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THE NEWPORT DAILY EXPRESS NEWPORT VERMONT MONDAY APRIL 251955 PAGE FOUR Pittsburgh Wins First Of Season Defeats Phillies 6-1 After Losing Eight In A Row Kansas City Shuts Out Chicago After Losing 29-6 Saturday Six Runs In 10th Inning Give Giants 11-10 Win Over Brooklyn Dodgers Alex Kellner was the fellow who plummeted the White Sox from 29 runs to zero by allowing only five singles The husky left-hander was the first Kansas City pitcher to go the route this season Gus Zernial's three hits helped hang the defeat on Dick Donovan Nixon's second successive shutout was a real class joo at Yankee Stadium Singles by Bill Skow-ron and Eddie Lopat were the only New York hits Lopat lost it the ninth when Faye Throneberry singled took second on an infield out and scored when Norm single dropped in front of Hank Bauer Henry Davio Governor Johnson BAITING GOVERNOR Above is Henry Davio well-know'n Newport fisherman and veteran guide and purveyor of baits and lures chief executive proved himself a'mighty good sport and very popular at last New England conclave at Newport Sport Shop supplied the fishing tackle for Saturday fishing party at nationally-known fishing hole off the Canadian Pacific railway bridge (Daily Express newsphoto by Richardson) Willard Nixon Shuts Out New York Yankees 1-0 Norm Zauchin's Single Drives In Throneberry With Winning Run In 9th NEW YORK The Boston Red Sox have come up with a magic victory formula shutout pitching by righthander Willard Nixon and game winning bloop singles by rookie first sacker Norm Zauchin For the second time in less than a week Nixon yesterday chalked up a 1-0 victory thanks to the timely hitting of the lanky rookie from Louisville This time the victims were the rugged New York Yankees Nixon fanned four walked three and yielded only two hits Nixon locked in a pitching duel with Eddie (The Junkman) Lopat finally got the run he needed in the top of the ninth inning Faye Throneberry started it with a one-out single to left field He moved to second base on Jackie around out Casey Stengel ordered catcher Sammy White walked intentionally to get at Zauchin the ligntest hitting of the Red Sox regulars Zauchin hit an outside curve off the end of the bat into short right iieid It fell in front of the onrush-ing Hank Bauer for a single Thioneberry whizzing home without a thi ow It was only the fourth hit in 24 trips for Zauchin now batting 167 but like his hit in Washington last Monday night it was good for a 1-0 triumph for Nixon The victory ran Nixon's record to 3-0 and it was his sixth in a row' over New York The Red Sox were travelling today to Kansas City for a Tuesaay night game with Lou unpredictable Ilenry Davio Gov Lane Dwinell NEW GOVERNOR Lane Dwinell a native of Newport came bacic to his former home over the weekend and supplied first hand evidence as to why the voters of the Granite State honored him by election last fall Dwinell highly praised Newport and Newporters for their capacity to get things done in a big way Dwin-ell was born here in 1906 and earned his first money as a newsboy His governmental career has been meteoric and he has made plenty of news since he moved to Lebanon 30 years ago Gov Dwin-ell owns Whetstone island in Lake Memphremagog near Fitch Bay and has a summer home there (Daily Express newsphoto by By JACK HAND The Associated Press How high is up? How low' is down? Ask the Chicago White Sox Manager Marty hearty rrew climbed the highest mountain and probed the deepest sea over the weekend Saturday they trounced Kansas City 29-6 Then yesteiday they absorbed a 5-0 sh itout from me same team Take a look at some of the other things that happened yesterday: 1 Pittsburgh finally won its first game at Philadelphia 6-1 after losing eight a row The Sunday cm few turned the second game into a suspended game wuth tne Phillies leading 2-0 in the eighth 2 The New York Giants scored six runs in the 10th inning but barely managed to hold the fort as Brooklyn bounced back with live runs in an 11-10 thriller 3 Willard Nixon the old Yankee killer beat the New Yoik Yankees for the sixth straight time allowing only two singles in a 1-0 Boston Red Sox victory 4 Sad Sam Jones always a sore-a disappointment at Cleveland pitched a two-hitter against Cincinnati for a 2-1 edge and his second victory foi the Chicago Cubs A scheduled second game was rained out in the third 5 Saul Rogovin anotner soie-armcd pitcher who was shunted to the minors last year went the