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0 O 0 o O G o TCK-Vr MEDFtfRD (OREGOtt) Chicago Goes on Roai! tesii On Keeping First Place Spot By MILTON RICHMAN United Press Sports Writer The league-leading White Sox hit the road today for a threw-.j weeK trip mat couia prove a happjj pennant excursion or a one-way ticket to oblivion. Manager Marty Marten was the picture of optimism as he shepherded his players "east ward. "We've got the feeling we're going to win now, and it doesn't make any difference whether we're on the road or at home," he said. Now that we're out front, we intend to stay there." The White Sox concluded their home stand on a hopeful note Wednesday when Bob Keegan went the distance to beat the Red Sox, 4-2 for his first victory of the season. Half-Game Lead The victory preserved the White Sox, half-game leaoSover the Yankees and Ifidians, both of whom also won. The Yankees stayed on the heels of the White Sox by beat ing the Athletics, 11-6, while the Indians remained tied for second place with the Bronx Bombers by beating the Orioles, 5-1. Mickey Mantle's 35th homer, pluirf ound-trippers by Irv Noren andXiil McDougald helped Tom my Byrne to his 13th victory although the veteran southpaw needed Don Larsen'shelp in the ninth when Kansas City erupted j for five runs. Southpaw Herb Score pitched a three-hitter and struck out 13 Baltimore batters in registering his 14th victory but Oriole re liefer Skinny Brown stole the spotlight from him by pitching hitless ball after taking over from starter Bill Wight in the first inning. ' Logs Strikeout Record, Score ran his season strike out total to 209, becoming the first rookie pitcr to strike out more than ' 200 batters since Grover Alexander did it in 1911. He also became the first major leaguer to fan more than 200 since Bob Feller did it in 1946. In theNational League race, the Braves exploded for four homers to .beat the Dodgers 13-8. The Giants eliminated the Redlegs -from the pennant race "by beating them, 5-0, on" Ruben Gomez seven-hit pitching. Glohnny O'Brien's 10th inning single scored Pton Ward and gave thePirates a 4-3 decision over the Cardinals as southpaw Lino Donoso won his first game J since July 16. Stan Lopata and Jim Green grass hit homers. .to help the Phillies beat the Cubs. 132. Murry Dickson went the dis tance for hg 11th win. MNESCORES: National League Cincinnati i 000 000 000 0 7 0 New York" ... 300 000 02x 5 9 0 Fowler. Black (1). Freeman (7) and Burgess: Oomez (9-7) and Katt. Losing pitcher-JJpwler (9-9). Milwaukee ... 022 .043 200 13 16 0 Brooklyn 001 040 210 8 13 0 Buhl. Burdette (5) and Rice: Ers- TIGERS BUY SARNA . Detroit (U.R) The kroit Tigers have purchased the con tract of third baseman Tom Sar na from their Augusta farm club the Sally league. Sarna, 21,endi The Braves also have re of Chicago- currently is batting .311 and has 17 homers, 11 triples and 21 doubles. A ILL MEEDFdKED Hwmrobeir (Deoleirs Hlwbirlk VCMD STEED : Saturday, Sunday & Monday SEPTEMBER 3, 4 & 5 So That Their Employees May Enjoy A Thrle-Day, Vacation Over Labor Day BE SURE TO FILL YOUR LUMBER AND KJILLWORK NEEDS BEFORE FRIDAY NIGHT! MAIL TRIBUNE kine. Meyen f5), Bessent (5). Koufax i6. Roebuck (7. Labine (8 and Cam pane 11a. Winning pitcher Burdette (11-7). Losing pitcher Erskine (10-7). Jjff 020 000 000 2 2 . 