EIGHT MEDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Phoenix to Get Seals,
Salt Lake Get Angels,
Stars to Mexico City?
Tuesday, October 22, 1957
By HAL WOOD
San Francisco IPi The ever
expanding West started to take
on the "new look" today in the
world of baseball.
The New York Giants are in
San Francisco.
The Brooklyn Dodgers are
moving to Los Angeles.
The San Francisco Seals will
be moved to Phoenix, Ariz.
The Los Angeles Angels prob
ably will wind up in Salt Lake
City, Utah.
And where the Hollywood
Stars go no one knows maybe
to Spokane, Wash., or 2,200
miles overseas to Honolulu, or
even Mexico City.
There are many cities in the
West big enough to support
Triple-A baseball all the fans
need is the opportunity to watch
the games.
This is an area of great dis
tances. What's another 500 miles
or so? The baseball magnates
don't bat an eye if they can get
the attendance to offset the trav
eling costs.
Honolulu Considered
So don't think the owners
haven't been toying with the
idea of Honolulu.
It already is about 1,700 miles
from San Diego on the southern
end of the league to Vancouver,
B.C., in the north. And that ar
rangement worked out very well,
financially, last year. In fact
Vancouver, with the smallest
park in the loop, drew the big
gest attendance.
Who can say it wouldn't work
the same way in Honolulu? Or
Spokane, which also would be
about 1,500 miles from San
Diego.
So far the various shifts have
disrupted the Pacific Coast
league and the Arizona-Mexico
Class C loop. Next -will come the
Class C Pioneer league. And in
demnities will have to be paid
all around. But it will prove
worthwhile to one and all.
Phoenix, Salt Lake Promising
The piants and the Dodgers
will find a gold mine in San
Francisco and Los Angeles; the
PCL should do very well in
Phoenix and Salt Lake City.
Phoenix, 15 years ago with a
population of 67,000, today has
500,000 persons within a radius
of 25 miles of the city center.
Salt Lake City, with 150,000 in
1940, has about 250,000 now
and nearly as many more in the
trade area.
Spokane had 120,000 in 1940
and now has about 200,000, plus
a populous trade region. Hono
lulu, 170,000 15 years ago, now
has nearly 300,000.
The great realignment may re
sult in the death of the Arizona'
Mexico league. But the Pioneer
league, in which Salt Lake City
has operated, will readjust by
moving the franchise north pos
sibly to Butte, Mont.
There are no franchises in or
ganized baseball in Spokane and
Honolulu.
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MOVES CLOSE TO PAY DIRT California
left halfback, No. 11, drives closer to USC
goal line in final minutes of Saturday's game.
The drive paid off for the Bears when Califor
nia's Hart dived over for six counters.
(International Soundphoto)
Springfield Protest
Upheld; Pirates Tied
Portland (W Tom Pigott,
secretary of the Oregon School
Activities Association, upheld a
Springfield protest today and
ruled Friday night's Marshfield
Springfield football game a 0-0
"tip.
The decision wiped out a 2-0
Victory Marshfield of Coos Bay
Jiad taken home after the game
oended. Game officials awarded
Marshfield a two-point safety
TBfter a Springfield player,
signaling for a fair catch of a
Urate punt, muffed the ball
Gridiron Ratings
'All Shook Up';
Upset Blamed
By FRANK LITSKY
New York OP) The Okla
homa Sooners, whose second
team may be better than the
first, climbed back to the top
today in the college football rat
ings of the United Press Board
of Coaches.
After a week end of upsets
which cut down four members
of the top 10 and resulted in the
biggest shuffle of the season,
Oklahoma was rated first by 29
of the 35 leading coaches who
make up the board. Michigan
State, which dropped Oklahoma
to second place last week for
only the second time in two
years, fell all the way to sev
enth place.
Michigan State, Minnesota,
Oregon State and Arkansas suf
fered the major upsets and all
but Michigan State fell from the
top 10. Replacing the other
beaten teams were Army, Mis
sissippi and Ohio State.
