SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Fanfare
By DICK JEWETT
. Mail Tribun Spm Editor
A big surge in auto racing ac
tivity, interest and enthusiasm
has been noted here in the past
few weeks with a program get
ting underway at the Medford
Speedway, plans announced for
races at the Ashland Rodeo
grounds and racing slated at the
Jackson County Sheriff's Mount
ed posse grounds.
Promoters kay.Reid and Ed
die Claasen at the Medford
Speedway and the posse at its
grounds have scheduled races for
Friday, July 4. Reid and Claas
en anticipate 40 vehicles for
their stock car ruckus. Cars of
the Southern Oregon Midget Ra
cing association will participate
at the posse grounds.
Hard top stock car events will
commence at the Ashland track
on July 12. The program calls
for races on Saturdays through
the summer and early fall.
-' Racers of the valley have
forrrved the Southern Oregon
Stock Car Racing association
with Blair Crosby, president;
- Jim- Palmer, vice-president, and
Wally Cannon, secretary - treas
urer.
HELPS CONFIDENCE
The Medford Cheney Studs'
pair of wins ovr the Coos
Bay-North Bend Lumberjacks
during the week-end should
strengthened their confidence
for the Southwestern Oregon
Baseball loop series with
league-leading Drain on July
12 and 13. Medford lost its
opening series with Drain 8
to 3 and 7 to 4. Since then,
however. Coos Bay has wal
loped Drain and quite
soundly, 8 to 1 and 10 to 2. It
goes to prove that anything
can happen in the Sawdust
Circuit and that the Studs are
potentially just as strong as
any other club in the circuit,
despite bigger names else
where. PROGNOSTICATOR -
Don Faber, the Central Point
grocer who handles the public
address system at the Studs'
home games, proved an excell
ent prognosticator Sunday. When
the Studs came to bat in the
eighth stanza, he predicted a
big inning for the Medford crew.
The Studs scored three runs,
enough to win, in the canto. We
saw Don rapping his knuckles
on a table top before the first
Stud batter stepped up to the
plate in the inning.
GOOD LUCK GITZEN
Pitcher Paul Gehrman calls
First Baseman George Gitxen
the "good luck charm" of the
Studs. "When he plays, we
win," according to Big Paul.
SALTZMAN OUT
itoseburg .of the. SWOL won't
have the chucking services of
Hal Saltzman, ex-Portland Bea
ver, after all. Because of a back
ailment sustained during mili
tary service, his doctor has nix
ed baseball participation by
Saltzman this season.
FELL IN HOLE
Th four hits given up' by
Derald Wooton to Boise in nis
professional start with Great
Falls of the Pioneer League
were not hard ones. "They
just fell in the hole," the ex
Medford high ace, has inform
ed his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Lloyd Wooton.
TO PACIFIC
Ron Craig, Jacksonville high's
all-around athlete, is slated to
enter Pacific university at For
est Grove next fall.
Portland Star
Top PCL Batter
San Francisco (U.R) Big
Joe Brovia of Portland hiked
his average eight points last
week to take over the Pacific
Coast league batting lead, of
ficial averages disclosed Tues
day. The Bevo outfielder is 'now
belting at a ".324 clip for 83
games. Bob Boyd of Seattle, last
week's leader, holds the runner
up spot. He slipped 10 points to
.320.
Although he's way down on
the hit parade with a .272 mark,
Tookie Gilbert -of Oakland is
high man in the important runs-batted-in
department with 58.
Johnny Lindell ranks at the top
the PCL pitching department
with 12 wins against only four
losses.
Lindell, a former New York
Yankee, has. three more wins
than any . other twirler in the
league. Los Angeles' Bill Noi
san ranks second with a 9-3 rec
ord, followed by Steve Nagy of
Seattle with 9-4. .
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Yankee Castoff Makes Good
On Washington Mound Staff
By United Press
Sen. Frank (Spec.) Shea from
Connecticut is one guy who does
not have to worry about stick
ing in Washington this election
year when a lot of other senators
are having their troubles.
