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EIGHT MEDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE "Wednesday, April 8, 1953 Angels Rap Beavers 9-5 in PCL Slugfest: Barrage of Base Hits Meets Chuckers on Opening Day By PETER HAYES United Press Sports Writers The 1955 Pacific Coast league season was one day old today and on the strength of the open ing games it looks like a rugged year for the pitchers. With a few exceptions, the hurlers were met by a barrage of base hits, including 14 home runs in yesterday's five games watched by a total of 36,774 fans in four California cities. Only three pitchers finished the games they started. They were Bud Daley of Sacramento, Don Fracchia of San Francisco and Vic Lombardi of Seattle, the latter two newcomers to the league and more apt to give the batsmen trouble at first. The Solons everybody's choice for last place, squeaked past the favored Hollywood Stars, 4-3; Los Angeles downed Portland, 9-5, in a 22 hit slugfest; Seattle trounced Oakland, 8-2, and San Diego and San Francisco divid ed' a day-night doubleheader, the Padres winning the first game, 7-5, in 11 innings and the Seals taking the nighter, 4-1. Outlasted Six Pitchers Daley, who had a 13-8 mark with the seventh place Solons last year, outlasted six Holly wood pitchers and gained the victory in the ninth when Hank Schenz laced a single to left with two out to score Ritchey Mvers from second. The Solons earlier took a 3-1 lead when Pete Milne hit a two run homer in the sixth. Wallie Pitts, playing his first profes sional game, was charged with the loss. Los Angeles wasted little time getting started against Portland as pitcher Joe Hatten belted a three-run homer in the second. The Angels scored two in the fifth on Bob Usher's homer and two in the sixth on homers by Don Robertson and pitcher Turk Lown. Don Eggert of Portland nar rowed the gap in the sixth with a three run homer. Marv Williams and Joe Gins berg gave Seattle a fat lead when they homered off Alan Gettel. Williams hit his four bagger Baker Upped To Rank of Outstanding Milwaukee, Wis. (U.R) Na tional Boxing Association ratings advanced heavyweight Bob Baker of Pittsburgh to the rank of outstanding boxer, Fred J. Saddy, chairman of the NBA Championship Committee, said Tuesday. Harold Johnson was restored to his old position of logical con tender for light heavyweight title in the ratings. Also recognized were the new champions welterweight king Tony DeMarco of Massachusetts and bantamweight Raton Macias of Mexico. Ratings put Robert Cohen of French Algiers in the rank of logical contender for Macias' title. 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Morris Oppendeim paced Cole Finder with a 653 series on games of 236, 201 and 216. Stan ley Weglarz had a 614 and Carl Berger a 602. The King Louie Shirts team of Chicago bowled games of 1011, 1020 and 995. The team had a chance to go into the lead right up till the eighth frame of their final game. But at that point they slack ed off and ended up with a 2986 total, good only for fourth place in the open division team stand ings. Team member Harry Lippe had a 645, including a 248 game. Ed Brosius rolled a 623. in the fourth with one on and Ginsberg rapped his in the eighth with the bases loaded. Lombardi gave up only five hits to the Oaks. Buddy Peterson and Milt Smith shared honors in San Diego's first game win over the Seals. Peterson slapped a two run single in the ninth to send the game into extra innings and Smith sewed it' up in the 11th when he homered with Peterson on base. Earl Rapp of the Padres and Ted Beard of the Seals hom ered earlier. In the night game, Fracchia, 24-year-old former St. Mary's athlete, allowed only four hits in his PCL debut. He got lusty support from Clarence Maddern who homered twice for three runs. Jim Gladd homered for the Padres. LIXESCORES: Hollywood 00n 010 020 3 7 2 Sacramento ...100 002 001 4 8 0 Munger. Witt (8), Wolfe (8). Pitts (8), Yochim (9) and Bragan; Daley and Sheeley. Portland 000 103 0015 10 1 Los Angeles ... 