Riddle, Drain Mines Set For A 2 Playoffs
Riddle's Irish and Drain's War
riors are set for a show-down bat
tle in the state A-2 baseball quar
terfinals Friday at Drain.
The two Douglas County en
trants in the race for the state
title will square off against each
other at 2 p.m. on Drain's dia
mond. Riddle fought Its way into the
playoffs by winning the Umpqua
Valley Jague with a perfect 10-0
record. Then it edged the Henley
Hornets, 5-4, for the District 6-A-2
title. Drain battled to a tie for
the Emerald League crown with
the McKcnzie Eagles. The War
riors and the Eagles had identical
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DRAIN WARRIORS, winners of the Emerald League championship (District 5-A-2), will
ihost the Riddle Irish Friday at 2 p.m. in the state quarterfinals. .Competing for the
Warriors will be: (front I to r) Coach Dennis Olsen, Wes Anderson, Mike Blomberg, Ran
Cool, John Sneod, Roger Rutlodge, Gary Cox, Claude Kruse and Gary McDonald; (back
'I to r) monager Dick Wooley, Richard Rust, Ken Mclntyre, Jerry Smith, Gordon Gribble,
Larry Johns, Dennis Clearman, Duone Sybrant, Bob Hunt and manager Jim Knutson.
(News-Review Photo)
Cubs, Lockvood Ready
For Exhibition Battle
Two championship baseball
teams will clash Friday in an ex
hibition tilt at Legion Field in a
benefit game for the Douglas
County Babe Ruth League.
On one side of the fence will
be the 1961 state championship
Lockwood Motors American Le
gion Juniors. The opposition will
be composed ol players of the 1961
Roseburg Cubs, winner of third
place in a state 15-and-undcr tour
nament at Portland.
. Game time is set (or 1:30 p.m.,
with the proceeds being used to
undcrwrilo the initial season of
the Douglas County Babe Ruth
League.
Roseburg's Legion team literal
ly stormed to the title in the Doug-
Lane Legion League with a 27-1
record. The lono loss was to Dun
ham Motors of North Eugene. Go
ing into the district playoffs the
Lockwood Motors nine snorted a
spectacular 42-5 overall record.
Roseburg handled Myrtle Point in
two straight games, then dumped
the Klamath Falls Falcons twice to
enter the state semifinals.
The local team dumped Salem
two straight to enter the state
championship scries against Wat
co Electric (Cleveland) of Port
land. Roseburg mado it 20 in a
row by winning the first tilt of
the scries. Walco bounced hack
the next night, only to see Rose
burg win two in a row to grab
the state championship.
In the Western Rcginnals at
Bend the Lockwood Motors squad
won three and lost two to tnko
Aspirants Practice
For Legion Juniors
Coaches Bill Harper and Don
Sevcrson took a look at 33 aspir
ants for the 1962 Lockwood Mo
tors American Legion Juniors
Wednesday in the initial practice
session.
Most of the boys reporting were
from the Roseburg, Douglas, Glide,
and Sutherlin areas. Harper has
a strong nucleus of veterans back
from last year's team, and has
somo promising newcomers to fill
the gups.
Wednesday's practice session
was cut short by rain, but the
boys will go through their paces
again today. The Roseburg Legion
team, defending state champion,
opens the season June 3 hosting
the Crater team of Central Point
in twin-bill.
All-Star Diamond Date
Set In June At Eugene
Mel Kiaujie, Norlh Eugene High
School baseball coach and chair
man of the fifth Annual-All Star
Baseball Tournament, announced
today that the 1962 tournament
will he held June 18 and 17 at
Bethel Park, Eugene.
Entries are pouring in for what
appears to be the largest partici
pation in the 5-year history of the
All-Slar Baseball Tournament.
Many additional exciting events
are planned to coincide with the
All-Star Tournament.
ALWAYS IN MONEY
LOUISVILLE (AP) - Ridan,
third place finisher in the Kentucky
Derby, went to th. post favored
under Jockey Manuel Ycaza be
cause of his speed and his record.
Ridan has been out of the money
only once in his 13 previous races.
He finished third in Ihe Eve'glades
but was disqualified and placed
fourth.
11-3 records. In a playoff game
staged Monday the Warriors trip
ped the Eagles, 5-2, to earn the
right to meet the Irish.
Tentative Starter
Ran Cool is the tentative start
er on the hill for the Warriors.
