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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) Hal Jeffcoat Has Double Duty As Chicago Br MILTON RICHMAN United Press Sports Writer Ex-outfielder Hal Jeffcoat could land the Chicago Cubs in first division and himself in fancy five-figure salary bracket MedfordXTribuni SIPdDHTTS Umps yerdict Disputed by Both Teams New York U.R) Umpire Jim Hurley enjoyed the distinc tion today of making a decision that displeased both teams. Tht controversial play oc curred Wednesday in the seventh inning of the New York Yankees' 11-6 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Andy Carey of the Yankees, at bat with the bases filled and one out, hit a potential double play grounder to second baseman Nelson Fox. Fox fielded the ball cleanly and stepped into the baseline to tag Tank Bauer, running from first base. In the next Instant, Fox was hit by a charging 'Bauer, staggered and threw too late to retire Carey. Hurley ruled interference by Bauer and ordered all the run ners back to their bases. So in stead of two out, one run in and two runners on base the Yankees had two out, the bases filled and Mickey Mantle batting. Bauer Out, Ball Dead Bauer hit Fox and interfered with him before Fox made the tag," Hurley stated. "Therefore Bauer was out and the ball dead. All the runners had to return to their bases." "The base line belonged to Bauer," Manager Casey Stengel of the Yankees said. "It shouldn't have been interference." "Bauer obviously interfered," said Manager Marty Marion of the White Sox. "He should have called it a double play and we'd have been out of the inning with out a run scored." Mantle, who didn't say a word during the 10-minute argument, resolved both the dispute and the game a few moments later when he hammered a grand slam homer into the right-field bull pen. "I told Clint Courtney the White Sox' catcher while they were arguing," Mantle said. "I said what are they yakking about don't they know I'm gonna hit one outta here?" Ashand Takes League Trophy Ashland won the sportsman ship trophy for Southern Oregon Conference Class A - 1 high schools. The award is based on -sportsmanship displayed by students of Medford, Ashland, Grants Pass and Klamath Falls high schools during the football and basket ball seasons. It is made by the Southern Oregon Principals and Coaches association. Coaches, student councils and yell staffs are polled in the com petition. ' Ritchie Price Maintains Best Batting Average Among Raiders ey LtuflAHU webeh After 13 exhibition games, Ritchie Price the slugging second baseman of the Southern Ore gon College Red Raiders contin ues his devastating attack on all opponent pitching with 20 hits in 43 times at bat for a lusty .465 batting average. Price leads the Raiders in hits, runs batted in with 18 and is the only Raider regular the opposi tion has failed to strike out. Close behind Price is Fred Luper at .395 with 17 RBI's, 17. hits and 16 runs scored. Luper has 5 doubles and 3 triples along with 8 strikeouts to pace the Raiders in those departments. Tiger Smith, after a slow start, has come along rapidly and is now batting .368. Smith, has draw 10 bases on balls, leading Raider walker; has driven in 10 runs and scored 13 runs with 14 hits. Dick Nix is fourth with a sound .355 batting average in cluding 2 home-runs: in fifth spot is Ned and Ted Landers batting .333 respectively. Team Mark .305 Southern Oregon as a team is now batting .305 with 122 hits in 400 times at bat. This is an in crease of 14 points and puts the Raiders above the .300 average once again. ''During the 3 game SOUTHLRX OREGON COLLEGE STATISTICS: AB R H E Ritchie Price. 2b . Fred Luper. If. ss Tiger Smith, c , Dick Nix. cf. ss Ned Landers, ib, p Tad Landers. 3b l.tl Schneiderman, p . Lloyd Hoffine. p Keith Johnson, p Charles Kettman. rf Corky Ellis, lb .: Allan Kirura. ut of ; E. rb Collev c. rf Bill Seymour. If Ron Owings. ss I" J No longer with team. .43 12 ..43 38 .31 ..33 -.36 9 18 12 -31 -.27 ... S -IB ..27 -30 MAIL TRIBUNE Cubs Grab 2 Games all because he had sense enough to attach a 7:ent pitcher s toe plate to his shoe. Jeffcoat, who made the switch from center field only 13 months ago because he couldn't hit Standings PACirtC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. OB .628 .568 2 '.a .558 3 San Diego .. ... ....