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t.J 4.- '.- MONDAY. JUNE 6. I960 g ' MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. BEDFORD HIGH RULES AS STATE A-1 CHAMPION IN BASEBALL Black Tornado Tips Park rose Nine 3-1; Triple Crown Won By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Sporti Editor Champions will come and champions will go. The years ahead will be lean or pros perous. But, the academic year 1959-60 will be long, long, long remembered - it will not be forgotten - in retrospection on Medford High school athletic feats. Don't spare the superla tives. You need them all to describe the magnificent, peer less Black Tornado, titlisU during this school year in three major Oregon high school sports. They did it - those gifted resolute and bold - spirited baseball players of Medford with triumph by 3 to 1 over Park rose in Portland's Mult- no m a h stadium Saturday night in the state finale con flict, the Tornadoes rule Class A-1 banner bearers. Their championship, added to those claimed previously on the gridiron and on the maplecourt, completed the sought for "triple crown," an achievement which may re main unmatched - if at all It is equalled - for many years to come in Oregon prepdom s big school athletics. Rise To Occasion Thus was wrapped up and recorded in the annals a most memorable prep athletic year for this Metropolis of the Rogue - the greatest year an Oregon big school has ever known. Tremendous talent to rise up when the chips were down has been a 19G0 trait of the baseball Black Tornado. It blazed that knack again on Saturday as seniors Ray Kono pasck, Mike Parsons, Calvin and Lowell Dean, Ken Jen sen, Jerry Anderson and Wayne Thompson and Juniors Bob Quinney and Dick Rags dale - the cohorts of Coach John Kovenz - meshed their drills to tame the rambunc tious bucking Parkrose Bron chos. Medford's Class A-I mas ters of the diamond, with mighty-swinging Lowell Dean touching off the blast with his first round-tripper of the year, roused up from a one-run defi cit to overpower its Parkrose foe. Then twin brother Cal Dean and Ken Jensen sup plied with Lowell the further bludgeon strength for victory margin over the Cinderella Multnomah county team. Ironman Jerry Anderson. hurling six-hit ball, bore down successfully for the Tornado wnen me need most was pressing. Stellar and timely Holding play backed his pitching effort and breaks that worked against the Broncho's bolstered the Med ford triumph cause. Bronchos Tally Parkrose jumped to Its lone marker, an unearned tally, during its opening turn at bat. Lynn Alkman, first Bronc to heft a bat, lashed a scorching line-drive double to left field. Larry Kuhlman laid down a sacrifice bunt. Anderson field ed and zipped the ball but the hard throw bounced from the glove of second baseman Konopasek who was covering first. Aikman romped across home platter. That one - run lead grew more substantial ns the Tor nado went hitlcss tor three Delivered SP 2-5771 full innings against Parkrose chucker John Mahoney's of ferings. And, the heartened Bronchos from the bench con fidently were jockeying the Medford crew, Parkrose hopes rose further as Cal Dean filed out and Jensen grounded out in the Tornado's fourth batting turn. Then Lowell Dean severely and abruptly deflated the op position glee. He connected with a long, hard high fly that dropped over the high left field wall and into the stands. Dean rambled around the bases for a tying run on the circuit clout. The ball dropped over the wall between the left field 305-foot numerals and the 339 center distance, traveling some 330 feet. Cal Dean Triples In the sixth inning Cal Dean boomed a low fly smash to left center field and gained three bases on the swat. Jensen whammed the ball in the same direction scoring Dean, and putting the Tornado out in front. The ball bounded off the wall and Jensen had a double. Ho scooted to third base on a Mahoney wild pitch and scored when Lowell Dean sizzled a ground hit through second base and Into center field. That ended the scoring in the game. Medford bid for another run in the seventh frame when Quinney on third base and Ragsdale on first attempted a double steal. But Ragsdale was nailed in a rundown be fore Quinney could reach the plate. Quinney had been hit by a pitch, Konopasek had nicely sacrificed him to sec ond and Ragsdale had walked to set the stage for the effort. Big Parkrose scoring op portunities