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Newspaper Page Textt B MOMUAr, Ai-Hll, lu, laol MKSFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD ORE. OTOPEBS BASEBALL CAMPAIGN Vhitc Sox, Washington In Fracas By ERNEST BARCELLA Washington - (UPD - Presi dent Kennedy, who brought a New Frontier to Washington ; last January, opened another today-in baseball. 1 This he did by throwing out ; ceremonial first ball lnaug v urating the 1961 major league baseball eeason. ' ; ; With that historic and tra ''..'. dltlonal toss, a new Washing- . ton baseball club made its de but. So did ; the expanded American league, which has nushed its own; frontier to Minneapolis and Los Angeles ' And so did Kennedy, whose athletic specialty Is catching softball and touch football. He made his bow as opening day presidential pitcher, YounoMt To Perform - At 43, the rookie rjght- hander became the youngest and ninth-chief executive to perform the honorary chore. A Republican, William How ard Taft, set' the fashion in 1912'. Every White. House oc cupant since has followed tutt. :. Vi.:. .' - - Kennedy did his pitching from the Griffith stadiu.m presidential box behind the first base line a few minutes before the new Washington Senators and essentially the same old Chicago, White Sox . met in the gun-jumping open er before a sell-OUt crowd of 27,600.,,: :-.--.,v . Then the President relin: 1 quished the pitching to two veteran - and professional -righthanders: 41-year-old Ear ly Wynn (13-12, the former Washington pitcher who has been the star of the White Sox, ' and 33-year-old Dick Donovan (0-1), the former White Sox hurler who has be come the standout - of the Washington pitching ataff. Fascinating Era Anticipated By Big League Commissioner By FORD C. FRICK , Commissioner of Baiaball - (Written for UPI) ' New York -MB- Within the next five years baseball will SF Giants Tussle Bucs San Francisco-(UPD-The San Francisco Giants were home from the exhibition wars to day - and Tuesday they start the battle for the National league 'pennant by meeting Pittsburgh. . -, Manager Alvin Dark's team closed out Its spring train ing Sunday by defeating Cleveland of the American league, 4-1, before 6,342 fans at Salt Lake City's Derks field. The Giants won 15 games and lost 11 during Grapefruit league play, but they Improv ed steadily as the regular sea son drew closer.- . Superior . pitching played the key role in both of the Salt Lake City games with Cleveland - but Sunday sharp fielding replaced the heavy hitting that gave San Fran cisco a 13-0 victory Saturday. The Indians, who were shut out Saturday, got only five hits Sunday. Jack Sanford al lowed one hit in four Innings, and Mike McCormick held them scoreless until he was relieved by Juan Marichal In the ninth. Centerfieldcr Willie Mays got all the runs the Giants needed in the first inning when : he rapped a two-run homer over , the left field fence. It was his fifth homer and 17th RBI of the training season. KfyiDEH Brown or Black Kef (2) For business or dress occasions . . . a handsome lighterweight with Guantone hand-stitching for new flexibility and elegance. Soft, supple leather . . . wonderful Freeman comfort. horf SHOE COMPANY "Southern Oregon's Oldest Shoe Concern" 221 East Main Street ' Phone SP 2-2123 experience the most fascinat ing era in its history. For approximately 50 years, baseball stood still while the nation was growing and ex panding around it. Then in 1982 came the first franchise shift to Milwaukee and we suddenly "discovered" that baseball had a few new horizons. This season, the American league has expanded to 10 clubs and, needless to say, it should prove an Interesting year. Next year the National league will do the same. What I am particularly In terested in, however, are the next five years. , , We are enjoying progress which eventually will result in, not two 10 club leagues, but expansion in some form to 24 teams by 1965. And with it must come the realignment of the minor leagues to ope rate in much closer, relation ship with the majors. ; ... What I feel is most impor tant at the present time is that we start thinking about the future, that we start pre paring for the future right now. ' Nwd Orderly Expansion It's time many of us in base ball stopped crying about what used to be and get ready to do all the things necessary for an orderly expansion to inose corners oi me map which want and can support major league baseball. I am often asked, "Where will we get the players to man these new major league clubs?" I'll admit it does take time. But with the . increased population- of the nation, we now have more youngsters by far playing baseball that ever before in our history.. There are 7V4 million young men between the ages of 8 and 21 who are playing on or ganized teams, properly coached, outfitted with prop er uniforms and equipment, And playing organized sched ules. . .