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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) Odds Favor Needles in Derby Rating Louisville, KyOI.R) Needles threaded his way past all the other solid contenders today for Saturday's Kentucky Derby and he was rated as a probable 2-1 choice in the betting in a field that now was down to about 12 colts. Needles established his posi tion on a "stand-by" b;.sis while other colts eleminated them selves. The fellow hasn't had a race since he won the Florida Derby at Gulf stream park on March 24, but meanwhile, the others have been hurting them selves. Two of the stronger entrants, C. V. Whitney's Career Boy and ralumpfs Pintor Lea. were nursina iniuries today which de tracted from their appeal, al though Career Boy was almost certain to. be around when the band plays "My Old Kentucky Home" late Saturday. Bruises Heel Career Boy developed a bruise on his rear heel Saturday and at first it apeared he would be out of it. But after treatment by Traine Sylvester Veitch, he galloped a mile with ease Sun day. At the Calumet barn, veter an Trainer Ben Jones hoped Pintor Lea would recover from a Sore kne by Saturday, but listed the coV. as "a very doubt ful Starter." With Pintor Lea out of it, Calumet would have to depend on his stablemate Favius in the derby. Pintor Lea finished third to Needles in the Florida Derby. So far "sure" starters for the derby include Needles, Head Man, Favius, Count Chic, Ter range. High King, Reaping Right, Ben. A. Jones, Besomer and No Regrets. Jean Baptiste, who is expected to be given a chance at the big race, will ar rive here today. League Leaders (By United Tress) AMERICAN LEASIE Player Sc Club U. AB K. H. Pet. Wertz, C'.eve. 11 38 9 17 .447 ManUe. N.Y. 11 41 10 17 .415 Skowron. N.Y. Olson, Wash Piersall, Boston ... ...11 44 7 18 .409 13 47 10 19 .404 ... 9 30 7 12 .400 NATIONAL LEAGUE Boyer, St. L :. 8 30 Sarni, St. L 7 28 Long. Pittsburgh 11 43 Moon, St. L. 8 30 Dark. N.Y. 11 44 8 IS .500 4 12 .429 9 18 .419 7 12 .400 5 IS .364 Home runs: Post. Redlegs 7: Long, Pirates 5: Wertz. Indians 5; Jablenski, Redlegs 5; Thomas. Pirate 4; Berra, Yankees 4: Mantle. Yankees 4. Runs Batted In: Mantle. Yankees IS; Berra, Yankees 14; Post, Redlegs 13: Janlcnski, Redlegs 13; Wertz, In dians 11. Runs:. Yost. Senators 13: Gilliam, Dodgers 11: Bauer. Yankees 11: Olson, senators 10; Mantle. Yankees 10. Hits: Olson. Senators 19: .Lone. Vi- rates 18; Skowron. Yankees 18; Wertz, Indians 17; Mantle, Yankees 17. Pitching: Roberts. Phillies 3-0: Pierce. White Sox 3-0; 9 tied with 2-0. 1 :30 p.m. Grid Time Approved New Orleans (U.R) The 18-man policy-directing council of the National Collegiate Ath letic association opened a three day meeting today amid rumors that "this may be a heat pro ducing session. It was believed that several schools are under investigation by the council's committee on infractions, which will start giv ing its report to members late today. However, council officials re fused fo comment3 on what the committee will report to the council. In b. one-day meeting Sunday, the NCAA's executive commit tee approved a request that all afternoon college football games during the months of October and November start at 1:30 p.m. The request was made by the American Automobile associa tion. Cougars Defeat OSC Trackmen By UNITED PRESS e Oregon topped Washington and Washington State edged Oregon State in Pacific coast conference dual track meets on Saturday. Oregon beat Washington 702 to 592. At Pullman, WSC took nine out of the 15 events from OSC while a 10th avent was a draw, as the Cougars won 73 to 58. Highlight of the OSC-WSC meet was an all-time WSC track record toss of the javelin. WSC's Darrell Pearson hurled the spear 225 feet IV inches to best the all-time 221 feet 8 Inch rec ord. STROLZ VICTOR Timberline Lodge (U.R) Martin Strolz, 1956 Olympic team member, easily outdistanc ed the field in the