Madera Tribune, Number 184, 6 September 1952 — BASE LARCENCY IS BERNIER S CAREER [ARTICLE]

BASE LARCENCY IS BERNIER S CAREER

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SAN KRAN« - ISCO UP IV p•'■iv ('alios Bernier has made in . Mi st min of himself ■ lull\ wood's Puerto Itiean outfielder. who boasted earlier till* season th»l hr 11 tiutil steal tin lias's. fiilflllnl Ills promise last night. S-n'ial months ago Bernier Hi' 1 tin - approval of manager l-'i '! Haney to fry to steal a base v.i'inact In* felt he could S xty times Bernier guessed roreclly A short hut powerful legged hustler. Carlos lia i played sensationally—al bargain price*—tills year. Haney pi eked Bernier up from Tampa for The base thief had three hits, two runs butted in and his 60lh nilfei ed hag as Hollywood nipped Portland. fi to 5. to stay fl'a games ahead of seennd-placc Oakland. The Oaks got three-hit pitching from Unger Bowman to defeat San Diego. 2 to 0. In other games, San Francisco donned Seattle, ti to I, and ,1-os Angeles bested Sacramento, G to 2, In a game played in the district fair grounds at Chico, Calif. Portland’s Ed Barr hit a tworun bonier in the top of the nintli to pul the Bevus in front of Hollywood, f> to 1 But. with two out ■n the bottom of that frame, Chuck Stevens doubled Bernier home with the tying run and CJene Handley singled across the winning run Bowman, a crafty southpaw who seems to he either e,\tremely good or extremely hail. hurled his fourth shutout of the year tor the Oaks. An optionee from the New Vork chillis. Bowman was bidding for Ids second no-hll game of the s' ison until the eighth. Dick Falter spotted the attempt with a single in that inning Wall .liitlni' h hit a threcriun h iiaei !■ i Siallle in the first inning (ml Sir Ki,incisco eanic. hack to w;n Hood relief pitching by Walt i 'lough. who came on in the tirsi md lasted until the ninth and bullpen -peeialist Bob Mureiief wh got the .‘-Vais out of a jam in the ninth, made the difference