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3467 4 14IikirivAZ0)iiie ---AwarwilowiwomoitstmlirAlt4 Wilhelm Flutter Pitch 4 te Increases Size Mitt 41k" "At nommokinvilirRogadootamAtivitstaww401 tr 4 04 t' 4 am 0'46 4 I jk It 0 I 1 (1 vote 4 -11 le' i i Ik cl CA Richards and Brecheen agreed something had to be done when such receivers as Gus Triandos suffered as many as four passed balls in a single game hen Wilhelm was on the mound i it 4 i 4:" i 4 efr 0 I 111 41 41 4 4 4 ik I '41 dilli k) 1 IIVIII' 1 4001L4 4 1 't 10v 4-k 4' I KANSAS CITY (IP Hoyt Wilhelm's fluttering knuckleball pitches have caused too many passed bails and cost the Baltimore Orioles too many runs says Manager Paul Richards So Wednesday he came up with a remedy Richards and pitching Coach Harry (The Cat) Breeheen collaborated in developing a catchers' mitt 50 per cent larger than those now in use Richards was quick to point out that the over-sized mitt doesn't I Nate any major league rules The rules specify that the mitt may be of any size pro tided it is of leather and of one piece The mitt now in the process of being manufactured by a Chicago sporting goods company will have slots for all fingers and will be made of lighter more pliable leather so it won't be too cumbersome The production of the giant mitt is under the direction of one-time major leaguer Rip Collins Last year big Gus and Joe Ginsburg set an American League record for one club i 49 passed balls 38 of them with Wilhelm pitching This year they have permitted 12 nine of them Oh Hoyt on the mound Richards and Brecheen noted that many of the passed balls committed when Wilhelm is pitching glance off the edge of the mitt They reasoned that a mitt with a wider expanse would solve the problem providing the new mitt was not heavier and more flexible than the ones now in use The Orioles will get their first look at the mitt when they arrive in Chicago Monday 4 troit The Tigers' Frank Bolling reaches for the throw from catcher Lou Iterberet as umpire Larry Napp (lashes in to call the play (AP Wirephotol the pp pp Napp HE MADE Green of the Washington Si nators slides safely into second base after a successful steal in the first inning of Wednesday's game with De HOYT WILHELN1 Hard To Handle 1' eather Blamed For Delay IERCE Observer Sports Writer 1 1 1 ICK 4 1 07 to l' 4 Ni A 40' 1 kr40 2 1 pIERCE 1 i 4I i vott Observer Sports Writer I 4 4r 1 pflpT ornio Of odd 600' To June 19 mit us to overcome the loss of construction time caused by three winter snows and the excessive rainfall we en countered" Mc Mane a construction man from Washington who rumoredly is the "Sugar Daddy" in the last-minute push to complete the project attended by NASCAR bigwigs Bill France and Pat Purcell drivers Richard and Lee Petty Jack Smith Joe Weatherly Ned Jarrett and Curtis Turner who is president of Charlotte Motor Speedway Also in attendance was Jim 600" will be delayed until June 19 Executive vice president Bruton Smith said the threeweek delay came about "because of our keen desire to have all facilities read "The date change will per By GEORGE CUNNINGHAM Observer Sports Writer The richest and longest stock car race in history scheduled May 29 was postponed Wednesday Charlotte Motor Speedway officials announced the "World SECTION Thursday May 19 1960 The announcement came at a kickoff dinner which was Officials Turner and Smith spent several minutes deploring their inability to start the race On the original date Hornets Bow To Savannah Again 7-5 "Advance tickets sales pro that we will have a capacity crowd 11000001" Smith said "The 4R stales already are represented among ticket requests "We have sent telegrams to those outside the 200 mile radius announcing the change in dale" A statement released by Speedway officials read: Baseba 'Ws Abandoned Lool'ina TO COlalen kit 1110 Nen Life THE NEW Continental Alajor League which is being birthed by the agile brain of Branch Rickey has gotten surface lip service from Organized Baseball Behind-the SCenCS sneering at the new league hy men presently employed by baseball has been standard procedure But there's another baseball who were once in but nOW out of the have not been sneering They see in Rickey and the neW league a chance to get back into baseball an opportunity to gain livelihood and advance to higher status than would ever have been possible under the present monopolistic majors These men fall into many categories but you could break them do into three general classifications: (1) The discards