Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 37

DETROIT FREE Thursday, May 21. '59 37 1 You have the best seat in the house for first horse race of new season at the Detroit Race Course, thanks to Free Press chief photographer Tony Spina and his Fotoscope camera i LARY BEATS 'HIS BOYS 1 Indians IPonle Are Hano: On Cellar! of On re But ettorg To Lead Beat Fading Senators, 5-3 It 6 ill i anKee I WASHINGTON (UPI) The Cleveland Indians main- tained their grip on first place i in the American League Wednesday night when Rocky Col- avito and Vic Power each drove in two runs In a 5-3 victory over the Washington Senators. Frank Lary wove his particular form of Yankee-killing magic, as expected. It was his 18th victory over the Yanks in five seasons and they have beaten him only five times. Until the ninth, when the Tigers' lead was 13 2.

Lary The loss was the fourth in a BY HAL MID LES WORTH Free Press Staff Writer NEW YORK It may not be "the year the Yankees lost the pennant." After all, the season is young But it sure was the day the world champions got dumped into the American League basement Wednesday and the Tigers did it. The Tigers made it a rout, 13 6, as they changed positions with the Yankees and emerged from the cellar for the first time this year with their third victory in a row. BEFORE a disbelieving crowd of 11,053, the once-proud Yankees simply collapsed. with their customary vigor, but bankrolls must be leaner this season for the bets wer smaller from the start. For the horse element the change took a little longer to appear.

There were the usual opening-day surprises in the early races. Then, just when the favorites were expected to make their stand, a midafter-noon downpour hit. AT THAT roiNT the bettors really lost interest. For them, the crushing blow was the defeat of Pan, the 6-5 favorite, in the $5,000 Livonia Purse. The front-running Warbler met and turned back two bids by Pan to draw away to a '2 -length victory.

For all the disappointments, there wpre some pleasant touches to the day. O'o'-timer Vic Bovine and his equally old thoroughbred companion Judge Mac made the changeover from Maumee Turn to Tage 10, Column By A COFFM AN Thoroughbred racing got away to a disappointing start Wednesday at the Detroit Race Course. Only 12,425 fans, more than 3 000 shy of last year's record opening turnout, gathered to welcome the runners back to Michigan. They didn't bet enough to ruffle a hair on a ticket seller's head. By the time nine races had been run off with disconcerting results to most form players, the total betting was scraping bottom.

The track handled Its lowest first-day business since the $472,874 count in 1950. The day went like the weather. It was bright and sunny and there was an air of optimism among' customers, horsemen and track officials before the horses went to the post. AT THE FINISH the skies were a loomy gray, the rac- gave the Yanks only six hits. They picked up four more row for the Senators and that round for the rest of their runs.

I dropped them into the second division. THE TIGERS, however, unloaded an avalanche of 19 i safeties on the heads of five Yankee moundsmen to turn LHKB won his ci. fourth game of the year but a tight pitching battle into a runaway after four innings. I ded help from ycung Jim Included were two home runs by Eddie Yost, one in tne seventh tne Dases iuu, ana a Key nomer rjy uau narns wmcn turned the tide in Lary's favor. It's the most hits and runs against the Yankees in a single game this year.

Score gave up all three Washington runs, including a tremendous homer by muscular Harmon Killebrew, who hit his 15th of the year to take over the major league lead. VIC DOYINE First in winner's circle ing strip was deep in slop and people were wondering about Detroit racing's prospects for the summer. For the human element the change showed up as soon as the betting: windows opened. TIip hrMors attifkpfi them Yogi Berra also homered twice for the Yank and Mickey Mantle pulled out of hi slump with on Two of their blows ramp Russ Kemmerer started for Washington and was tagged Turn to Page 38, Column 4 Woman Athletic Chief Hit BT TOM McPHAIL AS OF TODAY OK, FansWho Was 'Stanislaus BY LYALL SMITH in the Yanks' futile ninth-inninjr rally. The Yankee skid into the basement is practically with-i out precedent.

The last time The Eastern High Parents it happened was May 25. 1940 when one of Joe McCarthy's THEY ADDED A HALF-DOZEN athletic names to pointment of a woman as the the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame in a sedate little cere- clubs staggered off to an 11-17 start but finished third. head of the school's physical mony Wednesday afternoon. education department. I Honored in person were Earl (Dutch) Clark, of grid Only two teams in Yankee; history ever finished last in 1912 and 1908.

