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IP MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Oregon, Wednesday, April 16, 1938 Ashland 6-3 Winner Over Black Tornado Piling up all their runs be fore the Black Tornado could score, the Ashland high Griz zlies trimmed Medford 6 to 3 in a non-league baseball fra cas at Ashland yesterday. The Tornado was held down by the four-hit hurling of Bob Johnson. The Grizzly twirler, however, yielded two runs in Hogan Cops Car Rally Siskiyou Sports Car club ." will meet at the Medford Air ' Reserve center on Sunday, ' April 20, to elect officers arid -to make annual award of trophies. iiie meeting is sei lor :au f pan. and two color movies on . sports car racing will be . cnnurn a norcnn c lnTDrocTon are invited to the meeting. , Joe Slogan, Jacksonville, ; was winner Sunday in the - mnm n iv rn v nt The rinh np I run was for 48 miles and ter- mination point was at Grants Pass. Bob Forbes and Homer ; Bell, Medford, were second ; and Mr. and Mrs. William : third. The club, has 160 members and 30 cars. Tough Days For Campy Glen Cove, N. Y. (IP) These are tough days for the T nc A nrioloc Ti-irl oorc mrtcf ardent rooter. Roy Campanella, who should be there in San Fran cisco running things behind home plate for the Dodgers, instead lies in a hospital bed here and listens to his team's opening games in California on' the radio and a second hand "recreated" broadcast at that. x But no fan out in Los An geles is rooting any harder for the Dodgers than the star catcher who has been par tially paralyzed since he broke his neck in an auto ac cident on Jan. 28. Sends Telegram Glen Cove Community hos pital made that plain Tues day when it announced that Campy was anxiously waiting for those radio broadcasts to begin. Campy made it plain him self. He sent a telegram to his teammates and Manager Walt Alston read it in a hushed dressing room just before the start of the season opener against the Giants: "Although I am unable to be there, I'm still with you. Here's hoping today's opening game will start a great team off to a most successful sea son, signed Campy." The Dodgers didn't win that one, but Roy is still root ing. And all the fans are still rooting for him. the seventh inning and Coach Snuffy Smith sent in Alan Mc Kinnis, who retired the last two batters. Ashland cashed in for two runs in the first frame on four bases on bails, a hit by Harley Dickerson and an error. Two more got home in the second stanza on a single by Dave Graham, a walk, error, wild pitch, passed ball and two stolen bases. In the fourth inning Jim Matteson got on base on an error, Graham singled and Matteson tallied on a double steal. Billy Maurer doubled in the fifth inning. He then raced for third . and came home on an overthrow. Mau rer reached third in time to be credited with a swipe. Medford Scores For Medford in the sixth inning, Ron Peery got on base on a miscue and Dale Shaw singled. A wild pitch figured in the scoring of one run. For two counters in the seventh, a two-bagger by Lowell Dean followed an error, walk and fielder's option. Pete Stemple picked up the other hit for Ashland and Dick Durante safetied for Medford. Johnson struck out five Tornado batters and walked six, McKinnis chalked up one strikeout. Medford tosser Lar ry Brown was tagged for three hits' in three innings. He gave six bases on balls and whiffed two Lithians. Pat McLaughlin gave two safeties over the rest of the distance. He struck out one batter and did not walk any: First Baseman Lowell Dean of Medford made a sensation al stop of a fly ball, making the catch backhanded over the back of his head. He made fine stop of a throw into the dirt to complete a double play. i ' MEDFORDv&TRIBUNE SWIM AT VANCOUVER Members of the Medford YMCA swimming team will con tend Saturday in the Pacific Northwest area Y sports festival at Vancouver, B.C. A team of 18 entrans will compete for Med ford. The group will leave Thursday in pri vate cars and plans to reach Seattle that night. Seated, from