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12 MAIL TRIBUNE, MtdforJ, Oroa, Ttiartdjy, May 8, 1958 MEPFORDJTRIBUIfE Tornado, Comets Vie In Southern Oregon League; Pels at GP Medford high, seeks to be come more firmly established In the race, Grants Pass tries to cinch at least a tie for the mantle and Crater and Kla math Falls, out of the titular running, aim to play the role of spoilers this Friday in the Southern Oregon conference baseball campaign. Crater and Medford collide at Cheney field at the south edge of Medford and Klam ath's Pelicans vie at Grants Pass. A doubleheader is slated for the Comets and Black Tornado at Cheney park. The first game at 2:30 pjn. will be the only one counting in the standings. ' At last report Klamath and the Cavemen were billed for 1:30 pjn. Only one game is scheduled at GP in order that the Pelican crew may get home in time to attend a sports banquet at which Slats Gill, basketball mentor at Oregon State college is speak ing. Second Place Chance A Medford victory over the Comets would boost the Tor- . nado into a second place dead lock with Ashland which is idle over the week end. Cra ter needs the win to further its ambition to wind up the season above the cellar and Klamath Falls has similar de sire in its scuffle with Grants Pass. The GP Cavemen with a verdict over the Pels would be only one game away from a .second successive champ ionship in District 6 A-l. Dennis Barr is expected to get the pitching call for Med ford from Coach John Ko venz. He hurled a masterful game against Grants Pass last week which brought consid erable praise from Caveman tutor Mel Ingram. It was the Cavemen's first loss in the loop. Tom Laurance may get the summons for the second fracas against the Comets. Coach Bill Piche of Crater is expected to choose between Wayne Allen and Bob. Fowl er for hill service with the one not starting the opener, or Charlie South, getting the second game assignment. Jim Smith may. hurl for MEDFORD Konopasek Durkee C. Dean L. Dean R. Peery G. Ice K. Jensen J3. Durante D. Shaw 1,. Brown.. D. Barr Laurance M'Laughlin B. eona Grants Pass and Blake Griggs for Klamath Falls. Medford will have a non league mix with Yreka, Calif.' at 2 pan. on Saturday at the Tornado diamond and will aim to even the school for a season starter loss. The Black Tornado also hopes to improve on the .195 team batting average it has compiled over 19 games. Cal Dean heads the club in four offensive departments with a .292 hitting average, 11 runs, seven extra base hits and 10 runs batted in. Ron Peery is tied with Cal in RBIs. He has the most hits, 14, and is second in swatting average with .285. Dick Dur ante, latecomer as a regular has the third best hitting mark with .269 and Lowell Dean has .229. Cal Dean and Peery each have swiped five bases. Barr Leads Pitching In the defensive depart ment Lowell Dean and Ken Jensen have the most putouts with 101 each. Their respec tive positions of first baseman and catcher, respectively, give them advantage in pil ing up the totals. But they also lead in fielding aver ages with Dean having .981 and Jensen .975. Ray Kono pasek at second base has .955 and Ron Peery in center field has .954. Outfielders Durante and Frank Peterson have per fect 1.000 marks but have had fewer chances. The team has recorded 12 double plays. Barr heads the pitching de partment with four wins and two losses and a fine earned run everage of .490. He has the most innings pitched with 38 - 1-3 and has averaged strikeouts at more than one an inning with 39. The record shows Jerry Anderson with no wins and four setbacks but those two columns in the statistics belie the caliber of his chucking. Only four runs have been scored against Anderson in 22 2-3 innings and only one of those was unearned. The club has just not produced the hits and runs to help him to victory. His earned run mark is .924. HIGH ab r 46 6 32 4 41 11 48 7 BATTING AND FIELDING: a 2b 10 5 12 11 14 5 . 2 ' 7. 