The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 11, 1950, Page 3

. FRIDAY, AUGUST 11, 1950 ELKS WIN | FIRST GAME | OF SERIES| . Playing in perfect baseball weather last night the Elks powered lhml\ way to a win over the Coast C i in the first game of the thre playoff series for the championship | of the Gastineau Channel Basebal league. The score was 18 (o 10, | Wildly cheering fans saw all « the Elks score at least once the exception of leftfielder who had to be content with a in the bottom of the sixth i drove in two runs—the untying and winning tallies. One other run can in for the EIks in that inning, The only homer of the game wa by Forsythe of the Elks in the sec- ond inning with two on base. He also hit a single and double. An old-timer from last year, C: tillion, started for the Elks but wa unable to find his control and was relieved by Palmer in the third in-, ning after walking the first two men to face him in that inning. Usually reliable pitcker Dorris | started for the Coast Guard, but was knocked out in the third after two men were out, one men had scored | and the bases filled to capacity with | Elks. Former Moose pitcher Shepard ‘ relievéd him and was charged with | three runs while pitching effeciive ball. xIn 'the third with two «out, Dorris ta 3b, Shepard to p, Kane out. xxIn the seventh, Scott for Rolison at cf STATISTICS i Coast Guard ab h po al Morrison, rf by Ko ‘Wilber, ¢ B U xxRolison, cf BN 0 { Sheets, 1If LGN €18 (1' Peterson, ss > R AT TR xDorris, p AL a0 S | Arnold, 1b LIE RO S xKane, 3b 2,30 5% Tibbitts, 2b ; e get Wil | xShepard, p P S R xxScott, cf ... 0 0 0 u{ % ‘Totals 30 12 138 5' ‘Elks ab h po a Manhning, 3b ... 4 3 2 Houston, ¢ ... > M0 SE e Forsythe, 2b 4 32 1| Snow, 1b 4 1..9 03 xCantillion, p . B S Notar, If L Ak TR Trump, ss © AN TERE RS Hazlett, rf $ 3 0 0 xPalmer, cf 83 1.2 Totals 31 ‘16 21 8 In the third with no outs, Palmer | to pitcher, and Cantillion to center- field. Score by Innings Coast Guard 1411030-10122 Elks . 244003x—13161 Runs: Morrison 2, Wilber 2, Roli- son, Peterson 2, Dorris, Arnold, Tib bitts, Manning 3, Houston, For 3, Snow, Cantillion, Trump, Hazlett, | Palmer 2. Home runs: Forsythe.| Two-base hits: Wilber 2, Rolison, Houston, Forsythe, Snow, memlmn,l Trump. Errors: Arnold, Tibbitt Sy Trump. Left on bases, by: Elks 4, CG 6. Balks, by: Palmer. First on balls, off: Dorris 0, Shepard 2, Can- tillion 7, Palmer 0. Strikeou by: Dorris 0, Shepard 5, Cantillion 2, Palmer 4. WP: Cantillion. LP: Dor- Umpires: Wilber and Erblu:m.l Time: 2:06. e | SECOND GAME TONIGHT Tonight at 6:30 o’clock the Co;\st‘ Guard will entertain the Eiks in the second game of the three-game series. 'After last night’s high scc ing thriller tonight's game promises | to be an -even closer one with the | Guard fighting for coftinuation of the series. SCHWINN BIKES AT MAD! | Bos Brookl i | Chicago again, | again, S OF THE CLUBS acific Coast League L Pet Oakland 8 53 613 San Diego 463 0 y 4 64 6 69 69 0 671 63 Portland 66 68 Los Angele 60 76 sa 53 85 National League W L 66 Philadel, 42 16 44 46 19 58 58 67 Cincinnati Pittsburgh American League M w L Pet Detiroit 66 - 36 647 Cleveland (23 41 610 New York 63 41 606 Boston 61 46 Washington 46 56 Chicago 66 Philadelphia . Louis B.B.STARS Stars of Thursda; ames were: Batting: Gran Hamner, Phillies— drove home four runs with homer ind two singles and scored winning in 10th inning on Bobby Thom- s wild throw for 6-5 edge over s major league hing: Bob Lemon, Indians — 18th game by whipping St. and led Tribe attack with two doubles in 5-4 victory. Final right are: ‘Tacoma 6, Yakima 0. Wenatchee 5, Spok 1ings). Tri-City 6, Vancouver 5. Victoria 12-3, Salem 3-4 jame 12 innings). scores of WIL games last ne 2 (14 in- (2nd LEADERS [N B. B. Leaders in the major baseball tes through games of Thur le American League