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    Draw For
Cup Round
Thursday
New York UR) John Fos
ter Dulles, secretary of state,
will make the draw on Thurs
day for the Davis cup challenge
round between the United States
and Australia.
The U. S. Lawn Tennis assoc
iation announced that the draw
would be made at the West Side
Tennis club, Forest Hills, N.Y.,
site of the matches which begin
on Friday. Two singles matches
are scheduled Friday, one
doubles match Saturday, and
two singles matches Sunday.
The U. S. team, defending the
cup,, which is symbolic of world
tennis supremacy, consists of
Tony Trabert of Cincinnati, O.,
Vic Seixas of Philadelphia, Ham
Richardson of Baton Rogue, La.,
and Gil Shea of Los Angeles.
Trabert and Seixas, who played
all five matches last year, are
expected to do the same again.
G The challenging Australian
squad is made up of Lew Hoad,
Ken Rosewall, Rex Hartwig and
Neale Fraser. Hoad and Rosewall
are expected to carry the singles
burden.
Metkovich
Leads PCL
San Francisco (U.R) Veteran
George Metkovich, Oakland
outfielder, hangs onto the Pacific
Coast league hitting leadership
with a .336 average, according to
statistics released today and in
cluding Sunday's games.
Metkovich upped his average
three points from the previous
week to take a 17-point lead over
runner-up Buddy Peterson of
San Diego, who has a .319 mark.
Meanwhile, another veteran,
Lou Kretlow of Seattle, lost his
first game of the year, but
stayed at the top of the pitching
marks with a 12-1 record.
Steve Bilko of Los Angeles
leads in home runs with 32 and
Is tied with Nippy Jones of Sac
CJamento in hits with 168 each.
Earl Rapp of San Diego has
driven in 122 runs.
The strikeout leader for the
pitchers is Bob Garber of Holly
wood with 171. He has 19 wins
against 12 losses.
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REACHING FIRST on grounder to Strickland, Detroit's
Kuenn stretches clout to double when Strickland throws past
Cleveland's Fain for two-base error. (International Soundphoto)
Portland Hands Hollywood
4-3 Loss; Angels Win, 4-2
Scrimmage
For Elks'
Star Teams
Ontario, Ore. (U.R) Former
hfcjh school football players from
the Boise and Snake River val
leys settled down to a tough
schedule of scrimmage games to
prepare for the Elks all-star
gams at Ontario next Saturday.
Coach Gen Glore of the SRV
team said he would push his
squad hard today and Wednes
day, with tapering off ' drills
scheduled for Thursday.
Bill Zimmerman, coach of the
Boise Valley players, promised
his squad body contact work
through Thursday.
EJECTED
San Angelo, Tex. OJ.R) Aga
Baca, a Big Spring. Tex., pitcher
who does'nt speak a word of
English, was ejected from a
Longhorn league baseball game
with San Angelo Monday night,
by Umpire Dale Stucky for of
fensive language.
By DON THACKERY ,
United Press Sports Writer
The home teams got the hits
and the visitors the runs in a
shortened Pacific Coast league
schedule last night.
Only two games were played
and in each the home town out-
hit the invaders, but lost.
Los Angeles made the trip to
Sacramento and won out 4-2
over the Solons. Sacramento got
13 hits and the Angels eight.
Portland likewise went to
Hollywood for a 4-3 win. Holly
wood got 10 hits to seven by the
Beavers.
Tonight the league resumes
full scale maneuvers with Seattle
playing a doubleheader at San
Francisco and the rest of the
loop single games.
Hatten Wins 9th
Joe Hatten won his ninth vic
tory of the season for Los An
geles with the aid of Steve Bil-
ko's bat and tight pitching with
men on base. Sacramento belted
Hatten for 13 hits but the old
left-hander fanned 11 and left
10 runners stranded.
Bilko sent home one run with
a sacrifice fly in the first in
ning and then blasted home two
more in the third with a single.
Sacramento used four pitch
ers with Bud Watkins, the start
er, taking the loss.
