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o o o o & 10 MAIL TRIBUNE, M.dforJ, Oregon, Thursday, July 10, 1938 Yankees, Braves Turned Back as Resume By TIM MORIARTY United Press International Although he admits he is not a puJI hitter, it didn't take big Steve Bilko long to find the range at the Los Angeles Coliseum "shooting gallery." Inserted into the Dodgers' Ostarting lineup Wednesday night by Manager Walt Al ston, the hulking, moon-faced first baseman from Nanti coke, Pa., unloaded a three run homer over the left field screen in the opening inning to help sink the Milwaukee Braves, 10-3. It was the first time Bilko had graced the Dodgers' starting lineup at Los Ang eles, where he was a local hero the last three years while playing in the Pacific Coast league. He hit 56 home runs for the Los Angeles Angels last year, so was overjoyed when the Cincinnati Redlegs traded him to the Dodgers last month. Braves' Iafl Cut Tm more of - a straight away Kitter. than a pull hit ter," he explained when he joined the Dodgers. Then en visioning that friendly left field screen he added, "But I believe I could adapt my swing to pull the ball." Bilko must have spent his mid-season "vacation" taking target practice, for in his first time at bat against the Brave's Carlton Willey he lofted a sho oftr the screen while 32.337 fans went wild. Big Steve then drove in another run in the fourth inning on a sacrifice fly. Norm Larker, who moved to left field to make room for Bilko in the lineup, and John Roseboro added three liits each as the Dodgers roll ed up a 10-12 lead in the first four innings. Rookie Stan Williams limited the Braves to four hits in posting his fourth triumph against three losses. It was the Dodgers' eigkth victory in 10 meetings with the Braves, who now lead STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE .... . W. L. Pet. GB New York . 48 26 .649 Kansas City 38 37 .507 10,4 Boston 38 37 .507 10 Vi Detroit ZT. 7 37 37 .500 11 Cleveland 38 40 .487 12 Chicago 36 39 .480 12 ,i BalSmore 35 40 .467 13',a Washington 31 4a .408 18 Wednesday's Results Cleveland 12. New York 2 (night) (Only games scheduled.) Thursday's Probable Pitchers . Cleveland at New York (2, day- night) BeU (3-2) and Grant (6-6) vs. Ditmar (3-1) and Mass (4-7). Kansas City at Baltimore (2, twi-night) Terry (5-7) and Urban (6-5) vs. PjPPfs (5-2) and Porto carrero (6-o). Detroit at Washington (night) Lary (8-7) or Foytack (6-8) vs. . Pascual (4-4). . Chicago at Josten (night) Wil son (7-6) vs. Delock (7-0). , , m Friday's Games Detroit at Washington (night) Kansas City at Baltimore (night) Cleveland at New York - Chicago at Boston V. L. Pet. Milwaukee 40 34 .541 San Fftncisco 41 36 .532 St. Louis 37 35 .514 Philadelphia u 36 36 .507 Chicago 39 V -500 Cincinnati 36 37 .493 . Pittsburgh 96 41 .468 Los Angeles 34 2 .447 GB 2 2'.j 3 3i 5 ',2 7 anesuay s as .Angeles 10. Milwaukee 3 (night) (Only game scheduled) TknrcitiT'i Probable Pitchers Pittsburgh at Chicago (2) Kline 17-9) and Witt (2-1) vs. Briggs (2-0) and Pillips (5-2). Philadelphia at St. Luis (night) Roberts (6-8) vs. Magli (2-1). Milwaukee at Los Angela (night) Hnrriette (6-6 vs. Podres (8-7). rinfinnati at San Francisco fniihtl Nuzhall (5-4) o Hadjiix (5-5) vs. Worthington (8-3). f, Friday's Games Pittsburgh at Chicago . . Milwaukee at Los Angeles Phila. at St. Louis (night) Cincinnati at San Francisco PCIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GET, San Diego 51 51 34 37 37 38 43 47 50 51 .600 .580 .575 2 331 6 .456 12 .453 12 i .419 15 'i Phoenix Vancouver ... , 30 Salt Lake 43 Portland -36 Spokane - 39 Seattle 36 Sacramentno 31 .378 18 2 Wednesday's Results: Portland 6. Salt Lake 5 San Diego 6. Vancouver 3 SpoKane . rnotrax o nly games scheduled) Bow Series Stand San Diego 2. Vancouver 0 Spokane 2. Phoenix 0 O .Portland 1, Salt Lake 1 Thursday's Probable Pitchers Phoenix (Pete Bumside. 2-3) S p o k a ive (Larry Sherry, 4-7) 8 Portland (Vic Lombardi. 