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Hayward Relays Move Off Today By Chuck Mitchelmore Emerald Sports Editor More than 1200 high school track men are expected today and Saturday for the 19th an nual running of the Hayward re lays on Hayward field. A record field of 81 school en tries will be on hand for the state’s big cinder carnival. The total is two better than last year’s 79 teams, the previous high mark. Meet director Ray Hendrick son expects about 700 prep pers for today’s session with B and C class competition be ginning with field events at 12:S0 and track action at 2 p.m. The remaining 500 will enter class A and Metropolitan competition Saturday with field events at 10:80 a.m. and track races set for 12:80. Three new champions will be crowned with 24 entries vying .for the C division title won by Mt. Shasta, Cal., last year, an other 24 trying for the B trophy taken by Central Union high in 1955 and 13 schools in the class B race, which Marshfield headed last year. Central and Mt. Shasta have not entered to defend their championships and Marshfield has moved up a class to the Metropolitan division. Med ford, Metro class champion for three straight years, will be returning for another shot at the top crown, although it will get pressure from a well-bal anced Grants Pass team which edged the Black Tornado last week in a Rogue valley affair. Individual events will be in the discus, javelin and pole vault with the remaining field and Hack events run under relay systems. y Following the Saturday prep action, a four-way college meet with the Oregon varsity and freshman squads. Lewis and Clark college, and the Portland Track and Field club is slated to round out the track weekend on Hayward field. Returned from his success ful jaunt to the Texas relays last week. Jim Bailey will twi ster the Webfoot's already strong distance crew, tmt the loss of Bob Keid and Martin Pedigo in the pole vault und broad jump respectively is ex pected to affect the Ducks' field scoring once again. Keid. senior vaulter from Canada, is still nursing a sprained ankle, and Pedigo is healing a strain ed leg muscle. Both are back taking workouts, however, and are expected to be ready for Northern division dual inert competition in one or two weeks. Lewis and Clark college will bring a raft of sttong hurdlers and field performers to Hay ward field for the quadrangular affair. Portland Track and Field club is a group of ex-college stars including such bright lights as Ralph Sutton, former Oregon State NCAA javelin champion. Thomas Fails' in Swim TACOMA <j?> — Bert Thomas kicked up rooster tails down Pu get Sound for nearly nine hours Thursday in his Seattle-Taeoma swim attempt —but finally bowed to tides and cramps just shoit of his goal. The hefty logger was hauled aboard accompanying craft at 8:41 p.m. off Dash Point. The sheltering waters of Tacoma's Commencement Bay lay just around the corner. Big Bert, affectionately called “Tacoma's polar bear,” was whipped by strong tides and cramps in his right ieg. He vowed to try again. His progress after walking into the 44 degree water in Seattle at 11:43 u.n>. was ex cellent until about 6 p.ni., when the tides began ( hanging. Thomas is the only man to ever try the Seattle-Tacomu swim. He failed once before. He also failed several times before becoming the first man to con quer the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Joe Walcott to Testify Before Illinois Ring Court CHICAGO (/ft — Former heavy weight champion Jersey Joe Wal cott was subpoenaed Thursday to testify before the Cook Coun ty grand jury Monday concern ing his possible knowledge of al leged corruption in Illinois box ing. Walcott, here to plug a box ing movie in which he appears, debated sharply over boxing with Illinois state athletic commis sioner Lou Radzienda on televi sion Tuesday night. Walcott was served the sum mons in front of the downtown theater where the movie is showing. -Jersey Joe portrays a trainer in the movie, which has as its theme crookedness in boxing. Frank Ferlic, assistant state’s attorney, said the action was not instigated by the state commis sion or Radzienda, who had of fezed to resign if Walcott would accept his state job. Radzienda is president of the National Boxing Assn. “Walcott made the inference he might have information con cerning corruption in the box ing game in this county, so our of»'-ce is investigating,” Ferlic : said. Radzienda chided Walcott for appearing in the movie after box ing had been “good” to hirn. Wal cott retorted in the TV exchange that he accepted the movie role because he felt boxing should be “cleaned up.” Walcott also