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o , (tULTRIBUNrMJf.rOf. V Friday, .'una 19, 1959 Baooballers Say Third Loop Fine Br MILTON RICHMAN United Press International A third major league is just fine with present big league ball players but they would like to know -along with everyone else "where are they gonna get the players?" Duke Snider, veteran Dodg er outfielder, took the same tack as most of his major league brethren - .when he said: "I just wonder where they are going to get the necessary players for a third major league when they have trou ble getting enough for the two leagues in operation now." , All the major leaguers polled by the United Press International said they were in favor of a proposed third league although some voiced reservations. Demands Legitimate League Pitcher Bob Turley of the Yankees said. "I'm all for it as long as it is a legitimate major league. But I wouldn't be in favor of it if it was a major league in name only that is a league which' was way below the caliber of the American and National." Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick pointed out that obtaining players for a third league would not be the in surmountable problem it is being pictured. The players will develop If we make the jobs for them," Frick said. Some of the current major league players, however, seemed to have their doubts. "If I were a fan," said vet eran Mickey Vernon of the Braves, "I would treat this as just another triple-A league with a big league name." Help Older Players Carl Furillo, at 37, saw the formation of a third league as a vehicle for keeping present big leaguers around longer. - "It might be good for some of us older players by giving us a few more years of com petition," said the veteran Lot Angeles flychaser. "But !t would probably be just a lorified triple-A league be cause there are not enough players to go around as it is." Like all the others, Milwau kee catcher Del Crandall was all for . a third league. Yankee Bosses Would Welcome Another Circuit New York - (UPD - The New York Yankees "'wouldi wel come a third major league anchored in New York City," according .to co-owner Dan Topping. "We would also seriously consider being a co-tenant with the new team if a new stadium were built," he added. ; Asked what the league's most pressing problem might be, Topping said: "Getting players, I suppose. Some ex isting teams would find "it pretty difficult to give away any of the players they have." Trapshooting Event Scheduled "Medford Gun club will hold a 50-bird handicap trapshoot on Sunday with merchandise prizes offered. Practice 16-yard and skeet shooting also is on the slate, i . Traps are to open around 9:30 a.m. Phone SP 2-5271 for all of your CONCRETE NEEDS ESTIMATES GLADLY GIVEN! l -v Delivered SP 2-5271 r 0mS t 'mi HITTING THE DIRT Frank Torre, infielder for the Milwaukee-Braves, drops to the ground to duck a close pitch by Johnny Podres of the Los Angeles Dodgers, in the fifth inning of the Braves-Dodgers game n Los Angeles. Plate umpire is Hal Dixon, and catcher is Johnny Roseboro. Brayes won, 5 to 4. Frick Believes Players For third Major League Clubs Can Be Produced By FRED" DOWN United Press International New York (OPD Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick and elder-s tatesman Branch Rickey predicted -today that the expanding American eco nomy can produce the play ers to form a third major league. Where the required 200 players would be obtained has long been en obstacle to expansion plans. It' was, in fact, the big question asked by big-league players them selves in a United Press In ternational survey taken after Thursday's disclosure that the formation of a 100 million dollar league will be announced next month. "The players will develop if we make the jobs for them," said Frick, who at the same time pointed out that other considerations in volving baseball law made him ;, "neutral." iWe have enough confidence in the country's economy to believe it can fill 200 new jobs pro vided; we should create them through the .expansion of our game." 