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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Ike Launches Major League Diamond Campaign With Pitch at Washington By MILTON RICHMAN Uniied Press Sports Wriler President Eisenhower official ly got the ball rolling today when he made the pitch that opens the 1955 major league baseball season at Griffith Sta dium in Washington, D. C. Despite a bursitis condition, the President threw out the ball that will not only launch the game between the Washington Senators and Baltimore Orioles in the nation's capital but also the American and National league pennant races from New York to Kansas City. Exactly one hour later, the Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Redlegs meet at Cincinnati in the only other game scheduled today. The Nat-Oriole game will mark a joint debut for Manag er Chuck Dressen of Washington and Manager Paul Richards of Baltimore. At Cincinnati, Gov. Frank Lausche of Ohio tossed the first ball from the grandstand to Mayor Carl Rich on the pitch ing mound and Rich, in turn, will throw it to City Manager C. A. Harrell behind the plate. Today's two "advance open ers" officially launch the big league season for 1955 but com petition doesn't really start on all fronts until Tuesday. Most Action Tuesday Most of the baseball attention Tuesday will be centered upon Kansas City, which makes its American league bow . with a game between the Detroit Tigers and Kansas City Athletics. The remainder of the American league schedule Tuesday lists the Chicago White Sox at Cleve land, Boston at Baltimore and Washington at New York. In the National league, the New York Giants start defend ing their world championship against the Phillies at Philadel phia, Pittsburgh is at Brooklyn, Cincinnati at Milwaukee and St. Louis at Chicago. The total attendance at the 10 opening games is expected to reach 300,000 and baseball Com missioner Ford Frick already has predicted an increase in ov erall attendance this year. (Probable pitchers, weather and attendance for the major league baseball opening games. Pitchers' 1954 records in parentheses:) TVESDAY ' American League Detroit at Kansas City Garver (14-11) vs. Kellner (6-17); clear and mild: 36.000. Chicago at Cleveland Trucks (19-12) vs. Lemon (23-7); cool, pos sible showers; 50.000. Boston at Baltimore Sullivan (15-12) vs. Coleman (3-17); chance of rain: 45.000. Washington at New York Mc Dermott (7-15) vs. Ford (16-8); some ' cloudiness, warmer; 25.000. 'National League New York at Philadelphia Rob erts (23-15) vs. Antonelli (21-7); fair and warm: 72.000. Pittsburgh at Brooklyn Surkont (3-18) vs. Erskine (18-15); some cloud iness and warm; 20.000. Cincinnati at Milwaukee Staley (7-13) vs. Spahn (21-12), cool, some cloudiness: 45.000. St. Louis at Chicago Lawrence (15-6) vs. Minner (11-11): cloudy and cool, possible showers; 25,000. Baseball Briefs By UNITED PRESS New York (U.R) The New York Yankees were singing the praises of rookie pitchers Tom Sturdivant and Johnny Kucks today as they got ready for Tues day's opening game against the Washington Senators. Sturdivant held the Brooklyn Dodgers hitless and runless in a three-inning workout Sunday as the Yanks scored a 7-3 win. Kucks, 21-year-old righthander, was signed to a Yankee contract. In 26 innings this spring he al lowed 14 runs and 25 hits. CLUTCH TOUCH Malwaukee, Wis. (U.R) The Milwaukee Braves have their "clutch touch" in batting all tuned up for Tuesday's opening game. They proved that when Danny O'Connell whacked a two-run homer in the ninth inning Sun day to tie the Cleveland Indians, 4-4, and then Hank Aaron poled another two-run homer in the 10th for a 6-4 victory. YOST HEADS SOLONS Washington (U.R) Eddie Yost, Washington's "iron man" third baseman, wound up as the Senators' leading hitter of the spring today with a .397 average while the club finished with an overall exhibition game record of 15 victories and eight losses. CITY SERIES EVEN Chicago (U.R) The annual spring "city series" between the two Chicago clubs ended even at one game apiece wnen the