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TWELVE MEDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. June 6. 1956 Robinson, Post Spur Redleg Triumph; Cubs Top Pirates; Race Tight in National Loop By FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer The Cincinnati Redlegs may not pick up all the marbles in the National League's five-team scramble but it's a cinch they've got the "rookie of the year" in 20-year-old Frank Robinson. A mere .263 hitter with Colum bia in the Sally League last sea son, the powerful left-fielder is banging big league pitching at a .299 clip and Tuesday night walloped his 11th homer as the Redleas romped over Philadel phia Philjies. 9-4. At his current pace. Robinson will challenge Wally Berger's 26-year old mark of 38 homers by a rookie. With Wally Post driving in four runs with his 12th and 13th homers and Robinson collecting two hits for the third time in four games, the Redlegs made it seven victories in 10 contests. In the process they helped throw the NL race into a knot as tight as Jack Benny's purse strings. The Pittsburgh Pirates bowed to the Chicago Cubs. 7-3. but remained atop the circuit with a .585 percentage. The Redlegs follow with .581 and the St. Louis Cardinal?, who beat the New York Giants, 3-1, are next at .578. The Brooklyn Dodgers further tightened matters when they whipped the Milwaukee Braves, 6-1, dropping the Tribe into fourth place a game off the pace. The world champions are fifth With a 22-19 record but in easy striking distance of the lead, only two games behind the Pirates. The Pirates suffered their sec ond straight defeat when the Cubs kayoed Bob Friend with a five-run rally in the third in ning. Warren Hacker limited the Pirates to seven hits and had a shutout until the ninth when Frank Thomas belted his 10th homer with two aboard. The loss ended Friend's six-game winning streak and the win was the Cubs' fourth in five 'games. Willard Schmidt held the punchless Giants to five hits in scoring his third victory and first since May 8 for the Cardi nals. Wally Moon's two -run triple in the sixth inning and Ken Boyer's 14th homer of the year accounted for St. Louis' runs. Towering Roger Craig hurled a two-hitter to win his fifth game and give the Dodgers their second straight decision over the Braves. Southpaw Warren Spahn was lifted when the Dodgers scored two runs in the second in ning and lost his fifth game. Randy Jackson and Junior Gil liam had three hits each to lead Brooklyn's attack. Tigers Pad Streak In the American League, the onrushing Detroit Tigers achieved the longest winning streak of the season when they outslugged the Boston Red Sox. 14-H. for their seventh straight triumph. Ray Boone knocked in five runs with two singles, a double and a homer and Frank House homered and drove in three runs to lead Detroit's 17- Milo Savage Fights Boyd Chicago (UP.) Milo Sav age was a 7-5 underdog for his middleweight television fight with Bobby Boyd tonight, but he predicted today the odds would be wrong "if Boyd'll just stand toe to toe with me and not run." The pair meet in the Chicago stadium in a revenge scrap for Boyd, who now has won eight straight fights since he was last beaten, by Savage, April 18, 1955. "I don't think Boyd is of cham pionship caliber." Savage snap ped. "Gene Fullmer and Holly Mims are far superior to him. Boyd runs too much." Savage's ranting perhaps was intended to anger his foe, for both Fullmer and Mims were victims during Boyd's winning streak, and he has offered to tangle with Fullmer again and beat him to "prove" he is more entitled to a chance at Ray Rob inson's championship than Fullmer. hit assault. The Kansas City Athletics handed the first-place New York Yankees their fourth straight loss, 7-4, with the aid of three unearned runs. The Yankees committed five errors. Mickey Mantle hit his 21st homer of the year for the Yankees. The Cleveland Indians moved into second place 3'2 games be hind the Yanks when Bob Lem on's eight-hitter gave them an 8-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. Chico Carrasquel had three hits and rookie Earl Aver ill a homer to lead Cleveland. Chuck Stobbs' four-hit pitch ing enabled the Washington Sen ators to beat the Chicago White Sox, 3-1, and drop them into third place. Stobbs fanned seven and walked only two in squaring his season's record at 4-4. I.INESCORES: National Leagur Pittsburgh . O(M) 000 003 3 3 7 Chicago 005 020 OOx 7 9 0 Friend. McMahan 4i. Arroyo ifi. Munger 8i and Foiles. Kravitz 5. Hacker r1-5t and Landrith. Loser Friend (0-3 1. Brooklyn 020 300 010 8 10 1 Milwaukee 100 000 000 1 1 K Craig (5-2 and Campanella. Spahn. Jolly 2t. Murff I4. Johnson (9 and CrandaU. Loser Spahn 13-5). New York 000 001 000 ! 