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HUMBLE BUNTS PAY OFF IN 6-5 DODGER VICTORY OVER GIANTS Br CARL LUHDGUIST United Pztts Sports Writer Home runs and extra base hits rattle off Brooklyn bats almost on an assembly line basis, but the humble little bunt, sneered at by sluggers, is as big a factor in the Dodger pennant runaway as any other. In fact it would hardly be amiss to say that the Dodgers are bunting their way to the bunting. In their shining 6-5 victory over the Giants in 11 innings Thursday, four bunts, each deft ly delivered on the first pitch, meant more than a two-run homer by Willie Mays which looked as if it would win the game for the Giants in the 10th. On each occasion the Dodgers were desperate facing sudden death defeat. In the last of the ninth, trailing 3-2, after Sandy Amoros and Gil Hodges singled, Carl Furillo, who is not noted for bis bunting ability, laid down sacrifice on the first pitch.- Dixie Howell, rushed into the lineup for the first time this year because both Roy Campa nella and Rube Walker were hurt, followed with a sacrifice fly that tied it up at 3-3. Finessed Into a Tie After Al Dark singled and Mays hit his 20th homer and his third of the series to put New York in front, 5-3, in the 10th, the Dodgers again finessed them selves into a tie. Jim Gilliam led off with a bunt single which hog-tied the Giant infield. Duke Snider tripled him home and Jackie Robinson slapped down a perfect squeeze to the first base side to tie it at 5-5. The winning rally was achiev ed in the 11th 'when Ramon Monzant, sixth Giant pitcher, walked Furillo to rotten the water. Howell came through again with -a sacrifice bunt that put Furillo on second and with in easy delivery distance of home plate on pinch-hitter George Shuba bounding single through the middle. The victory was especially sig nificant because of the showing of the Brooklyn bench, Howell coming through after Walker was injured in a .collision at home plate arid Shuba perhaps saving himself from being sent to the minors when the Dodgers bring up talent to replace men on the injury list. The Brooks now are 13 games in front of second place Milwaukee, 13Vi ahead of the Cubs and 18 to cinnati. The Giants in fifth, 18 games in arrears, seem hope lessly out of it. Braves Regain Second The Braves regained second place in the only other National League game, coming from be hind to defeat the Cubs, 7-4, with four runs in the eighth set up on an error by Randy Jackson, Joe Adcock hit a two-run homer for the winning blow. Del Cran dall also homered for Milwaukee. Jackson and Harry Chiti hom ered for the lesers. ' In the American League, De troit made it three in a row over Chicago with a 4-3 squeaker and Washington ended Boston's five game winning streak 3-2, in the only games scheduled. - Ray Boone drove in three De troit runs with a homer and a single. Steve Gromek pitched a seven-hitter for his eighth vic tory, yielding one damaging blow, a two run homer by Min nie Minoso. Washington called on veteran Spec Shea to strike out young Norman Zauchin on four pitches with the bases loaded in the ninth and thus save Ted Aber nathys first big league victory. Johnny Groth drove in two of DONT MISS THE TIME TRIALS 7 p.m. RACING starts at 0 p.m. Be en hand for tho fun Plenty of Action and Excite-mentforalll jfp mm w. Si : lMSl. Sponsored by MEDFORD JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Freak Homer Aids Stars; Portland Beaten in 12th By PETER HAYES ' United Press Sports Writer The Hollywood Stars outlast ed Sacramento, 11-10, last night to climb into third place in the Pacific Coast League, but it took one of the freakiest home runs seen in a long time to do it. With the score tied 10-10, left fielder Lee Walls stepped up in the bottom of the eighth inning and lifted a blooper down the right field line. The ball apparently struck the wall and bounced crazily with first base man Nippy Jones, second base man Harry Bright and right fielder Jake Crawford in frantic pursuit. ' By the time they had run it down, Walls had scooted all the way around the bases to score what proved to be the winning run. . Lead Fades The Stars had amassed a 7-1 lead after four innings but it evaporated in the sixth when the Sacs shelled three pitchers for seven hits and eight runs in the biggest single frame against Hol lywood 'this year. The heavy-hitting Walls tied it up with a two-run homer in the bottom of the sixth, only to have Richie Myers put the So lons ahead again in the eighth with a homer,. Hollywood's Curt Roberts squared it with a 400 foot smash over the centerfield wall in the eighth and Walls won it with, his fluke homer. The game in Hollywood wasn't the only wild one last night. Los Angeles rallied for six runs in the 12th inning to beat Portland, 11-7, and San Diego shoved over four in the 11th to down San Francisco, 7-4. Oakland at Seat tle was rained out, with a dou bleheader scheduled tonight. Bases Loaded Triple In Portland, Angel catcher Jim Fanning unloaded a tre mendous triple with the bases loaded in the 12th to break a 5-5 dealoek. The game was - a pitcher's nightmare, with Los Angeles banging out 20 hits off three Beaver hurlers and Portland col lecting 15 safeties off four Angel pitchers. " TJon Elston (7-4) pitched the last seven innings to gain the victory. He was in hot water in Washington's runs with a triple and squeeze bunt. LINESCORES: . National League (11 iMincs) New York 200 000 100 30 7 1 Brooklyn . 