The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 5, 1951, Page 3

THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1951 RAINIERS IN 2 WINS ON FOURTH By Associated Press If any club is going to chop Seat tle's Pacific Coast League lead, i looks like it will have to be Holly- wood. The Rainiers kept right on rollin against Oakiand, 7-3 and 5-0, yester- day. Second-place Hollywood sta four games off the pace with a twi win over Sacramento, 1-0 and 4-2. That dropped Sacramento 7'z game behind in third place, and for the first time it begins to appear to b a two-horse race. The Stars anc Rainiers don't meet again, however until July 19, so the status probab'y will remain quo awhile. Otherwise, the big Fourth of Juls noise was San Francisco's explosive exit from the cellar. The Seals, ir the dungeon since the start of the season, clobbered San Diego twice 7-2 and 7-4, to climb over the Padre into seventh place by one game. Los Angeles made it a clean sweep all around by two-timing Portland 5-4 and 5-2.* Roundtrippers by Tom Neill anc Les Layton gave Los Angeles its first victory over Portland; the Beavers contributed four unearnec runs to assure the second. Seattle’s ace, Marv Grissom, post- ed his 13th win against eight de- feats with a four-hit shutout ir the seven-frame finale. The Rain- iers had a five-run fifth to take the opener from new Oak Chet Johnson. Gordy Goldsber: homer with two on was the big poke. Re- liefer Steve Nagy was the winner. Johnny Lindell was Hnll)»\noo‘ hero, twirling a four-hit shutout and hitting a homer for the lone tally the first game against Sacramento PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pct. 60 41 .594 56 45 .554 53 49 .520 51 50 51 51 47 52 43 57 41 57 Seattle Rainiers Hollywood Stars Sacramento Solons Oakland Acorns Portland Beavers Los Angeles San Francisco San' Diego NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. 46 26 41 34 37 33 35 37 33 38 32 38 30 36 29 41 Brooklyn New York St. Louis Philadelphia Cincinnati Boston Chicago Pittsburgh AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago New York Boston Cleveland Detroit ‘Washington Philadelphia St. Louis . Sporis Briels London — Dick Savitt of Orange N. J., and Ken McGregor of Aus- tralia gained the finals of the men’s singles at Wimbledon. Savitt de- feated Herb Flam of Beverly Hills, Calif., 1-6, 15-13, 6-3, 6-2, and Mc- Gregor defeated Eric Sturgess of South Africa, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5. New York — Pancho Seguro of Ecuador retained his national pro- fessional tennis championship at Forest Hills, defeating Richard Gon- zales of Los Angeles, 6-3, 6-4, 6-2. Inglewood, Calif. — Citation ,$3.50, won the $50,000 American handicap at Hollywood Park and edrned $33,- 050, to boost his all time winnings to £9885,760. Santa Barbara, Calif. — The Rev Bob Richards of the Illinois A.C won the 1951 National AAU decath- lon championship. LEADERS IN BB - Leaders in the major leagues thrv games of the Fourth are: American League Batting — Minoso, Chicago, .354; Fain, Philadelphia, .346. Hits — DiMaggio, Boston, 99; Fox Chicago, 92. Home runs — Zernial, Philadel- phia, 19; Robinson, Chicago, 16. Pitching — Nixon, Boston, 6-1, 857; Feller, Cleveland, 11-2, .846. National League Batting — Musial, St. Louis, Robinson, Brooklyn, .364. Hits — Ashburn, Philadelphia, 107; Dark, New York, 97. Home runs — Hodges, Brooklyn, 26; Kiner, Pittsburgh, 19. Pitching — Roe, Brooklyn, 12-1, 923; Brecheen, St. Louis and Werle, Pittsburgh, 5-1, 833. 370; WHITE SO, DODGERS IN 600D LEADS v Associated Press lyn and the Chicago chalk one up against tradition Baseball history discloses the team in first place after games of Fou of July walks off with the flag,abou wo thirds of the time. Both leagues show the same fig ures. Since the turn of the century ke Independence Day in he National and American league von in 33 of the 50 campaigns. The White Sox joined the Dodgers 1s July Fourth leaders yester plitting a doubleheader in Det vhile Washington’s Senators stunned he Yankees with a sweep of their win bill in New York. Chicago won the 5-1, after losing a 6-3 opener to st first+place in the Americanj rom the Yankees by a half game New York dropped 9-6 and 6-5 de- isions Brooklyn increased its first place argin in the National to six and half games ove! w York, thump- nz the Giants twice, 6-5 in 11 inn- ngs and 4-2 Red Sox Climb Up Boston's third place Red Sox climbed to within two and a half mes of the American League lead, winning two in Philadelphia, 9-0 and | Cleveland vice even more by sweeping a pair n St. Louis, 6-5 and 4-3 in a 15- rning marathon. The St. Louis Cardin he Cubs in Chicago, 10 »nd game of the scheduled double- cader was rained out. Philadel- a moved into fourth place past “incinnati by rapping the Braves n Boston twice, 4-1 and 3-1. Pittsburgh Wins Two Pittsburgh moved to within three sames of seventh place with a pair »f wins against Cincinnati, 4-1 and leaders second game, 2-3. whipped The sec- 116-4. It took some fine bounce back baseball for the Dodgers to win yes- terdays' opener. going in to the eighth. Homers by Roy