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Giants Nip
Red Sox in
Cactus Tiff
Phoenix, Ariz. - IIJPU - The
' San Francisco Giants com
bined the home run hitting ot
Bob Schmidt and Felipe Alou
with the near-flawless pitch'
ing of Sam Jonej Tuesday to
nip the Boston Red Sox. 2-1
The Giants sought to extend
their one-game-win streak to
day against the Chicago Cubs
at nearby Mesa, with right
hander Jack Sanford slated
to take the mound.
Jones, making a serious bid
' for the opening day assign
ment, displayed a wicked and
accurate curve ball in hurling
seven scoreless innings. The
toothpick man limited the Sox
to only three hits, two of
them the infield variety, and
struck out six with his hang
ing curve ball.
Schmidt opened the scoring
with a solo homer over the
left center fence in the second
inning and Jones carried the
1-. lead the rest of the time he
was in.
Billy O'Dell took over for
Jones in the eighth and set
the side down after Cub pitch
er Ted Wills greeted him with
a single. In Uie Giant half of
the inning, Alou crashed a
shot out of the park, also with
the sacks empty, to provide
the winning margin for the
Giants' ninth Cactus league
win against eight losses.
In the ninth, however, the
Sox broke through O'Dell.
Jackie Jensen singled and
Frank Malzone rapped a long
double between Alou an
Willie Mays to send Jensen
across.
Then Bosox rookie Carl
Yastrzcmskl ripped a long
liner which Alou caught up
against the fence and Giant
manager Alvin Dark yanked
O Dell in favor of rookie Bob
Bolin.
Bolin used only six pitches
to get the side out
Mays went hitless in four
times at bat to end his 13
game hitting streak.
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Corned Beef Hash;
Made Up of Scraps
(This is the Tenth of 18
dispatches on the 1961 pros
pects of the major league
teams),
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By MILTON BICHMAN
Pompano Beach, Fla.-IUPD-
Enthusiasm goes only so far
and so will the new Washing
ton Senators.
General Manager Ed Donor
ty, by all odds the most opti
mistic baseball man in Flor
ida, says he's positive the
newly put-together Senators
won't finish last and even
feels they could soar as high
as fifth but he is part of a
painfully small minority.
As presently constituted,
thj Washington club is some
thing of a corned beef hash,
made up of scraps, left-overs
and what not.
Still, the pitching staff
could turn out to be stronger
than Kansas City s, for exam
ple, and most of the out
fielders can get up and fly.
The infield, however, might
be a season-long problem for
Manager Mickey Vernon, who
also can use a lot more power
to go along with veterans
Gene Woodling and Dale
Long.
"Many of the players on our
ball club will be getting a real
opportunity for the. first time
and that can mean a lot," says
Doherty, supporting his un
bridled enthusiasm.
"This team has been a rev
elation this spring," he adds.
' I know most everyone will
pick us to finish ninth or 10th
but we're shooting much high
er than that."
Vernon, still undecided as
to who will play where, is try
ing to build a pitching staff
around such castoffs as Dick
Donovan, Pete Burnside, Tom
Sturdivant, Johnny Klipp-
stcln, Bennie Daniels and
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Donovan, who was 6-1 with
the V'hite Sox last season, is
certain to be a regular starter
along with Burnside, who
won seven games and lost the
same number for the Tigers.
D-inicls also has a crack at a
starting turn. He came in a
deal with the Pirates and had
a 4-0 record at Columbus last
year.
Sturdivant, who was 3-3
with the Red Sox, can start or
relieve and the same goes for
Klippstein, who was 5-5 with
Cleveland.
Sisler, 7-5 with Detroit, will
head the bullpen crew which
also could Include IV dy Her
nandez, Hec Maestri, Marty
Kutyna and Carl Mathias,
Woodenhick To Stick
Hal Woodesshick, who was
4-9 with the old Washington
Senators last year and didn't
have to move an inch jvhen he
was drafted by the new ones,
will stick, but Vernon isn't
sure whether he'll use him to
sta.-t or relieve. John Gabler,
former property of the Yan
kees, and Ray Semproch, who
has seen service with the
Phillies and Tigers, also are
likely to be retained.
Woodling, a .283 hitter with
Baltimore last season, will
have to be the regular left
fielder because of the punch
he provides. Gene is 38 and is
no gazelle in the outfield but
he's the man who will have to
drive in the runs.
Rookie Chuck Hinton has
been impressive and could
wind up remaining with the
club, although Vernon seems
to be leaning toward Willie
Tasby as his center fielder
and Marty Keough as his right
fielder. Joe Hicks and Jim
King are the other outfield
candidates.
