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Mounties Have Edge In Firepower Tangle Br DON THACKREY Uniud Press Sports Writer I The Vancouver Mountici fought firepower with firepower in the Pacific Coast league Thursday night and out-bar-raged the Los Angeles Angels but without spiking their big gun. Vancouver scored 18 times and it was just as well they did. Big Steve Bilko smacked two homers. No. 22 and No. 23, and the final score was a football 13-13. Seattle and San Diego took advantage of the Angel lapse to move forward a bit. Seattle got three home runs from Art Schult and one from Bill Glynn and beat San Diego 4-3 in 11 in nings. Sacramento downed Hol lywood 6-2 and Portland defeat ed San Francisco 3-0. N Seven Los Angeles throwers went onto the firing line as Van couver spanked out 16 hits and cashed in on four Angel errors. The Mounties got five in the third and four in the fourth for what should have been a com fortable lead. Hits and Runs But the Angels, with Bilko homering twice and Gale Wade and George Freese once each came back. They got four each in the third and fifth and then added five in the eighth. That would have done it had not the Mounties been provident enough to score eight times in the sev enth only two of them earned Witty Quintana hit the only round tripper for the winners. Schult cracked homers in the fourth and seventh innings and Glynn hit one in the sixth for three Seattle runs. Ebba St. Claire got two for San Diego, one in the fourth and one in the sixth. The Pads added a fifth in ning run to send the game over time at 3-3. But Schult was not through. He hit his third of the game in the 11th to give Howie Judson the decision over John Carmichae!. The Solons stayed in second place and moved to within three games of Los Angeles by scoring five runs in the fourth frame against Hollywood. The Stars were ahead at the time 2-0 because losing pitcher Ben ANNOUNCING: TITAN MODEL 75 THE MOST POWERFUL ONE-MAN CHAIN SAW EVER BUILT! Titan Is pleased to announce the newest member in their pioneer chain saw family Titan Model 75, the most powerful one-man chain saw ever built! Years of research went into Titan Model 75. Titan set out to design into it all the features you've asked for. Now, from the company that pioneered chain saws in America, comes the answer. They are in production, and already Titan Model 75 is starring in the big logging shows in British Columbia, Washing ton, Oregon and California. It's knocking over thousands of board feet in record time. Fast, balanced, powerful, versatile it's ready to work for you. Check its features at your Titan dnaler and learn why Titan Model lsEw Mil Xf 73 is the biggest chain saw news of J 1 11 II the year! C AND UP TITAN MODEL 75 FEATURES CRATER 1305 N. RIVERSIDE Wade had cracked a homer with a mate aboard in the third. Fain Comas Through Ferris Fain s bases - loaded double tied the score and a sin gle by Al Heist scored two more. The Solons got another across in that frame and the game was virtually over as Earl Harrist hurled six-hit baseball. Veteran Bill Werle blanked San Francisco on eight hits with the aid of four Portland double plays. The game was scoreless until the seventh when Portland fill ed the bases and second base man Ken Aspromonte let a ball through him for two runs. R. C Smith was the loser. I.1NF.SCORES: Portland OflO 000 2nl 3 11 0 San Franciico 000 000 000 0 8 1 Werle and Calderone; R. G. Smith, Kemmer 17 Slack i9i and Sullivan. Vancouver 05 401 800 18 18 1 Loa Angeles .004 040 050 13 12 4 Duren. Curtia ". Baczewaki f8 and Edwards. Neal i7r. Drott. Pieretu i3i. Bauer l5. Todse 151. Piktuzis i"i. Anderson (7) Perkowski (9 and Tappe. Hollywood 002 000 000 3 8 1 Sacramento ... 0O0 510 OOx 6 8 1 Wade. Odonnell Hi: Water! (7) and Naton; Harrist and Baich. '11 lnninas) Seattle 000 101 100 11 13 t San Dieiro .000 111 000 00 3 10 0 Judaon. Kennedy 1 1 and Orteig: Camuchael and St. Claire. Dan Lovejoy OSC Captain Corvallis (U.R) Dan Lovejoy, junior catcher from Nyssa. last night was elected captain of next year's Oregon State base ball team and also received the Vic Brown Jr. memorial award, presented annually to the out standing OSC baseball player in memory of Brown who was killed in W orld War II. TOURNEY RESTARTS Dallas. Tex. U.R) The classy field in the S70.000 Texas Inter national Golf Tournament tried again today to get in the open ing round of the rich affair with Doug Fcrd and Jackie Burke praying they could pick up where they left off when the rains came Thursday. The Rio Grande river is 1800 miles long. 