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8 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford. Oregon, Wednesday, April 2, 1958 Tornado Nine Nips Ashland Team 1-0 Three high school base ball twinbills and two sin gle games are scheduled for Friday on Rogue Valley di amonds. The afternoon double headers ar6 Roseburg at Medford, Crater at Grants Pass and Klamath Falls at Ashland. Other tiffs on the Friday slate are Butte Falls at Eagle Point and Talent at Jacksonville. It was stated inadvert ently in a round-up story yesterday that the scraps would be a day later. Medford high's baseballers smacked out just tvo hits but put them together for the game's only score yesterday when the Black Tornado nip ped Ashland's Grizzlies 1-0 in non-league combat on the local diamond. Contested in chilling cold, the fracas was marked by tight fiPlding by both contin gents. The Tornado marker was driven across in the fourth in ning. Ray Konopasek, Calvin Dean and Lowell Dean, mem bers of Medford's all-sophomore infield, combined for the run. Konopasek lined over shortstop for a single. Cal Dean sacrificed, moving Konopasek to second base, and his twin brother, Lowell, slashed the ball into left field, sending the runner home. Only in one other inning did the Grizzlies allow Med ford man on base. Ashland presented two good threats. The Lithians loaded the bases with three safeties in the sec ond canto. Jn the first frame Bill Maurer of the Ashlanders three-baggered to center field. In hurling a two-hitter for Ashland, Pitcher Leon Bowlin fanned six batters over his six-inning stint. His lone base on balls was issued to Lowell Dean in the second inning. Dean got to second on a pass ed ball but the three hitters behind him went down in or der. Brown Goes Three Larry Brown tossed three Innings for Medford, yielding four hits, whiffing one batter twice and hitting one batsmen. Dennis Barr went the remain ing four cantos on the mound for the Tornado. The lone hit he gave up was a roller down the third base line. Barr lost his footing trying to field the ball. He fanned the other bat ters he faced during the inning and had six strikeouts for his time on the hill. He issued two walks. No errors were charged to the Tornado and only one to Ashland. And that bobble was followed up by a putout which kept a Medfordite from reach ing third base scoring posi tion. On Lowell Dean's rap, driv ing in the lone tally, he went to second on the throw-in. Ron Perry's sock was juggled by Phil Tucker at third base. The throw to Bob Johnson at first High Mountain Climber in Army at Sea Level Camp r on Monroe, va. (in The only man in the world who has climbed the highest moun tains in five continents is sta tioned at sea level in this Army camp bordering Chesa peake Bay. There is, however, more reason than at first appears for keeping mountain-climber William D. Hackett in one of the flattest, warmest and wet test of camps. He will work here with the special training branch of Headquarters of the Continental Command toward perfecting the Army's moun tain and cold-weather war fare. Capt. Hackett should know about mountains he's been climbing them since he was big enough to put on cleated boots. And he has climbed the highest ones in North Amer ica, South America, Australia, Europe, and Africa. He was raised in Portland, Ore., in the shadow of Mount Hood, which he has climbed 78 times. He was a ski in structor at Mount Hood re sorts and has held a Class "A" competitive classification for the past 20 years. Began Army Career In 1942 he joined the Army, and kept right on climbing. He represented the Army on the operation "White Tower" scaling of Mount McKinlsy in 1947. The expedition, spon sored by the New England Museum of Natural History, made the fourth recorded climb of Mount McKinley. It was Capt. Hackett's first trip up the 20,320-foot peak, but it was not to be his last. He climbed it three more times, in 1952, '53, and '54, become the most-traveled Mount Mc Kinley explorer. Only two other men have repeated the climb. On the 1954 ascent, Hackett led the way up the Northwest Buttress and over part of was bad but the ball was re turned to Tucker in time to catch Dean trying to reach third. Runner Caught Stealing Sophomores Ken Durkee at third base, Cal Dean at short, and Konopasek at second each contributed some fine fielding and Sophomore Ken Jensen, catcher, caught one Grizzly runner attempting to steal second base. Only five fair balls hit by Medford'tes were out of range of Ashland infielders. In ad dition to the hits were three fly balls hauled in by Don Simpson, in centerfield. Only four putouts by Ashland de fenders Vere on ground balls. Getting Grizzly hits in addi tion to Maurer were Tucker, Pat and Don Simpson and Bowlin. Medford goes against Rose burg in a doubleheader on the Tornado field on Friday. First game will be at 3 p.m. I.INESCORES: Ashland 000 000 0 0 5 1 Medford 000 100 x 1 2 C Bowlin and P. Simpson; Brown, Barr (4) and Jensen. 