pM'WMh Stomps,,. Toomni Me Fo"inn)Deadl a 9 setters ypdDp Pace t. . . . j Jf; By DON J ! F J Salem anglers Charles Linday (left) and Gas Schwalen are pic tared with a two day catch made recently at East Lake. Fish ranged from a foot to better than 19 inches. Who says the fish ing isn't good? - Always seems to be a bit trouble with our waterfowl supply on their come-back trail. This spring it was a late blizzard in the Canadian provinces that wiped out practically the entire first hatch of ducklings. The mature moved northward to new nesting grounds and had a try at a second hatching . . . From all appearances at present writing the overall picture of the coming duck season is rather shabby. Two brighter spots do, however, appear to liven prospects up a bit. Indications are that we shall have an increased supply of geese over last season, and there seems to be an ever increasing number of the wary pintail ... In fact, the pintail are becoming a bit of a nuisance so to speak. Could be that we shall have either an increased bag limit dn pintail this coming fall or an extended season on same. California is aiming at an early season on the sprig, say in late August or September. That seems to be the period when the annual early flight hits the banana helt Whatever the outcome in either supply or season, we shall go along with it in spite of possible low grumblings. We never saw a duck hunter that didn't have something to gripe about any way. Wilbur Hit It Good at East Lake The hot days of summer are putting a blanket on some of the fishing around the state, although several spots are still producing some fair catches. Glenn Wilbur, 3370 Argyle Drive, topped off a nice catch last week at East Lake with a S-pound brown trout. The big one caught Glenn napping and nearly - took the outfit out of his hands. Big fish always have had the sneaking habit of cracking down when a man is nearly asleep, lighting a cigarette, reaching for a sandwich, or storming through a tackle box for a better lure. A few sea-run cutthroat have been taken in the tidal waters of some of the coastal streams, although they have not been too numerous. Should not be too long fresh water and pools. A man with a lot of fun along toward evening. Reports from the coast indicate a few salmon showing around Haystack Rock and there should be a good run of the ' Chinooks and silvers by another week. Weather permitting, the salmon at Winchester should be good by the weekend, although they may yet be "just across" the bar. Small boats have thus far been hampered by winds and fog. The charter boats are doing well however, and most of them are coming back early with limit catches. Won't Be Long Until SalmonjOpen Run A few salmon have been taken by sports anglers outside the bar at Newport and a few have also been tagged by shore casters from the south jetty. Herring and pilchard are reported moving in to Yaquina Bay and the salmon will not be far behind. At any time now there should be good Chinook fishing inside. Jn another month or less the silvers should be in, and then the bay gets red-hot A few summer run steelhead have entered the mouth of the. Deschutes River and a sizeable run is reported going over the lad ders at Bonneville each day. By another weekend the summer steel ie fishing in the lower Deschutes should be real good. Heard about a newcomer to Oregon that went to work in a sporting goods not long after his arrival in our fair state. His first customer wandered in and asked for a couple of Ford Fenders. The new clerk looked rather puzzled and finally re sponded with, Tm sorry sir, but we don't stock automobile parts in here." FLASH we just received a late report from the