1 3 1 1 0 0 0 3b hr 0 0 ave. rbi .217 2 .138 0 .292 10 .229 7 285 10 .151 2 .105 .269 3 .142 0 .136 5 .076 0 .125 0 .000 0 .000 0 .000 0 sb bb so 0 6 13 2 2 7 5 10 12 13 4 2 7 2 11 1 8 3 3 2 3 4 6 1 4 0 a po 27 36 11 17 25 18 5 101 3 18 1 11 0 '4 1- 0 0 0 0 0 0 15 11 3 11 3 3 e fa sac. hp 3 .955 ,1 2 6 ' .823 0 9 .826 2 581 1 .J954 2 .857 0 1.000 0 1.000 0 .000 .807 .800 .600 .928 .750 .750 Totals 404 51 79 11 1 1 .195 43 18 44 97 139 322 41 .910 C 1 MEDFORD HIGH PITCHING RECORDS: Barr Laurance Brown Anderson Peery McLaughlin Totals . IP. . 38 'i - 22 . 10 V . 22 . 5 . 13 112 L BB SO H 2 17 39 18 2 15 24 17 2 16 7 11 4 7 24 16 0 5 5 3 18 7 9 I 11 68 106 74 46 23 1.44 R 10 13 12 4 0 7 ER ERA HPWP 3 .490 2 2 7 2.16 . 3 0 5 3.38 . 1 3 3 .924 1 0 0 .000 0 1 5 2.69 0 1 Tornado JV 2-1 Winner Jerry Anderson threw three hit ball and Jim Berry was the biggest hitter yesterday as the Medford Black Tor nado won a junior varsity baseball fracas from Ashland 2 to 1. Winning run for Medford was in the fifth inning when Berry singled, Tom Turpin walked, Mike Parsons hit to load the bases and Garland Lowery drew a base on balls to force in the tally. Medford picked up its first run in the opening frame on singles by Booth Deakins and Berry, an error and a walk. Ashland tied it in the third on a, walk, passed ball and single by Tom Lloster. Anderson walked four and fanned six batters while Duane Nelson of Ashland in a four-hitter walked six "and whiffed 10. Berry had two hits for Medford. LINE SCORE: Ashland 001 000 01 '3 1 Medford 100 010 x 2 5 0 Nelson and Davis; Anderson and Eckel. Portland (IP) University of Portland won its 14th straight baseball victory Wednesday, 9-3 over Clark Junior college. You Ought To BUY NOW! WE WANT TO SUPPLY THE CASH! Deal Where You Are a Personality Oregon Finance Co. Gene Thomas, Manager OUR 30th YEAR! Horns Owned O Independent -O Centrally Located 45 South Central : MEDFORD TWIRLER Tom Laurance, above, likely will pitch for Medford in one. of its three games this week end. The Black Tornado meets Crater in a doublebill starting at 2:30 p.m. Friday at Cheney field at the south edge of Med ford. Yreka, Calif., and the Tornado meet on the Medford High diamond at 2 p.m. Saturday. Laurance has sF two-win two-loss record for Medford. Southern Oregon Faces PSC in Three Conflicts Ashland The Oregon Col legiate conference crown is highest in the minds of. the Southern Oregon college base ball team this week end when it meets Portland State. The Red Raiders have three games with the' Vikings with the first one Friaay afternoon and the other two Saturday, all in Portland. Currently, the men of SOC Freshman Track Fray Here Friday Annual southern Oregon district freshman track and field meet will be held at the . Medford High school stadium Friday, beginning at 3 p.m. Six schols from Southern Oregon conference cities will have ninth graders in the meet. These are Mc Loughlin and Hedrick of Medford, Crater of Central Point, Grants Pass, Ash land and Klamath Falls. The meet could be a thriller down to the final event. Grants Pass has the favored role in team tabu lations but could be chal lenged by Crater and Mc Loughlin. GOOD CONTESTS . Some good contests are foreseen in the sprints. Grants Pass may have the fastest group of short dis tance speedsters but will get good competition from Cra ter, McLoughlin and Hed rick. McLoughlin appears to have ' the edge in the dis tance chases. Field event honors may be evenly di vided among the six crews. Grants Pass seems the best bet in the relay. McLoughlin, Hedrick, Cra ter and Grants Pass each are expected to field full - teams. High Score Needed for Trap Prize If rivalry this year matches that of other , seasons of the post-war period, a score of 99 or 100 will be needed to capture the Mail Tribune tro phy in the annual shoot set for Saturday' and Sunday at Medford Gun club. : The newspaper hardware offered in the two-day trap- shooting tourney goes to the winner of the 16-yard gun ning on Sunday. - Perfect 100 scores have taken the trophy for the past three tournaments. Scores have been 99 or 100 since 1946, when the shoot was re sumed after being cancelled for four seasons. . . Driscoll took the title with a 97 in 1941. The shoot opens at 10 a.m. Saturday with the Rogue Val ley Hundred at 16-yards, the Chester Wood handicap and 25 pairs of doubles. The Mail Tribune trophy