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sr- T1IC STATE Columbia 5 September 29 1960 3-D What A Way To End A Career! everyone knows by now you Just can't upstage Ted Williams no matter how Important your story is (AP Umpire Ed Hurley panel second from right congratulates Ted in the dressing room And over shadowed by it all was the return next season of Jackie Jensen to the Red Sox (right panel) Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey (right) welcomes Jensen back in the fold after a retirement Jensen made the announcement Wednesday But his retirement is official the history books will record his homer in the class of the famed Babe Ruth fence-pointing shot In the left panel Williams with head bowed and voice choked with emotion says good-bye to the fans in a pre-game ceremony The 42-year-old slugger hits his 521st homer as a career finale in the panel second from the left Ted Williams one of the greatest hitters the game of baseball has ever known bowed out Wednesday at Fenway Park In Boston In typical Williams dramatically Already a legend Williams a man with an uncanny flair for the dramatic slashed a 450-foot homer in his last time at bat in basebalL If Williams keeps his word that GREAT OVATION AT FENWAY Tee Moorman Is Lineman Of the Week Duke Fine Play Against USG Earned AP Award Ted Quits After Blasting Homer in His Last At Bat IN THE PRESS BOX IDOL Topical of the fan reaction was that of ex-major leaguer Eddie Pclligrini now baseball coach at Boston College "I had to come Pellegrini said "This guy has given me more thrills than anyone in Williams narrowly missed another hone run In the fifth inning His line smash was grabbed by right fielder A1 Filarcik at the 380-foot mark leaning against the low barrier in front of the bullpen Ted also drew a walk on tour pitches scored on a sacrifice fly and hit a towering fly to deep center THE FUTl'EE Owner Tom Yawkey recently made retirement official announcing Ted will be a batting instructor at the 1161 spring training camp and will then assume duties best suited to his talents in the Red Sox had to say Boston with the greatest owner in baseball and foe greatest fans in America" KEEPS HEAD BOWED During the introductory remarks and presentations which included $1000 tar favorite charity (Jimmy Fund for cancer research) Williams kept his head bowed crushing his cap in the hands and wrists which have produced foe smooth hone run swing which is his trademark While the fang stood during the 15-minute pre-game testimonial Williams appeared fidgety shuffling on one leg then the other until he took his brief turn at the microphone Boston Mayor John Collins headed the dignitaries Sports-caster Curt Gowriy reviewed some of Williams' achievements and commented: "He can be summed up in me pride Because of it he has worked harder than anyone In baseball to get where he is" A bareheaded nervous Williams spoke his goodbyes to site of his historic batting feats in the 5-4 win over Baltimore A crowd of nearly 10000 braved fog murk and a threat of rain In a farewell tribute The all-time star is signing off with a 313 lifetime batting average and a reputation as foe master of batsmanship In a crowded home plate scene reminiscent of Babe finale at Yankee Stadium Williams 42 took a minute trying to be heard over the uproar then said: FINAL rOKE AT TRESS "Despite the many disagreeable things raid about me by the of the pointing to the press and I help thinking about despite these things my stay in Boston has been the most wonderful thing in my life "If I were asked where I would like to have played I would have BOSTON Ted Williams master of drama to foe last answered a thunderous ovation with a 450-toot home run Wednesday then announced his immediate retirement Previously the 42-yearo-ld Boston slugger had been expected to finish foe season on the road in a weekend series at New Yankee Stadium BIGHT TIME' "I'm convinced quit at the right said Williams in foe dressing room "There's nothing more I can do" Manager Mike Higgins announced it was final game as a player Old No 9 walked to the plate in the eighth inning took a 90-second standing cheer then lashed a 1-1 pitch over the Boston Red Sox bullpen in right center The crowd roared want for another three minutes His 521st career fanner left him 13 behind second place Jimmy Poxx Bosox Lose Then Gain Great Hitter Jack Jensen Ends Ketirement