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Thursday, June I, I9SS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE TKntTEEl THIS IS BASEBALL? In a bid to increase attendance, dancing feet and jazz music precede the night game in San Francisco's Seals Stadium between the Seals and the Oakland Oaks. Chorus girls Barbara Wright (left) and Wanita Wilent from Bimbo's 365 Club lead second baseman Mike Baxes and center fielder Dave Melton in the Charles ton. The stunt brought in 10,000 fans but the Oaks won the game, 5-3. Eight Might Race Nashua In Belmont New York (U.R) It ap peared likely today that as many as eight three-year-olds will be lined up against. Belair stud's brilliant Nashua Saturday in the Belmont Stakes, the third jewel in racing's triple crown classic, with second-place money the big lure. The surprise withdrawal of Hilton A. Dabson's Nance's Lad . from the list of probable starters Wednesday created a flurry of activity around racing Secretary Jimmy Kilroe's office with the strong possibility that the Bel mont field will be composed of nine instead of the previously anticipated four or five. . Certain Starters Those regarded as certain starters along with Nashua are Clifford Mooers' Traffic Judge, Laudy Lawrence's improving Jabneh, Howard Weinstein's Mr. Al L. and Cain Hoy Stable's dis appointing Flying Fury. Now listed as likely to start are King Ranch's Retamero, Clearwater Stable's Portersville, John Mc Shain's Blazing Count and C. V. Whitney's Little Dell. Of course, most of these horses have only an outside chance of beating Nashua in the $100,000 added race and the rush to enter some of them indicates a keen battle for second place and the $20,000 that goes with it. The gruelling mile-and-a-half Belmont, longest of the "triple crown" races, is called the "test of the champion" and there are few horses around willing to dis pute Nashua's claim to the title. Fishing, Hunting License Changes To Apply in 1956 Portland (U.R) The State Game commission said today that none of the fishing and hunting license fee changes adopted by the recent legislature would be in effect this year. Likewise the fish derby law limiting individual fish derby awards to $25 or less in value will not go into effect until Jan uary 1, 1956. , ' Fee changes include a $1 daily salmon angling license, a reduc tion in non resident angling li cense fees and a $10 reciprocal non-resident waterfowl license for residents of adjoining states. New On Each Day ; The daily salmon angling li cense may be used by residents or non-residents in place of a regular license when angling for chinook or silver salmon. Persons using this license must purchase a new one for each day of fishing. The $10 non-resident angling license fee will bring Oregon into line with California, Idaho and Washing ton. '.... The non-resident waterfowl li cense may be used by a resident of an adjoining state only if his own state has a similar license and fee for Oregon residents. PHILLIES INK THREE Philadelphia (U.R) The Philadelphia Phillies have sign ed three college baseball players and assigned them to minor lea gue affiliates. Bobby Hunt, an outfielder, and John Anderson, a left-handed pitcher, both from the University of Alabama, have been assigned to Reidsville of the Class B Carolina League. Roger Anderson, a first baseman from the University of Minnesota, has been assigned to three rivers of the Class C Provincial League. Us Mail Tribune Want Ads WANTED! TIMBER LANDS No tract toe large or small, virgin or re-log. Cash immediately on Purchase PHONE 3-4442 or Write: Timber Purchases Mail Tribune Box 7814 o M MEDFORDvWTRIBUNl siPADimrs Cheney Studs Defeat Yreka for 3rd Time ,The Medford Cheney, Studs ac cumulated runs enough to win in the first three innings but had to hang on for dear life in the final frame last night before notching their third non-league semi-pro baseball victory of the season over the Yreka, Calif., In dians. Final score at the fair grounds park here favored the Medford nine 6 to 4. , Victory gave the Studs a five win two-loss overall record for the season as they faced their third Southern Oregon Baseball League series. Medford will en tertain the Bandon Millers Satur day night and Sunday afternoon at the fairgrounds. Medford had a 5 to 1 bulge after three innings last night. Yreka cut the difference with a pair of markers in the fifth