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MAGLIE JUST ANOTHER PITCHER Pennant-Stretch Drive Finds Erskine Ready This May Be Lift Dodgers Needed BROOKLYN EAGLE Dodgers Now Trail Giants By Only Three By DAVE ANDERSON The Dodgers finally pinned a loss on Sal Maglie at Ebbets Field to shave the Giants' lead to three games but there was no celebration in the clubhouse. Instead, the players dressed be- tween satisfied smiles, and in the manager's office. Walt Alston said, "We've still got to catch 'em." But suddenly, the Giants didn't look like the do-no-wrong club that swept six in a row a few weeks back. Not with Carl Erskine winning, 9 1, on a five-nitter. Even Maglie misplaced his hypnosis and his horseshoe.

Never in the Barber's career record of 21-7 against the Dodgers had he lost at Ebbets! ield, while winning ten. loi: that the Dodgers didn't clout I jjj 19 IB! Majors to LOSING PITCHER "Sal Maglie has never lost at Ebbets Field." That line led off the mimeographed sheet sent up to the pressbox last night by Allan Roth, the figure filbert who heads the bureau of obscure Dodger statistics. Here it seems that Mr. Roth has been forwarding that grim reminder for at least 20 years, but this must be a mistake because the saturnine pitching star of the Giants did not register the first of his ten straight victories in the Brooklyn baseball orchard until 1950. Today, it gives great pleasure to report that Mr.

Roth never will write that line again. Or if he does, I'll tell him that he's wrong. And 33,251 who jammed the joint in Flatbush will back me up. Yes, sir, the Dodgers reversed the roles last night. They thaved the Barber for the first time in their own ball park.

And, while the once-over-lightly is far from enough to make up lor all the frustration the F.B.I, man of the Giants has caused them in the past, I can't think of a better time to have made a start. The "F.B.I. Man" is a new nickname certain Brooklyn fans have devised for Sinister Sal. At least, I never heard It until last night. "It meant full-blooded eye-talian," explained Benny Weinrig of the pressbox intelligentsia who knows all about such things.

A BIG ONE It seems here that the 9-to-l victory of the Dodgers In a game that Maglie started and wag knocked out of improves their chances to win the pennant by about LOU NISS 27.J954 J3 Frame United Press Photo SICK CALL! Manager Walter Alston (left) solicitiously examines Junior Gilliam's foot after Dodger second-sacker aggravated old injury hoofing it from first to third on Pee Wee Reese's single in sixth inning last night at Ebbets Field. Junior retired to sidelines. Giant third-baseman Hank Thompson and Ump Bill Jackowski stand by. We won, as you undoubtedly know. Winter Loop Plan Andrews Earns him occasionally.

Hut he Tna major leagues havillg rejected a proposal for the regular season, today plan to Dodgers. Nvork out a new rule under which U. S. players will be per- iaot n'izht however Sal, fitted to perform in the Caribbean and Mexican Winter EIGHTH WIN IN ROW Costa in For Title By JOR LEE No Hurry Joust Chi Stadium Go After KO Win Paul Andrews of Buffalo, Carmelo Costa, flashy Brooklyn featherweight, goes right mum on winning in the ring but he's not entertaining any ideas of challenging for the 126-pound title right now. As a height contender will get an television at Phi.

Losing cagO Stadium, AUg. 18, as a i e- ward tor Knocking out ana CUM Won Durelle at 1:06 of the fifth round in St. Nicholas Arena last nieht. Th. lieu lie was yiai-eu aiiiung uie recent ring rankings, "Pm not kidding ml sen about a title bout," Costa said after his unanimous 10-round victory over Vic Toweel at the Parkway last night.

"I think I'm still about a year away from the championship. Right now, I'm concentrating on a delayed honeymoon. I've been married six months, bnt was too bnsy to take time off. My wife, Tina, and I are heading, named later. then the Dodgers had 1 all Andrews weighed 1754 runs they needed for Ers-pounds to Durelle's for Pltched nis for Atlantic City for a fewithe Canadian light-heavy champ; W) percent ovemignt While one game is too light to balance the effect of the six straight schalumpings the Giants dished out just before the two contending teams went West, the conquest of their most Irritating nemesis might put he Dodgers back on the track.