were snuffed in the fourth and sixth innings. Lawry Jacoby hit a sky high fly triple deep to center field In the fourth. He then dashed for home on a squeeze play try but batter Dave Chapman missed the ball. Jensen at first seemed not to notice Jacoby racing for the plate but turned and defty tagged the runner out. Pitches Out of Jam Pinch-batter Dan Kessler In the sixth inning was drop ped by an Anderson pitch that hit his head but was alright to lake his base. He was forced out when Aikman hit to short stop Ragsdale and second baseman Konopasek took the throw. Kuhlman line-singled sharply to centcrfield. Bud Hill plunked the ball safely into right field. A real terrific, sparkling throw-in by fielder Parsons prevented a run by keeping Aikman from ad vancing beyond third base. Then with the bases loaded and just one out (the possible winning run for the Broncs was on base), Anderson pitch ed himself out of a tense, for Medford, jam. He struckout both Jacoby and Chapman. That left the tail end of the order for Anderson to face in the final inning. In that frame Bill Hilts filed out but Monte Stoughton livened Parkrose chances with a single. How ever, Anderson whiffed Dick Sponhauer and pineh-hitter Dave Beatley. That ended the TRU-MDl I CONCRETE C? 3" MrANDREWS RD. U .. . TORNADO'S TITLE TROPHY Medford baseball Coach John Kovenz, left, and team Capt. Ray Konopasek are shown with the Oregon A-1 high school baseball champion ship trophy which the Black Tornado won Saturday night by defeating Parkrose 3 to 1 in Multnomah stadium at Portland. Kono games and the Black Torna does were the champs. Medford got all five of Us hits and runs off Broncho starting tosser Mahoney, who was relieved after being pounded so hard by the Tor nado in the sixth panel. Anderson, 9-1 for the sea son, going the route on the hill for Medford struck out eight batters. He issued no bases on balls but hit one batter. Mahoney struck out batters six times and walked one. Reliever Mike Seversons allowed one base on balls, hit a batter and struck out one The game marked the end of Medford high atletic ca reers of the seven seniors who saw duty in the championship game and for another senior, Pat McLaughlin, member of the pitching staff. Victory gave Medford a 26-1-1 record for the year. The one loss was to a strong Kla math Falls team which nipped the Tornado 3 to 2. Medford beat the Pelicans in three other games. Medford took a Southern Oregon conference playoff from Klamath 7 to 5 for the District 6 honors. The Tor nado beat North Eugene 5 to 2 and The Dalles 8 to 0 in championship quarter and semi-finals. - Coach Jim Cay's Parkrose crew was the underrated sur prise aggregation of the state A-1 playoffs. The Broncos, champs of the Wilco league, wilh a 14-2 record before meeting Medford, would have written a stirring story them selves, had they upended the Black Tornado. Parkrose spilled Wilson of Portland 6 to 1 and nipped Hillsboro 9 to 4 in runoff tussles. Bronchos Threaten And, it looked for a con siderable while Saturday, as if the Broncs might outbuck the Black Tornado. For Anderson, the Deans, Quinney, Barry and Ragsdale there is the distinction of playing on all three 1959 1900 state title teams. Kono pasek and Jensen also were three sport letterman for Medford. Konopasek was on the state title grid club and lettered as a junior in basket ball. Jensen won a basketball monogram this year but was not on the state tourney hoop rosier. It was actually "triple- crown plus" during "that fab ulous Medford year." For not to be overlooked Is the state tennis doubles diadem won by Gary Cummings and John Shaw. ! Mrrttord An R II PO A E RlKc!ale, ss .... 2 0 0 2 3 0 C. Ucnn. 3b .... 3 1 1 0 0 0 Jensen. C ...... 3 11 9 10 I.. Drnn. Ih .. 3 1 2 7 0 0 Anderson, p .... 3 0 1 0 4 0 Hantons, rf .... 3 0 0 0 0 0 (jtiinnry. cf . .. 2 0 0 1 0 0 Konopasek, 2b 2 0 0 2 1 1 Thompson. It 3 0 0 0 0 0 Totals .... 21 3 S .1 I 1 Parkrose AB R II PO A 1 1 0 Aikman. rf 3 Khulman, ss Hill. 2b Jarnbv. If 1 Chapman, lb u tuns, ci Slough ton, c . Sponhauer. 