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STANDINGS COAST LEAGUE By United Presi Seattle Lo Angeles San Diego San Francisco . Vancouver .. Sacramento , Portland H. L. Pet. GB 2 .667 -5 3 .625 -4 3 371 -3 3 .500 1 - 3 4 .429 l'i 3 4 .429 l:j - 3 4 .429 1 a -3 4 J33 2 'a Hollywood . a Tuesday'! Results Loa Angelea 11. Portland Seattla 4. San Francisco 3 Sacramento 3. Hollywood 2 San Diego 3. Vancouver 2 How Series Stand Lo Angeles 1. Portland 0 Seattle 1. San Francicso 0 Sacramento 1. Hollywood 0 San Diego 1. Vancouver 0 GB Pilhadelphia New Yoric ... St Louis Milwaukee Brooldvn 0 1 .000 1 Pittsburgh 0 1 .000 1 Cincinnati 0 1 .000 1 Chicago 0 1 .000 1 Tuesday's Results Philadelphia 8. Brooklyn 6 St. Louis 4. Cincinnati 2 New York 4. Pittsburgh S Milwaukee 6. Chicago 0 Thursday's Games Phila. at Brooklyn (Jersey City) PitUburgh at New York St. Louis at Cincinnati Chicago at Milwaukee AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. ... 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 ... 0 1 Pet. 1.000 1.000 1 000 1.000 .ooo .000 .000 .000 GB Chicago Kansas City . New York Boston Cleveland . Detroit ... Washington 0 .1 Baltimore 0 1 . Tuesday's Results 7i Boston 8. Baltimore t Chicago 2, Cleveland 1 New York 10. Washington 4 Kansas City 2. Detroit 1 Today's Probable Pitchers New York at Washington (night) Kucks (8-7) vs. Wiesler (0-2). Thursday's Gaines Kansas City at Detroit Cleveland at Chicago New York at Washington Baltimore at Boston Each of Schools Takes Division In Grade Meet Each participating school won a division and Roosevelt also copped the medley relay yes terday in a city grade school triangular track and field meet. Jackson nicked Roosevelt by two-thirds of a point, 23 16 to 22 56 in Class A while Wash ington was not far behind with 20 counters. Washington piled up 35V4 in Class B. Roosevelt was second with 15'4 and Jackson totaled 11. In the C competition, Roose velt collected 38 to 24 for Wash ington and 4 for Jackson. One new record was estab lished in Class B on Cabler's 196 - foot 1 1 Vz - inch baseball throw for Roosevelt. A triangular session was held to make up for last week's rained out Jackson-Washington meet. Lincoln and Jefferson vie at the high school oval this Thurs day. CLASS A: 60 yard dash: 1st. McCullough (RV, Jnd. Vaughan (W;; 3rd, Griffin (J); 4th. Mack (W. Time 7.8 seconds. 220 yard run: 1st. Garren (R; 2nd. Mack (W); 3rd. Griffin (Jr. 4th, Ku balek (W). Time 29.4 seconds. 220 vard Relav: 1st. Washington (Zemlicka. Kubalek. Mack. Vaughan); 2nd. Jackson. Time 28.7 seconds. High Jump: 1st, Rees (J) Schroeder (J) McCullough R tie; 4th. Clear water (J) Bandy (R) tie. Height 3' 10". Broad Jump: 1st. Vaughan tW: 2nd. Rees J: 3rd. Olson (R); 4th. Dexter (W. Distance 15' 7". Baseball Throw: 1st. Thompson (R: Jnd. Evans (Ji; 3rd. Garren R; 4th, Clearwater (J). Distance 201' 6". Medlev Relay 1st. Roosevelt; 2nd. Washington. Tima 44.3 seconds. CLASS B: 60 yard Dash: 1st. Gaster (W); 2nd, Clausen (W): 3rd. White (J: 4th, Rob rtson (R. Time 8 0 seconds. 220 yard Run: 1st. Darby (W); 2nd, Coffin iWi; 3rd. White J: 4th. Iver son (R). Time 30.9 seconds. 220 vard Relay: 1st. Washington (Clausen, Leffler. Coffin. Gaster); 2nd. Jarlcsnn. Time 29. 5 seconds. High Jump: 1st, Cabler (R: 2nd, Clausen (W): 3rd. riuoier (wj; n, Iverson (Ri. Height 4'. Broad Jump: 1st. Gaster (W); 2nd. Coffin W) and Robertson IK) tie; 4tn, Vallee (J). Distance 13' 11". Baseball Throw: 1st, Cabler (R); 2nd. Piland (Jt; 3rd. Iverson (R); 4th. Darby (Wl. Distance 195' 11 V' (new Class B record, old record 182' by Cooksey of Jackson 19j0. CLASS C: 60 yard dash: 1st, Higgins (R; 2nd Hampson (W: 3rd, Miles (Ri; 4th, Drinkwater (J. Time 84 seconds. 220 yard run: 1st, Williams iR); 2nd, Stratton (R: 3rd. Harrey (W): 4th, Huffman (W). Time 32.0 seconds. 