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I TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Braves Nab Two From Giants To Up Lead to Three Games By UNITED PRESS Milwaukee stretched its lead over the second place Brooklyn Dodgers by three games in the National league pennant race yesterday .The Braves beat the New York Giants, 5-3 and 6-2, while Brooklyn nosed out St. Louis 2-1. Chicago edged ' out Philadel phia. 6-4, . and Cincinnati trim med Pittsburgh. 7-4. . . In the American league, Cleveland beat the league-leading New York Yankees, 30. Bal timore edged out Kansas City, 4-, and Detroit trounced Wash ington, 8-3. The Chicago at Bos ton game was postponedbecause of rain.- Joe Adcock and Del Rice hom ered to lead Milwaukee to vic tory over New York in the nightcap of a day-night double header. Third baseman Eddie Mathews' three-run homer led the league leaders to a 5-3 win in the opener. Adcock hit 31st homer in the second inning of the second game off Joe Margoneri. Then Andy Pafko singled and Rice delivered his third homer of the year. Ad cock's blast carried 400 feet into the bullpen in right center field. The Braves added another run in the fifth on Johnny Logan's single and Hank Aaron's double. They scored their final two runs in the eighth on Mathews' triple, two walks and Gene Conley's single. Mathews' homer in the first game was his 29th of the year. It came in the first inning off start er and loser Ruben Gomez. Kluizewslci Sparks Ted Kluszewski s 32nd homer of the season sparked Cincinnati in a four-run rally in the eighth inning as they came from behind to beat Pittsburgh. Frank Robinson and Gus Bell also contributed homers to the Cincinnati attack. Pittsburgh went ahead, 4-3. with three unearned runs in the top of the eighth inning, set up by Johnny Temple's error. But Temple atoned by open ing the winning rally in the last hal? of the same frame with a single against Relief Pitcher Roy Face. He moved to second on Robinson's sacrifice and to third on Face's wild pitch. Veteran Howie Pollet relieved Face and got Bell to ground io First Baseman Dale Long. But Long fumbled the ball as Temple, scored ' the tying run and Bell reached first. Kluszewski followed with his blast over the right field screen to put the Red Legs ahead. 6-4. They added a final tally on a walk to Wally Post and singles by Smokey Burgess and Pinch hitter Ed Bailey. Carl Erskine getting help from Don Bessent posted his ninth straight win as Brooklyn nosed out the St. Louis Cardi nals. The win enabled the Dodgers to cling to. second place in the three-cornered National league race. Erskine now has 11 victories against six defeats. It was the ELORDE FAVORED San Francisco (U.R) Fourth ranked featherweight Flash Elorde is a strong (5-8) favorite over lOth-ranked Miguel Berrios tonight at San Francisco. Elorde has won five straight since being stopped in the 13th round of a title fight with Sandy Saddler last January. GUNS- 10 DOWN 0n&d LAMPORT I fourth time during the streak that he has beaten the Cardinals. He yielded six hits before he was removed after the seventh inning when he complained his arm was stiffening. Bessent then pitched two hitless rounds. Eight Double Plays Herman Wehmeier, who had five straight, was charged with the defeat his ninth against eight victories. The two clubs turned in eight double plays during the game, one short of the major league record. The Cardinals completed five, one short of the National league record. , The Detroit Tigers snapped the Senators' four-game winning streak. Righthander Steve G r o m e k scattered nine hits to score a vic tory in his first start since July sixth. Harvey Kuenn led Gromek's 13 hit support by driving in three runs with a double and a single and scoring another tally. His double