EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON)
MEDFO
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Central Point Gains
Bedford Softball Loop
Toga; Mobilgas Third
The regular schedule of the
. girl's softball league conclud
es Thursday at the Medford
senior high stadium with the
". Crater Babes facing Central
Point at 7:30 p.m. and Eagle
: Point meeting Butte Falls.
Central Point today held the
Medford Softball association
championship and on Thursday
Baseball Films
At Y Thursday;
Public Welcome
' The first two in a series of
four baseball instructional films
will be shown at the YMCA
Thursday at 11:15 a.m.,. it was
announced today by Bob Jones,
Y secretary. Anyone interested
in seeing the films ,' is., invited,
Jones said.
The films, of 20 minutes dura
tion each, are "Pitching Stars,"
showing methods used by major
leaguers, and "Umpires in Base
ball," showing techniques in
umpiring.
The films are being obtained
through cooperation of the local
YMCA and the Brooklyn Dodg
ers baseball team of the Nation
al league.
Wenatchee Shortstop
Suffers Broken Leg
By UNITED PRESS
An injury, two insults and a
big inning featured play Tues
day night in the Western Inter
national league.
The injury happened to Wen
atchee Shortstop Ernie Velas
quez, who broke his left leg
when he collided with Len Tran
of Vancouver on a play at sec
ond, base. Vancouver took the
ball game at Vancouver 5-4 on
John Ritchey's pinch single in
the ninth which drove home the
winning tally.
incn1t weren t ver-
inc i w
bal, of course, but they occurred
at Kennewick and Victoria. At
Kennewick; tne iewisiun
T,i.ritv 17-4 and at Vic-
IUUICU
toria the Victoria Tyees trounc-
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Standings
COAST LEAGUE
W. I..
.:73 55
72 55 '
J71 56
Pet. G.B.
.570
.567 'i
.559 1V2
.508 8
.504 8-b
.496 9,i
.422 19
.375 25
Oakland .
Hollywood
San Diego
Portland
64 62
a AnrolcMt 6o 64
Seattle ... 61 62
San Francisco 54 4
Sacramento 48 80
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W. L.
New York 63 43
Cleveland 59 47
Boston 55 46 -
Washington 54 49
Philadelphia 51 43
Chicago 54 52
St. Louis 44 63
Detroit ....36 68
NATIONAL LEAGUE
w. I.
Brooklyn 66 31
New York 61 37
St Louis 59 44
Philadelphia 54 47
Chicago 51 51
Boston 42 58
Cincinnati 43 61
Pittsburgh 30 77
Pet.
.594
.557
.545
.524
.513
.509
.411
.346
G.B.
4
5 '2
7i
81i
9
19 '.'2
26
Pet.
.680
.622
373
335
.500
.420
.413
.280
G.B.
5V2
10
14
17 'i
25
26 i
41
WESTERN INTERNATIONAL
W. I..
Pet.
G.B.
Victoria
Spokane
Vancouver
Salem
Lewlston
Yakima
.71 35
.61 49
33 48
-.52 54
-.52 56
-.49 61
.670
.554
325
.490
.482
.445
.428
12
15 i
19
'20
24-
27
Tri.City
..45 60
Wenatchee 44' 63 .411
Strong tidal currents prevent
the deposition of mud and sand
in the bottom of the Golden Gate
at San Francisco.
JUST LIKE THE GOOD OLD DAYS!
GREAT STRAIGHT BOURBON
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STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY
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MAII. TRIBUNE
will open a two-out-of-three
play-off with the Grants Pass
Elks for the District No. 8 toga.
The Pointers edged out the
hustling Andy's Jewelers 2 to 0
last night in the league play-off
finale. Mobilgas grabbed . third
spot in the men's loop by top
ping Camp White 9 to 8 in last
night's prelim.
Vern Collins, pitcher for Cen
tral Point, was credited with his
third no-hitter of the season in
the titular tussle and Ted Land
ers, ehucker for the Jewelers,
gave up only two bingles, both
doubles into the far away stands
by Ralph Pettit.
Pitchers Iron Men
Both pitchers were doing iron
man duty. They had, gone the
full nine inning route in play
off, openers the previous night.
And Collins is expected to hurl
Thursday at Grants Pass in the
district championship opener.
