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rzn MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Trldar. Julr 1956 Spoiler Cubs Push Milwaukee Out of Lead; Yanks Up Margin By FRED DOWN , United Press Sports Writer Stan Hack"s Chicago Cubs won't win the National League pennant this year but it looks like they'll have a lot to say about who does come out on top In the crazy, mixed-up scramble. The circuit's "sad sack" team until the Memorial Day mile stone, the Cubs have developed into official "spoilers" with a 20-1 pace since June 1 that's topped only by the Brooklyn Dodgers' 21-14 rate since that date. And, in the last week they have taken five of eight games from the Milwaukee Braves, St. Louis Cardinals and Cincinnati Redlegs. The Cubs made it three out of their last five with the Braves last .night when Vito Valenti- netti and Jim Brosnan collaborat ed in a four-hit, 7-1 triumph. The loss knocked the Braves out of first place and enabled the idle Redlegs to take over the top rung by three percentage points. Vito Injures Knee Valentinetti limited the Braves to three hits in 4 13 innings but had to retire with a strained ligament in his left knee when he collided with wes Covington in a play at the plate in the fifth inning. Jim Brosnan, whose only other victory was over the Braves on May 30, held them to one hit the rest of the way to receive credit for the win. Eddie Miksis homered to snap a ' 1-1 tie with two out in the seventh inning and the Cuds went on to tally four more runs to sew up the game. Hobie Land rith and Brosnan singled in the wake of Miksis' homer and Don Hoak followed with a double. Gene Baker singled home two runs and another tallied on Dee Fondy's double. The loss left little doubt in Fred Haney's mind that his "honeymoon" as manager of the Braves is over. The Braves reel ed off 11 straight victories when Haney took over but have lost seven of their last 11 games dur ing which they have scored a total of 36 runs. Ford Wins 10th In the American League, -the New York Yankees stretched their lead over the idle Chicago White Sox to four games when they defeated the Boston Red Sox, 6-1, and the Detroit Tigers snapped a 14-game home losing streak with a 13-7 triumph over the Cleveland Indians. Gil McDougald drove in four runs with a homer, double and single to lead the Mickey Man- tleless Yankees to their victory over the Red Sox. Whitey Ford limited the Red Sox to seven hits to win his 10th game com pared to four losses. The tri umph was the Yankees' ninth in their last 11 games since they dropped four straight to the White Sox. The Tigers overcame a 4-0 deficit produced by Jim Busby's grand slam homer in the first inning to rout Bob Lemon and present Frank Lary with his fifth win of the year. Lary also yield ed a three-run homer to Al Rosen but was touched for only three other hits. The Tigers pounded out 14 hits, including a homer by Har vey Kuenn, and erupted in a six-run, second inning rally and a five-run. third inning outburst. I.INF.SCORES: American I.sfiif (lit Game. dav) New York. 003 300 000 8 11 0 Boston 001 000 0001 1 0 Ford (10-41 and Berra. Porterfield. Hurd i4. Sisler '91 and White. Loser Porterfield t2-S). HR McDougald 5thi. Cleveland. 400 003 000 T 5 i Detroit .. 065 100 lOx 13 14 2 Lemon Houtteman (2i. McLish (31, Feller iSi. Mosji Si and Heean. Aver ill 4 . Larv ij-IOi and House. Loser Lemon. HR Kuenn I'thi. Rosen tilth). Busby (7thl. National League Chicago 010 000 5017 11 1 Milwaukee 000 010 000 1 4 2 Valentinetti. Brosnan i4i and Land rith. Crone. Sleater (7) and Rice. Win ner Brosnan (2-3 . Loser Crone HR Mlk.us '7th British Open Title Taken By Thomson Hoylake, England. U.R) Peter Thomson, a 26-year-old Australian, won the British Open Golf championship for the third consecutive year to day when he shot a final round 74 for a total of 286. It was the first lime since the tournament was made a 72-hole event in 1892 that a golfer ever has won the title three times in a row. Although his fourth and fi nal round was his worst, Thomson had a three-stroke lead over Flory Van Donck of Belgium, who carded a final round 74 for an aggregate of 289. MEDTOOTRIBUrtZ sjpciDinrs Angels Narrow Gap In PCL; Beaver Loss Help To Sacramento Ham Richardson Marriage Soon New Orleans (U.R) Ham Richardson, who lost out to Lew Hoad of Australia in the men's singles semi-finals of the Wimble don tennis championships, was expected here today for his fourthcoming marriage with Ann Kenington. "I promised to get back to her as soon as possible," Rich ardson said before boarding plane in London. "We shall be coming back to England together in the autumn when I refurn to school at Oxford." By DON THACKERY United Press