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EIGHT MZDFORD (OREGON) Tribe Ahead of Pace, Grabs Pair From KC; Brooklyn Takes 21st By FRED DOWN United Presa Sports Writer They can't match the Brooklyn Dodgers astounding start but the Cleveland Indians today zoomed far ahead of the pace which carried them to a record 111 victories and the American League championship in 1954. After their 9-6 and 2-1 sweep of the Kansas City Athletics Sunday, the Indians held a two game first-place lead with a 17-7 record and .708 percentage. Just a year ago today they were in third place with a 12-8 mark and a .600 percentage. They didn't take the lead until May 16. Right-fielder Al Smith and first baseman Al Rosen were the - stars as the Indians achieved a tidy four-game winning streak and reeled off . their ninth vic tory in 10 games. The sweep was the Indians' second of this sea son. They took 13 of 19 bargain bills last year. Smith hammered out three home runs during the double header. He blasted a pair of two run blows as the Tribe battled back from an early 5-0 deficit in the opener and then broke rookie Art Ceccarelli's spell with a third homer which produced a 1-1 tie in the seventh inning of the nightcap. Rosan Breaks Deadlock The deadlock lasted until the 11th inning when Rosen, filling in at first base for Vic Wertz, blasted his fifth round-tripper. Art Houtteman gained credit for his third win in relief of Bob Feller' in the first game while Ray Narleski, Cleveland's third pitcher, was the winner in the second contest. The runaway Dodgers rolled to their 21st victory in 23 games, 9-8 over the Philadelphia Phil lies. Gil Hodges hit a two-run homer and Duke Snider a grand slammer as the Dodgers built a 9-2 lead. The Phillies battled k..b in h. lata inninOa hpfore LKXVJ " O Jim Hughes finally stopped them and sealed their ninth straight defeat high for the 1955 cam paign. The New York Yankees final-' ly caught up with "jinx-pitcher" Willard Nixon in a 5-0 win over the Boston Red Sox and the Chi cago White Sox downed the De troit Tigers, 5-4 and 1-0 in a pair of thrillers. The Washington Senators crushed the Baltimore Orioles, 15-7, after a 4-3 loss in the other A.L. games. Bob Grim, a 20-game winner in 1954, won his first 1955 game with ninth-inning relief aid from Jim Konstanty to give the Yankees their fourth consecutive win. Joe Collins and Hank Bauer homered off .Nixon, who had beaten the Yankees six straight times and hadn't lost to them since Sept. 24, 1950. Rookie Pitching Duel Nelson Fox drove in the win ning run with an llth-inning single in the opener and tripled and scored the only run of the second game for the White Sox. Fox's second-game hit enabled Dick Donovan to best Frank Lary in a fine duel of rookie pitchers. Eddie Waitkus' two-run ninth inning triple enabled the Orioles to win their opener but the Sen ators came back with a 15-hit at Look for this sign . . . PLVCnOUTTH SKIERS New gas stops knocks saves, too! Entirely new grade Mobilgas stops knocks in 9 out of 10 pre-1955 Plymouths, yet sells in the price range of regular. Ferndale refining plus Mobil Power Compound produces this new grade Mobilgas which gives smooth, knock free mileage. In the recent official A. A. A. run over the rugged 1323-mile 1955 Mobilgas Economy Run course, a 1952 Plymouth averaged 23.6 miles per gallon on new grade Mobilgas. MAIL TRIBUNE tack featured by homers by Tom Umphlett and Lesse Levan in the second game. Willie Mays had four hits and Don Mueller ran his hitting streak to 21 games as the New York Giants beat the Pittsburgh Pirates. 