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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 5, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I j Page 18 the stars and stripes per jew a off of i wednesday August 5/1959, american league beats no in 2d a Star game. 5-3 los Angeles a Yogi Berra s two run Homer powered the american league to a 5-3 Victory Over the National. League monday in the 27th All Star game highlighted by five four baggers. Rocky colavito Cleveland s slugging out fielder and Frank Malzone Boston s flashy third baseman also hit Home runs for the americans while Cincinnati s Frank Robin son and los Angeles Junior Gilliam connected for the nationals. A paid attendance of 54,982 highly parti san fans sat silently throughout most fan unprecedented second All Star contest in the same season. They had a Chance to cheer in the last half of the ninth when Robinson opened with a single his third hit and Wally Moon coaxed a walk from Cal Mclish., the Veteran Cleveland right hander however choked off the last threat by disposing of the next three baiter without a Ball leaving the infield. Jerry Walker first of five american league pitchers who limited the National league sluggers to six hits was credited with the Victory the first time he eve appeared in an All Star classic. The 20-year-old Baltimore right hander year ago  for Knoxville in the South Atlantic league. He hurled the firs Throe innings allowing two hits and one run. He walked one and struck out one. The defeat was charged to Don Drysdale one of the National league heroes in its 5-4 Triumph Over the americans in the firs tall Star contest in Pittsburgh july 7. The Yogi Berra. Decisive blast Jerry Walker. Triumphs in debut the stars and stripes v wa1-v-v-v-Waw-Vstengel lauds team,. Coliseum nationals take loss Good Nat redly Yankees Exchange Brickell for Boyer Kansas City a the new York Yankees have. Recalled in fielder cletis Boyer from Rich mond of the International league and optioned shortstop Fritz Brick Ell to that team a farm club. Friday Midnight was the dead line for bringing an optioned player Back to the majors. Brickell hit .256 in 18 games with the yanks. Boyer socked 11homers but was hitting Only 2.29 with Richmond Scott to face Ortega new York a Charlie Scott Philadelphia has Bee named to replace Florentino Fernandez Cuba in a 10-round a t i o n a 11 y televised welterweight fight against Caspar Ortega mexi co,1 at Madison Square Garden Fri Day night. Fernandez pulled out  of illness. Los Angeles a if there was any prevail ing attitude in the National league dressing room after sunday s All Star game it was one of pleasant philosophical indifference. Naturally manager Fred Haney and his troop would have preferred to invert the 5-3 score but their defeat was hardly a grave enough matter to provoke uncontrollable tear spilling. It was a Good game Haney said speaking in a quiet Friendly manner. We just got beat that s All. We had a couple of chances to score and we missed. It s easy to talk about a game when you  a newsman noted that three of the nationals most formidable Long Ball hitters Hank Aaron Ernie Banks and Willie Mays Al went without even a single. Don t make them the goats Haney said. Fred was questioned about his strategy in the last of the ninth when he had two on with none out and St. Louis Catcher Hal Smith coming up against Cleveland s Ca Mclish. Smith a .279 Hitler who can be troublesome twice tried without Success to Lay Down a bunt then struck out. The next two men grounded outland the game was Over. Is Smith usually a goo Hunter Haney was asked. I Don t know he replied. He s a major league ballplayer in the against second game Haney had Only two men his own Johnny Logan and Pitts Burgh s Bill Mazeroski to use As Pinch hitters in the situation. But this offered no advantage because the Pitcher was a right hander and both Mazeroski and Logan Hitrig handed like Smith. Haney talked mostly about the Wisdom of holding a second All Star game. Ill Tell you frankly i was t in favor of it until i heard Carler Skine the former dodger Pitcher talk about it one Clay. The players in the leagues at the time the pen Sion was started wanted their pen Sion benefits to Start Back when they started playing. So the Sec Ond game was planned and they figure the pension fund will be on continued on Page 22 Casey Stengel just great Kentucky school picks Cage coach Vincennes incl. A Vin Cennes High. School coach t. L Plain has accepted the Job of head basketball coach at Kentucky Wes Leyan College City school  Bretz announced Here. The Kentucky school said Plain will succeed Robert. R. Bullet Wilson after 17 years As head of the Panther Cage squads. The 35-year-old Plain came to Vincennes two years ago from Henderson by. He had a two year record of41 victories and 11 losses. Kentucky Wesleyan officials announced last month that Wilson,52, will give up coaching and de vote full time to his duties As ath Letic director. Schmidt s father Dies san Francisco up Charles Fred Schmidt 63, father of san  Catcher Bob Schmidt died at his Home in St. Ann mo., of a heart attack. Richards labels second game a travesty  own ten j  air " esty  up it s a trav a miserable act of Mal in those words Paul Richards manager of the Baltimore orioles summed up his opinion of the Sec Ond All Star game played monday at los Angeles. Richards turned ins fire on the second edition of the classic As his orioles left Here to open a four game series with Chicago in Balti  have my pitching All set for the White sox he said. I planned to use my Best against them but because of this exhibition game it appears they la miss the White sox game and Cleveland will get the. Bad end of it. Pennant race Afore important i was going to open with Jerry Walker tuesday night and now with no warning whatsoever i m going to have to look around for somebody else you would thin the Pennant race is More important than the results of an exhibition game. The whole thing is a travesty Richards continued. If the