Behind the Sooners in the lat
est ratings came five other un
beaten and untied teams, all sur
viving the upset wave to move
up. Iowa advanced from fifth
to second with 266 points; Texas
A&M from fourth to third with
255; Duke from sixth to fourth
with 228: idle Notre Dame from
eighth to fifth with 159; and
Auburn from 10 th to sixth with
155.
Michigan State, a 20-13 vic
tim of a Purdue team which
hadn't won previously this fall,
was seventh with 152 points.
Then came the three newcom
ers Army in eighth place with
64 points. Mississippi ninth with
62 and Ohio State 10th with 37.
Minnesota dropped from third
to a 12th-place tie and Oregon
State slipped from seventh to a
tie for 19th. Arkansas, ninth
last week, failed to receive even
one point this time after absorb
ing a 17-0 drubbing from Texas.
Washington D.C.
Team To Oppose
Globetrotters
The Washington, D.C, Gener
als, one of the nation's top trav
eling professional basketball
teams, have been named as op
ponents of the Harlem Globe
trotters when the world-famous
Negro quintet plays at Hedrick
Junior High school gym here on
Jan. 17.
Harry Chipman, who is mak
ing arrangements for the annual
appearance of the Trotters here,
said a six-act variety show fea
turing some of the nation's top
night club acts, will be present
ed at half time.
which rolled into the end zone
where Springfield recovered.
The officials ruled the ball was
still alive and a safety for Marsh
field resulted.
Impetus of Kicker
However, after reading re
ports of the game from the two
schools and from the officials in
volved, Pigott said today it was
apparent the impetus of the
kicker which sent the ball into
the end zone, and not a fumble
on the part of the receiver.
Therefore, Pigott said, the ball
was dead and a touchback
should have been called.
Marshfield had a 12 to 5 edge
in first downs and 215 to 110
bulge in net yardage which
should go considerably in its
favor if a committeeman vote
should be required to determine
the district representative in
state play-offs.
Cold Blamed,
Not Pigeons,
In Bout Loss
New York OP) Welterweight
Eddie Lynch, New York steve
dore, blamed a, cold in the head
today rather than the absence
of pigeons for his failure to win
more impressively over substi
tute Yvon Turenne of Montreal
in their TV 10-rounder at St.
Nicholas Arena Monday night.
Lynch, 149'i pounds, had to
be content with a split decision
over the awkwardly aggressive
Montreal brick layer, 1531:!.
Seven special agents of the
American Society for the Pre
vention of Cruelty to Animals,
five uniformed police and two
patrol cars outside the Arena
made certain that Lynch's ad
mirers from Pier 96 released
no pigeons during the bout nor
caused any near-riot as they
did at his last fight on Aug. 5.
"The pigeons had nothing to
do with it," Lynch declared. "I
got a bad cold in my head after
the weigh-in. If I'd been in
shape I'd of stopped Turenne."
Russo had won a split deci
sion over Lynch in their semi
riotous bout at St. Nick's, Aug.
5. That was the night Lynch's
followers released pigeons and
caused such confusion that two
spectators were hit by flying
chairs and carted off to a hos
pital. Beavers Humble
About Upending
By UCLA Club ,
Corvallis, Ore. HP The Ore
gon State Beavers, home from
Los Angeles and a 26-7 drub
bing by UCLA, offered no ex
cuses today for the loss to the
Bruins.
"We were simply outplayed,"
Coach Tommy Prothro said. The
Oregon State mentor said tackle
George Enderle, tailback Joe
Francis and end Dwayne Four
nier suffered injuries in Satur
day's game.
Other ailments were also re
ported but, with the possible ex
ception of Enderle, Prothro said
the squad should be at full
strength for the tilt with Wash
ington this week end.