Central Point's runs were
scored on close plays at home
plate. Jack Dougherty got on
base on an error in the second
stanza. Collins got him to sec
ond by sacrificing and Dough
erty slid home after Darrell
Copeland had grounded out. In
the fifth frame Pettit got to sec
ond base on his second ground
rule two-bagger. He gained third
after Lee Flink fouled out and
scored after Dougherty's flyout
to right field.
The Jewelers got more than
one man on base only in the
first and ninth innings. In the
hectic ninth they had runners
on second and third with two
men but. liurton Williams struck
out to retire the side.
Error Given
Roger Wilcox got on base for
Andy's in the final frame on a
rap down the third base line
that many, observers thought
should have been called a hit.
However, Catcher Lee Flink,
who fell while trying to field and
throw the ball, was charged with
an error.
Collins whiffed 19 batters and
walked five. Landers struck out
two and walked, two.
Mobilgas got off to a quick
start in its hassle with four runs
in the first canto on two hits,
two walks ; and an error. The
Gasmen picked up another run
in the second frame on a hit,
stolen base, error and ground-
out. ' .
Margin Sliced
Camp White cut the margin to
5 to 3 in the third inning with
runs on three hits a walk and
an error. Mobilgas pushed over
two more tallies in the third for
a 7 to 3 count. One hit and three
errors figured in the scoring.
Picking up single runs each
in the fourth, fifth and sixth in
nings, Camp White reduced the
gap to 7 to 6. But Mobilgas gain
ed padding with two runs in the
sixth on three hits and a miscue.
Camp White scored twice in the
eighth on two hits a walk and
three errors.
Second game of the district
play - off between Grants Pass
and Central Point will be on Fri
day evening at the Medford sen
ior high stadium and a third
ruckus, if. required, will be in
Medford, also. It will be on Sat
urday night.
LINESCORES:
Camp White ..003 111 0208 10 7
Mobilgas 412 002 OOx 9 10 6
Har. Rickman. Ray Singler (4) and
McKecknie; B. Singler and Darland.
Andy's Jewelers
000 000 0000 0 2
Central Point 010 001 OOx 2 2 3
T. Landers and Steele; Collins and
Flink.
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Wednesday, August 6, 1952
Padre Crew
Closes Gap
On Leaders
San Francisco (U.R)
While Hollywood and Oakland
made like Alphonse and Gaston,
the San Diego Padres are braz
enly trying to regain command
of the Pacific Coast league.
Lefty O'Doul's bordertown
band was given up for lost a
month ago when it slipped out
of first place. But because Holly
wood and Oakland seem allergic
to the lead, the Pads are once
more a prominent factor in the
race for the flag.
Oakland was stopped, 1-0, by
Portland and Red Adam's seven-hitter
Tuesday night. And
Les Peden's two-tally homer got
Los Angeles a 3-2 victory over
Hollywood
Seals Beaten
Third-place San Diego, mean
while, knocked over ' the San
Francisco Seals, 4-1, to get with
in a game and a half of Oak
land's top spot. For O'Doul, who
managed the Seals for 17 years,
the victory was his 17th in 22
engagements with his former em
ployers. The unwilling Seals,
more than any other team, are
keeping O'Doul's Padres in con
tention. '
A homer by Nanny Fernan
dez and two doubles by Catcher
Bob Wilson led Seattle to a 7-3
win from last-place Sacramento.
About 800 saw the game.
Sloppy Play Hurts
Portland got five hits off star
ter" Roger Bowman and none off
relief hurler Milo Candini. But
wildness and sloppy play cost
the Oaks the game.
The Bevos scored in the fourth
when Eddie Barr shot a single
to right, was bunted to second,
moved to third on Bowman's
wild pitch, and romped home as
shortstop Johnny Bero bobbled
Jim Russel's grounder.
Hollywood had a 2-1 lead in
the fourth, but Peden, a good
hitter, changed that. After Max
West doubled the thick-legged
Angel catcher unloaded the pay
off four-master that got Los Ang
eles its second straight from the
Stars.
THE LINESCORES:
San Diego 010 300 000 4 7 0
San Francisco 100 000 000 1 3 1
Henry and Summers; Clough. Brad
ford (4) and Orteig. .
Hollywood 001 100 00O ? ? ?
Los Angeles ..100 200 OOx 3 8 1
Queen and Sandlock; Chandler and
Peden.
Seattle 010 001 0417 11 1
Sacramento ....010 000 002 3 9 2
Del Duca, Schanz (8) and Wilson;
Elliott. Palica (9) and Smith, Mc
Keegan (9).
