'Ducfa 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. Serve Better Meals LESSCOST with Fish and Seafoods FRESH DAILY from Newman’s FISH MARKETS 39 East Broadway Phone 4-2371 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 **