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Leo Draws Three Day Suspension Los' Angeles-flJPD r- Dodger coach Leo Durocher i riding out a three-day suspension for his shln-kicklng duel with um- Dire Jocko Conlan In com piratlve contentment. The penalty, in effect, was just a alap on the wrist. ' ,v . National League President Warren Giles set Llppy Leo down for the three days, Mon day through Wednesday, but at the, same tune inaicatea ne was less than pleased with the conduct of Conlan who, like Durocher, has a low boll- ing point. . Durocher and' Conlan ex- changed kicks to the shins . Sunday in the fourth inning , of the Dodger - Pittsburgh game after 'the Dodgers stag ed a mass protest over a foul : call by the plate umpire' on Norm Larker's pop Ily. Overmatched ' ( Durocher, In numerous rhu barbs with umpires during ma tenure as manager of the old . Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Giants, laughingly said he was "overmatched" be cause Conlan wore ' shin guards. i-, When he wis first asked if he had anything to say about the' suspension, Leo Kept nis Up zipped and replied, "No. Not thing."; , , ; . ' He. loosened tip ' a -little later,' and told reporters, "Whether you're right or wrong, what , can you: do? Giles Is the president. I've been suspended before and I know I can't touch an um pire.: What made me mad was getting thrown out of the game in the first place." -Conlan .thumbed Durocher out Of the game, he said, for throwing: a towel on the field. Durocher claimed, the , towel did not go on the field but landed in the dugout. SNOW CANCELS RACING Toledo, Ohlo-flm-A heavy snowstorm and hazardous con ditions of a frozen, track forced Toledo Raceway offi cials to call off Monday's pro gram.1 ::ns'8AN - n SEE COMMERCIAL CREDIT PLAN Why do It the hard way? Call on the Commercial Credit Plan Whenever you can use extra cash. 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Mantle's homer drove in Cards Whip Dodgers, 9-5 By NORMAN MILLER i yt j y. ...... 1 I For the benefit of those who thought the St. Louis Cardinals' 1960 third-place finish was a fluke, manager Solly Hemus' boys are show ing off some power that indi cates this year they're seri ously shooting to go even higher, -v Shortstop Daryl spencer topped off a three-homer out burst Monday night with a grand slam blast that gave the Cards a 9-5 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Joe Cunningham and Don Taussig also - hit St. Louis homers. - -'rv - ". Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees and comeback- bound Gary Gelger of the Boston Red Sox also hit im portant homers in Monday's abbreviated major- league schedule. , Pittsburgh Opens at Home With Hoak Benched Pittsburgh -(UPD The "Beat 'em, Bucs" bandwagon goes into high; gear today when the Pittsburgh Pirates open their home season, but like at Mudvllle there was a cer tain amount of gloom. The gloom arose because fiery Don Hoak will not be in the lineup against the visit ing Chicago Cubs. Hoak Is under a three-day suspension because of a hassle on the West Coast with umpire Ken Burkhart.: Softball Loop Meeting Slated A meeting of the Jackson County Softball association will be held on Tuesday night, April 25. League Manager Wlllard Barnum reported that the meeting will be at 8 p.m. at the Medford city hall. Pur pose of the session is to 'or ganize for 1961 play. " S arid W Floor Covering was champion Inst season, winning the playoff after Llth la Lumber had finished the regular season at the top of the standings. ' Brown Defends Lightweight Title Tonight Against London - (IIPD - Joltln' Joe Brown of Houston, Tex., is looking ahead to another easy pay night when he gives Dave Charnley of England a second crack at his world lightweight title tonight at Earls Court Arena. r Brown is a solid 7-4 favorite for the scheduled 15-roundcr, which will start at approxi mately 8:15 p.m. 3:15 p.m., EST. - In