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DETROIT FREE PRESS Tuesday, July 4, 1961 Managers all Before Maklms Pitch 1 I Houk, Scheffing Star in Gotham Mystery i if 2 -ivTS J' 'f I 5 4 BY JOE FALLS FrM Press Staff Writer NEW YORK Bob Scheffing was relaxing in the hotel lobby Monday morning when Al Kaline approached him and said: "Skip, I don't think I'll be able to make it tomorrow. I'm afraid." "Me, too," said Paul Foytack. "The Yankees have us scared." Scheffing broke into a smile. He had read the New York newspapers, too especially the one with the eight-column headline, reading: "Tigers Fear to Pit Lary Against Ford." "It's okay fellers," Scheffing said. "I understand." And so the intrigue mounted on the eve of the big Fourth of July doubleheader between the Tigers and Yankees.

The two managers, Scheffing and Ralph Houk, were engaged in some cloak-and-dagger strategy in the oldest tradition. THEY KNEW that first place was the prize on Tuesday and each was probing for a psychological edge. It started when Scheffing announced he would match Don Mossi in whichever game Whitey Ford started for the Yankees. What he really meant, but wasn't saying, was that he wanted at least a split for the day and hoped to get it by pitting Frank Lary against Bob Turley. That nettled Houk.

He refused to name the order in which he will use his pitchers. "I know who's pitching the first game for me, but I'm not saving," the Yankee manager said impishly. "Let Scheffing get both of his pitchers out of bed early instead of keeping one back at the hotel in that nice air-conditioning." AND THEN Scheffing got coy. "Maybe I'll hire a detective to see which of Houk's pitchers doesn't show up early." Whatever happens, Scheffing has Houk over a barrel. The rules call for the home team manager to name his pitcher first.

If Houk chooses Ford, and he probably will, Scheffing will go with Mossi. The Detroit skipper knows that the Yankees must score a sweep to take over the lead. He hopes to avoid this by using his No. 1 Yankee-Turn to Page 13, Column 3 I Vf Bob Scheffing Ralph Houk 5 ON SQUAD Burke's 71 Captures Buick Open Playoff 3 More Tigers All-Stars and went and went and dropped in. Pitchers Frank Lary and Jim Bunning and outfielder Al Kaline were named to the' American League All-Star team Monday by manager Paul Richards.

That gives the Tigers five BY JACK BERRY Free Press Staff Writer GRAND BLANC Curley-haired Jackie Burke got $10,000 worth of pain-killer Monday. Burke shot a one-under-par 71, with three birdies in a four-hole stretch on the back nine, to beat Billy Casper and Johnny Pott by three strokes for the Buick Open golf championship. The trio had tied at 284, four under par, at the end of 72 holes Sunday, setting up the 18-hole playoff. cuts down on both his tournament golf and his practice. He has to have a cortisone shot in his thumb every six weeks and he can't hit a ball for five days afterward.

He's due for another shot Wednesday. THIS WAS Burke's first tournament victory in two years, and the last one also in a playoff. He whipped Julius Boros by shooting a 64 in the 1959 Houston Classic. Burke won here Monday by the 11th with a 63-foot birdie putt. Burke had bogied the par-three, 194-yard 11th In each of the four regular rounds, landing each time in the trap at the right of the green.

"I hit for the left trap this time," said the former Masters and PGA champion. "I was getting tired of that righthand bunker." This time his 4-iron tee shot landed on the front of the long, narrow green. He stroked the putt. It took several hops and went players on the 25-man squad. First baseman Norm Cash and outfielder Rocky Colovito were voted starting positions in a poll of players and managers.

Only the New York Yankees, Jplaying steady golf for 10 holes Burke, 38, has inflamed tendons in his left thumb and this BUT THEN Casper also birdied it, with a 10-footer. "That took a bit of the edge off it," Burke recalled with a grin later. Burke took the lead on the ninth hole. Both he and the 30-year-old Casper, winner of the first Buick Open in 1958, parred the first eight holes. The 25 year old Pott, meanwhile, was varying as much as the intensity of the winds that raked the course.

He had birdied the par-five first by reaching the green in two and two-putting. But he hooked his tee shot on the second behind a stand of trees and had to play a punch shot into the fairway. THAT RESULTED in a bogey and it was just the first of three straight. Pott got close again to Casper and Burke with a 30-foot ana uien getting a Dig boost on whom the Tigers aie battling for the league lead, will have more players on the squad for the first All-Star game July 11 at San Francisco. RICHARDS NAMED pitcher Whitey Ford, catcher Elston Howard and outfielder Yogi Berra to go with starters Mic AT WIMBLEDON McKinley Moves into Net Semis AS OF TODAY Today's Pitchers Live Dangerously LYALL SMITH key Mantle, Roger Maris and shortstop Tony Kubek.

The Tigers also will have birdie that just made the cup on the fifth and he was one over par going to the ninth. The ninth is a straightaway hole, but the green is fairly small and guarded by two more representatives in the game. Manager Bob Scheffing was handed the rather dubious distinction of being batting practice catcher. Jack Ilomel, Turn to Page 13, Column 6 WIMBLEDON, England (UPD Chuck McKinley of St mmiiMLiA iifc twin nmtitttfa t-4 Mvit feiiJimin tA. Kttifftim '4ti Jackie Burke smiles and why not? He gets trophy and Ann, advanced to the men's singles semifinals of the Wimbledon tennis championships Monday by whipping England's AT ALL 9 HUSHES-HATCHER-SUFFRIN STORES WOODWARD AND WONDERLAND OPEN TUESDAY TO 9 P.M.

a big tree on the right, several trees on the left, and by traps. Burke's tee shot landed on i Bobby Wilson, 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4. The 20-year-old Trinity (Tex.) IT IS INSISTED by major league pitchers and vehemently too that they now possess the same precarious and exciting working conditions as the chain-smoker who toils in a fireworks factory. "Just one little mistake is all it takes," they claim. "Next thing you know, it's BOOM.

