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TEH MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Stengel Longshot Ends Losing Hank Aaron Extends Streak to By MILTON RICHMAN United Preti Sports Writer Casey Stengel, a wily old codger who generally frowns on gambling, came up with a long shot exactly as his Yankee players predicted he would to halt both a six-game losing streak and talk that the Bronx Bombers might be starting to buckle. "Leave it to old Case." said the Yankees, even while they were in the throes of their long est losing streak of the season. "He'll think of something and ' when he does, we'll be okay again." Stengel did think of some thing, rookie pitcher Ralph Ter Guard Wins on Burns1 Softball Finale on Wednesday Jack Burns, thickset outfield er of National Guard Company A powered a homerun over cen ter field at Hawthorne park yes terday evening to send the play off for the Jackson County Soft ball championship into an extra and final conflict. The long fly ball with two men on base was good for three big runs and gave the Medford Guardsmen a 4 to 3 nod over Chris Drugs of Jacksonville. It was the first loss for the Drug gists in the double elimination titular tourney and means that the two clubs will collide again MEDFORDVBsfTRIB UNI SIPCOMTTS COLTS TUSSLE GP NINE HERE THIS WEDNESDAY Grants Pass and the Cheney Colts get the jump on the rest of the Rogue Valley league this week by playing on Wednesday night. Other clubs of the loop will have their 12th games at the usual time next Sunday. The Colts will be hosts to the Merchants at 8 p.m. at the fair grounds tomorrow because their parent club, the Medford Cheney Studs have billed a non-league scuffle here Sunday. Grants Pass will have an op portunity in the game to take over at least temporary lone hold on second place in the RVL. The Colts, now standing fourth, can tie for third in the circuit with a win. Cave Junction and GP are now deadlocked' in second. Butte Falls and Eagle Point are now out of the running for berths in the four-team season end playoff. Glendale, Grants Pass and Cave Junction have cinched places in the extra and Ashland and Camp White still have a chance to tie the Colts in the fight for the fourth berth. Ex-GP Preppers Next Sunday's skirmishes In the league will be Ashland at Season Ends For Cubs. Pee Wees The Medford Wildcats brought to a close the Southern Oregon Pee Wee league baseball season topping the Medford Tigers yes terday 4-1, and deadlocked for the league lead with Central Point. The Wildcats scored runs in the 5th inning as the result of a double by Guches and wild- ness on the part of the Tiger moundsman. Lindgren hit a triple for the losers. Mike Glines was the winning pitcher and Bob Quinney took the loss. The Southern Oregon Cub League ended Monday with Medford dropping the final game to Grants Pass, 12-11, and taking second place in league play, behind Grants Pass. George Ice and Bill Peek highlighted the game for Med ford with doubles in the third and sixth innings. . Record Falls In Skeet Tourney Reno, New (U.R) The Na tional Small Gauge Champion ships featured the National Skeet Tournament Monday, the second day of the six-day event. Mrs. Fred Alford of Dallas. Tex., shattered the national women's .410 gauge record Mon day by three targets as she scored 96x100 to win the wom en's title. Mrs. Alford also won the Class A title over men competitors. The previous women's record was 93x100 set by Janice Mason of Dallas. Winner of the event was Ed C. Calhoun of Salisbury. Md., with a score of 98x100. Second was Fred Larue of Jackson, Miss., whose score was 96x100. Dead tine Sunday at noon Saturday. riivulied la at ry fresh up from Denver of the American association, and when all the dust cleared, the young ster picked up his first major