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Newspaper Page Text() TRIBUNE, KUdford, Oreew. Hday, July 25, 1958 fogi Itrikes 0 ' Br FRED DOWN United Pies International Yogi Berra may look a bit (Sunny playing right field but tare's nothing humorous to rival pitchers about the way he's swinging his bat. And the .432 batting pace he struck since July 4 is a ringing answer to critics who were saying a few weeks ago that 33-year-old Yogi was washed up. Berra struck the key blow Thursday a two-run eighth- Phoenix, Vancouver Only .001 Back of Pads in Coast Loop By GENE BRYANT United Press International The Phoenix Giants scored two runs in the 10th inning at San .Diego Thursday to leave only .001 percentage points separating the Pacific Coast league's three top clubs. Two errors, a sacrifice fly and a single let in both Giant runs as the Padres dropped a 3-1 decision, giving Phoenix the series, three games to one. The victory sent the Ari zonans into a second place tie with Vancouver's Mounties, who dropped a 1-0 decision to Seattle. The win gave the Rainiers a 3-1 series edge. Salt Lake broke a three game drought against Spo kane with a 6-2 win. Sacra mento and Portland split a pair in other games. The Solons took the seven-inning opener. 3-0. but Portland came back for a 6-3 win in the nightcap. Errors Hurt The Padres defense fell apart in the 10th as Carrol Hardy dropped a fly ball to give Jim Finnigan life at second base. , Losing Pitcher Bob Alex ander then bobbled a bunt by Bill Wilson to put the winning runs on base. Sal Taormina sent Finigan home with a sac rifice fly, and Andre Rodgers followed with a single to score Wilson. Jim Dyck drove in the only run at Seattle with a single in the ninth inning. Pinch hitter Gale Wade led off the frame with a walk, moved to second on a wild pitch, then came home on Dyck's shot be tween first and second. Ted Wieand, who gave up only three hits, went the route for the Rainiers to pick up his sixth win against eight de feats. Wieand had a no-hitter going until giving up the first fclountie safety in the seventh. Ttjigh One to Lose Losing Pitcher Joe Hatten limited the Rainiers to a single hit during the seven frames he worked. Eddie O'Brien put Salt Lake back into the win column as the Bees salvaged the finale of their series with Spokane. Salt Lake now trails the lead ers by only 4 Vt games. Both clubs collected nine hits but the Indians made There Is Nothing Old Fashioned About Tru-Mix Concrete .TRU-MIX CONCRETE is delivered on the job in the k right condition for the best modern improvement in concrete mixing. TRU-MIX CONCRETE is scientifically designed, controlled and mixed. TRU-MIX CONCRETE makes it possible to ob tain uniform strength and appearance in the finished work. TRU-MIX - YOUR BEST CONCRETE BARGAIN SINCE GRANDMA'S DAY! Delivered SP 2-5271 Answers Critics With Bat, Key Blow inning homer as the Yankees .rallied from a 5-0 deficit to beat Jim (No Hit) Bunning and the Detroit Tigers, 10-7. The Yankees had scored four runs in the seventh to cut De troit's margin to 5-4 and Ber ra's homer with Mickey Mantle on base put them ahead, 6-5. Berra, who had two hits in three tries, now has hit safely in seven straight games and has lifted his average from a sickly .227 on July 4 to .260. their's count for two runs in the third, fifth and eighth in nings. O'Brien, who gave way to Don Kildoo in the ninth with two men on base, held the Indians well in check un til they broke loose for a pair of runs in the seventh. Portland collected nine hits in the second game against Sacramento after being held to a pair of safeties by Roger Osenbaugh in the opener. The Beavers broke a 2-2 tie in the seventh with three runs, then coasted to the victory and a 3-2 series margm. The Sacs gave Osenbaugh three runs in the first inning of the opener and it was all the Solon righthander needed to post his seventh triumph ITNESCORES: Phoenix ... 000 000 100 23 San Dieeo 010 000 000 0 1 6 Burnside. Shiplev (7), G. Jones (91 and Haller: Alexander. Wojey (10) and A. Jones. Vancouver ... 