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Loop No Cause For Tears By BAY ANDREWS Seattle-UPD-If you've been shedding tears over the sad plight of minor league base ball, you can turn off the faucet as far as the Pacific Coast league is concerned. From where he sits, 16 sto ries up in the Grosvenor House here, Dewey Soriano, new president of the loop, likes his view of the far-flung circuit. "Last year we drew about 2,500,000 fans," says Soriano. "This season I look for an attendance of about 2,750, 000." One reason for the' opti mism is tha entrance of Ta coma Into the eight-club loop. Last year Phoenix was the red ink club of the circuit, drawing only 80,000. Tacoma Outlook Good This i'me around the fran chise " s been shifted to Ta cp where John (Red) I . 45, will again be the 1 skipper and his Giants i do their stuff before more dllS. So far, ticket sales at Ta coma are over the $100,000 mark and the Giants have ped dled nearly 750 season tickets. "I look for Tacoma to be one of the pillars of the league," says Soriano. "They will have a natural rivalry with Seattle and that won't hurt." Spokane's Indians also have more than $100,000 in the till from ticket sales and the picture elsewhere, while not up to these two clubs, is nevertheless encouraging. Geographically, the league has tilted northward with only Sacramento and San Diego left of the once-mighty California -arcSWigent San Diego has to live with major league ball only 130 miles away at Los Angeles but Ralph Kiner, general manager, thinks they can do it unless the Dodgers start televising their games into San Diego. Four New Managers Four new pilots will do their master-minding in the PCL. Pedro Gomez will take over at Spokane, Dick Sisler will call 'em at Seattle, George Staller is at Vancouver and former St. Louis . Cardinal lefty, Ernie White, will lead Sacramento. The four holdovers are Tommy Heath at Portland for his third season, Larry Shep ard at Salt Lake, George Met kovlch at San Diego and Davis, who headed the Giants at Phoenix last year. The umps call "play ball" April 14 when four teams get the Jump on the rest of the league as far as an opening day is concerned. Vancouver will open at Sacramento on that date and Tacoma hosts Portland. The rest of the clubs get into the fracas the following day with Seattle at San Diego and Spokane at Salt Lake City. YANKS OPTION THREE St. Petersburg, Fla. - 0IPD -The New York Yankees made their first roster cut today by optioning pitchers Jim Bronstad and Bill Stafford and outfielder Leroy Thomas to Richmond of the Interna tional league. Coast Put the Two Together: Corvair and the Mileage-Meier and you'll see why we've been selling so many Corvairs at Courtesy Chevrolet Here's real proof of the pudding in compact economy ! Courtesy Chevrolet 9th and Bartlett Streets Olson Contract Matter Delays Fight Approval Portland -il'PD- Ex-Middleweight Champion Bobo Ol son's ring comeback here was in doubt today. The Portland B6xlng com mlsion Thursday night voted to withdraw approval of two pending fights Olson has scheduled here until contract rights are settled. Olson has a bout scheduled April 7 with Roque Maravilla and another one in May against Spider Webb. The commission took Its ac tion after being told that Billy Newman, a California manager, held an exclusive contract with Olson for his services through June 4 of this year. There was a chance, how ever, the bouts would go on as scheduled. Newman said he was willing to waive his exclusive rights providing a personal debt between him self and Olson is settled. Fight manager Sid Flaherty is advisor to Olson for his Portland fights. Pin Team Awaiting ABC Audit Toledo, Ohio - HOT) - The Hamm Beer team of Chicago was anxiously awaiting word from the American Bowling congress tournament's audit ing bureau today because a single pin kept it from tying the open division team lead with a 3095 Thursday night. The A & A Asphalt club of Birmingham, Mich., has been leading the big bowling meet since March 23 with a 3096 total. The Chicago club roar ed down the stretch in a fu tile bid to take the top spot. Included in the Hamm pin spilling splurge was an 1152 second game, the highest team game in this year's meet and the seventh highest in all-time ABC tournament history. After a 910-pin start and the big 1152, the