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SPORTS BOB ZIMMER, Editor PCL Teams Nearly Convinced Distance To Stars Is Measured in 'Light-Years' By TOM THACKREY United Press Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (UP)—Seven Pacific Coast League baseball teams are nearly convinced of the scientific theory that the distance to the Stars is measured in "light-years." The San Diego Padres, being closer to the Stars physically if not in the PCL standings, have about quit measuring the distance in games-behind. But all the Hollywood Stars are measuring is the rest of the PCL. Last night they stretched out the Padres 3-2 in 12 innings for their fourth straight of the week and their ninth in a row. Oakland took over second place alone on the strength of a frugal 4-1 decision over the frustrated Sacramento Solons. Los Angeles took a step back toward respectability with a 6-3 conquest of Portland. The San Francisco Seals and the Seattle Rainiers settled nothing in a doubleheader in which the Suds took the first game 3-2 and the Seals gobbled up the second 6-1. Pitched a Full Game Roger Bowman went the route for the Stars, giving up only eight hits in 12 frames. Lloyd Dickey also pitched the whole dozen but got the loss. Monte Masgall singled in Larry Dorton with the winning tally in the bottom of the 12th. The contest had been tied since a run each. The Seals got a go-ahead counter in the eighth and then broke the game apart with four in the top of the ninth. The Linescores: 1st Game San Francisco 020 000 0-2 6 0 Seattle 200 100 x-3 7 0 Chandler, Muncrief (6) and Donohue; Byrne and Orteig. 2nd Game San Francisco 000 000 114-6 9 2 Seattle 000 000 100-1 5 2 Ponce and Tornay; Widmar and Erautt, Orteig (8). Sacramento 000 010 000-1 11 1 Oakland 000 040 004-4 4 0 Johnson, Patrick (6), Schang (9) and Partee; Ferrarese and Landini Los 9ngeles 100 101 300-6 13 1 Portland 002 000 010-3 9 1 McLish and Pramesa; Flores, Anthony (7), Adkins (9) and Rossi San Diego 000 200 000 000-2 8 0 Hollywood 020 000 000 011-3 12 0 Dickey and Aylward; Bowman and Malone. Indians Upset Vitt Recalls Spy Incidents By HAL WOOD United Press Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (UP)—Vitt, mostly noted as the one-manager of the Cleveland Babies of 1940, was laughing other day about the complaint Granny Hammer of the Philadelphia Phils that he was "spied on" by a private detective. "Spying on baseball player as old as the game," Old O called. "In the old days who was playing with Detroit, they always had spies watching every move. "If we did something shouldn't have, they called us the carpet. If we didn't need warning, next thing we knew drew a fine." But Vitt thinks maybe his C land club went a little far one when it started to spy on the pires. Let Oscar tell it: Used Camera "How would Hamner like to be spied on with a camer Vitt asked." We had noticed we were losing two or three every game. So the manager put spotters in the stands to co and finally came to the conclusion that an umpire was taking them. "So they peeked into the pires' dressing room—and enough, the suspect was putti couple of balls in his pocket." Didn't want to accuse him with the evidence, so someone came with the idea of getting the dence on movie film. "The next day they took picture through the knothole and showed them to the president the league. I guess the umpire reprimanded, but he's still..." The San Francisco Seals and the Seattle Rainiers settled nothing in a doubleheader in which the Seals took the first game 3-2 and the Seals gobbled up the second 6-1. Pitched a Full Game Roger Bowman went the route for the Stars, giving up only eight hits in 12 frames. Lloyd Dickey also pitched the whole dozen but got the loss. Monte Masgall singled in Larry Dorton with the winning tally in the bottom of the 12th. The contest had been tied since the fourth at 2-2. Hollywood's runs coming in the second inning on consecutive homers by Jack Phillips and Jack Lohrke. Oakland got only four hits off Sacramento pitching while the Sacs were combing Don Ferrarese for 11 safeties. That wasn't the story, however, as the Acorns put all their hits together in the fifth innings, combined them with a couple of walks and tallied four times. The Los Angeles Angels, who have power-diving for a couple of weeks, took a