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Fireese Makes ISonehead Flay As Pirates Lose To PhoDliies NATIONAL LEAGUE W. Brooklyn 29 Chicago 24 New York 22 Milwaukee 19 Cincinnati 13 St. Louis 17 Philadelphia 16 Pittsburgh 12 L. P(t. 10 .744 17 .535 19 .237 21 .4; 20 .474 20 .459 23 .410 27 .308 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. New Yorlc 28 Cleveland 24 Chicago 23 Detroit 22 Washington ..1 Boston 17 Kansas City 1 Baltimore 13 I.. Prt. 12 .700 14 .bo2 15 .605 17 .564 22 .421 25 .405 24 .368 23 .317 GB 6 8 10 'i 10!j 11 13 17 GB 3 4 5'.i 1 1 12 13 15 '.2 By FRED DOWN United Prw Sports Writer If there's one thing Rookie Gene Freese of the Pittsburgh Pirates would appreciate today, it's a pat on the back from Fred Merkle. For, 47 years after Rookie Merkle made the most famous bonehead play in baseball his tory, it fell to Freese'slot to duplicate it and cost the Pirates a victory yesterday. Merkle's boner on Sept. 23,, 1908 did even more than that it cost the New York Giants a pennant. The situation was almost id entical Saturday when Freese made his mistake last inning, runners on first and third and two out. Ramon Mejias lashed a drive safely into center field and Tom Saffell trotted across the plate for what seemed the run which gave the Pirates a 5-4 triumDh over the Philadel phia Phillies. But Freese, forgetting as Mer kle had done in 1908 that he had to touch second base to avoid being forced, trotted to ward first to shake Mejias' hand. Center-Fielder Richie Ashburn immediately- threw to second base for the forceout that nulli fied the run. The Phillies then put together a double, a triple, a walk and two singles to score four runs in. the 11th and win the game, 8-4. It was their sixth straight triumph and the Pirates' 14th loss in 15 contests. Other Saturday Game Roogie Ed Roebuck's brilliant four-inning relief performance and homers by Gil Hodges and Sandy Amoros enabled the Dodgers to gain a 5-3 victory despite a triple play by the Giants. Roebuck relieved a fal tering Billy Loes in the sixth and shut out the Giants the rest of the way. Warren Hacker's six-hit pitch ing plus a two-run double by Harry Chiti and a two - run homer by Ernie Banks paced the Cubs to their 12th victory in 15 games, 5-2 over Milwaukee. . .... i i Ted Williams singiea in.ms first trip to the plate but went hitless the rest of the game and the Senators scored five runs in the sixth inning for a 5-3 win over Boston. Pitcher Mickey Mc Dermott, who won his third de cision, started the rally with a homer and five more hits com pleted it. The White Sox banged out 19 Butte Falls Foe Of Glendale in RV Baseball Loop t Rogue Valley Baseball League rivalry opens today with only one counting scuffle scheduled in the semi-pro circuit. Butte Falls is to play Glen dale.. The slate also calls for Ash land to go to Camp White but the scrape is being postponed since Ashland is not ready to open its season. Eagle Point draws a bye. Camp White yesterday was attempting to line up some sort of practice mix for today or Monday. It was reported that Grants Pass may come into the circuit making it a six team loop and giving the Climate city two semi pro teams. Women's Golf First play for :he Rogue Val ley Country club women golfers' trophy is scheduled on Thurs day, June 2. During the course of the competition women will play six rounds of 18 holes each. Their best four rounds will count toward the trophy in the medal play action. - - Since the Klamath Falls invi tational has been postponed, women will make up their own pairings for ladies' day golfing at the local course. Last Thursday at Rogue Valley the women held a two-ball four some. Mrs. Leslie Schneider and Mrs. H. D. McClure won low gross with a 99 and Mrs. Rose Bunch and Mrs. Dick Knight won low net with a 78. In the nine hole group, Mrs. Leonard T. An derson and Mrs. Wm. Blackledge won with a 69. Tuesday. May 24, the Rogue Valley women were "guests of the lady golfers at Ashland. Med ford won the play of the day by a narrow margin. 