Show Joe Brovia Leads S Back Into nIo First in By t fraul aul Cane SAN FRANCISCO May 18 UP Joe Joe Brovia is a sleepy sort of guy guyS He lives at Davenport Cal and spends his off season time fishing collecting stamps and playing the harmonica But when someone shoves a abat abat abat bat in Brov Brovia's as a's brawny hands h he becomes a demon the demon the Davenport Demon Joe as all ballplayers loves his base hits He ignores his piscatorial pursuits philatelic folly buy and musical meanderings once he steps up to the baseball dish Brovia pushed them out of oC his mind Thursday night at Sacramento Sacramento Sacramento Sacra Sacra- mento when he clubbed out out four four hits and batted Portland back into a tie tic for the Pacific Coast league lead One of the big left left- banders bander's blows nothing less than thana a slam grand homer sparked the Beavers to their 13 to 10 victory over the Solons Trails 5 10 Portland trailed 10 to 5 until Sleepy Joe woke up the tile Sacramento fans The Beavers tacked on an additional r run in that wild eighth frame and then added three unearned tallies in inthe inthe the top of the ninth off rookie right right-hander Walter alter Clough Sacramento gained a 2 1 edge edgeIn In the short series Elsewhere Los Angeles vault vaulted d into third place with a wild ild 11 to 9 decision over San Francisco San Diego scored the winning run in the ninth to defeat Seattle 5 to 4 and Oakland skipped by Hollywood 6 to 2 The Padres Padres' final frame tally broke a I 1 losing 0 S sin I I g streak of five str straight ight games Whitey Wietel- Wietel man scurried home with the decider decider decider de de- de- de cider when Seattle shortstop Jackie Albright committed an embarrassing error The Pads took a nearly 4 to 0 lead but pitcher Sorrowful Sam Jones had hadI two mild lapses to Permit Seattle I to knot the score Then Tilen came Albright I Easy Win in Oaklands Oakland's win was comparatively comparative ly easy thanks to fine pitching by Jay Ragni a reformed out out- fielder Hollywood got the left left-I left left- hander for its two runs in the ninth a after te Ragni tired Earl Rapp and Augie Galan stroked out homers for the tile Oaks Los Angeles slugged the tile Seals for five scores in in the maiden inning inning in in- inning ning and never let up Two most pitchers figured in the statistics of the game The winner winner win win- ner ncr Freddie Baczewski posted his seventh triumph better than anyone else in the loop The Theother Theother Theother other guy chesty Chet diet Johnson who ho won 22 tilts for the tile miserable Seals last year receipted for his ninth lacing of the tile 1951 campaign Johnson already was called the pitcher in the circuit He just cemented that honor in inthe inthe inthe the Angels' Angels favor The line scores Portland 13 1 13 13 3 Sacramento b 10 10 13 2 Creel Dibiasi 1 Ward 5 Fleming 7 Lynn Lamn 8 EI and Rossi Iossi Elliott Powell 7 Klicman Klieman 8 Grubb 9 91 Clough 9 19 and Hairston Sa San Francisco 02 9 6 1 Los Angeles 11 11 ii 0 Johnson Perez 3 Behrman 6 Dickey I 7 Soriano 8 and Baczewski Dobernic 7 and I Seattle 4 4 4 1 San Diego 5 5 6 3 Martin 7 17 Clark 9 and Sheeley Jones and md Hollywood 2 2 7 2 2 Oakland Ux-G Ux 6 0 P I 2 I and Dapper Ragni and Pad Pad- gett I i I I. I |