Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 03, 1950, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextEIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) Rogues Play Tonight, Thursday And Friday at Fairgrounds Park (Edilor'i Note See pig on of today i piper tor poium iiir In day postponement ox io night's gam at in fair groundi). It was still somewhat of a nuestion late this morning wheth' er the current cloudy showery weather would allow tonight's baseball opener to be played be tween the Medford Rogues and the Marysville Braves at the fair grounds as tne local pro season trieri trt start. Last night's projected Far West league season opener for the valley fans was washed out early yesterday atierncon. Onanina CramoniS Opening day ceremonies were scheduled tonight with Mayor Diamond Flynn, Sheriff Howard Gault and other city and county nffirinU takine Dart. Secretary of State Earl f . Newbry will be unable to attend due to a meet ing in F.ngene. A parade at 4:30 this afternoon wun tne junior nmn uunu, umi npKiimpn'ii nnH firms' floats, a marine corps color guard, the Rogues' baseball squad, Athletics Booster club members and others taking Dart was scheduled to start off the opening day festivi ties Floyd Shotwell is scheduled to hurl tonight a opener againsi me league-leading Marysville, Cal., team that currently Is tied with Pittsburg. The tall righthander was tough in the pinches last week and came off with a vic tory against the Diamonds. Tomorrow night the local hurler may be Lloyd Jones who pitched for the Nuggets last year before being hurt. The Braves end their current series with Medford tomorrow night. Willows, whose three - bame series at Eugene was cancelled due to the field not being in shape, will be in Medford to op pose the Rogues f riday and Sat urday in single games and on Sunday with the season's first twin bill. All four Far West league games last night were postponed due to rain or wet grounds, in cluding Marysville at Medford, Pittsburg at Klamath Falls, Reno at Redding and Willows at Eu gene. '0' Baseball Nine Travels Eugene, May 3 Coach Don Kirseli and 17 Oregon baseball players open a long road trlrj to day ngninst Idaho and conclude the series on Thursday. Washington State will be host lo me webfoots on Friday and anturday and then the Duck: move over to Seattle for games wun Washington on Monday and luesaay. vine webfoots will make the trip by chartered bus. Oregon leaves its home ground after the poorest opening in 15 years. The Ducks lost a pair to both Washington and Washing ton State and split with Idaho. The Ducks, who have finished either first or second every year since 1940, will be trying to get out of the league cellar on the long trip. School Golfers Defeat Raiders Paced by Eddie Oldfield and Phil Getchell, the Medford high golf team bested Southern Ore gon college linksmen 0-4 to 5 Mi m a match at Rogue Valley Country club yesterday. Oldfield carded a 73 to thump J. Boyle 3 to 0. Getchell shot a 75 to down B. Phillips by the snmo mnrRin. Bob Shepherd was Medford'a only other individual event winner, whipping B. Pcr rin Z'4 to '4. B. Kelly of the college beat Justin Smith 3 to 0 and D. Lug net defented Billie McAllister 2 to 1. Tacoma and Yakima Top Western International Seattle. May 3 (U.R The rnined-out Tacoma Tillers tnined the Yakima Bears at the top of nit- western international league heap today. While Tacoma's gnmo against the Spokane Indians was post poned by an unscasonal eastern Washington storm. Yakima dropped a 10-5 derision to the seventh-place Vancouver Capl- IHI1US. APpeMtoVO J1 JQ ,;TCLLTHE YOU WANT IMPERII I I ....t..riHi i. magi Dy mram Walktr. Blended whiskey. 86 proof. 70Z grain neutral spirits. Hirim Walker Son, Inc. Peotii, Illinois. MAIL TRIBUNE xf. -'.ry PLAYS TONIGHT Tommy Nelson, above, player-manager for the Medford Rogues and for mer Boston Braves' inflclder, will be at second base tonight when the local Far West league team opens its 1950 home season at the fuirgrounds park. Play ball will be at 7:45 after opening day ceremonies at 7:30. 