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Medford, Roseburg Tangle Here In Legion Play-Off Mix Tonight Southwestern Oregon district championship in American Le gion junior baseball will be set tled this evening in the wind-up of a big day of the national pas time at the fairgrounds diamond here. Roseburg and Medford Legion clubs scuffle starting at 6:30 p.m. The two teams are engaged in a two-of-three week end play off and, if each has a victory in the book after one game tonight, a second tussle will follow, mak ing this evening's skirmishing a potential doubleheader. The teams opened their series last night at Roseburg. Winner of the week end play will advance into the semi-finals of the Oregon play-offs. Roseburg's Lockwood Motors aggregation is fighting to follow the trail blazed by last year's Umpqua valley team which wont to the national tournament and took third place in that event. Medford on the other hand aims at ending years of frustration in Legion ball. Biisonelle Out Just a handful of players who attained the high honors for Lockwood last year have been on hand this season and one of them is now out of action for the rest of the campaign. When Lar ry Bissonette fractured his ankle in the game last Wednesday with North Bend, Roseburg lost its shortstop and No. 1 hitter. Just how much difference his absence means remains to be shown in the current series. One thing Roseburg has that Medford Is short on is depth. Don Wells, John Arana or Ted Kolberg could step into the position. Medford moundsman or men for tonight will be chosen from among Dennis Barr, Tom Laur ence and Wayne Allen. Roseburg has Ron Beamer, Allen Smith, Dtck Meredith, Bill Eswine and John Livingston as pitcher pos sibilities. The Legion brand of ball is 'The Baseball" in the Roseburg area. It has been drawing sizable crowds. A large following from the Umpqua capital could be on hand this evening and unless the local turnout is better than it has been at the fairgrounds this season, visitor fans may outnum ber rooters for the home team. Despite the loss of Bissonette, the Roseburg gang is still con sidered of state title caliber again this year. If the Medford ites can spill the dope, after two previous losses to the Lockwood team this summer, it will raise their stature tremendously. The Lockwoods got off to a ragged start, then hit their stride and were helped along with their good balance and fine depth. There's opinion, that with the progress made, Roseburg now has an all-around better team than that of 1956. But the Med ford nine has shown correspond ing improvement this season. Southern Oregon Dogs Win Honors In Coast Shows Dog owners and breeders from this area have been participants in recent wast coast shows. There were shows at Lafay ette, Calif., June 29, at San Francisco, June 30, and Gresh am, July 13. Combined Oregon and Washington Weimaraner Specialty show was at Salem on July 14. Other events were the Oregon Boxer Specialty, July 20, at Portland, and a show July 21 at Vancouver, Wash. Best of breed Weimaraner honors were taken by Ch. Cata lano's Burt, owned by Dr. C. D. Lemery, Medford, and bred and handled by Joan D. Catalano, Medford. A major win was taken by Catalano's Rhoady, a Weim araner owned by Eldon Grow, Shady Cove, bred by Joan Cata lano and handled by Elden Mc Cormick. It was first in Ameri can bred and winners bitch. Raiarve Winner Royal Rogue of Sirrak Crest, boxer owned by Olive M. and Alfonso Gonzoles. Medford, and handled by Robert Hastings, took a third, a second and four firsts in American bred. It was also reserve winners dog. Sommers Happy Girl, yellow Labrador, owned by Richard and Marilyn Wooton, Medford. and handled by Hastings, gained two best of breed awards. Por ter Washington handled Graves Princess Von Auger, Weimar aner owned by Ray Graves, Med ford, to a reserve winners bitch prize. Merrie Oaks Knight of Folly, tri-colored collie owned by George and Frances Stacey and handled by Mrs. Stacey, won two best of breeds awards to finish for the title of cham-1 pion. ' ! Oriole Third Sacker Sidelined By Finger 1 Baltimore OP Third-base- j man Billy Goodman of the Balti- more Orioles is expected to be j sidelined about two weeks with 1 a broken left index finger. Good- j man suffered the injury when struck by a pitch by Detroit's Lou Sleater last Thursday. The engine in the Wright brothers first flying machine : had no carburetor. Gasoline was dripped into the cylinders. j MEDFORDiTRIBUNE sipconinrs Daredevil Drivers To Have 'Ball' in Auto Stunt Show Bob Hanna and Art Noble, a couple of daredevil skippers of the Joie Chitwood Auto Thrill show, will have themselves a "ball" Tuesday evening at the Valley View speedway near Ash land. The Chitwood show is slated to be presented at the track starting at 8 p.m. with a couple Two Junior Loops Close This Week SOUTHERN OREGON JUNIOR BASEBALL Cub League W. I.. Pet. Medford , 3 1 .730 Grants Pass Cubs 3 1 .7S0 Ashland 2 2 .500 Grants Pass Bears . 