their first meeting at Houston in 1959, Brown cut up Charney so badly the pale- faced English fighter was forced to quit at the end of the fifth round. "He's out sitting on a stool," Brown bragged. For tonight's scrap, which is expected to attract a sellout crowd of 16,000 Brown will receive about $50,000. This wiil be his 10th de Yogi Berra and was all the support pitcher Whitey Ford needed as he twirled a three hitter to shutout the A's 3-0. Roger Maris (9), Berra (In center) and the Yankee batboy are shown congratulating Mantle. ... (UPI-Telephoto) Mantle's home, with a man on -base, was his first hit of the year and helped the Yan kees gain a 3-0 triumph over the Kansas City Athletics. Gelger, out for the last half of last season because of a col lapsed lung,, hit a seventh Inning home that proved to be the deciding run in the Red Sox' 3-2 victory over the Los Angeles Angels. Reaches Milestone Duke Snider hit a two run homer In a losing cause but It enabled-the 34-year-old Dodger outfielder to reach, a significant milestone. This was the 370th homer of Sni- der's career and placed him seventh on baseball's all-time homer-hitting list. . . The Cards were' one of the big surprises of last season when they wound up in third place. This season the con sensus picked the Cards to It will be the first -.time since opening day of 19SS that Hoak will not be starting at third base. Manager Danny Murtaugh said Gene Baker will fill In for Hoak at the hot corner. v ; , Unrepealed Fine Hoak was preparing to work out with the Pirates Monday when he was notified of the three-day suspension and unrevealed fine. Club of ficials said National league president Warren Giles sus pended Hoak In the wake of last Saturday's game with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Despite the disappointment to a lot of Pirate followers, the opener will be a sellout of 35,607 -sent Forbes Field. But the weatherman may in tervene since he has forecast cloudy, windy and cold with a chance of rain showers and snow flurries. Murtaugh named lefty Vinegar Bend Mizell to start for . the world champions against the Cubs. Mizell has been very successful against the Cubs ' In recent years. Right-hander Don Cardwell or southpaw Dick Ellsworth will start for Chicago. Englishman he won by outpointing Wal lace Bud Smith at New Or leans almost five years ago. X LAWN MOWER SHARPENING Small Engine Repairing Parts and Service for Briggs Stratton . . Clinton . . . Lauton . . . and 6thers BIG Y FEED & SEED GO. 194S Pacific Hwy. North SP 3-3160 finish fourth, but their early season showing hints they could be a serious pennant threat". . , . Cunningham, whose batting average slipped to .280 last season after a .345 mark in 1959, collected a homer,, dou ble and two singles Monday night. Spencer hit his grand slam-the third of his career in the ninth inning off re liever Larry Sherry. Spencer also drove in a run with a single. Bob Miller, who took over the St.-Louis pitching after starter Bob Gibson was knock ed out in the seventh, was the winner, although he needed help from Mickey McDer mott in the ninth. McDermott retired Wally Moon for the final out with the bases loaded. Tie for First The victory moved the Cards into a first-place tie with the idle San Francisco Giants. The Cards - Dodgers game was the only one played in the National League. In the American League, Mantle's homer and Whitey Ford's three-hit pitching sent the Yankees ' on to victory over the A's. Mantle also had two singles and a walk. He also drove in the Yankees' third run. Ford struck out eight and did not permit a runner to get past second base. Jerry Walker, usually Man tle's nemesis when he pitched for the Baltimore Orioles, yielded the three Yankee runs during the seven innings he worked. Jackie Jensen's single, a bases-loaded walk and Gei gers homer supplied the Red Sox with their three runs against the Angels. Mike For niclcs, who last season set an AL record of 70 relief appear ances, came to the rescue of starter Tom Brewer in the seventh when Ted Kluszew skl and Steve Bilko hit dou bles. Albie Pearson hit a Los Angeles homer. LINRSCOItKS: St. Louis 001 100 0349 13 0 Lo Angeles . 