White Sox blasted four Cub pit chers for a 9-7 victory Sunday before 19,504 fans. MOORE IMPRESSES Baltimore (U.R) It took all spring . but right-hander Ray Moore, a $35,000 acquistion from the minors, finally managed to impress Baltimore Manager Paul Richards. Moore, troubled by a sore arm all spring, made his f.rst start in the Orioles' 4-3 victory over the Pirates Sunday and faced only 10 men m three innings while striking out three. Medf(dJ&Tribunk Portland Subdues LA ice To Cop Series By DON THACKERY United Press Sports Writer Hollywood and San Francisco come home for the first time in the 1955 Pacific Coast League and from the looks of the stand ings that's where they should have stayed last week. The juiceless Stars, near cham pions last season, managed to score only 11 runs in seven games with Sacramento and were lucky to get out of town with two wins for the series. Yesterday they won 2-1 in the finale after losing by the same score in the opener. San Francisco took two to the jaw from San Diego yesterday 2-0 and 7-6 and looks up at the rest of the league from a 3-5 record. Timely Homers Portland got good pitching and timely home run hitting and bop ped" Los Angeles 4-2 and 2-0 while Seattle won over Oakland 6-3 to cinch the series and then dropped a 5-2 decision. A two-hitter was recorded in Los Angeles but this one was a losing effort. Jim Brosnan and Joe Kuncl limited Portland to two blows, but one was a two run homer by Russ Sullivan in the sixth. Bob Hall gave up three hits but no runs. The first game was also won by Portland home runs. Ed Mich elson hit two of the homers Standings w Secramento 5 San Diego 5 Seattle 4 Portland 4 Los Angeles 3 Oakland 3 San Francisco 3 Hollywood 2 L 2 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 Pet. .714 .625 .571 .571 .429 .429 .375 .286 GB 1 1 2 2 2i 3 Seattle 6-2, Oakland 3-5 Sacramento 2-1, Hollywood 1-2 Portland 4-2, Los Angeles 2-0 San Diego 2-7, San Francisco 0-6 How Series Ended Sacramento 5, Hollywood 2 Portland 4, Los Angeles 3 Seattle 4. Oakland 3 San Diego 5, San Francisco 3 Next Series Portland at San Francisco Oakland at Sacramento Los Angeles at San Diego Seattle at Hollywood Baseball SUNDAY EXHIBITIONS BY UNITED PRESS Pittsburg (N) 000 000 0303 7 - 4 0 Bait. (A) .... 000 OOO 121 9 Bowman. Lew 8 and Atwell, Shep- ard 8. Moore. Byrd 4 and H. Smith, Moss 6. Winning pitcher Byrd. Los ing pitcher Thies. N. Y. (N) 012 210 000 6 12 1 Boston (A) .. 000 021 010 4 8 2 Hearn, Gomez, 4, Wilhelm 7, Gris- som 9 and Katt. Brodowski, Delock 6. Freeman 8 and White. Winning pitcher Hearn. Losing pitcher. Brodowski. Bklyn (N) .... 010 000 002 3 5 0 N. Y. (At .... 024 010 OOx 7 8 0 Black. Bessent 4. Meyer 5. Lasorda 7 and Campanella, Walker 7. Turley, Sturdivant 5, Sain 8 and Berra. Win ning pitcher Turley. Losing pitch er Black. Cin. (N) 000 110 0002 8 1 Wash. (A) .... 000 000 14x 5 11 2 Pearce. Fisher 8. Baczewski 8 and Landrith. Ramos, Stobbs S and Fitz gerald. Winning pitcher btobbs. Losing pitcher Pearce. K. City (A) 520 105 10014 20 3 Phil. (N) 001 301 000 5 10 3 Bishop. Ceccarelli 6 and W. Shantz. Owens. Dicksbn 4. Simmons 7, Kip per 9 and Popata. Winning pitcher Bishop. Losing pitcher Owens. (10 innings) Clev. (A) .. 101 011 000 0 i 10 2 Mil. (N) .. 000 002 002 2 6 9 1 Garcia. Score 4 and Hegan. Foiles 4. Conley. Jolly 7. Crone 9 and Cran- dall. White 9. Winning pitcher Crone. Losing pitcher Score. Det. (A) .. 000 001 800 9 13 0 St. L. (N) .. 000 015 40x 10 13 0 Hoeft, Black 4, Herbert 6. Zuver ink 7. Fletcher 8 and House, Wilson 8. Faszholz, Blaylock 5. Moford 7. Woolridge 7. Smith 9 and Sarni, Rice 8. Winning pitcher Woodridge. Los ing pitcher Zuverink. Chi. (A) 040 004 100 9 10 3 Chi. (N) 300 210 100 7 11 0 Pierce. Harshman 5. Chakales 7 and Lollar, Courtney 6. Thorpe, Cohen 3, Andre 6. Amor 7, Davis and Mc Cullough. Fanning 4. Tappe 9. Win ning pitcher Harshman. Losing pitcher Cohen. (First games:) HoUywood 000 000 100 1 Sacramento 010 000 Olx 2 Naranjo and Bragan; Daley Sheely. 6 3 7 1 and San Francisco nno non nr.n n 3 n San Diego 00 002 OOx 2 7 0 trancchia and Ritchey; Erautt and Gladd. Portland 010 001 110 4 7 1 Los Angeles .... 