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EIGHT MEDFOHD (OKZGOIT) Will Far West Baseball League Be Revived? Majors Interested Br HARRY CHIPMAK Mail Tribune Staff Writer Will the Far West league be reorganized and, if so, will Med ford be in it? That question haa been kicked around by baseball fans here now for over a year and still nothing has been done either toward getting the league re organized or securing a fran chise for Medford. Major league baseball inter ests are anxious to have a class D league on the west coast. At the present time they have no place to send professional base ball beginners signed on the west coast where they witl be kept close to home. The nearest class D league is in Oklahoma. Interest Expressed Many in professional base ball have expressed great in terest in a class D league in Ore gon, dipping into northern Cal ifornia as far as Redding if nec essary. They insist that the league will have to be more compact than the now disbanded circuit, which stretched from Eugene in the north to Pitts burg and Santa Rosa, Calif., in the south. The travel was too great for a club of such classi fication to bear financially, they point out. Talk currently is going around that Medford, Klamath Falls, Eugene, Coos Bay-North. Bend, Albany, Roseburg, Bend and Grants Pass could be drawn in to a league. Travel would be short under such an arrange ment, a primary requisite. A week's home stand seems to be too long for the population in the smaller towns to stand, therefore, in a compact league teams could be moved oftener without working too great a hardship on them financially. Majors Would Help The majors, in conversation, have expressed a willingness to help such a league, both finan cially and with players. How ever, the majors can't be expect ed to move info a city and erect a baseball park, put up money for operation of a team, and send in players. Outright own ership by major league teams of , Far West league franchises seems to be out. Therefore, own ership would have to be on a local basis. An arrangement would have to be worked out by some of the towns in the old league to clear their debts incurred in past operations before they would be permitted,under baseball law to reenter a new setup. Parks, of course, are as es sential as a team itself. Use of the present Fairgrounds park GREATEST TIRE - SALE OF THE YEAR! Irate XV JZfikm World's First-Choice FIRST-QUALITY DELUXE LOOK at these LOW PRICES! Sce his Ickr Day! Pay as little as Medford Tire Service ao. MAIL TMBOTfg here would be out as far as any assistance by a major league club would be concerned. Box Seats Necessary Baseball men stopping here say it would be necessary to erect some box seats Denina home plate and, preferably, to have them covered. The present bleachers could be used along the first and third base lines as bleachers. It would also be nec essary to erect adequate dress ing room facilities - for both home and vsiting teams as well as umpire faculties, improve ment in the parking area also would be necessary, they said. The field itself and the pres ent lighting would be acceptable though the lighting isn't the best to be found in lower classifica tion baseball. ' Jerry Donovan, San Francisco, who played a big part in or ganization of the Far West league and who has carried it close to his heart since, is anx ious to see it revived. Donovan was president of the league dur ing its operation and at present is president of the California State league. He has attempted to interest Pacific Coast league clubs- in operation of the Far West league, but at present, has not met with too much success. San Francisco Seals, however, did have a working agreement with Medford during the last year of the old league. Coast League Has Troubles However, most Coast league clubs are having financial wor ries of their own without going out looking for more. It seems that major league interest is the Cheney Studs Drop Two Games To Bandon; Take Over SWO League Cellar SOUTHWEST OREGON LEAGUB W. I Pet. GB Drain , , 6 2 .750 Coquille 5 3 .625 1 Roseburg , 6 4 .600 1 Coos Bay-North Bend 4 4 .400 2 Bandon 4 4 .400 2 Brookings 3 S .375 3 Medford 2 8 -00 5 The Medford Cheney Studs tin ma TIRI SIZI uiowMKf TtUi-IM YOU W QUIT 4J0ilt $20.10 SU.OS 4.401 IS 21.00 11.75 4.70 l it 22.05 14.54 7.10 1 H 24.45 1S4 4.501 14 24J0 11.40 7.401 IS 24.75 10.40 tXOilS 2J5 -..01 .20i IS 3ft45 22.t plus Hi $1.25 a week! M-eniae rnone .--oji) p .'Monday August 10. 