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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON sit KC Pilot Adi? With Owner Over Irs WEDNESDAY, MAY 10. 1961 id snces Policy Lane Won't Comment on Houston Jop Kansas City, Mo - lllfl) -Kansas City Athletics Gen eral Manager Frank Lane ad mitted today he has had dif terences of opinion with new owner Charles O. Finley, but refused to comment on a re port that he may accept a sim ilar job with tne new Hous ton entry of the National league. Lane reportedly is disgust ed with the fact that Finley has hampered his trading tech nique. Finley allegedly has demanded to put a personal stamp of approval on all deals involving A's players. Dismiss Farm Director Recently, farm director Hank Peters was let out be cause he signed a young pros pect for $35,000, without con sulting Finley first. Three other major league clubs were also after the prospect in ques tion, and all three said they were ready to go as high as $50,000 for him. "Sure, we have had some differences," Lane said. When asked if he planned to give up his present $100,00 - a - year job to become general mana ger at Houston," the usually outspoken 65 - year - old Lane shrugged his shoulders and grinned but refused to com ment. Finley said, "If he plans to leave it's news to me." Critical of Trade Lane had plenty to say about the trade between the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Angels, in which the Yankees obtained relief pitch er Truman (Tex) Clevenger and outfielder Bob Cerv for pitchers Ryne Duren and Johnny James, infielder Le roy Thomas, and a player to be named. "It looks to me that since the Yankees have found the door closed in Kansas City they are opening a new one in Los Angeles," Lane said. He was referring to trades in recent years between Kansas City and New York, these traded ceasing when Finley obtained ownership last fall. Liston To Name hew Manager Philadelphia - (DPu - Heavy weight contender Sonny Lis ton will name his new mana ger today and if it isn't Phil adelphia's dapper George Katz most everyone will be surprised. Pencil - thin Katz, who runs a fight factory in addition to a picture - frame plant, was regarded as the likely choice of Liston in a "clean house" move he hopes will gain him a crack a Floyd Patterson's ti tle. Katz, who guided Gil Turn er to the doorstep of the wel terweight title - or whoever wins Liston's nod - would serve more in the capacity of an agent for the 28 - year - old heavyweight rather than man ager. Liston has been a free agent since April 19 when he bought his own contract from man ager Joseph (Pep) Barone of Allentown, Pa., for $75,000 in two annual instalments of $37,500. Boxers Weight Draws Protest Portland - (UPD - Sonny Ray, veteran light heavyweight from Chicago, complained to day that hi" oDponent for a j 10 - round fight here Thursday j night was too heavy. 1 Ray meets Floyd Palmer of j Portland in the bout. j Matchmaker Matty Morrel-1 11 said Ray complained when he learned Palmer weighed j 182 pounds. Morrelll added there was no danger of the bout being called off since there was no weight stipula tion In the contract. Junior Baseball Meeting atCP A meeting to orqaniie Southern Oregon Junior Baseball leagues for play this summer will be held ai 7 p.m. Thrusday. May 11 In Room 8 of Crater High school at Central Point. Commissioner Don Miller j said that all interested In entering teams in pee wee. Intermediate and cub leagues should be at the meeting. Vandals Trip Cougars 5-3 By United Press International Steve Hinckley, a right hander, got the job done for Idaho Tuesday as the Vandals topped Washington State uni versity 5-3 in Northern Divi sion baseball play. A scheduled Washington Oregon State college game at Corvallij was rained out. v By S30rt HrfeY OSCAR FRALEY rJ 1 United Press ' Parade Xfefv lnt8rnatim,ll New York The pretty lit tle teen-ager lay inert and listless in the hospital bed, shocked by the doctor's ad mission that she might never walk again. If she couldn't she decided, there wasn't much use in try ing. For the golf she was playing, just before she was virtually paralyzed when thrown while horseback rid ing, was her whole life. Then Ben Hogan walked cheerfully into the room and she found the will to fight. This was a year ago when Shirley Dimples Eaglehorn ol Caldwell, Idaho, was confined to a hospital bed in Augusta, Ga. The 19-year-old beauty had been playing in a Ladies Professional Golf association tournament there when she was injured. Hogan Visits Shirley Hogan, competing in the Masters shortly thereafter, heard of her plight and unob trusively went to visit her. "You'll be all right if you try," Bantam Ben told her. "Take it from a fellow who knows." Hogan was living proof that you can't be licked if you won't be licked. He had won the U.S. Open in 1948 and early the follow ing year was driving to his Texas home from' California when his car collided head-on with a bus. Ben threw him self in front of his wife and she escaped injury. Doctors doubted for a while whether Hogan, battling a blood clot, would win, let alone ever play golf again. But in 1950 at Merlon, Hogan, sometimes unable to bend over and tee up his ball, came back to win the Open again. He did it the hard way, too, in a playoff. And subse quently he went on to cap ture the big one twice more for a record-tying four titles w.hich matched him with the immortal Bobby Jones and Willie Anderson of long ago. Others Overcome Handicaps "Dimples" looked grateful ly at the little man from Tex as and her chin came up as he told her of such as Babe Zaharias, Ed Furgol, Gary Player and Craig Wood. They all were names she knew be cause they, too, overcame the great handicap to reach golf ing greatness. The Babe, one of the great est women athletes of them all, underwent a cancer op eration in 1953 and, like in Hogan's case, there was doubt that she would live. Yet, the next year she won the wom en's U.S. Open