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Newspaper Page TextB .art's Deal Pays Off As Kuenn Glouts Winning Hit Against Bucs Br MILTON RICHMAN -' United Pmi International " National or American league pitchers all look alike to ob livious Harvey Kuenn, a guy who probably ; would come through with a base hit if you woke him up in the middle of the night. . , , . ' Kuenn, owner of a .313 life time batting average, has made life miserable for Amer ican league pitchers during he past nine years. Now, in lis first season with the San Francisco Giants, he's already going td work on those poor Ai:?.OBKI SATC Pittsburgh's Bill Maz oskl is safe at the plate on the play at a Francisco- yesterday in seventh inning b all game against the Giants. Batter 1 Virdon grounded deep to Giant short- Izz cl LA tos Angeles - (UPC -, The rld champion Pittsburgh atet open a three-game e tonight with the Los ales . Dodgers, the - team rt experts pick to unseat n In the National league unt race this year, or the opener. Manager t Alston named his fire 1 hurler, Sandy Koufax, to i while Joe Gibbon was i to hurl for the Pirates, e Dodaers fell apart de "'y Thursday night In an 8-7 decision to the i Phillies after 1 tl C'rst two games ...ree errors led to the Los elet downfall with the ! miscue In the ninth in ' r nittlng the winning ijt e home. That error n ..- by pitcher Ed Palrri i and cost him the loss ' c. ;n;lng hurler, Dick 1, "icotted home when ilst overthrew , first' nqulst hurried his play he had plenty of time t the runner to first i his throw," Alston ob- 3 Bounces Vi!r5l0-3 ' Eugene-(UPD-Oregon's Ducks, collecting 19 hits, trounced Portland State 16-3 In college baseball here Thursday. Ed Davidson had four hits and Jim Cloutier and Pete Gumlna homered to pace the Duck attack. The win gave Oregon an 11-4 record. , linsscoreT' FortUnd State 100 002 000 3 8 4 Oreaon 321 303 BOX IS 19 0 Klein, Oray (31, Walla (7), Raise (T) and Hanson. Fetz (7)t Slmmona and Haroldaon. HcCliln (1). tro-daix CONCRETE Any Time Any Place Any Amount CwKfto t Equipment pHtWm e CSC Cmrete () CorswatiM S4S 1 McAiteJraw Road Phono SP 2-5271 . FRIDAY. APRIL 14. 1961 pitchers in the National league. - He picked on little Elroy Face, Pittsburgh's ace re liever, Thursday. . Kuenn lashed out with a 12th Inning line single that scored rookie Ferrell Bow man with the run that gave the Giants a 6-5 victory over the world champion Pirates. Pays Dividend - Kuenn's game-winning blow represented the Giants' first dividend on their winter, deal with Cleveland in which they gave up Johnny Antonelll and stop Ed Bressoud who threw to catcher Tom Haller, too late to nip Mazeroskl. Virdon was safe on a fielder's option. Umpire is Ken Burkhart. The Giants beat the Pirates 6-5 in 12 innings. (UPI Telephoto) Fanfare . Bob Shepard, Grants . Pass high youth who cleared-5-11 in the high jump last Satur day' in the Rogue relays, made the leap Just two days over a year after he under went open heart ' surgery. The operation was performed to make a heart valve func tion properly. It had never opened prior to the Burgery. . Track is not Shepard's first athletic activity since the op eration He participated in football and basketball ear lier In this school year, ac cording to our source of In formation, Jerry A c k 1 e n, sports editor of the Grants Pass Daily Courier. V Bob took part In the three sports In the seventh and eighth grades. A slight heart murmur was not thought seri ous enough to effect him at the time. A more detailed ex amination when Shepard was in; the ninth grade revealed that one side of his heart was not functioning as it should, A doctor advised Bob not to even bounce a ball off the wall .until the trouble had been corrected,! He had played n football and ) four games of ninth grade basket ball before the serious ail ment was discovered, VIE FOR FROSH Five members of Mad ford High school's 1980 Oregon Class A-l cham pionship baiaball team are on the University of Ore gon Frosh squad this spring. They are Ken Jen sen, Ray Konopasek, Low ell and Cal Dean and Jerry Anderson. Lowell Dean, who entered VO on a foot ball