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e TEW MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. July 5. 19SB Cleveland, Brooklyn Continue Torrid Pace by Sweeping July 4 Doublebills By MILTON RICHMAN ! Jim Hearn with a United Press Sports Writer j burst. I the old Fourth of July tra- St. Louis shelled Gene Conley dition holds up, the Yankees willj from the mound with a five-run meet the Braves in the world j rally in the seventh inning to de- series this fall, but don't try to sell that old chestnut to the on rushing Dodgers and Indians. The two clubs in first place on the morning of July 5, so the legend goes, are destined to face ach other in the world 'series. That would be the Yankees, who lead the American league by 3 '.2 games today, and the Braves, atop the National league by only five percentage points. Cleveland and Brooklyn, how ever, are playing the best ball in their respective leagues. As a matter of fact, they were the only clubs to sweep doublehead ers Wednesday, the Indians knocking over the Tigers twice, 6-4 and 3-1, and the Dodgers tak ing a pair from the Giants, 15-2 and 6-1. Tribe On Warpath The Indians, with a five-game winning streak, have won 14 of their last 16 games and now are only 4 ',i games out of first place. The Dodgers have copped eight of their last 11 games and are only a half-game removed from the lead. Al Smith's two-run triple in the ninth inning of the opener provided young Herb Score with his margin of victory in Cleve land's opening victory although Score needed relief from Cal McLish when the Tigers rallied for three runs in the last of the ninth. Smith also drove in a pair of runs in the nightcap as Early Wynn hurled a four-hitter for his ninth victory. The two de feats stretched Detroit's home losing streak to 14 games. The Yankees split with the Red Sox, losing the opener, 7-6, when Jim Piersall singled home the winning run off Tom Sturdi vant in the 11th inning and win ning the nightcap. 9-4, with a 14-hit barrage that included homers by winning pitcher Don Larson and Bill Skowron. Ted Williams and Billy Martin each homered in the first game, cred ited to reliever Leo Kiely. Pierce Wins Eighth Southpaw Billy Pierce racked p his eighth victory and his 13th of the season when he pitched the White Sox to a 5-2 triumph over the Athletics in the first game but Kansas City capitalized on two errors to score three runs off Gerry Sta- ley in the first inning of the nightcap and go on to win, 3-2. Alex Kellner scored his sixth victory although needing relief from Art Ditmar and Bobby Shantz. Washington defeated Balti more 10-8, in the opener, only to drop a 7-4 decision to the Orioles in the nightcap which was called after six innings be cause of rain. Senator owner Calvin Griffith officially protest ed the second game because he felt plate Umpire Ed Hurley failed to call the game soon enough. Lefty Chuck Stobbs registered his seventh victory in the opener as Jose Valdivielso homered and Ed Yost collected three hits. Re liever Don Ferrarese was the winner in the nightcap when the Orioles routed Hal Griggs and Connie Grob with four runs in the sixth. Yost homered for Washington. Giant Hurlers Pounded The Dodgers pounded five Giant pitchers for 18 hits, in cluding homers by Roy Camp anella and Duke Snider, in win ning the opener. Don Newcombe picked up his 10th victory al though he gave way to Ed Roe buck in the ninth. Lanky, 19-year-old Don Drysdale was the winner in the nightcap although he, too. needed relief in the ninth. The Dodgers, however, clinched the game in the first inning when they knocked out feat Milwaukee, 6-4, in the open er but Bobby Buhl's three-hit pitching gave the Braves the second game, 6-1. Ken Boyer hit his 20th homer in the first game, which Murrv Dickson won, three-run ; second - place Cincinnati could only