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Rainouts Leave PCL Gloomy; Rookie Crop HeSps Brighten Scene By UNITED PDESS Pacific Coast League owners were singing "I've Got Those Rainy Day Blues" today but every cloud has a silyer lining. All the moguls have to do is look at .the fine crop of young sters being developed for fall de livery to the majors and they can smile. The rains came to Portland last night for the fifth time in a week and washed out the Bea- Porlland U.R) - Portland .and Sacramento scheduled an "Umbrella Opener" today and from the looks of the weather umbrellas would be a handy item to have around. The Beavers were rained out of their opener last week o General Manager Joe Zieg ler decided to make the official opening this afternoon. Rain last night washed out a scheduled make-up game with San Diego and it was still raining this morning. vers-San Diego Padres contest. It was the only game scheduled for yesterday. Last week was one of the worst in history as far as the turnstiles are concerned in the PCL. San Francisco was rained out five straight days. Portland was four days late getting in its opening tilt of the season. And so it went. DOSS MORE Rotary Tlllrr Gardrn Tractor cultivator New Low Price M79 50 Tine Inter change with Tiftilri Angle Kotors Two Machines in One Powerful Garden Tractor and Rotary TUler prepare --t1 tods In one easy operation. V.'ith simple Easy-On at tachments It's 17 machines ... sucb as Sickle Bar. Snon Plow, Rotary Mower Litter Stirrer. Rnlldnzer. ete. Seeing Is believing;. Ask for demon stration! S f 195 SO Immediate I f Down O Down MMo. Delivery JOHNSTON STORES 112 South Riverside 117 S. Central. K3 rl in ' tough! low priced! 25.98 Steel-caulked Loggers for ranchers, linem!, lumbermen, all outdoor men. Black oil-tannd, as waterproof as leather can possibly be I Plain-toe model with block heel, or lace-to-toe with anti-trip Spring HeeL 12-in. high. So what are the box office boys going to do to be saved? Well, the Sacramento Solons can look ahead to what pitcher Johnny Briggs may bring them in the fall trading marts. John ny. 21 years old, has won three in a row for the Solons and al ready the scouts are on his trail. He looks like just what the doc tor ordered. San Diego has a couple of fine prospects. One is Milt Smith, who was with the club last year, but didn't get a chance to play until the last half of the season, when he helped spark the Padres to the pennant. He is 26 years old and currently is leading the league in hitting with a healthy .403 mark. The other is Jules Becquer, an outfielder. Becquer, 24, is clouting the ball at a .339 pace and looks like a fine comer. Seal Stars San Francisco has a couple of youngsters who look good, too. One is the $60,000 bonus baby of the Chicago White Sox, infielder Joe Kirrene, who is hit ting .391. The other is Dave Melton, former Stanford star, who finally is reaching stardom. Melton is 27 years old but many believe he has a major league future ahead. Seattle has come up with a fine young pitcher in John Old ham, aeed 23. He has a 3-0 record all in relief. Los Angeles has a good hurler, too, George fiK tuzis (2-0) who is just out of the armed forces. Several of the young stars are out on option, but they are going to help at the box office later in the season, even if they don't bring in any cash when they go to the majors. Tonjght, Weather permitting, most of the lads will see action. The schedule calls for San Fran cisco at Oakland, Hollywood at Los Angeles, San Diego at Se attle and Sacramento at Port land. SPLIT PAIR Walla Walla (U.PJ Willam ette divided a Northwest Confer ence baseball doubleheader with Whitman here yesterday. The Bearcats won the opener 5-2 but fell victim, 6-1, in the second game as Noel Aronson pitched a. four-hitter. Dave Grady pitched the Willamette win in the first game. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 1 a.m. Monday for Phone 2-6241 i 4 1 1. , r Medford&JTribune IP(D)I1TFS 1 , 4 . Ps ' . "' &s, iJ'.