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Guessing PCIL Flag Winner Considered Mtfncult Task United Press International Touting the winner of the Pacific Coast league flag chase which begins Friday, looks tougher than trying to predict how many times Spo kane's brash Bobby Bragan will be given the umpire's thumb. Bragan is a most unpredict able sort who, among other things, once whipped out a water pistol on an umpire fol lowing a questionable de cision. - - - - The experts call for a three way scramble for the pen nant among Phoenix, Spo kane and San Diego. Defending champion Phoe nix is given a good chance to repeat, but on paper they do not appear as strong as the club that belted a record 205 homeruns last season. Dusty Rhodes' 25 hr's, 100 rbi's and first baseman Willie McCovey .319 average, 89 rbi's, are back to lead the Giants. But gone, at least for now, is shortstop Andre Rodg ers, who led the league with a .354 average. Alou, Wagner Gone The Giants also won't be expected to have the part- time services of such sluggers as Felipe Alou, Leon Wagner and Willie Kirkland, all of whom figure to last the year with the parent San Francis co Giants. Spokane, a farm club of the Los Angeles Dodgers, appears .to have strengthened. The main reason is big Steve Bil- ko, who figures to belt at least 40 homers and probably more. The Indians also look to have solid pitching with Roger Craig. Bob Giallombaxdo, Phil Paine and Chris Nich- olosi. San Diego, with George Catfish Metkovich at the helm has a slick operating double play combination in second baseman Billy punter and shortstop Billy Moran. Earl Averill and Dave Pope, the big offensive guns on last; season's second place Padre team, are gone, but general manager Ralph Kiner says he expects plenty of help from Cleveland. ' Padre pitching has an abun dance of experience with Bill. Werle, Bob Alexander, Steve Ridzik and Bud Podbielan. Bees Miss Stuart . Salt Lake City, which last year had belting Dick Stuart for half a season, looms as the darkhorse of the circuit. Veteran Coast Leaguer Car lot Bernier and swift moving Howie Goss head the Salt Lake outfield corps and the mound crew will have Dick Hall, Don Urquhart, Don Rowe and Johnny Oldham. Additional help from Pitts burgh is expected. Jim Mc Daniel, the league homerun king last season with 37 cir cuit clouts, may or may not stick with Pittsburgh. Vancouver, which finished third last year, has lost four top pitchers. -Back are 42-year-old Joe Hatten,- a starter and reliefer who won nine games. Erv Palica, a 15-game winner, and 22-year-old Gor dy Sundin, a 64" giant who registered six wins last sea son. Metro is counting heavily upon newly obtained Charles Estrada, who had a 15-11 1 A II .. MEDF0IUTRIBUN1 1 uynu li & mark with Knoxville last sea son and Fred Besana, a south paw who won 11 and lost 12 for Louisville. Portland, provided it can get solid pitching, could eas ily find its way into the pen nant scrap. They boast such veterans as Nini Tornay, a .300 hitting catcher last sea son; George Freese 35 hr's, 81 rbi's; Dave Melton, Bob Di Pietro and Jim Greengrass. Manager Tommy Heath says he looks for a third place fin ish at least. Top Beaver hurl ers include Vic Lombardi, Larry Jansen, Glen Cox and Howard Reed. Kansas City is expected to send along help before the major league cut down date. Solons Need Help Sacramento, managed by Bob Elliott, has received some help from major league clubs, but additional reinforcements are necessary before they can be counted a contender for the flag. Seattle, cellar dwellers last season, is up for a major re building job under the capa ble eye of Freddy Hutchinson. The Rainiers have added three infielders who have played on triple-A pennant winners in the past two years. They are first baseman Frank Kel lert, second baseman Jack Dittmar and shortstop Harry Malmberg. The veteran crew is rounded out by Eddie Ka zak who came to Seattle from San Diego late last season. Dee Fondy, veteran big leaguer, and Elmer Valo an other long-time major league campaigner, are slated for outfield work. St. Mary's Plans To Enter Hayward; Phoenix Doubtful St. Mary's high of Medford will enter the Hayward relays this week with a limited force of nine men spread over eight events. The Crusaders will compete in the Class C division, events of which are scfieduled for Friday. St. Mary's will be without the services of its best quar-ter-miler, Roguer Hout, ac cording to Coach Bill McKib bin. Hout has a bad