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TUESDAY, JULY 9. 1963
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
Campaign To Give
Game Back To Fans
Gains Momentum
Br MILTON RICHMAN
UPI Sporti Writer
Cleveland, Ohio -(UPU-Presi
dent Gabe Paul of the Clevc
land Indians led a growing
campaign today to return the
All-Star same to the tans.
By their votes, baseball
fans throughout the country
used to dictate the make-up
of the two All-Star teams un.
til 1998 when the players took
over the balloting.
There, has been Increasing
dissatisfaction over the pres
ent system, not only among
the fans, but also among some
of the players.
The sentiment now is to
"give" the game back to the
people who actually pay the
freight - the fans.
"I think it was a mistake
to take it away from them in
the first place," said Paul,
who was a principal factor in
the change of the voting sys
tem. "I thing the present system
of voting actually hurts the
All-Star game," Paul said.
"The players cast their votes
and the results of their ballot
ing are announced shortly be
fore the game itself is played.
There's hardly any publicity
on the game at all this way.
"Under the old system,1
whereby the fans voted, it
took about three weeks, the
ballots were tabulated in the
nation's newspapers each day,
there seemed to be more com
petition for each position on
the team, and I think it add
ed a great deal to the Interest
in the game."
The system was Junked
after the 1957 season, during
which Cincinnati fans
"stuffed" the ballot boxes and
succeeded in naming seven
Red starters and Stan Muslal
of the Cardinals to the Na
tional league team.
Succeeded up to a point,
that is. Annoyed by the ob
vious chauvinism of Clncin
natlans, Commissioner Ford
Frick cancelled out two of
the Red starters that year -Gus
Bell and Wally Post - and
substituted Willie Mays of the
Giants and Hank Aaron of the
Braves.
Paul was general manager
of the Reds at the time, and
although he had no actual
Dart In the landslide of Cln
cinnali votes bv the fans, he
had to assume partial rcspon
sibility since he had handy
ballots nrlnted up with the
name of Neds' Players on
them.
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RECOVERING Giant's rookie third base
man Jim Ray Hart receives telephone call
from well-wisher while he recuperates from
a fractured shoulder blade at St. Luke's hos
pital in San Francisco. Hart was hit by a
fastball during his second major league
game. The fracture is shown at photo on
left. Hart will be out of action at least six
weeks. (UPI)
PCL All-Stars
Trip Spokane
United Press International
The Pacific Coast League's
1963 Al-Star game is in tne
record books, and Spokane
pitcher Jack Smith is proba
bly hoping it is quickly for
gotten. Spokane played host to the
All-Stars Monday night for
the second consecutive year
and was making a strong bid
for lis second win In a row
when Smith lost his control in
nightmarish sixth inning. A
wild pitch by Smith, one of
six in the inning, permitted
the All-Stars to score what
proved to be the winning run
in their 4-2 victory.
With the score tied 1-1,
Denver's Lou KUmchock
nnened the sixth with a single
and advanced to second on a
wild pitch. Dave Roberts of
Oklahoma City walked and
Hawaii's Herb Plews reached
en an error to load the bases,
Smith then uncorked an
other wild pitch and Klinv
chock scored. Several plays
later Roberta Bcored tile de
ciding run on another wild
pitch by Smith.
Reliever Fete Richcrt gave
up a' run-producing single to
Gil Garrldo of Tacoma before
finally retiring the side.
Spokane's John W e r h a s,
who had a hand in both In
dian runs, was voted the
game's Most Valuable Player.
Werhas tied the game at 1-1
with a bases-empty homo run
in the fourth and then scored
Spokane's other run after
singling in the sixth.
The league's regular sched
ule resumes tonight with
three games on tap. All 10
teams will be back in action
Wednesday.
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Spokane ... 000 101 000 2 S 3
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101. Radovlch (01 and Brumlcy,
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Smith. HR Werhas, Spokane.
STANDINGS
United Prem InternaUonat
AMERICAN LtAliUK
W.
New York So
Chicago ..... 47
Boston 44
Minnesota 43
Baltimore 47
Cleveland ........ 44
Los Angelas 41
Kamaa City 38
Detroit 3.1
Washington .... 30
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Wednesday'! Games
Boston at Minnesota, night
(Only game scheduled.)
NATIONAL LKAOUK
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XiO Angelea SO
Kan Francisco.. 48
Chicago 4.1
St. Louis . 4H
ClnclnnaU 4.1
Milwaukee 43
Pittsburgh .. 41
Philadelphia 40
Houston 33
Ntw York 2S
Pel.
