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o o EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) Indians Lose To Yankees; Chicago Heats Red Sox, 2-3 By MILTON RICHMAN United Press Sports Writer (Professional odfls- makers in Las Vegas made the second-place Yankees 7-5 favorites today to win the American League pen nant and it looks like they knew what they were doing because the weakest hitter in the line up can break up a ball game like ioe Collins did Tuesday night. Going into Tuesday nighfs Same with the Indians, Collins was low man on the Yankee , totem pole with an unimposing average of .209. Collins began boosting that inark with a home run in the first inning and by the time he hit his second homer of the game In the 10th, the Yankees had a sorely-needed 2-1 victory and Jjis average was up to .221. That Unar is still the lowest among rihe Yankee regulars but no one (is complaining. For Collins' second circuit, and his third hit of the game, snapped a 1-all deadlock that existed since the first inning and kept the Yankees hot on the heels and only one game behind the pace-setting White Sox, who squeaked through to a 2-1 tri umph over the Red Sox. Byrne Out-Duels Wynn Southpaw Tommy Byrne out duelled Early Wynn in the Yankee victory, yielding Cleve land's only run in the first in ning on a leadoff triple by Al Smith and a sacrifice fly by Bobby Avila. Gangling Connie Johnson was the winning pitcher for the White Sox although he depart 'd in the ninth after Jim Pier- fall singled with two out. Faye Throneberry then tripled off Morris Martin but Dixie Howell tame ia to get Edde Joost for the final out. Jim Rivera's fourth inning homer proved the win ning margin. " The Tigers blew a six-run lead and then another two-run lead but rallied for three runs in the ninth to lick the Senators, 13-10. Harvey Kuenn paced Detroit's 17-hit attack with two doubles and two singles while Joe Cole man, the fourth Tiger hurler, was credited with the win. Left hander Bill Wight lim ited the Athletics to four hits while pitching the last-place Ori oles to a 5-1 decision. Baltimore capitalized on four Kansas City errors as Bill Wilson saved the losers from being shut out with a fifth inning homer. Braves Beat Dodgers In the National League, Mil waukee rallied for four runs in the eighth Inning to defeat first- Banks Clouts 4th Grand Slam; Ties Record Chicago (U.PJ Shortstop Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs put his name in baseball's record book alongside sluggers Glike Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig Tuesday when he walloped his fourth grand slam homer of the season. Banks was the fifth National Leagurer and 10th major leaguer to hit that many bases-loaded homers in one season. No one ver has hit five. n Banks' clout also put him within range of another record. It was hist 32nd of the season. The all-time record for homers by a shortstop in one season is 39, set by Vern Stephens of the Boston Red Sox in 1949. ( : Wo w available vjn Oregon: n .... 'MOOT mm ISttgBlGSBB Qfflfeto? (fed) egfla Get luqky this new economical way! Each 16-ounce King Size can of quality beer. Take home a handy six-pak today! if your dealer doesn't MAIL TRIBUNE place Brooklyn, 5-3, with the help of Eddie Mathews' 28th and 29th homers of the cam paign. Don Zimmer's throwing error with two out in the eighth enabled the Braves to score their winning runs. Duke Snider slam meS his 36th homer in the fifth frame off starter Bob Buhl. Cincinnati stretched its win ning streak to seven straight games by beating Philadelphia twice, 2-0 and 4-0 in a twi-night twin bill. Gus Bell drove in both runs in the opener and three more runs in the nightcap with his 17th and 18th homers. Johnny Klippstein hurled his first shut out since 1952 in limiting the Phils to six hits in the first game while Joe Nuxhall posted his 11th victory in pitching a five hitter in the night cap. Shortstop Ernie Banks tied a major league record with his fourth grand slam of the season to help the Cubs beat the Pirates, 12-4. Banks' 32nd homer was the key blow in a six-run fifth in ning for Chicago. Bob Rush was the winning pitcher. Johnny Antonelli hurled his first shutout of the season as the Giants beat the Cards, 5-0. An tonelli held St. Louis to five hits. NATIONAL LEAGIE Pittsburgh ... 