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Hollywood Bevos Split racmc COAST LIAOCt W ! Hollywood 104 M SeatUo - M 79 Lm Angelas M S3 Portland 88 M San Francisco 87-85 SaS) DMo i ,. . M M Sacrament Tl 100 Vt 401 Ml 311 Jit 309 .4M 410 Aim OB 1011 JS's It's 1IU 31 'k Tl 101 a tan Francisco S-T Lea Ansetes - Sacramento 7-12 Seattle S4 Oakland 8-1 HoUywood 0-3 ieilDlefo 1H Portland 44 r DON THAC-CCKY San Francisco u.R Holly wood! slightly faded Stars had their stcond straight Pacific Coast Icagu pennant nailed to tho mast today and the spotlight swung to a three-way battle lor third place between Los An geles. Portland and San Trail Cisco. Sacramento actually cinched the Hag for the Stars by toppling Seattle in the first game ox Labor day double deader yester day, 7-3, to erase the Sud s last hope of staying alive. The Rain- Jers then wilted easily in the finale, 12-0. In the meantime, the Start had suffered s 5-0 shutout st tho hands of the last place Oak land Acorns in their first con test. But Hollywood took tho nightcap 3-1. Seals Took Both The Seals opened an all-out drive for third place by sweep ing a twin bill from the Angeles, 5-4 and 7-2. The surprise coup hauled the fifth place Seals to within two games of the Cherubs. Fourth place Portland, one game behind the Angeles, miss ed a chance to move into a tie with them by splitting a noctur nal twin bill with San Diego. The Padres won the seven- in ning opener 15-4 and Portland salvaged the finale, 4-1. (roll Wins Title Washington (U.R) Lightning refused to strike twice for lantern, jawed Lew Worsham, so little Ted Kroll walked away to day with first prize of $2400 in the National Celebrities Golf Tournament Worsham, the former U. S. Open champion, from Oakmont, Pa., is the man who made the most famous golf shot of the current season, a 140-yard chip shot that he holed out on the very last hole to win the Tam O'Shanter Tournament last month by one stroke. But yesterday Worsham came down to the final green needing to sink a 12-foot putt to tie Kroll of New Hartford, N- Y., for lint place with a 281 score for 72 Vles. Worsham studied the putt and gently stroked. The ball rolled to the cup. rolled slowly around the rim, and off. It stopped Inches away and Worsham had to settle for second prize of $1800. Cary Middlecoff of Memphis, Marty Furgol of Lemont, nit. and Shelley Mayfield of Chi- copee, Mass.. finished In a three way tie for third place at 284, each earning '1200. In the celebrities division, the silver plate prize went to Wil liam C. Ford, grandson of the li.te Henry Ford, for shooting an 85 in Sunday's driving rain. In the division for Washington of ficials, first prize went to former U. & Senator Harry Cain (R Wash.), who also shot a rain soaked 85. Briefs Pullman, Wash. (UR) Coach Al Kircher Washington State college today listed six backfield men and three linemen who showed great ability during the first week of football practice, The backfield men were Chuck BeckeL Bob Burkhart, Jim Haggerty, Bob Iverson, Vaughn Hitchcock and Mart PurnelL The outstanding line men were big Howard McCants, Milt Schwenk and "Gottlieb Rl bary. DOCKS WORK OUT Eugene, Ore. (U.R) The University of Oregon football squad held a morning and after noon workout yesterday in pre paration for the season opener with Nebraska on Sept. 19 at Lincoln. GRIDDERS INJURED Stanford. Calif. (U.R) Lineman Bob Long and full back Bill Wentworth were ex pected to be back today lor full workout with the Stanford football squad. Long was knock ed cold during Saturday's scrim mage and Wentworth had shoulder injury. BEARS EYE STARTERS Berkeley, Calif. (UJO Tho University of California foot ball team ran through heavy workout yesterday in prepara tion for Saturday'g Memorial Stadium scrimmage when Coach Lynn Waldorf will eye candi dates for starting assignments. It requires about lour tons or more of fresh grapes to produce one ton of dried raisins. Clinches PCL Crown; with San Floret not only humiliated tho Twinkt In tho first game, but drove In three of Oakland's runs to chalk up his eighth win of tho year. The Little Flower of Ouadalajara smashed three run double in the fifth inning. The Wilted Suds The Solons wrecked Seattle In the opener with a four-run outburst In the ninth inning. Five straight tingles accounted for the tallies. Marino Pieretti hit one of them to assure his 11th win after he relieved Al Yaylian in the eighth. Vera Campanella Stars as Bums Blast Milwaukee national lsaovb Brooklyn Milwaukee St Louie . Philadelphia ntw voric Cincinnati cntcaio Pittsburgh Maadirf malts: Brooklyn S-6 Philadelphia 3-1 Pittsburgh S-S New York T- Chicago 4-S Milwaukee 3-4 St. Louis 4-1 ClncinnaU 3-0 AMERICAN LSAOtlft L 44 55 83 63 68 86 88 1 Prt .673 .601 380 JMT .504 .381 .877 .343 CB 13 New York Cleveland Chicago . Boston ..SO .83 .80 16 ' 8fe Washington ,.8 Detroit . Philadelphia St. Louis 53 S3 48 39 40 4414 Monday's results: Boston 7-3 New York 4-S Washington 13-6 Philadelphia 3-3 Cleveland 3-10 St. Louis 0-7 Detroit 6-4 Chicago 3-3 IT CAUL LUHDQU1BT New York (U.B Roy Campanella