'Skins Drill For Track Campaign Jacksonville Two county champions and three entrants in the 1957 Oregon state B track meet are on the Jack sonville high school track squad. The squad of 13 includes eight lettermen from last year's crew Marion Dowell, high jump er back was county winner last season and was second in the district meet. Gary Smith was first in the county meet shot put. Doyle Bransom and Ron Davis were members of the relay team which took second in the county and sec ond in the district meet to enter state action along with Dowell. Bransom specializes in the sprints and Davis is a broad jumper as well. Others on Crew Others who wear mono grams are Jerry Cole, mile and half-mile; Hudson Bran som, hurdles and quarter- mile; John Winningham, quarter-mile, and John Allen, discus. Fred McKeen is a transfer miler from Roseburg. Also on the squad are Ken Perreard, high jump and javelin; Clint Whitney, javelin; Taylor Jones, miler, and Don Kinser, transfer from Springfield. The Redskins have a meet on April 9 with St. Mary's and Crater at Central Point. They go to Glendale on April 12. A meet with Rogue River and St. Mary's is set for May 10 but may be rescheduled. Fred McKeen was district tennis champion at Roseburg last spring. He is keeping in shape bv drill on the South- err. Oregon college courts. Wickersham Wall, the second greatest unbroken precipice on earth at 15,000 feet. The route, at an average angle of 38 degrees from glacier to summit, was another first for Hackett. He described .the cold: "Being on the north side where there is a minimum amount of sunlight, the night temperature above 17,000 feet was lower than 40 degrees be low zero." The Captain organized the first United States-Argentine mountaineering expedition in 1949 and became the first American citizen to reach the summit of Mount Aconcagua. At 23,081 feet, it is the high est mountain in the Western Hemisphere. Everest Someday He climbed Mount Kiliman jaro, 19,718 feet high, and Af rica's second highest moun tain, 17,040-foot Mount Ken ya, in 1950. In Australia, he made 24 ascents in 1956, including the 14 highest mountains on that continent. In 1956 he climbed Mount Blanc, 15,781 feet, the highest mountain in Europe. In 27 years of mountain climbing he has made more than 500 major climbs in 12 countries and Alaska, scaled 40 of the 52 peaks over 14,000 feet in the American Rocky Mountains and reached the tops of the highest mountains in the United States, Mexico, Austria, Italy, Japan and the Republic of Korea. He hopes some day to climb Mount Everest and has re quested permission to climb Gasherbrum, at 26,470 feet, Pakistan's highest unclimbed mountain. He says he gets the satis faction from mountain climb ing that a golfer, gets from shooting par, and he aims to keep at it "as long as I can climb." Duke Snider Rolls, Knee Takes Fall Clearwater, Fla. OP) It's better than a 50-50 bet today that Duke Snider will be in the starting lineup when the Los Angeles Dodgers open their National league season April 15. The 31 -year-old Snider key slugger of the team this year lashed out a solid single in three tries Tuesday and also "tested" his ailing knee with an attempt for a diving catch. The fact that Duke looked good at bat and also survived his circus catch try helped Manager Walt Al ston forget that the Dodgers bowed, 7-6, to the Washington Senators in 10 innings. The most important of Snider's actions undoubtedly was his try for the catch in the fifth inning. Until then the Duke had been playing left field on a dime and whether this was a concession to his injured knee or to pock marked playing fields was a debateable point. Popped up Smiling . Snider charged a short fly by Rocky Bridges and went down to the ground, rolling over in a futile attempt to make the catch. The Dodgers held their breaths a moment but Snider popped up smiling and ran back to his position. "I didn't hurt it a bit," he said after the game. "There's still some soreness in it but I'm told thhat's to be ex pected." Snider has an 11-year .303 batting average in the majors and has hit 40 or more homers in each of the last five sea sons. The Dodgers are scheduled today to play the Philadelphia Phillies before hitting the road with the world champ ion Milwaukee Braves and the Chicago Cubs for a Southwestern tour of eight games. Senators Appear Doomed To League Cellar Again; By LEON H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor Orlando, Fla. (IP) The Washington Senators who are getting used to finishing there, seem doomed to wind up in the American league cellar again. Even their manager, Cookie Lavagetto, is so pessimistic that he'll only go so far as to say, "we'll why more games than we did last year." He won't admit it, but he'd settle right now for seventh place. The only ray of hope Lava getto sees in the Senators' 