European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes Friday july 17, 1959 r & tribe s Lane says Deal for Frangona among ills Best Cleveland up Frank Lane baseball s busiest smelting pot operator has no regrets Over the 55 deals involving 82 players made while molding the Cleveland indians into the team to beat inthe american league Flag race. I can t single out any one Deal As the key to our Success this sea son said Lane but getting Tito Frangona from Detroit certainly ranks among the  Lane has plenty of reason to be busting his buttons Over that one. By Tom Melody Frank Lane. Trading pays off he unloaded a 35-year-old Larr Doby with a chronic sore shoulder and weakening Bat for a 26-year old Southpaw slugger still on his Way up. Fans thought Lane either needed a psychiatrist or was taking drastic measures to Cut the payroll Doby was into the tribe for $30,000 year. The tigers bit like a half starved shark. Two months later they spit up the bait to the White sox. Thus far Doby is batting a puny.232 i knew Frangona was on his Way said Lane. And he had plenty of desire. He wanted  Tito made Good beat out Jimmy Piersall for the Centerfield Pat Roland started she lacking the Ball at a near .400 clip. Lane could t have gotten much further ahead on the Deal trader Frank s biggest problem an infield which last season leaked runs in gushers was solved Pri Marily by a Trade and the return of shortstop George Strickland from retirement Lane sent Roger Maris Preston Ward and Dick Tomanek packing1 to Kansas City in Exchange  held and Vic Power. Held converted from shortstop to third base and. Power installed at first. Plugged two gaps. We be got a solid infield said Lane. Bill Veeck s weak infield remark is Only Wishful thinking. Held is one of the most under rated players in the league. The Fielding percentages Back Lane. The tribe is second in the league to the Yankees after leading in that department most of the sea son. The team aggregate of 64 errors is lowest in the league while the double play Mark of 93 is top for that department. The key to Success in the tribe stretch drive May he with the Bat of Rocky colavito. Rocky s 41 homers last season pushed the tribe into fourth place As he hit 21 of the total in the final 77 games. Colavito hit four homers in the weekend series with the tigers to give Cleveland two victories in the three game set and push the team total to 103, second High in the league. If Rocky continues the Pace in the second half hell close with at least 50 four baggers. The tribe s chances of going into the series could be greatly enhanced during the next 11  july 24, the team has Only it games with the Yankees. Whiteson and tigers. I m sticking with my earlier prediction that 90 victories will take the Pennant said Lane. But this is going to be a race Down to the wire. No team can be  l.a., Drysdale Blank pirates,.3-0 cubs top braves behind hobble three Al games postponed due to rain wednesday new York up wednes Day s scheduled doubleheader be tween the Cleveland indians and Mew York Yankees was postpone because of rain. The Yankees announced that the clubs would meet in a double Leader thursday. Boston up wet weather wednesday forced postponement of the scheduled Fenway Park night game Between the Boston red so and the Chicago White sox. Red sox officials announced the tame would be made up As part of a doubleheader thursday which was originally a single afternoon ame Date Baltimore a Kansas City and Baltimore were rained out Ofa Ball game Here wednesday night or the third time this season. The game will be made up As Art of a sunday doubleheader Onset. 13 during the a s final visit o Baltimore. From press dispatches Chicago the Chicago cubs dropped Milwaukee to third place in the National league by posting a 5-2 Victory Over the braves wednesday behind the five hit pitching of Glen Hobbie. The Milwaukee defeat coupled with the los an Geles dodgers 3-0 win Over Pittsburgh left the braves with a .554 percentage in games behind the league leading san Francisco giants who were rained out again at Philadelphia. The second place dodgers Are just one game out of first with a .556 percentage. Hobbie ran his career recon against Milwaukee to five victories without a defeat. He struck out three in picking up his 10th win equating his win total for his 1958 Rookie season. Hobbie who has lost seven Beai the braves three times last Yea r and wednesdays win was his Sec Ond this season Over Milwaukee. Catcher Sammy Taylor started hobble toward Victory with his sixth Homer in the third inning. In the fourth a walk to Ernie Banks Bobby Thomson s single a sacrifice Fly a walk and hobble s single produced two More runs. Another walk a fielder s Choice two singles and Banks sacrifice Fly added two More in the seventh. Starter Carlton Willey who pitched four innings and gave up the cubs first three runs suffered his fourth loss against four wins. Bob Rush and Don Mcmahon each pitched two innings in Relief for the braves. Get a Hobbie Milwaukee a a h 300rruton. Of mat hews. 3u an ran. Of Oraon. To Adcock. If is Flo. U e s 4 4 3 0 t. Taylor. 