manage a split against Chi cago. The Cubs won the opener, 5-4, with the help of homers by Ernie Banks and Walt Moryn, while Brooks Lawrence reeled off his 11th consecutive victory without a defeat in pitching the Red legs to a 4-3 triumph in the nightcap. Jim King drove in all of Chi' while Hank Aaron slammed his 1 cago's runs in the second game ninth homer for the Braves in the finale' Kluszewski Blasts Three Ted Kluszewski hit three home runs one in the opener and two in Hip niehtcap but with a pair of homers while rookie Frank Robinson hit his 18th homer for Cincinnati. Klu szewski's three homers gave him a total of 20. Left-handpd Harvev Haddix MDFOBTRIBUin Bend Clips Studs 8-2 In Practice Tussle; Tacdma Team Coming Medford Cheney 'Studs today ' He yielded two hits but five of followed up a holiday practice game at Bend with preparations for their week end "civil war" semi-pro baseball series with their Seattle-Tacoma counter parts, the Washington Cheney Studs. The two Cheney Forest Pro ducts aggregations contend at 8 p.m. Saturday and at 2 p.m. Sun day at the fairgrounds ball yard here. Medford, which has a bye this week in the Southern Ore gon League, will try to even the score with the Washington which won the two-fray stand here a year ago. . Two logger home runs and almost a fourth and some fine twirling by Bend pitcher Paul Gehrman highlighted yesterday afternoon's tussle as Bend won 8 to 2. Each club made it a "prac tice" tangle. Each used a differ ent pitcher each three innings. Twelve Medford -players made the central Oregon trip and all played. Bradshaw Homers Kim Bradshaw slugged the first homer for Bend. It was his first hit of the year and came in the fifth inning. Denny Lena- burg had walked ahead of Brad shaw so that two runs were pro duced by the swat. The sixth was the big inning for Bend with four runs getting home. Dan Luby got a base on balls and was safe at second on Ray Lunde's fielder's option rap. Then Lenaburg homered. Brad shaw got a base on balls and Frank Zaniker tripled. Zaniker's blow would have been a round tripper but he forgot to touch home plate. Victim of the Bend heavy hit ting was Bruce Fofette, pitcher from Contra Costa junior col lege getting a trial with the Studs. He tossed the fourth, fifth and sixth innings. The Loggers got their other off Stud starter Jim Kelly, two runs in the opening canto Chuck Christensen walked. Maury Rasmussen doubled and Larry Fivecoat singled. Bend was blanked by hurler Derald Wooton over the last three in nings. Taylor Doubles The Studs hopped on Fred Sandren in the second inning for their runs. Jack Cooney got on base on an error, Bob Selsor got a base on balls and Jim Taylor drove them home with a two base hit. Zaniker pitched the middle innings for Bend and Gehrman, ex-major leaguer, who threw for "the Studs several years ago, finished on the hill. Scattered eight hits as the Phil lies beat the Pirates, 4-2, in the first of two games, but Pitts burgh won the nightcap, 8-4. Elmer Valo hit a pair of homers for the Phils in the opener and Marv Blaylock hit one. In the nightcap, Blaylock, playing first, base, made two errors on the same play to help the Pirates score six runs in the first in ning. Reliever Roy Face was the winner. Del Ennis homered for Philadelphia. STANDINGS PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE (By i lined rress) W. L. Prt. GB Seattle 55 34 .618 Los Angeles 53 36 .596 3 Hollvwood 45 41 .523 8i Portland 42 43 .49 11 Sacramento 41 44 .482 12 San Dieco 41 47 .466 13'i San Francisco 41 47 .466 13i Vancouver 31 57 .352 23 Wednesday's Results San Diego 14-1. Los Aneeles 12-6 Portland 9-2. Hollywood 3-3 San Francisco 6-7. Sacramento 5-4 list game 13 innings! Seattle 9-2. Vancouver 8-0 LINESCORES: American League (1st game) Baltimore 000 020 510 8 16 2 Washington . 