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AGE FOURTEEN HKRALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON THURSDAY. JULY Ul 10M ogiTDS Wofch etrs usee nn rp u t i-l ... .,m, , aA.t-Vf.la .A-..jj BOB REDKEY , puts nam on 49V contract RELATIVES OF Eddie Unless are highly incensed over recent squibs in this column about the 86,000 Bonus Baby of The Dalles, Ore. - Said kin residing in Klamath f ails nave interpreted my remarks as a personal blast against the boy. But they 're not. I included Urness anion other untried rookies who signed for zaouious sums with major league clubs. Prime purpose of the column was . to point up the foolishness of pay ' leg such ridiculous sums of mi- fcoola. It wasn't Intended as a blast for Urness no more than it was for Paul Fettit. Herald Wooten, Jerry Zimmerman and Dick Wakefield, ether Cash Cuues mentioned in the column. CERTAINLY I'm not alone in labeling the bonus binge a wild spending spree that stuffs kids' pockets with more money than they - know what to do with. A guy named Ford Frick, who. incidentally, is the Grand Czar of the Major Leagues, describes it as - "wild and crazy spending." Major League clubowners, no less, have agreed to appoint a committee to look into the matter. In otherwords, they're not for it. Frick went on to say that there Was "unanimous feeling that some rule limiting outlandish payments to untried youngsters must even tually be written into the books."! BUT BACK to Urness. It's ridiculous to intimate that I'd level a blast at the boy. . I don't even know him. "' He's no doubt a nice boy. His record shows he was an outstand ing high school pitcher. Maybe he'll someday earn the ' package of greenbacks the high spending Red Sox gave him. Incidentally, Urness' Klamath Falls uncle says he didn't get that : much. Maybe not all at once be cause bonusus are usually spread over a handful of years. But that's the figure the Red Sox released. I join Urness' heated friends and relatives in our city in hoping the lad makes good. And I join Frick in hoping some thing is done to put a stop to doling out fat paychecks at one look-see. Despite the Urness question, this column's current controversy, the bonus practice tends to spoil a youngster's initiative. A long list of names can be reeled off of failures in the Bonus Baby ranks ballplayers who have been playing pro ball a lot longer than Urness. In conclusion, I know what I'd do if I paid between eighty and nunarea grana to a roone. . Id start him in Class D ball no matter how good he looked. At least that would give him time to start "feeling at home in a professional ballsuit. If he's better than Class D ball, then he'd go to Class C and so on up the line. It would be a break lor the Kid and better insurance for the bloke who is spending the money. A RECENT conversation with Dick Jewett. snorts editor of the Medford Mail-Tribune, uncoverea some news local baseball fans would like to hear. Clyde (Moose) Blevins. popular ex-Gems outfielder, is now playing with the well-known Cheney Studs of Medford. usually a front-runner in the strong Southwestern Oregon semi-pro league. - dice aiso toia me max tne aiuas now own Medford s Far west League franchise, included in a package deal in which the Studs took over the Fairgrounds ballpark from Rogue Valley Baseball Inc. It s Jewell s guess mat a couple of Irish lads. Gordon Carrigan of Crater High and Jim Kelly of Med- fords St. Mary s High, will get the opening assignments Sunday when the Medford American Junior Lea- ion team meets the Klamath Cokes- in a doubleheader at Gems Stadium. Kelly is the author of a no-bitter. Carrigan a one-hitter with the Med ford Legions this season. Ex-Pelican Turns To Pro Grid iiv i!i:n iimn Bob Rnlkry Wednesday signed to play professional football with the San Francisco 49'ers of the Na tional Football League. In inking with the pro grids Redkey ends an illustrious ama teur pigkin career that started at Klamath Union High School and Included college play at Oregon Tech. Grays Harbor Junior College and Oregon State CoIIcrc. His OSC career was nipped early ill June when the Pacific Coast Conference fathers turned down his request for another year of eligibil ity He was a defensive back stand out with tile Beavers last year and rumors had it that OSC Coach Kip Taylor had olfcnsive plans for the rugged lad this year. Kedkey s attempt to have his sea son at Oregon Tech waived tailed in the PCC hearing. One year at I OTI. one at Grays Harbor and two at OSC added up to four years of college football lor Redkey, the limit allowed under Pacific Coast Conference rulings. GRID FEATS Redkey s football feats at Klam ath Union High School are still a topic of discussion in the Hot Stove League. He graduated in 