Agrees To Terms lor 1961 BOSTON The Red Sox lost a great hitter and regained a good one Wednesday when Jackie Jensen agreed to return to baseball a few minutes before Ted Williams bade adieu to Boston fans Jensen sitting with pleased Sox owner Tom Yaw-key and Dick O'Connell the club vice president told writers: you know when I announced my retirement last year I said I had personal problems I thought a year away might solve them problems are still there I think I was a bit immature in my thinking That's why I feel like returning to baseball a garni I like and enjoy" HIS EXPLANATION Jensen explained after foe news conference: "I realize now that the problems would have existed no matter what business I happened to be in and I shouldn't have blamed baseball "I still dislike the traveling that will keep me away from my family but other things will compensate for that" Jensen can't be signed official until sometime after Oct 31 The first date bis name can ba reinstated from baseball's voluntarily retired list All the terms have been agreed to by Jensen and Yawkey Jensen also said after the newi conference that until a week ago he changed his mind that he would remain nut of baseball whatever happened ORIGINAL rt RrOSE He came here under an original agreement to assist another retired Red Sox player Sammy White open a bowling alley His trip had been scheduled fot last summer but his West Coast commitments prevented a trip ai that time he said He also disclosed that he cami here with another mission to iiv torcede with American Leaguo President Joe Cronin tor an Oakland group which wants an American league franchise "if Los An-gcles gets he added "is another good reason for my return to the game" Jensen an interest in an Oakland restaurant and also is concerned in a real estate development at Lake Tahoe Nev EARNHARDT AFTER NO 15 Columbia Stock Car Season Will Close Tonight By Hie Associated Claude (Tee) Moorman Duke end set an Atlantic Coast Conference record by catching 11 forward passes against South Carolina last wck For this accomplishment the 212-pound senior from Miami was named the lineman of the week Thursday by The Associated Press Moorman a pre-med student and president of the Duke senior class play the last six garnet of 1959 because of a knee injury But he was in great form against South Carolina He taxed one touchdown and gained 122 yards with his 11 catches The calibre of end play was high everywhere and the boys on foe wing drew most of the nominations from sports writer and broadcasters Joe Haris of Purdue contributed mightily to the Boilermakers holding UCLA to a tie The 174-pound sophomore from Williamsport Pa made numerous tackles in addition to two spectacular pass catches one good for a TD Gerald Burch of Georgia Tech helped preserve a Tech victory by intercepting a pass that halted Rice's last drive He made 10 tackles most in key situations and his punting helped keep foe Enginers out of trouble Scott Maentz of Michigan helped stop Oregon with numerous tackles ami recovered two enemy fumbles against Washington A couple of Mark Man-ders of Iowa and Nick De Pola of Notre drew praise Glanders led foe Hawkeye defense which beat Oregon State The 219-pounder from Des Moines three times spilled Oregon State runners for 10-yard losses His defensive play kept the Beavers off balance all afternoon DePoIa a 210-pound soph from Portage Pa scoreda TD for the Irish by stealing foe ball as Jerry Scattini was about to quick-kick from foe Cal 8 The nominations included: Joe Haris Purdue Gerald Burch Georgia Tech Scott Maentz Michigan Claude Moorman Duke Arnold Davis Baylor Jim Davidson Idaho Fired Mauti-no Syracuse Tackles Larry Eisehhauer Boston College A1 Vanderbush Army Mark Manders Iowa Nick DePoIa Notre Dame Bill Laughlin Texas Amie Martin Texas Christiaiw Cody Zinkley Vanderbilt Larry Onesti Oklahoma Cousin Frank of the Hills of Howard was not as gay Wednesday afternoon as you woulda thought The Baron's Tigers knocked off feared Wake Forest 28-7 in the opener last Saturday at Winston-Salem Virginia Tech and Virginia are the next two opponents Maybe it was the rain pouring into the hills thatmadeOld Howard sound glum at times Maybe he just want to be interrupted in the early afternoon by a telephone call from Penland Anyhow offense didn't do too much The running offense I mean Our passing was OK but we blocking enough the linemen