turn for the better. They made it three in a row over the Beavers and brought themselves back into sixth place, shoving the Beavers further into the mud. Home Runs Helped Ca McLish went the distance for the Cherubs and was helped by home runs from the bats of Gene Mauch and Dixie Upright. A home run by Nanny Fernandez proved the difference for the Rainiers in the opener with San Francisco. Fernandez hit his blow in the fourth inning to break a 2-2 tie and give Tommy Byrne a win over Ed Chandler. Byrne gave up only six hits, one of them a home run by Bob Diplietro which accounted for both Seal tallies. In the second contest Tony Ponce picked up his third win in a row after six losses with a neat five hitter. Al Widmar gave up nine hits as the teams battled scorelessly until the seventh and then got RUG & CARPET CLEANING ALEXANDER RUG CO. 11114 S. Hwy. 101 Ph. KE 5-5197 SUMMER LEAGUES NOW FORMING Open Lanes every day and evening from noon until ?? FREEWAY BOWL Santa Ana Freeway & Katella Phone KE 5-8522 Indians Upset San Diego, 6-4 Fullerton's Sunset League Champs advanced to the semi-finals of the CIF baseball playoffs by upning previously unbeaten San Diego 6-4, in an 11-inning battle at the Border City yesterday. The Redskins will face Rosemead, 10-5 victor over El Rancho, in the semi-finals next Tuesday. Leyola advanced to the round of four with a 1-0 victory over Lynwood. It was the second extra-inning triumph of the playoffs for the Indians, who nipped Chaffey, 3-2, in 14 innings Tuesday. Mike White opened Fullerton's payoff inning with a single. He was sacrificed to second and Gordon McGowen walked. Gerald Runyon singled to knock in White with the winning run and the Redskins added one for insurance when Larry Fishel bunted in McGowen on a squeeze play. The Redskins trailed most of the game, but tied it up at 4-4 in the top of the eighth when White singled in a pair of tallies. Jerry Fischer knocked in the other two markers in the third. Runyon, a southpaw, relieved Louis Zuniga in the seventh and blanked the Hillers the rest of the way to receive credit for his second victory of the week. Score by Innings Fullerton 002 000 020 02—6 8 4 San Diego 120 000 100 00—4 10 0 Zuniga, Runyon (7) and J. Fishle; Babbitt, D. Johnson (8) and Whitworth. QUALIFYING TRIALS HELD Time trials will be run this afternoon at Carrell Speedway to determine the 33 cars starting in tomorrow's 00-lap NASCAR race on the half-mile dirt oval in Gardena. Racing director Don Basile says there'll be some hot competition today, with 18 1954 cars and eight different makes represented in the field of nearly 50 entries. So they peeked into the pires' dressing room—and enough, the suspect was putting couple of balls in his pocket. Didn't want to accuse him with the evidence, so someone came with the idea of getting the evidence on movie film. "The next day they took picture through the knothole and showed them to the president's league. I guess the umpire reprimanded, but he's still piring in the American League. I won't tell you who it was. Lot of Treble "It seems to me that the C land management went to an lot of trouble over a tr matter." Lefty O'Doul recalls that when he was with the Yankees and Babe Ruth, Carl Mays, Bob Meusel went out on a trip. They met a fellow who said he a friend of Wally Pipp. See like a fine fellow. "So we went to some b Lefty recalls." The fellow w baseball nut and wanted to some pictures taken of the b of us. So we all posed driv with him. "Next day we were all into the office by Yankee O Jake Ruppert. Here was "friend" with the pictures turned out to be a detective pert had hired to watch our hours activities." 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Racing director Don Basile says there'll be some hot competition today, with 18 1954 cars and eight different makes represented in the field of nearly 50 entries. Planning a Trip? WANT TO KNOW Where? How far? How much? FREE! HOLIDAY TRIP PLANNER Much of the fun of a trip is planning it. To increase your enjoyment, we have a copy of HOLIDAY TRIP PLANNER, U. S. A., for you. Prepared by HOLIDAY MAGAZINE, it's full of interesting, practical information about the whole country. See us for your free copy soon. CASEY-BECKHAM "ORANGE COUNTY'S LEADING PONTIAC DEALER" 338 S. Los Angeles St. Anaheim Phone KE 