TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Fanfare
By DICK JEWETT
Mail Tribune Spaitt Editai
This Southwestern Oregon
Baseball league of which the
Cheney Studs club is a member,
becomes more potent week by
week.
Latest report Is that the Co
quille Loggers, whom the Studs
meet on Saturday and Sunday at
Coquille, have signed Bobby
Doerr, stellar American league
second baseman until he retired
at the end of last season from
the Boston Red Sox. ,
The Logger roster also lists
Dick Larner, who has hurled for
San Francisco in the Coast loop
and chucked In the Pioneer
league and who beat PCL crews
in exhibitions while moundman
for University of Southern Cal
ifornia. He was losing pitcher in
Roy Helser's 1 to 0 win for Drain
over Coquille last week-end. Co
quille has Aldon Wilkie, ex
Coast and major leaguer; Claude
Buckley, outfielder for Eugene
In the dormant Far West league;
Dave Douglas, considered one of
the top all-around performers in
the circuit, and Joe Segura, Uni
versity of Oregon catcher.
TO BROADCAST GAMES '
Madford fans will hava a
chance to haar tht play by
play account of the Coquille
Madford series. Radio lation
KYJC will broadcast both in
Saturday night and Sunday
afternoon games.
DRIVES TO GAME
Paul Gehrman, who tossed a
flve-hlt 6 to 1 win for the Studs
over Roseburg last Saturday,
worked up to 2 p.m. that day
then drove from Bend to Med
ford the long way around, via
Klamath Falls.
SCORES IDENTICAL
Whan Grants Pass beat
Prospect 17 to 2 In tha Rogue
Valley Basaball league last
Sunday, It duplicated tha
aeora that It won by whan the
two clubs last mat. Sunday
marked tha first tussle be
tween saml-pro clubs of tha
two communities since July
10. 1949.
Notes from the Western Inter
national league thanks to the
Sporting News , . . Mike Kan
ahln, Medford Rogues pitcher in
1950, has been released by Wen
tchee . , . Gene Howard, Rogue
first baseman In 1951, has been
"returned to San Francisco" by
Yakima . . . Mike Donahue, Ya-
Irlma nninlr. with the RoffueS
last year, recently tied a loop
record for catcher, witn live as
sists only to see the record
mashed a few nights later.
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George Bass led all anglers In
the Blmlnl tuna fishing tourna
ment. Bass, Birmingham, Mich.,
reeled in six tuna for a total of
2,700 points.
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Sprint Car Races Friday
On Track At Grants Pass
Three auto racing groups will
be in competition for the first
time on Friday when they parti
cipate In the Indianapolis sprint
car Memorial day races at the
Josephine county fairgrounds
half-mile track.
They are the Oregon, Wash
ington and Western Racing asso
ciations. Time trials are sched
uled to get underway at 12:30
p.m. and the first of the races at
2:30 p.m. Heats will be five laps.
There will be a trophy dash, a
20-lap B main and a 35-lap main
event, with nine events in all on
a 3Vi-hour program.
There will be six top drivers
each from the Washington and
Oregon groups and 15 from the
Western association, a California
organization.
Nehl Heads
Washington drivers will be
George Macoll, Johnny Gorman,
Bob Simpson, Curley Steves,
Bill Menchel and Oscar Lof
quist. Thomas F. Nehl, Portland,
Taking of Fawns
llleg;
al, Game
Ag
tents Point- Out
PnrtlnnH If vnu're temoted to
nlrk nn a fawn this snrine and
haul it home as a playmate for
the children, don t do n warns
the game commission for by act
of the last legislature it Is un
lawful to take the young of any
game bird or animal from its
natural habitat and hold it in
captivity.
Nearly all fawn cases Investi
gated by game agents amount to
"fnwnnnninff:" bambi really
wasn't lost, just hiding until
mom returned. A newborn lawn
ha. nn nrinr and nrotective COl-
oration and freezing are its best
protection.
An Astoria resident nnea zi
In Justice court this week for
nnaMMlnif B fflUn WAV the first
Oregonian convicted of "fawn-
napplng," and the Justice warn
ed that the price of fawns Is
going up.
