Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The news-review. (Roseburg, Or.) 1948-1994 | View Entire Issue (May 13, 1955)
o tub Pitcher Hurls No-Hit No-Runner THURSDAY'S BASEBALL I Bv THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AMERICAN LEAGUE . W L Pet. GB Cleveland 19 8 .704 Chicago 18 9 .640 2 New York 14 10 .583 3'4 Detroit 15 11 .577 Vi Washington 11 15 .423 -7Vi Kansas City 10 15 .400 8 Boston 11 17 .393 8tt Baltimore 8 19 .296 11 Thursday's Remits Boston 12, Kansas City 7 Washington 3, Cleveland 0 Chicago 6, Baltimore 2 Only games scheduled NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pet. GB Brooklyn 22 4 .846 New York 13 11 .542 II . Milwaukee 14 12 .538 8 Chicago 14 14 .500 9 St. Louis 10 12 .455 10 Pittsburgh 11 15 .423 11 Cincinnati 9 16 .326 12"i Philadelphia . 8 .17 .320 13(4 Thursday's Results Milwaukee 2, Brooklyn 1 (12 in nings) Chicago 4, Pittsburgh 0 New York at St. Louis, rain Philadelphia at Cincinnati, rain It's getting so that only some time guys, castoffs and sore arms pitch no - hitters in the major leagues any more. The big name pitchers just come close. Toothpiok-chewin' Sam Jones, a (-4 right-hander whom Cleveland gave up on because of a sore arm, added to the trend by hand cutting Pittsburgh's Pirates with out a hit in a 4-0 victory for -the .Chicago Cubs yesterday. It was the first no-hitter since last June 12, when Jim Wilson stopped Philadelphia cold 2-0 for the Milwaukee Braves. Wilson had been around since 1945,' getting trials with the Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Browns and the Phila deluht A'a before ioining the Braves in Boston in '51. Now he's, with Baltimore. -1 One in 1953 I The most recent no-hit success i before Wilson's was the 6-0 job a lad named Bobo Holloman hum; I on the Athletics for the Browns in 1953. He did it in his first start for St. Louis, but won only two Straffon Signed As Drain Coach A former Roseburg semi - pro baseball player, Ray Stratum, has been hired to coach basketball and baseball at Drain High School.. He replaces Del Dungey who has resigned. Stratton, who will also assist in football at Drain, has orched bas ketball and- baseball for the past two years al Harmon, ho will also handle social studies and physical education at Drain. At Bandon be compiled a base ball record of 22-2. His current team is undefeated. His basket ball record over the same period was 26 games won and 24 lost. He is a graduate of the University of Oregon in 1950. Dungey resigned the Drain post alter three years there He has not indicated where he might be next employed. He coached baseball for the past two years and basketball for three season. In his first season at Drain he was an assistant footoall coach to Ernie Cornea. He is a 1950 firaduate of the University of Port-and. :' Let's Go Fishing - Johnson Sea-Horses tor DEPENDability J. C. Sporting Goods AND CAMERA STORE 245 N. Jackion Ph OR 3-4155 more that season while losing seven. From there he trailed off to the minors, You have to go back to 1952 before -you find names like Virgil Trucks and Carl Erskine in the nohitter list. Since then, the big guys in the majors have just missed. Jones 29, made it tough on him self at Wrigley Field yesterday bv walking the bases full with none out in the ninm. Then he dug deep and threw just one more pitch outside the strike zone while fanning Dick Groat, Roberto Clemente and Frank Thomas to become the first Cub to hurl a no-hitter in 40 years and the first Negro ever to do it in the majors. Wslks Seven Jones, part of the winter deal that sent Ralph Kiner to Cleve land, walked seven and fanned six. The Cubs backed him up nicely in the field and tagged loser Nel son King and Vern Law for 15 hits, one Ted Tappc's homer. The lone other National League game also was spectacular. Del Crandall broke it in in the 12th with a home run off Ed Roebuck his first hit in 24 at bats that gave Milwaukee a 2-1 victory