Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 13, 1963, Winnipeg, Manitoba 18 Winnipeg free press tuesday August is 1963 Blue monday red letter Day for Dodg ers by Bob Green associated press sports writer Blue monday not for los Angeles dodgers. It s their favorite Day. First of All it s often base Ball s Day of rest and the big three of the dodger pitching staff say they need it. Secondly last two mondays the National league leaders have sat on the sidelines and watched some of the also rans Knock off c their principal opposition san Francisco giants. The seventh place Philadel phia Phillies did the Job Mon Day rallying for a 3-1 verdict Over giants that increased the Idle dodgers Lead from 3% games to four games. A week before ninth place Houston Colts turned the trick edging giants 5-4 and increasing the Idle dodgers Lead from 4v4 to five games. Too there s the rest an f Gle. And Johnny Podres Sandy and Don Drysdale say who have thwarted a couple o major chances for giants t close in on the Idle leaders. Phillies Johnny Callison and they badly need it. The record bears them out. Their combined recent record is 5-6. We re going to have to get some runs or Well be in bad Drysdale said. Our pitching staff is wearing Down faster this year than last. Close i games grind Down the staff and we be had a lot of close both Drysdale and Koufax have complained of stiff arms and Podres has had to have help from the trainers to keep his Arm in condition. It also is Nice to have help from the second division teams National league a r h Groat St. Louis 472 63 162 Clemente ugh. Gonzalez. Pha. T. Davis. La Pinson Cin. 61 141 431 64 138 379 48 121 484 72 134 Milwaukee 85 runs batted 96. 162 34 13 Home san Francisco 83 stolen and wills los Angeles 25 los Angeles 11-2. .846 los Angeles 214. American league taste Ems bos 414 67 13s .333 372 59 118 432 73 136 Mlynne Rollins. Min. Kallner. Del. Pearson. La 427 60 129, Malzone. Bos. V 421 and Allison Iota. 73 runs batted Boston 78 138 32 Minnesota Hinton Washington 11 Home 28 stolen Baltimore. 28 new York 15-5, .750 Detroit 144. Lefty Chris Short were principal giant killers in the last episode Short beating giants for the first time in i four year major league Caree and Callison belting a decisive two run eighth inning Homer. Boston red sox edged Minne Sota twins 5-4 and ended a nine game losing string while Pitts Burgh pirates knocked off Hou Ston 4-2 Only other games scheduled monday in the majors. I Short who had an 0-5 life time record against giants spaced eight hits struck oui eight and walked Only one. He got All the support he needed when Callison s two run drive wiped out a 1-0 giant Lead. Roy Sievers singled in an insurance run later in the inning. Willie Mays got one of the giant single and extended his hitting string to 14 games. The loss was charged to Jim Duffalo his first of the season. Restored to bos ton Bright Field Job in a lineup shuffle bashed two homers and drove in four runs As red sox snapped their Long losing string and a six game twin winning Streak. Felix Mantilla also homered for red sox his first of the while Dick Radatz blanked twins in 2 2-3 innings of Relief his 50th appearance of the season. Jerry. Lynch drove in two runs with a bases loaded single in the first inning and his defensive replacement Manny Mota singled in another in the eighth in Pittsburgh s Conquest of Hou Ston. Bob Friend won his 14th of the season but had to have Relief help from Elroy face when Al Spangler s fourth hit of the night a double drove in a Colt run in the ninth. Clout sinks Gold eyes compiled from dispatches Jerry Pritchett backed up Rudy May s 13-strikeout pitch ing with a grand slam Home run to Lead Bismarck Mandan cards to a 7-5 Victory Over Winnipeg Gold eyes in the opener of a four game series in Bismarck Mon Day night Pritchetts