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o o o TWELVE MEDFORD REGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Braves Bolster Leadership With 13th Win in 15 Scraps; Chisox Still Threaten Yanks By FRED DOWN United Prsi Sports Writer The Milwaukee Braves have turned the National league race into a Cakewalk buPthos stub born Chicago White Sox are still convinced they can make the few York Yankees walk the plank in the American league. The amazing Braves made it nine straight victories and bal looned their lead to 714 games when they crushed the Cincin nati Redlegs, 13-3, Wednesday night. They've now won 15 of their last 16 games and 23- of their last 28 in an "all-out" drive that's left their rivals all out in the cold. The White Sox were supposed to be about ready for a knock out blow by now, but they're acting very much like a con tender. They whipped the Cleve land Indians, 8-3, Wednesday night to give them six wins in their last eight games and cut the Yankees' first-p'ace lead to 4'2 games. Both the Braves and White Sox are combining the unbeat able elements solid pitcling backedU by devastating hitting. The Braves have- averaged runsQk game i"otheir nine-game winning strealr while the White Sax have averaged seven runs a tiame in their last 10. nBuhl Wins 16th A pair of "hot pitchers" did Otheir share. Bob Buhl gaining his seventh straight victory and 16th of til season for the Braves and Dick Donovan chalking up his fifth in a row and 13th of the vear for the White Sox. It was tha-TBravesQ 13th viftory in 15 games witk the Redlegs and the White Sox eighth in'ji row over the collapsing Indians. The graves wrapped up the triump'd with an eight-run ninth inning rally marked by Wes Cftv ingTon's grand slam homer and relief pitcher Don McMahon's three-run double. Johnny Logan had homered earlier for the Braves while solo homers by Joe Taylor, Gus Bell and George Crowe accounted for all tfiree Cincinnati runs. Brooks, Law renctQwinless since July 21, suf fered his fifth defeat in succes sion and 10th of the campaign. Donovan, who scattered nine hits, contributed a homer to the Wite Sox' 14-hit attack which also included round-trippers by Minnie Minoso and Jim Rivera. Larry Doby had three hits for the Sox and Luis Aparicio, Mino so and Earl Torgeson two each to help hand Early Wynn his 13th setback. Boston Beats Yankees The Chicago Cubs handed the St. Louis Cardinals their eight consecutive loss, 3-1, the Brook lyn Dodgers shaded the New York Giants, 7-6, and the Pitts burgh Pirates dumped the Phila delphia Phillies, 10-3, ir? other NL action. The Boston Red Sox beat the Yankees, 6-4, the Bal timore Oriijes defeated the Washington Senators, 4-2, and the DetroitoTigers walloped the Kansas City Athletics, 7-4, in other AL games. Dick Drott hurled a six-hitter and struck out six to gain his 11th win for the Cubs, who made it two in a row over the Car dinals. Walt Moryn ad Ernie Banks hit back-to-back homers ia the sixth inning for Chicago. Eddie Roebuck's, air-tight re lief Qiob and hqtjiej by Gil Hodgs, Elmer Valo and Don Zimnipr enable, the Dodgers to breaj'a three-game losing skein. Roebuck entered the game after the ftiants routed Danny Mc Devitt with a five-run, seventh inning uprising. Willie Mays' hitting streak ended at 19 games. Pirate Bombard Phils Vern Law breezed to his ninth win as the Pirates took advan tage of four Philadelphia errors to score seven unearned runs. Gene Freese had four hits and Roberto Clemente and Bill Maz eroski three each to spark the Pirates' 17-hit attack. Curt Sim mons lost his eighth decision 'for Philadelphia. Ted Williams knocked in three runs with his 31st homer and a single and raised his average to .390 to help Tom Brewer win his 14th game. Whitey Ford, kayoed in the second inning, lost his, fourth game and Mickey Mantle had only one hit for New York and saw his average drop to .382. George Zuverink, making his 45th relief appearance, halted a Washington rally in the eighth inning and preserved Hal Brown's fifth win. Gus Triandos and Brooks Robinson homered for the Orioles who dealt the Senators their fifth loss in suc cession. Al-Kaline smacked his 13th homer and two singles to lead a 15 -hit Tiger attack that brought Frank Lary his first win since June 15th and his fifth of the year. Ralph Terry, the ex Yankee, was kayoed in 5 23 in nings and dropped his seventh decision. TO ATTEND OREGON Eugene