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HERALD AND NFWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE 1 B KF legion Hosts f SUNDAY, JUXE 21. lfl.19 warns pass wine AMERICAN LEGION W L Klamath Fall 2 Ontral Point J 0 Granu Pass 2 2 Medfoni 1 i Lakeview 0 4 Sunday Schedule '- ' I Prt. 1.000 l.ono Grants Pass at Klamath Falls (f Hertford at Central Point M2) Coach Hi Hatfield and his' Klam ath Falls American Legion .base ball team, currently -noked in a tie with Central Point (or the Dis trict 4 league lead host the un- preaiciame orants rass ciuo in a, doubleheader beginning this aft-! trnoon at 1 p.n in Gem Stadium. The first game, a seven inning test, is the only one that counts in Kubs Seek Nor-Cdl 1st Plate The Klamath Kubs make a big, bid for at least a tie in Northern B" t third. California League baseball stand-. Charged with covering the out ings this afternoon when they face j ''' "e Don Gresdel. Don Wil the Scott Valley Stars in Scott ley. and Rick Adkms. Ken Womer, Valley at 2 p.m. Steve Binney, who are both at- With 1-win and 2-losses widen endin school, and Rich Depew, their belts at this point the Kub.i.wh has broken finger will be fortified with the addition of at i missing (rom the legion roster, (or least three new players, figure loe next week.. make a big mark in Nor-Cal cir- Standing by for relief assign ties, ments are pitchers Pat Carney and While the Stars are entertaining the Klamath Falls nine, Dunsmuir hosts Weed and Mount Shasta tangles with Yreka at the home ef the Indians. Manager Irv Whitt's Kub squad will feature at least one new facelwebb in this afternoon's lineup: Butch Kimpton, Oregon athlete home on i vacation, working at second base. Others in the lineup include catch- n i i.- 1 1 .. ti . i n ! Dunson or Bob Janes, shortstop Butch Dollar and either Ron Ow ing! or Dean Dunson at third, and outfielders Whitt. Floyd Linder mand and possibly Rube Johnson. Johnson, a state policeman, may be unable to make the trip be cause of his duty hours. Should he be missing pitcher-outfielder Mike Dolan will take over the job In right field. Either Dolan or Johnson provide power at the plate for the Kubs who are rapidly hitting their stride. - . Whitt declined to name his start ing pitcher but he has a choice between Ed Vegley, Wayne Hiro naka, Dolan, Bob Lawery or Bob Janes. "I believe we have one of the strongest hitting clubs we have aeen here in recent years," com mented Whitt. "This year we are memea wnm. inis year we are shotting for the ABC baseball tournament, and I believe we have a good chance," he' added. The Kubs are working on a num ber of night games, outside of league action, to be played before home town fans. Among the teams expected are Fresno State College, Humboldt State, Hamilton Air Force Base, Merrill and oth ers. Exact dates and times will be noted later. The Merrill same, the next on the Kub s schedule, is slated for; Gem Stadium at 8 p.m. this com- Ing Saturday night according to! Whitt. . 