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Newspaper Page TextSICHT MEDrORP (QHECOW) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, April 20, 19SS Rainier, Solon Split Mars Seattle Debut For Fred Hutchinson Portland (U.R) The Port land Beavers were to make an other try today to get in their 1955 home baseball opener against the San Diego Padres but the weather man promised more showers. Yesterday's "showers" turned into an all-day rainfall that finally resulted in postponement on bother openers here. More than 5000 fans were in the stands and an attempt was made about 3 p.m. to get the game started. But after one third of an inning, the umpires decided it was too wet. By PETER HAYES United Press Sports Writer Freddie Hutchinson, who won 25 games and a ticket to the ma jors with Seattle in 1938, return ed to. his old home town as manager of the Rainiers Tuesday only to see his hopes of a dou bleheader sweep dashed by a flashy young rookie who ap pears headed for a big season himself. Hutch made a rousingly suc cessful home debut as manager yesterday afternoon as Seattle pounded out a 14-3 win over Sacramento, currently leading the Pacific Coast league. But Solon righthander John Briggs tamed the Rainiers, 1-0, in the night game to register his third straight win without a los, and his second shutout. Other Games In the only other PCL game played, Ed Winceniak clouted two homers for a total of five runs in Los Angeles' 11-2 rout ' of Oakland. A San Diego at Portland day-night twin bill and the Hollywood at San Francisco night game were rained out. The largest crowd of the sea son, 15,354, saw the Rainiers en joy a feast of runs in the first game but suffer a famine in the second. Seattle rapped five Solon pitchers in the opener for 11 hits, including a bases -loaded homer by Ray Orteig and a solo blast by Marv Williams. Seattle jumped on Sac starter Chet Johnson (1-0) for five runs in the fifth and broke loose for seven in the sixth. Larry Jansen, slender right hander signed after he was cut loose by the Giants, limited the Sacs to seven hits in the first seven innings. Hutch replaced him with Howie Judson to avoid overtiring him in his first out ing of the year. Judson held Sac ramento hitless. Briggs Fires Briggs, who won 20 games with Salem of the Western In ternational league last year, set the Rainiers down with seven hits in going the distance in the second game. He struck out four and walked three and wiggled out of a one-out, man-on-second situation in the last of the ninth. Sacramento scored its lone run In the top of the ninth on a squeeze play. With the bases loaded and one out, Dan Baich laid down the bunt off Bill Ken nedy (0-1). and everybody was safe. , Los Angeles climbed into a tie with San Diego for second place by virtue of its lop-sided win over the last-place Acorns before 1294 in Los Angeles. . Joe Hatten (2-1) was nicked for 11 hits but never more than two in one inning. Los Angeles batsmen collected 10 safeties off four Oak pitchers, driving start er Karl Drews (0-2) to cover with a four-run flurry in the first. Oakland's George" Metkovicn singled in his first two trips to mark his ninth consecutive hit But Hatten ended the streak on this third time at bat when he struck him out. The record is 12, shared by Minor Heath, Hol lywood, 1930, and Ted Beard, Hollywood, 1953. LINESCORES: (1st came) Sacramento . 000 201 000 S T Seattle 005 017 lOx 14 11 Johnson. R. Jones (5). Speck Harriet 181 and Sheely; Jansen, Jud son (8) and Orteig. 2 0 (6), (2nd came) Sacramento 000 000 001 1 1 Seattle 000 000 000 0 7 0 Briggs and Baich; Duren. Kennedy (7) and Ginsberg. siPODimrs Brooklyn Bumps Phils 7-6 for 8th Straight Oakland 000 020 000 3 11 Los Aneeles 403 040 000X 11 10 Drews. Beamon U), Murphy (6) Van Cuyk (8) aitt Heal; Hatten and Fra mesa. . Release of Vic Raschi Impending St. Louis, Mo. U.R) Vic Raschi, an old pro whose pitch ing arm has fallen behind his stout heart, took the news of his impending unconditional release from the St. Louis Cardinals calmly today. . His manager, Eddie Stanky, voiced the feeling of the ball club "We admired him as a great competitor." Raschi, oldest man on the team at 36, was shelled out of the box in the second inning Monday night by the Cincinnati Redlegs. And it appeared today that as far as the St. Louis front offfce was concerned it was his make-or-break chance. He was hit hard, escaping a first inning score only on a great catch by Wally Moon. In the second, Ed Bailey led off with a triple and when he scored on Wally. Post's single, Cards' reliefers scampered into action in the leftfield bullpen. Raschi's shoulders seemed to sag a