Chicago Classic league team had a 1033 final. Paced by leadoff bowler Andy Rogoznick's 672, four members of the Hamms were over 600 as Ed Kawolics had a 624, Don Ellis 607 and Earl Johnson 606. Chuck Wagner was low with 588, Ironically, Kawolics, the anchorman, who has one of bowling's most brilliant ca reers but has never won an ABC tournament title, hit three strikes in his final frame but by then it was too late. Kawolics was charged with the only error in the three games when he shot the 1-2-8 spare and left the No. 2 pin, a weird way to miss this setup. Low games in the 1152 were 222's by Wagner and Johnson. Ellis had a 227, Ka wolics a 236 and Rogoznicka 245. Two members of the Hamms, Wagner and Johnson, had been members of cham pionship ABC tournament teams. Wagner was with the Tri-Par Radios of Chicago in 1954 and Johnson was a mem ber of the title-winning Fal staffs of Chicago in 1956. Earlier, Vince Lucci of Trenton, N. J., shot to a 34 pin lead in the all-events standings to drop Paul Kul baga of Cle eland, Ohio, lead er since March 24 with a 1951, to second place. CANADIEN TUMBLES Henri Richard (white jersey, 16), of Montreal Canadiens falls after collision with Al Arbour (2). of Chicago Black Hawks, during National Hockey league semifinal series EVERGREEN LEAGUE Standings: V. L. Medford Steel Co 26 & ivogHp Lmor. industries Medford Corporation .... 21 Medford Blowpipe Co. .. 10 R O Stephenson Lbr. Co. 18 M & M Motors 17 Barco Supply Co 17 Team Nine - 12 7 11 13 14 15 15 Patterson Plumbing 111'2 Z0'a seven up uottung Co First Christian Church Big Y Market 23 23 24 Results! Patterson 1 (Harley Harper 469) 2649; Blowpipe 3 (Bruce Braaten 5071 2734. Stephenson 0 (Ed Olsen 534) 2693; Steel 4 (Harvey Sorenson 497) 2808. Medco 4 (George Smith 576) 2760; 7 Up 0 (Bill Smith 4801 2578. 1st Church 1 (Roy Henry 458) 2700; Team Nine 3 (Cliff Graves 5G2I 2892. Bg Y 1 (Dave Mansfield 500) 2700; M & M 3 (Keith, McLean 529) 2706. Kogap 3 (Don Plgg 564) 2800; Barco 1 (Dick Swan 567) 2805. WEDNESDAY TRIOS Standings: W. Medford Lumber 26 Oregon Tire Service Dept 23 Ross Mobilgas 22',2 Cascade Electric 22 Southern Oregon Bearing 21 Mansfield Chevron 21 Country Club 20 McCulloch Chain Saw .... 20 Sears Store 1C Va Keith SchulU Garage 16 Team Five 15 Faber'a Market . 15- L. 14 17 1714 18 19 19 20 20 Results: Med. Lumber 2 (Ken Pursell 524) 1707; Boss 2 (Keith McIIvaln 562) 16C?regon Tire 1 (Bill Richey 463) 1584; Faber's 3 (Don Faber 479) 1629. Cascade Electric 1 (Jess Nether land 453) 1586; Chain Saw 3 (Bob Moore 523) 1705. SO Bearing 3 (Chet Ashton 525) 1698; Team Five 1 (Jose Corona 445) 1002. Mansfield 4 (Gary Miksche 485) 1590; Schultz (absentl Country Club 4 (Buck Krause 4921 1667: Seara O (John Freese 470) 1594. HARTACK SCORES TRIPLE Hallandale, Fla.-OJPD-Willte Hartack scored a triple at Gulfstream Park Thursday to make it seven victories in two days. Hartack's winning rides aboard Remarkable, Crafty Belle and Free Service moved him into second place in the track's hockey standings, with 24 victories. Manny Ycaza leads with 32. Phone SP 2-6115 MEDFORmTRfBUNI grows game at Chi- ROXV ROCKERS LEAGUE- Standlngs: W. T Medford House Movers 27 17 Rogue River Wood Prods, 24 Vi 19 i Rogue Valley Bank M 2i'3 22a Phoenix Chevron ltiVi 27'a Stage Road Grocery . 9!a 34 ia Results: Wood Prods. 3 (R. Brooks 534) 2722; Bank 1 (Lusk 468) 2661. Sniders 3 (Vinson 529) 2893; Gro cery 1 (Dean 5011 2762. Medford 3 (Dalton 454) 2618; Chevron 1 (Morgan 437) 2571. ELKS LEAGUE Standings: Sea Dcgs Sports Gypos Miss Fltts Lively Five Reddys Channel Cats Alley Gators Go Boys Adnirs Cubs w. L. I .... 35 17 34 18 . 32 20 .... 30 22 2!) 23 27 25 26 26 .... 22 30 .. 22 30 19 33 .... 18 34 ..... 13 34 Cementers Results: Sports 3 (A. Bauman 563) 2578: Lively Five 1 (DeVore-Proctor 545) Alley Gators 1 (R. Berg 542) 242B; Go Boys 3 (K. Brown 520) 2465. Sen Dogs 4 (K. Dixon 583) 2476; Adairs u (L. Coats 465) 2193. Gypos 3 (W. Chase 570) 2488; Reddys 1 (C. Norrls 508) 2444. Cementers 3 (D. Garner 488) 23B3; Cubs 1 (G. Barr i46) 2321. Channel Cats 3 (D. Lubbers 556) 2578: Miss Fltts 1 (E. Kcssler 546) 2463. CITY LEAGUE Standings: W. Westsi'de Merchant ...... . 33 State Farm Insurance 34 First National Bank 31 Silver Dollar ; 31 C W A 0208 - 30 Central Market 29 Ross Lumber Co 29 Telephone Employees Assn 28 Farmer Brothers Coffee .... 