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I (Will a. , , 2 B FRIDAY. APRIL 21. 1H3 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Crater at Grants Pass, KF At Ashland in SO Baseball Raia and wet grounds baa UWM Ml0tHlit of Mm ford hlfh's buob.ll put scheduled (or this afternoon I RoMburg. OUTHERN OREGON CONFERENCE HANDING W. L. ret Medford a o l.ooo Klamath ram , 1 33 Crater 4 Jioo AihUnd 1 It .107 Granta Paw 0 6 .000 Grants Pass and Aihland re the scheduled scenes of rivalry Saturday In Southern Oregon conference baseball. Crater will play at Granta Paaa. and Klamath Falls at Aihland. Doubleheaders are slated with 1:30 p.m. play ball times. Junior varsities of the schools clash at Central Point and Klamath Falls. Medford has the league bye this week end. The Black Tornado opposes University of Oregon freshmen Saturday at Eugene. It was billed at Roseburg this afternoon. The conference tusslers are hopeful thst weather will co operate this week. Rain brought postponement of last week ends league activity. One conference doublebill was, however, played last Tuesday. Klamath won S to 3 and 4 to 3 from Grants Pass and Is breathing on the neck of Medford. Crater Coach BUI Plche aid that the Comets will have Pit Pepper at shortstop on Saturday. Nell Rlvenburg win come In from center field to take over Pepper's second bsse duties and Dave Twedell will be In centerfleld. Shift la made because . Lou Alvarez, regular shortstop, Is not elgl ble this week. Plche indicated that Larry Pepper will pitch the first game and Wayne Clay the sec ond with Clay possibly play ing In the outfield during the first game. John Gray, Klamath Falls, was the batting leader among Southern Oregon conference players, according to full sea ion statistics through April 20, He hid been at bat 20 times in seven games and col lected 10 hits for in even .500 average. Kitchlng Hits .417 Oriy wis followed by Mike Kitchlng, his tesmimte, who hid a .448 mirk. Third wis Medford's Dick Detfley with .357. Rick Pierce, Ashland, carried a .333 mark and Dean Simuelson, Ashlsnd, ind Gary Miller,, Medford, com' pleted the over .300 Hit with ,304 each. Stuirt Young, Medford, and Rick Jackson, Klamath Falls, led pitchers each with a 9-0 record. Young, with 23 innings on the hill, carried a iparkllng 0.30 eirned run av erage Crater's Larry Pepper hid I 1.00 mirk ind Jackson allowed 1.29. Statlstlcsn Sob Alvarez, Central Point, determined in dividual leaders on the bills of 22 It bats for Crater, Ash land ind Medford pliyers, 17 for Klamath Falls ind 10 for Grants Piss. Pitching lend ers were listed according to 18 innings on the hill for Med ford, Criter ind Ashland, 14 for Klamath ind eight for Grants Piss. 16 COMET INFIELDEH - Pat Pepper, above, veteran Comet infielder is to be at shortstop on Saturday for the Criter high baseball team when it plays I Southern Oregon con- f e r e n c e doubleheader at Granta Pass. SEASON TEAM STATISTICS: (CORlartnca sain at last weekl W L Pet. PO A E Medford.. 1 1 .771 ISS S3 38 a Put . 0 4 .000 77 17 II S rater ... S 4 MS I8S 14 at hi. nd a 7 .313 ISS 89 43 K. P.IU . S 1 .714 BATTING: An R H RBI Ave X. Tall. 100 .13 S3 43 .301 Medford ... 313 99 39 .131 Crattr 343 44 47 37 ins Ashland Ill la 37 is .190 a. Pau St to 13 11 .131 BITCHING: IP R H BB SO ERA Medford. l 19 34 3S IS 1.13 crater nt 3.1 ai 30 ea i.aa K. Fall... 90 10 14 34 13 3.43 Aihland 9a 71 as 90 41 sit O Pan . 2S 30 18 13 14 3 .19 Columbo To Risk Title Here May 9 Rocky Columbo, former professional boxer from The Bronx, N. Y will risk his Pa cific Coast junior heavyweight wrestling championship it the Medford armory on Thursday night, May B. Promoter Elton Owen slid today that he has signed the popular Italian to make the title defense, first aince he won the crown from Wild Bill Savage in the same ring in March. Columbo asked Owen to get the best possible opponent be cause "I want to prove to the people that I am worthy of being celled the champion." Owen said that he had sev eral top-notch heavyweights under consideration for the match and that he would start negotiations Immediately