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WEDNESDAY, TONE 9, (AWt PAGE EL1TBH The First Trip Even Flatbush Avenue Doesn't Faze Alston By JIMMY BRESLFN NEA Staff Correspondent NEW YORK (NEA) The apartment where Walter Alston stays, when he isn't on the road with the Dodgers, is two blocks from Flatbush Ave- liue, the Broadway of Brooklyn. You would expect that Alston, the country guy from little Darrtown, 0., would be little strange in this setting. jAlmost as strange as managing the big leagues must seem this soft-spoken man who spent all his baseball life Jn such places as. Portsmouth, Trenton, St. Paul and Montreal.

But it hafint been this way for Brooklyn manager. Alston, in a gray pa jama shirt and was sitting in an easy chair his living room and saying that, Jaio, his-first whirl around the Na- sftional League had been just about he had expected. His first month as manager of -Jthe defending National League had been a rough one, key injuries 4 making the big bumps, but ton's team had through, in style. I When he had over the Jclub. he was told a Pee Wee Reese, Jackie Ko- Ibinson and Roy ICampanella were heart of the fDodgers.

All three -Iwere out during fthe club's first Walter Alstott western trip. Alston, making line-up changes as he went, brought the 4 team home" on top. 7' EVEN THIS DOESN'T surprise him Nor do the five trees on the his apartment is on. Brooklyn. you see, is not supposed to have trees.

"3 "This whole league is tough this he observed. "We saw some good power in Cincinnati, St. Louis £and Chicago and ran into some hot i pitching in Philadelphia. We rate Milwaukee tough. The Giants? They extra tough to me," the big manager said.

"The baseball isnt' any different. I didn't expect it to be. The whole thing is to know your club. The longer you have 'em the better you know them and that's important. "Now, you take a game in Philadelphia we had.

First two men got on base and the batter we had up isnt' a good bunter. The situation sure called for the bunt, but I had him. hit away. Well, he bangs into Baseball Brooklyn 30 19 .612 New York 29 20 .592 1 Philadelphia 26 21 .543 3 Milwaukee 25 22 .532 4 St. Louis 25 25 .500 5 Cincinnati 23 25 .479 6 Chicago 21 .447 8 Pittsburgh 16 36 .308 Today's Games Pittsburgh at Cincinnati (N) New York at Milwaukee (N) Brooklyn at St.

Louis (N) Philadelphia at Chicago (2) Tuesday's Results Chicago 6, Philadelphia 5 New York 6, Milwaukee 5 St. Louis 10, Brooklyn 3 Cincinnati 5, Pittsburgh 0 a double play. But I know that man and if I had it to do over again, he'd still be swinging, He just can't bunt. "They tell me the papers wrote a lot about the way I had that Kluszewski walked in Cincinnati when the bases were empty and he was the winning run. There was nothing new about that- I did that in the minors a long time ago." HAVE THE PRESSURES of running a big league winner such as the Dodgers bothered Alston? "You have the same things in the minor fans, all here you have more of it," he said.

"As far as that Sandy Amoros talk went. Amoros was to either stay or be sent to the minors on the basis of what he showed on the field. He hit several balls well that were caught. With a little luck he would have had a high average." Alston's answer was given with school teacher authority. The pressures on him, you could see, were completely subject to his authority.

While his first taste of National League baseball, from a manager's viewpoint, has been strictly old stuff to Alston, his daily letters which pour in from Flatbush baffled him a bit. "I got one note here that a guy beer letterhead paper, probably from some Ing me a deal. The guy says he guarantees'a pennant if I'll let him sit on the bench and make the decisions with me." AMERICAN LBAG17K Pet GB Chicago 16 .690 Cleveland 32 16 1 New York 30 21 .588 4' Detroit 24 28 .511 8' Washington 20 26 .417 13 Boston 18 26 .408 13 Baltimore 18 31 .367 15' Philadelphia 17 32 .347 16! Today's Cleveland at Washington (N) Chicago at Philadelphia (N) Detroit at New York Baltimore at Boston Tuesday's Results Detroit 8, New York 0 Baltimore 7, Boston 4 Chicago 9, Philadelphia 3 Washington 5, Cleveland 1 SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION Pet. GB Atlanta 94 22 .807 Birmingham 36 24 .591 Chattanooga 26 .536 4 New Orleans ..38 29 .491 6M Little Rock 25 29 .463 8 Memphis 25 30 .455 Nashville 22 28 .440 9 Mobile 24 36 407 Tuesday's Results Atlanta 11, Little Rock 2 Memphis 9, Birmingham 7 (ONLY GAMES SCHEDULED) Today's Games Little Rock at Atlanta Memphis at Birmingham Nashville at Mobile (2) Chattanooga at New Orleans MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL American Association Toledo 5, Minneapolis- 4 Indianapolis 6, Charleston Louisville ,3 St. Paul 1 Kansas City at Columbus (-9), postponed.

Texas League Tulsa 14, Houston 3 San Antonio 7, Oklahoma City 4 Fort Worth 7, Beaumont 6 Dallas 8, Shreveport 3 Western League Wichita 10, Sioux City 5 DCS Moines 2, Pueblo 0 Other games postponed. COTTON STATES LEAGUE Pet. GB El Dorado 27 12 .692 rreenville 23 14 .622 3 Meridian 20 20 .500 Hot Springs 16 22 .405 11 Monroe 16 24 400 llVz 'ine Bluff 14 23 .378 12 Tuesday's Results Pine Bluff 13, Greenville 3 El Dorado 10, Hot Springs 1 13, Meridian 1 Today's Greenville at Hot tprings Monroe at Pine Bluff El Dorado at Meridian In 22 years of competition Penn Hall's swimming team has been undefeated 11 times. Kuenn Happy over Yankee Base Hit By JOE REICHLER NEW YORK (AP) The happiest person in Detroit's clubhouse after last night's 8-0 victory over the New York Yankees was Harvey Kuenn, the Tigers' fine young shortstop. Was it because he collected four hits and drove in four runs in his ba.tting show of the season? -Absoluately not.