or the backs Our backfield as fast as like it to How about Bill McGuirt the halfback from Lancaster selected as the pre-season sophomore of the year in the nation by the respected Saturday Evening Post? like I said our running offense much but that McGuirt did (pretty good on pass defense If we mess up in the next two games Coiuv Frank them wiU some good experience and maybe have a halfback problem after all Now we taking that Virginia Tech game Saturday lightly We spent two weeks getting ready for Wake Forest and now we got to undo all that coaching which was for a loose defense and get back to a tight The Cleimoni reported Cousin Frank "didn't have enough punch against Wake Forest That might sound crazy with us scoring 28 points but our offense didn't please 'Course I'm a hard man to Was there nothing on a rainy day in the hills to bring the trace of a smila to the round face of the veteran coach? "Yeah you can say I feel lots better about them Tigers than I aid two weeks ego That first two weeks in September is tough I got to bo reel mean to get 'em In shape I got to 'drive end I don't like to but I got Joe Anderson sophomore quarterback from Greenwood) surprised me He handled tnat second unit well he threw well end played good defense" Cousin continued: of the boys came out of the Wake Forest game in good shape Wade Hall (soph tackle from Winnsboro) hurt his ankle and play this week and three or four other boys working out right now Let me tell you about this Wade Hall He just seem to care much for football last spring but he came back in September and he came to play He worked up from sixth-string to second string tackle before the Wake Forest game and now he looks like a good It was suggested that the Clemsons will he stronger than last year and the suggestion brought a snort from the Baron: thinking about next year thinking Virginia And then you could feel that smile coming through your end of the telephone: we got at least two good quarterbacks on that freshman squad and some good ends and guards and centers help us out be At which point Cousin bid Penland a rudely concise adieu and got back to thinking Virginia Tech as a springboard to the national title But tonight Earnhardt will have his work cut out for him Heading the list of challengers will be Homer Galloway of Hartsville who finished second to Earnhardt last week Stick Elliott of Kings Mountain and Bob Hun-sucker of Charlotte two drivers who have managed to defeat Earnhardt here this year will be ready for tonight's NASCAR sanctioned program Race Director and Columbia Speedway Owner Charlie Sellers said this will be the last event of the 1960 season promoters and track operators plan to run on up to he raid you lode at the statistics you'll find no one has ever made any money running after the first of October It gets too add and people lose interest It would be fitting for Ralph Earnhardt to close the 1960 Columbia racing season with his 13th local victory But the national limited sportsman champion from Kannapolis is going to get an argument from the rest of the drivers in the field of 20 expected for foe four-race program tonight at the Columbia Speedway The mH-spoken Earnhardt has won 11 out of 17 feature races here this season setting a local track record as well as a NASCAR record for half-mile dirt trafks In winning his second straight national title Earnhardt has won well over 50 races this season on tracks around the Carolina His remarkable record has put him in a class all by himself Several times this season he won as many as 12 straight races Diving the past two seasons he has used foe local dirt raceway Ted Helps Beat Orioles In Last Game BOSTON Ted Williams slammed a 450-foot homer in his last time at bat In baseball as the Boston Rol Sax closed their home season with a 5-4 victory over foe Baltimore Orioles Wednesday Immediately after the game Williams announced he will not play in the Red last throe games of the I960 that his retirement from baseball was effective at once It was his 2'Jth of foe year and foe 521st of his illustrious frequently interrupted career Before foe game he was honored by civic officials and received lengthy applause Every time he came to bat he was cheered and applauded He walked the first time to the boos of the fans for starting Baltimore pitcher Steve Barber The second time up Williams hit a tong fly to the center fielder His