'Not Many Musials' "Of course, there aren't many Musials, or Mayses or Williamses or Aarons," said Rickey in Pittsburgh. "But if you insist on quality of that type," 'you'll settle for a half dozen players. "But 'there are thousands of good ball players all over the United-States. There are iriore.. .boys., playing ball in America now than ever be fore in history." Rickey - inventor of the game's farm system and the man who broke its unwritten color barrier by hiring Jackie Robinson . even had a pro posal for a new World Series alignment: "Hold the series in three cities instead of two and double the revenue," said Ol Branch with a thoughtful puff on his cigar. League Presidents Silent League Presidents Warren Giles of the National and Joe Cronin of the American said they wanted to learn more de tails before they commented, CONCRETE C? L 248 E. McANDREWS RD while civic and baseball of ficials in Buffalo, Minnea polis, Toronto and Arlington, Tex., -hailed the announce ment. The major stumbling block pointed out by Frick ap peared to be whether there would be enough time under basebal rules for the new franchise to be approved so they could operate in 1961 -the target -date announced by William A. Shea, chairman of the New York Mayor's Base ball Committee, Thursday.; Hillsdale Held Out by Trainer Inglewood, Calif. - (UPD -Hillsdale pays the penalty of thoroughbreds for success as he was scheduled to remain in his barn Saturday during the running of the $50,000 Ingle wood Handicap at Hollywood park rather than carry 132 pounds. That was trainer Mary Fallon's answer to the impost assigned the Indiana-bred colt who has won three straight stakes here after . having cap tured three earlier in the year at Santa Anita. Owner C. W. Smith and Fallon had indicated they ex pected the colt to be assigned 130 pounds for the mile and a sixteenth race but felt 132 pounds was too steep a jump after Hillsdale had carried but 123 pounds only two races back. That left Bug Brush, a prob able high weight if she goes in the Inglewood, a rare com pliment for a filly, She was assigned 123 pounds for the race. Fallon also didn't like the idea of Hillsdale spotting her nine pounds since the last time they met she beat the colt. Kaline Suffers Cheek Fracture Baltimore -(UPD - Outfielder Al Kaline, whose ..353 average makes him a strong contend er for his second American league batting title, may be released from Union Memo rial hospital today and could be back in the Detroit Tigers' lineup the latter part of next week. Dr. Edward Klitowski made the announcement after per forming a 15-minute opera tion he called a "closed re duction which involved no cutting." Kaline suffered ' a fractured cheek bone in the first inning of Thursday's game with the Orioles when he was struck by a wild throw by Baltimore second baseman Billy Gardner.' by "Chuck" Bitten "I can't be OUT OF WATER . . . I iust filled the CRANK. CASE this morning." There's a RIGHT PLACE for EVERYTHING . . . let US serv ice your ear! S3 Chevron Station We Give S&H Stamps Phone SP 3-6673 . -816 North Riverside T Chevron Supreme Gasoline ' MEDF0RI)OITIBUXE srpdDninrs Legion Nines Play Here This Medford American Legion baseball team, aiming to get back in-winning stride, and Central Point Cheney Studs, ambitious to keep its record unbeaten in cdunting day. tangle Sunday in their first meeting of the season. , A doubleheader is planned with the first game at 1 p.m. and just the opening ruckus counting in the southern divi sion of area four. Games will be at Cheney field here. Central Point has a 2-0 rec ord in the league and Medford is 1-1. The Studs are expected to be at strength on Sunday while the Medfordites are to be missing the services of Jerry Anderson and Lowell and Calvin Dean. Anderson is scheduled to attend a wedding and the Deans do not play ball on Sunday. Also Ray Konopasek and Pat McLaughlin have been at Beaver Boys State along with Calvin Dean and whether they will be on hand here Sunday is uncertain. Possible pitcners for the main game are Bob Quinney for Medford and Bill Anhorn for the Cheney nine. Denny Samples may go to the hill for CP in the second mix and either Herb Wheeler or Mc Laughlin for Medford. ' Al Balding Canadian Golf Leader By DICK BACON Ste. Dorothee, Que. - (UPD Cigar-chew Al Balding, a 35-year-old one-time beer truck driver said the night before the 50th Canadian Open golf championship teed off at Islesmere: "You watch. A Canadian is going to win this yea.r" Only one Canadian has ever won the Seagram Gold Cup, emblematic of the $27, 000 national golf title and