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Newspaper Page TextTEH MEDfORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, June 17. 1955 Trucks Scores 7fc.: Victory; Sox Keep Pace With Yankees By MILTON RICHMAN United Pr Sports Writer Virgil Trucks of the White Sox admits some of the old-time fire is gone from "his fast bai? but even so, he still has enough stuff to keep that pennant light gleaming in Manager Marty Marion's eye. In the old days, Trucks used to average 10 to 12 strikeouts a game. But now at a more mel low 36, he leaves such feats to younger blood like Herb Score or Bob Turley. " So far this season, the Chi cago right-hander has recorded only 36 strikeouts, a far cry from Score's 107 err Turley's 96. But Trucks is right up there with both in the vital won-lost department. Even though he "struck out only four batters Thursday night. Trucks registered his sev enth victory of the season and his second shutout in a row beating Baltimore, 8-0. The six hit victory marked his fifth straight and kept the White Sox within two games of the pace setting Yankees in the close American League race. George Kell drove in four runs with three hits while Walt Dropo and Nellie Fox also slammed out three hits. Fox col lected 11 hits in 16 times up during the four-game series with the Orioles. Indians Beat Senators Cleveland remained a game behind the White Sox and three games off the pace by defeating Washington, 8-5. Bob Lemon failed to go the distance for the ninth time in his last 10 starts but gained his ninth victory after yielding all 12 Washington hits in eight innings. Mike Garcia came in to pitch the ninth and gave up two hits before striking out Mickey Vernon for the final out. Bobby Avila and Larry Doby each collected three hits to lead a 15-hit attack. Billy Klaus, who couldn't win a regular berth with either the Braves or the Giants, smashed a two-run homer in the last of the ninth off Johnny Sain to give the Red Sox a 7-6 triumph over the Athletics. Klaus' homer was one of four hit by Boston Ted Williams, Jackie Jensen and Norm Zauchin also connecting for the circuit. Reliever Tom Hurd gained his first victory of the year. Held scoreless by Frank Lary for eight innings, the Yankees erupted for all their runs in the ninth to nip the Tigers, 3-2. Yogi Berra's two-run homer and Elston Howard's pinch single with the bases full accounted for the Ynakees' runs. Southpaw Tommy Byrne pitched a four hitter and became the first Yan kee hurler to go the distance after 15 in a row had failed. Ted Kluszewski teed off for his 19th and 20th homers against the Dodgers and his second one of the game in the 10th inning to give the .Redlegs a 6-5 deci sion. Until he delivered the home run ball to "Klu" in the 10th, Father's Day June 19, 1955 MEDFORD'S FINEST MEN'S STORE MAIN AT CENTRAL relief pitcher Jim Hughes had retired 14 batters in a row. Her- shell Freeman gained the deci sion by relieving Art Fowler and hold Brooklyn scoreless over the last 3 23 innings. The Cubs strengthened their hold on second place in the Na tional League with a 2-1 victory qver the Giants. Warren Hacker hurled a five-hitter, losing his shutout when Bill Taylor hit a pinch homer in the eighth. The Cubs scored their two runs off Ramon Monzant in the third on a walk, Frank Baumholtz triple and a single by Ransom Jackson. Murry Dickson shut out the Braves for the second day in a row, limiting them to four hits while pitching the Phillies to a 3-0 victory. Bob Buhl started for Milwaukee, yielded seven of Philadelphia's nine hits and two of their runs, then left in favor of Ernie Johnson in the ninth. Harvey Haddis pitched his first complete game of the sea son and his first shutout as the Cardinals blanked the Pirates, 5-0, with the aid of homers by Al Red Schoendienst and Bill Sarni. Haddix allowed Pitts burgh only four hits in gaining his fourth victory against eight losses. Vern Law was the loser. LINESCORES: AMERICAN LEAGUE Kansas City ....200 000 400 6 10 2 Boston 001 010 032 7 8 2 Boyer. Sain (8i and Shantz. Nixon, Brodowski (81. Hurd (9) and White. Winning pitcher Hurd (1-3). Losing pitcher Sain (1-4). Cleveland 