canto but the Studs made it 6 to 3 with a singleton in the sixth. In the final panel the Indians collected one run and had the bases pack ed when the final out was re corded. Four Double Plays The Studs were outhit six to seven but were able to make bet ter use of their bingles. There were errors on both sides but there was also some fine field ing which cut down the Indian threat. Each club recorded two double plays. Runners were caught off base on fly balls on three occasions. Combining half their hits, the Studs got two runs in the first inning. There were singles by Ritchie Price, Bill McLean and Clarence Mellbye. Mellbye's hit drove in both scores after a fielder's option on a rap by John Niles failed to get a man out and loaded the bases. " ' In the second inning' for Med ford Howard Morris hit, was sacrificed to second by Marv Scherpf and tallied on an error. Two errors and a base on balls put Niles and Mellbye on base in the third inning and they came home when Morris singled to left field. Price walked in the sixth inning and was forced out by McLean. However, Mc Lean crossed home on a tower ing triple sock to left center field by Jack Cooney; Two Three-Baggers Yreka got the benefit of Wil lie Jones three-bagger and an erpor for a third-inning run. An error, a single, by Don Hodgen and three-base blow by Jim Kut- zer accounted for two Indian runs in the fifth panel. In the final inning, Bill Ewing of the Indians drew a base on balls and Willie Jones doubled to put runners on second and third bases. Hodgen grounded out to Cooney at first base and Cooney threw to Morris at home to catch Ewing. :The double play appeared to have quashed the final inning threat of the Yrekans but a base on balls and two miscues allow ed in one run and loaded the bases with Indians, with the possible tying marker on first base. Hitchcock then flied ' out to Harvey Tonn in right field to end the game. Scherpf. Kelly -Hurl Marv Sherpf, making his last appearance for the Studs for two or three weeks, tossed the first five innings. Jim Kelly took over the mound chores for Medford at the start of the sixth and finish ed the game. Scherpf yielded four hits, struck out seven and gave two bases on balls. Kelly was tagged by three hitters, fan ned three (air in the seventh in ning) and issued four bases on balls. Ewing went the pitching route for Yreka, whiffing four . and walking seven. Medford Third .Baseman Ed McCullough nabbed two hot liners for putouts in the fifth inning and Shortstop Mellbye made' some fine fielding stops. McLean in left field made one desperate snag of a fly ball which looked like it would drop for a hit after he momentarily misjudged it. Ray Moffett rob bed McCullough of a hit with a nice running catch in center field. , Jones of Yreka provided the heavy hitting with his double and triple in four times up. He also scored three of his team's runs. Morris hit two for fcir for Medford. LINESCORE: Yreka 001 020 0014 7 Medford .212 001 OOx 6 6 Ewing and Kleaver; Scherpf.. Kelly (6) and Morris. It is a crime to attempt to com mit suicide in the U. S. Chile's first railroads were constructed in 1850; kv mm?.-. . r SeagranvOistillers Corporation; liY.C. Blended Whiskey. &8 Sport Parade New York (U.R) The wel-1 terweight title jinx rides j squarely on Tony DeMarco's shoulders Friday night when he defends his recently acquired championship against Carmen Basilio. In recent years no less than 10 of the 147-pound rulers have lost their crown the first time they defended. This includes such as Jimmy McLarin, Barney Ross, Honey Melody, Joe Dun dee, Red Cochrane, Johnny Brat ton and Johnny Saxton. The odds are 17-10 that the same thing will happen to De Marco at Syracuse Friday night. It is a bit difficult to figure why the odds are so long against the little man from Boston. He has won 17 in a row and he prov ed himself a fine fighter on Ap ril 1 when he made- fools out of the odds makers by flattening Saxton to take the title. In many ways there is a great similarity between the 23-year-old DeMarco and the 28-year-old Basilio. Sons of poor Italian par ents, each is a rarity in the prize fighting profession. Both Tony and Carmen are quiet, modest, devout and "home folks" DeMarco, a squatty, black haired young man with placid brown eyes, came off the tough, teeming streets of Boston's Little Italy. He was a carpenter, con struction