220 yard Relay: 1st. Roosevelt (Miles, Stratton. Barker. Higgins); 2nd, Washington. Time 30.1 seconds. High Jump: 1st. Stiger (W) Farns- worth (W) Gilbertson :W 3 way tie: 4ith. Barker (Ri. Height 3' 6". Broad Jump: 1st, Williams (R); 2nd, Stratton tRI: 3rd. Horton (J); 4th. Stiger (W). Distance 13' 1". Baseball Throw: 1st, Miles (RI; 2nd, Huffman (W); 3rd. Stratton (Ri; 4th, Schroeder (J). Distance 176' 7?j". Webfoots Edge Wolves 11 to 9 Eugene U.R Oregon and Orpgon college booted and slugged their way through a a balmy afternoon here yester day before the Ducks finally pulled out with an 11-9 win, their ninth in 12 pre-conference starts. Dick Schlosstein poled out a grand slam homer in the open ing frame for the Ducks. Daily's U-Drive Medford Airport NATIONAL LEAGCE 1 0 1 000 1 0 1 000 1 0 1.000 t 0 1000 Timwm-m,,. n i n n is -t til STRIKE BY IKE President Eisenhower cocks his nght arm and prepares to let sail with the first pitch signalling the opening of the 1956 baseball season. At right is Yankee Manager Casey Stengel. MEDFORIVlWrRIBUNE Angels Out Porilanders By UNITED PRESS The Pacific Coast League proved again yesterday that the best thing to do with a baseball is to lose it. In all four games it was the team that put the ball out of reach the most that moved for ward in the victory column. Los Angeles and Portland put on the season's best "hit-'em-where-there-ain't-nobody" exhi bition with a total of eight home runs. Los Angeles got five of the eight and so won the game 11-6. In the other three games the losers had the consolation of knowing they outhit the winners. The winners needed no conso lation they had homers. Seattle used a pair of circuit clouts to trim San Francisco 4-3. San Diego got three runs on three homers and edged Vancou- vr 3-2. And Sacramento got the only homer of the game with the final score reading Sacra mento 3, Hollywood 2. Long Ball Pays The Donnybrook In Los An geles saw the Angels take a 6-1 lead, lose it and then clout enough long ones to win. Bob Borkowski hit two hom ers for Portland and Ed Mickel son one but it couldn't balance round trippers by Jim Bolger, John Goryl, Joe Hannah, Gene Mauch and Steve Bilko. In another afternoon game the defending champion Seattle Rainiers got only six hits, but two of them were very import ant lone homers by Bill Glynn and Art Schult. The two runs were enough for the Rainiers to stave off a late San Francisco drive and win. Larry Jansen, who used to pitch for the Seals, came in to shut off the San Francisco club and save the victory for Don Fracchia, who also toed the San Francisco rubber of old. , In San Diego last night Padre pitcher Dave Hoskins gave up three San Diego homeruns all with the bases empty and got the win. The other two balls hit out of the park originated from the bats of Harry Elliott and Bob Usher. Three Big Ones San Diego got only eight hits off Chris Van Cuyk and Charlie Beamon but the three big ones did it. It was the same story at Sac ramento. Hollywood got the hits and Sacramento got the game game.. Two - Hollywood runs in the top of the ninth gave the Stars a 2-1 lead, but in the bottom of the same frame George Risley came up with a man on base and homered. Hy Cohen, who was relieved in the sixth, took credit for the win for Los Angeles while Dick Waibel was charged with the loss. Portland took a 1-0 lead in the second on Bob Borkowski's homer. But Los Angeles bounced right back in the bottom of the second with three homers and six runs. John Coryl led off with a round-tripper after Bob Coats walked. Jim Bolger got his sec ond homer in as many games and Casey Wise joined the homerun parade after Joe Hanna and Co hen singled. Score Tied The Beavers made it 6-2 in the fourth on Borkowski's double and Jim Baxes' single. They tied it with four more in the fifth as Ed Mickelson homered with two on, followed by Borkowski's