4-3) at . Salt Lake (Jack Lamabe, 2-1) 8 p.m., nu.t. Vancouver (Georee Bamberger, ' (6-6) at San Diego (Bill Werle, 4- 4i 8 o.m o.d.t. ry. Seattle at Sacramento (pitchers announced). TfORTHWEST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB Wenatchee 7 3 .700 Lewiston 'Yakima . Eugene . Salem Tri-City 6 6 5 3 3 .666 .666 .454 300 .272 Wednesday's Results Salem 4. Lewiston 3 Eugene 6. Tri-City 2 Wenatchee 7. Yakima 3 Today's Schedule Lewiston at Salem Tri-City at Eugene (2) Yakima at Wenatchee League second-place San Francisco by only a half-game. In Wednesday's only Am erican league game, the Cleveland Indians broke a 1-1 tie with seven runs in the eighth inning and went on to hammer the New York Yan kees, 12-2, under the lights at Yankee stadium. It was a happy homecoming for new Cleveland, manager Joe Gordon. The ex-Yankee second baseman smiled proud ly as the Indians routed Whitey Ford during their wild eighth-inning barrage that included a pair of ground rule doubles and a home run by Mickey Vernon. The Tribe then added four more runs off Med sraimrs Chiefs Gain First Spot in NW League By United Press International The Wenatchee Chiefs barged into first place in the Northwest League Wednesday night with a 7-3 decision over the Yakima Bears. Hank Bivens stroked a solo homer in the first frame and Red Helms added a two-run homer in the same inning to get the Chiefs off and running. Yankees Retain League Lead in Junior Baseball The Medford Yankees re tained the lead spot in the Southern Oregon Junior base ball league by defeating Ash land 5-2. Wednesday after noon. . i At the same time Lone Pine trounced the Medford Giants 15-0 on the winners' diamond. The - Yankees got on the scoring path in the first inning with three walks, a fielder's choice, and three singles. Ash land got their two runs in the seventh inning on a walk, an error, and a base hit. In the Giants-Lone Pine game winning pitcher Lowery struck out 13 batsmen and David Johnson hit a home run for the winners. LINESCORE: Ashland 000 000 22 Medford Yankees 2 2 400 010 x- 5 2 DeBoer. King (2) and Roberson; Barnes. Quinney (5) and Barry. Lone Pine 432 420 x 15 9 3 Medford Giants 000 000 0 0 1 7 Knuton and Robertson; Lowery and Harrison. Russia Supreme in Gymnastics Meet Moscow (UPI) Tne Sov iet Union reigned supreme in gymnastics today after sweep ing the individual and team events in the world champion ships. - i . , The powerful Russian squad that conquered all comers in the 1956 Olympic Games at Melbourne, Australia, cap tured top honors in the men's and women's division with ease. Larisa Latynina paced the host team's triumph in the women s events weanesaay. Her victory followed a smash ing one-three placing by Boris Chakhlin and Yuri Titov in the men's standings. REDLEGS TOP SEATTLE Seattle (UPI) The Cin cinnati Redlegs of the Nation al league topped the Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast league 6-2 here Wednesday night in an exhibition game witnessed by 12,509 . fans. League Leaders NATIONAL LEAGUE Player & Club G. AB R. H. Musial. St. L. 70 252 37 91 Pet. .361 358 333 325 318 Mavs. SF 76 305 62 109 Dark. Chi. . 61 249 28 83 Skinner. Pitts. 72 268 48 87 Flood. St. L. 56 179 24 57 AMERICAN LEAGUE Fox. Chi. 76 297 39 97 Power. Clev. 70 279 49 91 Cerv, KC . 70 260 . 54 84 Kuenn. Det. 64 248 33 79 Vernon. Clev. 64 191 28 61 327 326 .323 319 319 Home Runs National L e a g u e Thomas. Pi rates 22: Banks, Cubs 21: Walls. Cubs 17; Cepeda, Giants 16; Ma thews, Braves 16; Mays. Giants 16. American League Jensen, Red Sox 24; Cerv, Athletics 22; Man tle. Yanks 21; Sievers. Senators 19; Triandos, Orioles 16. Runs Batted la National League Thomas, Pi rates 67; Banks, Cubs 58: Spencer, Giants 51; Cepeda, Giants 50; Mavs. Giants 48. American League Jensen, Red Sox 68: Cerv, Athletics 62: Lem. on, Senators 50; Sievers, Senators 49; Gernert, Red box. 4b. Pit chin r National League McMahon, Braves 6-1: Jrarreu, .Plumes 