Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 183, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 17, 1961 Page: 5 of 6
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Tigers And Giants Boost Their
Leads By Victories On Tuesday
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< / ASSOCIATED PRESS)
rank Lary scored his 100th big
!u*<Ue PJ,cl,'|H? victory with heal-
thy support from his Detroit team-
mates last night as the Tigers in-
craased their American League
*ad, routing the Baltimore Orioles
10 to 4. Lary became the first six-
game winner of the season with a
wl? and was hacked by a 12-
wt attack that included two - run
Vomers by Rofky Colavito and
£,7"" . . £ and a two-run triple
by rookie Bubba Morton.
The victory pushed ,hP Tigers 4
«u games ahead of the New Yor«t
Yankees, who were shaded hv the
Washington Senators 3 to 2 on the
'JV°" hiJ Pitching of Hal Wood-
sniek and Dave Sisler Woodeshick
f'Tf ^ * h*w'r *> MickeT Mantle
, ,he and Sisler yielded a sin-
gle to Bill Skowron in the 8th as
tne Senators won their 4th in a row
with some superb pitching Wash-
ington netted its 3 runs in the third
w>iour straight singles and a sac-
rifice fly.
The Boston Red Sox emerged
from the, hitting doldrums and
deve'and Indians 8 to
I. The Red Sox collected 16 hits,
Jwo more than they had totaled
in their last five games. Jim Pag-
n5I°n' homered and doubled for
«*>*ton. driving in three runs.
Early Wynn's strong pitching
Little League
Ha Utile league play between
the Cards and the Yanks the Yanks
< ■. 7 to 2 The Cards' ran home
r./tJSJn 'he second and 1 in the
' . • Tke Yawns got two in the 1st.
4 in the 2nd and 1 in the 5th
Ennia and Eden pitched for the
t orts. who got six hits. Bell pitch-
ed for the Yanks and thev had 8
hit* Bell also bit a triple.
Ia Minor League Action, the Eag-
les won 9 to 1 over the Cats.
and clutch hitting carried the Chi-
cago White Sox to a 5 to 4 decision
over the Minnesota Twins The
41-year-old righthander threw a
fi-hitter and batted across the win-
I ning run with an 8th inning single
Minnesota pitcher Pedro Ramos
. was his club's hitting star, with a
homer and two singles.
The Kansas City Athletics built
rage, then stood off a 9th-inmng
up a 6-run lead with a 15-hit bai -
rally and trimmed the U s Ange-
les Angels 6 to 4. Norm Bass held
the Angels scoreless on four hits
until the 9th. when he was belted
out and needed relief from Jim Ar-
cher. Los Angeles added four more
hit sin their rally, including doub-
les by Earl Averill. Gene I.eek and
Steve Bilko. Marv Throneherr> led
the A s with a double and two ^inu;-
les.
In the National I-eague. the San
rranrisco Giants boosted their lead
•o a solid three games while the
Pittsburgh Pirates. Cincinnati Red1-
and Los Angeles Dodgers ended the
night in a virtual tie for second
Jack Sanford turned in a six-hit-
'er and Orlando Cepeda supplied
'he vital batting tor the Giants
w?o shaded the Chicago Cubs 2 to
L Cepeda had three of the Giants !
six hits, drove in one run and
scored the other.
Dick Stuart broke a tie with a
6th inning homer, giving the Pirat-
es the edge over the St. Louis Car-
dinals in another two to one game.
Pittsburgh starter Vern Uw aril
winning reliever Elroy Pace yield-
ed four hits a piece.
Cincinnati won for the 10th time
in its last 12 starts, downing the
Philadelphia Phillies 4 to 2. Gene
Fretrse homered with two on for
the Reds and Frank Robinson con-
nected with the bases empty while
Joey Jay limited the Phils to 5 hits.
Frank Boiling's three-run homer
MONDAY NIGHTER s WINNERS
competition and ii, team members as
Jim Owen and Fred Crav.
Pierce Food St:re was the winner of Monday Night's bowling league
shown left to right: Larry Knight. Carl Riggins. Howard Pierce.
Pierce Team
Is Champion Of
Neighbors Loop
by Carl Biggins with his C72. High
Individual Game was won by Gay-
lord Crew ley with a 250. Most Im-
proved Bowler with a lb pin in-
crease was J. T. Pack and ne re-
ceived a belt buckle.
The members ct the Pierce Food
Store team are Howar.l Pierce.
: Lorry Knight. Carl Biggins. liili
Garland. Jim Owen and Fred
! Gra>.
Team
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Giants
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Tisers
Cubs
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Cats
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ButYs vs Oilers — 5:30 p
Cub* vs Tigers — 7:30 p.
