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Newspaper Page Text11 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Wednesday, May 14, 1958 Don Larsen Gets Back at -Orioles With 3 to 0 Verdict for Yankees By MILTON RICHMAN United Press Sports Writer Don (Perfect Game) Larsen was a prefect example today of an ungrateful group of big leaguers who did a classic job of breaking their former em ployers' hearts. Most everyone likes to tell his old boss where to head in, but it must have been open season Tuesday on biting-the-hand-that-once-fed-you in the majors. Larson was the ringleader. He - got back at his former Baltimore teammates in per fect style while pitching and batting the first-place- Yan kees to a 3-0 victory. Big Don broke a scoreless tie with a fifth-inning homer off Connie Johnson and then proceeded to spin a four-hit shutout. He has now pitched 23 consecutive scoreless in nings this season while win ning three games. Only Beginning But Larsen was only one of many who struck back at his Patterson May Get Ultimatum New York (IP) Julius Hel fand said today the World Championship Boxing commit tee will take "definite action" on the heavyweight situation late this month. Helfand, chairman of the New York State Athletic com mission and president of the committee, will fly to Paris May 25 and preside at the committee meeting there May 28-30. Jus what ultimatum to be given champion Floyd Patter son will be decided by the committee, Helfand said. Young Floyd hasn't defended his crown since last Aug. 22, when he knocked out amateur Pete Rademacher in the sixth round at Seattle. Cus D'Amato, Patterson's manager, declared today, "If the World committee or any other organization tries to force us into a fight with an opponent who may have any connection with the Interna tional Boxing club no matter how indirect we will chal lenge the committee's action in court." Musial Slaps Out 3,000 Hit Aims for All-Time NL Record By ED SAINSBURY United Press Sports Writer Chicago (IP) Stan Musial's baseball goal was 431 hitsdis tant today, but his anticipated tenure as a baseball player covered another two years, so he might become the leading batter in National league his tory. Musial, 37, smacked his 0 3,009th major league hit Tues day, a double, as the key punch of a four-run St. Louis Cardinal inning to produce a 5-3 win ove rthe Chicago Cubs. And while he was pleased at No. 3,000, he had no pre tensions toward No. 4,000 un less "it just comes naturally," toe way he swings a bat. "I'd .like to get more hits than any . other National 4eague player," Musial said, "and I figure I'll play a couple 7ou can count on Beam to add to the enjoyment of your leisure moments. Great care is taken to assure its unchanging good taste. That is why you can always buy Jim Beam With tmst. ONLY BEAM TASTES LIKE BEAM. ONLY BEAM TASTES SO GOOD. $l65 $000 PINT AA QT. 26 PROOF KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY JAMES B. BEAM DISTILLING COMPANY, CLERMONT. KENTUCKY ex-employer Tuesday. Here are some of the others: Don Gross of the Pirates pitched three hitlees relief in nings and ran his scoreless string to 14 23 innings in helping Pittsburgh beat his one - time Cincinnati team mates, 6-3. Ted Kluszewski, another former Redleg, drove in two of the Pirates' runs with a double and a single. Jackie Jensen and Pete Runnels, each of whom once wore Washington flannels, crashed out three hits apiece as the Red Sox broke a four game losing streak with a 9-6 win over the Senators. Jensen included a grand-slam homer. Gross came to the aid of winner Ronnie Kline in the seventh inning and promptly struck out the side. The Pi rates recorded their fifth straight triumph in beating Brooks Lawrence. Bill Maze roski hit his fifth homer. The hitting of Jensen and Runnels made it a happy 29th birthday for rookie southpaw Bob Riverboat Smith, who was credited with Boston's victory although Ike Delock had to bail him out in the ninth after Neil Chrisley