Florence Morning News from Florence, South Carolina • 18

Lorenzen Wins Pole Spot for Southern 500 '1 4 i Stock Racing Dieringer this MORNING NEWS White Sox Win Dobuleheader PITTSBURGH 2 THE LORENCE MORNING NEWS THURSDAY AUG 29 1963 rom Cleveland 4 9 At CC Today Troffers Race rf If 1963 Chevrolet if 1963 Mercury 1963 Mercury In heavily favored Speedy nipped Speedy Scot by a Oliver Homers Leads Braves Past Colts 9 1 romp over the In Darlington Record Club If Clayton 27 3 5 3 WON EIGHT STRAIGHT broke the to qualify came Mota three 2 2 two nail Hamble trotters the sec 3 0 0 1 3 0 0 1 5 3 0 8 0 antics of inventive Scot won the second 1:580 and lorlis was by three fourths of a The Darling back from Tues of events as drivers pre the grueling the 1 mile 2 2 1 3 1 0 3 0 0 4 with red and were 7 9 10A 1U4 11W 30 37 pitched a bril for the Braves 3 1 8 0 2 0 1 0 3 1 2 2 Maye cf lf Bolling 2b Aaron rf Mathews If Cline rf Torre Oliver lb Menke 3b McMillan Cloninger rd 3b QUALIIERS 1963 ord 133 ATLANTIC CITY tfl When Johnny Sellers led the na jockeys in 1961 he equalled the American record of riding eight stright winners at the Atlantic City track He won the last three races on Oct 3 1961 and the next day won with his first five mounts ss ab bi 4 0 0 0 4 110 4 12 0 2 0 0 1 4 0 11 4 0 10 3 0 0 0 3 111 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 31 3 back Danny Donovan will move the ball as they did last fall when they gained 2902 yards The trouble last year was that the op position gained 2824 Davidson Coach Bill Dole will greet about 45 varsity candidates including 15 lettermen in the Wild initial practice The problem which must' be solved is the ap parent lack of a proven punter The averaged just 308 yards per kick last season and it hurt One letterman halfback Tom Worrall is out for the season with a bad knee Southern 500 pre race activities get into full swing Thursday at lorence Country Club as Joe Bumann PGA trick shot expert extraordinary and South Carolina amateur champion Billy Womack team against lorence touring pro Randy Gioveer and lorence Coun try Club golf professional Grant Bennett in an 18 hold exhibition match Bumann a veteran of the tour None of the three teams open ing drills Thursday figures to be come a conference terror though both urman 4 6 last year and Davidson (3 5 1) should be im proved Richmond (6 3) could be the equal of the 1962 Spider squad despite several key losses Richmond will have 53 candi dates including a bumper 21 let termen urman where candidates turned out Tuesday for physical exams will go to work with 48 varsity hopefuls 17 of them letter men and 24 of them sophomores The big problem aside from finding another white horse to replace the mascot that died in the off season is developing a de fense to go with a powerful of fense The Paladins equipped with the likes of Elliott Keller and John Cook and a dandy new quarter ab bi 4 0 10 Aparicio ss 4 0 0 0 Snvder II 3 0 0 0 Powell 2 0 10 Saverine ci 3 0 0 0 Orsino 3 0 0 0 Gentile lb 3 0 0 0 Brandt rf 3 111 Robinson 3b 1 0 0 0 Adair 2b 1 0 0 0 Pappas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 28 1 3 1 Totals Cloning'er 9 8 arrell 10 11 Umhncht Landes 2:01 6695 ing his so Buddy into member ship of the organization of racing experts The speaker of the evening was the "Toy himself Mickey Walker who held both the welter weight and middleweight boxing crowns during his long and color ful career Walker who retired from the Southern Loop Squads Open Early Grid Practice MECHANICS WORK HARD ON JOE WEATHERLY'S CAR Little Joe Was One of Casualties of irst Qualifying Day cf McCraw lb Robinson Ward 3b ox 2b Nicholson Hansen ss Carreon Pizarro By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The next sound you hear in the Southern Conference will be the slap of shoulder pad against shoulder pad and the familiar thump of foot against football Pre season practice began Thursday at Richmond urman and Davidson the three confer ence colleges which get the jump on the rest of the nine team league