Kovenz Leads Studs to Victory
Over Bend; Game This Afternoon
The Medford Cheney Studs
put timber to the ball In the
second and fifth innings here
Saturday afternoon to defeat the
Bend Loggers 8 to 2 in the first
of three-game series.
Bob Selsor pitched the win
for Medford. Lowell Pearce was
charged with the loss for Bend.
The two teams scheduled a
game last night and will play
another at the fairgrounds be
ginning at 2 p.m. this afternoon.
Bend first broke the scoring
Ice in the top of the second In
ning. Two-hundred twenty-five
pound Ron Bowen, first man up.
boomed a double to the left field
fence. Maurie Rasmussen took
Selsor' s second offering of the
inning and pushed another to
left, this time a triple, scoring
the husky Bowen.
Moments later. Rasmussen
came home with the last Log
ger score of the afternoon alter
tagging up on a high fly by
Ray Lunde.
Studs Get FW
icked ud five
counters in their half of the
second frame. Loose-Umbefl
.n!.I.i.r Jack Cooney pushed
..... .inele. Derald Wooten
walked, and Bill Martell. flashy
... hirrf . sackcr for Medford
flied out. Jim Stcffcn drew a
walk, loading the bases.
oiirhrr Bob Selsor knock
cd Cooney in with a sharp
ingle through shortstop. Twink
Pederson, next rr.3n up, made it
to first and Wooten came home
STANDINGS
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Brooklyn .
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Chicago .
Philadelphia
New York
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32 25
32 2
30 21
32 29
23 31
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Saturday Rssults
Chicago 9. Plttahurgh S (10 innings)
Philadelphia a. St. Louis 1
Brooklvn 7. Cincinnati S
Milwaukee 2. New York 1
' AMERICAN LEAGUE
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New York a. 40 22
Chicago ..
Cleveland
Boston
Prt.
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Baltimore.
Detroit
'Kansas City
Waarftnirton
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. 30 29
. 29 33
. 27 32
24 37 393 15'
. 26 41 .388 16'
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SATURDAY'S RESULTS
Chicago 2. New York 0
Cleveland 9, Washington 8
Baltimore at Detroit, postponed, rain.
Vernon Leads
Voting for
AL 1st Base
New York (U.R) Mickey Ver
non of the Red Sox, who has
been chosen on five previous
American league all-star teams,
regained the lead from Vic
Wertz of the Indians Saturday
In the balloting to determine
who will start at first base in
this year's game.
Although fan voting closed
Friday at midnight, the huge
back-log of ballots collected by
the nation's newspapers and
radios and television stations
continued to flow into commis
sioner Ford Frick's office. The
tabluation of votes will not be
completed until next Friday.
Wertz, making a remarkable
comeback from an attack of po
lio last summer, took over the
lead among American League
first baseman with a flood of
ballots on Friday. However, the
subsequent tally moved Vernon
back into first place by a margin
of 29,340 votes to 26,054.
Two other close races were
being waged in the voting to de
cide 16 starters, exclusive of
pitchers, for the mid-summer
baseball classic to be played at
Washington's Griffith studium,
July 10.
Third Base Race
These ballot battles were at
third base in the American
League and left field in the Na
tional. Rip Repulskt of the Cardinals,
sidelined with a hairline wrist
fracture, gained ground on
Frank Thomas of the Pirates for
left field in the National League,
but his lead of 21.214 votes to
18.127 still could be wiped out
by the time all the ballots are
counted.
The same was true for third
base in the American League,
where George Kill of the Orioles
led Ray Boone of the Tigers,
22.672 votes to 19.538. Kell,
like Repulski. widened his mar
gin in the latest tabulation.
Mickey Mantle of the Yankees
continued to lead the entire ma
jor league ticket with a total
of 62.812 votes. His teammate.
