Salt Lake Telegram | 1951-05-12 | Page 12 | Portland Relief Hurling Beats Oakland

Portland Relief Hurling Bea BeIs s Oakland I SAN FRANCISCO May ray 12 UP UP Roy Roy Helser a year old gent ent who spends some of his time coaching at Linfield college is the tile most hated man in Oakland today It isn't because the Oakland Oakland- Oakland Oakland-I iles ites are opposed to education They think its it's great In fact they'd prefer this guy named Helser would spend all his time in the college classrooms Helser is a time part-time Portland pitcher who makes himself avaIlable available available avail avaIl- able to the league-leading league Beavers for home games only He was vas available Friday night and that's why the Oakland fans worked themselves into their boo Helser Helser Hel Hel- ser frenzy It all happened in the tile ninth inning after Oakland had loaded the bases against Portland starter Marino larino had given up only five hits to that time lime but the necked bull-necked Italian lost his control and walked three men with none out That's when Portland manager Bill Sweeney put out the tile bullpen bullpenS S 0 O S 5 to his time part-time star Helser Helser Hel lid ser came in struck out Ray Lamanno Lamanno Lamanno La- La manno got rid of Lloyd Christopher Christopher Christopher Chris Chris- on an infield pop fly and Piper Davis grounded out The Beavers won 5 to 1 and increased their margin over sec see place ond-place Sacramento to two full games The crippled Solons helped out by l sing to San Francisco 6 to 3 San Diego bombarded Hollywood Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood 9 0 to 1 and Seattle toed tip-toed by Los Angeles 3 to 2 Sacramento which had surged to within half a game of the tile league lead lost two of its stars Friday night when hen Ken Keltner pulled a muscle The line scores a RUE RIlE H E ELos Los Ios Angeles 2 2 4 1 Seattle lOx 3 lOx 3 10 1 Hacker Harker 8 and Nay Nary and SheelY Sacramento 3 1 10 1 San Francisco 1 00 6 6 10 0 Elliott 6 and Hairston Johnson Johnson John John- son Perez 6 61 and San ln Diego Dieco 0 9 15 2 Hollywood i 1 1 5 2 Embree and Kerr Lombardi 3 Chesnes 6 and Oakland 1 1 5 0 Portland S 5 7 3 Racal and Malone lalone Helser 9 and Rossi