that was Pat Fletcher in 1954 when none of the regu lar touring pros entered. Today Balding leads the field of 115 starters after shooting: a sizzling six-under par 66 over the par 36-36-72 6,695-yard soaking wet Isle mere course. . The curly-haired Canadian with the near perfect swing wielded a red-hot putter as he sank putts from long and short range and all directions. He needed only 28 putts as he registered six birdies and 12 pars through his rain-soaked round. Nine Hot On Pace But right behind Balding were nine U.S. pros who were no less than one or two strokes off the pace. Four were bunched in second place with 67's while five more turned in 68's. In all, 24 professipnels bettered par. Four Shoot 67's Just one shot back of Bald ing were the 1957 Canadian Open champion, long hitting George Bayer, Glen Eagles, 111.; Masters champion Art Wall, of Pocono Manor, Pa., chubby Bob Rosburg, Palo Alto, Calif., and PGA champ Dow Finsterwald. Bunched at 68 were Doug Ford, Para dise, Fla., little known Coro nado, Calif., pro Bill Blan ton; former U.S. Open cham pion Tommy Bolt, Crystal River, Fla.; Jim.Turnesa, Se-' bring, Fla., Australian Bruce Crampton, and Billy Max well, Odessa, Tex. Four others were tied at 60, five at 70 and four at '71. FLAY GOLF! It's Public j- OAK KNOLL GOLF COURSE ' 2 Miles East or Ashland Highway 66 19th HOLE - PLUS FINE FOOD o CLUB RENTALS o GOLF e CART RENTALS OF ALL Sunday Medford may have Jim Barry catching and Bob Cus tance at first base when Quin ney is pitching. Choice for sec ond base may be among Kono pasek, Ray Stewart and Doug Kinney with Dick Ragsdale at shortstop .nd Ken Durkee at third. The outfield may be choses from among Ken Jen sen, Wayne Thompson, Sam Oetinger and Kinney. For the Studs, Ed Allen is to catch the first game and Jeff Anhorn perhaps the second. Elsewhere the line-up may be Steve Harris, first; Brad Get tling, second; Harley Dicker son, short; Jim Doster, third, and Dave Jackson, Jerry Hauck and Mike Glines or John Anhorn, outfielders. The game will have interest for Ashlanders as well as Medford and Central Point residents since as, many as six of the Central Studs' starters may be Ashland high players. Dairy Maid Softballers Bounce Basinettes 21-2 Rogue Valley Dairy Maids were en route to Vancouver, B.C., today for week end se ries in the Northwest Wom en's Major Softball league with the South Hill Queens. The clubs play at 5:45 p.m. Saturday and 12:30 p.m. Sun day (PST). Last night the Maids Rogue Netters Seek Redding Tourney Togas Top players from the Rogue Valley Tennis club are en tered this week end in a tour ney at Redding, Calif. The California meet attracts some of the best netters of the area, including San Francisco. Matches are Saturday and Sunday. A favorite in the junior men's division is Jerry 'Joy, Ashland. He has had experience in tournaments in the East, in Canada and on the Pacific coast. Jerry will contend in men's doubles with his father, Dick Joy. The two . are a strong doubles team with pre vious i p 1 a y in California circles. They display the mod ern aggressive game. A l'e x Petersen, Ashland, and John Root, Medford, also will team in men's doubles. These two also play the serve and rush net sort of game and are expected to make a good showing. ' Dick Joy, Petersen and Root will be in men's singles. On the following week end the four men will be among competitiors in the Rogue Valley Invitational on the Southern Oregon college courts. Cubs' Taylor Hurt by Pitch Chicago -flJPD- Tony Taylor, Chicago Cubs' second base man and the club's leading hitter, was due to be released from the hospital today with only a bruise as a result of Thursday's beaning by Ron nie Kline of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Taylor was felled by the pitch which hit him on the right cheek bone and left him unconscious 'for about 10 minutes. X-rays at Wesley Memorial hospital showed later that he suffered no fractures. HSlt? -ei 11 "V 'Vs" ALL-STAR AIDE - John Kovenz, abova, Medford High school head baseball coach, has been named an assistant coach for the State team for the second .annual Prep All Star game on; Saturday, June 27, at Eugene. Dennis Barr, Medford pitcher,, will be one of the State players. trimmed up for the jaunt with a 21 to 2 non-league vic tory over the Klamath, Falls Basinettes. It