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THURSDAY, AUGUST SS, I960 2 C. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. olympi c games m PRES DENT eras MI Teams From 85 Countries March in Stadium Parade By LEO H. PETERSEN UPI Sports Editor Rome-flJPI-The XVII Olym piad opened today with pomp end ceremony which would have pleased the caesars. Giovanni Gronchi, president of Italy, declared the games open. It was a sweltering day but 90,000 spectators were jammed into the white con crete Olympic stadium. A glittering parade of 85 competing nations - featured the traditional opening cere mony. The statues of ancient Rome were visible at almost every point of the compass and, striking an incongruous note, helicopters whirled over head and occasionally dipped 1 into the stadium until they I nlmost touched the emerald field. i A patient crowd began ill lng into the stadium three hours before the ceremony commenced. It was a gaily clad throng, with the reds and yellows so dear to the Roman heart predominant. Bands Entertain Crowds Military marches played by six bands seated on the upper tier of the flag-lined ramparts entertained t h e spectators waiting for the games to open One spectator displayed im patience. Shirtless, he leaped over the narrow moat separat ing the spectators from the brick-red running track, and sprinted a full lap, pretending to breast the tape at the finish line. He still had enough en durance to escape police and leap back over the moat to disappear into the crowd. Gronchi arrived and the throng sent up a roar of greet ing which echoed into the hills sloping jp from the banks of the Tiber. Then the parade of the na tions began. Greeks Lead Parade By tradition, the first learn was the Greek squad with Crown Prince Konstantin bearing the blue banner with the while cross. This was the nation which founded the Olympic games. The crown prince is a helmsman on the Greek yachting team. Then, marching in exact precision, through the afternoon heat came the olher teams in alpha betical order. The usual complaints of an Olympic village were heard since athletes began arriving in Rome but an attitude of peace and calm prevailed as the games which will run through Sept. 11 began. Even an anticipated traffic jam that was supposed to have been the greatest seen in Rome since the days of Ben Hur was reduced to little more than a ride in the country. And the thousands of tour ists who were to have been turned away at the gales of Rome due to lack of accommo dations, were being escorted to some of the better hotels in town by hawkers on motor-cycle-at the airport, on the highways and at the railroad Rtntions. Has Rooms Available The Olympic Housing bu reau reported it has many more rooms available in pri vate houses than.it has takers. The Roman Tourist bureau revised downward its esti mates of Olympic visitors from 100,000 to 49,000 a day. One thing seemed sure. The gloom casters had scared away thousands of native Romans and many potential tourists from the Olympic Games. The scarcity of visitors was one reason for the easy flow of traffic throughout Rome. Pittsburgh, Yankees By MILTON RICHMAN United Press International Keep an eye on Brooks Rob inson of Baltimore because you're looking at a soon-to-be batting champ and quite pos sibly the finest third baseman since Pie Traynor. That's the word from Paul Richards and Casey Stengel, a pair of experts who aren't easily impressed. The 23-year-old Robinson backed up both their opinions Wednesday night when he tripled with the bases full and played his usual naw.ess game afield in a 9-2 victory over Detroit that snapped the Tigers' seven-game winning streak and boosted Baltimore back into a tie for second three-run triple off loser Bob Brace highlight ed a five-run second inning