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8 MAIL TRIBUNE. MeJford". Oregon, WeinetJay, April 16, 1938 San Diego Nudges Phoenix; Other Frays Victims of Rain By GENE BRYANT United Press Sports Writer The Pacific Coast League, off to a rough start in its 56th campaign with five of six opening day games rained out and another hampered by a sand storm, will attempt to 'recoup tonight in its battle . with the elements. Rain halted two afternoon and three night contests in the Northwest Tuesday. Only ; Phoenix and San Diego were able to complete their game with the Padres taking a 10-9 victory over the Giants at Phoenix. A sand storm, how ever, blew in shortly before the game started and held the opening night crowd down to 4,065 fans. Weather permitting, Port land is scheduled to host Sac ramento in a doubleheader tonight while Spokane goes agmst Seattle in a pair at the Puget Sound city. Van couver will entertain Salt Lake City and Phoenix will Gomez Tosses 8-0 Victory For Giants (Over Los Angeles By SCOTT BAILLE San Francisco (IP) Good tlclutch hurling by pepperpot rRuben Gomez and a solid 8-0 Tftriumph over the "hated" Los Angeles Dodgers had the Giants riding high today in their new San Francisco base tball home. r A crowd of 23,449 which packed into Seals Stadium 1'Tuesday for the first game in history between the trans planted rivals got most of its monevs worm as Manager 'Bill Rigney's lowly-regarded .National leaguers handed the -erstwhile Brooks a solid beat- Milwaukee Has Biggest Attendance By UNITED PRESS " Despite the entry of Cali- -fornia into the major leagues land a record opening night - crowd in St. Louis, attend- - ance at National league open ing baseball games Tuesday Z was less than the turnout on inaugural day last season. However, a United Press -survey also disclosed that American league attendance - increased enough to pull the T overall major-league opening i day attendance for this year r to 259,108 as against 252,763 a year ago. The Giants-Dodgers' opener T at San Francisco accounted ."for 23,448 admissions, but, of .course, that wasn't the fault -of the enthusiastic California 'fans. The total represented! I all that could be squeezed into tlittle Seals stadium. 1 New SI. Louis Record The Cubs - Cardinals game - in St. Louis set a new arc ; light opener there, but the 'total for this also relatively 'small park was only 26,246. .Thus the National' league overall total declined from v-127,300 to 125,882, a drop of T 1.1 per cent. i The American league total -increased from 125,473 to . 133,226, an increase of 6.2 " per cent. - The overall major-league T increase was 2.1 per cent. ; The day's biggest crowd --'was 43,339 at Milwaukee. - Six Named in timber Lawsuit Portland (IP) Two Califor . nians and four Oregon resi dents were sued for $2,360,- 000 damages in Federal court "Inhere Tuesday by the Cowlitz Timber company of Washing ton state over sale by the de fendants of mineral, petro- jleum and timber rights in British Columbia. . Named as defendants in the rsuit were Maybelle J. and rGeorge R. Van Vleet, of Cali--fornia, and four Portlanders, Ralp P. Cowgill, Claude M. Johns Jr.. Frank C. Dillard and Jay Cobbs Jr., all of the Kootenay Lake Logging com- pany. 1- The complaint charged the "ix with selling the Washing ton firm property in British Columbia for $1,835,000, -which reportedly included the Iright to cut and sell timber and remove minerals and pe troleum without restriction -from Canada and British Co '-lumbia. Cowlitz charged that all -Jbut a small portion of the "property turned out to be non-exportable, and said that 'without rights the property "actually was worth "no jnoie than $475,000." 'SOVIETS CLAIM ISLAND - Moscow tlPJ Soviet ex plorers have planted a red "flag on a new island they "claim to have discovered in the Antarctic, the newspaper .Evening Moscow reported -Tuesday. The 11-square-mile -island lies off Queen Mary Xand and was found last -month by a group of Russians. ing. The teams play again to night. While Gomez was holding the Dodgers to six hits with his back-breaking screwball, the Giants clubbed three Dod ger hurlers for 11 safeties to start the season right. Daryl Spencer helped put the skids under Don Drysdale, the Dodgers highly-touted right-hander, by smashing a bases-empty home run in the fourth inning to become the first player in the league to do it for a West Coast team That blow touched off four run blast which had pre ceded a two-run uprising in the third inning. Drysdale Out And before the big fourth was over, three more runs came in and Drysdale left with his first loss of the season Two of them crossed the plate after a single by Willie Mays off Don Bessent. who had re lieved Drysdale after two were out and two aboard. Drysdale gave up six runs and five hits in 3 2-3 innings. Bessent threw another solo home run to Orlando Cepeda in the next frame to give the Giants a 7-0 cushion and Willie Kirkland singled across the final run in the eighth. But it all wasn't that easy for Gomez, who often had to hang in there tough. In the second inning' he fanned catch er Al Walker and Don Drys dale to get out of a jam with men on second and third. Then with two out in the sixth and seventh innings, he got Carl Furillo and Duke Snider to ground out ending each frame with two on base. Gomez Gets Tough Then in the ninth, Gomez fanned Furillo and Pee Wee Reese. The Dodgers captain went down for the final out with two more mates on board. Mays went two for five. The pride of the Giants was tagged out at second by Bessent after singling in two runs in the fourth and trying to stretch the hit. "Those young fellows cer tainly helped us old men," Gomez said afterward while Rigney caroled over the way rookies Jim Davenport, Ce peda and