Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1956)
WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 26. 1956 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGS THIRTEEN Klo DH IT(0)WUp Kntter Phillies Bow To Sal; Braves Whip Redlegs By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS National League lead two weeks Comebacks? Baseball has had; "2: And last night, it was Maglie 'cm. How about Ted Williams, re- aaln- thls, tlme Vs'" his curve turned from the wars? Or a a"d conlro1 t0 am hls " "washed up" Johnny Mize tagging!1"'- ,n0 : run amc s, T. home runs for the 1950 Yankees? !!"a?l" against Philadelphia Or Roy Campanella, most valu able again with a healthy thumb last reason? Now it's Sal Maglie the pappy guy the Giants had enough of; the old man Cleveland couldn't squeeze into Us second - place pitching staff. It was Sal, the onetime Dodger killer, who beat Milwaukee for Brooklyn's overnight share of the that kept the Dodgers within three percentage points of the first- place Braves. At 39, Maglie is the oldest Na tional Leaguer ever to pitch a no hitter . and ironically, it over shadowed a splendid six single job by Warren Spahn, another comeback guy, that gave Mil waukee a 7-1 victory over Cincin 2$eratb an n m m mm . CLAYTON HANNON SPORTS EDITOR nati and all but shut, the door on i Pelican football sauad went through Redleg pennant hope. It was theldefensive alignments the first two; Long Swim Won By SF Gal Splasher SAN FRANCISCO (UP) A 22-year-old San Francisco State Col lege co-ed outswam six husky male competitors Tuesday, but failed in her attempt to be the first person to swim the wave-chopped 26'A miles from the Farallon Islands to the mainland. However the pretty blonde, Myra Thompson, said she wanted to sign up "right now" for another! try next year. Miss Thompson, who increased her weight from 130 to 14S pounds for the gruelling swim, was pulled from the water about 11 miles short of the coast. She had been in the frigid Pacific water for nine hours and 36 minutes. Despite her failure, blamed on a still outgoing tide. Miss Thomp son completely humiliated her competitors, who included such in ternationally - known marathon stars- as Jose Cortinas of Cuba. conqucrer of the 22-mile Catlina Channel. . in Southern California Bert Capps, the first man to swim the full length of Lake Tahoe in the California Sierra, and Paul Herron, former national distance champion from Stanford Univer sity. Other unsuccessful starters in cluded Kim Kimmel, 46-year-old Ross, Calif., housewife: Bonaparte llaumea of Porterville. Calif. Woody Greenwood, San Francisco; and Don Sherwood, San Francisco television entertainer. Sherwood, clad in a frogman suit and swim fins which made Inn' Ineligible for the $1,000 prize offered, called iL quits . after only 4.' seconds in the frigid water. Capps, who was the favorite to win the event, dropped out from exhaustion and cold two hours aft er the race began, Cortinas suf fered cramps and was taken from the water four hours later in a. semi-conscious condition. Herron was 11 miles from his. goal and swimming strongly when, he ras pulled aboard his escort boat In agony. He had previousjy been painfully stung by a passing jellyfish. When Herron was forced to give up. Miss Thompson took over the battle with the elements alone and fought them for nearly three hours before giving up. 20th victory for the 35-year - old southpaw, prematurely tagged a has-been last season. Even if the Redleras sweep their remaining two, at Chicago Satur day and Sunday, the Cincys are dead should the Braves win even one of their remaining three, be ginning Friday nir;ht at at. Louis. Two more victories by Brooklyn. facing Philadelphia again today with a chance to deadlock the Braves before a windup three- game series with Pittsburgh this weekend at Ebuets Field, would chill Cincy too. St. Louis clinched fourth place by defeating Chicago 5-1 in doubleheader qpener, then lost to the Cubs 6-2 ill the nightcap, cut to 714 innings- by darkness. New Pels Seek To Stop Redding Ground Play Siandings WEDNESDAY'S BASEBALL By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NATIONAL LEAGUE Milwaukee Brooklyn Cincinnati St. Louis Philadelphia Pittsburgh New York Chicago W 91 90 89 74 69 66 65 59 L Pet. GB 60 .603 60 .600 'i 63 .586 2'i 76 -.493 16'i HI" .460 21'i 85 437 25 86 .430 26 92 .391 32 Tuesday's Results Milwaukee 7, Cincinnati 1 ! New York 10, Pittsburgh 0 ISt. Louis 5-2, Chicago t-6 (second game called in 8th darkness) The Klamath Union High School without the 195-pound senior for the Brooklyn 5. Philadelphia 0 0 de- Calumet Farm and G. L. I,oriI- lard both have won the PreaJ;ness five times. Lorillard sent mi. -five straight winners, beginning in 