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r Braves Move Up Into Contention, Whip SI Cardinals With 13 Hits Br FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer The Milwaukee Braves are ignoring those pseudo - con tenders cluttering up the first division because they quietly moved into a position where they soon can take command of the National league race. The Braves are pretty much on their 1957 pennant-winning schedule after wallop ing the St. Louis Cardinals, 12-8, Tuesday night with a 13 hit assault on seven pitchers. Timely suggestion if you need money! Call on America's oldest consumer finance company Modern moneg aervice backed bw 80 peon of experience OUSEHOLD FINANCE 128 E. Main St., 2nd Floor PHONE: SPring 2-5301 During jib O-- . '(U. low mileage 11 95 V-8's, HARDTOPS, BEL AlRS, Automatic Transmissions o NEW CAR GUARANTEE o EASY BANK TERMS I Bring the whole family down i OPEf TILL 9:00 P.ii.! Ninth and Bartlett Streets They're only a half game out of first place and their 11-7 record compares favorably with their 13-5 getaway last season. But the real key to the Braves' start is that they are within easy striking distance of the lead whereas three of the other four so-called con tenders Los Angeles, Phila delphia and St. Louis are holding up the rest of the league in sixth, seventh and eighth places. Any time of day is a good time to talk to the friendly people at HFC about your money problems. Conduct your business with experi enced people you can trust. Advice is sound and helpful. Loans are made promptly and in privacy. Borrow up to $1500, with repayment terms you choose up to 24 months to repay J YOU AUY BUY NOW! Ml (EdDIIJIEiriESYr The front-running Chicago Cubs dealt Cincinnati its sev enth defeat in 15 games when Glen Hobbie's four-hitter throttled the Redlegs, 4-0; the San Francisco Giants whipped the Pittsburgh Pirates, 7-0, and the Los Angeles Dodgers edged out the Phillies, 7-6, in 14 innings in the other Na tional league games. The Bos ton Red Sox beat the stum bling Chicago White Sox, 7-5, in the only American league game. Frank Torre and Bob Ha zle, two of the key fill-ins last season, drove in three runs each for the Braves, who piled up a seven-run lead in the first two innings and then clinched the game with a five run burst in the ninth after the Cardinals drew to within one run. Bob Buhl received credit for his fourth win al though Don McMahon and Gene conley nnisnea up. The loss was the sixth in a row and 13th in 16 games for the Cardinals who are now IVz games off the pace in last place. Stan Musial stretched his hitting streak to 16 games with two hits but even so his average dropped a point' to .516. Hobie, acquired in a much criticized deal with Milwau kee for Bob Rush, struck out seven Redlegs as he won his second decision for the Cubs. Bobby Thomson hammered a three-run first-inning homer off Joe Nuxhall to provide the big blow for the Cubs. Mike McCormick, $65,000 Chevrolet's U LTQ l I?Y7TTD'TTSTT TT7,PTT' U.XX-. W bonus lefty, yielded only three infield hits to win his second game of the season for the Giants. Rookie catcher Bob Schmidt capped a five run San Francisco rally in the first with a bases-filled dou ble and rookie first baseman Orlando Cepeda banged out his eighth homer. McCormick, only 19, struck out four and walked one. Dodgers Last Longer The Dodgers outlasted the Phillies in a four hour and six minute struggle that ended when Charlie Neal scored on a long single off the left field fence, by Carl Furillo. Neal had walked after receiving a "life" when catcher Stan Lo pata dropped his foul pop up with two out. Don -Drysdale, who had lost five straight de cisions, picked up his first win in relief while Dick Far rell, ace Philadelphia reliefer, suffered his first defeat since last June 5. The Phillies took the lead with a six-run sixth inning rally but the Dodgers tied the score in the ninth when Duke Snider collected the third of his four hits. Dick Gernert and Frank Malzone hit back to back homers