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MAIL TRIBUNE, MtJfvJ, Or. Monday, Sp. 21, 1959 LA iodgeirs Ahead by IM-Same; White Sox Could Clinch Tuesday By FRED DOWN United Press International Johnny Podres and Duke Snider, the heroes of Brook lyn's only world champion ship, have given the Dodgers a mighty push toward their first pennant in Los Angeles. Climaxing a dramatic three- game sweep with their 8-2 rout of the Giants Sunday, the Dodgers seized a half- game lead in the frantic three- cornered National league scramble with only a week left to play. No seventh-place team even has won a pennant the following year but that's the goal at which the Dodgers are shooting. The Milwaukee Braves, who moved into second place with their 8-5 victory over the Phillies, can tie the Dodg ers for first place by winning - at Philadelphia again tonight. After today, all three contend ers will have five games left the Dodgers and Giants against the Cubs and Cardi nals and the Braves against' . the Pirates and Phillies. The Americaji league race. meanwhile, may be settled Tuesday nifht when the Chi cago White Sox play the - Cleveland Indians. The White Sox need only win that game to clinch their first flag in ; 40 years. ' UiU IhlVUClX 1UC IU JkAXOfc nlarp Snndav in a thrpf-Viour and 16-minute struggle dur- , inB which thev kavoed 20- game winner Sam Jones in 3 13 innings and then clinch ed matters with a four-run outburst in the ninth. The Dodgers pitching hero , was Podres, who struck out nine batters and yielded five hits in 7 23 innings to win his 14th game. The victory " i. : i i . i -i wow if unueu gowii uuiu ucm Labine got Eddie Bressoud to int uiui a gaxue-cuuiug uuuuie play with the bases filled . in the last of the ninth but it 3 1 , J 11 1 was rutuu wiiu xieiu- uie xurt while the Dodgers ran up a 4-0 lead. STANDINGS Snider, enjoying a fine comeback after his poor 1958 showing, homered to put the Dodgers ahead, 1-0 in the sec ond inning and singled home another run in the seventh. Shortstop Maury Wills had three hits and Don Demeter drove in three runs in the Dodgers' 10-hit attack. Micky Vernon, the 41-year-old pinch-hitter, singled across the tie-breaking run in the ninth and the Braves then wrapped it up with two insur ance tallies. Joey Jay, who pitched the last 3 23 innings in relief of Lew Burdette, won his sixth game while 15 game winner Robin Roberts lost his 16th decision. " The Phillies tied the score in the eighth inning on Carl Sawat ski's two -run homer - the only hit off Jay. -Indians Beat A's 'The Indians remained "alive" in the A. L. race by beating the Athletics, 4-3, while the Tigers downed the first-place White Sox, 5-4. Cal McLish scattered nine hits and struck, out four bat ters to raise his record to 19-8 behind a 12-hit Cleveland at tack that included homers by Minnie Minoso and Tito Fran cona. Ned Garver suffered his 13th loss. Don Mossi prevented the White Sox from clinching a tie for the pennant with a nine-hitter that brought him his 16th win. Harvey Kuenn had a homer, double and two singles and Ted Lepcio had three hits to account for seven of the eight Detroit hits. The other was Al Kaline's 25th homer. Vera Law scored his 18th victory as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Cincinnati Reds, 10-1, and Stan Musial homered for the 3,200th hit of his career in the Cardinals' 11-4 rout of the Cubs in other N. L. games. Dick Groat had four hits and Roberto Cle- mente three in Pittsburgh's 13-hit attack, while Hal Smith also homered for the Cardi nals. . Elston Howard's two - run seventh-inning homer enabled the Yankees to beat the Red Sox, 7-4, and Camilo Pascual scored his seventh shutout a the Senators downed the Ori oles, 5-0. Duke Maas gained his 14th win for the Yankees while Pascual hurled his 17th victory and 17th complete game for the Senators. " LIXESCORES: American League , Baltimore ....000 000 000 0 6 Washington 100 000 004x 3 10 O'Dell. Loes 8. Fisher 8 and Gins berg. Pascual 17-10 and Korcheck. looser u uen a-ii. MedfordOJTribunb SIPCDIMTS Southern California Batters OSC Eleven NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Los Angeles 83 66 Milwaukee 82 66 San Francisco 82 67 Pittsburgh 77 72 Cincinnati 72 78 Chicago -. 