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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Fanfare By DICK JEWETT Man Tribune Sports Editer A tightening race and rapid comings and goinga of ball play er are the features currently In the Southwestern Oregon baseball league flag race. LEADERS JOLTED League leaders suffered a zude Jolt over the week-end as two of them, Brandon and Drain, sustained double set backs. The result was to throw Brandon, Drain and Roseburg into a three way tie for first place with four wins and two loaves each. Medford, which retained fifth place with a four and four record, is actually only one full game off the leaders. Coos Bay's surging Lumber Jacks gave hope to the rest of the circuit by proving that Drain's pitching aces, Roy Hel ler and Jerry Cade, can be beaten. Coquille showed ris ing strength with its two wins over Brandon but a lack of chucking strength was a dis tinct disadvantage io the Bran don crew. But Its getting to be an in teresting campaign all the way round. DOERR DROPPED A glance at exchange papers shows that Coquille has drop ped Bobby Docrr, the former Boston Red Sox second base, man. and picked up Len Younce ex-Oregon State college grid great. George Sanders, who has been an infield fixture for the Roseburg Umpqua Chiefs since 1947, has accepted a. job at Cres cent City with a Juke box pus- lness and will play ball in the California city. Coos Bay - North Bend has picked up Hal Saltzman, who a few seasons back starred for the Portland Beavers as a pit cher. Bandon has added Dr. Frank Dierrickx, standout Ore gon City semi-pro pitcher, and Bernie Averill and Earl Averill Jr., ions of the ex-major leaguer.- ' . Roseburg also has lost Hurl er Dave Munn but hopes to be strengthened when Oregon State college is through with its na tional tourney stint by Pitcher John Hopp and Outfielder Bud Shlrtcliff of the Orange. There is talk that Shlrtcliff might wind up at Brookings Cub Houck of Oregon State is ticketed for Brookings. The Chiefs have dropped Bob Stew. art and Howard Correris, San Franciscans, from their squad TO OREGON ' .. '. Ray Bell, six-foot five - inch basketball forward for Klamath Falls, who got his prep diploma this spring, has announced he will enter University of Ore gon. There was talk that he would enroll at University of Washington. ' Bob Shepherd, Medford, state boys' division champ last year, Is one of the entries in the Ore gon Golf association Junior tour, ney, June 16 to 20, at Alder- wood course in Portland. He's in the Junior bracket this time. Other Medford youths expected to enter are Justin Smith, Con nie Mann, Bob - Rasmussen, Charles Green and Larry Bru-cey.- mm rriooH I'll frTl YEAR i " gFM sroiBROO? ... W7 STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY - 16 Proof Pa9aaaSSHaHaVIB9JBlBTr VENTILATION SEE WILKINSON SHEET METAL WORKS 209 West 8th St. Medford, Oregon Phone 2-8525 or 2-8401 GRRRI Challenger Eizard Charles (left) ducks away as Champion Jersey Joe Walcott completes a follow through after throwing a hard right during their title bout in Municipal Stadium at Philadel phia. The two heavyweights appear to be snarling at each other. Walcott kept his crown by a unani mous decision of the officials. s ; . '. Medfoi shuts Huge Receipts for Outdoor Mitt Bouts Seen This Year By JACK CUDDY New York U.R) Big time boxing seems slated to pro duce about' $3,000,000 in re ceipts during the 1952 outdoor season, --.'. That :would be a very com mendable total for open-air fisticuffs- in these days of television, night baseball, night trotting and drive - in movies. And partic ularly in these days of question ably geared pugilists. Three big matches already are slated for outdoors, and at least one more will be made. Larger Gates Predicted Many boxing men believe that each of the three closed match es will provide larger receipts than the $385,313 tor the Jersey Joe Walcott Ezzard Charles bout at Philadelphia last Thurs day. The gate was $210,313, and TV-radio money, $175,000. , ' There's one heartening aspect Race Car Owner To Quit- Track Indianapolis, Ind. (U.R) Wealthy race car owner Lou Moore whose blue crown spec ials have won more 800 mile races than any other make, termed speedway president Wilbur Shaw a' "little dictator" and said he was "getting out of racing." The fiery Moore said his de cision to give up sponsoring cars for the famous . Memorial day classic was based largely on the barring of Bill Hqlland, 1950 winner, from this year's race. Unsanctioned Race Other reasons Moore gave were the entries of dlesel cars and the amount of prize money the speedway gives the top fin ishers. Holland, who besides his win ning effort in 1950, took the runner-up spot In 1947 and 1948 was barred this year for panic ipatlng in an unsanctioned stock car race in