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Newspaper Page TextZIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tueiday, May 22, 195B Ruth's Record in Jeopardy Say Fans as Mantle Hits 1 6th By EARL WRIGHT United Press Sports Writer New York Yankee fans are all hepped up about Mickey Man tle's chances of breaking Babe Ruth's home run record but sev en American League clubs just wish he'd quit breaking their backs. Mantle, who blasted his 16th homer to provide the decisive run in New York's 8-5 triumph over the Athletics Monday at Kansas City, now is 11 games and 10 days ahead of the Babe's pace when he set an all-time big league record of 60 homers in 1927. And the switch-hitting Yankee center fielder, far and away the top early-season candidate for the American League's "most valuable player" award, isn't playing any favorites, either. Of his 16 homers, he has hit four apiece against the Athletics and Cleveland Indians, three against the Boston Red Sox, two apiece against the Chicago White Sox and Washington Senators and one against the Detroit Ti gers. Only the Baltimore Ori oles have escaped his homer bar rage, and Mantle figures to rec tify that oversight before the season gets much older. Would Give "A Million Mantle leads both major leagues in four batting depart ments homers 16, batting aver age .408, runs scored 36, and hits 49 and is second only to teammate Yogi Berra in runs batted in, 34 to 33. Any wonder that White Sox Manager Marty Marion said recently "I'd gladly give a million dollars for Mantle, if I had it." In the only other major league game scheduled, Wjlmer Vinegar Bend Mizell's four-hit pitching, plus homers by Rip Repulski and Bill Sarni, enabled the St. Louis Cardinals to defeat the Giants at New York, 4-1. The victory put the Cardinals in second place in the National League. St. Louis has an 18-12 record, actually a half-game better than Milwaukee's 13-8 mark. However, the Braves hold first place with a .619 percent age against .600 for the Card inals. Repulski, the National's lead ing hitter with a .404 average, put the Cardinals in front to stay when he hit his sixth 1956 homer off losing pitcher Don Liddle in the second inning. St. Louis finished Liddle with three runs in the fifth on Vally Moon's single, Bobby Del Greco's triple, Foster Castleman's error and Sarni's homer. Mizell Is Stingy Mizell, boosting his record to 3-2, didn't allow a batter to ad vance past first until Don Muel ler homered with two out in the seventh for New York's run. The first-place Yankees scored their sixth straight triumph al though their starting pitcher failed to last for the fourth straight time. Don Sturdivant, who replaced Don Larsen in the second was the winner. Tom Morgan pitched the ninth for the Yaiks. Gil McDougald hit a three-run homer during New York's five-five-run first inning but the Ath letics actually collected more homers than the winners with Harry Simpson hitting two and Gus Zernial and Hector Lopez one each. But Mantle provided the win ning run with his fifth inning homer and it was a hum-dinger. The drive cleared two fences in right field, the second a 40-foot high barrier more than 400 feet from the plate. It was only the sixth ball hit over that fence in 33 years. NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 4 8 0 New York 1 4 1 Mizell (3-2) and Sarni. Liddle. Mar goneri (5). Grissom (7). Wilhelm (9) and Katt, Westrum (9). Losing pitcher Liddle (1-1). AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 8 Kansas City 5 8 1 Larsen. Sturdivant (2). Morgan (9) and Howard. Santiago. Burtschy (3). Lasorda (9) and Ginsberg. Winning pitcher Sturdivant 2-11. Losing pitcher