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8 MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Oregon, Wednesday, April 9, 1938 Covington Knee Sliding Home By TIM MORIARTY United Press Sports Writer The Milwaukee Braves and the Los Angeles Dodgers to day faced the possibility of opening the 1958 season with out star outfielders Wes Cov ington and Duke Snider. -Covington twisted his left knee in an exhibition game against the Dodgers at Austin, Tex., Tuesday and may miss next Tuesday's opener against the Pittsburgh Pirates. He was sliding home on the business end of a squeeze play in the 13th inning that gave the Braves a 5-4 victory. Snider's trouble also is cen tered in the left knee, which was operated on last Decem ber. There has been some swelling in the knee this spring and Duke told one re porter Tuesday "I think it II 2 Twinbills On Schedule Of Tornado .With Medford high base- ballers facing heavy duty on the " week end, Coach John Kovenz is hopeful ' that his pitching staff will be at full strength and that the hitting will continue to show the im provement it has in practice The Tornadoes are hosts to Grants Pass on Friday and to Weed, Calif. In both oc casions doublebills are set. First game with GP will count in the Southern Oregon con ference. Larry Brown and Tom Laurance of the pitching staii have been troubled by bad backs but are expected to be okeh by Friday, utnerwise the club is in good physical shape, Kovenz reported. Hitting has picked up in batting drills this week with Ron Peerv. Frank Peterson and Ken Durke, in particular hitting the ball well. Kovenz reported that the team swat ting average is only about .120 now. "It can only go up," Kovenz declared. Grade Tiff Won By Washington Washington won a practice grade school track and field meet from Jefferson yester day, piling up sufficient points in Class C to offset losses in Classes A and B. Jefferson, which took the medley relay won Class A 40 to 31 and Class B 392 to Washington had a 40 to 22 gap in Class C. Mike Barnes of Jeff won the baseball throw, the shot put, the broad jump and the 60-yard sprint in Class A. In Class B Bob Harrison of Waihington vaulted 6 feet 10 inches, one better than the city record in the division. Pete Hinman of Jefferson took the shot and 60 and 120 yard dashes in B and in C Jim Allen of Washington was first in the baseball throw, broad jump and high jump and an chored the winning relay crew. BEAVERS TO FACE UTAH Salt Lake City (IP) Ore gon State, a long-time basket ball powerhouse in the Pa cific Coast conference, today was added to Utah univer sity's 1958-59 schedule. Coach Jack Gardner said the Utes will meet the Beavers Dec. 5 and 6 at Einar Nielson field house here. CHEVROLET 6 Cyl. 1937 to 1954 REGULAR $118.05 Value UBIf alii WE WILL: Steam clean engine Install piston rings Install piston pins Grind valves Clean & reface rocker arms Adjust main & connecting rod bearings Clean oil pump Clean oil breather Tune motor A GUARANTEED CHEVROLET MOTOR RECONDITION ING PERFORMED BY MASTER MECHANICS USING GENUINE CHEVROLET PARTS. COURTESY CHEVROLET 9th and Bartlett Sts. have to be drained May Not Need Draining However, he later declared "There may not be any need for that draining" and added he "will try to play" in to day's game against the Braves at Dallas. The veteran center fielder has appeared in only 13 games this spring and has been un able to play more than two days in succession, all of which would indicate his knee still is unable to withstand sustained pressure without developing some soreness. The San Francisco Giants, meanwhile, received good news when X-rays revealed Willie Mays suffered only a mild hemotoma bruise just above the elbow when struck by a pitched ball in Monday's game against the Cleveland Indians at Austin. Mays sat out Tuesday's game at Corpus Christi, in which the Indians rolled to an 11-7 victory over the Giants, but will be back in center field for the season opener. Yanks, Cards Defeated In other Tuesday exhibi tions, the Phillies edged the Yankees, 3-2, the White Sox turned back the Cardinals, 5-4; the Senators rolled to a 10-3 victory over the Redlegs, and the Cubs downed the Orioles, 6-5, on Dale Long's 10th inning clutch single. At Mexico City, in the first appearance of a big league team there in 20 years, more than 25.000 fans saw the Pitts burgh Pirates lose to Mexico Citv of the Mexican league, 5-3. Pancho Ramirez pitched the route for the. minor leaguers and missed a shut out in the ninth inning when Danny Kravitz hit a tfiree- run homer. t ivrcrnorc- Pittsburgh ... 