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iSi. PAGE SIX THE LUDINGTON DAILY LUDINGTON, MICHIGAN TUESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1957 Wilson Takes Over Lions as Parker Quits Head Post Buddy Stuns Banquet Gathering by Announcing His Resignation By DAVE DILES DETROIT Veteran assistant George Wilson will be named to day to succeed Buddy Parker as head coach of the Detroit Lions. An informed source who made (lie disclosure said the formal an nouncement would be made later in the day following a meeting of the professional football club's executive committee. The 43-year-old Parker, most Local Standings successful coach in the Lions' 23- year history) exploded a surprise resignation Monday before a gathering of. nearly 600 parsons at the eighth annual "Meet the Lions" banquet.

He insisted ho wasn't kidding, that he had thought the matter over thoroughly and told newsmen'later thai, he would not reconsider under any circumstances. Early today Parker reaffirmed his stand, saying "The cemetery is full of indispensiblc men." An official high up in the Detroit organization, who declined the use of his name, said today "Parker is out and Wilson is in. as simple as that." Long-Time Aide Wilson, 43, has been a Lion assistant coach for eight seasons, and once before was considered for the head coaching job when it was awarded to Parker. Wilson played his football at Northwestern and later was a star player for 12 seasons with the Chicago Parker, awarded a two-year contract last winter after an extensive battle with some of the club's directors who opposed more than a one-year contract, made his startling withdrawal in a terse, two-sentence announcement. Many of the people at the $10-a-pl'ate dinner thought he was joking and laughed, then sat.

in disbelief as the veteran coach insisted "I'm not I'm through." 'Resigned' Before Parker had "resigned" before- several times privately and once officially to club President Edwin J. Anderson. In the past, things were ironed out. Called upon as the final speaker of the evening and expected to review his 1957 club, Parker made a single introductory remark and tli3n said: "When you get tp a situation where you can't handle football players, it's time to get that's what I'm doing tonight. I'm through with football in Detroit." it left the Lions without a head coach just one day before they open the exhibition season in Detroit against the Cleveland Browns Wednesday night.

'Don't Understand' Anderson told newsmen t'X don't understand this man. He's well paid, he has the best coaching job in pro football and lie always has operated the team without any strings whatsoever." Succeeding Bo McMillin in 1951, Parker guided the Lions to 50 victories against 24 losses and 2 tics. His teams won three Western Conference titles and two world championships. Monday night he said, "I can't handle this team," and called it "the worst team I've ever seen in training camp." He said the material is good but that "there has been no life i no go It's a completely dead team. I'm not satisfied with the way the team is moving.

I don't want to get in the middle of nnothrr losing season. I think somebody else could handle i better." lie said he wasn't referring to individuals but rather to the team in general. AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pel.

G.B. New York 72 38 .655 Chicago 66 43 .606 5 Ms Boston (JO 50 .545 12 Baltimore 53 50 .486 Detroit 53 56 .480 Cleveland 53 58 .477 42 70 .375 31. 41 .373 31 Washington Kansas City Tuesday Schedule Detroit at Kansas City (2) (day- niglil) Chicago at Cleveland Baltimore at Washington (N) New York at Boston (N; Monday Results No games scheduled Wednesday Schedule New York at Boston Baltimore at Washington (N) Chicago at Cleveland (N) Detroit at Kansas City (N) NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet.

G.B. Milwaukee (58 42 .618 St. Louis 02 47 .569 5Vz Brooklyn 62 .559 GMi Cincinnati 01. .555 7 Philadelphia 59 51 .536 New York 50 62 .446 19 Chicago 39 G9 .361 28 39 71 .355 29 Pittsburgh Tuesday Schedule St. Louis at Chicago Brooklyn at New York (N) Pittsburgh at Philadelphia (N) Milwaukee at Cincinnati (N) Monday Results No games scheduled Wednesday Schedule St.

