Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 08, 1958, Image 9

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Newspaper Page Texti Fo.ib! S Shows New York TP A large re duction in the number of free throws in major college bas ketball during the 1957-58 season produced the sharpest scoring decline in the 66-year history of the game. NCAA statisticians releas ed the season's final figures today and announced the point production was five per cent less than that recorded during 1956-57. In 4,149 ma jor college games, the 1957-58 season produced an average total of 136.9 points per con Rose to Open Action In Tennis Masters' Jacksonville, Fla. opi Top-seeded Mervyn Rose, southpaw star from Australia, was scheduled to see his first action today in the week-long Masters tennis tournament. Meantime, top - seeded Ma ria Bueno of Brazil and second-seeded Karol Fageros of Miami, Fla., opened play in the women's singles. A total of 33 players are entered in the five divisions of the tourney which opened Monday, including Rose and second-seeded Luis Ayala of Chile. Rose defeated the Chil LA Chavez Ravine Contest Claimed as 'Smoke Screen' Los Angeles (ID The con troversy over use of Chavez ravine as a baseball stadium for the Dodgers is being used as a smoke screen by persons who don't want the Dodgers in Los Angeles under any con ditions, according to Council man James G. Corman. Corman made the charge in a Town Hall debate Mon day with Councilman John C. Holland, leading opponent of granting 300 acres of land to the Dodgers. Part of the land grant lies in Elysian park. "There is abundant evi dence that many of our op- Butte Falls tips Cougar Diamonders Butte Falls Butte Falls high broke a deadlock with a run in the bottom of the sev enth and final Inning yester day to nick Prospect 6 to 5 in a Jackson County B league baseball game. The Loggers, who rapped out only four hits in the fuss while Prospect was getting eight, didn't need a safety to score the winning run. After an infield out by Larry Cavin, Jim Irwin drew a walk and Mike Conley got on base on an error. The runners ad vanced on a double steal and Trwin crossed the plate on a groundout by David Baker Prospect took a 4 to 2 lead in the third inning. By the fifth frame the Loggers were on top 5 to 4. The Cougars caught up in the sixth. Butte Falls didn't tabulate in that chukker. In the top of the seventh Jim Irwin struck out the side to hold down the Cougars. Tom Davidson in throwing his four hitter, had nine strikeouts, six in the first three innings, and walked but two. Baker fanned two and walked two and Irwin had four whiffs to his credit and walked just one. Baker got two hits in four times up and Dale Hawkins and Jerry Fer gus slapped the other two hits for BF. For Prospect Dick Robinson socked two bingles, Floyd Scaife two and Herb Wheeler three. LINESCORE: Proepect 022 001 05 8 8 Butte Falls 020 120 16 4 6 Davidson and Ring; Baker. Ir win (4) and Conley. Bowling CLASSIC LEAGUE Oak Knoll Golf Course W L. 40 12 30 22 Morse Motors E H. Mann Co 28 24 Lamport's Sporting Goods 26 26 Trail Creek Lumber Co Hight Real fcstaie Henry's Broiler Sam's Sporting Goods... Sewing Machine Center. Hillyer Oil Co. 23 29 23 29 23 29 22 30 21 31 Results: Sewing Machine Center 3 (Dick Weber 545) 2688: Hillyer Oil Co. 1 (Ralph Brock 605) 2567. Oak Knoll Golf Course 3 (Bob Rametes 584) 2664; Hight Real Es tate 1 (Harold Schroeder 574) 2567. E H Mann Co. 3 (Andy Ander son 593) 2518; Sam's Sporting Goods 1 .George Barr 531) 2496. Morse Motors 2 (Leo Webster 617) 2592: Trail Creek Lumber Co. 2 (Ted Jantzer 556) 2580. Lamport's Sporting Goods 3 (Harold Vessey 615) 2749: Henry's Broiler 1 (BUI Blunt 540) 2474. Leo Webster of Morse Motors had a string of nine strikes in a row Monday evening and came in with a 277 game. This is the high est game of the year in the Classic league. hot Reduction in Sharp Scorieig test compared to the 1956-57 average of 144.0. The number of foul shots per game dwindled for the fifth straight year. There was almost no change in the average number of personal fouls. Thus the decline in free throws was the result of the new rule which limited the number of free throw op portunities during the past season. The