025 100 20x 10 15 1 Brown. Schmitz 3), FornieJes (71, Wight (7) and GastaU. Stobbs, Ramos (7, Stewart (8i and Courtney. Win ner Stobbs (7-5). Loser Brown 4-2). HR Valdivielso (1st). Williams (3rd). (2nd Game, called end sixth, rain) Baltimore 000 034 7 12 2 Washington 010 120 4 7 0 Johnson, Ferrarese (5), Zuverink (6) and Smith. Griggs, Grob (6 1. Wiesler 16) and Berberet. Winner Ferrarese 3-5. Loser Griggs 1-5. HR Yost (3rd) (1st Game) Cleveland 000 001 032 6 5 1 Detroit 000 001 003 6 1 Score. McLish i9 and Hetfan. Foy tack (5-6) and Wilson. Winner Score (8-5). HR Wertz (18th). C!nd Game) Cleveland 001 110 000 3 9 0 Detroit 000 000 100 1 4 0 Wynn (9-4) and Hegan. Mass, Mas teraon (7), Aber (9) and House. the nine Bend putouts in his tenure were on Gehrman strike outs. Bob Smith hit two for two and Taylor two for four for Medford. The loss was. Medford's fifth against eight victories this sea son. Medford has won four and lost two in engagements with the Loggers. The Washington Cheney Studs come to Medford with a record showing that they will make a strong bid to defend their stale championship of the American Baseball congress. They have 12 victories and four losses. One triumph was by 3 to 1 over a Washington team of brothers which recently received nation al recognition in Sports Illus trated. New Players Strengthen Several members of the Wash ington team which downed Med ford 9 to 2 and 8 to 6 in 1955 are on the current Cheney ros ter. New players, it is felt, give the crew more depth and strength than it had last year. New faces include Jack Brady, a catcher, Brian Bell and Gary Moore, pitchers: Don Jacobs, Jim Harney, Pete Walski, and Jim Yurina, infielders, and Dick Bin ford, and Mel Manley, outfield ers. All members of the squad are considered promising young ball players. Brady is from University of Washington, Bell, Moore, Yur ina, Binford and Manley from high schools of the Puget Sound area. Jacobs is from Olympic junior college, Harney from Se attle university and Walski from University of California. Three Washington Studs chuckers have received consid erable recognition. Monte Geiger was the most valuable player of the northwest ABC tourney in lya and George Kntsonis got that honor in 1955. .Moore was named the best player in this year's Seattle-State prep all-star doubleheader. He has pitched seven no-hitters. Geiger was named to the 1955 Pan Americah games team and to an AAU club which toured South Africa last winter. LI.VESCORE: Medford 020 000 0002 6 3 Be"" 200 024 OOx 8 6 1 Kelly, Forette (4i. Wooton (7) and Roelandt Smith (4i; Sandren. Zani ker (4), Gehrman (7) and Luby. (1st Game, 11 Innings) N. Y 200 000 004 00 6 10 2 Boston 002 00O 301 01 7 10 1 Kucks. Morgan (9i. Byrne (9). Stur divant (9) and Berra. Nixon. Delock 9i. Kicly (ll and Daley. Winner Kiely (1-21. Loser Sturdivant (7-2). HR Williams (3rd l. Martin (4th). (2nd Game) New York 200 J10 2039 14 1 Boston 000 010 030 4 9 2 Larsen. Byrne (St and Berra. Par- ncll. Hurd I8t. Dorish (9) and White. Winner Larsen (5-1). Loser Parnell (2-2i. HR Skowron (4th), Larsen (2nd). Bow Series Stand Los Angeles 2. San Diegn 1 San Francisco 2. Sacramento 1 Portland 2, Hollywood 1 How Series Ended Seattle 2, Vancouver 0 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. New York 48 26 Chicago 42 27 Cleveland 42 29 Boston 37 34 Baltimore .. ...33 40 Detroit 30 41 Washington 31 47 Kansas City 27 46 Pet. .649 .609 .592 .521 .452 .423 .397 .370 S'i 4 'a 16 lj 19 20 Vi Wednesday's Results Boston 7, New York (1st, II in nings ) New York 9, Boston 4 (2nd) Cleveland 6, Detroit 4 (1st) Cleveland 3, Detroit 1 (2nd) Chicago 5. Kansas City 2 (1st) Kansas City 3, Chicago 2 (2nd) Washington 10. Baltimore 8 (1st) Baltimore 7. Washington 4 (2nd, called 6 innings, rain) Friday's Games Detroit at Chicago (night) Cleveland at Kansas City (night) New York at Washington (night) Baltimore at Boston (night) NATIONAL LEAGVE W. T.. Milwaukee 39 28 Cincinnati . 