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Newspaper Page TextEIGHT VnSDTOKD (OMQOR) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, Mar 23. 195S I Yogi Berra Sparks Yankees Unto Leadership of League Br FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer Yoggi Berra's back on top of the world today and it's no coincidence that the New York Yankees are back on top of the American league. Off to a dismal start which saw his average sink to .239 and his spirits to .000, Berra has pro vided the "big punch" as the Yankees reeled off seven straight victories and took a one-game lead over the Cleveland In dians in the American league race. In those seven games, Yogi has hit a blazing .407, hit five home runs and driven in 13 runs. The 30-year-old catcher, who the Yankees still insist "is bet ter than Brooklyn's Roy Camp anella," staged a one-man batting show Sunday when he clouted three home runs in leading the Yankees to 5-0 and 7-5 victor ies over the Baltimore Orioles. He's lifted his average to .286 and is challenging the circuit's leaders with eight homers and 27 runs batted in. Berra blasted his first homer of the day in the first inning of the day in the first inning of the opening game to give the Yankees a 2-0 lead and Ed Lo pat all the runs he required to gain his first victory of the sea son. He hit his second in the "sixth inning of the nightcap to cut Baltimore's lead to 3-2 and his third with one aboard in the seventh inning to put the Yankees in front, 4-3. A three run eighth-inning rally clinched the game for the Yankees and helped earn rookie Tom Sturdi vant his first big league triumph. Indians Snap Losing Streak The Indians snapped a two game 'losing streak when Early Wynn tossed a one-hitter to beat the Detroit Tigers, 4-0. Wynn yielded only a fourth-inning single to Fred Hatfield and then faced only 15 batters in the last five innings. It was his fourth win of this season and the 188th of his career. The Chicago White Sox out slugged the Kansas City Athlet ics, 10-6, in a 30-hit debacle aft er Alex. Kellner beat them, 7-2, with a neat eight-hitter in the other A.LI games. Kellner won his fourth game with the aid of a six-run second inning while Johnny Groth and Ron Jackson struck big blows for the White Sox in the nightcap. Boston at Washington was rained out. In the National league, the New York Giants beat the Pitts burgh Pirates, 5-2 and 5-3, and crept to within six games of the first-place Brooklyn Dodgers, who downed the Philadelphia Phillies, 8-3. The Milwaukee Braves beat the Chicago Cubs, 5-1, and Cincinnati and St. Louis split a doubleheader. The Red legs won the opener, 4:3, for their sixth straight victory but the Cardinals took the night cap, 5-2. The Giants stretched their winning streak to six games thanks to the pitching heroics of Ruben Gomez and the batting heroics of Don Mueller. Gomez tossed a six-hitter for his sec ond victory in the first game while Mueller drove in all five New York runs in the nightcap with a - two-run single and a three-run double. The Pirates' losing streak mounted to 11 games. ' Dodgers Defeat Phillies Campanella hit his 10th hom er of the season for the big blow in Brooklyn's attack that hand ed the Phillies their 16th loss in 18 games. Carl Erskine re ceived credit for his sixth vic tory although he needed help from rookie Ed Roebuck in the ninth. Homers by Glenn Gor bous, Del Ennis and Roy Smalley accounted for all the Phillies' runs. Gene Conley's three-hit pitch ing and four Chicago errors en abled the Braves to snap a four game losing streak and return to the .500 mark. Conley struck out eight in recording his sixth win while the Cub's defensive lapses paved the way for three unearned runs and Sam Jones' fourth loss. In a wild doubleheader that ended at 10:15 p.m. (EDT) rookie Luis Arroyo won his fourth game for St. Louis after the Red legs rallied for two runs in the ninth to win the opener. Wally Post drove in three runs for the Redlegs in the opener while