It alt should serve to gain readmittanee for the Dodg-n Into the ranks of the human race in the estimation of Brooklyn fans, who, for the last three weeks, have been maturing maledictions in strange tongues against their Sorely beleaguered ball dab. True, tbe Dodgers are still three games out of first place, but that deficit has been reduced from seven full Canes in an Incredibly brief span. It seems that Happy Heroes, Inc. (tbe new trade name of tbe Giants) has lost five straight and do net leek to bet either when involved with tbe seamier side of life. Nobody emotionally inclined In the same direction as this corner is going to crab much about a 9-to-l Dodger victory, yet It is a fact thst the Dodgers, in spite of 15 hits, couldn't deliver the one big booming blast that would have got Maglie out of there much sooner.

Moreover, 14 Brooklyn! left on bate will never be confuted with efficient economy on attack. But the Giant oould do nothing right. "This time they looked as bad as we must have looked in those other six games," Mid Manager Walter Alston. That cornea as close to an unkind remark as anything I have yet heard the skipper utter. BEAR-DOWN JOB While the Dodgers didn't blast the Giants out of the ball park, they obtained virtually the same result by peeking them to death.

And the result was what counts because it was plain to see that this was a "must" game in the minds of the Brooklyn players. Their determination perhaps was best exemplified by Carl Era-kine, who gave the Giants five hits and an unearned run and was working just as hard in the ninth inning as he was at the start of the game. There was ne whooping or hollering in the clubhouse afterwards and Clem Labine said that maybe this was a big game "but tomorrow's with the Cabs it a bigger one," which hi a healthy frame of mind. Pee Wee Reese said and Duke Snider agreed that it was a crying shame that this was only a one-night stand with the Giants instead of a series of three or four garnet. "Maglie is their usual opener," said Reese, "and, in the past he's usually beaten us so that we got off on the wrong foot.

Now, we're off on the right foot but the Giants are out of our range for a while." This too is an encouraging switch the regret of the Dodgers because they're not playing the Giants. On the evening of July 8 they acted as if they never wanted to see the Happy Heroes again. didn't last the sixth inning. He had allowed lour runs ana iu hits in five innings. In the sixth, Junior Gilliam walked and Pee Wee Reese cracked hisi second of three singles, a hit-and-run bounder through Al Dark's vacated position to close the Barber's shop.

Pitcher: Maglie Hoyt Wilhelm relieved walked two, balked and walked another before bonus baby Paul I rePlaced mm as uu' rocner aU but conceded the game. tion that maybe he is ready for another pennant-stretch streak tor his second JO-game year. The little right-hander ts 12-9 now and has rolled up 100 strikeouts. His last two, wins snapped the slump in the west wnn a two-niner in Cin cinnati and continued Giant slump to five straight as cinnati and continued the: the Dodgers won three in for the first time in two row weeks. Erskine, a comparative youth at 28 to Maglie at 37, reacted more favorably to the hour delay due to a game -time SilO-A Both pitchers had warmed up the usual 15 minutes and were ready to go when the rain came.

Fifty minutes later, they had to do it all over again and Erskine admitted he doesn't care for that second warm-up but conceded maybe it's a charm for him. He did it during! his no-hitter in law. Losing Pitcher: Maglie With Erskine hot, the Dodgers didn't need many runs and though they did back him with nine, they might have really rolled it up with a few more timely hits. In eight innings, they left 14 runners on base. Reese and Jackie Robinson, apparently out of his slump, each cracked three hits.

Sandy Amoros slashed two, a run -scoring single in the first and a inn- triple in the fifth. ting .600 (three-for-five), against 1 Maglie in his big-league career. ici vi ion, iic auipiiacu nrsi woria contenders in United Prj Photo CARMELA COSTA (left) swings at Vic Toweel in Eastern Parkway bout last night, en route to 25th straight victory. College Grid TV Slate of IS Games To Start Sept. 18 A 15-gamt 1954 National Col legiate Athletic Association television program, beginning with the California -Oklahoma game on Sept.