fish's mouth that at least four Chinook and one silver were taken inside the bay at Newport over Sunday past One fish was taken up past the bridge. Okeh you moochers. This what you have been waiting for. Grab your salt water spinning outfits and have at it By the ' way herring are scarce at Newport and the early bird gets the bait. Well be expecting some tall tales in short order. Spokane Moves .to Top of WIL As Franks Blanks Broncs, 5-0 The Spokane Indians climbed to the top of the Western Inter national League standings Wed nesday night with a 5-0 win over Lewiston's Broncs as Bill Franks hurled a five-hit shutout The outcome put Spokane one-half game above Salem. Wenatchee's Chiefs took a pair from Victoria 9-1 and 11-5, Yakima topped Van couver 3-2 and Edmonton blanked Tri-City 2-0 in the first game of a pair. A homer by Stan Palys with a mate aboard in the seventh in- London Might Land Middle ' Crown Scrap LONDON OP The world mid dleweight title fight between Brit ain's Randy Turpin and Bobo Ol son of San Francisco may take place in London in the fall. Tur pin's manager said Wednesday. The bout was originally sched-' tiled for Aus. 27 In New York. It was postponed until mid-October at the request of Turpins manager. George Middlcton. who said his fighter needed a "little more time i to get into proper condition" after j an automobile accident. ! Olson jwrants to fight in San Fran- Cisco. . "There is a complete deadlock." ; Middleton told newsmen Wednes day, "Olson absolutely refuses to fight in New York, but it is not against meeting Turpin in San Francisco or London. Turpin is prepared to fight anywhere. But naturally he would prefer London." The. National Geographic So ciety says ML Rainier, in Wash ington state, has the largest single-peak glacier system in the U.S. HARGER T now before a few show up in the a wet fly can then have himself mng was the big blow in the Spo-i sane win over Lewision. John Co-, nant pitched the shut out over Tri-City as Edmonton took the first game of two. Conant gave only six blows. (Second Edmon-ton-Tri-City game on page one). Le.vfston 000 000 000 0 5 1 Spokane 000 100 40 5 8 0 Marshall and Garay; Franks and Sheets Vancouver 001 010 000 2 7 2 Yakima 000 000 000 3 4 3 Fletcher and Leavitt: Carter and Albini. Victoria 100 000 01 5 2 Weir tehee . 252 000 8 8 0 Younie. Walker 2. Lorino 3 and Harford, Martin 6; Monroe and Hel muth. Victoria 201 001 0010 S 10 ) Wenatchee 000 100 19 11 10 3 Dollins. Prior 7, Lorino 8 and Mar tin; Bothelho. Monroe 8 and Hel- muth. Edmonton Tri-City Conant and and Pesut. 000 Oil 02 7 0 000 000 00 6 0 Morgan; Hedgecocfc Four-run Innings 1st Game: CALGARY ( SALEM (4) BHOA BHOA Bnbrk.m weh1d Hunteri stths.i-m 5fSJd r. Brickerj sutes.p' Ltiiardx 4 13 0 Sabtni.r 4 2 2 3 Lubv.2 2 110 Tnselij 3 113 PcrezJ 3 10 0 Devo.m 3 0 3 0 Ralard.l 3 0 7 0 EssegnJ 2 0 10 Nelson.c 3 2 11 Dahle.p 112 2 Wither.l 0 10 2 2 3 1 1 4 1 2 0 1 t 13 2 2 10 2 3 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 Totals 28 21 9 Totals 28 10 21 13 Calgary saim . 200 000 . 100 003 S 10 Pitcher: Ip Ab H R Er So Bb Stites ....7 28 10 4 3 3 1 Oahle . 7 28 9 4 3 3 Nelson awarded first base on catch er's interference in 5th. Errors Whitehead. Peres. Left on bases Calgary 8, Salem S. Two-base hits Whitehead. Statnos, Luby 2. Pe rez. Runs batted in Hunter, Stathos, TanseUi. Deyo. Esselian. Nelson, Whitehead 2. Sacrifice Hunter. Te desco. Stolen bases Esselian. Double plays Stites to Whitehead to Mel linger. Hunter to Whitehead. Time 1:38. Umpires J acobs and Moran. Nicholas Has 14th Victory I Opener Blown Away; Series Final Tonight By AL LIGHTNER ! Statesman Sports Editor ! The town Senators broke even with the Calgary