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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, July 8, 1952 T 0 TIG Medfordites Will Head East Today "Joe Chez, 21-year-old ex-Med-ford high athlete wWo concluded a baseball pitching career this spring at Stanford university, announced Saturday that he has signed a contract with the De troit "Tigers of the American league. Chez, a right-hander, actually inked a pact, with Buffalo, N.Y., Tiger farm club, in the class AAA International league but will start with WilliamspoTt, Pa., of the Class A Eastern league. He is to leave here by plane today to reach Williams port on Monday. Bernie de Viveiros, west coast scout for Detroit, inked the Medfordite Friday. A bonus was involved Neither de Viveir os nor Chez would reveal the amount. They said it was "sub stntial." Many Bids Chez had received bids from 12 major loop clubs and several Coast league teams. Joe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred L. Chez, 812 Palm street, his eye on professional . ball, limit ed his athletic concentration to baseball after entering Stanford. His varsity record was 24 wins and four losses, 11 and one as a sophomore, six and two as a junior and 7 and one as a sen ior. This year he was named to the all-star first teams of the Calif - ornian Intercollegiate Baseball association and District No. 8 of the National Collegiate Athlet ic association. He made third team collegiate all-American. He hit .375 for Stanford this year. Four Sport Man Chez was graduated from Med ford high In 1948. He was a four sport letterman football, basketball, baseball and track for the Black Tornado and was student body president. As a youngster, he had pro baseball aspirations and in high school gave up pole vaulting because he felt the required exercises would be detrimental to his pitching arm. Chez won 10 games and lost one in prep baseball. Joe's experience includes Am erican Legion junior ball and semi-pro rivalry with the Cheney &tuds of the Old Southern Ore gon leasue. OrlanH Calif nf tho Sacramento Vallev loon nnH Pendleton of the Trl-State circuit. When Chez as a sophomore was beaten 3 to 2 by Washing ton State in the coast confer, ence play-offs, the Cougars stop ped his pitching winning streak at 28-straight games. In 1950, tossing a champion ship game with the Studs, Chez deieated Koseburg 5 to 0 with 15 strikeouts. Roseburg, which had a long string of victories, was held to one hit. PE- Major Last season in the Tri-State loop Joe chad; a. record of five wins and two losses and an earn ed; run: average of .80. He lost one. decision 2 to I on an un earned run after fanning 18 bat ters in 16 Innings. : Joe and his brother Fred are majoring in physical education at Stanford and must complete the fall term to get their degrees. Both have been working their way, working at morning meal time at dormitories and as stu dent "police" at campus func tions. Joe has not chucked in com petition for six weeks but has been throwing and running to keep in shape. Oregon Net Meet Slated Portland (U.PJ The 54th an nual Oregon tennis champion ships opens on Portland's Irv ington club courts Monday and top netters from upstate and other parts of the west have signed up for the opening rounds. Jerry DeWitt, Oakland, Calif., ranked second behind ex-national champion Art Larsen in his northern California strong hold, and Linn Rockwood, Pro vo, Utah, ranked first in the in termountain area, have both signed. Champ Enterad DeWitt is a former star net man at the University of Calif ornia and Rockwood was run nerup to Portland's Emery Neale when Neale won the Ore gon championship in 1951. Defending Champion Neale will be on hand again, along with Jim Brink, another Port lander. Other Oregonians at tempting to keep the title on home courts will be Clyde Knox. Hugh Findlay, Jack Neer. Bill Rose, Jim Flynn and Tom McDonald. ' ' ' JOE CHEZ Signed by Tigers Jensen Knotted for Second In American Loop Batting MRS. SEHORN FAILS