-27 16 Seattle Lot Angeles Portland Oakland .25 19 24 19 .19 20 .487 .19 22 ..19 23 19 23 ....16 26 .463 Sacramento .452 7i .452 7 '2 .381 10-i San Francisco Hollywood Wednesday's Result San Francisco 9. Lot Aneeles 3 San Diego 11. Sacramento 2 Portland 5. Seattle 2 Oakland 9. Hollywood S (How Series Stand) Los Angeles 1. San Francisco 1 San Diego 2. Sacramento 0 Seattle 1. Portland 1 Hollywood 1. Oakland 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB Cleveland :..2l 10 .677 New York 19 11 .633 l!i Chicago 18 11 .621 2 Detroit 17 13 .531 4'i Boston 15 19 .441 7'2 Washington 12 18 .400 8 la Kansas City 12 19 .387 9 Baltimore .10 21 J323 11 Wednesday's Results Washington 7. Kansas City S Detroit 6. Baltimore 3 New York 11. Chicago Cleveland 19. Boston 0 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB Brooklyn Chicago St. Louis New York . Milwaukee . Cincinnati Pittsburgh Philadelphia 25 7 .781 -545 7 ,a .536 8 .533 8 .531 8 .400 12 .355 13 1 i .300 13 18 15 .15 13 16 14 17 15 12 18 11 20 9 21 Wednesday's Results Chicago 3. Philadelphia 2 (1st) Chicago 7. Philadelphia 5 (2nd) Cincinnati 5. Pittsburgh 1 St. Louis 3. Brooklyn 2 (night) New York 4. Milwaukee 2 (night) Pep Winner Over Cadilli Detroit U.R) Wee Willie Pep packed his gear into a paper bag and headed for home in Hartford, Conn., today, to see what Mana ger Lou Viscusi had lined up for him next. "I'm working on a fight-to-fight basis," said Pep. "Lou has to see if I get busted up before we work on my next bout." Pep was virtually unmarked after he breezed to a 10-round unanimous decision in a grudge rematch with young Gil Cadilli, of Los Angeles here Wednesday night. "It was the same as our other fight," said the veteran Pep, "ex cept he had one good round in that one while I had him all the way tonight." Other Fight Disputed Cadilli was awarded a split de cision in a hotly disputed fight March 30 at Parks Air Force Base, Calif., two months ago. The California Boxing Commission later suspended a judge and ref eree as a result of the decision. Judges Joe Greenberg and Andy Brown both scored it 99-87 for Pep and Referee Jackie Swartz awarded it to him 100 points to 81. Eddie Smith of Detroit won a unanimous 10-round decision from Bobby Moore of Newark, N. J., in a co-featured bout which was blacked out from the cam eras. , series with Humbolt State. SOC picked up 33 hits in 98 times at bat, while winning only 1 of the three games. The Red Raiders have scored 97 runs in 13 games, the opponents have scored 81 times. SOC's run per game aver age is 7.4. The opponents average is 6.2 as a result of Humbolt scor ing 32 runs in 3 games. The Red Raiders have com mitted 26 errors in 13 games. SOC has received 53 free passes to first base while striking out 66 times. In the last 3 games SOC has struck out only 6 times as compared to 30 times in the 4 games before this series. Raider fence busters have "banged out 18 doubles, 8 triples and 6 home runs. Lloyd Hoffine received his first loss of the season and now has a pitching record of 4 wins and 1 defeat. Ned Landers has a 3-0 record and Hal Schneider man owns a 2-1 record and Keith Johnson has 1 decision along with 1 defeat. Thus the Raiders will take a 10-3 won-loss record into OCC tournament play this week-end at Klamath. Southern Oregon college ought to win its first crown in OCC competition this week-end, pro vided the pitching staff is in shape and no slumping among the regular sluggers occurs. 2 3 3b n HR BB SO RBI's BA 20 r S 7 0 18 .405 17 5 3 1 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 5 10 5 2 4 2 3 2 0 4 0 . 4 3 2 8 6 3 1 4 4 6 0 5 7 2 17 .395 10 .368 5 .355 7 .333 7 .333 1 .333 3 .277 3 .250 3 .193 4 .185 0 .166 2 .125 10 .222 3 .200 14 11 11 12 3 3 a 6 5 . 1 2 6 Thursday, May 19. 