000 000 000 0 3 Seattle 000 000 001 1 2 0 0 Hatten. Heman (81, Hughes (9) and Khite; Wieand and Dotterer Spokane 000 000 200 2 9 Sal Tjike .002 020 02x 6 9 Hanlon. George 13). L. Sherry (7) and N. Sherry: O'Brien. Kildoo (9) and Naton. Peterson .(9). (1st game) Sacramento 300 000 0 3 S 1 Portland 000 000 0 0 2 1 Osenbaugh and Dalrymple; Sin gleton. Judson (7) , and Tornay, Neal (1). , (2nd game) Sacramento ..200 000 0013 8 Portland .... 000 020 31x 6 9 Bridges. Kume (5), Osenbaugh (7) and Koseui; J arisen ana roroay. Royal Pitcher Comes Close To No-Hitter United Press International Charlie Rabe ,of the Mon treal Royals came within five outs of pitching a no-hit, no run game against the Havana Sugar Kings in the Interna tional League Thursday night. Enrique Izquierdos ruined Rabe's bid with a one-out triple in the eighth inning but that was the ex - Cincinnati pitcher's only lapse on the way to a 9-0 victory. Second-place Toronto kept pace by edging Miami, 5-4. Rochester swept a double header from Columbus. The Red Wings won a 10-inning opener, 4-2, and returned with a 3-0 verdict in the night cap. results. TRU-MIX uses every CONCRETE C? 248 E. McANDREWS RD. Against That average is nine points higher than his mark last sea son and, with 16 homers, he should also top his 1957 total of 24. Yanks Stretch Lead Mantle and Gil McDougald also homered for the Yankees, who caught up to Bunning after the slender fireballer had held them to one hit for six. innings. The Tigers staged a two-run rally in the ninth before 15-game winner Bob Turley, seventh Yankee pitch er, finally got them out. The victory, the Yankees' third straight over Detroit, stretched their American League lead to a massive 13 Vi games. The American league record of 19V4 is held by the 1936 Yankees. The Baltimore Orioles knocked off the Chicago White Sox, 7-3, and the Cleve land Indians beat the Wash ington Senators, 6-1, in the other AX. games. Boston at Kansas City was rained out. The Milwaukee Braves' Na tional league lead dwindled to six percentage points when they dropped a 4-0 decsion to the St. Lous Cardinals. The second-place San Francsco Gi ants were rained out of their t w i-night doubleheader in Philadelphia but the Pitts burgh Pirates beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-3, and the Cincinnati Redlegs downed the Chicago Cubs, 4-3. , Milt Pappas, 20-year-old rookie right-hander, pitched a five-hitter and contributed a homer and a double to the Orioles' 12-hit attacks Bob Nieman also homered for the Orioles who dealt Jim Wil son his eighth defeat com pared with'seven victories. Four-Hitter For Jones Rookie Gary Bell pitched a three-hitter and Russ Nixon drove in four runs with four hits as the Indians handed Hal Griggs his eighth loss. Rocky Colavito also homered for Cleveland while Ken Aspro monte homered for Washing ton's run in the third inning. Sam (Toothpick) Jones pitched a four-hitter and struck out five batters to win his eighth game for the Cardi nals. Warren Spahn was kayoed in the first inning when the Cardinals scored two runs on singles by Stan Musial, Ken Boyer, Del Ennis and Gene Freese'. Don Blasin game missed the game ending his 336-g a m e consecutive playing streak. Dick Stuart's two-run ho mer was the big blow for the Pirates, who completed a three-game sweep of their se rier with Los Angeles. Rookie George Witt received credit for this third win while Stan Williams suffered his fifth loss and second in as many days. Ed Bailey hit a two-run eighth-inning homer that lift ed the Redlegs to their vic tory over the Cubs. Baley's homer followed a single by pinch-hitter Jerry Lynch and gave the victory to Alex Kell- ner, who shutout the Cubs for the last 2 23 innings. Frank Robinson also homered for the Redlegs. LINESCOKES: American League Washington . 001 000 0001 3 1 Cleveland .... 022 000 20x 6 9 0 Griggs. Valentinetti (3). Con stable (8) and FitzGerald. Bell (4-4) and Nixon. Loser Griggs (3-8). HRS Nixon, Colavito, As promonte. Baltimore . 