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0 ALTOOXA TRIBPNE. Wednesday. September 8. 195? BLAIR COUNTY'S OLDEST DAILY NEWSPAPER irft 5 misb (ui ir g) Oeffeotis urDimg Spiromig Dim Tilfe after being dropped by the Springfield, club in spring training as not good enough for the Internationa League. Eagles Summer Bowling League Second Tilt Set Tonight Gilliam, 23, was named on 19 of the 28 ballots cast by newsmen He received 17j points with Roy Dodger Farm Hand Named MVP By International Loop NEW YORK James (Junior) Gilliam, Montreal's switch hitting second baseman, was named the International Baseball League's most valuable player of 1952 Tuesday.

He won the honor two years Weatherby, veteran Baltimore outfielder, second with 138. Harry Walker, Rochester manager out fielder, was third with 112. Gilliam, owned by the Brooklyn Dodgers, is the third Montreal player to receive the award. Jim cars, Reese is also a very capable stock car driver. He was last year's East Penn Stock Car champ.

The other drivers are Johnny Crawford, also of Bloomsburg and Walt Cook of Hunlock Creek, Pa. Crawford is a newcomer to big car competition. He drove a regulation racer for the first time at Selinsgrove, on May 30, and finished second in a heat race. In big car circles this is considered very phenomenal for a Johnny got his start in stock cars, but is now an avowed big car addict and will drive a "Rutherford Special." Walt Cook while not being a novice in racing circles has not been too active the past couple of years. He recently purchased a "Merc Special" and after renovating it completely said he will be ready to face the starters flag on Sept.

7. Walt is a great showman and crowd pleaser. Bloodworth was the first, in 1948, Reese Signs For Big Car Races Sunday TIPTON Thf Altoona-Tyrone Speedway has been advised by the National Auto Racing association that three more drivers have announced they will run in the Sept. 7 races at Tipton. Pa.

Wilbur Reese, of Bloomsburg. a very good big car driver and always a threat in any race will definitely be on hand for the day's show and will drive a very-fast "Winfield This car is owned by Mike Adams of Espy, and won the big car feature at Lancaster, early in the season. While running in the May 30 races at Selinsgrove, Wilbur broke a wheel on the Adams car and had to retire from competition early. In addition to driving big and Boh Morgan the second in 1949. The Summer League of the Eagles came to a successful conclusion Thursday night, and the Yellow Cab crew came through writh a clean sweep by taking both, cycles, thus making them undisputed champions of the qampaign.

In their last ntatch, which was very well rolled, they defeated Roxy Beverage bv 3190 pins to 2424. "Don" Miller's 208565; Ray Knee's 196556; 'Ted" Lyons' 185517; VanOrmer's 191 500; "Pete" Fields' 209538 and "Bud" Schmerbeck's 190514 was more 'than plenty. In the other match Hotel Henry won three pqrints from Diamond Bar in a close contest of 2569 to 2527. "Jerry" EbJs 179-178-170 527 was high for H. H.

while "Jimmy" Caber's 1S1-188 508 and "Joe" Dale's 212497 were good for D. B. This Thursday night at 8 P. M. Gilliam currently is leading the International League runs bat' AtM-Burg Three doubles, a single and two errors spelled defeat for Roaring Spring Tuesday night as Martinsburg combined these ingredients to score five runs in second inning and take a 5-2 win over the home-standing Spring team in the opener of the championship series of the Blair Twilight league.

The second contest of the five-game series will be staged Wednesday at the Martinsburg diamond with further play to alternate between the two towns. Martinsburg, the Northern champs, began the top of the second with Ralph Zook flying out but then the fireworks started. Hall was safe on Bush's error and Dean Hinish singled to send him to third. Frank Ritchey then hit a grounder at Myers playing third base that was fumbled allowing Hall to score and Hinish to go to third. Reed Ritchey then was retired in the infield with Hinish scnrin! Rnh ted in with 102.

He is batting .312 and is tied for the league lead with 37 doubles. He is runner up in stolen abases with 17 and in the boys will meet to culminate the remaining unfinished business of filling the teams for the 1952-53 winter season yi'hich starts Sept. 11. All sponsors, captains and bowlers are invited as a "Dutch Lunch" and beverages will be served by the Eagles Trustees. Final standing for the season: Pet.

Yellow Cab 40 8 .833 Diamond Bar 28 20 .583 Hotel Henry 14 34 .292 Roxy Beverage 14 34 .292 runs scored with 100. i i Never, under any take a binocular apart. If it needs cleaning inside, or adjust' Corn contains more Oil than any ment or repair, return it to its other cereal. maker or a reputable repair firm We hate to admit the ability to recall incidents of so long ago. but when we were a jug-eared kid we remember reading about Jim Jeffries' preparation for his comeback bout against Jack Johnson.

