Pittsburgh Pirates Malting
NL Tight Four-Team Race
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Funny thing if that tight Natioi
al League pennant race wound u;
in a three-team tie, wouldn't it?
Well, that's not o far-fetched
bud. It almost happened SI year,
ago, y'ltnow. . And the way th
Milwaukee Braves, San Franciscc
Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers
are hanging m there, it could
happen in 1959.
What's more, if the Pittsburgh
Pirates remain in contention, thi:
could be the closest four-club race
In baseball history.
As the teams take the mid-sea
ton break for Tuesday's All-Star
game, the Braves lead the Giants
by three percentage points and
the Dodgers trail both by a half-
game. The Pirates, in fourth
place, are only 3' games off the
lead.
How close can it get? In 1908.
the Chicago Cubs, under Frank
Chance, beat out the deadlocked
John McGraw Giants and the
Fred Clarke-led Pirates by one
game.
. Milwaukee regained a slim first
place margin Sunday when Carl
ton Willey beat the Philadelphia
Phillies, 5-0, with a four-hitter
while (he Giants divided a pair of
4-2 decisions with the St. Louis
Cardinals. The Dodgers won a
double-header from the Cubs, 4-3
and 5-3, and the Pirates swept the
Cincinnati Reds, 7-5, and 3-2 in 11
Innings.
In the American League, the
Cleveland Indians retained a two
game lead over the Chicago White
Sox, while the champion New
York Yankees fell further back.
Cleveland edged the Detroit Ti
gers, 5-4, and Chicago beat the
Kansas City Athletics, 4-3, both m
JO innings. The Washington Sena
tors blanked the Yankees, 7-0, and
the Boston Red Sox won a dou
bleheader for a new manager Billy
purges, beating the Baltimore Or
ioles. 9-0 and 6-3.
: Braves 5, Phils 0
: Joe Adcock and Ed Mathews
each drove in two runs for the
Braves to ease Willey's path to
ictory over Philadelphia.
SF2-4, SL4-2
Bill White, a reserve All-Star
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
American League
W. L. Pet. G.R.
44 32 .579
43 35
41 38
40 38
Cleveland ...
Chicago
Baltimore ...
New York ..
Detroit
Washington
Kansas City
Boston ....
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.513
.500
.474
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.429
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37 41
33 43
33 44
Sunday Results
Washington 7, New York 0
Boston 9-6, Baltimore 0-3
Cleveland 5, Detroit 4. 10 innings
Chicago 4, Kansas City 3, 10 in
nings National League
W. 1 Pet, G.B.
Milwaukee
San Francisco
Los Angeles ....
Pittsburgh
Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Philadelphia .. .
44 33
46 35
47 37
43 39
39 41
34 42
35 45
29 48
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.560
.524
.488
.468
.438
.377
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Sunday Results
Pittsburgh 7-3, Cincinnati 5-2,
2nd game, 11 innings
Milwaukee 5, Philadelphia 0
Los Angeles 4-5, Chicago 3-3
St. Louis 4-2, San Francisco 2-4
Pacific Coast League
W L Pet. GB
Big Blows
Highlight
PCL Tilts
Sacramento - 47 36 .566
Vancouver 43 38 .531 3
Spokane 42 41 .506 5
Portland 40 39 .506 5
San Diego 1 43 43 .500 S'i
Salt Lake City 41 42 .494 6
Phoenix 38 45 .458 9
Seattle 37 47 .440 lOVi
Sunday Results
San Diego 5-2, Salt Lake 3-6
Seattle 2-0, Spokane 1-4
Portland 11, Vancouver 10
Phoenix 7, Sacramento 6 (10 in
nings) Northwest League
W L Pet. GB
o u t f i e 1 d e r. hit the first grand
slam homer of his major league
career for the Cards to sink his
(ormer Giant teammates in the
topener. A two-run first-inning ho
mer by Willie Mays staked Sam
Jones to an early lead in the
nightcap.
