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trtJHT MTOrORD (OHEGON) mail tribune sg Leaguers SQast 26 Vomers As (Bums, Yanks (Main Leads dodo wison May Fight Don Cocke 1 1 .KCRICA.N LEAGUE W. L. Kw York 30 13 Cleveland hicatro Detroit Bcston Vashineton Kansas City ...2 13 25 16 22 20 19 26 17 24 ..16 25 Baltimore 1 30 Pet. GB .698 .634 3 .610 4 .524 7'j .422 12 .415 12 .390 13 .318 16 i Manrfay's Results Kansas Citv 8. Detroit 6 1st i Kansas City 3. Detroit 4 i2nd. 11 innings t Washington 3. New York 2 list. 10 innings) - New York 5. Washington 3 (2nd) Baltimore 8. 3oston 6 ilsti Boston 8. Baltimore 1 (2nd) Cleveland 9. Chicago 1 Usti Chicago 5. Cleveland 0 (2nd) NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Brooklyn 32 10 Chicago 27 17 New York 23 21 Wiiwaukee - 21 22 St. Louis 18 22 Cincinanti 18 23 Philadelphia 18 24 Pittsburgh 12 30 Prt. GB .7fc2 .614 6 .323 10 .488 11 ',2 .430 13 .439 13' 2 .429 14 286 20 Monday's Results Brooklyn 8. Pittsburgh 4 lst v Brooklyn 8. Pittsburgh 3 (2ndi J New York 6. Philadelphia 5 (1st) Pmlaaelphia 3. New tfork 1 i2nd) MilwauKee 7. Cincinnati 6 (lsti Milwaukee 8. Cincinnati 4 (2nd) X Chicago 9. St. Lotus 5 1st. 10 inn.) Chicago 4. St. Louis 3 (2nd. 11 inn.) NATIONAL LEAGUE Player & Cluo G AB R H Pet. Ashburn Pnua. ..Wi 128 25 4B .383 Mueller, N.Y 41 11 20 b2 .363 Vndon. St. L 23 128 J .jjo Campnla. Bklyn. 2 139 29 53 .333 Kiusicki. Cm 40 159 26 53 .333 AMERICAN LEAGUE Kaline. Det 42 166 32 61 .367 Power. Kan. C. . 34 137 23 48 Mantle. N Y 43 149 43 49 330 329 Evers. Balto. . 33 102 14 33 .324 Home Runs Kluszewski. Redlegs 13; Mays. Giants. Campanella. Dodgers, Snider. Dodgers. Zernial, Athletics, ail 12. Runs Batted In Campanella. Dodg ers 44: Snider. Dodgers 42. Berra, Yankees 38: Mantle. Yankees. Jensen, Red Sox. Kluszewski, Redlegs. all 35. ski. Redlegs. all 35. Runs Mantle. Yankees 43; Bauer, Yankees 40: Smith. Indians 38: Snider. Dodgers 37. Hits Muller. Giants 62: Kaline, Tigers 61: Kuenn. Tigers 38; Aaron, Braves 36. Pitching Newcombe. Dodgers (8-0): Jeffcoat, Cubs 6-0: Arroyo. Cardinals 5-0i; Conley. Braves 7-1; Ford. Yan kees (6-1). By JOHN GRIFFIN United Prtss Sports Wrilar Major-league baseball fired a 31 -homer salute in honor of Me morial Day and when the smoke settled today, rookie Bob Speake of the surprising Chica go Cubs turned out to be the holiday's biggest blaster. Speake, a mere .264 hitter in the Class A Western league last season, sparked two rallies that carried the Cubs to a 9-5, 10 inning victory in the opener By UNITED PRESS The Indians and , White Sox lured 40,645 fans to Comiskey park, Chicago, the largest crowd of the season at that arena, to top an outpouring of 193.548 at major-league games Memorial day. The total attendance for the holiday presented a slight in crease over last year's 190. 357. but there were eight pro grams this year and only sev en due to rain in Milwaukee last year. On an average, the holiday crowds dropped from last year's 27.193 per game to this year's 24.195. against the St. Louis Cardinals and then settled the 11-inning nightcap with a homer that pro duced a 4-3 triumph. And thus the "Windy City wonders" passed the Memorial Day milestone as the only Na tional League team offering the runaway Brooklyn Dodgers a serious fight. The Dodgers also swept a twin bill, 8-4, and 8-3, over last-place Pittsburgh, and did the day's greatest mass cannonading with five homers. But, thanks to Speake's heroics, the Brooklyn blasters were unable to improve on their league lead of six games. Speake's two homers gave him a total of 10 and his five runs-batted-in a total of 32. And the 24-year-old southpaw swinger from Springfield, Mo., has com piled a .304 batting mark that is a far cry from his Western league average. Williams Hits First Homer