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East, West
Germans Tiff
Over Sports
Frankfurt, Oct. 22 OP) East
and West Germany formed a
common team for the last Olym
pics, but today they seem far
ther apart than ever in the field
of sports.
The latest blast in the running
battle between sports officials
of the divided country was fired
by the East Germans after Ger
hard Kieszling, former national
ice hockey coach, fled to the
West and found a job with the
Preussen Krefeld club.
East German officials said
West German hockey officials
had "plotted Kieszling's treach
ery" after several months in an
attempt to "sabotage" the de
velopment of hockey as a peo
ple's sport in East Germany.
The East Germans have been
stepping up their attacks against
West German sports organiza
tions in general.
The Communist party paper.
N e u e s Deutschland, recently
called visiting West German ath
1 e t e s "agents, disguised as
sportsmen, who come to our
democratic republic for subver
sive machinations." East Ger
man sports boss Rudi Reichert
has called the Deutecher Sport
bund the West German equiv
alent of the AAU a "center of
espionage" directed against East
Germany.
West German officials, while
denying all East German allega
tions, think the campaign is
aimed at forcing the Interna
tional Olympic committee to
recognize the existence of two
separate Gertnanys even at the
cost of breaking off all sports
relations with West Germany.
Winning College Lineup Narrows
New York 0?) A total of 53
college football teams, including
eight major powers, remain un
beaten and untied at the season's
halfway mark.
A United Press survey reveal
ed today that the only major
college elevens with spotless
records are Duke, Mississippi,
Texas A & M, Iowa, Oklahoma,
Dartmouth, Auburn and Notre
Dame. Oklahoma, of course. Is
working on a record 44-game
winning streak.
West Chester, Pa., State
Teachers is the highest scorer
of the 53 teams with 202 points
Pittsburg, Kan., Teachers and
Eastern New Mexico have won
the most games six each
while Juniata, Pa., and Prairie
View, Tex., have won two each.
QUEEN FINDS FOOTBALL MORE RUGGED THAN RUGBY Queen Elizabeth H
(arrow) watches a big pile-up in the first quarter of the Maryland-North Carolina
game at College Park, Mi Seated next to her is Maryland Go?. Theodore McKeldku
st on Coast
Claims Bear's Elliott
San Francisco (IP) Univer
sity of Oregon "possibly" has
the best football team on the
Pacific Coast, Coach Pete Elliott
of California said today, as he
girded his California Golden
Bears for the big Saturday clash
OSC Drops
Out of Poll;
Ducks Show
New York HP) The United
Press college football ratings
with first-place votes and won-
lost records in parentheses:
Team Points
1. Oklahoma (29, 4-0) 341
2. Iowa (1, 4-0) 266
3. Texas A&M (1, 5-0) 255
4. Duke (1, 5-0) 228
5. Notre Dame (3-0) 159
6. Auburn (4-0) 155
7. Michigan St. (1, 3-1) ....152
8. Army (3-1) 64
9. Mississippi (1, 5-0) 62
10. Ohio State (3-1) 37
Second 10 teams 11, Rice, 31;
12 tie, UCLA and Minnesota, 19
each; 14, North Carolina State,
18; 15. Navy, 17; .16, Michigan,
16; 17, Texas (1) 15; 18, Louisiana
State, 14; 19, Oregon, 9; 20 tie,
Oregon State and Illinois, 7 each.
Others Dartmouth, Colorado
and Tennessee, 5 each; Penn
State and Arizona Tempe State,
4 each; Syracuse, 3; Wisconsin
and Maryland, 2 each; Pitts
burgh, Missouri, South Caro
lina and Texas Western, 1 each.
Oregon's Center
Out for Season;
Ducks Face Cal
Eugene, Ore. (IP) University
of Oregon center and co-captain
Norm Chapman, who suffered
a dislocated ankle in the game
with Washington State Satur
day, will probably be lost for
the rest of the season.
Coach Len Casanova said that
sophomore Bob Peterson would
probably replace Chapman on
the first team.