300 010 000- 8 Finances In PCL Point To Rich Ownership Need By HAL WOOD United Press Sports Writer San Francisco (U.R) The muddled .financial situation in the Pacific Coast League again points up the fact that baseball has become a millionaire's game millionaire owners, that is. There is no longer money to be made in the. minor leagues and it would appear that the only way the PCL ever again will :be solvent is for rich men to take over the franchises as toys. The Seattle Rainiers are a good example of the point in question. Owned by" Emil Sick, multi millionaire brewer, the Rainiers currently are leading the league. This may be because Sick has paid out $50,000 more for play ers this year than he'll, ever be able to get back on sales. A team with limited finances, such as San Francisco and Sac ramento, wouldn't dare do such a thing. In fact, they just could not swing it financially. Realignment Only Cur It is probable that -there al ways will be a Pacific Coast league. But it is certain now that realignment is the only cure for the ailing box office situa tion. It would appear that the pur chase of the San Francisco club by the Patterson family is only delaying the inevitable the moving of the franchise down the Peninsula or to some other city. That is unless the wealthy family wants to sink a lot more money into it than they already have. And no matter what C. L. Brick Laws of the Oakland Oaks says, his club will be moved next year unless there is some kind of a civic financing pro gram to assure some money in the till during 1956. Sacramento, more or less Wednesday, August 3, 1955 Chicaeo 120 062 lOx 12 13 Law. Littlefield (2. Pepper (Si. Mar tin 17) and At well Peterson 181: Rush 17-81 and Chm. Losing pitcher Little field (4-9). New York 000 1 00 020 3 10 St. Louis 000 000 000 0 5 Antonelli (9-13 1 and Katt. Schmidt, LaPalme 8i. Wright (9) and Burbrink Losing pitcher Schmidt (2-2). Philadelphia . 000 000 000 0 6 0 Cincinnati 000 001 Olx 2 8 0 Negray. Kuzava (B). Meyer (8i and Lopata. Klippstein (3-6) and Burgess Losing pitcher Negray (3-3). Philadelphia . 000 OOO 000 0 5 Cincinnati 010 102 OOx 4 10 Poeovin. Mrozinski (7). Kuzava (8) and Seminick. Nuxhall (11-8) "and Batts. Losing pitcher Rogovin (2-1) Brooklvn 010 020 0003 7 Milwaukee ...100 000 04x 5 7 Craig. Lahine (8) and Carnpanella. Buhl, Jolly 1 5 1, Labine (6i. and Cran- osll. winnine pitcher Fame (1-0) Losing pitcher Craig (3-1). AMERICAN LEAGUE (10 innings) Cleveland .100 000 000 0 1 7 0 New York ...100 000 000 12 9 0 Wynn H3-6) and Hegan. Byrne (10- 2) and Berra. Chicago 001 100 000 2 - 7 Boston 000 000 0011 7 Johnson. Martin (9) Howell (9i and I.ollar. Brewer, Kinder (8) and White Winning pitcher Johnson (4-1). Los ing pitcher Brewer (8-9). Detroit 200 042 02313 17 1 Washington .101 006 020 10 17 1 Gromek, Birrer 16). Aber (8). Cole man (8) and Wilson. Schmitz. Pascual (5i. Chakales (7i. Ramos (9). Stone i9) and Courtney. Winning pitcher Cole man (2-0). Losing pitcher Ramos (2-3). Kansas City ... 000 010 000 1 4 Baltimore Q10 002 02x 5 10 R. Shantz. Fricano (8) and Astroth, W. Shantz (8. Wight (l-3i and Smith. Losing pitcher R. Shantz (4-9). owned by the populace, has been on the verge of being old, moved or traded a half dozen times since World War II but the local citizens always rally at the last minute. However, it has been a losing proposition for ears. Start To Lose Park Of course, all the PCL's prob lems areiVt financial. Hollywood loses its park (Gilmore Field) in 1957, and the Stars must look around for a new place to play. The best rumors have it that they may move to Phoenix, Ariz., which has a fine trade area; or they may just go out to nearby Anaheim, which could still draw on the Los Angeles populace. There is a report that Bill Starr, owner of the San Diego Padres, has been warned to "hurry up" his plans to build a new park that the harbor com mission wants to tear down the present baseball edifice on the waterfront. Portlands condemned ball park is being used for the last season and the Beavers go into Multnomah