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Newspaper Page TexttlQHT MEDFORD (OREGON) Yanks, Dodgers Reach Memorial Day Signpost in Grand Fashion By FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer It looked like 1953 all over again today with the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers in command of the major league pennant races at the Memorial Day milestone. . The Yankees and Dodgers met in the 1953 World Series and they'll do it again this year if the old baseball axiom that the Memorial Day leaders will win the nennant holds true. It's an axiom that's proved correct more than half the time and u s rarely looked sounder than it does for the Yankees and Dodg ra this vear. The Yankees rode the crest of a six-eame winning streak, 13 games and a three-game first place lead over the Cleveland Indians. All this, and Bob Grim, too. The Dodgers were fresh from taking a series from the New York Giants, 2-1, had won five of their last seven games and held a six-game lead over the second-place Chicago Cubs. All this, and relief pitching, too. In Grand Style Both reached the Memorial Day signpost in grand style Sun day, the Yankees edging out the Baltimore Orioles, 1-0, and the Dodgers defeating the Giants, 8-5. The victory gave the Yankees a 29 - 12 record com pared to their 26-11 mark on Memorial Day, 1953, while the Dodgers' current 30-10 record is far better than their 23-14 pace of two years ago. Grim, A. L.. "Rookie of the Year" in 1954, "joined the team" Sunday when he limited the Orioles to five hits in pitching his first complete game of the year. A 20-game winner last year, Grim had failed to go the distance in seven previous starts this year and had Manager Casey Stengel 'wailing that he needed another starting pitcher. Art Schallock, purchased from the Yankees on. May 12, matched Grim until the ninth when Mickey Mantle singled with one out, moved to second base on Hank Bauer's , infield out and scored on rookie Elston How ard's single. Good Relief Aid Manager Walt .Alston called for bullpen aid for the second straight day -and -got it when Jim Hughes pitched two score- , less frames to close out the Dodgers' second straight victory over the Giants: Only the day before, Alston had received a brilliant relief performance from Ed Roebuck in squeezing out a 4-3 verdict over the world champions. Junior Gilliam, Jackie Robin son and Duke Snider all hit homers for the Dodgers, who routed southpaw Johnny Anton elli, the Giant's "desperation starter," in the second inning. Al Dark and Willie Mays hit homers for the Giants, who nev er could make up an early 5-0 deficit. Larry Doby's 500-foot home run featured the. Indians' 4-2 verdict over the Kansas City 2 in Same Race Smash 2-Mile Mark London (U.R) Two men in the same race today broke the world's record for the two mile run . They were Sandor Iharos of Hungary and -Ken Wood of Britain. Iharos won the race and Wood ran second. The . race was run -at 'London's White City Stadium track, where three men broke the - four minute mile in the same race Saturday. Iharis, a 25-year-old Hun garian clerk, and Britain's Wood both smashed the old record of 8:40" set by Belgium's Gaston Reiff at Paris in Au gust. 1952. -8:33.4 TIME Iharos' time was eight min utes, 33.4 seconds. Wood's time was 8:34.8. ' ' ' 4 Third was Britain's B. T. Barratt. His time was 3:45.8. Another starter in the two mile contest Was Iharos Hun garian teammate, Lasslo Ta bori, who won the fantastic Saturday mile in which he, Chris Calhaway and Brian Hewson all broke the four minute barrier. ' But Tabori didn't even fin ish the two-mile run. He drop ped out with two laps to go. FAY CROCKER LEADS Detroit (U.R) Fay Crocker, a play-for-pay lady golfer who won the Serbin Open 'in Florida last February, today appeared headed for the $1,000 first prize in the Wolverine Ladies Open. Miss Crocker fired a 71 to tie the course record at the Forest ake Country Club here Sunday and take over the lead in the $5,000 tournament with a 219 total at the three - quarter mark. MAIL TRIBUNE Athletics and helped Herb Score notch his fifth win. Doby's blast cleared the right . field wall, which stands 50 feet high, at a point 405 feet from home plate only the fourth time the feat was accomplished. It came off Bobby Shantz, who suffered his fifth loss. Williams Triples, Doublet . Ted Williams had a triple and double and Jackie Jensen hit two homers and drove in five runs to lead the Boston -Red Sox to a 12-7 win