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Newspaper Page TextB FRIDAY. APRIL 21, 1981 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON MANTLE SPURS YANK TRIUMPHS Mick's Bat Responsible For Streak Br MILTON RICHMAN Unltd Pihi International Mickey Mantle is hitting a cool .400 and it's a toss-up who's getting a bigger kick out of it - an old man sitting back in Glendale, Calif., or a younger one sitting pretty in the . Yankees' managerial chair. ' Mantle's current slugging - performance must be bringing a smile of satisfaction to Ol' Casey Stengel, who predicted banner year for Mickey and still follows his progress by pouring over the box scores t his home in California. - Ralph Houk, the man who succeeded Stengel, is delight ed with Mantle's showing, too. "I'm sure glad Mickey is hitting," Houk. said after Thursday's 7-5 and 4-2 vic tories over the Los Angeles Angels. "Outside of him, we haven't been doing much, but he's off to a terrific start and so far he's carried us along with him." By clipping the Angeles' wings twice, the ' Yankees moved into a tie for second place with Detroit and are now only a half-game behind the surprising first-place Min nesota Twins. Mantle Carries Load Mantle, who has been on base In 11 of his last 13 at- bats, is chiefly responsible for the Yankees' . current four game winning streak. He drove In five runs with two towering homers In Thurs day's opener and collected an other hit in two tries during the nightcap. He also drew three walks in the two games. Pinch hitter Jesse Gonder singled home the two runs that proved decisive in the eighth inning of the opener as Art Ditmar posted the victory with Bill Stafford's help. Ex- Yankee Eli Grba was th loser. Bob Turley, who aided his own cause with a two-run single, was the winner in the finale although he needed Luis Arroyo's aid in the eighth. In other American league games, the Chicago White Sox defeated the Washington Sen ators, 6-1, and the Detroit Tigers crushed the Cleveland Indians, 11-4. No other games were scheduled. San Francisco nipped Cin cinnati, 2-1, but the Reds re- Platoon System Pays Off For Giants Against Reds By HAL WOOD DniUd Press International . San Francisco - (WD - The platoon system, admittedly de spised by manager Alvin Dark, may be the salvation of the San Francisco Giants this season. ' Dark benched all his left handed swingers - Thursday nd his right-handers came up with a 2-1 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. Surprisingly, the victory was achieved with some fine base running and fancy field ing - rather than by the bats. "But we have a good bench and we're going to use it when we need to," said Dark after the victory. -"For the time being, I'll Los Angeles Man Regrets Receiving Reward for Honesty Los Angeles -WW)- Douglas W. Johnson. . SO, the honest man who found $240,000 in unmarked bills and returned It immediately, said today he wished he had burned the , money or ; thrown it down, a ewer.-' The - self-employed janitor found the bag of money lying In the staeet last March 10 nd turned it into the FBI Without even counting it. The i bundle of unmarked 910 and $20 bills flopped out ef an armored car and Brink's ftuUy gave Johnson a t 0,C 0 reward tot his hon- . Ke wishes today he had l r seen th money. . publicity and letters awwuflg at his honesty have bis wife upset and his eldest son, Richard, IS, ran. away from home Tuesday, .. "He had a car his father had given him two years ago," 77f.::Di::GS I rtOXAL UAOVI " W. L. ret. OK) 1 MM -a !, . fc m...m a ' Mat .in. 1 1 ..ynla ...... I il 114 J3S J OO 1 . HI I --f"-T'i Besvite . - i .i - '1 I"KIKB a, I.IUIIIMU wsuut 1, Philadelphia t (11 . -ao I. PltUburah 0 (nlshtl i t. Louis 11, Lot Anselea 2 : Tartar Ouh i omo at Philadelphia ' uvauke at Plttiburfh . Lt. Louie at Bui Francisco- CtnctnnaU at Lot Anftlu (nllht) ANHICAN LEAGUE piiuiMota ....... t tweet e York Cleveland ....... Boeton .... Cnlccf o ., ICaneaa Cltv .... Washington ...... 