'Stars' Sink Low in PCL San Francisco, May 3 (U.R) Oakland today joined what might become a procession of teams defeating Hollywood, thus pushing the Stars down the Pa cific Coast, league's slippery slide. The Acorns last night handed Hollywood a blistering 10 to 2 defeat to make it the third straight loss for the Twinks. Mighty George Bamberger scat tered six hits and Loyd Christo pher smashed across six runs to do it. It was the fifth win for Bamberger. Christopher, a former Los An geles player, unloaded a double In the first inning with the bases loaded to push across three runs and he homered In the seventh with two men on. Hollywood got its two lonely runs In the sixth on singles by Catcher Mike Sandlock, Buddy Hicks and Bob Bundy. STANDINGS PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W L PCT OUU San Diego as 11 . Huliywood ...ai ia .30 ai2 San Francisco ! 1 -543 la Los Angeles 10 17 .528 S Oakland IB 1 .sun 7 Portland IB 17 .483 7, Sacramento 13 22 .371 ll'. Seattle 7 23 .310 HI AMERICAN LEAGUE Detroit 8 New York ....... Boston . S .887. .6110 579 .136 ..Mm .37.1 .3.13 .333 i l 1 I '4 2'i 2'j 3a Washington 9 Cleveland .. 4 St. Louis 3 Chicago 3 Philadelphia 4 NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklyn a Chicago 4 .727 .fH7 .583 .SOU .41 1! .402 .400 .143 Pittsburgh 7 St. Louis Boston B Philadelphia Cincinnati 4 New York 1 WESTERN INTERNATIONAL Tacoma 3 .64.1 Yakima 9 S ti43 Wenatchee 8 S .61.1 Salem 7 8 .538 Trl Cllv 7 8 .4118 Spokane 8 7 .4112 Vancouver 5 8 .3B4 1'j I' 2'j 3-, S's Victoria S 10 .300 Scores Yesterday AMF.RICAN LEAGUE noston 8, Cleveland t Detroit at Philadelphia. postponed, postponed rain Chicago at New York. rain St. Louis at Washington, postponed rain. NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 10, Philadelphia 8 Pittsburgh 8. Boslon 1 Brooklyn 10. St. Louis 3 New York at Cincinnati, postponed rain. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Los Angeles 7. San Francisco 0 Oakland 10. Hollywood 2 San Diego 10. Portland I Seattle 3, Sacramento 3 WESTERN INTERNATIONAL Trl City 14, Wonat.-iie 8 Vancouver 10. Yakima 3 Tacoma at Spokane, postponed, rain. Dead line Sunday Classified Noon Saturdays la at H'SALl.T THAT Uor J1 MAN I I ... . Wednetday. Mir 150 MEDF0H)rTRIBUHI Ducks Grid Prospects Eugene, May 3 Coach Jim Aiken planned to slow down the rugged pace of the 1950 spring football practice as mid-term tests and the fourth annual spring game approached. The Duck boss was both pleased and worried at the con clusion of the first IB days of scrimmage. "Our line has come along nicely, considering the number of new men," Aiken said, "but we still lack good run ning backs and I don't know if we can find them before the con clusion of our spring work." Every practice session so far has included at least a half hour of scrimmage and Aiken said he would continue the schedule for the remainder of the spring. "Our big weakness is lack of ex perience," Aiken stated, "and I think the best way to get ready for the fall season is to work under game conditions." In the first full game scrim mage the Whites defeated the Greens. 30 to 18, and the work of Earl Stelle and sophomore Jack Williams at end contributed much of the White scoring punch. High Schools Play Friday Medford high baseball team today looked fordward to its Southern Oregon conference game with Ashland high at the Grizzlies' field Friday afternoon and Eagle Point high diamond players were expecting Myrtle Creek at Eagle Point for a JDJ league game the same day. Yesterday's scheduled confer ence tilt between Medford and Central Point at CP. and Grants Pass at Eagle Point were post poned because of rain. Eagle Point will try to play its game with the Cavemen this after noon but Mndford-C.P. game has not been settled. Today the Black Tornado was scheduled to play Ashland high on the local field at 3 p.m. in a conference encounter but late this morning it was doubtful if the game could be played. The field was wet and soggy from yesterday's rain. Central Point is scheduled to play Illinois Valley at Junction City on Friday in a JDJ contest. Albany is putting on all out effort to bring tiie finest baseball park in Oregon high school an- nnls to that city and in time (or the state prep school state cham pionship baseball tourney slated to start there May 25. Sports fans in that town call the stadium being built there the "finest" in the state. Incident ally the