300 022 33x 13 12 0 Davis. Kaiser i6. Hillman 8i, Tre- mel I8i and ChM. McCullough 8; Dickson and Seminick. Winning pitcher Dickson (11-8) Losing pitcher Davis (6-10). (10 Innings) St. Louis 010 011 000 0 .12 1 Pittsburgh .200 100 000 1 2 Schmidt (4) and Sarni; Dinoso (3-6) and Atwell. . American League Baltimore 000 000 001 1 Cleveland 500 000 OOx 5 Wight. Brown (1) and H. 3 0 5 0 Smith: Entry List Growing For 24-Hour Hardtop Race This Week-End List of hardtop auto drivers who will try to qualify Saturday for the Labor day holiday Pacific Coast Invitational 24-Hour Mara thon race at Jackson County Speedw.ay here is continuing to grow. The long race will begin Sun day afternoon and continue into Monday afternoon. Race Co-Chairman Bill Rozell reported that practically all lo cal car jockeys will participate. Their number is expected to be at least matched by contestants from well outside this area. Among the top driver regis tered to compete in the Saturday Sportsmen Heed Red Hat Pledge Portland The Red Hat Pledge to "respect the rights and prop erty of others" was certainly demonstrated by two unidenti fied sportsmen during the Sled Springs special elk hunt, said Bob Mace, chief of big game, Oregon Game Commission. During their hunt in the Sled Springs area, these two sports men located a black angus year ling that had fallen into a sump alon the railroad bed above the Old, Bull Cow camp near Kuhn ridge. Unable to get the animal out of the 10-foot sump, the hunters reported the incident to Game Commission personnel at the checking station. '- With the aid of Bob Stein and Vic Masson, Game Commission personnel, ropes and tackle were carried into the area and the an imal ytemoved from the sump, Mace stated. The animal was re ported to have been there for a week or more and in a weakened condition from thirst and hun ger. . Without a doubt, said Mace, if it hadn't been fof these two sportsmep, some rancher in the Sled Springs area would have lost an extremely valuable an imal. BRAVES .RECALL ROBINSON Milwaukee (U.R) Humber to Robinson, who started the 1955 season with the Milwaukee Braves will be back with the National league club when the American association season called 13 other farmhands, but they'll report to the Braves' spring training camp. and WILL BE Thuraday, Septemiet 1. 195$ Score (14-10) and Hegan. Losing pitcher wight (3-6). Boston 000 001 001 2 8 Chicaee) . 202 000 OOx 4 0 Brewer. Kiely (5). Susce (7). ami White; Keegan (1-4) and Loliar. Los ing pitcher Brewer (9-10). Washington .102 000 100 4 9 2 Detroit 101 010 40x 7 8 0 Schmitz, Abernathy (.7) and Court ney; Lary Bunning (8) and House. Winning pitcher Lary (13-12. Losing pitcher Schmitz (6-8). New York .014 001 113 .11 17 0 Kansas City ..100 000 005 6 10 1 Byrne, Larsen (9) and Berra: Porto carrero, Gorman (6). Boyer (9) and Shantz. Winning pitcher B y r n e (13-4). Losing pitcher Portocarrero (5-7). time trials are Claude Merrill, Spokane, Wash.; Jim Eliot, The Dalles; Lee Roden and Granville Earp, Prineville; Ken Curry, Gold Beach; Fred Arnberg, Yre ka, Calif.; Waymon Core, Gre nada, Calif.-; Ralph Graves, Lakeview, arid Ken Stratton, Prospect. The chairman said that five drivers have registered from Boise, Ida. They will compete in Fords with Oldsmobile 88 en gines installed. Time trials will get underway at 6:30 p.m. Saturday with 40 cars to qualify by fast time for the 24-hour race which begins at 4 p.m. Sunday. Winner will be determined by most laps. Consolation Races 3 Cars unable to make the big one will vie in consolation races on Saturday night. Number of races will depend on the num ber of cars which time in. There could be several contests follow ing the time- trials and indica tions were that the romps may be 20 laps each. Members of the Medford Jun ior Chamber of Commerce have announced that , first prize money will be $1,000 in the $2,500 race program. Proceeds from the race will go to the Jay- cees' underprivileged children's fund. A big inducement to drivers, in addition to the prize moneys is the fact that all gasoline will be furnished free by M. M. Hug- gins Mobilgas distributor here, and Mobilgas station owners in the area, Jaycees said. Drivers will be allowed relief