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PCL Announces
Batting Stars
San Francisco, Apr. 12 (U.R)
Buster Adams, the San Diego
outfielder, is leading the Pacific
Coast league regulars in hitting
with a lusty mark of .421, ac
cording to William Weiss, league
statistician. Averages include
games of Sunday, April 9.
Another San Diego star. Max
West, tops the loops in runs-bat-ted-in
with 18 on a .400 average.
Outfielder Roy Weatherly of
Oakland leads in homers with
five.
Roy Welmaker, the crack
young Negro hurler of the
Padres, tops the pitching regu
lars with four wins and no
losses. He also is tops in strike
outs with 19.
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Portland Track
To See Racing
Portland, Ore., Apr. 12 (U.R)
William H. Klepper and associ
ates have leased Portland Mead
ows for a 25-day horse racing
program from May 13 to June 10
pending Oregon racing commis
sion approval, officials at the
First National Bank of Portland
said today.
Klepper Is former owner of
the Portland baseball club and
his group signed the lease with
the bank, which bought the
multi-million dollar track at a
foreclosure sale last month.
Klepper said eight races will
be run daily except Saturday,
when the schedule will call for
nine events. The daily program
will carry a minimum $500
purse, he said.
Cincinnati Vs. Yanks
In Exhibition Contest
Cincinnati, Apr. 12 (U.R)
The Cincinnati Reds make their
first 1950 home appearance to
day against the world champion
New York Yankees.
The Reds, who won 15 of 23
games in Florida, had lost four
of their last seven games as they
made their local bow. The Bos
ton Braves rallied for six runs
in the ninth inning yesterday to
beat them, 10 to 6, and take the
spring series, six games to four.
Bill Bowerman Attends
Convention at Boise
Eugene, Apr. 12 Two mem
bers of the Oregon coaching
staff will play a prominent part
in the northwest district con
vention of the American Asso
ciation for Health, Physical Edu
cation and Recreation at Boise,
Ida., today through April 15.
Football Coach Jim Aiken and
Track Coach Bill Bowerman
will take part in the athletic
section of the convention tomor
row. Bowerman is chairman of
the meeting and Aiken will be
in the football section of the
program.
Hockey
By United Press
New Westminster and Van
couver tangle tonight in the sev
enth and decisive contest of their
playoff series for the northern
division Pacific Coast Hockey
league title.
The winners will play the Los
Angles Monarchs. southern divi
sion chamDS. in a best-out-of-
seven series for the league
crown.
. The Canadians tied their se
ries with New Westminster at 3
victories each last night by
romping over the Royals 6 to 1.
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MASTER GOLFER Jimmy De
niaret of Ojal, Calif., watches his
putt on the 17th green in the
Masters' Tournament at Augus
ta, Ca. Demaret won with a
final round of 69, for a four-day
total of 243.
Phoenix High Diamond
Squad Plays Saturday
Phoenix, Apr. 12 Phoenix
high's baseball team today
looked forward to its county con
ference game with Butte Falls
today after dropping a 14 to 4
non-league tussle with Yreka,
Cal., here yesterday afternoon.
It was Yreka's 13th game
against three for Phoenix high.
Hutton, Furry and Keene
shared pitching chores for Phoe
nix and between them gave up
eight hits. Phoenix could garner
but a single blow off the offer
ings of Yreka hurlers, that one
being a scratch hit by Hite.
'Middleground' Places
Second in Derby Test
New York. Apr. 12 (U.R)
Middleground. King ranch's
Kentucky Derby hopeful who
was beaten but not disgraced in
his 1950 debut, will not run in
the Experimental handicap No. 2
at Jamaica Saturday.
Sent to the post as a 2 to 9
choice in the Count Fleet purse
at Jamaica y esterday. Middle-
ground wound up a half-length
back of Mrs. Andy Schuttinger's
speedy Ferd, a derby non-eligible.
