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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) Poncho Gonzales To Display Serve, in Tennis Match Here The most dynamic serve in modern tennis, probably the the greatest of them all, is owned by Richard (Pancho) Gonzales, who will be seen at Hedrick Junior high school gym the night of May 23 when Jack Kramer's world championship tennis tour appears for a one night engagement. The program is sponsored by the Medford Lions club. Gonzales will square off against Tony Trabert, world amateur champion, in a two out of three sets match with the world's championship title at stake. Kramer has offered a 535,000 bonus prize to the win ner. The laurels already have been cinched by Gonzales in their 100-match series. The Tigerish Gonzales stands six feet,-three and a half inches tall and weighs in at 183 pounds. He feels that his game has reached its full maturity and is certain that he has the neces sary tools to continue his con quest of Trabert. Gonzales' serve has been clocked at 112.88 miles per hour. the fastest in tennis. By com- parison, Bobby Feller's fastest Moy ers ivcm AAU Tussles Boston (U.R) Phil and Denny Moyer, tough baby-faced brothers from Portland, Ore., punched out impressive quarter final victories in the 68th an nual AAU boxing championships last night. Phil, the elder Moyer brother at J7 and three-time winner of the Northwest Golden Gloves crown, earned a split decision over John Powell of Detroit in his 156-pound class three-rounder. Danny 16, campaigning in the 147-pound class, was a regu lar hatchet man as he stopped Jim Williams of Cleveland at 0:50 of the final round. Louis Johnson, 119-pounder, was the only Portland entry to reach the finals last night as his unanimous decision over Henry Britton, Kenne, N.J., last night made him a finalist. Portland's fourth entry in the meet, Tommy Thomas, kept pace with his teammates, punching out a decision over Philadel phia's William Scott in 139 pound competition. High School Scores TUESDAY BASEBALL By United Press McMinnville 4, Forest Grove 3 Tigard 4. Newberg 3 Beaverton 14. Hillsboro 7 Oregon City 5. West Linn 0 Milwaukie 3. Parkrose 2 Gresham 6. Central Catholic 1 Astoria 4. David Douglas 3 Amity 6, St. Boniface 5 Sandv 6. Central 3 Molalla 13. Dallas 5 Wyeast 4. Goldendale 2 (first garnet Goldendale 3. Wyeast 1 (second game Junction City 4. Cottage Grove 0 Willamette Tips Oregon Staters Salem (U.R) Jerry McCallis ter's homer with two men aboard in the sixth led Willamette to a 6-4 win over Oregon State here yesterday in a non-counting base ball exhibition. Dale Patton followed up with another four-base hit to more than offset a three-run rally the Beavers staged in the final frame. A day -i-ST - gallop f ten tie iliadowt lengthen on tte bridle patL it's time to rid1 e in 3 ouroon at its Eestf , . I KENTUCKY STRAIGHT I KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY $J80 PT. I'.ILL & HILL CO., DIVISION OF NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORP, LOUISVILLE. KENTUCKY. 86 PROOF. MAIL TRIBUNE baseball pitch was clocked at 98 mph in a similar test con ducted with electronic equip ment. The 27-year-old Gonzales ful ly realizes the importance of his serve on the canvas surface. Opponents are aware that to beat Gonzales they must be for MEDFORIVITRIBlfflE SIPdDmTTS Homers by Young Help To 3-2 PCL Br DON THACKREY San Francisco (U.R) The Pa cific Coast league season boom ed off with much fanfare yes terday, but the fans were some what discouraged because the weather wasn't fair. Cloudy skies and low tem peratures kept attendance down all over the circuit and for the most part the civic officials, star lets and comedians who turned out to throw, bat and catch base ball did so before poor houses. Only in San Francisco did an opening game crowd of propor tions turn out and there the rains delayed the game and pelted the paying customers and paid performers. But the 14,401 who braved the wet were re warded by seeing the Seals jump off into a tie for the league lead j The Seals downed Vancouver's infant team 6-3 to share top spot with Portland, who took advan tage of a pair of eight inning homers to beat