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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) Chicago Trims Phillies Wynn Pitches Tribe Victory AMERICAN" LEAGUE Cleveland 12 Detroit 11 L. S 7 9 11 11 13 Pet. .667 .647 .625 .583 .433 .421 .353 .278 GB Chicago 1 1 Hi 4 4 2 5,2 7 New York Kansas City Boston Washington -Baltimore ... 10 7 8 6 5 Monday's Results Detroit 7. New York 1 Cleveland 4. Boston 2 Washington 12. Kansas City 1 (Only games scheduled). Wednesday's Games Washington at Chicago Baltimore at Kansas City New Yorit at Cleveland, night Boston at Detroit, night NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. 2 8 7 8 8 10 11 13 Pct.i GB Brooklyn 16 Chicago 1 .889 .556 333 .529 .467 .444 6 62 6'2 7s St. Louis Milwaukee -New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh .... Cincinnati 8 .313 10 .235 ll'-i Monday's Results Pittsburgh 5. St. Louis 1 . Brooklyn 2. Milwaukee 0 night. 12 '"Chicago 4. Phialdelphia 2 (comple tion of suspended May 1st game Chicago 2. Philadelphia 1 (night) (Only games scheduled). Wednesday's Games St. Louis at Brooklyn, night Chicago at New York Cincinnati at Philadelphia, night Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, night. MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS AMERICAN LtAutB Player 4c Club G AB R Skowron. N.Y. 13 51 14 Kaline. Detroit -17 62 16 Power. K. City 16 61 17 Kuenn. Detroit ..17 70 14 Lollar. Chicago ..16 53 13 Pet. .451 .419 .410 .336 .358 NATIONAL LEAGUE Moon. St. Louis -15 72 Mueller. N.Y. 15 64 Repulski. St. L. -15 70 Logan. Milw 17 63 Mays. New York 15 59 10 10 9 12 12 27 24 25 22 20 .375 .375 .357 .349 .339 Home Runs: Furillo. Dodgers 8: Sni der. Dodgers 6: Lollar. White Sox 6; Zeraial, Athletics: Nieman. White Sox: Dropo. White Sox; Kaline. Tigers; Jackson. Cubs and Kluszewski. Red legs all 5. Runs Batted In: Thomson. Braves 22: Furillo. Dodgers 21; Snider. Dodg ers 21: Nieman. White Sox 19: Skow ron. Yankees 18. Runs: Cassasquel. White Sox 19: B niton. Braves 18: Mantle. Yanks 17; Power. Athletics 17; Bauer. Yankees 17. Hits: Kuenn. Tigers 27: Moon. Car dinals 27; Kaline. Tigers 26: Repulski. Cardinals 25: Power. Athletics 25. Pitching: Lemon. Indians 5-0: Ers klne. Dodgers (4-0); Turley. Yankees 4-0; Jeffeoat. Cubs 3-0); Hearn. Giants 3-0: Schmitz. Senators 3-0. By MILTON RICHMAN United Press Sports Writer The second-place Chicago Cubs are being tagged the "surprise team" of 1955 so far but they're certainly no surprise to Man ager Stan Hack, who drew a lot of horse laughs in the spring when he 'predicted they might wind up in the first division. "There's a much better spirit on the club," Hack says. "You won't find any defeatist com plex around here any more." Last season, for example, the Cubs didn't win a game in Phila delphia, but Monday night they swept their three-game series with the Phillies by winning a game that was suspended Sun day, 4-2, and then beating Robin Roberts, 2-1, in the regular scheduled contest. Warren Hacker, making his first appearance on the mound since pulling a hamstring muscle in his leg, April 24, closed out the suspended game by pitching the ninth inning and then kept right on going with a fine four hit effort in the regulation game. Greengrass Raps Hacker Outfielder Jim Greengrass, who came to the Phillies from the Redlegs Saturday, was the only man who gave Hacker any trouble. He collected the only hit off the cub knuckleballer in the ninth inning of the abbre viated tussle and then rapped him for three more in the regu- SfjS) Featuring the Finest and Most Complete Group of Nationally Advertised Automotive Parts and Supplies Available from Any Source for CARS, TRUCKS and TRACTORS AH Makes, Models and Ages PADSETT AUTO PARTS 345 North Central Phone 3-5363 or 3-5364 "Yow NA-P-A Jobber is a Good Man to Know!" MAIL TRIBUNE lar game. In the suspended game, Gene Baker's seventh . inning homer off Jack Meyer snapped a 2-all tie and turned out to be the clincher. In the regular game, Eddie Miksis single on the heels of Dee Fondy's third inning dou ble chased the winning run home. Ernie Banks' fourth homer gave Chicago its first run in the second inning but that was matched by Del Ennis' fourth homer in Jhe bottom of the frame. Carl Furillo smashed his eighth home run with one man on in the 12th inning to break up a tense pitching duel between Carl Erskine and Gene Conley and gave Brooklyn a 2-0 triumph over