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6 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesijy, April 15, 1938 lug lay Baseball Programs Extend from BostoW Fris Opeon 225,000 Fans View Eight Games Today By FRED DOWN United Press Sporls Writer The tradition of the Presi dential first pitch out of the way, major league baseball breaks with its "trolley car" past today with an opening day program from the Boston Common to the Golden Gate. Some 225,000 fans encour aged by generally favorable weather, should turn out in eight cities to herald in the game's new coast-to-coast era. A new world champion, a new geographical alignment, some 20 new faces, and an other 20 old faces in new uniforms all help to mark it as a big opening day in base ball history. Because such spokesmen as Commissioner Ford Frick are proclaiming the dawn of a new era while too-rapid ex pansion carries seeds of the game's destruction. Exhibit .A in the critics' list of argu ments is the New York City area without a game on open ing day for the first time since 1883. Big Hoopla Whatever'the case, the pros and cons of the expansion is sue are certain to be drowned out in the hoopla of the West Coast's grand opening be tween the transplanted Dodg ers and Giants at San Fran cisco. A crowd of 23,600 will jam its way into little Seals Stadium while a total of 110 reporters bang out the details of the historic festivities. Don Drysdale, a native Califor nian, has been named to start 'for the Dodgers against the Giants' Ruben Gomez. Sharing the spotlight at least locally with the big West Coast opener are the de fending league champion Mil- : waukee Braves and New York Yankees. The world champion Braves open before 46,000 at Milwauke with Warren Spahn facing Bob Friend of the Pitts burgh Pirates while the Amer ican League champion Yan against Willard Nixon at Bos against Willard Nixon at Bos ton. Philadelphia is at Cincin nati and Chicago plays at night in St. Louis in the other National League games. De troit at Chicago, Kansas City at Cleveland and Washington at Baltimore round out the all - day-time AL schedule. There will be about a dozen ; rookies in the starting line ups, headed by the Redlegs' 19-year-old Vada Pinson, out- fielder Willie Kirkland of the Giants and second-baseman Billy Moran of the Indians. Fans also will see ex-Cincinnati slugger Ted Kluszewski in a Pittsburgh uniform for the first time; ex-Yankee Billy Martin performing at short stop for Detroit, and sluggers Minnie Minoso and Larry Doby back in Cleveland uni forms. New Manager in Debut The Kansas City-Cleveland opener also marks the debut of the only new manager Bobby Bragan of the Indians, who succeeded Kerby Farrell during the winter. San Francisco warmed up Monday with its biggest pa rade since Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's return from Japan. The excitement should reach a peak at 1:30 p.m. (PST) to day when Gino Cimoli leads off for the Dodgers. One rookie Dick Gray is ex pected in the Dodger lineup while the Giants will have three Kirkland, Orlando Cepeda and Jimmy Daven . port. Drysdale, a 6-6 right-hander, has a 7-3 lifetime record against the Giants while : Gomez, a slender six-footer, ;is 10-11 vs. the Dodgers ' The Braves will have Har ".ry Hannebrink playing left 1 field in place of the injured 2Wes Covington but otherwise jwill present the same lineup that beat the Yankees in the World Series. Milwaukee's More people come to HFC for money help 2JOOO.000 families a gear borrow confidently from HFC. OUSEHOLD FINANCE 128 E. Main St., 2nd Floor PHONE: SPring 3-5301 first world championship pennant will be hoisted in pre-game ceremonies. Gil McDougald returns to shortstop in place of the in jured Tony Kubek for the Yankees, which like the Braves, are solid favorites to repeat. The Red Sox, who lost to the Washington Sena tors, 5-2, in Monday's open er. are regarded in some quarters as New York's prin cipal rival for the pennant, Robin Roberts, one of the big disappointments of the 1957 season, draws his eighth straight opening-day assign ment for the