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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. March 26. 1950 nil ROGUES FORESEE BIS YEAR 'Freebooter' ill Pitchers Working Agreements Cited As Plans For Stock Sale Revealed News of the major league leums and the Pacific Coast loop squads in spring training brings to mind once again that Mcdford has pro baseball in the offing with the Mcdford Roijues (Nuggets) due to start their spring maneuvers along about April 0 or 10. Officers of Rogue Valley Baseball, Inc., sponsors of the local team in the Far West league, are predicting the best season yet for local fans. Workina Aareemeni Cited Bv Club They point to the fact that unlike last season the local pro club has a real working agreement with a major league club the New York Giants and that Seattle of the coast league again win furnish help. Already the Giants have signed and sent to the Rogues seV' eral promising youths and added help will be coining during the spring irainiug penoa, Business munaKvr aiiiiiti aaiu. These boys with boys signed by the local club might produce a champion. ... ,. . . Seattle helped quite a bit last season and will continue to do so as probably will Salem, Ore., of the class B Western Interna tional league. Jones, Thrower And Lohbeck To Return Lloyd Jones, Fred Thrower and Mike Lohbeck are among those assigned here by Seattle who were here in 1049. "Pop" Reed, a baseball scout of some distinction, is looking for young players in the Los Angeles area. MEDFORDvi'ivTRIBL'NB mm Local club officials predict ed that this year will be a ban ner one for the entire Far West league with the addition of teams in Eugene, Ore., and Reno, Nev. The league should be on a much more sound foot ing in 1950 than in the previous two seasons. Carpenter said that last 'year Mcdford often paid out more to visiting teams here than the local club received when playing In those towns. Grass In Infield During the past winter the local ball club has planted grass in the fairgrounds ball yard in field and additional improve ments have been made for the convenience of fans. Up to this season Medford had the only park in the league without grass Infield. Carpenter said that the local ball club operated at a small loss In 1949 with much of this due to the large investment needed to get started and the improve ments made to the park. He, said the corporation directors are pleased with the first yoar'a re sults. ' Rogue Valley Baseball, Inc., will open a campaign soon to sell the remainder of stock left unsold from last year. Carpen ter said sale of all such stock would place the club on a sound financial position and pay the expenses of improvements made last winter. Officers cited further how pro fessional baseball here Iihs brought Medford publicity throughout the country through newspapers, radio stations and such publications as "The Sport ing News," often called the base ball "bible." Carpenter said a yearly at tendance of 50,000 to 60.000 here would make pro bascbull a sure thing annually. Protect Boxers Plan Approved Portland, Ore., Mar. 25 (U.R) A program to protect fighters in the Oregon ring has been adopt ed by the Portland Boxing com mission. Dr. Clinton McGill, commis sion medico, submitted the pro grain to the commission and culled for an "honest attempt to do everything humanly and sci entifically possible" to prevent ring deaths such as that of La vcrne Roach In New York this year. Chief point In Dr. McGiU's plan involves use of an electro enecphalograph, a brain wave machine which has been pro posed for the detection of brain injuries, most common cause of ring tragedies. Other points Include Inclusion in contracts of a clause whereby thn fiohlni nnr! minnDir rnrtifv the fighter Is in A-l condition I and Is not concealing previous in-' juries; permission for the referee ; or doctor to examine a boxer in difficulty in the ring; banning of iron derivatives to stop the flow of