Milwaukee. Until the 12th, Conley had yielded only three hits but in that inning he walk ed Jackie Robinson with one out and then yielded the home run to Furillo. Erskine allowed six hits and struck out six in regis tering his fourth victory with out a setback. The triumph gave Brooklyn a six-game lead in the National League. Bob Purkey, steadily devel oping into Pittsburgh's No. 1 pitcher, paced the Pirates to a 5-1 victory over the Cardinals In registering his second victory in less than a week, the 23 year-old Purkey, who won only three games all last season, scat tered seven hits and collected three himself. Harvey Haddix was the loser. The Giants and Redlegs were not scheduled. Wynn Wins First Early Wynn, one of Cleve land's big three, finally won his first game, beating the Red Sox, 4-2, with a six-hit effort. The Indians, held to four hits by loser Russ Kemmerer Skinny Brown and Tom Hurd, won the game'in the" first inning on a double by Al Smith, a walk and MedfordTribune SLPMGTTS BLACK TORNADO PLAYS CAVEMEN WEDNESDAY Medford high baseballers make a big effort Wednesday to keep in the thick of the Southern Oregon conference and District 6 A-l fight. They travel to Grants Pass for an afternoon brush. It will be their first encounter of the season with the Cavemen. With one setback, at the hands of Ashland last week, Medford now trails the Cavemen in the standings. Grants Pass is un defeated in four games. However, Medford also has four victories and the Black Tor nado could slip ahead of Grants Pass by half a game with a Wed nesday victory. The Cavemen have two wins each over Klam ath Falls and Ashland while Medford has beaten KF once and Ashland three times in four games. McCullough May Toss Scores for the most part have been close and the fray tomor row is figured as a toss up. All Automotive Repairmen are Cordially Invited to Visit Our Store During the Tuesday. May 3. 1955 2-1; Dave Pope's homer. Detroit took possession of sec ond place behind the pace-set ting Indians with a 7-1 victory over the Yankees, who tumbled to fourth place behind the idle White Sox. Steve Gromek held New York to six hits in registering tne 17th win of his career over the Yankees against 10 defeats. Bob Weisler started for the Yankees and gave up two runs, enough to lose the game, in the first in ning on Harvey Kuenn's single, a walk and Ferris Fain s doume. In the only other game sched uled Roy Sievers and Jim Busby each smashed two homers to lead Washington to a 12-1 victory over Kansas City. Southpaw Johnny Schmitz gave up 12 hits, including a homer, to Gus Zer nial but was an easy winner. AMERICAN LEAGUE Boston 000 001 0012 0 Cleveland 310 000 OOx 4 4 0 Kemmerer, Brown (5). Vurd (7 and White. Wynn (1-0) and Hegan. Losing pitcher kemmerer (0-1). New York 000 000 001 1 6 3 Detroit 202 000 21x 7 8 0 Wiesler. Konstanty (3). Grim (6) Sain (8) and Berra. Gromek 4-l) and Wilson. Losing pitcher Wiesler (0-1). Washington -.010 411 05012 13 0 Kansas City .. .000 000 0101 12 1 Schmitz (3-0) and Fitzgerald. Boyer. Trice (41. Dixon (8). Sleater (9) and W. Shantz. Losing pitcher Boyer (1-1) (Only game scheduled) NATIONAL LEAGUE St Louis 000 010 0001 7 1 Pittsburgh 200 001 20x 5 14 2 Haddix. Smith (7). Arroyo (8) and Rise. Sarni (7). Purkey (2-1) and Shepard. Losing pitcher Haddix (1-2). (Regular game) Chicago 011 000 0002 5 0 Philadelphia . 010 000 000 1 4 0 Hacker (1-1) and Chiti. Roberts (3-2) and Lopata. (Completion of Suspended Game) Chicago 000 020 101 4 7 1 Philadelphia .100 100 0002 6 1 Andre. Jeffeoat (5), Hacker (9) and Chiti. Meyer. Kipper (8) and Semin ick. Winning pitcher Jeffcoats (3-0). Losing pitcher Meyer (0-2). (12 innings) Milwaukee 000 000 000 000 0 6 1 Brooklyn . 000 000 000 0022 4 1 Conley (2-1) and Crandall. Erskine (4-0) and Campanella. (Onlv games scheduled) Ed McCullough likely will be the Medford moundsman with either Bill Mendenhall or George Herr taking the hill for GP. Terry King may be on "the receiving end of the battery for Medford with ., Dick McLaugh lin at first base, Jim Owsley at second, Frank Rector at short stop and Larry Gober at third Lorin Jacobs, Paul Eckel and Ed Reinking could be in the outfield. ' McCullough likely will draw double hill duty this week with a summons to hurl in one scrape of a Saturday twinbill at Klam ath Falls. Sides may be chosen to toss the other with Ernie Ty ler on hand for relief if needed. Spokane (U.R) . Marlin