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Giants Edge Cards
On Thomson's 4-Run
Home Run in Ninth
By UNITED PRESS
This time practically every
body in the Polo Grounds ex
pected it to happen just like
last October 3.
And this time Bobby Thomson
didn't fool around. He leaned in
to the first pitch like a man who
knew his business and the ball
arched into the upper left field
deck for a grand slarn home run
that gave the Giants a fiction
finish 8 to 7 victory over the
Cardinals.
Had Monday's game been in a
World Series or in a crucial pen
nant stretch drive, the finish
would have been immortalized
just as was that golden victory
Duke Shortstop
Signs Contract
With Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh (U.R) The
Pittsburgh Pirates plucked Dick
Groat from their backyard Tues
day but the bonus paid for the
former Duke star remained
Branch Rickey's "top secret "
The 22-year-old star from
nearby Swissvale, Pa., signed 4r
Pirate contract Monday night
and-said he fulfilled a "dream
of a lifetime."
There was no hint from Pir
ate brass of the cost of helping
Groat fulfilling his ambition.
When Duke lost out in the
"world series" in Omaha lost
week it became the signal for
free-for-all bidding for Groat's
services.
It was learned that one ma
jor league club was ready to
offer him a $50,000 bonus. But
he withdrew the offer when he
learned other clubs were eager
to up the ante.
that clinched a pennant for the
Giants over Brooklyn last Octo
ber. As it was, folks who saw it
won't forget it for a long time.
Ended Slump
What increased the impact
was that it was Thomson who
was fated to supply the drama
tics again at a time when he had
been in a miserable slump hit
less in his previous 17 times at
bat.
In the final playoff game
when Thomson's three-run hom
er gave the Giants a 5-4 victory
over Brooklyn, a relief pitcher,
Ralph Branca, was summoned to
handle the dangerous Bobby.
That was the parallel again Mon
day as Manager Eddie Stanky
hauled Rookie Willard Schmidt
from the bull pen to sink or
swim.
It took Branca two pitches to
blow the game and the pen
nant. He at least got one strike
on Bobby. But Schmidt fired the
first pitch exactly where the
slender Scot wanted it.
Cards Rallied
The Cards, trailing most of
the way, had rallied late to go
ahead with pairs of runs in the
fifth, sixth, and seventh, as they
hammered out a total of 16 hits.
They increased their margin to
7-4 with a final run in the ninth
as Enos Slaugher and Peanuts
Lowrey set the pace with three
hits each.
Sal Maglle, who had been kay
oed Sunday by the Cards, had
been tapped for what appeared
to be the winning runs in a relief
role. But again providing a re
markable parallel, Thomson
took him off the hook with his
homer, just as he had done in
the playoff game in which Mag-
lie was about to be charged with
defeat.
Betsy Rawls
Seeks Title
In Western
Chicago (U.R) The biggest
money winner in 1952 women's
golf, Betsy Rawls, a 24-year-old
pro from Austin, Tex., aimed for
another $1,000 paycheck Tues
day against a veteran competitor.
Mary Agnes Wall, a Menominee,
Mich., school teacher.
Miss Rawls, who has earned
$9,450.33 on the fairways this
year, including a $5,ouu pay
check for capturing the 144 hole
coast to coast Weathervane
event, won medalist honors in
the 23rd Women's Western Open
at Skokie Country Club Monday
with a one under par 74.
But she must tangle with Miss
Wall in the first round of match
play over 18 holes, a route that
will lead the consistent winners
into a 36 hole final match for
the top prize Saturday. Miss
Wall qualified with an 83.
Two veteran pros, Louis
Suggs, Atlanta, Ga., and Patty
Berg, Minneapolis, were runner
up for medalist honors with 76.
Tuesday Miss Berg was paired
with Beverly Hanson, a willowy
blonde from Cincinnati who
qualified with an 83, in a first
round match while Miss Suggs
meets Pat Lesser, Seattle, Wash.,
a semi-finalist in the National
Women's Collegiate last week,
who qualified with an 84.
Softball League
Games Tonight
Mobllegas, rained out of Its first
scheduled game In the Medford
Softball association men's league,
will get into action tonight in one
of two ganies at the senior high
stadium.
The Flying Red Horsemen will
battle Camp White in the nightcap.
Time of the contest will be about 9
o'clock.
Girl's league play will get under
way tonight. Medford's entry in the
circuit, the Crater Babes, will tangle
with Eagle Point. Game time is 7:30
o'clock.
Camp White has posted one win
In the men's league, shellacking Na
tional Guard. Heavy hitters for
Camp White in that game were Russ
McKechnie and Don Reverman. A
number of ex-Medford and ex
Jacksonville high athletes are on the
roster of the Mobllgas crew.
Tigard, Ore. (U.R) Johnny
Frederick, Jr., son of the one
time Portland Beaver outfielder,
pitched a no-hit, no-run game
Monday night as his Tigard
American Legion Junior base
ball team downed Beaverton, 4-
0. Frederick struck out 13.
Hal Gregg Leads
Coast Pitchers
San Francisco U.P.) Hal
Gregg, recently sold by the Oak
land Acorns to the Nev1 York
Giants, leads the Pacific Coast
league pitching regulars with an
11-2 record, according to statis
tics released Tuesday and includ
ing games of June 15.
Veteran Johnny Lindell of
Hollywood, who has a 10-3 mark,
is tops in strikeouts with 73.
For the second straight week,
first baseman Bob Boyd of Se
attle topped the hitters with a
.340 mark, eight points below a
week ago. Max West of Los An
geles leads in homers with 16,
while Jack Graham of San Di
ego is tops in runs-batted-in..
Portland Trio Wins .
Portland (U.R) Roy At
kins, Ed Vanderberg and Billy
Lees will represent Portland in
the national public links champ
ionships at Miami, Fla., July 7
to 12.
Lees and Atkins, tied with
three - under - par 141's for the
top spot on Portland's three
man team in Monday's 36 - ho'e
qualifying play at Rose City golf
course. Lees went on to win the
No. 1 post in a sudden-death
with Atkins.
Vanderberg fired a par 144
over the course to win his berth
in the tournament.
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