EIGHT MEDfORD (OREGON)
Lefty O'Doul
May Go Up
To Big Time
By HAL WOOD
San Francisco (U.R) Loqua
cious Lelty O'Doul, the man who
probably ha turned down more
chances to manage a major
league ball club than any man in
history, may go up to the big
time in 1953.
The rumors have it that, if
Casey Stengel retires as boss of
the New York Yankees after the
current campaign, O'Doul will be
given the call and that this time
he'll accept.
Lefty, now managing the first
place San Diego Padres of the
Pacific Coast league after 17
years at the helm of the San
Francisco Seals, has had a change
of heart a change that cut him
deeply.
For 17 years he had turned a
deaf ear to the offers from major
league magnates. Once O'Doul
was asked if it was true that he
had had more than 15 offers to
manage in the big leagues.
"I would say there have been
only about a half dozen bona
fide offers," Lefty replied. "But
San Francisco is my home and I
plan to stay here."
That was before he was cut
adrift last winter by San Fran
cisco owner Paul I. Fagan and
after the Seals had finished in
last place. .
Drop in Attendance Hurts
Finances of Coast League
San Francisco (U.R) Pacific
Coast league club owners are
taking a financial licking at the
turnstiles this year and none
of them can give the answer to
the drop in attendance.
The week-end Memorial day
traditionally is a big baseball
attendance booster. This year
the eight clubs in the PCL play
ed to 25,562 on Memorial day
Friday and to only 22,106 on
Sunday .
i Majors Average Higher
That compares with an aver
age of over 25,000 per game on
the same days for the 16 clubs
in the major leagues.
Some of the owners blame the
lack pi attendance on televis
ion; others on poor weather;
atlU others on a weak team. Near
ly all admit they are losing
money, while in many years past
ownership in the PCL has been
a money-making proposition.
Only the league-leading San
Diego Padres have been making
ends meet. The Padres top the
league in attendance both at
home and on the road partially
due to the loop-wide popularity
of Lefty O'Doul. When he was
at San Francisco, the Seals trad
itionally were t h e strongest
drawing road club even when
the team was weak.
Of course, on the weaknesses
Standings
WESTERN INTERNATIONAL
W. L. Pet. GB.
Victoria S7 13 .(ml
Spokane as 17 .W4 3
Vancouver 10 It .S2B l'i
Lcwlnton 22 21 SI J 1
Salem ...... 211 23 .4S 11
Wenatchee Ifl 24 .428 in i,
Trl-Clly 1ft 2.1 .411 11
Yakima 10 27 .372 13
AMERICAN LEAGI'E
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Boston - 24 17 M ...
Cleveland 25 IS .SSI ..
Waihlnrton 23 la Ml
New York i.. IS 17 .128 J'
( rtlcajtn .... 22 21 .ma 3
Philadelphia IS I" .437 S
SI, Louli 20 23 .444 l
Detroit 13 27 .329 10',
NATIONAL LEAOI'R
W. L. Pet. OB
Brooklyn ... 27 It .711
New York 27 13 S7S 1
Chimin 24 17 .9BS 4 'i
M. l.OllH 21 22 .4HH fl
Clnelnnall 20 22 ,47ft 0
Philadelphia IS 21 Alii '',
Bmlnn 15 23 .306 12
Plttiburi - 11 34 .244 10'a
Scores Yesterday
AMERIOAV I.FAOl'K
Boston fl. Chicago 3 (10 InnlnftiO. ,
New York 2. C lev Hand 0.
rhllnrlHphta 2. St, Lout 1.
Washington 5, Detroit 2.
NATIONAL IFAOIK
ChleflRo , Brook. vn 1.
St I.oulm 5. New York 4.
Boston J, Cinclnnmi 1.
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Spokane at Vlrtnria (poatpontd, park
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Eddie Stanky
As Cards Sweep Big Series
By UNITED PRESS
Eddie Stanky, who must have
been wondering of late whether
it would be better to be a care
free $30,000 second baseman for
the Giants than a care-worn $35,
000 manager of the Cardinals,
was a chipper little skipper
Tuesday with pennant notions
buzzing in his button-topped cap.
