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MEDFORDvSTRIB UNS Tenth Inning Homer Gives Angels Victory Los Angeles CU.R) Catcher Johnny Pramesa's home iun in the bottom of the 10th inning gave the Los Angeles Angels a 3 to 2 victory over the Portland Beavers in a Pacific Coast Lea gue baseball game Saturday be fore 3,230 fans. Portland tied the game in the ninth inning by scoring two runs on five straight singles, chasing Etarting pitcher Don Elston. He was relieved by Turk Lown who in turn was relieved by Bill ire mel. Tremel received credit for the victory, The Angels broke the scoring ice in the fourth inning when Eob Usher got a standup double to left. He came home on Steve Bilko's single and Bilka went to second when the Portland out fielder bobbled the ball Padre Connect San nippo Calif. (U.F?) Kore-armed Llovd Dickey, al though touched for 12 hits, went the route Saturday as San Diego connected for 13 hits, including (wn home runs, to down San rranrisco 6 to 1. in a Pacific Coast League contest before 2,- (!(? fans. The victory evened the series at 3-3. The homers came in the first Death Takes J. Long, Historian of Baseball Pittsburgh (U.R) The base ball world mourned the death of James J. Long, publicity di rector for the Pittsburgh Pir ates who had been identified with the game for 56 years. Lone. 76. died Friday m Mercy hospital of a heart attack, He was stricken at his desk a week ago and was taken to the hospital in an ambulance. A charter member of the Base ball Writers Association of Amer ica, Long was an acknowledged historian of baseball. But he seldom consulted his volumin ous files when sports writers asked for information. Gener ally, Jimmy could answer the query from memory. Baseball Briefs Wilmington, Del. (U.R) Anxious Philadelphia Phillies' officials waited word on the ex tent of injury suffered by Center Fielder Archie Ashburn when he collided with Left Fielder Del Ennis during an 8-6 victory over the Yankees here Friday. Ashburn suffered that was first diagnosed as a sprained knee after he and Ennis ran into each other full speed while chas ing Mickey Mantle's inside-the park homer. It was Mantle's second homer of the game. ; Both Ashburn and Ennis, who appeared merely shaken up, were removed to a local hos pital. inning, putting San Diego ahead 3-0. Milt Smith walked, then Earl Rapp and Eddie Kazak fol lowed with the back-to-back roundtrippers. The Padres added another in the third frame when Kazak walked, went to third on Julio Becquer's single and scored on Jim Gladd's sacrifice fly. The Seals didn't score until the fifth. Rainiers Down Oaks Oakland, Calif. (U.R) Marv Williams and Gene Verble tag ged Bob Murphy for ninth in ning homers Saturday to break a tie and enable the Seattle Ra iniers to score a 10-7 Pacific Coast League victory over Oak land before a wind-blown crowd of 2,481. Lefty John Oldham, relieving starter Jehosie Heard in the sixth, registered his second win of the season as the Rainiers took a 3-2 series lead in another free hitting contest. The two teams together have averaged better than 23 hits in their five games. Murphy, fifth Oakland pitcher, was charged with the loss. Braves Hope New Fences Will Assist Chances Milwaukee, Wis. U.R) T h e Milwaukee Braves expect their new fences will aid them to a National League pennant. The closer outfield fences are 15 feet shorter in left and right field, bringing the distance from left and center field to home plate down to 335 feet. The fences were unchanged at the foul lines and remained 315 and 320 feet. General Manager John Quinn readily admitted the change was made to boost the Braves' chances of winning the pennant this season. FROSH LICK EUGENE Eugene (U.R) University of Oregon's frosh thinclads overran Eugene High school 75 13 to 44 23 in a dual track meet here Friday afternoon. 'Play Ball!' Monday To Get Leagues Going New York (U.R) Play ball! Those are the words which will make a few million Ameri cans forget a few million troubles Monday. . That's when the Major League baseball season , gets under way officially. President Eisenhower will throw-out the ceremonial first pitch at Wash ington to set things in motion for the opener between the Sen ators and Baltimore Orioles. At Cincinnati, the Redlegs hold their traditional National League opener against the Chicago Cubs. There will be capacity crowds of well over 30,000 in both places. Austrialian Official Predicts Down-Under Olympics To Be Tops LINESCORES: (10 Innings) Portland 000 000 002 2 2 10 2 Los Angeles . 