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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, May 13, 1955 Sam Jones Hurls First Major League Ho-Hit fJo-Run Triumph This Season By ED SAINSBURY Chicago (U.R) Toothpick Sam Jones of Monongah, W. Va., the first Negro no-nit hurler in maior leaeue history, believed today he might move hii family to Chicago because his job pitch ing for the Cubs might last for the full 1955 season. Jones morale, and sense of security, got its boost Thursday when he threw the first win- ring no-hit no-run game for the Cubs in nearly 40 years, blank- in the Pittsburgh Pirates 4-0 on a sizzling and dramatic ninth Inning finish. It was the first no hitter of the 1955 major league campaign. He walked the first three bat ters in the ninth and twice Man ager Stan Hack' came to the mound to tell him to "get the ball over the plate." Fans Three Baiters Then he settled down and truck Dick Groat on three called strikes. Bob Clemente took two strikes, fouled off two vitchet and then swung and missed a curve ball. The last batter, Frank Thomas, missed two pitches, took a ball, and then broke , his swing on the next pitch, a curve, and was called out on strikes to end the game. "I didn't know I,had a chance at a no hitter until Thomas came up there," Jones said. "Then the crowd yelled so loud when I threw the tirst pitch to him. I knew there must be something. So I looked around, and they hadn't got any hits yet. "It was the best game I ever pitched," he said. "I had three no hitters in semi-pro ball in Rochester, and a one hitter in the minors, but none of them 'were very good. I was better than in that two hitter against Cincinnati because my curve was better." Jones also has been considera- 20-Foot Ring Still Sought For Cocked San Francisco (U.R) John Simpson, manager of heavy weight challenger Don Cockell, was to appear before the Calif ornia Athletic commission today with the ultimatum: "Give us a 20-foot ring for Monday's fight or we'll appeal as high as Presi dent Eisenhower." Before Simpson's appearance, co-promoter Lou Thomas told re porters: "Cockell will fight - Rocky Marciano in the 1614 foot ring we have erected at Kezar stadium, or he'll have to fight him on the bare grass of the gridiron." - Thomas and Jimmy Murray of San Francisco are co-promoters with the International Boxing club. Thomas has charge of the stadium layout. Simpson claimed he was ver bally guaranteed a 20-foot ring when he and Cockell signed for the Marciano fight. "Since Cock ell depends much on footwork, we need the large ring. The 16Vi foot midget would be a great handicap to Don and a great help to Marciano." The manager from London stressed that there is "a perfect 20-foot ring" in the Municipal auditorium. "We mean to have that ring," he declared, "even if . we have to appeal to Gov. Goodwin J. Knight or to Presi dent Eisenhower." - What if all appeals were re fused? "Then I still have a card up my sleeve," he said grimly. That reply was interpreted as a possible threat to pull Cockell out of the fight. bly better than he was in his previous major league chance, in 1952 with Cleveland when he won two and lost three games with an earned run average of 7.25 over 36 innings. Cleveland held him in its farm system for two years thereafter and last sea son he won 15 and lost 8 games with Indianapolis. Traded In Kiner Deal The Indians traded him to the Cubs last winter as part of the payment for outfielder Ralph Kiner. Jones, who chews a toothpick constantly except when eating, said that one pick lasted for the entire gam Thursday. Jones walked , seven and struck out six to make his total in each department 46 for 35 innings pitched this year. Dou ble plays eliminated two base runners, another was caught stealing and until the ninth, Pittsburgh left only one man on base. It was Jones' fourth win against three defeats. The last no hit game won by the Cubs was Aug. 31, 1915 when James Lavender beat New York, 2-0. On May 2, 1947, Hip po Vaughn of the Cubs and Fred Toney of Cincinnati each pitched hitless ball for nine innings, but Cincinnati won in the 10th as Toney continued his hitless I string. Medfoi .Tribuns siPODimrs District Track Meets Scheduled Saturday Class A at Ashland SCHEDULES OF EVENTS: Clan A (Ashland) 10:30 a.m. Hi eh hurdle srelimina ties: broad jump and shot put pre liminaries and finals. 