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g MAIL TRIBUNE, Medfonl, Or. A Wednesday, Mar. 23. 1 960 i Stengel Won't Believe Key Players Will Have Two Bad Years in Row (This it the second of 18 dispatches on the 1960 pros pects of the major league clubs.) ; By LEO H. PETERSEN UPI Sports Editor. St. Petersburg, Fla. - IUPD -Casey Stengel has won nine penants in his 11 years as manager of the Yankees and if he makes it 10 in 1960 he probably will retire from the game of which he has been a part for nearly 50 years. : Casey won't talk about quit 0 ting, but this is the last season on a two-year-contract, he is 69" years old, his wife has wanted him to quit for some time, and one of his coaches, Ralph Houk, turned down the managership of the Athletics this year, believing he would be at the Yankee helm in 1961. But Casey may stick around if the Yankees lose, because he doesn't want to bow out as an also-ran. And he could be an also-ran this year like he was last when he finished third to the champion White Sox and the Indians. Casey figures they are the two clubs to beat again. He concedes they probably were strengthened in off - season deals more than the Yankees, but refuses to believe that some of his key players will have "two bad years in a row." "I look for Bob Turley to ONLY THREE MORE DAYS TILL . . . Crater Lion's Big Annual . S P , o : r . 6 T 1 $ IF A R Pon't Miss It! TEST DRIVE THE Mew Corvair Courtesy 9th and Bartlett Sts. Pr6vc To Yourself the ... ECONOMY PERFORMANCE QUALITY PRICE ADVANTAGE In The Happiest Driving Compact Car! come back, for Whitey Ford to win more games, for Ryne Duren to have a better year in relief. "Also I don't think Gil Mc Dougald is as bad as he was last year; that Bill Skowron may not get hurt and that we can escape the other injuries which hurt us in 1959. "Now if all that happens and Mickey Mantle lives up to his potential, and Roger Maris is the ball player. we think he is, well, we're in business and won't have to take a back seat to any club." Maris, obtained in the big deal with the Athletics, is be ing counted on to play the tough left field in Yankee Stadium, enabling Stengel to shift the heavy - hitting but poor fielding Hector Lopez to right. That leaves Mantle for cen terfield and Ole Case still claims he should be one of the greatest players of all time. But he also admits that so far Mantle hasn't proved it. "I sure hope that this is the year Mickey really comes through," Casey sighed hope fully. Believes Pitching Good He doesn't think his pitch ing is as bad as it showed last year. Turley slipped from a 21-game winner in 1958 to only eight victories last year. Ford, troubled by an ailing back, won 16, but wasn't beating the first division clubs like he used to do. Duren, despite a fine earned run average of 1.87, won only three games while losing six. In 1958, the fast-balling relief specialist won six games, all of them key ones. Turley, Ford, Art Ditmar j (13-9) and Jim Coates (4-1) will be the Yankees "big four." Duke Maas (14-8) and Bob by Shantz (7-3) will be used for occasional starts and for relief along with Duren. Skowron at first and little Bobby Richardson at second are the only infielders sure of their jobs. Andy Carey may make a comeback at third base which would leave Mc Dougald fighting it out with Tony Kubek for the shortstop post. Also in the infield pic ture is Cletis Boyer. Berra Remains Catcher Sure to b? in the picture is Elston Howard, the No. 1 Yankee handyman, but just where he will play depends on whether Skowron holds up at first and if Maris and Lopez make good in the outfield. If that all comes about, Howard will divide the catching with Yogi Berra. You can forget about that Berra spring train ing third base experiment. John Blanchard will be the third catcher. For outfield reserves there are the veteran Elmer Valo and two rookies. Jack Reed, a .262 hitter at Richmond, and Ken Hunt, who batted .322 at Shreve port. One of those rookies probably will go. ' There are lot of "it's" on the club, but Stengel says "he ain't frightened." Beavers Bounce Whitman 23-1 Walla Walla ttlPD Oregon State made an auspicious baseball debut Tuesday, whip- pine Whitman 23-1. The Beavers 'of Coach Ralph Coleman pounded out 22 hits, led by outfielder Larry Peterson with two triples and three singles. Jerry Droscher had 3-for-5 and Rene Moy knockd in four runs with a double