Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 31, 1955, Image 11

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Newspaper Page TextFonancgaD Structure to Be ED'oscussed by PCL OiciaDs San Francisco flJ.PJ The Pacific Coast League has an nounced that it will hold a spec ial meeting Monday to discus? the shaky financial structure of some of its clubs and also con fer on a schedule for next year. The Sacramento Solons and San Francisco Seals are in fin ancial difficulties" while C. L. (Erick) Laws, president of the Oakland Oaks, is reported ready to move his club either to Van couver or Salt Lake City at the end of the season. BY HAL WOOD San Francisco U.PJ If the Pacific Coast League is going to survive as such, it will have to take a hint from the majors nd do a bit of franchise shifting before the 1956 season. It must be obvious to the most blasted club owner by now that San Francisco and Los Angeles areas will not support minor league baseball as it should be. When the majors found that Philadelphia, St. Louis and Bos ton could not or would not sup port two ball clubs, they stretch ed out to Milwaukee, Balitmore and Kansas City for franchises. There is nothing to stop the PCL from doing the same thing. Nina Possible Cities There are nine cities within playing distance of the PCL that would support baseball bet ter than San Francisco and Oak land are doing this year. It is possible that after a few years in the new city with a poor team, the attendance would slack off, but for a few seasons at least, these cities would in ject new life into the turnstiles. Take a look at the population in these cities not within the city limits, but in the so-called "trade area." Vancouver, B.C, has a trade area of 498,000; Long Beach, Calif., 285,000; Phoenix, Ariz., 266,000; Honolulu, 248.000; Salt Lake City, 252.000; Spokane, Wash., 190,000; Tacoma, Wash., . 190,000; San Jose, Calif., 161, 000; and Fresno Calif., 156,000. The die-hards will claim that these areas are much smaller than the San Francisco and Los . Angeles sections thus will not support the PCL as well. That doesn't hold true at all. Milwaukee drew only fair in the American Association and the blame was placed on the proximity to big league base ball at Chicagd. So the Boston Braves moved from a trade area of 2,100,000 to Milwaukee with a trade area of 866,000 and set b National League attendance record. Athletics Draw The Philadelphia Athletics were in a trade area of 2,324,000 nd moved to Kansas City, which has a trade area of 750,000 and the club, an also-ran in the American League, drew bigger crowds in the first few weeks of home play than the Athletics did in Philadelphia in a full eason. There ia good reason to be lieve, along the same line, that a PCL franchise in Phoenix would more than double the less than 200.000 that will attend garnet in San Francisco this year. Or that Vancouver would draw at least 350,000 compared with 180,000 or less that will see GIANTS SIDELINED Salem. Ore. (U.PJ Eight New "York Giants were temporarily sidelined with various minor in juries suffered in Thursday's two-hour contact .drill. On the shelf were halfbacks Ken Stout, Wayne Berry and Dick Nolan; guard Russi Carroccio; ends Barney Poole, Bill Hillen and Ed Stowers and tackle Chuck Kubes. CINCHES BROWNS POST Hiram, Ohio (U.P.) Glen Dil Jon, rookie end from Pittsburg, appears to have clinched a job with the Cleveland Browns as an offensive end to spell vet erans Dante Lavelli and Darrell Brewster. CARD BACK PRAISED Lake Forrest, 111. (U.R) Og den Compton, Hardin-Simmons quarterback and a protege of Sammy Baugh, drew praise again from Chicago Cardinals Coach Ray Richards. Compton, a native of Dallas Tex., reported to camp Wednesday and has stood out in drills since then. QUARTERBACK BATTLE Los Angeles (U.R) Jo Ku harich, Washington Redskins coach, was satisfied Saturday with the condition of his squad but said there still is much work to be done. Kuharich said that the battle between Eddie LeBaron and Al Dorow for the No. 1 quarterback post is just about even. games in