Show Hidden Rabbits Homers Keep RaceAl Race At Al Hot Hol P Pace ce ceBy By Hal Wood SAN FRANCISCO April 20 UP Rabbits believed belie In some sections to o be nearing extinction like the dodo bird have been discovered hiding tiding In Pacific Coast Coa t league base- base getting balls jails getting free rides over the outfield fences With three weeks of the young 1948 campaign already past history exactly home runs have been hit lit And It 11 that record keeps up the he P PC C L sluggers will pound out circuit clouts in the 26 weeks of oC the race The way big f fellows like Jack Graham of San Diego and Fenton Mole of Portland are parking the called so-called stitched apricot beyond the he outfielders leads some of the veteran baseball ball observers to the belief elief that the ball is livelier than thant at t any t time me in history Be that as it may the fans apparently apparently ap- ap love it Given per near feet baseball weather on Sunday for or th the first time this year more than han flooded d into the P peL CL parks larks It may be that the home run record ecord is the result of poor pitch pitch- Ing ng But the tl hurlers never will believe belleve that I 1 just cant can't think the pitching is s that poor says Frank Dasso Sacramento Solon m mound o 0 u n d dace ace That ball just takes off like a golf ball all this season One thing other t than h a n the homers lomers that may have something to o do with the phenomenal attendance attendance attend- attend ance nce this is the caliber of play lay From top to bo bottom tom the teams teams' earns are loaded with talented youngsters on the way up to the majors and veterans on the way down all own all good ball players with a alot alot lot ot of color In Monday nights night's lone game the Hollywood Stars defeated Portland 3 1 1 smothering a Beaver bid for second place in the league The game ame was tied 1 from the fourth until the ninth when the Stars rove two across The fans get to look at new faces this lis week as the shift in competition tion on sends Hollywood to Seattle Oakland to Portland Sacramento to o San Francisco and San Diego to tos Los s An Angeles eles The Seals and Angels who finIshed finIshed fin- fin shed the regular 1947 season in a deadlock again are running 2 1 In Inthis inthis this his race race but but only five games separates sep sep- rates the top from Crom the bottom so sot it t still looks like a wide-open wide af- af fair air The Hollywood Od 3 1 10 0 gg 1 1 7 g 2 Kennedy Kennedy And GUdd Gladd Kowol- Kowol ski kl and |