202 021 0007 12 0 Chicago 100 100 001 3 5 1 Pappas (7-3) and Triandos. Wil son, Shaw (3), Staley (6), Qualters (7). Keegan (8) and Battey. Loser Wilson (7-8). HRS Nieman, Pap pas. New York ..000 000 424 10 10 2 Detroit . 003 020 0027 12 2 Larsen, Monroe (4). Trucks (6), Duren (7), Kucks (3), Shantz (9), Turley (9) and Howard. Bunning, Aguirre (8), Foytack (9) and Wil son. Winner Duren (5-3).' Loser Bunning (8-7). HRS Throneberry, Berra, McDougald. Mantle, Harris. National League St. Louis 200 020 000 10 ' 0 Milwaukee .... 000 000 00 0 4 1 Jones (8-7) and Smith. Spahn, Rush (1). Robinson (6), Conley (7) and Crandall. Loser Spahn (12-7). Los Angeles 000 000 102 3 6 2 Pittsburgh ... 000 400 Olx 5 9 1 Williams, Klippstein (4), Kipp (5), Labine (7) and Roseboro, Pig natano (7). Witt. Gross (6). Face (9) and Hall. Winner Witt (3-2). Loser Williams (6-5). HR Stuart, Neal. Chicago 000 003 000 3 9 0 Cincinnati ..020 000 02x 4 8 0 Briggs. Henry (8) and S. Taylor. Lawrence, Kellner (6), Acker (9) and Bailey. Winner Kellner (2-1). Losr Henry (2-1). HRS Robin son. Bailey. Three Tied In Eastern Baltimore tt!PD Gary Player, a little South African in search of "the Yankee dol lar," shared the lead with two other steady strokers today going into the second round of the Eastern Open Golf tournament. ' Player, who has averaged better than $1,000 a week since joining tne American tour, posted a four-under-par 68 in his first official tour over the Mount Pleasant course Thursday to tie Mike Fetchick and Bob Rosburg for th lead. Tigers STANDINGS PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB San Diego Vancouver 57 58 58 51 47 45 44 43 43 44 44 46 51 56 60 59 .570 .569 .569 .526 .480 Phoenix Salt Lake . Portland . Spokane 9 .446 12 i Seattle .423 15 .422 13 Sacramento Thursday's Results Sacramento 3-3, Portland 0-6 Phoenix 3, San Diego 1 (10 in nings) Salt Lake 6. Spokane 2 Seattle 1, Vancouver 0 I How The Series Ended Spokane 3. Salt Lake 1 Portland 3. Sacramento 2 Seattle 3. Vancouver 1 Phoenix 2, San Diego 1 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. , L. Pet. .562 .556 .494 .489 .484 GB Milwaukee 50 San Francisco ' 50 Chicago 46 St. Louis 43 Pittsburgh 44 Cincinnati 43 Philadelphia 41 6 6','j 7 .483 7 .482 7 Los Angeles 41 .451 10 Thursday's Results St. Louis 4. Milwaukee 0 Pittsburgh 5, Los Angeles 3 S.F. at Phil, (2, twinight, post poned, rain) Cincinnati 4, Chicago 3 (night) AMERICAN LEAGUE j W. L. New York 61 30 Boston 47 43 Baltimore 4S 45 Kansas City 43 46 Chicago 44 49 Cleveland ; 40 50 Detroit 42 48 Washington 39 54 Pet. GB .670 .522 13 "i .500 15 Va .483 17 .473 18 .468 18 S .467 18 ',i .419 23 Thursday Results New York 10, Detroit 7 Baltimore 7, Chicago 3 Cleveland 6. Washington -1 Boston at K. City (postponed, rain) NORTHWEST LEAGUE W. L Pet. GB Yakima 15 15 16 13 11 6 .652 .625 .593 1 .520 3 .407 6 Lewiston .. Tri-City Wenatchee Eugene Salem .230 10 ii Thursday's Results Yakima 6. Tri-City 5 Wenatchee 6. Eugene 3 Salem 4, Lewiston 3 League Leaders United Press International NATIONAL LEAGUE Player & Club G. AB R. H. Musial, St. L. 85 304 45 108 Mays. S.F. .. 88 349 69 120 Dark, Chi 75 299 36 98 Ashburn, Phi. 86 343" 53 112 Skinner, Pgh. 85 320 60 102 Pet. .355 .344 328 327 319 AMERICAN LEAGUE Runnels, Bos. 84 319 56 10S Power, Cle. .. 86 342 58 111 Goodm'n. Chi. 60 234 25 76 Cerv, K.C. 82 305 58 98 Fox, Chi 94 373 50 119 332 325 325 321 319 Home Runs National league Thomas. Pi' rates 27; Banks. Cubs 26; Walls, Cubs 21; Mathews, Braves 20: Aaron. Braves 20. American league Jensen, Red Sox 28; ManUe, Yankees 26; Sie vers. Senators 25; Cerv. Athletics 24; Colavito, Indians 19. Runs Batted In National league Thomas, Pirates 77; Banks, cubs 74; . Anderson, Phillies 62; Cepeda, Giants 60; Spencer, Giants 56; Boyer, Cardin als 56. American league Jensen, Red sox 85; cerv. Atnieucs 67; snevers, Senators 62; Lemon, Senators 58; Malzone, Boston 56. Pitching National league