000 200 001 21 10 2 Hearn. Grissom (7). Wilhelm (10). McCall (10). Giel (10). Monzant (11) and Katt. Westrum (7). Newcombe, Spooner (8). Roebuck (10) and Wal ker. Howell (9). Winning pitcher Roebuck (3-3) Losing pitcher Mon zant (0-4). Chicago 010 100 200 4 .100 020 04x 7 11 Milwaukee 9 Hacker. Jeffcoat (7). Davis (8) and Chiti. Conley, Johnson (7). Crone (8) and Crandall. Winning pitcher Crone (3-1). Losing pitcher Jeffcoat (6-3). American League Detroit 200 000 0204 T 8 Chicago 000 002 1003 7 0 Gromek (8-4) and House. Fornieles. Trucks (3). Consuegra (8) and Mom. Losing pitcher Consuegra (94). Boston . 000 000 1013 Washington 020 100 OOx 3 Nixon. Hurd (7) and White. Aber nathy. Pascual (9), Shea (9) and Court ney. Winning pitcher Abernathy (1-1). Losing pitcher Nixon (6-5). Thrilling POSSE GROUNDS the bottom of the 12th when Don Eggert hit his second homer of the game with one aboard but tightened iip to preserve his lead. LINESCORES: 4 (12 innings) Los Angeles . 010 020 200 00611 26 0 Portland . 210 010 001 002 7 IS 0 Church, Zick (2), Bauer (4), Elston (6) and Fanning; Alexander. Burts chy (8). Hall. Elliott (12) and Robert son, Calderone (10). (11 innings) San Diego 120 000 000 047 2 San Francisco . 000 020 010 01 4 t 2 Carmichael, Lyons (11) and Bailey; Fisher. Ponce (9) and Ritchey. Sacramento . 000 108 010 10 . 11 1 Hollywood ...300 402 02x 11 11 4 Johnson. Cereghino 14) Brazle (6), Candini (8) and Baich: Bowman. O'Donnell (6). Trimble (6). Naranjo (9) and Bragan. SOX CALL JOHNSON Chicago (U.R) Connie John son, towering right-hander who had compiled a 12-2 record With Toronto, in the International League, was recalled today to help the floundering Chicago White Sox' pitching staff. John son posted a 4-4 record in a pre vious trial with the White Sox in 1953. Standings PACIFIC COAST San Diego . SeatUe ..: ; Hollywood Portland - Los Angeles San Francisco Oakland Sacramento ' LEAGUE W. Li, Pet, GB ,.55 34 ...91 35 -.44 42 -41 40 ..41 47 .39 48 .38 48 ...36 51 618 .593 2'i .512 9i 306 10 .466 13 14 .448 15 .442 15 ',4 .414 18 ThnrlHav'fl Results - San Diego 7, San Francisco 4 (11 Los Angeles 11, Portland 7 (12 innings)' Hollywood 11. .Sacramento 10 Oakland at Seattle (ppd.. rain) How Series Stand San Diego 2. San Francisco 1 Hollywood 3. Sacramento 0 Seattle 2. Oakland 0 Los Angeles 2. Portland 1 IMCDirAV LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB Mw VnrV 50 24 .676 Chicago 42 27 .609 5', 4 Cleveland 42 30 .583 7 Detroit 38 - 31- .551 9-",j Rnstnn 39 35 .527 11 Kansas City 8 41 .406 19 i Washington 25 46 .352 23,j Baltimore 20 50 .286 28 Thursday's Results Detroit 4. Chicago 3 Washington 3, Boston 2 (Only games scheduled.) Friday's Probable Pitchers . rwtrrnt at KanxAK CitV (2. ' tV night) Birrer (1-0) and Garver (9-8) n nitmar 13.5) and Bover (3-1). Chicago at Cleveland, (night) Pi.rr. iau va. Wvnn (10-2). Boston at Baltimore, (night) Brewer (5-7) vs. Wilson (-). Saturday's Games Chicago at Cleveland (night) Detroit at Kansas City (night) Washington at New York (night) .. Boston at Baltimore (night) NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB Brooklyn Milwaukee . Chicago Cincinnati .... New York St. Louis ...... Philadelphia Pittsburgh 52 19 ....39 32 .40 34 32 35 .34 38 ...31 37 32 39 23 49 .732 .549 13 .541 13 !i .478 18 .472 18' i .456 1914 .451 20 .319 itVi Thursday's Results Brooklyn 6, New York B (11 mains) mil nauKtc i , vutMiv -w t (Only games scheduled) ' rrifiv'l Probable Pitchers Pittsburgh at Brooklyn (night) Law (3-3) vs. Foarea ?