blast Canie in the sixth inning with Winnipeg Nurs ing a 3-1 Lead and Hung the loss on Gold Eye starter Chuck Hay Good who had loaded the bases with none out. R reliever de Cecil had co on to pitch to Pritchett. Dick Reese added a two run Homer in the seventh to plate what proved to be the winning runs. Frank finn had put Winnipeg out in front with a two run Brilliant career Musial to retire at end of season by Tom Pendergast St. Louis map Stan Musial 42, wrote his baseball obituary monday. Baseball has been my said the tearful Cardinal in announcing his retirement at the end of this season after 22 rears in the major leagues i Ove St. Louis and i be had fun All of these choked with emotion Musial chose As a setting for his re Irementa announcement the Pic a residue country quiet of rant s farm estate of Cardi Nal president August or. Busch was out of town and Branch Sickey baseball s old warhorse and Redbird senior consultant was not present. But Stan s St. Louis team mates were along with their families. They gave Musial a Landing ovation when he moved to a Battery of Micro phones and faced television cameras at the annual Cardinal Ilc Nic. This is a Happy occasion in a said and an in Appy occasion in a Way. But jul be associated with the car finals in a continuing Musial did not elaborate. Hed eyed red eyed and shying away rom the crowd of about 200, Tan the Man from Donora pa., said his retirement was inevitable. Our Outfield is in goo he and i Don think a fellow can expect play longer than 22 years in the major leagues. But i be had the Best Job in the world. The the of putting on a major league uniform hitting Fielding an playing Ball is greater than an other Job i could Ever have Stan Ever since he donned the Cardinal uniform in 1941, a one of the Best loved players baseball. His almost unparalleled feat on the Diamond gained him sports immortality. He has played More game with one major league club tha any player in history. He hold inter change of referees satisfactory Andy Currie referee in chief of the Canadian football league monday expressed satisfaction with the first interchange of referees from Western to Eastern conferences. Last weekend Paul Dojack of Regina Western conference head referee handled games in Tor onto and Hamilton to initiate the new program. Currie said Dojack would re turn to Eastern Canada later in the year for the last of his three Exchange games and that sey Mour Wilson and Ray Boucher would work in the Western con Ference later in the season for a total of three games. He said the Exchange was pro posed at the annual of the league this summer in Winnipeg As a Means of developing and maintaining consistency in officiating throughout the. League. The meeting decided that As Long As the teams were going to play an interlocking schedule the officials should switch As Well. And it looks like a Good baseball standings Northern league w l pet. Cd 62 35 .639 Aberdeen 51 45 .53110v 49 48 .505 13 Winnipeg 45 49 .470 15m St. Cloud 41 55 .42720% grand Forks 41 58 .414 22 monday s results Wynn per 5. Bus Roark Mandan t Aberdeen 2, grand Forks 8 Duluth Superior 4, so Cloud 5 today s games Winnipeg at Bismarck Mandan Aberdeen at grand Forks Duluth Superior at St Cloud National league w t pet. Gel los Angeles 69 46 .600 san fran. 66 51 .564 4 St. Louis 64 53 .547 6 Cin. 64 56 .533 7tt Chicago 61 54 .530 8 Pitts. 60 57 .51310 Pella. 61 58 .51310 Milwaukee 59 59 .500 11 i4 Houston 45 74 .385 1144 new York 38 79 .32532 monday s results Houston .001 000 2 11 0 Pittsburgh 300 000 492 Farrell 10-9 and Batman Friend face 9 and Pagliaroni. San fran 000 000 180 Pella. 