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WEDNESDAY, MAY 20, 1964
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asked to dig deeper into their is tough this year, ask Danny
Murtaugh. He ought to know,
his Pittsburgh Pirates have to
clubs’ treasure chests today for
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N.M., at the wheel. The car
slid some 600 feet through the
Spahn (3-31 and Torre Ellis,
Tsitouris (9) and Edwards. Los-
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triumph over the Pirates.
In the American League, the
Twins erupted for five runs in
the 13th to beat the Yankees,
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the ninth.
Spahn, who struck out six
and walked only one, brought
his lifetime record against the
Reds to 61-26 while evening his
season's slate at 3-3
Elsewhere in the National
League, the Giants bounced
Wickersham (5-3) and Free-
han. Narum, Bridges (6), Duck-
worth (81 and Brumley. Loser
Narum (3-2). HRs — Bruton,
Cash, Zimmer
Oklahoma City.
The 48th annual meet will be
he s.ngled home the first run
of the game in the seventh
Jim Ray Hart had four of the
Giants' eight hits.
Phil Ortega of the Dodgers
survived a shaky fifth inning in
which the Mets rocked him for
three runs to post his third tri-
umph for the Dodgers. Dick
Tracewski drove in two of the
Dodgers’ runs with two of their
eight hits off loser Tracy Stal-
lard (2-5) and reliever Craig
Anderson
The Cubs kayoed Ernie Brog-
lio of the Cardinals in the sev-
enth inning during which he
yielded homers to Billy Wil-
liams and Ron Santo and un-
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Braves Pull Ahead
Sports Editor Dies
SUMMIT, N.J. (UPI(-Serv-
ices will be held today for Don
Schiffer, 45, sports copy editor
of the New York World Tele-
gram and author of several
books on baseball and football.
Schiffer died Monday.
Tuesday's Results
Boston 4 Los Angeles 3, night
Minn 7 NY. 2, 13 inns, night
Ralt. 3 K.C. 2, 10 inns, night
Detroit 5 Washington 2, night
Chicago 6 Cleveland 5. night
Wednesday’s Probable Pitchers
Kansas City at Baltimore
(night)—Segui (2-2) vs. Pappas
Grocery &
Market
Troy, Jewel and Don Thompson
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Tuesday’s Results
Milwaukee 4 Cincinnati 2, night
Houston 3 Pittsburgh 1. night
Chicago 7 St. Louis 4, night
San Fran. 3 Phila. 0, night
Los Ang. 6 New York 4, night
Wednesday’s Probable Pitchers
Pittsburgh at Houston (night)
-Veale 12-3) vs. Nottebart (0-5)
Chicago at St. Louis (night)
—Jackson (5-2) vs. Gibson (3-0)
Philadelphia at San Francisco
-Mahaffey (2-2) vs. Marichal
(6-0).
New York at Los Angeles
(night I—Hinsley (0-1) vs. Will-
hite (1-21.
Milwaukee at Cincinnati
(night)—Lemaster (2-2) vs. Pur-
key (1-2).
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Indians, the Orioles edged the 25; Allison, Twins 24
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Latman (2-2). HRs—Torres, Ad
American L e a g u e — Cash, a proposed rule change that ______ ________ - ______ ...
Tigers 28; Wagner, Indians 27; would add a sixth official, club that finished just ahead of
Hall. Twins 25; Rollins, Twins whose sole function would have Houston (Pittsburgh) was weak
Allison with 10.
Rich Rollins, who didn't fare
much better against New York
last year, also collected a home
run, double and single and
khocked in the go-ahead run in
the 13th. Jim Roland, in trouble
almost all the way, went 12 in-
nings to pick up his first vic-
tory against one defeat.
In other games, rookie Dal-
ton Jones capped a four-run
ninth-inning rally with a three-
run double that carried the Red
Sox over the Angels, 4-3, the
White Sox remained in first
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind (UPI)
—Car owners Micke yThompson
and Andy Granatelli had their
crews hard at work today try-
ing to get damaged racers
ready for the final weekend of
qualifications for the Memorial
Day 500-mile auto race at the
Speedway.
Thompson, who managed to
get one car qualified last week-
pi end, suffered a blow Tuesday
Fe in practice when Eddie Johnson,
jr Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, lost con-
8 trol in the northeast turn and
7 slammed into the wall of the
A north chute
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2 car was damaged extensively.
g Ironically, the accident oc-
FT curred just about the time
* Thompson's crew was getting
. his third car back into shape
A following an earlier practice ac-
" cident.
