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Newspaper Page TextEIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, May 30, 195S Brick Laws Considering Sale of Club Oakland, Calif. (U.PJ President C. L. Brick Laws of the Vancouver Mounties has dis closed that he is considering selling the Pacific Coast team to wealthy Canadian sportsman Coley Hall for "considerably more than $60,000." Laws is part owner of the franchise which was shifted from Oakland to the British Co lumbia city last winter, ending a 54 year stand in the East Bay. His plans for selling the club were revealed yesterday when a legal action was filed in Ala meda superior court to halt the move. The suit was filed by Mr. and Mrs. A. Robert Miller, who identified themselves as owners of the stock in the Oakland as sociation, which controls the Vancouver team. The Millers said that the club's board of "directors approved the granting of an option to Hall to buy the property, with the offer expiring on June 30 of this year. They said the price had been set at $60,000 and claimed it was not a "fair market price." No Option Yet "I've talked to Hall about his buying the team but haven't sent him any option yet and don't intend to rush one up to him in the next mail," Laws said. "I'll be down in this area for the next three weeks and don't intend to see him about the trans action until I get back to Van couver." , . The Mounties, last in the Coast League race, have been under fire almost since the beginning of the season and there has been speculation that Laws would be glad to get out of baseball. Among the attacks on the club fias been one that it was a foreign-owned operation, and Laws said the team might be on firm er ground if some Canadian money was invested in it. Wes Santee Makes Bid Quantico, Va. U.R) Wes Santee, in one of the rare com petitive chances left open to him, bid today for the "metric mile" championship in the ninth annual Marine corps track and field championships.' Santee, under ban from ama teur track by the National Ama teur Athletic Union on charges of accepting about $1,500 in ex cess expense money, is abln to compete here because the meet is a military service affair. The former Kansas star, now a Marine lieutenant stationed here, won the 800-meter run in Tuesdays opening-day program in the excellent time of 1:49.5.1 Mathias Stars However, he was forced io share the spotlight with two time Olympic decathlon cham pion Bob Mathias of Tulare, Calif., and Josh Culbreath, for mer Morgan State college star who is rated America's top hope for the -400-meter low hurdles crown in this year's Olympic games. Mathias, representing Camp Pendleton, won the shotput Tuesday with a toss off 49 feet, 83s inches and today was to try to win three more titles in the discus throw, broad jump, and 110-meter high hurdles. UCLA Athletic Director Requests Reconsideration of PCC Penalties' Against Bruin Football Players Los Angeles U.PJ wnour Johns, athletic director of UCLA has expressed hope that the Pa cific Coast conference would re consider penalties against the school's footbal players "in the light of existing conditions and practices at other schools." Johns in a prepared statement Tuesday said he believed any athletes who did not receive aid beyond conference limits would be cleared and called for an ear ly meeting of' the Council of Presidents as recommended by Dr. Gordon Sproul, president of the University of California. . Code Re-Study "UCLA representatives have urged for years that the confer ence re-examine its basic philos ophies in the light of existing conditions and practices," Johns stated. -T underline the word prac tices because everyone connect ed with the member institutions has been exposed to sufficient rumors and circumstantial evi dence to realize that practices were not uniformly consistent with the code." The athletic director said the most important aspect of all the sanctions imposed is the effect STANDINGS on the athletes. "This is real tragedy and one which I