1948. He played for the Orclech Owls in the 1!M8 season, where Coach Dale Daugherty reportedly in formed him lie wouldn't lose a year of college eligibility. The 1949 season saw Redkey at Grays Harbor Junior College. The last two years he played under Taylor at Oregon Stale. Redkey has long held hopes of eventually playing pro football but he felt that this season at Oregon State would drive the final stake in launching him on a successful career among the play-for-pay boys. He had a regular Job virtually tied down with the Beavers and the POC action came as a distinct blow, "ALL-Ol'T" "But I'm going to San Francisco with the idea of making good with the 49'ers," Redkey told your writ er. "I'll give it all I have." Redkey fans hold no qualms about the ex-Pel grid giving it "all I've got." He always has. His outstand ing defensive chores with the Bea vers last season outshone even Cal ifornia s great Les Richter and UCLA's Don Moomaw statistically. Against UCLA he made three quarters of Oregon State's tackles, a trick that made the football ex perts perk up. Redkev signed a one-vear con tract with the 49'ers at S4500. He leaves July 21 for the 49'ers' training camp at Menlo Junior College. i OLTS Standing Room Only Seen for Title Tiff tie huso. xraTi bktoi ' ' Lorino Notches 14th . Victory for Victoria By The Assocated Press The front - running Victoria Tyees handed Yakima a 10-4 set keck Wednesday night to send the Bears tumbling down the Western . International League ladder after an overnight stay In sixth place. The win opened Victoria's lead to six full games and pushed Yakima into the No. 7 slot, half a game out of the cellar. Tti . City moved Into fourth place with a 3-1 win over Spokane and Salem, the seventh - place club Tuesday, took up a position half a game back of the Braves after trouncing Lewiston 8-3. Wen atchee edged Vancouver 3-2 in 10 Innings In the wlndup game of their series at Vancouver. FOURTEEN ... Ben Lorino notched his 14th win for Victoria as the Tyees posted their first win In the three-game series against Yakima's Bears. It was the Bears second loss in 14 starts and snapped their latest winning streak at four straight. While the defeat left the Bears half a game out of the. cellar, they were a game and a half behind Trl-City in the closely knotted second division race. Big George New turned in an other topnotch hurling Job at Ken newick as Tri . City evened the series . with Spokane at a game apiece. New struck out nine batters while scattering seven hits. Spo kane managed to put two of them together in the seventh for its only Sarazen Skids ST. ANNE'S-ON-Sea, England I The British Open goll cham pionship went into the second round Thursday with a tense battle developing between 1947 champion Fred Daly anda strong British Empire group. The five Americans still in the running were trailing far back of the leaders and another bad day could all but drop them out of contention. Willie Goggin of Montclair, N. J. was in seventh place with a 71. Following were Jimmy Hines of Chicago with a 73. veteran Gene Sarazen of Germantown, N. Y.. and Willie Hunter of Los Angeles with 74's and amateur Frank Stra nahan of Toledo with a 75. run. FIVE HITS Salem's Jack Hemphill yielded only five hits while his teammates jumped on three Lewiston hurlers for 13. The loss went to manager Bill Brenner. Wenatchee pushed across a run in the top of the 10th Inning at Vancouver to take the rubber game of the three - game series. Frank Dasso, the winning pitcher, singled in Norm Rideewav with th winning tally. For ty-Niners Sign Veterans: SAN FRANCISCO W ' The San Francisco 49ers Thursday announc ed the signing of veteran linemen Gordv Soltau and Bruno Banducci and five free agents. - Soltau. and end. was the Nation al Football League's second top pass receiver last season with 59 catches. Banducci, a guard, plays wiin me onensive Platoon. ' The free agents signed are Bobby Bryan, halfback, Stanford; Sam Adams, end, Whltworth: Gil Pet. erson, end-tackle. Nebraska Tea- cners: tan Combs, guard-tackle, Puget Sound, and Gene Thommnn fullback, Augustana. Jut one Judge was missing from the fistic roster lodav as ure-iliihl clamor tlirealencd to split the Ar mory teams for Saturday nlght'a chnmplonshlp t Ik tit . Promoter Mack Llllard and the Boxing Commission were expected to land the other Judge today for the Middleweight souabble that will see Dick Wolle defend his North est crown that he's held lust three weeks against ex-tilleholder Earl Turner of Richmond. Calif. i. itKisr int. ii Regular fight fans are having trouble remembering a scrap that has brewed up the Interest this one has intensified bv the June 30 de cision thnt rocked the Armorv with annry shouts from the customers. Only three