during the round-the-clock haul but the cars will be on their own. Their ability to "take it" over the long haul has been sub ject to speculation. Tickets are on sale at Ellis market and the Trade Fair drug store. DAILY DOUBLE Salem (U.R) Daily double betting will be inaugurated at this year's Oregon State Fair rac ing meet which gets underway Saturday, Charles Evans, fair di rector of races, announced today. Harness horses wHk compete in the first two races each day with thoroughbreds racing in the other night races daily. FLORISTS BEAT ROCKETS Oregon City (U.R) The Erv Lind Florists ofD Portland de feated the Fresno Rockets, 10-5, here last night in a women' soft ball game. Pecateirs hardtop race queen jan Markstaller, Portland, above will be queen of Pacific Coast Invi tational 24-Hour Marathon Hard top Auto race here on Sunday and Monday, September 4 and 5. Miss Markstaller is Miss Port land of 1955 and was Portland Rose Festival queen last year. She will officially start the race .Sunday and will present awards on Monday. Joe Giambra Rated Eighth In Division New York (U.R) Pvt. Joey Ijiambra recaptured a berth in the middleweight rankings by his great fighlQwith champion Bobo Olson, the Ring Magazine's latest ratings showed. Giambra, Fort Hood, Tex., and Buffalo, N. Y. now is rated No. 8 among the 160-pound con tenders because he gave0 Olson such a close fight at San Fran cisco last Friday that many cash customers and thousands of TV viewers thought he had won. Middleweight Holly Mims of Washington, D. C. dropped from second to fourth when beaten by Savage smashed into the ratings forcthe first time and was as signed seventh place. r, 2 ROCKY MEEDS CONTROL -Grossinger, N. Y. (U.R) AI Weill, heavyweight champion Kocky Marciano's manager, is afraid Rocky may lose his head and start swinging wildly in his bout with Archie Moore, Sept. 20. "That could be very dan gerous against a sharp shooter like Moore," Weill said. "That's why I want the sparring part ners o shake Rocky up and see if he caji control himself." Today is the champ's 31st birthday, but there 11 be very little celebrating. Standings PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE a W. L. Seattle 86 71 Hollywood 86 72 San Diego 83 75 PorUand 81 75 Los Angeles 81 77 Sacramento 72 86 San Francisco . 71 87 Oakland 70 87 Pet. GB .548 .544 i .525 3 '.i .519 4',i .513 5 lb .456 14 12 .449 15 1,2 .446 16 Wednesday's Results San Francisco 8. Oakland5 SeatUe 8-2. Portland 0-4 Los Angeles 8, Hollywood 1 San Diego 5-6, Sacramento 0-2 How Series Stand Oakland 1. San Francisco 1 San Diego 2, Sacramento 0 Lt5s Angeles 1. Hollywood 1 Portland 2. Seattle 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. Brooklyn 84 Milwaukee 73 Philadelphia 70 New York . 68 Cincinnati ... 65 Chicago 64 St. Louis- 55 Pittsburgh .52 I.. Pet. GB 46 .646 59 .533 12 64 .522 16 63 .519 161j 71 .478 22 72 .471 23 76 .420 291,2 80 .394 33 Wednesday's Results Milwaukee 13, Brooklyn 8 (night) New York 5. Cincinnati 0 (night Philadelphia 13. Chicago 2 (night) Pittsburgh 4. St. Louis (night, 10 innings) Friday's Games Pittsburgh at Brooklyn (night) New York at Philadelphia (night) Cincinanti at Milwaukee (night) St. Louis at Chicago AMERICAN LEAGUE W. Chicago ..1. 