Cool has racked up an 81 record
for regular league play, including
three no-hitters one of which
was a perfect effort. Cool pitched
the Warriors into the playoffs by
tossing his fourth no-hitter of the
season against McKenzie Monday.
In 54 innings Cool recorded 96
strike-outs in league play, while
limiting the opposition to 15 hits.
Opposing Cool will probably be
third place. Roseburg's season rec
ord ended at 54-8.
Roseburg's Cubs entered the
state 15-and-under tourney as one
of the darkhorse teams. The Cubs
wasted no time in proving they
deserved the rating. In the open
er of the tournament the local
squad upset the favored Cleve
land team. Roseburg went on to
edge Parkrose in the quarterfinals,
then was bumped by Yamhill
County in the semifinals.
The Cubs came back to Rose
burg with third place. Many of the
Cubs are expected to move up to
Legion competition this year, but
will wait until after Friday s game
against last year s Legion team.
Players for the 1961 Legion team
included Phil Thormin, Chuck
Hincy, Larry Burr. Glen Fortune.
Walt Edmonds, Bob Manning, Gor
Offenhauser Engines Keep
Basic Designs Fpr'lndy'
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Louis
Meyer, three-time winner of the
Memorial Day 500-mile race and
builder of the old reliable Offen
hauser engine, says he and part
ner Dale Drake have no firm
plans for a new power plant.
"It's not our fault that we have
no competition at the Speedway,"
says the amiable Califoroian.
"Anybody can build an engine to
the race spcifications."
Offys have won every Indianap
olis race since 1910, when George
Robson took the first pre-war 500
in a six-cylinder Thome-Sparks
car. Most of the vehicles in that
event were so elderly the question
was whether anybody would fin
ish. All of the qualifiers in the 46th
500 next Wednesday are powered
by Offy 4s except the rear-engine
Thompson Special with a modified
V-8 Buick Special block, which
grand prix driver Dan Gurney will
start.
The remarkable thing about the
Offy is that the design hasn't been
changed for 32 years. The winning
speed in the 500 has gone up from
inn to more than 139 miles an
hour in that lime. The qualifying
record has jumped from 122 to
150.
There have been improvements
in metals and changes in bore and
stroke, but the Offy still is sub
stantially the same engine Leo
Uoosrn designed for Harry Miller
Prep Thinclads Set For
Prep (rack stars from through
out the state Will invade Corvallis
Friday and Saturday to compete
tor the A-l and A-2 state champi
onships. Myrtle Creek's Vikings, fresh
from winning the District 6-A 2
title, will carry the hopes of local
fans with a strong contingent of
thinclads qualified for the meet.
Reedsport is also entered in the
A 2 division.
Sullierlins Rulldogs, Douglas'
Trojans and Glendale s Pirates
each qualified one entrant as a
result of the District 6-A-2 meet
last week.
Ray Palm, ace hurdler for the
Roseburg Indians, will be the lone
local entrant in the A-l action.
Palm qualified by placing second
in the District 5 A-l meet last
week at Springfield. Palm was
docked at :14 8, the same time as
that posted by Stan Sloan of Cot
tage Grove and Pat llelfrich of
Ron Weakley. Weakley posted a
perfect 6-0 record against UVL
teams, then came on in relief to
lead the Irish to their victory over
the Hornets last week. Bill Loper,
sporting a perfect 4-0 UVL record,
will be ready in case he is need
ed. Power At Plat
Riddle packs a potent .366 team
batting average for league play.
Tom Roberts at .462, Weakley at
.433, Mike Markham at .419 and
Loper at .400 lead the Irish at the
plate. A total of nine of Riddle's
11 players are hitting over the
.300 mark.
don Avery, Doug Coplin, M a r v
French, Arlan Foote, Tom Hobbs,
Ron Lake, Jim Jarvis and Jim
Beamer. Bill Harper is head coach
of the Legion nine.
Cub Members
Competing for the Cubs last year
were Lance Casebeer, Bob Hat
field, Don Evans, George S o r k,
Darrell Cellers, Jim Wassom, Jer
ry Boucock. Dave Sevall, Dink
Williams, Bruce Wassom, Jerry
Remick, John Burnhum, Mike
Harris, Marshall Cast, Eric Young,
Gary Hill, Gary Heeler and Paul
Lewis. Bill Gould served as coach
for the Cubs.
Persons having purchased Doug
las County Babe Ruth League boo
ster buttons will be admitted to
the game free. Admission at the
gate will be 75 cents for adults
and 25 cents for children.