fervently hope will be reconsidered by the presidents and the conference when all in stitutional reports have been considered," Johns said. "In the light of recent disclo sures and intimations of other possible disclosures about irreg ularities at other member insti tutions, it seems that the Coun cil of Presidents must take posi tive action if we are to avoid a continuing fiasco in the confer ence." Knox Status Johns denied that he or any one else at UCLA had specifical ly announced star passer Ron nie Knox would be eligible next fall. Knox claimed he didn't re ceive "undercover" payments and could not be affected by a year's suspension invoked against all UCLA squad mem bers. UCLA recently was fined nearly $95,000 for making al leged illegal payments to ath letes. The 'conference also set the ineligibility at one year for each player on the 1955 frosh and varsity squads except for those proving they did not ac cept extra money. By I'nited Prfs PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Los Angeles 31 Sacramento 27 Seattle 29 San Diego 24 Portland 23 San Francisco 23 Hollywood Vancouver Tuesday's Results Portland d, ban Francisco 2 (10 in nings) Los Angeles 8, Vancouver 3 Seattle 4. San Diego 2 Sacramento 2. Hollywood 1 and Probable Pitchers Wednesday (All Double Headers) Portland (Bob Alexander 3-3 Royce Lint 1-4 or Bob Hall 2-3) at San Francisco (R. w. smitn 4-3 and eitner Jerry Casale 6-1 or Bill Henry 1-1) Vancouver (Fred Besana 0-2 and George Bamberger 4-2 cr Al Curtis 1) at Los Angeles (Harry rrKow- ski 3-3 and Dave Hillman 3-1). Hollywood (Bob Garber 0-0 and Roger Sawyer 2-2) at Sacramento (Gene aearaen z-z ana aua w at Kins 1-0). Seattle (Bud Podbielan 3-1 and Vic Lombardi 4-2) at San Diego (Ed Erautt 4-7 and Al Gettel 1-4). MedfordMIubune m Bilko Socks 19th Homer As Angels Take Seventh Straight; Portland Victor Blister Hobbles Ted Williams; Went 7-lnnings Baltimore (U.R) Ted Wil liams was hobbled by a new ail ment today 24 hours after he returned to the Boston Red Sox' lineup for the first time since April 18. The 36-year-old slugger's avail ability was strli on a ' day to day" basis because of a blister the size of half-dollar in diam eter and a quarter-inch deep in his right heel. The blister de veloped Tuesday when Ted play ed seven innings in the Red Sox 7-3 win over the New York Yankees., No Way of Telling "There's no telling from day to day what the situation is go ing to be," Williams conceded. "I'll play if I can but there's just no way of predicting how my pins'll be." Williams returned to the Red Sox' regular lineup for the first time since the second game of the season Tuesday. He notified Manager Mike .Higgins a few minutes before game-time that he'd like "to give it a try." Williams went hitless in four trips to the plate and caught a routine fly in left field before retiring in favor of Gene Steph ens in the seventh. By DON THACKREY United Press Sports Writer The Pacific Coast League reached the Memorial Day Land mark today but the biggest things on the horizon were Steve Bilko and the larupping Los An geles Angels. Bilko, who looks as if he could bunt the ball out of the park, pounded his 19th home run yesterday to lead the Angels to their seventh straight victory a 9-3 conquest of Vancouver. Elsewhere in the league the games were close. Portland and San Francisco went scoreless for nine innings and then did all their scoring in the tenth with the Beavers winning 3-2. Sacra mento edged past Hollywood 2-1 and Seattle got yeoman relief pitching from Bill Kennedy to down San Diego 4-2. Sixth Loss Bilko and Gale Wade hit home runs as the Angels sent Vancouver down to the ?