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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. Kaiser missed a shutout in the
first inning of the opener when
the Dodgers bunched a walk, a
single by Duke Snider and a sac
rifice fly by Ransom Jackson for
their only run. The 21-year-old
Ada, Okla., youth then retired
the next 18 batters on the way to
his first major league victory.
Carl Erskine was the losing
pitcher in the opener and Don
Newcombe suffered the second
game setback.
The Detroit at New York and
Chicago at Baltimore day games
in the American League were
rained out.
Cleveland was at Washington
in an American League night
game and Pittsburgh was at Mil
waukee in a National League
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Troon, Scotland (U.R) Eighteen-year-old
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England gallantly battled a cold
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Scotland, 5 and 4, and become
the youngest player ever to win
the British Amateur Golf champ
ionship. Undaunted by some of the
worst weather conditions ever
to accompany a British amateur
final, Beharrell showed his met
tle when he recovered from a
near-disastrous letdown on the
afternoon round and swept the
last three holes for his victory.
Before pulling his game to
gether on the 30th hole, the Eng
lish school-boy's lead had dwin
dled to 2 up as a seige of poor
putting and bunker difficulties
lost him four straight holes from
the 26th through the 29th.
Beharrell, who turned 18 only
a few weeks ago, thus became
the first English player to win
the coveted amateur crown since
Michael Scott in 1933.
The Scottish galleries, jubilant
when defending champion Joe
Conrad, the last of the 27 Ameri
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Thursday's quarterfinals, glum
ly watched Taylor lose. They had
hoped to watch Taylor become
the first Scottish champion since
1939. Americans had won six
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