000 000 003 3 6 2 Mexico City 000 041 OOx 5 11 1 R G Smith. Gross (5). Face (7) and Kravitz Ramirez and Petasof. Loser Gross. New York (A) 100 000 010 2 7 1 Phila. (N) .... 101 oou uix . i Vnrri snH Howard. Johnson (7). Sanfor-J, Hearn (9) and Lopata. Winner Sanford. e won "M mi 3nn nn2 7 11 3 Clevel d (A) 412 400 OOx 11 10 3 Worthington. Miller (4). t-rone (7) and Thomas. Testa (5). Garcia, Churn (5). McLish (8) and Nixon. Winner Garcia. Loser Worthing ton. HRs Vernon, Maris. (10 Innings) Chgo (N) 000 001 301 16 12 2 Bait. (A) ... 001 001 102 05 13 1 ntt iu;finl! (Ri Maver (91. T9Ariatto-r Jill anil Tannp PannaS. Harshman (8) and Triandos, Gins berg (10). Winner Mayer, looser Harshman. HH Nieman. T.A fNl 021 001 000 000 0 4 9 3 Mil (N) 300 000 010 000 1 5 12 0 McDevitt. Kipp (12) ana waiKer. Buhl. Conley (6). McMahon (8). Robinson (101. Paine (12) and Rice. Crandall 6). Winner Paine. Loser Kipp. HR Neal, Aaron. nmiin jmi nnn nnn son 3 10 4 Wash. (A) . 202 240 OOx 10 14 0 Rabe. Acker (5). Freeman (6), Klippstein (7) and Burgess. Ramos, Hyde (7) and Courtney. Winner Ramos. Loser Rabe. HR Court ney, Bilko. St. Louis (N) 000020 200 4 11 1 Chicago (A) 100 200 20x 5 8 1 Jones, Martin (5). Barnes (8) and H. Smith. Wynn, Fische (8) and Battey. Winner Wynn. Lose r Martin. RUSSIANS VIC ON MAT New York OP) The Rus sian freestyle wrestling team which will meet an all-star American team in four match es was scheduled to leave to day by plane for Tulsa, Okla. The Soviet grapplers, all of whom have held vorl d, Olympic, or Russian cham pionships, will meet the U.S. team at Norman, Okla., on Friday, at Stillwater, Okla., on Saturday, and at Tulsa next Tuesday. The series con cludes with matches at New York April 17. Models ONLY! S(0 ' IU We FURNISH: Piston rings Piston pins Condensor Distributor points 4 All gaskets valve, head and pan 5 quarts oil i Medford 255 AV7 XiwJ 'I " iMt&M. ft Lzt J :''-L J i ENTHUSIASTIC KISS is given Arnold Palmer, Latrobe, ra., proiessionai, Dy Mrs. Calmer after he wins Masters' Golf Tournament at Augusta, Ga. (International Soundphoto) Medford&JTribune glPCDDBTg NY Yankees, Braves Choice of Experts New York (IP) It'll be the Yankees and Braves in the World Series again this year and this time the Yankees will bring back baseball's world championship to New York. That is the overwhelming concensus of a committee of 50 of the nation's top base ball experts, who participated Logg ers Nip Rogue River Butte Falls Butte Falls high, trailing by three runs after two frames, tallied in the third and sixth innings yesterday to trip Rogue River 5 to 3 in a non-league base ball fracas here. The Loggers got singles by Jerry Ferguson and Tom Dil lard and the help of two mis cues and a base on balls to tie the mix with three runs in the third canto. In the fifth, Mike Conley and Ferguson got on base on a walk and error and ad vanced on a double steal. Con ley scored on Dillard's squeeze bunt and Dillard was safe on the fielder's choice. Ferguson then crossed the plate on Ray Abbott's ground out. Rogue River got its runs and three hits of Logger start ing chucker Larry Cavin. Dillard had two of the six Butte Falls safeties. T IVKSrORES: Ttnoup River 210 000 0 3 3 1 Butte Falls 003 002 x 5 6 4 Cordes and is. Bigman; -avin, Irwin (2). Baker (4) and Ferguson. Red Sox Catcher Has Operation Roston OP) Red Sox catch er Haywood Sullivan, who tried for years to win a start ing berth, faces surgery on a ruptured spinal disk today. Sox officials said he probably will be lost for the season. A spokesman at New Eng land Baptist hospital said the 28-year-old Sullivan would be in the hospital "at least three weeks" and then wear a brace for an indefinite period. Sullivan, a native of Donal sonville, Ga., was batting .258 when he suffered a ;broken index finger. He began com plaining about his back while sidelined. $778 II Per Month On Approved Credit o Fix Your Car Now and Fix Us Later! Phone SP 2-61 15 in the United Press' annual survey. All 50 experts spent the last six weeks in spring training camps. Here's the way the writers viewed the forthcoming sea son: 49 of the 50 picked the Yankees to win the American league pennant. 45 of the 50 picked the Braves to win the National league pennant. 29 of the 50 picked the Yankees to beat the Braves in the Series. 