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IN STOCd C(&8 S&Cf Jack Keck Jr., is shown beside the
car he'll be racing this Saturday night at the Valley View
speedway under auspices of Dave and Vern Fraysher service
of Medford. The program will open the season at the track
just north of Ashland. Time trials are billed for 7 p.m. and
the first race for 8 p.m. Cars in the races will be 1949 through
1953 models.
SfQctt Cars' Racing
P&y$ah Saturday
Stocfc car racing for the
199 ffon opens Saturday
nM, June 81, t th Valley
fyiMi Speedway on mile
&B& eX Ashland.
then 29 cars are ex-
a4 & fc in shape for the
iala which will begin
B nf.m. First of the races
- rtart an hour later.
SNci ears of the 1949-53
vintage ill race for a 5575
purse that will be split up be
tween the top drivers in the
final standings
Races will feature such
drivers as the father and son
team of Jack Keck Sr. and
M-W, Persons
Win Sotbll
League Tingles
Willard Barnum and E. C.
Brittsan "combined for a no
hitter Monday evening as M
and W Chain Saw squelched
Medford Junior Chamber of
Commerce 25 to 0 in a Jack
son County Stball associa
tion game at Camp White.
Parsons Motors trimmed the
Cheney Studs 8 to 1 on a one
hiter by Ron Weatherford.
Two games are set for
Thursday at the Veterans Ad
ministration diamond at Camp
"VVhite.M and W will face the
Bureau of Reclamation at 7
p.m. and the Rogue VSlley
Dairy Maids play the Jaycees
about 8:30 p.m. Chain Saw
has two wins in the loop and
the Bureau has won its only
(?me-o
M and W put over nine runs
each in the first and fourth in
nings Monday.
Brittsan homered for M and
W, Barnum had two doubles
and Larry Slessler one two-baser.
Jr., Louis Kurz, Ashland Fire
Chief Chuck Davis, and a
number of top drivers from
around the area. Many of
these drivers are veterans
from the hard top races of
years gone by.
Racing of stock cars at
Valley View marks the first
time in a number of years
that such races have been
run. Stock cars have been a
huge success in the Portland
area, according to reports.
In the time trials each car
will get two laps. From them
the post positions will be de
termined for the various
events.
Races will include two or
three heat races and a trophy
dash in addition to the main
event of the evening. Results
will be figured on a point
system. Points will be tabu
lated for the whole season.
Top point getters at the end
will receive trophies.
The track is located just
one mile north of Ashland off
Highway 99 about one-quarter
of a mile. People travel
ing from Medford and that
area must turn left just past
the weighing station on the
highway.
There is plenty of parking
and -the concession stand will
be open during the entire pro
gram with a variety of drinks
and food.
Park of P Hoe nix Giants
Possible Home of Homers
By BILL McFAHLAND
United Press International
Phoenix, Ariz (UPI) Pa
cific Coast league pitchers
must wonder, when playing
in the Phoenix park, if to
day's "rabbit" baseballs have
a homing instinct, the way
they're disappearing over
fences in this desert mecca.
At the rate the bunny ball
is sailing over the garden
walls, Phoenix is making a
bid in baseball's record book
at the home of the homers,
and not Los Angeles' Coli
seum, with its short left field
foul line and high screen.
There isn't so short a bar
rier here as in the Dodger lot.
The boundary lines on the
square Phoenix park run 321
feet at the foul lines and 420
feet in dead centerfield. Most
of the homers here aren't dis
appearing at the foul lines.
Many of them are Ruthian
type swats that clear tall palm
trees, and sometimes the 40
foot light standards, at the
385-foot marks in left and
right "center.
A total of 124 homers have
been hit thus far, and the sea
son is onlv half over. Phoe
nix has hit 68 of its 97 hom
ers in the home lot and the
opposition has done well here,
too, slapping 56 out of sight.
Sound Theory
There must be a season for
it, and veteran pitcher Max
Surkont, traded by Phoenix
ROCKY TO REFEREE
Boston (UPI) Former
world heavyweight champion
Rocky Marciano will be the
third man in the ring at Sar
gent field, New Bedford, on
June 23 when former feath
erweight champion Willie
Pep meets Pat McCoy. Mar
ciano also will serve as ref
eree the following night at
Athol for the Gordon Parker
Lou Caroma bout.