Eagle Point JDJ Title
Basketball Team Fete
Eagle Point, Apr. 12 Mem
bers of the J-D-J conference
1949-50 basketball championship
squad from Eagle Point high
school will be honored tonight
at a banquet in Rogue River
lodge one mile east of Trail.
Dinner will be served starting
at 6:30.
Master of ceremonies will be
Coach Ted Schopf of Southern
Oregon college's basketball
squad which went to the NAIB
regional playoffs at Portland
this past winter.
Sports for
the Week
WEDNESDAY
Commercial Bowling league,
7:30 p m. Medford Rifle club
shoot, Merrick's, 7:30 p.m.
Eagle Point high basketball
squad banquet. Rogue River
lodge, 6:30 p.m.
THURSDAY
Eagle Point Booster club
meeting, entertainment, E. P.
high gym, 7:30 p.m. Women's
golf spring tourney qualifying
round opens. Rogue Valley
Country club City Bowling
league, 7 p.m. All-itar wres
tling card, armory, 8:30 p.m.
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Henrich to Join
N.Y. in Brooklyn
New York, Apr. 12 (U.R)
There was good news for New
York Yankee Manager Casey
Stengel today on the first anni
versary of Joe DiMagglo's fa
mous fllaht from Fort Worth.
Tex., to the brink of baseball
oblivion.
Tommy Henrich, one of the
Yankees' famous old pros, will
rejoin the team in Brooklyn next
Friday and probably will be able
to play against the Red Sox
when the Yankees open their
American league season in Bos
ton. Dr. George Bennett, noted
Johns Hopkins hospital surgeon,
assured Henrich and the Yankee
management yesterday that
there was nothing seriously
wrong with Tommy's ailing
knee.
Webfoot Track Squad
To Take on Idahoans
Eugene, Apr. 12 The highly
regarded University of Oregon
track and field squad gets its
first dual meet test Saturday
when it travels to the University
of Idaho for the opening meet
of the 1950 northern division
season.
Coach Bill Bowerman's talent
loaded Ducks will be gunning
for their third straight win over
the Vandals and if the two
squads have top weather condi
tions a number of meet records
may be broken.
Clinton Charley Leads
Pistol Shooting Here
Clinton Charley took top hon
ors in the regular competition of
the Medford Rifle club's pistol
division at Merrick's indoor
range with a 252 total. Next
were Cliff Friend with 252, Or
ville Lengele 246, Roy Hewitt
236 and Loren croucher with
235.
Norm Lucich won his first leg
on the handicap trophy.
Communist Troops
Take British Barracks
Taipei, Formosa, Apr. 12 UJ.PJ
Nationalist sources said today
that British authorities in Hong
Kong have been informed by the
Chinese communists that a bat
tle is impending for the Chusan
islands.
The statement was made in
connection with reports from
Hong Kong that British authori
ties there had refused permission
for the 6,000-ton British ship An
king to move foreigners from
communist held Shanghai be
cause of the "timing factor."
Nationalists sources said the
British may have been informed
that the Anking might be sailing
into an active fighting zone
caused by a communist attempt
to take the nationalist Chusan
islands near Shanghai.
Ponzi Top Billiads
Player, Dies in East
Philadelphia, Apr. 1 2 (U.R)
Andrew Ponzi, 47, three-time
holder of the world's pocket bil
liards title, died in Hahnemann
hospital yesterday of a heart ail
ment. Ponzi, who started playing
billiards as a boy to strengthen
his right hand which was man
gled by a trolly accident, suf
fered a heart attack while visit
ing his mother here two weeks
ago. His home is in Salem, va.
Grade School Tri-Meet
Slated Here Thursday
Lincoln. Roosevelt and Wash
ington schools track teams will
compete in a triangular meat
Thursday starting about 4 p.m.
on the senior high field In the
second competition between lo
cal grade schools conducted so
far this spring.
Monday afternoon Jackson de
feated Lincoln grade school in a
dual track meet.
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Washington, Apr. 12 U.R-
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that he would be out of the hos
pital in eight to 12 days.
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tumor near his spinal cord. It
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