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On Page 1: Comedian Skelton Signs 7-Year, $10m Deal With Proctor & Gamble for Radio, TV Performances
“All the News That Fits, We Print”

The Baseball Once-Upon-A Times.
FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1951

FINAL EDITION Including final results of all ball games
FIVE CENTS

VOL. 1, No. 19

Gordon (7 RBI), Elliott Muscle Up To Help Surkont Tame Cubs, 11-5
BOSTON — What damage Sid Gordon didn’t do, Bob Elliott did. Together they drove in all the Braves’ runs in an 11-5 win over the Cubs. Elliott, Boston’s clean-up hitter, had two hits and four RBI. Gordon had the game of his life — well, one of them, anyway — with four hits, a home run and seven RBI. In so doing, Gordon tied his career high. Twice before he had seven RBI in a game, both times in June (1948 and 1950), and both times against Pittsburgh. Chicago actually jumped to a 4-1 lead after 2½ innings. But Gordon’s go-ahead grand slam Sid Gordon — 7 RBI ties capped a five-run Braves rally career best. in the bottom of the third. He later knocked in three runs with two singles. Elliott’s four RBI came on a double in the first, a bases-loaded walk in the third and a two-run double in the sixth. It marked his second four-RBI game of the season. It also helped make a winner of Max Surkont for the first time in four starts. Surkont (13) allowed five runs in six innings. The Cubs’ Bob Schultz (1-1) took the loss, giving up six runs in two innings. AROUND THE HORN Elsewhere around the National League: Preacher Roe tossed his second shutout in three starts as the Dodgers beat the Reds, 1-0. Roe (3-0), who one-hit Boston on April 24, fired a four-hitter at the Reds. He is the first major league pitcher with two shutouts this season. Brooklyn first sacker Gil Hodges continued his resurgent hitting. For the second consecutive game, Hodges knocked in what proved to be the deciding run, this one an eighth-inning RBI double off Reds reliever Bud Byerly (0-2). Brooklyn’s Carl Furillo went 0-for-2, snapping an 11-game hit streak — longest in the majors this year. Larry Jansen hurled a six-hitter as the Giants topped the Pirates, 3-1. New York scored all its runs in the fourth inning, on a run-scoring fly ball out by Alvin Dark and a two-run homer by right fielder Don Mueller. Jansen (3-2) made the lead hold up with his second consecutive complete game win. Pittsburgh catcher Clyde McCullough singled to extend his hit streak to 10 games. Enos Slaughter homered to back Max Lanier’s strong pitching as the Cardinals beat the Phillies, 5-4. Slaughter’s two-run homer broke a scoreless tie in the second. Lanier (2-0) allowed four runs in 8 1/3 innings.

Major League Standings
AMERICAN Cleveland Chicago Boston Philadelphia New York Washington Detroit St. Louis W 11 9 8 8 7 6 3 2 L 1 4 6 7 8 7 8 13 PCT. .917 .692 .571 .533 .467 .462 .273 .133 GB --2½ 4 4½ 5½ 5½ 7½ 10½ NATIONAL Brooklyn New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh St. Louis Chicago Boston Cincinnati W 10 11 9 7 6 6 8 3 L 6 7 7 6 6 7 10 11 PCT. .625 .611 .563 .538 .500 .462 .444 .214 GB ----1 1½ 2 2½ 3 6

Thursday’s American League Results
Chicago 3, Washington 1 Boston 7, Detroit 1 New York 19, St. Louis 1 (Only games scheduled)

Thursday’s National League Results
New York 3, Pittsburgh 1 Brooklyn 1, Cincinnati 0 Boston 11, Chicago 5 St. Louis 5, Philadelphia 4

Today’s Probable Starting Pitchers
Boston (Taylor 0-0) at Detroit (Newhouser 1-1), 2 p.m. Philadelphia (Kellner 1-1) at Cleveland (Wynn 2-1), 7:30 p.m. New York (Lopat 1-0) at St. Louis (Garver 2-1 or Pillette 0-2), 8:30 p.m. Washington (Sima 0-1) at Chicago (Dobson 1-0), 8:30 p.m.