1878, Fabius in 1956 was Calumet's fifth victor in the Pimlico staka. York's Giants scored a 10 cision over the Pirates. In the American, the champion New York Yankees belted Balti more 11-6: Cleveland beat Kansas City 4-1 in ,10 innings for Early Wynn's 20tb; Detroit spilled Chi cago 5-3; and Boston whacked Washington 10-4. Maglie, gaining his third shutout with his l:th victory, allowed but three basij runners walking two and hitting Richie Ashburn with a two-out. 1-2 pitch in the ninth, He retinal the first eight men he faced, gave up. a walk to loser Jack Myer, then knocked off 13 in a row. The Bodeers. held to just four hits by three pitchers, scored three runs n the second on two nit; one a 'two-run homer by Roy Cam panelln. his 19th. Stan Lopata's error produced two unearned runs in tue tmrd. Spahn, missing a shutout on three singles in the third, doubled homlj two runs for a 3-0 lead that ! chased Larry Janscn in the second inning. The Braves had 15 nits on six ' pitchers. I? our unearned runs and a triple play won for the Cardinals as bcr.ius boy Lindy McDaniel went the distance for the first time. But bonus kid Don Kaiser then stopped ttiem in the nightcap. The Giants .had 16 hits, four of them homers, as Johnny Antonclli rwon his 19th. Willie Mays, hitting his 36th homer, and Red Schoen- dienst also with a homer, had lour hits each. Bill Skowron drove in live runs and Bob Cerv four for the Yankees as Tom Sturdivant won his 16th on a five-run, two-out rally in the seventh. Rocky Colavito s 21st nomer, a three-run poke, broke a tie for the Indians as Wynn joined teammate Bob Lemon in the 20-victory cir cle on a four-hitter. Earl Torgeson ana tnarne Max well hit back-to-back home runs to break up a 3-all tie for the Tigers in the eighth. Ted Williams drove in four runs with his 24th homer and a bases loaded walk for Boston's first vic tory over Pedro Ramos in seven decisions. days of this weeTt, and more work on throwing a roadblock in front of the rampaging bliasta woives of Redding is to come before the two clubs meet at Redding this Friday evening, Coach John McGinnis' Pelicans will have their work cut out ior them again this weekend. Red- ding's prep forces just snapped a 27-game victory string once owned by Oroville. Now the wolves ot Shasta High are seeking to lay down a skein of their own, with Klamath the number three victim So far this year, Shasta has Dlaved two names, winning both, while the Pelicans have met with three foes and in doing so, came off on the long end of the score once, and the short end twice. The AMERICAN New York I Cleveland Boston Detroit Baltimore Washington Kansas City LEAGUE W L Pet. GB .640 .573 10 .560 12 remainder of the year. Cooper suf fered a back and neck injury w hen rabbit-punched from behind in last Saturday's game. The Pelican tackle will be in a brace four to six weeks. The two leading Pelican offen sive threats, Lee McGill and Butch Kimpton also came out of the Reno game with minor hurts, but will be ready to go against Redding. McGill was bruised up some, while Kimpton received a broken nose in the rough and tumble 26-0 bat tle, himpton's leg injury, sulleredlDetroit 5 chicag0 3- 1USL WITH, aecuia iu ire icapuuu- , tsii't,, e ing, and except for the broken Ncw York Baltimore 6 nose, he is expected to be at full Cleveland 4, Kansas City 1 strength. innings) . Pacific Coast Teams Receiving Defensive Work For Grid Frays By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Defense is setting the emphasis as the Pacific Coast Conference prepares for four intersectionals this weekend with Big Ten foot ball teams. Conch Red Sanders drilled his L'CLA Bruins on pass defense and punting Tuesday. He said he thinks Michigan has the physical dge but that if the uclnns hustle "we won't be humiliated at Ann Arbor Saturday." At Pain Alto, the already in jury-plagued Stanford Indians lost another guard as they scrimmaged against Michigan State offensive plays. Sophomore guard Bob Pe terson injured his leg, sidelining him for Saturday's encounter with the Spartans at Stanford. Another guard, Don Manoukian, was lost earlier because ot injuries. 