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Sn Finals To . i itosebura ftfleete Twin Falls Pre-Toomey Favorite Falls To Idaho Squad In Upset Roseburg and Twin Falls will meet at 6:30 tonight in the finals for the championship of the west ern regional American Junior Le gion regional tournament at Ya kima. Twin Falls won the right to meet the Douglas County crew Monday night when it downed lop-ranked Billings, 30, behind the bril liant two-hit pitching of right-hander Robert Burch. The loss dump ed the pre-tourney favorites out of the running with their second consecutive defeat. Itoseburg's Lockwood Motor nine assured itself of a lmals spot bav urday night after defeating , its first three opponents, Sitka 28-6, Twin Falls 7-3 and Hillings 4 Rematch Tonight's battle will be the sec ond tussle between me two respec tive counterparts. Twin Falls bowed to Coach Hill Harper's lads in their first meeting, 7-3, Friday night, Dick Smith went the dis tance while scattering six hits. Bri an Thomson, ace righthander of the Idaho aggregation, was tagged with the loss. The same two hurlers Will prob ably lock horns again in the fea ture battle. Twin Falls will need a win in the, first game to keep any possible title Hopes alive. A win for Roseburg will bring an immediate halt to the western re gional spectacle. If a second game is needed, it will commence at the conclusion of the initial con test. Then To Billings? The winner of the five-day show is slated to travel to Billings, Mont, for a three-team sectional showdown. Teams who will meet there are winners of other western regionals such as currently run ning at Yakima. Whoever comes out first at Bil lings is set for one of the four spots at tho national finals to be held in Bismarck, N. D., next month. The balance of the Roseburg lineup will be the same as that which won over Twin Falls and Billings. That would find Bill Rudzik behind the mask, Ron Bcamer at first, Bob McClellan at second, Allen Lindbloom at third and Larry Bissonctte in the shortstop hole. Outfielder The outfield will consist of Dan ny Kinnc in left, Bill Ocrding in center and Jimmy Brown in right. Ocrding will be around for relief, should the need arise. If a second game is needed. Ocrding will bo tho mound nominee, says Harper. mi -rV' psi ra .. , n... ..11..11. i mm ij..m lidh ii dL hksA i.,:ILkiJa l ' ' --J "LEFTY". BILL OERPING DICK SMITH IJ' ' ' ' f0X6S S'tk0 C0Ch . Twin Foils , f I'"HS "yf ' mwjuu . L-;f,A A hv 6 The NewJ-Raview, Roseburg, Ore. Tues., Aug. 21, 1956 Del McKay, well known local radio announcer, wiU'fly to Yaki ma, Wash., today and help broad cast a play-by-play account of the final Legion contest between Twin Falls and Roseburg. The game will originate from radio station KIT in Yakima. It will commence at 6:30 p.m. and will be carried over radio station KRXL, Roseburg, commencing at 6:25. The second game will also be aired, if needed. k mi RONNIE BEAMER . . . has scouts buzzing DEL McKAY . . to air final U0 Coach Protests Loss Of Freshman FOR RENT John Deere CRAWLER TRACTOR WITH BLADE Mounted On A Truck Ready To Go. Lansing-Oliver ' 1561 S. E. STEPHENS OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK ' EUGENE M The University of Oregon baseball coach pro tested Tuesday against the signing of a freshman pitcher by the St. Louis Cardinals, Earlier this summer Ralph Coleman, Oregon State College baseball coach, also had pro tested the signing of a freshman from his school by the Cardinals. In each case, the scout who recruited the players was Tony Governor, Palo Alto, Calif. He signed up Stan Thompson, a left handed pitcher from Nyssa, Ore., last weekend. "The signing of Thompson by Governor and the Cardinals is another in a series of crippling blows which have been dealt college baseball in the last few years by some professional organ izations and ' this one man in particularly," said Don Kirsch, the Oregon coach. Minor Leagues AMERICAN ASSOCIATION Denver 9, St. Paul 8 (10 innings) Omaha 13, Minneapolis 4 Only games scheduled TEXAS LEAGUE San Antonio 5, Fort Worth i Tulsa 7-2, Houston 5-7 Only games scheduled SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION Mobile 3, Memphis 0 Atlanta at Nashville, postponed, rain ( Chattanooga at Birmingham, post poned, rain New Orleans 4, Montgomery 2 (1st game completion of July j 22 suspended game; 2nd game, postponed, rain) Braves