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Patterson-Johansson Fight Off Until Friday Evening; Rain Forces Postponement The Floyd Palterson-Inge-mar Johansson heavyweight title fight will now be seen on Friday night by closed circuit television at the Cra terion theatre. Doors will open at 5 p.m. and the fight will be at 6:30 p.m. The theatre management said that it would go ahead with its television plans despite, going along with the post ponement. All tickets for the Craterian presentation were sold by Wednesday. By JACK CUDDY New York -4EPD- The Floyd Patterson - Ingemar Johansson heavyweight title fight today was postponed from tonight to Friday night because ,of rain and wet grounds at Yan kee Stadium. .. "I consulted with the New York Boxing Commission and the people at Yankee Sta dium," promoter Bill Rosen sohn said. "The infield was very muddy and in deference to the public we have post poned the bout until Friday nignt. it conditions remain the same, we will decide about the alternate date Fri day." The postponement was an nounced two hours after the fighters had weighed-in, with the Swedish challenger hold ing a 14 -pound advantage over champion Patterson. Jo hansson scaled 19ff to Patter son's 182. (sLower Poundage Patterson's poundage was his lowest since he became champion. He weighed 182 the night he captured the vacant title by knockmg out Archie Moore on Nov. 30, 1956. Floyd went that low again last month in his 11th round knockout of Britain's) Brian London' at Indianapolis. The postponement is expect ed to affect Patterson more than Johansson, because the champion requires extreme "sharpness" to do his best. No additional weigh in will be required within 48 hours, and after that it's up to the New s York Athletic commis- Speedy Patterson of Rock- , t i tit Tir t vine venire, in. z., ueuauie a t . r a . l - c t longer . lavoriie xoaay at o-x, , as the odds jumped from 4-1. It was "even money" that the bout - doesn't last eight com plete rounds, regardless of the ' Tttrirmoi. anH that it : doesn't last 15. Patterson Eager to Win Patterson, making his fifth defense of the crown, claims he is eager to win impressive ly over the unbeaten Swede, Pre 4th STATION WAGON TENT 10 'eg. $65.95 9x12 Reg. $79.50 Includes all metal corner pole assembly, 2 telescop ing metal canopy extension poles and visqueen plas tic floor t-rp. n Camping comfort. Solid, lightweight spring steel legs. Full length and width. Rolls inside sleeping bag. Weighs only 9 pounds. O Erects in 60 seconds V ONLY v 314 East Main champion of Europe. Such a victory would help dispel any suspicions that he may be a cheese" .champion. Handsome, burly Johansson claimed all-out determination to win the championship hero ically and prove that those of his countrymen who had branded him a coward after the 1952 Olympics were ig noble liars. If he beats Patterson, he would become the first Swedish-born world champion in any division, and the first for eign heavy world champion since giant Primo Camera of Italy lost the title to Max Baer In 1934. Meanwhile, Rosensohn an nounced that the advance sale had topped $500,000, the amount needed for him to break even. He expects a gate of $600,000, he said, and a crowd of about 38,000. Theater Telecast Only There will be no home-television; but the fight will be radio-broadcast to homes by ABC. The Teleprompter cor MEDTORlvCWTtlBUXE Medford, Central Point Legion Clubs Will Vie; GP Cancels Studs' Scrap Medford and Central Point American Legion junior base ball Squads' have at it again on Saturday evening. They play at 8 p.m. on Sat urday at Cheney field here. Both clubs are in the south ern division of Area 4 but the fray will be non-league. It will be the third, meeting of the clubs. Medford won 4 to 0 and 7 to 3 last Sunday. Central Point was to have played Grants Pass yesterday in a twilight contest but the fracas- was cancelled by Grants" Pass. To Continue Coach Mel Ingram of GP" Mock Ford first informed Coach Bill Askwith of Cen tral Point's Cheney Studs that the Climate city was dropping Junior American Legion ball because of player shortage and field use problems Later, however, Ingram telephoned Askwith, who is southern di vision commissioner and said Grants Pass was cancelling SALE! OFF! NOWjJS ........ NOWQV Ma-BeJ e95 GREEN STAHPS : - for all your Canvas needs Pjione SP 2-4422 poration will send the bout by closed-circuit TV to 170 thea ters and arenas in 135 cities, where 550,000 seats are avail able. Advance sales indicate the gross seat receipts will ap proximate $1,400,000. Patterson, 24, is a long fa vorite because of his speed and punch. He knocked out 16 of his last 17 opponents. He is favored also because brown haired, fair-complexioned Jo hansson, 26, was unimpressive in training. Despite his reput ed thunderbolt right fist, he never scored a knockdown in 151 rounds of sparring for this bout. Moreover, Ingemar's left jab and left hooks appeared mediocre. 'm Johansson, seeking his 22nd straight professional victory and his 14th knockout, amaz ed the' boxing world last Sept. 14 by. belting out California's Eddie Machen iiy the iirst round. At .that time Machen was unbeaten and the top con tender. That quick kayo earn- ed "Ingo" the title shot; only its non-district home games. He ; said Mock will play its road commitments and its home league frays. That means that Medford's rivalry with Grants Pass on Sunday afternoon is - still scheduled in the. Climate city. Central Point . will have a non-loop trip to Roseburg on Sunday. Askwith said that an other Studs' trip to Roseburg is set; for July 7. Roseburg postponed a tussle which had been set for June 17. Gleneagle Purse High Chicago (UPD - The biggest purse of .the summer golf swing, $57,000 with $9,000 to the winner, was at stake to day for 151 golfers teeing off in Gleneagles Country club's second annual Chicago Open. Among the favorites for the title were defending champion Ken Venturi, National C)pen winner Billy Casper and Mas ters champion Art Wall jr., but a hot putter for anyone in the field t could turn the scrap into a one-man show. The ' course measures only 6,350 yards, far shorter than the usual test for the pro's, but the greens are tricky. They're rolling, hilly and de ceptive, and hence while most of the players can reach the greens in normal figure, they run into trouble sinking the putts. : , . 7". '; " YANKS SIGN PITCHER . Stillwater, Okla.-TOPD-Right-hander Roy Peterson, a star on Oklahoma State university's NCAA national championship baseball team, has signed a "very satisfactory" bonus con tract with the New York Yan kees. He will play with Fargo Mo orhead, N. D., of the Northern league. GAME MEN MEET. Portland (UPD The 39th annual conference of the Western Association of State Game and Fish Commissioners will be held here June 29,' 30 and July 1 with representa tives from the fish and game departments of the 12 west ern states, including Alaska, and the province of British Columbia in attendance. Phoenix,' Ariz. -(DPB Phoe nix jumped on Pearl Pinion for four runs in the first in ning and then held on for a 6-3 win over the Lind Florists of Portland here Wednesday night in a women's softball game. BOWLING CENTENNIAL ROLLERS Standings: Fifty Niners W. 7 5 t 4 . 4 4 3 la 3 3 2 L. 1 3 lVi 4 4 4 4li 5 5 '6 Krazy Kats Pin Heads .. Team Four .. Three Squares . Tamers Cotton Pickers I Near Misses ' Left Overs .. Results: - -- - - Left Overs 1 (D. Smith 370) 982: Team Four 3 (S. Puett, 386) 1073. fitly JNiners 4 (E. Read. 467) 1224 Near Misses 0 (P. Grant. 