Yogi Berra, was second with
58.105. First baseman Dale Long
of the Pirates was the most pop
ular National League choice
with 52,446 votes.
as the Logger shortstop bobbled
Pederson's grounder.
Dick Toney hit to third-baseman
Bowen and forced Peder
son at second. Toney and Sel
sor ran home with number four
and five for the Studs when
John Kovenz lofted a long
double to the popular left field.
Both pitchers settled down
through the next three innings.
Selsor gave up singles in the
third and fourth. Bend's Low
ell Pearce gave Roelandt a
single and Cooney a double, In
the fifth before getting the last
two men to ground out to Bow
en at third.
In the bottom of the sixth,
Medford again went to work at
the plate. Steffen was out, pitch
er to first, and Selsor went
down on a fly to center field.
Pederson then singled,-' and
Toney was hit on the elbow to
put men on first and second. A
wild pitch advanced both one
base. Clutch-man Kovenz step-
MEDPORDvfMiTrUBimX
ped into the box and sliced a
clean double down the first base
stripe for his third and fourth
runs batted in. Kovenz came
home with the final tally as Roe
land grounded to Bowen and
the big man threw into the dirt
causing baseman Lunde to miss
the ball.
Selsor gave up only four hits
during the afternoon, one each
to Bradshaw, Bowen, Rasmussen
and Lunde.
Lowell Pearce was found for
ten hits, including Kovenz's two
doubles, a double and single by
Selsor, the same by Cooney, and
singles by Pederson, Roelandt,
Wooten and Martell.
Bend was charged with' three
errors, all three going to Ron
Bowen.
Llnescores: RUB
Cheney Studr 0.10 003 OOx 8 10 0
Bend Loggers .. 020 000 00O2 4 1
ROUGH AND TUMBLE What looks like a football play Is Kansas City Athletics left
fielder Gus Zernial being tagged out at home plate by Washington Nats' catcher Clint
Courtney in the third inning at Kansas City, Mo. Zernial was trying to score from
second base on Harry Simpson's double. Vic Power, A's first baseman,' watches at
right Washington won, 5-4.
Bevos Snap Mount.es
Winning Streak, 8-3
Vancouver U.Pj The
Portland Beavers ignited for
four runs in the seventh inning
at Vancouver's Capilano stad
ium this afternoon and an 8-3
victory in the first half of a day
night twin bill that snapped the
Mounties' winning streak at
three games.
Right-hander Ray Shore came
on in the seventh to finish the
game for the Beavers and hold
the Mounties in check after
Rene Valdes had earned himself
the victory by pitching the first
six frames.
The score was tied 3-3 after
six full innings and then the
Beavers went out and made it
easy for their mound corps with
the booming four-run flourish in
the top of the seventh.
Bamberger Loses
George Bamberger took the
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WORKING out with Chicago
police baseball team. Rocky
Marciano, ex -heavyweight
champion, takes a healthy
swing at balL He once was
catcher. (International)
THE TJNKINDEST CUT
Livonia. Mich. (U.ff Livo
nia's city attorney. George Hal
ler. saw his salary slashed by
$4,500 in the period of only five
seconds.- The 'city commission,
after "sober reconsideration"
that lasted five seconds, upheld
its cut of Haller' salary from
112,500 to $8,000 annually.
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loss for the Canadians, who had
edged the Beavers 6-5 Friday
night in the opening set-to of a
three-game series.
Harry Bright and Wally West
lake slammed home runs in the
ninth inning to give the Sacra
mento Solons a 5-4 victory over
the Los Angeles Angels in a Pa
cific Coast league game at
Wrigley Field Saturday after
noon. The win broke a Solon eight-
game losing streak and gave
Roger Osenbaugh his fourth
pitching victory of the season
against five loses. Bob Ander
son (6-2) absorbed the loss for
the Angels,
Seals Win
The San Francisco Seals shut
out the San Diego Padres 2-0 to
even their Pacific Coast league
series at a game apiece.