-'A COMING DOWN hard on his left shoulder at plate in attempted steal, Jerry Coleman, New York Yankee second baseman, frac tures collarbone In action at Yankee Stadium. Trapped between third and home, Coleman dives for plate and collides with Bos ton shortstop Friend (right). Umpire Napp calls out and Red Sox first baseman Zauchln (3) watches play. (International) FIRST SHOWING OF ALASKAN FILM HERE THIS EVENING First showing of the motion picture, "Alaska The Last Fron tier," is scheduled this evening at the Medf ord senior high school auditorium. Repeat presentation of the color film, produced by Edward H. Horn, will be on Wednesday. Doors at the school will open at 7:30 p.m. and the picture will start at 8 p.m. Sponsor of the presentation here is the Jack son County chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America. The movie, which is described as "different" from other Alas kan films shown here, covers Alaska from the south to extreme north. Walrus hunting, salmon fishing and Eskimo life are among the subjects depicted in the picture. A portion of the film portrays Diomed island only 2Vi miles from Siberia. Horn had to re main on the island five weeks when ice broke up. In the mean time he went out with the Eski mos walrus hunting. Capture Whales Other scenes show the actual capture by Eskimos, using their small boats, of a 45-foot bow head whale. Intimate pictures of life among the Caribou people of the Brooks range in the Arctic mountains were afforded1 by several days stay. Horn found the Eskimos Wissler, Mclntyre Of Spring Handicap Tournament Wendell Wissler and Charles Mclntyre collide this week in the finals of the men's spring handicap golf tournament at VFW Teams Roll At Crescent City Central Point Veterans of Foreign Wars bowling team di vided in two matches played with a VFW team at Crescent City, Calif., during the week end and a junior team sponsored by the Central Point 'post lost to a Crescent City junior squad. Spotting the Crescent City quint 75 pins per game, the Cen tral Point men took two games and won the first series 2414 to 2325. Crescent City won all four points and had a 2295 to 2177 pin margin in the second series. Bohannon Leads In the opener Al Bohannon rolled a 225 game and 592 se ries. He led Central Point in the second series also with a 524. Others on the CP team were Lee Graham, Gene Tedriclf, Lloyd Carr and Ken Christianson. In the junior mix Crescent City took all three games and had a 2459 to 2312. Darwin Morehouse had a 536 series and Stewart Schroeder rolled 473. The CP VFW is sponsoring the junior aggregation in the Nortn west tournament at Portland on April 30. Others on the club are Mike Walker, Andy Walker, Bill Evans and Grant Burroughs. They will compete against 31 other junior teams. You'll Always Find O Reliability o Uniformity e Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE Tru-Mix Concrete Co. FAST. PROMPT DELIVERY McAndrewa Road Phone 2-5271 near starvation because caribou were late in their northern mi gration. Caribou hunting was their main source of livelihood. Bounties on wolves were about their only source of cash, other wise. The caribou people have been in the limelight in recent years. However, not much was known of them until Army en gineers surveyed the region. Farming and homesteading on Kenai, dairying in the Matanu ska valley, construction and new industry are shown in the pic ture. Two Years In Making Horn, a Ketchikan resident, was two years in getting the film material together. He had the aid of one professional pho tographer. Col. Weiland, president of the Jackson county Walton chapter, has previewed the film, and has pronounced the protography "very good." Tickets have been on sale at Lamport's and Sam's Sporting Goods stores. They will be avail able at the door both nights. There are no reserved seats. The program, including intermission time, lasts about two hours. Horn will be available during the intermission to talk to mem bers of the audience. He nar rates the film and reportedly has several items to show. Gain Finals Rogue Valley Country club. Semi-final round in the tour ney's championship, first and second flights was completed last week end. Paul Meyers was victor 1 up over Bill Catey in finals for the third flight title. Mclntyre turned back Mahr Reymers 2 and 1 and Wissler downed Larry Butler 5 and 4. In the first flight Eddie Sim mons won 4 and 3 over Fred Conrad. He will contend in finals against Al Servold who had to go 19 holes to beat Carl Schmidt. John Moffat got a 1 up nod over Ray Wise in the second flight semi-finals. He will play Pete Clark who required 19 holes to get Jack Creager. Nelson Gallant was winner of a ball sweepstakes Saturday at the club. He had 40 points, Wiss ler and Ed Hall each 39 and Gorge Schuler 38. Players got on,e point for a bogey, two for a par, three for a birdie and five for an eagle. Club officials have announced a change in the date for the next mixed two-ball foursome. The rivalry will be this Sunday, May 1. It originally had been planned for May 8 but was changed be cause of Mother's day plans members may have. ' Entries for the two-ball part nership tournament slated for men at RVCC now total 115. High handicappers will draw low handicappers for partners. Drawing is set for the evening of Wednesday, May 4. First