API Bill Betcher, 230-pound all-star football cen ter from Washougal, Wash., said Wednesday he planned to enroll at the University of Oregon next fall. MEDFORDigTrllBUNE SrPdDMT Vancouver Drubs SF Fourth Straight Time By JIM HEALY United Press Sports Writer The San Francisco Seals are probably the luckiest team in the Pacific Coast league: They are getting out of Vancouver before they wind up in last place. Though the Seals are still top dog in the PCL it's only by the skin of their teeth. The Mounties cut the difference to two games Wednesday night by drubbing San Francisco, 5-1. San Francisco hopped down to Portland for what should be an easy series against the Beavers, while Vancouver takes on tough Hollywood in Southern Cali fornia. ' More than 10,000 fans, a rec ord crowd in Vancouver, watch- Reese. Feels Droves Can Pe Caught By MILTON RICHMAN New York OP) Pee Wee ffeese feels "Milwaukee can be caught" but hastily adds it will take a spectacular catch by Brooklyn to do it. "We can still beat the Braves but -it will require the toughest uphill climb since I've been with the club," admitted the popular Dodger shortstop as he peeled off his uniform in front of his locker. "The big thing we have going for us is experience," he added. "And I've always felt we had the best pitching jn the league. So how come we're so far be hind? Injuries for one. We're not hittin for another. That in cludes me. I'm having a lousy year." Things have reached such a pass with the Dodgers that they are even using a pinch hitter for Reese in the late innings. The practice has caused increasing whispers that this might be Pee Wee's last year. "I hope not," . he said, reply ing to the direct question. "I'd certainly like to play another year and make up for this bad one. I'll play if they'll have me." Reese's belief that the Dodg ers can overtake the first-place Braves is shared by Brooklyn Manager Walt Alston. "We're not giving up by a long shot," he said. "They can be caught. There's still enough time. We'll simply have to play better than we have been up to now." Ted Boosts Bat Margin Boston IIP! Ted Williams leads Mickey Mantle by eight points today in their battle for the American League batting championship. The Boston Red Sox slugger hit a three-run homer and a single in three times during Wednesday's 6-4 victory while Mantle had only one hit in four tries for the New York Yankees. That sent Williams' league leading average soaring to .390 while Mantle's mark dipped two points to .382. Mantle still leads in homers. 32-31, and in runs batted in, 82-72. Umpire Orders Windows Closed New York HP The Giants and Dodgers, it turns out, are nothing but a bunch of peeping toms. That's what they were accus ing each other of being during the third inning of Wednesday's game which was won by Brook lyn, 7-6. Giant Manager Bill Rigney protested to Umpire Vinnie Smith that John Griffin, the Dodger's equipman man, was able to pick up the Giants' signs by watching the game through an open window in the Brooklyn clubhouse out in center field. Smith ordered the window closed whereupon Dodger Man ager Walt Alston quickly point ed out that the windows in the Giant's dressing quarters were open too. So Smith ordered them shut. also. "The Polo Grounds is the only park Griffin has a chance to see the ball game from," Alston ex plained, "so if they wanted our windows shut, I wanted theirs closed, too." Thursday, August 15, 1957 ed their team take its - fourth consecutive win from the Seals. With the score tied 1-1, the Mounties unloaded for four runs off starter Bill Prout 5-4 in the eighth to cinch the win. Don Fer rarese started and finished for Vancouver. He gave up four hits to win his sixth against five losses. In other games. Seattle dump ed third place San Diego, 6-5, Hollywood downed Los Angeles, 9-4, in a 10-inning battle and Sacramento defeated Portland, 6-4. Not taking any chances against the Padres, notoriously a team that storms up from behind, the Rainiers racked, up a 6-1 lead by the top of the fifth three of those coming from a homer by Hal Bevan. Then Earl Averill returned the favor with a three-run homer of his own for San Diego, and Bob DiPietro added one more with a four-bagger in the eighth. (-But it was too little and too late for the scrappy Padres. Another homer, this one hit for Hollywood by Bill Hall with the bases full, broke a 4-4 tie in the 10th frame to give the Stars their win. All in all, Hollywood collected five runs off six hits in that fateful last frame. Steve Bilko hit his 39th homer-earlier for the Angels and Bob Jenkins pounded out another for the los ers in the fourth with one on. Joe Duhem also got into "the home run act. putting Holiywjood ahead in the eighth with a bases- empty roundtripper. Like San Diego, the Solons pushed the rally button late in the game but with success. They collected three runs in the ninth to win the series with cellar-bound Portland. 