-1oun-ties' sixth straight loss. George Piktuzis and Gene Fodge com bined to allow but five hits, al though three of them were home runs. Three Jims, McDonald, Pis oni and Westlake, hit solo hom ers to account for all Vancouver runs. Rene Valdes and Russ Kem merer were in magnificent form for the regular distance in the Beaver-Seal game. Kemmerer had given Portland only two singles. But in the tenth a hit and a walk set the stage for Jim Baxes to hammer a three-run homer. The Seals roared back with two runs and had two men on the plate when fireman Ray Shore fanned Larry DiPippo to end the overtime contest. Sacramento's Rufe Crawford singled heme George Risley in the eighth frame with the run that broke a 1-1 tie with Holly wood. And then in the ninth Ferris Fain pulled the hidden ball trick to get rid of a runner on first. Two Hollywood singles followed before the side was re tired. Pitchers Duel Cloyd Boyer for Sacramento and Curt Raydon for Hollywood had pitched even, thrilling base ball up to that point although Boyer gave way to Milo Candi- ni to get the final out in the ninth. Kennedy relieved Art Shal- lock in the sixth and gave San Diego only three hits the rest of the way to save the Seattle vic tory. Pete Mesa got three runs in the first frame, only one of them earned Carmen Mauro then hit a solo home run in the second for in surance. Kennedy came in when the Pads scored twice in the sixth and stopped them. LINESCORES: (10 Innings) Portland ..,:..000 000 000 33 S 0 S. Francisco 000 000 000 2 2 9 1 Valdes. Shore (10) and Calderone; Kemmerer. Grba (10) and' Sullivan. Vancouver 000 011 001 3 5 2 Los Angeles ... 000 114 30x 9 11 1 McDonald and Edwards; Piktuzis, Fodge (6) and Tappe. Jerry Joy Gets Tennis Racquet Jerry Joy, Ashland, won the Jack Kramer-autographed ten nis racquet Monday night at the world championship profes sional tennis matches here. Joy was one of the six ball boys for the matches. They wers given numbers and he had the lucky one. The Ashland youth exchanged strokes wth Rex Hartwig, the Australian star and Pancho Segura, exponent of the two-handed forehand, gave Joy pointers on that stroke. REDS USE SALK VACCINE London (U.R) Moscow Radio said early today the Soviet Union would soon start produc ing Salk polio vaccine. A broad cast heard here said plans for mass producing the American developed vaccine were an nounced by A. A. Smoridintzev, a member of the Soviet scienti fic delegation which visited the United States recently. Use Tribune Want Ads e For a GUARANTEED GOOD USED CAR Before You Buy Be Sure To Look the Lot Over at . . . MORSE MOTORS 1201 N. RIVERSIDE Hollywood ....000 010 000 1 9 Sacramento . 010 000 Olx 2 7 2 Raydon & Hall; Boyer, Candini (9) and Saicn. Seattle 310 000 000 4 7 C San Diego 000 002 000 2 9 2 Schallock. Kennedy (6) and Orteig; Mesa. Harrington (8) and Aylward. Nashua Expected To Draw Throng By JOE SARGIS United Press Sports Writer Nashua, thoroughbred racing's Mr. Millions, was expected to lure 50,000 fans to old Belmont park in New York today for the 63rd running of the Metropoli tan handicap the top race on an interesting holiday program across the nation. . The well-built son of Nasrul- lah, who passed Citation's all time money-making record by capturing the Camden handicap at Garden State Park 11 days ago, will Tbe trying to match the feats of the last three winners of the Metropolitan Tom Fool, Native Dancer and High Gun by carrying 130 pounds over the mile course. With $1,100,365 already In the bank, Nashua was shooting for the top prize of $38,200. 20 ...16 16 18 22 26 25 26 26 34 Pet. .660 .600 369 .480 .479 .469 .435 .320 GB 4 8"i 8,i 9 10!,i 17 How Series Stand Portland 1. San Francisco 0 Los Angeles 1. Vancouver 0 Seattle 1, San Diego 0 Sacramento 1. Hollywood 0 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Milwaukee 17 9 St. Louis 22 14 Pittsburgh 19 14 Cincinnati 19 la Brooklyn 18 15 New York 14 19 Philadelphia 11 21 Chicago 9 22 Pet. .654 .611 .576 .559 .545 .424 .344 .290 GB 1 2 2' 2 62 9 io v, Tuesday's Results Brooklyn 10. Pittsburgh 1 Cincinnati 10, Chicago 4 (Only games scheduled) Wednesday's Probable Pitchers Brooklyn at Philadelphia (2) Mag ie 0-0 and Drvsdale 1-2 vs. Roberts 5-4 and Rogovin 0-2 or S. Miller 1-2. New York at PittsDurgn z Anton- elli 3-3 and Liddle 1-1 vs. Law 2-3 and Pepper 0-0. Milwaukee at Chicago (2) Buhl 3-i and Spahn 3-3 