The pictures of Big Jim in training still are vivid in our mind. There he was, bald and paunchy and grim, and what was he doing? He was chopping wood, of course. Jpffrips was going through the same routine Jersey Joe now is following. Thpre was one difference. Jersey Joe has bepn fairly active, while Jeffries was rusty and hollow from prolonged idleness.

The hollow shell, tlfey callod him, but only after they had seen Johnson cut him to pieces as methodically as a butcher filling your order for hamburger. Gene Tumiey went into the hills to prepare for his first bout with Jack Denipspy, but Tunney, still comparatively young, had a different, purpose. Tunney had brittle hands, ant the wood chopping was to toughen them. Walcott, apparently hasn't told his legs how old they are, for they still have quite a bit of the spring of youth. They're a remarkable pair of piiis at that.

He still was giving a faint imitation of a toe dancer at the finish of his 15 rounds against Ezzard Charles not long ago. His legs will get the supreme test agaiijs.t Marciano, however. Here is a young and powerful fellow who surges relentlessly forward, swinging those rocks he uses for, fists like he was beating off a swarm of hornets. Jersey Joe will have to use all his ring guile, and all the skill in his dancing feet, to keep out of range. He might do It, at that, if his old legs don't revolt against him.

NEW YORK CP) Jersey Ion Walcott has been roaming (he hills and dales of rural New Jersey at double time HvS preliminary preparation for the defense of his heavyweight title against Rocky Marctuno Sept. 23 at Philadelphia, and this routine is slightly astonishing. Astonishing for an athlete of his age, that is, for a younger fighter roadwork 'is accepted as part of the necesary drudgery, but. at Jersey Joe's age which seems to have a wide range but generally is accepted with reservations, as 38, it would seem to be placing'an undue strain on the underpinnings. Offhand it would seem that a nice, long rest in a rocking chair would be the best procedure for Pappy Joe, as he could conserve his strength for the big test.

As it is, he's liable to leave his fight on country roads instead of the gym. Murray Goodman, the plump and unperturbed publicity man of the International Boxing Club, has filled us in on Walcott's activities while Joe has been furitvely skirting civilization at his Jersey hideaway, where a telephone never rings and the only crowd is made up of cows and ducks and chickens and the wild things of the forest. Three or four miles on the road has started the day, and then came the wood-chopping, a time-honored way of developing sinews and blisters. "He's chopped down 66 good-sized trees," Goodman reports. Somehow you get the idea Jersey Joe hopes to take an axe in the ring with him.

Anyway, it seems to be a common practice for fighters, when old age or prolonged inactivity begin to catch up with them, to hie themselves to the woods to prepare for engagements. Wagner, Joe Hinish and Glenn! ii.j i xagntri 1 1 if ii puiiea inree aou-bles out of the hat to score three more runs. John Brumbaugh, the ninth man up in the frame, flied out to end the inning. Martinsburg was able to get only two other hits during the rest of the game while Ralph Zook was being touched for 10, but: these were scattered. RS scored in the first inning when Myers singled and Gates tripled while they added their last run in the second when Hoover singled, went to second on a passed ball and scored on Mapes single.

MARTINSBCRG AB ft A R. Wagner, 2b 4 112'' J. Hinish. lb 4 13 9 1 G. Wagner, 3b 4 0 10 5 Brumbaugh, as 4 ft 0 0 2 Zook, 4 0 0 1 3 Hall.

If 1 0 1 0 D. Hinish, 1 2 5 0 V. Ritchey, cf 3 10 2 0 R. Ritchey, rf 2 0 0 1 0 Totals 31 5 21 13 ROARIXG SPRIXG AB A Long. 2b 3 0 110 Myers, 3b 4 12 2 2 Gates, lb 4 0 2 5 0 Indians Protest Second Game On Labor Day With The Browns 1 Bush, ss 3 0 0 Furry, rf 3 0 2 2 0 Elliott, 3 0 17 0 Hoover, cf 3 1 1 1 0 Mapes.

If 2 0 12 0 G. Biddle. 3 0 0 0 0 a-C. Biddle 0 0 0 0 0 CLEVELAND CPI Hopping mad at the umpires and the St. Louis Browns, Clew-land's Indians lodged a bitter protest with the American League Tuesday over Monday's second game with the Brownies.

The Indians lost the contest 2-1 when it was called because of wet grounds. Thus gave them a split in the doubieheader and caused them to drop a half game further behind the leading New Totals 27 2 10 21 5 a Walked for Mapes In 7th. Martinsburg 050 000 05 8 0 Roaring Spring 110 000 02 10 4 RBI R. Wagner 2. J.

Hinish, G. Wagner. R. Ritchey. Gates.

