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TElf MTDrORD (OHEGOIT) MAIL TRIBUNE Mickey Mantle Trying Not to Strike Out As Much As Last Year He Indicates By MILTON BICHMAN United Press Correspondent New York (U.R) Mickey Mantle honestly can't see why the whole baseball world is mak ing such a four-star fuss over him. The young Yankee slugger has the world in his palm, but to hear him talk, you'd think he it carrying it on his back insted. "Why all the excitement?" he asks, with a slight show of irri tation. "Sure I've been going pretty well, but it s still early in the" season, isn't it? Anything can happen. "Everyone's talking about me breaking Babe Ruth's record, but that's not what I'm concen trating on at all. What I m really trying to do is not strike out as much as I did last year. I was xwinzins at wild pitches last year. I'll bet that cost me any where from 15 to 20 points on my batting average." Camnared With Greats nnl whether Mickey likes it or not. the baseball world is set n rnmDarine him with the air time greats. And every fan in the country will keep watching t rr whether he stays up wnn -Ruth's record of 60 homers in one season. Last year Mantle batted .306 and led the American League with 37 homers. That would con stitute banner year for any thr bie leaguer but not for Mickev. If anything, he minimizes his own accomplishments. When he first came up to the Yankees in 1951, he said, "I don't think rm aoorf enough to make this team yet." Mantle has anything but a swelled head. When the Yankees are at home, he still shares a local hotel room with teammate Billy Martin and when it comes down to discussion of baseball in the team's clubhouse, Mickey always does far more listening than he does talking. Lately writers from national magazines have clustered around him like bees around honey. In the next few months, Mantle's picture probably will grace more magazine covers than President Eisenhower's. Mickey finds the nroavect disturbing. '1 wish they -wouldn't write so much about me. There are oth er guys doing, pretty good, too, besides me." Fear of Jinx Like most players. Mantle has a fear of being jinxed by too much publicity. Because of one kind of injury or another, he has never played in the full 54 games for the Yankees during any season he has been with them. "So far this season I've been lucky in that respect," he says, "rm Just hoping that nothing happens to keep me out of the lineup. If I can play every day 111 be all right and then maybe I can do some of the things they always expected of me. It has been said by many com petent baseball judges that a healthy Mantle is capable of hitting more than 60 homers and batting .400 over a season. Broach that subject to Mickey and he shrugs. "What's the sense of making predictions?" he says. "If I can do It. I'll do it and if I can't. I won't. Predictions aren't going to change anything one way or another." r With that. Mantle jumped up ITS WITH '00R mm A WE HAVE IT . . . New Tit efton : 1 tlVETLESS BRAKE UNIN6 on Hatrr i4-ii can , il firestone 8p Im'l Wia1 Wi Li CAR I in r- --- . '4 ti..rfc Nsl WW 3 - .'4 CWcfc am) Asl Sr.. IMsL 5 Adl'.st Iraaw Sfcaae. 5 CaalHy Ts trmkt. STORES to take his turn in the batting cage for a few practice licks. He let the first ball go by and then hammered the next one into the right field seats almost 400 feet away. Back on the bench, Casey IP(0)IMr Delany, IMielson Run IVIile in 3:59 Friday Compton, Calif. (U.R) Ron Delany, an Irishman, and Gun- nar Nielsen, a Dane, Friday joined the select but growing ranks of those who have cracked the four-minute mile. An Ameri can has yet to crack it. Delany and Nielsen, co-holder of the world's 1,500 meter 'rec ord, became the seventh and eighth men, respectively, to break the barrier Friday night at the record-breaking 17th an nual Compton Invitational track meet. Delany hit the tape at 3.59 to nip Nielsen by a fraction of a