grant-in-aid, is lo turn to thai sporl when splng practice starts. Cal doubled 1 1 WllMe Kirkland to get him. "No matter ' what i league Kuenn goes to, he s a cinch to hit .300," said Frank Lane, at the time he made the deal for Cleveland, Lane has since moved to Kansas "City but what he said about Kuenn still goes. The 31-year-old ex- American league batting champion,' now playing third base for the Giants, has hit safely in all three games they have played so far. Rookie Jim Duffalo, who had' walked Dick Groat with the bases full in the 11th to By DICK JEWETT Mall Trlbuns Sports Editor , and singled against the var sity in a tussle last weak. GRID MENTOR SOUGHT Leonard Warren will not be coaching football next fall at Crater High' school and a new head mentor Is being sought by the school' district board. He is to continue as an instructor in American his tory.- .' - , : .. .Warren has been head grid mentor at the Central Point school since the fall of 1050, starting there the last year of Central Point High school. He served as head .basketball coach through the 1835-1956 season and has been -fresh man hoop tutor the past two seasons. Highlights of bis 11 seasons as grid coach were a victory over Medford In 1053 In the first meeting of the Comets and Black Tornado and four successive victories over, Klamath Falls. Our span of duty on the Mail Tribune sports desk co incides with Leonard s at Central Point and we have a high regard for him. He's been most helpful to us In providing information on his teams and games. END OF ERA , It's the end of an era In semt-pro baseball in south ern Oregon with the an nouncement that Drain will not field a team this sea son. The powerful Black Sox were the last surviv ors of a strong semi-pro cir cuit which operated under the designations of South western Oregon league and then Southern Oregon league. Members of the learn were some of the cream of college players in the west. In 1958 the Black Sox won the National Base ball congress champion ship. Ray Stratton, who has managed the Drain team, gave lack' of sponsors as reason for not having a club. Drain has withdrawn from the Oregon' State league and Lowell will take its place. LITTLE LEAGUE TRACK Little league baseball will have its counterpart in track and field in the Eugene area this summer, That is the re port of Art Litchman, ath letic director at University of Oregon. Art, a visitor in Med ford last Tuesday, said the Eugene Boys Athletic asso ciation, with which he is asso ciated, plans some 24 boys' track teams in the Emerald city and vicinity. Kun, Fisher Lead In Roping Contest Walt Kun and Bob Fisher last Sunday led competitors with a perfect head and heels catch In :17.5 in the Rogue Valley Ropers club first out side event of the season. The event was held north of Central Point at Upton and Wilson rds. Other draw partner win ners were Al Muse and John Zimmerlee :24.4 and Fisher and Muse :20. Choose partner winners were Muse and Fisher, :23.5, and Dick Perry and Sonny Hancock, :22.7. Gordon Mox ley took first In calf roping Willi aiJl. put Pittsburgh ahead, 5-4, started the winning 12th in ning rally with a double and was credited with his first major league victory. Bowman ran for Duffalo and reached third on Felipe Alou's infield single. Kuenn did the rest . Homer Ties Score The Giants tied the score at 5-5 in their half of the 11th on Hoble Landrlth's homer off Face. Ed Bressoud hit a three run homer off Pirate starter Harvey Haddix In the fourth In other National league games the Philadelphia Phil lies handed the Los Angeles Dodgers their first loss of the season, 8-7; the Cincinnati Reds beat the Chicago Cubs, 5-2, and the Milwaukee Braves defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-4, in 11 innings. i Inclement weather put a damper on all five American league games scheduled. Rain and cold weather caused post ponement of the Minnesota' New York and Log Angeles Baltimore contests while the Chicago - Washington, Kansas City-Boston and Cleveland-De troit games were called off because of wet grounds. Reliever Dick Ferrell of the Phillies helped, win his own game by