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Frock Says Baseball -World Will Recognize League Mo. 3 New York-CPD-Commission-er Ford Frick said today that organized baseball will recog nize the Continental league as a third major circuit "as soon as it complies with the standards agreed upon." Replying to an implied threat by ,the Continental league to organize the -circuit as an outlaw group, Frick said he "is as strong for expansion as I ever was" and denied that organized baseball is hampering the league's attempts to organize. Continental league officials had blamed Frick for part of their troubles in a 280-word statement that also hinted they would start operations even without the blessing of organized ball. Ibis, in ef fect, was a threat to organize as an "outlaw league." Frick Issues Statement "We will' give the Conti nental league our blessings as Forty-Niners Plant Game In Baltimore Chicago-fliPtt-The San Fran cisco Forty Niners i were scheduled to view the movies of Sunday's game against the Bears today, then - resume training at Stagg field. The club will leave for Baltimore Saturday. ! The players took Monday off while the coaching staff went to work on the films. Coach Red Hickey refused to add any light to his dis puted yanking of quarterback Y. A. Tittle in the Chicago game. Tittle went to the bench after throwing what Hickey called "two terrible passes." John t Brodie , took over at the quarterback slot and was equally ineffective, but Tittle did not return un til the end of the game. Just Bad Day ' "It "was just one of those days,'r Hickey said, "the kind mother warned about. I don't know why, but they just have to happen. Tittle had one of his worst days of the season and so did the rest of the team, and we got beat." However, Hickey 'said that Tittle would start against Bal timore this Sunday. The Colts have been tabbed three to six point favorites for, the cru cial contest, which will either leave the two clubs deadlock ed or send the Forty Niners well on their way to their first National Football league title. Q? N l 6? " ONLY A UNIFORM CHANGE Pete Dawkins (left) shows the form which helped him win All American honors while he played for West Point. At right he shows that he is just as capable as a rugby player. An Oxford freshman on a Rhodes Scholar ship, Dawkins started his first game for Oxford and scored 13 of his team's 47 point3. He seems a cincn 10 win a varsity potuuun. Hawaii Last For Baseball - Editor's note: This is the first of two dispatches on the sports scene in our new est state, written exclusive ly for United Press Interna tional by Stan Musial. the Si. Louis Cardinals star' who is in Honolulu as a judge for the Kaiser cook out championships. - By STAN MUSIAL . Written For UPI Honolulu It can't be long until the major leagues realize that Hawaii, our newest and 50th state, is possibly the last great untapped source for player talent in the United States. It's hard to understand why the islands have remained more or less untouched by the major league scouts who have covered . every corner of America 'and have branched out into Canada and Latin America in their searches. . Player Quality Good Perhaps it is because Ha soon as it is prepared to or ganize in a manner that con forms to standards we and the Continental league have agreed upon," said Frick. "Do I think they are threatening an outlaw league? I don't want to interpret their state ments only to discover we've made a mistake' William A. Shea, the New York attorney who was the driving force behind the for mation of the Continental league, 'issued the statement Monday. He claimed ) that "vague promises of Ameri can League franchises" to cities interested in his group "had proved a surprisingly effective means of forestall ing the early completion of the league membership." Charges Delaying Tactics The statement wound up Sport Parade Melbourne, Australia -flJPD-Blame . the Olympic Games, which' were held here in 1956, but attendance and wagering are off at Australia's horse parks; and the view is it's very much better that way. ; "It's the. only thing' I can lay me finger to guvnor and that's the blinkin' truth," one gentleman of betting rings ex plained grievously. r -All of which simmers down to the fact that the Australian, ever a man of action, decided that it's more, in participating than merely watching. Hap pily, this goes for the ladies, too. ..-"' Tennis Is Booming Y Tennis, always an Aussie favorite, has boomed to even greater heights - what with every bloke privately consid ering himself a new Wimble don, wonder .sure to , get a stratospheric professional bid from gentleman Jack Kra mer. Professional tennis dol lars picked up by such as Frank Sedgwick, Ken Rose wall, Lew Hoad and others have proved a - remarkable prod in the short-panted pos teriores. , -' '-. Soccer. : has had the most fantastic boom of all. At least as far as the men are con cerned, this is easily ex plained. Australia needs mus cles to develop and has open ed its sates to the homeless and jobless of Europe. The Great Untapped Source Player Talent In U.S. waii has yet to produce a ball player who has gone on to become a standout in the ma jors. But I've played against local players both during my Navy career in the islands during the war and since then in exhibitions, and I know the quality of play here is just about equal that of double A class on the main land. I.