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RIGHTFIELD POKE BEATS THE ANGELS, 4-3 DETROIT FREE PRESS Thursday. April 25. '63 IV 1 Kal me JnLomers in 15 Tigers Win IRockys UDowii hnt Not ist Pierce 'ktt5 Al Gets 3 RBI For Day Veal Raps Out Kev Pinch Hit rT Wm II I I llll, IHIIM WELCOME HOME: Tiger outfielder Al Kaline is Coot Veal (left) and manager Bob Scheffing (right) 15-inning game with Ias Angeles by hitting his second AP Photo greeted at the plate by after breaking up the home run of the season. Losing Magic? Beaten Again In Candlestick SAN FRANCISCO (TP Lefty Curt Simmons, al though battered for five doubles, pitched the St. Louis Cardinals into sole possession of first place in the National League Wednesday with a 4-3 victory over the San Francisco Giants.

Dick Groat started the Cards toward their fourth straight win by doubling home two tallies to spark a four-run blast against loser Billy Pierce in the sixth Inning. IT MARKED the second straight defeat for the veteran southpaw at Candlestick Park where he had rolled to 14 consecutive wins without a setback. Simmons, the former Philadelphia Phillies Whiz Kid, recorded his third win In as many route-going performances. The Cards routed Pierce with a four-hit attack In the sixth. After Julian Javier had singled and Curt Flood walked, Groat came up with two strikeouts on his record and sent both runners across by doubling.

White followed by cracking another single to score Groat and Pierce left for the showers after George Altman's singje Drought across the Cardinal first baseman. ST. LOUIS GIANTS 11 AB Flood, cf 1 0 Kuenn.lf 4 0 0 Groat, ss 2 Hiller, 4 0 1 2 10 0 0 Cepeda.lb 4 0 1 1 F. Aiou.rf 4 1 2 0 Divmwtjb 4 1 2 A Altman.rf James, If Oliver 1 0 0 Haller.c 2 0 0 Jav.er.5b 4 1 1 bCardenal 1 Simmons.p 3 0 1 Bailey 10 0 Pierce, 2 0 0 Lorsen,) Totals 33 4 7 Totals 34i" aWalked for Olivor in thj bSintltd for Haller In th. St.

Louis 000 004 00 0-4 San Francisco 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 03 PO-A-Sf. Louis 27-13, San Francisco 27-g. OP White (unassisted). LOB St. Louis San Francisco 5.

2B Cepeda, DivenixM-t 2, Croat, F. Alou, Pagan. SB Altmen. Simmon. RBI-Groat 2, White, Altmon, Davwieert, Cardenal 2.

IP REM OS SO I S'-i 3j 1 Larsen Wilhelm Toug. THE ROCK WAS from Dean Chance hit again on the helmet. Free Press Photo by DICK TRIPP KNOCKED in the seventh inning when an inside pitch' Rocky Colavito on the hand, caromed off and hit him On Yanks, 6-4 FACES FINE, SUSPENSION Bruiser On Carpet ILyall Sniif li Bruiser, Karras Doi't Need a Script it I BY GEORGE TUSCAS Dick the Bruiser, the terror of the wrestling ring, was given a new match Wednesday this one against Dave Gudelsky, chairman of the State Athletic Commission. Gudelsky said he would call Bruiser (Richard Afflis) on the carpet next week to explain his actions in a barroom brawl last Monday night. Bruiser, scheduled to wrestle suspended Lion tackle Alex Karras at Olympia Saturday, tussled with Karras and customers at the Lindell Bar.

HE WAS subdued by eight policemen and arrested. He faces a court trial on an assault charge next Monday. Gudelsky said that he might fine or suspend Bruiser. "I don't think Karras was at fault," the commissioner told the Free Press from his Muskegon office. "But I want to call them both in.

I just don't like this kind of monkey business. "Innocent people could have been hurt In that fight. This time things have gone too far. "Just two weeks ago I fined The Bruiser $50 for Charter Club Shop BY JOE FALLS Free Press Sports Writer After, an exhaustive two-week search a search which carried them halfway across the country the Tigers finally uncovered some men of muscle Wednesday afternoon. Orville Inman Veal, o) Albert William Kaline.

