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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) Gene Freese Sparks Pittsburgh Verdict; Brooklyn Racks Up 24th Br MILTON RICHMAN United Press Sports Writer By far the proudest guy in baseball today was George Freese of the Pirates, who neither rooms with his kid brother, Gene, nor runs around with him, but openly roots for him with a passion that surpasses even brotherly lovt. The 28-year-old George had a frin on ihis face a mile wide .when 21-year-old Gene bashed his first major league grand slam homer Tuesday night in an eight-run eighth inningthat pow ered Pittsburgh to a 9-6 victory over Milwaukee. Actually, Dig brother Freese' bases-loaded single in the eighth drove home the two runs that put the Pirates ahead but George was only interested in Gene's subsequent wallop which moved Pittsburgh to within four per centage points of the first divis ion. "My only concern is Gene," says the husky George quietly. "Whether I make it or not doesn't bother me so much, but I'd give anything in the world to see him come through. "After all," the .older Freese grins,' "if he makes It and I don't, he can always get me passes to the ball games." George Needn't Worry From the way it looks, how ever, George needn't worry, be cause he and Gene, who is only putting in his third year in pro fessional baseball, both . loom large in Pittsburgh's plans. While the Pirates won, the Philadelphia Phillies.' fortunes continued to go down. Mayo Smith's charges dropped their 10th straight game when they were beaten, 5-3, by the Cardi nals on Bill Virdon's 10th Inning homer. Rookie southpaw Louis Arroyo limited the Phils to five hits. Including a homer bv Del Ennis, in snapping St. Louis' seven-game losing streak. Brooklyn kept rolling along with its 22nd victory in 24 starts as big Don Newcombe faced only 27 men and pitched a one-hitter in beating the Cubs. 3-0. The shutout was the first for Newcombe since Sept. 29. 1951, and ran his lifetime record over Chicago to 11-0. Duke Snider's ninth homer in the sixth inning was all the margin Newcombe needed. Gene Baker's fourth in ning single was the only hit off Newcombe but Baker was erased stealing. Two homers by Willie Mays and another by Hank Thompson helped the Giants beat the Red legs, 8-4. Southpaw Johnny An- how much ygu can save on auto insurarcseS f Compare and you'll find Allstate, the company founded by Sears, offers rates usually lower than those of most companies a really better auto insurance value! At the same time, you can count on Allstate for finest protection, friendly agent service and fast, fair claim settlements throughout the United States and Canada. You can't buy better, why pay more? See why Allstate sold more auto insurance in 1954 than any other company based on direct written premiums. Contact your Allstate Insurance Company Agent. 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Lemon allowed nine hits but was sup- Standings PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. 21 20 19 16 16 IS 19 14 L. 14 13 15 18 18 17 19 20 Pet. .600 .571 .559 .471 .471 .469 .441 .412 GB 1 l'i 42 4a 42 5' '. Seattle San Diego Lor Angeles Oakland San F amcisco Portland Sacramento Hollywood Tuesday's Results San Francisco 2-1. Sacramento 1-0 Oakland 9. Portland 8 Seattle 4. Los Angeles 1 San Diego S. Hollywood 1 (How Series Stand) San Francisco 2. Sacramento 0 San Diego 2. Hollywood 0 Oakland 1. Portland 1 - Seattle 1. Los Angeles AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. 18 7 . 