Batting—Kell, Detroit, .355; Doby, Cleveland, .352. Runs Batted In — Dropo, Bos- ton, 107; Stephens, Boston, 106. Home Runs — Rosen, Cleveland, 30; Dropo, Boston, 26. Pitching—Trout, Detroit, 8-2, .800. National League THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE--JUNEAU, ALASKA STARS ARE PHILS RIDE DUMPEDTO HIGHER IN| 3RD PLACE Three-Run 'Homer in 10th The Hollyw Inning by Beavers Does Trick-Warren Beaned (By the Assc Portland, Ore., the C stood ready to pin one on the manly torso of Leo Thomas y, but a rose by any other name still smells bad in Hollywood Mr. Thomas, Portland man, dumped thé Stars into third » in the Pacific' Coast League ings last night in homer in the 10th inning od infi however, wa much to blame It was the topper freak situatior and bean-ball 1 Press) ty of Roses, fate third base- to a night tieldix bitching that landed atcher Jack Warren in the nd probably produced sev- wdidates for the waiver 1 The bean-balling occurred in the | inning of the Seattle-Oakland Charley Gassaway d it t caught Warren in of schoolboy the id and laid him out cold Hecior Brown ended it by curving one into Oakland's Artie Wilson. The Oaks won the game ily, 5 1to 2, Warren was the sccond Seattle pls ) be beened in as many Batting — Musial, St. Louis, .361; | Robinson, Brooklyn, .358. Runs Batied In — Ennis, Phila- delphia, 95; Slaughter, St. Louis and Kiner, Pittsburgh, 83. Home Runs — Kiner, Pittsburgh, 31; Ennis, Philadelphia and Pafko, Chicago, 25. Pitching — Miller, Philadelphia, 10-3, .769. GAMES TODAY CHICAGO, Aug. 1—/—Shortstop vy Boone’s ninth inning single run dians defeated the Chicago White 503 in the series opener before ns today. Mike Garcia and allowed five hits apiece in a tight pitching duel. AT J AU HOTEL Rod Sudman is back in Juneau registered at the Juneau d Allie Clark with the winning | as Cleveland’s second place In- | | Behrman (1 'DAILY DOUBLE IS r ghts. caught ting Wednesday night. He spent the econd baseman Tod Davis ne on the noggin while bat- night in the hospitat for obsery tion but was r ed to sit out last night’s encounter. The lax fielding occutred at Hollywood. Portland edged the 8 to 5, when errors by Budd by way of a g NAT. LEAGUE (By the Associated Pre: Jim Konstanty, the Phils armed reliefer, looks like the most | important single factor in the Na- tional League race. As long as Jim holds up, e Phils should ride high Soldier Curt Simmons is supposed to continue the job of cooling of! the New York Giants to | night wces are Konstanty will be he final boxscore. | When Konstanty replaced bont | Bob Miller in the eighth inning of | 1ast night’s 6-5 win over the Giant he made his 51st appearance of the eason have played 10: coms possible tha Jim Singles by Gran Hamner and | Andy Seminick and a game-logine | throwing error by center fielder | Bobby ‘Thompson gave Konstan.y his ninth vic the 10th innin of last r le. More ii pore it boosicd the Phils lead | to six games over Boston. | Bubba Church failed to retire a batter in the two-run first inning, giving way to Miller, who yielded another pair in the fourth and onc | in the eighth when he was knocked {out. The Phils clawed Larry Jan- i sen for five runs and 10 hits in his | i seven-inning stay. It was the 1 Giants' third I in 20 games. { | Brooklyn-Boston Series i The important Brooklyn-Boston | series opened with a win for the | 1 Dodgers, 4-3. Consecutive homers by 1 Gil Hodges and Roy Campanella in the fourth aided the cause. | Umpire Lou Jorda cleared the { Boston benceh in the fourth after the ‘ Braves protested his call on a pitch | to Hodges. Hodges’ stab of Sam Jethroe's | and Gene Handley put two,liner started a game-ending double Portland runners aboard in the|play that ruined a ninth-inning | 10th and set the stage for Thomas’ | Boston threat. Earlier Jethroe hit home run. At