league victory with a 4-3 decis ion over the red-hot Red Sox Monday night and the Yankees increased their lead to eight games in the American league race. Two Hurlert Helped True, Terry needed help from relievers Tom Morgan and Tom my Byrne, but the important thing from the Yankees' view point was that they were back on the right track again and old Case had called the turn on his long shot gamble. Terry, 20-year-old right-hand Wednesday about 6' p.m. at the city park. Winner will be the champion. Chris last week nudg ed the Guard 11 to 10. Burns' terrific wallop came in the sixth inning when the Guard was trailing 1 to 3. After Dick Phillips grounded out to start the turn at bat, Ted and Ned Landers clubbed successive singles. Bill Matejka pop fouled for the second out. Then Burns came through with his smash. Score In First Gene Snook flied out to short stop to retire the side. Ray Sing ler flied to the outfield as the Eagle Point, Camp White at Glendale and Cave Junction at Butte Falls. The Grants Pass squad is made up almost entirely of ex-Grants Pass players. Manager Don New man likely will select his pitcher from among four men, Don Ja cobson, Mel Drews, Bob Graue and Larry Cochell. Of the quar tet only Cochell is still in high school. He'll be a junior next year. Drews was a 'catcher in high school. GP catcher should be either Glenn Reese or Bob Fisher. In fielders may be Don Reese, first base; Bruce Brickell, second; Chuck Nevi, shortstop: and Allan 'Drews, third. The outfield could be Jay Reese, Les Shaw and Mel Friend. The Studs will play Beaverton here Saturday night and Sunday afternoon. Ma rquez Leads Bevos To 7-6 Win Over S.F. Portland (U.R) Portland put together a pair of three-run innings and a single counter in another frame last night, then withstood a surging San Fran cisco rally in the final stages to score a 7-6 Pacific Coast league win. The Beavers jumped off to a three run bulge in the opening stanza off starter Russ Kemmer er (8-11), the loser, then added three in the seventh after rack ing up a lone tally in the sixth. San Francisco used three two run homers to account for all of its runs, two of them coming in the final stanza, before Bob Alexander, the second Beaver hurler of the night, could finally quell the fire. Portland batted through the order in the first sparked by a two run triple by Luis Marquez. Flashy Luis slipped home him self on Bob Bowkowski's sacri fice fly for run number three. Sam Calderone tallied a lone Beaver run in the sixth when he took a charity jaunt to first, then trotted the paths when Tom Saffell stroked out a triple against the center field wall. Marquez replied for the Beav ers in their half of the seventh with his 20th circuit blow of the year to lead off the frame. Ed Mickelson doubled to left. Jack son doubled to center and Leo Thomas' sacrifice fly plated the third tally of the inning. Bob Darnell (12-8) took credit for the win,-though he needed help from Alexander in the ninth. The win gave Portland a 2-1 series edge over the Seals. San Francisco center fielder Marty Keough was taken from the game in the sixth when he suffered an ankle injury. Keough had gone back to field Saffell's triple off the center field boards when the ball bounced back quickly and he stepped on it. He was taken to a Portland hospital for x-rays. Old Gene Bearden. the erst while Cleveland Indian knuckle bailer, may be over the hill in Tuesday, August 7. 