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Fanfare r dick jcwrrr Mail Tribm Sport Editor When Phil Getchell, of Rogue Valley Country club and Stan- lord university, whipped Dom Provost Jr., Portland, Wednes day in the Oregon Golf associa tion tourney, he gained a meas ure of revenge. Provost nipped Getchell for the Southern Ore gon championship last year on the Rogue Valley links. Provost, a Rogue Valley standard bearer then, now plays out of Columbia Edgewater course. UNCERTAIN WAGER Hiud at the Medford Studs Scott Valley Stars baseball gam Wednesday night after the Studs scored 10 runs in the first inning: o First voice 111 bet the Studs don't score 10 runs this Inning." . Second . voice "I'll take that bet." (Second . voice lost. The Studs scored only four runs in the second frame.). TIGHTER SHOES HELP , Like clothes make" the man, hoe mav make the Ditcher in baseball. Success of Lefty Jim Kelly on the mound for ne aiea ford Studs his last couple of time out has been attributed to ;his shoes. Jim recently switched from size 12 to size 10 and the nntrcrer fit for his tootsies ap parently has paid off. He struck out 21 batters against Scott Val ley on Wednesday night. APPRECIATION CHANCE When the outstanding young aggregation, the Washington Cheney Studs battle the Mad ford Cheney Studs at the fair grounds on July 9 and 10, the games, themselves, should be attraction enough. But it would be fine sort of gesture If Medford fans would turn out In large numbers and make the dates a sort of "appreciation week end" for Ben and Fran cis Cheney of Cheney Lumber, company and their right hand nan. Bill Aikwilh. It is inter esting to speculate on what the status of semifinal baseball hare would be if i were not lor their enthusiasm for the port and for their efforts. It might be that there would be no semi-pro ball here at all. GOUGED IN MIDDLE In a story earlier this week concerning a Rogue . River Re triever club picnic trial, parts of two paragraphs right in the mid dle somehow were left out and the works were really fouled up. At least one dog was listed for the wrong owner, o The part skipped told that Cin dy, a labrador female owned and handled by Lee Skaggs, won the puppy stakes and that derby honors were taken by Rip, a lab rador male, owned and handled by Gene Hunt. Cindy is one of four dogs in the race for the club's puppy trophy for season performance in picnic trials. The others are Lucinda, a labrador female, owned by Otto Spores; Joe a golden male owned by VT T nit Kirinner anA f tiio-F a labrador male, owned by Sid Menasco and handled by Carl Newell. Rip is in contention with Meg, owned by William McAllister, for the derby stake prize. The Gun club and Jackson County Chamber of Commerce have cooperated in mailing out some 1.500 letters with lists of motels and hotels hare to shoot ers in BC and seven of the states. Two carloads of clay targets, a total of more than 200.000 "pigeons," have ar rived here. July 10 will be a clean-up day at the club in preparation for the tourney. PITA Presi dent Ed W. Pease said that it is hoped to have a membership party or dinner session at the clubhouse some night next week to make general plans for the shoot and outline the July 10 work. Tony Trabert Triumphant In Wimbledon Tennis Final Wimbledon, England (U.R) Top-seeded Tony Trabert of Cin cincinnati, Ohio, won the men's singles title at -the Wimbledon championships today with a 6-3, DREAM BECOMES REALITY An event Medford Gun club - memaers nave workea ana planned for over many years will become a 'reality on July 20. That is the date that the Grand Pacific shoot of the Pa cific International Trapshoot ing association begins ai the Medford layout. It runs through July 24 and will be the biggest rrapihoot. in im portance. In the history of the club here. The Grand Pacific Is expected to draw at least 300 shooters from British Colum bia, Washington. Montana, Idaho. Nevada. California. Utah, Ariaona and Oregon. Brovia Eyes Regular Job With Reds By SCOTT BAILLIE Oakland, Calif. (U.R) When Joe Brovia, the Pacific Coast League's favorite hitter, joins the Cincinnati Redlegs today he will try and talk