Oakland 000 000 000 0 1 1
Portland 000 100 00x 1 5 0
Bowman. Candini (7) and Noble;
Adams and Gladd.
Linksmen Await
World Tourney
Chicago (U.R) A field of 80
pro golfers, including all the
acknowledged best except Ben
Hogan and Bobby Locke, fin
ished practice rounds Wednesday
for the opening Thursday of
Tarn O'Shanter's 72-hole "world"
tournament for a $25,000 first
prize.
Heading the favorites, was
Slamming Sam Snead, White
Sulphur Springs, W. Va., who
last Sunday posted a 7-under-par
65 in the rain to win the "All
American" Open and first prize
of $3,420 with a 72-hole total
of 271.
' Snead's score was only two
off the record of 269 set in 1945
by Byron Nelson, He finished
nine strokes ahead of Tommy
Bolt, Durham, N. C.
SAVIT FACES TEST
South Orange N. J. (U.R)
Top-seeded Dick Savitt, Orange
N.J., tennis star whose temper
matches his 'blazing service,
faces his first stiff test in the
Eastern grass court champion
ships Wednesday when he meets
17-year-old- Ken Rosewall of
Australia in the third round.
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Giants Nudge Dodg
By UNITED PRESS
The astonishing New York
Giants, who wrote the "little
miracle" in 1951, appeared fully
equipped Wednesday to battle
the Dodgers down the National
league stretch run and add a
"big miracle" as a spectacular
post-script ' to one of the most
heart-warming stories in sports
history.
They proved that Tuesday
night when they came from be
hind four times to defeat the
Dodgers 7 to 6 , in a gruelling,
spectacular five - hour struggle
Globetrotters Here
Thursday; Pilot Said
Excellent Strategist
One reason why the Harlem
Globetrotters are regarded so
highly in all baseball circles is
the man who will lead them into
action against the Medford
T - . t
TO APPEAR HERE Madison
(Slugger) Slade, above, is slated
to have the patching chores
Thursday for the Harlem Globe
trotters when they scrap with
the Medford Cheney Studs at 8
p.m. at the fairgrounds ball
park here.
Medford Cubs
Now Deadlocked
For First Spot
The Medford Cub baseball
nine was in a four-way tie for
the second half laurels of the
Southern Oregon Junior Base
ball Isague last night after beat
ing Phoenix 5 to 3 on the Med
ford high diamond.
Others knotted with Medford
with five wins and two losses
each are Grants Pass, Ashland
and Talent. Grants Pass won the
first half title.
Medford got only one hit last
night but' was helped along by
10 walks. Phoenix also drew two
walks and all four of its hits
were poked out by Pitcher Har
old Waldron.
LINESCORE:
Phoenix Ill 000" 0 3 4 2
Medford 021 020 x 5 1 1
H. Waldron and Garner; Piland, Mc
Laughlin (5) and Meunier.
Johnson Favored
Over Satterfield
Chicago (U.R) Odds-makers
figured Wednesday Harold John
son of Philadelphia would beat
Bob Satterfield of Chicago in
Wednesday night's 10-round tele
vision fight in the Chicago Sta
dium, but they were even more
certain that the battle would end
in a knockout.
Johnson, who whipped Clar
ence Henry, a highly regarded
heavyweight prospect, in his last
fight, was listed as the 5 to 2
choice to set back Satterfield.
Satterfield usually either wins
with a paralyzing blow or he
gets put to sleep quietly by his
opponent.
TOLSON SOLD
Portland (U.R) Omer Tolson,
27-year-old outfielder acquired
by the Portland Beavers from
San Antonio of the Texas league
last month, has been sold to
Wichita of the Western league,
club officials said Wednesday.
Tolson, who was hitting only
.171 appeared, in only a few
games for the Beavers.
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which opened their make-or-break
series with 'the league
leaders. Shocked when Gil Hodges ex
ploded a grand-slam homer to
put Brooklyn in front 4 to 0, they
battled back" to tie the score and
send the game into extra innings.
The Dodgers surged ahead in the
14th on a homer by Andy Pafko
but Bob Elliott pinch-hit a hom
er with two out in the bottom
of the l'4th to tie it again.
Curfew Law
With the New York curfew
law proclaiming the 15th to be
Cheney Studs on Thursday at 8
p.m. at the fairgrounds ball park
here.
