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THURSDAY. JUNE 13. 1963 r n U u MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON UNIFORMS DRAWN - Four Infield mem bers of the Medford American Legion Jun. nior baseball team are ihown after drawing their uniforms. From left are Jim Calhoun, second base: Ron Edmonds, third base; Don Anderson, first base; John Kovenz, assis tant coach, and Dan Miles, shortstop. The four players are slated for duty this eve ning when Mcdford's home season begins In a game against Ashland at the fair grounds ball park. MEDF0RDt$S2SWRIBUNI SLPdDiHnrs Studs Clip Hawks 10-0; Triple Play Recorded by KF AREA 4 STANDINGS (Southern Division) w. Medford . 1 Central Point .. 3 Klamath Hawki J Granta Pais - 2 Klamath falcons 1 Trl-Clty I Alhland 0 Pet 1.000 .750 .87 87 .500 J33 .000 Junior Legion Ball Makes 1963 Start Here Tonight American Legion junior baseball makes its 1063 start at Medford this evening. Medford's aggregation will be host to Ashland at 7:30 p.m. at the fairgrounds ball diamond. It will be an Area 4 Southern division mix. It will be a ceremonious oc casion. For, the park has been renovated under direction of the Jackson county court and the county baseball commis sion. And, American Legion J unit ball returns to the field after an absence of almost three years. The ceremonies will be highlighted when County Judge Earl Miller throws out the first ball and the ball Is caught by Chairman Claude Miles of the baseball commis sion. Stuart Young Is the prob able pitcher for the Medford team. His mound opponent may be John Rhodes. Others In Lineup Others In the likely Med base; Dan Miles, shortstop, and Gury Miller, Mike Nea thamer and Tom Barker, out fielders. For Ashland possible start ers are Bob DoBoer, catcher; Dave Barger, first base; Den nis Kindcll, shortstop; Jun nis Ekwall, second base; Den Susce, third base, and Rick Clark, Tim Voth and Tim Thompson, outfielders. Ash land Coach Bill Leybold re ported that the regular short stop, Dean Samuclson, is on a vacation trip. Medford has played only one game - one at Klamath Falls last Saturday-but heads the league as the only un defeated club. Ashland seeks Its first loop victory. American Legion officials, members of the county court and members of the baseball commission will be main par ticipants in the ceremonies. They -will be opened at 7:30 p.m. by uranvll Brttlsan, chairman of the Medford Le- County Commissioners Ed Taylor and Don Fabcr will be on the program along with Miller. Francis Cheney will be the other baseball commis sion member taking part. The game will be the first of a slate of six in four days for the Medford club. It will meet Coos Bay at 8 p.m. here on Friday and in a doublebill starting at 1 p.m. on Satur day. The Coos Bay players will stay Friday night at the homes of Medford players and Legionnaires. The Improved ball park Is the result of efforts by those Interested in the youth base ball program, Including Amer ican Legion ball, and response by the county court. Claude Miles was particularly active In campaigning for the Im provements and seeing that they were carried out, includ ing expenditures of his own time and money In formulat ing plans plus contributing ford lineup are Ken Phlpps.lglon baseball committee and catcher; Don Anderson, first I member of the county base- base; Jim Calhoun, second I ball commission. Memorial Field, White City - A triple play by the Hawks, one-hit, 12-strikeout pitching by Central Point's Larry Pep per and a two-run homer by the Studs' Darryl Summer field were highlights here Wednesday evening when CP's Cheney Studs shut out the Klamath Falls Hawks baseball club 10 to 0. The Cheney nine moved Into second place in the loop standings with the victory in the Southern division of Area 4. Klamath fell Into a third place tie after having led the circuit with an unbeaten rec ord. Tonight the Studs will go to Roseburg for a nine-Inning game starting at 8 p.m. It will be Central Point's third game in three days. Surg Nipped The triple play came In the sixth inning last night when the Central Pointers ap peared to have. another