031 022 Olx 9 12 0 Waibel. Anthony 4 Satalich (7). W. Bottler (8) and Calderone; Hatten, Lown (6) and Pramesa. Seattle 000 200 0428 14 1 Oakland 010 001 0002 5 0 Lombardi and Ginsberg; Gettel, Van Cuyk (9) and Neal. fist Game 11 Innings) S. Francisco 002 002 100 00 5 13 0 San Diego ...100 020 002 02 7 11 0 Bearden, Zabala (9) and Tornay; Erautt, Herrera (10) and Aylward, Gladd (10). (2nd Game) S. Francisco ....000 012 010 4 8 1 San Diego 000 010 0U0 1 4 2 Fracchia and Donahue; Kerrigan, Lyons (9) and Gladd. PACIFIC VICTOR Forest Grove U.R) Pacific edged Portland State 11-10 in a wild baseball game here yester day despite a six-run rally by the Vikings in the ninth inning. Dressen Makes Bonus Player Farm Suggestion By LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor Washington (U.R) Chuck Dressen suggested today that ma jor league clubs be allowed to farm out their bonus players, but still have them count against their active, playing rosters. The new manager of the Wash ington Senators said it didn't make sense for the clubs to pay high bonuses for players, then have them sit on the bench two years when they should be in the minors gaining experience. Waste Two Years "The way the bonus rule works now, there isn't anything you can do about it but just waste two years of a promising ball player's life," Dressen said. "It isn't fair to the kid, nor to the club trying to develop ma jor leaguers." Under the bonus rule, any promising youth without organ ized ball experience who re ceives more than $6,000 has to be kept on the roster two years before he can be farmed out to the minors. The rule handicaps many clubs. Some have as many as three bonus players they must keep. T7 y m w-- m m W m m m ( J I ?s I nmV& V ISlnlUVWilSiP They Get Through When Others Fail w IX UNIVERSAL Jeep' 4-wheel-drive vehicles are rug ged, hardy and built to withstand brutal day-by-day usage. 4-wheel-drive traction gets them through mud, muck, sand, ice or snow when others fail. They can climb grades up to 60 fully loaded. The uses of these sturdy 7eep vehicles are almost numberless. Ex ample: they can carry power driven machinery to hard-to-reach places . . . with the power take-off, they can supply the power. Low first cost, and low maintenance and repair bills make Jeep vehicles easy on your budget. 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Medford headed 9 to 1 after thtee innings of play, getting six runs in the first inning, one in the second and two in the third while Ashland got a solo in the third. Farent Homers However, the Ashlanders got to Ken Piland for four extra base blows in the fourth canto and picked up six runs in that batting turn. Then in the sixth frame Grizzly Pitcher Gene Par ent's home run with one man on base tied up the contest. The Black Tornado needed only, one hit, a triple by Larry Gober, in producing its runs in the first inning. Parent, start ing on the mound, walked three of the four batters he faced be fore giving way to Mark Fitch. And Fitch yielded two bases on balls and hit a batter in addi tion to Gober's swat. Two errors were committed by Ashland. In the second frame Medford combined Ed McCullough's sin gle and Jim Owsley's three-bagger for a single counter. Terry King led off with a double and McCullough tripled for a "run in the third. Owsley was hit by a pitch and McCullough got home on a double steal. Triples and Doubles Bill Workman and Parent got triples and Pete Cotton and Lance Locke doubles off Piland in the fourth frame as Ashland duplicated Medford's first in ning scoring. There was one er ror and a walk and one out be fore Duane Sides took over on the hill. A couple of error's hurt as Sides began his fireman's chore but he forced Fitch to pop out and whiffed Workman to retire the side. Parent's homer onto the black top back of left field came after Sides issued a walk to Jack Lane. Phil Sword tripled to cen ter field but was caught at the plate on Don Olson's fielder's choice blow. Parent returned to the pitch er's slab for Ashland at the start of the fourth inning and chucked effectively through the seventh. He gave up a hit, two walks and struck out six batters in that time. Medford had a chance to win in the seventh when Gober walk ed and got to second base on a passed ball. King failed on two sacrifice bunt tries and was out on ' a third called strike. Sides was out on a high pop out and McCullough fouled out. , McCullough and Parent hit two for four for their respective teams. On the hill for Medford Piland was tagged for six hits, whiffed three batters and walk ed one