over Brooklyn, The Dodgers now have lost two striaght, after winning 22 of 24. Rain postponed Philadelphia at Cincinnati and New York at St. Louis. In the American, Maury MeDer molt and Washineton broke Cleve land's winning streak at six games by a 3 0 count, beating rookie Herb Score despite only two hits off the lefty in six innin"s. Chicago beat Baltimore 6-2 with four runs in Baltimore 6-2 with four runs in the ninth and Boston whacked Kansas City 12-7. Detroit and New York were idle. Williams Reports To Red Sox Camp BOSTON 11 A weary Ted Williams arrived in Boston by plane Friday to rejoin the Red Sox for whom he swung a mighty bat many years. He posed briefly for photograph ers, shook hands with one of a handful of fans then left to get a few hours sleep before going to Fenway Park to huddle with Gen. Mgr. Joe Cronin. Ted's decision to return to the baseball wars after having an nounced his retirement came Wednesday minutes after a Miami court decided on terms of his di vorce settlement. How soon he gets into action de pends on Ted alone, according to cronin ana tieia ooss Mine jug gins. - Higeins nut it this way: " "It'll take him some time. I don't know how long, to get so he can follow the ball again, that lakes a little doing. THURSDAY'S STARS By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1 PITCHING Sam Jones, Cubs Walked the bases full in the ninth,, then fanned the next three batters to register the first no- hitter of the season and the first by a Negro in the majors, beat ing Pittsburgh 4-0. HITTING Gus Zernial, Ath leties Belted two home runs taking the major league lead with 10. that drove home four of the A's runs in a 12-7 defeat by Bos ton. Sm-o-o-l h QUIET powtr ihal'i mods lo order for fishermen. Now'i the time. ..and this ii the motor Ihal'i loaded with big-motor featurei. Full Gear-shift, Mile Mailer Fuel Syitem, Up-andOff Motor Hood, Twiit-Grip Speed Control... and' fitted for Shiprnaiter Remote Control. Start the fiihing leaion RIGHT... with o Johnion Sea-Hone. Come in today and tee the fomoui 5'i. For flihing, if a real world-beater! Immediate delivery, and time poymenli, loo. h i mighty eaiy lo ownl 6 The News-Review, Roseburg, Local Summer Staging Player All three of Roseburg's baseball empires are thriving, for the pres ent, at least And all have problems in com mon bond. Whereas in the early stages the difficulty was one of financial as surance, now the obstacle is cor alling the necessary manpower. The Roseburg semi-pro Chiefs are definitely "in" the Southern Oregon League as of last week, and the principal problem con fronting moguls is seeking out the necessary baseball talent. Team manager Hal Zurcher has just completed a swing through the Willamette Valley for prospec tive signees, and though he re ports "nothing definite yet," he says that indications "are encour aging." He expects to have a pretty clear idea of a team lineup in about 10 days. The Chiefs begin olav at Medford May 28. The Roseburg Evergreen League entry the Eagles, reports, that about 10 players were present for its initial practice last Sunday, in cluding "most back from last year's hustling team." Kindred Returning To Meet Pederson Big Don Kindred, the headbut ting Nemo star, has returned to Oregon and claims that lie is mak ing a special trip up here Satur day night just to get even with Eric Pederson who neat mm me last time out. He Bets a chance to get his revenge in Saturday night's fea ture match of a double main event card at Uie Armory. Pederson says that he has no fear of Kindred and '.hat if he doesn't beat him, he will leave the state and go back to California and his uranium prospecting. The match was signed with the stipula tion that the loser leave the state. ' Pederson, who favors the full nelson, will be? outweighed by some 20 pounds, but his raw cour age and terrific strength figure to easily make up for that. It will be his first Roseburg appjarance in