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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Redlegs. Continue By EARL WRIGHT United Press Sports Writer That familiar fire engine col- marked the "hottest" players la 6e majors today as the Cin cinnati Redlegs ran their vie lory strealc to eight games and "Ted Williams of the Boston Red 2oa sent his batting average soaring to .453. The Redlegs looked like the "bust of the season when they lost six straight games to the Milwaukee Braves. But now they're traveling like an Ohio liver boat passing Cincinnati at floodtide and whipped the Brooklyn Dodgers Tuesday night STANDINGS PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE i W. L. la nles IT 8 Hollywood 15 10 Stttie 16 11 Vancoa-er IS 11 Sam Fraacisco 13 12 Sea raogo 13 14 Sacramanto 7 18 ?aWaad S 19 Pet. GB .680 .600 2 .593 2 .577 2'j .556 3 .481 S .280 10 .208 11 i,i lav's Results aVia Francisco 9. Vancouver 8 Hollywood S. Sacramento 0 (14 in- T&AKS) 5n Diego 3. Seattle 2 1m Aageles 3. Portland 2 AJCBRIAM LEAGUE Pet. GB Hum Tark Chicago 12 11 11 11 .667 .647 'i .579 1 .550 2 .529 2'i .524 2U .389 5 .182 10 ton Kansas City Cievelaral 9 Detroit 11 10 7 11 3 18 taltimcve ashing ton Yavsaay's Eesults Detroit 5. Washington 3 -Kansas City 3. Baltimore 2 (10 in Btaes. night) Cleveland 2. New York 1 (night) NATIONAL LEAGUE Pet. GB Milwaukee Brooklyn Cincinnati 13 12 12 9 9 .722 .667 1 .632 Hi Sr Louis .529 3 13 Philadelphia .500 4 .400 6 few York , Chicago Pittsburgh . 8 12 8 13 .316 71, 5 14 .263 8!i atoesday's Results Cincinnati 9. Brooklyn. 2 (night) New York 8. St. Louis 5 (night) Philadelphia 8. Milwaukee 4 (night) Chicago 10, Pittsburgh 8 (14 in tings, night) aTednesday's Probable Pitchers t. Louis at New York Cheney, -1 vs. Antonelli. 2-3. ORTgWEST LEAGUE W. I Tri-City 7 - 5 Eugene 7 5 Salem 6 5 Yakima 7 6 Wenatchee " 8 6 Lewton 2 8 Pet. GB .583 J 83 .545 .538 .500 .125 Tuesday's Results Salem 8. Tri-City 1 Eugene 11, Yakima 8 Wenatchee 9. Lewiston 8 League Leaders By UNITED PRESS NATIONAL LEAGUE Plaver - Club G. AB R. R. Pet. Hoak, Cinci. 19 61 11 25 .410 Aaron, Milw. .18 ' 82 30 32 .390 Musial, St. L. 17 72 9 28 .389 Robinson. Cinci. 17 74 15 27 .365 roiies. Pitts. ..17 52 7 19 -65 AMERICAN LEAGUE Williams. Boat. ..15 S3 14 24 Simpson. K-City 20 77 14 29 Tox. Chi. 17 64 12 23 .453 -77 .359 Bertoia, Det. 19 63 Wei , Cleve. 17 60 22 349 20 -33 Bom Rons National league Aaron. Braves 8; Adcock. Braves 6; Sauer Giants 5: Campanella, Dodgers 4; Moon,. Cardi nals 4. American league Williams. Red Sox 6; Skizas, Athletics. Simpson, Athletics. Sievers, Senators, ail 5; (Four tied with 4 each). Rons Batted In National league Furillo. Dodgers 19: Sauer. Giants 19; Aaron. Braves 17; Hoak. Redlegs 17; Ennis, Cards 16; Jones. Phils 16. American league Simpson, Ath Saucs 4-0. Narleski, Indians 3-0; San rd. Phillies 3-0; (Seven tied with Oregon State Nips Huskies Corvallis U.PJ Oregon State defeated the University of "Washington here 4-3 Tuesday on bases-loaded walk by Husky pitcher Monte Geiger in the 11th inning in Northern division allege baseball. Washington, at bat in the ainth inning, tied the score 3-3 When George Kristsonis, Husky xifhtfield, tripled and scored on Jack Brady's single. Oregon State won in the 11th When Warren Harle scored after Geiger walked Twink Pederson With the bases loaded. Syl Johnson went all the way ar the Beavers. Geiger was the er for Washington. Oregon State now has a 5-2 WD record. Diamond Lake Subject of Film A film, "Angling Anew," will fee shown by television station tBES-TV on Thursday at 10:15 f).m. The story is about trout Joshing at Diamond" lake. The tak is making a comeback as a fishery following rehabilitation, lish in the lake were extermi Atted and the waters were re glinted with rainbow trout. HARD. TOP Auto Races Valley View Speedway SATURDAY, 8 P.M.