rally, eased the way for Jack Fisher's ninth victory and helped the Orioles stay within JVs games of first place. In addition to his triple, Robin son also collected a pair of singles that Increased his bat ting average to .304. Those three hits gave Rob inson a season total of 143, second in the league only to the 147 collected so far by Al Smith of tht White Sox. It appeared, said the ex perts, that the Rome engineers had produced the traffic en gineering "miracle" that al most no one expected. Work ing at a white-hot pitch for the past two months, Rome s traffic experts virtually turn ed the 2000-year-old city up side down. They made prac tically every street in the city, and the bridges across the Tiber, one way. -They all but abolished the left-hand turn, and they developed under passes and traffic islands so that traffic flows in circles, and intersections are kept at a minimum. Bevos Split With Seattle By PETE CQLEMAN United Press International If there's a race in the Pa cific Coast league anymore, it's gotta be for second place where Tacoma, Salt Lake and Seattle are waging a three team war. The Giants from the Puget Sound country hold slim edge at the., moment,' being a game and a half in front of the third-place Bees and three and 'one-half In front of the fourth-running Rainlers. , All three clubs notched vic tories in "Wednesday night's p 1 a y although Seattle's 7-5 win over Portland came in the second game of a double header after the Beavers had won the opener, 4-0. Tacoma breezed by San Diego, 6-1, and Salt Lake whitewashed Sac ramento, 4-0. . . . ' In the other game, league leading Spokane stayed seven games ahead of the pack by downing Vancouver, 10-3, Seattle's second game win came only after the Beavers capitalized on three Rainier errors In the ninth and threat ened with three runs. Lefty Don Rudolph came on in relief of starter Ray Rippelmeycr and put out the Portland fire by getting Jerry Mason to pop up and Bill Wilson to strike out with the bases full. . ... Joe Taylor had a two-run homer for the Suds. In the opener, il was all spinning a two-hit shutout and Pete Gongola driving in three runs with two hits. MNKSrOHKS: . fist name 7 Innings) Portland Oil 200 04 11 0 Seattle 001) 000 00 2 I Byrd anri Gnnanla: Wiennd. Bea- mon (5), Martin (7,), and Zimmer man. f2nd came) Portland 000 002 00., S fl 4 Seattle 000 .120 OOx 7 12 fi Mlckelsen. McMtnn (4). Euan (7) and Gongola; Rlppclmeyer. Ru dolph 10) and Zimmerman. San Diego ... 010 000 000 1 0 1 Tacoma 012 020 lOx fi 9 0 Reed. Hobauch (3). Brant ev m. and Carreon; Fisher and Haller. Salt Lake 210 100 00O 4 0 0 Sacramento ... 000 000 000 0 .1 1 Parsons and Sllvera; Brown. Wat kins (6), Greene (0) and Barragan. Vancouver - 000 030 000 3 8 1 Spokane . 010 041 04x 10 11 1 Gtllick. Relinsky (31. Causey 18 and Neal; Scmproch and Sadowskl. FIGHTS By unlttd Press International Chicago Gene Gresham, 134, Detroit, outpointed Leroy Jeffery, 130. Detroit (101. SOFTBALL TOURNEY Salem - UPU - The Oregon State Men's Softball associa tion tourney opened here to day, with Randall's Chuck Wagon of Salem seeking its third straight title. Teams were here from Eugene, Le banon, Springfield, Corvallls. Mt. Angel, Oregon City and Albany. "Barring a mishap, Robin son will win the batting title within a year or so," Richards says flatly. "He might have even done il this year had he not hit in such bad luck ear lier ihis icisun.' Lauds Defensive Play Stengel's rhapsodies over Robinson concern his defen sive brilliance al third base. ' I've been around a long time, but I've never seen any one make the kinda' plays this kid docs." Casey declares. "I saw Traynor - and he was the best. Robinson is almost up there with him though." Stengel guided his Yankees to a 3-2 victory over the White Sox Wednesday that enabled them to retain their Ameri can league lead. The Athletics beat the Senators. 