003 000 1015 10 0 Gibson. Miller (7), McDermott (01 nnd Smith. Podres, Sherry (8) ond Roseboro. Winner Miller (l-Ot. Loser Sherry (0-1). HR Cunnig ham. Snider, Taussig, Spencer. Kansas City ..000 600 000 0 3 0 New York ... 201 000 OOx 3 7 1 Walker, Nuxhall (81. Keegan (8) and Sullivan. Ford (1-11 and Berra. Loser Walker (0-11. HR Mantle. Los Angeles 000 000 1013 6 0 Boston 000 002 10X 3 6 0 McBrlde. Moeller (fl. -Clevenger (8), Borgnn (7) and Rice, Sadow ski (7). Brewer. Fornlcles (7) and Nixon. Pagliaroni (7). Winnor Brewer (1-0). Loser McBride (0-11. HR Geigcr, Pearson. MEDFOHD MAIL ACCORDING TO HITTERS Ruth's By OSCAR FRALEY United Press International New York - (UPD - Baseball's power hitters feel today that Babe Ruth's top record of 60 home runs in one season is safe for another year. This attitude is stoutly held despite an early rash of homers, an extended schedule of eight extra Amer lean league games per team and the massive muscles soon to be unleashed in two former minor league parks. v"It's not Impossible," says Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota' Twins, "but It's very improbable." Gets Some Help Killebrew is one of a trio with the raw power necessary to menace the mark, the others being Mickey Mantle of the Yankees and, Eddie Mathews of the Brave's.' Nor can you rule out such as Willie Mays of the Giants, Ernie Banks of GP Rotary Track Fray Saturday Grants Pass high and the Rotary club of the Climate city will serve as hosts for the big track meet of the week end In Southern Oregon. The meet Is set for Satur day. Medford : and Crater are among entrants along with the host Cavemen. Phoenix high will be host for a Friday trianglar. The Pirates entertain Eagle Point and Illinois Valley. St. Mary's, the state's small school power, will go to Ash land for a Wednesday after noon engagement. Rogue Riv er and Eagle Point were riv als today at Rogue River. There are a number of week end junior high meets. On Friday North Grants Pass will host to Crater high freshmen, Ashland seventh and eighth grades will meet Hedrick at Medford and McLoughlln sev enth and eighth will go to Central Point, i. Klamath Falls and Hedrick ninth vie at Medford on Sat urday. McLoughlln of Med ford and South Grants Pass will be guests of Ashland ninth. STANDINGS Br United Press International NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L.; Pet. GB St, Louis ............ 4 2 .667 San Francisco M 4 2 .667 Cincinnati 3 3 .600 ',4 Pittsburgh l 3 3 .900 1 Chicago 3 3 .500 1 Los Anieles . 3 4 .429 l'i Philadelphia .... 2 4 .333 2 . muwauKee x o : ou Monday's Results St. Louis 9, Los Angeles 5 (night) Only game scheduled. Tuesday's probable Pitchers MllwauKea at rnuaaeipnia imgntj Spahn (0-1) vs. Sullivan (0-1). Chicago at Plttsburah C a r d- well (0-0) or Ellsworth (0-0) vs. Aiizeu (u-ui. St. Louis at Los Angeles (night) Cicotte (0-1) vs. Craig (0-0). Cincinnati at Ban Francisco (night) Purkey (1-0) vs. Loes (1-0). Wednesday's Games Milwaukee at Philadelphia (night) ' Chicago at Pittsburgh (night) St. Louis at Los Angeles (night) ClnclnnaU at San Francisco AMERICAN LEAGUE W. Im Pet. GB Minnesota Cleveland Detroit ..... 4 1 .800 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 .750 .667 .667 .667 .333 .332 .333 .290 .200 Boston New York .... Los Angeles Kansas City Chicago Washington .. 