0 4 .000 Intermediate League ..W. L. Pet. Central Point 3 2 .600 Ashland 1 3 .250 Talent 0 4 .000 Pee Wee League fSouthern Division) W. L. Pet. Medford TiRers 7 0 1.000 Medford Wildcats 5 2 .714 Central Point 4 3 .371 Eagle Point 2 S .286 Ashland 0 8 .000 Medford and Grants Pass Cubs are favored to maintain their Cub league tie Monday afternoon in Southern Oregon Junior league baseball. Medford will be host to Ash land and the GP Cubs will meet the Grants Pass Bears. Competition in the Intermed iate circuit and Pee Wee loops is due to wind up this week with Medford teams having clinched championships in each. In final southern division Pee Wee games on Tuesday the champion Medford Tigers meet the Medford Wildcats and Cen tral Point goes to Eagle Point. The Tigers' unbeaten status as sures them of the division title. Wildcats, twice defeated, will look for a win to preserve lone grip on second place. Mar Bf No Play-Off League President Warren La Bounty said a play-off between Medford and Grants Pass all-star Pee Wees loomed unlikely be cause of GP lack of interest. Grants Pass has had its own Pee Wee loop, forming the north era division. Medford Intermediates, also unmarred, have a two-game mar gin over Central Point, going into their final game Wednes day with Talent. Ashland is to play at Central Point on Wednes day. There could be a make up fray this week between Ash land and Talent. August 9 Fray In Tournament For Dairy Maids Rogue Valley Dairy Maids will have their first action in the Oregon stae Women's Soft ball tourney at 2:30 p.m. on Aug. 9. The tournament will be at Amazon park, Eugene. The Maids will see their first activity against the winner of the Thursday night mix between Forest Grove and Bend. Victory would put Rogue Valley in op position Friday evening against the Albany-Springfield victor. The tourney is double elimina tion and if the Maids drop their opener they would vie in the loser's bracket at 9 p.m. Friday. Other . teams In the tourney are Lebanon, Eugene, Hillsboro, Salem and Astoria. IRRIGATION PUMPS to 60 H.P. From $2950 0P Vi H.P. SHALLOW WELL $3950 Vi H.P. DEEP WELL Siskiyou Hardware Ph. SP 2-2939225 W. Main MEDFORD, OREGON We Give S&H Green Stamps $9500 of hardtop races by local drivers to follow. Hanna, a 20-year-old auto jockey will put new Chevrolets through their paces over a pre cision obstacle course then will join with Noble as they take a couple of old cars in a crash ing, smashing attempt to see which one of them can roll and wreck and tear his car to pieces first. Speedway Div As if that were not enough, Hanna will nab one more old car left on the track. He'll make a speeding dive through the air and deliberately crash the car's nose into the tops of junk cars parked side by side. Noble also has the death de fying job of lying in the dyna mite coffin and being blasted with 20 sticks of explosive stuff. Lucky Beaucheyne will do the motorcycle tricks and chance taking rides. He is to race through flaming, gasoline soak ed board walls. The acts call for Bob Christy to perform some firey stunts. Clowns add to the life of the auto thrill party. Harry Woolman is operator of the Chitwood show playing locally. He's a driver of the old school. He has performed fan tastic acts, most of them re quested for motion picture and television producers. Woolman does his share of the stunts for the current thrill production. This is the first year for the Chitwood show to use new Chevrolets. Thrower Backus Signs For Lifetime Contract Helsinki (IB American hammer thrower ' Bob Backus and 24-year-old Finnish javelin thrower Elsa Torikka were mar ried Friday in the chapel of the Helsinki "Suurkirkko" church. The two athletic stars met last year when Backus visited Fin land with an American track and field group. Inlave a real cigarette lla VTI M So good V SWITCHED TO ! - ' s'SZIi IJ? Only top quality tobaccos are good ' ' . p27 jJMwj enough for Camel's exclusive blend. j ' ' jkAitx 0wity That's why you get more smoking ffiMMW&KSj comfort out of Camels! C( t ' CAR JUMP ON THRILL SHOW A car jump, with a vehicle leaping from one ramp to another, as shown above, will be one of the stunts on the Joie Chitwood Auto Thrill show set for the Valley View speedway on July 30. The Tuesday night event is set for Four Softball League Encounters Monday; Special Scuffle Tuesday JACKSON COUNTT SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION W. Pet. 1.000 .833 .714 .600 .333 .167 .167 .143 Crater Lake Motors 7 Parsons Motors 5 M-W Chain Saw 5 National Guard 3 Courtesy Chevrolet . . 2 Morse Motrs 1 Dairy Maids . 1 20-30 Club I VMCA CHURCH LEAGUE w. Medford Nazarene 6 First Baptist S St. Peter's Lutheran . 5 First Methodist 4 .833 .714 .571 .571 .200 .167 .000 Latter Day Saints 4 Phoenix Presbyterian .... 