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TET MTDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE liii Tornado Opposes Ashland S Whether the Ashland high Grizzlies, eying possible upset of Medford's No. 1 ranked bask etball quintet, will try to run with the Black Tornado or will resort to slow 'em down tactics was not known today. But it's a good bet that the Tornado will be prepared for either, or any eventuality. ; i Medford and Ashland, long time foes on the athletic court, send their basketball forces against each other here on Fri day and there on Saturday. Jun ior varsity contests are planned for 6:45 p.m. on both days. Var sity games will be at 8:15 p-m. : The games will be Southern Oregon Conference engage ments. Klamath Falls will be the scene of other league en counters as host to Grants Pass both Friday and Saturday. Med' ford is the favorite both against Ashland and in the conference after wins over GP last week leads the circuit.. Ashland tilts will provide further evidence to Its league possibilities. Runs With Best : Should the Grizzlies attempt to run with the Black Tornado, they face the fact that Medford has a fast-moving, hard-driving hustling team which has run successfully with some of the best fives in the state so far this season. If the Ashlanders slow the action, they may have to prove sharp In their shooting and scrapping hard under the boards because Medford s edge In .height could give it. advan tage in rebounding, control of th ball much of the time and still opportunity for its own of fense to. perk. Medford Coach Frank Roe- landt reported a good workout yesterday after the , fair one Tuesday and said the Tornado clicked rather smoothly in the Wednesday drill. He felt the Medf ordites would be ready to go after the good scrimmage. Both of Medford's tallest boys probably will start Friday. That would put Glenn Peterson at a forward and Jerry Kalapus at center with Everett Kastner at forward and Larry Copple and Frank Rector at guards round ing out the crew. The five have started most Medford conflicts this season. . - . ". " ' Suiherlin Doubtful Ashland may have Stu. Bak Castellan I Victor Over . Holly Mims N Cleveland W.R) Rocky Cas tellani's manager screamed "breach of contract today when officials - of the International Boxing Club refused to name Rocky the : immediate middle weight challenger ; despit his "elimination" victory over Holly Mims Wednesday night. .Manager Alvin Naiman, wealthy Cleveland junk dealer, shouted, Tve got a contract: It says the winner of last night's fight gets a title shot at Carl (Eobo) Olson within 30.days. It's breach of contract if they try. to name another challenger." . Castellani, who lost a title verdict . to champion Olson in August, won a unanimous deci sion over Mims of Washington, D.C., at 1he Cleveland Arena in ' a 12-rQund bout that was adver tised as an "elimination" to de termine a challenger.': Lots of Ifs But Truman Gibson, secretary of the IBC. said today, "Well see. There are a lot of ifs. We want to see how Joey Giardello : looks on Jan. 24. If he looks good, he should get the title fight because he's the Number One contender." . Giardello of " Philadelphia, who had a knee operation earlier in the winter, is slated to fight Al Andrews at Norfolk, Va., on . Jan.. 24. It will be his first. bout v since the operation. Castellani, ranked second among contenders, weighed 159V pounds for Wednesday night's nationally televised bout that attracted 5,349 fans and $22,786. Mims, rated No. 3, scal ed 155, as he suffered his first defeat . in 14 bouts. f :-fv : Rocky won by a fair margin Wednesday night but he did his challenger's, cause little good by using his regular hit-and-hold tactics after he had promised to come in with a , new "tiger technique." -; " '" ' It was a dull bout in which Rocky1- registered the only knockdown, dropping Mims with a left hook to the chin in the eighth round. Junior HigK Games Slated Medford junior, high ' eighth and ninth grade basketball teams take on their second op ponents of the week when they play host to Ashland aggrega tions Friday. .Eighth grade game is set for 3:30 pjn. at the junior high court with the ninth grade setto to follow. Seventh graders, also playing for the second time this week, were at Phoenix this afternoon. pop 0.151 Friday, on er and Phil Sword at forwards, Gene Parent at center and Jerry Mickle and Harry Johnson at guards. Jim Sutherlin, a usual starter, is on the doubtful list, victim of a locked knee. Wheth er he will be available may not be known .until -game time on Friday. Copple is current Medford scoring , leader with , 159 points and heads the conference race for all schools with 43. With 10 games behind Medford his a v - erage is 15.9 per game. Kalapus is next on the Medford list with 122. Rector has 117, Peterson 73 and Kastner 65. Other Med ford scoring "totals, are John Foust 21, Bob Tisdel 12, Bill Cochran 11, Ed McCullough 11, Eagle Point Gym Will Be Scene Of Little 6 Basketball Tourney Eagle Point high school's gym nasium will be scene of the Little Six basketballtournament on February 24, 25 and 26. The site was picked last night at a meeting at Crater high in Central Point. Drawing for po sitions will not occur until about one week before the tourney. Eagle Pointy Crater, Phoenix and Illinois Valley of the Rogue League and Henley and Brook ings will be participants. Tour ney winner will meet the champions of the Southern Ore gon Conference Big Four race for the District 4 banner and the right 'to enter the state tour nament. Neither Henley nor Brookings was, represented at the meeting. A committee was named to su pervise the olav-off. Chosen wereArthur Straus, Crater; S. W., Callaghan, Eagle Point; Don Barnes, Illinois Valley, and Jack Woodward, Phoenix. It will be old basketball ri valry under a new cloak this week end as Rogue League con tention 1 begins.; Crater will op pose Eagle Point on -Friday at Central Point and on Saturday at Eagle Point. Phoenix will meet Illinois Valley on Friday at Phoenix and on Saturday at Cave Junction. i Competition among the four small. Class A; schools dates back to their years as B schools. All were members of the : JDJ League which disbanded at the end of last, school year. Sched ule this year is patterned after that of the Big Four schools with each team playing each other one on four occasions, v Eagle Point enters the race as favorite.' But the Eagles could Oregon Grapplers Pioneers : . Eugene (U.R) Oregon's varsity wrestling team defeated Lewis and Clark 30-11 here last night while " the Oregon Frosh defeated Vancouver high school 30-5.- BOWLING; ' - Medford - Bowling aisocia Hon tournament play will open , this Saturday and Sun day at Medford Bowling lanes. Secretary . Bob Lan said that it is planned to publish a schedule Friday of the week end action. Teams will roll on Saturday at 7 and 9:30 p.m. and singles - and doubles shifts will go off at noon, and 2 and 4 p.m. on Sunday. LADIES CLASSIC LEAGUE Eloda Ludwig from Craterian Beauty Shoppe had high game 223 this week in the Ladies' Classic Bowling league. Mabel Clark of the same team had high series 580. Craterian .. Beauty Shoppe also had high team game 748 and high team series. . Other 200 games were rolled by Mabel Clark 202 and Irene Schroeder of McDuffie's 203. RESULTS: McDuffie's I. Schroeder 448 V.. Corby, "416 Anderson Thrift ' N. Hollenback 418 I B. Ha mm 407 Niuttrell(abs)"3l A. Wilson 377 M. Dyer 379 A. Carbiener 362 N. Burroughs 465 MJJen'ington 427 Handicap s 2091 1995 Medford Feed M. Little 443 M. Tennant 483 D. Kawley 438 L. Sacchi 429 R. Barr 451 Handicap 18 2263 Crater Inn A. Gebhardt 435 J. Hamoson -. 454 L. -Farrar t-. 399 G. Retres ': S12 C Teter, 458 2258 - Kachina Room L. Enckson 361 R. Shama 416 B. Doyon - - 368 A. Monroe ' 401 R. Lane . 450 Trail Creek Lbr. M. Nathieson 316 G. McKilloo 299 T Bevens - 383 L. Jantzer ' 386 Ei Goode 369 Handicao ' 180 1933 1998: Mary's Casa M. Porter 427 V. Float 405 T. Tolles 456 H. Writtht 312 V. Blunt - 473 Handicap ... 228 2301 Craterian Beauty V. Cununings 454 R. Eberius 402 E. Straus 369 M. Clark - 580 E. Ludwifc 532 2337 Morning Fresh F. Aasen . 435 S. Beck ' 313 G. Evernden 361 Fashlonette V. Knox 505 P. Mathe . 377 D. Klein.,; . 435 L. Dudy . 428 X. Baker 460 V. Bateman 355 K. Jennings 480 : Handicap 72 2016 2205 Jorcensen'i. J Elk Lumber C. Lowd 447 H. Norwood 439 I. Forga : 378 D. Royce - 364 J. Wilson j - 429 V. Florey 338 F. Willett 438 A. Tamney 384 P. Gardener 468' D.Christiansen T51 . v.:..'