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Newspaper Page Textvets Lead National Clubs; ECansas City Returns Morse bug Musial, Spahn, Pierce Lead Way By FRED DOWN LTI Sports Writer Bdseball may be a young man's game but you can't prove it to day to a foursome of National League veterans with a total of 66 years of big league experience under their belts. They're the Milwaukee Braves' Warren Spahn, 41. and Ed Ma thews, 31, the San Francisco Giants' Billy Pierce, 36, and the St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial. 42. Their average age is 38 but they're starling off the new sea son as frisky as, the most ambi tious rookies. Spahn scored the 329th victory of his career and Mathews be came the eighth player in base ball history to hit 400 homers in the Braves' 8-0 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies Tuesday. Pierce extended his streak of con secutive wins at Candlestick Park to 14 with a 7-0 win over the Houston Colts and Musial became the first man to accumulate 6,000 total bases in the Cardinals' 4-3 triumph over the Pittsburgh Pi rates. Mets Lose Again The Cincinnati Reds extended the New York Mets' losing streak to seven games with a 7-4 deci sion and the Chicago Cubs edged out the Los Angeles Dodgers, 2-1, in 12 innings in other National League action. In the American League, the Detroit Tigers defeated the New York Yankees, 7-2, the Kansas City Athletics beat the Chicago White Sox, 7-4, the Cleveland In dians shut out the Washington Senators, 3-0, the Minnesota Twins edged out the Los Angeles Angels, 11-10, and the Boston Red Sox topped the Baltimore Orioles, 6-1. Spahn pitched a four-hitter and struck out seven in winning his second straight game of the sea son and raising his NL career shutout record for left-handers to 56. Spahn now ranks No. 8 on the all-lime winning list. Mathews' first homer of 1963 came in the seventh inning and lifted him into a select circle which also includes Babe Ruth, Jimmy Foxx, Ted Williams, Mel Ott, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle and Musial. Pierce, who never has been beaten at Candlestick Park, pitched a - six-hilter , and fanned six. It was his first win of the season and the 206th of his 17 year career. Felipe Alou drove in two runs with a single and a dou ble to lead the eight-hit San Fran cisco attack. Pirates Blow Lead Musial contributed a single to the Cardinals' 12-hit attack, rais ing his career total bases to 6,000. Hall of Famer Ty Cobb ranks! second lo Musial on the all-time list with 5,863. The Cardinals! trailed going into the last of the ninth when Duke Carmel lied the score with a homer. Dick Groat then doubled and scored on an error by Julio Golay. Catcher Johnny Edwards drove in three runs with three hits and a sacrifice fly as the Reds broke tlieir four-game losing streak. The hapless Mets' losing streak was extended to seven names two short of the record they set at the start of the 1962 season. Duke Snider hit his third homer of the season for the Mets. Ernie Banks, no spring chicken himself at 32, hit his first homer of the season and then delivered the decisive run for the Cubs with a 12th-inning sacrifice fly. Lindv McDaniel received credit for the! victory although he was saved in the bottom of the 12th by Barney Schultz. A two-base error by Wil lie Davis led to the winning run. American League Baltimore 000 100 000 1 5 1 Boston 000 014 Olx 6 8 1 Roberts, Narum (8i, Stock ( 8 and Brown. Monbouquctte U-ll and Tillman. Loser-Roberts 10-1). HR-Sluart. Detroit 200 500 000 7 9 1 New York 000 200 000 2 10 2 Aguirre i2-0 and Triandos. Ford, Bouton 5, Kunkel (7i and Howard. Loser-Ford (0-1 . Kansas City 010 201 003 7 10 1 Chicago 000 110 002 4 11 1 Bowsfield, Wyatt 19) and Bryan, Sullivan (4i. Fisher, Baumann '4), Zanni 6i, Peters (6, Buz hardt I8 and Carrcon. Winner- Bowsfield (1-D. Loser-Fisher (0-2) HR-Hansen. (13 innings) L. Ang. 121 100 200 020 110 17 6 Minn. 201 020 002 020 211 16 3 Chance, Navarro (5), Nelson (9 Fowler (10), Spring (10), Morgan (10), Turley (11). Moeller (13), Grba (13) and Rodgers. Kaat, Stange (3), Lasher (5), Moore (7), Dailey (9.) Pleis (11), Sulli van (1), Roland (12) and Battey Ratliff (ID. Winner-Roland (1-0). Lower-Turley (0-1). HR-Rodgers L. Thomas, Allison. Washington 000 000 000 0 2 