84.60 to 84.16. Low gross for 18-hole play was won by Mrs. W. W. Davies. Mrs. W. Stoy Elliott won low net. Other awards were won by Mrs. Leslie Schneider, A group; Mrs. Elliott, B group; Mrs. Ed Radzweit. C group and Mrs. Fred ' Conrad, D group. Nashua Wins Prealcness In Baltimore Baltimore -!U.R) Nashua ex ploded in the stretch at Pimlico with the speed he so sorely lacked in the Kentucky Derby three weeks ago and swept on Saturday to smash the track rec ord as he won the 79th running of the $116,100 Preakness Stakes. The pride and joy of Belair stud, who iust couldn't run with Swaps at Churchill Downs, had a tough battle in the sec ond of the triple crown classics. But he proved equal to the oc casion as he completed the mile and three-sixteenths race in a sparkling 1:54 35. His time lowered the track standard by one and one-fifth seconds. Montenelier's Saratoga, who gave Nashua a tough battle in the Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah Park earlier in the year, once aeain tested Nashua to the fullest. - Clifford Mooers' Traffic Judge was third in the field of eight three-year-olds with Milton A. Dabson's Nance's Lad fourth. There was a gap of seven lengths between Saratoga and Traffic Judge, with Nance's Lad an other head farther back. Eddie Arcaro, gaining " his fifth triumph in the run for the blackeyed Susans, gave Nashua a brilliant ride. He held him back in fourth place while Nick Shuk sent Saratoga to the front at the start. The two young colts finally hooked up as they reach ed the far turn leaving the back-stretch. hits, including two homers by Johnny Groth, to pave the way for Virgil Truck's fourth victory in the year, 16-4 over Detroit. Trucks went the route, yielding 13 hits, but was never in dang er as the White Sox scored six runs in the first inning and five in the last. SATURDAY'S RESULTS NATIONAL LEAGUE Brooklvn 400 000 001 S 10 0 New York 100 020 000 3 9 0 Loes, Roebuck 6) and Campanella: Hearn. Grissom (7), Wilhelm (9 and Westrum, Katt (9). (11 Innings) Philadelphia 400 000 000 04 8 14 3 Pittsburgh ...102 000 100 00 4 11 0 Simmons. Miller (7), Meyer (11) and Seminick. Lopata (1): Law. Wade U;. face (9), Kline (11) and Shepard. Milwaukee 000 011 000 i 3 Chicago 000 203 OOx 5 7 2 Nichols. Johnson (6). Robinson (7) and Crahdall; Hacker (4-2) and Chiti. AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington 000 005 000 8 S 1 Boston ..: 10 1 00 1 000 3 11 1 Pascual. McDermott (3) and Ed wards: Henry, Kinder (6). Hurd 8) and White. MEDFORDvJ&TRIBUNE SIPCDMirS Cheney Studs, Chiefs Wind Up Series Today Completing their 1955 in augural series in the Southern Oregon league, the Medford Cheney Studs and Roseburg Chiefs baseball nine tussle this afternoon at the fairgrounds ball park here. Game time is 2 p.m. Pitchers today depend upon who worked and how much they worked last -night when the clubs met in the opening com bat of the season. However, Marv Scherpf was expected to Chicago 610 300 105 IS 19 0 Detroit 010 020 100 4 13 3 Trucks (4-4) and Courtney: Maas, Miller (1), Cristante (3), Flowers (5), Foytack (9) and House. New York 010 002 000 3 t 1 Baltimore 100 000 001 2 12 1 Lopat. Morgan i9) and Berra. Sil vers il); Rogovin, Moore (8) and Moss, Smith (9). Cleveland ..300 120 100 Kansas City 000 200 000 Wynn (5-1) and Heean Sain (5), Gorman (8) and Astroth 7 10 0 2 10 0 Kellner, Willamette Eliminated Fresno, Calif. (U.R) Willam ette uinversity was eliminated Friday in the NCAA District 8 at-large double elimination tour nament. Fersno State college defeated the Bearcats 6 to 3 and Pepper dine trimmed the Oregon school 14 to 11. San Jose State turned back Pepperdine 9 to 2 in another Fri day game. Hardtoppers Scrap Again On June 4 Hard top auto racing, under the sponsorship of the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce, will return for the third card of the season on Saturday, June 4, at the posse grounds in Medford, with the time trials at 7:00 p.m. and the races at 8:00. Wayne Lemley and Monty Hall emerged from the last race in a tie for first place in the point standing. Both boys now have 52 points. Lemley, versa tile pilat of Phil Bryant's A-57 and Hall in M-3 both turn a fast