by opening their schedules Sept 14 All other conference teams start drils Sept 21 through the athletes will be around a couple of days earlier at most stops for the in evitable physical examinations and picture snapping The Sept 14 openers both night games find Davidson visiting ur man for a conference skirmish and Richmond entertaining East Carolina which an SC mem ber yet but hopes to be soon Nelson Stacy 1963' ord 131982 Buck Baker 1963 Chevrolet 131797 Not qualifying but breaking the previous record: Richard Petty 1963 Plymouth 131147 Billy Wade 1963 Dodge 131169 Tiny Lund 1963 ord 130926 Jim Paschal 1963 Plymouth 130 667 (Aguirre 12 11) Boston (Monbouquctte 178) at New York (Williams 7 4 or Downing 10 4) Chicago (Herbert 119) at Cleveland (Kra lick 10 13) night Minnesota (Stange 74 and Perry 9 9 or Pleis 3 1) at Washington (Daniels and Osteen 710) 2 Only games scheduled nament trail for a number of years and an ourstanding golfer is sometimes better known for his clowning trick shots and "out golf clubs 5 Glover who had an outstanding amateur career before turning professional two years ago re cently captured his first tourna ment in the pro ranks when he won the Knoxville Open The exhibition match will take place at 9:30 am Thursday with a special tirck shot exhibition by Bumann following at 6 pm prior to the allstaff press party at lorence Country Club Golfing fans from all around the Pee Dee are especially invited to be on hand to witness both event ollowing the afternoon exhibi tion members of the press from all over the United States who are in town to report the Labor Day Classic at Darlington Raceeway will havee a chance to meet the golfers at the special entertain ment in the Country Club dining room New York errors and added more runs in the eighth to down the victory Cardwell who at one time season had a 3 9 record struck out seven Mets as he chalked up his sixth straight victory this month for a 13 12 record over all He needed ninth inning relief help from Roy ace when the Mets collected three hits and one of their runs The Mets had two on and one out when ace came on but the little reliever fanned Joe Chris topher and Duke Carmel to end the threat NEW YORK ring in 1935 was long associated with the fabulous sporting promo ter Jake (Doc) Kearns and kept the audience in continual laughter while he described the one of most showmen Names like Durante and Jackson the Prince of Wales Texas Guinan and many other re membered names of another day dropped rom the lips of the grizzled but still athletically built boxer The audience consisting mostly of visiting press from around the country were presented copies of autobiography which out lines his interesting and exciting career Three new members were in ducted Wednesday into one of auto most exclusive clubs as Buddy Baker Larry Thomas and Emanuel Zervakis became the latest editions to the Pure Darling ton Record Club at a banquet at the lorence VW club The new members along old members Rex White Lorenzen Richard Petty Glenn (ireball) Roberts honored for their efforts in the 1962 version of the Darlington rac ing classic Before outgoing president Buck Baker handed over the reins to the newly elected Richard Petty he had the pleasure of presenting the award and personally inducted Houston night Won 78 73 72 72 70 70 66 67 4941 BALTIMORE ab bi 4 0 0 0 mo 4 0 10 0 0 0 5 2 0 10 3 0 0 0 3 111 2 10 0 3 112 3 0 10 DU QUOIN Ill (AP) Speedy Scot the 2 5 unofficial favorite rallied after a first heat loss to lorlis and captured the tonian for 3 year old Wednesday by sweeping ond and third heats In taking the decisive third mile the Castleton arm's pow erful colt driven by Ralph Bald win to his first Hambletonian tri umph in 13 starts was timed in 1:58 2 5 lorlis owned by Arden Home stead Stable and piloted by 60 year old Harry Downall was sec ond after a vain attempt to over haul the Scot Speedy heat in second I length lorlis head in the record smashing first heat with a blazing time of 1:57 3 fastest by any 3 year old trotter