The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 47

5 i Pfrtrayi 1 tl 5 Dodgers Aim At Cincinnati Reds Li Giants Face Much Improved Santa Barbara CINCINNATI AP The Los Angeles Dodgers feet firmly planted on the eighth rung of the National League ladder aimed to start upward tonight by climbing all over the Cincinnati Reds Past performance shows ST LOUIS AP Right hander Juan Marichal will be they have the pitching staff to Major League Standings trying to start a new winninglprevent the Reds from going streak tonight when the San anyplace But their own hit-Francisco Giants open a 13 ting power remains the ques I By Tom Meehan Fresno's Giants awoke this morning facing the reality their lost weekend stimulated the other teams in the California League and their next 36 games will be much tougher than the past 34 in the first half of 3he split season Manager Bill Wcrle's Giants HHMMMMMMIMMMtMMM National League Wan Lot Pd Behlad PhlladKohla San Francisco Milwaukee St Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati tan Houston Los Angola Chicago i York seemingly were unbeatable until Sunday night when they were rudely shocked 5 to 0 and 8 to 0 by the sixth place Stockton Ports They were the first times this year Fresno has been shut out Tonight Fresno will return to the friendly confines of Euless Park where the Giants No gairws sctudulad Flic hers Tadsy Nsw York (Fishor 1-3) at Chicago (Buhl 4-1) Los Angttas (Orvsdal 537 at Cincinnati (Jay 1-2 or Nuxhall 331 night San Francisco (Morichal 4-1) at St Louis (Gibson 4-01 nuht Philadelphia (Short XI or Mahoifey 12) ot Pittsburgh (Law 1-4) night Houston (Far rail 4-1) at MHwauko (Cion-Ingar 3-3) night League Standings Wan Lari Fcf OS FRESNO 36 8 a7AS Salines a 21 14 MO Modal If 15 539 BakaraflcM 17 17 JU San Jma nan It II 471 Stockton 15 20 479 1114 Santa Barbara 14 21 400 Ran aaaaaaanaanna 9 24 JUJ 1Vb Rasults Manday No Oa mas schaduled Gama Tad ay Santa Barbara at Frame Stockton at BakaraflaicL Salinas at Ratio San Jem at Modato Now York In Chicago Los A non as in Cincinnati night San Francisco In St Louis night Phlladalohit In Pittsburgh night Houston Milwaukee night American League Wan Lot 20 23 Among the other recent sluggers added to the team is Dennis Marquardt an all California League selection in 1962 for Reno Marquardt blasted 28 home runs and drove in 126 runs in batting 306 for Reno Last year Marquardt played in 93 games for Salem of the Northwest League but was hampered most of the time by a shoulder injury He batted 290 and drove in 59 runs Rookie Looks Good A rookie standout on the team is Kenny Washington Jr son of the former col legiate and pro football star Kenny starred on two University of Southern California national baseball championship teams One of the most talked about prospects on the Santa Barbara team is first baseman-outfielder Gary Holman another exUSC star He batted 333 in College World Series and was named to the all tourney team last year Werle expects utility player Bob Wardle back in action tonight Wardle who has been used as a reserve catcher infieldler and outfielder had a leg injury game is slated for 7:45 The teams will play single games through Thursday Fresno will travel to San Jose Friday II 11 Pet Behlad JO 422 Vi 411 214 461 1 441 3W 414 4Mi 472 JOS 9 JJ 9W 324 llVta Chicago Baltimore Clovaiand York Minnesota Boston Detroit Washington Lot Angelo Kansas City 10 14 13 14 17 II 19 25 24 25 UPI Tataptwta WARMING Ton Oliva Minnesota rookie batting sensation loosens up during batting drills in Los Angeles Oliva clubbed a home run and two singles last night to boost his league leading average to 391 Minnesota clubbed the Angels 8 to 1 tion mark The game with the Reds is the first of three and opens a 14 game stretch on the road The Dodgers seem to do better traveling than they do at home Their road record is 8-7 this season while they are 10-14 at home Dodger hitters say they can put a lot more balls over the fences when they visit parks that are smaller than Dodger Stadium best shot is generally caught on the wom-ing track at says Ron Fairly One Over 300 Although Dodger batting collectively is far from as at 308 Maury Wills is the only one over 300 the pitching talent and performance is ample Los Angeles pitchers in the last 28 games have hurled 259 innings with an earned run average of only 225 Their pitches resulted in only 20 home runs the fewest in the National League Sandy Koufax was sched uled to open the Cincinnati series but he pitched three in nings Sunday in the win over Philadelphia