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Flag Fever Floating Around SF By HAL WOOD San Francisco -CPD- Pen nant fever, even before the first ball is tossed out, floated around the San Francisco Bay Area today-right from Giant Manager Bill Rigney down to the lowliest rooter in the bleachers. "If the rookies of 1958 can play as well in 1959-and take advantage of the things they learned while booting away at least a dozen games last year-then the Giants will be in the thick of the pennant fight." ' That's the battle cry here and the theory was given a great boost with the recent acquisition of pitcher Sad Sam Jones. The idea is that Rigney did a great job managing the club to third place last year when he had only one outstanding pitcher-Johnny AntoneHi. Five Starters This season he can start off with AntoneHi; follow him with Jack Sanford, Jones aod either lefty Mike McCormick or "soft stuff," Stu Miller. "It will be a pleasure to have a pitching .staff that I can rotate with a degree of confidence," says Rigney. While the pitching staff looks strong in comparison with last year's well-blasted unit, Rigney still has some question marks. - l.-Can Andre. Rodgers cut the stuff at shortstop? He was a whiz both at bat and afield ,for Phoenix of the Pacific Coast league last year. He has the fastest pair of hands in baseball-but he still makes fielding mistakes. 2.-WU1 burly- sophomore Bob Schmidt be able to carry the big load again as the first string catcher? 3.-W ill sophomores first baseman Orlando Cepeda third baseman Jim Davenport and outfielders Felipe Alou and Willie Kirkland be able to come through again as they did in 1958- Also outfielder Jackie Brandt, just out of the service. Actually the only proven men on the ball club are out fielder Willie Mays; second baseman Daryl Spencer. San ford was a whiz as a hurler in 1957 with a 19-8 record, but last year faded to 10-13. Folley Scores Boxing Verdict Denver - (UPD - Zora Folley, the classy heavyweight fight er from Chandler, Ariz., look ed toward Henry Cooper of England as his next opponent today after scoring an impres sive victory over Willi Bes manoff. - ' Folley won a unanimous decision over Besmanoff, of Milwaukee, at Denver's coli seum Tuesday night. Besma noff hardly landed a solid blow as Folley put up a stout defense and blasted the squat German from every angle.- OLD AMERICAN STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY WBOURB0H M HE AMERICAN DISTILLING CO., INC. PEKIN, III. SAUSAtlTO, CAt. t IV FR $970 A gggS6sl- T FIFTH t i , V' y y ' 'Jh&iiMy.iyy yyyy &&Z&SZtm V OUCH, IT HURTS! New York Yankees' Mickey Mantle doubles up in pain after a foul tip off his bat struck his foot in an exhibition game against Detroit at St. Peters burg, Fla. Note ball bounding away, at right of his left hand. Mantle is nursing a sore toe and did not play in a subsequent game against Cincinnati Tornado Jv Medford High trimmed Cra ter 12 to 9 yesterday in a junior varsity baseball game here. v The Tornado's biggest in ning was the. fourth when Tribe Breaks GiantString Of Victories Omaha, Neb.-dTD-The San Francisco Giants were slated to meet Cleveland here today in the final exhibition game of the spring for both clubs . Manager Bill Rigney of the Giants planned to send Jack Sanford to the mound against the Indians' Cal McLish. The big bats, of the West coast club were pretty much subdued at Des Moines Tues day and the Indians erupted for three runs in the ninth inning to win a 3-2 decision. The loss . broke ! a six-game San Francisco winning streak against the American league club, -. -. v The . Giants, did get one home run, a solo shot by Catcher Bob Schmidt in. the seventh, t$ increase their total for the exhibition season to 58 in 27 starts. Southpaws Mike McCor mick and Johnny AntoneHi had combined to blank the Indians for 8 13 innings when Cleveland put together three singles and a double for the win. Giant shortstop An dre Rodgers misplayed what proved to be the winning hit when he went for the double play on a hot grounder by Ray Bolger instead of knock ing the ball down to hold up the base runners. The ball shot between his legs and that was it. x . Swiden Gains Ring Decision Portland- (LTD -Art Swiden, 202V-pound Pittsburgh, Pa., heavyweight, outpointed Ben Wise, 201, Oakland, Calif., in a 10-rounder here Tuesday night before a skimpy crowd of 525. Swiden clowned his way through the fight and most of Wise's punches were light ones. The only damage dur ing the bout was in the 10th round when Wise