surge of runs on the way. Neal Ellis led off the inning with a sin gle and Larry Mason follow ed with another. Bob Stroh then hit a low liner to second 654 TOURNAMENT SLATED - Ken Myers, left, and Gary High land, right, are among players slated to enter the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce-sponsored junior tennis tour nament nerc on June Tl and 23. They are shown with Dick Puhl, member of the jaycee tourney committee and Hcdrtck Junior high net coach. Myers played for Hedrlck this spring and Highland was a member of Medford high's state chain- pionsnip aoumes team. (Anders photo). Jaycee District Tennis Tournament Slated Here Wooden Shoe Rolls Record Team Figure wooden Shoe, Medford, has taken over team first place and. Judy Barnett, Klamath Falls, singles top spot in the women's events of Southern Oregon handicap bowling tourney at Medford lanes. Wooden Shoe rolled a team record 2924 with Del Chris- I tianson recording a 656. hieh- work on the field. Members of I est scratch series to date in Post 15 of the American Le-1 the tourney. She had games of gion also actively sougni me renovation. Bleachers Borrowed Yet to be purchased and in stalled, because funds are not now available, are steel sup ported bleachers and a fence. Regular wooden bleachers from School Districts 540 and 6 will be used this season. They scat 1,100 to 1,200. The ball park project also Includes construction of a dressing room and rcstroom facility. County Commissioner Fab er, who has overseen the ball park work for the county court, praised Lull Brothers Granite company for donating rock for the ball field base. the school districts for loan of the bleachers, Pacific Pow er and Light company for quick Installation of lights, the Medford fire department for assisting the light installa tion with Its ladder truck and Kogap Lumber Industries for donation of multi-bark. A district tennis tourna ment for boys and girls will be conducted here on June 22 and 23 by the Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce. The tourney with four di visions for boys and four lor girls will be conducted on the Medford high courts. Winners In each will gnin berths in the state J-tycee tourney which Is slated tor June 28 at Rose burg. The tourney will have open competition In Junior boys', junior girls', boys' and girls divisions. There will be novice rivalry for similar divisions. Junior boys' and Junior girls' events are for entrants 18 years of age and under and boys' and girls' rivalry for those 16 and under. Root Director John Root Is tournament di rector and Dick Puhl snd Ron Singler are members of his committee. Entry blanks may be ob tained from Lamport's Sport ing Goods store. Entries must be on file witn Puhl, 25 Quince St., by 8 p.m. Thurs day, June 20. There Is a $2 entry fee. FIGHTS W'EnS'rsnAY ROl'T I'nlted Prtn International Philadelphia Lett Matthewa. ISt. Philadelphia (topped Wav. man Diown, 14, Toledo, Ohio ill. 245, 241 and 170 Judy Barnett rolled In singles. Eldina Greenwood, Klam ath Falls, moved Into fourth place In ladies all-events with a 1711. This was a scratch to tal. Only lady with a higher scratch score for nine games so far is Kay Kawacuchi, Yreka. Calif., with 1780. There were no changes re ported among the top five in men's events. baseman Mike Spiker who ran over and tagged second sack then threw to Bob Woldt at first base. Ellis and Mason, who had headed for third and second, thereby were caught off base. Pepper, who walked five batters, gave up the only hit to Tom Schiff in the third inning when the Hawks made their most serious threat. He retired the side on strikeouts in three innings. Summerfield whammed his homer to centerfield in the fifth inning after Lou Alva. rez had singled. Ellis and his teammate, Willie Jones, were the only players with, more than one hit. Each got two and Jones doubled. Jones drove in two runs in the sec ond inning and Ellis two in the fourth. Six in Fourth - Six runs were scored by the Studs in the fourth frame on just one hit - an Ellis sin gle. Klamath starting pitcher Steve Young issued three bases on balls. There