Show — KHarm ' - riplein 12th'Gives Buzzers 3 r NY Odds It may be Floyd -- Rates John Mooney 4-- 1 Favor Tribune Sports Editor Over Ingo unfair to the ostrich to associate Its name t ' alarming fashioa THE DIRECTORS facing the issue in typical baseball fashion have been asked to vote on whether the clubs should release their nightly at- tendance figures to the newspapers The directors feel newspapers in the Association cities have been featuring the poor crowds Some mentioned newspapers were "embarrassing baseball" by printing these attendance figures "attendance 313” or “attendance 485’’— Such statements actual figures for games this year — are not conducive To building up future gates the league directors believe Baseball magnates are very insistent that attendance figures of a favorable nature reach the public print If a club or a league is ahead of last year’s attendance this fact should be emblazoned for all to read So why imitate the legendary habit of the ostrich when the attendance figures slump? Special to The Tribune - NEW YORK June 23 (UPI) — Heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson became a favorite Tuesday night to beat Ingemar Johansson in Thursday’s title fight when the odds rose a half point "Heavy support for the champion and lack of money for Johansson caused the rise” a Broadway sportsman explained 3-- in MEANWHILE promoter Bill Rosensohn said the advance sale had hit $450000 and that he expected the gate at Yankee Stadium to exceed $600000 "It should go higher" Rosensohn said "because the long-rang- e weather forecast says fair and warm” A poll of 64 sport writers showed 52 picking Patterson to beat the Swedish challenger and 12 favoring Ingemar v $ ? A cheerful Ingemar Tribune’s Baseball Scoreboard I Pacific Coast League National League American League Vashlngton 39 Bolton 10 Betrott New York 10 Kaniai City 3 Baltimore 0 Cleveland 1 Chicago 4 Waahlnkton 1 Wadnaaday’i Prohibit Pltchari Boiton at Detroit — Harihman or Sullivan ( 5 ) vi Mont (S3) Washington at Chicago— Kemmer-c- r (4-va ) or Romonoaky ) Donovan at Cleveland Baltimore (night) —Wilhelm (9 3) va Locke (0-0- ) New York at Kama! 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be-- J lnoted ” lieve is due to Dempsey his "tune up” joust with Brian London in Indianapolis less than two months ago In the final training bouts I saw he demonstrated that he has ironed out faults he showed in his earlier bouts such as the "flying leap” or springing up in the air as he shot a jab or straight right Such action not only robbed his blow of power but left him vulnerable to be knocked over by even a light counter- By Asioclated Fresg 5-- rating McCvy lb 4 2 3 2 Barker lb Taorn rt 2 0 0 0 Rblnsn 3b 3 Hnwn n 112 1 2 0 White c Wilson cl 4 McCrdll c 4 O 2 1 Estrada a Brdwr 2b 4 0 0 0 a Causey Barclay p 3 0 0 OiLuebkep 4 0 0 0 3 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 10 3 0 2 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 t Tslsla 88 6 Totals 30 49 out for Estrada In 0th: out for Van Noy in 9th for Taormina In fth Phoenix (lot 000 008—0 Vancoarar 000 000 000 — 0 E— Psgsn DP— Pagan to McCovey Brideweser to Pagan to McCovey LOB— Phoenix 3 Vancouver 0 2B— Wilson McCardell 3B— White HR— TV Showing McCovey Prescott k r er bb s Is Barclay (W Estrada (L3-2- ) 8 Luebk i T — 3 00 A—3262 Tickets continued to move briskly lor the Utah Theatre TV of the world’s championat ship fight between Floyd Patterson and Swedish challenger Johansson Thursday at Ingemar night at The fight will be shown on the big screen at 7:30 pm with doors due to open at 6:30 pm Spokes in Contest for the Gibbons fight I would 2-- 1 not have been able to get over By Associated Press the first round — no matter SPOKANE June 23 — Roger how many guys heaved me r Osenbaugh pitched a nifty back Into the ring here Tuesday night as You see the difference beSacramento tween gym training bouts the Solons edged the Spokane Inand real tune-uis fights dians and snapped the Inthat in the latter you don't dians’ wear any headgear or in a Pacific Coastwinning streak League basepadded body belts etc ball game SALT LAKI CITY IPOETL AND b r h rbl Sacramento got Indian iblk rbll Hence you must protect 6 0 2 0 Barone u 100 OiGriff 2b Jn — from -pfor If 8 fl n 0 axun the Secreit — a MUw 4 J0 unches-- by yourself 4 12 0 O' Snyder cf 4 Toothm3b 11 fourth when Buddy Peterson Harmorcf SOI llGreengrrrf 5 0 0 0 blocking ducking or footwork lb 5 0 1 01 C Moore 4 110 In drills fighters are prone to walked and Milt Smith singled Stevenr Bernier rf 4 11 Oi Melton 3h 3 0 2 0 Peterson to third The Baumer 1 