' WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1955
HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
PAGS THIRTEEN
Minor Leagues Soy
Majors Bring Trouble
editor's note: Minor league
baseball faces problems thai
threaten to close many parks.
Alreadr tiiis 18 cities
have had to suspend opera
tiom. The I'nitcd Press has
asked minor leairue presidents
v'doae cities were involved to
tell whst as wrong. In this
two-part series beginning to
day, they discuss first their
liasio problems and second
their Ideas (or lolvtaf them.
By CARL LUNDtJUlST
Inltcd Press Sports Writer
Minor league baseball is in
trouble as never bslorc, and the
ma tors are to blame for it.
That is the feeling of minor
league presidents, whose cities
were involved in the 10 franchise
Jold-ups that have occurrel al
ready this season. They feel the
worst is yet to come unless there
u helD from the majors.
The principal complaint Is that
the majors saturate minor league
lerritory with radio and in some
coses television broadcasts. The
second "beef" is that the majors
lit. longer are willing to supply
financial aid by developing players
ihrouaii minor league farm sys-
ipTi-13. out ins.eaa are
spending
money recruiting mgn pricea
bonus babies.
ONCE - LIVELY
Shelby Peace, president of the
once-lively Kitty League at Hop
kinsville, Ky., declared that "not
even the commissioner of baseball
cares what happens to us.
"Does Ford Frick look at what
television and radio has done to
the minors?" asked Peace. "Mad
isonville, Ky., which had to give
up this year in our league, has a
beautiful park and adequate park
ing facilities. But the air was sa
turated with television and radio.
I know the big league announcers
tell the people to go out and sup
port their local club, but who has
the enthusiasm to watch a Kitty
League game after listening to the
glamour they spread Bround?"
Doubles Play
Features Top
Seeded Bouts
CHESTNUT HILLS, Mass. UP
Top-seeded tandems, all but
three of which survived early play
in the 75th national tennis doubles
championships, turned to toppling
each other today.
With only two seeded teams
knocked out in actual play, and!
the other "benched" in a ruckus-j
raising Davis Cup maneuver, seed-;
cd entries comprise the bulk of
the remaining field. Of 29 icam6i
surviving In the men's and wom
en's doubles divisions, 16 were
seeded.
The situation promised to step
up the tempo of the tournament,
somewhat sluggish through its
first two days at the Longwood
Cricket Club.
Attention. Tuesday,- in -fact, cen-.
tered a large part of the time
on non-tournoy play involving Tony
Trabert and Vic , Seixas, big guns
on the U. S. Davis Cup team that
will defend Its crown against a
determined Australian aggregation
t Forest Hills, N.Y., Aug. 26-28.
Trabert and Sclxas, top two ten
nis players In the nation and top
seeded in this tourney, won their
match Tuesday by default, so got
in practice rounds with Jack Kra
mer and Don Budge.
Trabert. a 24-year-old from Cin
cinnati, Ohio, out of action three
necks before the doubles cham
pionships with a sprained shoulder
played flawlessly, raising hopes
for a successful defense of the
Cup at Forest Hills.
Eliminated in upsets Tuesday
sere Australians Mai Anderson
and Jcoff Radford and Mexicans
Yola Ramirez and Rosa Maria
Reyes. The second-seeded foreign
cntrv of Lew Hoad and Ken Rose-
v.Bll lost by default after Austra
lian Davis Cup coach Harry Hop
man decided to withdraw them,
apparently to save them for the
Cup challenge rounds.
Anderson and Radford bowed to
Leslie Longshore, of Anniston, Ala,
and Alan Morris, of Atlanta, Ga
in the most spirited match of the
day, 7-8. 10-8, 8-8, 84.
The Mexican tandem, rated one
of the best sent here by that na
tion in years, were set down by
Midge Buck, Charlottesville. Va
and Mrs. Kay McKean, South
Hamilton, Mass., 8-4, 6-2.
In other play Tuesday, Doris
Hart of Rye, N.Y., and Shirley
Fry, of Akron, Ohio, fresh from
their Wightman Cup win Monday,
beat Helen Rihbany, of Boston and
Karol Fageros, of Miami, Fla.,
6-2, 4-6, 8-0.
I'lONEER LEAGVE
Mngic Valley 3, Boise 0
Idaho falls 5, Billings 0
Ogden 10, Salt Lake City 5
Pocatello 4. Great Falls 2
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Jerry Donovan, president of the
Class C CalUornia League, said ta
San Francisco that "the attitude
seems to be we soon will have
major league ball out here S3 the
beck with the Caiitorma and coast
leagues." The Vetuure club there,
which Is 60 miles from Hollywood,
gave up end the franchise waj
shifted to Reno. Nev.
"Pride to Iocs! club Is dead."
Donovan said. "Everyane is major
league conscious because ot broad
casts and telecasts into our terri
tory." CONFRONTED
Emmet H-.rty. head of the Col
ton States League at Greenville.