is fast settling most arguments about who should be the National League's most valuable player. lie simply is running away irom nis competitors with one of the finest all-around Jobs ever turned in by a major league catcher, The roly poly Brooklyn receiver now has hit more homrs than any other catcher in the history of the business, 39, and has driven in more runs, 136. He hat a healthy .320 batting av erage and generally is acknowl edged to be the top receiver in the majors. Yesterday, he broke Bill Lind's Meet Mesa Chicks Portland (U.R) Erv Lind Florists of Portland meet the La Mesa Slick Chicks of San Diego tonight in the capper of a triple- header in the National Softball congress women's world tourna ment The Phoenix A-l Queens, de fending champions which were upset in their first contest Sun day, meet the Tulsa, Okla., Mer chanettes in tonight's first game and Salt Lake City Shamrocks and Crowhurst Motors of Van couver, B. C, meet in the second game. The. Crowhurst girls blanked the Shamrocks, 1-0, in a 10-in-ning battle yesterday. Friedman Clothiers of West Allis, Wis., posted a 4-0 shutout over the Cincinnati All-Start in the first game. It wat the second lots for the All-Start and ousted them from the double elimina tion tourney. s- ---"a Forty Niners Squeeze Past Eagles, 31-20 San .Antonio, Tex. (U.R) Joe Arenas plunged over from one yard out in the last 10 seconds of play last night to give the San Francisco Forty Niners a thrill ing 31 to 28 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles in an exhi bition National Football League game. The touchdown climaxed a wild, tee-saw affair. The lead changed hands three times dur ing the contest 1 The Eagles were out in front 14 to 7 at halftime and Philadel phia led 21 to 17 at the close of the third period. Harry Babcock and Gordy Sol- tau caught passes for two Forty Niner touchdowns while Joe Perry and Arenas got the others on ground plays. Soltau added the important field goal from 31 yards out in, the third quarter. Don Johnson, former Univer sity of California star, scored twice for the Eagles on line plunges. L Ptt OB " 41 .60S S3 35 .601 13 SI JBl 10 .79 82 Ml 80 i fU 94 484 M B 79 .418 37 -..S8 88 .401 40 '4 44 J14 53 You'll Always Find ' am a a a v Reliability O Uniformity O Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE fAST. PROMPT DELIVERY Tru-Mix Concrete Co. m" -d Diegans Kinosfithar lost his 16th dec ision. Tho Seals were carried 11 in nings before they took the op ener 5-4. Then the lid. blew at they romped home 7-3 In a wild finale that saw both teams and five fans charge the field in the third inning. The tans got in the act when they protested against a call by umpire Don Silva at first base after he had tossed George Vico out for push Ing in the previous frame. The cops then tossed tho fans out, and order was finally restored. Phiilie s; Drop Dickey's record for RBI's when he smashed a three-run homer in the second game as the Dodg ers twice defeated the Phillies by a 8-2 margin and went IS full garnet in front of second place Milwaukee. Carl Ersklne won his 18th game of the season and his 13th since the all-star game by scattering eight hits in tne opener Milwaukee came to grief at Chicago, suffering 4-3 and 6-4 de feats. Turk Lown pitched 2 1-3 innings of hitless relief ball to win the opener for Warren Hacker after Chicago took permanent lead with a three-run outburst in the sixth. Howie Pellet pitched a nine-hitter to gain the second game triumph after the Cubs set him up to four runs in the third inning. Other Games In the American League, the Indians moved to within hint games of the Yankees by de feating the Browns, 3-0 and 10-7, while New York split with Bos ton, losing 7-4 then winning 5-3, Detroit took over sixth place with 6-2 and 4-2 wins over the skidding White Sox and the Athletics dropped to seventh by losing a pair to Washington, 13-2 and o-3. In other National League competition, the Cardi nals twice defeated Cincinnati, 4-3 and 1-0, and the Pirates humbled the Giants 9-7 and 5-3 Al Widmar Hurls 20th Victory; Lint Posts 19 San Francisco (U.R) Al Widmar of Seattle became the Pacific Coast league's second 20-game winner last week and it appeared today that only two other pitchers had a chance at the magic circle. Widmar upped his record' to 20 wins and 13 losses with victory over San Diego and join ed Allen Gettel of Oakland. 