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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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