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Newspaper Page Textr EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) Xl& "VC-V 16 HOLD THAT LINE! Frank House of the Tigers is out at home as Cleveland Indian catcher Jim Hegan throws a block in the best football style in the third inning of then game in Detroit House was trying to score from third on Frank Boiling's hit which was fielded by Bobby Avila who threw to Hegan for the out The Indians won, 8-3. Fanfare It's still early in the collegiate track and field season and Ed Bingham, ex-Medford high jav elin thrower now at University of Oregon, should be considered a definite threat to exceed the 234-foot IVi-inch school record at Oregon set by Boyd Brown in 1939. Ed's 226-9V2 against Wash ington last Saturday puts , him within striking distance. The next few weeks will indicate whether he can throw up near that distance consistently. Bingham's Saturday cast was the best of his life in addition to setting a meet record. So far as this writer can recall the 226-9 Vi represents the best heave by a Medford high product. Oregon's May 4 meet with Oregon State could mean an in teresting duel between Bingham and Don Clay. ex-Jacksonville high, now at OSC. SPOTLIGHT TAKEN Jack Morris another x Medford, won his 220-yard low hurdls specialty for Oregon against Washington Saturday but Steve Onderson, the Ta coman, has stolen the thunder from Jack in his other main race of last year, the century. CORDY SETS MARK Bingham, Morris, Dave New land in the pole vault, Jeff Wil liams in the distances and Jack Moad in the shot put give Med ford a representation of five men on the Duck squad. The Oregon State press book lists Medford as the address of three thinclads. However, only one of the three, vaulter Benson Foley, is ex-Medford high. Clay, of course, was a Jacksonville prepper and.'half-miler and Cliff Cordy attended Crater high. Cordy established a new meet standard and school record in the 880-yarder against Washing ton State last week-end. His time of 1:54.8 compared to the 1:57.1 he ran against Idaho the week before. TERRY. TWINK SHINE Two Medford Cheney Studs last summer are wielding po tent bats for Oregon and Ore gon State this spring. Terry Maddox. ex-Medford high, a U of 0 outfielder, sparked his team to a Friday triumph over OSC with three hits and four runs knocked in. Twink Ped rson, Salem. Beaver short stop helped the Orange win cause against the Webfoots Saturday with three hits. He got two hits on Friday and batted five for 10 for the two days. Twink is pacing the Beaver hitting. COPPLE, DEAKINS ON TEAM Medford has players occupy ing the No. 3 ami 4 spots on the Oregon State college golf team with Larry Copple and Warren Deakins making the grade as sophomores. Both won their sin gles against U of O last Friday. Deakins was on a winning best ball duo with Leighton Tuttle, ex-Eugene, and Copple combined with Lee Grant to tie in a match. Carole Jo Kabler, Sutherlui, the Southern Oregon champ, is No. 1 on' the Oregon freshman team. WRECK DELAYS This department was a day late in getting a Glendale-IUi-nois Valley high baseball game into print last week be cause the Glendale scorebook had been taken in a car which was involved in a wreck. LONG CONTEST It would have been some mar athon. A story in the Oregon Journal of Portland Saturday said that Medford high would" be a participant in a four-day track meet. The story had reference to a four-school meet. ' STAUFFER LOOKING Wes Slauffer Prospect high coach, has submitted his resig- HUSKIES EDGE IDAHO Moscow. Idaho (U.P.) Wash ington's Huskies, behind the xour hit pitching of George Kritsonis, edged Idaho 2-1 in a Northern Division baseball game Monday. The victory put the Huskies half a game in front of the pack with a 2-1 record. MAIL TRIBUNE "7 V By DICK JtWETT Mail Tribune Sports Editor nation and is looking. When Tinker Hatfiled, Rogue River mentor, takes over at Shedd next school year, he'll have the combined athletic