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Giants Dying, Pirates Whip By MILTON RICHMAN singled him home. Then In the United Pre Sport! Writer 1 11th. Jackie Brandt doubled to It's beginning to look more score pinch-runner Chuck Har- Braves Collapsing in NL; Cubs To Retain 1st Spot nd more like "the Giants dead," and if the Braves don't get a move on they may wake up to find themselves in e base ball grave right alongside. The Giants, now 8' s eames off the pace, dropped their ninth game in 12 starts by bowing to the Cardinals, 3-2. in 1 1 innings Wednesday night while the Braves, who have tumbled from first place to fourth, suffered their sixth loss in seven starts by losing to the Dodgers 5-2. Nothing the Giants do these days seems to work out right. Wednesday night, for example, they had a 2-1 lead until the ninth when the Cards tied the score with two out when Stan Musial doubled and Ken Boyer mon and earn reliever Ellis Kinder his second triumph. Things are going almost as badly for the collapsing Braves. Hank Aaron put them ahead with a two-run homer in the first inning but Don Newcombe shut the door in Milwaukee's face the remainder of the way to wind up with a five-hitter and his eighth victory of the year. Con ly Suffers Loss Gene Conley, the Braves, big pitching hope, was nicked for all of Brooklyn's nine hits, in cluding a homer by Duke Snider, in the 7 13 innings he worked to absorb his second defeat as the Dodgers climbed into a vir tual fourth-place tie with Milwaukee. MEDFOWNrTRIBUiri mirs TV Blamed For Shriveling Minor Lecgue Roots; Coin In Slot Could Be Answer (Third and last in a series.) By WILLIAM EWALD New York U.R You get free seat in the ballpark when you buy a TV set. But sometime in the future that seat may be yanked out from under you. Baseball may be forced to do the yanking. Major league baseball can not live without its roots, the minor leagues. And its roots are shriv eling. There- are only 27 minor loops left now, the lowest num. ber since 1945, a war year. Many observers blame TV. The minors say that the tele casts of major league games are invading their territory and driving their fans away. Major league games are supposed to be limited to a 50-mile broad cast area, but this is difficult to enforce. Then, too, there is the CBS- TV "Game of the Week." Seven major league teams are cooper ating on this series which is beamed over 175 stations. All of this baseball in the liv ing room, say the critics, is keep ing fans out of the parks. However, baseball is trapped In a tricky situation the club owners can not meet together to iron out the problem and come up with an enforceable solution. Baseball lives in fear of the big tick, of the anti-trust division of the Justice Department. What's the answer? Well, some say the only course left is pay-as-you-go TV. Under this plan, the fan might drop, say, 50 cents into a box on his TV set. A recent survey taken br public relations firm em ployed by organized baseball showed that "a majority" of fans in 13 eastern states would support such a plan. Fights Hare Paid The fight game already has proved that the rewards . from closed circuit TV in theatres can be substantial. The Rocky Mar-ciano-Don Cockell fight, for ex ample, pulled in S325.000 in a 58-city network. And that fight FKlRfC T'- v DRIVE WITH K0 AKts A Bert's What W, Da Lj 1 5 taipact Brake Pi wis. ANY CAR neve f rMst WfcjMra, leipecf Linme. Clean mt4 tepeck treat Wheel 4 Cfcetk mmd Brake rbieV. 5 Mjert Brake Sfceea. CarereWy Test Brakes. WE HAVE IT . . . j New firesfon i RIVETLESS BRAKE LINING "s ' . no uvm to scosa ,3 I ; e to lit mm ; asstrsj submci mown . . uses At otieaui mwnhm ON BINT I04..5I Ct i was a lukewarm attraction. The Marciano-Archie Moore bout of last September did con siderably better. It was witness ed in 92 cities by fans who shell ed out some $1,250,000. Figure analysts of baseball calculate that the national past time should draw an average of 100,000 customers per pay-as-you-see game. At 50 cents a head, that figures out to a cool $3,850,000 per 77 home games each season. The profits from all this, say the advocates of toll TV, would not only benefit the majors, but the minors as well. Some of the shekels could be siphoned off to bolster the sagging bush loops. It might also benefit the play ers. As things stand now, the players' pension fund will be made up of 60 per cent of the radio and TV receipts from the World