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Newspaper Page TextTWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, April 19. 195B Giants Win 5-4; Yankees Grab 9-5 Verdict; Red Sox Triumph 4 By CARL LUNDQUIST United Press Sporli Wriier Even st this early date it seems like a good, time to pick losers in the major league pen nant races and don't bet against the Pirates, Orioles and Senators in the cellar derby. Manager Bobby Bragan of the Pirates already has started fin ing his players for what he calls "mis-executions" and he really is going to sock them for up to $1,000 for violation of the 1 a.m. curfew. He claims the Giants, who have won two in a row from the Bucs, are an ordinary second division team and that the Pirates may beat them out. By now the Pirates must feel like the poor prize fighter who took a terrific battering but whose manager kept insisting that "The other guy isn't touch ing you." The prize fighter re joindered that the manager bet ter get after the referee then, because somebody was bopping him to pieces. Mays Hits In Clutch The Pirates, at least made it tough all the way before losing to the Giants on both days. Willie Mays had to single home the winning run in the last of the ninth for Wednesday's 5-4 Giant victory. The Yankees pounded out a 9-5 triumph over the Senators at Washington, making it a total of 19 runs 'in two days against the hapless hurlers of Cholly Dressen. And at Boston, the Red Sox came from behind to defeat Baltimore, 8-4, making it 16 tallies In two days for the Bos tonians against the. feeble fling ers of Paul Richards. The Kansas City at Detroit game in the American was called off because of cold weather and there were none others sched uled in either loop. The Giants led comfortably, 3-0 against the Bucs on early rallying that featured successive homers by Fox Castleman and Gain Harris. The Pirates "kayoed Ruben Gomez in the fourth with three runs, one on a homer by Frank Thomas, and the same Thomas put them ahead with a second homer in the seventh. Trailing, 4-3. the Giants put across a barrage of three singles and a walk without scoring in the ninth, Harris being tossed out at second trying to stretch his hit. Al Dark, with the bases loaded hit a sacrifice fly and Mays followed with the game breaking single that was over the head of the left fielder and would have been good for extra bases if necessary. Billy Martin drove in four nans as the Yankees belabored five pitchers in coasting to their triumph at Washington. Pete Runnels hit a homer for the Nats, their fourth in two games. Johnny Kucks was the victor al . though he needed relief help from Jim Konstanty. The Red Sox cashed in on a six run rally in the fifth inning in which 12 men came to bat. Jimmy Piersall drove in two Boston runs in the big inning with a single and six other Bos ton batters batted in a run apiece. Bob Porterfield was tap ped for two run homers in the first inning by Gus Triandos and in the fourth by Tito Francona, but aside from that he gave up onlv three other hits. 'LINESCORES: -National League Pittsburgh - 000 300 100 4 9 1 New York 120 POO 002 5 10 1 Littlefield. Munger (3. McMahan 4l. Law (5i and Kravitz, Shepard (7). Gomez. . Ridzik 4p, McCall i7i and Westrurh. Winning pitcher McCall. Losing pitcher Law. (Only game scheduled.) American League Baltimore 200 200 000 4 5 1 Boston 110 060 OOx 8 8 0 Moore. Ferrarese 3 . Zuverink (5i, Besana (7) and Smith. Porterfield and White. Losing pitcher Moore. New York 402 300 000 9 12 3 Washington ....001 100 03C 5 9 2 Kucks. Konstanty 8 and Berra. Wiesler Griggs i4i. Stewart 15), Cha kales i8, Brodowski 191 and Courtney. Winning pitcher Kucks. Losing pitch er Wiesler. Kansas City at Detroit, postponed, cold weather. (Only games scheduled). MedfordTribune SLPflDnSTTg h" "- "TPI f Br DICK JEWETT I A 11 C.4. J. Km Mai Tribune Sporti Editor . I ! 1 STANDINGS PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE By United Press n. L. Seattle 5 2 San Diego 5 3 Los Angeles . 5 4 Sacramento 4 4 Porltand 4 4 San Francisco 3 4 Vancouver 3 5 Hollywood 2 5 Pet. GB .714 .625 'i .556 1 .500 1 ',i .500 l'.a .429 22 .375 2 3 .236 3 Wednesday's Results Portland 6. Los Angeles 0 Seattle 7. San Francisco 2 San Diego 10, Vancouver 5 Sacramento 2, Hollywood 1 (1 innings) How Series Stand Los Angeles 1, Portland 1 Seattle 2. San Francisco 0 Sacramento 2. Hollywood 0 San Diego 2, Vancouver 0 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Boston 2 0 New York 2 0 Kansas City 1 0 Chicago 1 0 Cleveland 0 1 Detroit .......... 