2 Cleveland 000 000 21x 3 11 0 Osteen (0-1) and Leppert. Mc Dowell (1-1) and Romano. HR- Romano, Held. National League Philadelphia 000 000 000 0 4 1 Milwaukee 020 000 33x 8 11 1 McLish, Hamilton (7), Lopez (8) and Dalrymplc, Oldis (7). Spahn (2-0) and Torre. Loser McLish (0-D. HR-Mathews. Houston 000 000 000 0 6 1 San Fran. 403 000 OOx 7 8 1 Bruce, Cardinal (II, Droit (8) and Smith. Pierce (1-0) and Hal- Icr. Loser-Bruce (0-1). New York 000 004 000 4 7 1 Cincinnati 010 050 lOx 7 13 3 Hook, McKcnzie (5), Bearnarth (6) and C. Coleman. Maloney, Nuxhall (8) and Edwards. Winner- Maloney (1-0). Loser-Hook, (0-2). HR-Snider. Pittsburgh 012 000 000 3 7 2 St. Louis 000 000 022 4 12 2 Francis, Gibbons (8), Face (8) and Burgess. Gibson, Fanok (8) and McCarver, Oliver (9). Win- ner-Fanok (1-0). Loser-Face (0-2). HR-Carmel. (12 innings) Chicago 000 010 000 001 2 8 0 L. Ang. 000 000 010 000- 1 11 1 - Buhl, Elston (1), McDaniel dl) Schultz (12) and Bertell. Podres. Perranoski (9), Roebuck (11) and Roseboro. Winner-McDaniel (0-1). Loser-Roebuck (0-2). HR-Banks. Norm Cash Seeks High Average Instead Of Runs By JACK CUDDY DPI Sports Writer - NEW YORK (UPI) -Norman I Cash, the American League bat ting champion of 1961 who slumped to .243 last season, dis closed today: "I'm going for the average this year and forgetting about home runs." Texas Norman, the Detroit Ti gers' husky, blondish first base man, explained that when he had belted out 41 homers in '61 he thought his four-baggers were partially responsible for his re markable .361 hitting ratlier than a byproduct. Accordingly, inspired by his own 41 four-baggers that season and by all the hoopla over Yankee Roger Maris' record-shattering 61 circuit-blasts, Cash decided to try for the home-run title in 1962. He managed to produce 39 homers, but his batting average dove .118 points to .243. Hits Not Homers The first-sacker with the light reddish crew-cut emphasized: "It's hits I want this season; not just homers. And I certainly aim to get back above .300." It may have been only a coin cident that in 1961. when left hander Norm produced his .361, the Tigers finished second behind the leading Yankees in the pen nant race: but when he slumped last seaion, Detroit wound up fourth in the flag chase. "There's no reason why I shouldn't do very well this sea son." said the former Texas cotton-farm boy, who now is an ur ban resident of Eldorado, Tex. His father's farm was at Justice burg, Tex. near Lubbock. Feels Fine Now "I feel fine now," he continued "No hand trouble. My tonsils are out and I'm about five pounds lighter than last year s 196. During the 1962 slump,. he suf fered two fractures in his left in dex finger on Aug. 26, when struck in the hand by Claude Os- teen's pitch. He went to the side lines and was replaced by veter an Vic Wertz. "While I was being doctored for the hand injury," Cash recalled today, "I also had my tonsils tak en out because I'd been having some trouble with them. I feel a lot better all round now." Ladies' Tourney Set At Reames Weather permitting, women golfers of Reames Golf and Country Club will hold their first play of the season Friday in a "Three-Woman Monkey Tournament." The action is slated for only nine holes. Pairings will be made by prnfrssionalMlm War ner at the pro shop starting at t a.m. The swing session will begin at 10 a.m. and the second swing session, originally scheduled for April 26, has been changed lo Wednesday, April 24, at 10 a.m. Members are asked to remem ber to sign up on the bulletin board for future pairings. f jerry waggoner We once thought there was no weather as changeable as that which Texas has. There's a say ing there that if you don't like it. just wait a while. Bui Oregon has it beat a mile. We can see why coaches around this area might work up an ul cer during the spring season. The coach around this area never knows when or if his baseball, track or tennis contests will come off. We've also decided that a spring schedule Is virtually use less. It's fine lo start with a formulated schedule. But by the end of the season the schedule is so marked up with revisions. II hardly resembles the Initial slate. And while the schedule has the coaches talking to themselves, it doesn't do our department any good either. Half the time we're running around like