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Newspaper Page TextTEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Yankees Trounce Orioles 6-0; Doby Leads Tribe to Victory W. L. Pet. GB 7 0 1.000 4 2 .667 22 4 2 .667 22 4 3 .571 3 3 3 .500 3'i 2 5 .286 5 2 5 J286 5 0 6 .000 62 Brooklyn Philadelphia Milwaukee . Chicago St. Louis New York Cincinnati Pittsburgh Monday's Results New York 12. Pittsburgh 1 Milwaukee 2. Chicago 1 Brooklyn 5. Philadelphia 2 (night) Cincinnati 7. St. Louis 4 (night) AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Prt. 1 - .833 2 .714 GB !i 1 Hi 2 2 4 5 Boston Cleveland . New York Chicago Detroit ... Washington Kansas City Baltimore 5 4 3 3 2 1 0 .667 .600 .500 .500 .167 .000 Monday's Results Cleveland 11, Kansas City t New York 6. Baltimore 0 . By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Sports Writer Lefty Whitey Ford of the Yankees vowed that this was the season he would get off to a fast start in the spring and go. on to win 20 games for the first time in his big league career. Today, the 26 - year - old blond pitching star from Glen Cove, N.Y. has won two games in which he has given up a -total of five hits and one run. If he keeps pitching that way, he'll reach that 20 victory goal easily and become the new ace of the Yankee staff in the bargain. Monday night, hot-rod Ford mowed down the Orioles in Bal timore, 6-0, with just three hits, all singles and all in different innings. Mickey Mantle hit a two run homer and Irv Noren" drilled a double and single good for three runs to make Ford's take easier. In his first start against Washington, he held the Sena tors to just two hits. . Athletics Blow Lead - At Kansas City, the Athletics took an 8-0 lead, then blew an 11-9 decision to the Indians when Larry Doby hit a three - run homer with two out in the ninth. The Athletics hit five homers, by Jim Finigan, Gus Zernial, Bill Wilson, Vic Power, and Bill Ren na but their pitchers failed to hold the early margin and Ewell Blackwell served up the fatal toss to Doby which sent an over flow crowd of 31,563 home full of dismay after Kansas City's first night game. In the National League, the unbeaten Brooklyn Dodgers made it seven victories in a row with a 5-2 triumph at Philadel phia, Cincinnati drubbed the Cardinals, 7-4, the Giants poured it on Pittsburgh 12-3, and Mil waukee edged the Cubs, .2-1. Other American League teams had open dates. Duke Snider rapped a three run homer high over the right field wall and, winning pitchers Carl Erskine kicked in with a two-run single for the Dodgers. They scored all their runs in a big sixth inning, but Erskine still had to have relief help when his control lapsed in the same frame. Rookie Ed Roebuck pitched hitless ball the rest of the way. Redlegs Beat Cardinals Gus Bell drove in three runs with a single and a double in Cincinnati's triumph at St. Louis. The Redlegs chased start er Vic Raschi with a four - run rally in the second inning in which Ed Bailey tripled and Glen Gorbous doubled, Rip Re- pulski hit a two-run St. Louis homer. Joe Nuxhall, with relief help from Rudy Minarcin, gain ed his first victory. Milwaukee came from behind to defeat Chicago when Eddie Mathews hit a two-run double in the eighth inning after a walk to Chuck Tanner and a single by Hank Aaron." Bob Buhl, who gave up only five hits before yielding to a pinch-hitter in the eighth gained the victory, his first. The Giants pummeled the Pi rates with the same glee as all other clubs have hammered them so far, putting over eight runs in a riotous fourth inning. The world champs made 15 hits in all in coming out of their slump against the Bucs who have lost six games and have yet to win one. Whitey Lockman had four hits including a double and homer to set the pace. Don Lid die, touched for an Inside-the-park homer by rookie Roberto Clemente, yielded no other runs until he tired in the ninth and required relief help from Marv Brissom. Grissom stopped the Bucs after they scored two more runs. ' NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh ..000 010 000 3 ' 9 0 New York ..201 800 lOx 12 15 1 : Surkont. Grunewald (4). Face (4), Pepper t6 and Shtpard. Liddle. Gris