scoring drop was em Dhasized by the few two- points-a-minute teams in ma- ean star in Miami Beach Sun day for the Good Neighbor championship. At the same time Miss Bueno knocked off Janet Hopps of Seattle in the women's play. Monday, Seattle's Bill Quillian, third - seeded in the Masters tournament, scored an easy 6-3, 6-0 victory over Patricia Apey of Chile m a first rouncj matcn. In other top matches, John Powless of Flora, 111., defeat ed Miguel Olivera, Ecuador, 6-2, 6-4, and Bill Alverez, Co lumbia, beat Dick Daniels, Puerto Rico, 6-2, 6-2. ponents don't want the Dodg: ers in Chavez ravine or in Los Angeles," Corman .said. Holland denied he and his group were against the Dodg ers coming to Los Angeles, but he said, "We want the Dodgers here on the same terms as the Los Angeles Rams or any other big busi ness corporation." Golf Open To Lack Palmer Greensboro, N.C. OPI The nation's top touring profes sional golfers thronged the Starmount Forest Country club course today for practice rounds for the 21st annual Greater Greensboro Open golf tournament. The $15,000, 72-hole tour nament will get under way Thursday over the 6630-yard, nar 72 course. A field of 135 players is entered. The absence of Masters chamDion Arnold Palmer of Latrobe, Pa., will take some of the glow from the tourney but the field is expected to be one of the toughest in the his tory of the event. Palmer has a television commitment in Florida. The group of contenders in cludes defending champion Stan Leonard of Vancouver, B.C., Ken Venturi of San Francisco and 1957 Masters chamD Doug Ford of Maho- Dac. N.Y. Slammin' Sammy Snead will also be on hand for the tournament frequently re ferred to in the past as the "Sam Snead Open." Snead has won it six times. Indians Plan Meeting With aeon Today Vero Beach, Fla. (IP) Ralph Mauriello was sched uled to go to the mound for the Spokane Indians of the Pacific Coast League today in their exhibition game against Macon of the South Atlantic League. Pitcher Dick Hanlon of Spokane won his own game Monday as he singled with the bases loaded in the ninth inning to defeat Victoria of the Texas League, 4-3. STILL HUNTS WIN Monte Carlo, Monaco (IP) Mimi Arnold of Redwood City, Calif., left today for her next stop on the European tennis circuit, still looking for her first tournament victory of the season. Mrs. Suzy Kormoczy of Hungary beat Miss Arnold Monday, 6-2, 6-3, in the final of the Monte Carlo International tourna ment. OFFICIAL U.S. GOVERNMENT TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS For Campers Fishermen Loggers Engineers Farmers Hunters - Ranchers Hikers Just Anyone Can Use a Topo. Map COMPLETE COVERAGE SOUTHERN OREGON . and NORTHERN CALIFORNIA 35 each jor college ranks in 1957-58. Only eight, headed by Mar shall's 88-point average, were able to average at least 80 points a game. This is the low est total since 1952 and is in sharp contrast to 1956-57 when 24 teams scored at that rate. For the second time in the NCAA history, two teams from the same ,state finished 1-2 in scoring as West Vir ginia followed Marshall with an 86.9 average. The final team defense standings also emphasized the trend in scoring. The 50.5 average compiled by San Francisco and Oklahoma State's 51.7 are the best de fensive marks in six seasons. Kentucky was the only school which finished in the top 40 in both offense and de fense and ranked among the leaders in five of the six ma- Ed Machen Confident Of Victory San Francisco OP! Confi dent Eddie Machen, who has won all of his 24 professional fights, meets dignified Zora Folley Wednesday night in a 12-round heavyweight bout which is supposed to decide Floyd Patterson's next chal lenger. Machen and Folley are ranked one-two by the NBA and Ring Magazine in the list of challengers. The unde feated sharpshooter from Red ding, Calif., has been posted a 12-5 favorite over Folley who was born in Texas but now fights out of Chandler, Ariz. Both camps have predicted victories by decision. Manager Predicts Win I look for Eddie to win handily," manager Sid Fla herty said today. "He's in top shape and will go in at one of his heaviest weights about 196 pounds." Bill Swift, the meat-pack ing scion who manager Fol ley, conservatively