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I Local Legion Opens Friday The Roseburg Junior American Legion baseball tc m opens its schedule Friday night when it travels to Albany to meet the al ways tough Bulldogs in the first game of the season for both teams. Coach Bill Harper of the Rose burg nine believes he has a long ways to take the team in order to beat the record of the in,H! Legion team that finished third in the Na tional Championships. Slated to start on the rotund for Roseburg in the opener is Allen Smith, fireball righthander from Clide High School. Smith had a 2-0 record for (Hide during the past year. Supporting Smith on the field will be Byron Baker behind the plate. Baker a product of Cams Valley is in his first year of legion play. At first base will be Ron Bam er, one of last year's mainstays. At second base will be cither Hill Kswine, Glide, or Mike Hatfield, Roseburg, both last year's veter ans. At third base will be Don Wells, Roseburg High School standout and at shortstop will he Larry 6f I I ,.".'M'-i.iii1VaiiiitL,i 'ftii 1 YAW CI TIGER ON THE LOOSE Ray Boone of the Detroit Tigers knocks Yankee pitcher Tom Stuidivant to the ground as Billy Martin rushes up to help during third inning ot game in Detroit. Trouble started after Boone was hit by pitched ball. GOOD SO GOOD IT'S REMARKABLE Kurly Times is so good thai ...of all the whis kies made in Kentucky and these are the world's best Kent uckians themselves overwhelmingly choose Karly Times over all other straight whiskies. Try it yourself. You'll have better times with Earlv Times. I1S7GM KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKY . SB PROOP EARLY TIMES DISTILLERY COMPANY . LOUISVILL 1, KY. Ball Club At Albany Bis.sonnetle, a Douglas High School product. In the outfield for the first game -will be Mac McClellan from Cam , as Valley in left field, Wes Young, KJIendale will start in center field land Wavne Kennaday, Glide, will start in right field. Kennaday was 'a third baseman for the Glide team during the past season. Others making the trip to Albany i will be Dick Meredith, Jack Bcr- ney, Jeff Wood, Larry McAllister and Ted Kolbcrg from Roseburg I and John Livingston irom uuue. I The team will travel by private car to Albany. California Repeats Earlier NCAA Crown i OMAHA UPl California, win ner of tht first NCAA collaga battball world ttriat in 1947, it onca again tho champion. Tht Baari marchid into tha throno room Wodntiday night whon they blankad Ponn Statt, 10, for their fifth straight win of tha 1957 leriti and their third shutout of their fiv gamoi. ' ' .'"HIV . t" . fHj ' -'. NIA Tilaahal t0 Ikon; V n' itr :"-'' ,1 p:tT wr.j,.:;v iahk- PUBS"""" i Black Sox Open With 3-1 Win Over Macs The Drain Black Sox edged the McMinnviile Macs in their first game of the year, 31. in semi-pro baseball game at Drain Wednes day night. The Black Sox, who were led on the field and at the plate by Wimp Hastings, University of Oregon standout, went into the lead at the end of the first inning and then had to break a 11 tie in the eighth for the win. In the first inning for Drain, Dan Luby doubled into right cen ter with one out followed by Hast ings who drew a walk. On an attempted double steal. Hastings was caught between first and second and Luby scored to put tne Black box out in Iront 1-u. McMinnviile tied the score in the top of the seventh inning, when with one out Johnson anil Olson walked. Robbins then sent a line drive to Hastings, which he drop ped and Jonnson scored the tying run. Hastings Homers Hastings more than made up for his error in the bottom of the eighth inning when he unloaded a 400-foot home run over the center field fence as the first man up in the inning. Bill Levins was then hit by the pitcher, stole second and scored on a long double by pitcher Stan Dmochowsky to make the score read .M with the Black Sox out in front for the second time. Winning pitcher Dmochowsky. for Drain, allowed the Macs a total of only two hits. The first one was in the first inning when the Icadoff batter Marty Bergan dropped a bunt single down the third base line. The second hit of the game for the Mac's came in the third inning when Li tile John also as the first man up dropped a clean single into left field. Top batter for