forces of Halsey and Shedd highs. The - following year Brownsville students will be added, accord ing to the merger plan. Chief Frosh Top Phoenix Rogue River Rogue River high freshmen defeated Phoenix 73 to 44 yesterday in a dual track meet here. The Chief ' Frosh took clear cut first places in 10 of the 13 events. Doug Stewart was the big vic tor with first in three events for Rogue River. He won the shot put with 48-3, the discus with 93-2 and the javelin with 140 feet. Gary Chriss took the unshared Phoenix firsts with :11.15 in the 75-yard high urdles and :18.7 in the 140-yard low hurdles. Double Victors Double wins for RR were scored by Larry Goosey and Ed Johnson. Goosey took the 75 yard dash in :09. and the 160 in :18.4. Johnson went 9 feet in the pole vault and toured the 300-yard run in :38.6. Dave Carter, Rogue River, tied at 5-2 with Dave Hamilton, Phoenix,' in the high jump, and captured the 660 run in 1:42.2. Neil Wagner won the broad jump for the Chieftains with 17-7 and Larry Horn, Rogue River, had first in the 1320 with 4:09. The Rogue River varsity had an engagement as host to Illi nois Valley this afternoon. Earlier in the season the meet had been listed for Friday. RVL Umpires Set Meeting A meeting of prospective um pires for the Rogue Valley base ball league has been called for Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. at the office of the Cheney Lumber Co in Central Point, it was an nounced today. , Anyone interested in umpir ing in the league is invited to the meeting. Those selected to umpire will be assigned to games throughout the season and will be paid S10 when umpiring be hind the plate and S8 when um piring on the bases, the an nouncement said. League directors and team managers will meet at the . same location Sunday at 2 p.m. at which time final plans for the forthcoming season will b e drawn. Admittance of Butte Falls to the league, making seven teams in the schedule, changes opening day from June 9 to May 26 with the season to conclude on Aug. 25. Baseball Scout Burned To Death St. Petersburg, Fla. U.PJ Re tired baseball scout John C. Nee, whose discoveries included New York Yankee greats Bill Dickey and Tommy Henrich, was fatally burned Monday when his bed clothing caught fire. He was 67. Among other stars discovered by Nee, who never played major league baseball himself, were Spud Chandler, Atley Donald, Marvin Breuer. Ben Chapman, Dixie Walker, Clyde McCul- lough, and Bill Werber. COMPLETE EXHAUST SYSTEM INSPECTED FREE Don't Take a Chance It Could Be FATAL - (See, Us Today!) 15 Minute Service . MUFFLER CO. f 1130 N.Riverside Tufday, April 23. 1957 Mounts Up PCL Lead; Top Solons By UNITED1 PRESS Nobody believes it it isn't so. But nevertheless, the lowly Van couver Mounties are increasing j their, lead in the Pacific Coast League with each game. Vancouver finished its seies against Sacramento in devastat ing fashion Monday night, wal loping the Solons 6-1. The win gave. the Mounties five games out of six in their series with Sacramento and put them two games ahead of second place San Francisco. Streeter Helps Vancouver played well against the Solons, giving up only one run in seven hits. But without the help of Solon shortstop Jeri Streeter the score might not have been so lop-sided. In the first, Streeter nabbed a slow grounder by Buddy Peter son but. threw it high to third to let Len Green arrive safely from second. Then Jim Marshall stepped to the plate and calmly slammed one over the left field fence. Vancouver made another three run splurge in the ninth and Streeter chalked up his second error. With Cal Segrist and Jake Crawford on, Owen Friend hit a bounding ground ball which I Streeter also heaved high. Mor rie Martin, Mountie winning pitcher, wrapped it up with a double to center field. THE LINESCORE: Vancouver .... 300 000 003 6 5 1 Sacramento .. 