Phillies against Brooks Lawrence of the Red legs. Frank Robinson, bean- ed in an exhibition game last Wednesday, returns to the Redlegs' lineup for the open er but Willie Jones, whose son died of pneumonia the other day, will be missing from the Phillies' batting or der. Roberts was 10-22 last season and Lawrence, 16-13. Last-Minute Switch Jim Brosnan 5-5 is the Cubs' surprise starter against the Cardinals' Vinegar Bend Mizell, another big 1957 dis appointment with an 8-10 rec ord. The Cubs have two rookies in their lineup John Goryl and Tony Taylor. The Cardinals made a last-minute switch when they benched shortstop Eddie Kasko in a move that returned Ken Boy er to third base and Alvin Dark to short. Martin's debut at short and Harvey Kuenn's in center field feature the , Detroit-Chicago opener in which Jim Bunning 20-8 faces Billy Pierce 20-12. The White Sox, although one of the weakest hitting pennant contenders in years, are the odds-makers' choice as the Yankees' chief rivals. Herb Score, AL strikeout king until sidelined most of last season by an eye injury that threatened his career, is on the firing line for the In dians against Kansas City's Ned Garver 6-13 while the Senators are protecting their first-place position with Chuck Stobs 8-20 facing Baltimore's Connie Johnson 14-11. Ruins of Indian cities in New Mexico span more than a thousand years and many were abandoned before the Spanish explored the region in the 16th Century. Some of the most imposing ruins are at Bandelier, Chaco Canyon and Aztec National Monuments. LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF ANNUAL SCHOOL Election NOTICE IS HEREBY OrVT-.W In compliance with Sec. 331.010, ORS, to the legal voters of School Dist rict No. 549C, of Jackson County, oiaie oi uregon. inai Tne ANNUAL, SCHOOL ELECTION of said Dist rict will be held at the following poling places, to-wit: at the Hed rick Junior Hign School building on East Jackson Street; and the McLoughlin Junior High School building on West Second Street; both in the City of Medford. Ore gon; Deiween ine nours oi 2:00 P.M. and 8:00 P.M. on the first Monday of May. beine the 5th dav of May, A.D. 1958, for the follow ing purposes: 1. Election of one district direc tor tor a term of five years. 2. Election of one rural board member-at-large for a term of tnree years 3. Election of one Rural Board Zone member for a term of three years PRECINCT BOUNDARIES. No tice is hereby further given that the district school board of said school district for the purposes of the aforesaid election, has divided tne school district into two elec tion precincts, one of which con sists of all that part of the school district WEST of Bear Creek, also that part of the district formerly School District No. 69 (Oak Grove) and School District No. 95 (West side) shall vote in the McLoueh- lin Junior High school; and the other election precinct consists of all that part of the school district EAST of Bear Creek and that part of the school district formerly scnooi uistnct mo. 29 (Dewey) and School District No. 102 (Kenwood) shall vote in the Hedrick Junior High School, both in the City of weaiora. Oregon. Dated this 11th day of April 1SOO. F. C. Bash Chairman Board of Directors ATTEST: Rebecca Jensen District Clerk Reason? 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Charles Stelle's Tally the derby and Dick Mc Kinley s Lobo the duddv stake. Judges for the events were open, Bob Morris and C. Stelle; qualifying, Weldon Kline and Trv Waprcn- rlerlru- E. Meyerding, Leonard Nel son and Norene Hunt: dud- pies, Hillman Miller and Gene Hunt. Field trial chairmen were Ken Denman and Irv Warren. Dogs and their owners win ning honors were: Open 1st, Muffin. E. Mev- erdine: 2nd. Flash. Weldon Kline; 3rd, Smoke, Hillman Miller; 4th, Rip, Gene Hunt. Certificates of merit, Comet, Irv Warren: Boots. Claude Miles. Qualifying 1st. Rio. G. Hunt; 2nd, Joe, Dr. Harlow; 3rd, E. Meyerdine: 4th. Ladv. Otto Lilya. CM, Coaly, Ira Parrish. - Derby 1st, Tally Charles Stelle; 2nd, Skip, jJoack Boettcher; 3rd, Penny, Vera Lilya. Puppies 1st. Lobo. Dick McKinley; 2nd, Nick, Ken uenman; 3rd, Troubles, owned by Benny McKinley, handled by Leonard Lilva: 4th, Cappy, Norton Smith. CM Cookie, Tom Rickard. , Old Anchor Chains Save Repair Bills Moffett Field, Calif. 