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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE PHILADELPHIA WHACKS GIANTS AS ROBERTS THROWS 3-HITTER By MILTON RICHMAN United Press Sports Writer Robin Roberts of the Phillies, the only pitcher around who is! given an outside chance of win ning 30 games, was off to his best start in four years today after licking an opening day "jinx" and nearly hurling the first no hitter of his career in the process. Usually, ' Robbie" is an open ing game dud. He lost the open ers in 1954, 1953 and 1932 but he had the world champion Giants under his thumb for eight-and-one-third innings Wednesday as he beat them 4-2, before 13,219 opening day fans at Philadelphia. Alvin Dark spoiled Roberts' no-hitter when he singled to right field with one out in the ninth. But the 28-year-old Phila delphia righthander, who has won at least 20 games the past five years, wasn't disturbed even though the Giants put together two more hits for their only two runs. Robbie Not Disappointed "I never try for no hitters and it doesn't matter too much that I didn't get this one," he said after the game. "The important thing is that we won." The Phillies got to loser John ny Antonelli for two runs in the fifth and to Marv Grissom for another pair in the sixth. A walk, Earl Torgenson's triple and a single by Peanuts Lowrey produced the Phillies' final two runs in the sixth. Carl Erskine pitched Brooklyn to a 6-1 triumph over Pittsburgh in the only other National League game scheduled. Junior Gilliam snapped a 1-all tie when he belted one of Max Surkont's pitches for a homer to lead off the seventh. Pee Wee Reese's double, a walk, Jackie Robin son's run-producing bunt and Carl Furillo's homer made the score 6-1. Erskine gave up seven hits and struck out four batters. Yankees On Spree The Yankees made the big noise in the American League with a thundering 19-1 victory over Washington. Southpaw Whitey Ford, who limited the Senators to two hits, drove in four runs, as did Mickey Mantle and Bob Cerv. Mickey McDer mott started for the losers but was chased in the fourth, a frame in which Mantle homered with two on. In the sixth, the Yankees went ahead 13-1 when Yogi Berra and Bill Skowron smashed back-to-back homers. Detroit presented Bucky Har ris with the 2,000th victory of his managerial career by tram pling Kansas City, 10-2, as Steve Gromek pitched eight-hit ball. The Athletics jumped in front with a run in the first inning but the Tigers rapped loser Arnie Portocarrero for four runs in the third on Harvey Kuenn's homer, Fred Hatfield's double, two walks, Jim Delsing's single and Bill Tuttle's double. Detroit clinched the contest by adding five more runs in the sixth. UXESCORES: National League New York 000 000 002 2 3 1 Phila. 000 022 00X 4 7 1 Antonelli. Grissom (6) and Westrum. Roberts (1-0) and I.opata. Losing pitqher Antonelli (0-1). Pittsburgh 000 000 100 1 7 0 Brooklyn 00 001 50x 6 11 0 Surkont. Kline (8) and Atwell. Ers kine (1-0) and Campanella. Losing American League pitcher Surkont. Detroit 004 003 010 10 10 0 Kansas City ..100 000 100 2 8 1 Gromex (1-0) and house. R. Wilson (6). Portocarrero. Burtschy 16), Wheat 6 1. Trice (8) and Astroth. Losing pitcher Portocarrero (0-1). Washington ... 000 001 0001 2 2 New York .. .002 524 S3x 19 16 1 McDermott. Abernathy (4). Currie 6. Gonzales (7) and FitzGerald. Oldis i7i. Ford tl-0) and Berra. Los ing pitcher McDermott (0-1). Standings PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. I.. Prt. GB Sacramento 7 2 .778 San Diego 6 4 .600 l'i Portland 5 4 .5."6 2 ' seatue 5 4 .556 2 Los Angeles 4 5 .444 3 San Ftancisco 4 6 .400 3'i Oakland 3 6 .3o3 4 Hollywood 3 6 .333 4 AMERICAN" LEAGUE W. L. Prt. GB New York 1 0 1.000 Boston 1 0 1.000 Cleveland 1 0 1.000 Washington l i .500 " "i Kansas City 1 1 .500 Detroit 1 1 .500 i2 Chicago ... 