- , That Is more than the total number of youngsters who lived in the United States in 1900. And that is the answer to that tired old cry that we can't get enough players and that there is a waning inter est in baseball. As for the minor leagues, within the next five years I should like to see the majors underwrite them as feeder leagues for talent. I think we will see the abandonment of the A-B-C-D classifications and their replacement with senior, intermediate and jun ior classifications, based pn population of franchise cities. . With 24 major league clubs, It would be necessary for each to have at 'least one senior mi nor league affiliate. The sen ior- leagues could be divided into groups of eight or six and play Interlocking sched ules. Senatp r s. Cubs Top Exhibition Circuits By NORMAN MILLER United Press International The new Washington Sen ators won the Grapefruit league championship and the Chicago Cubs wound up, with the -best percentage in the Cactus league, which proyes just one thing: Don't put too much stock in spring exhibi tion games. And if you need any more proof,, the New York Yank ees, favored to win the Amer ican League pennant, had the next-to-worst won-lost record of the 18 major league clubs as the exhibition barnstorm ing ended. The Yankees won 9 and lost 19. Only the Los Angeles Angels 4-9 had a poor er mark. . -.- Pittsburgh's world champ ion Pirates actually finished with . the best record for a club that played a full slate of games against major leag ue competition. The Pirates won 18 and lost - for a .621 percentage. The: Senatotrs, who played only 12 major league opponents, won 8 and lost 4 for .667. MEDFORDwlTRIBUNB iP(DiHnr 5-Team National Predicted By WARREN C. GILES President, National League Wxittan for UPI Clncirinatl-OJPD - The 1961 season very likely will be the last one In which our 86-year- old league will operate with eight clubs at least for some years to come. It seems almost a certainty that .these eight teams will! make up an ex tremely well-balanced league and any one of five teams ap pear to have a ' reasonable chance to win the pennant. In recent years'-1 have de rived a great pleasure from giving my pre-season observa tions through these UPI fa cilities because I have felt no qualms about "going out on the limb." My predictions for 'an Interesting and exciting season' have been made to look good by the perform ances of our clubs in staging hard-fought pennant ' races which the fans find so- enter taining. Devotees of National league Detroit Drops Ray Narleski Sarasota, Fla. - (UPD - Ray Narleski, who only a few years ago ranked as the Amor lean league's top relief pitch er, has been handed his walk ing papers by the Detroit Tig ers. . '''( . ' However, manager Bob Scheffing left the door open for a comeback by offering Narleski a chance to pitch for the Tigers' Denver farm club. The 32-year-old righthander said he would consider the offer. Narleski, who was attempt ing a comeback this serine after missing the entire 1960 season with a lame back, re turned to his Haddonfield, N.J., home Inst week when the Tigers refused to tell him whether he'd pitched well enough to regain his job. - Concrete & Equipment Dlvlilon el CSC Concrete Steel Corporation 248 E. McAndrews Road SP 2-5271 TRU-MIX CONCRETE FOR EVERY CONCRETE NEED Around the Home Industry On The Farm ..... n """""tinynn mmwm 20j baseball flocked to the parks in record numbers last year, neiplng the NL to set an all- time season attendance record of 10,684,963 paid admissions. and exciting race ue evaiv Prospects for an' interesting and exciting race are every bit as good as we eagerly await tne start of the 1961 season. I saw all eight of our clubs in action during the spring training season, and never have I seen more en thusiasm and genuine opti mism than was evidenced by our clubs this spring. The champion1 Pirates are confident they can repeat and nave u rjgni 10 mat conn dence. They, won the pennant and the World Series like champions last year, always rising to the occasion to win the "big game." Nevertheless, the Pirates have their work cut out . in defending their . title in a tough, well-balanced leaeue And they Know it! The Braves, uarainais ana Dodgers are just as confident they can win and, although not a great deal of "pennant talk" was heard around the Giant camp, It's no secret that the Giants feel they can go "all the way." A number of neutral observers share that opinion. That's why I said earlier that anyone of five clubs "ap pear to have a reasonable chance to win the pennant," The Keds, Cubs and Phillies aren't making any such claims, but all feel they have improved and, at this stage of the game, 1 feel certain they have. It is my deep-root ed feeling that from, first place through .eighth we could enjoy one of the tightest pennant races in the NL's 86 year history. The league . has been strengthened In recent years by an influx by 'outstanding young ball players. All of our clubs have brought along the type of "young blood" which makes for healthy competi tion both on, and among, Indi vidual clubs. . Major league baseball is on the threshold of a new era and now enjoys the greatest popularity in its venerable history. A total of 19,911,489 paid to watch American and National league games in 1960. , Interest is at an all-time peak, and the aggrcsiveness of our front office personnel and the players on the field, insures that National league baseball games will hold a great appeal for our faithful fans for a long time to come. Beavers Nudge Richmond Nine Homstead, Fla. (UPB - The Portland Beavers edged Rich mond 6-5 and 1-0 in an exhibi tion baseball doubleheader here Saturday. The wins gave Portland a 13-S record for the season. The Beavers had Sunday off. SUNDAY LINESCORES: (Game called end t of 5th, rain) Detroit,.