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By Allen Johnson
Emerald Sports Writer ■■
The tragic accident Monday leading to the death of veteran
driver Manuel Ayulo has perhaps cast a sobering shadow
over the Memorial Day 500-mile automobile race, but the
sports classic is expected to draw its customary 100,000 spec
tators with the fastest race yet anticipated.
Ayulo’s mishap ironically occurred just two minutes be
fore he would have completed his qualifying run around
the 2V2-mile oval track. The 33-year-old driver, second- ■
ranked in the nation in 1954, thus became the 45th fatality in
the arena’s history since its opening in 1908.
More than just a speed competion, the 500 is an annual test
of men and machines. The extreme expense ot entering a car
in the select 33-man field is often underwritten by auto manu
facturers in hopes of finding new and improved methods for
commercial car construction.
Vukovich Seeks Third Win
Interest in the 1955 event will he centered around Bill Yuko
vich. the 35-year-old hotshot from Fresno. California, who
will be shooting for his third consecutive win in the classic.
Ths feat has never been achieved, and only racing immortals
Wilbur Shaw and Mauri Rose have managed to win a pair of
500's. Shaw won in 1939 and 1940 while Rose captured the
four-hour grind in 1947 and 1948.
Vukovich has been guiding racing cars for 17 years and
has yet to be involved in any sort of accident in big-car com
petition. Twenty-six of his driving friends have been killed
snce 1947, but Vukovch has been injured only a few times
while driving stock cars and midget racers. He received a
cracked vertebrae in the 1954 Pan-American road race.
1952 Accident Costs Win
Acomparative unknown until 1952. Vukovich jumped into
the spotlight by nearly winning the 500 in his first try. He
was leading with just nine laps to go when his car slammed
into a wall on the northeast turn and spun out. Troy Ruttman.,
19 seconds behind, passed him and eventually won. A broken
steering pin was blamed for the accident, which cost \ ukovich
a sure victory.
In 1953, Vukovich came home a clear winner and last
year set a new 500-mile speed record, averaging 130.840
miles per hour. This was in spite of a dust storm that held
the field down unde ra yellow flag caution signal. He held
the lead on 195 of the 200 laps and went all the way without
relief, one of the six drivers to finish.
Vukovich will drive big cars only at Indianapolis, though.
The rest of the year he remains in Fresno with his family and
maintains a three-man gas station which he operates himself.
Refusing to make other apperances in dirt-track races. \Tiko
vich has made just five personal appearances since his 1954
victory.
New Racer Entered
The Kurtis-Kraft Fuel Injection special in which Yuko
vich won in 1953 and 1954 is already obsolete. In this year’s
race, Vukovich will drive a $60,000 new Kurtis-Kraft which
eats up gasoline at the rate of three miles per gallon. The Blue
Crown Specials, winners in 1947-49, covered ten per gallon.
This year’s race should bring on the fastest field yet. With
qualifying speeds expected to be in the 140-mile-per-hour
brackets, the speed of the actual race should be at an all-time
peak. Vukovich’s new car should be a contender all the way,
along with other new machines designed expressly for the 500.
Sigs, Hale Kane
Get IM Victories
Sigma Chi edged Delta Tau Del
ta and Hale Kane took a forfeit
win from Cherney hall in Wednes
day’s intramural track competi
tion.
The Sigs tallied 35 points to 33
for the Delts in the only meet
staged.
Oregon and Washington State
traded 6G-65 decisions in the
first two track meets ever held
between the two schools—in 1924
and 1927.
IM Schedule
Thursday
Softball Semi-finals
4:00 Sigma Chi vs. Legal Eagles,
north field.
Phi Kappa Psi vs. Phi Kap
pa Sigma, south field.
Traek
4:55 Hale Kane vs. Cherney, in
tramural field.
Delta Tau Delta vs. Sigma
Chi, intramural field.
Tennis
4:00 Hale Kane vs. Chi Psi,
courts 4, 5, 6.
Golf Finals
Hale Kane vs. Phi Delta
Theta, Oakway.
ND Batting Race
Led by Forbes
Norm Forbes, defending North-1
ern Division batting champion nml
Oregon rightfielder, continued to
hold his hitting lead with a .667
mark going into weekend's final
games.
The ex-Duck pitcher is now play
ing only part time for Coach Don
Kirsch's league-leading Webfoots,
but it hasn't stopped his hitting 1
prowess. Forbes has knocked out
10 hits in 15 times at bat for a
sensational pace in nine games.
Beavers Head Sluggers
Although an Oregon man heads
the list of top ten batters, Oregon
State dominates the batting aver
ages. The second-place Beavers
have seven men in the top bunch ot
batters with All-American First
baseman Jay Dean heading the list
with a .563 average.