Stadium next' year a fine place that seats 30,000. The Portland team is a home owned outfit that now also is in the position of running into pos sible financial problems if t has a bad year. That leaves only Seattle and the Los Angeles Angels, the lat ter owned by multi-millionaire William Wrigley, as the long term financially sound clubs in the loop. Committee Formed Vancouver, B.C. (U.R) A special baseball committee, headed by Earle Adams, yester day approved a draft agree ment which would bring an un named Pacific Coast League franchise here. The . committee will now for ward the agreement to the city Lucky Lager pours two full, foamy glasses of refreshing, premium have Lucky Lager King Size yet, ask him to order some right away! . j I ii ....is jri ... iij i ni i m r n i - i mni in i I '' AERIALISTS Quarterbacks Paul Held, Duncan Mc Donald, Harry Gilmer and Bobby Layne (left to right), go up for a pass as the Detroit Lions begin full-squad work outs at Ypsilanti, Mich. The old familiar faces are scattered among the rookies, who have been working with Lion's coach Buddy Parker for over a week. MedfordJTribune Studs Face In Contest The Medford Cheney Studs will attempt to keep an unbeat en, record against Calirornia teams intact tonight when they meet the Dunsmuir Merchants at 8 p.m. at the fairgrounds park. Studs' Manager Jack Cooney will pick his battery for tonight's non-league tilt from pitchers Marv Scherpf, Jim Kelley or Kay Kelley and Catchers Dick Wooton or Howard Morris. Com pleting the infield lineup will be Cooney at first, Ed McCul lough at second, Derald Wooton at third and Bob Selsor at short stop. Medford's outfield will be Training Starts For Title Bout North Adams, Mass. (U.R) Archie Moore, who meets cham pion Rocky Marciano for the heavyweight title in Yankee Stadium, Sept. 22, expected to start punching today at his camp. The light heavyweight king pen the eight and one-half miles to the summit of Mount Greylock Tuesday, ' and announced later that he weighed 200 pounds. Grossinger, N. Y. (U.R) Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano was ordered to "take it easy" Tuesday at his camp by Manager Al Weill. Weill said that he didn't want Rocky to wear himself out in the excessive heat. council for approval. Speculation has arisen here that the club considering to move here could be either Sac ramento or Oakland. Both re ported recently they were in a bad financial position. Dunsmuir Tonight picked from Terry Maddox, Ron Maurer, Larry Bigham, Harvey Tonn and Bill McLean. Defeated Seren Cal Teams The Studs, sporting a season record of 17 wins and 15 losses, have not lost to a California team in eight games this season. Sev en have ended in Stud victories while one was a tie. Dunsmuir's Merchants are presently tied with Weed for third place in the Northern Cal ifornia league with eight wins and four losses. The teams are a half-game out of second place. The Studs are currently tied with Roseburg with an 8-10 rec ord for fourth place in the South ern Oregon league. After tonight's contest, the Studs meet Drain's Black Sox in an important two-game series at the fairground park Saturday and Sunday. Drain is leading SOL with 14 wins and two losses. SAL Through Saturday August 13 So Every One Can Take Advantage of Our SPECIAL SALE PRICES THESE SALE PRICES WILL. PREVAIL ON Every Product & Service We Have REMEMBER - SALE ENDS SATURDAY, AUG. 13! EBriggs Hurls One fitter; Seattle Dncreases Lead By PETER HAYES United Press Sports Writer Young Johnny Briggs gave a couple of big league scouts an eyeful last night when he hurled a one-hit shutout at Portland for a 3-0 Sacramento victory in Pa cific Coast league action. The 21-year-old righthander's smoking fastball was never bet ter. Scouts from the New York Giants and Chicago Cubs watch ed as he gave up a bloop single to Luis Marquez in the second inning and then held the Beavers hitless the rest of the way. Briggs struck out four, walk ed three and officially faced only 27 men. It was his 11th win against 11 defeats with the lowly Sacs. Sacramento collected only sev en hifs off Portland's Bob Hall, Glenn Elliott and Dick Waibel but scored three runs off Hall (6-13) in