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- BLIND STUDENTS Six students from the Oregon state school for the blind were over night guests in Medford last week, on their i way to the, California School for the Blind ; In Berkeley! to, engage in athletic competi-. tions there., THe. youths, ranging from 12 to 15 years - of age, took part in wrestling, -bowling and trick activities with blind stu ' dents in the ,. California school. They are pictured above at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Richardsoni Medford, where they were Extortioi Trial in la Resumes , Los Angeles -.(UPD -llhe de fense takes over todiy in the extortion - conspiracy trial of , underground boxing (boss Frankie Carbo and four oth ers accused of trying to gain control of a fighter by illegal means. I - The trial, which! sfcrted Feb. 21 has been rectssed for a week to give tha de fense attorneys time to pre pare their case. -.- i yU.S. District Judge .Ernest A. Tolin Monday blocked de fense attempts to free Catbo. He denied two motions byat torney William B. Beirne, me for. a directed verdict of W quittal and one for striking certain portions of evidence' from the record. ' .'." " ' Judge Tolin also refused pi order acquittal verdicts fa two other defendants, Frani Blinky Palermo of Philadel phia and Joseph Sica, Los Angeles. - - , x ', -( Carbo, Palermo, Sica, Tru man Gibson Jr. and Louis Tom Dragna are accused o attempting to get part oi ior mer' welterweight champion Don Jordan's contract by co:1 ercion. Basketball Fix Hearings To Resume Today New York-IUPD-Hearings in the case of accused basketball fixers Aaron Wagman and Jo seph Hacken were scheduled to resume today in felony court. Both men were arraigned before Judge Louis F. Wal lach last Wednesday. They were given a hearing two days later but another hearing was adjourned until today at the request of their attorney. .Wagman and Hacken were taken into custody March 17 on charges of bribing players from Seton Hall university and the University of Connec ticut to "shave" their teams point totals. i, Wagman has been held in $50,000 bail while Hacken has been free on $25,000 bail. Wagman's bail y-as set at a higher amour., because au thorities said they feared he might flee the country before his trial. BAKER SIGNS ;San Francisco-WPD - Defen sive halfback Dave Baker, who last year tied . for the NFL lead in pass : intercep tions, today signed his third contract with the San , Fran cisco Forty Niners. , featherweight Title Fight Saturday Night .New York - (UPD - Davey Moore of Springfield, Ohio, makes the third defense of his featherweight title against Danny Valdez of Los Angeles on Saturday night in a 15 round bout that is one of six word championship bouts be ing fought this month. The non-televised bout, pro moted by George Parnassus, will be staged In the Los An ' geles Olympic auditorium and finds 27-year-old Moore de fending against a 21-year-old opponent who was ranked No. 8;. in Ring Magazine's April ratings. In his two previous de fenses, Moore knocked out Hogan (Kid) Bassey of Nigeria iii 11 rounds and out-pointed Kazuo Takayama in Tokyo. Valdez has split his last six bouts, one of which was a knockout of Ricardo Gonzales of' Argentina. On experience and punching power, Moore is expected to be a solid 3-1 favorite. Benny Paret and Emile I V---v jI ve?iV ri , TT,. , ., .,.,. Giant Sensation Getting Shelled: In Cactus Casa Grande. Ariz. - fflPB - Juan Marichal is getting shell ed and the San Francisco man agement is scared. The rookie sensation of last year got his lumps again Mon day as the San Francisco Gi ants fell before the Los An geles Angels, 21-9, at Phoenix Marichal joined trie team late last year and compiled a 6-2 mark. Fifteen or possibly .20 victories did not seem put of his reach this. year. This spring, however, Mari- ihal has worked 19 innings nd compiled a 13.74 era. The carnage continued Mon, ay as he started on the hill r. San Francisco and gave up we earnea runs ana two un earned, tallies in five innings, Take Lumps , V Iddie Fisher and Jim Daf- falieach worked two innings ahdfi also' took their, lumps frori, the hit-happy Angels, whocollected 20 hits during toe afternoon. Thke guys who have bounc