Series and All-Star games after 1956, but the fund draws nothing from regularly sched uled games. The increased loot from toll TV might go toward fattening that fund. However, there is consider able opposition to TV on the pay-as-you-see plan. It's quite possible that many fans would let out a pretty fair bellow if free TV baseball were taken away. In some homes, for example, two TV sets have been installed just so the man of the house can watch his fights and baseball in peace. And the stations that now telecast baseball would object pretty loudly, too. Baseball pro vides a good share of the rev enue for some stations, many of them independent. They are prime sponsor bait night games and Sunday afternoon games cut into network audi ences. One Tuesday night Dodger Giant game last year here pull ed a 41.8 share of the audience compared to 25.3 for CBS and 21.2 for NBS, according to a pulse survey. The only network show that beat it while it was on the air "The $64,000 Ques tion." The networks have an invest ment in TV, too. CBS with its "Game of the Week" and NBC with its annual telecasts of the World Series and Ail-Star games. It was last World Series, you may remember, that NBC invested a considerable sum in experimenting with baseball in color. In recent weeks, the future of baseball on TV cropped up in hearings of the Senate Commit tee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce. Edwin Johnson, gov ernor of Colorado and former president of the Western League, pointed out that baseball is at a crossroads. "The day is rapidly approach ing," said Johnson, "when the American public will be con fronted with one of two choices either to pay for the viewing of major sporting events or go without viewing such events in the convenience of their homes." While the Giants and Braves are heading downward, the Pi rates and Redlegs are surprising all the experts by staying up in the red-hot National League race. Pittsburgh retained its hold on first place by defeating the Cubs, 8-2, on home1 runs by Dale Long. Frank Thomas and Ro berto Clemente. Long belted his 16th homer of the season with one man on in the first inning off Paul Minner and that put the Pirates ahead to stay. Ronnie Kine scattered six hits for his fifth victory. Frank Robinson, bidding for rookie of the year honors in the National League, smashed his 12th homer with two on in the seventh' inning to bring the Red legs from behind and help them to a 7-3 decision over the seventh-place Phillies. Brooks Law rence gained his seventh, victory. Yanks Trip A's The Yankees held on to their 3'2 game lead in the American League race by snapping a four game losing streak at the ex pense of the Athletics, 10-5. The Yanks hammered loser Tommy Lasorda for three runs in the first inning and then put the game on ice with a five-run rally in the third. The Yankees col lected 12 hits, including homers by Yogi Berra and Bill Skowron. A two-run single by Sammy White in the eighth inning broke a 2-all tie and led the Red Sox to a 5-4 triumph over the Tigers. Detroit starter Paul Foytack had a three-hitter until he blew up in the eighth. Tom Brewer regis tered his eighth victory. Art Houtteman and Ray Narle ski combined in a six-hit pitch ing effort that paid off inr a 5-1 victory for Cleveland over Bal- STANDINGS timore. Houtteman, who was credited with the win, left the gamebecause of sore shoulder in the sixth. A six-run rally in the fifth in ning helped the Senators to a 12-7 victory over the White Sox as Carlos Paula and rookie Whitey Herzog each homered for Washington. I.INESCORES: American Learnt Detroit 001 00 ! 002 4 0 3 Boston 020 000 03x 5 S 0 Foytack. Maas iS and House. Brewpr. Delock and White Win ner Brewer (8-1 ). Loser Foytack '4 3). 13 1 Kansas City .. 000 113 000 S New York - 305 100 Olx 10 Lasorda. Harrington 3i, Cnmian Burtchy 6,. Gorman 1 8 and ThomDson, Grim. Byrne 7i and Ber ra. Winner Grim (3-0j. Loser La sorda 0-3. Cleveland 000 230 000 5 7 1 Baltimore 000 000 001 l 6 Houtteman. Narleski 161 and Aver Jonhson. Brown fl. and Triandos. Winner Houtteman (1-1 ). Loser Johnson l-2,. Chicago .; 300 102 0107 11 2 Washington 012 360 Oflx 12 15 . 