Drain was Dmo chowsky with 2-4 followed by Hast ings with 1-3, including the home run. The next game for the Black Sox will he Saturday night when they play host to West Linn starting at 8 p.m. Mc.Minn. 000 000 1001 2 2 Drain 100 000 02x 3 5 1 Croro and Olsen; Dmochowsky and Rilchey. WP: Dmochowsky. LP: Croro. Hit: Hastings, Drain. Kid Skids SEATTLE I The 14-vear- old marriage of Harry (Kid) Mat thews, former heavyweight fight er, came to an end Wednesday when his wife, Josephine, was granted a divorce. Mrs. Matthews, who married the boxer at Boise, Idaho, ill 1943, was awarded custody of the cou ple's two children at $50 a month support for each child. Matthews did not contest the divorce. Cards Make Bid In National; AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pet. GB Chicago 33 IB .673 New York 29 22 ..r(i9 5 Cleveland 27 23 .540 6'i Detroit 28 25 .528 7 Boston 26 27 .491 9 Baltimore 23 28 .451 11 Kansas Cilv 22 30 .423 12'i Washington 19 36 .345 17 Wadnasday't Ratultt Detroit 4. Baltimore 2 Chicago 7, New York 6 Cleveland 6, Boston 1 Kansas Citv 5-2, Washington 33 NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pet. GB .585 .580 1 i ..-80 1 j .571 1 .571 1 .415 9 .373 II Cincinnati ItYimklyn Milwaukee Philadelphia SI. Louis New York Pittsburgh 31 22 29 21 29 21 2R 21 28 21 22 31 19 32 Chicago II 31 lilt 13 Wadnaiday't Ratultt New York 4. Chicago 3 Brooklyn 11, Milwaukee Si Louis 4. Philadelphia 0 Pittsburgh 4, Cincinnati 3 (10 in nings) By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The SI, Louis Cardinals, rocket ing along while the rest of the hot shots fizzled, finally have them selves a spot in the National League's first division a fourth place berth that's only a game removed from the lead. In a week's lime, the Cards have won eight in a row. making up .Vj games on the leaders in a rush that's been earned hy three pitchers and a couple of old pros named Si an Musial and Del Funis. Last night they defeated Phila delphia 4-0 to gain a share of fourlh wilh the failing I'luls First place Cincinnati was slugged a third time ill succession bv seventh-place Pittsburgh, this time in a 4-3. 10-mning derision. That left the Redlegs half a game ahead, five percentage points in i front of Milwaukee and Brooklyn, j deadlocked for second after the ! Dodgers put an end to a four iil.ime skid with an 119 victory joer the Braves. Giants Win The New York Giants, with all their runs unearned, defealed the .Chicago Cubs 4 3 in the other M. game I In the American League, the l Incago While Sox regained a 8 The Newt-Review, Roseburg, Famous Wrestling Midgets Set For Matches Locally In one of the top matches of the year for Roseburg wrestling fans, matchmaker Elton Owen will bring the famous wrestling midgets to the Douglas County Fairground Arena Friday at 8:30 p.m. The midgets will appear in an Australian Tag Team match, which will match Ivan the Terrible and Fuzzy Cupid against the always popular team of Lord Littlehrook and The Brown Panther. T h e match will be the best of three falls or a 45-minute time limit. The card is being held on Fri day night instead of the usual Sat urday because that was the only night Owen could get the talent that he wanted. This will he the first match held in Roseburg since April 29, when Kd Krancis defended h i s Northwest Heavyweight title against llerbie Freeman. Francis since then has lost the title to Wild Bill Savage. Savage will also join in the all star card presented by Owen Fri day, when he meets Cowboy Carl son in a best of three falls or 45 minute time limit. Ever since Luigi Macera defeat ed Savage in Portland a few weeks ago Savage has been wearing a mask. The loser of the match be tween the two had to shave his head and the honor fell to Savage. Entors Rodeo Cowboy Carlson, who was popu lar with fans here about four years ago is undefeated since returning. He has been very popular on TV shows in Chicago and Texas since leaving here. Carlson has also stated that he may enter the rodeo in Roseburg next week. He entered here about four years ago and won second place money in the bulldogging event. He also wins some of his wrestling matches with his bull dogging tactics. The opening match of the card will pit llerbie Freeman against Martino Angelo in a one fall