wheel. Lots of excitement should be in order with these two driv ing to break the tie. Gilmore Promises Repeat Vern Gilmore, driver of the fast C-34 from Yreka, led the main event in the last race from the13th lap to cop the top money of the night. Gilmore has vowed to give the boys a repeat per formance at the next show. Elmer Sisemore, who won the Main in the first race of the sea son will be driving to put M-3 9, the flying Nash from Surroz Motors, back in the top money position. Roseburg To Compete After taking home most of the purse from the first race of the season, several of the Roseburg drivers have decided to return Saturday for what they claim to be easy money." Among those to participate will be Bill Metz gar in R-90, R-21 with Johnny Lytsell aboard and speedy Lou Donolen. After turning in the rapid time of 20 seconds flat on May 21, Ben Morrison threatens to return for the purpose of break ing the track record. The exist ing track record is now a .sizzling :i set oy uecu James last sea son. HARDTOP SCHEDULE June 4 and 18: July 2 and 16: August 6 and 20; September 3 and 17. D. Slceeters Defender of M-T Trophy . Dick Skeeters, Medford, will be in the role of defender next Sunday, June 5, in the conten tion at Medford Gun club for the Mail Tribune trophy. He won the feature event last year in the Mail Tribune trap shooting tourney by shattering 99 out of 100 birds in the 100- target test. Prizes in this 16-yard fracas this year also go to the winner and runner-up in each class and to high lady and high junior. A special award is the Mendenhall trophy for the best, score for Class B and lower shooters. Everett Armstrong, Eugene, took the trophy last year. Elks Shoot Sunday shooting will be Pa cific International Trapshooting association registered. Other events on the same day will be the 100-target $300 Medford handicap and 25 pairs of doubles. The Mail Tribune shoot is be ing held only one day, instead of two, this year, to make way for the Elks lodge state shoot. Elks will vie at the Medford club on Saturday, June 4, in 16 yard, handicap and doubles con tests. , Title among five -man teams will be decided by scores in the 16-yard and doubles shoot ing. The state Elks convention is being held at Ashland. Sunday contention is open to Elks and to the public. California Beats Oregon For PCC Championship Los Angeles (U.R) Gerry Mason and John Stevenson eachJ Maddox came across on John exploded for a pair of homers Saturday as the University of Southern California mauled Ore gon 10-1 to win the Pacific Coast Conference baseball crown. It was the Trojan's second straight win over Oregon and it was the second straight day that SC slammed four homers in toppling the Northern Divis ion champs. Winning hurler Ralph Pausig scattered Oregon's seven hits, all singles. Oregon starter Terry Maddox was the loser. Oregon picked up its only run COLUMBIA PREP, THE DALLES CLASS A DIAMOND FINALISTS Albany (U.R) Columbia Prep of Portland and The Dalles won Saturday finalist berths in the Oregon Class A high school baseball tournament here. Columbia Prep reached the finals, stage of the playoffs with Friday's 9-2 victory over the Central Catholic Rams of Port land. The. Dalles won the other game of the Friday doubleheader with a 14-10 win over Oregon City. Central Catholic and Oregon City tumbled into the Saturday evening preliminary battle for third place. . to averta shutout in the third. Keller's single to center. Ducks Lose 7-1 Friday Southern California clouted four home runs in de feating Oregon, 7 to 1, in the first game. While the Trojans were find ing the Oregon pitchers for their barrage of hits, Vic Lapiner gave up but four safeties to the visit ors. First Baseman Kent Hadley got the Trojans out jn front with a 360-foot homer in the second and the margin was good until the fifth when the Ducks made their only run. It came on a walk to Dick Schlosstein who went to second on a passed ball, to third on a fielder's choice and came home on a wild pitch. Roy Campanella Served Summons New York (U.R) Catcher Roy Campanella of the Brooklyn Dodgers was served with a sum mons yesterday ordering him to appear ins court regarding a $9500 suit filed by the doctor who operated on his hand. Campanella was handed the summons by a professional process-server as he stood by the batting cage awaiting his prac tice turn prior to today's game against the New York Giants. He promptly turned the sum mons over to a Dodger official. 