bit when he heard the solid thumps of the balls in the bullpen catch ers mitts and persistent jeers from the stand. Didn't Have It "Get him out of there" and "let's put in a pitcher" were the mildest shouts. He refused to look back, hitch ing up his pants and returning to work. But he just didn't have it. Joe Nuxhall singled, Johnny Temple sacrificed one run home and Glen Gorbous drove in an other with a double. That was all for big Vic. There was a ripple of applause along with the boos as he trudged off the field apparent ly from those who remembered the brilliant Raschi of the New York Yankees. The younger Vic of that day was a fireballer who righthand- ed his way to a New York mark of 120-50. He won five and lost three World Series games in his years wtih the Yanks. But a sore arm plagued him last year his first with the Cards and he ended his first losing major league season at 8-9. Adams Quits Basketball Post at LaGrande High La Grande (U.R) Vic Adams, head basketball coach at La Grande high school, has resigned the position but will continue as a teacher here, school officials said today. No replacement has been named. Adams formerly coached at North Bend. By FRED BROWN United Press Sports Writer Rookies Don Zimmer and Ed Roebuck threw their weight in Brooklyn's early "pennant push" today as the rampant Dodgers sought a ninth straight victory which would equal the major league record for a fast getaway, Zimmer, filling in for the ail ing .Fee wee Reese, blasted a two-run homer which produced the winning margin Tuesday night while Roebuck, a 24-year- old right-hander, came through with a fine relief performance for the second straight game in the Dodgers' 7-6 win over the Philadelphia Phillies. The victory ran Brooklyn's winning streak to eight games one short of the record for a season's opening shared by th 1918 New York Giants, 1940 Dodgers and 1944 St. Louis Browns. , Manager Walt Alston has nominated Billy Loes, a 13-game winner in 1954, to oppose the Phillies at Ebbets Field tonight, The Phillies will counter with Steve Ridzik, who has a 1-3 life time record against Brooklyn. Zimmer Hits First Homer Zimmer, who played in only 23 games for Brooklyn last sea son," hit his first major league homer off Curt Simmons in the eighth inning to give the Dodgers a 7-4 lead. Willie Jones' two-run homer off Jim Hughes cut the margin to 7-6 in the bot tom of the inning but then Roe buck hustled out of the bullpen to preserve the lead, and earn Don Newcomb his second win.' Brooklyn's sizzling opening pace has shaken Alston's slug gers loose from every other team in the circuit except the pennant-minded Milwaukee Braves, who squeezed out a 3-2 win over the Chicago Cubs Tuesday. The Braves, combining sound pitch ing with , a dangerous attack, have won five of their seven games to stay within 2Vz games of the Dodgers. No other team in the circuit is more than one game over 500 and the world champion Giants trail the Dodgers by 5Vi! games. Conley Wins First Right-hander Gene Conley struck out seven batters to gain his first win of the year for Milwaukee when Bob Rush cracked in the eighth inning and forced in the winning run with four walks. Hank Aaron, who has hit safely in all the Braves' games, tripled home a run and scored on Bobby Thom son's single to give Conley a 2-0 first-inning lead. The Cubs bat tled back with single runs in the fifth and eighth innings only to suffer their third straight loss. They had opened the season with four wins in five games. The St. Louis Cardinals beat the, Cincinnati Redlegs, 6-5, on Bill Sarni's bases-filled single in the 11th inhing in the only other National League game. In the American League, the Kansas City Athletics rallied for five runs in the ninth inning to beat the Cleveland Indians, 8-7. Sarni's single came after two errors and Bobby Stephenson's bunt-single enabled the Cardi nals to fill the bases without hitting a ball out of the infield. The Cardinals seized an early 5-0 lead but the Redlegs battled back to tie the score with the aid of homers by Ted Klu szewski and Gus Bell. Bill Wilson's single with the bases filled and two out cli maxed the Athletics, rally which snapped a five -game losing streak. Two homers by Al Rosen and one by Ralph Kiner helped give rookie Herb Score a 7-3 lead in the ninth but he faltered and the Athletics went on to win against Mike Garcia. V GP-Medford Baseball Fray On Thursday; Rain Forces Postponement Yesterday LINESCORES: National League Chicago 000 010 0102 8 0 Milwaukee 200 000 Olx 3 4 1 Rush (0-1) and Chiti; Conley (1-0) and Crandall. Brooklyn 100 013 020 7 10 2 Philadelphia . 