Louis at Chicago Brooklyn at New York Pittsburgh at Philadelphia (N) Milwaukee aj; Cincinnati (N) AMERICAN ASSN. 'Denver 4, Indianapolis 3 (10 innings) Omaha 3, Wichita 0 Minneapolis 4, Louisville 2 (1.1 innings) Charleston 3, SI. Paul 2 (JO innings) Finds Visitor in Fish Pond PHILADELPHIA wouldn't help but his own ingenuity solved Angelo Stoulis' problem to get the skunk out of his fish pond. The unwelcome visitor was found in the dry bottom of the Stoulis pond in nearby Haverford FINAL STANDINGS INTERMEDIATE LEAGUE W. L.

Pet. G.B. Scottvillc Lions 8 2 .800 Longfellow 7 3 .700 1 Custer 7 3 .700 1 Scoltville Tigers 4 2 Pcrc Marquclte 5 .545 Sum mil 5 5 .500 3 Epworlh 3 5 .375 4 Foster 0 5 .000 Lakevicw 0 10 .000 8 MIDGET LEAGUE W. L. Pet.

G.B. This Week's Action Could Leave Milwaukee with Bigger NL Lead-Or Create New Race Scotlvillc Pcrc Marquettc Longfellow Foster St. Simon's Summil Lakevicw 10 1 .909 9 2 .818 1 7 4 .636 3 6 4 .600 3Vi 6 5 .545 4 5 6 .455 5 1 .001 9 Hamlin 0 11 .000 10 INTRA-CITY LEAGUE W. L. Pet.

G.B. Braves 8 0 1.000 Tigers 3 5 .375 5 Detroit Opens at Kansas City KANSAS CITY iff, The ability of Detroit Tiger pitchers to go the distance fairly consistently hasn't meant much in their current American League pennant race. The Tigers, lied with Baltimore 'or fourth place in the standings games behind the Icague- cading New York Yankees, are ranked third in slartcr-completcd games with the mound staffjturn- ng in 35 routc-jjoing performances. Chicago, lead by Billy Picrcc's .3 completed is first with 43. Boston is runner-up a game behind although Tom Brewer is led with Pierce.

New York trails Detroit by hrcc with Bob Turlcy and Bobby Shantz tied at seven complete ames each. Baltimore is tied with New York nnd Cleveland is two games bc- lind the Orioles. Washington, with heir pitchers hurling 22 complete games, is seven ahead of Kansas "ity which trails in both complete games and league standings. Jim Bunning, who leads the Tiger pitchers with a 14-4 won-lost recdrd, alao leads in completed games with nine, Paul'Foytack is next, with eight, Duke Maas has seven, Frank Lary six and Billy Hoeft five. By ED WILKS The Associated Press If you don't, believe what happened in the National League race last week, pal, stick around.

They are going to play it over this week. And if St. Louis. Brooklyn, Cincinnati and Philadelphia ain't dead, now's time for 'em lo start breathin'. In six days last week, Milwaukee swept three at home from Cincinnati, then took three of three at St.

Louis, moving from The second-place Cardinals, who half a game behind into a 5V'a- skidded from the top with a six- game lead. This week, the Braves play three at Cincinnati, starting tonight and four with St. Louis, beginning Friday night at Milwaukee. top with a six- game losing streak that started with a three-game sweep by Chicago's Cubs at St. Louis, open a three-game at Chicago today before the return shot at Softball Tournament Action Heavy on 3 Sites Tonight A whole lineup of heavy action is slated in all three classes of the district soflball tournamrnt, tonight, with a pair of key battles set for Manistcc and Ludington.

i At Manistee, starling at 9 p. I Scoltvillc's Urka 8's, a long-time power in Western Michigan sofl- ball circles, tangles with Manistee Snortys Take-Out in what may turn out to be the lop class game of the tournament. At the same time at Oriole Field, a couple of keen rivals, Scottvillc Sinclair and Scottville Pratts, will collide in a class semi-final game to determine who will advance into Friday's finals at Scottville. In other action tonight, all of it in class Manistee Sinclair, who drew an opening rouqd bye, will meet the Custer Merchants in Manistee at 7:15 p. m.