singling against the Dodgers in the ninth, ad vancing on a sacrifice and scoring on a throwing error by losing pitcher Ed Palm quist. Pancho Herrera - and Tony Gonzalez each hit two- run homers off Dodeer starter Roger Craig. Duke Snider drove in three runs with a homer and a double. His homer, in the second inning, was the 369th of his career and tied him with Ralph Kin er for seventh place on the all time home run list.. ' Win Second Straight The Reds, who- generally get Off to a slow start every year, made it two in a row over the Cubs on pinch hitter Jerry Lynch's three-run hom er off reliever Jim Brewer. in the eighth inning. Gordie Coleman homered with one on in the fourth for Cincin nati's first two runs. Bob Purkey went the distance for the distance for the Reds and hurled eight -hit ball. Joe Schaffernoth was the loser. Reliever Llndy McDanlel, who won the opener for the Cardinals on Tuesday, was the loser Thursday when he walked Mel Roach of the Braves with the bases loaded in the 11th. Singles by Frank Boiling and Joe Adcock plus a hit batsman filled the bases and set the stage for Roach. Ken Boyer and Joe Cunning ham each hit homers to help the Cards tie the score after the Braves had jumped to a 4-1 lead at the end of- three innings behind Lew Burdette. Seth Morehead, Milwaukee's fourth pitcher, held St. Louis hltless over the last 1 23 in nings to gain credit for the victory, j MNEBCORKS! National Leasua Chicago .011 000 0003 8 0 Cincinnati ....000 300 03x 8 J4 1 Ellaworth, Schaffernoth (0), Brawer (8) and Taylor. Purkey (1-0) and Bailey. Loser Schaffer noth (0-1). HRa Coleman, Lynch. (11 Innlnii) - St. Loula 010 103 000 004 13 0 Mllwa'kea 311 000 000 015 13 1 Miller. Clcotte (3), Glbaon (4), McDanlel (S3 and Smith. Burdette, McMahon (7), Plche (10), More head (j-0), Loier McDanlel (1-1). HRa Boyer, Cunningham. (1 InnlRii) Ptttabgh. 003 001 100 010 11 1 San Fran. 000 300 010 Oil S 13 3 Haddix. ShanU (8), Face (11) and Burgeii, Oldla (11). San ford, O'Dell (10), Duffalo (11) and Hal ler. Landrlth (0). Winner Duffalo (1-0). Loier Face (1-1). HRa Bresioud, Nelion. Landrlth. Philadelphia 000 303 0318 8 3 Loa Angelet 013 000 31x 7 10 3 Buzhardt. Short (3). Farrell (7) and Dalyrmnle. Craig, Williams (7), Palmqutat (S) and Roaeboro, N. Sherry (S). Camllll (0). Winner Farrell (1-0). Lose r Palmqulst (O-i), HRa Snider. Herrera, Gon-salez.-. Honolulu Picks Rocha Portland (UPB Ephraim (Red) Rocha, the scourge of Pacific coast basketball in the late 1940s, is going to be the head coach of the Honolulu enry of the new American professional league next sea son. Rocha, an AU-American at Oregon State and a former professional standout, was named to the position Thurs day by co-owner Arthur Kim of Honolulu. The 6-foot-9 hoop veteran moves to Honolulu after a year as an assistant coach at Oregon State. It won't be Rocha's first head coaching job, however. Before coming back to his alma mater last' season, he served as head coach of the Detroit Pistons of the Nation al Basketball association for two seasons after a brilliant 10-year pro playing career. TACOMA VICTOR Casa Grande, Ariz. - (WO -The Tacoma Giants of the Pa cific Coast league Thursday finally edged their little broth ers from the class-A Eastern league. The Giants won out 7-5 after having lost three straight to Springfield - MEDFOHD MAIL standings By United Praia International By United Preu InUnuUonal NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. OB uincinnan 2 Loi Angelet w San Francisco .... 2 St. Louis . 1 Milwaukee ....... 1 Pittsburgh . 1 Philadelphia .... 