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It MAfl TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, May 17, 1958 (Erskine Chucks Two-!Hlitter As dodgers COop PhnOs 2-1 T MILTON RICHMAN UPI Sports Writer All that talk about Carl Ers kins being washed up turns out to be just a lot of soap suds. Don't try to sell that lather to the Philadelphia Phillies, who managed to get only two singles off him Monday night when he pitched the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 2-1 victory- Erskine, who held the Phils hitless until the sixth inning, had a little extra incentive because he knew his hospital ized old batterymate, Roy Campanella, was watching him on television. "It would sound too corny if I said I won it for Campy," said Erskine, who visited him Sunday night, "but I knew he was watching and I know the kick he gets whenever we win. Roberts Loses Fifth There wasn't a thing wrong with the Dodgers Monday MEDFO Tribune SMDfiTS LANDING OVERHEAD RIGHTS like the above did little good for Lahouari Godih, French lightweight champion, right, at Madison Square Garden. He lost to Johnny Busso, left, in ten rounds. (UPI Telephoto) SF Giants Set Attendance Marks; San Jose Folds Up By HAL WOOD San Francisco (UPI) The Giaats set attendance records In San Francisco this spring and they'll set more. But 50 miles away the San Jose Pirates of the Class C California League went broke. For the first time since 1946, the so-called - "Prune City" will be without profes sional baseball. The franchise was ordered shifted to Las Ve- Dragsters Turn 128 Southern Oregon Timing association opens its drag racing season on Sunday, June 1, at its Camp White strip and already there's in dication that fast times will b revved up on the one fourth mile ribbon. On Sunday in practice runs Noel Black and Gerald Fang er had the Swiftens' dragster sponsored by OK Rubber Welders, up to more than 128 miles per hour and Roy Wil sey had the Mickle, Roberts and Wilsey dragsters also up to more than 128 with 11.64 seconds elapsed time over the one-fourth mile run. It was the first time the latter had run on an electrically-clocked course. Ken Mickles had the Ashland ma chine up to 114 mph and Howard Roberts had it up to 118. Inquiries from all over Oregon and from California Indicate a big turnout this Sunday. Time trials are set for 10 a.m. and the first drags at 12:30 p.m. It will be the first activity at the track this season for which the public may turn out as spectators. The drags have been popular attractions in past seasons. A concessions stand will be in operation. Western Air Lines To Renew Service Los Angeles (UPI) Target date for resumption of serv ice in 13 western states, Can ada and Mexico y Western air lines has been set by com pany officials at next mid week. Negotiations between the airline and representatives of the Air Line Pilots Associa tion continued today under a truce t hat permitte d West ern's 263 pilots to return to the jobs they struck Feb. 21. Under the agreement, pro posed by Federal Mediator Leverett Edwards and ac cepted by both sides, talks would continue for five days in an effort to resolve con tract differences. At the end of that time all unsettled points would be sub mitted to arbitration. Aircraft maintenance crews and office personnel have been called back to work and other furloughed employees will be recalled as they are needed, a spokesman said. gas Monday and it is doubt ful that too many people cared "We aren't blaming the fail ure completely on the Giants being so close with their ma jor league baseball," said a San Jose fan. "Possibly the management had something to do with it. And the added problem of a low second divis ion team didn't help." But the loss of the club was the first heavy blow struck at minor league baseball in the West since the Giants and Dodgers came to the sunny Pa cific. Dire Predictions At the time of the move, there were dire predictions of what was going to happen to minor league baseball in the West. "The Pacific Coast league will be killed," -was one cry. "The California League won't last the season," was an other. So far, the Pacific Coast loop has been struggling along in fairly good manner. San Diego and Sacramento were supposed to be hit the hardest in the PCL; San Jose and Stockton in the California League. Each of these cities has a home population of near the 100,000 mark up to a half million. They should easily support baseball. But the interest in Northern California for the Giants has become tremendous especial ly in the wake of the big splurge the club has made so far this season in the National League standings. Attendance) Improving "It's possible that after lis tening to the Giants game on radio that the fans just didn't bother to go out to the games at night in our city," said the San Jose man. "But our