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Cubs own Braves, 2-1; MY Takes Over American League NATIONAL LEAGUE W. Brooklyn 26 ,Kew York 19 ' Chicago 20 St. Louis 15 Milwaukee 17 Cincinnati 14 Pittsburgh 11 Philadelphia 10 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. New York 21 Cleveland 21 Chicago 19 Detroit 19 Washington Boston Kansas City Baltimore .10 ..14 .15. ..13 L. Pet 8 .765 14 .578 15 .571 15 .500 18 .485 18 .438 22 .333 22 .313 L. Prt. 11 .656 12 .636 12 .613 15 .559 18 .433 21 .417 20 .394 23 .303 GB. 6'i 6-2 9 91 11 14 'z 15 GB. i l'a J 7 8 8 'a Ilia By UNITED PRESS Warren Hacker, one -time "hard luck pitcher" of the Na tional league, tossed a one-hitter today as the surprising Chicago Cubs defeated the Milwaukee Braves, 2-1, for their ninth win in 10 games. Hacker, who earned his nick name in 1953 when he lost 19 fames, had a no-hitter for 8 1-3 innings before pinchhitter George Crowe broke it up with a home run. In other National league games, the New York Giants made it four straight victories with a 3-2 decision over the Pittsburgh Pirates, the Brook lyn Dodgers made the most of four hits to beat the Philadelph ia Phillies, 6-4, and the Cincin nati Redlegs made six runs in the sixth inning to wallop the St. Louis Cardinals, 9-6. -Yankees In First Place The New York Yankees down ed the Baltimore Orioles, 9-4, and took over first place in the American league as the Detroit Tigers edged out the Cleveland Indians, 3-2. Dick Donovan won his fifth straight game as the Chicago White Sox beat the Kan sas City Athletics, 7-4, in the other American league day game. Sal Maglie of the Giants re ceived credit for his fourth win although he needed help in the ninth inning from Hoyt Wilhelm and Marv Grissom. Ten walks and homers by Koy , Campanella and Sandy Amoros helped Brooklyn's Don New combe win his sixth straight de cision and hand the Phillies their 16th defeat in 18 games. Third-string first-baseman Ed Robinson knocked in four runs with two homers to lead the Yankees to their fifth straight triumph. Rookie Johnny Kucks yielded 11 hits but won his sec ond decision. Yogi Berra homer ed for New York and Mickey Mantle reached base safely four times making it 13 consecu tive times he's done so. Maas Out-Pitchas Garcia Duke Maas Jcattered nine hits to out-pitch Mike Garcia and give the Tigers their second straight win over the Indians. The Tigers went ahead in the fourth and Maas protected the ne-run lead the remainder of tha way. Virgil Trucks struck out Vic Power to preserve Donovan's victory as the White Sox snap pad three-game losing streak. Tha Washington Senators turn ad back tha Boston -Red Sox, 1-0, in a 12-inning Saturday night gam marked by a fight between Boston's Jackia Jensen and Washington's Mickey McDer mott. Both were ejected from tha game. Pedro Ramos, who relieved McDermott on tha mound for tha Senators, scored tha winning run. MedfordWTribune Records Tumble In California Relays Modesto. Calif. (U.R) W a s Santee, America's fastest miler, switched to the half mile Saturday night to beat Lon Spurrier and the recog nized world mark with a time of 1:48.5. That time beat the mark of 1:48.6 set by Mai Whitfield in 1953, but was short of Spurrier's mark of 1:47.5. Spurrier finished 10 yards behind tha Kansan last night. Modesto, Calif. U.R) The crack UCLA medley relay team, with Bobby Seaman running a brilliant anchor mile, chalked up the second fastest time for the event in history Saturday night of 9:51.8 at the California relays here. The world's record is 9:50.3 set by Kansas in 1954. Modesto, Calif. (U.R) The University of Texas great sprint relay team cracked the 18-year-old world's