20 Days To Answer The chunky Dodger catcher has 20 days to answer the sum mons in New York State Su preme Court. Dr. Samuel Shenkman, who operated on Campanella's hand last October, sued for $9500 "for services of a professional na ture.' He maintained neither Campanella nor the club had paid him for an operation "of a radical nature." Campanella was operated upon May 4, 1954 for the re moval of bone chips from his left hand following a spring training injury. The hand pained him last season and he submit ted to a second operation by Dr. Shenkman. be on the hill for the first time in a Medford uniform with either Don White or Jerry Dros cher chucking for the Umpqua valley aggregation. Medford and Roseburg are longtime foes in semi-pro ball but this week end's action is the first between the two clubs in a couple of years The two clubs were participants in the old time Southern - Oregon League and then in the Southwestern Oregon League. Roseburg Hub ,"... Roseburg was not a member last season during the first year of the reactivated Southern Ore gon circuit. But the revived Chiefs were welcomed back with open arms a few weeks ago as replacement for Brookings. With Bandon and Coquille to its west, Roseburg is situated as the hub city of the SOL. Skipper of the Chiefs' club is Hal Zurcher, who has appeared in a Studs uniform. Neither club is at its full anti cipated strength for the 1955 compaign but both have a good number of players on hand who are expected to be around through the season. Advance no tices indicated that the Chiefs- Studs series would be an inter esting one.. The Studs won't pause for rest after completing their stand with Roseburg. They go to Yre ka, Calif., Monday fpr a holiday appearance. Action there will be at 1 p.m. Oregon time (2 p.m. California daylight time). Kay Kelley may get the pitching as signment for Medford tomorrow. The Cheney gang, believing in opening the season in a rush, plays another non-league fracas with Yreka here on Wednesday night. In will be their fourth mix in five days and the third game on the home field in five. Sunday. May 29. 19SS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NXNB Alberto Ascari Rites Conducted in Italy Milan. Italy U.R Alberto Ascari former world auto rac ing champion was buried yester day after his funeral procession moved past 100,000 mourners one of the largest and most si lent crowds in Milan's history. It was over three hours before the twelve black motor hearses, overflowing with hundreds of wreaths, reached the cemetery after winding their way through the crowd at a snail's pace. As cari was killed when he crashed in a Ferrari Thursday at Monza, Italy. - Fastest, Rich Fastest, Richest Indianapolis (U.R) Record holders Jack McGrath and Bill Vukovich, two speed - hungry Californians, and Jimmy Bryan and Art Cross, two other red-hot racing veterans, were tabbed Saturday as the drivers to beat in . what should be the richest and fastest 500-mile Memorial Day Speedway auto race. Railbirds figured the slender McGrath; whose best finish in seven previous races was third last year and in 1951, was about due to pocket the Lion's share of a jackpot expected to hit about $275,000. Also his own chief mechanic McGrath holds all qualifying records. He has a front-row spot for the fifth straight year. The 33 low-slung racers thun der away at 11:00 a.m. (CDT) Monday before upward of 150,- 000 fans. Vukovich, the Fresno filling station operator, again was among the top favorites, mainly due to pocket the lion's share of stamina, a good car and efficient crew. He has led 436 of the last 600 laps. Of the four, only Cross failed to qualify at a speed exceeding 140 miles an hour. But he got in the lineup just 24 hours after smacking the wall in