TOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE X
Monday, Jul? 28. 1952
Studs Survive Lapses Afield
To Sweep Pair With Coquille
SOUTHWEST OREGON
LEAGUE STANDINGS
W.
Drain 14
Coos Bay-North Bend 10
Medford 11
Bandon 1 1
Roseburg 7
Coquille 6
Brookings . 1
Keek-End Scores
Medford 7-9. Coquille 2-8
Bandon 13-19. Roseburg 2-8
Coos Bay-North Bend 6-24, Brook
ings 3-8.
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The Medford Cheney Studs
survived big innings by the op
position and six of their, own
fielding errors here Saturday to
squeeze by the Coquille Loggers
by a 9 to 8 score. The victory,
coupled with the Studs' 7 to 2
win Saturday night, gave the
home nine a sweep of the two
game Southwest Oregon base
ball league series.
The win was also the second
in two days for veteran hurler
Paul Gehrmann, who came in to
relief Herb Karpel at the start
of the eighth. Karpel hurled good
ball during his seven-inning
stint but was frequently In trou
ble due to loose support.
The first inning, when Co
quille grabbed three unearned
runs after two were out, was an
example of the troubles which
beset the Studs during most of
the afternoon. In that initial
frame, after Charley Humble
and Roy Harrington of the Log
gers had been disposed of the
roof suddenly fell in.
Coquille Manager Dave Doug
las reached first on an error by
Stud First Sacker Clarence Mel
bye, Lee Wert was safe on an er
ror by Third Baseman Alex Mc
Donald, Don Henchberger sin-
cled and Henchberger crossed
the plate on an error by Center
fielder "Snuffy" Smith. Douglas
and Wert had already scored
The Studs settled down after
that rocky start, but in all they
committed six bobbles during
the afternoon. A good share of
these miscues can be directly at
tributed to the blazing sun,
which was glaring into the eyes
of the fielders on the left side
of the field.
Nor were the errors the sole
possession of the Medford nine.
Coquille came through with four
boots during the contest. In ad
dition, on various occasions
fielders for both nines lost the
ball in the sun and it fell in for
hits which were definitely of the
"Chinese" variety.
If the fielding was somewhat
below par, the clutch hitting by
the Studs left little to be de
sired. For example, in the sec
ond inning, Mellbye came to bat
with the bases full and, with the
count standing at 3 and 2
banged out a single that scored
the first two Medford runs
With the score tied at three
all in the fifth inning, Karpel
came to the plate, again with the
bases packed, and he too waited
out a full count. Then with the
chips right on the line, the big
hurler pounded out a double to
deep right center field, driving
in three runs
Perhaps the " most important
clutch hit of the day came in
the eighth inning with the Studs
trailing by one big run. Catcher
Frank Roelandt tripled to drive
McDonald across the plate with
a score-tieing run and then came
in for the clincher on Lee Wert s
miscue at second base.
The Studs are slated to do bat
tle with the Weed, Calif., nine
Wednesday night at the fair
grounds diamond in an exhibi
tion contest. They will be striv
ing to fatten their league per
centage this week-end as tney
entertain the cellar - dwelling
Brookings club in a Saturday
night -Sunday afternoon two
game series.
buxsioke:
Medford (9) AB
Meltbye lib
McDonald 1 3b)
Roelandt c ..
Gordon 2b)
Smith (cf)
Bianchi (ssi
Shantz Leading Prospect
For American League MVP
Fawcett lift
Blevins rf)
Karpel (p) .
Gehrmann (p)
Totals
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3
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1
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1
0
1
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37 11 9 6
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Humble lift '. 5 2 2
Harrington (c) 5 2 0
Douglas (lb) 5 0 1
Wert 1 2b) 5 0 1
Henchberger (cf) 5 3 1
Ament iss) 5 4 1
Tavlor (3b) 4 11
Burr (rf 3 11
Bilbrey (p) 2 0 0
Gilson (p) 2 0 0
Totals 41 13 8
Coquille
.300 004 0108 13
New York (U.PJ Bitsy
Bobby Shantz of the Athletics
was moving rapidly toward still
another distinction Monday
the first player on a second di
vision team ever to receive the
most valuable player award.
In the competition for the
American league - award, no
player can come even ' close to
Shantz right now with his rec
ord of 18 victories and just three
Kahut Loses
To Buford
Prineville (U.R) The judg
es gave Joltin' Joe Kahut three
rounds out of a 10-round box
ing main event as the former
pride of the Willamette valley
dropped a decision to rotund
Frank Buford of Oakland Sat
urday night.
A straight right to the chin
dropped the Portlander for
eight counts in the eighth round
and put the heavyweight match
on ice for the 205-pound Calif
ornian. Some 2,000 fight fans watch
ed as Buford took an early lead
in the second and third rounds
the Crooked River Rodeo arena
here. The first and last rounds
were called even but Buford had
the edge in five.