5 t St. Louis 010 002 OOx 3 7 2 Hearn. Ridzlk (6i. Liddle 'Si and Katt. Mangat m. Schmidt (3-2) and Sarni. Loser Hearn 3-3j. Philadelphia .000 020 020 t 9 0 Cincinnati .. 031 041 OOx 9 13 1 Simmons. Flowers t5. Owens '71 and Seminick. Lonnett 3t. Nuxhall (2-5t and Bailey. Loser Simmons 12-41. American League Chicago 000 001 000 1 4 2 Washington 21 000 OOx 3 3 1 Harshman. ConsuegTa 8i and Lol lar. Stobhs (4-4i and Berberet. Loser Harshman (2-4). Detroit 005 301 203 14 17 0 Boston Oil 120 006 11 13 2 Trucks. Masterson 6p. Aber (91 and House. Porterfield. Baumann "4. Hurd '7i. Kiely i9i and White. Winner Trucks (2-1). Loser Porterfield 12-41. 13 1 Cleveland 300 220 001 8 Baltimore . 100 100 001 3 8 1 Lemon 17-2 1 and Averill. Moore. Fernieies i5. Dorish (8) and Smith. Loser Moore (4-41. Kansas City ... 400 000 09 7 7 New York 000 100 0214 J 5 Kretlow. Shantz 181 and Thompson; Kucks. Coleman i9i and Berra. Win ner Kretlow (3-5l Loser Kucks 16-31 Portlanders Subdue San Diego Pads 5-3 By DON THACKREY United Press Sports Writer The Los Angeles Angels may have most of the delegates to win the Pacific Coast league pennant election,, but Seattle and Sacramento are not con ceding a thing. The Solons spotted the Angels four runs last night and then came back to beat them 7-6. Seat tle also gave away four to the San Francisco Seals but wound up with a 5-4 decision in 11 innings. Portland kept the first divis ion a closed corporation for a while by turning back San Diego 5-3 and Hollywood dumped Van couver 6-5 in a cellar series game. Two of the winning pitchers in the games did enough damage at the plate to help their cause along. Wade Homers Ben Wade, pitching in relief for Hollywood, smacked a tie breaking solo home run, his third of the season, in the eighth- to insure his winning the game. The Stars outhit the Mounties 14-13. And Bill Werle, who went the route for Portland, brought his team from behind with a homer that made the score 3-3 in the seventh. Then the Beavers got the idea and whacked John Carmichael around for two more runs and Wildlife Group Chooses Yeater Bend (U.Ri Bruce Yeater. Roseburg, yesterday was elected president of the Oregon Wild life Federation at the group s semiannual meetin at the Cir cle M Ranch on the Metolius" river. Charles .Collins was named executive vice - president and Lloyd Hayes as secretary. Both men are also from Roseburg. TRACK PURCHASED Tampa. Fla. (U.R) A group headed by Frederick E. M. Bal lon, a New York attorney, has purchased Sunshine race track. The 29-year old track well known as the late Grantland Rice's favorite track is sit uated 17 miles from Tampa and 22 from St. Petersburg. Second largest fresh water lake in the U. S. is Lake Okee chobee in Florida. It is about 35 miles long and 32 miles wide and despite its size has a depth of only about 14 feet. - CALL -LININGER'S WHEN YOU NEED READY-MIX CONCRETE M. C. LININGER & SONS Phone 2-5336 or 2-5897 Ashland 8121 the ball game. Earl Harrist was the winner against the potent Los Angeles squad, but he needed a stellar relief stint from Milo Candini. Candini pitched the final two innings and blanked the Angels on one hit while-fanning two batters in each of the frames. Harry Perkowski was the los er. Slow Starter San Francisco scored four times in the first inning against Seattle and the road looked rocky for veteran Howie Judson. However Judson gave up only two hits in the next ten frames and came out on top when Joe Taylor belted one over the left field fence in the top of the 11th to break a 4-4 tie. The Suds had knotted the score in the seventh by scoring four runs of their own on six hits and driving starter Bill Henry to the showers. Bill Slack came on in that frame and gave up only two hits. But one of them was Taylor's game-winner. LIXESCORES: (11 innings) Seattle 000 000 400 01 S 8 3 San Fran. . 