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o o o o o O Yogi oil To Victory Over With Three -Bun BY UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL o Yogi Berra, who has been playing an unusually minor role while the "New York Yankee were seizing a huge lead in the American League race, broke loose Saturday with a three-run homer that rried the Yankee to a 6-3 victory over the Cleveland Indians. 0 Berra, who ha? only .221 batting averse 2hat is a far cry from the days when he was winning the "most valu able player" await three O MAJORS CRACK DOWN ON BEAttSBALl HEAVES Chicago (UPI) The major leagues have cracked down on beanball pitchers. Starting i m m e d i a tely a (pitcher will draw an auto maticijSO finif he is warned by the umpire against inten (tjonallynthrowing at the bat ter. u o O If such a pirih is repeated, the pitclr will be toed out of the game and be liable to further fine or suspension, ac Camp Whiter Entertain cCave Junction RVL Nine Camp White Thrc play ers from Grants Pass, two of whom finished 3heir high schoc) careers this year, will bewith the Camp White tesm when it opens its Rogue league season againgt Cave Junction at Memorial field here this afternoon. One Of; them, Jim Smith, Is slated to be the starting pitcher. The ojhe two are Pete Proctor, ffrst baseman, who was a teammate of Sth's this spring, and Larry CRhell, pitcher and infielder, wfeb formerly played at GP high. Game time today will be . 1:30 .m. instead of the later time previously published. All RVL games are scheduled to begin at l:3(p.m. this year. Other tangle slated in the cir cuit today is Butte Falls at Riddle. Prospect has a bye. VSrg kklm Halts Martinez To Gam Welterweight Toga St. Louis (UPI) Violent Virgil Akins probably will de ' fend his brand new welter weight ocrown O against ex champion Carmen Basilio in September, co-manager Eddie Yawitz said Saturday. "I had a four-hour confer ence with Basilio's managers .... and they're alffor the match," druggist Yawitz of St. Louis exclained. "They want it at Syracuse or St. Louis." He said Johnny de John and Joe Netro, Basilio's co-pilots, 0 were so impressed with Akins' sensational knockout over Vince Martinez at the Aren q riday night, they may refuse to wait for middleweight champion Sugar Ray Robin son to make up his mind about a third title fight with Basilio. By JAK CUDDY St. LtfSis (UPI) Cocky Virgil Akins, the explosive new welterweight champion who floored gory Vince Mar tinez nine times for a techni cal knockout title triumph Ha The money from this sale will be used by the Rotary club ' to sponsor a foreign student in the Medford High School for one year, under auspices of the American Field Service. Medford Mail Tribun rra-Carries Yanks times, drove in a total of four runs to help southpaw Whitey Ford get credit for his seventh win. . - In other A.L. games, the Bostan Red Sox scored four runs in the seventh inning to beat the Chicago White Sox, 7-6; 41year-ld Murry Dick son of the Kansas City A's pitched a five-hitter in his first A.L. start to beat Balti more, 5-2; ,and Herb Plews drove in the winning run in the ninth inning for Wash ington in a 4-3 decison over Detroit. cording to the judgment of the league president. The new regulation was framed by Presidents Warren Giles of the National league and William Harridge of the American league in a meeting Friday. The meeting was called af ter a rash of "duster" inci dents cropped up in the Na tional league within the past two weeks. The Cave Junction line-up has not been reported here. However, two players from last year's CJ squad are in Camp White uniforms, Jim Eggers, pitcher, and Chuck Mairchant, second baseman. Weather hangs as a threat over the fracas here. Weath er bureau forecasts indicated conditions similar to those yesterday but with possibly more sunshine. The average haul of bitumi nous coal is 289 miles. The tops of large trees cut ?or timber often yield the best Christmas trees for the an nual holiday season trade. The southeastern states have .abundant regions of red soil. Other principal areas are in Africa,.