Oakland. San Jose, in the fastest grow ing county in the nation, might be a good spot for either the San Francisco or Oakland club and the weather there is per fect for baseball, in contrast to the cold and fog in the Bay area. Phoenix might be a. bonanza for the Hollywood club, which will find itself without a ball park in the near future. Honolulu presents a communt- ing problem, but it is only about the same distance from San Francisco to the islands as it is from San Diego to Vancouver, B. C. At one time, Spokane, Wash., was one of the best minor league touns in the country; and Salt Lake City annually draws at the gate nearly as well as most PCL cities offering only the Class C ball of the Pioneer league. MEDFORDiSSTRIBUNl Sunday, July 31, I95S NY Loss, Indian Win Tightens League Race lUBDir&V T V.Xflt'T. W. L. Pet. GB Chicago 60 39 .606 New York 61 40 .604 r-l.volanrl 61 4U .ou Boston . Detroit , 58 43 .574 3 .550 5'i .416 19 .350 25 li 55 45 u-nn.i,. ritv 42 59 ,, L.. H fil Baltimore 29 70 .293 31 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. rex. io Brooklyn . Milwaukee New York 70 32 .686 57 44 564 12 'i 53 50 .515 17'a Philadelphia 53 52 .505 18 '.i Chicago o do " St Louis 45 53 Cincinnati 44 56 Pittsburgh 38 65 459 23 .440 25 .369 32'. i By UNITED PRESS Southpaw Herb Score, one of the American league's top rook ies, pitched a one-hit, 7-0 shut out over the Baltimore Orioles Saturday to move the Cleve land Indians into a flat-footed tie with the New York Yankees for second place only two percentage points back of the Chicago White Sox. The Yankees missed a chance to regain first place when they dropped a 12-2 decision to the Kansas City Athletics while the Washington Senators edged the White Sox, 1-0. The fifth-place Detroit Tigers also picked up ground in the fast-tightening American league race by downing fourth-place Boston, 5-2, and now rest only 5Vi games back of Chicago. Jim Dyck ruined Score's bid for a no-hitter with a fourth inning single that just eluded the outstretched glove of Cleve land shortstop George Strick land. The Indians' fast-balling youngster walked six Orioles and struck out 10 to bring his league-leading total to 164. Strickland, Vic Wertz and Gene Woodling led Cleveland's 13-hit attack on three Baltimore pitchers. Strickland drove in four runs with a triple and a single, Woodling nad two doubles and a single, and Wertz hit a two-run homer. Yankees Give up 17 Hits Kansas City, meanwhile pounded out 17 hits in whipping the Yankees. Elmer Valo was the hero of this game with a homer and three doubles, while Big Arnold Portocarrero stop ped the Yankees with six hits. Johnny Kucks, the first of three New York pitchers, was charged with the loss. Eddie Yost's fourth inning double knocked in Roy Sievers Northwestern Pacific Freight Cars Derailed Eureka, Calif. (U.PJ Traffic was stopped on the northern section of the Northwestern Pa cific railroad for several hours Saturday when five cars of a freight train were derailed south of Fields Landing, about 10 miles south of here. The derailment occured about 10:30 p.m. Friday when the brake rigging on one car fell and caught in a switch frog as the train was leaving Fields Landing. TO COACH AT MIT Cambridge, Mass (U.R) Paul Ronty, former New York Rang ers center, has resigned from the Montreal Canadiens to take a job as assistant coach of hockey at Massachusetts Institute of echnology. Ronty was traded from New York to Montreal last Feb. 20. AIR FORCE GOLFERS VIE Washington --(U.PJ Approxi mately 100 Air Force golfers, ranging in rank from private to major general, will compete for the Air Force Global Golf Cham pionship, Aug. 2-6. They will compete in two divisions, open and senior, with the senior divi sion made up of men over 45. with the only run as the Sen ators downed the White Sox and handed hard-luck Billy Pierce his fourth 1-0 defeat of the sea son. Pierce gave up only five hits, while Bob Porterfield pitched seven-hit ball for the Senators. The Tigers remained very much in the race by totaling 11 hits off three Boston pitchers. Ray