News and Record from Greensboro, North Carolina • 18

Greensboro Daily Newt Sunday Juno 19 I960 Palmer Captures ational Open With inal 65 Jw JU JU 4 1 Anierican League Water Shot On 17th Desire Never Left Me Arnold Palmer i Walked for bropo in Grounded out for Bruce in 5th out for Wise in 7th 3 Maxwell weekend amateur 2 4) race will race Owens working overtin? Yanks Wallop White Sox 12 5 Rifle Into Lead 0 0 1 10 6 3 0 3 1 the best previous 1 4 0 0 2 0 100 020 100 003 5 2 2 1 3 0 5 3 1 0 double hole of 3 Tasby rf Runnels 2b Malzone3b Boonclb Repulski If Hardyrf Buddin ss eThomson fGrecn Sadowski Delock ornielespWilliams 7 0 1 ah bl 2 10 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 10 3 0 10 2 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 photog a cam 18 GT) broke an ii 5 1 2 100 000 000 010 2 In 3 0 2 The turns are banked 24 ds grees 12 degrees less than Daytona 2 mile track All in all the Charlotte Speed way adds up to one of the toughest tests auto race drivers have ever faced ing too many Now winner of over $62000 this in 7 1 7 am out 4 0 7 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Herzoarif RJohns'nss KJnhnsonp Giggle Garver cHamlin Kutynap Totals 301 310 211 12 003 000 5 2 0 0 6 i 6th The Yankees whacked out 19 their high for the season while veterans Skowron Yogi Berra and Mantle drove in nine runs Eli Grba recalled from Rich mond 10 days ago where he had a 7 2 record was the winning pitcher Grba took over for start er Bob Turley in the fourth in ning and pitched hitless ball until the eighth inning when he yielded a two run homer to Roy Sievers While Grba was taming the Sox the Yankees had their big bats working They scored three and currently tops the divi sion's point standings Johns is also rated a top threat if nothing else from his showing in the Daytona 500 when only a spinout on the next to last lap cost him a victory An anticipated crowd of more than 70000 is expected to wit ness a race decided in the pits Woodeshlck (W 3 1) vie'rnner Stohbs Johnson (L Drawing the favorites role Roberts and the other two Pon tiacs nothwithstanding is the Petty Plymouth fleet Lee Petty the grand old man of stock car racing added a third driver this week in Bob by Johns the Miami chauffeur While Lee is the sentimental choice his son Richard is the man tabbed to beat along with ireball Richard only 23 years old has been sensational on the hardtop circuit this season i Generals Get Player Coach The Greensboro Generals of the Eastern Hockey League got a new coach yesterday His name Is Ron Spong and was obtained from Louisville of 'the International Hockey League He will be a player coach or additional details see page 7 this section Starting in the second line will be Cotton Owens of Spar tanburg in a 1960 Pon tiac Ned Jarrett of Newton in a 1960 ord and Johns The third line will have Rex White of Spartanburg in a 1960 Chevrolet Lee Petty and Tom Pistone the fastest qualifier Thursday in a 1960 Chevrolet Infield gates were opened to day at 4 pm and many race fans were expected to camp out for the night inside the huge plant The main grandstand will seat 32000 with the stands on the backstretch seating 9000 Sev eral thousand are expected to Camera Clicked Just As Mike Hit Tee Shot DENVER June 18 Mike Souchak the third round leader who skied to a 75 in the last round of the National Open golf championship today charged an amateur camerman led to his damaging bogey six on the 18th the third round Souchak said the rapher who smuggled era onto the golf course despite rules forbidding one took his picture just as he was about to hit his drive I had on my mind was not to hit into the said Mike I heard the click it definitely bothered me and I pushed the drive out of Officials of the US Golf Assn collared the photog rapher who had wrapped the camera in a shirt and tried to run away He was escorted off the course YORK ab bl 6 10 0 6 13 1 4 2 2 2 5 4 3 1 4 12 3 4 13 4 5 12 0 4 12 1 10 0 0 10 10 3 0 10 Staff Sport Writer CHARLOTTE June Man and machine undertake the most grueling test ever con cocted for a closed track auto race here Sunday with stock car biggest purse as the reward A field of 60 drivers takes the green flag at 12:30 pm for the Vorld a 600 mile Grand National race which marks the debut of the newest race plant the Charlotte Motor Speedway Never before have man and racing equipment been asked to undergo such a task the longest