8 MAIL TRIBUNE, MeJforcf, Oregon, Ttiundiy, April
Washington,- lesion Lead Iff Major League
Season in iasolsall
Gigantic Parade Celebrates
West Coast Major Loop Start
B7 JAMES J. HEALY
United Press Sports Writer
San Francisco rtfl San
Francisco gave a figurative
good luck kiss on the cheek
today to its first and very own
major league baseball team
The embrace, in the form of
a gigantic parade, was in cele
bration of the game Tuesday
between the Giants and the
Los Angeles Dodgers. Not
only does the meeting signify
the opening of the 1958 sea
son here, but also major
' league baseball's West Coast
debut.
Though experts picked the
Fourth to Sixth
Place Finish
Forecast for SF
San Francisco P The
Giants will finish no higher
than fourth and no lower
than sixth, according to a
United Press check today of
basebll wirters and sports
editors in this area.
The transpla nted New
Yorkers open the season here
Tuesday against the Los An
geles Dodgers of Brooklyn
fame after closing out the ex
hibition campaign with a rec
ord of 21 wins and 11 losses.
Eleven newsmen, including
four of the six who are travel
ing with the Giants, predicted
a first division finish. An
other 11 foresaw a fifth place
windup and five pegged them
to end sixth for the third
straight year.
Giants to finish no higher
than fourth this year, the city
turned out en mass to cheer
its squal. At this point no one
cared too much whether their
team brought the National
league title home. The im
portant thing was that home
was San Francisco.
City fathers cleaned out
confetti dealers from Cen
tral California to the Oregon
border, rounding up 500
pounds of the giant size, rose
petal variety.
The Hero
Some 2,000 balloons were
ordered and, to show just
whose day it was, 700 were
scheduled to drop over Mayor
George Christopher's auto,
while the car carrying Willie
Mays was to be blanketed with
1,000.
Not content wth this bar
rage, city fathers arranged
Hedrick Eighth
Victor in Meet
Hedrick eighth graders
defeated their Grants Pass
counterpart 58 to 55 on Fri
day in the track meet held
here.
It was inadvertantly re
ported in the Sunday paper
that Grants Pass had won
the division.
The Hornets took seven
of the 13 first places with
Mike McCullough grabbing
three events and running on
the winning relay team.
Grants Pass won the
seventh and ninth grade
division.
Medford Bills Diamond
Tussle With Ashlanders
Medford high's Black Tor
nado baseballers face a heavy
schedule of five tangles this
week with only one of the
hassles a Southern Oregon
conference counting game.
iney oppose Ashland on
Tuesday afternoon at Ash
land.' On Friday there is a
double header with Crater
here and on Saturday the
DUCKS BILL HOOSIERS
Eugene (IP) The Uni
versity of Oregon will meet
Indiana in a home and home
football series in 1963 and
1964, it was announced Sat
urday. Oregon also has added
Idaho to its 1962 schedule.
FURNEY TAKES RACE
Palm Springs, Calif. (IP)
Dan Gurney of Riverside,
Calif., driving a Ferrari, won
the 14th annual Palm Springs
road race Sunday. Carroll
Shelby of Dallas, Tex., finish
ed second in a Maserati.
BASEBALL
SATCRDAY COLLEGE GAMES
Portland 10-5. Oregon State 5-1
Oregon 6-3. Lewis & Clark 8-2
Southern Oregon 18-14, OTI 9-2
College of Idaho 5-3, Whitman 0-2
Seattle U. 14-9. Portland St. 3-3
Pacific 12-6. Iinfield 8-5.
Tornado travels to Roseburg
tor a twinbill.
Only the first game of the
two with Crater will count
in the loop standings.
Medford Coach John Ko-
venz said that Larry Brown
may have the pitching chores
on Tuesday. Ashland Mentor
Snuffy Smith may send Pete
Stemple to the hill.
The Tornado nipped Ash
land 1 to 0 in a previous non
leaguer here.
Bowling
ELK'S LEAGUE
Standings:
Lively Five .
Alley Gators
Miss-Fitts
Gypos
PERs
Go-Boys
Medics
Cementers
Adairs
Wallflowers .
