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h TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1954 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE THIRTEEN OT&olk Bowes IuIot I onto M m Indians Increase AL Lead By BEN P11LEGAB AP Sports Writer . There's a new team !n second place in the National League. The amazing: Milwaukee Braves edged ahead of Brooklyn, yester day on the strength of a nine-game winning streak and Brooklyn's first double-header loss to Pittsburgh in 3(i seasons. The New York Giants were six games ahead of Brooklyn and 8!i in front of Milwaukee going into Sunday's action. But they now lead Milwaukee by only four lengths and Brooklyn by five. The Giants and Brooklyn bath lost two out of three. Milwaukee won four. Cleveland picked up a full game on New York Sunday In the Amer. ican League, stayed even yester day and now leads the New York Yankees by Vi games. The In dians won two out of three, run ning their season's winning total to 98 games. No Cleveland team ever has won more. The Yankees lost two out of three. There's a new leader In the American League batting race. Bobby Avlla. Cleveland's hustling second baseman, caught Irv Noren of the Yankees with four hits Sun dav and passed him with four more yesterday. He's hitting .337 to Noren's .333. In yesterday's games Milwaukee defeated Chicago 13-2 and e-1. Pittsburgh beat Brooklyn 9-6 in 12 Innings and 9-7. The Giants whipped Philadelphia 8-4 but Rob in Roberts came back to win his 20th game In the nightcap 5-4 in 11 innings. St. Louis bumped Cin cinnati 8-1 in a single game. Bb Lemon of the Indians be came the first pitcher in either league to win 21 games, beating Baltimore 8-1 in the first game. Then the Orioles came back to nip the Indians 3-2 In 10 innings. The Yankees came from behind to edge Boston 6-5 in the first game, but blew a 7-0 lead and lost the nighcap 8-7. Detroit won two from Chicago 8-1 and 3-2, the second game going 10 innings. Washington defeated Philadel phia 8-1 and the Athletics shaded the Senators 3-2 for a split. Eddie Mathews, now fully recov ered after being sidelined for al most two weeks, by injuries, sparkled in the Milwaukee tri umphs. , He hit his 35th home run, a double and six singles and walk ed once before finally being retired in his last time at bat. The onrushlng Braves drew the day's largest crowd 43.207 and ran their season's total attendance to 2,001,091, tops in both leagues. Only the Yankees and Indians ever have drawn more than two million fans in a year. Roberts, the Phillies' strong, armed right-hander, became the first pitcher since Carl Hubbell to reach the 20-game mark in five consecutive seasons. He made it when fleet-footed Richie Ashburn scampered home from second base on an infield single by Granny Hamner. Trailing by five runs early In the game, the Pirates beat the Dodgers in the first contest when Billy Loes walked two men in the 12th with the bases loaded and Curt Roberts laid down a squeeze bunt which scored a third man. Five runs In the first inning against Don Newcombe put the Pirates on the winning trail in the second game and the Dodgers couldn't catch up despite home runs by Roy Campanella. Jackie Robinson and Sandy Amoros. At Baltimore, Lemon;s hitting support in the first game came mainly from Al Smith, who banged two doubles and two singles. Dick Kryhoski's bases-loaded single in the 10th Inning of the nightcap pre vented a Cleveland sweep. Andy Carey's bases-loaded sin gle in the last of the ninth cli maxed the Yankees' uphill climb auainst Boston In the opener at Yankee Stadium. Jimmy Piersall's two-run homer in the eighth gave the Red Sox the runs they needed to capture the second game. Ted Williams collected four straight hits in the nightcap and six during the afternoon. Ned Garvcr held the White Sox to four hits in Detroit's first vic tory. Harvey Kuenn singled home the winning run in the 10th inning of the second game after Minnie Minoso had tied the score in the ninth with homer. Harvey Haddix of the Cardinals won his first game since July SO and his 16th of the season in beat in Cincinnati on eight hits. Ted Kluszewski, the majors' leading a swollen ankle. Mickey Vernon drove in five runs with a home run, a triple and a single in Washington's victory. with our CHECK and FILL system You're kept supplied automatically.. with our ichduled rtfill yirtm. W chtck weather re port!, keep on eye en your tank, too, "fill 'er up" long be fore your supply gets low. PEYTON & CO. 835 Market Ph. 5749 yi By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pet. GB New York 85 60 .630 Milwaukee 81 54 .600 4 Brooklyn 81 56 .591 5 Philadelphia Cincinnati St. Louis Chicago Pittsburgh 65 70 .481 20 65 72 .474 21 62 74 .456 23''. 58 80 .420 28l3 48 89 .350 38 Monday's Results New York 8-4, Philadelphia 4-5 (2nd game 11 innings) Pittsburgh 9-9, Brooklyn 6-7 (1st game 12 innings) Milwaukee 13-6, Chicago 2-1 St. Louis 7, Cincinnati 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE . W L Pet. GB Cleveland New York Chicago Boston Detroit Washington Philadelphia Baltimore 98 40 .710 93 87 44 .679 4'-. 