The Daily Chronicle from Centralia, Washington • Page 8

Batlxj Chronicle ons May 1959 Bearcats In Split Series at Thurston LACEY The Chehalis Bearcats unloaded the heavy timber Friday afternoon here in the second game to split a Central league baseball double header. The Bearcats dropped the opener, 6-3, to the North Thurston Rams but came back and dealt a 14-8 clubbing in the nightcap to the hosts. The split gave the Bearcats an 8-1 mark in league competition. The defeat was the first for the Bearcats in Central league play. In the opener, the Bearcats out- hit the hosts but were unable to hit in the clutch.

The Rams picked up five runs in the first inning to rack up the win margin. The Bearcats had the bases loaded in the sixth and seventh innings but were unable to punch across to beat the Rams. George Lyle started on the mound in the opener and had two shaky innings. But he settled down in the remaining five innings and retired the side in one-two-three fashion. CHEHALIS SCORED all three runs in the fifth inning.

Eddy Anderson and Duane Borovec walked and Tim Wood singled in the first Bearcat tally. With two on the sacks, Bob Schwarz lined out a single that went through the fielder's legs. Borovec and Wood scampered home'on Schwarz' hit. North Thurston showed power in the opener as Bachofner and Bower tripled and Cooper hit a home run. THE NIGHTCAP was just the opposite as the Bearcats clubbed the Hams.

Dave Dowling did not pitch due to high school limitations on a 48 hour period of rest. The ace southpaw hurled Wednesday against Centralia and was ineligible to pitch against the Rams. Dowling, however, provided the hitting spark for the Bearcats in the nightcap. He got three hits in four trips, including a home N. Thurston run in a wild third inning.

The Bearcats put the game on smashed in nine runs. They bat- led around the batting orde.r in the free-scoring third stanza. DOWLING STARTED off the inning and singled. Mac Arrington, the winning pitcher, got on base on an interference play. Rick Capps singled and Borovec bunted home Dowling for the firsi m.

Wood stepped up and singled home Arrington, Capps and Borovec. Not letting up, the Bearcats' Alan Allie singled home Wood for the fifth run of the inning. Schwarz kept up the rally as he singled. Gary Wood hit a long fly ball and Allie scored after the catch. Dick Melhart was hit by the pitcher and joined Schwarz on the bases.

THEN DOWLING came up again and powered a home run to clean the bases and end the wild 9 run inning. The next game for the Bearcats will be a non-conference clash with the Rams Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. at Millett Field. Following the practice game, the Bearcats wind up the Central league season at home, hosting Montesano Friday afternoon. THE LINESCORE: First Game Chehalis N.

Thurston Batteries: Chehalis Lyle and Melhart; N. Thurston Ford and Bachofner. Second Game Chehalis 000 030 0-- 3 7 2 510 000 0-- 6 5 3 149 00-- 14 14 2 320 30---8 4 Batteries: Chehalis Arrington and Melhart; Thurston 1 lie Deal yui me fttuut vii i i L.IIL. Ice in the third frame as they Claar, Flurrey (4) and Bachofner. Nine Jr.

Hi Youths Get District Spots HOQUIAM Nine Cenlralia junior high school track members earned berths to the district finals Friday afternoon here. The Centralia squad took the 'A' division by scoring 4214 points to lead the field of six junior high schools competing. Rain Stops Tiger Game At Longview LONGVIEW Rain put the damper on the second half opener for the Centralia Tiger baseball team here Friday afternoon. The Tigers and the R. A.

Long Lumberjacks were tied 0-0 going into the fourth inning when precipitation called off the game. The game is scheduled to be replayed Monday afternoon at Longview. The Tigers currently lead the SWW Class AA, northern division, with a 4-0 record. Bruce Jacobson started on the mound for the Tigres but neither Centralia or R. A.

Long was able to score in the early part of the game. The 'A' division scoring was: Centralia 4214: Hoquiam Hopkins, Aberdeen, Miller, Aberdeen, South Bend and Raymond 0. In the 'B' division the Centralia squad finished last with nine points and in the 'C' division, they finished second with 26 points. Dick Upton was the big winner in the 'A' division. He qualified for the district meet by winning Ihe 50 yard dash, broad jump and the discus.