5-1. Cuno Barragan homered for Sacramento with none on in the fifth, and Ron Bottler did like wise for the losers in the sev enth. Sacramento goes to Seattle today while Los Angeles moves down to San Diego. Dave Moore Bout Victor Syracuse, N.Y. HP) Davey Moore, who used a well-planm;d right hand attack to gain a split decision Wednesday night over the featherweight champion of Mexico, now wants to sgo for the world title. The Springfield, Ohio, feather weight said, "I want a fight with Bassey, but I probably won't get it right away." Moore's opponent in the War Memorial auditorium 10 - round bout, Victor Manuel Quijano of Mexico City, also had hoped for a bout with world titlist Hogan (Kid) Bassey. But Moore's pow erful right hand ruined Quija no s American debut and his im mediate chances of a match with Bassey. The five-foot, three-inch 129- pound victor lost ground to 130-pound QiiijanoNpnly twice, in the second and final rounds. Quijano mounted a jabbing at tack each time. D'Amato Claims Louis Told To Make Remark Kent, Wash. IIP) Former world heavyweight champion Joe Louis was "told to say" that present title holder Floyd Pat terson has done an un-champion-like thing by accepting a bout with Pete Rademacher who has never fought professionally, Pat terson's manager said Wednes day night. Cus D'Amato, watching Pat terson spar at Kent Memorial park, said Louis "is entitled to his opinion but I don't think that's his opinion." The Brown Bomber had been quoted from Milwaukee, Wis., as saying he "would never have done a thing like that," and "neither would any other cham pion in boxing." D'Amato said he thought Louis was speaking "as an of-J ficial of the International Box ing club. "They've done everything they can to pan this fight. But I don't think Joe would say any thing like that on his own," D'Amato added. John Hancock. Samuel Ad ams, Robert Treat Paine, Paul Revere, the Darents of Benia- min Franklin and victims of the Boston Massacre are buried in Boston's Old Granary cemetery. Card Slump Caused by 'Everything' Chicago IIP) Fred Hutchin son, looking only as a manager with eight straight losses and an expiring contract can look, today bitterly blamed the Car dinals' slump "on everything you can think of." "The whole works just fell apart the hitting, the field ing, the pitching. Is there any thing else that can go wrong?" he asked. The glum St. Louis manager had just shifted his batting or der for the first time in the eight-straight debacle, " benching Wally Moon and Ken Boyer. He stood behind the batting cage watching the Cards in a prac tice batting session before what turned out to be their fifth sec back by the lowly Chicago Cubs. But Hutchinson, whose S30,-000-a-year pact terminates at the end of the season, refused to believe the Cardinals are entire ly out of the race. "What has happened to us can happen to Milwaukee," he said of the league - leading Braves who in the space of 10 days erased the Cards' half game lead and left them seven games behind. Padres Buy Bill Werle Portland 'IP) The Portland Beaver baseball club Wednesday sold veteran lefthanded pitcher Bill Werle to the San Diego Padres for an undisclosed ampunt of cash. STANDINGS PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE V. I.. Pet. GB San Francisco 77 Vancouver ' 74 San Diego 72 Hollywood 72 Seattle 66 Los Angeles 57 Sacramento 49 Portland 47 52 53 55 57 63 70 31 33 .i!)7 .583 2 .567 4 .558 5 .512 11 .449 19 .377 28 'i .362 30 ',2 Wednesday's Results Vancouver 5, San Francisco 1 Seattle 6. San Diego 5 Hollywood 9. Los Angeles 4 Sacramento 6. Portland 4 Todays Probable Pitchers Hollywood, Ben Wade 7-8 at Van couver, Erv Palica. 12-10. Los Angeles, Vito Valcntinetti 8-4 at San Diego, Gary Belll-0. Sacramento. Roger Bowman 4-5- at Seattle, unannounced. San Francisco, Harrv Dorish 9-10 at PorUand, Bob Thorpe 5-13. NATIONAL LEAGUE W. I.. Milwaukee .. 