18 and ending with the Notre Dame-Southernl Methodist clash on Dec. 4, wasl announced today. Television fans also will tee such traditional games as Bay- lor -Texas on Nov. Georgia iTech-Alabama on Nov. 13; Ohio State-Michigan on Nov.

20, and Army-Navy on Nov. 27. The Illinois -Stanford game will be telecast from the West Coast on Oct. 2. The time dif ference will avoid a conflict with the World Series and allow TV fans tn uninvhnth Vioco.

ball and football on ohe of the nation's big sports Saturdays. ne complete television sched ule: United Proli Photo ACCOMPANIED by sons Tony (left) and Roy Roy Campanella waves in jured hand after medical examination yesterday. aa I I KOy AflQCK beOKS To Buy Majority Control of A Roy Mack revealed yesterday he was trying to secure major ity control of the Philadelphia Athletics by buying the stock owned by his brother, Earle. Roy said hts brother once agreed to give him a written option on his share of the stock but later declined to do Asked about Roy's offer, Earle said, Go ask Roy where he going to get the money." rjarie said ne definitely was "interested in leaving baseball if they will meet his price, And Roy admitted that among tha otters he had received for the Athletics was one "from Kansas City." He refused to give further details. In Kansas Citv the Kansas City Star said in an editorial yesterday that if the city votes bonds Aug.

3 to buy Blues Stadium it was possible there would be a major league baseball story In Kansas City "within the next, two weeks or less." Blues Stadium formerly was owned by the Yankees but now belongs to a Chicago group which has indicated it would Garcia'. Father Dead Wisalia, July 27 (U.R) Merced Garcia, father of Clev land Indians' pitcher Mike Gar week- Costa employed the same speedy ring technique against Toweel as he did in beating baby Urtiz in his first in-round bout on June 24. He side stepped, jabbed, and threw sharp counter-punching hooks and uppercuts to hold control; through most of the fight. When Toweel tried to bull Costa with pressing attacks, the latter backtracked and circled out of danger. loweel, of South Africa, the former bantamweight champion of the world, made an im pression even though Costa did ruin his American debut.

At 133 pounds he looked blubbery, but his pressing close range attacks were pleasing. In several round' he managed to get inside and belt savagely which kept the bout interesting. The invader was disappointed in referee Petey Scalzo. "He didn't let me fight enough on the inside," be said. "He was always break ing us.

When he pushed me I out of a clinch, in the seventh! round, I turned on my ankle and sprained it." It was Toweel's first fight in seven months. Matchmaker Brenner said he will try to match the South African with uln Perez in abont six week-, Toweel was cut over the right eye in me ninui round wnicn required nix stitches. It was the eiehth straieht win tor costa and his 22d in 25 fights, which includes three ws. He will be paired with Natie Brooks at the Parkway leagues. Hank Greenberg's revolutionary proposal that the big league play inter-league games during the regular season was withdrawn before a joint American -National League meeting yesterday after it was defeated in an American League session.

Cleveland general manager's plan was the most interesting on the agenda at the majors' annual Summer meet- inf. 11 lenuc It had called for each big ue team to play four games with every other club oi tne rival circuit. Heavy Opposition But the recommendation was withdrawn at a joint meeting before Commissioner Ford Frick after it had drawn heavy opposition from Greenbergs own circuit, was auacKea Chicago, Washington, Detroit, New York and Philadelphia. Greenberg, who believes his plan would be "good for baseball," said he would try to obtain backing in the future to submit it again. In other action, the leagues: Awarded the 1955AH-8tar game to Milwaukee but set no date for it.

