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Ray Robinson Toga Vacation Expected After NY By JACK CUDDY New York-CTD-The attitude nd rulings of the New York State Athletic commission in dicated forcefully today it will vacate Sugar Ray Robin- ion's worl d middleweight championship at Friday's bearing. Sugar Ray already has been itripped of his title by the Na tional Boxing association, of which the New York commis sion is not a member. Accordingly, former cham pion Carmen Basilio - dinner guest of promoter Jim Norris Wednesday night-stood out to day as the man around whom the immediate future of the 160-pound division would re volve. . Norris, who was head of the International Boxing club mo nopoly until the United States Supreme Court broke it up, is now co-owner of the National Boxing enterprises of Chicago. The NBE presents the Wednes day night TV fights. Victory Dinner Norris dined Wednesday night with Basilio and co-managers , Joe Netro and Johnny DeJohn. One observer said it looked like a "victory din ner." A victory for the Norris forces over Robinson and his Teleprompter corporation backers. Carmen was the star wit . ness at Wednesday's second session of the hearing, which was adjourned until 2 p.m. Friday. Basilio not only gave testi ' xnony for.70 stormy minutes, but he threatened to punch one of Robinson's attorneys in ,the nose. The New York commission . and the New York Supreme Court had ordered Sugar Ray Perfect Game Pitched; Maids m Face Seattle rhree double headers are - in the Northwest Girls' jor Softball league for Sat- Inv and Knnriav nights. ieattle Ramblers will meet ; Rogue Valley Dairy Maids . at yamp wiuie ueiu, iiugcuc will iace American hinen in --. Portland and Salem will vie iat Vanrmivpr BC Portland (UPD Louise Maz- iuca pitched a perfect game Vednesday night as the Lind Tlorists defeated the Ameri :an Linen Whirlwinds 2-0 in j i Northwest Women's Major ' Softball League game. Maz : zuca struck out 14 in the - seven-inning game. BUCS OPTION STEVENS Pittsburgh -(UPD- First base man R.' C. Stevens has been optioned by the Pittsburgh Pirates to the Columbus Jets of the International league Stevens, appearing in only one game this season, batted .267 for the Pirates last year. MEN 21TO 30YRS. The City of Los . Angeles will give examinations in Ashland for Police Officers :. . (Enlering-level salary range) Careers vith a Future Excellent promotional opportunities Steady, secure jobs no layoffs Interesting, vital work ' " Training at full pay Young men who are high school graduates or the equivalent, at least 5'8", and in excellent physical con . dition a.e urged to investigate these outstanding oppor- tunities for a career with the Los Angeles Police Dept., ' . the highest-rated police department in the nation. A selection team will visit Ashland on Monday, May 25, 1959, to give the examination. Qualified candidates will . receive definite offers of employment before coming to - Los Angeles. ; . If you wish to take this examination, contact the Place ment Office of Southern Oregon College for the exact time and place. r Hearing to "enter into articles of agreement" with Basilio by May 15 for a third title fight. Robinson signed at Philadel phia on May 12 for a defense against Carmen at the Phila delphia Municipal Stadium, Sept. 21. But Basilio's testimony Wednesday was to the effect that he had neither signed nor negotiated for the fight, and thathe knew little about it except what he read in the papers. Rain, Cuts Speedway Practices Indianapolis, Ind. -(UPD-Rain washed out all practice at the Indianapolis Speedway Wed nesday, cheating rookies of the final day in which they could have completed driver s tests for a crack at qualifica tions this week