vs. Meyer 1-2 and Hacker 0-4. Cincinnati at St. Louis (2) Klipp- stein 3-2 and La Palme 1-1 vs. Little- field 0-1 and Dickson 2-3. Thursday's Games New York at Pittsburgn (mgntj Milwaukee at Chicago Cincinnati at St. Louis -' (Only games scheduled). AMERICAN LEAGUE W. New York 26 Cleveland 20 Boston 19 Chicago 16 Baltimore 17 Detroit 16 Washington .. Kansas City 16 15 L. 13 15 17 15 20 21 22 22 Pet. .667 .571 .528 .516 .459 .431 .421 .405 GB 4 5',i 6 8 9 9i 10 Bob Gauthier Slaps Homer With 3 On By RAY ANDREWS United Press Sports Writer Picking a hero in last night's Northwest league play is a lead pipe cinch. It would have to be Bob Gau thier of Eugene who sat out six innings before he got in the ball game. ' Then in the seventh. Ad Sata lich, Salem pitcher, walked two men. Gene Marinacci's scratch single filled the sacks and Gau thier came in to hit for pitcher Bill Griffin. . He belted one of Satalich's pitches clear over the score board for one of the longest homers ever hit at the Salem park. The four runs crossed to go with one Eugene tallied in the third for a 5-3 Eugene vic tory. Donahue Goat On the other side of the ledg er, there was Mike Donahue. Lewiston catcher. Donahue dropped a third strike on Bob Roberts of Wenatchee that would have ended the ball game. Instead Roberts scampered to first safely and Phil Marvier scored from second with the ty ing run when Donahue dropped the return throw from first. That made the score Wenat chee 3, Lewiston 3 at the end of the ninth. Wenatchee took advantage of the break with a run in the 10th when Don Lund- berg's single plated Frank Mata- ya from second for a 4-3 Wenat chee decision.' Tri-City and Yakima broke even in a twin bill at Kenne wick. A 13-hit attack produced a 12-5 Tri-City victory in the opener. Yakima took the second game 4-3 with Eny Wilcox send ing in the eventual winning run in the seventh with a single. Tuesday's Results Washington 6. Baltimore 5 Boston 7. New York 3 Chicago 7, Kansas City 4 (12 in nings) (Only games scheduled) Wednesday's Probable Pitchers Washington at New York (2) Pas- cual 2-5 and Ramos 2-1 vs. Kucks 5-2 and Turley 1-2. Boston at Baltimore (2) busce l-i and Delock 1-3 vs. Moore 3-3 and Brown 1-0. Chicago at Cleveland (2) Pierce 5-1 and Wilson 5-2 vs. Garcia 3-4 and Houtteman 0-0. Detroit at Kansas. City (2) Foytack 3-2 and Hoeft 4-2 vs. KreUow 2-4 and Ditmar 4-3. Thursday's Games Boston at Baltimore Washington at New York (Only games scheduled) NORTHWEST LEAGUE W. L. Yakima 19 10 Eugene . 17 10 Tri-City 16 11 Lewiston 13 10 Wenatchee 12 18 Spokane 11" 20 Salem 8 19 Pet. .655 .629 .592 .565 .400 .373 .296 GB 1 2 3 7i 8 10 Tuesday's Results: Eugene 5. Salem 3 Wenatchee 4, Lewiston 3 (10 in nings) " Tri-City J2. Yakima 5 (first game) Yakima 4. Tri-City 3 (second game) Ducks Talk To Hickey St. Louis, Mo. ' (U.R) Eddie Hickey, basketball coach at St. Louis university and athletic di rector at the school, said here yesterday that he had been con contacted regarding the coach ing vacancy at the University of Oregon but added he didn't know if he were being consid ered for the job. Hickey said that he was happy with conditions at St. Louis," and had no plans to leave. He added, however, "if an offer of a tremendous salary in crease would come along, I'd listen to it." . The St. Louis coach confirm ed that Oregon Athletic Director Leo Harris had talked to him about the Webfoot vacancy but indicated their conversations had been chiefly in regard to other possible candidates. Milwaukee (U.R) A sched uled 10-round bout between Er nie Durando of Bayonne, N.J., and Frank Szuzina of Germany for Thursday has been post poned because of an ear injury suffered by Durando in train ing. The bout will be re-scheduled as soon as the injury heals. CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT FOR RENT Motor Graders Shovel Fronts Motor Cranes Back Hoes Draglines Clamshells Crawler Type Tractors with Dozers 105 Air Compressor 315 -Air Compressor Wagon Drill - Paving Breakers Jack Hammers