431) 1138. Three Squares 3 (B. Matheus, 380) 1043; Pin Hads 1 (Judy Bar- num, vet) luia. Tattlers i (B. Davis, 454) 1158; Krazy Kats 31, (J. Kraus, 347) 1199. ' Goof ers 4 D. Edwards 457) 1336; Cotton Pickers 0 (L. Neeley, 451) 1264. High game Nell Jones 184. High series E. Read, 467 -Split conversions PGtaat, 5-7-8; AL Lars en. o-7. lO MAIL tRIBUNE, Medford, Or.! 1" Thuridiv. June 25. 1959 I SPORTSCASTS Radio station KYJC will carry the Floyd Patterson Ingemar Johannson world heavyweight title bout at 6:30 p.m. Friday. LARGEST KAMLOOPS - The 21-inch Wi pound kam loops shown' at the left here was the largest rainbow trout caught last week at Diamond lake: Mrs. Charles Bennett, 820 Marshall ave., Medford caught the three fish and two others last Saturday drifting with a fly, which has proved a successful method for eve ning and early morning fish ing at the lake. Angling, was fair lastjweek and reported picking up. Still fishing and trolling also got results. A good number of the fish were running from 18 to 20 inches like the middle one shown here. Highway 230 from Cra ter Lake highway to Diamond lake is now open to traffic after having been closed by a slide. Ashlanders Win Over Camp White Memorial Stadium, Camp White Ashland's semi -pro baseball . nine" bunched three of its five hits in one inning and took advantage of bases on balls and home team er rors to defeat Camp White 6 to 1 here last night. It was a non-league game Both clubs are members of the Rogue Valley league" and Ashland has a counting tangle on Sunday when Camp White draws a bye. The Whiters .go back into action on Monday night when they host the Army's San Franciscco Pre sidio team. RVL games on Sunday are Grants Pass at -Riddle, Ash land at Butte Falls and Glen dale at Medford. Dave D'Olivo pitched a four hitter for Ashland, walking five and fanning seven. Camp White used one of the hits, by Don Sanford, and two of the walks for its only run in the first inning. In the fourth chukker Ashland tied the count on two-bases on balls, a hit batter and Jim Owens groundout. The Greyhound tavern got three markers in the-fifth panel on singles by Larry Maurer and Ray Weinhold, a double by Ron Maurer, a walk, a wild pitch and two errors. Two more runs cross ed in the sixth on four bases on balls and an error. Ron Maurer was the game's heavy slugger with a triple in addition to his double. Jack Brown doubled for Camp White. Jack Turk pitched 5 23 innings for the Whiters, giv ing up four hits and four walks and striking out seven. Jim Eggers went the rest of the way whiffing four and walking three. He yielded one hit.. LINE SCORE: Ashland 001 032 000 6 5 1 CamD White 100 000 0001 4 6 D'Olivo and Sword; Turk, Eg gers (6) and Pond. SEATTLE SEEKS TOURNEY Seattle (DPS - A Seattle Golf club official said Wednesday the chances of getting the Walker Cup golf tournament here for 1961 are "very good." The club filed a formal application for the" 1961 tournament to go along with the sports program planned for Century 21 Ex position. The Walker Cup tournament never has been played on the West Coast. St. Louis-flJPD-The St. Louis Cardinals have asked the Na tional league to place pitcher Alex Kellner on the disabled list. Kellner suffered a mus cle tear in his left elbow while pitching against the Milwau kee Braves Tuesday night. Breotheasy Complete Set Regularly $12 NOW $7" Limited-Time Offer reatheasy AT YOUR DRUG STORE Stacey, Sullivan Semi-Final Players in State Junior Golf Pam Stacey, Medford, current tourney medalist, and Treasure Sullivan, Ash land, 1958 medal winner, won quarter-final matches yesterday in the girls' championship flight of the Oregon Golf association jun ior tournament at Riverside club in Portland. They will meet in Friday finals if they cop semi final matches today. Miss Stacey yesterday de feated' Joan Edwards, Columbia-Edge water 1 up and was to play Sue ' Jennings, Oswego, today. Miss Sulli van won 4 and 3 from Mary Doyle, Riverside. Her rival today was Wendy Moberry, La Grande. Portland- (CPD -Lynn