Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 17, 1959, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextO MAIL TRIBUNE, MtdforJ, Or. w Fridjy, July 17. 15 SPORTS Maids Play In Portland PortIand-tt!PB-The Erv Lind Florists of Portland, mathe matical champions of first half play in Northwest Wom en's Major Softball League, seek to close out the opening halt of the season with an undefeated record this week end at Vancouver, B.C. The Florists meet the South Hill Queens - of Vancouver Saturday and Sunday for the first time this summer. The Florists are 10-0 and Vancou ver 7-3 in first half play with this weekend's series remain ing. The Salem Shamrocks, 1-2, take on the Ramblers, 1-3. in Seattle the same nights. The American Linen Whirlwinds of Portland play host to the Rogue Valley Dairy Maids from Eagle Point, 3-4. The Maids and Whirlwinds collide Saturday night at 8:30 at Farragut Park here, then switch to Normandale Park for the Sunday game at 7 . p.m. McCulloch Chain Saw of Eugene is idle this week end but resumes play Wed nesday against the Florists in Portland at Normandale. ! Seattle Manager Alice Jor gensen retained her batting Jead last - week at .300 al though she was sidelined with a back injury. Shirley Topley Of Vancouver was a close sec ond at .373. Elizabeth Lock of the Florists had .421 but has not had the required num ber of times at bat to figure in the top 10. ; Louise Mazzuca of the Florists has an impressive 7-0 record including 96 strike outs in 47 innings of mound work. She will miss the Flor ist series at Vancouver this week end while she pitches for the All-American team against the world champion Raybestos Brakette at Strat ford, Conn., today and Saturday. iSjjf r wmmmmmmmJk i- ARRIVING IN PHILADELPHIA, Russian athletes who will compete against Ameri cans are greeted by Frank Botts (right), coach of U. S. leam. From left: women's team captain Taisia Chenchik, high jumper, and Vasily Kuznetsov, world's decathlon champion, men's team captain. Big meet will be held July 18 and 19. Wb Giiants . Pittsburgh (UPD The San Francisco Giants hustled into town today for a crucial four game series with the fourth place Pittsburgh Pirates after narrowly averting a second doubleheader disaster in Phil adelphia last night. A ' couple of old World Series heroes Johnny An- tonelli and Dusty Rhodes prevented the Giants " from dropping their second twin bill of the . season to the Phillies. ; ! Antoflelli tossed a three hitter and - Rhodes singled home the winning run in the ninth inning to give the first place Giants the nightcap, 1-0. The 'Phils won the first game 6-4. . Olmedo Might Face Disciplinary Action River Forest, 111. (UPD The U.S. Lawn Tennis association today considered disciplinary action against Alex Olmedo who was kicked out of the Na tional Clay Courts tournament for not trying. The 23-year-old sparkplug of the U.S. Davis Cup team and holder of the Wimbledon singles crown went down in listless defeat against South African Abe Segal, 6-2, 6-1, 6-0, Thursday and left the court amid loud boos from a disappointed crowd at the Ri ver Forest Tennis Club. Segal said Olmedo told him he "threw thematch." "I came here to play tennis. I don't like to win that way," Segal said. Olmedo's burst of tempera ment threw the tournament into a uproar. The Peruvian walked off the court and hur ried from the dressing room to his hotel room, refusing to speak to anyone. Olmedo later said through Perry Jones, captain of the Da vis uup team, tnat ne was "sorry about the whole thing." Olmedo, Jones said, would "talk to everybody later" to explain his actions. Lreorge uarnes, first vice- president of the USLTA, said tnat a protest nad been re ceived from the tournament committee. "It will likely consider dis ciplinary action," , he said. "What it will be, I don't know." Strange Named Seattle Coach : Seattle -(UPD- Alan Strange was moved up Thursday from the position of interim man ager to that of full time field leader of the Pacific Coast league Seattle Rainier base ball club. Strange, named as a tempo rary replacement as manager for Fred Hutchinson, who de parted for the greener pas tures in Cincinnati July 8, will boss the Rainiers for at least the balance of the cur rent season. Strange's salary was not disclosed by owner Emil Sick. ' Sick made his managerial choice after watching Strange in operation