70 78 St. Louis 68 80 Philadelphia 61 88 Pet. .557 .554 .550 .514 .480 .473 .459 .409 GB 1 6 12z 14 ,i 22 Sunday's Results Pittsburgh 10, Cincinnati 1 St. Louis 11. Chicago 4 Milwaukee 8, Philadelphia 5 Los Angeles 8, San Francisco 2 Tuesday's Games Cincinnati at Philadelphia (night) Milwaukee at Pittsburgh (night) San Francisco at Chicago Los Angeles at St. Louis (night) AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Chicago 91 59 .607 Cleveland 87 62 .584 New York 76 73 .510 Detroit 74 75 .497 Baltimore 72 77 .483 Boston 70 79 .470 Kansas City 63 85 .426 Washington 63 86 .423 GB 3Va 14 i 16 Va 18Va 20 1 a 27 27 'J Sunday's Results Detroit 5, Chicago 4 New York 7. Boston 4 Washington 5. Baltimore 0 Cleveland 4, Kansas City 3 Tuesday's Games Kansas City at Detroit ' Chicago at Cleveland (night) New York at Washington (night) Baltimore at Boston (night) Corvallis - (UPD - The Bea vers of Oregon State College, still stinging 'from a 27-6 thrashing administered by Southern California in Port land Saturday night, today began preparation for another rugged clash. - OSC will take on Texas Tech Saturday night in Lub bock, Texas. The Techmen scored a 20-14 triumph over rugged Texas A&M in their opener last Saturday. A savage Southern Cal line battered a 15-pounds per man lighter OSC forward wall in the Multnomah stadium mud as Oregon State could never get its sputtering offense in gear. The Trojans hit-paydirt on three long scoring plays to show the damp crowd of 23,- 985 why they 'are rated the top football team in the Wesk Long Runs Halfbacks Alen Shields and Lynn Gaskill scored two touchdowns apiece as Coach Don Clark's touted Trojans handed Tommy Prothro his first Portland defeat since he took over as coach at Oregon State. . Shields drove over from three yards out to climax a 54-yard drive for the first Southern California score. Late in the third period the 184-pound sophomore back' eluded the entire Oregon State team by returning a punt 62 yards for another touchdown. Gaskill took a 21-yard scor ing pass from Quarterback Willie Wood and ran 54 yards around left end for his second touchdown. Doman Scores . Wood kicked three out of four conversions. The only Oregon State touchdown came after South ern Cal had completed its scoring far the evening. Tin". running by Sophomore half back Ron Miller and the pass ing of another sopnomore, Earl Harbin, led to the score. Harbin's 15-yard pass to end Jerry Doman , scored the touchdown. Southern California was stopped on the Oregon State six-inch line in the first period and blew another "scoring chance in the second half when fullback Clark Holden fumbled on the 15. Detroit 201 020 000 5 9 Chicago 101 Oil 000 4 9 Mossi, Narleski 7, Sisler 8. Bun. ning 9 and Wilson. Pierce, Dono van 5, Lown 7, Shaw 9 and Lollar. Winner Mossi 16-9. Loser Pierce 14-15. HRs Kuenn, Kaline. Lollar. Boston 000 200 200 4 13 New York ....002 001 31x 7 8 Brewer. Baumann 7. Fornieles 8 and White, Daley 8. Turley, Larsen a, Maas 7, Loates s ana Berra. win ner Maas 14-8. Loser Brewer 10- 12. Hit Howard. Cleveland 102 000 010 4 12 Kansas City ..000 002 001 3 7 McLish 19-8 and Nixon. Garver 9-13 and Smith. HRs Minoso, f rancona, cerv. National League Milwaukee ....103 001 003 8 12 Philadelphia ..000 210 0205 9 Burdette. Jay 6 and Crandall. Roberts, Farrell 9 and Sawatski. Winner Jay 6-10. Loser Roberts 15.16. HRs Aaron, Mathews, Sa watski. ' Cincinnati ..010 000 000 1 6 Pittsburgh .422 020 OOx 10 13 Brosnan. Schmidt 1. Osteen Hook' 3. J. Bailey 5. Acker 8 and E. Bailey. Law 18-9 and Burgess Loser tsrosnan a-e. Chicago 100 300 000 4 6 St. Louis 000 024 5 Ox 11 13 Drabowsky, Elston 6, Hillman 6, Ceccarelh 7. Donnelly 8 and Av- erill. Blaylock, Mizell 6 and Smith Winner Mizell 13-9. Loser Elston 8-8. HRs Moryn. Musial, Smith. Los Angeles ..010 100 204 8 10 San Fran. .....000 000 020 2 6 Podres, Sherry 8, Koufax 8, La bine 9 and Roseboro. S. Jones, An. tonelli 4, Worthington 6, McCor- mick 9, Miller 10 and Landrith. Winner Podres 14-8. Loser S. j ones 2U-14. no. Eruaer. 