the third inning high lighted by . Harry Bright's two run double. Seattle Dumps Padres In the other PCL play, league leading Seattle bumped runner up San Diego, 10-7; San Francis co blanked Los Angeles, 2-0, be hind Bill Bradford's six-hit pitch ing; and Hollywood and Oak land divided a twin-bill, the Stars taking the opener, 6-2, and the Oaks winning the second game, 9-1. Seattle increased its lead over the Padres to three games as Lou Kretlow chalked up his 10th win without defeat. Kretlow gave up eight hits but three of those were homers by Earl Rapp, John Mer son and Ray Jablonski. Jablon ski's four-bagger came in the ninth inning with two aboard and brought Bill Kennedy in to retire the next two men and end' the game. In Los Angeles, Bradford best ed Don Elston in a close duel to . i : .rLii. : : i icgiaier rus eigmn win against, three losses F.lston n3-! allnw - USE BEADY-MIX ' CONCRETE Phone 2-5336 or 2-5897 M. C. LININGER & SONS WE APPRECIATE VERY MUCH THE LARGE TURN OUT WE HAD AT'OUR GRAND OPENING. IT WAS SPLENDID!! WE ARE EXTREMELY SORRY WE WERE UNABLE TO TAKE CARE OF ALL THOSE WHO WANTED TO PURCHASE MERCHANDISE AT OUR SPECIAL GRAND OPENING PRICES. rO'MF IM amltAVF UUUL3 UUI Vil U VU KZ iu w 1 PECK BROTHERS pmrr ed eight hits as the Seals ended his seven-game win streak. Wade Allows Two Hits Ben Wade (6-3), tossed a two hitter as Hollywood took the sev en inning opener in Emeryville. One of those hits was a two run homer by George Metkovitch in the first inning. Fred Besana (3-6) allowed only five hits in defeat, including a solo homer by Curt Roberts in the seventh, but six walks and a wild pitch paved the way for five Holly wood runs. Red Munger, Hollywood's ace righthander, was batted out in the third inning of the second game after he apparently hurt his ankle sliding into second, Munger, whom the Stars would like to peddle to the majors, took the defeat for a 15-7 mark. Al Gettel (10-13) gave up eight hits and had a shutout until the eighth. Metkoyich again paced the Oaks at the plate, clouting his second homer of the night in the fifth inning with one aboard. Metko had four for six for the night and drove in a total of seven runs. THE LIXESCORES: Portland 000 000 0000 1 1 Sacramento ....003 000 OOx 3 7 0 Hall. Elliott (6), Waibel S) and Robertson; Briggs (11-11) and Sheely. Seattle 40 000 060 10 15 3 San DieKO . 001 003 003 7 8 4 Kretlow Kennedy (9) and Gins berg; Bishop. Herrera (2). Erautt (8), Thomason (9) and Bailey. San Francisco 000 010 100 2 8 0 Los Angeles ....000 000 0000 6 G Bradford (8-3) and Tornay: Elston, Bauer (9) and Tappe. Davis (9). (1st game) Hollywood 014 000 16 5 0 Oakland 200 000 0 2 2 1 Wade (6-3) and Bragan; Besana (3-6) and Neal. (2nd game) Hollywood ....000 000 010 1 8 1 Oakland 102 020 40x 9 13 0 Munger. O'Donnell (3), King (5) and Hall; Gettel (10-13) and Neal. Quick in Results! i ... . 1 USe TnDUlie Want AOS MEDFORD and the People of JACKSON COUNTY CONTINUES! Leaque Leaders AMERICAN LEAGUE Pit.ver & Club G AB Kaline Det 102 404 Kuenn. Det 94 401 Smith. Cleve 104 420 Kell. Chicago 86 413 Fox. Chicago 102 413 Power. K. City ..102 393 R H Pet. 94 142 351 68 133 332 80 132 .314 64 127 .308 64 121 303 61 121 308 5S 101 .336 61 124 .327 74 129 316 90 11? .315 47 89 .314 NATIONAL LEAGUE Campnla.. Bklyn. 81 301 Ashburn. Phil 99 379 Kluszski. Cin 104 408 Snider. Bklyn 102 371 Burgess. Cin. 80 283 Home Runs: Snider. Dodgers 36; Kluszewski Redlegs 33: Mavs, Giants 34: Banks. Cubs 32; Mathews. Braves 29. Suns Batted In: Snider. Dodgers 106; Ennis. Phillies 84: Boone. Tigers 83; Mays. Giants 81: Kluszewski. Red- . legs 79; Banks. Cubs 79. Runs: Kaline. Tigers 94: Snider. Dodgers 90; Mantle. Yankees 84; Smith Indians 80; Mays. Giants 79. . Hits: Kaline. Tigers 142: Kuenn. Ti gers 133: Smith. Indians 132; Klus zewski. Redlegs 129; Post. RcdteKs 129. Fitching: Newcombe. Dodgers 18-1: Byrne. Yankees 10-2: Donovan. White Sox 13-4: Loes. Dodgers 9-3; Erskin. Dodgers 9-4. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 5 :30 previous day. $440 4S8 $2 HIT 100 - MOOF 0 rioona of BISTIttfO ftOM 100 6MIN IERTMI SPIRITS the mu SPUNK DISTIUIN6 C0MMNT. ;. CU( MO NT, KENTUCKY o I o 0 o o G .riim. wmi o o
