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Skipper Craft Thinks Kansas City Will Be Tougher Next Season (Editor's note: This is the f if in ci 16 dispatches on the off-season outlook of each ma jor leagu team for 1958, writ ten by Ihe managers of each club.) By HARRY CRAFT Written for the United Press Kansas City, Mo. t? Kansas City, I believe, will be a definte-l ly stronger American league contender next summer than last when we climbed out of the ,-reIlar in the final weeks, leav itg Washington in eighth place. We're setting our sights on solid improvement, and if you Insist on being specific, say sixth place, maybe a notch or two Oliigher. Frankly, I'm counting on an i Improved team for three rea-1 sons. One, I believe our Detroit j trade helped, even though we released Eilly Martin reluc tantly. I think another thing work ing in our favor this year is our rookie crop. Pitcher Walt Crad dock, the International league pennant-winner's top winner, and infielder Mike Baxes, from the same Buffalo team, should help substantially. One of Off Years The third factor I'm counting ot is one I'd likely to get some arguments on. Boiled down, I'd say ssveral of our top players simply had "off" seasons in 1957, among them Vic Power, Billy Hunter, Bob Cer. I figure Hal Smith, Frank House and Harry Chiti will give vis fine catching, the first two sharing most of the work. In the infield. Power looks solid at first base, and Lopez will get ahorough trial at third. Joe DeMaestri, an American league all-star, should handle shortstop in good style. Second base might be called our wide open Infield slot. " Woidy Held, who I put sec ond to Jim Piersall and nobody else in centerficld, should be improved and he's looked great already. Bill Tuttle, in from De "troit, looks like our rightfielder. Cerv, Bob Martyn, Jim Small and others will fight for the left-field job in our plans right now. o Our pitching has some gaps, but altogether doesn't look too bad. Jack Urban and Ralph Terry should be ready for solid seasons after early seasoning. I'd like a good lefthander for the bullpen to go with right handers Virgil Trucks and Tom Corman. George Brunet and Harry Taylor, both up from Lit tle Rock, are apparently the best of the rookie crop aside from Craddock. Former Detroit pitcher Duke Maas should help us and I'm counting on Arnold Portocar rero for some good work after a fine showing in the late weeks of 1957. Overall we need help in a couple of places and it's quite possible we'll make another trade or so before the season opens. jSPORTS ' Red Rocha Mentor of Piston Quint Detroit TP: Charley Eck man's coaching philosophy of "What can you teach All-Amer-icans?" led to his downfall as coach of the Detroit Pistons and Thursday resulted in the hiring of Red Rocha. Owner Fred Zollner said he and Eckman parted "without an imosity" but it was their differ ences over personnel that wound up with Eckman's resignation despite winning two divisional titles and tieing for a third in three years as head coach. Zollner said that although Rocha, 34, has not coached in the National Basketball association before, he is "impressed by his gray matter." Rocha was a star forward, ex celling in defense, for nine years. He played with Syracuse, St. Louis, Baltimore and closed out his playing career last season with the Pistons. He signed a contract through Oct. 1, 1958 with an automatic one-year extension if the team shows improvement. Rocha formerly starred for Slats Gill at Oregon State and broke into pro basketball in 1947 at St. Louis. Offer Made To Dodgers On Coliseum Los Angeles T? A last-ditch effort to keep the Los Angeles Dodgers from making their tem porary home in Pasadena's Rose Bowl comes before the Coliseum commission today. Chairman Jim Smith an nounced a new proposal under which the Dodgers would pay no rent for the 105,000 seat Memorial coliseum but would guarantee the Coliseum revenues of S350.000 from concessions. Anrf as an added inducement. ! Smith proposed that the Coli seum meet Dodger President Walter O'Malley's objections to ! having home plate at the east i end of the stadium by shifting tne diamond so inai me uaiiei would be facing north. The plan outlined informally by Smith Thursday was for the Coliseum commission to retain its 30 per cent of the gross con cession revenues with O'Malley guaranteeing that the stadium's receipts over a two-year period would total S350.000. 10 Per Cent Ncmral The coliseum normally charges 10 per cent of the gate as rent for the stadium, a fig ure baseball men said could not be met by a club playing 77 home games. The Dodgers and the Coliseum commission never discussed rent because of the im passe over location of the dia mond. Meanwhile, O'Malley confer red with Pasadena's city board of directors and virtually has reached an agreement to use the Rose Bowl as a temporary home until the Dodgers can build their own stadium. A formal agree ment, however, was not made and O'Malley, before leaving for the East, said he expected to re sume talks with the Rose Bowl management when ho returns. PHILS SIGN CAMILLI Philadelphia OP) Dolph Cam illi, who won the Most Valua ble Player Award in 1941 while a star first baseman with the Brooklyn Dodgers, has been signed as a scout in the San Francisco Bay area by the Phil adelphia Phillies. CALGARY EYES NOLAN Calgary (IP The Calgary Stampeders are interested in signing Lehigh university quar terback Don Nolan, who was the Washington Redskins fourth