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Legion Team Will Travel To Lakeview Central Point-Medford Ameri can Legion junior baseball squad should be at full strength this Sunday as it tries to continue Its unblemished march in Dis trict 4 rivalry. The CP-Medford aggregation travels to Lakeview for an aft ernoon twinbill and is heavily favored to extend its district record to eight victories. Manager Alva Perkins said the local Legion squad antici pates the return of Paul Eckel and Lyman Stubbs from Nation al Guard camp. Eckel is a heavy hittng outfielder from Medford high and Stubbs is a third sack er from Crater high. Possible Line-Up Duane Sides and Fred Herr man are likely starters in the pitching department again this .week although Henry Putney might have the call for one of the games. Laval Meunier prob ably will handle the catching. The infield may be picked from among Dick McLaughlin, Larry Perkins, Dick Paup, Gor don Owsley, Jim Putney and Stubbs and the outfield from among Ed Reinking, Dennis King, Eldon Francis, Eckel and Ron Pruitt. Central Point-Medford laced inexperienced Lakeview 11 to 0 and 8 to 2 in the earlier session. Ashland goes to Klamath Falls Sunday for the other dis trict doubleheader. Oral Argument Heard in Probe Of Johnson Bout Philadelphia (U.R) The Pennsylvania Athletic . Commis sion heard oral arguments from six respondents today before moving toward a decision in its investigation of Harold John son's "blackout" bout with Julio Mederos of Cuba, May 6. New interest was focused ofc the investigation after Rep. Thomas J. Lane (D-Mass.) called on Congress last Wednesday for a probe to determine whether professional boxing is a sport or a racket. Lane said the "most re cent tipoff " on the plight of box ing came when Gov. George M. Leader of Pennsylvania sus pended the sport for 90 days "following the strange circum stances surrounding the John-on-Mederos contest." Perjury Charged Attorneys for the respondents were to direct their oratory to Commission Chairman James H. Crowley and Commissioners Al fred Klein and Paul Sullivan, who conducted a probe which ,a closed June 7 and already has ' resulted in the arrest of match maker Pete Moran on perjury charges. ' The respondents, including Moran, Johnson and Johnson's manager of record, Tommy Loughrey, are accused of partic ipating in a "sham or collusive" bout and "conduct detrimental to boxing." The three, along with John son's handlers, Clarence David son, Joe Rowland and Lou Gross, are charged with knowing John son was not in condition to fight but permitted him to enter the ring against the hard-punching Mederos. Park Director Announces Date Of Swim Classes First series of swimming les sons this summer at the city of Medford's Hawthorne park pool will be conducted July 5 to 15, Park Director D. F. Huson has reported. Registration for the classes is scheduled at the pool from 2 to 8 p.m. beginning the week of June 27. Fee is $2.00 and chil dren must be eight years of age or over. Thirty-minute classes for be ginners will be conducted from 9:30 to 11 ajn. daily except Sun day. Sessions for intermediate swimmers will be held from 9 to 9:30 a.m. v Phil Sanders and John Smock, Hawthorne pool lifeguards, will be instructors. Red Cross certifi cates will be issued for success ful completion of the course. Second series of lessons will start July 18. Registration dates will be announced. Title Fight Talk To Be Resumed New York (U.R) Negotiations for the proposed Rocky Marci- ano-Arcnie Moore heavyweight title fight will be resumed next Thursday at a New York con ference. Promoter Jim Norris, who flew to Miami Thursday,- will re turn and confer next week with Al Weill, manager of heavy weight champion Marciano, and Charley Johnston, pilot of light heavyweight champion Moore. Although Los Angeles is bid ding for the September fight, it's nearly certain that New York or Chicago will be the site. Norris originally had hoped to stage it at a New York ball park on Sept. 22; but Weill told re porters, "The site is a big issue in the negotiations." MedfordTribune FETCHIK TOPS WESTERN OPEN GOLF 1ST ROUND; RVCC LINKSMEN TRAIL Al Williams, professional at Rogue Valley Country club, was six strokes off the pace, and George Harrington, manager of RVCC, was eight behind the leader after yesterday's first round in the Western Open tour nament at Portland Golf club. Williams had a 75 and Harring ton a 77. Portland, Ore. U.R) Mike Fetchik of Mahopac, N.Y., a rel ative unkown who carded a siz zling four under par 31 on the opening nine, led the pack today as 175 hopefuls entered the sec ond round of the Western Open. Fetchik surged into a one- stroke lead at dusk Thursday with a 31-37 68 when freak penalties hampered two of his closest competitors, Smiley Quick of Los Angeles, Calif., and Julius Boros of the Pines, N.C. Meanwhile, pre - tournament favorites Sam Snead and Tom my Bolt were far back of the pacesetters with 73 and 74 re spectively. Altogether six competitors, in cluding Dr. Cary Middlecoff, were tied at 69, as more than 20 golfers broke the ar 72 Port-, land course in the $15,000 tour nament. Quick fired a 68 but suffered a two-stroke penalty when an extra club was found in his bag. Quick did not discover the strange sand iron until the 12th hole when he immediately turn ed it in to tournament officials. He was not disqualified. No-Hitter Tossed In Pee Wee Loop; Pointers in Lead PEE WEE STANDINGS: W. - 2 1 1 1 1 .. 