StampederS in their twin bill at Waters Field last night but the divvy cost; the Solons their hold on the WI League lead. The sizzling Spokane Indians came through with another nod over Lewiston their 12th in 16 tries for the second half and it pushed the Tribe into first place half a game up on the Legislators. Salem now has an 11-4 second half record. Last night's first game went to the visitors on the strength of a four-run- uprising in the final inning, good for a final 6-4 count at the expense of Lefty Dave Dahle. Hugh Luby's lads made a four run inning of their own pay off in the nine-inning nightcap, how ever, snatching this one 4-3 to hand Spectacled Joe Nicholas his 14th victory of the semester and eighth in a row. Series finale tonight at 8:15 o clock, following a six o clock prelim featuring the unbeaten Capital Post No. 9 American. Le gion team in an inter - distric playoff with either McMinnvjlle or Yamhill. Free Pictures Tonight j Also, everyone attending 'to night's game gets an 8x10 picture of the first-half champion Salem Senators, it being "Picture Night." Dahle had himself a win in last night's opener, the Salems wip ing out a 2-1 Stamp lead in the sixth with three runs off Right hander Bill Stites. A double by Connie Perez high off the right field wall, and singles by Jim Deyo, Chuck Essegian and Bob Nelson provided the three runs and a 4-2 lead. The Stamps wouldn't hold still, however. Manager Gene Lillard opened the final heat with a sin gle, and Stites clobbered another. Bob Bonebrake's bunt went for a scratch hit, loading the sacks. Ken Whitehead then singled in two runs, with no one out and Rocky Tedesco sacrificed Whitehead to second, putting runners on the middle and third cushions. Squeeze Fouled Up Don Hunter laid down a squeeze bunt that Connie Perez fumbled momentarily before throwing badly to the plate in an attempt to nail Bonebrake. Both the enemy shortstop and White head rambled in on this play and the ball game was cracked wide open so far as a Salem win was concerned. Calgary got to Nicholas for sin gle tallies m the second, third and fourth heats, but Sidearmer Joe got tougher as he progressed and stopped all threats there' after. The Salems tagged 'Veteran Joe Orrell for all four runs in the second inning on an opening walk to Perez, Deyo's single to left Jerry Ballard's run-producing single to left passed ball by Lillard, Don Masterson's bloop er to right, scoring both Deyo and Ballard, and a later single to center by Dick Sabatini, scoring Masterson after he had swiped second base. Throw Kills Run Orrell was a toughie himself thereafter, giving but five bits. The Solons got him for three of the bingles in the seventh, but the swift Essegian was thrown by Bonebrake after he had field- ed Nicholas's single. Essegian had opened with a single, and had stolen second base. The crowd numbered only 1,377, one of the poorest of the last two weeks. But there were 775 kids on hand, drinking free pop and eating ditto ice cream during the Salem Police Depart ment's biggest "Third Base Club" night of the season. Numerous prizes were given to the kids, and Bruce Follis, 705 South Street, won the big prize, a new bicycle. The Senators are now 2-1 up on the Stamps in the series, and Lefty Bob Collins, who looked sharp but a bit wild in his last outing will face Lillard's outfit in tonight's finale. Big Ballard was thumbed from the first game in the sixth for complaining too vehemently over a called third strike, and Les Witherspoon finished out the mix at first base. Good as Gold: Second game: CALGARY (S) SALEM (4) BHOA BHOA Bonejn 5 3 2 1 Sabtni.r 4 111 Whites 4 Tedesco J 4 Hunter 3 1 1 LubvJ 3 0 1 1 Tanseli.s 3 