1 Chicago 0 1.000 .687 .667 .500 .500 333 .333 .000 Thuriday'i Remits Cincinnati 5, Chicago 3 Milwaukee's, St. Louis 4 (11 In nines) San Francisco 6, Pittsburgh 0 (13 innings) Philadelphia 8, Loa Angeles (night) Friday's Probable Pitchers Cincinnati at St. Louis (night) nooK iuuj vs. aimmoru (uu, Pittsburgh at Los Angelei (night) Gibbon (0-0) vs. Williams (0-0) or Koufax (0-01. Philadelphia at (night) Mehaffey Cormlck (0-1). San Francisco (O-O) vs. MC Saturday's Gameg Milwaukee at Chicago Cincinnati at St Louis fniuht. Pittsburgh at Los Angeles (night) rnuaaeipnia at aan rancisco Friday's Probable Pitchers Minnesota at Baltimore (night) .rascuai tu-uj vs. earner tu-uj. Ceveland at Washington (night) ocii iu-ui- vs. xjanicis tu-u;- Saturday's Games Los Angeles at Boston Kansas City at New York Minnesota at Baltimore Cleveland at Washington Chicago at Detroit " Angels Acquire Wagner From SL Cardinals Boston (OPD Jeon Wagner, former St. Louis Cardinal out fielder, joins the Los Angeles Angels here . today as they prepare for a three-game series with the Red Sox open ing Saturday. The Angels, washed out of Thursday's game with the Baltimore Orioles, sent out fielder Lou Johnson to ' Tor onto in exchange for Wagner, former San Francisco Giant player who more recently wore a Cardinal uniform. Johnson was secured two weeks ago from the Chicago Cubs in a trade for Jim Mc- Anany. Manager Bill Rigney, who had Wagner with the Giants, was the main power behind the trade. "I like the way he swings the bat," Rigney said. "He should be especially effective at Wrlgley Field." Wagner, 27, hit 16- home runs and drove in 48 runs while batting .265 last season with Rochester in the Inter national league. He hit .317 for the Giants as a rookie in 1958, but the following year he hit only .225. Wagner fell to .214 with the Cards In 39 games at the start of last sea son and was then sent down to Rochester. . . Phils Face SF Tonight San Francisco OJPD Mike McCormick, ' a potential 20 game winner who currently sports a 27.00 earned run av erage gets a chance to do something about it tonight when he starts for the San Francisco Giants against classy Art Mahaffey of the Philadelphia Phillies. Candlestick Park - patrons will recall Mahaffey as the rookie right - hander who mortified the Giants with a two - hitter in his Initial ap pearance against them last season. Home Run Pitch McCormick only has thrown one ball so far this season, and ' that was a home run pitch to Bill Virdon which ruined the Giants opener in the ninth inning last Tues day The Bucs had good reason today for crying over their decision to sell a rookie hurl er named Jim Duffalo to t h e Giants. Although the 25 - year-old Pennsylvanlan had a rough go as a relief hurler, he came out ahead by clubbing a dou ble off redoubtable Roy Face to start the Giants on the way to a 6-5 win In the 12 inning. AID ENDORSED " Salem-flJfD-Federal aid to education won 5-2 endorse ment from the House Educa tion committee Wednesday. SPORTS f Open the Doora to Vacationland V CAVEMAN 1 CAMPER I I B A LINE'S . SHELL STATION V HEY KIDSI ff W . Seo the . iv X. Alpha-Kartsl TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Encouraging Signs V VaT . For Angling Season Latest reports look encour aging fo rthe 1961 fishing sea son, Cole Rivers, Grants Pass, game commission fish biolo gist, informed the Jackson County chapter of the Izaak Walton league at its meeting earlier this week. c "It looks like the streams will hold up through the sea son and the lakes will not suf fer," he said. General trout season In five lakes of this area and in the upper Rogue river above Laurelhurst bridge open on April 22. The lakes are Squaw, Willow, Fish, Howard Prairie and Lake of the Woods. Big Butte creek above Cobleigh bridge oi ens at the same time. Opening of gen eral trout fishing for the Rogue and tributaries is May 27, otherwise. 1 Rivers said that the upper Rogue angling is expected to be better at the opening than two years ago because of the summer-like conditions.' He pointed out, however, that conditions could change. Tremendous Progress Chinook salmon are in the river, the biologist mentioned, b t are not moving because of thj cold- temperature of the water. Rivers, addressing Walton iuns Monday evening at Med ford Gun club, 'outlined the highlights of the fishery pro gram in this area during the past year. He started by men tioning that an overall basin evaluation of the trout fishery shows tremendous progress over a long period of time. The game commission agent mentioned the effort to take the trout fishing pressure and attention away from the streams and. into the lakes. This is to keep as much pres sure