and Manager Walter Alston said he woulc let 1dm decide if he wanted to pitch tonight Alston tentatively scheduled Don Drysdale (5-3) to pitch against the Bob Purkey (1-3) Earlier this season Cincinnati swept a three game series in Los Angeles The Dodgers won only four nine games played in Cincinnati last year Before returnring to Los Angeles June 8th the Dodgers will travel to Pittsburgh Philadelphia and New York 19 17 17 15 12 Detroit Baltimore night Boston 4 Washington night Chicago 7 Kansas City 4 night Minnesota Los Angelo 1 Only games scheduled will host the improved Santa Barbara Dodgers in the first of a three game home stand Five New Players Pedro Reinoso (5-1) left-handed ace of the staff will pitch for the Fresnans against the strengthened Dodgers vWhich added five new players lastweek Santa Barbara will have former Fresno State College "slugger Mick Mehas at third base The exFresnan who had been out most of the season because of a hand injury has enjoyed big nights at the bat since his return clubbing three home runs one a Olson Makes Sectionals For Open Qualifying Landis Comes OutOf Doghouse To Lead White Sox Past As Pitcher Today Minnesota (Kaat 4-2) at Laa Anodes (McBride 1-7) night Chicago (Pliarro 53 or Krtulznr 13) at Kansas City (Pena XI) night Detroit iLoilcti 43) at Baltimorg (Bunk or 43) night Clevel and Grant 13) at New York (Ford Washington (Daniels X2) at Boston (Wilson 1-2) night Minnesota In Los Angelo two fwt night Chicago in Kansas city two twl night Detroit In Baltimore night Ctavsland In Nsw York Washington In Boston game road trip against the St Louis Cardinals Bob Gibson the fire balling Cardinal right hander with a 4-0 record will be mound opponent Marichal was riding a 12 game winning including six straight this season when he was jolted for nine hits and six runs in five and two thirds innings by the Philadelphia Phillies His record is now 6-1 Dark drew some press criticism yesterday for his failure to start Marichal in doubleheader against Pittsburgh which the Pirate's swept by 3 to 0 and 5 to 3 scores Good Stuff Missing But Dark said Marichal "needs more rest occasionally between starts started him twice now with' only three rest and he had his good stuff Despite losing three of four games to Pittsburgh Dark refused to revise his earlier estimate of the Pirates He had said earlier the four top teams in the National League would be his own Giants St Louis Los Angeles and Philadelphia "Their lade pf hitting will stop he said Sunday of the Pirates who moved to within two games of the league lead Race Scrambled The twin defeats Sunday further scrambled the already tight pennant chase which now finds Philadelphia in the lead the Giants second by a half game Milwaukee and St Louis in a virtual tie for third one and one half games back and Pittsburgh fifth Even the sixth place Cincinnati Reds are only four games behind the league leaders In their only meetings to date this season the Cardinals took two of three from the Giants in an early season visit to San Francisco The contending Redbirds figure to be even tougher on their home field The Giants practiced for the rugged road trip last night by taking a 4 to 0 victory over their Tacoma farm club behind the one hit pitching of veteran left hander Billy plagued by arm ailments this season allowed a second inning single by outfielder DiCk Dietz then shut off the Pacific Coast League dub without another safety Bob Garibaldi the big righthander who received better than $100000 for signing Giants contract held the parent club scoreless through five innings Then the Giants erupted for two runs on Duke double a 1 1 by Jimmy Hart and a single by Jose Pagan Cap Peterson slammed By Mike Rathet Associated Fren sport writer Jim Landis the hitting Jim Brosnan has closed the book on his squabble with the Chicago White Sox and started to author an impressive batting average Landis only four days Armstead Gets Easy Decision Over Brown Souchak Misses Cut For US Open Chargers Sign Williams By Associated Freu Just when burly Mike Souchak the old Duke foot ball place kicker thought he had his golf game back in shape after a two year slump he got thrown for a loss Mike was the biggest cas MODESTO AP Steve Opperman of San Francisco will lead a seven man contingent of Northern California golfers into the sectional qualifying rounds for the United States Open June 8th and 9th Opperman 22 who won the Western Amateur Golf Championship just nine days before fired rounds of 72 and a three under par 69 yesterday over the Del