men Who lost their jobs as minor league baseball shrank like a pair of 10-cent sox (2) The veteran player mho had nowhere to turn hen his active days ended and (3) youngsters who've never heard the smooth delivery of a major league scout You could add a such as Charlie flurth Who abandoned good jobs to cast their lot with but these are a tiny fraction in the sum total And nowhere is hope and trust in Rickey and the Continental more shiny than in North Carolina's western Piedmont The new Class Western Carolina League is being staffed with reborn ambitions men who are willing to start at the bottom where the ladder begins is "Our facilities can and will be completed by May 29 But to run a race of the magni- tude of the "World 600" without all facilities ready would not be in keeping with the best interest of fans drivers and others connected with the sport 11 illi) ot) 6404 105' 'c: efi i i' 0: ri l': I ite tli -'1' Ape 1'i9 tork Al' (5 i-- -1 1 4 'ele 7 4 Ve4 i 4 i 3' 1 4 i I 4 I' 1 1 'R :1 I 14 1: 4 i lc ire 1 0 4 fe :) 6e 9' 3::4: II A 1 fri' 'i ziAf-411 i 4t p140- -f 1 i4K: 4: A 1 4 74-" SAVANNAH Ga The Savannah Pirates stretched their winning streak to four games Wednesday night de teeing Charlotte 7-5 It was the third night in a row the runner-up Bucs had whipped the Sally League leaders and trimmed the Hornets' margin to 41i games The Pirates built a 5-0 cushion before the Hornets rallied to tie pinned on Garland Shifflett seethe score in the sixth on a walk i ond of three Hornet pitchers two walks an error a single by Bill Felker started an left for pinch-hitter during the sixth Babe Daskalakis a double by I inning uprising which chased the Zeke Lavalliere a triple by Jake Pirates' starter Hal Norris who I Jacobs and a sacrifice fly by was working on a two-hit shutout Herman Vila entering the inning 1 The three home-s tr etch grandstands seating approximately 32000 are virtually completed A grandstand on the backstretch will be completed in advance of the new race date "Speedway paving can he completed in May according to our contractors but vve fed that to hold the race on a course that is not properly treated and cured out would not be wise "Other facilities such as parking areas fencing concession stands and rest rooms will be completed well before June 19 in order to accommodate the capacity crowd for which we are preparing It didn't take the Piratecs 1 The Pirates got two runs In long to snap the deadlock as they bounced back for a pair the first on a walk a triple by In the bottom half A walk a Duncan Campbell and a gaol sacrifice and Alvin Mel lean's flee fly by Charlie Leonard single produced one and Elder White tripled home the other Ed Sada hit his third homer of the season in the third and McBean picked up the win in an unearned run crossed in the relief giving him a 4-1 record fourth on a pair of walks a All of his victories have come fielder's choice and a throwing as a reliever The defeat was error by second baseman Minnie I Mendoza McGuire alumnus Charlie Woollen nd football coach Jim Hickey Observer TALKING IT OVER at Wednesday's Education Foundation affair are emcee Fred Anderson UNC basketball coach Frank 'TRICK DIDN'T Lemon Belt Keys Sens' Win In 11 tit CHARLOTTE I SAVANNAH ab rbil ab rib Villa 3b 4 0 110' White ss 4121 InringtIld ss 4 0 0 0 Sada 3b 3111 Jacobs cf 5 1 3 0 Campbell cf 3 1 1 1 Hardaway If 3 1 0 0 Leonard lb 3 0 1 1 Daskalkis lb 4 1 1 1 Fidalgo 4 0 1 0 Lavalliere 4 1 1 1 Elliott rf 2110 Vistuer rt 3 1 I 0 Pizarro If 2000 Mendoza lb 301 1 Lerner 2b 3000 Felker ts 2 0 0 0 Norris 2000 ll000skl 1 0 0 1 McBean if 1 1 1 1 Shifflet 0110 0 b-Tano 1000 Chiniout 0 0 0 0 Totals 34 5 7 5 Totals 17 7 0 6 into orceout for Felker in Ph out tor Shiffiett in Ith 'We're Not By DAVIS MERRITT Observer SPOrti Wrtter though and nobody behind them 000 DOS 000 -1 201 112 00x-7 Charlotte Savannah DETROIT ii The Wash ington Senators combined the pitching of Camilo cual and the home run bat of big! JilT1 Lemon and blanked the Detroit Tigers 3 0 in an II-inning here Wednesday Pascual had a string of 15 scoreless innings going into the game allowed the Tigers only five hits two of them coining in the bottom of the Ilth "Ve have six lettermen at halfback None of them can run over 20 yards fit a time but they'll knock you down" Hickey said his big problem is making the club tough "In the past haven't been tough enough day to ''Our fullbmks are good three deep and quarterback is pretty strong Ray Farris (of ('harlotte) is facing a peculiar situation