several weeks. Kindred has been wrestling in the San Francisco area. The first half of the .louble main sends Bulldog Bud Curtis post ward against dashing Danno McDonald. Curtis is described as "easily the cream of the rouglitcs nuw appear ing in the Northwest." He played guard for Arizona State in football and uses that rugged ability in the Wn& McDonald's standing baekbreak er ic a wicked hold which he will be trying to get lo pull an upset on favored Curtis. Both halves of the double main are for 45 minutes or the best of three falls. The special event for 20 minutes or one fall matches the popular Irish Red McKim against Jerry Woods. McKim is a former AAU champion from Oklahoma A & M. Last week. Woods. th3 national TV star, defeated Oino Nicolini in a dandy match and is again favor ed here Saturday. Bearcats Win Twin Bill To Close On NWC Title FOREST GROVE. Ore. I -Willamette took both ends of a baseball double-header from Pa cific University Thursday, 8-2 and :t(l, and moved to within a game of the Northwest Conference cham pionship. The Bearcats can clinch Hie title by winning one of two games scheduled with Lewis Si Clark Saturday at Portland. BASEBALL GAME OF THE DAY TOMORROW DETROIT TIGERS VS NEW YORK YANKEES Direct From Yankee Stodium, New York City 1 PM. T' FUjjTOUSTMTJ 7 VC 1 , 1 Ore. Fri., May 13, 1955 Baseballers Talent Hunt The Eagles report that "we have temporary use of Finlay Field," and we expect to hold practices again tonight at 5 p.m. and on Sun day afternoon. Play in the Ever green League begins June 5. Vic Lewis' old-timers' baseball enterprise "will know definitely where we stand by next week." "We will know," reports Lewis, "how many are going to play and if we are going to have it by then. We will find out when the school grounds (Finlay Field) are open to us."' There was a turnout of six pros pects at the most recent practice. No date for a second practice was given. Hardtop Races Slated To Start First hardtop 'auto races of the season are slated to bcjin Sunday, May 22 at the Roseburg Speedway. Hardtop officials have been hard at work in recent days iltempting lo get the track back into good shape after winter damage. They indicate that everything will be ready for the first show in a week. Most of the same fieid of cars that has been on the trjck during the past two years will be racing again this year. Coos Bay racing association cars are also expected on the track for the opening pro gram. There has been no major over hauling on the track plant itself during the offseason. Major im provements were made ihere afler me first season ol racing in l!)a3. Sunday programs will start at 1:30 with time trials and the regu lar racing agenda follows, starting at 2:30. 1,400 Tracksters Set For West Coast Relays FRESNO, Calif. Wl Hot weath er and an expertly conditioned Ratcliffc Stadium arena are in prospect for nearly 1,400 athletes Saturday in the 23th West Coast Relays. World, Olympic, Pan American and national record holders aTT assortment that adds up lo 23 champions will enjoy perfect competitive conditions in their el forts to break records. The spot light is likely to be on Wes San- tec's try for the 4-minute mile. Southern California, the peren nial national track champion, is seeking its 10th straight relays team title. The Trojans expect uotime trom ulla, Mantora and Occklental, which also are rated among the nation's five best col legiate teams. The Trojans have won the championship here 22 times . Fishing Prospects 'Slow' In Umpqua River System The weekly fishing raport of the Oregon Slate Game Commission called last week's trout and sal mon fishing conditions on the Umpqua River system "general ly slow. The streams of the upper and middle Umpqua River area were higher and turbid from melting snow. Lower Umpqua River spring Chinook angling is poor, with con tinued warm weather, prospects for the coming weekend do not appear much better, tributaries not