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TCT MgDTOBD (OKKGOH) MAIL TRIBURE Wednesday April 2, 1S32 Seals Tip Beavers 2-0 In Coast Loop Opener By PAUL CANE San Francisco (U.R A wave of optimism trickled through Pacific Coast league stadiums Wednesday, Inspired by . some good crowds and good baseball at the loop's opening games. The PCL, 50 years old, turned a leaf on its 180-game 1952 schedule, Tuesday and Tuesday night And when that first flap was pushed back there were many thrilling things for a base ball fan to see. Cold weather kept the opening-night throng to about 8,500 at San Francisco's Seals sta dium. But those who braved the chilly air' were rewarded 'by witnessing Seal Bill Reeder's auspicious PCL pitching debut. The gangly, 6 foot, 5 inch Texan fashioned a spiffy one-hitter in gaining San Francisco a 2-0 de cision over Portland. New Pilots Appear Two new-to-the-league man agers made appearances: Tom my Heath led the Seals; Clay Hopper directed the Beavers. A record crowd 13,621 Sat in sunshine at Sacramento to watch Gov: Earl Warred toss out Exclusive! 1950 Cadillac SEDAN 60 Special Fleetwood A "one owner" car in per fect condition. Light grey, fully equipped. Shown by appointment only. SEE or CALL Mr. T nimbly or , Mr. Prestel at Jackson Motors INC. Front & Jackson Streets Phone 2-6281 Your HUDSON Dealer the season's opening balL How ever, the Solon -fans were later disappointed where it went. Doubles by Chuck Connors and Max West gave Los Angeles a 1-0 nod over Sacramento. Frank "Lefty" O'DouL for 17 years boss of the Seals, opened his 1952 business at a new stand. He masterminded the San Diego Padres to a 6-2 victory over highy-regarded Oakland, as nearly 9,700 watched his bow as a Padre. They were thrilled to see two old-timers, grumphy Guy Fletcher and Al Benton, conspire to pitch three-hit ball for the win. Fight Video Hollywood, fighting televis ion home-viewers, lured only 3,825 through the turnstiles for its opener against Seattle. The Rainiers, defending champions now managed Bill Sweeney, cubbed Hollywood for 13 bits and a 6-3 triumph. Huge Johnny Lindell suffered the entire 13-hit Seattle attack. The Rainiers clubbed him for five safeties and three runs in the second panel to develop the margin of victory. Sud veteran Charley Schanz pitched the victory, working steadily as he allowed seven hits. LINESCORES : .. Portland 000 000 OO0 0 1 0 San Francisco 000 200 OOx 3 S 1 Adams. Linde 8 and Robinson; Reed er and Orteig. Loa Angeles ..100 000 00O1 7 0 Sacramento 000 000 000 0 7 ' 1 Chandler and Peden; Flores. Gables 9 and Smith. Kinaman 9. Oakland 000 000 2003 3 3 San Diego 002 010 30x S 8 1 Gettel. Buxton 7. Van Cuyk 7 and Davis; Fletcher, Benton 7 and Kerr. Seattle -030 010 1106 . 000 012 0003 13 7 Hollywood Shanz and B. Wilson; Lindell and Sandlock. Standings COAST LEAGUE San Diego San Francisco Los Angeles Seattle Oakland ... Hollywood Portland Sacramento W. L. Pet. 1 0 1.000 1 0 1.000 1 0 1.000 1 0 1.000 SI .000 1 .000 0 1 .000. 1 .000 Tuesday's Results Los Angeles 1, Sacramento 0 San Francisco 3, Portland 0 Seattle 6. Hollywood 3 San Diego 6. OakJl 3 Shoot Slated Sunday at CP Central Point Central Point Sportsmen's club will bold a pre Easter thoot Sunday, April 6, at its grounds west of town. The event is the second in a series of four American Trap shooting association shoots. Tro phies will be furnished by the club for A, B, C and D classes, handicap and doubles. There will be compettion and ham and bacon prizes for non-snooters. - Practice will start at 9 a.m. with registered shooting to begin at 10 a.m. Participants may reg ister and practice Saturday aft ernoon. Scores will be printed in three publications. Handicaps Slated Members of the clubs said they are holding the only ATA registered shoots in southern Oregon. They allow the shooters to register ATA targets before the state ATA shoot. Among the Sportsmen's club's coming events are the Presi dent's handicap on April 27 and the Brown and Skeeters handi cap on May 11. A new electric trap has been installed and, reportedly, will speed up squads and throw bet ter 'targets. I BC Plans Fight Cards in Chicago Chicago (U.PJ The Interna tional Boxing Club has an nounced a weekly series of 15 top fights in Chicago this sum mer that could make the Windy City the nation's boxing capital for the season. The IBC did not reveal the contestants, but President James Norris said the fights would fea ture "the best possible matches between challengers and cham pions in the various weight divisions.". The series will start June 4 and run through Sept. 14. It will be suspended for two weeks dur ing the Democratic and Repub lican national political conven tions in Chicago. Oregon State Schedules Three Diamond Tussles Corvallis Oregon State col lege baseball fans may gain some idea of how the Beavers will fare in the defense of their northern division championship this year when Coach Ralph Coleman takes his club to Eu gene Friday for the first of two non-counting practice tilts with the Oregon Webfoots. Also on the weekend slate is a single tilt with the highly re garded Willamette university Bearcats here. Thursday, and a doubleheader with Lewis & Clark college here Saturday. Use Hail Tribune Want Ada Authorized fefeftCfc Sales m ServueM THE APPOINTMENT CAl-ORE MACHINERY CO. 944 SO. CENTRAL AVE - MEDFORD To Servo Your Noods for AIR-COOLED ENGINE POWER NOW you can get complete sales and jervke on WISCONSIN Heavy-Duty Air-Cooled Engines right hers In your own focafrfy. The above Dealer has been appointed to serve you. See him f you ore In the market for an engine for any type of power service. 