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1 C Si f U w F G D M U K. to 28 fo fo on na EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) Redlegs Right Back in Thick Of National Loop Flag Race Br FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer The Cincinnati Redlegs were being counted out of the Na tional league race a week ago but they're right back in the thick of It today because of their surprising ability to cope with double-headers. The experts figured Birdie Tebbetts' "patch-work" pitch ing staff would buckle under the pressure of the bargain bills. The Redlegs, however, roar ed back into solid contention when they whipped the Phila delphia Phillies, 4-2 and 6-4, Sunday and now show a remark able .818 won-lost record for double-headers. The latest sweep giving the Redlegs seven wins in nine games since they ended a seven game losing streak on July 12 lifted the Redlegs into fourth place, two games behind the first-place Braves. The Phillies, jolted by six losses in their last seven games, fell 3Va games on the pace. Braves Bounc Back The Braves bounced back from a 5-4 loss to down the New York Giants, 7-4, and re tain their one-game lead over the Dodgers who beat the Chi cago Cubs. 7-2, after a 5-4 set back, while the third-place St. Louis Cardinals downed the Pittsburgh Pirates, 7-3, and led, 11-2. when their nightcap was suspended in the ninth inning by the Pennsylvania' curfew law. The Chicago White Sox de feated the Boston Red Sox, 3-0. and moved to within 4V4 games of first place in the American league when the New York Yan kees split a double-header with the Cleveland Indians. The Yan kees won the opener, 4-3, but bowed in the nightcap, 7-4, be fore 51,670 fans. The Detroit Tigeri beat the Washington Senators, 6-5, and the Kansas City Athletics scored a 3-2 vic tory after losing, 7-2, to the Baltimore Orioles In other AL games. Brooks Lawrence gained credit for his 11th win for the Redlegs in the opener with the aid of homers by George Crowe and Gus Bell and Art Fowler picked up his first win in the nightcap as Ted Kluszewski, Wally Post and Roy McMillan had three hits each. Robin Rob erts was tagged with his seventh straight loss and 13th of the year while Jlarvey Haddix drop ped his seventh decision. Five Straight Hits Shortstop Johnny Logan lash ed out five straight hits to spark the Braves to their victory after Hank Sauer'i two-run, ninth inning single enabled the Giants to take the opener. Willie Mays and Ray Jablonski homered to kayo Lew Burdette in the night cap but Ernie Johnson came on to win his sixth game. Stu Mil ler won his fourth game for the Giants. Clem Labine pitched five shutout relief innings to notch his fifth victory for the Dodgers after homers by Walt Moryn, Chuck Tanner and Lee Walls helped hand Carl Erskine his second defeat. Moe Drabowsky, celebrating his 22nd birthday, won his sixth game for the Cubs although he needed help In the late innings. Don Blasingame knocked in four runs to spark the Cardinals In their opener and Ken Boyer, Ed Kasko and pitcher Lindy Mc Daniel had four hits each in the suspended nightcap which will be completed Aug. 27. The Car dinals had one out in the ninth when the second game was sus pended. Jim Wilson followed up Satur day's one-hitter by Dick Dono van with a three-hitter that gave the White Sox their second straight shutout victory over Musial Streak Stays Intact Pittsburgh IW The game that would end the consecutive game streak of Stan (The Man) Musial remains uncompleted to day, leaving official records in a state of suspension. The veteran Cardinal first sacker appeared in the first game of a double-header against the Pirates Sunday, bringing his National League record streak to 862 games. However, he didn't play in the nightcap, which was suspended in the ninth inning because of Pennsyl vania's 7 p.m. Sunday curfew. The game will not be com pleted until August 27. when the Cards and Pirates meet again. Lovett Medalist In Coast Tourney Astoria IP Biff Lovett of Portland gained medal honors with a 70 Sunday in the Oregon Coast golf championships. Lov ett and Wall Ball of Portland, who had a 71, were the only players of more than 200 in the field to break par. Lovett s 31 on the front nine tied the course record. MAIL TRIBUNE Red Sox. Wilson had a no-hitter for six innings before Frank Malzone broke the spell with a single and scored his 10th win. Avila Sparks Tribe Bob Avila's bases-filled triple in the sixth inning was the big blow for the Indians who play ed before their biggest home crowd in two years. Homers by Gil McDouglad and Elston Ho ward plus Bob Grim's classy re lief