Boone drove in three runs with a triple and a double to help rookie Babe Birrer to his third victory of the season. Bir rer gave up 10 hits, including Ted Williams' 18th homer. In the National league's best game, right-hander Bob Miller pitched nine innings of shutout relief ball as the Phillie down ed the Cubs, 3-0. Curt Simmons was forced to leave the game with a stiff shoulder after giv ing up a lead-off single to Dee Fondy. Miller then entered the scene and limited the Cubs to seven singles the rest of the way. Del Ennis struck the winning blow, a two-run homer in the first inning. The Redlegs downer the Pir ates, 5-2, behind the five-hit pitching of- Jackie Collum and Ted Kluszewski's 34th homer, while Chet Nichols of the Braves turned in a six-hit, 5-3 victory over the world champion Giants. Johnny Podres and Rookie Don Bessent collaborated on a seven hit shutout in the only night game as the league-leading Brooklyn Dodgers downed the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-0, be fore 30,638 fans, the largest crowed of the season in Busch stadium. Podres wilted in the sevent, more from the excessive heat than the Cardinal , batters, and Bessert mopped up to preserve Podres' eighth victory against six losses. Don Zimmer hit a homer in the sixth with the bases empty. AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago 000 000 000 0 7 1 Washington 000 100 OOx 1 5 0 Pierce and Lollar; Porterfield and Edwards. siPODimrs PAL Club To Open Monday For 2nd Year of Operation Cleveland 000 322 000 7 13 0 Baltimore 000 000 000 0 1 1 Score and Foiles. Naragon (7): Pal ica. Brown 4 Zuverink (6) and H. Smith. Gastall (7). Detroit 000 210 2005 11 0 Boston 000 110 000 2 10 1 Birrer and House. Wilson '9i; Susce, Kiely (6) Hurd (8) and White. Kansas City ....110 201 43012 17 0 New York 100 000 010 2 6 1 Portocarrero (3-5) and Astroth; Kucks, Morgan (7). Sturdivant (9) and Berra. Howard (8). LP Kucks (7-5). HR Valo (3rd). NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 001 100 000 2 3 3 Cincinnati 020 110 Olx 5 9 0 Friend, Kline (8) and Peterson; Col lum and Burgess. Philadelphia ....201 000 000 S 6 1 Chicago 000 000 0000 8 1 Simmons. Miller (1) and Lopata; Davis. Tremel (8) and Chiti. New York 001 200 0003 6 0 Milwaukee 400 000 lOx 5 10 0 Maglte. Monzant (1), Grissom (8) and Katt; Nichols and Cranciall. Brooklyn 000 004 002 9 1 St. Louis ......000 000 0000 7 1 Podres. Bessent (7) and Campanella; Poholsky. Lapalme (6). Wriifht (6) Smith (7). Lawrence (8) and Burbrink. WP Podres (8.6). LP Poholsky (4-6. HR Zimmer (8th). New Record In 3-Mile By Chataway London (U.P.) Chris Chat away set a new world record of 13 minutes, 23.2 seconds for the three-mile run Saturday in a Britain versus Germany track and field meet at White City stadium. Chataway bettered the previ ous record of 13:26.4 set by Russia's Vladmimir Kuts, in Prague last Oct. 23. Chataway easily won the four man event. Runner Falls In the final yards, Britain's new three-mile discovery, Derek Ibbotson, looking exhausted af ter a great run behind the copper-haired Chataway, stumbled and fell. Urged on by the crowd, Ibbot son dragged himself to his feet and staggered to the finish to claim second place. His time of 13:42.2 was 19 sec onds slower than Chataway's new world mark. Ibbotson's rally was just in time, for Germany's Herbert Schade was coming up fast, fin ishing third in 13:44.8. W. Kon rad, Germany, was fourth, well behind, in 14:8. 105 Inter RVCC Golf Tournament Rogue Valley Country club's annual Southern Oregon Golf tournament is still a month away but already 105 entries have been filed for the classic which is scheduled over the La bor day holiday week end. Tourney officials reported 80 men, mostly from out of town, and 25 women from outside the club have entries in to date. Heavy men's entry is promp ted by the early filing deadline set and by this year's limit of the field to 192. However, there has been no limit set on the number of women entrants and the field now totals half the usual number of participants. Deadline Aug. 27 The 1955 