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Ttrtvfz MroroRD (Oregon) Phillies Grab Pair from Giants Bob Turley Wins 8th for Yanks By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Sports Writer The Phillies have operated strictly as a "public futility" this season, playing in-and-out baseball in and out of Philadel phia but don't try to tell that to the Giants. Those brotherly love Quakers have been the town bullies as far as New York is concerned with six victories in seven meetings thus far, counting a double header sweep, 8-3 and 5-2, Wednesday night. The Giants could be right on the necks of the first place Dodgers if only things were as they had been in 1954 when at this time New York Tiad won six out of 'eight from the Phils. They wound up with a season mark of 16 wins and only six defeats against them. This year, the Giants are the only team Philadelphia beats consistently. Philly has only 13 victories overall against 23 de feats and had been in last place until the twin wins Wednes day night. Robin Roberts struck out six and checked the Giants with five hits to win the opener. His biggest difficulty was with Bob by Hofman, sub infielder in stalled by Manager Leo Dur- ocher as a catcher to get more punch behind the bat. Hofman hit a triple and a homer. Hitting Big-Wigs Del Ennis and Richie Ashburn were the hitting big-wigs be hind Murry Dickson's third triumph in the second game: Ennis the menace socked a three-run homer in the first in ning when lefty Johnny Anton elli was kayoed. He suffered his third straight loss to the Phils. Ashburn made three hits, giving him six for the night, and boosting him to .384 in the Na tional league averages tops over Giant Don Mueller who dropped to .374 when he went hitless in both games. In other National league games the Cubs took over second from the Giants by defeating the Cardinals 1-0 and 3-1 behind the sizzling pitching of Paul Minner and Bob Rush while Cincinnati pounded out a 13-2 decision at Milwaukee. The Dodgers and Pirates w e r t rained out after three innings with the score, 1-1. Bob Turley of the Yankees went two-up on all other ma jor league pitchers when he won his eighth game, a three-hit 6-2 job over Washington before any other hurler had gotten more than six; " Detroit topped Kan-, sas City 8-2 while Baltimore beat Boston, 6-2, then lost 5-2. In oth er American league games', Chi cago at Cleveland was rained out. Yogi Berra gave Turley a big boost when he hit a three-run Phil Drake Almost Kept Out of Race Epsom, England (U.R) Phil Drake, the fourth French horse in the last eight years to win the coveted English Derby, came close to missing the race because "six weeks ago something went wrong with his wind." Madame Suzy Volterra. owner o the 199-8 shot, made that dis closure after Phil Drake thrilled a crowd of 400.000 by coming from behind in the final furlong to win the 176th running of the classic Wednesday at Epsom Downs. "At one time we thought we would have to scratch," said Ma dame Volterra, only the third victorious feminine owner since the race was inaugurated in 1780. "But in the end it was all right." So confident of Phil Drake's return to health was Madame Volterra that she wagered 20 pounds on him to win, although she says she "normally" doesn't bet on races. Phil Drake appeared to be al most out of contention in fifth place with two furlongs to go, as the Irish Horse Panaslipper rush ed to take the lead. But Jockey F. Palmer brought Phil Drake steadily closer and he finally passed Panaslipper 50 yards from the finish line as they liibored up the uphill final fur long. At the finish. Phil Drake was in front by a length-and-a-half, with Panaslipper another three lengths in front of the 11-4 wagering favorite Acropolis, owned by Alice, Lady Derby. IT Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks. Flues Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrews Phone 2-4107 mail tribune homer in a four-run first and the Yankees coasted in. Turley struck out six to give him a total of 78 tops in the majors. Frank Lary, Detroit's 24-year-old kid, pitched his fourth vie- Standings PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. .686 GB San Diego .35 29 25 25 23 22 21 .... 