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Lawrence Cops 1 0th Verdict For Redleg; Brave Lead Cut By MILTON RICHMAN United Pint Sports Writer Tor a guy who once was given tlx blood transfusions and al most left for dead, unbeaten Brooks Lawrence is certainly pumping plenty of life into Cin cinnati's pennant hopes. The Redlegs now are only a half game out of first place in the National league and it was Lawrence, a 31-year-old Cardi nal castoff who put them there by nailing down his 10th straight victory without a defeat Wednes day night while defeating the Pirates, 10-2. - "Lawrence is our good luck fhirm " rxnlains Manager Brid le Tebbetts, "because whenever he pitches we get plenty of runs. The Redlegs came from be hind Wednesday night to knock nut Boh Friend in the eighth in king with a nine-run rally put together on six singles, two walks and four Pittsburgh er rnr T.awrpnce save wav for a pinch hitter in the explosive eighth so he celebrated his lum triumph under a shower. . T.iwrinci Ker Hurler Bv all odds, the 205-pound Tjmrrenr in the kev Ditcher in the Redlegs' spectacular climb this season but less man iwo years ago he lost more than 30 pounds because of bleeding ul cers and it was only those trans fusions that helped keep him alive Even so, the Cardinals decided not to take a chance with him and traded him to Cincinnati be fore the current season began. The Redlegs are still cheering over that deal. Stan Lopata's 14th homer of the season in the 11th inning gave the Phillies a 4-3 victory over the league-leading Braves. T.nnata' hlow a mlshtV wallOD over the left field roof at Con- nio ATarlr stadium rams inff re liever Ernie Johnson and earn ed the Phils their second straight decision over the Braves, who had come into Philadelphia with an 11-game winning streak. Wil lis (Puddin' Head) Jones and Andy Seminick also homered for the Phillies while Johnny Logan and Hank Aaron connected for the Braves. Cram. Tiadaarm Win The Dodgers swept their three-game series with the Cubs, 6-2, in a game that was twice halted by rainstorms. Brooklyn clinched the contest by jumping on Warren Hacker for four runs on five hits in the fourth inning. Roger Craig racked up his seventh victory although he yielded to Don Bessent In the eighth. Carl Furillo homered. A pair of homers by Ken Boyer and the five-hit pitching of Tom Poholsky swept the Car dinals to a 6-0 victory over the sinking Giants. Boyer hit both of his homers off lefty Johnny Antonelli, who also yielded a home run to Hal Smith. Cleveland ran its winning streak to eight games in the American league by battling back from an eight-run deficit to beat Baltimore, 12-11, in 11 innings. . Chico Carresquel's fifth hit, a single to left field, scored Al Rosen from second base with the winning run as reliever Don Mossi was credited with the vic tory. Trailing 9-1. the Indians rallied for six runs in the fourth with the aid of Al Rosen's two- run homer. They then tied the . icore at 11-all in the bottom of the ninth after the Orioles had scored twice in the top of the r.inth. Tito Francona and Dick Williams homered for Baltimore. Bosox Stop Chicago The Red Sox snapped the White Sox'- nine-game winning streak with an 11-9 victory by rallying for three runs in the eighth. Don Buddin doubled with two out to start the win- rung rally and Dick Gernert. Billy Goodman. Billy Klaus and Ted Williams followed with sin gles. Fred Hatfield, Dixie How ell and Dave Philley all homer ed for Chicago. Reliever Ike Delock was the winner. Southpaw Bob Sieslcr of Washington held Detroit to five hits in handing the Tigers their 10th straight setback, 3-1. Wies ler outpitched Frank Lary and had a shutout until Charlie Max well hit his 13th homer in the .ninth. Fete Runnels hit a homer for the Senators. The Yankees increased