0 Pet. 1.000 .500 .500 .500 .500 .000 Central Point Ashland Medford Wildcat Medford Tigers Lone Pine Jacksonville Scuffles in the Southern Ore gon Junior Baseball league pee wee division yesterday saw one no-hitter and a pair of two-hit ters tossed. Central Point took lone leadership as the only un beaten team. Romino held the opposition without a bingle as Ashland turned back Jacksonville 3 to 1. Central Point went into front place on a 3 to 2 verdict as Hub bard held the Medford Tigers to two hits. Quinney and Painter liimted CP to .three. Medford's Wildcats got a 5 to 0 decision over Lone Pine al though Pitcher Hall allowed them only two raps. Lone Pine, however, made seven errors. In a Cub game played Wed nesday Grants Pass crushed Ashland 17 to 1. SHORT SCORES: (Pee Wees) Medford Tigers . Central Point Quinney. Painter (4) and Anderson; Hubbard and Warren. Medford Wildcats 5 8 0 Lone Pine 0 4 7 Quackenbush, Defley (S) and Cri- waU; Hal land Griffin. Jacksonville 1 0 3 Ashland 3 3 1 Vorhis. Hardy and Johnson: Ro mino and Shepherd. (Cubs) Grants Pass 17 0 Ashland 7 4 S Hayes. Mendenhall and Jeddelah, Acord; Stemple. Woodell and Simp son. lildAM jm i-jm JOHN DEERE "401 General-Purpose It's your opportunity to get ac quainted with the "40" at first-hand ... to check its power in your soils ... its handy 3-point hitch for pickup tools ... its exclusive Load-and-Depth Control . . . and its many, many other practical advancements fox handling your jobs with maxi mum speed, ease, and economy. Stop in at the store or telephone. Hubbard-Wray COMPANY, INC. 25 South Riverside Medford, Oregon The Los Angeles golfer said he thought the club was stolen from Eddie Hogan in San Francisco. "Must have been slipped into my bag during the rain," Quick said. Boros finished with a three-under-par 69 but was forced to take a two-stroke penalty be cause his caddy picked up his ball two inches from the cup on the green, and tossed it to Boros. After Boros shouted "Don't touch it, don't," the caddy trudged to the next tee with tears in his eyes. Boros later told tournament officials "Everybody makes mistakes. He's a darned good caddy. I'd like to keep him." Clustered at 69 were Robert McKendrick of Lake Grove, Ore.; Gene Littler, Palm Springs, Calif.; Paul O'Leary, Bismarck, N. D.; Mike Souchak, Durham, N. C; Ralph Blomquist, Glen dale, Calif., and Middlecoff. Sells more because it's worth more MAIN & Budge Patty Clips Flam Wimbledon, England U.R) Budge Patty of Los Angeles, the tennis playboy who spends most of his time in Europe, reached the quarterfinals of the Wimble don Tournament today by de feating Herb Flam of Beverly Hills, Calif., 6-1, 6-3, 4-6, 1-6, 6-4, in an ail-American match. Sven Davidson of Sweden was pitted against Luis Ayala of Chile in the only other men's singles match on today's pro gram, while ifour other Ameri cans still in the running for the title drew one-day respites. Whips Wilson In Thursday's third round ac tion, Flam looked impressive in routing Freddie Huber of Aus tria, 4-6, 6-2, 6-4, 6-2, while Patty whipped Bobby Wilson of Eng land, 6-4, 7-9, 6-4, 6-1. They were joined in the round of 16 by top seeded Tony Trabert of Cincin nati, Art Larsen of San Leandro, Calif., Gil Shea of Pesidio, Calif., and Bob Perry of Los Angeles. Trabert, still the tournament favorite ; despite a sore hand, breezed past lanky Hugh Stew art of San Marino, Calif., 6-4, 6-3, 6-1. 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Only two of the four seeded teams remained in contention in the doubles after a . quarter final round which saw the top two teams upset. The fifth-seeded Quillian, who upset top-seeded Sammy Giam malva of Texas in Thursday's quarterfinals, met eighth-seeded Pancho Contreras of southern California in one of today's matches, while third-seeded Jacque Grigry of California met seventh-seeded Jose Aguero of Tulane. Doubles pairings sent third seeded Contreras and Joaquin Reyes against Mark Jaffe and Barry MacKay of Michigan and the fourtb.-se.eded team of Giam malva and Johnny Hernandez against James Read and Craig Garman of UCLA. SEA CONTENT New York -A cubic mile of sea water may contain 4.5 mil lion tons of magnesium. Washington The Library of Congress has passed the 10 mil lion mark in books. MAIL TRTBUNE THXHTEBf "No matter wW cfcart I sW him, he intitH ea readia OLD Mr. BOSTON VODKA : $041 fcl-b!i U"- $2 MKT DIST. FROM 100 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS 10 PROOF MR. BOSTON DIST, INC. 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