draining the Cascades may supply lair trout lisning. Some catfish are bein(; taken in the Elklon-Sawyer rapids vicinity. Smith River' cutthroat angling is good. Loon Lake trout angling is fair. TO CONCLUSION Church, Lumber Teams On Top In Twilight Loop TWILIGHT LEAGUE W L Pet. 0 1.000 0 1.000 Methodist Church Wilbur Lumbtr Copco Post Office News-Review PAL Club VA All-stars BLM Christian Church VA Employees 2 2 1 0 1.000 1 1 .500 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 .500 .500 .500 .000 .000 .000 Wins during the week have put Methodist Church and Wilhur Lum ber at the top of the YMCA Twi light Softball League. The Methodist Church team beat the VA All-Stars 12-7 in a Thurs day night game for its second league win. Wilbur handed defend ing tournament champion BLM a 17-13 setback in a postponed game and then handled PAL Club by a 9-5 margin. In other results, News-Review won its first game in two years, taking the VA Employees 12-7 and the Post Office dc.'eated the Chris tian Church 8-2. VA All-stars 010 06-7 8 2 Methodist Ch. 100 2912 10 5 Harold and Charlie: Todd and Ricketts. PAL Club 003 115 6 2 Wilbur Lbr. 231 3x 9 7 3 Daniels and Reitman, Stovall and Baker. Christian Ch. 000 002 1 3 Post Office 008 Ox 8 6 2 Morgan and Marr; Beat and Al len. News-Review 043 2312 10 4 VA Emp. 103 30 7 8 2 ABC Name Team Fails In Title Try FORT WAYNE, Ind. Iff) An American Bowling Congress team championship remains about the only title which has escaped the current edition of Stroh's Beer of Detroit. ' The Stroh's made their annual team bid Thursday night and post ed only a 2,934 series, which doesn't even put them in the top 10. Stroh's won the ABC cham pionship in 1934 but with an en tirely different roster. Stroh's got off to a fast start with a 1,043 game but faded to a 934 and closed with a 957. Only Tom Hennessey managed a 600 series. He roiled games of 225, 181 and 223 for 629. For the first time in five days, one change was recorded in the standings Thursday. Tony Dobosz and Roland Pauch of Chicago com bined for a 1,274 total, good for 10th place in doubles. A with more good taste 6 PROOF Glide Captures T Baseball Title By Beating Riddle, 5-1 By JIM VANCE This appears to be a year of banner individual prep track per formances in the stale, and the Portland high schools have been attracting the most attention. Mark Robbins, who is undefeat ed in three years, has already been "out-timed" three times in t h e city. The fastest is a 4:28.6 by a Grant boy, Roger Stoutt. Robbins has gone 4:30.6 in his quickest. One Portlander has run the half mile a fraction under two minutes, 1:59.5, and a pair have done 9.9 in the 100-yard dash. A couple more bave been doing the high hurdles near the :15 flat mark through most of the season. THE 220-YARD daoh has been done in 21.9 by Roosevelt racer Julius Strong, and that school's re lay team did the relay in 1:31.4, and that's four .seconds faster than the Marshfield team did in win ning the subdistrict relay here last weekend. Downstaters need take no back seat in the field events, however. Here, the Portland contenders are definitely behind. In fact, with the likes of Bill Henderson, Rudy Mor gan, Hod Schepman, W i 1 1 a r d ,-Reeve, Bob Richmond and Jay Wilson, all from the Coos-Douglas subdistrict, this area has the state's best. Portland schools resumed the discus and javelin this year after a layoff of 10 years or so. Rcedsport, a champion in t h e Coast League's major sports year in, year-out, took fourth place in the league's annual track meet last weekend with 16 points. THAT 79-MATCH tennis winning streak reported Wednesday by a New York high school was at Nott Terrace High school. The streak lasted eight years before broken by a school called Mont Pleasant. The score was 5-2. In watching Roseburg lose its first team match in 72 here Wed nesday, it was easy to see useless ness of it all. North Bend is easily the equal of the Indians and cer