back, the mentor reported. McKibbin said that more squad members would be tak en if the field events were relay tests. They are individ ual events, however. " ' Entry of Dick Evans and Terry Cooper of the Crusad ers in a decathlon meet April 24 and 25 at Canyonville is being considered, according to the coach. Phoenix Whether Phoe nix high school enters the re lays will depend on the out come of the track s-juad meet ing' about noon today. Coach Albert (Hap) Consbruck re ports that many of his spike men are short on sleep this week because of orchard heat ing. Some others are on the sick list with measles or flu - Phoenix had planned to enter most of the track and field events. Excepted would be the distance and sprint medleys. Nearly 100 high school teams will take part Friday and Saturday in the 22nd an nual Hayward Relays at Eu gene. Defending champions are Jefferson in the Metropolitan group; Cottage Grove in Class A; Douglas in class B; and Powers in class C. Class C and B schools kick off the event Friday with Metro and A schools compet ing Friday. S.M RELAY ROSTER Sprint medley Bob Evans, Fred Lucas, Alex Mete, Terry Cooper; two-mile Dick Thieral, Gary Kirsch, Dave Rouhier, Dick Evans; distance medley same as two- m lie; javelin Cooper, B. Evans; high jump D. Evans, Cooper; broad Jump B. Evans, Locus; dis cus Carl Michael, Lucas; shot put Michael. Two Doubleheaders Set For Medford Diamonds Two doubleheaders match ing Southern Oregon confer ence baseball nines will be on Medford diamonds Friday aft ernoon. Medford will entertain Ash land at the high school field and Crater high will be host to Grants Pass at Cheney field at the south edge of town. Play ball time will be 2:30 p.m. in each case. First games DOWN AROUND BARDSTOWN. Ky.. 18 10 . i ! Mr. iYuERFIU, i i this is the purest surface limestone j j spring in Kentucky. if j Mr. Frazier, , , , j vrc could make i i beautiful bourfa lrbon I together. l i 1 ' V I I y y ' , Una nsB i lit WATER FILL and FRAZIER KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY- 86 PROOF S YEARS OLD - DISTILLED AND BOTTLED 8Y THE iMTERf-ILL AND FRAZIER DISTILLERY COMPANY O BARDST0WN. NELSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY ALSO AVAILABLE IN 100 PROOF BOTTLED IN BOND $q00 O PT. Code 1S1-C $ J65 4 QT. Codt 1S1-B Rogue Cyclers Set Jamboree The Rogue River Ramblers Motorcycle club of Medford, are sponsoring another motor cycle jamboree at 1 pan. Sun day, April 19 at Jacksonville, it was announced. , It will be run on the point system, with five, three and one points given to 1st, 2nd and 3rd spots, respectively. The events to be run off will consist mostly of field com petition, with a "scrambles" added to please the riders who enjoy a little fast "broadslid- ing." The usual weiner-bite and balloon bust will also be or the days program. Many of the competitive events will be determined by time, so alert ness, ability and good equip ment all work together, of ficials explained. Invitations have been sent to clubs as far south as Red ding, to Klamath Falls riders and north to Eugene. The club is charging a small admission to cover the expense of the many trophies to be given. The location is in the heart of Jacksonville, just about a half mile from the main street out on Oregon avenue. U of O Gets 9-3 Victory Eugene (UPD University of. Oregon closed its pre-con-f erence baseball schedule here Wednesday with a 9-3 win over Lewis and Clark, for a 11-6 win-loss record. Oregon will meet undefeat ed Oregon State at Corvallis Friday and here Saturday in conference action. Lour L - and - C errors help ed speed the Ducks to the victory. One error allowed a run in the sixth and two more errors in the 7th frame passed three runs. i only in each of the twinbills will count in the conference standings. Opening frays at each field are billed for seven innings and second games for five. . Grants Pass, Medford and Crater each will take into action a spotless record in loop standings. Grants Pass has two victories in counting scraps and Medford and Cra ter each one. Ashland has dropped two league engage ments. Medford has two non-league wins on record over the Ash-landers. Dennis Barr is expected to be the pitching choice for Medford in the first tilt with Ashland and either Bob John son or Alan McKihnis may pitch for the Grizzlies. At Cheney field opposing moundsmen in the counting game may be Bill Anhorn for Crater and Dick Hayes for Grants Pass. BOWLING COMMERCIAL LEAGUE Standings: ' W. L... Cubby's Drive In 18 '.i 5 Quality Market 17 7 Mail Tribune 14 10 Al Sodaro Agency 14 10 Clave Construction Co. 14 10 Morning Fresh Bread .... 