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the nosTQM Sunday ciinrc-nEcoinrot n. mm A -91 Sheriff Shore on Prowl Again for Same Man vVj' prison break in North Carolina. It seems that two contacts one of 'em a sort scientific genius named Wiley Br ROGER BIRTVVELL "Armed 20 Flee N.C. read the eight-column Page One leadline In Tur'-dy' Ereninp; Globe, and i down brlou icnj the date-lin itarUnq "IVY BLUFF, NC" Now Ivy Bluff is about to mile northeast of Wimlon Salem and because of there? be two men by that name, Two days later the Red Sox and their traveling companions, the Phils, climbed up to the Carotin as. And from Charlotte I called the sheriff office in Winston-Salem.

The man they put on the line was Ernie SlioreTllE Ernie Shore. Thursday and to heck with the ball qame that day in Wilson, N.C. instead spent hours in the sheriff's office at Winston Salem while Ernie Shore re-lived for my benefit some of the golden years of Boston baseball. declined Shore's invitation to spmd the night, drove to Danville, Va and just before the telegraph office closed for the night wired my daily Red Sox story for that day. At 9 o'clock the next morning, I started writing about Mill hug a storyI said: "This is a long story, and I know you have two ball teams in town today.

Can yoH put it on the wire at six o'clock? If you can't, plcaae tell vie." The manager assured me doubly assured me that he would. At that night coming back with a Red Sox story found the Shore story hadn't been sent. And it finally got to the Globe, my office later told me, bofh too late and too garbled to use. But, when I pot back to Roston. still had the carbon ropy, and I filed it away.

The years rolled on, and Don Lar-sen although by no stretch of imagination the pitcher Shore was also pitched a perfect game. And then came this week's story of the prison-break from Ivy Bluff. On finishing my other work, at 2 o'clock in the morning, called the police at Winston -Salem. This is what they told me: Ve' In' "Three of the men who broke out of Ivy Bluff are Wtnston-Salen men. And one of them is Wiley Cummings one of the men Ernie Shore captured in the u'oodj that night back in '56.

"It's either the fourth or the fifth prison break for Wiley. They haven't captured htm yet (2 a m. Thursday). We're on the alert and to is Ernie Share. "Yes, Ernie's still sheriff.

We, the police, have the jurisdiction within the city limits. Outside the city limits in the count; Ernie has charge." So Ernie Shore nt 6S is once more on the olert. lnd for the same prisoner, Wilry Cummings, 20 to 30 years for armed robbery, and even the new jail, built later in '56, can't hold him. And a baseball writer, at have an erciise to hand along the interview I wrote in a dingy hotel room in Danville, more than three and a half years ago. fiat otid be Cummings, nerving 20 to 30 years for armed robbery had broken out of two jails, one in South Carolina and the other in North Carolina, tuithin a Jew weeks.

Farther down in the account, as I lazily read, appeared the words ujhich approximately said: "and leading the posse through the woodland in the night was the Forsyth County sheriff, Ernie Shore There was no further identification of the sheriff, but the words jumped out at me like a tigrr' rlau'i in a Three-D movie. To a person who had been a trifle daft obont baseball 40 years before and still suffered from arrested development along those line the name of Ernie Shore meant something. And there couldn't pr could cause of the prison breaking Vioughls went trailing buck a Jeio years It was Monday, the ninth of -April, 1356, onrf on tlie tuny back from Florida with the Red Sox was eating a late-morning breakfast in the Whitley Hotel in Montgomery, Ala. As 1 munched my toast, read the morning paper, end 1 was engrossed in a fascinating Page One story about a Shore and didn't stop- till 5:20 that afternoon. Then I headed for the telegraph office and fearing trouble with so PITCHER ERNIE SHORE (right) and catcher ERNIE SHORE Forest Cady of Red Sox (1916 vintage).

Ernie Shore's Greatest Thrill Not Perfect Game 1-0, 12-Inning Victory That Sewed Up Pennant in 1915 Stands Out in Career of Ex-Red Sox Ace; Explains Ruth's Ouster By ROGER BIRTWELL I firmed 20 fe M. tcatraz Boston Suiulmj 6lobfe M-Tiis. mmhY MMi. i.i.iTiiin it i rM.m i Felons Take' Over Prison Before Escape niVFW JOUKE SICES RED SOU VJH1 lil 12TI1. 1-0, Cats Stolen in Nearby Town; Waiting and Homing nip Cundrro txide I IV 1 IU1UVH ri Statewide KoadblockJ C.