Fiwm In Court
Until thlc vnr. same accnts
retrieved fawns from their cap
tors and took them to State game
farms. Now the lawns will nrsi
appear In justice court wllh their
captor before the trip to the
game farm foster home. Fawns
held in captivity soon shed their
gentle Innocence, and on many
occasions game agents have been
called upon to dispatch a pet
deer that turned on Its owner.
There are several records of fatal
Injuries from the slashing hooves
of a pet deer.
If there is reason to believe
a mother deer has been killed or
Injured, a game agent or the
state police should be notified,
but the fawn should not be dis
turbed. Few Predict New
Set in Indianapol
Indianapolis (U.R) Drivers
of cars in Friday's 500-mile
Speedway race indicated by
their actions Thursday the win
ner probably will go most erf the
way at around 128 miles per
hour.
Such a mark would be a new
record, surpassing the 128.244
mile per hour speed with which
Lee Wallard won a year ago.
Openly, few in the field were
willing to predict a new mark.
The man who has gone the fast
est on the track, Chct Miller,
said flatly there will be no new
record.
Changing Goart
"It's going to be slower than
last year despite all the speed so
far," Miller said. "The boys are
going to change their gear ratios
and conserve their engines."
Miller turned In the fastest
qualification mark on record on
Monday, 139.034 miles per hour
for four laps. Saturday he set
Thursday, My 29. 1952
will head the Oregon sextet. He
is a former Midwest sprint car
champion. The Californians are
led by Cecil Burnaugh, champ In
the southern part of his stale.
Burnaugh is president of the
Western Racing association.
The big car event, usually held
at- this time in Southern Calif
ornia, is being brought to Grants
Pass for the'first time and there
by will provide a traveling con
venience to Washington and
Oregon racers.
Gales at the track will op"n
at noon.
Basinski Slates
500th Straight
Coast Loop Tiff
San Francisco (U.R) Fid
dler Eddie Basinski, Portland
second baseman and off-season
violinist with the Buffalo sym
phony, will play his 500th conse
cutive Pacific Coast league game
Thursday night when the Bevos
try to tie strings around high
pitched San Diego.
Basinski, a competent work
man, started more slowly this
season than he did with the 1951
early-speed Beavers. A 29-year-old
right-hander, he is hitting in
the .235 neighborhood for his
second division mates. .
Record 669
The PCL record for consecu
tive games played is held by
Hugh Luby, the ex-Seal and
Oak, who worked 868 in a row.
It would take Basinski more
than two years to tie that mark.
Basinski and the Beavers fid
dled while San Diego won its
seventh straight game Wednes
day night, 8-2. The success
stretched the Pads' lead over
second-place Hollywood to four
games.
The Stars succumbed to Oak
land and squat Eddie Lake's ho
mer, 4-3. Elsewhere, Los An
geles whacked San Francisco,
5-1, and Sacramento jumped
back out of the cellar with Ken
Gables' 7-2 pitching victory over
Seattle.
WILDLIFE SESSION
Portland Youth summer
camp directors for 90 Oregon
camps, including Boy scout, Girl
scout, YMCA, Campfire girl, 4-H
Future Farmers of America, and
denominational camps, have re
quested the two-day wildlife ses
sions to be offered this summer
by the game commission information-education
department. In
itiated in 1950, the wildlife ses
sions have expanded from an
original 24 camps to nearly all
youth summer camps in the
state. The classes and field trips,
conducted by game commission
personnel, are designed -to ac
quaint young campers with Ore
gon wildlife in a natural setting.
Record Will Be
is Auto Race
the record for one" lap, 139.600
miles per hour.
DUCK TO TOUR
Eugene U.R Daryle Nelson,
University of Oregon's outstand
ing senior second baseman, will
play for a team of college all
stars '.hat will tour Japan this
summer. If the trip, which is un
der the guidnnce of John Sco
linos, head baseball coach at
Pcppcriline college, meets with
success in Japan, the team may
continues on to the Philippines
and Hawaii for games there.
WESTERN STARTS
St. Louis, Mo. (U.R) The
forly-ninth Western open golf
championship underway here
Thursday at the Westwood coun
try club wllh 121 pros and ama
teurs teeing off. The pros con
cede that the tough part of this
tourney will be Sam Sncad, a
favorite to win.
