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'1 2 SECTION DETROIT FREE PRESS Sunday, July 24. 1849 Grid Clinic Set Up as Preliminary to Fresh Air Fund Game They're Ready to Defend Harmsworth Cup Feller Beats Nats, 5-3; Free Press Asks Preps to 'School9 McMillin Heads Instructors' Panel BY BOB LATSHAW Gains on Yanl LS a I I if A As of TODAY 9 Innings Long Time for Most Tiger Hurlers BY LYALL SMITH 1 1 Sfv it It I hrfr rrt A DETROIT HEADER, Robert L. Sanchez, parks his tongue in his cheek to facetiously write: "I have the perfect solution to speed up Tiger ballgames. All that is required is to install a special-delivery escalator service between the bullpen in center-field and the pitcher's mound It safely can be stated that there will be no rush by Briggs Stadium engineers to investigate the feasibility of his suggestion. But it can be just as safely stated that Reader Sanchez deftly has probed a sore spot in the striped anatomy of the 1949 Bengals.

For some reason (chiefly opposing bats) Detroit pitchers are uniformly opposed to starting a game and finishing it. And it is for that reason that the grass between the mound and bullpen is beginning to show signs of wear 'n tear. Proof is in the records. When Art Houtteman defeated the Yanks, 2-1, Saturday it marked the sixth time a Tiger starter finished a game in Detroit's last 36 contests! Hal Newhouser had two complete games to his record over that span. On June 25 he defeated the Yanks, 9-3, and on June 29 he shutout Cleveland, 4-0.

Lou Kretlow went the distance on July 7 in 9-2 style over St. Louis; Art Houtteman lasted on July 10 against Chicago, 1-0, while Ted Gray finished on July 17 over the Athletics, 8-0. Free Press Photo by Vlnce Witek GENE (LEFT) AND DANNY ARENA REACH DOCK AFTER RECORD-MAKING RUN They pushed Such Crust I to 96.895 MPH in first lap of Harmsworth trials Six of Eight Can't Even more amazing is Detroit's record on its current home stand. The team has won six of its last eight games and yet only -fit, v5 TV ,5 is- 2 twice has the starter been around at the finish. Excluding those two exceptions JIanager Red Rolfe used 21 pitchers in six games and still won five of them.

Strange part about the inability of the pitching staff to go all the way is that it was pointed to by Rolfe in training camp this Spring as one of the spots about which he was not particularly worried. Yet it can be proved by hard and cold facts that the Tigers have used an average of three pitchers in every game they have played to date this season! Keep going on the same theme and that fact becomes even Boat Race Mark Set in Trials Skip-A-Long Accepted by Selection Group Continued from Page One which had helped her to two heat victories in the Detroit Memorial Trophy Race. SKIPr A-LONG, winner of the Memorial Trophy and the Gull Lake Regatta, couldn't match Such Crust Ts speed. However, the San Francisco-owned boat once again proved she has reliability to go along with her speed. The trials now gives Skip-along a record of 196 miles in top competition during the past month.

No other Harmsworth candidate has done this. Skip-a-long had lap averages of 94.948 and 9S.529 for an average of 94.296 miles per hour. The performance of My Sweetie, with Dodge at the wheel, provided most of the post-trials comment. Dodge bought the boat a week ago from Ed Gregory and Ed Chart of Boats Here's the lap by lap performance of boats in the Harmsworth Trials: Boat Such Crust I First I.ao Second Lap Ak. 9.8'.5 97.9WJ 07.4 94.018 93.5'.'9 Ro.495 89.728 87.5HI Mup-A-Lnnr Mi Sweetie Sneh Crnst TT Aluminum First 80.9;,7 80.641 80.779 70.53J 73.336 71.91t Schoenherr.

With his purchase he took Bill Cantrell, who had gained the victory in the Gold Cup, out of the craft and elected to drive himself. DODGE WAS clocked on his first lap of 85.495 miles per hour and pushed it up to 89.728 miles per hour on the second. The average was 87.561. Dodge was almost 10 miles per hour slower than Such Crust I and had a poorer average than Cantrell had in winning the Gold Cup. There wai a general feeling the millionaire automobile heir had not gained top performance out of the boat.

Dodge conceded that he had not been able to push My Sweetie to her top speed. '1 made stupid mistake," he said, "and failed to give her proper fuel mixtn. i rgt to pull an automatic switch which would have supplied the right mixture. Blame it on my lack of knowledge of a new boat. There was plenty of speed left in her." The Selection Committee has jurisdiction to pick drivers as well as boats.