second. The Danish miler's time was 3:59.1. The barrier has now been surpassed 14 times, six of which can be credited to Australia's John Landy who holds the world record of 3:58 for the course. Trailed Most of Race In the breath-taking race De lany had an overflow crowd, of 9,300 fans standing as he made his bid with a burst of speed in the final 200 yards of the race. He was never ahead until the Boardman KOs Ryff in 9th New York (U.R) Larry Boardman, a remarkable young Connecticut lightweight who fights like Jack Dempsey, may get a shot at the 135 -pound crown at Boston Sept. 10 be cause of his ninth-round knock out of Frankie Ryff at Madison Square Garden Friday night. Sam Silverman, Boston pro moter, said "a guarantee of $50, 000 will be offered champion Wallace Bud Smith for a de fense against Boardman in Sep tember, and if he refuses, the Massachusetts Boxing Commis sion will ask the NBA to vacate his title." When 20-year-old Boardman of Marlborough, Qonn., tagged Ryff of New York with his first kayo defeat at 46 seconds of the ninth round in their TV radio fight, it was his third major victory of 1956. And it was a sensational New York debut. He had outpointed clfamp- ion Smith in a non-title bout af Boston, Feb. 7, and outpointed featherweight ruler Sandy Sad dler similarly in the same ring, April 14. Larry, who registered his 31st victory and 15th knockout in 33 professional bouts before 2,000 cheering fans, weighed 137V pounds to Ryffs 137V4. Heavy, last-minute support sent him into the ring favored at 6-5 to beat clever Ryff. Crocker Leads Golf Tournament Pittsburgh (U.R) Fay Crock er. U. S. Women's Open Golf champion from Uruguay, held a one stroke lead Saturday in the Dodge Women's Invitational golf tourney by virtue of a record tying par 70 round at Churchill Valley County Club in the second day of play. Miss Crocker's sparkling snort-game on the windswept course Friday gave the veteran competitor a 36-hole total of 145 ana a single-stroke edge over Patty Berg, who went five over par on the second nine to lose her first round leadership in the lour-nay medal play tourney. BAND NAMES ASKED iaeaiue men school seniors who intend to become a part of tne university of Washington marcmng Dana nave been re quested by band director Walter "elite to send him their names and addresses. "We intend to Degin mailing material on the band program at Washington later in the summer." Welke said. "If any high school bands man has aspirations of joining me oana at tne university. would help greatly if he sends us nis name and address now.' For a GUARANTEED GOOD USED CAR Before You Buy Be Sure To Look the Lot Over at . . . MORSE MOTORS 1201 N. RIVERSIDE Sunday, June 3, I9SB Stengel watched the flight of the ball and said nothing. The blow would have caused loud raves in another dugout but to Stengel and the rest of the Yankees it was merely another routine Man tle wallop. final sprint, running third for two laps and then dropping back to fourth in the tightly bunched field. Fred Dwyer, New York Ath letic club, was third at 4:00.1 to nose out Bobby Seaman, of UCLA, who was clocked at 4:01.4. Neither Delany nor Nielson had conquered the barrier be fore, although the Irishman had run against Landy when he and his fellow countryman, Jim Bailey, ran the mile in less than four minutes last month in the Los Angeles Colliseum. Delany, now a sophomore at Villanova, seemed slightly nerv ous and unsure before the race, and after registering the victory admitted My coach, James El liott, had more faith in me than did." Credits Shoes The modest Irishman credited his victory to a new pair of track shoes given him before the race. He said he had been having trouble with his old shoes be cause the spikes were slanted. Delany's lap times were 58.5, 63.1, 60.9 and 56.5. Nielsen's were 58.7, 63.0, 60.8 and 56.6. The meet, acclaimed the greatest in its 17-year history. saw one world record, the 