in the first inning for the Red Sox, who have won three straight and six of their last eight. Billy Pierce, who won 20 games last season, was kayoed in the first inning but Ray Moore was charged with the defeat. The White Sox have lost nine of their last 11 games. Big Semi-annual fo) A TO 16 Only-All Models O LOW DOWN PAYMENT O UP TO 36 MOS. TO PAY Chevrdlets SCOUNTS UP T 'yii J j Pj SPORTS Shoulder Injury Benches Lohrke Portland (IT) Jack Lohrke was ordered sidelined by Port land Beaver baseball club doc tors Tuesday and said he would be out of action for at least two weeks, and possibly a month, with a dislocated right shoulder. Lohrke, versatile utility player for the Bevos, suffer ed the dislocation in Monday night's game with Spokane here. The accident occurred during a double play. LINESCORES: American League Chicago 011 201 000 S 10 0 Boston 310 300 OOx 7 11 0 Pierce, Moore (2), Fischer (4), Qualters (6) and Lollar. Fornieles, Wall (4) and White. Winner Wall (1-1). Loser Moore (0-1). HR Gernert. Malzone. National League Cincinnati -000 000 000 0 4 .1 Chicago .. 300 000 Olx 4 5 2 Nuxhall, Freeman (2), Schmidt (7), Wight (8) and Burgess. Hobie (2-2) and Tappe. Loser Nuxhall (0-1). HR Thomson. Milwa'kee 430 000 00512 13 1 0 St. Louis 020 101 022 8 16 2 Bob Buhl, McMahon (8), Conley (9) and Rice. McDaniel, Martin (1), Jackson (3), Paine (5), Barnes (7), Muffett (9), Clark (8) and Katt, Smith (9). Winner Buhl (4-1). Loser McDaniel (2-2). Pittsburgh 000 000 000 0 3 0 San. Fran. 501 001 OOx 7 8 1 Daniels, Perez (1), Witt (6), Smith (8) and Kravitz. McCormick (2-0) and Schmidt. Loser Daniels (0-1). HR Cepeda. Philadelphia 000 006 000 000 006 10 Los Angeles 000 302 001 000 017 13 1 Sanford. Gray (5), Farrell and Lopata. Koufax, Labine (6), Roe buck (7), Bessent (10), Drysdale (11) and Walker. Winner Drvsdale (1-5). Loser Farrell (0-1). HR Ji-ssegian, Kazanski. i J Phone SP 2-6115 o) Ju Medford STANDINGS PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB Portland 9 7 .563 -529 V2 .524 2 300 1 500 1 .478 14 .476 l,i .444 2 Sacramento 9 8 Salt Lake City 11 10 Spokane 10 10 Vancouver 10 10 Phoenix n 12 San Diego 10 11 Seattle ... 8 10 Tuesday's Results Sacramento 5. San Diego 4 Salt Lake 7, Phoenix 5 Portland 3, Spokane 2 Seattle 5, Vancouver 2 How The Series Stand Portland 2, Spokane 0 Sacramento 1. San Diego 0 Salt Lake 1, Phoenix 0 Seattle 1, Vancouver 0 Wednesday's Probable Pitchers Phoenix (Gordon Jones, 1-4) at bait Lake (Jim Hardison, 1-0). Vancouver (Mel Held, 1-0) at Se attle (Tom Gibson, 1-0). Spokane (Tom Palmquist. 0-1) at Portland (Ted Edmunds, 0-1). San Diego (Gary Bell, 2-2) at Sacramento (Carl Greene, 1-2). AMERICAN LEAGUE YV. L Pet. GB .714 .643 1 .533 2i .500 3 .500 3 .450 4 .444 4 .267 6i New York 10 Washington 9 Kansas City 8 Baltimore 8 Cleveland . 10 10 Boston 9 11 Detroit 8 10 Chicago 4 11 Tuesday's Results Boston 7, Chicago 3 Cleve. at New York (ppd., rain) Detroit at - Washington (night, ppd., rain) Kansas City at Baltimore (night, ppd., rain) Wednesday's Probable Pitchers ' Detroit at Washington (2, twi night) Bunning (1-3) and Lary (1-2) vs. Pascual (1-1) and Griggs (0-0) Kansas City at Baltimore (night) Garver (3-0) vs. Portocarrero (0-0). Thursday's Games Detroit at Washington Cleveland at New York (Only games scheduled) NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Chicago ' 12 7 Milwaukee 11 7 Pittsburgh 11 8 San Francisco 12 9 Cincinnati 8 7 Los Angeles 9 12 Philadelphia 8 11 St. Louis 3 13 Pet. GB .632 .611 't .579 1 J571 1 .533 2 .429 4 .421 4 .187 7li Tuesday's Results ' Chicago 4, Cincinnati 0 Milwaukee 12, St. Louis 8 (night) Los Angeles 7, Philadelphia 6 (night, 14 innings) San, Francisco 7, Pittsburgh 0 (night) Wednesday's Probable Pitchers Milwaukee at St. Louis (night) Burdette (2-2) vs. Wehmeier (0-0). Thursday's Games Cincinnati at Chicago (Only game scheduled). NORTHWEST. LEAGUE Tuesday's Results W. L. Lewiston 9 3 Wenatchee 8 4 Tri-City 7 5 Eugene . 