a chicken with its head chopped off trying to find out if an event is on or off. Our suggestion is to have base ball, tennis and track during the winter and basketball during the spring. It's not feasible, of course, but we can dream, can't we? The new Klamath Basin Ath letic Club, which was formed re cently, is out to improve the qual ity of track In this area. The club has a specific thought in mind to start youngsters at track at a young age so they will be better: equipped for it when they reach high school. It's much (he same as the baseball program which al ready has shown signs of reaping; a good crop of ballplayers from the little leagues. Track, as any other competi tive sport these days, must be started at a young age because every sport is improving so rap idly in these days and times. Football and baseball players be gin young and are fundamentally sound by the time Ihey reach high school. They begin in the lower grades and know the game much better by high school time. Track is a highly competitive sport and an individual who doesn't excel in football or base ball can excel in track with hard work. And that's what it takes in any sport. Track in this area needs improving, too. There isn't one Klamath track man listed in the 19 evenls of the All-Time Oregon High School records. And of the All-Time rank ings in each individual event, Klamath has only three entries. Bob Leslie ranks second with a 9.6 hundred run back in 1935. Paul Noel is ranked third with a 9.7 which was recorded last season. Leslie's 22.0 220 - yard dash ranks him in a tie for 13th place and Noel's 42.1 ranks him in a tie with seven others for the bot- . ..... j. lorn spot. Allen Phillips' 203-9 javelin toss in 1961 ranks him 16th among the All-Time stand ings. Those are the only three. Many of the times for national high school leaders now are bet ter than records made by col lege runners a few years back. This is a sign of the improvement being made in (rack and field. And Klamath should keep up with the times. To do this, a program must be formed and it is now underway but needs backing. The Klamath Basin Athletic As sociation is now beginning opera tion. For those who are track filberts and wish to become active in a program of helping improve track in this area, there will be a meeting of the KBAA April 25, The time will be 8 p.m. but the site of the meeting is not yet set. Keep watching the Herald and News sports section for the site of the meeting. The meeting will be the first public meeting of Ihe club. The purpose of the first meeting, nat urally, is to build up a member ship and to tell all interested per sons of the purpose of the or ganization, the present plans of Ihe group, future plans and membership. A meeting prior to this meet ing, at 7 p.m., will be for area coaches who are interested in helping promote Ihe program. The Board of Directors of the KBAA already have held a few meetings and the club already is in opera tion in lhat it already has had some members competing under the KBAA colors. There are plans in the very near future to have shows here. In fact, some members of tile KBAA team will run In the County Track Meet slated a week from today on Modoc Field, Three or four college runners will compete in an open 330-yard dash. Plans also arc being formulated to have the top high school runners in the County Meet to run in an open 330 or some such event in the May 10 college meet slated at Modoc Field. The top runners in the county meet will be picked and invited to run under the KBAA colors. More on this -subject- of the Klamath Basin Athletic Associa tion will be printed in this section, It is a worthy program which hopes to help build up track in the area. And there virtually is no restriction on competing ages The age limit will start at 5- year-olds and go as high as a person thinks he can run. There is so much talk of physical fitness in the nation today, this is a good way to keep fit and have fun while you're at it. Keep watching this page for further news on Ihe KBAA. "" . . -:- '. ; .uLm p s w - :r i Kansas City Tied For First Place FOWL IN FAIR TERRITORY Not having enough excitement in home opener in San Francisco Giants and Houston Colts game, a ball boy tries to catch a rooster which was let loose on the field prior to the start