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The Bee from Danville, Virginia • 24

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The Beei
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Danville, Virginia
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The Bee: Danville Vq Thursday May 22 1952 Ten Murder Inc Back In Business Keep Hands Off jjg LeadersJ and record for Softball Results Jar 1 Over Vi Mila Banked Track ADMISSION 300 AN Bv Walt Dihen it us WHISKV 4 MAJOR LEAGUE leiMll record for after two Time Triali Race Start 3 2 and The River Jordan flows into the Dead Sea About 4 to 6 per cent of ocean water is salt ive Records all When Dodgers Score 15 Runs In irst Inning CONTINENTAL DISTILLING tORj' PHIIA PA No Extra Charge for Grandstand All Taxes Included Children under 12 REE with paid escort 1:00 PM 2:45 PM a Baseball Bills Shelved In Congress WASHINGTON Organlzed baseball got the word today that it will have to worry about anti trust laws without help from Con gress A House Judiciary subcommittee shelved three bills which would have exempted the professional game from monopoly curbs The group after taking a close up look at baseball's front office operations and its own legal set up decided to keep hands off the sport However it reported it consid ered doing these things: 1 Outlawing the keystone of baseball the reserve clause through which an organized ball club gets the continued and ex clusive right to the services of any player that signs a contract 2 Exempting the reserve clause from anti trust legislation 3 Providing for only a provis ional exemption for it and 4 Setting up a federal bureau to draft a code of regulations and then policing the game But it decided against any of these things although it said the game has a monopoly for years and com as carried on in other ventures does not exist The report said it is convinced the sport to get along profitably has to have some form of the reserve clause And there was no question raised about the desirability for organized base ball to keep going It suggested that the moguls always respond to the wishes of the either because they don't want to or and yet public opinion is about the only force brought to bear on them This was applied to failure to make a change in the iraojr league line up In almost 50 years Two members of the committee told newsmen it was the graphical of the major leagues that prompted the com decision to do nothing Chairman Celler (D NY) said it was the public interest for base ball to keep pace with changes in population And Rep Hillings (R Calif) charged that territorial rules and agreements have more of monop than the reserve clause All during the hearings Hillings in sisted there was a great public demand for major league ball on the Pacific coast which had been ignored By The Associated Prese BATTING Chris Van Cujk Dodgers four hits in 19 1 rout of Cincin nati were one more than he had In his entire big league career Virgil Trucks Ran hitless string to 15 23 innings be fore failing in bid for second straight no game as Detroit whipped Philadel phia 51 5 goodyear TIRES TUBES tasj Term To Sort Yoa VAUGHAN SUPPLY CO INC Center Lynn ond Wilson Sts Phono 7290 By JACK HAND Call the cops! Murder Inc is back In business at Brooklyn With count 15 record breaking runs In the first inning Boss Chuck (The Brain! Dodgers did everything but bun dle the Cincinnati Reds in a ce ment vest And what did Dressen say? be we snapped out of our hitting That wins the rub ber ice pick as the understatement of the year Dodger ruffians even roughed up the little red book of baseball The statisticians will be busy for days typing new lines into the old book ive records got the rubber hose treatment while the Dodgers flexed their muscles for the home folks in a 19 1 rout of Cincy They all got it In the first inning when 21 men went to bat scored 15 runs 12 of them after two were out and 19 successive batters reached base safely Maybe they'H find new broken records when they sweep out the wreckage at Brooklyn this mom inc what they found last night 