41 30 Brooklyn 40 30 St. Louis 37 36 Pittsburgh 34 35 Chicago 29 38 Philadelphia 30 41 New York 28 40 Prt. .582 .577 .571 .507 .493 .433 .423 .412 5 6 10 11 11!: (1st Game) Kansas City ... 0OO 002 000 2 6 2 Chicago 300 100 Olx 5 8 1 McMahan. LaSorda (1) and Crimian (7) and Ginsberg. Thompson (6). Pierce (13-2) and Lollar. Loser Mc Mahan (0-2). f?nd Game) Kansas City ... 300 000 000 3 9 3 Chicago 000 002 000 2 7 2 Kellner, Ditmar (6). Shantz (7) and Thompson. Ginsberg 16). Staley. How ell (6). LaPalme 181. Winner Kellner (6-3). Loser Staley (3-1). National League (1st Game) Philadelphia .200 000 101 4 Pittsburgh 000 020 000 2 Haddix (6-3) and Lopata Face (8) and Shepard. Foiles (7). Loser Kline 16-91. HR Blaylock (3rd), Valo 12), (3rd and 4th). 15 2 8 3 Kline, (2nd Game) Philadelphia ..000 130 000 9 2 Pittsburgh 600 200 OOx 8 10 2 S. Miller. R. Miller (5). Negray (7 and Seminick. Munger. Face (5) and Shepard. Winner Face 6-4 1. Loser S. Miller (4-5). HR Ennis (14th). AMERICA'S NUMBER 2L VODKA VALUE $065 935 ii;J i k k 111 m k tOPSCOf DISJJCUC FROM WAIN Ht. B0SI0M DiSIIUER mC.,B0$T0N.H4SS (1st Game) Brooklyn 021 213 32115 18 1 New York ... 000 000 020 2 5 2 Newcombe. Roebuck i9) and Campa nclla. Gomez. Ridzik (4). Littlefield (6). Constable (7), McCall i9) and Sarni. Mangan (8 Westrum (9). Win ner Newcombe 10-5). Loser Gomez (4-8). HR Campanella (10th), Snider (19th). ' (2nd Game) Brooklyn 302 000 0016 6 1 New York 000 000 001 1 9 1 Drysdale. Labine (9) and Walker. Hearn. Grissom (1). Wilhelm (6). Lit tlefield (8i and Sarni. Winner Drys dale (2-3). Loser Hearn (3-9). (1st Game) Chicago 001 001 0125 11 0 Cincinnati 200 200 000 4 7 1 Rush. Hughes (7). Lown 9) and Chiti. McCullough (91. Fowler. Free man (9) and Bailey. Winner Hughes (1-0). Loser Fowler (5-8). HR Klus zewski ' (18th). Moryn (9thl, Banks (21st). Wednesday's Results Brooklyn 15, New York 2 (1st) Brooklyn 6. New York 1 (2nd) Philadelphia 4. Pittsburgh 2 ( 1st) Pittsburgh 8. Philadelphia 4 (2nd) Chicago 5. Cincinnati 4(lstl Cincinnati 4. Chicago 3 (2nd) St. Louis 6; Milwaukee 4 (lst Milwaukee 6. St. Louis 1 (2nd) Friday's Games Pittsburgh t New York (night) Brooklyn at Philadelphia might) St. Louis at Cincinnati (night) Chicago at Milwaukee (night) NORTHWEST LEAGUE W. Yakima 42 Eugene 34 Lewiston 33 Tri-City 34 Wenatchee 25 Salem 25 Spokane . 21 L. 21 24 25 28 37 38 41 Prt. .666 .586 .569 .548 .403 .397 .339 GB S'i 6'z 7'i 16 IS, 17 20,i British Open Tourney Led By Smalldon Hoylake, Eng. U.R) Dennis Smalldon, 30-year-old Welshman who clipped three strokes off par Wednesday with a 68, led the way into the second round of the British Open golf champion ship today as two of the four American entries fought to escape elimination. Frank Stranahan, the muscu lar millionaire from Toledo, Ohio, paced the four Yanks through the first circuit with a one-over-par 72. Ex-football player Mike Sou- chak of Grossinger, N. Y., was next among the Americans with a 74, followed by one-time champion Gene Sarazen of Har rison, N. Y., and U. S. seniors champion Peter Burke of Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., with 78's. Sarazan and Burke were in grave danger of being ousted when the field is cut to the top 50 players after today's round. Smalldon's opening-round 68 equalled the course record over the long, bunkered Hoylake lay out, set in a qualifying round by Gary Player of South Africa. In second place, one stroke be hind at 69, was Enrique Berto- lmo of Argentina. Wednesday's Results Spokane 2. Wenatchee 0 (first game) Spokane. 8, Wenatchee 3 (second game I Salem 5. Yakima 3 (first game) Yakima 5, Salem 0 (second game) Tri-City 13. Lewiston 9 (first game) Lewiston 6. Tri-City 5 (second game) (2nd Game) Chicago 000 200 001 3 9 0 Cincinati !200 002, 00 4 8 0 Jones. Hughes (7) and Landrith. Lawrence (11-0) and Burgess. Loser Jones (4-7). HR Kluszewski 2. 