Santiago (0-1). MedfordTrlbune SIPODIffiTO Rainiers Take League Lead; Then Lose it in 2nd Game Vancouver, B.C. U.R) The Seattle Rainiers bobbed to the top of the Pacific Coast league Monday, but got pulled back under by the Vancouver Mounties before they had a chance to take a deep breath. In the only games scheduled in the loop, the Rainiers trimmed the Mounties, 7-4, in the opening contest of a doubleheader, but came out on the short end of a 3-1 score in the second game. Seattle did the damage in the final innings of the first game after the Mounties had broken a 1-1 tie with three runs in the sixth inning. The Rainiers came "back with one run in the seventh, three in the eighth and tapered off with two more in the ninth. The loss went to Ryne Duren, who had struck out eight and allowed only five hits when he ran into trouble in the eighth. Seattle reliefer Ernie Atkins got the victory. In the second game, Vancouv er hurler Al Curtis made his first PCL start a winning one by holding Seattle to five hits. The Vancouver team gave Curtis all the runs he needed in the second inning on singles by Jim West- lake and Angelo Dagres and an intentional ' walk to Bruce Ed wards. Curtis then spoiled the Seattle strategy by singling home two runs. The Rainiers got their lone run in the top of the third when Bobby Balcena hit a 340-foot home run over the left field wall, but the Mounties neutral ized that with a single tally in the third. Vancouver scored all its runs off Howie Judson, who took his second loss to two wins. Although the loss in the sec ond game knocked the Rainiers out of the number one spot, they were still in reaching dis tance. They trail the league leading Los Angeles Angels by mere .010 percentage point. THE LINESCORES: First Game Seattle ...... 7 9 t Vancouver 4 10 1 Schallock, Atkins (7) and Orteig; Duren, Beamon (8) and Neal. Second Game Seattle ISO Vancouver 3 4 0 Judson. Atkins (5) and Orteie, Lohrke (4) Robertson (5); Curtis and towards. Ducks Down Washington Seattle (U.R) The Oregon Ducks picked up their eighth Northern division victory yes terday afternoon by dumping cellar-dwelling Washington 6-2. The Ducks were trailing 2-0 at the end of five but erupted for four big runs in the sixth to clinch the game. Oregon add ed two insurance tallies in the ninth. Jack Henkle pitched the dis tance for Oregon, giving up sev en hits, fanning seven and walk ing only two. Now you can enjoy SiieiiwBM)(C)k. brand Straight or Blend-as you prefer SAME PRICE FOR EACH! ll - Il 580 . . Medford 9tH In State Diamond Play Poriland-U.R) The Dalles continued today to rank as the state's number one prep base ball learn in the Oregonian'i final weekly poll. The rankings: 1. The Dalles 2. Lincoln 3. North Salem 4. Eugene 5. Central Catholic 6. Seaside 7. Grant 8. Vale 9. Medford 10. Junction City Others: McMinnville, Albany. Oregon City, Springfield. STANDINGS By United Press NATIONAL LbAbUC W. Milwaukee . St. Louis Brooklyn Cincinnati . Pittsburgh 15 12 New York 13 16 Philadelphia 9 18 Cihcago 7 L. ....13 8 ....18 12 ..16 11 ..16 12 18 Pet. .619 .600 .593 .571 .556 .448 .333 .280 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. New York 22 10 Cleveland 18 11 ..16 12 ..12 13 Boston Chicago Baltimore 15 17 Detroit Washington ..12 17 ...12 18 Kansas City 10 19 KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY SA35 f 45 QT. KENTUCKY BLENDED WHISKEY enjoy the whiskey that's 04- ifi omjL ' THE OLD SUNNY BROOK COMPANY, DIVISION OF NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORPORATION. LOUISVILLE. KY. BOTH 86 PROOF. KENTUCKY BLENDED WHISKEY CONTAINS 65X GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Los Angeles 24 15 Seattle 26 17 Sacramento .. 