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TEN MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday. June 13. 1950
Rogues Edge Silver Sox 3 to 1
Is Sacrifice Bunts Aid Bedford
Reno, Nev., June 15 (Special
to Mail Tribune) Timely relief
work by Lloyd Jones saved the
Medford Rogues a 3 to 1 Far
West league victory over the
Reno Silver Sox here last night
as the three-game series between
the two teams was even at one
win each.
Last evening's tilt was short
ened to six innings because of
rain as the downpour came Be
fore the seventh inning was com
nleted. The two teams play a sin
gle game here tonight and then
the Kogues move to riusDurg,
Cal for a four game series open
ing Friday night.
Jones Fans Plover
Jones came into the game in
the fourth with two Reno players
out after the bases were loaded
on Starter Dick Smiths third
consecutive walk which had
forced in Reno's lone run. Jones
fanned Dick Zaccarelli on three
straight pitches to snuff out the
rally.
The Silver Sox could glean but
two hits off the offerings of
Smith and Jones, a single by
Manager Joe Borich off Smith
and Jim Dykes' one-baser off
Jones. Smith walked six in three
and two-thirds innings, struck
out three.
Jones whiffed two Silver Sox,
walked none during the rest of
the game. Reno's hurler Marcus
Torres strung out six Medford
singles, walked none and fanned
five.
Russ Stuart and Don Williams
with two hits each, Johnny Pop
ovich with one and Bill Adams
with one got the only safe blows
by the Rogues.
Stuart Geti Single
Medford made good use of the
sacrifice bunt to score their three
runs. In the first inning Stuart
opened up with a single, went to
third on Torres' misplay of Jack
Cooney's bunt and scored on an
infield out.
In the second inning for the
visiting Rogues, Williams and
Adam singled, advanced on
Smith's sacrifice, with Williams
scoring on an infield out. In the
fifth, Stuart singled, advanced
to third on an error and scored
on Bob Haddock's squeeze bunt.
Jack Lloyd of the Rogues is
scheduled to face Pat Monahan
in tonight s game.
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Junior Legion Squad
Continues to Workout
Fifteen candidates for the lo
cal Junior Legion baseball team
are working out three evenings
a week at the senior high field
in preparation for competition
with Grants Pass and Ashland
for district honors and several
other teams in Oregon and California.
In the absence of Coaches Alex
McDonald and Frank Roelandt
who are on vacation, the work
outs have been in charge ot Ken
and Gary Boshears, the former a
student at Oregon State college
and a former local player.
First game for the local Jun
ior Legion nine may be played
before Roelandt and McDonald
return but no date was an
nounced by those in charge.
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Echols' Arrival
For Title Bout
Delayed a Day
wes fcchols, who was to ar
rive in Medford today for his
national amateur middleweight
championship fight wi(h Bull
Ilnlsey at the armory Monday,
will not arrive until tomorrow
afternoon, Larry Burdette of the To Be Decided in Fall
Kfjunnui jmk ouuuirrn j r c k o n
Boxing- club said he was in
Local Ump'
Nurses Hurt
One of Medford's more popu
lar umpires and mail delivery-
men tor Uncle Sam is nursing
a broken nose these days because
he and a Northern California
Baseball league player met in a
game last Sunday at Weed, Cal.
Virgil Swanson, according to
reports here, suffered a broken
nose and loss of front teeth when
Mickey Risberg of Weed's team
swung on the local arbiter after
Swanson had called him out on
a third strike.
A report In the Siskiyou Daily
News of Yreka, Cal., said that
Risberg, who had been playing
third base, shoved Swanson and
then hit him with his fist. The
Medford man was knocked out
momentarily by the blow but
continued to officiate, switching
with the base umpire after the
game had been delayed IS minutes.
League President Miles Rich
mond has automatically suspend
ed Risberg for this assault, the
Dnily News said.
National Golf Champ
formed.
Echols and his manager, Capt.
Bill Burch, were unable to get
plane connections out of Merced,
Cal.. until Friday.
The champion will work out
here Friday evening and Satur
day with light drills scheduled
for Sunday.
Hali.y Due Saturday
llalsey will arrive by plane
Saturday and will go through
loosening up workout Saturday
night and Sunday.
Burdette said Earl Voakley,
prominent southern Oregon ref
eree, has been selected to handle
the title fight.
There was a rush for reserved
tickets yesterday at Brown's cafe
and Lamports' sporting goods
store with advance sales Indicat
ing a capacity crowd for Med
ford's first national champion
ship sporting event.
Skeet Shoot Opened
At Reno; 150 Enter
Reno, Nev., June 19 (U.R)
About ISO topflight shotgun
artists from throughout the west
have arrived to compete In the
four-day great Pacific coast skeet
shoot which opened here this
morning.
The open, largest skeet shoot
ing tournament in the far west,
offers $2,510 in prizes and $2.0(10
worth of trophies. It is now in
its second year.
Mall Trlhun Want Ada
New York, June 15 (U.R)
Qualifying rounds for the Na
tional Amateur Golf champion
ship will be staged in 37 cities
late next month and early in
August, it was announced today
by the U. S. Golf association,
which annually sponsors the
event.