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Mexico 12 " Texas Western 43, U. of Mexico 8 West - So. Calif. 27. Oregon St. 6 Colorado St. U. 9, College of Pacific 6 Utah St. 14. Idaho 0 -' Colorado Western 14. Nevada 13 - Hawaii 20, So. Oregon 13 Pacific 17, Central Washington 0 . Whitworth 19. Willamette 0 Linfield 52, OCE 6 Whitman 13. EOC 0 OTI 20. Westminster O - Col. of Idaho 18. EWCE 0 J - CPS 7, Pacific Luthern 6 Giants Skid To Third Sari Francisco -(UPD-In case you were away for the week end-the San Francisco Giants have skidded from first to third. It all happened within horrible 48-hour period after they had ripped the Milwau kee Braves, 13-6 to take a two- game lead in the National league race. - Just when the Giants were flexing their muscles over the way they had routed War ren Spahn in the first inning, along came the Los Angeles Dodgers who knocked them off three times in a row. As a result of the. fiasco, Los Angeles led the National league ' today,' Milwaukee dogged them a half-?ame be hind in second and San Fran cisco landed with a dull thud into third place - one .game out. M-nager Bill Rigney's "shocked" troops took a day off today befpre opening at Chicago Tuesday inthe first of a five-game road trip which will wind up the regular sea son. The Dodgers downed them, 4-1 and 5-3 in a split twin bill Saturday, then tacked on an 8-2 lacing Sunday. Smith Returns To NY Yankees New York (UPD Miyo Smith has returned 1 to the New York Yankees' organiz ation, which he left four years ago to become manager of the Philadelphia Phils and later the Cincinnati Reds. . The Yankees announced that Smith, 44, will be "field executive with duties as major and minor league scout, plus "other assignments in the field." The return of Smith, who is regarded as an excellent tutor of young players, was seen as part of the Yankees' rebuilding program to recap ture the American league pen nant. 1v ' . Cle' ri M o BILL HARRAH presents Bene Sheldon fettund character ply9r . on T'Vt Zorro Delores Gay Leighton Noble's Orchestra appearing in the Stateline Lounge... THE VAGABONDS DICK CONTINO T . , ....... live entertainment 24 hours a da- Field Goal By Morris Edge Los Angeles (UPD The Los Angeles Rams play football in earnest this Saturday night when they kickoff the 12 game National Football league season 1 1 a game against the New York Giants. The Rams staged a thrillix-g come from . behind effort Saturday night in the Coli seum to beat the Philadelphia Eagles 31-28 and end vp their exhibition tilts with a 3-2-1-mark. Former Ram Norm Van Brocklin seemed to have things well in hand for the Eagles Saturday when he had the Rams down 28-7 at the end of the third quarter. Three of the Eagles' touch downs came from passes by the Eagle quarterback. "Then his former under study, Ram Quarterback Bill Wade, a: I all-pro fullback Ollie Matson opened up in the inal period to score three touchdowns. A 42-yard field goal by Jack Morris gave the Rams their needed edge be fore 46,570 cheering fans. : The Rams scored 24 points in 9 minutes, 23 seconds of the . period. FRANCIS CARRIES-Hawaii's Milton Hiro hata apparently has missed Southern Ore gon college ball packer Eldon Francis here but the Rainbow's Henry Tausaasau (33) and Jules Cambra (60) have closed in on the runner, in the Saturday night gridiron scramble here. The Hawaiian club went on to win 20 to 13 in opener of the season for both teams. -(Knackstedt photo) ISainbows Sutbdue Chandlers (Q)n 4th Period ToucMowmi STATISTICS: California Tops WSC United Press International Southern California is ban ned again from the' Rose Bowl after another hassle with the rulesmakers but nothing can stop the Trojans from trying to prove that they will be the best team on the Pacific Coast this year,. - Coach Don Clark s gridders racked up Oregon State, 27-6, on Saturday night to hand Tommy Prothro his first lost in Portland. In other Saturday games, Colorado State upsef College of the Pacific, 9-6; California downed Washington State, 20-6; Oregon clipped Stan ford, 28-27, and Washington dowrifed Colorado, 21-12. Bass Injured College of the Pacific's brit tle Dick Bass aggravated an injured leg