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Evening star., 1947-07-03

Clark Griffith, Mats president,
who has turned out some Of the
fastest ball players in American
League History, today was turning
his attention to another brand of
speed.
Griffith, chairman Of the Districts
Damon Runyon Cancer Research
Fund Committee, tentatively had
accepted an invitation to serve as
starter of the 25-lap Damon Runyon
Memorial feature of the midget
automobile racing program at the
West Lanham (Md) Speedway to-
morrow night.
I'm gonna be here if can make
it, because they tell me these little
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Youthful Negro Star
Signed by Indians;
Dolby Is SIugger
by the Assoeiotsd Press

CLEVELAND, July 3.-The Cleve-
land Indians today became the first
American League club to sign a
negro baseball player with purchase
of Larry Dolby, star second baseman
of the Newark Eagles Negro Ma
tional League team.
Tribe officials said Dolby, a %
year-old Navy veteran who leads
the Negro National League in home
runs and doubles, had been pur-
chased from the Newark Club for
duty with the Indians starting Sat-
urday. Terms of the purchase were
not disclosed.
Jackie Robinson, capable first
baseman of the Brooklyn Dodgers,
was the first Negro signed to play
in "organized'' baseball in modern
times. He advanced to the Ma
tional League this season after one
year on the Dodgers International
League farm club, the Montreal
Royals.
Attended Long Island U.
Asserting "the reports we have
received on his ability are out
standing" Tribe Manager Lou Bou-
dreau said, II hope Dolby can sue
ceed with us as he can with other
teams"
A native of Camden, S. c., the
i85-pound infielder starred for Pat
erson IN. j. East Side High
Schools city baseball champions In
1941 and 1912 before entering Long
Island University. He signed with
the Eagles in the spring Of 1943,
but entered the Navy in July OF
that year.
Dolby, who has slammed 13 hon.
ers, 16 doubles and eight triples
while compiling .458 batting aver
age with Newark this season, re-
turned from three years Navy serv-
ice last year to spark the Eagles to
the Negro National League cham
Newark then defeated
the Kansas City Monarchs in the
Negro World Series.
Will Be Given Every Chance.
"The acquisition of Larry Dolby
: = is a routine baseball purchase
in my mind" Boudreau declared.
Greed, race or color are not
factors in baseball successes, whether
it be in the major or minor leagues" ?"
Lou continued. Ability and char
acter are the only factors.
Dolby will be given every chance,
as will any other deserving recruit,
to prove that he has the ability to
make good with us"
A left-hand batter and right-hand
thrower, Dolby also has had prior
playing experience at other infleld
and outfleld positions, tribe officials
said, adding that they would give
him a thorough trial" before de-
termining whether he should be
"farmed out" to minor league club
or retained on the Indians regular
roster.
In addition to Robinson, Brooklyn
also has several Negroes in its or
ganiZation.
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Incredible Brooks Top
League After Rout
ON. Y. Cousins
By the Associated Press