W L
- 36 Vi 19 Y
- 35 21
32 24
- 30 26
. 28 ',i 27 i
28 28
. 27 29
. 25 31
- 25 31
.. 13 43
Result:
Wallflowers 3 (3aurnan 453)
2130: Cementers 1 (Snedden 51 Ri
2087.
Lively Five 3 fDeVori S4.n 9900-
Medics 1 (Van Dyke 522) 2151.
Alley Gators 3 (Veal 520) 2243
Gypos 1 (Chase 510) 2230.
Miss-Fitts 0 (Slonieer 485) 2210-
PERs 4 (Gardiner 505) 2339.
Go-Boys 3 (Morgan 562) 2427;
Adairs 1 (Clark 567) 2272.
with Montgomery Street bus
iness offices to save all its
ticker tape to heave out win
dows as the team drives slow
ly between the buildings .
Placards have sprung up
all over San Francisco, read
ing: "Welcome Giants."
"Go get 'em Giants."
"Win With the Giants."
Even a bakery got into the
act. It has begun making
cookies in the shape of base
balls, with "Good L u c k j
Giants" written on each. j
Some Notables j
Among the notables on
hand for the parade and the
historic game was baseball
commissioner Ford Frick;
Mrs. John McGraw, widow of
the Giants' manager who
piloted the club to four
straight pennants, and whose
squad shut out the Yanks in
the 1922 World Series; Mayor
Norris Poulson of Los Angeles
and Warren Giles, president of
the National league.
At the end of this obstacle
course of good will was the
Sheraton-Palace . hotel where
the team and notables were in
vited for a vast luncheon, top
ped off by a rain of 10,000
orchids, contributed by the
people of Hawaii.
The Dodgers, incidentally.
arrived Sunday night and
were greeted by a crowd of
75 persons. They did not take
part !n the parade.
SPORTS
HOCKEY
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Boston (IP) Maurice
Richard's Achilles' heel was
his weak point during the reg
ular season. But the Rocket
was the Boston Bruins' Achil
les' heel Sunday night.
Richard fired in a pair of
goals in leading the Canad-
iens to a 3-0 spanking of the
Bruins at the Garden. The
win gave Montreal a 2-1 lead
in the best-of-seven Stanley
Cup final which resumes here
Tuesday night.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Springfield, Mass. (IP)
Goaltender Claude Evans,
whose great play enabled the
Springfield Indians to oust
Cleveland in the semi-finals
of the American Hockey
league playoffs, still is show
ing the way as the Indians at
tempt an uphill fight against
Hershey in the Calder Cup
finals.
Evans continually turned
back Hershey's powerful of
fense Sunday night as Spring
field defeated the Bears, 4-0.
It was the Indians' first win
after two defeats in the best-
of-seven series.
BEAVERS BILL SYRACUSE
Corvalis (IP) Oregon State
and Syracuse will play four
games m football irom I9bi
to 1965. Athletic Director
Spec Keene said Saturday,
The two schools will meet
here in 1961 and 1964 and at
Syracuse in 1963 and 1965,
SctorIk SpecimJ
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Prime for
SF Tussle
By ALEX KAHN
San Francisco (IP) The
Los Angeles Dodgers took
their first look at Seals sta
dium, home of the San Fran
cisco Giants, as they went
through a final drill today
prior to the opening of major
league baseball in the West
here Tuesday.
Manager Walt Alston still
was fighting the injury prob
lem which has plagued the
Dodgers all spring.' Alston is
sued a tentative lineup for
the opener, but said it was so
tentative that he had at least
two other lineups in mind.
Chief problem of the Dodg
er manager was the ailing left
knee of. his best long ball hit
ter, Duke Snider. If that was
not enough, the Dodgers' hit
ting star of the spring season,
infielder Charlie Neal, is suf
fering from a strained chest
ligament.
So Alston indicated he had
one lineup for use if the
Giants start a lefthander,
Johnny Antonelli. He has an
other in case a righthander
like Ruben Gomez starts. And
he has others that call for Sni
der to play and not to play
and provide for Neal's ab
sence if he can't make the
game.