worker and trucker be tween bouts, after starting as an amateur at 15. His real name is Leonard Li- otta and, being too young for the amateurs, filed the birth cer tificate of a friend named Tony DeMarco to get his early start. The real DeMarco thus had to assume another name when he entered the ring. After 14 amateur bouts, of which he lost only one, DeMarco turned professional and has won 40 of 45 with one draw and 25 knockouts to his credit. He is a relentless, free-swinging crowd er. Basilio fights much the same way. Rangier and an inch taller than DeMarco, he is one of 10 children of immigrant parents who settled on an onion farm near Syracuse. Carmren worked on farms and in a wire factory before serving 33 months in the Marines. ' . A Marine Boxer It was while stationed at Pearl Harbor that he began box ing and in late 1948 he turned professional. . Disgusted when he "didn't seem to be getting anywhere," he thought several times of quitting but there was little else to do, so he stuck it out. : His big chance came in 1953 when he finally was matched with Kid Gavilan, then the welt erweight ruler. He blasted Gavi lan to the floor in the first round but lost a split decision Since then he has waited impa tiently for another shot. They by-passed Carmen this year to give DeMarco a shot, but promised him the winner. So, after beating Peter Mueller on an. 21, Carmen . took a mere six-day vacation and has been training for this one ever since. He has boxed more than 200 rounds in preparation, from featherweights to sharpen his speed to light heavyweights for punch. His overall record is 44 wins in. 62 starts, with seven draws and 20 knockouts. His record possibly isn't a impressive as DeMarco's. But you have to give him an edge on the intangible known as "class." And, then, too there's that wel terweight jinx. bay tMWM$ and ly OSCAR FRAltY ' United Press Sports Writer Snead Says Course Not Fair Test By HAL WOOD United Press Sports Writer San Francisco (U.R) Sam (The Slam) Snead took one whirl around the San Francisco Olym pic Club course, scene of the 1955 National Open next week and then growled: "What are they trying to prove with a course like this? It's not a fair test of golf especially for a long hitter." Thus the Slammer joined a growing list of men who believe that the Olmpic Club layout will be a stern test for the nation's top-ranked stars." "This is a typical Robert Trent Jones course," said Snead. "Always holes to-shoot at where you can't see the greens; noth ing to guide you by. What are they trying to prove? Can you tell me that?" Not Pacified Robert Roos, tournament chairman pointed out that Jones, famed golf architect for the USCA, had very little to do with the laying out of this course. But he didn't pacify Snead. Sam's major complaint with the Olympic ,club was the fact that the roughs spread out and the fairway narrows just about where . his drives land "Look at that, will you?" he said as he walked down the 10th fairway. "For the short hitter, and I mean the . men who hit only about 240 yards, there is a nice wide fairway. Then out here where the long hitters reach about 260-270; the fairways are narrow and the rough is long. This is a penalty deliberately aimed at the long hitters." Colorado State Foe of Trojans Omaha, Neb. (U.R) The na tion's eight top college baseball teams began arriving here today for the ninth annual NCAA College World Series.l The teams are expected to draw crowds totaling 40,000 dur ing the double-elimination grind ending next Tuesday, and to at tract a sizeable turnout of ma jor league baseball scouts - as well. Rated as the favorites are Ari zona, with a 37-5 season record; Oklahoma A&M, with a 24-1 slate, and Southern California, holder of a 29-7 season record. Colgate and Wake Forest, the only two teams who have not attended- the meet before, will open the series at 11 a.m. Fri day. Southern California takes on Colorado State at 2 p.m., and Western ? Michigan battles Ari zona at 6:00 p.m. . The tournament could end Monday night ,if the winner goes through the meet unbeaten. Should both finalists lose one game, the final will be played on Tuesday night. FLOODS CAUSE DAMAGE Grenoble, France (U.R) Floods in the eastern Alps were reported today to have caused heavy damage in several villages and crippled road and rail links between Italy and France. Police sai dthere was one known death. They said the Paris-Rome rail way was under water at several points and traffic was not ex pected to return to normal before next week. ' " be Sure Proof. 