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HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls. Ore. Sundav. August IB. PAGE 3 B "Break Agreement" Chandler's Advice FRANKFORT, Ky. API -"Break the major-minor agree menl." is Gov. A. B. Chandler's advise to minor league baseball in its fight for survival. "The major leagues control practically all the players and most of the minor league clubs, but have no real interest in them," the former commissioner said. "Under the shortsighted and selfish major league operations, such as television invasion of mi nor league territory, the farm sys tem, the draft and huge bonuses, the minors are gasping lor breath. They must fight fire with fire, and the best way would be to abro- Hal Wood's Weekend Short Shots ' By HAL WOOD SAN FRANCISCO (UPH Saturday's shorts: Gene Fullmer, win or lose, will make more money off his fight here with Carmen Basilio for the NBA middleweight championship than he did at any time when he held the crown. His share of the TV receipts will be $50,000 He'll get 25 per cent of the gate which should bring in another. $50,000. Biggest gale he ever got while champion was $75,000, for losing the crown to Sugar Ray Rohinson ... "Every team in the league used (o send scouts to watch the open practices of the Forty Niners," says head coach Red Hickey. "But there will be none of that this year. We'll have secret prac tice as soon as the exhibition schedule is over. "I can recall the days when 1 was with the Rams. We had people watching the Forty Niners practice before we played them. Most ridiculous report of the year: A local columnist said that Frankie Albert, former Forty Niner head coach, collected $30,000 in interest on his: five per cent stock in the Forty Niners for the 1958 campaign. At that rate the San Francisco football club made $600,000 last year. But don't you believe it . . , San Francisco and Los Angeles must rate as the top sports towns In the country. Now it seems everybody wants to promote California. Bill Rosensohn of New York staged a fight in Los Ange les: now Norm Rothschild Syracuse is the top man in the Basilio-Fullmer fight here. Hor 8ce Stoneham brought the Giants from New York to San Francisco and Waller O'Malley took the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. The Forty Niners and the Rams draw more for their football exhibitions than most National Professional Football league teams do for reg ular season games . . . With the beaches, hunting, fishing and skiing, it must be surmised that the average Californian spends more money," per capita, on en tertainment than any other per-! son in th world And speaking of Brooklyn, we never seem to hear of the bor ough since the Dodgers evacu ated. It's just another part of New York now, like Queens Manhattan or the bronx. gate the pact with the big leagues "That would do away with the draft, and the optioning and re-l call of players. The majors could sign all the 'bonus players they desire, but at cut down time they'd have to release most of the talent now being farmed, and the minors would sign them as free agents. "Then they could sell them back to the majors, after developing them, instead of just getting a pit tance for the development as it is now. It would also do away with the majors recalling a play er in mid-season, thus wrecking the interest in the minor league cities." Of the 150 minor league clubs 30 are owned outright by major lopp teams. Practically all the others are under control of the majors to some extent through working agreements. Since 1949 a total of 38 leagues and 29fi cities have passed from the minor league picture, leaving 21 leagues and 150 towns. "And, unless the majors change their attitude, or the minors start fighting, I see the complete de struction of the minors," Chand ler said. "And if the minors fall the majors won't survive . too long." v J rfoQ' cv m mi Cubs Hex Top 5' C ASox Breezing Chicago Clubs Prove Major Problem ism TITLE FIGHT ACTION Here is the action between sec ond and third knockdowns in third round of th Moore Durello light heavyweight title fight at Montreal. Referee Jack Sharkey watches Durelle as Moore moves In with a punch that bounces the challenger to the ropes, Moore won on a knockout after decking the Canadian four times. AP Wirephoto Eugene, Yakimans Defeated By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wenatchee's Chiefs are back in first place in the Northwest League baseball standings but by only a mere percentage point. Wenatchee look over the top rung by dumping Eugene, 10-4. Friday night, while Lewiston was pasting front-running Yakima, 9-7. The results gave the Chiefs a .523 won-lost percentage compared to