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SKIPS ALONG Ron Musson, driving the Mitt Bardahl U-40, skimi along smoothly
on Detroit River to win the coveted Gold Cup Race at Detroit on Sunday.
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fy Death Of Doc
MIAMI, Fla. (UPI) - Through
out the boxing world today the
bell was mournfully tolling ten
for Jack (Doc) Kearns, the fight
game's most fabulous manager,
who died here early Sunday in
his sleep.
Jack Dcmpsey and . others
among the eight world champions
who had been managed by 80-year-old
Doc phoned or messaged
Pitchers,
Hitters,
Spark SSBR
Metier Brothers. South Sixth
Street Oxygen and Local Loan
turned in victories in play in
the South Suburban Babe Ruth
circuit over the weekend.
Metier Brothers shutout
Town and Country 10 to 0 on an
excellent one-hit pitching pcrfor-l
mance of 14-vear-old Bill Rvan.
While his mates were walloping
11 hits Rvan struck out 10 over
the five innincs and nave, un
the only hit to Stove Wltzenbergcr
in the first inning. Wilzeiiberger
stole second but was thrown out,
at third.
The hitters had the spotlight in
the South Sixth Street Oxygen
KC Paint game with a total of 28
base hits clouted In all. Each
club hit for 13, but the Oxygen
club stretched theirs for 14 runs.
The hitting barrage included twol
home runs, both by Nolan Fcr
rcll, catcher for the Oxygen club.
By contrast, the A&W-Local
Loan clash was a closely fought
battle with pitchers on both sides
proving miserly with base knocks.
Local Loan rapped out five hits,
Including a triple by Bob Lar
man, while A&W held a 2 to 0
lead going into sixth inning, but
the roof fell in and Local Loan
scored three runs lo tako the
lead. A&W tied It up in the top
of the seventh only to have the
winning tally in their half of the
same frame.
Ferrell Fanning went all the
way for Local Loan, clouting a
double to aid his own pitching
effort, and Bob Watson went
the route for the losers.
Ortega Tips
Belly Bello
NEW YORK ( Un-Viclorious
Caspar Ortega, welterweight con
tender of Mexicali, Mex., and
young Billy Bello of New York
may be rc-matched for another
television 10-roundcr at Madison
Square Garden Aug. 24. promo
ter Harry Markson said W-iy.
Markson was delightrd with
Saturday night's nationally tele
vised bout at the Garden, where
Ortega stretched his unbeaten
string to eight fights and spoiled
Bello's big-time debut by winning
a split decision.
It was 20-jear-old Bello's first
TV fight and first Garden main
event.
Ortesa. 27, won tlie verdict.
5-4-1, 5-4-1, 4-5-1. One judge fa
vored Bello. The United Press
International had Ortega ahead,
5-4-1. And a poll of seven wriUhs
at the ringside favoied Ortega.
61.
Gaspar scored his 88th w in hi
118 fights as Bello ciiiicrcd hi.s
tixth loss In 24 afarts.
Ortega, the 2-1 favorite,
weighed 150 pound to Bello's
151.
THREE STRAIGHT
HOLLYWOOD (UPI I - Nor
man Tokar has been selected for
the third year In a row to direct
a picture for Walt Disney. This
time he will ply his talents in the
high action feature film, "Savage
Sam." The young director pre
viously handled the reins on Dis
ney's. "Big Red."
NEWS. Klamath Falls, Orrgoa
tfc-v
World Saddened
their condolences to members of i
the family,
Dempsey, 68, who teamed with
Kearns and the late promoter,
Tex Richard, in the Roaring
Twenties to produce the first mil
lion-dollar fight gate, assured
over the phono from New York:
I U fly into Miami Tuesday aft
ernoon.
Services were tentatively sched
uled for tlio Philbrick Funeral
Homo in nearby Coral Gables,
Fla., at 10 a.m. Wednesday.
Changes Name
Doc was given the baptismal
name John Leo McKcrnan short
ly after his birth at Waterloo,
Mich., Aug. 17, 1882.