3 Lot Angelas ...... 1 Baltimore 1 L. Pet. OB 1 ,833 ... 1 .100 li i .aoo . il 3 ' ,800 1 1 .soo a 3, .400 2 2 J33 9.1, 4 .333 3 4 .300 3 U 4 J00 3 5 ; Thursday's Reiulla Chicago 6, Washington 1. Detroit 11. Cleveland 4 New York T, Loe Angelea 5 (lit) New York 4, Lot Angeles 3 (2nd) New York at Baltimore (3, Iwl. Bight) Lot Anselet at Detroit . - Boston at Chicago Washington at Minnesota Cleveland at Kantat City (night) Mrs. Johnson said. "Never got into trouble with lt until he got so nervous lately. Then he had a little accident, Had Another Accident . . , Douglas told htm not to worry. Just take it real easy. Two dayc later he had another accident. This was small, too . , . I guess that was Just too much for him . . ." Richard returned home Thursday, hungry. "The kids kept saying things to me," ,he said. "All the time, they were saying my father was dumb, and a fool and stupid. And there was more of the same In the mails every day. And then the accidents - and I Just couldn't stand it." The same has been true for Johnson. "I've had to listen to every day of the week since I gave the money back," he said. "My wife's had to listen to lt. And-oh, God-my boys have had to listen to It, too, Wanted Own Home "Llsten-the Brink's people gave me a $10,00 reward for giving the money back. thought that was nice of them. Was going to buy a house of our own, like we'd always wanted, "You think I care for that money? "I wish I'd never seen any of it. I wish we'd let that money sit In the street and rot. I wish we'd thrown it down a sewer or burned it . . That money? It's not worth anything. "it has made me a poor man, use all the right-handed hit ters I can against left-handed pitchers, and all the lefties I can against the right-hand. ers." . That means that for to. night's game, if the St, Louis Cardinals pitch right-hander Bob Gibson, Willie McCovey will be , back , at first base; Charlie Hlller at second and Tom Haller behind the plate. That will also put Harvey Kuenn back at third and Or lando Cepeda into right field Yesterday Dark started Jim Davenport at third, Cepeda at first, Kuenn in right field, Jose Pagan at short, Bob Schmidt catching and Joe Am alfltano at second. This outfit got only five hits, -but it played flawlessly in the field. 1 SPORTS 1 League Leaders By United Press International NATIONAL LEAGUE Player a Club a Moon, L.A. .. B Gnill,, Phil 6 Cnsm.. st.L... B Post, Cin B Kaska, Cln. .... 8 Groat. Pitta... S Sanla, Chi 7 Davli. L.A-.10 Hoak, Pllte 7 Bailey, Cln S AMERICAN LEAGUE Vrsls., Minn.. Mantle. N.Y. .. S Tompl,, Clev... 6 Kallne, Det. .. S Alteon, Mtnn 6 Hunt, L.A. ... s Boroi, Dot. .. 5 Landli. Chi. .. I Phllllpi, Clev. t Skowron, N.Y. 0 Pet, .348 .900 ,481) .417 . .304 .38(1 .370 .330 .387 .397 .430 .400 .3D1 .301 .375 .379 .379 JOB .390 .333 Dod- ; Virion, Us. Tm Glad to Be Back in Baseball" tlx yean age, Leo Durocher thought Hie game couldn't offer hi any more; new he knows dif ferently, and even a secondary eh brings back thai famous old fire. Don't miss Joseph Bell's ipe eiol feature on lea in the JRmmily WmmJciy April 23rd Issue wlHi your , Medford - Mail Tribunt Home Rum NKUODAi ii i u Moon, u, uueiivsi i vni u a, i Cnrdi, 4; Coleman. Redi, 3; Pirated, 3. American Liaiu e M anil. Yanks, 3: Allium. Twin., 3; Ste ven, White Box, 2; Kluuewakl, An lela, 3; (,30 player tied with 1 each). - - , Rum Batted In National I.eacue Spencer, Cards, 11: Moon, Dodgers, 11; Post, Redi, 0; T. Davli, Dodjcers.fl; Vlr don, Pirates, 7; Coleman, Reds, 7; Boyer, Cards, 7. American Lraxue Allison, Twins. 