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.
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FAMILIAR SCENE New York Yankee
slugger Mickey Mantle Is shown crossing
home plate after his first inning homer
against the Kansas City Athletics in New
York Monday. 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.
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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 . S .360
White 12 3 4 2 .333
Laurance ........ 6 2 2 2 .333
Barry .... 20 4 6 ' 4 300
Ruhl .17 3 B 2 .294
Miles 21 0 6 6 .285
Neathamer ....12 1 3 2 .250
Young 4 3 1 0 .250
Schroeder 20 '5.4 4 .200
Stewart 10 2 2 3 .200
Ragsdale .23'"3 4 S .173
Wheeler 3 0 0 0 .000
Ray. 2 1 0 0 .000
Pitching
Quinney
Wheeler
W-L
3-1
0-1
R ERA
13 1.05
16 933
5 2.80
9 1.75
Ray
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Young ..: 1-0
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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
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Meschery, brilliant star of the
St. Mary's Gaels for the past
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. 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
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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.
"Sony Liston is not ruled
out," Bolan added, ."but it
would seem to me Patterson
would prefer to postpone a
Liston bout until another tax
year and until the ownership
of Liston's contract is cleared
up."
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