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lodger Dim Left By ALEX KAHN United Press Sports Wriier Los Angeles 0?) If there are any tears to be shed over the dimensions of the playing field in Memorial Coliseum, shed them for Duke Snider, the Dodger slugger who in nine home games has failed to get a home run, President Walter O'Malley said today. Under league rules the bar rier could not be changed this season. O'Malley pointed out that when the field was laid out as the temporary home of the Dodgers, the club deliberately made the left-field line the short one to keep from be ing accused of tailoring the park to suit their own hitting star. Snider, the left-handed hitter who pulls to right. Despite the charges, cheap ening the value of home runs with the 250-foot left field foul line and the 42- foot screen which backs it up, in the nine games the club has played at home 28 homers have been hit and 20 of these have been over the left field screen. Fanfare Persons who operate boats for fishing or pleasure should read and absorb thoroughly the act passed by the last Ore gon legislature on the sub ject (Chapter 467, Oregon Laws of 1957, House Bill 741). Required for motorboats under the new law are life preservers for each person on board, white and and red and green lights between sun et and sunrise and portable fire extinguishers. The act, which applies to craft less than 26 feet in length, requires boats not pro pelled by machinery to carry a lantern or flashlight. Sail boats, including those with outboard motors, must carry a bright white light and a flashlight or lantern. Sail boats with inboard motors are subject to the same light re quirements as motorboats. COAST GUARD APPROVED Motorboats must carry a Coast Guard-approved life jacket, life preserver, ring buoy or buoyant cushion for each person riding. Its white light aft must show all around the horizon and must be risible for one half mile or more. A com bination light in the fore part of the craft, lowr than the white light must show green to the star board and .red to the port and must be visible a half mile. A sailboat's bright light should be carried aft and the lanterns or flashlights are to be displayed by mo torless boats and sailboats in sufficient time to avoid collision. MUFFLER. WHISTLE NEEDED Devices capable of ade quately muffling sound of the engine exhaust are required for motorboats burning gaso line, gas or naptha. Carbure tors on inboard engines must be fitted with a Coast Guard approved device for arresting backfire. Motorboats more than 16 feet long must have a mouth, hand or power-operated whistle which will pro duce a blast of two second or more and which is audible for at least one-half mile. Boats using fuel with a flash point of 110 degrees fahrenheit or less are to have at least two ventilators to properly ven tilate bilges and fuel compart ments. SANCTIONED RACES OKEH The 1957 law forbids reckless navigation and speeds which will prevent a motorboat operator from exercising reasonable care. However, competition in v races or regattas sanction ed by an appropriate gov ernment on a marked course are permitted. RIGHT-OF-WAY Two boats approaching each other head .on are each to bear to the right to pre vent collision. When boats ap proach each other obliquely or at right angles, the one approaching on the right side has the right-of-way. A boat may overtake another but must grant the right-of-way to the overtaken boat Persons shall not anchor a boat for fishing or other purposes in a way to obstruct a passageway ordinarily used by other boats. Boats must not be operated in a water area marked off for swiming or bathing. REPORT ACCIDENTS Other sections prohibit overloading of craft and forbid operation of boats by Star Hurt Field o Of these. Dodger opponents hit 13, and the home club 7. O'Malley, Baseball Commis sioner Ford C. Frick, Nation al League President Warren C. Giles and NL batting king Stan Musial are all in agree ment that despite the short left-field playing area Babe Ruth's home run mark of 60 is in no particular danger. One of the greatest hitters of all times, Rogers Hornsby, feels that if batters deliber ately try to gun for the screen they may throw themselves into slumps that could prove disastrous to their averages. Manager Walt Alston of the Dodgers isn't particularly worried. He feels that as the pitching improves fewer hom ers will be sailing over that left-field barrier and the evi dence seems to be on hs side. "As many home run balls have been caught in right field as have sailed over the left-field fence," .Alston points out. "It all balances out. Sometimes the breaks are with one team and the next time with the other. We've been hurt when some of our By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Sports Editor persons under influence of intoxicating liquor, narcotic drugs or barbital or by ha bitual users of narcotics or barbital. Operator of any boat in volved in an accident result ing injury or death or dam age' to property must stop immediately at the scene, give his identification and address, render reasonable assistance to the injured and report the accident to the nearest or most con venient law enforcement agency or office. PEERY PINCH-HITTER Senior Outfielder Ron