through eight games, of which the Seattle nine won five, all on the road. Good Background ' "Alan has a very fine back ground and has done good work in teaching young ball players," Sick said. "I feel his past efforts show he is de serving of this chance." Strange was a coach with the, Rainiers this season be fore Hutchinson left. He was also a Rainier coach in 1955. His other managerial ex perience came in the old West ern International Class B League when he served terms as pilot of the Bremerton and Spokane teams. A Seattle favorite and Hutchinson's personal choice as his successor, Strange play ed shortstop for the Rainiers from 1936 to 1939 before moving up to the big leagues with the St. Louis Browns. Seattle is in last place in the PCL, but has moved to within seven games of first place under Strange's direc tion. Littler, Whitworth Lead Golf Tourneys SELAH WINS SWIM Coeur D'Alene, Idaho-flJPD-A 46-man team from Selah, Wash., won the third annual Coeur D'Alene swimming championships Thursday with a two-day total of 246 points. Second place went to a Pull man team .with 204 V2 points Weihersfield, ConnOJPI)- Gene Liltler of Singing Hills, Calif., who is happy to admit that he once again is at the peak of his game, carried a two-stroke lead to day into the second round of the eighth annual Insur ance Open golf tournament. Littler, who only recently emerged from a long slump, fired a seven-under-par 64 over the Wethersfield course Thursday to show the way to a field of 156. Wes Ellis Jr., of Aldercress, N.J., a tournament dark horse, was alone in second place at 66 while Fred Hawkins of El Paso, Tex., and big Al Besse-j link of Grossinger, N.Y., were tied for third at 671 Then came six players tied at 68, includ ing pre-tourney favorite ' Art Wall, the Masters champion from Pocono Manor, Pa. All told 34 golfers broke par although the course was still soaking from rain. That was one of the best rounds of my career," said Littler. "I never putted bet ter." ' The figures confirmed Lit tler's observation. He was close to perfection as he hit all the greens in regulation fig ures and then used only 29 putts. He capped his perform ance by sinking a 40-footer on the 18th green. Alliance, Ohio-(l'PD-Young Kalhy Anne Whitworth, re garded as one of the real ."comes" on the women's professional golf tour, held a one-stroke lead today going into the second round of the 72-hole $12,500 Alli ance International. v . The 19-year-old miss from out of the way Jal, N.M., shot a one under par 70 Thursday on the first 18 holes to take the lead over such established stars as veteran Patty Berg, Betty Hicks, Fay Crocker and Ohio amateur champion, Betty Kerby, all who had par 71s. Miss Whitworth, in her first year on the tour, surprised the gallery on the 6,235-yard cdurse with her consistent game, which saw her go out in a one-under par 35 for the first nine and come home with an even par 35. She hit every green in regulation figures, canning a 10-foot putt on the first hole for a birdie 2. This was the first time on the tour that she has led at any stage of a tournament. Her best previous round was carded at St. Petersburg, Fla., where she shot a 73. Miss Whitworth has won only $200 since turning professional. Miss Berg of St. Andrews, 111., in her 27th year of pro golf, was one over par for the nine holes witn a 6b, but picked up a birdie on the back nine to come in with an even par. - One of the pre-tournament favorites, Mickey W r i g h t from San Diego, Calif., tied with three others with a 73, three strokes off the pace. The 24-year-old, two-time Wom en's Open champ, had rounds of 38-35. ' FACE NOTCHES 14h Roy Face (left), ace relief pitcher of the Pittsburgh Pirates, is congratulated by utility in fielder Don Gross after Face won kis 14th game in a row. Face beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-5, in the first game of a double header, and was on the mound protect ing a 5-4 lead in the nightcap when the game was sus pended due to Pennsylvania's Sunday curfew. Denver-(DPll-Two veteran amateur golfers and two eager collegians - remained today to battle for the championship of the Na tional Public Links golf tournament at Denver's Wellshire Municipal Course. The collegians Don Essig, 20-year-old Louisiana State University student from In dianapolis, Ind.; and William Wright, 23, a student at West ern Washington College met in one semi-final match today. In the other match, Bill Mc Cool, 39, a policeman from San Francisco . and Frank Campbell, 33-year-old Jack sonville, Fla., insurance sales man, battled for a berth in Saturday's finals. Stamina will probably de termine the eventual winner. Since the tourney started on Monday, the, four semi-final ists have played a total of 108 holes of golf Add that to 36 holes in the semi-finals and another 36 in the finals. Methodists Win Softball Game PILOTING "GO CART" in race at Andrews Air Force Base, near . Washington, D. C; Gen.