1958 er brought up from the minors only last Friday, blanked Bos ton for the first four innings as the Yanks got to Tom Brewer for three runs in the fourth. Jer ry Coleman's two-run single highlighted the frame. The Red Sox got to Terry for a run in the fifth inning and after Jim Piersall hit a two-run homer in the sixth, Morgan re lieved Terry. Byrne entered in the seventh and pitched hitless ball thereafter to nail down the victory. In the only other American league game scheduled, right hander Paul Foytack pitched a five-hitter in leading the Detroit Tigers to a 9-0 victory over the Homer; Druggists began their last turn at bat. Frances Guidry and Dale Thompson were out on succes sive grounders to end the game. National Guard worked into the scoring column in the first inning of the tussle on hits by Denny Burns and Ted and Ned Landers and a fielder's option. Chris knotted the fray in the third frame on a single by Sing ler, a base on balls to Guidry and a single by Thompson. The Jacksonville - sponsored nine jumped to its 3 to 1 edge in the fifth canto on a safety by Singler. an error, a passed ball and a fly ball single to left field close to the foul line by Clyde Smith. Guard chances to retaliate in the fifth were snapped off by the Druggists third double play of the game. But the Guard set itself up for the big batting turn as Chris went out on three pop flies on four pitches in the sixth. Five-Hitter Pitched Luther Fisher pitched five hit ball ior the Guard, walking three and whiffing four. Singler gave up seven safe raps, issued one base on balls and had no strikeouts. The Chris flinger socked two of his club's five hits. The Landers twins each safetied twice for the National Guard. It was the first victory for the Guard over the Druggists in this season's association play. Chris took a one-run verdict in the regular round of play. Guidry made one double play unassisted for the Druggists. He caught a foul fly and tagged out Ted Landers who tried to dash home after the catch. The Jack sonville third baseman also started off the other two double kills, tagging his base and throw ing to second on one occasion and launching a third to second to first base play on the other. MNESCORE: Chris Drug 001 020 0 3 5 2 National Guard ..100 003 x 4 7 1 Singler and Montgomery; Fisher and Phillips. some people's eyes, but the hill he got over Monday night was named Rainier. Big Gene's southpaw flutter ball had less to do with his win over Seattle than did his bat and that of his Sacramento mates, however. The Solons slammed out 13 hits and beat the Seattle Rainiers 10-5 to give them a 3-0 lead in the series and knock the Suds seven and a half games out of first place. Bearden brought his club to within a single run of Seattle when he whacked a solo home run in the seventh inning off loser Howie Judson. Then in the eighth the Solons erupted for seven big runs and sewed up the game. Ryne Duren pitched a two hitter in the seven inning first game to blank San Diego while Angelo Dagres drove home the only run with a double. The lose was hard-luck Eddie Erautt, who gave up only three blows. John Carmichael blanked Vancouver on six hits in the second game while his mates scored three in the third and three in the fourth. THE LINESCORE: Sacramento ..OOO 200 170 10 13 A Seattle 0O0 013 001 5 9 2 Bearden. Cadmi 18' and McXamara. Baich 8i; Judson. Kennedy 8i and Aylward. San Francisco 000 000 204 6 11 1 Portland 300 001 30x 7 13 0 Kemmprer. Grba l3i. R. W Smith I7i. Priddy i8t and Sullivan; Darnell, Alexander (9) and Calderone. lt Gam San Dipevi OOO OOO 00 2 0 Vancouver .. ono 010 x 1 3 0 Erautt and St. Claire; Duren and Ro mano. 1ni Game San Dieso 003 Jno oon fi a n Vancouver . .. 