job gave the Yankees the opener and they led into the last of the sixth of the nightcap with the help of Mickey Mantle's 25th homer of the year. Ray MEDFORDitJTRIBUire SIPCDIffiTS Seals Nab To Widen By DON THACKREY United Press Sports Writer The Pacific Coast league lead ing San Francisco Seals kept bowling along toward a pennant Sunday while all the contend ers were suffering from a bad case of splits. The Seals picked on their "cousins" from Portland and made them yell "uncle" by tak ing 7-2 and 5-1 victories to take six of seven games in the series. The double loss dropped the Beavers into the league base ment behind the Sacramento Solons, who downed Seattle 5-4 STANDINGS PACIHC COAST LEAGUE (By unitrd press) W. L. Prt. GB San franciieo .. 63 39 .618 Vancouver 57 43 .570 S Hollywood 57 44 .564 5!i San Diego 55 45 .550 7 Seattle 55 50 .524 BJi Los Angeles 47 51 .480 14 Sacramento 35 .347 27 "i PorUand 34 85 .343 271, Sunday'! Reiulti San franciaco 7-3. Koriiana j-i Seattle 8-4, Sacramento 5-5 Vancouver 16-3, Los Angeles 3-4 Hollywood 4-1. San Diego 2-4 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. I.. Pet. GB New York 59 30 .663 Chicago 54 34 .614 4'i Bolton 47 43 .522 12 '2 Cleveland 4 44 .511 13'2 Detroit 44 45 .494 15 Baltimore 43 46 .463 16 Kansas City 34 55 .362 25 Washington 31 61 .326 30 li Sunday's Results Chicago 3. Boston 0 Detroit 6. Washington 5 (10 inns.) New York 4. Cleveland 3 (1st I Cleveland 7. New York 4 (2nd) Baltimore 7. Kansas City 2 (1st) Kansas City 3. BalUmora 2 (2nd) NATIONAL LEAGUE '. L. 38 38 38 40 41 49 57 57 Prt. GB Milwaukee 53 .582 Brooklyn 51 .573 .568 .560 .544 St. Louis 50 Cincinnati .... Philadelphia New York .. Pittsburgh Chicago 51 49 41 34 29 .456 1 1 1, J74 19 J37 22 !, Sunday's Results St. Louis 7. Pittsburgh 3 1st 10 inns.) St. Louis 11. Pittsburgh 2 (2nd, sus pended after 8 inns.) Cincinnati 4. Philadelphia 2 fist) Cincinnati 6. Philadelphia 4 (2nd) Chicago 5. Brooklyn 4 (1st) Brooklyn 7. Chicago 2 (2nd) New York 5. Milwaukee 4 (1st) Milwaukee 7. New York 4 (2nd) NORTHWEST LEAGUE W. L. Prt. GB 16 6 .727 15 8 .652 l'i 13 10 .565 2', 10 13 .434 6', 7 15 .318 7 IS .304 9's Wenatchee Eugene - balem Lewiston Tri-City . Yakima Sunday's Results Wenatchee 5-2, Yakima 2-0 Tri-City 10-16. Lewiston 1-5 Salem 6-0, Eugene 0-1 Saturday's Results Lewiston 8. Tri-City 3 Wenatchee 4. Yakima 1 Salem 7, Eugene 3 INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Miami 12-2. Havana 1-5 Buffalo 1 1-3. Rochester 9-0 Richmond 6. Columbus 1 Toronto 8-2. Montreal 3-2 (2nd game suspended aller 8 inns.) League Leaders (By United Press) NATIONAL LEAGUE Player Club G. AB R. H. Pet Aaron. Milw. .. 88 369 71 130 332 Musial. St. L 88 347 56 118 .340 Fondv. Pitts. 79 322 40 106 .329 Groat. Pitts. 65 261 31 85 .326 Mays. N Y 89 333 65 107 J21 AMERICAN LEAGUE Player Club G. AB R. H. Williams. Bos. 83 280 65 101 Mantle. N Y. .. 89 292 85 105 Bovd. Balti. ... 87 291 49 97 Pet. .361 .360 .333 Skowron. N.Y. 79 298 45 98 .329 Fox. Chi 89 344 56 112 .326 Home Runs National league Aaron. Braves 29: Snider. Dodgers 24: Crowe. Redlegs 1: Musial. cards 21: Hanks, cubs 20. American league Williams. Red Sox 27: Mantle. Yanks 25: Sievers. Sena tors 22; Maxwell. Tigers 19; Colavito. inaians l,; dermal. Athletics li. Runs Batted In National league Aaron. Braves 78; Musial. Cards 73; Crowe. Redlegs 68; Ennis. Cards 64: Thomas. 38; Hoak. Redlegs 58: Mavs. Giant 58. Ameriran league Skowron. Yanks : sievers. senators 65: Mantle. Yanks 63; Wertx. Indians 62; Jensen. Red Sox 60. Pitching Schmidt. Cards 8-1: Shantz. Yanks 9-2: Sanford. Phils 12-3; Bunning. Ti gers 11-3. Donovan. White Sox 9-3. YANKS FIRST London W The United States finished 1-2 in the finals of the world archery champion ships, with O. K. Smathers re ceiving 579 points to wind up first in the overall standings and Joe Fries of Los Angeles plac ing second, according to Radio Prague'i report. Monday. July 22, 1937 Norleski, relief ace of the Tribe, went all the way in the second game to win his sixth game. Rookie Jim Heise of the Sena tors walked in the winning run in the 10th inning after the Tigers tied the score at 5-5 with three ninth-inning runs. The victory went to Harry Byrd, his third for the Tigers in less than a month. Bob Cerv's two-run pinch home run in the seventh inning gave the Athletics their triumph after Hector Brown scattered six hits for the Orioles in the first game. Twinbill PCL Lead in the nightcap after succumb ing 8-5 in the openf. Second place Vancouver used up enough power for several ball games in taking the opener 16-3 from Los Angeles, but boot ed the second one 4-3. And Hol lywood