1SSS only answer to revival of pro fessional baseball hereabouts. Most of the clubs in the de funct league operated on a stockholder basis, which didn't seem too satisfactory. However, there are several possibilities seen whereby the league can be revived. It has been suggested that sev eral lumber firms in the inter ested cities could go together to sponsor a 'team in their re spective cities, much the same as the Southwestern Oregon league now operates. Or, in Medford, either the lumber in terests or fruit interests, or both, could combine to back the team. If handled correctly, it seems that the publicity value of such an arrangement would be great and the tax deduction value should not be overlooked. New League Certain Major league baseball inter ests are going to start a class D league on the west coast. They would like to revive the Far West league much on the same basis as has been mentioned a compact Oregon circuit but if something isn't done pretty soon to start the ball rolling, they will turn to the populous southern California area for their league and Oregon will be left out There are insufficient play ers to operate two class D leagues on the coast. It seems that if Oregon and Medford are to be included in professional baseball, somebody should take the bull by the horns and do something. The major leagues aren't known to wait around forever. dropped deep into the Southwest Oregon baseball league cellar over the week end by dropping two games to Bandon. The host Bandon took the first gams 4 to 3, and the second 6 to 2. Jack Cooney was the hitting star for MedfDrd in the first game as he banged out a home run and a single. His fourroaster into the tent erf ield stands tn the third inning brought in two Medford runs. Bill Burger of the Bandon nine collected an inside the park home run Other standout hit ters for Bandcn in the first game were Cal Mclrven, w; 3 for 4, including a double, and Fred Haller, with 3 for 5, in cluding a double and a triple. An error anu three hits gave Medford its only two ruis in the final game. They were un earned, coming after two were out in the ninth inning. Roseburg split a pair of league gan es with Drain's league leaders. Roseburg took the first contest, 8 to 2, and dropped tht Sunday game, 5 to 2, with Drain manager Roy Hcl scr doing th; hurling. Coquille . rd Brookings split a league scries in a doublehcad cr Sunday at Brookings. Co quillc won the first contist, 7 to 3, and Brookings nabbed the ah'eviated seven-inning nigatcap 10 to 6. The Coos Bay-North Bend nine swamped Silverton's Red Sox in a pair of exhibition games. The coast nine took the first game, 10 to 1, and thpa ran wild in the second contest to take a 16 to 0 victory. LINESCORES: Medford 002 000 010 3 Bandon -..101 '000 30x 4 Gehrmann and Roelandt; and Burger. 7 1 10 4 Franks Medford 000 000 002 2 8 4 Bandon 101 100 12x 6 8 3 Fagan and Roelandt; Masters and Burger. Roseburg 010 ISO 0008 10 4 Drain 101 000 0002 9 4 Bartow and Koepf; Peterson. Per sey (5). Ha na us Ira (6) and Beard. Roseburg 000 000 0203 7 2 Drain 002 210 OOx 5 10 2 Coen and Koepf; Helaer and Beard. Coquille 100 420 0007 13 0 Brookings .....100 010 0103 9 1 Mishasek and Allison; Selsor. Cole man (S) and Smith. Coquille 211 002 0 x x Brookings 014 230 x 10 X x Henderson. Gilson (5) Bilbrey (6) and Allison; Cehrman, Astia (61 and Smith. (Exhibition Games) Silverton 000 000 100 1 4 8 C. Bay-N. Bend 320 001 40x 10 14 1 Sauvain, Buchhait (2). Bourbonnais (8) and Roth; Bishop and Segura. Silverton 000 000 000 0 3 4 C. Bay-N. Bend 302 613 Olx 16 23 0 Bourbonnais. Feller (4) Hattenberg (8) and Hande; Rockey and Segura. Witte 17). WIN ABC OPENERS Portland U.K Archer Blow- er and Pipe downed Warrenton 10-1 and Norgan's Beavers de feated an American Legion ay star team 8-0 last night in open ing games of the 1953 Oregon ABC tournament. The American Legion was or ganized and granted a charter by Congress in September, 1919. E. Scismorc ': Garners Win At Ashland Ashland Staving off a last lap challenge from Bob Radke, A-21, Elmer Seismore, M-46, drove to his first main event victory of the Ashland Speed way season Saturday night The main event was another close event with nine cars in con tention in late laps. Bernie Miller, M-8G, worked his way through the pack to take second place with Larry Leigh. A-30, winding up in fourth spot. In the semi-main, Ben DeHav en, AS, was again victorious after ne took the lead away from Bob Jenkins, M-22, on the final lap. Stubby Frye, driving a car labeled P-U, was third. The semi-main produced the most spectacular mishap as Bill Taylor, driving A-33 was nudged in front of the grandstand, went out of control and went flying over the protective barrier at the starting line. His car went 12 feet off the ground but land ed on all four wheels and