15' 8 14 14 11 10 14 9 14 9 17 17 Pet. GB .720 .652 2 .609 3 .560 4 - -417 7?i .391 8 .346 9 .320 10 Cleveland ... Chicago New York Detroit - Washington Kansas City Boston Baltimore Tuesday's Results Baltimore 11. Kansas City 1 night) Washington 7. Detroit 4 fnight) Cleveland 9. New York 6 (night) Chicago 4. Boston 2 (Thursday's Games) Chicago at Baltimore, night. Kansas City at Boston Cleveland at Washington, night. (Only games scheduled) NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB Brooklyn 22 2 .917 New York 12 11 .522 9',2 Milwaukee 12 12 .500 10 Chicago 12 14 .462 11 Pittsburgh 11 13 .458 11 i St. Louis 9 12 .429 11', Cincinnati 9 15 .375 13 Philadelphia 8 18 ' 333,14 Tuesday's Results- Brooklyn 3. Chicago 0 New York 8, Cincinati 4 (night) ' St. Louis 5. Philadelphia 3 (night, 10 innings). Pittsburgh 9, Milwaukee S (night) (Thursday's Games) Philadelphia at Cincinnati, night Brooklyn at Milwaukee, night.. Pittsburgh at Chicago New York at St. Louis, night SWAPS GETS OLD STALL Inglewood, Calif. U.R) Swaps, winner of the Kentucky Derby, arrived today and was quartered in the same stall at Hollywood Park he occupied as a two-year-old. Accompanying the colt on the train trip from Louisville were trainer Mickey Tenny and owner Rex C. Elles worth. Bayers" Guide! Don't bay aate Wind. See bow much you caa save- with the com pany founded by Sears. 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Harry Byrd was the winner, al though relieved by Ray Moore. Bob Porterfield needed help, too, but was credited with his fourth victory in Washington's 7-4 triumph over, Detroit. The Senators struck for four runs in the second and clinched the game with another pair in the sixth. . . LINESCORES: AMERICAN LEAGUE ; -Chicago 000 000 130 4 T 1 Boston .....100 010 000 2 9 0 Keegan, Dorish '6). Fornieles (8) and Lollar. Brewer. Kinder (9) and White. Winning pitcher Dorish (1-0). Losing pitcher Brewer (0-5). Kansas City ..010 000 000 1 8 0 Baltimore 000 208 Olx 11 12 0 Sleater. Gorman (6), Burtschy (6), liray m and Astroth. VI. Shantz (7) Byrd. Moore (6) and Smith. Winning pitcner uyrd. (Z-Z). loosing pitcher Sleater (0-1). Detroit 000 200 200 8 2 Washington ....040 002 10X 7 11 0 Maas. Aber 2i. Cristante (3). Flet cher (7) and House. Porterfield. Pas- cual (8) and Fitzgerald. Winning pixcner jviaas (i-i). Cleveland ........003 140 0109 14 1 New York ... ....010 200 120 6 9 2 Lemon, Mossi (8) and Naraeon. He- gan (4). Larsen, Ford (4). Sturdivant (6). Konstanty (8). Morgan (9) and Berra. Winning pitcher Lemon (6-1). Losing pitcher Larsen (1-1). National Leacue Brooklyn 000 001 101 S 9 0 Chicago 000 000 0000 1 1 ' Newcombe (4-0) and Campanella. Hacker (1-2) and Chiti. New York 20 004 110 8 8 0 Cincinnati 101 000 200 4 7 0 Antonelli (3-3) and Katt. Klippstein. Fowler (6). Mmarcin (8) and Burgess. Losing pitcher Klippstein (0-1). (10 innincs) Philadelnhia 000 100 101 03 5 0 St. Louis ....'...-010. 001 100 25 7 1 Simmons. Meyer (8) and Lopata. Arroyo (2-0) and Sarni. Losing pitcher Meyer (0-4). , Pittsburgh 000 10 O00 9 7 0 Milwaukee 000 200 0316 10 1 Surkont.- Friend (8) and Atwell. Johnson. Jolly (8i. Varkas i8. Crone 18) and White. Winning pitcher Sur kont (3-3). Losing pitcher Johnson (0-1). Ashlanders Beat Crater Central Point Crater High outdid the Ashland Grizzlies in the hitting department yester day but errors and walks helped the Grizzlie to a 9 to 7 baseball verdict over the Comets at Ash land. . Jack Eberhart socked a single in the fifth inning for Ashland. to break a 7-all deadlock. A walk and sacrifice ahead of Eberhart put the tie-breaking runin a position to score. Ashland used Gene Parent's single and Phil Sword's triple for another run in sixth stanza. " Both clubs got six hits but four for Crater were three-baggers and one was a home run. However, eight walks issued by Comet pitchers and four Crater errors were damaging. One error in the fourth in ning with the bases loaded clear ed the bags, enabling even the Ashland hitter to . reach home. But one man was ,qut for fail ure to touch a base. Mel Harsh and Neil Green three - baggeredfor Crater in the first inning and Johnson and Bailey did the same in the second. John Shama got . the homer, in the sixth inning with two men on base. Parent got three of the Ash land hits and Sword two. Crater was to play at Phoenix today and is awaiting word of its northern division foe in the play-off Friday or Saturday for the District 6 A-2 championship. LINESCORE: Crater ..... 