100- meter dash equalled; one Ameri can record in the 400 meter broken, nine meet records broken and two meet records tied. Ira Muchison, TJ. S. Army sprinter serving in Europe, equalled the world record of 10.2 in winning the 100-meter dash. He defeated a. field com posed of Willie Williams, form erly of the University of Illinois, and Alex Burl, formerly of Col orado A&M and now serving with the Army. Two Tied In Texas Open Dallas, Tex. (U.R) Little Gene Littler curled in a 12-foot putt for a birdie on the 18th hole Saturday to scramble into a tie for the halfway mark lead of the $70,000 Texas Centennial Open tournament with Roberto De Vincenzo of Mexico City at 10- under-par 130. Littler, the former National Amateur champion from Singing Hills, Calif., was the only one of the three first day leaders to catch the red-hot Argentine-born De Vincenzo, who had posted his second straight five-uider-par 65 early in the day. The California ex-sailor fought back from two appavently disas' trous bogies on the 14th and 15th holes to birdie the 16th and 18th and pull into the tie with a 32- 34 66, one stroke ahead of Dr. Cary Middlecoff, the Tennessee dentist, who was tied with him at 64 yesterday. Middlecoff, finishing just scant few minutes ahead of Litt ler, rammed home a downhill 18-foot birdie putt on the 17th to finish with a three-under-par 35 32 67 for a 36-hole total of 131. That put him two strokes ahead of the third member of yesterday's opening round Triumvirate-Bill Casper Jr., of Chula Vista, Calif., who slid from a first round 64 to a 35- 34 69 today and into undisput ed third place. 49ers SIGN MORRALL San Francisco (U.R) The San Francisco Forty-Niners an nounced the signing Saturday of Earl M o r r a 1 1, AU-American quarterback of the Michigan State, 1955 Rose Bowl team. Morrall was San Francisco's first choice in the National Foot ball League draft. He was sign ed personally by Frankie Al bert, head coach of the Forty Niners, after a meeting at the player's home in Lansing, Mich. Yesterday's Scores Br United PrtM American Learue Kansas City 11 15 1 Boston 3-6 1 Gorman. Shantz (7) and Thompson; Sullivan. Hurd (8), Kiely (9) and Whit. Detroit at New York, rain. Chicago at Baltimore, postponed, postponed. rain. Cleveland at Washington, night. National League New York 2 7 1 Cincinnati 8 8 0 Gomez (2-4) and Katt; Lawrence, Fowler (7), Freeman (8) and Bailey. Brooklyn 3 Chicago 13 Erskine. Lehman (3). Templeton (81 and Campanella; Kaiser (1-0) and Landrith. Philadelphia . 7 St. Louis 10 S. Miller. R. Miller (8) and Lonata; Wehmeier. Littlefield (4), Schmidt 16). Collum (8) and Sarni. FRIDAY'S RESULTS American League ' Boston 5. Kansas City 0. Detroit 6. New York 3. Baltimore 3. Chicago 2. Washington 5. Cleveland 1. National League Chicago 4. Brooklyn 2. New York 3, Cincinnati 2. Philadelphia 9. St. Louis 2. Pittsburgh 4. Milwaukee 1. Mesa Hurls Pads to Win San Diego, Calif. (U.R) Pete Mesa pitched six innings of shutout ball Saturday to give the San Diego Padres a 9 to 1 victory over the Vancouver Mounties in a Pacific Coast league game. Mesa went the distance for the San Diegans but was depriv ed of a shutout game in the sev enth inning when Johnny Jor- gensen brought the Mounties their only tally with a home run over the right field fence. The San Diegans piled up six more runs, five of them unearn ed, after two were out in the fourth. Astroth collected bis sec ond homer of the season. A walk for Pete Mesa, grounders by Al Federoff and Floyd Robinson which brought two Vancouver errors, a single by Bob Usher and a homer, by Kazak brought in the other runs. L1NESCORE: Vancouver 1 8 3 &an Diego A 12 3 Searcy and Neal: Mesa and Astroth. Home runs Astroth, Kazak, Jorgen- Southern Oregon Junior Baseball Plans Announced Plans for the Southern Ore gon Junior Baseball League have been announced. ' There again will be three leagues, pee wee, intermediate ana cud. fee wees