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Evening star., 1961-07-14
MINOR LEAGUE
SCORES
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Hawaii, I'll; Tacoma, 3-2.
Vancouver, 3: Spokane, l.
San Diego, 6; Salt Lake City. 3.
Portland, s; Seattle, 4.
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
Rochester, 8: Buffalo, z.
Richmond. 10; Columbus. 8.
Jersey City, 4: Charleston, o.
Only games scheduled.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION
Denver, s: Houston, 4.
indianapolis, IL: Louisville, 2.
Omaha. 3: Dallas-Fort Worth. /.
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION
Nashville, 5-3: Little Rock, 80.
Macon, q: Birmingham, 8.
Other games postponed
EASTERN LEAGUE
Lancaster. 3: Williamsport, o.
Binghamton, 4: Reading, /.
Springfield at Johnstown, postponed
SOUTH ATLANTIC LEAGUE
Ashevills, 8: Charlotte, 4. no in
1ings).
Columbia, 8; Jacksonville, 1.
Other games postponed
, 1961-09-23
Rejected AS Bod
Insurance Risk Mon
Celebrates Tooth

John T. Griffin Of Hecker,
Illinois, who celebrated his
Tooth anniversary this week
was rejected as a poor risk
when he made application
seventy-five years ago.
Mr.. Griffin says every one
else connected with the insur-
ance application and the phys
ical examination which he
fIunked has since passed away.
Although confined to his
home for the past year, he is
still able to be up and about
the house each day.
, 1961-09-23
Business Women's
Pres. Reports On
Convention

The Christiansted Business
and Professional Women's
Club held their regular month
" meeting last Sunday, Sep
TENDER 18th, at
House. Mrs. Lucia Nelthrop,
President of the Club, gave a
very interesting report on the
1861 Convention Of the Nation
al Federation of Business and
Professional Women's Clubs
which she attended in Chicago,
July 1927.
The Convention was attend
ed by delegates from the fifty
states as well as Puerto Rico
and the Virgin Islands. Also at
the Convention were Mrs.
Irene Ambrose, State Pres
ident for the Virgin Islands,
and Mrs. Julia Radcliffe, Pres
ident Of the Frederiksted
BPWC's.
It was announced by Nation
al Federation President, Kath-
crime Peden, that a conference
of business and professional
women of the Americas will be
held late this fall or in the
spring in San Juan, Puerto
Rico. This conference will
bring together business and
professional women from Cam
Continued on page A.
, 1961-09-23

ton you deem necessary"
Another letter received by
Mr.. Crawford from Mr.. Raven
dated September 10Th follows;
Further to my memorandum
Of September 8 and your me
morandum Of September II,
on the subject of the modifi-
cation of the ST. Croix runway
to accommodate jet aircraft, in
view Of the continued uncer-
tainty regarding the actual
date that the st. Croix runway
will be available for jet oper-
alton and the need to finalize
our winter 1961-62 advance
schedules. Immediately, we
have reluctantly had to delay
the Inauguration Of jet service
to st. Croix from December Is
to January 10.
Admittedly, this is only as
short period of time, however,
I feel that you will probably
be subjected to considerable
pressure as a result Of this de-
lay. / hope til you will be
able to satisfactorily explain
our position. Our forward
schedules involve extensive al
location of additional aircraft
time plus training the flight
crews necessarily requiring a
lengthy lead time. Even the
establishment Of a January 10
date, with a firm indication
that the runway will even be
completed by them, could re-
suit in a further modification.
! sincerely hope that you
will impress upon those con-
cerned our desire to include
st. Croix in our jet schedules
for an effective date of jan
uary 10, SO that we might re-
ceived assurances that the rum
way will be completed prior
to this date"
, 1961-09-23