0 2 Perez.1 2 0 0 Deyojn 3 2 0 Balard.l 4 2 0 EssegnJ 3 1 2 Masterx 3 1 2 Nichls.p 3 1 0 Stathos .1 Mead Mllngr.l Lillard .c OrreU.p x-Brckr Totals 32 9 24 9 Totals 28 9 27 16 x Ground out to Orrell in 9th. Calgary Salem .. Oil 100 0003 9 040 000 00 4 9 Pitcher: Ip Ab H R Er So Bb Orren 8 28 9 4 4 S 4 Nicholas 9 32 9 3 3 3 4 Wild pitches: Orrell. Passed balls: Lillard. Left on bases: Calgary 7, Salem S. Errors: Nicholas. Two-base hits: Lil lard. Bonebrake. Runs batted in: Mel linger, Ballard. Masterson 2. Sabatini. Whitehead. Bonebrake. Sacrifice: Mead. TanseUi. Stolen bases: Master son. Bonebrake. Esseffian. ' Double plays: Luby to TanseUi to Ballard. Hunter to Whitehead. TaneP to Luby to Ballard. T 2:08. Umpires: Moran & Jacobs. Att.: L377. Top Man """" U j"' 'I r.o-Vi I P., rr1 Shorty Templeman, above, 19S2 midget auto racing champion of the Northwest will appear in Salem's first midget program of the season at Hollywood Bowl Saturday night Hell be driving his No. 1 Offenhauser. Twelve "Offies" and another 12 Fords will be in Saturday's double-barreled meet. (See story next page.) ;! Fading Bevos Lose 2 Tilts To Hollywood PORTLAND UP The rampag ing Hollywood Stars extended their winning string to seven straight Wednesday night by sweeping an- - " v,r j Dieneaaer irom me roruana oea - Vers, 3-1 and 8-2. The score was tied, 1-1. in a pitching duel between Portland's Jay Heard and Hollywood's Jim Walsh when Monty Basgall opened the seventh with a single. Heard threw wild when Jack Phillips laid down a bunt, and that put runners on second and third. Another error, this one by Short stop Frank Austin, let Gasgall score. Tom Saffell laid down a squeeze play bunt to score Phillips. Portland's only run came in the second inning when Ed Basinski, Heard and Austin each drove out singles. In other games second place Seattle slapped San Francisco 11-2 with the help of Bill Evans' hurling and Royv Orteig's 20th homer. Oakland downed Sacra- mento 4-2 and Los Angeles won a pair from San Diego 3-2 and 8-4. First-sane box: HOLLYWOOD PORTLAND BHOA BHOA Wat,rf-lf 3 0 2 0 Austin. 4 t 1 2 Bas?aU.2 3 2 2 2 Arft.lb 3 0 9 0 Philp. 3 0 2 3 Klwy.3b 3 0 0 2 Long.lb 3 0 5 1 Robbe.lf 3 110 Kelhrji 1 0 2 0 Robsn.e 3 14 1 Handly.3 3 0 0 1 Reich.rf 3 0 10 LSafell.cf 2 0 2 0 Egert.cf 3 0 2 0 Maine. c 2 14 1 BsnsklJ 3 z 3 a Walsh.p 3 0 10 Heard. p 2 10 1 Beard jf 0 0 10 a-Russl 10 0 0 Totals 23 3 21 8 Total 28 7 2111 a-riied out tor Heard In 7th. Hollywood 000 001 23 Portland 010 009 Pitching Ip Ab R H Er Bb So Walsh 7 28 17 10 4 Heard 7 23 3 3 1 3 3 E Long. Austin. Heard. RBI Aus tin. Malone. Handley. Saffell. 2B Basgall. HR Malone. SH Saffell. DP Basinski to Austin: Austin to Basinski to Arft. R Basgall. Phil lips. Malone. Basinski. Left Walsh. Loser. Heard. U Silva, Pelekoudas and Ford. T 1:31. Second game: Hollywood 131, 300 0008 11 0 Portland 100 001 0002 3 4 Fisher, Maltzberger 6 and Malone: Lint, Ward 5, Fleming 8 and Gladd. Sacramento 010 100 0002 S 1 Oakland 100 002 10 4 10 2 Yaylian. Candini 7 and Montalvo; Bamberger and Neal San Diego 000 100 1002 7 0 Los Angeles 000 001 1013 8 2 Dickey. Benton 9 and Mathias; Cumptrt, Padget 6 and Evans. San Diego 100 001 0024 Lo Angeles 102 001 40 Smith and Mathis; Hatten Peden. 1 8 0 and San Francisco ... 100 001 000 2 4 3 Seattle .. 041 Oil 31 11 17 0 McCall. Clough S and Tornay; Evans and Orteig. SeixasMo' Take Matches CHICAGO OP) Favorites, head ed by top-seeded Vic Seixas and Maureen Connolly, Wednesday breezed into quarterfinal play in the singles of the National Caly Courts Tennis Tourney. Philadelphia's Seixas downed Fred Hagist of Berkeley, Calif., with a barrage of sharp back-hand drives. 6-1, 6-2.