- South America, Asia and the South Pacific. sad today, "I'd like to defend against Carmen Basilo in Sep tember." Truman Gibson, president of the International Boxing club agreed with atomic Ak ins that a defense against ex welterweight and middle weight champion Basilio would be a "natural." Gibson said, "We'll know in a couple of weeks whether Sugar Ray Robinson will de fend his middleweight title this year against Basilio. If he doesn't, we'll try to match Akins and Basilio for a Sep tember fight at New York City or Syracuse, N.Y." Akins of St. Louis gave boxing a robust shot . in the arm with his dynamic perfor mance Friday night as he won the vacant world 147 pound crown by scoring a fourth-round TKO over Mar tinez, who never had been stopped before. Many of the 9,777 fans in the warm St. Louis arena re garded 30-year-old Virgil with awe as" they cheered his vic ROTARY NEFirSUIT'SALB A 9 community service, the Medford Rotary Clob asks you to help in this year's Rotary Used Suit Sale to be held early September. Any Medford Cleaning Establishment will be happy to pick up or accept any men's suits, . top coats, overcoats, slacks and sport coats which are still good but possibly too small or not being worn by a member of your family. This cothing will be cleaned (no cost to you) to be put up for sale to those who wish to purchase a good article of clothing at a reasonable price. Call your favorite Medford Cleaners or SP 3-6233 and kindly give your name, address and name of article you wish to donate. Indians Homer Berra's homer, his eighth, broke a 2-2 tie in the sixth inning. Ford was not impres sive in gaining the win, yield ing 10 hits and balking home one Cleveland run. Roger Maris homered for the In dians. Key play in the Boston Chicago game came when Lou Berberet of the Red Sox hit a low line drive to center field ' in the seventh inning with the bases loaded. Jim Landis, bothered by a tricky wind, barely missed a shoe string catch and the ball rol led for a double that scorad all three runners. That proved decisive when Chicago, trail ing 7-5, rallied for one run before being stopped by re liever Leo Kiely. Ted Wil liams had three singles for Boston while. Al Smith had a homer, double, and -single for the White Sox. " Dickson, the veteran ex-Na tional leaguer, was given a three -run lead' in' the first inning of the A's game when Vic Power homered with two on off loser Jack Harshman Harshman was charged with his fifth straight loss after opening the season with five wins, although he fanned 10 batters to tie the A.L. lead in that department with the Yankees' Bob Turley at 62 and also hit a homer in his own support. Roy Sievers of the Senators and Ray Boone of the Tigers hit homers in their games but Plews' single provided the winning run, coming with the bases loaded and one out in the last of the ninth. AMERICAN LEAGUE Kansas City 301 010 000 5 9 0 Baltimore .... 000 002 000 2 5 0 Dickson (4-1) and Chiti; Harsh man (5-5) and Triandos. HRS Power (4th). Harshman (1st). Cleveland .... 000 110 0103 10 1 New York .... 000 204 OOx 6 8 0 Mossi. Wilhelm (6), Bell (7) and Brown; Ford (7-2) and Berra. LP Mossi (4-5). HK5 Mans (8th), Berra (7th). Chicago 010 030 101 6 9 0 Boston 100 200 40x 7 14 2 Keegan, Qualters (4), Fischer (5), Wynn (7) and Lollar; Baumann, DeLock (5) Kiely (9) and Berberet. WP DeLock (3-0). LP Fischer (2-2) HR Smith (4th). Detroit 000 003 0003 12 1 Washington 202 000 001 4 7 0 Bunning, Morgan (4) Mofard (6) Valentinetti (9) and Wilson; Kem merer. Clevenger (6) and Courtney. WP Clevenger (4-3). LP Moford (0-1) HRS Sievers (10th), Boone (6th). tory when referee Harry Kessler stopped the fight at 52 seconds of the fourth round. At that time, the blood- smeared New Jersey contend er lay stretched flat on his back, looking like a man who had been trampled by a herd of elephants. Kessler did not even count over him. In fact Kessler had started to wave his hasds in the "that's all" signal as 29-year-old Vince was plummeting toward the canvas. Each fighter weighed 1463i pounds when they started the scheduled 15-rounder, and Akins was favored at 2-1 be cause of his aggressiveness. St. Louis (UPI) Ed die Yawitz, co-manager of the new welterweight champion Virgil Akins, on Akins' tech nical knockout victory over Vince . Martinez: "Martinez mistake was merely carrying his left glove too. low all the time, and Akins took advan tage .of it." . .. Central, Adrian New State Champs Portland Adrian beat Gas ton 12-2 in the B division of the state championship base ball games Saturday night. The game was halted in the fifth inning and the victory given to Adrian on an