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Newspaper Page TextBosox Wait Signing of Williams Sarasota, Fla. 0J.R An at mosphere of high expectancy filled the Boston Red Sox train- in; camp today as players and officials alike anxiously awaited the arrival of slugging star Ted Williams. Williams, reported by close personal friends to be enroute here late Monday, was expected to confer with Red Sox General Manager Joe Cronin upon his ar rival and to put his signature at once on a contract calling for a $100,000 salary. Has Worked Out The 36-year-old outfielder has been working out regularly in the Florida Keys and friends think he will be able to take a full part in team workouts with in a very short time. Williams announced in a mag azine story last spring that the 1954 season would be his last, and at the end of the season he reiterated his stand. But the Sox never fully believed him, keep ing him on the official roster, and mailing him his usual contract at the same time the other play ers received their contracts. MedfordTribune STPCDDfiTTS Pittsburgh Pirates To Go Again With Youth; Haney Doesn't Have Title Hopes (Editor's note: This is the fifth in a series cn the 1955 prospects of the major league clubs.) By LEO PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor Fort Myers, Fla. (U.R; Fred Haney thinks his Pittsburgh Pirates "may come up with something" this season, but he isn't entertaining any first divi sion thoughts, let alone pennant hopes. He isn't thinking in terms of the cellar, either. His two pre vious Pirate teams have finished last and the club is an almost unanimous choice to finish in the cellar again. "I'm not saying we will climb out of it," Haney said, "but I'm Spring Sports Underway For Roque River Chiefs Rogue River The 1955 spring sports season for Rogue River high school sot underway today at Grants Pass when Coach Tink er Hatfield's strong track squad ran through time trials. The first track meet of the sea son is scheduled for Saturday when the Chieftains will play host to Crater's Comets. Coach Ray McClain's baseball squad is now drilling for the first contest against Eagle Point. The game will be played early in April, but the exact date has not been set. The Rogue River track squad, defending district champions who tied for sixth place in the state meet, will be paced by five men who participated in seven Lions Seek Hold On Ex-Utah Star Salt Lake City, Utah (U.R) The Detroit Lions football club yesterday filed in court here to prevent former University of Utah grid star Tom Dublinski from playing for the Toronto Argonauts. Third district Judge David T. Lewis signed an order for Du blinski to appear before Judge Clarence E. Baker on April 1 to show cause why he should not be enjoined and restrained from playing for the Argonauts be fore May 1, 1956. Baseball By UNITED PRESS (At Tampa. Fla.) Chi. IA B' 000 000 000 0 5 0 Cinti. (N) "B" 201 200 lOx 6 14 0 Pierce. Stuffel i B i. Cain (7 and Battey. Minarcin. Klippstein 7) and Landrith. Winninjr pitcher Minarcin. Losing pitcher Pierce. (At Bradenton. Fla.) Chicago (A I .00l 010 0002 6 0 Milwau. (N) .200 021 00X 5 8 2 Sonsuegra. Harshman 16 and Lollar. Conley, Robinson t6i and Crandell. White (6 1. Winning pitcher Conley. Losing pitcher Consuegra. (At Lakeland. Fla.) Baltimore (A) 000 000 000 7 0 Detroit (Al . 000 001 03x 4 7 0 Duren, Johnson (6) and Batts. Lary, Foytack; (61. Birrer (9i and House, Wilson S. Winning pitcher Foytack. Losing pitcher Johnson. (At Vero Beach. Fla.) TSew York iA 51 500 24219 24 2 Brooklyn tX) 003 020 102 8 11 1 Blackwell. Konstanty (3). Lopat (4t. Byrne 8 and Howard. Meyer. Wojey I3i, Rysdale (5). Labine (8) and Thompson. CampaneUa (5). Winning pitcher Blackwell. Losing pitcher Meyer. (At Tampa. Fla.) Pittsburgh i N 011 100 000 3 9 2 Cincinnati (N 200 000 011 4 10 0 Grunwald. Douglas (51 and R. Smith. Acker. Werle (6) and Bailey. Winning pitcher Werle. Losing pitch er Douglas. (At West Palm Beach, Fla.) Memphis (Sou) 010 000 000 1 S 1 Kan. City iAi 310 011 OOx 6 . 