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HKRALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
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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.
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Lorino Notches 14th
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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
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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 -
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. . 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.
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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
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Tri-City 3 Spokane 1
gaiem bewision a
(National and American Leagues
standings unchanged; no games
played Wednesday).
Grants Pass Girl
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DENVER W1 Evelyn Olson of
n.bi.nri r-alif n'nn the senior
ladies' 440-yard 'speedskatlng event
aa final in the American Amateur
Roller Skating Championships ex
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Thursday.
Betty Steves. Alliance, u.. was
second and Alberta Chasteen,
Granta Pass. Ore., third.
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Five years ago ' Don Black
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