0 1 .000 1 Baltimore 0 2 .000 l'i NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Prt. GB Chicago 2 0 1.000 Milwaukee 1 0 1.000 2 Brooklyn 1 0 1.0')0 2 Philadelphia 1 0 1.000 '2 New York 0 1 .000 1'2 Pittsburgh 0 1 .000 1'2 St. Louis 0 1 .000 l'j Cincinnati 0 2 .000 2 WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS " Pacific Coast League San Francisco 10. Portland 9 Sacramento 6. Oakland 2 Seattle 6. Hollywood 0 Los Angeles o. San Diego 3 (How Series Stand) Hollywood 1. Seattle 1 San Diego 1. Los Angeles 1 Portland 1. San Francisco 1 Sacramento 2. Oakland 0 American League New York 19. Washington 1 Detroit 10. Kansas City 2 Boston at Bait., pod., overcast. (Only games scheduled.) National League Brooklyn 6. Pittsburgh 1 Philadelphia 4. New York 2 (Only games scheduled.) FRIDAY'S GAMES American League Cleveland at Detroit New York at Boston (Only games scheduled) National League Brooklyn at New York Philadelphia at Pittsburgh (Only games scheduled) MedfordTribuns SIPODHTS Joe Kirrene Seals' 10-9 By PETER HAYES United Press Sports Writer The hottest major league pros pect in the Pacific Coast league today was San Francisco's young Joe Kirrene, husky third base man who is batting a sensational .513 after 10 games. Kirrene, who signed with the Chicago White Sox for $30,000 and was optioned to his home town team, cracked out four singles last night. The fourth hit came with the bases loaded in the ninth and gave the Seals a 10-9 win over Portland. It was the third time this sea son that the powerful right-hand swinger collected four hits in one game. He was leading the league in batting by a wide mar gin. C. Christian Hurls No-Hit Win for EP Eagle Point Only three Chiefs got on base Tuesday as Carl Christian twirled a no-hit no-run baseball victory for the Eagle Point Eagles over Rogue River high at Rogue River. Score of the encounter was 8 to 0. . Christian gave up one walk and two men got to first sack on errors. The pitcher also helped his cause with three hits in four times up. One was a double. Er rol Tresham also hit three for four including a three-bagger. The Eagles will play Talent here Saturday. Three game changes have been announced by Coach Jerry Mosby. The Eagles are now scheduled to play Illi nois Valley on Wednesday night, April 20, at Cave Junction and on Thursday night, April 21, at Eagle Point. They'll play Phoe nix here on April 28. LINESCORE: Eagle Point 201 040 18 10 2 Rogue River .... 000 000 0 0 0 4 Christian and Tresham: Towse. Headrick (4) and Prefountaine. Hardtop Auto Starts Sunday Medford's hardtop auto racing season will begin on Sunday aft-1 ernoon, April 17, it was an-1 nounced today. Races under the sponsorship j of the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce this year will be held at the Jackson County speedway at the sheriff's posse grounds west of Medford. First contest Sunday will get underway at 1:30 p.m., accord ing to Bill Rozell, general chair man and track manager for the junior chamber project. He said there will be a $1,000 guaran teed purse for the first program of the year. Cars will be larger with big ger engines and with more speed Rozell reported. The track rec ord has been broken unofficial ly already by the newest car out, he added. James To Race Cecil James, last year's No. 2 driver, will skipper the Ellis market special. Leadfoot Lou Chinook Fishing Slow on Rogue Portland (U.R) The weekiy fishing report prepared by the State Game Commission: SOUTHWEST: Bass being taken at Siltcoos and Tahken itch lakes; bass fighing good in south fork Coos and fair in Isthmus slough with bullheads best bait. Chinook fishing slow in Rogue; spring chinook seasons opens in Umpqua April 15; up river deadlines are Rock creek on North Umpqua and Jackson creek on South Umpqua; pros pects not too good. LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF SALE Notice is hereby given that on the 23rd day of April, 1955. at 10:00 o'clock, A.M., at the front door of the Courthouse in Medford. Jackson County, Oregon. I will sell at public auction for cash to the highest bid der, all the right, title and interest of the defendant in and to the following described real property situated in Jackson County. Oregon, to-wit: Lot Twenty-one (21) in Block Two (2i of the Hockenyos Addition to the City of Medford. Jackson County. Oregon. Said sale is made pursuant to an execution in foreclosure issued out of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, for the County of Jackson, on the 19th day of March. 1955. in a cer tain suit therein, wherein John C. Stockman is plaintiff and Daisy M. Herd is defendant. Dated this 23rd day of March. 1955. HOWARD GAULT. Sheriff Jackson County. Oregon JJarceUa Bryant, deputy . Thursday, April 14, 1955 Sparks Victory Kirrene, 23, played with Colo rado Springs last year after a three-year hitch in the Coast Guard. He led the Western League in hitting with .343. He also is rated the fastest man on the Seals team, next to Ted Beard. In other PCL games, the league leading Sacramento Sol ons beat Oakland, 6-2, with the help of another fine relief pitch ing stint by aging Al Brazle; veteran Elmer Singleton blank ed Hollywood on four hits as Seattle won, 6-0, and Los An geles edged San Diego, 5-3, by scoring two runs in the ninth on shortstop Buddy Peterson's error. Sacramento topped Oakland for the second straight night as the 40-year-old Brazle once again came in to bail out a youngster in trouble. Tuesday night Brazle saved the win for Ed Cereghino and last night he did it for John Briggs. Singleton whiffed five and walked four in handcuffing Hol loywood while his Seattle mates rapped Bob Garber, Bob Wade, Lloyd Carden and Wally Pitts for 10 hits. Los Angeles loaded the bases off Padre loser Jim Melton in the ninth and Theolic Smith took over. Bob Talbot hit a grounder to Peterson and the Padre shortstop kicked the ball into right field. Cal McLish and Ed Winceniak scored the win ning "runs on the error. LINESCORES: Portland 100 104 0309 15 1 S. Francisco 031 300 111 10 15 4 Lint. Anthony (3).Satalich (4). Mos ser (6). Hall (8) and Calderone. Bot tler (8); Hernandez, Fraccia IK), Za bella (8). Chandler (9) and Tornay, Ritchey (9). Oakland 000 002 0002 5 1 Sacramento ....100 022 Olx 6 8 2 Cain, Murphy (7) and Neal; Briggs, Brazle (8) and Baich. Seattle 002 010 3006 10 0 Hollywood 000 000 0000 4 2 Singleton and Ginsberg: Garbei, Wade (6), Cardon (8), Pitts (9) and Hall. Los Angeles ..000 001 2025 10 1 San Digo 000 000 030 3 6 2 Piktuzis, Lown (8), Tremel (9) and Pramesa. Hannah (9); Carmichael, Melton (9). T. Smith (9) and Aylward, Gladd (8). Race Season Afternoon Kurz will operate a new speed ster, a Hudson, and Bud Hurt will be gunning again in M-21. Driver of Phil Bryant's new car will be Wayne Lemley. The car has been listed as definitely a top contender. Vic Surroz, new auto dealer here, is spon sor of what may prove the sea son's fastest car. Southern Oregon Race club of Medford will provide many of the drivers. Car jockeys from throughout southern Oregon and from northern California are scheduled to vie in the op ener. Walt Smith is co-chairman with Rozell for the Jaycees. Jen nings Pierce Jr., is grounds sup ervisor and Dick Bowers is in charge of concessions. TIME PEROT IF . . . Armstrong's Garage 122 JANNEY LANE o PHONE 3-1215 FRIDAY APRIL 15th SPECIALIZING IN- o Wheel Alignment o Wheel Balancing o Brakes and Motor Tune-Up FREE PICK UP and DELIVERY GEORGE ARMSTRONG, Owner Formerly Associated with Young's Service Shop for 38 years . . . Extends A Cordial Invitation To All To Come Out and , Inspect Our New Shop STUDS OUTLINE PLANS FOR BASEBALL