Rio Golf and Country Club course in a regional qualifying round for the open The action in Modesto was one of 51 regional tests held on as many as 51 courses throughout the nation Others who qualified over the 6000 yard par 72 Del Rio layout included the head professional Joe Zaka-rian and two of his assistants Gary Olson and George Buzzini Jr Olson who recently left the professional tour was second to Opperman nifith a 71-72 143 while Buzzini recorded rounds of 74 and 72 for 146 Zakarian shot Also qualifying were Scotty McBeath Redwood City 73-71 144 amateur Vic Lous-talot Sacramento 73-74 147 and 'Dave Mancour El Dorado Hills moved from the White Sox doghouse led off the seventh inning last night with his first homer of the season a pinch hit job that triggered American League leaders to a four run rally and a 7 to 4 victory over Kansas City It was the fourth hit in seven at bats for Landis since a peace parley with Manager Al Lopez settled a dispute that threatened to wind up in a cause celebre almost as big as the one that cost pitcher-author Brosnan his job with the dub TV Fees Landis got off on the wrong foot this season when he had argument with General AI Besselink and Bruce Devlin of Australia 139 Joe Campbell 141 Bill Dunk -of Australia 142 Phil Rodgers Dave Thomas of England and Bob Duden 143 Rex Baxter and Bob Verwey of South Africa 144 SAN DIEGO UPI The champion San Diego Chargers of the American Football League announced today the signing of end Ronnie Carpenter of Texas their 12th draft choice and three free agents The three are defensive back Leslie Duncan of Jack-son (Miss) State College and linebackers Williams of Fresno State College and Richard Farris of North Texas State College Carpenter a 6 foot 3 237 pounder played in the last Blue-Gray and Challenge Bowl games He will be given a trial at center linebacker the Chargers said taking batting practice every day" Oliva Three For Four While Landis boosted his average Minnesota rookie Tony Oliva raised the leading average to 391 with a three for four performance and Jimmie Hall stroked four hits in a 16 hit attack that carried the Twins to an 8 to 1 triumph over the Los Angeles Angels Elsewhere Bill Freehan drove in two runs with a homer' and double as Detroit whipped Baltimore 5 to 3 and Boston turned two errors into three unearned runs and a 6 to 5 victory over Wash' ington Cleveland and the New York Yankees were not scheduled while the entire National League was idle Landis batting for starter Gary Peters tied the score 3 to 3 and the White Sox took it from there Al Weis then singled moved around to third on a balk and an infield out and scored the tie breaker on single before Ron Hansen wrapped up the outburst with a two run homer Ward and Martin also homered for Chicago While Peters brought his record to 5-2 with Hoyt relief help -Scores Three Oliva scored three runs for the Twins and Hall drove in three in support of Camilo Karen Susman Is Lone US Hope In Paris Tennis Manager Ed Short over fees for television appearances Landis wound up asking to be traded Lopez countered by keeping the 30 year old outfielder on the bench Up until last Thursday Landis had been to the plate only five times Then Lopez and Landis who hit 272 when the White Sox won the pennant in 1959 but only 228 and 225 the last two years got together to work out tiie problem felt a little odd about being out for so long" said Landis after lifting his aver age to 417 with the homer But I worried about getting out of shape because thin anyway and I was SAN Paulie Armstead displayed too much speed for 38 year old Joe Brown last night and pounded out a lopsided 10 round decision over the for mer world lightweight champion Brown of Houston Tex weighing 137 pounds to 139 for his Los Angeles opponent was seeking to avenge a split verdict which Armstead posted over him last month in Sacramento but Old Bones never could get untracked and was an easy target during the last three rounds for left hooks mixed with right crosses Referee Frankie Carter had Armstead the winner 8-0 Judge Jack Downey 10-0 and Judge Jack Silver 8-1 Brown complained to his seconds before the ninth round that he was getting a toothache Call For Action A crowd of 1200 which grossed $4030 frequently called for action After a slow fourth and fifth round Armstead shook Brown with a hard left hook to the jaw and moved in thereafter Brown constantly played a waiting game for opportunities that never came while his corner begged him to jab more Armstead connected with a snappy right cross