20 16 23 25 26 26 25 29 30 Seattle .558 6'i .500 92 .490 10 .469 11 .468 11 .420 13'2 .400 14 a San Francisco Los Angeles ... Oakland Portland Hollywood Sacramento ... Wednesday's Results Sacramento 16. Oakland 3 San Francisco 2. Portland 0 San Diego 1. Los Angeles 0 (11 in nings) Hollywood 7. SeatUe 0 (How Series Stand) San Diego 3, Los Angeles 0 Hollywood 2, Seattle 1 San Francisco 2, Portland 1 Oakland 2. Sacramento 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. New York 24 12 Cleveland 22 13 Chicago 21 13 Detroit 21 16 Washington 15 19 Boston 16 23 Kansas City 14 23 Baltimore 12 26 Prt. GH .667 .629 1 2 .618 2 .568 3 '.i .441 8 .410 9'i .378 10 2 .316 13 Wednesday's Results New York 6, Washington 3 Baltimore 6. Boston 2 )lst. twilight) Boston 5. Baltimore 2 (2nd. night) Detroit 8. Kansas City 2. might) Chicago at Cleveland. Ppd., rain, (night) NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Brooklyn 27 9 Chicago 22 16 New York 21 17 Milwaukee 18 19 St. Louis 16 18 Cincinnati i 19 Philadelphia 13 23 Pittsburgh 12 24 Pet. GB .750 .579 6 .553 7 .486 92 .471 10 .457 10 ,2 .361 14 .333 15 Wednesday's Results Chicago 1. St. Louis 0 (1st) Chicago 3. St. Louis 1 (nd) Philadelphia 8. New York 3 (1st), twilight) Philadelphia' 5. New York 2 (2nd. night) Cincinnati 13. Malwaukee 2 (night) Brooklyn at Pittsburgh. Ppd.. rain. Minus Pool Likely for Prealcness Baltimore; Md. (U.R) Pim lico officials foresaw the possi bility of a "minus betting pool" for the 79th running of the Preakness on Saturday as the entry box opened at 8 a.m. to day with six or seven the prob able field for the second jewel of the triple crown classic. Expected to be entered along with Belair Stud's brilliant Nashua are Montpelier's Sara toga, Clifford Moers' Traffic Judge, the W. L. Ranch's Honey's Alibi, Hilton A. Dab son's Nance's Lad, "the Dun treaih Farm's Fleet Path and Gee M. Cohen's Chuck Thomp son. Chuck Thompson finished an Unimpressive third behind Hon ey's Alibi and Fleet Path in the Preakness Prep on Monday and was not regarded as- a probable starter, but late Wednesday, his owner said that Chuck Thomp son would be entered, if only to shoot for the lesser prizes. Prohibitive Favorite As matters now stand, the' classy Nashua probably will go to the post in the 5100,000 mile and three-sixteenths classic a prohibitive if not 1 to 2 favor ite. This is not expected to make the Maryland Jockey Club hap py since a minus pool appears inevitable. Nashua is the obvious target of the fellow who invests heav ily on the odds-on-favorite in a small field and is more than happy to get a $2.20 return for $2. A large number of such bet tors means a minus pool, be cause there isn't enough money bet on the others to make up the $2.20 minimum payoff re quired by Maryland law. Of the prospective field, only Saratoga and Traffic Judge are expected to draw some support. , The winner's share of the puree will be approximately $65,000. Second place money will run to $25,000, third to S15.000 and fourth $7,500. SIGN UP NOW FOR THE Summer Bowling Leagues Now Being Formed LEAGUES FOR EVERYONE! MIXED LEAGUES BEGINNERS LEAGUES 5-MAN TEAMS 5-WOMEN TEAMS. For Further Information Call 2-2682 iedford Bowling Lanes THE BUILDING IS AIR CONDITIONED FOR YOUR BOWLING COMFORT! Thursday, May 26. 