for him lies being pushed and it's worrying him a little We haven't seen Ward Nlarslender la 1959 holdout) under the gun but yke think he can make it "Our tackles are the best In four years Good ones but not AllAmerica We have only two college calibre guards At center me have tip flaw kin mho makes that position strong Mendoza Sada Mc Bean PO-A 24II Savannah 1710 Vila Mendoza and Daggalagis Chinigue Springfield and Daggs lag's fella I Savannah 3 79 Vula Leonard Lavalliere 38 Campbell Jacobs White Wingfield 5Pizarro VI Ia See NO GREAT Pg Col I Triple-A hops Returninft To 'D' TILE WESTERN CAROLINA which has scuffled its way through all grades of difficulties will open next Wednesday night And when the eight teams admittedly rag-tag in talent take the field-- here are some of the men who have -41 Ak0401z regrouped their hopes and ambitions to ride with Branch Rickey: Such as John Henry Moss a wots manufacturer's representative in 47P rr t-' Kings Mountain who has led the battle to bring the league from a 4-s nebulous idea to four box scores a day Moss is a loquacious salesman who might have been the first man ever to sell the Prooklyn Bridge three times had he taken a wrong turn somewhere Moss has spent hundreds of RICKEY hours and spoken a million or to words getting the Western Carolina through to opening day While John belittles his efforts and says Its for the mere love of baseball its obvious he's eyeing an executive post vs ith the Continental Then there's Burt Shotton Rickey's old manager at Brooklyn Shotton now 75 swapped retirement for a chance to work kith young ball players again Ile doesn't need the money and is sincere in saying he's answering a friendship call to serve as senior thinker of a baseball school the Continental will hold in June And three former Triple-A umpires whose names will be announced Tuesday who are hoping they'll jump from Class to the Continental next year or the next lla For Future! 4 THERE'S Jim Poole the old lefthanded slugger who went to the Athletics from an Alexander County farm The day he arrived Connie Mack sent him to pinchhit with this advice: ''Do the best you can" Poole homered Smiled Mr Mack: "I don't guess you can do much better son" But when the Class us dried up in the early fifties Poole known as one of the smartest talent developers in the minors was out of job Now ne's got one again at Rut herfordt on And George Wilson and Doe Queen Wilson has had major league years with the Giants and Doe has been a valued Triple-A catcher for years Both could be drawing decent salaries in Double-A but they see a future in the Western Carolina and Continental George will manage Shelby and Doe will pilot Gastonia Another Is Jake Early who has 10 years and Ea days in the majors before he lost out to a liquid enemy Now Jake has whipped his old foe chucked a steady job with his hometown recreation department and will manage Statesville It was a chance to get back and at age 44 be's going to catch And John Isaac a phenom as a kid lefthander but never better than Class A as a pro lie still could be pitching at Mheville but passed it up to manage Newton "It's a new chance" says Isaac "and if I don't make it I haven't lost anything" There are a few total newcomers to baseball mostly men in the background One of these Is George Loh laneki a former Gastonia schoolteacher who now owns a restaurant Ile put tip Gastonia's entry fee Another Fleet McCurdey a kings Mountain dry (Mitt tsba owns the Stales ille franchise There's one vital element threading Its way through this band of men who make up the Western Carolina-- and its hope Hope for the you can't help but hope along with them Its xt ly er a rt't ng aII 'Cs np xt 'ho hit rd er es in at as The Senators who got only one run while losing their first three games to the Tigers finally broke the game tside open after Detroit starter Jim Bunning was lifted for a pinch hitter in the hottom of the lOth IP ER Be SO ISS4 43 122112 II tile sSIII4 2 4 20443 Busch Says Hemus Position Secure Itt Nor Shiffiett Chtnicut Norm Mc Bean For a man at a fund-raising affair North Carolina's Jim Hickey didn't spare the hopes of alumni here Wednesday night Tar heel football coach Hickey told UNC's moneybags Education Foundation "There is not a great football team Pt the University now and I don't see one for three or four years" Basketball coach Frank McGuire wasn't so pessimistic and saved his big guns for the question period which opened of course by a query concerning the status of the NCAA's inVeS