13 11 Davis Transfer & Storage 12'j 11 i Kim's Restaurant 11 13 Patterson's Bakery 11 13 Bates Candy Co. '. 10 14 Alexander & Brown Ins, 5 ' 19 Medford Paint Store 4 20 Results: Tribune 3 (Andy Anderson 546) 2625; Med. Paint 1 (Gary Couch 593) 2517. Kim's 1 (Oliver McNeel 5521 2643; Bates 3 (Paul Dimick 576) 2686. Cubby's 3 '.a (Marsh Ramsbv 612) 2597: Davis ,i (Lloyd KnaDD 546) 2496; Quality 1 (Harold Vessey 543) 2502; Sodaro 3 (Rilev Aopleeate 597) 2802. A & B 1 (Frank ChaDman 537) 2422; M F Bread 3 (Karl Johnson 581) 2478. Pattersons 0 (John Dickinson 575) 2580; Clave 4 (Jim Morgan 590) 2615. LAST ELKS LEAGUE NO. I Standings: Cussin 3 .. Phoneys Antlers Terrible Trio Jolly 3 Stags ViMaRu's HiLo Astors . W, 47 36','s 29j 29 28 26i's 23 22 20 IB1' L. 9 19'!! 26 i 27 28 29'i 33 34 36 37i Pic's Results: Terrible Trio 3 (Chris Ludwie 422) 1275: Astors 1 (Vivian Bate- man 433) 1243. Hi Lo 1 (Roberta Travis 433) 1204: Cussin 3. 3 (Dorothy Hunt ley 420) 1250. ViMaRu's 1 (Ruby Patten 4171 1209; Antlers 3 (Claudia Lowd 514) 1240. . Jolly 3. 0 (Dorothy Jantzer 456) 1292; Phoney's 4 (Marilee Duce 474) 1362. Stags 1 (Vivian Knox 491) 1192; OSC Matmen Face Stiff Matches Stillwater, Okla. -4UPD-Two Oregon State wrestlers fought heavy competition here Wednesday night to gain fourth place berths in the Greco-Roman finals of the national AAU tournament. The places gave Oregon State four championship points to tie with the Sooner Athletic Club of Oklahoma University in 11th place in team standings. Oklahoma State university's cowboy athletic club won the team title with 31 points. Mitsy Tamura edged into fourth place at 114.5 pounds, behind Dick Wilson of To ledo, Terry Tiernan of the Marines, and John Jordan of the Army. Tamura had two draws in early rounds, with Tiernan, and was decisioned by Wilson in the third round. He entered a "wrestle-off" for fourth place, and decisioned Ollney Mueller of St. Louis and Gil Sanchez of the Marines. Ron Finley of Oregon State took fourth at 136.5 pounds behind Eisuke Kitamura and Yoshitaka Nishiwaki of Ja pan and Lee Allen of the Army. Allen is a former Uni versity of Oregon wrestler. Finley had lost a first rounder against Orsalio Gar cia, Marines, and then drew with Kitamura, taking a third round bye. In the fourth round, he was virtually elim inated by a draw with Nish iwaki, but took fourth place because others in his bracket were also eliminated and had more penalty points than he Eliminated in earlier rounds were Fritz Fivian at 160.5 pounds, Don Conway at 174, and Tobe Zweygardt, all of Oregon State. Montreal To Face Maple Leafs Toronto, Ont. (UPD The Montreal Canadiens were un der orders today to make quick work of the Toronto Maple Leafs, a team which to a man believes their Coach Punch Imlach when he says, "We'll win the Stanley Cup." Montreal Coach Toe Blake, still morose over the 3-2 over time loss Tuesday night that cut the Canadiens lead to 2-1 in games in the final round, told his players to beat Tor onto today and again in Mon treal on Saturday. Blake wasn't talking public ly himself, but several players said he wanted it finished off quickly. Apparently Blake, who Is trying for a record four straight championships is wor ried about the comeback cap abilities of the Leafs, who found themselves in an iden tical situation when they were behind, 2-0, in games to Bos ton and won the semi-final. 4-3. That time, too, they won the crucial third game, 3-2, in overtime. Blake will have to finish the series without one of his superstars, injured center Jean Belibeau, and apparent ly won't be able to use the highest scorer of all time, Maurice Richard, except in emergencies. Oregon Faces Track Test Eugene - (LTD - Oregon's powerful track and field team faces its most rugged test in many seasons Saturday at Palo Alto when the Ducks run up against Stanford and Southern California in a tri angular meet. The meet also will be scor ed as a dual meet among the three teams." " Southern CalTias a record of more than 80 straight dual meet victories, while Oregon has 30 straight in dual meets. :, gr$' ,.mJm ii.ii.ii '-' ' t . . . v III COIC.TSTj - - " ; ' ' - , i,i ,' I, a i i I,,,., it. I-,,',, ,' ,'r. iii it i, ' t " 1 : i NEW CONCEPT DeSoto Chief Engineer A. E. Kimberly examines his "idea car" which introduces some revolutionary styl ing and engineering principles. Called the DeSoto Cella I, the lower picture shows a cross-section of the four high-speed electric motors positioned adjacent to wheels where they would drive through short universal jointed shafts to independently suspended shafts, eliminating transmission, differen tial, drive shaft and rear axle. An electro chemical principle would power the car. Liston Gets TKO In Three-Rounder Miami Beach, Fla.