HniH CllEEREDOn BY 40.G0U ((OgDitiol. WINSTON-SALEM, N.C, Apr. 14 (1956)-The herift trailed the escaped convicts through the night. They were rough, tough babies labeled very dangerous by the FBI. In the space of three weeks, they had broken out of the jails of two states.

To escape from Anderson County Jail in South Carolina a week before, they had sawed their way through steel. It was a trek through wild, wooded country-through snake-infested hills. Even the bloodhoods became exhausted and had to be left behind. But the 65-year-old sheriff kept on. tm 1 twi I I 1 tin -r Most Exeitiis Ball Came Bosloi Ever Has Seei It Walekei ty tbi BiKtst i if i pjyinj CrowJ ia local Hulory il tht 5porl-uciew nn urrint 0LDT1CE HAD A MOUTHFUL HE COULDN'T CHEW Three, Cobb, VcacH Di-kSSKl I Uth-KanaOut-KoScori.

I 'I- cts rjs -'-r'r' M'-rc Seff by lewis md Gardner, i-Barry's Sacrifice and know it well.The shcrm was This particular phase of the pursuit had started at 10 Ernie Shore. nip mj clock last Saturday morn "It was tough," admitted Shore, with a weary grin, as I THIS STORY in Tuesday's Evening Globe recalled Birtwell's Interview. At 6 o'clock Sunday after-noon Easter Sunday the THIS CAME WAS ERNIE SHORE'S greatest thrill and his name didn't make the headlines. sat in his office afterward. Tough? sheriff closed in and captured said Shore, "there was about breaking up.

Later in the game that really clinched his men. There was a day at Boston's to inches or snow. But the I cot two of em. and a courjle the 1913 pennant. The sheriffs name? If you're Fenway Park in mid-Septem-four fellows weren't too sharp, of days later we got the other "we won four straight.

Ij including both wins and first batter and you pitched the perfect game?" pitched one more game. I re- were decided by one run. an old-timer in Boston, you ber, 1915. They stuck together instead of, pair." member beating Chalmers, "Isn't that better baseball at Braves Field on a for both the players and the A collrge senior in June, 1914, and in the Autumn of the following year in Philadelphia's Baker Bowl the Carolina farm boy pitched the opening game of the World "None," said Shore. "None at all." "I was sitting in the old I went out on the mound His Biggest Thrill Shipped Home by McGraw lT 1 a.

the next year, fahore won fans than this batting the opening and closing, tice business? "We had made our last swing George Burns and he hit to uw aia you nappen to 'in tne tall oi my senior Series arainst Grover Cleve- Carries ot the world faeries. i'H nn th nmH and toon tne five warm-up land Alexander. He beat Marquard, 6-5, in the r-j cut down on rnanaeers no-'pitches the rules allowed. through the West," said the Scotty (Everett Scott) at short-land in Sheriff, "and the Tigers were 'stop. Scotty threw out Cobb Shore.

pro ball?" I asked year in college, Greensboro Isold me to Jack Dunn of the He lost, 3-1. jopener then defeated ing out and talking to pitchers. "Griffith had Morgan try to It was the only World Series others, 4-1, in the finale why I've seen games in re-steal on the first pitch because game he ever was to lose. of the only World Scries ever cent years when as much as he figured I wouldn't have making their last swing at the plate." through the East. For weeks "I had intended," said the Baltimore Orioles, sheriff, "to become an engineer.) "I reported to That's what 1 f.gurcd on doing June 4, 1914, just played between the Red Sox 20 minutes was exhausted by anything on my first pitch- still full and one Baltimore as soon as Bases down.