He is Winfield Scott Welch,
manager of the team and held
bv manv to be the outstanding
pilot in Negro baseball. Welch is
a fine diamond strategist and an
excellent handler of men. He
knows talent and the exception
ally attactive array of newcom
ers on the club is a tribute to
his ability to spot promising ma
terial. If ball clubs under his direc
tion also are long on showman
ship, that can be attributed to
his winter-months association
with the famed Harlem Globe
trotters of basketball, whom he
serves as road manager. Inci
dentally, Abe Saperstein, owner
of the celebrated magicians of
basketball, also is boss of the
baseball Globetrotters and the
combination of the two men has
done wonders in developing the
team into a top drawing card.
Welch's record is marked by
the numerous championships his
clubs have won. Teams he has
led are the New Orleans Cres
cent Stars, Birmingham Black
Barons, Cincinnati Crescents,
Detroit Stars, New York Cuban
Giants and the American Giants.
Winning Pilot
He has been the winning man
ager in the big Negro East ver
sus West baseball classic held at
Comiskey park, and the list of
outstanding Negro players he
has helped develop is long and
imposing. Among them are
Satchel Paige, Luke Easter,
Artie Wilson, Orestes Minoso,
Ed Steele, Piper Davis, Jimmy
Newberry, Felix McLaurin and
others.
Terry Maddox, ex-Medford
high school ace who has won a
regular spot on the Studs' pitch
ing staff, is expected to hurl
against the Trotters. The Studs
will be after their ninth straight
win. They won the seventh and
eighth at Brookings last week
end with a 10-man squad. The
Studs came up with five double
plays in the series. Manager
Hoosier Hoff ard. played the sec
ond game for the Studs.
The hoped for fray between
Medford and the Central Point
Millers on Sunday is out. Busi
ness Manager Bill Askwith re
ported that the Studs players
plan a holiday. Medford draws
a bye in the Southwestern Ore
gon league this week-end.
Nine Oregonians
Gold Qualifiers
Portland (U.R) Coos Bay's
Dick Hanen and Portland's Dick
Yost led nine Oregon qualifiers
Wednesday for berths in the na
tional amateur golf tournament
to be held in Seattle this month.
Hanen and Yost fired 144's in
Tuesday's 36 - hole qualifying
rounds. 1 .
Other qualifiers and their
scores included Roy Wiggins,
Portland, 146; Lynn Creason,
Hershey, Pa., 146; Harold Wes
ton, Portland,-147; Ralph Dich
ter, Astoria; 147; Verne Perry
Jr., Portland, 147; Dick Estey,
Portland, 148, and George
Beechler, Medford, 148.
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20th Win;
in 15th
the last inning, the Dodgers
again went ahead when they
pushed over a run.
Bobby Hoffman doubled with
one out. Henry Thompson flied
out and the Giants had one out
left to them. .
Rookie Jim Rhodes hit a rou
tine grounder to Jackie Robin
son but the second-baseman muf
fed it. The Giants had life. Bob
by Thompson, the hero of '51,
then tied the score with a single.
Don Mueller, next up, hit a
chopper over the mound and beat
it out for a single as Rhodes
scored all the way from second
base with the winning run.
The Dodgers still led the NL
by 5V2 games but what is- that
to a team that was I2M "games
behind at about this time a year
ago? It appears to be a lot on
paper but the Dodgers know it
is a slender margin as long as
the Giant have that one out left
to them. -Center
of Stage
Except for those Giants, little
Bobby Shantz would occupy
center stage alone today. For the
142-pound southpaw stylist be
came the major league's first 20
game winner of the season when
he beat the Red Sox 5 to 3, for
the Athletics in . a ' rain-soaked
game Tuesday night.
Shantz, who now has beaten
every team in the AL at least
once, struck out four and limit
ed the Red Sox to seven hits.
In other American league
games, the Yankees beat the
Senators 3 to 2, the Browns
downed the Tigers 5 to 1, and
the Indians beat the White Sox
6 to 0 in their opener only to
drop the nightcap, 6 to 3.
In the National league, the
Cardinals beat the Pirates 4 to
3 in 12 innings and the Reds de
feated the Cubs 4 to 0. Phila
delphia and Boston were rained
out.
Number 20
Comes Hard,
Hurler Says
Philadelphia (U.R) Number
20 was the hardest.
The little fellow said so him
self. And who is better to judge?
Bitsy Bobby Shantz, the first
major league pitcher of the year
to win 20 games, sprawled on his
stool in the dressing room and
looked back at Tuesday night's
5-3 conquest of the Boston Red
Sox.