Red Schcendienst and Ken Boyer homered for the Cardinals "in the second game. Ted Kluszewski also homered in the nightcap, tying him for the major league lead with 11. AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 002 000 101 4 10 0 Detroit 000 000 000 0 1 1 Wynn 14-11 and Hegan. Garver, Fletcher 9. Aber 9. and Wilson. Los. ing pitcher Garver t3-6). (First Game) Kansas City 160 000 000 7 14 0 Chicago 001 001 000 2 8 0 Kellner 14-1 1 and Astroth. Keegan. Martin 2. Chakales 4. Dorrish 8 and Lollar. Losing pitcher Keegan (0-lj. (Second Game) Kansas City 014 000 001 6 IS 1 Chicago 320 210 02x 10 15 0 Ceccarelli. Raschi. 2. Sleater 3. Sain 3. Gorman 6. Herbert 8. and W. Shantz, Astroth. 7. Fornielles. Harsh man 3. Trucks 5 and Courtney. Win ning pitcher Trucks 3-4). Losing pitcher Saia (0-2). (First Game) Baltimore 000 000 000 0 4 0 New York 200 100 02x 5 5 0 Palica 2-4 and Smith. Lopat (1-4) and Berra. (Second Game) Baltimore 000 021 002 5 9 0 New York 100 001 23x 7 12 2 Rogovin, Moore 6. Schallock 8 and Moss. Ford, Sturdivant 7. Morgan 9 and Berra. Winning pitcher Sturdi vant (1.0). Losing pitcher Moore (1-5). NATIONAL LEAGUE (First Game) New York 010 000 0405 10 0 Pittsburgh 000 000 002 2 6 1 Gomez (2-3) and Katt. Bowman, Friend 9. and Shepard. Losing pitch er Bowman (0-3). (Second Game, S Innings, Rain) New York 000 000 23 5 11 1 Pittsburgh 030 000 00 3 9 0 Antonelli, Corwin 4. Wilhelm 6, Grissom 8 and Westrum, Katt 8. Littlefield. Wade 7. Face 9 and Shep ard. Winning pitcher Wilhelm (2-0). Losing pitcher Wade (0-1). Chicago 000,100 0001 3 4 Milwaukee 000 020 30x 5 7 1 Jones, Davis 8 and McCullough, Chiti 8. Conley (6-1) and White. Los ing pitcher Jones (5-4). Philadelphia .. 100 000 002 3 8 2 Brooklyn 000 205 Olx 8 7 0 J. Meyer, Kipper 6. Lovenguth 8, and Lopata. Erskine. Roebuck 9. and Campanella. Winning pitcher Ers kine (6-1). Losing pitcher J. Meyer (0-6). (First Game) St. Louis 100 000 020 3 8 0 Cincinnati 000 200 002 4 8 1 Haddix (2-6) and Sarni. Nuxhall, Freeman 8. Valentine 9 and Burgess. Winning pitcher Valentine (2-1). (Second Game) St. Louis 112 000 1005 13 0 Cincinnati 000 100 001 2 5 1 Arroyo, Schultz 9 and Rice, Sarni 5. Klippstein. Fowler 3, Ridzik 6, Free man 9 and Burgess. Winning pitcher Arroyo (4-0). Losing pitcher Klippstein (1-2). SIPdDmTTS Lillard on Talent Search; Carlton, Gene Stanlee Win Mack Lillard started a talent search today and said yesterday that his weekly wrestling cards will be discontinued until suit able talent could be obtained. Lillard made the decision to temporarily discontinue the Sat urday night cards when he was unable to sign suitable grapplers. He could not get the services of Lord Carlton andGene Stanlee, last weelt's principals, again. Yoggi Hussane is leaving on an extended tour of Canada and Champ Thomas, another local favorite, is off to Texas for several months. Carlton Beats Cobb Carlton, aided by frequent as sists from outside the ropes by his faithful Swami, took a one fall decision over Cyclone John nie Cobb in the feature match at Merrick's arena here Saturday night. Carlton, in apparent trou ble from a series of Cobb flying tackles, lifted a knee into Cobb's groin as the big Negro came charging in for the payoff and it was all over. Carlton took it with a body press in 21 minutes and 10 seconds. About midway in the match Hardtopper Race Nabbed By Gilmore Vern Gilmore drove his C-34 to victory in the A main of hardtop auto races at Jackson County speedway Saturday night after first collections hon ors in one of the heat races. He was trailed by Wayne Lem ley and Monty Hall. Lou Kurz won the B main with a heat race and was followed by Elmer Sisemore, also a heat race victor. The other heat was won by Hall. Roy Deutschmari won the A trophy dash and Neil Woolridge the B trophy event. Points pick ed up by Lemley and Hall put them in a tie for lead after two programs in the competition for the season high total. Each has 52. Cars of Harvey Trepy, Jay Williams and Bob Wilcox