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EIOMT MEDFORD (OREGON) Fanfare A typographical error in Sun day's paper resulted in incor rect listing of the time for Mike Russell's sizzling quarter-mile for Medford high in Saturday's triangular track meet. The time was :50.5. The sophomore was just a second off the state mark of :49.5 set by Medford's Ray Jpnnson as a junior in 1940 Mike is aiming at :50 flat this season. No one will be surprised If he accomplishes that objec tive. Russell's fastest time pre viously in competition was :51.1 LUCK SHUNS OMAHA FOX An article in the Thorough brad Record, a racing journal, b7 Larry Evans', indicates that Omaha Fox, horse owned by Pete Logan, Medford, will not be among the entries in the Kentucky Derby. Says Evans: "Misfortune set in shortly "after the cold arrived at Keeneland to begin his Derby preparations. His trainer, Joe Nunnally, according to Lo gan, seemed awed when he found himself among national ly known owners and trainers ... Nunnally appeared before the commission for his license and apparently 'froze up' when questioned. He was turned down ... Meanwhile, Omaha Fox took sick and was without a trainer. . . Luckily, Jimmy Jones . . . , who is re turning to the tracks this year with a public stable, agreed to take over Omaha Fox. "When Jimmy was asked what he thought of the horse, he replied cautiously, "Well can't fell much just yet, got to get rid of this running nose and whatever other in fection he has . . ., but this let up in his training will mean that he will have to pass up the Derby -. . . Well keep him here until Louisville closes and depending on his condi tion may go to Chicago or, may gd to New York for the Belmont Stakes.', TENNIS STOP ONE OF 10 Medford is among 10 west coast cities listed on the itiner ary for the Jack Kramer tennis tour, which will make only one other Oregon stop. The tour, featuring Rex Hartwig, Pancho Gonzales, Panch Segura and Tony Trabert, starts its west coast tour at Spokane on May 23. Other appearances, in order, are at Vancouver, B.C., Victoria, B.C., Portland, Medford, Car mel, Calif., Sacramento, Palo Alto, Newport Beach and La Jolla. The Medford stop is dated for Monday, May 28. COURSE SHAPE GREAT ' Rogue Valley Country club links should be in fine con dition for the Thursday clinic and exhibition featuring Ju lius Boros, World Champion ship golf tourney winner of 1955. Last week's rains, the normal irrigation, fertilization and mowing are the reasons. Club manager George Har rington reported that the grass tees, planted two years, ago are in "real good" shape. Harrington said that the greens have been verticutted, an operation which removes the grass which is laying down. It is this grass which disturbs a ball when it rolls en a green, the manager point ed out. Clayton Lewis, who'll team with Boros. and Harrington and Al Williams, who'll pro Tide the opposition for the star pro and the club president, are expected to get in sonrs practice play on Wednesday. Harrington said he planned to go nine holes today and nine tomorrow. MORE HOMERS POSSIBLE ' Considerable work is being done at the Fairgrounds ball park in preparation for the forthcoming semi-pro baseball season, Bill Askwith, Business Manager for the Medford Che ney Studs and Cheney Colts, has reported. One innovation may result in 8 3 AT YOUR LOCAL O.K. RUBBER WELDERS DICK FANGER 1760 No.Rivers.de - Phone 2-5868 WALT KINGMAN, Mgr. MOON MULLINS 144 So. Central Phone 2-8781 ASHLAND T FIRST IN crk cz n n n MAIL TRIBUNE Br DICK JEWETT Mail TribuM Sports Editor a larger number of homeruns in the park. A fence inside the old outfield outer wall has been completed. It is 18 to 20 feet in side the old fence and lower. New distances to the fence with the old distances in parentheses are right field 314 (332), center field 367 (387) and left field 327 (347). Fans who like to see the roundtripper hit have had to go a bit hungry in recent seasons. The new fence could change that situation. Leing constructed under the grandstand behind home plate are facilities which will serve either as dressing rodm space or as living quarters for ball play ers. The concessions stand is being redecorated with a red background and white trim. Lighting should . be brighter and more efficient at the ball park this season. Askwith said that California-Oregon Power company, at no cost to the Studs, has installed some new wiring, a new transformer and a new light switch. The ball club