Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 20, 1958, Image 9

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    Salem Nabs
State Title
In Softball
Coos Bay UPI Salem de
feated Corvallis 6-1 Tuesday
night to win the state men's
Softball, title.
Corvallis had defeated Sa
lem 1-0 in an earlier game to
- set up the championship con
test. In the finale, Salem broke
the game wide open with six
runs in the fourth inning,
knocking Lloyd Buettgenbach
from the mound. Buettgen
bach had pitched the earlier
Corvallis win over Salem, al
lowing only one hit.
Don Carey eot Corvailis'
only hit in the final game.
Paul Waner
Has Attack
Omaha, Neb. (UPD Former
Pittsburgh Pirate hitting star
Paul (Big Poison) Waner, re
cently recovered from bouts
with pneumonia and tubercu
losis, today fought for his
life following a heart attack.
Waner, a member of base
ball's Hall of Fame was strick
en here Tuesday.
Doctors said his condition
was "satisfactory."
The ex-Pirate great is one
of eight living 3,000 hitters,
having collected 3,152 safeties
in his 20-year baseball career.
He was known as "Big
Poison" to the opposition be
cause of his big bat, and his
brother, Lloyd, also a Pitts
burgh outfielder, was dubbed
"Little Poison."
Warier currently is a bat
ting instructor for the St
Louis Cardinals. '
Big Four
Loop Talked
oan Francisco (UPD Rep
resentatives of four big col
leges on the Pacific Coast
will meet here Saturday to
form a Big Four association
to replace the Pacific Coast
Conference, it was reported
today.
The Big Four will include
California, U n i v e rsity of
Southern California, Univer
sity of California at Los An
geles and Washington. It may
later be expanded to include
Stanford.
Greg Englehard, athletic
director at California, refused
to confirm or deny the re
ports of the meeting. How
ever, he said there would be
a "newsworthy" press confer
ence Saturday morning.
Oregon Champs
Face Centralia
Billings, Mont. (UPD Bend,
the Oregon Junior Legion
baseball champion, opens play
in the regional tournament
here Friday afternoon against
Centralia, the Washington
stale champ.
Fairbanks meets Lewiston,
Idaho, in another first round
game. Billings drew a bye and
meets the Fairbanks-Lewiston
winner in an opening round
game. ;
Winner of the tournament
goes to Hastings, Neb., for the
sectional crown Aug. 31
Sept. 4.
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SMOTHERED Big Mel Triplett (33) of the New Yonc
Giants is swarmed under by 4961 linemen after making
a one-yard gam for the Giants in the first quarter of
their game in San Francisco. Doing the smothering are
Leo Nomelhni (73, center) and Ed Henke (75, right) while
leaping in at left is Bob Toneff (74). Giants won, 19 to 10.
Orlando Cepeda
Escapes Injury
San Francisco (UPD Or
lando Cepeda, 21, star rookie
first baseman for the San
Francisco Giants, escaped in
jury Tuesday night when his
car collided with a taxicab.
The accident occurred two
hours after Cepeda scored the
winning run for the Giants
against the Cincinnati Redlegs
at Seals Stadium.
Neither Cepeda nor Henry
L. Schwartz, 36, the cab driv
er, was cited.
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Bout Choice
Chicago (UPD Virgil Ak
ins was a strong favorite to
score his fifth straight knock
out when he enters the ring-
tonight for the first time since
winning the welterweight ti
tle in June.
Akins' opponent in the tel
evised n o n -1 i 1 1 e . bout is
Charley (Tombstone) Smith, a
25-year-old battler from Los
Angeles with big hopes of
boosting his No. 8 ranking
among the 147-pounders.
Golf Defender
Wins 1st Tiff
Darien. Conn (UPD Joanne
Gunderson,- the happy-go-
lucky defending champion in
the Women's National Ama
teur golf championship, was
heavily favored to ,wm two
matches today and move int6
the fifth round.
The 6,468-yard Wee Burn
course, hilly and sprinkled
with brooks and bunkers, is
proving a man-size task for
the girls. But Miss Gunder
son. a huskv blonde who belts
her tee shots a mile, should
survive today's two 18-hole
rounds.
Joanne, a 3 and 1 winner
over ex-Curtis Cupper Mar
jorie Lindsay of Decatur, 111.,
Tuesday, played Mrs. Charles
Spalding of Greenwich,
Conn., in the third round this
morning. After lunch, if she
defeated Mrs. Spalding, she
was to play the survivor of a
match pitting Betty Kirkby
of Akron, Ohio, against Judy
Darling of Hudson Heights,
Que.
Eugene Tryouts
Set By Giants
Eugene San Francisco
Giants will hold baseball try
outs and conduct a clinic at
Bethel park here from 9:30
a.m. until 1 p.m. on Aug. 29
and 30.
The tryouts are open to
boys 17 through 22 years of
age. Youths are to provide
their own gloves and shoes
and should appear in baseball
uniforms jf possible.