his first qualification attempt. Many other seasoned drivers and even a few Rookies were to be reckoned' with. Among them such diehards as Freddie Aga bashian, Tony Bettenhausen, Sam Hanks, Bob Sweikert, one legged Cal Niday, Pat O'Connor, and Ray Crawford and Eddie Russo, two of eight newcomers to the "500." Crawford, wealthy winner of last year's Mexican road race, is the only owner-driver. Russo set a rookie qualifying record of better than 140 MPH. Roger Bannister Will Marry Swedish Girl London (U.R) Magic miler Roger Bannister, 26, announced today he is marrying 26-year-old Moyra Jacobson, a Swedish girl he met while she was studying painting in London. - The young doctor who ran the world's first four minute mile at Oxford a year ago is a house surgeon on the staff of London's St. Mary's Hospital, Paddington. X ' JERRY KALAPUS Wins Singles Crown Kalapus Wins 6-2, 6-3 For State Title Coryallis Medford High school's Jerry Kalapus de feated Wayne Henniger of Roseburg, 6-2. 6-3, to win the state high school tennis singles championship Saturday. Kalapus advanced to the finals by defeating Ken Ray borne of Grand High of Port land. 6-2, 6-3, while Henniger advanced by beating Ron Gunther of North Bend, 4-6, Oaks Lose In 10th; Angels Win In 12th Oakland (U.R) Harry Bright and Rufus Crawford,, two Sacra mento newcomers, drove in the tying and winning runs for a 10 inning 4-3 Pacific, Coast League victory over Oakland today. Bud Daley went the route and shut out the. Oaks on three hits in the last seven innings. Bright, third baseman ob tained , from Buffalo, socked a bases-empty homer over the left field fence in the eighth inning to wipe out a 3-2 ead Karl Drews protected for Oakland since the third. Then in the top of the 10th inning, Crawford, right fielder also from Buffalo, dropped a bloop since behind single after Nippy Jones and Tom Glaviano had singled off loser Fred Bes ana. Jones tallied and Daley re tired the Oaks in the bottom of the inning. Two Ejected The ninth inning saw the ejec tion of Bright and Sacramento Coach Dolph Camillio. George Metkovich had rapped a double and overslid second. The Sacs claimed George was out but 6-3. 6-3. Bob Wolf and Bill Burklan of South Salem defeated Ed Grover and Merv Montney of Cleveland of Portland for the doubles championship. Umpire Gordon Ford ruled otherwise, touching off the rhubarb. Los Angeles (U.R) Pinch hitter Vern Morgan singled in the winning run today . as Los Angeles snapped league-leading San Diego's 15-game winning streak with a 4-3 victory in 12 innings. . , ' Morgan's single in the bottom of the 12th, which knocked in Ed Winceniak, also gave the Angels their first win against the Padres in the series, which now stands at 5-1. Angel hurler Don Elston, who finished, was the winner while Eddie Erautt suffered the loss. ..1 San Diego loaded the bases in both the sixth and 12th stanzas and had a man on third with only one awav in the 10th. but could't score in those inings. Bill Jarrett Named Coach at Nyssa High Nyssa, Ore. 0J.RU- Bill Jar rett, Boise, has been named bas ketball coach at Nyssa High school replacing Harry McGin ley, who recently moved to head football coach. . Jarrett, 27, a graduate of Cen tral College of Education in Washington, has been instructing basketball and baseball at West junior high school at Boise. c USE READY' MIX A CONCRETE Phone 2-5336 or 2-5897 A1. C. LININGER & SONS ffiOAE) niL- fflimfl CAN BE REMOVED FROM YOUR CAR .... INEXPENSIVELY CALL 2-4368 or STOP BY THE Automotive Beauty Center 621 EAST JACKSON STREET Laurence dmond Owner and Operator of I. E. Edmonds Motors, Inc. 1016 NORTH RIVERSIDE PHONE 3-5391 MEDFORD, OREGON O Complete .'GBflC ' AGENCY INCLUDING PABTS-." and . iEBVICE SALES SHOP Henry T. Holman Howard Lehman PARTS Johnnie Fullenweider & Lyle Davis -All Owned and Operated By E. Edmomids Motors, Done yLL FROM INDIANAPOLIS STAY TUNED TO KYJC MEMORIAL DAY Starting at 9:15 in the morning Until the race is over- KYJC will interrupt programs to bring you bulletins of this great Memorial Day Classic. CCJ 1230 On Your Dial Medford Mail Tribune's Sports Station
