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Middlecoff Jests in Sweating Oto Opm IFm JTiie Sunday Press By JOHN W. FCX Sunday Press Sports Editor Rochffttrr A courier brought word to Cary Middlecoff, via the TV pipeline, that Ben Hogairhad TusFmlsseTTO-IncheT on No. 17. "You mean it happens to him, too" beamed Middlecoff. Still he wouldn't concede that he was about to win his sec ond National Open.

"How about all those other June 17, 1956 Section dudes out there that's giving me la hard time?" he asked. Word was returned that Ted V-ia 1 TZiah J' I Kroll neede4pars for the last four holes to tie Doc. "Why, damn him," laughpd Middlecoff wouldn't pose with the trophy until the last player was in, despite the fact It was Sam Snead, 15 strokes back in his fruitless quest of the one he can't win. He probably remembered 1949 at Mcdinah, hfs first win, when he sat ltT another clubhouse, sweating out Samuel Jackson's near-miss. "I'll be lucky to get a tie," he claimed yesterday when he first reached the clubhouse grill.

"When you have It in your hand like I did and let it go. you don't often get it back." The 281, however, was the exact figure he'd guessed would win. Despite a pair 7s, he thought his first two rounds were the best tee-to-green golf of his life, "How can you win a major tournament with two 7s." he exclaimed, "unless you're playing the Calloway system." Despite his ruddy look of good health, the 35-year-old pride of Memphis has as many aches and pains as Hogan. He gobbled at least two hayfever pills daily here although he didn't need the cortisone injections often required to ease the tendonitis condition in his left hip which will keep him out of the grueling PGA. And there's grounds for suspicion that he has the 6-year-itch.

None of which keeps him from being considered Hogan's successor as "the man to beat" when the world's great golfers compete. And what happened to those "other dudes" Kroll and Boros in particular. Kroll had birdied 18 in the morning round to join Hogan and Wesley Ellis on Middlecoff's heel. When he birdied 14 just after Cary finished, he needed four pars to become champion. Then he played 15, where he'd had three birdies in three tries.

(Continued on Paga 2 D) Middlecoff in mock indignation. The communication continued that Julius Boros needed birds on ft two of the last three holes to tie. His drive on 17 was a good one, but landed on a severe downslope. Middlecoff picked his cleaned out an ear, licked his golf glove and felt inside his hip pocket a couple of times. Finally he addressed the ball and after 11 exploratory hitches swung his 3-iron.

"I guess I froze. That seventeenth has Jonahed me all week." The misfire plunked far to the right, short of the green, in deep rough and demanding a wedge shot under one branch and over two others of a scrubby pine. He could easily have done worse than his 5. Then came 18, "a miraculous par," according to Middlecoff. His drive was in heavy rough and so was his second.

But his 25-yard wedge shot hit at the left front of the green and fidgeted towards the cup In the deliberate manner of Middlecoff himself. When it stopped 21? feet from the pin, Middlecoff turned to his caddy and popped his eyes like 5-year-old who just found that everything under the Christmas tree had his name on it. "He might have a little trouble, at that," said Middlecoff. BOROM HOGAN Tragedy lurked on those last three at Oak Hill, a graveyard wlridup that cut down Hogan and then Kroll after barely taking Middlecoff under, too. VWhen I got 2-under with four to go, I had a pretty good Idea that If I parred the last three, or even two of them.

I'd have a pretty good chance to win," Cary had felt. A misjudged Iron-shot on 16 trapped Middlecoff and after he missed his 6-footer for a par, he began fidgeting in earnest. CARY MIDDLECOFF AND $6,000 GRIN Fan Fouls Up the Bums Trai. ing Cary Shades Ben by One Roar iib to win i ill 1 New York (Florida's favorite horse, Needles, dawdled along in last place Rochester (P) Cary Middlecoff, the lanky doctor who cured the jumpiest nerves in golf, won his second National Open championship yesterday with a score of 281 as the closing bids of Ben Hogan, Julius Boros and like an Everglades alligator for almost a mile yesterday, then proved his claim to iTed Kroll died dramatic the 3-year-old championship by roaring down the stretch to win the 88th Belmont Stakes. The handsome bay son of Pond er bounced back with the old last quarter kick that brought him victory in the Kentucky deaths.