- Miss Connolly, of San Diego, who tike Seixas won at Wimbledon this year, took less than a half hour to eliminate Marie Vidas of Hinsdale. I1L, 6-1. 6-1. Defending Champion Arthur Lar sen. No. 2 seeded player from San Leandro, Calif., whipped Robin Win ner, Los Angeles, 6-2, 6-4, in a bat tle of southpaws. Third-seeded Tony Ttabert of Cincinnati had too much power and experience for Clifton Mayne, No. 1 player for the University of Cali fornia this year, for a 6-0, 6-1 triumph. For All Types of Accessories and Parts See Pacific Anlo Supply 1SS N. CemX Ph. 4-3011 t UUMitmm Statesman. Satan, Or. Thura Battle Set for Polo Rocky Faces bStarza Bn Title Bout Sept. 24 NEW YORK ifi Rocky Marci ano, the shoemaker's son from Brockton, Mass., wiH defend his world heavyweight title against Roland LaStarza, former college student, in the Polo Grounds on Thursday, Sept 24. They signed the contract for the WIL W L Pet. W L Pet. Spok. 12 4 .7SO Yakima 7 9 .438 Salem 11 4 .733 Tri-Sity 9 -O0 Calgarv 8 7 .533 Edmon. 6 9 .40O Lewstoti 7 7 .300 Victoria 5 10 .357 Vancvr 7 7 .500 Wenche 6 9 251 Wednesday results: At Salem 4-4. Calary 6-3; At Spokane 5. Lewiston O: At Yakima 3. Victoria 8: At Wen atchee 9-11. Victoria -1-5; At Tri-City 0, Edmonton 2 (2nd game Page One.) coast league j w l Pet w l pet j Holywod 69 42 .622 S. Fran. 52 59 .468 i aeauie m i .si i a. j-rieso au wj .439 L. Angles 60 52 .538 Oaklnd 47 62 .431 Portland 53 54.496 Scrmnto 43 64.413 Wednesday results: At Portland 1-2. Hollywood 3-8; At SeatUe 11. San Francisco 2; At Los Angeles 3-8. San Diego 2-4; At Oakland 4, Sac ramento 2. Drain Trounces Silverton Sox SILVERTON (Special) The Drain Black Sox slapped the Sil verton Red Sox 11-4 at McGinnis Field Wednesday night, Mel Krause leading the attack with a triple, double and two singles. Silverton hosts the Portland Ar cher-Blowers Friday night. Drain 020 221 30211 17 1 Silverton -POO 003 010 4 10 2 coursey,: Hanauska (6) and Beard, Bafaro (6); Sauvain, Bucheit (7), Flager (8) and Hande. An armadillo weighs from to 17 pounds. 10 Broivn's Situation Dangerous . . . Webb Urges Franchise Moves to LA Bay City Br JOE REICHLER CINCINNATI on Del Webb, co-owner of the New York Yan kees, suggested Monday that the welfare of the American League could best be safeguarded by the transfer of the St. Louis Browns and Philadelphia Athletics to such California cities as Los Angeles and San Francisco. The Western-bred Yankee exec utive, while expressing sympathy for St Louis owner Bill Veeck, hinted he did not believe Veeck's contemplated shift to Baltimore would solve the American League problem. Other American League execu tives, however, indicated they would support him in his efforts to shift to Baltimore. "I think we have too much ma jor league baseball in the East 100 NYLON mm A IfuLMU, All white and colors 95 A Hunt A Gift Week Feature at July 18. 1953 (Sc 21 1 Grounds . . . 15-round bout Wednesday. The fight will be held just a year and a day from the night Marciano lifted the crown from the aging bead of Jersey Joe Walcott. It will be the first heavyweight title fight in New York since the dreary Ezzard Char'es-Lee Oma affair in January, 1951, and the first one outdoors since Charles took the championship from Joe Louis at Yankee Stadium, Sept. 27, 1950. For that reason, promoter Jim Norris, head of the International Boxing Club, estimated that the gate receipts will reach "a half million or up" depending upon what arrangements are made con cerning television. Maybe Theater TV Norris said the IBC is exploring the possibilities of both home and theater television. He indicated rather strongly that theater TV might be preferred because it would leave the possibility of