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.
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Brown Cashmere Grain
Black London Grain
Many Othor Styles To Choose Froml
SHOE DEN FOR MEN
Cei.tral at Main
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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 . .
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821 N. Riverside
Phone SP 2-2682
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why you should bowl here?"
aiki George. "A limpler meth
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