either in competition or against the clock only The fastest field in Hamble tonian history proved itself in the first two heats when 10 of the 14 starters were clocked under two minutes The combined winning times of 5:54 established a world record for a divided three heat aggre gate The old record was 5:581 5 set in 1948 at Du Quoin Totals Grounded out for Walker Called out on strikes for Wynn in 8th Chicago 231 000 Cleveland 000 000 Ramos Alvis Brown Hershberger PO Chicago 27 7 Cleveland 2740 Carreon McCraw Ward and Carreon Chicago 10 Cleveland 3 3 8 3 Gorman ER BB SO 1 7 xLos Angeles San rancisco St Louis Philadelphia xMilwaukec xCincinnati xPittsburgh Chicago xHouston xNew York Does not include BASEBALL By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 4 Boston 1 Detroit 2 Los Angeles Baltimore 3 Kansas City 1 Chicago 8 3 Cleveland 34 twi night Only games scheduled ab hi 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 10 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 3 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 0 31 1 3 1 ER BB SO 5 2 0 0 2 2 0 0 Darlington Leads Series By 2 1 Edge DARLINGTON ton Rebels came 10 7 defeat at the hands of the Whiteville Leafs Wednesday as they edged the Leafs in the third game of the series 8 7 at Darling Williamson Athletic ield The win gave the Rebels a 2 1 lead over the Whiteville team in the best of five series to deter mine the championship of the Border Belt League The teams will meet for the fourth game of the series Thurs day in Whiteville at 8 If a fifth game should prove neces sary both clubs will journey to Dillon where the game will be played on neutral territory Adair Lau ER BB SO 3 0 0 1 PITTSBURGH (AP) Don Card well backed by Roberto Clemen two run homer and a leaky New York defense gained his lOtb triumph in the last 13 decisions Wednesday night as Pittsburgh downed the Mets 7 2 blast his 13th in the third with Manny aboard Pittsburgh scored unearned runs in the fifth on two 0 2 5 7 2 2 2 0 0 orman Maye Cloninger IP 9 8 1 Sudol RED Here He Clowns Beside His Car After Qualifying at Record Speed (Morning News photo by Sonny Smith) Lost Pct Behind 52 59 60 61 62 65 63 64 83 89 night Totals Lined out for Lillis in 8th Singled for arrell in 8th Milwaukee 020 000 9 Houston 000 000 Bateman Mathews PO A Milwau kee 27 4 Houston 2741 Bolling and Oliver Milwaukee 4 Houston 4 Maye Aaron Oliver 2 Spangler Menke Aaron HOUSTON (AP) Gene Oliver belted a grand slam and a two run homer Wednesday night powering streaking Braves to a 9 1 Houston Colts Tony Cloninger liant three hitter as they won for the 13th time in their last 16 games and closed out their season series against Hous ton with a 13 5 record MILWAUKEE HOUSTON ab bl 4 12 1 Spangler ci 5 110 Runnels 2b 3 0 12 Wynn If 3 10 0 Bateman 1 0 0 OStaub lb 4 2 2 0 Warwick 4 2 2 4 0 10 Lillis ss i 4 1 1 0 a Weekly 3 110 arrell bSmith Umbricht 35 9 11 9 Total 600 553 545 541 530 519 512 i5H 371 315 games GAMES Philadelphia (Boozer 2 2 or (Culp 11 10) at Chicago (Ellsworth 18 17) San rancisco (Pierce 3 9 or Bolin 8 4) at Los Angeles (Koufax 19 5) night New York (Craig 320) at Pittsburgh (Schwall 6 9) night Only games scheduled IP 8 16 4 2 3 3 1 3 8 1 3 2 3 2 3 2 0 3 7 0 2 NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia 8 Chicago 7 San rancisco 5 St Louis 3 Cincinnati at Los Angeles night New York at Pittsburgh night Milwaukee at Big Weekend Starts Tonight By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The biggest stock car racing weekend of the season in the Car olinas begins Thrusday night with a 100 lap modified sportsman championship at Columbia Speed way and end until Mon day with the 14th annual South ern 500 at Darlington In between 10 other area tracks offer a full schedule the Grand National pare their cars for 500 mile grind over Darlington International Raceway Hickory Speedway promoter Grafton Burgess has managed to lure three late model Junior Johnson Ned Jarrett and Jimmy for a a match race riday night They will drive late model