the Bears' .522. Eugene's Emeralds dropped to fifth place but still only a game and a half out of first in one of the tightest pennant chases the league has scon. In the other league contest Fri day night, Salem defeated Tri City, 2-1, leaving the Braves 3Vi games from the top. The Chiefs had litlle trouble in downing the Emeralds in an error- filled game at Wenatchee. The winners committed five bobbles, Eugene four. Veteran outfielder Herm Lewis turned in a stellar performance for Yakima In the Bears' losing effort on their homefield. Lewis drove in six of Yakima's seven runs with two homers and a sin gle. ' Roger Gregg drove in four runs for the Broncs, three of them with a bases-loaded double in the third frame. Carl Hutzler's bases - empty homerun in the fourth inning proved the winning tally in a tight game between Salem and Tri- City. . Salem scored its first run in the first but Tri-City tied it in the top of the fourth frame when mana ger Danny Holden doubled in a runner. Hutucr s circuit clout sent Salem ahead for keeps. Mitef f Eyeing Swede, But Doesn't Everyone NEW YORK (AP) Every time two heavyweights get together Ihese troubled days, the winner thinks he is ready for Ingemar Johansson. Argentina's Alex Miteff is no exception. "Johansson? Sure I want to fight him," said Alex Fri Nixon Hobby Sport Page, Competition CHICAGO (UPI Vice Presi dent Richard M. Nixon would like to be a sports writer, he told the annual meeting of the Football Writers Assn., although he could be a lawyer if his present occu cation should change. Nixon said that his hobby was reading sports pages and watch ing sports .competition, in person or on television, and listed numer ous memories that he has. Among them was the recollection that he was not a sports star in college, although he went out for baseball, football, basketbaR and track. "j did get a letter in football," he said, "the year Whittier Col lege had only 11 eligible players and they had to play me at tac kle Warren Giles Denies Protest CINCINNATI UPI) National League President Warren Giles conceded Saturday that Bill Rigney had a .point, but still rejected a protest by the San Francisco Giants' manager which arose dur ing a 20-9 loss to the Chicago Cubs last Thursday. Rigney based his protest on the fact Tony Taylor of the Cubs, on third base at the time, fielded a foul grounder off Ernie Banks' ba in the fifth inning. The Cubs led 10-7 at the time. Quoting rule 7:09-C, Giles said Beavers Clinging To Lead By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A newcomer, a veteran pitcher and a man who nearly didn't play baseball this season all had a hand in keeping the Portland Beavers ahead of the Pacific Coast League pack Saturday. Portland stayed at home Friday night and swept to an easy 5-1 vic tory over Sacramento, thus re maining in first place by two full games. Lcn Tucker provided most of the impetus at the plate in the Portland victory. Playing only his second game in a Beaver uniform, Tucker, who was purchased from the Vancou ver Mountics this week, blasted a three-run homer for Portland in the first inning. With that cushion, 36-year-old Duane Pilletle pitched an adept eight-hitter for Portland for his seventh victory of the Reason. He has lost but three. Jim Westlake drove in Port land's other runs. Westlake, who had about decided to stay out of baseball this year until given Beaver contract, slammed a two- run liner over the right field fence. , . Sacramento's lone run came in the ninth. It also was a homer, by Nippy- Jones. day night after snapping Alonzo Johnson's 13-fight winning streak "I am a street fighter. I fight anybody, anytime." It probably will be a long cold day in August before Miteff ever gets a chance at the world cham pion but he should get plenty of work after Friday night's winning effort. Teddy Brenner, the Madi son Square Garden matchmaker. wants to pit him against Eddie Machen or Willie Pastrano when they reopen the arena in October. Meanwhile, Miteff will be recover ing Urom a cut left eye that re qquired two or three stitches. He also has a swollen finger. Miteff hardly looked like a win ner, when they rang the bell. But he won it all right on the cards of all three Afficials. Referee Mark Conn and Judge Phil Bot- winik scored it 6-4 and Judge Leo Birnbaum had it 7-3. The AP card also was for Miteff 5-3-2. Despite his swollen eye, Miteff made Johnson fight his kind of fight. When; Johnson tried to trade with Miteff he got the worst of it. When he boxed at long range and struck out with his slashing punches, Johnson was in com mand. Most of the time they fought at close range where Mi teff gave Alonzo's body an un merciful pounding. , Miteff at 208 