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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON WEDNESDAY. MAY 17. 19S1 Washington's Pitching No Joke; Senators Subdue NY Yankees 3-2 ,'. By MILTON RICHMAN, ' United Press International -' Are you In the mood for a funny story? Then listen to this: The new Washington Senators sudden ' ly have come up with the best pitching in' the majors. Maybe that sounds like a sick joke, but it happens to ' be absolutely true, much to ' the astonishment of eight ' other American league clubs who thought they had ped ' died a bunch of bottom-of-the-barrel pitchers to the strug gling Senators in last Decem- ber's expansion draft. "First they sold us these pitchers," laughs Washington General Manager Ed Doherty, "and now they're breaking down my door trying to get - them back." ' No wonder! Washington pitchers have allowed a total of only five - runs and 13 hits in their last ' five games. " Give Up Two Hits ' Hai Woodeshick and Dave Sisler combined to limit the ' slugging New York Yankees 1 to two hits Tuesday night in a ' 3-2 victory that was the Senators fourth in a row. ' Woodeshick, one of the many castoffs Washington picked up for $75,000, held the Yanks to one hit in 6 2-3 innings and was credited with . his second victory. The only hit off him was Micky Mant ' tie's 10th homer with the bases empty in the sixth. Two . walks, a will pitch and an in- field out netted New York its first run in the third. The Senators scored all three of their runs off Bill Stafford in the top of the ' third on successive singles by Danny O'Connell, Chuck Bin ton, Jim King and Willie Tas by plus a sacrifice fly by ex- Yankee Dale Long. , Detroit Beats Baltimore Detroit stretched its Amer ican league lead to four games with a 10-4 triumph over Bait- , Imore; Boston flipped Cleve- land, 8-7; Chicago defeated Minnesota, 5-4, and Kansas City beat Los Angeles, 6-4. In the National league, Pittsburgh nipped St. Louis, " 2-1; Cincinnati turned back Philadelphia, 4-2; San Fran ciso increased its lead to three games with a 2-1 win over Chicago, and Milwaukee beat Los Angeles, 5-3. - - Frank Lary of the -Tigers Won his sixth game against only one loss with a six-hitter over the slumping Orioles, who dropped their fourth 'in a row. Southpaw Steve Barber 4-3 was tagged for eight of Detroit's 10 runs. Rocky Col- avito and Norm Cash each hit two-run homers. The Red Sox snapped out of their slump with a 16-hlt attack against Cleveland start er Wynn Hawkins 3-2 and three relivers. Boston jumped to a 5-2 lead after four in nings but Jim Pagllaroni's two-run homer during a three run sixth proved to be the payoff blow. Frank Malzone also homered to help Ike De lock gain his second victory. Early Wynn scattered six hits and singled in the win ning run for the White Sox in registering the 288th vic tory of his major league ca reer at the expense of the Twins. Wynn's game-winning single came, in the eighth in ning off loser Pedro Ramos 3-3, who scored three of Min nesota's runs and drove in an other with a homer. Minnie Minoso homered for the White Sox. Wynn is now 4-1 Rookie Norm Bass, ticketed for the minors a week ago by KC General Manager Frank Lane but granted a re prieve by owner Charles Fin ley, won his second game of the season although the An gels routed him with a four- run rally in the ninth. Bass had a - four-hit shut out until the ninth, then yield ed a single, hit a batter with a pitch and gave up two more doubles before Jim Archer came on to end .the game, Marv Throneberry led Kan sas City s 15-hit attack with three hits. Eli Grba 3-4 was the losing pitcher. Dick Stuart's sixth inning homer powered the Pirates to their victory over the Cardin als. Southpaw Curt Simmons 1-3 was the victim of Stuart's blow. Vern Law made his first start since April 29 and pitched five scoreless innings before his shoulder tightened. Elroy Face relieved him and was the winner. Joey Jay of the Reds check ed the Phillies on five hits to win his third game in row. Gene Freese hit a three- run homer off loser Frank Sullivan and Frank Robinson homered with the bases emp ty. Jay struck out seven and walked only two. Hobie Landrith's sixth In ning single off Dick Drott broke a 1-1 tie and gave the Giants their victory over the Cubs. Jack Sanford held the Cubs to six hits in winning his second game of the season. The victory was the ninth in 11 games for the Giants and jj IM ENJOY the true old-style Kentucky Bourbon l(jQlSI5 always smoother because it's slow-distilled ttMIICM ITMI6Ht 0 U 0 0 Hill!' II MOOf ItiiT ti( .Diimu com any. lOuismiE. ttuer the loss was the Cubs' 10th in 11 starts. Frank Boiling's three-run homer in the fourth inning proved to be the winning margin for Milwaukee over Los Angeles. Bollinger's hom er followed a pair of walks issued by loser Sandy Koufax 3-2. Don Nottebart 2-2 was the winner although he gave way to Moe Drabowsky.in the sixth: Willie Davis homered for the Dodgers. St. Louis 000 001 000 1 S 0 Pittsburgh ... 