The 35-year-old Memphis dentist, once so fidgety his would freeze on the Derby May 5, as he zoomed home for a neck decision backward swing, crushed Aus over C. V. Whitney's Career Boy. The Calumet Farm's Fabius, who upset Needles in the Preak- Ilaney New Pilot- Grimm Braves ness May 19 and thus prevented Quits Job tralia's Peter Thomson, the halt-way leader, in a bitter head-to-head duel and then sat back to sweat out the challenge of the great Hogan and two other old pros. Middlecoff shot two final rounds of even par 70 over the Oak Hill Country Club course to win by a stroke over Hogan, Needles from becoming the first triple crown winner since 1948, finished third in the field of eight.

COULDN'T HOLD IT Yanks Nip Tribe, 3-1 9 On 2-Hittcr Cleveland Tom Sturde; vant, 26-year-old righthander, handcuffed the Cleveland Indians with only two hits while striking out 11 last night as the New York Yankees beat the tribe, 3-1, before a crowd of 40,964 at Municipal Stadium. The victory was the second straight for the Yankees in the current 3-game series and the fourth for the season for Sturdi-vant against one loss. It was Studivant's first start of his career against the Indians. He was given the starting as Fabius, who had taken the bidding grimly for his fifth Open lead aoing into the final bend but couldn't hold it in the furi championship, and the bull-like Boros, national champion, in 1952. Each had 282.

Hogan bid was broken on the next to last hole the seventy-first where he missed a 4-foot putt a rarity for the great Texas champion and Boros' chance died on the seventy-second where a bold 15-foot birdie ous stretch drive, dropped back and finished third, a length and a half behind Career Boy. In fact, Fabius was lucky to have third money, beating out Laudy Lawrence's Beau Diable by a head for the show money. This was the' horse race that By JACK HAND Associated Press Sports Writer Sew York Easy-going Charley Grimm resigned last night as manager of the Milwaukee Braves and was replaced immediately by coach Fred Haney. Haney was hired as a Milwaukee coach early this had been promised, supposedly a rubber match between Needles putt lipped the cup and swerved around. and Fabius, but it turned out The crowd of 13,914, the larg to be a duel between Needles signment because of his fine re est ever to see a single days and Career Boy as the two! fought it out to the wire in! lief work against the Tribe inijilay in the Open, groaned as the putt veered away as if car the final sixteenth of a mile.

I ried there by some unseen hand. New York last weekend. The loss was charged to left- A -Belmont Park crowd of Associated PresWIREPHOTO. Shortly- afterward Kroll, the TOO MANY HANDS IN PIE-Dodger first-baseman Rocky Nelson and an un stocky ex-infantry, sergeant who still carries bullet holes from the beaches of Anzio in the last season after serving three years as manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates and will head the Braves for the remainder of the season. "He Is filling out Charley's tenure," said Braves president Lou Perini.

"He's not assured of anything. Time will tell how far he'll go." Grimm, who had failed to bring a pennant to Milwaukee in three years at the helm, resigned after the Braves dropped a 3-2 decision to Brooklyn yesterday for their twelfth defeat in their last 17 games. This slump sent Milwaukee from first to fifth in the standings in 13 days. NOT UNHAPPY 32,441 had established Needles as the 13-2 favorite and his! backers had their moments of; worry as usual when the tem-1 peramental colt from the Sunshine State balke'd going to the big war, came to the 441-yard sixteenth hole needing pars in identified fan in box seats attempt to take foul pop hit by Braves' Hank Aaron in first inning of yesterday's TV game at Brooklyn. Fan appears to be holding the ball (arrow).

Umpire Lee Ballanfant, watching the play, called Aaron out, but the call was overruled by plate umpire Bill Jackowski after protest by Braves that Nelson failed to hold the ball and retrieved it from fan. Aaron then fouled out to catcher Roy Campanella. Dodgers won, 3-2. to tie for the championship, KROLL'S BIG BLOWUP ViYvri An outrider had to tug nd urge, before he'd go to the' starting gate, but he showed the stuff champs are made of once But there he took a harrowing triple bogey 7, hitting his second into the trees and, after HANEV GRIMM he got running. A GOOD ROUTER reaching the green in four cost hander Herb Score, who was seeking his second win over the Yankees in his first start in two weeks.