11; Mantle. Yanks, B: Klus sewskl, Angels, 6; Boros, Tlgera, 6; Francona, Indians, S; Versalles, Twins, S; Cash, Tigers, 5; Kallne, Grarid Slam Homer ' Swatted in Grade School Baseball A grand slam home run and last inning splurges for vic tory highlighted Medford dis trict grade school baseball yesterday. , Denzll Carney swatted the four-mast round tripper for Griffin Creek in its 13 to win over Oak Grove. Griffin Creek was helped by 12 hits and 13 Grover miscues. Pat Redding hit three for four for Griffin Creek. hone Pine won over Ruch 0 to 8 with two runs and none out in the last inning; Clark walked and scored on Randy Moyer's double. Moyer stole third and broke up the game by scoring on a passed ball. Dale Scrivner, playing his first game, homered and doubled for Lone Pine. Weigand Triples In the final Inning of action Hoover got a run for a 3 to 2 nod over Roosevelt and re mained unbeaten in five games. Doug Johanson was hit by a pitch and Mark Weleand tripled him home with no one out. Lincoln won 14 to 4 to hand West Side its first setback In league play. Ralph Grlndstaff had two of Lincoln's five hits. Eight bases on balls, three hit batters, three hits and one error got Lincoln's markers In one inning. Washington got five runs in one inning on an error, two hits, three walks and a hit batter to beat Jefferson 7 In A vteni siae a 2 4 3 Lincoln (14114 9 tained the National league lead despite the defeat. The Chicago Cubs blankd th Pitts burgh Pirates, 3-0; Milwaukee beat Philadelphia, 7-6, in 11 innings and the St. Louis Card inals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 11-2 in other NL games. Homers Pace Chisoic Roy Sievers, Jim Landis and Al Smith each hit homers to lead the White Sox to their victory over the Senators. Early . Wynn scattered' nine hits for his first triumph of the season and the 285th of his major league career. Loser Hal Woodeshick gave up seven of Chicago's 11 hits in the five innings he worked. Frank Lary won his second straight game for the Tigers with an eight-hit effort against the Indians. Detroit nicked loser Gary Bell for four runs in the first Inning, and after the Indians rallied for three runs in the fourth Norm Cash pulled the Tigers away with a three-run homer in the fifth Southpaw Mike McCormick hurled a four-hitter in the Giants' victory over the Reds. The 22-year-old McCormick had a string of 17 scoreless In nings before Cincinnati got to him for a run in the ninth. The Giants scored single runs off Jim O'Toole in the second and third innings, both runs coming across on infield outs, LINB8CORES: National Learue St. Louis .... 002 123 03011 17 Los Anselea 000 200 000 2 0 Simmons. Miller (7t and H. Smith, Williams. Golden (6). Palm- aulst I7t and N. Sherry. Camlllf (a), winner Simmons (l-ui. looser wimama k apencer a, c, smitn, Boyer. , m Inn in it Milw. .. 000 100 003 017 12 t Phila 002 040 000 00 8 16 S Burdette. Morehead (5). McKen- zle (8), McMahon (9), Plche (10) and Crandall, Lau (8). Green, Fer rarese (fit. Farrell (9). Lehman ffl). Buzhardt (10) and Dairy mple. Win ner Plche (1-0). Loser Buzhardt (u-u. tin jjairympie, ttoaun. Chicago 001 100 1003 10 1 Pittsburgh' .. 000 000 0000 6 0 Hobble (1-1) and Bertell. Gibbon. Labine (9) and H. Smith. Loser Gibbon (1-1). Cincinnati .. 000 000 0011 4 0 San Fran 011 000 OOx 2 5 0 O'Toole. JMunn (8) and Bailey, McCormick (2-1) and Schmidt. Loser O'Toole (1-2). American League (1st came) Los Angeles.. 010 Oil 0115 8 1 New York .. 200 030 02X 7 8 0 Grba. Moeller (7). cievencer (8) and Rice, Sadowski (S), Averill (7). Ditmar. Stafford , (8) and Berra. Winner Ditmar (1-0). Loser Grba (1-1). HR Mantle 2, Wag ner. 1 Dnwion. Wuhhur ft i Tl..,- i pawson (1) and Culbe'rtson; Curl! uaK urove oso a 4 in unrnn creek ..(13) 0218 12 2 Waldron Sanrir r.rn t nmiHawuiUl, Jefferson .....011 24 2 1 Washington SU x 7 3 3 Hale. Barnes (3) and Hess; Htckey, Garrett (3) and Landis. Rch 102 418 4 2 Lone Pine ,.403 028 8 3 Ramsey, Rametu (4) and Rogers; Jahn and Moyer. . Wilson .i.iRi4i .1 n Jackson 020 2 0 7 Johnson, Hackworth (3) and T, Zlmmerlee: Owen. Beaoh m mt Jones. Owens (1). 