sec ond homerun of the day on the next pitch. The runs came off Cohen. The Angels struck back to re gain an 8-6 lead in their half of the fifth on singles by Bolger and Hanna. The runs were off Waibel who took the mound for 4 s - Homer in PCL the Beavers in the fifth. Royce Lint replaced him later in the frame. Los Angeles connected for two more homers and three counters in the sixth. Gene Mauch led off with a homer, his second in as many days, and then, after Ed Haas walked, big Steve Bilko slammed another homerun over the right field wall. LINESCORES: Portland 010 140 000 5 8 1 Los Angeles . 060 023 OOx 11 12 0 Valdez, Fiedler (2), Waibel (5). Lint (5) and Calderone; Cohen. Anderson (b), and Hannah. Seattle 201 00J 000 4 S San Francisco 100 000 020 3 8 0 Fracchia. Jansen (8i and Robertson- Thomas, Schroll (7) and Sadowski. Vancouver 100 001 000 2 9 0 San Diego 100 110 OOx 3 8 1 Van Cuyk, Beamon (6) and' Master- son, real (8;; Hoskins and Jones. Hollywood 000 000 020 2 8 0 aacramento ....000 010 02x 3 6 1 Nelson, Wade (7) and Onuska; Osen baugh, Candini (9) and Baich. Pee Wee Reese Receives Ring After 16 Years Brooklyn U.R) Pee Wee Reese "choked up" when they finally gave him the ring he had waited for 16 long frustrating years. Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick presented the ring to Reese, as he did to all the other Dodgers who defeated the Yan kees in last year's' World Series prior to yesterday's opener be tween Brooklyn and Philadel phia at Ebbets field. "I just choked up when he handed me the ring," Reese ex plained in the clubhouse after the game was over. "I'm a funny guy," he added. "I get kind of choked up some times just by listening to the Star Spangled Banner before a World Series' game." Reese even had to wait the longest of any member of the Dodgers to collect his ring yes-, terday. Finally, Frlck called his name, saying, "This one I particularly enjoy presenting," and Reese, who had gone through five los ing World Series, walked up to get his ring amid a thunderous ovation from the 24,236 fans. Pat McMurtry Stops Jackson Portland (U.R) Pat Mc Murtry, following a deliberate style of attack, took a seventh round TKO over Matt Jackson of Los Angeles at the auditorium here last night. McMurtry, in registering his 20th win in 21 pro starts, caught Jackson with a pair of solid jolt ing rights in the seventh and followed up to battle the trans planted Salt Lake City puncher down against the ropes. Twice in the round McMurtry had Jackson on the canvas be fore Referee Ralph Gruman stepped in to stop the fight with 2:34 gone by. McMurtry had an edge most of the way. In the early going Jackson looked strong, forcing some of the fight and scoring with snappy rights. But Mc Murtry more 'than countered them with a flurry of left jabs and left hooks. Fight Results By UNITED PRESS Hartford, Conn. Willie Pep. 130, Hartford, outpointed Jackie Blair, -132, Dallas, Tex. (10). Houston. Tex. Isaac Logart, 147, Cuba, outpointed 1 Conscripto, Mex ico (10). San Jose, Calif. Cisco Andrade. 135, Compton, Calif., outpointed Jorge Macias, 136. San Jose. (10). California's cotton crop in 1952 was double the yield and acreage in 1950. Phils Trip Dodgers, Yanks Down Senators in Major Loop Openers By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Sports Writer They used to say "Wait 'til next year" when things went bad in Brooklyn but now maybe the chant will be "Bring back last year." Things certainly didn't look as bright today for the world champions, as in that most glo rious spring-time of 1955 when the Brooks won 10 in a row, 22 out of 24, and made a shambles of the pennant race. This time they lost their open er, 8-6, to the Phillies and the victim was Don Newcombe, the righthanded ace of last spring who also won his first 10 games. Big Newk was bounced in a five