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o o RVCC Golf Tourney Enters Semi-Final Round This Week The Club Championship at the Rogue Valley Country club rounded out its -third week end of play Sunday with Dr. Robert Buck defeat ing Ed Hall, Bruce Stanley de feating Harry Millette, D. C. Boals defeating Larry Butler, and Allen Holmes defeating Jim Wilson in the champion ship flight. Hall had Buck two down at the turn in their match but Buck made a comeback to win two and one. Stanley stood four under par going into the eighth hole against Millette. He continued in gocg form to defeat his op ponent six and five. The semi-finals of the week end pit Stanley against Holmes and Buck against Boals. THIRD ROUND RESULTS: Championship Flite Robert Buck def. Ed Hall; Bruce -Stanley def. Harry Millette; D. C. (JSoals def. Larry Butler; Allen Holmes def. Jim Wilson. First Flite John Nuich def. JMck House; e Stengel, Stars Make Appcotonce Before Senate (group Today Washington (UPI) Casey Stengel, sideways - talking manager of the New York Yankees, gave Congress a dis jointed defense of profession al baseball today. "I wouldn't bf in it 48 years if it wasn't all right," the crinkley-faced Cey con fided to the Senate Antitrust and MonopO subcommittee, s As to pending bills design ed to protect aseball and other professional team sports from antitrust laws, Stengel adopted a hands-off policy. But three of the game's brightest and highest paid stars endorsed the bill and warmly defended the contro versial reserve cteuse. They were Mickey Mantle of the Yankees, Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox, and San (The Man) Musial Cf the St. Louis Cardinals. Ail three said they felt the bill was necessary to let baseball con tinue operating as it nas. Kids Get Ajlogrtphs didn't ask for the legis lation," Stengel said after ex pounding for more than an hour on the excellence of his leagueading Yankees, Tues day's All-Star game, the high quality of Yankee castoffs nd the excellence of basg- (all in general. Capernq, Williams Bow In OPQ Quarter Finals Redmond (UPI) Four golfers -from four cities ad vanced Ho the semi-finals of the Oregon Professional Golf ers Association 0match play championships Tuesday. They are Wendell Wood of Eugene, Bill Eggers of Port land, Bob Gaspar of Cottage Grove and Boots Porterfield of Grants Pas. Gasper met Wood and Eg gers played Porterfield in 36 hole matches today. Gasper defeated Ron Caper na of Medford 5 and 4 and Bill Walton of Pendleton 4 and 2 Tuesday. Wood downed Har vey Hixson, a fellow Eugen an, 1-up in the morning and Vern Martin of Corvallis 6 and 4 in the afternoon. Eggers had the hottest round of the day in defeating Med f ord's Al Williams in an after noon match 7 and 6. He had 7 birdies in 12 holes. Eggers Do Your RENT A TRACTOR AND IMPLEMENTS from West Main Rental! WE NOW HAVE 3 FORD TRACTORS AND THE FOLLOWING IMPLEMENTS AVAILABLE FOR YOU TO RENT O Front End Loader Blades Plows Post Drivers Paving 50" Rorovator Tilfer Post Hole Diggers ' Breaker Mower . m Scarifier f600' . - Spring Tooth Harrow D,se , Sub-So.ler Crane : These Implements May Be Rented Separately! WEEKLY AND MONTHLY RATES AVAILABLE! oWEST MAIN RENTAL Tom Teutsch def. Deane Lam bert: Bob Phillips def. Bob Maents; Tom Hamlin def. William Miller. Second Flite Mike Hawkins def. Clark Mears; Ranny Smith def. Dick Finch. Third Flite J. Jensen def. D. Oakes; E. W. Peterson def. E. McGraw. Fourth Flite Robert Bayuk def. 