-. Milwaukee at Cincinnati (night) Buhl (5-S) va. saiey o-9). Saturday's Games - '. Pittsburgh at Brooklyn St. Louis at Chicago New York at Philadelphia (night) Milwaukee at Cincinanti (night) rday Might Hardtop Races Saturday; Christie Creates Interest How quickly will Bob Chris tie adapt himself to a new type of racing? Fans will seek the answer to that question Satur day night when they attend the hardtop auto program at the Jackson County speedway west of Medford. Bill Rosell, track manager for Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce, sponsor of the hard top program, reported that in terest has been building, high since it was anonunced that Christie would try his luck in the battle of battered bugies. The veteran Grants Pass driv er, well known in auto jockey circles, will make his debut in hardtop competition. He. has raced just about every type of automobile. Christie will try his hand by skippering M39, the entry of Vic Surroz Nash. He has driven a number of years for Surroz. Last year 'the - Grants Pass man set the American Automo bile association record for stock cars for " 150 miles on a half mile track. The mark, establish ed at Gardena, Calif., still stands. Christie has run four times in the famed Mexican League Leaders AMERICAN LEAGUE Player te Club GAB R R Pet. Kaline. Det. 69 278 57 102 .367 Fox. Chicago ..69 284 43 95 335 Smith. Cleve. 72 300 62 96 .320 Kuenn. Det. 60 244 38 78 .329 Doby. Cleve .59 226 37 70 ,310 National League Ashburn, Phila. 61 235 42 83 .353 Campnla. Bkn. 65 242 42 81 .335 Aron. Milw. 71 293 50 96 .328 Virdon. St. Louis 60 224 32 73 .326 MueUer. N.Y. 68 286 29 93 .325 Home Runs Snider. Dodgers 24; Kluszewski. Redlegs 23; Mays, Giants 20: Campanella, Dodgers 19. Runs Batted In Snider. Dodgers 74; Campanella. Dodgers 64: Jensen, Red Sox 59; Ennis. Phillies 54. Runs ManUe, Yankees 65: Snider, Dodgers 62; Smith, Indians 62; Bru ton. Braves 59.. Hits Kaline, Tigers 102: Smith, Indians 96; Aaron, Braves 96; Fox, White Sox 95. Pitching Newcombe. Dodgers 13-1; Labine. Dodgers 6-1; W.vnn. Indians 10-2; Donovan. White Sox 9-2; Arroyo, Cardinals 9-2. TOM FOsTtWlEECO'wWTO MAIN & FIR STREETS road race. In his first 10-lap heat he qualified this year for the 500-mile Indianapolis speed way big car classic. On his sec ond 10, however, the car was wrecked when the crankshaft broke. ElmerSisemore, who has "been piloting M39 on the posse grounds track, will appear this week in M2, the Ellis market special. The program with time trials at 7 p.m. and races beginning at 8 p.m. will have the usual four heats, A and B trophy dashes and A and B mains. Jim Standloy was victor in the A main in the last attraction at the speedway. Among his challengers this time may be Lou Kurz, who took the big one at Ashland last week arid Roy Deutschman, who won by a car length over Bob Willhite at Roseburg last' Sunday. Portland Scrap Slated for Olson Portland iU.K) Promoter Tommy Moyer today announced he had signed middleweight champion Carl (Bobo) Olson to fight in Portland this August. Moyer said the outdoor, non title bout would probably be held at Multnomah Stadium or Portland Meadows August 9, 10 or 11. "Feelers" have been sent out to prospective opponents for the middleweight king, including Ralph (Tiger) Jones and the win ner ox ine sugar nay noDinson Rocky Castellani fight July 15, Moyor said. Moyor said the fight would not be televised, but he expected a large gate to watch the young San Francisco fighter, even though Olson was knocked out by lightheavyweight champion Archie Moore last week. TRUCK OWNERS About 25 percent of the trucks in the U.S. are on farms. GREAT TV, FORD mum m S E LLh i IMF Friday. July I, 1955 Cheney Studs Diamond Tilts Split series with other teams give the Medford Cheney Studs rays of hope this week end for the trip to Coquille in the South ern Oregon Baseball League. The Studs and Loggers have league brushes on Saturday and Sunday. They play in a non counter on Monday. ' Coquille, co-leader with Drain in the loop, is at least a slight favorite over the Medford crew because of a potent line-up. How ever, the Loggers have managed only splits with Bend and Ban don and the Studs have divided with both of those aggergations. On the bleaker side in another comparison. Medford lost twice to Drain and Coquille has trim med Drain in a pair. Other SOL contention this week take Drain to Bend and Roseburg to Bandon. Grants Pass has a bye. Sweeps by Bend and Medford on Saturday and Sunday would serve to tighten up the race and Bend would go into a percentage loop lead if the two clubs can come through Bend currently ranks third and Medford is tied for fourth with Grants Pass. Pitching Staff Full The Studs should have a wide choice of pitchers for fhe long series on the coast since Warren Noyes will be back with the crew. Others for Manager Clar ence Mellbye to pick from are Derald Wooton, Terry Maddox, Mary Scherpf and Jim Kelly. Coquille will have Alex Pali ca to toss one of its games. Pali-, ca, who pitched for Seattle in the Coast League last year, has HOLZMAN NAMED r St. Louis- U.R) William (Red) Holzman, former City Col lege of New Yorkv court star, has been named to coach the St. Louis Hawks of the National Basketball Association for the second straight year. Got our bandwagon doal Lowest-priced Pickup with saodem Short Stroke power! 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