Throe-Game Swtep
He had a right to be gay. The
Cardinals wound up a three
game sweep of the Giants whom
they bowled out of first place on
Sunday, by knocking Sal Maglie
out of the box and handing him
his first defeat of the year after
nine straight victories. The Car
dinals, jumping two notches in
two days, were In fourth place
and threatening to go higher.
But things were a lot different
on Sunday morning when he
woke up and read in the Sunday
papers that his old pal and ex
teammate, Tommy Holmes, had
this year at the gate may be the
failure of any club to develop a
standout hitter or pitcher who
stirs the Imagination of the
fans. Nobody, for instance, like
young rocket Ron Necciai, the
strike-out king in the East, no
body who resembles a Joe Di-
maggio or a Lefty Gomez, PCL
graduates who became big
league attractions.
Probably the best ball player
in the loop is shortstop Gene
Baker of the Los Angeles An
gels. But he is hitting a compari-
tively puny .296 and that cer
tainly isn t much of a gate at
traction. Padres at Hollywood
This week the Parfrpi are at
home again to take on the pow-
er-iaaen Angels and the San
Diego fans will get a chance to
see and compare Baker with
their crack short-catcher. Al
Rlchter.
In other lames. San Francisco
goes to Seattle; Sacramento to
Oakland, and Portland to Holly
wood.
Handicap Horse
Races Saturday
The most Important race of
the 1952 Portland Meadows sea
son will be presented next Sat
urday, June 7, when the finest
horses In the northwest meet In
the $2,000 Portland Handicap.
Black Zida, the most remarkable
development of the meeting, is
scheduled to make her next start
under silks in the Portland 'Cap.
Black Zlda la expected to get
an acid test In the 1 1-16 miler
as included In the probable
starting field Is Coiner, A form
er Calumet farm runner, Coiner
is a product of two of America's
greatest race horses. He Is by
Whlrlaway out of the great mare
Twilight Tear.
sent a Mtlm atchCMF CM MFF
Women to Race,
Portland Meadows will pre
sent a "Powder Puff derby,"
matching women riders In an In
vitational handicap, on Friday
June 6. Official sanction for
such a race, billed as an extra
attraction and with wagering
on the outcome, has been grant
ed by the Oregon Racing com-x
mission .
With 12 days of the Meadows
spring meeting remaining. Gil
bert Hernandez has a five win
lead In the Jockey standings
The much improved Hernandez
has 38 for the season, and his
closest rival, Bud Zollinger, has
31.
Bobby Dykes Gets Win
By Unanimous Decision
New York (U.R) Bobby
Dykes, skinny, hard-hitting wel
terweight contender from Mia
ml, Fla. will follow up his Vic
tory over New York's Joe Mlcell
by meeting the middleweight
champion of Texas, Pete Gill of
Austin, Tex.
Dykes, who scored a unani
mous 10-round decision over Mi-
cell Monday night, announced
Tuesday that he will meet Gill
at San Antonio, Tex., June 17,
as the next step in the campaign
he hopes will earn him a second
chance against World Welter
King Kid Gavilan.
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Riding High
been fired hurriedly as manager
of the Braves.
The Cardinals then were In
sixth place and Stanky had been
involved in two unpleasant epl
sodes one In which he later
apologized to the press box for
failing to supply them with in
formation when he was angry
over the way things were going
on the field; the other was when
he slapped an automatic fine on
hard-working Harry Brecheen
for throwing a wrong pitch
Stanky made peace with the
press and cancelled out the sys
tem of automatic fines, and the
Cardinals were on the wing
After the double dumping on
Sunday which knocked the
Giants out of the lead, they hu
miliated them again Monday
night, coming from behind to
top Maglie, 9 to 4, with a three-
run sixth inning rally. It was
sparked by pinch-hitter Peanuts
Lowrey's key run-scoring double
and a two-run single by Solly He
mus. The Giants had it all their way
earlier as Davey Williams,
Whitey Lockman and Bobby
Thomson hit homers, but Maglie,
who had terrorized clubs all over
the league, couldn't protect a 4
to 2 margin.
