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0 . ' o j : ' Patterson-Johansson Heavyvjeight Championship Bout "On" Tonight tromokr Says; Floyd Still 5-1 - New Yrk (UPI) Here are) ; the facts and figures for Thurs " day's Floyd Patterton-Ingemar Johansson heavyweight title tight: i Principals World champion . Floyd Patterson of Rockville Center. N.Y vs. European cbam--1 plon Intemar Johansson of Swe - den. Title at stake Patterson's world championship. 7- Distance IS ronnds. ,X place Yankee Stadium. .7 Tickets S to $10. '. Promoter Bill Rosensohn's En '" terprises. .-' Betting Patterson favored at v - ' . Time of main event 1:3 a p.m. - P8T. " Expected crowd 49.80. -I Expected (ate (600,008. Rome television None. " Theater-TV By Teleprompter - Corp. to 170 locations in 135 Z cities with 550,000 seats ava.il- able. Minimum 50-mile-radin . I theawr black-oat in New York area. ?- Radio To homes in the United States by ABC. United Kingdom . by BBC. Scandinavia by Phillips . Philamp. - GUARANTEED 1100,000 Johansson's purse Guaranteed flOO.OOO against 20 per cent of ... all the promotion's net receipts. Patterson's purse 30 per cent ' of iet (ate and 80 per cent of " an other promotion net receipts I including $300,000 from ele- prompter. . Return-bout contract If Jo hanasson wins, must (ive Pat- terson return shot at title with i, in 80 days somewhere in United S states, and Johansson's entire purse would be held in escrow until fulfills contract. - Scoring By referee and two Judges on a rounds basis, back stopped by four-point system . wherein winnar of round gets , one or more points; loser of round, more. -' Glove-weight Six ounces. . V Br JACK CUDDY I United Press International New York-flJPD-A favorable 'i turn in the weather led to "r. an announcement by promoter . Bill Rosensohn today that to- night's world heavyweight ''match between Floyd Patter f. son and Ingemar Johansson "is definitely on." ' Although there was a haze v over Yankee Stadium during the morning hours, there was : -r Th r loyd Palter son-Inge- mar Johansson boxing bout will be seen by closed eir- euit television at 6:30 Zz o'clock tonight at the Cra- terian theatre here. Doors will open at S p.m. Tickets were sold out Wednesday. no threat of rain that might cause a second postponement of the title match. ; The weather forecast for tonight was "warm and humid with fog in some places and temperature in the low 70's." Rosensohn reiterated his es timate of a crowd of 35,000 and a gate in excess of $500, 000. " Irving B. Kahn, president cf Teleprompter, Inc., said he did not think the one day postponement would hurt theater-TV sales. Thursday's postponement of the 15-round bout between i h a m ion Patterson and Swedish Johansson, champion of Europe, was caused by rain and wet grounds at Yankee Stadium. Many Sought Refunds After the switch was an nounced, many ticket holders sought refunds at the fight ticket-office on Broadway; but most of the requests were re jected. Rosensohn said then, "there'll be no refunds while this fight is still scheduled to be held." " . Ticket priqes range from $10 to $100. o Chairman Melvin L. Krule witch of the athletic commis sion notified Rosensohn's sec retary,. Mrs. Doris Carnot, "the box office would have to refund, Y-she said. Buxom Mrs. Carnot said that innocently and sweetly Thursday night at a press con ference, much to Rosensohn's surprise, after he had asked her about Krulewitch's visit. Both Fighters Limber Up ; Rosensohn said, "if the fight is not held tonight, there'll be refunds only in hardship cases where out-of-town visitors have airplane tickets and must return immediately to their homes." Meanwhile, Patterson and Why Olympia is brewed only at Tumwater Visitors - St ft -,m 6HT -', 8SUw., '": ft JK jr V 1 m " KK ' 75 lvA fJL '43. - CHEST ' 40 w. ' I X 1-) Z 2 , , "HS ' ' 2'i, . . V TALE OF THE TAPE-This and heavyweight champion for the title in New York's Johansson remained at their hotels, where they did limber ing exercises late Thursday. They need not weigh-in again unless the bout is shifted to next week. At Thursday's ceremonies