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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Yankees Regain Front Spot; Giants, Tribe Have Trouble By MILTON RICHMAN United Press Spoilt Writer The Giants and Indians form ed a perfect pennant parlay in 1954 but it looks like you can tear up your tickets today if you bet on either of 'em for 1955. Everything has been . going wrong for both the world champ ion Giants and the American league champion Indians lately. Take, for example, the Giants who dropped to fourth place in the National league when they lost to the Braves, 8-7 Sunday. Capt. Alvin Dark committed two errors, the second -of which let in the deciding run in the CP-MEDFORD NINE; STAYS DISTRICT STANDINGS W L Pet. Cen. Point Medford 6 0 1.000 Ashland 4 2 .H67 Klamath Falls 2 4 .333 ijkeview u 6 .000 At least two hard series re main for the Central Point-Med- ford squad in its campaign for the District 4 American Legion junior baseball bunting. But un der present circumstances, the pressure will be on the opposi tion. CP-Medford was still strongly entrenched in the lead yesterday after toppling the Klamath Falls Cokes here 4 to 2 and 6 to 5. And the club was in the best position among teams in the circuit to go on to the cham pionship. The victories were the fifth and sixth in the district for CP M crew and brought to the half way mark of the chase at the only unblemished nine. Ash land continued in second spot yesterday by downing Lakeview 13 to 2 and 15 to 1. Pitcher Duane Sides tossed three hit ball in the opener and Gordon Owsley and Kldon Fran cis drove in the counters which provided the two run victory margin. Thrower Fred Herr mann was tagged for eight bingles in the wind-up fray but he drove in a second inning tally and came through with the squeeze bunt which enabled La val Meunier to cross with the winning run. One at a Time CP-Medford collected its runs one at a time in the starter while Klamath got both its markers in a single canto. Meunier began the scoring in the second inning by hitting, stealing second and coming home on Jim Putney's one-baser. Ed Reinking's bingle, Dick Mc Laughlin's hit, Francis's rap and an error got a third inning tally. McLaughlin singled and ' Fran cis three - baggered for a run in the fifth. Sides led off with a double in the sixth frame. After Laval Meunier walked Putney sacrificed the runners to second and third. Owsley's single then brought home Sides. In the fourth panel Klamath Falls used two errors, a hit by Jerry Bramwell and a squeeze bunt by Joe Tawney for its scores. Bob Harshbarger was almost a one-man wrecking crew with his bat for Klamath in the -second tussle. He hit two triples and a single in three times up to drive in two runs and give impetus to another. But the Cokes first base man was guilty of a miscue in the sixth inning which enabled CP Medford's winning run. Meunier Scores In the sixth Meunier drew a base on balls. Putney laid down a sacrifice bunt which got Meu nier to second. Harshbarger, af ter the putout at first, heaved wild past second base and the CP-M runner went on to third. Herrmann then bunted to bring Meunier in. Pitcher Don Tauch er made a desperate effort to get the ball home but Meunier had reached the plate in time. The locals gained two runs in the first inning on singles by Larry Perkins and Ed Reinking, a sacrifice by Owsley and two o FLAWLESS FORM MARKS pitch by Bantam Ben Hogan out of sand trap to green as he seeks .mother United States Open Golf Championship at San Francisco's Lakeside Golf Course- i eighth; Willie Mays was bench ed for the first time in his life, and starter Ruben Gomez, a 17 game winner last year was ham mered out after a five-run first inning. The Indians didn't look any better as the Red Sox blasted out 16 hits, including a pair of hom ers by Ted Williams for an 11-7 victory that dropped Cleveland four full games behind the Yan kees, who regained the Ameri can league lead by beating the White Sox twice, 7-1 and 5-2. Cleveland's loss to Boston Sun day was the seventh in 12 games so far this season as contrasted DOWNS KF UNBEATEN errors. Klamatlt tied the game up in the second stanza on a Harshbarger triple, Orin Park in's single and an error. Central Point - Medford went back into the lead in the bot tom of the second on a walk, Putney's sacrifice, an error and Herrmann's single. Two miscues and Harshbarger's safety let KF tie up the mix at three all in the third canto. Two walks and a Harshbarger misplay allowed the local