-MAY 11 1956 ENGINES ALLOWED Williams Red Hot 9-2. The victory gave Hal Jeff coat, a converted outfielder, his first pitching triumph. Williams drove in three runs with a single and homer to give the Red Sox a 4-3 triumph over the White Sox. Ted, returning to action after being hit on the right arm Sunday at Cleveland, also drew three walks for a per fect night as he backed Tom Brewer's three-hit pitching. Herb Score, who led the ma jors in strikeouts the last two seasons suffered what may prove a serious injury when he was struck on the right eye by a line drive in the first in ning at Cleveland. But the In dians, with Bob Lemon replac ing Score, battled back to edge the New York Yankees on two unearned runs, 2-1. Vic Power hit his second hom er of the night in the 10th in ning to give the Kansas City Athletics their fourth straight victory, 3-2, over the Baltimore Orioles. In Tuesday's only day game, two-run homers by Frank House and Frank Boiling gave the Detroit Tigers a 5-3 victory and ruined Cookie Lavagetto's debut as manager of the Wash ington Senators. In the other National League action the Philadelphia Phillies routed Warren Spahn while giv ing Robin Roberts an 8-4 victory over the Braves; two-run sing les by pinch-hitter Bob Speake and Dale Long in the 14th gave the Chicago Cubs a 10-8 triumph over the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Al Worthington's five scoreless relief innings helped the New York Giants down the St. Louis Cardinals, 8-5. Art Schult collected three hits as the Redlegs battered Johnny Podres, Ed Roebuck and Ken Lehman to keep .the major league season's longest winning streak alive. Billy Klaus walked with two out in the ninth and Williams followed with his sixth 1957 homer to give Boston a 4-1 mar gin. It was the decisive blow as in the bottom of the inning, Larry Doby homered for the White Sox with Minnie Minoso on base. The Indians beat the Yankees In the eighth when right field er Hank Bauer lost Al Smith's pop fly and then threw wildly to second, permitting Gene Woodliug to go to third and Smith to second. Tom Sturdi vant walked Vic Wertz to fill the bases and, with two out, walked Rocky Colavito to force in Woodling with the winning run. The Phillies chased Spahn af ter four innings by hammering him for seven hits and five runs. Roberts won his second after losing three. The Cub-Pirate game lasted 4 hours and 17 minutes. It was the fourth consecutive time a night game went into extra in nings at Forbes Field and Pitts burgh lost all of them. Long and Lee Walls, who were traded to the Cubs last week by the Pirates, were key figures in the Chicago triumph. Catcher Ray Katt drove in three runs to provide the punch hptilnd Worthington's relief ! pitching for the Giants against the Cardinals. ' LrNESCORES: American i.esUB - Washington -.001 002 0003 3 0 Detroit 001 040 0x 5 9 0 Abernathy, Brodowsiu oi. -"veii-ger (7) and Berberet. Foy tack (2-1) and House. Loser Abernathy (0-3). HR-House (2nd), Boiling (4th). New Yprk 000 000 100 1 8 3 Cleveland 000 000 llx 2 5 2 Sturdivant (1-2) ana uerra; acorc. Lemon (1 and Hegan. Nixon (8). Winner Lemon (2-3). Boston 100 000 1024 11 1 Chicago 000 010 002 3 3 0 Brewer (3-2) and White. Donovan (1-1) and Lollar. HR Williams (6th), Doby (1st). (10 Innings) Baltimore 010 001 000 0 3 4 0 Kansas City 100 000 010 13 9 0 Brosn (1-1) and Triandos. Duren, Trucks (8) and Smith. Winner Trucks (4-0). HR Power, 2 (1st and 2nd), Francona (1st). National League Milwaukee 001 003 000 4 6 0 Philadelphia 021 210 20x 8 13 0 Spahn. Buhl (5). Trowbridge (7) and Crandall. Sawatski (5). Roberts (2-3) and Lopata. Loser Spahn (4-1). HR Hamner (1st). Cincinnati 020 110 005 14 2 Brooklyn 100 000 1002 6 2 Jeff coat (2-1) and Bailey. Podres, Roebuck (8). Lehman (9) and Walker. Loser Podres (1-2). St. Louis 000 050 0005 9 1 New York 200 130 20x 8 15 0 Wehmeier. R. Smith (6) and H. Smith. Burnside. Worthington (5) and Katt. Winner Worthington (1-2 1. Loser Wehmeier (2-1). HR Schoen dienst (2nd). Rhodes ,2nd), Boyer (2nd), Moon (4th). (14 Innings) Chi. ..000.500 001 000 04 10 15 2 Pitts. 