But later when ho became a
professional boxer in the Far
West, he shortened the name to
Jack Kearns. And it was Dcmp
sey who gave Inm the nickname
of Doc because Kearns knew so
many prescriptions for blood-stoppers
for cuts and for limbering
oils used in rubdowns.
Kearns recently estimated that
he had managed more than 500
Professional boxers and that1
"sinte nearly all of my boysl
were 8d earners, 1 figure their
Cheney Studs Win
Two From KF Hawks
The Cheney Studs took both
ends of a doubleheader from the
KF Hawks Sunday at Gem Stadi
um, winning by scores of 6-2 and
4-2.
The Hawks led briefly in both
games, scoring a single run in
the first innings only to fall be
hind as the Cheney bats came
to life and belled out nine hits in
the 4-2 triumph and five in the
(i-2 victory.
Steve Young went Hie distance
in the 4-2 loss for the Hawks
Public Links
Meet Opens
SACRAMENTO. Calif, i UPIv
Men from the nation's municipal
golf courses tec off today in the
final qualifying rounds of Hie Na
tional Public Links Tournament.
Tliey play 18 holes today, an-
olher 18 Tuesday and tlien the
field of 150 will he whittled down
lo 64 (or match play starting
Wednesday.
The guesses are it will take a
score of 150 or belter lo qualify
for match play. The lliiggin Oaks
course, which has boon honed to
near perfection (or (his even!, is
playing lough and (here arc ex
ported to be few par busters.
'Its the best course I've ever
played on (or a public links tour
nament," defending champion
Dick Sike. Springdale. Ark., said.
The airways are hist about per
fect."
To get tlie course re.idv. tlie
city of Sacramento closed it to
tlie public for a months and gave
up about $10,000 in green fees lo
make sure tlie U.S. Golf Associ
ation wiould be happy with it.
In all the years of the public
links tournament." said P. J.
Boatwright Jr. of tlie I'.S.G.A..
there neser has been a course
in as good condition as this one."
Sunday Johnny Tufts, Seattle.
former University of Washington
basketball plaver, had two carles.
but uUo hit two out of toundj5u""i,',;,m
and finished with a par 72.
In aiktitlon to tlie qualifying
Tuesday, there will be team
match play with squads from 27
cities and 24 states in the com
petition. This play is for the War
ren G. Harding Trophy won last
year by Seattle.
A form of cigarette first was
discovered In Mexico. It consist
ed of tobacco packed into a reed
or rapied in maize.
Monday, July , 1963
-.ftl. -..s '- ' .J-'-
Kearns
total purses must have exceeded
$40 million, and that my share
was about $13 million.
He paused then and added,
"And you'd never believe a man
could go through that much
money."
Kearns, the real "golden boy'
of boxing, said heavyweight
champion Dempscy's purses and
other earnings totalled about $19
million, and that the money reg
istered by Mickey Walker, former
welterweight and middleweight
champion, approximated $G mil-;
lion.
Ill Since March
Doc, spry and wiry in his 80th
year but somewhat withered and
stooped, was taken ill at Los An-
gelcs in March but he returned
to Miami, where he underwent a
month's hospital check-up.
Then ho went to the home of
his son, Jackie a Miami fire
man and one of the nation's fore
most skin divers. It was at Jack
ie's home whore he fell last week
while trying to walk into the yard
and broke his right wrist
Since that injury he had been
coniined to bed, where his son
I found him dead Sunday morning
and Tom Pilgrim stayed t h e
route in the five-inning nightcap.
Three singles and a pair of
walks accounted for tlie first in
ning run of Lou Alvarez for Cen
tral Point's Cheney Studs, but
Young struck out Howard Tom
lison with the bases loaded to
retire the side.