. Handicap 144 2160 .8220 Thursday, January 13, 1955 Saturday Lloyd Cearley 8, Ed Reinking 7, Stan Read 3 and Warren Deakins 1. Dave D'Olivio, Klamath, is second in league scoring with 31 and Parent, Ashland, Mun- sell, Klamath, and Kalapus tied for third with 28. Rector has 27 Medford has rolled up ; 610 points to rivals 435 this season. Medford students of Grade school and junior high and sen ior high age coming to basket- Lball games at Medford high are to enter the student door 'and sit on the. student side unless they come with their parents and actually sit with . them. Those are instructions of . . Lee Ragsdale, supervisor, of Physical education for the local schools.. get a good challenge this week end from Crater's Comets, who have been at the "top .or shared the top in the circuit for several seasons. Coach Leonard Warren indicated: lots of spirit on the Comet squad today. He reported a likely change in the Crater starting, combination which would have Bob Gray at center and send Jim Higinbotham to forward. Fred Hogue would be at the other forward with Harvey Tonn and Vern Parent at guards. Gray and Higinbotham are both six-foot three-inchers. uette, Cincinnati ressive By JOHN GRIFFIN ' . United Press Sports Writer. Marquette and Cincinnati. two teams who feel they've been unjustly : overlooked, clamored for- national ' basketball recog nition today' as they added vic tories . over high-ranked rivals to their impressive records.'.1 Marquette ; ran its winning streak, the longest among the na tion's major-colleges, , to 12 games with an - 82-78"- victory Wednesday night ovfr Louis ville, currently ranked 19th na tionally. And - Cincinnati extended its overall i record to 11 wins . and three losses by whipping Dayton the nation's 11 th-ranked team, 85-78. ;.. .-'s.v;::. Marquette lost its opening game of the season to Michigan State, 91-72, on State's court and has not been beaten since. Real ly gathering .steam as : they moved along, the -Warriors have beaten such strong teams as Michigan, Bradley, and Louis ville once before, 6-62 and be lieve they're in high ? gear now that high-scoring Russ Wittber- ger has recovered, from a bout with pneumonia. Riding Crest Of Wave . Dayton went into its game with Cincinnati on the crest of a wave, having just beaten pow erful Duquesne to cap a come back after being defeated in the Holiday . Festival ; tournament last month. But Cincinnati made the flyers their third straight victim. , An upset that would have been a real stunner was threat ened for a ; time " Wednesday night before LaSalle, the .na tion's No. 3 team, rallied to beat Muhlenberg, 88-79. ' Muhlenberg surprised by driv ing to a 48-42 lead early in the second quarter and then with stood LaSalle's battling to stay in front as long as 57-52. But all America Tom Gola and Alonzo Lewis; sparked LaSalle in a string of 10 points to gain the lead , and the : explorers ; never were headed. Lewis nipped Gola his much more famous team mate, for scoring honors . with 24 points to 23, while Bob Gall of Muhlenberg matched Gola's totaL - Conference Results::: ; -In leading conference games: Duke rallied to beat South Car olina, 82-64, in the Atlantic Coast Conference despite 25 points by Carolina's Bernie Fan nin; and George Washington, de fending champion of the South ern Conference, followed Corky Devlin's 39 points to a 79-65 vic tory over William and Mary. In other games: Temple scored its eighth victory in 12 games, 6751, over Albright as Hal Lear scored 22 points; Fordham ran its victory string to seven games by edging Columbia; 71-68, as Ed Conlin scored 27 points; Bill Johnson's 2i- points led Colgate to a 90-72 'victory over Army. Penn State scored its 42nd straight home court victory, 107-85, over Syracuse as Jesse Arnelle scored 38 points;' Wash ington and Lee won its ; first Southern Conference game in the last 14 starts, 88-63, over Virginia Tech. - J ' ' Villanova downed Kings Col lege (P,a.), 97-71, despite 27 points by Bernie Panzak of Kings; Amherst trounced Har vard, 70-47; Navy ' crushed Franklin and Marshall, 90-50; Toledo edged Bowling Green, 75-69; and Denver routed Colo rado College, 109-60. . , SLPflDDKirS AAagnuson Holds Nose Over Televised Bouts; Amenable To Suggestions for Probe By A. ROBERT SMITH Mail Tribune Correspondent Washington Sen." Warren G. Magnuson CD-Wash.), like many Americans, has been watching boxing matches on television but lately he has been holding his nose over some of the con tests he has seen. - Magnuson is wondering out load whether professional box ing is going the way of -professional wrestling, substituting the old custom of staging clean, hard fought, ; best-man-wins struggles with put-up or thrown fights de signed only to make money for the promoters, the fighters and those who know on which man to place their bets. Would Seek Racket Ties This is why Magnuson,- who is incoming chairman of the Sen ate Interstate and Foreign Com merce Committee, is., amenable to the suggestion that profes sional boxing be investigated by Congress for possible - ties with bigtime racketeering. His com mittee is expected to go into the subject because