to the head in the eighth then enjoyed his best round during the ninth when he connected with a left-right to the body and followed by banging a combination to the head Jimmy Lester a San Francisco busboy stopped his ninth opponent in 10 professional starts when he was awarded a technical knockout over Jerry Silver of Fresno in the sixth round of the semi final ualty as a field of about 2000 started on the long qualifying trail to the US Open at Washington June 18th to 20th Local qualifying rounds over 36 holes were staged at 54 courses yesterday Three more tests were held today all in the metropolitan New York area A total of 428 golfers will advance to the sectional qualifying rounds scheduled for June 8th and 9th Twenty one players Including defending champion Julius Boros and recent champions Arnold Palmer Jack Nicklaus BiU Casper and Gene Littler are exempt from qualifying and 45 others were allowed to skip the local test Hyndman Misses failure was the most noteworthy Another was BiU Hyndman III Walker Cupper and former runnerup in both the US and British ama-JJeurs He missed at Ambler Pa In Phoenix Frank Strana-han former British Amateur champion and veteran pro tourist failed to quality when he soared to 73-86 159 Nearly aU other name players advanced Big Mike had expected to have little trouble He tried at Memphis scene of the Memphis Open last week which he won with a 72 hole score of 270 lowest on the tour this year That was second victory in five weeks and put him sixth on the money list with more than $22000 It had been a long dry spell for Souchak since he was the halfway leader in the I960 Open and a factor in 1961 Souchak finished three strokes back of the leader in both those years But the best he could do Argentina Wins Riot Torn Olympic Soccer Tourney LIMA Argentina was declared the winner and the pre Olympic soccer tournament was suspended following the riots that left hundreds dead in the Sunday Argentina-Peru match The tourney was held to determine two teams for the Tokyo Olympics Argentina was unbeaten in five games and had 10 points Second place and the second team to go to Tokyo will be decided in a playoff between Peru and Brazil June 7th Peru and Brazil each had five points before the tourney was suspended Tickets For TV Showing Of 500 Are Available solo home run in the seventh inning and Del Crandall scored in the ninth -on a groundout after he walked and moved to third on single IAN FRANCISCO TACOMA abrfcbl abrkM 3 0 0 OGarrkto as 4 0 0 0 3 0 1 0 Lanier 2b 1 0 0 0 Cardinal cf 30 1 OBarton 2 0 0 0 Dietz rf 1 1 1 OTilton UbC 4 1 2 1 Ward 3b 3 0 11 Larfcar lb 2 0 0 OSoarks If 1b DausnoortOb 2 0 0 OEngel lff Pagan ss 2 0 0 (Garibaldi Paterson 3b 2 1 1 1 Thomas Crandall lXc 3 1 0 OaSmlth O'Dell 4(20 Perry 0 0 0 0 Tefal 24401 Tefal a-FHed out tar Thomas In Sm Frandsca (NM2WI-4 Tacoma OMOMHO-a Lanier PO-A San Francisco 27-10 Tacoma 27-10 Haltar-Pagan-Ccoada Lanlef-Garrlda-Taltan San Francisco 7 Tacoma 1 Snldsr 3B Hart Peterson SB-3 Alou Haller IP ER BB SO O'Dell (W) 01001 Pern 1 0 0 00 Garibaldi (L) 7 7 3 3 1 Thomo 2 2 1 3 Lombardi Leonard! and Nac-carate Ae-7400 South State Golfers YORBA William of Los Rancho Golf Course led Los Angeles are a players in regional qualifying yesterday for the United States Open golf championships with a two under par 142 In San Diego Edwin (Ted) Dorius of San Diego fired a 67 and 71 for a six under par 138 to become the lone qualifier in that area Dorius was tied with Nary of Bonita going into the last hole but Dorius made the par 3 and Nary bogeyed the hole letLdseven other qualifiers at theYorba Linda Country Club course They were Bud Holscher North Hollywood 69-74 143 John Powell Yorba Linda 71-76 147 amateur Ron Drimak Corona Wally Bradley Long Beach Jimmy Thompson Los Angeles Ray Han Hesperia and Ed Merrins Los Angeles 71-78 149 The Southern California qualifiers must again quality in Modesto June 8th and 9th to make it into the National Open at Washington DC June 18th to 20th PARIS UPI Karen Hantze Susman the San Antonio Tex housewife who is making a tennis comeback at the age of 21 today was the lone United States survivor in the singles of the French In temational championships Mrs Susman reached the quarter finals of the singles yesterday by downing Annette Banzyl of South Africa 6-4 7-5 while Nancy Ridley of Dallas Tex was eliminated by Helga Schultze 1-6 6-3 6-3 The US was left without a representative in the singles when Pierre Darmon veteran French Davis Cupper whipped Gene Scott of St James NY 6-2 6-2 6-0 to reach