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MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtdfard, Or. 1 6 Tornadoes Enter Willamette Coach Dean Benson today listed the 16 Medford high athletes who will enter the Willamette Relays. The big meet for high school, college and ex-collegiate thinclads is set for Satur day at McCulloch stadium in Salem. Medford will enter 10 events, five races and five field contests. Competition is on an individual or event bas- sis and no team score is being kept. Biggest entry for the Tor nado is in the broad jump. ; Medford will have six men in the event, Lcn Griggs, Phil Humphreys, Mike McCul lough, Dan Sicg, Mike Hood and Terry Ryan. Jerry Shults was to have been in the jump but will remain home because he is not feeling well. Four-Man Craws McCullough, Jim Schmidt, Humphreys and Griggs, ten tatively are slated to run in the 440-yard relay and Hum phreys, Kent Blew, Dan Sicg and Griggs in the 880 relay. Bill Dahlstrom, Ray Smith, Don Miller and Bob Rix will team in the two mile relay with the distance medley team to consist of Hi Martin, three fourths mile. Blew, 440, Smith, 880, and Steve Drew, mile. Mike Hood and Walt Ayres will compete in the high hur dles and high jump, Tom Bortls in the shot put, Ryan In the javelin and Griggs, Humphreys and McCullough in the 100-yard dash. Weather Idles Tornado Tennis, Baseball Squads Rain has forced postpona mant of ona Madford high teheol baseball doubleheed ar and probably another. And, weak and Black Tor nado tannis trip has been cancelled because of the waathar. Definitely off was lha Crater Madford diamond bill tat tor this afternoon and Tornado tannis matches today at Coot Bay and North Bend and Saturday at Corvallis. Wat weather alio is expected to postpone a Medford baseball twin header slated at Roiebur? on Saturday. Final decision on this trip will be made to morrow morning. It appear ed unlikely the qames will he played. Bedford track and golf Jaunts are still "on." Tor nado einderjren are to vie in the Willame'te relays on Saturday at Salem while lha golfers ware to contend at Roseburg today and meet Marshfield at Coos Bay on Saturday. BREAK HOPED Make up date for confer ence baseball play with Cra ter has not been set. Tor nado diamondert had to work out in the gym yester day because their lield was to wet. Coach John Kovena wat hopeful that the weath er would break tufficiently to enable hit charges to drill in the outfield area and get batting practice by uta of the pitching machine and rubber baseballs. Baseball teaton started off with high enthusiasm and It was hoped, alto, that the waathar would not dampen thit attitude. SPECIFY TRU-MIX THE MODERN CONCRETE Delivered S 7-5271 Friday, April 1, 1 T0 Relays Salem -IM- The Willamette Relays launches Us 10th an nual showing here Saturday with about 400 college and ex-college athletes competing in freshman, college and invi tational divisions. In addition, 50 Oregon high schools entered more than 1,000 contestants. The meet begins at 1 p.m. The prep and senior divi sion action was scheduled for the same time. Statesman Miles First event in the senior competition is the Statesman Mile with two-time winner Bill Dcllingcr and Jim Grclle expected to be facing each other. Both may attempt to quali fy for the Olympic trials. A time of 4:02 or better is re quired. The weatherman predicted clouds locally in the after noon with the possibility of scattered showers. Prospect Opens Slate In Baseball Prospect - Prospect High, which will defend the Jack son County B league title this year, began its baseball sea son today with non-loop fracas here against A-2 Rogue River. Coach Duane Payne has quite a few vets back from last year's club. He feels that the Cougars have good de fense and fair hitting but that the pitching is a question. Prospect lacks experienced hurlers. Payne Indicated that Wally Nye and Craig Gardner, trans fer from Medford, have been doing much of the pitching in practice. Possible relief chuckers are Lee Gitchell, Stan Payne and Tony Yell. Gitchell also plays first base and Payne and Yell are in fielders. Nye also plays second base. Cliff Chapman and Richard Belts are catchers and Dick Bean a relief receiver. At first base, in addition to Gitchell, is Mike Burrcll. Bob Fitch, an outliclder, could be at second sack when Nye s pitching. A third baseman is Don Gillcs-1 pie. Terry Gardner may be the starting shortstop. Outfielders on the club are Floyd Scalfc, John Rogers, Joe Jones, Chuck Poole. Larry Bean and Brian Boothby. Payne said that Prospect will have track and field on a limited basis with training mostly during physical educa tion periods. The Cougars may enter a small squad in the Hayward relays and hope to participate in soma other meets. Softball Drill Delayed by Rain Eagle Point This weeks rains have forced delay for a week of the opening practice of the Rogue Valley Dairy Maids Softball team. Coach Shy Callaghan said that sogginess of the Eagle Point high field has forced cancellation of drill which had been planned for Sunday, April 3. First workout Is now set for April 10. Also called "out" because of the weather was the Eagle Point-Talent high baseball game scheduled here this afternoon. A IV Your Concrete TRU-MIX ICOMCRETEC? 