entire protect not only Is for baseball but a companion layout with stands and facilities needed for football are being constructed on a nearby tract also. "What does all this have to do with Medford?" You atk. Well; for on thing there ii possibility- that Medford high's baseball team will rep resent this diitrict at the stale tournament, which is a great honor in itself. But we are also reminded that the city of Medford with its 18, 000 or more people has but one baseball diamond within its borders and that is a school dia mond on which there is a cer- TAS TO eETTHHTASTB VOUR PAD0V 6LAD MA"6 V J CIFTH 10 PINT team Lffl . Camp White Game Scene Camp White, May 3 The Eagle Point Townies and the club Butte Falls will usher in the Rogue Valley league base ball season the afternoon of May 17 on Hatton field. Announcement has just been made that there will be a regu lar field day with plenty of prizes to players for "firsts" as the game is played. Prior to the game itself will be base running, distant and accurate throwing and other stunts. Additional seating space will be provided. Two new sections of bleachers are going to be up. Fred Bruegger, mayor of Eagle Point, will toss the first pitch; Paul Hatton, manager of Camp White will attempt a base hit and back of the plate hold ing up "His Honor" will be Jake Olson to catch. The time of the game will be coordinated so as not to conflict with National Hospital day which will be observed on the station the same day. Madras High Selects Bob Pollard as Coach Prinevijle, Ore., May 3 (U.R) A Lewis and Clark college foot ball, basketball and baseball star Bob Pollard will take over Madras Union high school coaching chores this fall, Mad ras school superintendent Carl V. Rhoda said today. Pollard is to receive his mas ters degree in physical educa tion from the Portland college this summer. He succeeds Joe Piedmont, who resigned to enter private business. 'Snuffy' Smith Named Ashland School Coach Ashland, May 3 The third Southern Oregon college gradu ate in succession will hold the football coaching reins at Ash land junior high school when GRylord "Snuffy" Smith takes over the job next fall succeed ing Chuck Jandreau who will work for his masters. In addition to Jandreau as SOC graduates was Chuck De Autremont who now is coaching a northern California coast school. All three have been out standing athletes at SOC. tain amount of restriction due to schools having priority in its use. The fairgrounds baseball dia mond not only is out of the city limits but its facilities arc at least partly limited due to the Rogues using it and the fair board has jurisdiction over its use. In other words it is not like a playground which is open to all at any time. Attempts have been made In past years to obtain land either through purchase or gift nearer downtown Medford for a large baseball layout with adequate seating facilities, large parking areas and within walking dis tance of a large section of the city. Such a baseball project might b like a playground open to all with a liqhted diamond for professional, tmi-pro and high school base ball as well as diamonds for youngsters who now have only tha limited facilities at the senior high. One of the projects many in the Athletics Booster club would like to undertake is aiding the Summer Baseball school con ducted by Alex McDonald so that a part of its sessions can be held at Hawthorne park, provid ing a baseball diamond will be available there. It seems doubtul now that an eastside playground facility for the baseball school will be pro vided this season but perhaps another year will see not onlv a baseball diamond there but also well laid out Softball diamond. Evidently this corner's early season prediction that Redding wcvuld be a top team In the Far West Baseball lcnauc this season and that Marysville might be in the second division are not going to hear fruit. The Braves from Msrysville currently are on or near the top whll the Browns from Redding or resting en the bottom of the league ladder. When the writer saw Marys ville In a practice game two weeks ago he was not impressed particularly but we hear that since then the Braves have taken on three or four bov to strengthen their fielding and hit ting Redd nil evidently Hope