event, the Jim Morris handicap and an other 25 pairs of doubles make up the Sunday program. Shoot in the 16-yard conten tion begins at 9 ajn. Gunners from throughout southern Oregon are expected with some likely from north ern California. The tourney is registered by the Pacific International "Trapshooting as possess a perfect 6-0 record in conference play which ties themf or the league lead with Eastern Oregon college. Wins this weekend over Portland State and wins by Eastern Oregon over Oregon College of Education would put the title on the block next weekend May 16 and 17 when the Raiders and EOC Mounties meet. Respectable .317 Hitting wise the Raiders are batting a very respectful .317 with eight players above the .300 mark. Larry Maurer leads the hitters with a .429. Larry and Ron Maurer with Leroy King lead the home run . hitters with two each while Larry Maurer heads the runs batted in list with 19. Willie Jones" and Larry Maurer lead the runs scored department with each having 22 and Jim Dietz is tops in stolen bases with seven follow ed by Chuck Nevi with six. Interesting to note is the fact that for every hit the Raiders have gotten they have also just about one run to cor respond to the hit The counts stands at 142 runs scored on 152 hits. Good Defense ' The Red Raiders are not just a good offensive club, as the statistics show, but they are also a good defensive crew, according to their coach Ted Schopf. Willie Jones at shortstop and Jim Dietz at second base make up one of the best, if not the- best,, keystone com binations in the OCC. Jones comes up with the ball quite often deep in the hole and Dietz has been showing he is a capable middle man on the double play. Chuck Nevi at third base and Larry Maurer at first are two more creditable ball play ers which they have shown in games to date. Nevi handles the hot spot well and Maurer has only two errors in 16 games at first base. Strong in Catching The catching situation is well packed with Jim Mc Abee, Ron Maurer and Phil Sword. All do some receiving and all of them see plenty of action in the outfield when they are not behind the plate. Leroy King with a fine throw ing arm generally plays left or center field depending on who does the catching. Pitching has begun to pick up for the hurling staff with the return of Jim Eggers who tossed a three hitter in his last time out for seven innings. Dave D'Olivo' is ready for action as is Jack Brown, Ker mit McLemore, and Dale Wal ters. All have turned in top flight performances and each seems to be good in a different role of relief which could in handy. The bench is relatively strong with hitter-fielders like Al Kimura, Ray Weinhold, Gordie: Thoreson and . Eldon Francis: Long Arens of Togetherness Envelop Pacific Coast Loop BUCS GET PORTERF1ELD . Boston (IF) Veteran American .League pitcher Bob Porterfield, dogged by hard luck throughout most of his major league career, was sold Portland (W Major league baseball invades Portland for' a day today. The San Francisco Giants were. to fly into town shortly after noon ' for a parade through the city in a motor cade and a game tonight with the Portland Beavers, who lead the Pacific Coast league by five percentage points. It will mark the first ap pearance of a regular major league club in Portland. Another Try To Organize Softballers Another effort is current ly being made to organize the Jackson County Soft ball association for 1958 league play. All representatives of groups interested in field ing teams are asked to tele phone Willard Barnum at his home after 6 p.m. His number is SPring 2-2142. Barnum reported that so far only two clubs are lined up for certain. It is hoped to use the Camp White field again this year. But the league must be organized soon in order that games can be sched uled for the stadium. 