televised fights aire transmitted across state lines to a nationwide audience, i ' "It wasn't so bad in the old days when you and I could only see a fight . by going to the arena," explained Magnuson. "If we didn't ' like " the match ' or thought the fighters weren't do ing their best, we could boo and holler and express our disappro val or walk out and not come back. Now it's different. These fights are in every home, and the kids - see these- boxing, matches and get a . wrong idea of what good sportsmanship and"5 hard fought athletics are supposed to be." A former quarterback at the University of Washington, Mag Martin Sign, Play Here Saturday Night Fans will have an opportunity to see some of Oregon's top in dependent and AAU team bas ketball talent this Saturday in a doublebill at . the St. Mary's school gymnasium.' Medford's leading independents willplay.- The special attraction will be headlined by a tangle between Yellow Cab of the Medford In dependent League and the Mar tin Brothers Sign company of Eugene. That scuffle will be at 8:30 p.m. Andy's Jewelers of the MIBL will see the initial action of the program opposing: Hal's Sport shop of Klamath Falls. . To followers of University 4of Oregon basketball and to fans who saw the state AAU tourney here in 1953, names' of ;the Mar tin Sigh squad will ;be familiar. Mel Streeter, - Jack McElravy, Doug Talbot, Brad Fullerton, all are ex-Oregon players and were on. the state titular team in 1953. ;-.- - vtV s-v; : The same players with rein forcements upset the mighty Phillip . Oilers in a stunner and gained the semi-finals of the na tional AAU tourney . the same year.; They were playing as Sandy Favored Over Ted Davis New York 0I.R) Odds-makers installed Sandy Saddler a favorite at 9-5 today to make a successful title defense against Teddy (Red Top) Davis of Hart ford, Conn., at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 25. Elongated Sandy of New York was made the favorite because of his punch. Although king of the 126-pounders, he hits like a middle weight. .- v.-' Sandy hasn't pared down , to the 126-pound limit since his last defense of the title against Wil lie Pep on Sept. 26 1951'. How ever, manager Charley, John ston said today,' "We don't ex pect Sandy to have any trouble making the weight But, ot course, it could happen. He's been weighing about 132 for bouts since he came out of the Army in April." r, Saddler engaged in nine non title bouts last year and ' lost only to Hoacine Hkalfi of Al geria. But because he waited so long for a defense after, his Amy discharge, the National Boxing Association vacated his crown recently. Dead line for Sunday dasaUied is at noon Saturday. . . You'll Always o Reliability O Uniformity o Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF Find TRU-MIX CONCRETE Tru-Mix Concrete Co. FAST. PROMPT DELIVERY ' Me Andrews Road r phen 2-5271 nuson says he fears . the conse quences if youngsters take seri ously what they see on TV in '"big time'sporting arenas -and begin to disregard the advice of their high school coach or scout master to play the game hard and clean. -Urged by Kefauver "Wrestling- is bad enough,' added the senator, "but fortun ately, most people don't ': take it as seriously as they do. boxing, and many people laugh at it like they would slap-stick comedy." - Magnuson was. urged to probe prize fighting. by Sen. Estes Ke fauver (D-Tenn.), who - said in 1950 when he was investigating crime and racketeering-around the Nation he obtained informa tion that linked professional boxing to the underworld. But he said the ; committee, hadn't sufficient time to check into it thoroughly. .'. ' 'V "Magnuson" said his committee is already investigating tele vision, and in that, connection might tackle the boxing matter specifically. The senator has been advised by Chicago news men of information obtained by their newspapers purporting to show a tie between professional prize fight matchmaking and the underworld of that city. ' Although he comes up for re election next year and, as most politicos see it, would benefit according to the probable sensa tional character of any such crime inquiry, . Washington state's senior senator is taking a cautious approach to the possible investigation and sees no pros pect of launching a full scale probe as asked by Kefauver. . . j' Magnuson said he will put it up to his committee for the last word. - r Sport Shop. . Everybody's drug that year, and won . the Oregon toga under , the same colors' again last season. v - . . Martin's has some good height with