Peery, who heaved a three- hit victory for Medford high Saturday in his first mound appearance for the Black Tornado, was not slated, org inally, to pitch the diamond tussle. Short on regular pitch ers because of a heavy sched ule, Coach John Kovenz had nominated ' First Baseman Lowell Dean to hurl the sec ond fracas of the twinbill with Klamath Falls. But, Dean split a finger in the opening contest. Third baseman Larry Brown and second baseman Ray Konopasek turned in some nifty fielding to boost the Black Tornado victory cause in the first and South ern Oregon conference game with the Pels and Brown's two-bagger was Medford's big blow of the game driving in three runs. EX-MEDFORDITE Janet Hopps, one of the country's top tennis play ers, who defeated Wimble don champ Alihea Gibson at Miami Beach, Fla., ear lier this month, is a former Medford resident. Her par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Hopps, had a residence on Summit ave. in IS41 and 1942. Hopps is now man ager for the Foster and Kleiser company branch at Seattle. Wash. GP WINNER Grants Pass, not Central Point, won the eighth grade division of a track meet Fri day by the 63 to 50 score. Dodgers, Giants Draw One-Third Of Attendance By UNITED PRESS The new fans in Los An geles Dodgers and the San counted for 35 per cent of the total attendance at major league baseball games dur ing the first two weeks of the season. A United Press survey re vealed today that the Los An geles Dodgers anr the San Francisco Giants drew a to tal of 546,329 fans on 18 playing dates. This compares with the total of 1,557,483 paid admissions for all 16 teams. The 546,329 figure exceeds by 127,060 the total of 419, 269 drawn by the other six National league teams on 25 dates. It also is only 45.556 less than the 591,885 fans drawn by the eight American league teams on 44 dates. The Dodgers, playing in Los Angeles' vast Coliseum, lead the way, of course, with 377,601 admissions for an average of 41,956 on nine dates. They already have bro ken two National League rec ords for a single game and for a night game. Five of their crowds topped 40,000. LA QolisiM left-handed hitters have lost extra-base hits to right and we've been helped when some went over the screen." To get an estimate from a man who knows, left-fielder Jim Gilliam, we asked him how many of the balls that went over the fence could have been caught if the play Dodger, Los Angeles Contract Blocked By Restraining Rule Los Aneeles (IP) The proposed city contract with the Dodgers baseball club was blockedt oday at least tem porarily by a restraining order preventing official signing. Superior Judge Kenneth C. Newell issued the taxpayers restraining order and named the city, the city council, the city clerk, Mayor Norris Poul son and the Brooklyn Nation al League Baseball Club, Inc. A further hearing on a pre liminary injunction in the taxpayers suit was scheduled for May 2. The suit challenged the contract on grounds the ac reage in Chavez Ravine was transferred to the city from the housing authority under MedfordWTribune ipimr Brave's Boss Notes Giant Win-Streak By MILTON RICHMAN United Press Sports Writer The world champion Mil waukee Braves, knowing all too well how these things can turn out, are bent on putting a quick stop to that surprise party, house - warming or whatever else you want to call it out there in San Fran cisco. Up to now, the Giants have been having a ball at their new home in San Francisco. Most everyone picked them sixth or seventh, but here they are leading the National League, a half-game ahead of second-place Milwaukee. It may be a new sensation for the Giants but it's an old familiar one to the Braves. Only five years ago, after they had shifted their fran chise from Boston to Milwau kee, the Braves got off to a flying start, too, winning 15 of their first 20 games. Like the Giants, no one took 'em seriously at first. After all, they had finished seventh the year before a notch lower than the Giants wound up last season but the Braves confounded the experts by developing into a serious pennant threat and finally finishing second. "Don't forget, too, that'dur ing one stretch last year the Giants played the best ball of anyone in the league," says Milwaukee manager Fred Haney. "Maybe others are brushing them off as a flash-in-the-pan, but I'm not." Haney is leading with his lefthanded ace, Warren Spahn,. against the Cubs at Chicago today. Spahn will be shooting for his third straight victory while the Cubs, al most as much as a surprise as the Giants, will be aiming to take over sole possession of second place, which they now share with Milwaukee. The Giants, meanwhile, will be showing the Phillies San Francisco for the "first time. Pittsburgh gets its first look at Los Angeles, and the Cardinals meet the Redlegs in a night game. Over in the American League, the Yankees begin tackling the Western clubs after having won eight of their first 11 games from Eastern rivals. Casey Stengel, grumbling a bit lately about his team's hitting, has nomin ated southpaw Bobby Shantz 1-0 to face Paul Foytack, who sports a 2-0 record for De troit. BRILL METAL WORKS Commercial Industrial Residential Sheet Metal Work Stainless, Galvanized and Copper Fabrication 2287 West Main . PHONE