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Wednesday, April 20, 19SS
Rainier, Solon Split
Mars Seattle Debut
For Fred Hutchinson
Portland (U.R) The Port
land Beavers were to make an
other try today to get in their
1955 home baseball opener
against the San Diego Padres
but the weather man promised
more showers.
Yesterday's "showers" turned
into an all-day rainfall that
finally resulted in postponement
on bother openers here. More
than 5000 fans were in the
stands and an attempt was made
about 3 p.m. to get the game
started. But after one third of
an inning, the umpires decided
it was too wet.
By PETER HAYES
United Press Sports Writer
Freddie Hutchinson, who won
25 games and a ticket to the ma
jors with Seattle in 1938, return
ed to. his old home town as
manager of the Rainiers Tuesday
only to see his hopes of a dou
bleheader sweep dashed by a
flashy young rookie who ap
pears headed for a big season
himself.
Hutch made a rousingly suc
cessful home debut as manager
yesterday afternoon as Seattle
pounded out a 14-3 win over
Sacramento, currently leading
the Pacific Coast league.
But Solon righthander John
Briggs tamed the Rainiers, 1-0,
in the night game to register his
third straight win without a
los, and his second shutout.
Other Games
In the only other PCL game
played, Ed Winceniak clouted
two homers for a total of five
runs in Los Angeles' 11-2 rout
' of Oakland. A San Diego at
Portland day-night twin bill and
the Hollywood at San Francisco
night game were rained out.
The largest crowd of the sea
son, 15,354, saw the Rainiers en
joy a feast of runs in the first
game but suffer a famine in the
second.
Seattle rapped five Solon
pitchers in the opener for 11
hits, including a bases -loaded
homer by Ray Orteig and a solo
blast by Marv Williams. Seattle
jumped on Sac starter Chet
Johnson (1-0) for five runs in
the fifth and broke loose for
seven in the sixth.
Larry Jansen, slender right
hander signed after he was cut
loose by the Giants, limited the
Sacs to seven hits in the first
seven innings. Hutch replaced
him with Howie Judson to avoid
overtiring him in his first out
ing of the year. Judson held Sac
ramento hitless.
Briggs Fires
Briggs, who won 20 games
with Salem of the Western In
ternational league last year, set
the Rainiers down with seven
hits in going the distance in the
second game. He struck out four
and walked three and wiggled
out of a one-out, man-on-second
situation in the last of the ninth.
Sacramento scored its lone run
In the top of the ninth on a
squeeze play. With the bases
loaded and one out, Dan Baich
laid down the bunt off Bill Ken
nedy (0-1). and everybody was
safe. ,
Los Angeles climbed into a
tie with San Diego for second
place by virtue of its lop-sided
win over the last-place Acorns
before 1294 in Los Angeles. .
Joe Hatten (2-1) was nicked
for 11 hits but never more than
two in one inning. Los Angeles
batsmen collected 10 safeties off
four Oak pitchers, driving start
er Karl Drews (0-2) to cover
with a four-run flurry in the
first.
Oakland's George" Metkovicn
singled in his first two trips to
mark his ninth consecutive hit
But Hatten ended the streak on
this third time at bat when he
struck him out. The record is
12, shared by Minor Heath, Hol
lywood, 1930, and Ted Beard,
Hollywood, 1953.
LINESCORES:
(1st came)
Sacramento . 000 201 000 S T
Seattle 005 017 lOx 14 11
Johnson. R. Jones (5). Speck
Harriet 181 and Sheely; Jansen, Jud
son (8) and Orteig.
2
0
(6),
(2nd came)
Sacramento 000 000 001 1 1
Seattle 000 000 000 0 7 0
Briggs and Baich; Duren. Kennedy
(7) and Ginsberg.
siPODimrs
Brooklyn Bumps Phils
7-6 for 8th Straight
Oakland 000 020 000 3 11
Los Aneeles 403 040 000X 11 10
Drews. Beamon U), Murphy (6) Van
Cuyk (8) aitt Heal; Hatten and Fra
mesa. .
Release of
Vic Raschi
Impending
St. Louis, Mo. U.R) Vic
Raschi, an old pro whose pitch
ing arm has fallen behind his
stout heart, took the news of his
impending unconditional release
from the St. Louis Cardinals
calmly today. .
His manager, Eddie Stanky,
voiced the feeling of the ball
club "We admired him as a great
competitor."
Raschi, oldest man on the team
at 36, was shelled out of the box
in the second inning Monday
night by the Cincinnati Redlegs.
And it appeared today that as far
as the St. Louis front offfce was
concerned it was his make-or-break
chance.