previous closed track race be ing 500 miles in' such classics as the Indianapolis 500 the South ern 500 and the Daytona 500 But the winner Sunday will take home the biggest check in NASCAR history more than $25000 of the $107775 purse plus his share of the $4000 lap money Petty However the past two days workmen have repaired the existing flaws in the 1 mile track and Speed way officials are keeping their fingers crossed for Sunday's i 0 0 2 on the last 14 rivals 282 is the lowest I LINVILLE June 18 CP) The Bristol Tenn team of Jay Baumgardner and Jim Reuning moved Saturday into the finals of the Linville 4 Ball Invitational golf tournament Sunday they'll meet the team of Billy Joe Pat ton and Orin Robbins of Lenoir Baumgardner and Reuning won 5 and 3 over Peter Tuft of Pine hurst and John Pottle of Linville Patton and Robbins won 1 up from Kenneth olkes of Concord and Henry James Jr of Char lotte Patton had the best indi vidual score a two under par 69 over the Linville Golf Club course Amid the ballyhoo of the 400 lap grind world longest stock car have been speculations this week that the World 600 never go the distance Practice runs Wednesday ate up huge chunks of the freshly laid asphalt and caused some drivers to cast doubts about hnishing the BALTIMORE Breed ing 2b Busby cl Brown ICourtney Hansen ns Triandoac Dropolb aGentllelb Robinson 3b Brandt rf1 Doodling If Nicholson If eBoyo Pilarcikrf Estrada Hoeft Stephens cf Totals 3950110 3 950 00 39511 IX) 395OJH) 3950 (M) 393000 I 95000 2 950 00 24000 124000 124000 84000 840 00 63000 63000 47500 47500 475 no 47500 47500 39000 30000 390 00 36750 36750 36750 36750 36000 36000 33000 33000 33000 330 no 33000 3on on 3oo on 300 no 3oo no son on 270 no 27nno 27000 260 on 2finno 260 no 24nOO 240no 210 DO 2 on 210 noH0 no 24000 A CT 2 1 0 0 1 0 ft aced 2 0 0 0 Romanoc 3 0 0 lcoilesc 4 0 0 OiPlersalllf 3 0 0 0 Powerlb 0 0 0 0 ranconalf 0 0 0 0 Heldss 3 0 1 0 dHale 1 0 0 0 Strickland ss 0 0 0 0 Stigman 1 0 0 0 aTemple IbGrant Bowsfield 27 1 1 1 Totals er bh so 3 4 4 2 2 3 2 Kutyna aced three two batter In Williams DP Baldlvfelso Gardner and Becquer Valdivielm and Bccquer Johnson Lumpe and Slebem Washington 4 Kansas City 5 Ber toia Lemon Throneberry Valdlvlelso HR Dobbek 2 Lemon 2:26 6751 KANSAS CITY June 18 ffl Dan Dobbek teed off on Kansas City pitching again tonight hit ting two home runs as the Wash ington Senators defeated the Ath letics 7 2 Dobbek had driven in two runs In the 3 1 conquest of the A's last night Both his homers tonight were off starting and losing pitcher Ken Johnson (2 5) who yielded seven hits and six of the runs four of them unearned WASHINGTON I KANSAS CITV Bertoia Sb Gardner2b Allison rt Lemonlt WTiisenantlt Becquerlb Nara son 2 0 0 0 Ctevenserp 0 0 Slobbsp 10 0 0 be pushed to the limits in this one Just the fact that the distance is 100 miles more than we've ever gone before is tough enough But on top of that the track is completely new and consequently has no rubber on Rex White one of the fa vorites here Sunday observed: onincr 8a fahaL 6v116 uv iuuu un tires the first half of the race You mignt see us pitting every 50 miles or so But the track should get some rubber on it after about 300 miles and be 'able to run farther without a 3 4 4 ireball Roberts the Day tona Beach speed demon toured the track four times Thursday for an average speed of 133906 to grab the pole position with his 1960 Pontiac Lining up with ireball on the front line will be Jack Smith of Atlanta in the middle in a 1960 Pontiac and Speedway President Curtis Turner on the outside in a 1960 ord This line has an average speed of close to 130 miles an hour 4 3 6 5 5 3 3 1 1 5 0 Estrada tHoeft (L 0 1) Brown Burnside Bruce ornipiu4ti tw ii) 4 2 Zaced 2 batters In 6th traced 2 bat ters In 7th Bridges Bolling and Bilko LOB 9 Detroit 5 Busby 3B encnoison hk Hansen Bilko 2:51 A 16274 7 1 71 63 68 67 73 68 283 7D 72 71 71 69 70 2b3 72 69 75 74 70 70 233 711 71 71 72 23 75 61 69 234 69 71 70 71 254 73 70 72 71 286 71 70 73 286 72 72 73 69 286 75 68 69 75 287 73 71 71 287 75 69 72 72 288 72 73 288 73 70 73 74 289 73 73 69 72 69 73 70 72 71 76 289 71 73 74 72 290 72 75 71 72 290 72 73 71 75 71 71 290 72 71 71 73 73 75 70 73 73 73 72 71 76 71 71 72 71 69 292 73 72 79 "ni 70 7 1 76 73 293 73 72 75 73 2'H 75 71 76 203 79 67 76 70 71 75 204 71 72 78 75 71 74 71 71 73 76 294 73 71 73 69 76 73 72 73 78 2IM 77 70 72 76 71 72 78 