It possibly could ordpr Cantrell to take the wheel for another run. How the fiery, hot-tempered Dodge would react to such a move is a matter of conjecture. Keep Cool! BIG MEN'S TROUSERS Up to 56 Waist ROESINK'S Open Evenings 38 Mich. Ave. a Some mone in 55 A' it more confusing in view of another the 1949 Tigers definitely have 1948 predecessors.

1 iin (lilnfit- ritWitrifTHtilf" Home Run Pace Improves SCHAFER CRAFT SPEEDS ALONG IN OPENING TEST It zooms under Belle Isle bridge at top speed HOMERUN FIGURES alone prove it. The '48 Detroiters collected only 78 four-baggers over 155 games. With the current campaign only a short distance over the half-way hump, the 1949 edition has poled out 50. Try to boil down such a collection of data and you arrive at this confused conclusion, and it isn't startling either. Virgil Trucks and Newhouser must carry the load.

Gray, Tribe Bob Hurls Five-Hitter, Wins 7th Indian Rallies Cut Deficit to 42 Games CLEVELAND (U.P.) Matching rally for rally, the Cleveland Indians defeated the Washington Senators, 5 to 3, before 21,354 and gave Bob Feller his seventh 1949 triumph. The Tribe thus cut New York's American League margin to four and a half games, as the Yankees lost to Detroit, 2 to 1. THE SENATORS scored twice off Feller in the fifth inning and the Indians came right back with three off Joe Haynes. Washington tied the score in the eighth but the Indians bounced ahead again with two runs on a walk to Dale Mitchell, a single by Thurman Tucker and Mickey Vernon's triple. These runs came off Floyd Hittle who lost his third game in five decisions.

Feller allowed five hits. It was the eighth straight loss for Washington. WASHINGTON CLEVELAND AB A AB II A ewt.3b 4 14 1 4 3 0 0 oan.If 2 0 3 0 Tucker.ef 5 17 0 4 0 11 5 3 3 2 4 3 5 12 1 J.ewis.rf 4 110 5 0 3 1 4 19 0 Koone.si 3 0 2 2 Dente.ss 4 113 rPerk 1 1 0 Early.e 3 4 1 Waynes. I 2 10 1 3 3 4 0 Hudson. 9 1 Hegan.e 2 15 1 aC'ollmer Feller.p 4 0 1 hSim'ons Hit tie, 0 Gettel.n 0 0 Totals 31 8 24 7 Totals 36 11 27 8 Walked for Hudson in eighth.

hRan for Volimer In eighth. cSingled for Boone in fifth. Washington OOO 030 01 0 3 (Iceland 000 030 02 5 Lewis. Robinson. Simmons.

Mitchell 2. Tucker. Gordon. Boudrean. Yost.

Tucker. RBI Dente. Haynes, Kennedy. Robertson. Peck 2.

Vernon 2. 2B Lewis. Robinson. 3B Vernon. LB Washington 4.

Cleveland 12. BB Haynes 2. Hudson 1. Hittle 1. Feller 3.

Haynes 2. Hudson 1. Hittle 1. Feller 3. Havnes in 4.

Hudson 1 in 2Vb. Hittle 2 in Gettel none in LP Hittle. Attendance 21.354. Bosox Bats Batter Broicn Hurlers, 16-5 ST. LOUIS (iP) The Red Sox had a field day with Brownie pitching as Boston clubbed out 19 hits for a 16 to 5 rout of St.

Louis before a slim crowd of 2,169. Bobby Doerr opened the Boston attack in the second with a home run while the sacks were empty. He sent his eleventh out of the park in the seventh with Johnny Pesky and Ted Williams on. Williams also clouted a four-bagger in the third with a man on. Don DiMaggio had only one hit a single in the fourth but it ex tended to 18 the number of games in which he has hit safety.

BOSTON AB A 6 16 0 6 2 1 1 Willlaroi.l 4 3 10 4 13 3 Ooerr.2 6 3 1 3 st. ions AB 3 0 1 Kokos.r 4 2 2 Priddy.3 4 2 4 Platt.l 4 4 A 0 0 3 4 2 3 0 0 110 12 0 3 15 8ievers.ef 4 Lehner.l 4 Lollar.e 4 4 6 3 Zarllla.r 4 2 Ratts.e 6 3 Stobbs. 3 1 3 6 I 2 Embree.p 1 Papal. 1 2 1 2 3 1 Totals 45 19 27 10 Totals 35 10 27 14 Boston 012 241 SO 1 1 St. Louis 000 100 040 5 DIMarglo, PeskT 2.