79 L. 51 62 52 56 65 76 81 86 Pet. GB .608 03 V2 .603 li .569 5 .508 13 .415 25 .352 31 'i .323 36 V 2 Cleveland ...79 -.79 74 New York Boston Detroit -.67 Kansas City Washington 54 46 -.41 Baltimore Wednesday's Results Detroit 7, Washington 4 Chicago 4, Boston 2 Cleveland 5, Baltimore 1 New York 11. Kansas City 6 (night) Friday's GamelP Chicago at Cleveland (night) Detroit at Kansas City (night) Washington at New York (night) Bost6n at Baltimore (night) NORTHWEST LEAGUE L. 21 27 26 28 Pet. GB .625 .526 5Vi .518 6 .500 7 .459 912 .438 10 i .428 11 Eugene ..... .35 Tri-City o. 30 Wenatchee 28 Salem -.28 Yakima Lewiston Spokane - Q32 24 32 Wednesday's Results Tri-City 16. Eugene 7 Salem 4, Wentachee 3 Yakima 6, Lewiston 2 You'll Always Find Reliability Uniformity Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE Tru-Mix Concrete Co. FAST. PROMPT DELIVERY McAndrews Road' Phone 2-5271 KEI.ivfTRIBUGt G SLPOD Griddors Across Country Report for FirstDrills By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer This is "opening day" in col lege football at campuses across the nation as squadsJof ever hopeful young players report for their first practice and trainers trot out the liniment bottles. A few college teams, whose academic terms began sooner thanHhe others, already have been working out for a few days but, generally speaking, Sept. 1 marks the official opening of fall practice. And it won't be long until the whistle blows for those first big games. In fact, the first big week end of the season is only two weeks away. UCLA, last year's national champion, will ushert in that weekend by playing host to Texas A&M Friday night, Sept. 16, in a big intersectional game and the following day things start popping almost everywhere. Waste Little Time With such little time to get ready most teams will waste lit tle time on picture-taking today and will get right down to se rious drills. For many, limbering-up drills 1 were the order of the day, as at Illinois, where Coach Ray Eliot sent the whole squad through the annual "Eliot mile," in which every man must run a mile in at least 6Vs minutes, Duke's Orange Bowl cham pions were slated for a session of "skull practice" first, to see how much they remember from those spring workouts, and then I the gridiron. Northwestern's Big s cfii-innc hnncinrr Co c c i n n nn Ten hopefuls were listed for, not one, but two workouts, Most of the pre-season pundits seem to agree that- the "teams which dominated last season will again be strbng this season. Here's the way the United Press Board of CoacheP lined up the top 10 teams of 19S4, in order: UCLA, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Shaw Helps Oriole Win By UNITED PRESS A trio of rookies, halfback L, G. Dupre, quarterback George Shaw and fuHback Alan Ameche, figure to make life a little more pleasant for Coach Weeb,Ewbank of the Baltimore Colts 'this sea son. Dupre, Shaw, and Ameche, all of whom were on the college All-Star team which downed the mighty Cleveland Browns, 30-27 in the annual classic, had a hand in all of the Baltimore scoring as the Colts battled back to gain a 28-28 tie with the Washington Redskins in a National Football League exhibition game at Balti more, o X The " Colts, outplayed until Shaw and Dupre came into the game in the second half, lost their only other exhibition game, 21-6, to the Philadelphia Eagles. White Sox Buy Pitcher AI Papai Chicago (U.R) The Chicago White Sox, attempting to get every bit of help possible to win their first pennant since 1919, have purchased knuckleball spe cialist AI Papai, a former major league pitcher, from Oklahoma City of the TexasCLeague. Papai had a 23-7 won-lost record at the time o fhis purchase. League Leaders NATIONAL LEAGUE Player & Club G AB -R H Pet. Ashbn., Phila. .120 457 80 153 .335 Campla., Bklyn. 104 397 76 130 .327 Klszski, Cin. 135 599 100 171 .317 Snider. Bkn. 127 470 111 147 .313 Furillo, Bkn. 119 449 74 140 312 AMERICAN LEAGUE Kaline. Det. 131 514 108 179. .348 Power, K. C. .124 512 77 163 .318 Smpsn.. K. C. 92 308 28 98 .318 Philley. Balti. 