split with San Diego, 4-2 for the Stars and 4-1 for the Padres. Fifteenth Win Incredible Leo Kiely picked up his 15th win in the opener of the Seal-Beaver set-to. It was his 14th straight win as a relief pitcher without a loss. Aen As promonte and Harry Malmberg hit home runs for the Seals, As promonte's coming with two mates aboard. In the second game the Seals got a pinch-hit double with the bases full off the bat of Sal Taormina and scored four fifth inning tallies to take the win. Jack Spring was the winner, scattering six hits to beat Dick Fiedler. Vancouver handed Los Ange les its worst drubbing of the sea son in the first game with an 18 hit attack that included home runs by Carl Powis, Jim Mar shall and Johnny Jorgensen. Charlie Beamon was in com mand most of the way except for tossing a home run ball to Steve Bilko with two on in the sixth. In the second one Vancouver got three runs in the first on Kal Segrist's 10th homer of the campaign, but Bilko hit his 32nd in the sixth and two Mountie errors in the seventh paved the way for two runs for the Angels and a Vancouver defeat. Reliefers Help Don Rowe, with late help from Curt Raydon, tamed San Diego on a six-hitter for Holly wood but the pitching of Jim Grant and a home run by Pres ton Ward gave San Diego the nightcap. Relief pitchers also were fea tured in the Seattle-Sacramento doubleheader. Bill Kennedy came in and got two men out in the ninth of the first game after the Solons had threatened to take over. Len Neal hit a two-run pinch homer and the Sacs got one more run to pull up close before Kennedy cooled them off in short order. In the second game the relief pitcher was on the other side. Milo Candini came out of the bull pen to preserve the victory for Marshall Bridges when the Rainiers got four runs in the sixth and came within one of tying. . Edstrom Stars At Track Meet Portland (IP) Dave Edstrom of the University of Oregon took four events and tied for second in another Saturday at the all comers track and field meet here. Edstrom, who will be a sopho more next year and who was second in the national AAU de cathlon last month, won the dis cus, broad jump, low hurdles, hop-step-and-jump, and was tied for second in the highjump. INJURY NOT SERIOUS Philadelphia (IP) A twisted neck suffered by second base man Johnny Temple of the Red legs during the opening game of a double-header with the Phil lies Sunday was termed "not serious" and was not expected to keep him out of action Mon day. Don't Say "Hello" Say - - - "FILTER-FLO" PPHIIIB HM.l I III.. I J. iiiii 4 ZlFi&r H sHtC' '--tI PROTESTING DECISION, Phillies pitcher Robin Roberts is about to be tossed out of game at Philadelphia with the Milwaukee Braves. Roberts is being held back by Jones (6) as Umpire Vince Smith (back to the camera), -argues with Manager Smith. (International Soundphoto) Slovak Pilots To Tahoe Regatta Victory By HAL WOOD Tahoe City. Calif. (If) Note to the hydroplane racing set: Look out for daredevil Miro Slo vak, the transplanted Czechoslo vakian who piloted the Miss Wa hoo to victory in the Lake Ta hoe Mapes Gold Cup regatta here yesterday. Slovak, who escaped from be hind the Iron Curtain by steal ing an airplane, finds the thrills and danger of motorboat racing just the type of life he loves. The handsome young driver accumulated 2000 points over the weekend winning all three heats in which he competed in Wenatchee Regains 1st By UNITED PRESS The Wenatchee Chiefs bolted back into first place in the Northwest league Sunday on the strength of their eighth straight win over Yakima. Wenatchee drubbed the visit ing Bears, 5-2 and 2-0. In the other circuit doubleheaders, Tri City clobbered Lewiston twice, 10-1 and 16-5, to climb out of the cellar and Salem and Eu gene split shutouts, the Senators taking the first, 6-0, the Emer alds the nightcap, 1-0. At Eugene, the Emeralds saw their first place in the league become a one and one-half game deficit as Chuck Lybeck notched his seventh straight win and sixth shutout of the season for Salem in the opener. Vern Kindsfather came out on top of Eugene in the tigt pitch ing duel of the second game. An error allowed John Keller on first, Chuck Stacey sacrificed him along and Don Grailey con nected with the game-winning single for Salem that ended five scoreless innings. . "It's take-it-easy Miss Wahoo the Seattle boat. These points will go towards what Bill Boe ing Jr. of Seattle hopes will be a national championship for his Miss Wahoo. There are only six races, including the Gold Cup at Seattle, in which to accumulate points. Clean Sweep Slovak, driving with a devil- may - care, completely