0P1 Two long strands of old an chor chain, too worn for further use aboard ship, have saved taxpayers more than $2,000,000 in aircraft repair bills at this field during the past year, Navy officials esti mate. The chain is a "slow down" mechanism that, in effect, works like the hydraulic brake systems on an aircraft carrier. When a jet plane roars into a takeoff and something goes wrong, there's nothing but the chain and a trip wire to keep the pilot and plane from run ning right into San Francisco Bay. When trouble develops on take-off, a pilot trips a lever in his cockpit that lowers a hook the same as is done on a carrier this hook snags a wire attached to the two strands of chain. The plane gets' stopped by the drag. The wire and anchor chain all 22 tons of it safely snagged 58 crippled fighter planes in 1957 and 20 in 1956. Portland Home Shared With Several Animals Portland HP) Police said today an investigation had dis closed a house in north Port land which a family of five shared with a goat and a roost er along with two dogs and two cats. Investigating officers said they had asked the family to clean up the place. THIEVES HAVE ACHES St. Louis, Mo. 0PI Two thieves suffered aching mus cles and acute fatigue after police made them replace their .loot. The men had to re place five sewer manholes covers weighing 85 pounds each. Much of the world's cryo lite, essential in the manu facture of aluminum, is min ed in Greenland. pened to . other Washington teams that won the opening game of the season while oth er teams were idle, and we all know what happened to them. Nasly Thought But that's a nasty thought to bring up on a day when Lavagetto and his merry men, particularly Cuban pitcher Pedro Ramos, are the toasts of the game for their stirring 5-2 triumph over the Boston Red Sox in Monday's tradition opening game be fore President Eisenhower and a crowd of 26,67,5. After Ike went tradition one better by tossing out two "first balls" one caught by the Senators' Whitey Herzog and the other by the Sena tors' bat boy Ramos took over the hurling chores and did right well. All told he gave up only five hits. Ramos got in a bad jam almost immediately when Boston loaded the bases on a walk, a single, and an error in the first inning. But third baseman Eddie Yost bailed the Cuban out of that with a swan-dive catch of Jackie Jensen's line-drive bid for a double. After that Ramos' only trouble came when he served Jensen a home run ball with one man on in the third. ' That gave Boston's Frank Sullivan a 2-0 lead but Jim Lemon homered for the Sena tors in the fourth and then Washington tied it in the fifth with a run on Yost's single, a walk, and Roy Siev ers' single. Then Washington scored three times in the sixth with the help offBosox miscues. Error for Buddin First Lemon reached first on Don Buddin's error and Norm Zauchin walked. Then, after two out, Ramos singled to left to score Lemon. When left fielder. Gene Stephens kicked the ball a r o u, n d, Zauchin reached third and Ramos second and later Yost put the game on ice with a single that scored both run ners. A mighty big day for the Senators. And one they prob ably will recall wishfully on many hot days this summer,. The Senators put their "winning streak" on the line today when they visit Balti more in the opener there. Tnsf nr nn-T Ann fuin . Washington 000 113 00 5 8 2 3U",van. nau ana Daley, White 7. Ramos 1-0 and Courtney. Loser F. Sullivan 0-1. HRS Jen sen, Lemon. 