and triple. OSC pitchers Ted Hendry and Al Emery held Whitman to three hits. r Chevrolet Phone SP 2-6115 i - - mmmmm w" mm CHAMPS GET AWARDS Medford high's state basketball champions line up for awards following victory Saturday night over Marshfield in finals, of state A-l tourney at Eugene. Players, from le,ft, are Cal Dean. Jim Barry, Dick Ragsdale, Jerry Shults, Booth Deakins, Ken Durkee, Dar- Fanfare When it comes to criticizing or commending officials of an athletic game, much depends on whom a fan is rooting for and on how the shoe fits. This writer particularly likes the comments of Dick Strite, sports editor of the Eugene Register Guard, concerning state basketball tournament refereeing: "Officiating in the 1960 tournament? No worse than usual! It is perennially the . worst officiating we see all season. No doubt all get A's on their examainaiion blanks. But writing and thinking are two different things. The difefrence in charging and blocking is an age-old bugaboo ... and problem when you have Sweed Halbrooks and Mel Counts in the game handi cap them because jof their height advantage or "pro tect" them while they seem ingly overwhelm shorter op ponels ... Well. Bruce Hoffine knows what it's like ... . and Frank Roelandt, whose Medford team proved to be a real champion, also knows what basketball tournament heartbreaks feel like . . . Both hav e suffered and will continue to. suffer until the , time when they quit coach-' ing and discover it is more lucrative and sole-satisfying to get the shaved ice-and-colored flavor concession at the state tournament in stead . of worrying about , whistles." Amen, Dick! Well spoken. Guess who Dick picked as the "forgotten man" of the 1960 A-l hoop tournament the man he judged out standing who received no recognition for all-state hon ors. None other than Med ford's Ken Durkee. Strite termed him a "ball control defensive demon." The sports writer pointed out that all - state . teams are selected at halftime of the title game and that many limes clutch play in the second half shows the quali ties of an all-star. This, he believed, happened to Dur kee. NOT HOLLOW . "Hollow" championship. At least two sports writers in the state have made that refer ence concerning Medford's triumph in the Oregon Class A-l hoop tourney. We. fully recognize Marshfield's bitter ness at losing their giant star, Mel Counts, on fouls in the finale fray. Still, on this "hollow" business we strong ly disagree. As do, we be lieve, the majority of Medford fans who saw the game. For the fighting Black Tornado did play a championship brand of ball. And, we can't go along with the statement in the Coos Bay World that 95 per cent of the 10,421 spectators who cram med into McArthur Court left with the feeling that Med ford's was a hollow victory. CONTROVERSIAL Certainly, the personal foul call which eliminated Big Mel from the fracas will , remain controversial to Marshfield fans and to some others, too. But then, a sizable number of referees' calls give rise to dispute, and just about always have, depending on who you want to win. By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Sports Editor Despite, what has been contended that Counts and Medford's Jerry Anderson may not have come together, -there was bodily contact. Andy did not have com pletely free sailing to the basket. And, the way the Tornado eager shot with a jumping left-hand hook, it's hard to see how he might have fouled. The Marshfield contention is that Counts was backing away with his hands behind his back, not contesting the play. While we're at it, what about the infractions which were not whistled on Counts and should have been? What about the personals tooted against Tornadoes that were not really fouls? UNANSWERED The question of whether Marshfield would have won the title had Counts gone the route, or at least remained in action a little longer, will, for ever, remain unanswered.. No amount of post-contest discus sion will change the outcome of. the game. Whether the Pirates, as their Coach Bruce Hoffine maintained, had Med ford on the ropes and was winning when they lost their biggest threat, will .never be determined. But, the issue will be long in speculation. BETTER BALANCE Marshfield had a strong aggregation. The Bucs prov ed themselves one of the top teams of the tournament. But, you'll have a hard time convincing Mr. Medford Fan or this