Oakl nd, the Acorns got off to an early lead when Bob ! Hofman’s hit took a bad hop and went for three bases. Elsewhere, the proceedings were rather normal. San Diego, now in second place, trimmed Los Angeles | for the third time, 4 to 1. Chet John- son scattered eight h: 1 behalf of San Francisco and blanked Sac- ramento, 4 to 0. “There was activity among the PCL directors yesterday, too. They met in Los to discuss w combattir draft. The PCL wants to keep its players and has asked the majors to cooperate, Tonight after his He'll put block at Seattle’s Jim Wilson goes 20th win of the season his 19-6 record on the Oakland against Hank PAID, RACE TRACK SEATTLE, Aug. 11—(#—The third highest daily double of the season— $1,316.80—was paid off yesterday to each of three lucky ticket holders at the Longacres race track. The big return came as lightly re- garded Dark Acres romped home in the six-furlong opener and Double Count sneaked in ahead in the sec- ond, paying $178 and $42.60 respec- tively. " | Cleveland, a 5-4 his 12th homer. | Preacher Roe, knocked out in the ! leighth, saved his 15th win while Johnny Sain, going the route, suf- | fered his eighth loss. He’s won 16, | Pittsburgh broke a 10-game los- | ing streak by blasting Chicago, 7 *.| Ralph Kiner, Wally Westlke - 2 Clyde McCullough hit h.mers in the four-run fourth. | * In Second Division i | Picking on the second | clubs proved risky busines | Amer division in the | n League yesterday. Only winner over St.| Louis, got away with it. The ‘Txihe | queezed home with Bob Lemon hit- | ting two doubles to back up his| 18th victory. i Detroit added a half game to its !lmrl, now measuring 3'%. Cleveland, | not New York, now is in second i place. But the Tigers missed a| chance. After whipping Chicago, | 10-6, they were held to a 1-1 tie in the second game, called by dark- | ness in the seventh inning. ! Philadelphia dropped New York | l into third place by a 5-3 win in their | series opener. Boston ran into trouble with fifth- | place Washington. The Seuators | fcame up with eight runs in the| second inning to win the opener for | Bob Kuzava, 11-2, but the Red Sq | took the second game, 4-3. | i FROM MENLO PARK | S. Joseph DeBrum of Menlo Park, Calif,, is registered at the Baranof | Hotel. i R * THERE'S NO FINER PROTECTION = d PAGE THREE TOWN CRIERS ARE | JOCKEY IS Sohse Lecur KILLED ON RACE TRACK SAN' DIEGO, Calif,, Aug. 11—(# The Town Criers softball team, 1950 league champions, played a Death struck down apprentice | | jockey Johnny Glisson, 17, formerly || | ““The thinking fellow Calls a YELLOW” and fourth place winners last night rreen bowl and for nine in- had things well in hand. The I score stood at 18 to 8 in favor the champions. The | \ | | picked team from the second, third { attery for|of Se yesterday at the Del 5 1) the Criers were Vuille, catcher, and | Mar ek, ‘where he started ! PHO. 22 OR 4 FOR A Powers, pitcher. For the All Stars,; his career, and ended it— Mueller, catcher and Jacobs, pitcher. | 1l in less than a year. son, younger brother of na-|j i riding champion Gordon | Glisson, was fatally injured <Iur.n:‘1\ I'he Town Criers have been the champions of the softball league for three years now and winner of two Haines tournaments. In the past two vears they have only been beaten YELLOW CABE the running of the fourth race on he same track where he his rode » in the 1949 season and once irst winner of his career last Aug. this season. 9 The Criers have agreed to play Young Glisson was hurled to the} his head strik- s he went down. cked teams from the three other | ‘ntield, apparently embers of the league, ACS, Dept | ng the rail Interior and the Cardinal Club o on Monday and Thursday night ings, Those interested in pls ¢ “‘1 AlASKA HlGHwAv u i } 1 ontact Sgt. 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