Oregon State Athletic association rul- Mays Sparkles But Giants Lose San Francisco (UPI) The San Francisco Giants, who either win games in the last inning or blow big leads, lost another one the hard way Fri day night by succumbing to the Cincinnati Reds, 5-4, after leading 4-0. Willie Mays hit his 14th home run and boomed into the league leadership with a batting average of .433 while having a perfect evening at the plate, but that was about the only bright spot for local fans. Jerry Lynch clubbed a three-run homer and Willard Schmidt pitched five-and-two thirds innings of effective re lief ball for Cincinnati. Pirates, Phillies Take League Wins By United Press International Frank Thomas and Rip Re pulski . each drove in five runs Saturday to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates and Phila delphia Phillies to victories in National League games. Thomas included two home runs in his slugging spree, but even so the Pirates had to ral ly for three runs in the 10th inning to beat the Chicago Cubs, 8-6. Repulski had a ho mer and two singles as the Phillies trounced his ex-St. Louis Cardinal teammates, 15-6. In the only other N.L. day game, Alan Worthington's re lief pitching and timely hit ting sparked the San Francis co Giants to a 7-3 victory over the Cincinnati Redlegs. Thomas' two homers gave him 16 and tied him with Ernie Banks of the Cubs for the N.L. lead. His five runs-batted-in gave him the lead in that department with 49. However, the score was tied Rogue Valley A, B Teams Score High Portland Rogue Valley County club's B team accum ulated an average score of 344 in the Alderwood Golf invitation in Portland Satur day. Medford's A team piled up a team average of 309 for the 18 holes played Saturday. The remaining 18 holes will be played today. Leland Clark was the lead er of the B team and accum ulated an 82 for the 18 holes. Other scores on his team were Del Berg 84, Tom Teutsch 92, Clayton Lewis 86. Leader for the A team was William Miller with 73. Others on the team and their scores were Bud Haupert 80, Ed Hall 79, Carl Schmidt 77 (substitute for Lee Flink). Loch Lomond is the largest of Scotland's lakes. matin Who Racked Up th Highest Bckmg Earnings? The boxer to make the big gest fortune by fighting (excluding refereeing") was Rocco Marchegiano (.Kockv Marciano) from 1947 to 1955 when in 49 bouts (43 KO and 6 decisions) he earned 4.626,72Ul TOP THIS! To any reader submitting contrary proof, Tip Brady will send a signed, wallet-sized diploma. Write to: BEAT THIS, co this paper, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Enclose self-addressed, stamped envelope. i 1. 1 ing which gives the victory to the team which piles up a 10 run lead over opponents. Adrian won it easily behind the stellar playing of Phil Hatch who. not only pitched no hit ball but batted in three runs on three hits. Adrian got off to a slow start in the first inning with one run then brought in five in the second inning. The team scored no further runs until the fifth inning when it piled up six more to end the game on the OSAA ruling. In the A-2 division Central trounced Myrtle Creek 6-0 in seven innings of play Satur day night. A two run homer hit by Central's pitcher Lukens was the high spot of the game. He also pitched a two hit shutout to further cinch the game for his team. ' Myrtle Creek remained scoreless for all seven inings. Central failed to score in the first inning, piled up two runs in the second inning and one in the third inning. In the third frame it scored two runs and one more in the fifth inning. at 5-5 in the top of the 10th when Gene Freese tagged Pitcher Dolan Nicholas for a leadoff home run. The Pirates added two insurance runs and needed them as the Cubs scor ed once in the last of the 10th. Other homers were hit by Bill Virdon of the Pirates and Bobby Thompson of the Cubs. Repulski hit a three-run homer in the first inning of his game to start the Phillies on their way to the slugfest win. En route, five Card pit chers helped out by issuing 13 walks. Winning Pitcher Curt Simmons had three of the Phils' 17 hits and drove in two runs and Wally Post wound up the scoring with a two-run homer in the ninth. Stan Musial hit his 11th hom er for the Cards. Alan Worthington relieved in the Giants game with the score tied at 3-3 in the sixth inning, snuffed out a threat and held Cincinnati hitless the rest of the way. He him self drove in the run that put the Giants ahead with a single in the sixth and also hit. a sacrifice fly in a three run rally in the eighth that clinched it. Milwaukee was at Los An geles in a night game. NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia 310 400 052 IS 17 0 St. Louis .... 