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Port leavers To Break MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. J Friday, July 31. 1959 y Sine nflajors; Seek mm Club Seeks $1,800,000 In Damages PorUand-TCPB-The Portland baseball team of the Pacific Coast league Thursday filed a suit against the major leagues, seeking to break up the big league "monopoly" on players and the invasion of minor league territory by television. The suit, filed in federal court here, also sought dam ages of $1,800,000. Named as defendants were Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick,' the 16 major league teams, the American and Na tional leagues and the presi dents of the two circuits. Arch Kingsley, president of the Portland team, said the suit was filed after negotia tions failed to produce a sat isfactory agreement with the major leagues. He said the fu ture of minor league baseball was at stake. - TV Control Sought The Portland team said minor league teams should be permitted to control tele vision in their own territory Clvde Perkins, vice presi dent of the Portland team, said that 10 years ago there were 61 leagues with 8,200 Dlavers and that now there were only 23 leagues with 3100 players. Most of these, he charged, are controlled by the majors. He said that in 1941 the minor leagues drew more than 40 million fans and lie vaqi -fViA naiH nttprtrl. Li 4 a If aj ! jvui bin. mim - ance was only 13 million. Key point of the suit in eluded: 1. That the defendants be "enjoined from directly or indirectly violating the 40 player limt and that the de fendant clubs be required to dispose of any and all play ers over and above the 40 player limit." . 2. That the defendants be enjoined from "owning, con trolling or dominating any club or league in the minor league system and that any of defendants owning any club be required to dispose of same." 3. That the defendants "be required to respect the terri torial rights of the Portland team" and be enjoined from .engaging in any unfair com petition through television." Third League Mentioned The suit, filed by Portland team attorney Don Walker, also seeks to enjoin the base ball commissioner from as suming jurisdiction over mi nor league clubs until the minors have a representative voice in his selection. It also asked that the majors be en joined from exercising any "arbitrary authority" in estab lishment of a third major league or enlargement of the present major leagues. Kingsley said "the Portland baseball club has for a long time attempted to negotiate and settle serious problems within the baseball family but to no avail. We have come to the conclusion that redress through the courts is our only hope for saving baseball for Portland and the minor leagues." Portland officials expressed dissatisfaction with a recent agreement whereby the ma jors offered to pay $1,000,000 to the minors as compensation for losses through television. Baptists, Phoenix Remain Undefeated MedfordTribuki To 2nd on League Sacramento - fCPD - The Portland Beavers fought their way into second place in the Pacific Coast League baseball standings Thursday night with a 3-1 victory over Sacramento.-The loss dropped Sac ramento to third place. Vancouver remained - in front, one and one-half games ahead of Portland, despite a loss to Phoenix, 4-2. The win left the Phoenix Giants in fourth place, just four games back of Vancouver. Duane Pillette of the Port land Beavers hurled a seven- hitter to out pitch Joe Stanka, who had to settle for the loss. Both pitchers went all the way. Nini Torney hit his sixth home run of the season for the Beavers in the fifth in ning. Portland scored again in the sixth after Milt Graff reached second on a two-base Cubs Lead; No-Hitter By Corliss Ashland Cubs took over lone lead in the Southern Ore gon Junior Baseball Pee Wee league and Bob Corliss tossed a non-hit, no-run game for the third place Eagle Point team yesterday. The Cubs broke a leader ship tie" with the Medford Wildcats by bouncing that team 9 to 2. Dave Barger threw two-hit ball at the 'Cats, walking three and whiffing two. Clyde ' Nelson, Roger Schmaltz. Steven Hull and Jan Sussee each got two hits for Ashland and Don Smitn tripled and singled for Med ford. Ashland got six runs in the third inning on six hits and an error. Tom Glonnine scored the run for Eagle Point in the fourth inning. He hit and went to third base on a single by Don Charley. The Eagles at tempted a squeeze play and wild pitch by Medford's Mark Kinney assured the tally. In Corliss's no-hitter he fanned seven batters. Kinney whiffed eight in a two-hit job. Neither hurler issued a base on balls.. Victory was the fifth in a row for Eaele Point, which beat the Cubs 6 to 2 last Tues day. No report was given on the Central Point Indians-Central Point Braves contest. The Cubs are 8-2 m the loop, the Wildcats 7-3 and Eagle Point 7-4. rniTRrn SOFTBALL LEAGUE (Second Half) W. L. Pet First Baptist 2 Phoenix , , 2 First Nazarene 2 First Methodist .. 