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HAIR RAISER Former welterweight champ Kid Gavflan (left) catches a right from
Bobby Dykes that literally makes his hair stand on end.- Dykes pounded out a unanimous
decision for the 10-rounder in Miami, Fla. It was Gavilan's second straight loss.
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Sweeney Deplores Baseball
Of Today; Likes Spitball
Fullerton, Calif. (U.R) Bill
Sweeney, who Is heading into
hit 16th season as a Pacific
Coast League pilot, made a big
pitch today for the return of the
spitball and the game's old fash
ioned ways.
They have taken too much
away from the pitchers and
given it to the hitters," the red
faced manager of the Los An
geles Angels said. "As far as
I'm concerned we ought to start
playing ball again as we did it
barefooted in the barnyard."
Sweeney, who has won pen
nants at Portland and Los An
geles while managing three PCL
cities, said things were better
when the ball was deader.
"The home run has lost its
thrill," Sweeney said. "Inside
Idaho State Cops
Boxing Tourney
Sacramento, Calif. (U.R)
Heavyweight Mike McMurtry
scored1 a technical knockout over
Ron Kalafat of Washington State
College Saturday night to lead
Idaho State college to victory in
the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate
Boxing tournament.
Combining tight footwork end
dynamite, McMurtry led all the
way in the last bout which Idaho
needed for the tournament
crown. He dropped Kalafat to
his knees twice in the first and
only round of the fight.
Idaho State won the tourna
ment with a total of 38 points,
followed by Washington State
with 28. San Jose State with 26,
Cal Poly 15, Santa Clara 14,
Nevada 8, Stanford 2 and Chico
State.
TWO BOUTS
New York (U.R) Joey
Rowan of Philadelphia and
Wayne Bethea of New York,
two explosive young heavy
weights, will meet tonight at
Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway
Arena in a widely televised 10
round bout. Also tonight at St.
Nicholas arena, middleweight
Rafael Merentino of Argentina
will engage Jackie Labua of
Long Island City, N. Y., in a TV
10-rounder. It will be Meren
tino's second U. S. fight. He is
favored at 8-5.
the park homers used to mean a
lot. Now it's 'poof with some
think like a golf ball and it's
gone into the seats. The crowds
are not getting their fair share
of thrills."
Old Ball Better
Sweeney said the old ball also
brought out the best in a player
because he had to be able to run,
field and think a lot more than
nowadays.
He tabs Gene Mauch, the for
mer National Leaguer who man
aged Atlanta of the Southern
Association two years ago and
now plays second base for LA,
as an ideal ballplayer because
he can do all those things.
"But there are a lot of big
guys around now who just take
a lusty swing and that's that.
They don't have to think so
much," Sweeney said.
"Baseball is the simplest
game in the world but it is being
made too complicated and I
don't think that is helping to
bring out the fans," ' Sweeney
went on. "And we have to satis
fy the people who come to the
ball parks."
Too Many Executive!
Sweeney said the business of
giving umpires stop watches is
"a lot of bunk" and also blasted
the accent on front office person
alities. "There are too many guys in
executive offices now who never
played ball but think they know
how to manage," Sweeney said.
"The fans are interested in the
players themselves, not the
brass hats."
Pistons Take
Play Off Lead
Elkhart, Ind. (U.R) The
Fort Wayne Pistons, who de
feated the Minneapolis Lakers
nine out of 12 times during the
regular season, moved one up
on the former National Basket
ball Association kingpins today
in their best-of-five Western Di
vision title playoff series.
The Pistons, who meet the
Lakers in the second game of
the series in Indianapolis Tues
day night, zoomed to a 19-14
lead in the first period of, their
opening game here Sunday and
never were headed thereafter in
chalking up an easy 96-79
triumph.
Honsberger,
Bazzini in
Oregon Open
Entry of the Northern Cal
ifornia Open titlist and a one
lime Professional Golfers as
sociation national quarter
finalist in the Oregon Open
Golf tournament here this
week has been announced by
Rogue Valley Country culb of
ficials. The northern California
1954 winner coming is George
Bazzini of Mount Idaho club
near San Francisco.