or 30-minute match. Freeman, the great full nelson expert will have to use all his great strength and ring know-how against rough and mean Angelo who hails from Ohio. Freeman has been wrestling many top matches on TV in Port land and is considered as one of the strongest men in the ring to day. In a special feature on TV five-game lead, defeating the second-place New York Yankees 7-6 despite a four-RBI, two-honie-run show by Mickey Mantle. Cleveland retained third, beating Boston 6-1. Fourth-place Detroit stopped Bal timore 4-2. Kansas City and Wash ington split a twi-nig'ht pair, the A s winning 5-3, then losing 3-2. Musial and Ennis have batted in 18 of the Card's 37 runs. Last night Musial singled and doubled, scoring a run. while breaking the league record for consecutive game played set at 822 by Pitts burgh's Gus Suhr from 1931 to 1937. Knnis, batting .353 in the Card surge, walloped his fourlh home run in the streak, a three-run job that bagged it for good against Hobin Roberts. Gono Squart Larry Jackson, a relief pitcher gone square, won his eilhth of the season with a nine-hitter. The right-hander has won two in the eight-game string, as have veter- ; an Murry Dickson and bonus kid j l.indv Mi-Daniel. I The Dodgers had a 91 lead aft jcr two innings as winless Gene Donley took his fourth defeat Char lie Neal drove in the final four Brooklyn runs with a triple and jhonie run. Frank Torre, Kd Math jews and Hank Aaron hit home runs in the last two frames fur the ! Braves. Fd Hoebuck. relieving Johnnv Podres. needed relief for himself to win his first. . The Kfdlt-gs blew a 31 lead A i single by Gene Frecse heat re I liever Tom Acker. Hoy Face won - il in relief. Ted Khiszewski, jusl off the disabled list, hit into a ; foiccoiil in a pinch-hit try his , first appearance with the liedlegs WRESTLING COMMUNITY BUILDING AT THI FAIRGROUNDS IVAN THE TERRIBLE Ore. Thur., June 13, 1957 L. . . - ,rt "vtii i FUZZY CUPID . . . little, but tough in about two weeks. Freeman will attempt to press 400 pounds. The doors will open at 7 p.m. and the matches will start at 8:30 p.m. Regular prices will be in ef fect, but. fans are urged to get there early for the good seats. The matches will be under the super vision of the Roseburg Wrestling Commission. Minor Leagues By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Rochester 5, Columbus 4 (11 in nings) Miami 6-0. Toronto 4-3 Montreal 9-3. Havana 1-5 Buffalo 5, Richmond 4 AMERICAN ASSN. Omaha 3, Minneapolis 2 Louisville 5, Wichita 3 Charleston 10, Indianapolis 4 Denver 15, St. Paul 3 TEXAS LEAGUE San Antonio 4, Oklahoma City 3 (12 innings) Dallas 4, Houston 3 Other games postponed SOUTHERN ASSN. Nashville 11, New Orleans 10 (10 innings) Chattanooga 9-3, Mobile 2-0 Birmingham 8. Little Rock 6 Memphis 6, Atlanta 3 Chisox Win since Api'il 25. 18 Homers Mantle, who now has 18 home runs afler hitting seven in eight games and four in his last three, was 4-for-5, throwing a late scare into the Sox with a two-run, 425 foot homer in the ninth. Walt Dro po batted in three for Chicago, ! with a two-run homer that tied it in the second and a single that j brought across the first of two ! fourth-inning markers that gave j the Sox the lead for keeps. Yanks Hank Bauer and Bill Skowron and I Jim Rivera of Chicago also hom- creel. ' Jack Harshman failed to finish, hut won his second in 10 decisions with the Yankees, Johnny Kucks lost it. Cleveland scored five runs in the i second, four of them unearned as loser Bob Porterfield uncorked an I error and als obalked. Al Smith .singled home a pair in the big frame, which brought Don Mossi a fourth vicliyy. j Jim Bunning fanned seven in a ! six-hitter against the Orioles. He walked none, but gave up homers to Boll Nieman and Bob Boyd in winning his sixth. J. W. Porter smacked a two run homer off los- ! er Art Ceccarelli. Willie Mays' three-run homer tied it for the Giants in the sixth. Then he stole third in the ninth and jogged home with the winner as catcher Cal Neeman threw wild on the theft. Al Worthington won his seventh in relief. I. nu Skixas, Gus Zernial and Hal Smith homered in the A s victory. Reliever Truman Clevenger. un beaten, won his fiflh in the sec ond games as Uocky Bridges hit a sacrifice tly to break a 2-all tie in the