Eugene register-guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1930-1983, April 21, 1955, Image 29

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Newspaper Page TextBrooklyn Grabs Ninth Strai Ihreeuwth Nets 3-2 Win Over Phillies AMERICAN Boston Cleveland Chicago New York Detroit Washington Kansas City Baltimore W c 9 3 4 3 f 2 t Pet GB .837 ... .623 14 .800 2 .571 2 AM IV, .40(1 3 J86 4 .143 Wednesday'! Results Baltimore 6, New York 3 Boston 1, Washington 0 Chicago at Detroit, rain Only games scheduled NATIONAL W Brooklyn 9 Milwaukee 8 St. Louis S Philadelphia 4 Chicago 4 ' New York 2 Cincinnati 2 Pittsburgh 0 Pet GB 1.000- . .750 214 .625 3Vi .500 Vi .444 S .286 6 .222 7 .000 744 . Wednesday's Results Brooklyn 3, Philadelphia 2 New York at Pittsburgh, rain St. Louis 3, Cincinnati 0 Milwaukee 9, Chicago 5 By ASSOCIATED PRESS Brooklyn's Dodgers tied the modern major league record of winning nine straight games at the start of a season in a come-from-bchind 3-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies at Ebbets Field Wednesday night. Steve Ridzik, who no-hit the Brooks for five innings, tired badly in the seventh and forced in the first Dodger run by walk ing Duke Snider with the bases loaded. Rookie Lynn Lovenguth ..replaced Ridzik at the point and was promptly greeted by Gil Hodges' two-run single that gave Brooklyn the two runs they needed. This is the second time the Dodgers have won nine straight at season's start. The 1940 club did it to tie the record set by the New York Giants in 1918. The late St. Louis Browns were the only other club to turn the trick, doing it in 1944 when they won their lone American League pennant. CARDS BEAT REDS In other National League ac tion, the St, Louis Cardinals beat Cincinnati 3-0 in a night game and Milwaukee out-clubbed the Chicago Cubs 9-5 in an afternoon contest. New York's game at Pittsburgh was called because of rain after three innings with the winless Pirates leading 3 0. Only two American League games were played. Baltimore won its first of the season, after six defeats, by topping the New 4'ork Yankees 6-3 in a day game at Yankee Stadium. And Wil- lard Nixon blanked Washington for league-leading Boston 1-0 in a night game. Rain postponed Chicago's game at Detroit. Brooklyn was in a spot against Ridzik, just a so-so righthander, and had but one hit until the seventh. They wound up with three hits as Thorn Kipper re placed Lovenguth. Billy Loes was the Brooklyn starter and winner, giving way to the Dodgers' first pinchhittcr of the season in the seventh. Baltimore put an end to its less desirable streak on Hal Smith's first major league home run in the fifth. It came after a sin gle by Gene Woodling, who like Smith went to the Orioles from the Yanks in the Bob Turley trade. NIXON WINS SECOND Boston rolled on to its sixth victory in seven starts as Nixon Piivchit the Senators. Norm Zau chin, rookie first baseman, pop ped a single to center in the fourth his first hit in 16 trips to drive home the lone run. It was the second victory for Nixon, who had to put down a Wash ington threat in the ninth. St. Louis also had some nifty pitching as Luis Arroyo blanked the Rcdlegs on five hits but left when he lost his control in the eighth. Herb Moford mopped up. . Bobby Thomson grand-slammed in the second and drove in an other run with a single as the Braves dumped the Cubs to their fourth straight defeat. Lew Bur dctte was clipped for 13 hits by the Cubs including home runs by Harry Chiti and Dee Fondy while picking up the victory. lAMS COUNTff HOH. HWAI SECTION D EUGENE, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1955 . 8$ X gU-Openers,Near rur nuruiweM League Clubs -V4, (AP Wirephoto) GRAND SLAM HOME RUN Milwaukee Braves' Bobby Thomson crosses plate and receives congratulations of teammates, three of' whom scored ahead of him, on his grand slam home run against the Chicago Cubs Wednesday. Congratulating Thom son in the second inning are pitcher, Lew Burdette (33), outfielder Bill Bruton (38), thirdbaseman Ed Mathews (41), all of whom scored on his big slam, and Joe Adcock (9) who was the next batter. Umpire is Larry Goetz. Braves won, 9-5. BEAVERS IDLE AGAIN Seattle Blanks Sacramento, 3-0 By ASSOCIATED PRESS COAST Sacramento 9 San Diego 8 Seattle 9 Los Angeles 8 Portland . 