Leave it to Brooklyn to do the in
credible.
The Dodgers today are on top OF
the National League. Yet, by all
the laws of nature and baseball they
should be in the second division
For on paper they are no more than
that. The lineup is far from i'm
|pressive.
Yet this club with Burt Shotton.
a fill-in for the exiled Leo Du-
rocher at the helm, with only two
800 hitters, without the services of
Pete Reiser, their best player, and
with only one dependable pitcher,
Ralph Branca, is leading the league
by one game.
Perhaps it is because of their in
domitable spirit, their all-out hustle
and fight, their ability to capitalize
on breaks, plus, of course, the exist
ence of three fine key players in Ed
Stanky, Peewee Reese and Dixie
Walker on the squad.
Another big reason for their cur
rent hold on the top rung stems
from their ability to beat the Giants,
especially on their home soil.
Dodgers Win in Fourth.
The Brooks borrowed a page from
the Giants book last night, falling
on three Giants pitchers for nine
runs in the fourth inning and went
on to handy 11-3 victory. Typical
of the Dodgers ability to take ad-
vantage Of a slip, it was walk and
an error that started them of.
Ralph Branca, Brooklyn's biggest
winner and All-Star selection, won
his 11th game with a seven-hitter
and famed 10. The win enabled
the Dodgers to take one-game
lead over the Boston Braves. The
Hubmen dropped 6-5 decision to
the Phillies in Philadelphia, losing
in the ninth when Skeeter New
some beat out bunt, ran to Sec
ond on Harry Walkers sacrifice and
scored when Catcher Phil Masi let
one of Anton Karl's pitches get
away from him for a passed ball.
Scoring eight runs in wild fifth
inning, the Cincinnati Reds de-
feated the Pirates in Pittsburgh, 8-6,
as a crowd of 1884 watched five
Pittsburgh pitchers make a futile
attempt to stop the Reds. Harry
Gumbert, who relieved Kent Peter
son in the fifth, was the winner.
AS Nose Out Red Sox.
Scoring run in the ninth in
ming, the Philadelphia Athletics de-
feated the Red Sox at Boston, rs,
to take over undisputed possession
of fourth place. A single by Sam
Chapman scored Barney McCosky
with the winning run. Ted Will
lianls hit his 14th homer for the
Sox.
Throttllng a late rally, Hal New
houser, Detroit's great southpaw,
gained his ninth win against eight
losses as he pitched the Detroit
Tigers to a 6-5 win over the In
dians in Cleveland. A crowd of S.
359 turned out to honor Mel Harder,
20-year veteran of the Tribes mound
corps. The win put the Tigers into
second place tie with the Red
Sox.
Helped by homers by Wally Jud-
mich and jeff Heath, Jack Kramer
had an easy time in pitching the
Browns to a IL victory over the
Chicago White Sox in st. Louis. It
was his sixth win against as many
setbacks. The homers were No. IL
for Heath and No. 8 for Judnich.
All games were played at night
with the st. Louis Cardinals and
Chicago Cubs idle.
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Griffith Is After More Speed
As Midqet Car Race Starter

buzz buggies can outrun George
Case" Griffith admitted today. cts
not often I get a chance to see a
score of George Cases on wheels"
Managing Director Irwin Fried IS
assembling an all-star field of
drivers. Six Offenhauser entries
will be manned by such as Ed
Dutch" Schaefer. last weeks fea-
ture winner at Lanham; Al Keller,
fast rising young ace from Buffalo
and New York; Tony Bonadies and
George Fonder, and possibly Ted
Tappett and Chet Gibbons.
Evening star., 1947-07-03
By the Associotsd Press

BOSTON, July 3.-Major indoor
track promoters, who spend the out
door seasons scanning the horizon
for star milers in the making,
hereby are advised to pay close at
tention to Boston's 19-year-old Carl
Joyce in Lincoln, Nebr, over the
July holiday.
And they also are warned not to
take his performances in the Ma
tional AAU Junior and senior 300
meters championship races too Sc
riously, whether they be fast or slow.
That Boston Commerce High star
is considered one of the best of the
nations schoolboy 1,000-yard run
ners, but most of the experts, in
Guiding Jack Ryder, the canny Bos-
ton College coach, are convinced
that he lacks the speed needed to
become an outstanding half-miler.
He agrees, however, Joyce has all
of the power and stamina to become
this countrys next supermiler.
The consensus is that he's at least
. three years away from greatness
and, at this stage of his develop
ment, hardly of 1948 Olympic tim
ber.
Finishing Drive Impressive.
-Four months back, Joyce was ac-
claimed the outstanding performer
in the National Interscholastic in
door meet in New York after he won
its 1000" in 2:19.6. But only a
week ago, the youngster hit higher
track heights by setting national
schoolboy mile record of 4:20 on his
first competitive try at that longer
distance.
81 didn't think I'd be ready for
the longer race for at least three
months" Joyce said after shaving
1.3 seconds off the previous school,
boy mile mark set by the great Lou
Zamperini back in 1884.
When Bill CDoc) Fleming, the
Commerce High track coach, first
noted Joyce's promise, he, as most
Boston schoolboy tutors have been
doing for many years, appealed to
Ryder for advice and expert in
struction.
What impressed Ryder about
Joyce at first sight was his lack of
speed for middle-distance events.
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Woshington's Parker, II.
Gets Roller Skate Title
Special Dispatch 10 The Stor