200 000 004 6 10 3 Simmons (5-6) and Lopata; Mc Daniel, Barnes (1), Paine (4), Mar tin (6), Wight (8) and H. Smith. LP McDaniel (3-5). HRS Repul ski (8th), Musial (11th), Post (1st). (10 Innings) Pittsburgh 000 000 212 3 8 11 1 Chicago .... 000 200 030 1 6 10 0 Gross. Face (8), Blackburn (10) Smith (10), and Foiles, Hall '9); Phillips, Elston (9), Nichols 9, Freeman (10). Fodge (10) and Nee man, S. Taylor (9). WP Face (1-2). LP Nichols (0-4). HRS Thomson (4th), Thomas 2 (15th and 16th, Virdon (2nd), Freese (1st), Long (5th). Cincinnati 100 020 000 3 9 3 San Fran. 001 111 03x 7 10 0. Nuxhall, Acker (6). Jeffcoat (7), Lown (8) and Burgess; Gomez, Worthing (6) and Thomas, Schmidt (7). WP Worthing (4-2). LP Nux hall (2-3). Milwaukee at Los Angeles (night) Baseball SUNDAY'S GAMES National League Pittsburgh at Chicago (2) Milwaukee at Los Angeles Philadelphia at St. Louis (2) . Cincinnati at San Francisco American League Detroit at Washington f Kansas City at Baltimore (2) Cleveland at New York Chicago at Boston (2) FRIDAY'S RESULTS Pacific Coast League Sale Lake 6, Sacramento 3 San Diego 9. Spokane 3 Seattle6, Phoenix 5 (10 innings) Portland at Vancouver, (post poned, rain) American League Baltimore 2, Kansas City 1 (1st, twilight) Baltimore 3, Kansas City 1 (2nd, night) Boston 3, Chicago 2 (night) - Detroit 11, Washington 2 (night) New York 6, Cleveland S (night) Friday's Results National League Chicago 6, Pittsburgh 1 St. Louis 3, Philadelphia 1 (night) Los Angeles . 4, Milwaukee 3 (night) Cincinanti 5, San Francisco 4 (night) Northwest League Wenatchee 7, Yakima 3 Lewiston at Salem (ppd., rain) Tri-City at Eugene (ppd rain) International League Toronto 8, Columbus 3 Richmond 10, Montreal 6 Miami 1. Rochester 0 Poison Oak? Try a Bottle of ZEMACOL You must be satisfied or your money cheerfully refunded. Gel a bottle today at WESTERN THRIFT STANDINGS By United Press International AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. GB New York 32 12 .727 Kansas City 24 21 .533 8'i Boston 24 24 .500 10 Washington 22 26 .458 12 Chicago 21 25 .457 12 Cleveland 22 27 .449 12'i Detroit 21 26 .447 12 '2 Baltimore 20 25 .444 122 Saturday's Results Boston 7, Chicago 6 Washington 4, Detroit 3 , New York 6, Cleveland 3 Kansas City 5, Baltimore 2 SUNDAY'S PROBABLE PITCHERS By United Press International (Won-lost Records in Parenthese) AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland at New . York (2) Grant (4-3) and Narleski (6-4) vs Kucks (4-1) and Maglie (1-1). Kansas City at Baltimore (2) Garver (7-1) and Maas (2-5) vs Portocarrero (4-2) and Sleater (0-0) or Moeller (0-0). Chicago at Boston (2) Pierce (4-4) and Donovan (2-6) vs Sisler (4-2) and Brewer (2-5). Detroit at Washington Susce (0-0) vs Ramos (3-4). NATIONAL LEAGUE Milwaukee at Los Angeles Conley (0-4) vs Podres (5-4). Cincinnati at San Francisco Lawrence (2-3) vs McCormick (4-1). Pittsburgh at Chicago (2) Kline (6-5) and Raydon (0-2) vs Dra bowsky (3-5) and Hobbie (35) or Fodge (1-1). Philadelphia at St. Louis 2) Roberts (5-6) and Sanford (4-5) vs Jackson (4-2) and Brosnan (6-4). League Leaders (as of Friday) By United Press International NATIONAL LEAGUE Player & Club G. AB. R. H. Pet. Mays. S. Fran. 40 201 48 87 .433 Musial. St. L. 42 157 24 66 .420 Ashburn, Phil. 45 170 30 59 .347 Cepeda. 5-F... 48 197 37 66 .335 Hoak, Cin 43 167 25 . 55 .329 AMERICAN LEAGUE Nieman, Bait. 34 109 16 40 .367 Fox, Chicago 45 .183 23 63 .344 Kuenn, Det. .. 44 167 25 57 .341 McDgald, N.Y. 40 146 25 49 .336 Skowron, NY. 28 107 . 13 36 .336 Home Runs National league Banks. Cubs 16; Walls, Cubs 14: Thomas, Pirates 14: Mays, Giants 14; Cepeda, Giants 13. American league cerv. Athletics 15; Jensen, Red Sox 11; Mantle, Yankees 10; Gemert, Red Sox 10; Triandos, Orioles 10. Runs Batted In Ntaional league Banks. Chicago, 48; Thomas, Pirates 44; Mays, Gi ants 40:. CeDeda. Giants 38: Spen cer, Giants. 