7
HOGAN AGAINST AMER
ICA Ben Hogan, above, called
by experts the greatest golfer
of this generation will pit his
skill against an estimated 300,-
000 golfers on National Golf day
on Saturday, May 31. On that
day Hogan will match strokes
against divoters on 4.970 courses
throughout the country. He will
shoot an 18-hole round at Dallas,
Tex. At the same time America's
week-end golfers with their own
handicaps will try to beat Hog
an s round on their home courses
Those who do will get a bronze
medal. Proceeds from the $1 en
try fee will go to the USO and
the PGA national golf fund. Life
magazine and the PGA are spon
sors.
National Golf
Observance Set
At Rogue Valley
Rogue Valley Country club,
along' with its other activities
this week-end will participate
Saturday in National Golf day in
which linksmen will compete in
an 18-hole round with famed
golfer Ben Hogan.
Golfers throughout the coun.
try will compete against Hogan,
who will play on the Dallas,
Tex., course. Proceeds from the
small entry fee will go to the
USO and the Professional Golf
ers association national fund.
Redding Team Coming
Nineteen golfers from Redding,
Calif., will play a Rogue Valley
team here Sunday, June 1. Qual
ifying play for the Oregon Golf
association Alderwood invita
tional at Portland started' Wed
nesday for Rogue Valley team
aspirants. A four-man team will
represent the Medford club in
the tourney on June 7 and 8. The
qualifying stint is 36-holes.
A team of Rogue Valley di
voters will play a Klamath Falls
crew at Klamath on June 8.
Standings
COAST LEAGUE
W. I,.
San DIcbo 31 20
Hollywood 32 23
Oakland ....... 29 2.1
I.oa AnKelM 28 27
San Franciaco 26 30
Portland 23 30
Sncramcnto 23 33
Seattle 22 32
Pet.
.649
.3R2
.537
.509
.4R4
.434 12
.411 13a
NATIONAL LEACil'E
w.
Prt. GB
.7B3
607 J'i
.568 6',
.528 8
.455 10 'i
.447 1 1
.406 12
.179 21',
New York
Brooklyn .
Chicago
Cincinnati
Philadelphia ....
St. Louif
Roxton
PlttiiburKh
2(1
21
21
..10
15
. 17
13
7
AMERICAN l.EAGl'E
W. I..
Cleveland 24 15
Washington .. ... 20 15
Itoston 20 15
New York 17 15
Chicago 19 19
St Louli 19 23
Prt.
.615
.571
.571
531
.500
.452
.419
.324
Philadelphia 13
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WESTERN INTERNATIONAL
W. I.. rrl
Victoria 25 9
Spokane 22 15
Vancouver . 18 13
t.ewl.ton IB IB
Wenalcheo 17 19
.733
.594
.551
.500
.472
.447
.378
.331
4'i
8
9
10
12'i
13 'a
Salem .. 17
21
Yakima 14 23
Trt-Clly 13 24
BASEBALL
WKnxF.sn.ws mrsi'LTs
Const Lpakii
Oflkliinrt 4, Hollywood 3
1. 01 AnRclos 5. Sun Frnnciico 1
Saornmrnto 7. ReMttp 2
San Diego 8, Portland 2
Nnltnr.Ni If Am
New York H. Brooklyn 7
Chtrauo 7. St. Louts 2
Cincinnati 9. Ptmhursh 1 (night)
(Only fames scheduled)
Amorlran League
St l.otni 3, Chicago 1 might)
Detroit (I, Cleveland 2 (night)
(Only games scheduled)
Western International
Victoria 10, Spokane 3
Trt-Cily Salem B
Lewtiton 6, Wena tehee 4
Yakima 8. Wenatehea 3
Head line Sunday Clanvtheds Is at
S 30 pm for following dav; 10 am
Monday for Monday; noon Saturday
for Sunday m.
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Beaver Trappers
Take Many Pelts
During Season
Portland Trappers partici
pating in the 1951-52 Oregon
beaver trapping season, the first
held in 20 years, have reported
a take of 15,253 beaver pelts to
the game commission.
Chester Kebbe, furbcaring an
imal expert for the commission,
values the catch at $120,000
based on an average of $9.73
received for all beaver pelts. Top
prices for prime blanket pelts
ranged between $18 and $22.
