End of Series 3

The standings

                          W      L    Pct.     GB
Flashes               7       2     .667    --
Rams                  5       5     .500    2.5
Black Caps         4       4     .500    2.5
Quakers              4       5     .444   3
Orators               4       6     .400    3.5
Orioles                4       6     .400    3.5


Series Four
Flashes at Black Caps (3)
Orioles at Quakers (3)
Rams at Orators (3)

Series 3: Orators, Quakers split four games

Orators 4-6. Quakers 4-5

Game One: Quakers 2, Orators 1
WP: Faber (1-1)
LP: D Davis (0-1)
HR: Greenberg (2)

Game Two: Orators 12, Quakers 8
WP: Pruett (1-0)
LP: Blake (0-1)
HR: Cuyler (3), Perez (1)

Game Three: Orators 5, Quakers 4
WP: Sutton (1-2)
LP: Wheeler (0-2)
Save: Danforth (2)
HR: O'Rouke (1)

Game Four: Quakers 12, Orators 6
WP: Keen (1-0)
LP: Jenkins (1-2)
HR: Perez (2), Brouthers (2)

Red Faber threw a five-hitter for Guilford in the opener to outduel Dixie Davis. Hank Greenberg homered in the first inning for the Quakers, who got their other run on a triple by Joe Tinker, which scored Rick Ferrell.

Game Two rode a see-saw. Ortonville scored five runs in the second inning off Vic Keen, highlighted by Richie Ashburn's two-run double. It was 6-3 Orators going into the bottom of the seventh, when the Quakers scored five runs, the final three on Tony Perez' first homer of the season. That gave Guilford an 8-6 lead. Kiki Cuyler got one back with a homer in the top of the eighth, and the Orators scored five runs off Sheriff Blake in the ninth on five singles and two walks.

Don Sutton gave the Orators seven innings of two-run ball for his first victory. Jim O'Roarke hit a two run homer off Wheeler in the seventh, and Dave Danforth worked through the long-ball happy middle of the Quakers order in the ninth for the save.

Neither starter in the finale pitched well. Ted Lyons gave up six runs in two innings for the Quakers, but Fergie Jenkins was tagged for 12 runs in three innings. Keen threw seven scoreless innings in relief of Lyons for the win; he allowed just one hit. Elam Vangilder tossed five shutout innings for the Orators. Dan Brouthers hit a grand slam for Ortonville and also had a double and scored twice. Perez had six RBIs for the Quakers, and Tinker contributed three doubles. Max Carey, Johnny Evers, Larry Doby and Perez each scored twice for Gulford.

Pitcher availability: Vangilder has been demoted and George Lyons called up. Keen cannot pitch for five games.

Projected rotations: For the Quakers, Faber-Kaufmann-Jacobs-Lyons-Faber-Aldridge. For the Orators, Shocker-Davis-Sutton-Jenkins-Wingard-Shocker.

Series 3: Flashes sweep Rams

Flashes 7-2, Rams 5-5

Game One: Flashes 8, Rams 2
WP: McQuillan (1-0)
LP: Whitehill (1-1)
HR: Bottomley (1)

Game Two: Flashes 7, Rams 6
WP: Barnes (2-0)
LP: G Perry (1-2)
Save: Ryan (1)
HR: Medwick (1), Gowdy (2), Kelly (1)

Game Three: Flashes 8, Rams 1
WP: Grimes (2-1)
LP: Ruffing (1-2)
HR: Bottomley (2), Snyder (2), Hafey (1), Kelly (2)


Fordham pounded Raymond's pitching staff for eight homers and 23 runs in the three-game series.

Hugh McQuillan went eight innings in the opener, scattering eight hits. Earl Whitehill was in and out of trouble in five innings, during which he allowed two runs on seven hits, three walks and a hit batter. Once he left for a pinch hitter, however, the Flashes erupted for five runs in the sixth, including a three-run homer by Jim Bottomley.

The second game was the closest of the three, The Flashes got three solo homers in the first four inning off Gaylord Perry, including a pair of back-to-back shots by Highpockets Kelly and Hank Gowdy in the fourth. Joe Sewell put the Rams in front 5-3 with a three-run double in the bottom f the fourth, but the Flashes retaliated for three runs in the sixth, with Fred Lindstrom capping the inning with a triple. Jack Bentley and Rosy Ryan combined for four innings of one-run relief. Sewell had four RBIs for the game.