248 E. McANDREWS RD. t . f ft f. . " CARDINAL DUCKS A throw Dodgers makes St. Louis Cardinal Hat Smith duck on the front half of a Dodger double play in the ninth Inning of Wednesday Grapefruit league Play started when LA second grounder and flipped to shortstop Wills. (UPI Telcphoto) Cubs Score Seventh Straight Triumph By FRED DOWN United Press International The Chicago Cubs, paced by Ernie Banks' blazing bat, are making Grapefruit league ri vals sit up and take notice. The Cubs haven't finished in the National league's first division since 1048 but the way they're clicking they could make it this year. They reeled off their seventh straight victory and 10th in in 12 games Thursday with a 4-3 win over the Boston Red Sox, Banks, the NL' two-time most valuable player award winner, is the key to the team, of course, and the lithe, homer-hitting shortstop seems set for a tremendous season. He's blasting the ball at a .403 cup, nas nn uve iiuniera ana driven in 12 runs in the Cubs 1 17 games. Delivers Key Blow . Banks, who hit 4S homers and drove in 143 runs last sea. son, delivered a key blow on Thursday when the Cubs ral lied for three runs in the ninth. The Detroit Tigers dealt the New York Yankees their 12th loss in 18 games, S-2; the Mil waukee Braves nipped the Washington Senators, 7-6; the St. Louis Cardinals won a comedy of errors over the Pittsburgs Pirates, 7-5: the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Kansas City A's, 5-4, and the Cleveland Indians out. slugged the San Francisco Giants, 11-10, Jim Bimmng, who started the exhibition season with a lifetime 0-1 1 grapefruit rec ord, chalked up his third win of this spring for the Tigers, who rocked Mark Freeman Cleveland Nips Giant Nine 1110 Phoenix, Ariz.-HINI-The S.in Francisco Giants were trying to break a three-game losing streak today when they tan gled with the Boston Red Sox In an exhibition baseball game here. Manager Bill Rigney's crew is powerful at the plate, but a little weak around the mound. The Giants were rie feated by the Cleveland Indi ans. 11-10. Thursday. Twenty-four runs have been scored against the San Fran cisco team In the past two days-and the Giants have scored 20. Felipe Ainu, Orlando Ce peda and Willie Mays belt ed roundlrippers in Thurs day's losing effort, and Willie McCovey smashed 400-foot double off the right-center screen. Sanford Goes Stvtn The Indians got their runs ' off Jack Sanford and George Maranda. Sanford went sefen ' innings allowing six runs and 10 hits, Including a home, and Maianda went one Inning al lowing four runs and three hits including two homers. Ironically, Jne Shipley came to the mound for Just one- third of an Innlng-and got the defeat. With the bases loaded. '. Rms Dixon slammed a ground I ball off Don Blasingame and j the winning run came in. The game was the last be tween the two teams during I the spring training season. , The Gianli won the series, Iff I ft i MiA i, by Maury Wills of Brooklyn game at St. Petersburg, Fla. baseman took George Crowe's for four runs in the first in ning. Senators Hammer Burdetie Lew Burdette pitched five shutout innings for the Braves but was hammered for six runs by the Senators in the sixth inning. The Braves finally pulled it out in the ninth. The Cardinals and Pirates made a total of five errors and numerous "bonehead" plays before the Redbirds won their 12lh game against five defeats. Jackie Brandt and Gene Woodling led the Orioles' 13 hit attack with a two-run homer and three singles. Russ Nixon singled home the winning run for the In dians in their final meeting of uie spring with the Giants. Golf Date Announced Portland - DPI! - A $27,000 Portland Open golf tourna ment will be held Scot. 19-25 at the Portland Golf club, it was announced today. The tournament is expected to lure most of the nation's touring professionals. Peter Walsh, president of Golf Enterprises Inc., said the tournament would be a PGA co-sponsored affair. Golf En terprises staged last year's Centennial Open. More than 50 top pros com peted in last year's event, won by Billy Casper. This year's tourney will be the biggest financially ever held here. Prize total last year was szu.uuu. The Portland tournev will follow by a week a $25,000 event in Tacoma. RESIGNING New Orleans lUPil Charlie Hurth confirmed recent anonymous rumblings that he has resigned as president of the Southern