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BERTOIA'S SLAM WINS OPENER i Tig with eiiators BY HAL, MIDDLESWORTH Free Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON The Tigers pierced the fog and gloom of a cold, rainy night to break a three-game losing streak Wednesday, then flopped right back into their losing ways. A grand-slam home run by Reno Bertoia fired the Bengals to a 5-1 victory over the his first decision of the year for the Senators in the second game, with a seven-hit pitching effort. He had the Tigers down to one run on three hits until the ninth, when they erupted for three scores, two of them on a triple by Charley Lau. Bunning was derricked in the second inning, without retiring a batter. A two-run single by Aspromonte sent him to the showers, with Joe Presko, Tom Morgan, Vito Valentinetti, Mickey McDermott and Hank Aguirre all pressed into action before it was over.

BERTOIA'S BLAST settled everything for the Tigers at the start of the opener, but the Senators kept Lary on the hook right up to the finish. A walk and a pair of singles by Charley Maxwell and Gail Harris gave the Tigers one run off Pascual before Bertoia got to the plate. Al Kaline drew another pass to fill the bases, then Reno stepped into a fastball and powered It nearly 400 feet into the centerfield seats for the Tigers first grand slam parade this year. It was Bertoia's second roundtripper of the season but only the ninth of his career. That was about the last mistake the Senator pitchers made all night, however, at Pascual, Chuck Stobbs and Russ Kemmerer blanked the Bengals the rest of the way in an eight-hit performance.

PASCUAL WAS lifted for a pinch hitter in -the sixth and the only. Tiger blows after that were a scratchy three-bagger by Billy Martin in the seventh Turn to Page S3, Column 1 Split i IHi): MJ I I A i- I i I til '-fl r- if second-place Washington Senators in the first half of a twi-night twin-bill played before 2,615 pneumonia proof fans. BUT IN THE second game, the Senators subjected the Tigers to a thorough thumping, 11 to 4, with Jim Bunning absorbing his fourth straight defeat after an opening day victory. Neither game produced much in the way of pitching by the Tigers. Frank Lary staggered to victory in the opener for a 2-2 record in spite of 13 Washington hits, including a ninth-inning homer by Eddie Yost.

In the nightcap, the Nats combed Bunning and five successors for 15 more safeties. The big blaster for the Senators, enjoying their best start since 1933, was Ken Aspro-monte, their new, second base-mart, with five hits in tWo HOLD EVERYTHING World lightweight champion Joe Brown (right) covers up and ducks under a left jab thrown by challenger Ralph Dupa Wednesday night in their title fight at Houston. It was a far different story later as Brown went on offense and belted pupas to the canvas three times in the eighth round to register his TKO victory. CHALLENGER DOWN 3 TIMES Broivn Retains His Title; 4 Stops Dupas in 8th. Round games.

Little Albie Pearson, 5-foot- 6 centerfielder, and Jim Lemon 1 "Fame" Touches Mrs. Charles Dorais, Eddie Tolap (center), Bennie Oosterbaan Gus, Bennie, Eddie in 'Hall Dupas again at 140 or 141 pounds." "LANE'S NEXT," cried Brown, and then he hugged his father and kissed his wife. "I'll be trying for the same thing against him as did tonight." He referred to Kenny Lane, No. 1 ranked challenger, of Muskegon, Mich. Dupas was ranked No.

2. two counts while Brown went to the corner," Webb said. Both men weighed ih at 134 for the fight. Dupas had to scale down from 153 pounds to make the limit but co-manager and trainer Angelo Dundee said before the fight that his boy, who. turned pro at the age of 14, had missed no mals in making the weight.