6-2; Worthington. Giants 8-3: Phillips, Cubs 5-2: Koufax. Dodgers 7-3. American League Delock. Red Sox 7-0; Turley. Yankees 12-3; Lar son. Yankees 7-2; Sullivan. Bed Sox 6-2; Ford, Yankees 10-4. Both Majors Play reliever Virgil Trucks in the ninth. Cal McLish, who allowed only five hits before being re moved in the eighth, received credit for his first victory over the Yankees in three years. It was the Yankees' sixth straight loss at home. American League Cleveland ..000 100 074 12 19 3 New York ...010 000 010 2 6 1 McLish. Moesi 8) and Porter. Ford, Trucks (8) and Berra. Winner McLish (6-5). Loser Ford (10-4). HRS Cola vi to. Vernon. (Only game scheduled) National League Milwaukee 020 010 000 3 4 1 Los Angeles 432 100 00x 10 10 1 Willey, Conlay (2), Trowbridge (2). Johnson (8) and Crandall. Wil liams (4-3) and Roseboro. HR Bilko. (Only game scheduled.) Tribune Yakima scored one run in the third and added two more in the sixth on a double by Carlos Ramirez. Wenatchee, however, wrap ped it up with three in the fourth on four singles, an er ror and a 'walk. The Chiefs added their final tally in the eighth when Bivens singled and crossed on Joe Wilson's triple. ' - Salem pushed across two runs in the bottom of the ninth to nip Lewiston 4-3. Jack Dunn opened the Sa lem ninth with his third single and a Lewiston error put two runners aboard. Photios An thony and Milt Martin then rapped singles to score- the two markers. Eugene was outhit but made the most of its six bingles and topped Tri-City '6-2. The Emeralds sewed it up with two in the second and four more in the third on an error, three hits and a walk. The big blow was' a two-run double by Bill Eastburn. All-Stars Dump CWin Valley Baseball Match The Rogue Valley All-Stars dumped Camp White in a non league encounter Wednesday evening behind the pitching of Bill Oerding. Dick McLoughlin, catcher for the winners, assisted the cause by driving in two runs with a triple in the fifth. He than went on to score on an error. Pinch hitter. Bob Smith went in for Vern Parent for the loosers in the ninth and got a double but the home team was unable to parlay it into a run. Jim Smith, pitch ing for Camp White, struck out 13 batters and walked four while going the distance. The winning pitcher issued one base on balls and struck out nine. LINESCORE: Rogue Valley All-stars ' 001 030 000 4 4 Camp White 001 000 000 1 7 Oerding and McLoughlin; Smith and Vansell and Hall. AUSSIE SETS RECORD Dublin (UPI) Australian distance runner Albert "Thom as clipped more than three seconds off the world's rec ord for the three-mile run Wednesday night in defeating his more illustrious compa triot, Merv Lincoln, by 250 yards in an international meet. Thomas competed the long distance event in 13 min utes 11 seconds, erasing the old world mark of 13:14.2 set by Sandor Iharos of Hungary in 1955. AVAILABLE AT CODE NO 181-B ATE D i 'hazier KENTUCKY BOURBON .3 SINCE IOIU B'U lAIEif Ui AID IUUU WMIIUIT UMfikL lUfiUQWJi. UJUUUP 2 " - ----- &S&8& ... J i ALL STARS Willie Mays inning of All-Star game in Luis Aparico (center) and SCORING FIRST RUN in 1958 All-Star game, at Baltimore, Md., is San Francisco's Willie Mays as Umpire Ed Rommel eyes home plate..The Giants star scored again in the second inning, but the American League All-Stars prevailed by a 4 to 3 score. STUDS FACE IN DISTRICT The Cheney Studs and Cra ter Lake Motors will each be gunning for a play-off birth in the district finals when they clash in a district game at Cheney Field tonight at 8 p.m. Winner iOf the game will meef Klamath Falls and Grants Pass in the finals. A second - district game, Sun day, matches the Klamath Valdes TKO's Carter; Asks for Title Shot Spokane, Wash. (UPI) Towering Nino Valdes, fresh from a TKO victory over Har old Carter, pointed his can nons at Floyd Patterson today, and set up a loud cry for a heavyweight title shot. Valdes ended Wednesday night's nationally televised battle at 1:43 of the ninth WINS