record for the 440 tonight with an astonishing time of 40.2 seconds three-tenths of a second better than the old world record. lATURDAY'S RESULTS NATIONAL LEAGUE few York 100 300 000 S 10 1 Ittaburgh .100 000 001 1 t 1 Maflee. WUhelm (9). Griasom () and Katt; Kline. Law (6). race (8) and Shepard. Philadelphia Brook 100 000 1M 111 0 rooklyn 000 330 OOx 6 4 0 Cole, Miliar (3). Kipper (S). Loven- uth (7) and Lopata; Newcombe, Roe uok (8) and Campanella. ft Louia 301 000 0O f T 1 Cincinnati 102 008 OOx i II 1 Jones. TUfenauer (3), Moford (6). Voholsky (7), and Sarnl; Staler. Cbl- lura (3) ana eurgm 8S eago -000 001 100 ilwaukee 000 000 001 Hacker (3-J) and ChiU: Nlchola (3-3) and White. AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore 000 201 100 4 11 3 New York .4a0 030 OOx S 9 10 Wilson. Kuzava (6) and Smith; Kucks (2-1) and Berra. Kansas City 011 001 001 4 11 0 Chicago 020 202 Olx 7 11 0 R. Shantz. Herbert (6). Sain (7) and Modesto, Calif. (U.R) Youthful Art Pedersen of Modesto Junior College set a new National Jay cee pole vault record Saturday as he cleared the bar at 14 feet, 4 inches, as the 14th annual California relays got under way. Vaulting in the same pit where Cornelius Warmerdam set a world record of 15 feet, 734 inches in 1942, Pedersen was pushed past the state record by Joe Rose of Glendale and Bob Brodt of Santa Rosa who each went over the bar at 13 feet. 8Ji inches. The state mark was 14 feet, 314 inches. Pedersen, from Yreka, Calif., cleared the 14 foot mark to win the meet, then on his first try at the national record, went 14 feet, ZVi inches, set by Walt Jensen of Modesto in 1949. Vaulting highlighted the af ternoon program. At the conclu sion of the field events, Comp ton Junior College led in team totals with 26 points. Modesto had 24V4, Harbor JC IIV2 and Menlo 10. Sunday, May . 193S MTOrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBVinM-CLITO BEAVERS SELL MOSSOR Portland (U.R) The Portland Beavers have sold Pitcher Earl Mossor to St. Paul of the Amer ican Association and gave an outright release to Don Lund berg, catcher. W. Shantz; Donovan. Truck (9) and Lollar. Cleveland- 010 100 000 3 9 1 Detroit 020 10O OOx 3 8 0 Garcia. Houtteman (7) and Hegan, Naragon (8). Maas (3-1) and Wilson. (13 Innings) Boston 000 000 000 000 0 0 3 Washington 000 000 000 001 1 10 2 Brewer, Kinder (11) and White; Pascual. McDermott (8). Ramos (12) and Fitz Gerald. Prep Netters Get State Meet Places Jerry Kalapus in singles and Bill Isaacs and Jim Gordon in doubles will represent Medford high next week end in the state tennis meet at Corvallis. They were runners-up in t h e district tennis tournament on Friday at Ashland. Klamath Falls gained the oth er district representative posi tions. Dennis Todd defeated Kal apus 6-1, 8-6 and 6-4 in the singles final while Backen and Hayden bounced Isaacs and Gor don 6-3, 6-4 for top doubles hon ors. In singles Kalapus advanced by trimming Jules Reynolds Klamath Falls, 6-0, 6-0 and-Jim Hines, Klamath Falls, 6-2, 6-2 Todd turned back Don Robinson, Medford, 6-4, 6-2 in the first round and Jim Mannon, Grants Pass, 6-1, 6-0 in semifinals. Isaacs and Jim Gordon drew a bye for the first round and then got past Finney and Burn heiseU Klamath Falls, 6-3, 9-7 Becken and Hayden eliminated Dave Woods and Green, Ash land, 6-0, 6-1, and then beat Jer ry Mickle and Gene Long, Ash land, 6-3, 6-1. Mickle and Long had defeated Bob Schmidt and Don Gordon, Medford, 6-3, 6-1 League Leaders CAs of Friday Night) XT TTAXT r til? Player and Club, G AB R H Mueller, N.Y 29 123 18 48 Campnla. Bklyn 33 125 23 43 Virdon. St. L .24 94 20 32 Schondnst, St. L. '..29 112 20 38 Aashburn, Phila 20 