23 Colleges Meet At UCX t EUGENE, Ore. (API The (2nd i experienced ihotmiker from Spo nnual national collegiate golfkane's Manito country club who tournament will open Sunday with wields a superb iron when he's a best-ball match between eastern. and western collegians. There also will be a long-driving contest Sunday for the 152 con testants scheduled to tee off in the first round of qualifying play Monday. " The match Sunday will send 12 two-man teams from the East against an equal number from the West. The East, which has a couple ef Walker Cuppers, is favored to win its ninth match in the 16 years the teams have been com peting as part of the NCAA tour nament. The Walker Cuppers are Tommy Aaron of Florida . and Ward Wettlauffer of Hamilton Col lege, New York. The collegians will be playing on (he 4,600-yard Eugene Country Club course, which has a par at 17-34-71. Twenty three colleges have en tered four-man groups to compete for the team championship. The Monday and Tuesday rounds wilUpar, while Welch went down in determine the team title as well 137 over the 1.200 yard layout, as being qualifying rounds for Spokane's - Harry Missildine matches to follow the rest of the moved into the finals of the con- week. The low 4 players will qualify for match play. Kl'FrEM CONTLSSIOV BALTIMORE (t,PI I Outfielder 7ke Bella of the Kansas City Athletics escaped .serious Injury Friday night when he banged his kead on the conrete root of the dugout and was knocked out. X rays revealed Bella suffered only mild concussion. league . play! whiie the second, a five inning' (ray, la strictly kings-X. I stadium gates will open at noon -suOjand the concession stands will -)0opea. Admission is 7S cents (or ' .01)0, adults with youngsters 15 and un der invited (ree as guests of the legion and its sponsors. Grants Pass, with 2 1 to date, will field a starting lineup which includes catcher Gary Stevens or Glenn Davis, pitchers Bill Cole or Harry Parker, first baseman Jere Paterson, second sacker Dave An derson, shortstop Denny Walker and third sacker Garv Holmes Richard Daugherty may fill in for Holmes at third. In the outfield the club has a choice between Rex Benner, Bob Varner, Jim Hamilton and Larry Janssen. Both Janssen and Ben ner serve as relief pitchers. Coach Hatfield's powerful local legion nine will probably see Dave Saks as catcher, Blake Griggs as pitcher for the first game, with John Webb getting the nod for the second, Ross P a x t o n at first. Smiley Herrera at second, Bob unck at shortstop, and Kstin Ki- Gary Bebber. both of whom have snown promise in early season work, according to Hatfield. KF Legion statistics: BATTING STATISTICS O AB H Bill ret. 1 Womer s 1 1 .400 .373 .3.17 .33:1 .308 .2M s s l a it n ii 9 31 4 7 Jjjj,,,, Dn 5vV"y Yunck Binney 10 27 10 34 7 11 10 36 10 37 4 S .291 I .l6i .0R.ll .0771 .074 .000 , Kifer Head Pax ton Carney Adklni Bebber Othera .000 ,ooo .000 .000 .ooo .000 11 10 1 s T)UU 11 tM U II 1 .till E Herrera t. Kifer S, Binney 4. Gresdel 3, Griitta 2. Carney 2. Jack on. Stllwell. Moore. Reillnr. Yunck: 2B Yunck 2. Depew 2. Wilklnaon 2. Wllley; 3B Saki 3. Grig fa 2, Binney. Willey; SAC Willey. Kifer, Herrera. Binney, Greadel: SB Kifer 4. Her rera 1, Greidel. Willey. Griff. Webb; HBP- CrMdel. Head. WHkinaon. Beb ber. Klier. Wiltey. Yunck. Adkim; DP Kifer to Sakt to Pax ton, Webb to Herrera, Kifer to Herrera to Paxton, Wilkinson e Gresdel to Saka, yunck to Herrera to Gresdel. PITCHING ATATIdTICfl: IP H LR RR DO W L wJhk t! ?2 f I S ; i Herren 2 2-3 3 0 2 2 0 i Carney n. i ? Othera l l-l ID I i I uj t.uii pa. 1 1 VV 1 1 1 1 Ca ITiS Gains Finals CLARKSTON, Wash. (AP) De fending champion Dick Williams of Seattle squeeked by young, de termined Billy Welch Jr., 1-up, Saturday to gain the finals of the Washington state amateur golf championship. Williams, a nerveless shotmaker ' insurance, win square on against Spokane's surprising Hal Baker in the 36-hole final Sun- y- Baker pulled the upset of the 338th annual tourney with a stun ning 5-ind-t