3b Mahoney. p .... lat Kessler Severson. p (b lleatkey , Totals 14 t 8 21 S (at lilt by pitch for Mahoney In eth. (b) Struck out for Severson In 7th. Medford Parkrose 000 102 03 lqo ooo oi Huns hatted in Jensen. L. Dean 2. Two-base hits Jensen. Aikman. Three-base hits f Dean, jacoby. Home run L. Dean. Sacrifices Konopasek Kuhlman. Hills. Left on bases Mettfoid 4. Parkrose S Strikeouts Hy A nderson H. Ma honey fl, Seversnn 1. Uise on balls Off Mahoney 1, off Severson I. Five hits and 3 runs off Mahoney In A Innt'tits Earned runs Medford 3. Hit by pitched ball Quinney Ihy seversoni, Kessler (oy Anuer ohi. Wild pitches Mahoney, Severson. Passed ball Stmifthton Umpires, Howell, Lund, Class. , PI. AY BY PLAY I Medford first RaRsdalt walked i and advanced to second on had I pick off attempt throw hy pitcher i Slahon)'. Cat bean Hied out. Jtn- Lowell Dean's Home Run Turning Point in Tussle The real turning point was Lowell Dean's home run." That was the comment of Coach John Kovenz yesterday as he looked back at his Med ford High baseball team's 3 to 1 victory Saturday night in the Oregon A-1 championship final with Parkrose. Kovenz described the Black Tornado's championship a s "simply tremendous," "some thing great" and "still kind 6f hard to believe." The mentor pointed out that the players were tense and tight in the early innings of the combat. "When Lowell hit, everyone seemed to relax," he said. "They settled down and played good ball." Kovenz added, "It was more than scor ing a run. It was a relaxer for us. It was a morale lifter for us and deflated them (Parkrose) a bit." The homer was Lowells only one of the high school season although he had 10 other extra base hits. The ball cleared a 30 to 40-foot wall in left field. Kovenz said that Dean has hit five or six other sen struck out. Lowell Dean grounded out rkrnse f rrt Aikman doubled. miniman sacniicen ana piicner Andersons Hard tnrow nouncca from glove of second baseman Konopasek at first, Aikman scored, Kuhlman picked off first. Hill struck out, Jacoby grounded out. farkrose jea i to u. Medford second Anderson struck out. Parsons struck out, Parsons struck out. Quinney grounded out. parkrose second unapman singled, Hilts sacrificed. Chapman caught off base on Stoughton rap to shortstop, bponhauer strucK out. Medford third Konopasek struck out, Thompson filed out. Ragsdale fouled out. Parkrose third Mahoney grounded out, Aikman struck out, Kuhlman struck out. Medford fourth Cal Dean filed out. Jensen grounded out. Lowell Dean homered over left field wall. Anderson singled, Par sons struck out. Medford 1. parkrose 1. Parkrose fonrth Hill filed out. Jacoby tripled but out at plate when squeeze play failed, Ch Chap- man flied out. Medford fifth Quinney grounded out. Konopasek grounded out. Thompson filed out. Parkrose fifth Hilts fouled out, Stoughton filed out, Sponhauer grounded out. Medford ilxth Rnesriale struck out. Cal Ucnn tripled, Jensen doubled home bean and went to third base on wild pitch. Lowell Dean ninglcd to score Jensen and advanced to second on paised ball, Pnrsnns grounded out. Medford led 3 to 1. Parkrose sixth Plnch-batter Kessler hit by pitch. Aikman forced Kessler out, Kuhlman and Hill each hit to load bases, Jacoby and Chapman each struck out. Mrdfnrd seventh Quinney hit by pitch, Konopasek sacrificed. Thompson struck out, Rattsdalc walked. Kassaaie trappea in run down on double steal attempt. Parkrose seventh Hilts filed out, Stoushton singled. Sponhauer and pinch-hitter Beat key struck out. WILLIAMS NEAR S00 New York -IUPD- Ted Wil liams needs only five more homers to be the fourth player in major league history to hit 500 or more. The Boston Red Sox' slugger hit the 495th homer of his carcrr Sunday while the Red Sox bowed in a doubleheader to the New York Yankees. ASHLEY WINS JUMP Sioux Falls, S-D.-IWH-Ken Ashley of Willamette Univers ity won the high Jump in the national NAIA track and field meet here Saturday. Ashley went 6 feet, 7 Inches to win the event. Ashley was the only Oregon athlete to take a first place. STADIUM INQUIRY Los Angeles - (UPD - Richie Ashburn, Chicago Cub out fielder, said Sunday he Is doubtful that anything will come of a preliminary inquiry he has made about purchasing Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia. pasek returned home with his family after the game and Sunday morning placed the trophy ii the room of Ken Durkee at Rogue Valley hospital. Durkee was Medford's reg ular third baseman until injured seriously in an early April auto accident. . (UPI Telephoto) balls which have traveled Just as far this season. They were knocked, however, in an open park. Wouldn't Be Beaten "The, kids just didn't want to lose and just wouldn't be beaten," the coach also de clared. "We hit when it count ed and made good plays in the field." He