297 70 6 77 297 74 70 77 72 75 77 71 72 72 73 73 77 72 73 74 70 298 75 72 70 73 94300 73 71 74 Hogan ictimized By ater Hazards Souchak Blows 36 Holc Lead Palmer ires inal 280 Card ab bl 5 13 1 Tuttlecf 5 12 0Lumpe2b 4 10 O' Bauer rf 4 12 2 bSnyderrf 0 0 0 0 Williams 3b 4 0 0 0 Slebernlb 3 2 2 2Daleyc i 4 12 0 Turner Smith and not by speed with the test on tires being tremendous One tire company official re marked during qualifying runs this week: "Cars drivers equipment and tires will all Mantle Maris Skowron Homer Tigers Stop Orioles Tribe Wins CHICAGO June 18 Mammoth home runs by Mickey Mantle Roger Maris and Moose Skowron helped crush the Chicago White Sox 12 5 today and powered the New York Yankees into the American League lead The triumph coupled with Bal 5 3 loss to Detroit lifted DETROIT June 18 (AV Charlie the Yankees into first place two Maxwell after twice fouling off percentage points ahead of the bunt attempts to move two run ners along hammered a three run One of the biggest Questions to be answered is the unique iiumestrercn wmen features two slight bends between the first and fourth turns right in front of the main grandstands That octagon shaped home stretch is banked five de grees with a lot of drifting ex pected as the drivers try to negotiate it (Continued on Page ive) home run that pulled the Detroit Tigers irom behind for a 5 3 vic tory over the Baltimore Orioles today The loss cost the Orioles first place in the American League I me lanxees taking over the top spot by two percentage points The Tigers collected only five hits but three of them were home runs Maxwell hit a pair getting a solo blast off starter Chuck Es trada in the first inning before his game winninn smash in the sixth runs in the first with Berra sin off reliefer Billy Hoeft DETROIT Yost 3 Wisess eCash Bridges ss Maxwell Bilkolt Amor os cf Berberetc Colavitorf Bolling 2b Turley Grba (W Wynn (L 2 6) Rush Bfiumann 0 4 4 0 4 None New York 10 Chicago 7 Skowron Mans Boyer ox HR Mantle Maris Skowron Siev ers Kubek Richardson 3:09 A 20981 BY HAROLD CLAASSEN DENVER June 18 (ZP) Arnold Palmer came from seven strokes off the pace with a 6 under par 65 fourth round today and won the National Open golf title as Ben Hogan faltered on the final two holes in quest of his coveted and unprecedented fifth champion ship Never before in the 60 year history of the Open had a man made up more than five strokes in the final round But today Palmer flamed his way around the seared 7004 yards of the Cherry Hills Country Club for a total of 280 that brought him the title to go with the Masters crown he won in April jjdHner wno mccis 8 ciimicngc as an old friend started the 36 hole windup seven strokes be hind Mike Souchak and in a tie for fifteenth place A one over par 72 in the third round gave no indication of the fireworks ahead After lunch he tore through the first nine of the final round in 30 strokes tying the Open rec ord He tallied six birdies two pars and a bogey Coming home he stayed closer to par as the hardened fairways and greens of the 35 layout alternately lifted and dropped the chances of the others Water Hazards Hogan grim and determined was even with Palmer until the final two holes There the Hawk became the victim of the two water hazards On the seven teenth he put his second into the mud near the moat After knock ing the ball on the green with still a chance for a par he missed a 10 footer On the eighteenth Hogan col 1 lapsed to a three over par seven when he drove into the lake and also encountered the rough and i ab bl 5 12 1 4 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 4 111 5 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 3 010 10 0 OlBurnsidep 2 11 O'Bruceo 10 0 ObChrisley 0 0 0 O'Semprochp i 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 32 3 7 3 ab hl 2 2 10 3 0 10 2 0 11 2 0 0 0 4 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 10 3 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 0 31 2 6 2 ab bl 4 0 0 0 5 12 1 3 10 0 3 1 2 3 4 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 4 0 10 4 111 0 0 0 0 1110 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 33 5 7 5 New Open Champ Says: Thought Course Too 1 DENVER June 18 Even though he was in oth place eight strokes back of the leaders starting the day My desire to win never left Arnold i his blazin? comeback had von him the National Open golf championship 1 knew my