over the Wash ington Senators while Mike For nieles scattered nine hits in pitching the Chicago White Sox to a 9-3 win over the Detroit Tigers in other A.L. games. The St. .Louis Cardinals pre CONTROL TOGA FOR TORNADO A deliberate, control style of game which kept his opposition off balance and played it into his hands enabled Medford's Jerry Kalapus to battle his way past four foes, including a favor ed Portlander, to capture the Oregon state high school tennis singles championship in tourna ment contention Friday and Sat urday at Corvallis. The 6-foot 5-inch netter, whose retrieving and court overage ability make him a player of stonewall stature on the court, brought to Medford its first high honors in many years in a sport which has scant following on the local scene. With Kalapus's sin gles title also came a portion of the state team co-championship. Bob Wulf and Phil . Burkland nabbed the double crown to give South Salem a share of the crown. Each school picked up five points for its championship. Kalapus bounced Wayne Hen- ninger, Roseburg in the singles finale Saturday. He drew a first round bye on Saturday then scored a comparatively easy de cision over Allan Crisp, Sheri dan. - In the third round the Black Tornado star disposed of Gary Ambrose, Jefferson of Portland, who had been picked to win. the championship. Semi final action saw Kalapus beat Ken Rayburn, Grant of Port land.. Fine Morale "Victory Medford's doubles team of Bill Isaacs and Jim Gorden were eliminated in the second round but the two Tornados tabulated a fine morale victory as they came within, match point of scor ing counters which would have given the Pear city sole posses sion of the team trophy. One point away from a triumph over Klamath Falls' Bechen and Hay den, the Medfordites yielded to a replay of a disputed Klamath serve and the Pelican went on to win the tussle. An Isaacs-Gordon win in the round would have given Med ford two points and, with the five by Kalapus, a total of seven for the tourney. Kalapus, whose mode of ac tion contrasted to the flashier, more spectacularj?lay of Port land entries in the meet, never theless, produced the desired re sults with his deliberate game. He frustrated his rivals by keep ing them deep in their back courts. The tactics gave the Tor- Talent Loses To Gaston; Echo Victor Echo Host Echo high school won the state B baseball cham pionship Saturday night by top ping Glide, 3 to 1. Gaston won third place with an 8 to 7 verdict over Talent high. Pitchers Dick Smith and Al Polley held the Cougars to two hits but the Echo team made use of 11 walks, a hit batter and a passed ball to get its runs. Echo hurler Lisle Young racked up his 10th straight victory with a two hitter. Two-run home runs in the sec ond canto by Jim McAbee and Don Coghill were not enough for Talent in its bid to clip the Gas ton Greyhounds. McAbee hit an other roundtripper in the sixth. The Greyhounds outhit Talent 11 to 6. They got four straight singles in the fourth inning. Talent got four runs in its big second and Gaston three each in the third and fourth. Jim Mc Abee, regular catcher, finished the game as pitcher for Talent. He was preceded by Don Coghill and Dale Walter and the loss was charged to alter. LINESCORE: Talent : 240001 07 6 0 Gaston 01&310 0 8 11 0 Cofhill. Walter (3). McAbee (4) and McAbee. Weinhold: Dethless. Leamon (2) and Kumer. Um Mail Tribune Want Ada Monday, May 30, 1955 sented new Manager Harry Wal ker with his first victory when Stan Musial's three-run homer paced them to a 7-2 victory over the Cincinnati Redlegs. Tom Poholsky received credit for his first win. In the other N.L. games, Hal Jeffcoat received credit for his sixth win of the year in relief as the Chicago Cubs downed the Milwaukee Braves 9-6 for their 13th triumph in 16 games and Robin Roberts won his sev enth game as the Philadelphia Phillies toppled the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5-2, for their seventh straight verdict. The second Philadelphia - Pittsburgh game was suspended in the seventh with the Pirates leading, 8-3. PLAY WINS KALAPUS; CO-CHAMP nado better advantage at the net and in the finale he turned in a great net game. The Medford star breezed by Crisp 6-0, 6-1. His toughest scrap was with Ambrose. Experiment ing in the first set, Kalapus lost 2-6 but he took the next two 6-1, 6-3. He was a master in this third round mix at covering the court and he set up Ambrose with high deep backhand shots and the Portlander missed many