Golden Poles giant slalom here yesterday. Strolz won a special classifica tion with a time of 2:45.6 for the course. Other winners yes terday included Don Glassaway in class A; Ted Harris in class B; Rhona Gills of the Bend Sky liners, women's class A; and Joan Jones, women's class B. MAIL TRIBUNE CHENEY COLTS ENTERED IN ROGUE VALLEY LOOP A heavy schedule of semi-professional baseball for Medford fans was promised today with the announcement that the Cheney Forest Products mill at Central Point will sponsor a team in the Rogue Valley League. The aggregation will be known I as the Medford Cheney Colts, j Bill Askwith, business manager 1 for both clubs, said that the I Colts will be a farm club for the Medford Cheney Studs of the faster Southern Oregon League. Home park for both clubs will be the county fair grounds here. Operation of the two clubs will mean two to five games per week .at the fair grounds diamond, Askwith re ported. Rogue Valley League officials voted a franchise to the Colt team at a meeting at Rogue River yesterday. Other mem bers of the loop are Ashland, Grants Pass, Glendale, Camp White, Eagle Point, and Cave Junction. Tonm Manager The RVL will open on Sun day, May 27, and will play a 14- MedfordJWTribune Suds, Solons, Angels Sweep Doubfeheaders By SCOTT BAILLIE United Press Sports Writer If San Diego is "the team to beat" for the Pacific Coast League pennant this season, that is just dandy with the first place Seattle Rainiers who so far have blasted the staggering Padres seven times in eight games. The super Suds remained bubling on top of the PCL yes terday by drubbing the Padres twice in a double header at Se attle, 11-2 and 4-0. But Los An geles remained only half a game behind by downing Hollywood twice, 8-7 and 9-3, behind the timely hitting of veteran Steve Bilko and young catcher Jim Fanning. Sacramento also won both ends of its twin bill from Port land, 7-6 and 4-2, to hang on in third spot and plummet the Beavers into the cellar. Seals, Mounties Idle A Sunday blue law in British Columbia that probably has Vancouver owner C. L. (Brick) Laws seeing red, forced his Mounties and San Francisco into idleness. The double conquest of San Diego ran Manager Luke Sew ell's Rainiers' winning streak to five straight. Howie Judson went the route to post his second win in the opener. Seattle banged loser Pete Mesa for eight earned runs and 11 hits during his five and one-third innings. Vic Lombardi's steady five hitter bolstered by a bases emp ty homer by battery mate Ray Orteig and a two-run double by first baseman Bill Glynn insured the second game triumph. Bilko Homers Big Bilko; fighting to get back into the majors by way of Los Angeles, broke up the opening game with a one run single in the ninth after smashing a two run homer in the first frame. Fanning clubbed a bases loaded home run in' the nightcap and drove in another to insure Hy Cohen his fourth win against no defeats. Managers Tommy Heath of Sacramento and Tommy Holmes of Portland got the thumb in the opening game at Multnomah sta dium for wrangling with the umpires. But 110 doubt Mr. Tom my's chubby features smiled through the clubhouse window when Rufe Crawford belted a grand slam homer in the eighth inning which decided the opener. The Solons then scored three times in the fifth inning of the nightcap to erase' a one run defi- AT YOUR LOCAL O.K. RUBBER WELDERS e DICK FANGER 1760 No. Riverside Phone 2-5868 a WALT KINGMAN, Mgr. MOON MULLINS 144 So. Central Phone 2-8781 ASHLAND 1 FIRST IN Monday, April 30. 