Neal Possible
Neal says he thinks he will
be able to play and Dr. Har
old Wendler, the trainer, also
feels the brilliant performer
can play. But Alston says he
doesn't want to risk injuring
one of his stars.
Snider, after appearing in
three straight games, missed
Sunday's finale of the . four
game series with the Chicago
Cubs at Las Vegas, Nev.,
which the Dodgers won 4-1
even without Snider and Neal
to end the series in a 2-2 tie.
The knee was sore Satur
day when I played at Tuc
son," Snider said, "and it
hurt too much for me to play
yesterday. I don't know how
long it will take before it
quits hurting." -
Alston's various possible
lineups all included Capt. Pee
Wee Reese at shortstop, Dick
Gray at third, Gmo Cimoli at
centerfield, Carl Furilla at
leftfield, Gil Hodges at first
and Don Drysdale on the
mound.
Some' Changes
If the Giants start a left-
handed pitcher, then Gilliam
plays left field instead of Sni
der and Joe Pignatano will
catch. But if a righthander
starts and Snider can play,
he will be out there instead
of Gilliam. And if Neal is un
able to play, Gilliam will re
place him at second base.
Neal, even though he miss
ed the final two exhibition
games, ended the leading nit-
ter with a mark of .337. He
also led in runs batted in
with 19 and in homers with
five. Rookie Larry Sherry
had the best record on the
mound so far as runs scored
against him, giving up only
2 in 24 innings he worked but
he walked 21 batters.
Drysdale was considered in
best shape for the opener and
he probably will be followed
Wednesday by Johnny Podres
with Don Newcombe sched
uled for Thursday and Carl
Erskine for the opener in Los
Angeles Friday.
Eight Engagements
Get Slates in Full
Swing on Tuesday
COYOTES WIN
Walla Walla OP) College
of Idaho took a baseball
doubleheader from Whitman,
0 and 3-2 here Saturday to
go half a game ahead in the
Northwest conference base
ball race with a 3-0 mark.
Pacific downed Linfield 12-
8 and 6-5 to take over second
place with 2-0.
ECCLES WINNER
Norden (IP) Spencer Ec-
cles. Ogden, Utah, won the
Alpine combined champion
ships of the Far West Ski As
sociation Sunday with a time
of 2:36.7 for slalom and down
hill racing at Sugar bowl.
DROBNY DEFEATS PATTY
Aix-En-Provence (IP)
Jaroslav Drobny of Egypt
whipped Budge Patty of Los
Angeles and Paris, 7-5, 6-3,
Sundav in the final of the
Aix-en-Provence International
tennis tournament. Gardnar
Mullcy of Miami, Fla., and
Mimi Arnold of Redwood
City, Calif., won the mixed
doubles championship.
LOTS OF RUNS
Jacksonville Prospect won
a Jackson County B league
baseball game from Jackson
ville high on Friday. The
score was 24 to 23.
A perfect hand in bridge
that is 13 cards of one suit
could happen only once in
40 billion hands.
By FRED DOWN
United Press Sports Writer
. President Eisenhower sent
his famous grin and appar
ently his equally-famous luck
with the weather to baseball
today to help get the major
leagues' first coast-to-coast
season off to a flying start.
Long-range forecasts of rain
and cold weather in many of
the nine cities involved in
openers today and Tuesday
were revised to indicate there
would be clear skies and tem
peratures between 50 and 60
degrees.
After Eisenhower made his
ceremonial first pitch, the
Boston Red Sox' Frank Sulli
van and the Senators' Pedro
Ramos took' up the pitching
duties before a sellout crowd
of more than 28,000.
Open Title Defenses
Some 225,000 fans are ex
pected to flock to Tuesday's
eight openers when the world
champion Milwaukee Braves
and American league cham
pion New York Yankees begin
defense of their titles and the
West Coast's long-awaited en
try into big league ball be
comes official. A sellout
crowd of 23,600 will see the
transplanted Dodgers and
Giants open in San Francisco.
On Friday the two new
teams switch their playing site
to Los Angeles where indica
tions are that a new major
league record of more than
90,000 fans will be estab
lished. The Yankees overwhelm
ing favorites to win a ninth
pennant in 10 years under
Casey Stengel are sending
Don Larsen, their 1956 World
Series pitching hero, against
the Red Sox' Willard Nixon
in Boston. The Yankees' ver
satile Tony Kubek is sidelined
with a pulled muscle in his
left leg but his absence would
be more than balanced if Wil
liams doesn't play for Boston.