of them. Rayburn proved anoth er comparatively easy mark and Kalapus won 6-2, 6-2. For the two finalists it was a grudge match. Kalapus had beat Henninger this year after losing last year to the Roseburg player. But the Medford youth just overpowered the tiring In dian. His high bouncing lobs fell close inside the base line, so close that it was hard for Hen ninger to judge whether they would be in or out. Balls that the Roseburg boy returned Kalapus adeptly blasted back. Set scores were 6-1, 6-3. Isaacs and Gordon won their first set with. Bechen and Hay den 6-4. They were leading 5-4 and love-40 in the second set when the questioned play arose It was Klamath's serve. The first ball was out and Isaacs called the second one out too. Spec tators agreed but a Klamath man said it was in. No Line Officials There were no line calling of ficials in the second round. After several minutes discussion and after the players had shaken hands, the gesture at the end of a match it was decided to serve over. The Klamath duo went on to win the set 7-5 and took the match with a 6-2 third set. Henninger downed Ron Guen ther, North Bend to reach the finale with Kalapus. Wulf and Burkland won the doubles with 9-7 and 10-8 sets over Ed Grover and Merv Montney, Cleveland of Portland. Diane Peterson, McMinnville, defeated Patti Miller, Washing ton of Portland, 6-2, 1-6, 6-3, to successfully defend her girls crown. Barbara and Carol Ol son, Jefferson, beat Kris Hellis and Patty White, Lake Oswego, 6-3, 11-9 for their third straight doubles toga. Cudd Wins, Yost Beaten In Britain The first major upset of the tournament saw James Mahon, a one - time professional who is now a market bardner, beat Dick Yost, a member of the Walker Cup team from Port land, Ore., 1 up in 21 holes. Another-U. S. Walker cup. per. from Portland advanced, however, when Bruce Cudd eliminatd Seymour Martin of Braxil. 7 and 6. St. Annes, England U.R) Jim McHale Jr., former U. S. Walker Cup golfer from Wynne wood, Pa., began his sixth bid for the British amateur cham pionship with an easy 7 to 5 tri umph over England's Eric Tay lor as the six-day match play grind started in perfect weather. St. Anne's England (U.R) Big Bill Campbell captain of the triumphant United States Walk er Cup team, led a power-packed array of 46 Americans into the British Amateur golf champion ship today with experts predict ing the sixth U.S. triumph in the last 10 years. Attendance for today's 88 first-round matches at the Royal Latham and St. Anne's course was expected to be cut by the railway strike, but local bus and Qoach services were trying to fill the gap. Today's 88 maragainst-man matches on the 6,657-yard par 71 course represented , about three-fourths of the first-round Chiefs Sweep Series With Medford Studs Roseburg, new entry in the Southern Oregon Baseball league made its bow into the semi-pro circuit at the expense of the Cheney Studs, sweeping its two game week end series with the Medford aggregation at the fairgrounds ball park here. With both clubs fielding some what makeshift line-ups, the Chiefs bounced the Studs 4 to 1 Sunday after handing them a 5 to 2 pasting on Saturday. Four-hit pitching by Jerry Droscher, up from Roseburg high school, and a three-run fourth inning were the big fac tors in the Chiefs' decision yes- Drain defeated Grants Pass 15 to 3 Saturday and 6 to 1 on Sunday in a Southern Ore gon league baseball series at Drain.' terday but they had to choke off a ninth inning bid by the Studs in order to wrap up then sweep. Medford loaded the bags with none away in the final frame and pushed in its lone run of the afternoon before it could be stopped. Six-Hitlers Saturday Six-hit jobs were turned in on Saturday by the rival pitch ers, Don White of Roseburg and Warren Noyes of Medford. But Noyes issued five bases on balls to White's two and the Chiefs made better use of hits, passes and rival errors than Medford was able to make. Medford was charged with four muffs and Roseburg with three. The Studs had men on bases in six innings on Saturday but couldn't muster scoring punch in four of the frames. White struck out 13 batters in turning back the Studs. Noyes whiffed nine. A triple by Les Winders, a single by. Joe Niro, a sacrifice by George Sanders and two Med ford misplays in fielding . con tributed to Roseburg's fourth frame score-making yesterday. The other run for the Chiefs came in on a double steal try. Dan Luby singled and was sacri ficed to second base by Winders. White