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.
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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
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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).
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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.
Matualaitis said the new meth
od of tool sharpening gives the
tool a 30 to 50 per cent longer
life:
Some wood fence posts
last those made of yteel.
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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
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Cincinnati 26
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Milwaukee 20
Brooklyn 23
Nw York 17
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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
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Cleveland 25
Chicago 21
Detroit 22
Boston 22
Baltimore 20
Washington 20
Kansas City 18
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Boston 5. Detroit 4
Cleveland 5. Baltimore I (nightl
Washington 12. Chicago 7 (night)
Friday's Games
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Kansas City at Baltimore (night)
Cleveland at New York (night)
Chicago at Boston (night)
NORTHWEST LEAGUE
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Lewiston - 19 12
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Tri-City 19 14
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