70 42 St. Louis 62 4!) Brooklyn 63 50 Cincinnati 61 51 Philadelphia 59 53 New York 51 63 Chicago 41 69 Pittsburgh 41 71 Pet. GB .625 .559 .558 .515 1V7. 7,2 9 .527 11 .447 20 .373 28 .366 29 Wednesday's Results Brooklyn 7. New York 6 Chicago 3. St. Louis 1 Pittsburgh 10. Philadelphia 3 (night) Milwaukee 13, Cincinnati 3 (night) Thursday's Probable Pitchers Milwaukee at Cincinnati (night) Spahn 12-8 vs. Jeffcoat 9-8. Friday's Games x-Pittsburgh-Brooklvn (night) New York at Philadelphia (night) Cincinnati at Chicago St. Louis at Milwaukee (night) x-At Jersey City, NJ. AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB New York 73 39 .652 Chicago 68 43 .613 4i Boston 61 51 .545 12 Baltimore 55 56 .495 17',i Detroit 55 57 .491 18 Cleveland 53 60 .469 20 '4 Kansas City 42 71 .372 31 Washington 42 72 .368 32 Wednesday's Results Boston 6. New York 4 Chicago 8. Cleveland 3 (nieht) Baltimore 4. Washington 2 (night) Detroit 7, Kansas City 4 (night) Friday's Games Chicago at Detroit (night) Cleveland at Kansas City (night) Baltimore at New York might)' Boston at Washington (night) NORTHWEST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB 32 14 .696 27 18 .600 4"j 26 20 .565 6 19 25 .432 12 18 28 .391 14 14 30 .318 17 Wena tehee Eugene Salem Yakima , Lewiston .. Tri-City Wednesday's Results Wenatchee- 3. Lewiston 2 Salem 10. Tri-Citv 3 Eugene 4. Yakima 2 League Leaders (By United Press) NATIONAL LEAGUE Player & Club G. GB R. H. Pet. Aaron. Mil 109 444 89 148 .333 Musial, St. L. 111 432 67 142 .329 Groat. Pgh. 86 347 41 114 .329 Robinson. Cin. 108 440 77 144 .327 Mays, N.Y. 113 428 82 140 .327 AMERICAN LEAGUE Player & Club G. GB R. H. Pet. Williams. Bos. 106 351 78 137 .390 Mantle. N.Y 112 374 100 143 .382 Fox. Chi 112 440 77 141 .320 Boyd. Bal 107 362 57 116 .320 Woodling, Cle. 97 306 52 97 .317 Home Runs National league Aaron, Braves 32; Snider. Dodgers 29: Crowe. P.edlegs 28; Mays. Giants 26: Musial. Cards 25; Banks, Cubs 25. American league Mantle. Yanks 32; Williams, Red Sox 31; Sievers. Sena tors 30; Wertz, Indians 20; Colavito, Indians 20; Zernial, Athletics 20. Runs Batted In National league Aaron, Braves 88: Musial, Cards 87; Crowe. Redlegs 77; Mays. Giants 74: Ennis. Cards 69; Hodges. Dodgers 69. American league Mantle. Yanks 83: Sievers. Senators 81; Wertz, In dians 78: Skow'-on. Yanks 74: Wil liams, Bed Sox 72; Jensen, Bed Sox 72. Pitching Schmidt, Cards 10-1: Narleskt, In dians 9-2: Donovan. White Sox 13-3: Sanford. Phils 15-4; Bunning, Tigers 14-4. ST Builders Supply Bricks, Flues, Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrews Ph. SP 2-4107 fS QUALITY ifll BLOCKS Hunting and Fishing Southern Oregon By MEL The fishing scene seems to have moved coast-wise this past week with the hot spots center ing around Coos Bay and Gold Beach where good angling for salmon and stripers is reported. Some weeks ago in an article for one of our Pacific coast mag azines I discussed the effect of the moon phase on fishing and gave some concrete examples which would tend to show that during the light of the moon, the fishing slacks off. I received a number of comments both pro and con, some of which I shall investigate. However, it would make one wonder again for this past week when the moon was full the fishing reports from all our mountain lake areas were on the slim side of fair! Klamath lake, according to Bob Sloan of Harriman's re sort, has been very slow. Dur ing the week there were only four fish taken over four pounds and this in spite of the fact that the two weeks pre ceeding they had a bonanza. Luckly anglers this week were Leroy O'Conner from Newman. Calif, with a four pounder; Robert Deckman of Portland with a 7; his wife, Helen, with a 6V2. and Darrel Call of Oceanside, Calif, with the monster of the week at nine pounds. Bob says that give us a dark moon and some warmer weather and we'll lake off again for the, "fish are here jumping all over the place!" FISH LAKE MAY IMPROVE Lloyd Morris of the Fish lake resort reports that the fishing there is only fair. Some fair catches have been made trolling fender and worms or teasers. Willow creek reservoir has pro duced some good catches in the late evening with flies. Four Mile lake is also suffering from the moon according to Lloyd. Morris 1 predicts that by this week end the fishing should be excellent. SADDEST NOTE Saddest note of the week came from Hewitt's anchorage at Harbor, Ore., where the