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Winter Deal Pays Off
For SL Cardinals as
Smith Shines on Hill
By FRED DOWN
United Press Sports Writer
Edde Stanley's big winter deal
paid its first dividend today
when Frank Smith displayed
the powerful relief pitching
which the St. Louis Cardinals
believe will make them Nation
al League pennant contender.
Smith, acquired from Cincin
nati last December for third
baseman Ray Jablonski and
pitcher Gerry Staley. made a
winning debut for the Cardinals
Thursday when he hurled the
last three innings of an 11 - inn
ing 8-7 victory over the Mil
waukee Braves. Smith took over
with the Braves leading, 7-6,
and shut them out with only one
hit the remainder of the way.
Given the sturdy, late - inn
ing relief pitching which they
lacked so often in 1954, the Car
dinals tied the score on Stan Mu
sial's ninth inning home run and
won the game tripper in the
11th. Red Schoendienst, Rip Re
pulski and Wally Moon also hit
homers for the Cardinals while
Bobby Thomson and Danny O'
Connell homered for the Braves.
Smith Misses Bag
At that, the 27-year-old Smith
almost deprived himself of the
victory with a boner which re
called the famous blunder in
1908 which made Fred Merkle of
the New York Giants immortal.
Moon had singled with Smith
on first and Bob Stephenson on
third in the 10th inning,
Stephenson trotting home with
what appeared to be the winning
run. But the alert Braves noticed
that Smith neglected to touch
second base and threw the ball
there forcing out the pitcher and
nullifying the run.
The old spring axiom that the
pitchers are ahead of the hit
ters took a beating as N. L. slug
gers pounded out a total of 20
homers in four games. The maj
or league record of 25 home runs
in one day was set in seven
games on July 16, 1950..
A total of six home runs
were hit as the Brooklyn Dod
gers ruined the world champion
New York Giants' home opener
with a 10-8 triumph. Don New
combe, who was a disappoint
ment in his first mound test of
the season, drove in three runs
with two homers and Ray Cam
panella and Carl Furillo also
homered for the Dodgers. Hank
Thompson and Bobby Hofman
homered for the Giants, who
dropped their second straight
game of the new season.
Cubs Win Third
Tenth-inning homers by Ran
som Jackson and Ernie Banks
enabled the Chicago Cubs to de
feat the Cincinnati Redlegs, 6-4,
and run their winning streak to
three games. The Cubs had gone
ahead in the top of the ninth
when pitcher Hal Jeff coat
homered but the Redlegs tied
the score in the bottom half of
the frame on Gus Bell's two-out
round-tripper. It was the third
straight loss for the Redlegs.
Herman Wehmeier's six - hit
pitching paced the Philadelphia
Phillies to a 4-3 win over the
Pittsburgh Pirates in a game
that produced "only" three
homers. Willie Jones hit one for
Philadelphia while rookie Ra
mon Mejias and Preston Ward
homered for the Pirates. Weh
meier's victory extended his life
time record against the Pirates
to 19-7.
Mike Garcia, a 19 - game win
ner last season, pitched a six
hitter and Al Smith and Jim He
gan homered to lead the Cleve
land Indians to their second
straight win a 5-3 decision
over the Detroit Tigers.
Willard Nixon, with relief aid
from Ellis Kinder, was the win
ning pitcher as the Boston Red
Sox beat the New York Yankees,
8-4, while Sandy Consuegra
pitched a three-hitter to give
the Chicago White Sox a 7 - 1
triumph over the Kansas City
Athletics.
LINESCORES:
National League
Philadelphia . 031 000 000 4 8 0
Pittsburgh 200 000 001 3 6 3
Wehmeier (1-0) and LoData. Little
field, Friend (2). King1 (4). Wade (3)
and Atwell. Losing pitcher Little
field (0-1).