was the second win for the Rogue Valley nine in three games with the Klam ath club. The Maids utilized 12 hits, 10 bases on balls and eight KF errors with seven runs scored in the second inning and eight in the third!' Five Hits in Second Second inning scores were on hits by Ellen Callaghan, Irma Penwell, Jan Bateman, Doris Hickson and Bernice Bigham, three bases on balls, a fielder's option, two passed balls and a wild pitch. In the third the runs were on swats by Penwell, Bateman, Hick son and Bigham, three errors and two" fielder's choices. Hickson and Bigham each had three safe blows in the game and Callaghan and Penwell each two. Callaghan pitched five in nings for the Dairy Maids, permitting three hits, walking five and fanning six. Hickson gave up one hit in the last two frames. Coach Jim Hughes of the Klamath nine had said his crew looked like a state cham pionship club after a recent win over Rogue Valley. LINESCORES: Basinettes 010 (HO 0 2 4 8 Dairy Maids ....078 501 x 21 12 1 Smith, Adreon (2), Perry (4) and Wickline; Callaghan, Hickson (S) and Main. Pender-Sugar Bout Proposed New York - (UPD - The door was opened today for Sugar Ray Robinson to defend his middleweight crown against Paul Pender at Boston 'this summer. Robinson announced he had received a telegram from the Massachusetts Boxing com mission recognizing him as champion. The Massachusetts commis sion is a member of the Na tional .Boxing association, which stripped Sugar Ray of his- 160-pound crown on May 4 for inactivity. Robinson is still recognized as champion by the New York State Athletic commission, not a member of the NBA. And he also is recognized by Cuba, an NBA affiliate. Air speeds'-of more than 8,000 miles an hour will be possible in a new wind tun nel. EQUIPMENT KINDS Kegl ers Score 7-3 Triumph Over CW Medford Bowling Lanes grabbed the lead with a three run first inning and padded it with a three-run seventh last night in a 7 to 3 win over Camp -White in a non league semi-pro baseball game at Cheney field. The Keglers made better use of their opportunities in gaining the verdict. While Camp White collected just five hits off three Medford pitchers, the Veterans Admin istration sponsored team drew 13 bases on balls. Medford tagged CW chucker Jim Eg gers for nine hits. He walked five and struck out 10. Bowling Lanes chalked up its three runs in the first in ning on two bases on balls, singles by .Ron Peery and Jerry Fields and an error. A double by Ed Reinking, a hit batter and a single by Fields got a run in the sixth and in the seventh three markers re sulted from another double by Reinking, singles by Kay Vaughn and George Ice, an error and a base on balls. NCAA Links Tussle Has Crack Field University of Oregon, Eu gene - A truly crack field of collegiate golfers go after the 1959 NCAA individual cham pionship over the beautiful Eugene Country Club course here next week and any one of 'more than a dozen per formers from the 152 entered may be the favorite by the time play begins. The field starts action with 36 holes of qualifying play next Monday and Tuesday, which also will serve to de cide the team title among the 23 schools which have full squads entered, and then the low 64 begin a rugged sched ule of match play. On Wednesday the morn ing round of 18 holes will cut the field to 32 and the after noon round will trim the com petitors to 16. Thursday an other pair of 18-hole matches will be played and only four contenders will remain ' for the'36-hole semi-final, and final rounds on Firday and Saturday. Two Walker Cup stars, Ward Wettlaufer of Hamil ton college in New York and Tommy. Aaron of Florida, who also was a finalist in the 1958 National Amateur, are a cinch to have considerable pre-tournament backing. There are also five of those who reached the round of 16 last year who will be on hand again. This talented quintet is headed by John Konsek of Purdue, who was a finalist last year as a sophomore; Bob Pratt of Houston, who reach ed the semi-finals before losing to Konsek; and Dick Diversi of Rollins College in Florida, Bernie Magnesson of Stanford and Dick Siderowf of Duke, all of whom were beaten going into the quarter finals.' OF... FREE PRIZES! FREE Valuable Prizes! FREE Coffee & Doughnuts! k FREE Pop & Ice Cream! "k Favors for Children! (Next to Chuck's Camp white runs