EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON)
Chicago Trims Phillies
Wynn Pitches Tribe Victory
AMERICAN" LEAGUE
Cleveland 12
Detroit 11
L.
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7
9
11
11
13
Pet.
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.647
.625
.583
.433
.421
.353
.278
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Chicago 1
1
Hi
4
4 2
5,2
7
New York
Kansas City
Boston
Washington -Baltimore
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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
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.556
333
.529
.467
.444
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St. Louis
Milwaukee -New
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Philadelphia
Pittsburgh ....
Cincinnati
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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
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12
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24
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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-
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. -
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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
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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.
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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. .
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