6-4, and the Indians topped the Red Sox, 31. in other AL games. The Pirates upped their Na tional league lead to 7',j games with a 10-6 win over the Cubs while the Dodgers defeated the second place Braves, 5-3. The Phillies beat the Cardinals. 5-3, and the Reds downed the Giants, 3-2, in 11 Innings. Art Ditmar won his 13th of the season and sixth straight for the Yankees al though Luis Arroyo had to THREE PORTLANDERS Carl (Bobo) Olson, Eddie Machen and Danny Rodriguez, all of Portland, are shown chatting during one of Machen's training sessions in Seattle. Machen is preparing for his important sipiHnr Broncos Reach Into Canada for Players Editor's nott: Th follow ing is the stcond of 21 dis patches sizing up tht pros pacts of teams in the Amer ican Football league and the National Football league. By GENE MEAKINS United Press International Denver, Colo. - IUP1I - The Denver Broncos have added something new to professional football in this country - now the players are coming, from Canada. Bob Howsam, president of Denver's entry in the new American Football . league, went right to Canada for his head coach, Frank Filchock, and his general manager, Dean Griffing. Since then, Fil chock and Griffing have been bringing in talent from the professional league in Canada, The Canadian league had plagued the old National Foot ball league for years by grab bing off a few American foot ball players. Lands Canadian Quarterbacks Perhaps Fllchock's best coup was the landing of a pair of veteran Canadian league quarterbacks, Frank Tripucka and Dom Dublinski, both of whom once played In the NFL. Both are 29 and ac complished passers. Tripucka, who will be the No. 1 man in the Bronco of fense, holds three Canadian league records for passing in a single season - the most thrown, the most completed and the most yardage. He played at Notre Dame and Dublinski starred at Utah uni versity. Among the experienced NFL performers who should help Denver are Al Carmi chad, an offensive halfback who played with Green Bay; Don King, former tackle with Cleveland, Philadelphia and Green Bay; Darryl Rogers, defensive halfback who play Win; Increase League Leads nail down the final out when the White Sox rallied in the ninth. Roy Sievcrs hit his 24th and 25th homers but Tony Kubek's 10th homer in the seventh inning off loser Herb Score turned out to be the winning run. Third baseman Reno Ber loia's fifth Inning error op ened the door for four un earned runs that helped the A"s to their victory over the Senators. Pinch hitter Hank Bauer singled home KC'i fin al two runs. Johnny Kuchs was the winner and Camilo Pascual the loser. Romano Homer Wins Barry Latman pi'.ched his first complete game of the season for Cleveland and battery-mate John Roman hit a two-run homer in the sev enth to beat Boston. Latman scattered nine hits and fan ned seven In winning his sec ond game. Tom Brewer suf fered his 11th loss against seven victories. Successive homers by Dick Stuart and Roberto Clemcnte in the ninth broke a 6-6 tic between the Pirates and Cubs. Both homers came off loser Don Elston. Don Hoak also homered for Pittsburgh. Elroy Tact picked up his ninth vie tosy in relisf of Vern Law. ed with the Los Angeles Rams, and local favorite Frank Ber nardi, who was brilliant at Colorado university and later played defensive halfback for the Chicago Cardinals. In ad dition, the roster is spotted with veterans of Canadian football. Rely on Youth Otherwise, Filchock and his two assistants, Dale Dodrill, one-time great middle guard for the Pittsburgh Steelers, and Jim Cason, former defen sive back with San Francisco and Los Angeles, will rely on youth, "The keys to a successful pro club are experience and leadership," according