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J7B 10
.343 21 'l
Wednesday's Games
Los Angeles at New York I night)
Chicago at Cincinnati mlehti
Houston at Pittsburgh (night I
San Francisco at Phila. might)
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PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Northern Division
W. I.. Prt.
Sooksna .12 37 .MU
Tacoma 48 38 .1.12 3
Portland 41 44 .482 8'k
Hawaii 41 49 .477 8't
SeslUe 38 92 .409 13',
Southera Division
w.
Oklahoma City 48
Da!las-Fl. Wth. 48
Salt Lake City 41
San Diego ..... 43
Denver 38
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Monday's Results
PCL All-Stars 4. Snokana 3
Tuesday's Rrheditl
Hawaii at Portland
Denver at San Uiegn
SeatUa at Tacoma
Only gamea schedule'!.
NORTHWEST LKAUCE
Wenatchee d' 3'
Balem . .. 9 3
Lewlston 1 8 3
Yakima 3 9
Trl-Clty 3 J
Eugene , a 8
Prl. GB
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.37.1 3
.37.1 3
.330 4
Monday's Results
Wentachee 12. Lewlston I
Eugene 6. Yakima 4
Trt-City 9. Salem 3
Today's Srhrdule
Eugene at Yakima (3 games)
Lewlston at Wrnstchea
Salem at Trt-ctty
OPTION OUTFIELDER
Los Angeles itPK The Los
Angels Angels have optioned
outfielder Frank Kostro to
Hawaii of the Pacific Coast
leagua on 24-hour recall.
Billie Jean
Loses Final
Wimbledon, England - IIIPD -
Billie Jean Motritt, the fire
man's daughter from Long
Beach, Calif., remained the
darling of the staid Wimble
don tennis crowds right down
to the last shot In the 1983
women's singles final, but
Margaret Smith, the top-seeded
Australian, went home
with the crown,
Miss Moffitt, the unseeded
upstart who had banged tier
way into the final with a
scries of upset victories over
seeded players, finally bowed
to Miss Smith in the final
Monday, 6-3, 6-4. Billie Jean
had beaten Miss Smith in the
second round of the women's
singles a ycur ago, and a
crowd of more than 17,0(10
crowded into tile lamed ivy
covered Center Court at Wim
bledon In anticipation of a
similar upset,
They cheered the bespecta
cled 10-ycar-old, even when
she made errors, but a 48-
hour delay because of rain
apparently hurt Bllllo Jean
more than tall Margaret, a
5-10 strawberry blonde gen
erally recognized as the
world's top woman player.
It wasn't a totnl loss for the
United Slates, because Dar
lenc Hard, Billie Jean's neigh
bor from Long Beach, teamed
with Maria Bticno of Brazil to
win the doubles title. They
defeated Miss Smith and
Aussie Rolyn Ebbcrn, 8-6, 9-7.
Hawaii Leads
PCL Loop In
Attendance
Spokane. Wash. - IIIPD - The
Hawaii Islanders still haven't
got colorful playboy pitcher
Bo Bclinsky on their roster,
but the Pacific Coast league
team is hardly lacking (or at
tractiveness to its fans.
In figures released Monday
by league president Dewey
Soriano, Hawaii, the Los An
geles Angels' chief farm club,
leads the 10-lcam triple-A
loop with 117.367 paid ad
missions as of July 1. It rep
resented a gain of 54.774 over
last year's total at the same
date.
Overall allendanre fur the
teams is 33.3 per cent higher
than 19H2.
The only team down from
last year's count is Salt Lake
City, which encountered bad
weather at the start of the sea
son and is 14,000 under its
1962 gate with 36,493 paid.
The San Diego Padres' paid
attendance is i-econd best at
this point - B4.3U4, an in
crease of 3,000 over last sea
son. The Spokane Indians, pres
ently battling for the North
ern division lead, have more
than doubled their paid ad
missions for a comparable pe
riod last sfason - 69,713 com
pared to 31,334.
Other totals as of July 1:
Oklahoma City 70.593, Seat
tle 73,937, Tacoma 71,362,
Dallas-Kort Worth 64.247.
Denver 52,348 and Portland
49,033.
Giant Rookie Hart
Bears No III Will
San Francisco - (DPI) - Jim
Ray Hart, the San Francisco
Giants' rookie who received a
broken shoulder blade Sun.
day, bears no ill will against
hurler Bob Gibson of the St.
Louis Cardinals.
Gibson was lust trying to
pitch me tight and the ball
got away from him." Hart
said Monday from his bed at
St. Luke's hospital. "I don't
think he was aiming at me."
The Giants had called Hart
up from their Tacoma, Wash.,
farm club Friday night. He
Tony Borne
To Headline
Mar Slate
Tony Borne, one of the most
colorful wrestlers ever to set
fool In the Pacific northwest,
will headline a double main
event wrestling card at Med
ford armory on Thursday,
July IB, Promoter Elton Owen
announced today.