Steve Blanchard hurled the shotput 49-614 for a first place and a berth. The 440 yard relay team of Larry Dean, Paul Marlowe, Tim Hudson and Steve Blanchard also won first place to qualify. Mark Caldwell also quali fied in the 'A' division by winning first i'n the. hurdles with a time oM5.4'. JACK TEPPONEN earned district berth by taking second in the 50 yard dash in 'A' division competition.

Only one Centralia boy quali fied in the 'B' division. Larry Smith tied for first in the high jump with a leap of five feet. Three qualifiers in the 'C' divis ion were Eddie Allender in the 75 yard dash, Gary Kellogg in the 100 yard dash and John Thome in the 75 yard dash. The district meet will be held Friday at Bagley Field in Vancouver. A LITTLE BACK RUB given Den Dometer (No.

1), Lot by catcher Dill Crandall of Mil- Bravei, Demeter hit In the tuck by a pitched and Crandall was quick to young Dodgir a helping fund. incident oteurrtd Wedneiday Milwiuktt wtn M. AP WIREPHOTO. Suds Get Marathon 21-Inning Contest By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Rain washed out two Pacific Coast League games Friday night, but the Seattle Rainiers and the Phoenix Giants made up for the loss with the longest game of the season, a 21-inning cliff-hanger at Seattle. The Rainiers won it 6-5 on Eddie Kazak's lazy, sacrifice fly to left field, Gale Wade from third base.

The Rainiers had loaded the bags on' Wade's single and walks to Paul Pettit and Dee Fondy. San Diego's Padres, with a golden opportunity to challenge Sacramento for the lead after the So- Ions' doubleheader with Portland was washed out, could manage only a split with Vancouver and remained a full game behind. The Padres lost the first game to the Mounties 3-0, then won the nightcap 2-0 as Vancouver's Dick Fitzgerald and San Diego's Bobby Locke hurled two-hitters. Jn the other league game, the Spokane Indians shaded the Salt Lake City Bees 2-1. THE SEATTLE-Phoenix marathon, which had been scheduled as the seven-inning curtain-raiser on a bargain bill, was lied three times.

It was 3-3 at the end of seven frames. Both 'teams got a run in loth, Phoenix on Ben Valenzuela's high homer over the left field wall. The two teams exchanged runs again in the 19th and Seattle's 12:50 a.m. curfew was just around the corner when Kazak ended it in the 21st inning. The game, the second economy contest in Seattle in as a nights, was the longest a League game ever played here.

The PCL record is 24 innigs. Seattle and Phoenix played 14 innings Thursday night, with Rainiers winning 5-4. Fitzgerald was within two putouts of twirling a no-hitter in the seven-inning opener at Vancouver, but Rudy Gegalado's single to center spoked the bid. Bill Werle and Carl Thomas of the Pads combined for a seven-hitler. LOCKE fanned 10 batters and walked only three in winning the nightcap.

The Padres got both of their runs in the sixth frame, on Rod Graber's single and steal of second, Fred Hatfield's single, Mitch June's single and Ken Retzer's double. Bob Milliken, with help Phil Paine, beat Ihe Bees. Milliken gave up but four hits a Paine issued one in a one and two-third inning relief stint. Dnn Urquhart, who went the roule for Salt Lake City, gave up only four hits. It was Milliken's first decision of the season.

The shorlscores: First game (21 innings, scheduled for 7. Second game ppd Phoenix 003 000 000 000 001 000 100-5 10 0 Seattle Hyman, Navarro (6). Fisher (15), Fitzgerald (21), Wright (21) and Stieglitz; Hook, Hanlon (3), Martin (5), Gibson (7), Kennedy (16) and Jenkins. Sevan (B). W-Kennedy 2-.

L--Fisher 4-1. Eyes Bout For Lewis SPOKANE (AP)--They're making eyes at Terry Lewis. Spokane's dynamite fisted, hulking heavyweight fighter. Tommy O'Loughlin. Lewis' handler, said Friday night that Ted Brenner, matchmaker for York's Madison Square Garden, has asked if the huge undefeated heavyweight would be available for a 10-rounder May 29.

