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8 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medferd, Dodgers Maintain IHlex on Milwaukee With 2-1 Victory By MILTON RICHMAN United Press International Okay, so the Dodgers won't be in the World Series, and if they keep fiddlin around they can louse it up for Mil waukee, too. The Braves can't under stand it. They hold a season edge over every club in the National league except those dratted Dodgers, who now have beaten them 12 out of 18 times this year. Walt Alston's crew clinched the season's series Wednesday night with a 2-1 victory over the Braves that sliced their lead to 5V2 games. Jt was the Dodgers' third straight win over Milwaukee and en trenched them a bit more solidly in fourth place. The Braves staked Warren Spahn to a one-run lead in the first inning when Hank Aaron doubled to score Eddie Mathews. But the Dodgers bounced back with a pair (in the fifth on Joe Pignatano's homer, a walk and Norm Larker's triple. Drives in Eight Runs Willie Jones had his best night of the season by driv ine in eight runs in Phila delphia's 12-2 victory over St. Louis, and San Francisco niDDed Cincinnati, 4-3. Pitts burgh won the opener of double header, 4-2, while Chi cago scored a 5-1 triumph in the nightcap which was called because of rain in the bottom of the fifth. The, Yankees ended a four same losing streak and all talk of possible panic with a 7-1 win over the Indians; the Tigers gained a 7-1 decision over the Senators to break a five-game losing streak; Bal timore beat Kansas City, 4-3, and the White Sox won their seventh straight by defeating the Red Sox, 10-8. Jones did all his damage against the Cardinals with a pair of three-run homers and a two-run double. Stan Musial tied Mel Ott's National league record for total extra bases at' 2,165 when he doubled in the first inning. Pinch Single Wins Bill White, just back from the Army, came through with a two-run pinch single in the League Leaders United Press International NATIONAL LEAGUE Player Sc Club G. AB R. H. Pet Musial. St. L. 110 387 59 135 .349 Ashbn.. Phil. 114 458 74 158 .345 Mays. S.F. 118 461 85 151 .328 Aaron, Milw. 119 471 87 154 .327 Skin'r. Pitts. 114 419 78 132 318 AMERICAN LEAGUE Runn'ls, Bos. 110 423 Kuenn. Dei. 107 430 Cerv. K.C. 108 392 Goodmn.. Chi. 84 317 Sievers. Wn. 112 415 79 139 56 138 70 128 35 101 73 132 .329 .321 .321 319 318 Rome Runs National league Banks, Cubs 38; Thomas. Pirates 32; Aaron. Braves 26; Mathews, Braves 25; Robinson, Kedlegs 25. American league Mantle. Yan kees 35: Sievers. Senators 34; Jen sen, Red Sox 33: Cerv. Athletics 29; Colavito. Indians 28. Runs Batted In National league B ink). Cubs 101; Thomas, Pirates 95: Aaron. Braves 77; Anderson, Phils 76; Bover. Cardinals 75. American league Jensen. Red Sox 106: Sievers. Senators 89; Cerv, Athletics 85; Colavito, Indians 80; Mantle. Yankees 78. Pitching ' National league Grissom. Giants 7-3: Raydon. Pirates 7-3: Purkey, Redlegs 14-7; Worthington, Giants 10-5: Willey, Braves 8-4. American league Delock. Red Sox 11-3: Hyde. Senators 9-3; Moore. White Sox 9-3: Turley. Yan kees 17-6; Ford. Yankees 14-6. New Addition Sportsman Park A sub-divided Portion of the Original Har riman Lodge Estate. A famous hunting and fishing resort on Upper Klamath Lake. mm FOR Wl. - You can own a year-around vacation spot. Excellent duck hunting (both public and 250 acres of private shooting grounds for cabin site owners, where fishing is excellent in algea-free waters of Pelican Bay (known as Rocky Point Recreation Area) 7 and 8 pound Kamloop Trout and Rainbow are everyday occurrences. Private docks for boats, gateway to sky lakes, scenery, hiking. Tomahawk Ski Bowl 1 mile from Sportsman Park ... Ideal for those who enjoy outdoor activities in both summer and winter. SEE these New Cabin Sites We will not give you a fast sales talk and we certainly will not give you the feeling of being obligated. We are proud of what we have to offer. Good Choice of Lots Available Title Insurance Furnished No SEE "BOB" Oreeon, Thursday, August 21, 1938 sixth to give the Giants their victory and hand Brooks Law rence his ninth straight de feat. Dick Stuart's 11th homer with one on helped the Pi rates to their opening game victory over the