rolled during the evening and Bud Hurt smacked into Wilcox's car. Cecil James encountered hard luck when his radiator blew up. Carlton was thrown from the ring and became fistically involved with an over - zealous rigside customer but it was broken up by other ringsiders and police be fore any damage resulted to either combatant. Several ring siders assisted Referee Champ Thomas by reaching through the ropes to grab ' Carlton's legs or by knocking his feet off ropes. Stanlee Disappointement Gene (The Body) Stanlee, win ner of the 1952 Mr. America title, disappointed many of the fans with his illegal tactics against Logger Porter in the mid dle match. Most of the spectators had expected Stanlee, an out standing worker in youth move ments, to be a wrestling perfec tionist. He did display occasional flashes of ability but most of the time he was content to punch, pull hair, gouge eyes or use other maneuvers not listed in the rule book. One of his brief flashes of ability produced the only fall. Stanlee valuted over a Porter flying tackle and when the Washington logger bounced off the ropes to the mat, Stanlee fell on him for the fall. Time was 14 minutes and 40 seconds. i Carlton's Swami took the lone fall over Yoggi Hussane on dis qualification when the . Turk re fused to break a series of choke holds. An even 20 minutes had elapsed when Thomas stopped the match. Key to Riding 3,000 Winners Hard Work Chicago U.fi) Jockey John ny Adams needed only two words today to explain how a man can ride 3,000 winners in 21 years aboard thoroughbred horses. "Hard work," he said, "That explains it." "I've fooled around horses all my life, riding at 5 o'clock in the morning and 7 o'clock at night. And there's no way I know to ride a lot of winners except hard work and ride a lot of horses." Adams became the fourth American jockey, and the fifth in the world, to reach the 3,000 figure Saturday when he piloted Mr. Black home in front in the feature race at Balmoral. Dead line Sunday Classified la at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day. One pha i U bvn ca for 2?Jym6oi f Jupvicjerrice Padres Keep Rolling, Soldns Fade in PCL By DON THACKEREY United Press Sporis Writer The San Diego Padres kept rolling along like a lucky crap shooter over the week end and while the Sacramento Solons faded them clear into the Pacific Coast league cellar. Nail File, Fielders Aid To Pitcher Milwaukee, Wis. (U.P.) For want of a nail a show was lost, but for the aid of a nail file and a new pitching psychology, War ren Hacker of the Chicago Cubs emerged as one of the top pitch ers of the National League today. Hacker pitched eight and one third innings of hitless, runless ball against the Milwaukee Braves Saturday until pinch hitter George Crowe spoiled his bid for the Hall of Fame no hitter section with a ninth in ning home run. The easy to talk to righthand er gave two reasons for his new found pitching success: 1. Let the fielders do some work and (2) keep the callouses down with a nail file. Fewer Gopher Balls "He's not pitching so many gopher balls. That's the big dif ferencme," Cubs' Manager Stan Hack said. "He's not trying to strike everybody out with that hard ball which goes all the way if it's hit," ... "It makes a lot of difference to feel you have a fielding team behind you," Hacker said. "The last . couple of . years I figured I had to. strike everybody out to win a ball game." The near no-hitter against the Braves proved all of Hacker's contentions. He did not strike out a man. He walked one. His outfielder made 16 putouts. The only hit and run he gave up, Crowe's homer, came .when he tried to strike the batter out, shaking off the catcher. The Pads widened their lead ing margin to four and a half games Sunday night by whipping Sacramento 2-1 and 6-3 to sweep the seven game series, run up' their second 10-game winning streak and make it 20 victories in the past 21 games. The double dumping moved the Sacs back into a bottom tie with Hollywood. The league - leaders were the only ones who could do other than split on the Sunday twin bills. San Francisco outlasted Los Angeles' 6-5 in 12 innings and then lost 4-1. Portland took Seattle 6-3 and then was beaten 2-1. Hollywood humbled Oak land 8-4 and then bowed 8-6. Waibel Wins Opener Portland routed Elmer Single ton in the eighth ffame of the opener to get four runs and cop the decision. The Rainiers had ousted starter Glenn Elliott with three come-from-behind runs in the sixth. Dick Waibel wound up with the win and Singleton the loss. In the second game the Rain iers got only six hits off Red Adams but put them together in the fourth and fifth innings for single runs. Jehosie Heard pitch ed the seven-hit win. , Spring Meeting Opened by PCC Portland (U.R) The Pacific Coast Conference opened its four-day spring meeting here to day with a decision expected be fore week is out on whether the ban on spring football practice will go into effect next season. There also may be a report on the controversial Ronnie Knox case. "Knox is the California high school football ace who enrolled at California but transferred to UCLA after his father, Harvey Knox, charged California failed to live up to promises. The PCC at its fall meeting ordered Com missioner Victor Schmidt to "pursue diligently" into the case and report at the spring meeting. Raiders Capture OCC Track Meet Ashland The Southern Ore gon college track team rewrote the record book of the Oregon Collegiate Conference Saturday when they upset the pre-meet dope sheet and won the Confer ence championship at Oregon Tech of Klamath Falls. Competing in their first con ference meet, the Red Raiders broke six conference records as they piled up 51V4 points to beat Eastern Oregon, which took sec ond place with 42 points. Oregon College of Education took third with 36, Portland State, the defending champ was fourth with 23 and OTI had 12. The new records set by South ern Oregon were: 100 yards Clarence Baker, 10.0; 220 yards Baker, 22.4; 440 yards Bruce Friend, 52.0;880 yards Chuck Crandall, 2:05.4; High Hurdles Dick Stamm, 15.5, and Mile re lay Jerry Livingston, Crandall, Stamm, Friend, 3:35.4. Only double winner of the day was Baker in the 100 and 220. Three other conference records were shattered. J. Atkins of OCE broke the shot put record with a put of 45 feet; Fisher of OTI pole vaulted 12-7 and Dixon of OCE won the discus with a toss of 122-734. Big surprises of the meet were Baker's double win over highly touted Don McKenzie of OCE. The latter was defending cham pion and record holder in both events. Chuck Crandall's victory in the 830 was another unexpect ed win. He cut six seconds off his best effort of this year. Dick Stamm's win in the high hurdles was an upset, as he beat favored Frank Good of Eastern Oregon, the defending champion and record holder. RESULTS: Mile Nick Eddy (EOO: McLough lin (PSC); Krash (OCE); Walker (EOC) 4:51. 440 Bruce Friend (SCO: Trotter (EOC); Chunn (OCE); Walch (EOC) 52.0 record. 100 Clarence Baker (SOC); tie Good (EOC) and McKenzie (OCE); Harmon (EOC) 10.0 record. High hurdles Dick Stamm (SOC); Good (EOC); Stanton (EOC); Shaw (OTI) 15.5 record.- Brentlinger In Rifle Match Here L. E. Brentlinger, Eugene, one of Oregon's top .22 caliber shooters, was victor yesterday in the annual May outdoor rifle tournament of Medford Rifle and Pistol club. He scored 1194 out of a pos sible 1200 for, grand aggregate honors. Brentlinger also took first in iron sights aggregate with 596 out of 600. George Hendricks, Etna, Cal., and William Schlitzgus, Eugene, were two points behind Brent linger, in the overall aggregate. Hendricks took second with 1192-80x and Schlitzkus was third with 1192-70x. Hamlin Winner Class aggregate winners were Russell Cornelius, Portland, 1190, expert; Victor Fogle, Springfield, 1186, sharpshooter, and Jack King, Ashland, 1159, sharpshooter. Florene Bolton, Medford, was high lady with 1171. Virgil Hamlin, Portland, last year's regional rifle champion, was tops in any sight aggregate shooting with 599-49x out of 600. Hendricks had 599-46x and Lee Swem, Portland, 599-42x. Schlitzkus and , Brentlinger took the buddy match with 398. Daniel Cross, Klamath Falls, with 188 was victor in the four- 880 Chuck Crandall (SOC): Go moll (PSC); DeMastus (EOC); Gower (OCE) 2:05.44 record. 