To a man, they are positive that the ball no longer is just a cover of horsehide stitched over enough string to fly a kite after that string has been wrapped around a heart of pure cork. "Mebbe that's what it was once," say they. "But the old baseball ain't what it used to bp. The most agitated members of the pitching set even go so far as to claim that July 4 should be observed as bare spot and he made an excellent recovery, poking the ball onto the green and two- University sophomore who could become the youngest Wimbledon champion in 30 putting for his par. years beat Britain's No.

1 player before a capacity crowd of royalty and commoners who BUT CASPER'S second shot caught the right-hand trap and Big Billy was seven feet short cheered his fighting play even though he was eliminating a of the cup with his explosion He took two putts to get down for a bogey. So Burke was one up on both Casper and Pott. favorite son. WITH MCKINLEY'S victory the United States made its reappearance in the semifinals after a year's absence with a good chance of reaching the final. In the semifinals eighth-seeded McKinley will be a strong favorite over Britain's unseeded Mike Sangster, who won Mon Pott bogied the 10th and when Casper and Burke both birdied the 11th, Johnny was on his way out.

Then Burke birdied the 507-yard, par-five 13th with two putts and rolled in a four-footer for a birdie on the 14th. day by beating Iyo Pimentel, Casper could have stayed the Venezuelan southpaw, 6-2, 6-2, 6-4. In the other semifinal Wednesday, Australia's second-seeded Rod Laver will meet India's seventh-seeded Ramanathan Krishnan. The red headed Australian close, but he missed a 20-inch birdie try on the 13th. Sq in stead of being one stroke back, he now was two.

not the game just the birthdate of the baseball the ball. southpaw made short work of "THE 15TH WAS my key hole," said Burke. "If I parred 'that, I figured I could bogey sixth-seeded Luis Ayala of Chile Monday, 6-1, 6-3, 6-2, and Krishnan upset the favorited in and still win." Australian fourth seeded Roy Burke was short of the green Emerson, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4. on the par-four, 458-yard 15th and chipped to within three feet of the cup and sank it for his par. He bogied the 604-yard 16th and the 18th, but it was "Jackie was just a little too strong for us today," said Casper.

"But it's a wonderful win for him. He hasn't been in the winner's circle lately But then neither have Johnny and added Casper. Pott, who picked up $3,800 for his tie with Casper, didn't lose his sense of humor either. Angels Give Player Back To Indians LOS ANGELES (UPI) Second baseman Ken Aspro-monte, purchased by the Los Angeles Angels from the Cleveland Indians for $75,000 in last winter's American League expansion move, was claimed for the $20,000 waiver price by the Indians. The Angels, troubled by a leaky infield, 10 days ago benched Aspromonte and replaced him with Billy Moran, another former Indian.

The Angels also' recalled outfielder a Throneberry from Dallas-Ft. Worth of the American Association. To make room for Aspromonte, the Indians optioned Jack Kubiszyn, 24-year-old in-fielder, to Salt Lake City in the Pacific Coast League. It is their premise that when aerial bombs burst in the air, when firecrackers explode and when Roman candles spit balls of fire, all such things are vivid reminders of what happens when poor bedeviled pitchers pick np a baseball and throw it towards home plate and a batter with a stick. It's a little hard to fault their complaints, too.

For the way things have been going this year, there will be a record number of home runs plus a shortage of shutouts. HR Records Obsolete THIS IS ROTJGIILY the half-way point of the season. American League batters already have belted 759 home runs and look like a cinch to top the 1,500 mark by October. Yet the most they ever hit in any previous season was 1,091 a total they'll surpass by the middle of August this time. Just as certain to topple is the major league record of 1,263 set by National League sluggers in 1955.

Same thing in the grand-slam home run department. The league record for such things is 37. There already have been 23 hit this year and while the fact that two extra AL teams have been added accounts for some of this surplus, the explosiveness of the baseball is no deterrent. It's the reverse of the situation when it comes to what used to be called a "pitchers' duel." These little gems have become as rare as a herd of wild buffalo. If my check of the records is correct, only once this season has there been a scoreless tie after nine innings in the American League.

That happened back in May when Cleveland beat the Orioles in 15 frames 1-0. Shutouts? Despite the two extra teams, there will Turn to Page 12, Column 5 Watch for this emblem during July. It will identify each of the very special items we've selected for exceptional savings during our July Clearance Sale. You'll see it on clothing by some of our best makers sportswear, furnishings, hats and on boys' wear and women's wear each item singled out for special notice because we believe it's the best value you'll find, quality for quality, dollar for dollar, anywhere in Detroit. "Jackie taught me a lot.

1 would have liked to have won Turn to Page 12, Column 8 State Pro-Am At Fox Hills The Michigan State pro-amateur tournament has been set for July 21 at Fox Hills, near Plymouth, it was announced Monday by Gene Bone, Michigan PGA tournament section chairman. John Barnum of Grand Rapids Blythefield is defending pro champion of the pro-am. He's an Ace James A. Martin of 15762 Ashton made a hole-in-one Monday at Redford golf course. Martin aced the 148-yard 15th hole.

He used a 5-iron and shot 101 for the round. He won last year at Midland, adding that to his Michigan STATE GRAND RIVER GREENFIELD WONDERLAND CENTER NORTHLAND CENTER WOODWARD AT MONTCALM MACK i MOROSS EASTLAND CENTER WESTB0RN CENTER LINCOLN PARK, Open victory..