som i9 and Westrum. Winning pitcher Liddle (1-0). Losing pitcher Sur kont (0-2). Brooklyn 000 005 000 7 3 Phila 010 010 000 2 4 0 Erskine. Roebuck (6) and Cam panella. Wehmeier. Lovinguth (6) Kipper (7) and Lopata. Winning pitch er Erskine (2-0). Losing pitcher Wehmeier (1-1). . - Chicago 100 000 000 0 6 0 Mi!w 000 000 02x 2 6 1 Hacker (-1) and Chiti. Buhl. John son (9 1 and CrandaU. Winning pitcher Buhl (1-0). Cinti 040 200 010 7 9 0 St. Louis 0200 002 000 4 10 2 Nuxhall. Minarcin 8) and Bailey. Paschi. Lapalme (2). Moford (6 1. Tie fenauer (7) and Rice. Winning pitcher Nuxhall il-O). Losing pitcher Pacific Coast's Race Tightest in 54 Years As Third Week Starts By UNITED PRESS Portland (U.R) Portland Beaver officials hoped more than 20.000 fans would crowd into Vaughn street ball park today and tonight weather permitting for the 1955 home opener against the San Diego Padres. It was scheduled lo be the last opener in Vauglm Street ..history. The Beavers move to Multnomah Stadium next sea son. The weather man forecast "occasional showers." Manager Clay Hopper named Bill Werle and Bob Hall to pitch for the Beavers. The tightest race in the 54 years of the Pacific Coast League appeared to be shaping up as the third week of the 1955 campaign got under way today, with only three games separating the first- High Overall Prize Set in Zone Shoot A trophy will be awarded to the high overall 'shooter for the two days' 500 targets when the Southern Oregon zone shoot is conducted Saturday and Sun day, April 23 and 24, at Med ford Gun club. The tourney will be a Pacific International Trapshooting regis tered event. Another prize will co to the shooter with the longest straight run. There will be a program of 250 targets each day. There will be. 16-yard, handicap and dou bles competition. Participants are expected from northern Cal western Oregon. Class Rivalry ' Class rivalry is slated in the 16-yard and doubles contests. Yardage winners will get trophies in the handicaps. The gun club will throw red top targets at the shoot. If they are liked by the shotgunners. the club will use them at future shoots. Four members of the club shot 25 straight in 16-yard activi ty last Sunday. They were Ed Pease, - Everett Gibson. Flovd Young and Gene Hunt. In skeet Martin Clogston broke 24 out of 25. Gibson shattered 22 and Sam Jennings 21. Ray Coleman fired a 47 out of 50 handicap score and George Jantzer cracked 18 in doubles. Pfeiffers Open Title Attempt The Pfeiffers, who rolled 3,181 to win in 1953 and 3,115 to take the team title the vear before, move into action after a day of mediocre scoring. Only shake-up Monday was furnished by Frank Demko of Cleveland, who nailed down 10th place in the singles with a 683 count on games of 223, 213 and 247. Carroll Davies and Hank Ma rino of Milkaukee, the latter competing in his 39th consecu tive ABC, came up with a 1,247 to lead doubles competitors. That was three pins shy of cracking the top 10. . ., - Three Hurlers Lead PCL With 3-0 Marks San Francisco (U.R) There is a three way tie for the pitch ing leadership of the Pacific Coast League with Bud Daley of Sacramento, George Bamberger of Oakland and John Oldham of Seattle each carrying 3-0 rec ords. Official statistics released to day by William Weiss show that Jehosie Heard of Seattle is tops in the strike-out department with 19. Rookie Joe Kierrene of San Francisco tops the hitters with a .417 average. Joe Brovia, Oak land,, leads in home runs with five; and Marv Williams, Seat tle, in runs-batted-in with 17. DUCK GRIDDERS DRILL Eugene - (U.R) Sixty-three football prospects turned out for opening day of spring prac tice at Oregon yesterday. The Webfoots have 13 returning let termen. Raschi (0-1). AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 003 300 000 6 8 0 Baltimore t.000 000 000 0 3 1 Ford (2-0) and Berra. Moore. Bvrd (3), Wilson (6) and Smith. Losing pitcher Moore (0-1). Cleveland . 000 050 213 11 9 0 Kansas City ..105 200 100 9 14 1 Garcia. Narleski (3i. Mossi (5). Houtteman 1 7). Feller (9) and Hepan. Foiles 15). Natagon (7): Kellner. Gor man (5), Blackwell (9) and Astroth. Winning pitcher Houteman (1-1). Losing pitcher Blackwell (0-1). (Only games scheduled) Tuesday, April 19. 