sportsman racers The riday program includes qualifying runs for a 125 1 a "Ladies sportsman event Saturday expected to be another duel between track point leader Don Tilley of Huntersville and runnerup Pete Stewart of States ville Tilley regained he point lead from Stewart by winning last double point 200 lap race Tilley also leads Stewart six to five in victories A $2500 purse is at stake Lee Roy Yarbrough is expected to drive the 1963 Pontiac powered Studebaker in which he won the Daytona 250 mile modified race the Thursday night 100 lapper at Columbia The $2000 purse also is expected to attract Dink Widen house of Concord Earl Moss of Creedmoor and Ralph Earnhardt among others Tommy Eskew of Shelby is list ed as the driver to beat in ri day hobby feature at Ruth erford County airgrounds' at or est City Other riday programs include a 100 lap double point modified championship at Anderson Speed way and 105 laps of late model hobby competition at York Clover Speedway where drivers are try ing for position in second annual Carolinas Quarter mile Champion ship Sept 6 and 7 Greenville Pickens Speedway has a 100 lap limited sportsman feature and a 20 lap late model hobby race Saturday night with about 35 drivers expected Rambi Speedway at Myrtle Beach closes its season Saturday night with the fifth annual Dixie 66 modified sportsman race with Widenhouse the defending cham pion and drivers expected from six states Eskew who won last Race of Champions ot Shelby will lead the field of Hobby Rac ing Association drivers for a 60 lap final at Shelby Speedway Saturday night The Hobby Ra6ing Association drivers move to Harris Speedway Sunday with Preston Humphries of Shelby favored Jackson Bauta Hook Cardwell 13 12 ace HBP By Cardwell (Hunt) Card well Secory Pelekoudas Pryor 2:48 6123 Pirates Top Mets by 7 2 8(h Struck out for isher in 9th Chicago 001 002 Cleveland 001 000 006 1 None PO Chicago 2741 Cleve land 27 11 Chicago 6 Cleveland 6 McCraw Hershberger ox ran cona Donovan McCraw Max well ER BR SO 1 0 3 0 ish PURE DARLINGTON RECORD CLUB HEARS BOXING GREAT rom left: Outgoing president Buck Baker Mickey Walker New President Richard Petty (Morning News photo by Bowers) 3 New Members Inducted Golf Match Slated avorite Grabs Hambletonian IP isher 7 8 8 Brosnan 1 Donovan 10 11 8 Bell 1 By isher (rancona) er Carrigan McKinley Chylak Hiller 2:16 7777 New York 24 14 Pittsburgh 27 10 Brand and Logan Bailey Mazeroski and Clendenon New York 8 Pittsburgh 5 Brand mente CIGARETTES Reg King ilter AT ALL XHtC Super Stations No Get All You Want CLEVELAND (AP) Juan Pi zarro and Eddie isher pitched the Chicago White Sox to 8 3 and 3 1 victories over the Cleveland Indians in a twi night doublehead er Wednesday Young Tom Mc Craw and veteran Nellie ox each drove in four runs for the Sox irst Game CHICAGO CLEVELAND ab bi 5 0 0 OReld 2b 5 12 3 Brown ss 4 2 10 Davalillo cf 5 2 2 0 Adcock lb 5 1 3 3 Alvis 3b 4 0 10 Azcue 5 0 11 rancona 4 1 2 OTasby rf 4 10 0 Ramos Walker aDelaHoz Wynn bKindall Allen 41 8 12 7 Totals Snider Hunt HR CIe 133648 Speed Breaks Record for Qualifying By JIM LITTLEJOHN Morning News Sports Editor DARLINGTON earless reddie Lorenzen came close to pushing the accelerator through the floorboard of his ord Wednesday at Darlington Raceway as he turned in a four lap speed of 133648 mph to win the pole position for Southern 500 and established a new track record Lorenzen leaped into the qualify ing fray after Junior Johnson had already bested the 133 mark with a 133414 mph and after several other drivers had bested the exist ing record of 130246 set last year by ireball Roberts Lorenzen had been the heavy favorite to takethe 1963 pole especially after posting a 132 plus time in practice runs Roberts pole winner for the past four years ran some fast practice rounds Wednesday but chose not to enter the competition which set the first eight places for race Johnson won the number two spot driving a 1963 Chevrolet and was the only other driver to best the 133 mph mark A surprise to many considering