Sports Writer The Los Angeles Angels got closer to the Pacific Coast League leading Seattle Rainiers Thursday night, but it might have been because the Rainiers were not running. The Cherubs made their run at San Diego and swamped the Padres 10-5. but Seattle sat idly by and watched the southerners close the gap to a game and a half. Seattle and Vancouver were not scheduled. Sacramento pulled back even with Portland for the fourth place spot by edging past San Francisco 4-3 while Hollywood was taking Portland 8-7 in a long-delayed game. Angels Win The Angels and the Padres played the only afternoon game and Los Angeles came out on top. San Diego took an early lead, but 15 Angel hits, including homers by Bob Speake and George Freese, put the Border town nine to rout in the late frames. The win went to the Angels' star reliever Bob Anderson while Arnie Atkins took the loss. also on fireman duty. Wally Westlake clouted his sixth home run of the season for Sacramento in the bottom of the eighth inning with the score tied at 3-3 to give the Solons a split with the Seals. None of the first three Solon runs were earned, but that was little consolation to Russ Kem- merer who took his eighth loss. Bud Watkins, who like Dem merer went the distance, was the winner. Hollywood roared to a 7-0 lead over Portland and. then added a run in the ninth. Run" Needed . It was a good thing the Stars got that extra run, because Port land got three in the sixth, two in the eighth and fell a single run short of tying with two more in the ninth. The ' game was interrupted twice for passing rain showers and took four hours to complete. Tonight the teams swap part- Los Angeles; Sacramento enter taining San Diego; San Fran cisco playing two games at Van couver, and Portland attacking the league-leaders at Seattle. LINESCORE: San Diego ...110 200 001 5 10 0 Los Angeles ..010 0i2 33x 10 13 Lombardi. Atkins (61. Hoskins (7) and Astroth. St. Clair (8): Perkowski. Fodge (4), Anderson i7 and Tappe. San Fran 011 001 000 3 10 4 Sacramento 102 000 Olx 4 8 0 Kemmemer and Sullivan; Watkins and McNamara. Hollywood 301 012 001 8 14 1 Portland 000 003 022 7 12 1 Naranjo. O'Donnell 6. Sawyer (9l and Hall; Alexander, Lint (5) and Calderone. SF Seals Vie At Klamath Klamath Falls Klamath Falls Lakers independent semi - pro baseball club opposes its first of two Pacific Coast League teams here on Sunday afternoon. The Lakers entertain the San Francisco Seals this Sunday. On Sunday, July 15, they will be hosts to the Sacramento Solons. This evening the Klamath nine will play the Wasnington Cheney Studs here. Dino Restelli, ex-professional player, manages the club here and plays' first base. Pitchers for the club are Dave Gambee, Oregon State college, Jack Hen- kel, University of Oregon, Bob Leopold, Stockton junior col lege, and Chuck Tykeson, Ore gon Tech, who also plays right field. Stanford Infield Stanford university players make up the bulk of- the in field. They are Al Shaw, second base, Steve Stewart, shortstop, and Rudy Figueroa, third base. Earl Robinson, University of California all-Pacific Coast Con ference player, Ron Owings, Southern Oregon college and ex-Klamath Falls high, and Stan Johnson, University of San Francisco. Klamath ran its record to 11 wins against one loss Wednes day by defeating Army's Pre sidio team of San Francisco. It was the Presidio's second loss in 32 games this season. Dead line Sunday Classified is at . . . tth , i t noon aaturoay: lu a m ivionaay tor ucis wiiii iiuuvwuvju t"djwg ai Monday: other days 5:30 previous day Stock Cars To Make First Appearance at Valley View Hoylake. Eng. (U.R) Peter Thomson-of Australia was shoot ing today to become the first golfer since the turn of the cen tury to win the British Open three years in a row and he was a strong favorite to get the job done. Thomson Thursday shot his second straight one-under-par 70 to lead runner-up Latin Ameri can golfers, Enrique Bertolino of Argentina and Roberto de Vi cenzo of Mexico City with a 140 total against their 141 counts. Only two Americans were left in the competition. Mike Souchak and Frank Stranahan each had 36-hole totals of 148. Gene Sara- zen had a 152 which enabled him to qualify but he withdrew to fly home to the U. S. for memor ial rites for a friend killed m the Grand Canyon airplane disaster. A fourth U. S. entrant. Peter Burke, Cold Springs Harbor, N.Y., the U.S. Seniors entrant, failed to qualify. Stock cars make their initial appearance on the Valley View Speedway Saturday night. Sev eral cars' have been entered and with fenders, bumpers and all the other items that make up a stock car, there certainly could be plenty of excitement. Last Saturday night the hard