1955 tory, giving Kansas city but six hits. Fred Hatfield and Bill Tuttle hit homers in a 24-hit of fensive. It was Detroit's sixth win against one loss over K.C. Ike Delock halted Boston's latest losing streak at five when he pitched a five-hitter and struck out eight after the Balti more Orioles took the opener with a 12-hit assault that includ ed triple and two singles by Billy Cox. Jackie Jensen drove in three runs in Boston's tri umph. Minner, pitching his first game in 19 days, doled out four hits and topped rookie Larry Jackson in a duel when Bob Speake homered for the only run in Chicago's opener. Rush missed the S250 prize offered by a Chicago radio station for one hitters when he was tagged for a ninth inning homer by Rip Repulski in the second game St. Louis' only run of the day. Eddie Miksis hit a first inning Chicago homer. Cincinnati, winning its sev enth game in the last eight, rack ed up 18 hits off five Milwau kee pitchers including starter and loser Warren Spahn. Jabbo Jablonski tagged Spahn for a two-run homer. LINESCORE: National League (1st Game) St. Louis 000 000 0000 4 1 Chicago 000 001 OOx 1 5 0 Jackson, La Palme (8i and Rice, Sarni (7). Minner (3-2) and Chiti. (2nd Game) St. Louis 000 000 0011 2 2 Chicago 201 000 OOx 3 9 1 Lawrence, Tiefenauer (1). LaPalme (5). Schultz (7) and Sarni. Rush (3-2) and Chiti. Losing pitcher Lawrence (2-3). (1st Game) New York 011 000 0103 5 0 Philadelphia . 003 010 22x 8 13 0 McCall. Wilhelm (3). Corwin (8) and Hofman. Roberts (6-3) and Sem inick. Losing pitcher McCaU (1-1). (2nd Game) New York 000 000 2002 8 2 Philadelphia . 400 010 OOx 5 10 0 Antonelli, Grissom (1). Liddle (5), Corwin (7) and Westrum. Katt (5). Dickson. Meyer (8) and Lopata. Win ning pitcher Dickson (3-2). Losing pitcher Antonelli (4-5). Cincinnati ...120 020 15213 18 0 Milwaukee ... 010 010 000 2 8 2 Minarcin. Fowler (2) and Burgess, Spahn. Johnson (3), Jolly (5). Robin son 7). Vargas (9) and White. Winning pitcher Fowler (1-4). Losing pitcher Spahn (3-6). American League Washington 000 002 000 2 3 1 New York 400 002 OOx 6 8 1 McDermott. Ramos (6. Stewart (6), Abernathy (7) and FitzGerald. Turley (8-1) and Berra. Losing pitcher Mc Dermott (2-5). (1st Game) Boston 001 000 0102 8 2 Baltimore 200 021 Olx 6 12 0 Sullivan, Susce :6), Hurd (8) and White. Byrd. Rogovin (8 nnd Smith. Winning pitcher Byrd (3-1). Losing pitcher Sullivan (4-6). (2nd Game) Boston 103 100 0005 11 0 Baltimore ..'....000 200 0002 5 1 Derock (4-3) and Daley. Johnson, Kretlow (3). Shallock (4) and Moss. Losing pitcher Johnson (0-2). Detroit 004 011 0208 14 1 Kansas City ....010 000 0012 6 1 Lary (4-4 and Wilson. Herbert Cec carelli (7). Boyer (9) and W. Shantz. Winning pitcher Herbert (0-2). Fort Wayne Golf Encounter Starts Fort Wayne, Jnd. (U.R) A field of about 120 linksmen opened first round play today on the soggy Elks Country Club course in the $15,000 'sixth an nual Fort Wayne Qpen Solf tournament. Some 68 pros and 52 amateurs are entered in the four-day, 72 hole meet. The field will be cut Friday to the low 64 and ties, and the winner will collect 52400, with $1800 going to the runnerup. Doug Ford, Kiamesha Lake, N.Y., the defending champion, predicted after practice rounds that this year's winner will "have io do better" than his 270 total last year on the par 36-36 72 course. Two other former winners are in the field, Jimmy Clark, Hun tington Beach, Calif., and Art Wall Jr. The southernmost source of the Nile River, the world's longest, is 10 tiny springs 6,700 feet above sea level in the cen tral African highlands of Ruanda Urandi. Notice! Men's City Assn. Meeting Tonight 7:30 P.M. MEDF0rUv2JHWTRIBUNB FALLING DOWN AT PLATE trying to avoid close pitched ball, Roy Campanella looks incredulously at Umpire Conlon who has just called Brooklyn catcher out on strikes. This play acting occurred during losing game with Philadelphia. (International) White, Droscher May Hurl For Chiefs Against Studs Here in SO League Openers - j t tn 1 a. . . .j. Don White and Jerry Drosch er could be on the hill for the Roseburg Umpqua Chiefs this week end when they oppose the Medford Cheney Studs in a Southern Oregon Baseball league opener. . The clubs collide Saturday night and- Sunday