The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 15, 1951, Page 3

TUESDAY, MAY 15, 1951 LOPEZ WINS FOR YANKS, SCORE 11-4 By Associated Press Al Lopez knows now how Lou Boudreau felt every time Eddie Lopat pitched against the Cleyeland In- dians. Twice this season pow the new Tribe pilot has looked on helplessly as the crafty New York Yankee lefthander tied his boys into knots. “How does he do it?” Lopez asked before last night’s game. “I just can't figure out why he beats us s0 regularly. He's no better than lots of pitchers in the league.” Some two and a half hours later, Lopat had added another to his long string of victories over the Redskins, his favorite people. The score was 11-4, and Lopez still was groping for the answer. ‘The victory enabled the Yanks to increase their lead over the run- ner-up Washington Senators to two and one half games. The Senators dropped an 8-7, 11-inning decision to the Boston Red Sox in the only other game played in the major leagues. Action picks up in both leagues today as St. Louis, Chicago and De- troit invade the American League’s eastern cities for the first time this year. Meanwhile, eastern clubs in the National League play their first games in the west. Lopat wasn’t exactly brilliant against the Indians. He surrendered only six hits but two of them were home runs by former Yankee George Stirnweiss and Jim Hegan. The largest crowd of the major league season, 66,265 paid fans witnessed the game. But everything the Indians did went wrong. ‘At Washington, Fred Hatfield scored the winning run from third base with two out in the 11th when Leftfielder Gil Coan dropped Matt Batts' easy fly ball, PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. Pet. Portland Beavers ... 27 19 587 Sacramento Solons .. 26 20 .565 Los Angeles ... 21 523 Oakland Acorns 22 522 Seattle, Rainiers 23 511 Hollywood Stars 23 489 San Diego ......... 24 442 San Francisco 29 356 NATIONAL LEAGUE . L. Pct. Brooklyn 10 583 Boston 11 577 Pittsburgh 12 12 500 Chicago 12 12 500 8t. Louis .. 11 12 478 New York 13 15 464 Philadelphia 1214 462 Cincinnati 11 14 440 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. New York ... .17 8 680 ‘Washington 13 9 591 Chicago 9 5T Detroit ... 9 57 Cleveland 12 10 545 Boston ... 12 10 545 Philadelphia 7 17 292 St. Louis .. 6 19 240 Boyd Paces P(L Baffers| SAN FRANCISCO, May 15 —(®— Sacramento’s Bob Boyd paced Pa- cific Coast League batters through last weeks games with an average of 384 in 46 games, League Statis- tican William J. Weiss said today., PC LEAGUE - RACE MAY ~ GET GOING By Associated Press | It’s still a wide-open race in the Pacific Coast League, but another | month may find some solid contend- | er stepping out in front to show the | way. | Manager Del Baker of San Diego | says that on the basis of what he | has seen so far Sacramento looks | good. “T like their hitting," says | Baker. “But it will be several weeks before the race begins to shape up.” This week may bring some im- portant player shifts from the ma- jors, for the big league clubs have to conform to player limits and are be- ginning to cut down their rosters. Los Angeles has acquired three Chi- cago Cub pitchers, Warren Hacker, Eddic Chandler and Doyle Lade. Manager Lefty O'Doul is glad to have Con Dempsey, a 9-9 pitcher last year, back from Pittsburgh. Dempsey lost two for the Pirates and they sent him back yesterday. O'Doul. also picked up Dewey Sor- iano, who had been cut loose by Seattle. Soriano had a 375 earned run average last season. LEADERS IN B. B. Leaders in the major leagues are: AMERICAN LEAGUE Batting (based on 50 times at bat) —Kryhoski, Detroit, .404; Coan, ‘Wask.ington, .400. Hils — Carrasquel, Chicago, 35; and Coleman, St. Louis, 31. Home runs — Williams, Boston, 6; Jensen, New York; Doby, Cleve- land; Joost, Philadelphia; Coleman, St. Louis, and Wertz, Detroit, 5. Pitching — Lopat, New York, 6-0; Herbert, Detroit; Feller, Cleveland; Marrero, Washinston, 4-0. NATIONAL LEAGUE Batting Robinson, Brooklyn, 409; Elliott, Boston, .390. Hits — Dark, New York, 39; Rob- inson, 38. Home runs — Hodges, Brooklyn, 9; 'Pafko, Chicago and Westlake, Pittsburgh, 8. Pitching — Roe, Brooklyn, 4-0; Brecheen, St. Louis and Klippstein, Chicago, 2-0. Pitching Averages In Coasl SAN FRANCISCO, May 15 —(®— Rookie Right Hander Walter Clough of Sacramento and Veteran South- paw Herm Besse of Los Angeles paced Pacific Coast League pitchers through games of last Sunday, each with four wins and no