foresees his man getting the verdict. "Zora is in the best shape of his life mentally and physi cally," Swift said. "We have had him boxing at 7 p.m. re cently so he will be used to the early starting hour here. Bout Quiz Witnesses Subpoenaed New York (IP) The first of more 'than a dozen boxing figures subpoenaed after the Virgil Akins-Isaac Logart fight at Madison Square Garden March 22 were scheduled to appear today before a New York County grand jury in vestigating crime and bribery in boxing. Both Akins, who scored an uDset technical knockout in the bout, and Logart were among those given summonses immediately after the fight but the grand jury appear ance of both boxers was slat ed for a later date. The hearings are part of District Attorney Frank Ho ean's continuing search for "crimes of conspiracy and bribery" in the ring. Canadiens Bank On Power for Bruin Victory Montreal (IP) The Mont real Canadiens of the Na treel Canadiens of the Na tional Hockey League are banking heavily on their awe some power play in a bid for their third straight Stanley Cup tonight when they meet the Boston Bruins. The game is the opener of a best-of-seven final playoff series. The Canadiens were over whelming 5-1 favorite to win the 10th Stanley Cup in the club's history and 14-5 favor ites to take the opener against the Bruins. "Those odds are crazy," Montreal coach Toe Blake said. "Maybe if it were a while back I might go along with them but the way that team Boston finished, I think we're in for a bloody tough series." Swem's .217 E. Main Medford 1957 V Decline. jor statistical departments. Cincinnati led in margin over the opposition, averag ing 20.6 points a game more than its opponents. Oklahoma State led in free throw percentage, sink ing 488 of 617 for .791 per cent. Fordham sank 693 of 1,440 field goal tries for a .481 mark and edged Cincin nati, which finished with a .480 percentage. Manhattan led the major schools in re bounding, recovering .591 per cent of those available in its games. Celts Lose Russell By Injury Boston (LP) Loss of re bounding star Bill Russell off set a home-court edge held by the Boston Celtics going into a fifth and crucial game against the St. Louis Hawks for the National Basketball championship here Wednes day night. Celtics coach Red Auer bach admitted Monday that Russell was "through for the season." He said the 6-10 star had a small chip fracture in his leg and also torn ankle tendons. Russell suffered the injur ies Wednesday night in St. Louis. He sat out Saturday night's game when the Celtics evening the best-of-seven se ries with a 109-98 victory at St. Louis. DiBiases' Bout Win 'Close' New York (IP) Whitey Bimstein, considered one of boxing's best "swab jockeys," deserves some credit for Tony DiBiase's latest victory over Peter Schmidt. jjiBiase sustamed a severe cut alongside his right eye in the third round of his return TV scrap with fellow New York welterweight Schmidt Monday night at St. Nicholas Arena. However, Bimstein did an excellent job of patching up the wound between rounds, permitting DiBiase to blast his way to his second straight split 10-round decision over Schmidt. Thedeeision was close but well received. Judge Tony Castellano favored DiBiase on a rounds basis, 6-4, while Judge Bert Grant agreed, 5-4-1. Referee Barney Felix voted for Schmidt, 5-4-1. OSC Raps Pioneers Portland (IP) A seven-run outburst 'in the third inning carried Oregon State to a 13-7 baseball victory over Lewis and Clark here Monday. Lowell Pearce went the route on the mound for Ore gon State, although giving up 12 hits. He kept them well spaced until the ninth when the losers got three runs. Gene Bates drove in five Beaver runs with three hits while Jerry Droscher also had three blows for OSC. SF Giants Set Indians Today Corpus Christi, Tex. API The San Francisco Giants will send Al Worthington to the mound against the Cleveland Indians today in an effort to continue their exhibition mastery over the American League club. The Giants trimmed the Tribe for the 10th time in 14 games Monday in Austin by a score of 7-0. Johnny Anto nelli indicated he is ready for the season opener by going seven innings and allowing only four hits. PRIDE OF GERMANY HERE NOW! Come in for