got on base on an error and Luby went to third. Luby slipped home while White was being run down between sec ond and third base. Droscher weakened in the ninth frame and issued a base on balls to Bill McLean of Med ford, gave up a single to Jack Cooney and yielded another walk to John Niles. Clarence Mellbye drilled the ball to short stop, forcing out Niles at second base but driving McLean home for the Medford marker. Harvey Tonn struck out and Howard Morris filed to shortstop to con elude the inning and the game. Roseburg made threats in both the second and eighth innings, getting men on third base. The Studs got men as far as second in the same stanzas. Heavy hitters for the Chiefs were Niro with three bingles in four times up and Hal Zurcher and Luby each with two for four. A high fly ball by Pitcher Marv Scherpf, which Center- fielder Zucher lost in the sun, was Medford's long blast of the day. It went for a double. Fielding Gem While Droscher was giving up four hits, fanning five and walk ing four, Scherpf was yielding more hits but striking out more and walking fewer. He was tag ged for eight wallops while re cording nine KO's and just one base on balls. Fielding gem Sunday was on a smash into left field by Niles. It appeared to be a sure hit but Zurcher snagged the ball after a long run. On Saturday Medford did not score until the bottom ol tne seventh inning and by .that time Roseburg had four runs in. For two markers in the third inning Roseburg used a base on balls, a bunt sacrifice by White, a single by Bill Harper and two throwing errors which allow Harper to make the circuit on hits hit. In the sixth the Chiefs got a counter on an error, two walks and two flyouts, one of which was a sacrifice by San ders. Miscuec Aid A two-base miscue and Zurch- er's single gave Roseburg a run in the seventh canto. The Studs came back for a singleton in schedule, which will be com pleted Tuesday. Of the Ameri can delegation, a total of 34 players were scheduled today with the other 12 beginning Tuesday. In addition to Campbell, other U.S. Walker Cup players here are Billy Joe Patton of Morgan town, N.C., Jim Jackson of St. Louis, Don Cherry of Wichita Falls, Tex., Dick Yost. of Port land, Ore., Dale Morey of In dianapolis, Ind., Joe' Conrad of San Antonio, Tex., and Bruce Cudd, of Portland, Jre. the frame when Tonn safetied and the ball went by Rightfield er Luby for an error. Tonn went to third on the play and scored on Noyes' hit. Roseburg combined a walk and hits by Luby and White in the eighth for a run and Medford tallied 'on Frank Roelandt's double and McLean's one-baser. White held the Studs hitless until the fifth panel when Noyes tapped the pellet toward third base for an infield knock. Roelandt was heavy slugger for Medford with his two doubles in four batting turns. Noyes hit two for three, Luby socked a single and double in three trips for the visitors. Medford was playing at Yreka, Calif., this afternoon and will have a return engagement with the California nine here on Wednesday night. SATURDAY BOX: Roseburg ab r h po a e Whitten. ss 5 0 0 3 2 0 Harper. 3b 5 2.1111 Zurcher, cf 5 112 0 0 Christianson, lb 4 0 1 7 0 1 Ni'o c 4 0 0 13 0 0 Winders, If 2 0 0 0 0 0 Sanders. 2b 2 10 110 Luby, rf 3 1 2 0 0 1 Lmde. rf 0 0 0 0 0 0 White, p . 3 0 1 0 3 0 33 ab .... 5 .... 4 4 4 27 po 1 1 9 9 2 4 1 0 0 Medford McCullough, Price, 2b Cooney. lb . Roelandt, c . 3b Mellbye, ss 4 McLean, cf .'. 4 Niles, If Tonn. rf Noyes, p 34 2 6 27 7 4 Roseburg Medford . .... 002 001 1105 .... 000 000 1102 Runs batted in Harper. Sanders, Zurched, White, Noyes. McLean. Two base hits Luby, Roelandt 2. Sacri fices White, Sanders, Noyes. Left on base Roseburg 8, Medford 8. Bases' on balls Off White 2, off Noyes 5. Strikeouts By White 13, by Noyes 9. Earned runs Roseburg 2, Medford 1. SUNDAY LINESCORE: Roseburg 000 300 001 4 8 2 Medford , 000 000 0011 4 3 Droscher and Luby; Scherpf and Morris. : 117 S. CENTRAL 1 ,u 3 Standings PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Club W. L. Pet 6.B. San Diego 38 18 .679 Seattle 30 27 .526 8,i San Francisco 27 28 .491 10 la Los Angeles 27 29 .482 11 Portland 25 27 .481 11 Oakland 25 29 .463 12 Hollywood 25 30 .455 12 a Sacramento 23 32 .418 14 ,j Sunday's Results: Sacramento 9-1 Oakalnd 4-10 Hollywood 7-5. Seattle 5-0 Portland 7-0. San Francisco 1-1 San Diego 7-3, Los Angeles 5-4 How Series Ended: San Diego 6. Los Angeles 2 Hollywood 6. Seattle 2 Portland 4 San Francisco 4 Sacramento 4, Oakland 4 AMERICAN LEAGUE Club W. L. Pet. G.B. New York 29 12 .707 Cleveland ...... 