their lead over the second-place White Sox to 2'i games with a 5-2 Victory over the Athletics. Tom Sturdivant pitched a five-hitter in posting his fifth victory al though Tom Morgan had to re tire the last two batters in the ninth. Hank Bauer hit his 16th homer off loser Art Ditmar in the eighth inning. I.INF.SCORES: American League Washington ....OOO 100 Oil 3 8 2 Detroit 000 000 0011 5 2 Wieiler (3-4) and Courtney. Lary Maas (9 1 and Wiljon. Loser Lary 1419). HR Runnels (4th), Maxwell 1 13th). (11 InnlntD Baltimore 034 200 002 00 11 13 2 Cleveland 100 610 012 0112 17 0 wight. Fornielei (4). Brown (3) and GastaJl. H. Smith (11). Garcia. Mc- Lish (3). Houtteman (3) Feller (5), N'arleski (9t. Mosst (10) and Averill. Winner Moasi (3-1). Loser Brown 4-1. HR Rosen (8th). Francona (3rd), Williams (1st). Boston 021 410 030 11 15 0 Chicago 000 332 001 9 9 2 Sullivan. Delock (5). Kiely (8) and wmte. Donovan, consueera (3). Mar. tin (4). Howell 6). Pollet IS). La Palme )8i. Staley 9i and Lollar. Win ner ueiocK (3-S). Loser Howell (2-51. HR Hatfield (1st), Howell (1st). New York .....011 010 0205 9 1 Kansas City ... 011 000 000 2 5 1 Sturdivant Morgan (9 and Berra. Ditmar (6-8) and Thompson. Winner Sturdivant (5-1). HR Bauer U6th). National League Chicago 000 000 110 3 7 2 Brooklyn 001 400 Olx 6 9 0 Hacker, Lown 45) and Landrith. Craig. Besent (81 and Walker. Winner Craig 17-2). Loser Hacker (1-7;. HR Furillo (7th). St. Louis 022 002 000 0 10 0 New York 000 000 000 0 5 1 Poholsky (3-5) and Smith. Antonelli. McCall 14), Ridzik 6. Littlefleld '6). Constanble (9) and Sarni. boser .V tonelli (6-7). 11 Innings) Milwaukee .10 000 200 003 7 Phila 010 010 000 01 t 8 Soahn. Burdette. (9). Johnson 10) and Rice. Crandall (10). Haddix. Mey er (7). Owens (9. Negray (11) and Seminick. Winner Negray (1-0). Loser Johnson (1-2). HR Logan (4th), Jones (8th), Seminick (Sin). Aaron (8th) Lopata (14th). STANDINGS PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE (By United Press) W. L. Pet. Seattle -. 51 31 Los Angeles . 48 32 OB .622 .600 2 .506 9 "i .506 9 !s .481 ll'a .468 12i, .450 14 .363 21 Wednesday's Results Sacramento 4, San Diego 3 (10 in nings) Portland 4, Seattle 3 Hollywood 3, San Francisco 1 Vancouver 4-6, Los Angeles 1-2 Hollywood 39 38 Sacramento 39 38 San Francisco 38 41 Portland 36 41 San Diego 36 44 Vancouver 29 31 How Series Stand Sacramento 3, San Diego 0 Hollywood 2, San Francisco 0 Portland 2, Seattle 0 ' Vancouver 2. Los Angeles G NATIONAL LEAGUE W. , 35 Cincinnati 000 001 090 10 12 1 Pittsburgh 001 000 100 2 8 5 Lawrence. Freeman (8) and Bailey. Friend, Arroyo (8), J. C'Brien (9) and Kravitz. Winner Lawrence ( 10-0). Loser Friend (11-5. HR Kravitz (2nd). - MedforDvWTeibune Mounties Scorch LA; Beavers Nip Seattle By DON THACKERY United Press Sports Writer The Vancouver Mounties are building a fire in the Pacific Coast league basement. The Canadians entered the loop this year for the first time and started at the bottom. Now they are- apparently well-acquainted with the PCL cellar and have found out how to turn on the teat. Last night the Los Angeles Angels became the third squad in a row to get burned by the lowly Mounties as" the newcom ers took both ends of a double- Trout Fishing Condition On Rogue Improved Portland (U.R) The weekly report of fishing conditions pre pared by the Oregon State Game Commission. Southwest: Mercer lake trout fishing good. Tahkenitch Jake blue-gill and perch fishing fair to good, trout fishing poor. Stlt coos lake trout fishing improv ed, bass and blue-gill fair to good with some bullheads. Trout angling fair in the North Umpqua, upper South Umpqua, Rock Creek Little river, and res ervoirs of the extreme upper North Umpqua drainage. Salmon angling at Winchester bay gen erally good. Fly fishing for trout at Tenmile, Eel, and Loon