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Bf LZO H. PETERSEN
United Presj Sportj Editor
ToJedo, Ohio jl? Eight
former champions, and 1954 oth
er golfers iho re trying to win
the title for the first time, tested
ti.e tough, rough and lightening
?st greens of the Inverness
Country club for the last time
today before they tee off for the
game's biggest prize the L'.S
Open championship.
The man they had to beat, ac
cording to the Bookmaker's odds
and the golfers themselves, was
no one less than one of the old
men in the field Eantam Ben
Hogan.
Hogan, who has won this one
four times and is shooting for an
unprecented fifth, doesn't claim
too much for his own chances,
for he is experimenting with a
new putting grip. But those who
have played practice rounds with
him over the tight, rolling 6,919
yard par 70 layout say he is hit
ting the ball as well as ever.
As for his putting, the veteran
Gene Sarazen, one of the former
champs in the field who has been
testing the course with Hogan
In practice rounds, suggested
there was nothing for Ben to
worry about.
Church Softball
Season Starts
Temple Baptist scored the
most lopsided victory Monday in
5ening games of the YMCA
Church Softball league.
Temple whacked Phoenix
Presbyterian 20 to 2. In other
James Medford N'azarene won 11
to 3 from Latter Day Saints and
St. Peter's Lutheran trimmed
First Baptist 10 to 8. First Meth
odist won by forefeit from Zion
Lutheran.
Games are scheduled again
next Monday with twilight frays
on Hedrick and McLoughlin
Junior High school fields.
Field of Eight
In Belmont Run
PJew York M The likeli
hood today was for a starting
field of eight Saturday in the
$100,000 Eelmont Stakes, the
third jewel in racing's Triple
Crown classic.
With the Calumet Farm ..lore
than likely not represented in
the mile and one-half event,
Bold Ruler, the Preakness win
ner, will be the horse to beat.
Expected to start along with
Bold Ruler are Gallant Man,
Bold Nero, Cohoes. Inside Track,
Promised Land, Nah Hiss "and
the surprising Lucky Dip.
'With these small and fast
greens, the only way to putt is
to close your eyes and hope for
the best," Sarazen said. "We
played the course Tuesday after
10 hours of rain and the greens
were so fast it was impossible to
judge them. Imagine how fast
they will be if we get a few days
of hot sun."
Hogan, who is 45, appeared in
fine spirits. His practice round
playing partners, including an
other veteran of the goifing
wars, Jimmy Demaret, said they
have never seen him more jovial.
"You'd have to say his mental
attitude is perfect," Demaret said
"This isn't the serious Hogan we
used to know. Maybe he has
learned to relax, and if he has
look out."
Demaret himself, who is 46 and
the only grandfather in the field,
is among those classed right be
hind Hogan in the favorite's
role.
Snead Tries Again
Another veteran, Slammin'
Sam Snead, trying once again for
the only major title in golf
which has escaped him. was
grouped right up there with Ho
gan and Demaret in the favor
ite's class, "nead is 45.
Snead's practice rounds have
not been sensational, although
one day he came in with an un
official 69 after hitting the deep
rough of the course five times.
In addition to Hogan and Sara
zen, the former champs in the
field are Cary Middlecoff, the
defending title holder: Ed Fur
gol. Julius Boros. Lloyd Man
grum. Lew Worsham, and Jack
Fleck.
Only Middlecoff and Boros in
addition, to Hogan rank among
the favorites.
Furgol, whose left arm is
whithered and who is bothered
by a bone chip in right arm, shot
a four under par 32 on the back
nine on a practice round.
"But I'll never be able to do
it when the chips are down for
I'm just not in shape," he said.
Akins Encounters
Byars Tonight
Norfolk, Va. V Virgil
Akins of St. Louis and Walter
Byars of Boston will compete
against each other and a number
of other attractions tonight when
their welterweight clash forms a
part of Norfolk's week-long in
ternational naval review cele
bration. Akins is a 9-5 favorite.
Matchmaker Chris Dundee ex
pects 5.000 to attend the fight
although local citizens and vis
itors also will have a circus, ice
show, jazz show, ballet perform
ance, folk dancing, symphony or
chestra program and a "Grand
Cle Opry" to attend tonight.
