic Installed Free Atlanta .27 15 .643 Birmingham .27 17 .614 1 Chattanooga .22 20 .524 5 New Orleans 21 22 li Nashville 17 20 .459 74 Mobile 19 25 .432 9 Memphis 17 24 .415 94 Little Rock .16 23 .410 94 Davies defeated alter McElroy of Shaughnessy. Canada, one up. Henderson won over F.

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Made of durable Saran Plastic, they're fade proof almost impossible to wear out. Wide range of colors in plaids, stripes. Semi-custom to fit wrinkle-free. had 12 hits 13 runs while the Men's Club had 5 hits 0 runs. Games are scheduled today between the Shrine Club and Lions; Friday between the Men's Club and the Exchange Club.

Monday's game will be Exchange vs. Lions and Tuesday's game between the Men's Club and the Shriners. Tonight's Schedule Memphis at New Orleans Chattanooga at Atlanta Nashville at Birmingham Little Rock at Mobile STANDINGS TEAM W. Exchange 3 Shrine 2 L. Avg.

0 1.000 1 .667 2 .333 2 Wednesday's Results Atlanta 5, Chattanooga 3 Nashville 16, Birmingham 3 Little Rock at Mobile postponed rain Memphis at New Orleans postponed rain. Lions 1 Men's 0 3 LEADING HITTERS .000 NAME, TEAM AB Hits Avg 8 ,800 Jll Cooling as a summer breeze 3g I NYLON MESH 1 I BY JiUi Rauchle, Lions 10 Regan, Shriners 10 7 Traver, Men's R. Jenkins. Exch .11 MILAN. May 27 The Ex-charge Club team proved to be too much for the Men's Club team by a winning score of 13 to 4 in last Thursday's game.

Two doubles by Pipkin and 4 hits for 4 times at bat by R. Jenkins, three of which were doubles, brought the Exchange Club through with an easy victory. The Exchange Club had 12 hits and 13 runs while the Men's Club had 11 hits with 4 runs. In Friday's tilt the Shriners nosed out the Lions by a close score of 8 to 6. The Shriners led in the third inning by 6 to 0 tout the Lions rallied with 11 hits and 6 runs and the Shriners had 6 hits and 8 runs.

In Monday's scrap it was nip and tuck between the Exchange Club and the Shriners for 6 innings. Then the Exchange outbreak came in the seventh inning topped by a home run by Wiley, Exchange catcher. Exchange scored six runs while the Shriners scored three runs in the seventh and went out with tying runs on base. Final score was 10 for the Exchange Club and 7 for the Shriners. Tuesday's contest was a runaway for the Lions Club when they won from the Men's Club by a score of 13 to 0.

Two home runs, one each by Wrarren and Hargis, led the run-away victory for the Lions. Jones' steady pitching in allowing only 5 hits for the Men's Club contributed much to the overall victory for the Lions Club. The Lions SOUTH ATLANTIC Augusta 6, Charlotte I Macon 7, Columbia 0 Savannah 7, Columbus 5 Montgomery 6, Jacksonville 3 Spain, Men's 8 Stallings, Exchange 11 6 4 6 4 5 4 4 4 3 4 .600 .571 .546 .500 .455 .400 .400 .400 .375 .364 .364 Boone, Men 10 Bl'k'nship, Shriners 10 .10 Cooper, Shriners Wiley, Exchange 8 Daniels, Lions 11 Treadwell. Exch. ..11 4 PITCHING RECORDS NAME, TEAM G.

W. L. Avg. Stallings, Exchange 2 2 0 .1000 Jenkins, Exchange .1 1 Regan, Shriners 1 1 0 1.000 0 1.000 .500 .500 .000 Bl'kenship, Shriners 2 11 Jones, Lions 2 1 1 Warren, Lions 1 0 1 Spain. Men's 2 0 0 Moore, Men's 1 0 1 Traver, Men's 1 0 1 McFadden, Men's ...1 0 1 1 1 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 REG.

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Paul 10, Indianapolis 2 Kansas City at Minneapolis postponed rain Potent Vols Moving Up In Southern By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Every team in the Southern Association is keenly aware of the amazing Atlanta Crackers these days, but they'd beter not overlook Nashville's suddenly potent Vols. The Vols have been steadily on the move toward the first division and helped the Crackers establish a full game lead over Birmingham last night. Nashville riddled four Baron hurlers for 19 hits. This barrage, coupled with 11 walks and two hit batsmen, carried Nashville to a 16-3 victory. Atlanta won No.

12 in a battle of home runs with Chattanooga, defeating the Lookouts 5-3. Little Rock at Mobile and Memphis at New Orleans were washed out. Floyd Fogg, Eric Roden and Bob Pottenger were the batting stars for the Vols. Fogg and Roden each got four hits in six trips and Pottenger got three for six. It looked for a while as if Chattanooga would put a stop to Atlanta's victory drive.

The Lookouts grabbed a 2-0 lead in the second on two homers but Atlanta tied it with runs in the second and fifth, then Chattanooga moved out front in the eighth on singles by Don Grate and Hank DiJohnson and a wide throw by Cracker shortstop Billy Porter. But the Crackers wrapped it up in their half of the eighth with homers by Bob Montag and Pete Whisenant 'Thunderstorms often appear to come up against the wind because they create great up-drafts of air that suck ground breezes toward thm cloud from, all directions. 16-in. cutting reel mounted on ball bearings. Easy to push.

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Try one pair and youll wonder how you ever got through summer without Roblce nylon mesh shoes. cused and burned out bulbs were replaced last night. A large mechanical roller is being provided today by the City of Jackson to pack the infield. Jack Randolph and a Randolph Nursery employee provided labor and equipment for work on the infield base paths Monday. Headed by a large turnout from the Lions Club team in the Babe Ruth League, a number of players teamed with Randolph to help put the infield in condition.

A considerable amount of work and fillin? remains to be done on the field, but Voegeli says that he hopes to get a big turnout of Babe Ruth Leaguers Saturday morning so that the work can be polished off. The Jaycees also are planning a final work day Saturday. Major League Stars By THE ASOCIATED PRESS Batting Andy Pafko, Milwaukee Braves, collected four hits in four times at bat and drove in the run that beat Cincinnati 7-6. Pitching Bob Porterfield, Washington Senators, outduelled Eddie Lopat in beating the New York Yankees 2-1 for his fifth straight triumph. The first diesel engines were built about 1895, WHEELBARROW REG.

14.95 ders on the parking lot tnis morning. The cinders were donated by the Illinois Central railroad. Working until after 10:30 every night this week, Jackson Jaycees and other volunteers have virtually finished the construction work. Concession stand painting was completed Wedesday and only a small portion of the backstop frame remains without paint. Also on Wednesday, the last roll Black White 9.97 Leakproof Tpc.

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