left, in front row are Bruce Hess, Don Thompson and George Dames. Others are, second row, Capt. Sue Thompson, Linda Hess, Ronda Hess, Linda Nelson, Bernardine Sharp and Shirley Hop kins; third row, Dale Vaughan, Merle Hamp ton and Gene Cronin; fourth row, Bill Hick ey, Becky Rowan and Cassie Thompson; at back, Capt. Craig Robison and Jerry Vakoc. Not shown are Jerry Sellack and Steve Langer. LINESCORE: Medford 000 0012 3 4 4 Ashland 220 llOx 6 5 2 Brown. McLaughlin (4) and Jen sen; Johnson, McKinnis (7) and V. Simpson. Western Links Finals Reached Delray Beach, Fla. (IP) Golfing soldier Mason Ru dolph tries for his second men's Western Amateur title today against steady Billy Key of Columbus, Ga., in the 36-hole final round of the rugged tournament. Both Rudolph and Key had to fight winds as high as 50 miles an hour to survive the semi-finals Tuesday, but hoped for better weather when they were to tee off for the morning round today. Rudolph, of Clarksville, Tenn., whipped former Flori da amateur champion Don Bisplinghoff of Miami Beach, 8 and 7. Key, 27, defeated Peter Dye of Indianapolis, 9 and 8. Medford Y, Swim, Volleyball Teams Slate Vancouver Jaunt For Northwest Sports Festival Medford YMCA will have 30 participants Saturday in the Pacific Northwest Area YMCA Sports festival at Van couver, B. C. The swimming team with 18 competitors and two wom en's volleyball crews, total- Grid Suit Of Court San Francisco (IP) The anti-trust suit brought by for mer professional player Bill Radovich against the Nation al Football league has been settled out of court. The case was dismissed in federal court Monday, but the amount of the settlement was not announced. Radovich's attorney, Max well Keith, said it was a sub stantial amount that should "produce $10,000 annual in come" if invested properly. Sought $105,000 Radovich, now 42 and a Sherman Oaks, Calif., auto mobile broker, had sought $105,000 damages from the league, charging it "black listed" him and deprived him of a livelihood. He jumped from the De troit Lions in the NFL in 1945 to play with the Los Angeles Dons of the now de funct All-America conference. In. 1948 he sought a job as player-coach of the San Francisco Clippers of the Pacific Coast league, but charged he was rejected be cause of NFL blacklisting. J SV ' How does your tvhiskey drink ? drinks smooth as silk, IMAGINE! Never a trace of bite or burn in your whiskey. Try Kessler tonight and see. 4 00 $160 45 QT PINT JOIIOS KESSIH COMPANY. LAWSENCE8URS. INDIANA. BURDED WHISKEY. 86 PROOF. 1TA SRAM REUTRAl SPIRITS. ing 12 players will make the jaunt. ' , Both groups will leave on Thursday. The swimming caravan plans to reach Seattle by night. Volleyball players will go to Portland for Thurs day night matches at the Northeast YMCA. They will stay there overnight and go as far as Everett, Wash., on Friday. The swimmers and volley ballers are paying their own expenses. Funds are not being provided by the Y for the trip. Variety of Sports A variety of sports are in cluded in the festival. Entries will be from Western Canada, Oregon, Washington, Mon tana, Idaho and Wyoming. On the Y-Nots volleyball team are: Mrs. Linelle Wilkes, Mrs. Joan Kid, Mrs. Viva Lewis, Mrs. Donna McCall and Mrs. Lucille Cornell. Y Ettes making the jaunt are Mrs. Victoria Fowler, Mrs. Virginia Wickersham, Mrs. Teresa Short, Mrs. Carol Rose Mrs. Kay Miller and Mrs. Donna Hadley. Accompanying the swim mers will be Coaches Don Dickson and Wilson Gilinsky, Y Physical Director Gor don Williams, Mrs. Melvin Hess, Mrs. Kenneth Thompson and Mrs. Don Dickson. OSC Golfers Stop Pilots Corvallis (IP) Oregon State college's varsity golf team ended Portland State's five-match victory streak Tuesday by drubbing the Vik ings, MVz to 3Vz, over a rain soaked course at the Corvallis Country club. Leighton Tuttle, Beaver captain and top man of the day, shot a one-under-par 71 to take medalist honors. Vik ing Tom Liljeholm was med alist for the losers, with a 77. Talent Tops Eagle Point Eagle Point Talent