nnl have the good Ditching to match Lewis, Clark Climbs Top Conference By United Prass Lewis and Clark college climbed atop the Northwest con ference baseball standings Wednesday alter lacing Willam ette 9 to 9 with a late-inning rally. Lefthander Don Wright went tne tun nine innings .tor tne Pioneers and got needed hitting support in the seventh inning when his teammates broke a 5-5 deadlock and went on to win. Frank Gatchell, 34-year-old Willamette righthander, went out in the eighth inning on a three-run pioneer rally and was cnarged with the deteat. Willamette U. Drops Willamette dropped into a two-way tie for second place in the conference with Linfield college, which moved to a 3 to 1 victory over Pacific. Johnny Nauman pitched the Linfielders to the second-place tie by giving up only two hits. The Wildcats scored two runs in the eighth inning to break a 1-1 deadlock. Lewis and Clark now leads the conference with three wins and one loss, followed by Wil limette with three wins and two losses, Pacific with one win and three losses and College of Idaho with five losses is as many starts. McDermott Just Misses New York, May 3 (U.R) Joe Page of the New York Yankees is a guy with a heart. That ex plains why Mickey McDermott of the Boston Red Sox almost pitched a no-hitter. Page watched McDermott pitch against the Yankees last week. After the 2Q-year-old Lefty was batted out, the star Yankee fireman gave him some sagr advice. "He was firing that ball back at the batter just as soon as he got it trom the catcher," Page said. I said 'count up to 40 or 45 before pitching and see if you don't do better next time out.' " Yesterday was "next time out" and the skinny southpaw pitch ed no-hit ball against the Cleve land Indians until Larry Doby singled in the seventh a scratch infield hit. The final score was Boston 6 to 1. Black George Winner Kentucky Derby Trial T.miUiMl Kv Mav 3 (U.R) The paddock pundits overlooked trial winner Black George today and stuck by Hill Prince and Your Host as the hot favorites for Saturday's Kentucky Derby. Black George proved to be the surprise package in the mile trial when he splashed home two lengths ahead of King ranch's HTlrtrlloarnunrl nt Churchill Downs yesterday. But the Wil liam Vecneman colt didn't re ceive as much praise as Hill Prince did for a simple work out. . , Moving out on the track pe tween the second and third ,-ooc Mill Prince went the full Derby dist3nce of a mile-and-a- nuartcr In z:ua ao. ciuuuy uc went only a mile and an eighth at his best speed, being eased up BOWLING LADIES' LEAGUE High individual game honors in the Ladies' Bowling league went to A. Carbiener with 188 and Audrey Swoape captured hich individual series with a 511 pintail when the women held uieir weuKiy sesMim ihsv man at the Medford Bowling lanes. Medford Feed and Seed took high team game with 764 and high team series of 2.149 went to Shaw s Apparel snop. LAnlES LEAGUE STANDINGS Trams W TLfnHf,rH t-tMl Sf1 40 Khnw. Annnrel Shoo ......47 33 Western Thrift Store 47 3:M Elk Lumber Company .....45 35 Oreson Finance Co. . ...41 39 Hubbard's ...38 Ellis C.rocery 33 Western Decorating 30 tm Ore. Finance 4 Lowrl 4R8 Ellis Groc. Crawford 37f- Knox 29i German 31 H Hill 339 Corhv 436 Johnson 39 Absentee 372 Burroughs .... 395 30S7 Weber 311 187hl West. Thrift I MrCall 400 Ludwtg 344 Cummlngs 389 Damon 449 Little 414 3041 West. Dec. 1 teaming 43Sl Hagen 39:. Rhoads 4Hl Virtue 34!) Gardner 4551 l7i Hubbard's 1 Elk Lumber 3 Harnish 379 390 402 Sacchl .. 4751 McGraw I Beck S Beck . Kl.lt Tamney 43 Barnwell 35 .. 420 . 287 Kenlev 4I Wlllett 409 1933 208: Shaw's Tollclson 387 Swiape 511 I.lttrell 385 Med. Feed I Tennant ........ 38-1 Haw ley 414 Mann 391 Absentee 315 Curry Carbiener .. 483 Barr 2149 4. 