1955 enough was hitting on all cyl inders from the mound today with a perfect 4-0 record and a 2.70 earned run average. The 30-year-old, right-handed fastballer, whose pitching al ready has been labled "strictly first class by Milwaukee Coach Bucky Walters, an old convert himself, turned in a brilliant double duty effort Wednesday in winning one game and saving another as the Cubs swept a twin bill from the faltering Phil lies, 3-2 and 7-5. Jeffcoat came shuffling out of the bullpen in the ninth inning of the opener after Richie Ash burn doubled off Sam Jones to lead off the frame and Pea nuts Lowry singled Ashburn to third. Granny Hamner's sacrifice fly scored Ashburn but Jeffcoat re tired Del Ennis and Willie Jones on pop-ups to end the game. Again in the nightcap, Jeff coat relieved John Andre with one out in the fourth after the Phillies went ahead 4-2 with the help of homers by Stan Lopata and Murry Dickson. Jeffcoat limited Philadelphia to one run the rest of the way, picking up his fourth triumph when the Cubs scored four runs in the fifth on a walk, a single by Ed die Miksis, Gene Baker's triple and a homer by Bob Speake. Ted Tappe and Ernie Banks also homered for the Cubs while Bobby Morgan did likewise for the Phils. Cubs In Second Place The two victories moved Chi cago into second place, 1'z games behind Brooklyn, and the two losses gave Philadelphia a record of 15 defeats in the last 16 games. Harvey Haddix and Barney Schultz combined to hold the Dodgers to seven scattered hits and give the Cardinals their fifth straight victory, 3-2. Errors by Podres and Peewee Reese contributed to the Dodgers' third straight loss. When Bfogklyn scored in the fourth, it marked the first run off Cardinnl pitch ing in 26 innings. Southpaw Johnny Antonelli of the Giants pitched a six-hitter against his former , Milwaukee teammates, beating them, 4-2. The Giants wiped out a two-run deficit when they pounded War ren Spahn for three runs in the sixth on Hank Thompson's single with the bases full followed by Ray Katt's single. "Rudy Minarcin, making his first big league start, pitched Cincinnati to a 5-1 victory over Pittsburgh with the help of Ted Kluszewski's two-run homer and Wally Post's two-run double. Dick Littlef ield was the loser. Indians Scalp Boston Cleveland, the pace-setter in the American league, buried Bos ton under a 19-0 bombing that included homers by Vic Wertz, Ralph Kiner and Hank Majeski. Wertz drove in five runs with a grand-slam homer and a single while the Indians were pound ing out 19 hits, rookie southpaw Herb" Score held the Red Sox to three safeties and struck out nine. Mickey Mantle's grand - slam homer in the seventh settled a battle of homers and gave the Yankees an 11-6 decision over the Whjte Sox. Bob. Grim was the winner although nicked lor two homers. Detroit pushed across three runs in the 10th to beat Balti more, 6-3, rookie Frank Lary gained the victory after Al Kal ine's single in the 10th off loser Ray Moore snapped a 3-all tie. Dean Stone was staked to a four-run lead, in the first inning and held on to it, pitching Wash ington to a 7-2 victory over Kan sas City.. LINESCORES: American League Kansas City ....000 020 000 2 9 2 Washington ... 402 001 OOx 7 11 1 Cecarrelli. Raschi (3). Gorman (7) and W. Shantz. Stone (2-4) and Fitz gerald. Losing pitcher Cecarelli (0-2). Cleveland ..010 2(11) 0 500 19 19 0 Boston 000 000 00 0 3 2 Score 4-2) and Foiles. Nixon, Kem merer (5). Brodowski (5) and White. Losing pitcher Nixon (4-3). (10 Innings) Detroit 001 001 000 3 11 4 Baltimore ... 000 003 000 0 3 5 0 Lary (3-4) and Wilson. Hogovin. Moore (7). Shallock (10). Johnson (10) and Smith. Losing pitcher Moore (1-4). Chicago 100 210 200 S 10 2 New York . ..014 200 40x 11 12 0 Trucks, Harshman (3). Martin (4, Fornieles (7) and Courtney. Grim. Morgan (?) and Berro. Winning pitcher rim (2-2). Losing pitcher Trucks (2-4). National League (1st game) Philadelphia .100 000 0012 6 1 Chicago 000 012 OOx 3 8 1 Simmons. Kipper 16). Lovenguth (7), Meyer 8) and Seminick. Jones. Jeff coat (9) and McCullough Chiti (7). Winning pitcher Jones (5-3). Losing pitcher Simmons (Q.-1). '2nd game) Philadelphia . 