Brown said "I'd lil.o to' fight had four each. BERTOIA'S homer hung the first-game loss on Camilo Pas-cuaL Lary, who gave up at least one hit every inning and walked five batters, stranded 13 Washington baserunners'with eight strikeouts and the help of three doubleplays by the Tigers. Young Hal Griggs picked As a football coach, he was the nation's "Coach of the Year" in 1948, and now is completing his 30th year on the Michigan coaching staff. HOUSTON, Tex. (IP) Old Joe Brown pounded young Ralph Dupas into oblivion in the eighth round Wednesday night to score a technical knockout at 2:21 and retain his world lightweight title.

Brown beat the speedy Dupas to the floor three times with a furious barrage after trapping the challenger against the ropes. Referee Jimmy Webb stepped in to stop the fight after Dupas, unable to lift his arms, took a last left hook from the champion. "I CAUGHT a lucky punch," Dupas mumbled after the roaring was over. "I don't know why they stopped the fieht." representatives who make their choices of two live and one deceased athlete. "Balloting for Hall of Fame honors saw golfer Al Watrous and bowler Marion Ladewig rarrcwly miss selection.

They tied just two votes less than the trio who were named to the Hall," Kerbawy said. Oosterbaan, Tolan, Mrs. Dorais and sons Thomas and Bill were introduced at a special luncheon sponsored by the Detroit Sportscasters Association Wednesday at Yeaman's restaurant. DORAIS, FORMER University of Detroit and Detroit Lion coach, pioneered the forward pass with Knute Rockne during his playing career at Notre Dame from 1910-13. He died Jan.

3, 1954. Oosterbaan, already recognized as a "player of the half century," was a three-time All-America football end, a basketball All-America and one of the greatest all-around athletes in the University of Michigan's history. GAME WASHINGTON an Yost.Sh A 1 FIRST DETROIT AH F.Bolnr.lb ft Martin.ss 4 0 1 Kueno.rf 3 11 Maxwell. If 3 11 Harris. Ih 4 12 Kalinr.rf 2 11 I 4 12 I Hciran.e 4 0 0 I.ary.D 4 0 0 5 3 5 4 0 4 Sievem.lf Courtn.T.f Zaiichn.1 Imon.rf Bridges.

AS OF TODAY When Wrestlers Were Wrestlers C-r-rackl BY LYALL SMITH The late Charles E. (Gus) Dorais, football's first passing star; Bennie Oosterbaan, one of the game's greatest pass catchers, and Eddie Tolan, the Olympic sprinter, were named Wednesday to Michigan's Sports Hall of Fame. Selection of the three was made in connection with Michigan Week. They joined in the Hall such stars as Ty Cobb, Walter Hagen, Gar Wood, Willie Heston, Harry Heil-mann, loe Louis, Jack Adams, Charlie Gehringer, Fielding H. Yost, Mickey Cochrane, George Gipp, Gordie Howe.

Hank Green-berg, Sam Crawford and Hugh Jennings. NICK KERBAWY, general chairman of the Michigan Week Committee on sports, said balloting for the honor positions was the closest ever. Selections are made by 50 press, radio and television 3 0 Aprmnt.2b 4 a raftrllal.p 2 aCrislpy 1 Stohhs.o 0 hPlrw. 1 Krmmtrer 0 "I thought it was even until the last," Brown said. "My trainer told me at the EDDIE TOLAN flashed across the Michigan sports scene during the late 1920s and early J930s.

reaching his peak in the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The former Michigan sprinter won three Gold Medals in the Olympics by winning the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes and running a leg on the 400-meter relay team. He established a record of :10.3 for the 100-meter which still stands. Previous tr the Olympics, Tolan gained world recognition with record clockings of :09.5 in the 100-yard dash and :20.9 In the 320 in a meet at Ann Arbor in 1929. The feat is even more remarkable in view of the fact that- starting blocks were not use the time.

Totals 33 6 8 Total 37 1 13 aSinglrd for Pasrnal in 6th: bStruek out for Stnbbi In 8th. DETROIT BOO OOO 00 Ii Washinicton OOO OOO 00 1 1 PO-A Detroit 27-13, Wahinirtnn 27-13. 1P Martin. F. Roilinc and Harris 2: F.