third time up Williams stroke a lofty fly to right as foe tens howed But Pilarcik outfielder backed up to the bullpen 380 feet from the plate and hauled in the drive Then in the eighth inning with foe count 1-1 he smashed foe last homer of his career at Fenway Park Die fans chanted want Williams" as play was delayed folly throe minutes He didn't come out of the dug out until the Sox took the field for foe ninth inning Then he received another groat ovation As soon as the applause died he was replaced by Carroll Hardy and in typical fashion hurried from foe field to another long loud cheer TIME OUT! People try it and they like it lost money last week but had a fine field of cars and a good race That football game (Brookland-Cayce vs Eau Claire) knocked our attendance way dawn "But I believe there will be a good crowd tor the race Thursday because it's the last one of the year" NASCAR Chief Steward Pete Keller who is the flagman for all the local races said he knows of at least three new faces who will be here to drive tonight Tlmmonsville drivers Johnson and Bobby Weatherly plus old Louis Weathers bee of Charleston will be Keller said He added that he be a hit surprised to see one of these drivers beat Earnhardt The man who would give his steering wheel to clobber Earnhardt is Bobby Issac the little Newton driver Issac has whipped his old partner at several North Carolina tracks but has never been able to do it here this year As one driver said last week can be beat But the people here in Columbia have nefar really had this proven to them It may Just happen next week" The comic surprise of last rare was the appearance of Andy (Big Boy) Smith a local service station onertor It was the big 6-6 280-pounds) first race and his car suffered with mechanical troubles But Big Boy gamely held on and rode around the Inside of the track He feels he will have the car ready this week Big Boy says he wants to get out on the real race track for a change The first heat event starts at 8:30 and will bn followed by another ten-lap heat race the 15-lap consolation and the 35-lap feature Admission to the program will be 5150 Servicemen in uniform and with ID cars will be admitted for 99 cents The Columbia Speedway is located Just off the Charleston Highway in Cayce SCOREBOARD NATIONAL LKAGUI CMcogo I San Fronciico 1 MilwoulM 9 3 night St Loui at Let Anqelai night Only aamm chndulid AMERICAN LEAGUE So i ton 5 Baltimore 4 New York i Waihingtan I night Koniai City 4 Clovoiand 0 right Only garnet tcheduled BOSTON Gwm li Taby tf William Hard If Pool ronl a Maixon 3b Clinton rf Oila 1b 380 0 4 10 1 3 3 11 0000 3 030 3000 3001 4 000 BALTIMORE itrtU Brandt (f S00II PHoreik rl 4 0 10 RoboiMn 3b 4 I 1 6 Gcntii lb 3 111 Triandot a Hanwrt S-npton If Brd-ng 3b 3 0 6 aWeodlrg 10 0 1 Standings Couahtry 3b 3 I 3 0 Muffttt 3 0 0 0 cNixon 10 0 0 Farnia 0 0 0 0 dWrf I 0 I 0 Brmnr 0 10 0 Total Mill bPMrwn K'aut 3b Barbr F'lhr TMli oooe 1000 oooo 4 000 34 4 9 NATIONAL LEAGUE Wen Lett Pet Behind F-PlayH nnht none AMERICAN L1AGUE Hit Into force play for BrMdng hi ithi Ran for Wood'ing in Mb: Grounded inta doubi play for Muftatt in 7-hi Doub'ed fo Form: in 9th Ran far Wrti In 9th Balttniro ON 911 000-4 OriMn 300 000 013-0 Coughfry Ba mer 10-0 12 out when winning run cored! Baton 7MJ Ktaui Hanion o-d Balturoro 0 Bciroo 7 S--chni Pnb'tan Wr- Tnanae William Clinton Gmtn IP (RBBSO Ba-b- 13 0 2 3 3 0 Fhr (I 12-11) 110 4 3 2 I I Mufiit 7 9 4 4 4 Fomta'M 10-51 3 0 0 0 2 By Barter (Pagttaront) WP An auld acquaintance in York tells us that the state prep championship will be decided October 14 when the Green Dragons of his community take on Clinton at the latter location Also that a real of the will take place Friday at York between John Johnson of Winnsboro and York's Jack Adkins Dick Elliott of Ocean Drive writes in word of sympathy to you and the Gamecock supporters After the sports predictions of last games hope you and your staff will not fail to realize that (Please turn to Page 4D) You'll like it toot Brewed in the South UlUBO UrVMI Ml a HUiUat Mary Lyon founder and first principal of Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley Mass would not accept a salary larger than S200 She was determined to keep costs tow followed your suggestion Doc and took up golf now can you give me something for nervous fatigue strained muscles sore feet poison Ivy sunburn and the name of a good.