'Mystery Mail' Amount Reduced Chicago (IF) Reminders in the press and on radio and television have cut "mystery mail" in half, the Chicago Veterans Administration of fice reports. Only one in 20 letters now requires some detective work to relate it to the veteran's claim, said Robert D. Beer, regional office manager. Only a few months ago, the figure was one in 10. Beer said the press, radio and TV can be credited for the improvement, which is a saving to the taxpayer in the processing of about 300,000 pieces of mail each month at the Chicago office and seven field offices. But there is still room for improvement, Beer added. Each benefit claim should be accompanied by the "C" num ber or GI life insurance pol icy number. If these numbers are not known, all corre spondence should include the veteran's full name, address date of birth and service se rial number. ' John Day Truck Line Purchase Approved Salt Lake City (IB The In terstate Commerce Commis sion has approved purchase of Morgan Truck Services, Inc., of John Day, Ore., by Inter state Motor Lines of Salt Lake City for $350,000. President T. S. Carter of Interstate said the purchase will add 785 miles of oper ating authority for a total of 8,958 miles. Interstate now will be able to operate into Portland. Ore.. from its Boise terminal. WALLPAPER MAN DIES New York (IP) Walter L. Carver, 68, former managing director of the Wallpaper In stitute, died Saturday, y Move to To Give By NORMAN MILLER United Press Sports Writer New York ttP) Major league baseball will benefit "in a hundred different ways" by its expansion to California this season, a Unit ed Press baseball committee predicted today. The group, composed of 50 experts from all sections of the country, felt that the move by the Dodgers to Los Angeles and the Giants to San Francisco automatically will create countless new fans and generate baseball interest in places where it never existed before. The committee also fore- Minor Leagues Will Try To Put Baseball Fans Back in Parks; Promotion Efforts Stepped Up By GEORGE M. TRAUTMAN President, National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues Columbus, Ohio (IP) This is the year of the "old pro" and the pro stands for pro moter. N We're out to put America's Boston Bruins Gird for Test With Montreal Boston (IP) The Boston Bruins girded for a rocket barrage from brothers Mau rice and Henri Richards as the Montreal Canadiens at tempt to make it two straight and take a 3-1 edge in the National Hockey league's Stanley Cup finals. Another capacity crowd at the Garden will see Maurice (the Rocket) try to match his nerformance of Sunday when he sent two sizzlers past the Bruins goalie Don Simmons to lead Montreal to a 3-0 vic tory. Henri, the pocket rock et, added the icing with one of his own. The Canadiens will be with out the services of their clas sy penalty-killer Floyd (Bush er) Curry tonight. He came up with a badly swollen and infected foot Monday and was taken to Carney hospital. Braves Lower Roster to 28 Milwaukee, Wis. (IP) The Milwaukee Braves, 15 min utes before the midnight dead line, announced Monday they have asked major league waivers on pitcher Phil Paine. The action brings their open ing day roster down to the limit of 28 players. It will take three days for the waivers to expire, the Braves said, and if Paine is not claimed he will be assign ed to one of their farm clubs. Paine, 27, a right-handed reliefer from Hummelstown, Pa., made only one appear ance with the Braves in 1957, a two inning stint that ' pro vided no earned run average. He played in 52 games for Wichita of the American as sociation last season and had a 1.64 earned run average and an 8-4 win-loss record. AFTER 16 YEARS East Millinocket, Me. HP) Mrs. Domenic Moscone re ceived a postcard mailed by her son, William Moscone, while he was a corporal sta tioned at Murdoc Field, Calif. The postcard was dated July 23, 1942. RESCUERS TRAPPED Geneva, N.Y. OP) Thomas Breese and Benjamin Barnes were trapped in an ice-locked boat on Seneca lake after pad dling out to resuce a deer stranded on floating ice. FIGHTS By UNITED PRESS New York Otis Woodard, 159 ',4, Mempnis, Tenn., outpointed Eddie Andrews, 156, Lowell, Mass. 10. Pro Idence. RX Willie Pep, 129, Hartford, Conn., outpointed Celo Ortiz, 125, Puerto Rico 10. Oakland Calif. Joey Giambra, 160 San Francisco, outpointed Andy Mayfield, 161. Miami Beach, 10. BRILL METAL WORKS Commercial Industrial Residential Sheet Metal Work Stainless, Galvanized and Copper Fabrication 