--"': Expose a few of the better Hawaii ballplayers to the keener competitive play of the majors, and-you would find that those of them who suc ceeded would be an inspira tion and set the pattern of ac complishment for other home town boys they used to play with. The same is true for other parts ef the world where base ball is being played. They are not playing major league cali ber ball in Japan or Austra lia, either, but let one of their fellows make the grade and with a "kicker" aimed direct ly at Frick. "Before adjourning," Shea said, "the third league mem bers feel that the commis sioner of baseball, with" the help of these and other de laying tactics, may succeed in preventing the Continental league from becoming a part of the existing baseball or ganization." . The formation of the league was announced last July when New ' York, Toronto, Denver, Minneapolis-St. Faul and Houston were disclosed as the founding franchises. No new member has been added since then although Shea and league President Branch Rickey have stated repeatedly that they could complete the organization of the circuit at any time. - OSCAR F HALEY United Press International majority of the welcomed in flux come from Italy and they bring their love of soccer with them. Where the sport once drew a handful of i spectators, crowds of 20,000 are quite common. ; ' ' : ; Baseball Too Dull Cricket, strangely enough, is virtually a private school sport. It draws crowds only during the test matches with England, which are compar able to World Series games in the United States. Cricket is a social event principally and gets the general cold shoulder because of its slow action. "Only tn batsman and the bowler get into the ryme," shrugged one : Aussie sports man. "It's much too slow for our blod y'know." That, too, is why baseball never has caught on with the aussies. They can't devote themselves to a "gyme" where only two men are mixing it up while seven others stand around with their hands in their pockets. OSC's Ex-Gridder To Diaper Own Boy ; Corvallis -(UPD-; John Witte, former all-American tackle at Oregon State college, and his wife are parents of a boy named John Paul. Witte currently operates a diaper service here. - . . you will find others following soon in his footsteps. Cites Favorable Factor Another thing in the favor of Hawaii and these other areas in the future will be the diminishing role played by the minor leagues in supply ing the players to the majors. As the number of minor league teams drops, the more the majors are going toi lean on the nation's high schools and colleges for players. This will mean that players coming from high school or college in Hawaii will have just as good a chance as those from other parts of the states in gaining recognition of then abilities. It all boils down to the fact that Hawaii has produced some of the finest swimmers and football players in the country, so the same fine cli mate and a growing popula tion of some 600,000 must be producing some budding base ball stars who presently are being overlooked. SPORTS Ring Match Set Tonight Oakland, Calif.-UPD-Second-ranked Paoli Rosi meets Oak land's Johnny Gonsalves at the auditorium tonight in a 10 round lightweight bout. Rosi is expected to enter the ring an 8-5 favorite. He easily defeated Gonsalves three years ago in New York. Rosi, although older than his opponent, will take a 30-4-1 record into the bout against Gonsalves' 54-16-3 mark. - A crowd of close to 5,000 is expected to be on hand. FIGHTS United Press International New York (UPI) Benny (Kid) Paret, 152. Cuba, outpointed Bob Provizzi. 157, Freeland. Pa. (10). Providence. R. I. (UPI) Al Pell, New York, vs. Tommy Baden, Pro vidence, R.I., postponed. New Orleans (UPI) Ralph Du pas, 145. New Orleans, stopped Pat Lowry, 145, Los Angeles (6). Chicago (UPI) Joe Hemphill, 191, Chicago, stopped Cal Butler, 199, Cleveland, Ohio (&). Philadelphia (UPI) Don War ner, 185, Philadelphia stopped BUI Black, 196. Philadelphia (2). Tokyo (UPI) Fumio Kaizu. 152, Japan, knocked out Dowthong Singhapalop, 153, Thailand (4). Panama Denies Try To Oust Governor Panama City, Panama-(UPD-Reports that the Panamaian government had requested the United States to fire William E. Potter as governor of the U.S. Canal Zone were denied Monday by a Foreign Minis try spokesman. Potter has been under heavy fire from Panamanian nationalists since Canal Zone police prevented a mob from planting a Panamanian flag as a symbol of Panamanian sovereignty over the zone last Nov. 3. Anti-American rioting followed, in which the Amer ican flag at the U.S. Embassy here was ' torn down and American agencies attacked. Birds Used Food As Bait for Ants A peculiar and unbeliev able facet of wild bird oenav ior came to light when a fam ily of interested and observ ant humans ' finally figured out a strange action on the part of a flicker that fre quently visited the garden feeding station. What hap pened would not