ed arlund the big leagues for manySeasons homered for the winnete - Del Rice, Steve Bil- ko ancVFaye Throneberry. ' Of stone solace to manager Alvin lark was the fact that the GiaVt sluggers continued their wm pace. Fenpet Alou belted two homers and Ed Bressoud one to lead a12-hit attack. - Maricha may have pitched his way but of the Giants string rotkion Monday. Ru mors havait that his place may be- talten by Billy Loes, who is" rersing Marichal's story this wring. Less ThW Effective . Loes, wha nas been an ex tremely hot li and - cold per former during.. his decade in the big timA has been less than effective during the past two campaigns with the Gi ants. . But he hasftown new tal ents this springjand appeared sharp again Moiday as he and Stu . Miller ' pi t c h e d. the Giant "B" team to a 8-0 win over the Chibajo ' Cubs "B" team at Mesa. I . Loes went fivV'frames and Miller thr.ee as tie game was halted after elghl innings', ed its Tacoma farh club here, ed its Tacoma fat;mrjlub here. Griffith's Saturday nimt wel terweight bout was trfc first of the championship gas this month. Others on tap at Joe Brown vs. Dave Charnlw on April 18, Paul Pender vsfcar- men Basilio on April 221Du- ilio Loi vs. Carlos Orti April 23 and Harold Joh! vs. Von Clay on April 24 With Madison Square den turned over to the ciqus. the at. Nicholas Arena h a boxing scene and Demy Moyer will take on Jorge nandez in a nationally-ti vised Saturday night card. Phil Moyer has a 24-4-1 p! record while Denny stan 28-3. Nunez is 18-3 and Fe nandez sports a 70-5-1 recorl largely compiled in Argei tina. In another interesting! match at Buffalo, N.Y., Mon-Wall day, Jackie Donnelly of Buf - falo meets New England light weight champion Tommy Tibbs. It's slated for 10 rounds with Donnelly a 2-1 favoriU- dinner guests Thursday evening. Members of the Medford Crater Lions furnished meals and lodging for the group and on their way back the Talent Lions club was to put them up for the one night stop. The boys are, left to right, John Stiers, Michael and Pat Mul vey, twins; Gary Taylor, G!orge Newberry and Harvey Twombley (on floor). .With the group was Roy Brothers, physical education teacher at the school, and Mrs. Brothers. Play Jack Sanford and Billy O'Dell were scheduled to pitch for the San Francisco Giants, who have now won 12 and lost 10 in Cactus League play. Grade School . Baseball Play Opens April 6 - Elementary school baseball schedule of the . Medford school district opens Thursday with counting games in two of the three leagues and prac tice tangles in the other. Rogue Valley league action will see Lincoln' at Lone Pine and Ruch at West Side. In the American circuit Howard will go to Griffin Creek and Oak prove to Jacksonville.. ' The National league's warm ups are Wilson at Hoover, Roosevelt at Jackson and Washington at Jefferson. Five Inning Gam Games will start at 4 p.m. during the season except for a' 3:30 p.m. time for tussles at Ruch. . Teams are to play five in ning games on diamonds with the bases 75 feet apart and the pitcher's mound 50 feet from home plater Nine-inch sof tballs will be used. Although games are sched uled for five innings, no in ning is to start later than one hour from the time the game begins. Tie games are excep tions to this rule. Minor Events Change Top ABC Action ' Detroit- (UPD - Minor events bowlers provided, the major changes at the American Bowling Congress tournament Monday as play resumed in all divisions. In team play Monday night two classic division clubs, the Grand Rapids Gravel team of Grand Rapids, Mich., and the Edmonds club of Detroit, were off to poor starts. Joe Morys was the only Ed monds bowler to get over 600 with a 843 as his team opened with a 2869 series. The Grav el club had 2785 and also only one bowler over 600 as Carl Rozema totaled 616. The best regular team score was a 2845 by the Vosinet Garments of Columbus, Ohio, paced by William Keethler's 611. During the afternoon's ac tion , Chuck Wintersteen of Hammond, Ind., took third in classic singles with a 673 and Everett Mackey of Paines ville, Ohio, fired a 684 to tie for fifth in regular singles. MOYER STOPPED New York Phil Moyer of Portland dropped a middle weight fight to Puerto Rico's Obdulio Nunez here Monday night when a doctor halted it at the end of the eighth round because of a bad cut over Moyer's left eye. Rainfall in Portland Fails To Set Record Portland (UPD March rain- in Portland did not set a Vecord. Portland had 8.28 inches of ain during the month, corn ered to a normal of 4.15. But March of 1916 the city had IJ7 inches. BrORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD, ORE. etroit Sees Hope f Finishing Above Al, Second (This V another In a series on the 1911 proipicii of the major leakie teams.) Br LE PETERSEN UPI Sjbrti Editor LakelandYla.