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8 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Thursday, April 1 6, 1959 Pirates, Tigers Hit With Identical 0-5 United Picss International Please, somebody, open up that starting gate so poor Pittsburgh and Detroit can get out. Here the season is only a week old and the Pirates and Tigers already have hit rock bottom with identical 0-5 rec ords. If they don't get a move on soon, you can put a big black asterisk in front of both entries denoting "left at the post." Pittsburgh and Detroit can console themselves by recall ing the 1951 Giants lost 11 in a row during April and still came on to win the pennant. That isn't much consolation, though. Not when the Pirates remember they dropped their first eight games of the sea son in 1955 and finished last or when the Tigers think back to how they also wound up in the basement after losing their first eight games in 1952. - Cincinnati handed the Pi rates their fifth straight loss, 10-5, Wednesday while un beaten Cleveland stayed atop of the American league by dealing the Tigers their fifth consecutive setback, 2-1, in 10 innings. The Yankees remained close IKlDgh-iBred Landing GDdds-GDn At Many (Editors Note: This is the third of several dispatches on the leading Kentucky Derby candidates). New York -flJPD- On breed ing alone, First Landing, the 1958 juvenile champion and a highly regarded candidate for the Kentucky Derby this year, commanded attention when he came out for his first race at Jamaica a year ago. For this was a son of Turn To out of Hildene, a brood mare which already had pro duced four stake winners for Christopher T. Chenery -Hill Prines, Prince Hill, Third Bro ther and Mangohick. Equally important, dockers reported the youngster could run. ' Thus First Landing, bred by Chenery and foaled at Clai borne Farm in Kentucky, was backed heavily in that first race. He has been a favorite, usually at odds-on, in every - start since then. It was five months and sev en races later before another horse finished in front of him. When the year was over First Landing had won 10 of 11 starts, earned a record total of $396,460 for a two-year-old, was hailed as the juvenile champion and honored with high weight of 128 pounds, in I the Experimental Handicap ratings. When Eddie Arcaro, who has ridden First Landing in all his races, asked the colt for his best at' Saratoga, the muscled bay broke the races wide open in a flash. But it took the whip to make him roll. . "When he gets a head in front of other horses, he seems to be content just to stay there and just do as much' as he has to," Arcaro reported. Not even Arcaro's whipping, however, staved off defeat in the Belmont Futurity. He fin ished second' to Brookfield Farms' Intentionally. Then came the Champaigne and Garden State Stakes, the world's richest horse race. In both, First Landing licked Tomy Lee, the West Coast sensation, after long and bit ter stretch duels. First Landing was shipped to Florida undisputed cham pion of his division tut things were not quite the same when the colt resumed racing in the Southland. He was second to the speedy Octopus in an overnight sprint and won the Everglades -but not with his usual verve. Then came the biggest disappoint ment of all when, in perfect position to explode with speed at the top of the stretch, he staggered home third in the Flamingo Stakes. Back in New York, First Landing regained his top form In a prep race for the Wood Memorial. If he runs the same way in the East's final major WILL TRAIN WITH GIANTS New York - (CPD - Halback Phil King will be released from the Army in time to join the New York Giants at their Burlington, Vt., training camp. He is a second lieuten ant at Ft. Eustis, Va. at Cleveland's heels by beat ing Baltimore, 3-1, for their third straight triumph; the Athletics handed the White Sox their first loss of the campaign, 10-8, .and the Red Sox beat the Senators, 7-3. In the National league, the Dodgers licked the Cardinals, 5-0, and the Giants made it four out of five by defeating the Cubs, 7-1. The first-place Braves were idle, as were the Phillies. Woody Held's third homer in two days powered the In dians to their fourth straight victory in their 10-inning struggle with Detroit. Held, who blasted a pair of homers on Tuesday, stroked the game winning smash Wednesday off Ray Narleski with two out in the 10th. Cal McLish, a 16 game winner last year, pick ed up his first victory of the current season by going the distance and scattering nine hits. Little Bobby Richardson and southpaw Whitey Ford were the t standouts in the Yankee triumph over the Or ioles. Richardson lined a two run double off loser Jack Harshman with two out in the ninth and Ford limited the UNE Favorite Tracks prep for the Derby, he will be shipped on to Louisville. There First Landing will be out to do just a little better than Hill Prince, who carried Chenery's white and blue blocked silks to second place in the Rose Run in 1950. Williams