He was hit hard, escaping a
first inning score only on a
great catch by Wally Moon. In
the second, Ed Bailey led off
with a triple and when he scored
on Wally. Post's single, Cards'
reliefers scampered into action
in the leftfield bullpen. Raschi's
shoulders seemed to sag a bit
when he heard the solid thumps
of the balls in the bullpen catch
ers mitts and persistent jeers
from the stand.
Didn't Have It
"Get him out of there" and
"let's put in a pitcher" were the
mildest shouts.
He refused to look back, hitch
ing up his pants and returning
to work. But he just didn't have
it. Joe Nuxhall singled, Johnny
Temple sacrificed one run home
and Glen Gorbous drove in an
other with a double. That was
all for big Vic.
There was a ripple of applause
along with the boos as he
trudged off the field apparent
ly from those who remembered
the brilliant Raschi of the New
York Yankees.
The younger Vic of that day
was a fireballer who righthand-
ed his way to a New York mark
of 120-50. He won five and lost
three World Series games in his
years wtih the Yanks.
But a sore arm plagued him
last year his first with the
Cards and he ended his first
losing major league season at 8-9.
Adams Quits Basketball
Post at LaGrande High
La Grande (U.R) Vic Adams,
head basketball coach at La
Grande high school, has resigned
the position but will continue as
a teacher here, school officials
said today.
No replacement has been
named.
Adams formerly coached at
North Bend.
By FRED BROWN
United Press Sports Writer
Rookies Don Zimmer and Ed
Roebuck threw their weight in
Brooklyn's early "pennant push"
today as the rampant Dodgers
sought a ninth straight victory
which would equal the major
league record for a fast getaway,
Zimmer, filling in for the ail
ing .Fee wee Reese, blasted a
two-run homer which produced
the winning margin Tuesday
night while Roebuck, a 24-year-
old right-hander, came through
with a fine relief performance
for the second straight game in
the Dodgers' 7-6 win over the
Philadelphia Phillies.
The victory ran Brooklyn's
winning streak to eight games
one short of the record for a
season's opening shared by th
1918 New York Giants, 1940
Dodgers and 1944 St. Louis
Browns. ,
Manager Walt Alston has
nominated Billy Loes, a 13-game
winner in 1954, to oppose the
Phillies at Ebbets Field tonight,
The Phillies will counter with
Steve Ridzik, who has a 1-3 life
time record against Brooklyn.
Zimmer Hits First Homer
Zimmer, who played in only
23 games for Brooklyn last sea
son," hit his first major league
homer off Curt Simmons in the
eighth inning to give the
Dodgers a 7-4 lead. Willie Jones'
two-run homer off Jim Hughes
cut the margin to 7-6 in the bot
tom of the inning but then Roe
buck hustled out of the bullpen
to preserve the lead, and earn
Don Newcomb his second win.'
Brooklyn's sizzling opening
pace has shaken Alston's slug
gers loose from every other team
in the circuit except the pennant-minded
Milwaukee Braves,
who squeezed out a 3-2 win over
the Chicago Cubs Tuesday. The
Braves, combining sound pitch
ing with , a dangerous attack,
have won five of their seven
games to stay within 2Vz games
of the Dodgers.
No other team in the circuit
is more than one game over
500 and the world champion
Giants trail the Dodgers by 5Vi!
games.
Conley Wins First
Right-hander Gene Conley
struck out seven batters to gain
his first win of the year for
Milwaukee when Bob Rush
cracked in the eighth inning
and forced in the winning run
with four walks. Hank Aaron,
who has hit safely in all the
Braves' games, tripled home a
run and scored on Bobby Thom
son's single to give Conley a 2-0
first-inning lead. The Cubs bat
tled back with single runs in the
fifth and eighth innings only to
suffer their third straight loss.
They had opened the season with
four wins in five games.
The St. Louis Cardinals beat
the, Cincinnati Redlegs, 6-5, on
Bill Sarni's bases-filled single in
the 11th inhing in the only other
National League game. In the
American League, the Kansas
City Athletics rallied for five
runs in the ninth inning to beat
the Cleveland Indians, 8-7.
Sarni's single came after two
errors and Bobby Stephenson's
bunt-single enabled the Cardi
nals to fill the bases without
hitting a ball out of the infield.
The Cardinals seized an early
5-0 lead but the Redlegs battled
back to tie the score with the
aid of homers by Ted Klu
szewski and Gus Bell.
Bill Wilson's single with the
bases filled and two out cli
maxed the Athletics, rally which
snapped a five -game losing
streak. Two homers by Al Rosen
and one by Ralph Kiner helped
give rookie Herb Score a 7-3
lead in the ninth but he faltered
and the Athletics went on to win
against Mike Garcia.