Hatchery Salmon
Return To Rogue
Portland Although mark
ed Rogue river spring chinook
salmon have beent aken in pre
vious years, this is the first
year the returns have been of
sufficient number to be a sig
nificant part of the run and con
tribution to the sport catch. So
says Henry Mastin, game com
mission fishery biologist on the
lower Rogue, who is watching
closely the hatchery returns of
salmon released fours years ago
as yearlings from the commis
sion's Butte Falls station.
Mastin said that as of the 20th
of May, 102 marked Rogue riv
er spring chinook from 1,437
fish examined at the canneries
represented a ratio of return of
one marked to 13 wild fish. For
the season up to the 15th of May
7.10 per cent of the chinook
sport catch have carried Rogue
river marks.
This percentage is the most
significant for the contributior.
of marked salmon since the start
of the program. Mastin also stat
ed that the daily recoveries this
spring have exceeded some
seasonal recoveries of previous
years.
The upriver releases have
shown the greatest success of
return following the same pat
tern evident in past years. The
return from downriver releases
may be proportionately high as
there have been fewer numbers
of these fish stocked.
Tom Sturdivant,
Ray Boone Fined
Chicago W President
Will Harridge of the American
league fined pitcher Tom Sturdi
vant of the New York Yankees
and first baseman Roy Boone of
the Detroit Tigers S100 each for
their scrap during a baseball
gnme last Sunday.
SEVEN-FOOTER TO USC
Los Angeles ilfl Bill En
gesser, seven-foot, one-half inch
prep basketball, star, said Tues
day he intends to enroll at the
University of Southern Cali
fornia In the fall. If he does, En
gesser will the tallest player
in the 50-year history of the
sport at the school.
Interest of Public
Revealed in Probe
New York If the Dodgers
succumb to the lure of toll-TV
on the West Coast, chances are
that they will be able to attract
very substantial paying TV au
diences, judging by the findings
of l nationwide study which has
been completed by Look maga
zine. The study, which was conduct
ed for Look by Alfred Politz
Research, Inc., measured public
interest in watching various
types of TV shows when re
spondents could see them free
and also when they had to pay
to see them.
The study shows that of all
the people in the United States
who are 10 years of age or old
er. 35.600,000 27.9rj) would be
willing to pay 25 cents to watch
a world series ball game on
TV; 32,400,000 (25.47.) would
be willing to pay 50 cents; and
25.300,000 (19.9) would be
willing to pay $1. When price
is not a consideration, the study
shews that 53,200,000 people
(41.1) would be interested in
watching a world series game on
TV.
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Of the nine types of TV shows
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audience via toll TV, according
to the survey, but several other
types of TV shows would attract
audiences almost as large.
For purposes of measuring
consumer willingness to pay for
TV shows at different prices,
one-third of the respondents in
the Look-Politz study were
measured on their willingness
to pay 25 cents to watch TV
shows in which they were-inter-ested;
one third were measured
on their willingness to pay 50
cents; and one-third on their
willingness to pay SI.
At a 25 cent price, the study
stovs that 31,550,000 people
(24.8) would be willing to pay
to see a variety show featuring
music, dancing and comedy;
29,500,000 (23.1) would be
willing to pay to see a film
never before shown in a movie
house; and 28,750,000 (22.6)
would be willing to pay to see
a heavyweight boxing cham
pionship. 50 Cent Choicei
At a 50 cent price, 27,800,000
(21.8) would pay to see a
variety show; 26,150,000 (20.5)
would pay to see a brand-new
film; and 24,050,000 (18.9)
would pay to see a heavyweight
boxing championship.
At a $1 price, a leading cur
rent Broadway play could be
expected to attract an audience
second in size only to the audi
ence for a world, series game, ac
cording to the study, with a va
riety show ranking a close
third; a film never before shown
in a movie house ranking fourth;
and a heavyweight boxing cham
pionship ranking fifth. Accord
ing to the Look-Politz study, a
total of 21,600,000 people would
be willing to pay $1 to see a
leading current Broadway play;
21,000,000 would be willing to
pay SI to see a variety show;
and the potential audiences for
a brand-new film and a heavy
weight boxing championship are
19,600,000 and 19,150,000, re
spectively, when the price is $1.