SEASON; MELLBYE HEADS CLUB Clarence Mellbye will be player manager of the Medford Chenev Studs baseball team again this year and the club will continue its policy of rebuilding with young players. That was the "ord today from Bill Askwith of the Cheney For- CLARENCE MELLBYE To Manage Cheney Studs est Products firm, Central Point, which will sponsor the atuas in the Southern Ore2on League. Askwith will assist the manager. Mellbye is head baseball coacn and assistant football coach at Crater high school. Six or seven players from last year's squad will be back, Ask with reported. There will be other local and 'outside" talent. Four players from colleges may be brought in. Plans now call for an enlarged pitching staff. There will be five or six pitchers, two catchers, five infielders and four outfielders on the club, ac cording to Askwith. . Players are being contacted how but Askwith said he felt it too early to mention names. He did, however, indicate that one of the pitchers-talked to was Jim Kelly, ex-St. Mary's High oi Medford, who was a Brookings Beaver moundsman last season. Kelly is a sophomore on the var sity at Santa Clara university. Three righthinders and three southpaw twirlers are being contacted. Strength Sought Other Cheney aims are more strength at shortstop and more batting power. The Studs hope to give Med ford fans lots of baseball and are working on a 40 to 45 game slate. They will play 24 games in the loop. Eight others so far billed include non-loop action with Grants Pass and Drain, which are members of the SOL and tussles with Yreka and Mt. Shasta, Calif. Twelve other con tests currently are being nego tiated, Askwith reported. Scheduling has been some what complicated by the fact that Hilt, Calif., and Eugene are not fielding semi-pro clubs this sum mer and that Klamath is com bining with Tulelake, Calif. It is felt that the Southern Oregon League will be more powerful this year with the ad dition of Bend and Bandon. Bend won 19 games and lost only two last season. It competed in a cen tral Oregon and Northern Cali fornia circuit. Strong Nucleus Bandon was a foe of the Studs in the former Southwestern Ore gon League. It has a strong nu cleus of local talent including three boys up from the 1954 high school team, three men with semi-pro backgrounds and three other men with pro exper ience. The ex-prep players are Pitcher Allen Prewitt now at Linfield college, Catcher Vic Backlund now at Willamette university and Wimpy Hastings, now playing for the University of Oregon Frosh. Paul Gehrman, Cheney Studs pitcher from 1948 through 1953, will manage the Bend team and But Russell is business manager. Mel Ingram, head football and baseball coach at GP high, has been named skipper of the Grants Pass entry in the SOL. The team will be known as the Elks, instead of Cavemen, and will be sponsored by the Elks lodge. Del Thursland will be business manager. Helser Again Drain will have Roy Helser, Linfield cpac at the helm again with Bill jBetham handling the business Bijd once more. Dave Douglass will skipper Coquille with Chuck Adams the business man. Bill Burgher, pilot of the former Bandon Millers, may head the team from that town with Rudy Backlund taking care of the business end. Pete Leismeister is business skipper for Brookings but name of the playing manager has not been learned. League play is set to open May 28 and 29 but openers may be pushed back to a June date if Roseburg decides to become the eighth SOL member and the loop is divided. Unless Roseburg decides to come in this week end, it is definitely out for 1955, Askwith reported. There is a chance that Coos Bay-North Bend will petition to enter a club in the loop. 16 Rogue River Boys in Hayward Relay Encounter Rogue River Rogue River high will be out to improve on its 1954 third place finish Friday when it