The third game was another Fordham rout. Bottomley and Chick Hafey hit back-to-back homers off Red Ruffing in the first inning, and Kelly hit a two-run homer in the eighth. Raymond didn't score off Burleigh Grimes until the ninth; the spitballer went the distance, allowing seven hits and one walk. Bottomley scored three runs and Kelly drove in three for the winners.

Pitcher availability: The Rams' Syl Johnson pitched three innings in the final two games and should sit the next one out. The Flashes' bullpen is rested.

Projected starters -- Rams: Rip Collins-Ken Holloway-Perry-Ruffing-Whitehill. Flashes -- Jesse Haines-Art Nehf-McQuillan-Grimes-Haines.

Series 3: Orioles take two of three from Black Caps

Orioles 4-6, Black Caps 4-4


Game One: Orioles 1, Black Caps 0
WP: Palmer (1-1)
LP: Mathis (0-1)

Game Two: Orioles 4, Black Caps 2
WP: Richert (2-0)
LP: H Smith (0-1)
Save: D Hall (1)

Game Three: Black Caps 4, Orioles 3
WP: Drake (2-0)
LP: Leonhard (0-1)
Save: Cooper (1)
HR: Palm (1), Powell  (1)

Jim Palmer threw a four-hit shutout for the visiting Orioles in the opener, retiring the final 10 batters he faced and seeing just three hitters over the minimum. Baltimore scored its run in the first inning; Don Buford led off with a single. One out later, Frank Robinson walked and Boog Powell loaded the bases with another single. Brooks Robinson plated Buford with a fly ball, and that was all the scoring for the game. Verdell Mathis allowed seven hits and one walk in the hard-luck loss.

Tom Phoebus was doing Palmer some better through the first four innings of the second game, holding Lincoln Park hitless until Dave Malarcher singled in the fifth. With the game scoreless entering the sixth, the Black Caps broke through when Buck O'Neil tripled home Bonnie Serrell. In the seventh, pinch-hitter Charles Blackwell singled home Oliver Marcelle to make it 2-0. But reliever Hilton Smith got little help from his defense in the top of the eighth; two runs scored on an error by center fielder Jerry Benjamin, and Powell brought home another pair with a base hit.

Lincoln Park salvaged the finale, with Spoony Palm driving in two runs, one with a homer, the other with a go-ahead base hit in the eighth. Bill Drake had carried a 3-1 lead into the top of the eighth for the Black Caps, but Powell's two-run, two-out homer tied it. Andy Cooper pitched around a pinch-hit triple by Curt Motton in the ninth for his first save.

Pitcher eligibility: The Black Caps should ideally give Mathis two games off, Streeter three, Drake four. Leonhard went two innings for Baltimore; if he pitches in the first game, give him a day off for each inning.

Projected rotations: Black Caps: Bill Holland-Rube Currie-??? (Williams, Mathis, McDonald, Cockrell). Oroiles: Mike Cuellar-Dave McNally-Phoebus-Palmer-Cuellar. Jim Hardin is to be skipped this time through the rotation.

End of Series 3

The standings:

Division A
Teddys 5 3 .625 ---
Ikes 4 3 .571 .5
Franklins 4 4 .429 1
Obamas 3 4 .429 1.5
Kennedys 3 5 .429 2

Division B
Homestead 6 2 .750 ---
Crawfords 5 2 .714 .5
Hilldale 3 4 .429 2.5
Garfields 3 5 .375 3
X-Giants 2 6 .333 4

Series 4:
Ikes at Garfields(2)
Kennedys at X-Giants(2)
Obamas at Hilldale(2)
Teddys at Homestead(2)
Franklins at Crawfords (2)

Player of the series: Babe Ruth, Franklins
Pitcher of the series: Smokey Joe Williams, Hilldale

Series 3: Ikes, Hilldale split

Ikes 4-3, Hilldale 3-4

Pitcher update: Roberts, Winters need three games, SJ Williams and Wynn one game. Hensley and Bunning each pitched two innings in finale, Dismukes one.

Game 1: Hilldale 4, Ikes 2
WP: SJ Williams (1-1)
LP: Wynn (0-1)
HR: T. Williams (1), Leonard (1), Wells (2)
Game 2: Ikes 7, Hilldale 4, 10 innings
WP: Bunning (2-0)
LP: Dismukes (1-1)
HR: Mathews (2), Campanella (1)

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For six batters, Smokey Joe Williams was ineffective.

For the next 27, he was superb.

