SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday. April 18, 1957
Venturi May Start 'Fabulous7
Golf Career May 2 in Colonial
Bl HAL WOOD
United Press Sports Writer
San Francisco (U.PJ Ken
: Venturi, calm and confident
ipaves here next week for Ft
Worth. Tex., and the start of
. what may be one of the most
fabulous professional golf car
eers of this era.
Venturi, who will be 26 years
old next month, starts his "play
for pay" career in the Colonial
Invitational Tourney at Ft.
Worth May 2
Some were disappointed in
Kenney's play in the Masters,
where he faded somewhat from
his sensational showing of a year
ago. Then, as an amateur, he
failed by one stroke to capture
the crown.
"But I wasn't disappointed,"
he says. "I hit some of the fin
est shots of my life down there.
It just happened that the putts
wouldn't roll in for me."
Sot Money Hungry
"If I can continue to hit my
woods and irons as I did there,
I'll win some of the tournaments.
-Maybe a lot of them."
Ken isn't the cocky kid he
was a couple of years ago. But
he still is faithful to his belief
that he has a championship cal
iber golf game.
"I've still got to prove that
to myself," he says. "I'm not
money hungry. If I was, I would
have stayed in the automobile
business, where I could have
made a sure, good living.
"But I want those titles. I've
got to prove it to myself that
I can win the major champion
ships." Venturi, despite his bril
liance, never has won a really
big crown. He came close at the
Masters last year, leading for
three days. He has won the Cali
fornia state championship twice,
won his matches on the Walker
Cup team; and he tied with Jim
my Demaret and Mike Souchak
for the $15,000 Palm Springs
Invitational earlier this year,
but lost in the play-off.
Actually, he doesn't figure he
is taking much of a gamble go
ing on the tour.
"I figure I turned professional
at just the right age," he says.
"I've got my college education;
I've got experience as an auto
salesman; and experience as an
executive (he was vice president
and manager of an auto agency).
"I'm going on this tour with my
wife and baby. We are going to
live in hotels and live first class.
"If I can't make it that way, then
I can always come back here
and make a good living.
"I'm not worried about win
ning the big purses. Of course,
I'll take what money I can. But
the major item as far as I'm
concerned is winning the big ti
tles. I turned professional so I
could play golf every day
and that what I plan to do."
So saying, Kenney went back
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HOPPING HOME Egad, a one-legged baseball player?
Its just Portland Beaver second baseman Bob McKee
creating the illusion as he crosses home plate in San
Francisco's Seals Stadium with one leg tucked up behind
him. Bob is scoring one of the runs that downed the
Seals, 2-1. Waiting for the late throw is catcher Eddie
Sadowski.
Killiun Takes Cycle Trophy
Bob Killiun, of Grants Pass, and starter was Jack White of
Bob Killiun, of Grants Pass,
set the fastest time last Sunday
in the class "C" hill climb of the
Rogue Valley Motorcycle Club
of Southern Oregon before sev
eral hundred spectators.
Killiun's time was 23 seconds
even, winning a trophy for the
speed run.
Don Foose, of Medford, won
the lightweight class; John
Winkler, of Ashland, won the
30.50 middleweight class; and
Richard Killiun, of Grants Pass,
won the open event.
Second place winners of each
class were Bob Simmons, Harry
Elledge and Bob Killiun. MC
to the green to resume practic
ing his putting touch-a self-imposed
putting lession that lasted
four hours. "I three-putted 12
greens at the Masters," he said.
"But if practice means anything,
I'll have my putting touch in
shape for the Colonial."
Medford.
The club's next hill climb will
be May 19.
Cubs Option
Hurler to Bevos
Chicago U.R The Chicago
Cubs today optioned right handed
pitcher Bob Anderson to the
Portland,. Ore. farm team to cut
their roster to the allowed max
imum of 28 on opening day.
DAVE POPE SOLD
Cleveland (U.R) The Cleve
land Indians cut down to 28
players today when they sold
outfielder Dave Pope and
optioned pitchers Bud Daley
and Hank Aguirre to San Diego
in the Pacific Coast League. The
Indians also signed outfielder
Roger Maris, infielder Larry
Raines and catcher Russ Nixon
to major league contracts.
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Orioles Tip
Washington
In Opener
By FRED DOWN
United ' Press Sports Writer
The major league pennant
races start in earnest today
after a presidential opener in
which baseball put its worst
foot forward.
Some 250,000 fans are ex
pected at the eight openers with
primary interest focusing on
the New York Yankees' attempt
to make a fast getaway in quest
of a third straight American
League pennant and the Brook
lyn Dodgers' embarking on
what is figured to be another
season-long National League
battle with the Milwaukee
Braves and Cincinnati Redlegs.