1 Temple Baptist 1 Zion Lutheran 0 Top will oppose bottom Mon day in the lead-off game this week in the Jackson County Softball association and a spe cial non-loop game is slated Tuesday between two associa tion teams. YMCA Church Softball league play Monday will see a fourth place play-off mix and a make up encounter. Crater Lake Motors, the un defeated leader, tussles 20-30 club, the cellarite, at 7 p.m. Monday at Camp White in the Jackson circuit. The Ford team is heavy favorite but the service club has been heartened by its first league win last week. Sec ond game matches Courtesy Chevrolet and National Guard. The special fray on Tuesday at Camp White will have M and W Chain Saw against the Dairy Maids. The clubs will trade pitch ers. It likely will be Pat Barron throwing for M and W against her usual feminine teammates. Willard Barnum will take the hill for the Maids, hurling ' and mild... NEW YORK-YANKEES GREAT CATCHER, CAMELS TO GET FLAVOR IN A MILD SMOKE.- Today, more people select Camels than any against the players he skippers. National Guard will meet Par sons Motors in the first game at Camp White on Thursday evening. M and W will go against the Dairy Maids in league play in the second fracas, each using its own pitchers this time. First Methodist and Latter Day Saints, tied for fourth, will have a league play-off berth at stake when they meet at 6:15 p.m. Monday at the Hedrick field. The make-up game at Mc Loughlin field at the same hour will match First Baptist and Phoenix Presbyterian. First Bap tist and Phoenix Presbyterian. First Baptist now is in second place and has a play-off spot clinched. A victory would put the Baptists into a tie with Medford Nazarene for first spot. Beavers Buy Bonus Man Portland API The Portland Beavers, attempting to bolster their Pacific Coast league status, announced they have acquired bonus pitcher Don Kaiser on op tion from the Chicago Cubs. In return, Portland returned Bob Anderson, young relief hur ler, to the Cubs, Portland also sent Gene Fodge, who had only a 1-4 record, to Memphis of the Southern Asso ciation. Darrell Martin, young right-hander, is returning to re place Fidge. Kaiser, 22, has a 2-5 mark with Chicago this season. wl fWFIXBSL JnJ(llllollfflfc gnaMHWXM 7i r. fellm Bm 111 the finest taste in smoking! Sunday, July 28, 1957 8 p.m. Spills, screaming wheels and fiery crashes will liven the evening for spectators. Harry Woolman is slated to drive the car in the jump. Advance notices say he flies the auto off the ramp at SO miles an hour and crashes on another ramp 85 feet away. Alex Miteff TKO Winner Washington (in Julio Mede ros, an ex-stevedore from Ha vana, Cuba, who is an expert at taking punishment from both, declared today that Argentina's unbeaten Alex Miteff "is just about as good" as heavyweight challenger Tommy (Hurricane) Jackson. The 22-year-old Miteff "made a believer" of Mederos Friday night when he scored a seventh round technical knockout over the Cuban at the Capitol arena. Mederos went 10 rounds wtth Jackson last year but never had a chance with Miteff and lost all six rounds. Relentless Pounding Referee Ray Bowen halted the slaughter just before the bell sounded for the seventh round after Mederos lurched virtually through the ropes at the conclu sion of the sixth session. Miteff's relentless pounding had cut Me deros under the left eye and puffed his right eye almost closed. Milteff, who weighed 2024 to his opponent's 197V2, made a human punching bag of Mederos from the opening bell and almost stopped him in the first round. There were no knockdowns but Mederos was "ouf'on his feet at the end of the round and never was able to take the of fensive during the scheduled 10 rounder. St. Bernard dogs bear the name of St. Bernard de Menth on who in the 11th centry found ed a hospital that has sheltered thousands of travelers caught in Alpine snows. plllfcrt " iti D'scover Wre"M between pllllllllf "just smoking"-and Camels! ' MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVE If Turner Recovers From Head Injury New York W X-rays dis closed that coach Jim Turner of the New York Yankees did not suffer a serious injury when Howard's line dive during pre game practice Friday night. Turner will remain in Lenox Hill hospital 48 hours as a pre cautionary measure and then re sume his duties as pitching coach with the Yankees. "that's my homeland.. tgHS my w Take a tip from the Master Painter. He knows that the "Dutch Boy" label is the mark of a top quality product. He recommends "Dutch Boy" Paints because he knows they cover well, wear longer and give the longer-lasting beauty a home deserves. SHITH-DYIIGE LUMBER CO. 8th Street & Fir - other cigarette! J?&i&&y&l'J,,M,U,.jL...iw.J'i.. .,'.'J'-,,ituL.l..llTl.JJ.......u Representative Chosen To Negotiate Dodgers Los Angeles IW Assistant Secretary of Commerce Earold C. 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