Moose lodge and River Road
Park and Recreation district
are sponsors of the tryout
camp. Further information
may be obtained from Jim
Dickinson director of RRPRD.
SPORTS
FRANCHISE PROPOSED
Washington (UPD Ten sen
ators, headed by Hubert H.
Humphrey (D-Minn.), today
suggested a franchise should
be granted to the Minneapolis
St. Paul area if the American
league expands to 10 teams. In
a letter written by Humphrey
to Will Harridge, president of
the American league, the sen
ator pointed out "the Twin
Cities have a vast trade terri
tory, populated by avid sports
fans and with a particular in
terest in baseball . . . where
excellent stadium facilities are
already available and are
about to be expanded."
Offense 'Duty
Scheduled for
James, Baker
Portland (UPD Dick James,
a defensive specialist, and
Sam Baker, the place kicking
specialist, will play offense for
the Washington Redskins
against the San Francisco
49'ers here Saturday night,
Coach Joe Kuharich said to
day.
Both James and Baker were
standouts in offensive back
field play while at Oregon and
Oregon State respectively.
The starting Washington
backfield also will include
Bert Zagers and either Ralph
Guglielmi or Eddie LaBaron
at quarterback.
The 49'ers arrive in town
Friday afternoon.
Mexico Team
In Semi-Finals
Williamsport, Pa. (UPD
Defending champion Monter
rey, Mexico, seeking to re
peat its rags-to-riches title tri
umph of last year, met Dar
ien, Conn., today in the semi
finals of the 12th annual Lit
tle League World Series. v
Kankakee, 111., played Gad-
den, Ala., in the other game.
Monterrey, with only one
regular remaining from the
band of little lads with big
hearts who won the 1957
championship, followed tradi
tion by trouncing Pearl Har
bor, 11-0 Tuesday in the open
ing round.
Kankakee gained the semi
finals with a 2-1 triumph dver
Portland, Ore., in a game
which saw homers account for
all the scoring. Gadsden drew
a bye in opening play. Port
land was eliminted.
Darien gained the semi-finals
by defeating Valleyfield,
Quebec, 7-2.
Practice Shoot
Planned Sunday
Warm-UD for the dove
shooting season will be held
aunaay at fiieaiord liun club.
Skeet and 16-yard shootine
is planned with traps to open
at 9 a.m.
Members have extended a
welcome to non-memhpr hunt
ers to take advantage of the
practice opportunity. Dove
season opens Sept. 1.
OREGON PLAYERS CUT
San Francisco (UPD Back
Leroy Phelps of Oregon and
guard Dave Jesmer of Oregon
State were cut from the roster
of the San Francisco 49'ers
Tuesday.
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon. Wednesday, August 20, 1958 9
EUGENE LDS BEATEN
Salt Lake City (UPD
Chandler, Ariz., defeated Eu
gene, Ore., 4-2 Tuesday in the
Latter Day Saints Softball
tournament here.
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149 in JC Golf
Tucson, Ariz. (UPD David
Munro of Portland paced
three Oregon youths who
qualified Tuesday for cham
pionship play in the annual
International J a y c e e golf
tournament here.
Munro had a 77 Tuesday to
go with an earlier 72 lor a
two-day total of 149.
Biff Lovett of Portland and
Lynn Yturri of Ontario each
fired 150. Mickey Shaw cf
Milwaukie had 159, while the
qualifying score was 159.
There are one-third more
married women from 15 to 44
years in the U. S. today than
there were in 1933.
Royals Increase
IL Leadership
United Press International
The Montreal Royals in
creased their first-place bulge
in the International league to
31-2 games Tuesday night by
edging the ' Rochester Red
Wings, 5-4, in 11 innings.
Second place Tironto could
do little against the four-hit
hurling of Walt Coleman as
Buffalo took a 7-1 decision.
Coleman won . his seventh
game as the Bison backed him
with a 16-hit attack.
Columbus moved to within
a game of fourth-place Miami
by beating the Marlins, 6-2.
Richmond scored two runs
in the 10th inning at Havana
to beat the Cubans, 7-6.
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DODGING LIKE DANCER, Willie Kirkland, leftfielder,
manages to sidestep St. Louis catcher Gene Green to score
in San Francisco game. Giants went on to win, 11-2.
BIRTHDAY Amos Alonzo Stagg, grand old man of foot
ball, celebrates his 96th birthday in Stockton, Calif
August 16. Last surviving founder of the Big Ten, Stagg
is here shown demonstrating some of the fine points of
the game with Steven Small, 11, of Lodi, Calif. Partial
to youngsters and their aspirations, Stagg firmly believes
that college football generates more spirit than the
pro game.
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launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla. This cannister con
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fields of both the earth and the moon. The attempt ended
in failure when the rocket exploded 77 seconds after
launching.
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