as possible off down stream migrating fish in or der that they can be caught as adults, when they return to the streams, rather - than as trout. He reported that 85 per cent of the pressure was on the streams in 1950 and 15 per cent on the lakes. Now the pressure is about 50-50. In the past 10 years, stated Rivers, a harvest on the boating craze has been reaped. Hyatt Lake Plan Rivers told Waltonians that trout fishing will be provided first at Hyatt lake until a spiny ray fishery can be built. It is hoped to introduce 75,000 bass flngerling from Montana in August with blue gill to be put in when the bass have taken hold. Emigrant lake is not ready as an immediate fishery, ac cording to Rivers but the game commission may be able to get 50,000 bass fingerlings from the fish ana wiiame service. Emigrant nas no re sidual quantity of fish. Most of those which were to have been held during the rehabili tation of the reservoir were lost in drainage through ac cident and inadvertence. Fish lake is an excellent fishery and held out well through last season, Rivers re ported. Howard Frame lane iisn- ing was described as disap pointing last year Because or a slow spring and summer slow down with hottest llsn ing in the fall just before the season ended. Rivers, said he hoped the pattern doesn't hold. Spring and summer suc cess is needed, he remarked. The biologist said he did not think the Howard Prairie fish ery will "blossom" until the lake reaches full capacity. Squaw Lake Surprises Willow lake was listed as another disappoint.. lent in 1960. He said that failure of fingerlings planted in 1959, a spillway problem and rainbow feeding -on the - fingerlings might be among a number of reasons. Rivers termed Squaw lake a surprise. A' stocking pattern and schedule has been found that has worked and the rain bow fishery has held up well for the past three years. The biologist said, however, that spiny ray fish have been intro duced and that the game com mission eventually could have treatment problem on its hands. Rivers reported 150,000 se lect summer run steelhead eggs obtained' for the Butte Falls hatchery. After they hatch, the fish will be planted in the Medco pond. Then, aft er a year, when the steelhead develop migrating inclination, they'll be turned into im poundments for marking, then released. , The game man said that the field is so new that there is little. known on how the fish will react to pond rearing. He said that the Rogue valley will be among the first places where the problems of the procedure will be smoothed out. McNeil Problem Discussing the McNeil creek Impoundment site, which is ideally located, Rivers report ed that, because of the trouble encountered In getting a suit able measure through the Legislature, the commission may find it better to choose another site. The trouble is over the wording and amend ments on a bill on Big Butte creek water rights. Expressing the opinion of biologists that trying to ham string salmon on the coast is foolhardy, Rivers said, never- the-less, that properly han dled, the Salmon Unlimited rearing pond at Gold Beach may prove a valuable Contri bution. He reported that of 24,000 fall Chinook obtained for the pond, only 1,634 could be recovered. The link belt fish screen at Savage Rapids dam on Rogue river is doing . a tremendous amount of good, Rivers said. Losses are still suffered on the screen, he said, but are very minor compared to those be fore the screen was put in. He reported that trouble, has been encountered in getting fish, principally salmon, to ac cept the by-pass. Work has been aimed at eliminating ed dies adjacent to by-pass ports. Lot of Bugs According to Rivers there are lot of "bugs" to be worked out before the louvers at the Ideal Cement plant's power facility on the Rogue near Gold Hill, can be acceptable protection for downstream mi grating fish. Work is being done to correct the flaws and Rivers expressed the hope that the Ideal louver system can be renovated to the point it can do what was set for it to do. The louvers at Gold Hill are now more important than ever, Rivers mentioned. Attention has been attracted