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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON MONDAY. JUNE 35, 1961 Eugene Takes On Salem In Pro Baseball at White Darroll (Pete) Peters, 21-year-old rookie and bonus player, is scheduled to pitch this evening for the Salem Dodgers when they play the Eugene Emeralds at Memori al field. White City. Paul Arneson may be the Eugene twirler for the tilt. The clubs clash at 8 p.m. on the Veteran Administra tion diamond in a regular counting game of the North west league, a Class B pro fessional circuit. Peters, considered valuable property by the Los Angeles Dodgers, is said to work in the classic style of Warren Spahn. He utilizes a big kick and has "beautiful" form. He enters the fracas with an 8-2 record for the Capital city team. Peters has pitched 79 innings, struck out 64 batters end walked 21. He has yield ed 29 earned runs. Arneson and Peters last saw duty for their respective teams last Thursday. Each picked up a victory. For Ar- Wenat'chee Rides Crest In NW Loop United Press International Bill Cowan bagged his 21st home run Sunday as Wen atchee moved to the top of the Northwest League by sweeping a doubleheader from Salem 7-5 and 2-1. The Yakima Bears, who had been leading the pack, fell one game back and split a pair with Lcwiston, drop ping the first to the Broncs 2-1 but taking the afterpiece 6-0. Tri-City took two at Eu gene, 5-3 and 4-1. Heads Circuit Cowan leads the league in homers and picked up his 21st a solo, in the fifth inning of the opener. A two-run triple in the first inning of the night cap gave Wenatchee the ver dict in the nightcap. Joe Pulco pitched a nifty one-hitter to stoo the Emer alds in the nightcap and a two-run homer by Ron O'Shields gave Tri-City the first-game decision. Don Marrs started Lewiston rolling to victory in the open er with a solo in the first m ring, but Yakima took advan tage of three Bronco errors in the fifth inning of the nighlcnp to score three. The Bears picked up three more runs in the seventh, one on a wild pitch and two driven In on a single by George Co pacz to take the late one. neson it was his first Em erald win after being charg ed with three defeats. He has given up 41 hits, 26 hits and 10 bases on balls while fanning 26. His earned run average is 6.21. Major League Ties Salem comes here in third place in the league, three- games behind the loop-pacing Wenatchee Chiefs who beat the Dodgers 7 to 5 and 2 to 1 yesterday. The Emeralds are the cellar team. They fell 3 to 3 and 4 to 1 in Sun day games with the Tri-City Braves. Eugene, however, took three of four games from the Wenatchee club last week. Both of tonight's foes are associated with major league clubs. Eugene has its agree ment with the San Francis co Giants and Salem, as indi cated has its with the LA Dodgers. Salein leads the Northwest league in home runs. The club is not consistent in its hitting but when the Dodders do connect the ball often takes the long ride. The Dodgers have real good speed and fans tonight could see some wide open base running. Out fielder Vic Pagcl leads the league in base swiping. Sa lem has a "sweet - fielding'' shortstop in Ralph PlumUe. a high r priced bonus player. So far, he is not a great hit ter, but he is expected to move into a high class of ball next season if he maintains his current batting mark of .261. Eugene has a highly regard ed bonus player in catcher Dick Dietz. MEDFORDwrRIBUNI IP(DEIT! San Diego Padres Hold Shaky Lead By G. W. SCHULTZ United Press International The San Diego Padres are going upstairs in the Pacific Coast league, even if it's a long-, tough climb. The Padres moved to a shaky first place Sunday by splitting a pair with the Port land Beavers, who ended a Padre seven-game win streak in the process. The Padres took the first game 11-8, but a determined Beaver club pocketed the sec ond contest 9-4. Salt Lake, long the leader, slipped one-half game behind when the Bees took the open er of a doubleheader at Van couver 5-4, but let the Moun ties bounce back for a 4-3 triumph. The Seattle Rainiers con tinued a downward escalator ride to fourth place as the league-trailing Spokane In dians buffetted the Rainiers 2-0 and 8-4 to sweep their five-game series. The Hawaii Islanders grab bed a 1-0 second game win over Tacoma in their double header after the Giants had taken the first game 2-1 for three straight triumphs. The Padres got away with six unearned runs in the first two innings off Beaver starter Bob Giggie in the opener. Tonight City This will be the first of