end. The 6 t).m. deadline cut short tests started by fresh men drivers Johnny Kay, Johnny Moorhouse, who had crashed at the speedway, and Russ Congdon. They will have to return in, 1960 to fuv ish the final phases. This cur tailment didn't help the driv er shortage either. Eight newcomers did beat the deadline. One of them, Bob Cortner, 32, Redlands, Calif., died Tuesday shortly after he was injured critically in a crash at the speedway. Two other rookies, Bob Schroeder and Jim Packard, who also cracked up. were denied further driving at the track until they have had more experience. With the final time trials coming up Saturday and Sun day, and 10 soots still open in the 33-car field, speedway ob servers predicted it will taKe only 141 miles per hour to make the lineup. Practice time is running short, and there are still 44 cars sitting in gasoline alley waiting for a chance to qualify. Cave Junction Out of League Cave Junction, playoff win ners in the Rogue Valley base ball league last year, has dropped out of league play for the 1959 season. The de cision was announced this week by Fred Kaufman, busi ness manager of the team. Harry Chipman, league president, said the schedule will remain unchanged with teams drawing a bye on dates they are slated against Cave seven teams in the league. They are Ashland, Medford, Camp White, Butte Falls, Grants Pass, Glendale and Riddle. Lack of a sufficient number of players was given by Kauf man as reason for the with drawal J s545 Mo, Kip Claims Retriever Open Honor Kid of Geneva. wned and handled by Kenneth Denman. was open all-age stake winner in the annual trophy competi tion conducted among dogs owned ty Rogue Valley Re triever club members. Championships in four stakes were determined by points gained in five picnic trials this season. Tally, owned by Charles Stelle, was first in the qualify ing stake and Judy, owned by Jwerett McGraw, took puppy nonors. Another Denman re triever, Kip's Nik Nak. was winner in the derby stake. The club's fifth picnic trial was held laast Sunday at the county gravel pile area on Rogue river. It produced the following winners: Zeke, own ed by Hal Shidler,. Klamath Falls, open; Nik Nak, derby: Muffin, owned by Gene Mey- erdmg, qualifying, and Ace, owned by McGraw, puppy. Shidler's entry waas not eli gible for the RVRC competi tion. Full Season Plaets Other top placers for the full season in the open stake were Otto Lilya's Lady, sec ond; Claude Miles' Boots, third, and Dr. Charles Ver ateeg's Velvet, fourth. In the qualifying stake for the five trials, Meyerding's Muffin was second; Otto Lilya's Lady, third, and Leonard Lilya's Imp, Dr. Lee Harlow's Joe and Hilman Miller's Tug, tied for fourth. Derby placers included Tom Rickard's Cookie, second; Ver steeg's Mike, third, and Jack Boettcher's Skipper, fourth. In the puppy event it was Gene Hunt's Renegade, second; Ray Edwards' Tate, third, and Al Wright's Chief and McGraw's Ace, tied for fourth. Last Sunday in the open it was Lady, second; Cookie, third, and Velvet, fourth. In the qualifying stake Flint, owned by Ken Perkins and handled by Pat Montgomery, was second; Miller's Tug took third and Charles Stelle's Tal ly gained fourth. Gene Hunt's Renny, and McGraw's Judy followed Nik Nak in that or der in the derby. Judy was second in the puppy s'take and Tom Rickard's Chmien third. Judges last Sunday were Miller, Meyerding and student Ray Edwards in the open, Rickard Otto Lilya and stu dent Frank Kuoni in the derby, Irv Warren and Hunt in the qualifying and Boet- tcher and Paul Skinner in the puppy. BOWLING LADY ELKS LEAGUES The Demi Lassies defeated the Late Comers for the cham pionship of Lady Elks League No. 1 and the Astors won from the Cussin' Three for the toga