route for Baltimore to top Washington in 10 innings of the first game 2-1 Washington took tne second 5-2 6 Rookie Frank Lary of Detroit found his first bis league victims in the Cleveland Indians Lary allowed eight hits while the Tigers hung a first deteat on Herb Score the rookie hotshot 6-4 QUALITY Dry Cleaning SERVICE CALL 405 Quick and Efficient Paul's Cleaners East Main St Newport Vt GEES? flU Non-Striking Workers Enter Electronics Plant Sperry Gyroscope Co Hit By Union Walkout Last Violence To End LAKE SUCCESS Many nomtriking employes of the Sperry I Gjioscope Co filed back to work today I Theie was no violence at the huge plant picketed Dy the CIO Electrical Workers Union Local 40 of the union representing some 9000 Sperry employes struck last Monday to back demands for an 18-cents-an-hour wage boost Because of picxet line fighting Wednesday and Thursday in which one man died of a heart attack Bennington Poetess Is Winner Of Fellowship Thirty-Two From Named To Receive John Simon Guggenheim Award BOSTON OP) Thirty-two New Englanders are among 218 Americans who have won John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships for continuation of research and artistic The foundation was established in 1925 by the late US Sen Simon Guggenheim of Colorado and ms wile in memory of their son John Simon who died as a young man in 1922 The New England wi-mers an-lounced last nigh included: MAINE Dr John Langworthy Fuller e-search associate Jackson Memorial Laboratory Bar Harbor Dr Edward Chase Kirkland professor of history Bowdoin College MASSACHUSETTS Dr Marie Boas assistant professor of history Brandeis University Bartlett Hayes Jr director Addison Gallery of Ameiican Art Andover Dr John Dickey Montgomery member of the staff and chairman of the department of political science Babson Institution Babson Park Charles Ensign Rogers associate professor of fine and dramatic ait Amherst College Dr Theodore Soller professor of physics Amherst College NEW HAMPSHIRE Dr Roy Philip Forster professor of biology Dartmouth College RHODE ISLAND Dr Robert Hugh Cole professor of chemistry Brown University Dr Morton Smith assistant -professor of biblical literatures Brown University VERMONT Mrs Barbara Gibbs Golffmg poetess Bennington Chandler Harper Wins Virginia Beach Open Dick Mayer Took Second Place And Porky Oliver Third VIRGINIA BEACH Va Lfi Stylist Chandler Harper of Portsmouth Va said today he's going to take another crack at the professional golf tournament circuit as a result of his victory here yesterday in the third annual $17500 Vnginia Beach Open join the circuit at Fort Worth Tex two weexs from said the 41-year-old Harper Harper picked up $2400 by putting together rounds of 66-65-65-64 for a tournament record of 2b0 The former record of 262 was set in 1953 by Doug Ford of Kiamesha Lake Harper's spectacular iron shots and his putting gave him the Victory over the 6065-yard par-69 Cavalier Yacht and Couutry Club course Second place went to Dick Mayer of St Petersburg Fla who finished with a 65 for a 72-nole total of 264 Mayer collected $1800 Ed (Porky) Oliver Lemont 111 was third with 265 and made $1400 Tied for fourth were Ed FurgoL National Open champion from St Louis and Marty Fuieol Lemont 111 who carved 266s and took home $1100 each Next came Jack Burke Jr Kiamesha Lake wno won $800 with 167 Jerry Barber of Los Angeles and Johnny Palmer of Charlotte came up with 269s to tie for seventh good for $650 each 0GT' 1 0 CORPORATION SOS ft port vt Derby Fish And Game Banquet Wed Night Prof Leon Dean Of The University Of Vermont Will Be Guest Speaker Professor Leon Dean of the University of Vermont will be guest speaker at the annual Derby Fish and Game banquet Wednesday night at the Derby town hall Prof Dean has become a speaker of note in the western part of the state and has chosen as his topic Fred Crockett chief executive of the Long Trail council Boy Scouts of America will speak briefly on Scouting It is expected that George Davis director of the Vermont Fish and Game Service will also be present as well as other prominent persons in conservation circles Rev Nickerson of Derby will be master of ceremonies Mrs Lloyd Selby and Mrs Fred Murphy of Derby Line are in charge of the banquet which will be turkey served family style Prizes are to be awarded and a sports film will be shown FOR Potatoes Kelley Derby Western Big Three (Continued from page 1) cuss concrete plans for holding a four-power conference with the So-vie government accordance with