early in the game and there went most of the Tigers' offense right then. The defense 'also went down the tube in the last quarter when Wayne Schneider of the Ag gies took a punt and reversed it to Myron Pearson who gal loped 73 yards to a score. On ly, one COP player, halfback Herm Urenda, detected the switch but couldn't break through for a tackle. Grover Garvin and Steve Bates reeled 'off touchdown runs' of 92 and 50 yards re spectively in the last period to build up California's 20-6 win over the Cougars. With guard Chuck . Allen making numerous key blocks and being in almost every play, Washington's Huskies defeated Colorado, 21-12. Al len climaxed his big day by falling on a kickoff in the end zone for the last Husky score. First downs Iintercepted by Net yards rush Net yards pass Total yards Penalties Punting Fumbles lost U.H. SOC 5-12 11-13 8 14 0 1 163 '98 82 146 245 244 58 32 4-27.7 3-23.0 2 3 Whitworth Spills Unilsd Press International Willamette Univ e r s i t y's Bearcats, defending North west conference champions, were rudely upset, 19-0, Sat urday as underdog Whitworth outplayed them in a rainsoak- ed game in Spokane. A sturdy forward wall held Stan Solomon, Willamette's ace back, to just nine yards in five carries. The Bearcats managed only 31 yards on the ground all afternoon. Linfield whalloped under manned Oregon College of Ed ucation, 52-6. OTI Wins Oregon Tech ground outran easy 20-0 win ter Westmin ster college of Salt Lake City. University of Hawaii had to come from behind twice to defeat Southern Oregon, 20-13. Pacific university's Badgers scored an easy 17-0 win over Central Washington. Tim Smith scored both touchdowns on short runs to give Whitman a 13-0 triumph over Eastern Oregon college in Walla Walla. Coming from behind with a fourth quarter touchdown, the University of Hawaii Rain bow football aggregation nudged Southern Oregon col lege 20-13 at the Medford high stadium Saturday night. With 10V& minutes remain ing in the final panel and the score knotted 13-all, the Red Raiders of Southern Oregon fumbled on their own 21-yard line. Hawaii recovered and three plays later Damon Wait ley ran the ball over from sev en yards out for the Rainbows. The favored Hawaiin crew was down 6-13 at halftime. Southern Oregon appeared on the move in the second half but two fourth down passes stymied two of their offensive threats. Hawaii had the edge on net yardage : 245 - 244 with 163 .yards rushing and 82 passing while the Raiders had 146 on passes and 98 on the ground. The Raiders had a big edge on first downs 14-8 and on pass completion 11-15 to the Rain bows 5-12. Hawaii took the opening kick, lost the ball on their sec ond play from scrimmage when the Raiders' George Koch fell on the elusive pig skin. Seven plays later with Allen Barnes and Eldon Francis packing the ball to the one yard line, Lance Locke carried the ball over on a quarterback keeper. Larry Drake's con version was off to the side. Time on the clqck showed 9:43 remaining in the first quarter. Hawaii cameroaring Sack by returning the kick-off to the 49-yard line and in nine plays had its first score. Ben Samson swept left end from two yards out. Waitley's boot was blocked with 5:01 remain ing in the stanza. In the closing seconds of the first half the Raiders were on the move again with the key play a, pass from Jack Brown Barnes carried twice and got the ball to 'the one yard line where Locket duplicated his -scoring touch on a sneak. This time the conversion by Drake was good and the sec ond quarter was only 41 sec onds old. Gam Evened Hawaii drew even when Waitley recovered a fumble in the Raider end zone follow ing a fumble on a completed pass, and the conversion was run by Jowin Keliipuleole. The Rainbow's Casper Schich- tle hit end Robert Au on the six yard line where he was immediately tackled but in the process he fumbled and thei Barnes carried the ball 19 ball squirted into the end zone -times and racked up 60 yards for the evening. Allen and where Waitley fell on it. After Waitley, who was fighting off a light case of tonsilitis, scored the winning TD, Schichtle's pass to Cliff to Gordon Carrigan for a