They may not pack the punch of AJex Karras and Richard the Bruiser, but they're etill a potent pair, these two. Veal, all 169 a4 pounds of him, and, Kaline, still the best 185-pound buy in baseball, combined their brute strength to lead the Tigers to a 4-3 victory over the Los Angeles Angels in 15 long innings in Tiger Stadium. IT WAS KALINE who broke up the four-hour and 15-minute marathon with a two out homer off Eli Grba, LA's eighth pitcher, in the 15th frame. But it was Veal, who looks distressingly like a fungo bat, who made Kaline's dramatics possible by coming through with the Tigers' first pinch hit of the year. After 18 pinch swingers had swung futilly, Veal broke the spell with a single which chased home the tying run in the 12th inning, just when it seemed as if the Tigers were going to blow another extra-inning game.

This, as it turned out, was their second 15-inning endurance test in five days, but, somehow, they didn't seem quite as cold or as tired when it was over as they did in Boston last Saturday. The clubhouse seemed downright warm and cheery. The difference, of course, was win ning, a habit the Tigers have had difficulty acquiring this season. "I DIDN'T think the ball was going out, so I tried to give it a little lift when I rounded first base," grinned Kaline. "I don't hit very many home runs in that direction, you know." "That direction" was right-field, a place which Kaline owns in the field, but which is pretty much of a foreign territory to him as a batter.

His homer just cleared the fence in right, barely out of Leon Wagner's desperate Junge and, plop, dropped into the second row of seats. Kaline might not have been surprised by it, but he threw his hands into the air after he rounded the bag at first. He was charitable about It, however. "I don't think Grba made a bad pitch to me." he said. "He wanted me to hit to rightfield because my power is to left.

I get some hits to right but I rarely hit a ball into the seats in that direction." RIGHT OR LEFT, the Tigers were happy to get the homer. It stopped their two-game slide and opened their 17-game home stand in the proper style. But it was a struggle. Manager Bob Scheffing employed 20 players, one more than LA, in a bid to get Turn to Page 2D, Column 1 XO CHANCE is what Los Angeles pitcher Dean Chance had with plate umpire Larry Napp in the second inning. Chance said he was just trying to warm his hands Xapp said he was using a spitball.

Chance lost the sticky wrestling outside the ring. Maybe we'll have to get tougher." GUDELSKY earlier was quoted as saying that he might also fine and suspend Karras, who will be making a return to the ring Saturday night after three years of retirement. "I think now," said Gudelsky, "that Afflis went out looking for trouble. I'm more interested in him." Gudelsky said he probably would delay his hearing until after Bruiser's appearance in Recorder's Court at 2 p.m. Monday.

brown; or 59.95 His Arm, Bat Cany White Sox Single Sparks Rally in 12th NEW YORK (UPB Mike Hershberger, who entered the game as a ninth-inning defensive replacement, singled home two runs with two out in the 12th inning Wednesday to give the Chicago White Sox a 6-4 victory over the New York Yankees. Relief pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm, permitted the Yankees to score the tying run in the ninth inning when one of his dancing knucklers eluded catcher J. C. Martin with a runner on third base. He shut out New York for the last innings to receive credit fcr his first win of the season.

Wilhelm started the winning rally with a slow-speed grounder through the right side of the Yankee Infield leading off the 12th. He moved to second on a sacrifice to third on Nellie Fox short single, and both scored on Hershberger's single. THE WHITE SOX built up an early four-run lead, with the help of Floyd Robinson's two-run double and an error by right fielder Roger Maris, and appeared en route to an easy victory behind Juan Pizarro. But the Yankees scored two runs in the seventh on a walk and doubles by Jack Reed and Harry Bright, and then tied the score in the ninth. Pizarro was only one out away from victory when left fielder Dave Nicholson mis-played successive fly balls by Elston Howard and Reed into a double and a triple.