utilized three errors and two walks for five runs in the first in ning and went on to defeat Eagle Point high in a Tuesday baseball game here, 12 to 6. The Eagles got three mark ers' in the first inning but could not overtake the Bull dogs. Talent gained three counters in the sixth inning in the other big scoring burst. Mel Gingerich hit a triple and double for Talent and Chuck Jenks and Duane Tres hame two singles each for Eagle Point. o Free Estimates o Easy Terms THE ASPHALT PAYING GO. PHONE SP 2-6469 West Side Nabs Meet West Side failed to win any of the three divisions but piled up sufficient points in each yesterday to claim over all honors in a three-way city grade school track meet at the senior high stadium. The West Siders had 79 Vz points, Oak Grove 72 Vz and Jackson 67. Jackson was winner in Class A with 37 Vz to 32Vz for West Side. Oak Grove had 4. Oak Grove won both B and C divisions. In C the Grovers had 40Vz, West Side 30 and Jackson 16Vz. Score was 28 for Oak Grove in Class C while West Side compiled 17 and Jackson 13. Jackson was victor in the the" medley relay which in cluded all classes. RESULTS: 60 McGuire, J; Wiseman, J: Cline. OG; Brant, J; . :07.8. 150 Lawyer, J; Kengla, WS; Flagg, J.:19.0. Baseball throw Lawyer J; Winetrout. WS; Kengla, WS. 190. Shot put Monroe. WS: Wine trout. WS; Flag. J; Cline, OG. 32-4. Broad jump Lawyer, J; Mc Guire. J; and Kengla, WS tie. 14-1. High jump Lawyer, J; Houseon, J: Kengla, WS: Wiseman, J. 4-2. Pole vault Mouston, J and Mon roe. WS tied. 6'. (Class B) 60 Larson, OG; Driskell, OG; Porter, WS; Logan. J. :07.9. s. 150 Larson, OG; Davis WS Porter. WS; Longan, J. :19.0. Baseball throw Davis, WS Beck, WS; Harper, J. 167. Shot put Davis, WS; Porter, WS; Knips, OG; Wilson, J. 28-6. Broad jump Larson, OG; Davis, WS; Titus. WS; Porter, WS. 13-10. Higb jump Hess, OG; Longan, J; Driskell. OG 4-4. Pole vault Hess, OG: Driskell, OG; Knips, OG and Donahoo. J tie. 6-8. 220 relay Jackson; Oak Grove. OG; OG; (Class C) 60 Titus. WS; McLain, Blair, OG; Hansen, J. :08.5. 150 McLain, OG; Rupp, iitus, ws. :21.0. Baseball throw Humphreys, WS; Blair. OG; Welch, OG. 146. Broad jump Rupp, OG; Curtis, J; Titus. WS; Humphreys, WS; 12-8. High jump Humphreys, WS; Lemire, OG; Forbes, J; Bieghler, J. 3-8. 220 relay Jackson. Oak Grove. Medley Relay: Jackson; Oak Grove. Rivers Fights Boyd Tonight Chicago (IP) Two knock out punchers who can be put away themselves, middle weights Neal Rivers and Bob by Boyd, meet. tonight in the televised fight from the Chi cago stadium. It was unlikely the scrap would last its sched uled 10 rounds. Ranked eighth among the middleweights by the Na tional Boxing association, Riv ers has scored 23 knockouts in his 39 professional victories and Boyd, who once was 3rd ranked by the NBA, has 22 knockouts in 47 triumphs. Until the spring of 1943, the entire world production of penicillin was just enough to treat 400 patients. By 1957, fourteen years later, giant fermentation tanks were pro ducing enough penicillin to treat over 50,000,000 patients. Red Raiders Divide Chico Doubleheader By RICH SCOTT Ashland Larry Maurer lined a home run down the left field line to give the Red Raiders of Southern Oregon college a 5-4 victory and a split in the baseball doubleheader against Chico State here yes terday. Maurer's four bagger came in the final inning of the sec ond game with nobody on base to break a 4-4 deadlock and hand Chico State its first loss of the year in 12 starts. Maurer was the big stick all through the second game. In the fourth inning he singled with the bases loaded to put the Raiders in front 4-3. Chico came back to tie it up in the seventh inning by scoring one run. That set the stage for Maurer's big blast. Accounts For Four In all Maurer accounted for four of the five runs scored. He knocked in three runs and scoring two. Chico State came from be hind to win the first game of the doubleheader. The Wild cats were down 3-2 going into the fifth inning where they scored four runs to sew up the victory. Aided