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TWELYZ MTDFORD (OREGON; MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, September 29. 195S Bill Martin Feuds With Campanella By NORMAN MILLER New York U.R) A red-hot feud was simmering today be tween brash Billy Martin of the Yankees and normally easy-going Roy Campanella of the Dodg ers in what threatens to erupt into the best World Series scrap since the Ducky Medwick-Marv Owen incident of 1934. It started back in the 1953 series and it flared anew yes terday when "BJly-The-Kid" " tried to steal home in the sixth jnning of the Yankees 6-5 vic tory over the Dodgers. As they arose from the pileup at ther plate the stocky Dodger catcher gave Martin an extra bump with his shoulder. The Yankee pepperpot immediately shoved Campanella back. - "I wasn't sore," Martin said later in the dressing room. "I just don't like being pushed around. I might have punched him on the nose if it wasn't the World Series." Campanella, still smarting from some newspaper quotations attributed to Martin only a week ago, reacted just as angrily. Near Miss After revealing later that Mar tin had taunted him on the field with the crack "I didn't think you tagged guys at home plate,' Campanella steamed: "I missed him by about three Inches. I should have tagged him on his big mouth." The same two principals squared off two years, ago when Martin tried to score from sec ond base on a "suicide" run and wound up the final out in the fourth game of the '53 series. An easy out at the plate, Martin didn't even try to slide but barged into Campanella like a fullback in an effort to knock the ball out of his hands. Only a few days ago, Martin was watching a Dodger game on television and allegedly observed within earshot of newspaper men: T see Campanella is still tag ging runners high. What's the matter, is he spike shy?" Tagged On Neck Martin insisted yesterday that Campanella "tagged me on the neck and that's why I was sure I was safe." The fiery Yankee infielder, after a half-hour of post-game reflection, conceded that he might have made a "dumb play" in trying to steal home, although Manager Casey Stengel refused to second-guess him. The Martin-Campanella rhu barb recalled the last serious World Series outburst in the hec tic Cards-Tigers classic 21 years ago. That was the classic in which Medwick squared off after the spike-flashing slide into third base. And it wound up with the late Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis ordering Med wick out of the game following a fruit-throwing demonstration by Detroit bleacherites. .-.NX.'-" - : ; FLYING YANKEE Shortstop Phil Rizzuto of the Yankees takes off as he relays the ball to first base for a double play after making the force on Dodger Jim Gilliam at v . & - i second. Pee Wee Reese, who started the play with a grounder to Billy Martin, was doubled . at first. Action came in fourth inning of World Series opener at Yankee Stadium. Stengel Gambles on Second Lefty for Series Struggle; Collins Paces Opening Win By LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor New York (U.R) Cocky Casey Stengel,- having gambled and won with his first southpaw starter, nominated a second one, icy-nerved Tommy Byrne, to face the Brooklyn Dodgers to day in the second game of the 1955 World Series. Dodger Manager Walt Alston countered with right-hander Billy Loes, who has proven New York (U.R) Records set or tied thus far in the 1955 World Series between the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Dodgers: Most series games won by one team: New York Yankees. 72. Added to own record. Most games played at short stop: Phil Rizzuto. New York Yankees. 46. Added to own record. Most .home runs hit in world series by a National Leaguer: Duke Snider. Brooklyn Dodg ers. 6. Added to own record. . Tied record for hitting homer first time up in a World Series: Elston Howard. New York Yankees. League season, Stengel took a chance with left-hander Whitey Ford in the opener Wednesday and Ford was credited with the Yankees' 6-5 victory although right-hander Bob Grim mopped up in the ninth inning. Stengel didn't feel he was pressing his luck with the left handed Byrne today and neither did the odds-makers, who in stalled the Yankees 6-5 favor ites for today's contest and 2-1 favorites to win their sixth world championship in seven seasons. Byrne, at 35, has been "around the block," as the ballplayers say. He has pitched for the Chi cago White Sox, Washington Senators and St. Louis Browns as well as for the Yankees and he isn't the kind who gets rat tled in the clutch. Many observers believed that the unpredictable Loes, who posted only one victory after Brooklyn's most consistent pitcher during World Series competition against the Yankees. Although no left-h a n d e d pitcher had gone the route against the Dodgers and won during the regular National Fundamentals Emphasized In Junior High Workouts ' Drill on fundamentals has taken up the biggest share 'of practices as Medford's two jun ior high schools, McLoughlin and Hedrick, ready for their football seasons. 