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Stock Car Race Sunday At DunnErwin Speedway Has New Winner326It always works that way. Yes-1 terday at the Dunn-Erwin Speed-1 way the crowd was much smaller | than on the pv*VIOUS race days, and the race was the best one that has been on the local track in quite a while. The crowd stayed away because the faces had been disappointing in the past, so yesterday, it cost the track operators a lot of money. But the crowd would have gotten it’s moneys worth yesterday as ten cars lined up for the feature race and really battled it out to the finish.A new car showed up at the track for the Sunday whirl and copped first place money. The car was ’Jr.' from Jefress. Va.. and the car set a torrid pace for the other cars. Pert Brown of Leaksville drove the car to first place in the second Heat Race and in the Feature Race.The time trials gave warning that the races would be swell ones. The times for about seven or eight of the cars were almost equal, and ! that assured the crowd that the cars would be bunched and battling.The first Heat Race was taken by Banks Simpson of Kannapolis in his no. 78. Bob Bass of Dunn took second place In his no. 76. Cannonball Davis of Benson came in third in his newly painted no. 7. Davis is better known around here as Toe, but the tracks are renaming him.The second Heat Race showed that ‘O Jr.’ would be a threat in the Feature as Brown turned on the steam to cross the line first. A. B. Chestnut of Burlington followed Brown across the finish line in his no. 3. Third place went to Raiford Johnson of Dunn in car no. 41 which usually has Bill Haire behind the wheelIn the Consolation Race, Dink Widenhouse of Concord won an easy victory in his B-29. Widenhouse was driving a different B-29 from the one which was seen on the D-E track a few weeks back, and it really did look different in the Heat Race too. Seeond place in the slower-car race went to Albert Ray of Salemburg in no. 5. JackWidenhouse took third place in his street coup, black ‘40 Ford.The drivers had to have three starts to get the Feature Race underway. On the first lap of the first start, the two Widenhouse brothers banged cars before they reached the starters flag. Jack and Dink pulled out of line in an attempt to go around other cars just as the flag came down to start the race. Dink pulled up beside Jack at the same time that Jack whipped out his no. 35 to go down the inside. The two cars banged the sides together and Dink was knocked out of the race temporarily.The race was started for the second time, but this time it had to be stopped when Raiford Johnson got dust in his eyes on the back turn and pulled over to the side.The third start was successful as the ten cars made the first lap without mishap, which is required for a valid start. Pert Brown took the lead along with Banks Simpson, and the two cars were bruning up the track in a tight b^tjg. Bob Bass was in second place and doing nicely. Close behind Bass were six of the remaining £ven cars in a tight bunch. B-29 h^d had a fine tuning up job done tlt;B{ since the Heat Race, and Dink Widenhouse was pushing it for all it was worth. He began to weave through the field, and about that time. Simpson had to leave the race with his speedy no. 78. Widenhouse moved into third place, and then he took second place. In the meantime, skids and spins were taking place on the front turn, and one of the mixups. which had two cars in spinsand a third car just slipping between them, was tae best mlxup that the local tradk has shown.The rest of the race was a chase with B-29 hot on the trail of 'O. Jr.’ Brown held the lead until the end and won the Feature, but Widenhouse gave him a real chase, and he was about a half lap closer to the lead car at the end and only a few yards behind him.The finishing order was Pert Brown of Leaksville in ’O. Jr.’. first place; B-29, driven by Dink Widen-Am. League Rests TodayDu/n/rv SthahmamREASONABLE DRUG PRICESANNOUNCES THE OPENING OFFOUNTAINGRILL~1THIS WEEK'S LUNCHEON SPECIALUS£Ham, Lettuce Tomato Sandwich and Double Thick Milk ShakeBY JOHN GRIFFIN(UP Sports Writer)The American League took time out to change the scenery in its fever-pitched pennane drama today. and that looked like a big break for the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.The Yankees, heading home for friendly Yankee Stadium, are the new league-leaders by the almost invisible margin of .002. The Red Sox. enroate to cozy Fenway Park, are deadlocked for second with the Cleveland Indians, who must now hit the road—first stop tomorrow at New York.Those standings are the result of hectic Sunday action which saw the Yanks sweep the St. Louis Browns twice, the Indians double-drubb the Philadelphia A’s, and the Red Sox win a single game from Detroit.Meanwhile, the fourth-place Chicago White Sox continued their skid from glory by losing a double-header to the lowly Washington Senators, 7 and 6 and 11 to 5, to stand two-and-a-half games from the top.| The Yankees 9 to 0 and 7 to 3 wins over the Browns gave them a record of eight victories and eight defeats for a road trip that started, out to be horrible with six losses in the first seven games. The Red Sox’ 10 to 9 victory over Detroit in 10 inning^ gave them their first winning road trip since 1949 —seven wins and no losses.Now it’s up to the Indians to prove they can do as well on the road. The last time the warriors dragged themselves home from an Eastern swing. June 25, they were 8’n games off the pace. Their recovery. with 22 victories in the last 27 games, has been miraculous—but now they must keep it up in the Eastern badlands.It was Allie Reynolds who hurled the four-hit shutout for the Yanks in their first game yesterday, his 11th victory and sixth shutout. Ol’ Satchel Paige started against him and pitched no-hit ball for 5 1-3 innings. But his downfall started with Bobby Brown's three-run homer in the sixth and the Yanks tagged him for five more runs in the seventh.Jack Kramer, relieving in the second inning and allowing only three hits through the eighth, won the nightcap for New York when the game was ended by rain after eight frames.The Boston Red Sox scored two runs in the top half of the 10th inning against Detroit when Johnny Pesky doubled with the sacks jammed, but the Tigers came roaring back to score and have two on with one out in the last half. Walt Masterson relieved, struck out Vic Wertz and got Hoot Evers on i, foul pop to save the win for earlier reliefer Bill Wight.Because they won only one game while the Yanks won two, the Sox slipped to second.Home runs by Luke Easter and Lar^y Doby paced the Indians to their first-game win, helping to pile up a 5 to 0 lead that enabled Bob Lemon to coast home to his 10th victory. Steve Gromek hurled steady, seven-hit ball to take the nightcap 3 to 1. driving in the tie-breaking and eventual winning run himself with a seventh-inning single.The White Sox lost the opening game of their twin bill to Washington in the ninth inning when the Senators broke a 6 to 6 tie with a run on Mickey Vernon’s walk and Sam Mele’s double. The Senators assured themselves of a four-game series sweep by a seven-run second inning.ONLY 33cDxi/n/rt SthahmamREASONABLE DRUG PRICESC. O. WARREN — J. I. THOMAS Phone 2149 DUNN, N. C. 218 E. Broad St
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Mon, Jul 23, 1951
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