victory over Bothell's Jim Bourne in their semifinal. Bourne smooth as silk on his tee swings during the earlier going iib ilia luuvil siMia unnci , on IacI ki. H.,k .nni.t D.li., n right. He wasn't right in the 18-hole morning round but managed to go to lunch with a 1-up lead. Then, his irons shots began falling where he wanted them. However, he toured the 14 holes j it took to dispose of the Bothell .belter in four under than par in the afternoon ' The muscular Williams shot a morning round as blistering as the heat, carding a four under par 07, but still couldn't shake the willowy, 18-year-old Welch. An honor student at Kennewick high school, Welch fought' back twice after being three down. Williams racked up successive birdies on the 29th and 30th holes to again go three up only to have Welch close the gap on the next two with birdies of his own. They halved the rest of the match, each producing birdies on the 36th and final hole. . Williams totaled 13S, six under wlalion flight, defeating Ros Rogn. stad while Jim Mallory defeated Spokane neighbor Larry Lee, for the right to meet Missildine. CI.INCHRS RYDER BERTH LEEDS. England (L'PIt Nor man Drew of . Belfast virtuall; clinched a berth on Britain's Ry der Cup golf team Friday whet he won the Yorkshire Evenim Newt tournament with a 281 total r a aw mi a - ' " .- WM,ISIIJ.Iinlllirlllr .1: lilt I I IU ' (. J" 1' i i l !'' t ? llifl i llllilllll i i'lilili 1 1 i mmW S liiiiillnPi!!' MILLS LITTLE LEAGUE PARK The proposed new home of Klamath Falls Little Leaguers is rounding into shape as is shown by the above photo of the nearly finished restrooms and a portion of one outfield fence. Many Klamath Falls MET Braves, Giants Swap Spots: Yanks Stop League Leaders Burdette Hands SF Stinger sax francisco (ap - mh waukee's Braves grabbed back ?'hp Natinnal Leacue first nlace " " " . . 'irom aan rrancisco aaiuraay wim Lew Burdette's five-hitter. Milwaukee ended the Giants' top spot reign after only 17 hours. The Braves began pecking away against left-hander Mike McCor mick with a run in the second and never were headed. Braves 4, Giants 1 Milwaukee 010-110 1004 I 1 San Francisco 000 OOO 0101 S 3 Burdette and Crandall; McCor mick, Muffett ill and Landrith. W Burdette '11-5). L Mc Cormick (4-7. Home run--Milwaukee, Adcock 151. Cubs 6, Phils 3 CHICAGO (AP) Robin Rob erts, one of baseball's great right handers, lost his bid for a no-hil- iter with one out in the eighth in ning Saturday and tnen nung on to pitch Philadelphia to a 6 3 vic tory over the Chicago Cubs. Philadelphia 000 400 002 I 2 Chicago - 000 000 0213 4 3 Roberts and Sawatski, Thomas (9); Droit, Henry 4i, Hobbie (7) Elston 9i and S. Taylor. W Roberts (6-5. L Drott (I P. Home run Chicago, Marshall (8). Cards 5. Bucs 2 ST. LOUIS AP) Wilmer Mi - lell needed help from Lindy Mc - Daniel to gain his ninth victory Saturday as the St. Louis Cardi- nals defeated the Pittsburgh Pi- rates 5-2. Pittsburgh WW 000 2002 9 0 St. Louis 201 020 OOx 5 10 2 Friend. Porterfield 5, Daniels '6, Blackburn (81 and FoileS Kraviti 2; Mizell, McDaniel (71 and H. Smith. W-Miiell 19-3). L-Friend 3-9 Dodgers 9, Cincy 2 LOS ANGELES 'API Don Drysdale drove in three runs with a homer and triple and pitched the first complete game of his ca reer gainst Cincinnati Saturday as Los Angeles belted the Reds 9-1. Gil Hodges hit his-ninth and tenth homers for the Dodgers this season. - Cincinnati 000 020 ono 2 3 Los Angeles 000 031 Jlx 9 12 t Purkey. Pena mi. Arroyo t and Bailey; Drysdale and Rose boro. W . Drysdale (7-5). L Purkey (at). Home runs Cincinnati. Thoma 1 St. Los Angelas, Hodge I (10' Drysdale in. Moon (4). WAYNE SCOn, Sports Editor American League W 4. Pot. GB Cleveland 33 17 .550 lnitri Baltimore New York Chicago Boston Kansas City ..... Washington Friday Baltimore 8-2, Detroit 6, Washington 4 (11 in nings) New York 3, Cleveland 2 Chicago at Boston, postponed, rain. National league W L Prt. GB 4 14 24 S 7 8 104 Milwaukee 37 28 .569 San Francisco .. 