Sure, said O'Loughlin, "if the opponent is right" and Lewis be his next opponent. Lewis is scheduled to meet Wayne Womochil, Omaha heavy, in a scrap here May'14. O'Loughlin said he and Lewis would fly to New York immediately after the Womochil match if Lewis wins and the New York opponent is acceptable. Silky Back In Winning Race Circle By BOB MYERS Associated Prtti Sporti Writer INGLEWOOD, 'Calif. (AP) Silky Sullivan, bless his handsome back to torment and perhaps delight his loyal admirers.

The golden chestnut came back to the races Friday and won. It was Silky's first serious work since he disgraced himself by running sixth at Santa Anita last New Year's Day. You'll recall he had let his backers down in shameful fashion in the 1958 Kentucky Derby and the Preakness. But Friday, in true heart-throb manner, Silky came from some 15 lengths off the pace in a 6-furlong sprint to win the $7,500 Roy Campanella Purse at Hollywood Park in 1:09 1-5. Campanella, paralyzed paralyzed Dodger catching star, greeted Silky in the winner's circle.

Roy confided he had bet $2 on another horse but was glad Silky won. HE AND SILKY have a lot in common in comebacks. Campy is lucky to be alive after the automobile accident that ended his brilliant career. Trainer Reggie Cornell must have had a long talk with Silky, maybe about his diet. Silky, now a slim, trim beauty, must have trained off some 200 pounds from his 3-year-old days.

And the way he stormed down the middle of the track, flying past horses, was a caution. His legs, which put him out of action, apparently held up well. Cornell said he'll continue tub treatments, however, and will decide later "when Silky performs again at the meeting. Lake Chelan Hydros Wait OutWeather CHELAN (AP) With one eye on the pits and another on weather, six hydroplane drivers kept their fingers crossed Saturday, hoping to qualify their craft for Sunday's running of the Apple Cup race. Miss United Stales I of Detroit, Maverick of Las Vegas, Nev.

and the Western Washington contingent of Miss Trhiftway, Fascination, Coral Reef and Wahoo still must complete one lap of the 3- mile course at 90 miles an hour to get into the race. Miss Burien set the best qualifying time thus far Friday when she toured the course at 113.685 miles an hour. A strong wind and mechanical difficulties stalled other qualifiers until Jack Regas took advantage of a brief calm to qualify Miss Bardahl at 105.057 miles an hour. Miss Bardahl is the defending champion. Seattle's Thriftway Too a Pay'N Save, Miss Spokane a Nitrogen of Wilmington, Del.

qualified previously. The championship race is a 45- miler, divided into three heats of 15 miles each. GOLF OKLAHOMA CITY Tommy Jacobs held the lead in the Oklahoma City golf tournament at the halfway point with a 133. PROTESTING VIOLENTLY, Mrt. Aurora Vargas, is carried out of htr houtt in Chavex Ravint in Lot Angeles.

Deputy sheriffs were called in to evict Mrs. Vargas who refused to leave her home to make room for construction of the new Los Angeles Dodgers' ball park. Bulldozer knocked down the house immediately after bodily removing the woman. AP WIREPHOTO. Braves Kick Salem Into Tie for First By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tri-City knocked off league-leading Salem, 11-4, Friday night to drop the Senators into a percentage tie with Eugene in the Northwest League baseball standings.

Both Eugene, by virtue of its 6-4 win over Yakima, and Senators now have a games-won percentage of .667. However, Salem still holds a half game edge in the won-loss column. Carl Hutzler's first inning, three- run homer gave Salem a jump on Tri-City, but the Braves came back with single tallies in the first two frames, then clinched it with four more in the fourth. Tri-City got another four runs in the fifth inning and closed out its scoring with a single in the seventh. Salem managed to pick up one run on three Tri-City erro in the eighth.

TED EDMUNDS went the route to earn the win for the Braves. In the other league games, the last place Lewiston Broncs took Wenatchee 6-1 to drop the Chiefs into fifth place. Tri-City stepped into Wenatchee's old fourth place berth. The Eugene Emeralds won over the Bears on the strength of home- runs by Joe Sparks, Chuck Killer and Jerry Robinson. Sparks' blast was a two-run affair in the first frame.