ligation of UNC "You never know about those things the way they operate" said McGuire No news is good nen ti and they said they didn't want to see us in Atlanta" tn here the NCAA council handed out a four-year probation to red batters in alb Mcboan (Mantilla) Lavalliere 110 add Kibler 1 The PascwilTunning duel as beauty f0r 10 innings hut the Senotors viosterl ill getting to Tiger reliever Dave ST Ily Ilemus' days as a manager of the St Louis Cardinals numbered? There is a pwibility that 'cl' It 17 7 -t i 1 'k 4 1t 0 2 0090 I t''' 4-- 4 4 4: -N 4 It u-i--- '12 JACKSONVILLE 100 313 000-110 1 COLUMBIA 102 300 000-1 1 3 Martoke Werke 141 and Hay) Otiodek Hommel Oh leisenlloovor (1) sod Ken petty CHARLESTON 000 000 000-1 2 KNOXVILLE 000 100 00x-1 4 3 be may he replaced according a story by Bob Broeg sports editor of the St Louis Howler Harlon (3) and Nam') 11 KlitWer and Moore I Hither Johnny Kcanc or Bob Shelling as possibly candidates as Hems' successor Durocher is out of baseball at present Keane is a Cardinal coach: and Shelling former manager 0 the Chicago Cobs is now a Milwaukee coach In explaining why If iii now in his second year at the Cardinal helm might be oust ed Ilroeg wrote: "Not true" claim August Busch owner of Cara naht ASHEVILLE 000 000 000 0 3 1 MACON 007 000 000 7 7 Urritotj Dtbole (3) and Stewart acolt and Ceiornan WASHING ON I DIMWIT 1 I I I oh bi Gardnor lb 0 0 0 Yost 3b 5 2 I Green cl 0 I 0 COrislev It 4 0 1 Allison lb 1 1 0 Kahn cf I 2 0 lemon It 1 1 Colevolo rt 4 0 0 0 thrborry rt I 0 0 Cain lb 0 0 Bertole 3b 1 2 0 BoiNno 2b I 0 I 01 Batley 1 0 11Wise ss 1 I I 8 Vold'toO I 0 0 0 Ferndet ss 3 0 8 APWWer 0 0 0 CAmoros 0 0 0 Commie 11 I 11 Running IN 3 I I 0 i 1000 0 116m0r00 I OW TOTALS 40 3 3 TOTALS $6010 i A -Pooped out for lialdivitIto Ifl 7thr I A-Coiled out on strikos for lerberpt In loth Fltod oul toy Fernando! In mill Hit Into forc ia) tor Son Moo In 101Pis i ba "But the undeserved public ity didn't hurt our recruiting Ill WI you that You never know in those things who IA accusing you It was designed by people who wanted to hurt our recruiting and it didn't" McGuire announced he is building a house in Chapc111111 and said he hoped it put to rest rumors of his leaving tNC SOLLY HEM'S On Way OW? Niscilak Signs Titan Contract "These reports are ilbS0111tety not true" the owner de dared "I am very much sat isfuqi with So Hy The dub is better than it has shown hut Ileums certainly a 't blamed for that lie has dono a wonderful Joh under the to cumsta I he 14q1hirds are In a long range fooldol2 pow's and "Memos the man tor the joh" iller than it has shown but emits certainly a 't lamed for that Ile has done wonderful jot) undiT the' tit must nues" l'aisch insists the Iteithirds re in a long ring(' holding '1)W' Ind IS shit the lan tor the jot)" Honored 11 MIA Vote i Hickey prosprrin WASHINGTON 600 000 000 -I DETROIT 000 000 000 00 0 I Moline PO A WathInalern 33 11 Dmreit 3111 Nortels Gardner and Alhenn LOA Washineren 1L Delrott I MI- LM011 I Green 6- Allttn pat loy That hardjard made It (-Icor Wei of UN(' Ilifihihill 1111 no nottiell Ileums may have fallen victim in part to his own overoptimism "A hustling a I I I self 111A plow Solly apparently hasn't twill able to see himself i i 11111101 II iiifittunitt' IY in has oversold his hall club to Hs And In the piihli They came to expect Vith an HAS record I too much" ciirn REP Minn ling In I HMI: (lewd Mal ovt'r place (404 games back of sold the the National Itaizue leaders ''t said the Cardinals MT tr Francisco tapahle of finishiml in the lir0 01 ion hc said "and I still Prorg mentioned Leo IDu think they A111 NEW YORK Pio ti Mis thilk forum' Army end and later a guard with the New York Clank Wednesday signed 8 tuiai contract with the New York Ti tans of the American hoithall League 1Alisehak filoot 2I0 pounder played the 19:41 stason Oh Ihe Omits and thvn quit football lir bas hcen working As lelephmie company supervisor in his home town of Union KANSAS I'M' Paul and Lloyd Waner 011etillIP stars With the Pittsburgh Pirates are among tour men mimed In the 1 newly established baseball et' 'inn in the Hall of rime of the Aociation of Inferent legiate Athletics IP 01 tit 00 SO Patcual (W 4 1 11 I 1 Plunnine 0 0 1 10 Viler II I 1) I Stotproth ''t may he wrong and I hope I am" he told some ron mem hers at Fireman's Wit "NO here's the situation wiihout naming names "At end we hate twn pretty Poial college ends Not at POPP Umont at tod I 14 littorli ill Driirmmentl gorrY 113 A4t1)4 mIvr Pr-fr FAWNIF.