was the only Tiger hit that wasn't a single. Gromek yielded Roy Sievers' 23rd homer of the season and a pair of doubles by Lou Berberet, but emerged with his seventn victory of the year. Washington, fresh from four wins over Boston, jumped off to a 2-nothing lead in the second inning. But Kuenn singled home a pair in the fourth to tie the score and drive out Washington starter Hal Griggs. Bunky Stew art, who relieved, was charged with the loss. I SIPCDDBTS Mize Remembers Pressure In Trying To Beat Babe's Mystic Record By DAWSON OPPENHEIMER United Presi Sporis Writer Deland, Fla. U.R) Big John Mize, who once menaced the home run record of his dis tant cousin. Babe Ruth, looked wistfully, back on his glory years today and remembered "pres sure, pressure, and more pres sure" that mounted as he tried for Babe's mystic mark of 60. That pressure, he said, could be the telling factor in whether Mickey Mantle will be able to achieve a new record with the Yankees this season. It boils up nearly to the bursting point in the September strech where Babe left a lasting memorial with 17 homers. "I can't answer the big ques tion," Mize said. "Can he stand up under the pressure the fans and sports writers put on him? I haven't seen him play much three years and when I did see him, he wasn't playing the kind of ball every one expected from him." Mize, who was a Yankee him self from 1949 to 1953 and watch ed Mantle develop" from a raw rookie, thinks he has more poise and polish now. Good Chance "I know he has a good chance to break the record," Mize said. AH Types of Guns Camping Equipment Tentt Scopes Coleman Stoves, Lanterns 226 E. Main THURSDAY, AUGUST 23rd Sale Opens Friday At Ten MAJN AT CENTRAL MEDFORD, OREGON Wednesday, August 22. 1956 LINESCORESr National League (NiSht I'mll New York 002 000 000 3 10 1 Milwaukee 030 010 02x 6 10 1 Joe Margoneri. Max Surkont ii and Wes Westrum; Gene Conley ("-71 and Del Rice. Loser Margoneri (5-31. HR Joe Adcock (Mil.) second, bw emptv. hia 31st. HR Rice i Mil.) second one on. hu third. Brook Ivn 101 000 000 2 8 0 St. Louin 000 Ofll OttO 1 6 1 Carl Erskine. Don Bessent 8i and Rov Campanella: Herman Wehmeier, Larrv Jackson 181 and Ray Kalt. Winner Erskine 111-61. Loser Wehmeier i8-9i. Pittsburgh 000 100 030 4 7 1 Cincinnati .... 100 200 04x 7 10 1 Vernon Law. Elrov Face 8. Howie Pollen 181. Dick Hall 181 and Jack Shepard: Don Gross. Hershell Freeman (8i and Smokv Burgess. Winner Freeman Ul-4). Loser Pollet 13-51. HR -Frank Robinson (Cin.) first, bases emoty. his 31st. HR Gus Bell I Cin.) fourth, bases emptv. his 23rd. HR Ted luKsiewski (Cin.) eilhth. one on, his 32nd. American League Cleveland 020 000 1003 7 0 New York 000 000 000 o 2 1 Herb Score (14-71 and Jim Hegan: Don Larsen. Maury McDermott (3) and Yoei Berra. Loser Larsen '7-51. RH Score icleve.l seventh, bases empty, his first. Kansas Citv .. 100 001 100 3 8 0 Baltimore ... 100 010 101 4 10 1 Alex Keliner. Bobby Shantz 3. Tom Gorman 6. Art Ditmar 9i and Hal Smith: Bill Wight. George Zuverink (8) and Gus Triandos. Winner Zuverink (6-5), Loser Gorman '6-8). HR Hector Lopez (KC) seventh bases empty, his 16th. Detroit 000 212 003 ft 13 0 Washington . 020 000 0103 f 1 Steve Gromek 1 7-5 1 and Frank House: Hal Griggs, Bunkv Stewart i4i. Connie Grob (7. Bob Wiesler (9, and Lou Berberet. Loser Stewart M-6. HR Rov Sievers (Wash.), eighth. hncrs emotv. his 23rd. of Homers "And if he doesn't make it this year, he may later on Mize admitted that he never really had any serious hopes of breaking Ruth's mark in the 1947 season when he hit 51 hom ers for the New York Giants. "I believe only three of us Jimmy Foxx, Han:. Greenberg and myself ever were ahead of Ruth's record going into Sept.," he said. "But I was only one game ahead of the Babe then and would have had. to .hit 16 in the last monih. And I never hit 16 in one month in my career." Mize recalled that he didn't even want to play the last two games of the season. "But the pressure from the fans was pretty tough, -so I play ed and darned if I didn't get hit on the elbow the first time 1 was up. I got a couple of hits that day, but no home runs." Switch Hitting Helps Mize thinks Mantle's switch hitting will help him, and he had an unusual theory about it. "If he gets close he , could choose his fence in a park where one field is closer than the other, no matter whether the pitcher was right or left handed," Mize said. "Another important thing is that he is batting ahead of Yogi Berra and there aren't many pitchers who want to walk Mantle to get at a dangerous hitter like that." Mize also thinks the big Yan kee lead should help Mantle be cause pitchers "are more liable to pitch to him than they would be in a close race where he might find himself walking more oft en. USE TRIBUNE WANT ADS The Low Cost Way to Sell Items You No Longer Need For Quick Cash STANDINGS PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Br united Frets W. L. PrU CB Loa Angeles It 19 .647 Seattle 78 60 .365 111 Hollywood 71 64 .526 17 Portland 65 72 .474 . 24 Sacramento 65 73 .471 24 'i San Francisco .. 61 76 .445 28 San Diego 61 77 .442 28'i Vancouver 39 79 .428 30 't Tuesday's Results Los Angeles 5. San Diego 2. Hollywood 4. Seattle i Sacramento 4. Portland 3. San Francisco 6-2, Vancouver 2-9. How Series Stand Los Angele 3. San Diego 1. Seattle 2. Hollywood 2. Sacramento 3. Portland 1. San Francisco 2. Vancouver 2. Wednesday's Probable Pitchers Los Angeles. Bob Thorpe 4-5, or Marino Pie ret ti 7-8, at San Diego, Ar nie Atkins 11-5. Seattle, Artie Serial lock 8-8, and Don Fracchia 0-12. at Hollywood. Luis Ar royo 4-3 and Laurie Pepper 1-0. Portland. Bill Werle 12-12, at Sac ramento. Cloyd Boyer 8-7. Vancouver. Bob Hooper 2-1 and Rvne Duren 9-9. at San Francisco, ft. G. Smith 7-8 and Bill Henry 3-5. NOBTHWESTLEAGLE W. L. Pet, GB 26 17 .605 28 20 .583 . 2 24 22 .522 32 22 22 .500 4'z 22 26 .458 6'2 20 25 .444 7 17 27 336 92 Yakima - Salem Lewiston Spokane - EuRene Wenatchee Tn-City Tuesday's Results Trj-City 10. Spokane. 9. Salem 5, Wenatchee 4. Lewiston 15, Yakima 12. NATIONAL LBAGUE W. L. Pet. .615 .591 .580 .496 .478 .432 .417 386 Milwaukee 74 43 Brooklyn 68 47 Cincinnati 69 50 St. Louis 58 59 Philadelphia 55 60 Pittsburgh 51 67 Chicaco 48 67 New York 44 70 - 3 4 14 16 21 i 23 Tuesday's Results Chicago 6. Philadelphia 4. Milwaukee 5. New York 3 (1st day) Milwaukee 6. New York 2 1 2nd. mem i. Cincinnati 7, TJitt5burj?h 4 (ninnO Brooklyn 2. St. Louis 1 (night). AMERICAN LEAGUE IV. L. Pet. GB New York 77 42 .647 Cleveland 68 48 .586 7!i Chicago 62 51 -54S 12 Boston 63 53 .543 12i Detroit 56 62 .475 20a Baltimore 53 64 .453 23 Washington 49 67 .422 262 Kansas City 38 79 .325 38 Tuesday's Results Cleveland 3, New York 0 fnij?ht. Baltimore 4. Kansas City 3 might). Detroit 8. Washington 3 (niehti. Chicago at Boston, night, postponed rain. League Leaders 'Based on 275 official at bats) National Leasue Player A- Club G.-AB. R. H. Pet .334 .328 .315 .313 .313 Aaron. Mil. 115 449 83 150 Moon. St. L. 115 411 71 135 Schndst. tf.Y. 92 336. 40 106 Musial. St. L 119 454 63 142 Virdon, Pitts. 120 431 59 J35 American League . Mantle. N Y. ... 