Bums 4-5, Cubs 3-3
Stellar relief pitching by Danny
McDevitt in the opener and by
Sandy Koufax and Johnny Klipp
stein in the nightcap helped the
Dodgers win a pair from the
Cubs.
Bucs 7-3, Reds 5-2
Don Hoak's homer touched off
a three-run, six-inning rally that
i: gave Harvey Haddix and the Pi
rates an opening-game triumph
over Cincinnati. In the nightcap,
after Gus Bell s two-run ninth-in
ning homer had sent the game
into extra innings, Bill Mazeroski
delivered a two out, llth-inning
single that clinched the victory
for Ron Kline.
Indians 5, Tigers 4
Cleveland preserved its Ameri
can League lead by pushing
across an unearned run in the
10th inning on George Strickland's
double and Detroit first baseman
Larry Osborne's error on Vic
Power's grounder. Gary Bell
gained the victory in relief.
ChiSox 4, KC 3
Luis Aparicio singled, stole sec
ond and came home on Nellie
Fox' 10th - inning hit to make
White Sox reliever Turk Lown the
winner over the A's.
Nats 7, Yanks 0
Camilio Pascual pitched a four-
hitter to beat the Yankees with
the help of homers by Roy Sie-
vers, Harmon Killebrew (his
28th) and Jim Lemon. Pascual
fanned 10 Yankees.
Boston 9-6, O's 0-3
Boston snapped a seven-game
losing streak when Tom Brewer
pitched a three-hitter in the optta
er and the Red Sox hitters sent
Hoyt Wilhelm down to his fourth
straight defeat in the nightcap;
lly THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
I Home runs were served up by
the batfull in five or the six Pa
cific Coast League baseball games
Sunday with Willie McCovey's
four-bagger the feature in Phoe
. nix' 7-8, 10-inning victory over
Sacramento.
. While the league leaders were
taking it on the chin, San Diego
and Salt Lake City split a pair
with the Padres winning the open
er 5-3 and dropping the nightcap,
,Vl Seattle and Spokane divided,
the Rainiers taking the first game
I- 1 and losing the second, 4-0,
while Portland edged Vancouver
II- 10.
Big Sill's leadoff homer in the
top of the 10th was McCovey's
18th of the season for the Giants.
McCovey also scored in the sec
ond when Bob Prescott blasted a
round-tripper for the Giants.
Phoenix picked up four runs in
the sixth on three doubles and a
single while Sacramento got four
in the eighth with the help of a
double.
Three-run homers were the style
at San Diego. The Padres took the
first game on one 'by Mitch June
that put them out in front and
Salt Lake retaliated in the second
with a three-bagger by Jim Baum-ar.
June's homer, his third of the
year, was the third of the opening
contest. Hal Pntchard and Baum
er each clouted a home run for
the Bees. Baumer's nightcap horn
er was his sixth of the season.
The Seattle - Spokane double
header was the only series minus
the long ball. The Rainiers set
tled for Hal Bevan's double in the
ninth with the bases loaded to
turn their 1-0 deficit Into the 2-1
win. I
All Spokane runs for the day
were unearned. The Indians
picked up their single tally in the
opener on a wild throw and owed
their second game ninth-inning
uprising to two Rainier bobbles.
Vancouver went into the ninth
with a comfortable four-run cush
ion and then the Beavers broke
the dam. The five runs that
spelled victory came on a beat
out bunt, five singles, a walk and
a sacrifice fly.
The homer was a feature of the
early innings, however, with Jack
Littrell whacking a bases-loaded
fence-buster in the sixth and Van
couver's Ron Hansen rapping out
two home runs. Len Tucker also
had a homer for the Mounties.
Salem
Lewiston
Wenatchee
Eugene .
Yakima
Tri-City
45
38
37
34
33
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.514
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.486
.458
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32 42 .432 1314
Sunday Results
Lewiston 6-3, Salem 2-5
Yakima 8-3, Eugene 4-2
Wenatchee 9-1, Tri-City 0-2
TME OUT
"Is Indian guide method for not
getting lost . . . notice I scatter
olives from Martinis as we
go on, gentlemen?"