32 years ago. Fred Offenhauser,
Miller's shop foreman, took over
the plant and gave the engine his
name. Meyer and Drake bought
it from Offenhauser in 1916.
Sports In Brief
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BASKETBALL
NEW YORK The National Bas
kctball Association authorised the
sale and transfer of the Philadel
phia Warriors, including super
star Wilt Chamberlain, to San!
Francisco.
GOLF
RICHMOND, Va. Co-favorites
Polly Riley and Clifford Ann
Creed paced a field that included
five former champions into the
quarter - finals of the Southern
Women's Amateur golf tourney.
BOXING
NEW YORK Heavyweight
champion Floyd Patterson said
his title fight with Sonny Liston
will be held in Chicago In mid
September, barring unforeseen
circumstances.
RACING
1NGLEWOOD, Calif. - Edic
Belle ($8.60) won the headliner at
Hollywood Park by Mi length over
the favored Teacation. ,
SAN BRUNO, Calif. Kcnty's
Lover ($9.40) took the feature at
Tanforan as the favorite Burnt
Coral, finished third.
North Eugene. Sloan was declared
the winner and llelfrich took third.
Palm's time in the hurdles ties
him for eighth best in the state.
Preliminaries will be held Fri
day at Corvallis, getting under
way at 3 p.m. The finals will start
Saturday at noon. Running finals
will begin at 1:30 Saturday.
Grants Pass, North Eugene,
North and South Salem and de
fending champion Grant are fig
ured to supply the majority of pow
er in the A-l bracket.
In the A-2 division Ross Bark-
hurst and Ed ('adman will lead
! the Vikings. Barkhurst qualified in
three events, plus running the an
chor leg of the 880 relay team
which won a berth for the state
meet.
Barkhurst took first In the dis
trict meet in the 100 and 220-yard
dashes. The Viking sprinter was
clocked at :10 2 in th 100 and
:23.4 in Ihe 220.
Catcher Gary Cox and third
baseman Mike Blomberg give the
Warriors power at at. Cox has
collected 20 hits in 40 appear
ances in league play for an even
.500 average. Cox has two dou
bles, one triple and one home run
to his credit. Blomberg is hitting
the ball at a .454 clip, Cool at a
.343 pace and Wes Anderson has
a .300 average.
Drain's starting battery will be
Cool pitching and Cox catching.
The Warrior infield will be Roger
Rutlcdge at first, Anderson at sec
ond, Blomberg at third and Gary
McDonald at short. The outfield
8 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Thur., May 24, 1962
Chicago Has Inside
On Heavy Title Battle
NEW YORK (AP) - If you've
been wondering, or even worry
ing, where the Floyd Patterson
Sonny Liston heavyweight title
fight will be held, you can relax
now. Ninety-nine per cent sure
says Tom Bolan, president of
Championship Sports Inc., appoint
ed promotors by the Champion
himself, Floyd Patterson.
"Unless something comes up,
Chicago is the place," said Pat
terson at a press conference on
Wednesday evening. Patterson has
the right to be skeptical since the
night before he thought it was all
set for Detroit.
"But at the last minute I dis
covered that the people in Detroit
were figuring on having local pro
Bees Capture
Only Victory
In PCL Play
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
It was a wet night out in the
Pacific Coast Baseball League
Wednesday night and Salt Lake
City and Hawaii got in the only
game, won by the hometown Bees
8-3 despite stalling efforts by the
Hawaiians during a rainstorm.
The rain washed out Seattle at
Tacoma, Portland at Spokane, and
San Qicgo at Vancouver.
The rain hit at Salt Lake City
in the top of (lie fifth when the
Bees were ahead 31 and Hawaii
went into a stall, hoping to end
the game before it was official.
The players threw equipment on
the field including a bat which hit
Bee coach Bob Kennedy. Players
swarmed onto the field. A free
for - all threatened but was
averted. The umpires refused to
halt the game except for a 10
minute break in the fifth and the
Bees won it to add half a game
to their margin over second place
Seattle.
Pacific Coast
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
W L Pet. G.B,
Salt Lake City
Seattle
San Diego
25
24
.714
.6ti7 IVi
.515 7
.486 8
Portland
Tacoma
.438 9'ii
.412 lOUi
Hnwai
Vancouver
Spokane
.406 10'i
10 21
.323 13
Wednesday's Results
Salt Lake City 8, Hawaii 3
Seattle at Tacoma, postponed,
rain
Portland at Spokane, postponed,
rain
San Diego at Vancouver, post
poned, rain
Thursday's Schedule
Hawaii at Salt Lake, 7:30 p.m.,
MST.