at tendance was improving. The first few -weeks we averaged only about 400 per night. Then it gained to 500; and for our last game on Sunday we had better than 800 Teams in this league are supposed to be able to break even, with a 600 at tendance." It is possible that San Jose will attempt to get back into the league again next year Professional baseball never has been a howling success in Las Vegas in the past. But the population there has been growing by leaps and bounds and it is possible that the club could prove to be good enough to pay its own way, In the PCL, Sacramento is supposed to be tottering, but President Leslie O'Connor says he hasn't received any distress calls yet. Where PCL club would move, if the owners can't make the fran chise eo in Sacramento, is hard to figure. SUMMONSES MOUNT New York (UPI) The week-long crackdown on lit tering resulted in 4,082 per sons receiving summonses. Sanitation Commission Paul R. Screvane reported today Highest total for a single day was 1,016 summonses issued 4i j i -n I York's streets clean. night as they hung Robin Rob erts' fifth defeat of the season on him. They scored both of their runs in the fourth inning when Gil Hodges walked with two out, Gino Cimoli singled and little Don Zimmer scor ed them both with a line double off the left-field wall. The victory was Erskine's third of the season and it looked all the more impres sive coming off a 4-0 triumph he registered over the Card inals in his last previous start on May 18. The Milwaukee Braves moved to within two games of first place with a 4-3 vic tory over the Chicago Cubs in the only other National League game scheduled. Eddie Mathews' 11th home run of the season in the eighth inning off Moe Drabowsky settled matters after the Cubs battled back to tie the score with a three-run rally in the sixth. McMahon Relieves Burdelle Frank Torre gave the Braves a three-run jump as he homered with two on in the fourth but the Cubs drove starter ew Burdette to cover with their three-run burst in the sixth. Fast-baller Don McMahon then took over, checked Chicago on one hit the rest of the way and earned his third victory in eight days. Murry Dickson, 42-year-old Kansas City knuckle-baller, won his own ball game with a 10th inning homer over the left field wall that beat Balti more, 5-4. Dickson's homer was only the third one he's hit in his 17-year major league career and it capped a relief stint of 6 2-3 innings during which he yielded only four hits to register his third victory of the campaign. Jim Busby put Baltimore in front with a fourth-inning grand-slam homer off KC Starter Ralph Terry. The A's got three of those back in the bottom of the fourth off Con nie Johnson on Bob Martyn's two-run homer, an error and a pair of infield outs, then tied the score on Harry Chiti's homer in the fifth. Arnie Portocarrero relieved Johnson at that point and held the A's to two hits until Dickson hit his first pitch in the 10th barely over the left field barrier. It was the only American league game scheduled. STANDINGS PACIFIC COAST LEAGIE W. L. Pet. GB Phoenix 28 17 .614 Vancouver 25 16 .610 'i Salt Lake 21 18 .538 3i San Diego 20 20 .500 5 Sacramento 18 19 .486 5'i Portland 15 20 .429 7!2 Spokane 17 24 .415 8i2 Seattle 16 25 390 9z Monday's Results: Sacramento 2, Salt Lake City 1 How Series Ended: Sacramento 4, Salt Lake City 4 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB New York 25 6 .806 Boston 19 18 .514 9 Kansas City 16 16 .500 9'i Cleveland 18 20 .474 10 2 Chicago 15 19 .441 ll'.j Baltimore 14 18 .438 11 a Detroit 16 21 .432 12 Washington 15 20 .429 12 Monday's Results Kansas City 5, Baltimore 4 10 innings) (Only games scheduled) Tuesday's Probable Pitchers Washington at Chicago (night) Ramos (2-4) or Pascual (2-3) vs. Wilson (4-3). Boston at Detroit (night) Brew er (1-41 vs. Foytack (3-4). New York at Kansas City (night) Turley (7-0) vs. Urban (2-2). Baltimore at Cleveland (night) Loes (0-4) vs. Grant (4-2). Wednesday's Games Washington at Chicago New York at Kansas City Boston at Detroit Baltimore at Cleveland NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB San Francisco 26 13 .667 Milwaukee 22 13 .629 2 Pittsburgh 20 17 .541 5 Chicago 19 22 .463 8 Philadelphia 16 20 .444 8'i Cincinnati 14 18 .438 82 St. Louis 15 20 .429 9 Los Angeles 14 23 378 11 Monday's Results Los Angeles 2, Phila. 1 (night) Milwaukee 4, Chicago 3 (night) (Only games scheduled). NORTHWEST LEAGIE W. L. Pet. GB Lewiston . 22 8 .733 Wenatchee 20 12 .625 3 Yakima 15 7 .469 8 Tri-City 14 17 .451 8'i Eugene 13 17 .433 9 saiem ? zz .280 13 i Monday's Results Wenatchee 4, Eugene 1 (Only game scheduled) Today's Schedule Yakima at Eugene Wenatchee at Salem Tri-City at Lewiston League Leaders By United Press International NATIONAL LEAGUE G. AB R. H. Musial. St. L. 34 127 20 58 Mays. S.F.