1 Baltimore Monday's Results New York 3, Kansas City 0 -Boston 3, Los Angeles 2 Only games scheduled Tnesday's probable Pitchers Minnesota at Boston Pascual (1-0) vs. Muftett (0-0). Los Angeles at New York Grba (1-0) vs. Ditmar (0-0). - Kansas City at Baltimore (night) Herbert (1-0) vs. Pappas (0-1). Detroit at Cleveland Lary (1-0) vs. Perry (1-0). Only games scheduled. Wednesday's Games Minnesota at Boston Los Angeles at New York Kansas City at BalUmore, night Only games scheduled. MAY ipiiip mmi TRIBUNE, MEDFOHD, OREGON Record the Cubs and Ted Kluszewskl of the new Los Angeles An gels. The "Killer" benefits slight ly from the shift of his former Washington club to Minne-apolis-St. Paul. He is right handed hitter and the left field fence is a bit closer than it was in the capitol. . "There's also the mental barrier," says the man who smote 42 home runs in 1959 and pounded 31 last season al though he was benched by in juries for almost two months. "That, and the fact that when you get past 30 homers the pitchers really start bearing down on you." Killebrew, currently side lined with a pulled thigh muscle, feels that Mantle has the best chance of the current crop of sluggers, even though the vastness of Yankee sta dium works against him. The Mick hit 52 homers In 1956 Medfoi .E?iHnr Medford. Ashland Baseballers Will i Vie on Medford and Ashland High school baseball nines warm up for week end activity by contending Wednesday after noon at Ashland. ' The 4 p.m. tus3le will be a non-leaguer. Medford holds a Southern Oregon conference victory over the Grizzlies. All clubs of the big school conference will be busy on Friday with doubleheaders. Crater will vie ' at Ashland and Grants Pass at Klamath Falls with first games count ing in the standings. Medford has a non-loop twinbill with Roseburg at Medford, making up tussles which were rained out.. Crater vs. Medford On Saturday it will be Cra ter at Medford and Ashland at Grants Pass. : In the Rogue league Eagle Point wilL go to Rogue River on Friday. Prospect travels to Butte Falls on the same day for Jackson County B loop contention. The week's play in baseball opened this afternoon with Crater host to Yreka, Calif., at Central Point and Crater iayvees meeting the Eagle Point varsity at Eagle Point. Ashland and Crater jayvees meet at Central Point on Fri day and Crater JV will enter tain its Medford counterpart on Saturday. Knudsen Heads Hitters Sam Knudsen Is leading Medford high in hitting with a .363 average among those who have seen most duty. Bob Quinney has a mark of .360. Quinney also has the most runs and hits, 7 and 9. Dan Miles, with a .285 average, paces in runs batted in with six while Dick Ragsdale, ,173 and Quinney have five eash. Miles, the No. 2 man in the battings order, has drawn 10 ases on balls and Ragsdale nine. The team has a .280 batting mark. . Prep Baseball Grant 4, Madison 2 Wilson 1, Lincoln 0 Marshall 3, Cleveland 4 Jefferson 8, Franklin 0 Roosevelt 11, Benson 7 Parkrose 8, Jesuit 7 Reynolds 4, Wy'east 0 5,67 Safe for Another Year and it is intriguing to specu late what help he will get from nine games In the Wrlg ley Field park when the Yanks visit the new Angels of Los Angeles. There is, also, the edge that Kluszewski, whose muscles have muscles, will be playing half of his games in the West Coast park where left center and right center field are only 345 feet. Working against big Klu Is the fact that he is 36 and has recurrent back trouble.- May Come Close Yet, If he stayed sound, he might come up close - as Hank Greenberg and Jimmy Foxx did in hitting 58. It is fascinating to specu late on what a sound Kluszew ski or a Mantle might do in Wrigley Field while playing 81 games there, as the Angels will this season. Consider, as part of the evidence, the hit IBUNB : Infielder-catcher Art Ruhl heads team fielding with a .963 mark. Tim White is .942 and Ray Stewart .937. Quin ney is .931. Putouts are led by White who plays first base. Ruhl and catcher - outfielder Jim Barry have 23 each and pitcher-first baseman Quinney had 19. Shortstop Miles tops the assist list with 17 and infleld er Ray Stewart has 11. Quinney paces the pitching with his 3-1 mark and 1.05 earned run average. He has allowed just four earned runs In 17 innings. Wednesday MEDFORD STATISTICS: Batting: RB R H RBI Ave. Bowman 3 2 2 0 .667 Knudsen 22 9 8 4 .363 Quinney 25 7 9 . 