"After that," recalled Shore, and Brooklyn. the two teams fighting for the pennant hadn't been more when 1 was in college at Guil- college was over. managers going out and chin- oecau.se ne ngured i couidni ning around the mound stall- throw hard right away. ing for time so that someone "In the first inning I ford. Ruth Didn't Swing in the bulj pen could warm couldnt throw very hard.

up: "By the way," I said, "it a drag bunt. And if Jack Barry pleasure to talk with the only; hadn't come in fast and made "How much of a warm-up did "But alter I retired the side in the first inning, I went out to the bull-pen and warmed than two games apart. I "The next hitter was Young, "They came to Boston and their sc01ld baseman. He hit we beat 'cm, 3-2, on a Friday. a ground ball to Del Gainer As I remember, that put us at first one or two games ahead.

"But if they could even the! And here a strange thing series on Saturday, they'd be happened. each on third base you gel when you relieved has 4piiched'? pIay41n ballRuth alter he walked the "Baltimore had what I call the best minor league club that's ever been. For pitchers we had Babe Ruth, Dave Dan-forth, Russell Cottrell and myself. Ben Egan caught. George Twombly, Birdie Cree and Bert Daniels were the outfielders.

In the infield uckLci man a ciicvi iur uie imai uui, mere a Jlavc Young, Walsh and Robertson 'been no perfect game." retired 27 men in a row. But! Shore says stories about the "But the Summer after my sophomore year that was 1912 John McGraw had me travel with the Giants. I spent all Summer with them, pitching batting practice and pitching the exhibition games. It was quite a ball team and quite a pitching staff with Mathewson and Marquard and Tesreau and the rest. real close again.

didn't run. He lost sight of the ball. (Note by writer: He could Would Discolor Ball Shore doesn't advise bring-; stupid question, wasn't it?" 1 I you faced only 26 men and game have been exaggerated, 'retired 27." "Ruth, who started the game. ing back the spitball, the freak said. Ball, "Do you know," said Shore, aid not slug Brick Uwens, Ezra "I didn't know I had a no- were Glcichman, Neal Claude Derrick and Midkiff.

delivery have thought it was line drive that was caught.) And when Crawford on second saw Veach on third didn't run, Crawford held up and didn't Shore grinned and nodded. "The best pitcher?" "Walter Johnson. It wasn't "I drew the pitchin? assignment that Saturday afternoon, and I'll never forget it, I've pitched a lot of ball fames, but that game was then and still is the chief thrill of my baseball career. hitter until someone on the I rv a irKilA tirAi'A "But," he said, "I would let the pitcher discolor the ball a "Heinie Groh, Dave Robert- "But the Federal bit League at bat in the last of the eighth. with tobacco juice or so much the stuff that he had.

run either, enn Knmc onn u.j i rri licorice or whatever he uses, he ball was simply by you 'So Gainer threw to Forrest thi rookie Ann u' -i iu iuij iui vuuiu nave ucaieu uie v-aay ai we uiaie saw lhpv wr. on ner 'd-u; ttj 1. "And I didn't know it was a perfect game until I learned from the crowd yelling as I was coming off the field. "When Owens called a fourth ball on Ray Morgan, Washington's first batter, Ruth came in and called Owens a name. Owens threw Babe out of the game, and Babe didn't want to leave.

Thomas that's Chet Thomas our catcher, stepped out to make sure Ruth didn't get rough. But Ruth didn't do any swinging. that makes the ball just a little bit sticky, and the pitcher can get a better grip." "Did you use any trick -U may nave Deen a for the (second out Cadv I A uujjiuitituei.is nine games for other folks, too. You don't ChJQT Jn 5S JiSond Ind'fw shipped Us out of 10' But the Federals have ball games like that inlS Barv Jack hme; Graw wanted me were drawing 10,000 to 12.000 these days of the rabbit ball. iJJ lo thid and cot Craw-' for Spnngo traTIning a because the fans "Thi was the bie series.

lhr t0 lhird and g0t tra-the following year. But I said thought they were seeing big "Clark Griffith who was before you could see it. He was so smooth he looked like a man cutting wheat. Shore thought for a moment. "One time it was in the late 1920's we had a pitcher down here at Winston-Salem.