Yturri of Ontario scored a 6 . and 5 win over Dennis Soran, Klam ath Falls, in the feature match Wednesday of quarterfinal action in the 1959 Oregon Junior Golf championships at Riverside Country club here. He meets John Hedlurid of Oswego in a semi-final match today. Hedlund dropped River side's Dick Wagner 6 and 4. In other feature quarter final action Wednesday Chuck Allen, Roseburg, defeated Bob Wolsborn of the host club, 3 and 2, and Pete Geertsen, Eu gene, took a 9 and 7 decision over John Snyder, Lebanon.' Riverside's Fred Taylor won by the biggest spread in the boys' division quarterfinals in downing Alan Hudspeth, Prineville, 4 and 3. . Results of Medford entries yesterday in the state junior golf meet included: Boys Division-Chuck. Allen defeated Bill Wilkinson, The Dalles, 2 and 1, first flight; Doug Olson lost to Scott Smith, Oswego, 3 and 1, second flight; Larry Berg de feated Jim McNeely, Astoria, 6 and 4, fifth flight; Ray Hey sell defeated Mike Brands, Rose City, 5 and 4, seventh flight; Rich Knight lost 1 up to Tom Kabler, Roseburg, sixth flight; Tom Clark lost to John Meussle, Portland, 1 up, 12th flight. Pee Wees-Kent Clark -lost 1 up to Bob Ely, Columbia- Edgewater, in first flight; Rodger Berg lost 2 up to Butch Tucker, Klamath Falls, in fifth flight. Mickey Wright Begins Defense Pittsburgh - (UPD - Miqkey Wright began defense of her Open Golf championship at Churchill Valley Country club today, setting her sights on becoming the first woman to win the crown two con secutive years, i Miss Wright, of San Diego, Calif., faced tough opposition over the 6,104-yard, par 70 course. Included in the field of 24 professional and 39 amateur golfers was Betsy Rawls, currently the hottest thing in ladies golf. .Betsy has won five major tourna ments this year on the wom en's tour and is the leading money winner. Beverly Hanson, fresh off her victory in the American Women's Open in Minne apolis, is another who could pick up a first placecheck for $1,800. The tournament offers a total of $7,500. Pre-tourney talk has made Miss Wright, Marlene Bauer Hagge and Louise Suggs the three to beat. . New Sportsman FarEt A sub-divided Portion of the Original Har . riman Lodge Estate. A famous hunting and . fishing resort on Upper Klamath Lake. ran fMz, You can own a yeir-iround vacation spot. Excellent duck hunting (both public and 250 acres of private shooting grounds for cabin site owners, where fishing is excellent in algea-fre waters of Peli.an Bay (known as Rock Point Recreation Area) 7 and 8 pound Kamloop Trout and Rainbow are everyday occurrences. Private docks for boats, gateway to sky lakes, scenery,, hiking. Tomahawk Ski Bowl 1 mile from Sportsman Park . . . Ideal for those who enjoy outdoor activities in both summer and winter. SEE these New Cabin Sites We will not give you a fast sales talk and we certainly will not give you the feeling of being obligated. We are proud of what we have to offer. Good Choice of Lots Available 62 Lots Available Title Insurance Furnished SEE "BOB" Ashland, Medford Cinder Meet Hosts Southern Oregon's biggest summer of amateur track and field continues on Friday and Saturday. Ashland's city recreation department will be host on Friday evening at Southern Oregon college, oval in all comers men's competition. Presidio Tussles at Camp White Camp White - San Fran cisco Presidio baseball team will be near the end of a south ern Oregon - northern Cali fornia trek when they play the Camp White semi-pro nine Monday, June 29, at the Vet erans Administration s Me morial stadium. The Army club was to have played .the . Drain Black Sox last night and to meet them again tonight. Their schedule calls -for a game at Grants Pass on Friday and for a stand this Saturday and Sunday at Eureka, Calif. Dunsmuir s semi-pros will meet the Presidio on Tuesday, June 30. The Presidio reportedly, ran its