5-2857 or KE 5-2856 A GOOD DEAL AND A GOOD DEAL MORE DIXON'S ELECTRIC Commercial and Residential Wiring PHONE:— DAY JA 7-3001 NIGHT KE 5-9573 ATT Recalls Daily Incidents By HAL WOOD United Press Sports Writer IN FRANCISCO (UP) — Oscar mostly noted as the one-time leader of the Cleveland Crysids of 1940, was laughing the day about the complaint by Jim Hamner of the Philadelphians that he was "being on" by a private detective. Playing on baseball players is bad as the game," Old Os'real. "In the old days when I playing with Detroit, the ownways had spies watching our move. We did something we didn't have, they called us on carpet. If we didn't heed the thing, next thing we knew we a fine." Vitt thinks maybe his Cleve-club went a little far one time it started to spy on the um-let Oscar tell it: Used Camera How would Hamner like to have spied on with a camera?" masked. "We had noticed that were losing two or three balls in game. So the management potters in the stands to check finally came to the conclusion an umpire was taking them. So they peeked into the um-dressing room—and sure enough, the suspect was putting a set of balls in his pocket. They want to accuse him without evidence, so someone came up with the idea of getting the evi-on movie film. The next day they took pictures through the knothole and then led them to the president ofague. I guess the umpire was commanded, but he's still um- COLONISTS AT COAST—Anaheim athletes got credit for an assist in the winning of the second Conference baseball championship in two years by Orange Coast College. The six players showed a major role in Coast's successful 1954 campaign. Front row (l. to r.) Pat Roberts, Gayle and Dick Ramella. Back row (l. to r.) George Bishop, John Steinborn, Ed Herrera. Two Records Shattered as Trojans Set Qualifying Pace in PCC Track Meet SEATTLE. Wash. — Southern California's powerful Trojans were represented in every event except the javelin throw today in the finals of the Pacific Coast Conference track and field meet. Two conference records toppled in the qualifying round yesterday, Trojan speedster Joe Graffio tied off the 100 yard dash in 9.5 seconds, and Stanford's Leo Long flipped the javelin 232 feet 4½ inches. Graffio's dash broke the 12-year-old Ernie Shelton of USC was expedited to draw the most attention from the fans. Shelton already has bettered the conference record of 6 feet 9 inches this season, and given a good day, he just might top the world record of 6 feet 11 inches. Another record which may top this year is the 17 year old mile relay mark of 3:12.3. The Trojan relay team has beaten that record this season. Baseball Standings PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W L Hollywood ... 33 19 Oakland ... 28 26 Seattle ... 28 27 .5 San Diego ... 26 27 .4 Sacramento ... 26 27 .4 Los Angeles ... 26 28 San Fr'ncisco ... 28 4 Portland ... 21 31 Friday's Results Oakland 4, Sacramento Los Angeles 6, Portland Hollywood 4, San Diego Seattle 3-1, San Francisco AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Drive it AND YOULL WANT IT! AND YOULL BUY IT! Price if AND YOU'LL BUY IT! Lowest Priced Car With B This very week, if you like, you can start a thrilling new motoring life—the wonderful, luxurious life hitherto reserved for owners of costly automobiles. You can step out with the best on streets and highways... ride with big-car smoothness, steadiness and quiet... enjoy wonderful handling ease... take off for far places without a worry about the capabilities of your car. 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Pete is on hand for Monday's annual motor classic and so is his uncle, Ralph De Palma, who won the race in 1915. The white-haired De Palma, who looks like a Supreme Court judge, won with a record speed of 89.84 miles per hour 39 years ago while Bill Vukovich averaged 128.74 miles per hour winning last year. "These boys today would run right over us old timers," De Palma smiles. "Equipment is a lot better now—but so are the drivers." Anxious spectators have been parked outside the speedway for two weeks now, sleeping in their cars, cooking on hot plates and buying hot water for shaving at 50 cents a crack from nearby homes. There's a regular midway along one side of the 433-acre speedway with a tiny midget race track going full blast, pony