EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday, May 21, IS56
Tony Trabert Learns It Takes
Years To Make Tennis Champion
It takes many years to make a
tennis champion, and no one
knows that better than Tony
Trabert, world amateur cham
pion, who will appear with Jack
Kramer's World Championship
Tennis Tour at Hedrick junior
high school gym here on Mon
day, May 28, at 8 p.m. Trabert
will meet Pancho Gonzales
while Pancho Segura opposes
Rex Hartwig. Gonzales and Se
gura will play Trabert and Hart
wig in the doubles match. The
show is sponsored by the Med
ford Lions club.
Tony began his tennis career
at the age of six when he lived
next door to some public courts
and played with the neighbor
hood kids. He entered his first
competitive tennis tournament
at the age of 10 and lost in the
first round by scores of 6-0, 6-1.
Two years later, however, he
won this same event
Not Great Junior
Trabert was not a great junior
player, never winning the Na
tional Juniors. But no one could
convince him that he wasn't go
ing to be the world's greatest
tennis player. His first big lift
came in 1950 at the age of 19
when he defeated Ted Schroe
der in the Western Champion
ships. His record from there on
was very spotty until 1953 when
he won the United States Na
tional Singles championships,
defeating Vic Seixas in the rec
ord time of 59 minutes. Also in
1953, Trabert married Shauna
Wood of Salt Lake City, who
was Miss Utah in 1953.
Tony is the epitome of the
big game. His great idol always
has been Jack Kramer and he
has tried to duplicate the Kra
mer style in strategy of serve
and advance to the net.
Works Self to Nat
Trabert has the temperament
of a great player. He trains for
all tournaments and is able to
work himself up to the peak for
the important ones.. He is invar-
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TONY TRABERT
First Big Lift Came at Age 19
iably an excellent sport on the
court at all times. Only once did
he display any temperament, an
incident which he still regrets
wholeheartedly. He was playing
the veteran, John Bromwich, in
the Australian National cham
pionships and allowed the enthu
siasm of the gallery to irritate
him. Trabert, however, apolo
gized for his action to the gal
lery the following year and was
greeted in return with a thun
dering roar of applause.
He knows through first hand
experience , that temperament
and concentration are just as
important to a tennis champion
as his forehand, backhand or
service. Trabert has found his
foe on this tour, Gonzales, to be
just about the greatest there is
but Trabert never quits trying
to beat his master.
UCLA Captures PCC Track
Mantle; Ducks Place 4th
By HAL WOOD
San Francisco (U.R) The
UCLA Bruins won't be eligible
to win another Pacific Coast con
ference championship for three
years but you have to admit
they went out in a blaze of glory.
The boys from Westwood
wound up a mighty year in
sports Saturday by dethroning
the Southern California Trojans
as the perennial winners of the
track and. field title.
It was the first time in his
tory that UCLA had won this
crown and it was the first
time since 1936 that the Trojans
had lost the title.
Other Title
On top of that, UCLA won
the PCC football and basketball
championships. The only major
crown to escape the Bruins was
baseball.
UCLA had its fine all-around
performer, Raf er Johnson, to
thank for the track and field
crown. Johnson won the low
hurdles, finished second in the
100 and broad jump and third
in the high hurdles.
The team scores: UCLA 69 V4,
USC 67, Stanford 29Vi, Oregon
21, California 17V4, Washington
6V4, Oregon State 6, Washington
State 6, Idaho 2.
Track nd Field Cmpionliihips:
IVtile 1, Bailey. Ore.; 2. Seaman.
UCLA: 3. Wing. USC: 4. Rodriguez.
UCLA; 5. McLeod. USC. Time 4:06.
(New PCC record. Old record of 4:09
et bv Dellenger. Ore.. 1955).
44C 1, Lnrrabee, USC: 3. Ellu,
UCLA: 3. Stewart, Cal.: 4. Ki'chen.
USC: 5. Carne. UCLA. Time :47.9.
Shot Put 1. Butt. Cal.. 57 feet 87,
inches: 2. Vick. UCLA. 57 feet 4 58
inches: 3. Cheney. Stan., 53 feet 4'4
inches; 4. Kahnert. Cal., 53 feet l'
inches: 5, Pulford. Wash., 50 feet 8T
inches.
880 1. Seaman. UCLA: 2. Kirkby,
USC; 3. McCulloch. Wash.: 4, Johan
son. Ida.; 5, Coburn, USC. Time
1:522.
220 1, Coyle. USC: 2. Larrabee.
USC- 3. Saras. Stan.; 4. ElUs, UCLA;
5, Kobel. Wash. Time :21.9.
