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I MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. Friday, July 24, 195t 9 4 1 ; J I ! i ? - !1 -1 Indians Take Yanks; Dodgers, Giants Win : Br FRED DOWN United Press International Minnie Minoio insist he ean outtalk Frank Lane so don't laugh if he says he can out-hit Frank Merriwell. Frank Merriwell, the Cuban speedster, probably never heard of America's legendary schoolboy hero but Lane would be among the first to concede: "Minnie writes his own stuff anyhow." And, what the 35-year-old outfielder's writing these days is a brilliant success story for "Papa Lane" and the Cleve land Indians. Loaded Bat. Brought back to Cleveland "to put some life in the In dians," Minoso is swinging a loaded bat in the Indians' amazing battle to win the Am erican League pennant. He's hitting .289, has knocked in 60 runs, connected for 15 homers and is delivering the key blows when they're need ed most. Minoso came through with his most important hit of the season Thursday night when his grand slam homer capped a seven-run rally that pro--duced an 8-5 Cleveland vic tory over the New York Yank ees. The win enabled the In dians to take the series, two games to one, moved them within a half game of the idle first-place Chicago White Sox and dumped the Yankees back to the .500-mark. Tremendous Victory Minoso's heroics represent a tremendous victory for Lane who experts said "gambled the franchise" when he traded Early Wynn and Al Smith to the White Sox for Minnie, Dee. 4, 1957. That's when Min oso whose salary squabbles with Lane helped keep the -phone company in the black during the winter-promised to play "good enough to keep Papa Lane quiet." v Harvey Kuenn and Al Ka line each had four hits as the Detroit Tiaers routed the Washington Senators, 11-2, and Roger Maris and Bob Cerv each had three hits as the Kansas City - Athletics beat the Baltimore Orioles, 9 3, in the other American League games. The San Francisco Giants retained their lVi-game Na tional League lead with a 5-1 triumph over the St. Louis Cardinals and the Los Angel es Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs, 5-3, but the slumping Milwaukee Braves suffered a 6-2 loss to the Cincinnati Reds. The Braves now trail San Francisco by 41. games and are only one point ahead of the fourth place Pittsburgh Pirates. Indians Rallied To Win , A crowd of 36,560 at Cleve land saw the Yankees take an early 40 lead but the In dians staged a flash rally against Ralph Terry and rook ' ie Eli Grba in the sixth. Sin- vies bv Tito Francona and Leg Injury Sidelines Gil Hodges Los Angeles -fllPD-A badly pulled leg muscle will sideline star Dodger first baseman Gil Hodges for at least a week, but his teammates and man ager Walt Alston joined him. in agreeing today It could have been worse. In fact, for an hour Thurs day night it looked as if the 35-year-old Hodges, one of baseball's finest fielding first baseman, would be lost for the remainder of the season ' with a broken right leg. A preliminary examination after the limb gave way under him while sliding into second base indicated a break two inches above the fibula. But X-rays at Daniel Free man hospital showed Hodges had pulled tie leg muscle, with no break resulting. With some luck, the husky first baseman will be back in the Dodger lineup for the pen nant fight in another week or so. - - AMERICANS WIN Helsinki, Finland - (CPD -American track and field stars scored victories in all five events entered by the United States at Helsinki Thursday. Bill Woodhouse