in the Commodore Hotel, Ingemar weighed 196 pounds to Floyd's 182, for an advantage of 14. Patterson was still favored at 5-1 in very light betting. Suit Attaches Ingemar Purse New York-dJPD-Ingemar Jo hansson may have to wait to pick up his pay check for his heavyweight title bout against Floyd Patterson-it's been at tached in - connection with a lawsuit filed against him. The attachment was ob tained in federal court Thurs day by heavyweight Eddie Machen of Redding, Calif., and the Chicago Stadium Corp., who are. jointly suing Johansson, for a total of $1, 229.375v Machen, knocked out by Jo hansson last September, claims he had a contract for a return bout with the Swede. If papers of attachment can be served on Johansson today, his pay check for the bout could be held up until the suit is. decided. : Gorman Hurler For Portland Portland - (LTD - Tom Gor man, 32-year-old pitcher for the Kansas City Athletics," is being sent to the Portland Beavers as a replacement for Howie Reed, the Athletics an nounced Thursday. Reed, who was 7-4 for Portland this sea son, was recalled by Kansas City Wednesday. The new hurler was expect ed to arrive in Portland today according to Beaver manager Tommy Heath. Heath said he plans to use Gorman as a starting pitcher, but added that the new moundsman can be used in relief when neces sary. : Gorman has had eight years experience in the major leagues including three years from 1952-54 with, the New York Yankees. Since that time he has pitched for Kansas City. - The new Beaver hurler Tias compiled ' 36 wins and 37 losses in his eight seasons ..in the majors and hfs top earned run average was 2.19 with the Yankees in 1954. Gorman has won one game this season for the Athletics Yearsago,weatiemptedtebrewEght01ympiaBeat various locations. However, without the one priceless ingredient our naturally perfect artesian brewing water Olympia's distinctive good taste could not be duplicated elsewhere. That is why, today, Olympia is brewed only at the little town of Tumwater . . . where this rare water flows from the earth. are always welcome to the Olympia Brewing Co., Olympia, Wash. OIy g-m is the tale of the tape on. Sweden's Ingemar Johansson (left) Floyd Patterson (right). Patterson and Johansson will fight Yankee Stadium tonight. ( SMDB3FS Wild Pitch Portland 1 Portland-IUPD-A wild pitch in the first inning by Salt Lake pitcher : George Perez scored Milt Graff from third base to give Portland its sec ond straight' 1-0 Pacific Coast League win over the Bees and a 3-1 series win Thurs day night. The win put Port land solidly in fourth place. George Brunet of Portland limited Salt Lake to two hits in registering his first victory of the season against six de feats. A single by Dick Barone of Salt Lake in the eighth inning halted Brunet's bid for a no-hitter. Loser was Perez, who now has a 3-5 season record. Portland scored the only run of the game in the first ining when Graff singled and went to third on Charlie Se crest's single, and scored when Perez fired the wild pitch when facing Portland's George Freese. The game was played be fore 2126 fans. Phoenix Wins After playing dead for the past two weeks, the seventh place Phoenix Giants 1 are showing signs of waking much to the dismay of the pennant hungry Vancouver Mounties. The Giants, who tumbled from third to-seventh "recent ly on the strength of some terrible baseball, won their third straight from the Moun ties Thursday night; 7-5. Vancouver is now 3V4 games behind league-leading Sacramento, which nipped Spokane Thursday night, 5-4. In other action, Portland de feated Salt Lake by a 1-0 score for the second straight night and last-place Seattle nicked San Diego, 5-1. . Bobby Prescott hammered a pair of homers, a triple and a double to lead the Giants to their win. Willie McCovey smashed a double and a triple and matched Prescott's four rbi's for the evening Zanni Gets First Don Zanni, recently sent down from the San Francisty OS to . t UNE Gives - 0 Edge Giants, hurled the win. He pitched the first six innings before retiring with a stiff shoulder. Brooks Robinson collected