Williams 1, Doerr 4. Goodman. Zarilla 3. Batts 2. Stobbs.

Dillinger. Kokns. Priddy. Wlnegarner Stobbs. Pellagrini.

Stoohens. RBI Doerr 4. Williams 3, DiMaggio 2. Pesky. Piatt.

Stobbs. Zarilla 2. Batts 2, Winegarner 2. SieTers. 2B Kokos.

Batts, Priddy. SB Zarilla. BR Doerr 2. Williams. Wlnegarner.

Stobbs 2. DP Pellagrini. Priddy and Tehner; Stobbs. Stephens and Goodman: Pesky, Doerr and Goodman. LB Boston 10, St.

Louis 4. BB Stobbs 1. Emhree 5. Papal 1. SO Stobbs 7, Emhree 1, Wine-earner 1.

Embree 6 in 3lA. Papal 10 in 3. Wlnegarner 3 in 2. WP Stobbs. LP Embree.

Attendance 2.169. 300 for Practice Val Smith, 184-average bowler, wound up with a 300 game Saturday in a "pot" match at Ritter's Recreation. Smith, who has been rolling for nine years, started off with 224 and 201 against Nelson Pheil. Odd Distinction NEW YORK (U.R) Alice Coachman, who won the high jump with a leap of 5 feet, 6V2 inches, was the only United States woman to gain a victory in the women's track and field events at the 1948 Olympic Games. FOR SALE 18 Hole Golf Course Class Liquor license.

13 Miles from Detroit. Contact Owner, Box 1440, Detroit Free Press. DETROIT 1 July 24 Tickets for above Stadium 9:00 IN SEMIFINAL ROUND Houtteman and Fred Hutchinson The Detroit Free Press and the Detroit Lions have extended an invitation to high school foot ball players and their coaches to be guests at a football clinic and the Free Press Fresh Air Fund game Aug. 17 at TJ. of D.

Stadium. This double-barreled gridiron entertainment is open to all the future All-Americas in the state who will comply with a few regular tions. 1 Any bona fide coach, or athletic director can procure tickets for his squad by writing to Lew Cromwell, in care of the Detroit Lions, 1401 Michigan Detroit. 2 The only charge will be a 25 cent tax on each ticket. This will entitle them to both the clinic and the game.

Although the clinic is aimed at the youngsters who are trying to absorb as much football as possible, the average fan will benefit greatly from the demonstration of the finer points of football. COACH BO McMILLIN, head man of the Lions, and his as' sistants, Timmy Timerario and George Wilson; Chuck Baer, head coach of the Umversity of Detroit, and Lou Zarza, coach at Wayne University, will conduct the clinic. The demonstration will be designed to aid the average football fan to get more out of the game. What to look for, the differences of various systems and evolution of football offense will be highlighted. Do you know the difference between the "Tight and the "Split What is the best point of the Single Wing attack? These questions will be answered with players from the University of Detroit, Wayne and the Lions demonstrating the maneuvers.

THE CLINIC is slated for 7 p.m. just an hour and a half before the Lions make their first appearance in Detroit this year. The clinic will afford football fans the opportunity to see specialists punters, passers, runners, demonstrate the techniques of this day of specialized football. Don Doll, Johnny Panelli and George Brodnax will be on hand, fresh from their feats in the annual All-Star game in Chicago. They will be In the freshman lineup that will battle the "Varsity" in the first full dress game of the year.

Proceeds of the game will go toward making vacations possible for underprivilaged children at the Free Press Camp on Sylvan Lake. Admission to the game is $1.50. Tickets will go on sale Wednesday at the Lions' office and the Free Press Public Relations Counter. WHLLE PLANS for the Fresh Air Fund game have been completed, this will be a busy week for the Lions. The club will transfer its headquarters from the Tuller Hotel to the new offices opposite Briggs Stadium.

Ticket offices, staff headquarters and storage rooms will be located at 1401 Michigan after Monday. SEVERAL OF the 1949 crop of Lions have begun to trickle into itown, awaiting the opening of training camp at Michigan Normal rert for the first sessions. ranelli, Doll, Brodnax and probably two or three others will bo missing from the Initial drills because of All-Star game commitments. The Lions have asked waivers on Guard Bill Micklich, obtained late last year from the New York Giants. Jersey Joe Off NEW YORK (JP) Joe Walcott left by plane for Stockholm, where he will meet Alle Tandberg, Swedish heavyweight champion, in a bout on Aug.

14. He was accompanied by his manager, Felix Bocchiccio. GREEN members, a Junior tourney was arranged for last week. It proved that the boys and girls are hungry for competition. About 40 players were expected.