department that the Coos Bay contingent was a better club than the Black Tornado. The Pirates had the . big man and the Tor nado the better balance of players, speed and power and had depth. SOUTH SALEM RATED BETTER We join those who lament South Salem's sixth place ranking in the tourney stand ings. The well-coached, hard running, hot - shooting, fight ing Saxons were truly one of the top clubs of the tourna ment. They were accorded sixth spot behind South Eu gene and Jefferson because they lost two games, while the Eugene and Jeff lost one apiece. South Salem, how ever, beat South Eugene in the quarter-finals. HOCKEY United Press International The Toronto Maple Leafs, with Coach Punch Imlach flatly predicting "we'll win the Stanley Cup," are 12-5 favorites to defeat the Detroit Red Wings tonight in the opener of their semi-final series in the National Hockey League playoffs. The other semifinal series, matching the defending cham pion Montreal Canadiens against the Chicago Black Hawks, does not get under way until Thursday night at Montreal. DISBANDS London-(UPD-The officers of the Amalgamated Society of Lace Pattern Readers, Correc tors, Press and Piano Punch ers announced Tuesday they were disbanding the labor un ion because they had only 12 members. -. . " . rell Miller, Jerry Anderson and Bob Quinney. Coach of the titular Black Tornado, Frank Roelandt, is shown far right conferring with Ed Ryan (back to camera), assistant secretary-treasurer of the Oregon School Activities associa tion. (Braincrd photo) Tornadoes Now Intact In Baseball With the reporting of ath letes from Medford's state title hoop team, the Tornado baseball roster is now intact and : Coach John Kovenz charges were to get down to business real seriously today. The Black Tornado is to open against Roseburg high at 1 p.m. here Saturday. Seven members from the basketball club just loosened up mostly as they turned out for the diamond sport Monday and yesterday. They were to go into full scale workouts today along with other mem bers of the squad. Kovenz planned both infield and out field work, intersquad con tention, hitting drill and oth er fundamentals. . Those reporting to Kovenz from the hoop squad were Jerry Anderson, Lowell and Cal Dean, Jim Barry, Ken Durkee, Dick Ragsdale and Bob Quinney. Both Anderson and Quinney worked off the mound a bit yesterday and looked good. Kovenz just may have these two hurlers toss a couple of innings each against the Indians to get the feel of action. RV League Session Set Representa t i v e s of the Rogue Valley baseball league will meet at the Cave Shop in Grants Pass on Sunday, March 27, at 2 p.m. to or ganize for the coming season. Three teams have indicated they will return to the cir cuit. They are Ashland, Med ford and Grants Pass. Cres cent City, Calif., plans to re quest a franchise. Plans of Riddle and Glendale are not yet known but Butte Falls in terests have indicated they will not field a team this year. Camp White will combine with Medford. Roseburg is reported to be interested in joining the league and if that happens League President Harry Chip man said he would expect Riddle to combine with Rose burg. Earlier Jack Turk of Cen tral Point said he expected to have backing from that com munity to field a team. Gun Club Bills Night- Shooting Medford Gun club will hold a membership meeting and night trapshoot on Friday eve ning, March 25. It will be a tryout for the new lighting system. A 50 bird handicap is planned. There may be time for some practice and other events. Eats are planned at 7 p.m. ' Lights are in for two traps with two poles of 1,500 watt lights each for each trap and four lights to a pie. The Medford Elks team shoot began last Sunday and will continue for five more Sundays to determine the team for the state Elks lodge shoot here May 27 and 28. Bob Lee's team took top points Sunday with all 20 possible. Dick Phair's crew got 12 and Lew Bates' gang eight. There is one other team captained by Pete Petrehm. Charles Skeeters of the Pet rehm team broke a perfect 50 straight. HMiW till i vi OS- 8 Fernandez Foe Of Ralph Dupas Miami Beach, Fla.