Brooklyn . ....000 410 500 10 10 1
New York ....010 110 320 8 13 2
Newbombe. ' Hughes (8) and Cam
panula. Maglie. Corvin (5). Wilhelm
5), Grissom (9) and Westrum. Katt
(9). Winning pitcher Newcombe
(1-0). Losing pitcher Maglie (0-1).
(10 Innings)
Chicago 011 000 001 36 13 1
Cincinnati . 000 000 OOl 1 4 8 0
Rush. Jeffcoat (8). Pollett (10) and
Chiti. Valentine. Minarcin (8). Lane
(10). Klippstein (10) and Bailey. Win
ning pitcher Jeffcoat (1-0). Losing
pitcher Lane (0-1).
(11 Innings)
Milw 010 104 100 00 7 10 2
St. Louis ... 010 010 131 01 8 13 2
Conley. Jolly (8), Kosio (11) and
Crandall. Haddix. Lawrence (8).
Smith (9) and Rice, Sarni (7). Winning
pitcher smith (1-0). Losing pitcner
Koslo (0-1).
American League
Kansas City ....000 000 1001 3 1
Chicago 020 002 12x 7 10 0
R. Shantz. Dixon (8) and A. Shantz.
Robertson (8). Consuegra (1-0) and
Lollar. Losing pitcher ft. Shantz (0-1).
New York 000 002 020 4 9 0
Boston 110 102 12x 8 10 0
Grim. Sturdivant (7) and i Eerra.
Nixon, Kinder (8) and White. Winning
pitcher Nixon (1-0). Losing pitcher
Grime (0-1).
Cleveland 200 020 001 5 11 0
Detroit 100 020 0003 6 1
Garcia (1-0) and Hegan. Hoeft. Zu
verink (1). Aber (6), Flowers (9) and
House. Losing pitcher Hoeft (0-1).
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BOWLING
COMMERCIAL LEAGUE
Few changes took place in the
Commercial Bowling league this
week.
C&C Loggers widened their
margin in first place with a 3-1
series over Mail Tribune. Crater
Lake Motors moved into a tie
for third with a split of four
games with Morning Fresh.
Table Rock dropped Darling
Real Estate into the tie for third
with a 3 to 1 series. Domestic
Laundry beat Valentines Cafe
4 to 0 and in the battle for the
cellar Quality Market shoved
First National Bank deeper wilh
a 3 to 1 win.
Bates Candy with Ira Bolling
er picking up a 4-6 7-10 split
downed Alexander and Brown
3 to 1.
High series of the evening
went to Nels Florey with a 585.
Cater Lake Motors had high
team series of 2664.
Standings: W. L.
C&C Loggers 25 11
Alexander & Brown 22 14
Crater Lake Motors 21 15
Darling Real Estate 21 15
Mail Tribune 19 17
Morning Fresh 18 13
Bates Candy 17 i 1814
Table Rock Lumber 17 19
Domestic Laundry 17 19
Valentine Cafe 15 Vx 20 'i
Quality Market 12 . 24
First National Bank 11 25
Results:
1st Nat'l Bank (1)
Dimick
Shuler
Bennett
Nissen
Clark
Handicap
425
423
485
450
516
78
2377 Total
Quality Mkt.
Lubbers
Kyker
Ratty
(Absentee)
Henderson,
(3)
513
500
540
441
462
Table Rock (3)
Gardner 558
Neece 511
Kreer 4o8
Freeman 438
Schroeder 477
2442
Darling's
Olsen
Copeland
Boyd
Clave
McNeel
Handicap
2486
(1)
458
478
475
466
441
90
2408
Morning Fresh (2)
Beck 518
Barry 523
Shinn 479
Spain 576
Sacchi 506
Handicap 54
2556
Crater L. Mtrs. (2)
Vessev 553
Farrar 499
Royce 498
Florey 585
Cannon 529
2664
Mail Tribune (1) C and C (3)
Anderson b77 Joe Cabler 552
Monsey 511 Jim Cabler 477
Casey '408 Tennant 544
LicHell 522 Jack Cabler 527
Spaunhorst 501 Bob Cabler 544
Handicap 9
2528
2644
Valentine's
Straus
Klepper
Lehman
Carr
Schnider
(0) Domestic Ldry. i4)
548 Weber 488
378 Olson 388
441 Kantor 525
471 Johnson 512
492 Garrett 530
Handicap 3
2330
378
Bates Candy (3)
Thompson 523
Grant
Gustison
Bollinger
Dixon
Handicap
A and B
Boone
Guldan
409 Meyers
484 Bex
503 Knapp
144
2441
2446
(1)
464
461
439
500
482
2346
EVERGREEN LEAGUE
Pierce Freight Lines lengthen
ed its lead on first place by tak
ing a 3 to 1 series from City
Slickers lead by Gene Dayon
with a 571 series. John Compag
noni headed the City Slickers
with a 591.