On Sick List For 2 Weeks Boston (DPI) A merican League pitchers will have another two or three weeks to polish their form. Ted Wil liams won't be back for at least that long. While' a doctor's report Wednesday was dark news for Williams and the Boston Red Sox, it must have been met with relief by every opposing pitcher in the league. Dr. Charles A. Fager an nounced after inspecting Ted's pinched neck nerve, that the 40-year-old slugger won't be able to begin workouts for at least another 7 to 10 days. His return to the Boston lineup was not expected for another two to three weeks. ' Williams, six-time Ameri can League batting king who owns a .349 lifetime average since coming into the league 20 years ago, has already missed three Boston games. He entered the New Eng land Baptist hospital for treat ment of the injury, suffered in spring training, two weeks ago. He was discharged last week wearing the protective collar. Middlecoff Favorite Houston. Tex. -flJPB C a r v Middlecoff, the golfing dentist from Memphis, Tenn., was the local favorite today to win his third $30,000 Houston Classic as competition open ed at Memorial park. A forecast of occasional rain, was the only factor to mar an otherwise perfect set ting at the 7,200-yard par-72 course as 131 of the nation's top professionals teed off. Ben Hogan was making his first appearance here since 1947 when he finished 12th in the tournament. Local odds-makers Dicked Middlecoff and Arnold Palm er of Latrobe, Pa., as co-favorites at 7-1. However, local pros favored the Memphis den tist by a z-l margm to rack up his third Houstoft Classic cr,own. Buy At Builders Supply DUALITY BLOCKS Drain Tile Bricks, Flues 727 W. McAndrews Phone SP 3-4575 or SP 2-4107 Bottom Records Orioles to six hits in dealing them their third straight loss. Rookie Pitcher Stars Until the ninth, the Yanks managed only three hits off starter Hoyt Wilhelm and Harshman. Then with two out Gil McDougald walked and moved to second on Andy Car ey's bloop single. Both scored on Richardson's line smash to left field. The loss was Harsh man's second of the season. Bob Grim's grand-slam hom er helped carry the A's to their first victory of the year after three losses in a row al though the White Sox almost pulled the game out with a seven-run rally in the eighth. Grim, credited with the vic tory, belted his homer off los er Barry Latman and rookie Kent Hadley hit a two-run homer for the A's off Claude Raymond for what proved to be the winning margin in the fourth. , Shortstop Joe DeMaestri of KC was hit over the left ear by a Latman pitch in the third immediately after Grim's hom er. X-rays showed no fracture although he was carried from the field on a stretcher. Pitcher Whole ,Show Rookie pitcher Jerry Ca sale was pretty much the whole show ( in Boston's win over Washington. The Brook lyn-born right-hander doled out seven hits and clouted a 450-foot homer far over the left field screen with two on off loser Russ Kemmerer in the sixth. Cincinnati clinched the out come with a five-run rally in the sixth inning during which Vada Pinson hit his second homer of the season with two on. Jerry Lynch and Ed Bailey also homered for the Reds while Don Hoak connected for a three-run homer for Pittsburgh. Joe Nuxhall, aided by Bob Mabe's scoreless three-inning relief stint, was , the winner. Bob Friend gave up ll of Cincin nati's 16 hits in 5 1-3 innings and was charged with his sec ond loss in as many tries. Don Drysdale of the. Dodg ers struck out seven and gave up eight hits in curbing the Cardinals. Loser Larry Jack son startled the crowd of 14, 491 at Los Angeles coliseum by striking out six of the first nine batters to face him, but the Dodgers put together four singles for two runs in the fourth. Don Demeter homered in the sixth and Jim Baxes in the seventh as the Cards suffered their fourth loss in five games! Orlando Cepeda, "low bridged" by Moe Drabowsky in the second inning, slammed a pair of homers of the Cub right-hander one in the fourth and another in the fifth to pace the Giants to their victory. Felipe Alou also homered for the Giants, raising his season total to three. Southpaw Johnny Antonel li struck out six and yielded only five hits in gaining his second victory. LDfESCORES: National League Pittsburgh 300 002 000 5 9 2 Cincinnati ..102 OOo 20x 10 16 2 Friend, Daniels (6), Green (7) and Foiles. Nuxhall, Mabe (7) and Bailey. Winner Nuxhall (1-0). Loser Friend (0-2). HH Hoak, Lyncn. mson, Bailey. St. Louis .000 000 000 0 8 0 Los Angeles 000 201 llx 5 9 2 Jackson, Gibson (7) and H. Smith. Drysdale (1-1) and Rose boro. Loser Jackson (0-2). HB JJemeter, saxes. Chicaeo ..100 000 000 1 5 3 San Fran. 000 230 20x 7 9 1 Drabowsky. Singleton (6). Schaf- fernoth (8) and Neeman; Antonelli (2-0) and Schmidt. Loser Draw bowsky (0-1). HR Cepeda 2, Alou. . (Only games scheduled). American League (10 innings) Detroit 000 000 010 01 9 0 Cleveland ..000 100 000 12 6 1 Foytack, Narleski (8) and Ber beret. McLish (1-) and