of Abilene Christian Texas won the 100-yard dash; Willie May of Indiana University took the 110-meter hurdles; Chuck Carlson of Colorado Univer sity .captured the 400-meter run; Rink Babka of Los An geles won the discus and Mel Schwarz of the Marine Corps George Strickland, a double by Rocky Colavito and a sac rifice produced two runs and chased Terry. Grba yielded a hit and two walks, forcing in Cleveland's third run, and then Minoso unloaded with his game-winning blast. Rook ie Jim Perry, who pitched the middle four innings, won his fifth game for the Indians. Kuenn lifted his average to .347 and Kaline sent his to .340 in pacing a 15-hit attack that enabled Jim Banning to win 'his ninth game for De troit. Bob Allison hit his 25th homer for Washington. Ned Garver pitched a seven-hitter for his eighth' win behind the 16-hit Kansas City attack that gave the Athletics their fourth straight win and their eighth in 10 games. Harry Chiti and Dick -Williams homered for the Ath letics and Billy Klaus connect ed for the Orioles. Sanford Takes The Win Jack Sanford won his first game since June 11 for the Giants , who took advantage of three St. Louis errors to score four unnearned runs. Victim of the sloppy fielding was Vinegar Bend Mizell, now 11-5 for the year. Orlan do Cepeda, Jackie Brandt and Bob Schmidt had two hits each for San Francisco. Gil Hodges' two-run homer was the big blow for the Dodgers but the big first-baseman later suffered an injury to his right leg that may side line him a week. Don' Drysdale, ace of the Los Angeles staff, relieved Larry Sherry when the Cubs scored two runs in the eighth and yielded only one hit over the last 1 2-3 innings. Willie Jones' eighth-inning grand slam homer ended the Braves' "winning streak" at one game and brought Brooks Lawrence his fifth win. Joey Jay, who had shut out the Reds for seven innings was the victim of the blow and the Reds added an insurance pair against Don McMahoh in the ninth. STANDINGS United Press International NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. San Francisco 54 41 Los Angeles ., 54 44 Milwaukee 47 43 Pittsburgh 49 45 Chicago 47 47 St. Louis : 45 49 Cincinnati . 42 51 Philadelphia 37 55 OB Pet. .568 .548 lVt .522 4a .521 4i .500 6i .479 8a .452 11 .402 15 i Thursday's Results San Francisco 5, St; Louis 1 Cincinnati 6, Milwaukee 2 (night) Los Angeles 5, Chicago 3 (night Only games scheduled. Friday's Probable Pitchers Philadelphia at Cincinnati, night Owens (5-8) vs. Hook (l-O). Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, night Haddix (7-7) vs. Pizarro (2-1). St. Louis at Los Angeles, night -roglo (4-6) vs. Podres (8-6). -Chicago at San Francisco, night Hillman (5-7) vs. Antonelli (14.5). Saturday's Gaines Philadelphia at Cincinnati Pittsburgh at Milwaukee St. Louis at Los Angeles (night) Chicago at San Francisco AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Chicago . Cleveland Baltimore New York . Detroit Kansas City" . Washington . Boston 53 52 48 47 46 43 43 40 Pet GB J76 571 .511 S J 00 7 .479 .467 10 .462 10 ',i .435 13 Thursday's Results . -Detroit 11,- Washington 9 Boston at Chicago, postponed, rain, wet grounds. Cleveland 8, New York S (night) Kansas City 9, Baltimore 3 (night) Friday'f Probable Pitchers New York at Detroit, night Larsen (6-5) vs. Mossi (7-4). Washington at Cleveland, night Pascual (11-7) vs. Locke' (1-1). Boston at Kansas Citv. ni-ht Sullivan (6-5) vs. Kucks (3-8). aiumore at Chicago, night Wilhelm (10-5) vs. Shaw (9-3). Saturday's Games Baltimore at Chicago Boston at Kansas