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o i) l0, EICfHT MtDTOHt (OREGON) -J Inriianc lYlnui Intn Al a Brooklyn Increases Margin Bf MILTOK RICHMAN 'United Prese Sports Writer 0 (AX Lopez promised his Cleve dnrl, Indians would be back in f,r-4 place and that exactly Where they were today all be cause c Ralph Kiner who made e (iew special promises himself. 9s Jiie 32-year-old Kiner, plagued b$ rft bad back and reduced to part-time status, propelled the indians into the American league lead by blasting a ninth tinning grand slam homer that ei.t the Tigers 6-4 Wednesday rjJight. Kiner's homer was the 365t'a cf his career and it moved trie Indians two percentage points points ahead of the White Sox, wfeo slipped to second place fcy fcowing to the Athletics, 5-4. Kir.'.r received his chance in 'the seventh inning when he Ctame in as a pinch hitter for Gene Woodling with the bases but Al Aber struck him put. Kiner remained in the game and got another chance with the ijases full in the ninth. Aber jya still pitching and Kiner slimmed the ball over the left 'field fence for his 14th and most jin.nortant homer of the year. cThe blow gave the ex-National Six NFL Play Games Saturday Bv UNITED PRESS Six National Football League teams made final preparations today for Saturday night exhibi- tsfln games. GThe New york Giants were on, their way to Spokane, Wash., wliere they will meet the Green Bay Packers in the first tune-uo gjne of the training period for ea.-h club. The Packers, in train ing at Stevens Point, Wis., leave for) Spokane Friday following a brief workout today. Xt Moraga, Calif., Coach Red tradef announced that halfback Hah McElhenny, who has been haifipered by injuries, will be in the starting lineup Saturday when the San Francisco Forty Niters play their second exhibi tion game against the Pittsburgh StSelers. San Francisco defeated n Washington, 7-6, last Sunday U with McElhenny seeing very lit tle action. GThe Baltimore Colts will fin is up their preliminary training grind today and then will move orvjto Hershey, Pa., for a Satur day night exhibition game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Kicking specialist Ben Agaja nian and halfback Buford Long checked in at the Giants camp in Salem, Ore., late Wednesday. Agajanian, the NFL's leading scorer last year with 74 points, has been busy cleaning up busi ness ties while Long was given permission by the club to re port late. Basilio Is Easy Victor New York (U.R) Welter weight champion Carmen Basil io, disappointed with his lop sided, non-title victory over Italo S&ftrtichini, said today, "I th(ught the crowd was booing mc so I shot the works and got tired in the late rounds." He was chagrined because it was his first appearance as champion. in his non-title fight with Gil Turner next month there'll be ndr repetition of the all-out ag gressiveness that featured his de cision victory over Scortichini oOtaly in their third fight Wed nesday night at Madison Square gardenyhe assured. The rainy- night crowd of a'-rut 2.500 began booing the 1 V-radio fight in the fifth round bftause it was so one-sided. Scor- tirhini had been much more ef fective Jn their two previous bouts. He held Carmen to a drew atIiami Beach on Jan. 16, 1954, and lost a close decision four months later at Syracuse, N.Y. Wednesday night's affair was a pursuit in which the back pedalling speedster from Fabri- ani Italy, engaged in but few exchanges ancP missed many pujtches wjjen he did exchange. The champion wasc favored at o "2-1, and that certainly was no "eytry." O Portland Could Be Site For Big Time Bowing Portland U.R) Portland witt be in line for its share of big-time foxing matches should a SJg crmvd attend the Bobo Olson - Jimmy Martinez middle weight match at Multnomah Sta- diijjTi Saturday night, a top train er s&id today. Ifay Arcel, who is helping Toi5iny Moyer promote the fight, saf9 eastern fighters knew how Joe ; Kahut and Kid Matthews dre'tv in Portland. "If the middle weight champ packs 'em in, then make wav for a parade of champs. They'll be beating down Mojlr's door to sign them up, too0 MAIL TRIBUNE league home run king two oth er distinctions. It gave him a total of 1,001 runs batted in for his career and made him the leader among active players with 13 grand-slam homers. Until Kiner came through with his game-winning clout, the Tigers led 4-2 on Earl Torge soiVs two-run homer in the sev enth inning. Al Rosen and Hal Naragon also homered for the Indians. Hector Lopez' sixth inning