'John Mof fat; Bob Wells def. Deakins. Fifth Flite Frank Allen def. Jim Dunlevy; Merle Emmans def. Jack Greager. Sixth rule Jim Ivory def. Fred Conrad: Jerry Olson def. Lowell Cham berlain. Seventh Flite Al McGinnis def. Jerry Cotting ham: Duane Lubbers def. Fred Sears. FOURTH ROUND PAIRINGS: Championship Flite Stanley vs. Holmes; Buck vs. Boals. First Flite Nuich vs. Teutsch; Phillips vs. Hamlin. Second Flite Hawkins vs. Smith. Third Flite Jensen vs. Petersen. Fourth Flite Bayuk vs. Wells. Fifth Flite Allen vs. Emmans. Sixth Flite Ivory vs. Olson. Seventh Flite McGinnis VR Lubbers. Eighth Flite Taylor (winner). Ninth Flite Dickey vs. Butterfield. Stengel's testimony was of fered before a standing-room audience in the Senate's mar ble - pillared caucus room which seats 300. His com ments and his syntax kept the room in constapt turmoil. A line of small youngsters queued up at the witness seats behind the testifying Stengel to collect autographs from Williams, Mantle, Mu sial and other baseball greats. Stengel's testimony came after one subcommittee mem ber, Sen. Joseph C. O'Maho ney (D.-Wyo.) served notice that all will not be smooth sailing for the sports exemp tion bill despite the 45 sena tors who have joined as its cosponsors. O'Mahoney, said it is clear, despite court rul ings, to the contrary, that biseball is a "gigantic com mercial enterprise." Closed Circuit Television O'Mahoney said he will ask the bill's sponsors to justify congressional grant of legis lative power to sports execu tives "who they are, no body knows." Such a grant, he said, might be used to de prive the public of all sports broadcasts and telecasts as they are now deprived of some TV through closed-circuit operations. defeated Alex Weber of Prine ville 2-up in the morning. Wil liams had reached the quarter finals with a 19th hole de cision over Al Mundle of Port land. Porterfield downed Roger Doyle of Portland 4 and 3 in the afternoon and Bobby Lit ton of Vancouver, Wash., 2 andl in the morning. Porter field, a former Wisconsin open champ, is a newcomer to Ore gon golf circles. LADY GOLFERS GO NORTH Minneapolis -(UPI) The ladies' professional golf tour swings to the north this week for the $7,500 American Wom en's Open tournament. The 72 hole event, first of what spon sors hope will become an an nual affair, will open Thurs day at Brookview Country club here. Tractor Work SPORTS Essig Faces Durdle in Links Meet Chicago (UPI) Medalist Don Essig, the only players of 150 starters to break par in qualifying, meets a potential giant killer today in the first round of match play in the 33rd National Public Links golf tourney. Essig led the qualifying with a 144, five strokes better than Durdle. Another top match will pit Harry Mussatto, Macomb, 111., who qualified with a 148, against Frank F. Schmidt, Dayton, Ohio, who qualified with a 149. Five players trailed Essig in qualifying with 147, one over par, and all were pitted against lesser opponents to day. Randy Petri, a 17-year-old Austin, Tex., schoolboy, meets Bill Conroy, a 152 qual ifier from Seattle; Chet Lat awiec, 'Minneapolis, Minn., faces Ralph Vranesic, (154), Denver, Colo.; Lawrence Rob ertson, Minneapolis, meets a fellow townsman, Ray Bor seth (152); Gene Hansen, Min neapolis, plays George J. Bor bely Jr., Peekskill, N. Y. (153); and Bill Arakawa, Honolulu, meets C. Allen Ducker, Charleston, S. C. (150). Royals Eye Pennant in Loop Race By United Press International The Montreal Royals, off on another reign of terror in the International league, are once again threatening an early dis posal of the pennant race. Montreal edged Rochester, 3-2, in 10 innings Tuesday night to lower the Red Wings into third place, six games back of the leaders. The Roy als have now taken 14 of their last 18 decisions, a pace just about equal with their start at the beginning of the season. Charlie Rabe limited Ro chester to seven hits in going the distance and gaining his second triumph in three de cisions. Rookie Cal Browning pitched good in the clutch for the Red Wings but suffered his fifth setback. A two-run homer by Lew Morton proved the decisive blow as the Toronto Maple Leafs defeated Buffalo's Bi sons, 3-1. Toronto managed only three base hits while moving back into second place. In other games