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r I -Sex. 2)-Sfitt$man, Salem, Or., Tuttday, Sapt. 13, 1953 Layn ieY.391 Wins Bat Bee Final NW League Statistics Told ' Manager Hillis Layne of Lew iston, who led the loop much of the season, has taken the 1955 Northwest League's- batting championship, final statistics by the Weiss Bureau of San Mateo, Cal., reveal Layne finished with a 291 av erage to beat out Bob Duretto of Wenatchee who finished with .377 among the regulars. In third place is Nap Gulley of Spokane at .361, and fourth- is Salem's Tommy Agosta at 358. Braves Top Hitters Tri-City won the team batting title with a .296 mark. Wenatchee was second at .295 and Salem third at .293. Eugene was top fielding club with a .964. mark, with Yakima second at .958 and Salem third at .957. Duretto scored most runs, 123; Agosta and Gulley tied for most hits, .173; Duretto had top total bases, 291; Milt Martin of Tri City led in production of dou bles with 37. Agosta's 18 triples led the parade, Duretto's 27 home runs were highest of all and Joe Jacobs of Lewiston stole 62 bases. Duretto had most runs batted Utah, BYU First Foes I lucks, Beavers -j Drill For Openers Saturday EUGENE. tre. JP) Coach Len Cansanova put on passing drills Monday as the University of Oregon football jteam opened the final week of p-actice prior to the season Utah at Salt Late cty next aaturaay, Casanova has three quarter backs to choose from leUerman Tom Crabtree, transfer Jack Crabtree and holdover junior Wal ly RusselL Tom Crabtree appears to be the favorite. The rest of the backfield is fairly well set. Casanova said. Dick James is sure of one halfback slot and a pair of non-lettermen, Jim Shanley and Chuck Osborne are battling for the other. Jacn Morns appears fixed at fullback. CORVALLIS, Ore. W The Oregon State College football team returned to drills Monday, starting final preparations for the season opener against y Brignam Young University here next Saturday. Coach Tommy Prothro reduced the - training program to a single workout and said there will be no regular scrimmages this week. Prothro said he was not entirely pleased with last Saturday's scrim- extra stress opener jwith Eugene Takes Loop Pennant Senators Blow 9-6 j Came in 9th Frame A's Buy Pitcher -For Over $40,000 KANSAS CITY. GB The Kansas City Athletics Monday ennounced the purchase of pitcher Glenn Cox from the Brooklyn Dodgers for a price tag in "excess of $40,000. r Cox, a 24-year-old righthander, has a record of 11-5 with the Dodg ers Montreal farm in the Inter national League this season, i Carmel, winner of the Holly wood Park .Nursery Stakes on June 14, is the first stake winner sired by Citation. Newmarket Maid - is the stallion's first win ner. He scored June 8 at River Downs., , ' - Louise Suggs J Golf Winner - ST. LOUIS M Louise Suggs of Sea Island, Ga., won the $3,000 St, Louis Women's Open Golf Tourna ment Monday by shooting her fourth successive sub'-par round.' The 32-year-old Miss Suggs fin ished the. 72-hole medal play tour nament at Norwood Hills Country Club with a total of 289,' or U under par. Her score for the par 75 course, was 71-72-74-72. -.: . ,' First prize in the; tourney, the fifth won by Miss Suggs, was $900 Lojra rt Wins Nod Over Al Wilson j NEW VORK l Isaac Logart, fine,! 