Hex Grill, Township. The police said it was a smelly case but out of their line. The SPCA said dogs wouldn't ride in their wagon anymore if they hauled the skunk in. The game warden said it was always open season on skunks. Finally Stoulis got a board and nailed 11.

slats across it. He theorized I he skunk would hike out when he got the chance. -The skunk look him up on (he idea. New York Orlando Zulueta, 137, Cuba outpointed Frankie Ippolito, 140, New York 10, Pittsburgh Ray Lancaster, .144, Spartansburg, S.C., outpoint- ed Al Maroli, 141, Youngstown, Ohio 10. ao-GO-GO FOR FALSTAFF That's says The Old Pro.

Enjoy yoar leisure moments more with FafertafF. Refreshing as a cool breeze golden a Michigan always product of the brewers' art. BB1R AMERICA'S PREMIUM QUALITY Longfellow, Scottville Win Opening Playoff Battles The second round of Ludington i the Scotlville Lions taking the recreation baseball tournament will get under way Wednesday night. These games will pit the winners of last night's games against each other. Last night's action resulted in Scotlville Tigers, 9-6, while Longfellow won over Custer, 4-3, in In- lermcdiate League play.

In Midget league action, Longfellow ran over Pcre Marquette, 8-1, while Scott- villc took a close one from Foster, Scottville Captures Two Baseball Championships The final regular scheduled games of the Ludinglon recreation baseball program have been played and Scottvillc teams have won both Intermediate and Midget league championships. Looking at the final standings we see that the Scottville Lions lave captured first place in the Intermediate league. Only one game behind is Longfellow tied along with Custer, both 7-3 records. The Lions played their final game ngainst fifth place Pcrc Marquette. The final score in that game was 2-1, with the Lions scoring early n.

the game off the bats of John Sayton and Ed Sanders. P. M. scored their lone run in the sixth nning when Bill Bennett connected 'or a home run. Geoff Gall pitched i two hit game for the Lions and Dave Ostrander did the mound work for P.

M. In the other Intermediate game ustcr won over Longfellow, 3-1, which put them into a second place tie. Scoring runs for Custer were Byron Tyndall, George Johnson and Roger Wcrtz. Longfellow's lone run was credited to Butch Rathbun. Morris threw a two hit game for Cuslcr.

The final Midget league standings reveal thai Scoltville is in first place with 10 wins against one loss. Right, behind them is Pcre Marquetlc only one game out. These standings were a result of the last game played which was between these two teams. In this battle, P.M. won over Scottvillc, 6-5, but was still unable to capture the crown.

Jim Winiccke took the honors for P.M. by scoring three of their runs. The other Midget league game saw a battle for the cellar. Both teams, Lakeview and Hamlin had never won a game. Lakeview came out on lop, 13-6, while Hamlin took their lllh straight defeat.

High run man for Lakevicw was Tom Dewyer with four runs. 6-5. As a result, Longfellow will play Scottville at 6:30 p.m. on the main diamond at Oriole field for the Midget league title. At 8 p.m.

the Scottville Lions will play Longfellow for the Intermediate league crown. In last nights Intermediate league action Longfellow pulled one out of the fire in the fifth inning when Tom Horowski scored when be walked followed by three of his teammates. This made the final score 4-3. The two Scotlville teams played in the other Intermediate league game. Lions won out over the Tigers 9-6.

The Lions led all the way and were threatened only once which was in the fifth inning when the Tigers scored four runs. John Saxton and Dave Griffen led the way for the Lions with two runs each. Howard Bayle scored two runs for the Tigers. Longfellow had litllc opposition from Pere Marquette as the 8-2 score shows. Roger Swanson led the way for Longfellow with three runs followed by Larry Taylor and Dan Klopfenstein with two runs each.