Ted (The Thumper) Williams, joined the holiday slugging with his first homer of the year in the Boston Red Sox' opening game, an 8-6 loss to Baltimore, before the Sox took the night cap, 8-1. It was the 367th homer of Ted's big-league career and served as a warning to all pitch ers that the game's last .400 hitter is whacking the ball again. Roy Campanella and pitcher Don Newcombe each smashed two homers in the Dodger tri umphs, Newcombe's pair help ing him to the nightcap victory that gave him the best pitching record in the majors eight wins and no losses. Russ Meyer was the opening winner, with relief from Ed Rosebuck. Willie May's two - run eighth inning homer gave the New York Giants an opening game, 6-5 victory over Philadelphia, smashing the Phillies' seven game winning streak. But lefty Jack Meyer dropped the Giants 10 games behind Brooklyn by "saving' a 3-1 victory for Bob Kuzava in the night cap. It was the third time Meyer relieved and stopped the Giants within seven days. The Milwaukee Braves swept a twin bill from Cincinnati, 7-6, and 8-4 with substitute first baseman George Crowe the big man. Crowe singled home the winning run in the opening game, his third hit of that fray, and then walloped a three-run homer and scored two runs in the second game. In the American league, the New York Yankees maintained their three-game lead over Cleve land by rallying to win the sec ond game of a doubleheader from Wasington, 5-3, after losing the opener, 3-2. Cleveland beat Chi cago. 9-1 in their opener, and the White Sox took the second, 5-0, behind Billy Pierce. Kan sas City took two games from Detroit. 8-6, and 5-4. Irv Noren"s pinch-hit single with the bases loaded in the seventh inning scored two runs to break a 3-3 tie and give the Yankees their victory. In the opener, pinch-hitter Mickey Mc Dermott of Washington also singled with the bases loaded, this time in the 10th inning, to give Porterfield a pitching vic tory over Bob Turley. Pierce, who beat Cleveland on three hits a week ago al lowed the Indians just seven this time and the only Tribe runner to reach third base got there on an error. Pierce helped himself with three singles. Bob Lemon of Cleveland pitched a six-hitter in the opener for his first complete game since April 30. Baltimore scored two ninth inning runs on two walks and two hits to beat Boston in their opener, but Ike Delock held the Orioles to four hits in the sec ond game. Ex-Yankee Johnny Sain pitch ed two-hit relief ball for 3 1-3 innings to save the opener for Kansas City. Gus Zernial singled home the winning run in the nightcap in the 11th in ning. NATIONAL LEAGUE (1st Game) Phila 100 011 0205 10 0 New York 030 010 02x 8 1 Dickson. Simmons (8) and Seminick. Gomez. Grissom (8). McCall (9) and westrum. Winning pitcher Grissom (2-0). Losing pitcher Simmons (1-2). (2nd Game) Phila 000 120 0003 4 0 New York 000 000 010 1 7 0 Kuzava. Meyer (8) and Lopata. Lid- dle. Giel (6). Wilhelm (9) and Katt. Winning pitcher Kuzava (1-0). Losing pitcher Liddle (1-2). (1st Game) Milwaukee 300 012 010 7 17 1 Cincinnati 110 002 200 6 12 3 Spahn. Buhl (6). Nichols (7). Jolly IB, Vargas '9' and Cranriall. Fowler. Ridzak 12). Staley . Freeman 8, Lippstein 9i and Burgess. Winning pitcher Nichols (4-3). Los in pitcher Freeman (1-1). (2nd Game) Milwaukee 400 020 0028 12 0 Cincinnati 013 000 000 4 10 1 Jay.. Robinson i3i and Crandall Podbielan, Minarcin (7).. Freeman (9) and Landrith. Winning pitcher Rob inson (2-0). Losing pitcher Podlie lan (1-1 1. (1st Game. 10 Innings) Chicago ......000 120 002 4 IS 1 St. Louis .. 010 1 01 002 0 5 11 0 Winner. Pollet (10) and Chiti. G. Gordon. LawTence (5. LaPalme (10), Schuitz (10) and Sarni. Winning pitcher Lawrence (2-4). (2nd Game, 11 Innings) Chicago ...100 000 200 014 8 2 St. Louis . 