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NBA Names Marciano No. 1 Heavyweight Title Aspirant Washington (U.R) The Na tional Boxing Association Satur day picked slugging Rocky Marciano as the number one challenger for the heavyweight crown worn by Jersey Joe wal cott. The NBA, in its quarterly box ing ratings, rated Former Heavy weight Champ Ezzard Charles as the number two contender deserving a crack at Walcott the man who took his title away. The association's highest praise, however, was saved for Light-heavyweight Archie Moore Hurley Charges Matthews Being Double-Crossed New York (U.P.) Jack Hurley, manager of heavy weight contender Harry Mat thews, announced Saturday he would confer on Monday at Flemington, N. J., with Felix Bocchicchio, manager of cham pion Jersey Joe Walcott, regard ing a September title fight. Matthews is scheduled to fight Rocky Marciano at Yankee sta dium on July 28 for the right to a September shot at Walcott s crown. But Hurley fears the In ternational Boxing club is "try ing to double-cross me and Mat thews again." Hurley accuses managing director Harrv Markson of the IBC and matchmaker Al Weill of trying to sign Marciano and Walcott for the September bout, without waiting to see who wins the Matthews-Marciano fight on July 28. Standings American League W 1. Prt GB 33 .621 New York 54 Ronton 48 38 .558 S'i Cleveland 1 39 .557 5'i Washington 46 39 .541 fii2 Chicago 47 43 .522 8'i Philadelphia .... 38 42 .475 12"2 St. Louis 35 33 .398 19 Detroit 28 58 .326 25 'i National League Brooklyn 58 New York 52 St. Louis 50 Chicago 45 Philadelphia 42 Boston 38 Cincinnati 35 Pittsburgh 26 22 .725 31 .627 7i 38 .568 11 i 41 .523 16 44 .488 19 49 .424 24 52 .402 26' x 66 .275 37 'i York; Coley Wallace, New York; Clarence Henry, California and Harry Matthews, Washington. Leading a similar list among the light - heavyweights was Randy Turpin, the Briton who battled Sugar Ray Robinson twice; Hal Johnson, Pennsyl of Missouri. Moore was picked as the logical contender to fight his division champion Joe Maxim and also as an "out standing boxer" in the heavy weight division. Others named as outstanding boxers in the heavyweight divi sion were Roland Lastarza, New vania and Jake LaMotta, New York. Turpin was also picked as the logical contender for Robinson's middleweight crown, followed by Charles Humez of France. Top boxers in this division were Ernie Durando, New Jersey; Dave Sands, Australia and Gene Hairston, New York The logical contenders for Kid G'a'vilan's welterweight crown were Billy Graham, New York, followed by Johnny Sax ton, also of New York. The NBA picked Jimmy Car ter, New York as number one behind Light-weight Champion Lauro Salas of Mexico while Ray Famechon of France was the number one choice behind Featherweight Champion Sandy Saddler of New York. In the Bantamweight division, Jim Carruthers of Australia headed the list of contenders for the bantamweight crown worn by Vic Toweel of South Africa. Flyweight Champion Y o s h i o Shirai of Japan had as his num ber one contender Dado Marino of Hawaii. Robinson Fined For Argument Pittsburgh (U.R) Second baseman Jackie Robinson has been fined $50 and third-baseman Billy Cox has been fined $25 for their roles in an argu ment during Thursday night's game between the Dodgers and Reds. Robinson was fined for kick ing his glove about 60 feet into the air to show his displeasure with the umpires. Cox was fined for prolonging the argument with the umpires. Medfoi Goodman, Addis Gain Top In Major Loop Bat Races New York U.R) Billy Goodman of the Red Sox and Bob Addis of the Cubs, both of whom started the season as bench-warmers, took over the league batting leads during the past week from last year's cham pions. Goodman, Boston's 26-year-old handyman, raised his aver age eight points last week to supplant Ferris Fain of the Ath letics as American league leader with a mark of .343, according to statistics released today for BASEBALL FRIDAY'S SCORES National League Brooklyn 6. Pittsburgh 2 St. Louis 