u-ual practice they will also discuss tnis question with the chancellor of the German Federal Republic and ministers of oilier NATO governments designated by the three governments will meet London April 27 to make a preliminary study of these problems in preparation for the discussions The three governments earnestly hope that a four-power conference can meet as soon as 8 IT A -f I i GRAYSON'S Joe Conversational BY Sports In Brief GOLF Virginia Beach Va Chandler Hal per of Portsmouth Vp shot a five-under-par 64 for a total 260 to I win the third annual $17500 Virginia Beach open tournament Carrollton Ga Betsy Rawls of Fort Worth Tex fired a 77 for a total of 218 to win the $5000 Carrollton open tournament TENNIS Houston Tex Tony Trabert of Cincinnati won his ninth straight tournament by defeating Vic Seixas of Philadelphia 6-0 6-1 6-4 in the finals of the 21st annual River Oaks championship TABLE TENNIS Utrecht Netherlands Japan's jToshiajki Tanaka and Angelica Rozeanu won the and women's singles titles in the world table tennis championships TRACK FIELD Lawrence Kan Wes Santee holder of the American mile record won the Glenn Cunningham le of the 30th Kansas relays in 4:114 BASEBALL Cmcago The Chicago White Sox trounced the Kansas City Athletics 29-C tying the modern major league scoring record for one team for one game Treasury Balance WASHINGTON tP! Treasury ba lance: $577895167112 Dark Claims Giants And Braves Better Than Brooklyn Giants Captain Says Both Clubs Will Be Ahead Of Dodgers By August BROOKLYN LP) Captain Alvin Daik hero of New 11-10 victory over Brooklyn yesterday declared today that two teams the Giants and the Milwaukee Braves were superior to tne league-leading Dodgers The sparkplug of the world champions admitted the Giants face a battle to overhaul the Dodgers who have won 11 of 13 games He insisted however that by August not only New York but probably Milwaukee will be ahead of Brooklyn know the standings give tne Dodgers a big advantage over us right he said I still maintain a better ball club than Brooklyn So is Milwaukee I want to say how we will fare against Brooklyn over the season but I believe Milwaukee will beat the Dodgers- at least 13 times this The shortstop called attention to the aging and heavily-built athletes particularly Jackie Robinson and Roy Campanella who weigh in the neighborhood of 215 pounds each weather bothers big heavy lellows much more than it does a dender Dark said wait and see how fellows like Robinson Campanella and Don New-combe do in July and August see also how pitching will shape up when those double-headers roll Occupation Forces Fight Black Markets Cigarette Coffee Rations To Be Cut In Will Reduce Illegal Practices HEIDELBERG Germany OP) The Army and Air force in Euiope today announced cuts in cigarettee and coffee rations effective May 1 The forces aie waging a campaign against black marketing Cigarette allotments will be reduced from 15 to 10 packages weekly in Germany and France The limit of 10 has been in effect in Britain for two years Persons who certify they smoke more can get as much as five packs additional per week The present one-pound montnly coflee ration for personnel living in barracks will be eliminated Military personnel living in their own quarters can still get four pounds a month A number of American Army wives have been caught in tne campaign against black marketing Military courts fined some of them for bartering post exchange coffee and cigarettes German customs authorities today announced the smashing of a large scale cigarette smuggling ring at Ulm The customs agents said 5000 cartons of American cigarettes had been illegally sold at a big firm at Ulm the past year US To Build Atomic Powered Merchant Ship President Announces Plan As Demonstration Of America's Peaceful Intentions NEW YORK President Eisenhower today unveiled plans to send a new atomic powered merchant ship around the globe in a dramatic demonstration of America determination to wu just and Id sting The new' vessel the President said will travel thousands of miles without lefuelmg and demonstrate to people everywhere this peace-time use of atomic energy harnessed for the improvement of human Eisenhower disclosed his intention to ask Congress for funds to build the new ship in a speech prepared for delivery at the annual luncheon meeting of the Associated Press at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel About 1300 of the publishers and editors were on hand for the start of Newspaper