association. Hurth, whose fifth three-year contract doesn't expire until Jan. 1, 1DK2, said Thursday his resignation was effective "sometime in the middle of next month. TWINBILL OFF Corvallis -iliPD- A double header between Oregon State and Lewis and Clark, sched uled for today, was called off because of wet grounds. It was hoped OSC would be able to play a twinbill with Llnfield Saturday fill's l YE OLD FASHIONED HOSPITALITY Before a Cheery Fireplace BOWLING SHUFFLEBOARD GUN PRACTICE SNACK BAR .. .CRAl Eft Dressen Has Horses That He's Wanted (This it the 10th In a ta riat on the 1960 protpactt of the major league clubt.) By LEO H. PETERSEN UPI Sportt Editor Bradenton, Fla. IUPI1 Charlie Dressen, the chipper little Milwaukee skipper who has waited a long time to get the specific kind of "horses" he always wanted, finally has 'em now and is convinced he can lead them Into the win ner's circle come October. Everyone in baseball re members how well Dressen did when he had "my kind of ball players" as a manager in Booklyn. Everyone also recalls what a flop Charlie was at Wash ington when he couldn't ma neuver because of the lack of talent. Now with the Braves, Dres sen has hitters like Hank Aaron, Ed Mathews and Joe Adcock, along with pitchers like Warren Spahn, Lew Bur- dette and Bob Buhl. SF Giants Strong in Reserves By HAL WOOD San Francisco - IUHI - If the San Francisco Giants win the National league pennant this year - and the bandwagon is loaded with men who say they will a strong bench should be given the credit. While there is a big cry that Manager Bill Rigney hasn't the reserves available to go through a tough cam paign, it appears right now that balding Bill may have just as good men sitting on the bench as playing. Take first base for exam ple. Here Willie McCovey, a young sophomore, is supposed to be the big knocker. But if he fails, Rigney can bring in either Jim Marshall, a sea. soned young left handed hit ter; or shift Orlando Cepeda from the outfield. If Cepeda moves back to first base, that will riean that cither Marshall or Felipe Alou would go to the outer garden. If Felipe is out there, then the Giants may have one of the best outfields in all of baseball. With Willie Mays in center and Willie Kirkland in right it would have fine field ing and great hitting. So how about second base? Don Blasingame for five years has been considered one of the finest inficlders in the game. But if he gets hurt, Joey Amalfitano Is ready to step in. A bonus baby of six years ago, Joey has been hit ting about 240 points better than Don in spring training. He also is a seasoned, profes sional ball player who knows his way around the infield. So hw about third or short? If Jimmy Davenport or Eddie Bressoud are injured, Andre Rodgers Is ready to step in. Andre got a full workout at the shortstop berth last sea son and made so many errors that he finally was benched, then sent to the minors. But the report is that he has more confidence this year and can play both positions. He also hits the long ball. Catching? Hobie Landrith is the starter, but Bob Schmidt was the first stringer In 1958 and he can step in any time and hit with more authority than little Hobie. The pitching, of course, may be the best in the league. After starters Sam Jones, Johnny Antonelli, Jack San ford and Mike McCormick, comes one of the country's finest crop of relievers. Little Stu Miller has been one of the league's best earn-ed-run average men for the last two years; add Billy O'Dell, who also is expected to do a spot of starting; and Billy Loes, who will be the man to finish up. and It looks like Manager Rigney is on ! solid ground. i So who said "the bench Is I weak?" Come join the fun ilUnfl GAMEY ATMOSPHERE Ukt HIGHWAY at 4 wi ,m In addition, he apparently has a sound Red Schoendienst back at second base. No won der the cocky little Milwau kee pilot is rubbing his hands in anticipation of the start of the pennant race. "Batter" Than Dodgers "I think we have a better team than Los Angeles," he says, "and even though the Giants may be tough, I feel we can beat them, too." He thinks his pitching "is as good as any around," but plans on giving Joey Jay to ll), Juan Pizarro (6-2) and Carlton Willey (5-B) more work. "That way I'll be able to give Burdette and Spahn a little more rest," Dressen ex plains. Both Burdette and Spahn won 21 games last season while Buhl won 15. For relief there's fast-balling Don McMahon (5-3) and the veteran Bob Rush (5-6). Rush also may be spotted as a starter if Jay, Pizarro and Willey do not come through as well as Dressen expects. Bub Giggie, who was In only 13 games last season with the Braves and had a 1-0 rec ord, and rookie Ron Piche, an eight-game winner at Louis ville, may stick with the club. Another hurling possibility is Bob Hartman, also a