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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. April 13, 1955 Indians, Braves Display Pitching, Power In Starters To Live Up To Advance Raves By FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer It's a bit early for Cleveland and Milwaukee fans to apply for World Series tickets but the In dians and Braves certainly wast ed no time living up to their advance notices as the major league pennant favorites. Both flashed sound pitching and dangerous long-ball punch in their openers Tuesday to start cff on the right foot before huge hometown crowds. A crowd of 50.230 saw the Indians breeze to a 5-1 verdict over the Chicago White Sox while a turnout of 43,640 saw the Braves rally in the eighth inning with the aid of rookie Chuck Tanner's homer to -defeat the Cincinnati Redlegs, 4-2. In other games, the Kansas City Athletics made a successful American league debut witn 6-2 triumph over the Detroit Tigers before a crowd of 32,844 including former President Har ry Truman; the Boston Red Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles, 7-1, behind Frank Sullivan's five hitter and the Chicago Cubs wal- lorjed the St. Louis Cardinals, 14.4. New York at Philadelphia, Pittsburgh at Brooklyn and Washington at New York were rained out. Kiner Booms First Bob Lemon, a' 23-game winner last season, picked up right where he left off by pitching a five-hitter and Ralph Kiner weighed in with his first homer as an American leaguer to pro vide the fireworks for the In dians. Lemon struck out three anri walked onlv three as he scored an easy victory over a team that beat him in two of three decisions last season. Kiner, acquired in a winter deal with the Cubs, struck out on his first two trips to the plate but then walloped a solo homer in the fifth inning. Vic Wertz singled home two runs for the Indians in the first inning and Al Smith hit a two run homer in the second. All Cleveland's runs were off Virgil Trucks, a 10-game winner in 1954. At Milwaukee, the fans were treated to even more spectacular heroics. Ted Kluszewski threatened to wreck the opening day festivi ties when he blasted a two-run .homer, his second round-tripper in as many games, to give the Redlegs a, 2-1 lead in the eighth inning. But Tanner, a 25-year-old lef thanded hitter who batted .323 for Atlanta last season, promptly tied the score with his pinch homer tying a major league record. Fleet Bill Bruton then singled and scored the tie-breaking run when Hank Aaron tripled off the right center field fence. Aaron tallied on Bobby Thomson's sac rifice fly. The victory went to Warren Spahn while ex-Cardinal Gerry Staley suffered the de feat. Pinch-Hitters Click Kansas City made a triumph ant entry into the A.L., rallying for three runs in the sixth in ning to snap a 2-2 deadlock. El mer Valo, pinch-hitting for win ning pitcher Alex Kellner, drew a walk with the bases filled to force in the tie-breaking run and two more tallies followed on pinch-hitter Don Bollweg's sin gle. Ewell Blackwen nunea ine last three innings for the Atn letics and was aided by three double Dlays. Ned Garver was the loser. Ted Lepcio, who hit only eight homers all last season, hit two and drove in three runs as the Red Sox handed the Orioles their second straight defeat. Sul livan, a 15-game winner last sea son, did the rest for the Bed Sox, limiting Baltimore to five hits and striking out four batters Dee Fondy drove in five runs with a double and a single and Ransom Jackson homered as the Cubs virtually duplicated a 13-4 opening day rout of the Cardi nals last year. Paul Minner, win ning pitcher in last year tri umph, scattered nine hits Tues day and also collected three hits. Rookie Ken Boyer homered for the Cardinals. 1.1NESCORE: American League Detroit 000 110 000 2 8 1 Kansas City . 011 003 Olx 6 9 0 Garver. Fletcher (7) and R. Wilson. Kellner. Blackwell (7) and Astroth. Winning pitcher Kellner (1-0). Los ing pitcher Garver (0-1). MedforsTrlbuns SLPflDLMTS i 1 REFEREE TO WRESTLE Larry Presnell of the Portland police department, shown above, will trade his referee's togs for wres tling tights Saturday night when he meets Johnny "Cyclone" Cobb in one of the three matches at Merrick's arena. Presnell, who was injured while refereeing last week, telephoned Promoter Mack Lillard yesterday saying his ankle had responded to treat ment and that he would like to have a match. Lillard obliged by digging up just about the best opponent who has been around here in a long time. Other matches send Yoggi Hussane against Man Mountain Dean Jr., and Shirley Winters against Gerry Hunter. Both are return engagements. Minor League President