Baseball Video
Out of Hand,
Baxasi Claims
Los Angeles (UPI) Tele
vising of big league baseball
is getting out of hand, in the
opinion of E. J. (Buzzy) Ba
vasi, vice president and gen
eral manager of the Los An
geles Dodgers.
Speaking of the flood of Na
tional league games that are
being beamed into New York
from Philadelphia, Pittsburgh
and St. Louis since the Dodg
ers and Giants have moved to
the Pacific Coast, Bavisi de
clared:
"It's now a beer war back
there. And it's not a healthy
situation.
"I'm not against the tele
vising of a limited number of
games. It always has been
our attitude that the home
club should do what it wants
with television.
"But I never thought we'd
go this far. You are giving
your show away for nothing
when you over-televise. You
are making it too easy for
people to see ball games for
free."
"TV has its place. It makes
fans and, in that respect, helps
baseball. But you can't af
ford to saturate the market,"
he said.
to Seattle earlier in the year,
has a pretty good theory.
Max says it's not the light
air or the fences in Phoenix
that make the curve balls
hang fbr the hitters to blast,
although the lighter air of
fers lees resistance to a hard
hit ball.
My curve broke well at
Phoenix, but 1 think the key
factor for the homeruns in
Phoenix is the baseballs,"
said Max.
"They're drier in Phoenix
"Because there is so little
humidity, and the tempera
tures go so high," adds Max,
"the baseballs dry out and
become harder than other
places. Those dry, hard balls
leap off bats faster and far
ther in Phoenix than any-
wheae else I've pitched."
Statistics Add Proof
Surkont's theory is well
borne out by the statistics
provided by Coast league
headquarters here.
That Phoenix total of 124
homers far outdistances the
rest; but Salt Lake, another
desert area city, is second,
with 60 homers hit there, 30
by the Bees and 30 by the
opposition. Another dryland
club, Spokane, is next in line
with 37, 19 by the Indians
and 18 by the opposition. San
Diego's mark is 35, with 22
by the home club. Only 22
have been hit out of Mult
nomah Stadium in Portland,
whale 31 have been lost at
Sacramento and 30 at Van
couver. Seattle, right in the
middle of the Northwest mois
ture belt, has had the least
lost fair balls seven by the
home team and 17 by the opponents.
At the rate Phoenix is go
ing, it looks like a cinch to
break the Coast league rec
ord for homers in a season
202, set by the Steve Bilko
led Los Angeles Angels in
1958.
SPORTS
Jim Foxx Happy
At Minneapolis
Minneapolis (UPI)
Jimmy Foxx, the hall of
fame member the Boston Red
Sox hired last winter, is hap
py as a rookie with his job
with the Minneapolis Mil
lers of the American associ
ation. Foxx, 50, has been under
a doctor's care the past few
weeks with "fluctuating blood
pressure."
: "It's not being back in
uniform, though, that's rais
ing the pressure, it'a" hered
itary," he said. "I couldn't be
happier with my work."
And his bosses are well
pleased with the famous slug
ger in his new role as hit
ting coach and goodwill man
for the Millers, the Red Sox'
Triple-A farm club.
Foxx was invited to join
Salt Lake
Top Hitter
San Francisco (UPI) Car
los Bernier, fleet Salt Lake
City outfielder, batted exact
ly .368 his season's average
in seven games last week
to retain the Pacific Coast
League hitting leadership, ac
cording to statistics released
today and including Sunday's
games.
Bernier has appeared in 58
games, collected 81 hits in 220
trips to the plate. He has clout
ed eight homers and knocked
in 41 runs. Team-mate Dick
Stuart leads in homer with
26 and runs-batted-in with 69.
The pitching leader, On an
earned-run average, is Gordon
Sundin of Vancouver, who has
allowed only .209 runs per
nine innings while winning
four and losing three.
Seven wins have been post
ed by four hurlers: Dick Hsn
lon, Spokane; Art Ceccarelli,
Vancouver; and Don Zanni
and Ernie Broglio of Phoenix.
Marshall Bridges of Sacra
mento leads in strikeouts with
82 in 88 innings.
DODGERS SIGN THREE
Los Angeles (UPI) The
Los Angeles Dodgers an
nounced Tuesday that they
have signed three college
players catcher-outfielder
Conrad Munatones and Ernest
Rodriguez, from UCLA, and
outfielder Ron Cutter, from
Wilmington, Ohio, college.