Larry Shepard
No. 1 Pitcher
In Coast Play
San Francisco (U.R) A
veteran "rookie" pitcher named
Larry Shepard, a long-time low
minor league manager, Tuesday
took over as the pitching leader
in the Pacific Coast league, ac
cording to averages released by
William O. Weiss and Including
games of June 1.
Shepard, appearing in 14
games and SO innings for the
Hollywood Stars, has a 4-0 rec
ord. Shepard, at 33, is getting
his first crack at "open" classi
fication ball.
Les Pendcn, Los Angeles cat
cher, tops the hitters with a
.321 mark after upping his av
erage 28 points as Hank Schenz,
last week's leader, dropped 25
to .310 mark. Max West of Los
Angeles leads in homers with
13; and Lou Stringer, San Diego,
Is tops in the runs batted In de
partment with 40.
The strikeout king is Elmer
Singleton of San Francisco with
66 in 112 innings.
Nagy Rolls 299
For ABC Victory
Milwaukee (U.R) Cteve
Nagy, Cleveland, O., became a
favorite to win the American
Bowling Congress Masters In
vitational tournament after he
lust missed a 300 game while
Beating Carl Richards, Parsons,
Kan.. 868-784.
Nagy, wfio will be the likely
choice for the bowler of the
year, dominated play Monday
as second round matches were
rolled in the Invitational.
Nagy already is leading in
tne all-events and doubles div
ision of regular play In the ABC
tournament here. He opened his
four-game match with a sizzling
209 game. The perfect game
slipped away when he missed
the number 4 pin on the 11th
frame.
Dimaggio Can Take Son
To Visit Girl Friends
Hollywood (U.R) Joe Di
Magglo's ex-wife has decided it's
all right with her if the former
baseball star takes their nine-year-old
son to visit his girl
friends. But he must keep the
boy out of "glamour" spots.
Mrs. DiMnggio, the former
Dorothy Arnold, was all set to
ask a court to restrict her former
husband's visit with Joe Jr. to
her home, but she changed her
mind Monday and asked only
that he refrain from taking the
ooy to adult gatherings.
Mrs. DiMaggio s Ire was arous
ed when the Yankee Clipper
look Joe Jr. on a swimming par
ty at the swank Bel Air hotel
with voluptuous movie actress
Marilyn Monroe.
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Scouts Seek
To Ink Young
Portlander
Milwaukie. Ore. (U.R)
Scouts from 14 of the 16 major
league baseball teams Tuesday
were camping on the doorstep
of young Jerry Zimmerman,
rated one of the best baseball
products produced by Oregon's
prep ranks in years.
Zimmerman, only 17, is a
catcher.
Since last week, when he gra
duated from high school, Zim
merman has been eligible to
sign. And rumors have it that
he may get as much as $65,000
for inking his name to a con
tract. This would set a record
for Oregon prep stars.
Young Jerry is now playing
semi-pro ball, biding his time
while the scouts make their of
fers. He had a four-year high
school batting average of .425.
Last season he hit .621.
Zimmerman is six-feet, one-
inch tall, weighs 185 pounds,
has a rifle arm and moves well
on the bases. He also hits the
long ball.
Only major league clubs who
have not scouted Jerry are the
Washington Senators and the
St. Louis Browns. The New York
Yankees have sent two of their
top men Roy Harney and Tom
Greenwade west to take a
look at Zimmerman.
Actions Starts
In Hard Courts
Tennis Tourney
Seattle (u.kj Three seeded
players enter play Tuesday in
the national hard court tennis
championships, but competition
will not reach a peak until
Wednesday when four top ex
perts take to the courts.
Tuesday's action was to be top
ped by Hugh Stewart of San Ma
rino, Calif., Charles Hare of Chi
cago, and Harry Likas of San
Francisco.
Women's competition also be
gan Tuesday.
Wednesday's play will feature
top-seeded players Herb Flam of
Los Angeles, Bill Talbert of New
York, former champion Art Lar
sen of San Leandro, Calif., and
Tom Brown of San Francisco.
Jacque Grigory of Alhambra,
Calif., seeded number eight,
easily downed Charles Moore of
Seattle, 6-0, 6-3, in Monday's
opening round.
