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Policy
Lane Won't
Comment on
Houston Jop
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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.
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S30rt HrfeY OSCAR FRALEY
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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.
The Phils scored their first
run in the second inning on
a triple by Pancho Herrera
and a double by Choo Choo
Coleman. Their second tally
came in the fifth on Coleman's
walk, Ruben Amaro's singio
and Clay Dalrymple's force-out.
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LaStarza Battered
In Comeback Bid
San Francisco -(UPB- Roland
La Starza, his handsome fea
tures battered to a pulp by
a comparative unknown nam
ed Monroe Ratliff, mulled over
the idea today of retiring once
and for all from the ring.
Ratliff, a busy socker from
Los Angeles, pounded out a
unanimous 10-round decision
Monday night over the game
but outgunned New Yorker,
who was appearing in his
third comeback attempt.
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