23-game winner who has been over the 20 mark for more than a month. Royce Lint of Portland and George O'Donnell of Hollywood eacn nad posted 10 wins through Sunday according to figures re leased today by league statistic ian William Weiss and aoDeared likely to break the 20 game mark before the season ends Sunday. There were no 18 game win ners in the loop at the beginning of the final week 'and Memo Luna of San Dieso. a 17-aama winner, was the only other pitcher within three victories of the charmed circle. Joe Hatten of Los Anselea led the league in strikeouts with 143 and Widmar had furnished W4 batters with free ticket, in first base to top the loop in that aeparunent. Memphis New Southern Association Champion Memphis. Tenn mm T.u. cms (Luke) Appling and his stretch driving Memnhis ChieVm today hung out the first South ern Association pennant that has flow here since 1030. Memphis didn't wran n tho -ia m uag until last night ma uie loop wouna up tne sea son with a full slate of Labor uay aouDleheaders. ' WINDOW SHADES Standard 34" A Window 7dC mp SHADB MADE TO OR0IRI 0m Wednesday Until f p.m. BARNARD'S 317 L Main Hmm 2-5487 Phoao 2-5271 if . V m&jtJttn I LITTLE MO ON TBS Etnt-Patrlda Stewart (sear court) momea i tartly hat top-seeded Maureen Connolly oa toe rua as the angles the ban (arrow) toward corner during natch at Forrest Blus, N. Y. t IM1 Uii rJ hum rl kul tha tMHattaarfla lad.. mltS ; easily, M, 14. SB Chicago Cards Upset Rams, 23-10, in Portland Fracas Portland (U.R)- The Chicago Cardinals outplayed the Los An geles Rams to gain a 23-10 upset victory last night in an exhibi tion professional football game before 26.210 fans. The- victory wat considered a "revenge" for Cardinal Coach Joe Stydahar, who was. replaced as Los Angeles coach during last year's season. The Cardinals held the Rams in check throughout the game except for two explosive scoring thrusts. Chicago scored first on a 72 yard march in seven plays, cli maxed when powerful Ralph Patquariello scored from the three yard line. A few minutes later, Wallace Triplett raced back a punt 53 yards to the Rem 38." Joe Nagel shot a seven-yard pass to Char ley Trippi, who scored the Cards' tecond touchdown. With a 14-point lead, the Car dinal! were never headed after that The Rami scored in the first when Paul Younger took a hand off from Norman Van Brocklin and went 26 yards through the middle. Joe Oeri added to the Chicago scoring with a field goal in the third quarter. Ben Agajanian of DIM Wl PlMIln TT km fampOTe Hie Bmlt Even a picture tells you a great deal bout Pontiac's beauty, its long lines and substantial feel. But the best way to appreciate what makes Pontine such a great value is to get behind the wheel and drive it. Then you'll know you have a real , performer in hand. Pontiac always responds' with eager, ready-to-go high-compression power more than any highway will ever require. For all normal driving, the engine can loaf one reason why Pontiac X t 8 in fmim the Rami also had a field goal, which came' after a 60-yard, run by halfback Vitamin Smith. The Cardinals went 44 yards in eight plays for the last touch down in the final period, with Pasquariello plunged over from the one. - Defending Nine Dofoats Ooise Pendleton (U.R) Defending champion Irwin Jones of Tacoma defeated Kenny Poe's of Boise, Ida., 2-1 last night to again win the Northwest Regional Softball tourney and a berth in the na tional tourney at Miami, Fla. Lloyd Blanusa hurled a no hitter for the Tacoma nine agaimt the weary Boise team, which had played two games earlier in the day to gain the finalt. The' Poe's eliminated Portland city champ Hyster 1-0 in 14 inning! and then defeated Renton, Wash., 2-0. OREQOM CITY WINS Portland -U.R) Oregon City defeated Norgan'i Beavers 2-1 yesterday to add the City league baseball title to its ABC tourney crown. 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Lou Little Of Columbia is No. 1, unless Amos Alonzo Stagg decides .to come out of retirement Seventh Year at Cal At coaches go, Waldorf it not exactly what would be called a "gad-about" He wat at North western for 12 years; and this is his seventh campaign as the head man at California. A fine orator and matter of the double-talk, Waldorf has gained much of his fame as a "football organiser." He is noted for the quality of the assistants he hires, hit current top aldtt being Wet Fry and Harm Meis ter, both acknowledged matters in their professions. As the season starts, Waldorf hat one of the great all-time rec ords in the major coaching rankt. During hit lifetime his teams have won 156 garnet, lost 71 and tied 19. "Has Built A OieJU" , But hit great success has been scored at California, where he has taken the Bears to the Rose Bowl three times in six years; and where he has an over all record of 03 wins nine defeats and one tie. He came to California, he said, because it offered "great oppor tunity" and it represented a "slumbering giant." This year his Golden Bears aren't expected to finish better than third in the Pacific Coast Conference race. But when Pap py finishes his 1903 organisa tional chpre it wouldn't be con sidered too great an upset if the Bears again were back in the Rose Bowl the only place where Waldorf and hit Straw berry Canyon boyl haven't had much tuccess. WINS MID-COLUMBIA The Dalles (U.R) Bob Donnelly of Portland'i Colum-bla-Edtfewater club won the 14th annual men't Mid-Columbia Amateur golf title yesterday with a 71. aood for an even-par 144 for 36 holes. Ruth Jessen, Seattle, won the women's crown with a 165. More than two million Amer icans will be living in mobile hornet by the end of the year, it was revealed when the trail er coach industry staged its an nual showing. 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