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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Cagers Vie For Olympic Team Spots Kansas City, Mo. .(U.R) A final round of six games to select a United States basketball team for the 1956 Olympics opens at Municipal Auditorium tonight. Three of the four teams were given a chance to take the crown, however, and with it the honor of placing from five to seven men on a squad of 12 that goes to the Olympics in Mel bourne this November. They are the College All-Stars, headed by Bill Russell and K. C Jones of San Francisco: the Phillips Oilers from Bartles ville, Okla., and the dark-horse A.A.U. champions, the Seattle Buchan Bakers. The opening games tonight pit the Phillips Oilers against the Armed Forces at 8:30 EST and the College All Stars against Seattle at 10:30 EST. Funeral Service On Tuesday for Ralph De Palma South Pasadena. Calif. (U.R) Rosary services for Ralph De Palma, one of the nation s great est auto racers, will be recited today at the Holy Family church rear his home. Last rites will be held tomorrow. De Palma died Saturday of cancer which a family spokes man said stemmed from an old racing injury. He was 73. The Italian -born speedster ranked with Barney Oldfield as one of the all-time racing greats. He earned $1,500,000 in his 27 years of dare-devil speeding and won 2557 of the 2889 races he entered. De Palma began his career in 1908 at a 300-mile road race at Briarcliff, N.Y. In his lifetime he won six national titles and the Indianapolis 500 in 1915. He was named to the racing Hall of Fame in 1954. Safety Pioneer Auto industry researchers credit De Palma's pioneering of many features as leading to nu merous modern safety devices. He is credited with first put ting a gasoline tank under a car and introducing straight side tires in 1920. After serving as an Air Corps captain in World War I, De Palma designed a Packard rac ing car which set a speed record of 149.89 miles per hour in 1919. Later he worked for Chrysler, Studebaker, Cadillac, Ford. Mo tor company and Ranger Air craft Engine. At the time of his death he was employed by Gen eral Petroleum corporation in Los Angeles. He is survived by his widow. Sport Summary By UNITED PRESS Sautrday New York All-America's Bill Russell and K. C. Jones of San Francisco paced the West Col lege All-Stars to an easy 103-72 victory over the East at Madison Square Garden. New Haven, Conn. U.R) Al Wiggins of Ohio State set an American record of 2:07.5 for the 200-yard individual medley relay event in the NCAA swim ming championships. Des Moine, la. Ralps Stew art, line coach at Drake Univer sity, was named head football coach at the University of South Dakota. Sunday New York Harlem Globe trotters opened their national tour with the College All-Stars with a pair of victories, 65-5?, and 72-64. Wilmington, N. C. Mike Souchak, former Duke football star, won the eighth annual $12,500 Azalea Open Golf tour nament on the 18th hole of the final round. Dick Mayer of St. Petersburg, Fla. finished second, a stroke off the pace. Ortega Favored Over Smallwood New York (U.R! Gaspar Ortega, a Mexican middleweight who specializes in April knock outs is favored to defeat Hardy (Bazooka) Smallwood of Brook lyn in tonight's 10-round feature at St. Nicholas Arena. The bout will be televised na tionally by DuMont, beginning at 10 p.m. EST. Ortega, tall for a Mexican at 5-1012, has won all of his pre vious April fights by knockouts. In 1953, he flattened Kid Charol in two rounds in an April bout. Last April he finished Tony Es quivel in three rounds and Jesse Rcbles in eight. Smallwood, who defeated Ray Drake in his last appearance, has won 17 of his 23 professional fights. He has scored four knock outs. He fought two draws and lost four times. RACEWAY OPENS Westbury, N. Y. (U.R) Roose velt Raceway opens its 17th sea son of trot racing tonight and Stanley Dancer, the leading rid er here last year, will drive in seven of the eight opening-night races. The campaign will run for 98 days and ends on July 2. Ted Kluszewski Returns To Pep Up Cincinnati Club By EARL WRIGHT United Presi Sports Writer Ted Kluszewski, the muscle man who is given a good chance to topple Babe Ruths record of 60 homers in a season, has re turned to action to pep up the Cincinnati Redleg