50 100 .540 15 .527 17 .436 30 .387 38 .333 46 Tuesday's Results Boston 10, Washington 4 (10 lone win was against Grant, while Eugene and Reno adminis tered the losses. Drawing the major share of the practice sessions at KU will be the Pels ground defense, which will be given its best test this season when the Redding speed merchants are cut loose on their home soil Friday evening. Redding's ground game has gone for well over the 200-mark in both of the games played so far. The two clubs will be closely matched in weight, but the North ern Californians will draw the fav orite's nod with one of the speed iest backfield foursomes to be watched in the Shasta circles in some time. If the Pels can control the Wolves running game, then vic tory number two of the year is within reach. McGinnis lost the services of veteran tackle Keith Cooper in the Reno game, and is' expected to be What? Gin' n Nothing? SPORTS IN BRIEF BASEBALL BROOKLYN Sal Maglie pitched the first no-hitter of his niaior league career as the Brook- lvn Dodgers downed the Philadel phia Phillies 5"-0 to stay within a half game of the league leading Milwaukee Braves. FOOTBALL Oklahoma was ranked No. 1 In the first Associated Press football poll of the season. California's Coach Pappy Wald orf concentrated on pass protec tion as he prepared for Saturday's game with Illinois at Champaign. He said fullback Art Forbes prob ably will sit out the game be cause of a shoulder pointer suf fered in Saturday's 7-6 loss to Baylor. Senior Herb Jackson is expected to sub for Forbes. At Seattle, the Washington Husk ies braved a light rain to practice defense and punting under pres sure. And Coach Darrell Royal said there will be more of the, same all week. The Huskies en tertain Minnesota Saturday. USC's Jess Hill called for a full scale scrimmage Wednesday to warm up hfs Trojans for Friday night s conference game wiln ure eon Stato in the Los Angeles Coli seum. Hill said left guard Ben Lardizabal is expected to leave the hospital Wednesday after treatment for a leg injury dui probably will miss Friday's game. At Corvallis, Coach Tommy Prothro put his Oregon Stale squad through a light workout and said Wednesday's drill will be the final one at home. The Oregon Ducks got sood news from a draft board. Senior center Nick Markulis was notified ho won't be called up until after the school year. The San Pedro, Calif., lineman was told earlier he would be called before the season ended. The Ducks meet Idaho in Eugene Saturday. San Jose State drilled on pass . protection after watching movies of Washington State's aerial game. The Spartans meet the Cougars in Pullman Saturday. DR. J. W. LOWE , Chiropractic Phvsician Complete Spinal, Knee and Foot Adjustment 111 So. 4th SI. SUvans Hotel Bid Ottlrt Ph. TU 1-1131 Km. TU J-0182 RIFLE SCOPE SIGHTS Select from these beauties LYMAN WEAVER BEAR CUB BUSHNELL BAUSCH & LOMB . THE GUN STORE 714 Main Ph. TU 4-3863 w SMU Coach Gets Weekly Press Honor DALLAS. Tex. (UP) He spent three cents to get his job. the price of a postage stamp for his unsolicited application which he didn't even bother to send air mail. "I think I would make you a pretty good coach," he said, add ing casually he had heard there was a vacancy. They liked his simplicity and hired him when they checked up and found that "the guy never tells anything but the honest-to-gosh corn-fed Kansas truth." He's the United Press coach of the week, Chalmer Edison Wood ward of the green but mean South ern Methodist Mustangs, who handed Notre Dame its first open ing game aeieat in 22 years. Yes, when it's FLEISCHMANN'S GIN, it's so smooth you'll like it straight! And gin that smooth makes a perfect Tom Collins every time! (DISTILLED FROM AMERICAN GRAIN . DISTILLED DRY GIN 90 PROOF; THE FLEISCHMANN DISTILLING CORPORATION. NEW YORK CITY WE REPLACE AUTO For Any Car--- tram a Volkswaqon to a Cadillac TINTED CLEAR C Replacement Service Without Delay k' ) WE HAVE A COMPLETE STOCK OF Panoramic Windshields KIMBALL'S m ice cuad IE PUD HARVE PEG INKS, ST You Can Avoid Costly Breakdowns During Your Spud Harvest By Having Work Done RIGHT NOW ! Special 2-Ton Truck New Chevrolet SHORT BLOCK INST. . w 1 OVERHAUL INCLUDES Ntw piiten rings, piston P I pint, !, volva II springs, complete sal of II taiVtti ond S quarts of J 48 Hour Service By Appointment Call Collect For Max Lepley Easy Terms Of Course Dugan & JIAest CHEVROLET sport HAL'S SH0P St. . . . Vh.TI Big Fall Sale Continues! S32 Main St. Ph. TU 4-5569 Binoculars li Price Regular 43.25 8 x 25 NOW 21 95 Red Caps Cotton Flannel Red Shirts Red Vests 78 298 1 48 P 1 49 JL 1 Reg. 5.95 Gun CASES 48 3 Req. 1.98 Cloth CASES 1.48 Reg. 2.95 Hunting Knives Reg. 2.95 Guaranteed Compasses Heavy Mesh Deer Bags 98' Reg. 4.95 True Temper 28" Handle f Ava O88 vamp n Ac Reg. 3.95 Hatchets i i Req. 4.50 Plastic Air Mattress 88 2 31 3 t r Reg. 17.95 Ladiii' Hiking Boots IP Reg. 24.95 Men'i Ruuell's BIRD SHOOTERS 17" t r Sleeping Bags Reg 29.95 3-lb. Virgin Dacron 22.88 Reg 39.95 4-lb Virgin Dacron 27.88 Reg. 43 95 5-lb Virgin Dacron 29.88 Reg. 52.50 6-lb. Virgin Dacron 34.88 Reg 49.95 Station Vagon Bag 34.88 Reg 49.95 Down Bag 34.88 Reg. 29.95 6-lb. Wool Bag 16.88 All Bags May Be Zipped Together For Double Bag Deer Tags and Licenses 129 W.lrmf WUHJJ J I IW" n. TU 4-7371 Georqe Duqari 410 So. 6th Ph. TU 4-3101 Bob Meit