hit his fourth homer in his last four games. Pedro Ramos, long-time Red Sox nemesis, was the loser. San Francisco smashed out 26 hits to crush Los Angeles, 16-9, and take over the Na tional League lead. Some of the statistics of the game made it seem the teams were using a tennis ball. Willie Mays hammered two homers, two triples and a single to boost his average to .427. Daryl Spencer had two homers, a triple and a double; Orlando Cepeda had a homer and three singles while- Danny O'Connell and Bob Schmidt also had four hits apiece. For the last-place Dodgers, Charley Neal clouted two homers and Carl Furillo and Gil Hodges one apiece. Red Worthington was the winner and Fred Kipp the loser. It was the dazed Dodgers' last game in the Coliseum un til June 3 and none of them seemed to mind terribly. Stan Musial's 3,000th major of more years. I donH mean two years exactly because I'll play as long as I can hit well over .300." The player with the most hits in the National League was the late Honus Wagner, who has 3,430, while Paul Wa- ner was second with 3,151. Musial, who has 43 hits al ready this season, needs to add only 152 to surpass Waner and he could do that this season, since it would require him to get only 195 hits for the sea son. He has exceeded that figure seven times in 15 years and tied it one other season. Both Musial and manager Fred Hutchinson would have preferred the 3,000th hit in their home park. Thus Hutch inson benched Musial for Tuesday's game, but planned to use him as a pinch hitter if it might "be necessary to win. It became necessary with JIM Beam . . . WdrlcCs sit &W& f ' f BUMBO wmsnr i ljP -p plj jmQiSwa I ? m;m league hit was a pinch double in the sixth inning that sparked the Cardinals to a 5-3 decision over the Cubs. Musial's long - cherished hit paced the Cards to their sixth straight win and helped ex tend the Cubs' losing streak to seven games. Musial thus became the eighth major leaguer ever to attain 3,000 hits. Sam Jones was the win ning pitcher as the result of St. Louis' four-run rally in the sixth. Lee Walls hit his 10th homer for Chicago. Phillies Mark Set Robin Roberts also reached an important , milestone in hurling the Phillies to a 5-2 victory over the Braves. In snapping Milwaukee's seven game winning streak and knocking the Braves out of first place, Roberts achieved the 191st victory of his ca reer with the Phils more wins than any other Phillies pitcher ever recorded Grover Cleveland Alexander held the previous record of 190. It also marked the first time the Phillies beat Bob Buhl since June 12, 1956. League Leaders By UNITED PRESS NATIONAL LEAGUE Player, Club G. AB. R. H. Pet Musial, St. L. 26 88 15 43 .489 Mays. SanF 26 103 26 Spencer. S.F 26 103 21 Hamner, Phil 25 99 16 Hoak, Cinci 21 85 11 AMERICAN LEAGUE McDgld. N.Y. 17 66 12 Skowrn, N.Y. 18 67 9 Vernon. Clev. 21 55 10 Fox, Chi 21 86 10 Cerv. K.City 21 77 24 44 37 35 30 26 25 20 31 27 .427 .359 .354 .353 .394 .373 .364 .360 351 Home Runs National league: Walls. Cubs 10; Cepeda, Giants 9; Thomas, Pirates 9; Mays, Giants 8; Sauer, Giants 8; Spencer, Giants 8. American league: Cerv, Athletics 10; Jensen, Red Sox 6: Skowron, Yanks, Boone, Tigers, Brown, In dians, Triandos, Orioles, Lollar, White Sox, Maris, Indians, Max well, Tigers, Chrisley, Senators, all 4. Runs Batted In - National league: Spencer, Giants 27; Thomas, Pirates 25: Mays, Giants 24; Cepeda, Giants 23; Banks. Cubs 22. American league: Cerv. Athletics 28; Jensen, Red Sox 19; Skowron, Yanks 16; Bertoia, Tigers 15; Car rasquel, Indians 14; F. Boiling, Tigers 14; Gernert, Red Sox 14. Pitching National league: Spahn. Braves 5-0; Elston, Cubs 4-0; McCormick, Giants 2-0; Paine, Cards 2-0; 10 tied with 1-0. American league: Harshman, Orioles 5-0; Turley, Yanks 4-0; Hyde, Senators 3-0; Shantz, Yanks 3-0; Larson. Yanks 3-0. Gene Green on 2nd with a double, one man out and the Cardinals trailing, 3-1, in the 6th. Musial took an outside pitch, fouled one of pitcher Moe Drabowsky's