Exactly 129, ranging from seven to 18, turned out. Immediately another tourney was scheduled at a date three weeks distant. This is a step, but two such tournaments during the summer months aren't enough. POSSIBLY THE worst competi-golf this season will be played at Lakepointe on Wednesday. It will be the first annual Sports Writers Announcers tourney, sponsored by that club.

Some 30 will take part, none of whom probably can break 90. The annual Big Day, sponsored by the Women's District, tops the card for next week. It will be held Monday at Meadow-brook, its traditional site. Olher events slated are the annual Father and Son matches Tuesday at Bloomfield Hills; MGA New Favorites Appear in Birmingham Golf Roy Nelson and Bob Holden are the latest to move into the hurlers on the 10-man staff have won only seven games among them and for the most part have been merely an interlude between Tiger pinch-hitters. Rolfe now has resorted to using his five starters as reliefers and it's not because he is worried about how strange the park will look when a path finally is worn between bullpen and pitcher's mound, either.

It's just about the only way he is certain to get capable relief pitching. risky role of favorites in the Birmingham Invitational. ,41 flnrtinff WrrVii-h frfWi HINCHMAN AND CONNOLLY went 22 holes to eliminate Duane Tibbits, of Birmingham, and Bill Florence, of Berkley. The Linklaters advanced with a 5-and-4 rout of Hank Speiss and Wally Uvers, of Oakland Hills. Winners of the morning semifinals will meet Sunday afternoon in the finals.

Wk en uou Save BIG PURSE IN OFFING Wyandotte Crew Wins Takes 8-Oar Race in U.S. Regatta BUFFALO UP) An interme diate, eight-oar crew from Wyandotte Boat Club brought the Detroit area its only victory Saturday in the first eight events of the National Rowing Regatta being staged here. The crew was comprised of Len Grennon. Frank Kowalski. Bob McCrea, Mai Malcolmson, Ed Iz-bicki, Ray Hebda, Ed Klapec, Vern Brayman and Coxswain Felix Alexandrowski.

ECORSF. BOAT Club eained a third and two fourths in three of the eight events. Detroit Boat Club garnered a third and a fourth. Wyandotte managed a fifth In the senior four-oared shells in addition to its triumph. West Side Rowing- Club, of Buf falo, held an eight-point edge over the Vesper Boat Club, of rmia-delphia, in the race for the team championship.

Locke Miffed over Reports of PGA Ban LEEDS, England (P) Bobby Locke, of South Africa, big money winner in United States golf tournaments "I don't ever want to play golf in America again." Locke, who won the British Open championship earlier this month, termed reported efforts in America to bar him from the $55,000 Tarn o' Shanter tourney opening in Chicago Aug. (5 as "silly and a disgrace." I'M SURPRISED," Locke said when told that George May, Tarn Shanter promoter, was quoted as saying he thought Locke should be barred from United States tournaments by the Professional Golfers' Association. "That contradicts the statement May made earlier this week," the South African explained. "Then he said 'Bobby Locke alwaws will be welcome to the Tam o' "It's silly," Locke added. "I wish they'd make up their minds whether to let me play or not.

I have my ticket to fly to New York Thursday. "I'll send May a cable and ask him if my entry has been accepted. If it isn't, I'm going to stay right here. I don't ever have to play golf in America if that's the way it going to De. icith Marshall Dann League Sunday are eight courses; WDGA Tuesday at Western; Quarterbacks Tuesday at Birmingham and Women's MGA Wednesday at Pontiac.

HOLE-IN-ONE CLUB NEWS: The 147-yard sixth hole at Plum Brook continues to be the luckiest in Detroit. It was aced for the fourth time this season, Gilbert Ferrario doing it with a No. 7 iron. The youngest ace-maker so far this year is 14-year-old Dick Willis. He scored with a No.

5 iron on the 160-yard third at Sunny-brook. George Homer borrowed a No. .6 iron from his partner and holed out on the 140-yard eighth at Rackham. J. M.

Julian connected on the 175-yard 16th at Hawthorne Valley with a No. 5 iron. John Hill joined the club with a No. 7 iron shot on the 133-yard fourth at Maple Lane. J.

B. Brown's No. 4 wood was exactly the right club on the 190-yard seventh at Birmingham. Midget Pilots Mob Oval with Eyes on Title Race Make It fact. And that is the one that more batting punch than their are next best.

