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as" IQ Saturoav. Sept. 16. 1950 DETROIT FREE PRESS BENGALS BOUNCE BACK INTO LEAGUE LEAD Boom? Boom Boom for Mize; but Tigers Hoar Last batted three times before in the first, fourth and fifth innings against 18-game winner, young Arthur Houtteman. He had blasted three tremendous home runs in succession to account for six of the seven Yankee runs and to etch his name into the record book.

He was, and is, the only slugger in He was, and is, the only batter to hit three in a row in four of those games. HIS FIRST BLOW off Houtteman drove in two runs as he pounded it off the facade of the third deck in right field, an awesome clout. His second one was longer, as it hit into the BY LYALL SMITH Free Press Sports Editor It was the eighth inning and, as moon-faced Johnny Mize stepped into the batter's box, the 23,900 customers let out their breath with a cheer and then drew it back with a fearful gasp. The massive first baseman of the New York Yankees had in one game on six occasions. Hits- Afield as Bosox Win Ted Gets 4 third deck and bounced out.

His third one drove home three runs as it soared into the second deck, a puny blow by comparison. Now he was up again to face blond Hank Borowy, who had succeeded the battered Houtteman in the sixth inning. The Tiger bench was jittery. So were the fans. If they could hold on, the Tigers would have regained a lead which had changed hands four times in the last sis days.

The Yanks had grabbed a 3-0 lead in the first on a single by Phil Rizzuto, a double by Joe DiMaggio and Big Jawn's first homeric blast. Detroit regained two of them off Southpaw Tommy Byrne in their first try when Johnny Lipon walked and Jerry Priddy homered into the left field seats for his 11th circuit blow of the summer. THE TIGERS forged ahead in the third, 5 to 3, in a queer chain of circumstances. Vic Wertz walked and was singled to third by Johnny Groth. He scored when Billy Johnston erred on on Don Kolloway's hopper to leave runners on second and first with one out.

Aaron Robinson batted for Bob Swift against Allie Reynolds who had replaced the wild Byrne in the second inning. He slapped a single off Second Baseman Gerry Coleman's glove. The ball rolled into short center ith Coleman in pursuit. When he grabbed it, Groth had scored and Kolloway was on third. Colemann ran back toward the infield with the ball, trying to bluff Don back to third Don didn't bluff.

He raced home and beat the throw as the Yankee bench roared in protest. SO NOW IT was 5-3 for the Tigers but Mize led off the fourth. He boomed Houttcman's second offering into the third deck and it was 5-4. Came the fifth inning and Cliff Mapes led off with a single. After two were out, DiMaggio walked and up came the massive Mize a third time.

The count was three balls and one strike when he connected again. The ball sailed into the stands, three runs chugged over. I i- -i sx SfV VJ ''-KrC "t'A vr 4 r4 r-! -V -r r.l baseball to hit three home runs OH, FOR THAT Mize Mop BY LYALL SMITH Free Press Sports Editor The "one big one" that Slugger Johnny Mize missed hitting cost him a chance to write his name on another page of baseball's record book. He didn't do badly at that. Stars TIGER SHORTSTOP JOHIINY LIPON IS SENT SPRAWLING AS YANK THIRD BASEMAN BLL JOHNSON BARRELS INTO Lipon makes force out at second but can't double Gerry Coleman: who grounded to Art Houtteman to start HIM IN FOURTH INNING the action FOURTH HOME Up Misses Only One Lick i i-! yf Zs.

7-: y- Si the fans roared, the Yankees danced, Houtteman kicked the dirt and New York led, 7 to 5. The third straight walk to Wertz, a double by Hoot Evers and a moment of indecision by Pitcher Reynolds gained Detroit a sixth run in the bottom of the same frame. With Wertz on third, Groth hit to the mound. Reynolds tried to bluff Wertz back to third and then threw to first. He got Groth but Vic raced over.

The Tigers weren't being bluffed this day. Reynolds was chased in the sixth when Lipon singled and was forced by Priddy. George Kell singled Jerry to third and Wertz rapped a two-bagger to left center for one run to knot the score at 7-7. In came Tom Ferrick to intentionally walk Hoot Evers and load the bases. Groth's flyball broke the tie as it scored Kell from third.

When Kolloway followed with a single, the Tigers led, 9 to 7. Borowy, the one-time Yankee, who had been sold to replaced Houtteman after five i i 4 RUN three in as many straight times of hitting the three in as many straight times at bat. It was the 26th time in the game's big-league history for that accomplishment and the fourth time Mize has hit three in a row. Ralph Kiner of Pittsburgh did it twice. He is Johnny's closest rival.

Mize first hit three in one game on July 13, 1938. Seven days later he did it again. On May 13, 1940, he hit three more and repeated on Sept. 8 of the same season, this time getting all three blasts in succession. The first four times found him wearing the uniform of the St.