attack and persecute rival pitchers. The Philadelphia Phillies eked out a 6-5 viotory over Cincinnati Sunday at Clearwater, Fla., but the Redlegs romped off the field like winners because "Big Klu" played a full game for the first time this spring. Troubled with a crippled left hip, he got two hits in three times at bat and drove in two runs in the seventh inning to tie the score at 4-all. Several of the top clubs al ready have enough injured and ailing players to keep their man agers awake on the long ride north and the Brooklyn Dodgers lost outfielder Sandy Amdros while scoring a 4-3, 11-inning victory over the Chicago White Sox at Tampa. Amoros twisted his right ankle sliding into second base and will be out two or three weeks. MEDFORDItgTRIBUNE BOUDREAU EYES SIXTH FOR KANSAS CITY NINE (This is Ihe 131h in a series on ihe 1956 prospects of the major league clubs.) By LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor Mobile. Ala. (U.R) Man ager Lou Boudreau insists his Kansas City Athletics will be "Definite first division timber," within two or three years, but for this season he plans to con centrate on sixth place. We have good power arid I ex pect to make good use of it by platooning a whole lot this year" Boudreau says. "I'm very pleas ed with our infield, which I think is as good as there is in the league, and our pitching this spring hasn't been the worst in the world, either." Two of the pitchers who have looked especially impressive this spring are left-hander Art Ce carelli and rookie Bill Herriage, who won 15 games with Mont gomery in 1955. Shantz May Siar Off his showing, Ceccarelli figures as a possible regular starter along with left-handers Bobby Shantz and Alex Kellner and right-handers Art Ditmar and Arnie Portocarrero. Shantz, plagued with injuries and arm trouble ' the past two seasons, looks as if he may be of consid erable help to the Athletics this season. Tom Gorman will head the Kansas City bullpen brigade and Cloyd Boyer also will work in relief. Boudreau is high on Joe Gins berg in the catching department and he probably will be retain ed along with either Joe Astroth and Wilmer Shantz. The infield which Boudreau is so proud of consists of hard hitting Vic Power at first base; Jim Finigan at second; smooth- Pistons Knot Hoop Series Fort Wayne, Ind. (U.R) George Yardley and Corky Dev lin were the heroes of the hour here today because their last minute heroics enabled the Fort Wayne Pistons to deadlock the final round playoff series against the Philadelphia Warriors. Yardley's two free throws with 48 seconds remaining were the "difference" in Sunday night's 84-83 Fort Wayne triumph. Devlin made these points stand up when he intercepted a Phila aelphia pass with 28 seconds re maining. After Devlin missed a shot by the Warriors' Paul Ari zin in the closing seconds. The win tied the best-of-seven series at one game each. The third game will be played in Philadelphia Tuesday. Koch Winner in Main Of Portland Auto Race Portland (U.R) The auto racing season, rained out a week ago, got under way in Portland yesterday with one major acci dent halting the 25-lap main event for 20 .minutes. Shelley Grossman, Seattle, piloted a car that took an end-over-end flip after colliding with Len Sutton, Portland driver. The 280-pound Grossman was rushed to a Portland hospital where it was determined he suf fered head injuries and a lacerat ed right hand. Vancouver's Ernie Koch, took the lead at the 18th lap of the main event after a restart follow ing the accident and held the lead to the finish to win. Monday, April 2, 1956 The Dodgers sent Don New- combe, one of their first line pitchers, to Orlondo to lead their "B" squad against the Washing ton Senators. The American Leaguers cuffed Newcombe for all their runs in a 13-2 victory- The crippled Yankees, with Mickey McDermott pitching the full r.