opened a cut on Swiden's eye. FIGHTS Miami Beach. Fla. (UPI) Ru dell Stitch, 147. Louisville, Ky outpointed Jimmy Beecham, 151, Miami (10). Sacramento. Calif. (UPD Larry Boardman, 141, Marlboro. Conn., decisioned Leo Agbulos, 137, Stock ton. Calif., (10). Tips Crater four runs were chalked up. Bob Custance got two hits and Ray Stewart and Dick Ragsdale each singled in the frame. There were six Crater errors and five walks, Stewart, as well as Cust ance. had two hits in the game. LINESCORE: Crater 300 420 9 3 Medford 930 OOx 12 6 4 Samples. John Anhorn (1). Hiin botham (It and Jeff Anhorn Wheeler, Ragsdale (4) and Barry. D. E. DeArmond Recommended For Game Post Oregon Sportsmen . club of Jackson county has endorsed D. E. DeArmond, Medford lumberman, for appointment to the Oregon State Game commission. Action recommending De Armond to Gov. Mark Hat field was taken at a Monday meeting of the organization. Members suggested appoint ment of DeArmond to suc ceed Kenneth G. Denman, Medford attorney, whose term expires in the near future. Sportsmen described the lumberman as an avid hunt er "and fisherman who is a native Oregonian and lifelong resident of the State and who has been in the logging field 41 years. He was born at Grants Pass and has lived at Lakeview, McMinnville, Ash land and Bend as well as Med ford. The Sportsmen expressed the feeling that "a fresh ap-J proach to the matter of game management would be bene ficial . . ." Bear Creek pollution abate ment will be a major project of the Sportsmen, according to a decision at the Monday meeting. The organization brought the matter to public attention recently when a com mittee found a number of dead fish in the creek which were apparently the victims of or chard spray material. No more dead fish have been found in several subsequent "excur sions" along the creek. Oregon Staters Lash Bearcats Salem - (CPD - Oregon State won its ninth straight base ball game Tuesday by wallop ing Willamette' 10-2. Leon Criner, a football tail back, pitched the victory, holding the Bearcats to six hits. John Whitelaw, OSC first sacker, got three hits in five times at bat while Dan Luby and Grimm Mason, another football tailback, drove in three runs apiece. Luby hit a homer over the fence with a man on the first inning. I CONCRETE C9 SP 2-5271 248 East Mc Andrews Road Med: sipaDnsTrs Experts Feel Legislation For Farm System Curbs Detrimental to Baseball By NORMAN MILLER i New York (UPD Major league experts generally are agreed that any federal legis lation designed to curb farm systems would be detrimental to baseball, a United Press International pre-season sur vey disclosed today. A consensus of 50 baseball authorities who covered the 16 major league training camps this spring also main tained in a UPI poll that a Ex-Tornado Golfers To Play Here Oregon State College, Cor vallis Tom Hamlin and Ste wart Schroeder, two former Medford High school links men, will play with the OSC freshmen team against Med ford High Saturday, April 11, at Medford, Rook Coach Jim Barratt said. Schroeder, in a pre-season match with the Corvallis Country club', was second low with a one under par 71, second only to Rook Jack Mattison of Eugene who post ed a sub par 70. Mattison, stale prep champ in 1957, is expected to play the No. 1 osition with Ham lin and Schroeder fighting it out for second spot. The Medford match will start at 8 a.m. Two other Medford men, both OSC golf lettermen, are currently performing for the varsity team. They are Larry Copple and Warren Deakins. Corvallis (UPD Oregon State's golf team defeated Willamette to 3Vi Tues day. - Curt Simmons Slates Surgery Philadelphia - (UPD South paw Curt Simmons of the Philadelphia Phillies will un dergo surgery Friday at Tem ple university hospital for re moval of a loose bone frag ment in his ailing left elbow. Doctors who examined him Tuesday at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Tem ple's School of Medicine said removal of the fragment would offer "an excellent chance of recovery." Grant Harter To Enter OSC Corvallis-flJPD-Oregon State landed another basketball prospect Monday when North Salem's 6-10 Grant Harter an nounced his intention of en rolling here. He will enter the school of business and technology. Earlier 6-4 all-state Bob Petersen of Klamath Falls an nounced he would attend OSC. Webfoots Beat Pioneers 7-4 - Portland-flJPD-Oregon scored four times in the first inning and coasted home to defeat Lewis and Clark 7-4 in a non- conference baseball game here Tuesday. Oregon now has a 7-4 sea son's record. The Webfoots didn't make I hit in scoring their first four runs. Two errors, three walks, a passed ball and a fielders' choice led to the scoring. Wimp Hastings had three hits and Ron Walp two for Oregon. Seattle Defeats Portland Nine El Centro, Calif.