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Friday, July 31. 1959
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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