He spent several days in a Baltimore hospital with a stomach disorder. The defeat was Score's fifth against six wins. The Yankees scored two runs in the third on Mickey Mantle's twenty-fourth homer of the season, a wallop over the left-field fence. Gil McDougald, who had reached second on a ground rule double when his drive to left field bounced into the stands, scored ahead of Mantle. NEW YORK I CLEVELAND ab.

r. h. ab. r. 4 11 0 0 2 Any doubts that he could travel the mile and one half 7,356 IB ly hacks, 3-putted for one of the biggest blowups in Open history.

Hogan, one stroke off Thomson's pace going into the final Nigliters See Sax I on Xixos Ilasilio ISout In Svracusc were quickly dispelled, as he was clocked in a rapid 2:29 45 for the journey. This compares day. had rounds of 72 and 70 Boros finished with 71-6S and Kroli with 70-73 which gave Grimm, known throughout his lengthy baseball career as "Jolly Cholly," did not appear unhappy about the situation as he shrugged his shoulders and "Let somebody else take a shot at it." He said he was going to Okau-chee Lake near Milwaukee to consider the personnel job. which he said has to do with contacting Braves' scouts. In Milwaukee, it was reDorted Trips Drop 3d Straight him a 235 for a fourth-place tie with Australian Thomson and with the stakes mark of 2:28 15, set by Count Fleet in 1943, and equaled in 1948 by Citation.

The winner, owned by Bonnie Heath of Fort Lauderdale, and Jack Dudley of Stillwater, Boston (JP) Welterweight boxing champion Johnny Saxton yesterday turned thumbs down on an August match with challenger Carmen Basilio in Syracuse in view of the terms under which it was offered. I I I Did-Mele 10 0 0 Ed Furgol, the lame-armed winner of this championship in 1954. Middlecoff put on an exhibition of brilliant shotmaking for three days and four rounds By JOHN LAKE Sunday Press Sports Writer A lot of people went home un- Mantle.ci 1 1 OlStrickd.ra 0 0 0 1 Berra.c 4 0 0 4 0 10 2 0 0 0 Rosen.3b 3 0 0 2 ColiuiB.lb 0 0 0 OWertz.lb 3 110 Bauer.rf 4 0 1 OjSmith.rf 4 0 0 0 4 12 3 0 0 0 rn1an.2h 4 0 1 3i Busby 3 0 0 0 jGrimm, a longtime Chicago Cub Julius Helfand, New York Baseball Summary over the course, put hannv from Field last (Continued on Page 6 D) Lovenguth Hurls 'lilt' No-Hittcr State's boxing commissioner, yesterday gave Syracuse pro ting together rounds of 71-70-7U-1 7 3-6 Yf.STlKDAV'S RESULTS 4 0 10 TODAY GAMES, PITCHERS 7s on the first and second the ball game at any rate, and Hegan.c 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 moter Norman Rothschild the green light to contact Saxton directly to make such a match. they saw' the Triplets drop their score.p 100 rounds. VP) Righthander Lynn Lovenguth last night be a-Mitchcll 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 The reason: Saxton's Yesterday he started off wild- third straight game, 4-3, as.

the ly, missing eight fairways and Schenectady Blue Jays beat them hitting into four traps during thP mnrninff round, hut Breat re- ana tnem 0Ut 01 seconP Place- Eastern League Alletown 2-5 Williamsport 1-10 Reading 6 Johnstown 3 (Second game, rain.) Schenectady i Triplets 3 Syracuse 6 Albany 3 Erie at Jamestown, rain. National League Brooklyn 3 Milwaukee 2 c-Ward 10 0 0 McLiBh 0 0 0 0 came the first Toronto. MapleiHi-ky- paiermo. does not hold a manager, Eastern League Schenectady at Triple Cities (2, 2 p. Conley (3-2) and J.

C. Anderson (1-0) vs. Monroe (4-2) and Grasso (4-2. Johnstown at Heading. Williamsport at Allentown.

Albany at Syracuse (2). Leaf pitcher to hurl a nine in license in New York. player and manager, had been offered a similar personnel position with the Cubs as successor to Wid Matthews at the end of the season. DUROCHER POSSIBILITY Reports also circulated in Milwaukee that Leo Durocher, former manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants, would be offered the job of Braves' manager next season. Haney, who said he didn't know about the switch until 20 minutes before the announcement, refused to accept the job until he talked Tatali 35 3 61 Totals Hill Saxton, here for last night's covering faculties kept him at!" was IBM Night.

welterweight 10-rounder between ning no-hit, no-run game since 1939. Lovenguth pitched to only 29 batters as the Leafs defeated the Richmond Virginians, 8-0, Pittsburgh 2 St. Louis 0 a Grounded out for Score in 8th. Walked tor Hegan In 8th. Struck out for Narlcski in 8th.