000 000 4206 12 0 'Newcombe. Hughes (7), Roebuck (8) and Campanella; Owens .Lovenguth (6), Simmons (8), Miller (9) and Lo pata. Winning p i t c h e r Newcombe (2-0). Losing pitcher Owens (0-1). (1 1 innjngs) Cincinnati 000 004 001 00 4 8 3 Gt. Louis ....011 030 000 01 6 10 1 Valentine. Lane (6) Hooper (8), Klippstein (11) and Seminick. Bailey (10); Haddix. Smith (9). Schultz (10). Winning pitcher Schultz (1-0). Losing pitcher Hooper (0-1). American League Cleveland 200 100 022 7 13 0 Kansas City ....000 120 0058 13 0 Score, Garcia (9) and Foiles. Hegan (8); Boyer. Bishop (9) and W. Shantz. Winning pitcher Bishop (i-0). Los ing pitcher Garcia (1-1). City Grade Meet Slated Thursday If Weather Okeh Medford's all-city grade schooi track meet is scheduled for Thursday at 2:45 p.m. if weather is warm enough. The meet will be at the high school stadium. Lee Ragsdale, Medford school physical education supervisor, said that wet or cold weather tomorrow will mean postpone ment probably until sometime next week. Bad weather has forced can cellation of two other grade track tussles so far. They were the Roosevelt-Washington test planned last week and the Lin coln-Roosevelt-Jackson triangu lar which was slated for last Monday. Ragsdale said that postpone ment of the city meet may mean some curtailment of the baseball program because of lack of time. The grade meet can't be held this Friday because a Medford Junior high dual struggle with Grants Pass is set for the senior high stadium. Seventh, eighth and ninth grade division will compete in the cinder event. Events will start at 3 p.m. CONSCIENCE HURT El Centro, Calif. (U.R) Har old Church, athletic director , at Central Union High school, said today that a pair of binoculars, two starting guns and a stop watch stolen from the gym of fice have been returned through me mails with the following note: "Our conscious'es hurt us we have reformed." mmim Distillers of the world's finest bourbon for 160 years Worthy of Your Trust for 160 Yean ... Beam old fashioned Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey is distilled and aged under a formula passed on from generation to generation for over 160 years. Only Beam tastes like Beam ... only Beam tastes so good. KENTUCKY STIAJSHT B00RB0N IB IS KEY IS PROOF JAMES I. BEAM DISTUIIM6 CO.. CLERMONT, KENTUCKY 11 BEAM j I40 : CM H FIFTH irifr 985 , f &"t f t- STRAiGBT mm Standings PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Sacramento 9 5 .643 San Francisco 8 7 333 Los Angeles 8 7 .533 Seattle 8 8 .500 Portland 6 6 .500 San Francisco 6 7 .462 Hollywood 6 8 .429 Oakland . 5 8 .385 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Brooklyn 8 0 Milwaukee ,.,-.. 5 2 Philadelphia 4 3 St. Louis 4 3 Chicago 4 4 New York 2 5 Cincinnati 2 6 Pittsburgh 0 6 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Boston 5 1 New York 4 2 Cleveland 5 3 Chicago 3 ' 2 Detroit 3 3 Washington - 2 2 Kansas City 2 5 Baltimore 0 6 Pet. 1.000 .714 371 571 500 .236 .250 .000 Pet .833 .667 .625 .600 500 500 .286 .000 GB l'i 114 2 2 2 2 3 3 ',4 GB 24 3,4 314 4 514 6 7 GB 1 1 1?4 2 2 3 ',4 5 (1st) TUESDAY'S RESULTS Pacific Coast League . Seattle 14. Sacramento 3 Sacramento 1. SeatUe 0 (2nd) Los Angeles 11. Oakland 2 San Diego at PorUand, rain. Hollywood at San Francisco, rain. (How Series Stand) Seattle 1. Sacramento 1 Los Angeles 1. Oakland 0 San Diego 0, Portland 0 -Hollywood 0, San Francisco 0 National League Milwaukee 3, Chicago 2 Brooklyn 7. Philadelphia 6 (night) St. Louis 6. Cincinnati 5 (11 innings. night) Pittsburgh at New York. ppd.. rain. American League Kansas City 8. Cleveland 7 Washington at Boston, two games, ppd.. rain. (Only games scheduled) THURSDAY'S GAMES National League Philadelphia at Brooklyn New York at Pittsburgh (Only games scheduled) American League Chicago. at Detroit Baltimore at New York Boston at Washington . (Only games scheduled) Boxing Results - By UNITED PRESS Salt Lake City. Utah: Rex Layne. 208. Salt Lake City, Utah, stopped Willie Jackson. 180. Alberta. Canada Wet weather forced postpone ment of three high school base ball contests which had been scheduled for yesterday. The victims of Jupiter Pluvius were Medford at Grants Pass, St. Mary's at Prospect and Glendale at Rogue River. Grants Pass comes to Medford for a Southern Oregon Confer ence hassle on Thursday. Date of the make-up fracas will be decided at that time. However, the Thursday mix also could fail victim of the rains. St. Mary's tangle in the Jack son County B league previously had been postponed from April 8. Plans now are to play next Tuesday. Glendale against Rogue River was non-conference. Reinking Sick Either Duane Sides or Ed Mc Cullough could be the Medford mound choice