52 .626 ll'.i 61 75 .449 36 61 76 .445 36'i 58 78 .426 39 46 91 .336 51 'i 45 93 .326 53 Monday's Results New York 6-7, Boston 6-8 Cleveland 6-2, Baltimore 1-3 (2nd game 10 innings) Detroit 9-3, Chicago 1-2 (2nd game 10 innings) Washington 8-2, Philadelphia 1-3 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W L Pet. GB Hollywood - San Diego Oakland San Francisco Seattle Los Angeles Sacramento 98 63 .609 97 64 .602 1 81 79 .506 16i 80 80 .500 17 Vi 74 81 477 21 70 88 443 26'!. 70 90 .438 27 i Portland 66 91 .420 30 Monday's Results San Francisco 4-1, Portland 2-2 San Diego 10-0, Oakland 0-3 Sacramento 9-0, Los Angeles 6-8 Hollywood 7-0, Seattle 3-1 Western International League (Final Standings) W h Pet. GB Lewiston 44 26 .629 - Yakima Salem , Vancouver Edmonton Wenatchee Tri-Cilv 41 25 38 26 .594 3 32 25 .561 5,2 29 35 .453 12 22 40 .355 18 22 43 .338 19 !j Monday's Results T.pwlston 2-4. Edmonton 1-1 Saleni 5-8. Tri-City 4-13 Yakima 2-4, wenatchee 1-2 Moose Lodge Slates Smoker The Moose Lodge will hold their second smoker of the season to morrow night at the local lodge for all members and their wives. - Some of the top boxing talent in the basin is expected to be on hand for the show Including Billy Duane McDaniel and Bobby Bar ney, all of whom have waged good battles in armory ring Dailies oe fore. A special feature will probably steal the spotlight from any matcn on the program as Sheriff Murray "Red" Brittaln meets Lew Jones, the Chiloquin City Police Chief in what should prove to be an In teresting battle. People Do Read SPOT ADS -you ore! f f SENSATIONALSAVlNGS fl when Bought Jn. Sets ; 1V1M mil 1 GENERAL' "f-t-muer TIRE 4GENERALheavydutyJUBES 3 GENERAL satmler TIRES BlACKiOR'WHin SIDIWAUS PAY FOR! 1 TIRE OCT NOV DEC All Prices Subject To I MONARCH Edwards, Led Pels Editor's Note: This is tli fourth i of a series of five art past football seasons at Klamath Union High School since 1930. The information used in these stories has been taken from past issues of the Herald and News. H rl.llTOV HAVN'OV Tommy Edwards, Bob Redkey, Gary Dawes and Gaynor Huck sparked the KUHS Pelican football teams from 1945 until 1949 as the local high school gridders entered in th- ctnte nlnvoffs tWD Of the five years, as the teams of Paul I Di.-n an1 Tlnh nPn. "dershott established a record of 30 wins, 12 losses ana inree ues. In 1945 Edwards and Redkey made outstanding Showings to spearhead the KU attack to wins over Grant by a 20-7 score. Salem 38-7, Ashland 13-6, Grants Pass 13-12 and Bend 39-0, while the four Inccao nf Ihn VPflT CftlllG at the' hands of Mediord by a convincing 51-0 count, EureKa so-u, urn Eu gene 19-13. -aasirioc thp fine running of Red- key and Edwards, the Pels were helped through the season by uie fine playing of Leroy Coleman and Bill Sari to give Angstead a 4-4-0 season. In 1946. Ed Ryan took over tt.. AanninfT rilltipa nf the Pell cans and registered a 5-4 season record as Edwards, Keaicey, irv Whitt, Dick Young. Bijl Mosby. Joe Zarosinski and Jerry Schubert led the KU squad through the season. Wins were taken from Prineville 43-0, Ahland 20-7, Grants Pass 47-6, The Dalles by a monstrous 60-26 margin and 26-0 over Bend. Medford again downed the Pels by a close 7-6 score, then Eu gene and Salem handed the KU r.Mriai, nof-mit: hv 34-0 and 13-6 scoreboard totals. The other loss came at the hands of Grant Dy a 19-14 count as Pat Duff, later to become a star back for USC, led the Generals' attack. In Ryan's second year, Len Hcs ton joined Schubert, Edwards, Red kev and Gary Dawes in leading the Pelicans to a 6-0-3 record and into the state tournament where they dropped a heartbreaking 13-13 game to The Dalles. At the end of the game, the score was tied, as was the first downs. When the yardage was tak en into consideration, The Dalles was given the nod over Ryan's boys. Lakeview was the first win for n- -snic hu a 14-0 score, then Salem followed by a 16-0 total and : Ashland proved to be the third vic tory for the KU gridders by a 21-14 margin. Boise took a 48-19 whipping from the Pels while Bend was nosed out by a close 13-12 1 decision and In a regular season j game the Pela tripped The Dalles by a 26-12 score. The tie games were registered with Grant 20-20. 1 Medford 0-0 and The Dalles 13-13 in the playoffs. j Bob Hendershott took over as 'the j head football mentor in 1948 for' a successful future in high school ! football, as Dawes, Jack Lust and Dick Jackstead along with Joe Demetrakos and Schubert led the local footballers through a season nf seven wins, two loses and no ! Hjc- i Grant edged the Pels 13-12 be hind 4ha fin nlavinff nf- rjpnrfffi Shaw, the Ail-American from the , RIFLE MOUNTS SCOPES - SIGHTS THE GUN STORE EACH MONTH -Exchange, Plus Tax TIRE SERVICE Redkey In '40s University of Oregon at the pres ent time. In their other games they whipped Salem 26-0, Ashland 50-6, Springfield 20-7, SOCE frosh 38-6, Boise 20-19, Longvlew 31-0 and Bend by a 14-12 count. The other A REMEMBER! You Can Buy A New Chevrolet 6 Passenger Sedan For $2,038.00 Only $599 Down And Paymenis of Only $55.45 Per Month. piigan & Aflest Chevrolet loss cams at the hands of Med ford by a 27-7 score. 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