Chiefs
Climbing
In NWL
7 A
J1q Kubs Nab Nor-Cal Victory
tSlrVLPlKl ii & in MnlirUw Tilt At Ctatli.im
WAYNE SCOTT, Sports Editor
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Yreka 4 2 .66
K. Falls 3 3 .50
Weed 3 3 .501
Mount Shasta 3 3 .51
Scott Valley 3 3 .50.
Dunsmuir 2 4 .331
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
LEAGUE
Sunday Results
Klamath Falls 13. Yreka 11
Scott Valley 15, Dunsmuir 5
Mount Shasta 6, Weed 2
By WAYNE SCOTT
Herald and News Sports Editor
The Klamath Kub bats exploded
lor 14 hits, seven of them for ex
tra bases, as they conquered the
Northern California League lead
ing Yreka Indians 13-11 in Gem
Stadium Sunday afternoon.
The fireworks at the plate
Ray Robinson Mulling Offer
Over September Title Fight
Race Driver Killed
JUNCTION CITY, Kan. (API
Driver Gene Hodine of Salina.
Kan., was killed Sunday night in
amashup of six stock cars at
tha Plaza Speedway Race Track.
It was the first fatality since the
track opened three years ago.
Champion
Has Brush
With Death
FALKENBERG, Sweden (UPI)
Ingemar Johansson, who wasn't
a bit fazed by Floyd Patterson
emerged pale, and shaken Sunday
from a brush with death at 100
miles per hour.
World heavyweight champion
Johansson, who stopped Patterson
in the third round of their title
bout, came here Sunday and was
introduced to the crowd at the
autc racing track. Then he and
his fiancee, pretty Birgit Lund
gren, squeezed into a Ferrari
racing car and Ingemar drove
down the track.
Johansson, had the speedster
rolling at more than 100 m.p.h. as
he approached a treacherous hair
pin curve where even expert
drivers slow down drastically
The crowd gasped. Ingemar
slammed on the brakes and skid
ded dangerously, but safely
around the curve.
When the car stopped, Birgit
was pale with shock and Johans
son was also pale and needed a
few moments to regain his composure.
Johansson, who is receiving the
plaudits of his countrymen for his
title triumph, said Saturday that
his return bout with Patterson
might be held in Los Angeles be
cause that city has offered pro
moter Bill Rosenioha a guarantee
of $1,500,000.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Wenatchee could only earn
split in its series with Tri-City
but with the help of its southern
cousin, Yakima, the uiieis
climbed into third place in the
Northwest League standings over
the weekend.
Yakima's 3-1 series victory
over Eugene hefted the Chiefs a
notch and dropped the Emeralds
into fourth.
In Sunday's games, Yakima
swept a doubleheader ' from Eu
gene by scores of 8-4 and 3-2.
Wenatchee drubbed Tri-City 9-0 in
the first game, but was edged 2-1
in the second contest. Lewiston
and Salem also split with the
Broncs winning the opener 6-3 and
the Senators the second game 5-3.
Duke Ducote was the big man
for Wenatchee in the first game,
hitting a triple and a two-run dou
ble in the fourth inning in which
the Chiefs piled up seven runs.
In the second game Tri-City got
stingy. Hurle Ted Edmunds al
lowed one Wenatchee run in the
first inning, then shut out the
Chiefs to notch his 13th win of the
season.
The long ball provided both
Yakima . victories. Catcher Pete
Gongola was the batting star with
a home run in the first
game and another four-bagger in
the second contest. Bear batters
picked up two triples, three dou
bles and another homer by Darryl
nonerison in the two games,
The hefty batter's arm also
helped Lewiston to its first game
victory over Salem. All but one
oi me six Krone runs came on
extra-base blows, one of them a
double by pitcher Bob Sutton
ihe Broncs got a three-run
homer by Ron Wilkins, who had a
two-run round-tripper in the first
game, in the first inning of the
second contest. But, Salem erased
the margin in the fourth on
single, a double, two walks and
two more singles to provide the
winning tally.