1 Eighth and ninth grade candi dates at each school have re ceived their drills in fundamen tals together. At McLoughlin, Coach Mel Boldenow of the ninth grade re ported that fundamentals usually have taken up an hour of the sessions. The gridders then have formed into their eighth and ninth grade units, working on plays and assignments for around 35 minutes. "We try to scrim mage wide open a few minutes every night," Boldenow said. ; Bob Williams is tutoring the eighth graders at McLoughlin. Bill Shepherd lends a hand to both Boldenow and Williams, devoting the bulk of his attention to the ninth graders. In fundamental drills at Hed rick,. Barney Riggs, ninth grade mentor, has worked with the backs, and Karl Kahle, the eighth grade coach, has trained the linemen. Riggs was hospitalized in the fore part of the week by a throat ailment and Bernie Averill has been helping out. Transportation Problem Kahle stated that about 80 per cent 8f the time has been devoted to fundamentals. The football ers are broken up into the re spective- squads for the rest of the time. Kahle said that trans portation to the senior high field for workouts has caused some problem Bob Work and Bruce Nelson are handling seventh grade foot ball at Hedrick. Hedrick ninth graders who have been looking good in drills, according to Riggs, are Larry Anderson, guard; Don Peek and Gary Winetrout, ends, and Tony Monroe, Billy Maurer, Pete Ras- mussen and John Harvey, backs. Kahle said his entire eighth grade crew is looking good with lots of enthusiasm and interest. He's picked no definite line-up NINTH GRADE SCHEDULE: October 7. Friday Hedrick vs. Grants Pass at McLouglin. 3:30 p.m. October 8. Saturday crater at Mc Louehlin. 1:30 cm. October 14. t noav raciouemin at Grants Pass, 3 p.m.; Hedrick vs. Ash land at McLouehlin at 320 D.m. October 22. Saturday Klamatn Falls at McLouehlin. 1:30 D.m.: Hed rick vs. Crater at Central Point. 7 p.m. October 28. Friday McLougnlin, at Asmand. 3 30 p.m. octooer z. Saturday iearicK Klamath Falls. 1:30 p.m. November 4. Friday Hedrick McLoughlin. at EIGHTH GRADE: October 6. Thursday Hedrick McLoughlin. 3:30 p.m. October 15. Saturday Central Point at McLoughlin.- 10 a.m.: Hedrick vs. Grants Pass at McLouehlin. 2 p.m. October 27. Thursday Hedrick at central point. 7 p.m. October 29. Saturday McLouehlin at Grants Pass. 2 p.m. .November 3 Hedrick at McLougn- un, &.&t p m. HEDRICK NINTH: Ends Don Peek. Gary Winetrout, Mark Norton. Lee Mellish. Tackles Dewey Gail, Henry Har bert. Monte Penwell, Arthur Vinson. Guards Don Tinseth, Larry An derson. Dick Phair, Harold Sexton, Ron Miller. Centers LeRoy Axland. Dale For- see. Quarterbacks Tony Monroe. Kenny Metcalf. Roddy Craig. Halfbacks Robert Emmens, John Milne. John Harvey, Billy Maurer, Ed die Cripe. Fullbacks Pete Rasmussen. Metcalf. Joe Collins Tried for 3 In Opener '(Editor's Note: Joe Collins slammed a pair of homers and drove in three runs yesterday) to lead the Yankees to a 6-5 victory over the Dodgers in the first game of the World Series. In the following dis patch, he tells how he did it and how it felt). HEDRICK EIGHTH: Ends David Dunn. Henry Olson, Mike Parsons. Gordon Safley. Leland Johnson. Tackles Doug Kliever. Rick Middle kauff. Dean Soddard. Bill Olson. Guards Terry Smith. John Frohn mayer, Mike Reich, Kelly Sommere and Perry Whittlock. Centers Gary Beach, Carl Sieg". Quarterback Paul Moore. Halfbacks Booth Deakins. John Cantrall. Gary McGill, Jerry Ander son. Fullbacks Don Cranston, Mike Ward. By JOE COLLINS As Told to The United Press .New York KU.R) I was tickled to hit two, but frankly I was trying for three. Believe me, I was really "go ing for the downs," as we "play ers say, when I came up for the fourth time in the eighth. But all I could do was fly out to left field. I hit that ball pretty good, too. Don Newcombe wasn't exactly a stranger to me. I hit against him in 1948 when he was with Montreal in the International League. I was in the same league and I remember I always had good luck against him., Not great, you understand, but good enough to keep me happy. He's certainly not the fastest pitcher I've faced this year but he's fast enough. Reminds me a lot of Willard Nixon, the guy with the Red Sox who gave us all that trouble this year. 