0 , 1 Washington 0 2 Baltimore 0 2 Pet. 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000 .000 .000 .000 .000 GB 12 l',2 2 2 Bob Work, net instructor at Hedrick junior high school, has received a $10 donation from an anonymous parent to help fur ther the tennis program at the school. Elliott ' Becken,. assist ant city school superintendent, has indicated that the money will go toward equipment or to ward improvements on the Roosevelt grade school court used by the'junior high students. The donor suggested applica tion of the money towards new tennis balls or a wire wall on the street side as a measure to prevent accidents. The Roosevelt court has been renovated for the program in augurated this year. Metal nets have been installed at McLough lin junior high and at Roose velt. Work has 30 boys partici pating in tennis at Hedrick and Coach Earl Rogers has 35 out at McLoughlin, according to Lee Ragsdale, city school physical education supervisor. Intramural play is scheduled. Becken said that as a result of the net program a lot of "small fry" are getting racquets and developing interest. GOLF IN JUNIOR HIGH Another new spring sport for junior high students in the Medford school system is golf under the ' supervision of George Sloniger. About 22 boys are out for this intra mural activity. Chicago CU.P.) Bob Hilliard, formerly of Kansas State college, has signed to play profesional football with) the Chicago Card inals this year. The rugged line man is a native of Kenosha, Wis. -L- KOVENZ LEGION COACH Johnny Kovenz, Medford high school baseball coach, will tutor the Medford-Central Point Amer ican Legion junior baseball squad this summer. That's the word from Bud Fisher, com mander of Medford Post 15 of the Legion. Kovenz will have that assignment in connection with the Medford city- schools summer baseball program. - Fisher also reported that S2 season booster tickets will be sold for the Legion project. The commander stated that Hugh Coleman is providing 15 new uniforms this season for the team. GP ISSUES CHALLENGE ; The Grants Pass Cavemen reportedly were unawed by the Medford high champion ship performance last Satur day in the metro division of the Hayward relays. They've announced to the Black Tor nado that they'll trim 'em this week end. Rotarians are hosts for a track meet Saturday at Grants Pass. The Tornado and Cave man ihinclads have met twice this season in relay competi tion but the so-called "rubber match" this week will be their first battle of the year in a regular type meet. GP nicked the Medfordite by a slender point in the Rogue relays and A FAVOR DTE ALL WAYS l ifT Tfi pt. 4 100 PROOF PREMIUM QUALITY STRAIGHT BOURBON A the Tornado won convincingly in the Haywards. Thi writer suspects that the Tornado is itching to face the challenge. A high-spirit contest with' some outstanding marks could result. Roseburg and Crater are also slated to enter the ruckus. PLUMLEY RANKS SECOND Neil Plumley, Medford high's promising shot putter, had the second best mark individually Saturday in the Haywards. His 51 feet 8V2 inches was also his best ever in competition. Best mark was 55-8V4 by Glenn John son, Beaverton. There's some good indication that Plumley may be pressing Johnson for state honors by the , time the state track meet comes around. TAKEN OFF SHORT The reason Eldon Francis did not throw the javelin in the Haywards the take-off course at Eugene did not pro vide the running room that he is used to. His team-mate, Gary Lewis, appeared to be adjusting more readily in the warm-up to the tighter space and was elected to throw. The runway for the javelin was set up in a cramped area on a side field. Lines were all In and it would have taken some doing to have provided a longer take-off space. AHEAD OF LAST YEAR Last week this department mentioned Francis as saying he apparently has been doing some thing wrong this season that he wasn't doing last year. Coach Bob Newland of the Tornado asks a question (which we para phrase): "Is it really so?." He points out that Francis in his progress- is ahead of where he was last year. Some checking bears this out. In the Rogue re lays in 1955 the Medford spear man had a throw of 167 feet 4 V2 inches. His heave in the Rogues this year was I8O-6V2 At the Haywards last year his cast was 171-10. McFARLAND SHORT Larry McFarland, Grants Pass, whose toss of 182-3Vi in the Rogues beat Francis, slipped to 