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finished up their final go-round
last Mr.nday nig'nt with Pierce Food
Store ending up as undisputed
Champions. The other teams in m _
order cf their standings are: 4 000 Dnrn Mltrl>
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who beat t'fc S*'*F ' S'cofeH^hop^nd ^miS 1 "WSLEWOOD. Calif. * _
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° ' High Individual Series
Versalle Wins
Fans Acclaim
As Shortstop
Shoemaker Near
Babe Ruth League
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In Babe ,'luth League competi-
tion Mondav night, the White Sox
won over the Dodgers by a score
of 4 to 3 Roberson pitched for the
White Sox and Sloan pitched for
the Dodgers.
In play Tuesday night, the
In-
CORRAL
WEDNESDAY - THURSDAY
C ••<«•« If
CHARLES BMCKETT-BWKE EDWARDS-
Vc'««npiav I
TOM WALDMAN • FRANK WALDMAN
was won
disns von ever the Pirates by a
score of 5 to 2. The Pirates led
2 to 0 in the first inning, but the
Indians began to come alive with
cne run in the 4th inning, and
really put the lid on tne affair with
4 in the 5th. The Indjans had three
hits and committed two errors. The
Pirates had two hits and hobbled
for four errors. Hagler and Rag-
land pitched for the Indians and
j Thompson and Tarver went for the
I Pirates.
| Babe Ruth League Standing1;
Team
, Indians
j Pirates 3
White Sox 2
j Dodgers j
No Games on Wednesdays
- — -..000
club. The 29-year-old Shoemaker
needs only 'live more victories to
1 give him that many winners dur-
ing his career. He has 7 mounts
scheduled at Hollywood Park to-
day. Other members of the 4.000
j club are 54-year-old Johnny Log-
den. who has more than 5.000 wins:
England's Gordon Richards, who
retired with a total of 4.870; and
Eddie Arcaro. still active with
nearly 4.700 victories.
Clutch Hitting
Secret Of Tigers
BALTIMORE i#i — The Detroit
Tigers are on top of the American
League largely because of their
clutc h hitting. 'The figures prove it.
W L! In 31 games, Detroit has scored I
4 I i97 runs, fir about 6 and one-third
2 per contest. During that span. Ti-
3 ger base runners left on base total-
4 ed 227. or only 7 and one-third per
garni.
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ST. PAUL '.f> — One year ago.
! Zoilo Versalles had to borrow mon-
ey in order to get his clothes out of
I a pawn shop in Cuba.
Today, the peppery little player I
for the Minnesota Twins looks to I
be a good bet to be the starting j
shortstop in the annual all-star i
game. That's how much of a
change has taken place in the life
of Versalles.
The 20-year-old in'iielder is play-
ing great ball for the Twins. There
has been some doubt about his hitt-
ing but never about his fielding.
However, his hitting has been one
of the surprises of the early show-
ing of the Twins.
Only three years ago, Versalles
was getting $300 a month to play
for Elmira. New York, in the farin
system of the Washington Senators.
Today, he i.s the toast of the Twin
cities.
Versalles objects to being called
Zorro. He says his right name is
Zoilo and prefers to be called that
and not after the legendary great
swordsman.
Just before spring training got
under way. Versalles was married
in Mexico City and he issued in-
structions right away. He told his
new bride that she had to live with
him no matter where he played
hall. There was some doubt whe-
ther Versalles would even stick
— ! with the transplanted Washington
club, let alone become a regular.
But on the basis of what he has
shown thus tar. Versalles and his
bride know exactly where they are
going to he this season, and that
is right in the Minneapolis-St. Paul
area where he has become a big
f.ivorite.
And that represents nuite a jump
for a youngster who was broke just
one year ago.
o
Grandad Still *
Riding Racers
(By ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Johnny Longden and Eddie Ar-
caro aren't the only veterans still
active in the riding end of the race
business. There's another jockey
around who can spot Longden three
years and Arcaro 9 years when it
comes to age. We refer to Patrick
Remillard. He is 54 years old and
still going strong.
Patrick concentrates on riding
in Canada where he hopes to ride
his 1.80Crh winnerin the near fu-
ture.
His first winner was in 1930,
July 17th, to he exact. The young-
ster from North Dakota came
across the finish line in first place
at old Bainbridge Park in Ohio.
He was then 24 years old.
Today. Remillard is a grandfa-
ther but he has no thought about re-
tiring,
Remillard has cut down his rid-
ing dates in recent years. He has
been taking about 300 a year. His
peak year was in 1950 when he
lode 652 times.
He has been sidelined by serious
injuries three times but has al-
ways managed to bounce back in
line style. Three years ago, he
was in a riding accident that seem-
ed fated to sideline him 'jorever.
But he came right back and has
had 100 winners since.