winning was a question of playing without ame here by admitting guess Palmer said He fired 1 better read my own book and 13 birdies in the first three brush UP my shoot juunas yet ne was seven strokes behind at 215 nrobablv Xear Palmer takes off with Sam Palmer said Pea rom ew York tomorrow cherry Hills course is a real 10 Iiy t0 Uubin Ireland good golf course and mavbe for the Canada Cup matches next uiaabAAH aunie 01 US thought it was too The 7004 yard course plays 35 36 71 par He finished four under at 280 should have been bet ter scores but you can see there he added Palmer said felt all along that I had a chance and that pretty soon I would start getting some breaks not fool our selves it takes the breaks to win 1 got them in the earlier rounds but things started break ing my way this afternoon" I got my fourth birdie on the final round I knew I had a good he said That birdie came on the 20 foot putt on the 58th hole Palmer said he got a tremen dous boost when he holed a 25 foot pitch on the 60th hole for a birdie two Although he drove the green on the 346 yard No 1 hole on the final round and two putted for a birdie three Palmer said that hole and the 430 yard ninth hole the toughest for me here I was four over par at that ninth for all my rounds and even with the birdie I was one over at No TnA non rkarrtniAM WVUHU up Tnlflla a a z4 ohiahcu iui imiey hi sin Walked (or Rush In 5th Walked for Baumann In 7th out for core in Tin New York Chleagn CHICAGO Apart eloss ox 2b Minosolf Sieverslb Hickscf reese3b Lollarc Rivera rf Wynnp Rushp bTorjteson Baumannp cGinsberg Seoren dKluszewskl 43121912' Totals for rurley in 4 A Open with a subpar total since Hogan did the trick in 1953 Souchak the leader through the first three rounds after setting a 36 hole championship record skidded to 75 and a total of 283 Nickiaus Second Jack Nickiaus the amateur champion from Columbus Ohio grabbed second place with a final round 71 for a 282 total He knocked in an eagle 3 on the 538 yard fifth which he reached with two irons and took over the temporary lead at the 63rd hole Then he began three puttins His runner up position is the best by an amateur in the Open since Johnny Goodman won it in 1933 His score of 282 was the lowest ever for an amateur Six tied for third place at 283 including the veteran (Dutch) Harrison who had a final round of 69 Others in the bracket I were Souchak the leader at the halfway mark by three strokes with a record 135 He ballooned to a 73 in the round and then skied to 75 on the final trip missing an 18 inch putt on the final hole to complete his collapse Others tied for third were Dow insterwald Jack leck Julius Boros and Ted Kroll who finished with a 67 Jerry Barber the michtv mifr from Los Angeles and Hogan were at along with Don Cherry Closing 65 closing 65 is ever and wined out the low of 66 set by Gene Sarazen at lushing in 1932 Palmer started the final round which earned him $14000 of the $60000 prize pot with four straight birdies He drove the 346 yard first hole and got down easily in two and (in thp cprnnd i he chipped in from 90 feet away wi anomer mroie Pres Wirephoto) Where CreatBEN HOGAN Lost Chance or National Open Tie 1 I De ft pile Distance (Associated Press Wirephoto) A JUBILATION New National Open eolf chammnn Amniri and rins nff th cei4 1UI juy Jre new cnampion wound up and rips off the sunshade above after dropping his final putt the play by play report of his Longest And Richest Stock Car Total Doubled for Stigman in 7th Ran for Temple in 7th Ran for Romano in 8th Hit sacrifice Ry for Held in bth Walked for Buddin in 9th Ran for Thomson in 9th Struck out iw ornieies in win Boston Cleveland lr 2 4 2 2 1 batters in sth gling home one and Skowron doubling home the other two Berra singled home another in the third for a 4 0 lead The Sox scored three times in the third when Jim Rivera sub bing for Al Smith who was out with a cold led off with a home run However the Sox were out of contention minutes later NW Kubek ss Ixipezlf Mantle rf Maris rl Berra Skowron lb Rnvpr'lh Riehard'n2b Turleyn aHadley Grban Delock (L 0g) ornieles Stigman Bowsfield (W 2 2) 0 0 0 1 1 Kuenn Boston 9 Cleveland 10 Kuenn Aspromonte Temple CLEVELAND June Pinch hitter Bob Hale eighth inning tie with a base loaded sacrifice fly today and the Cleveland Indians defeated the Boston Red Sox 2 1 The Red Sox got only one hit or seven innings Dick Stigman and Ike