4 0 3 0 Lee- Roosevelt 200 002 Hoover 200 01 3 Rudy and Polski: Brooks. ver (3) and Cunningham. (2nd same) Los Angelea 100 001 0002 8 0 New York ....030 001 00x-4 7 0 carver. Kline iei ana luce. Ave rill (6). Turley. Arroyo (8) and Howard, wlnne r Turley (2-0) Loser Garver (0-1). HR Hunt. I , '" ' 'a ......4 t ; -fv'" i pSf ' . , : ... -. ' , v I " f IT' "J - wt iy- r ; t-, , - . x , . , ' ft ' ! ' 9 ' " '. ' ' - - i i 1 e. v " "IT V'- n' Ax-' ,v , Mclntire Favored Over Store Partner Pinehurst N. C. -fllPD- Brit ish Amateur champion Bar bara Mclntire was favored over Judy Bell today In the final of the annual North and South Women's Amateur golf championship. The two finalists are close friends and business partners in a women's sporting apparel firm. Miss Mclntire gained an easy 8 and 7 victory over Mrs. Alex Welsh of Rockford, 111., in Thursday's . semifinals. But Miss Bell had to go an extra hole for the second straight day to beat California Ama teur champion Barbara Wil liams of Richmond, - Calif., one-up. UN Trot Race f Yonkers, N. Y. (IfPS Su Mae Lad's position among tfte world's greatest trotters was further strengthened today py his courageous victory In the $50,000 United Nations Trot. The 7 - year - old gelding, owned by I. W. Berkemeyer of New Milford, N. J., showed amazing speed and stamina in nosing out Canada's Tie Silk in the mile and one-half event Thursday night at Yonkers Raceway. EXTRA BASE San Francisco Giants' Fe lipe Alou gained an extra base on a hit and run play against Cincinnati yesterday in second inning at San Francisco. Catcher Bob Schmidt hit to right field behind Alou on first. Alou kept going to third and fielder Wally Post threw to third baseman Gene Freese. Alou dived into the bag head first and this sequence shows result. Upper left, Alou dives with outstretched hand as Freese gets ball and puts his tag, upper right, on runner while umpire Shag Crawford rules safe. Lower left, Freese falls over backward and even takes Crawford with him, lqwer right, as ball rolls free. (UPI Telephoto) Chicago White Sox Have Hitting Binge By GENE BLUDEAU United Preis International Chicago-OIPD-What could be rarer than . three Chicago White Sox home runs and a complete-game pitching vic- Detroit 400 030 13011 0 Cleveland 000 300 001 4 8 Lary (2-0) and Brown. Bell, Latman (6), Heman () ana ho mana. Loaer BeU (0-2). HR Cash Washington.. 001 000 0001 9 ( unicago zuu uuz uzx o ii j Woodeshick. Sturdlvant (6). Kllpp. tetn (B) and Dottcrer. Wynn (1-01 and Carreon. Lollar (7). Loser Woodeshick (0-1). HR Sievers, Landis, smltn. Angels' Ed Yost Injures Hand Detroit-(UPD-The Los Ange les Angels, in a last place tie with Baltimore, met the De troit Tigers today with Jerry Casale and Don Mossl as op posing moundsmen. The Angels not only lost both games to the Yankees Thursday but. also lost the services of Eddie Yost for at least five days. Yost suffered a hairline fracture of a knuckle on his right hand when hit by a pitch In the ninth inning of the first game. ABC Dissolution Sought by BPAA Detroit iupu- As if members of the American Bowling con- gress weren't having enough trouble trying to get good scores in their annual tourna ment, the organization itself now faces a battle for Its very existence in federal court. The Bowling Proprietors' Association of America (BPAA) filed suit in federal court in Chicago Thursday seeking dissolution of the ABC on the grounds it is an illegal monopoly. Frank K. Baker, executive secretary of the ABC, had a terse "no comment" when in formed here of the suit. I will have to study the bill of particulars and know more about the charges before commenting," Baker said. Cards Blast Out 17 Hits In 11-2 Win By ALEX KAHN Los Angeles -lUPD-The Cin cinnati Reds, another of the National league's sluggi n g clubs tonleht make their first Visit to the Coliseum to meet the Los Angeles Dodeers. who failed to match the hittinir of the departed St. Louis Cardinals Thursday night. For the opener of the se ries, southpaw Sandy Koufax, 0-1, was slated to oppose Jay Hook, who has no record thus far this season. The Cardinals left town with their greatest plate bar rage of the season, collecting 17 hits against a trio of Dodg er hurlers while chalking up a jtx-a victory.