- 200 00 2 1 1 Kamai City 012 003 S 0 Bruce; Regan (4) and Brown. Daley, Ban (4) and Sullivan. Win ner Daley. Loaer Bruce. HR Colavlto. Minnesota ......200 101 030 7 10- 2 Baltimore 200 000 000 2 S l Stobbi, Kralick (41. Moore (7). Plels (S) and Battey, Naraaon (8). Estrada, Walker (S) and Trlandoi, Zupo (7). Winner Kralick. Loier Estrada. ... .... (Game called end of 6th, rain) "- Washington '. .000' 000 0 3 ,2 Boston 000 222 S 6 3 McClaln. Woodeshlck (41 and Ma. honey. Muffett and Paglaronl. Los er Woodeshlck. .. . ' . . San. Fran. ......200 100 0014 8 1 Cleveland 000 100 0001 4 ( Sanford, McCormick (3), Mari chal (0) and Haller. Schmidt Locke, Funk (4), Allen (7) and inomas. winner aanford. Loser Locke. HR Mays, . , Los Ang. (N) 000 000 0202 5 1 San Diego 000 00) 000 1 4 2 iiouiax, uoiaen (0), warren (8) and N. Sherry. Lines. Harlan n and Naoler. Winner Golden. Loier norland, hh snider. ... Philadelphia ..101 001 001 4 10 0 rutsDurgn ....oui ooo ion 2 6 1 Mahaffev. Lehman. Farrell t1 and Dalrymsle. Witt. Gibbon (4). Cheney (7). Face (9) and Smith. winner Mananey. Loser Witt. nrt uauison. Dallas-Tt. .Worth (Amn. Assn.) UUU UUU 3UU 3 7 L.A. (N) "B" 000 031 lOx 5 9 Sorout. Hannah (8) and Rodsers. vTuiiaiiH, ju. anerry id), iewcomtM (8) and Camllll. Winner L. Sher- i-oser oproui. Aaron, Law Probable Stars in NL By FRED DOWN New York-fllPD-Hank Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves and Vern Law of the Pittsburgh Pirates were picked Sunday to be the individual batting and pitching stars of the 1961 National league season. . The selections were ma!de in a survey of 57 baseball ex perts, all of whom viewed the big league teams in action this spring. The UPI's board of ex perts, was made up of three writers or broadcasters cover ing each of the 18 team's in ad dition to UPI sports editor Leo-. H. Petersen and UPI sportswrlters Milton RJchman and Norman Miller, i ' Off Year ' - , The consensus of the ex perts was that 1960 was just an "off year", for Aaron but the culmination of Law's rise to stardom. Aaron, a two-time NL bat ting champion, hit only ,292 last season but the experts see him rebounding to enjoy a campaign more like the ones he had in 1956 and 1959 when he won titles. Hammerin' Hank hit .328 to win his first title in 1956 and .355 to win his second in '59. Law enjoyed his first -20- victory season in I960' 'and was vpted the Cy Young Award as the outstanding tna- jor league pitcher of th eyear. The experts apparently be lieve that he Will do every bit as well this year.; , Bearcats Snap Webfoot String United Press International Willamette snapped Oregon State's nine-game winning streak to highlight college baseball action in the state Saturday. The Bearcats nipped the Oregon Staters 3-0 in the., first game of a doubleheader at Corvallis.. The Beavers took the nightcap 8-4. Oregon and LInfield split a pair at Eugene. The Ducks won the opener 7-2 and Lin field the second game 9-6. In other play, Portland State walloped Oregon Col lege of Education 9-4 and 6-1 in opening Oregon Collegiate Conference : baseball action. Portland took a pair from Pa cific 12-3 and 12-10, Hum boldt State beat Southern Oregon twice 5-4 and 8-0 and St. Martin's and Pacific split twin bill. Pacific triumph ed 13-2 and St. Martin's won 11-1. STANDINGS EXHIBITION BASEBALL ' (Pinal) American League W. L, Pet. Washington 8 -4 .867 Boston 14 11 .500 Kansas City 15 12 .556 Minnesota 14 13 .510 Detroit ., 14 14 .500 Chicago .'. 12 14 .462 Cleveland 10 14 .417 Baltimore ..ll 16 .407 New York 9 18 .321 Los Angeles 4 9 JOB National League - W. L. Pet. Pittsburgh 18 11 .621 St. Louis ..16 10 .615 San Francisco.....: 15 11 .577 Chicago ...13 10 .565 Philadelphia 14 11 .560 Los Angeles 12 13 .480 Milwaukee 11 14 .440 Cincinnati 12 16 .200 LA Dodgers Await Phils Lo6 Angeles flJPD - A' rush of last minute activity mark ed today's return of the' Los Angeles Dodgers to the Coll-, seum on the even of the start Tuesday night of the 1961 baseball season. The activity Included specr ulation that manager Walt Al ston would name Spokane outfielder Carl- Warwick to replace ailing hurler Ed Roe buck on the roster. . Dodger -players arrived here Sunday night after play ing - split -squad exhibition games in San Diego and Long Beach., The Dodgers won the San Diego encounter against the San Diego Padres, 2-1, and beat Dallas-Ft. Worth, 5 3, in nearby Long Beach.. The Philadelphia Phillies; whom the Dodgers meet Tues day night in their National league opener, followed the local team into the Coliseum today for final workouts. Angels Bill Baltimore the right field Because oi ma Ballimore-UPD-The Los An geles Angels today hold their final workout before starting their first major league season Tuesday against the Baltimore Orioles. The warm up was to be held in Municipal - Stadium. The two teams clash Tuesday in Baltimore Memorial Stadium. Manager Bill Rigney's latest lineup fo rthe opener has for mer Albie Pearson slated for familiarity with the stadium's vast outfield. 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