by two Raider errors and a double by John Rickard and a single by Loren Barthoff the visitors ran up a 6-3 count which lasted to the final out of the game. The Raiders picked up their lone three runs in the first inning. Chuck. Nevi lead off with a walk and moved to second on an infield out. Jim McAbee singled Nevi in for the first run and Phil Sword came through with another single that sent McAbee all the way around to score. Kinq Leads Hitting Leroy King got the third consecutive single to move Sword to third. Eldon Francis followed with a sacrifice fly which scored Sword with the third and final run of the game for the Raiders. Leroy King was the leading hitter for Southern Oregon, getting three singles in three trips. John Rickard was tops with Frank Enos for Chico when they managed to get three hits in four official trips to the plate. All were singles except for Rickard's lone double. Ray Guitterez of Chico was the winner of the first game in giving up only five hits. Dave D'Olivo suffered the loss giving up 10 hits. McLemore Victor Kermit McLemore for SOC registered the win in the sec ond game and gave up five hits with no one from Chico getting more than one hit. Harold Meyers took the loss, the first of the year. Maurer with the two singles and homer boosted his batting average to .435 on 10 hits in 23 trips to the plate. Maurer also leads in the runs batted in department with 11. In the extra base department Maurer has two triples. The split gave the Raiders a four win and three loss on the season while Chico in run ning up 11 wins has beaten San Francisco, Cal Tech, and Sacramento State. Saturday the Raiders open Oregon Collegiate conference play with a doubleheader against Oregon Tech in Klam ath Falls. Eagles Win Track Tilt Eagle Point Eagle Point high won a three way track meet at Myrtle Creek yester day. Myrtle Creek was second and Oakland third. Scores were not available. Wayne Christian won the javelin, discus and shot put for Eagle Point and Bill Tur ner the 100 and 220-yard dashes and the broad jump. SPEISER TO MEET PITTS Detroit OP) Chuck Spei ser, the sixth ranked light heavyweight contender, has agreed to meet Orville Pitts in a 10-round bout in Milwau kee, May 19. Speiser, who is making a comeback after being knocked out by Tony Anthony a year ago, decision ed Bobby Lane of Miami his last time out. Russians Take Third Encounter Tulsa, Okla. (IP) The tour ing Russian wrestling team headed for New York today with three victories over the American AAU squad to its credit. The last of three appear ances in Oklahoma a match in Tulsa Tuesday night left the Soviet grapplers even heavier favorites to make a clean sweep of their four match tour, which concludes Tuesday night. The powerful Russian wres tlers took a 5-0 victory over the U. S. in a performance witnessed by an estimated 3,000 spectators at Tulsa's Edi son High school gym. Synthetic rubber is not a true synthetic because it is not a chemical twin of the natural product. Bowling LADIES' CLASSIC LEAGUE Lois Learning, Wooden Shoe, rolled a 676 series last nisht in the Ladies Classic Bowling league, highest of the year for Medford women Keg lers. She had games of 198, 233 and 245. Other high games were Eleanor Lenz 223, Gertie Riggs 212, Audrey Swoape 203 and C. Pardee 202. Split conversions were M. Langston 6-7 and Vi Blunt 4-7-9. Standings: W Union Club 30 Silver Dollar Stamps 29 Hawkinsons Tire Tread 26 Paulsens Thrift Mkt. 25 Jorgensen's Dairy Ross Lbr. Co. Wooden Shoe Jack's Drive Up Lillie's Health Salon Trail Creek Lbr. Motor Haven Motel Crater Inn Motel 24 '4 24 24 24 21 21 20 18 Vi L 18 19 22 23 234 24 24 24 27 27 28 29 Va RESULTS: Wooden Shoe 4 (L. Learning 676) 2438; Crater Inn 0 (G. Riggs 541) 22289 Paulsen's 3 (F. Doty 494) 2264; Union Club 1 (V. Cummings 481) 2215 Trail Creek (V. Blunt 476) 2115; Silver Dollar 4 (L. Turner 507) 2286. Hawkinson's 4 (C. Pardee 533) 2474- Lillie's Health Salon 0 (B. Hazlett 444) 2288. Jack's 4 (D. 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