even though finally she lost her fight against the dread disease. "The important thing is that she gave it a fight," Ho gan told the 5 foot, 7 inch Shirley. Just as, he explained, did Furgol, Player and Wood. Furogl suffered a withered left arm in a childhood fall. Despite it and because of his refusal to quit he became one of the golfing greats and won the U.S. Open. So, too, did Wood although his back was strapped up against the pain of a fractured vertebrae. There was, too, the example of Player. When he was fif teen he suffered a broken neck. The little South African battled through and, finding he didn't have the strength to hit with the big fellows, start ed a muscle building program which carried him to the top. "Dimples" nodded and smiled and started to fight. Maybe you didn't notice it in the summaries of the La dies Professional Golf As sociation Peach Blossom tournament at Spartanburg, S. C, last week end. Second in the list it read: Shirley Englehorn 72-71-72-215. She finished three strokes behind . the winner but the $836 second money must have seemed like a million. It was the payoff on determination and a thoughtful visit from a little man named Hogan who knows, what it is to be down and almost out. Trapshoot Will Have Night Event A night event will be an addition when the Mail Trib une Trapshooting tournament is held on Saturday and Sun day, May 13 and 14, at Med ford Gun club.' The shoot under lights will be. a 50-bird handicap and will not be registered. It is set for 8 p.m. Saturday. There will b: 450 registered targets in the shoot making a 500-bird program. Events of the shoot include the Rogue Valley hundred at 16 yards on Saturday morn ing, the Chester Wood handi cap on Saturday afternoon, the Mail Tribune trophy event at 16 yards on Sunday morning and the Jim Morris Memorial handicap and 25 pairs of doubles on Sunday afternoon. There are guaranteed cash prizes and $1,600 added mon ey ,in the 28th annual tourna ment. There will be a 7 p.m. din ner at the club dining room on Saturday. A social hour is slated from 5 to 6 p.m. Rain Spoils SOC Baseball Games tlain spoiled efforts lo play Southern Oregon con ference baseball games yes terday at three locations. Grants Pass high will re turn to play Medford either on Thursday at 3:30 p.m. or Friday at 2:30 p.m. Klam ath Falls against Crater at Central Point is resched uled for Monday afternoon. May 15. A mid - afternoon shower washed out plans of Med ford and Grants Pass to play here yesterday. Earli er rain made the Crater field too muddy for action. Klamath, unable to vie at Central Point, then ar ranged to make up a game at Ashland. Rain halted that fray shortly after it started. SPORTS Braves Swap- Mel Roach For Thomas Milwaukee - (UPD - General Manager John McHale of the Braves said today one-time bonus baby Mel Roach was traded for veteran Chicago outfielder Frank Thomas be cause Milwaukee "is trying to win a pennant this year and the Cubs aren't." "We are trying to get pow er in left field," said McHale about the straight player swap which sent the 31-year-old Thomas into the Braves line up Tuesday night at that spot while the 28-year-old Roach played first base for Chicago. "This fellow has a reputa tion and a good record," Mc Hale said of Thomas, who in his first appearance in a Braves uniform got one hit -a double - in three times at bat and drove in one run in the Braves 8-5 vin over the Cubs which ended a three game losing streak. "We know he's not too young anymore, but we've got a good chance to get some thing out of him," McHale said of Thomas. "We are try ing to win a pennant and we need a leftfielder who is good with a glove and a bat to do it." McHale said it also was a "good trade" for the Cubs, who have been using Ed Bouehee, the former Phillie, who is batting only .233 for the season up to Tuesday night. "The Cubs are a changing club, looking for a future," said McHale. "Roach is a young man with a chance to improve." Roach, in his first appear ance in a Cub uniform, went hitless in three times at bat, walking once. Rain Dampens NVL Schedule By United Press International Rain was the big winner again Tuesday night In t h e Northwest . league with all three ball games being washed out. Weather permitting, they'll try it again tonight with Lew- lston at Salem, Wenatchee at Eugene and Tri-Cfty at Yak ima in a double-header. It was the second night in a row all three scheduled games were rained out. Dodgers Edge Phillies, 5-2, in Short Game B 5 Philadelphia, Pa. (UPD The second place Los Angeles Dodgers close out their cur rent road trip tonight by send ing Johnny Podres, 4-0, to the mound against the Philadel phia Phillies. Podres will be opposed by Frank Sullivan, 1-2, of Bur bank, Calif. The Dodgers, who Tuesday night beat the Phils, 5-2, when a rainstorm ended the game in the sixth inning, open a six game home stand Friday night in the Coliseum starting with the Chicago Cubs. Tuesday night's victory over the Phillies left the Dodgers with a 15-11 season record, one game behind the league leading San Francisco Giants, 14-8. It also boosted big Don Drysdale's season record to 3-2. One Dodger, hurler Ed Palmquist, was not expected to return to Los Angeles with the Dodgers. Although man ager Walt Alston had not con firmed it, it was commonly believed Palmquist would be sent down today to bring the team to the 25-player limit. Los Angels got eight hits in the abbreviated game, two of them home runs by Norm Larker and Ron Fairly, as 11,- 483 glum fans kept one eye on the game and the other on the sky, Larker led the parade in the first inning with a sacri fice fly to score one run. Fair ly touched his first homer of the season in the second. In the third frame, catch er Johnny Roscboro made it 3-1 with a sacrifice fly. Drys dale scored in the fourth on a forceout by Willie Davis. Larker blasted his second homer of the season in the fifth Inning. 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