Portland at Spokane, 8 p.m.,
PDT.
Seattle at Tacoma, 8 p.m., PDT.
San Diego at Vancouver, 8 p.m.,
PDT.
A-1. A-2 Slate Meet
Barkhurst tossed the discus 131
10V for second place in the district
meet and another spot in the state
meet for his team.
Cadman won the right to enter
the state meet in both the 880
and mile. Cadman took first in
the mile with a 4:36.3 clocking
a new District 6 A-2 record. The
Viking middle distance ace dou
bled tip by running the 880 in
2:03. Cadnian's stillest competi
tion will come from a pair of
Reedsport runners Lynn and Gene
Faircloth. Lynn Faircloth has the
best mile tiiae among the A-2 run
ners, having tuned in at 4:21 twice.
Gene 'aircloth is runner-up to his
brother with a 4 26 4 Cadman's
best time of the season is a
4:30 6 run at the sub-district meet.
Lucas For Viks
Boh Lucas will represent the Vi
kings ft the high jump and the 440
yard dash. Lucas took second in
both events at the district meet.
for Drain will consist of Larry
Johns in left, Claude Kruse in cen
ter and John Snead in right.
The Irish will have Bill Mark
ham at first, Mike Markham at
second, Don Fisher at third and
Gary Paetz at short. Tom Morri
son in left, Lee Paetz in center
and Larry Ruckel in right will
compose the Irish outfield. Weak
ley and catcher Keith Hanson will
be the starting Riddle battery.
The winner of Friday's battle
will advance to the state A-2 semi
finals for a chance to do battle in
Multnomah Stadium for the state
championship.
motcrs to help stage the fight.
"I immediately said that was
impossible because Championship
Sports Inc., will be the sole pro
motors," said Patterson. '
The only hitch that has to be
overcome in Chicago, according to
both Patterson and Bolan, is to
get a reasonable rental for either
Soldier Field or Comiskey Park.
If they should ask us for a
rental of $200,000 or $300,000 for
either of those fields ' then it's
something else again," said the
champion.
Patterson is partial to Chicago.
It's the city where he won the
then vacant heavyweight crown
by knocking out Archie Moore in
1956 and it's the site of boxing's
richest gate the $2,658,660 pulled
in by Jack Dempsey and Gene
Tunney for the famous long count
battle in 1927.
National Open
Course Will Be
Monster.Palmer
OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) "She's
a monster," Arnold Palmer said
after coming to friendly grips with
his next major golf antagonist
the Oakmont Country Club.
This piece of real estate nest
ling in the western Pennsylvania
hills is the site of the 62nd Na
tional Open championship June 14
16. Palmer drove the 42 miles
from his home in Latrobe, Pa., to
play the course for the first time in
four years.
"She's going to be awfully
tough," golf's leading money win
ner and prime tournament favor
ite said after a scrambling 18
Wednesday. "I'm having to revise
my estimates. Originally, I said
275 would win the open here. Now
I believe it'll be nearer 280."
Palmer toured the 6.916-yard,
par 71 layout with his professional
father, Milfred (Pap) Palmer and
two Latrobe neighbors, Harry Sax
man and Ken Bowman.
"I didn't keep a score but I
must have shot an 80," he said
afterward. "I'll play it again later
this week more seriously. I should
get a better idea then."
He complained to Frank Hanne
gan, a member of the U. S. Golf
Association staff and one of the
spectators, about the hour-glass
cut of the fairways on some holes
particularly the 10th, 11th and
12th and the first and second on
the outgoing nine.
The fairways offer a large tar
get to the short hitters but taper
to as little as 50 yards in the
area where the game's longer
drivers, such as Palmer, Jack
Nicklaus and Sam Snead might
hit the ball.
"I don't see the reason for con
tinually penalizing the long hit
ter" Palmer said. 'Normally, it's
the long hitter who is wild and
the short hitter who is accurate.
But some of these holes make it
impractical, if not impossible, for
the hitter to attack.
Palmer praised the condition of
the course, saying "it s in wonder
ful shape."
I Myrtle Creek's second place relay
quartet is made up of Vic Fitr
patrick. Jerry Hagberg, Lucas and
i uarknurst.