second All Star g a m e in t important enough for us. To take three Days off and run it right it should the held at All. Whoever is responsible for let Ting this game be railroaded through should be censored severely he said it s shameful that an exhibition is being allowed to interfere with a Pennant face. Los Angeles up there s nothing wrong with this los Angeles Ball Park Casey Stenge hollered As his victorious american league All Sla trooped into the dressing room. We win in  thanks to All my players he said turning to his perspiring athletes., you All were great jus  after attempting to Refe reporters to the individual player for a comment on. Downing Thi National All stars Stengel relaxed with a soft drink and opined iwas a Good  a Well played game Good hitting Fielding he said and there is nothing wrong with the Park Stengel said he wanted to apologize to All the players he was unable to use but said he was Sav ing some of the stronger hitter such As Washington s Harmo Killebrew for a spot where the chips were  they never came he added. It had been expected that some of the american league player would complain about the shape of the coliseum Park. It is only250 feet to the 50-foot Fence in Loftfield. But it is 333 to the 7-Foofence in Brightfield. Stengel stuck up for his decision to leave Ace Cleveland hurler Ca Mclish in the game in the ninth inning when the first two National leagues got on base with non out. Beat yanks 3 times he s beat us the Yankees three times this year so we know he s Good. He s Given us All sorts of trouble. Those Fellows in the National league Hank Aaron Willie Mays Ernie Banks Are Good ballplayers but you can t always have Good Days. If someone wants to find fault with my not playing All the play ers or not playing Killebrew of the Washington senators i can just Tell them i did t play a lot of Fel lows. Like Elston Howard of the Yankees and Ryne Duren and Bobby Richardson of the Yan Kees. They Are All Good ballplayers too. And Minnie Minoso i Al ways play Minoso but he had Abad  the players were nearly unanimous in Praise of the All Star game although they lamented the fact that there were such few Days off Between games n Yogi Berra had a one word description for the los Angeles me Morial coliseum As a Ball Park. Rough he said. It is a Good Money proposition but rough to see the Ball. Not too bad on cat Civ no but the breaking stuff gives continued on Page %2j big dodger right hander did not look like the same Pitcher who hurled a perfect three innings  was rapped for four hits in his three inning tenure when the americans picked up the a first three runs on homers by Malzone and Berra the latter s in the third giving the americans a Lead they never lost. Veteran right handers Early Wynn Chi Cago White sox and Hoyt Wilhelm Balti More and Young Oriole Southpaw Billy o Dell shared pitching honors wit Walker and Mclish. Each gave up Only one hit As the nationals were unable to collect More than one inane inning. Aside from Drysdale the nation Al league pitchers acquitted them selves nobly. Philadelphia s Gene Conley who hurled the fourth and fifth innings retired six of the seven batters he faced with Only a walk to Pete Runnels to mar his work. Sam Jones san Francisco yielded an unearned run in his two inning stint. Elroy face the Brilliant Pittsburgh reliever allowed the other american league run on a tremendous eighth inning Homer by . Uses six left handers combined record University Park a. _ Penn state owns a combined record of74 victories 63 defeats and 13 ties with its 1959 football opponents. Army and Pittsburgh Are the on two teams with a series Edge Over he nil any Lions. Casey Stengel the grizzled Man Ager of the new York Yankees succeeded in his Gamble when he threw in six left handed batters in his starting lineup in almost ignoring the coliseum s inviting left Field screen which is Only 250 feet away at the foil  of the american league s six hits were made by Southpaw swingers. White sox Veteran Nellie Fox had two and the Yankees Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra one each. The other two were the homers by the right handled Hitlin Malzone and colavito. Unlike the first All Star game when to shuffled 22 players around like chess men Stengel employed Only two Pinch hitlers and permitted shortstop Luis Aparicio Fox and Malzone to play the in lire game. Alu zone stars Defonsey they distinguished themselves on defense with Malzone particularly outstanding at third base. He handled seven chances As the americans played flawless  National on the other hand was guilty of three errors All in the seventh to furnish the win ners with an important run. Milwaukee s Fred Haney Man Ager of the nationals used 20 play ers to Stengel s 19, five of themas Pinch hitters and one As a Pinch runner. Only Gilliam who. Walked in the fifth was  left himself open to the second guess in the ninth when he permitted St. Louis Hal Smith who had succeeded Milwaukee Del Crandall behind the plate to Bat with Robinson and Moon on first and second and none out. Gilliam grounds out the Cardinal Catcher after foul ing off two bunt attempts struck out. Smoky Burgess Balling for face grounded out advancing the runners. Then Mclish got Gilliam who had homered and walked in his two previous at bats to Bounce directly to first baseman Vic Power for the final out. It was the american league pitchers ability to keep Milwaukee s Hank Aaron san Francisco s continued on Page 22 Cal Crew finishes 4th coxswain goes to jail Oakland Calif. A _ carrying an armload of textbooks Ralph a. Udick is coxswain of the University of California Crew showed up it the county jail monday to  serving a five Day sentence for speeding. Udick a Junior from ,ida., was caught going 75 Mph on an Oakland freeway on Juno 10municipal judge Clare d. Hor nor an old us Man himself had promised to suspend the sen tence if the Cal Crew won the collegiate rowing championship at Syracuse. Cal Camp in four thu  
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