were three errors. Including two dropped outfield flies. Ellis swiped two bases and Sum merfield stole home. A Jones' single and two miscues, one a dropped third strike, figured in the Studs' two markers in the second inning. The Cheney nine was retired with the bases full. Pepper fanned the first two batters he faced in the third Inning. He then walked Curt Coleman and gave up the hit to Schiff. The runners ad vanced on a wild pitch but Marv Cunningham fanned to end the KF batting turn. Young yielded four hits, eight runs and five walks and struck out five in 3 23 in nings. Reliever Jon Crume gave up four hits and two runs over the rest of the way. He struck out one. The Studs recorded one dou ble play. Wayne Clay had been scheduled to pitch for the Studs last night but could not because of a bruised leg sus tained in a haying mishap. For the Roseburg game to night Studs' Manager Bill Askwith may divide hurling duties among Mason, Ellis and Bob Corliss. Dick Allen Sets Kart Mark Here Dick Allen, Reedsport, was awarded the fast time trophy for a new track record of 16.68 seconds Saturday and Sunday in the Oregon region al races at Medford kartways. He was winner in the BC open lightweight (duals) class. The regional drew aprox imately 50 of the fastest karts and top drivers of the Pacific Northwest. Entries came from as far away as Vancouver, B.C. Medford's race program was one of the largest held in Oregon this year under sanc tion of the International Kart ing federation. Next regional will be conducted on June 30 at Portland's Jantzen Beach. First and second placers in the various classes were: A Junior slock Jack West. Portland: Mike Llnd.ten. St. Helens. A Junior modified Jerry Con dray. Granta Pass: Bill Savard. Medford. BC open Uchtwelrht (duals) Dick Allen, Reedsport; Jim Pltite, Portland. A stock mlddlewelsht Robert Bargen. Portland; Dennis Grls wald, Scappoose. A standard llfhtweljrht Carrlne McGraw, Longview, Waah.; Roger Trexler. HUlsboro. A standard heavyweight Terry Jenkins. Eugene; Bill Clarke, Portland. BC heavyweight (duals) Gary Youngstron. Vancouver, Wash.; Gordon Hook, Portland. A super lightweight Skip Keene. Portland; Allen, Reedsport. A super middleweight Larry Elery, Salem; Wayne Denny, Eugene. A super heavyweight Ken Trexler. HUlsboro; Jack McCan dliaa, Jacksonville. SPORTSCASTS Radio station KYJC will carry live broadcasts of the NCAA track meet at Albu querque, N.M. The one this evening will be at 9:30 o'clock. Other broadcasts will be at 9 p.m. Friday and at 8:30 p.m. Saturday. Yreka Go-Kart Club To Be Organized Yreka, Calif. - A meeting to organize a Yreka go-kart club will be held on Friday evening, June 14. The meeting will be con ducted at 7 p.m. at Yreka Up holstery shop. New Six-Mile Run Featured At Meet Albuquerque, N.M. - HOT -The six-mile run - a new event - will climax tonight's opening competition in the NCAA track and field cham pionships at the University of New Mexico stadium. Twenty runners are enter ed in the grueling race, which is a substitute for the 10,000 meter run held during Olym pic years. The six mile race is 396 yards shorter, and un like other events on the three- DODGERS BUY WILLHITE Los Angeles - IUPII - Jon Nicholas Willhite, a 6 foot, 2 inch, 190 - pound southpaw, joins the Los Angeles Dodgers pitching stuff today and will start against the Chicago Cubs Sunday in one of the games of a doubleheadcr. Willhite was purchased from the Spo kane, Wash., club, a Dodger farm In the Pacific Const league, where he had a 7-3 record. SLATE TRACK TELECAST New York (TJPI The track and field meet between the United States and Russia from Moscow's Lenin Sta dium on July 21 and 22 will be televised in the United States on videotape by the American Broadcasting com pany. Highlights of the meet will be shown July 23. LINESCORES: KF Hawks ... 