draft choice in the National Football league draft last month. Nolan stands 6-2 and weighs 190 pounds. Somebody Fouls Up Army Serial Number Fort Lewis, Wash. OP After millions of digits without a lrslss, somebody finally fouled up an Army serial number. Pfc. Gerhard Hipp of Los An geles and Pfc. Doran D. Bray of Whittier,. Calif ., have shaken the foundations of the armed forces' numerical systems right down to the decimal point. The thorn in the side of the Army is No. 56282086. Both Bray and Hipp rightfully claimed the number. "Beats me how it happened," - said Hip"p. a 30th Infantry sold ier. "We were both processed at the Figuero and loth St. In duction Station in Los Angeles on Oct. 4, 1956. We were bud dies in basic training at Ft. Car son, Colo. The error showed up one day when our shoes got mixed up because they were marked with the same num bers." Assignment to different out fits here has eased the problem. Bray now is in the 4th Division Hipp is in the 39th. Meantime, personnel officers are still puzzling over what may be the first such error in three wars and 50 million serial num O.bers. Until they can come up with a solution, the figures will stand. Many Slums Claimed Deliberately Created Chicago (IP) National As sociation of Housing and Rede velopment officials say that many landlords deliberately cre ate slums. In a recent issue of the Public Administration Bulletin, the of ficials cited the case of a Chi cago landlord, believed by his neighbors to be a respectable businessman, who was fined S107.600 for failing to main tain his apartment building properly. The creation of a 13-block slum area in Toronto, Canada, was blamed largely on two own ers, the officials said. One of the owners began busi ness with a S1.000 payment on a rundown building in the area and the other as a rent collector. They gradually secured control of more than 80 buildings by permitting indiscriminate occu pancy and making as few re pairs as possible. They went free in most of ap proximately 500 court appear ances, but their operations pro duced one good result Toronto started a major war on its slums. 2,703 Landings, TakeOffs Made Landings and take-offs at the Medford municipal airport dur ing November, totaled 2,700, ac cording to the city's monthly re port of activities. This is 248 more than Novem ber, 1956, and 959 less than Oc tober. Two landings and takeoffs were made by the Navy, 18 by the Air Force, 687 by commer cial airlines and 1,993 by private aircraft. Passengers boarding and get ting off planes last month amounted to 17,666 pounds, or 543 pounds more than October and 2,754 pounds less than No vember last year. Mail outbound was 8,257 pounds and inbound mail totaled 9,409 pounds, ac cording to the report. Air express shipped through Medford during the month was 4,120 pounds, including 1,296 pounds incoming. The total is 708 pounds less than last month and 296 pounds less than last year. Air freight during the month totaled 11,245 pounds with 6,075 pounds outgoing and 5,170 in coming pounds. The total is 3,252 pounds less than October and 3,491 pounds less than last year for the same period. The northernmost post office in the United taStes is Fenasse, Minnesota, on American Point, a 50-acre tract located on Lake of the Woods, north of Interna tional Falls. ON TARGET Halfback Joe Johnson (40) of the Green Bay Packers gathers in a pass good for five-yard gain in first quarter of pro clash with the 49ers at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco. Ready to make stop are 49ers Val Joe Walker (44) and Matt Hazeltine (55). The 49ers won, 27-20. FRANCiS WILL RECEIVE Friday, December 20, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUWB tLEYgV Palo Alto, Calif. (in Ore gon State tailback Joe Francis returned to practice with the West Shrine team today after being named winner of the Glenn (Pop) Warner award as the most valuable senior col lege football player on the Pacific coast during the pasi season. The talented Beaver back field ace won the coveted award Thursday in a close vot ing battle among 400 sports writers, broadcasters and coaches. Only a dozen votes separated the three top choices Francis, Jim Shanley of Ore- Ducks To Head South Saturday Eugene, Ore. (IP) The Ore gon U. football team, which plays' Ohio State in the Rose Bowl game on New Year's day, em planes for Los Angeles Satur day after completing its prelim inary phase of training here. The team will work out at the University of Southern Cali fornia's Bouvard field in Los Angeles. The Webfoots, wrho will go into the Rose Bowl decided underdogs, worked hard on of fensive maneuvers during Thurs day's final home drill. Chsrles White Named ASC Group Chairman Charles E. White, Rogue Ri ver, was elected chairman of the Agriculture Stabilization and Conservation committee this week, according to Harry Martin, ASC office manager here. Others elected are Donald Nickles, Ashland, vice chair man; Albert L. Straus, Gold Hill, regular member; Ray Vo gel, Central Point, first alter nate, and Otto Niedermeyer, Medford, second alternate. The committee administers the farm program for Jackson county organized under the ASC office. Paulist Fathers Plan Celebration i Chicago it? The first ; Roman Catholic order of priests ! founded in America will cele-1 brate its centennial next year. I The Paulist Fathers also will i celebrate the 125th anniversary of Chicago's first Catholic par-! ish. Old St. Mary's, which they j have administered since 1903. The Paulists will celebrate i their first hundred years from their 24 houses and foundations from coast to coast. The order, known formally as the Society of Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, was founded in New York City on March 6, 1853. ; During the last 99 years, the t five charter members have ex-: panded to more than 200. They ; administer parishes in Chicago. 