The Hawks struck back when
Mike Spiker walked to open the
bottom of Hie first, moved to sec
ond when Al Kenyon walked and
scored on a single by Marv Cun
ningham. They took tlie lead in the bot
tom of the second when Bob
Woldt singled, moved lo sec
ond on a walk to Young, to
third on a walk to Spiker and
scored on a single by Rich Bath.
It was the last of the first game
scoring effort for Ihc Hawks.
Cheney Studs tied it up in tlie
(op of the third when a single by
rat pepper and three wild pitch
es moved him all the way around
to tic it up at 2-2
In the fiftli inning, Pepper
walked but was thrown out at
second. Darryl Sunimerfield
walked, Neil Rivenberg singled
and Wayne Clay drove in t w o
runs with a single although lie
was wiped out at second.
Tlvat was the game's scoring
with Central Point holding the
edge (or the 4-2 victory that
counted In (lie league standings.
The second non-counter clash
found the Hawks scoring a run
in each of the first two innings
only to have Central Point tic it
up with two in tlie second and
move away with two more in the
third and a single tally each in
the fourth and fifth.
Chine
C. lines. 2b
Alvaret, ss
earner, jt,
Summer! 1010. C
Rivenoero,, cf
Clay. II
Tomlmsen, lb
Mason, rf
I'nrlits. p
Talals
KF Hawks
Shiver, Jb
Bath, cf
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ketivon.
r.innlnnh
Ischlff, If
Weidi. lb
Nerramoro. c
Crumc. 2b
Coleman. Jb
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Cheney Studs
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SPOT ADS
you arc Raw.
Grow Hurls Perfect Game As Falcons Win Pair
AL So. Uiv. No. 4
KF Falcons 8-1
Mcdlord 7-2
Gi ants Pass 73
Central Point 64
KF Hawks 3 7i
Tri-City 29!
Ashland 2-0;
Rich Grow turned in a spar
kling no-hit, no-run game Sun
day at Merrill lo give the Falcons
a 6-0 victory and clear title to
first place in the league standings.
The falcons made it a clean
sweep for the day by taking the
Medo Bels Belt League Leading Scott Valley 5-1
NOlt CAL LEAGUE
Weed 5-1
Medo-Bels 4-2
Scott Valley 4-2
Dunsmuir 42
Happy Camp 15
Mount Shasta 06
Sunday rtsufta:
Weed, 17141, DeBorloll, Lemol 19)
and Paulello
Heoov Cams. 5 a 3. D. Tilus. Beck
(4), Sufc'llle (I) ar.i navis
(10 Innings!
Dunsmuir, 9122, Marke and Hisey
Mount Shasta, 3 6 6. Pelfme and
Woods
Klamath Falls Medo-Bels belt
ed the league leaders, Scott Val
ley, in the Northern California
League Sunday 5-1 to move with
in a notch of the top of the loop.
Sport Parade:
Colorful Jack Kearns
Leaves Boxing Vacuum
lly OSCAR FRALEY
UP Sports ri(cr
CLEVELAND, Ohio UPI
There's no way today to explain
or fill the vacuum.
You know the phone won't ring
anymore in (lie middle oi mo
night with a call form San Diego,
or maybe Stockholm. No more
will you hear that vibrant voice
announcing flippantly:
I'm wheclin' and dcalin' here
but I'll sec you in a couple of
lays. Got something big cookin
but just wauled lo see how you
were doin.
For two years you sat with
him, off and on. writing his life
stury and he led you by the hand
through the raucous days of the
West, up the Barbary Coast and
un inlo the Roaring '20s, the
thirsty '30r, the furious '40s, and
on through Hie years winch,
seemed without ending.
But not any more.
For Jack iDoc Kearns is dead
just a month short of his 81st
birthday.
Speaks of Future
You saw him early last week
and, while he was thin and had
his right arm in a cast after
breaking his wrist in a fall, he
still spoke of the only thing that
actually concerned him, namely
the future. The pale blue eyes
and the crooked grin still gave
him the look of a larcenous lep
rechaun. He had known them all through
Ramos Faces
Title Fight
NEW YORK IUPH - Cuban
Ultimo i Sugar Ramos will at
tempt the lirst defense of 'his
world featherweight crown Satur
day night at Mexico City since
he won it on March 21 in his
tragic fight with the late Davey
Moore of Springfield, O.
