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The Bat the Ball and the Homer-No. 3

the last home run champion to swing as much as 40
ounce bat
Ruth" McGrath adds, didn't get down to 81 and
SO ounces until the final three years of his career
The Yankee immortal 40 years old when he retired
Mantle is one OF the most muscular men in baseball
today Yet Ruths 47ounce club nearly one pound
heavier than bat used by Mickey when he led the
American League for the first time with 81 in 1885, This
disparity astonishes the Louisville Slugger people who
should be caoused to idosyncrasy, fetish changing
vogue. s-
McGrath remembers Ruth in his prime "He and the
other old Yankees used to spend entire day at
plant picking out wood" he says I'm Ruths hands the
heaviest bat in stock-even the heaviest in museum
seemed Ike 30-ouncer"
Mantle who is % years old used 81 to 34-ounce bats
last season when he topped the for the third time with
40 homers Presumably he is swinging the same weight
now.
ONE so-CALLED MODERN home run champion used
bat heavier than Ruths This Gavvy Cravath old
time outfelder for the Phies who welded 48-ounce
bat and hit "a homers in 1915 That year Bobby
Roth of the Indians using H-ounce creation led the
American League with
But the trend, shown in the accompanying chart
prepared by Herich & Bradsby, gradually veered to
lighter faster bats the hters got down the end
and swung from their heels.
There is almost nothing so important to hitter as
Evening star., 1961-08-11
By BILL FUCHS
star staff Writer

The Senators, losers Of six
straight games and just re-
turned from a thorny road trip,
joyfully welcome the Yankees
into Griffith Stadium tonight
for the opening of a four-game
series. Sellout crowds are ex-
pected tonight and Sunday.
The Yankees may strike fear
into the hearts of the other
American League clubs, but
they rank among Washington's
favorite playmateS.
The Senators have split 10
games with the league leaders.
They own a Us edge over Min
nesota and are even with the
Red Sox in IL meetings, but
are on the losing side with the
six other clubs.
Yankees Last Visit
This will be the last visit to
Washington this year for
Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris g.
Co., and the Pete Quesada
enterprise is set to cash in. All
reserved seats for tonight's
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have picked up speed in their
dash for still another American
League pennant.
They move into Griffith Sta
dium this time owning an
eight game winning streak and
"a three-game bulge over their
closest rivals, the Tigers.
McCIain Faces Terry
Joe McClain, Washington's
rookie Highlander, will pitch
tonight. McClain is long over
due for a victory. He hasn't
won since July 7, losing five of
his next six starts to give him
a 7-12 record. McClain pitched
well his last time out, shutting
out the White Sox until the
eighth inning before losing a
80 decision. He'll oppose Ralph
Terry CID.
The Senators, who were hot
items in the early going, now
must concentrate on avoiding
ninth place. They. the Angels
and the Twins are In a three
way battle to avoid that humble
position.
At one time the Senators
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Mantle and Maris Here Toniqht

5000 bleacher seats will go on
sale.
Good seats still remain for
tomorrow's game.
Before embarking on their
extended road trip, the Sena-
tors pasted the Yankees in
both ends of a twi-night dou-
ble-header July 10, with an
overflow crowd of 27,I26
whooping it up.
The Yankees did not look
like the Yankees that night.
They committed six errors,
three in each game, and found
themselves on the short end in
the home run department, 2
to /.
On Eight Game Streak
Mantle hit his 36th homer in
the second game. Since then
the muscular Mick has poled
seven for q grand total of 43.
He and Maris, who has Al,
are big threats to Babe Ruth,s
record of so, set "a years ago.
Since that night of double
embarrassment, the Yankees
Evening star., 1961-08-11
SchwuII to Be Out
For Several Days

BOSTON, Aug. II (AP)-
Rookie Don Schwall, ace of the
Boston Red Sox pitching staff
with a 1872 record, is suffering
from a kidney infection and
will be out of action for several
days, the Red Sox announced
yesterday.
Schwall, a 6-foot-6 right
handler who joined the Red Sox
May 81, is undergoing treat
ment by DR.. Ralph Mccarthy
and DR.. Thomas Tierney for q
low-grade infection, the Red
Sox said.
Schwall complained Of back
pains a few days ago and has
been under observation since.
Evening star., 1961-08-11
FORD BAGS NO. 20
Spain Shooting
For Booth Win