SP 2-4440 ing area there were 30 to 40 feet deeper. "I guess I could have caught about half of them," Gilliam said. "But the line drive hitters like Ernie Banks of the Cubs have been robbed of extra base hits or maybe homers that hit the screen." the stipulation the property could be used for "public pur poses" only. Attorney Phil Silver asked the court for a ruling to stop the city from signing the con tract until a taxpayer's suit is tried, even if voters ap prove the pact in a referen dum June 3. Newell's order restrained the defendants from execut ing the "proposed contract" passed by the council Oct. 7, from conveying to the Dodg ers the land in Chavez Ra vine; and from carrying out the provisions of the ordin ance "or any part thereof." Attorney Silver hailed the decision as a "victory" in his fight against the contract. Kansas City goes against the so-far disappointing Red Sox at Boston. The last-place Chicago White Sox, who have shown practically - no punch at the plate at all, are at Baltimore for a night game. Fireballer Herb Score will make his fifth appearance of the season for Cleveland against Washington in an other night game. St. Paul Group Rolls to Top in Bowling Meet San Francisco (IP) The Setchell-Carlson team of St. Paul and the South Bay Bowl ing Club of Redondo Beach, Calif., have rolled to the top of all major divisions in the International Women's Bowl ing Congress Tournament. The St. Paul group picked up new leads Monday when Bunny Weidell and Marge Schmaltz scored 1,163 in doubles and Miss Weidell bowled 1,757 in the all events grouping. JOSEPH. STUBBS SET BOUT New Orleans - (IP) Char ley Joseph of New Orleans and Reybon Stubbs of Pitts burg will meet here in a 10 round middleweight bout May 5. COUPLE WINS TITLE ' Oswego (IP) Mr. and Mrs. Tom Marlowe won the Ore gon Professional Golfers as sociation pro-ladies title here Monday by posting a 68-83-151. Marlowe is head pro at Portland's Eastmoreland club. How to Get nop from your Airline ticket to EUROPE For full details, call or visit George Lewis ROGUE TRAVEL SERVICE We Reserve and Sell Airline and Steamship Tickets PHONE SP 2-6779 Lobby Hotel Jackson Luck Terrific At Little Squaw Trout fishing at little or up per Squaw lake was "terrific" Saturday and Sunday, open ing week end of the angling season, Resort Manager Frank Mitchell reported yesterday. He ' reported a "very suc cessful" opening at both big and little Squaw lakes. A number of fishermen had their limits before 8 a.m. Sat urday, Mitchell reported. While angling at the upper lake was great on Sunday, as well as Saturday, the lower Lake was slower on the sec ond day. More than 200 carloads of fishermen were at the lakes for the opening week end. The weather was "ideal" ac cording to Mitchell. Both worms and salmon eggs were used successfully as bait. Olejniczak New Head Of Green Bay Packers Green Bay, Wis. (IP) Di rectors of the Green Bay Packers Monday night named Dominic Olejniczak former mayor of Green Bay as pres ident of the team. General Manager Vern Lewellyn, who announced Olejniczak's election, said the directors met in harmony, despite forecasts of brewing discord between members from Green Bay and Milwau kee. PILOT dOLF CLUB WINS Portland (IP) University of Portland's golf team de feated the University of Wash ington 15-3 here Monday. Vince Altenhofen of Portland was medalist with a 71. Trinidad, once known as "The Land of the Humming bird," still has a large hum mingbird population, the Trinidad and Tobago Tourist Board reports. And 17TWi! TO HlfP ? If I HORN RIMG TWO SUN VISORS f! ' OFFER GOOD FOR LIMITED TIME ONLY! i y ' " ' '" , XktSV ! TiKF THIS BOOK COUPON TO YOUR FORD DEALER I here's another SPECIAL OFFER from FORD Best-selling guide to the latest wrinkles in leisure-hour fun A $2.95 BOOK FOR JUST $1.00 Main Ifalemizyela to IRisOe Til For KeDUtoeky RAY AYRES United Press Sports Wriier Louisville, Ky. (IP) Calu met Farm's "Tim Tam, the Kentucky Derby favorite, warms up today for Satur day's classic in the $15,000 added Derby trial, with Is mael Valenzuela in the saddle as a replacement for injured Bill Hartack. Dozens of top jockeys were anxious to ride Tim Tam in the first of the Triple Crown classics after Hartack broke a small bone in his left leg at Churchill Downs on Satur day. Trainer Jimmy Jones of Calumet tagged Valenzuela as rider for Tim Tam in the trial and intimated that the Texas-born rider would also be aboard in the big one Sat urday if things go well in the warmup. Jones said, how ever, that Valenzuela only had been engaged for the trial and not for the rose run. 10 3-Year-Olds Run Ten three-year-olds were Linfield, Ducks Split Twin-Bill McMinnville (IP) Linfield and Oregon split a baseball doubleheader here Monday. Oregon blanked Linfield 8-0 in the first game behind the pitching of Rollie Heath, Jack Hehkel and Jim Fitz simmons, who each hurled three innings. Jackie Riley held Oregon to five hits in the second game while his mates had 11 off three Duck hurlers. ONLY mm A -! ! NAME DEALER i ! I ADDRESS ADDRESS : PHONE I DISTRICT : , I J CRATER LAKE MOTORS, INC. at Fir entered in the trial, a mile race which has produced Ken tucky Derby winners Cita tion, Hill Gail and Dark Star. 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