010 301 0003 10 0 Chicago 020 140 OOx 7 9 0 Dickson. Lovenguth i5). Kipper (6) and Lopata. Andre. Jeffcoat (4) and Chiti. Winning pitcher Jeffcoat (4-0). Losing pitcher Dickson (2-2)4 Pittsburgh ......001 000 0001 6 3 Cincinnati 203 000 OOx 5 11 1 Littlefield. Friend (3). Law (8) and Shepard. Minarcin (2-0) and Burgess. Losing pitcher Littlefield (2-4). New York at Milwaukee, night Brooklyn 000 100 001 2 7 2 St. Louis 210 000 OOx 3 4 0 Podres, Labine (7) and Campanella. Haddix. Schultz (9) and Sarni. Win ning pitcher Haddix (2-5). Losing pitcher Podres (4-2). New York 000 003 010 4 7 1 Milwaukee ... 010 010 000 2 6 2 Antonelli (4-4) and Katt. Westrum (8). Spahn . Jolly (8 and Crandall. Losing pitcher Spahn (3-4). " ' TORNADO TRACK TITLE DEFENDERS This crew of Medford high school track and field performers left for Corvallis today to defend the Oregon state Class A toga Med ford won in 1954. They are the Medfordites who qualified in last week's district meet at Ashland and will aim for their school's 11th state dia.dem. Left to right, seated, are Ken Tucker, relay; Glen Allison, mile; Don Crowl, BLACK TORNADO CINDER SQUAD GOES NORTH TO DEFEND TITLE Medford high's track and field aggregation, 12' men strong and carrying the role of team to beat, if not the favorite, headed for Corvallis today to defend its Oregon state Class A champion ship. The crew will compete against some 250 other athletes from 72 other schools. Preliminaries are scheduled for Friday with finals on Saturday. Events will be con ducted at Bell field and on foot ball practice fields. The Black Tornado, which has the reputation of perennial champion, in this thinclad clas sic, will aim for its Uth Oregon team crown. Medford has won the top class -hardware six times in the past seven years and the past two years in a row. 14 Berths With its 12 youths holding down 14 berths in 12 events, the Black Tornado will have one of the largest single school repre sentations in the meet. Gresham has 12 boys entered, Grant of Portland has 10 and Jefferson of Portland a squad of, nine. Medford's state meet contin gent this year possibly looms stronger than the 1954 represen tation but the caliber of track and field men throughout the state is better, too, and overall performances have been better. That makes the Tornado assign ment seem perhaps tougher, than last year when it tallied just 33 13 points to nick North Bend by 2 13. While the Tornado is expect ed to pick up points in most of the events in which it is entered, the TMedford youths may have to turn in peak marks to garner more than two or three first places. However, the scattering of the top talent among the Maddox Retains Pitching Lead Moscow, Ida. (U.R) Ore gon outfielder Jeorm Forbes with 12 hits in 15 times at bat was hitting at .800 to lead Northern division hitters in baseball games through May 14, confer ence figures showed today. Jay Dean with .652, Phil Jantze with .586, Bob Buob with .500 and John Frederick with .429, all of Oregon State, were right behind Forbes in the sec ond to fifth spots. Jack Hardman, Washington State; Lou Roselli, Washington, and John Keller, Oregon, with two home .runs each and Neil Marlett, Oregon, with three triples and Jay Dean, OSC, with four doubles, led the extra base hit department. Terry Maddox of Oregon led the division's pitching with six wins and no losses. Walker Cuppers Wring Out Rain St. Andrews. Scotland (U.R) America's Walker Cup golfers, still wringing the rain out of their clothes, literally looked for the silver lining today while awaiting announcement of the pairings for Friday opening matches with Britain. The U.S: players were drenched by rain and hail while shooting a 'practice round Wednesday that most of them did not even keep score. - Billy Joe Patton of Morgan ton, N.C., was troubled least by the windy and wet going, turn ing in a 74. that included an eagle three on the lengthy 17thf "It was simply awful out there," said Don Cherry of Wichita Falls, Tex. BADGERS WIN Portland (U.R) Pacific edged Lewis and Clark 6-5 in a Northwest Conference baseball finale yesterday to wind