6-3. The Pirates won the opener, 7-5, as Dick Groat, Ger ry Lynch and Gene Freese homered. In other NX. games, Warren Spahn scattered 12 hits to give the Milwaukee Braves a 6-2 win and hand the St. Louis Cardinals their seventh straight setback, and the Cincinnati Redlegs beat the Chicago Cubs, 4-3, on Hobie Landrith's second homer of the game after Sam Jones won his third game for the Cubs, 5-3, in the opener. LINE SCORES: (First Game) Baltimore 010 000 012 11 1 Washington 000 012 000 3 5 1 Palica, McDonald 8, Moore 9 and Smith. Stobbs. Porterfield 9 and Fitz Gerald. Winning pitcher McDonald (1-0). Losing pitcher Stobbs (0-3). (Second Game) Baltimore 001 110 220 7 11 1 Washington .... 610 000 53x 15 15 0 Miller, Coleman 1, Kretlow 3. Ku zava 4, Johnson 7, Ferrarese 7. Mc Donald 8 and Moss. Pascual, McDer mott 8 and Edwards. Winning pitcher Pascual (1-1). Losing pitcher Mil ler (0-1). New York 200 120 000 S 8 0 Boston 000 000 000 0 5 1 Grim. Konstanty 9 and Berra. Nix on. Henry 7. Trible 9 and White. Win ning pitcher Grim (1-2). Losing pitcher Nixon (4-2). (First Game) -Kansas City . 230 010 000- 12 1 Cleveland 003 400 2 Ox 9 12 2 Boyer. Ditmar 3. Gray 4, Fricano 8 and Robertson. Feller, Houtteman 2 and Hegan. Winning pitcher Houtteman (3-1). Losing pitcher Ditmar (0-1). (Second Game, 11 Innings) Kansas City 000 100 000 001 13 0 Cleveland .. 000 000 010 01 2 5 0 Ceccarelli (0.1) and W. Shantz. Gar cia. Mossi 9, Narleski 10 and Foiles. Winning pitcher Narleski (1-0). (First Game, 11 Innings) . Detroit 000 020 200 00 4 11 1 Chicago 000 110 002 01 5 8 3 Hoeft, Zuverink 10 and Wilson. Con suegra, Dorish 8. Fornieles 8 and Lollar. Winning pitcher Fornieles (3-1). Losing pitcher Zuverink (0-1). (Second Game) Detroit OOO OOO 000 0 Chicago 000 000 Olx 1 Lary (2-3) and House. Donovan (3-1) and Courtney. NATIONAL LEAGUE (First Game) Pittsburgh 100 300 2107 1 2 New York 003 000 2005 8 0 Littlefield. Face 7 and Shepard. Go mez, Wilhelm 4, McCall, 5. Corwin Grissom 8. Maglie 9 and Weatrum, Grasso 7. Katt 8. Winning pitcher Littlefield (2-2). Losing pitcher Go mez (1-3). (Second Game) Pittsburgh 002 001 0003 8 1 New York 101 120 lOx 12 1 Law, King 6 and Shepard. Liddle, Wilhelm 3. Maglie 5 and Katt. Win. ning pitcher Maglie (2-3). Losing pitcher Law (0-1). Brooklyn 400 100 4009 t 1 Phila I 000 200 4208 14 1 Pod res. Roebuck 7. Hughes 8 and Campanella. Wehmeier, Lovenguth, 1, Kipper 3. Miller 5. Mrozinski 8. Dick son 9 and Seminick. Winning pitcher Podres (3-1). Losing pitcher Weh meier (2-2). - (First Game) Chicago 001 001 0305 8 0 Cincinnati 001 000 0023 8 0 Jones, Perkowski 9. Andre 9 and McCullough. Ridzik. Lane 8 and Bur gess. Winning pitcher Jones (3-3). Losing pitcher Ridzik (0-2). , (Second Game) Chicago 021 000 0003 8 1 Cincinnati r.r.. .. 000 003 0014 7 2 Rush. Perkowski 9 and Chiti. Sta ley. Hooper 3, Valentine 6 and Land, rith. Winning pitcher Valentine (1-1). Losing pitcher Perkowski (0-3). Milwaukee 010 300 2008 11 0 St. Louis 011 000 0002 12 ' 1 Spahn (3-3) and Crandall. Haddix, Lawrence 5, Schultz 7 and Sarni. Los ing pitcher - Haddix' (1-4). Dead line Sunaay Classified la at noon Saturday: 1 a. m. Monday for Monday: other days 5 JO urevious day. ' ' s , Monday. May 9. 1955 Standings PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB. Seattle Lot Angeles San Diego Sacramento Oakland Portland Hollywood Saa Francisco .. . 20 14 .388 19 14 376 Va .545 l',2 .469 4 18 15 . 15 17 15 17 .469 14 16 .467 4 4 14 18 . 