-(t'PD-Vet-eran welterweight Ralph Du pas matches his speed and ring knowledge tonight against the punching power of young Florentine Fernan dez in a 10-round nationally televised bout at Miami Beach auditorium. Smith, Nelson Receive Honor Salisbury, N.C. - 0IPD - Red Smith of the New York Her ald Tribune and Lindsey Nel son of the National Broadcast ing Co. were named today as the national sports writer and sportscaster of the year. The awards were an nounced by the National Sportscasters and Sports Writ- I ers Awards committee which conducted the balloting, by sports writers and broadcas ters throughout the country. Smith and Nelson, first winners of what will become annual awards, will receive the awards from North Caro line Gov. Luther H. Hodges at a banquet here April 12. Slate winners announced last week also will be honored at j the banquet. Runners-up in the voting for the national awards were Oscar Fraley of United Press International, Arthur Daley of the New York Times, Will Grimsley of the Associated Press and Furman Bisher of the Atlanta Journal and sportscasters Mel Allen of the New York Yankee network, Buddy Blattner of the Colum bia Broadcasting System, Vince Scully of the Los Ange les Dodger network and Dizzy Dean of CBS. Mail-O-Graphic Meet Entered Teams at Medford Bowling lanes rolled their series last Saturday in the American Junior Bowling congress Mail-o-graphic tournament. The local juniors will not learn until mid -April how they placed in the tourney. Results will not be compiled until that time. Scores here Saturday were: SENIOR BOYS: Jaycees 2877: Bauman's 286B: J. W. Copeland Yards 2746: K-Boy Radio Station 2685: Medford Auto mobile Dealers Association 2654. High series Dennis Bauman 661. SENIOR GIRLS: McLain's Drug Center 2545: Women of the Moose 2533; Medford Paint & Wallpaper Store 2462. High series Barbara Champion 443. JUNIOR BOYS: Ninety-Nine Chevron Station 2462: Silver Dollar -Stamps 2416; Trail Creek Lumber Co. 2339; Ricks B & K 2316: West Coast 2284; Knockers 2268: Rodents 2234; Des ert Service 2217. High series Cliff Roberts 517. JUNIOR GIRLS: Cool Bowlers 2454; Goofers 2233; Doodle Bugs 2174. High series Judy Dixon 410. BANTASl BOYS: Bull . Dogs 1556; Silver Dollar Stamps 1476: Warner Gladiolus 1428: Brewald Chevron .1417; Shinns Food ..; 1402; Starr Body 1380; Sno-Boys 1350. High series Shannon Vinson 302. BANTAM GIRLS: Strikers 1503: Fashionette 1315; Elks 1309: Pin Hitters 1269. High series Kathy McCoy 247. PATRIOTS SIGN TWO Boston - (UPD - The Boston Patriots of the foundling American Football league to day announced the signing of players from the University of Connecticut and Heidelberg (Ohio) college. Chief scout Mike Holovak, the former Boston College coach, an nounced that Uconn halfback Bob Horan and Heidelberg Center Bob Gilmore have signed with the Boston entry. SPORTS I !ascual Sparkles Baseball TUESDAY EXHIBITIONS St. Louis 8. Milwaukee 1 Pittsburgh 9. Chicago (A 8 Los Angeles 6, New York 5 Kansas City 5. Detroit l Washington 2. Baltimore 1 Cincinati 7, Philadelphia 6 San Francisco 9. Chicago (N) 8 Boston 9. Cleveland 5 Dallas Five Rolls High Pin Game Toledo, Ohio The Great Southwest Sport center of Dallas, Tx., rolled the top team game to date in the American Bowling congress tournament action hre Tues day night. The Dallas team rolled a 1101 in its second game for aj series total of 2934, but it did not affect the open division standings. Its first game was ' 936 and third 897. j The team had 32 strikes in ; its big game, with Ronnie j Diamond getting nine and : Jack Biondolillo eight. The only open frames were caused ! by two splits. Strohs Beer of Detroit ; rolled a 2876, the lowest score I for a Strohs team since 1949. j In the ' three tournaments I prior to this one, Strohs had been over 3100 each year. Earlir, Tony. Puglie of De troit cracked the top five all events standings with a third place 1929. Puglie teamed with Don Glinski to take fourth -place in the doubles with 1261 on games of 381, 419 and 461. He had a 655 in team, 675 in doubles and 599 in singles for his 1929 all-events score, which was his third straight all-events total over 1800 in ABC competition. In the only other change in Tuesday's top s t a n d i n gs, James Brooks of Detroit moved into a 10th place singles tie with a 668 on games of 236, 185 and 247. Stilt Cuts Boston Gap By GARY KALE United Press International Wilt Chamberlain's latest outburst of 50 points gave Philadelphia high hopes today that the Warriors would be come the first team in Nation al Basketball association his tory to bounce back from a 3-1 deficit and win a seven game series. The league's