prof itable motion pictures. In any event, Marciano, as cham pion, will receive 42 Vi per cent of the receipts, including TV and movies, and LaStarza 17 Vx per cent. Norris said the top price for ringside seats would be $30. A supplementary contract, ap proved by the New York State Athletic Commission, provided that if LaStarza should win the title they will meet in a return bout within six months with each get ting 30 per cent of the gate. (Continued on next page.) Boat Club Works On Ramp Project Members of Salem Boat Club turned out in a body Wednesday evening to work on the new ramp on the west side of the Willamette and also to enjoy a potluck sup per. Some 100 persons were pres ent, including several members from the Willamina Boat Ohib. The Salem club will defend its inter-city trophy Sunday at Leb anon. Time trials are set for 11 a. m. and racing starts at 1 p.m. already." said Webb. "Everything is moving westward. Why not base ball? This game is supposed to be our national pastime. Then why are all the big league clubs con centrated Hi the East? "The Pacific Coast League has made an- attempt to become a third major league. It advanced from a triple A to open classifica tion last year. "I believe we should wait an other year to see whether the PCL can attain major league status. If it can't, then it should allow its two largest cities Los Angeles and San Francisco to become major." (Continued on next page.) MARION MOTOCS WTO WBCNP A Shaker off driving troubles! At MARION MOTORS youTl always get a good deal in trading or baying a used car. ' 194S FORD CONVERTIBLE: New paint, whitewall tires, radio, heater, 4QQI. motor A-l 3313 V C4&lraar. 3-9 fv r Ahead CASEY STENGEL Can His Yanks Stay Up? Gavilan Gets decision Win MILWAUKEE on World wel terweight champion Kid Gavilan won an unanimous but unimpres sive 10 round decision victory over Ramon Fuentes of Los Angeles Wednesday night in a non-title bout. A slim crowd in the Milwaukee Arena saw the Cuban stalk his rugged opponent most of the way, open up with flurries of punches that accumulated points, and score thi only damaging punch of the fight, a solid right to the jaw that dropped the Calif ornian for a nine count near the end of the seventh roiind. jleferee Dauber Jaeger scored it 8-4 under the Wisconsin point sys tem. Judge Billy Lachenmeier had., it 8-3, and Judge Ray Jackson said 6-3. Softball Lead Again Shared !The Industrial softball race was deadlocked again Wednesday night as Commercial Seat pulled up even with YMCA via a 7-6 verdict over Mayflower Milk. The top thriller of the evening, however, was the 1-0 decision registered over the Postal Clerks by. the Ed s Market-Wolgamott's entry. A makeup game saw the Firemen whip 1st National Bank 11-3. A two-run spurt in the sixth gave Commercial Seat the nod over Mayflower. Arnie Meyers, tne winning pitcher, yielded a three-run homer to Sommer in th second frame, urarr. -Hilfikew hurled two-hit ball as he shaded the Postal Clerks' Gene Lebold. Lone run of the game came in the second on a double by Kampstra. Veteran Leon Mick enham pitched five-hit ball as the Firemen topped the bankers. Seven runs in the fourth sewed it up for the hose and ladder boys. Randle Oil meets Salem Used Cars in City League action to night at Phillips Field. The ex hibition second game puts Salem Merchants against Ed's Market- Wdlgamotts club. Mayflower Milk 040 020 0 8 0 3 Com l Seat 202 012 7 5 3 Wrlcht and Strong; Meyers and Kephart. POiClerku 000 000 00 2 2 Wolgamotts 010 000 4 0 Lebold and Krueger: Hilfiker and Greenley. 1 1st, Nat'l .210 00 3 5 3 Firemen .. 