210 302 000 8 15 2 Washington ....000 200 3005 12 0 Lemon, Garcia (9) and Hegan. Stobbs. Abernathy (4). Ramos (8), Shea (9) and Courtney. Winning pitch er Lemon (9-5). Losing pitcher Stobbs (1-7). t Detroit 000 100 0102 4 0 New York 000 000 003 3 8 1 Lary (6-6) and Wilson. House (9). Byrne (4-1) and Berra. Chicago .200 121 0118 15 1 Baltimore 000 000 000 0 6 1 Trucks (7-4) and Lollar. Pillette, Coleman (6). and Smith. Triandos (7). Losing pitcher Pillette (0-2). National League New York 000 000 010 1 5 0 Chicago 002 000 OOx 2 5 0 Monzant. Wilhelm (8) and Westrum, Katt (8). Hacker (7-4) and Chiti. Los ing pitcher Monzant (0-2). Philadelphia .101 000 0013 9 0 Milwaukee ... 000 000 0000 4 1 Dickson (4-4) and Seminick. Buhl, Johnson (9) and Rice. Losing pitcher Buhl (3-5). Pittsburgh ....000 000 0000 4 0 St. Louis 202 100 OOx 5 10 1 Law. Face (5), Purkey 8 and Peter son. Haddix (4-8) and Sarni. Losing pitcher Law (2-2). (10 innings) Brooklyn ..100 200 200 0 5 11 MEDTORPjlTRIBUyE ' Florists Rap Klamath Girls; QT's Tumbled Standings PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. Prt. GB San Diego 44 31 .587 - SeatUe 43 32 .573 1 Hollywood 36 38 .500 6'.i Oakland 36 37 .493 7 Portland 33 38 .478 8 San Francisco 34 39 .466 9 Los Angeles 34 40 .459 9',i Sacramento 32 41 .437 11 Thursday's Results Portland 7. Hollywood 0 . Seattle 7 . San Francisco 8 Oakland 3. San Diego 2 Los Angeles 3, Sacramento 0 How Series Stand Seattle 3. San Francisco 0 Los Angeles 2. Sacramento 1 Oakland 2. San Diego 1 Portland 2. Hollywood 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB New York 40 21 .656 Chicago 35 20 .636 2 Cleveland 36 23 .610 3 Detroit 31 26 .544 7 Boston 28 31 .475 11 Washington 23 35 .397 15 Va Kansas City - 22 37 .373 17 Baltimore 19 41 .317 20i Thursday's Results New York 3, Detroit 2 Cleveland 8. Washington 5 Boston 7, Kansas City 6 Chicago 8. Baltimore 0 (night) Friday's Probable Pitchers Chicago at New York (night) Don ovan (7-2) vs. Ford (7-2). Detroit at Baltimore (night) Gro mek (6-3) vs. Dorish (3-01 Kansas City at Washington (night) Portocarrero (0-3) vs. Porterfield (7-7) Saturday's Games Chicago at New York Kansas City at Washington Detroit at Baltimore Cleveland at Boston NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB Brooklyn 44 15 .746 Chicago 34 26 .567 10 'i New York 31 28 .525 13 Milwaukee 29 30 .492 15 Philadelphia 25 31 .448 17i Cincinnati 24 30 .444 17 i St. Louis 24 31 ".436 18 Pittsburgh 19 39 .328 24 ',i Thursday's Results Philadelphia 3. Milwaukee 0 Chicago 2. New York 1 Cincinnati 6. Brooklyn S (10 innings. night) St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 0 (night) Friday's Probable Pitchers Pittsburgh at Cincinati : (night) Law (2-1) vs. Collum (4-1). New York at Milwaukee (maht) Antonelli (6-7) vs. Spahn (4-7). Brooklyn at St. Louis (night) New combe (10-1) vi. Lawrence (2-5) or Jones (1-2). Saturday's Games Pittsburgh at Cincinnati New York at Milwaukee Philadelphia at Chicago Brooklyn at St. Louis, night Cincinnati ..100 310 000 16 8 1 Labine. Roebuck (4). Hughes (6) and Oampanella. Nuxhall, Fowler (5), Free man (7) and Burgess. Winning pitch er Freeman (2-1). Losing pitcher Hughes (0-2). f Announcing- 1 Ar n for the first time f since Repeal... .A limited soipply off j r YEAR OLD J V HlEMMIITA(&E ) BRAND 1 . KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY I . . After rot enriching ye aw, Old Hermitage - laSsl i J A is at toe petk of its flavor. Now yonH don: this great ff " . Kentucky bowbon with more plesre, serve it jr1tda f ) with more pride but pay tlie same as before. If yoor ff (abeo gYtAlllJMn- good taste amaitt4tMXiWmff HERMITAGE . j . BRAND i Cr -Tw l I & tOTUIY - M KnrniCKYSTiuicaT BOURBON WHISKEY tOTTUt IT ck Oti Humtaci Cotmar , Mwnut sr. fftumtr. n .80 PT. 45 QT. 86 PROOF. THE OLD HERMITAGE CO U PA MY. FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY Erv Lind Florists had their bad moments at the fairgrounds park here last night but the flashy, hard-hitting, hard-throwing Portland girl softballers had too much class and too much pitching for their rivals as they slugged out a 13 to 3 triumph over