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Portland (U.R) The weekly rpnnrt nn fwhinff conditions pre pared by the State Game Com- mission:- Southwesi: Spring chinook an o1in lnw in in UmDaua river arpa hut fair catches reported on North Umpqua; trout angling poor to fair in most of streams but good in accessible lakes. Most of nack lakes of Umpqua national forest still closed by irr- nrrasional salmon taken at Winchester bay; bar has been rough; Loon lake and Tenmiie fair: Coauille river good. Canirah Hieher lakes In Bend area generally good on opening week end; East lake good tor both rainbow; South Twin lake good for rainbow 7 to II incnes North Twin good for small rain hnur Crane Prairie excellent both troll and still fishing; Big Lava produced many eastern brook limits; road to Elk lake not open. Deschutes below Wickiup to Bend in good shape and pros pects good; good water condi tions expected at Deschutes from Bend to Crooked river; Deschutes river clearing and fishable with bait best; Little Deschutes high but may Improve by week end. THEATRE HOUSE PETS Chicago (U.R The Eitel Pal ace Theatre opened its doors Thursday to two cows, a bantam rooster and several chickens. Twins Ida and Mary Lyons. 16, arid their brother Billy, 11, drove up with the animals from Oswe go, 111., to see the movie, wnen they refused to leave their pets ths theater management gave in and quartered the . animals in the lobby. SERVICE PHONE 3-3183 SATURDAY HARDTOP CONTENDER Bernie Miller, shown with a trophy girl after collecting his award for a successful race in the past season, will be among the contenders Saturday night when the hardtop auto racing season opens at the Vailey View speedway near Ashland. Old Favories Will Race Hardtop Cars on Saturday Hardtop racing at it's best will be the program tomorrow night at the Valley View speedway, just north of Ashland. There's a newly rebuilt track and lots of new cars. And many old favor ites have let it be known that they will be on hand for open ing night. , The Flying Dutchman, Roy Deutchman, has announced that he will be a strong contender with a new car. Tommy James has already been racing his car on some of the other tracks. Johnny Jones took the B trophy at Klamath Falsi recently and of course the Old Man, Bernie Mil ler, saws that with his rebuilt MEDFORDTBrBUNE rpflDimr Mantle Plain Who Likes Playing Baseball (Second in a series of three) By CARTER BRADLEY Commerce, Okla. (U.R) Mickey Mantle was the "most popular boy" in his graduating class but he didn't show up that June night in 1949 when the Commerce High seniors got their diplomas. As might have been expected, Mickey was playing baseball. He got four hits for the Com merce "Whiz Kids" against the Coffeyville, Kan., team. After the game was over, sitting in a parked car, Mickey's dad signed a contract for him with a Yan kee scout tying him to the Yank farm organization. The story of Mickey Mantle ; is a fulfillment of the legend of i millons of American boys dream i ing of becoming the greatest i baseball player of all. Mantle may do just that. At ! age 24 he already is compared with Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb. I He is taking the American I League apart this year and threatening Ruth's great record : of 60 homers in one year, j If ever an athlete epitomized I the small town boy who lived ! virtually nothing but baseball, ; it is Mantle. Off the field he is ! still shy and withdrawn, far j more at home in Ott Chandler's ! drugstore here than in New I York's Toots Shors the baseball 1 stars' hangout. "He's just a plain, big old i country boy who liked to play baseball from the day he was : old enough to carry a mitt," says ; Ralph Sears, the bank president ! in Mickey's home town. V ; Good Student j Mrs. Berty Jacoby, one of his high school teachers, recalls that . Mickey was a good student. "When I had him in junior English he sometimes turned in the best themes in the class," she says. "But baseball had the upper hand. His themes were in variably about athletics." Baseball led Mickey to his first and only sweetheart, too. He met his wife-to-be, pretty I Merlyn Johnson; when the Com- merce school team played Pitch ' er, Okla. Marlyn was a drum majorette. They have two child ren, Mickey, 3, and David, five months. Mrs. Mantle is just leav ing now for New York to join : Mickey for the rest of the season. Mickey's dad, "Mutt," a miner Don't Miss The State Class A-l CHAMPIONSHIP BASEBALL GAME, Lincoln High-Portland - vs. Medford High SATURDAY, 9 P.M. Direct from Multnomah Stadium Over KYJC racer, he'll be hard to catch. McCoy Busy Jack McCov has been busy at