1 New modern major league record of most runs scored in an inning 15 (All time high is 13 scored by Chicago Cubs Sept 6 1883) 2 New modern major league record for most times facing op posing pitcher in one inning 21 (All time high is 23 by those same Cubs in 83) 3 New major league runs scored in inning were out 12 4 New major league most runs batted in one inning 15 5 New major league record for most men reaching base safely in succession 19 Just for good measure Billy MARTINSVILLE SPEEDWAY MARTINS VILli VA lecturing the new NASCAR Speed wey Race Cars with stcndordl Asrericaa Motors Drivers include tack taker winner of Darlington Speedway Classic and many others SUNDAY MAY 25 RAIN DATE Wiggly 113 10 5 Crovell Lonj 5M 15 4 Seara axsd Neal and loyd Independents 013 9 6 A 617 15 10 2 Davi and Evans eadcn and reu By The Associated Press AMERICAN DIMagglo Boston 343 DIMagglo Boston 31 RUNS BATTED Rosen Cleveland 22 Simpson Cleveland and Rtauto New Voik 42 Boston Kell and Priddy Detroit and Marlon St Louis 8 TlUPl peon Cleveland and Del Sing St Louis 4 )MI Rosen Cleveland 8 STOLEN Marero Washington 4 0 1000 STRH Reynolds New York 42 NATIONAL Hour on Brooklyn 358 new York 25 RUNS BATTED Sauer Chicago 34 Ennis Philadelphia 39 DOUBLES Musial St Louis 10 Thomson New York 5 HOME alko Brooklyn Cottar ChlMM STOLEN ondy Chicago 8 Maglie New York 7 0 1000 Maglie New York 42 12 6 17 fl Shelton and Hayes Casseu and nil keraon (At Stonewall Jackson) Booth White CIO 000 3 1 Sch Bee 020 000 2 Scott and Stewart Robinette Busby Howard At Ballou Park) 211 M3 0 11 310 B40 IS tag title's string includ ed one third of an inning against Chicago May nine innings against Washington last Thurs day and yesterday's 6 13 frames i Obviously' nervous under thestrain of trying to equal Johnny bVander Meer's 1938 record Trucks lost his control after tbe hit and A fUn DA1M rtATC Jiuau LU xeuiucu iU kain uai Dick Littlfieid finished up his two 200 100 Miles hiti5r lct0 to three full games in the Ameri can as Early Wynn and Reliefer 'Mike Garcia proved too much for the Boston Red Sox in a 5 win The St Louis Brownshelped the Tribe by knocking offsecond place Washington 2 1 wen Sid Hudson walked home the wining run with the bases loaded in the 10th inning to give Satch Paige a relief decision Allie Reynolds turned back Chi cago with five hits and delivered a triple and single in the New York 5 1 win their eighth in the last 10 games The scheduled Chicago at Bpston game in the National was rained out The straight whiskies in this product are 7 years old 35 straight whiskijg 65 grain neutral spirits 868 proof $QIOJp 45 QT SL pint Cox Pee Wee Reese and Duke Snider tied a record by going to bat three times in an inning and Reese Snider Jackie Robinson Gil Hodges George Shuba and Rube Walker tied another by scor ing twice in the inning To rub it in Pitcher Chris Van four two of them in the big were one more than he had in his big league ca reer before last night Ewell Blackwell the fellow the Dodgers are supposed to be try ing to lure from Cincy in a trade was the first victim When he left it was 3 0 two of the runs coming on homer Bud Byerly quickly ran it to 7 0 Herm Weh meier raised the bid to 10 0 and rank Smith finally ran it to 15 0 Smith also gave up the other Dod ger runs on a pair of two run homers by Bobby Morgan in the third and fifth Tn thn 15 run inning the Dodg ers had 10 eight of them sin seven walks and two hit batsmen Brooklyn took over undisputed possession of the National League lead because the New York Giants cniit a dav nisht doubleheader with St Louis Cliff Chambers shut out the 1951 champs with four hits to hand Larry Jansen his first loss in the 3 0 day game But Dave Koslo that old Cardinal jinx came bacK to back up St VIDCJMIA'C EIDCT Louis for the 10th straight urn VIRGINIAS IRST since June 11 1950 in the 8 1 SPEdHHf AY Rohia ihe IT his seventh straight by turn Plttchnwh the Pir RACt CAR CLASSIC dates' 27th loss in 32 starts I 5 Detroit's Virgil Trucks ran his titless string to 15 23 innings in i a bid for a second straight nu hit ter before Billy