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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 29, 1953)
'g'vf!Vffr!'t Sport Parade OSCAR FRALEY Starts WriN IMta. New York 0M As iu as Jackie Robinson la concerned. the World Series la going; to be a treat Instead of a treatment, no matter what our brand of da aret or stogie, if you are in Yankee Stadium when tne w ball classic opens tomorrow, you -m amnlr. tn VOUT CSTt'S COD" tent. Jackie Isn't the least bit worried about that nary Back ground when he peers In from left field. a ' - . -Maybe they expect me to ask tt h. mmiI, not to smoke, said the Brooklyn Dodger infielder who this season became an emer- Redskins, Change Game Date Eagle Point The football game of Jacksonville at Eagie Paint has been moved up a day, doe to hunting season prepara tions and will be piayea mum day at 3 p m. instead of Friday istnaiiv scheduled. The announcement was made today by Coach Jerry ..nosey, nA ti nm will be crip pled in the backfield through loss ox a list ox piayers. Ttt on the list of backfield men lost to the Eagles is John Fox. right halfback, . hurt In practice last week and expected to be out at least three weeks with a hroken rib. Previously Gene Eccleston, left halfback, had suffered concussion in the Illinois Valley gam and is out. Jack Greb, understudy left half. bar flue but may be ready zor action this week. Bob Stewart, left half, was lost in the first game of the season with a brok en tor. Starting lineup for the Thurs day same will ne neicn ana Palkenhagen, ends; Ott and Cald well, tackles; Curren and Huff man guards; Amaro, center; Charles Eccleston, quarterback; Mason, left half; Tell, right half; Gillaspey, fullback. Al Lopez Signs Two-Year Pact New York (UJ9 Manag er Al Lopez, signed to a new two-year contract, listed three "basic requirements' today - if the Cleveland Indians are to ov ertake the New York Yankees in 1954. "Well never catch .'era! until we get a rightfielder, a first baseman and a relief pitcher; Lopez said. General Manager Hank Green- berg praised Lopez as "the best manager in baseball," when he announced the two-year pact and said "at no time did "-? consider not renewing Al's con- ' tract'' The terms of the contract were not revealed but it is esti mated that Lopes 'will get $35,- uw a year. Baseball Big Wigs . Okay Player Requests New York (U.R) Commis sioner Ford Frick of baseball's ' Executive Council have recom mended the adoption of six play er requests but referred two o. the most important requests to "study groups." Player requests that the legai salary minimum be increased from $5,000 to $7,200 and that three changes be made in the current pension plan will be sub mitted without recommendatidn to the owners' annual meeting , next spring. The first plastic, celluloid! was developed in 1869. JL So smooth it leaves you breathless mirnpfF gency outfielder, "Gene Wood- ling seems to think I'll have my troubles out there in left field." 'Smoke Bothers You . "Jackie won't know how tough It Is until the day of the game," Woodling insisted. "When the stands are packed and thousands of people are smoking, the smoke and haze which rises from the stands really bothers you. Some times you just can't follow the balL." ; Robinson, a supremely confi dent inlividuaL doesn't sneer at Woodling's assertion. He simply takes it in stride. "I may not be the best left fielder in the world but I know I can see anything anybody else can see," he said simply as he shagged balls in the Yankee Stadium outfield. "They nave high stands in Philadelphia, too, and I haven't had any trouble there." Robinson Unconcerned Robinson was so Unconcerned over playing Yankee Stadium's "coffin nail corner" that he couldn't even keep his mind on the prospects of taking those drives aimed at the low left field railing. "Why worry about that?" he snorted. "This club isn't worried. Confidence that's our secret weapon." Considering that Brooklyn never has won a World Series in six previous times, you'd expect the Dodgers to be tight and tense as they come up against the American League maulers. It is somewhat surprising to see their relaxed almost casual approach to the classic. AppoaiTD Soft; LA Still Trying : By CARL LUKDQUXST New York UJB The St Louis Browns at long last seem ed certain today to be moved from the home they have Occu pied for more than a half cen tury, to Baltimore, Md. . President Will Harridge of the American league said "the time, has come for us to make' a de cision and we ire getting closer to a solution. I think by night fall we will agree on a new home for the Browns." "Baltimore is the only city that has made us a concrete of fer," he continued. "Los Angeles did not With Los Angeles it is a long range proposition but we do not want to hang on this way for another two or three years." Baltimore Offers S&400.000 The Baltimore group, headed by Attorney Clarence Miles and backed by such civic interests as Mayor Thomas D'AUesandro and his entire council, again of fered to purchase the Brownie stock at a price of $2400.000. .The American 'league club owners, weary of their "no de cision bouts" with Bill Veeck, President of the Browns, appear to be ready to do an about faee and accept Baltimore instead of Los Angeles and it's group of supporters, headed by Del Webb vice-president of the New York Yankees. Veeck had no comment to make other than that he felt a solution was near.' Webb still felt however, that he might be able to block the transfer, to Baltimore and switch the Brown's franchise to the 'Pacific toast The Baltimore switch is cer tainly not. surf thing," Webb said. "We can go west as well as east and it makes a little more sense. You know bow I feel." : . - - ' - " . It was understood that Webb, acting for Los Angeles inter ests, had offered to buy the 79 per ' cent of the Browns stock controlled by Veeck's group for $2,400,000. The move,- which would wipe out Veeck as a fac tor, was turned down. Jimmy Gallagher of the Chi cago Cubs, speaking for owner Phil Wrigley, told