pounds to John son's 185',i, had a small rubber tire hanging over the. top of his trunks. He claimed the extra weight is good for- him. "Maybe it doesn't look good but I felt great," he said. "For the first time I didn't get tired." By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS If the Chicago Cubs had only to play the National League's top three clubs, they'd probably win the pennant. No fooling. The fourth place Cubs, playing only .478 against the second division teams, hold the season's edge on the first place San Francisco Giants and third place Milwaukee Braves while holding the second place Los Angeles Dodgers even. Chicago's record against the Giants is 8-7; against the Dodgers it's 8-8: against the Braves is 8-7 The Cubs made it two in a row over the Giants Friday, winning 7-5 on the strength of two-run homers by Walt Moryn, Dale Long and Ernie Banks. That gave the Cubs 15 homers in their last four games, all victories. Despite the defeat, the Giants lost no ground to their closest pursuers as the Dodgers were beaten 2-1 in 11 innings by St Louis and Pittsburgh defeated the Braves, also by a 2-1 score. Cin cinnati swept a doubleheader from Philadelphia 15-13 and 5-4 Chicago's White Sox increased their American League lead "over Cleveland to 3'i games, defeating Kansas City 5-1 as Detroit was scalping the Indians 11-1. Boston whipped New York 11-6 with a nine-run eighth inning and Wash ington downed Baltimore 7-3. Cubs 7, Giants 5 Trailing 3-1 in the sixth, the Cubs tied the score on Moryn's ItjtJ home run with a man on I had lour tn the opener. One of bal Rookie Willie McCovey put I Robinson's hits was a three-run thi Giants in front. 4-3. in thelhomer. his 27th. luh with his third hit but the Cvl went ahead in their half on pili hitter Dale Long's two-run hccr. Ranks followed with an- otrr two-run homer, his JSth of th year, to clinch the victory The Reds snapped a 4-4 tie in the eighth inning of the nightcap when Johnny Temple doubled off Jim Owens and scored on a single by Gus Bell. Don't tell Sherman Lollar that rdinaU 1. Bums 1 Chicago's American League lead- V,.,U ,.nr m,ff h i. nch hitler Alex Grammas' ,,s " " " 1 . j : ,u- ...ijicrs. ine nnue x idiuin ma iu. r..j- -ii u... u-jihit vou with that hot bat he's been Mil till V at H3 mill mrj lint, !h ,,- i.i in ih ,nth swinging lately Cunningham's home run. Don lidale gave up the homer. Dany McDevilt gave up the win- mil hit but Clem Labine, w ho I puthe winnjing run on base, won hi 12th. Duke Snider accounted fo the Dodger run with his 18th hiier. Bucs 2, Braves 1 fern Law pitched a five-hitler alinst the Braves for his 13th vilory. Pittsburgh's two runs off .My Jay came in the first on sties by Bob Skinner, Bob Cle- njnle and Smnkey Burgess and A error by outfielder Lee Maye. 'e. Braves had beaten the Pi i es six straight times. eds 15-5, Phils 13-4 The Reds pounded out 30 hits I their doubleheader sweep over ie Phillies. They got 23 in the pener as they overcame an early 0 Philadelphia lead. A five-run ally in the ninth won it. Frank ilobinson and Vada Pinsoni had tVe hits each and Willie Jones Sherm is a quiet, easy-going guy who rarely has much to say but oh. how his bat has been talking lately. The reticent Arkan.san walloped two home runs Friday night, each with a man on base, to lead the White Sox to a 5-1 triumph over Kansas- City. H was Lollsr's lourth home run in three days dur ing which he's driven in nine runs. The triumph together with' De troit's li t shellacking of Cleve land, increased the White Sox's lead over the Indians to 3'i games, five in the lost column. Lollar leads the Sox with 17 home runs and 65 runs batted in for the season. He was the team leader last year, too, with 20 home runs and 84 runs batted in. Chicago 5, KC 1 Bob Shaw pitched a five-hitler for the While Sox and lost his shut out in the eighth on singles by Kent Hadley and pinchhitter Preston Ward. It was the young right-hander's 12th victory of the season, his sixth in succession. Ha has lost but three. Tigers 11, Indians 1 Eddie Yost, veteran Tiger third baseman, banged five straight singles his first 5 for 5 game in 15 big league seasons to help Frank Lary register his 15th tri umph of the campaign. The vet eran right-hander missed getting his fourth shutout when Tito Francona homered for Cleveland in the ninth. Detroit collected 14 hits and dime loser Cal McLish out of the box with a four-run out burst in the third to take a 7-0 lead. BoSox 11, Yanks 6 The Red Sox pounded three Yan kee pitchers for nine hits in the big eighth, including a grand slam homer by pinch hitler Vic Wert. Ryne Durcn was the victim of Wcrtz' base-clearing wallop im mediately alter relieving starter