37 29 .561 Pittsburgh 35 31 .10 Los Angeles 36 32 .529 Chicago 32 33 .492 St. Louis 29 34 .460 Cincinnati 3 .446 Philadelphia .... 25 37 .403 Friday Results Philadelphia 8, Chicago 7 Pittsburgh 8, St. Louis 0 Los Angeles 6, Cincinnati 1 San Francisco 4, Milwaukee 1 (10 innings) PACIFIC COA.ST I.EAGl'E 34 29 .540 V 34 30 .531 1 I 32 29 .525 14 33 30 .524 14 28 34 .452 8 27 33 .450 27 36 .429 7 4 Results Kansas City 2 01 W L Prt. GB 40 29 ..W) 30 31 .HA S 3 32 ..129 3", 31 31 Son 5S 34 34 .VM) 5'i 32 34 .n 4 30 .1 .441 9'4 29 39 .426 10' Sacramento Vancouver San Diego Portland .JPOKn alt Lake city . Phoenix Seattle PARTING OF THE WAYS CAMDEN, , N.J. OfV-Sam Boul metis. veteran jockey, lost one of uesi annum menu, wild vci ex. 3-year-oia norse, cracsea a sesamoid bone in his left foreleg while winning the Camden Handi cap. Boulmetis had been the horse s only rider tn his last 14 races. 10 of which the pair won. over the last two years. Vertex had three other riders in 1957 but Boulmetis won three of four races with the horse that year. Vertex will be retired to stud. RIDING AX 18 WILMINGTON. Del. urJimmy Kirk is only 18 but he expects 'o get quite a few calls to ride luring the Delaware Park meet ng. I'nder contract to Mr. and Vlra. Harry Lunger's Christiana itables. apprentice Kirk can make 09 pounds. His father, Carson .irk of Silver Spring, Maryland, as a former jockey and taughi im to gallop horses whea he was 12. .11,.,,,; liiiiiii isbiM construction people and contractors have volunteered their time, equipment, materials and manpower in bringing this project this far along. Additional help it badly needed from parents and fans ef Little League baseball players. Skowron Powers Big Raps NEW YORK (AP) The New York Yankees parlayed scatter arm Herb Score's five walks and two throwing errors into seven runs in the first two innings Sat urday and romped to a 10-2 vic tory over Cleveland. Bill Skowron hammered his 11th and 12th homers and a triple and drove in five runs for the Yanks, who won their filth straight and pulled within 14 games of the first place Indians. Yanks 10, Indians 2 Cleveland OOO 000 002 2 8 3 New York 250 021 lOx 10 8 0 . Score, Ctcotte (2), Perry (7) and Nixon: Maas and Howard. W Maas S-4. L Score (7-4. Home runs Cleveland. Held Held (111. New York, Skowron 2 (12). BoSox Dump Chicago Boston (AP) Boston swept a day-night doubleheader from Chi cago Saturday, 1-2 and 9-0, dump ing the reeling White Sox from second to fifth place in the Ameri can League standings. '1st game, day) Chicago 000 010 0012 I 2 Boston 410 000 30x 8 ( 1 Wynn. La (man (2), Moore IS), Arias (7), Lown (7) and Lollar; Brewer and Daley. W Brewer (5-3). L Wynn (9-5). Home run Chicago, Landis (4), Boston, Malzone (9i. Chicago 000 ono 000 0 I 1 Boston nod 000 12x 9 13 0 (2nd game, night) Donovan, Latman (3), Staley '8i, Lown (8) and Battey: Casale and White. W-Casale '6-41. L Donovan (4-4). Tigers 7, Nots 4 WASHINGTON (AP) Detroit scored five runs in the seventh inning Saturday and whipped the Washington Senators 