1 Staley. Howell i3. Cnnsuegra 'St. Martin (5i and Moss. Weisler, Grob fl. Chakale '8) and Berberet. Win ner Grob (2-4. Loser Howell (2-4). National League Pittsburgh 202 040 000 R 14 0 Chicago 000 200 0002 6 0 Kline (5-3) and Foiles. Minner. Val entinetti f4). Jones '6, Davis (8) and Landrith. Loser Minner (1-5). Brooklyn 101 O10 020 5 9 1 Milwaukee 200 000 000 2 5 I Newcombe (8-4. and Campanella. Conley. Johnson (8). SI eater if), and Rice. Crandall (9). Loser Conley (1-2). ?' - " aft SUFFERING from collapse resembling stroke, Rev. Henry Armstrong, 43, ex-triple-crown boxing cham pion, is confined to Los An geles hospital. (International) Philadelphia . 200 0O1 000 3 7 0 Cincinnati loo 000 42x 7 7 0 S. Miller, H. Miller (71 and Lopata Lawrence. Freeman (81 and Bailev. Winner Lawrence (7 0). Loser S. Miller (2-3). (11 Innings) New York 010 001 000 00 2 9 1 St. Louis ....000 000 101 01 3 6 0 Gomez. McCall (9). - Wilhelm (11 i. Antonelli (11) and Katt. Westrum (9). Poholsky, Konstanty (7. Kinder (9) and Saml. Winner Kinder (2-). Loser Wilhelm (0-3). Youth Forgiven for Look a! Pretty Girl Wichita, Kan. (U.R) Lloyd (Ranger) Duncan, 71-year-old cowpoke, doesn't blame a young man for looking at a pretty girl. Duncan asked that a traffic charge be dropped against James R. White, 17, whose car sent the cowhand to the hospital. The high school senior had been ar rested for failure to yield right-of-way to a pedestrian. "He was looking at a pretty girl coming down the steps of the postoffice," said the oldster who winters in Wichita driving a truck and summers on Montana ranches. Though nursing a cut, stitched lip, a sore nose and body bruises, Duncan testified: "Why, any boy with any spunk at all would rather look at a pretty girl than at me." White was given a $5 fine which was suspended. Thursday, June 7. 19SB MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN Revolution Occurs In Metals Industry Chicago (U.PJ A revolu tion is taking place in the metal working industry in the form of metal disintegration by electri cal discharge, a researcher says. . V. Matualaitis outlined the process at the annual convention of the American Society of Tool Engineers. Matualaitis, director of re search for Elox Corporation of Michigan, predicted that "sub stantial changes in metalwork ing technology will be brought about by the application of this relatively ne,w technique." He said the new process is one that sharpens metal cutting tools using a controlled electrical dis charge, removing a thin slice from an entire face of the tool and leaving a sharpened cutting edge on the tool much in the same manner as a grinding wheel. 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RiKKice Khone 2-7119 Education, Vacation Link Will Be Tried Chicago (U.R) A new idea. the combining of education and vacation, will be tried this sum mer at Sun Valley. Ida. The College of Idaho at Cald well, will move a special sum mer session to the beautiful up land vacation valley where it is hoped the cool climate will assure temperatures conducive to study. Fully accredited college courses in contemporary studies will be available to students from July 2 to Aug. 10. Sun Valley is located in the Sawtooth Mountains at an eleva tion of 6.000 feet, where the air I ii u&ni ana puuen-xree. Los Anireles Seattle Sacramento Portland San Diego f. ban r ranclsco Hollywood .... Vancouver 39 -.31 28 -.21 24 ..1S Prt. .673 .607 .536 .534 .467 ASS .429 JOO GB 3'i 8 8 12 12 '.i 14 22 Wednesday's Results Seattle 3-3. San Francisco 2-4 Los Angeles 17-5. Sacramento 7-0 Portland 3. San Diego 2 Hollywood 4. Vancouver 1 How Series Stand Los Angeles 3. Sacramento 1 hollvwood 3. Vancouver 0 Portland 3. San Diego 0 Seattle 2, San Francisco 1 NATIONAL LEAGt'E W. Pittsburgh 25 Cincinnati 26 Louis 27 Milwaukee 20 Brooklyn 23 Nw York 17 Philadelphia 15 Chicago 14 Prt. .593 .591 .587 J58 .548 .395 .366 .350 10 Wednsedav's Results Pittsburgh 8. Chicago 3 St. Louis 3. New York 2 (11. night) Cincinnati 7, Philadelphia 3 might) Brooklyn 3. Milwaukee 2 (nightl Friday's Games Brooklyn at Cincinnati inlfthl New York at Milwaukee tnight) Philadelphia at Chicago Pittsburgh at St. Louis (night) AMERICAN LEAGt'E W. New York 30 Cleveland 25 Chicago 21 Detroit 22 Boston 22 Baltimore 20 Washington 20 Kansas City 18 26 Prt. .638 J68 .538 .500 .500 .435 .417 .409 3',i S 'i B's 92 10ij 10, Wednesday's Results New York 10. Kansas City 5 Boston 5. Detroit 4 Cleveland 5. Baltimore I (nightl Washington 12. Chicago 7 (night) Friday's Games Detroit at Washington (nightl Kansas City at Baltimore (night) Cleveland at New York (night) Chicago at Boston (night) NORTHWEST LEAGUE W. L. 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