20 17 San Diego 21 21 San Francisco 20 21 Portland 18 22 Hollywood ......17 21 Vancouver 15 27 Pet. .688 .621 .571 .480 .467 .414 .400 .345 Pet. .615 .605 .541 .500 .488 .450 .477 .357 Hi 4 7 8 GB 2",i 4 6 14 7 8,i 9 10 ',2 3 4 V, 5 6V2 6' 2 10 Vz League Leaders By United States NATIONAL LEAGUE Player & Club G. AB R. H Pet Repulski. St. L. ..26 89 20 36 .404 Long. Pitts .29 108 21 43 .398 Bruton. Milw. .18 66 15 26 .394 Bailey. Cinci. 22 67 ' 10 26 .388 Boyer. St. L 30 118 24 43 .364 AMERICAN LEAGUE Mantle. N.Y 32 120 36 49 .408 Maxwell, Det. .24 74 17 29 .392 Vernon, Bost. ....23 78 14 29 .372 Boyd. Balti 28 70 10 25 .357 Berra, N.Y 30 116 22 41 .353 Home Runs Mantle, Yankees 16; Berra, Yankees 12; Post, Redlegs 11; Long, Pirates, Boyer. Cardinals, Ja blonski, Redlegs all 9. Runs Batted In Berra, Yankees 34; Mantle. Yankees 33; Long. Pirates 29; Boyer. Cardinals 28; Jablonski, Red legs 27. Runs ManUe. Yankees 36; Lopez, Athletics 24; Boyer, Cardinals 24; Bauer, Yankees 24; Yost, Senators. Lopez, Athletics, Moon, Cardinals, all 23. Hits Mantle. Yankees 49; Boyer, Cardinals 43; Long. Pirates 43; Berra, Yankees 41; Goodman, Red Sox 40; Kuenn, Tigers 40. Pitching Ford. Yankees 6-0; Law rence, Redlegs 5-0; Lemon. Indians 6-1; Pierce, White Sox, Wynn, In dians, Wilson, White Sox, Brewer, Red Sox. all 4-1. Walt's, SO Victors In Softball Walt's Lithia Motors and Southern Oregon Equipment in itiated the Jackson County Soft hall association season yester day with decisive victories on the Medford High school foot ball field. SO Equipment crushed De Molay in their opener 32-3. SO Equipment sluggers began early by blasting starter Bruce Thompson of DeMolay with homers by Ken Gentry, Norm Loop and Tommy Rodgers. La rue Smith banged four triples for the winners. -Ken Gentry was the winning pitcher. He fanned four and walked three. Bruce Thompson was the loser. John Harvey re lieved him and quieted "the SO Equipment hitters. Neither De Molay pitcher had a strikeout and permitted seven walks be tween them. Gerald Fanger and John Har vey hit singles for the loser. Walt's Lithia Motors had equal ease in pouncing the 20 30 club behind the one-hit pitch ing of winning pitcher Holcom. Holcom fanned 11 and walked two. Loren Soderlund took the loss for the 20-30 club. He whiffed two and walked two. Leading the attack for the winners were Krench, McGinty and Hale, who all hit a homer and a single apiece. John Niles got the only hit for the losers, a double. SCHEDULE: May 23 Courtesy Chevrolet and Chris Drugs. YMCA Ysmen and Bill's 99 Chevron station. May 24 Medford Auto Upholstery and Nauonal Guard. Walt's Lithia Motors and Southern Oregon Equipment company. May 28 Chris Drugs vs. 20-30, De Molay vs. Bill's Chevron. May 30 Courtesy Chevrolet vs. National Guard, Ysmen vs. Auto Upholstery. May 31 Lithia Motors vs. Chris Drugs, Bill's Chevron vs. 30 Equip ment. June 4 20-30 vs. National Guard. DeMolay vs. Auto Upholstery. June 6 Courtesy Chevrolet vs. Ysmen, Lith ia Motors vs. Bill's Chevron. June 7 Chris Drugs vs. National. Guard, SO Equipment vs. Auto Upholstery. June ' 11 DeMoley vs. Courtesy Chevrolet. Lithia Motors vs. National Guard. June 13 20-30 vs. Ysmen, inn s Chevron vs. Auto Upholstery. June 14 Chris Drugs vs. Ysmen. SO Equipment vs. Courtesy Chevrolet. June 18 20-30 vs. DeMolav. Lithia Motors vs. Auto Upholstery. June 20 Bill's Chevron vs. Courtesy Chevrolet. June 21 Chris Drugs vs. DeMolay, SO equipment vs. zu-ao. June 25 Lithia Motors vs. Ysmen. June 27 Auto Upholstery vs. Cour tesy Chevrolet. Bill's Chevron vs. 20 30. June 28 Lithia Motors vs. Cour tesy Chevrolet. Ysmen vs. DeMoley. July z Auto