Hitchcock of the'Philaldebhia broke the spell with one out in the seventh inn Ji ipi i i Sh lie IL Im Mlllrt rlol inflHl OC ZJWJGe 1 TO Xi LI' XZ Wr WK15 I 1 V' I see? 8 ry I 1 1 AT LETlPONh jilEyE THEZE'5 ANyvrtiTgn ON THIS C0UR58 lEufAw wk jw 1 "it wt wK Pony League Season Officially Under Way iwPWi a Jaap ''zfalW til fBL i lk ''a Pony League baseball made its debut In Dan ville yesterday evening at Market Garden with Jones Sausage defeating Schoolfield Recreation 4 1 in the season opener Shown are team cap tains Donald Chandler of Jones and Harold Hol land of Schoolfield Recreation receiving best wishes and some pointers respectively from Wilson (left) chairman of the City Recreation Commission and Dr Robert Kushner Pony League president with the two teams in the back ground It was a part of pre game activity which included tossing out of the first ball by Wilson The Pony League is composed of boys of 13 and 14 inclusive designed to fill a gap between Little League baseball and high school and other ball for older boys All games will be played on the Market Garden field at 5:15 Today it will be Danville Laundry and Crescent Drive In In last game Jones scored in the first and added three clincher tallies in the fifth Schoolfield got its run in the seventh and final frame Holland and Chandler incidentally op posed each other on the mound the former yield ing 8 hits and the latter 4 Lewis paced the win ners with 3 singles and Ray Anderson was run nerup with two Elliott and Holland shared bat ting honors for the losers with two hits each Leafs Drop Two Bustle Stopped Amateurs To Vie Race Tightens With Only One Game Separating Top 5th Place Teams Although dropped to fifth place in the standings after losing a dou bleheader to Raleigh here last night the Danville Leafs "are only one game away from top place Greensboro as they take to the road today for the rest of the week Rebounding teams in the Caro lina League last night shifted loop standings around at a dizzy rate knotting the race into a tight 5 way affair with the bottom three teams easily within catching up distance Raleigh turned back the Leafs 7 5 and 5 1 to pass the Leafs by a mere 15 percentage points Dur ham pasted Reidsville 10 2 to jump from fourth place to second within 14 percentage points of the Greensboro Patroits who lost a 1 0 battle to ayetteville Ral two wins moved the Caps from fifth to third place The Bulls and Luckies are only half a game out of first place while Raleigh and Dafeville are a mere single game away So anything can hap pen in program as the Leafs journey to Burlington Gra ham Durham takes on ayette ville Greensboro entertains Reids ville and Raleigh plays host to Winston Salem in a new series The Leafs are in Winston Satur day and Sunday before returning home to meet ayetteville in a doubleheader In other results in the lower half of the standings Winston Salem and Burlington Graham traded a doubleheader The Pir ates took the seven inning opener 5 2 and the Cardinals won the finale 2 1 At League Park the Leafs' loss of the first game stopped Lefty Bill winning streak at seven games as the Caps handed him his first loss of the season A walk and four singles put the southpaw behind in the first inn ing and he bowed out in 4 run fourth inning in favor of Calahan who checked the Caps the rest of the way with a inning assist from Alex Zukowski but too late Meanwhile ex Leaf Pete Angell had the locals under control for four innings but they got onto him in the fifth and after a walk and three singles he went out in favor of Mike Kash Kash was touched for two straight singles but Ben Rossman came in to end the threat and hold the locals to gain the victory Raleigh got 11 hits and Danville 9 all of them singles Pitcher Bob Mathieson got off to a bad start in the nightcap yielding two runs in the first and another pair in the second Again it was Callahan and Zukowski who teamed to hold the Caps scoreless the last four chapters Sam De perro and Manny Mantaras with a double and single each were the only Leafs to hit safely Kash yielded two of the hits