The bid has been awarded
for repairing and strengthen
ing the runway and paving the
roll-off, but, according to an
item in the Newsletter by John
Colby, Manager of the st.
Croix Chamber Of Commerce
who had been urging that
work be started, "The story
was that the contractor, not
the government, was causing
the delay. However, I found
out yesterday that although
the contract had been signed
and bond furnished weeks ago,
the work order to the contrac-
tor to begin work was signed
only yesterday September
18th! The contractor had been
specifically told NOT to start
work until this order was sign
ed and in his hand. Mean
while, Mr.. Crawford, General
Agent on st. Croix has receiv-
ed the folloWingletter from
Pan American World Anyways,
dated September 9th from w.
F. Raven, Division Manager Of
Pan Am:
"The reports indicate that
the runway extension for st.
Croix will not be completed in
time to inaugurate our Deem
Der jet service. If this inform
alton is accurate, ! suggest you
impress upon the local author
tiles that this might further
delay our services beyond the
date the airport is actually
completed since we are not al.
ways in a position to assign
additional jet aircraft to new
routes without considerable
advance planning. Therefore,
every effort should be made
to have the airport extension
completed on time.
The foregoing is merely for
your advance information and
for whatever further local ac-
, 1961-09-23
DELAY IN STARRING WORK ON AIRPORT
MPEPIL5 JET SERVICE HERE
Pan Am May Postpone JET

Pan American Always may not be able to start its Jet
service here on December 18th as promised, unless the work
in time.
, 1961-09-23
Augustin DoWurd IS
Nurned Assistunt To
Govt. Secretary


Augustin Coward of Fred
eriksted has been named AS
sistant to Government Secre-
tary Cyril E. King. He takes
the place of Ullmont James
who resigned recently to take
a post in Ghana.
Mr.. Coward, graduated from
St. Patrick's High School in
Frederiksted in 1851. He work
ed as Clerk-Stenographer in
the Department of Health I'M
til 1858 when he joined the U.
S. Army, serving in New Jer-
sey, Oklahoma, Korea and
Japan.
He served as Clerk tenog-
rapher, Clerk Typist, Battery
Clerk, Administrative Assist
ant and Supply Sergeant, Dur
ing this time he received sew
eral letters of commentation
from his superiors for perfom-
ance of duties outside the
normal call of duty.
Mr.. Coward received an
honorable discharge from the
Army and after a brief period
in the Department Of Finance
entered Morgan State College
to study Political Science.
While there he was elected
president of the Mems Dormi-
tory Council, Chairman Of the
Student Loan Fund, Member
of Promethaan Kappa Tau
Honor Society, Senator of the
Student Government, Member
of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity
and a Member Of Who's Who
Among American Colleges and
Universities 1958-59. In 1860 he
received his B. S. degree.
In the fall of 1860 Coward
received a Ford Foundation
Fellowship and entered the
School of Government and
Public Administration at
American University to study
for his Masters degree in Pub
lie Administration; while there
he did an internship in the Di-
vision of InsuIar Affairs in the
Office Of Territories Of the De-
.alrinued on page 4i
Evening star., 1961-08-25

We'll give you O better tire buy
brand for brond, line for line,
ooy doy Of the week or weN
refund your money promptly.
Joe Granville
Reg 1rads Mork
Evening star., 1961-08-25
VIM LOSE OR DRAW
More on the Bqbe an MN
BY FRANCIS STANN