run third inning rally in which Jim Greengrass hit a three-run homer. Robin Roberts, the Phil ly phenom, was no better than he had to be and was touched for homers by Junior Gilliam and Roy Campanella. The Yankees and Senators set a Griffith stadium one-game mark for homers in the 10-4 New York triumph before President Eisenhower with six round trippers. Two by switcher Mick ey Mantle of the Yankees, bat ting lefty against righthander Camilio Pascual, cleared the center field barrier which is 31 feet high. Both went more than 500 feet. Fence Cleared Twice It marked the first time one batter had cleared that fence twice in a game. Karl Olson of Washington also hit two homers and rookie Dick Tettelbach got , ,T . ... ,. one and Yogi Berra Of the Yan- kees hit one. Elsewhere, pitchers reigned in the American league. Billy Pierce pitched a five-hitter for the White Sox to beat the In dians 2-1 at Chicago and Alex Kellner gained a 2-1 victory for the Athletics at Detroit when Gus Zernial pinch-homered with a man on base. Frank Sullivan pitched Boston to an 8-1 tri umph behind 16-hit support against Baltimore. Bill Rigney's Giants edged Bobby Bragan's Pirates 4-3 in a battle of freshman managers at the Polo Grounds in which lefty Johnny Antonelli homered to supply the margin for his own triumph. Stan Musial homered with two out in the ninth to give the Cardinals a 4-2 triumph at Cincinnati.' Milwaukee's Lew Burdette authored the only opening day shutout, a five-hit, 6-0 triumph over the Cubs. LINESCORES: National I.eanue Pittsburgh 000 100 101 3 8 3 New York 010 OOO 12x 4 5 2 Friend and Kravitz. Antonelli and Westrum. Philadelphia ..015 100 0108 8 2 Brooklyn 021 110 100 6 9 2 Roberts and Seminick. Newcombe, Roebuck (3). Hughes (5). Labine (6). Drysdale (9). and Campanella. Losing pitcher Newcombe. St. Louis 100 100 002 4 12 0 Cincinanti 010 100 000 2 12 0 Mizell. Kinder (9) and Sarni. Nux hall and Burgess. Winning pitcher IN MOTOR TRANSPORT v 3 fee flfflM Oil fc VM IOOK at the facts no matter how large or how small a j truck you need, there's a GMC that fills the bill for your business. GMC's new light-duty power plants average substantially greater displacement than the nearest competition 14.4 on 6-cylinder models and 16.2 on the V8's. Horsepower's been upped as much as ao on some of the larger models. And the new V8's are the very latest in modern, short stroke design. In the new half-tonners, a brand-new fast-ratio cruising axle handles this huskier power with all the efficiencies of overdrive. You get the same crisp pace save 2 to 4 m.p.g. on fuel. And it's an option at a fraction of over drive's usual price. See us, 3610 N. PACIFIC HIGHWAY Wednesday, April 18, 1958 Mizeii. Chicago ooo ooo ooo o 5 o Milwaukee. ooo 104 ix 6 li o Rush. Bnggs (6, Lown (8) and Lan- drith. Burdette and Crandall. Losing pitcher Rush. American League " New York-. 102 014 020 10 12 0 Washington .100 010 200 4 6 1 Larsen and Berra. Pascual, Chaxales (7i, Clevenger (8) and Berberet. Los ing pitcher Pascual. Baltimore 000 000 100 1 8 1 Boston 402 000 02x 8 16 1 Wight, Brown (1). Dorish 5) Birrer (7 1 and Smith. Sullivan and White. Losing pitcher Wight. Kansas City 000 000 200 2 - 8 0 Detroit 000 010 000 1 8 1 Kellner. Gorman (7) and Ginsbere. Astroth if). Lary and House. Winning pucner neuner. Cleveland 000 010 000 1 5 0 Chicago .....000 100 lOx 2 7 0 Lemon, Narleskl (8) -.and Hegan. Foiles (81. Pierce and Lollar. Losing pitcher Lemon. Oregon Stafe -Tops Willamette Corvallis U.R) Oregon State wound up its pre-conference baseball schedule with a come-from-behind 10-8 win over Willamette here yesterday aft ernoon. . Dickt. Wilson pitched five in nings of relief ball for the Bea vers and blanked the Bearcats until the ninth when they gath ered three run off him. 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