Bob Hall came to the rescue
of Dick Waibel in the fourth in
ning for Portland and held the
Melis Matched With
Vejar In TV Fight
New York -(U.R) Paolo Melis
of Montreal, former - welter
weight champion of Italy, was
matched today for a 10-round
TV fight with seventh-ranking
Chico Vejar at St. Nicholas Are
na on Oct. 17 as a reward for
Monday night's victory over
middleweight Rinzi Nocero.
Melis, an 11-5 underdog, won
a unanimous 10-round decision
Over Nocero of Brooklyn in their
TV bout at St. Nick's. Toughy
Nocero lost two rounds on low
blow fouls and was warned four
other times for rough-house
tactics.
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Stars to three hits in a splendid
six-inning relief job. The loss
went to Bob Garber, first of five
flingers for Hollywood. It was
Garber's fifth loss to go with
his league leading total of 19
wins.
Portland jumped off to three
runs in the first inning and add
ed one in the second. That con
cluded the Beaver scoring, but
it was enough.
Dick Eggert drove in two of
the Portland runs.
THE LINESCORES
Los Angeles ....103 000 000 t 8 1
Sacramento ... 010 000 100 2 13 1
Hatten and Fanning: Watkins. John
son 13), Candini (5), Harrist (8) and
Baich.
Portland 310 000 000 7 1
Hollywood 002 100 000 3 10 1
Waibel. Hall (4) and Lundberg: Gar
ber, King 12), O'Donnell (5). Lyons 17),
Bowman (9) and Hall.
Doubles Rest
With Unseeded
Young Net Stars
Chestnut Hill, Mass. 0J.R)
American hopes for keeping the
National tennis doubles crown in
the United States rested today
with a pair of promising but un
seeded youngsters who have al
read3' down two seeded tandems.
The lads in question, Jerry
Moss and Bill Quillian, saw to
it themselves, in fact, that they
were tops in contention by dis
posing of the only remaining
domestic seeded entries in the
75th doubles tourney Monday.
Moss, a 19-year-old from St.
Petersburg, Fla., who is rated
the best junior singles player in
the nation,' and his 21year-old
Seattle, Wash., teammate,
squeaked by fourth seeded Eddie
Moylan of Trenton, N.J., and
Cliff Mayne of Berkeley, Calif.,
in third round action Monday,
6-4, 6-2, 1-6, 5-7, 6-3.
With the demise of Messrs.
Mayne and Moylan only two
seeded tandems remained and
they were both foreign.
The rest of the ranking teams
hav either defaulted in the rain
delayed tourney in order to play
in the Davis Cup challenge
round, or were eliminated earlier.
Air Force, Army
Tied in Tennis
Quantico, Va.' (U.R) The
Air Force, defending team cham
pion, was tied with the Army-today
at three points each as the
inter-service . tennis champion
ship entered the second day of
competition.
The Navy had two points and
the Marine Corps none.
Roger Pharr of Orlando, Fla.,
the third-seeded Army player,
scored the big upset of the first
day's play when he defeated
Marine champion Allen Tong of
Los Angeles, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4.
The day's most spectacular fin
ish saw Navy champion Ben So
bierja' of St. Louis, Mo., beat
fourth-seeded Don Kaiser, 6-3,
5-7, 6-4, and then collaps from
heat exhaustion as they shook
hands across the net. The match
was played in 93 degree heat.
City Beavers Down
Gaston In Pro Meet
Portland 4U.R) The defend
ing champion City Beavers de
feated a surprising Gaston club
11-5 last night to oust the losers
from the State American Base
ball Congress semi-pro baseball
tourney. .
The losers' bracket victory ad
vanced City Beavers to tonight's
semi-finals, where they will meet
the Bashor Babes. Winner of to
night's contest meets undefeated
Archer Blower, for the crown
Wednesday night.
Dead line for Sunday Classified is
at noon Saturday.
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Giants TD
Favorites
Over Rams
Portland (U.R) The New
York Giants were a solid one
touchdown favorite today to
whip the Los Angeles Rams in
Portland's Multnomah Stadium
Sunday night.
