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Indians in 25-Hit Attack on Athletics Pull Out of American League Slump
New York—(U.P.)-The Indians, who were beginning to think runs were imperfections in ladies' stockings, revelled today in the season's most spectacular batting outburst—a 25-hit salute in which Al Rosen hit three homers and Jim Fridley became the first American league rookie ever to smash six consecutive hits in one game.
The Indians' outburst, which buried the Athletics, 21-9, drowned out the plaudits for Curt Simmons' successful debut after 19 months in the army as well as superb pitching performances by the Giants' Sal Maglie, the Braves' Warren Spahn, and the Dodgers' Preacher Roe.
Fridley, rookie up from Dallas, singled in the first, second, fourth, fifth, eighth and ninth innings to tie the modern mark of six hits in a game now shared by 29 players. Terry Moore in 1935 and Paul Waner in 1926, both National leaguers, were the only other players to turn the trick as rookies.
Bob Feller, who lost a one-hitter to Bob Cain and the Browns in his previous outing, held the A's to two runs in the first six innings. He then relaxed with an overwhelming lead and the A's wound up with 18 hits, pounded him for seven runs in the last three innings.
The Indians, who had been shut out in three of their four previous games and held to one hit twice, wasted no time announcing the end of their hit famile. They scored six runs in the first inning, led, 12-2 after three innings and capped their slugging bee with a seven-run rally in the eighth inning.
Rosen, who now leads both leagues with six home runs, knocked in seven runs. He hit two of the homers with two mates aboard and also collected a single for a four-hit evading. Harry Simpson also collected four hits for the Indians and Elmer Valo had four for the A's.
Simmons, key to the Phillies' pennant hopes, walked only one batter and struck out two as he beat the
Maglie won his own game as he lined a single over shortstop to score Alvin Dark, who had walked and moved to second on an infield out, with the winning run in the ninth. The loss was the Reds' fourth of the year and Blackwell, who has yet to win, was the losing pitcher in three of them.
Spahn, striking out 11 for a season high, dealt the Pirates their 10th straight loss, 5-1. Pittsburgh's run in the seventh inning, which was unearned, broke a string of 20 scoreless frames. Spahn's victory was his first of the season.
Cubs, 8-2. It was his first appearance on the mound since Sept. 9, 1950 but he showed the same crackling curve ball that made him a 17-game winner that season. The Cubs got only seven hits—including Harry Chitti's home run in the seventh inning. The entire Philadelphia team rushed to the mound to congratulate Simmons when he retired the last Cub in the ninth frame.
Roe, who beat the Cardinals sever times last season, scattered nine hits to down the Redbirds, 4-1. It was Roe's third straight triumph, in which he has permitted a total of four runs. The Dodgers now have won eight of their nine games.
Maglie, the Giants "stopper," continued his magnificent early-season pitching with a three-hitter to outduel Ewell Blackwell and beat the Reds, 2-1. It was Sal the Barber's third straight route-goer and he now has allowed a total of nine hits (a four-hitter, a two-hitter and a three-hitter) irv victories over the Phillies, Dodgers and Reds.
Former Kentucky Cage Stars Say Rupp Gave Them Money
Former University of Kentucky basketball players have testified that they frequently received tips of $50 from Head Coach Adolph Rupp after winning important games.
General Sessions Judge Saul S. Streit said yesterday in New York that grand jury testimony disclosed that the players were given not only money from Rupp, but also were lavished with gift certificates amounting to as much as $100 and fat bonuses.
Streit made the disclosures in dealing suspended sentences to three Kentucky players, Alex Groza, Ralph Beard, and Dale Barnstable, who had pleaded guilty to conspiring with alleged fixers to shave game points.
Jim Line, former player and part-time coach said that clubs around Lexington, gave him gift certificates valued at $75 and $100. He said Rupp once gave him $50 after Kentucky beat Baylor in 1948, and a Lexington druggest gave him $40 on a train trip north.
1945-46 season he would get $5 or $10 after each game from Rupp, if the coach thought he played well.
Beard testified that during the
Walter Hirsch, another Kentucky player, said Rupp gave each of the starting players $50 after beating Kansas and St. John's during the 1950-51 season.
Barnstable said if the players turned in a good game, they usually received from $10 to $20 each. He said that in 1948-49, an assistant coach gave each of the players $50 on the start of a train trip north and each received $50 when the team beat Purdue in the fall of 1949.
In Lexington, top University of Kentucky officials were shocked into silence by the New York judge's blast at the school's athletic policies.
The judge said Barnstable also had testified that in the Sugar Bowl game with St. Louis in January of 1949, he had missed a shot, following which "Rupp came back and gave me the devil and said that the shot I missed just cost his friend, Burgess Carev, $500."
All requests for comment were referred to Dr. H. L. Donovan, the school's president, and he was reported "out of town."
The Philadelphia Phils were whooping it up in Chicago yesterday as though they had just won the pennant.