IN THE MAIL COMES plaintive note:
Il don't hold with people who don't want
to see Ruth'S record broken simply because
he was the Babe. To hear some of them,
you'd think what Mantle and Maris are
Threatening to do is sacrilegious But I do
object to 28O hitter beating Babe Look
up Babes other deeds in '27."
Well, he batted 1856 scored 159 runs,
trapped 1872 hits including his go home runs,
and drove in 164 runs. Neither Mickey nor
Roger, the latter the "290 hitter" can hope
to match Ruths complete season. but the
necessity to do so remains vague. 1t is the
home run duel that is holding the attention
of the Nation.
The high-average man in the National
League, Roberto Clemente, is all but for
gotten in Peoria. So are the top hitterS in
the American, Norman Cash and ElSton
Howard Even the pennant races have been
overShadowed by M6zM.
There are only two men involved, both
on the same team, yet for angles it is like
big heavyweight title flght-Dempsey VS..
Tunney, Louis VS.. Schmeling, Dempsey VS..
Carpenter. Any number can play and some
famous figures are taking part.
TED WILLIAMS, FOR INSTANCE says
that M&JM are fattening up at the expense
Of bad pitchers. There are about 20 guys
who wouldn't be pitching in the majors if
it weren't for expansion Williams says.
Well, Ruth hit good many of his so
homers off mediocre pitchers. The sharp
ones in '27-Lefty Grove, Ted Lyons, etc
were no soft touches for Babe.
lot of the '27 pitchers were repeaters
That is to say, they served up more than
one gopher to Ruth. Milt CASTOR of the
Browns and Rube Walberg of the AS
yielded four apiece. Hollis ThurSton, Tom
Zachary, Slim HarriSS, Tony Weller (who
remembers him?), Tommy Thomas, Ken
Holloway and Joe Shaute gave up three
each. Only Thomas and Walberg were win
ming pitchers that season.
The most victimized pitchers by M&5M
have been Pete Burnside of the Senators,
who was blasted by MariS three times, and
Eli Grba, whom Mantle touched up three
times. MIN have homered off 81 different
pitchers apiece, with SO games to play.
Ruth hit his home runs off 33 pitchers.
Some hitterS might say it is an advantage
to face a familiar throWer.
Hank Greenberg, who came close in 1888
when he hit So home runs, suggested re-
Gently that hitters we're at disadvantage
in his day because many late-season games
Evening star., 1961-08-25

were played in poor daylight or were
shortened because of darkness.
"a SECOND GAME of a double header
might be cut to seven innings" Hank
remembered That cost hitter time at
bat Now, all somebody has to do is push a
button and light up the field when it gets
dark"
Some batterS today might have a rebuttal
for this argument, too. Some would rather
hit by dim natural light than under arti-
ficial light in bona-fide night games.
The twin historians of the Associated
Press, Joe Rechler and Ben Olan, point
out that since Ruth's big year the parks in
New York. Washington, Boston, Chicago,
Cleveland and Detroit have become smaller.
And that Kansas City'S fence is shorter
than Philadelphia's and Baltimore's is
closer than st. Louis. And, finally, that
Wrigley Field in Los Angeles is a bandbox
and MinneSotas playground not much
bigger.
MSJM supporters strike back by claiming
that distance is of little Importance to
their heroes. If they meet the ball right, it
is contended, their drives are home runs
whether they're playing in a small park or
in the Sahara desert.
THE LATE GEORGE HILDEBRAND, who
umpired throughout Ruth'S career in the
American League, left behind a quote
when the Babe made his record" he said
in 1858, "the ball was judged where it was
last seen. Now the rule is judgment where
the hall leaves the OloUinp field
80, many balls Ruth hit, which left the
playing field fair but curved foul high up
in the seats when last seen, would be home
runs today. really think Ruth would have
hit at least a dozen more homerS if he'd
had the benefit of this rule the hitters have
on their side today"
Ruth hit more home runs 1927 on the
road than at home Mantle and Maris so
far have hit more on the road, too. Maris,
who bats lefthanded, has hit 40 of his SO
homerS off righthanded pitchers. Mantle,
the sWitch-hitter, has hit 81 of his 46
against righthanderS. Ruth had an un-
commonly good record against Southpaws,
who yielded 10 homerS. He faced more
lefthanderS," M&M adherents claim.
Starting tonight, Mantle and MariS re-
open their show in Kansas City, where the
ball park not only is inviting to long ball
nitters but the ball club is as demoralized
as any in memory. Ruth'S admirers might
contend that Mickey and Roger are getting
an advantage here that Babe never enjoyed,
Evening star., 1961-08-25

hits and drove in two runs, one
with a homer.
Deron Johnson's two-run
homer broke up a 3-3 tie in
the eighth inning for the AS
and beat Dick Hall t6-5t. Bill
Kunkel (3-3) was the winner.
Southpaw Jim Kaat CID,
who tripled and scored the
Twins first run in the second
inning, hung up his first major
league Shutout oy limiting the
White SoX to five singles. Ray
Herbert (8-12) was tile loser
as the White Sox suffered their
second straight shutout.
Evening star., 1961-08-25
BY the Associated Press