22-year-old . welterweight prospect from Cuba outsped and outpunched Al (Sugar) Wilson of Englewood, N. J., Monday night to win unanimous 10-round deci sion at! Str Nicholas Arena-, Coach Ted Ogdahl greeted 30 and brought her earnings for the year to $13431.33. Mary! Lena Faulk of Thomas yille. Fia., former National Ama teur champ and a pro since Janu ary, finished six strokes behind Miss Suggs to take second money of $630J She had a 74 Monday, for a 295 total. back Monday after new aspirants, for the 1955 Wil lamette football team Monday as the Bearcats began their second! week or workouts in "preparation ; for tjieir opening game Sept. 24; against Whitworth. AH of the new prospects ' were freshman .except Skip Alexander,, a sophomore half back; from Grants Pass. The new men swelled the Wil lamette turnout to a total of 53. Only i a light drill .was held Mon day. to loosen bp the-players from their long Saturday; scrimmage, Dean Benson, veteran end. and George Colling, fulback, were both recovering from slight injuries. Among the players who art drawing top -attention at the Wil lamette camp are, halfbacks. Bobby Zoelch and Windy Sequeira, tackles Dave Anderson and Dal Greenlee, quarterback Benny Holt, fullback-guard Charlie Koanl, and fullback George Koani, a rugged 200-pound brother of Charlie whs as a freshman appears to havo nailed ' the starting post at full back. - , . A From 1933 through 1944 Hirsch Jacobs led the American horn trainers 11 of the 12 years. In. 143: Chuck Lundsren of Wen- mase held under regular game atchee drew most walks, 118, and conditions. However, he singled Jack Steinagel of Salem was the ' out for special praise tackle John i - tin ...... . ,n i. r:t- .-. A league's strikeout king with 119 whiffs. Koberts Wins 21 In the pitching department Bob Roberts of Wenatchee was the league's only 20-game win ner, posting 21 triumphs. Jim Benton had 17 losses to lead that department Gene Hayden of Wenatchee fanned 166 batters and gave 181 walks to lead both divisions. Although beat out of the lea gue home run championship by Wenatchee, 84-77, the Senators had by far the most triples, an indication of the soeed on the Silem xlub. Also. Salem led in double plays with 141, beating out Wenatchee's 136". The complete batting and pitching marks: Witte, halfback Dick Mason ana fullback Arlo Wenstrand. TEAM BATTING ab h 2b 3b hr Tri-City 4W 1?7 I4S 45 Wenatch 4129 1218 211 27 H Sslem 4310 12M 177 73 - 77 Yakima 7S 1201 192 53 SS Eufenc 4034 J135 ITS 9 55 5pokn 4159 1139 1S 17 73 Lewuton 4217 1144 213 35 70 pet .29S .m .281 .281 .274 .271 Ashburn Eyes 1st Bat Crown NEW YORK m Richie Ash burn of the Philadelphia Phils, a "hit 'em where they ain't" slap hitter, is headed for his first Na tional League batting title after coming close twice. - With less than two weeks to go. the 28-year-old speedster, in his j crestfallen Dials eighth season in the majors, boasts i and finally; got the TEAM FIELDING T DP Pet DP Pet. ?uien 1S5 122J64 Lewsn 220 1ZT.955 Yatam M3 121 .958 " Trl-Cy 228 134 .954 Salem 308 141 .857 Wntch 223 136.952 Spoka 213 113 .953 INDIVIDUAL. BATTING . Includes all players except pitch er hitting below J00. ab h lb 3b hr rbi pet. Lavne. Lew. 379 148 33 O 5 78 Jl Webster, Sal 13 5 1 O -"585 Duretto. Wn 454 171 27 27 143 J77 Girdley. Eul 107 40 4 t 34 .374 Tastburn. Iu 53 20 1 1 8 10 .364 Culler. Sock 479 173 2S 2 18 118 .361 Aeosta. sal (M in z is a m .wo WWms, Lew S31 US 21 1 13 88 -VV HelbTg. -TC 435 150 34, 8 8 95 J45 Matile. tut 39 108 14 4 1 58 .343 Lewis. Yak 479 182 27 12 18 105 .338 Lake. Spok 229 71 48 .33 Rivas.' Wen 195 65 11 3 Bomero. Eu 191 63 S 3 Pries. TC 430 140 28 Holden. TC 44.1 144 15 4 Krause. Sat 48 130 1 T Mave. Yak 222 71 IS Taiiselli. Sal 472 150 29 Dunn. SM 412 131 12 Shields. Sal 329 104. IS 10 13 Frailey. Sal 383 13 21 7 18 M"tin, TC 418 129 37 Huffman, Eu 78 81 15 Murrhy. Spo 490 151 24 Lundrren. W 406 125 22 Prei. TC 4S2 148 24 Watson. Wen 420 129 14 Porter, Sook 467 143 23 Hsmrstr. Ya 441 135 22 Jackson. Eur 478 145 17 15 Pobinsn. Sal 335 101 8 8 Gladtton. Eu 352 103 22 -Daoper, Euf 343 103 20 Ho?n, Spok 349 104 22 Feich. Yak 236 70 Preston. Eug 338 100 16 Rossi. Wen 240 71 10 Klingler, TC 410 127 19 