a Demonstration Ride See H today at ... SKINNER - BUICK - CADILLAC 143 South Riverside SPORTS I Lassieball Loops Being Organized Collegeville, Pa. When they dust off the plate and cry "Ply ball!" this year in many communities through out the country, the old pep per talk around the bases and the catcher's staccato jawing are going to be in soprano. The girls the 10-to-15 year old group are invading the diamond for the first time on a nation-wide, and potential world-wide, basis. Junior baseball is no long-' er a boys' world. At least 100 girls' leagues of four major teams and four farm teams, perhaps as many as 12,000 girls, are expected to be in action this spring and summer. They will play Lassieball, a modified form of softball. Pattern in 1953 It will be the first signifi cant year for Lassie Leaguers, Inc., which pioneered and di rects the program. The pattern for Lassie leaguers was set up in 1953 in Collegeville when a retired industrialist pointed to what was patently an unfair com munity situation. "But, we have done nothing for the girls," said S. L. Gabel, former general manager at the Superior Tube company plant, a short peg from here. "S. L.", as they call him, and a physical education teacher, a college professor, a doctor a lawyer, telephone operator, the wife of the local dentist and a secretary form ed the basic organization. Last year it was incorporat ed as an international fran chising body, providing in struction (organization meth ods, details of Lassieball, tne unique softball game played) and advice (where to buy uni forms, what player insurance is needed) together with the franchise to any community in the world wishing to set up a league. A booklet entitled, All About Lassie Leaguers, Inc., will be distributed to any community or group within a community writing for in formation. Easy Pitches Each squad has from 13 to 16 players. Ten players con stitute a team in the field. The tenth girl plays short field, or takes up some other position in the outfield accord ing to team strategy. Lassieball is played with a softball 12 inches in circum ference. The pitcher must throw easy underhand pitches with no spin or speed. Her main job is to encourage the batter to hit. No strikes or balls are call ed by the umpire. A ball miss--ed by the batter or a foul ball constitute a strike. Three strikes or combinations of three strikes and fouls, re gardless of what order the strikes or fouls occur, retire the batter. No bunting is allowed. A base runner is out if she leaves the base before the ball has been hit by the batter. : Pads Schedule Giants Today Daytona Beach, Fla. OP) The San Diego Padres meet the Phoenix Giants today in an exhibition game and then fly to the Arizona city for their opener against the Giants on April 15. The Padres, who have two more exhibition games sched uled on April 12 and 13, nosed out Rochester- of the International league Monday, 4-3. Dave Pope homered in the first inning, and rookie Dick Stigman struck out six men in going five frames. GIANTS GAIN PLAYERS Sanford, Fla. (IP) Dusty Rhodes and Sal Taormina, re cently sent down by the San Francisco Giants showed the Phoenix Giants of the Pacific Coast League Monday that they're fighting to get back. pnsL- Yankee Stalled By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer All spring long Casey Sten gel has been complaining that his New York Yankees "ain't doin' enough hitting," but now that they have staged springtime's biggest slugfest, is Casey happy? No, he isn't. Because the Semi-Finais Play Slated In Handicap Glen Fabrick is scheduled to meet Dr. Ted Sickels in one semi-final match this week dn the men's spring golf handicap tournament at the Rogue Valley. Country club. A. C. Broyles will take on the winner of the Dr. William Miller-Harry Barker match in the other semi. Miller and Barker were un able to complete their quar ter-final tiff last week be cause of injuries suffered by Barker. In other quarter-finals Fab rick defeated Dick Travis 2 up, Sickels was victor over E. W. Peterson 4 and 3 and Broyles nipped Tom Teutsch 1 up. QUARTER-FINAL RESULTS: First flight Lloyd Pope def. Harold Holmes 2 up: Stan Stark def. Bill Black ledge 2 and 1; Lee Flink def. Jack Creager 1 up; Bob