2iew York, San Francisco; Port- i land. Ore.; Layton, Utah: Bos-' ton, Mass.; Clemson, S. C: Mem-1 phis. Winchester, Tenn.; Minne- j apolis: Lubbock and Austin, ; Tex., and Los Angeles. R A I O D I S A T C IF WE MIX IT, YOU CAN'T BEAT IT! 111 OlE WHIRLY-BERT, MIXER-MASTER w A T E R T ft Got a Fluid Driveway? (and a shiftless husband?) Got a Party Planned? (and wall-to-wall mud?) Give Dear Old Dad a Concrete Walk or Driveway (we'll bill him after Christmas) Listen To Our Rewashed News 7:30 A.M. - KBOY READY MIX by UHII SPring 2-5336 SPring 2-5897 MUrctack 5-3121 gon and Washington's Jim Jones. Francis will be presented with a wrist watch and trophy at the Palo Sports club's an nual "Million Dollar banquet" here Jan. 28. GETS MINORS POST Columbus, Ohio OP) George M. Trautman, minor league baseball president, has named Vincent M. McNamara, presi dent of the Class D New York Pennsylvania league, to the $500,000 fund committee set up by the major leagues to aid financially distressed minor league franchises. He replaces Claude Engberg of Salt Lake City, Class C Pioneer league president, recently named to the minor leagues' three-man committee. Ducks Travel For Tangles With BYU University of Oregon, Eugene Coach Steve Belko's winning basketball Webfoots finished final examinations today and left by plane for Salt Lake City and the first C three Christmas season gamei. and Belko has high hopes that the young Ducks can keep alive a winning skein that has stretched to four straight. The Webfoots, after an open ing season loss to Oregon State, rebounded to sweep a pair of series from Utah State and San Jose State last week, and indi cated in the process that they will be reckoned with in the coming Pacific Coast conference battle. On the road, Oregon will play two nights in Provo against BYU, Dec. 21 and 23, then move to Fort Collins. Colo., for a one night stand, Dec. 27 against Col orado State university. Club Rebounds Coach Belko's surprisingly versatile crew has rebounded and shot at furious clips since the loss to OSC, and paced by a pair of two-year veterans, Hal Duffy and Charlie Franklin, are ex pected to hold their own against the. Skyline Eight foes. Duffy, the PCC's rebound king last winter, and Franklin, the 6-3 forward who does everything well, has teamed with one other vet, guard Bud Kuykendall, and two newcomers to make a sterl ing starting combination. For ward Dale Herron, a JC transfer from Aberdeen, Wash., and guard Chuck Rask, one of the key cogs in an unbeaten Frosh team last year, complete the Webfoot starters. Rask, a 6-1 dead-eye from Port land's Jefferson high, was ex pected to play a large part in Oregon hoop fortunes in '58, but Belko admits that the 6-4 Herron is a pleasant surprise. Although weighing only 190 pounds, Her ron has rebounded with the best of the Webfoot opponents, and has averaged almost five points a game. Franklin with 70 points and a 14.0 average, leads the squad. Albert Girds Forty Miner Offense for Plav-Off Mix Petroleum power in the form of tractors, trucks and stationary engines on farms in the U. S. provides almost 200 million horsepower, twice that used by American industries. San Francisco (IP) Coach Frankie Albert of the San Fran cisco Forty-Niners went into a huddle with his staff today to brew a batch of new plays to use against the Detroit Lions and their vaunted secondary defense in the pro playoffs here on Sun day. Naturally, Albert wasn't tell ing anyone what he had in mind but so far this season he has come up with some of the most surprising plays in the National Football league. There was some speculation that the new plays would be in the nature of a pass ing pattern. It is probable that the fertile Albert mind took a look at the National league statistics and noted that a bigger percentage of passes was completed against Detroit than any other team in the league during 1957. The averages showed that 56.2 per cent of all aerials thrown against the Lions were completed. This compares with 54.8 for the Forty Niners, who had the second most porous air defense. Hazeltine Knocked Out The San Francisco camp got a scare during the testing of one of the "new" plays Thursday. End Billy Wilson raced down the . field to take a toss from Quarterback Y. A. Tittle and hit defensive back Matt Hazeltine on the head with his elbow. Hazeltine wa out for three min utes, but will be okay. Albert also worked out End Clyde Conner, who has been sidelined for month with in juries, and it now appears prob able that the ex-College of Pa cific star will see considerable action. In the Detroit camp the pic-" ture wasn't quite al bright. Coach George Wilson and his staff spent most of the dy work ing on defense. The practice was secret again. The bad news wai that in jured tackle Charley Ane Aid back Gene Gedman diA not ap pear to be improving and there was some belief that neither man would be able to play. On the other hand, defensive ace Jim Davis continued to recover from his leg injuries and may be in tip-top shape for the crucial battle. 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