fish were plentiful (salmon) and Johnny Hewitt says there were no fishermen. The ocean just outside of the bar was "loaded with fish" and the commercial boats had a field day. Johnny said that there was only one sport boat there and they loaded up in nothing flat. At this call the fish had moved outside a bit farther but are expected in again. In this connection it will be of interest to many sportsmen in this area to know that Hewitts have another sports - fishing boat available for daily fish ing or charter. Due to the bar at the mouth of the river they have to go out with the tide Paula Myers Dive Winner Houston, Tex. (IP) Paula Jean Myers, 22, UCLA, captured her second gold medal Wednes day night in her bid for a diving grand slam as records continued to tumble in the Women's Na- j tional AAU Swimming and Div- ! ing championships at the Sham- j rock Hilton hotel pool. j Blonde Miss Myers, who won j the 1-meter diving title Tuesday ; night, added the 3-meter crown Wednesday to emerge as Pat Mc Cormick's replacement zs Ameri ca's greatest female amateur diver. Mrs. McCormick is now a professional. Crater Picks JV Mentor . Central Point Ron Van Do lah has been appointed junior varsity basketball coach at Cra ter High school here. He will succeed Lawrence Larsen, who assumes head coaching duties at Athena. Van Dolah was a three-year letter man in basketball at Linfield college. This is his first teach ing and coaching job. He will instruct in social studies. Crater is still seeking a var sity basketball mentor. Cal Hor sey, who had been selected to succeed Jim Nau, has decided to accept a business offer in Port land. Hersey coached the past three seasons at Cascade Union high. Nau resigned after one year at Crater to take a China Lake, Calif., post. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport REES and come back on it so the trip' is 5 hours. COOS FIELD DAY Returning fishermen from the Coos Bay section say that they have been having a field day up there with both salmon and stripers. The big bass have been in the river and one angler re ported that he caught 15 of these big boys in a little over two hours 'n this ain't bad! Johnny Wolf of Johnnie's Tackle shop in Gold Beach said that the fishing had slowed con siderably from a week ago but was still fair. Some days it is hot and some cold but there are always a few fish being taken. Last monthy they only boated about 20 fish but before that it was real good. This fishing will hold pretty steady for the next month. Two of our Medford anglers were bemoaning the fact re cently that this time of year used to be the best of the year on the Rogue, when the sum mer steelhead were running. It seems a terrible shame to see the "grand old lady" wast ing away hex crater-fed waters to the sea without the shout of "fish on" sounding from her riffles but it seems that the anglers hope for the re turn of the- "summer runs" is only a dim echo. There was a lot of enthu siasm in this direction a cou ple of years ago and it seemed at that time that a construc tive program was under way, however, it fell flat like so many of these good plans do and the eager Rogue fisher man is having to content him self with the scenery, a few under-size trout and the hope that there will be a good run this winter. We have the river, the same one we used to have and I wish that something could be done about it I think it could! Yes, It pays to be an early bird! 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George Bray goes from Talent to Butte Falls where he will be school superin tendent and coach in all prep sports. He ended a long tenure at Talent where he tutored in all athletics at various times. Last year Bray was head basket ball coach. Millard Webb, mentor at St. Mary's of Medford for two sea sons, will fill the opening ' at Talcsnt made by Bray's depart ure. William McKibbin, from Portland university, will be St. Mary's tutor. Duties Added at EP Don McCluskey is to come from Gates to take the Prospect coaching reins. He will replace Wes Stauffer. In Butte Falls coaching Bray follows Art Back- Junior Legion Pairings Made Portland (IP) Pairings were announced today for the region al American Legion Junior base ball tournament opening here August 21. The double-elminalion tourna ment will see the Alaska champ Dlavins the Washington chamD at 10 a.m. Wednesday. 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