eight in a row for the first
time this year with a 80 VIC
tory over Pittsburgh in the
only National League game
scheduled.
Ford (20-2), last a loser on
May 29 at Boston, allowed
eight of the Angels nine hits
before giving way to the heat
and Arroyo in the eighth
inning.
Three Yanks Homer
Bobby Richardson, Yogi Ber-
ra and Bill Skowron homered
for the Yankee runs off Jim
Donohue (4-5), with Berra's
fourth -inning shot breaking a
IL tie as the Angels failed to
win any of their nine games at
Yankee Stadium in the season
series.
The Tigers made it eight out
of 10 with a three-game sweep
at Chicago. A double by Norm
Cash and Chico Fernandez
single off Juan Pizarro (7-5)
broke a % tie in the fifth in
ming. Don Mossi 13-2) was the
winner, going all the way al
though allowing II hits.
Milt Pappas (s-6) blanked
the Athletics on six hits. He
breezed after the Orioles scored
five runs in the first inning,
two on a single by Whitley
Herzog, against Bill Kunkel
(2-O. Dave Philley Of Balti-
more set an AL. record with
his 21st pinch hit of the season.
topping the record set in 1886
by Parke Coleman of the st.
Louis Browns with 20.
A third-inning double by
Frank Malone wrapped it up
for the Red Sox as Tracy Stall
lard Old won his first in the
majors. Al Schroll (0-2 was
the loser. zoilo Versailles and
Jim Lemon homered for the
Twins.
The Cardinals beat the Pirates
with an unearned run in the
seventh inning on Dick Stuart's
error, hanging the loss on Earl
Francis tl-5). Ray Sadecki
(10-5) was the winner. He gave
up eight hits, all singles except
one - Bob Clemente's ninth
inning home run.
Evening star., 1961-08-11
Jockey Suspended

SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY,
Aug. II CAP).-Steeplschase
Jockey James Wyatt has been
suspended for 10 days, August
IL to August 20, for careless
riding here Wednesday aboard
Battle Cross in the sixth race.
Evening star., 1961-08-11
By the Associated Press

It's a southpaw's world at the
moment in major league base
ball. Lefthander Whitley Ford,
with his usual help from left
handler Luis Arroyo, has be-
come the first 20-game winner
Of the season. and tonight left
handler Warren SPAIN shoots
for a rare 300th victory.
SPAIN, pitching in his 18th
season at 40, goes for the big
one for the Milwaukee Braves
against the Chicago Cubs. If
the National Leagues premier
southpaw gets it. he'll be only
the 18th pitcher ever to win
300 in the majors.
The last to do it was Lefty
Grove, in 1941 with the Boston
Red Sox. Eddie Plank is the
only other southpaw 3OO-game
winner.
The other 3O0-game winners,
topped by Cy Young's Sill,
are Walter johnson, Christy
Mathewson, Grover Cleveland
Alexander, Kid Nichols, Jim
Galvi, Tim Keefe, John Clark
son, Mike WEIGH and Charlss
Radbourne.
Ties Club Record
Ford, who has a 1851 rec
ord for 10 years in the ma
jors, won 20 for the first time
with a 81 decision over the
Los Angeles Angels yesterday.
That kept the New York Yam
KEGS three games ahead of Sec
ond place Detroit in the
American League race.
It was Whitey's 14th con-
Secutlve victory, tying the
Yankee record set in 1904 by
Jack Chesbro.' And it also
marked the 18th time in
Ford's % starts this season
that Arroyo has trudged in
from the bullpen.
While the Yankees pushed
their longest winning streak of
the year through eight games,
Detroit kept the pace by beat
ing the Chicago White Sox,
80. Baltimore beat Kansas
City, 80, and Boston defeated
Minnesota, 80, in the other
AL. games scheduled.
The st. Louis Cardinals won
Evening star., 1961-08-11
BALL TOO LIVELY
Wynn Fears
For Safety
OF HurIers