blanket ed his foes during two days of competition. He won his first heat Saturday, averaging better than 95 miles an hour. He won a second heat yesterday with a clocking of more than 98 mph and the championship heat at 94 mph on the slightly choppy, ice cold waters of Lake Tahoe. The 'Miss Thriftway of Se attle finished second in the final standings followed by the Ha' waii Kai of Seattle, and the Miss Bardahl, also a Seattle boat. There was Some confusion in the final race. Miss Thriftway, who had finished second in two qualifying heats, took the lead, at the starting gun aided by the fact that she beat the gun across the starting line. For this she was forced to go an extra lap, but even if she had been declared the winner, she would not have had enough points to oust Miss Wahoo as the overall winner. Kai Also Wins The Hawaii Kai also won its two preliminary heats and it was expected to hook in a duel in the finals with the Miss Wa hoo. But pilot Jack Regas could get no power when the chips were down, and finally had to quit after staggering through seven of the 10 laps in the finals Thirteen boats, including the Miss Gale V and the Miss Gale VI from Detroit; the Maverick, and the defending champion Shanty I from Phoenix; and the two breathless speedsters from Piedmont, Calif., had started the initial round of competition. I Sunny Brook bourbon time, that is! I smoothest of fine Kentucky bourbons ... good and golden in your glass and rich as a prospector's dream! j KINTUCKY T t I y SJ TRULY AMERICAN WMlSKB A. 0lfeL ' . J J Brook. Bourbon f . Cheerful as its Name! 85f Cheerful as its THE 010 SUNNY BROOK COMPANY. LOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY. 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Credits Jay "But I owe anything I'll ever be in golf to Jay," Hebert added. "He encouraged me and kept me going. Then I decided being a club pro was never going to make me rich so I gave up my job in Erie, because it limited me to playing only the winter tour, and decided to go all out. I decided I'd make a name for myself in. this game I love and if I didn't, well, I could always go back to bookkeeping." He chose golf over both music and bookkeeping, and today he's glad he did. Driving well, and using a put ter which he only picked up after arriving in Dayton on Mon day, he was six under par as he closed out the lanky Finsterwald Sunday over the sun-baked 6,-773-yard Miami Valley golf course. Finsterwald evened the match Miguel Cuellar Shines for Cuba By UNITED PRESS Rookie Miguel Cuellar, Hav ana's 20-year-old southpaw rated a $100,000 prospect at the start of the International League sea son, is now making that estimate appear conservative. The Cuban fireballer register ed his sixth triumph against a lone defeat Sunday as he check ed the Miami Marlins on four hits, enabling his Havana mates to walk off with a 5-2 victory, Miami took the opener, 12-1. Cuellar, only in his first sea son of organized baseball, had an ERA of 2.19 in the last of ficial listing. He is one of the leading candidates for the rookie of the year award and is a shoo-in to make the All-Star team. In other games Sunday, Buf falo blasted Rochester, 11-9, 3-0 to run its victory behind Jim Kite downed Columbus, 6-1. Toronto took Montreal, 8-3 in their double-header opener. The second game was suspended with the score 2-2 at the end of eight innings. time, neighbor Namel when Hebert trapped his ap proach on the 30th. But on the 145-yard 31st, Hebert put his eight iron tee shot 18 feet from the cup and sank the putt. Fin sterwald. also using an eight iron, was 15 feet 'away and missed the putt. Makes It 2 Up Both birdied the next two holes but Hebert made it 2 up at the 34th when Finsterwald drove the rough and put his sec ond under a foot bridge. Al though given a free lift, Finster wald was too strong with his third, while Hebert was on in to and two-putted for his par. But Dow chipped past the pin and missed the putt. That put Hebert 2 up with only two holes to go. Hebert, deciding "I'll play it safe," used a five iron on the 170-yard par three 35th. "I'd been using a six iron before, but decided to choke a five for I figured if I put the ball on the green and two-putted, I'd close it out." got you A New TRU -MIX Concrete Patio will give you. a place to relax and enjoy the summer as well as provide a place for the children to play during the fall and winter. PHONE FOR A FREE ESTIMATE iM- sp 2-5271 r V" Sk I As it turned out, he did just that. Finsterwald's tee shot went over the green about two feet. He chipped on to within four feet. 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