A Ragged Start
The season got off Monday
to a somewhat ragged start
when the Baltimore Orioles
scored an 11-inning, 7-6 victory
over the Washington Senators
in a three-hour and 17-minute
struggle marked by 26 hits and
five errors. President Eisen
hower tossed out two ceremon
ial "first balls" and looked like
the best Ditcher in the ball park
until Billy Loes came along to
pitch two scoreless innings and
pick up the triumph.
Patterson May Fight McMurtry
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Wash 000 500 010 00 6 11 2
Brown. Fornieles (4). O'Dell f9),
Loes (10) and Triandos. Chakales,
Pascual (8) and Courtney. Winner
Loes (1-0). Loser Pascual (0-1). HR
Triandos.
Jack Coombs Said
'Richly Deserving'
Of Hall of Fame
Trappe, Md. U.R) Frank
(Home Run) Baker declared to
day that ex-Philadelphia Ath
letic teammate Jack Coombs,
the pitcher for whom he hit one
of baseball's most famous home
runs, "richly deserves" being
voted into the game's Hall of
Fame.
"No better pitcher ever
walked out onto a mound," said
the 76-year-old Baker of
Coombs, who died Monday of a
hea.L attack in Palestine, Tex.
"He was not only a great pitch
er but a wonderful man. He
certainly should be voted into
the Hall of Fame."
Coombs, 74, was the most ef
fective pitcher on an -Athletic
staff that included ddie Plank
and Chief Bender in 1910-11-12
and, with a 5-0 slate, was the
most successful World , Series
hurler of the dead ball era.
Coombs' World Series record is
matched only by Herb Pennock
and exceeded only by Lefty Go
mez' 6-0 slate. His 13 shutouts
in 1910 is still the A. L. record.
Coombs had a record of 159
victories and 112 losses in the
big leagues. He later coached
the baseball team at Duke Uni
versity for 26 years and in re
cent years held clinics for
youngsters in Palestine, Tex. -
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Tacoma (U.R) A telegram
carrying $100,000 worth of
words was sent east Monday
night asking heavyweight cham
pion Floyd Patterson to defend
his title against Pat McMurtry of
Tacoma in an outdoor fight in
the Pacific Northwest, presum
ably this summer.
Promoter Inigo Luchessi told
United Press that a group of Ta
coma sportsmen offered to back
the Elliot Bay Boxing club in
bringing a title fight to the area.
The telegram, signed and sent
by Luchessi to Gus D'Amato,
Patterson's manager, read as fol
lows: "A group of Tacoma sports
men will guarantee you $100,000
providing I sign Floyd Patterson
to box Pat McMurtry for the
world title here in Northwest if
latter wins in sensational man
ner over Edgardo Romero."
McMurtry meets Romero, a
245-pound Argentinian who has
never been knocked out, in the
Civic Auditorium at Seattle on
Thursday night.
Sport
Parade
By
JACK CUDDY
Sports Writer
United Press
New York (U.R) As certain
as peanuts and soda pop things
that are bound to happen as the
baseball season swings into high
gear today:
As tradition demands, the
umps will yell "play ball" and
then stow that phrase away for
another year.
Casey Stengel will exude con
fidence and worry privately
about Mickey Mantle's brittle
legs.
Some guy who is "home sick"
will get fired because his boss
saw him at the ball park on
television.
I'm a cinch to drop mustard
on my one good necktie.
. A player who goes for the
horse collar will alibi that this
early in" the spring the pitchers
still are ahead of the hitters.
Ted Still Something
A pitcher who is shelled out
will complain that there's more
"jackrabbit" in the ball than
ever.
Ted Williams still is some
thing to see even if he strikes
out four times.
A rookie will admit to all and
mostly sundry that "they sine
pitch different up here."
A rookie pitcher will admit in
battered dejection that "the hit
ters sure are harder to fool up
here."
Wiffi Smith
Wins Tourney
Dallas, Tex. U.R) Margaret
Chamberlain (Wiffi) Smith, the
freckled fledgling who was the
latest of this country's top ama
teurs to join the play-for-pay
golf brigade, has broken into
the titlist class oJy four months
after joining the tour.
The break-through for the
husky former U.S. Curtis Cup
ace came in the wind-blown
$7,500 Dallas Women's Open
golf tournament Monday when
she parlayed a new set of clubs
into a 72-hole total of 285 that
bested all the veterans and
added $1,316 to her bankroll.
That boosted her three
notches, to fourth, among the
money winners with $3,990.42,
one of the most auspicious starts
of any of the lady amateurs who
have chosen to play for keeps.
In posting her victory she
beat off the challenge - of top
money winner Patty Berg, the
17-year-old veteran rom St. An
drews, 111., who hoisted her sea
son pickings to $4,979 with a
288 worth $926.
Hart Tallies
19th Kayo
New York (U.R) Life was
sweet again today for Garnet
(Sugar) Hart.