Sacramento 3-2 before 6559 fans. The defending champion Se attle Rainiers split with Holly wood, winning an afternoon game 5-4 and losing at night 7-6. Los Angeles walloped San Diego 9-2 in daylight but lost 3-1 in the night contest. Pair of Sluggers A pair of sluggers from south ern uaiuornia teams took over early home run leadership by hitting two round trip blows in the opening games. Paul Pettit, the Hollywood bonus pitcher now playing first base, got a bases-empty homer in the losing first game, and then clouted a three-run one in the nightcap to lead his team to victory. Ed Haas of Los Angeles hit a two-run homer as the Angels trampled San Diego behind Har ry Perkowski's six hit pitching in the afternoon and connected for another that gave Los Ange les its only run off John Carmi' chael in the night game. Car- michael set the Angels down wtih only three hits. In San Diego only 2423 ven tured out into the old afternoon for the opener and 3ol7 came in through the turnstiles at night. Hollywood's opening ceremonies, complete with star lets and George Jessel, brought out only 1667 and the night at tendance was but 1807.- City, county and state officials Life at Its Best! off. ..a fine horse under yen. signal your mount and away. ..that's life at its best! tor s-35 4 45 QT. IBl Wednesday, April 11, 1956 Dynamic on May 28 tunate in any pro match. Two other big names in ten nis will appear on the card. They are Rex Hartwig, the Australian Davis Cupper, who will take on Pancho Segura. Gonzales and Segura will team against Hart wig and Trabert in the doubles match. Littrell, Portland Verdict replaced the entertainers at first-pitch throwing in the oth er ball parks. Seals Strong San Francisco, opening as a Red Sox farm club, collected 13 hits and took advantage of slop py Vancouver fielding to make the Mounties' entrance into the league a losing one. Southpaw R. W. Smith, sec ond Seal pitcher, held the Moun ties hitless and runless for four and two-thirds innings but walk ed three, hit one batter and chucked two wild pitches. Sacramento's veteran knuckle bailer Earl Harrist seemed well on his way to a win over Port land with a 2-0 lead in the eighth when he suddenly served up a home "run ball to Jack Lit trell, was betrayed by an infield error and then gave Dick Young a home run toss that decided the game. The win went to Bill Werle, who last seven innings. He was relieved by Ray Shore in the eighth. Sacramento picked up its first marker in the third when George Risley walked, advanced to second on an infield out by Catcher Denny Baich and scor ed on a single by Harrist. The one run lead held until the seventh when, after succes sive singles by Nippy Jones and Al Heist, Risley doubled, scor ing Jones. The Portland crew entered the eighth inning with only three hits on the boks. After Littrell's homer, Sacramento's second baseman, Jerry Street, committed the only error of the game in hobbling a grounder by Werle. Luis Marquez was sent in to run for Werle and scored on Young's homer. THE LINESCORES: Vancouver 010 020 000 3 5 San Francisco 211 110 OOx 6 13 2 0 (8) Sa- Locke. Drummong (51. Hen-era and Neal; Casale, Smith 5 and dowski. Portland 000 000 030 3 6 t Sacramento ....001 000 1002 7 Werle. Shore 8 and Calderone Harrist. Candini (8 and Baich. (First game) Seattle 021 010 1 00 5 9 1 Hollywood 012 000 001 t S 1 Singleton, Jansen i9 and Hobert on; Wade. Nelson 181; and Koback. fSerond tame) Seattle 013 000 011 6 10 3 Hollywood 301 030 OOx 7 .7 1 Valentine. Schallock (S). Atkins (6). Birkofer (8i: and Robertson: Dangleis, Raydon (3). Green (8) and Onuska. (First game) Los Angeles . 032 200 200 8 13 0 San Diego .......002 000 000 2 6 0 Perkowski and Hannah; Erautt, Mesa (5), Peterson (7( and Aylward. (Second game) Los Angeles . 