Soccer Halts
WIL Contest
By United Press
The Spokane Indians, itching
to avenge a recent sweep at the
hands of Victoria, hope to do
battle without further Interrupt
ions against the Tyees Tuesday.
The two teams were billed as
the main attraction in the West
ern International league Mon
day. But at the last minute,
the game was postponed to al
low the Royal Athletic park to
be used for a soccer game.
Barring another soccer con
test, the league's top teams will
play a double header Tuesday
night. Should Spokane sweep
the three game series, the Spokes
would tie the front-running
Tyees.
In the only other scheduled
game Monday, the Vancouver
Capilanos moved back into third
place by downing the Lewiston
Broncs, 2-1, in an 11-inning
match.
John Ritchey, who had walk
ed, scampered all the way
around from first to score the
winning run after Gordy Bruns
wick smacked a double into the
final frame.
Whitey Lockman Gains
Narrow Batting Lead
New York (U.R) Whitey
Lockman of the Giants is the
National League's leading bat
ter by the almost invisible mar
gin of .00004.
Lockman made two hits in
three times at bat Monday night
in St. Louis to lift his batting
mark to .33544. In second place
is Hank Sauer of the Cubs with
.33540.
Medfordite Wins Races
Bill Barms. Merifnrri wnn
number of honors Sunday in the
Lake Lowell recatta snnnsnreH
by Caldwell, Ida., Chamber of
commerce.
He copped firsts in B runabout
in B hydronlnne first heal r
hydro and F racing hydro and
second in (J service.
The American Power Boat a
sociatlon sponsored the races.
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Fraley Expects Ex Charles
To Beat Wolcott in 12th
New York (U.R! The heavy
weight immortals may groan
disgustedly in their fistic Val
halla but come Thursday night
a boxer of featherweight regard
named Ezzard Charles may be
come the first man ever to re
capture the heavyweight cham
pionship of the world.
That is, of course, providing
he flattens ancient Jersey Joe
Walcott along about the 12th
round as looks probable In this
corner.
Old fearless makes his sellec
tion thusly simply because of
three factors.
Three Factors
1. Charles is reported "fat
and slow" as he comes up to
Sport
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' New York (U.R) Florence
Chadwick, the California girl
who spends mote time in the
water than most fish, prepared
for a long - distance swimming
"grand slam" by offering to wag
er $i0,000 that she can swim
the English channel both ways
non-stop.
Miss Chadwick is the petite
young lady who several years
ago startled the sports world by
smashing Gertrude Ederle's
long-standing record for swim
ming the channel from England
to France. She then went them
all one better by becoming the
first woman to wallow the dis
tance the hard way, from France
to England.
"Now I have raised $10,000
from various sources" she ex
plained, "and I'm willing to bet
anybody that much that I can
swim the channel from France
to England and back again with
out stopping."
Not Deterred
That's a feat no one ever had
dreamed of performing, but the
personable Florence is not de
terred. She even approached
Lloyds of London but that fam
ed financial house wanted no
part of bucking this sort of tig
er. Lloyds folded Its hand with
the dignified out that it does not
make straight beta.
Only one person ever made
such a bathtub out of the Eng
lish channel. That was a man
named Tom Blower, a giant of
250 pounds and six feet, four
inches, who is supposed to be the
greatest marathon swimmer of
all time. Blower paddled from
France to England and four
hours on the way back when
he had to abandon his attempt
because of a storm.
"I'm certain that it can be
done, and I'm positive that I can
do it," Miss Chadwick insists
with quiet determination
"Meanwhile, until I can get
somebody to cover the $10,000,
I'll just continue training for
my grand slam.
Much Swimming
That is, in itself, a feat Just
about as impressive as the two-
way attack on the Channel. In
a period of two months, Flor
ence will swim further than
most people will walk.
On June 23 she begins her
odyssey by swimming from the
California coast to Catalina Is
land, a trip even more comfort
able by air than by boat. Then
in mid-July she'll go to Turkey
to swim the Dardanelles, a short
er jaunt but rougher than a mor
ning after.
From there, Florence will
next swim the Straits of Gib
ralter and then she'll wind it up
with another crack at the Eng
lish Channel, shooting for the
men's record from England to
France.
That last dip Is the one which
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this bout at Philadelphia Muni
cipal Stadium.