team to get in a run in the fourth inning and Francis tripled after McLaughlin's two - bagger for a fifth inning score. Klamath put over a pairof markers in the sixth inning to tie the count again. Factors were a single by Taucher, triple by Harshbarg er, an error, a passed ball and a balk. In his first game three-hitter Sides fanned five batters and walked four while Darrell Rusth was giving nine hits, whiffed three and walking two. Herr mann in yielding eight hits, struckout seven batters, includ ing the three men he faced in the first inning. He walked only one. Taucher gave five raps and two bases on balls and struckout three. Harshbarger had a four for six hitting day. Francis swatted three for six. Central Point-Medford travels to Lakeview next Sunday and will be favored to stay unbeaten. LINESCORES: (First Game) Klamath Falls .. 000 200 0 2 3 4 CP-Med Oil 011 X 4 S 4 Rusth and Burke; Sides aud Meun ier. (Second Game) Klamath Falls .. 021 002 03 8 9 CP.-Med 210 lil x 6 5 4 Taucher and 3urke; Hermann and Meunier. Wh iters Top Eagle Point Camp White The Camp White semi-pro baseball nine overcame Eagle Point with a seven-run surge in the seventh inning yesterday to hang on to unbeaten lead in the Rogue Val ley League. Final score was 15 to 12. Ed Peill homered for Camp White and Bud Osburn for Eagle Point. Peill hit three for four and Al Kimura three for six for CW. The Whiters had a four-run second inning while EP had three frames of three runs each. Glendale kept second place in the loop by nipping Grants Pass Stars 2 to 1, but Grants Pass won a non-loop second hassle, 9 to 3. Ashland scored its first RVL vic tory, turning back Butte Falls 6 to 1. LINESCORE: Eagle Point 113 330 001 12 Camp White 040 001 72x 15 Mintz. Johnson and Gamer: Christ ian, Jones and Tresham, Eccleston. Mike Moran Scores 10 Murray, Ky. (U.R) .Mike Moran, all-state center at Eu gene, Ore., high school, scored 10 points Saturday night as the North lost a 79-68 decision to the South in the annual high school all-star basketball game. Monday, June 20. 1955 to the Indians 1954 showing when they beat the Red Sox 20 out of 22. And whereas the Giants were just beginning to launch their winning spurt a year ago today, they seem to be heading in the other direction now with four straight losses. The Yankees, who relinquish ed first place to the White Sox for 24 hours, grabbed it back quickly as veteran Ed Lopat hurled a seven-hitter in the op ener and benefited from homers by Elston Howard and Bill Skowron. After the White Sox tied the score at 2-all in the sev enth inning of the opener, the Yanks stormed back in the bot tom half of the inning for three runs on Gil McDougald's fourth homer, a triple by Hank Bauer and Mickey Mantle's 16th homer. Jim Konstanty relieved Johnny Kucks in the seventh and gained his fourth victory. Rain cut heavily into the Am erican league schedule, washing out scheduled doubleheaders be tween the Athletics and Senators and the Tigers and Orioles.- Brooklyn increased its Nation al league lead to 11 full games with a 7-4 victory over St. Louis while the second-place Cubs bowed, 1-0, in a 15-inning opener against the Phillies, then took an 8-7 nightcap which was called in the seventh because of dark ness. Pittsburgh beat Cincinnati, 5-2, in the first of two games but the Redlegs won the finale 4-0. Karl Spooner was credited with the Dodger victory, his first of the season, after relieving starter Carl Erskine in the fifth. Sandy Amoros homered off loser Floyd Woolridge to put the Dod gers ahead 2-1 in the fourth and they added three more runs in the fifth with the aid of two errors by Bill Virdon. Jeffcoat Loses First In the 15-inning struggle, Hal Jeffcoat, who relieved starter Jim Davis in the 11th, suffered his first loss after six victories when Marv Blaycock singled in the 15th and Willie Jones doub led him home. , Jack Meyer of the Phils re lieved Ron Negray in the eighth and was the winning pitcher. Del Ennis three-run homer in the seventh off Howie Pollet drew the Phils within one run of the Cubs in the nightcap but Warren Hacker came on to nail down the win for Pollet. Two homers by Big Dale Long and one by Roberto Clemente offset Ted Kluszewski's 21st ho mer and gave Bob Friend the victory in the Pirates-Redlegs'. opener but left-hander Joe Nux- hall scattered six singles to. give Cincinnati the second i game. Bobby Adams drove in two of the Redlegs' four runs. LINESCORES: AMERICAN LEAGUE (1st Game) Chicago 030 oni ono i t n New York .... 