to Fil chock. "We feel that Frank Tripulcka and Tom Dublinski will give us the leadership and experience we need at quarterback. Blend these two with our potential young tal ent - such men as J. W. Brod nax, Louisiana State, Larry Cundiff, Michigan State, Aus tin Gonsoulin, Baylor, and Carl Larpcnter, Texas - and you have the ingredients for a hustling, entertaining club that figures to be a contend er." OSC FOLLOWERS IRKED Corvallis - Oregon State track and field followers are somewhat miffed about Dar rell Horn being left home when the U.S. Olympic team departed for Rome. Horn, an alternate on the squad, who just missed making the "big three'' by 1i inches at the final trial meet at Stanford, twice finished second and third once in Olympic team training meets thereafter. The third man on the squad, out with an injury, hasn't jumped for nearly two months, and yet they took him to Rome. What's more, Horn has beaten the second man twice. Frank Howard belted two homers and Tommy Davis and Wally Moon one each to help the Dodgers defeat the Braves behind Johnny Podre's eight hit pitching. Eddie Mathews set a NL record with a two run homer in the first inning. It marked the eighth consec utive season he had hit 30 or more homers, surpassing the previous record of seven held by Ralph Kiner. Bob Buhl, who failed to survive the fourth inning, was the loser. Rookie Art Mahaffcy of the Phillies won his third straight game without a defeat al though he needed relief in the eighth against the Cards. Doubles by Tony Curry and Tony Gonzales featured a three-run rally in the eighth that chased loser Lindy Me Daniel. Vada Pinion's 13th inning single scored Gordon Cole man from second with the Reds' winning run against the Giants. Mike McCormick went the distance for San Francisco and was charged with his nin th setback. Jim Brosnan. third of four Cincy pitchers, won his sixth decision. Frank Rob inson hit his 26th homer for the Reds. LINESCORrS: American Leaiu Chtcatn .... (ion inn 0012 New York 10C 000 10 1 heavyweight fight Sept. 7, with Sonny Lis ton in Sicks' stadium in Seattle. Olson, also training in Seattle, will fight Doug Jones in Chicago on Aug. 31. Rodriguez is Machen's trainer. , (UPI Telephoto) STANDINGS NATIONAL LEAGUE Pittsburgh 75 45 Milwaukee ........ 66 51 St. Louis 66 54 Los Angelej 64 53 San Francisco H 56 59 CincinnaU . 55 67 Chicago 46 72 Philadelphia .... 46 75 Wednesday's Results PcL GB .625 .564 7ia .550 9 .547 9'i .496 15;, .451 21 .390 28 .380 29 li - Pittsburgh 10. Chicago 6 CincinatI 3. San Fran. 2 (13 in nings Philadelphia 5, St. Louis 3 (night) Los Angeles 5, Milwaukee 3 (night) AMERICAN LEAGUE Pet. GB New York 68 48 Chicago 69 52 Baltimore 69 52 Washington 60 60 Cleveland 38 58 Detroit 57 61 Boston 49 68 Kansas City . 43 74 .386 .570 1 i .570 1 la .500 10 .500 10 .483 12 .419 lfl'i .368 25 !a Wednesday's Results New York 3. Chicago 2 Kansas City 6, Washington (night l Baltimore 9, Detroit 2 (night) Cleveland 3, Boston 1 (night) NORTHWEST LEAGUE W. Pet. .576 .533 .526 .493 .431 .431 Yakima 34 Tri-City 32 28 Lewiston 31 29 Eugene 30 31 Salem 28 34 Wenatchee 23 33 Wednesday's Results ' Eugene 12, Wenatchee S . Yakima 3. Lewiston 0 Tri-City 12, Salem 7 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet, GB Spokane ............ 80 Tacoma 73 Salt Lake 72 Seattle 70 Sacramento .... 