1 Westminster Pres. 1 Friends ,, , , 0 0 1.000 0 1.000 1 .667 2 .333 2 .333 3 .000 Phoenix and First Baptist kept their undefeated leads in second half play of the Church Softball league last night. The Baptists blanked the Friends 13 to 0 while Phoe nix nicked Westminster Pres byterian 7 to 5. First Church of the Naza rene took over third place alone with a 29 to 13 victory over First Methodist. LINESCORES: Eagle Point. 000 10 1 2 1 Med. Tigers 000 00 0 0 0 B. Corliss and D. Charley: M. Kinney and K. Pbipps. Med. Wildcats 000 112 2 3 Ashland Cubs 206 lx 9 10 2 Eckle and Coss: Barger and Johnson. Dogs have more neuroses than humans says an expert. The main problems are living in crowded cities, lack of free dom, loneliness, fear and re sultant timidity. error by shortstop Dick Phil lip. The Beavers got their third and final run in the seventh inning . when Jim Greengrass walked, went to second on a wild pitch, moved to third when Bob DiPietro flied to deep center and scored on another wild pitch The fickle fortunes of base ball act in strange and un predictable ways. With stars Wilile McCovey and Jose Pagan in the lineup all season, Phoenix had lost seven straight home games to the Pacific Coast League's front-running Vancouver. Then Thursday when the two standouts were called up by the parent San Francisco Giants, things couldn't have looked darker for the fourth- place Phoenix club. But . without their two trans-stars, the Giants broke the home jinx and whipped the Vancouver Mounties Thursday night 4-2. Spearheading the attack with sixth-inning home runs were fillins for the missing McCovey and Pagan. New shortstop Jim Brideweiser blasted one and Bob Speake, playing first base, hit an other. Marshal Renfroe pitch ed a four-hitter in winning his fourth straight. Giant Homers Break Tie Phoenix went ahead in the seventh on b a c k-to-back homers by Jay Van Noy and Bill Wilson. S p o k ane continued its heavy hitting by burying Salt Lake City 10-4 and San Diego won its fifth straight by top ping slumbering Seattle, 4-2. Duane Pillette outpitched Joe Stanka to win for Port land, moving the Beavers to one and a-half games behind Vancouver. Sacramento trails the Mounties by one percent age point. Nini Tornay laced his sixth homer of the season for the Beavers Thursday mght. :J Jake Striker won bis seventh game for the scorch ing San Diego Padres, but he needed help from reliever Pete Wojey. Paul Pettit towered his 11th home run for Seattle, but the Rainiers dropped 10V games off the pace. Indians Run Wild Spokane completed its three-game sweep over Salt Lake by belting 13 hits and taking a 10-4 decision. Home runs by Tommy Davis and Fred Hatfield paced the at tack, which also included three doubles and a triple. The Indians scored 26 runs on 45 base hits in the three game series. LINESCORES: Vancouver 100 001 000 2 5 1 Phoenix 000 002 20x 4 9 O Palica. Duebke (7) and Zimmer man; Renfroe and Stieglitz. Portland 000 Oil 1003 6 1 Sacramento ....000 000 1001 7 2 Pillette and Tornay; stanka and Roselli. Spokane ..:.114 000 301 10 13 2 Salt Lake ....120 100 000 4 7 2 Grob. Wade (2) and Sherry: Han- Ion, O'DonneU (3) Post (7). Seattle 000 001 010 2 8 1 San Diego ... 000 013 00xT 4 7 1 Ma be and jenmns; ainKer, wo jey (8) and A. Jones. (Golfers Sunc.ed on Scrap For IPSA Tournament Title By LEO PETERSEN UPI Sports Editor Minneapolis -flJPD One of the greatest and closest scram bles in golfing history shaped up today for the 41st annual PGA tournament with all of the favorites, headed by U.S. Open champion Billy Casper and Mike Souchak, left in the running. i After the first round firing over the long, tough 6,580 yard Minneapolis Golf club course there were nine play ers tied for the lead with one under par 69's, nine more players at 70 - even par - eight at 71, another 15 at 72 and 14 at 73. No tournament in a decade has seen the players so closely bunched after the end of the first round. And all of those pros who figured to win were within shooting