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Show Coast Leaguers Commence Scramble for Prize Money; Loop Triple Mark Broken By United Press With Seattle already in possession of the gold and glory that goes to the Pacific Coast league pennant winner, the Shaughnessy play-offs begin today with another week, more or less, of scrambling for an extra $10,000. Seattle is host to Los Angeles, third-place club, In a best four-of- seven-game series, while San Francisco Fran-cisco entertains Sacramento. The Seals wound up In second place and Sacramento In fourth. Leading Hurler The Angels planned to open their series with Julio Bonettl, the league's leading pitcher, against Hal Turpin, Seattle's act San Francisco promised the old reliable re-liable Sam Gibson against Tony Freitas, the Sacramento hurler who has beaten the Seals so often It's pathetic. Los Angeles and Seattle each took 14 games from the other during dur-ing the regular season, but Sacramento Sacra-mento nailed the Seals in 16 out of 25 games. On the other hand, the Seals will have their full squad I available for the first time since spring, with the lone exception of First Baseman Harley Boss. They also were cheered by the hitting of Harvey Storey, who was hitting at a ,536 clip in the last week. Ted Jennings also was clouting at a .412 pace and more than made up for the loss of Jackie Warner. Batting Ldvurela The batting crown for the season sea-son went to Dom Dallessandro of San Diego, recently bought by the Chicago Cubs, with a mark of .368. Dom DiMaggio of San Francisco followed him at a .360 pace, with Gene Detore of San Diego five points behind. Storey climbed rapidly rap-idly in the closing week to .351 and fourth place, followed by, Haslin of San Diego at .345 and Emil Coleman of Portland at .344. Bonettl won 20 and lost five games for Los Angeles this year, with the veteran Ira Smith of Sacramento trailing him with 12 wins and four defeats. Aldon Wilkle of San Francisco won three and lost one; Orv Jorgens of the 1 Seals had 13 wins and five defeats; Sam Gibson of San Francisco had 22 wins and nine defeats, and Les Webber of Seattle 17 wins against seven losses. Triple Record Brooks Holder of San Francisco broke a 16-year-old record by clouting 24 triples during the season: sea-son: Alan Strange of Seattle hit 54 doubles; Charlie English of Los Angeles was credited with 32 sacrifice sac-rifice hits; Jo Jo White of Seattle stole 47 bases, and Jimmy Collins of Los Angeles poled 26 home runs and batted in 128 runs, according to averages compiled by Bill Mc-Gee Mc-Gee of San Francisco. |