Cubs. Chuck Tanner ripped off three straight hits against loser Bob Friend to pace the Cubs in the abbreviated nightcap. Yegi Berra pulled the Yan kees out of the doldrums when he drove in three runs with a pair of homers off rookie Gary Bell of the In dians. Leaves Sick Bed Al Kaline came out of a sick bed to knock in six runs with a pair of three-run hom ers that beat the Senators. Bob Nieman contributed a home run, triple and a single that accounted for three of the Orioles' four runs in their victory over the Athletics. Jim Landis' two-run homer in the seventh inning brought the surging White Sox from behind and made it a happy 50th birthday for manager Al Lopez. The victory was the White Sox' 20th in their last 26 games. Have Nots Rise Up In Coast Circuit By GENE BRYANT Spokane's Art Fowler led a second division uprising in the Pacific Coast league Wed nesday night as he hurled the Tribe to a 7-4 victory over pacesetting Phoenix. While Fowler turned back the hard-hitting Giants on nine hits to pick up his 14th win of the season, Don Urqu- hart pitched Salt Lake to a 5-2 win over second-place San Diego before a Kids' Night crowd of some 15.000, the largest turnout in Padre his tory. Sacramento made it ..two straight over third-place Van couver, 3-2, and Seattle com- WHAT IS GOLFDOM'S LOWEST SCORE ? The world's all-time lowest official core on an iS-Vlole, go cours wa mad by A.E.Smith, Wsolacome. profess'iovta!, play ing on his home cours in Eng land with a 55wflich is 15 un dtf par on -the measured 4,7.49 yard course; TOP THIS! To any reader submitting contrary proof, Tip Brady will send a signed, wallet-sized diploma. Write to: BEAT THIS, eo this paper. Box 573; Sausalito, Calif. Enclose self-addressed, tamped envelope. LARGE ONLY B eat Th is f STI iTTlOO no Monthly Banks or Financing Necessary ' SLOAN AT HARRIMAN RESORT STANDINGS PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB Phoenix 77 75 73 65 64 61 59 56 55 57 60 68 69 70 74 77 .383 .568 2 .349 4i .493 122 .481 132 .468 15' 2 .444 18 1 2 .421 21 a San Diego Vancouver Portland Salt Lake Spokane . . Sacramento Seattle Wednesday's Results Spokane 7, Phoenix 4 Sacramento 3, Vancouver 2 Salt .Lake City 5. San Diego 2 Seattle 6, Portland 5 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Milwaukee 70 50 San Francisco .... 63 54 Pittsburgh 62 56 Los Angeles 58 60 St. Louis 56 61 Chicago 56 65 Philadelphia . 53 62 Cincinnati - 55 65 Pet. GB .583 .538 5, 325 7 .492 11 .479 12"i .463 14 2 .461 14,2 .458 15 Wednesday's Results Pittsburgh 4. Chicago 2 (1st) Chicago 5. Pittsburgh 1 (2nd 5 innings, rain) San Francisco 4. Cincinnati 3 Philadelphia 12, St. Louis 2 (night) Los Angeles 2, Milwaukee 1 (ruht) AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L Pet. GB .625 New York 75 Chicago 64 Boston 59 Detroit 57 Baltimore . 56 Cleveland 57 .538 10'i .504 14i j .487 162 .479 172 .475 18 .458 20 .432 23 Kansas City 54 Washington 51 Wednesday's Results New York 7. Cleveland 1 Chicago 10. Boston 8 Detroit 7. Washington 1 (night) Baltimore 4, Kansas City 3 (night) NORTHWEST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB Yakima 35 18 Wenatchee 32 21 Lewiston 29 24 Eugene 28 28 Tri-City 26 29 Salem 13 43 .060 .604 3 .547 6 .500 8 ',2 .473 10 .232 23 2 Wednesday's Results Wenatchee 7. Eugene 6 Yakima 11. Tri-City 8 Lewiston 8, Salem 0 pleted a perfect night for the have-not clubs as the Rainiers shaded Portland, 6-5, for their sixth' straight win and third in a row over the Beavers. The night's action - left Phoenix two games in front of San Diego. The Padres lead Vancouver by2M games. Fowler stopped y the Phoenix-home run power . cold while continuing his mastery over the Giants. He also dou bled home two runs to break a 3-3 deadlock in the sixth inning. In his last series at Phoenix, Fowler won one game and saved another in relief. Urquhart throttled San Diego on five hits while coasting to his 13th triumph against eight setbacks. The Padres jumped off to an early 1-0 lead, but the Bees tied it in the third, then broke it up . witn a three - run burst in the sixth on three singles and a double. Sacramento pushed across the winning run against Van couver in the sixth when Bob Roselli singled home Carlos Paula, who had walked and gone to second