Boost National Lead 2Vi; Pressure On Brooklyn, Cincinnati Bevos Tipped 4-3 BySc&cfos PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W L Pet. GB 89 49 .645 78 59 .569 10'4 70 64' .522 17 65 71 .478 23 64 73 .467 24 V4 61 76 Los Angeles Seattle Hollywood Portland Sacramento San Diego San Francisco Vancouver .445 27'4 60 75 .444 27VS 58 78 .426 30 NATIONAL LEAGUE Milwaukee Brooklyn Cincinnati St. Louis Philadelphia Pittsburgh Chicago New York W L Pet. GB .609 .588 2lh 68 50 .576 3'i 58 58 .500 12'4 55 59 .486 WA .438 20 .412 22'4 44 68 .393 24 Ml 70 45 67 47 51 47 67 It v-vt rss By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Nobody's won the pennant yet in that hectic National League race, but as of today the pressure definitely is on Brooklyn and Cin cinnati while the first-place Mil waukee Braves, loaded with the best pitching in the league, play it cool behind Burdctle, Spahn and Buhl. Those three ton the NL's earned run averages. Lew Burdette has managed to knock off Cincinnati's contending Kedlegs four times without defeat. Bob Bum has beat en Brooklyn's world ; champion Dodgers six times without a loss. Warren Spahn and Burdette combined to salvage an important split in the four-game, series at Cincinnati. Spahn quieted the am bitious Kedlegs Sunday, t n e n came back in relief to get the final out as Burdette beat them 3-1 on a five-hitter last night. The Braves lack the Kedlegs' power, but they again made their blows pay oil in the series tinaie, riding in on home runs by Ed Mathews and Joe Adcock al though held to just four hits by Brooks Lawrence. It was the only game scheduled in cither league and hoisted the Braves into a 2'j-game lead as they return to Milwaukee for a home stand. Brooklyn, slated to play five games against the Red legs and Braves in five straight days this weekend, has a one game bulge over the third - place Cincys at the moment. Mathews 28th home run follow ed a two-out second-inning triple by Hank Aaron that broke through Lawrence's hitlcss spell. Then Adcock hammered his 30th homer wilh two out in the sixth for the Braves' third hit off the 16-7 right hander, who now has lost five of his last six decisions. Burdette was rolling along on a COLORFUL EXCITING EXHIBITS Community Industrial Commercial farm Home Livestock Hobby Flowert Art Homemo king gates open 8 a.m. come eariyi stay latei irs more funi Admission Adults 50c Kids (6-12) 25c three-hit shutout for eight innings, Then rookie Frank Robinson wal loped his 30th homer to lead off. the ninth. A walk followed, but Ted Kluszewski hit into a double play that eased the situation for Burdette. But when Wally Post lined a sin gle, Manager Fred Haney waved in southpaw Spahn. He got Ed Bailey on a game-ending ground er. That nailed Burdettc's 16th suc cess against seven defeats and put his ERA at 2.46 tops in the majors. Sports Calendar TUESDAY BASEBALL: American J u n I or Legion; Western regional, Yak ima. (Championship game). Roseburg vs. Twin Falls, 6:30 p.m., second game to follow if needed. BOWLING: Mixed doubles, 7:30 p.m., Roseburg Bowling Alley, WEDNESDAY SOFTBALL: Twilight League: City Drive In Market vs. Christian Church, 6 p.m., Vets ball field, makeup contest. - BOWLING: Men's doubles, 7:30 p.m., Roseburg Bowling Alley. RACING: Roseburg. Hoadrunners Club, 7:30 p.m., Bruce Beer's barn. SPORTS IN BRIEF By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TENNIS BROOKL1NE, Mass.' Davis Cuppers Vic Seixas and Ham Roger Becker and Mike Davies, 6-4, 9-7, 6-2, in the first round of the national doubles. GENERAL VANDALIA, Ohio E. C. Dan iell o Idalou, Tex., wonthe vet eran's tiHe in the Grand Ameri can trapshoot. INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Buffalo 12, Rochester 2 Only game scheduled PIONEER LEAGUE Magic Valley 10-9, Potacello 5-1 Billings 6, Idaho Falls 4 Missoula 5, Great Falls 4 Boise 2, Salt Lake City 1 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sacramento's Danny Baich, aft er driving in the first two Solon runs, settled the game with fourth - place Portland Monday night with a tenth inning homer that trimmed the Beavers 4-6, Victory brought the Solons with in Vh. games of the first division in the Pacific Coast League. In the fifth inning Baich tripled in Al Heist and Joe Koppe. Sac ramento tied the score with two out in the ninth when Heist hom ered. Steve Bilko slammed his 