RICH STAKES : Pawtucket, R.I. (UPI) Boncrist Farm's Backbone, one of New England's most successful racers, today trotted among the nation's best three-year-olds after win ning the rich Providence Stakes at Narragansett Park. Backbone swept to a relative ly easy half-length victory in Wednesday's race,, boosting his 1958 earnings to $122,404. SILKY MAY MISS RACE Inglewood, Calif. (UPI) A cough and slight fever ap peared likely today to keep Silky Sullivan from entering the $100,000 added Westerner at Hollywood Park July 19. Trainer Reggie Cornell called Silky a 'doubtful starter" in the Westerner, although the horse hasn't been declared out of the race as yet. ALL STATE STORES FILL . - WO of the San Francisco Giants steals second base in second Baltimore. Throw from Gus Triandos got past shortstop Mays continued on to third. Umpire is Bill McKinley. MEDFORD GAME Falls nine against Grants Pass at the latter's diamond. Other American Legion Jun ior baseball scheduled this week includes Central-Point at Prineville Saturday after noon, and Central Point at Bend Saturday night and Sun day afternoon. Next Tuesday Central Point and Medford will clash again at Cheney field. ground by battering the help- less uarter about tne ring, flooring him twice. The Cuban told reporters he won the fight for his four-montns-old son, - and added, "Next I want Patterson." Bobby Gleason, manager of the 216-pound Valdes, said Nino would fight "any heavy weight in the world and the winner gets a crack at the champ." The victory was the 10th for Valdes in his last 11 fights and his fourth in a row. For Carter, the defeat was his fourth in 27 starts. It put a halt to his comeback drive which started last month when he outpointed Willi Besmanof after ending a 17-months tour of Army duty. . The Carter camp said Har old "needed a little more training and some condition ing fights before he goes after the ranked fighters again." Valdes had Carter on the verge of a knockout in the second round, staggering him wjth roundhouse blows at least three times. But Carter came back in the fourth with a pressing attack and was in command through the eighth round. One Mile North of Ashland on Highway 99 ( '49 to '53 THRILLS ro so chills STOCK - CAB -jy00 jL at. 7:30 p.m. , RACES at 8 p.m. Wmm. JULY 12 1 2 Rose Gets Tennis Win After Scare ' Portland (UPI) Most of the favorites survived the third day of play Wednesday in the Oregon State Tennis tournament being held at the Irvington Club courts. 1 Defending Champion Bill Rose of Portland got a scare as he dropped the first set to Erwin Douglas, Santa Rosa, Calif., but Rose got rolling in the second set, however, and whipped the unseeded Doug las, 3-6, 6-1, 6-1. Second seeded Glenn Bas sett, Los Angeles, trounced Bill Burley,, Seattle, 6-0, 6-1, in another men's singles match. Art . Kono, Seattle, pulled a mild upset as he de feated Jim Flynn, Portland, 7-5, 6-1 in men's singles play. Yoshi Minegishi, Berkeley, Calif., favorite in the junior men's singles whipped Peter Barizon, San Mateo, Calif., 6- 2, 6-4. Second-seeded Bill Burley, defeated Forest La tham, Yakima, Wash., 6-4, 7- 5, also in junior men's singles play. ' Farel Footman, San Fran cisco, top-seeded in women's singles and Seattle's Joyce Yee, favorite in the junior women's singles bracket did not see action Wednesday. The tourney runs through Sunday. CARDS BEEF UP PITCHING St. Louis--(UPI) The St. Louis Cardinals beefed up their pitching staff Wednes day by purchasing southpaw Chuck Stobbs from the Wash ington Senators, bringing up right-hander Bob Mabe from Omaha of the American Asso ciation and optioning right hander Billy Muffett to the Omaha farm club. Stobbs had a 2-6 record at Washington, and Mabe was 6-1 at Omaha. ' v Valley View Speedway San Diego PCL Lead; Vancouver By GENE BRYANT United Press International Vancouver slammed three home runs at San Diego Wednesday night but it wasn't enough as the blazing Padres romped to a 6-3 