The other two were solo homers. YAKIMA got into the power act too, with Herm Lewis clouting solo homeruns in the second and fifth innings. Lewiston's Thornton i twirled a neat six-hitler to lead the Broncs past Wenatchee. Kipper gave up the Chiefs' lone run in the first inning. Ron Wilkins' two-run double in the sixth frame broke a 1-1 lie and put Lewiston in the lead to stay.

Baseball Standings By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Friday Baseball American League W. L. Pet. G.B. 6 .714 3 .542 314 15 Cleveland Baltimore 13 10 Washington 13 11 Chicago 11 Kansas City 11 Boston 10 New York 9 Detroit 7 Friday Results Cleveland 3, Chicago 1 Boston 5, Baltimore 0 Detroit 5.

Kansas City 4 Only games scheduled .500 .478 .476 .439 .304 National League W. L. Pet. G.B. 12 13 .600 .591 Milwaukee Cincinnati San Francisco 13 10 .565 Los Angeles 14 12 .538 Chicago 13 12 .520 Philadelphia 1 0 12 .455 Pittsburgh 10 12 .455 St.

Louis 7 17 .292 Cincinnati 3, Milwaukee 2 San Francisco 9, Los Angeles 3 Chicago 3, St. Louis 2--10 innings Philadelphia 8, Pittsburgh 1 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Pet. GB 14 7 .667 Sacramento San Diego Phoenix Seattle Spokane Portland Vancouver Salt Lake City Vancouver 3-0, San Diego 0-2 Spokane 2, Salt Lake City 1 Seattle 6, Phoenix 5 (21 innings) Sacrameno at Portland (2), postponed, rain. 14 9 12 11 11 13 10 12 9 9 12 8 12 .609 .522 .458 .455 .450 .429 .400 Ex-Bremerton Star Can Still Smile Hard Luck Dogs Suds' Tappe By JACK HEWINS Associated Press Sports Writer SEATTLE (AP) As Edo Vanni says, no game matches baseball for humor. A lot of it has been wasted on Ted Tappe.

Don't get the idea that the rawboned slugger from Bremerton is a sour-puss. Tall Ted laughs as readily as Vanni, the Seattle Rainier assistant general manager who stored away a million chuckles in a long career as player and manager. While baseball was having some of its merry days Ted was prone in a Chicago hospital. He was Ihere for 18 months and he wasn't laughing. His baseball career had a distinctly kaput look and, when pneumonia joined other ailments on his woe wagon, Ted himself was close to (he final outright release.

"It was 3 and 2, last of the ninth, scored lied and two out," surmised Vanni. "And," said Ted, who can grin about it hadn'l been hitting a lick." Tappe was one of an athlclic trio stamped for success when he from BrttMrtoa H11 School in 3948. The three were a classmate, Don Heinrich, and a lean youngster a a ing at Rjchland. Gene Conley. Heinrich and Tappe had played football, basketball and baseball at Bremerton.

Ted and Conley were soph- more stars of the 1949-50 Washington State College basketball and baseball teams. THE NEY YORK football Giants drafted Heinrich out of the University of Washington. The Boston (now Milwaukee) Braves signed Conley and the Cincinnati Redlegs took Tappe. Everybody said the trio couldn'l miss. couldn't know what was in store for Tappe.

He moved up fast. The Redlegs yanked him out of'the minors to play with the parent team at the close of both the 1S50 and '51 seasons. He spent '52 and '53 in the Army. Next year he hit .290 for Ttilsa, clouted 27 homers, batted jn 81 nms in 110 games. Ted was swapped to the Chicago Cubs in 1955 and ticketed for regular i job.

But he noticed an increasing soreness In his left heel. Favoring it as he run MM wtt, cold day, Ml thing snap. It was the achilles tendon on that left leg. In the hospital the medicos repaired the tendon and they scraped away a calcium deposit on the heel, original cause of the trouble. The pneumonia was just a bonus.