victory string to 10 straight last week. Caliber of the Toreros was to be tested at Drain for the Black Sox in 1958 won the National Baseball congress na tional championship. jPocEts On EDecathflon Include Edstrom By DON REED Kingsburg, Calif. (DPD The National AAU Decathlon Championships get under way here tonight with the title race wide open after the an nouncement that the great Rafer Johnson, a home-town boy, will be unable to com pete. A field of 20 to 25 is expect ed to participate in the five events on tonight's program. The other five events will be staged Friday night - after the sun-goes down and the thermometer drops below the 100 mark. Johnson, who held the world's decathlon record until it was cracked earlier this year by Russia's Vassily Kuz netsov, was injured in an automobile accident recently. He told meet director Murl Dodson, his former high school coach, that he had a pulled muscle in his back and that it still bothered him. Trio Top Choice So the role of favoritism falls on a well-developed trio: C. K. Yang, a Formosa stu dent at UOLA; Dave Edstrom, University -of Oregon, who al ready has a best of 7,900; and Mike Herman, New York Pioneer club, who has tallied 7,977 points. . ' , , "Any or all of these men have the - ability to ' climb above the 8,000 point mark at this meet," says Dodson. ition To LARGE FOR ONLY Monthly No Bank or SLOAN AT HARRIMAN RESORT Saturday rivalry will follow at the Medford High stadium. In the Lithia city field events at 7:15 p.m. will start the meet and first race will come at 7:30 p.m. The Oregon Olympic Development pro gram and the City of Medford will have competition for younger boys and girls at 10 ajn. Saturday and high school and older entrants will com pete starting at 5 pjn. The public is welcome at both meets. About Same Program The two meets offer about the same program with the exceptions that the Medford meet offers more junior awards and that girls may participate in the Medford event. . Ashland has an open class for college age and over, a senior bracket for 10th through 12th graders, a jun ior class for seventh, eighth and ninth graders and an ele mentary division for grades six and below. , Medford offers a college or open group, a high school di vision for 17 and 18-year-olds and a junior class for boys 9 through 16. There are events for 9-10, 11-2, 13-14 and 15-16 age groups. If entries are sufficient there will be the regular full program of track events at both Medford and Ashland. The hop, step and jump is on the Ashland - list. Those entering the Medford meet are asked to furnish their own towels. Other entries include: John Hepner,, Eugene, Ore.; Bob Lawson, Los Angeles; Bob Pinkerton, Long Beach, Calif., State; Bruce Seifert, Redondo Beach, Calif.; Bill Toomey University of Colorado; Juris Laipenieka, Denver Univers ity; John Moses, Ft. Wayne, Ind., Athletic Club; Tom Wad- dell, Springfield, Mass., Col lege; William Besulieu, U.S Army. Robert Giombetti, Murray State Coilege, Kentucky; Jack Kuhns, Natawan, N.J.; Dixon Farmer, Orinda, Calif.; Paul Herman, Canoga park, Calif. Bill Urban, New York Ath letic Club; Richard Wortruba Holy Cross: ' Phil Mulkey, Memphis Track Club; Robert Crawford, " Muncie, Ind., and Reginald Carolan, University of Idaho. PANAMA HONORS LOPEZ Panama City, Panama -(UPD-Third baseman Hector Lopez of the New York Yankees will receive a Sports gold medal of merit from his native Pan ama during ceremonies of the July 4th doubleheader at Yankee Stadium. CRAIG WINS 2.000th Detroit-(UPD-Jockey Howard Craig recorded his 2,000th track victory aboard Ibn Pon der in the third race at Detroit Wednesday. Craig followed with number 2,001 in the fourth on No Pushover. No Interest or Carrvi"9 Charges WIDE RANGE , OF PRICES! Financing Necessary am. Pillette Shuts but Salt Lake By DON BECKER United Press International The pitchers have