6 San Francisco 6 Hollywood 6 Oakland - 6 VI L Pet GB .600 .533 .529 .500 .500 Hi .462 2 .429 iV, .429 2'n Wednesday's Results Seattle 3, Sacramento 0 Oakland 6, Los Angeles 2 Hollywood at San Francisco, rain San Diego at Portland, rain Seattle combined 2-hit pitching and airtight fielding Wednesday night to shut out Sacramento, 3-0, and move within a game of the Pacific Coast League-leading So- lons. I Jchosie Heard notched the 2 ; hitter, besting Sacramento's Bud Daley, who before his meeting with the Rainicrs had the PCL's best 1955 record, 3 wins and no losses. ! The Seattle infield checked in 1 with five double plays to back up Heard s pitching as the Raimers moved out to a 2-1 edge in the first home series of the season. The win moved them into a tie with the San Diego Padres in sec ond place. I Portland, meanwhile, tried for l the second straight day to get its (first home series under way but rain once more washed out a scheduled doubleheader with the Padres. The day-night twin bill was rescheduled for Thursday. Hollywood and San Francisco were rained out, too, but Los Angeles and Oakland put in their nine scheduled innings and Oak land won, 6-2. Seattle and Sacramento went through with their contest de spite heavy showers before game time. Because of the rain, only 543 paid to watch the clash. An additional 290 ladies were admit ted free. R II F. Sacramento 000 000 000 0 2 0 Seattle 030 000 0003 7 2 Daley and Balch; Heard and Or teig. Oakland 101 021 1006 13 3 Los Angeles 000 100 1002 6 1 Gcttcl and Swiri; Plktuzls, Tremcl 13), Zick 8) and Pramcsa. Games Cancelled Four District 5-A.2 prep base ball, games were cancelled Wednesday afternoon when rain prevented action that had been postponed from Tues day. This was the seventh of 14 rounds in the league schedule but 16 of the 28 games during the first half have been cancelled because of bad weather. Eugene's Emeralds are Marysvillc fop a two-game series before heading for the home headquarters, while Tri-City and Yakima, in the same Class B Northwest League, posted exhibi tion victories Wednesday. Tri-City, behind the 5-hit pitch ing of Rookie Clint Lee, shutout Spokane of the Northwest League 6-0 at Lewiston. Chuck Dillard, HIGHCLIMBER Minor Leagues INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Montreal 3. Richmond 2 Columbus 7, Rochester S Toronto 7, Syracuse 5 Havana 4. Buffalo 3 TEXAS LEAGUE San Antonio 9-14, Shroveport 0-2 Beaumont 10, Houston 7 Fori Worth 8. Tulsa 2 Dallas 5. Oklahoma City 2 NORTHWEST LEAGUE Yakima 7, Falrchlld AFB 3 Trl-Clty 7. Spokane 0 PIONEER LEAGUE Billings 13, Great Falls 7 Meeting Called -President Frank Graham has called a meeting of the club partnership at the Register-Guard conterence rooms Sunday at 3 p.m., for the pur pose of completing arrange ments for the opening of the season and to hear a report regarding plans for the com ing season. rookie southpaw for Yakima, gave the Bears a 5-hit, 7-3 verdict over Fairchild Air Force Base at Yakima. The Emeralds, in the mean time, ere resting with an 8 0, win loss record for the season. Open ing games will be next Tuesday Eugene at Salem, Wenatchee at Yakima, and Spokane at Lewis- ton. Eugene's home opener will be at Bethel Park against Yakima April 29. Recent weather conditions have caused the Emerald Empire Base ball Club to be loaded down with problems. Rain has caused the finishing touches on the new ball park to be slowed down and will cancel the scheduled "open house" for next Monday night. The sale of season tickets (in lieu of the customary stock-selling for minor league ball clubs) has also slowed down and the manage ment is also attempting to dis pose of 75 per cent of the box scats the season tickets for 55 sessions (10 doubleheaders) arc selling for S12.50, the box seats an additional $30 for the season. There is also a housing prob lem. The majority of the Emer alds are single young men, but there are others with as many as three children. Persons with housing accommodations are urged to contact the club office at 3-5533. J Tri-City got to veteran Indian pitcher John Conant for 14 hits, including four doubles and a homerun by Duane Helbig. Co nant went the route while" giving up single runs in four different innings and two tallies in the ninth. Tri-City used four double plays to help keep Lee out of difficulty. Dillard, pitching for Yakima in a light rain most of the way, al lowed only two hits out of the infield and struck out 12 batters. Thft Boars sewed up the game in the fourth when they pushed over four runs without a hit. Yakima third-baseman Dave