195S place Sacramento Solons from the last-place Oakland Acorns. On top of that, every team in the league with the exception of the Solons was within two games or better of playing .500 ball. May Boost Attendance That's the kind of competition that makes the turnstiles click, and it may be the trick that turns President Clare V. Goodwin's prophecy of a 3,000,000 attend ance this year into a reality. That, plus good jbaseball. The latter can be attested to by the fact that 19 games were won by one run during the first two weeks of play; there were seven two-hit pitching perform ances, and 22 teams came from behind to win. Also, there were five extra inning games, which is a good indication of balance throughout the loop. The final two "opening nights" of the league will be staged today when Portland and Seattle open in their ball parks.. Jansen To Pitch At Seattle, there is a day-night twin bill. In the afternoon con test, Sacramento will send lefty Chet Johnson (1-0) to the hill against Seattle's long time big leaguer Larry Jansen. .Larry, former New York Giant star, last pitched in thjs league in 1946. In the night contest, John Briggs (2-0) will hurl for the Solons against Rinold Duren (0-1). About 20,000 will see the two tilts, if the weather is good. Portland also opens with a day-night twin bill. In the after noon Bob Hall will toe the slab for Portland and Ed Erautt will oppose him. At night it will be Bill Werle for the Beavers and Cliff Fannin for San Diego. In other games tonight, Holly wood plays San Francisco in the Seals' ball pai . and Oakland in vades Los Angeles. Champ Sets Tough Of Training Cahstoga, Calif. (U.R) World heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano resumed a tight training schedule today in prep aration for his May 16 title bout with England's Don Cockell. "The Rock" relaxed yester day to do a bit of sightseeing and pose for an oil painting by Ra phael Pricert. He walked to an abandoned mine and did 10 miles of road work at the same time. "Rocky is rapidly approach ing his top training peak," said trainer Charlie Boldman. "He's not nearly as wild as he was when we first opened drills here two weeks ago." Spars Three Rounds In San Rafael, Calif., yester day Cockell sparred three rounds with British heavyweight Ron Harmon, while local promoters worried about his lack of protec tion. The British champion has re fused to use a head guard or mouth piece during training and Bay Area fight men are afraid he will get cut. Cockell also boxed rounds of ZVz minutes each with one-half minute intervals, compared with three minutes boxing and one minute s rest used by the American fighters. O'Connell Nails. Down Second Base Position Milwaukee, Wis. (U.R) Danny O'Connell is now the Milwaukee Braves' regular second baseman against all kinds of pitching. O'Connell previously had s carted only against left-handed pitch ers, with Jack Dittmer starting against right-handers. k r "Dittmer hasn't been hitting," said Manager Charley Grimm in announcing the change. "So we'll use O'Connell against both righthanders and lefthanders." Girl Leads Seattle Win Over Beavers Corvallis il.V Seattle Uni versity's tennis team, led by a young lady, trounced Oregon State 6-1 here yesterday. Janet Hopps, women's ama teur champ in Washington, played in the No. 1 spot for the Chieftains and downed Norm Merrill of OSC 6-2, 4-6, 6-4. TABULATES VOTES New York (U.R) Officials of the" U.S. Lawn Tennis Asso ciation met today to tabulate proxy votes on a proposal to stage this year's national sin gles " championships at Forest Hills, Sept. 2-11. The production of castor oil once was centered in southern Illinois. However, it was used mostly " for lubricating purposes and not as a children's medicine, f MEDFi siPCDimrs YOU TELL 'IM IRV! Irv Noren of the New York Yankees hurls a verbal blast at plate umpire Bill McKinley after McKinley called him out at home plate in a tight play in sixth inning in game with Red Sox at Boston. All Irv earned was a trip to the showers. Boston won, 8-4. 