Kollinc. Martin and Harris: Bridern. Aaprnmonte and Zanrhin: Rriders and Aspramontc. Detroit 5, Washington 14. Kaline.

Asnromonle. 3B Martin. Rertnia. Yost. RBI Bertoia 4.

Harris 1. Yost 1. IP F.R BR SO 29 Thursday, May 8, 1958 start of the eighth that 'now the round." "I hit him with a left hook," Brown said, "and Dupas thought a right was coming." It was vthe fourth straight challenger to Brown's title that didn't make the 15-round distance. BROWN BELTED Dupas, nine years his junior, to the canvas with a wicked right to the head as the eighth round opened. Dupas stayed there fora nine-count.

He pulled himself up into a barrage of rights and lefts from the 31-year-old champion and went down again for an eight-count. larr W. 2-2 J3 I 1 4 3 r'asrnal 1-2) 6 Stobbs 2 2 Kemmerer I ooo I' Soar. Fmont, Summers, Hono-ehick. 2:32.

A 2.615. BIGTIME WRESTLING hasn't been quite the same in these parts since the nights when sportscaster Paul Williams handled the telecasts of local grunt 'n' groan extravaganzas. Whenever the grapplers became entwined in some sort of pretzel-hold, home viewers would be subjected to-a horrendous series of snaps, crackles and pops erupting from their TV sets. More squeamish listeners hurriedly would flip the dial to dismiss the sound of breaking bones, tortured tendons and popping ligaments. Stronger hearted fans would stick it out and then make a mental vow to show up in person at the next show to get a closer view of such legalized bone-crushing mayhem.

When they did, they discovered that Williams had inherited a love for peanuts in his collegiate days in Oklahoma. And that the sounds of broken backs they, had. heard on television was just the result of his habit of cracking his peanut shells too close to the sensitive microphone. "It was good clean fun," theorized Paul. "But I guess it did liven things up once in a while when the matches got a little dull Put More Life into It SINCE THOSE early-television days, there seems to have been a strenuous movement among members of the wrestling fraternity to enliven things on their own accord.

"Some nights I think we get a little too enthusiastic," admits Antonino Rocca, a 230-pounder, who is slated to bump heads at Olympia Thursday night with a SECOND GAME DETROIT WASHINGTON AB AH F.Bolnic.2b 5 Ynt.3b 4 1 Martin.ss 3 Pearsnn.ef 4 1 1 M.Bolnic.ss OOO Sievers.lf 2 2 Kiienn.rf 3 1 Cnnrtnrv.e ft 2 3 Maxwell. If 4 0 1 Zailehn.lb 3 2 1 Harris.lb 4 11 lmnn.rt 4 2 2 Kaline. rf 3 11 Herioc.rf 10 0 4 0 1 Rririices.ss 3 1 1 I.aii.e 3 11 Asnrmn. 214 1 2 Riinninr.D OOO Griggs. 402 Preskn.D OOO aSkiza I 1 Moran.n OOO Vlntneti.n OOO MrDrmt.n 1 Aeuirre.p OOO bTaylor 10 1 uupas gui up again io meet Brown's sizzling left hook to the chin and sat down for another eight count.

As he got up the third time, Totals 37 4 7 Totals 37 1115 Brown clipped him on the chin and Webb stepped in to stop it. Dupas, 22, was ahead on points before the end came. Brown took charge of the fight in the seventh and began to rap his fellow New Orleans resident with rights about the head. A rhubarb developed at ring-fide when Joe Lee, counting for the knockdowns, reached the first knockdown. Webb, however, said the aSinclerf for Presko In 6th: bSineled for Acuirre in Oth.

DETROIT OOO 1O0 OO 3 4 Washins-tn 021 0S0 21 II Harris. Valentinetti. M. Bollinc. PO-A Detroit 24-14.