Louis Cardinals. Fifth time he was a New York Giant. That was on April 24. 1947, and once again he hit them in succession to tie up with the three straight of Friday off Houtteman. The record he missed when Hank Borowy struck him out his fourth and final try was one of four homers in one game.

It is held jointly by Bobby Lowe (1894), Ed Delahanty (1896), Lou Gehrig (1932). Chuck Klein (1936), Pat Seerey (1948) and Gil Hodges, who did it this year for the Brooklyn Dodgers. MIZE SLUMPED on a stool in the clubhouse, after the game, a big-six inch cigar sticking He Blasts Homer in 12-9 Victory Browns' 8-Game Run Comes to an End ST. LOUIS UP) Ted Williams returned to action and demonstrated his physical fitness by slamming out four hits, including a three-run homer, as the Boston Red Sox overpowered the St. Louis Browns, 12 to 9.

The Boston triumph snapped an right-game winning streak by the Browns, their longest since their pennant-winning year of 1944. Williams, highest-paid player in baseball, had seen action only as a pinch batter since he fractured his left elbow in the July All-Star game at Chicago. He had three singles to go with his homer in six trips. MANAGER Steve O'Neill, jubilant in the clubhouse after the game, said Williams should be credited for the important victory. "He hit the ball hard all day and made a great catch.

As far as I'm concerned, he meant the difference," said O'Neill. The catch by Williams that O'Neill referred to a drive by Ken Wood to deep center in the eighth when the Browns were threatening appeared to please Williams more than his four hits. To haul down the drive, Williams had to thrust his injured left arm upward over his right shoulder. "It hurt, but what's the difference?" said Williams. Williams performance over- shadowed that of Boston's Bobby Doerr who hit a home run, double and single in five trips.

Dom Di-J Maggio contributed two doubles to the 17-hit assault on three Brownie pitchers. Owen Friend and Dick Kokos hit homers for the Browns. JOE DOBSON was knocked out by a three-run Brownie uprising in the sixth, but was credited with the victory, his 15th against eight defeats. Don Johnson, the starting Brownie pitcher, was charged with his sixth loss against five vic- tories. On hand for the struggle at Sportsman's Park was a sparse ladies' day gathering of 2,899.

eluding 1,910 paid. William homer over the right field pavilion, with Dobson and Billy Goodman on base, was his 26th of the season and high- lighted a six-run outburst in the sixth, breaking a 2-2 deadlock. With Williams taking over in left field, Goodman moved to third base and Johnnie Pesky was benched. Pesky, hitting .313, suggested the move to O'Neill so that the valuable Goodman, batting .360, would remain in the lineup. BOSTON st.

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Attend- nre 1.910. Pap oose LONG BEACH, Calif (U.R) The Cleveland Indians have signed 17-year-old Bud Daley, high school pitcher. Only 77 times in history has a player hit three home runs in one game. By slugging Arthur Houtteman for three Friday, the 37-year-old Mize now occupies six of those 77 listings. BETTER YET, was his feat A.

fas 4 'SV't1' 'Si- of the Yankee lineup in the sixtn, one-two-three. He struck out Mapes to open the seventh before Rizzuto singled. But he retired the next two batters and he led, 9 to 7, as Mize strode out to bat in the eighth. This was the Johnny Mize who already had hit three straight home runs to give him 23 for the Yankee summer and a total of 339 in his big league career with the St. Louis Cardinals, New York Giants and the Yanks.

BOROWY WAS cautious and his first two pitches were high and away for calls of Ball One, Ball Two. Then he broke off a strike on the outside corner. His fourth pitch was Ball Three. Borowy, picked up from Pittsburgh a month ago, hadn't won a game for the Tigers. He had been hit for three home runs in a Detroit jersey but his fifth pitch to dangerous Mize was Strike Two and Big Jawn took it.

Borowy wound up and fired a sixth time. Mize swung and struck out! THAT WAS THE ballgame. Hank breezed by the last five hitters, including Pinch-Batter Johnny Hopp (a pop-up), Gene THE START OF A RHUBARB Tiger First Baseman Don Kolloway slides for the plate in the third inning as Yank Catcher Yogi Berra begins to swing around to make the tag. Indians Swap Homers with Nats for Split Dente Wins 'Cap; Easter Opener CLEVELAND (P) Sam Dente hit his first home run of the season, helping Washington to a 4-1 victory over the Cleveland Indians in the second game of a twi-night double-header. Cleveland won the opener, 4 to 2, when Luke Easter hit his 26th home run of the season in the ninth inning with Larry Doby on first.