in League No. 2. League No. 1 Late Comers Demi Lassie Trudy Lea 369 M. Gllkinson 333 Edna Blew 400 L. Jantzer 471 D. Jantzer 471 Vivian Knox 542 Handicap 333 Handicap ' 270 1573 1618 League No. 2 Astors Cussin' 3 V. Bateman 387 D. Huntley 379 D. Snedden 511 Jewell Betz 410 K. Jennings 489 M. Little 420 Handicap 49 Handicap 339 1636 1548 COMMERCIAL LEAGUE Final Third-Round Standings: W. L. Cubby's Drivt In 324 llli Mail Tribune 27 17 Al Sodaro Agency 27 17 Kim's Kestaurant . xi n Quality Market 28 18 Patterson's Bakery . zts IB Davis Transfer & Storage 2 Hi 22 i Clave Construction Co.- 21 Va 22 Va Bates Candy Co 17 27 Morning Fresh Bread 16 28 Medford Paint Store 12 32 Alexander & Brown Ins. 10 Vi 33 ',4 Med. Paint 4 (Al Bohannon 564) 2576; Clave 0 (Jake Olson 520) 2313 Sodaro 3 (Jim HenneoecK euz) 2697; Tribune 1 (George Spaun- borst 556) 2605. Patterson's 4 (Dick Westerfleld 543) 2528: M F Bread 0 (Fred Beck 535) 2401. Bates 2 (Gary Couch 558) 2908; Davis 2 (Dale Cook 567) 2521. Cubby's 3 (Bill Meyers 568) 2605; Kim's 1 (Jim Knapp 551) 2548. A St B Ins. 1 (Bob Champion 531) 2343; Quality 3 (Bill Blunt 614) 2527. Jeff Completes Sweep of P1L Portland -fflPD- With Terry Baker on the mound, the Jef ferson high school Democrats made it a clean sweep of Portland prep titles Wednes day by defeating Grant 5-2 to clinch the baseball champion ship. Baker, who pitched a six hitter, earlier led Jeff to the city football and basketball titles. The Democrats won the track title without him. CLUB TO MEET Rogue Aqua Ski club it scheduled to meet Friday, May 22 at 5 p.m. at the big rock at Emigrant lake. Those attending axe in structed io bring a lunch. Coffee and pop will be fur nished. A business meeting will follow the lunch period. If weather is bad tomorrow, the meeting will be postponed until Friday, June 5. Dakota means an "alliance of friends" and is a word of STATE MEET ENTRANTS - Crater High will have three entries and four berths in the state A-l track meet Friday and Satur day at Corvallis. From left in the picture are Comet Coach Ed Knapp, Glen Cote, Six Pirates Entered in State Fray Phoenix-Coach Hap Cons bruck will take a crew of six athletes to the Oregon Class A-2 track meet this Friday and Saturday at Corvallis. The contingent will leave here about 6:30 a.m. Friday. Making the trip will be Bill Dillree, Don Korth, Dan Lura ley, Miks Consbruck, Gary Chriss and Ron Baker. Dillree qualified for state last Saturday with firsts in the high and low hurdles and sec ond in the high jump in the District 6 meet. Korth was second in the javelin and Lumley second in the 220 yard dash. Dillree, Chriss, Consbruck and Lumley were members of the relay team which finished second in dis trict. Ron Baker finished third in the district shot put and gain ed a state meet spot when Myrtle Creek high announced that Dudley Klimback would not be pernrtted to compete for disciplinary reasons. Klim back was second in the shot in district and first in the discuss. His removal puts Sherman of Douglas in a dis cus spot in state. Myrtle Creek also pulled out Dan Harkema who won the 880 last Satur day. This will permit Steve Charters, Eagle Point, to make the Corvallis trip. Char ters was third in the Ashland run-off. y Chriss of Phoenix last' Sat urday took over the relay spot of Glen Thompson who was hurt in a Friday auto accident. Coach Consbruck credited Chriss with a fine job of running. Medford Club Cops Team Tilt Ashland rifle shooters in vaded in numbers at last night's shoot at the Medford Rifle and Pistol club and chal lenged Medford for the team match. Apparently, jt wasn't their night and the Medford team composed of Harry Heiden reich, Lew Conger, Chuck Taylor and Marvin Nelson de feated the Ashland