1 2b 4 1 1 2'Wstlake lb ? depend on the headgear to sending e SOI OINea’c 3010 speedy shortstop scored on Westrfld save them from punishment 0 0 0 2 FrancUn 4 0 0 O'Kutvnap Phillips’ sacrifice to deep Umbrcht o 1 0 0 O'McMInn p 2 0 10 Patterson now boxes with Dick 0 1 E Moore If j 0 10 0 his feet well set on the floor center 41 9 10 1 7 31 2 48 Total! Totali to give his blows leverage yet THE OTHJCR SOLON run A— Fanned for McMtnn In 12th not flat enough to impair came in the sixth when Smith Silt Loko City 000 000 100 (Mil— 8 010 001 000 000— speedy footwork And his in- - rammed ohe over the leftfield Portland X — Biumor DP — Toothman and See Page 21 Column 5 wall That was U for Wade Weitarfleld Toothman Baumer and — Salt Lake Citv 11 Stevem Left and Phil Ortega came in for Portland 0 2B— Miley 3B— Harmon Melton Spokane to keep Sacramento HR — Baumer SB— Snyder 3 — in bounds but after the dam- C Moore SAC—Weitlake SF Weit-lak5-- 0 I t nr bb oo1 age had been done pace-settin- p 2-- five-gam- 4 - 3 0 4 2 3 0 10 4 3 3 0 1 - - e e 1 e Barclay Stops Mounts Smith Throttles Suds VANCOUVER BC June 23 —Curt Barclay held the Vancouver Mountles to four hits Tuesday night as the Phoenix Giants defeated the Mounties for the first time In eight tries Willie McCovey and blow Bobby Prescott led the Phoenix In Patterson's attack with two-ruhomers chances in his impending before 3262 fans fracas I think some folks overlook the fact that the Lon- FHOKN1X (VANCOUVER ah r h rbl bik rbi don affair was actually for the Pagan 4 0 0 0 Bredng lb 4 0 10 Shetmt rt 4 0 0 0 purpose of giving the cham- Vn Ny 3b3b 310110 0 0 Frailer It 2 0 0 0 Speak It 4 0 0 0 Tucker rt 4 0 0 0 pion a fight "under his belt” HE PROLONGED it pur- posely to get his money’s worth in action Had he stopped his opponent in a round or two the benefit to Soloiis Edge two-hitte- Ingemar JohansTHE 15 ROUNDS with s son at Yankee took enough rust off Stadium Thursto enable me to survive day Ticket Sales Gain Speed 29 38 Preii Wlreyhatk championship He tangles with champion Floyd Patterson In a scheduled bout Thursday at Yankee Stadium with boxing gloves will win him the world’s heavyweight t Pet Behind 15 35 35 3d 35 — Associated Johansson of Sweden predicts his skill ” 5-- 1 : i d man-to-ma- Jim Westlake’s sacrifice drove in a run in the second for the losers and Russ Snyder stole home in the fourth for the other tally The Beavers missed a golden opportunity to win the game in the 11th when Dave Melton singled for the- second hit off Umbrlcht Melton stole second —fourth successful theft of the evening for the Portland runners— and Westlake looped a single to short center putting runners on first and third with one out i 4 f Two feuding British promo- 4-- '4 l: ters delivered exactly opposite opinions about the outcome Of 5-- 1 Salt Lake's other two runs cahie on a home run blast by Jim Baumer as the Bees tallied twice In the seventh 7 m 4-- 1 Um-bric- i) Eight picked Ingemar seven Patterson fV J i — Fifteen Swedish writers In the poll were almost split near-empt- letroit Boiton taniac City PORTLAND ORE Chuck Harmon ordered to replace his damaged bat by the plate umpire cracked the first pitch by Glenn McMinn for a triple and Salt Lake victory over the a Portland Beavers in 12 innings here Tuesday night Harmon’s long blast scored Ken Toothman who had singled with two out and gave the victory to relief ace Jim who replaced starter Earl Francis In the ninth 4-- 1 the bout Jack Solomon a London Who pray tell does this fool? promoter who has been linked stands aren’t by Cus D’ Amato Patterson’s The hundreds of fans in the manager with the defunct Inmisled ternational Boxing Club foreThe thousands who didn’t attend the game aren’t fooled cast a Johansson victory dozens of know other each and didn’t know go they they they friends who didn’t attend "I PROBABLY have seen So why hide the facts? Johansson fight more often than any of you” said SoloLet the Public Know the Facts mon "I assure you that he Each year since the immediate postwar lush days baseball has a right hand that Patterson has faced the problem of eliminating or refinancing some of will never forget if he lands it I predict Johansson will win by Its weaker sisters ' Out of a clear sky a city learns its baseball management a knockout in the fifth or sixth has been losing money and must gain a heavy Increase in at- round" Harry Levene hi? London tendance or risk the loss of its baseball rival couldn’t have disagreed Then the "Save the Mugwumps” campaign Is launched more on the public and everyone Is supposed to rally behind the "I DISAGREE with