Uuholstery vs. 20-30. Bill's Chevron vs. Chris Drugs. July 4 National Guard vs. SO Eouioment. Lithia Motors vs. DeMolay. Julv 5 Courtesy Chevrolet vs. 20-30. Yimen vs. SO Equipment. July 9 Auto Upholstery vs. Chns Drugs. National Guard vs. Bill's Chev ron. July 11- SO Equipment vs. Chris "rugs, national Guard vs. Ysmen. July 12 National Guard vs. Medford Talent District SB Titlist in Baseball For the third straight season Talent high school is the District 5B baseball champ. The Bulldogs, champions of Jackson county, subdued Mer rill, winner in Klamath county, 14 to 9 yesterday in the play-off contest at the fairgrounds ball park here. The tussle was a wild one and the runmaking reached its peak in the fifth inning. Merrill got six runs in that canto to take an 8 to 6 lead. Talent came back for eight markers in the bottom of the frame to head on the score board at 14 to 9. Merrill opened the scoring in the first inning with a counter on a walk to Terry Sherrill, a sacrifice by John Honnicutt, a groundout by Butch Johnson and a single by Herb Schlecht. In the same stanza Talent got three scores. Fred Helm doubled, Ron Weinhold got on base on an error, Gordy Thoreson walked. Ray Weinhold singled in two runs and Thoreson tallied on a wild pitch. Donosky Doublet The Klamath county crew got one run in the second inning on a double by ill Donosky and successive groundouts by John Haskins and Steve Hobson. . In the fourth panel Merrill "napped" on a play at first base and by the time the Talent base runners were through galloping the Bulldogs had three more runs. Skip Walls got a single and went to second on an error. Ron Weinhold was hit by a pitch and Thoreson walked to load the bags. Ray Weinhold bounced the ball to pitcher Honnicutt whose throw pulled first baseman Don-i osky off the bag. The Huskies, however, thought they had Ray out which would retire the side. Talent runners kept going. When the Merrill club realized the sit uation a peg home was wild and the third run came. home. Ray was all the way to third base. Bases-Loaded Triple Four hits off Talent starting pitcher Bob Hoffman and two off reliever Fred Helm and a walk enabled Merrill to pile up its count in the fifth frame. Has kins and Perry Laney doubled and John Reed, Honnicutt, John son and Donosky singled. Just three raps, one a bases- loaded triple by Ray Weinhold, figured in Talent's big inning. Kip Walls and Hoffman singled. Four walks, a hit batter and two errors were helps along with three pilfered bases. Merrill got a final run in the sixth inning on a base on balls, an error and a ground out by Johnson. Ray Weinhold was the heavy hitter of the game with three for four. Walls and Johnson each socked two for four. Talent is awaiting word on the team it will play from District 6 which includes central Oregon. LINESCORE: Merrill 110 061 0 9 8 7 Talent 300 380 x 14 7 2 Honnicutt. Laney (5) and Schlecht Hoffman, Helm (5) and Combs. Frick Keeps All-Star Poll New York (U.R) Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick has de cided to continue the All-Star poll through which fans select the starting teams, exclusive of pitchers, for the annual game between the American and Na tional leagues. Frick announced that the poll would be continued after ap proximately 500 newspaper, ra dio and television stations signi fied their willingness to conduct the poll in their localities. The commissioner's office, rather than the Chicago Tribune, will act as the clearing house for all the returns. Previously, the Tribune acted as the clear ing house but that newspaper advised Frick two weeks ago that it no longer was interested in conducting the poll. To sound out