crew of Archie Haskins, Jerry Heit manek, Chuck Gettling and Vern Athanas, 1424 points to 1490. Haskins was the high shoot er with 390 making straight 100 in the kneeling position. Heidenreich was second with an identical total score of 390. Taylor and Conger tied for third and fourth with 384 and Heitmanek fifth with 372. FACE. INJURES HAND St. Louis -(UPD- Elroy Face, Pittsburgh Pirate relief artist suffered a gashed hand Wed nesday and will be sidelined for about three days. Face, who boasts a 6-0 record this year, cut his right hand when a glass broke in' his hotel room. Five stitches were tak en to close the cut. REMEMBER? New York (DPD J o h n n y Podres pitched the Brooklyn Dodgers to the only world championship in their history when he beat the New York Yankees, 2-0, in the seventh game of the 1955 World Series at Yankee Stadium.' DAILY'S Body & Paint Southern Oregon's Oldest and Finest 29 S. BARTLETT Prion SP 2-2395 Med SIPCGMTTS Greene Wins (Fifth For SoDSd By DON BECKER United Press International Will the Sacramento Solons crack? ' 'Don't bet on it. They're a team with a solid corps of first flight minor league vet erans who for the moment are just a bit short of big league ball. - Typical is Carl Greene, who at 28, has seen a lot of minor league miles. He tossed - for the Solons last year, had only a 7-11 mark. But so far this season, he's been a ball of fire. Wednesday night he reg istered his fifth straight win of the season as he hurled the Solons past Phoenix, 6-2. It also was Sacramento's fifth straight win and it enabled the Solons to hold onto their four and a half game lead over second place San Diego. Other action saw the Padres whitewash Salt Lake 2-0, while Portland battled 15 innings with Seattle before it finally won out, 5-4, on the strength of an unearned run. Greene gave up nine hits, including solo homers by Bob Speake and Al Steiglitz. Two-run homers by Dick Phil lips and Al Heist gave the Solons enough scoreboard ma terial for their victory. Locke Hurls Three-Hitter San Diego's Bobby Locke tossed a snappy three-hitter against Salt Lake. It was his third win against three de feats. Billy Moran socked his second home run of the sea son in the fifth inning and Rudy Regalado hit a run-pro ducing double in the eighth to account for the other San Diego run. George Perez, who pitched a no-run no-hitter against Sacramento last week, was charged with the loss and was taken out in the eighth inning. He gave up but four hits. It was his second defeat against one win. The Vancouver Mounties put on a power display in the first inning then snoozed their way through to a 6-3 win over Spokane. Joe Taylor, Jim Pagliaroni and Ron Han sen hit homers during a five run Mounties outburst in the opening stanza. Taylor's blow was his eighth of the season. Erv Palica, who had to have help in the eighth inning, was credited with the win for Vancouver. Error Helps Beavers Seattle's Gale Wade drop ped a fly ball off the bat of Jack Littrell to pave the way for Portland's extra inning SMART VMffl . . . MEDFORD HEALTH CLUB UNDER NEW 3 WEST 6TH ' John Burns and Jim Eldred. In last week end's district meet Cote was second in the discus, Burns won the -javelin and tied for second in the high jump and Eldred tied for first in the pole vault. (Knackstedt photo). une Senators win. Littrell opened the in ning with a long fly to left center and went to second when Wade let the ball pop out of his glove. Littrell moved to third on a sacrifice and scored when Jim Greengrass lifted a sac rifice fly. beattle pulled off a rare triple play during tne con test. With runners on first and second, pitcher Howie Reed popped out on a bunt attempt and catcher Jake Jenkins fired to second to double one