base on a passed ball. Roger Osenbaugh went the distance for the Solons for his 11th victory. The win gave Sacramento a 2-0 series edge. v At Portland, the Rainiers took a 4-1 lead after three in nings of play, then added sin gle tallies in the fourth and sixth frames. The Beavers made it ' close ' by pushing across a pair of runs in the seventh, but Jim Davis shut the home club out over the last two frames to preserve the win for Max Surkont, kiio is now 10-11 on the sea son. Larry Jansen was charg ed with his 10th defeat against eight wins. Eddie Kazak and Dick Ditusa led the 16-hit Rainier assault with a homer apiece, both solo blasts. To Interest . or Carrying Charges $775 Cfrr4r- x b6 - 14;:-' ' TIRING, -BADLY CUT, Roy Harris is almost wide open in fight with Heavyweight Champion Floyd Patterson, who is Medford. smarts Sports Anti-Trust Bill Proposed by Washington (UPD A plan to save minor leagues from extinction will be placed be fore : the convening Congress next year by Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R-Ill.). The outspoken Senate lead er outlined his own sports anti-trust bill Wednesday and expressed hope for a January passage of the measure. Dirkson said his bill would rescue minor leagues from the threat of unrestricted major league television and broad casting by imposing a 75-mile blackout during home1 games. This in turn would safeguard professional baseball, football basketball and hockey from costly anti-trust law suits. His bill is almost a dupli cate of an earlier measure which passed the House and died in a Senate judiciary sub Lead Held By Mqrc.no Tucson, Ariz. (UPD Don Morano of Belleville, 111., took a surprising three-stroke lead into second round play of the 13th annual 72-hole Jaycee International Junior Golf tournament today. Morano tallied five birdies Wednesday ,to put together halves of 33 for a 66 on the par-70 El Rio County club course. The favored Buddy Baker of Florence, S. C, fired a 37-32-69. The USGA junior champ shot a 32 on the back side to. make - up for early trouble when he bogied three of the first seven holes. Tucson, Ariz. (UPD Biff Lo'vett of Portland, Ore., shot a 71 Wednesday in the first round of the International Jaycee junior golf tourna ment, five strokes off the pace set by Don Morano of Belle ville, N.J. David Munro, also of Port land, had a 72 and Lynn Yturri of Ontario shot a 78 in first round play. Eugene Slates' Mack Tourney Eugene (UPD The Con nie Mack state baseball tour nament open here Friday night with Beaverton rest ing in the favorite spot. ' Four teams will vie in the double - elimination affair for the title. Beaverton, Eugene, Parkrose and Portland are all scheduled for first night ac tion. . , . Friday. Q . August 22 CARS Klamath Falls Crescent City Coos Bay Valley One Mile Time Trials 7:30 Races 8:00 TWBUNB Sen. Dirksen committee. If passed by Con gress, it would have given blanket exemption from anti trust legislation to the four major professional sports. D;cksen's plan also would legalize the controversial player reserve clause, pro football's college draft, some broadcast rights and geogra phical arrangements of teams Virg Akins Scores KO Chicago (UPD Virgil Ak ins who scored his sixth straight knockout as welter weight champion Wednesday night, said today he is "final ly ready for the big money." Akins, of St. Louis, Mo., made his first appearance since winning the title in June and scored a 10th round tech nical "knockout over Charley (Tombstone) Smith in a tele vised non-title match at the Chicago Stadium. But he ab sorbed a beating before his 10th round rally pulled it out of the fire. Akins, cut over both eyes, was a constant target of Smith's long, flicking lefts and a' score of solid rights un til the end came for the Los Angeles battler. Complaint Filed Against Drug Firm Portland (UPD Suit was filed here Wednesday against a drug firm making tranquil izer pills by the parents of a youth who consumed three or four bottles of the drug after watching a television pro gram. , John B. Cramer seeks a Circuit Court' judgment of $100,250- from Carter Prod ucts, Inc., through its Wallace Laboratories division. Also named as a defendant was the Pioneer Broadcasting com pany. s" The Cramer complaint claims that the 