115 421 104 152 .361 .345 .332 .326 .325 Williams, Bstn... 99 281 48 97 maxwell, liet. .. lus 368 73 122 Vernon. Bstn... 93 316 54 103 Kuenn. Det 110 434 66 141 Home Rum Mantle. Yanks 42: Snider. Dodcers 33: Kluszewski, Red Lees 32: Robinson. Red Legs 31: Ad cock, Braves 31. Runs Batted In Mantle. Yanks 107; Kaline. Tigers 94; Musial. Cards 90; SimDson. Athletics 89: Kluszewski. Red Less 86. Pitching (based on 12 decisions!. Ford. Yanks 14-4. .778: Pierce. White Sox, 17-5. .773: Newcombe. Dodgers 19-6. .760: Buhl. Braves 15-5. .750; Haddix. Phils 11-4, .733; Freeman, Red Legs 11-4. .733. Phoenix Legion Area Champion Wmslow, Atiz. (U.R) Phoe nix earned the right to represent its region in the sectional Am erican Legion Baseball tourney Tuesday night by routing .Bev erly Hills, Calif., 12 to 4, be hind the seven-hit pitching of Rennie Crittenden. Crittenden was wild, allowing 12 walks, but the Californians left 11 men on base and hurt their own cause by committing seven errors. Crittenden, a left hander who quarterbacks his high school football team as well, pitched 20 1-3 innings in the tourney. Phoenix now will com pete in the sectional play offs at Billings, Mont. The Hastings American Legion junior baseball team won the four-state regional tournament last night at York, Neb. Hastings beat Denver, 5-4, in the final game to finish the double-elimination meet undefeated. Has tings had beaten Denver, 1-0 Sunday. Hastings now goes to the 12-state sectional tournament at Billings, Mont., beginning Sat urday. Saratoga Returns High Daily Double bj unntu PRESS The second highest daily double in the history of Sara toga $1,134 was returned yestrday as Admiral Vee captur ed the featured Elizabethtown purse. Get-There-Frank won the op ening race, returning 18.90 for S2. Eternal Flame scored at S73 in the second for the huge double. The biggest double ever paid at Saratoga was $4,313 on Aug. 27th, 1945. Admiral Vee won the feature by a half length over favored Goulash. Portersville was third. In other racing news, Bal Harbour gained his first win this season in the featured purse at Atlantic City. ' Powdersmoke finished second, a head in front of Ournav. Jockey Willie Hartack ran up three wins at Washington park in. Chicago to open up a seven race lead over Willie Shoemaker in their battle for national riding honors. Hartack has 256 wins, while Shoemaker has 249 vic tories. A field of nine horses is expected to be named for the second running of the Yonkers Futurity trot. The harness rac ing event will take place Sat urday night at Yonkers, New York. Olympic Athletes, Officials To Get Ultimate in Culinary Delight Melbourne IU.R) Two years of intensive research went into plans to satisfy the gastronom ical whims of the 6,000 Olympic athletes and officials who- will spend three weeks here in Nov ember. "You tell us what you like, and no matter what it is. we will get it for you," said Brig adier Cyril Elliot, director of Olympic housing and catering. He promised that international visitors from more than 75 na tions will get the utmost in culinary quality and fidelity. At the Heidelberg Olympic Village, now almost ready for the visitors who will start arriv ing early in November, 10 separate kitchens will be su pervised by 200 chefs drawn from all over the world. Thou sands of different international dishes will come from the kitch ens to satisfy any craving for home cooking. Elaborate Dishes The athletes will have 20 din ing rooms in the village. There will be up to 20 dif ferent kinds of curries for the Indians, scores of elaborately mixed dishes for the Chinese roast turkey and cranberry sauce for the Americans, kosher meat for the the Jews, vegetar ian mixtures for the Mohamme dans special cheeses and flavor ings and spices, special rices and breads, curds and pickles and suckling pig with sour cream for the Russians. After sifting through the var ious information collected from different sources, long lists of dishes were prepared one for each of the visiting nations and sent overseas for their ap proval. To assure complete authenti city in detail, Tom Carlyon, an Olympic offical who owns sev eral Melbourne hotels, went abroad to recruit 160 chefs to mastermind the operation. Ar rangements