Ray Honsberger, Seattle, is
the pro who figured in the na
tional . tourney. During the
1953 Oregon Open he carded
seven consecutive birdies to
establish a PGA record.
The tournament here will
be kicked off by a pro-amateur
on Thursday. Regular
action starts Friday with 18
holes of medal play. A second
18 is set for Saturday with 36
holes on Sunday.
Rogue Valley club and the
Oregon branch of the PGA
are cosponsors in the tourney
which will attract some of the
best pro and amateur talent in
the west.
Giants To Train
At Salem Again
" New York (U.R) The New
York Giants professional foot
ball squad will train at Salem,
Ore., again this summer, it was
announced here today.
Bob Dailey, publicity director,
said the Giants will begin train
ing on the Willamette univer
sity campus July 25. The prac
tice session will last about six
weeks.
Exhibition games have been
scheduled against the Green
Bay Packers in Spokane Aug.
14, in Seattle against the San
Francisco 49ers Aug. 21, and in
Portland's Multnomah stadium
Aug. 28 against the Los Angeles
Rams.
American Baseball Team
Licked in Pan American
By HAL WOOD
Mexico City (U.R) Th'.
powerful United States team in
the Pan American Games found
the sledding tougher today as
the second week of competition
got under way.
With the track -and field stars
all through, swimmers, rowers
and horsemen took over the
spotlight and the Latin Ameri
can countries were making their
power felt.
Sunday, out of seven rowing
events. Argentine won four and
United States three. In swim
ming, the United States took
two gold medals and Argentine
one. with the lone diving title
going to Mexico.
Although it appears that the
days of American athletes
spread-eagling the field are over,
the Yankees have built up
enough points in track to assure
the unofficial games champion
ship. Sunday was a sad day on some
fronts for U.S. teams however.
The American baseball team
bowed to the Dominican Repub
lic. 10-7, for its third defeat
and was knocked out of conten
tion. The U.S. water polo team
lost to Argentina, 5-4, and
dropped back to third place.
Larsen Wins
In tennis, Art Larsen, former
U. S. champion from San Lean
dro, Calif., whipped defending
champion Enrique Morea of
Argentina, 4-6, 9-7, 6-4, 6-2, for
the men's singles crown, but
Mexico took four out of the five
tennis crowns.
The most satisfying U. S.
triumphs came in the sculling
singles, where John Kelly of
Philadelphia, the world's cham
pion and brother of movie star
Grace Kelly, easily won his
event. The eight-oared crew
edged out a victory over Argen
tina by about 6-feet after trail
ing most of the way. The other
U.S. rowing victory came when
the U.S. team of Walter Hoover
and James Gardiner won in the
two pairs of short oars.
Gold medals in swimming
were picked up by Jimmy Mc
Lane of Yale and the Navy in
the 150-meter event, and by !
vvanda Lee Warner of Bethseda.
Md., in the 200-meter freestyle j
for women. Best time of the day,
however, came in a preliminary
event and was a 1:16.3 set by
Betty Mullen, Weissport, Pa., in
her heat of the 10-meter butter
fly stroke for women. She
cracked the games record and
came close to the world mark.
Despite the comparatively
poor shows, United States scored
105 points Sunday, with 82 for
Argentina and 54 for Mexico.
Cary Middlecoff Wins
St. Petersburg Open
St. Petersburg, Fla. (U.R)
Cary Middlecoff has won his
share of tournaments since leav
ing his dentisfo chair for the golf
trail, but none matched his come
back victory in the St. Peters
burg Open.
Behind by five strokes at the
start of Sunday's final round,
the lean Tennessee pro fired a
five-under-par 67 to win the
tournament with a 72-hole total
of 274.
Jay Hebert of Woodmere, N.
Y., who held the lead through
the second and third rounds,
folded under the pressure and
took a 74 in the last round. The
ex-GI infantryman wound up in
second place two strokes back
of Middlecoff.
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Coach Proud
Of Medford
Hoop Quintet
I'll take my hat off lo them
anytime over anyone." Thai's
what Head Coach Frank Roe
landt had lo say Sunday after
the disappointed Medford high
school basketball team slipped
quietly home from the stale
tournament at Eugene.