In what appears the week s otit-
standing match, Ramos will de-
(end his 12iv-pouiul title against
lop ranked Rami King of Nigeria.
Ramos won the championship
at Los Angeles on an upset 10th
round knockout over Moore, who
never had been slopped in his pre
vious 42 iighls. Moore died three
days later of brain injuries.
The week's boxing schedule in
cludes: Monday: Nothing slated
Tuesday: San Jose, Calif.
Louis Molina vs Doug Vaillant.
Sacramento, Calif. Fred Roots
vs. Santiago Gutierrez. Cardiff.
Wales Howard Winstone vs. Al
berto Serli i European feather
weight title'.
Wednesday: Miami Beach
Tuny Alongi vs. Don Warner.
Thursday: Miami. Fla. I'onv
i Mammarelli vs Bobby Marie.
J Friday: Nothing slated.
1 1 Saturday: Mexico City Sugar
Jiliamos vs. Halm King iwnrld
I'leatherwcichl title1. New York
Garden i Joey Archer vs.
Fund
Salim (TV'i.
second game 8-1 behind the three
hit pitching of Jim Jackson.
Meantime. Ashland was rising
up to score a ringing upset 2 to
1 victory over Medford. knocking
them out of a two-way tie with
the Fall on for the tup rung of
tlie league ladder.
Grow was in danger of losing
his perfect game only in the
seventh and last inning when two
walks and a hit batsman loaded
the bases. He bore down to makei
Jay Parish his seventh strikeout
victim and preserve his no-no ef
fort. It was the second defeat for
Scott Valley and dropped them
into a three-way scramble with
the Medo-Bels and Dunsmuir for
second place with Weed dumping
Happy Camp 12-5 to hang on to
the league leadership.
Blake Griggs turned in a spar
kling mound performance for the
Medo-Bels in their conquest of
Scott Valley as he went the dis
tance, scattering only live hits
along the way and encountering
double only in the sixth inning
when he gave up the lone run.
He struck out 10. giving up
three singles and two triples.
The Medo-Bels paced by the
bats of Ron Owings and Griggs,
who were each two for four at
the years . . . the prince of Wales
and a young engineer in the Klon
dike named Herbert Hoover . . .
Klondike Kate and Texas Guinan
. Jack London and Ernest Hem
ingway . . . Diamond Jim Brady
and Touts Shore . . . Al Capone
and Frankie Carbo . . . John Mc
Graw and Joe DiMaggio.
They'll remember him best as
the man who made Jack Demp
scy and the million-dollar gate.
But he managed seven other
world champions, including Mick
ey Walker and Archie Moore, and
threw away the millions he made
faster than it came in.
'The thing I needed more than
any of my fighters." he chuckled,
"was a manager."
Some of litem called him the
buccaneer of the boxing world.
To others lie was (he all-time king
of the con men.
Loads The Gloves
"Sure there were times I load
ed (he gloves." he said as he sat
in that big four-posted bed last
Wednesday. "What happened to
those other fellows was their
businesi. I looked out for me and
mv own."
'Just like now." he added ve
hemently. "I gotta get out of this
bed and get back out to Vegas
(or that Liston light. In a year I
expect to have my new boy. Jef
ferson Davis, in there fighting for
the title."
He had been everywhere and
done everything, this spidery oc
togenarian who was Hie softest
touch" and quickest check-grab
ber in the world. He worked on
whaling ships, ns a cow puncher,
muggled Chinese ashore in Se
attle, boxed and "worked a mil
lion angles."
Yet, whatever he did, "Doc"
managed it with flamboyant en
joyment. It wasn't the "score"
that mattered: it was whether
you could "con" someboc'y who
was Irving lo beat you. if . you
couldn't shool an "angle" or beat
a challenge there was no fun in
trying.