000 OOO OOO 0 6 0 Carmichael & Astroth: Maczewski. Hooer and Romano. TROTTERS READY Goshen. N.Y., Aug. 7 .U.R) Horsemen and fans alike are an ticipating another wild ana. ex citing scene Wednesday when 20 three-year old trotters battle it out over Good Time Park's kite shaped track in the 31st running of the 5100,603 Hambletonian Stakes. ' Streak; 23 Games Cleveland Indians. Herb Score, Cleveland's starter, gave up single runs in the first and sec ond innings and the Tigers made it a rout with seven runs in the eighth. Ray Boone's triple with the bases full off reliever Bob Feller was the key blow of the frame. The Chicago Cubs pushed across a run in- the 11th inning on Pete Whisenant's sacrifice fly to defeat Milwaukee, 5-4, and cut the Braves' National league lead to l'j games over the idle second-place Dodgers. Dee Fondy opened the 11th with a walk off reliever Dave Jolly, advanced to third on Walt Moryn's double and came home on Whisenant's blow. Jim Davis, Chicago's third pitcher, was credited with the victory. Monte Irvin hit his 12th homer for the Cubs and Ernie Banks his 25th. Hank Aaron of the Braves ex tended his hitting streak to 23 consecutive games with a single in the first inning. In the only other National league game, Alex Grammas singled home Gus Bell in the 10th inning to give the Cincin nati Redlegs a 7-6 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. Bell opened the 10th with his fourth straight hit, a double, and cross ed after two were out on Gram mas' single. Bell also hit his 20th homer. Reliefer Hersh Freeman gain ed his 10th victory while Larry Jackson was the loser. MNESCORES: Ameriran League New York 000 310 Ono 1 9 0 Boston 000 012 000 3 8 0 Terry. Morgan (6t. Byrne I7t. and Berra. Brewer. Hurd 6. Delock i8t and White Winner Terry rl-Oi. Loser Brewer (15-41. HR Piersall 8th. Cleveland 000 000 000 0 5 2 Detroit 1 10 OOO 07x 9 9 O Score. Houtteman i8. Feller 181. Mc Lish (8) and Heean. Foytack (10-8) and Wilson. Loser Score (LI -7). National League Phila. at New York ppd., rain. 11 Innings Chicago ... 020 011 000 015 4 0 Milw. 000 001 300 00 4 8 0 Jones. Lown (71. Davis (10 and Lan drith, Chiti (11). Crone. Sleater i8t. Jolly (10) and Crandall. Winner Da vis (4-5t. Loser Jollv ,2-3). HR Ir vin (12th). Banks i25th). 10 Innings St. Louis ... 040 000 020 0 6 14 0 Cincinnati. 114 000 000 1 7 13 2 Collun. McDaniel 3. Liddle (8i. Jackson i8 and Smith. Nuxhail. Free man (10) and Burgess. Winner Free man (10-4). Loser Jackson (1-1). HR Bell (20th). Roseburg Loses In Legion Play Roseburg (U.R) The Dalles' entry in the Oregon American Legion baseball championship playoffs last night took two-to-one edge over Roseburg in the series by defeating the Lock wood Motors, 7-4, in a game here. The best-of-five series contin ues tonight. Right-hander Denny Peterson of the defending champion Urn ess Motors struck out 15 batters for last night's victory and Rose burg chalked up eight errors. The Dalles batters, however, got only six hits off two Roseburg pitchers. Al Smith was charged with the loss. Tonight, Roseburg will at tempt to even the series behind the pitching of Dick Smith, brother of Al. John Heldt of The Dalles will be on the mound for Urness. in V DRVE WITH POO BRAKES ANY CAR Remove Front Wbls, Inspect Lining. Clean and Repack Front Wheel lea rings. Inspect Ireke Drams. Check and Add trake Flvid. Adjust Brake Shoes. Carefully Test Brake. WE HAVE IT . . . Hew fireston Rl VETLESS BRAKE LINING UP TO 15 MOW UAKINO Hftf ACS. L Ji Tire$fott0 STORES 214 S. Riverside Ave. Here's What Wt Do U 1 STANDINGS Bv Untied Press AMERICAN LEAGUE W. Tj. Pet. GB New York 68 36 .654 Cleveland 59 43 .578 8 Boston ,58 45 .563 9 1 2 Chicago ... 51 48 315 1412 Detroit . 