1958 outlook is that he plans to start the season with five new regulars and has what appears to be the best rookie pitcher in the Florida spring training camps. Promising Newcomer The newcomer is Ralph Lu menti, a 6-2 left-hander whom the Senators signed off the University of Massachusetts campus late last season. Lumenti is only the third player to whom the Senators ever paid a bonus the oth ers being third baseman Har mon Killebrew and outfield er Jerald Schoonmaker. Killebrew isn't much of a glove man, but the 101 runs he batted in for Chattanooga last year while hitting 29 homers, gives Lavagetto hope that he finally will be able to hit major league pitching. The other new regulars in Lavagetto's scheme of things are centerfielder Albie Pear son, catcher Steve Korcheck;, first baseman Norm Zauchin, and second baseman Bob Malkmus. Lavagetto rates Korcheck the top of his four catchers, the others being veterans Ed Fitzgerald, Clint Courtney, and Lou Berberet. That is Washington's strongest de partment, and the Senators may collect dividends from it because several clubs, includ ing some in the National league are after catching help. Zauchin at First Zauchin will be at first base with the National league castoff, Rocky Bridges, at short. Veteran Eddie Yost is pushing Killebrew at third base while Herb Plews will take over second if Malkmus, Guardsmen Elect Officers for Group Ray Schumacher was elect ed chairman of the former National Guardsmen group in Medford at a meeting this week. f Other officers elected were Roy Hewitt, vice chairman; Charles Wiley, secretary; and Roy Erickson, public rela tions and historian. Fourteen former National Guardsmen attended the meeting. The group organized for the purpose of selecting and recruiting active Nation al Guard members. The group meets once a month. All former National Guards men have been invited to the April 28 meeting. i j ' "S'' DISTANCE MEN IN RELAYS Roger Johnson, left, and Mark Norton are milers on the Medford High school track squad. They'll be among Black Tornado athletes entered in the 19th annual Rogue relays on Saturday, April 5, at the Medford stadium. Both are juniors. Medford will be host to Grants Pass, Crater, Ashland, Klamath Falls and Marshfield for the cinder carnival, top show on the Medford oval this season. There will be 12 events with a 1:30 p.m. starting time for the first. The Tornado is defending champion. Medford Kiwanis club provides the championship trophy and as meet sponsor will assist with the officiating and administration of the meet. Masters Veterans To Try To Beat New Generation By TOM PRICE Augusta, Ga. OB The Masters golf tournament, won by relative youngsters the past three years, starts Thurs day for the 22nd time with a .291 hitter with Wichita, can't make it. The Senators' brightest star, Roy Sievers, the Ameri can league home run and runs batted in king, will be in left field with Jim Lemon in right if he hits. Otherwise Neil Chrisley, who batted .343 at Indianapolis in 1957; Car los Paula, up from Minnea polis where he hit .288, or Whitey Herzog will be given a shot at the job. Giants Cop Spring Toga In Arizona Phoenix, Ariz. HP) The San Francisco Giants had a second consecutive Cactus league title under their belts today as they faced the Balti more Orioles. The Giants captured the mythical championship Tues day by downing the Orioles, 4-1, at Scottsdale. It was the Giants' 14th win in 21 exhibi tions. Although out hit by the wide margin of 9-3, the San Franciscans made the most of an Oriole error in the second to score three runs. They add ed another in the sixth on the strength of rookie Willie Kirkland's fifth home run of the Spring. Raps Scattered Baltimore, limited to one harmless hit per inning by Alan Worthington for the first six stanzas, turned two singles and a sacrifice fly into a single run in the seventh. Ramon Monzant finished out the last two Innings for the Giants, keeping the losefs well away from the plate. Johnny Antonelli was scheduled to hurl , against Billy Loes of the Orioles in today's game. $495 Save en These Vital Maintenance Items During the Month of April. ."DARR $495 four old timers making per haps a last grand effort to stave off the new generation. Jimmy Demaret and Sam Snead, the only three-time winners in Masters history, along with two-time winner and four-time runner up Ben Hogan and , Lloyd Mangrum, holder of the record 18-hole score in Masters play, know this may be it if they are ever going to' win the big one again. Dominate for Six Years For six years, 1949 through 1954, Snead, Demaret and Ho gan dominated the Masters scene,. Slammin' Sammy win ning in 1949, '52 and in a 1954 playoff over Hogan. De maret, who had also won in 1940 and, '47, was the 1950 winner, and Hogan emerged on top in 1951 and '53. But the past three years have been dominated by the younger generation. C a r y Middlecoff, the golfing den tist