- Deleat Costly - - The defeat was a costly one lor tne Doagers, who lost the services of catcher Norm Sherry for a week or 10 days with a bruised kidney. A poor throw from outfielder Frank Howard put Sherry out of po sition to tag card pitcher Curt Simmons as he was coming in to the plate in the third in ning. About all manager Walt Al ston had to cheer was the two run homer hit by rookie third baseman Charlie Smith in the fourth to score all the Dodger runs. The Cardinals collected three homers, shortstop Daryl bpencer getting a pair with no men on base and third base man Ken Boyer hitting a two run homer. Although he didn't homer. Cardinal second baseman Jul ian Javier was a big man at the plate, collecting three sin gles and a double in five times at bat. Simmons scored the win in his 350th National league pitching appearance, although Bob Miller hurled the final 2 23 Innings without giving up a hit. tory by Early Wynn all in the same game? , "Nothing," said manager Al Lopez in answer to that ques tion. "This is the type of thing managers mean when they talk about playing up to the potential." . ' Lopez summoned the .play ers out for batting practice after Tuesday's home-opener loss to the Senators. But after Thursday's whopping success, he lightheartedly sipped a beer.'. Prospects, he admitted, hadn't looked 'brighter in more than a month. "We haven't got any hitting out of this club since about a month ago back in Sara sota," he said. "And no pitch ing to speak of, either." -Second Win Thursday's 6-1 victory over the Senators, in which five runs were driven home on cir. cult clouts by Roy Sievers, Jim Landis and Al Smith, was the second White Sox victory In five games. But it was significant, Lo pez said, because: Wynn's victory, his 285th in the majors, marked the first time a White Sox pitcher had gone more than four in nings this season. Landis, normally a .200, hitter until the second half of the campaign, was already belting the ball at .386 with a home run, a triple and two doubles. ' 1 . Minnie Minoso, whose single hit in four previous games was causing front .of fice concern, looked . more like his old self when he belt ed . a pair of doubles and scored a run. Death Claims Ex-Ring Champ ' New York (UPD Al Singer, the "Bronx Beauty" who won and lost the world lightweight boxing championship within four months, died Thursday at the age of 51. ' Singer won the title at the age of 20 when he knocked out Sammy Mandell in the first round at Yankee Stadium on July 17, 1930. Then, on Nov. 14 of the same year, he was ;knocked out by Tony Canzoneri in the first round in their title bout at Madison Square Garden. MAY-5.67 Charles Bray ton Picked by WSC Pullman, Wash.-fllPD-Charles Brayton, 35, head 'baseball coach at Yakima Junior Col lege, today was named to suc ceed A. B, (Buck) Bailey as head baseball coach at Wash ington State university when Bailey' retires after the end of this season. Bailey has been head WSU mentor for 34 years. Brayton played shortstop at Washing ton State in 1047 and 1948. TOAAO OFFER ENDS , Hurry! Hurry! : Free Gasoline FOR ONE FULL YEAR ! ar the Service Station of Your Choice! Don't wait until too late! Be one of the lucky ones who get FREE CAS. (Based on National Average Driving of 7,500 miles per year. Buy a Rambler or Metropolitan from LEA MOTORS and take your vacation on us. - ' 5th & BARTLETT SPring 2-6185 League Elaton. Cubs, Reds. J-0: Friend. Pi- players tied with Pltrhlns National 2-0: Purkey. R rales, 2-0; (13 l-ui. Amerlratt Leatue Larv. Tliiera. 2-0: Ramos, Twins, 2-0; Turley, Yanks, 2-0; (18 players Ued with 1-0). ISLAND OWNERS Washington - More than a dozen Islands In the Carib bean area are owned by the U.S. Poison Oak? Try a Bottle of ZEMACOL Yen must be utiitied veur meney eheerlully refuneee). Get betrl tea, al WISTIRN THRIFT LAWN MOWER SHARPENING Small Engine Repairing Part and Service for Briggs StraMon . . . Clinton . . . 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