Granatelli’s hard-luck Novis
were prevented from qualifying
last weekend because of me-
chanical troubles but he had
hopes that the three powerful
cars would be ready Saturday
to shoot for some of the re-
maining berths in the 33-car
field for the May 30 race.
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wheel drive Novi blew Tuesday
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nings, the Red Sox rallied to
down the Angels, 4-3, and the
Tigers toppled the Senators 5-2.
Sanford Blanks Phillies
Jack Sanford blanked the
Phillies on four hits to register
his fourth victory for the Gi-
ants. Del Crandell broke up a
scoreless tie between Sanford
and Dennis Bennett (4-3) when
Twins to o third-place finish
But the Yankees, city slickers
that they are. were unim-
pressed and took the youngster
for a ride Hall hit at least one
homer against every opponent
except New York and finished
the 1963 season with an anemic
096 batting average against the
boys from the Big Town
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giving up 11 hits, including a
homer by Ken Boyer.
Al Spangler’s two-run single
in the fifth inning off Bob
Friend of the Pirates ended the
Colts’ scoring famine and pro-
vided the margin for Bob
Bruce's fifth victory Walt Bond
hit his sixth homer for Houston
in the sixth. The defeat was
Friend's third against the same
number of victories.
corked three
hit department with 45. total
bases with/1o0, home runs with
14 and runs batted in with 41.
Roberts and Bob Perry of Ha-
City Tennis Association and drove two runs with a long tri-
city park department. pie.
(By United Press International)
Teor up that obituary on Warren Spohn because there's
a lot of life in the old geezer yet
Six days ago when he wos shellacked by the Mets,
everyone seemed ready to bury the 43-year-old miracle
man of Milwaukee and Spahn confessed he was greatly
concerned himself "Darn right I was worried," he od- *1° innings)
miffed again Tuesday night. "You always worry until you Kan. City 100 000 00102110
prove yourself." Balt. , 100 000 010 1-391
Imagine a 350-game winner , Drabowsky,. Wyatt (9) .and
having to prove himself’ Lau,Bryan(9 ' Roberts, Miller
5 K ... (9), Hall (10) and Orsino. Win-
Spahn went out and did it ner—Hall (3-0). Loser _ Wyatt
again Tuesday night, even to (3-2). HR—Siebern.
his own satisfaction, when he _____
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while the merry Minnesota Fregosi, LA 27 95 22 35 368 Dancinn Dan
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Major League Standings
By United Press International
American League
W. L. Pct. GB
Oklahoma Tennis
Title Play Is Set
wild Ditches OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) -
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ch am n ion e hin wil h. nlaves
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Giants 14; Howard. Dodgers The owners showed their anced that it has been since
12. Williams, Cubs 10; Allen, charitable side Tuesday when I’ve been in it as a player or
Phils 7; McCovey, Giants 7. they voted to increase the play- manager,” Danny said at a
American League — Colavito, ers‘ shares from the annual press conference Tuesday.
Athletics 10; Allison, Twins 10; Pro Bowl All-Star game at Los
Hall, Twins 10; Killebrew. Angeles.
Twins 9, Skowron, Senators 8;; A new scale of $1,000 for each
Held, Indians 8 winning player and $700 for
Runs Batted in every player on the losing team
New York 100 030 000- 4 6 0
Los Ang. 203 001 OOx- 6 8 2
Stalard, Anderson (5) and
Gonder. Ortega (3-2) and Rose-
boro. Loser—Stallard (2-5).
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Jimmie Holl fmolly has discovered that New York can
be a nice place to visit after all—and not just because of
the World's Fair, either
Hall, a country boy from North Carolina, put one over
on most of the American League last year when he slam-
med 33 homers to erase Ted William's league record for
round-trippers by a rookie and helped the Minnesota
10-45'
Athletics in 10 innings; and the
Tigers tripped the Senators, 5-2.
Roof Fell in
There were two men out and
nobody on in the bottom of the
ninth and the Angels’ Bo Belin-
sky was coasting to a shutout
until the roof caved in at Bos-
ton. Dick Stuart walked and ad-
vanced to third on Tony Conig-
Haro's double. Exit Belinsky
and enter Barry Latman, who
proceeded to walk Bob Tillman
and hit Roman Mejias with a
pitch, forcing in a run With
one ball on pinchhitter Jones.