Finds Renewed Interest, Confidence For Big Year Throughout Loops By GEORGE M. TRAUTMAN (Minor League President) Written for United Press Columbus, Ohio (U.R) In looking over the baseball pros pects for the 1955 season in our Eoston 120 102 100 7 13 0 Baltimore 001 000 000 1 5 2 Sullivan (1-0) and White. Coleman, Kretlow (3). Ferrarese 6 and Moss. Losing pitcher Coleman (0-1). Chicago OOC 001 000 1 5 0 Cleveland 220 010 OOx 5 8 1 Trucks. Fomieles (7) and Lollar. Le mon (1-0) and Hegan. Losing pitcher Trucks (0-1). National League Cincinati 000 000 020 2 7 1 Milwaukee ....100 000 03x 1 8 0 Staley. Collum 181. Lane (8) and Dalley. Spahn. Joliy (9) and Crandall. Winning pitcher Spahn (1-0). Losing pitcher Staley (0-1). Jansen To Pitch For Seattle Nine New York (U.R) Thirty-four-year-old Larry Jansen, ' for eight years a star pitcher on the New York Giants, is heading back to his native Pacific North west to pitch for the Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League. i Jansen, whose 120 Giant vic tories include the famous third game of the 1951 pennant play off against the Brooklyn Dodg ers, was released by the Giants Tuesday night to enable him to sign with Seattle. Jansen, a native ,of Forest Grove, Ore., had a record of 21-5 in his rookie year with the Giants in 1947 and won at least 15 games for each of the next four years. In 1951, he had a 23-11 mark. Major Loop First Day Crowds Average Bigger Than Those Last Year Rain forced the postponement of three major league games Tuesday but the per-game av erage for the five other opening games played was greater than it was a year ago. ,A grand total of 190,255 per sons turned out for a per-game average of 38,051 surpassing last year's average of ' 29,552. The eight games played on opening day 1954 drew 236,414 fans. Largest at Cleveland The largest crowd of the day 50,230 saw the Indians and White Sox in Cleveland's Muni cipal Stadium, topping last year's biggest opening day crowd of 46,994 at Detroit for the Tigers Orioles debut. The New York Yankees-Wash-ington Senators game in New York, the Brooklyn Dodgers- Pittsburgh Pirates game in Brooklyn and the Philadelphia Phillies-New York Giants game in Philadelphia were called off because of a steady downpour along the Eastern Seaboard. - The National Park System was started with the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872. 250 minor league cities, I find renewed interest, and confidence for a big year everywhere. There is something in the air that it a little difficult to pin point. It is a little difficult to pinpoint. It is a renewed feeling of confidence that the 1955 sea son will mark the up-turn in at tendance; that the fans of the country will show greater inter est in the fortunes of the local clubs; and that next year, 1956, will see resumption of several leagues that were not in opera tion in 1954. ,1 think several reasons might be given. Let's try to list a few without an attempt to give them in their order of importance. War Fear Gone First the apprehension that we surely face an immediate war with Communism seems to have been dissipated. There seems to be a feeling that our institutions will continue to thrive and that our lives will be lived in an at mosphere of peace. Second, a new confidence has been found by many of our clubs by the introduction of what we call the pre-season ticket sales idea. Where only box seats have been sold in other years it is now the routine procedure of many of our clubs to sell vast numbers of game tickets long before op ening day. Thus the club can be assured of sustained operation, the fans can budget their ticket purchas: es, the communities can know that the financial security of the local clubs is assured and every body can concentrate on . . . the actual play of the teams on the field. 'Baseball Week' Helped Third, the week of March 19 26 was called "National Baseball Week" and has been celebrated widely throughout the nation. The governors of 48 states issued proclamations; 21 of the leading amateur organizations of the na tion joined with professional baseball to honor the game. Fourth, and this may be wish ful thinking, I believe that the fans everywhere have almost suddenly taken stock of the sit uation and have concluded that professional baseball is profes sional baseball wherever it is played. For all of these reasons I ex pect our opening days in every league to be the greatest out pouring of fans we have seen since 1949, our biggest year. ' MH Jayvee Victor Over Jacksonville Medford high junior varsity survived a seventh inning Red skin rally yesterday to down the Jacksonville varsity baseball nine 6 to 4 at Jacksonville. The junior