Little def. Jim Dunlevy 2 and 1. Second flight Lew Bates def. Carl Schmidt; John Moffat def. Duane Lubbers; Everett McGray def. Paul Havi land; Bill Catey def. Jerry Cotting ham 5 and 3. Third flight Jerry Olson def. Jack Walker 4 and 3: Ray Wilson def. Dick Hen selman 1 up; Jerry Wells def. Fred Sears 1 up; Bob Lockwood def. Ed Radzweit 1 up. SEMI-FINAL PAIRINGS: First flight Pope vs. Stark; Flint vs. Little. Second flight Bates vs. Moffat; McGraw vs. Catey. Third flight Olson vs. Wilson; Wells vs. Lock wood. Solons Break Camp for Game With Motilities El Centro, Calif. (IP) The Sacramento Solons of the Pa cific Coast league broke camp here today and traveled to Bakersfield, where they were scheduled to play the Van couver Mounties in an exhi bition game The Solons' final practice session was washed oiit by a heavy downpour Monday, but RBud Watkins kept his arm in shape in prenaration for to day's game. LIONS SIGN ZATKOFF Detroit (IP) The Detroit Lions announced Monday that Roger Zatkoff, a tackle and linebacker, had signed for the 1958 National Football League season. COLORFUL BOAT AND SPORTS DISPLAYS EXCITING DEMONSTRATIONS FUN-FILLED CHILDRENS' CONTESTS ACTIVITIES GALORE Comeback Attempt by Wrist Injury fractured wrist suffered by Harry Suitcase Simpson took a lot of joy out of the 20 to 1 walloping the Yankees hand ed the Philadelphia Phillies Monday at Greensville. S.C It was the highest score run up by any team this year and included six homers. Simpson's right wrist was fractured in the fourth inning when he was struck by a pitch thrown by Phils southpaw Curt Simmons. The wrist was placed in a cast and he will be out of action about four weeks. He was due in New York today for further ex amination. Bill Skowron slammed two of the homers with Mickey Mantle, Elston Howard, Don Larsen, and Bobby Del Greco accounting for the others. Mantle added three doubles and a single in a five-for-five Dodger Bullpen Ace Returns to Game Action Austin, Tev. (IP) The Los Angeles Dodgers .were encour aged today by the return to action of bullpen hurler Red Roebuck, even though he was "officially" charged with the 3-2 exhibition loss Monday to the Milwaukee Braves. Roebuck, who had been bothered by a sore shoulder all spring, made his first ap pearance on the mound in the closing innings of the game at Houston and was tagged with the loss when Hank Aaron's sacrifice fly in the eighth inning scored the tie breaking run from third base. Rainiers Top Rangers, 9-2 Laredo, Tex. (IP) The Seattle Rainiers scored four runs in the first inning Mon day and then coasted to a 9-2 victory over the Dallas Rang ers in an exhibition game. Art Fowler went the dis tance for the Rainiers, allow ing only seven hits. Dallas got its two runs in the first in ning and Fowler blanked the Rangers the rest of the way. Visitor Plugs Legion Play in Portland Tour Portland (IP) Lou Brissie, former left-handed pitcher for Philadelphia and Cleveland in the American league, visited Portland Monday on behalf of American Legion Junior base ball. Brissie, who is national commissioner of the Legion baseball program, said- he hoped that eventually it would open up to all spon sors who might like to enter teams. ' Com SOUTHERN OREGON'S FIRST ANNUAL f. Produced by Crater Lions of Medford MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, day. Southpaw Johnny Antonel li, striving to come back from a poor season, doled out four hits in his seven innings as the Giants beat the Cleveland Indians for the third straight time, 7-0. Lindy McDaniel worked seven scoreless frames in the Cards' 8-0 win over the Chi cago White Sox. Brother Von McDaniel and Herm Weh meier cleaned up the five hitter. Ray Katt's three-run homer led the Cards. In the other exhibitions, the Milwaukee Braves down- ked the Los Angeles Dodgers, S-Z; the Washington Senators scored a 7-3 win over Cincin nati despite back - to - back ninth inning homers by Frank Robinson and rookie Vada Pinson; and Ronnie Kline be came the third Pittsburgh pitcher to go the full route, allowing the Boston Red Sox four hits in a 4-2 victory. The Baltimore-Chicago Cubs game was called after one inning because of wet grounds. 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