In a special 10 - rounder, Port
land's Indian Dick Wolfe took
. - er . nrt
a decision over -unuji n.i
of Trenton, N.J., a stablemate of
Buford.
California Golfer
Wins Sioux City Open
Sioux Citv. Iowa (U.R) Al
Besselink of Escondito, Calif.,
tucked a check for $2,400 in his
pocket Monday for his record
breaking 266 which won the
15,000 Sioux City upen gou
tournament. '
Rpsselink. three strokes behind
Dace-setting Jimmy Clark of La-
ffnna Beach. Calif., when the fi
nal round began Sunday over the
steaming Elmwood course, urea
an eight-under-par 64 to win top
money.
Standings
W. I.. Pet. G.B.
Brooklyn . 61 27
New York 57 27
St. Louis 54 41
Philadelphia 49 46
Chicago 47 47
Boston 40 53
Cincinnati 39 57
Pittsburgh 27 71
defeats, his earned run average
of 1.62, his strikeout total of 103
which is high for the league, and
his record of 19 complete games
in 21 starts.
Ever since the award was es
tablished for the two leagues in
1931 by the baseball writers, it
has gone each year to players on
first division teams. But bar
ring a late season slump, there
seems little doubt that Shantz
will gain the accolade for the
American, no matter where the
A's finish.
Sunday, Shantz, littlest man
in the majors, turned in a five
hit, 3 to 1 victory over Chicago
after which lefty Alex Kellner
gained a 9 to 3 decision to put
the sixth-place A's only two
games behind the White Sox
and just four games behind the
fourth place Washington.
Cleveland won a pair from
Washington, 3 to 1 and 3 to 2,
moving from fourth to second
3V games behind the Yankees
who lost their fifth in a row, 8
to 3, at Detroit, before winning,
6 to 0. The Browns beat the
Red Sox, 8 to 1, then lost, 9
to 3.
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SETS Record Bob Mathias of Tulare, 10.2". Mathias set a world record of 7887 points
Calif defending decathlon champion heaves decathlon championship for the sec-
the discus in the second day of the Olympic ; .
event at Helsinki for a winning distance of 153' ond straight time.
Japanese Swimmers Set
Olympics Record; Hoop
Showdown Set for Today
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AMERICAN LEAGUE
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New York 57 39
Cleveland 54 43
Boston 52 42
Washington 51 44
Chicago ..51 48
Philadelphia 44 45
St. Louis 39 59
Detroit 33 61
Pet.
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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
W. L. Pet
New York 57
Cleveland 54
Boston -I. -52
Washington 51
Chicago 51
Philadelphia 44
St. Louis 39
Detroit - 33
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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
W. L. Pet.
Hollywood 71 47 .602
Oakland 71 49 .592
San Diego 64 55 .538
Seattle 58 56 .509
Portland 57 60 .487
Los Angeles 58 62 .483
San Francisco -....48 72 .400
Sacramento 47 73 -92
WESTERN INTERNATIONAL
W. L. Pet.
Victoria 65 , 32 .671
Spokane 54 48 329
Vancouver 48 43 ' .527
Salem :47 49 .489
Lewiston 47 51 .477
Yakima .. 46" 54 .460
Wenatchee 42 56 .428
Tri-City . 41 58 .422
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Doubles Humble. Karoel. Triples
Roelandt 2. Walks given up by Karpel
1 in seven innings, cenrmann o in
two inninrs. Bilbrey 4 in 6 13 In
nings. Gilson 1 in 1 23 innings. Earn
ed runs, off Karpel. 2 in seven in
nings, off Gehrmann. 1 in two innings.
off Bilbrey 5 in 6 13 innings, on
Gilson 2 in 1 2 '3 innings. Winning
pitcher Gehrmann.
Chez Loses Game
On Unearned Run
An unearned run in the 10th
inning gave Joe Chez, Medford
bonus pitcher, his first set back
in professional baseball Friday
at Reading, Pa., according to
word received here.
Chez, pitching for Williams
port of the Class A Eastern
league, held the second place
Reading club to five hits in tak
ing the loss. He gave up four
walks, two of the intentional
variety, and struck out five.
The score was 1 to 0.
Chez, an All-Coast selection
while pitching for the Stanford
university baseball nine during
the past four years, was recent
ly signed by the Detroit Tigers
organization for their Buffalo
farm club, which assigned him
to Williamsport.
He has worked his way into
a regular pitching assignment
for the team and is expected to
start again sometime this week.