matches are to be completed by May 8. Mixed Tag Match To Headline Wrestling Program on Saturday Mack Lillard came up with another matchmaking master piece yesterday when he signed a mixed tag team match to high light next Saturday night's wrestling card at Merrick's arena. The match, for 30 minutes or two out of three falls, will send Yoggi Hussane and Gerry Hunter against Champ Thomas and Bonnie Bartlett. Under mixed tag team rules, Lillard explained, a man will under no conditions be permitted to wrestle a woman. For exam ple, if Hussane and Thomas are wrestling and Hussane tags Miss Hunter, his partner, to be re lieved, Thomas must also leave the ring and Miss Bartlett will come in to wrestle Miss Hunter. Failure to observe this switch in partners will result in prompt disqualification, the promoter said. Young Players Receive Honors In Hockey Loops Montreal (U.R) Eddie Litz enberger, 22-year-old wing of the last-place Chicago Black Hawks, was named the winner of the Calder Memorial Trophy today as the National Hockey League's "rookie of the year." Litzenberger, acquired from the Montreal Canadiens for $15, 000 on Dec. 10, 1954, was the league's 12th highest point-producer with 23 goals and 28 as sists for 51 points. He played 29 games for the Canadiens and 44 for the Black Hawks for a total of 73 three more than any other player in the circuit. New York U.R) Wing Jimmy Anderson of the Spring field Indians made a strong bid for the league's goal-getting hon ors, was selected today as the American Hockey League's out standing rookie of the 1954-55 season. , Anderson will receive $300 from the league in addition to permanent possession of the Dudley (Red) Garrett Memorial Trophy. Anderson scored 39 goals only two fewer than the league leading total accumulated by Ed die Olson of the Cleveland Bar ons. In addition, Anderson re ceived credit for 32 assists for a total of 71 points. The ' " uv " If a man's birthday falls between April 20 and May 20 he's a Taur ean born under the zodiacal sign of Taurus. According to astrology . Taureans go for fine things. That's why he's sure to appreciate a friendly birthday toast with Seagram's 7 crown, the whiskey that stands for fine taste year . after year. SEAGRAM-DISTILLERS Tuesday, April 26. 1953 As is his usual custom, Lillard has not disregarded his two sup porting matches. In the middle fracas, down for 40 minutes of two out of three falls, he has matched Joe Hahn, Portland fireman who has not been seen here for a couple of months, against popular Johnny "Cy clone" Cobb. The opener sends Logger Porter, big Washington lumber jack, against Larry Presnell of the Portland police department. They also will go 40 minutes or the best of three falls. Tickets are on sale at the Rogue restaurant, 42 South Cen tral ave. Junior Circuit Shows Increase In Attendance New York (U.R) Kansas City's enthusiasm for big league baseball enabled the American League to show a 3.5 per :ent rise in attendance today but crowds in the National League have dropped 12 per cent. The figures show that attend ance is off in 11 of the 16 major league cities and that even Kan sas City's 133 per cent increase over 1954. Philadelphia attend ance failed to prevent an over all decrease of about 5 per cent in the two circuits. The five teams which have re sisted the downward trend are the Brooklyn Dodgers in the Na tional League and the Athletics, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indins and the Washington Sen ators in the American. The Dodgers are up 8 per cent, the White Sox 45.7, the Indians 9.6 ana the Senators 1.7. The New York Yankees, who drew 1,475,171 fans last season to lead the A.L., were among the teams with the biggest drop. Home attendance at Yankee games is off a whopping 37.2 per cent and the former world cham pions have averaged only" 9,500 spectators on six dates lowest in either league. LOSCUTOFF SIGNS Boston ' (U.R) Jim Loscutoff of the University of Oregon has signed his first professional con tract with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Associa tion. The 6-foot-5 forward was the Celtics No. 1 choice in the recent NBA player draft. perfect birthday for a Taurean A '"fry? . BLENDED WHISIET awl strtiia ti jootm ! Usui COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. BLENDED MEDFORD (OREGON) SEATTLE BEATEN Wenatchee (U.R) Bob Du retto hit a three-run homer in the third inning here last night to give Wenatchee of the North BEST BUYS EVER! NOW! TERRIFIC BARGAINS O Good Looking Gabardine OSpot Resistant O Holds Creases Well Wonderful, long- wearing Slacks ... Ideal for work or play. 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