310 030 07 4 Ashland 003 411 x 9 1 Kelley, Herrman (4) and Lefler; Fitch, Moores (5) and Sword. Bearcats Keep Conference Lead Br UNITED PRESS Whitman finally won a game on its Willamette valley swing but the Missionaries still were trailing Willamette for the North west Conference baseball lead today. Whitman downed lowly Paci fic 15-7 at Forest Grove yester day to boost its record to 10-5. But Willamette blanked College of Idaho 12-0 to stay on top with an 8-3 mark. Defending Champion Linfield suffered a serious blow o its title hopes by dropping a 10 - 9 decesion to Lewis and Clark, Linfield dropped to third place with an 8-5 mark by the loss. OCE VICTOR Monmouth (U.R) Oregon College of Education blanked Portland State twice yesterday, 1-0 and 5-0. . - S3? ...ii i. .i.i MMim Vy:. !', if" EYES PORTER'S CASH Yoggi Hussane, shown above with a stepover toe hold on an opponent in a recent match, plans the same and more for Logger Porter when they meet in the headline wrestling match Saturday night at Merrick's arean. In order to get the big Turk in the ring with him, Porter posted $100 plus his own purse if Hussane wins. Two other matches round out the card, which starts at 8:30 pan. - - . Ritchie Price Continues To Pace SO Raider Batters By LEONARD WEBER Ashland Ritchie Price, slug ging second sacker of the South ern Oregon college Red Raiders continues to lead all batsmen on the Raider nine after 10 games. Price,, currently batting - .484, dropped 66 points over the past week end as a result of tight pitching by the Oregon Tech mound crew. At the present time Price is ahead of all SOC batsmen in four departments. Price has scor ed 10 runs, on 15 hits and has 15 RBI's to support his lusty average. Fred Luper is second to Price in hits with 12 and has 10 RBI's as well as Bill Seymour who also has 10 RBI's. Luper and Ken Ellis are tied with 7 strike outs to lead the Raiders in the "bad boy" department. Southern Oregon as a team is batting .291 with 89 hits in 302 times at bat; Prior to the OTI series, May 7 SOC was batting all opposition at a .328 clip, but the Raiders only managed to get 7 hits in 50 times at bat against OTI's Arvie Nelson and Bud Verrell. SOC has now scor SOUTHERN OREGON STATISTICS: Player , AB R H C 2b 3b HR BB uick Price. 2b i 31 10 15 Ned Landers, lb 21 3 9 H. Schneiderman. p. . 7 1 3 Ted -Landers. 3b ....... 22 7. Dick Nix. ss. cf, 19 8 7 Fred Luper. 3b, rf 34 9 12 Lloyd Hoffine, p 16 3 - 5 Tiger Smith, c 31 8 9 Bill Seymour, If 27 4 6 Hon Owings, ss 30 6 6 Chas. Reitman, cf . 20 1 3 Ken Ellis, lb 23, 3 3 ,Keith Johnson, p 8 4 1 Herb Colley. c ...11 0 1 Allan Kimura. ut. of 2 10 Zure TOO RAVI 2 EYES to enjoy the clear, ambet Tnagrtifivmf at Amriw'i Ywwtwilm WkiaWy. T00RAYIIIC3ltoer4oyrtswofidTMboqQett WW YOB BAYE 2 EAtS to enjoy the eaaapBments yosj always get when yom aerv SEAGRAM'S T CROWN Say SwjWMU stAawj-DisimcoKtaOtCtt cnxBuna wasux. m pmcf. is ssjui ioral snun UWI tvittf 1 f: w4i ed 69 runs in 10 games while their opponents has crossed the plate 49 times. SOC's run per game average is 6.9 to their op position's 4.9. Southern Oregon has also com mitted 24 errors, Price leading with five. SOC has received 39 bases on balls and have struck out 60 times. SOC has struck out 30 times in the last four games. As for extra base power, the Raiders have blasted out 5 home runs, 4 in one game; 6 triples and 11 doubles. Fred Luper leads the Raiders with 3 doubles and 2 triples. Red Raider pitching has been supported by veteran right hand er . Lloyd Hoffine, who paces the Raiders with four wins and no defeats and Keith Johnson and Ned Landers each have 2-0 records. The "Big Bear," Hal Schneiderman has the lone Raid er defeat along with one decis ion. SOC's record to date is 9-1. Dating back to May of 1954 to May 7, 1955, Southern Oregon had won 12 straight ball games before being shut out by OTI's Arvie Nelson 9-0 Saturday ,at Ashland. . SO FBI'S BA .484 .428 .428 .409 .368 .353 .312 .290 .222 .200 .150 .130 .125 .091 ' 5 1 0 16 0 0-4 0 ' 1 - 10 0 0-1 3 2.1 0 4 3. -1 0 1 4 4 3 2 0 2 1 1 , 1 0 1 3 1-11 15' 0 0 0 13 4 2 0 0 2 00 1-00 0 0 1 0 4 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 00000 0 15 , 6 0 6 3 10 3 8 10 3 . 