Miss., said, "There never Is s day
tliat we have not been confronted
with tile probability of some club
folding."
nauy waia not amy aia me rine 5 t
BluH, Ark., club fold and have to
be transferred to Meridian. Miss..
hut that Hot Springs, Ark., "is on
the verge of thrrataT in the
sponge, and on the whole I am
punchdrunk irom the beating I
have taken all season."
"Despite that, I have six town?
who have signified their interest
In operating nest scasm," he fid-
cd. "All I can say is that they
are gluttons for punishment. In my
own town of Greenville over 30,
OOtf has been raised by public sub
scription since 1950 to keep base
ball. I don't think this can go on
unless the majors take some revo
lutionary step this fall."
Tommy Richardson, head of ihe
Class Eastern League nt Wil
liamspart. Pa., said: "The minors
vdll be in trouble as long as a
major league team is willing to
give $60,000 to one untried kid, but
refuses to pay $10,000 to operate a
first rate minor league franchise
where there is a chance for 18
players to develop while that one
kid sits on a big league bench."
FRANCHISE
The Eastern League, one of the
eldest and most stable. Is in good
shape. Richardson said, with at
tendance up about 80.000 over last
year even though wtlKes-Barre
Pa., had to shift its franchise to
Johnstown. Pa
"An economic situation involving
It- lunl Mat n ra-i fnm&ti WilV:fR-
Barre to quit." Richardton said, j
"Now we re nkav evervwhrre but
in Albany. Radio and TV are
heavy competition there. Thcv get
broadcasts and telecasts of the
Yankees, Giants, Dodger and Red
Sox. That's too much for us to
beat.
Howard Creeti. president of the
Big State League at Fort Worth,
Tex., said redin had no'blns to
do with the failure of Galveston
fr.d TvSer n his loop.
INTERESTED
"Galveston drooped out because
it was the world's worst baseball
town, a resort city of the rankest
type," Green said. "Baseball was
Im wholesome for a copulation
more interested in gamin?;, niaht
elubs and that which goes with
both. Tyler dropped out because
it imnossd a burden on the rest
of the league. Tyler could hnvc
finished had not Galveston lfti
tered." Chaunccy Devault Bt Bristol. Va.
Term., headquarters of his Class
n Anna achian . League, s a i a ,
"This is the warst financial year
our loop has suffered." He also
blamed general condition of the
ri fields for failure oi tne weicn.
W.Va., franchise which was moved
to Marlon. Va.
A. O. Hadden. head of the Geor
gia State League at Dublin. Ga..
blamed local operations for Use
failure of the Statesboro, Ga
franchise.
"Statesboro had a bad ball club
and poor attendance," he said.
Thursday: The remedies pro
posed for minor league baseball.
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PITCHING Billy Hoeft, Tig
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in the the first and the other in the
second, then retired 21 men in
order before giving up his lone
walk with two out in ninth to beat
Cleveland 7-8.
BATTING Bob Kennedy, White
Sox Singled Minnie Minofco home
with winning run to defeat Kansas
City 6-4 in 11 innings.
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San Francisco 62 m .437 19
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Oakland 8, San Francisco 0
Los Angeles 3. Hollywood 2
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Salem 29 21 .488 4'i
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Seattle strengthened its Pacific
Coast League leadership whro it
defeated Portland Tuesday nssat,
5-3, while second-place Hollywood
felt to Los Angeles, 3-2.
In other games, Oakland de
feated Sen Francisco, 3-8 and Sail
Diego bettered Sacramento, 4-1.
A crowd of 4,014 watched Kweti
Btackweit get his fourth victory
for the Riiaters. who took a 3-1
lead in the first toning. Carmen
Mauro singled. Then nttcher Bill
Werie picked up Lea Righetti's
grounder and threw wildly to sec
ond trying to catch Mauro.
Jerry Zuvela leaded tha bases
with an infield hit. Mauro scored
wnen mird baseman B3rt Fggeri
misnsnoiea vent Stephens' hot
grounder. Righett! scored on An
Echult' single and Zuvela scored
after Bob Swift's sscrifica fly.
In the third, Zuvela daubted
Stephens singled and Gene Verbie
hit a sacrifice fly for two more
runs.
Hollywood had & 2-1 lead enter
ing the ninth inning. T.ien Sir-vc
Biiko singled, and Hollywood ma
nager Bob Bragan replctcod start
ing pitcher Red Manger with Bob
Garner.
An error by first Bajwmtaii
George Vico and stogies by Buzz
ClBrkson, Jim Fanning and Bob
Coats produced twj runs to give
the Angels ihe victory.
Chris Van Cuyk pitched s seven
hitter in shutting out San Fran.
Cisco.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex Bobby
Dykes, 159, San Antonio, stopped
Chebo Hernandez, 160, Juares, Mex
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Doubles League members Sunds.v,
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