-flJPD-Son-ny Liston, a bomb-throwing heavyweight contender from Philadelphia by way of St. Louis, today was clamoring for a fight with anybody, in cluding champion Floyd Pat terson. Liston, because of his im pressive record, has had trou ble finding suitable opponents in recent months. And his search figures to get tougher considering the easy manner in ' which he demolished rugged Cleveland Williams of Houston, Tex., Wednesday night in a nationally televised bout. ; Warming up quickly after a slow start, Liston was awarded a technical knockout over Williams at 2:04 of the third round after flooring his taller rival twice earlier in the session. 24th Victory It was the 24th victory in 25 pro fights for Liston, who is ranked fourth in the heavy weight division behind Inge mar Johansson, Zora Folley and Henry Cooper. Liston weighed 212V pounds to Wil liams 210V4. Liston, a 3-1 favorite, dropped Williams for an eight count with a solid left hook in the third round. Williams went down again seconds later under a barrage of punches and struggled to his feet at the count of nine. That's when referee Jimmy Peerless halted the fight to save Wil liams from further punish ment. T got the idea that I could slug him," said Wil liams, who suffered his first defeat in his last 12 starts and only the third of his 47-fight career. "That's where I made my mistake." Red Raiders Travel To Monmouth Friday ' Ashland - Southern Oregon colleee continues in its quest for their second consecutive title in the Oregon Collegiate conference when they travel to Monmouth for a single eame Friday and a double- header on Saturday against Oregon College of Education. SOC's Raiders got off to a Pic's 3 (Irene Schroeder 509) 1297. xugn game: irent senroeaer, 2U4. ' Split conversion: Jewell Betz 5-7. LADIES CLASSIC LEAGUE Standings:. Ross Lumber Crater Logging crater inn . Union Club . K-DOV Pepsi Cola . Jorgensen's Wooden Shoe Morning Fresh . silver uouar Lininger's Hawkinson's Tire W. 41i 35 30 30 28 li 24 23", 21 l 20 19 19 ' 18 L. 10 "i 17 22 22 23 i 28 28' i 30 J2 32 33 33 34 Results: Ross Lumber 1 (A. Bohannon 489) 2356; Union Club 3 (T. Tolles 559) 2402. Crater Logging 3 (. Goode 438) 2177; Crater Inn 1 (H. Clark 507) 2075. K-DOV 3 (E. Lenz 518) 2287: Sil ver Dollar 1 (L. Turner 477) 2244. PeDSi Cola 2 (C. Loud 523) 2289: Lininger's 2 (V. Findley 477) 2208. Jorgensen's 2 (P. Gardner 497) 2292; Morning Fresh 2 (J. Lovett Wooden Shoe 2 (L. Learning 489) 2352: Hawkinson's 2 (M. Hennebeck 502) 2365. SDlits P Gardner 4-7-10: H. Clark 6-7. For Expert Haircufring Try Gold . Hill Barber Shop Phone UL 5-1285 Open Tues. thru Sat. 9 to 6 pm SPECIALIZING IN CHILDREN'S HAIRCUTS Tornado in Net Victory Winning four of the singles tussles and both doubles en counters, the Medford high tennis team downed Ashland 6 to 1 yesterday. The Tornado netters com plete the week with a trip to Yreba, Calif., on Friday. They meet Grants Pass next Tues day. Jerry Joy took the only tiff for Ashland yesterday, de feating Gary Cummings, 6-4, 6-3. Medford wins in singles were Dick Hildebrand over George Converse, 6-1, 6-1; John Shaw over Jack Elder, 6-0, 6-0: Dave Ryn over LeRoy Hannon, 6-3, 6-1, and Paul Ryn over Bill Benson, 6-1, 6-0. In the double Cummings and Shaw bat Converse and Ben son, 6-0, 6-2, and Hildebrand and Paul Ryn defeated Han non and Elder 6-1, 6-2. Eugene -DPD- Oregon's golf team defeated Willamette 17V2 to V2 here Wednesday. Chuck Hunter of Tacoma fired a 71 and Keith Gubrud added an even-par 72 to pace the Webfoots. successful start last Tuesday when catcher Jim McAbee led the Raiders to a 5-1 victory over Oregon Tech. McAbee homered and sing led in the winning cause in addition to picking an Owl runner off second base and the Raider catcher hopes for no less this week when he starts against the OCE Wolves. Tom Speelman will likely get the call for mound duties in the Saturday game and Dave D'Olivo, winner of the four hit OTI game, will pitch one of the Saturday games. Kermit McLemore or Don Vannice will start the other game of the doubleheader. Combination Listed Jim Dietz