78 14 26 Prt. .390 .344 .340 .339 .333 American League Power, Kan. C 25 97 22-38 .392 Kuenn, Det 33 142 25 55 .387 Kaline, Det 33 129 27 49 .380 Bauer. N.Y 31 125 32 42 .336 Mantle. N.Y 31 110 34 36 .327 Home Runs Mantle. Yankees 11 Snider, Dodgers 11: Kluszewski, Red- legs 10: Zermal, Athletics 10; Furillo. uocigers a. Runs Batted In Snider. Dodgers Jt; campanella. Dodgers 34: Kaline, Tigers; Zernial. Athletics; Vernon, Senators. Furillo, Dodgers all 29. Runs Snider. Dodgers 34: Mantle Yankees 34; Bauer,-Yankees 32: Smith, Indians 31; Dark. Giants 27: Bruton, Braves 27; Kaline. Tigers 27. Hits Kuenn. Tigers 55: Kaline Tigers 49: Mueller. Giants 48: Camp- aneua, uoagers 43; Bauer. Yankees Smith. Indians, Moon, Cardinals, logan, Braves. Aaron. Braves, all 42. Pitching Jeffcoat, Cubs 5-0: New- combe, Dodgers 5-0; Turley. Yankees 7-1; tord, Yankees 5-1; Erskine, Dodg gers 5-1; Conley. Braves 5-1. Americans Retain Walker Cup; Yost and Cudd Win St. Andrews, Scotland (U.R) America's rain-soaked amateur golfers retained tha Walker Cup today by winning six of eight singles matches to complete a 10-2 triumph that was ona of Britain's worst beatings la tha 19-tournament series. The ease with which the United States won tha trophy in a two-day downpour was a sur prise, in view of tha fact that this year's British team was rated ona of its best while the Ameri can contingent was one of the youngest and least experienced ever sent across the ocean. Starting the day's play with a 4-0 lead carried over from their sweep of Friday's four foursomes U" HEAVY DUTY ROTO-CUTTER 228 00 hf mm 4Sa complete You will be amazed at how easily you can mow your lawn, even if it gets several inches taller than usual. Powerful 3.3 h p. engine propells this rotary mower at stow or walking speed; blades cut every grass blade ex weed regardless of height. Trims close up to walls, hedges, trees, shrubs. (You can add the famous ROTO-HOE rotary tiller at any time for just $58 mort quickly change from "one to the other with bullet hitch). See us today We Give S&H GREEN STAMPS 't'eaa.J rV' G OPEN TODAY! CASCADE SUPPLY YOUR LAWN AND GARDEN CENTER 1228 North Riverside Medford, Oregon matches, the Yanks promptly clinched the tournament for the 14th time in 15 tries by winning the first three 36-hole singles matches completed. Harvie Ward of San Francisco, Billy Joe Pat- ton of Morganton, N. C, and Crooner Don Cherry of Wichita Falls, Tex., provided these tri umphs. ' Dick Yost, of Portland. Ora.. Jim Jackson 'of Glendale, Mo., and Young Bruce Cudd of Port land, Ore., followed with vic tories on the ancient St. Andrews course to establish tha final score. Tha two Americans who ware beaten Dale Morey.of Indian spoils and Lt. Joe Conrad of San Antonio, Tex. both succumbed by ona hole only after their game rallies on tha afternoon round fell short. Four of the American victories were routs. Ward walloped Ron- ma White, regarded as England's top player, 6 and 4; Cherry beat Joe Carrof Ireland, 5 and 4; Yost overwhelmed hapless John Morgan of England, 8 and 7: and Jackson drubbed Cecil Ewing of Ireland, 6 and 4. Patton, the colorful 34-year- old lumber dealer from Carolina, fought off a late challenge by Phil Scrutton of England, 2 and 1, and Cudd won five of the last six holes to defeat Ernest Mill- ward of England, 2 up. SAWDUST For GARDEN & HARD SOIL McGINTY FUEL CO. PHONE 2-8277 ,r w j -I TWO FOR THE MONEY No, Secant (foreground) with Pat Smithwick up, is not jump ing alongside a mirror. The "reflection" is Prince Regent, ridden by Dan Delaunay, who won the race. They are taking the last hurdle during the Belmont National Maiden Hurdle race at Elmont, N. Y. Secant