- (UPD. -There are a lot of nVv things about the Detroit Tiers this year and they hope ftat all of them put together willeet them out of he American lelgue's second division. Their new maWer, Bob Scheffing, thinks hey will, He's counting on a bt of new players to give the Tigers the impetus they need b better their sixth place finis in the second division, Scheffing can afford to go with youth because heVhas a two-year contract. It wk the first time since 1938 tha the Tigers, who went througlsix managers in the last tlree years, have given a manager a two-year term since Miclpy Cochrane in 1938. When Col rane was fired in August U that year the Tigers decld to limit managers to one-ye documents. But to get Scheffing the; had to go for two, and Schef fing is sure the club will not be sorry. Goes With Rookies Because of that long-term protection, Scheffing has de cided ' to go along with two rookies as regular infielders Jake Wood at second and Steve Bores at third. He also is counting on pitcher Phil Regan, brought up last season, and such newcomers as center fielder Billy Bruton, catcher Dick Brown, infielder Chuck Cottier and pitcher Terry Fox. Al! were obtained In trades. There are other rookies who have a chance of sticking with the club, too. . .. George Thomas may win an outfield utility berth, Bubba Morton may make it as a re serve infielder and outfielder, and pitchers fighting for the two vacant spots on the hurl ing corps. , , i . The corps is led by starters Frank Larry (15-15), Jim Bunning (11-14) and , Don Mossi (9-8). Paul Foytack, who seems recovered from the shoulder , trouble which re sulted in a dismal 2-11 record last year, Bob, Ruce (4-7) and Regan are the other starting candidates. Regan won nine games at Denver last season but dropped four when he re ported to the Tigers late iri the season. ' Fox, 12-9 with Sacramento, will be in the bullpen together with Hank Aguirre (5-3). Leaves Club Veteran Ray Narleskl, who was on the disabled list all of last season with arm trouble, has left the club and said he would not return un less the Tigers assured him a position on the team. . That leaves two pitching spots vacant. Donohue, who had an overall 11-9 record with three Triple A clubs last year; Grzenda, 4-5 at Birm ingham; Seyfried, 12-9 at Den ver, are among the prospects. So is Bill Fischer, who was 8-8 with Washington and De troit last year, -. .-. Wood, who hit .305 at Den ver, will take over for Frank Boiling, traded to the Mil waukee Braves, at second. Boros, who hit .317 at Denver with 30 home runs and 119 runs batted in will be at third. Norman Cash, who hit 18 homers and drove in 63 runs with a .286 batting average, will be at first and Chico Fer nandez .241 at short. Scheffing isn't satisfied with his shortstopping and has tried Cottier, one of the players ob tained in the Boiling deal at short. He has played second and can do the job with the glove but not with the bat. Scheffing will start the sea son with Fernandez, however, in the belief that he will help to correct Wood's faults, which include making the double play, at second. Larry Osborne, up from Denver where he hit .342 with 34 homers and 119 RBI's, has been hitting well and may be kept as a reserve first baseman.