Mapes. Myers. Gates, Bush 2. 2B R. Wagner, J.

Hinish 3. G. Wagner. Elliott. Long.

3B Gates. Left Martinsburg 4. Roaring Spring 5. SO Biddle 7. Zook 3.

DP R. Wagner and J. Hinish. SB Long, Myers, J. Hinish.

BB G. Biddle 1. Zook 2. PB D. Hinish.

WP Biddle, Zook 2. Deem, Clapper. Mingle. York Yankees. It was a particularly bitter Racing Event Planned For Wednesday for a major league park to be allowed to have such equipment for protecting its field against rain," the angry Senor complained.

Veeck's defense of his canvas was that "our attendance is too low. We can't afford to buy a new one." The game was delayed an hour Mid 12 minutes after the Tribe batted in the fifth. Play then was' resumed, but after the Browns went to the plate in the sixth, another shower forced a halt. The field was so thoroughly soaked this time that the umpires sailed the game after 29 minutes. In a- five-point protest to American League President Will Harridge, Lopez said the game could have been finished if the field had been adequately covered.

The canvas was so fulL of holes water leaked all over the infield, he said. He added these other charges: The ground crews failed to obey the umpires and made no attempt to cover the field the second time it rained. The umpires didn't order the ground crew to make an attempt, to get the infield in shape after the rain stopped. The umpires called the game "too quickly." The second rain lasted only six minutes and with such an important game they could have waited until midnight, said Lopez. (dlrp wkkky 1 11 cu bbifD(d(dl ofife' pit Jill! Jllliil I M) JiBlitiiilllif 1111111k flj 86.8 proof 35 straight whiskies 65 grain 3HjJf ll t'J neutral spirits '059 0 i loss since the Tribe scored three runs in their half of the sixth to gain a 4-2 margin.

The runs didn't count, however, since the Brownies didn't get a chance to bat and the score reverted to the end of the fifth. Manager Al Lopez was especially incensed at Bill Veeck, who formerly headed the Indians and now is president of the Browns. The Tribe manager charged that Veeck shouted down from the press box to his ground crew: "Take it easy, take it easy." That was while the ground crew wa uncovering the field after the first of two showers. Lopez declared the patched canvas used to cover the field was "a disgrace to the big leagues." "It's a travesty of the game Ray Pinto and Jerry Arnold were fourth and fifth. Qualifiers in the consolation races were Laird Brunner, Bob McNulty and Dave Woomer in the first and Charles DienI, Ralph Fleegle and Bill Smith in the second.

Stock car racing will return to the Altoona-Tyrone Speedway at Tipton this Wednesday night with another show being sanctioned by the Penn Western Racing association. This will be the last show for the week as the track will then be readied for the big car race to be held Sunday afternoon at the site of the former Altoona Speedway. The record 40 cars which were on hand Monday night for the 50-lap Labor Day feature is expected to be equalled and perhaps surpassed as more cars are being added to the Penn Western string. The crowd is also expected to reach the record proportions it reached Monday night as a full program of racing plus several extras will be unveiled. The Monday night races saw Don Replogle cop the 50-lap event as he jumped into the lead It is possible for a rifle to be sighted jn at two different ranges at the same time.

For example: a .22 long rifle bullet when sighted in at 50 yards is also very nearly sighted in at 50 feet. from his No. 2 starting position 1 as soon as starter John Ford gave the starting flag and was never headed. He was not forced to make a pit stop for the entire race as he built up a substantial lead in the early stages and then coasted to a 100 yard win over Bill McCahaa McCahan was the only driver to be near Replogle at the finish after hanging on his neck for the entire distance. The only battle for position in the race came in the 36th lap when Laird Brunner, driving a new No.

12, briefly chal lenged McCahan for second but was soori shaken off by the fleet footed Tyrone driver. Brunner and Tim McFarland, popular Tyrone pilot, battled for third place in the final stages with McFar land finally pulling away in the last seven laps. In the first elimination heat, Luke Gottshall drove in first position from green flag to checker and was never threaten ed as the drivers drove a very-slow race on the slick track. Ray Kramer, Em Engleman, Arnold Butterworth and McCahan also qualified in this heat. The second heat found Al Chamberlain driving another race mJr- HON Cm tltWEIX NmiA in which the one who got the flag was never passed even though Tim McFarland drew even with him at several stages.

McFarland, Jimmy Dunn, Jim Hite and Don Replogle also were made eligible for the feature in this race. Merill Jones won the third Call Your Favorite Distributor OR Ask For It at- Your Favorite Tavern heat as he also was in the lead from start to finish to win by a quarter-lap from Don Hainzey. CONTWENTAl DiSTUING CORPORATION. PHHAOOPMA, fk, Third was George Taj lor while.