rides, a carnival, food booths and souvenir stands. The speedway also has an 18-hole golf course, with nine inside the two and one-half mile track. A bridge leads over the track and golfers played all week, ignoring the practicing racing cars. Driving Is Payoff This is a race in which driving should be the payoff. Because all 33 cars are equipped with Meyer-Drake engines, Champion spark plugs, Firestone tires and Perfect The race this year will be worth about $90,000, but the driver only gets about 40 per cent. This is because the car owners have an average of $45,000 sunk in each car—and, too often, after the race a over they aren't worth 45 cents. SF Poly Provides Punches for Shrine Hi Classic San Francisco Poly high, where so many athletes have been developed in the past, will provide a one-two punch for the North team that plays the South in the third annual Shrine football game in the Los Angeles coliseum Wednesday night, July 21. This game is being played to raise funds for the Los Angeles unit of the Shriners Hospitals for Crippled Children. William J. Vaughan is potentate of Al Malai-kah Temple, sponsor of the charity contest, and Elmer P. Bromley and Vierling Kersey are the managing directors. Art Debovsky, a six-foot two-inch, 205 pound tackle who was rated tops in his league, and Art Forbes, fleet-footed, high scoring fullback, are the players expected to help the North win. Debovsky, All-San Francisco City tackle last year, has the potential for becoming a terrific college stand-out. Give Debovsky a little more experience and he will be a great star," claims Milt Axt. Poly's veteran coach who handled the North team in the first Shrine game. He is one of the most conscientious hops I ever coached. He bought his Friday's Results Oakland 4, Sacramento 1 Los Angeles 6, Portland 3 Hollywood 4, San Diego 0 Seattle 3-1, San Francisco, 2-6 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pet. GB Cleveland 25 12 .676 Chicago 26 13 .667 New York 23 15 .605 2½ Detroit 19 14 .576 4 Washington 15 20 .429 9 Boston 10 20 .333 1½ Baltimore 12 24 .333 12½ Philadelphia 12 24 .333 12½ Friday's Results New York 10, Boston 9 Washington 12, Philadelphia 6 Chicago 14, Baltimore 6, 1st NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pet. GB Milwaukee 23 14 .622 New York 22 16 .579 1½ Philadelphia 20 17 .541 3 Brooklyn 20 18 .526 3½ Cincinnati 20 19 .513 4 St. Louis 21 20 .512 4 Chicago 17 21 .447 6½ Pittsburgh 12 30 .286 13½ Driving Is Payoff This is a race in which driving should be the payoff. Because all 33 cars are equipped with Meyer-Drake engines, Champion spark plugs, Firestone tires and Perfect Circle piston rings. It's the first such mechanical sweep in history and unusual because competition among parts manufacturers is so keen. Many mechanical items have been tested in the 500 but you probably didn't know that it gave you the rear-view mirror. Just before the 1911 race, which he won, Ray Harroun took a pocket mirror out of his wife's handbag and taped it to his windshield. Harroun, a white-haired little man, is retired but he's on hand to watch the sprouts strut their stuff. Rain Predicted Rain is predicted for Monday, but the drivers are more interested in what the temperature will be. That brick asphalt track got up to 130 degrees when the sun baked it last year. Riding just a few inches above that inferno, with their legs wrapped around a blazing motor, eight drivers wound up in the hospital with heat exhaustion the last time. Wilbur Shaw, now the speedway president, won this race three times to become the biggest money winner with earnings of $91,300. Forbes will be one of the best backs in the Shrine game July 21." said Axt. "I was obliged to take him out of a number of games last season so as not to run up too high a score on some of our opponents. I am sure he would have set an all-time scoring record if he could have gone all out. Art was worthy of being named 'back of the year' at the end of the season. He was fast enough to go around the ends and could go up the middle." Weighing 190 pounds and a six footer, Forbes led the league with 14 touchdowns. With Big Car Performance! DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR YOU CAN'T BEAT A PONTIAC "CAN YOU SEE, STEER, STOP SAFELY? 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