Remillard makes only one con-
cession to his age. When the off
season arrives in Canada, he heads
for his home in Toronto and put-
ters around his wood-working shop
during the winter months. But
when spring arrives, ReMillard
heads for the track again, despite
his 54 years.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1961—Breckenridge American—5
Soft-Shelled Tick Now Fever
Hanger In Most Of Texas Averred
Leading Pitchers
Of Major Leagues
| NEW YORK i.4i — Mike Mc-
, Cormick of the San Francisco
j Giants and Hoyt Wilhelm of the
I Baltimore Crioles are leading the
two major leagueus in earned-run
| averages. Through Monday's gam-
| es, McCormick topped the Nation-
al League with a mark of one-point-
three-two. VVilhellm. the veteran
knuckle ball hurlei, led the Ame-
rican League with one-point-five-
four.
Johnny fed res of Los Angeles is
second in the National League with
1.94.
, Bill Monbouquette o'i Boston is
second in the American loop with
I 2.3fi.
Wynn Four Down
With 12 To Go
CHICAGO — Earllv Wynn's
private score-card shows 4 down
and 12 to go. The 4 down are the
4 games he has won this season, in-
cluding last night's 5 to 4 win over
I Los Angeles. The 12 to go are the j
dozen victories he needs to give
_ him a career total of 300. The last 1
, pitcher to join the 300-game win-
ners was Lefty Grove, some 20
, years ago. How ever, Warren Spahn
of Milwaukee looks like a cinch to
make it this season. He already
has 2'J2 to his credit.
AUSTIN i/pi — A pesky little in
sect, capable of going for months
without food, is a sour note in the
otherwise sweet symphony of a
Texas Spring.
It's a soft-shelled tick, known
scientifiealy as Ornithodo'ros tur-
icata, transmitter of relapsing fev-
er. This time of year they'll he out
in force over most of Texas — at
the very season whe nthe natural
human inclination is toward pic-
nics and exploratory sojourns into
the Great Outdoors.
State Health Department ento-
mologists say the pernicious, fever-
laden parasites can bite, feed, re-
lease their hold and drop to the
ground without their human vic-
tims ever knowing they have pro-
vided them with a blood meal
Many cases of relapsing fever
undoubtedly occur in Texas with-
out ever coming to official atten-
tion. Ticks pick up the germ while
feeding on infected wild rodents,
become iniected themselves and
then pass it on to humans during
a feeding process.
Soft-shelled tiCKs are close rela-
tives of the hard-shelled ticks
which spread spotted fever, tular-
emia. a type of encephalitis and
other miseries.
Public health workers handle
ticks with great caution to avoid
being bitten and exposed to the fe-
ver they might, be carrying. Speci-
mens are kept in a specially con-
structed tictorium where, if one
escapes, it will fall into an oil
| bath and be killed.
i State Health Department labor-
| atory technicians over the years
; have added many refinements to
: diagnostic techniaues relating to
| relapsing fever. The strange dis-
j ease occurs all over the world, des-
i pile its being classified as a "tro-
i pical" disease.
The onset of relapsing fever is
Ring Injury Is
Fatal To Boxer
SAN FRANCISCO t* — Light-
weight boxer Harry Campbell. 23-
; year-old former Olympic star, is
j dead of a brain injury suffered dm
1 ing a fight in San Francisco Mon-
day night. Campbell died last night.
A member of the California Athle-
| tic Commission. Doug Hayden. says
i he plans an investigation to deter-
j mine whether any negligence was
involved
characterized L \ chills and level*
lasting for lil to 3i> hours. Then,
just as the victim begins feeling
better, he'll l)t. stricked again. Re-
curring attacks migh! persist for
weeks, each one leaving the pa-
tient weak f>nd wrung out.
Once successfully diagnosed, re-
lapsing fever readily responds to
modern treatment by a private
physician.
Soft shelle.1 ticks usually inhabit
caves and old buildings, while their
hard-shelled counterparts stie'k to
woods and fields Both types aie
actually occupational hazards for
ranchers ami foresters and people
in similar lines of work.
Soft-shelled ticks have been
known to survive for seven months
without food, so long vacancy of a
vacation cottage is not insurance o£
freedom from ticks.
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Standings
American League
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Detroit
22
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New York
lfi
11
.593 4
Minnesota
lfi
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.552 5
Cleveland
15
14
.517 fi
Baltimore
15
15
.500 fi * 2
Kansas City
12
13
.480 7
Washington
14
17
.452 8
Chicago
12
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.429 8%
Boston
11
lfi
.407 9
Los Angeles
9
18
333 11
National
League
San Francisco
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9
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Pittsburgh
15
11
.577 3
Cincinnati
lfi
12
.571 3
Los Angeles
18
14
.563 3
Milwaukee
1.1
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.520 44
St. Louis
11
14
.440 6'-j
Chicago
10
18
.357 9
Philadelphia
8
20
28fi 11
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NEW YORK •■4* — Manaser Mick-
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