2b 1 1 dark. So 2 Wall of 0 1 Hanks a 0 Thomson. If Chicago Alt r n 0 o Brien. 2b Willey. D a Torre Rush p broach Mcmahon d a co Langton totals 0 0 soil ult. Ib0 0 Rong in 0 1 Allie in. Of Dos. Taylor o 0 0 hobble p 0 0 0 0 1?0 0 0 0 0 i1 1 0 2 8 5 totals 2d 5 f a filed out for wll loj 5 a walked for Rush 7 of grounded out for Mcmahon 9. Milwaukee chlo Aio 000001 100 0102200 20x 5 in h 4 3 r Erbb 80 Only one Job now Owensboro. 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Reds Batter six card pitchers for 11-5 Victory i -.". / of a h from press dispatches St Louis Johnny Temple and Frank Robinson batted in a a total of seven runs Between them to Pace the Cincinnati reds to an 1ju5 Victory Over the St Louis cardinals Here wednesday Temple led Cincinnati s 19-Hitassault on six red Bird pitchers by driving in our runs with a double and sacrifice Fly and Robin 4d, three More on his 24th Homer and a sacrifice Fly. Robinson also took Over the major league runs batted in  with a total of 85. One More than the Chicago cubs Ernie Banks. Rookie Jim o pole picked up the win. His second against a like number of losses he was helped out by reliever Brooks Lawrence who came on in the eighth when the cards scored three times Wilmer vinegar Bend Mizell was the starter and loser for St. Louis lasting until the fourth when the reds scored five times Mizell was followed by Jack Urban Dean Stone Gary Blaylock Hal Jeff coat and Dick Ricketts. The Victory did t improve thetffeds1 position in the National league standings they Are still seventh and Are now la i game behind league leading san fran Cisco. St Louis is sixth s e v e games out Box scores on Page 82j from press dispatches Pittsburgh Don Drysdale turned in a spar Kling three hitter and drove in two runs As the los Angeles dodgers blanked the Pittsburgh pirates3-0, wednesday night to take Over second place in the National league race. The Triumph boosted the dodgers ahead of the Milwaukee braves 5-2 losers to the Chicago cubs by a scant two percentage Points and put them within one game of the Pace setting san Francisco giants who saw their game against Philadelphia washed out. Drysdale held the pirates witless until Danny Kravitz led off the fifth inning with a single. The other Pittsburgh safeties were a sixth inning double by Dick Groat and Dick Stuart s single in the seventh. Drysdale was never in trouble while recording his Lith Victory against six setbacks. He walked three and struck out seven to run his season strikeout total to 147 in170% innings. Friend loser Bob Friend worked the first eight innings for the pirates and was charged with his Lith loss. The pirate Ace who has won Only four games gave up All the runs and five of the six dodger hits be fore departing for a  face finished up. Charley Neal drove in the first dodger run with a single in the third and Drysdale doubled Home the other two in the seventh. The Victory gave the dodgers the series two games to one. A crowd of 28,268 saw the coast visitors Lake the rubber  Drysdale. A hitter for no. 11 Mackay upset in Clay courts Chicago a Larry Nagler Hollywood who last year almost upset Alex Olmedo wednesday trounced Barry Mackay Dayton Ohio in a second round match inthe National Clay court Tennis tournament 6-4, 6-2. Earlier Mackay had trouble beating David Nelson 3-6, 6-2, 6-2. Peruvian Olmedo seeded no. 1, and Mackay second seed arrive from Europe tuesday and had to play several matches in one Dayto catch up. Nagler commented Mac Kaydin t want to fight so he  Olmedo Defeated lightly regarded Gordon Fleming 6-0. 6-0. And Lee Bishop 6-0, 6-2. Australian Warren Woodcock no. 2 foreign seed Defeated Chris Crawford Piedmont Calif., 6-3. 7-5,and will next play defending Cham Pion Bernard Bartzen. Dallas. Managers to pick in All Star team Montreal a manager this year will select the International league s All Star team to meet the Nasonal league s Pitts Burgh pirates in the fourth annual mid season classic at , aug. 27. In president Frank Shaughnessy Aid the managers will vote for a10-Man first team including left and right handed pitchers. They May vote for players of any Tea except their own to round out the in squad 15 additional players will be chosen y the All stars manager As . The manager will also pick two manager to assist him a coaches. 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Originally italian officials had arranged for the finals to be played one week earlier but the dates were changed at the request of Spanish Tennis  italian federation said the two countries would use the Sam players which carried them into the finals Spain Andres Gimeno Manuel Santana Jose Luis Arilla and Juan Couder. Italy Nicola Pietrangeli Orlando Surola Gul Seppe Merlo and Sergio Tacchini. Motorcycling crash kills boy hurts 12 Les Sables d Yolonne France a French motorcycling Cham Lon Georges. Bayle crashed into Asrow lining a race course Here killing one person and injuring 12. Eight year old Jean Marc Rou Manex died in a Hospital Here after the Accident. The crash occurred during the final event fan International motorcycle grand prix