| NEA4 - 1 nC bdcCboA WO14O A140J
be agog over the home run
| slugging Of Mickey Mantle and
Roger Maris, but there's no
sympathy for the long-ball hit
terS from Pitcher Early Wynn
of the White Sox.
Wynn, who has 292 major
league victories behind him,
believes "this home-run craze
is going to end when a pitcher
is killed or crippled by one of
those baseballS they're hitting" "
Today's major league base
ball, Wynn told Sports Writer
Buddy DiIiberto Of the New
Orleans Tmes-Picayune in
New York recently, isn't
| juiced-up-just cut it open and
you'll find q carburetor."
There's been q disheartening
lat least from q pitchers
viewpoint change in the base
ball used in recent years, Wynn
claims. A .,-.
Cites Little Guys
1.-THE fastest pitcher In base
ball today can throw about 90
miles per hour" the big White
Sox righthander contended.
Most of us throw between SO
and 85 miles per hour"
But do you know how fast
the ball comes back at us?"
he asked. About 165 miles
per hour"
II don't mean to take any
thing away from Mantle or
Maris," Wynn said, softening
his tone a bit. They're both
great hitters and they'd get a
flock of home runs no matter
what ball is used. But when the
little guys in the league start
hitting 'em into the stands
well, it's ridiculous.
There's another pet peeve Or
two on Wynn's chest.
What burns me up the most
are those stories about mean
pitchers in baseball being po-
tential killers" he said.
'"They usually single out
Don) Drysdale (of the Los
Angeles Dodgers) and myself
and a few other pitchers. The
heads ask: Which one of these
potential killers will murder the
first batter?'"
Next they'll be drawing in
prison numbers across our uni
form shirts" Wynn added.
Tive had about enough" he
said. I'm going to write a story
with pictures of all the power
hitters and ask: Which one of
these will kill the first
pitcher?'"
Gets Two-Week Rest
Batters are protected by
headgear, they're set and wait
ing for pitches-everything's
going for the batter, Wynn
complained.
"It takes a pitcher a second
or two to right himself after
delivering and they're shooting
at him 165 miles per hour"
Wynn said. "It's bound to hap
pen.
II don't want to bring back
the dead ball, but I think there
should be a happy medium, "
Wynn said. you have to have
some balance. I think the fans
want to see some bunting, some
h1t-and-rtin, not just the home
rum"
At Al, how much longer can
Wynn go? Will he win 800
games?
I'm just praying I can get
those eight wins to make it
300 before they get me-" he
concluded. IF I make it I'm
going to get the he'll off the
mound before I get killed"
Early can relax for two
weeks, at least. He has been
granted leave by the White
Sox for that period to rest his
ailing. pitching arm at his home
in Venice, Fla.
Evening star., 1961-08-11

game and for Sundays double.
header have been snapped up
Two hours before starting time
10000 unreserved seats and
Evening star., 1961-08-11

were striking for fifth place.
But they lost 13 of II games
on their recently concluded
road trip and since mid-June
have posted q 16-32 record.
Evening star., 1961-08-11

his bat If club is fraction off or If he fances
1t fraction too light or heavy player is apt to refuse
delivery and write singing note to the maker too
Evening star., 1961-08-11
CHOICES OF THE CHAMPIONS

How the bats of home champions haze CHANGED
Is shown By list OF the leaders at pe-yecr intervals oper
the past SIS years. compiled from the files of Hiertch
& Brodsby bat manufacturer:
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-24
Healthy Talks
For Good Of All

settled until the argument, in the courts or
out, has gone much further.
Democracy depends on education; but does
that mean it can depend primarily on nonre-
ligious education, which is often in effect
antireligious? Protestants, Catholics and Jews
have lot more vital thinking to do on this
vital subject"
THE CATHOLIC REPORTER, Kansas City
st. Joseph, Mo: 1--WE agree that a Federal aid
to education bill which includes no provisions
whatever for assistance to private and paro-
chial schools would be unjustly discrimina-
tory; but We do not agree that the bill as
finally offered for the vote of Congress neces-
sarily ought to be defeated if it fails to in
corporate some such provision.
"We do not believe that Catholics who
find the Federal aid program otherwise ac-
ceptable should take responsibility for its de-
feat solely on the grounds of its injustice to
the Catholic parents; rather they should
acquiesce temporarily and in the passage of
an imperfect piece of legislation and work to
amend it,"
n CATHOLIC MESSENGER, Davenport,
Iowa: at is our hope, which the present at
titudes of the spokesman on both sides of this
question indicate may be realized, that a COM
ent legislation Federal aid to public Schools)
to be debated on its own merits.
"Such a compromise must insure the con-
sideration of aid to private and parochial
schools in a separate bill that will throw the
question open to the reasoned and non-parti-
san consideration that it deserves"
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-24
GREAT DEBATE:
Continued from Page /