Lakes good. Trout angling in south fork of Coquille is fair to good. Trout angling in Tioga creek upper regions fair, fair also in Wil liams river. Rogue river clear and drop ping. Conditions for trout fish ing improved. Salmon fishing good but poorer than last week. Trout fishing in Union Creek area slow, but improvement expected. Berrien Springs, Mich JJJ'J irucK driver cnester Mack, 32, heard a crash as the lights of an approaching car blinded him on a highway near here. On inves tigation, he found someone had hurled a bowling ball, knocking out the truck's right front headlight. Milwaukee Cincinnati ..... Brooklyn . St. Louis Pittsburgh .. Philadelphia cnicago ... New York I.. 24 36 26 35 27 .34 31 . 31 30 27 36 24 35 24 37 Pet. .593 .581 .565 .523 .517 .429 .407 .393 12 Wednesday's Results Brooklyn 6, Chicago 3 St. Louis 6. New York 0 Philadelphia 4, Milwaukee 3 (11 in nings, (night) CincinanU 10, Pittsburgh 2 (night) AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. 43 24 New York Chicago Cleveland Boston Baltimore Washington Kansas City . 37 23 . 36 27 31 31 . 31 35 . 28 36 25 41 Pet. GB .642 .617 2'i .571 5 JOS 9 .470 11 !s .429 14 J79 17 'i Wednesday's Results Cleveland 12, Baltimore 11 (11 in nings) Boston 11. Chicago 9 Washington 3. Detroit 1 New York 5, Kansas City 2 (night) header 4-1 and 6-2 to drop the Angels back two games behind Seattle. It gave Vancouver four wins and three series victories in a row and a record of seven out of their last eight games in the right column. Seattle missed a chance to go farther ahead by losing to Port land 4-3. Sacramento beat San Diego 4-3 and Hollywood dump ed San Francisco 3-1. ' Ryne Duren, who couldn't win for losing early in the year, notched hu, fourth straight vic tory and fanned 17 Angels in doing it. The 17 strikeouts came within two of the PCL record of 19 set in 1905 by Charlie Shields of Seattle. The Mounties broke 1-1 ties in each game to down the second place Cherubs. In the first one a three-run fifth inning did it and in the second four runs in the fourth frame won the contest. Ron Jackson of Vancouver hit the only home run of the two games. Bill Werle held Seattle to five hits as the Beavers came from behind with two unearned runs in the seventh to edge the league leaders. The winning run came home on an interference play. Frank Carswell homered for the Beavers and Ray Orteig for the Rainiers. Under Protest San Francisco ' protested its game with Hollywood although the Seals got only three hits off Cholly Naranjo. The protest came when the Seals had a man on base and one umpire called a ball hit by Haywood Sullivan fair while an other called it foul. In the mix up Sullivan was ruled out at first. Hollywood got all its runs in the fourth inning. ' Earl Rapp homered" for the San Diego Padres in the eighth inning ,to tie the score but the Solons pushed across the win ning run in the tenth frame on a bases-loaded hit by George Risley. Gene Bearden, who came to the relief of Earl Harrist, got his second win in two nights and Tom Herrera, third of four Padre pitchers, was the loser. The win made it three in a row for the Sacs over the Pads. NORTHWEST LEAGUE W. L. 38 17 21 21 29 21 30 24 23 34 20 33 Yakima , Eugene Lewiston Trl-City Wenatchee . Salem Spokane 17 37 Pet .690 .604 380 .555 .403 16 .363 18 .315 20'i GB 7!i Wednesday's Results: Tri-City 6. Eugene 5 Wenatchee 4. Lewiston 2 Yakima 7, Salem 6 (11 innings! Vic Seixas, Flam Vie at Wimbledon Wimbledon, England U America was, down to seven men survivors and seven women to day in the Wimbledon tennis championships and the elimina tion wheel was certain to spin several more of them off by nightfall. In' fact Vic Seixas, one of the two seeded Americans left in the men's division, was expected to eliminate one team mate today when he