195$ game slate through August 26. Harry Tonn, Central Point, will manage the Colts. He re portedly already has contacted a few players. Askwith stated that all play ers of the valley interested, who are not eligible for American Legion ball, are welcome to try out for the Colts. In the past a good number of local players have turned out for Studs drills but have not been ready for the Southern Oregon League class of ball. The business manager said that it is hoped that a season or two of training in the Rogue circuit will develop players for the Studs aggregation. Players of this area mostly are wanted on the team. In addition to playing league games here when the Studs are away, the Colts, like tneir par ent club, will play some non- loop night -contests at the fair grounds. Askwith reported that the Studs are attempting to ar range preseason play with Bend of the SO loop and with Beaver- ton. The Washington Studs (be attle and Tacoma) are to appear here again this year. 1 cit and continue their early sea son hot streak. I.IXESCORES: (1st game) San Diego 020 000 000 i 8 1 Seattle 201 015 20x 11 15 2 Mesa, Carmichael 6, Kerrigan 7 and a i. ciaire; judson and orteig. (2nd game) San Diego 000 000 0 O S 1 Seattle 003 001 x 4 7 1 Erautt and Aylward; Lombard! and orteig. (1st game) Hollywood 200 002 201 7 10 Los Angeles 210 000 032 8 13 Sawyer .Danleis 6. Naranjo 9. Mur ray 9 and Onuska. Koback 6: Pirtti Hricinak 7, Legros 8, Anderson 9 and nannan. (2nd game) ' iiollywood 000 003 0 3 7 2 Los Angeles 043 Dll x 9 11 2 Nelson, Churn 3. Green 3 and Onuska, Koback S; Cohen and Fan ning. (1st game) Sacramento 002 010 040 7 11 Portland 000 012 300 6 11 Stanka. R. Jones 7. Candini 8 and nngnt; Martin, Fiedler 6. Shore 7, Valdes 8, Lint 9 and Calderone, (2nd game) oacramemo 000 130 0 4 9 0 Portland 002 000 0 2 7 0 oianKa. Lovrich 5. Candini 8 and uaicn. McNamara 5; Hall, Alexander j, vvaioei ana .Bottler. Boston Celtics Ch oose Heinsohn New York (U.R) The Boston Celtics exercised their territor ial rights and selected six-foot- seven center Tom Heinsohn of Holy Cross today to open the 1956 National Basketball Asso ciation draft of college players. Heinsohn, who set a Holy Cross scoring record of 1789 points for three seasons, was the fourth highest . scorer in the major college basketball during 1955-56 with an average of 27.4 points per game. The Rpchester Royals, mak ing the first pick in the regular draft, then claimed Si Green, Duquesne's two-time All-Amer-ican backcourt star, passing up a chance to select the heralded Bill Russell of San Francisco's national college champions. Russell, six-foot-10 All-America center who was voted the United Press player-of-the-year, promptly was drafted by the St. Louis Hawks, who turned him over to Boston as part of a deal made Sunday. The Celtics traded veteran center, Ed Ma cauley to the Hawks for a No. 1 draft choice. HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN Chicago (U.R) Sylvia Ber ger, 20, revealed today she dash ed off 104 letters in ten days to sailor Ernst Mueller. "Ernst was very happy about it," she said. RUBBER - FIRST jWGo ,1 Post Sparks Redlegs With Heavy Hitting; Pirates Rap Dodgers By FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer Wally Posts's week end slug ging binge earned him the major league home run lead with seven today and enabled the Cincinnati Redlegs to remain unbeaten since Ted Kluszewski was benched. Post, who hit 40 homers last season but labored in massive Kluszewski's shadow, walloped two homers and drove in four runs in each game Sunday to spark the Redlegs to 5-4 and 8-4 victories over the Chicago Cubs. The victories completed a sweep of the four-game set with the Cubs and lifted the hard-hitting Redlegs to the .500 mark with a 5-5 season record. The 26-year-old Post, a na tive of St. Wendelin, O., hit a pair of two-run homers to drive in the Redleg's first four runs in the opener and wound up his big day with a three-run blast and a solo homer in the night cap. He is tied with teammate Ray Jablonski for the National League lead with 13 runs batted in. Wally had plenty of assist ance from his hard-hitting team mates, catcher Ed Bailey homer ing for the decisive run, in the eighth inning of the opener and rookie Frank Robinson blasting a tremendous homer against a light