enters the Class C divis ion of the Hayward relays at Eugene. Coach Tinker Hatfield has named a 17-man aggregation to make the trip. The squad will leave here about 6 a.m. Friday. C competition starts at 12:30 p.m. The coach plans to enter Jack Herburger, Clete Daily and Don Doolittle in the Class B shot put relay to give them experience against tougher competition. Their marks will not count in the scoring but their efforts will count toward their letters. Her burger is the C shot entry. ROSTER: Pole vault Harold Moore: broad jump Ted Stanfield: shot put Jack Herburger: discus Herburger; jave lin Bill Headrick; distance medley Larrv EUedge thre-fourths mile, Gary Phillips 440. Del McKenzie or BUbee Lane 880 and Lawrence Wagner mile: 440-Bob Hoover, Headrick. Lane or Fred Bond and Gary Johnson: sprint medley Hoover and Headrick 110, Johnson 220, Gray Stewart 440: shut tle hurdles Lloyd Morrow. Herbur ger, Stanfield: high jump Stanfield. Stewart. Johnson. Alternates Alfred Vanscoter, Bond, Clee Daily, Don Doolittle. GOLFERS TEE OFF Greensboro, N.C. (U.R) A field of 160 tees off here today in the opening round of the 1,8th annual Greater Greensboro Op en golf tournament with pros pects , for some of the lowest scores in the history of the event. 12 on Eagle Relay Squad Eagle Point A squad of 12 boys will compete for Eagle Point high in the Class B Hay ward relays at Eugene Friday providing all can make the trip, Coach Jerry Mosby reported. He said that entry of two boys was questionable. Ted Greb may be unable to go because of death of a relative and Eldon Mason has been troubled with a knee injury. Mosby's tentative crew has Frank Reich, Greb and Gale Friend listed for the high jump and Adrian Elrod, Bob East gate, Jerry Eastgate and Ken Marcoft scheduled for the dis tance medley. Reich, Bob Stew ard. Ted Daw and Greb may be on the 440-yard quartet and Daw is to be the broad jumper. Mason is ticketed for the jave line and Friend for the pole vault. Reich, Stewart and Jerry Cave may combine in the shut tle hurdles and Mason, Stewart, Greb and Daw in the sprint med ley. Dick Wallace is on the roster as discus man. Pollard Gets LaSalle Job Minneapolis, Minn. (U.R) Jim Pollard, known as "Jump ing" Jim" during his eight years as a professional with the Min neapolis Lakers basketball club, said today he intends to make a sure-footed debut as new head basketball coach at La Salle Uni versity in Philadelphia. "I'm going to try to keep my feet on the ground and let first things come first," Pollard said from his home here. He said the first thing he want ed to do was go to La Salle "to meet the squad and let the play ers meet me then we will find out what our best course of ac tion will be." Pollard, who accepted a three year contract Wednesday at re ported $8,500 a year, succeeds Ken Loeffler who resigned re cently to become head coach at Texas A and M. Red Wings Choice In Cup Finale Detroit (U.R) The Detroit Red Wings, who drubbed Mont real in the final game of the regular season to win the Nation al Hockey League championship, were favored to duplicate that victory over the Canadiens to night to cart off the Stanley Cup. Detroit and Montreal have carried their best-of-seven cup final the limit in what has been strictly a home ice series. The Red Wings posted three victories at home and the Canadiens won three in Montreal. OLD (r Mixed 2-BaII Competition This Sunday - First of the annual series of mixed two-ball golf foursomes at Rogue Valley Country club vill be held on Sunday, April 17, Co-Chairmen Ivan Harring ton and Howard McClure have announced. Nine other mixed tourneys cn j Sundays are scheduled through September with, low net winners taking temporary possession of the Brophy's Jewelry trophies. Flay-off for permanent posses-i sion of the trophies is slated for October 2. There