Interestingly enough, whereas
public interest in watching most
of the nine types of free TV
shows studied has decreased
somewhat from the interest of
a year ago when a similar Look
Politz survey was conducted,
public willingness to pay for the
privilege of viewing has increas
ed for almost all of the shows,
regardless of the price. For in
stance, at a $1 price, there has
been an increase for all types of
shows except a heavyweight
boxing championship, which has
shown a very slight decrease.
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Wednesday, June 12, 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEJT
Alexandria Bay, N. Y. (IP)
Bulging-browed Carmen Basil
io knelt on a sun-swept boat
dock as the "admiral" of the
Thousand Islands fleet poised a
sword over his close-cropped
head and prepared to "knight"
him.
A broad grin swept over the
battle-scarred features of the
welterweight champion and.
looking ud at the "admiral" and
his twor Basilio quipped:
"Just like all these fight man
agers. Ready to take his cut."
Which may explain in part
why the one-time onion farmer
is hoping today to get an op
portunity to destroy a long-time
idol.
Carmen Basilo needs a "big
pay-day."
Even when you're the cham
pion of the world, it is no guar
antee that you are financially
"loaded." And so it is with Ba
silio an ironhard terror in the
ring, but a butter-soft "touch''
on the outside. He has had his
share of lucrative fights but the
circle of pleading palms is large
and Basilio is too nice for his
own good.
Basilio Has A Plan
Bringing him face to face with
the necessity of blasting aside
the man who long has been his
fistic idol, Sugar Ray Robinson,
another of the mighty who found
that the riches of the ring are
difficult to retain.
Basilio thinks he can do it,
too.
"Robinson was one of the
great fighters," Basilio analyzed
with the admiration of a crowd
ing slugger for the master box
er. "But he has- got to be over
the hill and I know I can beat
him."
There were those who thought
that Robinson should have nev
er come back. But he, too, need
ed money and the old-time hun
ger revived a certain amount of
the ancient talents so that ho
twice fought his way back to
the middleweight title, the last
time against another Basilio
type crowder named Gene Full
mer. "He was lucky," Basilio say:.
"Coming off the ropes he threw
a desperation hook and caught
Fullmer coming in. Anybody had
to go when hit with such a
lucky combination. But I saw
him in the dressing room 15
minutes later and he was still
huffing and puffing."
Five Rounds of Danger
So Basilio has it worked out
in his mind just how he will
beat Robinson if given the
chance.
"He's dangerous only for four
or five rounds now," Basilio ex
plains. "Then he's got to run
out of gas. So I'll have to feint
and move him, keep on top of
him and never let him rest. If
I stood around and let him make
the fight, he'd have a chance. If
I stay on him, he won't."
"If he doesn't come to terms
soon," Basilio threatened, "I'm
going to take the winner of the
Kid Gavilan-Vince Martinez
fight and defend the welter
weight title against whichever
one wins.
"I just can't wait too long,"
he added. "I've got to have a
big pay day."
Lon Skinner
Ski Titlist
Lon Skinner, Medford, for
the third consecutive year, won
the overall championship in the
Sodabay Water Ski tournament
at Clear Lake, -Calif.
The meet was held last week
end under sponsorship of Gold
en Gate Water Ski club and
Edgewater resort.
Skinner was first in the men's
slalom, third in the men's trick
skiing and fourth in the men's
jumping. In the slalom, Skin
ner's best event, skiers were re
quired to round six buoys on
the first run over the course and
again on the return trip.
The Medford man is Oregon's
outstanding slatman on water
and a candidate for top honors
in the first annual Oregon Wa
ter ski championships at Gard
ener lake 15 miles east of Med
ford on June 29 and 30.
Clarkson Joins Portland Beavers
Portland IP Tom Clark
son, outstanding outfielder-first
baseman for the University of
Arizona, joined the Portland
Beavers in Seattle today. He was
signed Tuesday by the Chicago
Cubs to a Portland contract.
Clarkson came to the Beavers
on a trial basis. q
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Atlantic league on June 17. Both
are graduates of American Le
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