Atlanta Daily World

SPORTS OF THE WORLD
BY MARION E. JACKSON

Rookie of the Year candidate Vada Pinson got his early baseball training at McClymonds High School in Oakland, Calif., where he was a teammate of Frank Robinson in American Legion ball. . . . California's Supreme Court has upheld the legal right of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team to a 30-acre tract in Chavez Ravine for a new stadium, but Louis Kirschbaum, who attacked the deal, plans to take his fight to the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court will be asked to void the pact as a "give-away."

Phil Silvers will seek to block the movie "Score as a pitcher leaves Chavez Ravine deal on these major grounds:

1. Illegal impairment of a contract under which part of the land was returned by the Federal Public Housing Administration for public use.

2. Illegal expenditure of public funds for the benefit of a private corporation.

3. Denial of taxpayers of constitutional due process of the law in the State Supreme Court in which, according to the plaintiffs, it had considered questions still pending before a lower court.

SPEEDY RELIEF The Jacksonville Braves and the Knoxville Smokies' fine marathon pitching duel that went for 21 innings recently. The Braves finally scored a run in the bottom of the 12th inning to win.

The victory went to John Stokoe who came on in relief of starter Cecil Butler in the 15th inning for Knoxville.

Herb Score, who is making a comeback with the Cleveland Indians, after an accident in May of 1957 which almost cost him the sight of one eye.

Score is acclaimed as one of baseball's best pitchers on an etc. an which Rene Valdes, Humberto Robinson and Bennie Daniels have been sent down to the minors after winning five or more games.

Reporters are again going overboard on Score. Before he was injured Score struck out 14 Chicago White Sox in a stretch of 4 innings. He fanned 48.

But that's about all to the record strikeouts that season. He was credited with two victories and charged with three losses. The season before that he won two, lost one and worked only 3 1/3 innings.

So since 1956, and counting a five hit win over the Detroit Tigers in '59, our hero has won only five games. He lost five and pitched the equivalent of 10 full games.

Yet Score is credited with being one of the game's greatest hurlers while Robinson, Valdes and Daniels have been siphoned up and down the major league ladder.

You wonder about this type of hero worship and wonder if the newspaper critics really know.

With all the fanfare subsided, Herb Score's idolization leaves me cold. I long for the days of Satchel Paige, Bob Feller, Bob Lemon, Mike Garcia, Dizzy Dean, Allie Reynolds, Preacher Rowe, etc., when pitching was pitching and glamour boys like Score used their profiles in the

Harb Score has yet to prove himself over the long haul and no amount of newspaper publicity can build him up. Everyone out of fairness wishes him a complete recovery, but we insist strikeout don't make a pitcher. The won-lost record is one yard-stick, but intellect, stamina, skill, speed and durability are factors in greatness. Even more so the pitcher must show his strength under fire and in analyzing his opposition.

EYE-OPENER: Two of the most sought after prep players in Kentucky competition are Paul McPherson and Sherman Lewis, co-captains of integrated Manual High in Louisville, Ky. McPherson is the brother of Ulysses McPherson and Lewis are such excitement runners that alumni of the University of Kentucky are boosting them to crack the colorline there.

McPherson and Lewis can run and pass and are excellent blockers. They are touted to go to their first choice.

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College coaches are beating a path to their door, but right now they're a year away from college, but still growing. Who knows that here are two Leonard Lyles (he's the rookie back with the Baltimore Colts, who graduated from the University of Louisville) who make the grade anywhere they choose to attend college?

Satchel Paige will make his movie debut with Bob Mitchum, Julie London and Jack Oakie in 'The Wonderful Country.'

Few Britons give Brian London much chance against heavyweight champ Floyd Patterson at Indianapolis May 1 but a veteran British boxing observer for United Press International notes this: London unless most British fighters is a second finisher if he gets a foe in trouble.

I don't for a minute think London will do much against Patterson. While Frank Fisher of UPI

But Patterson was knocked down by Pete Rademacher and Roy Harris who must be of the London stamp. If London knocks him down, Patterson better come up with a clear head because he won't get any leeway from then on.