the Basin-Ettes of Klamath Falls. The fracas, matching Port land's Western Women's Soft ball League entry, and Klam th's reigning Oregon champs, was the main attraction of a gals' doubleheader. In the open er the Roseburg Lumberjills collected two runs in the final seventh stanza to tumble the Rogue Valley QT's 7 to 5. The colorful Florists, who play with snappy precision and throw, run and hit like and as well as many men, demonstrated aptly why they are one of the top women's aggregations on the Pacific coast and why a number of their squad have gleaned All American honors. Three home runs and three doubles highlighted the Portland offensive. While the Florists were blasting out five hits, Pitchers Pearl Pinion and Mar ian Kozak limited the Klamath nine to a lone scratch hit. Big Fifth Inning " Majority of the Lind runs were crammed into the fifth in ning when the Portlanders cap italized on Hap Piper's three run round - tripper, three other hits and four Basin-Ette miscues. Seven runs crossed the plate in the frame. Kozak doubled and Robbie Mulkey and Carolyn Fitzwater socked singles. A base on balls and a fielder's option along with a passed ball also had a role in the run production. The Florists got two runs in the third panel on Mulkey's home run, a base, on balls, a. pass ed ball, Margaret Dobson's sacri fice and a wild pitch. Norma Eby led off a four-run fourth with a homer. Fitzwater and Bev Cox got singles in the inning and a sacrifice flyout by Pinion and a walk, error and stolen base help ed out. Maxine Johanson beat out the throw for Klamath's hit in the fourth inning and a couple of errors permitted her to score. A base on balls, error on a fielder's option, a wild pitch and a ground out.. Ob Ball to Oulfitld Combined pitching and field ing strength of the Flower Girls was such that the Basin-Ettes hit only one ball out of the in field. That was a fly ball easily caught. The Lind misplays were bad throws by Catcher Lois Wil liams. Klamath failed to get any one on base in five of the inn ings. Williams hit two doubles in three times up for the Florists and Mulkey and Fitzwater each got two for four. Roseburg gained its winning markers on an error, two bases on balls, two wild pitches and a ground out. Three Jill runs came in the first inning on hits by Clayre Carter and Margaret Blizard, a base on balls and an error. An error, a couple of ground outs, a walk and Gladys Oyler's single accounted for two in the second. The QT's used a hit by Doris Hickson, a base on balls and a four-base error for three runs in the third canto. They tied up the score in the fourth inning with two runs. Dorothy Shearing got a single and Diane Tuttle a double. There was one error and a wild pitch in the stanza. The shapely Florists may. re turn here on August 30 against the Fresno Rockets, present world champions. LINESCOBES: Klamath Falls 000 102 ft 1 1 Florists 002 470 X 13 10 S Haynun and Larson. P. Barron (S), Pinion, Kozak (6) and Williams. Roseburf . 320 000 8 J f J Kogue Valley ....003 200 05 4 7 - Blizard and Gildersleeve; Ingle, Hickson (7) and Schroeder. Leaaue Leaders AMERICAN LEAGUE ' 1 Player Club G AB H Pet JKaUne. Detroit ..57 222 4 83 .374 i Kuenn. Detroit . 49 198 30 67 .338 Power K City 32 zui ' tWd fS" Chicago -7. 55 225 34 74 .329 Lgukr. Chi" 48 155 25 50 .323 National League m Ashburn. Phil. 4 117 34 83 J56 Kluszski. Cinti. -.53 212 37 73 344 Long Pitts. 50 148 21 49 .336 Mueller NY 55 227 26 74 J26 Campnla, Bkn59 220 40 71 rJ23 Home Runs Kluszewski. Redlegs 20; Snider. Dodgers. 20: Campanella, Dodgers 19: Mays, Giants 17; Zernial, Athletics 15. . . ... Runs Batted Tn Snider, Dodgers 83; Campanella, Dodgers 60: Kluszewski. Redlegs 45: Ennis. Phillies 45: Man tle. Yankees 44; Kaline. Tigers 44. Runs Mantle. Yankees 56: Snider, Dodgers 54; Bruton, Braves 49; Smith, Indians 48; Kaline. Tigers 46; Gilliam, mtsIilCaiine. Tigers 83: Fox White Sox 74: Aaron. Braves 74: Mueller, Giants 74; Kluszewski. Redlegs 73. Pitching Newcombe. Dodgers 10:1: Wynn Indians 8-1: Donovan, white Sox 7-2- Loes. Dodgers (7-2); Arroyo, Cardinals (7-2). 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