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Show f . PROVO (UTAH) DAILY HERALD,- FRIDAY, JUNE 7,-1940 PAGE FIVE 0 11 a: Meet ini ere MB (!(! s f .4 S5- Lefty Cole; Ralph 7 Crowton To Pitch: Loop Lead At Stake A double victory for Provo base ball club over Ogden and Brlgham City here this week end wH make the pot of gold the first half In dustrlal title iu IhU case much nearer than the end or the rain bow for the Tlmns. , ' . . ' The slugging Collins crew, which has surged upward from fifth place ' to a tie for the loop lead, meets Ogden at 4:3(1 mump parK Saturday Sat-urday and ' tangles with Brlgham - City at 2:30 here Sunday. Triumphs Tri-umphs over both teams will keep the Provo outfit tied for the lead and will probably boost them into sole possession of the driver's seat. Manager Lob Collins said Fri day that Frank (Lefty) Cole, vet : eran southpaw, would start on the ' mound for Provo against Ogden, and Ralph 1 Crowton, elongated " rlcht-handed hurlcr. would see . action against Brlgham. Provo followers are, looking for a triumph over Ogden, but the Co rs have added several new players play-ers to their roster and are expscted to be stronger than in their earlier appearances here when they drop ped a pair or contests, suffer competition is expected from the strong Brlgham teanyl mat u jubi Deginmng w mi us stride. Several veterans, mainly from the 1939 Magna team, add the experience and steadiness to make the youthful Peaches a hard team to beat. Provo'a lineup will include Don Overly at catch, Len Page at first, Lee Christiansen at second, Glen Hence ' at shortstop, and LaVar Kump at third base. In the out field, Alva Jensen, Fran Dudley, and Hoppy Gardner are slated for starting assignments. PROVO NETTERS IVIH INS. L. Don Dixon and Mary Taylor, Provo netters, blasted their ways to the Quarterfinals in men's and -.women's singles of the Salt Lake Jity tennis tourney Thursday, xne two are the only Provo players to reach the (quarterfinals to date. Merlin Slack, favored to reach the semifinals dropped a three-set decision to Lynn Rockwood, Salt - Lake star, in an upset. ' Slack downed Doug Young" in straight .sets, then lost to Rockwood, 6-3, 4-6.6-2. Bob Iluish, state singles cham pion from B. Y. high worked his way . td ; the quarterfinals of the Junior singles consolation rugni. Other Provo Players who are still in the M tourney, include Lee Knell in .the boys' singles; Grant Hickman. Osbourne Carter, and Buckley: Taylor in the Junior , singles sin-gles connotation. ' " Don Dixon was scheduled to meet Gordon Giles today at 3 p. m., arltl Mary Taylor clashes with Joan Van Nort, defending champion, at 5 p. m. Iluish, meets ICIIsworth Hales at 1 p. m Pioneer League W. L. P.C. Salt Lake . . 25 13 .658 Boise .... 22 16 .579 Ogden .... - 20 - 20 .500 Pbcatello .19 19 .500 Idaho Falls .... ... .15 23 .395 Twin Falls .... ....14 ?4 .368 , Thursday's Results: ', Pocatello 3, Twin Falls 2 . Salt Lake 6, Idaho Falls 5. Ogden 10, Boise 6 (11 innings). Sfeclmcn Topple Cannon-fislitdn' in v nccrcatidn Play .i H .) ; - REtKEATION STANDINGS iv J" m ; vf. l. ivt; Cannon-Aihton ...... 4 Mprlngvllle ...... .i . . 3 Onoar Carlson's ...... 3 Columbia Steel . . . ... Pacific Super Heaters 2 General Shop' ........ 1 1 2 2 3 S 4 .800 .600 .600 .400 .'400 .200 1 ! " ThurndayV Results Columbia Steel 8, Cannon-Ash' ton 6. . ' O.srair'CarlMon'M 4, Super Heat ers 1. . V Kpiingvllle" 8, ' General Shop ' 7 , . . y, , ' , . Tonight's Schedule ' 6:30 Reclamation vs Junior chamber, ' 7:30 First Ward Elders vs. Pro- : vo River camp. 8:30 Columbia Steel vs. 20-30 club. , Columbia Steel won its second game in five starts and handed the high-riding . Cannon-Ashton crew its first defeat,' 8-5, in ' the same number of games Thursday in Recreation league Softball. In other , games, Springville came from behind to tip General Shop, , 8-7, and ' Oscar Carlson's tipped Super Heater, 4-1. Despite the defeat, Cannon-ASh- ton still holds its position atop the Recreation standings. The bteel-men bteel-men demonstrated the defending champs are beatable, however, and Cannon-Ashton's lead is not as secure: as it was before the game. , -.y:.