Harridge that Wrigley said he would not sell the Los Angeles franchise and the ball park for $1,500,000. He added that Wrigley said he might not sell the franchise at all. ; . . Gene Littler Out in Front; Yost Third Pebble Beach, Calif. (U.R) A new putter, given him by a friend in La Jolla, may make Gene Littler, the national amateur champion from San Diego, unbeatable in the 1953 California State Amateur tourn ament Littler. won first day honors yesterday when he carded a f ive-under-par 67 on the Cypress Point course. He had seven one putt greens. There is another round of qualifying play here today and the match play will open tomor row. Littler must play his sec ond qualifying round .on Pebble Beach today, which is consider ably tougher than Cypress Point. ... Second to Littler in the open ing round qualifying was Walk er Cup teammate Ken Venturi of San Francisco. Venturi carded a 68. ' Dick Yost, xthe - Oregon am ateur king from Portland, came next with a 33-36 69. v - Dudcn : Leads Oldfield; Will : Roseburg U.R)-r-Pro' Bob Dd den of. Portland; who fired a 62 for a new course record in the opening round of the Roseburg open golf tournament led the nearest competitor by seven strokes today, as play began on the second 18 holes. Duden's 10-under-par yester day clipped five strokes off the previous record at the Roseburg Country club course. His assault at Roseburg; iams Close on the course also included a hole-inrone". , . Trailing seven strokes back in second place were four linksmen with 69s. They were Eddie Ho gan, Portland; Ron Caperna, As toria; Al Feldman, Tacoma, and Bob Harris, San Jose, Calif. Art Pearson, Salqumeti, Calif., and Eddie Oldfield, Medford, were tied for third with 71s. Al Williams, Medford was fourth with 72. First World Series Ticket Seekers in ' Lineup at Stadium ': New York (U.R)-Charles M. Kierst of Auburn, N.Y., snoozed on a blanket in front of Yankee Stadium today, confident he would get a seat for the opening game of the World Series. ' Kierst was first in line before the bleacher box office for the series opener tomorrow "between the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers. Shortly after Kierst settled down at the gate yesterday to await his 17th series, he "was joined by another faithful fan, Ralph J. Belpcore of Chicago, who was assured of seat No. 2. Police expected ,the line to lengthen today. Third position in the line went to a Boston grocery salesman, John Londonio, who took up the vigil early today. , Three of five motorists in the U.S. never owned a new car. MZDrORD, (ORZOOH) MATL TRCTU1TZ THiaifc&a Hill Wot Satisfied by USC Performance in 17-7 JWin Over Minnesota Grid Team : By ALEX KAH Lbs Angeles (U JO Southern California captured the Pacific Coast Conference chamfilonshiD and went to the Rose Bowl last year without a sustained offense and it looked today like the Tro jans were doing a repeat act in 1953;. '" ' Coach Jess Hill was the au thority for the statement that his defending champs have failed to show him an offense. In fact Hill told Southern California football writers yesterday that he would. settle for a well exe cuted play for the season and has yet to see one. Standard Play Asked if he considered tail back Ar amis Dandoy's pass to quarterback. George Botanic from a buck lateral well execut ed, Hill replied that it was a standard play for a single-wing team and wouldn't have worked if the Minnesota defender had been in position to stop it , "Gentlemen " said the polite Hill, "the fact remains that we took advantage . of breaks to score and win. We're TnnUng too many mistakes. There was not a single standout player or play on our side of the line in Montreal Royals Take International Crown Montreal (U.R) For the sixth time in 12 years, the Montreal Royals took over the Governor's Cup, emblematic of the Interna tional League championship.. . The Royals gamed the cup by beating Rochester, the regular season pennant winner, 3 2, last night for their fourth straight victory in a final playoff. By winning, the Royals gained the right to represent the Inter national League in the . Little World Series against the eventual winner of the current American Association playoffs. Kansas City leads- Toledo, : three games to two, in that series. the Minnesota game." Even on defense, Hill conced ed the Gophers made his players look -bad because of the great open field running of. Paul Giel. Great. Open Field Runner "He's the greatest. open field runner in football today," enthu siastically remarked Hill. "It's impossible, however, to compare him and UCLA's Paul Cameron because they are different type players. Cameron is the plung ing tailback who makes yardage by strength if he's stopped. And Cameron is the better passer. But they both are truly great backs." ' ; One of Cameron's coaches, as sistant coach Deke Brackett said the UCLA star was a "coach's player" because he instinctively did the right thing, didn't fum ble, and rarely made a mistake in judgment He called Cameron the greatest stand-up passer in college ranks. Sorfcs Varni-Up am Slated New. York Yankee aad Dodger player wfflvava fana the "lowdown on the outstand ing plays of each World Series game as seen from the playing ' field, Immediately before game time in a 15-minute .TV-radio warm-up program on the Gillette -Cavalcade of Sports, a daily pre -game higbspot to the telecasts and broadcasts of the games . themselves, - - For the first time in World ' Series history, the participating -players, already in uniform, will appear before television cameras , and radio mikes before trotting out to take their positions on the diamond. They will give fans -the inside on how the game-win-" ning catch was made, what V kind of a pitch was powdered . for the winning runs,, or talk about the pitching performance . by a Yankee or Dodger great . , BEAR KITTENS WIN ' . ; Salem (U.R) Willamette's . JVs defeated the Pacific univer- -sity JV squad, 19-7, in a football game here yesterday afternoon. . 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