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.-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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-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.
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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
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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.
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Span
naus left iTiday evening tor
Oroville to spend the Easter
week end at the home of their
son and daughter-in-law, Mr.
and Mrs. William Spannaus
and family and to return their
grandsons, Gary Spannaus, to
his home, and Terry McFerrin
to his home in Redding. On
Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Harold
McFerrin and Terry were also
guests at the William Span
naus home.
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