placed. UO Wins Division Track Meet; Reiser Runs 9:11.3 Two-Mile Seattle, Wash. (U.R) Jim Bailey brought home the baton for Oregon Saturday to give the Ducks a narrow victory in the northern division track and field meet here. A chilly crowd of 2,300 fans watched the fleet 25-year-old sophomore from Sydney, Aus tralia, scamper the last leg of the mile relay to give Oregon 53 V points, only 234 points more than Washington's 50 Vz. Washington State College was third with 39J4 and Oregon State and Idaho tied for fourth with 11 points each. The relay, last event of the meet, decided the issue. Bailey's but it was another Oregon run-440-yard stint was magnificent, Jack- Moad, Medford, Ore gon's star shot putter, has been stricken .with polio, it i was announced Friday night in Eugene. Ha was taken to Sacred Heart hospital in Eu gene, where officials declined to state the nature of severity of tha case. A more detailed story appears on Page 2 of today's issue of The Mail Tribune. ner who captured the hearts of the partisan crowd. Ken Reiser, a dark complected 22-year-old senior from Eugene, Memorial Week End Medal Play Tourney Slated at Grants Pass Grants Pass The third annu al Memorial Day Medal Play tournament will highlight three days of links competition next week end at Grants Pass Golf and Country club. Entries from Eureka and Crescent City, Calif., and prob ably from Klamath Falls, Ash- May Vote To Remove Bdn Portland 4U.R) A five day meeting of the Pacific Coast Con ference faculty representatives, coaches and athletic directors opened here last night amidst indications they may vote to re move their ban on spring foot ball practice. The conference heads will also set up football schedules for the 1959 and I960 seasons. Basketball coaches were ex pected to give further study to the hoop schedules now in. effect Kor biennial home and home round bin games. Present sched ules were put into effect for two years when northern and south ern divisions were merged but some coaches have asked that an annual home-and-home round robin be substituted in 1958. The meeting will end Thurs day afternoon. land and Medford, will contend with local members in the 36-hole medal tussle on Sunday and Monday, May 29 and 30. Holiday activity begins on Saturday, May 28, when Eureka and Grants Pass women vie for an inter-city team trophy. In conjunction with the Sun day 18 holes the men's medal affair, Eureka and Crescent City linksters will oppose Grants Pass players. Eurekans will oppose Grants Pass men with handicaps of 11 and under and Crescent City divoters will meet home clubbers with handicaps over 11 strokes. Scores, of course, count also in the main tourney and other entries will play their 18 hole rounds at the same time. Awards Told Awards in the main competi tion go for first, second and third low gross and first, second and third low net in-each of three classes. Top prize is the perpet ual trophy won last year by Harry Terrell Jr. Class A golfers will be those of 10 stroke or less handicaps. Those with handicaps of 11 through 18 strokes will be in Class B and those with 19 or more will be in Class C. A hole-in-one contest will be conducted each night at the new lighted driving tees. Special prizes will be for the longest drive on No. 7, closest to the pin on No. 1, high score on a four- par hole and high on a five par hole. Like 2 trucks in one ! L OR tfie fcighWJJ The 'Jeep Truck operates in conventional 2-wheel drive at normal highway speeds. Its extra stamina assures long and dependable service. 2. Off tbl mad A quick shift into its 4-wheel drive make the 'Jeep' Truck a "go-anywhere" vehicle that carries a payload of more than a ton. and gets through when other trucks can't Now available with power, brakes. 