Muse held Geiger Air Force base to three hits yesterday as Whitworth college shutout the airmen 6-0 in a baseball game here. aT"" Fanfare The Roseburg effort to organ ize a team for the Southern Ore gon Baseball League this year has failed. That's the word Bill Askwith, business manager of the Cheney Studs of the league, had yesterday from Hal Zurcher, one of the two men pushing par ticularly hard for fast semi-pro ball in the Umpqua valley city. Roseburg failure makes virtually certain a seven-team SO loop. Scheduled opening date is May 28. Davidson To Be Test for Newcomer Two matches, one featuring a newcomer to southern Oregon wrestling circles, have been ad ded to next Saturday night's weekly wrestling card at Mer rick's arena. The newcomer is Cowboy Wes Knapp, a rangy scientific per former from Tacoma. He goes xuoK UAV1DSON To Test Newcomer against veteran Harold "Buck" Davidson, Klamath Falls, in the opening attraction of the three ply card. Logger Porter, who made a big hit in his inaugural scrap here last week, will get the big test in the middle go-round when he takes on Johnny "Cyclone" Cobb. Both matches are down for 30 minutes or two out of three falls. The main event will be no-time-limit, a rematch of the mix ed tag donnybrook of last week between Champ Thomas and Bonnie Bartlett against Yoggi Hussane and Gerry Hunter. Promoter Mack Lillard said he has signed Lord Carleton, famed bonebender who has been seen many times in this area, on television wrestling pro grams, to appear here in the near future. He said the Porter- Cobb match may determine who Will be Carleton's foe. Tickets are on sale at the Rogue restaurant, 42 South Cen tral ave., and the first bout is set to start at 8:30 p.m. Salem Wins 7-6; Wenatchee Tops Emeralds 4-3 By UNITED PRESS "Ninth-inning lightning"' hit two Northwest league baseball parks last night and came close to wrecking a third game in a night of one-run victories. Salem edged Lewiston 7-6, Wenatchee scraped by Eugene 4-3, and Tri-City came through 3-2 over Yakima. Salem "rallied for four runs in the ninth to nip Lewiston. Bill Frailey's pinch-hit single with the bases loaded sent across the final two runs. Floyd Robinson of Salem homered in the third with one aboard. Wenatchee's Lloyd Jenney singled to right with two out in the ninth to drive in the run that gave the Chiefs their vic tory over Eugene. Jim Moore's double in the same frame with Ralph Buckingham aboard had tied it 3-3 after the Emeralds tallied three times in the third. Yakima had the bases loaded in the ninth but Ralph Burns, Tri-City's long-' right-hander, whiffed Allan Maul to gain his second victory of the year. Oakland Acquires Block On Option from Tigers Oakland, Calif. (U.R) Wil liam Black, 22-year-old right handed pitcher, has been ac quired by the Oakland Acorns on option from the Detroit Tigers of the American League. Black had a record of 12-8 i with San Antonio of the Texas League in 1952 before going into the service for the next two sea sons, where he won 30 and lost one. VIKING TOP PILOT . Portland (U.R) Portland State downed Portland univers ity 4-3 in the first game of a twin bill yesterday. The . two teams played to a 4-4 tie, in the second game, shortened to five By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Sport Editor In the final exertion to get the loop into Roseburg, Zurcher and Bud Kelsey attempted a season ticket drive with the idea that sale of 300 to 500 would be suf ficient to get the club started. However, they found interest lacking at this late date and sold only about 100, Askwith was in formed. SEASON APPROACHES Semi - pro baseball season here is close at hand. Mod ford' Studs hare a non-league mix with the Grants Pass Elks at the fairgrounds here on Sat urday night. May 21. and go to Grants Pass on May 22 for opening contests. That means some practice is going to hare to be packed within a few weeks and a club is going to have to be whipped together shortly. Neither Medford nor other clubs of the circuit will be at full strength until after colleges are but in June. TICKET CAMPAIGN The Grants Pass baseball team of the Southern Oregon League will have a season ticket sale campaign to help finance the club's operation. An Elks club smoker on May 14 is another ac tivity planned to aid the semi pro club in meeting expenses. It is felt that with sponsorship by the fraternal order semi-pro ball is on more firm footing at Grants Pass than it has been for several seasons. Like the Medford Cheney Studs, who have the backing of a private firm, the Elks propose to field a fast team of college and local players. The GP team will be managed by Mel Ingram, high school football and baseball tutor. Ingram reportedly is can' vassing colleges for talent.