four of Vancouver's eight hits. ' Seattle pushed over four unearned runs in the fifth in ning and Mark Freeman scat tered six hits in going the distance on the mound for the Rainiers. A two out error by San Diego third sacker Gene Leek opened the gates for the Rainier rally that broke up a 1-1 tie. Seattle got only two hits in the irrning, singles by Freeman and Hal Bevand. Three walks and a hit bat ter aided their cause. Cuno BarraganK who was traded by Sacramento to Spo kane because the Solons had plenty of catchers and the Indians had none, almost ruin ed his old teammates. He smashed a three-run homer in the eighth inning to make it a 5-4 ball game. But the Indians could score no more and Winston Brown, who got an assist from reliefer Roger Osenbaugh, was credited with his sixth win against nine de feats. LINESCORES: Phoenix 012 010 0048 11 0 Vancouver 100 010 010 3 8 1 Zanni, Solis (7) and McCardell; Hatten and White, Pagliaroni (9). Sacramento ..130 010 000 5 18 1 Spokane 000 000 040 4 9 2 Brown, Osenbaugh (8) and Dal rymple: Churn, Giallombardo (2) and Sherry, Barragan (9). San Diego ..100 000 0001 6 3 Seattle ..010 040 0005 9 0 Werle, Wojey (5), Striker (7) and Jones; Freeman and Bevan. Salt Lake 000 000 0000 3 0 Portland 100 000 Ox 1 7 0 Perez and Westerfield; Brunet and Torney. ' , , CHALLENGE CUP ' , Portland-(OPI)-The Irvington Tennis Club will be repre sented by Jack Neer and Bill Rose in the Starr-Reynolds-Starr challenge cup competi tion in Seattle this weekend against the Seattle tennis club. Two singles matches and a doubles match are set for Saturday and two singles are to be played Sunday. the Water A BEER MAIL TRIBUNE, MedfonJ, Or. Friday, Jun 26, 1959 SPORTSCASTS Radio station KYJC (1230 k.c.) will carry the Floyd Palterson-Ingemar Johans son heavyweight champion ship boxing bout at 6:30 o'clock tonight.- Presidio Increases In Strength Camp White-San Francisco Presido baseball team is re ported at its strongest of the season for its current baseball tour which includes a stop against the Camp White semi pro club on Monday evening, June 29 at the Veterans Ad ministration domiciliary Me morial stadium. ' A tightened infield and some effective pitching and hiting have helped the Army aggregation in recent weeks. The Toreros started their northern California and south ern Oregon swing with a rec ord of victories in-their last 10 games. After a slow start in fielding, the Presiodio club found an infield combination and had been charged with only three errors in their sev en games just previous to leav ing on their trip. Remington 5-0 Most recent wins for Pre sidio against service clubs were over Hamilton and Trav is Air Force Bases and Mof fett Naval Air. Station. Current pitching staff of the Presido shows a 17-6 rec ord, prior to the trip. Ted Remington was 5-0 and Eu gene Lippold 7-3. Lippold, 6-4, , 210 pounds and 23 years of age is shown to have five years of AAA professional ball with the Dal las Rangers. Three others on the squad have played pro fessional ball. John Pott Leader in Gleneagle Chicago -(DPD Johnny Pott, a 23-year-old bridegroom of 21 days who's best payoff from golf was $8,000 last year, set the pace for his bet ter known competitors head ing today into the second round of Gleneagles' $57,000 Chicago Open. Pott, with the "best round I've ever had," equalled the best nine-hole tally in any 1959 PGA tournament Thurs day with a back nine 29 for a course record 63 on the 6,350 yard course. His score came on an erratic round. He bogied four holes, three of them par 3's, and he missed five greens, but a hot putter carried him to a finish seven under par. Pott's" hot round gave him only a one stroke margin over last year's Gleneagles winner, Ken Venturi, who equalled the previous course record of 64 and tallied birdies on the last three holes. The two of them were in close quarters too. with the rest of the field as 29 of the field of 151 broke par and 19 equalled it. Ted Kroll was only a stroke behind at 65 and both George Bernardin and Bo Wininger posted 66s. . Dodgers Near Tie for Second Los Angeles - (DPD -The