The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 31, 1950, Page 3

i % WEDNESDAY, MAY 31, 1950 BATTING RAMPAGE STAGED Pi1qhers in Big Leagues Given Tremendous Walloping Tuesday (By the Associated Press) i Memeorial Day, 1950, will long be | remembered by 83 punch drunk| pitchers who were pounded for 40| home runs and shelled for 191 runs | yesterday as the hitters went on the biggest single day batting ram- page ip baseball history. An aggregate paid attendance ot | 284,326 who sat in on the double- | header massacres at the eight big | league ball parks saw the followmg | records smashed: 1. Most home runs in both leagues on the same day—40. 2. Most runs .scored in Jeagues on the same day—191. 3. Most hits made in both leagues on the same da 333. both 4. Most pitchers used in both leagues on the same day—83. 5. Most home runs hit in the Na- tional ‘League ‘in ope day—24. Wheh the smoke'cleared away, it was found that the New York Yan- kees had whipped the Boston Red Sox twice, 11-7 and 5-3, to increase | their American League lead to three | games§ over the Detroit Tigers. De- troit divided a pair with Cleveland, winning the second game, 5-2, after | the Indians had won the first, 4-0. Dodgers Go To Top Brfizklyn replaced Philadelphia at) the p in the National League.| thraghing the Phils twice, 7-6 in| ten fhnings and 6-4. The St. Louis Cardinals also swept past the Phils, moving into second place a game | behipd Brooklyn by trouncing Pitts- | burgh twice, 17-13 and 8-5. | Chicago’s White Sox pounded out | a double victory over the St. Louis Browns, 14-2 and ‘12-9. Philadel- phia’s Athletics defeated Washing- | ton 5-1, after the Senators had won the opener, 4-3. In the National, Boston beat New York, 7-3, in the opener, hut, the Giants came back. to win:‘the njghtéap; 10-3. Cincin- nati and Chicago also split. The | Reds won the first, 4-1, and the Cubs took the second, 7-4. Tough on Hurlers Pity the poor pitchers. When they weren't throwing home run balls or ducking line drives, they were handing out free tickets to first base. In all they walked 160 batters, an average of 10 per game. The White Sox and Browns set a new American League record when ‘ they used 12 pitchers in the second | game of their doubleheader. The | Browns used five and the Sox seven. | Dick Weik of Washington walked | eight batters in less than three in-| nings. Brooklyn’s Rex Barney walked six in two. Four other pitch- ers also walked six men. How Larry | Jansen of the Giants got involved {in yesdterday’s shenanigans is hard to fighire. He was the only hurler to | pitch a walkless game. In all, only eight of the 32 starters were still around at the finish. Cleveland’s Bob Lemon hurled the , only shutout, a seven-hit affair. Art % Houtteman, his losing opponent, also went the distance. 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Portland drew 11,778 customers in losing to San Francisco, 3-1, in 11 innings, and then going to a 4-4 tie in five innings. opening duel, with Jim Moran singling home the tie-breaking runs in_the 11th. The second game was called because of the midnight cur- few after the Seals had tied it up with a run in the first half of the fifth. ! l STANDINGS OF THE CLUBS Pacific Coast League w L Pet San Diego 39 25 609 Hollywood 37T 26 597 Oakland 32 28 533 San Francisco 31 31 500 Portland 30 30 500 Los Angeles 32 33 492 Seattle 25 36 410 Sacramento 23 a1 850 National League w L Pet Brooklyn 23 13 63¢ St. Louis 22 14 611 Philadelphia 2 15 295 Boston 19 16 543 Chicago 18 16 529 R Pittsburgh 16 23 410 (By the Associated Press) New York 12 20 3% Pacific Coast club owmers, who | Cincinnati 10 26 286 1ave been moaning about what tele- yision has been doing to the gate, American League broke out their best dentitrice ad | A 8 4 miles today. New York 26 10 122 The Memorial Day doubleheaders | Detroit 22 12 647 irew the season’s peak total at- Boston 24 18 571 tendance of 49,166. Proving, per-| Cleveland . L0200 17 541 aaps, that a bargain bill and warmer | Washington <100 0T 628 weather was all that was-needed | Philadelphia 14 2¢ 368 to loosen up the rusting turnstiles.| Chicago o 18 88, 361 The day's largest crowd—14,641} St Louis A 8y 1t Oakland—sawsa fireworks dis- play by San Diego’s Orestes Minoso, who swatted three homers in the nightcap to give the Padres an :ven break with the Oaks and, in- cidentally, keep his club place. Three Homers Minoso’s homers all came with none on, in the first, third and seventh innings of the short game. | He missed on his other trip up in the fifth., Harry Simpson also clobbered a homerun with two on| o bring the final score to 6-1. Such doings overshadowed the one-hitter | Jack Kraus was pitching. Kraus gave up only a scratch single to| pitcher Earl Harrist, but had to be relieved when he loaded the sacks | on walks in the seventh. The Oaks won the first game, 11-2, behind Clyde Shoun. Old pro Billy Herman hit a homer, Stars Smash Solons Hollywood moved to within a zame of the top by smashing cellar- bound