not only caught up with the hitters in the Pacific Coast league, they've passed 'em. Eight teams sent their slug gers plateward through four nine inning games last night and all that resulted was a measley 17 runs. That's not even par for the course for a single game at Phoenix. This was the second straight night the hitters have been anemic. A pair of shutouts high lighted the action - or lack of it. Duane Pillette tossed a three hitter while pitching Portland over Salt Lake, 1-0, and Dick Stigman of San Diego ended a personal seven game losing streak by blank ing Seattle on five hits, 2-0. Chris Nicolosi turned in almost as good a job as he stopped Sacramento 4-1 for Spokane and in the only other game, Phoenix edged Vancou ver, 5-4. f George Freese, the league's leading sticker, singled home the winning run in the ninth inning to give Pillette his third win of the season Reed Recalled By KC Athletics Portland . -(UPD- Portland's numberone pitcher, both on a won and lost and a per centage basis, Howie Reed, has been recalled by the Kansas City Athletics. Reed left Portland slate Wednes day afternoon to rejoin the Athletics during their current home stand against the New York Yankees. Parke Carroll, Kansas City general manager, assured Beaver Manager Tommy Heath that a member, of the current Athletic pitching staff will be sent to Portland with in a day or two. - ' Carroll didn t indicate who the replacement hurler would be. With Portland , Reed cur rently has a 7-4 record, hav ing appeared in 13 games, and has an darned run aver age of 2.92. He has struck out 60 and walked 41.. Attention! VACATION TRAVELERS a HOT WEATHER SPECIAL is just the thing for your car Complete Conditioning $11.93 See ' . ': ' ' DARRELL MILLER CO. 415 South Riverside 6: '- Exclusive , v r t t Floyd vs PATTERSON Not on KYJC . -- Bees 1-0 against no defeats. .. Milt Graff opened the ninth inning with a triple for Port land and he came home on Freese's single after hard luck loser Dick Hanlon had inten tionally loaded the bases. . Hanlon gave up only five hits while being nicked for his fourth loss against one win. San Diego's Dick Stigman was in command all the way as he won his third game in 13 decisions. Claude Osteen, who gave up both Padre runs and six hits in eight innings. was the loser and is now 4-4. The Pads broke up a score less duel in the seventh when Rod Graber singled home a pair of tallies. Nicolosi banged out a pair of hits and bunted across a tally in addition to pitching outstanding ball for Spokane. A crowd of 9,329, largest ever at Spokane, saw Nicolosi score his seventh win against three losses. Joe Stanka, who was relieved in the seventh, was handed his third loss against 10 wins. , Bill Wilson led Phoenix to its victory as he pounded his 16th home run to put himself in a tie with teammate Willie McCoyey for the league lead. Wilson's blow came with one man oh in the second inning. The Giants touched four Vancouver pitchers for 14 hits. Bud Watkins, a former Mountie recently acquired by the pitching weak Giants, was credited withf the win. He tired in the ninth and had to be relieved, however. Jim Dyke . hit a two run homer in the ninth for Van couver to close the gap to 5-4 but reliefer Marceleno Solis put .out -the fire. . LfNESCORES: Phoenix 021 010 loo 5 14 O Vancouver ....001 010 0024 -7 1 Watkins, Navarro (9), Solis (9) and McCardell; Stock, Fitzgerald (3), Johnson (6), Bmbeger (f) nd Pagliaroni. ; Salt Lake 000 000 000 0 1 Portland 000 000 001 1 5 Hanlon and Wsterfild; JUlU and Tornay. Sacramento 000 001 Oft)- 1 J Spokane ........020 00 lift 4 15 Stanka, Fox (7) nd Dalrymple; Nicolosi and Sherry.- San Diego .000 000 2004 ( 1 1 Seattle .000 000 00O 5 1 Stigman and Jones; Osteen, nedy () and Bevan, Jenkins (9). . COMPLETE v SERVICING for your CAI FRIDAY NIGHT Ingemar JOHANSSON ABC RADIO NITWOIK 1230 ke home T VI