Campanella and Pee Wee Reese made it 4-3. Gill Hodges’ single tie it 4-4 in the ninth and chased Starter Sal Maglie. Bobby Thompson fourth homer in as slammed his games | Roe to give the Giants a 5-4 lead. But a double by Duke Snider and Jackie Robinson’s single tied the score in the Dodgers’ half. An error and Roe’s squeeze bunt enabled Robinson to cross the plate \vuh’ the winning run Nine-Hit Victory Veteran Joe Dobson pitched the White Sox into first place with a nine-hit victory over the Tigers. He needed help, however, from Marv/| Rotblatt. Al Zarilla's two-run homer | featured a four-run first inning| blast against Dizzy Trout. Gil Coan hammered two three- run homers off Vic Rashi and Joe Ostrowski to lead the Senators to: their first game win. Superb relief} pitching by Mickey Harris enabled the Nats to make the sweep. Ralph Kiner blasted homers No.} 18 and 19 — one with the bases loaded and the other with two on— to spark the Pirates to their double win. White Sox fail to win the pennant,|| in the top of the 11th off ll'eal;h(’l"’ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU, Flam Moves Inlo Semi-Finals ;“0'“5 RACING i ol | Herbie Flam (left), Beverly Hills' gift to the clay courts, shakes hands with No. ank Sedgman after scoring a smashing victory over the Australian nateur to move into the semi-finals ofethe All-England tennis championships at Wimbledon, England. The Flam lad spotted Sedgman two sets ana then came on in the broiling heat to outduel the big Aussie ace, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4, 7-5. (P Wire- photo via radio from London. Answer foa Lame Back 1 seeded F - ST helped tighten the || They trailed 4-0 § Robert V. Lewis, 56, retired businessman of Salmon Fdll, Me,, and now a successful strawberry farmer starts to his fields in his hand- propelled “gimmick.” Tired of ck aches from weeding his straw- berries Lewis built his floorless little farm chariot so he could weed He cranks himself down the rows, with P \\u(‘phnlfl. the plants sitting down. roof overhead and toels in front. Kills Self SOAP BOX DERBY TRIAL RUNS SET FRIDAY NIGHT The first of the trial yap Box Derby will be r treet tomorrow ev o'clock. All boys whose ¢ ready for inspection and a tri 1ld appear for this first i tion The committee would like all boy: who are building a car to appe at this meeting so that it can be | definitely ascertained how many | cars will be ready for the races on | July 22. Parents whose sons are B.B. STARS Stars of the Fourth in the major leagues are: Batting — Gil Coan, Senators— hammered two three-run homers in the first game and singled in the winning run in the nightcap as the Senators swept a doubleheader from the New York Yankees, 9-6 and 6-5 Pitching — Maurice McDermott Red Sox — hurled a four-hitter as the Red Sox shutout the Athletics 9-0, in the first game of double- header. WIL GAMES Scores of WIL games played on the Fourth are: Vancouver 3-3, Yakima 1-0. Spokane 7-5, Wenatchee 6-3. Tacoma 10-1, Salem 3-7. . Tri-City 3-13, Victoria 2-9. JOHNNY.CAMILLO AWARDED 4th CAR Johnny Camillo, resident of the Ordonia hotel, has been awarded the July Fourth automobile. Camillo is now taking a vacation but has previously been connected with the kitchen department at Percy’s. The award was the closing event at the fun zone last midnight. : | building a car should see that their boys attend the run on Friday at 7 o'clock. All STARS WIN JULY FOURTH 4 GAME SERIES The All-Star Coast Guard in the the July Fourth night and took a closer nesday in the final ¢ the $250 prize game series, Yesterday's game W L._.J SellERE Hugh Casey (above), 38, former major league 'pitcher, committed suicide in a hotel at Atlanta, Ga., Lt. C. R. Fleming of the Atlanta police reported. Casey was found with a sheigun wound in the head. IIl health was given as the motive. This picture was made in 1949 when asey was relief pitcher for the New York Yankees. (P Wirephoto. All-Stars 7 to 3. TENNIS TOURNEY | The second game of the series | played Tuesday saw the All swamp the CG by the score 0! 10 in a game that featured rhu- barbs and er There were 5 many arguments by the player against the umpires that both Jim Wilber and Bert Davis quit the league as umpires. REAL ESTATE OFFICE MOVING FROM HOTEL TO SHATTUCK BUILDING team swamped the second game of eries Tuesday pame Wed- to win three- ame for money 1s won by the Some good tennis was played at the Evergreen Bowl the afternoon of July Fourth. The results were: junior girls—! Betty Mantyla defea ' Whitehead 6-1 and 6-0 — Elton Engstrom de Casperson and 6-4. In senior division, Jean Gucker de- feated Dora Johnson 6-4 and 7-5 while Bob Boochevar defeaied Ted 7-5 Oberman 6-0 and 6-1 Prizes of sweaters and tennis balls were distributed. Trophies are on order for the first place win- ners. It is hoped that the Fourth of July tennis carried on each year. tournament will be | | William Winn, Jnmnm real e operator, announced. toc ¥ is moving his office, July 6, fr Gastineau Hotel to the Shattuck Building, on Seward street. —EMPIRE WANT ADS PAY— NEW Y | tendance ‘. 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