66 San Diego 60 Vancouver 57 Portland 55 S3 60 61 64 69 .602 .549 7 .541 8 .522 10'i .489 15 .455 19',i .429 23 .414 26 78 Wednesday's Results Spokane 10, Vancouver 3 Salt Lake 4, Sacramento 0 Portland 4, Seattle 0 (1st game 7) Seattle 7. Portland 3 (2nd) Tacoma 6, Sao Diego 1 Local Sailboats Are Entered in Lakeside Event Medford Rogue Yacht club has been invited to compete in a Sailboat Regatta at Tenmile lake near Lakeside, Ore., dur ing the Labor day week end. Sponsor of the regatta is the Coos Bay Yacht club. Boats from the local yacht have been tuning up for the past week at Howard Prairie reservoir and are expected to be in top shape for the re gatta. Some of Oregon's best sail boat men will be competing in the numerous, events and yacht clubs from Eugene and Portland will be represented. There will be numerous class racing events and also an unlimited class race. Win ners will be feted at a ban quet Sunday evening. Score. Stalev (81 and Lnllar. njns. berg 18). Ditmar. Arroyo (9) and Howard. W I n n e r Ditmar (13-7). Loser Score (4-81. HRj Sievera (2), Kubek. Cleveland 010 000 200 3 10 1 Boston 000 100 000 1 9 1 Latman (2-5) and Romano. Brew er. Sturritvant (8) and Nixon. Loser Brewer (7-111. HR Ro mano. Kansas City 000 040 020 I J Washington ... 200 001 001 4 6 2 Kucks. Herbert 1 8) and Kravltj. Pascual, Woodeshick (7). Clevenger (9) and Battey. Winner Kucks (4 7). Loser Pajcuel (12-7). Detroit 000 000 0023 T' 1 Baltimore 050 000 40x t 1J 0 Bruce. Bumslde (2l. roytack () and Chltl. risher (9-91 and Trian do. Loser Bruce (2-4). National League PltUbirrgh 030 011 104 10 17 1 Chicago 000 030 300 S 10 3 Law, Green (7), Labtnt (7i, Fare (Si and Burgess. Oldis (9l. Card well. Schaffernoth i. Elston (Si. Drabowsky (9) and Thacker. Tappe (7i. Winner race (9-8). Loser Elston (6-7). HRa Hoak, Stuart. Clemente. (11 tunings) On 100 100 000 000 13 0 San. r ioo ooi ooo ooo o 2 13 0 OToole. Nuxhall (1). Brosnan (111. Bridges (13l and Bailey. McOor mick (11-91 and Schmidt. Winner Brosnan (S-2i. HR Robinson. Milwaukee 200 000 0103 S 1 L04 Angeles 020 120 OOx 3 t I Buhl. Willey i4l. Brunei 6i. Mc Mahon (Si and Crandall. Podre (11-Di and Ptgnatano. Loser Buhl (12-7i. HRs Mathews. Davis. How ard (2). Moon. Philadelphia 010 001 030 S 10 1 St. Louis . 000 002 010 3 J 0 MaHaffey. Short IB arid Coker Jackon. MrDamel igi and H Smith W l n n e r Mahalfey '3-0i Loser Jits son (14-111. HKa Walls, Taylor, Bayer. ' U.S. Netters Beaten In Doubles Test Chestnut Hill, Mass.-flJPD- The big team of Barry Mac Kay and Ron Holmberg was among the missing today as the , top teams settled down to business in the 80th Na tional Doubles tournament. Most of the seeded pairs survived Wednesday's third round play at Longwood Cric ket club despite a few scares. But Air Force veteran Mac Kay, the big Ohioan with the big serve, and the 22-year-old Holmberg, a Tulane graduate by way of Brooklyn, N.Y., were sidetracked in straight sets by the British tandem of Bobby Wilson and young Mike bangster. Wilson, . concentrating on his game and shunning any Burst of temperament,, and sangster, only is, posted a winning match score of 13-11, 8-6, 7-5, gaining strength all the way. Wilson and Sangster, the fifth-seeded foreign team, were to meet the No. 2 Aus sie combine of Rod Laver and Bob Mark in one of today's quarter-finals. The beaten duo of Mac Kay and Holmberg were third-seeded domestical ly. Aussies Neale Fraser and Roy Emerson, the defending champions and No. 1 foreign team, had little trouble Wed nesday in overcoming veteran Americans Gardner Mulloy and Billy Talbert, 612, 7-5, 6-4. The top-ranking women's team of Maria Bueno of Bra zill and Darlene Hard of Monlebello, Calif., o u st e d Carole Wright of Brooklyn, N.Y., 6-2, 6-4, to gain the semi-finals. i ITS' tv- Ll T . at your RENAULT fe9 dealer now! DEAN 6th 4 CV 1 960 Tornado Grid Hopefuls Turn Out in Record Numbers At Season's First Practice Oregon's defending cham pion A-l high school football team, Medford's Black Tor nado, might possibly be lack ing in some of last year's quality this season, but it certainly won't be lacking in quantity. A total of 103 grid hope fuls greeted head coach Fred Spiegelberg at the first prac tice session of the 1960 season Wednesday. Coach Spiegelberg, obvious ly amazed, said the turnout surpassed by far. last season's record turnout of 80 prospec tive players. Among those turning out yesterday were 31 returning lettermen from the high school's 1959 championship team.