27 Tic Toe Time Shop 27 Domestic Laundry . 27 Johnston Stores 28 Weter & Olson 25 California Ore. Power Co. 25 Daucherty Lumber Co 23 Rogue Sportsmen 21 Results: Domestic I (Rick Wallace .123) 2841; Rogue 3 (Stan Murray 580) 28 H5. Copco 3 (Roy Rolls 6041 2953; Dougherty 1 (Glen Stewart 498) 2648. Central Mkt. 2 (Bert Hayman 509) 2610; Johnston 2 (Del Ross 505) 2594. Silver Dollar 3 (George Witter 551) 2897; Farmer Bros. 1 (Ray An derson 572) 2833. Ross Lbr. 0 (Norm Henson 501) 2553; State Farm 4 (Jim Robert 537) 2843. Westside 3 fJack Beale 559) 2820; C W A 1 (Mike Davis 535) 2751. T E A A 3 (John Martin 520) 2742; FNB 1 (Paul Dimick 555) 2714. W&O 3 (Btil Luman, 242-247-163-672) 2794; Tic Toe 1 (Mirl Morse 529) 2704. YMCA Leveling Its Back Yard The YMCA has leveled the back yard of its lot for a future Softball diamond and play field. Doing the leveling and clearing for the field were Tex Nash, Roy Lilly, K. C. Smith, Paul Baker, Pete Hale, and Ron Sherman. Nash vol unteered the use of his trucks, tractor and grader. Sherman is a member of the YMCA physical education committee and chairman of the back yard project. The other men are employed by Tex Nash, and volunteered their time to make the field on the week ends. The committee hopes dur ing the coming year to obtain sawdust for the field and to build a backstop. They , plan in the future lights for night play, A sprinkling system and some grass are contemplated. Many ot the neighborhood people around the YMCA have shown an interest in the project, and have offered as sistance. HARLINGEN WINS Sanford, Fla. - IUPII - The Ta coma Giants scored eight runs in the first three innings against Harlingen in an ex hibition baseball game Thurs day - but the Texas league team scored nine in the first two and went on to win, 12-11. Harlingen got 21 hits off Giant pitching, but Tacoma did pretty well in the hitting department, too. Ben Valen zueia hit two homers and single, Charley Dee homered and singled, and doubles were swatted by Dusty Rhodes. Bob eago last night. Other Hawks shown are goalie Glenn Hall (1) and Bobby Hull (16 on right). The Canadiens won to go to the semi final playoffs. (UPI Telephoto) Canadiens Gain Final Chicago - (UPI) - Coach Toe Blake isn't over confident about the future of his Mon treal Canadiens in the race toward a fifth consecutive Stanley Cup, but he doesn't care whether they play Tor onto or Detroit to determine the results. "We've had pretty good luck against both of them," he said after the Canadiens rapped the Chicago Black Hawks, 2-0, Thursday night for their fourth successive win and second shut-out in a row to move into the cup finals. Detroit - (UPD - The Detroit Red Wings will be bolstered by the return of right wing John McKenzie for Saturday night's fifth, game of the Stan ley Cup semifinals against the Maple Leafs at Toronto. The series is all even at two wins for each team and Gen eral Manager Jack Adams hopes McKenzie's return will give Detroit the lift it needs to upset the Maple Leafs in the best of seven series. Records Fall In AAU Swim New Haven, Conn. (UPD More records were expected to do down the drain today in the national AAU swimming champion ships at Yale s Payne Whitney pool. Scheduled events Include the 220-yard free style, 220- yard breaststroke, 220-yard back-stroke, 220-yard butter fly, 400-yard free style relay, and the one meter dive. Trials will be held in the afternoon and the finals at night. George Harrison of Stan ford, Calif., and George Breen of the Indianapolis, Ind. Ath letic Club, set new standards in Thursday's opening events. Harrison established a new American record of four min utes, 28.6 seconds in winning the 400-yard individual med ley final and Breen cracked a meet mark for the 1,500-meter freestyle with a time of 18 minutes, 0.8 seconds. Zalazar Goes Against Tiger Boston -(UPD- Youth Battles experience tonight as Argen tina's Victor Zalazar, 24, swaps punches with Dick Tig er, 30, in a 10-round middle weight bout at Boston Arena. Tiger, the British Empire middleweight champ, is the No. 7 contender for the Na tional Boxing Association 160 pound crown held by Gene Fullmer. Zalazar, who fights out of Buenos Aires, is unranked. "I've got the hlger ranking and that's the way the fight will come out . . . I'll beat