000 000 380 Duffalo Bolln 8 and Bailey Short 4-9 and Dalrymple. Or Pella Callison Only games scheduled today s games los Angeles Podres 11-8 at Mil Waukee Sadow Sld 1-5 san Francisco. Marschal 18-5 at Cincinnati. Maloney 17-4 Houston. Bruce 5-8 or Johnson 6-15 at St. Louis Brogulo Pittsburgh. Cardwell 9-12 at new York Jackson 7-14 Stan Musial Henkel still rolling along twi Light track meet the Manitoba track and Field committee of the aau will Spon Sor another of its weekly twi Light meets at 7 . Wednes Day at Sargent Park. Events Are open to All ath letes holding aau cards. These May be purchased at the track. From performances at this and past Twilight meets a num Ber of athletes will be selected to represent Manitoba at the Canadian age class Champion ships aug. 23-24 at Kitchener. Events scheduled for this week s meet include men 440, 880, mile 4x relay High jump hop step and jump and shot put. Women 220, 880, High jump and shot put. De Henkel one of the oldest and one of the few single Drivers at the track May not have win Ning ways in other departments but he certainly makes up for this on wednesday nights when it comes to picking up the Check ered Flag at Brooklands Speed Way. Henkel has picked wins in 33 starts. Six of the-14 Lave been feature wins and have put him Well out front in the Modi fied Point race. Henkel who has been competing for 10 years is his first High Point championship trophy. He has placed second no less than three times but never has managed to come out with the top Hon ors at the Speedway. I the track which has mushroomed into Winnipeg s second largest Spectator Advance to final Sherwin Williams advanced to the Best of five St. James girls Industrial softball league final monday night with 14-8 win Over Mcleod. The painters who won the Best of three Semi final open the final. At 7 . Wednesday against Lof at the Elmwood Winter club. Drawing sport is now suffer ing growing pains. The seating capacity was not enough to hold last wednesday s record crowd. Another capacity crowd is expected this week with the influx of american Drivers eager to get a share of the attractive purses paid at the track. The top three modified Drivers from the Fargo Moorhead and grand Forks circuit will be com Peting against the local Drivers. .560 10 .546 1h4 .463 19 .4781954 .456 22 .450 23 .44723 .362 33 american league w l pet. Gel new York 74 40 .648 Chicago 66 50 .569 9 Minnesota. 65 51 Baltimore 65 54 Cleveland 57 61 Boston 55 60 Kansas City 52 62 los Angeles 54 66 Detroit. 51 63 Washington 42 74 monday s result Boston 000 203 564 Minnesota. 020 020 472 Heffner Radatz 7 and till Man Kaat Roggenburk Dailey 9 and Zimmerman Battey hrs Boston Clinton Mantilla Minn. Hall Only game scheduled today s new York Terry 13-11 Boston Monbouquette 14-7 Cleveland Grant 8-10 at Chicago Fisher 6-8 Baltimore Barber 15-9 at Minnesota Steirman 12-10 Detroit. Bunning Sll at Kansas City Wickersham 8-10 Washington. Rudolph 7-12 at los Angeles Newman 0-3 International Leaocey monday s results Toronto 7. Indianapolis 6 Rochester 10, Buffalo 9 Richmond 0. Little Rock 1 Atlanta 0, Jacksonville 5 Syracuse at Columbus Ppd rain Bucky Peterson Forks and Len from grand Erikson from Fargo will be backed up by Rod Ney Bockwitz from Humbolt Minn. Bockwitz who has been at tending meets Here Evi Dently believes he needs help if the americans Are to take Home the top Money. Time trials will Start this wednesday at 8 . Race time is 1. Point standings Stock division Butch Amos 798 2. Lou Kennedy 769 3. Ken Martini 260. Modified division 1. De Henkel 895 2. Ron my Coll 644 3. Don Morrow 450. Pacific coast league monday s results Salt Lake City 1, Tacoma s Oklahoma 1, Dallas fort Worth 17 Shil pro tourney wednesday Camp Shilo Large contingent of professionals is expected Here wednesday for the first annual Shilo country club pro tournament. The pros will be competing for one of the highest pots in Manitoba in the tournament which was originally scheduled for aug. 25. The club will be just about knee deep in