were scattered through the game. One crossed in the second canto on a walk and a triple by Eggers. The second was ' in the fourth inning. Chuck March- ant walked. On a wild pitch he rounded second base and headed for third where, he was called safe on a disputed play. Eggers and Wayne Allen drew bases on balls to fill the bases. . . ' Another Rhubarb . Jack Turk hit" a ball to second baseman Larry Perk ins who threw to first, touch ing off another rhubarb. Med ford argued for a double out which would have retired the side but Camp White's . con tention that Perkins had trap ped the ball was upheld. Only one out was recorded. March ant had crossed the plate on the play and ' the run was counted. In the eighth inning Allen singled and Barr walked three successive batters to let in a tally. Allen for Camp White and Reinking, Fields and Peery for Medford each ' had two hits. . Charles Rettman hurled four innings plus 4 for Med ford, allowing two hits, walk ing seven , and fanning one. Barr went for four, innings, giving up two safeties, whiff ing three and walking five. Ernie Tyler yielded'a'hit and a walk and struck out two in the final inning. LINESCORE: Camp White . 010 100 0103 5 2 Medford .300 001 30x 7 9 1 - Eggers and Hale; Rettman, Barr (5). Tyler (9) and Anderson. Vaughn (6). I--.' Olmedo Reaches London Semis London-(DPf-Alex Olmedo, the transplanted Peruvian from the University of South ern California, remained as the only "American" today in the London grass courts tennis tournament. Olmedo, seeded No. 1 for the Wimbledon tournament which gets underway on Mon day, faced veteran Indian Davis Cupper r Ramanathan Krishman today in one of two men's singled' semi-finals matches, while Neale Fraser, seeded No. 2 for Wimbledon, takes on Aussie teenager Frank fJorman Olmedo advanced ' to the round of four by defeating Bob Mark of Australia, 12-10 and 6-2, while Fraser recov ered after a poor start to oust Earl Buchholz of St. Louis, 0-6, 6-1, 6-1. OPPONENTS NAMED New York-fflPD-Andy Piri ano, newlyi- crowned New York state BPA singles cham pion from Syracuse, N.Y., meets Therm an Gibson of De troit, Mich., on Saturday night's live "Major League Bowling 'Show' which fea tures bowlers rolling white mottled balls on solid black lanes. ' (DhtrcEt's . 6463 TABLE ROCK ROAD , o Chuck Carr Announces the Opening of his NEW- UNION OIL SERVICE STATION Saturday--June 20 Nothing to Win! Cafe) Fight Ticket? Sell Roal Well Tickets 'for the cloet ci$ euit television showing here ef the rieyd lalrion Ingemar Jekaasea &erld heavyweight title Ipging bout are feiag "seal 0tod." it was ieelet lhi ern- ing. The Thusstaf-. 4ue M, bout will he viefe4 at she Crateriam theatre, the only place im southern Oxegon where it can he sees, tiff will be no home televisieft of the bout. Advance sale ef ticltats here is going bette xhaa fee the Patterion-Roy fight, it was said. Keveve there ar a good . teats left. Fisk Gains Upset iii OGA Fray Portland-flJPD-Shirley horn, Idaho state champion from Caldwell, defected Mol ly Murphy, Portland, V and 2, in their quarterfinal round in the 50th Oregon Amateur Golf tournament at Tualatin ' Country club here Thursday. Mrs. Frank Fisk, Portland, defeated favored Grace De- Moss, Corvallis, women's titlist the past thre yafrs, 1-up. Shirley Siegmund, fuen, had three birdies on the fin ishing holes to oust Mr. B. L. Borst, Portland, 1-up. Ki Russell Gustafson, Portlftni, advanced by default Tfien hfe opponent, Mrs. Harre Stlyn. Portland, was unable to lt9 because of, a death f hl family. Atkinson Out In men's play, Bofe &t(iS son Jr., Portland, iafHf Walt Cline Jr., Salm, f nf 4, in the morninf rounS, buf lost his touch in 'th aAaa noon's quarter-finale ant joh Wells, Portland, defeat hm. 3-2. Also advancing to tcghjy's semi-finals were Dr. Milord Rosenblatt, Portland, ifith a quarter-final win over Matt Hatala, Portland, 4 and 3; Don Krieger, Portland, with a win over Keith Gubrud, Uni versity of Oregon team cap tain, 4 and 3, and Dick Stearns, Portland, who defeat ed Dean Child, Portland, 4 and 2. ' Semi-finals were on the schedule today with the men playing 36 holes and thy wom en 18. In .1957, TM million p of outsoles were ued on shqQ manufactured in' the U. . baY Buildirs Calj S3 QUALITY BLOCM Brain Tifc Bricks, Hal ft7 W. MeAntog Phone Sr 3-457 er P M"7 1 to Buy
