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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1958)
By BOB MULLIN' Emerald Sports Editor The first month of the 1958 major league baseball season is nearing its completion with a surprise leader in the Na tional League and a not-such-a-surprise leader in the Ameri can League. San Francisco, home of the moved New 1 ork (nants. seems to he having a similar effect that Milwaukee had on the Braves when they moved from Boston. The Giants, picked for a sixth-place finish in the league before the season opened, ha\e been getting stronger with each game and cur rently pace the XL, with a 21-11 record. The detending champion Braves are a game out with 17 wins and nine losses. New York's Yankees are making a run-away of the American League. The perennial champions have lost only five of 24 games and lead second-place Kansas City by six-and-a-half contests, all this while Mickey Mantle hasn’t yet found his batting eye and while such stars as Yogi Berra and Gil MacDougald have been missing games be cause of injuries. The Yankees and the Athletics are the only AL squads that have won half of their games or more. Bob Turley’s pitching for the Yankees and Willie Mays’ hitting for the Giants have been the most noteworthy perfor mances on the two clubs. Turley pitched his sixth victory of the season Sunday, a 3-0 five-hit job against the Washington eSnators. Turley has four shutouts to his credit already this season and has an 0.83 earned run average. Mays sparked the Giant surge w ith his home runs. He hit 10 base-sweepers in eight games hiking his season total to 11. one behind the league leading total of Danny Thomas of Pittsburg. Musial Still Hitting One of the most satisfying sights in professional baseball: the tremendous early-season hitting of Stan Musial. “The Man." who hits only to win games, cracked out the 3000th hit of his career a week ago and hasn’t let down since then. He's carrying a .476 batting average and has seven homers. At 37 he's bound to tire as the season progresses, but should he win the NL batting crown, it’ll be his eighth, tying the record set by the early-season short stop great, Honti> Wag ner. Here’s a prediction: Robin Roberts, one-time Philadel phia Phillies ace pitcher, to make the comeback of the year in the majors. Roberts, who won 20 games in six different seasons, hit the downgrade two years ago when he had a 19-18 record. Last year it dropped to 11-22. This spring Roberts was hit often and hard by opposing sluggers, but he seems to be improving as this season continues. He was defeated in four of his first five games this year, but that final loss was a 1-0 extra-inning heart-breaker. Since then he’s worked well and has won two games in a row. Phillie manager Mayo Smith is giving Roberts more rest in between starts and it appears to be helping him. Roberts is still in his early 30’s, and he still has the great control he once had. 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Even though the first two innings were scoreless, the Pups broke into the scoring column in the third inning with four runs. Pitcher Max Chancellor led-off with a single to left which was followed by another single by Jack Hennon. Chancellor raced to third on an oevrthrow to sec ond base. Bill Ferguson walked. Ron Beezely, Jim Carlile, John Johnson, and Bill Kolila all sing led to drive in the four runs. The Fiji* got their two runs in the fourth inning when Joe ttaabe doubled to center field. John Clarke stepped up to the plate and smacked a home run. The game went scoreless for the next two innings until the Fijis began having pitching trouble. Ron Beezely hit a home run in the top of the seventh in ning, and then Jim Carlile, John Johnson, Bill Kotila, Max Chan cellor and Bud Kuykendall ull walked to produce three more runs. In their half of the inning the Fijis could not get uny hits, so the final score was 7-2. Pitch ing well for the Pogo Pups was Max Chancellor who was insisted by Bud Kuykendall. Dale Powers and Roger Sherwood pitched for the Fijis. Pogo Pups 004 000 3—7 0 Fijis 000 200 0—2 3 Phi Delts win Phi Delta Theta whipped Young Hall on the Upper Field, 15-4. The Freshmen put up a fight for the first half of the game but succumbed to a barrage of Phi Delt hits. The first three innings saw Young getting a run in the third on three walks and a field ers choice. The Phi Dell* scored one run in the first inning and three in the third. In the first Pete King doubled and Mike Hollis ter butted him In with a single. Pitcher tierry I-alng got anoth er single. In the third Inning. Dale Herron walked and ad vanced to second on a single National sports From UI* Reports Bevos win Portland 200 001010— 4 13 1 Sail Diego 001 002 010— 3 6 2 Singleton and Tornay; Welle, Brodowski (9) and Jones. HK Jones S. D., Tornay Por. LP — Weile. Wednesday baseball The Wednesday emphasis in baseball is on the afternoon after that heavy arc light schedule last night. In the American league, four day games- Baltimore at Detroit. New York at Chicago, Washington at Kansas City and Boston at Cleveland. In the Na tional league, Chicago at Pitts burgh and Los Angeles at Mil waukee in the afternoon—St. Louis at Philadelphia and San Francisco at Cincinnati at night. Tuesday baseball The San Francisco Giants are back in first place in the Nation al league after beating Cincin nati 4-2, while Milwaukee bowed to Los Angeles, 6-3, in 11 innings. In other National league action, Pittsburgh thumped the Chicago Cubs, 12-3, and St. Louis blank ed Philadelphia, 5-nothing. In the American league, New York rolled along at the expense of the Chicago White Sox, 5-1, Boston trimmed Cleveland, 6-1, Kansas City topped Washington, 7-3, and Baltimore bounced Detroit, 6-4. Dusters enforced President Warren Giles of the National league says the rule against “dusters” will be strictly enforced. Giles says that the rule itself may need some change and that possibility is being studied now. An outbreak of duster balls occurred in a Cincjnnati-Milwau kee game last weekend. Braves slugger Eddie Mathews missed last night’s game against the Dodgers because of an injured foot and may be sideline for Mathews injured several days. Mathews suffered the injury when a foul ball hit his foot during batting practice at Cincinnati. by Jim Highlands. l-'ri-d l^n nurd also singled and thru llolt Sturgis doubled scoring llcrron and Highlands. I.arry Walker ncored from third base after getting a single, wlr-ti Carl Burnham aingted, for Young Hall. Beginning to find the hex, tin* Phi Dolt* Heored four rsins in the fourth Inning. Mike Hollister and Clark Miller got walks while Laing singled to loud the bus's. Herron batted them in with a tuple to left field. Jim Highlands hit Heiron in with a Mingle. For Voting in the fifth inning, Harold Hawkins, who singled, scored when Noel ls*slle helled a long triple to left-center. Leslie dashed home to score when latrry Walker was thrown out ut first. The Phi Delta lowered the boom in the last half of the fifth. Pete King started off the inning with a single, and scored when Miller hit a home run. Laing singled. Herron walked, Highlands singled, and Bob Stur gis was safe on first on an error. Mike Lawler singled and King walked along with Miller. After the storm, there was comparative quiet as the game ended. Pitching excellent ball for the winners was (Jerry Lamg. Trying hard and not looking bad for a while was the game los*-r Lou Wilahire. It II Voung Hall 001 V>0 0— I 4 Phi Belts 103 4*0 x—13 17 SHISLER'S FOOD MARKET Groceries — Fresh Produce — Meats Mixers — Beverages — Magazines — Ice Cream OPEN FROM 9 A M. jn | 11 P. 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