from Memphis, won in Z955, Jackie Burke Jr., in 1956, and Doug Ford was vic torious by three strokes over Snead last year. Snead posted a three under par 69 Tuesday over the 6,850-yard course which most of the pros said played "long" due to heavy recent rains. Ho gan had a three over par 75 practice round. Veniuri Five Under Ken Venturi, the California youngster picked by Snead and other veterans as. a fa vorite in the tournament founded by the ailing Bobby Jones, showed Tuesday he in tends to live up to his billing. He put together a 33-34 round for a five under par card of 67. Amateur William Hyndman of Philadelphia, a member of the 1957 Walker Cup team, matched Snead's three under par practice round of 69. The Augusta National golf course, designed by Bobby Jones in 1933 and now the fa vorite golfing grounds of President Eisenhower, was in top shape for the opening round of match play. A field of about 90 golfers, somewhat less than the 101 that teed off on opening day last year, was shaping up. It is predicted that a mil lion new homes will be built in the United States in 1958. SPRING SERVICE SPECIAL 4 For the Month of April! 1. Lubricate car 7. 2. Fill transmission to 8. level 3. Fill differential to 9. level 4. Clean and re-oil air 10. cleaner 5. Clean battery terminal 6. 'Examine, repack and H adjust front wheel 12. bearings ILL MDLL 415 S. Riverside SPORTS Celts Slate SL Quintet In 3rd Title St. Louis (IP) . The St. Louis Hawks and the Boston Celtics, capable of stirring up a basketball donnybrook whenever they meet, will tangle once more tonight in the third game of their best-of-seven series for the Nation al Basketball association crown. The Hawks and Celts, all even after splitting the first two games in Boston, worked out Tuesday, the Hawks in the afternoon, the Celtics at night. Alex Hannum, the Hawks' outspoken coach, has no love for the Celtics, and there may be sideline fireworks when the teams come to grips once .more. Hannum, described by Bos ton owner Walter Brown as "a basketball accident," was well satisfied with the pro gress of the series thus far. "If Boston is such a tremend ous team, we're doing real well by winning one game on its home court," he said. DeLighten Trailer at Sportsfair One of the attractions oi the Crater Lions Sportsfair will be the display by a brand new local manufacturing company. The DeLighten camp trail er, brain child of Agnar Lar son of Medford, will be the feature at the DeLighten booth. Both Larson and his partner Russ Howard, will show sportsmen how they can assemble and utilize this in expensive flat trailer. It is claimed that a sportsman and his family, to a total of five persons, can be in bed and comfortable within one min ute after stopping the car. This booth will be just one of the displays at the first annual Sportsfair, to be held here the week end of April 12 and 13. All types of camp ing and sports equipment will be shown. There will be booths presenting sports safe ty and fun of all kinds. At tractions will include sports wear modeled by the queen of the fair and her court, a trout fishing pond; and a real aqualung and swim safety demonstration by the YMCA. The Sportsfair, scheduled to open at the Medford armory on Saturday after noon, April 12, is expected to draw thousands from local areas, along with sports minded persons from the en tire west coast. Every possi ible phase of sports is expect ed to be covered in the dis plays and demonstrations. Residents are invited to view the Pear Blossom Festival parade in downtown Medford Saturday then drive to the armory for the festivities there. ' Olympian Appointed Management Specialist Washington (IP) Secretary of Interior Fred A. Seaton Tuesday announced appoint ment of Dinsmore Taylor, Olympia, as a management specialist to administer the program for termination of federal trusteeship over the Klamath Indian Tribe of Ore gon. LIKE A FOOL Jackson, Miss. (IP) State legislators defeated a bill to allow them to use license plates bearing their names when one of their members reminded them that "Fools' names, like fools' faces, are always seen in pdblic places." Phone SP 2-6209 Crater IHIigh (Downs EDel Norte on Track Central Point Crater high won nine of the 14 events and swept five of them yes terday to whip Del Norte of Crescent City, Calif., 93 to 37 in a dual track meet here. The Comets took all three places in the 100 and 440-yard runs, the high jump, the dis cus and javelin. They also took firsts in the shot put, the 220, the half-mile and the relay. John Burns was a triple winner for Crater, capturing the high jump, the 880-yard run and the javelin. Kerman Bennett won both dashes for the Comets and was a mem ber of the relay team. Simmons of Del Norte nabbed the mile and the broad jump. Other victors for the California school were Jyngst in the high hurdles, Sperry in the pole vault and Tiller in the low hurdles. First placers for