000 200 000 1 3 6 1 Adams, Scheib (8) & R. Bottler, Calderone (9); Elston, Lown (9), Tremel (9) Sc Pramesa. HR Pramesa. San Francisco ..000 010 000 1 12 0 San Diego 301 001 Olx 6 13 0 Nagy, Bradford (9) and Tornay, Ritchey (9); Dickey and Gladd. LP Nagy. HR Rapp. Kazak. ? Richmond, Va. (U.R) Johnny Antonelli, the Giants' ace south paw was a little off key in his final tune-up Friday for his open ing day pitching assignment . against the Phillies next Tues day. : Sam Mele, Jim Pearsall, Jackie Jensen and Sammy White each hit homers off Antonelli but Bill Taylor's pinch three- run homer high-lighted a six-run seventh inning rally that gaye the Giants an 8-7 victory over the Red Sox. Baltimore, Md. (U.R) Rookie Don Leppert, up from Birming ham of the Southern Association, keeps winning increasing praise from Baltimore Manager Paul Richards. The Orioles bowed to the Pir ates, 10-7, at Norfolk, Va., Fri day but it wasn't Leppert's fault. The young second baseman, ac quired from the Yankees, con tinued his fine spring hitting with a three run homer in the eighth. Preston Ward, Sid Gordon and Tom Saffell each homered for the Pirates, who notched their 15th decision in 20 spring starts against American League rivals. STANFORD CREW WINS Redwood City, Calif. (U.R) The Stanfard University crew de feated the University of South ern California by two and a half lengths today ov?r the 2,00 me ter course here. The Indians rowed the distance in 5:55.0 with the Trojans just nine seconds behind. Seattle 500 200 003 10 13 4 Oakland 004 101 010 7 9 2 Heard. Oldham (6) and Orteig; Van Cuyk. Broglio (1). Beaman (5). Drews (7). Murphy (8) and Neal. WP Old ham. LP Murphy. HR Metkovich, Brovia, Williams, Verble. Middlecoff Well Ahead In Masters Augusta, Ga. (U.R) Form er National Open champion Cary Middlecoff mastered the mighty pressures of the Mas ters Golf tournament Saturday by scoring a par 72 to hold his four-stroke lead throughout the third round. Ben Hogan, Jack Burke Jr., Sam Snead and Mike Souchak, among other favorites, tried in vain to close the gap as Middle coff overcame his jitters at the start of the fateful back nine and closed in style with a birdie. Seven Under Par With a three-round total of 209 including a seven-under par 65 Friday, the one-time Memphis dentist stood seven under par for Sunday's playoff round. Hogan, who two years ago clipped five strokes off the all time Masters mark, also shot a par for a 213 total. Behind the one-two players came Burke, of Kiamesha Lake, N.Y., the first day leader, who had a 71 today and a total of 214; Bob Rosburg of San Fran cisco with his third straight par round of 72 for 216; while Snead (74) and Souchak (72) were tied at 217. Behind Snead and Souchak came Walter Burkemo of Frank lin, Mich., Julius Boros of Mid Pines, N.C., and Stan Leonard of Vancouver, B.C., with 218's. Leonard got a look-in by posting a 68 in the third round, the best 18 holes of the day. ' UCLA, Cal Take Honors In Track, Field Events Santa Barbara (U.R) Uni versity of Southern California won team honors Saturday in the 17th annual Santa Barbara re lays, scoring 44 points. Los Angeles Athletic clut was second with 33, and the Olympic Club of San Francisco was third with 15. More than 6,500 fans witnessed the relays. Rev. Bob Richards of the Los Angeles Athletic club and How ard Bugbee, SC, were leading individual scorers with 5VS points each. Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) The University of California poured it on in the field events Satur day to win its first track and field meet of the season from Fresno State college, 75 13 to 55 23 before 3,000 spectators. Producing the only double winners in sprinter Herbie Turn er and distance runner Ed Den- bow, the Bulldogs captured five races to California's three, and gained a draw in the mile relv- By HAL WOOD U. P. Sports Writer San Francisco (U.R) Aus tralia will present the finest Olympic Games facilities in his tory, according to Sir Frank Beauepaire, veteran Australian games official and competitor. Scoffing at continuing charges that bickering in Melbourne was ruining work on the Olympic layout, Beauepaire said: "That's just our way of doing things. We always scrap over how things should be done. But in the end we get the job done. "We'll have the finest games lay-out the Olympics ever had in all their history." Former Olympic Swimmer Beauepaire, here .on an around-the-world tour, was a member of the Olympic com mittee that originally obtained the games for Australia. He was a swimming competitor in the 1908, 1920 and 1924 games and currently is one of the coun try's top industrialists, heading a big tire manufacturing com pany. Sir Frank also laughed off re ports that Melbourne would not be able to handle the out-of-town visitors that the Olympics draw. "I'm on the housing commit tee and I know something about that," he smiled. "I'll say that if we "have 50,000 visitors, we'll be able to take care of them. "The committee is expecting about 20,000. I would estimate that the total of visitors won't run much above 10,000 to 12, 000. -But no matter how many we have, we'll take.care of them. "Australia is a ,. hospitable country. The residents want to take in the , visitors at no cost. But we are asking that they charge something and give the money to charity if they want. The price for a room will run from $2.25 to $2.80 a day." Work Moves Ahead Work is moving steadily ahead on the main stadium, which will handle about 120,000 fans. Of these, 70,000 can be seated and the other 50,000 will stand. A $7,832,400 program for Olympic facilities is under way right now. Work already has started on Olympic Village, where 600 homes will be built at a cost of $4,480,000 to house the 6,000 competitors and will be finished well before the open ing of the games on Nov. 22, 1956. Foundations have been laid for the swimming pool and a stand is being constructed to seat 6,500. "There is a surprising amount of activity in the ticket selling department," said Sir Frank. "Most of the swimming tickets already have been sold. And about 30 per cent of the seats have been booked for the sta dium. "Of course, many good seats are being held back for the visit ors from foreign countries." Tiger Jones Scores TKO St. Louis, Mo. (U.R) Ralph (Tiger) Jones, who upset his own manager's strategy by scoring a technical knockout in the fifth round over George Johnson Fri day night, today appeared head ed for Cuba and a fight with Kid Gavilan. The Negro middleweight, jubilant after his convincing victory, scored the TKO mainly because Johnson opened a cut over his right eye in the third round. "Melnick (Manager Bobby Melnick) wanted me to stick to body punches and try to wear him down, then finish him in the late rounds," Jones said. "But when he opened that cut I was afraid they'd stop the fight. So I went all out in the fifth," he continued. Jones, who came in at 158, three pounds heavier than John son, lived up to his nickname. He took few backward steps as he punched the Indian from Trenton, N. J. with a jarring body attack from the first round. The Yongers, N. Y. Negro started Johnson's downfall with a whistling left hook to the jaw. The right cross that followed turned Johnson rubber-legged and another combination draped him helpless across the ropes at 2:01 his Referee Harry Kessler moved in quickly to halt the fight. Johnny Longden Thrown During Race, Returns Albany, Calif. (U.R) Jockey Johnny Longden was thrown from his mount at the start of the third race at Golden Gate fields Saturday but doctors at a nearby emergency hospital said the fall only stunned the vet eran rider and he suffered no injury. Longden was back at the track in time to ride in the fourth race. Longden, who recently rode his 4,500th winner, was thrown backwards from Mama King, when the two-year-old filly reared in the starting gate. Augusta, Ga. (U.R) Bruce Cudd of Portland, Ore., shot a two-over par 74 Friday in the second round of the Master's golf tournament, giving him a two day total of 149. He was 12 strokes behind Cary Middlecoff, the leader. SCHOOL BUS DISTRIBUTORSHIP AVAILABLE Half Interest in top line. Need a partner with some financ ing, who is a self-starter. Sales or service background helpful. Last year I sold 67 of all school bus business for another manufacturer in Southern third of Oregon . . So I know this is an excellent opportunity for the right person. PHONE JUNIPER 2-3781 (Rogue River) SUPER-V tlGGIST 2 1"TV PICTUM. Cinema-Wide Screen. IIVOLUTIONAIT NIW VERTICAL CHASSIS. Met compact. Side control! high up no bending. NIWtST TV FEATURES. Aluminiied picture lube, lea power consumption. UHF re ception optional, extra. Mahogany-, walnut or blond ftnished cabinets. 