Mr.. PREFER DISAGREED, pointing to the
experience of the Netherlands. There, he said,
when government funds were given to private
schools so per cent of Hollands schools be-
came confessional. This hints that aid to US.
parochial schools means 'the end of our free,
common, universal public school SYSTEM he
said.
Father McCluSkey replied: 81 can't see that
that is a great evil. If people choose and want
a school corresponding to their own wishes,
what is the evil? 1t seems to me a won
derful thing, then, if the people were able to
express and choose the type of education they
wanted.
That is democracy. What does democracy
mean otherwise? The people freely wanted
that. We can't just nail down democracy and
say that it has to go this way forever.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOL in this country
has meant something different for each gen.
Grafton. 1t began as a strictly Protestant school.
Then it became a non-denominational Pro-
testant school. Today it is secular.
Catholic people, with their deep religious
conviction, sadly turn away. They can't find
the kind of education that they would like for
their children. They send them to their W
schools. Is that ugly? Is that undemocratic?"
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-24
Federal Aid

work out a compromise along the line of Mr..
Pfeffer's proposal, Il think we would all
gain"
but LET US BE PRACTICAL and rea-
%listic," he continued. "In 80 states in the union
today non-public school children cannot get
a ride on a bus. There has been all sorts of
difficulty all over the nation When the
science testing program was started, las part
off the National Defense Education Act of
1853, there we're groups in American society
that opposed the inclusion (of private school
pupils, even in certain peripheral areas like
guidance and counseling programs"
In response to a studio audience question
about the effect on American society and the
public schools if all US. religious groups
began their own schools, Father McCluskey
noted that only six of the $50 recognized us.
religious groups have operated schools. He
added:
Il think the community has every right to
set up standards for accrediting teachers, for
accrediting schools, to say what should be in
high school curriculum, for example, to qua
lily for a diploma.
81 think the community has the right to
inspect the school lin regard to- fire
laws, the health laws and cafeteria, and so
forth"
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-24

ddy If1ul III GOs
Active in Cana work since
1941. Father bigger will speak
on such subjects as What Is
Lover" "The Sacrament of
Matrimony Cannot Supply
Common Sense" and Spirit
ual Life in Marriage - Union
of Family with Christ in and
Through the Mass" Discus
sion and questions will follow
each talk.
a SPECIAL TALK will be
given on how parents should
give sex instructions to chill
dren.
Refreshments will be served
during the course of the aft
ernoon.
The session will close with
a Holy Hour at 5 pm. when
the couples will renew their
marriage VOWS.
a in 1887 in Paris,
Father bigger studied at Notre
Dame University and in
France. After working abroad,
he served three years as
chaplain in the Canadian Air
Force and holds a commission
in the US. Army Reserve.
He has worked and taught
in Portland, Oregon, for ten
years. His Cana and Pre-Cana
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-24
II Diocesan Students
Have Work Published

Twelve Diocesan students, one from a school
which doesn't have a building, will have articles pub
lished in Young Horizons, a collection of the best crea-
tive writings submitted in competition by high school
students of Michigan and Ohio.
The contest was sponsored by the Detroit Stu
dent Press Association Of the University of Detroit.
One winner was Edward Smith of DeSaleS High
School, who wrote Deep Blue Sea" DeSales students
are attending first year classes at st. Augustine and
st. James the Less, as their school is being built.
Other Diocesan winners and their entries were;
Margaret Kelly, 'The Gypsy Violin" Chillicothe
Catholic Central; Janet Lee VanBalen, The MaJes-
Barbara Young, LEND Me Your Ears" Rosary; Rob-
ert A. Ciraldo, Sonnet l." St. Charles; Mary M. Yant,
"Tattle-Tale Wind, % Dennison Immaculate Conception.
Gerald L. Rieger, "The Town" Linda A. Dun
ham, "Home Town" and Patricia A. Semple, "The
Wanderer, " Dover st. Joseph; Patricia Quilter, There
Was a Difference Marion Catholic, and Marcella
Foster, Il was a Teenage Millionaire, New Lexington
st. AloysiuS Academy.
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-24
THE PRESS:

AMERICA, WEEKLY MAGAZINE, New
York: Major organs of the press have inter
preted the Catholic bishops statement of
March 2 on Federal aid to education as an
ultimatum to the President.
This Interpretation, in our opinion, is ex-
aggerated and unfair. The statement care
fully avoided a head-On clash with the PreSi-
dents views on the unconstitutionality of
direct grants to p~arochial schools. Instead, the
statement suggested long-term, low-interest
loans which the President discussed at length
in his March 8 press conference"
THE coMMoNWEAL. New York: "Presi-
dent Kennedy has suggested as a solution to
the present contretempS that partisan oppo-
Sition to his bill be withdrawn and that spe-
cial legislation be introduced and debated on
its own merits.
"Such an alternative would, of course,
represent a substantial concession on the part
of Catholics Nevertheless, we think this
is a concession that Catholics may have to
make"
LIFE MAGAZINE, NEW YORK: Kennedy
~justifies the discrimination in his bill on
constitutional grounds: that direct aid to any
church school would breach the First Amend
ment's so-called wall of separation between
nedy is fulfilling a campaign promise, but he
is also c~loaking a political decision in consti-
tutional clothing that doesn't fit
whatever the fate of Kennedy's bill, it is
healthy that the discrimination issue has been
aired. There is a grave issue Of public policy
and social justice here which will not be
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-24
Castro

