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o TEN MEDFORD (OfcEGON) HAIL TRIBUNE Wdnetda7, March 20, 1937 Portland Beavers Won't Concede a Thing in 1957 Coast Loop Pennant Chase Second tn th series of stories rov vrinc the Pacific Coast League spring training camps.) By ALEX KAHN Clendale, Calif. 4J.R As far as Bill Sweeney is concerned, any team that wins Ihe Pacific Coast league championship' in 1957 will have to beat his Port land Beavers. "We're not conceding a thing to any other team," said Swee ney as he put his players through their paces at Casey Stengel field here. "It's always been my motto that I'm shooting for the top spot and this year is no different." Sweeney took over Portland's managership last July after Tommy Holmes left and the Bea vers closed with a rush to fin ish third, but Sweeney is not content to mke that his mark this year. IVa still too early for the vet eraVmanager, back at Portland for the third time in his 21 year career as skipper of Coast league teams, to assess the players he obtained from Los Angeles in the swap brought on by the sale of the Angels in Brooklyn. "I'll know after we've played a few exhibition games if they have the stuff but now that we have a working agreement with the Cubs we'll get some help from them, he said. But Sweeney is sure he will field a free hitting squad even on the basis of the players he now can count upon. These in clude such experienced hands in the outfield as Tommy Saffel and Louis Marquez with playing coach .Frank Carswell available for relief duty in the pasture or to play a regular stint until the Cubs can send reinforcements. That is one place Portland needs more depth. Still to be tested in the out field are Gil Dickens, Frank Ernaa and Ernie Johnson, all ob tained in the Angel swap. On the mound the Ports were hurt most by the loss of 22 game winner Rene Valdes, who went to the Brooklyn organiza tion. But dependable Bill Wrele, (16-15) is back. So are Bob Alex ander, Darrell Martin and young Bill Griffin, who came up at the end of last season from Eugene of the Northwest league. But Sweeney would like a couple more proven hurlers on his staff. Behind the plate he has Sam Calderone and Ron Bottler, backed up by Dan Baich, so that position is covered adequately The infield is fairly well set, also. Q-ith Jack Littrell back at short; Ed Mickelson at first and the veteran Eddie Basinski at second. Bobbv Adams, obtained in the Angel deal, may be able to hanr'le third, but Sweeney needs at least one more infielder and possibly two unless Bill Gabler, Don Lauters or Gary Sorenson from the trade meas ures up. Sweeney is happy to be affi liated with the Cubs, pointing out that they have less top minor league clubs to supply with play ers than did Brooklyn. "We have the nucleus of a good ball club and we'll be tough if we get Cub help, especially pitching," Sweeney said. "It could be a club with balance, in which there would be enough youngsters to make the veterans hustle and enough experienced hands to give the team poise" Basketball Scores TUESDAY COLLEGE GAMES Ev United Press NIT at New York Quarter-Finals Temple 77. Da v ton 66 Bradley 116. Xavier (Ohio) 81 Boxing Results Bt united press Miami Beach. Fla: Rorv Calhoun. ISP.. While Plam. NY. stopped James Bussey. 164 '4. Augusta. Ga. 6. 2 Beavers Agree To 1957 Terms Glendale, Calif. (U.R) First baseman Ed Mickelson and out fielder Tommy Saffell have come to terms with the Portland Bea vers. Only remaining Beaver not on hand is outfielder Luis Marquez. MEDFORDvTRIBUNI PdDIETS ' wY To ;ik 1 rVM , M::1 PERSONAL BATBOY "Here Dad," says Frank Kellert Jr. as he performs the chore of batboy for his father, Frank Kellert Sr., San Francisco Seals first baseman, at the Pacific Coast League club's Fullerton, Calif., spring training camp. Dusenberry PAL Mix Foe Of Chrisfean Every weight division from heavyweight to 60 pounders will be represented Saturday night when the Medford Police Ath letic league holds its benefit boxing card at Hedrick Junior High school. That was the word today from PAL officials. They reported also that Steve Dusenberry, Portland, will be foe for Medford's light heavy weight, Loren Christean. Denny Moyer, Portland, one of the top 150 pounders in the nation, will be on the card. His rival in the special event will be announced Thursday. It was indicated today that as many as 18 bouts will be pre sented. Medford PAL coaches Jim Zack and Hugh Jennings de clared their charges all in top shape for the tussles. They an ticipate an action packed eve ning for fans. Cain, Smith Rets Don Cain, state policeman here, and Mike Smith, Portland will alternate as referees. Both are highly experienced. Fred Spicgelberg, Medford high foot ball coach, will be a judge. Other ring officials, from Med ford. will include Bob Kyle Jr., timekeeper. Paul Haviland, an nouncer, and Ben Fagone, ringmaster. The card will be PAL's main source of funds to keep the club in operation. All profits will go to the club, membership of which is free of charge to boys. The club's gym is above Acme Hard ware store on Sixth street. In terested persons are invited to visit the gym on week day evenings. Tickets are on sale at the Medford police station, Sam's and Lamport's Sporting Goods stores. Brown's cafe and the Union club. Policemen and PAL officials also have tickets. Don Hawley, Burns, and Dick Lopez, Medford PAL, are in the heavyweight semi-main. Larry Lewis, Medford PAL, and Willie Ira, Portland, are matched in the bantamweight semi-main. On the supporting card are: ttnv Marshall vs. George Lish. featherweights; Allen Richter vs. Orin Inlow. 