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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON Portland Plays at Sacramento As Coast League Starts Play San Francisco (U.R) Play ball! Approximately 41,000 fans are expected to head for the ball parks today as the Pacific Coast League opens its 54th season sporting many new faces and new ideas. Two split double headers are on the schedule. Defending champion Seattle meets Holly wood in a day-night affair at PROBABLE PCL PITCHERS (Last year's records shown) Seattle (Elmer Singleton 19-12 and Don Fracchia 14-12) at Holly wood (Ben Wade 7-9 and Don Dan flels 12-9.) Los Angeles (Harry Perkowsky J-4 and unannounced) at San Diego (Eddie Erautt 18-10 and un announced.) Vancouver (George Bamberger 12-14) at San Francisco (Jerry Ca tale 17-11.) Portland (BUI Werle 17-8) at Sac ramento (Earl Harrist (5-7). the Stars' park while Los An gel g and San Diego play a sim ilar twin bill at Lane Field. Vancouver and San Francisco, the teams who figured in the PCL's most revolutionary change of the off-season, meet in a sin gle game at Seals Stadium while Sacramento hosts Portland in another at the capital. The Old Oaks A look at the lineup shows that Vancouver is pretty much the Oakland Oaks of last year who were transferred to the Dominion after 53 seasons in the East Bay. Lefty O'Doul re mains manager of the newly- named "Mounties" which are a mixture of callow youth and old age. San Francisco now is the prop erty of the Boston Red Sox and only three old faces are on the Seal roster. The rest of the club consists of young kids being groomed for Boston fandom. Fair weather generally is pre dicted around the circuit. The Seals, claiming that they have had the biggest advance sale since 1946, may lure 16,000 fans to see what the Red Sox have to offer. A total of 10,000 are expected for Hollywood's split bill and the same amount at San Diego and Sacramento. Two Kinds of Curves Civic officials will throw out the first ball everywhere except at Hollywood where movie star let Kathy Marlowe will display two varieties of curves. The PCL heads into this sea son with closer major league tie ins than it has had in years al though it still is rated an "open" league rather than Triple A. Every club has working agree ments except Sacramento and there will be plenty of new faces in the lineups. Yet such veteran Coast League hurlers as Elmer Singleton of Seattle, George Bamberger of Vancouver and Bill Werle of Portland have been selected to go to the mound in opening games. Casale for Seals The spotlight also will be on Jerry Casale of San Francisco. The husky righthander struck out 186 batters in the American Association last year with a blaz ing fast ball that gave him the honors in that division. Three new managers are in the league Luke Sewell at Se attle, Tommy Holmes at Port land and Eddie Joost at San Francisco. 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On account of we did such a grand job of picking football winners during the past season, we have received "numerous" (2!) requests to name the order of finish of the 1956 PCL season. So here goes (1955 finish place listed in parenthesis): 1 Seattle (1). 2 Portland (5). 3 Hollywood (4-tie). 4 Los Angeles (4-tie). 5 San Francisco (6). 6 San Diego (2). 7 Sacramento (8). 8 Vancouver (7). Big-Time Tie-Ins Admittedly, picking a winner in the PCL before the majors cut down is going to be harder than ever now that most of the clubs have big-time connections. But there are some other fac tors involved. The Rainiers have the nucleus of last year's good team return ing. They have some good base ball brains running the team in the person of Luke Sewell, A-N-D, they have the big bank roll of Mr. Emil Sick, the brew ery magnate and club president. The Portland Beavers finished MedfordTribune Roberts Stops Red Sox In Best Performance So Far By MILTON RICHMAN United Press Sports Writer Robin Roberts is ready and rarin' to go for his seventh straight 20-game season. The pale 29-year pride of the Phillies, who has been hammered like an ordinary humpty during past exhibition seasons but cer tainly not this one, turned in his best performance of the spring in stopping the hard-hitting Red Sox, 2-1, at Montgomery, Ala., Monday. Roberts, who is aiming at "only" 20 victories this year but is quite likely to overshoot that mark, ticked off three note worthy accomplishments in lim iting Boston to six hits. Holds Ted Hitless First, he became the first Phillies pitcher to go nine in nings this spring, which figured. Second, he didn't walk a single batter which is more or less par OLD CROW limcnr Snuicm Homo Whisht m Tuesday, April 10, 1956 Friday under the new split-week arrangement with Hollywood at San Diego, Vancouver at Los Angeles, Seattle at Sacramento and Portland at San Francisco. in the second division last year, but in Tommy Holmes they have one of the most energetic mana gers to come along in years. And the added boost that may be the biggest item