Kid, Yama Vie
This Evening
Miami Beach (UPI) For
mer welterweight champion
Kid Gavilan is favored to
whip tough Yama Bahama,
the Bimini slugger who is out
to kill the "keed's" comeback
hopes in tonight's nationally
televised 10-rounder.
The odds were about 12-5
for the Cuban bolo puncher,
but were expected to change
before fight time at the Miami
Beach auditorium.
Mike Monroe Ousts
No. 2 OGA Qualifier
San Jose, Calif. (UPI)
-A lone bandit robbed the
First National bank of San
Jose of $4,000 to $5,000 Tues
day after handing teller Shir
ley Reese, 26, a note reading
Have gun, will shoot."
the organization after it was
learned he was out of a job
and nearly destitute.
"After the story about my
financial problems I got a
few job offers. Maybe I
could be making more
money," he said, "but just
being back in baseball is good
enough for me."
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Portland (UPI) Two fa
rorites lost out Tuesday in
the opening round of match
play at the Oregon Junior
Golf championships.
Mike Sweet, Nampa, Idaho,
1957 semi-finalists was upset
by Kick Swan of Vancouver,
Wash., who missed Boys' me
dalist honors by one stroke
Monday, was ousted by Mike
Monroe of Medford.,
Jim u looie, meaaiist in
the Junior division, barely
got by Scott Bennett of Rose
City, 1-up. Fred Taylor, the
Boys' medalist, won on the
20th dale from Ken Huth of
Oswego.
Doug Olson Wins
Defending Fee wee champ
Mike Soran of Klamath Falls
lost to Mike Truax of Salem
on the 11th hole. Doug Olson
of Medford, the Peewee me
dalist, won his first match, 2
up over Charles Milne of Sa
lem.
Treasure Sullivan of Ash
land, the Girls' medalist, de-
Kcn Rosewall
Faces Harrwig
Forest Hills, N. Y. (UPI)
Little Ken Rosewall of Aus
tralia will be battlinc for the
lead in the $15,000 tennis
tournament of champions
when he takes on fellow-coun
tryman Rex Hartwig under
the lights tonight.
Rosewall currently i tied
with defending champion Pan
che Gonzales in the race for
the top prize of $3,000." Each
has won three straight with
out a defeat.
Gonzales is not scheduled to
play tonight.
Rosewall and Gonzales each
picked up important victories
Wednesday night. Rosewall
defeated Frank Sedgman in
one of the finest matches
played to date. 6-4. 2-6. 6-3.
while Gonzales gained his tri
umph with a straight-set tri
umph over Red Hartwig, 6-3,
6-3.
feated Carole Hendrickson of
Astoria, 4 and 3.
Lynn Yturri of Ontario,
turned in the hottest Boys' di
vision round. He defeated
Mike Cherry of Baker on the
11th hole and played the
round out for a 69. Biff Lovett
of Portland, 1957 Junior runner-up,
was three under par in
defeating Bob Hermanson of
Vancouver, Wash., 6 and 5.
Results of Rogue Valley
Country club players m state
junior tourney included:
Juniors Stew Schroeder
def. Stan Meussle, Portland, 2
and 1, championship flight;
Tony Monroe def. Bob Cone,
Vancouver, Wash., 7 and 6,
second flight; Gary Miksche
def. Joe Gilbert, Tualatin, 1
up, sixth flight.
MAIL TRIBUNE, MeeW, Ortn, Weintder, June II, ItSt
Boys Charles Allen lost 3
to 2 to Chuck Allen, Rose
burg, championship flight;
Stan Dowson lost to Dick Hop
por, Portland, second flight;
Steve Cummins def. Doug
Morton, Portland, 3 and 1 in
second flight; John Hamlin
lost to Robert Lyman, La
Grande, 5 and 4, fourth flight;
Dick Knight lost to Bud Wed
in, Chehalis, Wash., 2 and 1,
s?xth flight; Larry Berg lost
t Rich Hood, Vancouver,
Wash., '3 and 2, 10th flight.
Girls P a m Stacey def.
Judy Casiato, Portland, 4 and
3.
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Robert Frometheu (Bob)
FitzVimmon who held his
J$htheavywight title un
til t was 43 yotx 6 months
ptd when h was defeated
December 20, 1905.
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