Nixon. Loser Narleski (0-2). HR Held. Washington ..000 010 002 3 7 1 Boston 020 014 OOx 7 11 1 Kemmerer, Hyde (7), Kralick (8) and Courtney, Porter (8): Casale (1-0) and White. Loser Kemmerer (0-1). HR Casale. Kansas City 125 200 000 10 9 2 Chicago 001 000 070 8 11 2 Grim, Tomanek (8), Meyer (8), Gorman (8) and House. Latman, Shaw (3), Raymond (4), Arias (6), Staley (8), Lown (9) and Lollar. Winner Grimm (1-1). Lser Lat man (0-1). HR Grim, Hadley. New York 000 001 0023 5 2 Baltimore 000 000 100 1 6 0 Ford (1-0) and Howard; Wilhelm, Harshman (8) and Triandos. Loser Harshman (0-2). HERTZ TRUCK RENTAL Available at HOPKINS RICHFIELD SERVICE McAndrews at Court Phone SP 3-9068 Phillies Talk Of N.Y. Shift New York -WPD- A state ment by the mayor of Phila delphia that the Philadelphia Phillies are "discussing" mov ing to New York didn't ap pear to be generating much excitement here today. Mayor Richardson Dilworth said Wednesday In Philadel phia he had been told that Bob Carpenter, owner of the Phillies, had been" meeting with Mayor Robert F. Wagner of New York to talk over the possibility of a shift. 1 But Wagner and a spokes man for Carpenter both de nied such meetings have been held. Wagner did state that Wil liam Shea, chairman of the special committee which Wag ner has appointed to bring an other major league team to this city, has spoken to Car penter "more than once." But there was no indication any of these talks were held re cently. Carpenter's spokesman said the Phils' owner told Shea some 18 months ago he "was not interested" in moving the Phils to New York. And only last week Shea said that he thinks plans for a third major league were the "best possibility" of bringing another team here soon. OUT OF RACE Philadelphia - (UPD - Harry Litwack removed himself from the race for the vacant Philadelphia Warriors coach ing post Wednesday when he said he would remain as bas ketball coach at Temple uni versity.' STANDINGS MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS National League ' - W. L. Pet. GB Milwaukee 3 0 1.000 San Francisco 4 1 .800 Cincinnati 3 1 .750 Vx Chicago 2 2 .500 i Los Angeles z z .500 iv2 Philadelphia 1 1 .500 l'a St. Louis ?. 1 4 .200 3 Pittsburgh 0 5 .000 4 Wednesday's Results Cincinnati 10, Pittsburgh 3 Los Angeles 5, St. Louis 0 (night) San Francisco 7, Chicago 1 (night) (Only games scheduled). Thursday's Probable Pitchers Chicago at San Francisco An derson (1-0) vs. Jones (1-0). Philadelphia at Milwaukee Rob erts (1-0) vs. Burdette (1-0). St. Louis at Los Angeles (night) Broglio (0-1) vs. Koufax (0-0). (Only games scheduled). Friday's Games Pittsburgh at Milwaukee Philadelphia at Cincinnati (night) St. Louis at San Francisco (night) Chicago at Los Angeles (night) . American League W. L. Pet. O 1.000 0 1.000 1 .800 GB lVi 2 'a 3 3',i 4 Cleveland New York 4 3 4 2 1 1 0 0 Chicago Boston Washington .667 .333 .250 .000 .000 Kansas city Baltimore Detroit Wednesday's Results Boseon 7, Washington 3 Cleveland 2 Detroit 1 (10 innings) Kansas City 10. Chicago 8 New York 3. Baltimore 1 (night) Thursday's Probable Pitchers New York at Baltimore Ditmar (0-0) vs. Bamberger (0-0). Washington at Boston R a m o s (1-0) vs. Moford (0-0). Kansas (Jity at Chicago carver (0-1) vs. Wynn (1-0). Friday's Games Detroit at Chicago New York at Boston Washington at Baltimore (night) Kan. City at Cleveland (night) Only 8 Year Old Boltled in Bond in Oregon Aj&ED; IN WOOD FULL YEARS Double age... double pleasure Really fine whiskey can't get too old! Discover what Kentucky Connoisseurs" have long known that in an originally fine whiskey, each year of ageing adds character and. mellow flavor. Code 110-B $6.55 Fifth YOUR KEY TO TRUE BOURBON FLAVOR NONE OLDER ON THE MARKET KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON 100 PROOF STITZEL-WELLER DISTILLERY ESTABLISHED LOUISVILLE. 'KENTUCKY. 1849 Beat This! WHAT WAS HIGHEST SCORE IN NBA GAME; ? 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Prospect was held hitless until the fifth grame when Floyd Scaife, brother to Ray, scored a hit off Eagle Point pitcher' Bill Pfeifer and that was Prospect's only hit. The hot one for Eagle Point was the fourth frame "when Dusty Gerving and Jim Nease each singled, advanced to sec ond and third bags, respec tively, on a balk and both scored on a passed ball as they caught the catcher nap ping. - Friday Eagle Point goes up against Rogue River when Eagle Point pitcher Jim Nease will try to preserve Rogue River's record of no hits in two league games. Eagle Point's season record to date is five wins and four losses and has a league record of 1-1. T.rvrsrnnFS! ) Prospect 000 240 08 1 x 14 5 7 Eaele Point ..171 203 Scaife and Chapman; Pfeifer, Ge ren (5), Nease (5) and Osborn. SUBS FOR INJURED BOXER New York-(UPD-Eddie Ma chine Gun Thompson of St. Albans, N. Y., will substitute for the injured Randy Sandy in a 10-round bout against Bennie Paret of Cuba at St. Nicholas Arena next Monday. 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