SpeeioI Dispofch 10 The SfoF
OAKLAND, Calf, July 3.-Jimmy
Parker, 11-year-old roller skating
wizard, will take back to his home
in Washington, D. c., his first ma
tional roller skating title-the Unit
ed States juvenile boys freestyle
crown.
Parker, whose home is at 728
Maryland avenue NE, in Washing
ton, defeated nine other regional
champions here yesterday. Parker
had won the Washington and East
ern States titles recently. He was
trained in the Riverside Stadium in
Washington by Louis H. Bagmann.
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Major League Standings and Schedules
AMERICAN LEAGUE.
Results Yesterday.
THURSDAY. JULY 3, 1947.

ncSultS IcStcrudys
New York, 8; Wash, /.
Phila., 7: Boston, 6.
st. Louis, Z; Chicago, /.
Detroit, 6; Cleveland, S.
Games Today.
Detroit at Cleveland.
Hhila. at Boston.
Only games.
Games Tomorrow.
Wash. at N. Y. ca, 200.
Chicago at st. Louis ca.
Detroit at Cleveland ca,
Phila. at Boston (2).
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Results Yesterday.
Cincinnati, 8; Pitts, 6.
Br'klyn, IL; New York, 8
Phila., s; Boston, 5.
Only games.
Games Today.
st. Louis at Chicago.
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh.
New York at Brooklyn.
Boston at Phila.
Games Tomorrow.
New York at Br'klyn ca
Boston at Phila. ca.
Pitts. at Cincinnati ca.
u. Louis at Chicago (2)
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Cornell Ace Turns Pro

PITTSBURGH, July 3 P.-Frank
Wydo, outstanding tackle of Cornell
University, has decided not to re-
turn to school this season and has
signed a contract with the Pitts
burgh Steelers of the National Foot
ball League,
Evening star., 1947-07-03
By Hugh Fullerton, Jr.
Associated Press Sports Writer

NEW YORK, July 3.-One OF
baseball's mysteries Is how an
ordinary player on one team can
become a star just by changing
to another. No explanation is
offered here, but you can point to
Joe Gordon, George McQuinn,
Harry Walker and Bob Elliott OF
the American and National
League All-Stars teams that
clash next week as prime exam
Piles of such revivals. -. Gordon
was traded away by the Yanks
after Larry MacPhail decided the
club couldn't use him; McQuinn
was cut loose by the Athletics;
the Cards shuffled Walker off to
Philadelphia for Ron Northey,
who has been helpful, but not as
outstanding as Harry, and Elliott
figured in the deal by which the
Pirates acquired Billy Herman as
manager. You might toss in
Eddie Miller, who retired" dur
ing the off season because he was
weary of baseball, and Rudy
York, who was dealt from the
Red Sox to the White Sox while
he was being voted onto the ALL
Star squad.
In the Dough-Ben Downing,
chairman OF the New York State
Harness Racing Commission, likes
to talk about the good old days
when he was a semipro baseball
pitcher. On one occasion.
Ben recalls, he rode "a miles on
a bicycle to pitch a double
header. After few hours sleep
he pedaled "a miles home again
and thought he was doing all
right when he was paid IS for
the job. At least, nobody
kept the breakage.
One Minute Sport Page-Har-
din College in Texas, which
raised q moan about Tulsa U.
swiping its football players, now
Evening star., 1947-07-03

Ot1 0o1J @111o
will find Bob Klebergs Assault, top money winner
of all time, facing imported competition. Two
horses from England and one each from France,
Argentina and Brazil are expected to arrive this
week but, imposing as their records and past
performances by other foreign racers may be,
Assault will disappoint If he is beaten.
1t is always difficult for Americans to believe
that imported horses or athletes can hold their
o>a with the domestic brands. 1t Is even more
difhccit in the light Of postwar competition, IN
which United States golfers, boxers and tennis
players have been sweeping Britishers, Aus
tralians. Frenchmen and other foreign athletes
l,afora them Only tWo=Roxer Marcel Cerdan and
Evening star., 1947-07-03