victory to tase a one and one-half game lead over second-place Phoe nix in the Pacific Coast League pennant chase. The Pads scored all of their runs in the first inning on six hits and" three walks. Bud Podbielan gave up only four safeties, including two bases empty homers by Ray Bar ker and a third by Joe Dur ham, to register .his sixth win against three losses. Spokane dumped Phoenix 7 Horses in Hollywood Gold Cup Inglewood, Calif. (UPI) A smal field of from four to seven horses was indicated today for the 19th running of the $162,100 Hollywood Gold Cup as racing secretary John Maluvious took entries two days in advance for the race that highlights the Holly wood Park meeting; Four horses were listed as definite starters headed by Ralph Lowe's distance-running star, Galant Man. The others considered certain to go were Eddie Schmidt, Seaneen and Mystic Eye. Pos sible starters were Swirling Abbey, Like Magic and Dark Trust. The smallest Gold Cup field in the previous 18 run ning of the mile and a quar ter classic was in 1955 when King Rach's Rejected emerged the winner in a fied of six starters. Big Money For Winner There were seven starters on three other occasions in 1953 when Royal Serenade won, in , 1954 when Corres pondent won and in 1956 when Swaps was the winner. The small fields were drawn despite the rich prizes not only for the winner who is guaranteed . $100,000 net but for all the horses finish ing in the money. Second place is worth $30,000, as much as the winner normally gets in a $50,000 rate, with the third horse receiving $20, 000 and the fourth $10,000. Salmon Fishing Still Good on Upper Rogue Portland (UPI Here is the weekly report on fishing conditions prepared by the State Game Commission: Southwest: Trout angling poor in Lemolo and Toketee reservoirs; trout angling only fair in North Umpqua; salmon fishing fair at Winchester bay; Coos Bay bar still slow for chinook; salmon fishing good in' upper Rogue; season closes in upper, section on July 15 for both adult chinook and jacks; Willow Creek reservoir and Fish lake in Jackson county spotty. Central: East and Paulina lakes fair to good; some limits taken on bait; Blue lake good on troll; Big Lava slowed down last week but improved Sunday; Crane Prairie fair; Big 'Cultus lake fair on troll; Wickiup reservoir fair to good on troll with flatfish; Twin lakes fair to good; Deschutes river from mouth to Crooked river fair; Ochoco reservoir good; Crescent lake fair; Odell lake fair; Three Creek lake fair for rainbow; Diamond lake fair to good; Lake of the Woods good. ' RACES Adds to Defeats 6-3 by the same 6-3 score to make it two straight over the Gi ants. The Indians sent four runners across the plate in a big sixth inning to delight a crowd of 8,210, while relief pitcher Dick Scott turnedin his second excellent relief job in two nights to preserve the victory. Portland outlasted Salt Lake, 6-5 in the only other regular PCL game played. Seattle dropped a 6-2 decision to the Cincinnati Redlegs be fore 12,508 fans in an exhibi tion contest. Scott came on with one out and two on in the eighth at Spokane, allowing a run-scoring single before getting the side out. The Indian reliever struck out the first two Giant batters in the ninth, then got the third on a pop-up to end the game and preserve "the win for starter Bob Milliken. San Diego sent ' Mountie starter Erv Palica to the showers in the opening frame on three singles and a trio of doubles. iThe Mounties scored single runs in the second and fourth innings on Barker's eighth homer and Durham's 15th. Barker smashed his sec ond four-bagger of the night in the ninth to close out the scoring as Polbielan picked up his sixth win against three defeats. Portland pushed across three runs in the sixth at Salt Lake as the Beavers squared their series with the Bees at one game apiece. Jack Littrell led the three-run uprising with a solo home run. 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