Medford Barbers Jumped into
second with a 3 to 1 win over
Swift and Co. Tru Mix Co., with
consistent bowling also took a
3 to 1 series from Big Y Market.
Jorgensen's Dairy won a 4 to 0
series from an undermanned Bel
Air team.
In the battle for the cellar
Sherwin Williams took a 3 to 1
win from First National Bank.
Standings:
Pierce Freight Lines
Medford Barbers
Swift & Co.
Tru Mix Co.
Jorgensen's Dairy ,
City Slickers
Bel-Airs
Sherwin Williams
Big Y Super Market .
First National Bank .-
W.
41
38
37 i
31
30
28
23
24
24
3114
L.
19
22
22 1.
29
30
32
35
36
36
38i.
Results:
S-W Paint
Olson
Hull
Thompson
Bex
Shaw
Handicap
3 1st Natl. Bank 1
489 Dimick .515
475 Shuler 505
428 Miller 457
505 Bennett 471
526 Absentee 462
60
2483 2410
City Hall
Stevens
Dow
McKinstry .
Duff
Compagnonl
Handicap
1 Pierce Freight 3
411 Larson 498
390 Doyon 571
388 Hawley 384
442 Negler 417
591 Vallee 479
36
2259 2349
Big Y
Berry
Franz
Boone
McQuat
Speer
1 Tru Mix 3
524 Snedden 476
419 Cummings 478
465 Baize 488
437 G. Burroughs 491
561 J. Burroughs 494
Handicap 63
2406 2490
Jorgensen's 4 Bel Aairs 0
Givler 472 Maggenti 523
Loop-Leading Sacs
Push Oaks in Cellar
By PETER HAYES
United Press Sports Writer
Revenge must have been
sweet today for Charley Gra
ham, general manager of the
Pacific Coast League - leading
Sacramento Solons.
His club beat Oakland, 4-3,
last night for the third straight
time and dropped the Oaks into
the PCL cellar. There is prob
ably only one other team that
Charley enjovs beating as much.
That's San Francisco.
Graham's distaste for the
Oaks and Seals goes back to
the final week of the spring
exhibition season when he ac
cused the management of the
two teams of conniving to plav
each other on the day San
Francisco was scheduled to meet
the Sacs.
"Rude . . . inconsiderate . . .
contract violation," howled Gra
ham when he arrived in Briw
ley, Calif., with his team from
Yuma, Ariz., to learn that the
Seals-Solons game had been
canceled.
Ashland Track
Auto Race Scene
Again on Sunday
Ashland Ashland Speedway
will be the scene of some more
thrill packed auto racing, when
the hardtoppers report to the
oval Sunday.
Crock Hunter, veteran driver
of A-15, held his car under con
trol for 25 laps to take the main
event. Walley Cannon, pilot of
A-20, crowded Hunter the last
10 laps but was unable to find
the extra power to overtake him.
Sunday's races had their share
of roll-overs, with Tom Allen
rolling A-ll in the first heat.
Walley Cannon also thrilled the
sports fans by taking a flip. Bob
Meyers, driver of A-16, holds
the record for the opening race
for roll-overs by going through
the ordeal twice. All drivers
escaped without injury.