14 18 .438 5 .438 5 Sunday's Results: Oakland 3-1. Los Angeles 2-1 Sacramento 2-2. Seattle 1-1 Hollywood 9-2. San Francisco 0-0 San Diego 10-7. Portland 5-5 How Series Ended: Oakland 4, Los Angeles I -San Diego 8. Portland 1 Sacramento 4. Seattle 2 Hollywood 5. San Francisco 1. Next Series: Sacramento at San Francisco Oakland at Portland Seattle at Los Angeles Hollywood at San Diego. AMERICAN LEAGUE . w L. Pet. G.B. Cleveland Chicago New York Detroit Kansas City Washington Boston Baltimore . 17 14 7 .708 8 .636 2 2 3 7 7'j 14 8 .636 .583 .409 .391 14 10 9 13 9 14 16 .369 8,s 17 .292 10 Sunday's Results: New York 5 Boston 0 Chicago 5 Detroit 4 (11 innings, 1st) Chicago 1 Detroit 0 (2nd) Cleveland 9 Kansas City 6 (1st) Cleveland 2 Kansas City 1 (11 in nings, 2nd) Baltimore 4 Washington 3 (1st) Washington 15 Baltimore 7 (2nd) Tuesday's Games: Kansas City at Baltimore (night) Detroit at Washington (night) Cleveland at New York (night) Chicago at Boston. NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn . Milwaukee New York Chicago .... Pittsburgh St. Louis ... .400 11 !i Cincinnati ... Philadelphia .. 9 14 .391 12 8 15 .348 13 Sunday's Results: Chicago 5 Cincinnati 3 (1st) Cincinnati 4 Chicago 3 (2nd) Pittsburgh 7 New York 5 (1st) New York S Pittsburg 3 (2nd) Milwaukee 8 St. Louis 2 Brooklyn 9 Philadelphia 8.' Tuesday's Games: New York at Cincinnati (night) Pittsburgh at Milwaukee (night) Philadelphia at it. Louis (night) Brooklyn at Chicago. Idaho Track Team Beats Oregon State Br UNITED PRESS The University of Idaho Van dals today wore the laurels of their first Northern Division dual track meet victory in three sea sons after beating Oregon State College by a close 66 5-6 64 1-6 at Moscow Saturday. In another division dual meet, the Washington Huskies were up set winners over Washington State's Cougars.' The Oregon Ducks proved themselves in in ternational competition by win ning the Vancouver Relays in British Columbia. The Huskies scored 70 points to WSC's 61 in the meet at Seat tle. The Webfoots, who haven't lost a Northern Division dual meet since 1953, displayed the same old power in winning the Vancouver Relays. Oregon scored 156 points to 76 for second-place Vancouver Olympic Club. In other college track meets Saturday, Eastern Washington College of Education won a tri angular' Evergreen Conference meet at Ellensburg. The Savages scored 67 1-2 points to 54 3-4 for Whitworth College and 39 3-4 for Central Washington College. In a dual meet scored simultane ously, Whitworth beat Central, 73 1-2 to 56 1-2. At Walla Walla, Willamette University defeated Whitman College, 68-63, in a Northwest Conference .track, contest. ' W. L. Pet. G.B 21 2 .913 12 11 .522 9 11 11 .500 9i 12 13 .480 10 in i.i .rs 11 8 12 Pacific Coast League Like Fat Man's Wallet By DON THACKEREY United Press Sports Writer The Pacific Coast league was pressed together like a fat man's wallet today and Sacramento and Hollywood were the ones applying most of the pressure. Sacramento brought Seattle back into the pack with a pair of 2- 1 victories last night to cut the Rainier's margin to a thin half game. Hollywood, using San Francisco's Seals instead of boot straps, pulled up into a seventh place tie. The Stars gave San Francisco only five singles through the long afternoon and nary a run in winning 9-0 and 3-0. San Diego whipped Portland twice, 10-5 and 7-4 to shuffle the mid dle of the pack while Los Ange les and Oakland were splitting 3- 2 for the Acorns and 2-1 for the Angels. As a result of the activity there were only five games be tween Seattle at the top and San Francisco and Hollywood at the bottom. Four Hit Pitching Marino Pieretti was the victor in the first of