Phillies Jubilant Over The Return of Curt Simmons to Pitching Staff
And, the fact of the matter is, maybe they had. Curt Simmons, big wheel of the Phillies' 1950 pennant season had just celebrated his return from 19 months in the Army with a seven-hit, 8-2 victory over the Chicago Cubs.
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Across the room, catcher Smoky Burgess bellowed, "He was fast, planety fast."
"Boy. I'm tired. Not too tired, but tired enough." Simmons said amidst the back-slapping from his gleeful mates.
The Brown's-Yankees, Tigers-Red Sox, and White Sox-Senators games were postponed because of wet grounds.
"When Curt got that 4-1 lead in the fifth, naturally he didn't have to bear down so much. That let him finish at his own pace."
League Standings
The Cubs generally were impressed with Simmons's comeback. "He had plenty of stuff for my money," said Frank Baumholtz, whose 11-game hitting streak was snapped by four fruitless trips against Simmons.
And Eddie Sawyer, manager of the Philis, was obviously pleased with the impressive return to the Philly mound corps of the pitcher who avon 17 games before he was
called into the Army in 1950.
American League
| | W | L | Pct. | GB |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| Boston | 7 | 2 | .818 | |
| St. Louis | 7 | 5 | .700 | $1\frac{1}{2}$ |
| Cleveland | 9 | 4 | .692 | 1 |
| Washington | 4 | 4 | .500 | $3\frac{1}{2}$ |
| New York | 4 | 5 | .444 | |
| Chicago | 4 | 6 | .400 | $4\frac{1}{2}$ |
| Detroit | 2 | 8 | .200 | $6\frac{1}{2}$ |
| Philadelhia | 1 | 8 | .111 | 7 |
Yesterday's Results
Cleveland 21, Philadelphia 9
St. Louis 21, New York, postponed;
Louisville 21.
Today's Games
Detroit at Boston, postponed; wet grounds
St. Louis at New York (2 games)
Chicago at Washington (twi-nigh
Chicago at Washington, postponed; wet grounds
doubleheader
Cleveland at Philadelphia (night)
Detroit at Boston
National League
Brooklyn 4, St. Louis ↓
Boston 5, Pittsburgh 1
New York 2, Cincinnati 2
Philadelphia 8, Chicago 2
Yesterday's Results
Today's Games
Brooklyn at St. Louis (night)
Boston at Pittsburgh
New York at Cincinnati
Philadelphia at Chicago.
The Colonels now hold the same shaky type lead that plagued the Indians and Milwaukee's Brewers when they occupied the loop's top spot earlier this season.
Pitcher Ray Narleski changed the Indian's luck after they had lost three straight to the Colonels. Narleski spaced eight Indian hits.
Indianapolis Over Colonels
The Indians' victory left them deadlocked again for third place with the Minneapolis Millers, who beat St, Paul, 7 to 4. The Millers pounded three Saint pitchers for 13 hits.
No association games are scheduled for today.
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In Oklahoma City earlier this week, Phog Allen came out with three different quotes on three different topics. And every word the Jayhawker head basketball coach said was pertinent to the times.
At a banquet Monday, Allen pulled the cork on another bottle of athletic champagne. And it came out with a loud "pop"—especially around the Midwest.
He accused a large Mid western university—which he refused to name—of running a summer athletic camp for prospective basketball and football players. He merely said it was "a very large university, one with an outstanding athletic record."
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"I have been approached by parties with large sums of money to help direct Clyde into pro ball . . . I could have made a tidy sum myself if Clyde had decided to play pro ball, but I advised the boy against it.
Later, the doctor commented on Clyde Lovellette's future with the Phillips Oilers of the AAU.
"His future is with Phillips 66. He'll have a sound job to fall back on long after his basketball playing days are over . . . he has a great future with Phillips 66."
"There'll be more teams involved."
Allen told reporters,“most of them from the East.”
On the same day, Phog was told that Kentucky's Bill Spivey and four Toledo players had been brought in to the expanding "fix" in collegiate basketball
Allen didn't say much. He didn't have to. What he did say showed his opinion of Eastern athletics very clearly.
Valo, in nine games and 35 times at bat, has collected 15 hits, good for a hefty .429 average for the A's.
Elmer Valo of the Athletics and Jackie Robinson of the Dodgers have climbed to the top of the American and National league batting races, respectively.
Robinson, in the same number of games and 26 trips to the plate, has hit 11 times for a .423 average.
Slamming Al Rosen of the Indies, with a three homerun barrage against the Athletics yesterday, pulled into the lead in the four-master department with six. The Dodgers' Andy Pfako is second with five.
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Ted Kluszewski of the Reds has batted in 17 runs in 12 games to lead in the RBI office. Hank Sauer of the Cubs follows with 16.
Five pitcheres have perfect records in three games to share pitching honors. Sal Maglie of the Giants, Preacher Roe of the Dodgers, Ken Raffensberger of the Reds, Jerry Staley of the Cardinals and Early Wynn of the Indians all are in the select group.
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