management will operate the concessions bus iness this year, according to Askwith. He said that the Miner Boshears will be park manager and that Wicky Wicklein will be groundskeeper. NOVEL-SET Operation of the Colts by the Studs, sponsoring of a farm club by a semi-pro team, to us is something noveL It is unique for this section of the stale. We hope it produces the desired results development of ball players of the valley. Askwith said that it is planned to make the Colts a "valley" team although its home park will be the fairgrounds. This writer is happy to see the for mation of the colts. It. means more work for this depart ment but this . writer has ad vocated a second club oper ating out of this community ever since the 'Rogue Valley League was formed. There's a place for both the SOL and RVL brands of ball in the community and having an RVL club playing out of the fairgrounds could well serve to liven up interest' in that circuit. MYSTERY SOLVED Since the appearance at Rogue Valley Country club some years ago of the golfing sisters, Mar- lene and Alice Bauer, the links play of the two young women has been followed with some in terest. Alice married and her name was listed as Alice Bauer Hagge in the news of golf tour neys. It was somewhat strange then recently to see reports of the play of Marlene Bauer Hagge. The mystery was cleared up by a chance reading of Golf Digest. The magazine mentions that Marlene is married to her sister's former husband. A play-off among the top four teams in the regular sea son standings is planned as a ' concluder for the Rogue Val ley Baseball league this year. League Leaders By UNITED PRESS Leading Ratters NATIONAL LEAGUE Player & Club G. AB R. H. Pet. Boyer. St. L. 9 34 9 16 .471 Long. Pitts .ll 43 9 18 .419 Moon, St. Louis. 9 33 7 15 .394 Sarni, St. Louis..- 8 31 4 12 .387 Dark, New York-.ll 44 S 16 .364 AMERICAN LEAGUE Wertz. Cleve. 11 38 9 17 .447 ManUe. N.Y. 11 41 10 17 .415 Skowron. N.Y. 44 7 18 .409 Olson. Wash. 13 47 10 19 .404 Piersall, Bsn. 9 30 7 12 .400 Home Runs Post, Redlegs 7; Long. Pirates 5; Wertz. Indians 5; Jablonski, Redlegs 5: Thomas, Pirates, Berra. Yankees and Mantle, Yankees all 4. Runs Yost. Senators 13; Gilliam, Dodgers 11: Bauer, Yankees 11: Olson, Senators 10; Mantle. Yankees 10. Hits Olson, Senators 19. Long. Pi 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). TIRE SAFETY INSPECTION 1 Inspect creai Remove stooes, glass, nails. . 2 Check for breaks, cracks, damaged sidewalL 3 Check for misalignment, excessive vjdai. FREE 'HERE H0W RUBBER FIRST Tuesday, May I, 1S56 STANDINGS By UNITED PRESS National League W. L Pet GB 6 3 .667 7 4 .638 1 4 3 .571 1 5 5 .500 5 6 .453 2 5 C .453 2 5 6 .455 2 3 7 .300 3',3 St. Louie Brooklyn Milwaukee -Cincinnati New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh -Chicago Monday's Results Only game scheduled. Tuesday's Probable Pitchers Brooklyn at Cincinnati (night) Erskine (1-0) s. Klippscein (1-1). New York at Chicago Hearn (0-1) vs. Hacker (1-0). Philadelphia at Milwaukee (night) Dickson (0-2) vs. Buhl (1-0). Pittsburgh at St. Louis (night) Lit tlefieid (0-0) vs. Mizell 2-0). Wednesday's Games Brooklyn at Cincinnati (night) New York ' at Chicago Pittsburgh at St. Louis (night) Pet. .833 .727 245 .538 .444 .400 .333 .308 Chicago .. New York Cleveland , Washington Boston 2 - 2 3 3',i 4 5 Detroit Kansas City Baltimore - Monday's Results No games scheduled. Detroit at New York Gromek (1-1) vs. Ford (2-0). Kansas City at Boston Kretlow (0-11 vs. Porterfield (1-1). Chicago at Baltimore (night) Harshman (1-0) vs. Palica (0-J). Cleveland at Washington (night)' Wynn (2-0) vs. Ramos (1-0). Wednesday's Gaires Cleveland at Washington (night) Chicago Pt jsaltimore Detroit at New York Kansas City at Boston AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. S 1 8 3 6 5 .. 7 6 4 3 4 6 3 6 4 9 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L- Pet. GB Seattle 14 .6 .700 Los Angeles 13 6 .684 ,i Sacramento ...12 6 .667 1 San Francisco 10 9 .526 3M San Diego 10 11 .476 4','x Hollywood 6 12 .333 7 Vancouver 6 i3 .316 Tx Portland 6 14 .300 8 Monday's Results San Diego 14, Vancouver. 