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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
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