Indianapolis (U.PJ Delia Sehorn of Portland, Ore., went to the sidelines Saturday in try outs for the U.S women's Olym . pic swimming team. Mrs. Se horn failed to qualify Friday when she finished seventh in her heat of the 100 meters event. New York (U.P.) Jackie Jen sen, former University of Calif ornia football star who has add ed more than 200 points to his average since the Yankees trad ed him to the Senators two months ago, moved into a tie for second place this week "in the nerican league batting race. Jensen was hitting .105 only three players ranked below him in the league averages when he was traded during the first week in May. The latest official figures, which included Thurs day's games, placed the 25-year- Rod Witham Hydro Victor Rod Witham, Medford's new comer to motorboat racing, won his fifth trophy of the season Friday. ".'' Witham topped the . field in D hydroplane competition' in the Modesto regatta, beating out outstanding racers from the San Francisco and Los -Angeles! areas. He took the trophy.' by winning .two races. . . . The Medfordite, experiencing, his first year in :racing,.. picked up previous trophies at Clear Lake, Redding and. Eureka, Cal-- norma. He gained two .trophies at Redding recently RECORD RUN Curt Stoneof the New York Athletic Club comes in all by himself to set a new American record in the 5000 meter run in the U. S. Olympic finals at Los Angeles. His time was 14:27. old Californian in a tie with Ferris Fain of the A's at .323 Rosen First Al ' Rosen, Cleveland's third baseman, held first place in the American league for the second straight week. He was hitting .328. George Kell of the Red Sox was fourth at .318 and his teammates, Dom DiMaggio and Billy Goodman, were deadlock; ed for fifth at .314 In the National league, five time champion Stan Musial of the Cardinals popped back to the. top with a .332 average Jackie Robinson of the Dodg ers, last week's leader, dropped to third with a .320 mark. Toby Atweli, Cub catcher, moved from fourth to second with a .325 average. Willard Marshall of the Reds -was fourth with .314 .and Whitey Lockman of the Giants was fifth with .308. , Sauer RBI Leader Although his batting average still was falling, Hank Bauer of the Cubs continued to lead the maiors in . runs-batted-in : . and homers. He had . batted in 65 runs and. had 21' homers. Sauer was -12th in the batting' aver ages with '.296 Bobby Thomson of the Giants was runner-up in runs-batted-in with' 62 'and Gil Hodges of the Dodgers was third . with. 53. Ros en and, Ed' Robinson of; "the; White Sox. were tied for the runs-batted-in lead in the Amer ican league with 50 each. Hodges was second in homers with 16. Catcher Yogi Berra of the Yankees and Vic Wertz of the Tigers were tied for the American league homer lead with 15 apiece Preacher Roe, Brooklyn left hander, topped the pitching per centages with a 7-0 record but the major's big winner still was little Bobby Shantz of the A's He had a 14-2 mark. Sal Maglie of the Giants had an 11-2 record. BASEBALL FRIDAY'S RESULTS Coast League Oakland 2-0. Hollywood 0-5 Los Angeles 4-2, San Francisco 3-4 Portland 1-4. San mego o-a Seattle 8-5, Sacramento 0-1 National League Boston 2. Philadelphia 1 fist) . Boston 3, Philadelphia 2 (2nd) St. Louis 13, Chicago 7 (1st) St. Louis 4. Chicago 1 (2nd) Pittsburgh 4, CincinnaU 2 (1st) Pittsburgh 5. Cincinnati 2 (2nd.) Brooklyn 5, New York 1 1st 8 innings, rain) Brooklyn at New York (2nd, post poned, rain) American League yew York 9, Washington 4 (1st) New York 4. Washington 3 (2nd) Chicago 3. St. Louis 1 (1st) Chicago 2, St Louis 0 (2nd) Boston 10. Philadelphia S (1st) Philadelphia 4. Boston 3 (2nd) ; Cleveland 11. Detroit 0 (1st) Cleveland 10. Detroit 1 (2nd) Western International - Victoria 10-4, Spokane 4-0 Tri-City 11-1. Wenatchee 6-0 Yakima 4-5. Salem 3-1 Vancouver 3-1, Lewiston 2-7 USE THE BEST! LININGER'S READY-MIX SLItr. CONCRETE M. C. LININGER & SONS PHONE 2-5336 or 2-5897 Navy's Collegiate Champs Win Way to Olympics