up in a tie for last place with College of Idaho with a 3-12 record. schools competing may help the Medford team effort. And the high morale reported by Head Coach Bob Newland before the team departed could be a factor, too. Three Best Marks' A scan, of records available shows Medford with the best marks' for the season in three events but with only one best in district qualifying meet efforts. Season bests on the part of Tor nado scantclads are 189 feet 1 inch by Eldon Francis in the javelin, :51 flat by Don Crowl in the . quarter mile and :20.1 by Wally Larson in the low Top Shooters Entered in Rifle Match Medford Rifle and Pistol club will hold its annual .22 caliber registered rifle match on Sun day, May 22. There will be keen competi tion among the top-notch shoot ers of Oregon and northern Cali fornia. Prizes are Medford Rifle club grand aggregate trophy, Les Taylor Dodge-Plymouth tro phy for any sight aggregate, and the Waddell award for iron sight aggregate. ' - Among those who have enter ed the tournament so far are Virgil Hamlin, Portland, winner of the regional matches last years, and L. E. Brentlinger, who was only one X behind Hamlin in last years regional. Other top shooters from North ern Oregon will be Lee Swem and Russell Cornelius, Portland, and William Schlitzkus, Spring field. The master shooters who will compete from California are Paul Dodge, Yreka, last year's Waddell trophy winner, ,and George Hendricks, Fort Jones, Taylor trophy winner. The tournament will begin at 8 a.m. Officials will be Clyde Richmond, chief range officer; Harry Gideon, chief statistical officer; Charles Taylor, execu tive officer, and Octavia B.-Waddell, NRA supervisor. ' Junior Rifle club will have a lunch concession during the match. The public is' welcome. Duretto Sparks Wenatchee Win By UNITED PRESS Bob Duretto was the big man in the teepee of the Wenatchee Chiefs last night driving in six runs as Wenatchee took Lewis ton 12-6. Duretto has been pounding Northwest League pitching all season long and clobbered two homers last night plus a two run single. , A home run at Yakima also figured prominently in the night's play. This one was by Herm Lewis of .Yakima in the bottom of the njnth with Sam Mitchell aboard. Lewis parked the "first pitch out of the park to carry Yakima to an 8-7 de cision over Spokane. , Ralph Burns,-Tri-City hurler, had cause to sue for non-support as his mates committed . eight bobbles to help Salem to an 8-6 decision over the Braves. mm- Slabs and Rough Blox Big Double Load or Single Load Now Is the Time to Store for. Winter MEDFORD FUEL CO. Tel. 2-2111 Court & McAndrews 440 and relay alternate; Jack Pool, half-mile, and Eldon Francis, javelin. From left, back row, are Head Coach Bob Newland, Neil Plumley, shot put; Bud Kastner, high jump and relay; Jeff Williams, half-mile; Wally Lar son, high and low hurdles; Mel Morgan, jave lin; Dan Morris, dashes and relay, and Coach Lee Ragsdale. Mike Hawkins, broad jumper, is not pictured. (Brainerd photo) hurdles. Francis's 136 was tops for Oregon in district meets. Despite the tougher competi tion apparent in the state meet this season as compared to last, a look at the best efforts in Ore gon prep circles for 1955 indi cates more . brightly than the Black Tornado boys could score as high as 70 counters by equal ling their best marks. The pos sibles are firsts in the javelin, low hurdles and quarter mile, second in the 220-yard dash, second and third in the half mile, tie for second in the high hurdles, third in the relay, a tie for third in the broad jump and fifth in the 100-yarder. Medford entries may have to be well above their top efforts so far to place in' the shot put, high jump and mile. They have no par ticipants in the pole vault and discus. v Squad Listed W h e t h er the possibles are probable or not is another ques tion just plain speculation. The various highs during the sea son were established in different tracks and under varied condi tion and performances Friday and Saturday will depend to a degree on the physical and men tal conditions of the participants