pitches into the stands, took a called strike, an inside pitch, and then slammed the next throw deep to left field. Play was stopped while out fielder Walt Moryn returned the ball to umpire Frank Das coli.who relayed it to Musial for a souvenir. Musial used a substitute bat for his hit, since he couldn't find the one he had been using. In St. Louis Tuesday night, a crowd of more than 2,000 persons jammed the " Union Station to greet Musial on his return from Chicago. Many carried cardboard signs read ing: "Stan the 3,000, Man." BEAM Finest Bourbon Since 1 795 7 . i mil SPORTS Willie Jones hit a two-run homer for Philadelphia. Early Wynn struck out nine batters and scattered nine hits in leading the White Sox to a 9-2 decision over the Athlet ics. Al Smith homered for the White Sox, who got to Kansas City starter Wally Brunette for four runs in the first three innings. Joe DeMaestri hom ered for Kansas City. Home runs by Charlie Max well and Lou Skizas featured a 16-hit attack that powered the Tigers to an 11-1 victory over the Indians. Frank Lary of Detroit gave up a first in ning homer to Roger Maris and blanked the Tribe the rest of the way. Jim Mudcat Grant suffered the loss. LINESCORES: National League St. Louis 001 004 0005 9 0 Chicago 101 010 0003 7 2 Jones. Muffett 6 and H. Smith; Drabowsky, Phillips 8 and S. Tay lor. Winner Jones 2-3. Loser Drabowsky 1-3. HR Walls. San Fran 520 421 11016 26 2 Los Angeles 331 010 010 9 11 2 McCormick, Monzant 1, Worth ington 3, Grissom 9 md Schmidt. Newcombe, Kipp 3. Roebuck 4, Koufax 6, McDevitt 8 and Pignat ano. Winner Worthington 3-1. Loser Kipp 1-3. HRS Mays 2, Furillo. Neal 2, Hodges, Spencer 2, Cepeda. Milwaukee 000 100 0102 6 1 Philadelphia ....022 000 lOx 5 9 0 Buhl, McMahon 8 and Rice, Cran dall 8; Roberts 2-4 and Lopata. Loser Buhl 4-2. HR Jones, Aaron. Cincinnati 012 000 000 3 11 0 Pittsburgh ...005 000 lOx 6 11 0 Lawrence, Schmidt 3, Wight 4, Jeffcoat 6, Nuxhall 7 and Bailey; Kline, Gross 7 and Foiles. Winner Kline 4-2. Loser Lawrence 1-3. HR Mazeroski 5th. American League Baltimore 000 000 000 0 4 0 New York 000 010 20x 3 9 1 Johnson, Lehman 8 and Gins berg; Larsen 3-0 and Berra. Loser Johnson 1-3. HR Larsen "2nd. Boston .....400 010 2029 12 1 Washington ... 000 400 002 6 6 2 Smith, Lelock 9 and Berberet; Ramos, Byerly 8 and Courtney. Winner Smith 2-0. Loser Ramos 2-2. HRs Jensen, Chrisley. Chicago :...........202 011 0309 '8 0 Kansas City ....020 000 4)00 2 . 9 2 Wynn 3-2 and Lollar. Burnette, Herbert 4, Daley 5, Gorman 6, Dickson 8 and Smith. Loser Burn ette 1-1. HRs DeMaestri, A. Smith. Cleveland 100 000 000 1 7 0 Detroit 001 421 12x 11 16 0 Grant, McLish 4, Garcia 5. Tom anek 7 and Nixon. Lary 3-2 and Hegan. Loser Grant 3-2. HR Maris, Maxwell. Skizas. STANDINGS PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE ; W. L. Pet. GB Sacramento 13 11 Vancouver 15 13 Salt Lake 15 13 Phoenix 15 15 Portland 11 11 San Diego 13 14 Spokane 13 15 Seattle ....12 15 .542 .536 .536 .500 1 .500 1 .481 114 .464 2 .444 2Vx Tuesday's results: San Diego 7, Seattle 3. Sacramento 3, Vancouver 2. Phoenix 22. Portland 3. Salt Lake 6, Spokane 1. How the series stands: " Vancouver 1, Sacramento 1. San "Diego 1, Seattle o. Phoenix 1, Portland 0. Salt Lake 1, Spokane 0. Wednesday's Probable Pitchers Sacramento (Roger Osenbaugh, 2-0) at Vancouver (Erv Palica, 2-1). Seattle (Marty Kutyna, 1-2) at San Diego (Dick Brodowski, 0-2). Salt Lake (Jim Hardison) at Spo kane (Connie Grob, 2-2). Portland (Howie Judson, 1-0) at Phoenix (Tom Bowers. 1-2). NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB San Francisco 17 Milwaukee 15 Pittsburgh 16 Chicago 13 Cincinnati 9 Philadelphia 10 St. Louis 9 Los Angeles 9 9 .654 8 9 14 12 15 14 17 .652 Vi .640 Vi .481 4V2 .429 512 .400 6,b .391 6 1,4 .346 8 Tuesday's Results St. Louis 5, Chicago 3. San Francisco 16, Los Angeles 9. Phila. 5, Milwaukee 2 (night). Pittsburgh 6, Cincinnati 3 (night). Wednesday's Probable Pitchers Milwaukee at Philadelphia (night) Spahn 5-0 vs. Semproch 3-2. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh (night) Purkey 3-1 vs. Law 4-1. San Francisco at St. Louis (night) Antonelli 2-2 vs. Mizell 1-3. Thursday's Games Milwaukee at Philadelphia (night). Los Angeles at Chicago. Cincinnati at Pittsburgh. San Francisco at St. Louis. AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 14 5 Washington 13 10 Baltimore . 11 10 Detroit 13 12 Kansas City. 9 11 Cleveland 11 14 Boston 11 15 Chicago 8 13 Pet GB .737 .565 3 324 4 320 4 .450 5 ,2 .440 6 .423 GVz .381 7 Tuesday's Results New York 3. Baltimore 0 (night). Boston 9, Washington 6, (night). Detroit 11, Cleveland 1, (night). Chicago 9, Kansas City 2, (night). Wednesday's Probable Pitchers Chicago at Kansas City (night) Donovan 1-3 vs. Garver 3-1. Boston at Washington (night) Sisler 4-1 vs. Lumenti 1-2. Thursday's Games Baltimore at New York .. Cleveland at Detroit. Chicago at Kansas City. (Only games scheduled). NORTHWEST LEAGUE W. 1 Pet. GB .764 .631 2 329 4 .470 5 .353 7 .263 9 Lewiston 13 Wenatchee 12 TH-City 1 9 Eugene .;. 8 Salem 6 Yakima 5 Tuesday's Results Yakima 2, Tri-City 0. Salem 6. Eugene 2. Lewiston 6. Wenatchee 4. GOTHAM SEES GIANTS New York (IP) Baseball fans in the New York metrop olitan area will get their first look at the "new" Giants to night when WNTA-TV, a local station, televises the San Francisco - St. Louis game at St Louis. STATE MEET ENTRANTS Members of the St. Mary's high track team who quali fied for the state B meet this Friday and Saturday at Springfield are pictured above. Left to right, kneeling, are Terry Cooper, javelin and relay; Dick Hayes, 440 and relay and Alex Mete and Roger Merrill Whips (Butte Falls 13-3;. for District -SB. Toga Talent Merrill High school thumped Butte Falls 13 to 3 here Tuesday to win the Dis trict 5B baseball champion ship. " ' The Huskies previously claimed the Klamath county laurels and Butte Falls was Jackson County B league champion. Pitcher Perry Laney of Merrill held the Loggers to just two hits. In the meantime, the Huskies collected 12 safe raps with Laney slamming a triple and double in four times up and driving in three runs. Butch Johnson, Doug Evert son and John Haskins were the other big hitters for Mer- Action Tougher For Ex-Champs In South Golf Dallas (IP) The competi tion loomed a bit. tougher to day for defending titlist Clif ford Ann Creed and the other two former champions teeing off in the 43rd annual Wom en's Southern Amateur golf championship. Miss Creed, Mary Ann Downey and Polly Riley,' the latter a five time winner, here were all favored to make it into Thursday's quarter-finals after easy opening-round tri umphs. Miss Creed, a 19-year-old Lamar Tech sophomore from Opelousas, La., faced Mrs. W. K. Stripling of Fort Worth, Texas, who Tuesday knocked out the only other former champ in the field Mrs. Mary McGarry of St. Peters burg, Fla., 1-up. Californian 2nd In All-Events San Francisco (IP) Maxine Allen, Lakewood, Calif., has taken over second place in the unofficial all events division of the Women's International Bowling Congress tourna ment. . Miss Alen, with a total of 1,783 pins, moved in behind the leader, Mae Ploegman, Chicago, who has 1,828. In the only other change Tuesday, the Coate School of Real Estate team of Santa Ana, Calif., took over fourth place in division II competi tion with 2,331. PACIFIC WINS . Forest Grove OP) Pacific defeated Lewis and Clark 15-3 in golf Tuesday. Pacific's tennis team also won from Lewis and Clark 5-2. SEE THE Only 7 Moving Parts hi the Engine Up to 35 Mile Per Gallon Front Wheel Drive COMPARE k Roominess k Economy Initial Cost Looks Keith Schulz Garage 116 N. Front - Ph. SP 2-4756 rill, each batting in two runs. Johnson had two for three in cluding a triple and Haskins also two for three, one a double. Evertson had two hits in five times .up. Four-Run Innings Big frames for the Huskies were the third and the fifth. Four runs crossed in each. Merrill used three hits, a walk and an