rookie of the year and most valuable play er narrowed Boston's lead to 3-2 in the Eastern division fi nals Tuesday night with a brilliant effort . that brought the Warriors a 128-107 vic tory. In the Western section fi nals, the Minneapoli Lakers threatened to duplicate last season's upset over St. Louis as they defeated the Hawks, 117-110, in overtime, to take a 3-2 lead in the series. An extra-period win in the fifth game in 1959 set the stage for a Laker sweep in six games. Chamberlain, apparently re covered from a hand injury that hampered his efforts in two previous games, broke a Boston Garden record with 22 field goals. He nabbed 35 rebounds to resume mastery over big Bill Russell in that department. OAKLAND SIGNS COACH Oakland, Calif. - (UPII-The Oakland entry in the new American Football league Tuesday signed Tom Kalmin er as offensive backfield ; coach. Kalminer, former Ne ivada star, played for the Los Angeles Rams and Baltimore Colts in the National Foot ball league. nULTI USES FOR MULT! BARK Multi-Bark is Fir Bark-Shredded and Screened to proper size for a soil conditioner and mulch. USE FOR Flower Beds Pathways Lawns Shrubbery Playgrounds Plants One Unit Will Cover 2400 Sq. Ft. 1 Inch Deep PRICES 1 Unit $12.00 V Unit $ 7.00 Also Available by Pickup Load for 5e per Cu. Ft. (Avg. Pickup $2.00) SP 3-6601 III . LAi9ijayyil I ill By FRED DOWN United Press International There'll soon be a new I flood of bids pouring into Washington Senator Presi dent Cal Griffith's office the way Camilo Pascual is pitch ing this spring. The 25-year old native of Ha vana became baseball's most "wanted man" in the winter trade marts after a 17-10 sea son in 1959 and he looks sharper than ever this year. Griffith has said Pascual def initely is not for sale but the offers will be pouring in any how because Camilo probably , could mean the pennant for two or three clubs. He won t win any pennants for the Senators, of course, but he could get them out of lats place in the American league for the first time in four years. Beats Orioles Pascual, who had a gaudy 2.64 earned run average to go with his .630 winning percent age last season, combined Prep Golf s To Qualify Five Medford High school gojf lettermen are back in cluding the four men who represented the Black Tor nado last spring in the state tournament. Coach Paul Evcnscn. who supervises the team, said that the linksmen have had two formal practices this week af ter drill by some of the aspir ants last week. Qualifying play for team positions is planned for Friday afternoon and Saturday morning with 18 holes each day. The lettermen among the 18 candidates arc Mike Mon- I roe, John Frohnmayer, Dar- rell Miller and Larry Brown, of the tourney team, and Bob Jones. The season opens with matches April 1 at Roseburg and April 2 against Marsh field at Coos Bay. Tornado linksmen won the Upstate tourney last year plus I all their dual matches. TWO ENTER "500" Indianapolis, Ind. - (UPI) -Wayne Weiler, Phoenix, Ariz., and Jim Packard, Indianapo lis, have been nominated as newcomers to the 500 - mile speedway auto race. Approval of the two rookies, who quali fied for auto racing's "big time" in special tests last summer, raised the list of en tries to 30 for one Memorial Day race. While - We Also Install Bonded Brakes Batteries Lake Plugs Floor Mats Mufflers Dual Sets Shocks MEDFORD 801 N. Riverside 9 a.m. 6 SPfSTAlLEO! p.m. Delivered in Medford Ext. 46 with Pedro Ramos Tuesday to hurl the Senators to a 2-1 vic tory over the Baltimore Orioles. It snapped a four game Washington losing streak and extended the Orioles' losing string to six straight games. Ramos, 13-19 last year, yielded two hits and a run in the first five innings and then Pascual struck out eight batters and allowed only a single by Jackie Brandt dur ins the last four. Pascual him self scored the winning run in the seventh on Lenny Green's single. The Boston Red Sox ham mered out a 9-5 victory over the Cleveland Indians, the St. Louis Cardinals whipped the Milwaukee Braves. 8-1. the Pittsburgh Pirates edged out th Chicago While Sox, 9-8. the Los Angeles Dodgers nipped Q the New York Yankees. 6-5, the Kansas City A's beat the Detroit Tigers, 5-1. the Cin cinnati Reds defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, 7-6, and the San Francisco Giants won 9-8 in 12 innings over the ! 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