Today’s Probable Starting Pitchers
Cincinnati (Fox 1-1 or Raffensberger 0-4) at Brooklyn (Hatten 1-1), 12:30 p.m. Pittsburgh (Law 2-0) at New York (Maglie 3-0), 12:30 p.m. Chicago (Rush 0-0 or Hiller 2-1) at Boston (Bickford 2-2), 7 p.m. St. Louis (Pollet 0-0) at Philadelphia (Johnson 0-0), 7 p.m.

Reynolds Does Double Duty as Yanks Bury Browns, 19-1
ST. LOUIS — Even if the Browns could have battled Allie Reynolds the pitcher to a draw, they still would have had problems contending with Allie Reynolds the hitter. Reynolds pitched a complete game in which made nearly as many hits (3) as he gave up (5), and held St. Louis to one run while driving in a career-high five himself as the Yankees bombarded the Brownies, 19-1. Reynolds (2-0) held St. Louis to five hits while striking out six. His grand slam in the sixth inning capped a five-run Yankees rally. Jackie Jensen (who went 5-for-5) hit two homers for New York, with rookies Mickey Mantle and Gil McDougald adding one each. Browns starter Stubby Overmire (0-2) was driven to cover after allowing six runs in three innings. AROUND THE HORN Elsewhere in the American Reynolds — a 5- League: hitter, 5 RBI. Billy Pierce, who failed to record an out in his first start of the season, hurled his third consecutive complete game win as the White Sox extended their win streak to seven games with a 3-1 win over Washington. Senators starter Connie Marrero (1-1) matched Pierce pitch for pitch for most of the first eight innings. But trying to protect a 1-1 tie, he allowed back-to-back RBI hits to Al Zarilla and Jim Busby with two outs in the bottom of the eighth. Pierce (3-1) struck out one and walked one. Eddie Yost hit his fourth homer for the Nats’ only score. Chuck Stobbs went the route and Walt Dropo returned from a 10-game benching with three hits as the Red Sox snapped a four-game losing streak with a 7-1 win over the Tigers. Stobbs (2-1) allowed seven hits, striking out two and walking one. Every Boston starter had a hit except for Ted Williams, whose average slid to .241 after an 0-for-4 effort Vic Wertz hit hits second homer for Detroit.

Notes on the Scorecard

Major League Leaders
AMERICAN Doby, Cle.
Lipon, Det.

Union Delay Leaves Tigers, Red Sox Sitting in the Dark
DETROIT (UP) — The mighty baseball world ground to a halt and waited for an electrician to come to work.. It was the eighth inning of the Red SoxTigers game Thursday and a threatening rainstorm made things so dark the umpires ordered the lights turned on. But the time was 4:17, and the union electrician doesn’t start his day’s work in Briggs Stadium until 4:30 And the light switch can’t be thrown unless he’s there. So fans and players alike sat down to wait for him. The rain came first and delayed the game even more. When the rain stopped at 5:13, the sky was bright and the lights weren’t needed anyway. St. Louis Cardinals manager Marty Marion, sidelined recently by a bout of virus pneumonia, said Thursday his is ready to return to active direction of the club on the field.

G 12 11 13 12 15 15 13 14 14 15

AB 39 40 51 50 59 57 49 60 50 53

R 13 12 13 8 8 12 8 11 11 11

H 16 16 20 19 22 21 18 22 18 19

AVG. .410 .400 .392 .380 .373 .368 .367 .367 .360 .358

NATIONAL Jethroe, Bos. Slaughter, St.L Hatton, Cin.
McCullough, Pit.

G 18 12 12 13 16 16 12 12 18 15

AB 78 46 45 46 63 63 48 36 67 61

R 21 11 4 5 8 11 9 3 15 11

H 35 17 16 16 21 21 16 12 22 20

AVG. .449 .370 .356 .348 .333 .333 .333 .333 .328 .328

Bean Ball Dangerous Twist On Giants, Dodgers Rivalry
NEW YORK (UP) — The bitter feud between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants, oldest in baseball history, is near an alltime peak. It first flared when a Giant pitcher punched a Dodger fan way back in 1906 and the late Charley Ebbets appealed to the league president “to protect my customers against rowdy New York players.” But the pitchers are toying with dynamite if the “bean ball” aimed at a batter’s skull becomes a regular weapon in this ancient vendetta, as charged by Jackie Robinson of the Dodgers. Player Killed It has killed once, wrecked careers and lost pennants: Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, known as a low ball pitcher, let one slide high back in 1920 and felled Ray Chapman of Cleveland. Chapman died. Bump Hadley of the Yankees let one get away against Mickey Cochrane in 1937, wrecking great catcher’s career. It almost cost Cochrane his life. Joe Medwick and Pee Wee Reese of the Dodgers both were skulled in 1940, blasting See RIVALRY, Page 2