6 Tornado Players in Net Tangle Six players will represent Medford High school Friday in the District 4 tennis tour nament on the Medford courts. Coach Warren Brenner said that John Root and ''Henry Olson will compete in singles Paul Ryn and Gary Cummings will make up one doubles combination and ,Dave ' Ryn and John Shaw another. . At last report six schools were entered in the meet. They are Eagle Point, Jack sonville, Ashland, Grants Pass, Klamath Falls and Med ford. Pels Favored The entry lists showed 18 players entered in singles. Eight doubles clubs were slat ed to compete. Klamath Falls swept to the Southern Oregon conference championship in dual 'compe tition and is favored to collect the honors also on Friday. District champs , and ' run-ners-up in both singles and doubles qualify for the state tournament the following week end. . A crowd of around 30,000 was expected at jyiuiinoman stadium for the exhibition game. Willamette Thumps UO Salem (IP) Willamette's baseball team won a wild game from University of Ore gon, 20-12, Wednesday. Willamette scored 12 runs in the sixth inning when the Bearcats batted around twice. The Bearcats had but 12 hits but five Oregon reserve pitch ers gave up 10 walks, hit two batters and uncorked two wild pitches. Oregon' got its dozen runs on only seven hits. Dick Hamada of Willamette and Ron Dodge of Oregon had three-run homers. Held Has No-Hit Tiff for Wilson Portland TCP) George Held pitched a no-hit, no-run game Wednesday as his Wilson high school team defeated Franklin 5-0. IB CULL METAL WORKS Commercial Industrial Residential Sheet Metal Work Stainless, Galvanized and Copper Fabrication 2287 West Main PHONE SP 2-4440 "Door-slammers" - - WELCOMED DURING, "YOU AUTO BUY NOW" WEEK! V Keep Medford's Economy Rolling YOU AUTO BUY HOW! By GENE BRYANT United Press Sports Writer The long arms of Together ness nave enveloped me pa cific Coast League. Seven of the loop's eight clubs found themselves no more than a half game apart today as the 1958 pennant chase continued to tighten. Only Seattle, clearly out of of step, went against the trend as the Rainiers clung to their firm hold on last place, two games off the pace. Last night, action sent Port land, Spokane and Vancouver into a three-way tie for first place, although the Beavers retained a .004 edge in the percentage column. Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Diego and Sacramento were next in line, a naii game oemna tne top three, while Seattle brought up the rear. Spokane hung a 6-5 defeat on Portland Wednesday night, but it took a homer by Bob Jenkins in the 13th inning to od it. In other games, Phoenix homered Salt Lake into sub mission, 9-4; Vancouver de feated Seattle, 6-4, and San Diego edged Sacramento, 2-1 Spokane Fans Happy Portland loaded the bases in their half of the 13th but Spokane ended the contest with a double-play to send 1,680 fans home unhappy. The Eeavers had tied the score at 5-5 with a pair of runs in the eighth and a single tally in the ninth. The two clubs then went scoreless un til Jenkin's homer in the 13th. It was his first of the season. At Salt Lake, Phoenix pow ered home runs all over the place to even the Giants se ries with the Bees. Leon Wag ner paced the Phoenix on slaught with two of the five round-trippers,, while Filipe Alou, Willie McCovey and Dusty Rhodes contributed one each. Dick Stuart hit a bases- empty homer In the fourth for the Bees to bring the game's total to six. Seattle put together two late inning rallies, but Van couver held on to even their series at one game apiece. The Rainiers, trailing 6-1 go ing into the final two frames, scored a pair of unearned runs in the eighth and another in the ninth. Mountie pitcher Mel Held choked off the ral ly in the last inning to pick up his second victory against one loss. ' Solons Only Get Four At Sacramento, fire-balling Gary Bell set down the Solons with only four hits as the Padres brought their record to 11-11. ( The Solons had moved out to a 1-0 lead in the second inning but the Pads tied it with an unearned run in the seventh, the first scored off Solon starter Carl Greene in 21 innings. The San Diegans then went ahead f or good with a single run in 'he eighth. More people come to HFC for money help 2,000,000 families a year borrow confidently from HFC Reason? HFC, America's oldest and largest consumer finance company, offers courteous, money manage ment advice and prompt, loan service backed by 80 years of experience. 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