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Hurls OilersHarv Tomter slammpd athroe-run homer and gave up only three hits as he pitched and batted the Kau Claire Dilers to a 6-1 win over D o nJordan and the Ridgeland Reds at Carson Park Sundayafternoon.Over 400 fans turned out for the game, one of Eau Claire's top semi-pro attractions of recent years, and saw the local team take a big lead in the lot Dunn County League pennant race.THE OILERS now have a7-1 league record to the 3 - 2 mark of Ridgeland, whic h tield second place before Sun-lay’s game. In all games this season, the Oilers have an 11-1 record.Sunday’s feature game brought together t h e strong Dilers against the heralded Jordan, one of the city's favorite baseball sons during recent years when he was a dar h u r I p r with the Eau Zlaire Braves.Tomter, a pro vet of two vears with the New York Gi-ints system, and Jordan looked up in a 11 mound luel going into the fifth, when he Oilers exploded for five runs to break the game wide ipen and make T o m t e r's iownhill ride easv.TOMTER whiffed sevenind walked three, while Jor-lan struck out 12 and dished ut five free passes and a hit rntsman.Jordan walked the first Eau Claire run across in tlv second. Don Amundson walked, Larry Buchbergersingled, and with two out, Jordan walked Chuck Gil-Christ and Dick Olson, forcing in the run.OLSON OPENED the O i 1ers’ fifth with a single and went to second as PearlyvJohnson's attempted s a c r i-fice was muffed. Amundsonwalked to fill the sacks a n d| with two down and Buchberg* or dropped a single into short left scoring two runs. T o m -ter followed with his towering belt over the right field screento make the score 6*1.Little Terry McIntyre g otwo of the hits off TomteiBuchberger was the only Oil er to get more than one hit garnering two of the six otJordan.The Oilers have two r o a games on tap for July 4th, a afternoon affair at Lake Cit\ Minn., and a night game aEllsworth with River Falbthe unbeaten leaders of t h Pieree-Pepin League, furnish ing the opposition. The nex home game will he Sunda; against the pennant contend ing Wheeler Vikings.Eau Claire (6)- Ridgeland (0All-StarPoll ResultsNEW YORK (AP) — Fol-j lowing is the result of the All-Star poll conducted by the baseball commissioner's office. Listed are the winners and runner-up for each posi-tion.adrhabrJohnson 3b311Schmidtcf40Lahner ss200R. Glaser 3b40Buck it cf400E. Glaser■ lb40Amundson c11tSteffens2b40Bchbrger If422JordanP11Tomier p411Jorstadc40Stolp lb400% gglestnif30Gilchrist 2b300R.M'Inyrif10Olson rf311Knutsonss20T.M'ltyrrf40Totals28661—1-Totals311ridgeland010000000-EAU CLAIRE... 010050OOx -AMERICAN LEAGUEFirst base Vic Wertz, Cleveland 124,-1 295; Bill Skowron, New York, 89,429.Second base: Nelson Fox, Chicago, 247,330; Billy Martin, Kansas City, 17,-316.Third base: George Kell, Baltimore,83,503; Gil McDouqald, New York, 77,-488.Shortstop- Harvey Kuenn, Detroit, 179.636;. Joe Demaestrl, Kansas City,! 51,109.E- Johnson, Lahner, E. Glaser. RBI Buchberger 2, Tomter 3, Olson, Knutso HR Tomter. Sac Lahner, Johrso Knutson. SB- Buchberger, Amundsoi DP Steffens to E. Glaser. LOB E* Claire 6, Ridgeland 7. SO -Tomter Jordan 12. BB Tomter 3, Jordan HBP-Jordan 1. R-ER — Tomter 1*0, Jo dan 6-1. WP Tomter. Winner Tomb (2-0). Loser—Jordan (3-2). Umpires * Sosnouskj and Neuman. Time 1:40. At 427.f,„ _ _Left Field: Ted Williams, Boston, 255,-Oni\ four men rea( tied base 969; Roy Sievers, Washington, 23,396. iff the Oiler righthander after! Center Field; Mickey Mantle, New Ridgeland scored their only 253,010; jim Piersaii, Boston, 42,*‘un, unearned, in the second.243.Right Field: Al Kaline, Detroit, 157,fordan, who had walked to1780; Jackie Jensen, Boston, 48.313.pen the inning, scored t h e *un on Knutson’s single, with oth the Oilers’ errors com-ng in between.Catcher- Yogi Berra, New York, 184,-121; Sherman Lollar, Chicago, 64,549.NATIONAL LEAGUEFirst Base: Stan Musial, St. Louis,363,792; George Crowe, Cincinnati, 272,-655.Second Base: Johnny Temple, Cincinnati, 667,154; Red Schoendienst, Milwau-Today“GROWN-UPS!
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Eau Claire Daily Telegram
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, US
Mon, Jul 01, 1957
Page 15
Full Page
Clipped by
Lon C.
NA, 24 Feb 2019
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