180-1 at Eugene last Saturday. Winner of the Hay ward javelin was Hardy Spur geon, Marshfield, who was third in the meet the week before at Medford. His Hay ward throw was 175 feet com pared to 179-1 here. Wednesday's Results Boston 8. Baltimore 4 Kansas City at Detroit, cold weather. New York 9, Washington 5 (Only games scheduled). postponed. (night) Bob Alexander Blanks Angels; Vets Spark By DON THACKERY United Press Sports Writer The old pros were the big wheels again last night in the Pacific Coast League. Biggest of the men getting rounder was Ferris Fain, the old athlete from the Athletics. Fain came off the bench in the 14th inning and drove a ball to left field, giving Sacra mento a 2-1 overtime win over Hollywood. Veteran Howie Judson made his PCL debut for Seattle by Friday's Gaines Chicago at Kansas City Detroit at Cleveland Washington at Baltimore Boston at New York NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB New York 2 0 1.000 Philadelphia 1 0 1.000 'i St. Louis 1 0 1.000 2 Milwaukee 1 0 1.000 li Brooklyn 0 1 .000 li Cincinnati 0 1 .000 l'i Chicago :. 0 1 .000 l'i Pittsburgh 0 2 .000 2 Wednesday's Results New York 5. Pittsburgh 4 (Only game scheduled) . Friday's Games New York at Philadelphia (night) Brooklyn at Pittsburgh Cincinnati at Chicago Milwaukee at St. Louis (night) Kip Captures Open Stake Kip, owned and handled by Ken Denman, won the open all age stake " Sunday in the fourth picnic trial competition of the season for Rogue Valley Re triever club. Boots, owned by Claude (Shorty) Miles and handled by Carl Newell, nabbed the qual ifying stake and Chief, owned by Sid Menasco and handled by Newell, took the derby. Tim, owned and handled by O. R: Middlekauff, was the victor in the puppy event. There were 34 entries in the Sunday event and all dogs plac ing were labradors. The trial was conducted . on the Game Commission management area on the south side of Rogue river near the military bridge. Pheas ants were snot tor land series and shackled ducks were used for water tests. . Many of the dogs entered in the RVRC picnic affair will be taken to the American Kennel club li censed points trial at Klamath Falls this week end. Judges Sunday .were Lee Skaggs and Earl Wescott for the open, O. R. Middlekauff and Irv Warren for the qualifying, Wel don Kline and Ira Parrish in the derby and Skaggs and Charles Stell in the puppy stake. OTHER RESULTS: Open Second. Flash, owned and handled by Weldon Kline: third. Coaly, owned and handled by Ira Par rish; fourth. Smoke, owned and han dled by Helman Miller. Qualifying Second, Rip. owned and handled by Gene Hunt; third. Darky, owned and handled by Hunt;" fourth Lady, owned and handled by Otto Lillya: certificate of merit. Smoke. Derby Second, Cindy, owned and handled by Lee Skaggs: third, Flint, owned by a Mr. Perkins and handled by Carl Newell; fourth. Tim, owned and handled by O. R. Middlekauff. Puppy Second. Muffin, owned and handled by Tom Rickard; third, Kara, owned and handled by Mrs. Nelson. Possible Under-the-Table Ring Payment Investigated W. A. HALLER CORP.. PHILADELPHIA. PA Oakland, Calif. flJ.R) Jimmy Murray was scheduled to return to the stand today as a state committee sought to find out if the rotund promoter paid Man ager Al Weill $10,000 "under the table" for world champion Rocky Marciano's services last May. 1 James E. Cox, counsel for the committee which recently fin ished investigating the boxing game in Los Angeles, highlight ed the first day of northern Cali- fornia hearings Wednesday by ; confronting Murray wi t h six drafts of financial statements which listed a payment of $10, 000 to "A.W." in five cases and "Al Weill" in another. The so-called "work sheets" were rough drafts which Murray said he and his secretary pre-; pared before issuing a financial i statement on the Marciano-Don Cockell world heavyweight title j fight in San Francisco last May i 16. Cox also submitted for evi dence a checkbook stub showing a payment of $10,000 to ?A.W." on the day of the fight, saying that Rule 561 in the state box ing regulations bans "secret agreements" between managers, fighters or promoters. Guilty parties face loss of licenses. Bragan Slaps Fines On 2 Pirates By MILTON RICHMAN United Press Sports Writer New 'York 0J.R) Pitts burgh Manager Bobby Bragan began cracking down in earn est today, slapping fines on two of his players, one of whom said, "It'll teach me a lesson and I'll playbetter ball." Angered over the Pirates' blowing their