Delock of the Red Sox were hooked up in a hurling duel Stigman lifted for a pinch hitter in the seventh inning yielded a second inning single to Ed Sadowski He walked six and struck out five Ted Bowsfield pitched the final two innings and picked up the victory against his former teammates Delock replaced by Mike or nieles in the eighth frame after he gave up a single to John Romano and a walk to Jim Pier sail was tagged with his second loss without a triumph BOSTON I CLEVELAND abrhbll ab bl 2 10 0 Ruenn 3b 4 110 4 0 0 0 2 0 11 4 0 0 0 Keoushrf 2 0 10 4 0 10 0 10 0 3 0 10 3 0 0 0 3 0 10 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 10 10 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 mTt2 US Open inal Scores 140000 SOUCHAK BOROS Jack leck L) insterwald Ted Kroll Harrison a Cherry Ben HoRan Barber Harney Bill Casper Bayer Johnny Pott Bob Harris Don Whitt Dave Marr Bob Goalby Bradley Sam Snead Gary Player Ken Venturi Rob Rosburg Mangrum Al eminelll Bob Shave Harmon Stranahan Lionel Hebert II KXI E( Chirk Habprt Dnus ord IL Larlair Boynton Douglas Rex Baxter Crampton have Ragan A) Mangert Stan Dudas mnnston Ransom WALL JR Mlddleroft Turnesa Sanders Slfford Johnson Rnrkemft A 30 foOt putt On the third Stranahan meant another birdie 3 and he got! his fourth straight with a 40 foot Gnez er on four After bHVIIIft HIP pal on five he resumed his birdie I fNlIH spree on the sixth where he sank another 40 footer and he had only Til Gill inn I tn tan In a 7 1 1 HlCIin I IVUICI IU get dllULlier on the 411 yard seventh His only birdie on the home ward nine was the eleventh where a drive and a No 4 iron put him on the green of the par 5 hole in two The new champion will repre sent the United States with Sam Snead in the Canada Cup matches near uumin next weekend Read Own Book before I play there I going to try and straighten my he said read my own book on how to play difficulties on the final two holes where he was four over par dropped him all the way to ninth place His final round score was 73 and the moat on the seventh ended a string of 34 holes in which he had hit the green ap proaches In addition to record of making up seven strokes in the final round other scoring records also were yielded by this pretty meadow land course that nestles at the foothills of the Rockies In his dash to the top IN vaulter! rvor I a i it A xr i fir sic Doubled for Giggle in Sth: orced runner for Bauer in 6th Sin gled for Garver In sth Washington 014 100 Kansas City 000 101 Totals Di il Struck rf L'linH mil tnr Brandt in bih Lined out for Nichol son in 8th: Hit into double play for oiuwn in yin Baltimore Detroit score ever registered by an ama teur The previous low was 285 by Marvin (Bud) Ward at Phila delphia in 1939 Defending Champ Bill Casper the defending champion finished with a 73 72 and landed in a deadlock at 286 with Paul Harney and George Bayer the siege gun of golf Just as difficulties beset Hogan in his try for the title he previ ously had won in 1948 1950 1951 and 1953 so fate again denied Sam Snead in his 20th quest for his first Open crown Steaming along Under par after 44 holes Snead took a big seven on the par 430 ninth hole this morning His drive landed so close to a bush that he virtually sat on the shrubbery as he tried to pitch out But he was too strong and the ball went across the fairway into the rough Next he hit into a trap Then he 1 scuffed his explosion shot He was on the green in five and used two putts It was a mammoth eight when a five would have won the title KO Al 1ACA Um vuot onuau me UDen a trap before reaching the green crown and started the legend that Palmer a former Wake orest'he could not win the Open He star is the first man to win the finished with 289 well down the list His final round was a 75 Camera Addict Souchak who lowered the first 36 hole scoring mark to 135 quickly let the gallery of 15258 know that this was not going to be his day He was scrambling from the start and on the last hole of the third round he gave up half of his four stroke lead when an amateur camera addict snapped his shutter just as the burly ex Duke footballer was starting his swing on the tee The ball went out of bounds and by the time he holed out he had used up six strokes that sent his score to 73 4 I 7 1 4 Mfr Xk juM tS 9 Jti wtR1 STH c' iv iwit x' ej'ij hi' pg MSfW KUL mM8g JLjak 4 i JI Swa fr xtffsfr Kb A ja dg JjRgSggA w' 44 Set Spe 1 mi 4.