Shea, the prize forgotten man
of the 1947 world champion
Yankees, was about to be sent
to the minors when his old boss,
Manager Bucky Harris of the
Senators asked that he be in
cluded in the big trade which
sent Irv Noren to the New York
ers. The Yankees were promptly
willing to unload the chunky
right hander who hadn't won a
game with them all season and
who had won only 15 in the four
long and unhappy years after
his great rookie campaign of
47.
Shea had been a sore arm
victim but claimed he had re
covered and the Yankees hadn't
given him a chance to show he
Professional Ball Provides One
Of Fastest Stepping Stones to
Business Success,
By HAL WOOD
San Francisco flJ.R) Profes
sional football provides one of
the fastest stepping stones to
success in the business world for
college graduates and should
not be overlooked by youngsters
with athletic ability just getting
out of school.
That's the learned opinion of
scholarly Gordon Soltau, former
Minnesota star and last season
one of the greatest ends in the
National league while perform
ing for the San Francisco Forty
Niners. "Most kids just getting out of
school are in debt," reasons Sol
tau, "And how else can they
pick up about $1,000 a month
for the next four or live
months?"
Third Year
Soltau will start his third sea
son with the Forty-Niners this
fall and right now is complet
ing his third year as a steel
salesman for Monarch Steel
Products Co. in San Francisco.
"It was through professional
football that I got this job, and
steel, being one of our biggest
industries, is going to be my
busines sin the future thanks
to the game of football."
The blonde, 6-foot, 2-inch star,
who is a slender 200 pounds,
probably is one of the smarter
athletes around the country to
day. Ha is an accomplished pub
lic speaker, and is. a member of
the. Speakers Bureau of the
northern California Volunteers
for Eisenhower.
Frogman
Soltau is as close as a glomour
boy can come to being a soldier
of fortune in these times. Be
sides being a football hero, he
was one of the famed "frog
men" in World War II, hitting
the front lines in both the Euro
pean and the C-B-I theaters.
That, of course, required him to
be a top-flight swimmer.
He also starred in basketball
and hockey while at the Univer
sity of Minnesota. Counting his
war service of three years, he
has hit just about all corners of
the globe.
Getting back to professional
football, Soltau is sold on the
pro team.
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TuM4r. Juir 1. 195:
was okay. As soon as he joined
the Senators he began to win
regularly, and Monday night he
posted his sixth victory against
only two defeats, topping the
Athletics, 6 to 2, on seven hits.
Washington, by winning, mov
ed to within four games of first
place again, as the Red Sox top
ped the leading Yankees, 4 to 3,
on the four-hit, eight strikeout
pitching of rookie Dick Prodow
ski. The Red Sox moved to with
in 3Vi games of the top. The
White Sox also moved to within
3V2 games of the lead by defeat
ing the Tigers, 7 to 2, as Art
Houttemann suffered his seventh
straight defeat. Cleveland, which
was idle, held to fourth place,
four games out and two percent
age points ahead of Washington.
The National league race
tightened up when the Giants
won 8 to 7 and 4 to 0 decisions
in Boston while Karl Drews
blanked the Dodgers for the
Phillies, 4 to 0.
Player Says
"This is hard to believe," he
points out, "but the spirit on the
professional football clubs is
higher than it ever is in col
leges." He claims that the pro game is
"100 per cent better" than that
played in college and lists three
reasons: (1) The players spend
their full time at playing the
game. (2) The individuals are
older and more mature. (3) On
college teams there are only
three or four really good foot
ball players; the rest are just
good athletes.
Americans Gain
Round of Four
At Wimbledon
Wimbledon, England (UP)-
Louise Brough, Beverly Hills,
Calif., battling to regain the
Wimbledon singles crown she
won three straight times, be
came the first American to en
ter the women's semi-finals
Tuesday.
She defeated Jean Quertier
Rinkel of Britain, 6-1, 9-7.
Attendance continued to fall
as temperatures rose." Only 21,
000 were on hand for the start
of play Monday. Barely 17.D00
were present as competition be
gan today but the center court
was packed to its 15,000 ca
pacity as U. S. Champion Mau
reen Connolly started her quarter-final
match with Thelma
Long or Australia.
Miss Connolly rallied to gain
the semi-finals with a 5-7, 6-2,
6-0 victory over Mrs. Long.
Standings
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York
Boston
Chicago
Washington
Cleveland ..
St. Louis ....