0 Champ Thomas Will Face Yoggi Hussane Saturday Promoter Mack Lillard today completed signing of matches for his wrestling card at Merrick's arena Saturday night. The mat impressario inked Champ Thomas, Denver drpp kick specialist, to go against Yoggi Hussane, rough and tough Turk, in the middle scrap. The opener, slated to go to the mat at 8:30 p.m., will send Portland's wrestling cop, Larry Presnell, in with Harold "Buck" Davidson. Lillard was so impressed with Presnell's showing against Cy clone Cobb last week that he decided to give him another match. Both bouts are for 40 minutes or two put of three falls Tag Match Tops Card A women's tag team scrap will ton the card.' It pits Jean Elbon and Shirley Winters, both of whom have won the hearts of local fans, against Gerry Hunter and newcomer Bonnie Bartlett. In signing Thomas, Lillard has secured the services of one of CHAMP THOMAS To Meet Tough Turk the game's most colorful per formers. While he relies princi pally on speed and skill to win his matches, Thomas has a mean streak which sometimes gains the upper hand and when this occurs he is hard to control. If Hussane works according to past patterns, a wild evening prob ably will result. - Thomas is a former boxer, en gaging in more than 100 bouts ifJJ PHONE 2-8781 TO THE PEOPLE OF THE ROGUE RIVER VALLEY! We wish to thank you folks for the tremendous success of our Grand Opening Sale. You 'really made us feel , welcome! ' Since there were more of you than we could handle, we are extending our introductory offer on more week. We'll give you (free-of-charge) the $4.75 services of TRUING, BALANCING and SIPING with each recap or new Auto-Float Tire purchased. A $5.00 deposit this week will hold your purchase plus the Free Services until you are ready. THANKS AGAINI Harvey Brandau, Owner ' Walt Kingman, Mgr. rTRIBUNX as an amateur ana proiessionai. He met some of the country's top light-heavyweights in the late 1930s. He spent 41 months overseas with the Navy in World War II' and was highly -praised for his promotion of entertain ment for service personnel, be ing rated by Ring Magazine as "one of the outstanding service showmen." After his discharge in 1945 he took a whirl at pro moting boxing and managing fighters but sold his interests in 1947 to devote his time to a wrestling career. Recognized as Champion He recently won recognition by the Independent Wrestling Alliance as world junior-heavyweight champion with a victory over Ozark Ike and is willing to defend his claim against anyone who can prove he is a worthy challenger. Lions To Honor Tornado Cagers Wednesday Night Approximately 125 persons, including members of the serv ice club and their special guests, are expected to be on hand to hear a talk by Amory T. (Slats) Gill at the Medford Lions club dinner meeting on Wednesday evening at the Jackson hotel. Members of the Medford high school basketball team, runner up for the state Class A cham pionship, will-be honored at the dinner along with their'coaches, Frank Roelandt and Bob New land. Gill, head basketball coach at Oregon State college, will be the main speaker. Tickets have been made avail able to a limited number of Med ford basketball fans outside the club membership. Lions reported a fair advance sale of the tickets. They said that other non-club members who wish to attend the dinner can call the Jackson hotel by noon on Wednesday. The dinner will be at 6:15 p.m. in the Pioneer room. Gill is well known both as a speaker and a coach. His OSC Beavers, won the Pacific Coast Conference championship this year and were quarter - finalists in NCAA play-offs. An estimated 530,000 anglers caught a record total of 22,300, 000 trout in California waters in 1953. DOWNTOWN STORE 9th at Central PCL 'Bad Boy' Reformed; Carlos Bernier Pleases Bragan With Changed Attitude By HAL WOOD United Press Sports Writer San Francisco (U.R) Carlos Bernier, the "bad boy" of base ball, has reformed. The Puerto Rico star who was suspended last summer from the roster of the Hollywood Stars for striking an umpire, has turn ed over a new leaf, and a lot of people will be glad to hear that, including Manager Bobby Bra gan. "Bernier wag a good boy all winter in the Cuban league," says Bragan, "and he has been fine here