City (night) , New York at Detroit Washington at Cleveland - PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Sacramento 54 45 Vancouver 52 47 Salt Lake Portland Phoenix Spokane San Dieeo Seattle 52 49 50 49 47 44 47 46 50 52 54 56 GB .545 325 3 325 2 .516 3 300 4'i .485 6 .465 8 .446 10 li Thursday's Results Sacramento 5, Vancouver 2 Phoenix 6, Portland 3 ' Salt Lake 4, Seattle 1 Spokane 2, San Diego 0 Friday' Probable Pitchers Vancouver at Sacramento Bam berger (5-4) vs. Osenbaugh (6-7). Seattle at Salt Lake Rudolph (0-0) vs. Pepper (7-7). Portland at Phoenix K. Johnson (10-5) vs. Barclay (8-8). Spokane at San Diego Churn (8-2) vs. Podbielan (8-2). NORTHWEST LEAGUE W. L, wenatchee Yakima Lewis ton . Salem Tri-City Eugene 13 13 11 10 9 9 Pet. GB .590 363 .524 .476 .429 .409 2,i 4 Thursday's Results Tri-City 5, Salem 1 Wenatchee 6, Eugene 3 Lewiston 4, Yakima 3 RESULTS: National League St. Louis .000 000 0011 8 3 San Fran. 200 000 12x 5 11 0 Mizell. Stone (5). Bridges (7). Mc- Daniel (8) and H. Smith. Sanford (8-9) and Jschrmat. Loser Mizell (11-5). . . Cincinnati .000 000 0426 10 0 Milwaukee .000 200 0002 3 1 Pur key. Lawrence (7) and Bailey. Jay, McMahon (9) and Crandall. Winner Lawrence (5-9). Loser Jay (3-7). HR Jones. ..000 010 0203 Chicago Los Angeles 000 201 20x 5 Drabowsky. Henry (5). filston (7) and S. Taylor. Sherry, Drysdale (8) and Roseboro. Winner Sherry (1-2). Loser Drabowsky (4-8). HRs Hodges, Moon. Only games scheduled. American League Washington -100 000 001 2 4 0 Detroit .202 025 OOx 11 15 1 Woodeshick, Clevenger (6), Kem merer (6) and Courtney. Bunning (9-8) and Wilson. Loser Woode shick (0-2). HR Allison. Baltimore 000 001 2003 7 0 Kansas City 122 012 Olx 9 16 1 Brown. Fisher (3), Johnson (7) and Triandos. Garver (8-9) and Chiti. Loser Brown (6-6). HRs Chiti, Williams, Klaus, Maris. New York 310 000 0105 10. 2 Cleveland ......000 007 Olx 8 14 3 Terry, Grba (6), Ditmar (6), Bronstad (7) and Berra. Smith, Perrv (3). Grant (7) and Fitz Gerald. Nixon (3). Winner Perry (5-2). Loser Grba (1-1). HRs Minoso, Howard. Boston at Chicago, postponed, rain and wet grounds. Today's Schedule Lewiston at Wenatchee Salem at Eugene Yakima at Tri-City Church League Lead Tied Up CHURCH SOFTBALL LEAGUE Second Half Standings W First Baptist 1 Phoenix ..' , 1 First, Methodist 1 Nazarene - : 1 Westmin. Presbyteran 1 Friends : 0 L 0 0 1 1 1 . 2 Pet. 1.000 1.000 300 300 .500 .000 First. Baptist and Phoenix, with a make-up game to play against each other, moved into a tie for the second-half lead in the Church Softball league last night. Phoenix moved up the easy way, via the forfeit route in a game scheduled with Friends, and First Baptist took First Methodist in a 17 to 11 victory. In other action, Westmin ster Presbyterian, first-half winners, defeated Nazarene, 14 to 11, to gain a one and one record. Three scheduled games remain to be played. . Alcatraz island was the site of the first lighthouse estab lished in California. That was in 1855. a laTUBDA? 8-5 : Reg. 2 Only 5' Redwood Tables .v 29.95 Chrome Folding Legs Will Make 2 Heights 1 Only Redwood Table ........... 14.95 Polished Brass Folding Legs , Will Make 3 Heights 7 Only Alum. Folding Chairs 6.50 5 Only Alum. Folding Chairs 13.95 1 Only Alum. Folding Chairs 10.45 1 Only Barbecue with spit 26.98 2 Only Barbecue with spit 22.98 1 Only Barbecue without spit ... 9.98 ALUMINUM SCREEN DOORS . Sat. 21.95 10.95 4.50 10.95 7.95 20.98 17.98 7.88 13.95 BRUCE BAUER LBR. CO'S. SdJD(LID)D(0)fl(lJ&vu 765 S. 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