him easily," said the confident Tiger. Zalazar's manager, Freddie Fierro said: "My boy hasn't got a rating now but he'll have one after tonight's fight." The bout will be televised nationally, including Boston which often is shut out for local matches. Machen Rated Fourth Heavy New York -(UPII- Eddie Ma chen of Portland, Ore., was ranked as the fourth best heavyweight contender by the National Boxing Association Thursday. Denny Moyer of Portland was 10th on the list of welterweight contenders. t3XOQ Woods, Water, Wildlife By Hank DeVost The meeting of the Rod and Gun Club of Grants Pass this past Wednesday night played host to several members of the technical staff of the Oregon state game commission. The major portion of the meeting consisted of questions from the floor being answered by the game commission staff. Those who listened to the questions and the answers couldn't help but be con vinced rather quickly of the fact that the game commis sion doesn't have the best of public relations. Many of the questions Indicated a com plete ignorance of the activi ties of the game commission in Its attempt to give the sports men in Southern Oregon good hunting and fishing. FACTS ON FILE Each year the gome com mission spends a great deal of lime, money and effort in printing reports of what it does. Despite these ef forts, there appear to be many people who don't know what is happening in their area. Since the local sportsman groups are those most directly concerned with what the game com mission is doing, perhaps it would be helpful if the local biologists would send peri odic reports of their activi ties to these groups. Then the facts would be on file Slats Gill To Return To Duties Corvallis - (UPD - Slats Gill will return as Oregon State's head basketball coach next season. Gill, who has been head coach at OSC for 32 years suffered a heart attack last winter in Seattle and sat out the rest of the past season, But his doctor said the vete ran mentor had made a fine recovery, was "as good ever" and could resume coach ing chores. "We're all mighty happy Slats will continue to be our basketball coach," said Ath letic Director Spec Keene, While Gill was ill assist ant coach Paul Valentl took over. During his career. Gill has a record ot S14 victories and 362 defeats. Umps Promoted To Big League Cincinnati -lura- National League President Warren Giles filled two vacancies on his umpire staff today with the appointments of Chris Pelekoudas and Ed Vargo. The new umpires replace Vic Delmore, who was fired by Giles during the winter, and Hal Dixon, who has re signed because his request for a raise in salary was rejected. Pelekoudas, an umpire in the Pacific Coast league the last seven years, and Vargo, who worked in the Interna tional league since 1957, are two of the four umpires Giles had on trial this spring. The other two - Ed Bctz and Lee Weyer - will be optioned to the International league. Ski Carnival At Mr. Shasta Mt. Shasta, Calif. - M t . Shasta Snowmen will hold their annual costume carnival and obstacle race on April 17, Easter Sunday, at Mt. Shasta Ski bowl. The Konwakiton Ski Cap tors will offer a variety of prizes, including a perpetual trophy for the most original costume. Inquiries concerning the event can be made to the Mt. Shasta Chamber of Com merce. SUDS BEAT SOLONS Palm Springs, Calif.-(UPt -The balmy desert air-or something-must agree with the Se attle Italniers whose 8-1 spring record is among the best in any circuit. Buddy Gilbert slammed his second homer of the exhibition sea son Thursday to lead the Se attle club to a 2-V win over the Sacramento Solons. Ray Frlppelmeyer kept the Solons out of the scoring column for seven stanzas. The losers scor ed their lone run in the eighth on three consecutive singles off relief twirlcr Hal Jeffcoat. and available to the mem bers, at meetings of the groups. If all the sportsmen in an area have access to the tame facts, there would bt a batter chance that they could work for the tame ends for the tame reasons. AGREE TO AGREE There is still a great deal of controversy regarding the change in winter regulations which resulted in a closure of the Rogue river from the mouth of the Applegate to Hellsgate canyon. It is doubt ful that there will ever be enough agreement between those who oppose the change and those who