000 100 000 1 7 2 Bridges and Mangan; Martin and Neal. Dorish, Held Top Coast Pitchers San Francisco (U.R) Harry Dorish of San Francisco and Vancouver's Mel Held topped the Pacific Coast League's 1957 pitching race today, each with two victories and no losses, 18 innings pitched and earned run averages of 0.50. Actually, seven hurlers had 2-0 records after the first week and a half of the new season. The others were Duane Pillette of San Francisco; Art Ceccarelli, Vancouver; Bob Darnell, los An geles; Jim Hughes, Los Angeles and Pete Mesa of San Diego. Ceccarelli and Don Rowe or Hollywood topped the league in strikeouts with 16 each and Mesa was the early season womnorse with 22 innings under his belt, con nipon'e Stu Locklin jump; ed to an early lead in the PCL batting race, holding a lat average for the first week and a half of the new. season. Locklin rapped out 13 hits for hat. He was followed by Jim Marshall, Vancouver first sacker, wnn .mo Dyck, Seattle third baseman, with .394. Marshall, Frank Keller of San Francisco and Bill Causion of Hollywood were tied for the most hits with 15 each. Softball Group Meets Thursday Further steps in organizing for league softball play this sum 11 hp taken Thursday at an 8:30 p.m. meeting at the YMCA. Election of officers is one of hp items on the agenda. The matter of playing sites also is to be discussed. Representatives of all teams are instructed to attend the meeting. Seven teams were nnea up for the circuit at a meeting last week. Mays Blasts 3rd Homer of Season New York U.P.) Please don't mention Babe Ruth's record to Willie Mays. "Gosh, I hope they ain't gonna start that all over again," said the Giants' center fielder after his third homer of the season with two men on accounted for a 3-1 victory over the Pitts burgh Pirates Monday. "I don't care about hitting homers, I just care about win ning games," Willie went on. "Who knows, I may get hot and hit seven or eight in a bunch. Maybe if I get hot, the club will get hot, too. "But I hope they don't start all that business about' the rec ord again." Walla Walla (U.R) Whitman and Pacific split a Northwest Conference baseball doublehead er Monday, hitman took the sec ond game 6-0 after Pacific won the opener 3-1. - 9 A Silver MEDFORD flL nftll Ph.3-4818 Mantle Hits 1st Homer of '57; Cincinnati Notches First Win By FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer The man and the team who produced the top slugging hero ics of 1956 are off and running at last today at the expense of a pair of "jinx" pitchers. Mickey Mantle, the American League's triple crown winner, connected for his first homer of the season Monday night as the New, York Yankees crushed the Washington Senators, 15-6, with a 16-hit barrage. Mantle's blow came off southpaw Chuck Stobbs who held Mickey to three singles in 27 official times at bat last season. The Cincinnati Redlegs, mean while, finally scored their first victory of 1957 when they de feated the St. Louis. Cardinals, 10-6. The . Redlegs had 14 hits and took advantage of six er rors. In addition, they beat Wil mer (Vinegar Bend) Mizell, who topped them five times last year. Big Sixth Inning Mantle's homer gave the Yan kees a 2-0 third-inning lead and the world champions wrapped up their fourth win in five games with a seven-run outburst in the sixth which was featured by Hank Bauer's grand - slam and a triple steal with Billy MEDFORIVseTRIBUNE SIPODIKTrS Pittsburgh, Giant Managers Continue 'Feudin, Fighting' By MILTON RICHMAN United Press Sports Writer New York U.R) Bill Rigney of the Giants and Bobby Bragan of the Pirates are a feudin' and a fightin' again. A curt "to hell with him," di rected by Rigney at Bragan when the Pittsburgh manager sought the use of the Polo Respects Paid To Bill Sweeney Arcadia, Calif. U.R) Several hundred friends and baseball as sociates paid last respects Mon day to veteran baseball figure Bill Sweeney, who spent 19 of his 32 years in baseball as man ager of four Pacific Coast League clubs. Sweeney was manager of the Portland Beavers when he died Thursday at San Diego following emergency surgery for an ulcer. He was 52. Interment was held at Resur rection Cemetery in nearby San Gabriel following requiem mass at the Church of the Holy An gels here. The active pall bearers were Frank Carswell, acting manager of the Portland team; L. H. Gregory, of the Portland Ore gonian; Tippy Berg, Portland trainer, and Luis Marquez, Jack Littrell and Sam Calderone, Portland players. Cougars Fortify Unbeaten Lead in County B League B LEAGUE STANDINGS W. Prospect . 