1 19th and 20thl. Robinson (18th), King 2, (3rd and 4th). (1st Game) St. Louis- 000 100 500 6 Milwaukee 001 030 000 4 Dickson. Schmidt (7) and Conley. Jolly 7). Phillips (8). 7 2 6 1 Smith. John son (8) and Rice. Winner Dickson (6-7). Loser Conley (4-4). (2nd Game) St. Louis 000 000 001 1 3 0 Milwaukee ... 000 000 33x 6 6 1 McDaniel. Wehmeier (8) and Katt. Smith (8). Buhl (9-4) and Rice. Loser McDaniel 14-2). HR Aaron (9th). Top-Seeded Net Player Advances Burlingame, Calif. (U.R) Top-seeded Roger Werksman of Los Angeles defeated Brooks Rawlins -of San Francisco, 6-3, 6-3, Wednesday to move into the fourth round of the National Junior Hardcourts Tournament at the Peninsula Tennis Club. Second seeded Allen Fox of Los Angeles also gained the fourth round by ousting Ken Land of Richmond, Calif., 6-1, 6-4. Other seeded players who ad vanced in the boys' division were third seeded Chris Craw ford, Piedmong, Calif., and seventh seeded Paul Palmer, Phoenix, Ariz. Crawford defeat ed Hy Sunders, Salt Lake City, 6,-2, 6-3, and Palmer stopped Frank Barrett, Burlingame, 6-2, Jl-13, 6-2. Unranked George Stoesser, Carmel, Calif., scored a mild up set when he defeated fifth seed ed Bob Bowditch, Wercester, Mass., 3-6, 6-4, 6-1. GLAND REASON Johannesburg, South Africa (U.R) Ewart Potgieter, seven foot, two-inch South African boxer who fought in Britain three times last year, has been refused a license by the Trans vaal boxing board of control, his manager said today because of an enlarged pituitary gland. This gland reportedly governs the body's growth. IN STUDS' TUSSLE Frank Roelandt, above, catcher for the Medford Cheney Studs will be on the "reception" committee when the locals entertain the Washington Cheney Studs Satur day night and Sunday afternoon at the fairgrounds baseball dia mond here. TEAM DROPS OUT Terre Haute, -Ind. ,'U.R) The Class B Three-I baseball league now is operating as a seven-team loop. The Terre Haute Huts, plagued by financial woes, drop ped out of the league after a 5-0 victory over Keokuk here on Monday night. USE TRIBUNE WANT ADS FOR RESULTS jr------- iixf' X'-. $$4 Jim Martinez Battles Durando Portland (U.R) Ernie Da rando and Jimmy Martinez took it easy today as they awaited tonight's middleweight scrap at the Portland armory. Both fighters were confident of victory and both openly fore cast he would be the lad in line for a shot at Ralph "Tiger" Jones in an outdoor match tent atively scheduled for Portland later this summer. Promoter Tommy Moyer said that some changes in the pre liminary card have been made with the program now calling for a 6-rouhd semi-windup and four 4 - rounders on the card. Bear Victory Over Salem Cinches First Half Flag By RAY ANDREWS United Press Sports Writer Dick Young pitched the Yak ima Bears to the first-half pen nant in the Northwest league last night with an 8-hit, 5-0 shut out over Salem in the second game of their twin bill. Young fanned five and walked none. The Bears sewed it up with four runs in the third on a two- run and a solo homer by Vince Moreci. Salem had outlasted the Bears to take the opener 5-3 behind Bill Walsh. Spokane put two games in its win column with 2-0 and 8-3 vic tories over Wenatchee. The In dians cashed in on 5-hit pitch ing by. Max Weekly to blank the Chiefs in the opener. It was his second win against four losses. ueorge nuaman witns two doubles and a homer pnak fnr five runs batted in sparkfe tlW Indians in the nightcap. H three-run homer in the fourth put the Indians out of reach, -i-ewiston and Tri-City split. "W-City managed the opener 13 to 9 but Lewiston got two runs in the ninth inning of the night cap to take that one 6-5. 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