99 317 49 99 3V2 Mantle. N.Y. 131 468 108 143 306 Home Runs Kluszewski. Redlegs 43; Snider, Dodgers 40; Mays. Giants 40; Banks. Cubs 39; Mathews. Braves 35; ManUe. Yankees 35. - Runs Batted In Snider. Dodgers 124: Ennis. Phillies 110; Kluszewski. Redlegs 101; Jensen, Red Sox 101; Campanella, Dodgers 100. Runs Snider. Dodgers 111: Mantle, Yankees 108; Kaline, Tigers 108; Smith, Indians 104; Mays. Giants 102. Hits Kaline. Tigers 179: Kluszew ski. Redlegs -171; Bell, Redlegs 169; Post. Redlegs 166; Power, Athletics 163. Pitching wewcomoe. Dodgers 19-4; Byrne. Yankees 13-4; Donovan. White Sox 14-5: Ford, Yankees 15-6; iLoes, Dodgers 9-4. Notre Dame, Navy, Mississippi! Army, Arkansas, Miami, Fla and Wisconsin. Pre-Seaon Guessers Here's how the pre-season guessers are sizing up the sec tional powers: East Navy. Army, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Boston College, Yale, Cornell; South Auburn, Miami, Missis sippi, Georgia Tech, Maryland, Duke; Midwest Michigan, Ohio State, Wisconsin, Notre Dame; Southwest SMU,' Rice; Mid lands Oklahoma, Colorado, Houston, Wichita; Qlockies Denver, Utah; Far West UCLA, Southern California, Washing ton. The fans are certain to see two things this fall a new rule, and a new television policy. The new rule relaxes the sub stitution rule just a bid. Now a player in the game at the start of a quarter may leave and come back once during that quarter. Lasf year, he could only come back in the second and fourth quarters, and then only in the last five minutes. The new television policy, as outlined by the National Colle giate Athletic Assn., provides for a single game to be televised throughout the national on most Saturdays, but also several Sat urdays when a different game will be shown in different sec-. tions of the country. KOG Furnishes Hat Day Cards Salem Keep Oregon Green association is cooperating with the Governor's Red Hat Day committee by furnishing 50,000 pledge cards. The Oregon State Game Com- njission will 'distribute the cards and buttons to its 1,000 license agencies in the state. Gov. Paul Patterson will pro claim September 23 Red Hat day in Oregon. Purpose is to encour age safety with fire and firearms in the forests and to be law abid ing and respectful of the rights and property of others. County KOG chairmen, their committee members, forest su - pervisors, district rangers, dis trict wardens, assistant wardens and Bureau of Land Management managers are being sent a supply of cards and buttons. ' PACKERS BREAK CAMP Stevens Point, Wis. (U.R) The Green Bay Packers break camp today and head for Charles ton, W. Va., where they will play the Philadelphia Eagles in an ex hibition game Saturday night.l .following the game, the Pack ers will move on to Greensboro, N. C, where they will stay for a week before taking on the Washington Redskins at Winston Salem, N. C, the following Sat urday. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. The American Standard of Living is the That is why Seagram's 7 the largest-selling IT TOOK AMERICA, with the world's highest standard of living, to appreciate Seagram'7 Crown to make it first in popularity year after year by millions of bottles! Q IT TOOK SEAGRAM to give America a whiskey so fine, so consistent in flavor and quality, that today if yon want the finest you have to say Seagram's to be Sure. Say Seagram:! and beSurt ...of American Whiskey at its finest 0 Cn4ffr4m nirllnr Pnmninlf ucagiajiruidLiilCio uuiiiLianj. Nashua Beats Longths in Special Race ChicaflP ttJ.R) Swaps appar- ently-Jnjured a leg in the first few strides of yesterday's match race with Nashua and will be given a complete rest for an in definite period, his owner said today. '"" By ED SAINSBURY r.Chicago (U.R) A "right" horse beat a "wrong" horse in Nashua's Sli-length triumph ov er Swaps in their $100,q6 win- ner-taKe-aii maupji race, ana to day Swaps' owner, Rex Ells worth, wanted to know why he had the "wrong'Gone. "I don't know what was wrong," he said, "Maybe in