400 000 000 00 .1 0 .Judson and Orteig ;Henry, Slack (7) and Sadowski. STANDINGS (By United Press) PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Los Angela 37 Seattle 36 Sacramento 30 Portland 30 San Diea-o 28 San Francisco 26 Hollywood 23 Vancouver 18 19 23 24 27 31 31 32 41 Pet. .661 .610 J56 J21 .475 .456 .418 .303 7'i 10'a ll'j 13'j 21 Tuesday's Results Seattle 5, San Francisco 4 (11 in- ninesi Sacramento 7. Los Angeles S Portland 5. San DieKO 3 Hollywood 6. Vancouver 3 How Series Stand Los Angeles 1, Sacramento 1 Hollywood 2. Vancouver 0 Portland 2. San Diego 0 Seattle 1. San Francisco 0 AMERICAN LEAGUE New York Cleveland Chicago Detroit Boston Baltimore . ,, Kansas City Washington w. ,. 29 -...21 20 18 19 Pet. .630 .558 .553 .512 .486 .444 .419 .404 GB 3', 4 5'i 6'2 8'j 9, 10 is Tuesday's Results Detroit 14. Boston 11' fnightl Cleveland 8. Baltimore 3 (night) Washington 3. Chicago 1 ( night l Kansas City 7, New York 4 (night) Wednesday's Probable Pitchers Chicago at Washington (night) Stalev (1-11 vs. Wiesler (1-21 Cleveland at Baltimore (night) Score (6-41 vs. Johnson (1-1). Thursday's Games Chicago at Washington Cleveland at Baltimore Kansas City at New York Detroit at Boston NATIONAL LEAGUE W. I.. Pittsburgh- 24 17 Cincinnati - 25 18 St. Louis 26 Milwaukee 20 Brooklyn 22 ew York 17 Philadelphia Chicago 14 19 IS 25 25 25 Pet. .585 .581 J78 .571 .537 .405 .375 .359 Tuesday's Results Chicago 7. Pittsburgh 3 St. Louis 3. New York 1 (night Cincinnati 9. Philadelphia 4 (night) Brooklyn 6. Milwaukee 1 (night) Wednesday's Probable Pitchers New York at St. Louis (night) Gomez (2-41 vs. Poholsky (3-3) or Lit- Uefield (0-2). Brooklyn at Milwaukee (night) Newcombe (7-4) vs. Conlev (l-l). Philadelphia at Cincinnati (night) S. Miller (2-2) vs. Lawrence (6-0). Thursday's Games Philadelpiha at Cincinnati Brooklyn at Milwaukee Pittsburgh at Chicago (Only games scheduled). NORTHWEST LEAGUE W. L. YaKima 22 Lewiston 18 Eugene 18 Tri-City .... 19 Spokane , i? Wenatchee 13 Salem 11 Moore Stops Pompey In 10th To Keep Hold Of Light-Heavy Toga London (U.R) Ancient Ar chie Moore, more annoyed by a "very rude" referee than any efforts put forth by Yolande Pompey, may tackle Canadian heavyweight champion James J. Parker next in a possible tune up for a heavyweight title fight. Moore, somewhat weakened by the loss of 37 pounds to make the light-heavyweight limit, suc cessfully defended his 175-pound crown Tuesday night by flooring Pompey three times in the 10th round for a technical knockout..1 The finish came like a whirl wind, after eight lackluster rounds. Pompey, of Trinidad, was simply swept away by Moore's, power punching and ref eree Jack Hart drew the curtains of-mercy at 2:50 of the 10th. Thought Harl Rude Hart, rather than Pompey was the first person Archie spoke about when he reached his dress ing room. Hart warned Moore in the sec ond round to show some action or get thrown out of the ring. TOMORROW'S SLUGGER "Wow!" reads the expression on the face of pi'cher Larry Suzuki as he admires the arm of first baseman Jimmy Blair. Jimmy had iust hit his second home run 'in Vancouver, B. C for their Bnai Brith team in the Little Mountain League. MADDOX SELECTED FOR ND ALL-STAR BASEBAL SQUAD Corvalhs KU.R) Washing ton State college, champion of "I thought that was very rude" said Archie with a peal of laugh ter. He admitted that he didn't set much of a pace, but insisted flatly that he hadn't been "loaf ing." When 39-year-old Archie fin ally had 27-year-old Pompey fig ured out, the end came quickly. After starting to connect in the ninth and leaving Pompey's face a bloody mask at the end of that session, he sprinted from the cor ner for the 10th and went right to work. Pompey hit the deck for counts of eight, nine, and eight and Archie was bombard ing him when Hart stepped in. the Pacific Coast conference. and Oregon each placed four men on the 1956 Northern divi sion all-star baseball team chos en by coaches and publicity di rectors. Those on the squad from WSC were Catcher Bill Rich, Second Baseman Gorden Horsey, Third Baseman Bill Mashburn and Pitcher Jerry Bartow. On the" squad from Oregon were First Baseman Dick Schlossstein, Shortstop Johnny Keller, Out fielder Terry Maddox and Pitcher Don Lane. Rounding out the 10-man squad were Outfielders Jerry Exley of Oregon State and Ron Braden of Idaho. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads Samovar It"' '"1 390 THE ORIGINAL. ORV VODKA For breath ' oamovar rr truly fine! i 3 A I - foVj 1 1int - LJ j, Jt UL 45 Qt Product of U.S.A. Boaka Kompaniya, Schenley, Pa., and Fresno, Calif, Made from Grain, 80 Proof only pet. sb fl a r J IJ I ill mMMA 21 li3 11 111 I Tuesday'i Results Tri-City 9. 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