Tornado built a 6 to 0 lead before the Redskins came through with all their runs in the seventh. The Medfordites picked up their first run in the second frame when Gordon Owsley doubled, Ray Hilton singled and Owsley scored on a double steal. For two runs in the fifth inning Bob Mays walked. Dennis King tripled and Ken Morris singled Two more came in in the sixth when Jim Gibson drew a base on balls and Mays and Larry Perkins both singled. Double Steal Hilton got on base on an error in the seventh chukker and Jim Putney walked. They tried a double steal. Throw to third in effort to nail Hilton was late and the ball was thrown over second in a try to get Putney. Hilton tallied on the miscue. For Jacksonville's ennnfpre Clarence Wilson and .Tank Dalv singled. Bob Gemaehlich walk ed, Dick Teal tripled and an error allowed Teal to get home. Medford Chucker Ernie Tvlpr gave up eight hits, four of them in the last inning. He struck out six batters and walked two. TVal was tagged for seven hits, fan ned only one Medford batter, and walked six. King swatted the ball well for the Tornarlr and got two hits in four times up. While the jayvees were see ing game action, the Tornado varsity was drilling for its scrapes this Saturday afternoon with Klamath Falls. LINESCORE: Medford JV 010 022 1 6 7 2 Jacksonville 000 000 4 4 8 2 Tyler and Hilton; Teal and Gemaehlich. More Than 1,000 Entries Expected In Hay ward Tiff Eugene (U.R) The 18th an nual Hayward relays set for this Friday and Saturday at the Uni versity of Oregon will see more than 1,000 athletes from 76 schools taking part, according to director Ray Hendrickson. The Roeue vallev will he well represented in the Havward re lays on Friday and Saturday at Eugene with entries from this area expected in every division of the meet. Coach Bob Newland of Med ford high, defending metroDoli- tan class chamD. said that his team, according to present indi cations will be physically strong er than it was for the Rosue re lays. Only Wally Larson was on tne sick list this morning. lne squad for the running events at Eugene is just about set, according to the coach. He was expected to have weight event lineup determined after tonight s practice. NIGHT EDITOR DIES New York (U.R) Thomas C. Cluck, 48, United Press night cable editor, died Tuesday night in Presbyterian Hospital after a lingering illness. Melbourne Told Olympic Games Could Be Moved Sydney, Australia (U.R) - Avery Brundage left Australia for Japan today with a warn ing echoing behind him that the 1956 Olympic Games could be taken away from Melbourne un less the organizing committee "wakes up" by June 10. Brundage, president of the In ternational Olympic committee pointed out that the IOC has a meeting scheduled in Paris in June and the Melbourne decis ion "depends on the work done in Melbourne between now and June 10." "If there is no improvement, there could be a sensational de cision at Paris," said Brundage I haven't made any threats or given Australians any deadlines, But they know when the inter national committee meets." Portlander Heads Singles Tourney Kelcy Allen, Portland has rolled into the lead of the West ern Singles Handicap tourna ment at Medford Bowling lanes. He carded a scratch score of 1280, bowling games of 181, 213, 206, 235, 232 and 213. His total pushed "dive Wein Ker, aeartie, into second posi tion wih his 12o3 count. Francis Kirk, Medford, is third with 1235 and Gale Culy, Medford, fourth with 1223. Rudy Meffert, Salem, is close behind Culy with 1223 for the six-game contest. Tallest Boxing Bout In World - Corvallis (U.R) Swede Hal- brook, seven-feet-three, and Phil Shadoin. seven-feet, both mem bers of Coach Slats Gill's basket ball team, will box in a special event at the varsity 'O' smoker here April 20, it was announced today. Standings PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Sacramento San Diego Portland .1 Seattle . Los Angeles Oakland Hollywood San Francisco W. 6 6 . 5 4 3 . 3 3 3 L. 2 3 3 4 5 5 5 6 Pet. GB .750 .667 .625 .500 .375 .375 .375 1 1 3 3 3 .333 32 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. Kansas City 1 Washington 1 Cleveland 1 Boston 1 New York 0 Chicago 0 Detroit 0 Baltimore 0 L. Pet. GB 0 1.000 0 l.COO 0 1.000 0 1.000 0 .000 1 .000 1 1 .000 1 2 .000 1 i NATIONAL LEAGUE Chicago 2 0 Milwaukee 1 n New York 0 0 Brooklyn 0 0 Philadelphia 0 0 Pittsburgh 0 0 St. Louis O 1 Cincinnati 0 2 1.000 1.000 'i .000 1 .000 1 .000 1 .000 1 .000 1 't 1000 2 St. Louis 100 100 020 4 9 0 Chicago . 