and Jim oxworth the other two to ac count for four Raleigh got nine oxworth did a' superb bit of relief pitching in the third inning when he took the mound Twin Racing Program Here riday Night A double feature sportsman and amateur racing program will be given at the Danville fairgrounds speedway riday night starting at 7:45 It will mark the return of ama teur racing to the local track with the program to consist of 25 Bps of racing in addition to 55 laps of sportsman racing Drivers will compete for a purse of $700 Officials said today they expect forty cars for the event includ ing such drivers as Bill Myers Dink Widenhouse Bobby Myers Carl Burris Jimmy Lewellen and Bob McGinnis topping the Vir ginia contingent The amateur race will mark the appearance of the first Negro driver to participate He is Wen dell Scott of Danville Recent rains have left the track in solid condition with a new chemical called having J)een applied to hold the dust to a minimum according to the sponsors with the bases full on a hit and two walks with none out He struck out Manny Junco Luis Mo rales and Deperro without a pitch being hit The performer of the night was ayetteville hurler Don Lanier who pitched a two hitter and scored the only run Lanier went to first when Catcher Dick Tindell dropped the ball and came in on a triple The run caine in the bottom of the eighth Preferredthen and now When on an outing let Budweiser add to your pleasure Cold golden Budweiser awaits you everywhere bubbling with that world famous distinctive taste And at home too always serve Budweiser Buy it by the case or the handy six pack carton 12 oz bottles and quarts too 1852 1952 TELEVISION: See the KEN MURRAY SHOW Consult your local paper for time and station Wife simto iwMiaaw fcujMjff lik'Z VW uflKUKamiMHV Budweiser 352 LAGER BEER ANHEUSERBUSCH INC 5T JOU15 MO: NEWARKN I i i Aiming or Title ight LaMofta Wins Unanimous Decision Over Hairston In 1 0 Round Brawl DETROIT At Jake LaW age you fight slambang for 10 full rounds against a danc ing like Eugene (Si lent) Hairston So how did the 30 year old Bronx bull gain his un animous decision over Hairston in a 10 round slugging match here last night? easy I paced myself" grinned the happy veteran of 12 ring years who outweighed 22 year old Hairston 168 to 160Vi pounds my best fight since started the However Jake former middle weight champion explode his once lethal right when he got Hairston in trouble One of his few good right hands jarred the deaf mute Negro In the eighth round but Hairston clinched and was all right before Jake could move in again Jake aiming for a light heavy weight title fight or a battle against the winner of the Randy Turpin Don Cockell fight saved most of his windmill clouting for the last 30 to 45 seconds of each round And the crowd of 10232 who paid $3239310 to watch 21st fight in his so called Lucky City loved it They roared when Jake started in whirlwind style to take the first three rounds of the nationally televised and broadcast battle Lamotta although bothered by left jabs to the body and face made his young foe fight war from then on In the fourth ninth and tenth Hairston showed his best but his punches in the slugging exchanges lacked power Referee Clarence Rosen scored it 53 47 Judge Jack Aspery 55 45 and Judge Joe Lenahan 52 48 TheAP scorecard read 55 45 In Michigan each official scores 10 points for each round diving it on how he evaluates their per formances The fighters each got 25 per cent of the receipts and a $1500 television cut Jake now has two victories a draw and a defeat since he began his comeback in December no secret he would like to fight the winner of the light heavy weight title fight between Sugar Ray Robinson and Joey Maxim Softball Tonight AT Link Watson Sch Recreation 9:15 End Lunch vs Booth Whit AT 6:45 Bottled Ga vs Police Bankers vs Younk Contractor! 9:15 Seven Up vs Phillips Mill Softball Results (At West Ind ield) Research 1 Card 4 Spin 8 7 Goodson and ish Holland and Dar nell No 4 Dress 433 240 18 14 4 No 3 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