distance of the top. Casper and Souchak came in early with 69's and then every half-hour the list grew until it included former PGA champion Walter Burkemo, Jerry Barber, Mike Krak, Dick Hart, Chuck Klein, Jack son Bradley and Gene Littler. Breathe Down Necks And the rest of the who's who in America's golfing world were breathing down the leaders', necks. Fix Charges Bring Suspension for Life Columbus, Ohio - (UPD - An attempt at game fixing in the minor leagues has led to the suspension . of two Chatta nooga players one for life; one for a year. Jesse Levan, 32, a "first baseman with the Chatta nooga Lookouts of the South ern association, was suspend ed for life Thursday by George Trautman, minor league president, on grounds he served as a go-between for a gambler who tried and fail ed to fix gam as. His teammate, shortstop Waldo Gonzales, was suspend ed until July 3, 1960 for his part in the affair. In handing down the su spensions, Trautman said no proof was found during hear ings that any games were actually fixed. But he said it was apparent "several play ers are guilty of not having reported attempts to induce Hunt Revealed As Man Behind Grid Proposal New York (UPD Lamar Hunt, the wealthy young Texan who is backing a pro posed new pro football league discussed television and other prospects for the circuit in New York this week, United Press International learned today. - It was learned Hunt , met Wednesday with Harry Hag erty, an official of the Metro politan Life Insurance com pany: Ollie Tresz, president of the American Broadcasting company television network; Bill Whitehouse, ABC sports director; and Harry Wismer. Wismer has been designated by Hunt to handle radio and TV negotiations for the pro posed league. Hunt admitted Thursday in Dallas that he is the myste rious but rich Texan men tioned earlier in the week as the man behind the proposed league. Present plans reportedly call for the league to begin play in 1960 with six teams at New York, Los Angeles, Denver, Houston, Dallas and Minneapolis - St. Paul, with two more league cities to be added in 1961. One of three workers in the U.S. today is a woman. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. CASEY Chicago-flJPD-President Bill Veeck of the Chicago White Sox . presented New York Yankee manager Casey Sten gel with a 100-pound 69th birthday cake Thursday. Veeck's, team then ruined Stengel's celebrating by beat ing the Yankees, 3-1. Phone SS 3-4293 DAILY'S U-DRIVE Medford Airport Modern Equipment! Speedy Delivery! U VI II II 1VJ . ,.v-f'.-Jt' .,4 deadly Mx Concrete ' by Phone SP 2-5336 LININGEI&S. them to throw games." The hearings were held in Nashville, July 3. Probably the most damaging testimony against Levan was given by Sammy Meeks, first base coach of Mobile in the South ern association. Meeks said Levan offered him a deal in Mobile. He said Levan told him. to watch Gon zales for signals. An erect stance for a fast ball, a crouch for a curve. Levan in Atlanta, main tained Meeks' testimony waxes "erroneous." He said that "if Meeks was approach ed, he was approached by a gambler. I did not approach him. I have never seen a contact man for any gambler who tried to throw Chatta nooga games, as I understand I have been charged." Art Wall, the year's lead ing money winner; Jack Burke, another former PGA king; Ken Venturi, Billy Max well, Buster Cupit, Don Fair field, Don Shock, Al Femi nelli and- Herman Scharly were only one stroke back. At -71 were four former PGA winners - Doug Ford, Lionel Hebert, Sam Sneed and defending champion Doug Finsterwald-as well as Babe Lichardus, Don Whitt, Bob Rosburg and Mike Roma. Such threats as Arnold Palmer, Cary Middlecoff, Jul ius Boros and Jay Hebert were in the 2 bracket while five former PGA champions were in the 3 group. They were 57-year-old Gene Sarazen, who first won this event 37 years ago; Jim Turnesa, Chandler Harper, Jim Ferrier and Chick Harbert. With them were Claude Harmon, Don January and former U.S. Open king Dick Mayer, among others. 'FAT BEARS ON DIETS Rensselaer, Ind.