121 001 02x 10 1 Pierce. Fornieles. 4, Howell 7 and Lollar, Moss 7. Looat 4-4 and Beria. Losing pitcher Pierce, 5.4. (Second Game) Chicago 000 000 200 2 S C New York 000 200 30x S 10 O Harshman, Consuefjra 7. Martin 8 and Lollar. Kucks, Konstanty 7 and Berra. Winning pitcher Konstanty 4-0. Losing pitcher Harshman. S-5' Cleveland 001 042 000 7 10 0 Boston 000 350 03x 11 16 1 Srnra fraw urinh. c p.ti.. n . ' " " . .Rill- o, i C1IL1 o and Foiles. Parnell, Hurd 7 and White. Winning pitcher Parnell, 2-1. Losing pitcher Score 7-5. NATIONAL LEAGUE (1st Ganri Pittsburgh .... 010 002 002 S 15 0 uinunnau .... iuu UUO IPO 2 7 0 Friend 4.3 nnrf A (..'! n;....-..:.. Black 8 and Burgess. Losii.g pitcher .'imai will t-i . (2nd Game) Pittsburgh .... 000 000 000 0 6 0 Cincinnati .... 020 020 OOx 4 10 0 Kline. Littlefield 3, Face 7 and Shenard Pptorcnn Wuvfcaii c a Landrith. Losing pitcher Kline 4-9. Brooklyn .... 001 130 020 7 15 1 St. Louis 001 030 000 4 10 3 Erskine, Spooner 5 and Campan ella. Woodlridge. Lawrence 5, Poh- nunc o, tliuill Jf Sarru. Winning pitcher Spooner New York .. 030 040 000 7 11 2 Milwaukee .. 500 110 Olx 8 10 1 Gomez. Giel 2 and West rum. Win ning pitcher Crone 2-1. Losing pitch er Giel 1-2. (1st Game 15 Innings) Phil. 000 000 000 000 001 1 12 1 Chi 000 000 000 000 000 0 8 1 Negray. Meyer 8 and Seminick. Lo pata 2. Davis. Jeffcoat 11 and Chiti. Cooner 11. Winning pitcher Meyer 1-6. Losing pitcher Jeffcoat 6-1. (2nd Game call end of 7 innings, dark) Philadelphia .... 110 020 3 7 9 0 Chicago 302 012 x 8 13 2 Wehmeier, Miller 3, Kipper 5. Ku zava 6 and Lopat a. Hillman, Pollet 5, Hacker 7 and McCullough. Winning pitcher Pallet 3-0. -Losing pitcher Wehmeier 5-4. Standings PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE rluK w i Drt rL -a San Diego 48 31 .608 caiue .5 .j '..j x Portland 37 38 .507 8 Hollywood 36 40 .474 10 i Oakland 36 41 .468 11 T n. Anif.taa At 41 til' nugciu . . tJ vj .-zv 1 1 ,2 San Francisco 34 43 .442 13 sacramenio . J u . a Sunday's Results: Seattle 7-6 San Francisco 3-1 Los Angeles 0-2 Sacramento 5-4 San Diego 7-3 Oakland 2-1 Portland 9-5 Hollywood 2-1 How Series Ended: Portland 6 Hollywood 1 Seattle 7 San Francisco 0 San Diego 5 Oakland 2 Los Angeles 4 Sacramento 3 Next Series: Seattle at Portland Hollywood at Oakland San Francisco at Los Angeles Sacramento at San Dieeo (No games scheduled Monday) AMERICAN LEAGUE Club W. L. Pet. G.B. New York .. 42 . 23 .646 Chicago 37 22 .627 2 Cleveland 37 26 .587 4 Detroit 32 27 542 7 Boston 31 32 .492 lp'i Kansas City 24 37 .393 16 Washington 23 37 .383 16 li Baltimore 20 42 .323 20 a Sunday's Results: New York 7 Chicago 1 (1st) New York 5 Chicago 2 (2nd) Boston 11 Cleveland 7 Kansas City at Washington. 2 games ppd.. rain Detroit at Baltimore, 2 games, ppl., rain Tuesday's Games: Chicago at Washington, night Kansas City at New York, night Detroit at Boston, night -Cleveland at Balitmore, night NATIONAL LEAGUE Club W. L. Pet. G.B. Brooklyn 46 16 .742 Chicago 36 28 .563 11 Milwaukee 32 30 .516 14 New York 31 31 .500 15 Philadelphia 27 33 .450 18 Cincinnati 26 32 .448 18 St. Louis 25 33 .431 19 Pittsburgh 21 41 39 25 Sunday's Results: Philadelphia 1 Chicago 0 (1st, 15 innings) Chicago 8 Philadelphia 7 (2nd, 7 innings, darkness) Pittsburgh 5 Cincinnati 2 (1st! Cincinnati 4 Pittsburgh 0 (2nd) Milwaukee 8 New York 7 Brooklyn 7 St. Louis 4 Monday's Probable Pitchers: Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, night Law 2-2 vs. Conley 8-4 Philadelphia at St. Louis, night Dickson 4-4 vs. Arroyo 7-2 New York at Cincinnati, night Hearn 7-6 vs. Fowler 1-4 (Only games scheduled) Tuesday's Games: New York at Cincinnati, night Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, night Philadelphia at St. Louis, night ' Brooklyn at Chicago Auto Race Main Nabbed By Standby Super thrills and spills were missing but a large field of en tries made for lots of bumping, tangling and rail-riding, a few pile ups and some close "shaves Saturday night in a hardtop auto racing program at the Jack son County speedway which saw Jim Standloy in R7 ride home first by a good margin in the 25-lap main event. Wayne Lemley, top point man after three racing programs at the track, was second in the big race in his A57. Ken Curry drove 100 to third spot. Bobby Myers was third in R23 and Cecil James followed in A2. J. H. Jones skippered M77 to triumph in the B main and was trailed by Jack Lively; in K2. Bud Johnson brought' 105 in third. " Roy Deutschman had the fast qualifying time of 20:08 seconds in the