000 011 OOx 2 S 0 Simmons. Gibson (7) and H. R. Smith. Lew. Face (6) and Burgess. Winner Face (2-1). Loser Sim mons 11-3). HR Stuart. 1 0 Cincinnati .... 000 301 000 t Phlla 020 000 000 2 S Jav (3-31 and Schmidt. Sullivan Ferrarese (8) and Dalyrmple. Loser Sullivan (1-4). HR Freese, Robl- son. Chicago ...001 000 0001 8 1 ...000 101 OOx 2 S C Drott, Elion (S) and Bertell. San ford (2-3) and Landrith. Loser Drott (0-1). v Milwaukee ....020 300 000 5 13 0 Los Angeles 0O0 003 000 3 4 0 Nottebart, Drabowsky (6) and Lau. Koufax, Craig (5). L. Sherry 18) and Roseboro. Winner Notte bart (2-2). Loser Koufax (3-2). HR Boiling. D. Davis. American League Washington ..003 000 0003 10 0 New York ....001 001 0002 2 0 Woodeshick, Sisler (7) and Da lev. Stafford. Sheldon (4). eleven- ger (8) and Howard. Winner Woodeshick (2-1). Loser Stafford (0-1K HR ManUe. Detroit 040 400 00210 12 0 BalUmore . ..000 200 200 4 6 1 Lary (6-1) and Brown. Barber. Estrada (8) and Courtney. Loser Barber (4-3). HR Volavlto, Cash. Cleveland .....200 001 0317 15 2 Boston 121 103 OOx 8 16 0 Hawkins. Allen (2). Antonelll (6), Heman (8) and Romano. Delock, Stallard (8). Nichols (8), Muffett (8) and Pagliaroni. W 1 n n e r Delock (2-1). Loser Hawkins (3-2). HR Malzone, Pagliaroni. Minnesota . 001 020 100 4 8 1 Chicago 001 020 llx 9 8 0 Ramos (3-3) and Battey. Wynn (4-1) and Cammeon. HR Ramos, Minoso. Los Angeles 000 000 004 4 8 1 Kansas City 000 212 Olx 6 IS 0 Grba, Casale (6), Morgan (7) and Avenu. uasst Arcner in) ana aui- livan. Winner- Grba (3-4). Bass (2-1). Loser Williams Victor Over AlMiteff Houston, Tex. - (UPD - Cleve land (Big Cat) Williams, who shattered the title fight hopes of seventh-ranked Alex Miteff with a fifth-round technical knockout, set up. a howl today for a shot at champion Floyd Patterson. - Texas Boxing Enterprises, who promoted Tuesday night's bout against the 8-5 favored Argentine, has offer ed the champion a $100,000 guarantee with an option of 40 per cent of the gate to meet the big Houston Negro. If the 211-pound Williams ever looked as though he de served a shot at the title, it was Tuesday night. He took command of the fight from the 208-pound Mi teff from the start, opened a bad cut over his left eye in the second round, floored him for eight counts in the third and fourth, and was beating him badly when referee Ernie Taylor mercifully ended it 1:32 deep into the fifth. STANDINGS By United Press International AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet OB Detroit 22 0 .710 New York 16 11 .593 4 Minnesota .... . 16 13 .552 5 Cleveland 15 14 .517 6 Baltimore IS 15 .500 614 Kansas City 12 13 .480 7 Washlntgon . 14 17 .452 8 Chicago 12 16 .429 8',i Boston , 11 16 .407 9 Boston 11 16 .407 S Los Angeles 9 18 .333 11 Tuesday's Results Chicago 5. Minnesota 4 (night) Kan. City 6. Los Angeles 4 (night) Boston 8, Cleveland 7 (night) Washington 3. New York 2 (night) Detroit 10. BalUmors 4 (night) NATIONAL LEAGUE W. San Francisco Pittsburgh Cincinnati Los Angeles . Milwaukee ... St. Louis Chicago Philadelphia . Pet. GB .679 .577 .571 3 .563 3 .520 4,i .440 6'j .357 9 .286 11 Tuesday's Results San Fran. 2, jChlcago 1 (night) ClncinnaU 4, Philadelphia 3 (night) Pittsburgh 2. St. Louis 1 (night) Milwaukee 3, Los Angeles 3 (night) PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB Seattle Vancouver Portland .. Tacoma .., Spokane San Diego Hawaii . Salt Lake 20 16 13 10 12 12 12 10 .714 .640 .520 .476 .444 .428 .414 .370 Tuesday's Results Vancouver 4. Tacoma 1 Portland 3, Hawaii 2 Seattle 11, Salt Lake a San Diego at SDokant (post poned, wet grounds). NORTHWEST LEAGUE By United Press International W. L. Pet GB Salem .. 