Philadelphia
Detroit
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.667
.559
.528
.455
.449
.391
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Chicago
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Philadelphia
CincinnaU ...
Boston
Pittsburgh .
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44 22
38 30
38 34
30 36
31 38
27 42
18 53
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37 31 .544 3'!.
s. 38 32 .543 3 a
35 30 .538 4
37 32 .536 4
32 37 .464 9
27 33 .458 9i
22 48 .328 18 ?i
Senior Circuit
For July 8 Ail -
New York (U.R) Big blast
ers like Hank Sauer of the Cubs,
Bobby Thompson of the Giants,
Stan Musial of the Cards and
Jackie Robinson of the Dodgers
give the National league start
ing lineup a tremendous bat
ting edge over the American for
the July 8 All Star game.
A position-By-position . check
up of the eight starting players
not counting pitchers on each
team revealed Tuesday that the
Easter Sent
To Minors
Cleveland, Ohio (U.R) A
publicity blurb from the Cleve
lantflndians, favored to win the
1952 American league pennant
in pre-season polls, said early
this year, f'Luke Easter is the
key to a winning season."
Tuesday the Indians threw
away the key but kept the
door open.
In a surprise move the In
dians announced Monday night
they were sending the big Negro
first baseman to their Indian
apolis farm club. But Easter was
snt down on a 24-hour basis
and the move was regarded as
one calculated to shake the
clumping player out of the dol
drums. ,
Easter has gone to the plate
221 times, and while his average
is a weak .208, he has tallied 24
runs, gotten 46 hits, of which
six were two-baggers and 11
were home runs. He has driven
in .33 runs, a respectable mark
this early in the season.
Baseball School
Attendance Good
There will be no city school
baseball activity on Thursday
because a number of boys will
be leaving town with their fam
ilies for the holiday week-end,
Lee V. Hagsdale, physical educa
tion director for the school sys
tem announced.
He reported that registration
for the first week of the sum
mer baseball program was 125.
He said that average attend
ance has been 100. There are
three general divisions, the sand
blowers, ages 7 through 9; pee
wees, 10 through 12 and the
cubs, over 12. The divisionmg
is not strictly according to age,
however, ability of the young
sters being a factor in their class
ification.
Hitting Stressed
There are 30 sandblowers reg
istered, 65 pee wees and 30 cubs.
The program- last week stress
ed hitting, bunting and base run
ning. This week pitching and
catching get the emphasis. Next
week instructions.: in other pos
itions will be given.
The instruction is given Mon
Jays through Thursdays from
8:30 a.m. to noon.
Scores Yesterday
American League
Boston 4. New York 3.
Washington 6.' Philadelphia 2.
Chicago 7. Detroit 2.
(Only games scheduled).
National League
New York 4. Boston 0.
New York 8, Boston 7.
St. Louis 7, CincinnaU 3.
Philadelphia 4, Brooklyn 0.
Chicago 5, Pittsburgh 4.
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National leaguers had a com
bined batting average of .301
compared to .295 for the Ameri
can.
What's more, the National had
an edge in home runs, 77 to 54,
and in runs batted in, 336 to 242,
for all games played through
last week-end. -
The senior circuit had the
major leagues' leading batter in
Musial at .339; the home run
king in Sauer, who has 20; and
the co-runs-batted-in leaders in
Sauer and Thomson, with 62
each.
Five of the National league
starters have batting averages
of .300 or better. The junior
league has four. In addition to
Musial, the National loop has
Robinson, .329, Sauer, .308,
Whitey Lockman of the Giants
.307, and Enos Slaughter of the
Cards, .302.
The American league's .300
hitters are Al Rosen of the In
dians .332, Dom DiMaggio of
the Red Sox .314, Dale Mitchell
of the Indians .306 and Hank
Bauer of the Yankees .300. The
loop's Jop home run hitter is
Yogi Berra of the Yankees with
15 and the top man in RBI's is
Rosen with 47.
Turner Intends
To 'Burn Down'
Gavilan in Bout
Pleasantville, N. J. (UP)
Unbeaten Gil Turner, the world's
hottest young fighter, said Tues
day he would "burn down" wel
terweight champion Kid Gavilan
in their title fight at Philadel
phia's Municipal Stadium Mon
day night. i
The 21-year-old Philadelphia
Negro said he would set such a
blistering pace, 26-year-old Gav
ilan of Cuba would wilt before
the scheduled 15 rounds were
finished.