Florida. - Eight Pro Grid Games Set for TV on Coast .. San Francisco (U.R) Eight San Francisco Forty-Nlner and Los Angeles Ram football games will be televised this autumn, club officials announced Mon day. The agreement, regarded as one of the most important tel evision deals In sports, followed a federal anti-trust suit against the National Professional Foot ball league for falling to televise Its games. Tuesday June 10. JM TRIBUNI I to all three future battles. Al though each fight is between widely publicized scrappers, the odds for each are very close. Joe Maxim is favored at only 6V4 to 9 to keep his light heavy weight crown on June 23 in his 15 round fight with Middle weight Champion Sugar Ray Robinson at Yankee Stadium. Even Money And it's "even money" for the welterweight title fight be tween Champion Kid Gavilan of Cuba and unbeaten young Gil Turner of Philadelphia at the Philadelphia Municipal sta dium, July 7. Unbeaten Rocky Marciano, the Brockton slugger, was quot ed at 7 to 5 Monday to beat Har-' ry Kid Matthews of Seattle in their heavyweight challengers' 10-round fight at Yankee sta dium, July 28. When the Marciano - Matth ews winner is matched with Walcott for a September title fight, the odds also probably will be close. Walcott proved only he could remain afoot for 15 rounds Thursday night be fore Pennsylvannia ring offic ials graciously decided he had out fumbled Charles. Similarly,' Marciano and' Mat thews are two tremendous ques tion marks. But those pugilistic interrogation points will draw money. Hopkins Victor In Yreka Race Yrcka, Calif. Jerry Hop kins, Yreka, won the 20-lap main event in auto races Sunday at Yreka speedway. Loren Sattler, Mt. Shasta, Calif.-, took the 12-lap semi-main and Rusty Phillips, Yreka, the trophy dasn. Heat winners were Woody Thompson, Yreka; Phillips; Sattler; Foster Seaver. Ashland, and Bob Wright, Ashland. Redkey Request Denied by PCC Portland U.R) Pacific Coast conference faculty repre sentatives Monday denied a re quest of Bob Redkey, star Ore gon State college linebacker, that he be permitted another year of PCC eligibility in foot ball. Redkey has asked for another season to round out the two years he already has played for OSC on the basis of a brief en rollment four years ago at Ore gon Technical Institute, Klam ath Falls, and subsequent en rollment at Grays Harbor Junior college. - He requested that the Grays Harbor stint be classified at his freshman collegiate year and thus give him a third year for grid competition at OSC. HoU-in-On Shot Only Good for Par Qrosilnger, N. Y. (U.R) O o 1 1 a r Herman Rleeenberfj hot a hole In one Monday but shot a three on the hole. The first .time Rlesenberg teed off on the 143-yard lev-, enth he landed In 1 water hai ,ard. With a two-stroke pen alty, he teed off again, and landed In lha hell. WINDOW SHADES MAPI TO ORDIR BARNARD'S 117 L Mala Dms I-I4IT Gavilan, Turner Sign for Fight For Championship Philadelphia tU.H) The kid from Strawberry Mansion is going to get a chance to try and knock the block and maybe the welterweight champ ionship off his hero, The Keed from Cuba. Contracts formalizing the 15 round title bout between Champ ion Kid. Gavilan and Phlla delphia's unbeaten, Gil Turner were signed here Monday in a luncheon ceremony at the Steaks and Ale House of former light weight, star lefty Lou Tcndler. Turner and Gavilan were in troduced after the luncheon, and observers noted that while Turn er easily defeated the champ ion in the sartorial department, there was no contest when it came to the modesty of their predictions. Flashily dressed in a powd er-gray suit, two-tone shoes and a V-neck, horizontally-striped DiacK and white sports shirt, Turner won over Gavilan's conservative brown sports jack et and contrasting trousers especially when both men doff ed their jackets in the 85-de- gree heat. Greyhound Meet Opening Slated Portland The 20th annual Multnomah Kennel club grey hound racing meeting will op en nere at Multnomah stadium ntonday night, June 16. The. 1952 meeting, scheduled for 59 nights, will Include rac ing every night excent Sundav through August 16. Then, after a one-week layoff during the Multnomah county fair, racing win resume through August 29. Benny Ewen, a veteran many years m tne sport, re turns to Multnomah this vear take over the duties of racing secretary from Nathan Howell. who departed to become general manager of tracks in Arizona and Mexico. Dead Una Sunday classified! is a s-30 p.m. for followlna day: 10 a m, Monday for Monday: noon Saturday f echo'..- yft siS An Sllll THE FULL FLAVOR OF OLD KENTUCKY NATURALLY GREAT SINCE 18B8 STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY . 4 YEARS OLD . 