for I suitable opponent. There will be two other matches on the card, which Owen promises will be one of the best he has ever pre sented here. Koufax Shoulder Adds To Woes Los Angeles - IUPD- Sandy Koufix'i left shoulder rather than his Index finger added today to the woes of the Loa Angclca Dodgera, and the bril liant lefthander conceded he waa "a little disappointed" bout being sidelined for it least 10 diys. A doctor s examination determined that Koufax, whose loss in mld-1062 prob ably cost Los Angeles the pen nant, suffered a shoulder In- Jury In the seventh inning of Tuesday's game with Milwau kee. Dr. Robert Karlan said Koufax sustained an injury to the poaterior capsule of the left shoulder Joint. Koufax waa unable to pitch after mid-July In 1962 be cause of an Injury which cut off circulation to the index finger of hla left hand. The Brooklyn-born athlete wis 14 3 at the time, but finished with a 14-7 mark after two abortive starts when his fin ger was not healed. Red Raiders Will Host Track Fray Ashlind-Tnck will return to the Southern Oregon col lege field Saturday when the Red Raiders host their first regular home meet of the sea son with Shasta Junior col lege and Oregon College of Education . With favorable weather, Coach Din Bulkey of SOC is looking forward to some top efforts. OCE is one of the top rivals of SOC ind will be out to do its utmost igainst the defending Oregon Colle giate conference champions. MTOFORDvaaTRIBirfff SPORTS SOC Opposes PSC; Splits With SJHS Gold Medal Total Now 36 for U.S. By LEO H. PETERSEN UPI Sports Editor Sao Paulo, Brazil -WTO- The Stir Spangled Banner was the theme song of the Pan-American Games today, with the United States collecting a staggering total of 36 gold medals in the competition. A total of 20 gold medals were idded to the rapidly growing number Thursday as the Yanks turned the fourth annual Pan-Am spectacle Into a U. S. nightmare for rival countries. The Yanks won four in swimming, swept the board clean of all wrestling events snd placed first in five other sports. Prime target for the United States today is Cuba. The Cu bans defeated the U. S. contin gent in baseball 13-1 in an opening round game last Sun day. Both teams ire dead locked at 3-1 in the round robin standings and a win to day could mean the gold med al In baseball. The landslide by Uncle Sam's stheltes is expected to keep on rolling when the track and field events open Saturday. BF Downs Crater JV Butte Fills - Butte Fills high varsity baseball team nosed Crater junior varsity 6 to 3 on Wednesdsy in i gime it Central Point. The Loggers got all six runs in the second inning on six walks, I hit batter, a sin gle by Ron Slzemore and a passed ball. Mike Stratton of Butte Falls and McNIchols of Crater each got two hits. Butt, r.iu oso ooo o a 3 t Crater IV ... 300 030 09 9 1 Htzemore. Ellta IS) and Stratton; Halaey, Buah 131 and McNlchola. Ashland -Southern Oregon college Red Raiders split with Shasta Junior college, losing 4 to 0 and winning 2 to 1 in non-league baseball yes terday. And, weather per mitting, they were to open a three-game home Oregon Col legiate conference series this afternoon with the strong Portland States Vikings. One game with PSC was scheduled for today. On Sat urday i doubleheader will begin at 10 a.m. SOC entered the series the conference lead er and the games with the defending champ Vikings are crucial in the circuit. Howard Rudd homered for Shasta's only run in the sec ond game. The run, in the sixth Inning tied up the game. SOC scored In the first frame on an error and Dave Hughes' hit. In the ninth inning for the victory run, Hughes sin gled and swiped second base, advanced on a Paul Blinka hit scored on Bill Bailey's squeeze safety. Shatta 001 031 04 7 1 SOC 000 000 0 0 3 3 Roden and Mize; Carr. Slay (6) and McKlbben. Shasta 000 001 0001 8 3 SOC 100 000 0012 8 1 Spl.wn and Lowe; King and Burweu. Carbon Copy Tilts Miles Apart in PCL United Press International A couple of games thou sands of miles apart had car bon copy totals Thursday night in the only Pacific Coast league action. Both games