Borne will meet Rocky
Columbo, a popular local fa
vorite, in the top half of the
double feature. Columbo's Pa
cific Coast junior heavyweight
championship will be at stake
in the scrap, set for two out
of three falls or 43 minutes.
Borne, who came to the
northwest from his home in
Texas for a few weeks of
wrestling, likes the area so
much that he has purchased
property In Pendleton and is
moving his family there.
Billy Whilewolf, who last
week annexed the northwest
heavy weight championship
from Mad Dog Vachon, has
been signed for the lower half
of the double main against an
opponent yet to be named. It
will be a non-title match.
One other bout will com
plete the card.
went 2-for-3 in the opener
Sunday, but then was felled
in his first at bat in the night
cap.
Dr. E. C. Sailer, the Giants'
physician, estimated that the
fracture would take six weeks
to heal.
After Hart left the game,
Gibson had to duck in the
third inning from a fast ball
served up by Juan Marichal
of the Giants. Plate umpire
Al B a r 1 1 c k immediately
walked to the mound and
fined Marichal the automatic
$30 for throwing at hitters.
Manager Alvin Dark of the
Giants declined to discuss the
incident afterwards.
Yeah, I heard about that,"
Hart said with a grin. "But I
don't think Gibson was try
ing to hit me. And I'm look
ing forward to facing him
in."
Trans-Pan Yacht
Race Under Way
Los Angclcs-luTD-Stiff winds
of up to 15 knots were expect
ed to whip the fleet of 32 en
tries in the 2,225-mile Trans
Pacific Yacht Race to a fresh
competitive basis today.
"It now Is apparent the
competitors are approaching
the northeast trade winds that
will keep the big parachute
spinnakers blowing all the
way to Diamond Head," a
race official forecast Monday.
Despite calm seas and slug
gish breezes 24 hours ago that
enabled smaller craft to gain
ground on the larger entries,
the 72-foot yawl Audacious
surged into the lead. It re
ported its position then as 635
miles off the Pacific coast.
The Audacious, owned by
Baldwin M. Baldwin of New
port Beach, Calif., overtook
the front-running position
from A u s t r a 1 1 a 'a 73-foot
schooner, Astor, owned by
Peter Warner.
Owners
Discuss
Expansion
SDokane - (UPI) - The possl
bility of the Pacific Coast
Baseball league expanding to
12 teams was discussed Mon
day at a meeting of league
directors.
But expansion could come
only with full working agree
ments with major league
clubs, according to President
Dewey Soriano. -
Soriano said the possibility
of expansion arose when it
was learned that the Interna
tional league, which is pres
ently operating under a 10
team setup similar to the Pa
cific Coast league, was inter
ested in returning to an eight-
team operation.
Vancouver and Sacramen
to, former members of the
PCL, were discussed as pos
sible candidates for a fran
chise along with several other
cities which Soriano refused
to name.
Officials of the Dallas-Fort
Worth, Denver and Oklahoma
City franchises in the loop
said they would not be inter
ested In returning to the pres
ently Inactive American asso
ciation,
There had been some talk
that the triple-A league might
become active again.
Soriano said there still Is a
remote possibility of a playoff
between the PCL champ and
the pennant winner of the
International league.
The PCL directors met here
prior to the All-Star game be
tween the Spokane Indians
and top players from the
league's other nine teams.
Dave McCollum Wins Main
Event in Sunday Jalopy Race
For Jalopy driver Dave Mc
Collum of Med ford '69' is
certainly a lucky number.
Only McCollum knows why
he chose this number for
identification of hisJ949 Ford
Jalopy racer but it did him
well. He piloted "Old 69"
through the thick and thin to
emerge winner of the main
event at last Sunday's Jalopy
races at the Medford Speed
way oval.
The main event was a bash-em-up
affair with only nine
cars out of 20 starters finish
ing the event. . There were
several spectacular pile-ups
where several of the old
jalopies were thought sure to
be goners, but by some secret
ability or driving skill they
maneuvered out of the pile
of smashed cars and back into
the race.
Second place in the Main
went to William Crowell of
Medford in a 1951 Chevrolet.
Rob Childs in car No. 1 was
third and the 99 car driven
by John Bush of Eagle Point
was fourth.
In the Semi-Main the win
ner was the Ashland Fire de-Pmt; Bill Chase, 7. Central Point;
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Schoendienst
Given Release
By St. Louis
St. Louis-WPB-The playing
career of former National
league star second baseman
Red Schoendienst presumably
came to an end Monday when
tne St. Louis Cardinals an
nounced they had planned to
give him his unconditional
release.
However, the 40-year-old
Schoendienst will be retained
as a coach on manager John
ny Keane's staff, the position
in which he started the sea
son with the Red Birds.