a couple of days oi(o, we'll know better. All we know is that he wasn't right." But right or wrong, Swaps' chance to be acclaimed as three-year-old of 1955 went glimmer ing when William Woodward Jr.'s colt came winging down NASHUA ' Arenges Derby Washington Park's long home stretch under a whipping prod from jockey Eddie Aim Nashua's Ninlh Win w It was Nashua's ninth win in 10 starts this year, and it aveng ed his only 1955 loss, by a length and a half to Swaps in thgr Ken tucky Derby at the same dis tance a mile and a quarter. ' f Arcaro broke Nashua out of the gate in front. SwapsOcame Ut him twice and failed both times. After a half mile, under jockey Williq Shoemaker's urg ing, he fell shortby a neck. With a quarter to goy under a whip ping, he couldn't gain ground on the outside of the inside, and Nashua won going away. The victory was a major con quest for Nashua, pride of the East before his jnatch race win, despite his loss -in the Kentucky Derby. The $100,000 prize put him less than $20,000 short of a new record for earnings in a single year with $689,700 so far this season, compared to Cita tion's three-year-old record of $709,407. Surpassed by Two ' Also the prize vaulted Nashua to third place in the all-time money-winning column with 'a whiskey Mauf Vnrlr Pitlf Dlanr4af tAti iflrmt OC O ncn mm vnj- uichucu iiiiioncj. ou.o ;--;!fV '.-1 feu - i Swaps by 6V2 tot of 8882,565, surpassed by citation s utetime earning of $1,, 085,760 and Stymie's $918,845. Swaps, unbeaten in eight 1955 starts prior to Wednesdav's downfall, was the heaw favor ite of the crowd of 35,262. With only win betting allowed, $174, 737 was wagered on the race, $107,359 of it on Swaps to make him the 7-to-5 favorite while Nashua was the 6-to-5 underdog. But the bacrs of the Woodward entry were rewarded with $4.40 for each $2 wager. Shoemaker Says Swaps Not at Best (Editor's Note: Willi Shoe maker, who piloted the favor ed Swaps in Wednesday's match race at Washington Park, tells how he lost the duel with Eddie Arcaro en Nashua.) By WILIE SHOEMAKER Written for United Press Chicago (U.R) I didn't have the same horse under me today that I had in other races. Swaps didn't run up to his past form, and I know my horse is capable of a lot better than he did today. Both horses bore out coming out of the gate. Nashua came toward me and I went toward .the stands. It was just a stride or two and I don't think it made any difference in the race. We tried to beat him. We came down the home stretch the first time, but by the time we reached the first turn I knew I didn't have my best hone under me. Then about the half-mile post, we came at him. We got up maybe a neck behind and then he went away from us.. Arcaro just had too much horse. I began whipping Swaps at the head of the stretch when we came at him again and we couldn't pick up anything id that was it-. I knew i had a beaten horse at the quarter pole. We came in side later. We weren't trying for better footing. I knew we were beat and we weren't going to win. I was easing up then and I was pulling him up when we finished. I knew my horse was getting tired and there wasn't any point in beating him to death. Arcaro bore out on us at the first turn but he was just look ing for the best part of the track, and I don't blame him. It didn't help us any to have to go out but I don't Jhink it made any. difference m the outcome. I don't think the start made any difference either. TRAIN WRECK KILLS SIX Managua, Nicaragua (U.R) Six persons were killed and 50 injured when, a diesel rail car collided with a work train near here Wednesday. It was the wos.st railway accident in Nica ragQan history. .' , Use Tribune Want Ads For Best Results ' world's highest... 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