MACHINE TRENCHING -' Gas Water Sewer Drain Installation or Repair ,1. C. LIIIIIIGER & SOUS . MEDFORD, OREGON . - PHONE 2-5336 or 2-5897 Joe Conrad Advances (League Leaders In British Amateur By HENRY THORNBERRY Troon, Scotland (U.R) All four remaining Americans in the British Amateur Golf Champ ionship won fourth round matches today. Defending Champion Joe Conrad of San Antonio, Tex., scored an easy 6 and 5 victory, but Gene An drews, Peter Grant and Lt. Gene Eyler all won hard-fought 1 up matches. Conrad, rated America's best hope to win the title, had little difficulty beating John Mills of Scotland. However, Andrews, the 1954 U. S. Public Links champion from Pacific Palisades, Calif., and Grant, who comes from Phoenix, Ariz., struggled the full 18 holes before winning, and Eyler, a serviceman from Buffalo, N. Y., edged Hugh Squirrell of Wales on the 19th hole. Andrews scored the most im pressive triumph of the four Americans when he shot a two-under-par 69 on the ancient Troon course to eliminate Phil Scrutton of England. Grant de feated Michael Burgess of Eng land. Today's fourth round results were in marked contrast to yes terday's ".Black Tuesday," dur ing which 13 Yanks were elim inated. The four Americans who reached the fourth round repre sented the smallest contingent of U. S. survivors in years for this stage of the tournament. Among the "name" Americans ousted were Hobart Manley of Savannah, Ga., Frank Strafaci of Garden City, N. Y., and "Dy namite" Billy Goodloe of Val dosta, Ga., ' all in the second round, and Edwin C. Vare and Clarke Hardwicke of Los An geles, both in the third round. Two rounds were scheduled to be played today and by night fall there would be only eight survivors for Thursday's 36-hole quarter-finals. Seventeen Scots and seven Englishmen ' were among the 32 who started play today in cool, overcast weather. Conrad, shooting only two-over-par" golf for the 13 holes his match lasted, grabbed a 3 up lead at the turn and then swept three of the first four holes on the incoming nine to win hand ily. The American needed to play only fair golf as Mill bogeyed eight of the last 10 holes in the match. (By United Press) NATIONAL LEAGUE Player & Club G AB. R Lon. Pitts .35 132 27 Rep'lski. St. L 27 92 20 Boyer. St. L 36 144 28" Bailey. Cin. 27 84 12 Bruton. Mil. J23 85 17 H. Pet 53 .402 AMERICAN LEAGUE Mantle. N.Y. 39 145 Maxwell, Det. .31 97 Vernon. Boston ..27 90 Courtney, Wash. 29 91 Kuenn, Detroit 37 150 43 21 15 12 23 36 52 30 30 61 35 31 31 51 .391 .361 .357 .353 .421 .361 .344 341 .340 Home Runs Mantle. Yankees 18; Long, Pirates 14: Post, Redlegs 14; Berra, Yanks 12; Sievers. Senators 11; Boyer. Cards 11. Runs Batted In Mantle. Yanks 45: Long. Pirates 37: Boyer, Cardinanls 37; Berra. Yankees 35; Sievers, Sena tors' 33; Musial, Cardinals 33 Runs Mantle. Yankees 43; Bauer. Yankees 30: Sievers. Senators 30; Lo pez. Athletics 30; Yost. Senators 30. Hits Mantle. Yankees 61; Long, Pirates 53; Boyer, Cardinals 52; Kuenn, Tigers 51; Goodman, Red Sox 48. Pitching Lawrence, Redlegs. 6-0; Ford Yankees 7-1; Lemon, Indians 6-1: Brewer, Red Sox 6-1; Friend, Pi rates 8-2. Your school days may be over, but you never graduate from libraries. Use your-Medford Pub lic Library regularly for Infor mation, recreation and education. Your vacation plans aren't complete unless you've included books from the Medford Public Library. CARPENTER SIGNS Cleveland (U.R) Preston Carpenter, a University of Ar kansas halfback and the Cleve land Browns' number one draft choice, has signed his 1956 con tract with the National League champions. Carpenter, 22, is the brother of the Detroit Lions' Lou Carpenter. Local Business Opportunity Sixty-four year old life insurance company offers unusual opportunity to qualified man for development of a General Agency in Klamath Falls and vicinity. Applicant must have resided in, this area for at least three years and hava had five years successful experience in life insurance sales. 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