Cieppa. Lew 51S 152 30 Hsrrera. TC 435 127 JO Mitchell. Ya 370 106 8 Riney. Lew 426 120 23 0?le. Spok 81 17 3 Berfen. TC 449 123 22 Strazulo. TC 350 97 17 Zander. Yak 213 59 14 Jaeob. Lew 492 131 22 Dillard. Yak 120 33 5 Stiiey, Spok 459 125 9 To:0, Eug 381 104 9 S-e:nagl. Sal 423 113 19 Bukwatz, We 221 59 9 Marvier. Wc 444 118 23 Hesse. Eur 340 90 14- 2 Boehner, We 99 26 7 1 Schmidt. Le 466 121 20 Barrett. Lew 344 89 20 Anderson. W 408 105 20 Robin. Yak 209 53 10 Koept. Sal 343 87 10 Rose, Lew 132 33 7 King. Sal 120 30 S Sheets. Spo 414 10.1 10 Nard. Yak 4zA 112 17 McNamra. L 427 102 24 Cerrato. Spo 373 88 12 BpDone, Spo 278 65 18 Hyes. Eug 118 27 4 Kfilum-Rose, Tri-City 46 10 0 Douzos. Lew 93 23 4 IsringhVa. W 119 24 7 Crawf d, Spo 111 21 5 2 2 J33 7 37 J30 70 .128 9 86 J2.1 S 48 .321 3 11 42 330 1 11 106 .318 1 44 .318 76 .316 PI .113 1 10 92 .103 3 5 46 .309 2 9 56 .309 1 16 93 JOS 3 18 100 .307 1 0 45 107 91 JOS 73 .306 52 J03 58 .302 88 .301 84 .300 65 .298 33 .297 49 -196 57 .298 75 .295 78 .294 53 .292 41 .285 91 .283 3 .279 77 .278 50 .277 32 .277 38 .276 an ll-point lead over erooiuyns Roy Campanella. Ashburn is hit ting .338 as compared to Campy's .327 average. Figures include bun- day's games. Going into the 1935 season the consistent-hitting outfielder owned a .312 lifetime average, third best among active National League players. Only Stan' Musial of the St. Louis Cards, six-time batting champion, and the Dodgers' Jack ie Robinson exceeded nun in toe rankings. Cincinnati's Ted Kluszewski. the home run leader with 45, holds down third place at .316. Al Kaline's average has shown signs of slipping lately, but the 20-year-old Detroit sophomore still holds a comfortable bulge over the other contenders in the American League race. Kaline is batting at a .340 clip with Cleveland's Al Smith and Vic Power of Kansas City his closest competitors tied for second at .312. The Yanks Mickey Mantle re tains his American League home run supremacy with 37 and Jackie Jensen of Boston is the top runs batted in producer with 110. Brook lyn's Duke Snider is the National League RBI pace-setter with 129. (Cont'd from Preceding Page.) Hesse and yielded I an off -field single to George Matile. Figur in the carrot-top had run j out of gas. Uncle Hugh jLuby made a tough decision. He waved in j Big BiU Dials to pitch jto Bill East- burn. ' ! ! AH Dials j had -d$ne up until t then in the 'series i'as hurl two-! hit bail for seven innings ini the first game losing H on Girdley's two-run homer, relieve Whitson' in the second gamil, saving that win for him, and jthen hurling Sunday's 12-inning heartbreaker, losing it 3-2 as mentioned. j But Luby figured the hearty j vet might haVe just enough j left to pull this one out. He didn't. Dials got a l-anjd-2 count! on Eastburn. The nect cast jwas smashed for a mighty home run over the j 360-fodt left-center fence, fori three runs. Then George Huffman as next ) up cracked another homer, this over the right field wal . ; j It was an unfitting finish! for a euv who had done so much for the club duririg the season! and in the playoffs. But there it' was, bitter as it was. j Ron King took over for the at this point surging Ems out. The damage was done, anc the jubilant Emeralds almost : pounded their homer-hitting ; her oes into the ground. The Senators fo-jght their into the lead with an eighth )n ning rally! that had the crowd' of 1,938 in a tremendous; up- i way free - wheeling jwith the Eu- victories ;dur- and who licked playoff game at 1 7 2 7 e 9 6 11 1 9 6 12 0 2 9 4 4 7 7 10 7 14 5 2 S 3 4 IS 0 0 5 6 5 3 4 0 8 0 2 1 3 e 7 4 National 4Am Favorites Fall 7 15 1 2 10 5 1 9 9 9 1 1 1 1 3 0 1 4 2 10 2 2 13 .275 35 572 70 .239 77 .267 25 .267 59 .265 IS 56.1 73 560 59 559 69 .257 30 .C54 41 552 17 .250 17 .25Q 69 .249 41 546 54 .239 28 536 39 534 16 .229 3 517 17 515 23 5fl2 10 .189 (Cont'd from Preceding Page.) N. Y one up; Edward Merrins of. Meridian, Miss., the new West ern Amateur champion, ousted by Fred Gordon of Clarion, Iowa. 1 up; and Ted Lenczyk of Newing ton. Mass., 1954 semi-finalLst, a victim of Frank Redman of El Paso, Tex.. 1 up. With such favorites as Harvie Ward, Joe Conrad and Willie Tur nesa on the sidelines with first round byes, the gallery of about 2,000 sought elsewhere for excite ment and found it in the repeated reversals of form. One of the most pleasant of the first day surprises was the victory of 65-year-old Charles (Chick) Ev ans of Chicago, grand old man of roar. ) Frank i Chasa. righthanded vet genes who had 15j mg the season the Salems in a Eugene, ', was staggering along with a 54 lead, and it looked: mighty big. Then with two; out Robinson peeled a single to left, the ball getting by, Huffman! and ; putting Robbie on second las. Jack Dunn as neit up shot an-: other single to left his fourth : hit of the game -and "when Huff-; I man threw badiy to tne piatei trying to f get Robinson, Dunn1 streaked to third. j I Mel (Tanan) Krause, who was slated to hurl thj seventh game here tonight if i( were needed, then made all hands feel that it would be played when he slashed a . double ! to left, j scoring - Dunn. . This put Salem in front 6-5. It also ended Chase's stayl and Sam Williams relieved him.Wil-: liams walked Gene Tansellij pur posely and was then fortunate enough t6 get Bill Shields on a wicked liner, right at Third-base-1 man Eastburn, and but one lot a; fistful that the Salems banged; neht at! some waiting fielder during the ill-fated game. A home run pit Whitsoh 2-0, behind in the Iif,st inning; too. He walked Ron Jackson to start with, and Girdley forced Jack son at second. iBut Hesse as next up lifted a drive ovef the right field fence j for the runs. bounced tight back the first inning also as walked, got to third on infield outs, scored on! selli's smoking double to right and : then savf Gino tally when Shields a single into right, 's error on a slow Salem two in Robinson: two pounded Krause; but the camer hi Steinagel out throw from in the second inniri; be an unearned run for the boo-boo that the fourth dropped! an . ;i j' ' ' ' Ov O n izil.tfi'M 1 A Ik ii J J m m . . m . mm , m . : ww j. .; m '''II MM M .- . - m, m BW M I introductory prices , f LP ) ta I J J plus tax and S JfiLSj I fj recappablt tiro " 'V xi.j "L. 1 WM m m i m r ,.Jgr I . III : " Iroller s turned but to really when easy Whitson to two for Ems, ' hurt' Jack . The PITCHING RECORDS 3. te. Eug Ward. Yak King. Sl Hodges. Eug Griffin. Eug Wfcition. Sal Kindifather, S'ortl, Eug Marthall, wen Willlama. Eug Han. Euf OrreU. Ya Hayden. Wen Pate. Eug-Spo Boberts. Wen Chue. Eug w 1 ip er bb n 2 0 36 17 7 15 1 0 7 3 1 3 7 1 87 41 44 26 16 3 178 (0 82 147 3 1 27 14 27 21 17 8 207 73 104 122 TC 14 8 171 62 71 91 IS 6 195 49 100 139 15 201 IIS 104 101 10 8 133 48 44 83 I 3 87 63 77 -71 1 3 51 25 21 37 16 10 212 105 181 166 11 7 139 77 114 112 21 14 2S1 148 185 138 15 U 190 85 88 120 181 108 81 121 7 167 87 106 T7 79 114 84 70 ii an 77 134 107 59 83 103 74 73 133 94 106 93 78 82 114 46 27 49 87 34 9 10 s iro 11 152 8 3 124 7 6 138 . 