trials but he ran third be hind Lou Kurz and Bill Lange in the A trophy dash. Kurz was fourth in a heat race but a bearing went out and he was through for the night. Cliff McGilvery and LeRoy Sifus ran to a dead heat in the B trophy event. Heat race vic tors were Bud Hart, Bob Jen kins, Lange and Sifus. Only roll of the night came in the time trials. Johnson's tire went flat and he went over the fence. His car was righted and returned to the infield under its own power. Forty-one cars were on hand for the evening program. There were 20 in the B main and 18 in the finale. Congestion was so heavy that it took some thinning out before the two races got really interesting. Jenkins and Clmer Sisemore tangled in the main and Jenkins lost a wheel. Howard Lance spun out and a couple of cars gave the rail a good ride. It took several laps of try ing to get the semi-main going good. There was a five-car mix up in the second lap which caused a minor tangle. In th fourth lap three cars came to gether and Bill Rozell lost a wheel. Tom Allen spun a bit later and made driving a bit haz ardous when, with his steering gear apparently afoul, he start ed the wong way on the track. He stuck against the rail on the front stretch turn and was nar rowly missed several times. Sifus ran into the fence after the B trophy jaunt and that pre vented a run off. Hurt moved from last to first in his heat. Jenkins moved up from ninth and Lange from eighth in their victories. Buy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Flues Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrews Phone 2-4107 Fleck Captures IPflay-(0)tTff tor Naftnoinian (Dpemi (Golff Toga; IKIogan AEHGHOMGiices Moireiiii.eii.tt By HAL WOOD United Press Spoils Writer San Francisco (U.R) "The king is dead. Long live the king. A new champion, soft-spoken Jack Fleck, took over as the U.S. National Open titleholder today as Bantam Ben Hogan, beaten in a thrilling 18-hole play-off Sun day announced his retirement from competitive golf. The unheralded Fleck, a 100-1 shot in early any field of top notchers, whipped the supposed ly invincable Hogan in an 18 hole medal-play, play-off. with a one-under-nar too low for Ho gan, who had a 72. "I thank God for giving me strength to play like this," said the humble Fleck at the presen tation ceremonies where he pick ed ud his first-place check for $6000 ' But it was Hogan who stun ned the crowd of 10.000 in silence as he announced his per manent retirement. 'Tm through with competi tive golf," he said as a hush fell over the crowd. "I came here with the idea of winning, wheth- Leonard Yandle To Tutor Coyotes Caldwell. Ida. (U.R) College of Idaho has signed Leonard Yandle as head basketball and baseball coach and director of athletics, President Tom Shearer said today. Yandle has been ath letic director at Pasadent, Calif., city college. 117 S. CENTRAL 1 2?""if1 ft MH1 SILICON! .1 POLISH feu ill i m MM i BBCf i rz. . er I won or lost was incidental. I only wanted to make a good showing. - Week End Golfer . "From now I'm a week end golfer. I want to play just for the pleasure of it because I waht to be around the fellows and around golf. Golf is my life." And as Hogan bowed out from one of the most illustrious ca reers in the annals of golf, Fleck, a 32-year-old professional who has been around the profession al circuit off-and-on for years, took over. Fleck never had won a major tournament in his life. In fact he is the first to admit that he nev er has come close. But he played the finest golf of his career here. He, shot rounds of 76, 69, 75, 67 to tie with Hogan, the four time Open king, for the championship. Then in the play-off in direct compe tition, he outsteadied the stolid Hogan while a gallery of 10,000 rooted for him on his every move. Picture of Perfection In their play-off match, Fleck, who couldn't break 80 in 10 practice rounds, was a picture of perfection. He had two bogies, but he came through with three birdies to more than offset them. However, it was a red-hot put- For Excellent Painting INTERIOR EXTERIOR Phone 3-5070 REGUAR 2.16 COMBINATION 1.44 Everything to clean and polish your car. Wash Mop, Car Wash, Pt. cons of Polish, Glaze and Polishing doth. REGULAR 2.98 10 QT. CAN 2.18 Chemicals added to fight corrosives keeps engine clean. Save nowl ter that brought him the champ ionship. He had seven one-putt greens and used only 29 putts for the 18 holes. The victory was worth $6000 in cash right now. 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