is the fact that for the first time, the Beavers will be playing in an up-to-date park. This is expected to result in big ger crowds to cheer on the home club. Off their exhibition record, San Diego isn't going to have a top challenger this year unless the Cleveland Indians come through with a lot more help. San Francisco is expecting a lot of help from the Boston Red Sox, but unless some additional hitting strength comes along, new manager Eddie Joost may have a rugged year. The Los Angeles Angels look to have about the same strength as last year. Sacramento, the only club without a tie-up, may get off to a fast start while the other teams are awaiiting help. But in the past, they have folded on the home stretch, due to lack of as sistance. And, as Hank Greenberg, gen eral manager of the Cleveland Indians says: "How are the Baltimore Ori oles going to help Vancouver, when they cant' even help them selves?" So it looks like a tough year ahead for the brand-new Mounties. ' for him. And third, he hung the "collar" on Ted Williams in four trips, which is something of a trick for any pitcher. Rookie Pat Scantlebury, who may turn out to be Birdie Teb betts fourth regular starting pitcher, and Joe Black limited Washington to four scattered hits in leading Cincinnati to a 7-1 triumph at Chattanooga, Tenn. Ned Garver, on and off the trading block all spring, yielded only one hit in the six innings he worked as Detroit defeated New Orleans of the Southern Assn. 10-0, at New Orleans. Del Crandall Stars Del Crandall lashed out four hits and Hank Aaron three in leading Milwaukee to an 8-4 tri umph over the world champion Dodgers at Louisville. Young Herb Score and veteran Bob Feller teamed up to pitch Cleveland to a 6-4 decision over the Giants at Shreveport, La. The victory gave the Indians a 10-7 edge in the spring series be tween the two teams with two more games to go. Rain cut heavily into the rest of the exhibition schedule. The games it washed out were the Yankees vs. Houston at Houston, Tex.; the White Sox vs. the Card inals at Oklahoma City, Okla.; Kansas City vs. Pittsburgh at Wichita, Kans.; and the Orioles vs. the Cubs at Beaumont, Tex. Molodet Has Answer To Coach's Problem Raleigh. N.C. U.R) North Caroliiii. State guard Vic Molo det thinks he has the answer to a basketball coach's problem: How to build an outstanding team. "Simple," say the flashy Wolf pack, speedster. "Just take Bill Russell (San Francis.: 's All American) and four higa school players and you'll have a great team." But a number of coaches would like to know where to find more players like Russel. Molodet was high in his praise of the gigantic Russell against whom he played in the recent East-West game at Kansas City. Patterson Nearing Heavyweight Class Kansas City, Kan. (U.R) Floyd Patterson's "unrestricted diet" had just about removed him as a light heavyweight con tender today as he awaited the bell for a lC-round bout with tough Alvin (Chief) Williams. Patterson expected to weigh in at 183 or 184 pounds, or some eight pounds heavier than his Caddo Indian rival. It figured to be Patterson's last bout with a light heavyweight Cinder Schedule Told for Graders Complete schedule for Med ford elementary track and field aggregations has been announced by Leo V. Ragsdale, supervisor of physical education in city schools. The season opened today with a dual meet between Jackson and Washington schools. It will conclude on Thursday, April 26, with the all city meet. Jackson will take on Roose velt on Tuesday, April 17, and Lincoln will tackle Jefferson on Thursday, April 19. Washington and Roosevelt will meet on Tues day, April 24. The dual meets will start at 4:30 p.m. at the senior high sta dium and the all city affair is set for 2:30 p.m. Trackmen will compete in Classes A, B and C with height, weight and age points determin ing a participant's class. SOC Faculty Member .. To Attend Conference .. .. Ashland Miss Merion Ady, chairman of the Southern Ore gon college art department, will attend the 37th biennial confer ence of the National Art Educa tion association in Portland, Ap ril 11 13 where she will serve as chairman of the newly-organized College Art Education associa tion. "United for Art Action in Edu cation" is the topic for the study grdup which, according to Miss Ady, who is also a member of the Pacific Art Executive com mittee, is designed to stimulate greater cooperation between ad ministrators, the state depart ment of education, and are edu cators for a more adequate art program in schools. NEW MERCURY introduces a great new low-cost Medalist series offering all of these extra value features! Big-car weight, width, length, and wheelbase Dis tinctive styling, shared by no other car on the road High-torque 312 cubic-inch safety-surge V-8 Impact absorbing safety steering wheel Triple-strength safety door latches Ball-joint front suspension New 12-volt electrical system 4-barrel vacuum carburetor Center-fill 18-gallon gas tank Dual-duct vent system. COME