Washincton 27-8. DP I-aii and Martin: Bridees. Aspromonte and Zanrhin 2: Harris. M. Boiling and Harris: Afulrre.

F. Rolling and Harris. I.OB Detroit 6. Washington 7. 2B Courtney 2.

Pearson. Griees. R'evers. 3B Imon. I.au.

SPearson. lmon scored on error in ftth: Sievers scored on double play in 8th. RBI Bertoia. I-an 2. Taylor.

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1-4) Presko Morcan Valentinetti MDermott Aeiiirre 11 1 1 for Brown to get to a neutral corner and his (Webb's) count actually had reached only 9. "I stopped counting for zz .1 i 1 2 1 1 9 7 4 4ft worthy opponent (and longtime friend) who says he is Boris Volkoff "all ze way vrom Roossia One of those "enthusiastic" nights wa3 last Nov. 19 in Madison Square Garden. Some 13,000 of the more than 150,000 fans who turned out for nine "rassling" shows at 6 jgl; Jjga I Grieres 1-0 1 11(1 ilium riin- mers, Honorhirk, Soar. 2:54.

A 2,615. I ljf Mat Champ, Our Curling the Garden last year were present Jf-; it when Rocca and Eduoard Carpentier sCwi, tangled with Dr. Jerry Graham and somebody named Dick the Bruiser in a tag-team match. Things got a little hectic and iiplill 1 11 Kings Feted The four-man rink which won the United States Men's Curling championship last month was honored Wednesday night at the I 9 annual banquet of the Detroit. yaMsaffiWpsq 40 minutes- from washer Co Curling Club.

Special tribute was paid the team in a Common Council resolution, proposed by President Mary Beck. Each team member Merritt Knowlson, Ernest and Michael Slyziuk and Douglas Fisk was presented a copy of In to dryer- its ready jor wear qWtpm by HASPEL At Olympia Antonino Rocca and Alex Karras will hold the spotlight on the wrestling card Thursday vening at Oylmpia. Rocca, the high-flying South American champion who rates as the biggest drawing card in the game today, will take on Boris Volkoff, a rugged, bad-acting Chicago strong man, in the main event. Karras, the giant Iowa tackle who was the first draft choice of the Detroit Lions, will collide with Dan Ferrazza, a one-time light heavyweight boxer who has made good in the mat world. Two other bouts will complete the program.

Jim Hady and Dick Garza will meet Ed Gardini and Johnny (Dynamite) Gates in a tag-team engagement. Harry Lewis will match holds with Chuck Gorman in the opening bout. AUTOMATIC WASH 'N WEAR $59.50 the scroll. The banquet at the Veterans' Memorial was attended by 200 club members and wives. finally only Rocca and Graham were Rocca left.

Rocca was the winner. But as he took his bows in sweeping Argentinian style, he was slugged by Graham. "He snuck np on me," reports Antonino indignantly. Needless to say, this nefarious act enraged our hero no end. He immediately grabbed Graham and banged his platinum-blond head against one of the well-padded ring posts.

To the surprise of everyone, except Rocca and Graham, a stream of "blood" cascaded from the doctor's buffeted head. Call the Riot Squad! THAT IT WASN'T blood, but just a pellet filled with red liquid which Rocca broke at the proper moment, made no difference to the customers. They immediately staged a riot. Chairs were broken, guys were slugged, two policemen were injured and the Garden was a shambles before peace was restored. Next day, Rocca and Graham were fined $1,000 each on charges of inciting a riot.

"I learned my lesson," insists Antonino. "Imitation blood is bad. If it was the real thing, Rocca would still have his $1,000 The big guy is quite a character at that. He can afford to be one as he flips opponents around the ring in such style that he picks up a $100,000 a year for his efforts. "And that," says Paul Williams who used to crack 'em over television "ain't peanuts." HARRY SUFFRIN GIVES YOU ALL THESE AMED "EXTRAS" Sfylo Leaderhip Always first with meritorious new fashions.

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