blood from cuts and gashes ' and a rule that fighters knocked out in the ring will not be touched hy handlers until exam ined by the doctor. DickBartlc Going Salem Riverside, Cal., Mar. 25 iU.R1 The Portland Beavers arc prepar ing to wind up their training cemp season here Sunday. As a preliminary, Manager Bill Sweeney announced todav he is dropping nine pitchers and , Art Pennington, colored outfield er, outright and turning over to the Salem club of the Western International league, a Reaver farm club, eight other players. Players to report to Manager Ad Liska nf Salem next Thurs day are Pitchers John Burak. Dick Waibel, Gene Valentine and Bob Stevenson; Catcher Rob Courage, and Outfielders Marvin Diercks and Bob Snyder. Sweeney indicated also that Dick llartlc. first baseman; Bob Cherry, outfielder; Carl Peter, son, infieldcr. and Pitchers Ray mond McNulty and Orln Snyder would be released to Salem. Bradley, Baylor Top NCAA Foes In Semi-Finals Kansas City, Mo., Mar. 25 (U.R) Brigham Young's Joe Nelson ended his collegiate basketball career Saturday night with a flood of points to pace BYU to a 83 to 62 victory over UCLA and into third place in the NCAA western playoffs. Kansas City, Mo., Mar. 25 (U.R) Bradley university was a solid favorite to defeat Baylor in the finals of the N.C.A.A. west ern regional playoffs tonight and return to Madison Square Gar den for a crack at the national championship next Tuesday. The Braves advanced to the finals by virtue of a three-minute 15-point spurt which carried them to a 73-to-59 victory over U.C.L.A. Friday night after Bay lor defeated Brigham Young, 56 to 55. Paul Unruh's fast finish cracked open a title battle. The slender forward's two quick goals gave the Braves a one-point margin with three minutes re maining. Then Bradley caught fire and poured in 15 points while holding U.C.L.A. to two. U.C.L.A. Holds Lead U.C.L.A. had battled to a 3;t to 33 halftlme deadlock and led 57 to 50 midway in the second half. Gene Melchiorre, the five-foot, eight-inch pivotman, led Brad ley's scoring with 10 points. Bud Grover scored 16 and Unruh, 13. Baylor beat the two-mlnule rule in achieving Its victory. The Bears trailed 54 to 50 with less than a minute to play, but pulled the game out by virtue of an amazing rally. East-West Grid Game Movies May Be Shown A 15-minulc highlight film of the 25lh annual East-West foot hall game has been added to Tide Water Associated Oil company's film libraries in the West. This full color, 16 mm sound film, presents colorful and exciting moments from both the pageant and game. Sport fans In clubs, sehunls and other organizations may ob tain the film, on a loan basis, free of charge, through local As sociated offices. Coast League Season To Open Tuesday With EightClairning Flag San Francisco. Mar. 25 (U.R) Eight Pacific Coast league base ball teams, all packing pen nant gleams in their eyes, take the field on Tuesday night in four California cities as they launch the official 1950 baseball campaign of the nation The openers send Los Anodes to Sacramento, Seattle to Oak land, Portland to Hollywood and San Francisco to San Diego, 40.000 Fans Expected Basing predictions on big crowd turnouts for exhibition games, owners expect about 40, 000 to witness the four games. The two largest parks in the league. San Francisco Seals and Los Angeles Angels, will oe mic, thus cutting into the attendance. While the weather has been minv and cold, during the weck- pml it is predicted that improved weather conditions will prevail for the openers, all oPwhich will be played at night. Favored clubs in this year's nennant race rjrobablv will be tho Padres of San Diego, the Acorns of Oakland and the de fending champion Hollywood BASEBALL EXHIBITION GAMES New York I A) "A" J J Brooklyn l.Nl 7 " Bc-rrn; Hnlton. Poclhii-lan 181 ana ca- wardi. Homo run Johnson. si I.nui INI S 11 A Cincinnati (Nl H 2 Stftlev. Deal (at ano uaraRiom. ni 3l: Wehmner. Peterson 7 and Coop. cr, Johnson 17). Home runs Muslal. Lllwlulcr. Boston (Al S a Wellington fA 1 '3 1 Meuermott, Masterson (3) and Baits, White (7), Haynes fB and Grasso. EvunS lfll. Home runs Combs. Robin son, Kozar. Philadelphia (N) ISO UoMon INI 6 13 1 lleint.elinan. Donnelly llli and l.o. pnln: Spahn, Webb 3). Antonclll (81 and Linden. Detroit (A) S 0 New York (Al "B" 7 0 1 Hosavin. White (fl) and Ginsberg; Shea, Hood (Si and Berbcrcl. 