9 S .643 Yakima 11 I 379 11 Lewlston . .500 s Tri-Clty 9 11 .450 3 Wentachee ., 8 10 .444 3 Eugene 7 J64 3',i Tuesday's Results Salem 5. Wenatchee 4 Yakima 2. Trl-Cltv 0 Eugene at Lewiaton (ppd.. rain) INTERNATIONAL LEAOUK W. L. Pet. GB Columbus 13 7 San Juan 15 II Richmond , 14 11 Jersey City II B Kocnesier 13 m Buffalo It 12 Toronto 8 15 Syracuse 8 17 .650 .377 30 M0 MS .479 J4 320 SPORTS r - H " VC : 111 DAMIEN ROSSETTO Leads SOC Batsmen Rossetto Paces SOC In Hitting Ashland - Damien Rosset to, a sophomore from Weed, Calif., led Southern Oregon college hitters with a .400 bat ting average final statistics for the 1961 baseball season showed. Rossetto had the most hits, 28, in 70 times at bat in post ing his squad-leading bat mark. He was one of five play ers hitting over .300 for the season. The others were John Cook, .370, Bill Franks, .333, Dave Hughes, .316, and Joe Funderburg, .311. . Kerm McLemore, o n e of three seniors who will grad uate this June, led the team in runs - batted in with 21, while batting .289. Hughes, who was second behind Rosetto in hits with 24, led in runs scored with 22. Senior Eldon Francis and jun ior John Buck each drew 13 bases on ball and struck out 11 times, while Buck led the squad in stolen bases with 11. Pitching statistics show sophomore left - hander Mar ty Vogler the only Raider hurler with a winning record, 3 wins and 2 losses. Vogler led the team in strikouts with 50, while also topping earned run averages with 1.17. Junior Earle Tichenor had the most innings pitched, 47 13, and was second in ERA with a 1.71 mark. He had a 3-5 win-loss record. Cook, a combination out fielder - pitcher, was third in ERA with 1.89, as the Raid ers compiled, a respectaDie 2.23 mark dispite theif 8 wins, 13 losses season record. As a team in hitting, the Raiders batted .285 to their opponents' .266. In fielding state, Hughes committed 17 errors and Buck 12 as SOC was charged with 79 in 21 games while their foe was committing 71. Bowman Bought By Spokane Club Spokane - (UPD - Spencer Harris, general manager of the Spokane Indians of the Pacific Coast league, said today the club- has purchased Bob Bowman from Buffalo of the International league. Bowman, 29, is an outfield er who hit .278 with 10 horn ers and 63 runs batted in dur ing 98 games last year with Buffalo. Whitworth Pirate Division Champions Ritzvllle -(UPD- The Whit worth Pirates, defending NAIA college baseball cham pions, won the Evergreen con ference's Eastern Division ti tle with a 5-4 playoff win over Central Washington college here Tuesday. The Pirates had to win two playoff games to capture the crown. Whitworth defeated Eastern Washington on Mon day, 10-2, in Spokane. NBA Will Take Back Baltimore B 3 New York-fllPD-The Nation al Basketball association (NBA) will welcome back Baltimore as a franchise hold er starting with the 1962-63 season. The pro league's expansion, though, won't stop there. sThe NBA owners voted to readmit Baltimore at their annual meeting Tuesday and then listened to a presenta tion from a San Francisco mer. group, which also would like to join the league for the 1962 63 season. The San Francisco bid was presented by Frank Walsh, a veteran California basketball promoter who was represent ing and unidentified group. The presentation, termed "in teresting" by NBA President Maurice Podoloff, was taken under advisement until the owners meet again this sum- Linfield Pads League Record Salem-flJPD - Linfield, the Northwest Conference base ball champion for the third straight year, fattened its won loss record Tuesday with 4-3 and 15-3 victories over Wil lamette. Linfield now a 12-2 for the season, and Is hoping for an NCAA at-large playoff berth from the Northwest. , SOUTHERN OREGON STATISTICS Batting AB R Rosetto 70 Cook 54 Franks 15 Hughes 76 Funderhurg ..74 MCijeiviorB ,...io Buck Munyon . Parsons . Vannlce . Francis Kopacs . Hink Tichenor Vogler ... carr Endlcntt .... Hoover ...... Smith Others Totals Opponents Pitching Vogler .. Tichenor Vannlce Cook Carr Hlnk 1 Hughes 4 Others 3 51 80 28 8 56 23 7 IS 13 1 1 1 1 3 22 17 12 14 10 4 4 13 3 0 1 O 1 0 0 0 RBI Pet. .400 657 lit 17 (77 120 171 370 333 .316 .311 .269 .275 .250 .250 .250 .232 .217 .143 .143 .077 .000 .000 .000 .000 .000 .215 .2(1 IP H ,.45'J 48 . 47", 46 ..2914 33 ..24 34 , 4 4 1 4 ERA 1.17 1 71 3.75 1 89 9.00 0OO 4 50 3.60 Totals 157 117 120 2.23 8 II Opponents 1(1 11 132 1.01 II Pullman-flJPD-Rain canceled baseball game between the Oregon Ducks and Washing ton State University here Tuesday. The game will not be rescheduled. 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