- In Commercial league games tonight. Provo river camp, lead ing the league at present, meets a stiff foe in First ward Elders. First has improved rapidly and is expected to give the CCC camp a race for the" first half title. ? Columbia Steel meets 20-30 club, and Reclamation Engineers seek victory over Junior chamber' In other games tonight. Dewey Jamesons five-hit pitch ing 'performance and, the weakening weaken-ing of the CannoTwAshton infield gave Columbia Steel its upset tri umph. The Steelmen took advant age of two errors and two hits to score four runs in . the first inv ning. . :., , ., i. Springville scored three runs in the Sixth frame to tie the score, and then" scored a run on Jensen's double, an error, and a walk to win the' game in the seventh Gene Nelson allowed super Heaters only one hit1' in pitching Carlson's to its triumph. Nelson struck but 11 men. Snead Smashes Par Opening the Open if- a ' -::H -r-.f f .vrrr. ,"'1 sum 7 V K a , - .'' i (NBA TeUpholo) Getting off to a spectacular start, Slammin Sam Snead took the leadership leader-ship In the National Open at Cleveland O., by shooting 67, or five under par, lor the course In the initial round. Sam's shown beside the score - - - board. ' ,.!, ;. Natibnal Open Field To Be Reduced To 60: Snead Sets Fast Pace 'J. Grove. Foxx Keep lied Sox Atop in national League Buddy Baer Kayos Campolo In First Pete A slit on says: 2 "For the Best Buys in 1 Used Cars and Trucks, See Us. Easy terms and liberal trades,, You - always get more for your money at . . . y Cannon - Ash ton, Inc. 101 South University - Thona lSS NEW YORK, June 7 aJ.E Pat Comiskey and Buddy Baer, hard hitting heavyweight hopefuls who scored important victories last night at Madison Square Garden, will smash away at each other in mid-August to determine which shall continue on the title trail. ; That's what Promoter Mike Jacobs : announced after Baer, young California giant, ' knocked out Valentin Campolo, Argentine Iron Man" in the first round and Comiskey of Pjaterson, N. J., won return eight-round decision over crafty Steve Dudas. Dudas, a vetr eran bob-and-weaver,. had outpoint ed Comiskey in December. ; Diese victories were registered before a small crowd of. 4,012 fans who contributed a meagre $9,978 gate. , .' ' Straight Right Buddy Btex, younger but bigger brother of the ex-champion Maxle, displayed a thundering right as he floored the, huge Argentine "three times before Campolo was counted out at 1:53 for the first : time in more than a decade of scrapping. It .was Buddy's eighth knockout iit nine straight: victories. Though Buddy packed 248 pounds on a 6 ft. 6 In. frame, he was -only three inches taller and 21 pounds heavier than Campolo. They were slat:d for 12 rounds. Comiskey's decision triumph over Dudas though less spectacular spectac-ular waa more significant.; The Fishermen tfr Enter1 v f Fishing Contest ! 6 Shopping Days 'TILL FISHING! f Purchase License - and Tackle at GESSFORD'S ; TO WIN A PRIZE 1 ' 47 North University Avenue : BY GEORGE KIRKSEY NEW YORK, June 7 UJ 01' Mose ain't dead, either.- After being be-ing written out of the picture as completely washed up, the . 40- year old Robert Mose Grove today was not only alive and kicking but (was being hailed as the savior of the Red Sox In their darkest hour of the season. After dropping three straight to second division clubs for. their longest losing streak of the year. the Red Sox snapped out of it yesterday yes-terday behind Grove's 6-hit pitching pitch-ing to sneak through to a ninth inning, . 3-1 triumph over the Browns. ' " ' I Grove proved his mettle by going go-ing all the way to the ninth before be-fore his mates produced a run for him. , Again it . was Jimmy Foxx who blasted the Red Sox triumph. He hit his 14th homer with two mates on base to pull the game out of the' fire. ; Cleveland clung to the lieels of the Red Sox by grinding out a 5-4 victory over Washington in 11 innings. in-nings. Lou Boudreau's single on the heels of Frankte Pytlak's triple won the game.