with us, so far." Loss of Bernier is blamed by many with knocking the Stars out of the pennant champion ship last year. He was banned for the final weeks of the season after his attack on the umpire. In his own broken English, all that is past, Bernier says. No More Trouble "I no look for trouble any more," says Carlos. "In .winter league one night umpire call strike up around here (head) but I no say nothing. Next pitch is around here (ankles) I no say nothing. Third pitch right at me and called strike. I na say noth ing. "In winter league In another game, big fight in infield. I play outfield. I go sit down by wall until fights is over. I no want trouble." Bernier has been the stormy petrel of PCL baseball for sev eral years. He has squawked on every pitch thrown; on every ball hit down the foul line; on close plays at all bases; on just about anything that might be considered controversial. "But he doesn't have that chip on his shoulder any more," says Johnson Leads Pro Hoopsters All -Star Team New York (U.R) Neil John ston 6-foot, 8-inch Philadelphia Warriors center who led the National Basketball Association scoring race for the third straight year, topped the list of 10 players who received cash bonuses as members of the league's official All-Star team. The lantern - jawed Johnston, who also led the league in re bounding, received more votes than any other player in the league's poll of sports writers and broadcasters in the league cities. Johnston and other first-team selections received a $200 bonus each. The other first team play ers are Bob Cousy of the Boston Celtics, Adolph Schayes of the league champion Syracuse Nat ionals, rookie Bob Pettit of the Milwaukee Hawks, and Larry Foust of the Fort Wayne Pistons. Picked for the second team, j each receiving a $100 bonus, were Vern Mikkelsen and Slater Martin of the Minneapolis Lakers, Harry Gallatin of the New York Knickerbockers, Paul Seymour of Syracuse, and Bill Sharman of Boston. Almost all cadmium currently produced is the by-product of the smelting of certain base metal ores. A Great Whiskey with a Great Name. . . for a Great Day. . . Every day is somebody's birthday... a most important day in his year. What better way to remember a friend's birthday than with a friendly toast of SEAGRAM'S 7 CROWN the one whiskey men prefer above all others. Say Stogmtife and Sf rm-OistU!rs Company, New York City. WtwUi WhUkiy. 8U Bragan. "He has had a couple of close calls against him already this year and he never said a word." A 'Good Boy One of the settling influences on him this year may be the fact that he 'brought his wife, five children and mother from Cuba with him to spend the sum mer in Los Angeles. Bragan, apparently, did some checking up on Carlos during the spring to see how Bernier had acted in the winter league. "I talked to an umpire down in Venezuela, fellow named Stan Landis," said Bragan. "He told me 'Bernier good boy all win ter." If Carlos, a 26-year-old speed merchant, follows his new line of thinking, he may yet make it to the major leagues. He clouted .313 in 119 games for the Stars last year, stealing 38 bases. In 1952 he stole 65 bases while hit ting .301. However, in 1953 with Pittsburgh he was a flop at the plate, hitting only .213. He is off to a poor start this year, batting .259 in the first 10 games, but he generally starts off slowly. t WARNING TO HOME OWNERS! In spite of the weather, spring is here. The home repair season is upon us . . . and a little more sunshine will bring out the thousands of do-it-yourself handy men, as well as the professional building repair men. Since many of the improvements will be financed by FHA insured property improvement loans (available in amounts up to $2500) here are a few precautions which home, owners should take: (1) Steer clear of the company representatives or sales men who offers you cash. (2) Shun the glib talker who offers you a commission on the pretext that he plans to use your home as a model. (3) Beware of exaggerated or unreasonable guarantees on quality of products or type of work. (4) Avoid, the false lure of the trial purchase offer. 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