News Scrapbook 1958-1961

'sPoRTs Jbt San lJlit!lO Inion SPORTS ESTABLISHED 1868 ------------------------------------------------------------------- CUBS' SHORTSTOP DOMINATES VOTING MAYS SECOND, AARON THIRD Banks Named NL 'Most Valuable' BOSTON, Nov. 25 1.¥1 - Ernie Banks, th(' ·•hiC'ugo for second • and down the SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 26, 1958 0 PAGE b • J

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urer Hy Hurwitz. " Oohhh, that's really something. I !ii'jlred,I'd have to do a whole lot to win the MVP and I didn't think l did enough, although this was my best year." Mays had another tre- mPndous year for the Giant s despite the new surround- ings in San 1''rancisco. He hil .347, beltrd 29 homrrs and drove in 96 runs. How- ever, he recelv<'d only thrre first place votes. One voter (Cont.lnued on b-4, Col. I )

Cards for fifth last season. Hank Sauer won the award in 1952 as a member,of the fifth-place Cubs. Banks, a slender 6-toot, 180-pounder from D a I I a s, Tex., also led the league in runs batted in with 129 a record for short~tops in his circuit He batted .313 while playing in all 154 games. "I'm ti<'kled to death," Banks said when advised ol the award by telPphone by BBWAA secretary - treas-

Hank Aaron or the pen- nant - winning Milwaukee Braves was third with 166 points. followed by Frank Thomas of the Pittsburgh PiratPs with 1<1.1 and south- paw ace Warren Spahn of the Braves with 108. Stan :'\1usial, the St. Lou- j,; Cardinals' three-t I m e MVP winner, finished far down the list in 12th place with a mere 39 points. His best votes were two sixths ln the balloting which gave 14 points for a first, nine

eight National League cities. Named • on e~ery bi11lot, Banks piled up 283 points, the highest total since \Vll- !ll' Mays won the MVP in 1954. !\la) s, the San Francbco C':iunts' fleet centerfielder, was runnerup ln this yrar's voting conducted between the end of the regular sea- ~on and the start of t h e World Series. He drew 185 points and was the o n I y other player listed on e,·cry ballot.

line to one for 10th. Banks joins :'\!arty Mar- lon, former St. Louis great, as the only shortstops to capture the co,•eted award since the baseball writl'.!rs took over the voting ln 1931. ::'\larion won in the war vear of 1944 de ·pite a .267 ·bat• ting average. In addition, Banks Is only the second member of a sec- ond division club to become the league's MVP. The Cubs !ihished in a tie with the

Cubs'homi--run hitting short- stop, today wu~ named the , atlonnl League's m o s t valuable playrr of 1958 by an overv;helmlng margin, The ZT-year-old lugger, who 81'1 a major league rec• ord for shortstops by crash• lng 41 homers In his fifth full season with the Cubs, polled 16 or the 21 first place vote ca.st by m mbers ol the na~ehall Writrrs' As• sedation or Amerlcu In the

Middie Aim: Halt Dawkins Navy Must Stop Army Star To Upset Cadets, Scout Reports PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 25 !/Pl - Navy scout Lt. Jin, Carrington said today the MiddiPs teel they have to stop Pete Dawkins Saturday if thry hope to upset Army. Carrington, hPad pl<>be coach at Annapolis, told lhe Phlla• delphia Football Writers Association that the man who holds tl1e Army t<'am togPlhPr Is Dawkins, fleet halfback who has scored l2 tou<'hdowns this season . Comparing Dawkins with I - -- --- - - former Ar!11y footba!I gr<'al, ing gamP. ' 'J'vp hi'<'ll In thl' Gl~nn Dans, '.he Na\'y, scout Navy since 1940, and at tlu~ said Dawkms 1s not QUll<' the Academy siuc<> 1914. I've athlete _Davis wa•. "but he hopes that Earl Blalk tArmy holds his ball club together coach l would never dlscovPr like nothing I've ever seen." the forward pass. Unfor• \HIAT CONFIDENCE! lunately, he has. Caldwell, Carrington, who played for (Bobl Anderson and Dawkin.~ Navy against the Army teams all c~n throw well and do, of the Davis-Doc Blanchard he said. era, de cribed the Army cap- ,noorns 'FANATICS' t~in as a man of supreme con- Carrington said lltlle about fldence . He spoke of Dawkins' the Navy team oth<'r than it performance against Rice at has bN•n riddlr>d by lnjuric>s. Houston a few weeks ago and He said coa<'h Eddi<' Erdelatt. saf_ct: . . has C'0unted 29 injured m<'n Dawkms scored th<> win- during thP s<'ason and has touchdown and as he b<'en rebuilding the rl'bullt. nlng Army ('Oach asked the half- know," and he rll'fined " fo. back Wh); he ;~l~ggered. Daw- nati~ as one who loses sight kms rephed, I Just wanted to of his objective but redoubl"~ for TV.'lhi~.;J;?;!·comlng to Ph!ladc,J. scoutedl phia. hmw.Yer, not to praise every Army game, rates the Army but to burr them" he Carrmgton, wha in Wes! TODAY JN SPORTS . Pomt history. "Only the 194., ____________ ' NEW YORI{, Nov. 25 UPI - Round Table, the 4-year- old colt owned by Travis M. Kerr ot Oklahoma City, was named 1958 "horse of the year'' today in the 23rd annual poll ot the :O.forning Telegraph and Daily Racini: Form racing experts. The durable bay son ot Princequillo-Knlght's Daugh- ter, by Sir Cosmo, received 19 first place ballots out of 34. Round Table also was voted the best handicap horse and best grass course horse of the year. First landing, who won 10 of 11 races and became the greatest money winning juvenile in history, was the unanimous choice as best 2-vear-old. In other divisions, the Ctilum.et F a rm's Tim Tam WM an O\'erwhelming choke for the 3-year-old title; .Mrs. Charles Ulrick Bay's Idun received most votes for the 3-year-old filly championship and J. G1•aham Brown's Bornastar was voted the best handicap filly or mare. ::::-::c:--::::--::-_•-------- - - -------------- raced toward !hP goal line hi' stagge_red a bit al the seven• as yard lme. After the game, an "TI1<'y're rPady He described tile brigada 1or U1e game. y O u fanatics. AUTO RACING eJl~':!,","• ana 101001... sa,ooa ~radium, Calienlo Gr•vhaund Club, Tiluana, tlrd GREYHOUND RACING The Navy scout also com- pl' m t d •h A . .. . . . 1 en e • e 1 m) s pass- oos•, 1,.s o.m. 'HORSE Of YEAR' CROWN

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