- If his semi-pro baseball production matches his prep football efforts, the Elks will be tough to beat this summer. BLEVINS AT CB-NB Clyde Blevins, ex-Medf ord Cheney Studs baseballer. who was with the Coos Bay-North Bend Lumberjacks last year, is among eight players Mana ger Curly Leininger has listed as returning to the 'Jacks for the 1955 season. The independent semi-pro Lumberjacks hare undertaken an ambitious schedule this year which includes the pro San Francisco Seals on Aug ust 15. five, games with the Salem Senators and two with the Tri-City Braves. CB-NB, recognized as the top semi-pro club in Oregon last year, is expected to be heavily loaded again this year with ex - professional talent. The Lumberjacks will appear in Medford against the Studs on July 27 and 28. ADD GOLF PROGRAMS Two high schools in Douglas county have joined preps in the state with Varsity golf programs. Roseburg has already played one match and Sutherlin plans to field a team. Roseburg Country club is home course for both schools. ALL-STAR BECKONS MORAN Mike Moran, 6-foot 8-inch Eugene high all-state . basket, ball center, has received one of 24 calls to play in the sev enth annual North-South all star basketball game on June. 18 at Murray. Ky. He is the second Eugene player in five years to be chosen for the game and .fourth to be selected from west of the Rocky mountains. Dean Parsons, now at Univer sity of Washington, was the other Eugene player making the Murray trip. He took part in the 1951 affair. Larry Copple. Medford high's all-stater this season, was among prep eager receiv ing a questionnaire from the all-star game sponsors. Williams-Savage Bout Scheduled at Seattle Seattle (U.R) Tiger Al Wil hams, Los Angeles, and Milo Savage, Salt Lake City, battle it out tonight in a 10-round middle weight match at the Ice Arena in a return fight. Williams won a close split-decision March 22 when the two fought a bruising battle here. There was no decided favorite for tonight's fight. Four other bouts are on the Olympic Boxing Club card with Ernie Davis, Seattle, meeting Tony Greco, Chicago, in a semi final eight-round lightweight match. Al Alexander! Portland, meets Blackie Vanderveer, Seattle,4 in a 6-round welterweight go and Manny Sanchez,' Seattle tangles with Bobby LeSeuer, Portland, in a 6-round lightweight tussle. A four-round bout will open the card. Bay At Builders Supply QUALITY - BLOCKS Bricks, Flues Drain Tile in W. McAndrews Phone 2-4107 Archie Takes Decision Over Big Nino Valdes Las Vegas (U.R) Light heavyweight champion Archie Moore was praised by the Inter national Boxing club today as "must challenger for the heavyweight crown in Septemb er because of his impressive 15- round victory over big Nino Valdes of Cuba here Monday night. But Valdes manager, Bobby Gleason, charged a "double cross by the IBC and a wrong decision by referee Jim Brad dock. "They used this fight to get Nino out of the heavyweight pic- Weill Won't Talk Fight With Moore Calistoga, Calif. (U.R) Al Weill, manager of Heavyweight Champion Rocky Marciano, be lieves that was "quite a win" that Lightheavyweight Champ ion Archie Moore scored over Nino Valdez in Las Vegas to discuss a possible heavyweight championship shot for the aging Moore. "We got one fight coming up against' Don Cockell in San Fran-1 Cisco May 16 and when that's over we'll take this up," Weill said. "We're taking 'am one at a time." Asked what last nighfs win had done for Moore's stature as a challenger j Weill said: "He's a challenger, just like Valdez who was ranked as the No. 1 1 heavyweight challenger, but right now we got another fight on our hands." Meanwhile at nearby San Ra fael, the manager of British heavyweight challenger Cockell said he would seek a special meeting with the California Athletic commission to discuss possible "fouling tactics" on the part of Marciano. "Fighters like Joe Louis, Ez zard Charles, Jersey Joe Wal cott and Roland La Starza all have complained about Mar- ciano's foul tactics and I don't want them used against my boy in the May 16 fight," John Simp - son said. "If Marciano does any fouling I want him disqualified." Willie Ritchie, chief boxing inspector for Northern Calif ornia, said the Cockell group could have the meeting anytime they asked for it. Gonsalves Schedules Bout With Amador Richmond, Calif. (U.R) Johnny Gonsalves, sixth-ranking lightweight contender, meets vet eran Alex Amador tonight in a 10-round bout at the auditorium. Amador came out of retire- mnt last fall and has won all four fights since putting the gloves back on. This is his third bout with Gonsalves who out pointed him twice in 1949. Gonsalves, former national AAU champion, is heading into his 50th professional fight with a record of 37 wins, nine losses and three draws. - No matter f, Happy Birthday j Say Seagrams and Seagram Us Seagram-Distillers Company, ture," he declared angrily. Promoter Jack Kearns claim ed the IBC had no connection with the Moore-Valdes brawl, staged at twilight before 10,800 fans in Cashman field. Howev er, Truman Gibson of Chicago, executive secretary of the IBC, was at the ringside. Impressive Showing Gibson said after the bout, "Moore's showing tonight was so impressive that the heavy weight champion must defend against him possibly at New York in September." The bout, which started short ly before sunset, drew $102,678 considerably less than promo ter Kearns had expected. It was neither televised nor broadcast. It was a major victory for 38- year-old Moore, who had been pronounced "washed-up" by Cal- uornia pnysicians. They claim' ed he had a heart ailment and would not permit him to fight in the state. Las Vegas doctors said his heart was okay, and Archie's performance apparently upheld tneir diagnosis. Snappier Punches His superior stamina and snap pier punches enabled him to register a return-bout triumh over big Nino, who was eeneral- ly ranked as top contender for Tornado Net Crew Edges KF Pelicans The Medford high tennis team slipped by Southern Oreeon Con ference foe, Klamath Falls, 4 to O x a - o, yesieraay ana eyea a non- league rival as its next opposi tion. Roseburg's strong team, which has piled up a record of con secutive wins in the high 60s or low 70s over a period of -years, comes here for Wednesday after noon contention. Yesterday Medford won three of the five singles matches and divided the two doubles encoun ters In singles Jerry Kalapus, Med ford, defeated Dennis Todd 6-4 1?"4; Donbiwn, Medfard, de- 6-4 and Jim Gordon, Medford downed Don Finney 6-2, 6-2. Bill Bechen, Klamath Falls, bounced Bob Schmidt 6-1, 6-2 and Jim He:ins, Klamath Falls, beat Stan uiy o-.lv, o-, u-t. i In doubles Kalapus and Rob inson won over Todd and Hay den 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 and Bechen and Finney whacked Gordon and Culy 6-2, 6-2. Seals Sell Zabala To Oakland Acorns San Francisco (U.R) The San Francisco Seals today sold left-handed relief pitcher Ad rian Zabala to the Oakland Oaks outright for an undisclosed sum. The Cuban hurler, who form erly pitched for the New. York Giants, Had an 11-8 record with the Pacific Coast league' club last season and has 0-2 this sea son after working 14 innings. ou be SlVrt howv No matter how you say "Happy Birthday"... make your toatt with 7 ciown. It's the suke way to tell a man his birthday is a great day. For Seagram's 7 ckown not only has America's finest whiskey taste, it's America's favorite whiskey. Birthmtu for Mar EMERALD New York d;. i: m the heavyweight crown. Mustachioed Archie had won a 10-round decision over Valdes in their previous bout at St. Louis two years ago, but Nino was supposed to have improved much since then, whereas Moore was believed by many experts to have started down the tobog gan. Braddock, former heavy weight champion and sole judge of the bout, favored Moore on a round basis, 8-5-2. The United Press had Archie ahead, 8-6-1. To the spectators Moore seem ed fast against the somewhat awkward, 6-foot-3 Cuban, but Archie was dissatisfied with his own speed. He said, "I weighed too much to be fast." He scaled 196Ji pounds, the heaviest of his career. Valdes registered at 209V. . ROTARY POWER LAWN MOWE3 if 20" cutting width makes short work of large lawns. Powerful Briggs a Strattoa lightweight 4-cycle gas engine gives sure, fast starts every time. The whirling, wel guarded, air-foil shaped blade lifts the grass as it cuts leaving the lawn smooth and even. 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