California
Miss Wins
PORTLAND , U PI' - Second
seeded Diana Gai of Oakland.
Calif., defeated top . seeded Bar
bara Chandler ol Boise 2-S, 6-4.
6-4 to win the women's singles
title in the Oregon State Tennis
championships Sunday.
The finals match was played in
doors at (lie Portland Armory be
cause the li viniitcMi Club courts
were soaked by ram.
Joyce and Linda Yce, sisters
from Seattle, loppnt Mary Sherar
of Seattle and Mrs. Gai 6-2. 7-5 in
the women's doubles linals.
The men's sinc'c- championship
between lop-sccded Hoist Hitler
of Pa'o Alio. Calif., and third
seeded .lorry Cromwell of lng
Reach. Calif., and the r'-en's dou
bles linals match were postponed
until today.
Along the seven-inning route
Grow got excellent fielding sup
port, and his teammates pound
ed Dave Hill for 10 hits. They
struck (or two runs in the first
inning as Lanny Guyer walked,
John Parisotto singled and Mike
Hitching belted a long double to
right field. Kitching was thrown
out at third trying to stretch it
into a triple, but two runs
crossed the plate.
The Falcons added three more
in the third frame on (our sin
gles and an error. Their final tal
ly was counted in the fiftli inning
the plate, struck for two runs in
the fourth and added three more
game clinchers in the seventh.
The open runs came when Dave
Sigado opened the inning with a
double, Griggs followed with a
single to score one and Jim Kel
ler brought him home w ith a dou
ble but died on second as Don
Dexter struck out.
In tlie big seventh innii.g. the
Tough American League Flag Chase
Puts Houk On All-Star Game Spot
CLEVELAND, Ohio UPI-
American League managers, put
ting the pennant race ahead of
everything else, had Ralph Houk
backed into an All-Star corner to
day.
Houk was faced with an
'either-or" dilemma whether
to go with Ken McBride o the
Los Angeles Angels, who will
have had two days rest for Tues
day's 34th All-Star game, or his
own rookie right-hander, Jim
Bouton of the Yankees, who
pitched two-thirds of an inning
Sunday.
Meanwhde. Alv'n Dark of the
National League had well-rested
southpaw Jim O'Toole of Cincin
nati ready to go. and because of
the uncertainty of the American
League pitching, the Nationals
were 3-2 favorites although play
ing in an American League park
"If they let me. I'll name an
eithcr-or pitcher." said Houk
who was scheduled to name his
star'.ing hurler at a press confer
ence today. "If they don't, well
I don't know which pitcher I'l
name."
inc press conierence was
scheduled for 10 a.m., EDT.
Houk, directing the American
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424 So. 6th
when Larry Smitli singled, moved
to second on a walk to John
Gray, got third on an error and
came home on a passed ball.
The victory was the second
mound triumph of the year for
Grow who bested Bend earlier in
the season.
Jackson tinned in a neat per
formance in tlie second came as
the Falcons again struck early.
scoring three runs in the second
frame.
Tlie three runs were the result
of only one single and three play
Medo-Bels struck with two out.
Consecutive singles by Dexter,
Sherm Allen, John Bianchi and
Owings brought home three runs
and put the game out of reach.
Dale Evans, leadoff hitter for
Scott Valley, gathered three of
the five hits off Griggs including
a pair of triples and scored the
losers only run.
The win gave tlie Medo-Bels a
League All-Stars for the third I
time, had Bouton, McBride and
Bill Monbouquette of the Red Sox I
available as starting possibilities..
.ticnnue j'ltcncu rrioay nignt
while Monbouquette worked in re
lief Suncay. as did Bouton.
"I'd like to start someone with
at least two days rest," Houk
said.
' That seemed to narrow the
field to McBride, but Houk still
could name Bouton, who said he
wasn't tired after Sunday's brief
stmt against Cleveland.