48th homer and three singles to drive in three runs as Los Angeles coasted to a 12-1 victory over San San Diego. The lone Padre tally scored in the eighth when relief pitcher Bob Kerrigan, one of the league's weakest batters, singled in John Merson. It was Kerrigan's second hit of the season. Reliable Elmer Singleton lost his sixth game as Bob Purkey of Hollywood held beattle to live hits. The Stars won 6-2. Singleton has won 16. San Francisco and Vancouver were idle. Tom Saffell was taken out of the Portland lineup in the fifth in ning after he cracked his knee against the center field fence while chasing Baich's triple. Saf fell singled and scored the first run tn the opening frame on Jack Littretrs double. The Angel victory while Seattle was losing restored Los Angeles' league lead to lO'i games. While the Angels were accumulating 17 hits, Dave Hillman limited the Padres to lour hits, struck out eight and walked only one. It was his 16th win against five defeats. Singleton got off to a bad start with Danny Kravitz' two-run hom er. The Stars followed it with two more tallies in the second inning when Carlos Bernier hit his 12lh triple to drive in Paul Peltit and Purkey. lhe game, sponsored by the Friars Club, was for the ben efit of the Leukemia Research Foundation. 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Any who have played in the field of competition know migmy wen uiui the backing of the crowd is a big advantage. A big thanks also goes to the manv fans here at home who have pulled for the gang while glued to the radio, not 10 meiiuuu me many fine words of encourage ment received by wire and tele phone. . . Eleven major league scouts are on hand, representing most of the big name teams. All of them are drooling over the spectacular hit ting and fielding of Roseburg's Ron Beamer. THE SMOOTH fielding left hander has been fielding superbly and his hitting is nothing short of sensational, in the game against Sitka, he rapped out four straight hits, including a double and drove across three runs. Affainst Twin Falls, he collected one hit in three trips. During the game, Beamer scored two runs, the latter on a theft of home in a double steal with Dick Smith. In the Bi inss thriller, the Kose- burg ace rapped out 3-6, including a three-run double off the left field wall. The bases-loaded rap drove starting pitcher Jim Neal off the mound, and Roseburg went on to post a 7-4 win. In the three games to date, he has handled 20 putouts without an error, not to mention three that were pulled out of the dirt on low throws from teammates. Over the three games his bat ting average is .600. (9-15). This leaves little doubt as to why the big league scouts picked him as unanimous first base on their all- star team. ALSO GETTING undivided at tention is Bill Oerding. The wee southpaw has been fielding and hitting well, and his mound per formance against Billings made many in the park take note, es pecially the group from the cow boy state. The reports had Oerding as a junk hurler. Lefty soon erased all doubts as to his ability with a fast ball by setting seven down on strikeouts over the route, most of them with his hard one. From what we observed of the many pitchers on hand, Rose burg's Dick Smith has to take a back seat to none. The strong Glide ace net down Twin Falls on six hits and aided his own cause greatly with a three-run clout over the distant (360) left field wall. We might add that it has been the lone blast out of the park in the show, although several have been near the outfield barrier. OVERLOOKED we think, dur ing the all-star selections was Bill Rudzik, the moon-faced catch ing stalwart of the Lockwood crew. Rudzik may not be the best receiver in the tournament, but he By BROWNIE ' VALDEZ sure was the second best, in my books. Top rated pitcher in the meet was Montana's Dick Montee. This we agree with, but our vote for the hardest throwing pitcher in the tournament goes to his left handed teammate Elwood Hahn. Hahn came in during a relief -ole against Roseburg and struck out 13 of the 18 men he faced. He re tired the side three times on KO's and got two more in two other frames. He gave up three hits and one earned run. THIS MIGHT BE a wild guess, but we would probably be safe in stating that close to 100 ardent fol lowers of the team have taken the trip to Yakima over the weekend to help boost the Lockwood