560 200 lOx 14 18 1 Lawrence. Schultz (It. Jacobs (2), LcPalme 4V Moford 7 and Sarni. Minner (1-0) and Chiti. Losing pitcher Lawrence (0-1). DONS NICK CHIEFS Petaluma, Calif. (U.R) A University of San Francisco nine won an 8-7 victory over Wen atchee of the Western Interna- HUllUi .league; JtOlClUaj" LKJL H1C I I Dons' fourth straight road vie- ' tory. X CONCRETE Phone. 2-5336 or 2-5897 M. C. LININGER & SONS Yo can hove a "new" roem in a day with Super wottrabl. No thinning dries tn en hour. Luscious pastels, high-foshioa deep tones. Easy to apply over painted walls, wallpaper er plaster. Wl78. $55W ft (Deep Color Slightly Higher) Jj Grain & f.lofir YOUR HOME TOWN HARDWARE 225 East Sixth TUESDAY'S RESULTS Hollywood 5. Seattle 4 San Diego 2, Los Angeles 1 Portland 4. San Francisco 2 Sacramento 3. Oakland 2 (How Series Stand) Hollywood 1, Seattle O San Diego 1. Los Angeles 0 Portland 1. San Francisco 0 Sacramento 1. Oakland 0 American League Boston 7. Baltimore 1 Cleveland 5, Chicago 1 Kansas City 6. Detroit 2 Wash, at New York, ppd.. rain. National League Milwaukee 4. Cincinnati 3 Chicago 14. St. Louis 4 New York at Phila.. ppd.. rain. Pittsburgh at Bklyn., ppd.. rain. THURSDAY'S GAMES Kansas City at Chicago Cleveland at Detroit New York at Boston Baltimore at Washington (night) National League Brooklyn at New York Philadelphia at Pittsburgh Chicago at Cincinnati Milwaukee at St. Louis Bobo Olson Favored Over Maxim Tonight By SCOTT BAILLIE San Francisco U.R) World middleweight champion Carl (Bobo) Olson and ancient Joey Maxim meet tonight in a 10 round, nationally-televised non title bout at the Cow Palace with King Bobo favored to pound out his 21st straight triumph at the expense of the former light heavyweight ruler. Latest odds had Olson a 2-1 choice. The fight will be beamed at 10 p.m. (EST). Nothing is materially at stake other than $10,000 which Maxim has to forfeit if he fails to scale 175 pounds or less at this morn ing s weigh-m. However, the bout is ballyhooed as the "out Wal tomans Rap- House Bill on Water Resources Jackson County Chapter of the Izaak Walton League Mon day selected Richard Connolly, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Connolly, 523 South Newtown st., as the one to be in charge of the Izaak Walton Leagu float to be entered in the Rogue Valley Blossom Festival on April 23. Members gave their support to House Hill 462 which pro vides for salmon fishing license for one day for one dollar. They said they felt this will result in many of the tourists along our coast who never intended to try to catch a salmon to try their luck at it. Passage of the meas ure also should increase the number of people who are inter ested in the maintenance of sal mon runs, they stated. Dam Right Questioned The chapter voiced its objec tions to the , provisions of the water resources bill, HB 25, which, if maintained, would vir tually ignore the future of sal mon and steelhead in our streams. As the bill now reads after passing the house, the fish commission would have no right to disapprove of the building of a dam where plans do not pro vide for the passage of salmon and steelhead, they declared. If this bill is passed in its present form by the state senate and signed-by the governor the fish and game commission would have no authority on questions important to the maintenance of migratory fish runs, according to Waltonians. The chapter said it supports the basic legislation in this bill. However, it wants the proper recognition given the fishery resource. standing fight of the year" in IBC publicity blurbs and Co- Promoter Bennie Ford predicts a new gate record for a non title affair in the state. The mark for California was set in 1951 when Joe Louis and Andy Walker grossed $96,000 at the Cow Palace. Ford sees to night's gross hitting $125,000. The fight is blacked out in a 150-mile radius of San Fran cisco. Just Another Bout , This is just another bout for Maxim, who admittedly is over the hill and says he would like to retire in another two vears. But Sid Flaherty Olson's man ager looks on the bout as a big stepping stone for the balding Hawaiian toward the 175 pound crown. Olson always did hit better as a light-heavyweight and expects to weigh in at about 168. A vic tory might prompt him to re-! main in the light - heavyweight division. Olson's supporters are predict ing that their hero may go so far as to knock out Maxim, which would only be the second time Pal Joey has been stretched in 14 years of professional fighting. Maxim says that he will box Olson's ears off with pumping left jabs which may give Bobo plenty of trouble as he tries to get inside to land body punches. GAME CHANGED Prospect Prospect high school's Jackson county B leagu baseball game with Rogue River will be played here Thursday afternoon. 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