200 000 001 00 3 9 0 Davis. Pollet (9) and Chiti. Jackson, Smith 18). Tiefenauer (10) and Rice. Winning pitcher Pollet (2-0). Losing pitcher Tiefenauer (1-3). (1st Game) Pittsburgh 000 000 2204 2 Brooklyn 040 103 OOx 8 10 1 Purkey. Pepper 3). Wade (3). Law (7) and Shepard. Peterson (4). Meyer, Roebuck (8) and Campanella. Winning pitcher Meyer (3-1). Losing pitcher Purkey (2-4). (2nd Game) Pittsburgh 200 000 0103 12 4 Brooklyn 001 211 21x 8 li 1 Kline, Face 7 and Shepard. New combe (8-9i and Campanella. Losing pitcher Kline (2-7). AMERICAN 1 EAGLE (1st Game. 10 Innings) New York . 000 000 001 12 5 0 Wash 000 000 010 2 3 8 1 Turley. Morgan (1) and Berra. Por terfield 1 6-5 1 and Oldis. Edwards (10). Losing pitcher Turley (8-2). (2nd Game) New York 101 010 200 5 12 1 Washington ... 000 300 000 3 4 1 Bryne i2-0) and Berra. Schmitz. Pas cual. McDermott (7) and Edwards. Losing pitcher Pascual (1-2). (1st Game) Cleveland 230 000 130 9 18 0 Chicago 000 010 000 1 8 2 Lemon (7-4) and Hegan. Naragon (Si. Harshman. Martin (1), Keegan (2. Dorish (8), Chakales (8) and Court ney. Losing pitcher Harshman (3-3). (2nd Game) Cleveland 000 000 0000 7 0 Chicago 001 001 12x 5 13 1 Garcia. Wight (7). Houtteman (8) and Hegan. Pierce (4-2 1 and Lollar. Losing pitcher Garcia (3-3). (1st Game) Kansas City ....240 000 0108 13 0 Detroit 302 010 000 10 3 Witmar, Sain (6) and W. Shantz. Lary, Aber (3). Carver (9) and House. Winning pitcher Ditmar (3-1). Losing pitcher Lary (4-5). (2nd Game. 11 Innings) Kans. C 200 010 100 015 18 2 Detroit 000 021 010 00 4 9 3 Raschi, Sleater (6). Gorman (6). Sain (7). Cecarelli (9) and Astroth. Maas. Christante (3). Fletcher (6). -Zuverink (9) and R. Wilson. Winning pitcher Cecarelli (1-2). Losing pitcher Zu verink (0-2). (1st Game) Baltimore 119 021 1028 12 0 Boston 300 001 0208 8 1 Byrd. Moore (8) and Smith. Sulli van Henry (8), Hurd (9) and White. Winning pitcher Moore (2-3). Losing pitcher Hurd (0-2). (2nd Game) Baltimore 000 000 0101 4 1 Boston 130 100 30x 8 10 0 McDonald. Johnson (5). Kretlow (7) and Moss. Delock (5-3) and Daley. LjwinitcliejMpnaldJjr SLHDnRTrS Studs Outslug Yreka Diamond Nine 22-16; Fray Here Wednesday Medford" s Cheney Studs are hosts Wednesday night to the Yreka, Calif., semi-pro baseball nine and, if the clash bears any similarity to the one played yes terday at Yreka, what a slugfest fans will see at the fairgrounds ball park. Wow! Thirty-eight runs crossed the plate and 44 hits, including six home runs, smashed out as the Studs overcame the California crew 22 to 16 in the holiday afternoon engagement. Jack Cooney of the Cheney gang led the home run parade with a 360-foot clout over the right field wall in the fifth in ning and a 400-footer over the center field fence in the eighth. One man was on base each time. In the fourth canto Manager Clarence Mellbye of the Studs began the roundtripper parade with a bases-loaded slam over the left field barrier. Lloyd Hof fine cracked the ball over the middle fence in the sixth with a runner on base and Ritchie Price duplicated in ninth with two on. Clark got the lone homer for Yreka. Five Pitchers Raked Hitters teed off against five pitchers as Medford had the slugging edge 26 to 18. Mellbye and Harvey Tonn headed Medford swatters with four raps in five times up and Hoffine hit four for six. Tonn connected for one double. Ed McCullough and Bill McLean had four for seven afternoons for the Studs while Cooney socked three for six and Price three for seven. Jones was the overall heavy hitter for Yreka with a double, triple and two singles in six turns. Clark had two singles in addition to the homer. Derushia hit three for six wih two doubles and Kruitzer slugged three for six with one a double. A hard gravelly field helped produce the hits. Whether bat ters can have