g MAIL TRIBUNE, Medfonl, Or. A Wednesday, Mar. 23. 1 960
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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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