Struck out for Carrasquel In 8th. challengers Tony DeMarco and (7 innings, rain) National League Cincinnati 3 New York 1 Both starting pitchers, Henry Mason olj Schenectady and Pat Utley of the Trips, began famously, but neither was around even par. In the afternoon, it appeared he might fold when he took bogeys on two of the three fin- icliiner lirttoc hut Via nailpri 2 (11 inninss) Milwaukee at Brooklyn (21 Buhl New York 002 100 0003 in the International League. The 32-year-old pitcher, who joined the Leafs a month ago o-jj ana crone (o-z) vs. rsKine (3-6) and Uewcombe (9-4).

Chicago at rain. American League New York 3 Cleveland 1 Vince Martinez, issued the following statement: "Since my first professional fight in 1949 Frank Palermo has been my manager, friend and adviser. He has been honest Cleveland 010 000 0001 Coleman. RBI Wertz. Mantle 2.

Coleman. 2B McDougald, Coleman. Bauer. HR Wertz. ManUe.

DP Mc from the Philadelphia Phillies beautiful par 4 on the final holejwhen the ball game broke up in for his 281. the ninth after a Triplet rally Boston 6 Detroit 5jhaU (3.6) and Lawrence (7-0) vs. (12 innings I organization, walked three batters and struck out seven. Dougald. Coleman to Skowron.

Left- Washington 0 Then he sat back in the din- fell one run short. got 7 'Baltimore and trustworthy in every deal ft -Kansas City 2 Hearn (3-6) and Gomez (2-5). Chicago at Philadelpnla (2) Jones (3-4) and Hacker l-j vs. Roberts (5-8) and S. Miller '3-3l.

ing room, just off the eighteenth though with "When Charley said, 'Go ahead, I want you to take it," I took it," Haney said. The former Pittsburgh pilot, who left that club at (10 innings) New York 8, Cleveland 4. BB Sturdl-vant 3. Score 3. SO Sturdivant 11, Score 4.

Narleski 1. HO Score in ing we have had during my Restaurant Wins The Trips, who. started theL. International League career. I now hold the welter green, to awau aeveiopmenis.

Hn5an was first in make his St. Louis at Pittsburgh (2) Dick ww.uii iwunucai Narleski 2 in 2. McLish 1 In 1. R4ER Sturdivant 1-1, Score 3-3. Winner weight championship of the Rochester 4son (3-6) and Liddle ((1-2) vs.

Ar- Larry Clow and Tom Logan world. I am going along with'the of th? 1955 season, took and Law (2-6t. rojo challenge and he moved res-uinai inning witn tnree straignt Havana 5 olutely toward what the bigfsingles (they totaled 7 for tholii a Richmond 0 equaled the opposition's hit Sturdivant (4-1). Loser Score (6-5). Rice.

Summers. McKinley. Flaherty. 3:35. A 40,294.

Bffalo total yesterday as they led the American League Palermo. lne as wuwauKee coaco last New York had pvpn waivpd aiOctober. He said that before ac- i-iovu sciiaeu iiiigui 'game and Schenectady only got; American Association dramatic Victory for the le, St. Paul 4 Indianapolis 0 New York at Cleveland Ford fVc. lu nrovisinn that a fisht must ho Opting it, he flew from Los An- (8-3 vs.

Wynn (6-3). victory over IBM in a boutn- man wno nas won ail OI me, i wicnua at Minneapolis, rain. made with the manager not the ffle t0. Grimm's winter home in after Bob Ruck was picked Off Omaha 9 Louisville 0 Boston at Detroit Sullivan (5-3) iern -ller independent League sprnnd hasp. I Southern Association world's big championships, 4-FOOTER MISSED fighter in order to clear the ul 10 aiscuss me proposi- Atlarta 2-3 Mobile 1-7 3 RBIs FOR NORTH vs.

Hoeit (8-2). game. ciow went 3-ior-4 and Baltimore at Kansas City Brown Logan 3-for-5. (3-Cl vs. Ditmar (6-5).

jLake Ave. 100 202 0117 10 3 Washington at Chicago (21 Stobbs'lBM 000 005 0005 5 (4-4) and Stewart (2-1) vs. Keegan I Caletka and Logan. Galli; Outman. Chattanooga 4-5 Birmingham 5 Memphis 2-3 New Orleans 1 Needing only par for the last; decks for the fight.