Test Worcester, Mass. (U.R) Navy's National Intercollegiate Eight-Oared champions smashed the west's rowing domination Saturday by winning the right to represent the "United States in the Olympics in course-rec. ord time. Navy beat down California's early threat in the first 500 meters of the 2,000 meters race and went on to victory in. the trials final in 5 , minutes 57.7 seconds! Princeton was second, Washington third and Califor nia a spent last. The three-length victory r in the eights and victory in the fours- Drain Raps Chief Crew In SW Loop SOUTHWESTERN OREGON LEAGUE STANDINGS ... Drain : 10 MEDFORD 7 Coos Bay-North Bend 7 Roseburg 6 Bandon ... 6 Coauille .............. 5 L Pet. 2 .833 . 5 .583 5 .583 6 - .500 8 '.500 7 .417 Brookings 1 11 083 Drain's Black Sox" strengthen ed their hold on first spot in the Southwestern Oregon Base ball circuit with a pair of Fri day holiday -victories over Rose burg. The scores were 9 to 2 and 5 to 1. ' These games were make-ups for those rained out last 'week end and completed the first round of action for the . league. It had been planned to play the contests during the second half but no dates during that period could be agreed to. The July 4 tussles were originally slated as klng's-x affairs'. Studs Ris . Roseburg slipped into a fourth and fifth place knot with Ban don as result of the losses: Coos Bay-North Bend and the Med ford .Cheney Studs i advance a notch and are deadlocked now for second, as well as third pos ition in the circuit. The --second ..half begins on July 12 and 13 with Medford at Drain, Roseburg-at Coquille and Bandon at Coos Bay." Brookings gets a bye.- Grand Slammer Wins for Oaks OakiandT Calif. (U.R) Ray Noble's." grand slam honier" Was the margin of victory Saturday as the Oakland Acorns .staved off a; late rally to down the Hol lywood Stars, 8-7 and climb to within one game of first place in the" Pacific coast league. Both clubs scored in the first, Hollywood oh Carlos Bernier's two - run homer, and Oakland on a pair of singles, a double and a triple. The Stars added one inw the ..third--when ..Ted Beard walked, advanced on Monty Bas gall's single, and scored'- on a single by Chuck Stevens to nar row the gap to 43. Noble's blast into the left field stands came after Pete. Milne's single and walks - to "Jorgenson and Chapman f 6 load the bags arid put the Oaks out in front, 8-3.; :.. " Hollywood came back in the ninth with four runs against three Oakland pitchers before Bill Ayers could put out the fire. without-coxwain gave Navy two teams representing the U. S. at Helsinki in the 1952 games. Two other Navy crews were defeated Saturday. John B. Kelly, Jr., of Phila delphia, the 1948 U. S. Olympic entry, won the right, to repre sent the U. S. in the singles by giving Charles. Mcllvane of Phil adelphia a humiliating 20-length beating. The other crews picked Sat urday for the U. S. team: Doubles Detroit Boat club duo of Pat Costello and Walter Hoover, Jr. Pairj with coxwain Stan- toras team oi bow Jim ruer, Stroke Duvall Hecht and Cox wain Jim Beggs. Fours with coxwain Univer sity of Washington. Pairs without coxwain Rut gers team of Bo Charles Logg, Jr., and Stroke Tom Price The big race Saturday was the eights as two western crews, California and Washington sought revenge for Navy's inter collegiate victory in a sport long dominated by Pacific coast col leges. Naw was ready for the chal lenge. California leaped in front at the start and was ahead at the 500 meters mark. But then Navy forged in front, and from then on it was a race for second place. Princeton's time was 6:06.2 Washington's 6:06.9 and Cali fornia's 6:09.2. Young Kelly beat Mcllvane in 7:21.8 with Hoover third and Costello fourth. This was no contest. But the other races were tight. Softball League Leadership at Stake Tuesday MEDFORD SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION STANDINGS Men's League W. L. Pet. YMCA 2 Mobilgas .. 3 Central Point 2 Camp White 2 Eagle Point 1 Trowbridge and Flynn.. 