0 1 0 0 0 .000 ways you enjoy T and Cavemen Trip Medford 1 3-1 2 In League Fray SOUTHERN OREGON CONFERENCE STANDINGS W. L. Fet. Grants Pass .: 7 1 .875 Klamath Falla "- 4 3 371 Medford 5 4 .856 Ashland .. 1 9 .100 Grants Pass high bolstered its command in the Southern Ore gon Conference and District 6 A-l baseball chase with a 13 to 12 nod over Medford here yester day and left the Black Tornado with only flickering hopes. The two clubs meet here again on Thursday and at Grants Pass on Friday. Medford will have to win both to keep from being eliminated in the race. Grants Pass took a 2V& -game lead on the Tornado with the decision. -Had the Tornado been better at its base running and had it been able to take better advan tage of its opportunities, yester day's outcome would have been different and Medford would have gained ground on 'the Cave menu. As it 'was Grants Pass, over came Medford leads twice, scored six runs in the sixth canto to grab a 13 to 6 advantage and choked a Tornado seventh in ning rally after six counters had crossed the plate. A home run by Relief Pitcher Bill Menden hall put GP on top to stay. -Rhubarb In Fray There was some heavy" slug ging by spells in the fracas which was marred by errors. And the mix was featured by one rhu barb between Umpire Virg Swanson and GP Coach Mel In gram. The Caveman mentor came out to chat with batter Don James in the fifth inning on the alleged pretext that James' shoe was untied. Swanson asked In gram to go back to thebeneh be cause he was delaying the game. Ingram said he could be at the plate for any reason he wished to be. . - After Ingram went back to the GP bench, he reportedly made a remark that ' Swanson couldn't throw him out of the game. That caused the Ump to tell Mel that he'd had .about all he was going to have out of him. Play re sumed and Ingram came over to the Medford bench and told Coach Alex McDonald, "I won't have him (as umpire) Thursday." Swanson later got GP Athletic Director Jess Lofer to agree to bring a check here Thursday for Swanson for cancelling him out as ump. Medford took a 3 to 0 margin in the first inning on two walks, a fielder's option by Frank Rec tor and a triple by Jim Owsley. The Cavemen tied it up in the third on a hit by George Herr, three Tornado errors and a field er's choice rap by Mel Drews. Grants Pass got three consecu tive hits and took advantage of an error in the fourth inning as CARDS SIGN GRIDDER Chicago U.R) Bob Swee ney, 250-pound guard from East St. Louis, 111., who has ro col lege experience, was signed to day by the Chicago Cardinals professional football team. Sweeney was a standout athlete at Central High School in East St. Louis and was signed by the Cards after a scout saw him play with a semi-pro team in St. Louis.' $eagrtra$ be v9tMf! I Croum it got a 4 to 8 edge. However. Medford came back in the same canto with two runs for a 5 to 4 margin. Three bases on balls and hits by Ed McCullough and Lorin Jacobs produced the scores. Medford tried a double steal with two out but Jacobs was tagged out before Dick Mc Laughlin could score from third. In the fifth inning for Grants Pass Del Oden singled and Larry Cochell was safe on an error after two were out. Then Men denhall slugged his homer for a 7 to 5 Caveman lead. The Tor-, nado got pne run back in the chukker on a walk, a fielder's choice swat and stolen