The Hilldale righty fave up two run in the first inning on a homer by Ted Williams, but fired a complete-game win, fanning 10 Ikes and allowing just four hits.

Buck Leonard hit a three-run shot off Early Wynn in the third — a rally started with two outs when Duke Snider dropped Cristobal Torriente's fly ball in right field.

In the finale, the Ikes opened a three-run lead on Nip Winters only to see that vanish in the seventh, when Hilldale put together a three-run rally against Robin Roberts for a 4-3 lead.

But Eggie Hensley gave up a tying homer to Eddie Mathews in the eighth, and in the 10th the Ikes racked Dizzy Dismukes for a double, triple and homer (by Roy Campanella) in succession to make a winner of Jim Bunning, who had two hitless innings of relief.

Series 3: Teddys take two of three from Kennedys

Teddys 5-3, Kennedys 3-5

Pitcher use: Marichal, TF Brown, Niekro need three games; Waddell, Gibson need two; Mathewson, Carlton need one. Koufax worked one inning in the final game.

Game 1: Teddys 9, Kennedys 8

WP: Joss (1-0)

LP: Carlton (0-1)

Save: Bender (2)

HR: Lajoie 2 (2), Speaker (1), Aaron (3), McCovey (2)

Game 2: Kennedys 5, Teddys 2

WP: Gibson (2-0)

LP: Waddell

HR: Aaron 2 (5)

Game 3: Teddys 11, Kennedys 1

WP: TF Brown (2-0)

LP: Marichal (0-2)

HR: None

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The Teddys bashed their first home runs of the season in the first game, but that was hardly the limit of the power the deadballers displayed against the Kennedys.

The Teddys had 12 doubles and three triples — 18 extra base hits in all — for the series. They had 18 hits in the first game, 11 in the second and 15 in the finale. Only the ability of Bob Gibson to get outs with men on base in game two held the Teddys at bay.

And that was with Ty Cobb going 0-for-6, 1-for-5 and 2-for-5 — a 3 for 16 performance only slightly redeemed with a pair of singles in his final two at-bats in a blowout.

Nap Lajoie went 4-for-5 in the opener, with two doubles and two homers. The second homer was part of a three-run ninth inning against Steve Carlton and Sandy Koufax in which the Teddys hit for the cycle and turned a 8-6 deficit into a 9-8 victory.

Tris Speaker had a pair of two-baggers to go with his homer, and Sam Crawford hammered two doubles and a triple.

In the second game, Gibson bent but did not break. Hank Aaron hit a pair of homers, and a revamped lineup — Pete Rose and Luis Aparicio got their first starts of the season — did enough damage against Rube Waddell. The Teddys southpaw did fan eight in seven innings of work.

But the Kennedys reverted to their standard lineup in the finale and were never really in the contest. Three-Finger Brown allowed just two hits, and Juan Marichal gave up four runs in the third and two more in the fourth, when he was pulled. Phil Niekro knuckleballed his way through 4.6 innings of one-run ball before exiting for a pinch hitter — and Koufax promptly surrendered another four runs in his inning of mop-up work.

Series 3: Franklins sweep Obamas

Franklins 4-4, Obamas 3-4

Pitcher use updates: Hubbell, Johnson need one game; Ryan, Feller need two games; Nichols, Vance need three games. Dean threw one inning in final game, Chesbro two.

Game 1: Franklins 5, Obamas 4
WP: Covaleski (1-0)
LP: Gomez (0-1)
HR: Ruth 2 (3), Gehrig 2 (2), Lombardi (2), Mantle (3)
Game 2: Franklins 6, Obamas 4
WP: Feller (1-0)
LP: Walsh (0-1)
HR: Ruth (4), Gehrig(3), Foxx (1)
Game 3: Franklins 6, Obamas 3
WP: Vance (1-1)
LP: Nichols (1-1)
Save: Dean (2)
HR: Ruth (5), Schmidt (3)

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One-sided in results, but close on the field.

Obamas starter Walter Johnson, in his first outing since he opened the season by no-hitting the X-Giants, allowed just five hits in the opener. Three of them were solo homers — by by Lou Gehrig, one by Babe Ruth — and the other two resulted in a fourth run.

The Obamas hit two dingers of their own off Carl Hubbell in a four-run fourth. In the top of the ninth, the Obamas pinch-hit for Johnson with the go-ahead run in scoring position, but Stan Covaleski choked off the budding rally — and Ruth led off the bottom of the ninth with his second homer of the game, this one off Lefty Gomez.