the semi finals Manuel Santana also gained the semis with an easy 6-4 6-3 6-3 victory over Ronald Barnes of Brazil Mrs Susman who retired from competitive tennis after winning the Wimbledon championship in 1962 to have a baby had little trouble with Miss Benzyl despite the dose scores Joining Mrs Susman and Miss Schultze in the quarter finals were Vera Sukova of Czechoslovakia Margaret Smith Jan Lehane and Leslie Turner all of Australia Maria Bueno and Christine Truman Ticket sale for the Municipal Auditorium closed circuit television showing of the Memorial Day 500 mile race has been brisk Harold Murrell of the sponsoring Kearney Bowl said there are a number of good seats left All seats are reserved Tickets priced at $4 $5 and $6 may be obtained at the bowl Triple Drugs the Trophy Shop and the Mid Valley Sports Center Reservations for tickets may be made by by calling Kearney Bowl Pascual who brought his record to 6-2 with a four hit 10 strikeout performance Oliva supplied the only homer a two run shot in the first inning that was actually all Pascual needed Freehan doubled home a run in the first inning and scored on a single by Don Demeter then homered in the fourth as the chased Steve Barber Barber a 20 game winner for the Orioles last year failed in his fifth attempt to post victory No Ed Rakow was the winner limiting Baltimore to two hits over the final five and one third innings The Red Sox broke a 3 to 3 tie in the sixth when Bob Tillman drove in the lead run with a double following a single by Carl Yastrzemski and an error by Don Zimmer that let Roman Mejias reach base A walk and Don error and a single by Ed Bres-soud scored the other two runs John Kennedy homered for the Senators Arrives For Workout LAS Emile Griffith world welterweight champion arrived at the Convention Center here to begin preparations for his title defense against Luis Rodriguez June 12th County League Doreen Porter Will Run In San Diego as tars Laagua I Wasters Laasua Lf Attitatlcs 1 Rcd Sox 10 Yallowlackcts 1 0 Nisei 1 0 Fircbaugh I 1 Mendafa I 1 Carutlwrs 0 1 Telco 0 1 Radio-TV Sports SAN Doreen Porter of New Zealand the top rated woman sprinter has accepted an invitation to compete in the pre Olympic track meet here June 13th Miss Porter has run 100 meters in 0:106 Northwest League yesterday was 73-74-147 There were 39 qualifying spots in Memphis but it took 145 to get one Gay Brewer tied for fourth iri the Memphis Open led the big field with 67-68-135 Among the others who qualified there were: Jerry Pittman 136 Fred Haas Ken Venturi and Bill Collins 138 Trl-CIty 201 010 520-11 19 Yakima 010 201 72X-13 17 Harris Swavo 7 William I and Bates Eastern League The Finest Bourbon since 1795 TONIGHT RmIi 5:41 Baseball San Frandsca St Lwii KMJ 7:55 Baseball Minnesota at I 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MEMORIAL DAY SAT MAY 30th FRESNO MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM r- NEW Who said baseball is a dying sport? survey of attendance fig-qres indicates big league baseball is a healthy patient particularly the National League Tin which an all time high Ilooms for the second straight Reason The senior circuit gate is up 273740 iOr 11 per cent oven last sewn The American League has a decrease of 205449 But the overall totals show an increase of 68-291 despite cold and rainy weather in the opening weeks Twelve of the 20 teams are ahead of 1963 led by the Los Angeles Dodgers who have played before 727973 at home gain tf 99543 Tlie Cleveland Indians show the largest increase in the American League 66993 Other teams on the plus side in home attendance are the Milwaukee Braves 57778 Philadelphia Phillies 57747 Chicago Cubs 32665 Detroit Tigers 22277 New York Mets 18646 Chicago White Sox 13827 San Francisco Giants 12397 Baltimore Orioles 10254 St Louis Cards 4855 and Houston Colts 3125 The Los' Angeles Angels and Minnesota Twins are most responsible for the drop in the AL gate total The Angels trail their 1963 figure by 122764 and the Twins by 79372 Others behind in attendance are the New York Yankees 50841 Boston Red Sox 47216 Kansas City 15081 Pittsburgh Pirates 10-674 Washington Senators 3526 and Cincinnati Reds 2342 The figures include games TICKETS ON SALE YtIFIS DRUGS TROPHY SHOP MID-VALUY SPORTS OK AUSIAft KEARNEY SOWL RISIRVATIONS RIIIRVIP 340-0054 OOOtSOFfNMO-MEIACf CIUM NT 40 ISCfTTSSTStSM 5 88 PROOF KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY DISTIUEO AND BOTTLED BY THE JAMES BEAM DISTILLING CO CLERMONT BEAM KENTUCKY ataLjys iTaliigta I da aifiilNii a.