He was so fast and so smooth he reminded me of Johnson. So I I wrote the Yankees about him. "The Yanks sent a scout here with the pennant at stake, andj lh1 doublP D1av I said j8f g0ing to college league ball. The parks were managing Washington then pitches? I asked. "I was a one-pitch pitcher," the Sheriff said, "I threw the same thing all the time and the hitters knew pretty much both clubs were still scoreless r.l tn CadV to Sar.r -y -l 8r.aauaiea.

oacK to bacK, too. sure natea to lose, we were vv. ttlia SO WP lUSr nan lfin PrPPrt locf c-rx rlfJ ahAarf A in II urifh turn Hnu-n as we went into the 12th. bo, at the end of my junior Baltimore our total paid ad-jin the ninth. Yet Griffith sent "Thomas wasn't out of "The crowd at Fenway Park, rieht." said Shore.

missions that day was 19. up Mike Menosky to drag on the game, either. Barry, who hat was coming." year at Guilford, I spent the Summpr nitrhintr fnr P.t-Ddnn had spilled onto the outfield, i i 1 1 -Of ll "What happened then?" ime. was manager, changed catch- half That's right 19. "So I stayed at of the i won 13 and Qst 13 or i mi 1 vl.

Baltimore; 'Mike was a real fast run- ers because I worked better I to see him. The scout threw a sinker. I'd guess ently was in a hurry. The bey you'd call it a natural sinker." i I had recommended had arouna. ine nrst Daiier in uie dv thint it was1 1 i a 1 just about five weeks ner, and he made a perfect with Sam Agnew." 12ih wae Tv Cohh.

and he led a nena team, and went back I 1 4U uny tw is Musiea iim Koi.to school the Fal, the No. thevi "June 4 I reDorted In Ralti- off with a double into Shore's righthanded delivery to second. riirfn't' havo in t.rrx. a ri- recommended had pitched for Winston-Salem the day before. The scout wouldn't wait until crowd back of center, came straight over with the Would Restore Old Ball sinker usually darting down Bobby Veach laid down a' iif Carriran batted' l.g? was Kuth.

Ben Egan and I were to me, and cm carnganDaueo ricrit those davs Snv the bunt, and I gummed up around the kneecaps of the piay. oo wdd maae wuu mm "Carrigan hit to Donie Bush Veach was on first. onore siui is neauny anu active. He just led a fund-raising drive that netted $200,000 for the new ball Dark here. It fitt- at shortstop.

Donie threw to Wins First Red Sox Start his next turn. So, because the scout wanted it, the Winston-Salem manager pitched him for the second day in a row. Without a day's rest, he didn't pitch well enough to impress the scout. -ine next niuer was oam VnnniT Df sPonnri ann Young at batter. "I threw mighty few change-ups.

And I used to waste my curve. I remember pitching against Chicago one time and throwing only one curve all Crawford. Sam was a real Cady ran over young and "We got off the train at Back from Guilford College in ingly is named "Ernie Shore long Dan niuer. oo i waiKea him th balland Field." It's the home of Wins- "I would restore the old ball the baseball we used back in 1915. You'd see better baseball, smarter baseball and baseball that's more exciting to watch.

You wouldn't see games won by fluke homers. You'd see more close, low score games. You'd have more drama in baseball. Bay Station in Boston the June, 1914 him intentionally. Lewis scored.

mnrnin in in quicK succession had ton-aaiem wass a lanxee icome his appearance with the farm team, and it alo will be iU ittMumni ior oreeaKiasi. 0rioles his saie t0 Boston the home field of Wake Forest "That wasn't the mathematical clincher, but it was tninK the restaurant was and in Semember of the! which is moving to Winston- day. And I shut them out." "Who's the best ball player you ever saw?" "Cobb," replied the Sheriff Bases loaded in the first of the 12th and nobody down. There was drama at the Fen-x way. "Cavanaugh batted for "So the Yanks didn't sign him.

And he went elsewhere. But I always thought he could have been one of the game's great pitchers." "What was his name," I asked. "Van Mungo," replied Shora. the real clincher. Monday we the corner of Huntingtonifollowing year, the memorable Salem this year.