- The other utility Infield men may be the veteran Dick Gernert and Ossie Virgil. Outfield Good ' Bruton will be in center flanked by Al Kaline, who has been hitting the ball hard in the Tigers' strong showing this LAWN MOWER SHARPENING Small Engine Repairing Parti and Service for Brigg Stratton . . . Clinton . . t lauson . . . and Others BIG Y FEED & SEED CO. 1948 Pacific Hwy. North Division spring in right and Rocky Col avito in left. Bruton hit .286 with the Braves while Kaline slumped to .278 and Colavito to .249 in 1960. But they could give the Tigers one of the best outfields in the league with Charley Maxwell ready to step in at any time. Thomas, who hit .283 at Birmingham, will win a reserve -post and so may Morton, a .296 hitter at Den verr Brown, who was with the White Sox and Miami last year, will be the No. 1 catch er with Harry Chiti, obtained from the Athletics, and rookie Mike Roarke, who hit only .255 in Denver, In reserve. In addition to the. manager and players the other things new about the Tigers are a new owner, a new name for their Detroit park and new uniforms. And starting with 1961, Scheffing believes . another new thing will be a first divl sion finish. It could well be In the expanded 10-team league, but the Tigers do not figure in the same class as the Yankees, Orioles, White Sox and In- ians. ,- , ., .. diamond Club 'ill Be Fielded t Happy Camp appy. Camp, Calif - Hap py vamp will field an organ ized semi-pro -baseball team this ear after being idle since 1953.1 According to Howard Nev- Ins, nbnager for the local club, airanchise has been ob tained fa the Northern Cali fornia lkgue. A meeting was called fa all interested play ers and sionsors March 28, in which oftcers were elected and business was discussed. The new 4am will be called Happy Can "Braves." - Dave Tins was elected di rector; Don link, alternate di rector; Nevnk, manager; Mrs. Nevins, secretary - treasurer; Charles Rus&ll and Milton Kevershan, liard members representing ponsors, and Frank Looten, Bternate board member. Nevins reporad that spon sors had been cVoperative in donating money toward the franchise purchase and ' the cost of the nev uniforms Sponsors he named were Log Cabin bar, Evans Mercantile store, V & K Loggmg, Wag on Wheel Bar, wes uigley log ging, Union StationV Happy Camp Auto and riohe sup ply, Chevron stationAAlice's Gift shop, Del Rio heater, Happy Camp drug, Happy Camp Liquor store, SVaim's Standard plant, HillsidS re sort, ' Ealy's supermarket, Three Rivers Gas Co., Bib's Shell service, Buckhorn lodge and Siskiyou mills. Five In League According to Nevins thi will be five teams in tl league, composed of Scoi Valley, Dunsmuir, M o u n Shasta, and Yreka and Happ; Camp. The season will start June 4, although Happy Camp drew a bye for the first week. Final game will be Aug. 13, concluding a 10-game schedule which includes two byes. This is the first time Happy Camp has entered the Nor Cal league. However, in the six years that the local club was in the Siskiyou County league, it was alway a top con tender. The first year, 1947, that a team was fielded the Happy Camp "Indians" won first place . over six other teams. In 1948 it lost first place in the final scheduled game, and finished second The team was idle in 1949 and again played in 1950 through 1953, it could never quite reach '.he top. but never fin ished lower than third place. FIGHTS By United Pren International 1874. Puerto Rico, stopped Phil new I o r k uuuuuu nunc., Moyer, 153, Portland, Ore. (8) Buffalo. N.Y. Jackie Donellr, 136. Buffalo, outpointed Tommy Tibbi, 128, Boston liui. T o k y o Maxao Condo. 161V. Japan, k nocked out Fumlo Kalzu Japan (2). Chlcaio Billy Bragg. 137 14 .Mil waukee, outpointed - An Wllburn 138, Galeiburg. (8) Willie Weatbrook, 138, Chicago, outpolnt- ed T, J. Joeg, 149, unicago ibi. , Ann ftf-anH.rn Hank 'Casey. 139. San Francisco, outpointed Eddie Andrews, lsi, ias vegas, Nev. (10). . SP 3-3160 Minnesota Orlando, Fla. - (UPD - There are -many baseball people who feel, the old Washington Sen ators' fifth place finish last season was a flash in the pan and that as the Minnesota Twins they will not do as well in the expanded Ameri can league in 1961. .Neither Manager Cookie Lavagetto nor President Cal vin Griffith agree. They think the club is on the way to bet ter things and are counting on the enthusiasm of the fans in Minneapolis and St. Paul to aid them to help them climb higher in the standings. Griffith, more optimistic than ever, predicted the club could finish as high as second. But Lavagetto isn't aiming that high. He realizes he has more problems to solve than the clubs