the last drive to keep the local ball club solvent and In action speaker entirely” he said as Yet had baseball played fair with its fans over the years the knowing British boxing the public would have appreciated the facts and if sufficiently writers smiled "I predict Patterson will win Interested have done a little something extra to support the inside the distance" (That’s ball club in its time of stress British for a knockout or TKO) Even in Qur DoorYard — Edwin Ahlquist the Swedish The Salt Lakg Bees— Nick Morgan the directors Eddie who is an adviser to promoter collective their Lelshman and Larry Shepard— weren’t hiding s p ok e of the heads In the sand last spring when Pittsburgh didn’t cut the Johansson Swede’s "thunder and lightning was what happening cards quite evenly They knew and said "Johansson will But Some of the "defenders of baseball” adopted the tra- right” win by a knockout” ditional position of the thinkers D’Amato was not present At that time when fans were staying away from Derks to tell everybody how Patat an average of 1000 a game less than a year ago criticism terson would win was leveled at the Pirate organization for stripping the Bees of their stars Patterson who finished boxMonday did four miles of ing Oswald the Ostrich brushed the sand from his peepers roadwork at his Chatham NJ long enough to wail "But where can Salt Lake come up with and then came to New $100000 or a major league working agreement if the Pirates camp York on business He will redropped us?” This logic seems to imply Pittsburgh is doing turn to camp and will do more Salt Lake a tremendous favor in supplying a working agree- road work Wednesday before ment and ball players coming into town to stay JoYet a check of last year's official attendance figures hansson finished his boxing In the three Triple A loops reveals that of the other 23 clubs Saturday He has been resting and golfing at his camp at In this category only seven clubs outdrew Salt Lake ' Grossinger NY He also is due Denver was the only team Jn the American Association in New York Wednesday to edge the Bees 228262 to 217418 In the International will be held THE WEIGH-ILeague Buffalo Rochester and Toronto outdrew Salt Lake beat the Vancouver and Thursday PCL morning at a midSan Diego Spokane and in the town hotel In the event of Bees attendancewlse Salt Lake the figures prove isn’t such a bad bargain for rain the show will be held Friday night Pittsburgh either— is the conservaAlthough to as is face the issues better IT CERTAINLY they arise tive Broadway betting price and battle for help rather than suffer a financial loser in (man to man) Tuesday night order to seek nebulous loyalty for future negotiation some bookmakers were quotOne bookie ing as high as Observation Ward and taksaid “We’re laying make would the That ing idol flu modern fnifoad of following in fho foofstopg of his odds friendly youth profori fo troll h if tiro mark Worn ’ Salt Lake City Utah — Wednesday Morning — June 24 1959 20 with baseball inasmuch as it never has been proven that the ostrich when frightened hid its head in the sand The lame statement about not hiding its head in the sand when a crisis approaches cannot be said about baseball Latest in the examples of "head - in the - sand” thinking “ comes from the directors of the American Association ' Y where the attendance figures for the year have slumped in fI Cleveland Chicago Baltimore Sew York Victory Puts SL Even With Bevos alt fake Sfibmrr Sports Mirror by - SACRAMENTO Si Francli 7 2 rbll SPOKANE b 11 Billings Scores PL Win PL Totals 43 9 15 Touts SO 1 4 1 a — Struck out for McCall In 7th 800 lot 013—0 Soa Dleso 100 000 000—1 Bsatllo E — Smith Adams Malmberg Fondy DP — Adams Malmberg Carter and Bevan Hunter Moran and Regalado LOB — San Diego 11 Seattle 7 2B— Moran Locklin Renna Graber SF — Regalado Bevan Regalado Moran t h r er bb to 4 1- - 1 4 10 0 Smith (W 3 2) 'ft 3 3 2 0 0 Stenhousc (L McCall Sib 7 3 3 3 4 1 0 3 3 1 2 Kennedy WP T — 230 Smith Kennedy --- A— 1020 - KKW an n ex&i 0 new - THE MEDNICK at tha lowast pries In yaartl MOVE 1$ ON Prlctd lowar than many block wall of Uisar quality STORE-WID- E THERE 1$ a good selection of tickets remaining on the main floor and in the balcony Prices for the main floor and family circle are $450 and the balcony $350 Scats for this fight will surpass those lor the Patterson-RoHarris bout with Indications that it may be one of the most popular big screen fight shows in Utah history Tickets are on sale dally at the Utah Theatre box office plug In m0 rieippibl! 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