tower in right center field in the second game. Fowler Goes Route Relief pitcher Buster Freeman received credit for his first win in the opener while Art Fowler went the route for his first vic tory in the nightcap. The Cubs now have dropped five straight and are in the N.L. cellar. The threat of a runaway sim ilar to last year diminished, meanwhile, when the Pittsburgh Pirates surprised the world champion Brooklyn Dodgers by sweeping a doubleheader, 10-1 and 11-3. Catcher Jack Shepard drove in five runs with two homers and Bob. Friend pitched a six-nitter lor nis secona win in the first game. In the second game, Frank Thomas and pitcher Vern Law homered to lead Pitts burgh's 16-hit attack. The setbacks snapped a Brook lyn five-game winning streak and made the Dodgers' season record 7-4. They didn't lose their fourth game last year until May 12 by which time they had won 22 games. Ramon Monzant, 23-year-old Venezuelan right-hander who said during spring training that he might not pitch this year. hurled a one-hitter to give the New York Giants an 8-1 triumph after the Philadelphia Phillies won the opener, 5-4, on pitcher Jack Meyer's 10th inning homer. In the American League, the Cleveland Indians spilt their doubleheader with the Detroit Tigers and the Baltimore Orioles divided with the Washington Senators. - Three-Hit Performance Bill Tuttle's 10th inning homer gave the Tigers a 1-0 victory in their opener despite a brilliant, 13-strikeout, three-hit perform ance by Herb Score. Billy Hoeft allowed nine hits but pitched out of several jams to win his first game. It was the second 1-0 loss of the year for Score, who has struck out 31 batters and yielded only 10 hits in 28 in nings this year. Vic Wertz and Al Smith hit two homers each in the nightcap and Bob Lemon pitched steady seven-hit ball to beat the Tigers, 8-4. It was Lemon's second win and second complete game. He won 18 games last year but pitched only five complete con tests. Hal Smith, Billy Gardner and Tito Francona homered to lead the Orioles to an 8-6 decision but Dick Tettelbach's ninth-inning single drove in the winning run as the Senators won the second game, 5-4. LINESCORES American League fl (1st Game) 1 Baltimore 000 210 401 8 10 1 Washington 000 203 001 8 11 0 Moore. Feirarese 7. Zuvennk 7 and Smith. Stobbs. Grcb 7, Chakales 8, Clevenger 9. Stewart 9 and Berberet. Winning pitcher' Moore. Losing pitch- SAFETY REFLECTOR Glcrws at night Protects your car. Scotchlite reflector. It" your free membership emblem that shows you've pledged to drive safely. Stop in today. Join the Safe Driver League! IN TUBELESS M er Grob. (2nd Game) Baltimore 012 100 000 4 8 0 Washington 200 100 101 5 8 0 Wilson, Zuverink 8 and Smith. Triandos 6. Wiesler. Chakales 9 and Berberet. Winning pitcher Chakales. Losing pitcher Zuverink. (1st Game, 10 Innings) Cleveland ... 000 000 000 0 0 9 1 Detroit 000 000 000 1 1 3 1 Score and Hegan. Hoeft and Streuli. (2nd Game) Cleveland 301 031 000 8 8 0 Detroit 300 000 031 4 7 1 Lemon and Naragon. Black, Miller 2, Trucks 4. Foytack 7 and House. Losing pitcher Black. NATIONAL LEAGUE (1st Game) Pittsburgh 001 005 040 10 14 0 Brooklyn 000 000 100 1 6 1 Friend and Shepard. Drysdale. Hughes 6. Koufax 8. Darnell 9 and Campanella. Losing pitchel Drysdale. (2nd G?me) Pittsburgh 240 100 40011 16 0 Brooklyn 001 200 000 3 7 1 Law, King 4 and Shepard. Loes. Lehman 2. Rosebuck 5, Labine 8 and Campanella. Winning pitcher King. Losing pitcher Loes. (1st Game, 10 Innings) Phila 001 200 001 1 5 9 1 New York ....100 100 011 0 4 9 0 Eogovin. Meyer 9 and Seminick. Gomez. Wilhelm 10 and Westrum, Katt 10. Winning pitcher Meyer. Los ing pitcher Wilhelm. (2nd Game) Philadelphia 100 000 COO 11 2 New York 311 000 21x 8 12 1 Simmons, Lopetri 1, Negrav 5, Mil ler 8 and Lonnett. Monzant and Katt. Losing pitcher Simmons. (1st Game) Chicago 011 010 100 4 8 1 Cincinnati 000 202 Olx 5 6 1 Hush, Lown 7 and Chiti. Nuxhall, Freeman 