runner and the ball was relayed to first to complete the killing. Reed went all the way for Portland, gave up 10 hits while scoring his fourth win against two losses. LINESCORES: (15 innings) Portland 012 000 010 000 0015 5 Seattle 040 000 000 000 000 4 10 Reed and Tornay, Neal (3); Os teen, Hanlon (10) and Jenkins. Sacramento ..022 020 000 6 10 Phoenix 101 000 0002 10 2 Greene and Dalrymple; Hyman, Wright (3), Muffett (8) and Steig litz. San Diego 000 001 0012 8 1 Salt Lake 000 000 0000 3 1 Locke and Retzger; Perez, Bauta (8) and Onuska. Spokane 000 000 0303 8 0 Vancouver ....510 000 OOx 6 6 0 Giallombardo. Milliken (1). Wade (2), George-(8) and Sherry; Palica, Luebke (8) and Pagliaroni. UO Needs 2 for Title Eugene - (DPD - Coach Don Kirsch's University of Oregon baseball team puts its title hopes on the line against Ore gon State this week end. The Webfoots must defeat OSC here Friday and at Cor vallis Saturday to win the Northern division crown. Washington will win if Ore gon loses one of the two games. Kirsch said Denny Peter son, the star sophomore right hander from The Dalles, has been ill with a virus infection and may not be ready to start Friday. If not the assignment will go to either Hugh Spring er or Jack Loy. Camden, N. J. -(UPD- Jockey Willie Hartack lost an appeal to the New Jersey Racing commission Wednesday on his 11-day suspension by Garden State Park stewards. The stewards had charged him "unbecoming conduct" f o 1 lowing the sixth race Satur day. Know the value of good health and physical conditionining. That's wly so many of Med ford' smartest women belong to the MED FORD HEALTf) CLUB. Here they receive professional" guidance in physical condition ing and have access to a complete array of the latest equipment. SPECIAL! For a limited time you receive a 3 MONTH FREE MEMBERSHIP when you join now at our Special $60.00 yearly fee Join now for a full 15 months of the play way to health. Easy terms are available dur ing the Spring Expansion Special. Visit the MEDFORD HEALTH CLUB now for your free "figure analysis." Easy Terms Available MANAGEMENT SP 3-6686 Attorney Opinion Sought On Ring Muscle-in Case By AL WIESE Los Angeles (UPD The Cali fornia Athletic commission left it up to the top legal of ficers of Los Angeles and California today to decide whether any action should be taken because of alleged un derworld attempts to gain control of world welterweight champion Don Jordan. The commission Wednes day questioned a series of witnesses, including two Southern California gangland figures, Louis Dragna and Joe Sica, on reports that east ern racketeers tried to "mus cle In" on Jordan and threat- STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE w. L. Pet. GB Milwaukee 21 19 20 20 18 15 11 .656 San Francisco 16 17 18 17 18 20 21 .543 .541 3,i 3 ',2 4 . 4,i 6,i Chicago Los Angeles . .526 .514 .455 Cincinnati Pittsburgh ... St. Louts 4 11 .412 8 Philadelphia ... .344 10 Wednesday's Results Chicago 7, Philadelphia 5 San Francisco 6. Milwaukee 3 Los Anreles 8 (Cincinnati 4 (1st) Cineinanti 7, Los Angeles 5 (2nd) st. iiouis li, nttshurgn l Thursday's Probable Pitchers Pittsburgh at St. Louis (night) riaaaix (2-3) vs. Mcuaruei Friday's Gaines Milwaukee at Philadelphia (night) Cincinnati at nttsburgn (mgnt) St. Louis at Chicago San Francisco at Los Angeles (mgnt) American League W. 21 22 ... 20 . 15 ... 17 13 13 . 12 L. 11 13 15 16 20 19 20 19 Pet .656 .629 .571 .467 .459 .419 .394 .387 GB Cleveland Chicago Baltimore Kansas City 2 V 5,i 6,4 Washington tsoston 8 8',3 Detroit New York Oil Wednesday's Results Kansas City 8, Boston Z Detroit 13. New York 6 Cleveland 5, Washington 3 (night) Chicago s, Baltimore 2 (night) Friday's Games Chicago at Kansas City (night) Detroit at Cleveland New York at Baltimore (night) Washington at Boston (night) PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet GB Sacramento 25 10 14 17 16 19 17 IB 21 .714 San Diego 20 .588 500 .484 .472 .352 4 ',6 Spokane .. 