The New York team assumed
the role of favorite after besting
the San Francisco 49ers in Seat
tle last Saturday. The Giants won
by a 28-17 score.
Quarterbacks Charlie Conerly
and Don Heinrich and fullback
Bobby Epps were expected to
provide the offensive punch for
the Giants, more than offsetting
the throwing arm of the Rams'
Norm Van Brocklin.
At Salem, meanwhile, the Gi
ants announced that ex-Oregon
State star Bill Austin will start
at offensive guard against the
Los Angeles club. The 225-pound
Austin sat out last Saturday's
contest with a twisted knee.
Little League World
Series Underway
Williamsport, Pa. (U.R)
Eight tiny titans of the Ameri
can diamond put aside their
bubble gum and opened the
ninth annual Little League
World Series today with Win
chester, Mass., meeting Ham
tramck, Mich., and Glen Falls
N.Y., tangling with Morrisville,
Pa.
Play among finalists culled
from some 1,800 leagues
throughout the nation will con
tinue Wednesday with Alexan
dria, La., opposing Delaware
Township, N.Y., and Auburn,
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swimsuit. She's a cinch to be
seen.
KUME TO KC
Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) The
Kansas City Athletics today call
ed up 29-year-old righthanded
pitcher John Kume from Co
lumbus of the International
league.
FLORISTS WIN
Redding, Calif. (U.R) The
Erv Lind Florists of Portland
overwhelmed the Redding All
Stars 11-0 last night in a wom
an's Softball game.
Ala., meeting San Diego. Semi
finals will be held on Thursday
and the finals on Friday.
Juesday, August 23, 195S
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TKIBtniX NIKE
Margate, England (U.R) Mar
gate firemen reported they had
little trouble rescuing a woman
who had to call for help when
she got locked in a pay toilet.
They put a penny in the lock.
Portland (U.R) Some 500
members of Portland's 403rd
troop carrier wing roared back
into Portland Sunday after two
weeks of active duty training in
Oklahoma.
Court Records
POLICE COURT
Keith Darwin Ayres and Richard
Dean Randall, excessive noise ( pipes).
$10 each.
Muriel Eliza Shaw, failure to yield
right-of-way to pedestrian. $10.
Ernest Lee Kitsmiller. inadequate
muffler. $5.
James Waldon Akerill. failure to
stop at stop lights. $5.
Norman Nelson, disregard of red
light. $5.
H. Ruth Pierce, parked continuous
ly at meter more than allotted time,
$2.50.
Margaret T. Johnson, parked on
wrong side of street $2.50.
DISTRICT COURT
Joseph D. Barnett, overwidth load,
$10.
David Lester DeArmond. violation
of basic rule. $10.
Arthur Herman Ziemann. failure to
stop at stop sign. $10.
Ernest E. Evernden Jr., overheight
load, $10.
MARRIAGE LICENSE
APPLICATIONS
Bert Clark Davison. 26. Central
Point, and Barbara Ann Peter Davi
son. 23. of 2614 Table Rock rd.. Med
ford. Troy William Cox. 26. route 2. box
22. Medford. and Virginia Nell Dow
ing. 21, route 2. box 220. Medford.
Eric Hauoli Carson, 25. Berkeley,
Calif., and Esther Ruth Taylor. 20, of
331 Melrose ave.. Medford.
Alf Guildahl. 28. St. Louis. Mo., and
Harriet Florence Houghton. 27. of 512
Dakota ave. I Medford.
Zouhai Munib Derhalli. 23. Portland,
and Anelda Annette Lewis., 20, Box
1503, Medford.
Perry R. Pickett. 34. of 55 Nevada
St., Ashland, and Florence Judith
Holum. 36. of route 2, box 672, Ore
gon City.
CIRCUIT COURT
Philip R. Turpin vs. Carmen D. Tur
pin, divorce complaint.
FORMOSA THREATENED
Tokyo (U.R) Typhoon "Iris"
lumbered toward Formosa today
and threatened the Nationalist
island with 83 milt per hour
winds. Air Force weather search
planes located tht storm about
100 miles south of Formosa.
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