000 000 0 Old CP Studs 020 020 X 10 S 1 Voung. Crume (41 and Bartlett, Petrlrk (91; L. Pepper and Sum-merrield. BRILL METAL WORKS Commarcial Industrial Residential ShMff Mttal Work Stainltst, Gilvinistd and Coppar Fabrication 2287 West Main PHONE 772-4440 Teams Hit Out Eight Home Runs By RON SUPINSKI United Press International Someone must have told the San Diego Padres and Dallas Fort Worth Rangers that home runs were going out of style and to get 'em while the get ting's good. Eight homers accounted for 9 of the 1 1 runs scored Wednes day night in the Texans' 7-4 win over the Padres. Dallas-Fort Worth Iced it in the seventh with bases - empty blasts by Sandy Valdesplno and Pedro Oliva plus a two run shot by Ray JablonskI, his 14th. Elsewhere, a seven-run in ning helped Spokane to a 12-6 win over skidding Seattle, Jose Tartabull's bases-loaded single with two out in the last of the ninth gave Portland a 4- 3 victory over Tacoma, Salt Lake City scored three runs in the seventh to nip Denver 5- 4 and Hawaii did likewise in beating Oklahoma City 7-5. San Diego and Dallas-Fort Worth each hit four circuit smashes. Padre starter and loser Dave Sisler (3-5) was tagged for three of the hom ers. Oliva hit two, one off Sisler and the other off re liefer Ray Rippelmeyer. Not to be outdone, San Diego pro duced solo blasts by Gene Freese, his fifth. Art Sham sky's 11th, Deron Johnson's 13th and No. 2 for Chico Ruiz. Tartabull, who desperately wants a quick return to the majors with Kansas City, scor ed Dick Green with the win ning run. Don Gile's homer for Tacoma in the seventh had tied the score. Other bases empty homers were hit by Portland's Bill Kern and Ta coma's Jerry Robinson. It was the second victory In a row for Portland under its newly appointed manager Danny Carnevale. night program has no quali fying standard. Most of the first night's competition will be trials in the dash events as the NCAA weeds out the best of its 403 individual athletes who com prise 383 entries in the 42nd annual championships. The meet was stretched over three nights for the first time this year, with the extra day affording more rest for runners during preliminaries. The night events offer relief from the summer New Mex ico heat and windstorms of the day. The '11 teams repre sentee meet, with the Urges. try the 20 ath letes fi.' defending cham pion University of Oregon. Fishing Good In Rogue Area Portland - (UPD - Oregon fishing prospects for this week-end, compiled by the state game commission: Southwestt Salmon angling slow on Rogue river; very good over Coos Bay bar and Winchester Bay. Trout ang ling good in Chetco river, fair to good in Fish lake, Howard Prairie lake, Hyatt reservoir and Willow lake. Diamond lake good to excellent. Senior Golf Qualifying Under Way Qualifying play opened yes terday for the senior club championship golf tourney at Rogue Valley Country club. It will continue through June 23. Match play is then sched uled in three divisions with first round matches to be fin ished by July 7. Championship flight com petition will be at scratch with other flights at full han dicap. Hogan, Snead Vie In Classic Rye, N.Y. - (UPD - Ben Ho- ' gan and Sam Snead, golf dom's best-known gaffers, at tracted the largest galleries today when 138 pros and am ateurs teed off in the opening round of the $10,000 Thure derbird Classic. Hogan, who at 50 is one year younger than Snead, was competing in his first major tournament since the 1962 Masters. The little Tex an has been practicing for al most a week on the Westches ter Country club's champion ship west course for his latest comeback. 11 ft'fli' sT 111:11 IJna class by hsetf Eff Kl r nine win i riva BIG LOAD SPACE j DRIVE IT NOW T YOUR DEALER STEVEN'S AUTO SALES 505 N. CENTRAL AVE. DEMONSTRATOR SALE SAVE ON TIRES NOW! Buy a pair of Gates ATO's and you gef... W ?? 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Youngsters will still be going to school play grounds and playing at home . . . they are apt to dash into the street anytime . . . into the path of YOUR car. The Medford Traffic Safety Council urges YOU to make SAFE DRIVING a very person al responsibility. Have your car thoroughly checked for safety . . . be doubly careful to observe traffic signs and regulations .... watch out for children everywhere - and give them the right of way! Published in cooperation with the Medford Safety Council by The Mail Tribune