General Manager Gabe Paul into letting him play regular In the outfield. "Signed as a pinch hitter only?" Brovia exclaimed yester day while discussing his pur chase from Oakland. "Gee, 1 dunno. Maybe I'll go on back to the Coast League if that's nope. I've been waiting to get into the majors for 16 years so guess it's okay. But I'm going to do a little talking to Mr. Paul about the setup anyway." , Paul said yesterday in Cincin nati that Brovia had been bought only for use as a pinch hitter and that he was a poor fielder. Joe has had his bad moments in the outfield but doesn't go for the idea of being rated with Smead Jolley. the PCL fence buster of 20 years ago whose catastrophes in the outfield still have 'em chuckling around the big leagues. : ' Will Show Em "I'm an all-around ballplayer and I think I'll show them that," the 33-year-old Brovia said. - . The intense, moody slugger who wears the knee-bands of his pants in the. general vicinity of his ankles never has seen a major league in his -life but shows no fear. "I'm looking forward to hit ting against big , league stuff," he said. "I'm so excited about it I haven't eaten for two days. Who do I want to face most? Robin Roberts of the Phils. All you hear about is the great stuff he has and now I want to see for myself." Brovia is deserting his right field spot with, Oakland sport ing a .332 batting average. Out side of short hitches in the West ern International League and Pioneer League he never has played away from the PCL since 1941. His first year in profes sional baseball was at El Paso of the Arizona Texas League where he hit .383 in 1940. His lifetime PCL average is .302. ?: I wXmftiEm town "Aw . i ..iT&Z. TONY TRABERT Wimbledon Champ 7-5, 6-1 victory over Denmark'! Kurt Nielsen. Trabert becomes the seventh U. S. player to capture the sym bol of world amateur tennis su premacy in 10 renewals since World War II. Trabert wound up his drive through the men's division with out losing a set while defeating seven opponents. Last year the crew-cut youth from Cincinnati, Ohio, quit col lege in order to shoot for the Wimbledon crown and recogni tion as the world's best amateur player. However, he developed hand blisters during the 1954 championships and eventually bowed out in the semifinals. In this year's tournament, Tra bert has waded through six op ponents without the loss of a set. He has been playing some of the best tennis of his career Ted Gray Dons Yankee Uniform New York U.R) Lefty Ted Gray, twice cast adrift by Amer ican League teams this season. hoped for the magic of the pin striped Yankee uniform today to make him an effective pitcher once again. Gray was signed by the Yank ees as a free agent Thursday to replace Bob Grim, last year's rookie of the year, who is suf fering from a sore elbow and was placed on the disabled list. ' Apparently it was a "last chance" assignement for chroni cally sore-armed Gray, who was given his unconditional release by -the Cleveland Indians last Friday after all -other clubs waived on his services. You'll have BETTER TIMES with Ife EAKLY times S180 . O "NT 45 QT. TRY THI HANDY PINT HZI TODAY! KENTUCKY STRAIGHT I0BRI0M WHISKY IS PROOF EMU TIMES DISTILLERY COMPANY 10BISVILLE 1; KENTUCKY Bob Rosburg Pace Torrid In BC Open Vancouver, B. C. U.R) Easy-going Bob Rosburg of San Francisco was setting a torrid pace today as the field moved out for the third round in the British Columbia Open golf tournament. The ex-Stanford star followed up his opening round 65 with a five-under-par 67 in his second tour . around the Shaughnessy Heights course Thursday. That gave him a 36-hole total of 132 and a three-stroke lead over Dow Finsterwald of . Bedford Heights, Ohio. Pre-tournament favbrite Mike Souchak of Durham, N.C., held down third place with a 136, one stroke ahead of Sam Snead of White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Five Knotted Bracketed' with Snead at 137 were Bud Holscher of Apple Valley, Calif., Tommy Bolt of Houston, Tex., Ken Towns of Fort Lewis, Wash., and Mike Fetchik of Yonkers, N.Y. Marty Furgol of Lemont, HI., who was among the first round leaders, slipped into a tie with four