7. Boston 2 Philadelphia 7. Cincinnati 3 New York at Chicago, rain. American League New York 6. Chicago 3 Boston 9. Cleveland 2 Washington 6. St. Louis 5 Detroit 2, Philadelphia 1 day games played through July 17. Addis maintained , his .331 mark of last week and moved into the top spot as Stan Musial of the Cards lost 10 points and dropped to second with a .323 average. Woodling Rises Gene Woodling of the Yankees had a big week, boosting his average 12 points to .326 and jumping from seventh to second place in the American league race. Fain, the 1951 champion, lost 12 points and fell to third place with .324. Behind him came George Kell of the Red Sox at .321, Mickey Mantle of the Yankees at .319, and Al Rosen of the Indians at .315. In the National, Jackie Robin son of the Dodgers dropped four points from last week but moved up one notch to third with a .314 mark. Whitey Lockman of the Giants and Enos Slaughter of the Cards were tied for fourth at .312 each, while Toby Atwell of the Cubs lost 13 points and dropped from third to sixth with .311. Sauer Holds Fast Hank Sauer of the Cubs re tained his major league lead in runs batted in with 74 and in home runs with 23. Walt Dropo of the Red Sox, who went on a record-tying 12-for-12 spree, moved into a tie with Rosen for the American league RBI lead with 57 each. Yogi Berra of the Yankees topped the American in homers with 20. Nelly Fox of the White Sox was the major league pacemaker in outs with 112; Lockman was tops in runs scored with 63; Al Red Schoendienst of the Cards led in doubles with 24; Harry Simpson of the Indians was first in triples with eight, and Pee Wee Reese of the Dodgers led in stolen bases with 18. Philadelphia (Simmons 8-3 and Hob- Amnna tho nitfhrc Prsarhpr Jerts 13-6) at Cincinnati (Raffensberg-1 , ,f t- j j i.- ler 10-7 and church i-5 two games.1 Roe of the Dodgers retained his Coast League Seattle 6-3. Oakland 5-2 (1st game 8 innings) Sacramento 4. San Francisco 2 Hollywood 3, San Diego 2 Portland 4, Los Angeles 3 (11 innings) Western International Va: couver at Wenatchee (postponed) Lewiston 6. Tri-City 4 Salem at Spokane (postponed. grounds) Yakima 7. Victoria 0 SI NDAV'S PROBABLE STARTERS (Won-lost record in parentheses) American League Chicago (Rogovon 8-7) at New York (Kuzava 5-4). Cleveland IWynn 10-8) at Boston (Brodowski 4-2 1. Detroit (Gray 8-10 and Wight 5-4) at Philadelphia (Kellner 6-9 and New som 2-2) two games. St. Louis (Cain 6-5 and Pillette 6-7) at Washington (Marrero 7-4 and Porterfield 6-9) two games. National League Brooklyn (Wade 9-5) at Pittsburgh (Dickson 6-14). Boston (Wilson 8-7) at St. Louis (Boyer 5-5 or Staley 12-8). New York (Jansen 9-5) at Chicago (K.nppstein 6-b) Helbig Inks Pact With Beaver Nine Portland U.R) General Manager Bill Mulligan announc ed Saturday that the Portland Beavers baseball club has signed Dwane Helbig, 19-year-old sopho more football and baseball star from Oregon State college. Helbig will join a growing list of young Oregon diamond pros pects deserting intercollegiate play for the Beaver camp and is regarded as a "sure-fire" profes sional prospect as an outfielder. 'We're quite happy about getting Helbig," Mulligan said. He said Helbig would join the recently-signed Bottler brothers, Ron and Bill, at Victoria in the Western International league next week. Plays Immediately Mulligan said Helbig would play immediately for Victoria and would join the Beavers in spring training next year. "He's quite likely to be in a Beaver uniform next season," he said. In his debut in Northern Di vision baseball this season, Hel big made the all-star team and was named to a second spot on the Ail-American squad. He is a heavy hitter and plays tight defensively. Helbig's turning professional will.jolt Coach Kip Taylor's foot ball hopes at OSC because the former Roosevelt high at Port land star was regarded as one of the best prospects to hit the Corvallis campus in many years. SIGNS WITH RED SOX San Jose, Calif (U.R) Bos ton Red Sox Scout Joe Steph enson Saturday