-OJPD-Seat-tle defeated Portland, 4-2, Tuesday, behind the six-hit pitching of Claude Osteen and Bill Kennedy in a PCL spring exhibition game. Osteen held the Beavers to two runs and five hits in the first seven innings of the game. It was his second ap pearance with Seattle since being optioned by Cincinnati. Social security checks to beneficiaries in New York State alone total more than 68 million dollars a month. J IMPORTANT TO BOATERS Men's Beginning SWIM CLASSES Fridays 6:15 p.m., April 10 through June 12. Free to Y Members (Non-member, $10). YMCA une third major league is neither foreseeable nor desirable Thirty-four of the writers and full-time broadcasters re plied in a questionnaire that they felt any federal legisla tion aimed at curbing farm systems would be detrimental to the best interests of base legislation would be benefic ial. Four others declined to answer.' ;- Several Bills Several congressional bills have been proposed for the other professional sports. One of the more important aspects of these measures is a pro posed curb of the number of players a major league club can control in its farm system. The purpose of such legis lation, certain congressmen feel, would be to remove base ball and other professional sports from prosecution under the anti-trust laws. In reply to the query about a third major league, only nine of the 50 experts pre dicted that one will be form ed "in the foreseeable future." Nine (not exactly the same men) believed that a third league is desirable. One writer ventured an opinipn of five years as the date when such a league might be formed. Most of the 41 writers op posed to the formation of a third league gave as their rea son the lack of major league material. HOCKEY NATIONAL LEAGUE Boston-ttJPD-Youth must be served, so they say, and thus the whiz kids of Toronto head ed for Montreal today where the amazing Maple Leafs open their quest for the coveted Stanley Cup against the Cana- diens. The chance for the final chapter in Toronto's fantastic rags-to-riches , tale was pro vided Tuesday night largely by a kid who said he was just returning a Christmas pres ent. That would be 261year-old Gerry Ehman, who fired in the winning goal in the Leafs 3-2 . win over the Boston Bruins for their fourth and deciding victory in the best of-seven National Hockey League semi-final, playoffs. "I was called up to the Ma ple Leafs from Hershey of the American Hockey league in a trade last Christmas Day,'1 said Ehman after the come- from-behind victory at the Garden. "I was just returning the present." Hoop Classic Teams Listed Corvallis-(UPD- New Mexico Denver and the University of Hawaii will compete in the Far West Basketball classic here next' December along with five teams from the Northwest, Athletic Director Spec Keene said today. Earlier announced entries are Oregon, Washington State, Idaho, . Portland and OSC. TREATMENTS SUCCEED ' Boston- (UPD -Red Sox star Ted Williams was. scheduled to leave New England Baptist hospital today, the treatments for his neck ailment apparent ly successfully completed. NO INTENTION Montreal- (UPD -Referee Roy Red Storey, "fed up" with the National Hockey league and its lack of support for refer ees, says he has "no intention of going back," to big-time hockey. Storey resigned from the league Tuesday afternoon following the uproar over his handling of the Montreal Canadiens - Chicago Black Hawks semi-final at Chicago Saturday night. SAN DIEGO WINS Palm Springs, Calif. -(UPD-Mitch June's single in the last inning Tuesday gave San Diego a 4-3 win over Sacra mento in a PCL spring train ing game. Pitcher Stan Pitula who scored the winning run on June's single, had doubled and then advanced to third on a wild pitch. He also was cred ited with the victory. 