European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 22 the stars and stripes Friday july 17 i. Of Wear no hitter recalls other scoring Denim pcs. By Ted Meier new York a the recent Case of sad Sam Jones who thought he had pitched a no hitter recalls Virgil trucks second no hitter of 1952 and emphasizes anew the different viewpoints betwee official scorers and baseball play ers. Jones san Francisco giant right hander believes he was deprived of a no hitter against the Dodge sat los Angeles june 30 because the scorer ruled Jim Gilliam s in Field Bounder with two out in the eighth inning a hit. Jones though tit should have been an error for giant shortstop Andre Rodgers. Trucks then with the Detroit tigers got his no hitter against the Yankees at Yankee stadium aug. 25. 1952, when the scorer changed a hit to an error. Gilliam s scratch single bounced Over Jones head and rolled to the right Side of the infield in front of second base. Shortstop Rodgers fielded it then dropped the did not throw to first base. The scorer Charlie Park of Tholos Angeles Mirror news ruled that Gilliam would have beaten an throw even if Rodgers had handled the Ball cleanly. Imagine anybody calling that hit snapped Jones. Park said i m sorry for Jones Sake but i d Cal lit the same Way in the trucks incident the Yan Kees Phil Rizzuto hit a grounder to Johnny Pesky. Detroit Short Stop in the third inning. Pesky appeared to have trouble getting Heball out of his Glove and when finally he threw to first the bal arrived Low and late. Reporter clarifies what happened then was told by John Drebinger of the new Yor times in his Story on the game. This reporter who was the game s official scorer immediately called it an error but upon the insistence of several colleague that the Ball had stuck in the webbing of the player s Glove which technically makes it a hit. The verdict was changed. However that still did not satisfy the official scorer who then had Pesky himself queried on what had happened. Pesky emphatically declared that the Ball had not stuck in his Glove that it had spun out and As a result he had trouble closing his right hand on it in Timp to make a proper throw to just messed it up said Pesky. That clearly made it an error and that became the final Jones was bitter after his june30 game but he did t take a punch at Park. Johnny second baseman did that against scorer Earl Lawson after a Pittsburgh Cincinnati Gamin Cincinnati two years ago. Temple objected to Lawson. Of the Cincinnati times Star having charged him with an error on aground Ball hit to him by Hank files. A few weeks earlier Temple had charged scorer Lou Smith of the Cincinnati enquirer with taking the bread and butter from my Mouth because Smith had scored an error on a Temple hit Ball instead of putting it Down Asa hit Temple was fined $100 , National league president for his attack on Lawson. Temple also apologized to Lawson at a clubhouse meeting. The Fine was levied because Lawson As official scorer was a representative of the league. The most famous reversal by official scorers happened in the 1945world series Between the Detroit tigers and the Chicago cubs. Inthe sixth game at Chicago Hank Greenberg then playing left Fieldor Detroit was charged with an error that permitted the cubs to score the winning run in the last of the 12th inning. / five hours after the game was Over the three official scorers Martin j. Haley St. Louis Harry. Salsinger Detroit and Edward Burns Chicago reversed them selves. They explained their action in unofficial statement in the decisive play of today sixth world series game the scor ers credited Stanley Hack of the cubs with a single and Hank Greenberg with an error Bill decathlon Champ Kuznetsov will try to establish new record this weekend by de Corrigan Philadelphia a Vasil Kuznetsov. Who shattered the world decathlon record Only two month Sago said wednesday he is going to try to better his Mark in track meet this week end. But said the 27-year-old Anat omy and physiology teacher through an interpreter i think d have a better Chance if Rafer Johnson were Johnson and Kuznetsov have been playing sort of a revolving door game in breaking each other records in the two Day. 10-event test of strength endurance and All around track Power. First Johnson held the record with 7.985 Kuznetsov scored with 8,013. Then Johnson again with 8,302points. Finally Kuznetsov scored 8,357 in Lenin stadium Moscow May 16-17. Johnson was injured in an Auto Mobile Accident last month and had to withdraw from the meet too bad too bad said Kuznet Sov shaking his head. We can in spire each other. But