the same success on the fairgrounds turf is a ques tion to be answered only Wednesday. The Studs had the two biggest innings in the holiday mix with four in the first and six in the fourth. They scored in all but one frame while the Yrekans got runs in six panels. Hoffine, top hurler for the Southern Oregon college nine during the season just past, may handle the pitching scores for the Studs on Wednesday night. He played right field on Mon day. Yreka pitching choice ap pears to lie among Costello, Hewing and Cummingg. Bill Kleaver may be the Yre ka receiver. Likely infielderg are Clark, first base; Hodgen, sec ond base; Krutzer, third base, and Jones, shortstop. Outfielders could be picked from among Fasolette, Moffit,. Derushia and Beneke. LINESCORES: Medford 401 622 22332 28 3 Yreka 232 330 003 18 18 7 Kelley. Mellbye (4) and McLean: Costello. Hewing (1), Cumminga (7) and Kleaver. Patty Berg Named To Replace Babe San Francisco (U.R) Party Berg, former National Wom en's Open champion, will sub stitute for Babo Zaharias in the National Golf Day compe tition here June 4. Mrs. Zaharias announced yesterday in Beaumont, Tex., that she would hare to cancel her golf commitments because of a back and leg injury. The sponsors of National Golf Day, Life magazine and the PGA, named Miss Berg to replace the Babe. Miss Berg will arrive here . Thursday in preparation for playing the Saturday rent en the Olympie club course with National Open Champion Ed Furgol. "I'm not much of a substi tute for the Babe," Miss Berg said, "but I'll do my best." San Francisco (U.R) World middleweight champion Carl (Bobo) Olson will tangle with Don Cockell, recent losing chal lenger for the world heavy weight crown, in London in Au gust, if present plans go through, Manager Sid Flaherty said to day. I have a man in England now conferring with promoters on the project," said Flaherty. "If we get the right kind of an offer, I expect Bobo will battle Cockell." Trip Definite Flaherty said that no matter what happens during the Olson Archie Moore battle June 22 for the world lightheavyweight crown, that the trip to Europe will be made. "I'm planning on taking seven or eight fighters over there and Olson will represent the light heavyweight class," said Flaherty- "I've sent Jack Beynon, for mer local promoter, ahead to discuss financial arrangements with promoters. If he comes up with the right amount of money, we hope tot match Olson with Cockell." Cockell Weighs 210 Cockell, the British Empire heavyweight champion who weighs around the 210 mark, recently was knocked out in the ninth round by Rocky Marciano in a try for the world title at San Francisco. TO REPLACE LABUA New York (U.R) Hardy Smallwood of Brooklyn has been named to replace Jackie Labua of Long Island City, N.Y., in the feature 10-round bout against Rafael Marentino of Argentina, at St. Nicholas Arena, Monday night, June 6. Summit, N. J. (U.R) Light heavyweight champion Archie Moore began training here Mon day in pieparation for his world title bout with middleweight champion Carl (Bobo) Olson in New York's Polo Grounds, June 22. Oaks Beat Pads Twice In Holiday Twin Bill; Portland Splits Pair PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. 