In addition, the Cardinals
said they have called up in-ficlder-outfielder
Gary Kolb,
who is batting .318 for Tulsa,
to replace the veteran in-
fieldcr.
Schoendienst was reactivat
ed about two weeks ago for
use as a pinch hitter, and In
five trips to the plate this
season went hitless.
SCHEDULE WORLD GOLF
New York-(UPI)-Thirty-four
countries have been invited
to participate in the 11th
Canada Cup and Internation
al Golf Championship in
France Oct. 24-27. The U.S.
team of Arnold Palmer and
Sam Sncad won the cup In
Argentina last year.
16,214 At Opening
Of Dog Racing
Portland - (UPD - A crowd of
16,214 braved rainy weather
to attend the opening night of
the 31st annual Multnomah
Kennel club dog racing meet
at Fairview Park Monday
night.
The pari-mutuel handle for
the first competition of the
60-night meet was $364,230.
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partmcnt car (No. 33) driven
by Charles Davis. Runner up
was Sam Dykes of Medford
in the M5 entry. Third place
went to Dana Bowers of Med.
ford In car No. 331 and fourth
place was copped by Harvey
Beeney in the X-100 entry
Trophy dash was copped
by Pat Tyler of Medford:
driving No. 88, a 1951 Chrys
ler. Tyler flipped over on the
first turn of the race but was
quickly righted by his pit
crew and went on to edge
the three other fastest entries
for the trophy. Earl "Steve"'
Stephenson of Medford was
second, followed by Jim Walk
er of Talent in the 999 car
and Markey James of Med
ford in the M9 entry.
Heat races were won by
Chuck Davis (No. 33), Chuck
Hazen, Jacksonville (118),
John Bush, Eagle Point (No.
99) and Marshall Coke, Ash
land (No. 18).
More than 1,000 fans turn
ed out under threatening
skies to witness the first race
of the season on the one
fourth mile oval, located in
White City. The next racing
slate has been scheduled for
Sunday, July 21.
A meeting will be held this
Thursday, July 11, at 8 p.m.
in the Medford Y.M.C.A. for
all Jalopy drivers, owners,
sponsors, and other interested
parties. A review of the last
race will be made, merchan
dise awards passed out for
last Sunday's race, and plans
made for the next event.
Officials results of the six
event slate follow. Car num
bers are listed following the
drivers name.
TROPHY DASH: Pat Tyler, 88.
Medford: Steve Stephenson, 71.
Medford; Jim Walker. 899, Talent;
Markey James, M9, Medford.
HEAT 1: Charles Davis, 33, Ash
land; Dana Bowers, 331, Medford;
Harvey Beeney, X100, Medford;
Kreiger & Howard, 2X, Medford,
and Daniel Veach, 3, Eagle Point.
HEAT 2: Chuck Hazen, 118.
Jacksonville; John Wagner, 79,
Gold Hill; Sam Dykes, MS, Med
ford; Cantrell & Jones. 22, Med.
ford; Dave McCullom. 69. Med
ford: Rusty Miller. 34. Medford.
and Boh Radke, 21. Medford.
heat 3: John Bush, 99, Eagle
Hooker, 00. Grants Pass: Sam
Dvkes. M5. Medford: Dick Henry.
AO. Talent: and Clark Warick.
101. Ashland. . ,
HEAT 4: Marshall Coke. 18,
Ashland: Jim Walker. 999, Talent;
Pat Tyler. 88. Medford; Harvey
Nelson, 54, Eagle Point: Markey
James. M9. Medford: Rob Childs,
1, Medford; Steve Stephson, 71,
Medford.
SEMI-MAIN: Charles Davis. 33,
Ashland: Sam Dykes. M5. Med
ford: Dana Bowers. 331, Medford:
Harvey Beeney. X100. Medford:
Kreiger It Howard. 2X. Medford.
MAIN EVENT (Winners listed
In order of finish, number only)
69, 89. 79. 1. 18. M5, 33, 54. 999,
71, 118, 00, 2, S5, 88, 101, 0, M9,
22, 34.
Ritter Wins
Portland - (UPO - Top-seeded
Horst Ritter "of Germany
turned back third - seeded,
Jerry Cromwell of Long
Beach, Calif., 6-2, 9-11, 6-4 in
the men's singles finals of the
Oregon State Tennis tourna
ment Monday.
The match between Ritleri
a 22-year-old student at Foot
hill college in California, and
the 19-year-old Cromwell, a
s t u dent at University of
Southern California, was
played at the Portland Ar
mory because of rain.
Veterans Emery Neale and
Sam Lee of Portland won
over Ritter and Rod Kop of
Hawaii 6-4, 7-9 and 6-3 in the
men's doubles finals.
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