IN Let us show you how Don't All-America Schoolboy Squad Named New York U.R) A 30-man All-America high school basket ball team, including three play ers from New York and two each from Missouri, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and California, was selected today by Scholastic magazines. . In selecting the team, the na tion was divided into nine re gions and a 15-man squad was selected from each sector. The best 30 of these- 135 regional choices were named to the All American schoolboy group. Tallest player on the squad is six-foot-eight Bjarne Jensen, a junior at Franklin High school in Portland, who. led his team to the state championship. Others on the 30-player squad are: Earl Irvine, Seattle; Fred La cout, San Francisco; . Jerry Pimm, Montebello, Calif., and Rollie Williams, Kellogg, Ida. Oregon State Beats Lewis and Clark, 6-1 Portland U.R) Oregon State pounded out eight hits off a trio of Lewis and Clark hurlers frere yesterday to roll to a 6-1 win in a non-counting baseball game. The win was trie Beavers' seventh in eight starts for the year. Baseball Exhibition Games Philadelphia (N) 2. Boston (A) 1 Cincinnati (N) 7. Washington (A) 1 Detroit (A) 10. New Orleans (SA) 0 Milwaukee (N) 8, Brooklyn (Nl 4 Cleveland (A) 6. 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Y., Monday night- in a widely-televised fight at St. Nicholas arena, the hard-punching but soft-spoken kid from At lanta, Ga., conceded only that "It was a tough fight." Calhoun, who weighed 161 pounds to Labua's 1583i, won his 20th straight fight with sheer punching power. He looked awk ward at times and still is a little "right-hand crazy," but he never was in trouble against the more experienced Labua. In the fourth round, Calhoun scored the only knockdown of the fight when he caught Labua with a crunching right to the head. Labua's gloves barely touched the canvas and he jumped quickly to his feet, but Referee Mark Conn forced him to take the mandatory eight count. ANNOUNCEMENT! of 3 big, new, lowest-cost Mercurys. Others available are a 2-door and a 4-door NEW LOW-COST MERCURYS IN OUR SHOWROOM OTOKS; Inc. Phone 2-6157 Southern Oregon Sweeps Twinbill With Humboldt Ashland Southern Oregon college won a pitchers' battle and then a batters' ruckus to sweep a baseball doubleheader here yesterday from Humboldt State college. The Red Raiders took the first game 4 to 0 on a big third inning and two-hit pitching by Ray Theiss. In the second fracas they took advantage of 10 hits and 14 walks to win 19 to 12. In the opener Southern Ore gon got all its runs in the third inning when Humboldt's pitcher weakened to permit three hits and walked three men. A field er's option also figured. Hits were by LeRoy King, Morris Churchman nd Ned Landers. Theiss ran ino trouble in the seventh' inning, walking three to load the bases with two out. Ned Landers came to his relief and a flyout resulted in the final out. Nashua May Not Run Again Until May 5 New York (U.R) Nashua, the only active "millionaire" race horse, probably won't run again until the May 5 renewal of the Grey Lag , Handicap at Jamaica. And Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, the horse's 81-year-old trainer, says it's all the fault of the New York area's wintry "spring" weather. Nashua, who has earned $1, 040,515, was given top weight of 128 pounds Monday for Satur day's Excelsior Handicap at Ja maica. Sunny Jim said today the big colt wouldn't be ready to run in that mile-and-a-sixteenth event. Of $2495 BUYS THIS BIG 1956 MERCURY MEDALIST 2-DOOR, 6-PASSENGER SEDAN Price Includes Mo-Ton paint, white stdewall Hres. Other optional . equipment, accessories, state and local taxes, ff any, additional. Prices may vary slightly bi ad joining communities. to 9:00, Station KBES-TY, Channel S Theiss struck out six batters and walked eight. Churchman and Ned Landers each hit two for three. A big eight-run first inning helped make the difference for Southern Oregon in the second game. The Raiders used nine walks, a single by Bill Seymour, a sacrifice and an error. Hum boldt's big effort was in the third frame with five runs. Al Deniz's triple, Rick Dudley's single, three errors and a walk were the factors. Seymour's three-baser with bases loaded was the big blow in a four-run SOC fifth inning. TTp anrl FrpH T.nnpr oanVi Vti w . x- - . - mi HI u for four and Luper also slugged a triple along with Vince Miller for SOC. For Humboldt Deniz and Ralph Mayo socked three for five, Dudley two for three and Jerry Garcea and Phil Huff two for four. Dudley scored four runs. LINESCORES: (First Game) HBS 000 000 0 0 SOC 004 000 x 4 Richardson and Schrader; N. Landers (7) and Saymour. (Second Game) 2 2 7 a Theiss, HBS 115 211 012 12 S SOC 831 043 x 19 10 5 Baker, Retzloff (1), Wilbert (2) and Huff. Hoffine, Smith (4) and Seymour. FISHERMEN! LARGE RAINBOW TROUT Everything Furnished NO LICENSE NO LIMIT Open Every Day ELROD'S TROUT FARM 4 Miles West of Talent on Anderson Creek sedan. oo - TODAY1 Pf f