Women's Golf
Activities
Thirty four women golfers
turned out Thursday, July 24, to
play at the Rogue Valley Coun
try club on ladies day. A spec
tournament was held. There was
a tie three ways in the "A'
group with 12 specs each for
Mrs. William Schei, Mrs. Bayard
Getchell and Mrs. George Har
rington. Mrs. Arthur Peters was
winner for the "B" group with
12 specs and Mrs. H. D. McClure
won in. the "C ' group with 13
specs.
The play for next Thursday
July 31, will be medal play. Pair
ings will be made at the first
tee, starting at 8 a.m.
The Ringer Tournament
which has been in progress for
the past month, ends August 28
All participants are reminded to
pay their entrance fee imme
diately if they have not done so.
Aero Club Breaks Marks
In Winning Swim Contest
Seattle (U.R) The Aero
Club of Portland smashed two
records and established another
to win the ' senior Northwest
AAU Invitational Swimming
meet Sunday.
The Oregon entry ran up 110
points. The Aero Club was fol
lowed by the Washington Ath
letic Club, Seattle, with 70; Mt
Vernon YMCA, 11; Moore Pool,
Seattle, 9; East Green Lake,
Seattle, 5; and Seattle YMCA
1. .
Helsinki (U.R) The U. S.
basketball team defeated Rus
sia, 86-58, and Americans
scored a 1-2-3 sweep in the
Olympic springboard dive
Monday.
The basketball game was the
"big game" of the tournament,
for the U. S. is defending
champion and Russia is Euro
pean champion. With seven
foot Bob Kurland of Bariles
ville, Okla., the Yanks soared
to a 39-22 halftime lead and
kept up the pace in the second
period.
Helsinki (U.R) A Japanese
foursome sped to a new Olym
pic swimming record of eight
minutes, 42.1 seconds Monday
in the 800-meter relay qualify
ing trials of the Olympic games.
The Japanese quartet M.
Asano, M. Tanaka, H. Nishi ani
T. Tanikawa shaved nearly
four seconds off the old Olym
pic mark of 8:46.0 set by the
U. S. relay team of Wally Ris,
Wally Wolf, Jim McLane .and
Bill Smith in the 1948 Olym
pics.
An American foursome was
among the eight teams that
qualified for the finals of the
event Tuesday.
US Time Second Best
The U. S. team, which won
its heat in 8:50.9 for the second
best time of the qualifying trials,
was made up of Donald Sheff
of Yale, Gaither Rosser of the
University of Miami, Frank
Dooley of Ohio State and Bur
well Jones of the University of
Michigan.
The Japanese time for the
distance fell short of the world
record 8:29.4 clocking set by a
Yale quartet at New Haven,
Conn., last February 16, but it
served notice of a serious threat
to the Olympic swimming domi
nation maintained by the U. S.
in the '48 games at London.
In addition to the U. S. and
Japan, the teams which quali
fied for the finals were France,
winner of the first heat; Sweden,
Argentina, Hungary, South
Africa and Britain.
An American was eliminated
in the qualifying trials of the
1,000-meter kayak singles canoe
ing competition when Michael
Budi-ock of Yonkers, N. Y.,
finished fourth in his heat. The
first three finishers in each heat
qualified for the finals.
Russia defeated Egypt 3-2,
and Spain beat Brazil, 6-4, in
water polo, and Brazil over
whelmed Chile, 75-44, in basket
ball, among the day's early re
sults. Hoop Showdown Set
Later in the day, the towering
American basketball team head
ed for a showdown with Russia.
Many claims have been made
about the strength of the Soviet
squad during the last few years
and many observers during the
opening games here have come
to believe that the Russians are
the Yanks' chief rivals for the
championship. The luck of the
draw throws them, together to
day in a second round game after
each won three earlier games.
Though not seriously threat
ened in any game, the American
team has so far failed to show
its true form. Again in beating
Uruguay Sunday, 57-44, the
Yanks played lackadaisically in
spots and pulled away only in
the second half. The U. S. team
is composed chiefly of players
from . the Peoria Caterpillars,
national AAU champions, and
Kansas University, NCAA cham
pion.
Yesterday's Scores
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 3-6. Detroit 8-0
St. Lcuis 8-3. Boston 1-9
Cleveland 3-3. Washington 1-2
Philadelphia 3-9, Chicago 1-3
NATIONAL LEAGUE
St. Louis 4. Brooklyn 3
Cincinnati 11. New York 4 (second
game called, rain)
Philadelphia 1--3. Chicago 8-8
Boston 5-3. Pittsburgh 2-3 (second
Bowlers Set
Meetings
Here Tonight
A special meeting of Classic
league bowlers will be held to
day at 8 p.m. at the Medford
Bowling lanes, league officials
said today. A meeting of mem
bers of the Ladies Bowling as
sociation will be held at 7:30
p.m. at the bowling lanes, they
said.