Streeter, McElravy and Bill Clausen. All are 6 feet 4 inches.' Cab has a taller man in Chuck Stacy at 6-8 and Johnny Foster; of the Medford team is 6-3. Foster and Ed Hummel of Yellow Cab were on the top Portland team last year, Jewish Community, center. ' C Andy's s and the S Sport ! shop fives; boast . ex-Medford ; and Klamath highs players.5 Among the Jewelers are Derald Wooton Jack Boardman, Bob Shores Loren Soderlund, Willard Lilly, Bill Kramer,; Bob Fasel and LaRue Smith. Also on the roster are Ben Clark, ex-North Bend, and Dean' Norman, . ex-Iowa State. Klamath has Ed Whitney, Gary Dawes and R. Beard among its cagers. - Unbeaten Teams To Be Rivals in Recreation Loop ' Two clubs . are due to be knocked from : unbeaten ranks this week end in the round -of basketball games in the Satur day recreation league at Med ford senior high schooL : The tangles put thef Cotton- pickers against the Tweakers at 10 a.m.. t h e ; Thunderbirds against the Flubbin' Five at 11 am., the Gold Ray Salmon Backs against the Senior Wieners at 1 p.m. and the Nico-Quint aeainst the Mountain Boys at 2 t.m. .. ,. ' - t.'' Through last; Saturday the Salmon Backs; Senior Wieners and Cottonoickers were un- marred in two. games each. The Tweakers have won their . only contest. - - - Results ' last Saturday were Salmon Backs 34 to 9 over Thun derbirds, Senior Wieners. 48 to 20 over -Nico-Quint, Flubbin' Five 28 to 15 over Beany Boys and Cottonpickers 38 to 30 over Screwballs. . 4 . Beany Boys and Screwballs have byes this week. LEAGUE STANDINGS ; ' V " Pet 1.000 Gold Kay Salmon Baclcs 2 0 Senior Wieners 2 0 Cottonpickers -i ? Tweakers .. f ? Flubbin Five 11 1.000 1.000 1.000 JSOO .000 Mountain Boys . f Nico-Quint I J J : Thunderbirds ; J Strrffiirhalla . - 0 2 MO .000 .000 .000 Beany Boys - : 0 v 2 Furman Has Major Team Score Lead . New York Fiirman, which set a new. major college record of 154 points in a single game during the past wek, took over the national basketball scoring leadership today in weekly major college figures released by the NCAA. Amazing everyone by contin uing to tally points in box-car numbers despite the graduation of record-buster Frank Selvy, the "Purple Palladins" of Fur man now have averaged a fan tastic 99.2 points per game. Furman has won- the. nationid scoring title for the last two sea sons, led by Selvy, and, a third straight title would equal a rec ord set by Rhode Island State, with Its famed "firehorse" teains of 193639. .Furnrian moved up to . take over the : scoring -lead with its 154-67 triumph over the Citadel ' and V 10245- victory over llrekine." . ; . : ; The performance against Cita del wiped out' the major college record of 149 points that Fur- j man set last year against New berry. The Palladins, by - scor ing. 84 points in the first half, smashed another major college mark and narrowly . missed a third' when their total of 61 field goals fell two short of the 63 they scored against Newberry. Only 5-5 Record The statistics, complete through games' of Jan. 11, show Furman with a substantial lead over second-place Connecticut, which has averaged 93.8 points per game.1 However, despite its high-scoring high jinx, Furman has, only, a 5-5 won-lpst record while Connecticut 'has won ' 12 and lost, only one. Marshall College wjis ? third with 92.0 points per game, fol lowed by DePaul w4th ,90.7 'and Virginia with 89.3 to round out the top 10. . V , San ' Francisco retained its national defense leadership dur ing, tne past ; weeic and even lowered its average - to -48.3 points per game, the best record of any team at this stage of the campaign since 1952. Oregon State was second in defense -with 52.0 pomts al lowed per game average. Okla homa,. A' and M, the national leader in 15 of the last 19 years, stood third with 54.0, followed by, Santa Clara . at 56.5 and Southern California at 56.7, " w..- - - -... -. .. .... . .': " i Missouri 1956 Foe of Beavers $ Corvallis '-- U.R) 5 v Oregon State will open its. 1956 football season against the University of Missouri at - Columbia, Mo., it was announced here today. ; Oregon State replaces Ford ham on ' the Missouri schedule. Fordham recently dropped if oot- ball. r. : j . ; : Dead line - Siuvday Ciassified is at noon Saturday : 10 a.m.- Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day Gridder Can Return to Fray Onto Each Quarter Under New Colleger Rule; Fiye j Other " New York' BJQ College football, has six. brand-new rules today; designed to give the game 'some of the 'blessings" of the two-platoon system without any of its "curses." A rule permitting more sub stitutions and five other more minor changes were announc ed Wednesday by ' an NCAA committee headed by Herbert O. (Fritz) Crisler the group that has the final say" on the rules of the game. . ; Under the new substitution rule, a player, may -: leave r the game once, in each period. Last season, a nlavpr TpmnvpH frnm the game could not return in the same period except for the last four minutes of the second and fourth periods,. : . , The five other iew rules were as follows:-;'; '.h: '' ' t 2. A change in the signal for a fair catch" ' from wig-wagging of a raised arm to a salute with one arm raised skyward. Changed because wig-wagging made it tough to catch the punt 3. Allow the ball-handler on extra points or field goals to at tempt to run, kick, or pass it, although his knee may be touch ing the ground when he "spots" the ball. ' -: . " 4. Make other linemen eligible to. catch forward passes, only if no other player on the . team lines up closer to the sidelines. 5. Outlaw the i "hideout" or sleeper play inl which a' play er lurks near, the sidelines, then speeds downfield to catch a pass. 6. Allow a change in cleats to round ends instead of flat ends if desired. V ; The committee officials hop ed that the greater freedom in substitutions would .; give foot ball two of the alleged benefits of- the old unlimited substitu tion tor, "two platoon" system that Is, efficiency; of play and less injuries. '. ; The rules-makers figure, play Washington, Oregon State In 'Crucial' By UNITED PRESS Oregon State and Washington meet in a pair of "crucial' bas ketball games this weekend at Corvallis that could go a long way toward deciding the North ern Division title. ; - WashfogtQh is the team figur ed to gve OSC the toughest fight this season, and the Huskies are seething iafter dropping one, qf two games to underdog Idaho at Seattle last week end. A sweep of the series for either club would definitely put it in the favorites role. . , :, - Oregon which has assumed tt "dark-horse" role after taking three out of four from Washing ton .State travels to Moscow. Ida., for a pair with the unpre dictable Vandals.'. . . - Weiicfes... . j The ixtra vttii esiicb KH Its crest Csriira llarrf Changes Mado will be more efficient because' coaches will be able to adjust'. their lineup to meet situations at least once each, period. And they figure the return rule will prevent injuries by easing the! way-for a player who is tiredv or nursing an injury to leave the game. But the use of offensive and defensive "platoons" . still will be impossible. Willie May Scraps With Rube Gomez San Juan, P.R. (UJ An unusually moody - Willie Mays -checked ; upon .airplane depart ures for the U.S. today and pre- - f erred not to talk .' any mora . about his fist fight with team-.. mate Ruben Gomez. The battle between Mays and Gomez, who are not only team- -mates with the New York Giants during the summer - but also -with the' Santurce club of the Puerto Rican Winter league, took place during batting prac tice Tuesday but ' first was re vealed by local newspapers Wed nesday. Mays admitted there was a fight, but didn't care to elabor ate on it. His chief interest, he said, was getting back home. Mays, who led the National league in batting with a .345 av erage and was recently voted the Most Valuable Player in the circuit during 1954, wanted to quit the. Santurce team on the spot immediately after the fight with Gomez, according to re-. pofts. v , Outfielder -Roberto Clemente Pittsburgh Pirate rookie, was taking batting practice and de cided to get another bat when the trouble began. While Cle mente was out of the batting ' cage, Gomez stepped in and mo tioned right-hander Milton Ra lat to pitch to him. .- . ' -.. : Ralat told Gomez that it was still Clemente's turn to hit .and that he -wouldn't pitch until he came back. Irked, Gomez sat down on home plate. Mays entered the batting cage at this point , and Ralat tossed r up a couple of slow balls to him even, though. Gomez continued, to sit where he was. Willie ask ed Ralat to speed up his pitches but the hurler refused, fearinf he might hurt Gomez. ' " r Mays then hit a slow ball right back at Ralat and the Santurce pitcher expressed , his displease ' ure ; Willie advanced toward hhnB whereupon Gomez v quickly::.' jumped up and , started after Mays.- . - t. A fight, ensued In which, as cending to reports Willie drop ' ped Gomez with a hard, short right to the jaw. The pitcher ' then managed to wrestle Mays-; .to" the ground . and ' bolh mea pummelled each other.- SIX TEATS CLO