399 Out of 400 . The Yankees' 49 first-place votes and one second-place vote gave them 399 of a pos sible 400 points. The Braves had five second-place votes to go with 45 first-place ballots for a total of .395 points. Trailing the Yankees, in order, were the White Sox 332 points, Tigers 297, Red Sox 256, Indians 189, Orioles 174, Athletics 98 and Senators 55. Trailing the Braves, in order, were the Cardinals 326, Dodgers 296, Redlegs 267; Phillies 183, Giants 160, Pir ates 100 and Cubs 73. MH Netters Beat Eagles Medford high tennis team subdued Eagle Point 6 to 1 in a match yesterday. In singles John Root de feated Gene Edwards 6-2, 6-0, Garry Cummings downed Bob Berryman 6-2, 6-2, John Shaw clipped Sid Jackson 6-4, 2-6, 6-3, Paul Ryn won from Joe Andrews 6-1, 6-4, and Hank Olson beat Weilt Speare, 6-1, 6-2. Root and Ryn took a doubles match from Edwards and Jackson, 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 and Berryman and Andrews de feated Cummins and Olson 6-4, 6-1. The Tornado will be host to Eureka, Calif., on Friday but its previously scheduled trip to Redding, Calif., has been cancelled. Delco Assumes Second in ABC Syracuse, N.Y. (IP) Delco Appliance Division of Roches ter, N.Y., bowled into second place in the open division of the American Bowling con gress tournament Tuesday night. The Delcos wound up with a pinfall of 2946, which left them 29 pins shy of the division-pacing 2975 of Ben Duth ers of Grand Rapids, Mich. One of the Delcos, Stew Hendricks, 40, had four splits in his final game. He failed to convert them but still man aged a 168 game and 595 series. HOCKEY NATIONAL LEAGUE Montreal (IB Montreal coach Toe Blake today tabbed goalie Jacques Plante as the "key man" in-the Canadiens' 2-1 victory over the Boston Bruins in the opening game of the Stanley Cup finals. AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland (IP) The Spring field Indians, surprise win ners of their semi-final play off series with Claveland, will tackle the American Hockey league champion Hershey Bears in a best-of-seven set beginning Tuesday night in Hershey. Springfield, fourth -place finisher during the regular campaign, edged Cleveland, last year's Calder Cup cham pions, 4-2, Tuesday night in overtime. Bop Beckett's sec ond goal of the game, coming at 2:44 of the overtime period, was the decisive tally as the Indians took the seres, four games to three. Cubs Fixed For Season In Outfield By BILL MCFARLAND Mesa, Ariz. (IP) It took a long time, but Manager Bob Scheffing finally feels the Chi cago Cubs have put together a genuine major league out field. The Cubs' outfield was a constant source of jokes around the rest of the Na tional league last year. Schef fing tried any number of dif ferent combinations but could not find two dependable fly chasers to flank hard-hitting Walt (Moose) Moryn. "Our biggest need was a good center fielder," says the Cubs' manager, "and we got the man we were looking for when we obtained Bobby Thompson from the Giants last week." Thomson in Center Thomson now is set in cen ter; Moryn, who patrolled right field last year, looks far better suited ' in left, and Chuck Tanner and Lee Walls are conducting a spirited bat tle for the right field job. No one is more determined to make good than Tanner, ac quired from the Braves last spring for the waiver price. "Bob Scheffing gave' me a chance," he says. "I'm not going to let him down. I'm going to play. 154 games for the Cubs, just wait and see." Tanner was rocking along at a .321 pace this spring be fore he was struck in the mouth, by his own foul ball. Six stitches were taken in the lower lip and he probably will lose five teeth which were damaged. Walls has been the hitting sensation of the spring camp. He was batting a lusty .404 before he was felled by the flu recently. A tip from Rogers Hornsby, who has been schooling all the Cubs on batting techniques, has him stepping into the ball. Since he's adopted this ap proach, the base hits have been flying like chips from his bat. NY Grand Jury Calls Promoter New York (IP) -Billy Brown, a matchmaker for the International Boxing club, was scheduled to testify again today before a New York county grand jury investigat ing crime and bribery in boxing. . Brown was questioned be fore the jury Tuesday for two hours. It was his second ap pearance, having testified very briefly several days ago tn identify IBC records which have' ben subpoenaed by Dis trict Attorney Frank Hogan