Three other conference batters
are hitting over the .400 mark
through Tuesday's Washington*
OSC game. Beaver Phil Jantze
boasts a .526 mark. OSC Shortstop
Bobby Buob is hitting .448 and
Idaho's Ron Braden has a .432
average.
Dean Brings Runs
Dean is by far the most danger
ous hitter with men on bases as he
leads the runs-batted-in column
with 17. Jantze has 20 hits to lead
that column.
Oregon’s ace sophomore pitcher,
Terry Maddox, is leading North
ern Division hurlers with four
straight wins against no defeats.
He is a likely first-game starter
against Oregon State Friday.
AB R H RBI BA
Norm Fori***. Oregon 15 5 10 5 .667
Jay Oran. OSC 32 15 18 17 .563
Phil Jantze, OSC 18 15 20 8 .526
Bobby Buob, OSC 29 12 13 7 .448
Ron Braden, Idaho 26 8 11 3 .423
Jack Balard. Wash .43 9 17 7 .378
Dan Lovejov. OSC 33 5 12 8 .364
John Frederick. OSC . 34 1 1 12 4 .356
Jerry Kxley, OSC . 32 1 1 1 1 6 .344
Terry Campl>el!. WSC 32 4 1 1 10 .344
Home run- Neil Marlett. Oregon, 3;
Phil Jantze. OSC. 2.
Triples Neil Marlett, Oregon. 3; Phil
Phil Jantze, OSC, 2
Double- Jay Deal, OSC'. 6; Jack Brady.
Wash., 4; Norm Huletz, Wash.. 4.
Stolen bases — George Shaw, Oregon, 6;
Jirn Johnson, Oregon. 4.
Holbrook to Play
Industrial Ball
WICHITA, Kan. (API-Wade
“Swede” Halbrook, 7-foot-3 cen
ter for Oregon State college has
announced plans to play basket
ball next season for Vickers Pe
troleum in the National Indus
trial Basketball league.
Halbrook, 21, has one year of
college eligibility left. The high
scoring Pacific Coast player was
due here Wednesday to work out
final arrangements. Vickers is a
recent entry in the NIBL.
Sports Staff
Desk Editor: Allen Johnson.
Staff: Art Litchman, Jack Wil
son, Mumbles Nelson, Jerry
Claussen.
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Indians Wallop
Red Sox, 19-0
By The Associated Press
Cleveland's Indians awoke to the
fact they were in friendly Fenway
Park Wednesday and smacked the
Boston Red Sox for 11 runs in one
inning in a 19-0 romp that spread
the Tribe's American League lead
to 1 1-2 games.
The New York Yankees took
over second place from Chicago,
beating the White Sox in a slug
ging duel 11-6. Fourth place De
troit got three runs in the 10th to
beat Baltimore 6-3 and Washing
ton scored four in the first to
coast past Kansas City 7-2.
Afternoon uctlon in the Na
tional saw Cincinnati spill Pitts
burgh to a seventh straight de
feat 5-1. And Chicago beat
Philadelphia S-2 and 7-5 In a
twilight douhlehender.
The Indians, whose record of 11
straight victories in Boston was
halted Tuesday, got back into the
swing of things behind the three
hit pitching of rookie Herb Score,
who fanned nine. A grand-slam
homer by Vick Wertz. Ralph Kin
er's pinch-hit home run and Dave
Philley's two-run triple highlight
ed the 11-run fifth that routed
W'illard Nixon.
Wertz also singled home a fifth
run in the fatal fifth, falling just
| one short of the modem major
• league record for runs hatted lit
j for a single inning.
At New York, Vein Stephen**
hontered twice and .llm Rivera
and flint Courtney once for (tie
White Sox, hut a grand-slum by
Mickey Mantle and a **<do shot
hy Fddle Itohlnsou gave It to
the Yankee*.
Outfielder Minnie MinoNo, the
White Sox' hard-luck guy ho far
thisHeaHon, waa struck in the head
by one of Bob Grim'a pitches, but
although carried from the field he
j did not lose consciousness X-rays
proved negative and he n expected
| to he able to play Friday.
Grim was the winner, although
failing for the seventh time to go
the distance. Virgil Trucks, first
of four Chicago hurlera, was the
loser.
Detroit rookie Frank Lary nu
hlt the Orioles for five innings
hut Baltimore tied It at 8-3 In
the sixth on two walks and a
Billy Cox triple. The Tigers
finally grabbed it In the loth
when A1 Kullne singled home
the tie-breaker.
At Cincinnati, rookie Rudy Min
arcin pitched a six-hitter in his
first major league start, retiring
16 Pirates in order at one stage.
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