seem to be purely accidental, for the bird repeated the perform ance at regular intervals. It was a workable plan the bird used, and it worked to the bird's advantage. Of the several varieties that regularly visited the feeding station, the yellow shafted flicker attracted the most attention, probably be cause of the seemingly awk ward position it always as sumed when it came. Being a woodpecker-like bird, it aliehted on the side of the platform, propped against its stiff tail feathers and peeked up over the edge of the food tray. If the pair arrived to gether, as often happenea, they hung side by side while the other birds sat on the platform. Were Choosy The flickers always seemea nhnosv as to their selection of food. Later it was discovered they were "picky" for a very definite reason. When, they found the food they wanted, one of them would grab it in its bill and fly to the base of a nearby tree. There under a piece of loose bark, the bird would wedge tne mor sel. Then they would fly away with their peculair up and down flight. The human observers thought the birds were laying away a food supply against that unhappy time when no food was available. This seemed the most logical con-clusion-at least the most ob vious explanation. A few days later one or the other of the flickers would return to the base of the tree, or to some other nearby tree, where he had also secreted a tidbit. The folks thought every- BRILL METAL WORKS Cemimrcial Industrial Resieeatisl Shtct Mrtal Work Stainless, Galvanized and Copper Fabrication 2287 West Main HON I SP 2-4440 PACE CHANGE Enjoying a change of pace, Pittsburgh Steelers' quarterback Bofob Lane (center) works out with members of : St. Louis Hawks basketball team" in the 69th Regiment Armory in New York. Left, Metier Trying To (Ground in New York-IUPD-Secretary of State Christian A. Herter said Monday the West is trying to "break new ground" in search of ways to compete economic ally with Communism and prevent an armed conflict that would mean the death of civilization. Herter said he believes the Soviet leaders share with the free world the belief that the course of world events must be changed soon to avoid the "mutual suicide of a general nuclear war. . .'. He also expressed hope that better cold war communica tions between East and West may be developing. Herter Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. Watkins thing was on the up and up until they began a casual research program into the life history of the , flicker. They found, by reading, that the flicker is a bird of many names, called "heigh-ho," "yawker-bird," "high-hole," and a name that served as a key to the - bird's behavior. That name was ' "ant-wood-chuck," due to its preference for ants as a standard part of its diet. . " ' v It Was Bait An investigation of the food the birds had wedged into the tree crevices revealed the startling fact' that it was crawling with ants. Actually the food was merely bait, for upon the birds' reappearance in the garden, they would fly directly to the tree-base and gobble up every ant in sight. Then, a few days' wait while another horde of in sects came to the food, and another visit by the wily birds. The ants came to din ner; the birds came later and ate the ants-a cozy arrange ment. - ,- " - This explained, , partly wh'y thev birds were so choosy in the'iopd they selected. They took only those tidbits most likely to attract the ants. The "ant-woodchucks" were just living up to their name. (Released by The Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1959) Plywood Prices x Advance 4 Per Cent Portland (UPD Ply wood prices on sheathing have been advanced about four per cent by Georgia-Pacific Corpora- ton. The price increase is. ef fective immediately. The hike raises the price of 5-8-inch CD grade plywood sheathing to $94 per thousand square feet. vaDry said it will take courage and strength on the part of the American people and their Free World allies to build a new relationship with the Communists. In a major foreign policy address before the National Foreign Trade Council in New York, Herter said of East- West relations: "I believe that on certain fundamentals we can find a common, language because we have a common interest." - But he warned that the Free World still faces a rev olutionary movement dedicat ed to the eventual supremacy of Communism throughout the world. Courage Needed ' ' He said the competition in peace "will take courage of a high order and strong nerves over a long time.' Herter said there were "few tangible results" from the U. S. visit of Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev except that the element of duress over Berlin "has been sub merged." ' '! "Nothing could be more f a tal," he hold the trade lead ers, "than to confuse relexa tion of tensions with relaxa tion of ourselves, and one of the most serious . dangers ahead is that people will be tempted to do that." ' ' He said the Free World can expect "many sorts of lures and pressures",, from the Kremlin in the battle for eco nomic supremacy. Herter warned that these will be "backed with mounting indus trial power, designed to con fuse, subvert and take over." He