were made with the Immigration Department to pro vide free transport to Australia on the understanding that they would settle here after the games. All Fully Qualified Carlyon said the chefs would do much to improve the stand ard of foods and food prepara tion in Melbourne and other cities throughout Austrialia where they might be employed. He said all the chefs are fully Skipper Answers Criticism About Trade of Smith By UNITED PRESS The manager of the Baltimore Orioles has an answer for those who criticize him for sending catcher Hall Smith to Kansas City. Paul Richards told the United Press "Smith's going to Kan sas ..City is merely the forerun ner of a deal we're going to make with the A's next winter." Balti more obtained Smith from the Yankees two years ago in the trade involving Bob Turley. Richards also denied he ever said Smith lacked "aggressive ness." Said the Baltimore man ager "I never said any such thing. I feel Smith is going to wind up a mighty fine catcher. The only reason we gave him up is because we feel we can help ourselves in the coming winter deal." Richards also shook his head "no" when asked about a report that right-hander Billy Loes will wind up with the Yankees. "No truth to it at all," said Richards. Let us demonstrate the world's most useful vehicles It's good insurance and good business to own a vehicle that will help you get more work done every day in the year that's a 'Jeep' 4-Wheel-Drive vehicle. On the highway, it travels at road speeds in 2-wheel drive a simple shift gives the extra traction of 4-wheel drive for rough travel, on or off the roads. With power take-off, these rugged vehicles operate many kinds of special equipment. There's a 'Jeep vehicle that will fill your specific needs and serve you Lest iThe TT(STJ) fami'y of 4-Wheel-Dnve KdS IS WIU.TJ...wortfjfarjesttialierjif4 SOS qualified and that half of them are "top class." In addition, Melbourne invited competing nations to bring their own cooks or "spicers" along to supervise special natural dishes. The Russians jumped at this op portunity and . undertook to bring out. at least one first-class chef, possibly two. Another item was special re quirements for national festivals and feast days Nov. 22, for in stance, the opening day of the Games, is America's Thanksgiv ing Day. Thus the U. S. menu already has the traditional fare of turkey, cranberry sauce and pumpkin pie.. Australian turkeys and pumpkins will be used but the Melbourne hosts will get the cranberry jelly from the States. Heavyweight Toga Picture Clarified Paterson, N. J. -0J.R) Com missioner Abe J. Greene of the National Boxing association spe cified today that Archie Moore may fight the winner of the Hur ricane Jackson-Baker fight for the heavyweight title if Floyd Patterson is not available this year. Greene clarified the confused heavyweight title picture upon his return from Havana, where the annual NBA convention wound up Tuesday. The NBA commissioner ex plained that the organization will "make immediate inquiries into the condition of Patterson's injured hand, and Patterson will be asked to set a time table as to when he will be able to meet Moore for the title." To Attend Bout "In the meantime, Greene said, NBA observers will attend the bout between Hurricane Jackson and Bob Baker in Pitts burgh Sept. 26, and will deter mine if the winner shows enough class to warrant public accept ance as an unquestioned con' tender." If Patterson is not available for a title bout soon, and the Jackson-Baker survivor quali fies as a challenger, Green con tinued, "the Pittsburgh winner will be urged as an immediate opponent for Moore. The winner of such a match would be recognized as world champion, but the principals in such a title bout would be re quired to sign contracts to box Patterson