000 001 010 2 7 4 Waibel. Anthony 8 and Lundbexg; Zick, Stoddard 9 and Pramesa. Seattle 012 020 010 6 9 1 Oakland . 000 002 001 3 10 1 Lombardi and Ginsberg: Gertie. Bes- ana 5. Strahs 9 and Neal. (Second games:) San Francisco nn2 n?n onn r i n San Diego . 012 210 001 7 16 O Bearden. Chandler 5. Zabala 6 and Tornay. Ritchey 6; Kerrigan. T. Smith 7 and Aylward. Seattle 000 000 22 5 2 Oakland 000 050 x 5 10 1 Savranskv. Widmar 5 and Ortrtv: Bamberger and Swift. Hollywood OOO 020 0 2 9 0 Sacramento 001 000 0 1 2 0 Munrer.- W ltt 5. Home 6 and Hall: Pieretti and Baisch. PorUand OOO C02 0 2 2 0 Los Angeles 000 000 0 0 3 2 HaU and Bottler; Brosnan. Kuncl 7 and Hannah. Monday. April 11. 1955 while Eddie Basinski got one. All came with the bags unoccupied but provided enough edge for Dick Waibel and Lee Anthony, who seven-hitted the Angels. Allen Hurls No-Hitter For Pointers Central Point Wayne Allen, striking out 17 batters in the six-inning engagement, hurled a no-hit victory for Central Point grade school Saturday over the Prospect high junior varsity crew. The score was 18 to 1. A walk and error produced the only Prospect score. Allen whiffed the first nine batters he faced in the contest. All Prospect outs but one were on strikeouts. One Cougar was thrown out at first base on a bunt hit attempt. The Pointers chucker walked three batters. Paul Beach slapped a three run homer and Jerome TMcQuade caught a fine game for the Pointers. Central Point entertained Tal ent today and will play Eagle Point here Wednesday. The Pointers go to EP on Friday. Gary Middlecoff Victor In Masters Golf Struggle By WILLIAM TUCKER Uniied Press Sports Writer Augusta, Ga. (U.R) Because he didn't want to play hero at a crucial time, lanky Cary Middle coff headed into a golden'year of golf today with the coveted Mas ters title and his 1955 earnings doubled in one great sweep to glory. . , The praise of Bobby Jones himself, founder and cliief pat ron of the Masters, rang in Mid dlecoff's ears for the best single round of golf ever shot in its 21 years and 19 playings. He had Scribes Choose Indians, Braves New York (U.R) The Mil waukee Braves and the Cleve land Indians will meet this fall in the first all-iMidwest World Series since 1945, sports writers predicted in the annual United Press pre-season pennant poll. Of the 184 scribes in the major league cities who participated in the poll, 104 picked the Indians to repeat as pennant winners in the American League, while 88 selected the Braves to dethrone the champion New York Giants in the National. The second choice teams were the New York Giants, picked for first place by only 50 writ ers, a surprising lack of support for a team which won the World Series of 1954 in four straight games. Dodgers Third Choice The Dodgers, perennial favor ites in the National League, drew only 42 'first place votes this time. The only other National League teams to get first place votes were the St. T.ouis Card inals with three ara the Cincin nati Redlegs with one. The writers envision another two team runaway involving the Yankees and Indians in the American League. Only five scribes liked other teams for the flag, four picking the Chicago White Sox and one rugged in dividualist the Boston Red Sox. It also was significant that of the 184 voters, not one picked either the Yankees or the In dians to finish below third place. Similarly, in the National League, the Braves, Giants, and Dodgers drew no votes below fifth. Red Wings Now Ahead In Stanley Cup Tussle Detroit (U.R) The Detroit Red Wings were one victory away from their second straight Stanley Cup today but they must overcome an away-from-home jinx to keep the Montreal Cana diens from evening matters in tha sixth game of their best-of-seven series. Gordie Howe registered a three-goal "hat trick" Sunday night to give the Red Wings a 5-1 victory over the Canadiens and send Detroit into a 3-2 lead in the battle for Lord Stanley's trophy. The first Pan-American con ference was held at Washington, October 