120 7111 7 3 Clark and Ruef; Mlckenham and Tompkins. "Once In A i Dange I Zi 1 ft S ' K 'Hit' -V; . i'l : SLEEPING' BM-S Mad. Bv HIRSCH-WES Tweed Finish Water Repellent Poplin Smooth Silky Lining Double Mattfess Pockets Detachable Head Canopy Makes Double Awning When 2 Bags i Are Zipped Together 4 Lb. Wool Full Length"' i l Zipjer , i f! 36" x 80"- Regular Pric 24.50 Each THURS.-FRL-SAT. 3 DAYS FOES May B Purchased FISHING NOTE W know that at lait 'i salmon wr caught In Newport Bay Sunday, j " For boat rosonrations j phon Newport 361-L Abby Moorago. j j;! For Tackl RWrannts Sm BICYCLE MID SPORT SHOP 237 N. High Str4t Pacers to Face Top Contend ei J" Majors Resume Play; J Today After Resnite i By WILL GRIMSLEY I NEW YORK Wi It's back i the grindstone Thursday for Uii major league baseball clubs, am 'the next seven days may be bi ones in deciding whether we re q fc! another Yankee-Dodger Work Series. . ..." The New York Yankees, not found human through their recen mne-game losing streaK, move ou vtest where they have an impor (ant doubleheader Sunday with lhi red-hot Chicago White Sox. fol . lowed by three games with thi Cleveland Indians. 1 If Casey Stengel's athletes cai protect all or ;most of their five igame lead, there may be no head. J4ng them in the late turnnle sireicn. ii me oox ana inaiaai kan cut into the advantage, lh i t ...... ... i- a cracker jack race. . Meanwhile, the unsteady Brook lyn Dodgers, holding a lhi gam edge in the National League, en tertain the dashing St. Louis Car dinals in four games, beginninj Thursday night, and then nex week-end tackle the second plact Milwaukee Braves four times .ai Ebbets Field. - Clubs Tightly Bunched These; activities, plus the doing! of the New York Giants and Phi La delphia Phillies, should bring thi senior circuit scramble into sharp er focus. Right now -only 6 M games separate the leading Dod ers from the rallying fifth pi act Giants, who have won eight of theii last nine games. C Heres Thursday's schedule::-; American League New York at St. Louis (2. twi ' night). ? Philadelphia at Cleveland (night) Washington at, Chicago (2) ; Boston at Detroit (night) . I National League St. Louis at Brooklyn -(night) . Chicago at New York (night) ;: Cincinnati at Philadelphia (2, twi .night). ' .v Milwaukee at Pittsburgh (night). ; The Yankees have four garnet with the next-to-last Brownies be fore moving into Comiskey Par) where they're apt to run intols hornet's nest with the White Sox The Sox have won 25 of theii 31 games in the last month ewi have moved from fifth place,' ;11 games off the pace, to second, jusl five slots back of the Yankee. Now they have a 12-game horo stand with the Senators, Yankees, Red Sox and Athletics. .? Chicago's sudden reawakening u .attributed mainly to a couple oi veterans picked up from Xht Browns June 13. They are 36-year "old third baseman Bob Elliott, wh has hit safely in 17 of 26 games fori a .349 average, and 34-yean old Virgil (Fire) Trucks, who hai been a factor in the White Sox improved pitching. J , ; (Continued on next page) vj . Today's Piichers NATIONAL LEAGUE Milwaukee at Pittsburgh (night) Spahn (11-J vs. Friend (3-8).. St. Louis at Brooklyn (nignu Miller (4-4) vs. Roe (5-2). Chicago at New York (night)- Hacker (5-12) vs. Maglie (7-4). rsnoinnatl st Thilar!1nhii f? (night) Raffnesberger (5-7) and Podbeia (5-8) vs. Roberts (14-6) and Simmons 8-5. AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington at Chicago (2) Shea (8-1) and Por tcrfield (10-8) vs. Dorish (6-3) and Coasuegra (4-1). " New York at St Louis (2. twi niSht Ford (-3 and Sain (9-4) vs. Pillette (4-5) and Cain (4-3). Bosfon at Detroit (night) Par nell (12-5) vs. Gromek (3-3). . Dhli4jtnh at Cleveland inlghtl 1 K liner (7-7J vs. Wynn (9-S). Life Time" ONLY f On Lay-Away