i m still go top ten by the associated press based on 200 or american Kuenn Detroit 81runnels, Boston 81 Fox. Chicago 84kaline. Detroit 75 Woodling. Baltimore 78marls. Kansas City 65 Jensen. Boston 84kubek. New York 75 Skowron new York 73 Minoso. Cleveland 82 National g 83 More at bats league a r h 320 54 112 313 49 105 346 45 11547 96 36 83 291 252 213 37 69308 286 40 281312 64 95 8639 84 50 93 Aaron. Milwaukee White. St. Louis 81 Gilliam. Los Angeles 79robinson, Cincinnati 86 Cunningham St. Louis 78logan, Milwaukee 71 Cepeda. San Francisco 85temple. Cincinnati 87 Stuart Pittsburgh 72ptnson, Cincinnati 87 Timoll. St. Louis 86 Home american Killebrew. Wash. 31 colavito Cleveland 28 Allison Washington 23trlandos, Baltimore 21 Jensen Boston 21lemon. Washington 21 league a r h141 61 125 298 47 100 283 56 95 324 66 108249 33 82 240 30 78 342 59 112 69 112 42 76 72 114 351243 365 343 52 107 pat.350 .335.332 .330.329 .324.308 .301.299 .298 it. 367.336 .336.333 .329.329 .327 .319 .313.312 .312 runs National Mathews. Milwaukee 27 Banks. Chicago 24robinson.Cincinnati 24 Aaron Milwaukee 24cepeda. San fran. 18 runs America Killebrew Wash Lensen Boston colavito Clevelan Maxwell. Detroit Lemon. Washington batted in national76 Robinson Cincinnati 85 Banks Chicago 84 Aaron Milwaukee 76716762 Mathews Milwaukee 66 61 Cepeda san fran. 66 slump does t worry yanks pitching Oah f continued trom Page 19 and Ford third. Another of his favourites was de Lopat. The Little Lethander who was one of the most Clever pitchers of his Day and May some Day be manager of the Yankees. People often compare Ford an Lopat says Turner. But there really was t much John Konsek and Lynn Adelman have entered the Golonia invitational Golf tournament Here aug. 19-23. Konsek. Rochester n.y., is Cap Tain of the Purdue University Golf team and has won the big ten title the past twp years. He was runner up in the Mcaa in 1958 , is Captain of Prince ton s Goll team. Garden bout booked new York a two Youn heavyweight prospects Alonzo Johnson Pittsburgh and buddy Turman. Tyler tex., have signed by matchmaker Teddy Brenner for a 10-round television fight a Madison Square Garden july 3l schuster advancing from first 01 the hit and scoring the Winnin run on the error As then charged the scorers subsequently reversed their earlier unanimous decision on the error and hav credited Hack with a double am an earned run batted in thus cancelling the error originally charge to Greenberg. On the play in question. The Ball took a bad hop am bounded Over. Greenberg s hear subsequent discussion of the Pla by the scorers was based Oiw Hether Greenberg had a fal Chance to Stop the Ball. They decided he did not. The reason Hack is not credit Din the revised decision with triple for driving in the Winn Nirun from first base is because Hall did not tag third base As require Iby the rules governing such a Plaj his enthusiastic mates surround him before he reached third am they escorted him from the unusual reversal happened after the Yankee red so game of sept. 20, 1957 micke Mantle asked that he be Given a error for failing to catch die Gernert s Long Fly with two out tithe ninth. It was originally score As a triple following this White Ford was knocked out of the to i would like to see the score because he made an unjust Call 01that Fly Ball that got away Fror Mantle said after the game i should have caught that bal with ease. It s not right to Char Whitey with a the change was made the newday making three of the four run scored off Ford in the ninth unearned Ted Williams benefited from scoring reversal in the red sox Detroit game of july 30, 1957. Tithe play Williams had hit a line to the right of second base. Thrall bounced off Harvey Kuenn Glove. The scorer charged Kuen with an error but reversed his decision after conferring with Kue Niin the dressing room. Kuenn sail he leaped for the Ball and could hang onto it. The change gave Williams threbits in the game and boosted i league leading average at the Tito .384. The late baseball commissioner Kenesaw m. Landis once a asked by an official scorer at i world series whether he had an special instructions for scoring. No the commissioner is supposed to have replied. Just i ahead and score in your Usu damned incompetent batting practice Cincinnati a 11 Templo 2b i Inson of Ell if Robinson. In Dottero o Lone Litho Imit if k ask is o tools p it Troncin 4 2 603 0 2 0 2 St. Louis a u 1bluslnkftme, 21 4 0 4 8 5 1 21 1 1-1 Timoll of White if buyer 3b 40cunningham, of 3 0 Musial. Lbs. Smith o cd Haimon is Grammas. S3 a Crown he Crotts. 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