two games the Ems and Dod gers will play here. They col lide at White City again in August. Eugene will play two other games at the VA field in August. Play at the southern Ore gon location has the backing of Northwest league officials who are ambitious to stimu late interest in Class B pro ball in the Rogue Valley. They are giving sports fans of this area a further sample after drawing large crowds at two turnouts at White City last year. Central Point Junior Cham ber of Commerces is sponsor of the game tonight' and its share of proceeds will go to the Crater high stadium fund. Tickets will be on sale at the gate. Dodger statistics through last Thursday showed Wade Arnold, a catcher, leading the team in hitting with .319. Bill Kelso, another catcher, sport ed .308, Billy Ray Jones, out fielder. .306, and Tom Rich ards, outfielder, .296. Pacing Eugene were Wally Cockrell, outfielder, with .312, Carlos Dore, outfielder, with .298 and Dietz with .290. Stan Wasiak skippers the Dodgers. Bud Byerly is the Eugene manager. Zarley Nabs Golf Title Durham, N. C. (UPD Hous ton medalist Kermit Zarley won the individual NCAA golf championship Saturday afternoon with an upset 5-4, 36-hole victory over his team's captain and two-time ail American, Homero Blancas. Zarley, 20-year-old junior and the son of a Yakima, Wash., restaurant owner, had a five-up lead after the 32nd hole over his older friend and Greenville, Tenn. - IUPH -Ronald Mowlds of Portland, Ore., finished second in the 1962 Veterans of Foreign Wars marble championship. Tony Alvarez, 14, Delano, Calif., was the winner. rival, to take collegiate golf's highest individual honor. MacLeod Places 4th Spokane -dj;:- Dr. Joe Har kint of Spokane defeated Ed Oldi of Seattle in sudden death playoff to win the Northwest Amputee golf tournament here Sunday. They had tied tor iirsl place in the 36-hole tournament with 168i. Ken Peterson of Fargo. N.D., was third with 175 and Tom McLeod of Medford fin ished fourth with 177. START OF RACE Backstroke participants in the 15-17-year-old boys' medley of Med ford relays Saturday push off after getting signal from starter Ken McHugh, upper left. The Reedsport team in Lane 5 won this race in the swim meet at Hawthorne pool. Reedsport won the team crown in the relays with 322 points. Medford edged North Bend 274 to 272 for second. Grants Pass scored 144, oRseburg 138 and Klamath Falls 28. Medford city recreation department spon sored the meet. A small group of the more experienced swimmers from Medford will be taken to the Elks invitation meet at Van couver, Wash., this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, according to Ken Lyons, coach and Medford recreation supervisor. MONROE TRAVELS Portland -lUPIi-Norm Mon roe, Oregon State middle dis tance runner, raced to a 10 flat clocking in the 100-yard dash at an all-comers track meet Saturday. Davis Wil born, Albany prepper, turn ed in a 10:02.3 two mile. Osuna Gains Net Crown That was good enough to over come four Portland homers, two of them by manager Lcs Pcden that were worth six runs. But the Beavers got theirs in the nightcap. Padre starter Joe Nuxhall saw too many Beavers too fast and was sent to the showers in the third after Portland scored six runs off six hits. A constant pursuit by the Mounties that included hom ers by Joe Taylor and Ray Looney failed to catch Salt Lake in the opener, but a two-run homer by Chuck Weatherspoon put the Moun ties ahead in the nichtcap. Al Schroll iced the contest in the late innings by containing the Bees to eight hits. John Werhas led the In dians in their sweep over the Rainiers with two solo hom ers in the nightcap. Right hander Bill Bethel shut out the Seattle club in the opener on four hits. Joe Cardenal lined one over the wall on the second pitch off Hawaii starter Ben John son in the opener, and the Giants sewed it up in the third when Gaylord Perry came home. Islander Erv Palica loosed a one-hitter in the nightcap to turn the trick on Tacoma. Dairy Maids Divide Eugene Games; Play Florists on Tuesday Rogue Valley Dairy Maids and Marion Kozak are the RY SUNNY BRl YOU'LL LIKE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT! OOK jpjfamw'"' i J ' OLD i SUNNY i BROOK I KENTUCKY j BLENDED WHISKEY ft- - OLD SUNNY BROOK STRAIGHT BOURBON i , ft split a Northwest Women's Softball league pair of games and lost a practice game at Eugene in Saturday and Sun day play. They now await tougher competition on Tues day night, when they will en counter the high-powered Erv Lind Florists of Portland. The Tuesday doublcbill will