17 Vancouver ... 15 Phoenix 17 7',i 8 8tf Portland 14 Salt Lake 12 Seattle 13 9 .387 11 .382 11 i Wednesday's Results Sacramento 6, Phoenix 2 San Diego 2, Salt Lake 0 Vhmiiim. it Gnnlr... 4 Portland 5. ieattle 4 (15 innings) NORTHWEST LEAGUE W. L. Salem 18 8 Eugene 11 8 Wenatchee 13 13 Lewiston 12 12 Yakima 11 13 Tri-City 8 17 Pet .666 .579 .500 500 .458 .320 GB 2 ',4 4 4 5 8i Wednesday's Results Lewiston 8. Tri-City 4 Eugene 5, Wenatchee 0 Paint Good Paint You won't find better Our paint comes direct from the factory No middle man's profit Try to beat these prices on quality paint: BLISTEK outside White or Colors. BLISTEK shake paint $485 DECO wall rubber DECO Lux satin F LOYD 31 0 East Main Street, Medford, We Give S&H ened violence if a payoff was not forthcoming. At the close of the day-long hearing, Dr. Dan Kilroy, commission chairman, order ed transcripts submitted to the Los Angeles district attorney. the California attorney gen eral and the U. S. attorney's office here to determine if any possible action" should be taken. The names of both Frank (Blinky) Palermo, Philadelph ia fight manager, and under world figure Frankie Carbo both figured in the testimony of such witnesses as Jackie Leonard, Hollywood fight promoter. Refuse To Testify Neither Dragna nor Sica had anything tov say to the commission. They - invoked the Fifth Amendment a total of 22 times during the afternoon session of the hearing, and Sica once claimed he had dif ficulty hearing earlier testi mony because of an ear in jury received when shot in the head. Leonard told the commis sion he received a telephone call before the Dec. 5 fight here in which Jordan won the title from Virgil Akins. He said that at the time Pa lermo said, "We are in for one-half of the fight." The promoter said he be came concerned and told Don Nesseth, Jordan's manager, when they were at lunch with Truman Gibson, then the pres ident of the former Interna tional Boxing club. He described the demand for a portion of the purse. Gibson's reaction, Leonard testified, was to say, "You're crazy-they wouldn't do any thing like that. Tell him to go to hell." Creterian Bills Title Bout TV Craterian theatre defin itely will have television presentation' of the Floyd Patterson -Ingemar Johans son world heavyweight title boxing bout, Robert Cor bin. Manager here for Ore gon California Theatres re ported today. The bout is slated for Thursday, June 25. and will be seen on the Craterian screen at 6 p.m. There will be no home television of the fight. Tickets for theatre TV of the fight probably will go on sale next week, Corbin stated. house paint $C29 60 Gal. Qt. 1 55 Gal. Qt. base wall paint $4 98 1 55 Gal. Qt. finish enamel 5 50 1 70 Gal. Qt. Oregon Phone: SPring 2-21 13 GREEN STAMPS MAIL TRIBUNE, MtdW, Or. 11 Thursday, May 21, 1959 li Trout Fishing Outlook Good At Willow Lake Portland tDPD The weekly report on fishing conditions prepared by the State Game Commission: ' Southwest: North Umpmia reservoirs slow for trout but should improve if weather gets better; spring chinook fishing poor to fair in main Umpqua and fair to good in North Umpqua. Tenile lake still good for trout; bar too rough at Win chester bay; salmon angling at Coos Bay bar poor last weekend. Willow creek reservoir good in Jackson county: out look poor in Rogue system; salmon catches improving in Grants Pass area; Floras and Garrison lakes should be good. Central: East fork Hood riv er only fair to good In Mt. 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