000 022 002 000 02 8 17 1 Poholsky. Littlefield (6), Valenti netti (6i, Lown 9i, Hillman (14). Col lum (14) and Neeman. Friend, Kline 6. Arroyo 7. Face (9) Purkev (11). Pepper (14) and Foiles. Winner Lown 1-0. Loser Pepper (0-1). HR. Neeman (3rd). Wednesday, May 8, 1957 MEDF0RDvWrRIBUKI srpaDiFirs Each of PCL Tussles Decided by By DON THACKERY United Press Sports Writer The Pacific Coast league didn't do a very good job of getting the fans out to the parks Tuesday night, but came up with a near perfect way of keeping them there. Only 8,740 fans turned out for the four contests but all of them should have been still there when the games were over. All four games were decided by a single run and in every case the out come was in doubt until the final minute, Sacramento and Hollywood kept them there the longest, play ing 14. innings before the Stars could eke out a 5-4 decision. Vancouver gave away a big lead Boxing Results By UNITED PRESS Scranton. Pa. Charlie Norkus, 195. Port Washington. N.Y., stopped Bob O'Brien. 195 ,2. Elizabeth, N. J. (4). Miami Beach. Fla. Carlos Ortiz, 138 'i. New York, outpointed Ike Vaughn. 136'i, Cincinnati (10). ANGRY San Francisco's Harvie Ward, the nation's, leading amateur golfer, reads newspaper account of his alleged violation of ama teur status for accepting an expense check for $11,000 from his employer, Ed Low ery, wealthy auto dealer. Ward, on arrival home in San Francisco from Colonial Open in Fort Worth, Tex., was "surprised and angry" and vehemently denied that he .had accepted the under-the-table expense money. Harvie Ward Given Chance To Explain New York (U.R) The Un ited States Golf association dis closed Tuesday it will give na tional champion Harvie Ward, San Francisco, a chance to ex plain "his side of the story" be fore taking any action to strip him of his amateur status for allegedly accepting illegal ex pense money. Joe Dey, USGA executive sec retary, said testimony before the San Francisco grand jury . that Ward received such expenses from his employer, Ed Lowery, in 1954 "would appear to be a violation of our rules on ama teur status." "But we certainly will not take any action until we heard Ward's side of the story," he said. BROWN, LANE SIGN Detroit KU.R) Henry (Tooth pick) Brown of Philadelphia has signed to meet No. 1 lightweight contender Kenny Lane of Mus kegon, Mich., in a 10-round bout at the Olympia, May 22. Brown replaces Baby Vasquez of Mex ico who pulled out of the bout because of an ailing back. MOUNTIES WIN La Grande (U.R) Eastern Oregon college defeated Boise Junior college 7-6 in a 16-inning non - conference baseball game here yesterday. FISHERMEN! VACATIONERS! Com and see the beautiful CARDINAL before you make your reservation for a vacation trailer. Go in Style and Comfort-Go in a CARDINAL! Buy It or Rent It OAK COURT TRAILER PARK 801 North Central Avenue One Tally to San Francisco and then fell just short of catching the Seals, losing 9-8. League leading Los Angeles got past Portland 3-2 and San Diego edged Seattle by the same 3-2 count. Winning Run Forced Relief hurler Cal Greene walk ed Bill Causion with the bases loaded ift the bottom of the 14th to force in the winning run for Hollywood. Hollywood had to come from behind to tie it in the sixth, when Ben Wade took over on the mound and held the Solons scoreless the rest of the way., Al Heist had a home run for the Solons with none on. Reliefer Leo Kiely got the win for San Francisco over