within 90 days if Pat terson's condition permits. Lincolns Billed On Tacoma Card Tacoma (U.R) The card for Friday night's fights in Tacoma has been completed. The main event, of course, will feature Irish Pat McMurtry of Tacoma against Willie Pas trano of New Orleans in a heavy weight 10-rounder. The Portland heavyweight, Amos Lincoln, will meet Babe Hunt of Oakland, Calif., in the semi-final. And Amos' brother, Carlton Lincoln, will battle Lou Joseph of Seattle in a middle weight bout. In other preliminaries, Ernie Davis and Yo Yo Lewis, both Seattle lightweights, will square off in a six-rounder and Kel Wayne of Vancouver, Washing ton, will mix with Tommy Berg of Renton in a middleweight six round bout. t farjest nakerj if Ask as for a demonstration now STEVENS AUTO SALES INC. North Central "Your Friendly Dealer" , Phone 3 - Various items will have to be imported smoked salmon, sea weed soup:' rice from Thailand and ghee, the unsalted, clarified butter used, by the, Indians. Maple syrup will be brought out for the Canadians. In all, 6,000 meals will be ! served three times a day for 17 days at the village. . This will mean 2,000 waiters. Cooks, gar deners, domestic servants, guards, engineers, carpenters, electricians and accountants to keep the village going. This is what the athletes will' consume: 10 tons of butter, 6 tons of cheese, 5.000.000,eggs, 80 tons of fresh vegetables, 50 tons of salad ingredients, 16,000 bread rolls, 60 tons of fresh fruit, 150,000 pints of milk, 100 tons of meat and 30 tons of rice. Cutthroat Placed In Devils Lake . Ocean Lake (U.R) The State Game Commission yester day started on its restocking pro-1 gram oi Lievns lane, rne lane was recently poisoned to rid it of trash fish. Game department personnel dumped 10,000 cutthroat trout into the lake yesterday, all three inches or better in size. An additional 10.000 rainbow trout will be planted tomorrow. Mick Must End Slump Quickly New York (U.R) Mickey Mantle must end his five-game batting slump quickly, or lose all chance of matching Babe Ruth's home run record. Going into today's game against the Cleveland Indians, Mantle showed only three hits in his last 21 trips to the plate during the last five games. Against the Indians Tuesday night, he had only a single in four at-bats. Mantle, with 42 homers, needs 18 in the remaining 35 games to tie Ruth's record of 60 for a season. Today he faced Indians' pitch er Early Wynn, off whom he has hit one homer this year. SECOND NET ROUND Chestnut Hill, Mass. U.R) The National doubles tennis championships, rained out yes terday go into the second round today at Chestnut Hill. Mass. Tournament officials say they will double up the staggered quarter-finals, so that the com petition can end as scheduled Sunday. 111 BOTTLED-IN-BOND c Kentt"y Straight Bourbon Whiskey 100 proof. 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Huntington Park won its game in the third inning when three singles by Jerry Hester, Bob Cooper, plus two Chicago miscues and a walk yielded five tallies. v Grid Exams On Thursday At Phoenix Phoenix Coach Jack Wood ward has asked prospective Phoenix high school football players to report at 7 p.m. Thursday at the school for phy sical examinations. Equipment will be issued that night also. Woodward stressed that boys who will be freshman and aspire for berths on the football squad are to turn out for physicals and equipment also on Thursday. Phoenix is defending subdis trict A-2 champion. It will com- pete again in the Rogue league. Opening game of the season will be on Sept. 14 at Rogue River. Greenland is the largest island in the world, with an area of 840,000 square miles. 17 Builders Supply QPALITT BLOCKS Bricks. Flues, Drain Tile 727 W. 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