pesky Pittsburgh Pirates give the Dodgers their big test when they open a three-game stand tonight that could de termine if Los Angeles will be challenging Milwaukee for the National league lead. The Dodgers movde into a virtual, tie for second place Thursday night by sweeping their fourth straight win over Philadelphia by a 5-2 score. The win was the ninth in 12 games of the current home stand and the sixth in the last seven games for the Dodgers. The . victory left Los An geles just one .percentage point back: of the San Fran cisco Giants, with both clubs two games behind the Braves. For the Pittburgh opener, Johnny Podre, 7-4, drew the hurling assignment. Opposing him will be Ronnie Kline, 6-4. TO REPRESENT GIANTS San Francisco - (UPD - Daryl Spencer has been elected the San Francisco Giants' player representative to the Baseball Players assn. 8 PIimi SP 3-4293 DAILY'S U-DRIVE . Medfard Airport . All Comers Track Meet on Saturday This week's rain should prove a blessing and not a hindrance to the- all-comers track and field meet Saturday at the Medford Senior High school stadium. The track has been rather hard as the result of recent dry weather and Dean Ben son, city recreation super visor, pointed out that the rain should give more "life" to the oval a benefit that thinclads will appreciate. The Oregon AAU Olympic Development program and city-sponsored meet will be run off in two sections. Boys Bauer Holds Golf Open Lead Share . Pittsburgh -4DPB- Defending champion Mickey Wright gazed at the skies over Churchill Valley Country club today and fervently hoped for rain. "I hope the weatherman knows his business," she said. "Rain was predicted for to day." Mickey is tied for third place with Patty Berg at two-over-par 72 'in the Women's National Open golf champion ship. They trail Louise Suggs and Marlene Bauer-Hagge by a single stroke. & During pre-tourney warm ups, Mickey expressed a wish for rain. "Anybody can push that ball around on a dry course," she said. A wet course is more suit able for Mickey's long-ball hitting talents. -Mickey got her wish yesterday but it was an hour late.-Rains came just as a field of 61 ended the first rounds. : Wet fairways may change the outcome of the tourney. Mickey said she felt good after the opening session. 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Riverside Ave. and girls 16 years of age and other will vie between 10 a.m. and 12:15 p.m. Events for older participants begin at 5 p.m. Ashland Meet Tonight Rivalry here will be one of two meets in . Jackson County this week end. The City of Ashland is host this evening for a meet at South ern Oregon college. The week end track encounters are the second for each community this season. Entry of "name" competi tors is not expected at either Ashland or Medford this week but it is hoped to attract some top college talent in July. A larger participation of girls here Saturday than a week ago is expected, Benson re ported. Junior - division rivalry at Medford Saturday . morning will be broken down into 9-10, 11-12,' 13-14 and 15-16 age classes. In the evening contests will be for high school, 17-18 years, and col lege (open) classes. Entrants are asked to ar rive at the stadium from one half to one hour ahead of time in order to register and warm up properly for events. 25c Entry Fee For the Medford meet par ticipants are required to have AAU memberships which cost 50c and which can be ob tained at the registration desk. An entry fee of 25c for the meet is charged. To give incentives awards will be given. Entry fees make the awards possible. The meet is geared to encourage as .many boys and girls as possible to compete and to achieve some measure of success. . Short r.nces and field events for boys under nine are planned in the summer meets if demand develops. A number of field events wLU start the meet sections here at 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. First races are planned for 10:15 ajn. and 5:30 p.m. The Ashland meet will have gradeschool, junior, senior and college (open) divisions. 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