2. The Charles camp is "wor
ried." 3. Old Jersey Joe is "fit and
confident."
From the cranial confines of
my plyboard pate this sounds
suspiciously to me like a box
ing boobytrap. Putting reverse
English on the ball , there are a
number of reasons why "Ez
zard the Gizzard" should lay
out old Joe like a well worn rug.
Nobody is intimating that it
wouldn't be nice to see old Joe
keep the title. When he knocked
out Charles at Pittsburgh last
summer it was a success story
to end all rags-to-riches tales.
By
OSCAR FRALEY ,
United Frail
SporH Writer
is good news to the town of Dov
er, in England. Channel swim
mers usually attract large
crowds to Dover, and that's the
annual shot in the arm for Dov
er's businessmen. The Daily
Mail, a London newspaper, us
ually stages a Channel marathon
and business really booms.
Back in Droves
But this year, because of the
Olympics, the Daily Mail aban
doned its Channel contest. Dov
er went into a sky blue fit of
depression, But Florence will
have the sightseers back in
droves. One of them may be the
fellow who covers her $10,000
wager.
I'll tell you right now, it's a
bad bet to try to win from her.
This gal thinks it's a light work
out when she spends eight, 10
or 12 hours swimming around
a pool nonstop, a short immer
sion which she takes almost
daily.
It would come as no surprise
if should somebody take her
two-way channel bet she gets
so happy on pocketing the swag
that she decides to swim home.
Nor, probably, would Lloyds
want any part of a wager against
that.
Sport Bulletin
Boston (U.R) The Boston
Red Sox traded five players,
including veterans Walt Dropo
and Johnny Pesky, to Detroit
Tuesday for four Tigers, in
cluding Hoot Evari and third
baseman George Kell.
This was the trade an
nounced by Manager Lou Bou
dreau at a noon press confer
ence: First baseman Dropo, in
fielders Pesky and Fred Hat
field, pitcher Bill Wight and
outfielder Don Lonhardl for
Evers, Kell, shortstop Johnny
Lipon and pitcher Diisy Trout.
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Chicago (U.R) Victoria ting, runs scored, doubles and
Manager Cecil Garriott lea
Western International league
hitters in three departments and
was tied for the lead in another
last week. Howe News Bureau
statistics showed Tuesday.
He topped the league in hit-
Haas Leader
Of US Open
Contenders
New York (U.R) Lanky Fred
Haas Jr. of New Orleans, who
hasn't won a golf tournament
since 1950 winter tour, wound
up Tuesday as the hottest con
tender for Ben Hogan's U, S,
Open crown among nearly 1,500
amateurs and pros who tried
to qualify for the big grind
at Dallas, Tex., June 12-14.
Playing in the star-studded
section at St. Louis Monday,
Haas fired sizzling rounds of 69
64-133 and led the nation by
three shots as 119 players at 26
centers won the right to tee off
in the Open field at Dallas.
Twenty-nine others, including
Hogan and PGA Champion Sam
Snead, were exempt from the
36 hole qualifying tests. One
qualified at Honolulu last week,
another will make it Tuesday
when three golfers at Dallas
complete an unfinished playoff
of a tie for one place and 12
more will make it Wednesday
in the New York section trials
which were postponed because
of heavy rains.
Three shots behind Haas in
the nationwide results were four
others, including a pair 6f hot
shooting amateurs big Bill
Campbell, Huntington, W. Va-.,
and W. A. Pagan Jr., West Pei
Beach, Fla.
Portland (U.R) Bole Mi-.
Kendrick of Portland Tuesstay
was eligible for a trip to Daiias
and the U.S. Open Golf Cfeaiw
pionship June 12-14 aftse tVe
qualified for the Pacific J?-t-west's
one berth In the atfMv
here Monday.
He carded a 65-73-138 im 3
holes on the 6291-yapd Wa--wwljf
Country Club course. Mis 66 an
the first round set a new roeee4
for the par 36-36-72 cewse.
Tied for second flaee at 14S,
one over par, were Ted Lefl&
worth and Eddie Hag&H, bstii of
Portland, and Dave Pii-l-lo f
Olympia, Wash.
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