favor it to get back the old regulations, but perhaps all those concerned could find some changes which would satisfy most of them to the ektent that they could agree to agree. CRUX OF THE MATTER The crux of the contro versy rests on the fact of high harvest of fall-run iteelhead which need pro tection during the winter season. If it were possible to cut down on the catch of steelhead during the fall season to the extent that the protection would not be needed, then the problem might eliminate itself. A bag limit of ten trout, with a maximum of only two fish over twelve inches might be one kind of answer. This bag limit to apply only to the main stem of the river. If this could be effectively enforced, the cut in the take of fall-run steelhead could create a new balance which would open the winter steel head season on the Rogue as high as Savage Rapids dam. HAVE CAKE AND EAT IT Many people find it hard to realize that there are be tween 20 and 30 fishermen trying to catch the same num ber of fish one fisherman was trying for 20 years ago. This means that there has to be choice between restricted bag limits or restricted waters and seasons. Or a little of both. We can't fish and catch all we want to catch even though we want to. There aren't that many fish to go around. If its fishing we want, let's catch fewer fish If we Just want fish, let's buy them at the hatchery. A REARING POND Southern Oregon's first steelhead rearing pond is now a reality! Negotiations have been completed with the Medford corporation for use of their log pond which is located about ten miles north of Butte Falls on the Prospect-Butte Falls road. The pond has 76.9 surface acres and is at an elevation of 3051 feet. Medco intends pulling out all of its sinkers this spring after which the game commission will drain it and put in outlet facili ties. This will consist of a drain outlet to a collection pond and raceways which will be used to count and mark fish prior to their re lease. CAPACITY NOT KNOWN The game commission Maturity is a bourbon called ANTIQUE "That golden moment when bourbon . reaches the peak of perfection. A M Wh,$wy m xflWK M HI life 4C 'tjmm til l doesn't know how many fish can be raised in the pond. They estimate a minimum of 80,000 and will begin with this amount and increase num bers until the maximum is found. It is hoped the pond wilt fill a year from now and the first release be made in 1962. Rogue river summer it'jelhead are scheduled to be the first occupants. THE ANGLER'S LOG The water temperature at Gold Ray dam is 42 degrees and the cloud cover means that this temperature would hold the salmon as far down as Illahe. When warmer weather brings the water to over 50 degrees the fish will move again. Klamath River-Reports of i some nice fish on the Cali fornia side which sound like recovered spawners. Thin fish with very small egg sacks. Some anglers were getting ex cellent fly fishing on the Ore gon side during the warm weather. Rogue River - The salmon will be doggo until the water warms and clears. Gold Beach reports 43 fish taken on open ing day before the storm came in. THE OPTIMIST'S CORNER There appears to be an answer possible to the prob lem of stopping the deer losses in the Howard Prairie delivery canal. Those who want a first-hand explana tion of this local problem are inviled to attend the meeting of the Jackson County chapter of the Ore gon Sportsman's club where For Patio Parties or WINTHROP'S TOMAHAWK The Leisure Time The hand-sewn vamp on Winthrop Tomahawks give them that certain leisure flairl They have a natural leisure feeling because of their snug comfortable fit. sWi .i (; lift ; c 1 tjtsi-::vm:.-x4. .-.-;-. -.eft v. i..-,v,:.i---iW.vAn.iiwB-. Brown Cashmere Grain Black London Grain Many Othor Styles To Choose Froml SHOE DEN FOR MEN Cei.tral at Main - "7V MAIL TRIBUNE, M.dforJ, Or. Q Friday, April 1, 1960 A ' Charlie Shepard wilt show slides ot last year's kill. The meeting will be at p.m. in the Girls' Commu nit club building. Anyone is welcome and refresh ments will be served. GOOD LUCK! Gone to . . .MEDFORD BOWLING LANES 821 N. Riverside Phone SP 2-2682 "Shall I reel off the reaiont why you should bowl here?" aiki George. "A limpler meth od. Try it!" Family Room Fun . . Shoe! ., 5 Medford, Oregon 460 AOO ttQt.'O'fr. mW I Farley and Bob Perry.