It's a long time until Decem-
ber, but tonight's head-on ex-
hibition clash between the Phil
adelphis Eagles and the De-
troit Lions may give a pretty
fair indication on the team to
beat in the National Football
League wars this season.
The Detroit-P hila d e phia
show comes off in Detroit'S
Tiger Stadium and both the
world champion Eagles and the
defenSively- tough Lions will eX-
pertinent with reserve quarter
backs. They are King Hill of
Philadelphia and Warren Rabb
Of Detroit.
The Cleveland Browns meet
the Los Angeles Rams in Los
Angeles in tonight's only other
NFL activity.
Three scraps are on the slate
in the American Football
League where the Dallas Texans
have compiled the exhibition
campaigns best record of 80,
The Texans play Denver for
Evening star., 1961-08-25

over the Browns, highly re-
garded in early appraisals, and
a 17-14 triumph over Pitts
burgh. Morrall tossed five
touchdown passes in the two
games.
Buffalo's Bills have a sur
prise for Boston. Tommy
O'Connell announced yesterday
he's ended his retirement to
rejoin the Bills quarterback
corps, weakened by the loss of
first stringer Johnny Green,
who suffered a shoulder sepa-
ration Tuesday.
Before the week end is over,
other teams in both leagues will
be busy. Five NFL contests to-
morrow night find Dallas VS..
New York at Albuquerque, N.
Mex, st. Louis VS.. Pittsburgh at
Jacksonville, Fla, Green Bay
VS.. Chicago at Milwaukee, Bal
timore VS.. Washington at Nor
folk, Va, and Minnesota VS..
San Francisco at Portland,
Greg. San Diego is host to
Oakland in an AFL Sunday af-
fair.
Evening star., 1961-08-25
EoqIes-Lions Come Toniqht
Nav Give Clue to NIL Race

the second time this season at
Fort Worth. The New York
TitanS and Houston square off
at Greenville, S. c., and Buffalo
goes to Boston.
Philadelphia Coach Nick
Skorich will give Hill, acquired
from st. Louis, his first start
ing quarterback assignment,
thinking King may solve part
of the problem created by Norm
Van Brocklin'S departure.
The Eagles may be without
the services of Tommy Nc
Donald, the fleet Oklahoman
who plays a major role in
Philadelphia'S pass patterns.
Mcdonald was a star pass re-
ceiver in the Eagles two victor
les, 28-14 over the College ALL
Stars and 1910 over the Chi
cago Bears. He has a strained
knee ligament and Skorich says
he won't take a chance on a
more severe injury.
Lions Coach George Wilson
will start Rabb despite the fact
that Earl Morrall has per-
formed magnificently in guild
ing Detroit to a 35-7 victory
Evening star., 1961-08-25
BY the Associated Press

Managers Fred Hutchinson
and Walt Aston had the same
idea when ii came to doing
something about losing SJreaks,
but only Hutch had the right
anSwer-and it gave his Gin
cinnati Reds a 3l2-game lead
again over Alston'S Still-Slump-
ing Los Angeles Dodgers in the
National League race.
Hutchinson, after losing four
in a row, juggled his lineup and
came up with Leo Cardenas
and Dick Gernert. who paired
for five hits and four RBI as
the Reds cooled off San Fran
cisco, 8-5, last night.
Aston also juggled his
lineup, inserting old pro Duke
Snider. But the Duke was o.
for-4 and the second-place
Dodgers lost their 10th in a
row, 10-1, at st. Louis, before
showing off for Cincinnati and
tonight's opener of a four
game series with the Reds.
Reds Shake Slump
The Reds shook their slump
with four unearned runs in
the seventh inning, triggered
by Cardenas' winning three
run double, and ended San
Francisco's winning string at
six. That dropped the third
place Giants five games be-
hind once more with their third
loss in 16 games.
Milwaukee beat Pittsburgh
6-1, with Warren SPAIN win
ming No. 3O3. and Philadelphia
tagged the Chicago Cubs, IA
for their third straight success
after a record % consecutive
defeats.
Cardenas. stepping in for Eo
Kasko at shortstop, had two
doubles and a single among the
Reds 13 hits off Jack Sanford
10-0 and Reliever Stu Miller
Two errors, by Willie McCovey
and John Orsino, and twc
walks paved the way for Car.
denas' two-out. two-bagger of
Miller, giving the Reds an g.:
Evening star., 1961-08-25
Stomach Ailment
Hits Swimmers