25 14 .641 3 Chicago 24 15 .615 4 Detroit 22 18 .550 6',i Boston 18 25 .419 12 Washington 16 23 .410 12 Kansas City 14 25 .359 14 Baltimore.. .. 13 29 .310 16 Sunday's Results: New York 1 Baltimore 0 Boston 12 Washington 7 Chicago 9 Detroit 3 Cleveland 4 Kansas City 3 NATIONAL LEAGUE Club W. L. Pet. "G.B. Brooklyn 30 10 .750 Chicago . 25 17 .595 6 New York . 22 20 .524 9 St. Louis 18 20 .474 il Milwaukee 19 22 .463 11 i Cincinnati ..... 18 21 .462 11 3 Philadelphia 17 23 .415 13 Pittsburgh 12 28 .317 18 Sunday's Results: Chicago 9 Milwaukee 8 St. . Louis 7 Cincinnati 2 Brooklyn 8 New York 5 Philadelphia 5 Pittsburgh 2 (1st) Pittsburgh 8 Philadelphia (2nd, sus pended after 6 la innings, to be com pleted at a later date) Indians Nab State Flag In Baseball Albany, Ore. (U.R) The Dalles Indians won their first state high school baseball cham pionship Saturday night by beat ing Columbia Prep 8-3 behind the pitching .of Denny Peterson. Peterson struck out nine bat ters and allowed eight hits to cop his second win of the tourney. A six-run fourth inning did the rest for The Dalles nine. The march to the champion ship started with a 1-0 victory over Albany led by Peterson and continued with a 14-10 victory over Oregon City. Oregon City took third place with a 2-1 extra inning victory WARDS NEW 3 Tnks cross-cots, ev - - - Wards Padres Hold 8Vi-Fray Lead in Coast Loop By CON THACKREY United Press Sports Writer Lefty O'Doul, who managed San Diego to a Pacific Coast League pennant last season, gets a chance -to look down the other end of the Padres' guns this week, starting with a double barreled Memorial Day squint. The Pads have been terroriz ing the league for the past month and have built up a fat eight-and-a-half game cushion. O'Doul professes not to be impressed. Yesterday the Padres would have pulled out farther in front if it had not been for Steve Bil ko of the Los Angeles Angels. After Earl Rapp homered to give San Diego the first game 7-5 in 10 frames, the Pads took a two- i run lead at 3-1 in the seventh of the short game. But Bilko hit a game-winning three - run homer in the bottom of the frame for a 4-3 Angel victor'. . ' I Nevertheless San Diego pick ed up a whole game on second place Seattle at Hollywood pro duced the day's only two-time win with 7-5 and 5-0 victories. Oakland lost- to Sacramento 9-4 and then won easily 10-1. San Francisco ended up on the wrong end of a 7-1 score with Port land and then got a two-hit 2-0 triumph. Rapp, who leads the league in homers and is almost double his nearest rival in runs batted Javelin Champ Now Minister Palo Alto, Calif. (U.R) Franklin (Bud) Held, holder of the world's javelin record, has been ordained a Presbyterian minister. Held, who will graduate from the San Francisco Theological Seminary in San Anselmo, Calif., June 7, was ordained yesterday in the First Presbyterian Church of Palo Alto. over Central Catholic. Peterson's teammate, catcher Irwin Fandrey, was named the tournament's most valuable player in a close race with Peterson SUPER-DELUXE TUBEIESS SAFETY KMUIttSl .j-timj FEATURES I NON-SKID to sharp edges of road mow r- . ... .iniua with each turn to prevem m - - - ee ATI IRES 1 low fist prices onu s GUARANTEED TO GIVE SATISFACTORY SERVICE WITHOUT LIMIT AS TO TIME OR MILEAGE in, added his 16th four bagger and his ,72nd RBI with a 10th inning clout that won the game for Al Lyons, San Diego relief pitcher. . Earlier Los Angeles had come from behind with three runs in the bottom of the ninth to send the game Into overtime. In the second game, Bilko hit his blast with two aboard and the Angel cause looked pretty dim. Glenn Elliott gave Portland a fine job of relief pitching in the first game and Luis Marques hammered a two-run homer for the Beaver win. But in the second game Jim Walsh held the Bevos to a pair of hits and blanked them over the seven inning session. Bob DIPietro hit safely in both con tests to prolong his hitting streak to 21 straight games. Ed Mickelson and Frankie Austin each doubled for the only Portland safeties. moot and dry afftor 5 thousand smokes! Only Falcon hat the patented goo-trap that BJBCTS TH GOO With every puff BBFOKB amok reaches stem. No filter-gadgets be cause no goo to filter even after 5 thousand mokes. Imported mar bowl always bone dry. World' sweetest pipe smoke because world's FIRST OOOLESS WPS. PHONI 2-6241 converts dond me deep MATURES I I MM turn asm mat FW9 MkMBl- ism