-ine innings, broke a 5-game losing streak by downing the St. Louis Cardinals at St. Peters burg, 5-2. Right-hander Frank Sullivan of the Boston Red Sox took a fairly rusged pounding from the Detroit Tigers while losing, 6-3. Bob Friend of the Pittsburgh Pirates limited the Kansas City Athletics to four hits in nine innings while coasting to an 8-1 triumph at New Orleans. Dusty Rhodes, Daryl Spencer and Gail Harris hit first inning homers to help the New York Giants beat the Chicago Cubs at Phoenix, Ariz., 7-2. as the Cleve land Indians scored a 5-3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles in a dust storm at Tucson, Ariz., and Milwaukee scored seven unearn ed runs to best Atlanta of the Southern Assn., 10-2. fielding Joe DeMaestri at short, and Hector Lopez at third. Boudreau has additional infield manpower- in rookie Ranee Pless, who hit .337 with Minneapolis last season; Spook Jacobs, who batted .316 with Columbus, and bonus baby Cel tus Boyer, the brother of St. Louis Cardinals third baseman Ken Boyer. Power in Outfield Most of Kansas City's power is concentrated in the outfield where Big Gus Zernial, who is due for duty in left, is being counted on to supply the long ball. Boudreau may platoon Harry Simpson and veteran Enos (Country) Slaughter, in right field. Center field is still wide open between Dave Melton who hit .299 with San Francisco last year, and Bill Renna. Boudreau should have little difficulty guiding Kansas City to sixth place again and if one of those top five clubs should falter, the Athletics could spring a surprise and wind up fifth. Baseball SUNDAY EXHIBITIONS By United Press Pittsburgh (N) 8 Kansas C. (A) 1 New York (A) 5 St. Louis (N 2 Philadelphia (N) 6 Cincinnati (Ni 5 Cleveland (A) 5 Baltimore (A) 3 New York (N) 7 Chicago (N) 2 Detroit (A) 6 Boston (A) 3 Brooklyn (N) 4 Chicago (A) 3 Milwaukee (N) 12 Atlanta (SA) 2 Washington (A) 13 B'klyn (N) 'B' 2 Ed Fiene Resigns Portland Post Portland (U.R) Ed Fiene, athletic director at the Univer sity of Portland for the past six years, Saturday handed in his resignation from the post to Fa ther Paul E. Waldschmidt, CSC, chairman of the athletic board of control. In his letter, Fiene expressed the difference existing between the athletic budget and the de mands placed on it by an ex panded basketball schedule as the reason leading to his resigna tion. No successor has been named. Bulls Only Interest Of Petite Bette Ford Nuevo Laredo, Mexico (U.R) Petite Betty Ford, who made her 44th bullfight appearance yesterday and killed two ani mals, says bulls provide the only interest in her colorful life. The 25-year-old McKeesport, Pa., native killed her 87th and 88th bulls in the Nuevo Laredo ring, located just across the Rio Grande from Laredo, Tex. She won hearty applause for her fine cape work. She showed more daring than in her previous appearance here last October. During the final phase of both fights yesterday she got down on both knees facing the bulls. j OREGON SKIERS PLACE i Sun Valley, Ida. (U.R) Terry j Skjersaa captured third place in ! the boys slalom trials at the American Legion junior champ- j ionships here Saturday, posting i a time total of 133.2. The Bend ' skier finished behind Dave Butts : of McCall, Idaho and Larry Jacobson, of Jackson, Wyo., Butts' winning time was 125. Patsy Walker of La Grande led the Oregon entries in the girl's ; slalom event, finishing second ! with a time total of 99, finish ing behind only Laurie Wake man of Tahoe Valley, Calif. For Action, Use Tribune Want Ads : :,: ,: ; '" mm ? " Jgjgk 1 ' SHE'S REALLY ON THE BALL It'd be hard to keep your mind on the game if you had Pony Sherrell for a caddy. Pony is pointing out the Tournament of Cham pions at Wilbur Clark's Desert Inn in Las Vegas, Nev April 26-29. Some of the world's finest pro golfers will vie for $37,500 in cash awards. The hotel will donate an additional $35,000 to the Damon Runyon Memorial Fund for Cancer Research. Rally Staged By Montreal Montreal U.R) The defend ing Stanly Cup champion De troit Red Wings, one game down to the Montreal Canadiens, fig ured today that three-day's rest was just the right tonic to cure their Montreal blues before they meet the National Hockey league champions in the second game Tuesday night. The Red Wings were headed for an apparent upset victory Saturday night when they led Montreal, 4-2, entering the final period. But they "ran out of gas" as . the Canadiens poured in four goals in five minutes and 21 seconds for the dramatic first game triumph. Ed Matthews Served Damage Suit Notice Atlanta, Ga. U.R) Third baseman Eddie Mathews and the Milwaukee Braves have been served withs notice of a $30,000 damage suit for assault by K. W. Thompson, a Southern Railway system worker. ' Thompson