Week New York The President coupled his surprise announcement of plans ior the atomic-powered ship with a new plea for congressional enactment of the administration program to cut tariffs 15 per cent over the next three years Textron To Increase Expected Loss Reserve PROVIDENCE RI Textron-Amencan Inc stockholders will be asked to increase from the present 7 million dollars to $16574000 the reserve for expected losses on the disposal of idle mill property The idle mills resulted from tne merger last February of Textron American Woolen Co and Robbins Mills into Textron-American In a notice calling for a May 18 annual meeting Board chairman Royal Little said: combined operations of the three companies have made it apparent that additional plant units may be disposed of and that further losses should be anticipated it has developed that the reserve set up for American Woolen properties was not adequate for the purpose and must be increased Little reported that during the last fiscal year he was paid $98o54 as board chairman and director He also listed as having $37226 vested interest under the profit sharing plan and $58987 due in annual benefits at age 65 under tne pension plan Mighty Belle Changed From Pacer To Trotter Dale Eastman's Mare Has Two Wins And Two Seconds In Six Outings This Winter COLUMBUS Two victories at New Magnolia Parish have convinced Dale Eastman harness horse owner-trainer of Orleans that his conversion of the 7-year-old mare Mighty Belle from the pacing to trotting gait could prove quite profitable this season Mighty Belle had compiled a fair record as a pacer under the ownership of Chicome of Augusta Me and won once on the pace for Eastman at Magnolia Park last fall after the Vermont horseman had purchased her However she wound up 1954 with only two victories in 27 starts During the winter Eastman gave her lessons on the trot and already in six starts at Magnolia Park Trotting Association records have Mighty Belle credited with two victories and two seconds in six outings Her last victory in 2:07 35 also equalled her best lifetime record as a pacer and Eastman can be forgiven for viewing the future optimistically Kansas City Draws 156997 In Seven Days KANSAS CITY The cold statistics showed today that major league baseball is gettmg a red-hot welcome in Kansas City Home attendance for seven dajs for Kansas American League entry was brought to 156-997 an average of 22423 by tne 19446 cash customers that turned out in chilly windy weather to see the Athletics beat the Chicago White Sox 5-0 yesterday more than half the 304666 total drawn by the same Athletics 72 games at PhJadelphia all Iasi season McLaughry To Receive The B'nai B'rith Citation BOSTON OP Former Dartmouth gridiron coach De Ormond (Tuss) McLaughiy will receive the Boston Sports Lodge of football citation at the third animal awards dinner May 8 Lou Little head football coach of Columbia for 25 years and a longtime friend of will make the presentation Weekend Fights By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hollywood Young Jack Johnson 210 Los Angeles stopped Gene Thompson 1841? Minneapolis 5 Boston Joey Cam 132 Boston stopped Eddie Compo 15534 New Haven Conn 2 Paris Percy Bassett 131 Philadelphia stopped Seraphin Ferrer 136 France 10 Erie Pa Doc Watkins 150 Pittsburgh outpointed Tim Jones 151 Plainfield NJ 8 Havana Puppy Garcia 128 Havana stopped Harry Smith 1294 Brooklyn 7 Maior OUR' LIBERAL CREDIT POLICY MAKES IT EASY FOR YOU TO GET CHOOSE YOUR OWN LOAN AND REPAYMENT PLAN PHONE FIRST AND MAKE ALL ARRANGEMENTS IN ADVANCE YOUR MONEY WILL BE WAITING WHEN YOU COME IN! VERMONT LOAN 3 Main St Tel -ggas Rggrsen va SCOREBOARD DiMaggio Pitches Some Fast Ones HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor and two others were injured the 'company told all nonstnking em-iplojes not to cross the lines The firm employs all some 16000 persons in its three Long Island plants 15000 of them here On Friday the union agreed in a mediation sess on to a court designed to avoid further outbursts The com-! pany later called for a back-to- work movement of the nonstrikers i today The union agreed to stop mass picketing and a reduced number i of pickets was agreed upon Some 200 police officers stood by the plant's gates as woikers filed into the plant past the picket lines i today The union had spurned the company's offer of a 12-ce it-an-hour wage inciease spread over three years Present wages of the striking union average $2 an nour wuh "the company adding 4 cents