other golfers at 138, while former U.S. Open champion Ju lius Boros of Mid Pines, N.C., had a 109. Vancouver, B. C. U.R) Two Portlanders, Bob Duden and Larry Lamberger, headed the Oregon contingent -in the British Columbia Open Golf Tourna ment today but both were far ort the 132 pace set by Bob Ros burg of San Francisco. Duden shot his second srtrnlcrht 73 yesterdav for a two-dav total ot 146. Lambureer had a 73 for a total of 147. Chicks Owner Thinks Radio, Video Can Be Blessing to Baseball By RUSS DALEY Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) Leo Burson, who - bought the - ball park where he once peddled pea nuts, figures that television and radio can be the salvation in stead of the death of minor lea gue baseball. : 1 - Burson, the new owner of the Memphis Chicks of the Class AA Southern Association, said to day that baseball is in for a boom" and that it will be part ly because of and not in spite of radio and television. "The more channels we can use to feed baseball and make it felt in the American home will enentually work in our favor and bring more fans" he said. - "We want to make fans want to come out and see games. The old idea was like an iron cur tain. If you cut off radio and TV, how are you going to educate people as to what the spirit of baseball really is?" and was a 7-5 choice to defeat the unseeded Nielsen. Nielsen gained the title round with a surprising victory over Australia's Ken Rosewall. In the women's singles, Bev erly Baker Fleitz of Long Beach, Calif., and three-time champion Louise Brough of Beverly Hills, Calif., marched into the finals Thursday. Mrs. Fleitz upset top seeded Doris Hart of Miami, Fla., 6-3, 6-0, and Miss Brough downed Darlene Hard of Monte bello, Calif., 6-3," 8-6. In the men's doubles - semi finals, Rosewall and Neale Fraser also sprung a surprise by turning back Trabert and Seixas, 6-2, 1-6, 6-1, 4-6, 6-3, while the Aussies' No. 1 team of Lew Hoad and Rex Hartwig defeated team mates Mervn Rose and George Worthington, 7-9, 6-4, 6-4, 2-6, 6-1. Painter Throws No-Hit Pee Wee Baseball Victory Dennis Painter hurled a no hit no-run decision for the Med ford Tigers and Lone Pine knocked Central Point out of the unbeaten' ranks yesterday in Southern Oregon Junior Base ball League pee wee combats. Painter whiffed 11 batters and walked just three as the Tigers thumped Jacksonville 18 to 0. Lone Pine toppled Central Point 10 to 8 and the Medford Wildcats nipped Ashland 3 to 2. Results placed CP, the Wildcats and the Tigers m a three-way deadlock for- first place. Each has three wms and one loss. Eleven Jacksonville errors contributed to the Tigers' big score. The Wildcats had to go into an extra sixth inning to win. SHORT SCORES: R H E Medford Tigers 18 13 1 Jacksonville ...... 0 0 11 Painter and Anderson; Ronnie and Bray. . Friday. July X, 195S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUHE ELXYCf IVUtlrf VIUPFekaj-e? mamm v aw SIPCDDBTTS Medford Wildcats 3 4 4 Ashland .. 2 5 2 Bob Quinney and Criswell, Bud Quinney; Hardy and Johnson. Lone Pine 10 9 3 Central Point 8 4 1 Greene and Griffin; Anhorn and Warren. Decathlon Seen As 3-Way Fight Crawfordsville. Ind. (U.R) A three-way fight for the National AAU decathlon championship, track and field's most eruelliner contest, loomed today as the 37th annual 10-event program opened at Wabash college. A field of 32. the larsest in history, was poised for the two- aay-snow at Ingalls Field. Defending champion, Rev. Bob Richards, the polevaulting par son representing the-Los Anee- les Athletic Club, along with 20-year-old Southern California freshman Bob Lawson and Joel W. Shankle of Duke were tabbed as the all-around athletes to beat. The total national nroduction of carrots in 1954 was 1,550 million pounds. . Rocky, Arch Matched in Title Bout By Jack Cuddy New York (U.R) Unbeaten Rocky Marciano and 38-year-old Archie. Moore were matched to day for a world heavyweight championship fight at Yankee Stadium on Sept. 20. Announcing the match, pro moter Jim Norris said heavy weight champion Marciano would receive 40 per cent of the total net receipts and light heavyweight champion Moore 20 per