base by Owsley and Larry Gober's single. GP put in use six hits, an error and a sacrifice for its big sixth inning. The hits came consecu tively off Hurler Duane Sides with Bill Krumholz, Oden, Coch ell, Mendenhall and James get ting singles and Drews a three, bagger. Sides, who entered the scrape in the third inning went through the sixth without relief and finished the game. Gober Rams Burr The Tornado got its six mark ers in the seventh with only one hit, by Ed Reinking. Pitcher Mendenhall, tiring, issued four walks and threw a wild There were three errors in the inning, with the bases loaded and none out in the inning, Larry Gober slashed the ball between third base and shortstop. .. The throw to First Baseman Raleigh Burr was in time but Gober smashed into him, making him drop the ball. Burr "fell to the ground with an injured leg and two Medford runners crossed the plate. Medford chances of continuing the rally suffered first blow wften, although McLaughlin was safe at first on a dropped fly in centerfield, Rector was thrown out trying to reach third. Jacobs iorced McLaughlin at second and Bob Mays fanned to end the game. The ; Tornado missed two run chances in the third inning. Aft er three singles in a row by Jacobs, Eckel and Owsley, Jake ran for home when a pitch by George Herr scooted in the dirt. Catcher Drews recovered the ball in time to throw Jacobs out. Runners were still on second and third. After Reinking drew a walk fourth ball, Eckel left third base and was tagged, by Drews for the third out. , . Another opportunity was missed when Jim Putney, on sec ond base, when McCullough sin gled in the fourth inning, was thrown out at the plate. LINESCORE: Grants Pass .... 003 136 0 13 IS Medford 300 210 6 12 9 6 Herr, Mendenhall (4) and Drews; Clark. Sides (3) and McLaughlin.. Everything That's New in Colors . . Styles . . . Fabrics Choose here your winning line-up of our now - through - summer Leisure Shirts that hit a new high in cool comfort and smart styling . . . Ter rific selection casually correct for your playtime hours. SPORT SHIRTS By Such Well-Known Names as Lancer . o Manhattan O Henry Amber Golden Gate Bardon of Hollywood Both Short and Long Sleeve 2" MIEM'S SIEKDIP 229 EAST MAIN STREET Tornado Net Squad Tops Grants Pass : Medford high's tennis team continued to hold forth over Southern Oregon Conference op position by nudging Grants Pass 4 to 3 here yesterday but Grant Pass won the - two exhibition matches. Medford needed wins in both doubles of the regular match to sew up the victory. Jerry Kalapus and Don Robinson beat George Cain and Bruce Merrill, 6-2, 7-5 and 6-2, and Jim Gordon and Bill Isaacs downed' Larry Ottis and Dale Durboraw, 6-2, 6-2. . In singles Kalanus defeated Cain 6-2, 6-2, and Gordon sub dued Merrill 6-1, 6-2. The GP wins were Ottis over Robinson 6-1, 6-4; Durboraw over Isaacs 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 and John .Russell over Stan Culy 6-0, 2-6, 8-6. Grants Pass winners in the extras were Lynn Mannon 6-2, 9-7 pver Bob Schmidt and John Wilson 6-2, 6-2 over Don Gordon, Medford plays at Grants Pass on Friday and at Roseburg Saturday. :... REDLEGS BUY OLDHAM Los Angeles J(U.PJ Left hander John Oldham, rookie pitcher with a 3-1 record with the Seattle Rainiers of the Pa cific Coast League has been sold to the Cincinnati Redlegs for 1956 delivery manager Fred Hut chinson announced yesterday. FOR SALE Yard SHOVEL $7S00 With Draglin 2- G.M.C. DIESEL 1$2750 POWER UNITS $ 1 750 15 Yard LeTourneau CARRYALL . : $4500 Model 18 CAT RIPPER $1250 60 Kw. Diesel GENERATOR SET $4500 1954-2 Ten INT. v VAN TRUCK 2 Speed-Ex. Cond. $2975 1954-2 Ton STAKE TRUCK 2 Spetdt $2750 Like new . . 1-180 INT. 6 Yard DUMP TRUCK $2950 F-8 Ford 4 Yard DUMP TRUCK $595 1954 Mack Trader Truck 3- Ft. Telesmith CONE CRUSHER New 125 Ft. Compressor ' BIG DISCOUNT F. L. SOMERS 2410 No. Pacific Hi way Phone 3-1053 5M 3
