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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Grants Pass Grants Pass
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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.
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pitched the Cardinals to a 3-1
victory over the Philadelphia
Phillies.
A native of Stewartsville,
Ohio, Sam's chief complaint
is they made the strike zone
too small. He's been plagued
by wildness all his career but
he's led the NL in strikeouts
twice and currently leads it
again with 66 whiffs.
Should the Cardinals go on
to win the pennant it's a safe
long-range bet that Sam will
be the guy who made the Mil
waukee Braves sad. -
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