.struck out for Pieretti in seventh.
tFiied out for Candinl In ninth.
Washington -------- 000 Q0Q giO-d
New York ------------- 10o O3U ol3-o
Runs-stirnweiss (2l, Lindell t2l. Di
Magic ~. Me9uinn. W; Johnson, ndsii HpehSe
Heinrich, Di Maggie 20. McQutnn 81.
johnson sgenee Houk Txo-bsss base hiss hiss
McQuinn. Home runs-Di
Masgio. Spence. Stolen baseE-stiTnEeiss;
Double play--Eyans to Travis: Lett on
on balls-of REYNOLDS 81 on Haefner.
Strikeouts-gy REYNOLDS, g: By Easfner. q
Haefner, In AZ; OF Pieretti. in ":
on Candini. z. in 2. Hit BY pitcher,I
Haefner, IindelD =, Losing p.tsher1pHasiIi poMmsi
and -Grieve.. Time-2:14. Attendance
$500 (paid).
Evening star., 1947-07-03
FeIIer's AII-Stur Sturt
Up to Check on Injury
By the Assoeiotsd Press

CLEVELAND, July "a decision
on whether Bobby Feller, mound
ace for the Cleveland Indians, will
be in shape for the All-Star game
Tuesday probably won't be reached
for several days.
Following an examination OF the
injured hurler's back yesterday, DR..
Edward Castle said several fibers
of a muscle had been torn.
Evening star., 1947-07-03
EAsTERN LEAGUE.

EASTERN LEAGUE.
Williamsport, 81; Scranton, 2-6.
Binshamton. 7-9; Hartford o-o. 4
Utica, So: Albany, 1-13.
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE.
Savannah, 3-15; jacksonville. 2-7.
Augusta, 2; Columbia, !.
Charleston, 8; Greenville, 3.
Macon 3; Columbus, 4,
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Wants Game Tomorrow

American Legion Post No. 81 is
looking for a baseball opponent for
tomorrow. Call Joe McGeeet Trim
idad 1923.
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Win, Lose, or Draw
The Match Race to Make 1947 Complete
By FRANCIS E. STANk

Every decade, perhaps twice thrice in
lifetime blessed with natural This in sports
complete instance Assault and Armed don't hook up
in at least match The the merrier.
The next scheduled racing is the 100000 nterna
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Hirsch Warns Against Another Epinord

off, will be Assault
Seabiscuit again.
Admiral Seabiscuit
campaigner getting better with
Returning the International
lean
little at this
Mighty Maharette from England Djea
Argentina quick and lasting
fame the who beats Assault
York warning trains
Assault Mr. Hch take the foreigners lightly
with horse he recalls
training could beat anything the
time this third of series He beat the French
horse Einad but he had his greatest to do it. He
mile zoos. Assault have to
There Epinards that people
don't about"
Evening star., 1947-07-03

