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Colts Play Glendale In Rogue Valley Loop Tilt This Afternoon It's be either Eldon Davidson or Kay Kelley pitching today when the Cheney Colts take on the Glendale nine in an opening Rogue Valley league baseball conflict. The scrape will start at 2 p.m. at the fairgrounds dia mond here. Manager Harry Tonn said that either Howard Morris or Gerald Darland will handle'the catch ing assignment. Morris will be on hand from Linfield college. Al Simmons Of Baseball Fame Dies Milwaukee, Wis. OI.R) Al Simmons, 54, one of the great est major league right-handed batters of all time, died at his home early Saturday after ap parently suffering a heart attack. He was dead on arrival at Milwaukee County Emergency hospital. Simmons played with seven major league teams in his base ball career, but ,ha achieved stardom with the Philadelphia Athletics from 1924 to 1934. He was the leading hitter in the American league in 1930 with a .381 average and again in 1931 with a .390 average. In several seasons he lead the American league in runs bat ted in, runs scored, hits "and to tal bases. Simmons wound up with a life-time batting average of .334 and recorded more hits than any American league batter with 2831 during his 20 seasons. Most Valuable Simmons won the Sporting News Award as the most valu able player in the American league in 1929 when he batted .365. Simmons led the Athlet ics to pennants from '29 through 1931, probably his best seasons, The Athletics won the world series in 1929 and 1930 but lost to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1931. Despite his great hitting abil ity, one of baseball's greatest moments saw Simmons struck out along with four other Hall of Fame hitters during the 1934 All-Star game by Carl Hubbell. The other "victims" were Lou Gehrig, Babe Ruth, Joe Cronin and Jimmy Foxx. Golf Day Action At Rogue Valley Begins June 3 Rogue Valley Country club participation In National Golf day competition is scheduled June 3 through 9. National Golf day will be on June 9. On that day Jack Fleck and Fay Crocker, 1955 U.S. Golf association men's and women's open champions will play a round of 18 holes at the Oak Hill country club, Rochester, N.Y. Golfers throughout the country, playing at their home or other courses, will compete against them. Men's and wom en's net scores will be matched against the gross tallies of the champions. While the champs play their round on the one day, men and women trying to "beat" them, can play any time June 3 through 9. Each entry costs $1. PGA Sponsors National Golf day is sponsor ed by. the Professional Golfers association. Net proceeds of the rivalry will be turned over to the National Golf Fund, Inc. Funds will be allocated to the turf research and education, veterans rehabilitation pro grams, development of golf among blind amputees, PGA re lief, educational and benevolent funds, caddie scholarship foun dations and similar projects. Women whose nets are better than Miss Crocker's gross will get an "I beat the champion Fay Crocker" medal. Men who trim Fleck will get an "I beat the champion Jack Fleck" me dal. Contestants may play as many rounds as they wish by paying an additional fee. - Fleck faded after winning the national crown but seems to be 'getting back into stride. Dead lina Sunday Classified is at neon Saturday. 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days S JO previous day. It was not learned yesterday whether Kelley, attending the same school, could be here. An organization unique in southern Oregon semi-profes sional baseball will make its de but when the Colts take to the field this afternoon. For the Colts are a "farm" club of an other semi-pro team, the Med ford Cheney Studs of the faster Southern Oregon circuit. Purpose of the Colt aggrega tion is to train players for fu ture participation with the Par ent team. A few of the youths appearing in the Cheney line up today could move up with the Studs as the season progres ses. Valley Team Under the sponsorship of the Cheney Forest Products, Cen tral Point, the Colts will func tion as a valley team rather just just a Medford club. The fairgrounds will be their home field. Harvey Tonh, who has play ed for the Studs, probably will be at first base for the Colts to day with Maurice Churchman at second. Don LeBeau, who has had military service base ball experience, may be at third base. Eldon Francis, previous candidate for the position, re portedly will play American Le gion junior baseball. Ray Oaks is the likely shortstop. - Manager Tonn said that Bob Serak may be in center field and Vern Parent in the left pasture. Either Ron Pruitt or Ray Dahl may play in the right garden. Tonn stated that he plans to have as many players as possible see duty. The num ber depends on how the game goes. Duane Miller is expected to pitch for Glendale with Ray Munvan to do the catchine. Glendale is defending league champ. Other eames today in the RVL will be Ashland at Butte Falls, Camp White at Cave Junction and Grants Pass at Easle. Box seats will be ready for today s game. The Colts meet Ashland here