000 000 001 1 3 0 San Diego 000 101 lOx 3 12 0 Fodge, Bauer (7). Hricink 18) and Hannah; Carmichael and Jones. Women Bowlers Rename Officers Medford Women's City Bowl ing association reelected . its of ficers for another year Sunday at a spring breakfast meeting at Mon Desire. Renamed were Mrs. Jess (Viv ian) Cummings, president; Mrs. George (Rose) Bany vice-president; Mrs.' Frank (Vivian) Knox, secretary-treasurer, and Mrs. Tom (Audrey) Swoape, sergeant-at-arms Committee chairmen were named to start planning for the 1957 women's state tourney which will be held at Medford Bowling lanes. Those named were Mrs. James (Teddy) Farrar, ways and means; Mrs. Fred (Sis) Beck; Mrs. Swoape and Mrs. Claudia Lowd, breakfast; Mrs. Knox, score-keeping; Mrs. Cummings, hostess; Mrs. Barr, reservations and Mrs Beck, Virginia John son and Mrs. Ray Wise, souvenirs. For a GUARANTEED GOOD USED CAR Before You Buy Be Sure To Look the Lot Over at . . . MQRSE MOTORS 1201 N. RIVERSIDE Ken Venturi Didn't Mean To Criticize By HAL WOOD San Francisco (U.R) Ken Venturi, the hottest amateur golf er in the country right now, said today that he had "no intention of blasting Masters Tourney offi cials," when he talked to report ers after his return from Augus ta. "I think they have the best run golf tournament in the world," said Venturi, "so why should I knock it?" But Ken, who led the tourney for three and one-half rounds, before Jackie Burke pulled up to edge him by one stroke, had to admit that he was not mis quoted. ."I would say I was misunder stood," he said. "I said some things to friends of mine that were heard by the reporters. I didn't intend them as a knock at the way the tournament was run." Among the quotes attributed to Venturi were ones in which he said '-1 would have won by f,ive strokes if I had been pair ed ' with Byron Nelson," and "Watch out for this amateur when I meet the professionals again in the National Open." Lowery Statement "It was my friend Ed Lowery who made ,the statement about winning by five strokes," said Venturi, " and you'll have to ad mit that he may be a bit preju diced. "And I don't ever recall say ing to Look out for this ama teur' when I went to the open Ventun said he hoped to go to 1956 Open, all right, and he hoped to win it and that he was going to get in tip-top con dition for the effort. "Sure, r believe I'm as good as any golfer in the world," he said, "If you don't have that kind of confidence, you don't have any business entering a major tournament. I've always believed I could beat any one played." Ken has played in the 1954 and 1956 tourneys. Mighty Proud "I was invited there as their guest and I'm mighty proud to have been invited," he said. "So I feel terrible about all this pub licity." The usually jaunty swinger, compared in some circles to Bobby Jones, was really down in the dumps after all the publicity in which he blasted the hand ling of the tournament. "Originally I was slated to play the final round with my friend and teacher, Byron Nel son," said Venturi. "But the of ficials were afraid that there would be a complaint if he gave me advice So they paired me with Sam Snead. Sam was con centrating on his own game, so we had very little to say to each other. "Then, they wouidn t let my best friend, Harvie Ward, talk to me on the 17th hole. "But I'm not blaming the com mittee for these items. It's just that they may have contributed to my failure to win the tour ney." San Francisco Dons Will Tour San Francisco (U.R) -- The University of San Francisco's two-time NCAA championship basketball team will make a 45- day "goodwill tour" of Central and South America, according to officials of the school. ; They said the tour, under the sponsorship of the Department of State, is slated to start in mid-June and will last through July. They said the tour, under the sponsorship of the Department of State, is slated to start in mid- June and will last through July USF head coach Phil Wool- pert will accompany the 14-man squad, made up primarily of sen ior members of the 1956 NCAA championship team ; including AU-American Bill Russell and K. C. Jones. Naulli To Join The team will be augmented by UCLA's sensational Willie (The Whale) Naulls, invited by USF as its' special guest team mate, and seniors of the 1955 NCAA championship team. Only 1956 senior who will miss the trip is little Hal Perry, USF's takehold guy in the re cent NCAA championship play offs at Evanston, 111. ' Perry 'turned pro two weeks ago when he became a member of the College All-Stars club which is playing a cross-country series with the Harlem Globe trotters. Use