credited the Tornadoes with sound defens ive and alert baseball and termed the players "a real group of athletes." Kovenz praised pitcher Jerry Anderson for a "gutty performance" when the bases were loaded against him in the sixth inning and he struck out clean-up hitter Lawry Ja coby and Dave Chapman to retire the side. "He had it in the clutch," the tutor said. "It was a great game for spectators," Kovenz also stated. Medford team captain Ray Konopasek reported that Parkrose pitcher John Ma honey had a good curve ball and "moved the ball around well to hold Tornado hitting, Ren fro Shines In AAU Action Portland-(UPD - Mel Renfro was back at his favorite past time again here Saturday night record-breaking. The Jefferson high school senior broke two Oregon Jun ior AAU championship track records in the high school di vision. Renfro set a new 120-yard high hurdle standard with a 13.0 seconds time in the pre liminaries and was clocked In 19.3 in winning the 180-yard low hurdles events. Clayton Steinke of South Salem and John Bakkensen of Grant also set new high school AAU marks. Steinke set his in winning the mile in 4:23.2 and Bakkensen hurled the discus 178 feet Va inch for a new record in that event. OUT OF HOSPITAL New York-OIPD-Casey Sten gel, itching to get back in har- ncss, will rejoin the New York Yankees Tuesday after being out of action for more than a week with a virus in fection. The 69-year-old Yan kee skipper was released from the hospital Saturday and spent Sunday afternoon watching his Yankees on tele vision from his hotel room. During Stengel's absence, coach Ralph Houk handled the club. Tuesday; June Immediately Following fmy Dale Carnegie nSt Hy Story" fit VI Featuring: Lowell Thomat j 1 J Mrs. Dorothy jf MEDrW0vfi&TKIBimi iP(U)nnr Stitch Dies Trying to Save Friend Louisville, Ky. - (UPD - Hard hitting Rudell Stitch, a top- ranking national welterweight contender, lost hit life in the Ohio river Sunday while try ing to rescue a fellow fisher man. Both the boxer and his 25- year-old companion, Charles L. Oliver, drowned in the swirling water below the Clarksville dam here. Stitch only last year was awarded the Carnegie hero medal for his heroic feat in rescuing a worker Joseph Schifccar of the U.S. Army Corps of En gineers, in 1958. Stitch, ranked No. 5 by the National Boxing association in the welterweight division, and Oliver had been fishing with Stitch's manager, Edgar Lee (Bud) Bruner and Bru ner's 19-year-old son, Edgar Jr., on a rock shelf below the dam. They had decided to quit and were heading back to shore when the accident occurred. Manager Watched Accident The elder Bruner gave this account of the mishap: "Rudell was leading the way along the rock shelf over which water flows continu ously. Oliver was following him and I was last. My son had stayed on the bank. Oli ver was leery of the rushing water and Stitch reached back to steady him. "As they clasped hands, Oliver tumbled off the shelf into the pool below, pulling Stitch with him. I grabbed for them, but I missed. "Rudell went down and stayed down a long time. It looked like he was trying to get the waders off. And then I saw them. It looked like everything was going to be all right for a minute. They were both swim ming toward shore. Then something happened. Oliver was struggling. He was hav ing trouble. Stitch turned back to help him and they both went under. That was the last I saw of them." Sugar Ray Favored 2-1 New York-IUTD-Sugar Ray Robinson is favored at 2-1 to recapture the New York and Massachusetts version of the world middleweight cham pionship from Paul Bender at the Boston Garden Friday night. Their 15-rounder, outstand ing fight on the week's box ing schedule, will be televised and broadcast nationally by NBC. Robinson, 39 or 40, lost the 160-pound title to Pender of Brookline, Mass., at Boston, on Jan. 22. However, a poll of ringside sports writers that night favored Sugar Ray, 10 to 5. Ben Hogan Ties In Golf Meet Memphis, Tenn.