The Obamas led the second game 4-3 going into the bottom of the eighth, but Ruth led off that frame with a home run off Ed Walsh, and the Franklins tacked on two more runs. Bob Feller went the distance in a fastball duel with Nolan Ryan — Feller fanned 10 and walked seven. Seven of the strikeouts came in the final three innings.

The third game went to the Franklins also, but not without a ninth inning scare. Dazzy Vance allowed the first three men to reach, which brought on Dizzy Dean. Dean popped up pinch-hitter Jackie Robinson, then got a double play grounder from Billy Hamilton.

Perhaps the highlight of the series for the Obamas was Charlie Gehringer pulling the hidden ball trick on Joe DiMaggio after the Clipper's seventh-inning leadoff double. Ruth hit his fourth home of the series in the first inning off Kid Nichols.

Series 3: Homestead sweeps Garfields

Homestead 6-2, Garfields 3-5

Pitcher status: Welch and D. Brown need one game each, Galvin and R. Brown two games, Keefe and Manning three games. Wickware and Matlock each pitched less than an inning in the final game.

Game 1: Homestead 3, Garfields 2, 11 innings.

WP: Salmon 1-0

LP: Clackson 0-1

HR: O.H. Johnson (2)

Game 2: Homestead 4, Garfields 3

WP: R. Brown (2-0)

LP: Galvin (1-1)

HR: Scales (2), C. Smith (2)

Game 3: Homestead 7, Garfields 6

WP: Manning (1-1)

LP: Keefe (1-1)

Save: Matlock (1)

HR: Scales (3), McNair (1), W. Brown (2)

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Three one-run wins for Homestead, who got some help from their power-friendly home park.

The first game was taut all the way, with each team scoring twice in the sixth innings and then getting nothing until the 11th, when Cap Anson was thrown out at the plate in the top of the frame and Heavy Johnson hit a two-out homer off John Clarkson in the bottom half.

Dave Brown threw four hitless innings to open the game for Homestead and allowed just six hits in nine innings. He walked two and fanned three. Mickey Welch scattered 13 hits in his nine innings, getting three double plays in the process.

In the second game, the Garfields tallied three times off Ray Brown in the second inning, but Brown held them off the rest of the way, throwing an 11-hit complete game. Tubby Scale's solo homer in the eight provided the winning margin.

The third game was also a pitchers duel pitting Max manning and Tim Keefe, at least until the final frames. Each team scored in the seventh to make it a 3-2 Homestead lead,. Homestead then got a pinch-hit grand slam from Hurley McNair in the eighth to make it 7-2. But Frank Wickware and Leroy Matlock gave all four runs back in the ninth, with help from Willard Brown's two-out error in center, before Matlock finally got George Davis out to end it.

Willard Brown was four-for-four in the finale, with a homer and two doubles.

Series 3: Crawfords take 2 of 3 from X-Giants

Crawfords 5-2; X-Giants 2-6

Pitcher status: Dihigo needs four games, should sit one as position player. Donaldson, Day need three games, Trent and R. Foster need two games, B. Foster needs one. Mathis should be limited to one inning in next game.

Game one: Crawfords 4, X-Giants 2

WP: B. Foster (1-1)

LP: R. Foster (0-2)

HR: R. Foster (1)

Game two: Crawfords 7, X-Giants 3, 10 innings

WP: Streeter (1-0)

LP: Radcliffe (0-1)

HR: Charleston (1)

Game three: X-Giants 6, Crawfords 4

WP: Dihigo (1-1)

LP: Mathis (0-1)

Save: H. Smith (2)

HR: Wright (3), Hughes (1)

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The Crawfords' bullpen problems continued, although it cost them only one game.

It wasn't a factor in the first game, as Big Bill Foster outdueled older brother Rube. Bill Foster allowed just three hits, one a homer by Rube. One of the two runs the X-Giants got was unearned.

In the second game, Ted Trent got the start for the Crawfords and left with a 3-2 lead, but Sam Streeter allowed three straight two-out singles in the eighth. The Crawfords won anyway, scoring four times off Double Duty Radcliffe in the 10th. Oscar Charleston capped the rally with a two-run homer.

In the finale for the Crawfords, it was Verdell Mathis who couldn't hold an eight-inning lead. The lefty allowed three runs in relief of Leon Day, wasting Bill Wright's three-RBI game.

The Crawfords have moved Bullet Joe Rogan out of the rotation to take over closing duties. The Mathis and Streeter outings suggest the problem is deeper than that.