tournaments. The ladies open will be played to Day and open aug 24 25. The Camp commander col. W. S. Hunt has presented the club with the commander s trophy. It is for the pro Competition. Battle to tie Craf and Winnipeg Falcons battled to a 3-3 tie monday night in a greater Winnipeg senior soccer league game. Bruce Porter with two and Tom Jordon scored for Craf. Drago Koprivic Ralph Krebs and Ozzie Pedde replied for fal cons. National league records for runs games hits doubles 721 times at Bat runs batted in and he holds the major league record for total bases three time map three times the Man won National league most valuable player 1943, .1946 and 1948. And seven times he held batting in 1943, .365 in 1946, .376 in 1948, .346 in 1950, .355 in 191, .336 in 1952 and .351 in 1957. Last year he played to 135 games batting .330. Playing fewer games this year he was hitting .260 monday but was fourth among the cards in runs batted in with 4. Cardinal manager Johnny Keane his voice breaking told Musial after this season is Over having the name of Stan Musial missing from the Cardinal line up will be hard to get used to. But one of the big honors and privileges of my life has been to put on the same uniform Stan wears be in the same room Stan is in and be on the same Field and Ball club that Stan Musial s last regular season game will be in St. Louis sept. 29 against Cincinnati reds. Homer in the third the first hit off May and the Gold eyes added another tally in the sixth when Bart Zeller singled Home Coco Laboy who had reached base on a fielder s Choice. Laboy belted a two run Homer for Winnipeg in the eighth. May walked four and gave up five hits in notching his Lith Victory of the season. He went the route for the first time since june 20. He scattered five hits Over the distance. Two of them were the homers to Laboy and finn. Jesse Tor res Bart Zeller and Marty Bel Tran picked up the others. Bel Tran s went for a double. Floyd Wicker who started the season As a weak hitting third baseman then converted to the Mound continued to fill in Tat Centerfield for injured1 Bobby Ken John o Brien lift saints Ken Hewitt scored four goals and John o Brien two monday night As St. Boniface romped to an 8-1 senior men s Box la Crosse league Victory Over Winnipeg olympics at the Kelvin Community club. Jack wicklow and Barry Clarke scored other St. Boniface goals. Ron Jones replied for olym pics. St. James knights meet olym pics at 7 o clock tonight at the Kelvin Community club. Paging Grinders the Riverview Community club s midget football team will hold registrations and a practice at . Tonight at the club Ashland and Eccles Riverview s teams in the six Man football leagues Ages 11-14 will hold registrations for the balance of the week. Dews. Since taking Over the Fielding assignment his has been one of the hottest bats in the Gold Eye lineup. Monday How Ever rhe went witless in four trips. Gold Eye manager Fred Koenig who placed himself on the Active list for the current Road trip got into the game again striking out for Cecil in the ninth inning. Torres Bobby Diaz and Bel Box score results Winnipeg 5, b1s.-Mandan 7 Winnipeg a r h Obi Diaz 2b. 5 0 0 0 Wicker of 4 0 0 0 Torres is 3 1 1 0 Laboy 3b. 4212 pattern ii 4 0 0 0 Zeller c 4 0 1 1 Beltran in. 21 1 0 finn it 3 1 1 2 Haygood a. 2080 Cecil p 1 0 0 0 a Koenig. 1 0 0 0 totals 3358 5 a r Hurbi Durling of 2310 Reese in 3 2 32 Andresen 2b 2 1.0 0 Pritchett in. 3125 Hess of. 4 000 Solters. Is 30 0 0 Brumfield 3b 40 0 0 Richards c 2 0.0 0 May p.-. 40 0 0 totals ----.j7 187 a struck out Tor Cecil in 9th. Winnipeg 002 001 5 000 104 7 e Laboy Solters. To a. Winnipeg 24-8, Bismarck Mandan 27-9. Do Torres Diaz and Beltran. Lob Winnipeg 5, Bismarck Mandan 5. 2b Beltran. Or Laboy finn Reese Pritchett. S Andresen 2, Hess Solters of Pritchett. a Haygood ;