Commission records show only
2,270 licensed trappers in the
state, a reflection of the current!
low in the raw fur market.
Largest take of beaver was in
the South Willamette valley and
Columbia and Clatsop counties.
Lane county with, a catch of 2,
98 beaver led the state. Observa
tions of commission game agents
and trappers, who are checking
streams opened for the Novem
ber. 15 to January 15 beaver sea
son, show no appreciable effect
on the beaver population. Farm
er complaints of damage to fruit
trees, blocking of ditches and
drainage tiles, and holes in the
dikes by the aggressive rodents
have not diminished.
Another Season Talked
At the annual May conference
of all State game personnel held
in Portland much discussion was
devoted to the possibility of rec
ommending another beaver trap
ping season this winter.
Other furbearers taken by
trappers in the recent trapping
season included 3635 mink aver
aging $13.93, 210 otter averaging
$14.35, 64,000 muskrat averaging
$1.20, and 184 marten averaging
$16.
Prices for long-haired pelts
were so low that few predators
were reported sold. Gray fox
pelts, for example brought 30
cents, skunk 79 cents, and red
fox 60 cents.
Morris AAU
Meet Entry
Portland (U.R) Two of Ore
gon's finest track stars are
scheduled to compete in the
Northwest AAU track and field
meet to be held here Saturday.
' Both athletes were high school
performers last year, but in the
Saturday event Dean Parsons of
Eugene and Frank Morris of
Medford wil compete under the
banner of the Seattle Athletic
club. Parsons and Morris are
freshmen at the University of
Washington.
Parsons won the shot put in
the 1951 state meet and Morris
set a new high.hurdle record at
the same time.
Kid Gavilan
Halts Pruden
Indianapolis (U.R) , Welter
weight champion Kid ' Gavilan
declared himself ready for his
July title defense against Gil
Turner, even though he hardly
warmed up before he finished
off Canada's Fitzie Pruden in
the Coliseum Wednesday night.
Gavilan, whose title was not
at stake in the scheduled 10
rounder, won by a technical
knockout when Pruden failed to
answer the bell for the sixth
round. Pruden was not permit
ted to continue because of cuts
around both eyes.
Savirr Ousted
In Net Tourney
Paris (U.R) The United
States chances for victory in the
French international tennis
championships rested Thursday
on the shoulders of Gardnar
Mulloy.
He remained the lone Yank
survivor following Dick Savitt's
defeat at the hands of South Af
rica's Eric Slurgcss, 8-2, 6-8, 4-6,
8-6, 6-3, in a quarter-final match
Wednesday. Mulloy was schedul
ed to play a quarter-final match
Wednesday against Jaroslav
Drobny, of Egypt, but rain post
poned it until Thursday.
Dead line Sunday Cla.jlfiedi li at
5 30 pm. tor follmvirm day; 10 am.
Monday for Monday; noon Saturday
for Sunday a.m.
EARL
HERNDEN
ll Now Working
At
FRY'S
BARBER SHOP
Hotel Allen Building
Valve-Turning Ceremony Will
Loose Water in Columbia Basin
Ephrata, Wash. (U.R) Fed
eral Reclamation Commissioner
Michael Strauss turns a valve
Thursday to loose water from
the Columbia river onto the first
acres of the world's biggest irri
gation project.
The water, as it flows into a
66,000-acre section of the Co
lumbia basin, will fulfill a dream
that has inspired engineers and
agriculture experts since the pio
neer days of the Pacific North
west. By 1958, more than 1,000.000
acres in the basin will be irri
gated with water from the
Grand Coulee dam reservoir, 50
miles north of here.
The life-giving water will
make it possible for farmers to
work the soil of the arid Eastern
Washington district on a prac
tical basis for the first time.
Thursday's event has been
celebrated in towns throughout
the area during the last week.
Hundreds of visitors came
from throughout the country to
join the festivities, including pa-
Training Camp
Scheduled for
Tornado Gridders
Medford High gridders will
have a week of conditioning and
practice at Lake o'Woods prior
to their 1952 campaign, Coach
Fred Spiegelberg announced.
Training session will open on
August 24 and the boys will be
quartered at the Boy Scout
camp. Spiegelberg said that it
is desired to have all grid aspir
ants who can attend the camp,
since those who don't make the
trip will be far behind others
in season preparation.