528 W. 6th St. Phone SP 2-6295 Try and -By BENNETT CERF- rpHE STINGIEST MAN in town couldn't get out of sending a J- lady friend a birthday gift, but he was determined to spend as little on it as possible. He finally dug up a vase that had been broken, marked down to next to nothing, and had it sent, hoping she would conclude it had been broken in transit Her "thank -you" note was a classic. "How gener ous of you it was to sena that unique vase," she wrote, "and how thoughtful of the store to wrap each broken piece separately!" Riffling idly through a deck of cards, Neal O'Hara found himself forming the following association of ideas: Ace-re porter; king-of the cowboys; queen-for a. day; jack-of all trades; ten-commandments; nine-days' wonder; eight-day clock; seven-year itch; six-months probation; five-o'clock shadow; four-sheets to the wind; three-blind mice; and two-peas in a pod. O 1959. by Bennett Cert Distributed by Kin Features Syndictte. t HILTS Birthdays Are Honored By MRS. M. F. CAVIN Hilts-everal friends drove to the home of Mrs. Elmer Jackson in Montague March 25 in honor of her birthday and to celebrate the belated birthday of Mrs. M. G. King. Making the trip, besides Mrs. King, were Mrs: Art Umpiring Jobs Announced for Opening Games Cincinnati, Ohio -(UPD- War ren (J. Giles, president of the National League, today an nounced the umpiring assign ments for the 1959 openers. The team of Jocko Conlan, Augie Donatelli, Ken Burk hart and Tony Venson will handle Thursday's opening game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Reds at Cin cinnati. The same four umpires will handle Pittsburgh's home opener Friday against the Mil maukee Braves. In the other Friday openers, Al Barlick, Bill Jackowski, Shag Craw ford and Vic Delmore will um pire the San Francisco Giants- Cardinals night game at St, Louis; Dusty Boggess, Tom Gorman, Stan Landes and Ed Sudol will handle the Los An geles Dodgers-Cubs game at Chicago; and Frank Dascoli, Frank Secory, Hal Dixon and Vinnie Smith will umpire the Reds-Phillies night game at Philadelphia. ON ALL MERCHANDISE IN THE STORE! THilE 39 Ashland, Oregon Stop Me Blanchard, Mrs. H. G. Thomp son, Mrs. William Wiley, and Mrs. Ozzie Bernheisel. Pi nochle was played and gifts presented to the honorees Angelfood cake and coffee were served. Mrs. James Spearin of Hornbrook and her grand daughter, Nancy Spearin, of Rumsey called Friday after noon at the Ed Staley home. Mr. and Mrs. John Fenton are the parents of a boy born March 21 at the - Siskiyou county hospital. He weighed 6 pounds, 2Vz ounces and has been named Jeffrey Vaughn. This is the Fenton's second child. ; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hoyt of Medford visited Sunday at the H. G. Thompson home. Mrs.' Rodney Eastman un derwent surgery . Monday at the Rogue Valley hospital in Medford. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Earle of Sacramento were Easter week end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Shuck and son. Easter guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fer guson and family were Mr, and Mrs. . Gibson, son Jimmy, and daughter, Patsy, whose home is on Dead In dian rd.; and Mr. and Mrs, Charles Cook of Ashland. Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Thomp son have received word of the birth of a daughter, Charla Starts Thursday, April 19th Easy Steps from the Bank on Main MAIL TRIBUNE, Medfwd, Oregon, W.dnwday, April 8, 1939 Tigers Maul Man; Escape in Japan Omuta City, Japan (CPD Two large, twc-year-old tigers leaped upon a caretaker feed ing them Tuesday mauled him to death and broke loose from their cage in the city zoo. Ancther caretaker escaped and a loudspeaker averted 20 early comers to the zoo to seek shelter. Families living in the neighborhood shut up their homes. Sixty armed policemen rushed to the zoo. One of the tigers was shot and killed, and the other was trapped after it had re-entered its cage. Minimum Wage Bill Back To Committee Salem (UPD The Oregon House voted 33-26 Tuesday to send back to committee a bill setting a minimum wage of $1 an hour for the state. The bill would provide time and one-half for work over 40 hours a week and was pat terned after the federal mini mum wage law which applies to' interstate commerce. ' The House earlier defeated a motion to indefinitely post pone the measure which would have killed it for this session. It may be returned to the floor for another vote next week. Marlene, March 30 at the Rogue Valley hospital to Mr and Mrs. Charles Hoyt of Medford. Mrs. Hoyt is the Thompson's daughter. Easter week end guests at the home of Mr. and Airs Frank. Graves were their three daughters and their families. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jorgensen and children Deb bie and Ryan came from Wil lows; Mr. and Mrs. Philip York and children, Darrell and Pamela, from Redding; and Mr. and Mrs. Robert De Avilla and children, Billie and Sharon, from Yreka. 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