11-year-old boy saw .the Miltown tran quilizer pills described on a television program and ac cepted an invitation to write for literature and samples through the mails. Cramer declared in his complaint that the boy received six bottles of the drug and used three or four of them without his par ents' knowledge. The com plaint alleges serious physical and mental injury resutled. FROM Eugene Roseburg Med ford View Speedway North of 'Ashland On Hiway"99 - r . CLIp Tms C0CP0N ------ v Aim tiiic nnunnii final minutes of Los Angeles hitting him at will. Drag Races This Sunday Regional drag races, spon sored by Southern Oregon Timing association, will be in the spotlight this Sunday " at the C.amp White drag strip. More than 100 entries are expected to gun their power ful engines in anticipation of record-breaking performances. Many contestants will tune their cars for the last time be fore they enter the second an nual Northwest Gas Cham pionship races slated for Sept. 6-7 at Camp White. More than $1,000 in trophies, savings bonds and merchandise awards will be given away in the championship meet and entries are already coming in from far and wide. Meanwhile" drivers have only this coming Sunday to tune their, cars against the electronic clocks and make final adjustments before the big meet that will be the semi-climax to the drag rac ing program, for this year in the Rogue river valley. ' Association officials stated that time trials are slated to open at 9:30 a.m. and no en tries will be accepted after 12 noon. Eliminations will be held following lunch. . Move Possible For Tribe Nine Cleveland, Ohio (UPD The Cleveland Indian, whose attendance has dropped stead ily since the golden days of the "Veeck ear," will be moved to another city unless the trend is quickly reversed. "Attendance must improve" Willian R. Daley, chairman of the board of Indians, said Wednesday, "or moving the team will become a necessity. "We obviously c a n n 0 1 go along the way things are." ' JOINS SPORTS MAGAZINE I New York (UPD Harold (Red) Grange, who gained fame as a college and pro fessional football star, has joined the staff of Sports Il lustrated. He succeeds the late Herman Rickman as the magazine's college football crystal-gazer. . Third Victim of Crash Dies in Portland Portland (UPD Donna Jean DeFreitas, 21, Portland, died Wednesday night from burns suffered Aug. 9 in a flaming two car collision near Beaver ton. Her death was the third re sulting from, the crash. August J. Strassel, 41, was killed in the accident and his daughter, Linda, 9, died Saturday night from burns suffered in the crash. HARD TOP , ' " - RACING Southern Oregon Invitational ONLY HARD TOP RACE OF THE SEASON ADMITS ONE ADULT Curtis Cup Golfer Has Tough Test Darien, Conn. (UPD Bar bara Romack of Sacramento, Calif.,-- seeking to regain the National Women's Amateur golf championship she won in 1954, faced the stiff est test of the six U.S. Curtis Cup play ers who teed off today at the Wee Burn Country club in the fifth round of the tourna ment. Miss Romack met Jessie Valentine of Scotland, the last surviving member of the British Curtis Cup team. Two rounds were scheduled for today to narrow the field down to the four semifinal ists. The five other U.S. Curtis Cuppers, headed by the tour nament defending champion, Joanne Gunderson of Seattle, Wash., all were favored to ex tend the formful pattern of the event thus far. Miss Gun derson's fifth-round opponent was Rosemary Neundorf of Toronto. In the matches involving other Curtis Cuppers, Anne Quast of Marysville. Wash., met Mrs. Gaines P. Wilson of Louisville, Ky.: Ann Casey Johnstone of Mason City, Iowa, played Mrs. Dana Brown of Palmdale, Calif.; Polly Riley of Fort Worth, Tex., faced Judy Anderson of Sacramento, and Meriam Bai ley of Palatine, IlL. played Sandra Clifford of Mexico. Drain Wins NBC Scrap Wichita, Kan. (UPD The Drain, Ore., Black Sox scored two runs in the last of the ninth to defeat Macon, Ga., Peadhes, 5-4 Wednesday in National Baseball Congress tournament play. Macon relief hurler Claude Green walked in the winning run after the Black Sox had loaded the sacks and scored once. Elwood Hahn pitched the distance for Drain, allowing nine hits. 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