5 7 Pet. GB .760 .666 .585 .416 .416 saiem o Yakima 2 10 .166 Wenatchee 11, Yakima 6 Tri-City 6, Eugene 4 (10 Innings) Lewiston 6, Salem S (10 innings) League Leaders. NATIONAL LEAGUE Player & Club G. AB R. H. Pet Musial, St. L... 16 64 14 33 .516 Hoak, Cin. , 15 62 9 24 .387 Mays, San. F...19 83 16 32 .386 Walls, Chi 19 78 20 29 .372 Temple, Cin. ..15 57 11 21 .368 AMERICAN LEAGUE Vernon, Clev...l7 45 10 18 .400 Skowron, NY...14 55 7 21 ;382 McD'gald, NY..14 54 8 20 .370 Robson, Balt...l6 54 7 20 570 Martin, Det.....ll 46 6 17 .370 Home Runs National league Walls, Cubs 9; Sauer, Giants 8; Thomas, Pirates 8; Cepeda, Giants 8; Mathews, Braves 7. American league Cerv, Athlet ics 8; Jensen. Red Sox 4: Brown, Indians 4; Williams, Red Sox; Lol lar, White Sox; Maris, Indians; Mi noso, Indians; Sievers, Senators; Triandos, Orioles; Skowron, Yanks, all 3. Runs Batted In National league Cepeda, Giants 19; Walls, Cubs 18; Thomas, Pi rates; Spencer, Giants; Mathews; Braves, all 17. American league Cerv, Athletics 24; Carrasquel. Indians 14; Skow ron, Yanks 13, Vernon, Indians; Minoso, Indians; Jensen, Red Sox, all 12. Pitching National league Podres, Dodg ers Elston, Cubs; Spahn, Braves; Friend, Pirates, all 4-0; Purkey, Redlegs, 3-0. American 1 e a g u e Harshman, Orioles, 4-0; Turley, Yanks; Gar ver, Athletics; Grant, Indians, all 3-0; (six tied at 2-0). Graham Says Pride Root of All Sin San Francisco (IP) Pride is the root of all sin, according to Billy Graham. The 39-year-old evangelist, in probing the question,, of evil and its outgrowth before a crowd of 15,500 at the Cow Palace Tuesday night, ex plained that by pride he meant greed, ambition, natrea ana intolerance. "Pride caused Lucifer's fall." Graham said. "And when Lucifer became Satan he must have landed on tnis planet." Graham described Satan as a "tremendous - personage" with great power. Part of Tuesday nights crowd arrived in 114 charter ed buses, coming from all -..,- nt northern California. ! A spokesman for Graham said it brought the total aiienau for his San Francisco Bay Cru sade to 150,000.- EXECUTIVE DIES Hanover, N. H. ttV-A for mer New York shipping ex ecutive, Charles H. C. Pear enll. 70. died in a hospital Tuesday. IT Builders Supply 3 QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Flues, Drain Til 727 W. McAndrews Ph. SP 2-4107 Hofmeisfer Leader At Halfway Point Of Oregon Golf Tilt Portland (IP) Bud Hof meister, Hayden Lake, Idaho, pro, held a one-stroke lead to day in the 24th annual Oregon Open golf tournament at Riv erside Country club here. His second-round total was 136, after carding a 6V both days. The final 36 holes were played today. Dick Yost, Portland ama teur, was right behind him with 137 after shooting a daz zling six-under-par 66. Yost's card equalled a 66 shot in the first day of play by pro Sid Duck Nine Blasts Out ND Victory Eugene OH The Oregon Webfoots turned 13 walks and a hit batter into eight runs Tuesday as they went through a quartet of wild Washington hurlers to record an 11-4 Northern Division baseball victory here. The win gave the Ducks a tie for first place in the loop with Oregon State. Both have 5-1 records. It also gave them revenge for the 8-3 drubbing by the Huskies Monday. In another game Tuesday Washington State defeated Id aho 4-1. Oregon's Don Lane pitched 6 13 innings for his third win against no defeats. Daryl Burke, first of the Huskie pitchers, was the loser.- Oregon scored its first run when Burke threw wild in the first inning to allow Wimp Hastings home. It added sev en runs in the second frame. Burke walked in three and let a fourth man score on another wild throw before being re placed by Larry Morrow. The first man to face Morrow, Ellis Olson, singled in two runs and Morrow walked in the Ducks' seventh run. Olso came ud with another two-run single in the third. After scoring two runs in the fourth, the Huskies put together three base nits for two runs in the sixth, includ ing a double by Don Daniels. It was the Huskies' sixth loss in nine contests. Pirates Send Smith To Cubs San Francisco (IF) The Pittsburgh