- Curtis LeMay, Air Force vice chief of staff, is about to bank into turn. n CHURCH SOFTBALL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. First Methodist Nazarene Westmin. Presbt. Friends First Baptist Phoenix 1.000 1.000 .000 .000 First Methodist trounced Westminster Presbyterian by a score of 15 to 8 to grab a tie for the lead as the second half of the church softball league got underway yester day. Nazarene scored 8 runs to Friends 3 to gain the other half of the top1 spot. The First Baptist - Phoenix game was postponed The University of British ColuYnbia is on the headland of Point Grey at Vancouver, 300 feet above the sea. Poison Oak? Try a Bottle of ZEMACOL You must be satisfied or your money cheerfully refunded. Get a bottle today at WESTERN THRIFT Dodgers Will Open Against Philadelphia Philadelphia (UPD The Los Angeles Dodgers, only one game behind the National league pace, open an impbrt aht four-game series tonight with the eighth-place Phila delphia Phillies. . With the league-leading San Francisco Giants enter ing a series against the tough Pirates, the Dodgers stand a good chance of working their way up into the rarified,air at the top of the standings. " Danny McDevitt, 8-6, will oppose Jim Owens, 4-8, to night. The Dodgers will be counting on McDevitt to pitch them to their sixth straight victory over the Phils. Los Angeles holds 9 wins out of its 11 games with the Phils so far, and on its cur rent road trip it has won two series, split two and lost only one. The lost series w,ent to seventh - place C i n c i n n ati which swept two games. But the Dodgers beat Chi cago three out of four, took both games from Milwaukee, and split two-game series with Pittsburgh and St. Louis. The Dodgers, after snap ping a three-game f .losing streak by beating the Pirates Wednesday night, spent Thursday taking things easy. Two Year Olds Run In Big One Inglewood, Calif . -(UPD- The inaugural running of the $100,000 added Hollywood Juvenile championship Satur day kicks off the nation's ma jor stakes campaign for two-year-olds with a gross purse of more than $160,000 if a dozen or more start as intici pated. Warfare, a son of Kentucky Derby winner Determine, was considered the "horse to beat" in the six furlong stakes off his victory in the C. S. How ard Stakes. ; SI CaDD Hor !very Concrete Weed CONCRETE C? Delivered SP 2-5271 248 E. McANDREWS RD. Open h Series Sam Jones (12-9), is man ager Bill Rigney's choice to take the mound for the Giants tonight. Ronnie Kline (7-7), will probably pitch for j the Pirates. . Rhodes, who batted home the winning run in the 1954 series that gave Antorielli his victory .over Cleveland, hit a line drive over, second base to send home Jackie Brandt with the big run. Ashburn Bobbles Brandt ' had singled and gone to second when center fielder Richie Ashburn bob bled . the ball on the soggy turf. , ' Gene Conley, although touched for eight hits, pitched almost as well as Antonelli. Except for the ninth, he was able to keep the Giants under control. - " The victory was Antonelli's 14th of the season against four losses. It was his third shutout in his last four outings, his second against the Phils. In Johnny's last 36 23 innings of work, he has been scored on in only two. Mike McCormick, the young left-hander who tossed three shutouts at the Phils earlier in the season, was chased from the mound by the Philadel phians in the first game. He was touched for four runs in the four and one-third innings he worked. The loss went to ex-Philly Jack, San ford who is scheduled to pitch here Saturday. Sanford enter ed in the sixth inning and was victim of a two run rally in the seventh that won the game for the Phils. Philly Clinches It The game-winning rally saw Ashburn walk, Ed Bou chee single and Wally Post single to drive home Ashburn. Dave