-UPD-Chica-go Bears officials have as signed 11 veterans to the "fat man's table" until they work off their overweight. Relegat ed to low calorie diets are Bill Bishop, Doug Atkins, Rick Casares, Jim Dooley, Don Healy Dick Clain, Wil lie Lee, Earl Leggett, John Mellekas, Larry Strickland and Harlan Hill. A magnificent Southern magnolia grows near the South Portico of the White House in Washington. It was planed there by President An drew Jackson in honor of his wife, Rachael. BOWLING CENTENNIAL ROLLER LEAGUE Standings: Tattlers Pinheads Fifty Niners Goofers . Cotton Pickers Near Misses Left Overs Three Squares Half Wits Krazy Kats W. 21 20 16 15 13 13 12 11 11 8 L. 7 8 12 13 15 15 16 17 17 20 Results: Tattlers 3 (Zeffie Graves 488) 1403; Leftovers 1 (Georgia Board man 437) 1369. Pinheads 4 (Lucv Turner 431) 1231; Half Wits 0 (Stella Puett 446) 1114. Fifty Niners 1 (Evelyn Reed 487) 1178; Cotton Pickers 3 (Norma Lar son 466) 1265. Goofers 3 (Dorothyy Edwards 466) 1287; Three Squares 1 (Flossie Cof fin 432) 1217. Near Misses 3 (Lucille Cornelius 531) 1293; Krazy Kats 1 (Dolly Weber 387) 1243. Splits: Ethel Champion & Evelyn Reed 5-10, Dot Edwards 2-7. Norma Lar son 3-10. Dolly Weber 4-7-10. Bar bara Botifer 5-6-10. High Game Lucille Cornelius 200. .High Series Cornelius 831. George Logan Stops Ezzard Boise, Idaho (UPD Idaho heavyweight George Logan, 22, having disposed of former heavy king Ezzard Charles, may finally crack boxing's top 10 ratings. But for Charles, it appeared to be the end of . the road of a once illustrious career. Logan retained his unbeat en record Thursday night with an eighth roilnd knockout of the faded former champ. The end came at 1:50 of the eighth round and sent 5,000 fans at the Boise Fairgrounds home convinced Logan has great promise and Charles, is through. The Boise fighter recorded his 13th win in a row. He has one draw on his record. A converted southpaw, Logan showed exceptional poise in his biggest test thus far. Undefeated Teams Vie In RV Loop Ranks of the unbeaten will narrow this Sunday in the semi-pro Rogue Valley Base ball league. Two of the three undefeat ed crews are foes. This at traction will match Grants Pass and Camp White .at Grants Pass. The other un marred gang, Ashland, seeks to keep its record clean in a trip to Glendale. Butte Falls will vie at Riddle to round out the 1:30 p.m. games. Medford Bowling lanes has a bye. Camp White and Ashland head the circuit with 2-0 standings and Grants Pass is 1-0. Two members of the circuit, play a non-league - mix this evening at Rcseburg. Riddle and Camp White will be riv als. The Whiters won- a nOh counter last week 'from Riddle. LITTLE SERIES SET Williamsport, Pa. (UPD Eight teams will compete in the 20th anniversary year world series of Little League baseball here, Aug. 25-29. The teams represent the Unit ed States, Canada, Latin America, the Pacific and Europe. UNCLE RICK'S B-K Root Beer Drive-In GRAND. OPENING All Day TOMORROW B-K ROOT BEER 20c Quart 35c V- Gallon 65c Gallon- With Your Container SPECIAL 6 MEXI-BURGERS And 12 Gallon Of B-K-ROOT BEER 1.19 PRIZES AND SURPRISES All Day From 11 A.M. TO MIDNIGHT There are about 25 million bicycles in the U.S. . BOB and NETTIE LEWELLEN Have Taken Over The SIGNAL SERVICE STATION SHADY COVE, OREGON We Invite All Old Customers And New Ones To Come In. HOPE TO SEE YOU SOON Twenty miles out of Tucson on a high-desert run... Chevy shows how a real pro handles the hot ones ! Chevy 10703 delivers 7-yard loads of ready-mix concrete all day long. Profit in this business relies directly on truck's ability to keep going and going. You'll find four 10703 heavyweights working out of Tucson for Construe tion Materials, Inc. They tote big, bruising ready-mix loads up and down mountain grades and through the furnace heat of Arizona desert coun try. According to Mr. H. K. Creswell, a company executive, "You couldn't ask for more out of a truck. They handle every run we put them on ... and cost less to buy and maintain than any make we've had.'' Big-tonnage operators don't become Chevy believers overnight. And that's understandable. If you're used to big oversized rifs, you might question Chevy's lean-muscled modern design. Once you get one in action though, all the questioning stops. Then you see how pure efficiency stacks up against excess pounds. It's Chevrolet's advanced engineering and quality control that make the differ ence. Its soundly constructed chassis and sheet metal. Its slick-shifting 5-speed box mated to high-torque Workmaster V8 performance. Its pre cise steering and handling ease. That's why so many heavy-duty owners are being converted to Chevy. It makes such good sense-as your dealer will be happy to show you in specific detail. No job's too tough for a Chevrolet truck! flSw Visit the General Motors Exhibit at the Oregon Centennial Exposition in Portland, and see your local authorized Chevrolet dealer 9th AT BARTLETT MEDFORD SP 2-6115