the Crescent City, Calif., track and the. Klamath Falls oval, showing the other drivers what the rear end of his car looks like and will be trying to do the same thing at Valley View. Cecil James has been working on a hot racer and has already given it a few workouts on the new track. Racing should be fast and furious, starting with the time trials at 6:30 p.m. and the first chase at 8 p.m. and continuing right on through the program. Country Boy in this lead and zinc town of 2445, used to pitch for the town te-.m. He taught the boy base ball, pitched to him righthanded while Mickey's grandfather pitched to him left-handed. The boy and father were good pals. Donn Dodd, Mickey's best friend in high school and now a reporter for the Miami, Okla., News-Record, recalls a hunting trip that he and Mickey made with the elder Mantle. "We'd been hunting quail all day and hadn't got a bird after using all our ammunition," Dodd recalls. Mickey was carrying his dad's .410-.22, a combination shotgun and rifle. Bad Swing "Walking home Mickey hap pened on a covey. He stalked through the weeds and swung at a big hen .with the stock of the gun. It hit a log and broke. Man alive 1 Did he catch the dickens! Mickey's father died in 1952, the year after Mickey went up to the Yankees after playing with Independence, Kan., Jop lin. Mo., and Kansas City. His mother doesn't think her son has changed much. After every season he hotfoots it back to Commerce. He and his wife have built a new six-room bun galow here. Mickey was also a star half back for Commerce. In one prac tice session, he was kicked in the ankle and a bone infection osteomyelitis resulted. It was arrested but that, plus a trick right knee, kept him out of mili tary service. The knee is still a constant worry, particularly since he is probably the fastest man in the majors. No Hero RoU It's doubtful whether Mantle will ever become used to the hero role. "When's he's here he comes in the store and goes back there behind the shelves to pass the time of day," says druggist Chan dler. "He's afraid some stranger will spot him and make a fuss about it." Commerce thinks a lot of Mickey. "We're planning a blowout on July 20 when the Yanks get back to Kansas City," says Chan dler. "We want to charter some buses and go up there as a group and give Mickey a present of some Kind li YOUR MAIL TRIBUNE STATION Friday. June 1. 1956 Donahue Hits Bronc Triple By RAY ANDREWS United Press Sports Writer If the wind keeps on blowing the Yakima Bears may yet find themselves in a hot Northwest League pennant race. The league leaders were un able to play their scheduled game with Tn-City Jast night due to high winds which hit the Kennewick area before game time. Lewiston's Broncs took advan tage of the break to top Wenat chee 6-5 to move to within 2Vi games of the league lead. Thre In 9th The Broncs came from behind with three runs in the ninth. Mike Donahue opened with a triple and Howard K e e f e walked. Bruce Macintosh tripled them both home and scored on a single by Joe Jacobs. Russ Agne, who came on in the sixth inning, vas credited with the victory. Salem nipped Eugene 4-3 with all its runs of the unearned va riety. Two tainted markers in the ninth did the trick for the Senators. With the bases loaded. Chuck Essegian grounded weakly to the infield but Mannv Lacosta's throw to the plate went astray and both runs crossed. f BEST TERMS IN m j trm I U r vSSCBs FAS I q 214 S. Riverside STORES Phone 2-7119 Also Available at All Service Stations Displaying The Firestone Sign! MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN Foster Creek Unit Contract Approved Portland (U.R) A $289, 477 Bureau of Reclamation con tract for construction of the pumping plant, pipelines and other features of the irrigation system of the Bridgeport bar unit of the Foster Creek divi sion. Chief Joseph dam project in Washington state has been authorized for award, the Port land office said today. The low bidder was Harold Kaeser Com pany cf Seattle. The unit will provide irriga tion water to 729 acres of land on the south side of the Colum bia river near Bridgeport, down stream from Chief Joseph dam. SAME ROOM AS FATHER New York (U.R) Actress Di ana Barrymore confided Thurs day that when she went to a san itarium for problem drinkers, she was made to feel quite wel come. Officials assigned her the same room her famous father, John Barrymore, used when he was in the institution. Hollywood tU.R) Air Force test pilot Lt. Col. Frank Everest flies rocket and jet planes at Ed wards Air Force Base. 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