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Athletics Open It will mark the third time in as many years that a new city enters the major league scene. Kansas City, in a municipal tizzy over its inheritance of the Philadelphia Athletics' franchise, will pack its rebuilt ball park with a crowd of 36,000, includ ing 5,000 standees, for the open er Tuesday against Detroit. The Athletics are almost unanimous ly consigned by the experts to last place, but so far that hasn't caused enthusiasm of the fans in Kansas City to wane. A repeat success story along the lines of booming attendance in Mal waukee and Baltimore is expected. Top Red Athletes Said Preparing for Olympics Munich, Germany (U.R) Reports from behind the "Iron Curtain," indicate that the So viet orbit will be represented at the 1956 Olympics by "superbly trained athletic squads," Radio Free Europe has reported. The anti-Communist organi zation, which beams news from here to Red-dominated coun tries, said "if the Communist world makes a poor showing at the next OlymDic games . . . It won't be for lack of effort." "Refugees from Bulgaria told RFE that the Communists have covered the country with a net work of camps, schools and training areas in a giant, na tionwide sports program." Sunday, April 10, I95S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN Dutch Paper Accuses Ferris Of 'Using' Unpaid Athletes Amsterdam, Holland (U.R) The Amsterdam newspaper Mor ninger De Telegraaf Saturday accused "decoy-duck" Dan Ferris of the National AAU of luring European athletes to the U.S. to perform as "unpaid slaves" in indoor track meets. The newspaper said Gunnar Nielsen of Denmark and Nor way's Audun Boysen returned to Europe recently after undergo ing the same "bitter experi ences" Holland's Willie Slijkhuis suffered in the U.S. several years ago. The Telegraaf admitted Eu ropean stars gladly accept in vitations to compete in U.S. meets. "But soon the hangover fol lows since the American indoor season has no other meaning for the foreigners than that they Rural Fire Said Outside District A rural pump truck from the Medford fire department last night responded to a reported barn fire in the Griffin creek area, but firemen had to turn back when they found the blaze was outside the Medford Rural Fire Protection district. They said they could see the glow .from a blaze, but that it was about a half-mile beyond the district boundary, which they are prohibited from leaving under the terms of city ordi nances and the rural district agreement. Details of the fire, reported at 7:22 p.m., were not learned. Firemen also were called to North Central ave., and Mc An drews rd. at 7:52 p.m., where a fire was blazing at the top of a 50-foot power pole. California Oregon Power company crew men shut off the power and firemen stood by and later put out the blaze. Cause was thought to be a short circuit on the 12,-000-volt line. Coryallis (U.R) Fire started by an explosion in the locker room stove Friday caused sev eral hundred dollars damage to the Oregon State college crew house on the Willamette river. Karl Drlica, crew coach, said the local fire department was able to halt the flames before they reached some 20,000 worth of shells and other rowing equip ment stored in' the building. are unpaid slaves who are play ed into the hands of the pro moters by Mr. Ferris," the Tele graaf said. "Everything is correct official ly," it added. "They get their daily allowance of two dollars per day, which makes relaxa tion out of the question. The ob solete a m at e u r regulartions make it posible that for weeks, athletes, who have no money in their pockets, are exploited in an outrageous way. 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