2287 West Main PHONE SP 2-4440 California Said Baseball Benefits saw a new National League franchise being established in New York City sometime within the next three years. Virtually all members of the committee agreed that the shift to the West Coast now makes "major league base ball a truly national game instead of a sectional game, as it use.d to be." The Benefits "The benefits of the trans fer to California at the box office are obvious," said one expert. "But there will be many other benefits that go along with it. Interest in base ball not only will be stimu lated in California but in all baseball fans back where they belong, out at the ball park and away from the four-wall humdrum of their living room and those dancing images on the front of the 21-inch pic ture tube. We're going to treat them to real live ball players in action where they can es cape from those "blur-by-blur" picture shows that are presented on a commercial-by-commercial basis. 'Do It Ourselves' Project This is a job for men of strong hearts and durable will. It is a "do it ourselves" project and I'm cheered by the reports from everywhere in the National Association eftipire. Advance ticket sales are up. Substantial business men, civic leaders, house wives, and school kids are on street corners selling tickets There is a rebirth of commun ity spirit that I have not wit nessed in many years. All of this rebirth of spirit didn't' just happen. It came about through our intensified promotional efforts. Our peo ple have come to realize that there is more in operating a baseball franchise than just opening the gates, throwing a few hot dogs into a kettle and hoping that folks will drop in for the evening. We know there is more in terest in baseball than ever before. We know, reports to the contrary, that it still is America s number one spec tator sport. If there were any measurable way of counting the legions who attend games at the kid level on up through the American Legion, high school, college, semi - pro and amateur sand-lot ranks, the total would be far greater than the 140-million plus who have made basketball the so called number one spectator sports event. Tap a Vast Reservoir Our basic project then is to tap this vast reservoir of new fans and to bring them into our minor league parks for an evening of entertainment they won't soon forget. We're doing this by special promo tional efforts. We may at tract the teen-agers by hav ing a rock 'n roll band in a pre-game performance at home plate, .the oldsters by bringing back all-time all stars for personal appear ances, the little fellows with special badges or buttons that admit them free if dad or mom comes along. Call them gimmicks if you will, but time after time after these special nights I have left the ball park and listen ed to the comments. Casual fans, some of whom hadn't been to ball games in years, will be saying "That was a lot of fun I think we ought to come back soon." Our slogan is:. "It pays to advertise but let us not adversetise." From all of the evidence I have seen, this slogan is be ginning to payoff. PRIDE OF GERMANY HERE NOW! Come in for a Demonstration Ride See H today of... SKINNER - BUICK - CADILLAC 143 South the surrounding states where fellows like Stan Musial, Hank Aaron, Duke Snider and Willie Mays previously had just been names that peo ple saw in newspapers. Now, the people . will be able to see them in the flesh." Baseball Commissioner Ford C. Frick anticipates such tremendous interest in the Dodgers at Los Angeles that "they're liable to set an attendance record in the first week by drawing 90,000 fans to one game." Youngsters Profit Several members of the U.P. committee also declared that the expansion to the West Coast probably would cause more youngsters in that area to think in terms of pro fessional baseball as a career than might have otherwise. Only three members of the committee throught the move to the West Coast would make "ho difference" insofar as benefit or detriment to the game were concerned. One expert, who thought the transfer would prove beneficial, qualified