Tuesday night, Vicente Amor pitched four-hit ball 'as Havana beat Miami, 4-0, and Richmond crushed Columbus, 9-5. Favorites Get By Second Day Portland (UPI) All the favorites in the Oregon state tennis tournament here on the Irvington Club courts sur vived Tuesday's action the seconds day of play. The tour ney runs through Sunday. Top-seeded Bill Rose of Portland defeated Donald Michael, Los Angeles, 6-1, 6-1, in mens' singles, 5th-seeded Joe Brown, Seattle, dropped Nick Hoogs of Berkeley, Calif, and 6th-ranked George Con way of Los Angeles1 won over Glen Adams,- Portland, 6-1, 6-1. Farel Footman, San Fran cisco, top-seeded in womens' singles, vanquished Mary Sherar of Yakima,. Wash., 6-2, 6-2. Seattle's Joyce Yee stayed atop the junior women's sin gles with a 6-2, 6-2 drubbing of Virginia Stevens, Portland. Under Argentine law, all oil-bearing strata in the coun try are reserved for the state. Cheaper Padres Top Coast League; Meat Vancouver 3 to 2 By GENE BRYANT San Diego's persistent Pa dres finally made it into first place in the Pacific Coast League today after a frustrat ing, month-long campaign at the leader's heels. The Pads who have been vying with both Phoenix and Vancouver for the loop's sec ond position while the Giants and Mounties limited the bat tle for first place to them selves, shaded the Canadians, 3-2, Tuesday night to gain un disputed possession of the top spot. Spokane's surging Indians helped matters by dumping Phoenix, 4-3, to drop the Gi ants into second place and pave the way for San Diego's move, into first. The Padres now lead Phoe nix by a half game and Van couver by a full game. Fouth -place Salt - Lake slammed Portland, 8-2, behind the three-hit pitching of Don Urquhart in the only other game played. The win left the Bees five games off the pace. Sacramento and Seattle took the night off. The two clubs will resume play at Sac ramento Thursday night. Dick Brodowsxi came on in the eighth inning for San Di ego and retired six straight batters to preserve the win for starter Hal Woodeshick, his eighth in a row and ninth against two losses. Lanier fipnalairity -ContinuBt-Tb Mow Oregon motorists join the-big swing to Rambler! All over the country the story is the same. Thousands upon thousands of car buyers are switching to the only car in the world to combine American big car room and comfort with small car economy and handling ease. Rambler May sales were more than-double thdse of last year. And for the model year to date, sales are up a smash ing 78.8 per cent. N Once you drive Rambler yourself, you'll know why. For Rambler costs less to buy . . . less to operate . . . and'has top resale value, too. Why don't you drive the car that outranks fifteen other American makes in Oregon? ' The Padres collected nine hits to send Mountie starter Art Ceccarelli to his fourth defeat against nine wins. At Spokane, the Indians scored three runs in the fourth on three singles, a double and sacrifice bunt to take the se ries opener from Phoenix. Re liever Dick Scott, who re placed starter and winner Dick Hanlon in the Sixth, pitched no-hit Ball until the ninth after the Giants had scored their last two runs, off Hanlon. Glen Gorbous led the win ners with four hits. The In dians made three double plays, making it 100 for the season. Urquhart faced only 30 Portland batters while coast ing to his ninth win of the year. He gave up single runs in the fifth when the Beavers put together a double and sin gle, and in the ninth when Jack Littrell lined a pinch hit home run the only one of the night in the PCL. The Bees smashed out 13 hits off a pair of Portland hurlers. Linescores: Vancouver.. 010 000 010 3 4 0 San Diego .. 010 110 OOx 3 9 1 Ceccarelli, Heman (7) and White; Woodeshick, Brodowski (8) and A. Jones. Portland .... 000 010 001 2 3 0 Salt Lake .. 105 110 OOx 8 13 1 Buzhardt, Judson (3) and Bar rigan; Urquhart and Miley. Phoenix .... 