'New combe has good stuff; he's no soft touch m any league. - I don't think they pitched me the same way twice all day to day. Newcombe' kept the ball in side on me when I walked in the second inning. Then I hit a low fast ball for my first homer in the fourth, and in the sixth, the ball I hit into the bleachers was high and outside. Give some of the credit to Mickey Mantle. I was using his bats. I picked up a couple of them a few days ago and I like them, so I've decided to use them. You bet I'll keep using them for the rest of the series." the Ail-Star game this year could hold the key to the Dodg ers' series chances. If he stop. ped the Yankees today, the Dodgers would square the series at one game and be in a strong position when the series shifts to Ebbets Field for three games starting Friday. Loes, who had a 10-4 record during the season and completed only six games, raised Alston's hopes with two fine tune-up per formances toward the tail-end of the campaign. Loes beat the Yankees in a World Series game in 1953 and pitched well against them in the 1952 classic, only to lose because of a balk and grounder which he claimed he "lost in the sun." Stengel, who was the picture of commence before the series started saw nothing to dampen his spirits Wednesday although he admitted he would like to see Mickey Mantle back in the line. up. Mantle, hobbled by a pulled hamstring muscle in his right thigh, sat out Wednesday's game and wasn't very hopeful about seeing action in any of the fu ture frays. "I felt worse today than I did yesterday," he said glumly after Wednesday s contest. I guess I tried to run too fast a little too quickly." The Yankees didn t miss Mantle's bat too much in the opening game of the series as first baseman Joe Collins ham mered two homers to drive in three runs and left fielder El ston Howard, first Negro ever to win a job with the Yankees, knocked in two runs with another homer. Bases Empty Homers . Duke Snider and Carl Furillo each homered for Brooklyn, but unfortunately from the Dodgers' viewpoint, both blows came with the bases empty. x Big Don Newcombe, the Dodgers' 20-game winner, was no great shakes Wednesday as the Yankees raked him for eight of their nine hits and shelled him from the mound after 5 23 innings. Jackie Robinson, who may be putting in his last season with Brooklyn, supplied the most electrifying play of the game when he stole home in the eighth inning as Yankee catcher Yogi Berra angrily protested plate umpire Bill Summers' "safe" de cision and looked for a brief moment like he might even climb all p over the veteran arbiter. Milly Martin, an old Dodger plague he tied a series' rec ord against them with a total of 12 hits in 1953 took right up where he left off before enter ing service with a triple and a single. Following his sixth inning triple, he tried to steal home with pinch hitter Ed Rob inson at the plate but was thrown out. "It was a dumb play," Martin admitted later. "I went on my own and I thought I had a good chance. But as it turned out, I outsmarted myself." Wood Picks Bruins, Troy On Gridiron By HAL WOOD San Francisco (U.R) On the basis of losses suffered by Stan ford and UCLA over the past week end, this department drop ped from first to eighth in the national ratings of pigskin prog-nosticators. But. the season still is young and the battle for the national picking championship still is wide open so we may make the Rose Bowl yet. Last week had some fine point-spreaders. For instance, picked. USC to beat Oregon by 30. It was by 28. Illinois over California by six. The Illini won by seven. Even picked Fresno State to upset San Francisco State. Of course these were some what offset by the Oregon State victory over Stanford and Mary land's win over UCLA. Our se lection department has agreed there will be no more flukes like that. USC over Texas: Some experts claim the Trojans "can be had." But don't think Texas is the club to do it. Jess Hill again has the horses. Now if they only will run in the right direction, the Trojans by 13. UCLA over Washmgton State: Those po Cougars, are going to suffer for that beating the Bruins received last week from Mary land. Ol' Red Sanders will be pouring it on if he gets a chance by 34. Stanford over Ohio State The upset of the week for the national TV viewers. Buckeyes had trouble last week with the weak Nebraska team, while Stanford was upset. But this In dian team has the makings of a pretty fair club. By seven. California over Pennsylvania Golden Bears, with young team are improving. Penn hasn't had it so good, either, losing' last week to Virginia Poly. Cal by six. Washineton over Oregon: It may be that Coach Johnny Cher- berg has come up with some thing. This Husky crew de stroyed heavily-favored Minne sota la3t week, 30-0. Oregon smothered by USC. By 20. Also: Idaho over Arizona, San Francisco State over Nevada, College of Pacific over Cincin nati, Whitworth over Western Washmgton. Pepperdine over Chico State, Pomona over Los Angeles State, San Diego State over Cal Poly, Santa Barbara over Occidental, Fresno State over Willamette, Humboldt State over Linfield, Lewis & Clark over Central Washington. Red Raiders' Ted Tenney May Miss Portland Mix Ashland Southern Oregon college's gridders were again working hard on play assign ments this week, after their dis appointing 7-6 to Sacramento State last Saturday. Coach Al Akins said he was "a little disappointed in overall team unity," and added, "We're waiting to review pictures of the game before announcing a starting lineup for the Portland State game." The game is this Saturday. A big blow to the Raiders hopes against the Vikings this week end came when Ted Ten ney hard-running halfback show ed