encountered Herb Flam of Beverly Hills, Calif., in a fea ture match on the center court. Seixas, the Philadelphia Davis Cupper, is seeded eighth and is expected to handle Flam handily. Althea Gibson, the New York Negro girl who has performed so brilliantly on the European tournament tour, was involved in another feature match against Anne Shilcoek of Britain. Miss Gibson is seeded fourth. America's other seeded play ers, Hamilton Richardson of Baton Rouge, La., No. 6 among the men, and Louise Brough of Beverly Hills, No. 1 among the women, and Shirley Fry of St. Petersburg, Fla., No. 5, were not scheduled for the famed center court. Miss Brough opposed Jennifer Middleton of Britain, Miss Fry took on the veteran Heather Brewer of Bermuda, and Rich ardson opposed the well-rated Torben Ulrich of Denmark. POSSESSIVE CARS Indianapolis, Ind. U.R) Some two-car couples now have their garages labeled "His" and "Hers." The Eugene O'Neills go them one better. Their garages Thursday, June 28, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTETH Bob Prall NCAA Victor Columbus (U.R) Only one Oregon golfer made it through the opening round of the NCAA golf championships being play ed here yesterday. Bob Prall went 19 holes to edge Bobby Maxwell of North Texas State with a three-over performance. Oregon's other two contend ers, Art Abrahamson and Bob Norquist, were dropped in yes terday's action. Ike Chestnut .... Stops Costa Washington J.R) Ike Chest nut of New York, who first would like to get rated among the top 10 featherweights and then wants to get a title shot, made progress along both lines today as the result of his eighth round technical knockout over Carmelo Costa. Chestnut scored a big upset in his triumph over fourth-rank ed Costa, Brooklyn battler, in a nationally televised - bout at the Capitol Arena Wednesday. Referee Harry V o 1 k m a n stopped the fight at 29 seconds of the eighth round when Chest nut downed Costa with a hard right to the head. Costa took a nine count and was up, ready to resume fighting, but Volkman called a halt. Chestnut weighed 130, Costa 129. are called "His" and "Hers," those of Mrs. O'Neill's parents next door "Yours" and Mine, and a connecting service build ing used by both families is la belled "Ours." RVCC Men Slate Klamath Jaunt; Junior Play Set Rogue Valley Country club players will travel to Reames Golf and Country club Sunday for a team golf match with Klamath Falls men. Another activity involving RVCC members is a junior tour nament with qualifying on July 2 and matches to 'be completed within the next eight days. Club Pro Al Williams stated that about 30 men have signed up for the Klamath" Falls trip. Others interested may sign up at the pro show. Williams said that he would like to know by Saturday noon how many will make the trip. In the junior tourney boys will compete m three groups. They are pee wees (11 years of age and under), boys (12-15) and juniors (16-17). Girls division are girls (through 14) and junior girls (15-17). - Match play is to be finished by July 10. Braves Suspend Jim Pendleton Milwaukee U.R) Balking Jim Pendleton, who refused to report to Wichita after being re leased by Milwaukee on June 15, has been suspended without pay by the Braves. Braves of ficials said his refusal to report to the American Association club means automatic suspension. O'Brien Chosen Mentor of Rams Portland U.R) Bill O'Brien, former head football mentor at Aberdeen, Wash., high school, yesterday was named to the same post at Central Catholic high school here. Turf Association . Asks Extension Portland U.R) The Portland Turf Association yesterday made a formal application to the State Racing Commission for an ex tension of the current horse rac ing season at Portland Meadows. 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