European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 9, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 the stars and stripes sunday August 9, 1959 Mack vaults into map Lead by 5,000 votes total passes 100,000 As end nears Mack monday and Darmstadt Germany is the stars and Stripe most Valu Able player poll turned into the Homestretch and began the run to wards the Midnight monday finish line with a pair of pitchers Vii corps Hal Mack and Rhine main s Jim Branham leading the packs. Mack vaulted Back into first place in the Usa eur Competition As a 10,094-vote deluge a new one Day High saturday shoved his Overall count to 16,919. An absence of voting for the leaders on the Safe list left Branham resting in first with his 4,123 counters. Aside from the Mack landslide the saturday voting was Light indicating that All nominees Are sandbagging their votes waiting for the Lith hour. Mack s saturday figures did shove the total votes received past the 100,000 Mark to 105,406. Monday s turn ins figure coequal or even surpass the total figures to Date. The voting polls close at Midnight All votes sent brother than mail must be received prior to that time. Ballots sent through Apos or european pos offices must be Post marked before Midnight monday and received at the stars and stripes before Midnight saturday. It was pointed out that mail can Besent to the stars and stripes Post Fach 213, Darmstadt As Well As to Apo 175. Unofficial sources indicate that at least six players Are standing until monday in an Effort to sweep past Mack and gain one of the two free trips to the 1959 world series being offered by the sponsoring american world airways a. G. Spalding & Bros. And the stars and presently enjoys nearly a 5,000-vote Edge Over Kitzinger s Bob Panek who in turn leads third place Dick Conrad 3d Arm div Cha by 600-plus. Panek has 11,975 and Conrad 11,314. The three leaders As Well As fourth place Vern Orndorff Baum older Blue rangers and Jerry Driscoll Aschaffenbur Are All pitchers. Saturday s Safe totals show Only one Mounds Man the leading Branham among the top four. Runner up Dick Hilpert Darmstadt is a first baseman third place boots Dworaczyk is Branham s receiver with the rockets and fourth place Milton Mckenzie plays Short Stop for Wiesbaden. Hilpert has 3,612, Dworaczyk 3,528 and Mcken Zie 3,406.the 10 leaders in each division Usa eur totals Hal Mack Vii corps 16.919 Bob Panek kit Zingen 11,975 Dick Conrad "3d army div Cha ii.3u Vern Orndorff Baum older Blue rangers 8.037jerry Driscoll a Schaffenburg Snuffy Grimm 4th army div cab Walt Donohue. Sasae Jim Hubbard 3d army div tips Mike Stop Chuck 30th arty up Gil Black Augsburg ram Chicks Safe Jim Branham Rhine main Dick Hilpert Darmstadt boots Dworaczyk Rhine main Milton Mckenzie Wiesbaden Ben Junks Lakenheath Bui Peavy Pitburg Ralph Platt shape Richie Howe Darmstadt Curt Janson Laon boy hard Pitburg 7,033 4.596 4,510 3,819 3,028 2,633 totals 4,123 3,612 3,528 3,406 2,543 2,522 1,714 1.405 665 375 basketball coach wanted Frankfurt special the Eintracht German basketball team is looking for an american coach interested persons Are asked to Contact Philip Carpente at North 7084, 8431 or 7728, out at second Larry Herritt 2kai ser Lautem is out trying to steal second in the opening inning of the Germany babe Ruth league championship game. Making the tag is Frank Furt second baseman Joe Corvino while shorts opted Terry backs him up. Calling the play is Umpire Wes Salmans. Frankfurt won 1-0, on an unearned run in the fourth inning. Is photo Frankfurt edges Kaiserslautern 1-0, for babe Ruth championship by Jack Ellis sports editor Frankfurt is the Frankfurt Vikings captured the Germany babe Ruth league Crown Here saturday afternoon by edging the k a i s e r s u t Ern american legion 1-0, in a tremendous pitch ing Duel Between Frankfurt s Neal Gault and Kaiserslautern s waynesullivan., More than 3,500 spectators jammed Frankfurt Park in Brilliant Sunshine to watch the e two top teams in the Germany District meet for the championship. The winning run came in the fourth inning and was unearned. Woody Coyne opened the Frank Furt half with a scratch chopper to the Mound that went As a hit when the tight Side of the Kaiserslautern infield failed to cover first. Coyne scores the Fleet Coyne swiped second base and came All the Way Home when Catcher Jim Rodeen threw into Centerfield. Cente fielder Jim Diggs fumbled the Ball momentarily and Coyne Slid in Home under the belated throw with Therun that meant the championship. Kim m c i n t i r e singled