produced 9-5 victories for the home teams with the winners collecting 13 hits and the losers 7. Seattle dealt one of the defeats to Denver for the winners' sixth straight victory, while Ha waii's performance against San Diego indicated that the Islanders may be ready to break out of a season-long bat ting slump. MNF.SCORKS: Denver 014 000 0005 7 3 Senile 103 000 60x 9 13 3 acnneiaer. Henm m, unvo m. Umbe.ch 18) and Roof, Porter (2): Macleod. R. G. Smith (41. Soencer (81 end Clbion. WP Smith. LP Rehm. San Diego 101 000 0305 7 1 Hawaii 033 200 lOx 0 13 0 Falvin. Breeden (31. Rlaenhoover 17) and Pavletlch: Newman. Grlga (9 and Roaellt. WP Newman. LP ravin. RELAYS OPEN Philadelphia -tUPD- The 69th annual Penn Relays opened on Franklin Field today with Villanova bidding for two of five championships the Wild cats optimistically hope to win during the two-day meet. Allen of WSC Has Top Mark In Hurdle Event University of Oregon Oregon's rugged Webfoots continue to dominate North ern Division track and field standings by leading in six events and sharing the lop spot in three others. Oregon State holds three undisputed leaderships and shares two others while Wash ington athletes own two out right top billings and a share of another. Only leadership change in action last week came when Jim Allen of Washington State earned that school's lone top billing with a 37.5 effort in the intermediate hurdles. Top Northern division track and field marks: too Tom Boawell. OSU. .nd Dave Blunt. UO, B.fl; Rusty Brown, OSU, 9.7. 220 Boawell. OSU. and Blunt. UO. 21.7: Jerry Plowman. W. and Rusty Brown. OSU. 21.9. 440 Norm Hoffman, OSU, and Lynn Eves. OSU. 48 2. Ray Van Alien, UO. 48.4. 880 Hoffman, OSU. 1:49.5; Keith Forman. UO, 1:91; Morgan Groth. OSU, 1:51.1. Mile Forman, UO, 4:00.1: Archie San Rom.ni, UO. 4:04.7; Groth, OSU. 4:04.7. 2-Mile Forman. UO. 8:568: San Romani. UO. 0:01.1. Groth. OSU. 9:11.9. High hurdles Mel Renfro. UO, 14.1; Tom Wyatt. OSU. 14 J; Mike Thrall. W. 143. Inter hurdlei Jim Allen. WSU 37.5: Tom Wyatt. OSU, 37 8; Thrall W. 37.9. High lump Paul Stuber. UO. S-9',4: Terry Llewellyn. UO, 6-9: Ray Nicklenerry. W, 6-6'i Broad jump Renfro. UO, 34-6", and Paul Shinnick, W. 34-61,; Warlbuka West. W. 24. Pole vault Brian Sternberg, W. 15-7'j: Marty Frank. UO. 13-0; (Six tied at 14-6.1 Triple Jump Wct. W, 48-3'i; Elllf Fredrikaen. WSU. 16-101,; Vernon Fox. UO, 4B-3V Shot put Dave Stccn. UO, S1-UV Dick Brown. UO, 94-5; Don Roberta. OSU, 53-11. Discus Steen. UO. 174-7: Lou raaano, OSU, 16S-2; Harvey Hawk en, W, 136-0. Javelin Gary Stenlund. OSU. 334-:.',. John Burns. UO. 290-1; L Tipton. UO, 237-101. Speedometer Service Tachometers Tachographs Cables Casings Drive Joints ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO. 634 North Central Phone 773-7401 PLAYERS TRADED New York-WPli- The Nation al Football league champion Green Bay Packers today sent defensive halfback John Sy mank and defensive end Bill Quinlan to the New York Gi ants in exchange for a high draft choice. The Giants im mediately shipped Quinlan, a six-year veteran, to the Phil adelphia Eagles in exchange for Gene Gossage, also a de fensive end. Williams Paces Mountain Boys Little Butte Mountain Men, at one win each, muzzle - loading rifle club, i Kathy Osterman won a, will hold its next meeting at ' three shots for center match 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, May and so did Al Osterman. Ed 4, at Central Point Sports- die Bittle took the one shot ; men's club. Next shoot will be ! for center children's contest. on May 12. Meetings and shoots may Joe Williams dominated j be attended by anyone inter- last Sunday's shoot. He won I ested. three shots for center events I ; " . . I twice and took one shot for j Take-home pay has n"Ped center contests. The team j 30 per cent in the last 10! shoot was won by the group j years, but food prices have he captains, tying the teams I increased only six per cent. . Flashing a friendly Smile, folks that means S?? neno in any language! look for me every Tuesday in this paper. MEDFORD HI-WAY READY-MIX We Make Saturday Deliveries DODGE IS