65 Grain Neutral Spirits Ashland Hard tops Run on Saturday Ashland Roaring of motors and familiar sound of crashing metal again will be heard in the Valley View district, when local hardtop drivers report to the Ashland Speedway Saturday night. As a result of the thrill-packed races, which were offered the hardtop fans last Saturday night, a large crowd is antici pated for this week's races. The races which were held last week, were fast and offered plenty of excitement Thrill of" the evening last Sat urday came when Bob Meyers, driving A 96, rolled his coupe four times" on the north turn and was able to rebuild his car in time to enter the main event. A five car crack up on the crash wall in front of the grandstand had several of the fans stand ing and grounded Chuck Davis and his A-l for the evening. 'Several hundred gallons of waste oil have been put on the track during the past few weeks has put the track in excellent condition.' . Drivers and pitmen have been spending spare time this week repairing car damages encoun tered in last week's race. New ideas are being tried each week to improve performances. Races will be held every oth er Saturday night following this week's race. Time trials start at 6:30 p.m. Wally Cannon was last week's winner in the main event. Final heat went to Crock Hunter, driv er of A-l 5. 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Cinci.,48 192 31 64 .333 Mueller. N.Y 50 117 25 68 .329 Virdon. St. L. ....41 155 24 91 .329 American League Kaline. Det. 51 199 41 74 .372 Kuenn. Det. ...43 171 25 62 .363 Power. Kan. C. ..44 168 30 55 .327 Vernon. Wah 50 179 25 5 .313 LoUar. Chicago 41 132 22 41 .311 Home Runs Snider. Dodger. -17; Campanella, Dodgers 17; Kluszewiki, Redlegs 16; Mays. Giants 16; Mantle. Yankees 14; Zernial. Athletics 14. Runs Batted In Snider. Dodgers 58: Campanella. Dodgers 55; Klus zewski. Redlegs 40; Mantle. Yankees; Mays. Giants: Ennis. Phillies: Berra. Yankees and Kaline. Tigers all 39. Runs Mantle. Yankees 51: Snider, Dodgers; Smith. Indians 46: Bruton, Braves 45; Bauer. Yankees 41; Ka line. Tigers 41. Hits Kaline. Tigers 74: Mueller. Giants 68: Aaron, Braves 68: Campan ella, Dodgers 65: Kluszewiki. Redlegs 64. Pitching Newcombe Dodgers 10-0; Jeffcoat. Cubs 6-0; Tord. Yankees 7-1; Wynn, Indians 7-1; Arroyo. Cardinals 6-1. Olympic Group Begins Conclave Paris (U.R) The 50th Inter national Olympic congress open ed an 11-day conclave today amid wide-spread unofficial pre dictions that Melbourne, Aus tralia, will remain the site of the 1956 Olympic games. There has been heavy critici sm of ( Australian preparations for the games, especially by Avery Brundage, of the United States, president of the Interna tional Olympic Committee. And many members of the congress are opposed to Melbourne. But the general belief was that the final decision, due to be the most important action of the sessions, would be not to make any changes in site with only one it QRmrnV Master 1si tlA tit- SALES & SERVICE 1760 N. Riverside NW League Holds Emergency Meet Wenatchee (U.R) Directors of the hard-pressed class B Northwest Baseball league were to meet in an emergency session today to discuss the attendance problem which some sources feel may wreck the new circuit. Arthur Pohlman, loop presi dent, called the meeting but re fused to say exactly why except that "we want to look into the future a bit." It was felt the main item on the agenda would be sagging at tendance at Spokane, Yakima and Lewiston. In Spokane, Curt Haggerty, president of the city's community-owned club,. said the session "undoubtedly" would deal main ly with Spokane. The Indians are in the cellar and poor attendance and an unsuccessful stock sale have caused a critical situation. Sagging attendance caused Spo kane to drop out of the class A Western International league last year and that circuit subse quently folded. TOURNEY SLATED . Richland (U.R) The Wash ington State Junior Tennis tour nament will be held here tomor row, Saturday and Sunday with 30 boys from 15 cities entered, Chairman George Gillette said today. Among the. entries is Jerry Branton, Olympia, 1954 champion. year remaining before the start of the games. 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