August 30, 1954

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BASEBALL (Major League) Week ending August 22
AMERICAN LEAGUE
1. CLEVE. W-6; L-1 Seas: 88-34 Pct.: .721	Detroit 4-3, 4-0 4-3, 2-8	Baltimore 7-2, 4-1 12-1
2. N.Y. W-3; L-3 Seas.: 83-40 Pct.: .675	Philadelphia 11-1, 6-1 8-5	Boston 3-4, 9-10 9-8
3. CHI. W-6; L-1 Seas.: 80-45 Pct.: .640	Baltimore 2-0, 3-1 4-1, 4-3	Detroit 8-2, 2-1 4-7
4. DET. W-2; L-5 Seas.: 54-68 Pct.: .443	Cleveland 3-4, 0-4 3-4, 8-2	Chicago 2-8, 1-2
5. BOST. W-6; L-0 Seas.: 53-67 Pct.: .442	Washington 4-3, 9-8 11-6	New York 4-3, 10-9 8-2
6. WASH. W-0; L-4 Seas.: 49-69 Pct.: 415	Boston 3-4, 8-9 6-11	Philadelphia 2-3, 4-4
7. PHILA. W-1; L-3 Seas.: 40-79 Pct.: .336	New York 1-11, 1-6 5-8	Washington 3-2, 4-4
8. BALT. W-0; L-7 Seas.: 39-84 Pct.: .317	Chicago 0-2, 1-3 1-4, 3-4	Cleveland 2-7, 1-4 1-12
LEADERS Batting--Noren, New York, .335 Runs batted in--Doby, Cleveland, 102 Home runs--Doby, Cleveland, 27 Pitching--Feller, Cleveland, 11-2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
1. N.Y. W-6; L-0 Seas.: 76-44 Pct.: .633	Philadelphia 8-3, 6-2 5-0	Pittsburgh 4-0, 5-4 5-3
2. BKLYN. W-3; L-4 Seas.: 73-49 Pct.: .598	Philadelphia 6-9, 6-4 2-6, 0-6	Pittsburgh 2-4, 3-2 7-5
3. MILW. W-2; L-4 Seas.: 68-51 Pct.: .571	St. Louis 1-4, 3-1 1-2	Chicago 1-3, 2-5 12-6
4. PHILA. W-3; L-4 Seas.: 58-61 Pct.: .487	Brooklyn 9-6, 4-6 6-2, 6-0	New York 3-8, 2-6 0-5
5. CIN. W-3; L-4 Seas.: 59-64 Pct.: .480	Chicago 0-5, 1-6 7-0, 6-3	St. Louis 3-2, 5-6 7-9
6. ST. L. W-4; L-2 Seas.: 58-65 Pct.: .479	Milwaukee 4-1, 1-3 2-1	Cincinnati 2-3, 6-5 9-7
7. CHI. W-4; L-3 Seas.: 48-74 Pct.: .393	Cincinnati 5-0, 6-1 0-7, 3-6	Milwaukee 3-1, 5-2 6-12
8. PITTS. W-1; L-5 Seas.: 44-78 Pct.: .361	Brooklyn 4-2, 2-3 5-7	New York 0-4, 4-5 3-5
LEADERS Batting--Snider, Brooklyn, .349 Runs batted in--Musial, St. Louis, 111 Home runs--Mays, New York, 37 Pitching--Antonelli, New York, 18-3

RECORD BREAKERS

•Donald Healey, 56-year-old English auto designer, drove streamlined, supercharged Austin-Healey of his own design to world record for sports cars, then added five American and four International marks for class D cars over Bonneville Flats of Utah. Healey's world record: 192.62 mph for a measured mile.

•In other Bonneville speed runs, Captain George E. Y. Eyston, 57, also of Great Britain, drove his streamlined and souped-up MG to 17 American and International Class F records, including average of 120.87 mph over a 12-hour stretch.

•Ken Miles of Los Angeles, who drove three-hour relief shifts for Captain Eyston, set world record of his own by pushing production-model MG at average speed of 153.69 mph over ten-mile course, raising old mark by 18.36 mph.

•Pronto Don, owned by Hayes Fair Acre Stable of Du Quoin, Ill., trotted 1 1/16 miles in 2:10 1/5 at Roosevelt Raceway to break own world record by l/5 second. Winner's purse of $7,500 increased his lifetime earnings to $314,173.96, a record for trotters and only $4,618.60 short of Good Time's record for all harness classes.

•Jack Crossfield, 20, of Golden Gate Casting Club, set new world trout fly-casting records with single cast of 194 ft. and three-cast average of 186 1/3 ft. during national championships at Long Beach, Calif.

•Audun Boysen of Norway, whose 1,000-meter running record of 2:20.4 set last September was not recognized by International Amateur Athletic Union, ran a better one—2:19.5—at Gavle, Sweden. Old official record: 2:20.8, by Mal Whitfield of U.S.

•Motoshi Kimura, 16, of Japan, beat world breast-stroke record by 6/10 seconds with a winning time of 1:10.6 during an international meet in Osaka.

•Warren Witherell of Bolton Landing, N.Y., broke world water-ski jumping record with leap of 106 feet at Spofford, N.H.

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