The infield is the real sore
spot on the club. None of the
Washington infielders played
regularly on a major league
club in 1060.
Long, who hit.. 366 In 26
games with the Yankees, and
R. C. Stevens, a .276 hitter at
Salt Lake City, are in the
battle for first base along with
young Bud Zipfel, up from
Binghamton where he hit .271
but drove in 107 runs.
There's a mad scramble at
second base and shortstop and
it's anyone's guess as to which
players eventually will wind
up with the jobs.
Johnny Schalve, who hit
.314 at Charleston, veteran
Danny O'Connell and Chester
Boak, who hit .202 at Shreve
port, all can play second,
while Vernon can choose from
among Coot Veal, Billy Klaus
and Jim Mahoney at short.
Even Hinton has been tried
there this spring, but Veal,
who has experience with De
troit and hit .302 at Denver,
appears to be the leading
candldaae.
The Senators are hoping
Harry Bright will make it at
third. Obtained from Pitts
burgh, Bright, 31, hit .313 for
Salt Lake City last year, driv
ing in 110 runs and hitting 27
homers. Bob Johnson, a .205
hitter with Kansas City last
season, and Klaus, who hit
200 with Baltimore, also can
play third.
Pete Daley, Dutch Dottorer
and Gene Green are the three
catchers on the roster. Daly
has the most big league exper
ience of the three and comes
from Kansas City where he hit
.263 tn 73 games last season,
Dotterer hit .228 with Cincin
nati and .321 with Jersey City,
while Green compiled a .274
mark with Miami. Green is
the only long-ball hitter in the
group.
When the new Washington
club came into being last De
cember, the general guessing
was that it wouldn't win more
than 40 games this year. That
sounds a Utile low. Doherty's
talk of fifth place, on the oth
er hand, sounds much too
high.
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MOST VALUABLE MEET The world champion Pittsburgh
Pirates of the National league and the New York Yankees
of the American loop met for the first time yesterday since
the 1080 world series. Pittsburgh won the exhibition game
at Fort Myers, Fla., 0-2. Showing their big bats, above, arc
Roger Marris, left, of the Yankees, and Dick Groat of the
Pirates, most valuable players of their respective circuits.
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Pittsburgh Pirates
Bounce NY Yankees
By TIM MORIARTY
United Press International
Even in spring exhibition
games, the Pittsburgh Pirates
show no respect for the New
York Yankees.
The 1060 World Series ri
vals met for the first time this
spring at -Ft. Myers, Fla.,
Tuesday-and the result was
the same. The Pirates, with
Bob Clemente and Dick Stu
art hitting home runs pranced
to an easy 9-2 victory.
Art Ditmar started for the
Yankees against Bob Friend.
They each lost two games in
the series last fall. However,
Friend enjoyed much better
luck this time as he scattered
eight hits to become the first
Pittsburgh hurler to go nine
innings this spring. He struck
out seven.
White Sox
Tip Dodgers
Vero Beach, Fla. -(UPB-The
Los Angeles Dodgers tried to
get another winning streak
going this afternoon at Hoi
man Stadium in a game
against the Chicago White
Sox, who are enjoying a se
rene spring vacation away
from their exploding score
board.
The White Sox defeated the
Dodgers Tuesday at Sarasota,
3-1, ending Los Angeles'
seven-game victory string in
tight pitching battle.
Spectators at Payne Park
were treated to a fine game
in which three young Dodger
pitchers limited Chicago to
seven hits. Jim Golden al
lowed two hits and hrcc
walks In four innings. Lefty
whiz Ron Pcrranoskl gave up
the same but no runs in
two innings and Arizonan
Phil Ortega worked two
frames, giving up three hits
and a single walk
Roy Slcvcrs knocked In
two of the Chisox runs with
dribbler and a broken bat
single. Top hitlers for the
Dodgers were Jim Gilliam
and Bobby Llllls, with two
apiece. Gilliam knocked In
the club's lone run in the
SF Giant
Fans Lack
Flag Fever
By HAL WOOD
San Francisco-ftlPD-The pen
nant fever that gripped the
San Francisco area a year ago
at this time is strangely lack
ing this spring as Giants fans
look ahead to the opening of
the season April 11.
It's all a matter of "wait
and see" this time.
When the 1060 campaign
opened, manager Bill Rigney
and his crew of wreckers had
been Installed as the choice to
win the National league pen
nant. The addition of Don Blasin
game to play second base and
pitchers Billy Loes and Billy
O'Dell to pep up the mound
staff was supposed to make
the club Invincible.