the Comets Auto Owners Find Garages Moscow (IP) Sergei PavlO' vich Bannikov is the proud owner of a new, grey Pobeda sedan, Russia's most popular car. After almost two-and-a-half years on the waiting list, he finally got his car last De cember, just in time to beat the increase that boosted the price tag from 20,000 to 30, 000 rubles ($3,000 at the tour ist rate). A mechanical engineer at a large machine-building plant on the outskirts of Moscow, Bannikov needs the car to get to and from work. Travel time via subway and bus took almost an hour one way; with the Pobeda, 20 minutes. Bannikov was observed one frigid morning carrying a pail of steaming water to his car, parked in front of an apart ment house. He poured the water into the radiator, replaced the cap and turned over the motor a few times until it started. Few Garages The next morning, the same scene. This time I stopped to talk, and naively asked why he didn't protect his car from the freezing weather and keep it in a garage. Bannikov burst out laughing, and said: "Garage? This is my ga rage." He waved his hand at the snow-coVered street, "Don't you know that there are practically no garages in Moscow? The only place you can keep your car is on the street or in the yard. "Of course, there are a handful of so-called communal pa rases where private car owners can park their cars, There are also many one-car garages in courtyards and in backyards which car owners themselves have built. "Vnn pan buv a ore-fabri- mted corrugated iron garage for 5,000 rubles and put it together yourself. Or you can build it out of wood." But if you want to do this, he added, you have to get per mission from the district au thorities and pay a small an nual rental for the land. Winter Car Care Moscow's 100,000 car own ers (estimated) probably have a long wait before there is adequate garage space ior an of them. Few new garages are being built, and these prin cipally are near the new nous ing developments in the southwestern part of the city. Elsewhere, car owners have to shift for themselves. Now and then a frustrated and irate car owner pens a letter to some Soviet newspaper be wailing the lack of garages, but these letters don't seem to have much effect. Most of Moscow's autoists are resigned to keeping their cars on the street all night, even in below-zero weather, which is good neither for the Inspect brake linings Tighten radiator hose connections Adjust fan belt tension Safety inspection of exhaust system, lights, tires, etc. Wash and vacuum car Pick up and delivery service 1 CO. $495 also included Darrell William son in the shot put, Kime in the 440 and Mike Martin in the discus. In a freshman meet held at the same time Crater defeated Del Norte 57 to 22. RESCITS: High hurdles Jyngst, DN: Day. CD: Mack. C. :17.8. 100 Bennett. C; Eldred, C; Kime. C. :10.9. High jump Burns, C; Michaels, C; Day, C. 5-8. Mile Simmons. DN; Fairish, C; Newman, DN. 4:52.3. Shot put Williamson, C; Perry, DN: Keller. DN. 41-11. 440 Kime. C; Woods, C; R. Gil laspey C. :54.4. Pole vault Sperry, DN; Eldred and Johnson, C, tied second. 10 feet. Low hurdles Tiller. DN; Gos sett. C; Eldred, C. :22.7. 220 Bennett, C; Tiller, DN; Cut ting. C. 23.7. Discus Mike Martin, C; Davis, C; Cote, C 122-2. Broad jump S i m m o n s, DN; Woods, C; Turner. C. 19-7 ,j. 880 Burns, C; Wild, DN; Adams, DN. 2:12. Relay Crater (Bennett, Eldred, Woods. Kime). 1:37. Javelin Burns, C; Butron, C; Johnson. 163. in Moscow Scarce car nor the driver's disposi tion. How do they beat the freeze? There are three ways. 1. Empty the radiator every night. The Pobeda can be easily emptied via accessi ble radiator and motor taps. In the morning, carry two pails of hot water down sev eral flights of stairs, fill the radiator and start cranking. The Pobeda, Moskvich, Zim and other Soviet cars still have hand crankcases for this very reason. 2. Keep water in the radia tor but add a product called "antifriz" which keeps the water liquid when the tem perature goes as low as 50 degrees below zero Centi grade. If it drops -any lower, even the "antifriz" won't help. But that's hardly likely in Moscow. 3. Empty the radiator, take out the battery, cover the car with a tarpaulin and leave it standing in the yard until spring. Dismissal Asked In Assault Charge Portland (IP) Deputy "Dis trict Attorney George Van Hoomissen said he would ask Circuit Court today to dis miss a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon against a Hungarian refugee in con nection with the beating of a young woman, here in Janu ary. The refugee, Bela Agoston, 40, had been accused in the attack on Margaret A. Can field, 19. Later, a 17-year-old high school youth confessed to this beating as well as four other similar assaults. Agos ton is scheduled to be released from jail April 12. He was sentenced to a 90lay term Jan. 22 for a drunk conviction. 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