- 39 157 36 63 Skinner. Pitts 36 .143 26 49 Spencer. Si". 39 155 27 53 Crowe, Cin. 27 84 8 28 Solons Edge Salt Lake 2-1 in PCL By United Press International All eight teams return to action tonight in the Pacific Coast League, with Phoenix at Portland, Vancouver at Sacramento, Spokane at Salt Lake City, and San Diego at Seattle. In the only game played Monday night, Sacramento edged Salt Lake, 2-1, to win the seven-game series with the Bees, 4-3. The Solons scored two runs in the fourth inning when Carlos Paula rapped out a single with the bases loaded Salt Lake got its single run and that's all they needed, in the sixth during a rallly in which Carlos Bernier stretch ed his consecutive game bat ting streak to 3 contests. Carl Green of the Solons got the victory, although he retired from tHe mound in the fifith inning because of arm trouble. LINESCORES: Salt Lake C. 000 001 0001 4 1 Sacramento ..000 200 OOx 2 7 0 Trimble. Schultz (7), and Hall; Greene, Kume (61, Mesa (8) and Dalrymple. Pittsburgh Official Files Protest About Bean Balls Pittsburgh (UPI) Joe L. Brown,' general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, ap pealed to National League President Warren Giles Mon day in a "formal" protest against "beanball" pitchers in general, and those who play for the San Francisco Giants in particular. The protest was a direct re- Pct. .457 .401 .343 342 .333 33 29 49 39 31 .393 .367 .363 .358 341 LINESCORES: American League (10 innines) Baltimore ..000 400 000 0 4 9 1 Kansas C. 000 310 000 1 5 8 0 Johnson. Portocarrero (6) and Triandos; Terry. Dickson (4) and initi. winner Dickson (3-D. Loser Portocarrero (2-2). HRs Busby, Martyn, Chiti, Dickson. (Only games scheduled) AMERICAN LEAGUE Nieman. Bal 27 84 Ward, Cleve. . 30 79 9 Fox, Chi 34 135 15 McDgld.. N.Y. 29 109 19 Vernon. Cleve. 34 91 15 Home Runs National league- Mays, Giants 13; Thomas, Pirates 13; Cepeda, Giants 12; Walls, Cubs 12; Math ews. Braves 11. American league Cerv, Athlet ics 11: Jensen. Red Sox 9: Maris, Indians 7: Triandos. Orioles 6; Mi noso, Indians 6; Gernert, Red Sox 6. Runs Batted In National league Thomas. Pi rates 34; Mays, Giants 33; Spencer, Giants 33; Banks, Cubs 33; Cepeda, Giants 32. American league Cerv. Athletics 32; Jensen. Red Sox 26; Gernert, Red Sox 26; F. Boiling, Tigers 23; Maxwell, Tigers 20. mcning National league Spahn. Braves 6-1: Elston. Cubs 5-1: Purkey. Red- legs 5-1; Friend. Pirates 7-2: Buhl, Braves 4-2; Rush, Braves 4-2. American league Turley. Yan kees 7-0: Carver, Athletics 6-1; Sisler. Red Sox 4-1: Harshman, Orioles 5-2; Ford. Yankees 5-2. National League Los Angeles ..000 200 000 2 6 0 Philadelphia 000 000 010 1 2 0 trsxine (3-2) and Roseboro: Rob erts (4-5) and Lopata. Chicago 000 003 0003 11 0 Milwaukee .O0O 300 Olx 4 8 0 Drabowsky (2-51 and S. Taylor: Burdette, McMahon (61 and Cran dall. Winner McMahon (3-0). HRs Torre, Mathews. (Unly games scheduled). Circus Due Here Wednesday The Carson and Barnes Wild Animal circus, with trucks of wonders and cages of animals from every 'land will arrive in Medford early Wednesday, May 28. Col. Tim McCoy, movie and television personality, will be among performers at the 3 p.m. matinee and 8 p.m. per formance at the sheriff posse grounds on Sage rd. The cir cus here is being sponsored by the Jackson County Sher iffs posse. First tent to be erected after the circus arrives will be the "cookhouse" where all circus personnel are fed, and next, the animal and horse tents, followed by the "big top" and sideshows. The public is invited to the grounds at 10 a.m. Wednesday to watch the animals being fed and watered. There will be no charge. Among the animals is "Mighty Goliath,", the largest hippopotamus ever captured, which weighs more than four tens, according to those in charge. Most lobsters are a dark color when caught and turn scarlet only when cooked, but occasionally an all-red speci men is taken from the sea. STUBBORN SOIL? Lew Rates on Sawdust Mulch McGINTY FUEL CO. Phone SP 3-6297 Grant, Bend Meet in A-1 Quarterfinal Portland (U.P.I.) Grant of Portland met Bend today in a quarterfinal playoff game in the state A-1 high school baseball championships. The game was scheduled for 3:30 p.m. at the neutral Lin coln field. Grants Pass meets South Eugene in another quarter final contest. . The Bend-Grant winner will meet Dvid Douglas in the semi-finals while the Grants Pass-South Eugene winner runs up against Lincoln of Portland. Four q u a r t e rfinal A-2 games were scheduled today or tonight. They sent New port to Wy'East, Central to Sherwood, Myrtle Creek to Junction City and Stayton to Vale. In class B, Camas Valley and Gaston have reached the semi-finals while Condon is at Merrill today and Adrian meets McEwen at Athena Sat urday in quarter-final games. SOVIETS MAKE PROGRESS London (UPI) Radio Moscow reported today that a party of American