Semproch, Phil lies 12-6; Purkey, Redlegs 11-6; Koufax. Dodgers 7-4: Spahn, Braves 12-7; Worthington, Giants 8-5. American league "Delock, Red Sox 10-0; Turley. Yankees 15-3; Hyde, Senators 8-2; Ford. Yankees 12-4; Sullivan, Red box 8-3. . Bears in Front Again in NWL United Press International The Yakima Bears are back in first place in the North west League today after a one-day stand by the Lewis- ton Broncs. Yakima nicked Tri-City 6-5 to move ahead of the pack Thursday night, while Salem was edging Lewiston 4-3. Bob Campbell snuffed out 17 hitters via the strikeout route as Wenatchee topped Eugene, 6-3. Bailey Brem and Bill Eastburn touched him for solo homers but the strikeout pitch kept him out of trouble VET CENTER RETIRES Detroit (UPD Center Frank Gatski of the Detroit Lions announced his retirement Wednesday after a 12-year stint in pro football. Gatski began his career with the Cleveland Browns in 1946 and moved to the Lions last season. He played in 11 cham pionship games. W1 VALLEY VIEW SPEEDWAY One Mile North ef Ashland en Highway 99 Time Trials et 7:30 p.m. RACES at 8 p.m. Ryne Duren Dropped by Hurled Ball Detroit (DPD Ryne Duren's father picked the wrong day to watch his son pitch for the first time since he joined the major leagues. The near-sighted New York Yankee relief artist was felled by Paul Foytack, another fast baller, in Thursday's New York-Detroit Tiger game and rushed to a hospital where x-rays showed no fracture. The elder Duren, hearing and reading of his 6 foot, 2 inch, 195 pound son's ex ploits with, the American league leaders he's saved 16 victories, posted a 1.56 earned run average, struck out 63 and walked only 24 in 54 in nings journeyed to Detroit from his Cazenovia, Wis., home. i Duren had pitched two hit less innings while New York wiped out a 5-0 deficit and went ahead 6-5. He had two strikes and no balls on him with two out in the ninth when he was hit. New York went on to score four more runs and win, 10-7, Duren was winning pitcher. "I knew it was going to be a bad pitch as soon as I let go of it," Foytack said. "I was so dumbfounded I couldn't yell at him to get out of the way." Former Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto, who now helps broadcast the Yankees games, said "feeling was running high" on the Yankee bench in a night sportscast. He added that second baseman Gil Mc Dougald had words with Tiger catcher Red Wilson, first base coach Don Lund and the plate umpire, following the inci dent. However, in Cleveland where the Yanks went immed iately after the game, no player would accuse Foytack of throwing at Duren,. Spit Costs Williams $250 Fine Chicago (UPD It's more than spitting distance from Kansas City, Mo., to Chicago but Boston Red Sox slugger Ted Williams today felt a $250 impact for a spitting incident back in Kansas City's ball park. Ted apologized and readied ,a check in payment of a $250 'fine levie by American league President Will Harridge, after the Boston star retaliated to boos from Kansas City fans Wednesday night ,with a stream of saliva. Williams said Thursday night, he was "very sorry' lover the incident which oc curred during a "fit of tem per." Fans jeered Williams with a flurry of boos when he failed to run out a fourth-inning dribbler down the first base line. As the Red Sox slugger turned toward the Boston dug out, boos went up from the crowd. Williams spat and the fans turned it on more loudly It was the second time Wil liams was fined for expressing his resentment with saliva. He was slapped with an unusually severe fine of $5,000 in 1956 by Boston Manager Joe Cro nin when he spafat the crowd in Boston's Fenway Park dur ing a game with the New York Yankees. VETERAN NEWSMAN DIES La Paz, Bolivia (UPD Luis V. Zavala, 56, veteran news paperman, died here Thurs day. He had been United Press staff correspondent in Bolivia for nearly 25 years and later worked for United Press In ternational. He also had worked on the editorial staffs of such top Bolivian newspa pers