TED WENT to spring training with the Cubs in 1957, but was released. As Vanni says, rnost guys would have racked the bbts. Tappe returned to the Northwest and started a long climb back up the baseball ladder. He played with Yakima and Wenatchee in the Northwest League. Portland gave him a tryout in.1958 but "I couldn't do anything right" and he went back to ly a rookie.

"But he went to the Rainier camp this spring and found his bat speaking with its old authority. He clinched a spot in the Seattle outfield and was leading the club in homers and runs batted in when a pulled muscle benched him briefly. Ted'i confidence in himself is unshaken. "I can make 1 he says. "I know I'm as good as a lot of the guys up there now." "Up there," of course, Is any- lo major NORTHWEST LEAGUE Salem 8 4 .667 Eugene 6 3 .667 14 Yakima 7 7 .500 2 Tri-City 6 7 .462 214 Wenatchee 6 9 .400 314 Lewiston 5 8 .385 314 Eugene 6, Yakima 4 Tri-Cily 11, Salem 4 Lewiston 6, Wenalchee 1 Saturday's Schedule Eugene at Yakima Salem- at Tri-City Lewiston at Wenatchee Finals Set For Trophy The Centralia Women's golf association competition for the Salewsky's trophy completed ils semi-final rounds Thursday.

The championship round will pit Mrs. Boyd Cocking against Mrs. Russ Mohney next week. The two women advanced to the finals as Mrs. Cocking defeated Mrs.

Merwin Williams and Mrs. Mohney beat Mrs. Bill Ramsey in the semi-finals. The low gross for the day was carded by Mrs. Williams and the low net honors ended in a tie.

Mrs. Ralph Elsey and Mrs. Russ Mohney turned in scores of 94-2371 to share the low net honors. Mrs. L.

A. May was a close second with a 99-27-72. The day's play was for points. First division ended with Mrs. Elsey and Mrs.

Mohney tied with 44 points. Mrt. May won the second division with 38 points and Mrs. Bob Hoerling was the third division winner with a 38. Next week's action will be for The lineup includes: Williams, Wheeler and Alexander; Brister, Childers and Conrad; Elsey, Shelton and Petropoulos; Ferguson, Hallberg, Helena and Madden; Howling, Ramsay, Home and May; Ramsey, and Kersey; Kellogg, Miller and Let.

In nine-hole competition. Mr Reds Nip Burdette To Grab 2nd Place By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS It begins to look as if the Cincinnati Reds are at last catching up with the Milwaukee Braves. The Braves have beaten a path to a pair of National. League pennants by trampling the Reds the past two years. In 1957, Milwaukee won 18 of its 22 games with Cincinnati.

Last season it was 17 of 22. Now the Reds have taken three of five decisions this season, winning three in a row from the Braves for the first time since 1956. And they've done it the hard way--beating Warren Spahn and Lew Burdette. They junked Burdetle's winning string-at nine--five this season-with a 3-2 victory at Milwajkee Friday night that gained a virtual first place tie with the Braves. Going into today's game--another run-in with Spahn--the Reds are second by a mere .009 percentage point margin.

San Francisco also closed in, replacing Los Angeles in third, just a half-game behind the leaders, by whipping the Dodgers 9-3. The Chicago Cubs are games back after a 10-inning, 3-2 victory at St. Ixuis. Philadelphia regained a sizth-place tie with Pittsburgh by beating the Pirates 8-1. BURDETTE, who had won 10 Burdette, who had won 10 straight in Milwaukee's County Stadium since last July, gave up four of the Reds' seven hits and major league leader with his 10 home runs, with two men on base in the ninth.

Southpaw Johnny Antonelli, who had lost two in a row, won his fourth for the Giants after giving up the Dodger runs on five hits in the second inning. He blanked them on five hits the rest of the way. Daryl Spencer was 4-for-4 and drove in three runs for the- Giants, who chased Danny McDe- vilt (1-1) in a three-run sixth for a 4-3 lead. Willie Mays and Jackie Brandt added solo homers in the eighth. RANDY JACKSON just relumed to the Cubs by way of a trade with Cleveland, tripled in the 10th after a two-out single by winning reliever Bill Henry (3-1).