As in the past seasons of rac
ing, points mean a lot to the
drivers and after last weekend's
race, the following drivers re
ceived points:
Chuck Davis, 40; Floyd Boot
field, 38; Joe Ellison, 37; Freddy
Fredrick, 38; Bob Meyers, 35;
Crock Hunter, 35; Walley Can
non, 33; Ted Sletten, 7 and Ed
Butler, 5.
So a hometown crowd of 4858
cheered with Graham last night
as the Sacs bombed Oak right
hander Al Gettel (0-3) for 11
hits and southpaw Bud Daley
became the first PCL flinger to
win three games. Daley was lift
ed in the eighth, however, after
the Oaks broke through for
three runs. Milo Candini fin
ished. Elsewhere in the league, lefty
Steve Nagy (1-1) was nicked for
11 hits but hung on as San
Francisco edged Portland, 4-3;
Hollywood exploded for five
runs in the sixth to trounce
Seattle. 7-2, and Steve Bilko ini
John Pramesa homered in the
fcurth to boost Los Angeles to
a 4-1 win over San Diego.
The Seals came from behind
in the fourth for two runs off
rookie righthander Leroy Hm
(0-2) as a raw wind whipped
513 fans in Seals Stadium. Nagy
settled down after a shaky start
and blanked the Beavers in th
last six innings to give San
Francisco a 2-1 series- edge.
Joe Kirrene, San Francisco's
young hitting phenom, went hit
lers in three trips but drove in a
run with a sacrifice fly. He's
now batting .476.
1INESCORES:
Oakland 000 000 030 3 8 2
Sac-amento ... 000 101 20x 4 11 1
Gettel, Beamon (3) and Neal: Daley,
Candini (8) and Sheely.
Pritchett 473 Wilson 483
Jorgensen 443 Barclay 444
Schrein 422 Radzweit 417
Ellis 482 Wilson 440
Handicap 294
258S 2307
Medfr'd Barbers 3 Swift A Co. 1
Kirk 547 Clave 494
DeGroot 493 Mathes 473
Chapman 465 Freeman 502
Clark 501 Messelbeck 422
Wise 554 Griffith 395
2560 2286
Portland 012 000 0003 11 0
San Francisco 200 -200 OOx 4 7 0
Han. Lint (5) and Caldorone; Nagy
and Ritchey, Tornay (8).
Friday, April 15, 1955
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN
Seattle 000 110 000 2 13 0
Hollywood 010 015 OOx 7 7 2
Heard, Brenner (6) Kindsfather (8)
and Ginsberg; O'Donnell and Mangan.
Los Angeles ..010 300 000 4 8 0
San Diego 100 000 000 1 5 3
McLish and Pramesa: Kerrigan,
Herrera (9) and Gladd.
Irv Noren Faces
Loop Discipline;
Howard Enters
Boston (U.R) Outfielder Irv
Noren of the New York Yankees
faced possible disciplinary action
by the American League today
after his run-in with Umpire Bill
McKinley in Thursday's Yankees-Boston
Red Sox game.
Noren was called out at home
by McKinley on a close play in
the sixth inning and was ejected
from the game when he hotly
disputed the call and pushed
against McKinley. Outfielder
Hank Bauer was ejected shortly
after for exchanging words with
McKinley, but did not appear to
face any other punishment.
When Noren was ejected, he
was replaced in left field by
Elston Howard. It marked the
first time a Negro ever appeared
in a regular season game for the
Yankees.
The Red Sox won the game,
6-4.
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Holy Mims Pick
Over Bob Jones
Philadelphia (U.R) Youth
and a No. 4 middleweight rating
made Holly Mims of Washington
a 9-5 favorite to defeat Bobby
Jones of Oakland, Calif., tonight
in their nationally-televised and
broadcast lO-rounder.