second one-run ball game in a row, 5-4, to the Giants yesterday, Bragan fined outfielder Clemente $25 for missing a squeeze sign and first baseman Dale Long the same sum for cutting off a throw which helped New York tie the score in the ninth. Still boiling, the Pirates' freshman manager announced a 1 a.m. curfew for the entire club and said any violator would be subject to a $500 or $1000 fine, depending upon the size of his salary. , "If these guys don't shake themselves, there'll be more fin es," Bragan warned. Long, who hit two home runs in Pittsburgh's opening day loss to the Giants, felt the fine would do him good a view sel dom taken by a player who is made to shell out hard cash. Not Happy "Don't get me wrong, I'm not happy about it," said the big first sacker, "but it'll serve as a boot in my backside and it'll on ly make me play better ball." Actually, Long has to pay for a mistake in judgment. With the bases full, one out and Pittsburgh leading 4-3 yes terday in the last half of the ninth, Alvin Dark flied to right field. Lee Walls made the catch for the second out and fired to ward the plate in an attempt to double up pinch runner Gil Co an, trying to score from third base. Long, stationed about 15 feet i in front of Pirate catcher Jack Shepard, cut off the relay be cause he thought it was dying and hastily threw to Shepard but it was too late. "I just thought I could get the ball to Jack quicker," Long ex plained. "'The throw seemed to be dying a little and I figured I could cut it off and then get it home in time." Mays Ends It ' Two pitches later, William Mays ended the game with a line single which brought home the winning run. Clemente drew his fine for failing to see the sign for a squeeze play with Johnny O'Brien on third base with one out and the count three-and-one in the eighth inning. O'Brien was stranded when Clemente grounded out and Dick Groat flied out and as it turned out, the run Jhat might have scored would have proven a big one. What annoyed Bragan partic ularly was the fact that he had lectured his players on the squeeze sign only 48 hours prev iously and had concentrated es pecially on Clemente under standing the signal. "It looks," said one Pirate player after Bragan had left the clubhouse, "like he means busi ness." , pitching a 7-2 victory over San Francisco. San Diego beat Van couver 10-5 and Bob Kerrigan was the winner. And Portland's 6-0 win from Los Angeles was pitched by Bob Alexander and sparked by Jim Baxes. R. C. Stevens hammered a home run in the top of the ninth in Sacramento to tie the game for the Stars and the blanks kept coming up until the 14th. Old Pro Paged Then Sacramento got a couple of men on base with two out and called on the "old pro." Fain, who won a couple of bat ting championships, won another game by pushing a single. Judson, just down from the majors and anxious to get back, was helped to his win by Joe Taylor. Taylor garnered two home runs and five runs batted across and was the whole of fensive fireworks until the eighth when the Seals finally got a pair off Judson and an other major veteran, Larry Jen sen, had to come to the rescue. Alexander pitched a neat four hitter for Portland and kept Los Angeles well away from the plate. Baxes hit his homer in the second with nobody on and that would have been enough, but the Beavers rampant added five more before it was over. It was the first shutout of the season for Portland and the first time this year the Angels had been blanked. A poor crowd of 376 saw the Angel defeat under cold gray skies. Liitrell Comes Through Los Angeles starter John Andre, who allowed all of the Beaver scoring, took the loss. Portland followed up with two more in the fourth as Jack Littrell hit a bases loaded single good for two runs. Three more Portland counters came in the seventh. Dick Young doubled, took third on an error and scored on Luis Mar- quez's single. Marquez went to second when Lloyd Merriman was safe on an error and scored on Michelson's single, with Mer riman going to third. Baxes brought in the third with an in field out. Vancouver got- the home runs but San Diego got the scores in the southerly city. Jim Pisoni, Angelo Bagres and Gary Robin homered for Vancouver but it did . no good against the bunched hitting of the Padres. Bob Harrison, who had won two without a loss, was dumped for the first time and Kerrigan took the win although he needed help from veteral Al Gettel. L1NESCORES: Hollywood 000 000 001 000 001 10 