Hon ana t0OK tie job only with Saxton's answer is that deal-''he. understanding that when ings will have to be made withGnmm went Haney would go. Palermo or not at all. (Continued on Pag to)' two holes to tie and a birdie Both teams scored three earned PONY League to win. Hosan hit short on thelruns.

Lamar North batted in aUiWeilsviiie 6 Corning 4 (2-3) and Donovan (3-2). I Hall (4) and Ishan. seventeenth and pitched ud to of them for the Triple Cities. Red Horkott Deaten Freijc's Restaurant got 5 hits eff George Horkott yesterday (which makes a mighty bad day for him) and defeated the Lob-low softballers, 6-3, in a practice game at Valley Street field. It was the fifth straight win for Freije's.

Freije's 110 201 1 6 1 Loblaw'i 000 021 03 5 4 Smolinsky and McGuinness; Horkott and Washburn. within 4 feet. Robbins batted in a couple for Schenectady, John Moskus socked He measured the putt care- HAYS STAR Standing of the Major and Eastern Leagues 15 fully. Once he paused as if his: in another and the one that proved concentration was broken. Then I the difference, alas, was kicked he stroked the bail.

It went! in by Triplet rightfielder Leroy (Thomas. EASTERN LEAGUE NATIONAL LEAGUE AMERICAN LEAGUE 1 His was the leadoff single in the ninth, however, and he scored the third Triplet run, but no matter how you put 'em together, you get a defeat for a guy who struck out 10 men in 7 innings. Final Open Scores A am I mi 1 5t 11 Standings Standings Standings at 4. s- a 7 -O II a 5 I3 as cry Middlecoff 2si i pe Cmper 73-74-76-7D 23, That's Utley, very possibly the Ii OiWiasiWlSBi I a I Julius bos 71-71-71-ss 282, bui Casper, jr. 75-71-71-7-2W, best pitcher and now 0-3 Pifburgh I 4j 61 Bea Hotaa 72-6S-72-70 22, tZM Fred Haas 72-71-72-78292, jf Or the Season.

Ed Furgol 71-70-75-71 2S5, $1,333.34 Jay Herbert 71-7-73-74 294. $IS JJe lost a 2-hittCr to the JayS Peter Thornton 70-69-75-71 2W, $1,333.33 Dutch Harrison 72-7-72-7t 294, $268 week ago in Schenectady. Brooklyn 2 5 31 61 30t 20 jNew Tork 1 7 5i 3j 31 29! 1 Chicago 1 3j 41 51 71 291 22 lVt Cleveland 5: 1 i 21 a i 5 3 1 4 1 7 9 30 20 .600. 3. 5 3 7j 28 Wi 1 4 3 4 24 19.558; 2 3 1 4 4j 8 27; 3 31 3 6, 2j.21 24; 5Vs 6 6 36i 20I.643J 271 21.563; 7j 281 26..5191 7 21 281 26 .5191 7 51 27 271.500? 8 Cincinnati 5 3j St.

Louis 41 2 31 The teams play a doubleheader "v'Oll 285, 11,333.33 Bob Toski 7-71-75-73 294, $2t0 Araold Palmer 72-70-73-73 2S7, $600 i Bill Ordta 76-73-76-69 294, $260 6J 61 29j 3 Boston 2 51 51 4 Allentovn Sche'tady TRIPS Reading Will'sport Albany Syracuse lohn'town I at Johnson Field today, and a Mil'aukee 2J 31 S'r 4 5 21 24; 4 Detroit 1 5 0 4 5 niru, nrnrj voiioa I- oo Chicago I 11 1 6 21128.429; HKi Baltimore 41.2; 5 8 4 27 29 .482 11 4i 21 4 11 31 21 91 31 20! 231.465; 6V2 31 231 28 Ut New York I 4, 3: 4 3, 20; 31 .392 10VS Ka City 2j 41 4' 2 1 7, 22; 33 .400 131 i MDl ID, MwIl Tltt i. I i lj 4j 2, 31 41 161 33 .327,13 jPhil dena 4 21 5 19: lUsAVashi'ton 1, 1 231 x-W. J. Faitoa 292, medal amateu. (Continued on Page 3 O) U44 --ii 1 a.

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