That brought Wilhelm out of the bulljen to pitch to Bright. Wilhelm 's second pitch, a knuckler, was a strike that Bright missed and then went through Martin for a passed ball. CHICAGO AB 3 Fox. 7b Ward, 3b 4 Robinson.rf 4 Cungham.lb 3 eMaxwell.lb 2 Nicholson, If Hansen, st Martin, 5 Pizarro, 3 Wilhelm, 2 NEW YORK AB Lopez.lt Tresh.cf Howard. Maris, rf aReed.rf Briqht.lb Kubek.ss Williams.

bGrnzalez StaHord.p cLinz Reniff.p dBerra Bouton.p IPepiton Arrovo.p Bridges, Kunkel.p 0 1 Totals 43 Totals 42 4 7 Ran for Maris in 2nd; Popped out for Williams in 3rd; cGrounded out for Stafford in Am; dGrounded out for Reniff in 8th; eGrounded out for Cunningham in 10th; fFlied out for Bouton in 10th. Chicago N. York 1 1 0 0 0 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 0 0 1-1 0 0 0-4 E-Marlt, Lopez. PO-A Chicago 3-, New York 34-14. OP-Kubek, Richardson and Bright.

LOB Chicago S. New York 3. 2B Robinson 2, Reed, Bright, Howard. 3B Reed. SB Landis 2.

Landis. RBI Robinson 2, Hershberger 2, Cunningham, Reed, Bright 2. IP 1 4 0 1 1 2 0 1 ER BB SO Pizarro Wilhelm Williams Stafford Reniff Bouton Arroyo (LXM) Bridges Kunkei 1 3 Vi HBP By Williams (Cunningham). PB Martin. Rice, Valentine, McKinley, Chylok.

THERE IS A LOT OF DEBATE around town these days about what Richard (Dick the Bruiser) Afflis, an acknowledged villain, will or will not do to Alex (Killer) Karras when they rassle here Saturday night. Until a parcel of hours ago, the strongest thing to be said in their behalf was that it could bring a few folks downtown on bath night, keep some lights burning out on Grand River and provide some laughs. It was just another Titanic Tussle in a long line of Titanic Tussles concocted by energetic promoters for the edification of cash-paying customers who live, die and exult in the phony goings-on of the wondrous world of wrestling. Since The Bruiser and The Killer had nothing else to keep them busy on the night of April 27 that would pay them up to five grand for wearing trunks and not much more, they agreed to grunt, groan, writhe, gloat, glower and ham it up for the money-dropping True Believers. At the time this Match of the Century was made, it looked as harmless as all of rassling's Matches of the Century.

It figured that The Bruiser and The Killer would get together a few days before their Titanic Tussle, practice a few Lethal Holds, decide which one should play villain and then await the promoter's suggestion as to the identity of the pre-arranged winners. It Was Easy to Figure Onec IMPARTIAL OBSERVERS, wise in the theatrical aspects of all such Titanic Tussles, had a few ideas on the subject. They figured that it would only be fitting and proper if The Bruiser fell back on the time-tested practice of getting himself disqualified late in this Battle of the Behemoths. Naturally, he would be ahead at the time. But by throwing the referee out of the ring, or something similar, he would postpone a verdict and bring about the inevitable rematch for the further edification of the True Believers.

Like I said, this was the supposition of the skeptics at the time the match was made. At the moment, they frankly are a little bewildered in the wake of recent developments. Accustomed as they are to fancy publicity stunts as a buildup for getting rid ot empty seats, they are having problems in gulping down the latest one. That was when The Bruiser, obviously a man who bruises easily, invaded the lair of The Killer and wound up in the pokey after taking on eight of Detroit's finest and leaving marks on several. Big Alex Is a Bit Ilusly Now IF THIS WAS A PUBLICITY STUNT, it definitely deserves a Gold Cluster for action over and above the average call of duty.

The Bruiser came out of it with more wounds than he had been able to collect in years of almost-nightly activity of Titanic Tussles on the mat. The general idea seems to be that he actually is teed-off and on the serious side about his match with Karras. While this definitely is against most of the rassling rules it could pose a little problem for Alex. It must be presumed that he figured he was in for nothing more than a night of grunts when he accepted the Titanic Tussle of Saturday. Alex hasn't rassled for three years.

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