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I MAIL TRIBUNE, Me-fer., Or. Wednesday, May 13, 1959 Challengers Scoffing at Ray Report - Philadelphia-CPD-The camps of both Carmen Basilio and Gene Fullmer scoffed today at Sugar Ray Robinson's an nouncement that he has signed to defend the world middle weight championship against Basilio here Sept. 21. v Former champ Basilio, who ays all he knows of the pro posed deal is what he reads in the papers, said in Syracuse, N.Y., that the terms outlined "sound like one of Robinson's deals." And Marv Jenson, manager of Fullmer, insisted his fighter and Basilio are signed to meet for Robinson's vacated title in Syracuse, sometime in July. Ready- To Crack Down Robinson was shorn of his crown by the National Boxing association nine days ago for failure to defend since win ning his title back from Ba silio in Chicago on March 25, 1958. Robinson remains cham pion in the eves of the non- member New York Athletic commission but that group is ready to crack down on Sugar Ray Friday. There was uncertainty still whether Sugar Ray's signing to Philadelphia got him off the hook in New York state. Under a court order Robinson has until Friday to "enter into articles of agreement" for the Basilio fight. Whether his solo signing would be interpreted as entering, into articles' of agreement was questionable The announcement of the 15-round rubber match as mu nicipal stadium, with a gross f $750,000 to $1,000,000 pre dicted, was made by Alfred Klein, a member of the Penn sylvania Athletic commis sion. STANDINGS United Press International NATIONAL LEAGUE W L, Pet. GB Vom Angeles - 18 12 .600 Milwaukee 15 10 .600 'a Cincinnati 14 12 .538 2 San Francisco 14 13 319 2',i Chicago 15 15 .500 3 Pittsburgh 12 14,.462 4 Philadelphia 11 15 , .440 3 St Louis 10 18 .357 7 Tnesday's Results Chicago 7, Milwaukee 3. ! Pittsburgh 6, San Francisco 5 (12 innings). ; St. Louis' 7. Cincinnati 4 (night). Los Angeles 3, Philadelphia 1 night). AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pet. GB .640 Cleveland 16 9 Chicago 15 11 377 Hi Baltimore Washington . Boston New York Kansas City 13 12 356 3 15 14 317 3 12 13 .480 4 11 14 -11 14 .440 5 .440 5 prtro roit 9 17 .346 7ft Tuesday's Results J Washington 7, Detroit 4 (night). Cleveland 7. New York 6 (night). Chicago 4. Boston 3 (night, 12 innings). ; Kansas City at Baltimore (night, postponed, rain). i r PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE i W L Pet. GB Sacramento San Diego . Vancouver Phoenix Portland Salt Lake , Seattle Spokane 18 8 .692 -17 10 .630 Hi .12 13 .480 Sx .13 15 .464 6 -11 13 .458 6 -10 13 .435 6i -12 16 .429 7 -11 16 .407 7',i Tuesday's Results Portland 5, Phoenix 3. Sacramento 6, Spokane 5. (Only games scheduled). NORTHWEST LEAGUE W L Pet. GB Salem 12 4 .750 Eugene 8 6 371 3 Yakima 9 9 300 4 Wenatchee 9 10 .474 4,i Lewiston 7 10 .411 5& Tri-City 6 12 .333 7 Tuesday's Results Wenatchee 4. Tri-City 1. Salem 7. Yakima 3. OSC Footballers Battle Alumni Corvallis-tOTO-Oregon State's football team will wind up spring practice on Saturday May 30 with a game against an alumni squad headed by former Beaver great Joe Francis, it was announced today. - Francis will direct a T-for-mation attack against the sin gle wing Beavers. Others on ,the alumni squad include for mer ail-American tackles John Witte and Ted Bates, half backs Earnel Durden and Sam Wesley, guard Jim Brackins, quarterback Ted Searle and end Bob DeGrant. Sam Baker, one of profes sional football's top place kickers, also is expected to be on hand. Dupas; Scott Vie In BoxingvScrap' :; Chicago -UPD- A bomber and a boxer meet on television to night and the .fancy Ralph Du pas; ranked second among the world , welterweights by the National Boxing ; association, was an 8-to-5 favorite to de feat hard - punching Charley Scott, FIGHTS United Press International London Dick Tiger, 161i, Nigeria, outpointed Randy Sandy, 156 . New York (10); Dave Cham ley. 13334. England, knocked out Willie. Towed. 