charges he was bruised and cut in a fight with members of the Milwaukee team during their visit here for an exhibition game on March 27, 1955. the new STAGECOACH OLD STAGE ROAD - CALL GEORGE GREEN Noah Cops Open In Dog Trial Portland. (U.R); Top honors in the concluding session of the Oregon Retriever Trial club's three-day trials at Sauvies Island went to Noah of Swinomish, a seven-year-old male Labrador, owned by Carnation farm ken nels of Carnation, Wash. Noah outclassed a field of 49 dogs to capture the top spot. He was handled by Garth Stocker. NET FINALISTS Monte Carlo U.R) Hugh Stewart of San Marino, Calif., and Tony Vincent of Miami, Fla., meet today in the men's singles final of the Moate Carlo tennis tournament, while Al thea Gibson of New. York plays Shirley Bloomer of Britain in the women's singles final. Stew art advanced by defeating Jackie Brichant of Belgium, 6-2, 6-4; Vincent eliminated Gardner Mulloy of Denver, Colo., 7-6, 7-5, and Miss Gibson downed Eda Budding of Germany, 6-2, 6-2. PLACES IN EVENT Sun Valley, Ida. (U.R) Ter ry Skjersaa, Bend, Ore., placed 11th in the jumping event Fri day oi Ihe American Legion Jun ior Ski championships here. Bill Brandenburg, 16, McCall, Ida., won the event. MOBILE HEAT BLOWER FIELD-TESTED, PROVEN TO PROTECT YOUR PEARS, PEACHES, GRAPES, NUT OR VEGETABLE CROPS FROM FROST DAMAGE . . . INQUIRE NOW! Softball Associaiton Meeting This Evening President Herb Vessey is sued a reminder today of the meeting to organize for 1956 play of the Medford Softball association. The session will be at 8 o'clock tonight in Room B at the YMCA. All persons interested from Medford and surrounding communities are invited. No league play was conducted last year but pros pects currently appear bright for renewal of loop action. Baron, Bison Skaters Win By UNITED PRESS The Cleveland Barons took a 2-1 lead over the, Pittsburgh Hornets in their best-of-f ive semi final play off series in the Ameri can Hockey League today while the Providence Reds and the Buf falo Bisons were. tied at two vic tories each in their series. The Barons downed the Horn ets 5-4, in double overtime Sun day to gain the edge and can wind up the series by defeating Pittsburgh Tuesday night. The fourth game is scheduled for Cleveland and a fifth game, if necessary, will be played on Thursday in Pittsburgh. In a Sunday afternoon game, the Buffalo Bisons built up an early lead and then coasted to a 4-1 victory over the Providence Reds. The fifth game of this series will be played Tuesday night in Providence. Tony Trabert Wins From Pancho Gonzales Hamilton, Bermuda Tony Trabert turned in one of his in frequent victories over Pancho Gonzales here Saturday in their cross-country tennis tour for a $25,000 bonus. The former Unit ed States Davis Cup ace whip ped Gonzales 6-3, 1-6, 6-4. The victory was Trabert's 16th in their pro tour. Gonzales has won 51 matches. SLATMAN DISQUALIFIED Government Camp (U.R) A University of Washington ace and a Michigan girl took home the Kandahar titles here yester day as that famous western snow trial was renewed. Pete Birke land took the men's title in a contest that was marked by pro tests that finally disqualified Don Gassaway, a member of the strong Seattle Jaycee team. Nonie Foley, skiing under the colors of Sun Valley, took a clean sweep for the women's crown, winning Saturday's slalom and in yesterday's down hill. YANK SEVENTH ' Salzburg, Austria (U.R) Wallace (Bud) Werner of Steam boat Springs, Colo., finished seventh in the men's giant sla lom ski race Sunday which was won by Jpsl Rieder of Austria in one minute, 34.4 seconds. Regina Schopf of Austria won the wom en's giant slalom while Betsy Snite of Norwich, Vt., finished 11th. SPRAY EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURES HEW MACHINE! Dellinger Upsets Bailey In Willamette Relay Mile Salem (U.R) Bill Dellinger upset his University of Oregon teammate, Jim Bailey, Satur day to win the State Invitation al mile, a feature of the sixth annual Williamette relays here. Winning time was 4:10, con sidered good in the fact of a stiff wind and coming this early in the season. Bailey was in front at the end of the first lap and the two ran almost should to shoulder for the rest of the distance. Baily moved out in front going into the final lap but Dellinger