4 fl 1 ft S 4 and Plumbn; and Oswald- Toronto IINTI Philadelphia INI "B" Possehl. Brittin 7) Candlnl, Borowy (7) Home run Young. Buffalo (INTI 3 9 2 Philadelphia IA) 12 1 Silverman. Swift f4l and Minor, Bnssie. Marchildon l6l and Astruth. Pittsburgh IN) S 7 3 San Francisco (PCD 9 0S t'hesnes. GreRg 3. Main ifil Cham bers l8i and McCullough. Turner 17). l.ien, Singleton 12) and Parlee. New York INI Oakland I PCI. I Kramer. Bowman IS). Handsen IIP' and Weslrum; Nelson. Harris iBi. Probst 1 101 and Padgett. Home runs Harsham. Galan. St I.ouls (Ai "B" 3 S 3 San Dlrgo iPCLI 10 12 1 Upi-hurch. Payne (31 and Jackson; Zuvcrlnk. Kipp (HI and Treash. Home runs West, Seltzer. Chicago (A) 19 1 Sacramenl IPCI.1 2 3 I Wight. Gumpert IBI, Pierettl (fli and Musi; Grove. Conger 4I, Hrewer 171. Dobcrnic iBi and Kuimundl. Stars. All have powerful out fields; great over-all hitting strength, and balance. Seals Seek Record One of the features of opening day will be the fact that the San Francisco Seals will be gunning for their 10th straight first-day victory and their 12th out of their last 13 fir3t-day games since 1937. Their only loss during that time was a 9-8 decision to Port land in 1040. At the same time these same Seals ended the 1949 season with seven straight losses to the Sacramento Soloas. All the teams will spend a full week playing seven games against their opening-day foe. Openers in the other four cities will come on April 4, with Hollywood at Seattle, Oakland at Portland, San Diego at Los An geles and Sacramento at San Francifco. Beavers Lose 12th Practice Riverside, Cal.. Mar. 25 U.R The hard-luck Portland Beavers took their 12th practice season shellacking today as the Seattle Rainiers pounded them 10 to 6 in an exhibition game here. The Beavers' Vince Dibiasi and John Tiernoy gave up 15 clouts, including a two-run homer by First Baseman Frank Coleman in the third frame that touched off the Rainier batting spree. Guy Fletcher and Hector t&Kinny) Brown held Portland to seven hits. Left Fielder Johnny Ruckcr got a three-run round tripper for the Beavers in the ninth. Portlend faces the Los Angeles Angels in its 18th practice sea son game here tomorrow with Southpaw Cal Mclrvin on the mound. Tornado '9' Tops J 'vi Me In Practice Mcdford high's 1950 baseball squad was expected to spend much of its time this coming week on bettering its batting and long-range hitting averages be fore encountering Eagle Point high in their first Southern Ore gon conference encounter here Friday. Last week Friday afternoon in a practice game with Jackson ville on the slippery local field, the Black Tornado came off with an 8-to-l victory but could garner but five hits in eight innings played. Three Hit Triples Jim Whitby, Norm Loop and Connie Holzgang rapped out trip les for three of the five local safeties. Darrcll Woolen and Lefty Turk shared local mound duties with Gary Boshears and Landers doing the catching. Greenmaer, D. Clay and Hardy pitched for the Redskins nine. I Jacksonville's lone run was! scored in the seventh off the offerings of Turk who allowed two hits. Wooten gave up one hit. Talent High Winner, 5-4 Ashland, Mar. 25 Talent and Ashland high school baseball nines will play a return game Thursday, March 30, at Talent. The tiff, originally set for Fri dav, will be at 3 p. m. Talent led all the way last Fri day to edge Ashland 5 to 4 on the Lithians' diamond. The Bulldogs had a 3-to-0 advantage after their half of the fifth inning but Ash land picked its first score during its fifth turn