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tr&: rr Ifil B 8 -) I II lrTi ,; t 'f Iff - v SIGNS CONTRACT Eleanor Engle, left, Harrisburg, Pa., State Capitol worker is shown signing contract to play with the Harrisburg Senators professional baseball team. At right, she stops a hot grounder from the shortstop position. Norman Phelps' Entry Wins Feature at Hollywood Park Inglewood, Calif. (U.R) F Norman Phelp's Sturdy One, winner of the Inglewood handi cap last year, came back Satur day to score a repeat victory by a length at Hollywood Park as the highly-favored Calumet en try of Two Lea and Wistful was shut out of the money. Kept well off the pace until the stretch, Sturdy One respond ed to jockey Ralph Neves' urg ing and shot into the lead at the eighth pole. Another late finish er. Stormy Cloud, was second and Admiral Drake was third with Two Lea finishing fourth in the mile and a sixteenth stakes. In the lower half of the double stakes program, Australian joc key Reginald Heather scored his first major American handicap victory in the $25,000 Lassie stakes for two year old fillies with Fleet KhaL The $28,050 Inglewood handi cap had been figured as a race between the Calumet mares and the entry of Admiral Drake and Moonrush but Sturdy One upset the calculations with his strong finish and stamped himself a contender for the $100,000 Hol lywood Gold Cup next month. Admiral Drake tried to make a runaway of the race, breaking on top and pulling out to a two length lead down the back stretch. He was followed by STJ.25 Plus Weights WHEEL BALANCING The FIRST shop in Med ford to do wheel aligning and balancing. Depend able service since 1915. YOUNG'S Service Shop 116 North Front Phone 2-4756 J Count Me Out, Moonrush, Two Lea and Sturdy One in fifth place in the field of seven start ers, Stormy Cloud and Wistful bringing up the rear. It was not until the turn that Neves let Sturdy One go and the five year old responded, winning the race in the good time of 1:42 1-5. He returned $15.90, 9.80 and 4.60 across the board and the victory was worth $15,700 to his owner, an Oak land, Calif., auto dealer. Hollywood Takes 3 to 1 Decision From Angel Nine Hollywood (U.R) The coast league - leading Hollywood Stars beat ou the Los Angeles Angeles Saturday, 3 to 1, getting 10 hits while big Johnny Lind ell held the Angels to four hits to give the Stars their second win in five games with Los Angeles. The Stars, hitting safely In every inning they came to bat, actually won the game when they scored two runs in the third inning. The Angels' lone tally before 5386 fans came in the eighth. Outfielder Ted Beard began things for the Stars in the third when he walked with one out. Monte Basgal, second baseman, hit behind Beard, on his way to second, into right field for a single. Beard continued to third. Then Basgal stole second, and Carlos Bernier hit a ground ball to Third Baseman Leon Brink opf. Beard beat the throw home, scoring the first Star run, Bas gal moving to third on the play, and Bernier getting to first on the fielder's choice. Speedy Beamier then stole his 39th base of the year, and Frank Kelleher's long fly to cen ter field scored Basgal. FIVE DOUBLE PLAYS Portland (UP) Five Sacra mento double plays, figuring around Joe Gordon, saved Pitch er Orv Grove Friday as the Sol ons tipped Portland 5 to 4 in a Pacific Coast league game here. A home run by Richie Myers won the game for Sacramento in the 11th inning. w ANTED! I PAY TOP CASH PRICE for mm mm Paid For or Not I Can Handle It! See "Walker The Weeper Back of the Armory Phone 2-8239 Robinson in Senior Loop Batting Lead New York (UP) Jackie Rob inson of the Dodgers believes Stan Musial is baseball's best hit ter but that didn't stop him from taking the National League bat ting leadership from the Cardi nal star this week. Musial didn't slump. He boost ed his average two points to .338 but Robinson picked up 12 points during the same period to move into first place with a .340 aver age. In official averages which in cluded performances up to Thurs day nights games, Frank Baum holtz of the Cubs ranked third in the National League with a .321 mark. Catcher Toby Atwell of the Cubs was next with .319 and Whitey Lockman, with .317, completed the circuits "big five." Rosen Leads American Al Rosen, the Cleveland third baseman, replaced Dom DiMag- gio of Boston as the top batter in the American League. Rosen added seven points during the week to bring his average to .333. DiMaggio, who lost 16 points, slumped to fourth with .322. George Kell of the Red Sox re tained second with .328. Ferris Fain of the A's made the biggest