135. South Africa (10): Caribou. Maine Yvon Durelle, J75. Canada, stopped Teddy Burns, 176 'a. Boston (3). Houston, Tex. Joey Archer, 158. New York, outpointed Tony Dupas, 157, New Orleans (10). Colavito Brilliant As Tribe Tips Yanks By MILTON RICHMAN United Press International All's fair in love and war, so the Indians are now using a "rock", to knock off the Yankees. Thisparticular rock hap pens to be Rocky Colavito and what hurts, the Yankees is that he was born and bred in the Bronx and had always dreamed of playing for them. Tuesday night, he blasted his eighth homer, two doubles and a single in a 7-6 victory that represents Cleveland's third straight triumph of the season over the slumping world champions. Cal McLish gave up homers to Mickey Mantle,- Elston Howard and Yogi Berra but still wound up with his fifth straight victory. He needed relief help from Jim Perry to protect Cleveland's IV2 game lead in the American league race. Williams Makes Debut The White' Sox went li in nings to beat - the Red Sox, 4-3, and the Senators topped the Tigers, 7-4. Rain post poned the Kansas City-Baltimore game. Los Angeles climbed into a tie for the National league lead with a 3-1 win over Phil adelphia; Pittsburgh nipped San Francisco, 6-5, in 12 in nings; St. Louis beat Cincin nati, 7-4, and Chicago licked Milwaukee, 7-3. i Even , Ted Williams' first appearance of the season couldn't help the Red Sox in their extra-inning struggle with the White Sox. Williams was hitless in five trips. Al Smith's two-run homer in the 12th off loser Murray Wall decided the outcome although Jackie Jensen hit his eighth homer off winner Rudy Arias in the bottom of the 12th. Harmon Killebrew, Wash ington'sv new wonder boy, slammed his- 11th and 12th homers and drove in five runs against Detroit. The 22-year-old Killebrew hit a two-run homer off Frank Lary in the sixth to tie the score at 3-3 Casey Stengel Called Push-Button Skipper New York-(DPD-Frank Lane added the 'crowning indigna tion today he called Casey Stengel "nothing but a push button manager." "Maybe - the phrase isn't original with me, but it cer tainly applies to Stengel nev ertheless," said the outspoken Cleveland general manager. "The man is a fairly capable manager," Lane went on. "I said fairly capable, nothing more. He has a most astute general manager in George Weiss. Weiss supplies him with the players and all Sten gel has to, do is simply push the buttons." Tribe Faces Yanks Lane made it plain he was Anders Pushing Pistol Leaders Rafe Anders of State Po lice has been pushing the leading pistol shooters of Med- ford Rifle and Pistol club down the ladder since he join ed the organization but was unable to overcome the per- renial top man Roy Hewitt in last night's practice shoot. Hewitt led with 277. Anders had 271; Tom Staley 259, Jim Bolton 257, Paul Rutter, 256, Hugh McGinty 255, Ed Mc- Ginty 250, Joe Rinafd 246, Bernice Hewitt 225, Warren Poling 210, Harry Lake 191, and Bart Cowan 189. - Lake and Cowan were new shooters. Next Friday night Rogue River Pistolclub is coming over for a friendly non-registered match. ' Swedish Boxer Getting Sharper New York (DPD Sweden's Ingemar Johansson and his sparring partners agree on one thing - he's improving every day in his training for his June 25 date with heavy weight champion Floyd Pat terson. "Ingemar is more relaxed now and he is getting his punches where he wants them," said sparmate . Bill Johnson, who formerly work ed with Patterson. ' Senators Clear Deck for Trade Washington - (DPD - The Washington Senators cleared the deck for a possible trade today when they cut their squad to 23 players by selling first baseman Norm Zauchin and pitcher Vito Valentinetti to Miami of the International league. and then belted a three-run smash off Ray Narleski in the seventh. Bill Fischer was the winner and Dave Sisler the loser. ( - Southpaw Danny McDevitt limited the Phillies to five hits in pitching the Dodgers into a first-place tie with the Braves. One of the hits he al lowed was a homer by Willie Jones. McDevitt singled home the Dodgers' first run off loser Gene Conley and the lead run scored on an error by short stop Joe Koppe. Daniels . Gels Win Pittsburgh came up with three runs in the 12th to edge the Giants, who rallied for two runs in their half of the1 12th. Dick Stuart's double and Bill Mazeroski's single broke a 3-3 tie in the decisive' frame and two more runs crossed on A walk with the, bases full and a single by Roberto Clemente. Two 'er rors by Clemente and one by Don Hoak helped the Giants to their final two runs in the" bottom of the frame. Bennie Daniels was credited with his first victory. Home runs by Gary Blay lock, Joe Cunningham and Ken Boyer carried the Cardi nals to their victory over the Reds. Blaylock