took his narrow lead coming out of the final turn. Dellinger was the stronger of the pair as they crossed the finish line. Dellinger was the NCAA mile champ until last year when Bailey came along to dethrone him. Highlighting the other events on the blustery day's program, five collegiate records were sur passed and two others were equaled. In the 'prep division four new records were entered in the books. Training Camp Briefs By UNITED PRESS Deland, Fla. Rookie outfield er Bob Jenkins, on option from the parent Boston Red Sox, led off the 11th inning yesterday with a towering 420-foot homer that gave San Francisco a 6-5 victory over Mobile of the South ern Association. ANGELS CLIPPED Paasdena, Calif. The Los Angeles Angels hoped to find a winning combination today in their game with the Sacramento Solons. The Angels were clipped 8-5 yesterday by the Seattle Rainiers in Long Beach, Calif. GAME RAINED OUT Glendale, Calif. Portland Manager Tommy Holmes laid plans for a heavy workout today after a rainy Easter Sunday. Yesterday, the scheduled exhi bition game between Portland and the San Diego Padres was rained out in Southern Cali fornia's quick, violent rainstorm. GAME WASHED OUT Hollywood U.R) A freak rainstorm washed out the 16th annual crippled children charity baseball game yesterday in the fifth inning with the Pacific Coast League All-Stars leading Hollywood 1-0. The game was called by Umpire Christ Pele koudas after waiting the pre scribed 25 minutes. MAIL VOTE St. Petersburg, Fla. (U.R) President Will Harridge said Sat urday a mail vote of the Amer ican League's eight clubs will be conducted promptly to deter mine whether batters will be or dered to wear protective head gear this season. Five affirma tive votes are required to pass the resolution, which was sug gested by General Manager George Weiss of the New York Yankees. The Modern, Economical Way to Protect Your Crops from Frost! . . . Became of the demand for a modem, economical method to combat damage to commercial crops from freezing tempera tares AIR-O-FAN has developed a mobile heat blowing machine, utilizing the principle of propane or butane burners capable of developing 3,000,000 B.T.U., dispersed by fan at the rate of Ttt.000 C.F.M. and will protect an area from 10 to 20 acres. Designed with a low silhenette for ease of handling hi orchards. Eliminate all messy smudge pots . . . soot . . . smog ... no oil to store or handle . . . no motor standby charge and much less labor. OFFICE 2-7126, Martin Pedigo of Oregon set a new distance of 23 feet, 43,4 in the first division broad jump competition to lead the list of record breakers. Shot Put Mark Others chalking up new marks were: First division senior class discus, Frank Brown, WSC, 148-7; second division, shot put, Larry Pulford, Washington, 52-2V4; Second division shuttle hurdle relays, Willamette, 1:00.1 and sprint medley, Washington, 2:32.6. In one of the other featured events Willamette's Dean Ben son sailed across the high hurdles in :14.6, a time that equaled the meet record he set last year. In the prep division only one individual record fell. Glenn Johnson, of Beaverton, put the shot 55 feet, k inches for a new standard. Three ether marks in the prep division were toppled but all were in team events. Roose velt of Portland set a new sprint medley time of 2:45.7 and Ben son Tech of Portland outdid the old mark for the distance med ley with a time of 11:23.9. SWIM COACH PREXY New Haven, Conn. (U.R) Charles Silvia of Springfield (Mass.) College has been named president of the College Swim- 1 ming Coaches of America, suc ceeding Gordon Scotty Little of . Cornell. Jack McGuire, Iowa State, has been named first vice president, Fred Lanous, Georgia Tech, second vice-president, and E. W. Tompkins, Colorado A&M, secretary-treasurer. FUTURE BOOK FAVORITE Agua Caliente, Max". (U.R) Needles remained a firm 8-5 fa vorite in the Agua Caliente fu ture book for the 1956 Kentucky Derby today, while Career Boy, the second choice was cut from 6-1 to 5-1. Count Chic, Cali fornia's main hope for a third straight Derby win moved into third place with Terrang and Head Man. The trio is quoted at 6-1. TESTIFYING before State probers in Los Angeles, Car los Chavez, veteran boxer, denies he has thrown any fights. (International) HOME 3-1924 - fiti