"I'll beat him for sure; maybe
knock him out," declared the
broadshouldered youngster.
Never Kayoed
No one ever knocked Out Gavi
lan; not even Sugar Ray Robin
son in 25 rounds.
However, Felix Rocchichio
manager of heavyweight cham
pion Jersey Joe Walcott
watched Turner in two work
outs here at Miss loana Byrd's
training camp and made this
statement:
"Turner is the greatest fight
er I've ever seen. He's greater
than Henry Armstrong was at
his peak. He throws more leath
er and hits harder than Arm
strong did, and he is much more
versatile. He will knock out
Gavilan without too much trou
ble." Sacramento Nine
Tops Salem, 4-3
Salem (UP) The Sacramento
Solons of the Pacific
Coast league defeated the Salem
Senators of the Western v Inter
national league 4 to 3 in an ex
hibition game Monday night.
Sacramento scored its only
earned run in the seventh when
Jack Steinagle singled to score
Bill Glynn.
Connie Perez of Salem hit
four for five to pace the Sen
ators' attack.
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Divers Open
Competition
New York (U.R) The final
trials for those hopefus seeking
berths on the U. S. Olympic
men's diving team opened Tues
day with eliminations in the
three-meter springboard event
The diving trials will be staged
during the next three days at
the Astoria pool in conjunction
with a water polo tournament,
which will determine the make
up of the U. S. team for the
Olympics at Helsinki later this
month.
Dr. Sammy Lee, Army medi
cal major recently returned from
Korean service, was the stand
out entry in the diving events.
The little Korean-American won
the high-board Olympic title at
London in 1948 and took third
in the springboard.
Miller Anderson, former Ohio
State star who made the 1948
Olympic team both in high and
springboard diving, also is com
peting, along with John McCor
mick of the Pasadena Athletic
Club, the 1952 AAU outdoor one
meter champion.
Two title-holding collegians
included in the field are David
Browning of Texas University,
NCAA outdoor and AAU indoor
champion at both one-meter and
three-meter diving, and Bob
Clotworthy, Ohio State, 1952
AAU outdoor three-meter cham
pion. Satch in Clouds
Over Selection
New York (U.R) They
put the final touch Tuesday to
Satchel Paige's private castle in
the air.
"It's something I always
dreamed about,"- declared the
Browns' 44-year-old relief pitch
er upon being notified of his
selection to the American
League All-Star team. "It's a
mighty big honor and I appreci
at it plenty."
There were only three things
he ever wanted, Paige explains.
"A long time back," he says,
"I always wanted to pitch in
the big leagues and I got to do
that. After I came to Cleveland,
I wanted to pitch in a World
Series and in 1948, I got to do
that, too.
"That left only one more thing
I wanted to be picked on an
All-Star team."
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Tommy Collins Gains TKO Victory
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Boston (UP) Young Tommy
Collins coveted the world feath
erweight boxing title of Sandy
Saddler Tuesday as ex-Cham
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"never saw" the left hook that
spoiled his comeback at Boston
Garden.
The sadly beaten Hartford,
Conn., scrapper said after Mon
day night's sixth round techni
cal knockout that over-eagerness
cost him the fight. Pep weighed
12634 pounds against Collins'
130VS.
"I got careless," he said in re
viewing the fifth round when
Collins recovered from a daze
and shipped out the hook that
turned the tide. "I went in there
Harlow Resigns
Duck Grid Post
Eugene (U.R) Head Coach
Len Casanova said Monday that
Gene Harlow, football line
coach, is resigning at the Univer
sity of Oregon here to accept a
similar position at Tulane uni
versity in New Orleans.
Harlow telephoned Oregon
Athletic officials of his decision
Saturday night from the South
east conference school. He will
work under new Head Coach
Raymond (Bear)" Wolf, who mov
ed up to the No. 1 spot upon re
signation of Henry Ernka last
season.
Casanova said he would begin
immediately a search for a re
placement to join two other grid
coaching aides, Jack Roche and
Johnny McKay.
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