get under way at 7:30 p.m. at Memorial field, White City. These scuffles will be league games. Rouge Valley will catch the Florists as they near the end of an extended barn storming tour which has tak en the Portland team to Utah, Arizona and California. Eugene McCullough Chain Saw whipped the Maids 3 to 1 in loop play on Saturday. Rogue Valley won the Sunday mix 4 to 0. A five-inning just-for-fun scrape was taken by the Sawyers 3 to 2 on Satur day. The Maids now own a league record of 4-6. League standings are not available. Rogue Valley garnered its lone run and lone hit in tho second inning of the counting game on Saturday. Bernice Bigham walked, advanced on a miscuc and was singled home by Yvonne Mclvor. Eu gene packed its tallies into the third panel on a base on balls, two errors, a fielder's choice and hits by Millie Powell and Mooreen Larson. Winning pitcher Jackie Rice walked four and struck out eight. Pat Barron threw three-hit ball for Rogue Val ley, walking three and whiff ing seven. The Maids' two markers in the second Saturday fray were on two errors, a walk and a single by Glcnda Hull. Eugene runs, all in the bot tom of the fifth stanza, were on a hit by Rice and all three Maid errors. Eugene kept the Maid scoring down despite eight walks given up by Carolyn Jones who fanned one batter. RV's Doris Hick son issued no free passes and struck out one batter. Yesterday, Jean Main knocked in two runs in the second inning when her hit followed a walk and error. A base on balls, a groundout and a single by Nadine Brood put over a fifth inning tally. A base on balls and misplay got the other score in the seventh. Ellen Callaghan shut out the Saw team on four hits. She walked two and whiffed one. Nancy Wclborn. for Eu gene, allowed two hits and four free passes. She recorded one strikeout. Louise Mazzuca, a no-hit pitcher of national stature. likely pitchers for the Florists while Pat Barron and Ellen Callaghan probably will han dle the slab chores for the Maids. A possible lineup for the Florists is Monte Wallis, catcher; Fran McConnell, first base; Carolyn Fitzwater, sec ond base; Dot Dobie, third base; Roma Menold, shortstop and Becky Sisley, Pat Harri son and Charlene Dauenhauer in the outfield Jean Main, who has an ailing knee, is expected to be able to handle the catching chores for the Dairy Maids. If she isn't, Glenda Hull will be be hind the plate with Doris Hickson, first base; Jan Bate- man, second base; Janet Pfaff, third base, and Yvonne Mc lvor, shortstop. In the outfield will be Cal laghan, when not pitching, along with Bernice Bigham and Nadine Brood. Iola Mart inson, formerly with Bremer ton, Wash., will be in the outfield when Callaghan is the chucker. In the Florists the Dairy Maids take on the perennial Northwest Women's Major league champ and Pacific Northwest regional represen tative in world tournament play. In the long history of the Erv Lind teams there have been two world title crews and several runnersup with numerous players mak ing Ail-American. The Dairy Maids, them selves, have a record of which they can be proud. Twice they have been state champions and they enter this year's state meet at Eugene as de fending titlists. Rogue Valley was runnerup last year in the Northwest regional tourna ment at Yakima, Wash. Five Maids, who are with the team again this year, were named all-tourney players. They are Hickson, Barron, Callaghan, Bigham and Pfaff. Barron was named the outstanding pitcher of the state tournament at White City last year and Cal laghan, Mclvor and Hickson were chosen as tourney all stars. i.iNEScones: (Saturday) Rogue Valley 010 000 01 1 S Eugene 003 000 x 3 3 3 Barron and Main; Rice and Lar ion. Stanford, Calif. -OJPU- Ra fael Osuna, 23, the world's eighth-ranking tennis player, had the NCAA tennis title in his traveling bag today as he joined the world's top net ters at Wimbledon. The Mexican Davis Cupper led the Southern California Trojans to a triple victory -singles, doubles, and the team title - in the NCAA tourney which ended Saturday at Stanford university. The Mexican won the sin gles title and joined Ramsey Earnhart to take the doubles championship for the second consecutive year. USC took the team championship with 22 point', followed by defend ing champion UCLA with 12 and Arizona with 10. ' In the singles, Osuna de feated Marty Riessen of Northwestern, 2-6. 6-4, 6-4, 6-2. Osuna and Earnhart de feated Ron Mandelstam and John Karabasz of the Univer sity of Miami, ria., 6-2, 6-2, 6-4. 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