Lefthander R. W. Smith kept
the Padres away from the plate
for eight innings and then weak
ened in the ninth to let two men
get on with none out. Eli Grba
Four Games
In RVL Today
The first pitch in four Rogue
Valley league baseball games
should cross the plate at 2 p.m.
today.
The local Cheney Colts are at
Grants Pass. Grants Pass claims
a tie with Glendale for leader
ship of the eight teams, having
won four and lost n,re. The
Colts are in a four-way knot at
second place with a two and two
record after being served a 10-5
defeat by Cave Junction in last
Sunday's game.
Glendale travels to Camp
White in a game which pita an
unbeaten team against an un-
vlctorious team. At Ashland,
the home club meets Eagle
Point, holding down the cellar
with Camp White at four losses
and no wins.
In the final encounter, Butte
Falls visits Cave Junction. Both
teams won their games last Sun
day and will be seeking to
knock each other out of their
tie for second in the standings.
came from the bullpen to pitch
the final Inning and preserve the
shutout.
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Sunday. June 24, 1958
r MEDFORD (OREGON ) MAIL TRIBUNE JTIWI
Dick Mayer Posts 198
For Daily News Title
Philadelphia U.R) Dick
Mayer, a slim, hungry pro who
hasn't won a tournament this
year, rippled a record five- un
der par 63 Saturday to take
over first place in the Phila
delphia Daily News $20,000 an
nual tournament with 198 total
for 54 holes.
Mayer, who plays out of St.
Petersburg, Fla., was six under
par for the Cobbs Creek course
after three days in his bid for
the $4,000 top prize money.
The blonde from St. Pete was
three strokes ahead of second
place Doug Holscher, of Apple
Valley, Calif., whose sub-par 66
SEVEN-POUND SINGLE
Eugene (U.R) University of
Oregon has a new baseball pros
pect coming up :
Webfoot Baseball Coach Don
Kirsch passed out the cigars yes
terday and announced that he
and Mrs. Kirsch were the proud
parents of a 7 pound, 14 ounce
boy with the hands of a shortstop.
MINCED MEAT
Des Moines, la. U.R) A Cal
ifornia woman wrote Gov. Leo
A. Hoegh in the interest of the
hog farmer and suggested he de
clared Feb. 2 "Sausage Day."
She explained, "You know,
Ground Hog Day."
today gave him a 201 total.
Mayer, 33, chortled that "I've
got a good putter working now ;
as he birdied six holes and bog
eyed only one. His iron shots
also rang true as he made the
course his private paradise on a
muggy day with the temperature
hitting 90 and the humidity way
up.
Voisler Knocked Out
The "heat knocked out Ernie
Vossler, of Midland, Tex., who
collapsed at the ninth hole and
was carried from the course. A
physician pronounced it heat ex
haustion. Vossler was two under
par for the out nine at the time.
Mike Ketchick, of Mahopac,
N.Y., was third, one stroke be
hind Holscher, with Arnold Pal
mer, Latrobe, Pa., Doug Ford
of Mahopac and Bill Casper Jr.,
of Chula Vista, Calif., the sec
ond day leader, all tied for 4th
with 203.
Fred; Hawkins, of El Paso,
Texas, who opened the tourna-1
ment with a 65 as the first day
leader, was seventh with 204
and Gardner Dickinson Jr., Pan
ama City, Fla., was eighth with
205.
U. S. Open Champion C a r y
Middlecoff and Jimmy Demaret
were 16 strokes behind the lead
er with 214 cards and Frank
Stranahan was 17 behind with
215 total.
SPELLING TROUBLE
Salt Lake City (U.R) Twelve-year-old
Steven Bishop pointed
out to city officials that a street
sign at 17th South and Wright
Court had spelled Wright
"Wrigt." As street department
employees hastened to supply
the missing "h," other citizens
reported signs reading "Eight
South" for Eighth South and an
other labeled "Seventeent
South."
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