Tigers in the third beat the still loves baseball and Mass. in the- same Same in which he broke the; Shore thinks the present game inean or nugney Jennings, out ne "In 1915, I won 20 and lost seven and 16 of those games, stopped Ty Cobb and pitched game can be improved. rather wearily. "That was really asking a block as the Hotel Putnam, where the club stayed. "The girl who waited on us was named Helen Woodford it was Wood something, any Leads His Own Men Shore Was called into an-I was driving going 70 miles way, I'm not quite sure of that ether room for a minute.

and hour with tne deputy oe- trooper was sitting in the room 'side me in the front seat and. last name. She was an attrac- I jf with me and said Shoulder Injured on a Pitch "How did you come to leave "I got the strikeout on that Boston?" I asked. (pitch. Then I pitched three "It goes back to the season; more innings, and we won in of 1917, I guess," said Shore, the 12th, 3 to 2." "We were fighting the White But the big righthander's Sox for the pennant One time, arm was gone, around mid-Summer, Dutch "Did the club have a doctor the iour men in oacs.

iuve gin ana num maae a aaie "Well, one of 'em it de- w-ith her to go to Revere Beach "The reason Ernie has been aheritt since 1936, and keeps veloped had a piece ot wire mat nignt. Leonard was scuffling with Joe see you arm?" Thus began the course of events that led one Friday night in the mid-twenties to Helen Woodford Ruth's death by fire in Watertown, Mass. getting re-elected pretty reguup his arm, held on by an eias- lar, is that he leads his own tic. And he got it down and; men. Some sheriffs, they tell picked those handcuffs.

me, sit on their rears pretty; "The four of 'em jumped us much. But when there is any from behind. I guess the only! real rough stuff going on, or reason I didn't get a broken there's likely to be shootin' neck was that the roof of the All Shore said was "no." The Sheriff said nothing icx Wood on the bench, and Dutch slipped and fell and broke his arm. a moment. "That meant more work for "Ruth pitched the day we and gunplay.

Ernie is out there car was so close to the top oi the rest of us. I got to pitch 'the front seat that the fellow got to Boston, a Saturday," in front. ing too often without enough A' w. nnnph fn he'didn't eet enough room to, continued Shore. 'He started rest.

We were bearing down for that pennant. If they had Then he looked up and said "If Dutch hadn't broken his arm if I hadn't pitched those three innings right after hurting mine, I might still be pitching today." "What happened to you then?" "I spent a year in the Navy. won that year, it would have been four pennants in a row ur father." (break it. I against Cleveland, lasted until I had this in mind when! "I guess maybe also I have a 'around the sixth, and got credit Shore returned and I said: tough neck. Anyway I jammed for the victory.

"Ever have any close calls in on the brake and somehow) "Monday, Cleveland was still this job" kept the ear on the road till there and Carrigan started me. Shore thought for a moment, we slowed. Then I got the1 As I remember, I beat 'em, -jnd milpd idoor open and somehow rolled 2-1. with a two-hitter." and possibly four consecutive world championships for the Red Sox. "Along in September I was lout.

"Do you remember any of ruess I learned The lour men broKe tor tne tne v-ieveiano nuiers you guess pitching against Cleveland. It Then the Red Sox sold me to was a tie score with two out the Yankees." I faced?" woods. in the ninth, with a Cleveland i The phone rang. Ernie Shora runner on second, and I had listened intently. Then issued two strikes on Bobby Roth.

lesson one of the first Winters I was sheriff. A deputy nd I were taking four men to Jail. We had them all handcuffed together, and I thought had them fixed so they couldn't do us barm. "I remember one all right," replied Shore. "He was the most natural hitter I ever saw Joe Jackson." Shore hesitated.

"I'll tell you what happened," interrupted the trooper, "Ernie sent the other fellow for help, and set out after the four men himself." some orders. He arose from his chair. "Want to come out and visit some moonshineri with me?" he asked. "I'm I- said, "but I IAP Wirephoto) SHERIFF ERNIE SHORE looks ever scrapbook containing clippings of his "On the next pitch, it was just like a pin struck me on the point of my shoulder." "What happened then?" Shore, the farm boy from lAwn ftf Pact T5ai-i in Va1. as deep snow, but roads were cleared off, and forgot my bullet-proof perfect ga: with the Red Sox in 1919.

"It wasn't very good kin CounA N.C, had gradu-.