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-
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Indians Beat Yankees
Cleveland remained two
games in-front of the American
league race with a 9-6 victory
over the Yankees.
Don Mossi's hitless relief pitch
ing after he entered the game in
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Standings
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
W.
21
20
19
16
16
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19
14
L.
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13
15
18
18
17
19
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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
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.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
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Wednesday, Mar H. IMS
ported by a 14-hit attack that in
cludes homers by Bobby Avila
and Dave Pope.
Home runs by Jim Rivera,
Chico Carresquel and. George
Kell brought the white Sox from
behind to a 4-2 victory over the
Red Sox. Tom Brewer held Chi
cago scoreless until Rivera
homered in the seventh. Relief
pitcher Harry Dorish was the
winner after relieving Bob Kee
gan in the sixth.
An eight-run rally in the sixth,
touched off by Gus Triandos'
homer off loser Lou Sleater,
gave the Orioles an 11-1 decision
over the Athletics, who suffered
their fifth straight setback.
Sleater was doing well until the
sixth when he left following Tri
andos' homer, a walk and two
more hits that filled the bases.
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
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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. . -
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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
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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. .
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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
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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..
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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
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