Pirates, here for a series with the Giants, Tues day sent utility man Paul Smith to the Chicago Cubs for the $20,000 waiver price. Smith aoDeared in 81 ' tramps for the Pirates last year after a two-year hitch in the Army and batted .253. Barclay to Hurl Against Beavers Portland (IP) Curt Bar clay, one-time basketball star at the University of Oregon, has been named to pitch for the San Francisco Giants here Thursday night : when they meet the Portland Beavers in an exhibition baseball game. Manager Bill Rigney of San Francisco said Barclav would see some, action and possibly start the game. . Pacific Nicks Willamette 5-4 Salem (IP) ' Pacific so lidified its hold on second place in the Northwest Con ference by shading Willamette 5-4 in a baseball game Tues day. Pacific scored three runs in the ninth inning to win. The Badgers now are 6-4 in the standings, while College of Idaho is well ahead with a 9-2 mark. IS? I mm One "Regular Size" Per Customer THURS., MAY 8 2 to 4 P.M.' DRIVE IN AND TRY OUR FAST CAR SERVICE A. & IV. ROOT BEER DRIVE Mil 333 N. Riverside - Medford, Ore. MAIL TRIBUNE, M.dford", Oresoit, Harman of Yakima, Wash., who dropped to fourth beside Chuck Congdon, veteran pro from Tacoma, Wash. Harmon and Congdon tied at 140. Greer Third Joe Greer of Yakima was third with a 72-67139. Bob Duden, Oswego, held fifth place with 142 and Ralph Dichter, Astoria, was sixth with 144. Harman slipped to a 74 Tuesday while Congdon, the 1947 champion, had a 71. Several golfers were knot ted at 145, including Bob Mc Kendrick of Oswego, Don Krieger of Portland, Jim Chenoweth of The Dalles, Dick Stearns of Portland and Tom Liljeholm of Portland. Scores of Rogue Valley Country club entries for two rounds in the Oregon Open golf tourney at Portland were: Ron Caperna 78-79 157, and Al Williams 76-74150. Gene Bates Hit Leader Pullman, Wash (IP) Gene Bates, Oregon State's big first baseman, led Northern Di vision batters through games of May 5 with a hefty per centage of .500. Official statistics released here showed Bates hit safely eight times in 16 trips to the plate. He also handled 16 fielding chances without an error. Bates was followed in hitting by Oregon's Wimp Hastings and Len Read, both with .429 averages. Gary Moore, Oregon State's sophomore southpaw, topped division pitchers with two wins and no defeats and an earned-run average of 1.50 in 18 innings. Southpaw Don Lane of Oregon also had two wins and no losses and gave up only three earned runs in 16 23 innings. Daryl Burke of Washington had the most strikeouts, 19. Lane Squelches Speculation on Indian Shift New York ' OP) General Manager Frank Lane of the Indians today knocked down speculation that the club may be transferred to Minneapolis with the assertion that "base ball is still a sport in Cleve land." "It's not strictly business, Lane maintained. 'The men who own this club have a great deal of pride. I have no doubt that Hank Greenberg (Lane's predecessor) would like to move the club. But the men in control have no desire to do so." The volumble Lane made his remarks in reply to re ports that if the Indians', at tendance declined drastically this season, the team would likely be shifted to Minne apolis, whiqh has a reaay made major league ball park awaiting. Rifle Club Has Session Tonight VEW Rifle and Pistol Club of Medford will install offiH cers this evenine at its reg ular meeting in the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall, 42 North Front st. The session is slated for 7:30 D.m. Members were re minded by club officials that important business is on the agenda. All nersons interested are invited to the meeting. The club will have a small bore rifle shoot on Friday evening, May 9, in the ar mory. A big bore shoot is billed for Sunday, May 11, at the Camp White range. Wednesday, May 7, 1951 1! CP Sportsmen Have Meeting : ' Central Point Central Point Sportsmen's club offi cials have issued a reminder concerning their meeting thi evening. 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