U1M LI r. 1 . lin.ir.u, .J . ' . - -.- - -
incesh: 2. Drummond, UCLA. 178 feet
li inches: 3. tgan, usl. i ieei x
inch; 4. Vick. UCLA. 172 feet 5 inches;
' Broad Jump 1, Knaub. UCLA. 24
feet 10'i inches: z. Jonnson. n-Lft,
24 feet 3'i inches: 3. Herrmann. Stan..
24 feet 2 inches: 4. Merchant. Cal.. 24
feet 'i inch; 5. McClure. Ore.. 23 feet
7? inches.
Graves. Stan.: 3. Truex. USC: 4.
Aiidtoo. vvasn. 01.; a, xiouse, ii. tune
220-yaTd Low Hurdles 1, Johnson,
UCLA: it SWllineim. UBt; .-Morris,
Ore.: 4. Cobb. Stan.; Bail, UCLA;
Time :23 4.
100-Yard Dash 1. Coyle, USC; 2
i i . r i . . 4 11- 1 c-
4. Swiffhelm. USC; 5, Morris, Ore.
lime iu.
120-Yard High Hurdles 1. Nelson
Old i: , 4. , Dan, uvijn! o, tfuuiiauu,
UCLA; 4. Cobb, Stan.; 5, Lawson, USC.
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Javelin 1 Voiles. USC. 218 feet
9 inches; 2. Pearson. Wash. St., 205
feet 11 ',2 inches; 3, Bignam, ure., ti
feet 5'i inches: 4. McCrea, UCLA. 201
feet inch: 5. Roldan, Stan., 198
feet 7 inches.
High Jump , Miller, UCLA, 6 feet
5 inches: 2, tie between Vehlen, Stan.,
Dyer, UCLA, and Moss. Ore. bt., 6 leei
4 inches; 5. Stewart, Stan., 6 feet 2
inches.
Mile-Relay 1. USC (Quigley, Co
burn, Kirkby and Larrabee); 2. UCLA;
3. Oregon: 4, California; 5, Stanford.
Time 3:13.1
Pole Vault 1. Morris. USC. 14 feet
8 inches; 2, Levack, USC, 14 feet; 3,
tie between Flint, Stan., Anderson,
Cal.. Kell. UCLA,, and Hilton, Wash.,
13 feet 6 inches.
STANDINGS
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
W L
. 24 15
Los Angeles
beattle
Sacramento
San Diego
Ssn Fraa Cisco
portiano
Hollywood
Vancouver
25 16
20 17
21 21
. 20 21
. 18 22
17 21
Pet
.615
.610
.541
500
.488
.450
.447
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Sunday's Results
Hollywood 4-3 Los Angeles 1-0.
San Diego 10-3 Sacramento 5-0.
Seattle 6-3 Vancouver 1-8.
San Francisco 12-1 Portland 6-2.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W
Milwaukee
Brooklyn .
St. Louis ...
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
New York ...
Philadelphia 9
Chicago 7
-L . Pet
U 13 8 .619
16 11 .593
17 12 .586
16 12 .571
15 12 556
.. 13 15 .464
18 .333
18 .280
GB
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Sunday's Results
Brooklyn 5 Chicago 3 (1st)
Brooklvn 5 Chicago 3 (2nd)
New York 2 St. Louis 0 (1st)
New York 5 St. Louis (2nd)
Cincinnati 5 Philadelphia 1 (1st)
Philadelphia 6 Cincinnati 4 (2nd)
Pittsburgh 6 Milwaukee 3 (1st)
Pittsburgh 5 Milwaukee 0 (2nd)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W L Pet GB
New York j 21 10 .677
Cleveland 18 11 .621 2
Boston . 16 12 .571 3'.2
Chicago 12 13 .480 6
Baltimore 15 17 .467 6',i
Detroit 12 17 .414 7
Washington 12.18 .400 8'i
Kansas City 10 ' 18 J57 9,2
Sunday's Results ,
New York 4 Kansas Citv 2
Boston 12 Chicago 5 (1st)
Boston 2 Chicago 1 (2nd) -Detroit
4 Washington 2 (1st)
Detroit 7 Washington 1 (2nd)
Cleveland 8 Baltimore 1 (1st)
Cleveland 5 Baltimore 1 (2nd)
NORTHWEST LEAGUE
Eugene
Yakima
w
13
. 13
14
10
Wenatchee 0
Salem 7
Spokane 5
Tri-City
Lewiston
Pet
.684
.650
.608
.526
.428
12 .368
15 .238
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7
9
9
12
GB
Sunday's Results
Wenatchee 15 Yakima 2 (first game)
Yakima 9 . Wenatchee 3 (second
game)
Lewiston 10 Spokane 0 (first game)
Lewiston 16 Spokane 15 (second
game)
Eugene 7 Tri-City 6
COLLEGE SCORES
(By United Press)
Saturday Baseball
Oregon 4 Washington State 2
Seattle U 8 U of Portland 4 (first
game)
U of Portland 3 SeatUe U 0 (second
game)
Portland State 2 Oregon Tech 1
Portland State 7 Oregon College 3
Southern Oregon 8 Eastern Oregon 2
Oregon College 11 So. Oregon 3
Saturday Track
UCLA 69!-. USC 67. Stanford 29.