1 Crater Lions 1 National Guard 0 Andy's Jewelers 0 0 1.000 750 .667 .667 1 .667 2 .333 .333 .000 .000 Unblemished YMCA will be up against a tough rival in Med ford Softball association men's action on Tuesday. TheY may run into trouble in going after its third win of the season when it tackles Camp White in the second conflict of the evening at the senior high stadium. Camp White, now knot ted with Central Point in third place, could make itself a first place tie with currently second position Mobilgas by trouncing YMCA. Central Point, like Camp White with two wins and one loss .at-the moment, will also shoot for higher loop status. The Pointers encounter Trowbridge and Flynn in the 7:30 a. m. open er on Tuesday. EVENED UP Greenwich, Conn. (U.R) Na ture's law of compensation worked out. Mrs. Patsy Tiriolo prepared her husband's break fast and his egg turned up with no yolk. 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Kansas State University. All six won places during Olympic Games tryduts at Los Angeles. (international Soundphoto) Little "Mo" Winner Of Wimbledon Crown ' Wimbledon, Eng. '(U.R) Little Maureen Connolly,- the 17-year-old Yank who scoffed at rain and shrugged off tradition,' be came the youngest Wimbledon women's champion in 65 years Saturday when she chopped down three-times-winner Louise Brough in straight sets. The doctors, her teacher, her friends everyone urged little Mo from San Diego, Calif., to withdraw from the tournament after her first match because of a painfully injured shoulder. But Maureen spurned their pleas and winced her way to the final victory. Then she said, "this is nothing. I want to win eight of them like Helen Wills." Seldom has a player won Wim bledon in her first try as Mau reen did Saturday. And never, since 15-year-old Lottie Dod won in 1887, has a younger player grabbed tennis' most prized championship. ' Maureen had power Saturday something she hadn't been able to coax from the torn shoul der muscles earlier in the tour nament. The 28-year-old Miss Brough, of Beverly Hills, Calif., had won the title in 1948, '49 and '50, and recognized the dan ger of Saturday's threat. So she threw everything into the' first set and lost. Her strategy was to win the first set, coast through the sec ond to conserve her strength and pour on the venerable Brough power in the last set. But Mau leen didn't go for that. When Miss Brough tried to slow down the play by volleying floaters, Maureen sent the ball crackling across the court for whistling placements. Miss Brough tottered near ex haustion, at the finish, and she burst into uncontrollable tears when defeated. She had started well enough. She broke Maureen's service in the fifth game but lost her own in the sixth at love. She was within two points of the first set in the 10th game, but little Mo won the game after it was to deuce three times. Defending champions Frank Sedgman and Ken McGregor of Australia beat Vic Sexias of Phil adelphia and Eric Sturgess of South Africa, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4, in men's doubles. Shirley Fry of Akron, O., and Doris Hart of Coral Gables, Fla., won the women's doubles title with an 8-6, 6-3, triumph over Misses . Connolly and Brough. Hearing on Game Regulations Set Portland U.P.) A hearing on recommendations for Oregon's 1952 hunting regulations will be held July 11 begining at 9 a. m. standard time, at the Oregon State Game commission .offices Ke.re, the commission reported Friday. Tentative regulations will be set after the hearing and the commission will meet again on July 25 to set final 1952 hunt ing rules. RIDES HIS PLOW Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) S. V.. Whitaker spotted a man riding, toward town on a power garden plow. He had removed the plow points and added two wheels and a small platform to stand on. - Plus Weights WHEEL BALANCING The FIRST shop in Med-, ford to do wheel aligning and balancing. 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