Latman was replaced by Don
Lee who ran the count to three-
two before Jones cleared the
bases.
Gary Peters gained his fourth
victory for Chicago, which
moved a game in front of the
Yankees, but needed relief help
from Hoyt Wilhelm and Don
Mossi. Mossi fanned John Ro-
mano with the tying run on
second to end the game. Tom
McGraw had three hits for the
southwest turn but Unser man-
Cp„‘p T.-u, aged to keep it from hitting
rIdIeI 10dV anything Granatelli said. how-
1 1 -V- 1 MI ever that it would take several
NEW YORK (UPI) - Buster hard work to rebuild
the big, eight-cylinder engine in
Mathis, the Michigan blimp, time for the final weekend of
gets the big test of his career time trials.
(13 innings)
Minnesota
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National League - Mays, into effect for the 1965
Giants 35. Stargell. Pirates 26. Previously, the winners’
Boyer, Cards i 26; Howard, share was $800 and the losers
Dodgers 25 (6 players tied with received $600 each.
The owners earlier withdrew
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Minnesota at New York-Ar- back into first place with a 3-0
rigo (2-1) vs. Terry (1-2). victory over the, Phillies,, the
Los Angeles at Boston might) Dodgers squeaked by the Mets.
—Chance (2-1) vs Lamabe (3-1). 6-4, the Cubs clipped the Car-
Detroit at Washington (night) dinals,, 7-4, . and, the Colts
—Rakow (0-2) vs. Osten (2-4), snapped a string of 25 consecu-
(Only games scheduled) tive scoreless innings with a 3-1
Thursday's Games
Detroit at Washington (night)
Kansas City at Balt, (night)
Los Angeles at Boston
National League
W. L. Pct. GB
San Francisco 20 11 .645
tonight when he fights slugger
Joe Frazier of Philadelphia in Robers Leads
the heavyweight final oftheg 1 .
Olympic boxing trials. COGST -eague
If the six-foot-three, 295-pound On 381 Averace
Mathis can prevailnoversthenleft SAN FRANCISCO (UP*
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pounder, Mathis would have a Roberts has . taken over the
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SjaSTASl* off. Pacific Coastt League. He has
pic Games at Tokyo in Octo- a l aveage. t r.. 1.
ber, his critics admit. . Marvin Stahleof Indianapolis
thing as. pushover this year-svietorygtonightinthe wutdoor 'Carlos Bernier of Hawaii has
that's right, not even the Mets Fr wiil "rn MathisFra 37 runs to top the circuit. Tony
"Last year we had some zier a berth on the United Perez of San Diego leads in the
weak clubs in the league.” States' 10-man Olympic boxing
Murtaugh said "The Mets were team.
weak. Houston was weak The ______________
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six hits for a 4-2 victory that Boston 000 000 004- 4 51
boosted the Braves into a tie Belinsky, Latman (9), D Lee
for fourth place. (9) and Satriano. Monbouquette
The triumph was the 353rd of Heffner (9) and Tillman. Win-
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Braves ahead after the score Chicago 001 130 Olx— 6 12 3
had been tied at 1-1 Rico Carty Sieberg, McMahon (5), Bell
connected for the Braves’ third (7), Abernathy (8) and Azcue.
homer of the contest in the Peters. Wilhelm (9), Mossi (9)
ninth off reliever John Tsitour- and Martin. Winner — Peters
is while Gordy Coleman horn- (4-2). Loser—Siebert (1-1).
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National League
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Mays. SF 30 114 31 46 404
Wiliams. Chi 28 1 09 23 43 394
Clmente, Pitt 32 136 26 51 .375
Freese, Pitt 21 57 9 21 .368
Boyer. StL 13 129 21 46 .357
Johnson, Cin 21 55 13 19 .345
New York
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Roland, Pleis (13) and Bat-
tey. Bouton, Reniff (8) and
Howard. Winner — Roland (1-1).
Loser - Renif (2-1). HR-Hall,
Rollins.
National League
Chicago 00 001 312- 7 8 0
St. Louis 000 000 022- 4 11 3
Ellsworth (3-4) and Bertell.
Broglio, Shantz (7), Taylor (8)
and Uecker. Loser — Broglio
(2-3). HRs—Wiliams, Boyer,
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over the Yankees eyes as he Cardnas, Cin 31111 19 37 .33
socked a three-run homer in Torre, Mil 32 1 24 20 41 .331 VAvArc \AAK
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Major League Results
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American League
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