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.
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Fort Wayne, Ind. 0J.R) Tony
Dobosz and Roland Rauch of
Chicago provided the first
change in standings in five days
at the American Bowling Con
gress as they took over 10th
place in the doubles. Dobosz put
together games of 204, 235 and
227 yesterday to score a 666 se
ries while Rauch had games of
224, 202 and 182 for a 608. Their
total was 1274. .
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