V
GP-Medford Baseball Fray
On Thursday; Rain Forces
Postponement Yesterday
LINESCORES:
National League
Chicago 000 010 0102 8 0
Milwaukee 200 000 Olx 3 4 1
Rush (0-1) and Chiti; Conley (1-0)
and Crandall.
Brooklyn 100 013 020 7 10 2
Philadelphia . 000 000 4206 12 0
'Newcombe. Hughes (7), Roebuck (8)
and Campanella; Owens .Lovenguth
(6), Simmons (8), Miller (9) and Lo
pata. Winning p i t c h e r Newcombe
(2-0). Losing pitcher Owens (0-1).
(1 1 innjngs)
Cincinnati 000 004 001 00 4 8 3
Gt. Louis ....011 030 000 01 6 10 1
Valentine. Lane (6) Hooper (8),
Klippstein (11) and Seminick. Bailey
(10); Haddix. Smith (9). Schultz (10).
Winning pitcher Schultz (1-0). Losing
pitcher Hooper (0-1).
American League
Cleveland 200 100 022 7 13 0
Kansas City ....000 120 0058 13 0
Score, Garcia (9) and Foiles. Hegan
(8); Boyer. Bishop (9) and W. Shantz.
Winning pitcher Bishop (i-0). Los
ing pitcher Garcia (1-1).
City Grade Meet
Slated Thursday
If Weather Okeh
Medford's all-city grade schooi
track meet is scheduled for
Thursday at 2:45 p.m. if weather
is warm enough. The meet will
be at the high school stadium.
Lee Ragsdale, Medford school
physical education supervisor,
said that wet or cold weather
tomorrow will mean postpone
ment probably until sometime
next week.
Bad weather has forced can
cellation of two other grade
track tussles so far. They were
the Roosevelt-Washington test
planned last week and the Lin
coln-Roosevelt-Jackson triangu
lar which was slated for last
Monday.
Ragsdale said that postpone
ment of the city meet may mean
some curtailment of the baseball
program because of lack of time.
The grade meet can't be held
this Friday because a Medford
Junior high dual struggle with
Grants Pass is set for the senior
high stadium. Seventh, eighth
and ninth grade division will
compete in the cinder event.
Events will start at 3 p.m.
CONSCIENCE HURT
El Centro, Calif. (U.R) Har
old Church, athletic director , at
Central Union High school, said
today that a pair of binoculars,
two starting guns and a stop
watch stolen from the gym of
fice have been returned through
me mails with the following
note: "Our conscious'es hurt us
we have reformed."
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Standings
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
W. L. Pet.
Sacramento 9 5 .643
San Francisco 8 7 333
Los Angeles 8 7 .533
Seattle 8 8 .500
Portland 6 6 .500
San Francisco 6 7 .462
Hollywood 6 8 .429
Oakland . 5 8 .385
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W. L.
Brooklyn 8 0
Milwaukee ,.,-.. 5 2
Philadelphia 4 3
St. Louis 4 3
Chicago 4 4
New York 2 5
Cincinnati 2 6
Pittsburgh 0 6
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W. L.
Boston 5 1
New York 4 2
Cleveland 5 3
Chicago 3 ' 2
Detroit 3 3
Washington - 2 2
Kansas City 2 5
Baltimore 0 6
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TUESDAY'S RESULTS
Pacific Coast League
. Seattle 14. Sacramento 3
Sacramento 1. SeatUe 0 (2nd)
Los Angeles 11. Oakland 2
San Diego at PorUand, rain.
Hollywood at San Francisco, rain.
(How Series Stand)
Seattle 1. Sacramento 1
Los Angeles 1. Oakland 0
San Diego 0, Portland 0
-Hollywood 0, San Francisco 0
National League
Milwaukee 3, Chicago 2
Brooklyn 7. Philadelphia 6 (night)
St. Louis 6. Cincinnati 5 (11 innings.
night)
Pittsburgh at New York. ppd.. rain.
American League
Kansas City 8. Cleveland 7
Washington at Boston, two games,
ppd.. rain.
(Only games scheduled)
THURSDAY'S GAMES
National League
Philadelphia at Brooklyn
New York at Pittsburgh
(Only games scheduled)
American League
Chicago. at Detroit
Baltimore at New York
Boston at Washington
. (Only games scheduled)
Boxing Results
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Salt Lake City. Utah: Rex Layne.
208. Salt Lake City, Utah, stopped
Willie Jackson. 180. Alberta. Canada
Wet weather forced postpone
ment of three high school base
ball contests which had been
scheduled for yesterday.
The victims of Jupiter Pluvius
were Medford at Grants Pass, St.
Mary's at Prospect and Glendale
at Rogue River.
Grants Pass comes to Medford
for a Southern Oregon Confer
ence hassle on Thursday. Date
of the make-up fracas will be
decided at that time. However,
the Thursday mix also could fail
victim of the rains.
