Imperial Valley press., 1943-09-07
Portland Tightens
Grip On Fourth
Place In Pei
BY UNITED PRESS

kUSS ett ~.
By UNITED PRESS
Portland strengthened its hold
on fourth place in the Pacific coast
league Monday by winning dou-
BILE header from the champion Los
Angeles Angels, 80 and 20. san
Francisco dropped the opener to
Seattle Al and won the nlghtcap
IA. Hollywood won two from
Sacramento, 3-2 and Sd, and Oak
land and San Diego split their twin
bill the Oaks coming back to win
the nightcap 2-1 after losing the
opener ST..
In other series opening tomorrow,
Los Angeles meets Seattle, San
Diego meets Hollywood and Sacra-
mento meets Oakland.
Seattle had a long chance to
overtake San Francisco and land in
second spot. but the chance was de-
pendent on Portland's blanking the
Seals seven out of eight games and
Seattle's smothering the Angeles,
and no teams has even come close
to doing that this year. The only
other possible chance in team posi-
tions would be Hollwood's advanc-
ing to fourth place, but the Stars
were four and half games be-
hind Portland.
EVEN BREAK
Portland'S double win from Los
Angeles gave the Beavers an even
SIS break on the Marathon series.
In the opener, Portland broke
2-all tie in the 18th when Bill
Schuster muffed one to allow Ted
Gullic to reach first. Manager
Marvin Shea singled scoring Gullic.
In the nightcap, Marino Pieretti
pitched a one hit, shutout, allowing
only two Angels to get on first. One
of those was a walk Jodie PhippS,
one of the leagues leading pitch
ers. lost his fourth game in q
starts, when the Beavers reached
him for seven hits and two runs.
San Francisco was forced to come
from behind to get a split bill with
Seattle and its third victory in the
ll-game series. The Seals staged
a seventh inning rally in the night
cap to wipe out the Rainiers' 4-2
lead. In the opener, San Francisco
started the scoring in the second
with its only run, but Seattle, with
two singles and a triple by center
fielder Bill Lawrence, connected
with runs in the fifth, sixth and
seventh innings to win Al.
LITTLE TROUBLE
San Diego had little trouble WIN
ring its opener from Oakland, 81,
and forced the Oaks in the seven
inning nightcap. San Diego scored
its lone run in the fourth, and the
Oaks tied the score in the next
inning. In the sixth, Oakland in
creased its lead another run and
held off the Padres in the last.
Hollywood protected a 81 lead
in the second game by halting a
Sacramento sixth inning rally at
three runs to win 5-4. In the first
game. which also was close, the
Stars made a three run lead hold
up through two threatening inning
and came out on top 3-2.
FIRST GAMES
San Diego ..004 600 100 ) 9 2
Oakland DOL 900 000-1 l
johnson & Detore; Jones, Strom-
me CD & Raimondi.
Los Angeles 100 900 001 90 9 l
Portland 900 101 900 01-3 13 2
Raffensberger & Holm; Cook &
Shea.
Sacramento 900 010 010-2 10
Hollywood .002 100 00x-3 7 2
Byerly & Malone; Blanton &
Hill
San Francisco .01O 200 000--1 II 2
Seattle .--.-..--....000 OIL 20x-4 II l
Seats & Ogrodowski; Demoran &
Sueme.
SECOND GAMES
San Diego 900 100 0-1 7 0 !
Oakland 100 oil x-2 6 l |
Schanz & Salkeld; Pippen &
Leonard, Raimondi.
Sacramento DOL 903 GA 10 0l
Hollywood -23o 600 Ks 7 o.
Fitzke, Roy ID, Pillette %, Pen
ner (5), Dreisewerd 90 81 Malone;
Joiner, Escalante 80, Root Cd &
BrenZel.
Zmmsab Frabcusci 600 200 81 8 l
Seattle ....---.................l0l 002 O. 3 /
Harrell & Sprinz; Specie, Yelovic
Cd & Hoffman.
Los Angeles 900 COO 90 l 0
Portland ........... 900 110 X-2 7 o.
Phipps, Mallory 90 81 Sarni;
Pleffetti & Adams.
Wood and Demaret
Take Links Prize
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 7.-CUP)-
Craig Wood and Jimmie Demaret |
held the $1,000 first prize in the /
Golden Valley Invitational Golf |
Tournament today after putting on
a whirlwind finish to pass Byron
Nelson and Harold Jug McSpaden |
in the last 36 holes Yesterday.