BLACKPOOL, England, Aug.
IS (AP).-Five members of the
United States women's SWIM
ming team here for a two-day
meet against Europe were
stricken with enteritis and
ordered to bed today.
Their illness forced officials
to make wholesale switches in
assignments for the meet to-
night.
The girls became i'll shortly
after midnight with stomach
pains. A doctor confirmed the
ailment as enteritiS. The girls
must rest for at least 48 hours.
The five stricken girls are:
Caroline Wood of Portland,
Greg. Butterfly; Nina Harmer
of Philadelphia, backstroke:
Robyn johnson Of Arlington,
Va, freestyle: Carolyn House
of Los Angeles. freestyle: and
Joel Lenzie Of Philadelphia.
dive.
Evening star., 1961-08-25
TIGERS HERE TONIGHT
Still More Woes
Await Senators

Baton twirlers and marching
bands will perform in pre- game
ceremonies starting at 1880.
Unearned Run Hurts
The Senators, who have had
one errorleSs game in the last
IL. saw an unearned run dam
age them yesterday. Pete Run
nelS opened the Boston second
by beating out a slow roller to
short for a single. He went to
second on a passed ball and
to third on an infield out. With
two outs ShortStop Bob John
son bobbled Chuck Schilling's
ground ball, enabling Runnels
to score.
/ The Senators got Dick Dono-
van a 81 lead in the third on
a pair of walks, a single to
center by Donovan, a sacrifice
bunt by Danny O'Connell and
a single to center by johnson,
but Boston tied it up in the
fourth when Jensen went all
the way to third on Pumpsie
Green's infield hit and scored
as Ike O'clock hit into a double
play.
A sharp single to right by
Gene Woodling and Kings
homer just inside the right
field foul line gave the Sena-
tors a 4-2 lead in the sixth, but
in the Boston sixth, Runnels
doubled against the leftfield
wall and Jensen pumped one
over it to tie things again.
Donovan, failing for the sec
ond time to win his 10th game,
was not the loser. Pete Burn
side lost his sixth against one
victory. He came on with two
out in the ninth in relief of
Mike Garcia who suffered a
bruised foot. Burnside got the
side out and opened the 10th
by tanning Runnels. But Jen-
sen then hit his second over
the leftfield wall and his 18th
of the year Mike Fornieles.
Evening star., 1961-08-25
Wrig|ey Field Puts
Brakes on M BOYS

but MariS was O-for-4 and
Mantle 1-for-4 against South
paw Ted Bowsfield and Re-
lever Tom Morgan t6-2). a
Highlander. MarlS found
seven men on base in his five
trips, but brought in Just one,
with a sacrifice fly.
Larry 1856 walked one and
struck out two in putting away
his 18Th complete game in 25
starts for the Tigers, who
backed him with 16 hits off
Jim Perry (9-12) and two Ie-
levers. Billy Bruton had four
Evening star., 1961-08-25
Tunk SIuggers
FoiIed Again in
Angels Park
By the Associated Prcss