also warned Americans that the nation has been ab sorbed of late "in mere en joyment of a prosperous life behind our defensive curtain of nuclear power." Private interests must be subordinated to the public in terest, he said, because "the fateful competition with Com munism has placed a first claim on the energy and in terests of us all." Herter's Pledge , To the Free World allies, Herter pledged that the Unit ed States "has . no intention of retreating from America's basic policies of liberal trade." Nor will the . United States propose any economic pro grams which would weaken the overall defensive or eco nomic strength of. the Free World, he said. But he said that the newly- prosperous areas of the Free World, such as Western Eur ope and Japan, must open their doors to more American exports and to help the Unit ed States provide additional capital to underdeveloped na tions of the world. Only with such help, Her ter said, can the United States solve its balance-of-payments problem without restricting its trade abroad. i There has been a sharp de cline in U.S. gold reserves over the last 18-months be- "Mobilheat n The Oil to Burn ESTABLISHED 1896 WW ore; EN I MEDFORD FUEL GO. Court & McAndrcwf . T.I. SP 2-2111 forward Bob Pettit. receives the ball from Lane as left guard Slater Martin (right) acts as center.' The Hawks are scheduled to play against the New -York Knickerbockers in Madison Square Garden in New York. - (UPI Telephoto) Break New Search cause more dollars are being spent abroad than are being earned. "We must find solutions to our problems through expan sion, not curtailment," Her ter said. He expressed hope an improvement in American exports in recent months will continue. New Policy ; In another policy announce ment Herter said that the De velopment Loan Fund will take over more of the project development programs now conducted by the Internation al Cooperation administration; i For he present, he, said, the ICA will continue its pol icies permitting countries re ceiving dollar grants to fill their needs by buying on the world market. :' The Development Loan Fund announced last month that it will require countries receiving 16ans to spend more of the money in the United States or "buy American" than they have in the past. ! Of the ; Khrushchev visit, Herter said he was not overly concerned there were few obvious results because "early successes tend to breed self deceptive euphoria." The real meaning of the series of high-level- talks in the offing, including a Sum mit conference, is that a "new process of communication may be developing," he said. Only time can tell, Herter said, whether East and West are able to talk "somewhat less at cross-purposes than in the past. . ". . . I believe that on cer tain - .fundamentals we. can find a common language be cause' we have a common in terest," Herter said. - 1 I"' ' pS 'f & j L y$??f; '""'j CODE 165B i ' , : . . j ! pint 'w I.' " ' . CODE 265C gg : Tonight, at relaxation time, more Seagram's 7 Crown will be sipped, savored and richly enjoyed by more people in more places than any other whiskey in the world. SAY SEAGRAM'S AND BE SURE ILUDU HHimUa PI00F.6 Sltll ItUTRAl SPItfTS. SEAGItH-DISTILLEtS tttUfktl, HE YOU CITY Howe Still Ace Sniper By United Press International Gordie Howe,' starting his 14th National Hockey league season at the age of 31, is still the Detroit Red Wings' ace sniper in the clutch. Howe demonstrated that again Monday night when he slapped in a goal at 13:27 of the third period to give the Red Wings a 3-2 victory over the Chicago Black Hawks. The four-time winner of the Hart Trophy has tallied 10 goals so' far this season and Monday night's goal increas ed his career total to 1,007 points. Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens is the only other 1,000-point man in National Hockey league history. The Black Hawks had a 2-0 lead going into the third period but the Wings tied the score on goals by Jack Mcln tyre and John McKenzie. The second-place Wings now trail the Canadiens by five points and lead, the third-place To ronto Maple Leafs by four. ' HOCKEY By United Press International National Hockey League Detroit 3. Chicago 2 Only game scheduled . - :' ' ',- . . ' .. . . - ' Holds Secret Grid Scrimmage Corvallis, Ore.OTD-Tommy Prothro sent his Oregon State Beavers behind locked gates again today in an effort to de velop a defense before, the Oregon game this weekend.- ingback Amos Marsh 're joined the squad Monday after missing the Stanford game Saturday because of injuries. Portland's Water Sale Policy Study Requested Portland-UPD-An ordinance calling for a study of Port land's policy in sale of water to outside districts was intro duced , Monday by Commis sioner Mark Grayson. Grayson said Portland now has no real policy and that 26 per cent of the present sup ply now is sold to non-resident users. He said it was es sential that complete informa tion be obtained on which a sound policy can be based. . HERTZ TRUCK RENTAL Available at HOPKINS RICHFIELD SERVICI -- McAndrtwi at Court Phono SP 3-9068 i i Z'iKi j;?" V 7 An average truck loses 10 days a year for repairs. 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