Oregon 21, California 17',j, Washing
ton 6'i, Oregon State 6, Washington
State 6. Idaho 2.
Lewis and Clark 771. Whitman
622. Willamette 542. Linfield 46 5t6.
Pacific 40 5' 6, College of Idaho 156.
Eastern Oregon 66 13. Oregon Col
lege 36 16. Southern Oregon 29 13.
Portland State 22. Oregon Tech 10 1 6.
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Softballers
Open League
This Evening
Jackson County Softball asso
ciation opens regular league
play this evening with a pair
of twilight tussles.
Walt's Lithia Motors meets
20-30 club and DeMolay plays
Southern Oregon Equipment
company with simultaneous ac
tion at the Medford senior high
school stadium. Game times will
be 6:15 p.m.
The loop, successor to the for
mer Medford Softball association
returns formal play to Medford
after a lay-off in 1955.
Clubs of the league began the
season yesterday with a jam
boree at Hawthorne park in the
three inning actions National
Guard tripped Courtesy Chevro
let 3 to 1, Waifs Lithia Motors
of Ashland beat Southern Ore
gon Equipment 3 to 0, 20-30
club trimmed DeMolay 6 to 2
and Medford Auto Upholstery
blanked Bill's 99 Chevron serv
ice 8 to 0.-
Two other teams of the loop,
the YMCA Ysmen and Chris
Drugs of Jacksonville did not
play.
This week's schedule.
May 21 Walt's Lithia Motors
vs. 20-30 club, DeMolay vs.
Southern Oregon Equipment
company. May 23 Courtesy
Chevrolet vs. Chris Drugs,
YMCA Ysmen vs. Bill's Chevron
service. May 24 Medford Auto
Upholstery vi. Company A of
National Guard, .Lithia Motors
vs. SO Equipment.
Bo Wininger
KC Champion
Kansas City, Mo U.R) Bo
Wininger, who won top prize
money in the $22,000 Kansas
City Open by the narrow margin
of one stroke, said today he had
a "feeling" he was due for a
win.
"The feeling came even be
fore the tournament started,"
he said, "but I wasn't sure it
was right until that last putt
dropped."
Wininger played a steady,
cautious game on the last nine
holes to defeat " Fred Hawkins,
El Paso, Tex., and Bob Ros
burg, San Francisco.
Wininger, 34, of Oklahoma
City, came back with a second
round of 34 and a total of 273
in the 72-hole affairs.
Hawkins and Rosburg each
shot 274.
Ted Kroli; Ft. Lauderdale,
Fla., took fourth . place and
$1,500 with a 276 total.
Dow Finsterwald of Bedford
Heights, O., shot a 278 total.
Tied with him were Gene Lit
tler, Singing Hills, Calif., and
Stan Leonard, Lechute, Canada.
SAILING CHAMP
Kings Point, N.Y. (U.R) The
United States Merchant Marine
academy won the Greater New
York Sailing championship Sun
day by totaling 58 points during
the two-day week end meet
Webb institute was second and
Hofstra finished third.
Medfo
UNE
SLPODIFLFS
Mail Tribune Trophy
Goes To Walt Fisher
Walt Fisher of Wedderburn
won the Mail Tribune trapshoot
ing trophy at Medford Gun club
yesterday but he had to bust
200 targets to do it.
Fisher and Gordon Miller,
Drain, knotted with 100 straight
in yesterday morning's 16-yard
competition of the two-day 23rd
annual Mail Tribune tourna
ment. In the shoot-off Fisher
shattered another 100 while
Miller, high overall shooter for
the two days, was right behind
in the extra with 99.
Miller, a top shooter in the
Saturday contention, had a 479
score for 500 targets for the
two days.