5 (Only game scheduled. Today's Probable Pitchers Sacramento (Gene Bearden 0-1) at Seattle IDon Fracchia 3-0). San Francisco (Russ Kemmerer 2-1) at Hollywood (Curt Ravdon 2-0). Los Angeles (Harry Perkowski 2-0) at Portland (Bill Werle 2-2). San Diego (Lloyd Dickey 0-0) at Vancouver (Charlie .Locke 0-3). Busso Wins Over Cuban New York (U.R) Young light-weight Johnny Busso was assured today that he could take his "rat-tat-tat" right hand punch on. to bigger assignments after a pounding that made loser Orlando Zulueta feel as if he had been in a bout with a pneumatic drill. Promoter Teddy Brenner of the St. Nicholas Arena promised Busso, a New York kid, a June 4 bout with Ralph Dupas of New Orleans as a reward for the showing he made in upsetting the veteran left jab specialist from Cuba on the nation's TV screens Monday night. Busso was so elated that he announced he was getting mar ried, though not until later in June when his bout with title contender Dupas is out of the way. Veteran ring-siders, watch ing the powerful pounding Bus- so drilled out with his right fist, observed that Zuelueta prob ably took more starboard side leather than in any pne of his previous 92 professional bouts. Even . so, Busso gained only a split decision in his major up set. Two of the judges voted for him, 6-4, and 6-3-1 but the third gave it to Zulueta, 6-4. The Uni ted Press judged Busso the win ner," 6-4. Busso, at 138Vz pounds, gained his 26th victory in 30 bouts. It was Zulueta's 27th de feat. . Mark Beliveau Wins Hockey League Trophy Montreal (U.R) Big Jean Marc Beliveau, the Montreal Ca nadiens' brilliant center who really came into his own this year, today was named winner of the Hart trophy the Nation al Hockey league's "most valu able player" award. It's the second award gained by "Le Gros Bill" for the past season, joining on Beliveau's mantel the Art Ross trophy as the league's champion scorer. IN TUBELESS M MedfordTbibune SIPCOffiTTS Ellis Kinder Hurls Cards Into Lead By FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer Just six little putouts but enough to put the St. Louis Cardinals in first place today for the first time in exactly five years. That's the story so far this season for 41-year-old Ellis 'Old Grand Dad) Kinder, who's been on hand for the last putout in no less than three of the rejuv enated Redbirds' six triumphs. Ellis did it again Monday, re tiring the last two batters in St. Louis' 2-0 win over the Mil waukee Brakes. The victory, their fourth over southpaw pitching in five games moved the Cardinals into first place in the National league, SI percentage points ahead of the Brooklyn Dodgers and marks the first time they've occupied the circuit's top rung since May 1, 1951. It was also the Cardin als' second straight shutout and gave Redbird pitchers a string of 19 1-3 consecutive scoreless innings. x Retires Six Batters In all, Kinder has retired six batters this season but that seemingly puny total adds up to three- victories in the books of Manager Fred Hutchinson and General Manager Frank Lane. For Kinder came out of the bull pen to retire the last batter in Vinegar Bend Mizell's 4-2 open ing day win over the Cincinnati Redlegs and hurled the full ninth inning in a 5-3 verdict over the Redlegs on April 24. With his spotless 2-3 of an in ning wrapup Monday, Ellis has a season's record of two innings pitched, two hits allowed, no earned or unearned runs yielded and three victories saved for the Cardinals. Tom Poholsky, 26-year-old right-hander, shut out the Braves for eight innings Monday but was yanked when he walked the first batter in the ninth. Jackie Collum retired one bat ter and then Hutchinson turned over the game to Kinder. In the process, the Cardinals defeated their No. 1 "jinx pitch er," Milwaukee's Warren Spahn, who entered the game with a 43-22 lifetime edge over the Red- birds. The 35-year-old southpaw had a no-hitter for 6 2-3 innings but then Ken Boyer, Rip Repul- ski and Wally Moon singled m succession to put the Cardinals ahead, 1-0. The Cardinals added another run in the ninth against Lou Sleater to clinch matters. Intersectional Clashes, '- The game f irst played by the Braves in eight days and the Cardinals in five because of bad weather in the West was the only one scheduled in the majors but the races will be spiced up a bit today with the Hy Cohen Leads PCL Pitching San Francisco U.R) Los An geles hurler Hy Cohen led the Pacific Coast league's pitching parade with a spotless record to day four wins and no losses in four starts. . Don Fracchie of Seattle was second with three wins and no losses. Eight other PCL hurlers sported perfect 2-0 records at the end of three weeks of play and 13 moundsmen showed 1-0 records. . Pete Mesa of San Diego was the league's workingest pitcher with . 