11:00 100-yard dash preliminaries. 1 1 :15 D i s c u s preliminaries and Una Is. 11:30 Low hurdle preliminaries. "12:00 220-yard dash preliminaries; javeim preliminaries and linals. j:uo foie vault and high jump iinais. 3:30 High hurdle finals. 3:40100 finals 3:50 Mile run. 4:00 440-yard run. 4:10 Low . hurdle finals. 420220. finals. 4:30 880-yard run. - 4:40 Relay. coaches and athletes are to help Class A meet. Coaches and facul ty members of the B schools will assist with the tangle here. Art Backlund, Butte Falls, will be B meet starter, while George Bray, Talent, will be head finish judge. Class B (Medford) (Preliminaries) -10 a.m. Broad jump. 10:30 Shot put. 10:43 High hurdles, discus, javelin. 11:00 100-yard dash. 11:15 Low hurdles. 11:30 220-yard dash. (Finals) 1 p.m. Pole vault. lin. shot put. jave- 1:15 Broad jump. - 1:30 High hurdles, discus. 1:40100 yard. 1:50 Mile. 2:00 High jump. 2:10 440-yard. 2:25 Low hurdles. 2:33 220-yard - 2:45 880-yard. 3:00 Relay. Field Wide Open At Hot Springs Hot Springs, Ark. (U.R) The field was still wide-open today as second round play open ed in the $15,000 Hot Springs Open golf tournament with 19 players holding sub-par scores from the opening round. Four golfers were tied with 67 s for the lead at the end of play Thursday, but 15 others were within three strokes of the leaders when play opened today over the Hot Springs Country club s par 72, 6.971-yard layout. Sharing the lead going into today's round were AI Bessel- ink, Grossinger, N.Y., Doug Ford, Kiamesha Lake, N.Y., Ted Kroll, Utica, N.Y., and Okla homa City's Be Wininger. MSC NAMES LAMBERT - Bozeman, Mont. (U.R) Keith (Dobie) Lambert, former assist ant coach at Kansas State col lege, has been named head bas ketball coadi at Montana" State college. The announcement by President R. R. Renne ended a two - month search for a cage boss to replace Wally Lemm, who moves over to the Bobcat football coaching job.' . : - LINFIELD WINS Monmouth (U.R) Linfield's tennis team walloped Oregon college 9-0 yesterday. Track season on southern Ore gon ovals reached its climax on Saturday as prep thinclads vie in two District three meets and contend for berths inthe state encounter next week end at Cor vallis. Class A schools, seven of them with 158 entries in the 14 events, conduct their elimina tions on the Southern Oregon college track and field at Ash land. Preliminaries are set to open at 10:30 a.m. with finals at 3 p.m. Five Class B schools hold their district meet at the Med ford senior high stadium with prelims at 10 a.m. and finals be ginning at 1 p.m. Medford, Klamath Falls, Grants Pass, Ashland and Crater are expected to have full teams on hand for Class A contention. Eagle Point and Phoenix are the other schools which will be re presented. Phoenix will enter six contestants. Roster of the favored Medford Black Tornado, headed by Eldon Francis, lead ing prep javelin tosser in the country, shows 25 boys entered. Crater will have 25 on hand. . Merrill Entered Merrill is the latest school to send in its entry for the B meet. Rogue River and Malin, with full teams, are expected to battle for team honors. Other schools with limited entries will be Jackson ville and Bonanza. Rogue River has 16 boys listed as contestants and four others as alternates. Ma lin has two men and an alter nate for each event. The Black Tornado is expect ed to make strongest showing at Ashland particularly if three top performers on the crippled list are back in shape. Don Crowl, 440-yard man and relay runner, has been treating a slight muscle pull. Lew Breazeale, pole vaulter. has been practicing after missing last week's Klamath Falls meet because of a turned ankle. Fran-1 cis hurt his arm while workout j with the javelin on Wednesday. ' Pole Valut Threatened Few records are expected to j tumble at Ashland. However, ' both Breazeale and Keith Hislop, Grants Pass, have exceeded the; 12-inch 2-inch district mark of which Breazeale is a co-holder. A review, from information available, shows Medford with the best marks this season in i nine of the 14 events. There, j however, could be some "sleep-! ers" in the meet in which the i chips will be down. Medford will j be out to keep its team slate un- j marred. j Southern Oregon college ! MEDFORD ENTRIES v 100 Dan Morris. Dennis Miller. Bob Gould. ' 220 Morris. Ken Tucker. Gould. 