gained the de cision although he weakened in the seventh and gave, way to Bill Smith. Brooks Law rence was roughed up for eight of the Cards' 12 hits in 2 23 innings and suffered his second loss. " Pinch hitter Earl Averill's grand-slam homer with two out in the ninth off Lew Bur dette gave the Cabs their, come r from - behind victory over the Braves. Burdette charged with his second loss against five wins, had a four-hit 3-2 lead until the ninth. Eddie Mathews hit his 13th homer for the Braves and Johnnny- Logan and Del Crandall also connected. Re liever Don Elston received credit for his first victory af ter relieving starter Bob An derson in the ninth. , not exactly bleeding over the fact the Yankees are in sixth place at the moment. "I'm sorry tney're not fur ther down," he said. "What are they looking for, sympa thy? They sure won't get any from me." Marvin Breeding Tops PC Hitting San Francisco -(CPU- Marvin Breeding - of Vancouver tops the Pacific Coast League regu lars with a batting average of .341 while teammate Joe Tay lor had driven in 21 runs to lead in that department. Portland's George:, Freese set the pace in home runs with seven and Jose Pagan of Phoenix had collected ' the most hits-38. Statistics in cluded Sunday's games. Sport Parade New York-(DPD-It is not at all surprising that under James Joseph Dykes the De troit Tigers have come off the floor to win seven of the eight games in which he has handled the reins. The Tigers were rated as one of the class clubs of the American League even though they fumbled away 15 of their first 17 games. Day by day they became tighter than a society doll's shoes and couldn't win for losing. The brash, irrepressible Dykes was just what the doc tor ordered, and vice versa. Jimmie should make a real run. of it with Detroit. First because in the past he always has been a hastily summoned substitute to whom the neces sity to produce ,is no new situation. Second, in former shots he has been with clubs lacking talent to such an ex tent v that James J. became the greatest second hand deal er in baseball. Dykes has been a baseball fixture since World War I and, over the years, he has learned of necessity ie tech nique of getting the most out of little. "Ball players are just like horses," he is wont to say. "They will run for some jockeys and play dead for oth ers. Players are temperamen tal and little things disturb them." Thus Dykes treats each play er differently, coaxing and wheedling or bossing auto cratically. He lays down only two hard and fast rules: Be in bed by midnight and stay , U.S. Choice In Walker Cup Match Muirfield, Scotland (DPD Welsh pro star Dai Rees ad mitted today that the British Walker Cup team is in trouble as a result of hot practice rounds by Americans that have suddenly made the U.S. team the favorite for the matches this week end. ' The U.S. team, which previ ously had been rated only even money, was changed to a 2-3 choice, Tuesday after the U.S. players followed a five- under-par 67 by. Charlie Coe of Oklahoma City, Okla., to a brilliant showing on the Muir field links. - Coe's brilliant round was two strokes lower than the competitive record for the course by an amateur, jointly held at 69 by Americans Law- son Little , durmg the 1935 British Open tournament and Ed Kingsley 'during the 1948 British Open. The only bright spot for the British team was a 69 shot by Ireland's Joe Carr, the reign ing British Amateur cham pion. McMurtry Winner in Ring Bout Portland, Ore. -(DPD "Irish" Pat McMurtry, who was knocked out by Nino Valdez in the first round of a nation ally-televised fight last De cember, is on the comeback trail. - The Irishman from Tacoma, Wash., won a unanimous de cision over Garwin Sawyer of New -York Tuesday night in a heavyweight bout at Portland Auditorium. . v McMurtry came in at 188 pounds, to 190 for his oppon ent. He had Sawyer in trouble in the second, fifth and eighth rounds - but was unable to put him down. The fight drew 1146 fans and grossed $3111. McMurtry's most effective punch was an overhand right to the side of Sawyer's head. His best round was the eighth when he caught Sawyer with a solid right to the jaw that knocked the heavier fighter off balance. Sawyer was on the ropes as the round ended. Stock, Sports Cars To Meet ' Portland - (DPD - American and . foreign sports cars will clash with standard American stock cars in a $5000 Oregon Centennial classic at the Port land Speedway June 7. It is the first time that these cars have competed against each other on a circu lar track. Sponsoring North west Sports,.