3 6 innings of duty behind him. Dick Drott of Los Angeles was tops in the important strike out division with 24 men fanned. Bob Harrison of Vancouver had the most bases oh balls 25. Albany Diamond Coach Resigns Albany (U.R) Charles (Chuck) Kerr resigned all coach ing activities at Albany High school yesterday because of ill health. He was baseball coach and as sistant football coach since 1950. In 1952 his Albany baseball team won the state championship. He graduated from Oregon State college in 1948. Tommy Holman, varsity bas ketball coach, will take over baseball coaching for the rest of the year. Bud Gibbs, varsity foot ball coach, will coach Jayvee baseball. Yesterday's Scores By UNITED PRESS College Baseball wsc 7, Oregon state a Idaho 9, Washington 8 Portland 5, Oregon College 3 Pacific 15, Lewis and Clark 4 (first game) Lewis and Clark 13, Pacific 5 (sec ond game) ' Lintield 8. wmtman 4 itirsi game) Whitman 5, Linfield 3 (second game) Willamette 8. College of Idaho 4 (first game) Willamette 22, College of Idaho 1 (second game) first intersectional clashes of the season on tap. In the National League, the eastern teams go West with Brooklyn at Cincinnati, New York at Chicago, Philadelphia at Milwaukee and Pittsburgh at St. Louis. In the American league, West goes East, with De troit at New York, Kansas City at Boston, Chicago at Baltimore and Cleveland at Washington. So far, neither the world champion Dodger3 nor the A.L. champion Yankees have been able to get away from the field as it was feared they might do early and there is hope now that both races may be close. St. Louis 000 000 1012 . 4 1 Milw 000 000 000 0 7 1 Poholsky, Collum 9.. Kinder 9 and Sarni. Spchn, Sleater 9, Burdette 9 and Crandall. Win ning itcher Poholsky, (1-0). Losing pitcher Spahn (0-1). Only major league game scheduled. Team Suspended For Competing Against- Santee Williamsburg,- Va.-J(U.R) The "guilt by association" policy of the Amateur Athletic union put the William and Mary college track team on the indefinitely suspended list today because it competed in a meet on April 14 against the banned Marine mil er, Wes Santee. AAU Secretary John Core for the Virginia region notified Wil-J liam and Mary that the team would be unable to compete in any meets sanctioned by the AAU until further notice. Jack Freeman, athletic direc tor at the college, said the team was declared ineligible because it was in a dual meet against the Quantico, Va., Marines on April 14 in which Santee was a competitor. Not only the athletes who ran in the race against San tee, but every one who compet ed in the meet was suspended. Santee was set down by' the AAU on alleged expense account irregularities. READY FOR ROBINSON Santa Monica, Calif. (U.R) Sid Flaherty, manager of Carl (Bobo) Olson, said today the for mer middleweight champion is "ready right now" to meet Sugar Ray Robinson for the title. Fla herty said Olson is down to 164 pounds and will have no trobule making 160 for the May 18 bout. Whenever you I taurus ' ,-;J , ' April 20 to Moy 30' ' j,' , GEMINI - May 21 to June 21 . . ' ' CANCER June 22 to July 21 ,-UEO i July 22 o August 21 ; VIRGO , August 22 to Sept. 22 - LIBRA 1 I - Sept. 23 to Ckt 22 ! ininirrif i t rr "irifo i r r runna Salem Lefty Recovers To Nip Spokane By RAY ANDREWS United Press Sports Writer Jerry Cade, rookie Salem lefty, got a rather rude introduc tion to professional baseball last night but caught on. pretty fast once the formalities were over. Cade was rocked for five runs in the first two innings but then settled down to blank Spokane the" rest of the way while his mates came from behind for a 7-5 victory. The win left Salem unde feated in Northwest League play with a 4-0 mark. John Bellone and Jim Samp son of Spokane homered 'in the first inning off Cade and Eddie Murphy singled home a run in the second but from that point on the Drain, Ore., freshman had things in hand. ' A walk, a sacrifice and singles by Mel Krause and Frank Sze kula produced Salem's eventual winning runs. A veteran making hi3 lirst start of the season oad less luck than Cade. Vern Kindsfather oi Tri-City allowed but five hits but went down 1-0 before Yaki ma and Dick Young. Young scattered six hits and fanned six. The Bears pushed across the game's lone run in the eighth on two walks, an er ror and a sacrifice fly by first sacker Roy Nixon. Eugene unloaded a 14-hit at tack on two Wenatchee hurlers to top the Chiefs 6-1. Russ Pems old went the route for the Emeralds striking out four and walking but