P.M.'s two runs came from Bill Anderson and Jim Shively. Scottville won over Foster, 6-5, in the other Midget league game. Scottville scored all of their runs in the first and third innings while Foster's runs were more scattered with number five coming in the fifth inning. Larry Dumas led Scottville with two runs while Howie Carr scored two for Foster. which knocked off Scottville State Bank Monday night, will meet Kozy Inn at Scottville starting at 9 p.

m. while the Manistee Parkdale Merchants and the Scottville Whirlwinds will play at 7:15 p. m. in Scottville. The other class game is scheduled for 7:15 p.

m. at Ludington between Manistee Box Board and the Hart Autos. All of the games are quarter-finals. In Monday night's games played in Scottville and Manistee, Rex Grill took a 4-2 win over the State Bank in a game at Manistee. The Whirlwinds defeated Utilities by a 9-1 score and Manistee Box Board downed the Ludington Auto Sales, 6-1, in two games at Scottville.

Rex Grill tallied two runs in the first inning and added single runs in the fifth and seventh to knock State Bank from the running. State Bank got five hits off Flenoy Sherman compared to the four hits Rex Grill managed but they weren't enough to overcome the Manistee outfit. Roy Kanouse and Darrell Matson scored the two State Bank runs in the fourth inning on three hits including singles by Kanouse and Matson. At Scottville, the Whirlwinds got two-hit pitching from Don Mavis as they overpowered the Utilities by a 9-1 margin. George Sanders scored two runs for the winners and also connected for a home run while every member of the Whirlwinds scored at least one run.

Nagele and Roxy scored the two runs for the Utilities. John Lcveridowski was the losing pitcher for the team. Dan Froncek hurled a no-hitter as Box Board downed the Auto Sales 6-1. For six innings he also had a shutout going but in the seventh Don Wagner scored for the Auto Sales lo break up the shutout. Jack Schneider and Harvey Schafer were the batteries for the Autos and Froncek and Bob Skiera went the distance for Box Board.

Tijuana, Mexico Don Jordan, 139, Los Angeles outpointed Juan Padilla, 139, Tampico, Mexico, 10. the Braves. Cincinnati, in fourth place, seven games back, shook off that Ihree-game set at Milwaukee (which left the Redlegs 11-2 against the Braves) to sweep Ihe Cubs in three at week's end. This week, the Redlegs again wind up against the Bruins, with four at Chicago beginning Friday. Third-place Brooklyn was only games behind a week then lost three of four to New- York's sixth-place Giants and split four with last-place Pittsburgh to trail by 6Vij.

This week the Dodgers play three with the Giants, beginning tonight at New York, and another four with the Pirates, at Jersey City and in Brooklyn. Philadelphia, nine games back and in fifth, split two at Pittsburgh and lost two of three at New York last week. Now the Phils are home, playing the first of two with the Bucs tonight and then beginning a four-game set with the Giants Friday. In short, it's a week that could give the Braves a prohibitive lead when they open their last swing through the East next week. It's also a week that could leave the NL race all snarled up again.

At the moment the Braves are rolling, winning seven in a row (their best drive of the year), 14 of 16 and 21 of 26. They're the best in the league against contenders 38-22 (.633) vs. the Cards, Brooks, Reds and Phils. This is only the second time the Braves have held as much as a SVi-game lead since moving to Milwaukee in 1953. They led Cincinnati by and Brooklyn by six July 26 last they finished a game behind Brooklyn's champs.

There's only a SVi-game spread between first and second at the moment in the American League too. But it looks like a mile and a half. The New York Yankees have the bulge, after holding a seven- game edge a week ago. The Yankees were only 3-4 for the week, but Chicago's second-place White Sox won only four of seven. That's not the kind of ball that beats Yankees.

New York has three games at Boston against the third-place Red Sox (12 games behind), beginning tonight, then finishes the week at home with four against Baltimore's surprising Orioles, now tied with Detroit for fourth, games back. The White Sox are at Cleveland for three starting tonight, then move to Detroit for four. FIGHT RESULTS By The Associated Press New Orleans Charlie Norkus, 1194V4 Port Washington, N. Y. stopped Crowe Peale, 187, Baton Rouge, La.

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