States Air Force, finished 83-79-162,
a score that probably sent him to
the sidelines.
Bulla's card:
Bulla: Out 455 254 344-36
Par in 434 344 444-34
Bulla: In 534 354 444-36-72
Jennings card:
JENNINGS Jennings 2u fn as9 ass $5s $5s 5ss-7e
Stranahan's card:
f2ut--- fn-------- 3s2 5s2 81 81 s55EsS-7e 1858
Bulla Troubled on Greens.
Bulla, runnerup in the last two
British Opens, started out today
trying to forget the 80 he took yes
terday, but early putting trouble
almost brought disaster.
He three-putted the second and
fifth greens and on the third missed
a 10-footer by an inch.
Jennings, an amateur on leave
from the United States Air Force
in Germany, was betrayed by high
wind and the greens.
IF I could have got into the finals
it might have got me ticket home
for a month or so," he said at the
end of his round.
He had been thinking about play
ing in the Fort Benning Army
championship in August and enter
ing the qualifying play for the
United States Amateur champion
ship.
Other Second Round Scores.
Some 1000 fans watched the COM
petition today, about $500 of them
following Norman Won Nida, the
Australian, consistent winner in
Britain this summer.
Other second round scores:
Sam King, former British Ryder
Cup player, 75-72-147.
Dick Burton, 1899 champion,
77-71-148.
Flory Van Donck, Belgian cham
pion, 73-76-149.
Dai Rees, Wales, 77-7H151.
Won Nida, co-favorite with Henry
Cotton of England for the title,
played his second round under OBJ
vious pressure and registered rs to
go with his "a of yesterday. Twice
he reprimanded the gallery for max
ing noise. Once he shouted keep
quiet" to pair of spectators almost
a 100 yards down the fairway as he
lined up putt.
Cotton staggered home with a 78
and lat that brought him a first
place tie with Sam King, a former
British Ryder Cup player. Dick
Burton, who held the open title
throughout the war, was in the
second slot with 77-71-148.
Vic Ghezzi Of Kansas City, Kans.,
with chance to pull closer to the
leaders after yesterdays IS, couldn't
control either his putter or his
shorter irons today and reached the
turn in 80.
Evening star., 1947-07-03

fer pohhv 1ckeeadiy held their
with Americans
Confidence Assault bred champion snarpens
for the international Cup Now DID,
lebergs peak He fast and run distance
hard to imagine another morse from
any country beating him.
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Seobscuit-Wur Admiral All Over Again

sports that provides the spine tngle
outstanding match There weren't match
that topped great Pco Admiral and
Seabscut raced.
They started wak-up from the regular gate, and
they team Samuel D. Riddles son
of Howards legged Seabiscit
dead At the they still running and
then Seabcu forged ahead and doggedy lasted
to
upset couldn't such thing in be-
lengths better than
other horses with Assault and
For of matching Assault, Armed and
Syme Of the biggest money
undenaby OF the most durable horses
history Mrs Ethel Jacobs veteran no"
has been beaten too times
real
Evening star., 1947-07-03

SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.
Chattanooga. 6: Mobile, 8.
New Orleans, 12: Nashville, IL.
Memphis. 4; Birmingham, 3.
Little Rock, 12: Atlanta, z.
Evening star., 1947-07-03
Amateur Ace Retains
Chance at Open Tile;;
BuI|a, 152, in Running
By the Assoeioted Press

HoYLAKE, England, July s.
Frank Stranahan of Toledo, Ohio,
the United States amateur the
British fear most in the British
Open golf tourney, blew himself to
70 today over the par 68 Hoylake
course for a 36-hole total of $50.
Stranahan, third after yesterdays
Is with a II, went out in 40 and
came home in 80.
Despite his fat score, Stranahan
still was the leader of the first three
Americans to finish the SO holes
which determine the 40 players who
will shoot 36 more holes tomorrow
for the crown being given up by
Sammy Snead.
John Bulla, the Arizona airplane
pilot who registered an 80 yesterday,
had u today for -152 and seemed
certain for berth in tomorrow's
final. Sergt. Charles Jennings of
Medford, N j., and the United
States Air Force, finished 83-79-162,
a score that probably sent him to
the sidelines.
Evening star., 1947-07-03

Totals 80 524 Totals "a II 81 9
.Struck out for Pieretti in seventh.
tEiied out for Candinl In ninth.
Evening star., 1947-07-03

One Minute Sport Page-Har-
din College in Texas, which
raised a moan about Tulsa q.
swiping its football players, now
Laurel outlook., 1947-02-12
High Court Forbids Brifon
To Sell His New Motor Car

LONDON.-The high court of JUS
tice has issued an injunction for
bidding the owner of a new auto
mobile to sell it within six months
after purchase. 1t was the first case
brought under a recently instituted
practice by the Motor Trade asso-
citation making the restriction a con-
dition in the sale of all new cars.
Charles Falco, the purchaser,
agreed to the injunction with a stipu-
lation that he was "a victim of cir
cumstances" and not one of the So
called black market purchasers
against whom the contracts were di-
rected.
New cars are so scarce that they
can be sold shortly after their pur-
chase for more than twice the origi-
nal cost. The Motor Trade ~associa-
ton told the court that Falco paid
less than 81, 600 for the car he offered
for resale at $500.
Laurel outlook., 1947-02-12
DISPLAY MODELS OF
EDISON INVENTIONS
Continued from Page One)