But two months later Rig
ney was fired as manager of
the club-when it was four
games out of first place-and
the dlsscnsion-torn team was
destined to wind up in fifth
place.
Different
This time it's different. If
Leo Durocher or some other
experienced man had been
named to the helm, the same
old fever may have been prev
alent. Now the fans are waiting:
To see if Alvin Dark is a
big league manager.
To find out if Harvey
Kucnn can hit National league
pitching as well as he did
American league hurling.
To make sure that the
sensational spring hitting of
Willie McCovey (he's hitting
above the .400 mark) will sig
nal the return to form that
won him the "Rookie of the
Year" award In 1059. Last
year he would have won a
Flop of the Year prize for
a .238 average.
To sec if some of the
rookie catchers, mainly John
Orsino and Tom Hallcr, are
good enough to help out with
the backstopping chores.
If Blasingame will come
through this year In better
form - or, if he doesn't, if
rookie Charley Hillcr can step
In and take his place. .
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The Pirates, meanwhile,
clouted Ditmar for eight runs
on as many hits in less than
six innings. It was the Yan
kees' 13th defeat in 18 tune
ups, which is just the oppo
site of the Bucs' spring rec
ord, 13-5.
Ralph Houk, the Yankees'
new manager, claims he's not
worried-yet-about the club's
poor form but some old-timers
can't remember a Yankee
team that looked so futile in
spring training.
While the Yankees are hav
ing their troubles, the Detroit
Tigers are bowling over their
exhibition rivals with surpris
ing regularity.
Don Mossi, making a strong
comeback after missing the
final six weeks of the 1960
season with a sore elbow,
raised his springtime record
to 4-0 as the Tigers downed
the Cincinnati Reds, 7-5, Tues
day. Mossi scattered seven
hits over the first seven in
nings. The San Francisco Giants
edged the Boston Red Sox,
2-1; the Chicago White Sox
snapped the Los Angeles
Dodgers' seven-game winning
streak, 3-1; the Baltimore
Orioles outlasted the Kansas
City Athletics, 8-7, in 11 in
nings; Harmon Killebrew's
two run homer in the ninth
inning gave the Minnesota
Twins a 3-2 triumph over the
Philadelphia Phillies, and the
St. Louis . Cardinals nipped
the Milwaukee Braves, 1-0, in
other games.
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Larker, whose .323 batting
average last year was only
two points shy of Dick Groat's
league-leading mark, attrib
utes his yearly advance with
the Dodgers to a study of
pitchers.
"I have a pretty good idea
of what they will throw when
they're in a jam," says Lar
ker. "Let's say that I'm bat
ting against the Braves' Lew
Burdette. He knows that I'm
Red Rocha
To Speak
At Dinner
Red Rocha, assistant var
sity basketball coach at
Oregon State University,
will be one of two speakers
this evening for the banquet
honoring the Medford high
school basketball team.
The dinner is set for 6:30
p.m. at Rogue Valley Coun
try club.
Other speakers will be
Steve Belko, head hoop
coach at University of Ore
gon. The Black Tornado bas
ketball club was runnerup
for the Oregon Class A-l
prep championship, Two
players, Bob Quinney and
Dick Ragsdale, made the
A-l tournament all state
team.
a pretty good high ball hitter,
so chances are that he will
throw me a low pitch, a
sinker.
"Only I don't call it a sink
er. I say he's throwing a spit
ter when he's in trouble. Low
and inside pitches are the
toughest for me to hit. I can't
swing hard and don't get the
leverage. All I can do is try
to meet the ball and maybe
punch it to the opposite field."
Friend, Law Bother
Bob Friend and Vern Law,
the Pirates' aces, are other
low ball pitchers who bother
Larker.
"Friend has a real good
sinker, but the guy who gives
me the most trouble is Law.
He mixes 'em up pretty good
and always makes a good
pitch on you."
Larker, who never has hit
under .275 and five times hit
over .300 in Double-A and
Triple-A minor leagues, enters
his fourth season as a Dodger
with a .301 lifetime major
league average. He hit .277
in his rookie year, .289 in
in 1959 and .323 last year
when he was named the most
valuable Dodger.
Although he led the league
most of last year and lost the
batting title to Groat only in
the final week, Larker does
not expect to challenge again.
"I was mighty lucky last
year," he said. "With a little
break here and there I'll get
my share of hits again. But I
don't expect to lead the
league.
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