tournament is lated for September 1 through 5. Deadline for both men and wo men to enter is August 27. This time will be extended for men only if the 192 figure has not been reached. Championship flight in the men's rivalry will start out with 64 linksmen. Eight other flights will have 16 contestants each. Women will vie in flights of 16- Dom Provost Jr., and Sue De Voe are defending champions. Sue carries the Rogue Valley banner. Provost was an RVCC player last year and now plays out of Columbia-Edgewater, Portland. Bob Lockwood and George Schuler are tourney co-chairmen. CANNADY RELEASED Ocean, N. Y. (U.P.) Veteran John Cannady, a standout New York Giants' lineman for eight seasons, apparently reached the end of his professional football career Saturday when he was released by the Pittsburg Steel- ers. Cannady, who came to Pitts burgh after being released by the Giants at the end of the 1954 campaign, was cut from the squad along with Jim Speral azza, a guard from Weirton, W. Va., Friday. The Steelers now are down to 54 men. TRACK COACH PICKED Lawrence, Kan. (U.R) Jack Warner, former Syracuse dis tance runner, has been named assistant track and field coach at the University of Kansas. War ner, 26, was a two-mile champion in 1949, 1950 and 1951. ADVANCE TO FINALS Portland (U.P.) The Team-j sters defeated West Hills, 5-3, and ! Barnard Motors blanked Mult- j nomah Athletic club, 5-0. here i Friday night to advance to the : finals of the 1955 Oregon State Babe Ruth Baseball playoffs. FIRST IN TVL McMinnville (U.R) McMinn ville took over first spot in the Tualatin Valley League by edg ing Turora, 6-5, here Friday Buy At Builders Supply -rfflTBK. QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks. Flues Drain Tile .87 W. McAndrews Phone 2-4107 Only 10 DOM ON All Counting AND Camping Supplies! Rifles.::::. 10D Shotguns . : . 10 (Remington, Winchester, Savage) Dn. Sleeping Bags, 10 Dn. (Dacron or Wool Lined) CAMP STOVES I flO & LANTERNS lw0 Dn. o)ogue Sportsman LINje. On Approved 1080 South Riverside ' Credit Dial 2-7389 IBC Hits Snag In Lining Up Bobo Title Bout New York (U.R) The In ternational Boxing club, which is trying to line up a Carl (Bobo) Olson - Ray Robinson middle weight title bout in November, ran into a snag yesterday when the club said it was unable to "come to terms with Robinson," the former champion. The pro posed bout is expected to be held in Chicago on Nov. 4. Baltimore, Md. U.R) Sugar Ray Robinson has been offered $15,000 by local boxing pro moter Benny Trotta to meet Washington middleweight Holly Mims at Memorial stadium in Baltimore in late September. Mims in currently ranked sec ond and Robinson third. ''ft '' ; ; MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVS To Require Disabled List Proof New York (U.R) From now on, Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick will require positive medi cal proof from any club which desires to put a player on the disabled list. Frick issued a directive to that effect Friday after certain clubs protestea that other clubs had placed seldom-used players on the disabled list in order to add players who wuold be of greater value. Frick did not single out any club but he did confer with Man ager Paul Richards of the Balti more Orioles Thursday and Rich ards said frankly that the com missioner was "curious" about disabled players and bonus play ers. The Orioles, Dodgers, Indians and White Sox all placed bonus players on the disabled list with in the last few months. Portland (U.R) The Eugene Emeralrs of the Northwest League walloped the House of David baseball team, 10-0, here Friday night in an exhibition game. RV CLUB CHAMP George Harrington, above, is the new club champion among golfers of Rogue Valley Country club. He defeated Bob Rasmussen in Thursday and Friday finals for the title. Margin was 11 and 9. Harrington closed out the match with a 20-foot put for a birdie three on No. 9 green Friday. He was six under par for the match with a 69 for the Thursday 18 and a 34 for the Friday nine. Rasmussen was five over the standard. He had a 75 on