as La Razon and El Diario. . SOVIET WRITER DIES Moscow -l-TOPD One of the Soviet Union's most popular writers of the 1920s, Mikhail Zoshchenko, died at 63 in Len ingrad on Tuesday. '49 to '53 STOCK CAR SATURDAY JULY 26 'CLIP THIS COUPON-----, fiCDi And This Coupon j 07 Admits One Adult! SPORTS Agness-lllahe Race on Sunday Agness One of the lareest crowds ever to gather at this Rogue river town is expected on Ssunday, July 27, 1958 for the annual barbecue and boat race sponsored by the Agness Community council. Cash prizes of S500. $250. $150, and $100 are offered in the race, a lapsed time event, trom Agness to nearby Illahe and return. The race is ODen to all with no. restrictions on the size of boats or the num ber of motors. The course in cludes a number of white riffles. A western style barbecue will be served from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The race will start at 2:30 p.m. 1 Agness may be reached by the Rogue river mail boats from Gold Beach, starting the 3-mue river trip at 8 a.m., or by car from Powers. Queen of the celebration will be Dicked from amnnff Linda Hawley, Diana Tucker, Larryon Lucas, Barbara Jack son, Marilyn Stringer and Bernice Wood. Crowning will be at 10:30 a.m. Sunday. Turquoise is the birthstone for December. of SALESMAN'S SAMPLES from MEDFORD ON MEN'S and BOYS' JACKETS FOR i$M f'l MEN'S Men's Sizes 40 and 42 Boys7 Sizes 5 thru 16 MEN'S DEPARTMENT MAIN FLOOR BOYS' DEPARTMENT LOWER FLOOR Chain Saw, Parsons Keep Unblemished in Softball M and W Chain Saw and Parsons Motors kept their rec ords unmarred in the Jack son County Softball associa tion with victories on the Camp White field last night. The Chain Saw gang de feated Rogue Valley Dairy Maids 20 to 2 but the Parsons had rougher going, barely beating the Butte Falls Log gers 3 to 2. M and W chalked up its fifth triumph and the Motor men made it four in a row. Steals Home Barney Riggs stole home for the winning run in the bottom of the seventh inning for Parsons. Riggs doubled and went to third on a single by Cliff Lacy. Parsons had taken a 2 to 0 lead in the sec ond inning but the Loggers tied it up in the top of the seventh on hits by Lloyd Holmes and Edwin Ellis, a REPLACES FULLMER New York (UPD Spider Webb, Chicago middleweight, has been named to fight Frank Szuzina of Germany in a 10 rounder at Madison Square Garden Wednesday night. Webb replaced Gene Fullmer of West Jordan, Utah, when the former middleweight champion suffered a cut eye while training for the Szuzina bout. ' (QflF SEASON SALE! LflV-flfflflY EMU! One only of many, many styles car coats, stadium coats, clicker wool melton, tackle tweil, poplin, gabardine, polished cot tons Plaids, stripes, solids, in many colors. ONLY ONCE A YEAR DO YOU HAVE THE CHANCE TO SAVE LIKE THIS! . . . ji BOYS' 2"J7 fielder's option and two er rors. For M and W Willie Barn um swatted two homers, a sin gle and a double in four times up. Dick Meister also homered and he and Jim ' House and Chuck Hoyt had three safeties each in four .batting turns. LINESCORES: M and W 223 5920 15 3 Dairy Maids 200 00 2 3 7 Barnum and Brittsan; Barron and Bigham. Butte Falls 000 000 22 3 2 Parsons 020 000 13 3 2 B. Irwin and D. Moore; Sweet, Weatherford and B. Riggs. CRATER LAKE MOTORS' IA D 1 NEW ANGLIA TUDOR 39 CRATER LAKE FALL in Jackets short models, coats. In leathers, suedes, ONLY $5)(j5)00 per month rr-'-nm i j , ; ' fj 30 hu rm ft ; , 9 or buy on one of our liberal ' credit plans. 1 Jameson Leads At French Lick French Lick, Ind. (UPD A tough fight shaped up in the French Lick Women's Open golf tournament today with Betty Jameson holding a slim, one-stroke lead going into the second round. Miss Jameson came in with a one-under-par 73 Thursday on the 6,770-yard course, dampened by recent rains. Right behind her with a 74 was Faye Crocker, another leading money winner, from Uruguay. Beverly Hanson was in tha third spot with a 75. SAVE $250 on English Fords! 35 Miles Per Gallon MOTORS T, 1 & KfTK, 1 R I r o o' . . im