"The boys did their best
and that's all you can ask."
the mentor said concerning
the Black Tornado which lost
to Eugene 72 to 56 Saturday
night and took second place
trophy in Oregon's biggest
hoop tournament.
"I think the people can be
mighty proud of them not
only en the court but off the
court as well." Roelandt con
tinued. TERRIFIC PRESSURE
He spoke of the terrific
pressure of the tourney and
of the Tornados No. 1 pre
tourney rating and declared
that the boys did a great job.
"I'm really proud of them," he
said. "They hustled the whole
tourney.
In the final fracas, the coach
pointed out that Medford was
really hurt worse when Kal
apus was called for his third
foul at the start of the second
quarter and was withdrawn
to' be saved for the - second
half push. That left Medford
through the quarter without
the two-timing combination of
Kalapus and Glenn Peterson
on big Mike Moran. The tall
Eugene player took advantage
for three quick baskets and
added one more to pace Eu
gene into permanent com
mand. Kalapus fouled out in. the
third quarter to end the dou
ble concentration on Moran
by Medford's two tallest men.
Uranium Prospectors
Query Tax Collectors
Klamath Falls (U.R) Signs
of the times:
.Walter W. Fleet, district
chairman of the Oregon Com
mittee on Tax and Accounting
Information, said today a typi
cal income tax query that has
come to the public accountant
group is:
"I have been prospecting for
uranium. Are the expenses deductible?"
The Navy's first ship designed
as an aircraft carrier was the
USS Ranger.
East Cagers Confident
For Shrine Encounters
Kansas City, Mo. (U.R)
With two a 11-Americans on its
squad, the East was confident
of achieving its first basketball
victory in the annual East-West
Shrine series which will be re
newed tonight.
Three winners of United Press
all-America distinction will per
form in the game, staged an
nually for the benefit of Shrine
Crippled Children's hospital.
For the East, there will be
La Salle's Tom Gola and Du
quesne's Dick Ricketts. On the
West team will be all-America
Dick Garmaker of Minnesota.
The East squad will be coach
ed by Ken Loeffler of La Salle
while Sparky Stalcup of Mis
souri, will direct the West.
Ballard Nabs
Junior Shoot
First Place
Alan (Kent) Ballard, Medford,
paced the field of 46 junior
shooters from Medford. Ashland,
Talent and Central Point and
from Yreka, Etna and Fort
Jones, Calif., Sunday, to take
aggregate hours by two points
from Victor Hansen, Yreka in
a junior rifle tourney here.
The 'match was fired on the
Medford range in the Merrick
building. Program consisted of
four individual matches of ten
shots each with a possible score
of 100. Ballard scored 367 and
Hansen 365.
The first match was prone,
second sitting, third kneeling,
fourth standing, fifth the aggre
gate, and. the sixth match the
team match.
It was a nip and "tuck race
through the whole shoot With
Hansen beating Ballard by one
point in the prone match with
a 98 to Ballard's 97. Ballard
pulled up five points on Hansen
in the sitting match by shooting
a 97 to Hansen's 92.
Tied Kneeling
Match three kneeling found
both boys with a tie score of 90
but when the tie was broken
Ballard was victor with Hansen
second. The standing match
went to Hansen with an 85, Bud
Goldin taking second place with
84 and Ballard third with 83,
dropping two points to Hansen.
Medford's first team was the
winner among nine entries with
a total team score of 1360 out
of a possible 1600. Team mem
bers were Alan Ballard 367, Bud
Goldin 350, Phyllis Taylor 327,
Jerilyn Smith 316.
Second place went to Yreka
with a 1288, represented by Vic-
Monday, March 21, 1953
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
Hunter Trounces Tiny Kim;
Boast Turned Into Match
A dressing room argument
following the wrestling matches
at Merrick's arena last Satur
day night resulted in signing of
the feature scrap for next Satur
day night.
Gerry Hunter had just taken
the measure of Tiny Kim when
Hunter, Kim and Ella Kowal
ski, who acted as Kim's second,
got into a hassle. Hunter boast
ed that she could throw both of
them in 30 minutes, whereupon
she was immediately taken up.