Sacramento twice, 5-4 and 3-0, before 9,437 fans. Jean Pierre Ry pitehed §ix scoreless relief ih~ ings ‘to win the first game .and Pinky Woods followed with a seven inning shutout. Rookie Bill An- tonello hit a two-run homer to clinch the second one. Crowd at Seattle The season’s second biggest rowd at Seattle—13,310—saw the oncoming Rainiers two-time Los Angeles, 3-2 and 9-5. Vern Kinds- father and Jim Wilson were the route-going ‘ ners, the latter racking up his seventh straight. Les Layton’s muff of shortstop Bill single to left let the Rainiers score the tying and win- ning runs in the ninth inning of BREWED, AGED AHD”BOTTLED BY. ANHEUSER-BUSCH, INC....ST. LOUIS, MO. U.S.A; in first) Budweise’ LAGER BE COAST GUARD SWAMPS MOOSE WITH SCORE 19-7 The Coast Guard nine swamped the Moose team 19-7 yesterday in a game that saw pitchers showing both superb control and periods ot extreme wildness. The Moose made only three hits for their seven runs while the Coast Guard made 14 hits for their 19 runs. Coast Guard reliever Wilber showed the best control of the tour pitchers used during the game by either team striking out 16 men while allowing nine men to reach first base. Except for the second and third innings the Moose were held score- less by the erratic pitching of the Coast Guard. In the second inning Pasquan and Rollison scored while the third inning saw.Pasquan, Rol- lison, Pinkerton, Neilson and Daugherty come home. Of the re- maining 28 batters to face Coast Guard pitchers 17 struck out. The Coast Guard scored in every inning except the sixth. In the first Arnold, Peterson, Dorris, Kane, Tib- bits and Manning scored for their big inning. In the second Peterson scored, in the third Manning and the fourth inning saw Arnold, Wil- ber, Tibbits, Manning and Morri- son come home. In the fifth scorers were Peterson, Manning and Morri- son; in the sevéfitlPeterson scored and the final two scores in the eighth were by Wilber and Man- Whethe BUDWEISE ER get the same 1 Budweiser LAGER BIEER Al Lien bested Roy Helser in the! distinctive, delicious taste has made it preferred everywhers. Ask for it either way, THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE--JUNEAU, ALASKA ning. In the sixth inning, Moose player Otten broke his ankle while sliding in from an attempted steal of sec- ond base. The incident occurred| when catcher Peterson dropped a| pitch from pitcher Wilber. In the| interval of Peterson retrieving the y ball Otten started for second, al- ready occupied by Daugherty who had started for third at the same time, but was forced back by Pet- erson’s quick getting of the ball As Peterson drew back to throw the ball, Otten started back to first and slid in with his leg doubling back under him and breaking his ankle A waiting police car took him to the doctor. The weather “cool”, was even went to catcher, Dorris to 1st,| Wilber to pitcher, Tibbits to| shortstop, Arnold to centerfield, Duffy to right field and Mor-| rison left the game. Score by Innings 002 500 000— 17 Coast Guard 611 530 12x— 19 Left on base: Moose 14, Coast| { Guard 12; Bases on Balls: off Shep- | herd 7, Kroken 2, Dorris 2, Wilber | 9; Strikeouts: Shepherd 5, Kroken: 4, Dorris 4, Wilber 16; Hit by pitch- ler: Dorris 3, Kroken 2. Winning Ump wearing his overcoat through | the nine inning affair. Statistics i Moose ab r h e Pasquan, 2b L1180 0 xXRollison, rf § %0 06 xxPinkerton, 1f k@ 0 xxxNeilson, ss R GLC 3 zMcCagg, ¢ e R zzShepherd, p -5 ‘0.2 3 zzzMagorty, cf | T B U ] Sanford, 1b 3$ 0.0 o Daugherty, 3b 28 3 xOtten 0 0 0 of xMcNeill 0. 00 ¢ xxMann o 0 0 of xxxLiser 1 0 0 0 2zKroken 2 0 0 0 zzzMiller 2 450 Totals 26 7 3 9 zMcCagg left game in 5th inning. zzShepherd went to catcher in 5th inning. Coast Guard ab h h e Arnold, 1b 5 32,2 1 xPeterson, ss 6 4 2 0 410t 0 0 FiEa 1 xWilber, ¢ 4 2 2 2 lxxKx\ne. if g adyat 0| xxxTibbits, rf wBRENTE - 0 Manning, 2b 3 5 2 0 xMorrison, cf .3 kel Rl xxxDuffy .10 1 xxHamilton .2 0 0 0f Totals .41 19 14 4 xIn the second inning, Pemson‘ Moose pitcher: Dorris; losing pitcher: Shepherd. Umpires: Wilber and Guy. ! B.B.STARS Here are the stars of Memorial Day games in the big leagues: Batting: Duke Snider, Dodgers— | walloped three successive homers and missed a fourth by four feet to lead Brooklyn to a 6-4 second game triumph over the Philadelphia Phile lies. The Dodgers also won the opener, 7-6, in 10 innings. ! Pitching: Bob Lemon, Indians — shut out the Tigers, 4-0, on seven hits as the Indians divided a twin bill with Detroit. The Tigers won the second game, 5-2. WANT ADS BRING RESULTS r you say BUD or R you will glways thing—a beer whose p AR N “ for the Territory of Alaska, Dlvlslon| | Number One, at Jumedu, in said| |race victory yesterday to his 1949 ! Van " PAGE THREB [in the United States District Court ELLIS AIR LINES DAILY TRIPS JUNEAU TO KETCHIKAN via Pelersburg and Wrangell With connections to Craig, Klawock and Hydaburg Convenient afternoon departures, at 2:30 P. 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