3 Butte Falls ; 2 St. Mary's 1 Jacksonville 1 Talent 1 Rogue River 0 Pet 1.000 .667 .500 .500 333 .000 Prospect Prospe-t high bol stered its top position in Jack son -ounty B league baseball by submerging St. Mary's of Med ford 17 to 4 here yesterday after noon. It was the third league victory for the Cougars who are the lone unbeaten aggregation in the cir cuit. ' Twelve runs in a wild second inning cemented the game for Prospect. The club got- only three hits in the frame but had the help of five bases on balls, two hit batters, tw errors, five wild pitches, four passed balls, Camp White Bowlers Beat Bank Team Camp White The Veteran's Bowling team outscored the vis iting First National Bank of Medford here Monday by a total pintail of 2,413 to 2,311. Irving Gray of Camp White made high game score of 212. NEW LOCATION Brill Metal WorEts 2287 WEST MAIN ST. Corner West Main, Ross Lane and Lozier Lane New Building Better Service PLENTY OF PARKING SPACE Copper Stainless Steel Galv. Iron PHONE 2-4440 MEDFORD, ORE. Martin on the scoring endj Whitey Ford yielded two runs in seven innings before retiring and p i c k e d - up his second straight victory over the .Sena tors. Ed Bailey and Johnny Temple had three hits each to pace the Redlegs' attack which exceeded the run production of their four previous losses. Tom Acker, third of four Cincinnati pitchers, gained credit for the win al though Raul Sanchez finished up. Stan Musial collected four hits for the Cardinals for the second time in five games. The unbeaten Milwaukee Braves ran their winning streak to five games with a 9-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs; the Brooklyn Dodgers downed the Philadelphia Phillies, 5-1, and Willie Mays' three-run homer gave the New York Giants a 3-1 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates in 'the other National league games. The Kansas City Athlet ics topped the Detroit Tigers, 11-7, and the Baltimore Orioles scored a 7-5 decision over the Boston Red Sox in the other American league action. Hank Aaron and Joe Adcock hit homers and Bill Bruton had three hits to lead a 10-hit Mil- Grounds for some post-game bat ting practice Monday, re-ignited the feud which has been going on since Bragan picked the Giants to finish last this spring. Following Pittburgh's 3-1 loss to the Giants Monday, Rigney received word in his clubhouse office that Bragan desired per mission to use the field so that three of his players Dick Groat, Paul Smith and Hank Foiles could get in some extra batting licks. ' 'To Hell With Him' "So we're a last-place club, eh?" Rigney snapped. "To hell with him. The answer is 'No'." ' When Rigney's message was relayed back to Bragan, the Pittsburgh pilot declared: "He can expect the same treat ment when he comes to Pitts burgh. I have a feeling he's going to need extra batting prac tice worse than we will. And I still say he's going to finish last." Meanwhile, back at the ranch ... er ... in the Giants' quar ters, that is, Rigney somehow got word of Bragan's comment and said, "He's probably mad because he didn't think of it first." In all his years as a manager, Bragan said he had never pre viously been refused permission to use a field for batting practice following a game. two fielder's options and. a squeeze bunt. Hits in ' the . inning were a three-bagger by Jim Davidson, a double by Norman Jantzer and a single by Floyd Scaife. David son got one other triple in the scuffle and Jim Daniels clouted a home run. Eddie Fogel hit two times in 'our trips to the plate for St. Mary's. Prospect got nine hits and the Crusaders eight. The Cougars we-e to scrim mage the Southern Oregon col lege junior varsity today and on Friday have an important league brush with Jacksonville. LINESCORE: St. Mary's 00 3 010 4 Prospect 0U2U 310 x 17 Daley. Miksche 2 and Geren; Van nice, Cummins 3 and Daniels. Baseball Scores MINOR LEAGUE RESULTS By United Press International League Richmond 9, Buffalo 3 Montreal 8, Miami 7 " Toronto 5. Havana 1 Only games scheduled. American Association Minneapolis 14, Louisville 1 Denver 10. Indianapolis 3 Wichita 3, Omaha 1 (6 Inn., rain) St. Paul at Charleston (ppd.. rain) waukee attack that paved the way for Bob Buhl's first win. Bob Rush suffered his' second straight setback of . 1957. The Dodgers, opening their . seven game schedule in Jersey City, profited from three unearned runs as they won their fifth de cision in six games. Roger Craig picked up the triumph although Clem Labine retired the last five batters. Ex-Giant Jim Hearn was the victim of Philadelphia's loose support. , Ruben Gomez made it two in a row this year with a neat six hitter marred only by Hank Foiles' pop-fly homer. May's homer came off Luis Arroyo in the third inning and gave the Giant center fielder three for the young campaign. The Athletics blew an early four-run lead, but rallied for four runs in the ninth on only two hits for their third win in six games. Harry Simpson and Lou Skizas homered for Kansas City while Bill Tuttle knocked in five Detroit runs with a three run homer and two sacrifice flies. Pinch-hitter Bob Hale's fifth inning sacrifice fly and Willie Miranda's run-scoring single in the seventh gave the Orioles their victory margin over Bos ton's Tom Brewer. Mike Forn ieles, who turned in 2 23 hit less innings of relief,' gained cre dit for the victory. LINESCORES: American League Baltimore 010 410 100 7 13 0 Boston 000 410 000 5 7 0 Moore. Zuverink (4). Beamon (5), Fornieles (7 and Ginsberg. Brewer, Kemmerer (5). Spring (9) and White, Daley. Winning pitcher Fornieles (1-0). Losing pitcher Brewer (1-1). Kansas City 032 001 014 11 14 1 Detroit 014 101 000 7 8 2 McDermott. Gorman 3f. Portocar rero and Thompson. Foytack, Maas (2). Bunning (8). Wojey (9) and Wil son. Winning piicher Portocarrero (1-0). Losing pitcher Bunning (1-1). HR Skizas (2nd), Simpson (2nd,) Tuttle (1st. New York .. 011 117 03115 16 2 Washington 000 000 231 6 11 2 Ford, Shantz (8). Cicotte (9) and Berra. Stobbs, Brodowski (6), Stone (7), Shifflett (8, Clevenger 9) and Fitzgerald Winning pitcher F o r d (2-0). Losing pitcher Stobbs (0-2). nn manue iisn. Dauer ora.) Cleveland at Chicago, ppd., rain National League Pittsburgh 000 010 0001 8 0 New York .... 003 000 Ox 3 6 0 Arroyo. Hall (5. Kuzava (6), Face (7) and Foiles. Gomez (2-) and West rum. Thomas (7). Losine Ditcher Arroyo 0-2. HR Mays (3rd), Foiles (1st). At Jersey City Philadelphia 000 000 100 1 7 3 Brooklyn 000 021 02x 5 10 0 Hearn, Meyer (6), Farrell (8) and Lopata, Craig, Labine (8) and Cam panella. Winning pitcher Craig (1-). Losing pitcner Hearn (0-1). Chicago . 100 002 010 4 7 3 Milwaukee .... 310 500 OOx 9 10 1 Rush. Poholsky (5), Lown (7) and Neeman. Buhl, Conley (8) and Cran. dall. Winning pitcher Buhl (1-0) Losing pitcher Rush (0-2). - HR Aaron (-no) AacocK (1st), speake (na.) Cincinnati 044 100 010 10 14 ( St. Louis . 010 120 011 6 14 ( Nuxhall. Lawrence (3). Acker (5). Sanchez (9) and Bailey. Mizell. Mc- Daniel (3). Davis (4, Schmidt (51, Meritt (6). R. G. Smith (8) and CooDer. Winning pitcher Acker 1-0. Losing pitcher Mizell (0-1). HR Moon (2nd), Boyer (1st), Cooper (1st). SJI35 $080 4AOt. i If TRESIS 31rx u :lilfkL,. STRAIGHT LJ Lafe W&m' bourbon I inJi fcvWv,v ViSSNS!??! BOTTLED ST "5 ' 2' J ' ' VLWA fNt Milt Mltl COHMIIT 1a-CP'- V222y lOU.SVUlt. HCTUCKT J fjXj f The Finest Hosts and Hostesses Serve CuOWLIKlDILLL KENTUCKY BOURBON AT ITS BEST hui and hm by the bottle ... by the drink; rT- A.Hm.nip ru fnpTnintrrrn Hi fc'ATinMAI IMCTH I TDC DDnniirTC PflDD AVfTV HILL & MILL UJ., LUUI - Jt RLmUUAI OlAAluni Trautman Optimistic About Baseball War With TV and Radio Editor'c note: With the start of another baseball t season, minor league'baseball faces' the customary post-war competition from tele vision and radio among its other problems of survival. George Trautman, president of the National Assn. of Professional Baseball Leagues, is optimistic about the fu ture, however. In the following dis patch, he presents the reasons for his optimism. By GEORGE M. TRAUTMAN Minor Leagues President Written by United Press Columbus, Ohio (U.R) I think it is high time that the people in baseball re-routed those rtorm clouds and began to get a little sunshine into their thinking. There is too much irrespon sible talk, about how baseball below the major league level is dying on the vine, about how ra dio and television broadcasting are killing us at the gate, and about how we need the $500,000 stabilization fund for survival. Ticket Sales Up Those statements simply are not the truth. Throughout the structure of the National Assn. we have people who operate their franchises as successfully as the men who run teams in the major leagues. We recently- com pleted a survey of pre-season ticket promotions and the results are most encouraging. In city after 'city sales were up substan tially over the corresponding period a year ago. The indications are that base ball at our level is due to make a comeback perhaps a spectac ular one. The reasons for that are obvious. Our people, keenly aware of STANDINGS By UNITED PRESS National League W. 5 5 L. Pet. GB Milwaukee 0 1.000 Brooklyn 1 3 3 3 4 4 .833 i New York 3 St. Louis I 2 Chicago 2 Pittsburgh 2 Cincinnati 1 .500 2i .400 3 .400 3 .333 3 1 i 200 4 Monday's Results Brooklyn 5. Philadelphia 1 New York 3. Pittsburgh 1 Milwaukee 9, Chicago 4 Cincinati 10, St. Louis 6, night American League W. L. Pet. GB Chicago 4 0 1.000 New York 4 " 1 .800 V2 Baltimore 3 3 .500 2 Kansas City 3 3 .500 2 Boston 2 3 .400 2'i Washington 2 4 .333 3 Detroit 2 4 J333 3 Cleveland 1 3 .250 3 Monday's Results Kansas City 11, Detroit 7 Baltimore 7. Boston 5 New York 13, Washington 6, night Cleveland at Chicago, ppd., rain Pacific Coast League . W. L. Vancouver .. 9 2 San Francisco 7 4 - Los Angeles 6 4 Seattle 6 . 5 San Diego 6 6 Hollywood 5 6 Sacramento 3 8 PorUand .. 2 9 Pet. GB .818 .646 2 .600 2',i .545 3 .500 3',i .455 4 .273 .172 Monday's Results Vancouver 6, Sacramento 1 Only game scheduled How Series Ended Vancouver 5, Sacramento 1 VILLt, AT., uidiniDi-U di nnnunnu vmu.liw i hwwvw wm OUUADUlt nnwrvui w i nwi the competition in today's mar ket for the entertainment dollar, are promoting baseball as never before. In fact, some of our big brothers in the majors could well take lessons from our clubs on how to sell the public. A First-Class Product We have a first-class product to sell all the way down through our Class D leagues. We have baseball's big stars of tomorrow . and they're young and eager, hustling more perhaps than some of today's big leaguers, who have . been known to let down a little on occasions be cause they have made the grade. In our communities the fans are being sold on the idea that the old ball park is the place to go for wholesome fresh-air re creation at a moderate price. To be sure there are many clubs which have their problems. But we're scrappers. We're fight ing back against the unfair com petition of saturation radio broadcasting of major league games into our territory. We're battling to retrieve our 21-inch alumni, the living room fans who left our parks temporarily because of the lure of the ball game on the TV set. And by in telligent promotion we are win- , ning those fans back. BREM HIRED Albany (U.R) Bailey Brem, former Oregon pitcher now coaching at Seaside, has been hired as head baseball coach at Albany high school. J485 Plus Tex I msTC08sr y untunes r Each drop of this fine Kentucky whiskey goes down so gently ... so smoothly. Always ask for