7 and Bailey. Winning pitcher Freeman. Losing pitcher Lown. (2nd Game) Chicago 000 021 010 4 11 0 Cincinnati 004 300 lOx 8 12 0 Jones, Brosnan 4, Valentine 5. Briggs 7 and Landrith. Fowler and Eailey. Losing pitcher Jones . Zulueta Picked Over John Busso New York (U.R) Orlando Zulueta, veteran Cuban light weight is favored at 12-5 to beat young Johnny- Busso of New York tonight in their TV 10 rounder at St. Nicholas arena. Left-jabber Zulueta, recently returned from a brief European campaign, has much more exper ience than Johnny against top notch oponents. But Busso is the better puncher. PARK QUARANTINED Akron, Ohio (U.R) Ascot Park Race Track was quarantin ed today because of an as yet unidentified illness that struck several thoroughbreds and caused officials to destroy two which were critically ill. More than 650 horses were quarantin ed, but racing will go on today as usual. Take a new look at the low price field and see how much more Studebaker gives for your money! You get more car (up to 120W wheelbase)! More power (up to 275 hp.', standard in the Golden Hawk)! More style (the only really new styling this year) ! More savings (from the all-time Mobilgas Econ omy champ)! Plus a big pre-season trade-in if you act fast! See your Studebaker Dealer today! SIUBEBAKE Pick up the phone now! 134 SOUTH RIVERSIDE AVE. STANDINGS PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB. Seattle 14 Los Angeles 13 Sacramento 12 San Francisco 10 San Diego 9 Hollywood . 6 Vancouver 6 Portland 6 6 .700 6 .684 6 .667 9 .526 11 .450 12 .333 12 .333 14 .400 Sunda's Results Los Angeles 8-9, Hollywood 7-2 Sacramento 7-4, PorUand 6-2 Seattle 11-4, San Diego 2-0 (Only games scheduled) How Series Endede Sacramento 4. Portland 0 Los Angeles 4, Hollywood 0 Seattle 4, San Diego 0 San Francisco 2. Vancouver This Week's Series Los Angeles at Portland Sacramento at Seattle San Diego at Vancouver San Francisco at Hollywood AMERICAN LEAGUE W. Chicago 5 New York 8 Cleveland 6 Washington 7 Boston 4 Detroit 4 Kansas City 3 Baltimore 4 L. Pet. GB, 1 .833 3 .727 5 .545 6 .538 5 .444 6 .400 6 .333 9 .308 2 2 3 3.i 4 5 Sunday's Results Baltimore 8, Washington 6 (1st) Washington 5, Baltimore 4 (2nd) Detroit 1, Cleveland 0 (1st) Cleveland 8. Detroit 4 (2nd) New York at Boston, ppd., rain. Kansas City at Chicago 2, ppd., rain. Tuesday's Games Cleveland at Washington (night) Chicago at Baltimore (night) Detroit at New York Kansas City at Boston NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Milwaukee 4 2 .667 Brooklyn 7 4 .436 St. Louis 5 3 .625 GB. Cincinnati 5 .500 New York 5 6 .455 Pittsburgh 5 6 .455 Hi 2 2 3'i Chicago 7 .300 Sunday's Results Pittsburgh 10, Brooklyn 1 (1st) Pittsburgh 11. Brooklyn 3 (2nd) Philadelphia 5, New York 4 (1st) New York 8, Philadelphia 1 (2nd) Cnicinnati 5, Chicago 4 (1st) Cincinnati 8, Chicago 4 (2nd) St. Louis at Milwaukee (2), ppd., rain. Tuesday's Games Brooklyn at Cincinnati (night) Philadelphia at Milwaukee (night) New York at Chicago Pittsburgh at St. Louis (night) Crater High To Face KF Central Point Crater high, the Rogue league baseball champ, will make another try on Tuesday at beating a South ern Oregon conference team. The Comets will meet Klam ath Falls here. So far this season the Comets haven't managed a victory over one of the A-l schools but they've come close. They tied Medford in five innings and lost a full game by one run. Ashland and Grants Pass have had to go an extra inning for a one-run verdict over Crater but GP did rap the Central Point school 11 to 0 in another try. Klamath comes to CP after a double loss to Grants Pass last week end. Crater will go to Klamath Falls for a return game on Friday. Value that says: at a price HOW Champion 2-door Sodanot Craftsmanship with a flair! Tell your Studabaksr Doaiar whan you'd Ilka to hava naw Studabakar at your door for a damonatratlon drive. 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