49 55 .471 19 Baltimore 47 56 .452 2 1 Washington 43 61 .413 25 Kansas City 36 66 .353 31 Monday's Results New York 4. Boston 3 nieht) Detroit 9, Cleveland 0 tnight) NATIONAL LEAGUE , H. L. Prt. GB Milwaukee - 0 39 .606 Brooklyn 60 42 .588 l'a Cincinanti 60 43 .583 2 St. Louis 50 51 .495 11 Philadelphia 48 52 .480 1 2 1 i Pittsburgh -44 57 .436 17 Chicano 43 57 .430 17'2 New York 36 60 .375 22 2 Monday's Result Cincinati 7. St. Louis 6 (10 inning Chicago 5. Milwaukee 4 til innings) Phila. at New York. ppd.. ram NORTHWEST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. , GB Salem 20 U -645 Yakima 19 11 -633 Spokane 13 12 20 4 Lewiston 15 16 .494 5 Wenatchee 15 17 .469 5'2 Tri-City 13 18 .419 7 Eugene 11 21 .322 9'a Monday's Results Eugene 16. Tri-City 10 Only game scheduled Tuesday's Schedule SDokane at Salem EuEene at Tri-City Yakima at Wenatchee PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE IV. 1 4. Prt. GB Los Angeles R0 44 .645 Seattle 72 51 .585 tt Hollvwood -..62 58 .517 16 Portland 59 63 .484 20 Sacramento 57 65 .467 22 San Francisco 56 R .460 23 San Dipbo 54 68 .443 25 Vancouver ..48 73 .397 30 '.a Monday's Results Vancouver 1-0. San Diego 0-6 Sacramento 10. Seattle S Portland 7. San Francisco 6 ' (Only games scheduled) How Series Stand Hollywood 1. Los Angeles 1 Sacramento 3. Seattle 0 Portland 2. San Francisco 1 San Diego 1. Vancouver 1, League Leaders Bv United Press Player A Club AB R. H Prt. .345 Aaron. Milw 97 383 70 132 Musial. St. L 102 387 Bover. St. L 102 412 9 126 .32ft Moon. St L P8 352 64 112 .318 Schdnst, N Y. .... 75 267 29 85 .318 American League Mpntle. N Y 100 37 3 134 Williams. Bos 85 239 40 84 Vernon, Bos 82 284 49 98 Kuenn. Det. ...... 98 378 60 127 Maxwell. Det 95 331 68 111 .365 .351 .345 .336 .335 Home Runs Mantle. Yanks 37; Sni der. Dodgers 30; Klu-szewski. Redlegs 25; Robinson. Redlegs 25; Banks. Cubs 25. Runs Batted In Mantle. Yanks 93; Kaline, Tigers 86; Wertz. Indians 81; Musial, Cards 81; Simpson. Athletics 80. Runs Mantle. Yanks 93: Robinson. Redlegs 79: Snider. Dodgers 76: Yost. Senators 73; Fox. White Sox 73. Hits Mantle. Yanks 134: Kaline, Tigers 132; Aaron. Braves 132; Boyer, Cards 131: Fox, White Sox 127; Kuenn. Tigers 127. 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But it had nothing to do with surgery July 14 in which a sensory nerve in the neck was severed to relieve pain in the UCLA Star May Play In Canada Los Angeles (U.R) Star UCLA passer Ronnie Knox may sign a contract with the Hamil ton Tigers of the Canadian Football League unless he is cleared in the current Pacific Coast Conference football scan dal. His stepfather, Harvey Knox I announced Monday he was tak- ing the Bruin tailback to Can-: ada to "look over the situation" ' there and "talk over things" with the Tigers. Jake Gaudaur, ! general manager and president of the Hamilton club, has re portedly offered Ronnie SI. 000 a game as a T quarterback for the Tigers. ! The older Knox, self-appoint- ! ed manager of his stepson, said he was not happy with UCLA because the school hasn't clear ed Ronnie of receiving "under the table" payments in connec tion with the PCC scandal. The talkative Knox said "the boy is innocent." "I'm not saying he wouldn't like to play for UCLA," Harvey i said. 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Mrs. Zaharias, a great Olymp ics star before she became the most famous of women golfers, entered John Sealy hospitaj this latest time on March 29. She was operated on for rec tal cancer on April 17, 19S3. And on June 22, 1955, she1 underwent an operation for a ruptured disc which doctors said had nothing to do with cancer. There were no signs of post-operative complications and none is expected,. the hospital, spokes man said. . Attention Packers and Orchardists Packing Aprons . Bear Creek Bucket Bottoms Bucket Straps Yakima Apple Bag , S&H Green Stamps 314 E. Main 45 qt. Bilko Leads PCL Hitters San Francisco (U.R) Steve Bilko of the Los Angeles Angels continued his stampede toward Pacific Coast League batting titles today with an average of .369 juiced up with 46 home runs and a total of 132 runs batted in. Those figures just about left 230 pound Steve out of sight in the three individual races. Gene Mauch, his teammate, retained the lead for the most hits with 168 safeties. 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