- Included in these are six starters - three offensive and three defensive. - The returning veteran start ers are, on offense, Dick Rags dale, quarterback; Dan Sieg, fullback; and Mike Hood, right halfback. On defense, they are Terry Earl, line backer; Jerry Winetrout, de fensive end; and John James, tackle. Graduation Victims The main problem facing Coach Spiegelberg at the out set of the season will be to replace last year's graduation victims. This will be a hard task indeed, as Spiegelberg himself pointed out. "We lost a lot of quality in those sen iors," he said. "We lost three terrific ends in Jerry Anderson, Lowell Dean, and Booth Deakins," he said, "two good left halfbacks, Skip Bennett and Ken Dur-kee-also the best safety in the here! I I 1 1 J & TAYLOR PONTIAC CO. & Grape DEALERS IN QUALITY AUTOMOWII PRODUCTS AAUPHtNf CARAVfUi Ptm TRUCKS PfUMOT SWAM AM STATION state-on defense." And, he added, "we lost the two best guards I've ever coached in Keith Berg and John Frohn mayer." Other graduated players which Spiegelberg said the team will sorely miss are Pat McLoughlin, center; Gordon Pathman and Dennis Jensen, tackles; Lynn Knight, punter; Leonard Grigg, halfback; Cal Dean, defensive linebacker; and Reggie Breeze, middle guard on defense. Although these losses will be felt throughout the entire team, Spiegelberg said "the line is where we're really go ing to miss them." Coach Spiegelberg had praise for this year's prospec tive gridders saying they seem "very enthusiastic" and "will ing to learn." But even so, "it is hard to replace ballplayers with experience," he added. Team Not is Good Spiegelberg said it is still too early to tell just where the team's main weaknesses, if any, will be. He did say, however, that the team will not be as good as last year's and that he hopes the rest of the state "will be down too." The Tornado's keenest com petition In the Southern Ore gon conference this season, according to Spiegelberg, will come from Grants Pass and Klamath Falls. He said that the Pelicans should be strong er this year. Spiegelberg add ed that Ashland and Crater cannot be overlooked either. The team will practice twice daily from now through next week with practices starting at 9:30 a.m., and 3:30 p.m. "fun drive" the sporty economy car, by Renault, of course Lt's the smartest new car on the roadl Smartly stjd... sports ear handling... sm.l ear economy (40 miles per gallon). Created with world -famous Renault craftsmanship, the new 4 -passenger Caravelle is now available in soft-top convertible, detachable hard top and hard-top coupe. It's the new style leader in today's import cars and prices start at only $2,495.00. Fun to drive, economical to operate. ..the Caravelle is the car you'll be proud to own. See it today at your Renault dealer. wsoetm, usr -af.o.t, sum wnotom Phone SP 3 - Spiegelberg said the squad will probably have its -first . scrimmage next Wednesday.. For the next few practices the team will be concentrat- ing on conditioning and funda mentals, he said, and will run . through some offensive plays to acquaint the newcomers . with the Tornado's system of football. Assist ing Spiegelberg in coaching duties this week are Paul Evensen, line coach; Tom . Marier, backfield coach; Dean, Benson, end and defensive ' coach; Frank Roelandt, John ' Kovenz and Art Keith, junior varsity coaches; Barney Riggs, Hedrick Junior high school coach; Bob Radcliff, McLough lin Junior High school coach';" and Cy Perkins. ' ; ENTERS $75,000 RACE '' Saratoga Springs, N. 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