The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 31, 1949, Page 3

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1949 RAIIIERS NOSE OIIT BEAVERS, 2-1 SCORE| By JIM BACON It looks like it will take that crucial Hollywood - Sacramento | series, starting Friday, to cause :u\y‘! excitement in the Pacific Coast| league. Tuesday night's results found the | loop's first three teams winning | | and the league standing unchanged. Hollywood blanked San Francisco 7 to O to keep its three game lead., Oakland homered a 10 to 3 victory off Los Angeles to stay in second| place while Sacramento edged San | Diego 3 to 2 to stay a game behind | the Oaks. | Seattle nosed out Portland 2 to 1. | STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League f kA DODGERS (lOSING GAP IN NATIONAL LEAGUE FLAG RACE By JACK HAND Thanks to Gil Hodges, the Brook- | lyn Dodgers are only a game and a half behind the St. Louis Cardi-| nals in the rugged National League' race. Hodges slammed one into the lelt field seats for his 21st hemer to| break up the ball game in the ninth | yesterday and handed Pittsburgh | a 4-3 loss. } The Cards’ season-long “Cousins,” | the Boston Braves, turned on their | old tormentors to blast St. Louis, 12-4. Other National Leaguers were idle. | The crippled New York Yankees .+ |lost a full game of their American 560 | League lead, which now measures Oakland Sacramento San Diego ... Seattle ... San Francisco Portland ... Los Angeles ... National League w 8 6 65 64 62 57 50 49 Pct St. Louis Brooklyn Boston Philadelphia . New York Pittsburgh .. Cincinnati Chicago 608 520 500 460 | American League w o 6 3 2 66 51 46 42 Pt 626 .598 New York Boston Cleveland. .......... Detroit ... Philadelphia Chicago St. Louis ‘Washington WIL BASEBALL Final scores of WIL night are as follows: Yakima 11, Spokane 6. Vancouver 9, Tacoma 5. Wenatchee 11, Salem 9. Victoria 21, Bremerton 2. 558 532 405 .358 .339 games last DECIESIIRARRNNILNNERNRNE R e LT R R R P v VL R DR R B T T PR LT T P EE P e e e EE e L R e e R B e e e e e e e e e e R R T P EL L LR PE R S L] EEREeTITOYITEINTASIEYIYIISTNYIRER YA INTERT I RNILEENITIITNSNNTNN SN ITANSSLAANREERRANNTSIS EERSARAATED .508 | 403 | | 383 584 | three games, ky dropping a 6-2 ‘535 | decision to the aroused St. Louis Browns. Runner-up Boston blankedr ‘497 | Detrot, 3-0, behind Ellis Kinder to| snap the Tigers’ eight game win string. l Cleveland's scheduled night game | with the Philadelphia A's was, washed out but the Tribe moved | up a half game to within five games | of the Yanks. ‘Washington's Lloyd Hittle turned | in his best game since joining the Senators from Oakland in June‘ when he shut out Chicago wnh» ,thxee smgles 1-0, in 10 innings. FIGHT DOPE | Cne knockout took place in che_ fist'c arena last night with other | ring attractions as follows: N | At Hartford, Conn.—Vic Cardell, ' {145, Wilson, Conn. outpointed | Frankie Vigeant, 144, Thomaston, | Conn. (12). { At Montreal — Ray Edwards, | i128%, New York, outpointed Maurice La Chappele, 129%:, Mon- | treal. (10). | At Los Angeles—Maxie Docusen, 1135%, New Oileans, knocked out; | Lem Thomas, 137, Chicago. (4). H. J. McGill and Fred Baker of Anchorage registered at the Baran- of Hotel yesterday. ; FROM ANCHORAGE I 1 | S3TIRTNANRAAENNE, Blasted 21st homer with man on| base in last of ninth for 4-3 edge |over Pittsburgh. | Pitching, Ellis Kinder, Red SoX| ., it Goast Leaguer to win 20| Runs 13-0, snapping Tigers' eight-game | |win streak. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA KEN HOLCOMBE TOPS | LEADERS IN B. 8. HURLERS INP.C.L.| PR FRANCISCO, Aug. 31—P—| xmerjcan Leagues, through games Batting, Gil Hodges, Dodgers— | facramentc’s Ken Holcombe tOPS|of \ocierday are as follows: Pacific Coast League pitchers with 2 |18 wins and 6 defeats, for an aver- NATIONAL LEAGUE age of .750. Batting — Robinson, Brooklyn, Next is Guy Fletcher of Seattle, |.360; Slaughter, St. Louis, .327. Batted Bn klyn, 105; Kiner, Pittsburgh, 93. Hc Runs—Kiner, Pittsburgh, sial, St. Louis, 27. ikeouts-—Spahn, Boston, | Newcombe, Blookl)n 111 B. B. STARS Stars of games yesterday were: TASROY ONP-EIRLIE S i S AR {games this season. Fletcher’s 20- | | wins, 9-losses puts him at .690. | Con Dempsey, San Francisco, | | heads the pitching roster in strike- outs with 142, 37 113; In — Robinson, | AMERICAN LEAGUE Batting—Willlams, Boston, Kell, Detroit, .344. Runs Batted In—Stephens, Bos- ton, 140; Williams, Boston, 136. Home Runs—Williams and Step- hens, Boston, 35. Strikeouts—Trucks, Detroit, ;Newhouser. Detroit, 112 3575 132; DIVORCE SUIT FILED Calvin L. Ward has filed suit for divorce against Phyllis P. Ward in the Distriet Court Clerk's office. BIKES Il MADSE\ S Here’s BIG BERT’S Kids!? CHILDREN’S AUCTION (September 1st to October 15th) Here’s The Stdry For every dollar spent at Bert's Food Center beginning September lst and ending October 15th, we will give you an equal amount of “Bert’s Auction Bucks™ The " Auction Bucks" may be used to purchase many valuable premiums at the CHILDREN'S AUCTION to be held in front of Bert's Food Center on the night of October 15, 1949.. Remem- ber, the person holding the largest amount of “Bert’s Auction Bucks will be able to buy whatever he thinks is the most valuable premium. 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