tainly was the master of them in mid-week. No excuses need be made. But so many of those close ones, it seemed, were hitting just barely on the wrong side for the champs and just barely on the right side for the challengers. It was a much closer match Announcing -for the first time since Repeal,., limited 6 YEAR OLD MlEIRMITAGE BRAND KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY. After six enriching years, Old Hermitage is at the pcatc of its flavor. Now you'll drink this great Kentucky bourbon with more pleasure, serve it pride but pay the same as before. If your demands the finest, demand Old Hermitage! . THt OLD HERMITAGE than that 6-1 score indicates. Jim Powell, who lost that final S-7 set that ended it all, needed but one point on four occasions to win that mat-Mi that wniilrl hnvi made a team score of 3-1 instead of 4-0. And in the first doubles maten. with the cause already lost, Steve Uall an1 firmer Dnnaca lost the first set 10-8 after needing one point on seven occasions oetore to win it 9-7. But then there's always those days. HERE'S THE LATEST on Doug las County's baseball pros. There is no word yet on Mike Coen from the Three-I League in the mid west. Last week, Glenn Elliott picked up win number one on the mound for Portland, working six innings and giving up two hits. He is now 1-0. Myrtle Creek's second pitching contribution, Clyde DeWitt, toiled in two games last week and drop ped one of them for a season's rec ord of 0-1. In the two games he worked five innings, gave up five hits, walked five and struck out four. William Cade of Oakland went hillward in three games for Phoe nix. Arizona without winning or los ing. He gave up seven hits in eight innings,, walked six and tanned u. He is 0-2 on the vear. Reedsport's Carl Peterson, with san Diego, nit .za tor me wuea and is now .287 for the season. TRIES FOR 28 NEW YORK OH Eduardo Lausse, the Argentina knockout artist, is a 2-1 favorite to score his 28th straight victory tonight when he faces strong-jawed Ralph (Tiger) Jones in Madison Square Garden. supply OLD HERMITAGE BRAND KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY - inn it . I" Ots Humnoi Cohpiht un.imit, n ii.iiun u COMPANY, FRANKFORT, KENTUCKY DOUGLAS LEAGUE W L Pef. Glide 5 1.001 Camas Valley 3 i ,M0 Riddle 2 2 .500 Elkten 1 2 .333 Oakland 1 1 .250 Yoncalla 1 4 .200 Glide defeated Riddle 5-1 Thurs day to win the Douglas B League baseball title ' and make a clean sweep of 'the league hardware for major sports in the current school year. Earlier, Wildcat teams had won the football and basektball championships. Glide Coach Jack Forsyte call ed on sophomore Dick Smith to do the hurling and the 6-0 right hander responded with a four-hitter behind flawless support. Glide hitters, meanwhile, led by Dick and Allen Smith, and Danny Kennie, poled out nine hits to earn all five runs. The winners tallied twice in the second on a single by Smith, a walk to Duke Bevans and Kennie's two-run base hit. In the third, Wayne Kennaday hit safely, Gene Polley got on base via a fielder's choice and Dick Smith homered to deep left center. Another run was scored in the fourth on Kennie's single, which was turned into third bases when the right fielder bobbled the ball and Allen Smith's double. Riddle registered in the sixth on Bill Edward's three base hit and a single by Jim Bndicott. Smith struck ten for Glide and walked four. Edwards struck out four and pitched one walk. Leading hitters for Glide were Allen Smith with a double and a triple, Kennie and Dick Smith with 2-3 apiece. Frank Raulston, Rid dle third baseman, hit 24. Glide meets the winner of the Coos-Curry league for- the district title, but no game date has been set yet. Riddle ; 000 001 01 4 1 Glide 00 1Q0 x 5 9 0 Edwards, Humphrey' (5) a n d Denton; Smith ana Kuykendall. SS BEST FISHING! NO LICENSE NO LIMIT TACKLE FURNISHED S'i Mi. South of Wolf Creek Mt. Sexton Trout Farm of, $180 L n. m mondial I
