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. With more rest he should still be able to win more
than he loses.
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Pogo Pups, Phi Delts,
win softball playoffs
Emerald Sports Writer
BY DICK BALL
Two more games were sched
uled yesterday in play-off series
for the Intramural Softball
Championship. The Pogo Pups
defeated Phi Gamma Delta 7-2.
Phi Delta Theta trounced Young
Hall 15-4.
Pups Roll
The Pogo Pups took on the
Fijis in a game on the North
Field. 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
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