- inc.. has an nounced the race will be 150 laps in length, approximately 75 miles. . GIANTS OPTION PITCHER San Francisco (DPD The San Francisco Giants Tuesday optioned pitcher Marshall Renfroe to their Phoenix farm club in the Pacific Coast league. Renfroe failed to make an appearance for the Giants this season. QSCAR FRALEY United Press International in shape to play ball. There are no frowns for an occasion al schooner of suds as long as a man behaves. Jimmy long ago worked out a sound solution to curb the bright light Bennies. He has what he calls "the Dykes form letter." It says: "Dear Mrs. Smith: Your husband has taken to staying out nights past the curfew.' I would appreciate it very much if you would find out where he goes and why, and pass this information on to me. Sin cerely yours, James J. Dykes." Provides Perfect Antidote The letter then is shown to "Mr. Smith," the wayward ball player, and the night forays come to a speedy halt when Dykes advises him that the missive will be sent to his better half. "You could break up my home," raged one such player, f "Seems fair," Jimmie re torted. "You're breaking up the team." Dykes, brassy, cocky and eternally loquacious, was the perfect antidote for the Tigers troubles. The game to him is fun and he makes it so for bis players. Like the time when he was with the A's and Rube Walberg invented a box for magicians with which they could make a person disap pear. "Bring it out to the ball park," roared Jimmy. "We'll use it on the umpires." : He'll gas 'em up, as proved by those seven wins in eight starts. And it's nice to see him get a shot with some real tal ent at long last. . Herrmann Heaves Two-Hitter As Linfield Wraps Up Title United Press International Linfield wrapped up the 1959 Northwest conference baseball crown ''at McMinn ville Tuesday, defeating Lew is and Clark 4-2 and 5-2 in a crucial doubleheader. In other Northwest Confer ence action Tuesday, College r Idaho won the first game at Salem 2-1 and Willamette the second by the same score, and Pacific belted Whitman twice, 10-2 and 6-2, at Forest Grove. Linfield's Fred Herrmann Medford&Tribuni Beaver, Solon Nines Take PCL Contests United Press International Sacramento just keeps roll ing along atop the Pacific Coast league. The Solons grabbed another tough one' in an opponent's park Tuesday night to open up a game and a half bulge over second place San Diego, which was idle. The Solons dumped Spo kane 6-5 while Portland cap tured a 5-3 win over Phoenix in the only other action. Both winning teams had to weather ninth inning uprisings. Bob Perry did most of the heavy stickwork while the Solons piled up a 6-3 lead over Spokane. Starter Joe Stanka sailed along pretty well until the Indians went on the warpath in the final frame, pushing across two markers. Reliefer Terry Fox finally got the side out. Stanka' 1 Third Stanka grabbed his third win against two losses, while Spokane starter Bob Milliken Thomas Drops -Out of School Boston -flJPD- John Thomas, the Boston University fresh man who has jumped higher than any other man, today could not even wiggle the toes on his injured "jumping" foot. Thomas, who holds the world, indoor high, jumping record with a 7-foot, l4-inch leap M the National AAU meet in New York last Feb. 21, has dropped out of Boston University and will not re sume his studies until next fall, school officials said Tues day. . Rules Self Out The, 18-year-old Negro youth underwent plastic sur gery to 'clostf a lesion on his left foot-the one that springs his spectacular leaps. School officials said he has "ruled himself out" of track meets this summer. When the protective cast was stripped off this week, the youth was warned by doc tors to forego any form of exercise until it was sure that the eight-inch skin-graft on the top of the foot had "tak en." Cubs, Phillies ' Switch Hurlers Chicago - (DPD - Southpaws Taylor Phillips and Seth Morehead were to join then new clubs today, following a straight player trade between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies. Cubs manager Bob Schef fing said he hoped Morehead would arrive in time for Chi cago's game with Cincinnati at Wrigley Field. Phillips left immediately