135 Douods: Keith Capps vs. Clyde Williams. 115; Bob Capps vs. MiKe Ames, uh: Larry irvin vs. man Corey, 145: Don Eskew vs. Larry He pola. 112; Leroy Umberger vs. Benny Kempke. 145: Doug Batten vs. Tom Brown, 90; Chuck Kinball vs. Virgil Miller. 100: Rusty Smith vs. Jim Southern. 60: Cecil Cardwell vs. Dale Hepola. 75: Bex Howe vs. Bob Dav enport. 100; Kecnan Smith vs. Skip Richter, b5. GOOD SO GOOD IT'S REMARKABLE o if" I f jL-mtwmln li f W mr. aiir nuB " -3B:t w:ss:ts (u-4 Early Times is so good that of all the whiskies made in j Kentucky, Kentuckians themselves choose Early Times over all other straight whiskies. See the award-winning recipes from the recent Early Times nationwide drink mixing contest in the March issue of Coronet magazine. Lakers Advance In Pro Playoffs Br UNITED PRESS The final round division play offs in the National Basketball association begin Thursday night with Syracuse at Boston and Minneapolis at St. Louis. The Lakers earned the right to meet the Western division champion Hawks in the best-of five final round by defeating the Fort Wayne Pistons, 110-108 Tuesday night for their second straight win over the Pistons in the opening round best-of-three series. The Nationals defeated the Philadelphia Warriors two straight in their opening round Eastern division playoff for the right to play the division cham pion Celtics. St. Louis and Bos ton drew first round byes for finishing first in their respective divisions in regular-season play. Few Hoop Rule Changes Seen Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) The chairman of the National Basket ball Coaches association rules committee today predicted few rules changes would be recom mended in a three-day meeting opening Thursday, although the cussed and discussed zone de fense and the one-and-one foul shot were sure to come up. The chairman, Alvin F. Doggy Julian of Dartmouth, said thei singles and doubles i S . , i RETRIEVER TRIAL SCENE This scene is typical of what spectators will see Friday, Saturday and Sunday during the Rogue Valley Retriever club's sixth annual field trial in the Camp White area. Shown during a RVRC picnic trial held re cently are Otto Lilya and Lady. The Black Labrador is marking the falls of shot pigeons in the final practice event for the big American Kennel club licensed competition here. Lilya and Lady currently are leading in points in the contention for the local club's derby trophy. Ed Hogan Wraps Up Links Toga With 206 Eddie Hogan, professional at Portland's Riverside club, headed home with top honors in the tri-city progressive pro-amateur golf tournament with a one-under-par 71 card at Rogue Val ley Country club Tuesday which brought his three-day tabulation to 206 gross. The Portlander added his Tues day total to a 65 Sunday at Laurelwood course in Eugene and a 70 Monday at Roseburg Country club. His cards were low both days on those links. CHAMP MOVES ALONG St. Aaugustin, Fla. U.R) Defending champion Judd Brum- ley of Greenwood, Tenn., an easy winner in the opening round, meets John W. Roberts of Columbus, Ohio, today in the top match of the American Sen iors Golf association championship. Large Entry 8n Retriever Club's Trial Open all-age stake will have the biggest field this week end in the Rogue Valley Retriever club's sixth annual field trial. Forty-seven entries have been listed by trial secretary Ken Dcnman for the open which will be the last of four stakes in the American Kennel club licensed event on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 22, 23, and 24. Twenty-eight dogs are sched uled to run in the open all-age stake, first competition, in the trial in the game commission management and Hoover lakes areas of the Camp White district north of Medford. The amateur will begin at 8 a.m. Friday. The derby stake, which fol lows the amateur, will have 38 dogs entered and the qualifying stake will have ?7. Champ Not Defending Last year's winner in the big even, the open, won't be defend ing this time since the owner, Roger Bacon Jr., Canby, Calif., will be one of the judges. The dog was a labrador, Bakelib Donder. However, top-ranked en trant will be last year's runner up here, a biack labrador male which went on to win the na tional crown, Massie's Sassy Boots, 'owned by William T. Cincinnati Has Power to Win National League Flag Editor's Note: This is the second in a series on the 1957 prospects of Major League clubs. By LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor Tampa, Fla. (U.R) The Cin cinnati Redlegs have the power to win the National League pen nant. But most baseball follow ers don't think they have enough pitching. However, Birdie Tebbetts, in his fourth season as manager of