to them by hearings on the now on display... the 1961 BORGWARD HANSA 1100 '''''' Delivered Price '1785.00 (In llctM ana taxi Borgward Hansa 1 100 Station Wagonf, Sedans and Sport Coupes command attention wherever they are seen in ' congested traffic or breezing along on the open highway. You'll notice there's much more to a Borgward Hansa than its attractively styled design its room lots of unob structed visibility. There's its superb readability as it maneuvers through traffic with a responsive agility, or, as it soars out into the open road taking the sharpest curves and steepest hills in stride. So easy to park going to town is no problem it's fun it's thrilling new motoring ex perience to own and drive the new '61 Borgward Hansa. Please come in and see them today or ust call us for a revealing ride and drive! 99 AUTO MART 806 North Riverside SP 3-6673 "We Service After We Sell" 1 -Hitter Tossed In Grade School Baseball Play 1 Ruch pitcher Fritz Ramsay had a no-hit, no-run game go ing for 3 23 innings yester day when his club beat Lin coln 11 to 3 in a Medford district grade school baseball game. A couple, of errors and the lone hit helped the Lincoln club to all its runs in the fourth inning. ' Albert; Ra metes Danny Eek and Allen Rogers hit timely doubles for Ruch. Howard tripped Oak Grove 9 to 2, Roosevelt topped Wash ington 6 to 3 and Hoover beat Jackson 10 to 4 in other games reported. . Opponents errors helped Roosevelt and Hoover. In the Howard game Ed Frohrelch whiffed Oak Grove batters and Grover pitcher Brad Thompson struck out six. . . THURSDAY GAMES: Roosevelt 023 OS 8 4 3 wasmngton - ozu 10 a a r Rudy and Polakl; Hlokay and Landla. Hoover 241 3 tO S 1 jacKson uai u a a a Leaver and Cunningham: Bluer. Beach (3) and Jones. Howard ..2H 05 8 3 3 Oak Grove 110 003 3 3 Frohrelch, Martin (4), Frohrelch (5) and Moser; Thompson. Taylor (0), iiumpnrey to) ana waiaron. Ruch ; 442 111 1 3 Lincoln - 000 3 3 1 5 Ramsey ana nosers; unnasiaxr, Johnson (1) and Frost. . MONDAY GAME: Washington 250 00 7 5 4 Hoover i...133 lx 8 7 3 Garrett. Towns (31 and Landls: Brooks and Cunningham. Sandra Haynie Heads Ciritan Dallas, Tex. - (DTD - Sandra Haynie, a wisp of a girl who had to gain 15 pounds the past year to reach her 125-pound playing weight, was the sur prise pace-setter today as the $10,000 Dallas Women's Civi tan Open Golf tournament started the second round. The 17-year-old Fort Worth, Tex., girl, playing in only her third tournament as a pro, mastered treacherous 40 mph winds and Glen Lakes Coun try Club's hilly layout Thurs day for a two-over-par 36-37- 73 and a two-stroke lead over the field. Nez Perce dam project. Rivers praised California Oregon' Power company for accepting responsibility in aid ing to preserve a natural re source. Copco has agreed to shut down its Gold Ray tur bines from May 10 to June 13, the critical period in down stream fish migration. He said it is possibly the first instance of a power company shutting down for a fish migration. BOW SHOOT SUNDAY Rogue Archers will hojtt a tournament Sunday at their range on Old Stag Road nine mile northwest of Medford. The course will ba 58 of hunters' round tar gets which are black-faced with white aiming ipot. This is a bow hunter's prac tice round. All distances will be unknown. Registra tion will begin at 7 a.m. and shooting will start at 10 a.m. Bow hunters and other archers from southern Ore gon and northern California are invited. The public is invited to join spectators. . All-Stars Whip Globetrotters ; Corvallis -(UPB- The College All-Stars stayed in front all the way to wallop the Harlem Globetrotters 80-69 in an ex hibition basketball game be fore 5,675 fans here Thursday night. Howie Carl, pint-sized for. mer DePaul star, and ex-Houston standout Gary Phillips paced the Collegians with 17 points apiece and former Gon zaga flash Frank Burgess chipped in with 12. . Big Joe Buckhalter topped the Trotters with 22 -WANTED- This Fugitive It , Wanted At LAURANCE'S SAVE STATION Hlway 99 In Talent ' -REWARD- FREE Quart of Oil With Every 10 Gallons ..of Cat At 249 CLIP AND BRING 1IS GOOD SATURDAY AND SUNDAY ONLY