defeats. Sad Sam Jones, six foot four inch righthander with San:Diego, main- tained his strike out lead with 88 for 74 innings pitched. B0B HOPE GETS INTO GOLF PLAY ST. ANDREWS, Scotland, May 15 (#— Comedian Bob Hope today New York — The Yankees traded Third Baseman Billy Johnson to the 8t. Louis Cardinals for cash and First Baséman Don Bollweg, who was sent to Kansas City. St. Louis — The St. Louis Cardi- nals recalled First Baseman Nippy Jones from Rochester in exchange for Third Baseman Don Richmond. Berlin — Mrs. Thelma Long of Australia upset Mrs. Margaret Du Pont, 6-4, 6-3, and Budge Patty de- feated Dick Savitt, 6-3, 4-6, 6-3, to win the Red and White club’s In- ternational singles titles. Baltimére — Alerted won the Preakness Prep ‘race with a neck victory over Bold, going a mile and a sixteenth in 1:43 3/5. Cambridgé, Mass. — Thomas D. Bolles, Harvard crew coach, was named of athletics at Har- vard Uniy was the Uni- versity 'of*‘Washington freshman coadh eight years. was assigned the opening day star- ring role in the. British Amateur Golf championsp which opens Mon- day. at Royal Porthcawl, ‘Wales. The staid Royal and Ancient Golf club, which controls amateur cham- pionship, cast one eye at the huge crowd that showed up last year to watch Hope's buddy, Bing Crosby, and decided to put on Hope at 9:54 am. (4:5¢ am, EST) which means a big gallery regardless of the weather. g Hope will meet Chatles C. Fox, 41-year-old paint manufacturer from Brough Yorkshire, Engl;nd. B.B.STARS Stars of Monday games are: Pitching — Ed Lopat, Yankees— won his sixth victory without a defeat as he beat Cleveland, 11-4, on six hits. Hitting — Gil McDougald, Yanks —nhit a home run, double and singie to bat in four runs in New York vietory. In 1421, approximately 100,000 lives were lost when huge sea waves burst the dikes protecting the Neth. erlands and destroyed T2 villages. Busby, Chicago, Mantle, New York! e —— usky C The University of Washington varsity crew (right) leads the way across the finish line for a clean sweep of the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Regata on Seattle’s Lake Washington. Stanford (left) follow the winner in this air view of the finish. (P Wirephoto. Davis Cup Play Is On PAGE THREE LOW-COST COMFORT in Touralux Sleepers THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, ALASKA rew Triumhs one Davis Cup They next play of the European Tennis elimiations each other. The Dutch defeated™ Ireland at Scheyeningen, 3-2, with the ¥eteran Dr. Hans Von Swol downing Joe Hackett, 6-2, 6-4, 6-1, in the de- ciding match. 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NE PLAYERS | SEATTLE, May 15 —(®—Pitcher| Mickey Hacfner and Second Base- | man E Verban, both veterans of the major leagues, were dropped by the Seattle Rainiers yesterday to bring the squad within the legal Pacilic Coast League limit of 23. Haefner was sold to Birmingham of the Southern Association and Verban was given his outright re- lease, General Manager Earl Sheely said. Over the weekend, Seattle sold Outfielder Marv Rackley to Bir- mingham and acquired Pitcher Har- old Browns and First Baseman Gor- don Goldsberry from the Chicago White Sox and Pitcher Paul Calvert from Detroit. WIL GAMES Final scores of games played last night in the WIL are: Spokane 5, Salem 0. Victoria 5, Wenatchee 3. (Only games scheduled). " FIGHTDOPE last night and here Two fights are resuits: Providence, R. I. —,Del Flanagan, . 140, St. Paul, Minn., stopped Jackie Weber, 136, Pawtucket, R. L., 8. San Francisco — Nick Moran, 148, Mexico City, stopped Alex Amador, | 145, San Francisco, 8. BIG MOTHER'S DAY CROWD AT COUNTRY CLUB, ADS PAY, SAYS TOM GEORGE Advertising pays, according to Tom George, owner of the Coun- try Club. Mother’'s Day advertising in the Empire Saturday of the Country Club menu with special plates for children, brought in the biggest crowd the Country Club has had in a long time. “We served over 500 meals Sun- day—mostly family parties with children,” Tom George said. In another month the Country Club will have a 12-foot charcoal burner for barbecued steaks, chick- ens and seafoods and there will be another banquet room, several small dining rooms, a private cocktail lounge and three fireplaces, George said. And a view from every room. New plans will afford more space than in the old Country Cluh which burned nearly two years *ago. FAIRBANKS FIRM IS LOW ON WAREHOUSE BID FOR ROAD COM. A. E. 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