will be other prizes for the events. Tee-off time is 1:30 p.m. this Sunday. For the first week men are scheduled to team with their wives. The co-chairmen said that a call to the pro shop by couples planning to play would be ap preciated. Sweepstakes Left Dates of other contests are May 8 and 22, June 5 and 19, July 10 and 31, August 14 and September 11 and 25. The Sep tember 25 affair will be com bined with the Me and Mine tourney. Club Pro Al Williams said al son that blind bogey sweepstakes aie planned each Saturday with low net and low gross prizes. Tne first will be this Saturday. The mixed competition and sweepstakes are part of a long schedule of golfing activities planned at Rogue Valley this year. Spring handicap play is now in progress and it will be fol lowed by the two-ball match play tourney in May and June. Father and son action is set for May 22 and National Golf day play will be on June 4. Club Championship The club championship tour nament is set for June 4 through August 14 and the Southern Oregon Junior championship af fair is on June 6 and 7. A team match with Klamath Falls will be on June 12 and the Senior Golf championship will be con tested July 23 to August 21. A team match with Eugene is plan ned on July 24 and with Grants Pass on August 21. The annual Southern Oregon tournament, expected again to draw a large entry vill be Sep tember 1 through 5. Local linksmen will go to Red ding, Calif., for a match on Sep tember 18. The fall handicap will run October 1 through No vember 6. A holiday handicap is scheduled from November 24 through January 1. Jack Wood is tournament chairman for RVCC. BEARCATS WIN Salem (U.R) Willamette defeated Oregon College of Ed ucation 98V2 to 36V& in a track and field meet yesterday. setved in "tfie best doles... The txtu T8i nrlch ml Its f rait IP D gjj eckout 40s STB - .. 1 8B PROOF HICKORY DISTILLING CORPORATION PHILADELPHIA, PA. Baseball Action Slated in Area While the Hayward relayi steal a big share of the lime light, there nevertheless will be considerable baseball action this week for high schools of this area. In the Jackson county B League Rogue River and Pros pect started activity today with a fray at Prospect. On Friday Talent goes to Jacksonville and St. Mary's to Butte Falls. St. Mary's has non-loop competition on Staurday, opposing Sacred Heart at Klamath Falls. Talent goes out of the circuit on Satur day for a mix at Eagle Point. In Class A the big event Sat urday will be a Medford-Klam-ath Falls doublebill on the Medford diamond. Ashland plays Crater in a single scrap at Central Point. Crater disposed of Klamath Falls on Tuesday 3 to 2 while Grants Pass was licking Ash land 6 to 3. War berg Chosen Pendleton Coach Pendleton -(U.R) Dale War berg, former University of Ore gon basketball player, will coach the hoop team at Pendleton high school next season. Warberg, 28, coached at Grant Union high of John Day last season. Gun Club Will Conduct Shooting School Sunday Plans for a skeet tournament on May 15 were made last night at a business meeting and crab feed of the Medford Gun club. It will be for small bore-20 guage and open competition. Arrangements for the southern zone registered trapshoot on April 23 and 24 were discussed. The club will hold a shooting school from 1 to 5 p.m. on Sat urday, April 16. New shooters vill be welcome. About 30 members attended the crab feed. MORE Rotary Tiller Garden Tractor ixuuvator Tin tnter rtiurf milk wneel. nek, Mnlrhlnr ar Aasle Baton Two Machines in On.' Powerful Garden Tractor and Rotary Tiller prepare seed bed la aae eau operation. With simple Eaay-Oa at tachment It' 17 machine . . sura at Sickle Bar. Snow Plow. Rotary Mower, Litter Stirrer. Bulldoier. etc Seeinx I beilerinc Ask for llnmia strati on! $ 1 795 SO I Down OlWo. 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