Hammermeister, former Gonzaga University player, lined a bases empty homer off the left field fence in the second. Scores: R II E Trl-Clty 211 000 1027 15 1 Spokane 000 000 OOO 0 4 1 Lee and Martin; Conant and Sheets. R II E Falrchlld 000 201 0003 0 4 Yakima 010 400 20x 7 II 2 Dillon, Omella (4), Hatfield (6) and Sulzman, Fernandez 16); Dillard and Luby. -By DICK STRITE if Sure, and rain is a handicap to most sports, but track-and-field is one sport very seldom postponed or cancelled be cause of weather conditions. . . , Unless the rains that came soon have went we might well find the Northern Division base ball pennant won on a 6-2 record for the scheduled 16-game slate but you can be certain the cindcrmcn will-get in all of their meets rain or shine. . . Track interest, since the ar rival of Bill Bowerman, has in creased by "leaps and bounds" and the Pacific Coast Confer ence championships here on Hayward Field May 27-28 are certain to attract crowds of 8, 000 or 10,000 fans.'. . . Despite weather conditions that would have the Trojans, Bruins, Indians and Bears frustrated. Northern Division performances have been very creditable to date this season. This is particularly true of Bowcrman's W e b f o o t s. The Orcgons have been in action four times now, starting with the three-quarter distance meet with Willamette, and have yet to find themselves running on a dry track. Saturday in Seattlo Oregon tackles Washington in what should be a very interesting meet. The Wcbfoots and Huskies arc running 1-2 in eight of the 15 events, with each having the leading four, and also have two first places each in four of the other events. Washington State has two top spots and Oregon State also has a pair to round out the lineup for .the first rundown of the season. Oregon dominates in the flat races, leading in every event from the 100-yard dash through the 2-mile except the 880-yard run. The Huskies, with power in the field events and the hur dles, will make things very interesting for the Wcbfoots. Wash ington, by the way, is coached this season by Stan Hiscrman, the ex-Idaho boss, after having been directed by Hcc Edmundson for 35 years. Here are the two top performances in each event and you can see where the Huskies and the Ducks are going to lock horns Saturday. 100-yard dash Bruce Snringbett (0) 9.9 and Bob Leadbetter (W) 10.0; 220-yard dash Sprlngbctt (0) 21.4 and Mel Kobel (W) ' i - BRUCE SPRINGBETT Tops Northern Division Doshes (Continued on Page 2D) Zulueta Gains; Split Decision? Over Carter 1 WASHINGTON 11 Orlando Zulueta, a left-handed sharp shooter, outboxed lightweight champ Jimmy Carter in a na tionally televised bout Wednes day night, earning a split decisioft and winning a certain shot at Carter's title. Zulueta, ninth ranking light weight from Havana, earned the decision on the score cards of ref eree Harry Volkman and judge Joe Bunsa. Judge Benny Alper stein scored it for Carter. The Associated Press card had Zu- iucim a vicar winner, vr-ui. . . Carter, a 31-year-old from New York, weighed in at 137, two pounds over the lightweight lim it. Zulueta was in at 137. Carter really didn't seem to have it Wednesday night. Tim and again the clever Zulueta had the champ missing and looking pretty bad. Meanwhile, the Cuban was jabbing away at Carter. It was close up to the last three rounds but Zulueta won going away, outslugging Carter at the finish. The victory set off a wild cele bration among the Cuban contin gent in town and Ambassador Miguel Angel Campa jumped into the ring to shake Zulucta's hand. Carter, whose 'title wasn't at stake in the bout, didn't have, a word to say. But his manager, Willie Kctchum, made up for it. "What a lousy decision," Kctch um howled. "Jimmy beat him. He hitnr him cfnnH " It was the old story of a punch er. Carter, against a boxer, Zu lueta. Jabbing with steady con sistency, Zulueta frequently showed contempt for Carter, the heavier hitter, and actually was outslugging him at the final bell. Braves Oust Koslo CHICAGO uP The Milwaukee Braves announced Wednesday they are asking for waivers on Southpaw Pitcher Dave Koslo for the purpose of giving him his unconditional release. Spring Special! Lawnmower Sharpened Soon be time to start cutting that lawn again . . . Call SALTER'S now and have them pick up your mower and sharpen it. HAND MOWERS Complete job includes sharpening oiling and O50 adjusting. 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