the driver was able to continue the race. More than 1400 fans, the third largest crowd of the season, wit nessed the first "destruction derby" presented on the Speed way track. The winner was Johnny Sprague, driving a Stev ens Motors-sponsored Ford, with which he had previously won at the Jackson County Speed way. Johnny Wyncoupe, A-l, scored an easy 10-length victory in the trophy dash and was trailed by Wayne Lcmley, A-S7, and Chuck Zarka, A-l 00. Wyncoupe had won the second heat; Lemley the third and Zarka the fourth Lou Kurz, M-71, who won the first heat, broke a valve in that race and was unable to enter the dashr Milt Gorden of Central Point, A-44, drove to a victory in the final heat with Roy Deutsch man, R-80, second and Mack Lehman, A-5. third. Dead line for Sunday Classified k at noon Saturdays. p-ipaaiaijpp)iwiw'ii' in I Pi n ... n rTin I NEWSPAPERS OF TOTAL 34.0 Bat mart of do the joba it Z5.5 6)4 billion dollars. Figures "Daihea only (weekday and i far 1WI put tiskad 1 HoDffe off avi. Studs Mix Tonight At Fairgrounds The tAilarious antics of Bobo Nickerson and the all-around good playing of his teammates will be - featured at the Fair grounds park tonight when the BOBO NICKERSON Pitcher and Clown bearded and original House of David baseball team stops off on its annual visit to clash with the Medford Cheney Studs. Game time is at 8 o'clock. Nickerson, who never fails to leave the fans "rolling in the aisles," never plans his clown ing act but improvises as the game goes along. He has been known to use first base as a pillow, coach from third base while standing on his head and chin himself on the scoreboard. His antics in ball parks across the country have drawn high praise and he has been compar ed above the established base ball clowns by many men in professional baseball. Pepper Game Highlight Another highlight of the game will be the House of David team's famed pepper ball game in which they use real and I imaginary baseballs in a lively T'liiij'iiaiuMwiH'. TO 1 OVE DiRCTUIL It takes a lot of confidence and all kinds of people to spend two and a quarter billion dollars' worth of advertising. It takes everybody from big VP's with heavy ad budgets to housewives with rooms to rent It takes chain-etore executives and neighborhood merchants. It takes local business people those who spend only their own money for ads, and those who also spend big money contributed by m arfacturers. all it takes an advertising meH ttt complete job : NEWSPAPERS. brings total to new his- include production eostv Sundays). Source: Preliminary . by Ffwlmf aft, Jaa. u, INS. throwing and catching demon stration. The exhibition, as well as the team itself, again is be ing led by veteran George An derson, only member of the Benton Harbor, Mich., cult now with the team. Anderson is a versitle player who, in his younger years (he s now 44) used to spend one inning at each position. Now he plays mostly at first base but is always on hand to fill in wherever he might be needed. Anderson emphasizes that no players are allowed to join the Davids who are not in good standing with organized base ball. During their spring train ing period many youngsters ask for tryouts with the whiskered crew and none are refused. Many of today's famous baseball players got their start with the House of David, Anderson says. Usual Stud Lineup 1 Meanwhile, Manager Paul (Hoosier) Hoffard of the Studs expects to field his usual line up in an attempt to score his second victory in less than a week over a traveling club. Last Ho (2fll EBcbcbi? 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Bob Phillips (M ',: Everett Mo Graw (M 3. L. L. Poritt E) 0; Jim Snider (M) 3. Stu DeBry (E) 0. Clayton Lewis (M) 3i. frank Rlggs (E) 2: Steve Kraus (E) -'. Felix Cecot (Ml ,,: Jack Kerr (E) 3. Dick Knight (M) 0: Brad Broyles (M) 3. Bud Nagler (E) 0. Carl Moore (El 3, Bun Da vies (Ml 1: Bob Rector (M) 3, Lea Pierce (E) O; Mahr Reymers M) 3. Ed Sigmond (E) 078111 Bartman (M) 3. Jack Boast Thursday the Studs surprised everyone with a 7 .to 5 victory over the Cuban Monarchs. It is probable that Terry Maddox, youthful right hander, will get the pitching ' call against the cultist nine. Maddox hurled a good game against the Cubans until he tired in the closing inn ings and gave way to Elliott Fagan. Picnic or Party CENTRAL !j!'!.lMj ill 4Tcrtovca mimm . SiiiSSiBiii Only newspapers can rive yon fall value for your ad rexting dollar because only newspaper! reach evtrybodg who can possibly bay. If you're a retailer or wholesaler, demand news paper advertising before you place an order. 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