Tribune Want Ads Easy, Just Dial 2-6141 Fanfare Among the names listed un der the heading, "Watcn These Webfoots," in the .University of Oregon spring sports booklet are Jack Morris and Terry Mad dox, both ex-Medford high. Duck Dope points out that Mor ris, a trackman, was ranked among the best 15th in the coun try in the low hurdles last spring. Maddox, a baseball pitch er, was described as one of the real surprises of last season for his six conference victories. The hurler, who also plays in the outfield, is one of seven athletes pictured on the front of the booklet. OTHERS LISTED The Duck Dope track pros pectus also list other ex-Med-fords, Ed Bingham in the jave lin. Jack Moad in the shot put, Burt Williams and Don Spinas in the quarter-mile and Dave Newland in the pole vault. Spinas transferred from Ore gon State college. Justin Smith Jr., is an ex-Medfordite on the UO golf team. MEDFORD FAVORITE Despite its one-point loss to Grants Pass in the Rogue Valley relays last Saturday, this writer feels that the Medford high track and field aggregation still has a good chance to gain its fourth consecutive Hayward re lays championship next Satur day in Eugene. In yours truly's book the Black Tornado is still the metropolitan division favor ite. The opinion is based on Medford's record shattering per formances in six events in the Rogue meet and on the fact of broader competition at Eugene. TORNADO MARKS BETTER Medord's winning perform ances were, of course, excep tional in the Rogue ruckus. That's seen in the fact that every one was a new record. In the six events which the Tornado won it beat the marks of the Portland Inter scholastic league relays here last Friday. Medford will face those schools in Eugene. The Tornado toured the 440-yard relay in :44.3, while Jefferson of Portland did it in :45.1. In the Iwo-mile Med ford ran in 8:24.7, beating the Roosevelt time of 8:35.6. Med ford's time in the shuttle hur dles was :34.3 and Franklin's :35.7. In the broad jump Med ford leapers totalled 61 feet 9l2 inches while Grant went 56-1 1V4 in Portland. Mile re lay time was 3:26.3 for Med ford and 3:38 for Grants. Lew Breazeale soared 12-3 for Med ford in the pole vault while Hogan went 11 feet in win ning for Jeff. COMETS BETTER PORTLAND Crater's high jump team went 16-5 here Saturday beating Franklin and Jeff's 15-6 and Marshfield totalled 138-1 in the shot beating Grants 135-1. Med ford had 135- in the event. Crater will be a Class A partici pant this week and not meet the Portland schools. In the distance medley, two Portland schools beat. the Grants Pass time of 11:18.9. Lincoln went the distance in 11:12.7 and Benson -tias a time of 11:14. Jef ferson ran the 880 in 1:34.2 Fri day compared to Marshfield's 1:35.1 on Saturday. WORK ON 880 Coach Bob Newland this week is attempting to strength en his 880-yard relay crew for the Haywards and there is evi dence that, it could make a strong showing at Eugene. The mentor reported that five 220 men were timed from station ary starts yesterday and the times of the top four added up to 1:33.1. If the Medfordites can equal their speed at Eu gene, running starts of three of the team could improve on this time. POETIC JUSTICE George Curtis, Grants Pass Courier sportswriter, claims "po etic justice" last Saturday in Medford's disqualification in the 880-yard relay. There were, of course, other factors in the set backother "little things." But, had the Tornado crew not been disqualified,- it would have picked up eight points, enough to beat out GP for the team amovar For breath sublime trulv fine! ff" j j 3" 2 45 Qt. 1 s -1 I $ VODU S Product of U.S.A. Boaka Kompaniya, Schenley, Pa., and Fresno, Calif. Made from Grain, 80 Proof only By DICK JEwrrr Mail Tribune Sports Editor crown. Instead the Cavemen moved up from third and got the eight instead oi six points. Curtis recalls that in the 1952 Rogues, Grants Pass lost a sec ond place (in the quarter-mile) by disqualification and trailed the champion Medford team by 2V2 points in the final tabula tions. GRANTS PASS RECORD Larry (not Gary) McFarland set a new Grants Pass school record when he heaved the javelin 182 feet 3Vz inches in the Rogue relays Saturday. There