7-4. Detroit OOO 002 5007 11 Washington Oil 000 2004 - 1 Larry, Sisler (7) and Ber beret; Griggs, Stobhs (7), Woodeshick 8) and Courtney. W Lary (8-3). L Griggs (2-5). A's Trip Orioles BALTIMORE (AP)-Bud Daley, with help from reliever Bob Grim. outshone Hoyt Wilhelm In a battle of knuckleballa Saturday night and the Kansas City Athletics snap ped a sev l game losing streak with a 8-2 victory ever the Balti more Orioles. Kansas City 011 000 1128 17 0 Baltimore 008 000 020 2 7 O Daley, . Grim '81 and House: Wilhelm, Loes (9) and Triandos. W-Daley M. L Wilhelm f2). Home runs Kansaa City, Cerv ,3 (7), Hadley (1). Krieger Collects OAG Win PORTLAND (AP) Don Krieger of Portland putted only 37 times for 26 holes and posted an 11 and 10 victory over John Wells of Vancouver, Wash., in the final match of the Oregon Amateur Golf championships. Krieger, a" 26-year-old insurance salesman who won the champion ship in 1956, one-putted 10 greens in a row Saturday. Eighteen-year-old Shirley Engle horn defeated Mrs. Frank Fiski of Portland by the same score. 1 and 10, in the women's final. Miss Englehorn, the three-time Idaho women's champion, recent ly was graduated from a Cald well. Idaho, high school. She won all but one hole in the afternoon round and was four up after the first 18.- - ; Krieger, who tied for the ama teur championship in the Oregon Open earlier, took an 11 -hole lead in the morning round and was four under par at 67 on the Tualatin Country Club course. Wells lost the first four holes and alter that the outcome was never in doubt. Results of lower flights in cluded: First flight Bruce Weaver, Portland, defeated Joe Hill Jr., Longview, Wash., 2 and 1. Second flight Roy Rrnoud. Portland, defeated Chet Brown, Seattle, 5 and 4. Fourth flight Dick Epstein, Se attle, defeated Roy Anderson, Portland, 7 and 6. Women First flight Elaine Porritt, Eu gene, defeated Joan Coflcen, Os wego, S and S. Third flight Mrs. Jack Bell. Seattle, defeated Mrs. John Erick- son, Portland, 7 and 8. Bender '9' Defeats Basin Gals A pair of inside the park home runs, although one of them came off the bat of visiting pitcher Joy Adreon were responsible for the 13-12 victory Saturday night of the Elbo Benders over the Klamath Basinettes. The Basinettes, in spile of the big second inning knock of substi tute Elbo pitcher Joy Adreon, broke even with the male softball- ers, collecting IS hits over the seven inning distance. Cliff Stcmler ras charged with the loss despite the fact that he played for the opposition. Miss Ad-eon got crtdH for the win. The only other four-master of the game was the third Inning smash of outfielder Darlene Perry. The cluos ere scheduled to meet in a repetition ef the Saturday night game, the date to be an nounced. , "' The teams swapped batteries tor 'he test. R H E Basinettes 204 Of) 112 IS 1 Elbo Bend. 321 522 x 11 IS 5 Adreon and Wickline; Stemler and Carrier. SCORES A TRIPLE BOSTON (L'PP-Georg Glass- ner scored a triple at Suffolk: Down Friday when he won on Sal verton ($34.00) In the first race. Class Will Tell '113 Ml in the fourth and Special Story (817.00 ta the ninth. BARKS y WAYNE Milk LlttU Logu Pork Is shaping up fin ... but of court tWo Is still a long way to go . . . and from htro o rh going will bt a littlo toughor. Timt has run out for our for man, Harold Shormon. 