- . Scoring three . runs' in the eight, , the Athletics . won the odd game 5f the series fromithe Tig- era, 7-4. Chubby1 Dean . was fcreu-tted fcreu-tted With his tifth" victory -after relieving Buck Ross in the eighth The White Sox handed the Yanks a 4-3 setback behind John Rigney's fine, pitching. Rigney went out for a ninth inning pinch-hitter pinch-hitter Sylvestri, who started the winning rally- with a single, The Cubs slammed out a 11-5 victory over the Phils and crawl ed back to the '.500 mark. Bill Nicholson hit two homers. Pittsburgh now has a compan ion in the National league cellar. The Pirates put a 6-run rally in the -' third inning ; which ' enabled them to wipe out a 5-1 deficit and beat the bees, 7-6, thereby bring ing the 7th place' tie' between the two of them. Brooklyn's Dodgers -' advanced to within. a gam& of the idle .first- place Reds with their fifth straight victory; 9-5 over the . SL Louis Cardinals. .'" "i'r'"i '. ' i i ' -i T' National League Cincinnati . Brooklyn. . . New York . Chicago PhUadelphia St Louis Boston Pittsburgh , W. - 29 .26 22 ..22 14 ...:..14 ...12 ...12 Thursday's Results: Brooklyn 9, St. Louis 5. Pittsburgh 7, Boston 6. Chicago 11, Philadelphia 5. (Only games scheduled). L. P.C. 12 . .707 11 .703 .611 .500 .389 .368 .343 .343 14 22 22 24 23 23 19-year-old Irishman showed vast improvement since his last Garden appearance against-Dudas in December. De-cember. He. .displayed! a fast, smashing left jab; also surprising speed afoot and ring pose. This left jab was so explosive it floored. Steve for the count of nine in the first ""(round and ' gashed his left brow In the second. E. G. COLE,D.V..M. : VETERINARIAN Phone 1740 - 641 E. 8th No. Provo, Utah By ILVRRY FERGUSON CLEVELAND, June, 7 (ILEH-Thls Is the day f the axe fails In the National Golf championship, chopping chop-ping all 1 except - CO players from the list of 169 who started out yesterday full of hope they might win the most important tournament tourna-ment in the world. ' .v This is the day wften" the field sets out. in pursuit of Sam Snead, the long, true, hitter from the bills of West -Virginia, who shot de vastating . golf in the opening round and left broken records in his wake. Snead, putting with a magic touch and smashing , 'em out terrific distances off the tee, came -in with a 67. That score set. a record for the opening round of the National open and also set a course record for the Canterbury Country club- where , the -1940 tourament being played. . - The field goeS out again this morning ' artd tonight everybody will be eliminated except the 60 men with the best scores. ; " . Then those 60 will shoot 36 holes tomorrow And out of that field will come the new open champion. 54 Hole Left !' -1 " Snead flashed a dazzling game yesterday ; in nicking the five strokes off par, but there are '54 weary holes yet to go and anap- ping on his heels are some tough customers who never say die until the last putt is down. Right be hind him at C9, for instance, are 1 lor ton Smith, and Ed Oliver. . Standing at 70 Is little - Ben Hogan, Suffering from a cold but still belting the ball a mile off the tee, and with him are Vic Ghezzi and Al HUske. . - ' : ' The 71 shooters are Leland Gib son, Robert Babbish, Henry J. Kaiser, Andrew Gibson; and Gene Sarazen. -" At'72 are Sammy ' Byrd, Byron Nelson, present open champion, Lawson Little, Matt Kowal and Leonard Dodson. Three prominent "golf era took it Qn the chin yesterday. John Mon tague, the one-time mystery man from California,, had a bad 80. Johnny Goodman, former amateur and opn champion, ' needed 82 strokes to get around the. course and has almost no chance of surviving sur-viving tonight's cut. Jimmy Thomson Thom-son had a pair of 40s for an 80 and also seems to be out of it. Coast League e w. Oakland 40 29 Seattle 36 27. San Diego 86 40 Hollywood : ... ..... 34 -32 Sacramento ... .. .. . 34 35 San Francisco . . .... 31 35 - Los Angeles .........30 35' Portland, . . . ... .. . ; 24 39 v . Tbursday's Results , Oakland 3, Seattle 2- " ; ' Hollywood .6, Portland 0. San Diego 13, San Francisco 4. Sacramento 7, Los Angeles 4. (American Leairuel Pet. .580 .571 .545 .515 .493 .470 .462 .381 - V "W. Boston .... ........25 Cleveland .... . . V . . . 27 Detroit .... Chicago Washington New York Philadelphia St. Louis .. 23 ......20 ..... 19 i 22 .....17 ..16 H 14 17 18 24 26 20 24 26 P.C. .641 .614 .561 '.455 .422 .524 .915 ,381 Thursday's Results: Boston 3, St. Louis 1. 1. Chicago 4, New York 3. Philadelphia 7, Detroit 4. ' ' I Cleveland 5, Washington 4 (11 innings). - . ... ;. Salmon, reared artifically. and then liberated in " the ocean, will fight their way to the same spawning grounds their parents used, and will follow the same ' "'.v. .... . ' . 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