The other five chnship, scheduled for Thurs- day night. THE REASON FOR the sudden invasion is obvious. Two years ago, the mid-season championship developed a $4,500 jackpot. Ralph Pratt, a veteran, pilot here, received the lion's share then, and Carl Forberg, another local standy, took the big end last year. This year's championship affair, according to General Manager Andy Barto, probably will pay the biggest purse of any midget track in the country.

The mid-summer program has consistently attracted near-capacity crowds of 8,000. The race, open to all AAA midget auto pilots, will be open to only 12 of the fastest qualifying cars. TEE TO The recent qualifying trials for the National Junior championship drew a disappointing turnout of only nine players. Not a one was from a Detroit course. Five were from Garden City, representing Warren Valley.

The others were outstaters. This is an amazing commentary on the work done by the golf pros of the district with youngsters in competitive golf. It exposed one glaring weakness in the local golfing setup. The kids are on the short end of the fat summer-long schedule arranged by and for their golfing elders. THERE ARE four organized golfing associations around Detroitthe Women's District, the Detroit District (men), the MGA (semi-private courses) and the PGA.

Each makes sure it books a solid season card for itself. Only the Women's District has made a constructive move for the benefit of the kids. Through the efforts of two I i The two St. Clair Shores golfers, relative strangers in the summer-lone- series of best-ball tourna ments, won their third match to reach Sunday's semifinals. Thev heat Rov Cullenbine.

ex- Tiger baseballer from Birmingham, and iiid jurvasu, or ounny DrooK, 4 and 3, in the quarterfinals. NELSON AND HOLDEN will eet their next test aeainst Perry Byard, of Birmingham, and Ed Flowers, or uaKiana iuis. xne Byard-Flowers duo has been one of the biggest maker of upsets in the tournament. Byard and Flowers scored their latest triumph over Paul Jackson, of Oakland Hills, and Harold Stewart, of Birmingham, 4 and 2. The other semifinal pairs Lou Hinchman, of Lochmoor, and Frank Connolly, of Gowanie, against Birmingham's Linklater brothers, George and Harry.

Braves' Ace Not Serious BOSTON (U.R) Manager Billy Southworth said that Vern Bick-; ford, Boston Brave right-hander struck on the left ankle by a liner from Pittsburgh Catcher Clyde McCullough's bat Friday night, will not miss his regular pitching turn. Bickford was carried from the: field after McCullough's blow but reported Saturday without a limp. He became the first Boston hurler to win 12 games when he was credited with the Braves' 5-3 triumph. Major League Leaders LEADING BATSMEV AMERICAN UEAGIK AB Pel. .345 .310 .338 ,326 'i6 KELL.

DETROIT DiMaeKio. Boston William. Boston 80 S-ll SB 111 78 3-il 7 109 89 8 87 111 Diilincer, St. Louii 78 310 41 101 Sievers. St.

Ixmis 77 244 4 79 JN.VriONAA, UK AO I AB Pet. Robinson. Brooklyn 88 341 75 12 Marshall. New York 79 270 55 SO .333 Srhoendienst. St.

L. 87 357 51 118 .325 Kiner. Pittsburgh 85 309 65 lOO .3 '4 Thomson. New York 87 368 61 118 .321 HOME RtNS Kiner. Pirates 26 Joost.

A's 20 Williams. R. Sox 24 Gordon. Giant lit Stephens. K.

8x 24 Saurr. Cuba 19 RI NS BATTED IN Williams. R. Sox 97 Robinson, Dodgers 74 Stephens. R.

Sox 97 Hodges. Dodgers 69 WERTZ. DET. 82 HITS Rob'on. Dodgert 12 Pesky.

R. Sox 112 Thomson. Giants 118 Williams. R.Sox 111 Schoen'st. Cards 11 KEIX.

TIGERS 111 RUNS William, ft. Box 87 Reese. Dodgers 75 Joost. A's 8 Di.Uaitlo. Ii.

SOX 0 Kob'son. Dodgers One of the largest fields of midget racing cars to compete at the Motor City Speedway will use Monday's program as a warm-up for the richest race of the season. Many drivers who have not raced here all season are expected to enter Monday with an eye on the annual 40 -lap mid -season Ex-MStar at Auburn AUBURN, Ala. () Two new assistants to Auburn Football Coach Earl Brown will be J. Charles (Chuck) Bernard, Michigan's star center of the early 30's, and Ralph Slaten, ex-Georgia Tech tackle.

Bernard succeeds Walter Marshall as line coach. Slaten will be his assistant. Marshall resigned recently. Bernard comes from Michigan Tech, where his team was undefeated last season. After graduating at Michigan in 1934, he played a year of pro football with the Detroit Lions and then worked for 10 years as a Ford Motor Company personnel director.

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