12 11 179 13 12 185 13 14 168 10 10 139 4 4 59 3 3 53 2 3 78 1 1 33 Trierweilr. Spo 12 Frcncia. Sal v. aiah, Sal Hoop, Euf-TC Dillard. Yak Kelly. Yak Satalich. Euf , Burns, TC . Dials. Sal Edward. Yak Ztodel. Lewis Bamlrez. Spok Rose. Sal-Lew Ruine. Lew-TC Franks, Lew 14 16 236 138 Wldiworth. Lew 7 S 125 73 CowdeU. Sal 6 7 120 Kenway, TC 8 7 77 Rabung. Yak 8 10 1 Wortham. Salem 7 9 131 Isringhaust Wen I 113 Dexter. Yak 3 7 84 C. Le. TC-Lew8 12 123 Green. TC 69 130 Rartalini. Wen - 2 3 51 Arthur. Eug-TC 5 99 Young. Y?k tl 1S Bottcn. Spok Crawforo, Spo Emton. Lew Bottler, Sook Lnedtke. Spok -. Le Cobum, Lew h'ewlin. Wen amateur golf, playing in his 43rd the eateb for two hnore runs championship. J error' w&s followed by Cliff! Dap- Evans whnsp rarppr snan th ! oer's sihsle. a Pciir of outs and eras of " rancis Ouimet. Bob Jones run-prooliscins singles Law.son Little, turned back of Wyoming, and John Bus?meyer Ohio. 2 and 1. Bill Campbell, the tall Walker Cup captain from Huntington, W. Va., was one down at the turn but applied the pressure to beat Davis (Spec) Goldman of Dallas, Texas, runnerup to Little in 1934, by the margin of 3 and 2. Campbell won five of the last six holes, finishing with a birdie four on the 16th. Sad Ending: by Girdley; put Eugene in had grabbed a on Dunn's ; 79 104 58 23 24 51 14 95 59 68 48 34 66 38 71 65 68 87 38 140 90 46 40 as! 84 44 i 96 MO 70 83 92 67 44 43 27 69 51 70 79 SO 103 83 104 119 43 40 24 ii iro it: is ins 3 15 1?3 U-l IIS 82 2 11 95 74 66 52 4 42 27 48 10 0 1 36 22 31 18 0 2 22 21 28 9 Eugene " (6 Salem AB H O A ABHOA Jjekn5 4 2 2 3 Hobnm.l 3 13 1 Cirdly.r 3 10 1 Dunn.m 3 4 3 0 Hesse.ni 4 2 5 0 Krauw5 4 13 3 Matile. 3 112 Tnselli.s 4 2 Fatbrn.3 3 2 3 4 Shielda.r S 3 HufmnJ 8 3 8 1 AgoaUJ 8 8 Toso.l 4 18 0 StinagU 3 0 Dappr.e 3 3 8 0 Koeof.c S 3 Chase.p 3 8 0 S Whifn.p 3 1 Willms.p 1 Dials.p 0 Klng.p 0 0 and Hesse. These i front 5-1 as Salem! quickie 1 in the third triple to right-center and Dap-; per's passed ball j Jack would have scored anyway, i for Tahselli ripped a single to enter with one out. j i Whitson hurled out of a jam In j the sixth when the Ems loaded I the ba$es with one out. He got Girdleyj to bounce into a double ! play to end it. ! Salem's sixth was a dinger also, ' with one on and two out. Robinson again K?lked and jDunn beat out a hit to short to load the bases. Ob viouflyj rattled. jChase talked Krausei to force in the run, and had a 3-2 count en Tanselli be- n 4 . nign ; iiy io 1 9 1 3 0 1 1 0 8 0 0 7 13 149 1 2-41 Totals 41 14 27 13 Totals 39 14 27 II Eugene 110 200 0049 14 2 Salem 201 001 ozo s 14 3 Winning Ditcher William. Losing pitcher Whitson. ip ab h r er so bb Cbe . 1 33 14 6 3 6 4 Wniiama l'j 4 0 0 0 1 1 Whitson S'j 36 11 7 4 1 3 ril 0-L 2. 1 2 2 0 King a 3 1 0 0 0 Hit br pitcher Toso br Whltaon. Wild pitel Chase. Pasrcd National League Pittsburgh It. Leui . Donoso and 0O1-3C3 0038 12 1 10 Ml 0103 6 1 SHepard; Haddix, Wnfht il), Crettel (I) and Burbnnk. s 7 i fore gettmg bun on l rntr ! rtcn leam nau i uiis, uui wiuic ; Eugene contributed only one un-j earned: run to the; Salem scoring, the Senators kicked three mighty big tauies in for the champions. Dunn with four hits and Shields with three were $alenVs batting titanics. Huffman ihad three fori Eugene, but the wallop that spoil- j the soup was Eaitburn's tn the; ninth. That young gent should go 1 seeking uranium, as he'd be cer tain to find it On four occasions he happened to be- in the njht ball : nlaA tn ht Vine hiie avail from lii.ii!?np otters, andjon another oc Krause. Steinagel. Huffman 2. Home , casion fell USl on his back and Still caught Shields' high pop foul. . nm Hesse. F.sstburn. Huffman. Three-baa hit Dunn. Two-base hits -Tanteli. Eastburn. Krause. Runs batted tn Hesse 2. Tanselli, Shields. Gtrrtlev. Krauae Z. Dunn, Eastburn 3. Huffman. Stolen bases Jackson, Girdley. Double play Eastburn-Jsekaon-Toso. Time 2:28. Umpires -Kelly. Rlecky BogLe. Attend-anctr-lJOI. It just wasn't to be for our men. The! Detroit Lions will play 18 football games, this season. Six are exhibition games to be played in six different itatei. m&: m mm (itsxc mam TIRE I SAli PRICE I . 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