which finished ahead of him last year and lets the matter of where he might fin ish in 1961 drop with the reminder that had it not been for late season injuries to key players the team would have finished fourth. In their surprising finish last year the Senators solved one of their problems-catch ing. They obtained Earl Battey from the Chicago White Sox and . he now is classed as among the best in the league. Pitching, Shortstop Problems But they still have two vital problems - shortstop and pitching. Shortstop is concerning La vagetto the most. He is count ing on Zorro Versalles to do the job. There's no doubt about his fielding but there is considerable doubt about his hitting. He hit only .133 with the old Senators in 15 games last season after bat'.ing .278 at Charleston with eight home runs and 50 runs batted in. If Versalles doesn't make the grade the spot will fall to Jose Valdivielso, a fellow Cuban who hasn't done the job in the past. He's a good glove man but weak hitter, batting only .213 last season. The rest of the in,!ield will PLAYOFF STARTS Portland-(UPD-The Portland Buckaroos open a best three-of-flve hockey playoff series with, the Spokane Comets here tonight. 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Despite two injuries, one of which was responsible for his $40,000 Steal Pulled by NY St. Petersburg, Fla. - (UPU -Credit the New York Yankees with at least a $40,000 steal. How does that figure? Last fall the Yanks threw pitcher Duke Maas into the player pool to stock the two new clubs at Los Angeles and Washington, and the Angels plucked the durable right hander for the going price of $75,000. Monday, the Yanks, hurt most by the player draft, got Maas back from the Angels in an even-up swap for short stop Fritz Brickell, excess baggage as far as the Yanks were concerned. Figuring Brickell's value on the open market at $35,000 at the most-the Yanks made new general manager Roy Harney's first deal a highly successful one. Owners Acclaim Chevy Hare's what Mr. W. F. White, Rr. 1, Box 277 A, Rogue River, Oregon, lays about hii new Chevrolet Corvair: "This Is my seventh new Chevrolet and my second new Corvalrt I have a Medford Mall Trib- .. une route and make 340 stops per day. I have automatic transmission, and with all the idling and stopping,. I average 21 miles per gallon no oil consumption. Good solid body no rattles. It's juit perfect. Easy riding, perfect handling. If I had a million dollars, I'd still drive a Corvair, No antl-f reeza. Perfect balance, no nose dive', and the service I get at Courtesy Chevrolet Is tremendous."' ' Adv. TUESDAY. APRIL slow start, Killebrew hit 31 home runs and batted in 80 runs with his .276 average. Gardner hit .257 and Bertoia, playing regularly for the first time, .265. - . Bill Consolo, the Boston Red Sox castoff, and Don Mincher, who hit .306 at Charleston, figure to be the infield reserves. Ramos, Pascual Aces Pitching becomes a problem after starters Pedro Ramos Ul-18) and Camilo Pascual (12-8). Pascual, considered one of the best right handers in the league in 1959 when he won 17 games for a last place club, hurt his arm late last season and there is some con cern over whether he has re covered completely. Pascual thinks he has. For starters behind them Lavagetto has high hopes for John Kralick (8-6), Chuck Stobbs (12-7), Don Lee (8-7), Jim Kaat (1-5), Fred Bruck bauer, (4-5) at Charlotte, and Ralph Lumen ti, (5-10) at Charleston. .- , The veteran Ray Moore fig ures to be the top relief man. Other hurling candidates in clude Paul Giel, tha former 4. 1961 A , 1 Minnesota football - star" who was 2-0 with the Pirates and 0-3 with Salt Lake last sea son; Ted Sadowski,' 8-8 at Charleston and Jerry Arrigo. 8-1 at Clinton. - It doesn't add up to a staff that is going to scare a lot of batters. Along with Killebrew' and Battey, the Twins look for power from two of their out fielders - Jim Lemon and Bob Allison. . ; ' . Lennie Green, .294 last year with five homers and 33 RBI's and Dan Dobbek, who hit 10 homers and drove In 30 runs with a .218 average, ara the centerfield candidates. Buy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS PHONE SP 3-4575 Corvair! 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