I Sutherlin a Don Goertien' 12-6'i
i pole vault which set a new district
! record last week Is the top mark in
the slate recorded by an A 2 thin
clad. Other UVL performers in
the meet will be Dan Dodd of Doug
las in the low hurdles and Darrell
Worlcy of Glendale in the 880.
Dodd and Worlcy each placed sec
ond in their specialties last week.
Crcswell. led by Denny Ellis, is
another strong threat for the A 2
title, as is Reedsport. Ellis goes
into the meet with the top throws
in the shot, discus and javelin.
: Other top performers include Lew
Whipple Oof Lagle Foint in the
high juiSp, Paul Elliott of St.
Mery's in the hurdles. Jerry
Franklin of Pleasant Hill in the
broad jump and Hogan Campora
of Central Linn in the discus.
RIDDLE IRISH, winners of the District 6-A-2 crown will meet the Drain Warriors Friday
in the state quarterfinals. Members of the Irish ore: (front I to r) Merle Blankenship,
, Larry Ruckel, Tom Morrison, Lee Poetz, Don Fisher ond Art Fisher; (back I to r) Coach
John Zarnekee, Mike Markham, Bill Loper, Gory Patez, Tom Roberts, Ron Weakley,
Bill Markham ond assistant coach John Bergen. Not pictured is catcher Keith Hanson.
(News-Review Photo)
Sports Calendar
Thursday
Baseball
Sidle A-l Quarterfinal:
Medford B LACK Tornado vs.
South Eugene Axemen, 3 p.m.
(PDT), Bethel Park, Eugene.
State B Quarterfinals
Yoncalla Eagles vs. C o b u r g
Broncos, 3 p.m., Coburg.
Softball
Church League (Fast-Pitch)
Latter Day Saints vs. Green
Community Church, 6 p.m., VA
Diamond I.
Nazarene vs. Conservative Bap
tist, 6 p.m., VA Diamond II.
Pee Wee Baseball
Organizational meeting, 7:30
p.m., Roseburg School Administra
tion Office. ;
Friday
Baseball
State A-2 Quarterfinals
Riddle Irish vs. Drain Warriors,
2 p.m., Drain.
Exhibition ,
1961 Roseburg Cubs vs. 1961
Roseburg American Legion Jun
iors, 7:30 p.m., Legion Field,
Roseburg.
Softball
Twilight Liagua
Mock Motors vs. Bert's Food
Market, 6 p.m., VA Diamond I.
Roseburg Lumber vs. Jackson
Wholesale, 6 p.m., VA Diamond
II. .
Track
State A-l and A-2 Track Meet,
Preliminaries at 3 p.m., Corvallis.
Salem Posts Victory
Over Eugene In NWL
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
There was only one game in Ihe
Northwest League Wednesday
night but Salem's Dodgers made
it a bang-up affair. The Dodgers
batted out 13 hits, including three
homers, to shutout Eugene 10-0.
Rain washed out the Wenatchee
game at L e w i s t o n and wel
grounds forced postponement of
the Yakima at Tri-City contest.
They'll clash Thursday night,
weather permitting, with the Lew
iston affair scheduled as a dou
blcheader. Jim Shinn started the Salem
hitting spree with a three-run
homer in the first. He batted in
five runs for the Dodgers with a
perfect three-for-three night at the
plate. Dick McLaughlin's homer
in the second brought in one of
the two Salem runs in that frame
and Bill Kelso's home run over
the left field fence in the eighth
accounted for two more tallies.
Salem pitcher Larry Staab scat
tered nine hits, walked four and
struck out nine for his second win
in three attempts. Eugene threat
ened twice but Staab got out of
the jam with two strikeouts in the
eighth and a groundout in the
ninth.
Standings
NORTHWEST LEAGUE
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
W L
Pet.
GB
Wenatchee
Yakima
15 11
12 9
.577
.571
Tri-City 12 13 .480 2'i
Lewiston 11 12 .478 2Mi
Sslem in 11 .476 2'i
Eugene 9 13 .409 4
Wednesday's Results
Salem 10, Eugene 0
Wenatchee at Lewiston, ppd, rain
Yakima at Tri-City, ppd, wet
grounds
Thursday's Schedule
Eugene at Salem
Yakima at Tri-City
Ring Record
Fight Rttult
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Tommy
Schaefer, 140, Miami Beach, out
pointed Jackie Kelly, 141li, New
York, 10.
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