Willie Kirkland handled themselves in their first major league game. "All my stuff broke just right," Gomez continued. "I threw everything at those Dodgers except my glove." Ramon Monzant of Venez uela, who had a 3-2 record last year with the Giants, is scheduled to go tonight against left-hander John Pod res, 12-9, of Los Angeles. ARNOLD DOWNS AUSSIE Chingford, England (IP) Youthful Mimi Arnold of Red wood City, Calif., had to struggle all the way Tuesday before downing Dawn Mc Camley of Australia, 5-7, 7-5, 6-2, in the opening round of play in the Connaught Club tennis tournament. host San Diego in single night contests. A brilliant pitching duel be tween the Rainiers' Art Fowl er and Spokane's Connie Grob at Seattle Tuesday after noon was halted after 12 in nings with the score tied at 1-1. Fowler gave up only four hits, holding the Indians score less after the first inning, while Grob limited the Rain iers to eight safeties. More Rain The second half of the day night doubleheader at Seattle was also postponed as was a single night game at Vancou ver between the Mounties and Salt Lake City. . Rain also halted a day night doubleheader at Port land between the Beavers and Sacramento. The afternoon tilt was tied at 3-3 after six innings before a steady down pour halted proceedings. Thir ty thousand had been expect ed to attend the two games before a crowd of only 7,359 turned out in blustery weath er for the opener. At Phoenix, Dave Pope s towering homer in the eighth inning gave the Padres a come-from-behind victory over the home club. The Giants had scored two runs in the first and six in the second to take an 8-0 lead but the Padres rallied to score 10 runs on 13 hits over the last seven innings. Barrage of Hits Both teams sprayed a steady barrage of hits all over the park during the contest, in eluding five home runs, three by the Padres and two by the Giants. San Diego used five pitch ers. Julio Guerra, who came on in the seventh, shut out the Giants during his stint on the mound to gain the vic tory. Phoenix starter Max Surkong was knocked out in the seventh while Bud Pod bielan of the Padres went to the showers after a six-run Giant uprising in the second. At Seattle, Spokane took a one-run lead in the first when Fowler forced in a run with a bases-loaded walk. Seattle came back to tie the score in the fifth with back-to-back doubles by Bobby Balcena and Eddie Basinski. In the Portland-Sacramento game, the Beavers scored a pair of. runs in the first in ning and added another in the third when Ed Winceniak homered. The Solons retali ated with two runs in the fifth and deadlocked the con test at 3-3 with another score in. the sixth. I IKE OPENS 1958 SEASON President Eisenhower tosses out the first ball just prior to the game between the Wash ington Senators and the Boston Red Sox at Griffith Sta dium in Washington, D. C, to open the 1958 major league season. Pinky Higgins (next to the President), manager of the Red Sox, and Cookie Lavagetto (right) of the Sena tors, watch the ball (upper right) sail out to the field. THE tINESCORES: San Dieeo 004 012 21010 13 1 Phoenix 260 010 000 9 14 2 Podbielan and A. Jones: Surkont and McCardell. (Tie called, 12 innings, rain) Spokane 100 000 000 0001 4 2 Seattle 000 010 000 000 1 8 2 Grob and Sherry: Fowler and Gonder. " (Tie Called six innings, rain) Sacramento 000 021 3 5 3 Portland 201 000 3 6 0 Green. Ceon . 5. Bowman 6 and Roselli- Jansen and Fanning. ENGLISH BOOTERS TOUR New York (IP) Manches ter City, one of England's top soccer" clubs, will make a tour of the United States May' 18 through June 8. Side trips also are scheduled for To ronto, Vancouver, B.C., and Montreal. Elizabeth, Ann, Susan and Mary are England's most pop ular names for girls this year. Tony Kubek Army Plans Uncertain Milwaukee, Wis (IP) The immediate military status of versatile Tony Kubek,- the New York Yankees' Ameri can league "rookie of the year" in 1957, was up to just Tony Kubek today. Maj. Gerald Mulrine, com mander of the South Side Army Reserve center here, said the baseball star had firmed up plans last week to be inducted into the Reserve Thursday and leave for six months' active duty May 24. "But until, he raises hie hand and takes the oath of induction, Kubek can change his mind." the offirr aiVi He came to us voluntariiv last week, passed our nhvsical and written tests and ap proved of the induction sched ule we set up." No Light Shed Kubek, in New York W treatment of an iniurv suf fered in spring training after his physical, sheds' no light on his military plans. His father, Tony Sr., continues to tell newsmen in Milwaukee his son "is not going in the Army." Kubek, 22. does Tint far the draft for at least this month and next month. It is too late to draft him in April and a spokesman for the Wis consin Selective Service head quarters at Madison, said his local draft board will not induct any men in May. 'Kubek and a friend came to see us last week, inquiring about our Reserve setup." Mulrine said. "We talked so cially for about 10 minutes about baseball and things and then he took our tests and passed." SPORTS Favorites Told For Las Vegas Links Tourney Las Vegas, Nev. (IP) Ken Venturi, Doug Ford, Arnold Palmer and Gene Littler were the top favorites today we.-e the top favorites in odds on the $40,000 Tournament of Champions over the Desert Inn course April 24-27. Young Venturi, hottest pro fessional golfer on the tourn ament trail this year, still was favored 5-1 to add the tourn ament to his list of victory. However, support was showing for Ford, winner of the Masters in 1957; Arnold Palmer, winner of the Mast ers this year and Gene Littler, defending champion of the Las Vegas tourney. They all were at 7-1. 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