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By XL HYNDINO
Emerald Sports Editor
Those Red Sox
They say one swallow doesn't (make a Spring, and the
Boston Red Sox, hv the same token, aren't admitting they
have the American League pennant sewed up—yet.
BUT A QUICK LOOK at the standings indicates that
Boston is the hottest baseball team in the American League.
Tliev are in second place, have been knocking off the leaders
with consistence, and will probably be in the thick of it for
some time to come.
The Bean Towners have been doing it the hard way too.
Patterning their attack after Chicago's aged pennant winners
of last season, the Bosox have been- winning the big ones
with castoffs from other major league clubs. Such supposedly
washed-up athletes as Bobby Thomson, and Vie Wertz, not
to mention 41 vear old Ted Williams, have been doing much
of the recent damage to the other seven major league clubs.
Then there's the Boston pitching staff. There were sup
posed to be serious weaknesses here, too. Such veteran
hurlers as Toniinv Brewer and Frank Sullivan, who had
not shown sparks of their former brilliance in nearly three
seasons, were all the Red Sox had.
BUT JUST YESTERDAY, Brewer wrapped up a neat
two-hitter against the league leading White Sox for a three
"ame sweep over the front runners. At this writing, Boston
is only one-halt game out of the lead, and showing mild
symptoms of pennant fever, even in May.
The rest as expected
If the Red Sox are doing their best to upset the form sheet,
though, the rest of the league is rounding into shape as
expected.
IN FIRST PLACE are the White Sox, as predicted. Join
ing them in the first division are New York and Cleveland,
also as predicted. As for the American League cellar, la.-t
year's seventh and eighth place clubs, Kansas City and
Washington, are again fighting it out for their familiar berths.
The only exception besides Boston is Detroit, which has
bounded back from ten straight losses, with two successive
extra inning 1-0 victories, and again seems destined for its
usual .500 finish.
Those poor Yankees
Back in New York, they are beginning to wonder again
about what is happening to the Yankees. Although not un
animous choices to bounce back to their number one perch
in the American League, the men of Casey Stengel were at
least supposed to go down like Yankees, to make a tough
fight of it all the way, especially in those extra inning con
tests.
BUT LOOK at the results in New York’s last three con
tests. They have all been extra inning losses, and all at
Yankee stadium.
Last Sunday the Yankees looked like the champions of
old, for a while, rallying for two runs in the ninth to tie
Chicago. But in the tenth, Chicago turned the tables, scoring
five runs of their own. The New Yorkers couldn’t match that.
The same thing happened all over again Monday. The
Yankees rallied to tie the score against Cleveland at the end
of nine, then fell behind by four in the tenth and lost again
5-1.
HAVING IT HAPPEN three days in a row though,
appeared to he out of the question to veteran fans with any
kind of memory of past Yankee greatness. But sure enough,
it happened again yesterday. New York bowed again to
Cleveland 3-2, this time in 11 innings.
A new twist
In one other respect, these aren’t the Yankees of old. It
used to he that one team a season would come up to consis
tently knock off the front running Yankees while the rest of
the league rolled over and played dead. Now it’s different.
The Yanks are 10-8, have lost three so far to Cleveland,
and have also dropped games to three other clubs.
The hitters
Turning to individual performances, a nobody and an
established batting star are among the leaders in the AL
batting race.
The nobody is Jerry Lumpe, a Yankee cast off who is
currently third in batting with .370 and is making Kansas
City a tough team to handle.
The established s^ar is Pete Runnels. One of last year’s
top five hitters and runner up in 1958, Pete is second in
batting so far, hitting over .400.
THE BIGGEST SURPRISE though, has been Yankee
Roger Maris. Despite the current Yankee slide, it looks like
George Weiss and Co. have come through with a smart
trade with Maris. He was picked up in one of the numerous
Yankee-Kansas City deals of last winter and so far this
season, has been showing up his more widely publicized
outfield mates, Bill Skowron and Mickey Mantle.
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Cmhtrer and all-time leading ground-gainer Jim Shanley, l»«>th of whom will l*e on hand for the
first Varsity-Alumni game Saturday at Hayward Field. Ticket prices lor students are 50 rents
apiece. The strong Alumni team will bo coached and quarter hacked by Philadelphia Eagle star
Norm Van Brooklin.
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Ducklings split
doubieheader
with Linfield
By CRAIG MrEWEN
Emerald Sports Writer
The Oregon Frosh pushed over
the Linfield J.V.'s 4 to 2 in the
first game of a double-header at
Linfield ‘Wednesday, then drop
ped a tedious pitching dual 1 to 0
to put their record back to the
500 mark, with four wins and
four losses.
IN THE first game John Liv
ingston smashed a home run as
the game's second batter, then
drove in two runs in the third
inning with a triple, and soon
scored the fourth mn on a field
er’s choice.
Jerry Lyslo held the opposition
to five hits and one earned run
to record his second win without
a loss. Linfield put three hits to
gether for one run. and scored the
other on three errors.
The second game featured a
standout pitching performance by
Mel Moe of Linfield as he allowed
only two Frosh hits, struck out
seven, and walked no one.
RON STEVENS and George
Spencer held Linfield hitless until
an insignificant single in the sixth
inning, but their seven walks,
plus two infield errors, put them
in trouble during several innings.
The third was such an inning,
as Linfield scored its decisive run
on an error, a walk, and a field
er’s choice.
TODAV THE Frosh return to
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