NEW YORK (UPD-Sugar Ray
Robinson, spurred to action by a
"big new offer from Germany,"
will begin training Tuesday for a
September defense of his share of
the middleweight crown, he an
nounced today.
"They want me ' defend over
there against Gustav Scholz," he
explained. "Scholz is German and
he's the European champion."
Sugar Ray declined to give any
details about the exact terms or
the promoter, or whether Berlin
or Dortmund was the proposed
site.
He did say, however, "the
terms of this offer indicate that
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Pitching Tom Brewer, Red
Sox, allowed only three singles in
first game of 9-0, 6-3 doubleheader
sweep over Orioles.
Hitting Bill Mazeroski, Pi
rates, drove in winning run in 11th
inning with third single ' for 3-2
second game decision, giving
Bucs a doubleheader sweep over
Reds after getting two hits and
an RBI in 7-5 opening victory.
Ingemar Johansson's win over
Floyd Patterson boosted boxing
interest in Germany as well as
Sweden."
The 38-year-old champion dis
closed that he had just sent a let
ter to the New York State Ath
letic Commission with the news
he was starting to train and
would definitely defend in Sep
tember, i
"In my letter, I naturally didn't
say who my challenger would
be," he continued, "because
don't know yet. The German of
fer is very inviting. It's the best.
But I'm also negotiating with pro
moter Jack Solomons of London,
Sam Silverman in Boston, . and
olhers. . . , ,.
Tribe Mentor
Wary. Happy
Over Streak
DETROIT (AP - Joe Gordon
is cautious, his Cleveland Indians
are exuberant and a rival con
cedes Ihe tight American League
pennant race may be breaking
open.
"It's great, it's fine," beamed
Gordon after the Indians won their
fourth straight, a 10-inning verdict
over the Detroit Tigers Sunday.
'But there's such a long way to
Lgo. I know we re sitting pretty,
but in a race like this one, every-
body all seven of them can
hurt you."
Gordon's club goes into the
three-day All-Star break with a
two-game lead over the runnerup
Chicago White Sox. The always
feared New York Yankees are
stumbling along in fourth, five
games back.
"It's too bad we have to take
three days off right now when
we've got momentum," Gordon
said.
Jimmy Dykes, manager of the
slumping Detroit Tigers, was im
pressed by the Indians. His crip
pled club lost a three-game holi
day series to the Indians.
"That's the club to lick from
now on," Dykes, whose Tigers fell
six games oil the pace. "It's no
longer the Yankees. And I don't
know if anybody will be able to
catch the Indians.
"They're going to be tough the
rest of Ihe way. Pretty good pilch
ing makes them a good club. But
we're not out of it by a long shot.
roved a necessity for Ihe Kubs
hey had to overcome a total oi
riors committed in the field that
early equalled the number of hits
hey collected.
Ten miscues made winning pitch
:r Ed Vegley's task a bit harder.
cgley, in earning his second vic
tory of the season, was tagged lor
11 hits, but gave up only out
walks and struck out 11 of the ea
jer young Yrckans.
The loser, little Ed Rick, after
dctlecting a bullet-like smash off
the bat of Mike Dolan with his
ankle in the first inning, issued
eight walks, 14 hits and fanned
only five in going the full distance.
His mates were charged with three
errors.
The game, which saw the lead
swap hands six times, was a real
crowd pleaser complete with a
manager-umpire rhubarb at home
plate, spectacular catches in the
outfield, and smooth double plays
in the infield plus all the power ex
hibited.
Kub manager Irv Whitt was
thumbed to the dugout by umpire
Fred Jones alter Whilt had
charged in from left field roar
ing in dispute of a call at the
plate in the fourth slanza.