home run proved to be the de ciding blow in Kansas City's vic tory over Chicago although the White Sox came within one run of tying the game in the eighth, a frame in which Bob Nieman homered. Minnie Minoso also homered off winner Alex Kell ner with one on in the fifth. Andy Carey's single in the 13th inning gave the Yankees a 3-2 decision over the Red Sox and Don Larsen his third straight victory since returning from the Standings AMERICAN LEAGIE W. L. Cleveland 66 45 Chicago 64 44 New York 66 46 Ecston 64 47 Detroit 59 52 Kansas City 47 65 Washington 40 70 Baltimore 36 73 Prt. .595 .593 .589 .577 .532 .420 19''- .364 25 2 .330 29 Wednesday's Results New York 3. Boston 2 (13 innings) Kansas City 5. Chicago 4 (night) Cleveland 6. Detroit 4 fnighti Wash, at Bait., night, pod., rain. Thursday's Probable Pitchers Boston at New York Susce (5-5) vs. Turlev ( 12-10). Detroit at Cleveland Hoeft (H-5) vs. Wynn (13-7). Chicago at Kansas City Johnson (4-1 p vs. Raschi (4-3). Only games scheduled. Friday's Games Chicago at Detroit, night Cleveland at Kansas City, night Washington at Boston, night New York at Baltimore, night NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Brooklyn 76 36 Milwaukee 61 51 New York . 59 55 Pet. .679 GB .545 15 .518 18 .496 20 'i .487 21 !i .474 23 .435 27 .371 35 Philadelphia 58 59 Chicago 57 bO Cincinnati 54 60 St. Louis 47 61 Pittsburgh 43 73 Wednesday's Kesults Cincinnati 7, Chicago 2 (1st) Cincinnati 6. Chicago 3 (2nd) Brooklyn 5. New York 4 (night, called end of 6 innings, rain) Pitt. 3 Phila. 2 (10 innings, night). St. Louis 7. Milwaukee 2 (night) Thursday's Probable Pitchers Cincinnati at Chicago Black (5-2) vs. Perkowski i2-4. St. Louis at Milwaukee (2 gamesl Arroyo (11-6) and Haddix (8-11) vs. Buhl (9-7) and Nichols (8-5). Only games scheduled. Friday's Games Philadelphia at Brooklyn, night Pittsburgh at New York, night Cincinnati at St. Louis, night Milwaukee at Chicago PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. .567 .552 .544 511 .500 GB 2 3 7 ',2 Seattle 76 Hollywood , 74 San Diego 74 Portland ..67 58 60 62 64 67 74 76 77 Los Angeles 67 9 Sacramento 61 Oakland ...60 San Francisco 59 .452 15 't .441 17 .434 19 Wednesday's Results 1st game. San Diego 3. Oakland 0 2nd game. Oakland 5. San Diego 0 San Francisco 5, Seattle 3 ( 1st game) San Francisco 13, Seattle 5 (2nd game) Los Angeles 4. Sacramento 2 (1st game) Sacramento 7. Los Angeles 2 (2nd game) Hollywood 10, PorUand 3 He w Series Stand Hollywood 3. Portland 1 San Francisco 3. Seattle 1 Oakland 3. San Diego 1 Sacramento 2, Los Angeles 1 Thursday's Probable Pitchers San Diego I Eddie Erautt 13-8) at Oakland (Al Gettel 11-13). Hollywood (Ben Wade 7-3) at Port land (Dick Watbel 8-6). San Francisco I Tony Ponce 6-10) at Seattle (Ewell BlackweU 3-3) Sacramento (Bud Daley 16-12) at Los Angeles (Hy Cohen 4-6) NORTHWEST LEAGUE W. Eugene 22 Lewiston . 20 Tri-City 19 Wena tehee . 19 Salem 17 Spokane ..... 16 Yakima 13 L. 14 14 15 17 17 23 26 Pet .611 .538 .559 .527 .500 .410 .330 Wednesday's Results Wenatchee 9. Eugene 8 Salem 10. Spokane 3 Tri-City 9. Yakima 1 Connie Forces Re-Scheduling Of Net Matches Newport, R.I. (U.R) Hur ricane Connie was an unlisted contestant today as three of the top five American and foreign entries squared off for the quar ter-final singles matches of the 74th Invitational tennis tourna ment at the Newport Casino. All four instead of two quar ter-finals were re-scheduled for today to avoid conflict with the storm which threatens to strike in this 'area before the tourna ment is over. Two Americans and two for eign players were defeated in the round-of-eight competition Wednesday, leaving top-seeded Hamilton Richardson of Baton Rogue, La., to face fifth-seeded Straight Clark of Philadelphia in the most promising singles match today. Denmark's Kurt Nielsen, the No. 1 foreign seed, was paired with fourth domestic seed Herb Flam of Beverly Hills, Calif. Malcolm Anderson of Austra lia faced Japan's Atsushi Miyagi; and unseeded Cliff Mayne of Berkeley, Calif., was paired with unrated Bob Wilson of England in the other two hurricane-hurried singles. Thursday, August II, 1955 I part" minors 10 days ago. jy win ning, the Yanks climbed to within a half game of first place, four percentage points behind the White Sox and six behind the Indians. The Washington- Baltimore game was postponed because of rain. Dodgers Increase Lead In the National league, the pace-setting Dodgers hopped on Ramon Monzant for five runs on five hits in the