Actual Play
There will be actual football
play in addition to conditioning
because of the nearness of the
game schedule to the practice
opening date.
First action will be an inter
squad game on September 5. The
A. Z. (Tubby) Dean Memorial
scoreboard will be dedicated at
the game and proceeds will be
used to pay for the training
camp.
Fishing To Open
At Diamond Lake
Roseburg (U.R) Fishing
will open at Diamond lake Fri
day and continue, through
Sept. 30.
Roads leading into the lake,
aid to be the home of the
biggest trout in Oregon, ere
open.
Bait fishing, outlawed at the
lake last season, is legal this
year end game commission of
ficials report many king-sized
trout have been seen in the
Diamond waters.
Salem Two Medford students
at Willamette university were
among 23 youths who received
track letters at Willamette uni
versity this spring. Vern Shan
gle, Medford, a junior, received
his third letter, and Ray Freth
eim, Medford, got his first.
60.SICOND
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know
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rades, aquaramas, pageants and
fairs.
Many plan to stay as modern
day pioneer settlers in the area
newly opened to farming.
As part of the celebration,
hundreds of men worked today
to carve a 160-acre .farm from
the desert for Donald D. Dunn,
30, named as the nation's most
deserving veteran in a national
contest.
The entire farm will be cre
ated in the 24-hour period that
started at midnight,
Dunn's farm will be the first
in the basin project. In Othello,
Wash., on Saturday, the federal
government will conduct a land
drawing to determine which of
the eligible applicants for other
homesteads will be allowed to
purchase 199 farms to be avail
able in 1952.
Reclamation Commissi oner
Strauss will turn the valve let
ting the water into the basin at
5:30 p.m. (PDT).
Strauss said the history-mak
ing event was only a symbol of
greater things to come, how-j
ever. j
Grand Coulee and the Colum- j
bia Basin project, Strauss said,
are the "biggest everything" by i
present standards. The dam is
the biggest in the world. It pro
duces more power than any oth
er, and the irrigated acreage is
more than in any other single
project.
But Strauss said projects like
it are "not sufficient to meet the I
need." The nation, he said, is
going to have to think about j
moving water 1,000 miles or j
more before it goes onto farm 1
land. !
A quarter of a million per-!
sons are born throughout the
world each 24 hours, he said. The
population of the Pacific Coast
states increased by 50 per cent
in -the past 10 years.
"Food shortages are becoming
urgent," he said. "The velocity
of the reclamation program will
increase and the law regulating
It will change."
With Columbia Basin's 1,000,-1
uuu acres, the irrigated acreage
in' the 17 western states will
amount to 7,000,000, he said.
That's about half of what the
available water will irrigate
under "a present financial stand
ards," he said.
There's plenty to be done yet
in the Columbia basin, he said.
The Pick-Strauss plan designed
by Strauss and Lt. Gen. Lewis
Pick of the Army Corps of En
gineers, lists some 200 dams in
the watershed and only a small
minority of them are underway.
HERE ARE THE WINNERS
In Elrod's Trout Derby
Mrs. G. L. Witte, Medford $20, largest fish.
13 14 inchei long, 14 ounces
Chester Weaver, Jacksonville, Chet Sicler, Medford
$10 for largest catch each caught 45
C. F, Epperson, Phoenix $5, for smallest fish
ELROD'S TROUT FARM
4 Miles West of Talent on Anderson Creek
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Swallow carefully to
judge its freedom from
harshness.
But he said other riven on the
coast are being "exhausted."
The dispute between California
and Arizona over the waters ot
the Colorado river, he said,
shows that river is about used
up.
How fast new irrigation pro
jects are started ,he said, is up
to Congress and the appropria
tions it allows. He complained
that his bureau hasn't any as
surance it will get money to
complete the 1,000,000 project
here, let alone for the 200 dams
in the Pick-Strauss plan.
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Friday, May 30
BIG INDIANAPOLIS
SPRINT CAR
MEMORIAL
DAY
Time Trials 1 P.M.
Raeei Start 2:30 P.M.
West Coast's
Biggest
Sporting Event
The Best Cars from
Calif., Ore., Wash.
Championship Drivers
8 BIG EVENTS
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