Wednesday afternoon. Round-Robin Play iected for Big 10 Schools Minneapolis, Minn. u.PJ The Big Ten moved Saturday to ward becoming almost an ex clusive Midwestern league dur ing the football season and a perennial opponent of the Pa cific Coast conference in post season Rose Bowl contests. Faculty representatives and athletic directors paved the way for a round-robin grid schedule during which each tearrf will play nine conference games. They enacted legislation which would put the schedule into op eration by 1963. Four Year Plan 1 The legislation calling for a "four-year plan" culminating in the round robin set-up still must clear member school fac ulties before it is official, how ever. The joint group authorized conference schools to play 10 games in 1959 and 1960 with a requirement that each schedule seven league contests. In 1961 and 1962 each team must play eight conference tilts, and start ing in 1963 each must meet ev ery other team in the conference. Proj Baseball FRIDAY'S RESULTS PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Sacramento 11-4, Vancouver 1-J Portland 10, San Diego 3 Hollywood. 11. San Francisco I Los Angeles 6, Seattle 0 American League New York 10. Balitmore 2 (night) . Washington 10, Boston 5 (night) Kansas City 6, Detroit 3 (night) Chicago 2, Cleveland X (night) National League - - - - New York 6. Brooklyn S (night) Cincinnati 6. Milwaukee 5 (night) Pittsburgh S, Philadelphia S (night) St. Louis 6. Chicago 1 (night) Northwest League Spokane 7, Salem 6 -Eugene S. Tri-City 4 Yakima 7. Wenatchee 1 SUNDAY'S GAMES American League Cleveland at Chicago (2) Kansas City at Detroit New York at Baltimore Washington at Boston National League Brooklyn at New York Pittsburgh at Philadelphia (2) Cincinnati at Milwaukee Chicago at St. Louis. WE IIAUE OPENING FOR TWO MEN In Klamath Falls between ages, of 18 and 30. Earnings to start approximately $310 per month, after 1 week's paid training. Uniforms furnished. Automatic increases 4-8 and 12 months. 40 hour week, secure future, employed benefit plans. Apply STANDARD STATIONS, INC., 6th and Riverside, TUESDAY, MAY 29th. Oregon Staters Top Ducks; Couqars Clinch ND Pennant Corvallis U.R) Jerry Ex- ley, Oregon State captain and centerfielder, smashed out three home runs and drove in six runs to lead OSC to an 11-10 win over the University of Oregon here Friday. At Pullman, Washington State downed Idaho 4-1 and cinched the Northern Division pennant, won the previous three years by the Ducks. Exley homered in the fourth inning to give OSC its first run. He hit another in the seventh with two men on to tie the game at 6-6, then polled his third home run over the centerfield er's head in the eighth inning to score two runs and put OSC ahead 10-7. . . Ducks Rally The 11th and decisive run was scored later in the eighth on an infield hit by Tom Hunt a walk to Jerry Bettendorf and a single by Tom Bowen. Oregon rallied for three runs in the ninth on a walk, a triple by Jim Pihfer and singles by Terry Maddox and Dick Schlon stein. The rally fell short, however, when Lowell Pearce came in for the Beavers and retired the last two batters on infield outs. 29 IN OLYMPICS Stockholm (U.R) Twenty-nine countries, including the United States, have entered the 1956 equestrian Olympic games, with 11 nations taking part in all three contests the dressage, the three-day event and the jumping Grand Prix. The events will be held here, June 10-17. . . ' Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day. LitKia LeaHs In Softball Walt's Lithia Motors was at the head of the pack at the end of the first week of play in the Jackson County Softball asso ciation. , . ; The Ashland club, one of two games to play two contests . so far, was winner of both. Three other teams are unmarred in one game. Twilight play continues at the senior high stadium this week with games on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. Starting times are 6 p.m. for two games each day. There could be action either Tuesday or Friday to work in the Crater Lake Motors club, which has Sunder May 27, 1958 MEDTORD (OXESOK) MAIL TMBTJNZ ELZTtK LEA BREAKS RECORD Modesto, Calif. (UlPJ Jim Lea, former University of Sou thern California star now run ning for the U.S. Air Force, smashed the world's record in the" 440 Saturday as he was tim ed in 45.8 seconds in the Calif ornia Relays the first time in history any man has broken the 46-second mark. just joined the loop. '- Following is the list of gam es this week. May 28 Chris Drugs vs.. 20 30, DeMolay vs. Bill's Chevron. May 30 Courtesy Chevrolet vs. National Guard, Ysraen 'vs. Au to Upholstery. May 31 Lithia Motors vs. Chris Drugs, Bill's Chevron vs. 30 Equipment. Ned Landers OCC All-Star In Baseball Portland (U.R) Portland State, baseball champion of the Oregon Collegiate conference, landed four berths on the all conference team released by the league today. Pitcher Gary Lansing, Short stop Merle Stewart, Outfielder Dave Starbuck, and Infielder Harvey Neffendorf, all nailed down spots for the Vikings on the 10-man squad named today. 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