Another possibility, Jim Bun
ning of Detroit who has been bril
liant in four previous All-Star
games, pitched Sunday, as did
reliever Dick Radatz of the Red
Sox. That left only Jim Grant of
the Indians and Juan Pizarro of
the White Sox, but Houk wasn't
considering cither of them as a
starter.
"The National league is load
ed with too much right-handed
hitting power to start a left-hander
against them," Houk ex
plained, "And 1 want to keep
Grant and his fast ball, in case
a spot situation comes up."
Houk said he would like to talk
to the pitchers he has at his com
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ing errors and were scored by
Marvin Yunck. Jackson and Guy
er. They added a single run in the
fourth on a walk and a single,
and four big runs in the filth
highlighted by a round-tripper by
leadoff hitter Guyer with t w o
men on. Smith scored the (inal
tall after walking when he was
singled home by Rich Jackson.
Rich Jackson was the big gun
for the Falcons in the second
non-counting clash with a three
for four effort at the plate.
season record of 4-2 and moved
Ihpm to within one came of the
league leading Weed club.
Medo-Bels
I R H Rbl
1110
Dexter, 03
Allen, ss
Bianchi. cf
Owlnos. c
Slgadj, lb
1 1
1 2
0 0
Griggs, p
Taylor, rl
Gresdel. If
Keller, 2b
Torals
mand before making his decision,
but he pointed out that some of
them will not arrive here until
late today. As a matter of fact,
neither club scheduled a workout
Pint-Sized Giant Killer
Captures Gold Cup Race
DETROIT (UPD Pint-sized
Ron Musson turned giant killer
Sunday to upset all-conquering
Bill Muncey and set a blazing
new speed record in winning the
56th running of the famed Gold
Cup race.
Musson. a mere 5-7 and 155
pounds, powered Miss Bardahl
around tlie three-mile Detroit
River course at a sizzling aver
age of 105.212 miles per hour to
edge Bill Cantrell and Gale V for
the $10,000 first prize and tlie
coveted Gold Cup.
Musson and Miss Bardahl had
1,500 points, to 1.400 or Gale V,
which won the final heat.
Muncey and the famed Miss
Thriftway, winners of the last
two Gold Cup races, finished
sixth in the field of 12.
Winner Sot,, July 6
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Periso-lo. 3D 4 110
Kilching. cf 4 0 13
Paaton, c 3 0 0 0
Johnson, rf 4 110
Smith, If 4 3 10
Cray. 10 3 13 1
Grow, p 4 0 2 3
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Sleiek. H 3 0 0 0
B. Moore, lb 2 0 0 0
Connor. 3b 2 0 0 0
J. Moore, c 3 0 0 O
Kuril, lb 3 0 0 0
Reed, rf 2 0 0 0
Parish, cf 2 0 0 0
Roller. If 10 0 0
Ganger, II 10 0 0
HIH. p 7 0 0 0
Talali 0
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Binaham. 2b
Laoevrl. 3b
Mclnlyre. c
Malone. rf
Hitchcock, rf
O. Duncan Jr..
D. Duncan Sr.,
Hammond, ss
Miles, lb
wolf, o
Strain, cf
Jlggs, p
Sage, lb
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Scott Valley
at Municipal Stadium, where the
game will be played starting at
1 p.m., EDT Tuesday, because so
many of the players on the squad
will not be here until late today.
Miss Bardahl won all three of
her preliminary heats to pick up
1,200 points going into the final
heat. Gale V and Tahoe Miss
each had 1,000 points and had a
chance to win it all if Miss Bar
dahl faltered.
Cantrella, former Indianapolis
"500" race driver, made his bid
(or victory by picking up 400
points as he made a larce out
of the final heat. But Miss Bar
dahl picked up 300 points for fin
ishing second and that was more
than enough for victory in the
overall point system.
-Miss Bardahl, owned by Ole
Bardahl of Seattle, set a Gold
Cup lap record of 114.650 miles
per hour in the second heat.
More than 200,000 fans jammed
the course.
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