error in the third and four safe clouts and two mis cues in the fifth. Butte Falls put over one of its runs in the second canto on two errors and a stolen base. The other two were in the third panel on hits by Jim Irwin and David Baker, a base on balls and an error. Laney struck out nine bat ters and walked six. Nine miscues hurt the cause of Butte Falls w'hire two double plays helped the & t) mm Locally Owned and Operated Permanently Located Here to Stand Behind Our Gurantees and Maintenance PHONE Hout, relay. Standing, from left, are Carl Michael, shot put and discus; Dave Mans field, pole vault; Dick Evans, mile, and Coach Bill McKibbin. Not shown is Jerry Kerr, district 880 titlist. St. Mary's won the District 5B track meet last Saturday at Ashland. Huskies keep the Loggers in check. LINESCORES: Merrill 004 340 2 13 12 5 Butte Falls 012 000 0 3 2 9 Laney and D. Haskins; Ellis, Ir- Three Knotted For 2nd in NWC By UNITED PRESS Lewis and Clark edged champion College of Idaho 6-5 in a Northwest conference baseball game Tuesday. The victory moved Lewis and piark into a second place tie with Linfield and Pacific. Lewis and Clark is 6-6 while the other two clubs are 7-7. Linfield whacked Pacific 13-4 and Whitman shoved Wil lamette into the basement with a 5-2 win in other games Tuesday. WE HAVE STARTED SEASON SAMIL WIS S and DB. MLCDDBIEtf SP 2-6687 Coach Prothro Rates Plumley High at OSC Oregon State College, Cor vallis Since Tommy Prothro took over the coaching reins at Oregon State in 1955, the Beavers have - successfully come up with outstanding tackles big, rugged linemen who could hold their own in any company. First there was ail-American John Witte, followed by Dave Jesmer, one of the he roes of the last East-West shrine game, and now versa tile Ted Bates is ready for a great senior year ahead. But one of the most promis ing of all, though only pres ently a freshman, is Big Neil Plumley from Medf ord. If Plumley lives up to Prothro's expectations, the southern Oregon a'thlete is destined to become one of the better col lege tackles of America. Prothro pulls no stops when he raves about Plumley. "He's one of $he finest pros pects we've had since I've been at Oregon State. Neil is young now, but when he ma tures I believe he will be one of the better college tackles in the nation." Nears 50 Feet Plumley has been a busy lad at OSC this spring. In ad dition to his exceptional grid progress in spring practice, he has managed a daily work out or so m track and he is For State Representative Bengtton for Representative Committee, George Tucker, Chairman, Pd. Pol. Alv. 525 North Riverside.' --. and TBCDMLD MEDFORD. OREGON the prize shotput expert of the OSC Rooks. -He is almost sure to surpass the 50-foot mark this spring, and eventually will go after the all-time Bea ver record in that event. A fine physical specimen, Plumley also is an arduous worker and interested student of Prothro's single wing foot ball. He's fairly quick for his size and is fast learning the art, of both offense and de fense. Another Medford star, Dick McLaughlin, too has made progress in spring drills. Dick is a center, like Plumley a freshman, and is sure to im prove. It's no wonder that Prothro, the miracle man of Oregon State, wears, a look of satis faction whenever the name Medford pops into a conver sation. HAZLE BACK IN ACTION Philadelphia (IP) Out fielder Bob Hazle planned to rejoin the Milwaukee Braves in time for tonight's game against the Philadelphia Phil lies. He suffered a concussion last Wednesday night when struck in the head by a pitched ball. So far as scientists have been able to find, the moon has no atmosphere. Experience VOTERS: Experience is th best teacher. Send a man to repre sent you in the legislature whe not only hat had two previous terms, but alto the ability" training, diplomacy and friend ly personality that -gets results. O. H. BENGTSON will aid and improve Facilities at Southern Oregon College. Vote for OH. BENGTSON OUR T mm