2, 1889. V Waltonians To Convene This Evening Jackson County chapter of the Izaak Walton League of Ameri ca will hold its regular monthly meeting at 8 o'clock tonight at the Medford Gun club. Steps to be taken by the mem bership in their support of the Rogue Valley Pear Blossom fes tival, on April 23 will be decided upon. John Gribble, 139 Kenwood ave., retired forester, vice presi dent for woods and one of the League's most enthusiastic sup porters, has reported that his granddaughter, Tacy Lynch, is ready f- the contest for queen of the festival. Miss Lynch is the three-year old daughter of Mr. ai d Mrs. John Lynch, 139 Ken wood ave. Plans will be made for the showing of the Alaskan movie by Mr. Edward H. Horn on April 20 and 27 at the high school. Col. Paul H. Weiland, president, will have at the meeting several articles from the Arctic for in spection. Bob Pruitt, Grants Pass, a pro fessional river guide and white water boatman, will show his movies taken on the middle fork of the Salmon river in Idaho, the Rogue river and the Owyhee river. Boy Scouts who were with him on the Owyhee last year will want to see these pictures and they are invited, along with their parents. Refreshments will be served as usual and members are asked to bring those who might be in terested as guests. ." conquered the two greatest com petitors of the tournament, Ben Hogan and Sam Snead, who fin ished two-three at a record seven and eight . stroke distance be hind the winner. Happy, quickly-relaxed Mid dlecoff, said that after he took a double bogey on the 10th hole of the last round and still, was one under par through 12, it was no time to take chances any more. Yet, while the 31-year-old ex dentist from Memphis who now is. registered from Kiamesha Lake, N.Y., took a cautious iron on his approach to 13 Sunday, satisfied with a par 5, it was the same hole he gambled and got an eagle on Friday. That feat and a flurry of birdies, including four fh a row, added up to only 65 and was the round Jons called the best in Masters' his tory. Middlecoff finished with a two-under-par 70 Sunday, giving him a total of 279, which is as good as they've ever done in the Masters save when Hogan axed it down to 274 in 1953. Burke Falls Behind It was only the second major triumph for Middlecoff, who won the U.S. Open in 1949 only two years after he turned pro.' Saddest casualty of all in this Masters was Jack Burke Jr. of Kiamesha. Lake, the first day leader who' plummeted down to a tie for 12th after a hard-to-be-lieve nine on the now notorious 13th. 4 Hogan's close putts failed to drop for birdies on his outgoing nine and after he played shakily on 10 and 11, both for bogey fives, he was out of it. Yet, ironi cally, he birdied the 13th and finished with 73 and 286. Snead's story for four rounds was 12 birdies and 12 bogeys. He wound up with a fine 70 Sunday, however, for 287. Augusta, Ga. (U.R) Bruce Cudd, Portland amateur golfer, carded a 72-hole total of 306 in the Masters' golf tournament here, shooting a 78 in yesterday's final round. Cudd, 21-year-old Walker Cupper, shot 307 last year. DOES MORE Rotary Tiller Oardrn Tractor uuuvator c-tuare wttk nlui. BUI. Two Machines In On.' JWerfnl Garden Tractor mad Rotary TiUer prepri area beds In one easy operation. With simple Kasi-Oa at taehmeots IT msihtner. . Db as SickJf Bar. Snow Plow, Katary Mow, Uttei 'Stirrer. BaOdoaeTTete! Senaci bcUevinc. Ask lor atansa- $ 1 795 $fl Immediate I Down OMo. Delivery JOHNSTON STORES 112 South Riverside v i:'W M7950 v j Phoenix High Tops IV in Track Meet Phoenix Phoenix high pac ed by Delmar Brood, Llewellyn Witte and Walt Hurlbut, gained firsts, in eight of 14 events Sat urday to overcome Illinois Val ley 67 to 55 in a rual track meet here. Brood won the low hurdles, tied for first in the pole vault and took second in the 100-yard dash to glean 11 points in the meet. Witte headed the runners in both the 220. and 330-yard runs, for 10 points and Hurlbut took the broad jump, was second in the shot put and was third in the discus for nine points. In the pole vault Brood broke