will 'open the season June 26 in the south- era division and will vie on Tuesdays and Thursday. Inter mediates will play on Wednes day's beginning June 27 but the games in Fourth of July week will be on Thursday. Cub games will be on Thursdays, starting July z. In the pee wee southern sector teams will be Ashland, Eagle r-oint, central Point. Lone Pine. Medford Tigers and Medford Wildcats. A Grants Pass area league will make up the north ern division. Central Point, Eagle r-oint, Ashland and Medford will nave intermediate clubs and Ash land, Grants Pass, and Medford will make up the cub circuit. Ages Outlined .Boys 12 years of age and under play in the pee wee loop. Those who have not reached their 13th birthday on June 15 are eligible. The intermediate circuit is for youths 14 and under who have not become 15 byvJune 15 may play. Cub play is tor Doys is and under with boys not 16 by June 15 able to play. Pee wee and intermediates will play five-inning games and cubs seven-inning contests. In termediates and cubs will vie on regulation sized diamonds. Pee wee diamonds will have 80 feet between bases and the pitching slab will be 50 feet 8 inches from home plate. Regulation baseballs will be used. Warren LaBounty, Ashland, is league president. PWOT-BLI IUW AMP i&KTICE TOBOUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES CASH BAIL & ATTORNEY FEES EMERGENCY ROAD SERVICE Reggy Drinkwater 906 Maple Park Drive Phone 2-8048 State Athletic Group Resigns In California Los Angeles (U.R) . Gov. Goodwin J. Knight Saturday had "free hand to revise Califor nia boxing and wrestling regula tions with announcement that all five members of the state athlet ic commission were submitting their resignations. The commissioners action fol lowed a state investiga tion which revealed purse ' splitting and at least a dozen alleged "fix ed" fights. ' 1 The governor stressed Friday as far as he knew there had been "no accusations of miscon duct" against the commissioners. There was no indication he re quested the resignations. He had said earlier he did not believe the commissioners actually had enough time to properly oversee boxing in addition to their pri vate business. He indicated adop tion of a full-time, paid commis sion patterned after tnat oi New York might be considered. Knight said he thought the res ignations "might be a step in the right direction" since it would give him a clean slate to start with. LA Assaults SF Hurlers San Francisco (U.R) The Los Angeles Angels assaulted three San Francisco pitchers for 12 hits and a 7-4 victory over the Seals that evened their ser ies at a game each before a crowd of 3,351 fans here Sat urday." The Angels scored two in the second on singles by Steve Bilko and Bob Speake and a triple by Jim Bolger. They added three the fifth when Gale Wade doubled and Bilko, Speake and Bolger followed with singles the third run coming in when Seal centerfielder Tom Umphlett juggled Bolger's hit. The final two Angel runs were doubled in by Elvin Tap pe in the eighth inning. ' T.IN'F.SCORE: Los Angeles 7 12 0 San Francisco 4 9 2 BriKes. Anderson (9) and Tappe: Kemmerer. Slack (5). R. G. Smith (8) and Sadowski. Home run Sadowski. Bowling SATURDAY SENIORS The Saturday Seniors will have their last meeting Satur day, June 9. They are to be at the Bowling alley' at 11 a.m. Trophies and awards will be given at this time and there will be a party afterwards. Strike Outs Rambling Kebels- -.21 ...19 ...10 ... 