at bat. Each team added a pair of tal lies in the sixth frame and Ash land got another "in the seventh. The Lithians had men on second and third bases when the game ended. Stan Hanscomb went the route for Ashland on the mound while Jerry Montgomery, Bill Smith and Pat Henry pitched for Talent. Wins Grand National Alntree, Eng., March 25 (U.R) Freebooter won the 107th Grand National Steeplechase today. What No Sun was second and Achton Major third. Freebooter was the favorite in the classic an 8 to 1 bet in the "Overnight Line" made by Brit ish bookmakers. Freebooter thus became the first favorite to win the classic since Sprig came home first in 1907. Rowland Roy finished fourth In the race and the royal entry, Monaveen, owned jointly by Princess Elizabeth and the queen, finished fifth. Monaveen was a sentimental favorite of the several hundred thousand spec tators who crammed the historic course. A totalj of 49 horses started the course but only 13 finished. Garde Toi was sixth, then came Cromwell, Happy River. Braney VI, Knockirr, Ship's Bell, Inchmore and Saintfield. The only American jockey in the race, Danny Manzani of Schranton, Pa., rode Battling Pedulas and did not finish. For Red Sox Sarasota, Fla., Mar. 25 (U.R) Because pitching has been a headache ever since he took over the reins of the Boston Red Sox, Manager Jae McCarthy disclosed today that he will try to carry 11 hurlers from' the very start this season. "I know most clubs carry only 10," he said, "but my team is so Well set in pvprv nncitinn thai T am going to carry 11. 1 only wish couia cut somewhere to make it 12. But I'm hoping 11 will do." In both seasons he has led the Red Sox his faulty early season pitching has cost him the pen nant in a playoff game against Cleveland in 1948 and on the fi nal day last year against the New York Yankees. HARMONY FOR DEER Harmony, Pa. (U.R) Three deer entered this small commun ity in one week for a taste of civilization but only one lived to profit by the experience. One was killed by a train, the second ran into a fence and broke his neck, and the third left town much wiser and satisfied with his woodland home. 'On Trust' j Wins Again San Bruno, Cal.. Mar. 25 (U.R) i The greatest California money ! winner of all time. On Trust, J closed with a ru5h today to take ' the featured $7,500 added Penin sula handicap at Tanforan today, i The favorite. Bolero, placed second in the six-furlong race. Great Dream was third and El butte fourth in the field of nine sprint stars. i The six-year-old son of Alibahi t flashed over the slow Tanforan ! course in the excellent time of 1.12 to pay $9.10, S3.90 and $2.90. Today's victory gave his owners. E. O. Stice and sons of Eagle Rock, Cal., a purse of $4,650 and brought his winnings to $505,970. The largest crowd of the year, 18.841, watched On Trust break sixth, move to the outside turn ing into the stretch and overtake Bolero. PARNELL SHOWS WELL Orlando. Fla.. Mar. 25 (U.R) Mcl Parnell, the Boston Red Sox' 5-game winner, was the pace maker as Manager Joe McCar thy s pitching staff began to round into form today. New York Giants Cut Squad About April 1 Oakland, Cal.. Mar. 25 (U.R) Ford Smith, 28-year-old Negro rookie from Phoenix, Ariz., is almost certain to make the New York Giants pitching staff, Man ager Leo Durocher said today. Durocher said he plans to cut his squad to 27 about April 1, but that if he has his way he will stay with the Giants for the com ing season. Smith pitched and played outfield for Jersey City last year. Basketball .-mi. I V IH CI ITS NCAA Western Srml Final Hnvlnr .", Brigham Younn d Bradley 73, U. C. L. A. 59 N. V Mrm Tourney nrnvr I Phillips Oiltri ti5, Stewart Chevrolet 33 NAAV Womrm Tourney Little Dixie Queen (MacAIester. UKIA I a.-, aieflmimrs in 11 tines noiiery jw, aid lm mum 37 NBC Nmnville 2f. Goldblumr Nash ville 28 There are about 65,000 Nava jo Indians. FANS! FANS! 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