his Swedish steel vaulting pole trying to clear 10 feet 3 inches and luckily escaped serious in jury. Winning height Saturday was 9-10 but Coach Jack Wood ward said that Brood has clear ed 10-9 this year and is expect ed to go higher. Neither IV nor Phoenix is con sidered strong this year. Both schools lost heavily by gradua tion last spring. RESULTS: 70-yard high hurdles Cubbreath, IV; Colee. IV; James and Hobbs, P. Time :11.1. - Shot put Plumlee, IV; Hurlbut, P; Brewer. IV. Distance 43 ft. 1 in. 100-yard dash Puhl, P; Delmar Brood. P: Cook. IV. Time :11.1. Three-fourths mile McLeish, P; Berkner, IV: Brown. P. Times 3:43. Pole vault Delmar Brood and Carson, P, tie first; Plumlee, IV. Height 9 ft. 10 in. High jump Kelsoe. P; James. P and Loganbill, IV, tie second. Height 5 ft. 5 in. 330-vard dash Witt, P; Logan bill. IV; Cole. IV. Time :38.5. Discus Smith, IV; Workman, P; Hurlbut. P. Distance 116 ft. 3i in. 100-yard low hurdles Delmar Brood, P: Workman, P; Colee, IV. Time :12.7. Broad jump Hurlbut, P; Cooke, IV; Dwayne Brood, P. Distance 18 ft. 5 in. 220-vard dash Witte, P; Cooke, IV: Lockhart. IV. Time :23.8. Javelin Brewer. IV; Rose, P; Korth, P. Distance 139 ft. 10 in. 660-yard run Berkner. IV; Phil lips, IV, and Brown, P, tie second. Time 1:45. 440-yard relay Won by Illinois Val ley. Orioles Pay Out $50,000 Bonus; Release Pesky Baltimore (U.R) The Balti more Orioles shelled out the largest bonus in their history to- xlay when they paid an estimated $50,000 to Jim Pyburn, a 21-year-old third baseman from Au burn, who will report to them Wednesday. In addition to signing Pyburn, a 6-foot, 190-pound junior from Birmingham, Ala., the Orioles also announced the outright re lease of veteran infielder Johnny Pesky and the signing of right-hander Saul Rogovin to a Baltimore contract. Rogovin worked out with the Orioles this spring while under contract to their San Antonio Texas League farm club. Lowry Encounters Adams in Ring New York '(U.R) Irish Pat Lowry, a welterweight who con siders a boxing ring a relatively safe place after his 13-month stint in Korea with the Marines, meets Pete Adams in a return bout tonight at St. Nicholas arena. The match is rated a toss-up. Lowry, a 25-year-old Toledo, O., fighter who took part in the In chon landing and the capture of Seoul, was awarded a much disputed ' decision after their first brawl at St. Nick's Feb. 28. Danny Giovanelli of Brooklyn is a slight choice for his 10 rounder against Chris Christen sen, Denmark's welterweight champion, . in tonight's main bout at Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway arena. ABC begins televising this program at 9:30 p.m. (EST). Albany, Calif. . (U.R) Neil S. McCarthy's Bell O' Shandon, a fleet filly bred in Ireland, roared from behind to win the $17,475 Richmond handicap at Golden Gate fields today be fore 19,437 fans. keqtiki stmu. GARAGE 1 1 6 Worth Front Formerly Young's SELF-SERVICE STALLS and TOOLS AVAILABLE COMPLETE CAR SERVICE and REPAIR HUNTER WHEEL BALANCING UNITED MOTORS PARTS and SERVICE Open 8 am to 8 pm Weekdays Sundays 9 am to 6 pm Take Advantage of Self-Service and Save! Jean Elbon Polishes Off Gerry Hunter; Dean Beats Hussane; Rematches Sought Shirley Winters and Yoggi Hussane were screaming for re matches today following one of the wildest and noisest sessions of the current wrestling season at Merrick's arena Saturday night. . Miss Winters wants another chance at Gerry Hunter, whom she held to a draw on April 2, and Hussane is after another crack at Man Mountain Dean Jr., to whom he lost on a foul Saturday night. It was a rough night for Hunt er, but just about everyone of the near-capacity crowd loved every minute of it as Jean Elbon, a top rate cutie making her first start here, polished off the here tofore unbeaten Hunter two falls out of three. Miss Elbon Shines Not only is Miss Elbon prob ably the best looker Mack Lil lar has brought to Medford, but she is by far the best wrestler. She turned Hunter every way but loose and took her foe's best licks time and again. But it was Winters, in the audience as a