It was because of a hit made by another a Yankee player at that. Sounds confusing, doesn't it? But it makes sense. No-Hitter 1 For six innings yesterday, Billy Eoeft, young Tiger left-hander, had tamed the Yankees without hit. 'With none out in the seventh, trv Noren hit a sharp grounder past the mound to the left of second base. Kuenn slapped the ball down but couldn't hold it and it went for an infield single, the first by the Yankees.

Then came the eighth. With one out Jerry Coleman connected with a fast ball and lined it left center for a double, the second Yankee hit and the first one that wasn't tainted. They're Roommates That was the hit that made Kuenn so happy. Had Coleman not connected safely, Hoeft would have been deprived of a no-hitter be- causa of the excusable slip by Kuenn- What made it more embarrassing was that Kuenn and Hoeft are roommates and great friends, "I had the ball all the way," said Kuenn- "I was just about to grab it when it took a hop and hit me right on the thumb. I felt so badly I didn't even bother to check the Scoreboard to see whether they gave me an error on the ball or called it a hit.

I would have felt terrible fi that was the play that deprived Billy of a no-hitter." Up Hoeft, who admitted it wai the best game he's pitched all year, said he didn't feel badly when the official scorer called that play a hit. "Sure, I knew that put an end to my no-hit try," he said. "But I didn't feel badly about it. I figured that made up for an out I got earlier. In the second inning, Al Kaline, our right fielder, made a spectacular catch of a liner by Bill Skowron that was labeled base hit all the way." After Ez, What's For Marciano? Answer: Just About Nothing In New Fights By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor NEW YORK (NEA) When Rocky Marciano beat Jersey Joe Walcott to a right hand lead in Philadelphia, Sept.

23, 1952, the new champion was left with only two bona-fide challengers. One was Old Joe himself and he went out of there in a hurry the next time around in Chicago. The other is Ezzard Charles. Ezzard the Gizzard is the only pretender who can be discussed without first applying tongue vigorously to cheek. Roland LaStarza, a nice guy who never got rough enough to be a dangerous fighter, was given the first crack ahead of Charles, but that was strictly a little touch of the highly intricate beak busting business.

LaStarza was given the opportunity on the grounds that he stirred up some little trouble for Vtarciano in their salad days. Then perhaps the International Boxing Club decided that Charles lad his full allotment of whacks at throne room. This is the Cincinnati 38-year-old's fourth chance, giving you a rough idea of just how rapidly bright new heavyweights are developing. In Charles, we have a bloke who, off his talent and record, figures to at least have a Chinaman's chance of outstepping Marciano. Style, the that can give an inferior 'ighter a slight bulge against the best, is the big thing here.

The way to fight Marciano, and come out alive, is to stay in the middle of the ring, move from side side, make the rock thrower miss and counter quickly. Charles is capable of all this and possesses a 3unch stiff enough to cut up the Srockton Block Buster in a set-up such as this. But because of Charles' numerous disappointments, style is about all here is to sell in the scheduled 15- rounder at Yankee Stadium, June 17. The question raised here is what will happen if the strong-armed champion disposes of Charles as expected. Where does he go from here? The answer must be: exactly nowhere.

Past Charles, there isn't a chal- enger who would be taken serious- y- Hurricane Jackson will knock out Nino Valdes at Madison Square rarden, July 21. Don Cockrell was lasted out by Randy Turpin. Jackon was vastly pleasing and slight- phenomenal clubbing Dan Buc- eroni into a state of complete ex- but since then his obvi- us flaws have showed up and you hudder at the wide-open illiterate xposing his chin and midsection to heavy concentrated fire. So it looks like Al Weill will have to take Marciano on a Bum-of-the- Month Club tour, a la Joe Louis, to keep his tiger alive and from eating himself out of the sour science. For until one of the younger fel- I Cardinals End Brooklyn Skein Tune Your Motor AND KEEP IT TUNED Avtllablt at Your Favorite Car Dealer Garage or Ssrvics Station Distributed By John Miles Millor Co.

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lows develops, it seems almost a solid bet that heavyweight championship battles will slip down to nothing more than television-sized turnouts hardly requiring a ball park. To the upcoming engagement, you've got to either be there in person or spend a couple of bucks for theater TV. There is enough public enthusiasm, wrapped around Charles' chance of being the first to regain the heavyweight title, for iiis one to draw. If Rocky Marciano appears in any more title bouts after this one, however, the notion here is that it will be on the video screen, with a iponsor footing the bill. There simply won't be enough people willing to pay cash to have any other way.

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The with slugging Stan Musial belting his 20th homer and a triple to drive in four runs, drubbed Brooklyn's league-leading Dodgers last night, 10-3, to stop the Bums' streak at 10 straight- Stopped Too Earlier this season, the Cardinals stopped a Milwaukee streak at 10 longest in the National League to date. Musial. whose -386 batting average in the league, also leads in homers and runs batted in with 66- The victory also snapped a three-game Cardinal losing streak. Wally Moon also drove in four runs with a triple and three singles, Bill Sarni smashed a double and two singles and Ray Jablonski collected three singles to bring his second-place average to .385. 16 The Cards collected 16 off starter Carl Erskine and Dell, Manila Leaders In Little Delta Dell found itself tied with Manila for top place in the Little Delta Little Lf-ague today- Both teams have identical 2-0 records- Last week.

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