Casanova said the Ducks did
a good job of defending Wash
ington State last Saturday but
added that the squad needed a
lot of work before facing Cali
fornia here this week end.
at Eugene.
Riding the crest of a one
game winning streak, Elliott
offered the possibility that his
boys had played their best game
of the year in beating USC after
losing to Southern Methodist,
Washington State, Michigan
State and Navy.
"Oregon could be the best
team on the coast," said the
youthful mentor., "They have
tremendous break-away speed.
And this year they have a good
defense. They beat UCLA 21-0
and they played the Bruins off
! their feet. And I think UCLA is
i better than most teams in the
country.
What makes Elliott happy is
the fact that his No. 1 quarter
back, Joe Kapp, will be back in
action for the Webfoots.
"They have the finest running
backs in the West," he said.
"But we have a good defense
and our passing will be better
with Kapp returning."
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To Run Driving Range
Portland (IP) Einar J. Allen,
former golf pro at the Bend
Golf club, will run the Mayfair
Driving range in southeast Port
land. Allen has been at Phoenix for
the past three years as assistant
to Al Zimmerman, former Ore
gonian, at the Paradise Valley
Country club.
FIGHTS
By UNITED PRESS
New York Eddie Lynch,
14912, New York, outpointed
Yvon Turenee, 153 Vz, Canada,
10.
Bristol. Conn. Charley Nor
kus, 197 1 2, Port Washington,
N.Y., stopped. Leo (Mule) John
son, 18412, Charlotte, N.C., 5.
Providence, R.I. Willie (Pine
apple Stevenson, 1433i, Boston,
outpointed Teddy (Red Top) Da
vis, 140, Hartford, 10.
Hoop Clinic
Wednesday
Basketball referees are re
minded of the Oregon School
Activities association clinic
at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct.
23, at Medford senior high
school.
The clinic is for refs and
coaches throughout the val
ley. Roseburg( and Klamath
Falls are the nearest places
other clinics will be conduct
ed by A. Oren Hawes, assist
ant secretary-treasurer of the
OSAA.
A film, "Better Basketball ,"
will be shown. Rules will be
summarized and rule changes
discussed. Mechanics of offi-'
ciating will be gone over.
Tests for certification as ref
erees will be available.
Odds Take Drop
For Pastrano,
To Drop Lower
London IIP) Willie Pastrano,
a light-footed boxer from New
Orleans, was rated a 2-1 favorite
today to beat Dick Richardson,
England's "Mauling Milkman,"
in their 10-round heavyweight
bout at Harringay arena.
A sellout crowd of 10,600
was assured, with the top of
kS14.70 for a seat indicating a
gate of about $80,000.
Pastrano was a 3-1 favorite
when the fighters began training
but could be no better than 8-5
when they enter the ring. Ex
heavyweight contender Tommy
Farr and two respected British
fight writers Monday picked
Richardson to win making it
almost certain that, the price
will come down on Pastrano.
Pittsburgh Bob Satterfield,
1882, Chicago, outpointed Gar
vin Sawyer, 181 V2, Cincinnati,
10.
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Washington
To Stay Puty
For A While
Washington OP) The Wash
ington Senators, the major
league's poorest drawing base
ball club during the 1957 sea
son, decided to explore several
"serious" offers to move the
team to another city today, but
not until after the 1958 season.
Offers to shift the American
League franchise from the na
tion's capital to the Minneapolis
St. Paul area and two other uni
dentified cities were laid before
the Washington club's board of
directors Monday, but were re
jected for the time being.
"We voted to stay in Wash
ington next year," said C. Leo
De Orsey, a director and attor
ney for the Griffith family. De
Orsey also revealed that a re
cent offer by a Minneapolis
group to switch the Washington
franchise was rejected by club
president and major stock hold
er Calvin Griffith, Jr., as "un
satisfactory." However, De Orsey said, the
Minneapolis group was under
stood to have come back with a
more attractive offer.
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