spectator, who finally turned the tide. Miss Elbon had been thrown out of the ring and was kicked back to the floor several times by Hunter when she tried to get back in. Winters couldn't stand it any longer and with skirts fly ing, she rushed to ringside, pull ed Hunter out of the ring by a foot, and administered a sound thrashing as ringsiders scurried One Presidential Duty Not Listed In Constitution Washington '(U.R) Dwight Eisenhower performed the one vital duty of the presidency to day that isn't mentioned in tha Constitution. He'll throw out the first ball of the 1955 baseball season. He threw out the first ball of the 1955 baseball season. Like most of the presidents who preceded Ike, he pitched with all the speed, grace and control of a baby throwing oat meal at the nearest wall. But it doesn't make any difference to the fans. It's the effort and not the form that counts in this tra ditional ceremony. Dates Back to 1912 ihe ceremony calling upon presidents to throw out the first ball dates back to 1912, when a young club owner named Clark Griffith of the Washington Na tionals invited President Wil liam Howard Taft to perform the function in a mid -season game. The next year Griffith invited Woodrow Wilson to throw out the first pitch at the opening game. From 1913 to 1943, when Franklin D. Roosevelt finally missed an opener during war time, presidents attended every first game of the season in Washington. Oregon Thinclads Win 3-Way Test Portland (U.R) The Univer sity of Oregon swamped Seat tle Pacific College and Lewis and Clark College in a three-way track meet here Saturday. The Webfoots had first places in all but one event and rolled up 100 1-2 points to 31 1-3 for Seattle Pacific and 30 1-6 for Lewis and Clark. Pittsburgh Captures Hockey League Diadem ' Buffalo, N. Y. (U.R) The Pittsburgh Hornets, the Ameri can Hockey League's regular season champions, made it a "double" by capturing the play off title Sunday night with a 4-2 triumph over the Buffalo Bi sons. Bobby Solinger scored twice in two minutes and three sec onds in the second period and those goals clinched the best-of-seven serk-s for the Hornets, 4-2. out of the way. Then Winters picked Hunter up, threw her back into the ring to which El bon had returned, and Jean ap plied the clincher with a body press. Referee Injured Hunter had taken the first fall with a press after dusting the mat with Jean by throwing her around by the hair. Elbon took the second fall with a shoulder stand and had to keep the hold for more than a minute while Referee Larry Presnell, who had been thrown from the ring by Hunter, could get back in. Pres nell suffered a bad ankle injury, the seriousness of which had not Crater Plays KF Pelicans On Tuesday Crater high, winner of its first two starts in the Rogue Baseball League, switches to non-conference action on Tuesday. The Comets take on Klamath Falls in an afternoon brush at Central Point. . The home club goes into ac tion with a record of two wins and two losses. Crater defeated Eagle Point twice over the week end after losing a pair of non-league season openers to Medford. Interested Spectators Medford's varsity may be in terested spectators for the con flict. Outcome of the fracas may give the Black Tornado an in-j dication of how it may fare against Klamath and Grants Pass in Southern Oregon Con ference and district scuffles. Klamath Falls lost two SO circuit scuffles to Grants Pass last Thursday. The scores were 2 to 1 and 3 to 0. Crater, although operating in the A-2 district, takes on four A-l competitors two games each this spring. The Comets already have their scrapes with Medford out of the way. They play their first mix with Ashland this week end and face Grants Pass later. Phillies May Dip Into Minor Loop Talent Barrel Philadelphia (U.R) The crippled Philadelphia Phillies were ready to dip into the minor league talent barrel today to re place injured outfielder Del En nis and Richie Ashburn. With the possibility of Ennis being laid up for several weeks and Ashburn still a doubtful fac tor for Tuesday's opener with the