TJie Braves with a sellout
crowd of 46,000 assured at
Milwaukee will open with
southpaw star Warren Spahn
(21-11) opposing Bob Friend
(14-18) of the Pittsburgh Pi
rates.
The remainder of Tuesday's
program has Detroit at Chi
cago, Kansas City at Cleve
land and Washington at Balti
more in the American League
and Philadelphia at Cincin
nati and Chicago at St. Louis
(night) in the National.
The big West Coast opener
will find 21-year-old Don
Drysdale, a native son, going
for the Dodgers against Ru
ben Gomez of San Juan, Pi.,
and the Giants. A total of 110
reporters will cover this
game. Drysdale had a 17-9
record while Gomez had a 15
13 mark in 1957.
New York (UP) Following are
the probable pitchers, attendance
and weather for the major league
baseball openers:
TUESDAY
American League
Washington at Baltimore Stobbs
8-20 vs Johnson 14-11, 28,000, rain
expected Monday or Tuesday.
New York at Boston Larsen 10
4 vs. Nixon 12-13, 25,000, possible
showers.
Detroit at Chicago Bunning 20
8 vs. Pierce 20-12, 20,000, possible
showers.
Kansas City at Cleveland Gar
ver 6-13 vs. Score 2-1. 32,000, 50
uegreEs, rain or ugni snowers possible.
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SILKY TAKES THIRD Silky Sullivan (6), California Kentucky Derby hope and
vaunted favorite to win $10,000 Greater Northern California purse at Golden Gate
Fields in Albany, Calif., settles for third monev. finishing 5V2 lengths hphinri arin.
ning Gone Fishin' and a nose down to Furyvan (2) as they hit the wire. The stretch
running son of Sullivan is accustomed to coming from 20 or more lengths behind
to win.
Beavers Face Solons
In PCL Slate Opener
National Leaeue
Los Angeles at San Francisco
Drysdale 17-9 vs. Gomez 15-13,
23,600, clear and snnny.
Chicago at St. Louis, night
nrosnan a-5 vs. Mizell 8-10, 20,000,
vuui auu pussioie snowers.
Philadelphia at Cincinnati Rob
erts 10-22 vs. Lawrence 16-13, 30,
000, showers expected.
Pittsburgh at Milwaukee Friend
14-18 vs. Spahn 21-11, 46,000, part
ly ciouiy ana iainy mild, rain late
xueauay.
New York (UP) Following are
the umpire assignments for the
major league baseball openings:
MONDAY
Boston at Washineton: Ed Rom
mel, Charley Berry, Joe Paparella
ana dim nonocnicx.
TUESDAY
American League
Detroit at Chicaeo: Ed Rommel
John Stevens, Lary Napp and John
Kansas City at Cleveland: Char
ley Berry, Bill McKinley.- John
Flaherty and Nestor Chylak.
Washington at Baltimore: Joe
Paparella. Ed Hurley, Ed Runge
ana frame xaDaccm.
New York at Boston: Bill Sum
mers. Jim Honochick, Hank Soar
and Frank Umont.
National League
Los Aneeles at San Francisco
Jocko Conlan, Frank Secory, Hal
Dixon and Tony Venzon.
Pittsburgh at Milwaukee: Al Bar-
uck. am jackowski, btan Landes
and Vic Delmore.
Chicago at St. Louis: Frank Das
coli, Augie Donatelli, Henry Craw
ford and Vinnie Smith.
Philadelphia at Cincinnati: Dusty
Boggess, Tom Gorman, Ken Burk-
nart, and Ed Sudol.
Hawks Hail Pettit
As Hero in Finale
St. Louis, Mo. (IP) The
St. Louis Hawks hailed Bob
Pettit as their hero in captur
ing the National Basketball
association championship as
the beaten Boston Celtics
wondered today how they
would have fared with Bill
Russell in the lineup.