Whitcy Ford with the bases full, nobody out and the Yankees lead ing 6-2. After Gary Geigcr's home run had given the Red Sox the lead, Boston scored four more be fore Bobby Shantz put out the fire. It was Duren who threw a homo run ball Wednesday night to pinch hitter Julio Bccquer with two on that gave Washington a 3-2 victory. Solons 7, Birds 3 Harmon Killebrew hit a homa run, then doubled home the lie breaking run in Washington's vic tory over Baltimore. Portland LL Squad Edged PORTLAND (AP) - The Wash-I ington Little League baseball champions met the British Co lumbia winner for the divisional Little League title Saturday and a trip to the Western regional tour ney next weekend at Sacramento, Calif. Alcoa of Vancouver, Wash., eliminated Ihe Oregon titlisls, Norlheast of Porlland, 1-0 Friday. despite the 'one-hitch pitching of ih rnlo stain, n runner is nut Northeast's Steve Reiter. if he intentionally deflects the. ftlcoa s vincem smgiea in me course of a foul ball in any man- slxtn' ,hcn went t0 thlrd on an error ana scorea on neuer s wua throw. Alcoa 0n 001-1 1 4 Northeast 000 000-0 2 1 Rhode and Cheney; Reiter and Hohnslein. "Taylor did touch the ball and was wrong in so doing," Giles added, "But rule 7:09-C was nev er intended as a penalty for such an act as this, which had no ef fect whatever on that' particular play. The primary purpose is to Nixon said the most exciting. . . rnn-r r h,t,er frnm thing he'd seen in sports was ondenec(j (he co(rsc o g (ou, television, ine unio oime-iuwa game two years ago when Bob White carried "nine straight times over the same position, and even though Iowa knew where he was coming, they couldn't stop him, and Ohio State won." In his memory, he said, Frank Gifford was the best all around player, Ernie Pinkert the best blocker, Gene Brilo the best de fensive lineman, Sammy Baugh the best passer, and Johnny I'ni tas the coolest player. The best quarterback, he said, would be George Marshall, owner of the Washington Redskins, be cause he can "sit way up there tn the stands and call the most Imaginative game. If he only had he players to go with nis cans, then the. Redskins might wis this fear." ball into fair? territory to advan tage their team. No such action was evident here. "The protest is therefore disal lowed and the game stands as played." ' Bill Blakcly Wins VICTORIA, B. C. (AP) - Power driving Bill Blakely of Portland won the Northwest Seniors' Golf Assn. championship Friday with a 3 and 2 win over Tom Green of Seattle. ' It was the second lime Blakely, 58, has won the title since he' be came eligible for the tourney in 1958. That year he won medalist honors but lost in the semifinals. He won the title in 1957 and was medalist again last year. Bookie Ring Erased In SF SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-If you ve got two bucks and hunch, don't dial SEabright 1-2871 because the joint's been raided. Police converged Friday on the nerve center of a $10,000 to SI5.000 a day bookie ring that was comfortably established in a tow er over a popular bar in the Sun set district here. The rooftop lower, operated by George iTimmy) Early, 50, was equipped with television set, cof fee maker and the all-important telephone. Early said he had "no idea" what went on in the com pact, circular tower, but while he nervously looked on, police an swered the telephone nearly once a minute taking bets ranging from U to $100. Brown Injured Severely CHICAGO (AP) Halfback Don Brown of Houston fought a life- death battle on the grass of Soldier f ield ana won. From then on, his shaken All Star teamates fought in a phs chological maze and lost 29-0 to the National Football League champion Baltimore Colts. ' The All Stars undoubtedly would have lost Friday night to the on- rushing wave of seasoned vetcr- rans in football's hardiest league But Ihe depressive sight of Brown, injured in1 the first quar ter, struggling for life on the gridiron before being hauled off to a hospital, was enough to jolt the most calloused player. Brown went out for a hook pass, explained Lee Grosscup of Utah, the starting All Star quar terback. "He was supposed to swing tight. I think one of the Colts' pluggers clotheslined him (accidentally hit him across the throat.) For 12 minutes, Brown lay silently on the ground while 70,000 fans stared downward at officials trainers and coaches frantically working over him. "When Brown got hurt, that was a big letdown, said Coach Otto Graham afterward. "He actually died on the field and stopped breathing. But they finally opened his mouth and brought him around again. I was scared to death." The impact on his throat caused Brown to swallow his tongue. He was choking to death. The