sentiment on whether the poll should be con tinued, Frick, through the three U.S. news agencies the United Press, -International News Serv ice and the Associated Press asked newspapers, radio and TV stations if they would be inter ested in participating in the poll. "The response was so terrific we have decided to go ahead on the usual basis," Frick ex plained. Bowling Ross Lumber Co. took cham pionship honors over Lamports and Crater Electric. Bob Forrest of Ross Lumber took high game with a 215 and High Team game went to Ross Lumber with a 906. Trophies High Series for year went to Charles Snedden with with 712, High Game Paul Dim ick with 295, High Average went to Jim Farrar 176, and Lee Bex on Dec. 8, 1955 had the misfor tune of rolling a 446 to take the Low Series trophy. Ross Lbr. - Lamports G. Culy 893 , B. Coy 742 A. Schatz 797 B. Meyers 889 D. Culy 717 S. Van Dyke 868 875 L. Schneider 852 F. Martin B. Forrest . 871 J. Farrar Handicap 640 Handicap 4793 750 410 4511 Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day. Roster Lists i Jefferson Cheney Colt Baseballers Roster for the Cheney Colts semi-pro baseball aggregation has been announced by Busi ness Manager Bill Askwith. The Colts, a new entry in the Rogue Valley League bow into action next Sunday when they take on Glendale. Game time will be 2 p.m. at the fairgrounds ball park here. Askwith said that the catcher for the opener will be picked from among Gerald Darland and Laval Meunier, from St. Mary's high, and Howard Morris, Lin field college and ex-Crater play er. Members of the pitching staff are Eldon Davidson, ex-Grants Pass high; Kay Kelley, Linfield and ex-Crater, and Duane Sides, from Medford high. Sides will be available this week end only if Medford should lose in the state A-l prep quarter-finals. Colt infielders are Harvey Tonn, Southern Oregon college and ex-Crater, first base; Mau rice Churchman, Southern Ore gon college and ex-Sutherlin; Eldon Francis, from Medford high, third base; Ray Oakes, ex Seaside high, shortstop, and Ron Pruitt, reserve. 30 Practice- Sunday Outfielders are Vern Parent, ex-Crater; Charles Rettman, ex Ashland high; Ray Dahl, from Phoenix high; Clyde Smith, from Jacksonville high, Ed Reinking, from Medford high. Bob Serak, from Chicago, and Bud McGuire. Possibility of Reinking's services depends on Medford high's for tunes this week. The Colts are a farm team for the Medford Cheney Studs of the Southern Oregon League. About 30 aspirants were on hand yesterday for the com bined Studs and Colts workout. The Studs first see action here on June 6 in non-league play with Yreka, Calif. Bend will come for non-loop play on June 9 and 10. The Washington Cheney Studs will come on July 7 and 8 and Beaverton will play the Studs on August 11 and 12. Askwith is negotiating with a Bellingham, Wash., semi-pro crew for August 2 and 3 dates. Bellingham will be en route south at the time and the series is almost certain. FISHERMEN! LARGE RAINBOW TROUT Everything furnished NO LICENSE NO LIMIT Open Every Day ELROD'S TROUT FARM 4 Miles West of Talent en Anderson Creek Tops Lincoln Jefferson Grade school moved into a tie for third place yester day on their own field pouncing Lincoln 7-2. Pacing the Jefferson attack was Mike Watkins and Jim Burke with a pair of hits, each hitting a double and a single. Gary Olson also hit a double for the winners and David Guchet drove in two runs with a bases loaded single. Mike Barnes got credit for the win, striking out nine and walking two. Larry Pierce was the loser. He fanned six and walked four. DePlace got the only hit for Lincoln and drove ih a run. 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