5 Nor man, who has suporvisod tho construction to this point through the courtesy of Morrison, Knudsen, has to get bock to his own tasks. He hat earned a large vote of thanks for his eeanelesa efforts In making the project a success. Without Sherman oh the scene to direct the operation thin could be slow. Not necessarily tho . . any one of a number of parents who have volunteered their time and ability to far. could step In and take over for Harold now. It's not an easy Job that he vacates but It Is a highly necessary one. Any takers? And speaking of Mills Little League Park, and I usually am. thought It more than noteworthy that the mothers of the Car-Ad-Co LL team have taken It upon them selves to spearhead a "feed the volunteers" program on these Sat urdays at Mills Field. Yesterday a group of them fol lowed Mrs. Dallas MrNHU's ex ample from the week previously and fed volunteer workers on the scene. Mrs. McNeill, also a Car- Ad-Co mother, singlehandedly un dertook the project a week ago ""-" " tie League mother. .111 pitch In. L'.l.uI.., I '.J,.ki.JI., .11... la This (ar-Ad(o group of par- ent. sets an admirable precedent, j 10 aaie ineir Boys nave yet to win a league ball game and that. occasionally, is a sign for many team parents to lose Interest . . . fast. Rut not so ... at Car-Ad-Co. A very nice gesture has been made .. . one that we feel wnuld be approved by the late Dr. Paul Noel, one of Klamath Falls fore most sport fans and a tremendous Klamath Falls athlete of yester year. The Little League Ball Park Benefit Fund has received a check toward the new hall park in the name of Dr. Noel, from a Klamath Falls lady who prefers to remain anonymous. She was out of - town at the time of his death and funeral anf when she returned she felt that the help toward the park might be more in order than flowers. Our friend also suggests that perhaps there are other friends of Dr. Noel and bis family who might wish to do the same. Tickets, tickets, tickets Baseball season is just well started and the tub-thumpers are hollering foot ball, football, football. So note. . . . Tickets are now available for the annual Shriners Hospital all-star football game set for Multnomah Stadium August 15. Pasteboards are on sale at game headquarters, 1119 SW Park Ave nue, Portland, either in person or by mail. Prices range from $1 to $3. And . . . ducats ft.- the pro ball game between the Philadelphia Eagles and the Green Bay Pack ers, scheduled for Multnomah Sta dium August 29 are available by mail. Reserved seats $4 ... re quests should be sent to Oregon Sports Attractions, Multnomah! Stadium. The game pitts a pair of ireats. quarterbacks Joe Fran cis and Norm Van Brocklin ... a READ Bargain j mntH 0 Plus Tax and Kppbl Tira All Sittt Available At Similar ' Savingt LIFETIME GUARANTEE! ALL SIGNAL STATIONS N' BITES SCOTT YAKIMA BOSS Hub Kittla Night-mar "natural" for Oregon sports fans. Th, n,w Klamath Union grid , tFvlaermfni lor Ady Knudsen. .ho Is leavint for St. Helens, remains a big mystery to dm,. A number of application hv, h... rrn-ivnl. hut ih .u. lelic department ts not talking . . ; now. Incidentally. KU may lose another coach shortly, also to St. Helens. . .. Some leads I wish 1 jnight hava written. . . . John Thompson, I W athletic publicity director sayi, (Continued .a Page IB) IT'S MONET, fN Your Pocket to Simpl arithmetic (hews that you com out ahead in an OLDS! Sea us for a Good Deal! Dick B. Miller Co. OLDS . CADILLAC 7th I Klamath Ph. TU 4-4154 THIS : Hunters! BRAND NEW LEE REGULAR DELUXE TIRES AS LOW AS I value- I RATE' 1 THE ft Brocket 1 While W I Evaluate ( Your CAR! J :701S PI. Ti end Yvr Rebl Tie 6:00x16 Rayon MO" 6:70x15 Nylon '15"