at "second base and Gordie Carrigan at short stop make up the keystone combination with Larry Mau rer at first and Chuck Nevi at third. Slugger Phil Sword will lead the outfield contingent in right field. Sword is batting an even .300 but he has two home runs and three doubles. LeRoy King will be in cen ter field and either Ray Wein hold or Eldon Francis will be patrolling the left field pas tures. Reliefer Dale Walters will be on the traveling list for pitching duty. The Httle curve balling chucker y'tched two innings against the Tj diversity of Oregon and struck out four of the seven men he faced in addition to leveling out a two base hit of his own. Jess Munyon will also make the trip and he can play in the infield or behind the plate depending upon what the sit uation calls for. F R E E P R I Z E S Straus & Smith SPORTING GOODS Crater Lake Hwy. (Hwy. 62) at Dodge Bridge Junction About 17 Mi. No. of Med. GRAND OPENING Saturday, April 18th 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. Refreshments Balloons for the Kids (no purchase necessary to participate for prizes) F R E E P R I Z E S Portland Slated For TV Fight Portland -ttffD- Portland ap-1 parently will have a nation-j ally-televised fight on April I 29 after all. j Promoter Tommy Moyer said Tuesday night that he would move the Phil Moyer Yama Bahama welterweight fight to another city after the Portland Boxing commission met to consider the fact that rival promoters had schedul ed bouts only two days apart. The other fight is April 27 between heavyweights Pat McMurtry of Tacoma and Gar vin Sawyer of New York. However, "the word today was that Moyer had reconsid ered and would go ahead with the TV fight with the bless ings of the Boxing Commission. . MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Thursday, April 16, 1959 9 Desoto Announces New Power System For Future Gars Chicago The predicition that cars could be driven by four high-speed electric rotors receiving their engery from a totally new source of power has been announceded by De Soto Division. The concept was revealed as De Soto unveiled a three eights scale model of an "idea car" called the "De Soto Cella I." J. B. Wagstaff, De Soto general manager, termed the "idea car" and its power theory "an exploration -of styling ideas and advanced engineering concepts which might be realized in a De Soto within the next generation.'" Electrochemical System As conceived by De Soto engineers, the De Soto Cella I, would be powered by a revo lutionary electrochemical sys tem. Stylists have also envision ed many new safety and con venience features which could be incorporated into the De Soto Cella I. "In this engineering con cept," A. E. Kimberly, De Soto chief engineer, explained, "we have discarded the time-honored piston engine in favor of the chemical interaction of hydrogen and oxygen gases as the primary source of automotive power." The idea car's name, "Cella, is derived from the' Latin and refers to a power source "con tained in a cell." In the De Soto engineering concept th hydrogen and oxygen gases would be fed into the cell with , the resulting chemical interaction being converted directly into electrical energy. Similar in Principle Kimberly explained that this conversion to electrical energy would be similar in principle to the operation of a present-day commercial dry charge battery, wherein elec trical energy is generated only when the battery is filled with fluid. "The electric current," h said, "would then be utilized to drive four high-speed, light weight traction motors, one geared directly to each wheel." "The use of four light weight, high speed geared mo tors would allow them to be positioned adjacent to the wheels where they would drive through short, univer- sal-jointed shafts to independ ently suspended wheels," Kim berly said. "If ultimate weight reductions are realized, it may even be possible to con sider mounting the motors directly to the wheels." HEADS TENNIS GROUP Ames, Iowa (UPD Harry Schmidt, Iowa State tennis coach, has been appointed chairman of the NCAA Tennis Committee. FIGHTS United Press International Miami Beach, Fla. (UPD Sonny Liston. 212 '2, Philadelphia, tko'd Cleveland Williams, 210'i, Hous ton. Tex (3). Does She Dream of Far Horizons? im Don't dawdle, order her a Volkswagen! It's an experience to go explor ing in a Volkswagen ... safe, dependable, a true friend, it will always take her safely, yet econom ically. 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