Continued from Page y
priest holding religious serv-
ice for the rebels.
In Havana, Catholic spokes-
men said it was probable that
the priest had joined the
rebels as a spiritual coun-
selor, much as priests had
joined the Castro group when
it was striving to overthrow
the former Cuban govern
ment.
The third instance was an
announcement by a leader of
the government-sponsored or
ganization For the Cross and
Country that a Catholic bish-
op he said was the head of
the counterrevolutionaries in
the Escambray mountains had
fled to Pamaica. He identified
the churchman as Bishop AL
fredo Mullery San Martin
who is Apostolic Administra-
tor of Cienfuegos and an
auxiliary Bishop of Havana.
In other developments,
Auxiliary B Bishop Eduardo
Boza Masvidal of Havana de-
nounced the terrorism and
killing that has been taking
place in Cuba, including the
too hasty use of the death
penalty. His views were con.
tanned in an article in the
Franciscan magazine La Quin-
cena. The magazine resumed
publication this month after
its plant was occupied by
Cuban militia during Janu.
ary's us. invasion scare
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-24
Delegates

Continued from Page y
ing TO Catholic standards Of
morality and the direction of
the Legion of Deceney."
The Welfare Conference
delegates opposed:
-s measure (HB 2S2) al
lowing the director of In
dUstriaI Relations TO permit
employment of females be-
yond the present maximum.
The ocWc termed the bill
"refrosressive lesisI alton"
which Concentrates too much
authority in fhe hands OF the
director of industrial Rels-
tions and renders that author.
ity subject to abuse"
bill which would create
State Board Of Charities TO
regulate professional solicit
fstions. The delegates noted
that this could be and is
handled on the local level in
many instances.
resolution which would
submit 10 a popular vote the
present power of the governor
to pardon persons convicted
Of the first degree murder.
This seems an infringement
on the executive power of the
governor" the group said
"and is an issue so emotion
ally charged al the present
fine that il seems Unwise TO
submit IL 10 the electorate"
Establishment of three
member board TO examine hos
FERTILIZATION associations and
recommend legislation. The
delegates pointed out that This
power already is in the hands
of the Ohio Department Of
Insurance and feels further
scrutiny is unnecessary.
measure Is. 3. l34l which
would provide liquor permit
holders accused of sales TO
minors fhe defense that they
demanded and were shown
documents acceptable as proof
of age. The delegates opposed
ths measure on the ground
that il lessons the RESPONSE
biIity of the seller.
House bill 209, which
would establish a state par.
ent.youfh service in Public
Welfare. to provide for eoun-
ty parent-Youfh service. This
measure was opposed on the
The Catholic times. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1951-current, 1961-03-24
lack Cannon
At ROckne
Breakfast

Jack Cannon, one of
Notre Dame University's
all-time All-Americans, a
Columbus native will be
the main speaker at the
30th annual Knute Rockne
Communion Break { this
Sunday on the South Bend
campus.
Knute Rockne died 80 years
ago this coming week in a
plane crash. 1t was March 81,
1891.
Cannon, who won his all.
American honors as a guard
under Rockne, will dramatic
some of the events during
the coach's career, including
his conversion to Catholicism.
Father Vincent Nj Mooney,
pastor of Holy Rosary par
ish, Columbus, and a former
athletic director of Notre
Dame. brought Rockne into
the Church, Cannon recalls.
THIS SUNDAY in the Sun
day Visitor, Notre Dame pub
lie relations man Charlie Cal
lahan pays tribute to Cannon
in his sports column and
notes that the All-American
guard was on All-time All.
American team picked by the
late Grantland Rice.
Callahan points out that an
account of the East-West
game of 1890, in which Can
non and fellow Notre Dame
teammate Ted Twomey par
ticipated on the East Squad,
is described IN the book Foot
balls Finest Hour:
ALFRED Lord Tenn yson
should have written the story
of the East-West game of Jan.
], 1890. Or, perhaps, it should
be said that he has already
done SO:
Cannon to the left of them,
Cannon to the right of them,
Cannon in front of them"
The East won 1877.
Jack Cannon was the mans
name.