Ruled that no games shall be played following the Sunday Immediately preceding the All -Star game until the day after It is played. 2. Approved a resolution from the National Collegiate Athletic Association which pro vides that players cannot be signed oy tne majors atter iney have become varsity athletes in their second year of college. The boys may be signed from the time they graduate trom high school through their first year in college until they be come eligible for the varsity. o.

Kuieo against any conditional assignment of a player's contract from a major league club to a club in a lower classification league. 4. Ruled that players may not be ordered to report for Spring training before March 1 and that the first exhibition may not be played untll March 10, as requested by' the players' organization. ntnMtitJlMl League IMMMII ruults LJJjjJ Toronto 7. Hvn 0.

American League YESTERDAY'S RESULTS (No games scheduled). STANDING OF THE CLUBS W. L. Pet. G.B.

Cleveland 65 29 .691 New York -65 32 .670 1H Chicago 61 37 .622 6 Washington 41 22V Detroit 40 53 .430 24 Vi Boston 38 55 .409 26H Philadelphia 31 Baltimore 33 63 .344 33 TODAY'S GAMES New York (Byrd 6-5 1 at Chi cago (Trucks 13-5), 9 p.m. Philadelphia (Kellner 5-1 1 land Frtcano 3-7) at Detroit (Gromek 11-9 and Garver 7-6) 2, twi-night. Boston (Sullivan 7-8) at Cleveland (Lemon 11-5), night. Washington (Schmitz 5-5) at Baltimore (Pillette 8-10), night. TOMORROW'S GAMES New York at Chicago, 2:30 p.m.

Boston at Cleveland, night Philadelphia at Detroit. Washington at Baltimore, night. 1 St. LouM (If.) I. OITlu4 (A.) the scheduled 10-round tele vision bout.

A smashing right to the tem ple dropped Durelle to his knees in the fifth round. And from Baie St. Anne, New Brunswick, remained stunned in that position while Referee Abe Simon counted him out. Andrews was favored at 5-1. Durelle Hurt Early a cool, calculating clouter, was clearly in front all the way on the cards of all three ring officials.

He took charge immediately in the first round when he rocked Durelle with a hard left hook in the head and stayed in charge. uureiie compiainea ot pain in his left leg after being tagged with Andrews' hard left hook. in the same session, Andrews opened a cut over Durelle's left eye that bled persistently throughout the rest of the fight. in the second round, An drews was warned for hitting low. in tne tourin, Andrews began bombarding Durelle with combination punches and the uanaoian never nao much ot a chance for victory after that.

It was the 14th knockout vic tory for Andrews, who recently scored a kayo over Danny Nardlco. For Durelle, it was the seventh loss 32 officially listed bouts. Durelle said he has had "about 100" unofficially listed bouts. LOSING PITCHER: MAGLIE Tockmn.ll iOllllam.lb 3 0 1 SSBm Si VSSSL 53TB 0 0 90 1 mSSC" TX I JJJ 400 0 sil 13 2S 0000 000 0 14 5 Touli 31 IIS 17 OUlius in eui. (or din li 0 1 0 1 0 0 01 nect for any hits in the 91 win but he did help beat Sal Maglie.

the Barber't first lots lever at UbDets Field. Asked for words of wisdom late last night, Leo Durocher had "nothing to say." The crowd of 33,251, all 01 whom tat out a game-time shower and se-minute delay, boosted the Dodger home at tendance to 58731" lor games. The nine Dodger-Giant garnet remaining: August IS (N)-14-15 at Ebbett Field: Friday- Saturday-Sunday, September 3 (N)-4-s at tne roio urounos; Monday Tuesday-Wednesday, tJUWwtram, Ma. RBiHodtM Wllhelni'i lull In 6th). Inline.