The upset-minded Jones will
be fighting in the same arena
ring in which he handed two
stunning surprises to Gil Turner
in his only previous appearances
here. A bob-and-weave special
ist who throws punches in pro
fusion, Jones has the experience
and equipment to turn the
tables on his younger opponent.
Mims, a 25-year-old counter
puncher who has lost only to
Rocky Castellani in his last 15
starts, wants to boost his pres
tige in the 160-pound division,
especially since champion Carl
Bobo Olson appears to be eye
ing the light-heavy and heavy
titles after his easy victory over
Joey Maxim.
Duke Snider Makes 2nd
Best Catch of Career .
New York U.R) Duke Sni
der, the Brooklyn Dodgers' star
centerfielder, thinks the catch he
made on Monte Irvin's drive in
Thursday's Dodgers-Giants game
was "the second best of my car
eer." Irvin, first batter in the last
half of the ninth, whaled the
ball deep into center. Snider,
racing back and to his right,
made a leaping, twisting, back
hand catch and then fell to the
cinders at the base of the low
fence.
Snider said the best catch he
ever made was on a drive hit by
Willie Jones of the Phillies on
May 31 last year. That time he
dug his spikes in the fence and
leaped to make a backward
catch and end the game.
Death Takes Wolgast,
Former Boxing Champ
Camarilla, Calif. (U.R) For
mer lightweight champion Ad
Wolgast, who held the world
title from 1910 to 1912, died
yesterday at Carmarillo State
Hospital after a long illness. He
was 67.
Wolgast, the famed Michigan
Assassin of the ring during his
colorful career, had been con
fined to hospitals since 1936 as a
result of brain injuries suffered
in the ring.
Dykes Appointed
Redlegs Co?ch
Cincinnati, O . U. cJ Jimmy
Dykes, fop 38 years an American
leaguer as a player coach, and
manager, started anew today as
first base coach of the Cincin
nati Redlegs.
' Dykes, who spent 22 years as
a player in the junior circuit, 15
with the Philadelphia Athletics
and seven with the Chicago
White Sox, was let out as mana
ger of the Baltimore Orioles last
September and has been taking
things "easy" at his home in Nor
ristown, Pa., since.
The colorful Dykes will re
place Tom Ferrick as first base
coach of the Redlegs and picks
up the team Saturday. Ferrick.
thus will be released to devote
all of his time to coaching' the
Cincinnati pitchers.
STERLING TO MOVE
Eugene (U.R) Vern Sterling,
football line coach at the Univer
sity of Oregon, today announced
his resignation to accept a posi
tion on the coaching staff at San
Mateo, Calif., Junior college.
Sterling said he was taking the
new job to be closer to his par
ents who live in Menlo Park,
Calif. He will remain here
through spring practice and head
coach Len Casanova said there
would be no rush to name a successor.
BABE FAVORED
Beaumont, Tex. (U.R)
Babe Didrickson Zaharias was
a hometown favorite to take top
honors in the third annual Babe
Zaharias Open golf tournament
which got under way today, but
defending champion Louise
Suggs seemed ready to make it
a first-class fight.
CEAMPS END SWIM
Victoria, B.C. (U.R) Bert
Thomas, a husky ex-frogman,
was pulled from the water early'
today suffering from stomaca
cramps after covering about six
miles in an attempt to become
the first person to swim th
Strait of Juan de Fuca. Thomas,
of Tacoma, Wash., was lifted
from the 42-degree water at
2:02 a.m. PST and was reported
receiving treatment for shock
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Greensboro, N.C. (U.R)
The 18th annual Greater
Greensboro Open golf tourna
ment was scheduled to start to
day after a 24-hour delay caused
by bad weather conditions. Ray
O'Brien, PGA tournament di
rector, and Mack Arnold Jr. of
the sponsoring Greensboro Jun
ior Chamber of Commerce post
poned the start of the $12,500
tournament Thursday after
heavy rain turned the course
into a sea of mud and water.
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deaths and 35 per cent of the in
juries due to motor vehicle ac
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