St. Mary's tangle in the Jack
son County B league previously
had been postponed from April
8. Plans now are to play next
Tuesday. Glendale against Rogue
River was non-conference.
Reinking Sick
Either Duane Sides or Ed Mc
Cullough could be the Medford
mound choice if the fray with
the Cavemen is contested Thurs
day. An adjustment in the Black
Tornado infield is anticipated
for the scuffle. First Baseman
Ed Reinking was reported down
Jim Carter,
Zulueta Vie
Washington (U.R) Jimmy
Carter, the erratic world light
weight champion who special
izes in losing and regaining his
title, is a 3-1 choice to defeat
Cuba's Orlando Zulueta tonight
in their 10-round, non-title fight.
Carter is a busy boxer who
has fought 95 times and is the
only man who has ever regained
a world title twice. The New
Yorker takes a 69-17 record into
the bout which CBS will televise
from the Uline Arena at 10 p.m.,
EST.
Although Carter's 135-pound
title won't be at slake, Manager
Willie Ketchum figures his prize
meal ticket may not be treating
Zulueta with proper respect. The
Cuban has scored only six
knockouts but he is a clever and
experienced boxer with a shock
absorber jaw and good resist
ence to cuts.
Washington Baseball
Club Bounces Idaho
Moscow, Ida. (U.R) . The
University of Washington opened
the Northern Division Baseball
season by taking both ends of a
double header from Idaho yes
terday. The Huskies won the regula
tion length opener 12-6 and the
six inning nightcap 4-3.
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
noon Saturday; 1 a.m. Monday for
Monday; other days 5:30 previous day.
with a bad case of flu earlier in
the week and was not expected
to be on hand for tomorrow's
action. Dick McLaughlin may be
shifted from shortstop to the
initial sack with Gordon Owsley
possibly taking over at short.
Both Medford and Grants Pass
are unbeaten so far in the con
ference. The Cavemen have won
four games and Medford three.
GP mound choice may be Bill
Mendenhall or George Herr.
Pfeiffer's
Nab Lead in
ABC Tourney
Fort Wawne, Ind. (U.R)
Two-time champion Pf eiff er
Beer of Detroit today were with
in striking distance of a third
title in the American Bowling
Congress.
The Pf eiff ers, who won In
1952 and 1953, rolled a whop
ping 3136 last. night to take a
93-pin lead in the team division.
The effort sparked a series of
major upheavals in the team
competition.
Modern Bowler, also of De
troit, rolled 3043 to take third
place and Mady's Lanes, St.
Paul, Minn., fired 3020 to move
into fourth. ,
It was the third time in ABC
history that three 3000 games
were turned in by one squad.
By comparison, there were only
four such games in all of last
year's meet.
The Pf eiff ers opened with
games of 1068 and 984. The
third game, which had proved
the downfall to many other top
flight fives, proved their best,,
a 1074.
Gibson Leads
Therm Gibson, who collabo
rated with teammate George
Young, to win the national
doubles championship last week
at Louisville, Ky., led the Pfeif
fers with 680. Lou Sielaf had
647,' Fred Bujack 627, Young
598 and Bill Lillard a 584.
Modern Bowler, led by Graz
Castellano's 641, rolled games
of 1021, 976, and 1046. Mady's
Lanes fired 941, 1061 and 1018.
In other activity, Roy Jurus
and Eddie Brickell, Fort Worth,
Tex., moved into sixth place in
the doubles with a 1273 total.
Jurus had a 647 series.
Joe Paulus of Detroit tied for
seventh in the singles with a 686
series, hitting 221, 233 and 232.
Chuck Ciardo, veteran Mil
waukee bowler, hit 10 straight
strikes and then drew a 6-10
split for a 288 game, tying Joe
Morys of Detroit for runner-up
high singles game of the tourney.
Simmons Beaten But Satisfied
. Philadelphia (U.R) Lame
armed lefthander Curt Simmons
of the Philadelphia Phillies, rap
ped for a clinching, two-run
homer in Tuesday night's game
with Brooklyn . in his first ap
pearance this year, said today
he was "satisfied that I had good
stuff."
Simmons said Don Zimmer hit
a fast ball inside when he slam
med his first major league homer
with Carl Furillo on base in the
eighth inning to pave the way
for a 7-6 Dodger triumph.
CADDY'S HEAD HARD
. Baton Rouge, La. (U.R) Al
bert Taylor, caddy master at the
Baton Rouge Country club, was
charged Tuesday with breaking
a six iron over a caddy's head.
"I am satisfied with his per
formance, although that homer
meant the winning runs," Smith
said. "I'm ' going to continue to
use him in relief roles until ha
is ready to start."
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