at the moment. Members of the Medford squad are Neil Plumley, Bud Kastner, Jeff Williams, Wally Larson. Mel Morgan, Dan Morris, Ken Tuck er, Glen Allison, Don Crowl, Jack Pool, Eldon Francis and Mike Hawkins. Coaches Bob Newland and Mel Boldenow took them north today and Coach Lee Ragsdale will join the gang on Friday. For Class A competition from this district Ashland will have six berths, Grants Pass four and Klamath Falls four. In Class B, Rogue River, Jack son county power, appears a strong contender with 13 berths which should enable it to collect a good share of points. Jackson ville last week qualified Ron Muir in the mile, Dick Sanford in the high jump and Fred DeVos in the quarter-mile. MARKS COMPARED: (Listing Medford best of season, Medford best in district, best in state. best district qualifying mark, in that order.) . 100 Dan Morris. :10.1: Stuart Ba ker. Ashland. :10.3: Julius Strong, Roosevelt. Huey Hatten. Jefferson, :P9.9; Strong, Hatten, John Johnson, Marshfield. :10. -.. 220 Morris. :22.2; Baker. 32.8; Strong, 21.9: Strong. :222. High hurdles Wally Larson. 15; Larson. :15.S; Richie Curtis. Roose velt. .14.9; Curtis. :15.. Low hurdles Larson, . 20.1; Scott Hancock, Klamath Falls. 21.3: Larson :20.1: Doyle Chapman. Franklin. :20.6. 440 Don Crowl, :51: Crowl 52.6: Crowl,. :51; John Erickson, Grant il.5. 880 Jeff Williams. 2:02 and- Jack Pool. . 2:02.1: Williams. 2:05.7: Jim Grelle. Lincoln. 158.5; Grelle. 1:58.5. Mile Glen Allison 4:44.6: Terry Boatman. Grants Pass. 4:15.5: Roger Stoutt. Grant. 4:24; Stoutt 424. Relav Medford. 4:33 8: Ashland 1:36.2; Roosevelt. 1:31.4: Grant, 1.32.5. Shot put Neil Plumley. 47 ft. 10 in.; Plumley. 45-9: Duane Marshall, St. Helens. 57-11: best district mark not certain. Willard Reeve. North Bend, had 54-1. Javelin Eldon Francis. 189 ft. 1 in.: Francis 186 ft.; Francis. 189',j-1; Bill Henderson, Drain, 175-2. Broad iump Mike Hawkins, 21 ft. in.; Hawkins 21-i: Hoddy Schep man, North Bend. 22-9; Schepman, 22-9. High jump Bud Kastner. 5 ft. 10 in.; Kastner and Doyce Lewley. 5-8: Bud Toombs. Nyssa. 6-2 li; Charles Wheeler. Grant. Dick Moen. Lincoln, and Boyd Brumley. Eugene. ft. OTHERS: (Medford not qualifying for state) Discus Jeffers. Ashland. 149 ft. 1 in.; Jeffers. 142-3: Bob Amble. Al bany: 169-4; Amble. 169-4. Pole vault Keith Hislop. Grants Pass, 12 ft. 3 in.; Hislop. 12-3; Jay Wilson, Cottage Grove. 12-7 ?i; Craig Gately. North Salem, 12-2. mm 7 Padres Stretch Lead By Crushing Solons Br PETER HAYES United Press Sports Writer The San Diego Padres, who figure to get tougher before they weaken, crushed Sacramento, 11 2, last night for their 15th win in 16 games and stretched their lead in the Pacific Coast League to 2V4 games. Bob Elliott's bruisers rolled to their fifth straight triumph with a 12-hit attack led by Milt Smith who hit a homer, triple and sin gle for four RBIs. Tom Herrera 4-3 blanked the Sacs after re lieving Bob Kerrigan in the sec ond. . As if the Padres weren't strong enough already, they were await ing the arrival from Kansas City of slugging first baseman Don Bollweg and pitcher Charlie Bishop. Bollweg was optioned and Bishop was sold to the. Pads. The arrival of Bollweg will present Elliott with the nice problem of what to do with Julio Becquer. The young Cuban cur rently is playing first base and knocking the cover, off' the ball at a .368 clip. v Other Games Portland helped San Diego ex tend its lead by knocking over second .place Seattle, . 5-2. San Francisco trounced Los Angeles, 9-3, and Oakland outlasted Holly wood,. 