36. . American, league Cerv, Athlet ics 46: Jensen, Red Sox 36; Ger nert. Red Sox"33; Sievers, Sena tors 28; Skowroni, Yankee 28. .. Pitching National league Spahn. Braves 8-1; Purkey, Redlegs 7-1; McMa hon. Braves 5-1; Grissom, Giants 4-1; McCormick, Giants 4-1. American league Turley, Yan kees 9-1; Garver, Athletics 7-1; Kucks, Yankees 4-1; Ford, Yankees 6-2; Urban, Athletics 5-2. Porterfield Pro At Grants Pass Grants Pass Boots Por terfield is new golf profes sional at Grants Pass Country club. He replaces Dale Schvane- veldt who has left to take a pro post at Eureka, Calif. Porterfield was formerly pro at Ozaukeeo country club, Milwaukee, Wis. Nine of the national parks are located in New Mexico. to beat 1 7&ncut&4C Just watch this agile 4-door, 4 - passenger sedan ease V through traffic or slip into the tightest parking spots! Gets up to 50 miles on a gallon. DBUa - 6th and Grape Medford, Oregon St. Louis Back Into Contention By FRED DOWN United Press International Those Redbirds aren't dead birds after all! A .714 pace since May 7 has brought the St. Louis Car dinals surging back into Na tional league pennant con tention. Buried in last place with a 3-15 record exactly one month ago, they're only four games out of first place today after a 3-1 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. The victory move.d the Cardinals over the .500 mark with a 23-22 record, for the first time this season and en abled them to gain ground on both front-runners the first place Milwaukee Braves, who lost to the Los Angeles Dodg ers, 4-3, before. 54,639, and and the San Francisco Giants, who bowed to the Cincinnati Redlegs, 5-4. The Chicago Cubs, whipped the Pittsburgh Pirates, 6-1, in the other NL game. Yankees Win The New York Yankees, meanwhile, restored their American league lead to 8V2 games with a 6-5 win over the Cleveland Indians as Mickey Mantle hit two homers and Bob Turley won his ninth game. In other games, the Baltimore Orioles swept the Kansas City A's 2-1 and 3-1, the Detroit Tigers walloped the Washington Senators, 11 2, and the Boston Red Sox shaded the Chicago White Sox 3-2. The Cardinals, who have won eight of their last nine and 20 of 28 since their May 7 low-point of the season, scored two runs in the fourth inning on two singles, a walk an error and an infield out and added another in the fifth when Stan Musial's sacrifice fly brought in a -tally. Plaque Honors Ike In Manila Palace Manila (UPI) A plaque honoring President Eisenhow er has been installed on the wall of President Carlos B. Garcia's office in the presi dential Malacanang Palace. Garcia unvelied the plaque Friday, paying tribute to Eis enhower as one of the fathers of the Philippine National De fense Act. President Eisen hower used the office when he was a major and later a lieutenant colonel serving as military adviser to the Philip pine commonwealth from 1935 to 1939. At that time he was on the staff of Gen. Doug las MacArthur. the high 1495 DELIVERED IN MEDFORD TAYLOR II II I 11 I fej. Renault LLaLAZL MAIL TRIBUNE, Medfera, Sam Jones Whiffs 12 By United Press International Sam Jones, the St. Louis Cardinals' 6-4, mournful-looking right-hander, may be the National league's most under rated pitcher. , - A veteran of five big league seasons he never has won more than 14 games in one year and his best won-lost record was only 12-9, in 1957. Yet NL hitters say he's one of the toughest pitchers in the league to hit and Friday night he showed why. Big Sam struck out a league sea son high of 12 batters as he GP Legion Vies Today Grants Pass Grants Pass American Legion junior base ball squad will open its sea son by playing today at Lake view. The Climate city club in cludes nine players from Grants Pass High's District 6 A-l championship team and others from the GP prep junior varsity. From the varsity are Dick Hayes, pitcher-infielder; Den nis Barlow and Ken Longa necker, pitchers; Gary Hu neycutt, catcher; Frank Sprinkle, first baseman - out fielder, and Rex Benner, Marv Chandler and Dan Wolke, outfielders. Coach of the GP club is Mel Ingram. Battleships of the U.S. Navy were named for the states. SPECIAL PRICE Djrgiin Grade CHENEY STUD MILL Central Point- cost of Smart way to beat the high cost of driving! Just compare costs. Then, check these Dauphin fea tures ... Paris-styling; rear-engine response and readability; 4-passenger, 4 door comfort; superb steering control; latest safety features; indepen dent 4-wheel suspension. 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