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.
Featherweight king Sandy
Saddler is the only champion
who has no logical contender for
his title in the NBA ratings.
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Cole Finder Mercury of Chicago
last night rolled up a 3015 series
to tie Howard's clothes of St.
Paul for the lead in the team
event of the American Bowling
Congress tournament.
The Chicago team put togeth
er games of 1055, 982 and 978
for the top series.
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
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Tornado Tips Ashland
With Run in Eighth
, The Medford high school base
ball team took an early eight-
run lead, saw it crumble away
and had to go an extra inning
yesterday to nick the Ashland
Grizzlies, 10 to 9, in a Southern
Oregon conference baseball en
counter here.
A fielder's choice rap by Paul
Eckel drove in Jim Owsley with
the winning run in the eighth
panel. Owsley and Ed Reinking
had walked to lead off the Med
ford batting turn in the frame.
Lorin Jacobs advanced the run
ners with a sacrifice bunt down
the third base line.
Eckel's efforts to squeeze in
Owsley failed and he "hit
away" to Second Baseman Lance
Locke whose throw to the' plate
arrived too late.
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
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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.
Starting time is 8:30 p.m. with
arena doors to open an hour
earlier.
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