in welfare benefits The firm manufactures electronics equipment guided missile devices navigation equipment and other items most of them for the armed forces Trabert Wins River Oaks Championship HOUSTON Tex OP) The amateur tennis troupe ed today as powerful Tony Trabert hung up his ninth straight trophy with tne championship of the Rover Oaks Tournament Trabert the man vin the big game from Cincinnati bounced Vic Seixas the national champion from Philadelphia for the seventh consecutive time yesterday He beat him 6-0 6-1 6-4 The last time Tony lost a match I was Feb 1 when he fell before Ken Rosewall in the Vustralian National Tournament He never gave Seixas his Davis Cup teammate a chance yesterday winning the first II games and coasting in There are 1270000 miles of un-paved roads in the United States 854000 miles of paved road and 1216000 miles improved with stabilized earth gravel or crushed stone Mrs Calvin Coolidge was a teacher of the deaf before she was married tcmim raym YORK (NEA) Tony Canzoneri was at the door greeting visitors to his new' Broadway restaurant when a tall broad-shouldered fellow walked in Someone asked the former lightweight champion how long he had know'n Joe DiMaggio than I rasped Canzoneri was training in San Francisco for a fight with Joe Click and one day Lefty comes up to the gym I worked at Dolph place and he has this guy with him he says to me want you to meet Joe DiMaggio going to be a great DiMaggio long one of the best dressed men ivas immaculate in a costly brown suit Except for a sprinkling of gray through his hair he looked as if he could move into center field today weigh four pounds less than what was my best playing the old Yankee Clipper smiled T3ut the shoulders went on me and that did Why is it a fellow sitting with him asked that DiMaggio has not remained in basebalL want an office replied Joe currently weighing business propositions like w'orking eight hours inside every day Managing coaching scouting and that stuff my line I always said that when I quit playing quit 4-s 4aiir DIMAGGIO WOULD LIKE to run a camp have something to do with an operation like Little League baseball A DiMaggio it was observed could certainly do baseball especially the sagging American League a carload of good never remembered the league being this he said we used to win the pennant by 19 or 20 games we still were beating good clubs The rest were bunched They had good players a two-club race The rest of them are in bad shape And If either the Yankees or Indians run away it will be It seemed that DiMaggio rate the White Sox as highly as some others but he asked about them He had the floor so why butt in? THE NATIONAL LEAGUE has four or five good he went on Cincinnati Gabe Paul has done a real good job He made hfs best move hiring Birdie Tebbetts Provided he is a smart baseball man there are only two things a manager has to have He has to know when to take the pitcher out He must know' how to handle men Tebbetts was a smart catcher and certainly knows to yank a pitcher good w'ith men When the Jackie Robinson-Walton Alston rhubarb was brought up DiMaggio shrugged never wras on a club where there was trouble like that he recalled it hurt the club as long as it is a feud when you get those cliques that it hurts you know a ballplayer plays for money not for likes or dislikes like a fighter feuding with his manager That mean he fight Someone asked DiMaggio if he had seen any good young ballplayers are coming along very slowly these he said know of one on the west coast Little League Is the main hope start to show up In four maybe five more Proprietor Canzoneri asked if DiMaggio w'ould pose for a picture with a couple of kids Joe said This is Joe fourth year out of baseball nnd he remains as popular as he was the day he went away Dual purpose carries both passengers and cargo Has over 100 cu ft of cargo space Wide rear doors admit TAT I 0 Cl Vif A G0EJ bulky loads Interior is washable MADE BY LARGEST MAKER OF 4-WHEEL-DRIVE UTILITY VEHICLES WM LILLICRAP 588 Main Street Newport Vt Tel 72 Philadelphia 8 Pittsburgh 0 Chicago 1 Cincinnati 0 Milwaukee 5 St Louis 4 Games No games scheduled Games Cincinnati at Brooklyn Chicago at Pittsburgh (N Milwaukee at New York St Louis at Philadelphia (N Detroit 3 Cleveland 0 Baltimore 3 Washington 0 Chicago 29 Kansas City 6 Games No games scheduled Games Boston at Kansas City N) Baltimore at Detroit New York at Chicago Washington at Cleveland.

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