1 Sacramento 000 010 000 000 011 9 2 Green, Odonnell (6), Murray Churn (12) and Kovak; Bearden, Candini (11), R. Jones (14) and Baich. Ducks, OSC Vie Thursday Eugene (U.R) Oregon, in search of its fourth straight Northern Division baseball pen nant, opens its 1956 counting season here tomorrow against Oregon State's tough Beavers. Coach Don Kirsch said he was worried about his team's batting attack. The Ducks, in winning nine and losing three pre-season games, hit only .222 as a team. Jim Pifher, second baseman from Baker, and Jim Pingree, a utility outfielder last season, lead the team with .333 marks. BOBO TO SPAR " Santa Monica, Calif. (U.R Carl (Bobo) Olson will box a four-round exhibition wtih spar ring partner Sonny Gill at the Hollywood Legion stadium Sat urday night in preparation for his title fight with middleweight king Ray Robinson. HOOP COACH UPPED New York (U.R) Dave Po lansky will serve as head basket ball coach at City College of New York during Nat Holman's one-year sabbatical leave, it was announced today. Polansky has been coaching the CCNY fresh man team for the past two years. WALT DeBOER TO HEAD SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION Medford Softball association was renamed the Jackson Coun ty Softball association and Walt DeBoer w.as elected president for the 1956 season at a meet ing last night. DeBoer, owner of Lithia Mo tors of Aehland and sponsor of teams previously in the circuit, reportedly took the post because I want to see the league go." The circuit suspended opera tions during 1955. Other officers selected were Gary Colton, vice-president, and Willard Barnum, secretary-treas urer. DeBoer succeeds Herb Vessey. Last night's meeting, held at the YMCA, was the most en thusiastic softball session held here for several years and Ves sey remarked, "There's the in terest we've been looking for." Twenty to 2? men were on hand. Meeting Next Week Entry of nine teams appears definite. There is the possibil ity of at least two more. Colton saidthis morning that others still may enter. ; A meeting will be held at 8 p.m. next Thursday, April 26, at the YMCA. DeBoer has request ed captains of all teams to be present. They are asked to bring their $25 entry fee. The president is looking into the possibility of holding the loop action in various towns of the county. He reported that Talent definitely is interested. The Jackson county name was adopted because the loop mem bership in recent seasons has been countywide rather than just restricted to Medford. Ken Natland, professional um pire and old softball player who has moved here from Portland, offered his assistance to the cir cuit. It appeared that all those present at the session are willing to work together to make the loop a success. Seattle 400 030 0007 9 0 San Francisco .000 000 020 2 10 0 Judson and Robertson; Henry, Grba (5), Willis (8) and Sadowski. Vancouver ... 000 001 040 5 9 1 San Diego .. .000 014 23x 12 S 2 Harrison. Drummond (6), Funk (7), Herrera (8) and Neal. Masterson (8); Kerrigan, Gettel (8) and St. Claire. 10 0 4 2 Andre, Portland 010 200 300 6 Los Angeles 000 000 000 Alexander and Calderone; Legros (8) and Hannah. B Leaguers Play Friday St. Mary's of Medford and Talent will be out to retain their undefeated status in the Jackson County B Baseball League on Friday. The Crusaders of Medford go to Rogue River and -Talent to Prospect. In the other hassle Butte Falls will be at Jackson ville. St. Mary's will be the favorite in its fuss but Talent could run into trouble against the Cougars. Jacksonville has topped Butte Falls in pre-conference play. Friday's games will mark the third week of action in the circuit. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m Monday for Monday: other days 530 previous day Indian Net Team Wins Roseburg high nicked Medford 4 to 3 yesterday in a tennis match here. The Indians "surprised" the Tornado by appearing on the scene to play. According to the Medford slate the tussle was to be on Monday, April 23. Roseburg won three singles and one doubles encounter. Medford wins were by Jim Gordon over Jim Coen 345, 6-2. 6-4; Bill Isaacs over Jim Powell 6-2, 6-0 and Jim Gordon and Isaacs over Powell and Coen 6-3, 7-9, fc-2. 0) AO Dust Palliative - Road Mix ALL TYPES OF ASPHALT WORK Concrete Work-Trenching mesa PHONE 3-4221 CO oo irii Hi IlI iiy Mil iiiE ' ' I 9 n 45 QUART PINT PROOf DISTILLED FROM eRAUi Mr. BOSTON DISTIIU8 INC, BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS