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r Philadelphia Pennant Hopes ! Shot in Arm as Roberts Victory Over Redlegs ISPORTSl Friday. July 7. 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN Hurls By FUSS DOWN UbIIbo Prou S porta Writer Robin Soberts eave the Phila delphia Phillies' long-shot pen nant hocea a "shot in the arm" tolT ri.h pro-It he cn still win the bif on;s. Tb 30-yc-ar-old right hander cam through with a sharp eight hitter Thursday night to give the Philhes a 6 2 victory over the Cine nr.ati Bedlegs. The victory moved be Phillies to within l'.i jarres of tirst-place Cincinnati. Trie St. Louis Cardinals beat t!) Pitlaburjh Pirates. 8 0, and ! New Vork Gmnts downed th Braves. J-0, in the other Na tional league games. Chicago at Brooklyn was called off after an irimng and a half when a dense frig enveloped Ebbets field and made It impossible to follow the ball. Chiaox Maintain Lead Th Chicago White Sox main tained their five-game American lagx; lead with a 3-2 win over the Boston Red Sox . while the second-place New York Yankees also marie it four straight vic tories when they routed the Cleveland Indians, 14-5. The De troit Tigers beat the Washington Senators, 7-, and the Baltimore Orioles whipped the Kansas City A's, 8-3, in other AL activity. Roberts was backed by a 10 hit attack that included homers by Stan Lopata, Bob Bowman and Rip Repulsai. Don Gross suf fered h second defeat. Stan Musial whacked two doubles to raise his average to .361 ana take over the NL batting lead. St. Louis' 41-year-old llurry Dickson pitched a six-hitter and contributed two hits to the Cardinals" 12-hit attack that dealt Hon Kline his eighth loss. Ruben Gomez became the NL's first seven-game winner with a nifty four-hitter that paved the way for the Braves' fifth loss in seven games. Red Schoendienst walloped his eighth homer of the Sugar Ray Angry Over Movie Cash Nerw York U Sugar Ray Robinson declared angrily today, ,-I won't do any more business with the IBC until thay pay me for my pictures, even if Carmen Basilio is signed to fight me." The middleweight champion's wrath about alleged non-payment of movie money for a previous bout has stymied negotiations for his title defense against welter weight champion Basilio at the Polo Grounds, probably Sept. 17. Basilio, the 147-pound ruler, signed Thursday to challenge for Robinson's 180-pound crown, and he agreed to take 25 per cent of all net receipt. which are ex pected to exceed fl,000,000. Stormy Session But Robinson had a stormy session with promoter Jim Nor ris at sunset, and he left the In ternational Boxing club in a huff. Sugar Rajr emphasized, "Nor rls knows what percentage I'll want when we get this picture business straightened out. I told him two weeks ago I wouldn't lake less than 45 per cent no matter what Basilio got." Toursday night Norris indi cated be was willing to give Rob inson 40 per cent of all net re ceipts from the net gate, thea ter television and movies. He expects the gross gate to exceed l he $767,626 drawn by Robinson year for the Giants. Bob Buhl, a four-game winner, suffered his second defeat. Minnie Minoso's two-run sev enth inning homer enabled the White Sox to overcome a 2-1 deficit and present 35-year-old Jim Wilson with his sixth vic tory. Wilson limited the Red Sox to seven hits and struck out five. He hurled the fourth straight complete game by a White Sox pitcher. Dave Sisler was the loser. Mantle Hits 13th Homer Bill Skowron knocked in five runs with four hits and Mickey Mantle clubbed his 13th homer of the year to lead the Yankees' season-high assault of 20 hits on five Cleveland pitchers. Johnny Kucks went the distance for the Yankees to win his fifth decis ion. Frank House homered in the eighth inning to give the Tigers their winning run after relief pitcher Lou Sleater scored the tieing run in the seventh. Billy Hoeft also homered for Detroit while Roy Sievers, American league RBI leader, slugged his 11th round-tripper for the Sena tors. The win was Sleater's sec ond. Home runs by Billy Gardner and Bob Nieman sparked Balti more's nine-hit attack which en abled Connie Johnson to gain credit for his fourth win. Ned Garver was tagged with his fourth defeat. Bob Serv homered for the Athletics. I.INESCORF: National League Milwaukee . . 000 000 0000 4 1 New York 101 000 OOx 2 5 I Buhl Jollv 8, anrt Hire. Gomez f7-3( and Kan. HR Schoendienst i8thi Loser Buhl (4-2 1. St Louis 30 300 000 6 12 1 Pittsburgh 000 000 000 0 6 0 Dickson 12-2' and H. Smith Kline. O Brien '3'. Pepper (6i. King 19' and Foiles. Loser Kline t7-8t. HR Enrus Uihj. Cincinnati .. 010 000 100 2 8 t Philadelphia 002 211 OOx 6 10 0 Gross. Fowler Nuxhall (7i and Bailey. Roberts 1 6-6 1 and Lopata Loser Gross 1 4-2 1 HR Lopata i5lhj Bowman i5thi. Replski tSthi, Amerlran League Boston 011 000 000 2 7 0 Chicaeo 001 000 20x 3 10 1 Sisler (4-3 and White. Wilson 6-2 and Battey. HR Vernon (2ndi. Minoso i3rd). New York .. 240 051 00214 20 2 Cleveland 001 101 002 5 5 0 Kucks f 3-5 i and Howard. Garcia. Tomanek l2i. McLish i5i. Acuirre i5i. Pitula I7i and Nixon. Loser Garcia ( 1-3 1 HR Mantle (13th). Skowron (7th. Raines (2nd). Washington .. 201 300 000 6 9 1 Detroit 040 001 tlx 7 12 2 Ramos. Byerly and Fitzgerald. Hoeft. Sleater and House. Winner Sleater (2-0i. Loser Byerly (2-1.. HR Sievers (11th), Hoeft (1st), House (4th). Baltimore .... 100 103 0308 9 0 Kansas City 0U1 101 100 3 10 0 Johnson. Zuverink (7i and Trian dos. Ginsberg 9. Garver. Coleman (6i, Duren 8) Trucks t8). Kellner 8 and Smith, winner Johnson (4-5). Loser Garver 4-4 1. HR Nieman (4thi. Cerv (4th). Gardner (3rd). Hardtop Races Saturday Evening at Valley View; Clay Layer Added To Track When hardtop auto racing fans turn out for this Saturday night's battle of roaring ma chines at the Valley View speed way, they will see the results of a week-long effort to improve the track and thereby the driv ing for the program of events this season. Track Manager Phil Bryant has been on the job long hours this week as a layer of clay has been added almost all the way around the oval. Some 500 yards of the clay have been applied to the speedway. The fine-grained earth will be an improvement in several ways. It's free of rock and not so dusty and with the right de gree of moisture should provide a faster track with its better traction. Bryant has aimed at giving more slope to the banks and making the turns higher and at the same time giving some slope to the straight-of-way in order that the pitch from turn to straight-of-way will not be Ellis Olson Duck's MVP Eugene (W Catcher Ellis Olson has been voted by his teammates as the most valuable player on the University of Ore gon Northern division Pacific Coast conference championship baseball team. The team also elected Don Lane, pitcher, and second base man Wimp Hastings as co-captains of the 1958 season. Olson led the Webfoots in hit ting during the season and was the second rookie to win the Palmer award in the last three years. and Randy Turpin at the Polo Grounds in 1951, and the TV money to exceed $250,000. so great. Standard Session The manager expected to be busy well into Saturday getting the oval in readiness for tomor row nights contention. A good, hard driving evening of racing should result from the efforts of the week since drivers are prone to take more chances on the speedway when the track is in top shape. A standard session of racing is on tap for Saturday with time trials at 7 p.m. and the first race planned for 8 p.m. There will be the A and B trophy runs, four heat races a semi-main and a main event. The variety and spice in the evening on the track will be what the drivers make it. The track is on Valley View rd., off Highway 99 in the vi cinity of Jackson Hot springs. League Leaders (By United Press) NATIONAL LEAGUE Plaver A- Club O. AB Musial. St L 43 117 Hodges. Bkn 43 167 Fondv. Pen 39 160 Groat. Pgh 32 128 Robinson, Cin. .. 44 187 Musial. St. L 43 117 Hodges. Bkn 43 167 Fondv. Pgh 39 160 Groat. Pgh 32 128 Robinson, Cin. .. 44 187 AMERICAN LEAGUE Williams. Bos 42 145 Mantle. N.Y. .... 45 152 Fox. Chi 44 167 DMaestri, K C. .. 45 134 Simpson. K.C 41 144 Home Runs National league Aaron. Braves 13: Moon, Cards 11; Snider. Dodgers; Mu sial. Cards, and Mays. Giants, alt 10. American league Mantle Yankees 13: Williams. Red Sox 12; Zernial. Athletics 11; Sievers. Senators 11: Sw iss. Athletics 8; Skowron, Yanks 8. Runs Batted In National league Musial. Cards 30; Aaron. Braves 38: Hoak. Redlegs 35: Furillo. Dodgers 33; Bell, Redlegs 32; Robinson. Redlegs 32. American league Sievers. Senators 38; Skowron. Yangs 33: Mantle, Yanks 32: Minoso, White Sox 32; Jen sen, Red Sox 30. Pltrhing Acker. Redlegs 8-1; Sanford. Phils fi-t: Shantz, Yanks 8-1; Donovan. White Sox 5 1: Pierce. White Sox 9-2. with a BIG-CAPACITY JOHN DEERE No. 8 FORAGE HARVESTER Yes, the John Deere No. 8 Forage Harvester can streamline your haying. You can harvest your hay cured or green windrowed or standing with the interchangeable windrow pickup and mower bar attachments. You can change the length of cut (11 different lengths from 5. 16 to 3-9. 16 inches) to suit your particular needs without buying and installing attachments. The No. 8 fakes all field and crop conditions in its stride. Oscillating feed rolls and heavy-duty flywheel cutter handle the heaviest of crops with ease. Spring steel pickup teeth rake the field clean. There are more facts you should know about the No. 8; stop in soon for full information. HUBBARD-WRAY CO. MEDFORD GRANTS PASS STANDINGS PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB San Francisco - 35 21 .625 Vancouver 33 20 .623 Hollywood 31 25 .554 4 Los Angeles 23 24 .538 5 Seattle 27 30 .474 B'B San Diego 27 30 .474 8S3 Portland 20 29 . .408 11 13 Sacramento 15 37 .238 18 Thursday Results San Diego B, Sacramento 3 (16 In ning5 Hollywood 2.S an Francisco 0 Los Angeles 1. Seattle 0 How Series Stand San Francisco 2, Hollywood X Sacramento 2, San Diego 1 Seattle 1. Los Angeles 1 Vancouver 1. Portland 1 Friday's Probable Pitchers San Francisco (Tom Hurd. 2-1) at HoUvwood (George Witt. 4-3 1 San Diego (Ed Gasque. 2-3) at Sac ramento iJoe Stanka. 1-3 1 Portland iBob Thorpe. 4-2) at Van couver (George Bamberger. 7-3 1 Los Angeles (Bob Darnell. 4-4 and John Jancse, 3-3 at Seattle (Larry Jansen, 3-6. and Russ Meyer, 0-2j NATIONAL LEAGUE V. L. Pet. GB Cincinnati 2U 17 .630 Brook! vn 2i 17 .CU5 la Philadelphia 2" 18 .600 1 2 .Milwaukee 2U 19 .568 3 St. Louis 2A 21 .512 5li New York 2d 27 .426 9'2 Pittsburgh IS 30 .333 13a Chicago 13 28 .317 13 2 Thursday's Results St. Louis 6. Pittsburgh 0 New York 2. Milwaukee 0 Philadelphia 6. Cincinnati 2 (night) Chicago at Brooklyn (night ppd., fogi Friday's Probable Pitchers Cincinnatai at Brooklyn (night) Klippstcin (1-4) vs. Craig (1-2). St. Louis at New York (night) Jackson (6-2) vs. Antonelli (3-0). Chicago at Philadelphia (night) Hillman (0-1 vs. Sanford (6-lt. Milwaukee at Pittsburgh (night) Spahn i5-3j vs. Purkey (4-3). Saturday's Games Cincinnati at Brooklyn St. Louis at New York Chicago at Philadelphia Milwaukee at Pittsburgh AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB Chicago 31 12 .721 New York 27 18 .600 5 Cleveland 23 21 .523 8'i Detroit 24 23 .511 9 Boston 23 24 .489 10 Kansas City 20 26 .435 12'i Baltimore 19 26 .422 13 Washington 16 33 .327 18 Thursday's Results Chicago 3, Boston 2 Detroit 7. Washington 6 New York 14. Cleveland 5 Baltimore 8, Kansas City 3 Friday's Probable Pitchers Baltimore at Chicago (night) Ce ccarrelli (0-1) vs. Harshman (4-1) Boston at Kansas City (night) Nixon (3-1) vs. Burnette (3-3 . New York at Detroit (night) Lar sen (2-1 vs. Bunning (4-1 1. Washington at Cleveland (night) Stobbs (O-lOi vs. Daley (1-4). Saturday's Games Saturday's Games Washington at Cleveland New York at Detroit Boston at Kansas City Baltimore at Chicago NORTHWEST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Yakima 27 15 .643 Eugene 21 17 .553 Salem 20 20 .500 Wenatchee 20 20 .476 Tri-Citv 18 23 .433 Lewiston 14 23 .378 Thursday's Results Salem 1. Yakima 0 (first! Salmi 3. Yakima 0 (second) Lewiston 5. Wenatchee 2 (first Wenatchee 10. Lewiston 3 (second) Eugene 16. Tri-City 13 (first) Eugene 8. Tri-City 6 (second) R H Prt. I 25 64 .362 1 23 60 359 21 57 .336 16 45 .352 37 65 .348 25 64 .362 23 60 .359 21 57 .356 16 45 .352 37 65 .348 28 57 .393 41 56 .368 32 60 .359 17 43 .321 20 45 .313 Double Win Boosts Ems In NW Loop By UNITED PRESS A double Eugene victory over Tri-City, 16-13 and 8-6, Thurs day night coupled with twin de feats for Yakima pulled the Emeralds to within four games of the Northwest league-leading Bears. Eugene had the faultless Sa lem Senators to thank for the big boost as they blanked Yaki ma 3-0 and 1-0 on their home field. In Lewiston, Jimmy Jones pitched a shaky three-hitter to give Wenatchee a 10-3 nightcap victory after the Broncs had tak en the opener 5-2. Eugene and Tri-City picked up the loose ends of Tuesday night's 13-13 tie before their full-length game. The Emeralds salted It away in the 17th In ning when Don Frailey drove in the winning run with an Infield single. The second time out, Eugene came up with the winning mar gin on four runs in the 11th. Engineering the attack were Frailey with a two-run double and Zeke King with a two-run single. Tri-City left fielder Bob Hoehn set a new club record in driving in four runs with three homers. Jones' First Win Wenatchee right-hander Jones notched his first win of the sea son against four setbacks by tossing no-hit ball after Lewis ton's three-run first inning. In the opener, Thornton Kipper ef fectively spaced six hits while Manager Hillis Layne drove in three runs with a homer and single for the Bronc victory. It was Kipper's second win of the year. Cal Bauer homered in the seventh for the losers. Salem climbed to third place in the standings, one game ahead of Wenatchee and six be hind the Bears, chiefly on the lethal arms of pitchers Vern Kindsfather and Andy George. Kindsfather fanned seven and walked three in winning his" seventh against three defeats Vince Sarubbi, the first Bear to bat, lobbed a soft single over the infield for Yakima's only hit in the nightcap. Sarubbi, a .230 hitter, also played the spoiler last Sunday when he got the only hit off George in the sec ond half of a twin bill. CAL HERSHEY APPOINTED HOOP COACH AT CRATER Central Point Calvin Hersey has been appointed head basket ball coach at Crater High school. He replaces Jim Nau, who has taken the hoop coaching job at Tiger Jones, Gene Fullmer Vie Tonight Chicago W A unique three way fight takes place in Chicago stadium tonight when ex-champ Gene Fullmer tangles with mid dleweight Ralph (Tiger) Jones while both battle the image of the current title holder Sugar Ray Robinson. Fullmer grabbed the middle weight crown from Robinson some time back, then relin quished it last month when Rob inson unleashed a single left hook that sent Fullmer sprawl ing. Fullmer admitted he "never knew what hit" him. Jones whipped Robinson in a non-title fight back in January, 1955, but never got a champion ship bid. So now Fullmer, trying to make his way back up to Robin son, and Jones, who never quite got there in the first place, take on one another in a 10-round na tionally - televised 160 -pound match. Spurns Fullmer Fight "Robinson told us when we were in New York that he didn't care to have another fight with Gene," Marv Jensen, Fullmer's manager, said. "I guess it's just as well Gene likes to fight, be cause he's probably going to have to do quite a bit of it before he'll ever get another crack at the title." Jones, on the other hand, thought his title bid was long overdue. "We should have had a crack at Robinson right after we beat him that first time," Jack Fri day, Jones' trainer, said. Jensen said the only reason he agreed to have Fullmer fight so soon after the Robinson match was that he wanted "to keep Gene in the spotlight. The only way he can get the title back is to keep moving and keep win ning. Midget Race Time Reset An exciting afternoon of quar ter midget racing is anticipated for this Sunday at Jackson Hot springs. Due to the hotter weather, which makes the cars heat and the spectators do the same, the time has been changed from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. This should make both driving and watching the race more pleasant. As a result of the improve ments make on the track re cently and with additional cars, the races promise fast action as well as keen competition. the high school in China Lake, Calif. Hersey, a graduate of Oregon State college, has coached for the past three years at Cascade Union High school. Turner. His Cougar quintet was a state A-2 cage tournament entry last March after competing in the mid-Willamette Valley Capital conference and winning the Dis trict 8 championship. He also has tutored baseball at Cascade. Coached at Reedsport The new Comet mentor attend ed Siuslaw High school at Flor ence and is a graduate of Eu gene High school. He served in the Navy as a radioman in the South Pacific. His college train ing included attendance at City College of San Francisco. After graduation from Oregon State in 1953, Hersey was at Reeds port High school one year as head baseball coach and assist ant in football. He is married and has three children. At Crater Hersey also will be an assistant grid coach and will teach social science. Nau accepted the China Lake post after one year at Crater. He also is an Oregon State grad. Drag Racers Vie Sunday At CW Strip Hot rod racers and fans gath er at the Camp White strip this Sunday with the outlook bright for as big a turnout for the Southern Oregon Timing asso ciation affair as two weeks ago when the timing and drags drew 83 contestants and an estimated 3,000 onlookers. Time trials start at 10 a.m. and the first drags at 12:45 p.m. The program plan is to have the fastest vehicles in contention during the latter portion of the day's slate. Non entries will be accepted for timing after 12 o'clock noon unless evidence to show that the prospective parti cipant could not have been present earlier. Better Strip Hoped A wider, longer, smoother, much safer drag strip within just a few seasons is the hope of the SOTA. Such facility, it is felt, will attract faster compe tition. Adequate seating for spectators also is an aim of the association. As a means occom- plishing the foregoing hopes and purposes, SOTA plans to charge a nominal admission fee start ing this Sunday, according to Monte Wray, association president. The drag races are expected to produce rivalry among a number of classes and sub-clas sifications. Major classifications are stock, gas, roadster, sports, motorcycles and open gas. A concession stand will be in operation at the drag strip site in west Camp White. Scattergunners Practice Sunday A practice session of trapshoot ing is scheduled Sunday at Med ford Gun club. Traps will open about 10 a.m. Local gunners will warm up for the Oregon state shoot of the Pacific International Trapshoot ing association which is June 13 16 at Bend. A sizable delegation from here is expected to compete. Last Sunday Don Petersen shot 47 out of 50 to cop the Ed Pease handicap. Bert Peck and Martin Clogston each broke 25 straight in skeet shooting. Boxing Results By rXITED PRESS Youncstown. Ohio Rockv Castel Iani. 159. Luzerne. 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