Vancou ver. The Seals jumped off to a 6-0 lead and then saw the Moun ties hack away at it. The Mounties never could quite catch up however and starter Mey Held got the loss. Joe Frazier, with a double, triple and home run, drove in five Mountie runs. Wills Nipped a Steal Mnrlcat Grant came to the re- Hpf nf Pete Mesa of San Diego in the bottom of the ninth and saved it for him with one pitch. Rav Orteis had tripled and Maury Wills singled' for one Se attle run. Grant made one pitch to Leo Righetti and catcher Al Jones fired to second base to Nin Wills in an attempted steal for the third out. Portland also threatened to take the game away from Los Angeles in the bottom of tne ninth vfin though Dick Hanlon pitched a three-hitter. One of the hits was a two-run homer by Jack Littrell in the fifth and an other was a double by Solly Drake in the nintn. However, with Drake on sec ond and one out, Louis Marquez lined out to shortstop waiiy Lam mers, who got Drake at second to end the contest. Net result of the one-run vic tnrips was to boost the lead of Los Angeles to two full games over second place Hollywood. LINESCORES: San Francisco 003 311 010 9 14 2 Vancouver .... 000 420 110 8 17 1 R. W. Smith, Thiel (5), Kiely (8) and Tornay; Held, Archer (3), Birrer (5), Drummond (6), Besana 9, Martin (9) and Neal. San Diego 201 000 0003 7 1 Seattle 000 001 0012 7 2 Mesa. Grant (9) and Jones; Hayden, Black (8) and Orteig. Los Angeles.. 000 120 0003 8 0 Portland 000 020 000 2 3 0 Hanlon and Tappe; Alexander, An derson (5) and Calderone. (14 innings) Sacramento 030 010 000 000 004 8 2 Hollywood 000 112 000 000 015 13 0 Harrist, Candini (6)', Greene (13) and Hall; Rowe, Wade (6) and Barra gan. Duck Baseballers Take To Road Eugenes U.R) Oregon's base ball team, with a firm grip on first place in the Northern di vision race, leaves here tonight for a six-game invasion of Idaho and Washington. Oregon meets Washington State at Pullman Friday and Saturday and Idaho next Mon day and Tuesday. The Ducks wind up the trip with a two game series against Washington next Thursday and Friday. KLUSILENT Cincinnati WJ.R) Ted Klus zewski had no comment today about when doctors would oper ate to correct a crippling back ailment that may keep him out of the Cincinnati lineup for the rest of the season. The 237 pound slugger checked out of the hospital Tuesday, where he underwent a final series of tests to determine the cause and ex tent of his ailment. KELL OUT SOON Detroit U.R) Baltimore Orioles third baseman George Kell, who was struck on the head by a pitched ball Monday, is expected to Jeave.the hospi tal within a couple of days. Kell, who was hit by a pitch thrown by Tigers' pitcher Steve Gro mek, suffered a mild concussion and is expected to be sidelined for a short time. LINFIELD VICTOR Monmouth U.R) Linfield defeated Oregon college 6-1 in a non conference baseball game Tuesday to snap the Wolves' winning streak at six straight. Don Schaeffer held OCE to six hits. Phone SP 2-4579 I ' I t'mrim'cf J mm - SswSiwlf ss., .s 2 M LEADING BY NOSE, Iron Liege beats Gallant Man at finish of Kentucky Derby. Shoe maker, riding Gallant Man, had eased off seconds before tiriking horses had passed fin ish line. At that point-Gallant Man was winning classic (lnbernaUowd SoundpHoto ) lavagetto New Pilot Off Washington Club Detroit (U.R) Charley Dres- sen showed no bitterness as he watched his former lieutenant, Cookie Lavagetto, run his ball club the Washington Senators. Cookie didn't have any better luck than Dressen and the Nats lost,. 5-3, to the Detroit Tigers Tuesday. "It sure looks different from up here," Dressen said as he viewed Briggs stadium from the third deck press box. Dressen talked quietly but showed a trace of mist in his eyes. 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