Thurs day and a 39 in the Friday ac tion. BOWLING Medford Bowling lanes is host this evening for a party cele brating its first anniversary at its present location on River side ave. Four bowling tournaments are planned and the party will last from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. There will be mixed doubles and singles rivalry for league bowlers or for those with established aver ages. Red headpin singles and low ball' singles are scheduled for non-league or casual bowlers or those without established averages. The Bowling lanes has the come early and stay late in vitation out to all bowlers and people interested in the sport. All money collected in the way of entry fees will go into the prize fund. There will be free coffee, candy, soda pop and ice cream. Chief of Police Charles Champlin, president of the Med ford Police Athletic League, announced today that the second annual opening of the PAL club will take place Monday evening, August 1. Again this year the PAL club will operate from the large room above Acme hardware at 3 West Sixth st. Doors will be open from 7 to 10:30 p.m. each day from now until next spring. Coaching the boys this year will be Hugh Jennings, Jim Zack and John Lewis. Local law en forcement officers and interest ed citizens also will be at the club every night to help the boys in boxing and other events and activities. Membership ' in the club is without charge to any boy wish ing to join. Only boys 10 years or older are eligible to take part in boxing instructions and events. COLT END BEDS Westminister, Md. (U.R) Jim Mutscheller, an end from Bea ver Falls, Pa., who captained the Notre Dame football team in 1S52, is making a determined bid to win a starting offensive job with the Baltimore Colts. Mutscheller, who spent the past two seasons in the Marine Corps, sparkled in a passing drill Fri day and made several outstand ing catches. Baseball FRIDAY'S RESULTS Coast League Oakland 3. Los Angeles 2 (10 in nings) Sacramento 3. Seattle 2 (13 innings) San Francisco 6. Hollywood 3 (Only games scheduled). American League Chicago 5, Washington 2 (night) Cleveland 7. Baltimore 1 (night) New York 3. Kansas City 2 (night) Boston 5, Detroit 0 (night) National League , Philadelphia 6. Chicago 4 Brooklyn 5. St. Louis (night) Milwaukee 5. New York 2 (night) Cincinnati 16 Pittsburgh 5 (night) Northwest League Spokane 20. Yakima 9 Wena tehee 11. Lewiston 8 Tri.City 6. Salem 2 SUNDAY'S GAMES American Lea rue Chicago at Washington (2 games) Kansas City at New York (2 games) Detroit at Boston (2 games) Cleveland at Baltimore (2 games) National League Pittsburgh at Cincinanti (2 Philadelphia at Chicago (2 New York at Milwaukee Brooklyn at St. Louis. games) games) PAL is a non-profit organiza tion formed by local business men, law enforcement officers and other citizens with the idea of giving youngsters a chance to spend their spare time con structively. During the past year PAL has made great strides in making the club more attractive and useful to the members, of ficers feel. In its first year, $10,000 in equipment was pur chased or donated. Several box ing shows were put on locally and members participated in outside cards. Many strong box ers have been developed as a result of the program offered. They include two state AAU champions, Larry Lewis and Larry Nord, flyweight and no vice bantamweight, respectively. New Programs With the continued growth of PAL club, new events and pro grams will be added. If the club grows as it has this past year, the physical plant will soon have to be enlarged, officers said. Long range plans for the club in clude its own building with fa cilities to handle all boys no matter what their interests may be. In the coming year, more box ing events are planned, includ ing an outdoor show from out standing contenders from other localities in Oregon and from out of state. Any adult or child interested in the club is invited to attend the opening on Monday evening, as well as ay other night the club is open. MOVING? 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