Promoter Mack Lillard was con
tacted and he made the match
then and there, adding the in
centive that if Hunter fails, she
needn't stop at the pay window
on her way out.
Darling of Crowd
Miss Kim, a cute little Hono
lul Oriental, was the darling of
the capacity crowd as she raised
some unsightly welts on the body
of Miss Hunter with her boom
ing "judo chops but when the
going got tough, Miss Kim
proved, too small and too light
to take the punishment.
Cyclone Cobb, big Texas
Negro, made his debut a win
ning one by taking the measure
of Yoggi Hussane on a foul and
"Crybaby" Johnny Dobbs was
held to a draw by Buck David
son in other matches.
Miss Hunter sought sanctuary
outside the ring at one stage in
her bout with Kim but was
promptly chased back in by
Kowalski. Miss Kim took the
first fall with a series of judo
chops and a body press in five
minutes but succumbed to a
Boston crab six minutes later
and was unable to come out for
the third fall.
tor Hansen 365, Mike Harris 332,
Mike Doyle 303, Doug Gordon
288.
First place girls team was
taken by Medford with a total
of 1190. Phyllis Taylor had 327,
Jerilyn Smith 316, Margaret Tay
lor 310 and Sandra Wilson 237.
RESULTS:
Match I (Prone) 1
Winner, Victor Hansen. Yreka 98;
Class A, Alan Ballard. Medford 97;
Class B. Bob Miller, Ashland 97.
Match (Setting)
Winner. Alan Ballard. Medford 97;
Class A. Phyllis Taylor. Central Point
94; Class B. Bill Fowler, Fort Jones
93
Match III (Kneeling)
Winner, Alan Ballard. Medford 90;
Class A, Victor Hansen. Yreka 90;
Class B. Bob Miller. Ashland 74.
Match IV (Standing)
Winner, Victor Hansen. Yreka 85;
Class A, Bud Goldin. Medford 84;
Class B, Ruth Wyant. Ashland 62.
Match V (Aggregate)
Winner, Alan Ballard. Medford 367:
Class A, Victor Hansen. Yreka 365;
Class B. Eob Miller. Ashland 316.
Before gaining the crab hold
Miss Hunter objected to Referee
Larry Presnell's work and slap
ped his face. For her efforts she
found herself being tossed across
the ring twice by Presnell's fly
ing hiplocks.
La Hunter refused a request
to give her foe three extra min
utes in which to recuperate
after the second fall and the
boos from the crowd irritated
the blonde bomber. She made a
crack at Miss Kowalski, who
kicked off her high heels and,
with skirts flying, jumped into
the ring and dusted the mat with
her heckler.
Hussane found too much man
in Cobb! who performed like a
master, and dropped the first
fall via a grapevine in 18 min
utes. The second fall came on a
foul when Hussane threw Cobb
out of the ring and wouldn't let
him back. Cobb pulled Hussane
out into the aisle and, with
spectators swarming around
ringside, they went at it until
Presnell would work his way
between them to stop it.
After Davidson and Dobbs
had gone to a fall-apiece draw,
Dobbs attacked Davidson when
the latter's back was turned and
was promptly and soundly
thrashed. The crowd screamed
its delight, which made Dobbs
all the more angry and he storm
ed about the ring, shouting chal
lenges to everyone within ear
shot, but when he found no
takers, stalked off to the dress
ing room.
- If jw
SCOFFING at President Eisen
hower's order banishing squir
rels from White House lawn for
damaging putting green, tough
rodent defies harassed guards
from fence. (International)
Phillips Oilers,
Cats AAU Picks
Denver, Colo. (U.R) The
Phillips 66" Oilers and the de
fending champion Peoria Cats
have been tabbed favorites as
the National AAU Basketball
Tournament begins tonight, but
for the first time in 12 years
a collegiate aggregation North
Carolina State is given a
good chance to beat its post
graduate foes . at their own
game.
North Carolina State, ranked
fourth nationally among col
leges but forbidden from NCAA
tournament play because of a
probation resulting from recruit
ing infractions, is seeded fourth
in the 25-team scramble.
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