up with a badly sprained ankle. Tenney, according to Ak ins, probably will not see action in Portland. The rest of the squad showed up with a large array of bumps and bruises, but none of them serious enough to affect the com ing conference opener. Akins made a shift in his back field, after learning of Tenney's injury, shifting full back Ralph Clamo, who was the Raiders' leading ground-gainer in "the Sacramento tussle, to left half back. He is trying out a number of candidates at . the fullback slot, including end Dick Smith, who played that position while attending Ashland high school. The SOC mentor stated that he was looking forward to "a very tough ball game with Port land State," and hoped that the bumps and bruises would heal sufficiently to insure an all-out effort against the Vikings. Fishing Conditions Told by Commission. Portland (U.R) The weekly report on fishing cinditions pre pared by the State Game Com mission: Dead line for Sunday Classified Is noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. Minneapolis Grabs Title Minneapolis, Minn. (U.R) Minneapolis, boasting home run power and iron-man hurling, reigned today as the Little World Series champion. Blasting four home runs, the American association entry whip- ' ped Rochester of the Internation al league, 9-4, Wednesday night in the final game of the best-of-seven series. You'll Always Find Reliability Uniformity Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE Tru-Mix Concrete Co. FAST. PROMPT DELIVERY Mc Andrews Road Phone 2-5271 Southwest: Coauille river fair for salmon between Bullards bridge and Parkersburg; Coos Bay fair to good when weather permits: bass activity observed in Isthmus slough but fish ing only fair in area of East Divide up to Shingle House slough: few cut throat being taken along main Ump qua; Steamboat area fair for Steel head; Winchester bay area good for salmon. Central: Wickiup reservoir good: Crane Prairie also good: Big Lava lake improved; Deschutes above Bend low and fishing good: Crescent lake pro ducing good rainbow catches: Davis lake fair to good; Odell lake good for small lake trout; East and Paulina lakes good; Suttle lake excellent; Metolius river good. Southeast: Malheur county; Owyhee reservoir fair to excellent for bass and poor to fair for crappie: Owyhee river fair for rainbow; Snake river to good to catfish: Fish Lake in uarney county still fair for trout. ICorvallis Heads Prep Poll Alone Corvallis high was lone leader his week in the Associated Press football polL The Spartans held No. 1 spot in the voting with 190 points getting the first place vote of 10 of the 21 sportswriters par ticipating. Marshfield, however, was not far behind. The Pirates got eight first place ballots and 187 points. South Salem, which shared top spot last week, rated third this time with 180 points. Oth ers among the top ten were Gresham, 1Q7, Pendleton . 96, Jefferson (Portland) 66, North Bend 65, Astoria 60, Cottage Grove 33 and Hillsboro 24. Also rans were Milwaukie 22, Albany 21, Vale 18, Central Catholic 14, LaGrande 11, Med ford 10, Washington (Portland) 6, Ontario 5, Beaverton and Junction City 4, Grant . (Port land) and Tillamook 2, end, St. Helens, Coquille and Eugene 1. Durocher, Marion Choices Of Lane for Cardinal Post By MILTON RICHMAN New York (U.R) If their new general manager has his way, the St. Louis Cardinals' field manager for 1956 will be either Leo Durocher or Marty Marion. The United Press has learned that Frank Lane, who resigned as general manager of the White Sox last Sunday and will be of ficially named general manager of the Cardinals within the next 72 hours, is going after Duroch er or Marion. Both Durocher and Marion are former Cardinal shortstop stars, but Durocher has "the in side track on the job and can have it if he wants it," accord ing to an authoritative source. Durocher. who resigned as manager of the Giants last Sat urday, promptly signed as a tal ent contact with National Broad casting company. An NBC spokesman revealed Wednes day, however, that the studio "would not stand in his way" if he decided to return to base ball. It is known that Durocher has conferred with August (Gussie) Busch, president of the Cardin als, and Cardinal General Man ager Dick Meyer since he left the Giants Sunday. Busch told Durocher the Cards would like to have him as their manager. One thing Lane made clear in his negotiations with the Car dinals was that he was to have "full and complete say," in hand ling the personnel of the ball club if he took the job. Busch agreed that his hands would not be tied. ALGIERS REBELS KILLED Algiers, Algeria ' (U.R) French officials announced to day that security forces killed more than 100 rebels in a fierce action in the Constantine region. METSKER'S COUNTY MAPS Best maps for Sportsmen. Trails, Creeks. Lakes; aU counties. Idaho, Ore gon, Washington. California. For Sale at Stationery and Sports Stores and "Metsker Maps." 212 Swetland Bldg, Portland. Or. 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