ninth. FRIDAY NIGHT Wrvttling Midgctt in Toj Ttam March!!! Lord Lirtlebrook, 96, and Tht Brown Panthtr, 95 vi. lon Thai Ttrrtblt, 97, end Puny Cupid, 9$ MAIN EVENT Wild Bill Savogt, 222, Illinois Cowboy Cordon, 2 IS, Montana SPECIAL EVENT Harbit Frtaman, 210, Bront, N Y. vt. Martino Aflfala, 210, Taltdo, Ohio Dam Site Pushed At Boat Club Meeting Here The members of the Cmpqua Boat Club were treated to a dis cussion on the Coos Bay area fish ing tides, currents and other gen eral information by Chief Boat swain Mate Arthur R. Hinderlie in a meeting held at the fair grounds community building Wed nesday night. Also present at the meeting was Fair Manager Dick Turley who pointed out the advantages of building a new dam at the site of the present fish dam in the river by the fairgrounds. Turley pointed out that a dam at this site would provide a boat ing area of from one to two miles and also bring in the possibility of a fishery. Cost and development of the dam has been set at around $5(1, 000, but nq dimensions for the dam has been set up at this time. A committee from the Umpqua Boat Club was formed to look into the matter at a later date. Hinderlie, who is from the Coos Bay Life Boat Station, gave a talk on requirements on life boat jack ets and all-around general equip ment for the small or large boat operator. Best Fishing lie also gave a short talk on the best fishing places around the bar at Coos Bay and stated instances in which boats got into trouble and methods of prevention. Also pointed out by Henclerlie was the fact that the Coast Guard has patrols on duty at all limes to help protect the public in case they need assistance or are in anv trouble. People not familiar with j the area in which they are plan ! ning to fish should contact t h e Coast Guard for information. , Two films labeled "Safety Afloat" where shown to the 30 per sons present at the open meeting. The Umpqua Boat Club has at the present time a membership of about 50 and plans are being laid for a larger membership, accord ing to club president Skip Cairns. Shown to the members present at the meeting, were the new flags with the emblem of the club on both sides. These are available to all paid-up members. Hard tops Roll This Sunday At Coos Bay For the fourth time this season the hardtops will roll. This time the members of the Roseburg club will travel to Coos Bay in the sec ond event of the yeaf to be held Sunday. Roseburg drivers have snared a major share of the prizes in the first three races of the year, with cars from Coos Bay and Cottage Grove taking home the rest. In the races held at the Rose, burg Speedway last Saturday night the people were presented with some fast driving and some dar ing spills. Art Pollard is the top driver of the Roseburg bunch with a total of "8 points in the first three races. Close behind in second place is Jim Standlcy with 73 points. Pollard has been the lop driver in both of the Hoseburg races with 38 points in the opening race and 40 points in the one held last Sat urday. Slandley had a total of 37 points in the first race and 36 in the one held last week. In third place in the number of points scored is Grant Feero with 44. followed by John Wilverding with 42 and Leonard Kress wilh 41. Also one of the leaders with 40 points is Bud Van Osten. Roseburg and Coos Bay alter nate each week in the place where the races are held. They race at Hoseburg every other Saturday night and at Coos Bay every other Sunday. The next race for Roseburg fans will be Friday. June 21. when cars from Roseburg, Coos Bay and Cottage Grove will compete here. The race is being held on Friday of that week because of the Douglas County Rodeo which stalls June 22. Ring Record NORFOLK, Va. Virgil Akins, 148. St. Louis, outpointed Walter Byars, 144. Boston. 10. mum mwm Seattle Trips Beavers, 2-1; Sacs Tame Seals Likewise PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W L Pet. GB San Francisco I Vancouver Hollywood Los Angeles San Diego Seattle Portland 38 24 36 23 35 27 30 29 32 31 31 33 22 33 .613 .610 .565 3 .508 6'i .508 6W .484 8 .400 12'i .293 10 Sacramento 17 41 Wednesday's Results Sacramento 2, San Francisco 1 Hollywood 5, Vancouver 0 San Diego 3, Los ,.ngeles 1 Seattle 2, Portland 1 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wiih a virtual monopoly on the Pacific Coast League basement 19 games off the pace the Sacra mento Solons renew their series with the San Francisco Seals Thursday night on a one-all basis alter knocking over the loop lead ers 2-1. Outfielder A 1 b i e Pearson's three-base error with two out in the last of the ninth Wednesday night let in two runs and lost the Seals the game, which had gone scoreless until the top of the ninth when San Francisco picked up a run, also unearned. 