first three innings to beat the Giants, 5-4, in a game called during the sev enth inning because of rain-. The victory pushed the defending world champions 18 games off the pace, in third place. Cincinnati climbed to within IV2 games of fifth place by beat ing Chicago twice, 7-2 and 6-3 with rookie Don Gross getting credit for the opening game vic tory and Art Fowler the night cap. Ted Kluszewski slammed his 37th homer off loser Warren Hacker in the second game while Ernie Banks hit his 38th. The Cardinals snapped a four game losing streak by beating the Braves, 7-2, with the aid of three hits by Stan Musial, in cluding his 1,000th extra base blow. Tom Poholsky hurled a six-hitter for his sixth victory. Jerry Lynch's 10th inning single gave the Pirates a 3-2 tri umph over the Phillies as Bob Friend registered his ninth vic tory of the year and ended a four-game Phillies' winning streak. Frank Thomas homered for Pittsburgh. NATIONAL LEAGUE (1st Game) Cincinati 002 100 400 7 14 1 Chicago 000 002 000 2 6 1 Gross. Freeman (6i and Batts. Min ner. Jeffcoat (41. Hillman (9) and Chiti. Winning pitcher Gross (1-0). Losing1 pitcher Minner (8-6). (2nd Game) Cincinnati 000 201 2106 12 4 Chicago 000 100 020 3 7 "1 Fowler (8-7) and Burgess. Hacker. Pollet (8). Davis (9) and Chiti. Losing pitcher Hacker (10-10). (Game called end of 6 inn., rain) New York 200 020 4 4 0 Brooklyn 320 000 5 8 1 Monzant. Giel (2) and Katt. Craig. Spooner (5) and Campanella. Winning pitcher Spooner (4-4). Losing Ditcher Monzant (1-6). (10 Innings) Pittsburgh ..020 000 000 13 9 0 Phila 000 020 000 0 2 9 3 Friend (9-6) and Atwell. Roeovin. Miller (6). Meyer (1) and Lopata. Los ing pitcher Miller (5-3). St. Louis 002 003 002 7 11 1 Milwaukee 011 000 000 2 6 1 Poholsky (6-6) and Burbrink. Bur dette. Jolly (7) and Crandall. Losing pitcher Burdette (8-6). AMERICAN LEAGUE (13 Innings) Boston 020 000 000 000 0 2 N. Y 002 000 000 00001 3 Sullivan (14-10), and White, (4). Larsen (4-1) and Berra. 5 2 5 0 Daley Detroit 000 110 200 4 Cleveland 000 110 004 6 13 10 Bunmng. Aber (7) and House. Wil son (81. Garcia. Mossi (8) and Nara gon. Hegan (8). Mossi (3-2). Losing pitcher Aber (5-2). Chicago 000 020 020 4 8 1 Kansas City ....202 001 OOx 5 8 1 Byrd, Harshman. Howell (7). Martin (8) and Lollar. Moss (8). K-ellner. Gor man (8) and Astroth. Winning pitcher Kellner (8-7). Losing pitcher Byrd (6-6). Wash, at Bait., night, ppd., rain. Braves Beat Yakima, 9-1 By UNITED PRESS Early or late, the Tri-City Braves of the Northwest League keep piling up victories. After winning several recent games with late inning rallies, the Braves reversed the script last night and scored early and often to sink Yakima 9-1. Tri-City got one run in the first and added four in the sec ond on a grand-slam homer by Milt Martin. It proved enough for Ralph Burns who scattered seven Yakima hits to chalk up his 13th victory. Yakima's only run came on a solo homer by Herm Lewis in the fifth. Wenatchee took over the late inning dramatics with a four-run rally in the ninth to edge Eu gene 9-8. Herb Anderson's sin gle to left sent Phil Marvier across with the decider. Tom Agosta carried a big bat for Salem, driving in five runs in the Senators' 10-3 victory over Spokane. His single in the sixth was good for two runs and his ninth inning triple sent two more markers across. Bud Francis went all the way for the winners to bring his mark to 7-5. Ken Reiser Wins English Two-Mile Manchester, England U.R) Oregon's Ken Reiser won the two-mile at the annual police games yesterday in a time of 9:16.2, far ahead of his nearest rival. DOUGLAS FIR - WHITE FIR LOGS WANTED For Delivery at Eagle Point Mill MOGAN LUMBER CO. White City SWARMING OVER REDSKIN, Washington fullback Rob Goode, San Francisco 49ers stop scoring threat one foot from goal line with but minute left in game. Goode's knee is just be yond goal line. Seconds later Redskin Vic Janowicz's field goal was blocked by rookie George Maderos. ex-Chico Cal State player, giving 49ers 7-6 victory at San Francisco.fnfemattonoi; Medford&Tribune SLPODIHnrS Golfs Richest Tourney Opens With 105 Men Pros Chicago (U.R) Golf's richest tournament, the $157,200 "World" championship at Tam O'Shanter, opened today with 105 men pros in pursuit of the top prize of $106,000. Chasing for lesser awards were 23 women pros, aiming for the major prize of 85,000 out of a $12,000 purse, 15 men ama teurs and 12 women amateurs, with the top award for the win ner in each division to be $150 in merchandise from a