220 Clarence Baker (SOC); McKen zie (OCE); Craven (EOC); Harmon (EOC) 22.4. record. , . 2-mile McLaughlin (PSC); Hart man (SOC); Helme (SOC); Malone (PSC) 11:20. Low hurdles Frank Good (EOC): Stamm (SOC); Stanton (EOC); Shaw (OTI), :25. Relay SOC (Livingston. Crandall, Stamm, Friend); EOC; PSC; OTI, 3:35.4, record. Shot put J. Atkins (OCE): Zimmer man (EOC); Roberts (PSC); Dixon (OCE) 45'. record. Discus V. Dixon (OCE): Boye (SOC); Fasteen (OTI); Kink (OTI); 122' 73;", record. Javelin H. Stephens (OCE); Shaef fer (PSC); Springer (SOC); Daggett (EOC). Broad jump Don McKenzie (OCE); Nelson (SOC); Carter (SOC); Harmon (EOC). High jump Green (PSC); tie Nel son (SOC) and Walch (EOC). 5" 10". Pole vault T. Fisher (OTI); Harri son (OCE); tie Nelson (SOC): Lone (OTI); King (OTI). 12' 7". record. position, international match,' There were 37 shooters. TOURNAMENT RESULTS: Match 1 (Dewar. iron sights) Winner. Brentlinger 398: 2nd. Schlitzkus 397-23x; 3rd Hendricks 397 22x. Expert. 1st Cornelius 397, 2nd Hugh Washburn, Klamath Falls, 396. Sharpshooter. 1st Fogle 396. 2nd Dan iel Cross, Klamath Falls. 392. Marks man. 1st J. R. Smith, Medford. 386: 2nd King 384. Match 2 (20 shots at 50 meters. Iron sights) Winner. Steve Washburn. Klamath Falls, 200, 2nd Lee Swem. Portland. 199- 12. 3rd Orel Lewis. Fort Jones. Calif., 199-11. Expert. 1st H. Wash, burn 197-9X. 2nd Cornelius 197-8X. Sharpshooter, 1st Fogle 199. 2nd Clin ton Charley, Medford. 197. Marksman, 1st Boyden Charley, Klamath. Calif 194. 2nd King 193. Match 3 (20 shots 50 meters) Winner. Florene Bolton 200-15x, 2nd Paul Dodge. Yreka. 200-14x. 3rd Swem 200- 14x. Expert. 1st Charles Smutz 200-14x La Grande. 2nd Cornelius 199. Sharpshooter, 1st D. J. Bolton. Med ford, 200-1 lx. 2nd Lewis 198. Marks man. 1st Delores Guise, Ashland. 197, 2nd King 195. Match 4 (2tf shots 50 yards, any sights) ." Winner. 1st Brentlinger 200-18X, 2nd Hendricks 200-18x, 3rd Schlitzkus 200 18x. Expert. 1st S. Washburn 200-16X. 2nd Bo Suter. Chico. Calif., 200-14X. Sharpshooter, 1st Orel Lewis 200-15X. iira u. j. ooiton zuu-iux. Marksman, 1st B. Charley 199-14x, 2nd Guiso 199-12. Match 5 (20 shots at 100 vards) Winner. Swem 200-16X. 2nd Ham lin 200-15X. 3rd Hendricks 200-13X. Expert, 1st Suter 199-11. 2nd Cornelius 199-11. Sharpshooter, 1st Fogle 198. 2nd Theodore Tellin, Klamath Falls 197. Marksman, 1st Carrie Haskins, Ashland, 197, 2nd King 196. Match 6 (Buddy match. 20 shots each buddy 100 yds) Winners. Brentlinger and Schlitzkus 398. Expert. Cornelius and Smutz 395 20x. Sharpshooter. F. Bolton and D. J. Bolton 395-14X. Marksman. Ernest Brazil, Yreka, and Eddie Desjardin, Crescent City, Calif.. 383. Match 7 (Iron Sight Aggregate) Winner, Brentlinger 596. 2nd S. ' Washburn 595-33X. 3rd Fogle 595-28X. Expert, 1st Cornelius 594. 2nd H. Washburn 593. Sharpshooter. 1st Lew is 590. 2nd Tellin 584. Marksman, . 1st King 577. 2nd Smith 574. Match 8 (Any Sight Aggregate) Winner, Hamlin 599-49x. 2nd Hen dricks 599-46X, 3rd Swem 599-42x. Ex pert, 1st Suter 597-38x. 2nd Jack Carl son. Corvallis. 597-32. Sharpshooter. 1st Lewis 595. 2nd Tellin 593. Marks- ' man. 1st B. Charley 588, 2nd Guise 587. Match 9 (Grand Aggregate) Winner. Brentlinger 1194. 2nd Hend ricks 1192-80X. 3rd Schlitzkus 1192 70x. Expert. 1st Cornelius 1190. 2nd S. Washburn 1187. Sharpshooter. 1st Fogle 1186. 2nd Lewis 1135. Marks man 1st King 1159, 2nd Guise 1154. Match 10 (Four Position) Winner. Cross 188. 2nd Tellin 185, 3rd Kose van ttuskirk. Asmana, 184. Total assets of all hospitals are more than $10,000,000,000. Dead line Sunday Classified ll at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. 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