afternoon at the fairgrounds diamond here. White, just out of the service is an ex-Oregon State college pitching star. He was a semi-pro thrower in the now defunct Trout Angling Said Improving On Upper Rogue Portland (U.R) Weekly fishing report prepared by the State Game commission: Southwest: Some striped bass taken in lower Smith river. New trout out of Smith river. Ten mile lake fair to good, Trout on Sixes, Elk, Chetco, and Wind chuck. Streams good. Water low and clear. Trout angling on Coos river fair to good with worms and sucker meat best bait. Strip ed bass angling on Coos fair to good. Trout angling in the north, east and the middle of the Co quille river fair to good. South fork of the Coquille river is fair on bait and good to excellent on flies. Salmon angling on lower Rogue slow. On he middle and upper Rogue Chinook angling is good, and trout angling is im proving. Umqua trout angling slow because of water conditions but should improve. Salmon fishing is spotty. The area from Cleveland Rapids to Winchester has been the best producer. Spring chinook and trout angling in the lower Ump qua slow. . HOT 4CSSk ' ; Calvert Satisfies like no ethar whis key ! Rich, full-bodied flavor . . . and smoother going down . . . that's why millions have switched to Calvert Reserve now one of the world's two largest-selling whiskies! Ask for Calvert today 1 Gontfii CUlts. vouii switch uhim iiimr-n.i niiF-is tun Southwestern Oregon league, performing for Coquille and for Coos Bay-North Bend. Droscher is from Roseburg high. He re corded a no-hitter against Eu gene in his last prep appearance of the season. Infielders for the Chiefs this week are John Linde, first base; Les Winders, second base; Bill Harper, third base, and Harry Witten, shortstop. George Sand ers and Fred Hargis are utility men. Harper is an ex-Oregon State collegian and is now a coach at Roseburg high From College of Idaho Witten is a College of Idaho player. Sanders is veteran semi pro performer at Roseburg and Crescent City, Calif., while Har gis is from Roseburg high. Joe Niro and Hal Zurcher head the outfielder. Niro, who also is a catcher, has had five years of professional ball. Zur cher is a vet in semi-pro and has played in a Stud's uniform. He may do some pitching. Other outfielders are Denny Brun dage from Roseburg ' high and Roy Childress. On the catching staff in addi tion to Niro is Dan Luby, son of Hugh Luby, manager of the Salem Senators of the Northwest league. Young Luby is consider ed a good professional prospect. Spokane Indians Edge Emeralds By UNITED PRESS All three winners in North west League play last night had to stage strong finishes to take their games with one contest going overtime. t Yakima got five runs in the ninth to trip Wenatchee 7-4; Tri City tallied once in the final frame to edge Lewiston 4-3 and Spokane got one run in the 10th inning to nip Eugene 4-3. $403 45 QT. $65 PINT and to CALVEKT ihtiu spiiitl cuuit iisiuuis ci., r. t. l Ronnie Knox Free To For Bruins; Portland, Ore. (U.R) Ron nie Knox was free today to play football for UCLA next season after the Pacific Coast confer ence absolved him and his .school of any wrong doing in his much publicized transfer from Calif ornia. The PCC moved to settle the Knox case by taking two relat ed actions yesterday at its annual spring meeting. They were: 1. It reprimanded the South ern Seas, a UC booster club in Los Angeles, for hiring Knox's father as an athletic recruiter at a salary of $400 a month for 16 months. 