could be an interesting duel in the javelin in the dis trict this season among Mc Farland and Eldon Francis and Gary Lewis of Medford. Francis, the defending state xitlisi, who has finished sec ond to Lewis and second to McFarland in meets this sea son, said Saturday that he ap parently is doing something wrong this season that he didn't do last year. He's hope ful of finding out his trouble pronto. PLUMLEY BEST JUNIOR Neil Plumley, who has a put of 51-6V4 this season so far and has his sights set on at least 55 feet, is the best junior shot put ter in Medford high history, ac cording to Coach Bob Newland and also ranks No. 2 overall. Medford's all - time champion shot man is Jack Moad, now at University of Oregon. Moad's top mark was 57-8 V2. However, Jack's best effort as a junior in competition was 50-3. That mark came at the end of the season while Plumley's 51-6y2 was re corded early. FINALS AT PORTLAND State high school baseball championship final games in A-l, A-2 and B classes will be played on June 2 in Multno mah stadium in Portland this spring. The B finals will be at 5 p.m., the A-2 fuss at 7 p.m. and the A-l at 8 p.m. B Baseball Frays Slated St. Mary's high of Medford and Prospect will open action this week in the Jackson County B Baseball league. The two clubs collide Thurs day afternoon at the fairgrounds here. This fray was moved up from Friday to permit the Crus aders to take a crew to the Hay ward relay track meet. Friday scrapes are Rogue Riv er at Jacksonville and Butte Falls at Talent. Floyd Stops Patterson Williams Kansas City, Kan. (U.R) Top-ranked light heavyweight Floyd Patterson and manager Gus D'Amato left for New York today jubilant after Patterson's knockout over Chief Alvin Wil liams and D'Amato announced he will attempt later this week to patch up his "differences" with the International Boxing club. The New York fighter, just as fast a puncher as usual despite several additional pounds, sank a terrific right under Wililams' heart at 1:58 of the third round. Williams dropped like a sack of sand and never stirred. D'Amato said he hoped to line up some bouts "right away" if he can get reconciled with the IBC. . Patterson weighed 183 to Wil liams' 176. Pingree Sparks Oregon Victory Eugene (U.R) Jim Pingree unloaded -a grand-slam homer in thesecond inning here yesterday to lead Oregon to a 10 to 1 win over Linfield. Pingree's big blast came after Linfield strater Dick Duerr had walked the bases full then forced in the first run of the game with another free pass. Pitcher Don Lane and Jim Pifher also banged out round trippers fo rthe Ducks. Montana yields corundum, used for abrasives. THE ORIGINAL DRY VODKA STANDINGS PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE By United Press W. L. Pet. GB Portland 1 0 1.000 San Francisco 1 0 1. 000 Seattle 1 1 .500 V2 Hollywood 1 1 .500 i Los Angeles 1 1 .500 i San Diego 1 1 .500 J,a Sacramento 0 1 .000 1 Vancouver 0 1 .000 1 Tuesday's Results San Francisco 6. Vancouver 3 Seattle 5-6, Hollywood 4-7 Los Angees 9-1. San Diego 2-3 Portland 3, Sacramento 2 How Series Stand San Francisco 1, Vancouver 0 Seattle 1, Hollywood 1 San Diego 1. Los Angeles 1 Portland 1. Sacramento 0 Chuck Spieser Bout Favorite Detroit (U.R) Youthful Joe Rowan was the underdog for to night's nationally-televised 10 round bout with highly-ranked Chuck Spieser but the 21-year-old Philadelphia boxer was con fident of springing a surprise. "I'll take care of him," Rowan boasted. "Sure, he can hit. But so can I." Rowan, despite his age, is a ring veteran. He's been fighting for pay since 1952 and has lost only eight of 36 bouts. ' Spieser, the 26-year-old for mer NCAA champion at Michi gan State and one-time Olympic title-holder, isn't taking Rowan lightly. Chuck currently ranks fourth among the challengers for Archie Moore's light heavyweight A loss to Rowan would likely drop him several notches in the rankings. Baseball TUESDAY EXHIBITIONS By UNITED PRESS Boston (A) 21, Phila. (N) 1 Washington (A) 9, Cincinnati (N) 8 TJw Vnrlr ii R Inline IT.Y 1 3 Kansas City (Al" 4. Pittsburgh (N) 2 Saves time and money with "go-anywhere" dependability ! 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