-IUPD-Match- less Ben Hogan pitted his 25 years of golfing skill against Tommy Bolt and Gene Littler today in a playoff round to determine the winner of the $30,000 Memphis Open golf tournament. A clutch birdie on the 18th hole at the Colonia Country Club Sunday earned the 48 year - old hawk from Fort Worth, Tex., a two-under par 68 and a 72-hole total of 273 for a tie with Bolt and Lit tler. 6 .1Vw.m. News, Weather, Sports Central Point Boys Vie in AAU central foint central Point youths gained four med als Saturday in the 15 years and under division of the Ore gon AAU track meet in Port land. Vern Swanson was second in the broad jump at 19 feet 9 '4, second in the 440-yard run in :53.6 and third in the high hurdles in :09.8. Darrell Summerfield was second in the shot put at 50-8 and fourth in the javelin at 151. No med al was given third place. Ron Caulkins, Medford, was seventh in the half-mile. Swanson's broad jump com pared to the winning leap of 19-10. There were several who felt he actually finished first in the hurdles. Dairy Maid Sine Again Splits Two Rogue Valley Dairy Maids divided a twinbill Saturday night with Port Angeles in the Washington city. The Maids grabbed the opener in regulation seven innings and Port Angeles nicked the southern Oregon gals 4 to 3 in an 11-frame nightcap. Pat Barron hurled five-hit ball in the starter for the Maids and was backed by er rorless fielding. Helen Wolga- mott supplied three hits for Rogue Valley and Shirley Hanson and Toni Owens each two. Both Barron and Eagle chucker Joanne Sundquist threw for the entire 18 inn ings. Barron had a four-hitter in the second game for a nine hit night. The Maids socked a total of 22 safeties off Sund quist. Winning run in the second game for PA was on a double by Sundquist and a Rogue Valley miscue. Charlotte Unruh got three hits for the Maids and Barron two. i.inf.scorks.- R. 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It all started with Seattle's release of veteran relief hurl- er Bill Kennedy and ended like this: Sacramento is oacK in first place, Portland has traded the cellar position to Roseburg, Eugene Top Stud Team Southern division play in Area 4 of American Legion Junior baseball begins on Tuesday evening at Cheney field here. Grants Pass will host Klamath Falls for an 8 p.m. encounter. Klamaths Falls has split non-league frays with Central Point and GP dropped one non-league to the CP Studs. South Eugene and Roseburg American Legion junior base ball nines trimmed the Cen tral Point Cheney Studs in Saturday and Sunday kings ex doubleheaders. South Won Sunday five in ning tussles 18 to 5 and 3 to 0 and Roseburg took Saturday decisions 6 to 1 and 3 to 1 in five and seven frame scraps Walks, hits and errors aided Eugene yesterday in the first mix and the host Willamette valley team had eight runs each in the first and fourth innings. But the visitors made it tougher in the second clash by tightening up their defense and getting five-hit pitching from Doug Pfaff. Roseburg got four of its runs in the first game at Cheney field here in the open ing canto on three hits, three bases on balls, two fielder's options and an error. In the second tangle Roseburg twirl er Hobbs held the Studs to two hits. Roseburg defeated Grants Pass 11 to 9 and 7 to 1 yester day in scuffles at Grants Pass, LINESCOI1KS: (Saturday tames) Roseburg 042 00 6 S Central Point 010 00 1 4 Lake and Hiney; Samples, Doug rialt i) ana j. Annorn. Roseburg 000 012 0 3 7 Central Point 100 000 01 2 Hobbs and Hlney; B. Anhorn and Alien, , (Sunday tames) Central Point 050 00 S 3 South Euffene .... Bit 8x 18 13 Gcttllng, P. Pepper (2), Samples (2). Harris (41 and Allen: Johnson, Kooertson (2) ana Myers. Central Point 000 000 4 1 South Eugene .... 102 Ox 3 5 1 Doug Pfalf and J. 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George Freese provided the home run punch to aid Port land in their wins when he smashed a three-run homer in the seventh inning of the first game and blasted a two-run clout in the first inning of the second contest. The first game blow put the Beavers out in front, 7-5, and they were never again headed. Portland added two runs in the second inning of the second game for their four tallies. Harry Byrd started on the mound in the Beaver nightcap and hurled two-hit ball until Kennedy was called in. Byrd was given the wia. Reliefer Bob Anderton gained the victory in the first game. GRELLE SECOND Whittier, Calif. - (UPD - For mer University of Oregon dis tance star Jim Grelle was sec ond again Saturday night. Grelle, runner-up to Austra lia's Herb Elliott Friday night in the Compton relays in a mile race, finished be hind Jack Yerman of the Uni versity of California in an 800 meter run in a Whittier Pre Olympic track meet. Yerman won in a time of 1:50.2 and Grelle was clc :ked in 1:50.4. 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