in connection with the inves tigation. Jimmv Peters. Washington, D.C., welterweight managed by Herman (Hymie the Mink) Wallman. testified for only two minutes Tuesday and then was ordered to appear aeain on Arjril 21. Wallman has been charged by Hogan with being a "front" for un derworld figure Frankie Car bo. often said to be a hidden power in boxing. Mexico's great oil resources were taken over by the Mexi can Government during March of 1938. WHY IS OLD H SO POPULAR IN Th answer's sasy Hrmitag is fine Kentucky bourbon at a surprisingly moderate price . . . one of the first whiskies across the plains and into the Westl OLD mm, kentuckyJstraight bourbon the0ld hermitage co.. iquisvilie. ky. distributed bt.'natlonauismfcbi.pkopucts company. 86 pfqof I O If , rll v vj&t- .T3EL. - SLASHING A HARD RIGHT to Tiger Jones' midsection1, in Philadelphia, Kid Gavilan stayed on the comeback trail. He won a ten round split decision over Jones. In two pre vious fights each scored a victory. (International Soundphoto) Rose, Woodcock In Top Matches Of Net Tourney Jacksonville, Fla. (IP) Two Australian tennis stars, topseeded Mervyn Rose and Warren Woodcock, were slat ed for action today in top second-round matches of the Masters tournament. Southpaw Rose, who over powered Bobby Johnson of Jacksonville 6-0, 6-0, Tuesday, was expected to win easily again over John Powless of Floroda, 111'. Woodcock drew a more rugged opponent in capable Venezuelan Iyo Pimenta. Snow Versus Hernandez In the women's division, Louise Snow of Oakland, Calif ., met Marta Hernandez, Mexico, and Laura Lou Kun en of Clearwater, Fla, went against Maria Garcia of Cuba. Mexico's Mario Llamas came from behind Tuesday to score a hard-fought 2-6, 9:7, 6-2 victory over Tony Vicent of New York. At the same time, Woodcock defeated Tommy Holton, Jacksonville, 6-3, 6-1, and Ayala beat Don Loop, Jacksonville, 6-1, 6-0. Top-seeded Maria Bueno of Brazil and second-seeded Ka rol Fageros of Miami had lit tle trouble defeating Nancy Loop, Jacksonville, 6-1, 6-0, and Carmen Ibarra, Chile, 6-1, 6-2, respectively. Tilts Contested In Volleyball Two matches were played in the YMCA women's invita tional volleyball tourney last night with Gold Hill beating Crater No. 2 by 15-9, 15-10 and the Y-Nots tripping the Y-Ettes 15-5, 15-4. ' Four matches are planned for thj Saturday. At 7 p.m. Crater No. 2 will face the Y-Ettes and Rogue Valley the Central Point women. In the 9 pjn. action it is Crater No. 1 against Cen tral Point and Shady Cove versus Rogue Valley. CAL TRIPS PORTLAND Berkeley, Calif. Cal ifornia defeated University of Portland 4-3 in tennis Mon day. 80 .PT. Talent Raps Eagle Point Talent Talent bunched six runs in the first frame, three in the second and four in the fifth in a baseball game here last night to top Eagle Point 13 to 4. A triple by Sam Knutson, a single by Mel Gingerich, five walks and two errors helped the Bulldogs to the first canto markers. Eagle Point got its only hits by Dough Chamberlain and Chuck Jenks, off Allen King who tossed in the fourth and fifth innings for Talent. Mike Jacobs hurled the first three innings for Talent and Paul Conner, who threw the last two innings, held EP hitless, authough two runs were scored in the seventh. Knutson, , a freshman, top ped hitters with three in four time up. Talent entertains Butte Falls on Thursday night in the Jackson B loop. L1NESCORE: Eagle Point 000 200 2 4 2 3 Talent 630 040x 13 9 5 Turner Sawyer, Nease. Perdue Laird and Bunker, Tresham; Ja cobs, King, Conner and BuUer. Indians Obtain Steve Ridzik n Cleveland, Ohio (IP) The Cleveland Indians bought righthander Steve Ridzik Tuesday from the Phoenix club of the Pacific Coast league in an effort to improve the pitching staff that has been disappointing during spring training. Ridzik, who formerly pitch ed in the National league with the Philadelphia Phillies and the New York Giants, won eight and lost six last season with Minneapolis in the Amer ican association. " CLOSE TO NO-HITTER Portland (IP) Jon Swan- son, who last week hurled a no-hit, no run game for Wash ington high, pitched anotner no-hitter Monday but this time he lost. Jefferson got two runs on walks, bunts, an error and a wild pitch to blank Washington 2-0 in a game called after 4 and Vi innings because of rain. M OREGON ? Old Hermitage came over the Oregon Trail from Kentucky in 1877. $7135 M QT. is Dodger, Giant Welcomes Wearing Little Bit Thin Los Angeles (U?) A