Some openings still exist In
Medford Bowling association
leagues now being formed, ac
cording to Horace Green, asso
ciation president. He urged all
interested bowlers to contact the
Medford Bowling lanes for in
formation on entering any of
the various leagues.
Present plans for the bowl
ing season call for a Classic
scratch league on Monday
night, to be followed by handi
cap league plan. Tuesday will
be ladies night. The Commercial
league will bowl on Wednes
days as will another new handi
cap league, now in the process
of being organized.
The City league and the
Triples league will bowl on
Thursday and Friday nights are
being left open at the present
time for a second ladies league,
if suffiecient interest is shown.
A special high school league
may be formed this year, Green
stated. It is hoped that the
league can be formed from stu
dents of Crater, Jacksonville,
Talent, Phoenix and Medford
high schools, he said.
In 1937 the asteroid Hermes,
about a mile in diameter, came
within 500,000 miles of the
earth, although its path was
such that it could not have
struck.
game tie, called after 11 Innings,
darkness)
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland 4-2, San Diego 2-5
San Francisco 4-4. Oakland 2-3
Hollywood 2-7. Sacramento 0-1
Los Angeles 5-5. SeatUe 3-9
Millers Lose 'Iron Man' Game
To Cave Junction
WESTERN INTERNATIONAL
Salem 4-1. Wentchee 2-5
Spokane 15-7. Lewiston 3-2
Tri-City 14. Yakima 1
(Only games scheduled)
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The Central Point Millers lost
their seventh game of the sea
son Sunday when they were
forced to take the field for a
league contest with Cave Junc
tion with only nine men in uni
form. The game was called in
the end of 6Vi innings when
Second Baseman Bill Donahoe
of the Millers was injured. The
score was Cave Junction 4, Cen
tral Point 0.
In other league games, Ash
land defeated Butte Falls. 7 to
3, and Prospect forfeited to
Glendale.
In the Central Point -Cave
Junction fracas, Pitcher Jack
Burns scattered eight hits dur
ing his six inning stint None of
the Cave Junction runs were
earned.
Bob Fasel led the Millers at
the plate with two for two and
Dick Miles had two for three.
D. Campbell had 3 for 4 for the
by 4-0 Score
Cave Junction nine and Tiger
Smith banged out two hits in
two appearances at the plate.
Despite the many shifts in
position brought about by the
shortage of players, the Millers
turned in some fielding gems.
Donahoe and Curt Holzgang.
playing at second and third base
respectively, came through with
sparkling plays.
The Millers close out their
season on the home field with a
contest with Butte Falls next
Sunday and a game with Pros
pect the following Sunday. Mil
ler Manager Ben Fagone is slat
ed to attend a league meeting
Thursday to decide on. the pro
test of a disputed game between
Cave Junction and Glendale,
when ended in a free for -all a
week ago.
LINESCORES:
Central Point .. O00 000 0 0 4 4
Cave Junction ..001 210 x 4 8 1
J. Burns and C. Isenberg; L. Maur
er and R. Maurer.
Marciano, Matthews Fight
Slated in New York Tonight
New York (U.R) Unbeat
en, bull-shouldered Rocky Mar
ciano will pit his wild, stunning
blows against the speedy, cal
culated punches of Harry Kid
Matthews Monday night as they
fight for the heavyweight chal
lenger's rule in the dazzling
patch of ring-light at Yankee
stadium.
Champion Jersey Joe Walcott
has agreed to defend against the
winner in late September. And
if ages mean anything, Monday
night's winner should have a
half-grasp on the crown; for
Walcott is 38, Marciano 27, and
Matthews 29.
Regarded from several angles,
Monday night's bout seems the
perfect challengers' fight; for
this 10-rounder brings togeth
er (1) the world's two outstand
ing white fighters, (2) two con
tenders with long, unbeaten rec
ords, (3) outstanding represen
tatives of the East and West,
(4) slugger vs. boxer-puncher.
This challengers' battle be
tween Marciano of Brockton,
Mass., and Matthews of Seattle,
Wash., appears so attractive
from so many angles one would
expect it to draw more than
50,000 people and $500,000; but
stupid scheduling and promoting
by the International Boxing club
may cut those figures down to
30,000 and $300,000 or less.
Two Dunkings in River
Enough for Watchman
New Orleans (U.R) Night
watchman Roy H. Bennett said
Monday he hopes "ol' man river"
will keep rolling along with him.
Bennett, 42, was patrolling a
line of barges tied up in the
Mississippi during a heavy rain
storm Friday night when he fell
off. He thrashed the water for
more than an hour before he
was rescued.
Bennett fell through a plat
form into the river again Satur
day night and fought the water
for almost an hour before he was
pulled out.
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