in 3 13 innings while Sides allowed two hits, fanned five and walked three in 4 23. Parent gave up one "hit, walked seven and recorded eight strike outs in 4 13 frames and Fitch was clubbed for six hits, fanned four batters, walked two and hit two. , The teams play again Thurs day afternoon at Ashland Mc Cullough is scheduled to pitch for Medford. LINESCORE: Ashland 001 602 00 9 8 2 Medford 612 000 01 10 7 3 Parent. Fitch tl). Parent (4) and Sword; Piland, Sides (4) and King. Detroit Red Wings Get 2-Game Stranglehold Detroit (U.R) The Detroit Red Wings, who take special de light in humiliating the arch rival Canadiens, headed for Mon treal today intent on wrapping up the Stanley Cup in Les Habi tants' own back yard. Capt. Ted Lindsay triggered four goals Tuesday night to lead the Red Wings to a 7-1 rout of the Canadiens, a victory which gave Detroit a two-game stran glehold over Montreal in the best-of -seven playoff finals. distinctive style ...and comfort wUai 'SEIJ-COMPORWING HATS THE BIG DIFFERENCE for easy fitting comfort ia in th exclusive rooiOu tion of the leather. ! OTHER HAT HAS STt The handsome styling of t Resistol emphasizes tfae SBttftneas at the sou wfa wests k . . . and tfae SflUMg -Cofomg leather vides perfect fit tod mnjiB BO'S SWOP 229 East Main Medford, Ore. Lillard Yields; Hussane To Face Dean MAN MOUNTAIN DEAN JR. Turk Will Oppose Giant Sandy Saddler Si-ops Ken Davis Butte, Mont. U.R) World featherweight champion Sandy Saddler cut his work in half last night when he TKO'd Kenny Davis of Los Angeles in the fifth round of a 10 round-non-title fight. Saddler floored the game Da vis early in the fifth, and the California fighter got right back to his feet. Saddler again dropped him,' and again he came back, but the referee gave the champion the fight in 2:57 of the round. Davis started well. Saddler's lightning ability told the tale, however, when the champion be gan closing on his opponent. Mack Lillard late yesterday yielded to incessant pressure from Yoggi Hussane and signed the rough Turkish wrestler to face Man Mountain Dean Jr. in the feature match of next Sat urday's card at Merrick's arena. Hussane had pointed out that his particular style of wrestling would aid him in beating the 380-pound mammoth and that his win over Cyclone Cobb, heretofore the biggest man in the Lillard stable, entitled him to the match. The promoter had been seek ing a bigger man than the Turk for the job but consented when "pressure became too great." "If Hussane wants to risk in jury by taking on a man of Dean's size, I won't stand in his way," Lillard said. Meanwhile, the Medford State Athletic Commission, which su pervises wrestling and boxing Dead line Sunday Classified to at noon Saturday : 10 a.m. Monday for Mondavt other days 5:30 orevious dav Northwest Loop Teams Open Camps By UNITED PRESS A brand new baseball training season got under way today for a brand new league as six of the seven members of the class B Northwest league opened camp. Wenatchee got the jump on the other members by starting training yesterday at Petaluma, Calif. The Chiefs will be joined in the southland by Salem at Napa and Eugene at Santa Cruz. Three teams from the Northwest Lew iston, Tri-Cities and Yakima will train at home. Spokane moves in across the river from Lewiston at Clarks ton. The new class B loop replaces the class A Western Internation al League which folded last sea son after some of its members found the financial pace too swift. The teams have just three weeks to get in shape for the sea son with opening day slated for April 26. in Medford, has ordered Lillard to reinforce the ring in prepara tion for Dean's appearance. It was pointed out that while the ring floor is strong enough to withstand the impact of ordi nary wrestling matches, extra precaution should be taken for the great weight of the whis kered behemoth. Not satisfied to let the Dean Hussane match draw the specta tors, the mat impressario has signed two other bouts, either of which should draw those who lay their dollars on the line. Jean Elbon, Lincoln, Neb., will make her first local appearance against Gerry Hunter in the special feature while Cobb goes against Buck Davidson in what should provide an outstanding display of grappling skill. 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