advance, jumping from 12th to third as he boosted his average 27 points to .324. Billy Goodman of the Red Sox was fifth with a .315 fig ure. Hank Sauer of the Cubs con tinued to lead the majors in runs batted-in with 60 but Bobby Thomson of the Giants was close behind with 58. Rosen led the American League in that depart ment with 47. Sauer also . maintained his home run leadership with 19. Thomson and Gil Hodges of the Dodgers each had 14. Yogi Berra of the Yankees led the American League with that total. Musial led the majors in hits with 82. Nelson Fox of the White Sox and Harry Simpson of the Indians topped the American with 79 each. Little Bobby Shantr of the A's continued to set the pitch ing pace with a 12-2 record but Preacher Roe of the Dodgers had the best percentage mark with his 7-0. Ernie Durando Decisions Hayes New York (U.R) Ernie Dur ando, that strange bomber from Bayonne, N.J., seemed headed at last toward middleweight promi nence Saturday because of the improvement shown while up setting young Norman Hayes of Boston. Slugger Durando not- only mixed his right-hand shots - to body and head, but he displayed at times a good left hook and a good left jab as he won the un animous 10-round decision over dusky, 20-year-old Hayes In Madison Square Garden Friday night Durando weighed 158 pounds for the last fight of' the Garden's season. Hayes, favored at 2-1, scaled 160. Orange Grjdder Joins Air Force Corvallis (U.R) The woes continued to mount Friday - for Oregon State college Football Coach Kip Taylor, with the sea son still more than two months away. Bill Anderson, letterman right halfback from Oakland, Calif., has enlisted in the Air Force. He carried the ball 49 times for a 4.6 average last fall. Taylor already hat. lost left half Dave Mann to professional baseball and linebacker Bob Redkey was denied another year of eligibility. TWELFTH SEASON Philadelphia (UP)' Tackle Vic Sears, 34-year-old former Oregon State college star, Sat urday signed for his 12th sea son with the Philadelphia Ea gles of .the . Nation .Football league. Dutch Swimmer May Compete for U.S. in Olympics Washington J.R) Presi dent Truman signed a special citizenship bill Saturday for Deliana Meulenkamp, 19-year-old Dutch girl whose swimming feats persuaded Congress she should be on the U. S. Olympic team. The bill Mr. Truman signed will allow Deliana to qualify for citizenship immediately and for the U. S. Olympic team, if she hurries. She will have to get her citi zenship papers from a U. S. court by next Tuesday, to meet Olympic requirements. If she beats the deadline, Deliana will swim for the U. S. at Helsinki, Finland, in this summer's Olym pic games. Without the congressional boost and Mr. Truman's personal endorsement, Deliana wouldn't have been eligible for citizen ship until 1954. But the U. S. Olympic com mittee interceded witft the house judiciary committee and the spe cial legislation went through. Deliana, according to the Olym pic people, is "one of the best 800-meter free style swimmers" in the world. Sunday. June 29. 1952 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE MedforiwItribune O'Neill Succeeds Sawyer In Phillies' Skipper Post Philadelphia (U.R) Genial, 61-year-old Steve O'Neill suc ceeded Eddie Sawyer as manag er of the Philadelphia Phillies Saturday and embarked on a new career as a "rookie manag er" in the National League after almost 41 years experience as player, coach and manager In the American League. The portly Irishman from the Minooka, Pa., coal region, who formerly managed the Indians, Tigers and Red Sox, will be in command of the Phillies Satur day night when they meet the New York Giants. He will sign a contract this afternoon calling for about $35,000 a year and ex tending through the 1953 season. O'Neill, fired and replaced by Lou Boudreau as Red Sox man- Zany Red Sox Outfielder Sent To Cool Heels in Minor League Boston (U.R) Jumpin' Jim Piersall, who only Friday night revealed he wrote a sarcastic let ter to American league president Will Harridge concerning a $10 fine, Saturday was optioned by the Red Sox to the Birmingham Barons of the Southern associa tion. The zany rookie outfielder, fined recently by Harridge for "fraternizing" with Detroit Tig er players, will, be replaced by Faye Throneberry who was re called from Louisville of the American association only a few weeks after he too was sent down. Another outfielder Gene Stephens, will fill Throneberry's post at Louisville, shifting from Albany. Piersall's option came only a few hours after he said, "I sent Mr. Harridge a letter and told him I'd be paying some umpire's salary this