Medford gunners won the
team event with 961 total in
rivalry with Klamath Falls and
Yoncalla. Klamath had 948 and
Yoncalla 947. Scores of the local
team members were Ray Cole
man 198, George Jantzer 195,
Jim Horn 193, Henry Neider
meyer 189 and Ed Pease 186.
Fisher's triumph yesterday
gave him the Class A trophy
also at 16 yards and Miller got
the runner-up laurels in the
Class.
Jantzer Gets Award
Jantzer collected the Menden
hall trophy for Class B and
lower in the Mail Tribune spe
cial. He won the Class B shoot
ousting Coleman 75 to 74 in a
shoot-off after both broke 99 in
the regular. ,
Winner in Class C was C. G.
McCully of Gold Beach, and
Don Buffington, also of Gold
Beach was runner-up with 93.
W. E. Willett of Grants Pass
won the D group with 96 and
Ray Billings of Klamath Falls
was next with 89.
Coleman took the $300 Med
ford handicap yesterday with
a 99. Jack Culver of Sutherlin
won a shoot-off with 49 out of
50 for second. He tied with
Vera Solomon, Winchester, Fish
er and E. E. Driscoll, Klamath
Falls with a 97.
Horn and Solomon had 46 out
of 50 each in doubles to win
Class I and II, respectively.
Jantzer followed in Class I win
ning shoot-off with Vern Moore,
Klamath Falls. They Ijad 45s.
Miller and Pease had 45s also
in Class II doubles with Miller
taking No. 2 honors in an extra.
UCLA Bruins Slapped
With Stiff Penalty
Victoria, B.C. U.R) Every
member of the 1955 UCLA
varsity and freshman football
squads today was penalized
one year of eligibility at the
California school.
By BILL McFARLAND
Victoria, B. C. (U.R) Pa
cific Coast conference schools
and their coaches have been
warned to live by the conference
athletic code or face the dire
punishment received by UCLA
and Washington.
The Bruins were put into deep
freeze for three years Saturday
by conference officials, who
charged school Chancellor Ray
mond B. Allen, Athletic Director
Wilbur Jones and football Coach
Red Sanders with condoning and
even participating in the grant
of illegal financial aid to ath
letes. As a result, there'll be no
Rose Bowl games for UCLA for
three years, no recognized cham
pionships in any sports for the
same period, no participating in
post-season NCAA playoffs, no
flirting with prospective ath
letes and no share of Rose Bowl
receipts.
UCLA Punished Heavily
It was the toughest penalty
ever slapped on a college or
university for violation of the
athletic code. Its severity caus
ed strong speculation that Allen,
Jones and Sanders are on the
hot seat, and their jobs may be
in jeopardy.
Allen Also Fined
Washington, earlier this
month, was handed a penalty
League Leaders
(Bv United Press)
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Player and Club G AB R H Pet
Repulski. St. L. . 25 85 19 35 .412
Long, Pitts 29 108 21 43 .398
Bruton, Milw 18 66 15 26 .394
Bailey, Cin 22 67 10 26 .388
Boyer, St. L. 29 114 24 43 .377
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Player and Club G AB R H Pet
Mantle. N. Y 31 118 33 47 .398
Maxwell, Det :.24 74 17 29 .392
Vernon. Boston ..23 78 14 29 .372
Bovd, Bait. 28 70 10 25 .357
Berra, N. Y 30 116 22 41 .353
Home Huns: Mantle. Yankees 15;
Berra, Yankees 12: Post. Redlegs 11;
Long. Pirates, Boyer, Cardinals, Jab
lonski, Redlegs, all 9.
Runs Batted Ins Berra. Yankees 34;
Mantle, Yankees 32; Long, Pirates 29;
Bover.- Cardinals 28; Jablonski, Red
legs 27.
Runs: Mantle. Yankees 33: Boyer,
Cardinals 24; Yost, Senators 23; Lopez,
Athletics 23: Moon, Cardinals 22: Ber
ra. Yankees 22: Bauer, Yankees 22.
Hits: Mantle, Yankees 47: Boyer.
Cardinals 43; Long, Pirates 43: Berra,
Yankees 41; Goodman, Red Sox 40;
Kuenn. Tigers 40.
Pitching: Ford, Yankees 6-0: Lawr
ence. Redlegs 5-0: Pierce. White Sox,
Wynn, Indians. Wilson, Orioles, Brew
er. Red Sox. all 4-1.
almost identical to that put on
UCLA, but for a two, instead of
three, year period.