11 0 Zillian, Dahlke 4. La t man (7) and Doolittle. Oster. Raether i6. Laness (Oi and McKenzie. inning pitcher Oster. Losing pitcher Zillian. (At St. Petersburg, Fla.) Phila. IN 000 003 1)00 3 8 0 St. Louis N) ..020 000 000 2 5 1 Casagrande. Lovenguth (6) and Lo pfta. Arroyo. Jones 5), Lawrence 8 and H. Smith. Sarni (8). Winning pitcher Casagrande. Losing pitcher Jones. (At Phoenix. Ariz.) Cleveland (A 00 100 0023 10 1 New York (N 010 000 001 2 6 2 Rodemoyer. Score (4) Houtteman (7 1. N'arleski (3) and Hegan. McCall. Grissom '6( and Katt. Winning pitch er Houtteman. Losing pitcher Gris-som. Fights By VNITED PRESS New York: Jackie La Bua. 157. East Meadow. N.Y.. outpointed Rafael Me rentino, 157U.. Argentina (10). Brooklyn: Joe Rowan. 182. Phila delphia, outpointed Wavne Bethea 19134. New York (10). Providence. R. I.: Bob Bolton. 157'i, Piovidence. knocked out Jackie Lo vatt, 157, Providence. (8). Brockton. Mass.: Eddie Connors. 146 '2. Sharon. Mass.. drew with George (Curly) Monroe. 146 2. Wor cester, (8). New Orleans: Joe Dorsey. 166. New Orleans, outpointed Jinimv Morris. 164?4. Miami Beach. Fla.. 8. Montreal: Bobby Courchesne. 127'i. Chicopee. Mass.. outpointed Pat Mar cune. 129. Brooklyn. N.Y. (10. San Francisco: Maurice Harper. 148. Oakland, dec. Livio Minelli, 150, Italy. (10). BRAKES RELINED Passenger &'j-T. trucks. S12.95. Includes lining & labor. Guaran teed the finest, regardless of price. 20 yrs. experience. Open all day Sat. BRIDGE ST. BRAKE CO. 2015 S.W. Bridge St. Grants Pass Ph. G.P. 6-7273 or Mediord 2-9027 events at last year's state meet. Jack Herburger, a senior, was second in the state discus throw, fifth in the shotput at the state meet, and ran on the fourth place relay team. He was district champion in the shot and discus and Rogue River's relay four some copped the district crown. Ted Stanfield, a senior, was fourth in the low hurdles at the state meet, where he also took sixth place in the broad jump and ran on the relay team. Stan field was district champion in the high and low hurdles. Bobby Hoover, a senior who ran on last year's relay team, is counted on to be one of the Chieftains' top dash men this year. Pole vaulter Lloyd Morrow, another senior, tied for second place in the district track meet but failed to place in the state meet. Morrow will be aided by Har old Moore, who tied for second in the district pole vault after having been out for track only two weeks. More did not enter the state meet. Charles Damon, a junior, was second in the district mile event last year. He failed to place in the state meet. Others Hatfield is counting on for points this year are Bill Hed rick, who looks good in the javelin; Don Doolittle. 200-pound senior weight man; Sophomores Lawrence Wagner and Larry Elledge. who placed in the mile and half mile last year in the dis trict meet; Ray Stewart, a junior who has received doctor's ap proval to turn out for track this year after laying out last season and who looks good in the 440; and Mill McLane, county grade school 75-yard dash champion who should help out in the sprints Main strength of the baseball team appears to be in the out field, where three lettermen will be returning. They are Tom Johnston, Bill Weaver, and Gary Philips. Freshman James Thoreil appears ready to provide some contention for an outfield spot. Letterman catcher Follie Pre fontaine will be backed up by Bob Bigman, a promising fresh man. Lettermen in the infield are Shortstop Gary Stinchcomb and First Baseman George Holm beck. McClain sees a shortage of experienced pitchers as his No. 1 problem. Contending for mound jobs will be Bill Hedrick and Richard Twiest. Lesser Loses in North-South Play Pinehurst, N.C. U.R) Wiffie Smith is only 18 years old but golfing experts were convinced today she has the ability to de velop into another Babe Zaha rias of the links. Blessed with a magic putting touch and near-perfect tempera ment, the red-haired teen-ager from La Canada, Calif., played like a veteran Monday as she captured the North and South Women's Amateur championship with a 3 and 2 victory over Pat Lesser of Seattle, Wash, Miss Smith, who won the Na tional Junior title