The bottom of the Kub batting
order, first sacker Dean Dunson,
catcher Bob Kelly and pitcher Veg
Icy accounted for nine KF runs,
erupting for a total of five hits in
cluding a double and two triples,
The top of the list, shortstop
Butch Dollar and brand new third
baseman Mike Dolan collected five
hits between them, accounting for
two more RBls. Rightlielder Bob
Lawcry notched a double and a
single in three charged at-bats
Dollar, slightly chagrined at four
errors credited him, redeemed
himself with a fence-rattling three
base knock and a double. Dunson
boosted home four runs with a
triple off the right-center wall and
a single. Dolan poled a pair of
singles and a double while Kelly
lashed a triple and a single in
five trips and Vcglcy was credited
with three RBIs off a double and
two perfect sacrifices.
Gary Gresham, the 16-year-old
Yreka shortstop, was the star of
(he Indian batting attack, with two
singles in five trips and two RBIs
Catcher Bob Devlin and center-
fielder Duane Culp each contribut
ed two-basers.
The Yrckans notched a 3-0 lead
in the top of the second when con
secutive errors on Dollar and Law-
cry coupled with a single by JoJo
George and a bobble by Lawery
to allow the scores.
The Kubs roared back in t h e
last of the frame and collected
live runs off a single by Floyd
Linderman, walks issued Kimpton
and Lawery followed by Dunson'i
triple. Dunson romped home on
Vegley's perfect bunt and then
Vegley scored after a wild pitch
and an error on third baseman
Daryl Severns.
The Yrekans tied the count S-all
in the third and the lead remained
unchanged until doubles by Law
cry and Vegley provided one Kub
run in the fifth.
The Indians regained command
with two in the seventh but it last
ed just until the bottom of the
stanza when the Kubs collected
two more off singles by Lawery
and Kelly followed by Dollar's double.
(Continued on Page I-A)
Finsty, Wall
Meet Today
In Golf Open
FLINT, Mich. (AP) Dow
Finsterwald and Art Wall Jr., a
couple of tournament tested
champions with plenty of playoff
know-how, waged a duel today
over $9,000 and first place in the
Flint Open Golf Championship.
A 18-hole battle was set after
they tied at 282 in regulation 72
holes Sunday.
Finsterwald, who will defend
his National PGA title later this
month, and Wall, the 1959 Masters
champion, matched par 72s in the
final round.
They edged veterans Jerry Bar
ber and record-busting Cary Mid
dlecoff by a single stroke. The 43-year-old
Barber, who plays only
a dozen or so major events a
year, fired a closing 67 for his
best showing in recent years.
Middlecotf, set a course record
with a 34-3165, wiping out a
mark set earlier in the day when
Gene Littler shot a 66.
Barber and Middlecoff each col
lected $2,800 from the $52,000
jackpot that equals the richest
payoff in Michigan golf history.
The 35-year-old Wall rated a
slight favorite because of his tre
mendous showing in 1959.
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Senators, Killer
In Homer Races
WASHINGTON (AP) The
Washington Senators may be sixth
in the American League but
they're in the thick of record
home run races.
Harmon Killebrew goes into the
three-day break for the All-Star
game with 28 home runs in 78
games one game ahead of Babe
Ruth's record 60 pace in 1927.
The Nats have 101 homers for
the season and a 1.30-a-game av
erage. The Yankees set the AL
team record with 190 in 1956.
Mounts Expected
To Be Recalled
BALTIMORE, Md. (UPI) -
Young Brooks Robinson or Ron
nie Hansen of the Vancouver
Mounties ' in the Pacific Coast
Lague will- be recalled by the
Baltimore Orioles this week to re
place Jim Finigan, who has been
sent to the minors again subject
to 24-hour recall.
Finigan, batting only .252, was
optioned to Vancouver Sunday by
manager Paul Richards, who
would like to juice up the Orioles'
.241 team batting average. This
is the lowest team mark in the
majors.
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