Field, president of the group, iron greatness; Matt Mann and Ray Fisher, whose swim-mins and baseball teams made history at the University said that the club would begin circulating a petition Thursday! 0f Michigan, and pert Marion Ladewig, who has no peer to block the appointment of as a gal bowler. Betty Smith, a physical educa- tion teacher at Mackenzie. Honored in absentia, and memory, was Lr. o. Stowe of Kalamazoo, whose contributions to tennis were many before his death in 1957.

MISS SMITH, 36. Tuesday is THE CURKENT Yankees are 12-19 with a percentage of i .387, while the Tigers have a 13-20 record and a .394 per- i centage to claim seventh place in the standings. In a way, Casey Stengel was asking for trouble in the i Tigers' fourth straight vie- tory over his fading cham- pions. In an overnight switch, he! 'sent little Bobby Shantz in-j And then there was the plaque engraved with the name of Stanley Ketchel nee Stanislaus Kiecal, who was known as "The Michigan Assassin." Hardly a man is now alive who watched Ketchel's fists carve out a fabulous career that was noted for its violence and brevity. He was born on a farm near Grand stead of Bob Turley to thei Rapids in 1887.

He died on a farm near Springfield, mound. Shantz. who hadn't in 1910 started all season, stood up to Lary for five innings but was He has been dead for 50 years, less one. He lived but tagged with the loss. to be officially named to the post by the Board of Education.

The position, which will be vacated in June by the retirement of Arthur C. Erwin, includes that of athletic director. Miss Smith will be the first woman to hold that position in the City League. Rogers, father of triple-sports star Felton Rogers, said his group feels that Harry Collins should get the appointment. COLLINS, the Eastern High football coach for the last 13 years and a veteran of 17 years In the Detroit school system, was one of two men eligible for Turn to Page 40, Column 3 one month past his mrtnaay.

rie was a vioieni man in his short life. He died a violent death at the wrong end of a rifle held by an embittered farmhand named Walter Dipley. STANLEY started fighting professionally; when he was but 15. He stood 5-9, weighed 154. He lost the fourth Turn to Page 38, Column 5 AFTER THAT came Jim Coates, Duke Maas, Tommy Sturdivant and Johnny Kucks with the score mounting by jumps.

The worst punishment was administered to Maas, a former Tiger, who was shelled for seven hits and six runs in a single inning, the seventh. That was the round Yost hit his grand-slammer after Harris dissolved a 2-2 tie in the sixth with his bases-empty blow off Shantz. Stengel saw another hunch blow up in his face when a lineup of seven left-handed hit-Turn to Tage 39, Column 3 t7 4 1 ''A L4-w jJf i EW VOKK DETROIT AH AB 4 3 Mrirm.Sh 4 0 0 Knenn.rf 6 Mmnrll.lf 5 0 3 Klil.ek.P ft 1 2 1 3 Mantle.rf ft 2 3 1 1 Berra. rf-r ft 3 1 1 1 Siebern.lf ft 3 2 3 1 Knline.rf A Harris. I.

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He added that the future was bright, indeed, for more and more Americans were coming to realize the remarkable qualities of Turkish mohair its cool, crisp comfort, its wrinkle resistance, its rich luster. The ladies gave humble thanks to their master for producing the fine-quality mohair acceptable for Harry Suffrin suits. You'll be grateful too and they don't cost a Sultan's ransom: $55 to $119.50 Their veils fluttered and they clapped their 72 hands that sparkled with rings. The Sultan was in rare good humor as he announced to them that due to Harry Suffrin' enormous demand for mohair suits, all the wool of the Angora goat herds on his estates had been sold. Now each wife could have her own dishwasher.

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3:17. A 11.033. STROKING A TIGER'S MANE Outfielder Charley Maxwell (right) brushes back hair of perspiring, but happy. Tiger pitcher Frank Lary Wednesday after the righthander beat the world champion New York Yankees for the 18th time in his career. Left to right, that's first baseman Gail Harris, who homered and Eddie Yost, who homered twice including a grand slam, in Detroit's 13-6 "goodby-basement" Yankee Stadium victory.

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