Pettit racked up 50 points
Saturday night as the Hawks
nipped the Celtics, 110-109,
here to clinch the best-of-seven
series, four games to two.
While Hawks fans began a
wild victory celebration, Pet
tit sank on the bench exhaust
ed and buried his face in a
towel.
The Celtics weren't using
the absence of Russell as an
excuse for losing, but it was
plain tnat tney tnougnt things
would have been different if
the league's best rebounder
hadn't suffered a chipped
ankle in the semi-final round
and been unavailable for the
Hawks' series.
The Celts, behind at the
quarters, 20-18, 57-52 and 83
77, rallied in the last minutes.
When the clock showed only
16 seconds remaining and the
score favoring the Hawks,
110-07, the Celts' Bill Shar-
man brought the ball down
the court for a layup.
But the Hawks didn't even
try to defend, fearing a foul,
a tied score and an overtime
ball game.
Portland 0?) The Port
land Beavers open the 1958
Pacific Coast league baseball
season at home Tuesday with
a day - night doubleheader
against Sacramento.
The Beavers sport a new
manager and a lot of new
faces as they open the cam
paign in the revamped PCL.
Los Angeles and San Fran
cisco, now National " league
cities, and Hollywood no long
er are in the circuit. They
have been replaced by Phoe
nix, Spokane and Salt Lake
City.
Portland hired Tommy
Heath during the season to
be its manager, and general
manager. It has picked up
several newcomers including
outfielders Bob Will and
Wiley Moore, first baseman
Nilsen Proposes
Homes for. Migrants
v Salem IP Oregon Labor
Commissioner Norman O. Nil
sen is requesting the support
of farm, civic and church
groups for congressional leg
islation to provide federal fi
nancing for family dwellings
of migratory farm workers.
Nilsen has proposed a plan
whereby farmer associations
could obtain loans for the cost
of living accommodations
used by migrants on the
farms of association members.
Construction, improvement,
alteration, repair or replace
ment of necessary buildings
would be covered by the act.
Bob Di Pietro, handyman
Jack Lohrke, catchers Nini
Tornay and Jim Fanning and
several pitchers, including
veterans Larry Jansen and
Elmer Singleton who are
scheduled to pitch Tuesday.
The Chicago Cubs have re
turned shortstop Jack Littrell.
Player Injured
ine Beavers suffered a
blow Sunday evening when
Luis Marquez and Tornay
were injured in a traffic ac
cident north of Klamath Falls.
Their injuries were not seri
ous but Heath said it was not
certain whether they would
see action Tuesday.
The weather man forecast
increasing cloudiness Tuesday
with rain by evening.
Beaver boosters hope 30,000
persons will see the 2 p.m.
and 8 p.m. openers.
Portland dropped the last
game of its exhibition sched
uled to Vancouver by an 8-1
count in Klamath Falls Sun
day before 901 fans. Portland
also lost on Vancouver at
Redding, Calif., Saturday, 3-1.
Cordy Sets
OSC Record
In 880 Run
Corvallis TOP) Th Uni
versity of Washington over
whelmed Oregon State, 84
lo 47, in a Northern divis
ion dual track meet her
Saturday. The Huskies cap
tured 10 of the 15 events
on the program.
Washington's Jack Lar
son shattered the mile rec
ord at Bell field with a
4:10.4. The old mark. 4:13.3
was set last year by Jim
Bailey of Oregon. The Hus
kies' Dayton Kolstad won
the 100 in 9.9 and also
took the 220 in 22.1. Barney
Olberg won both hurdles
events for Washington.
In 880, Beaver Cliff Cor
el ay nipped Bill Moser of
the Huskies to win in 1:52.9
an all-time record for OSC,
Bell field and OSC-Waih-inglon
dual meets.
SENATORS BEATEN
Lewiston, Idaho (IH
Salem dropped a, 10-3 decision
to Lewiston Sunday in an ex
hibition baseball game be
tween the two Northwest
league teams.
PRIDE OF GERMANY HERE HOW!
Oregon, Washington
Rotations in Meeting
Salem (IP) About 500 Ore
gon and Washington Rotar
ians met here today seeking
new ways to better serve
their communities.
The meeting will continue
through Wednesday.
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