All you need to enter the qual
ifying round is a $7 entry fee
a bag of golf clubs and an ama
teur status. The championship
tournament is scheduled for the
Minneapolis Golf club, August
21 to 26.
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Workouts are held from 6 to
7:30 p.m. Mondays, Wednesdays
and Thursdays.
Last season the Medford Jun
ior Legion team went to the fi
nals of the regional tournament
at Drain before losing out In a
bid tor the state title piayotis.
Favor Hogan
In Golf Open
New Rochelle, N. Y June 15
(U.R) National Open Champion
Ben Hogan had both the odds
and the sentiment of the golf
world riding heavily with him
today as he and 15 other top
notch pros teed off in the open
ing round of the $15,000 round
robin tournament.
For Hogan, whose stirring
playoff victory over Lloyd Man-
grum and George Fazio brought
him the national open title at
Ardmore. Pa., last Sunday, it
will mark the final tournament
appearance for some time.
He has announced he will
"take a long rest" in order to re
cuperate further from a near
tragic automobile accident in
January, 1949.
After today s opening round
over the par 72, 6,569-yard
course ,the competitors will play
two rounds tomorrow and one
round each on Saturday and
Sunday. The winner will get
$3,000 and every player entered
will share in the $15,000 prize
money.
FISHERMAN "LUCKY'
Dawson. Ga., June 15 (U.R)
Fisherman C. A. Mathis, casting
from a boat on a pond near here
yesterday, reeled in a l'-i -pound
hoot owl, hooked as his lure
whizzed through the air.
Senior Boys
Local Track
Team Named
Sixteen senior class members
of the 1950 Medford high school
track squad who will receive
pins from the Athletics Booster
club of souinern uregon were
announced today by Coach Bob
Newland of the Black Tornado.
These pins which were to have
been presented to the senior
boys whether they were track
stars or on the "scrubs," will be
mailed to them at their homes
soon. Presentation was delayed
until after graduation so the
awards would not violate any
OSAA rules.
Listed by Newland were Dean
and Dale Coverstone, Lou Bittle,
Dick B o 1 1 j e r , Ted Birdseye,
George Goodman, Jack Morris,
LaRue Smith, Steve Swedberg,
Roger Hoggs, Bill Thomson, Don
Vincent, Warren Wendt, Jim
Ward, L"0 Parker and Bob
Shores.
The Medford high track team
took too honors in the state high
school meet, the Rogue and Hay
ward relays, all dual meets this
year and several boys partici
pated in the state AAU meet
where they walked off with
more high honors.
WSC, Texans
NCAA Favors
Omaha, Neb.. June 15 (U.R)
Defending champion University
of Texas opens defense of its
National Collegiate Athletic as
sociation baseball title tonight
with almost the same squad
which won the championship last
year.
The Texans, co-favorites with
Washington State, take on Rut
gers in the first game of the
NCAA double-elimination tour
nament at Municipal stadium
Wisconsin plays Colorado A
and M. in the second game of
tonight s doubleheader.
Washington State, rated as one
of the classiest west coast nines
of all time, meets Tufts and Ala
bama plays Bradley university
tomorrow night. Doubleheaders
will continue nightly until seven
of the eight district champions
have been eliminated.
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Larks Lose
In 9th 5-4;
Gems Split
By United Press
Everything seemed fine to Eu-
fiene Pitcher George Surprenant
ast night in the Far West league.
He was breezing along with a
mree-run lead in the eighth in
ning against Pittsburg when sud
denly the sky fell in. The Dia
monds got the range and tied up
the contest with four hits and
three runs. Then in the ninth Lou
Cook s single and BUI tnos dou
ble with two out gave Pittsburg
the winning tally as they won,
3 to 4.
Klamath Falls and Willows
split a doubleheader with the
Cards winning the first game, 6
to 4, and Klamath taking the
second 12 to 3.
Malgradi Gets Homer
Willows Pitcher Ray Malgradi
got the nod for the opener, send
ing his club ahead with a fourth
inning homer. In the nightcap,
Klamath Falls rookie Chuck
Grimsley held Willows to six hits
and was never in trouble.
Medford defeated Reno 3 to 1
in a shortened game called in the
seventh because of rain.
Marysville kept their jinx over
Redding alive by downing the
Browns. 13 to 7. It was the fifth
straight win for the Peaches on
Marysville's home grounds.
Seattle Puts in Bid
For Rowing Regatta
Seattle, June 15 (U.R) The
city of Seattle has made a bid for
the 1951 International Rowing
association regatta.
Georee Gunn. nresident nf
Greater Seattle, Inc., newly-
rormed civic bocster organiza
tion, said Inst, nipht hie nrani.
zation would underwrite the re
gatta, moved this year to Mari
etta, O., from traditional Pough-I
keepsie, N. Y.
BARTLE GOES HITLESS
Dick Bartle, former Medford
Nuggets player, went hitless in
three trips to the plate last night
but was credited with one sacri
fice as Salem topped Vancouver,
B. C, in a class B Western Inter
national league game, 9 to 3, at
Vancouver. Bartle now is bat
ting .269.
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largest banking center west of
Chicago since the days of '49.
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