city council request for a congres sional investigation into both opponents and supporters of the Los Angeles Dodger-Chavez Ravine contract ran into a snag today. The council was advised by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) chairman of the Senate com mittee on antitrusts and mon opolies, that his group could not come here in time to be of benefit prior to the June 3 referendum on the contract. The council had adopted a resolution calling for the in vestigation, with both those supporting and opposing the contract seemingly anxious to have the matter brought be fore a congressional commit tee. By HAL WOOD San Francisco (in The welcome mat that San Fran cisco put out for the Giants and Los Angeles set down for the Dodgers is wearing a little thin. "Nuisance suits" that mav delay the construction of new stadiums in both cities have made the club owners ponder the possibility that the moves to the West Coast were made loo soon. But on second thoucht. there is no unhappiness. Both clubs,- no matter where they finish the season, will make a bundle of loot and pos sibly the Dodgers may make more than any team in his tory. In the meantime, the move towards the construction of the new ball park is slow. Referendum Awaited In Los Angeles, the Dodger officials are awaiting the out come of a June refendum to see if they get the land from the city to construct their stadium. This stadium, inci dentally, will be built by the Trousers Not Up to Occasion Trenton, N. J. (IP) Umpire Larry Gambell put all he had into calling an out on a close play at first base Tuesday including his pants. The scene of the show stealing play was the Rider Brandeis game which Rider went on to win 8-2. Gambell gave one of those television performances during the third inning, winding up his body and jamming his fist, thumb outstretched, high in the air, Unfortunately, his trousers weren't up to the occasion. They split from here to there. Someone dragged a coat out to him, while another fellow went to Gambell's house and got another pair of pants. Everything in order, the signal was once more, "Play ball." COACH DIES Doylestown, Pa. W Carl J. Merner, 70, who served as track coach at Columbia uni versity for 35 years, died at his home here Monday after a long illness. He began his coaching work at Kansas State college in 1913. Its good business to do business with HFC If you need up to $1500 for any good reason or if you simply want sound advice on money management come to HFC, America's oldest and largest consumer finance company. Conduct your business with experienced people you can trust. Their advice is always courteous and helpful. 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In San Francisco some in fluential property owners claim that a stadium can be built in downtown San Fran cisco for 10 million dollars less than it would cost to build the edifice on some va cant land near the San Fran cisco Bay 'way out on the edge of,the city. Center of Town The proposal in San Fran cisco is near the center of the city, but would include a slum clearance of a block square area within one block of the four major newspapers of the city and no more than three blocks from most of the major hotels. Of course, these proponents would want an other four million dollars or so for slum clearance for parking facilities. Meanwhile, the citizens roar and the club officials go on raking in the bucks with the biggest advance sale of tickets in history. As things stand now, the Dodg ers may play to three million fans this year and the Giants to at least half that. The Giants are using Seals stad ium, which seats only 23,000; The Dodgers are using the Los Angeles Coliseum, capacity near 100,000. These are temporary quar ters, but if the demand for tickets remains at its present level in both cities, it is pos sible that Walter O'Malley of the Dodgers, and Horace Stoneham of the Giants may went to stay in the exact spots they are right now. o Free Estimates o Easy Terms THE ASPHALT PAYING GO. PHONE SP 2-6469 MONTHLY PAYMENT WANS T . 24 20 12 6 X fiaymtt paymtt pmymti psymti $100 S 5.90 $ 6.72 $10.05 $18.46 200 11.81 13.44 20.09 36.92 300 17.71 20.16 30.14 55.38 500 28.86 32.97 49.64 91.66 1000 53.89 62.21 95.64 179.56 1500 77.87 9a38 140.57 P66.36 BnutktU'i chart u Uu moutkly raU of 3 M that part of belantx mot czctiint ISOO, Z mm that part of balanca in facta of SJOO bmt mot axctaitmg tSOO. and 1 on any rcmaiadmr. i