signed Infielder Clarence Gibson of Modesto, Calif., to a contract and the lad immediately was optioned to the Magic Valley club of the Class C Pioneer league. Gibson, 18, weighs 170, stands 6 feet tall. unblemished 7 - record. Bobby Shantz of the Athletics was the "winningest" pitcher with a 16 3 mark, while Jim Hearn of the Giants and Vic Raschi of the Yankees each had 10-2. Average height for men in the U. S. is five feet, eight and one-half inches. Sunday, July 20, 1952 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Great Circle Takes Victory In Big Sunset Handicap Inglewood, Calif. (U.R) Great Circle, who hasn't won a race since capturing the " $205, 000 Maturity at Santa Anita a year ago, came back Saturday to score a surprise neck victory in the $54,750 Sunset handicap, closing feature of the highly successful 5 0 - d a y Hollywood park meeting. Great Circle clung to the heels of the pace-setting Admiral Drake, the six to five favorite, and raced him into defeat in the mile and five-eighths marathon, and then withstood the closing charge of the stretch-runners. Stormy Cloud got up for sec ond, Wistful finishing third and Sturdy One fourth, cutting the favorite out of any share of the purse. In the secondary feature, the $24,400 Ei Dorado handicap for Wooton Misses First Triumph Medford's Derald Wooton, bonus boy pitcher with Great Falls in the Pioneer league, was robbed by the catch of a line fly of his first professional baseball win. Playing against Ogden, he was the pitcher of record in the eighth inning, when Great Falls tied up the score 7 to 7 and then loaded the bases. The liner was hauled in to retire the side. Great Falls went on to win the game 12 to 7 but Wooton was relieved with the status still 7 to 7. Gives Three Hits Wooton was sent in during the third inning with the score 5 to 1 for Ogden. There were one out and men on first and second bases. The first batter Wooton faced hit a line drive scoring one run but he got the next two men out and chucked for the next four innings. 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New cars are becoming increasingly difficult to get because of the steel strike. Better get that new '52 HUDSON now, while we can fill your order. JACKSON MOTORS, inc. three-year-olds, Haltafire, closed m .he stretch to score a half- lengih victory over Forelock, with Arroz third. But Great Circle's victory at odds of 24 to 1 was the big sur prise of the day to the 50,000 fans who turned out for the last program of the meeting. The victory was a riding tri umph for Australian Jockey Reg inald Heather who demonstrated why he had won so many cup races in the land down under by his masterful handling of Great Circle in the long race. The winner's time for the mile and five-eighths was 2:41 45. a second off the track record set six years ago by Historian. Great Circle, entirely over looked in the betting, returned $50.60, 19.70 and 11.50. Stormy Cloud paid $6.20 and 4.20 and Wistful returned $5.60 for show. The victory was worth $31,- 700 to Yolo stable of Santa Bar bara, Calif., owned by Mr. and Mrs. John F. Wack who patient ly tried for more than a year to get Great Circle to repeat his victory in the Santa Anita Ma turity. Great Circle started nine times prior to Saturday during 1952 and had only one show money to his credit. Chicago (U.R) Happenings in city hall were told to more citi zens in 1951 than ever before, the International City Managers association reports. The associa tion said annual reports were is sued in 154 cities in 1951, half again as many as in 1949. Couples Deadlock In2-Ba1l Meet Three couples tied for low net in the two-ball mixed golf four some play Friday at Rogue Val ley Country club. They were Parker Wood and Mrs. W. L. Stark. Dr. Lee Hel lish and Mrs. Keith Bates and Leslie Schneider arid Mrs. Tom Culbertson, all with net 36s. Knotted for second lowest with 37s were three other couples. Warren Lesseg and Mrs. Bob Shepherd, Jack Wood and Mrs. H. E. 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