11 was a night for pitchers. Hollywood's George Witt hurled a sparkling three-hit, 5-0 shutout over runnerup Vancouver. J i in , IMudcat) Grant helped San Diego : into a fourth place tie with Los i Angeles bv striking out 13 Angels ion the way to a 31 triumph. And I reliefer Duane Pillette starred for i Seattle as the Rainiers put down : the Portland Beavers 21 Pillette Stars Nippy Jones launched the final ! frame Solon attack with a single I alter one man was out. Jim West j lake flied to Pearson in deep right : for the second out. When Al Heist ' followed with another fly, Pear json ran in front of Marty Kcough to make the catch but dropped ! the hall as the tying run scored and Heist raced to third. Harry t Bright slashed loser Tommy Sports Calendar THURSDAY BOWLING: Mixed doubles, 7:! p.m. SOFTBALL: YMCA CHURCH LEAGUE: Church of God vs. Faith L u t h e r n, Riverside, School, 6 p.m. Twilight League: Oakland vs. VeU All-Stars, Vets diamond, 6 p.m. WE1GHTLIFTING: YMCA, 5 p.m. j FRIDAY 1 BASEBALL: 'YMCA Church , League: North Roseburg vs. W- D Christian, Riverside School, 6 p.m. Twilight League: City Market vs. Mark's, Vets diamond, 6 p.m. ARGUMENT? Third i man Grady Hatton of the San I Francisco seals, who seemed! to think he was safe ot second base a moment before, moves in to talking range as he tells umpire Mel Steiner whot he thought of the coll. Hatton I lost the argument and was kicked out of game against Hollywood of the Pacific Coast League in Hollywood, this week. (AP) ' ARGUMENT? Third Base-1 nrjranTETimiTCEEs? Hurd's first pitch into left center to score Heist. Hurd, who was trying to walk Bright purposely but came too close, had allowed only one Sac runner to reach third before the final inning. Joe Stanka yielded seven hits in winning his third against three losses. Witt was never in trouble against the Mounties. who trail San Francisco by half a game. He gave up a double and two sin gles, struck out five and walked two. Bill Hall's bases-loaded single scored the Stars' first two runs in the third inning. Joe Duhem tripled in the sixth to score two runs and Bill Causion singled in another as he boosted his league leading batting average to .336. Fans 13 Grant's 13 strikeouts for San Di ego's Padres raised his total to 63 in 61 innings this season and gave him his third victory against three defeats. Preston Ward's third homer of the year featured the Padre scor ing as Grant held the Angels to .goose eggs until the seventh when they pushed over an unearned , run. j At Seattle, Pillette came on in the third inning for Russ Meyer. I who had pulled a muscle, and limited Portland to three hits the rest of the distance. Each team 1 scored once in the first inning. Pillette singled home his own win ning margin in the sixth after I a single and a base-hit bunt. I The lincscores: Portland 100 000 000 1 6 0 Seattle 100 001 OOx 2 9 0 Thorpe and Baich, Calderone (7); Meyer, Pillette (3) and Ayl ward. RUSS MEYER . . . lifted in third. Legion Baseball Left- In Spokane SPOKANE Wl The Twilight League of semiprofessional base ball, a fixture here for more than 2U years, has been disbanded because sponsor! couldn't handle increased costs of operation. The ieatrne had dwindled to five 'teams, two of them service outfits and one from Sandpoint, Idaho. They plan to arrange pickup gahies as independent teams. The Twilight folding leaves the teen-age American Legion leagues as the only organized baseball in Spokane, once rated one of the nation's hottest baseball towns. The Spokane Indians of the North west League disbanded earlier this year. The new semipro Spokane Ori oles, outfitted by the Baltimore club of the American League, will operate as an independent. FIRE: OR 2-2644 POLICE: or 3.o33 MONEY: OR 36668 664 S. E. Stephens, Roseburg I 0