Philley clinched it with a pinch hit double off the centerfield scoreboard to plate Bouchee. Robin Roberts, who allpwed the Giants 10 hits while work ing the distance for the Phils, was credited with his second win over the Giants this sea son and his eighth, win against as many losses. : The Giants will play a single game against the Pir ates Saturday and a double- header Sunday. They return home to play the Dodgers Monday. - Sport Parade ' By OSCAR FRALEY United Press International "New York-flJPD-There is a steadily increasing belief among the fight mob today that Rocky Marciano will make a comeback. Marciano has denied repeat edly that he will. Yet the three-fold attraction of better than one million dollars, re newed acclamation and the stubborn belief of any cham pion that he "can take these bums around today" is a mer ciless goad. These are prospects which have proved an irresistable lure to almost every former heavyweight champion. Gus Lesnevich, the former light heavyweight champion, voiced what most Of them feel recently when he said: ' "I don't know how many times, when I look around at some of the guys fighting to day, I have wanted to make a comeback." It's always there in the back of their minds. They forget, in most instances, that the flipping pages of the calendar have padded them with the Fuel From Grain Tests Suggested Washington-(UPD-The House Appropriations C o m m i ttee recommended today that the government investigate the possibility of extracting fuel from grain by bombarding it with radiation. The committee included $10,000 for a study of this project in a $2,629,114,000 money bill to run the Atomic Energy Commission in the fiscal year that started July 1. President Eisenhower did not request the grain-fuel funds. Rep. Ben F. Jensen (R Iowa) told AEC Chairman John A. McCone at a closed door hearing last month that he hoped atomic scientists could discover how to extract alcohol from grain by use of radiation. . Jensen said in the testimony made public today that this would help reduce.' -the sur plus of wheat and other grain and at the same time provide motor fuel. ' suet of indolence and robbed them of their skills. They see themselves as they were in the days of their glory and the results all too often are pathetic and pitiful. Yet most of them, all the way back to the mighty John L. Sullivan, have given the comeback f a try. The great John L. had "two bouts after a four-year layoff and quickly decided that he no longer could "lick any man" in the house." ' ' Gentleman Jim Corbett was next and, returning after three years, was bombed out by Jim Jeffries. Bob Fitzsim mons laid off five years and knew he "had it" after one no decision return. Jeffries after six years away from the ring, went in against Jack Johnson and was murdered. Marciano retired in April of 1956 but actually has been away from the ring wars al most four years because his last bout was" against Archie Moore in September of 1955. Age and weight are addition al factors of delusion in his case. The Rock was 29 when he won the title, which is a de layed arrival business in a bruising' the dedicated to young. He will be 36 in Sep tember and, while, you can point to. such successful an-, cients as Jersey Joe Walcbtt'' and Moore, it must be remem bered that they stayed active and avoided the rust which comes in the middle years. . Marciano was 189 pounds in his last bout. He can claim otherwise but those who have seen him recently must esti mate that, he has ballooned to somewhere in the over stuffed .neighborhood of 225 pounds-and up. Working off the excess would be a killing, chore for even his current chores of acting as a rassling referee have "failed to slim him. -' If Marciano is trembling on the brink of a comeback, he need only remember th fate of two former rivals to take another look at the situation. He should remember the comeback of Joe Louis, which he himself destroyed in Madi son Square Garden on an Oc tober night in 1951. And as the once mighty Brown Bomb er lay at his feet, the myth of his indestructability shat tered, Rocky confessed: "I felt terrible at doing that . to him." And there is Ezzard Charles, twice 'the victim of Marci ano's blows, who retired in 1956-and is a caricature of his old dancing self as he makes an anonymous come back this year. 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