if the fray with the Cavemen is contested Thurs day. An adjustment in the Black Tornado infield is anticipated for the scuffle. First Baseman Ed Reinking was reported down Jim Carter, Zulueta Vie Washington (U.R) Jimmy Carter, the erratic world light weight champion who special izes in losing and regaining his title, is a 3-1 choice to defeat Cuba's Orlando Zulueta tonight in their 10-round, non-title fight. Carter is a busy boxer who has fought 95 times and is the only man who has ever regained a world title twice. The New Yorker takes a 69-17 record into the bout which CBS will televise from the Uline Arena at 10 p.m., EST. Although Carter's 135-pound title won't be at slake, Manager Willie Ketchum figures his prize meal ticket may not be treating Zulueta with proper respect. The Cuban has scored only six knockouts but he is a clever and experienced boxer with a shock absorber jaw and good resist ence to cuts. Washington Baseball Club Bounces Idaho Moscow, Ida. (U.R) . The University of Washington opened the Northern Division Baseball season by taking both ends of a double header from Idaho yes terday. The Huskies won the regula tion length opener 12-6 and the six inning nightcap 4-3. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 1 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day. with a bad case of flu earlier in the week and was not expected to be on hand for tomorrow's action. Dick McLaughlin may be shifted from shortstop to the initial sack with Gordon Owsley possibly taking over at short. Both Medford and Grants Pass are unbeaten so far in the con ference. The Cavemen have won four games and Medford three. GP mound choice may be Bill Mendenhall or George Herr. Pfeiffer's Nab Lead in ABC Tourney Fort Wawne, Ind. (U.R) Two-time champion Pf eiff er Beer of Detroit today were with in striking distance of a third title in the American Bowling Congress. The Pf eiff ers, who won In 1952 and 1953, rolled a whop ping 3136 last. night to take a 93-pin lead in the team division. The effort sparked a series of major upheavals in the team competition. Modern Bowler, also of De troit, rolled 3043 to take third place and Mady's Lanes, St. Paul, Minn., fired 3020 to move into fourth. , It was the third time in ABC history that three 3000 games were turned in by one squad. By comparison, there were only four such games in all of last year's meet. The Pf eiff ers opened with games of 1068 and 984. The third game, which had proved the downfall to many other top flight fives, proved their best,, a 1074. Gibson Leads Therm Gibson, who collabo rated with teammate George Young, to win the national doubles championship last week at Louisville, Ky., led the Pfeif fers with 680. Lou Sielaf had 647,' Fred Bujack 627, Young 598 and Bill Lillard a 584. Modern Bowler, led by Graz Castellano's 641, rolled games of 1021, 976, and 1046. Mady's Lanes fired 941, 1061 and 1018. In other activity, Roy Jurus and Eddie Brickell, Fort Worth, Tex., moved into sixth place in the doubles with a 1273 total. Jurus had a 647 series. Joe Paulus of Detroit tied for seventh in the singles with a 686 series, hitting 221, 233 and 232. Chuck Ciardo, veteran Mil waukee bowler, hit 10 straight strikes and then drew a 6-10 split for a 288 game, tying Joe Morys of Detroit for runner-up high singles game of the tourney. Simmons Beaten But Satisfied . Philadelphia (U.R) Lame armed lefthander Curt Simmons of the Philadelphia Phillies, rap ped for a clinching, two-run homer in Tuesday night's game with Brooklyn . in his first ap pearance this year, said today he was "satisfied that I had good stuff." Simmons said Don Zimmer hit a fast ball inside when he slam med his first major league homer with Carl Furillo on base in the eighth inning to pave the way for a 7-6 Dodger triumph. CADDY'S HEAD HARD . Baton Rouge, La. (U.R) Al bert Taylor, caddy master at the Baton Rouge Country club, was charged Tuesday with breaking a six iron over a caddy's head. "I am satisfied with his per formance, although that homer meant the winning runs," Smith said. "I'm ' going to continue to use him in relief roles until ha is ready to start." IT , Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Fines Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrews Phone 2-4107 Gil A BASKETBALL COACH OF THE OREGON STATE BEAVERS 9:30 TONIGHT ON TELEVISION TOM MacLEOD ON BARKER'S "Let's Kick It Around" Slats Gill MAIN AT CENTRAL icfoooo- j 1? enTifflecpqagI OO AHEAD I Try the Most Proved Most Popular High-Compression Engine) of Them AMI Always rocketing ahead that'i the record of Oldimobile' "Rocket" Engine! 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