8 3 Alley Cats . Pin Slayers Bowling ijomoers Crazy Four Bowling Bombers Joy Eauman 170 Ally Cats L. Eccleston 215 Gary Brown 234 Jack Sutton 222 Roger Russell 226 Marvls Brown 1! John Sullivan 226 Steve Drew lse Total 784 Strike Outs r Dale Casey 234 Total 897 BUI Harman i&aj Sue Harmon 228 Gary Williams 180 Rambling Rebels L. Hamrnack 182 Bob Quinny 332 Chuck Allen 179 J. McKinley 245 Total 875 219 18S 222 218 Pin Slayers D. Spain Deana Allen R. Osborne K. McQuigg Total Crazy Tour Forfeit Gibson Wins Europe Test Surbiton, England (U.R) Al- thea Gibson of New York won her eighth consecutive European Womens' Singles championship Saturday when she defeated Anne Shilcock of England, 6-3 13-11, in the final of the Surrey County Lawn Tennis tourna ment. Miss Gibson and Angela Bux ton of England lost out in a bid for the women's doubles crown, however, when they were defeat ed by Betty Rosenquest Pratt, an American now living in Jamaica, and Thelma Long of Australia, 6-4, 6-3. Athletics Slow Boston Drive for 2nd Place By United Press The Kansas City athletics slowed down Boston's rive . on second place in the American League Saturday by racking up the Red Sox, 11-3, with a thun derous 15-hit attack. The Red Sox, who had moved to within percentage points of second place Friday night, gained a 3-0 lead in the first inning on Mickey Vernon's home run with two aboard. But the A's rallied to knot the score in the second and then went ahead to stay with another threerun cluster in the seventh. Vic Power, Jim Finigan and Tim Thompson each collected three hits for Kansas City, while Johnny Groth drove, in three runs. Tom Gorman gained the victory, although he needed relief help from Bobby Shantz, and Frank Sullivan absorbed the loss. Gorman now has an 8-1 lifetime record against Boston. The Philadelphia Phillies scored all their runs off former Seattle Raps Twinks4-1 Hollywood U.R) The Seattle Rainiers dumped Holly wood, 4 to 1 behind Larry Jan sen's five-hit pitching Saturday for their second straight win in the Pacific Coast league series here. Jansen went the route against three Twink hurlers for his third win against two losses. Starter Fred Green took the loss for 2-3. Seattle lumped three of its runs in the first frame . on singles by Art Schult and Vera Stephens and back- to- back doubles by Joe Taylor and Bob by Balcena. Bill Mazeroski slammed his fifth homer of the year in the second for the Star's only coun ter. Linescore: Seattle ; 4 9 0 Hollywood 1 5 0 Jansen and Alyward; Green, O'Donell (6), Sawyer (9) and Hall. Home runs Mazeroski. LA assault 11 sports . Terry Maddox ' Named Captain Eugene (U.R) John Keller, captain of the University of Ore gon baseball team, was named the squad's most valuable player in 1956 Friday night at the an nual awards dinner. Terry Maddox was elected cap tain of the Duck baseballers for the 1957 season. Fight Results By UNITED PRESS New York (Madison Square Garden) Larry Boardman. 137 Marlbor ough, Conn, knocked out Frankie Ryff, 137!i, New York. (9). Charlotte. N.C. Nino Valdes. Cuba, stopped Ken. Hammer, Detroit. 210. 195. PISTON. RIN 1 II Mil r III L I lit II II Iff f il II II 1 49 to 53 V8 Passenger V8 Light Trucks $h$l?l95 USE OUR CRATER Main & Fir Sts. 'WHERE teammate Herm Wehreier In the fourth inning to defeat the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-4. The win ning pitcher was Stu Miller, the ex-clad who switched teams with Wehmeier during a recent St. Louis-Philadelphia trade. A three-run double by Richie Ashburn, following four consecu tive walks by Wehmeier, fea tured Philadelphia's big fourth inning. Bill Sarni batted in all the Cardinals' runs with a dou ble and a single. The Cincinnati Redlegs scored four runs in the eighth inning for an uphill 5-2 triumph over the New York Giants. Hershel Freeman, who relieved Starter Brooks Lawrence in the seventh frame, picked up his fourth vic tory against no defeats. Ruben Gomez went the route for the Giants and suffered his fourth setback against two victories. The Chicago Cubs swept a dou- bleheader from the Brooklyn Dodgers. Right-handed bonus Pitcher Don Kaiser, in his first major league starting assign ment, twirled his way to a two hit, 8-1 victory in the opener. The Cubs also took the second game, 5-4, on key singles by Dee Fondy and Jim King in the eigth in ning. 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