312l Dead line Sunday Classified la a Noon Saturdays. KJ PHONE 2-6119 FOR TOWING OR WRECKER SERVICE ROGUE SERVICE and Supply Co. Anywhere Anytime Local Rifle Club Slates Award Night Medford Rifle club, which now sports the Oregon four-man team small bore rifle champion ship, will have its annual party and award meeting for members and their wives at 7:30 p.m. to day at Merrick s indoor range. The main attraction will be a crab feed. Medford's four-man crew of D. J. Bolton (384), Lewis Conger (384), Harry Heidenreich (380) and John Rush (385) Sunday at Portland won the state crown with a 1,533 total. Portland was second with 1,521. The match was 20 shots prone and 20 stand ing. The team score will be sent in to the National Rifle associa tion for national title competi tion. Conger with a 200 plus lOx was among the expert winners in Match I for individuals. It was 20 shots prone. Next shooting activity of the Medford club will be on the out door range near the Crater lake highway Four Corners on May 14. - Larks Cancel Cards Series Eugene. Ore., May 3 U.R) Far West league baseball games at Medford and Klamath Falls were postponed last night be cause of wet grounds but Eugene cancelled its three-game series with Willows because recent bad weather slowed down construc tion of the club's new ball park. Construction crews were not able to complete work on the grandstand and the park dia mond was not in shape for the series. Club President Art Hadler said the Eugene-Willows series probably would be cancelled and that Eueene would day its Fri day through Sunday series at Marysville, cal. willows win play at Medord beginning Fri day. Both Eugene and Willows traveled here Monday but Had ler said the club decided against using any other city park. Eugene's opening game here tentatively is scheduled for May 16. when the Larks meet Reno. This is Eugene's first year as professional baseball city. for the final furlong. Hill Prince's time for the mile was 1:40 25. That was only two fifths of a second over Black George's clocking in the trial. And the Prince's other fractional times also were eye-poppers :24 35 for the first quarter, :50 for the half mile and 1:02 35 for five furlongs. Oil Capitol, Tom Gray's swift gray colt, also showed he was ready for the Derby jaunt by turning in a splendid workout. Oil Capitol only worked a half mile but it was a corker being clocked in :50 35. Carlos Legnon, Oil Capitol's regular exericse boy, turned in a good report on the gray ghost from Tulsa, saying "he was reaching out all the way and fighting for his head." Have Your Remington Electric Shaver .... CLEANED OILED ADJUSTED . FREE!! During the REMINGTON fM . Laatl nil tm Friday and Saturday May 5 Factory trained expert will be here at our store to service your electric shaver. Thii include cleaning, oiling, and adjusting and it' all tree! Any misting er worn Remington part will be replaced at factory price. If your shaver i net working in the tame faihion a when you purchased it, then don't mils thi wonderful oppor tunity to restore it to A-l condition. PARK'S SHAVER SERVICE AT THE NEW LOCATION IIOV2 E. 11th Medford Phone 2-2755 , I 1 1 .ii.. m lr-y - -"" . 1 ;. 'II CUMMINGS SIGNED Bob Cummlngs, above, coast junior heavyweight wrestling champion, will be the sixth man in the battle royal at the armory tomorrow night, starting at 8:30. Cum mings, who won the title from Al Szasz in Boise, Ida., recently, will go in with Newcomer Eddie Williams, Charley Carr, Leo Wal lick, Norval Stockstill and Ted Bell. Three regulation matches will follow the battle royal with pairings decided by elimination in the free-for-all. Bowlers Register Medford Bowling association will hold its annual city handicap tournament Sunday, May 7, starting at 1 p. m. at the Medford Bowling lanes, it was announced today. The tournament will consist of mm AUSTIN NOTES Earl Burchfield, a local power shovel operator, drivel an Austin A-40. He tows a 2800 lb. (Covered Wagon) house trailer behind this car. Has been into Copco's Tolcatee Falls camp and several trips to Tacoma. Drives up to 55 miles per hour on highway and averages 25 miles per gallon on gas from Medford, Oregon, to Kelso, Wash., covered that distance in 11 hours elapsed time. LOOK THE AUSTIN OVER AT MILES MOTORS 1201 N. RIVERSIDE la and 6 Your Old Shaver IS THE DOWN PAYMENT ON A NEW Remington Contour Deluxe For City Handicap both doubles and singles, those in charge said. All bowlers who are interested in signing up for the tourney may do so at the bowling lanes' desk. AFF03DA UE17CAR DEVON 4-DOOR SEDAN Jhm low Prif Quality Car America Wants LOW INITIAL COST UP TO 35 MILES PER GALLON For Demonstration Call 2-72S4 MILES MOTORS 1201 N. Riverside Medford PHONE 2-7254 ! i i lis patting tnunder.