situa tion was remedied during the frantic 12 minutes he lay on the ground. Hospital attendants later said he also suffered a slight con cussion but his condition war good. As for the game, Graham said "We didn't have the horses and the Colts were a lot tougher than Detroit," Fraley's Facts And Figures By OSCAR FRALEY NEW YORK (UPI) - Fearless Fraley's facts and figures: Rocky Marciano despite all his protestations to Ihe contrary would come back and challenge for the heavyweight champion ship, intimates say, if his finan cial demands were met but the asking price is too' high. Marciano," they assert, wanls al guarantee of one million dollars but the gimmick is that he wants it paid at 50 thousand dollars a year over a 20-year period. The answer seems to be that nobodyl is willing to put up that kind ol money for such a commodity. Not that the Rock's reputation wouldn't fill a stadium against, say, Ingemar Johansson. But he still has that ' bad back which helped force him to retire, he i. badly out of fighting condition anc it has been four years since hi had a fight . . . Such a guaranty would be a tremendously risk; proposition even if old Fearle's personally would pay (heaven! forbid!) to see such a brawl . . ! WILT IN PRO DEBUT i Wilt (The Stilt) Chamberlaii the seven foot basketball wonder will make his debut against N tional Basketball Assn. oppositii in the NBA's Maurice Stokes full all-star game at Kutsher's Cou, try Club on Tuesday. And tk pros can expect to really H something. Fuzzy Levane, coach of th New York Knickerbockers, sa Wilt play against another sevo footer, Detroit's Walter Duke, and he gives the tipoff on Chan- berlain's ability by asserting tht "Wilt handles Dukes like he w.s a baby." ... , . Spalding has a lock on majoii league baseball manufacturin but, even if it didn't, the proposed Continental League would have ti go to them if and when it gel in business. This is because tin sporting goods outfit has the naml 'Continental League" registerel as the name for one of its chean er quality balls ... So all they have to do would be to ship ball which would match the opei ing talent of the new league . BALLY ACHE BARGAIN Leonard Fruchtman, the Tolei steel man, came up with ,one the turf's bargain buys when purchased Bally Ache for $1.2(1 The colt to date has won $1(4 961. But Fruchtman says his thinks more of the cups a plates the colt wins .than she dn of the monetary return . . . whi is simply a case of "speak yourself, Priscilla." . . . Bally Ache, incidentally, is son- of Ballydam. So when thy were trying to name the colt, Mh little success, Fruchtman stornjd "this- whole thing is giving rit belly ache." ... so they namo" It "bally ache. . . . Carmen Basilio, who leaves iyr- acuse on Sunday for San Fan cisco where on Aug. 23 he met Gene Fullmer for the vanted NBA middleweight title, inist that this could be "my tougiest light. This despite his last rriil ing at the hands of Sugar lay Robinson. "Against Robinson I knew vlat I was up against," he explahs "But against - Fullmer I di t hat s because Fullmer Is so tin orthodox and, instead of beiti standup puncher, makes full use of his elbows and even his hen . . this could well be a pier siihe cause Carmen has his full tlaj-e of head and elbows, too , , , Powerful Baltimore Colts Deal All-Stars Grid Lesson CHICAGO (AP) The powerful ialrimore Colts gave the College 11-Stars a painful football lesson Soldier Field Friday night and took only 30 minutes to do it. With snapshooting Johnny Uni ts neatly hurling three touchdown lasses, the National Football league champions hanged to a h-O halftime lead over Ihe out- flasscd collegians and that's the k-ay the uneven match wound up h the big lakefront stadium be- ore 70,000 fns. Unnerved by an injury to half back Don Brown of Houston, who wallowed his tongue and ap peared near death on Ihe field, ihe All-Stars huffed and puffed in utile fashion against the bruising pros. The scoreless second half didl not mean improvement among the hard-trying college lads as much as it rcflecled Ihe fact the Colls eased up in pursuit of the 16th pro victory against 8 defeats and 2 ties in the All-Star series. In justice to the All- Stars. It should be stressed that their two offensive centers, both from Ohio Slate Dan James and Dick Scha frath were lost by injuries. Tack le Bob Rcifsnydcr of Navy took over the ball-snapping, but he, too, was injured, and 290-pound Mac Lewis of Iowa, also listed as a tackle, finished at center. But the troubles that surround ed the All-Stars, in the main, in volved what happened after the array of four different quarter backs got hold of the ball. 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