for San Francis co to join the Phillies after the trade announcement Tues day. Oregon's Frosh Blast OSC Nine Corvallis -(DPD- The Oregon Frosh pounded out 21 hits and got a run for every one of them Tuesday to blast the Oregon State Rooks 21-8 in a baseball game that took near ly four hours to play. PILOTS ON WILLAMETTE Salem -(DPD- The Univer sity of Portland's golf team defeated Willamette 12-3 on Tuesday. Jerry Yturri of Portland was medalist with a 66, six under par. Phone SP 3-4293 DAILY'S U-DRIVE Medtord Airport hurled a two-hitter in the first game against the Pioneers and Dwane Miller allowed Lewis and Clark only four hits in the nightcap. L The double win gave Lin field's a season's record of H-l and Lewis and Clark 10-4 and the only conference game for either team is a makeup in Portland Thurs day. Two Wildcat rainouts were cancelled. Jackie Riley led Linfield batters in the first game with a homer and a single. took his first setback. The win gave Sacramento the series, 4 games to 1. Vic Lombardi, the little ex Dodger hurler, went all the way for Portland in its make up win over Phoenix. Jack Littrell homered for Portland in the second and Bob DiPietro's double paved the way for a two-run burst in the third. In the final frame, Owen Friend of Phoe nix banged his fourth homer, but it was too little and too late. Dick Hyman was tagged with the loss. McLoughlin Net Crew Defeats Faculty Team McLoughlin Junior high tennis team defeated a faculty aggregation 6 to 0 yesterday. Singles victors for the Bull dogs were Bob Darby 6-4, 7-5 over Dale Bates, Jerry Zem lifcka 6-4, 6-3 over J. D. Evans, Dennis Dwyer 6-3, 6-2 over Dennis Davis and Steve Hub ler 6-2, 6-1 over Ed Dorn. Doubles matches were tak en by Darby and Zemlicka 8-1 over Bates, and Dwyer and Hubler 8-3 over Dorn and Carr. The Bulldogs were without the services of their No. 1 player, Bob Schroeder. . MFIiiip STARTS THURSDAY, MAY 14th - 10 A.M. ACROSS FROM RADIO STATION KMED o Balers with Automatic Bale Loaders o Side Delivery Rakes and o Hay Conditioners o Also Green Crop Harvesters' o "Chuck Wagon" Feeders IU1 U LA Grasps Top Place In National Los Angeles -(DPD- For the second time this season the Dodgers were back in first place in the National league today although in a percent age tie with Milwaukee. The local club moved into that rarefied position Tues day night by defeating the Phillies' 3-1 for their fourth straight victory in a streak started last Saturday at San Francisco. The move up to first came on the anniversary of the first anniversary of the Dodg ers having dropped to the cel lar last season after a 12-3 loss to the Giants. Drysdale Versus Kline And in an attempt to solid ify their standing, the Dodg ers tonight go with Don Drys dale (3-2), against the Pitts burgh Pirates who will send Ronnie Kline (3-1), to oppose him. Danny McDevitt, a rank failure as a pitcher last year for the Dodgers, was the hero of Tuesday night's game as he twirled a five-hitter and had the Phils shut out for seven innings, weakening slightly in the eighth when Willy Jones homered. UO Regains Lead in ND Moscow, Idaho -(DPD Ore gon was back, in first place in the Northern division base ball race today after its sec ond straight victory over Idaho. . . The Ducks clobbered the Vandals 13-2 here Tuesday af ternoon to take over the top spot with an 8-3 record. Ore gon State has 5-2 and Wash ington, Oregon's next oppon ent is 8-3. Walt Baransfci hit a home run in the first inning after Lenn Redd's single to start things off for the Ducks. Ore gon got 15 hits in all. Catch er Ellis Olson banged " a double and a single-to drive in three runs. It was the 12th straight Northern Division loss for Idaho. Oregon State moves into the Palouse country today to meet Washington State in a two-game series after which it meets, the Vandals. ;- 0)emin)s,iroftnni ON ROSS LANE o o o "The Farmers Store Since 1884" If it rains Come to the Store at 25- South Riverside and see the equipment. P.S. N. Y. Negro Girl 'Miss Festival' Cannes, France-(DPD-Cecilia Cooper, 20, of New York City, Tuesday night became the first Negro to win the title of "Miss Festival," at the Cannes Film festival. The bikini-clad Cecilia ap peared stunned by her tri umph over, a score of Euro pean beauties including Anna Nelsen, Miss Paris of 1959, and 13 other girls. 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