The 21-year-old Philadelphia
knockout artist regained his win
ning touch Monday night b.
stopping Willie (Pineapple) Stev
enson of Boston in the seventh
round of their widely-televised
fight at St. Nicholas Arent.
It was Hart's 19th knockout
in 23 fights and Helped erase
the memory of his sad Madison
Square Garden debut last month
,when he was outpointed by Wal
ter Byars, another Boston pro
duct. Hart's heavier firepower star
ted to take its toll in the sixth
and just before the end of that
session, Stevenson was flattened
for a two-count by a wicked left
hook. He hit the deck again for
an eight-count midway in the
seventh and, when another flur
ry of punches sent Willie reel
ing, referee Barney Felix halted
the action at 2:53.
NEW ZEALANDHOSS HERE
Inglewood, Calif. U.R) El
Khobar, one of New Zealand's
best thoroughbreds, is expected
to arrive here Thursday for the
forthcoming Hollywood Park
meeting. The five-year-old horse
will be trained by W. J. (Buddy)
Hirsch during his American invasion.
HOCKEY
Montreal U.R) Home ice
and the scent of a second
straight Stanley Cup title is ex
pected to provide the Montreal
Ganadiens with added incentive
tonight when they seek to elim
inate the Boston Bruins in the
fifth game of the best-of -seven
final series.
The high-powered Canadians,
the National Hockey League's
most dangerous scoring ma
chine, need only one victory to
wrap up the series and keep the
cup in Montreal for another
year. After winning the first
three games of the series, the
Flying Frenchmen were blanked
Sunday night at Boston,- 2-0,
marking the first time they have
been held scoreless in 48 games.
Some otherwise sane charac
ter will tear his trousers and
scuff his shoes scrambling for a
foul ball, and then wave it wild
ly as complete proof of his
idiocy.
Another is a cinch to get belt
ed by a ball and wind up back
in his seat with a big white patch
on his noggin.
Bums Miss Robinson
A veteran will hit big from
memory and predict that his new
stance is going to pay off in one
of his biggest years.
A cinch second division team
will win a couple in a row and
the manager will confide to his
friends "we'll surprise a few
people this year."
The first time Brooklyn loses
the critics will start pointing
out how much they miss Jackie
Robinson.
A busher will go four for four
and steal two bases and they'll
commence comparing him to Ty
Cobb. A month later he, too,
will be back in Georgia.
And every guy who starts off
the season with a home run
will automatically be three
games ahead of Babe Ruth's pace
when he hit his record 60 in
1927.
Puerto Rican on
Milwaukee Staff
Milwaukee (U.R) Juan Pi
zarro, 19-year-old Puerto Rican
left hander, was added today to
the Milwaukee Braves' roster as
a result of his fine showing dur
ing spring training.
The highly - touted rookie
struck out 11 batters and allow
ed 19 hits in 19 innings of Grape-
Giant Said
In Need of
Treatment
Portland (U.R) Johan Eloff,
manager of giant South African
heavyweight Ewart Potgieter
said today he was "surprised and
shocked" to hear the Potgieter
had been suspended by the Mas
sachusetts Boxuig Commission
because he is in need of medical
treatment.
Chairman Ray Smith of the
Portland Boxing Commission
said he had wired to Massachu
setts asking for more details.
Potgieter, a 7 foot 2 inch heavy
weight, has been fighting out of
Portland recently.
Potgieter was reported to have
had a pituitary gland operation
last December, in Boston. The
suspension came after a doctor
told the boxing commission there
that further treatment is neces
sary. Eloff said Potgieter was de
clared fit for boxing and that
as far as he knew nothing was
said about further examinations.
Dr. Clinton McGill, physician
on the Portland Boxing Com
mission, said Potgieter had re
ceived a clean bill of healthfrom
the Massachusetts General hos
pital. Smith said '"we have it on
file and as far as we are con
cerned there is nothing wrong
with Potgieter.'' He said he was
wiring Massachusetts for more
information.
fruit League pitching to win a
spot on the Braves' classy staff.
In other moves just before the
openers, the New York Giants
promoted rookie catcher Valmy
Thomas to the varsity and op
tioned catcher Bob Schmidt to
their Minneapolis farm while the
Philadelphia Phillies sent pitch
er Angelo LiPetri to Miami in
the International League on 24
hour recall.
Softballers Set
Thursday Meet
Jackson County Softball as
sociation has a meeting set for
8:30 p.m. Thursday at the YMCA
here.
Whether there will be league
play this season may hinge on
the meeting. All groups who
contemplate entering teams are
advised to have representatives
Vice president Gary Colton
stated that unless there is a rea
sonably large turnout for' the
meeting, efforts to organize for
1957 -league play, will be abandoned.
Chicago i(U.R) Gene Fullmer
scheduled five rounds of spar
ring today and a day off
Wednesday in training for his
May 1 middleweight title de
fense against Sugar Ray Robinson.
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