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Rogue Valley Baseball League Session Thursday A Rogue Valley Baseball league meeting is scheduled tor 8 p.m. Thursday at the Home stead tavern, Rogue River. Anyone interested in sponsor ing a team in the circuit is in vited, league officials said. Seven and possibly eight teams are now lined up for the loop. It was indicated that nine clubs would be an ideal number. That would mean some byes for par ticipants. They would not have to play every Sunday. Teams now in the league are Glendale, Cave Junction, Rogue River, Butte Falls, Ashland, Cen tral Point and Eagle Point. Pros pect is a possibility. In addition, a Medford group has indicated interest but at last report was still hurting sponsors. New officers probably will be elected .Thursday. Carter Wins . Title Bout Los Angeles (U.PJ A virtu ally un-marked Jimmy Carter is still world lightweight cham pion but the game little hombre from Mexico, Lauro Salas, who lost a unanimous decision to Carter, was still champion of Los Angeles. A great "heart" fighter, the out-weighed and out-fought Salas, scored a "moral" victory in the minds of the crowd of 7,678 when he floored the cham pion for three-count in a wild swinging 15th round Tuesday night. ' Salas Agrees A much battered Salas, his right eye cut, left eye nearly closed and his nose a bloody mass, agreed with the jeering crowd when questioned in his dressing room after the bout. "I won this fight," said Salas through puffed lips. "The ref eree gave the decision to Carter Just when Mexico had a chance." The fight officials were of unanimous opposition opinion. Judge Frankie Van scored the bout 87-78 infavor of Carter, Judge Joe Stone 84Vi to 80V& and Referee Abe Roth 85-80. Expresses Pessimism Denver (U.PJ Take it from the New York Giants Larry Doby should make the fans for get his disappointing 1951 season and the Cleveland Indians stand an excellent" chance of ending the New York Yankees' three year reign over the American League. The Indians have been unbeatable this spring as far as the Giants are concerned. They scored their seventh straight' tri umph of the spring oyer the Na tional League champions, 7 to 4, Tuesday as Doby and Al Rosen hammered homers. By MILTON RICHMAN Houston, Tex. U.PJ Pity the pathetic Pittsburgh Pirates, who are starting out badly and show every promise of winding up even worsey No one among the Pirate: not even general manager Branch Rickey or field manager Bill Meyer can muster any hon est optimism over the team's chances in the 1952 National league pennant race. "Frankly," declared Rickey, "we're strictly a seventh-place club. We simply don't have the material to finish much higher, not this year, anyway. In a cou pie of years, we'll certainly be among the contenders, but as for this year, it s entirely out of the question. Unenviable Job Meyer is equally pessimistic Unquestionably, Meyer has one of the most unenviable man agerial jobs in baseball. The .grey - haired Buccaneer boss is faced with the task of taking a so-so pitching staff, a shoddy infield and two long ball hitters, Ralph Kiner and Gus Bell, and molding a unit from these that might be mistaken for a legitimate big league ball club, The pitching staff is as big a problem as any the Pirates have, Murray Dickson, the pint- sized 20-game winner, stacks up as the club's act but the Pirates openly admit they would gladly trade him for "three or -four promising young ball players 'Tested" Hurlers Southpaw Howie Pollet and fastballer Mel Queen are the other "tested" starting -pitchers with young Bob Friend and Don Carlsen also slated for regular turns on the mound. After that, it's strictly a scram ble with such assorted hurlers as IN FINALS Olympia (U.PJ Defending champion Ray Honsberger of Clarkston and Bill Christie of Seattle teed off for the 1952 state golf championship Wed nesday as the Washington pro fessional golfers' tournament drew to a close. CHARLEY'S BACK! 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Meyer experi mented with draft choice Clem Koshorek at shortstop this spring but the five-foot, five-inch rookie from Little Rock probably will relinquish the spot to holdover George Strickland. Pete Castiglione will be back at third base unless Leo Wells, a lanky, bespectacled rookie from Modesto of the Class C California league, chases him off the bag. Kiner Fixture Kiner and Bell, of course, are outfield fixtures, with Bill How erton and Erv Dusak available for part-time duty, if necessary. Joe Garagiola will do most of the catching although ancient Clyde McCullough and Eddie Fitzgerald will be around, also. It is difficult to visualize how the parties will make trouble for anybody this year, unless, of course, it s for themselves, SCHOENDIENST HURT St. Petersburg, Fla (UJ3 i Shortstop Red Schoendienst probably will be lost to the St. Louis Cardinals when they open their National League season against the Pittsburgh Pirates April 15. X-rays taken by Dr. Erwin Feinbach revealed that the versatile 20-year-old infielder is suffering with a pin-point frac ture of the third finger on his throwing hand. Schoendienst in jured the finger attempting to pivot on a double play in Mon day's exhibition game with the Philadelphia Phillies. St. Petersburg, Fla. (U.F0 The St. Louis Cardinals pitching staff which accounted for only nine shutouts all last year havo marked up its sixth shutout of the spring exhibition season. The Cardinals achieved No. 6 Tues day when Cliff Chambers and George Munger combined to limit the Detroit Tigers to five hits in a 5 to 0 victory. Cham bers now has pitched 20 consec utive exhibition innings without allowing an earned run. Basketball OLYMPIC TOURNEY Peoria Caterpillars 62, Kansas 60 (championship) Phillip Oilers 92, La Sail SS (thlrtf place) U D CD Wfo.(3 Among all best sellers Only one best taste A j wnMiuwa I a0fls 8 Esiagirsf x!! If "'AM WAlKte SON." 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