cent. He said there would be no home television but that he ex pected it to be made available on theater television throughout the country. In addition, he is ne gotiating for radio to the homes. The match shapes up as a great attraction because it pits un beaten Marciano of Brockton, Mass., against the most danger ous puncher on his list since he won the title from Jersey Joe Walcott on Sept. 23, 1952, with a sensational 13th round knock out. The Walcott who tried to re capture the tite on May 15, 1953, had faded to a nitiful shadow of himself. Rocky's other defenses were aeainst Roland LaStarza Ezzard Charles twice, and Don f!nrkell. Thirty-eight-year-old Moore of San Diego, Calif., is not only a dangerous puncher but a smarter and more cunning boxer than 30-year-old Rocky. As the sixth challenger for Marciano's title, Archie will be the most confi dent, for he is riding a string of 21 straight victories. Another Dodger Catcher Injured Brooklyn U.R) The . injury- riddled Brooklyn Dodgers finally won a photo finish today X rays on catcher Al Walker's bruised left shoulder showed neg ative and he will be back in the lineup in a day or so. Walker suffered the injury in a collision at home plate when he tagged out Willie Mays in the Dodger victory over the Giants Thursday. He was carried off the field in considerable pain. Dr Harold Wendler,, the Dodger trainer, made a preliminary ex amination and said he thought Walker might be out some time, Howell Upped Until Walker is in shape to play again, third stringer Dixie Howell, who has been the chief bullpen catcher, will take over the mask and pads. Meanwhile, Roy Campanella, who had clinched the job as the National League catcher in the All-Star game at Milwaukee, rested comfortable, trying to get his injured knee in shape with' out surgery. He has a loose spur from a previous injury floating in his kneecap, .and his doctors uave prescrioea rest. 9th Anniversary Special RAY07I SPORT SHIRTS $1 Oft (Short Sleeves). Sizes Small to Extra larg W NYLOTJ SHIRTS (LONG SLEEVES) $2.50 Work Clothing - pickets 50 WOOL S4.C5 COAT'S LIEN'S WEAR & SHOE REPaYr ' 27 SOUTH FRONT STREET Time To Think of ' o FORAGE HARVESTERS llubbard-Wray Co., Inc. 25 South Riverside Medford . STODDARD TtTLIST Hayden Lake, Idaho (U.R) E. J. Stoddard, Boise, with a 198 three-day net won the In land Empire Senior Men's Golf Tournament A division yester day. Other leaders in the final rounds of the 54-hole tourney were Floyd White, Colville, with 209 in the B division; Glen W. Harrington, Spokane, with 208 in the C division and Dave L. Eastman, Hayden Lake, who led the 18-hole D division with 108V4. Low gross was Fred Sie gel, Spokane, with 211. MAY BE PICKED Wimbledon, Eng. (U.R) An gela Mortimer, Angela Buston, Pat Ward and Shirley Bloomer are expected to be named today to Britain's Wightman Cup ten nis team. The Farallone Islands are in two groups separated by 7 miles of open sea. Emeralds Regain Second Position By UNITED PRESS The Eugene Emeralds bounced back into second place in the Northwest League last night thanks to 5-3 and 5-4 .victories over Lewiston. ; In other gaems, Yakima drop ped Tri-City 10-3 and Salem and Spokane split,- with . Salem 3-1 victors in the opener, and Spo kane taking a 13-inning second game 11-9. '...- GIANTS GET GRIER New York (U.R) The New York Giants announced today they have signed Roosevelt Gri er, 260-pound former Perm State tackle, to his 1955 contract Gri er waa the Giants' No. 3 draft choice last January. . -V About 86 per cent of the wood used to manufacture pulpwood is soft wood. ' The MEDFORD COfflETE CKisTRucTion co:miy 1320 North Riverside Avenue ' : WILL BE CLOSED SATURDAY, JULY 2nd and MONDAY, JULY 4th r m 25 NEW 1955 O EXTRA QUOTA O Must Be SoDnO (By My 3ft 1 Biggest Trade-in Allowances Ever Recorded! These Bonus Allowances Will Amaze You! A WEEK BUYS A NEW '55 DODGE o "" Buy Now and Save! Don't Wait! Dodge Sales Are Soaring! ONLY 25 CARS AVAILABLE AT THESE TREMENDOUS SAVINGS! FIQST GOHE . ; FIQST SffiUED! Special ; Low Down Payments! New Low Monthly : : Payments! BUY NOW! We Need Used Cars OPEN; EVENINGS - r A FIFTH NEAR RIVERSIDE PHONE 3-3607