two duels in Sac ramento. He got the nod over Jehosie Heard, who had a four hit performance washed down the drain. In the second game Bud Daley and Vic Lombardi went 11 in nings before the Solons got their second run. Daley scored the tie-breaker himself after singling and being sacrificed to second. Richie Myers cracked out the hit that sent Daley home. Bob Garber pitched Holly wod's first shutout of the season in the first game, holding San Francisco to two singles. His job was made much easier by Car los Bernier, Bob Del Greco and than standard tires MORE Lee Walls, each of whom smash ed home runs. Hollywood's second shutout of the season wasn't far away. George Witt and George O'Don nell combined to give the Seals three measly singles and anoth er whitewashing with O'Donnell getting the win. All the Holly wood runs came in the fifth in ning as the Stars put together three of the five hits they got from loser Bob Greenwood. Rapp Homers Earl Rapp put on the hero's mantle in San Diego's double win. In the first game the out fielder hit two home runs and drove in four tallies as the Padres came from behind an 0-4 deficit to win going away. Dick Faber also homered for San Diego and Don Eggert did likewise for Portland. In the second game Faber homered again and Dick Whit man hit a Beaver round tripper. The game was tied at 4-4 at the end of the seven frames, but Rapp untied it in the bottom of the ninth with a three-run hom er. Al Lyons, who saved the first game also, got credit for the second. Al Gettel won his sixth game in a row after starting the sea son with three losses as Oakland prevailed over a two-run Hal Rice homer, 3-2, in the first one. It was Gettel's third win of the series. In the nightcap Joe Hatten beat George Bamberger 2-1 on Steve Bilko's tenth homer with a mate on the base in the sixth. LINE SCORES: (First Game) Los Angeles 000 002 000 2 7 0 Oakland 300 000 OOx 3 8 1 Piktuzis, Pyecha 1, Lown 8 and Pramesa; Gettel and Neal. (Second Game) Los Angeles .. 000 002 0 2 7 1 Oakland 000 001 01 S 0 New Goodyear Tubeless Tires cost bo more with tabes fit the wheels your pres no extras to hoiy! PEOPLE RIDE ON 123 SOUTH RIVERSIDE Champ Thomas Clobbers Yog gi Hussanc; Logger Porter The girls didn't wrestle at Mer rick's arena Saturday night not quite, anyway but a vociferous crowd which filled the arena al most to capacity cheered wildly as Champ Thomas clobbered Yoggi Hussane for two straight falls. Logger Porter and Cyclone Cobb went to a fast and rough draw as did Cowboy Wes Knapp and Buck Davidson. Promoter Mack Lillard ex plained to the audience that the girls would not wrestle, as had been planned, because of a di rective from law enforcement officers that a law forbidding such matches, signed into effect last week, must be enforced. Lillard was cheered when he an nounced that he expected action would be taken soon to attempt repeal of the bill. Hussane To Blame . Hussane had nobody to blame but himself when he lost the first fall to Thomas in 17 minutes and 50 seconds of their no-time-limit struggle. Thomas had slightly injured his back on a dropkick and Hussane, quick to take advantage, applied a ham merlock and. Thomas gave up. Hussane wasn't satisfied, how ever, continuing the pressure Hatten and Pramesa; Bamberger and Neal. (First Game) San Francisco 000 000 000 0 2 1 Hollywood 012 200 22x 9 14 1 Fracchia, Fisher 4 3earden 8 and Ritchey; Garber and Mangin. (Second Game) San Francisco 000 000 0 0 3 1 Hollywood 000 030 x 3 5 1 Greenwood and Donahue; O'Don. nell 4 and Hall. (First Game) Portland 400 000 100 5 10 2 San Diego 000 114 13x 10 15 2 Hall. Scheib 6, Waibel 8, Bottler, 8 and Calderone; Melton, Herrera 1, Lyons 7 and Aylward. (Second Game 9 Innings) Portland 100 Oil 100 4 13 1 San Diego 000 002 2037 14 1 Adams, Elliott 7 and Lundeberg, Calderone; Kerringan, Melton 6, Ly ons 7 and Gladd, Aylward 7. (First Game) Seattle 001 000 01 8 1 Sacramento 200 000 x 2 4 0 Heard and Ginsberg; Pieretti and Baich. (Second Game 11 innings) Seattle 000 000 100 001 8 0 Sacramento 000 010 000 01 2 7 0 Lombardi and Orteig; Daley ' and Batch. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 ajn. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. and em, ear GOODYEAR TIRES THAN ON ANY OTHER Puts Up $100 for Match until Referee Larry Presnell pushed him off and gave the fall to Thomas on disqualifica tion. Gerry Hunter, who was to have wrestled Bonnie Bartlett in the gals' match, acted as sec ond to Hussane and Miss Bartlett took care of the corner needs of Thomas. Miss Hunter repeatedly reached through the ropes to kick the referee, upset Thomas or help Hussane to an advantage. Thomas became irked at the in terference and about midway in the second round he pulled her Jack Aload Sets Oregon Shot Record Jack Moad, Oregon's sopho more shot putter from Med ford, fractured the meet record and the IB year - old Duck school record with a prodi gious heava of 50 feet 3 inches Saturday at lh Vancouver Relays. Larry Polford. University of Washington frashman. was sec end with 49-3. Tha broken moet shot record was 49-10, sat by Duana Eby of Oregon State in 1952. Bill Foskett had held Oregon's school mark t 49-11 since 1937. ' Still another Oregon sopho more from Medford, Ed Bing ham, shatterd she meat jave lin record with a throw of 195 feet, 3 inches, erasing the mark of I88-6V2, held by Bob Hall of Willamette since 1950. Don Steen. Oregon freshman com peting in his home town of Vancouver, finished second Saturday at 165. UNFROZEN : Indianapolis (U.PJ Lillian Mofield's "frozen assets" were liquidated by a thief. She told police someone stole $130 from her home while she was out. She had kept the money in a can in the refrigerator. ffc EXTRA of nonskid edges and hundreds of deep-cut Stop-Notches stand . guard between yon and dangerous skid. 15 mora - traction helps yea brake gentry to swifter, safer stops! ft EXTRA performance ... a quieter, smoother tide plus greater mileage! ft EXTRA strength ... Goodyear Triple-tempered 3-T Cord body makes the Tnbtlass Deluxe Super-Cushion one of that strongest, safest tires rrer made. Don't wait if you're in doubt about the safety ? , your present tires. 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Hunter and Bartlett jumped into the ring to aid their men and became" involved in a lively but brief skirmish, broken up before police .could get. to the ringside to make an arrest Porter vs. Hussane Porter, seeking a match with Hussane for several weeks, post ed $100 with Harry Chipman of The Mail Tribune. The money is to go to Hussane, end is Porter's share of the purse, if Hussane wins. Hussane accepted the match and Lillard slated It for the top mix Saturday. Porter and Cobb put on a rough match with each man dig ging deep in his bag of tricks and often, using slugging tactics. Porter got the first fall with a reverse surfboard and Cobb , evened it stretch. with an abdominal I?7 Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Floes Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrews Phone 2-4107 HERE'S WHAT GOODYEAR TUDELESS DELUXE SUPER-CUSHIONS GIVE YOU! 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