New York Giants, the club figured to bring up either Bob Bowman or Larry Novak, rookie outfielders who were sent to Syracuse of the International League after training with the Phils in Florida. The decision rested on the out come of new X-ray examinations of the hairline fracture Ennis suffered just below his left knee when he collided with Ash burn while chasing a line drive Friday. Harridge Forsees Attendance Gain By UNITED PRESS Will Harridge, president of the American League, predicted a gain of more than a million in attendance for the 1955 sea son today while Warren C. Giles, the National League head, de clared "this will be the biggest and best year in our history." Sharing the optimism of the two major league executives was baseball Commissioner Ford C. Frick who stated that "I'm thoroughly convinced this is go ing to be a better year for base ball than 1954 and that goes for the minor leagues, tor" Not) years! every IS drop If J c Straight BOURBON Whiskey The Bourbon-man' OLD QUAKER DISTILLING CP UWRENCEBURQ, WD. .86 PROoJ; been determined today. The match was held up for several minutes until another referee could be obtained. Hussane did very little wres tling with his huge opponent, being content to stay away until he had an opportunity to do his dirty stuff. Dean, quite agile for his 384 pounds, took the first fall with his famed "belly flop" and won the clincher when, after being thrown from the ring, Hus sane refused to let him return. Johnny "Cyclone" Cobb, who had replaced the Injured Pres nell as referee, stopped it by disqualifying Hussane. Hussane claims the match was merely a feeling-out process and he knows now he can thrash the big fellow. Whether he gets the chance Lillard has yet to decide. Davidson Injured A sparkling exhibition of fine wrestling came to a disappoint ing end in the match between Cobb and Buck Davidson when, with a minute to go, Davidson was injured when he missed a dropkick and was unable to con tinue. Cobb took a fall with a body press as Davidson lay injured on the mat but when Davidson was unable to come out for the final minute, Cobb refused to accepts the decision. Presnell announced that it would go down as a "no decision" affair. New Grid Tutor Of Red Raiders To Visit Campus Ashland Al Akms, new Red Raider football coach at Southern Oregon college, will be on campus on April 29 and 30, President Elmo N. Stevenson announced. Akins will come to Ashland for a look at the SOC campus and a review of equipment, fa cilities, and material for the coming football season, Dr. Stevenson said. Akins faces a schedule of eight games this fall as he suc ceeds Dr. Alex Peterson at the SOC gridiron helm. . The new mentor is an ex Washington state. University of Washington and pro football halfback. He played three years of football for WSC and then transferred to the U of W under the V-5 program, while serving in the marines and attaining the rank of first lieutenant. He played for Washington In the 1944 Rose Bowl game. Ted Schopf, on leave this year at the University of Oregon do ing graduate work, will return next year to duties as head bas ketball and baseball coach and will assist Akins with the foot ball squad. Syracuse Champ Of Pro Cage Loop Syracuse, N.Y. U.R) The well-balanced Syracuse Nation als are the first Eastern team ever tp rule the National Basket ball association, thanks to an am? zing "comeback" ability and an even more fantastic "home court" jinx. The Nats, who once trailed ' 3-2 in the best-of-seven final round of the playoffs, triumphed over Fort Wayne in the payoff game Sunday afternoon in a 92-91 thriller on George King's free throw with 12 seconds to play. At one time in the bitterly fought fray, the Nats trailed by 17 points, and Coach Al Cervi hailed his new champions by saying, "Any team that can come from 17 points behind in an im portant game like this is a great team." It was merely the 28th straight time that the Nats had beaten the Pistons here in Syracuse. Cassia is the dried bark of an evergreen tree of the laurel family. NotfSjears! m I years old! Bourbon