440 Don Crowl. Pete Kershaw, Don Grav. 880 Jack Pool. Jeff Williams. Wil cie Winchell. Mile Les Lingscheit, Glen Allison, Maury Butts. High hurdles Wally Larson. Mike Stearns. Low hurdles Larson. Bron Oglesby, Mike Hawkins. Broad jump Bud Kastner. Haw kins. Bob Close. Bob Tarns. High jump Kastner, Tarns. Jerry Reeder. Pole vault Lew Breazeale. Reeder. Discus Mel Morgan, Larry" Ander son. Mike DeVore. Shot put Neil Plumley, Morgan, Anderson. Javelin Eldon Francis: Morgan, Gary Lewis. Relay Morris. Larson. Kastner. Crowl. , i v PHOENIX ENTRIES: Broad jump Walt Hurlbut. 440 Larry Brown. Pole vault Delmer Brood. Low hurdles Brood Javelin Jim Korth High ium d Dave Kelsoe. James. Jim CRATER ENTRIES: 100 Georee Juveland. Oscar Wil- Iard, Don Goyette. . . Juveland. Gene McGonagle. 440 Don Hubbard. Jerrv Kitne. Carl Koellner. 880 Cliff Cordv. Marvin Snradlins Jim t orsney. Mile Richard Gustafson. Bob El- den. High hurdles Don Von Buikirk. Cordy. . , - ' Low Hurdles Van Buskirk. Dick Hamilton. Broad jump Bob Mason. Juveland. Wiuard. High jump Bob Johnston, Von Buskirk, Dick Davis. Pole vault Goyette, Don Breaz eale, Dave Robinson. Discus Jack Lilly, Johnston. Na than Douthit. Javelin McGonagle. Breazeale, Larry Smith. Relay Juveland. McGonagle. Von Buskirk and Willard or Goyette. Maddox Has 5-0 Record To Lead ND Moscow, . Ida. (U.R) Norm Forbes, Oregon's .pinch-hitting right fielder, led Northern Da- vision batting with eight hits m nine times at bat, league figures for games through May 10 show ed todav. ' Forbes, whose record included one home run,' two triples, one double and six runs batted in, was hitting .889. Dean Bats .727 Oregon State's Jay Dean with eight hits in eleven trips to the plate was second at .727 and his teammate. John Frederick, with seven hits in 14 trips was third at .500. Leading hitter among tdavers seeing more than limited action was uregon's Jim Johnson with 14 hits in 31 times at bat and ai average of .452. Jack Brady. Washington catch er, had the most hits with 15 and had driven in the most runs, 13 while hitting .366. Leading nitclr er was Terry Maddox of Oregon with a o-o record. s THURSDAY'S RESULTS Johnstown. Pa.: Moses Ward. 166, Detroit, stopped Jimmy Welsh. 159, Columbus, Ohio (2): Johnny Eubanks. Jti, ruisourgn, outpointed iwen Flan agan, jodv2, 01. raw, jvunn. iiuj. San Antnntn T,v ' Vatnm tlTvnin. .....V...WI . ...... iiawu mawas. 121 2. Mexico City, stopped Babe Moe mano, iiu;2. neno. JNev. IS) non- ime. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. .ROGUE RIVER ENTRIES: (B Meet) 4 ' Pole vault Harold Moore. Loyd Morrow; alternate Bill Headrick. Shot put Jack Herburger, Don Doolittle: alternate Clete Daily. Javelin Headrick. Doolittle; alter nate Bilbee Lane. Broad jump Ted Stanfield. Delbert McKenzie: alternate Fred Bond. -. High hurdles Morrow. Moore or Stanfield; alternate Alfred Vanscooter. Discus Herburger, Doolittle or Daily; alternate Russel Miller. 100 Bob Hoover, Gary Johnson; alternate Lane. Mile Lawrence Wagner. Larry Ell edge: alternate Colin McCoy. High jump Gray Stewart, Stan field or Johnson: alternate Vanscooter. 440 Gary Phillips, Bond: alternate Morrow. Low hurdles Stanfield. Herburger; alternate Morrow. Y . 220 Hoover. Johnson: alternated Headrick. . 880 Lane. Stewart; alternate Fred Bowen. . . Relay Hoover. Headrick. Johnson, Stanfield: alternate Herburger. "Comrade scientists new or der reads 'Instead of inventing new flying saucers, more im portant to discover secret of OLD Mr. BOSTON VODKA'." No breath $ 3 40 . PI NT..' DIST. FROM 100 6 RAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS 80 PROOP MR. 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