first down on the Hawaii 14. Orgrain was good for a bonds tally. SOC had one last chance in the closing minutes when it hadthe ball first down and one yard to the goal but the Hawaii line tightened and on four plays the Raiders lost pos session back on the four-yard line. In defeat, Raider coach Al Akins had nothing but praise for his whole ball club. Akins felt the game was one of the most inspiring battles ever put up by SOC. He gave spe cial mention to his freshmen who showed outstandingly well in their first college foot ball game. Akins pointed out that Barnes from Crater, Wayne Allen from Crater, and Jess Munyon from Glendale played exceptional ball. Munyon, on the other hand, played their big game on de fense with Allen intercepting one pass and batting down several others. Munyon from his linebacker position batted down one pass and made numerous tackles unassisted a he refused to be taken out of the plays. Locke and Jack Brown com pleted 10 of 13 aerials they threw for the men of SOC with Locke accounting for 68 yards on four completions. Brown hit on five for 73 yards. , Gordy" Carrigan was the top target for the aerials as he gathered in four tosses for 82 yards. Punk Biddington also took in four passes for 40 yards. Fariss Has Two Firsts In Skiing - Darrell Fariss won two first places yesterday as some 25 entrants took part in a water ski meet for beginning tour nament contenders at Garden er lake. Fariss took the veteran's division slalom and the men's trick competition. Other slalom winners were Bud Simmons in the men's. Art House in the boys' and Mary Simmons in the wom en s. Howard . Brooks took jump honors. Rllfi ITariss was ucnnd an1 Howard Lage third in- the men's slalom while Larry Simmons and Al House fol lowed Art Houu in the boys'. Darelyn Huson was runner-up and Ruth Vessey third in the women's slalom while Brooks and John Mathias were Nos. 2 and 3 in the vets. Lage took second in tircks and Earl Rohef third. Lage was also runner-up in the jump with Bud Fariss third. Competition was sponsored by Gardener Lake and Rogue Aqua Ski clubs and was held in "off and on" rain. All winners are from Med ford. Virginians Keep Alive in Series Richmond, Va. (UPD The Richmond Virginians remain ed alive in the International league, final playoffs, thanks to lefty Bob Wiesler's first pitching victory in a month. Wiesler, making his first appearance of the post-season competition, beat the Havana Sugar Kings, 5-1, Sunday to cut the Cubans' margin to 3-2 in the best-of-seven series. He needed some later-inning help, however, from relief ace John James, who replaced him in the eighth inning when the Sugar Kings scored their only run. Miteff Choice To Beat Hunter New York - (UPD - H e a v y- weight contender Alex Miteff of Argentina is favored at 12-5 to beat Billy Hunter of De troit in a TV (NBC) 10-round-er at Syracuse, N. .Y., Friday night. , Wednesday night's video fight brings together middle- weights Rory Calhoun and Rudy Ellis at the Chicago sta dium. Calhoun of White Plains, N. Y., is favored at 7-5 over Ellis of South Haven Mich. Neither is a rated con tender. ' Perhaps the most interest ing bout of theweek will be staged at San Juan, Puerto Rico, Saturday night,, when Jose Torres, unbeaten young Puerto Rican middleweight, meets Benny Paret of Cuba. Torres is managed by Cus D'Amato, pilot of former heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson. Torres, 23, won 13 straight victories as a profes sional, including 11 knock outs. Paret won 27 of his 34 starts. Friday's Miteff - Hunter heavyweight fight at Syracuse is a replacement ior tne or iginally scheduled bout be tween heavyweights Charlie Powell and Mike DeJohn. Powell withdrew because of a virus. Argentina's Miteff is rank ed seventh among contenders. Hunter-protege of Sugar Ray Robinson-is unranked. He lost six bouts and had two draws in his 20 fights. THE EVIDENCE STACKS UP there's no Gin like GORDON'S :-ftitiit(i"l wk mhui tnsn mm hm gum, m noor. cmors bbcl in, in, i l MODEL NOT MODEL Canterbury, England - (UPD - The Model tavern didn't live up to its name Sunday. 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