the Redlegs, doesn't agree with them. He insists he has "the best pitching depth in the league." "We have seven or eight pitch ers who can start and relieve," Tebbetts claims. "We may not have the standout starters some other teams have, but they can't come up to us in overall depth. And there isn't a better relief pitcher in the business than Hersh Freeman." Wanted: Singles, Doubles While Tebbetts is impressed with Cincinnati's power the club tied the all-time major league club home run record last season when it clouted 221 he said he would be "satis fied with less homers and more two major rules proposals up for discussion by the coaches would be: Giving the two defensive play ers next to the basket on free throws more room. Their desig noted space now is three feet. Possible changes in foul rules concerning the one-and-one and backcourt fouls. Julian said there has been some agitation on two shots for backcourt fouls, and the one-and-one for front court fouls. He said some coaches wanted the one-and-one elimin ated on the first six fouls of each half. He conceded that perhaps Brooks Lawrence, who won 19 games in 1956, "might not win that many again," but added that Joe Nuxhall, who won only 13 last year "should do much bet ter.' Birdie expects help from War ren Hacker and Russ Meyer, both of whom were obtained from the Cubs, and contends that holdovers Art Fowler 11-11, Johnny Klippstein 12-11, Hal Jeffcoat 8-2 and Tom Acker 4-3 should improve their last year's records. Outfield All Set The outfield is all set with Frank Robinson, the National League rookie of the year in 1956, in left, Gus Bell in center and Wally Post in right. The Redlegs have the best double play combination in the league in Roy McMillan at short and Johnny Temple at second. Big Ted Kluszewski is set at first base and under present plans, Tebbetts will platoon third base among Don Hoak, Alex Gram mas and Rocky Bridges. Ed Bailey, probably the most improved player in the league last year when he batted .300 and hit 28 homers, will be the No. 1 catcher with Smoky Bur gess, also a long ball hitter, be hind him. Tebbetts calls it the best catch ing staff in the league. First Appearance For Don Larsen St. Petersburg, Fla. (U.R) Don Larsen was to make his first competitive appearance of the spring for the New York 1 Yankees today five months and i 11 days after his World Series perfect game. Larsen, the last Yankee to agree to terms this spring, hadn't thrown a ball in competition since his 87th and last pitch of the Oct. 9 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers struck out pinch-hitter Dale Mitchell. He was slated to start against the hard-hitting Cincinnati Red-legs. Coach Harp Says Kansas Will Be Ready for Dons Lawrence, Kan. J.R) Coach Dick Harp said today his Kan sas Jayhawks would be "ready and in the best possible shape" to meet San Francisco Friday "but if we can't set the tempo, then we'll get beat." Harp, looking forward to meeting the defending national champions in an NCAA semi final game in Kansas City Fri day, said "San Francisco is the type of team that it takes to beat us a ball control club with a good defense." On top of that, Harp said "Phil Woolpert of San Francis co is one of the very finest coaches in basketball. If anyone knows how to control Wilt Chamberlain it should be Wool- pert he had Bill Russell for three years." Eddie Oldfield, Roseburg pro, had a 70 here for low card yes terday while Hogan's 71 tied him vith Dave Killen, Eastmoreland, Portland, for second for the fi nal day. Killen was second low pro in cumulative scoring with 71-72-71 214. Deadlocking for third among the pros were Oldfield with 74-75-70219 and Harold West, Laurelwood 73-73-73219. Woody Ball, Laurelwood, had amateur low gross with 75-79-77 231 followed by Bob Mc- Keown. Riverside, with 71-79-82 22. Walt Kline, Salem, carded 234 and Ed Hall, Medford, 236. Junior Langston, Cottage Grove, took amateur low net with 69-76-71216. Take Pro-Am The combination of Oldfield and Marvin Clerk, Grants Pass, and Oldfield and Miles Doran, Medford, each recorded 66s for pro-amaeur best ball awards. Jim Blakely, Santa Barbara, Cal., pro, .and Dom Provost Jr., Ashland amateur, teamed for next low with a 67 best ball count. Hogan and Al Althens, Medford, paired for a 68 as did Oldfield and Bill Kalibak, Med ford. Amateur low gross was shared by Langston, George Harrington, Medford, and Ball. Each had a 77. Low nets were compiled by Langston, Sam Mock, Eugene, and George Schuler, Medford, each with 71. There were 21 pros and 83 amateurs in yesterday's action at Rogue Valley for a total entry of 104. Cline, Chicago, 111. Only one of last year's win ners competing will be Mocas sin, owned and handled by Her bert Fleishhacker Jr., San Fran cisco. It took the 1957 derby. Kingfish II, which was owned by E. L. Minoggie, Beaverton and took the qualifying stake, is dead. Marion Timothy, which with owner and handler Mrs. Marion McPhail, took the ama teur, is not registered. Retrievers are being entered from communities up and down the Pacific coast and from as far away as Chicago. 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