38 20 29 28 ..30 San Diego .. San Francisco ... Seattle Oakland .... Portland .... Los Angeles Hollywood Sacramento 29 .27 29 ....26 27 26 28 31 31 .25 32 Pet. GB .655 .509 8'2 .508 82 .482 10 .481 10 .466 11 .456 11 'i .439 12' j Monday's Results San Francisco 8-11. Seattle 7-2 Portland 6-2. Hollywood 5-4 Sacramento 6-4. Los Angeles 4-0 Oakland 10-2. San Diego 1-1 How Series Stand San Francisco 2, Seattle 0 Sacramento 2, Los Angeles 0 Oakland 2. San Diego 0 Portland 1, Hollywood 1 By DON THACKREY United Press Sports Writer The Memorial day accident toll in the Pacific Coast league was plenty high this year par ticularly in the vicinity of first place San Diego. The Padres, who have been acting like they never heard of speed laws ran into a road block thrown up by Lefty O'Doul and lost twice to their ex-manager 10-1 and 2-1. The rest of the league took full advantage of the Padre mis step. The San Francisco Seals rose to the dizzy heights of sec ond place with 8-7 and 11-2 wins over Seattle. Sacramento brought Los Angeles back into the second division with 6-4 and 4-0 boppings. And Portland and Hollywood each gained a game by splitting Portland 6-5 and Hollywood 4-2. Pads Score Twice O'Doul, who brought San Diego a pennant last season, brought them double trouble yesterday. His Oaks won big in the first one and close in the second, holding the rampant Pads to a total of two runs and nine hits. Don Ferrarese held the Padres to three blows in the first game, slapped a homer himself and picked up the victory. Jim Marshall hit an Acorn home run in the ninth inning a frame that saw the Oaks score eight times to cinch the win. In the, second game Allen Get tel went the six-hit distance and the Oaks got to Lloyd Dickey for the necessary two runs in the fifth frame. San Francisco replaced Seat tle in the runner-up spot on southpaw wins. Gene Bearden picked up his eighth victory without defeat as the Seals came from behind to win with two in the seventh of the first game. Nini Tornay hit a homer for the winners. In the second the Seals pro vided Steve Nagy with plenty of runs. Steve rationed the Rain iers to five hits, one a homer by Ray Orteig. DiPietro Hits Again Bob DiPietro hit in his 22nd and 23rd straight contests for the Seals. Sacramento got five hit pitch ing from Marino Pieretti in the opener and won when Tommy Glaviano and Al Heist hit con secutive home runs in the sixth. Bob Usher and Steve Bilko hom ered for Los Angeles. In the second game Earl Har rist blanked the Angels on two hits while the Cherubs were contributing four errors to the Sacramento cause. Portland had to go 10 innings to win the first game as Eddie Basinski scored the winning run on Artie Wilson's sacrifice fly. Carl Scheib took the win in relief and Lino Donoso, fourth Star hurler, was the loser. In the second game, George OTJonnen got the win In relief and Bob Hall was charged with the defeat. Wilson hit a homer for the only two Portland runs in the third inning, t THE LINESCORES: (1st game) Oakland 001 001 00810 13 0 San Diego ... 000 001 000 1 3 1 Ferrarese and Neal: Carmichael, Lyons (9), Bishop (9) and Bailey. (2nd game) Oakland 000 020 02 3 0 San Diego 100 000 0 1 6 1 Gettel and Swift; Dickey and Bailey. (1st game) Seattle ...030 022 0007 8 0 San Francisco 001 212 20 x 8 13 2 Lombardi, Kennedy i7l. Singleton (8) and Ginsberg; Bearden. Bradford (8) and Tornay. (2nd Game) Seattle 100 000 1 2 5 2 San Francisco 152 003 x 11 10 0 Heard. Kelly 2. Oldham (2) and Orteig: Nagy and Tornay. Spokane, Wash. (U.R) Ray Kenworthy reported to the sher iff's officers that someone enter ed his corral and clipped two and a half feet from the tail of one of his horses. Sacramento ... 000 212 010 6 11 2 Los Angeles ....100 100 020 4 5 2 Pieretti and Shecly; Hillman. Elston (8) and Fanning. (2nd Game) Sacramento 300000 1 4 0 Los Angeles 000 000 0 0 2 4 Harrist and Baich; Pyecha. Kuncl (6) and Pramesa. (1st Game 10 Innings) Hollywood . 000 201 002 05 8 1 Portland 000 110 012 16 12 4 Trimble. CTDonnell (9). Witt (9) Do noso (91 and Bragan; Lint. Scheib (10) and Robertson. (2nd Game) Hollvwood 010 020 1 4 T 1 Portland 002 000 0 2 8 0 Garber. O'Donnell (5) and W. HalU 1 R. Hall. Anthony (7) and Robertson. TOP Saturday, 3wme 4 Posse Grounds MEUDFdDKUD Time Trials 7 P.M. Races 8 P.M. 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