witnesses to that light when Wolfe lifted Turner's title have been found who thought the verdict was right and that Includes it. -eferee and one ludge who I'oied tor the Indian lad. NK,V OFFICIALS The reverberations were ao In tense, the Boxing Commission was forced to hire a brand new offical famllv for the rematch. Earl Yoakley, huge ex-pugilist of Medford. was named early this week to referee the bout. Wallv Moss, third man In the ring June 30. will handle the preliminary matches. One ludge picked Tuesday la Bob Ross Sr.. popular Klamath Falls mechanic, who wat once a fighter in his own right and has handled Hie referee's chore In tills cltv's early Italic duvs. Matchmaker Ltlluid yesterday completed the outslumllng aupport nig card. Rivaling but not aulte equaling the championship melee for pure Interest is the six-round semi-wind-up that sends Bealtv's Ralph Wet ser against Semite's Illackle Van- jderveer tn a lightweight rematch. Vanderveer's cockv ring general ship has caught on with the fans here in his two showings Hie first a decisive win over Welter, the second a knockout victory over 'highly-rated Momv Montgomery. I Hut the Bealtv Bomber caught i with his bombs down in his defeat Vastmi.-y.wJky rS A PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W L Pet. Oakland M 40 .583 Hollywood 67 43 .576 San Diego M 43 .666 Los Angeles si 4g .oia Seattle 47 4B .506 Portland 42 51 .452 San Francisco 40 59 .404 Sacramento 40 60 .400 Wednesday's Resulta Seattle 4. Los Angeles 1, 14 Innings San Diego 6, San Francisco 0 Hollywood 4, Sacramento 1 Oakland 10, Portland 0 Westers International League - W L Pet. v Y "f A mi... x ti . BOB ROSS SR. . . to judge brawl by Vanderveer has been scream ing loud and long for a return meeting with Vanderveer. Jerry Renaud. Portland, who has been near the too of the heap among Northwest lightweights and welterweights, faces Klamath Falls' own Rudv Carlson in the special event, also down for aix rounds. Four-rounders put Porkv Jlmlnex against Phil Jackson and Danny Kios against Zane Mingo. I Dick Reeder's. 8th and Main, re port reserved tickets "moving i nicely." Cards Threaten Brooks, Giants Hy The Auorlated Preaa The next two weeks ihniild de ride the fate nf Kddle Stanky'a SI. Louts Cardinals. Beginning Thursday night, the red hot Redblrds take on Phil adelphia, Brooklyn and New York In succession before closing out their homt stay with Boston In an 11-game stand against the East ern clubs. By then, the slullng Cards may either have blown a fune or have established themselves as t solid pennant threat nn an even looting with the Dodgers and Giants. Currently the holiest club In the National League, the Cardn are riding high on a - game winn ing streak, with 18 triumphs In thrlr last 32 games. Wallowing In the second division a month ago. they have pushed Into third place, nine and a half games behind Brooklyn. While the Carda are threatening to make a three - team allair of the National League race, Hie American continues to resemble a fox hunt with Cleveland. Wash ington, Boston and Chlrago chas ing the New York Yankees. T1i White Sox ahowed ipeed of foot during the. past week tn move move Into the runner up spot, three gamea behind the Yankees. Solas, Matman In Cafe Brawl I.OS ANOEI,p:s What hap pens when lightweight boxing chainpliil t amo tialan, weight 130, Unities with wrestler Carlos Uu- Ilia Indiana, Benalnra and Red tot are not far behind. The Yankees face an opportunity to Increase thrlr first place mar gin, launching a 14 game home stand Thursday night with the St. l.ouls Bruwni an the Ural of four Western opponents. All Major League teams were Idle Wediienlay. Ilia usual open date after the Allfliar game. man. weight 330? Nuihinii much, said witnesses to ail llllrUHUU I'lanil uflKrii .. two at a cafe run by i-lishtar Baby Arlsmendl. Halaa, who haa had two previous wrll puhlirued cafe lights In a vrur, finctiirrd mulling but Ilia sir with Ills punches. Clumuii riiine out with a bloody Up. Ho bit It somehow. MOUNTAIN RIOOI MOUNTAIN RIDOI MOUNTAIN RIDOC MOUNTAIN RIOOI I o c z a 5 s n Made For Oregon Men Who REALLY KNOW BOURBON! OUNTAIM m -' MmAin 11.7 IOURBON TVSQt tKfy rv I1 Y.a3fi J5UI A LDGE BOURBON WHISKEY MOUNTAIN HIDOI MOUNTAIN RIOOI MOUNTAIN RIDOI MOUNTAIN RIDOI THIS WHISKEY It FOUR YEARS OLD M PROOF Q0O0ERHAM WORTS LTD. PEORIA. ILL Victoria Spokane Vancouver Tri-City Salem Lewiston Yakima Wenatchee " 40 38 .636 44 37 .643 39 33 .643 , 37 43 .468 36 43 .463 35 41 .461 17 45 .451 16 46 .444 Wednesday's Results Victoria 10 Yakima 4 Wenatchee 3 Vancouver 3 (10 innlnnfl Tri-City 3 Spokane 1 gaiem bewision a (National and American Leagues standings unchanged; no games played Wednesday). 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