Al Aber, the Cleveland pitcher up from Oklahoma City, got credit for a victory in his first mtjor league appearance. It was the second time this! Easter won for Cleveland. His 25th homer scored three runs and beat New York Tuesday. FIRST GAMK WASHINGTON CLEVELAND AB A AB II A Yost .3 4 Rnone.K 3 A .1 4 Noren.ef 4 it Vernon. 1 3 A Mele.rf 4 A 4 2 Kennedy.r 4 A 4 2 KobT.ef 3 2 1 A 5 2 2 1 1 Rosen.3 2 A 4 1 2 J.L'm'n.lf 3 A 2 4 1 3 5 A MurraT.e 3 4 1 I A Aber.p 2 A 1 1 A A A 1 Dente.s 4 1 F.ntn.r 3 2 Moreno, 2 A aKeller A hi nan Harris, A Total 30 5x25 10 Total 25 4 27 11 aWalked for Moreno in eiehth.

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LP Garcia (10-10. Attendance 11.471. Ex-Wildcat Gridder Dies MILWAUKEE (JP) ichael Calvano, former Northwestern University football star, died early Friday of a heart ailment. Calvano, 37, was a three-letter football guard at Northwestern in the mid-thirties. 1 WHY THE SCOOUDGEL WAUTSTb-DUEL ARTiLlERYf i tit trB i out of the corner of his mouth.

"If Houtteman had listened to George Kell (Tiger third baseman) I would have had only one homer, 'he said. "Kell told me that after I had hit the first one, he advised Houtteman to walk me the next time. After the second homer, Kell again told him to walk me. When I hit the third one, Red Rolfe came over to Houtteman and asked: "What were you trying to do?" "I was trying to walk hirn," Houtteman replied. "Well, hereafter, don't try to walk anybody else! Rolfe said." MIZE HAS hit nine of his 23 home runs off Detroit pitching this season, four off Houtteman.

The others were off Paul Calvert (2), Hal Newhouser, Dizzy Trout and Marlin Stuart. IX THE TIGER dressing room, Manager Red Rolfe was serious. "We're out in front again and from here in, they're going to have to catch us," he said as he watched the Tigers stage a rousing celebration. "WE PLAYED badly," Manager Casey Stengel told reporters in the Yankee dressing room. "We deserved to lose." The grizzled pilot said three infield mistakes in the sixth inning cost the Yanks the game.

In that frame, the Tigers tallied three times on two ground (tingles through the infield, an error by Billy Johnson and Gerry Coleman's mental lapse. The second baseman held the ball as a Detroit runner scored from third. Stengel still was fuming over a decision by Home Plate Umpire Charley Berry in the third inning when he called Don Kolloway safe at home on a close play. "He was out," said Casey. DETROIT NOW stands 11-10 in victories over the Yankees with Rookie Ed Ford (6-0) slated to oppose Paul Trout (13-4) in the season's windup Saturday.

The Tigers will be gunning for their eighth victory over the Yanks in 11 games at Briggs Stadium, then await the two-game invasion of Boston. THE YANKS have hit 33 home runs in their last 17 games, although they were shut out in one of them. This is a faster pace than they set in 1941 when they hit 40 in 25 consecutive games. NEW YORK AB A DETROIT AB Maws.r 1 inn. 3 TridilT.

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T.P Reynolds (13-12). Attendance 23,900. ft? if J'4 1 at' JOHNNY MIZE Whee, three for three the National League in 1945, frames. He retired the bottom Former Pitt Grid Star Dies McMECHEN, W. Va.

(JP) Charles C. (Doc) Hartwig, 38, All America guard at the University of Pittsburgh at the height of the school's grid fame, died Friday after a long illness. He was a football letterman at Pitt from 1932 to 1934 and captain and All America his last year. ball after fielding Aaron Robinson's hit in the third inning. Berra and Yank Manager Casey Stengel protested the calling but, as usual, they were over-ruled.

IS HE SAFE OR OUT? Berra said Don was out but this wasn't the opinion of Plate Umpire Charley Berry. Kolloway made a break for the plate from third when Gerry Coleman, Yank second baseman, held the PERILS OF PAULINE PENNANT By Frank Williams JERRY PRIDDY HANK BOROWY DON KOLLOWAY Borowy's fine mound work wins mates' praise Woodling (another pop-up) and Tommy Henrich (a short fly-ball). He struck out Mapes to end it. When it was all over his terrific relief pitching over-shadowed the slugging feats of Mr. Mize.

Hank allowed one single, no walks, in four innings after the Yanks had assaulted Houtteman for nine hits, including three home runs and a double for seven runs in the first five. He truck out three batters but when he struck out the mighty Mize, he see-sawed the Tigers back into the leadership of the league, a half-game ahead of the Yanks who face Paul "Diz" Trout in their swan song here on Saturday. The final score: Detroit 9, Mize Mil Joe Costa Paces Team to Victory Joe Costa and the Robinson team took down high-scoring honors in the Greater Masonic Bowling League session at Log Cabin Recreation. Costa lined a 6S6 series, includ- I ing a 268 game, as Robinson swept I Ira Wilson, 3145-2990. V2 k.

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