It was the first time he faced
the Red Sox this season, and in
winning, his sixth victory in a
row he completed the cycle of
beating every American league
team this year.
Rain Delays
He took stock of two hours and
29 minutes of ball, with a rain
delay of one hour and 11 min
utes in the first inning, and de
cided that it was the lack of his
knuckler- which gave -him -his
bad moments as he pitched his
21st complete game in 23 starts.
He's lost three games.
"I didn't have a good knuckler
all night," the 130-pound mound
magician said. "I couldn't get it
over the plate, and boy, that
made it rough."
"This was the one I was wor
rying about, too," Bobby said,
dwarfed by big Bobo Newsom,
who was explaining to everyone
within earshot that Shantz was
just as "mah-v'luss" a pitcher
anyone ever saw. k
BASEBALL
TUESDAY'S RESULTS
Coast League
Los Angeles 3, Hollywood 3
PorUand 1, Oakland 0
San Diego 4. San Francisco 1
Seattle 7, Sacramento 3
American League
Philadelphia 5. Boston 3
New York 3. Washington 2 (called
at the end of 7 innings, rain)
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Helsinki (U.R) American
athletes waiting to fly home
from the Olympic Games took aj
turn at Finnish baseball Tues
day and the general agreement
was that Yankee Stadium was
never like this.
Two deductions may be drawn
by anyone who watches "P esa
pallo,' as the game is known to
the sluggers of Suomi.
1. It will never replace fire
house pinochle.
2. Pitchers like Allie Rey
nolds and Company would need
unemployment relief if they liv
ed in Finland.
Like A's and Browns
Because the Finnish game is
based on a theory of all hits-all-runs
and in general is regarded
as a wonder contest if it re
semble a Browns-Athletic game
when the pitchers are having a
day. A horrible thought, certain
ly, to the American mind. But
such a thing as a pitchers battle
is impossible.
This is mainly due to the fact
that the pitcher stands beside
the batter and lobs the ball into
the air much as a fungo hitter.
He then steps swiftly aside so
the batter can swing. Pitchers
who have two left feet do not
become 10-year men.
For when a guy is knocked
out of the box here, Bub, they
ain't kidding.
American baseball did not
seem worth while to be adopt
ed,"- explained an official of the
Finnish Baseball league, com
pletely ignoring the feelings of
Commissioner Ford Frick.
"The cornerstone of American
baseball is pitching," he added
"No Finn could get fascinated
or even reconciled to a game of
no-hit, no-run play. We ; want
more running, more hitting and
more fielding so our players can
demonstrate their ability."
Naturally, with this theory,
the Finns wouldn't give 15 Finn
St. Louis 5, Detroit 1
Cleveland 6. Chicago 0 (1st)
Chicago 6, Cleveland 3 (2nd)
New York 7, Brooklyn 6 (15 innings)
St Louis 4. Pittsburgh 3 (12 innings)
Cincinnati 4. Chicago 0
Philadelphia at Boston 2 (postponed,
rain).
Western International
Vancouver 5. Wentachee 4
Victoria 17, Yakima 13
Spokane 9. Salem 6
Lewiston 17, Tri-City 4
ROGUE VALLEY
11th and Fir
FOR A NOMINAL FEE
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ISSv
marks for a Bob Feller. But a
guy like Willie KepTpr
would wind up as a bigger man
man t-aavo JNurmi.
Finnish baseball rlirln't roaii
get started until 1947 and so
there are still some vague phas
es, ine ruie book, for instance,
insists on use of th "rff;;i
ball," but admits that there are
two distinct sizes of "official
ball." This probably takes care
of one for the home team and
one for the visitors.
The diamond has its nrnhlome
too. A base runner must make
like Red Grange doing a Roy
Riegels because first has i
halfway to what would be our
tnird, second is where our first
base is located and third base is
where it ought to be even in Fin
land. The traffic when some
body singles with a man on third
is like Helsinki's main drag on
Saturday night.
Rules Sound Same
The official rule book sounds,
however, much like ours. It out
lines that a "coach shall be per
mitted to direct discreetly the
playing of his team from neutral
ground." Which will be good
news to Leo Durocher. But it
adds that "uncalled use of the
voice during the game is for
bidden." So you can scratch one
ex-Flatbush flat top. '
As a matter of fact, you can
scratch most of the Americans.
We're off to root for the Dodg
ers, Rodgers.
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