9-8, in other games. Ed Mickelson's two-base hit sparked a three-run rally in the sixth in ning that carried Portland to vic tory in Seattle. Neither starting pitcher was around at the finish. Dick Waibel 6-4 gained the win but was lifted for a pinch-hitter in the big sixth and Glenn Elliott blanked the Rainiers on one hit for the last four innings. Jehosie Heard 3-5 was knocked out in the sixth inning and Bob Tornado Vies In District Tennis Tiff Medford, Southern Oregon Conference team champion in tennis, will go . after district titles tomorrow in attempt to land entries in the' state tourna ment. The district meet will .start about 9:30 a.m. at the Southern Oregon college courts in Ash land. Jerry Kalapus and Don Robin son are Medford singles entries. The two Tornado doubles teams will be Bill Isaacs and Jim Gor don and Bob Schmidt and, Don Gordon. Robinson was a state meet en try in doubles last year, teaming with Don West. Angling Improves On Rogue System Portland (U.R) ' The weekly report on fishing conditions pre pared by the State Game Com mission: . SOUTHWEST: Lower Smith river fair for trout, few bass taken; Tenmile lake good on spinners and worms; south fork Coos river should improve; four forks of Coquille river fair. Rogue river system clearing and . angling improving; Fish lake in Jackson county produc ing many trout over 12' inches; Umpqua river slow last week and prospects not too good. . Allstate announces E m 0' - UUi on auto insurance Yes sir, there's a big reduction in Allstete's rates for both Liability and Collision coverages on private passenger auto mobiles! 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C0.MK1 ? onels ond liobiiitrj distinct ond nparat Iron porn company, Hon ofReii SkoUtsl- You're in seed : 4 Kelly and John Oldham finished' up for the Rainiers. ...J LINESCORES- J Los Angeles ....000 003 000 s 1 San Francisco 602 001 OOx 9 14 0 1 aioaaard. zick 1), Kuncl (1). KbUm B) and Fanning; and Ritchey. Greenwood (2-3) j Portland 100 003 100 S 16 i" 1 Seattle 110 000 0002 i Waibel. Elliott (6) and Robertson; Heard. KeUy (6). Oldham 8) Ginsberg. Oakland 001 040 130 9 T" ' Hollywood 200 020 220 8 13 4 ' Drews. Bamberger (7). Black (8) and ' Swift: Garber. O'Donnell (5. Tremolo ' (7). Hogue (7). Witt (8 1. Queen (8) and. Hall. San Diego 113 020 301 11 12 f Sacramento ..020 000 000 2 13 a Kerrigan, Herrera (3) and Bailey; Johnson, R. Jones (3), Cereghiao tit ' and Baich. Ducks To Capture Track Title Seattle (U.R) Oregon is a heavy favorite to win the North- " ern Division track and field meet here Saturday but Washington expects to pick up six first place ribbons to Oregon's five. Seven 1954 champions will de fend their titles and all but two are expected to finish on top. The exceptions may be the victim of Jim , Bailey, the Australian running star now racing for Ore gon. Bailey has run the half-mil in 1:53.7 and the mile in 4:13. Defending champions expected to repeat are Bob Gary, Washing ton State in the 100 and 220 yard dashes; Wayne Reiser, Ore gon's terrific two-miler; Bob Leadbetter, Washington, in the low hurdles; Jim Hilton, Wash ington's pole vaulter, and Jerry Church, Oregon State's javelin tosser. Bailey likely will press Oregon's Bill Dellinger in the mile. ' - - " Pre-meet dope figures Wash ington's talented sophomore. Dean Singer, will win the high hurdles and the high jump. Reiser is the best bet to set a new record. He has been clocked in the two-mile distance in 9:20.4. The division mark is 9:22.5, set two ' years ago by Washington's Denny Meyer. Oregon's relay team is the choice for the mile relay, but the WSC Cougars will give the Ducks a run for their money. Aquatic School Slated at YMCA Medford, YMCA will be host this week end to persons from Roseburg, Klamath Falls - and Ashland for the Southern Ore gon YMCA Aquatic school. Men and women will take course in teaching all phases of swimming and diving. Those who pass will be certified as leader examiners and will be qualified to teach the Y aquatic programs 'in their respective cities. They will be better qualified, enabling better programs for their com munities. ' Any person who is 17 years old and has passed his senior lifesaving can register 'for this course by calling the YMCA not later than noon, Friday, May -20. This course will start Friday at 6:30 p.m. and will run until Sun day noon. Persons in charge of the school are Dr. William Roberts, YMCA ' aquatic chairman and Don Day, physical, director. -- The Y pool willbe closed to other activity all day Saturday because of the school. ' Byron Carter 1412 W. Main Modford, Ore. Phono 2-720S hands with . . . ncrsniirrv i in mm