one. Manny Lacosta weighed in with some heavy stickwork for Eugene with three hits in four trips including a double and four runs batted in. Gene Marinacci and Carl Hutzler each had three for four in the Eugene attack. Promoter To Take Stand New York (U.R) Promoter Jim Norris was slated to return to the stand today in the govern ment's anti-m o n o p o 1 y suit against his International Boxing club. Big Jim was testifying at ad journment Monday. . Guided by chief defense attor ney Whitey North Seymour, the promoter's testimony appeared aimed at establishing himself as an expert in the fight game and at disproving charges of con spiracy to monopolize. Norris, head of the IBC and president of the Madison Square Garden Corp., outlined Monday some of the difficulties and fi nancial hazards that confront a fight-promoter in these tele vision days. Norris said weekly television on Wednesday and Friday nights yielded the IBC about $1,200,000 during the past fiscal year. How ever, Arthur M. Wirtz of Chi cago Norris' partner in the IBC and many, other enterprises testified the Chicago branch of the' IBC lost $325,000 last year. 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Word from Art Witzleben who is traveling with Boros has it that the 1955 winner of the World Championship tourney at Tam O'Shanter, Chicago, will be in sharp fettle for his Medford appearance He is 61 under par for the tour and has broken two course records. At Rogue Valley Boros will team with Clayton Lewis, presi dent of the local club. They will play George Harrington, man ager, and Al Williams, profes sional of RVCC. A clinic will be conducted by the touring pro at I p.m. The match will follow. Top Money Man ., Boros is on tour as the result of his victory. in the big Tam tournament. His triumph made him golf's top money winner in 1955 and a further part of the champ's prize was a contract for a minimum of 55 exhibitions at $1,000 each from the May com pany, tourney sponsor. After a day-long st-y here Boros will leave Friday for Yak ima, Wash. From there he will go to Germany for several ap pearances. Jackson County Chamber of Commerce arranged for the stop here, applying for one of the exhibitions about the time of last year's world titular event. Eoros, who won the Tam crown also in 1952 when he was U.S. Open champ, leading money winner and golfer of the year, is the only big profession al star scheduled to appear on the Medford links this year. He is the second world tourney win WRESTLING CARD GRANTS PASS ARENA Wednesday Night, May 2 EXTRA SPECIAL ATTRACTION THE WRESTLING MIDGETS In an Australian Tag Team Match IVAN THE TERRIBLE', 95 and OTTO BOWMAN, 96 vs. TINY ROE, 90 and PEE WEE JAMES, 93 Don't mist these hilarious little guys in action. MAIN EVENT Best 23 Falls or 45 Minute LEAPIN' LARRY CHENE. 200 Detroit vs. DIRTY DOUG DONOVAN, 210 Montana Chene is back in action and rarin' to go. SEMI-FINAL Best 23 Falls or 45 Minutes RICKY WALDO. 220, Ohio vs. AL WARSAWSKI, 205, Detroit serve whiskey. . . great whiskey ! VkV Jilt's ' ner to make an exhibition ap pearance here. Ben Hogan play ed here prior to victories in the event Pro Since 1949 The standout linksmen. who will be here this week, has been a pro since 1949 and has been consistently in the money since 1950, He nicked ur cash in 21 tourney's last year. His club af filiation is Mid-Fines Country club. North Carolina. Boros is a native of Fairfield, Conn., is 36 years of age, stands almost six feet tall and weighs around 200 pounds. Lowest comnetitive score fnr Boros was his 65 in the 1951 Long Beach Open. His best 72- noie count was 268 in the 1952 Texas Open. Before making his mark in golf competition, Boros was a standout in both basketball and baseball in his Connecticut hieh school and college days. A caddy product, ne played his first tour nament at the age of 15. He entered the Medical Corps in 1942. When released by Uncle Sam he returned to nlav four years of top flight amateur golf, climaxed when he reached quarter finals in the national amateur in 1949. PRESIDENT NAMED New York (U.R) Martin Tanabaum, a graduate of Ford- ham University and Brooklyn Law school and a prominent fig ure in various charity organiza tions, was named today to suc ceed wuiiam H. Cane as presi dent of Yonkers Raceway. Corvallis (U.R) Oregon State whitewashed Willamette 7-0 in a tennis macth yesterday for its 9th win in 10 starts. ONLY AIRLINE SERVICE TO NORTH BEND -COOS BAY 66 PLUS TAX Scheduled loco Service