of the fourth inning. Watching ball boy trying to get the rooster ere San Francisco ball players in bullpen. Boy finally got the bird after numerous errors and handed the "foul" to persons in stands. UPI Telephoto HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Wednesday, April 17, 1963 PAGE 1 B -U " i TUP' Lost Puck Control Goal Beats Wings By United Press International American League W. L. Pel. GB Cuban Athletes In Pan-Am Games By LEO H. PETERSEN UPI Sports Editor SAO PAULO, Brazil (UPD Cuba will take part in the Pan American games, but its activi ties will be restricted to the play ing field only. The arrival of 57 athletes Tues day confirmed Cuba's intention to participate in the games which get under way Saturday. Earlier, Cuban officials had accused the United States of using illegal measures to bar the Castro ath letes from the competition. On arriving here, the spokes men for the delegation pledged that all athletes and the 15 coaches would conduct them selves "in accordance with Olym pic principles and regulations." This was interpreted as a friendly assurance that Cuba will concentrate its efforts on winning gold medals and not on winning converts. Another problem regarding the Cuban ahtletes was that of al leged professionalism and author ization for them to compete in the games was placed on a con ditional basis pending an investigation. Meanwhile, advance delegations from the 21 other countries be gan arriving Tuesday and by the time the opening ceremonies are conducted some 3,000 athletes will be in altendance. Included among Tuesday's ar rivals, in addition to the Cubans, were the first group of U.S. ath letes and the Canadian and Ven ezuelan contingents. Another group from the U.S. was expected to arrive by char tered plane today with the final group due Friday. The United States will be represented by its largest team ever on foreign soil with 279 men athletes and 93 women. In addition to coaches managers and special staffers, the entire U.S. squad will num ber 469. Kansas City Detroit New York Baltimore Boston Cleveland Chicago Los Angeles Washington Minnesota .007 .667 .667 .500 .500 .500 .400 .400 .300 .300 Tuesday's Results Detroit 7 New York 2 Boston 6 Baltimore 1 Kansas City 7 Chicago 4 Minnesota U Los Ang 10, 13 inns Cleveland 3 Washington 0. night Wednesday's Probable Pitchers Baltimore at Boston Barber (1-1) vs. Wilson (1-0). Detroit at New York Mossi (I-Oi vs. Terry (2-0i. Los Angeles at Minnesota Lee (0-0) vs. Kralick '0-1 . Washington at Cleveland (night) Cheney (1-0) vs. Donovan (0-1 National League W. L, Pet. GB San Francisco Milwaukee Pittsburgh Philadelphia St. Louis Chicago Cincinnati Los Angeles Houston New York .833 .714 .667 .667 .667 .500 .333 .333 .286 .000 Tuesday's Results Milwaukee 8 Philadelphia 0 San Francisco 7 Houston 0 Cincinnati 7 New York 4, night St. Louis 4 Pittsburgh 3, night Chicago 2 Los Angeles 1, night Wednesday's Probable Pitchers Houston at San Francisco (night) Johnson (0-1) vs. O'Dcll (1-0). Chicago at Los Angeles (night) -Ellsworth (1-0) vs. Miller (0-0). Pittsburgh at St. Louis (night) Cardwell (1-0) vs. Washburn (1-0). Philadelphia at Milwaukee (night) Brown (0-0) vs. Bur- dette (1-0). New York at Cincinnati (night) Cisco 10-D vs. Owens (0-0) or O'Toole (1-1 1. DETROIT (UPI) Dave Keon lost control of the puck and the Detroit Red Wings just plain lost. That's what happened in the fourth game of the Stanley Cup finals Tuesday night as Keon scored the winning goal unassist ed to give the Toronto Maple Leafs a 4-2 victory over the Red Wings. The teams today headed for Toronto for the fifth game of the best-o-seven series Thursday night and the Maple Leafs, who now hold a 3-1 lead are over whelming favorites to win the cup lor the second straight year. Keon got the key goal at 9:42 of the third period lo break a 2-2 lie when he lost the puck and it went into the net after hitting two Wings, "I lost control of 11," Keon ex plained when he swerved to the left of the net trying lo pull out goalie Terry Sawchuk after skat ing from center ice with the puck. "It rolled toward the net and (Norm) Ullman, who was coming in from the other way, kicked it with his skate and it bounced oft Sawchuk for the goal," Keon said. It was Keon's fifth goal in nine playoff games and three of Ihem have come when he lost the puck and it happened to roll into the net. Toronto Coach Punch Imlach couldn't say too much about Keon after the game. "He's Ihe best center in the league and 1 wouldn't trade him for any play er at any position, he said. 'Sure, (Gordie) Howe is a great player but lie s 35 and Dave's 23, I don't think that would be much of a trade for i," he added. Imlach also figures the series is all over. "I'm a positive think er but if these guys don't end the scries on their home ice Thurs day, they're deadheads," he said NIIL Stanley Cup Playpff By United Press International ( Best-of-Seven Scries) W. L. Toronto 3 1 Detroit 1 3 Tuesday's Result Toronto 4 Detroit 2 for eight hits in his last 14 trips to the plate. Pitches Two-Hitter Sam McDowell pitched a two- hitter and struck out 13 batters for the Indians, who tagged Claude Osteen for his first loss. Woodie Held and Johnny Romano homered for the Indians. It was McDowell's first complete game in the majors and his strikeout total was the highest by a Cleve land pitcher since Herb Score struck out 13 batters in a 1959 game. Hank Aguirre enabled the Ti gers to beat Whitey Ford for the first time in four years with a 10-hit pitching performance and a 40-foot single that resulted In three Tiger runs. Aguirre's hit a roller down the third base line came during the Tigers' five- run fourth inning. Clete Boycr fielded the ball cleanly but threw it wildly past first base and all three Detroit runners who were on base scored. The win was Aguirre's second in a row and the loss Ford's second straight. Walks In Winning Run Eli Grba, 17th pitcher to see action, walked George Banks with the bases filled in the 13th inning to give the Twins their marathon win over the Angels. The 17 pitch ers set a major league record and the nine used by the Angels tied a mark. Bob Allison had four hits and Bemie Allen three for the Twins and Billy Moran had three for the Angels. Bill Monbouquctte pitched a five-hitter and Dick Stuart hom ered for the Red Sox, who tagged Robin Roberts for five runs and six hits in seven innings. Stuart, who started the game hitting .105, also had a single and drove in a total of four runs. By FRED DOWN UPI Sport Writer It's the Kansas City Athletics' turn to enjoy a good laugh at the expense of critics who said they looked like a girls Softball team. How long or how loud the Ath letics will continue to laugh is open to question but for the mo ment they're living it up with a four-game winning streak and a one-third share of first place in the American League. The Athletics whose colorful new uniforms made them the game's No. 1 joke during spring training climbed into a three way tie with the New York Yan kees and Detroit Tigers Tuesday with a 7-4 victory over the Chi cago White Sox. Key men in the triumph were outfielder Gino Ci- moli and pitcher John Wyatt, who; Eddie Lopat says are "among the! most under-rated players in the league." Tigers Beat Yankees The Cleveland Indians beat the Washington Senators, 3-0, the Ti gers topped the Yankees, 7-2, tlicj Minnesota Twins won a four-hour and 41-minute struggle with the Los Angeles Angels, 11-10, and the Boston Red Sox defeated tile1 Baltimore Orioles, 6-1, in other American League games. In the National League, the San Francisco Giants routed the Hous ton Colts, 7-0, the Milwaukee Braves ripped the Philadelphia Phillies, 8-0, the St. Louis Cardi-I nals edged out the Pittsburgh Pi rates, 4-3, the Cincinnati Reds downed the New York Mets, 7-4. and the Chicago Cubs shaded the Los Angeles Dodgers, 2-1. ii. 12 innings. Cimoli baited in three runs with a single, triple and sacrifice fly to spark the Athletics 10-hit at tack. Wyatt took over from win- COACH IN RESERVE ner Ted Bowsfield in the ninth NEW YORK (UPD-Manhatlan and stopped the White Sox cold, basketball coach Kenny Norton earning his second "save" of the holds the rank of commander in season. Cimoli has now connected the United States Naval Reserve. FIGHTS By United Press International NEW YORK (UPIl-Lou Ander son, 14414, New York, stopped Joe Mangiapane, 14414, New York (5). SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPIl Santiago Gutierrez, 160, San An tonio, knocked out Del Flanagan, 160, St. Paul, Minn. (71. 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