When the Brooklyn Dodgers
were heading for Los Angeles
and looking for a place to squat
until their park was built it
looked as though they'd settle
in Wrigley Field. 1t was a pros
pect that sent UP a holler about
short fences and home runs
and travesty of Babe Ruth's
record.
The Dodgers never found out
for they moved into the Coli
scum. But when the American
League followed the National
to Los Angeles this season, the
Angels had to set up shop in
Wrigley Field for lack of any
thing else.
Well, the joints still the
same, still so short in spots
that the Angels sheepishly hid
the distance markers (345 feet
under a splash of paint on the
fences in right and left CEN
ter.
Tough on Maris, Mantle
Yet Wrigley Field has looked
as big as they come for Roger
Maris and Mickey Mantle of
the New York Yankees in their
assault on Ruth's record 60
of 1927.
In nine games at Wrigley
Field, Maris and Mantle, who
have hit Sc home runs between
them, each managed to jolt
only two out of the park-and
each was shut out last night
as the Yankees lost, Ga, to
the Angels in their last visit to
Wrigley Field.
In the final three-game
series, Maris and Mantle each
had just three hits in a COM
bined total of % at bats against
Angels pitching, and only one
was a home run. That came in
the series opener and it was
No. so for Maris, now just IL
games ahead of Ruth's 1927
pace. Mantle, with 46, is five
games ahead of the Babe.
The loss was New York's
sixth in the nine games at
Wrigley Field and trimmed the
Yankees lead over Detroit to
two games again. The second
place Tigers whipped Cleve-
land, 60, behind the four-hit
pitching of Frank Larry, who
won his 10th.
Kansas City defeated Balti-
more, 5-3; Minnesota smacked
the Chicago White SoX, 80, and
Boston beat Washington, 5-4
in 10 innings.
Larry Completes 18Th
The Angels were outhit, 1876,
by the Yanks and didn't get a
hit after the fourth inning.
They didn't need any. Four
unearned runs in the fourth
had put it away against Jim
Coates GA, with Joe Koppe's
two out. three run double
breaking p 2-3 lie.
Bobby Richardson was 5-for-5
Evening star., 1961-08-25

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Evening star., 1961-08-25
By BILL FUCHS
Star Staff Writer

The Senators are in trouble.
They've lost six games in a row
and tonight must face a skinny
gent from Detroit who has been
giving them nothing but
trouble all season.
Jim Burning, who is 40
against the Senators and 14-9
overall, will oppose Ed Ho-
baugh C6-D in the opener of a
four-game series at Griffith
Stadium. The Tigers come here
trailing the league-leading
Yankees by two games.
The only consolation for the
Senators, losers Of l6 Of their
last 20 games, is the scene of
action. They are through this
season with Boston's Fenway
Park, where they managed to
win one game in nine. Jackie
Jensen's second home run of
the game in the 10th inning
beat the Senators, 5-4, in the
farewell-to-Fenway yesterday.
Kings Finger Split
Jim King homered for the
Senators, who did break out of
their hitting doldrumS with IL
base knocks, matching the Red
Sox output. Kings finger was
split open in the Boston ninth
when his catch of a fly ball
off Russ NiXon's bat, a deS-
perate grab made on the run,
kept the Senators alive until
Jensen's special brand of light
ming struck for the second time.
If we could have just won
in Boston, it would have been
a different season." Manager
Mickey Vernon said. There's
where our troubles really
started. The last trip up here
we were playing 500 ball and
we lose four straight to start a
l0-game losing streak. This
time we're just 3l2 games be-
hind the Red Sox and we lose
three more to them and now
we're 612 behind them"
Manager Mike Higgins of the
Red Sox thinks his team is en-
titled to beat the Senators in
Boston. after all, they beat us
down there" he said. The
Senators own a 5-1 margin over
the Red Sox at Griffith Sta
dium, with three games in the
series still remaining.
Burning IrkSOme
The Senators are 1881 al
home, but the Tigers deserve
very little credit for it. They've
whipped Washington here -four
out of five times, though the
Senators didn't do badly IN
Detroit, where they won four of
nine games.
Burning has been particu-
larly irkSome to the Senators.
He's pitched a five-hitter and
a four-hitter at them and has
completed three of the four
games he's started. He won
the other. though he got help
for the last IA innings from
Hank Aguirre.
The SenatcSs are looking for
a good crowd tonight which
will be American Legion Night.