Yost, Was. Avila, Cle. Rizzuto, N.Y. Valo, Phi. Vernon, Was.
Goodman, Bos.

Snider, Bro. Furillo, Bro. Musial, St.L Walker, Chi. Gordon, Bos.
Sisler, Phi.

Jensen, N.Y. Fain, Phi.

HR: Doby (Cle.) 5; Kennedy (Cle.) 4; Doerr (Bos.) 4; Robinson (Chi.) 4; Yost (Was.) 4. RBI: Doerr (Bos.) 14; Coleman (St.L) 14; Zarilla (Chi.) 14; Vernon (Was.) 13; Yost (Was.) 13. Wins: Feller (Cle.) 3-0; Lemon (Cle.) 3-0; Scheib (Phi.) 3-1; Pierce (Chi.) 3-1; several tied with 2. Strikeouts: Raschi (N.Y.) 21; Lemon (Cle.) 15; Wynn (Cle.) 14; Garver (St.L) 13; Feller (Cle.) 13. ERA: Feller (Cle.) 1.00; Cain (Chi.) 1.20; Morgan (N.Y.) 1.50; Newhouser (Det.) 1.99; Lemon (Cle.) 2.12 .

HR: Jethroe (Bos.) 5; Campanella (Bro.) 5; Thomson (N.Y.) 5; Pafko (Chi.) 5; Snider (Bro.) 4; Irvin (N.Y.) 4; Gordon (Bos.) 4. RBI: Lockman (N.Y.) 16; Snider (Bro.) 15; Jethroe (Bos.) 15; Thomson (N.Y.) 15; Gordon (Bos.) 15. Wins: Hearn (N.Y.) 4-0; Maglie (N.Y.) 3-0; Newcombe (Bro.) 3-0; Konstanty (Phi.) 3-0; Roe (Bro.) 3-0; Jansen (N.Y.) 3-2. Strikeouts: Blackwell (Cin.) 22; Maglie (N.Y.) 16; Roberts (Phi.) 15; Bickford (Bos.) 14; Van Cuyk (Bro.) 14; Jansen (N.Y.) 14. ERA: Kilppstein (Chi.) 0.00; Fox (Cin.) 0.56; Brazle (St.L) 0.61; Jansen (N.Y.) 0.97; Newcombe (Bro.) 1.29.

THIS WAY TO BOX SCORES

FRIDAY, MAY 4, 1951

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Rivalry
From Page 1 Brooklyn’s pennant hopes. Medwick was said to have become gun shy at the plate but his average didn’t suffer immediately. Hit by Feller Hank Leiber of the New York Giants caught one of Bob Feller’s Sunday pitches on the noggin when the Cleveland fireballer really had it and Lieber never regained his former stature as a slugger. Lamar (Skeeter) Newsome, then with the Philadelphia Athletics, probably was the grittiest of the comeback guys. He was skulled once, then twice — and far worse. His physician said one more time meant lights out. But little Skeeter couldn’t stand idleness, so he came back to the A’s and turned in the only .300 season of his career, risking his life on every pitch that didn’t cut the heart of the plate. Since that episode in 1906, feeling between the Giants and Dodgers has been intense. The Borough of Brooklyn actually is a part of New York City proper but Brooklyn is “over the river” at what Giant fans are convinced is the wrong end of the Brooklyn Bridge. Hack Wilson, as a Giant, once was mobbed in the outfield at Brooklyn. Bill Terry of the Giants asked his fatal question in 1934, “Are the Dodgers still in the league?” and the Dodgers knocked him out of the race. And then in June, 1948, Leo Durocher skipped from the Dodgers to the Giants as manager. His former coach, Chuck Dressen, now is managing the Dodgers. It’s a natural.

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