his change of cars just a week ago was Mighty Joe Weatherly who won the third position in his '63 Mercury with a sped of 132 770 Weatherly winner of the Rebel 300 last May was followed by Bobby Johns Marvin Panch Nelson Stacy Darrel and Buck Baker our other drivers record in attempting but failed to make the top eight positions They were Richard Pet ty Billy Wade Tiny Lund and Jim Paschal Wade a rookie this year was the first to set a new record hit ting 131169 in a 1963 Dodge in the j'irst time trail of the afternoon The Airlift Race following the trials pitted the eight qualifiers in a four lap heat which Lorenzen also took with a speed of 132 flat The other drivers finished in the exact order in which they qualifi ed Lorenzen and Johnson battled for the lead from the flag through the second turn with their fenders pressing each other in an attempt to force each other back Lorenzen finally gained the front position as they came out of the second turn but had to run fast all the way to prevent being overtaken by Johnson The second eight positions will be filled in trials Thursday and an other eight on riday The remain der of the positions will be filled on Saturday A' total of 32 cars have reported in thus far with the deadline less than 48 hours away A field of 44 is expected to be ready for the race on Mon day red Lorenzen 648 Junior Johnson 133414 Joe Weatherly 132770 Darel Dieringer 132716 Bobby Johns 1963 Pontiac 132 565 Marvin Panch 1963 ord 132335 LORENZEN READY TO GO IN MONDAY'S SOUTHERN 500 Birds Top KC BALTIMORE (AP) Some runs by Jack Brandt and Jerry Adair the' only hits off Kansas City start Baltimore to a 3 1 victory Wednes day night behind the three hit pitching of Milt Pappas KANSAS CITY Tartabull cf Causey Siebern lb Jinenez If Lumpe 2b Charles 3b Cimoll rf Lau aHarrelson Wyatt Bowtfield bEssegian Totals Grounded out for Wickersham in 6th ouled out for Bowsfield in 9th Kansas City 00 001 Baltimore 030 000 3 None PO Kansas City 24 9 Balti more 27 14 Siebern and Causey Adair and Gentile Kansas City 1 gsaitimore 3 Jimenez Brandt IP Wick'sham 10 12 5 Wyatt 2 Bousfleld 5 1 Pappas 3 8 9 Runge DiMuro Stevens Smith 147 5256 rtv llbvC I 1 A 1 I 'wiM'' 1 1 1 Jr 1' 11 1 lll'JJ 1 4 I'il'ii rr j' '''ililfefc rf Bld Jttl Be rf'li d'B'SH MHI rf ssdirfrfSrfM rfrf I tf''1'1'7 i rf rf rd" a j3 rfe I rf' i I ifcifeii fa 81 TiiTrf eV I A ni id I HliiB HHi i'iitrf 11 'ffl i Jll I Mrf rf rf1 1 Irf'n If 1 4 Ik ikiiil" 1 ar (standings) ig '5r 've'r a 'ay twL J' ai Won Lost PU Behind New York 86 46 651 Chicago 74 58 561 12 Minnesota 72 58 554 13 Baltimore 73 61 545 14 Detroit 63 66 488 2U4 Cleveland 64 71 474 23 Boston 62 70 470 24 Los Angeles 60 74 448 27 Kansas City 58 73 443 Washington 48 83 366 37Wi GAMES Los Angeles (Newman 1 3) at Detroit ab bi ab bl Carmel cf 5 0 0 0 Brand 4 12 0 Hunt 2b 3 110 Mota If 3 2 0 0 Snider rf 3 0 2 0 Clemente rf 4 13 3 Thomas If 4 0 11 2b 4 12 2 Harkness lb 4 12 0 lb 3 10 0 Hickman 3b 4 0 1 0 Bailey 3b 2 0 0 Coleman 3 0 0 0 Virdon cf 4 0 0 1 aGonder 1 0 0 0 Logan ss 4 0 10 Moran ss 1 0 0 0 Cardwell 4 10 0 bllicks 10 11 ace 0 0 0 0 Jackson 2 0 0 0 Bauta 10 0 0 Hook 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Totals 33 2 8 2 Totals 32 7 8 fl Grounded out for Coleman in 9th Singled for Moran in 9th Struck out for Hook in 9th New York 000 001 Pittsburgh 002 030 02x 7 Hickman Coleman Hunt PO ox McCraw Tasby Pizarro Adcock IP ER BB SO Pizarro 16 8 9 6 3 2 1 10 Ramos 6 7 1 L3 4 5 3 1 0 Walker 4 13 4 1 1 0 4 2 1 0 0 1 Allen 1 3 2 2 2 1 Haller Carrigan McKinley Chylak 2:07 Second Game CHICAGO CLEVELAND ab bi ab bl cf 4 0 1 0 rancona If 3 0 10 McCraw lb 3 13 1 Brown ss 3 0 0 0 lf 4 0 0 0 Davalillo cf 4 0 10 Ward 3b 4 13 0 Alvis 3b 4 0 10 ox 2b 4 0 11 Romano 4 0 0 0 Maxwell If 3 0 0 1 Whitfield lb 4 0 0 0 Landis cf 0 0 0 OHeld 2b 3 0 0 0 Hansen ss 4 0 0 0 Kirkland rf 3 0 0 0 Martin 4 0 0 0 Donovan 2 111 isher 2 10 0 aTasby 10 0 0 bCarreon 10 0 OBell 0 0 0 0 Brosnan 0 0 0 0 Totals 33 3 8 3 Totals 31 1 4 1 Called out on strikes for Donovan in CTO.