last year, com pleted four straight rounds in the North and South without three-putting one green. It was a remarkable performance from a young girl who admits that "golf is my life." just not thinking about finish ing eighth. I'm just thinking about when we will be ready to win and I realize it won't be this year. There is only one place to finish, and that's first. Finishing anywhere below that doesn't mean anything." Accent on Youth Once again, the Pirates will be going with youth, and it could be the kids will start to jell this year. As of now, out side of pitching, the Pirates have only one ball player who could make any other club in the league and that is outfielder Frank Thomas, who ended his holdout Thursday. He will be a fixture in cen ter. Rookie Roberto Clemente, who hit only .257 at Montreal but was a sensation in the win ter league, appears to have clinched the right field berth and Haney believes Clemente has the makings of a Willie Mays. Left field is a battle be tween the veteran Sid Gordon, rookie Tom Saffell. who hit .279 at Hollywood last season, and Carlos Bernier, up for an other try. Other outfield possi bilities are Earl Smith, who hit .387 at Phoenix last season; Jerry Lynch, who hit .239 as a part time player with the Pi rates, and Felipe Montemayor, who earned another chance aft er hitting .309 at Nv Orleans. Not a single infield position is set. At first base it's a battle between Dale Long, a .280 hitter in Los Angeles last season, and Preston Ward, who has been a disappointment ever since the Pirates obtained him from the Cubs. Tony Bartirome, out of military service, and Bob Skin ner, who hit only .249 with the Pirates last season, are other Possibilities. Freeze at Second Second is also open with Curt Roberts, who played the posi tion last season, likely to lose the spot to rookie Gene Freese, a .330 hitter at New Orleans last year. Gene's older brother, George, who batted .324 at New Orleans, is fighting for the third base post with Lee Walls, up from Hollywood where he batted .2S20. Gordon also can be shifted to third in case he isn't needed in the outfield. Dick Groat, just out of serv ice, and Dick Cole and Gair Allie, who divided the job lat season, are the leading shortslon candidates. Groat probably will win the job although he lacks power. Pittsburgh catching is set with Jack Shepard, the No. 1 man, and the veteran Toby Atwell in reserve. Sherjard was one of two Pirates to hit over .300 last sea son, winding up with a .304 av erage. Actually, Thomas is the power man on the Pirates. Although he wound up hitting .298. he batted in 94 runs and hit 23 homers. Littlefield Mound Ac Dick Littlefield, who won 10 and lost 11 last season and was coming along fast at season's end, figures to be the ace of the pitching staff with the vet eran Max Surkont. 9-18, and Roger Bowman, a 22-game win ner with Hollywood and Lino Dcnoso, a 19-game winner with the same club, other likely starters. Bob Friend, 7-12, and Vernon Law, 9-13, are holdovers from last year's staff who must im prove to win starting berths. Ducks Trip Stanford U. Stanford, Calif. (U.R) Ore gon university shut out the Stan ford Indians 3-0 in a pre-season practice baseball game yester day, primarily because of the efforts of two excellent Duck pitchers. Righthander Bill Blodgett started the game for Oregon and was relieved in the sixth by southpaw Bill Donner. They gave up only six hits between them. Oregon's big stickers were catcher Neal Marlett who collect ed a double and a single in four times at bat and outfielder George Shaw who pounded a tremendous triple and a single in five trips. The two teams play a second contest here today. Fort Wayne Sees Quick Victory By UNITED PRESS The Fort Wayne Pistons, "in shape at last," hope to make it two straight wins over the Min neapolis Lakers tonight in the Western division playoffs of the National Basketball association, while the Syracuse Nationls and Boston Celtics open the Eastern division finals. The Pistons, who beat the Lakers nine times in 12 regular season meetings, won the open ing game of the Western finals, 96-79. at Elkhart, Ind., on Sun day. Tonight's game is in Indian apolis and the third game is scheduled at Minneapolis Wed nesday night. Syracuse, regular season champion of the Eastern divi sion, is host to the high-scoring Celtics in tonight's opening game. The second game is sched uled at Boston Wednesday night and the third at Syracuse. Each of the division finals consists of a best-of-five series. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday . 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day Beavers Defeat LA 6-2 in Warmup Tilt Glendale, Calif (U.R) The Portland Beavers, with new fac es adding spark to their lineup, play the Camp Pendleton Mar ines in a practice game today after measuring Ihe Los Angeles Angels 6-2. The Beavers' rookie fast ball artist, Leroy Han, pitched five shutout innings to gain credit for yesterday's win. Portland drew 15 walks while Russ Sul livan, hard-hitting rightfielder, got a single and a triple to lead the Beavers at bat. OSC Blasts Aggies 10-1 Davis, Calif. (U.R) Ore gon State's baseball team opened its 1955 season yesterday by handing the California Aggies a 10-1 defeat here as Jerry Ex ley smashed two home runs for the Beavers. Dick Weaver clouted another OSC homer as a pinch hitter. Marlin DeHaas, second of four Oregon State pitchers, got cred it for the win. Others who went to the mound were Frank Wiest, Lynn Mohler and Lowell Pearce. The Aggies got but two hits, both by Bill Bear. Red Wings, Montreal Prepare for Playoff By UNITED PRESS The Detroit Red Wings were rested and confident, but the Montreal Canadiens were tired and doubtful as they prepared for their opening games tonight in the National Hockey League playoffs. The Red Wings, who edged out Montreal for their seventh straight league pennant Sunday night, entertain the Toronto Maple Leafs, while the Canad iens play host to the Boston Bruins in the first games of the best-of-seven semifinal series. Tuesday, March 22, 1953 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Basque is an unclassified lan guage, its origin doubtful. Avila Agrees To Terms Tucson, Ariz. (U.R) Amer ican League batting champion Bobby Avila completed the Cleveland Indians' roster today when he came to terms with Gen eral Manager Hank Greenberg for an estimated S27.500. Avila, who hit .341 last sea son, agreed to terms in a tele phone conversation with Green berg from his Vera Cruz, Mexi co, home. Avila threatened to quit base ball last week if the Indians did not meet his terms but is be lieved to have settled for con siderably less than the S32.500 he was demanding. It was also reported last week that the Chi cago White Sox had offered Nel son Fox for Avila. Avila is expected to arrive at the Indians' training site today or Wednesday. Williams Takes Montana Post Missoula, Mont. (U.R) Jerry Williams, 31, Spokane, former Washington Siate col lege grid great, yesterday was named head football coach at Montana Stale university. Williams, who has played professional football with the Philadelphia Eagles for the past two years after four years with the Los Angeles Rams, will be the second youngset ccach in Montana's history. He replaces Ed Chinske, who resigned. Only Bernie Bierman, who started his coaching career at MSU in 1919 at the age. of 25, was younger when he look over the reins of the Grizzly grid squad. Williams' parents are resi dents of the Talent area. The mainland area of Aus tralia is 2,948,366 square miles. Salem (U.R) The Senate Mon- state's department and make it day passed after spirited and at ! a separate department under the times heated, debate, a measure to take the motor vehicle divi sion out of the secretary of appointive power of the governt or There were only six "no? votes cast. ' C0WIM AGED for extra enjoyment ! jspz. 1 .-i'iV'u.JWaj'-:::-:::-,:::'--:-a,'" " ' :.1?w 11 J T" H?S: " rWBim:-:..:. V-v ; - OTb j ' 65 . Zm PT. syiio 45 QT. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY THIS WHISKEY IS 4 YEARS OLD. 86 PROOF. THE HILL & HILL CO., LOUISVILLE, KY. 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