Louis ville graduate. He won 10 games there last season. Three Infield Spots Set Three spots in the infield are set Schoendienst at sec ond, Johnny Logan at short and Mathews at third. Adcock and Frank Torre probably will split the first base job. For infield reserves there are Felix Mantilla, Mel Roach and Chuck Cottier. Dressen has been giving Roach a shot in the outfield as well as third base. Although Dressen is con vinced that Schoendienst. who was out last season with tu berculosis, will be able to put in a full season, he will keep Cottier, just in case the red head needs relief now and then. Cottier isn't much with the bat, hitting only .226 at Louisville last season and .125 with the Braves, but can get the job done in the field. Aaron, who won the Nation al league batting title last sea son with a .355 average, will be in right field with Billy Bruton in center and Wes Covington in left. Sayt Knea Okay Covington's knee still is a question mark, but he insists it's okay. If it isn't, the Braves could be hurting in the out field for behind that trio they have only one promising . t , ...1 t.:. prospect L,ee iviaye, wiiu mi i .339 at Louisville and .JUu with the Braves. The other outfield candi dates are Al Spangler, a .297 hitter at Louisville, and John Demerit, the bonus kid who hasn't made it yet. So long as Del Cranda" stays healthy, the Braves have no catching problem. But if something should happen to Crandall, the Braves could feel the pinch in that depart ment, too. For behind there I- only the veteran Stan uctala. whom the Braves released and then signed again, and Char lie Lau, who batted .292 with Charleston and Louisville. But Dressen isn't worried. Not many managers would be with the front-liners he has. Nieporte Heads Azalea Tourney Wilmington, N.C.-iUril-Tom . Nieporte of Bronxville, N.Y., ! who conceded he gained "a lucky start," today carried a three-stroke lead into the sec-1 ond round of the Azalea Open golf tournament. Nieporte turned in a near record, eight-under-par 64 in Thursday's opening round. Tied for second with ident ical cards of 34-33-67 were Jerry Barber of Los Angeles, Dave Ragan of Dayton Beach, Fla., and Gay Brewer of Crys tal River, Fla. Kl5 N Al A Picks Star Clubs Kansas City, Mo. -(UPI)- Ten nessee Ail has placed two players on the first team and one on the second unit of the I960 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) Ail-American basket ball team. Forwards Gene Werts and Rossie Johnson, both of whom are juniors, were named to the first team. And teammate Por ter Meriwether, a guard, was picked on the second team. Only first - team repeater was hook -shooting Charles Sharp of national champion Southwest Texas College. He was high scorer and most val uable player of the 1960 small college championship tourna ment here. Teammate Rudy Davalos, six-foot senior guard, also was named to the first team. The NAIA All-American teams: First ttam: Sharp and Davalos Southwest Teasi Stale; Jackie Morcland. Louisiana Tech: Wcrts and Johnson. Tennessee A&I; Tex Tippett. CramMling; James McDon ald. West Virginia W e s I e y a n; Charles Davis. Westminster iPa.l: Zchno Bcaty. Prairie View A&M; and Cleveland Buchner, Jackson (MiMi.l State. Second team: Ray Germany. Lou isiana Tech: Meriwether, Tenncs. see A&I; Don Perrclli, Southern Connecticut; Whltey Verstraele. C-eoreia Southern; Al Atllcs. North Carolina A&I; Ken Rcmley and Bill Smith, West Virginia Weslevan; Charles Hardnelt. GrambHnR; Rudy Stoehr. Nebraska Wesleyan: and Danny Sewell, North Carolina High Point. Moyer Winner In Ring Tangle Vancouver, B.C. -IUPD- Phil Moyer of Portland, Ore., de cisioned Thurman Stevens of Longview, Wash., in a 10 round middleweight fight here Thursday night. Jimmy Wal ters of Vancouver, Wash., won a 10-rounder over Pedro Gon zales of Pittsburgh in the oth er main event. 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Heavyweight champion Bill Kerslake. a 290-pounder from Cleveland, decisioned Pat Lovell of Cal Poly; Frank Rosenmayr of the San Fran cisco Olympic Club decisioned Jim Mills of the Los Angeles YMCA in the 191 pound class; and Louis Giani of the New York Athletic Club drew with Lee Allen of Portland's Mult nomah A.C. There were two upsets Thursday. Newton Copple, 147-pound champion of Lin coln, Neb., was decisioned by Frank Bettuci of the New York AC; and San Francis co's Ben Northrup, 147-pound Greco-Roman champ, was de cisioned by Mario Tovar of Mexico. Scoring is figured on the "bad point" system. The win ners get no points for a fall, one point for a decision, while a draw is worth two points. A loser gets three points on a decision and four on a fall. A wrestler is eliminated when he picks up six points. tail ALL WOOL Slacks, 18 CHRIS THE TAILOR 36 N. 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