his opin ion by adding, 'Beneficial, that is, until an airplane loses an entire team over the Rockies." All 50 of the writers on the committee, three from each of the major league teams plus the United Press' Leo H. Petersen and Milton Richman, spent the last six weeks covering the spring training camps. Robinson Leads Woodard to Beat Andrews .New York OF) Even as a second, Sugar Ray Robin son is first class. The middleweight champ ion filled in as a second for Otis Woodard Monday night at St. Nicholas arena and coached his sparring partner to an upset, split decision over middleweight Eddie An drews of Lowell, Mass., in their widely - televised 10 rounder. Andrews, who had former middleweight King Rocky Graziano in his corner, lost the fight by the slim margin of one point. Referee Teddy Martin fav ored Andrews on a rounds basis, 5-4-1, while judge Joe Eppy voted .for Woodard, 5-4-1. The deciding vote was cast by judge Artie Aidala, who scored it 5-5 in rounds but gave the decision to Woodard on points, 6-5. The United Press had An drews ahead, 5-3-2. Both fighters must have been following their instruc tions to the letter. Andrews, a 3-1 favorite, looked like the wild-slugging Graziano of old while Woodard was the Rob inson-type boxer-puncher. Butte Falls Tips Rogue River in Monday Ball Tilt Rogue River Butte Falls rolled over the Rogue River high school baseball club here Monday afternoon by a score of 7 to 1. Errors filled the game with only three of the Butte Falls runs being earned. The game was a non-league event and made the fifth win with no losses for Butte Falls. Top stick wielder was Ike Conley, Butte Falls catcher, who pounded two doubles for four times at the plate. BF first baseman Raymond Ab bott hit two for three in the test. Line score: Butte Falls 200 112 1 7 6 5 Rogue River 100 000 0 1 4 9 Irwin 6. Baker 1 and Conlev. Cordes and Priest. -Winner: Irwin. Meat DoitccudAecC Riverside High School Sport Slate Again Full Friday and Saturday again will be the busy days of the week for high school athletes of this area. On the baseball front three single games and one double- header are on the Friday agenda. Crater and Medford meet here in the twin bill. Single games are Jackson ville at Butte Falls, Talent at Prospect and Ashland at Eagle Point. The fray at Eagle Point i3 at night and the oth ers in the afternoon. Medford wiU have two baseball games1 at Roseburg on Saturday and Ashland jun ior varsity will play at Pros pect. Rotary Meet Phoenix will be host to Eagle Point and Illinois Val ley on Friday for a triangular track meet. Saturday's fea ture with Class A schools of the area competing will be the Grants Pass Rotary cinder affair. Medford, Crater and Ashland will be among those contending with the host school. Medford has a tennis date at Roseburg and a golf match at Coos Bay on Saturday. The net team is to meet Ashland there on Wednesday. Talent has a night baseball mix at Eagle .Point toaay while Medford was at Ash- 1 a n d and Jacksonville at Rogue River this afternoon. In Fine Whiskey FLEISCHMANN'S i 111 ft fl ft Jj'yv o moot fc!s-y ll f to QT. 90 PROOF Is MY! 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Detroit at Chicago Bunning 20 8 vs. Pierce 20-12. Kansas City at Cleveland Car er 6-13 vs. Score 2-1. ARCARO TO RIDE DERBY New York (IP) Master stakes rider Eddie Arcaro has been signed to ride the Maine Farm's Jewel's Reward in this year's Kentucky Derby. Arcaro has won more Der bies five than any other jockey. He scored on Lawrin in 1938, Whirlaway in 1941, Hoop Jr., in 1945, Citation in 1948 and Hill Gail in 1952. High-gloss, durable enam els, suitable for both inside and outside use, are made by using mixtures of heat-treated linseed oil and also elastic copal varnishes. On the junior high front McLoughlin and Hedrick vie at the senior high field here Friday afternoon. All three grades will be entered. Cra ter high frosh will be hosts to Grants Pass at Central Point. The Medford Black Tor nado will meet the Roseburg high school baseball club on Friday and the Coos Bay club on Saturday. IS THE BUY