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finements that came later as dictat-
ed by experience and need. They
worked, demonstrating the correct
ness of the principles involved.
The inventor and manufacturer
was born in 1847 at Milan, Ohio,
and moved with his family to Port
Huron, Mich, in 1854. At the age
of IL he was employed by the
Grand Trunk railway as newsboy
and later as telegraph operator. His
first important invention was a de-
vice for recording telegraph mes
sages. In 1869 he moved to New
York City and later had laboratories
at Newark and Orange, N. j.. His
inventions included the monograph,
incandescent electric lamp, carbon
telephone transmitter and a great
many others that are now used
throughout the world by millions of
people. He died in 1881.
Laurel outlook., 1947-02-12
Eleanor COnlee And
]. @. Void, Jr., Wed
Feb. s At Cheyenne

The marriage of Miss Eleanor M
Conlee, and John o. Void, Jr., son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John o. Void, was
announced last week by the brides
uncle and aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. C. C,
Corsbie of Cheyenne, Wyo.
The double ring ceremony was
performed at II a. M. Feb. 8 in
the Methodist church parlor at
Cheyenne, with Rev. Claire C. Hoyt
officiating. Spring flowers and
candelabra were used in the parlor
decorations.
The bride wore a South American
shrimp colored street length dress
with black accessories. A corsage of
gardenias completed her ensemble.
Mrs. Vincent Kaufholz, sister of
the bride, was the matron of honor
and the brides only attendant. She
wore a turquoise print gown with
black accessories and a corsage of
red roses. Vincent Kaufholz acted
as best man.
Mrs. Void, formerly of Fl. Madi-
son, Iowa, has resided in Cheyenne
the past six years. She is affiliat-
ed with Epsilon chapter of Beta
Sigma Phi sorority.
Mr.. Void attended the Billings
Polytechnic and was recently dis
charged from the army at Fort
Warren, Wyo.
Following the ceremony a dinner
was given in honor of the couple
at the Terrace Gardens. After a
trip to Winter Park, Colo, and AL
buquerque, N. NJ, Mr.. and Mrs.
Void will reside in Laurel.
For her going-away outfit, the
bride chose a cream colored dress
with leather trimming and brown
accessories.
Laurel outlook., 1947-02-12
SCOUT TROOP GIVES
DINNER FOR FATHERS

Boy Scout troop No. Is, sponsored
by the Church of the Nazarene, OBJ
served Boy Scout week by giving
a party for their dads at which Paul
Dudley, scout executive of the Nah
Pit-Sie district which includes Laur-
ell, was a guest.
He presented the troop commit
tee with their charter for 1947 and
also presented the committee mem
bers, Thomas j. Matthias, chairman,
Harold Wilson and Charles N. Ward,
and Rev. James H. Haueter, scout
master, with their certificates.
The scoutmaster then presented
the Scouts with their membership
cards.
Slides showing Scout camps of
previous years were exhibited, fol-
lowed by a motion picture, "The
Scouting Trail to Citizenship" The
boys served refreshments to their
fathers and guests.
The troop in a body attended and
participated in Sunday morning
Laurel outlook., 1947-02-12
German Women TO Get
indies of Netting

BERLIN.-A brassiere of Wehr-
macht insect net has been in
troduced to the German market
to relieve the clothing shortage.
The female apparel is fashioned
from two nets designed originally
to be worn over the soldiers he'll
met.
The shortage is so acute that
in a Russian zone a woman is
not given a ration coupon for the
brassiere unless she is under 80
or pregnant.
The system is founded on the
theory that the primary pur-
pose of the garment is not the
comfort of the wearer, but the
comfort of those who see the
wearer. Older women might
think they have more need for
a brassiere, but who cares?