86 PROOF ECHO.SPRIQ DISTILLING COMPANY LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY Lesser-Known Make Bids for New York MM A dozen big leaguers, with life time batting averages ranging from .268 to .298, are making strong bids for the 1952 batting titles with one-third of the -season already history. In the American League, Dom DiMaggio of the Red Sox and Al Rosen of the Indians are the surprising and perhaps surprized new contenders while Hank Recruiting Tops Agenda At PCC Meet Portland (U.R) ' Pacific Coast conference officials con tinued closed discussions Tues day on the touchy problems of recruiting and subsidizing ath letes. The talks began Monday aft ernoon in opening sessions of the four-day PCC spring meet ing. Coach Howie Odell of Washington, president . of con ference football coaches, and Johnny Wooden, head of bask etball coaches, were chairmen. The basketball mentors also discussed a proposal to combine Northern and Southern division circuits tinder one loop and con sidered establishment of a neu tral playoff floor if present north-south competition is main tained. -H. P. (Dick) Everest, confer ence spokesman and faculty rep resentative from the University of Washington, said he was "hopeful we will take progres sive steps on alumni recruiting and subsidization. Television' problems and grants-in-aid to athletes also were on the agenda. The PCC directors turned down only one application for added eligibility, that of Bob Redkey, Oregon State football linebacker. He asked that one season of football play at Ore gon Technical Institute, Kla math Falls, not be counted, but was turned down because he competed against college teams. TO COACH OILERS Chapel Hill, N.C. (U.R) The University of North Caro lina announced Tuesday the res ignation of Tom Scott as head basketball coach to coach the Phillips Oilers team In Bartles- ville, Okla. Sport Bulletin St. Louis U.R) Rog ers Hornby was fired as man ager of the St. Louis Browns Tuesday and raplaced by Mar ty Marion. T h announcement was made here by Ruddle Schaf far, general nianager of the Browns, after a telephone talk with owner Bill Veeck In Boston. TAM'S BARBER SHOP EMIL and CECIL MOVED TO 141 SO. CENTRAL Just South of Montgomery Wards Big Leaguers Bat Titles half'Sauer and Frank Baumholtz of the Cubs, Wtutey Lockman of the Giants and Bobby Adams of the Reds are bidding for the Na tional League crown. Sauer's improvement has been the most astonishing of all, inas much as he also leads the league in runs batted in and home runs The big outfielder, who claims he has slowed down his swing: and is purposely hitting toward the right field this season, is hitting .347 77 points above his life-time average and 72 above his highest previous single-season high of .275 in. 1949. DiMoggio, Joe's little brother, is .making life almost as miser able for rival pitchers as did the great DiMag in his best cam paigns. Little Dom's average is .343, tops in the American League and 45 points higher than his career mark. Dom, however, is no stranger to the .300 class. He hit 328 in 1950 and made a season long bid for the title eventually won by teammate Billy Good man with a .354 figure. Guard Beckons Miller Players ROfSITR VAI.I.ET LEAGUE STANDINGS ' W. TL. Cave Junction 3 0 Grants Pass 3 1 Glendale -.. a 1 Ashland 3 2 Butte Falls 1 2 Central Point - 3 3 Prospect 0 5 Prt. 1.000 .750 .667 .900 .500 .400 .000 Playing Manager Ben Fa gone and Jack Burns will be absent from the line-up of the Central Point Millers baseball nine for its next game, slated June 22. Second Baseman Dale Graham will have charge of the club during Fagone's absence. Fagone and Burns will leave June 13 for National Guard en campment and will return by July 1. Meeting Wednesday A meeting of all Miller play ers has been called for Wednes day at 7 p. m. by Fagone and he stressed that the session Will be important. Central Point draws a bye on June 15, plays Ashland on June 2 and gets another bye on June 29.. Dead Una Sunday Classifieds if at 5:30 p.m. for following day; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; noon Saturday for Sunday a.m. MEDFORD'S NEW GOLF DRIVING RANGE NOW OPEN AIRPORT FAIRWAYS BIDDLE LANE MEDFORD AIRPORT Open 1 1 A M. to 8 P.M. 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All beautifully tailor ed with reverse pleats, sorfle with self-covered belts. $10.95 up PAJAMAS Dad will really sleep In Mann's comfortable -broadcloth paiamas Stripes, plaids, solid colors and novelty pat-, terns in sizes small, medium and large. Priced as low as $2.95 up Handkerchiefs Dad likes to start each day with a fresh, sparkling clean handkerchief. Replenish his summer supply with some new ones. Buy individually for 50c each or buy 3 for $1.50 boxed BELTS Give Dad an expertly tailored crafted belt. We have them in alligator, snakeskin atid leather . . . all smartly styled end de signed for long wear. Good range of sizes. - $1.50 up MEDFORD