gang along. Many have stayed over. An item we forgot to mention during our writings last week was the fact that the team entered the tourney with brand-spanking new uniforms. And of all the teams taking part, Roseburg has to take a back seat to none. The uniforms are green pin stripe (Yankee type) with green lettering. Numbers on the backs and fronts f the uniforms are a bright fire engine red. New three quarter length jackets were also purchased. They are red with white sleeves and the outstanding combination makes a very attrac tive set. GREATEST PIECE of strategy in the regional show to date came in the initial contest between Sitka and Roseburg. It took place in the eight-run Roseburg sixth. Roseburg had the bases loaded as local batters were staging one of the greatest batting attacks of the year. Jerry Bergdoll was work ing "for Sitka and was having a tough time getting Roseburg bat ters out. He was the third Alaska pitcher used. Bergdoll had already given up four hits in the frame and had the sacks loaded, due to control trouble. When Oerding stepped up to the plate, the Sitka team man ager called time and waved left hander Jerry Smith, the original pitcher, back in from his left field spot, to pitch against Oerdin?. Oerding made a quick trip to the bench and asked permission to switch-hit. Harper, knowing the ability of his lefty, nodded in ap proval. OERDING ran back to the right handed batter's box and teed off on the first pitch thrown by Smith lacing it sharply off the shortstop's knee into left for a single that scored two runs. Oerding went grinning info sec ond on the throw to the plate, the coach was last seen bouncing his hend into the wall. One outstanding note on the Alaska nine. We would be safe in saying that of the 16 lads on the roster, 12 of them smoke and make no bones about hiding the fact. Worse yet. most of them will be playing Legion baseball for the next two or three years. . . Roseburg and Twin Falls will commence the championship bat tle for the regional crown tonight at 6:30 p.m. Lets all get bohind the lads and give them our top most support, and push them into the sectional slated for Billings. Jacobv Leads Team To Win Jim Jacoby rapped out a two run homer and a brace of dou bles, as he led the Lookingglass Church Softball team to a rousing 18-5 victory over North Roseburg in the final YMCA championship playoff game Monday night at the Fairgrounds Field. The winners utilized a 14-hit at tack while downing the North Roseburg gang. They dented the plate for a single run in the first, four in the second, two in the third, four in the fourth, four more in the fifth and capped the onslaught with inree in tne sixm. The losers countered with two in the first and three in the fourth Ned Nay scattered six hits, walk, cd four and struck out six over the route for the win. Johnson was the losing hurler. He gave up all 14 hits, hit another and walked eight. Les Green and Lee Swift hit for triples, and winning pitcher Nay added a double to round out the extra base hit parade. Dave Wylie with 2-2, Roy Miller with 2-4, Nay with 2-5 and Jacobv with 3-5 were the leading hitters for the winners. M. Stone was the leading hitter for the losers with 2-4. Extra base raps were collected by Brady Montgomery, who hit a triple and C. Stone, who rapped out a double. Lookingglass also won (he YMCA League title. They went through the complete schedule without a single setback, winning 11 games along the way. Line score: No. Roseburg 200 300 0 5 6 3 Lookingglass 142 443 x 18 14 3 Batteries: No. Roseburg John son and Kolstad Lookingglass Nay and Miller. MONDAY'S STARS By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PITCHING . Lew Burdette, Braves Shut out the robust Rprilpac nn thna hits for eight innings, then needed relief help for the final out in gaining his 16th victory with a 3-1 decision. HITTING Ed Mathews, Braves Ham mered his 28th home run, with a man on, in 3-1 victory over Red-legs. JAKE LEICHT INSURANCE AGENCY flIFGON LTD. "If lr Is Insurance We Sell It!" Room 223 Pacific Blag. OR 2-3621 GOLF ST. PAUL Wellcr Noble of Oakland, Calif., won the medal with a 72 in the National Senior Amateur. FARGO, N.D. Glen Combs of Seymour, Ind., fired a 70 to pace field at the half-way qualifying point. FOLLOW THE BEAVERS BASEBALL 8:00 P.M. TONIGHT KRNR 1490 KC. 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