total kitty of $1,150. Interest centered, however, in the men's professional divi sion, which will pay the low scorer after 72 holes over this 6,915-yard course $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in a contract for 50 exhibitions, and $1,000 for caddy fees! Though presumably each of the 105 contenders has a chance to win, speculation centered on Doug Ford, the PGA champion who last week shot a 11-under-par 277 for the same number of Savage To Use Skill, Not Tricks Salt Lake City (U.R) Mus cular Milo Savage, who claims one of boxing's oldest tricks cost him a win in his last match with Holly Mims, pledged just befor xonigni s return Dout with Mims to use skill and not trickery in an effort to even the score with the Baltimore battler. Mims, now the second ranking middleweight of the world, faces Salt Lake City's Savage over the 10-round route, starting at 8:30 p.m., (MST) in the, Utah capital city's Derks field. In their previous meeting last winter at Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway arena, Mims won an unpopular split decision from the unranked Utah fighter. 'Shoelace Trick' It was in the Brooklyn battle that Savage pulled the "shoelace trick" by pointing to Mims' shoe laces to distract him and follow ing up with a barrage that near ly kayoed the easterner. Savage figures the trick met with disapproval of the judges, who handed Mims the verdict. bixteen sports writers at ring side reportedly scored the fight in favor of the Salt Lake fight er. While Savage promised no trickery, the hard hitting Balti more boxer vowed that he will not fall "sucker" to any more of Savage's tactics. Pre-fight odds favor Mims in the 10-rounder which is expected to draw 5000 fans. Latest figures rate the vis itor an 8-5 choice to score his second win over the local lad. QTs Leave For State Tourney The Rogue Valley QTst girls' softball team with headquarters at Eagle Point, left today for Klamath Falls where they will play in the state tournament. The QTs face Salem in their first game at 8:30 p.m. today and play two games tomorrow. Teams from all over the state are entered in the tourney and the winner enters the regional playoffs at Boise late this month. Phone- Talbot 6-271 1 holes on the same course, to win the "All American." Leo Biagetti, runnerup to Ford; Peter Thomson, the top ranking foreign player; and Ted Kroll were rated major challengers. Also in the field were top ranking money winners for 1955, Cary Middlecoff, Mike Souchak, Gene Littler, Bob Rosburg, Tommy Bolt, Billy Maxwell and Jerry Barber. Sixteen of the contenders warmed up Wednesday with matches involving the eight top American pros in the "All Amer ican" against the eight top for eign players in the second an nual "International Cup Match.'.' The event was won by the Americans for the second straight year, 8Vi to 3Vi, com pared to their 1954 triumph by-a 6V2 to 5V4 tally. tofriftfl (tireffaftTO montgomeryN J WARD F 117 S. CENTRAL i I V PHONE 2,6241 S teifig Is 2-POUND BAGS fK to hstalU I Little League Regional Playoffs Start Today Santa Monica, Calif.' (U.R) Four games were scheduled for today in the opening round of the Region Eight Little League- base ball playoffs to determine the region's representative in the "Little World Series'? at Wil liamsport, Pa., late this month. Today Cedar City, Utah, meets Visalia, Calif.; Stockton, Calif., plays Vancouver, B. C; Colton, Calif., clashes with San Diego; and Torrance, Calif.,, en counters Kirkland, Wash. 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Members of racing's many seg ments from midgets and sports cars to those running on the big car circuit, including the Indian apolis "500" met in an unprec edented session Wednesday to 'breathe life" into a sport as sailed roundly for a number of disastrous accidents in recent months. ' They formed a seven-man temporary committee, headed by Speedway Magistrate George Ober, in the first step to form the new group, only a week after the AAA announced it is drop ping racing at the end of the season. Factions Represented Each faction of the racing fra ternity elected a representative to sit on the committee. Others named were veteran driver Duane Carter, Indianapolis; me chanic Herb Porter, Indianap olis; promoter Tom Marchese, Milwaukee; car owner Bob Estes, Inglewood, Calif.; Anton Hulman Jr., president and owner of the Indianapolis Speedway Corp.; and Col. Arthur W. Herrington of the AAA contest board. 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