season." The Water-1 bury, Conn., player who's been the talk of the baseball world this season, was fined following a report by umpire Ed Hurley who said, "all I can do is tell Mr. Harridge what Piersall is doing." "Maybe I deserve it," Piersall said of the demotion. "Certainly was a complete surprise to me. No, no, I can't tell you why I'm being sent down. Am I coming back? I hope so." Piersall's demotion, ironically, recalled St. Louis Brown's pitch er Satchel Paige's comment re cently after the fiery rookie had taunted him on the base lines. "I never saw any man do those things anywhere. And where's he going ,next week anyway?" Dead line Sunday noon Saturdays. Classifieds is at ager at the end of last season, faces a tremendous challenge in his new post: the rebuilding of a team which seemed only two years ago to have been built into a league-power for years to come, but which turned out to be the National League's most disappointing team this season. Rated a dark-horse challenger for the pennant when brilliant southpaw Curt Simmons return ed from army duty, the Phillies are anchored in sixth place, 17Vi games behind first as O'Neill takes over. Moreover, the team is seething with discontent and a hangover from a super-austerity program launched by Sawyer, the usually mild former psychol ogy teacher, in the spring. Sawyer, who in 1950, guided the Phillies to their first pen nant in 35 years only to lose the world series in four straight games, "resigned" Friday night after the Phillies' 6 0 victory over the Giants. The Phillies said he would be retained in a new kind of job, to "evaluate the farm system and personnel of rival clubs." "It almost happened last win ter," Sawyer said. "Had the club been winning this year it would not have happened at this time, but probably would have hap pened next year anyway." MILLERS TO PRATICE The Central Point Millers baseball team, idle over the week-end in the Rogue Valley league, will hold a practice at 6 p.m. Monday. It will be the first meeting of the club with Manager Ben Fagone since he left for National Guard camp two weeks ago. He returned Fri day night with the motor convoy. Louise Suggs Fires Record Round In Women s National Open Play rnnaaeipnia vu.ra Lime Louise Suggs, pitting an eagle against a double bogey to shoot a one-over par 70, took a seven stroke lead in the Women's Na tional open golf championship Saturday with a record 209 score for the first 54 holes of the 72 hole tournament. The little socker from Carroll ton, Ga., finding the narrow fairways of the Bala Golf club to the liking of her accurate game, bested by nine strokes the previous record for 54 holes and did it on an afternoon when teen-aged Marlene Bauer bid for history herself by' tying the tournament one-round mark with a 67. There seemed but little doubt that Miss Suggs would shatter the tournament record of 291 held by herself and Mrs. Babe Zaharias, but set over courses longer than the 5,460-ya'rd scene of the present open. Both of Saturday's record per formances came as defending champion Betsy Rawls fell 13 strokes off the pace with a 78 and Marilynn Smith, Wichita, California Players Reach Tennis Finals Evanston, 111. (U.R) Cal ifornia players swept the field at the NCAA tennis chamnion- shins Saturdav insurins Wesf Coast champions when the meet reaches the finals today. The California monopoly was wrapped up late Saturday when Cliff Mayne and Hugh Ditzler of the University of California and Bob Perrv and Larrv Huphnpr of the University of California at L,os Angeles won semi-final victories. Kans.. who set the tournament single round record of 67 yes terday, soared to a 79, marked by two double bogeys and six bogeys. Hungarian Reds Insulted By Olympic Torch Bypass Budapest, Hungary (U.R) A Budapest newspaper complained indignantly Saturday that the Olympic torch which is being flown from Athens to Copen hagen is bypassing the peoples democracies. The newspaper Magyar Nmzet called it an "unpleasant and malevolent prologue" to the Hel sinki summer Olympics, since runners will carry the torch only from Copenhagen to Helsinki. "This is when the Soviet un ion is participating for the first time and when athletes from the peoples democracies are taking part in numbers exceeding every previous occasion," the news paper said. "The decision of the interna tional Olympics -committee is especially unfair and insulting." Use Mail Tribune Want Ada Buy BUILDERS SUPPLY 1 QUALITY BLOCKS BRICKS FLUES 727 W. McAndrews Phone 2-4107 Dead line Sunday noon Saturdays. Classifieds is at HOT? INSULATE NOW! 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