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Corwln 1. SO Br- 1 1 lil tl i 411 3i 1 3 1 0 ooooo Which may prove that the Bar- sijber is more of a psychological menace to the Dodgers, Maglie used to pitch in Cuba, lu-rouno Dout on sept.iwiuim. 000 0 HOW DODGER PITCHERS COMPARE WITH CUBS 41 1 1 17 tS 42S 14 1 3 mssf 1 1 .311 .904 TIME OUT1 DODGER BATTING I Ik 3k I lM (4 0 77 133 St I wik II I II I Mtrn fill 11 1 I WBBm 77 141 3t 7 IS Plena IS 31 II 1 1 MM 5 .14.1 17 11 11 4 Batn 7 354 II 117 II 3 1 PirUI NH1J1 14 13 31 111 II I S4 111 11 41 7 3 II 31 .281 4 14 .211 2 12 .240 1 II .200 I I .200 mut li si it By jeff Keate cia died at the age of 65 yesteLSKJJwM of Mi is day following a short hospitali-j EjgJJf 'gJJJSV MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS 7 or 14. In the six round semi-final. Ernie Roberts, 141.

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"But Amoros was about this high then," said Billy Herman, holding his right I hand about four feet off the 1 floor. So chances are little uj tV.I jOaiiuy nau ncvci uraiu ui iw great Maglie menace ana may- be he's never even heard of' Maglie. Just another pitcher. TV Sports Today BASEBALL Brooklyn Dodgers vs. Chicago Cubs, Eb bets Field (9), 1:25 p.m.; New York Giantt ti.

St. Loult Car dinals, Polo Grounds (11), 8:10 I p.m. September 20 (N) -21-22 at Ebbets Field. Gil Hodges' sacrifice fly was hia 13th of tbe season, which easily leads both leagues and haa kept him over the .300 mark. Carl Ersklne't 100 ttrikeouts put him third in the league to Harvey Haddlx and Robin Roberts.

Erskine fanned 187 last year, second to Roberts. Junior Gilliam slightly ag gravated his bruised heel in that half-slide into third in the sixth. So Walt Alston decided would be better to rest him and use a healthy Billy Cox at second base the rest of the game. n. A.

i MYSTERY UNSOLVED National League lfS KKIIAl LB Brooklyn 9, Xew York 1 (night). Milwaukee 3. Pittsburgh 1 (night). (Onlv games scheduled). STANDING OF THE CLUBS W.

L. Pet. G.B. New York Brooklyn Milwaukee .531 104 Cincinnati 49 49 .500 13Vi St. Louis 46 48 .489 14: Philadelphia 45 48 .484 15 Chicago 40 54 .426 20 Pittsburgh -31 66 .320 31 TODAY'S KS Chicago (Hacker 5-9) Brooklyn (Newcombe 6-5), 1:30 p.m.

St. Louis (Poholsky 2-3 or Beard 0-1) at New York (Lid-dle 4-2 or Antonelll 14-2), 8p.m. Cincinnati Podbielan 6-4) at Philadelphia (Roberts 14-8), night. (Onlv games scheduled). TOMORROW'S GAMES Chicago at Brooklyn, 8pm St.

Louis at New York, 1:30 p.m. Cincinnati at fnuaoeipnia, night. Milwaukee at nttsDurgn night CAMPY The strange case of Rov Campanella't numb left hand will be turned over to another detective or, doctor, tomor- mow when the Dodger catcher visits Dr. Edward Dombrow- neurologist, for another opinion on nis condition. As you must know bv now.

if you read either the tport pages or the Medical Journal, Campy insists he can't volun tarily move his last two left lingers. Down to before today's game with tbe rubs, Roy has failed to hit In hit last 11 at at-bata and hat only two Mte In hit laat 28 trips. He says nit nana, tne one which went that bone-chip operation in May is "weak." Dr. Herbert Fett, who performed the bone-chiD turaerv. and Dr.

Eugene Zorn, the Dodger phyalcian, examined Campy'e hand yesterday and reported an indication of perceptible Improvement." The Dodgers arranged the visit with Dr. Dombrowskl to "forestall any existing doubts." The club originally planned a tour of tnree neurologists' of-fleet for Roy yetterday but Dr. Fett't examination lasted too long. After all, Campy still cttchea for the Dodgers. And he had 10 get to worx, lie aian 1 con mi a i "Pardon my curioalty, Sir, but just what did he call the umpire?".