FIRST ST IN SALES INCREASE IN STYLING IN ENGINEERING FIRST IN VALUE! Torsion air ride, unibody construc tion, alternator, directional signals, safety rim wheels, electric wipers, all other factory equipment. Price. F.O.B. Detroit. $ 1983 jB ALL HEARTY AND DEPENDABLE DODGES ARE BACKED BY A S YEAR50,000 MILE WARRANTY COMPARE AND YOU'LL DRIVE DODGE LOW DOWN UP TO 36 MONTHS TO PAY Your authorized Dodge Dealer's Warranty against defects in material and workmanship en 1963 vehicles has been expanded to include parts replacement or repair wtihout charge for required part or labor for 5 years or 50,000 miles, whichever comes first, on the en gine block, head and internal parts; transmission case and internal parts (excluding manual clutch); torque converter, driveshaft, universal joints (excluding dust covers), rear axle and differential, and rear wheel bearings, provided the vehicle has been serviced at reasonable Intervals according to the Dodge Certified Car Care schedules. PARSONS MOTOR CO. 315 East 5th Phone 773-3687 lltASON INDIVIDUAL STATS.: Httwaa If H HMAWt. Young. Med. 23 a 6 0.30 3 0 L Pepper. Cra. 38 II IS 1.00 I 3 R Jackton. KF STS 4 1 ID 3 Clay, Crater 3a la 33 us 3 1 Benton. KP . 10.1 11 13 3 00 I 3 Rhodes. Ah. 33 IB 31 3 40 1 3 Thompson. GP 13 13 is .via 0 3 g'Corm'ck. Of 11 la 13 a 4a o 3 treat, Ath. h i is a 713 1 3 BtiUat Grtv KF Kiirhlni. Kr Detfley. Med Pierce. Ath. . 8 Samuelaon. Ash. 8 Miller. Med a Andereon. Med. 8 Jthodee, Ath. 8 Guyer. Kr T cm Kr t Gltnet, Crater 8 Mllea Med. Parltotlo. Kr 7 P Pepper, Cre. 7 Neathamer. Med a AB H 10 S 38 10 31 a 11 a 13 a u a 37 a 14 4 11 4 ii a 34 a 37 8 II KM Av. 18 8 300 II 8 .448 18 S .337 8 1 J33 7 4 JOI 7 1 .304 a S 388 7 1 38S a 4 isa 8 4 .188 8 4 .189 7 4 .138 3 .1 .380 5 3 317 0 1 307 Grade School Baseball Games THIRBDAV GAMES: LINS1CORKS: Rootevelt 002 24 .1 1 Wethlngton . 800 11 3 4 Jonee and Brown: Wtlion and Room ton Oak Grove Vanity 000 8 0 3 Oak Grove JV 80S S t 0 Knapp. Gllletple 3 and Note. Harrla, Martin i3i and Werner. Ball Will Not Save Boxer from Kayo In Pennsylvania Philadelphia -IUPH- The bell no longer will save a floored fighter from a knockout In Pennsylvania, The state athletic commis sion put into effect Thursday a now safety measure direct ing the knockdown timekeep er and referee to continue counts beyond the bell. Com missioner Alfred Klein ex plained that if the felled boxer fails to regain his teat in 10 seconds, he will be ruled a knockout victim "in the round lately concluded." Klein said if n boxer rises al the count of eight and it Is already six seconds after the bell, the rest period between rounds will not be extended. Ring physicians and seconds will take a close look at thr fighter for hla safety before allowing him lo answer the bell for the succeeding round. PRENTICE LEADS Augusta, Ca. in Micxcy Wright, favored to win her third straight Titleholdcrs championship, went into to day's second round three strokes off the pace. The first round leader was slender Joann Prentice of Birming ham, Ala., and Columbia, SC. who Ignored an almost steady rain to post a 1-under-par 71. Hockey League Finals Begin Sun Francisco - ilipp The finals of the Western Hockey league playoffs open tnnight when Northern division win ner Seattle takes on Southern division kingpin San Fran cisco. The beat - of seven series opens at the San Francisco Cow Palace and that's where it will close, too. Because the Seattle rink is not available, the Seals will host all of the games V : RECEPTIVE ! Readers Welcome Newspaper Advertising . . . It's Not an Intrusion! People really want newspaper advertising and have said so. Surveys usually show well over SO1? in favor of newspaper advertising; less than 70 for magazines ; and under fa in favor of advertising on radio and TV. Your advertising's first job is to win a friendly feeling for your product. It stands to reason you will win more friends by running your advertising where most people want it. If you want to sell more people you have to reach them when they are receptive. Newspapers reach more of the most receptive people. Medford Tribune