Jackson, who last played for the Cubs in 1955, also was credited with the tying run when he got a bases- loaded walk as a pinch-hitler jn the eighth. Jim Brosnan (0-3) was the loser in relief for the Cards, who were shut out after the third. who replaced Bob Anderson in the aHof eighth, allowed but two hits and A two-run double by Frank Robin, struck out five. It was the Cardinals eighth consecutive one-run decision. They've lost five of them.

Gene Conley, the ex-Brave, gained his first victory since 1957 son and a triple by Frank Thomas did the damage. The Braves had 11 hits, but didn't break through against Brooks Lawrence (3-1) until the eighth inning, when Ed Mathews and Frank Torre homered. Lawrence, collecting only his second complete game since blanking the in his first start for Ihe Phils. He had to leave in the ninth, however, when "a line drive by Smoky Burgess nicked a pitching-hand Braves'1-0 last July 2. finally finger.

George Witt (0-4) lost it, it away by fanning Mathews, the I giving way in a three-run fourth. Indians On Warpath As Colavito Homers By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Those Cleveland Indians are socko with Rocco. Take Friday night. They managed just three hits at Chicago, but Rocky Colavito had twb and drove in three runs, ripping a tie-breaking, two-run homer in the sixth that put away a 3-1 victory. It was the seventh home run of the year for Rocky-who was only three shy of a Cleveland record when he walloped 41 last season-and he's made them good for 11 runs.

He didn't hit his seventh last year until June 8, in his 41st game. Now he's matched that output in half the time (21 games). Friday night's success, the fourth in a row for unbeaten right- lander Cal McLish, padded American league lead to games once more as Boston and Frank Sullivan whipped second place Baltimore 5-1. Detroit scored three in the ninth for a 5-4 victory over Kansas the only other AL game scheduled. Right bander Dick Donovan (1-1) of the White Sox gave up all three of Cleveland's hits in his six innings, getting past everybody but Minnie Minoso and Colavito.

Minoso singled with one out in the fourth inning, stole second and then gave the Indians a 1-0 lead on Rocky's single. IN THE SIXTH, Minoso walked with two out and came across on Colavito's smash into the upper left field deck at Comiskey Park. The White Sox had just five hits off McLish, scoring in the fourth on Jim Landis' second home run while losing their fifth in a row Rain Halts Net Matches Rain halted the tennis match between Centralia and Everett Junior Colleges' girls tennis teams lere Friday afternoon. However prior to the call-off due to the weather, the two teams were tied, 1-1. The first doubles team of Betty Goebel and Jean Earner beat Everett's Sherry Marlin and Carrie Gibson, 4-6, 6-0, and 6-1.

The only singles match was lost by CJC when Barbara Stewart dropped a 6-4, 6-2, decision to Lynn Solom. The next match for CJC team will be here Thursday, i p.m., against Lower Columbia. I and sinking to .500 in fourth place, 4'4 games behind. Sullivan, a big 6-7 right-hander, gave up only five singles along with two walks while squaring his record at 1-1 for Boston. The Red Sox had just three hits for seven innings, but held a 2-0 lead over southpaw Billy O'Dell (1-1).

They in the first on a walk, passed ball, error and Frank Mai- zone's sacrifice fly, then counted again in the fourth on a walk and Don Buddin's double. SULLIVAN I A got some breathing room in the seventh, when Boston scored three with Pete Runnels and Jackie Jensen hitting solo home runs. It was Jensen's seventh, Runnels' second. Singles by Harvey Kuenn and Lou Berberel got the Tigers rolling in the ninth against Ray Herbert (1-3), who then was tagged for a tying triple by Frank Boiling --who kept right on running with the winner as Heck hobbled the relay from the outfield. It was the first victory in six one-run decisions for the Tigers and it went to Ray Narleski, a four-time loser who won his first with two innings of perfect relief.

Bob Cerv drove in three Kansas City runs off Don Mossi with a triple and a sacrifice fly. The Tigers had two runs but only four hits--one Berberet's second homer --for eight innings. LOOK! LOOK! Glasspar BOATS and GALE BUCCANEER MOTORS LINDSEY MOTORS Lewis County Studebaker Dealer 4th ft Market, Chehalis NASHUA TRAILERS I tat IMt; to Jt-W. Lonf J. WOOD Wath..