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So start enjoying Schenley, the onlv whie''" with' extra smoothness whipped in. ting feats of Steve Bilko, who is Klu's understudy at first base, while playing in Wrigley Field when It was a Pacific Coast league stop. Bilko hit 53 homers while that was bis home base in 1955 during a 162-game sea son, the same number of games the enlarged American league will contest this sea son. He smashed 56 home runs in 1957 while playing In 158 games. Mathews, of course, does not get a hitting hypo by play ing at the Los Angeles park, It being in the other league. Yet it is interesting to compare his hitting heroics with the Babe's and note that year-for-year he is ahead of Ruth in overall total. Two Ahead Ruth batted out a record 714 homers In 22 years. Dis counting Ruth's early years devoted to pitching, during Warriors Sign SF Draft Pick Phlladelphia-fflPD-The Phil adelphia Warriors have an nounced the signing of Tom Meschery, brilliant star of the St. Mary's Gaels for the past three years. . The signing of the 6-foot-6 cage ace was a bitter blow for the newly-formed American Basketball league. Meschery comes from San Francisco and his home town's AFL club had made Meschery its num ber one draft choice. Warrior owner Eddie Gott lieb Monday hailed Mes chery's decision to forsake playing in his home town. Gottlieb termed Meschery "a monderf ul prospect for future stardom in Philadelphia. He seems to have the necessary talents to make it big In our league, both in offensive and defensive play." Salary terms were not an nounced for Mescheny, who was also the Warriors first round draft choice. Gottlieb said only that the contract covers, two years. In San Francisco, Kevin O'Shea and George McKeon were stunned by the news that Meschery had decided to play ind the established NBL. O.'Shea said "I don't believe it" when told the news. Mc Keon admitted "we thought we had him." O'Shea, Mc Keon and Meschery had held a lengthy meeting Monday. uis is a, giass 01 unusual whisky. It is Schenley. Its extraordinary smooth ness is the result of the greatest advance in whis ky making in the last twentv-five years sj6o 1108 H fifth W nlnt his first eight years in the out field the Bambino hit 338 home runs. At this stage he was 31 years of age. Mathews after eight years has smote 338 - two more than Ruth - at the age of 29. Mathews' top one year production to date is 47. Despite the drawn-in fence at Los Angeles, the power brigade points out that nobody has come close to the big 60 of late even though it's only a mashie shot over the left field screen at the Los An geles Coliseum. And where, .they ask, will any club ever offer a better shot than at the Polo Grounds in New York? The best there were the 51s by Johnny Mize and Mays. To Greenberg and Foxx the current differences might have been monumental. But the psychic difference of today seems to overbalance the new advantages. . .. v FIGHTS By United Press International New York O b d u 1 1 o Nuner, 159(j, Puerto Rico, outpointed Irish (Babe) Simmons, 164 (i. West bury, N.Y. (10). Philadelphia Mel Middleton, 130, Philadelphia, outpointed Chuck Taylor, 132(4, Detroit (10). Chicago Ernest Terrell, 107, Chicago, stopped Willie Coleman. 215, Detroit (1). . San Francisco Dave (School boy) Brown. 156, San Francisco, outpointed Don Bale, 162, Oakland. Calll. (8). Champ Seeking Training Camp New York -lOTm Floyd Pat. terson already Is hunting for a training camp for the next defense of his heavyweight title in September-although. his opponent hasn't been se lected yet. Tom Bolan, president of Championship Sports, Inc.; announced Monday that Ed die Machen or Henry Cooper may get the next shot at Pat terson, probably in New York. 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