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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."
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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,
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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.'
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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.
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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.'
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(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).
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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. '
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place im southern Oxegon
where it can he sees, tiff
will be no home televisieft
of the bout.
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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.
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