2. It amended its athletic code in such a way as to hold a school responsible for the recruitine activities of booster groups, if the school knows about them or takes part in them. Young Knox was a sensa tional high school football play er who enrolled at UC in Sep tember, 1953. He comDleteH his school year, then transferred to UCLA. His father, Harvey, charged that UC failed to live up to "promises" its boosters had made to Ronnie. Ronnie has two seasons of el igibility left. He was' a reserve tailback in spring practice until an injury sidelined him. Warns University In reprimanding the Southern Seas club, the PCC forbade the University of California from having anything whatsoever to do with it until further notice. The PCC indicated the ban will be removed when Southern Seas proves that it is organized with "acceptable officers, prac tices and objectives." H. P. Everest, of the Univers ity of Washington and PCC spokesman, emphasized that the Southern Seas hired the elder Knox for general recruiting and not specifically for his own son. In Los Angeles, Frank Stor- lumber MAY SStihT . So That Their Employees May Enjoy A Three-Day Vacation Over Memorial Day BE SURE TO FILL YOUR LUMBER AND MILLWORK HEEDS BEFORE FRIDAY NIGHT! Club Reprimanded ment, spokesman for the' club, said he had "absolutely no com ment to make" on the repri mand. In Santa Monica, the- elder Knox asked. "Why should the conference single out the South ern Seas? I fe.el that the ban is tragic, .unfortunate thing. Other Schools "I don't see why they should be penalized when so many oth er Pacific Coast colleges are of fering money under the table to outstanding athletes." Everest said there was "no ap parent evidence" of any wrong doing on the part of Ronnie Knox, or of either school in volved, which would require any further PCC action. , He said making the schools re sponsible for the actions of al umni and booster groups would tend to make the clubs more cautious in recruiting activities. In other actions, the PCC: 1. Approved appointment of a four-man standing committee on public relations. Members will be named before the current meeting closes. 2. Voted to prevent any mem ber school from playing more than 26 basketball games a sea U.S. Prep Mile Mark Challenged Clarkston (U.R) Clarks ton high school Track Coach Vern Moreman said today he thinks the national high school record for the mile may fall Saturday at the state high school track meet at Pullman. Moreman said he thinks he may have the boy who can beat the national mark of 4:20.4 set in 1939. He is Bill Tift who came in inches behind Lewis and Clark's Bill Colwell last week end in a tri-district meet at Spo kane. That day Colwell hit a 4:24.6. 15)1? Io) amidl WIILIL ABIE dealers Sparkling New-Season Displays in Medf ord's Fine Shops and Stores. -Money When You Shop in Medford - Shopping Center for Southern Oregon and Northern California. Compete son. Games played with Univer sity of Hawaii in the Hawaiian Islands would not count. 2. Ordered a 10-game limit on football games. Games with Un iversity of Hawaii in the islands would not count. 4. Postponed until the winter meeting consideration of a con ference home and home basket ball schedule., Albany Has Favored Role Albany, Ore. U.R) Albany high school assumed the favor ites role today as the top eight prep nines in the state opened play for the 1955 class A state title. , Albany was to meet The Dalles at 9 a.m. in the day's fea tured contest. Other games matcWed Oregon City against Grants Pass at 7 p.m. and Cen tral Catholic against Cleveland and Columbia Prep against Springfield in afternoon affairs. The state B tournament opens at Echo tomorrow with Gaston against Glide and Talent meet ing Echo. TIGERS TREATED Detroit (U.R) Shortstop Har vey Kuenn and pitcher Steve Gromek of the Detroit Tigers, both of whom suffered injuries in Tuesday night s game witn the Athletics in Kansas City, re turned here Wednesday for treatment. Kuenn suffered a pulled thigh muscle while Gro mek strained his back. SIGNS CANADA PACT Toronto (U.R) Bill Kriete meyer, who played college foot ball at Vanderbilt university, has signed a professional con tract with the Toronto Argo nauts of Canada's Big Four In terprovincial League. , Published by Th Mail Tribune in Cooperation with Medford Retail Merchants dealers