Conference Commissioner Vic
tor O. Schmidt presented "evi
dence, not denied and admit
ted by UCLA," to the effect
that Allen, Johns, Sanders and
the athletic department "have
for several years known of the
furnishing of aid to student ath
letes in a form not sanctioned
by the conference code and have
cooperated with the booster club
members or officers actually ad
ministering the same by refer
ring student athletes to them
for such aid."
The school also was assessed
$15,000 because Allen "denied
the commissioner the opportun
ity to conduct, an on campus
investigation of 'the financial aid
to athletes." - . .. ; ,
Women's Golf
Lady golfers of Rogue Valley
Country Club will be hostesses
to the Grants Pass Lady Golfers
on Thursday, May 24. Play will
be medal for 18-hole and 9-hole
players.
All ladies wishing to be pair
ed with Grants Pass players are
asked to be at the pro shop be
tween 8 and 9 a.m. Thursday
morning. Pairings will be made
at the table.
Ladies not playing with a
Grants Pass woman are asked to
make their own groupings and
plan their play after 9 a.m.
Luncheon will be served at
1 p.m. Women contact either
Merle Nulton (2-7809) or Evalyn
Tamney (2-9659) regarding the
play for the day.
RIDDLE TO SCOUT
Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) Elmer
Riddle, former major league
pitcher, today was signed as a
scout by the Kansas City Ath
letics. He will cover Florida,
Georgia and Alabama for the
A's.
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Long's Heavy Slugging Boosts
Pittsburgh Close To Top in FJL
By MILTON RICHMAN
United Press Sports Writer ..
Strapping Dale Long had the
kind of weekend all hitters
dream about and because of it,
the amazing Pirates were sail
ing along on Cloud Eight to
dayonly one game out of first
place.
Long capped his spectacular
one-man slugging show by driv
ing in a total of seven runs
against the Braves Sunday to
help the Pirates sweep a double
header, 6-3 and 5-0, before 32,
fans, Pittsburgh's largest home
crowd in five years.
The 30-year-old six-foot-four
first baseman really treated the
crowd to an explosive exhibition.
He smashed a three-run homer
off Ray Crone in the opener,
then drove in four more runs
with his ninth homer and a
single in the nightcap.
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Charles, who won the vacant
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hopes to do it again, is favored
at 8-5 to beat young, unranked
Wayne Bethea of New York to
night in their TV-radio fight at
St. Nicholas Arena.
After a dismal campaign on
the come-back trail last year, 34-year-old
Ezzard of Cincinnati
will try for his second victory
of 1956 against comparatively
inexperienced, but strong and
tough Bethea. .
29 runs batted in and is second
best in hitting with a .398 aver
age. Slose N.L. Race
When all the shooting was
over Sunday, the Braves still
were in first place by 26 per
centage points and only one
game separated the first five
clubs in the standings.
Brooklyn bounced back into
second place by beating Chicago
twice by identical 5-3 scores.
Duke Snider broke a 3-all tie
with a two-run homer off Jim
Brosnan in the seventh inning
of the frist game and Sandy
Amoros also snapped a 3-3 tie
with a two-run triple off Turk
Lown in the eighth ining of the
nightcap.
Rookie first baseman Bill
White was the standout as the
Giants took both ends of a twin
bill from the Cardinals, 2-0 and
5-2. White connected for a hom
er and a single in the first game
and cracked out three hits while
driving in the tie-breaking run
in the second game.
Reds Split Two
Eighth inning homers by Del
Ennis and Willie Jones power
ed the Phillies to a 6-4 victory
in the nightcap of a doublehead-
er after the - Redlegs battered
Robin Roberts for a 5-1 triumph
in the first game.
In the American League,
Cleveland swept its first double
header of the season by beating
Baltimore twice, 6-1 and 5-1. Bob
Lemon scattered seven hits to
rack up his sixth straight vic
tory in the opener as Bob Avila
and Vic Wertz each homered.
Preston Ward, making his first
start for Cleveland after being
acquired from Pittsburgh, col
lected three hits in the opener
and singled with the bases full
in the nightcap to spark a three
run seventh-inning rally.
Yanks Down Athletics
Home runs by Hank Bauer
and Andy Carey gave the first
place Yankees a 4-2 decision
over the Athletics.
The Red Sox took two garnet
from the White Sox, 12-5 and
2-1, with Jackie Jensen homer
ing in each contest.
Catcher Pete Daley drove in
five runs with a grand-slam
homer and a double in the first
game.
Detroit defeated Washington
twice, 4-2 and 7-1, with Paul
Foytack winning the first game
and reliever Steve Gromek. the
nightcap. Bill Turtle hit a grand
slam homer in the second game
and Bob Kennedy a three-run
homer.
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