tops gave the fans all the excite ment and spills of a thrill show. They did lots of racing but also turned over, caught fire, went over the side and spun out right in front of the pack. Leadfoot Lou Kurz did a fast roll, landed on his wheels and returned to the wars. This week he intends to stay on his wheels and add nother trophy to his collection. Eye on Title Crock Hunter will be out to annex anotner main event but knows that he has plenty of com petition from his fellow drivers. Crock has been doing a fine job of driving the speedy Ober Log ging special and has an eye on the track championship, with a Race Club Names Committees to Handle Disputes Members of the Southern Ore gon Race club named grievance and technical committees at a meeting in Ashland ' last night and relieved the track manage ment from the matter of settling disputes. The technical committee will inspect cars and take care of in fractions. Starter John Von Kuhlmann stated that no driver was barred at the meeting. He said that fu ture-races will be run stricly by the rules Record Number Of Salmon Cross Umpaua Station Portland For the fourth straight year the spring salmon migration on the Umpqua river has held the spotlight with a record number of fish passing the counting board at Winchester dam up to mid-June. Records kept by Bill Pitney, game commission fishery biolo gist at Roseburg, show that this year's run has surpassed all pre vious runs to the mid-June date and may be a record breaker if the present trend continues since there is still better than a month to go on the spring run counts. From mid-May to mid-June, 4.500 adult fish and 740 jacks were tallied at the counting sta tion. The previous high for a similar period occurred in 1955 when 3,371 adults and 793 jacks were counted. By the June 15 date, the 1956 migration stood at 7,186 fish, 1,200 more than had even been seen at a similar date in previous years of count ing. The run to date is almost double the 1951 parent run when 3.617 fish were tallied. 11.3 Per Cent Marked Periodic sampling of the Chi nook run by trapping at the counting station shows that 11.3 per cent are marked fish from game commission releases. Ap proximately 12 per cent of the anglers catch originated from game commission plants, com paring favorably to the ratio found at the dam. The winter sleelhead count was completed on May 31 with the third . highest tally in the 11 years that the counting sta tion has been in operation. The 1955-56 run stood at 10.211 steel head and compared favorably with the parent run of 10,635 steelhead tallied in 1951-52. PLAY SAFE! BE SURE! SEE LEA! For Dependable Low Cost Used Cars ill 12-lon Pickup $595.00$' (I I f f 1951 CHEy. 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Everyone is wondering who will be the first man to win a stock car event on- the Valley View track and several people seem to think that Elmer, The Clown, might have a car on the track for some more of his thrill show work. When the stock cars and hard- tops roll out on the track Satur day night, just north of Ashland, racing fans will see the "Fastest Sport on Earth" complete with all the trimmings. Time trials are set for 6:30 p.m. with the first race at 8- p.m. It was reported last night that Jack McCoy would not be among participants this Saturday. Pro-Am Slated At Prineville Prineville. Ore. (ll.Pi Tp- fendine titlist Larrv Lambereer of Portland Golf club and a full field of 123 other golfers yester day were paired for the third annual Prineville Pro-Amateur golf tournament which opens here Sunday. A purse of more than S2.000 lures professionals and merchan dise prizes will go to top ama teurs. Heading the list of eolf stars entered for the PGA match play championship are Eddie Hogan LithPa, Sawmen, 20-30 Club Post Softball Wins Waifs Lithia Motors, McCul loch Chain Saw and 20-30 club picked up victories last night in the Jackson County Softball association. Lithia stayed unbeaten with an 18 to 3 decision over DeMo- lay, McCulloch helped out its third place position with a 17 to 1 triumph over YMCA and 20-30 club clipped Courtesy Chevrolet 10 to 5. Victory by the 20-30 crew fol lowed a win over DeMolay on Tuesday. In a Monday game not previously reported Chris Drugs strengthened its second place hold with a 20 to 3 win over Bill's 99 Chevron service. Loren Christean for Courtesy and Watkins for 20-30 homered last night. BOUT POSTPONED Hollywood (U.R) The sched uled 10-round bout between ranking lightweights Cisco And rade of Los Angeles and Baby Vasquez of Mexico City has been postponed from July 27 to Aug. 1, because of immigration diffi culties encountered by Vasquez. 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