after Coyne s winning dash but that was All the Vikings could Muster of the lanky Sullivan. Sullivan Al Lowed but two hits struck out 13, and walked one. The big fastball ing right hander whiffed the Side in the third and finished the game with a flourish by setting the final three batters Down on strikes. But As sensational As Sullivan was Gault matched him pitch for pitch. Gault who came into the game with a Flossy 16-4 record struck out 12, gave up four singles and walked but one. It looked like the visiting Kai bucs sign Nephew of sex yank great Pittsburgh up the Pittsburgh pirates have announced the signing of two players including Charles c. Ruffing a Nephew of former new York Yankee Pitcher red ruffing. Ruffing 19, Nokomis 111., is 5 feet 10 inches and weighs 170 pounds. A right hander like his famous Uncle ruffing played american legion Ball in his Home town. He was signed to a 1960 con tract with the pirates Dubuque Iowa farm club the pirates also signed Catcher David Allen Massarelli new Phila Delphia Ohio to a -1960 contract with Dubuque. A right hander Massarelli was an All around ath Lete in High school. The stars and stripes most valuable player ballot i his is my selection As the most valuable european come baseball player in a poll to select one Usa eur and one Safe player to return to the . For the world series. Name position Ream league. Signed Al organization Benu Mil ballots to the sports department the stars and stripes afo 170, . Forces. Only ballots printed daily in the stars and stripes will be considered ser Slauter nine would make a runaway of it in the first two innings. Two errors and a single by Sullivan put Gault in hot water in the opening Frame but he settled Down and. Got two of the outs via the strikeout route. In the second Frame two hits and a walk loaded the bases with one out but Gault took matters in his own hands and struck out Larry Herritt and Rocky Barb Toto end the incipient rally. That was the last major threat the losers posed. Gault disposed of10 in a Row from the second to the fifth and got the final three outs on strikeouts. Despite five mate miscues Gault c e i v e d Fine defensive efforts from right fielder Frank Theus an first baseman Scotty Mcpherson. Theus grabs liner Theus robbed Sullivan of an extra base blow in the third with a grab of his sinking liner while Mcpherson Cut off base runner Bob Angell at third during he second inning uprising. M heatedly with clean deep place ments. Dell took the eighth game on four straight Points but Olmedo closed out the match inthe next game giving up Only one Point to Dell in the process. Mike Green Miami Beach fla., turned in an upset by surprising fifth seeded Mike Franks Beverly Hills calif., 4-6, 8-6, 6-2. Franks had the match Well in control but he began to tire half Way through the second set and As a result completely lost his touch frequently being forced into Man errors. Unseeded Charles Mckinley St. Ann mo., scored his second straight upset to gain a semifinal berth when he ousted sixth seeded Jack Douglas Santa Monica calif6-1, 6-2. Mckinley scored with Angle volleys and blistering Down the line placements. In Complete command Mckinley who beat third seeded Dick Savitt thursday easily romped through his quarterfinal Battle. He called the turn at nearly every Point. Douglas found himself outclassed at the net by. The 19 year old youth who came in Only to score on the crucial Earl Buchholz St. Louis easily won his quarterfinal match with a 6-3, 6-2 Triumph Over Allen Morris Forest Hills . Brazil s Mario Bueno the Wimbledon s Champion defaulted her quarterfinals match against Bel mar Gunderson Chambers,Burg,pa., because of illness after losing the first set 4-6. Or. Edward Dailey who examined miss Bueno said she was in a state of 3,9th arty s Garner cops 212th Golf title Wiesbaden Germany special John Garner 1st missile in 39th arty won the 212th arty up Golf championship with a 54-Hole score of 225 at the Rhein blink course Here. Second place 11 strokes Back was Dick Metzger 5th a in 2d arty with 236, while Bop Feist 4th gun in 57th arty was third with 256. The 1st missile in took team honors with a 1,391 total. Mackay beats Harum for of Tennis title Biloxi miss. Up Barry muck try third ranked Tennis player in the ., Defeated Safe Champion Dave Haruto win the air Force worldwide championship Here Friday 7-5,6-4, 6-3. Harum stationed n Oslo re bounded in the doubles however As he team Ned with Wiesbaden s Gene Powell to take the finals com Henry Jungle and Bob Butterfield air defense8-3, 10-8,