001 002 000 3 6 0 Spokane .... 100 300 OOx 4 11 : " 1 'rrix ' -v! CP Loses 2-1 to GP Central Point dropped an extra inning game to Grants Pass by a 2 to 1 count in a Tuesday American Legion baseball game at winner's field. Grants Pass scored first in the third inning on a hit, two errors, and. a hit batter. The bases were loaded when Cen tral Point pitcher Alan Mc Kinnis hit the opposing bat ter and forced in the initial tally. In the fifth inning Central Point came back to even the count after Pete Stemple walked and was advanced to second by an infield hit- At this point the Grants Pass catcher dropped a third strike and Stemple scored all the way from second. Grants Pass won the game in the eighth inning on a run following three successive hits. Linescores: Central Point 000 010 00 1 1 3 Grants Pass 001 000 01 2 7 1 McKinnis and Tucker; Hayes and Longnecker. Beavers Purchase Sacramento Pitcher Portland (UPI) The Pacific Coast, league Portland Beavers Tuesday bought catcher Facunda (Cuno) Bar ragan from Sacramento after the team found itself with only one catcher when Nini Tornay was injured during a warmup last week. Tornay was hurt while warming up pitcher John Buz hardt in Seattle. (Authority: Crane 3rd Place In Sales Davis Cup Drawing Set Toronto, Ont. (UPI) The key to Canadian chances of upsetting the United States in their North American semi final Davis Cup series start ing Thursday could lie in to day's drawing for. the opening singles pairings. - ,If luck is with Canada in the draw, non-playing team captain Lome Main believes the host team has a great chance of beating a U. S. squad that is risking the use of young players in an effort tb develop them for future matches. Main and Perry T. Jones, who heads the U. S. squad, re fused to name their singles players, but indications wert it would be Bob Bedard and Don Fontana for Canada against Barry MacKay of Day ton, Ohio, and Whitney Reed, of Alemeda, Calif. Carter Favored To Beat Valdes Spokane, Wash. UPI) Hard-hitting Harold Carter, facing his biggest test since a hitch in the Army, was an 8-5 favorite to beat big Nino Val des of Cuba tonight in their 10-round nationally, televised heavywegiht contenders bat tle. Carter, of Detroit, is ranked No. 9 in the heavyweight class by Ring Magazine and Valdes No. 6. However, the National Boxing association rates Car ter No. 5 and Valdes No. 9. A capacity crowd of 8,000 is expected at the Spokane Coliseum. . Direct Mail Service) DRIVE RAMBLER . . . for less than lc a mile The Red Hot Success of the Year, NOW LEA ft Bartlett MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford Oregon, Wedneiday, July 9, IMI ? Maids Dump Basinettes The Rogue Valley Dairy Maids polished off the Basi nettes of Klamath Falls handi ly in a, Tuesday game at the latter's field. Warming up for two important clashes this weekend the Maids put down the K Falls club 12 to 7. Each team managed only five hits. However the home pitcher is sued several walks and a num ber of wild pitches. The Maids meet the Chico, Calif., Chico ettes in a night game at Camp White Saturday, and h e strong Buena Park, Calif., nine at Camp White Sunday night. Linescore: Dairy Maidi 103 410 312 3 2 Basinettes 010 015 0 7 5 4 Baron and Main; Hutchinson and Anderson. MONTOOMBMV STARTS TOMORROW - WARDS ParEting Lot: Clearance Sale A lot full of bargains many one of a kind! Hurry! Directly behind store. loon at 5th Phone: SP 2-6185 MISSES BASEBALL Springfield, 111. (UPI) An ardent sports lover plead ed with Judge Clem Smith for a ' softening of his probation sentence on compassionate grounds. Richard Castleman, 20, begged to be allowed to leave Illinois for brief periods, because he could not bear to miss seeing the St. Louis Card, inals. SMITH-DYNGE Lumber Co. 8th I Fir St. WARD D O O, at Medford 0RS 2122 West Main Medford Phone SP 3-5660