iron and steel experts now touring Rus sia visited a steel plant in Chelyabinsk Monday. The broadcast quoted delegation leader Edward Ryerson as saying the Soviet steel in dustry's progress is "tremend ous if you take into account the short time in which it has been built up." Woman Killed in Auto, Truck Crash The Dalles (UPI) Ber tha Mannschreck, 57, Alta dena, Calif., was killed .in stantly Monday evening when the car in which she was riding and an empty cattle truck collided on rain-slick- ened Highway 30 about 18 miles west of here. The women's husband, George J. Mannschreck, was hospitalized in Hood River Memorial hospital in "satis factory" condition with con tusions, abrasions and ex treme shock, according to at tendants. Police said he was the driver of the car. The truck driver, Huey Paul Mears, Sunnyside, Wash, was treated at the hospital for shock and released. Board Rules On Protest In 500-Mile Indianapolis (UPI) The Central Area Competition committee of the United States Auto club has ruled against an Indianapolis man who protested a qualification time trial decision for the Memorial Day 500-mile race. Fred Sommer filed a protest in connection with a second qualifying speed granted Bob Christie, Grants Pass, Ore., who qualified a week ago Sun day at an average speed of 141.900 miles per houn His speed was later upped to 142.253 just fast enough to keep him from being "bump ed aunday following a re- check of the official timers' tape. . Sommer pointed out that his car, driven by Gene Hart ley of Indianapolis, would be in the race had officials fol lowed the rules and not changed the announced speed. Chief Steward Harlan Feng ler disallowed the protest, say ing it should have been filed within half an hour after Christie's new speed was posted. Sommer appealed to the USAC, governing body of the "500, for further consideration. Robert C. Wilke, chairman of the competition committee, Monday upheld Fengler's rul ing that the protest was filed too late. He ,said it was not made within time limits prescribed in USAC official competition rules or in the speedway entry blank. Hail Storm Causes $100,000 Damages Madras (UPI) An esti mate made Monday by a local insurance man, Con Herbster, said a mail storm Saturday caused $100,000 damage to roofs and windows in private and municipal buildings in this area. The hailstorm which hit about 2 p.m. bombarded crops and houses with hailstones, breaking windows and put ting holes in tarred roofs. Even more damage may re sult from leaking roofs if more rain falls before roofs can be repaired, according to insurance adjusters. The same storm that struck here Saturday also caused flood conditions in the Warm Springs Indian agency and cascaded across the highway into agency property. Damage on the reservation was estimated at $24,000 by A. W. Galbraith, reservation superintendent. Reach for a jong one ! Enjoy a tall, cool drink made with run and uu Tastes so rich Swallows so smooth (j XI Wi" rfSNlV M80 $AZS suit of the flare-up between the Pirates and the Giants at Forbes field Sunday. Brown said he felt it was "obvious" that Giant pitcher Ruben Gomez "threw at Bill Mazeroski," the Pirates' sec ond baseman in the first game of the doubleheader, and said he told Giles of his feelings in a 15-minute telephone conversation. Latest Incident The general manager charged the beanball pitch was used by the Giants ear lier in the season when the clubs played a series at San Francisco. That was when Pi rate players Ron Kline and Hank Foiles were struck by pitches. In the latest incident Sun day, Mazeroski blocked a pitch flying toward his head by throwing up his arm. The Pirate general mana ger said he suggested to Giles that umpires be given the power to throw out of a game any pitcher he believes has tried to "dust off" a batter. Chieftains Down Emeralds In Make-Up Game By United Press International The Wenatchee Chiefs took adventage of a make-up game with Eugene Monday night to gain a half game on the league-leading Lewiston Broncs. Wenatchee defeated the Emerals 4-1 in the only action of the night as Chuck Tulner belted a two-run homer in the fourth inning to set up the victory. Claude Osteen went the dis tance for Wenatchee, notching his fifth win in six decisions. He struck out twelve and walked three as he limited Eugene to five hits: League action resumes to night with the Broncs playing host to Tri-City, Wenatchee opening a series at Salem and Yakima invading Eugene. Orioles Monday and will re port to their Knoxville farm club in the South Atlantic league. He batted .304 for his college team this season. BRILL METAL WORKS Commercial Industrial Residential Shed Metal Work Stainless, Galvanized and Copper Fabrication 2287 West Main PHONE SP 2-4440 ORIOLES SIGN CATCHER Baltimore, Md. 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