4 WHEEL DRIVE TtOCK WHITS. ..wwtfj brpst Hrittrs if 4-wtal Mn nUdu See this all-purpose 'Jeep Truck today.. STEVENS AUTO SALES "Tour Friendly Willys Dealer" 505 North Central Medford Phone 3-3655 Ore., set a new division record when he clipped off the two- mile run in 9:11.3, breaking the 1953 mark set by Washington's Denny Meyer at 9:22.5. There was only one double winner, Washington State's fleet Negro racer, Bob Gary, won the 100-yard dash and then took the 220-yard dash. Two Northern Division records were tied. Bailey ran the 880 yard event in 1:51.5, equalling the mark set by Vic Palmason of Washington in 1937. And Ore gon's Bill Dellinger tied the mile record of 4:12.2 set in 1940 by Idaho's Phil Liebowitz. Washington and Oregon each won five first places; Washington State had four; and Oregon State had one first. MHS Golfers Head North Medford high school's 4-man golf team will leave today for Portland to compete Monday and Tuesday in the state tournament. Averages figured for the sea son established Larry Copple as No. 1 man on the team with Dick Shepherd No. 2 and Warren Deakins No. 3. Dick Copple beat out Jim Materie for No. 4 po sition. Coach Paul Evensen will take the quartet to Portland. Play will be at the Glendoveer course. BOWLING Alleys at Medford Bowling lanes will ba closed at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 26. for the an nual meeting of tha Medford Bowling association. Buss Graan is president of tha association. LADIES CLASSIC LEAGUE Elk Lumber company won the season championship of Ladies Classic Bowling League. The Lumberwomen took four points from the Fashionette in the play-off for the title. Elk was winner of the first half. The Fashionette got a four point verdict over Jorgensen's dairy in the play-off for second half .laurels. Championship Play-off Elk Lumber The Fashionette 450 448 355 393 438 18 3102 A. Tamney V. Florey C. Selleck H. Norwood Christianson 437 422 369 447 469 V. Knox D. Klein P. Mathei L. Rudy E. Baker Handicap 2164 Second Half Play-off Fashionette (4) Jorgensen's Dairy V. Knox P. Mathe D. Klein T. Doty E. Baker Handicap 627 343 440 492 464 105 2471 C. Lowd L. Kin J. Wilson T. Willett P. Gardner 480 384 509 449 529 2342 Ashland A match between the Rogue Valley Tennis club and a Redding, Calif., team slat ed'for today was called off when the Redding group reported it would not make the trip. Baker Gets B Meet; A-2 To Salem Corvallis (U.R) Oregon Class B basketball playoffs will be moved to Baker and the new Class A-2 tournament, will b held in Salem as the result of an agreement reached hero at , meeting of the Oregon School Activities association board of control. Both tourneys will ba held Monday, Tuesday and Wednes day, March 12-14 of spring vaca tion week. The A-l tournament at Eugene will be held Tuesday through Saturday as in the past. Portland was allocated threa teams for the tournament and the same districts used for the football and baseball playoffs will also be followed for the basketball tourney two teams from each. Districts S and 8 will stagt a playoff between third place schools for the remaining spot in the 16-team contests. District 5 is composed of Cottage Grove, Eugene, Springfield, Roseburg, Marshfield and North Bend. Dis trict 8 consists of Sweet Home, Lebanon, Albany, Corvallis, North Salem, Bend and South Salem. UT3 Garden Tools Paints Hardware Fishing Tackle Gift Items 25 to 331 Off BELL-STIEBER SUPPLY CO. GOLD HILL ahead in cool comfort THE UGHT SHOES tot MM wrap Trim dress shoes for warm weather wear. 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