told Radzienda: “You're ju3t like all the other boxing commissioners a politi cal appointee who knows nothing about the game. What boxing needs is men who understand it, who have devoted their lives to it like Gene Tunney, Jack Demp sey and Tommy Loughrari, and you'd see how quick the racke ; teers and thugs would be cleaned out.” Portland Hosts McMurty Match PORTLAND l.'fi Tacoma’s Irish Pat McMurtry will tangle [with Matt Jackson of Los An geles in a ten-round boxing main event at the auditorium here Tuesday night. It will be McMurtry's 21st pro fessional fight and his fourth in Portland. The popular battler has scored 17 knockouts anil is un beaten since Ins amateur days. Jackson, a sergeant in the army, has a record of 18 wayos in 27 pro fights He's working on a 14-bout victory string. i Wightman Players Named for Match NEW YORK V Louise Brough of Beverly Hills, Calif., Thurs day was named playing captain of the U.S. Wightman Clip team which will meet Britain’s best women tennis players at Wim bledon June 15-10. Other members of the squad will be Shirley Fry of St. Peters burg. Fla.. Dorothy Head Knode of Forest Hills. N.Y., and Bev erly Baker Fleltz of Long Bench, Calif. Miss Brough, former national champion and four times win ner at Wimbledon, has played in eight Wightman Cup matches without a defeat. Miss Fry is making her fifth Wightman Cup appearance and it's the second time on the team for both Mrs Knode and Mrs. Fleitz. Marciano Evades Retirement Querie MIAMI, Flu bP Heavyweight boxing champion Kocky Marci ano arrived Friday from South America and told reporters "I really can’t say" when question ed about his retirement. “I'm going to meet with At Weill, (his manager) lute thin month but I don't think we'll ha\e anything to say one way or the other for 30 days,'* Mar ciano said. “I can’t say until I talk with At and that's the truth. What's going to happen is going to hap pen." Perini Suggests Cricket for US LONDON i.T> Lou Perini, president of the Milwaukee Braves baseball club, came to Britain Thursday with a revolu tionary plan basebull for Brit ain and cricket for the United States. “The world is getting small er,” he told newsmen. “In 5 or 10 years America will In* only three hours journey from Brit ain. Ttiat’s why I believe in sports we’ve got to Jdopt one another’s customs. The British should brill); first class soccer and cricket teams to the United .States and we should bring baseball over here.” Perini is on tire tad-end of a world swing. His object is to gain reaction to a possible Euro j pean tour by the Milwaukee j Braves and the Brooklyn Dodg I ers. He plans to be back in the i United States Monday. SHISLER'S FOOD MARKET Groceries — Fresh Produce — Meats Mixers — Beverages — Magazines — Ice Cream OPEN FROM 9 A M. XIII 11 AA p DAILY & SUNDAYS _ I ILL 1I:UU M. 13th at High St. Dial 4-1342 Ducks Hit PSC With Bat Power By Terry Sherwood Emerald Sporti Writer The University of Oregon’s baseball team, behind the seven bit pitching of Jack Henkel, ex ploded for eight runs and 13 hits , Wednesday afternoon to beat the i Portland State Vikings, 8-6. Henkel, the stocky sophomore I i ighthander, pitched all nine In nings for the Ducks. He was in ; trouble, however, several times, due to poor support. In going the distance, he struck out seven PSC batters, including the entire side in the last inning. Ducks Score First Oregon drew fust blood in the second inning when they scored one run. Portland State, how ever. countered with two in the top of the third The Ducks made it two-all, however, by pushing across their second run in their half of the third. Oregon blaster! the game wide open In the bottom of the fourth inning, scoring five big runs. Jim Pifher hit a two-run single. Jerry Kosa slapped a hard hit double and Jim Pingree follow ed with another single scoring two runs. They completed their scoring in the sixth when they added an additional run. Vikings Add Three Portland State bounced back in the next inning for three runs. With the bases loaded, Dave I St a rbuck of the Vikings blasted a double, scoring all three base runners. The Vikings scored an other In the eighth but Henkel "tied the knot" und the ball game ended, H-Q. Plfher, the sophomore second bn Me mn n. catcher Tom Bowen. Kenny Bond, with a double and n Mingle, Henkel, and veteran John Keller, nil got two hita for the Duck cause. (iuitie Mmrd to Willamette The game, originally ncheiluled fbr Howe field, wan played In Mi end on the Willamette high Mchool field. The decision to change locales wan due to the aoggy condition of the Howe field infield. Thurnday'a victory marked Oregon's neventh triumph of the 1955-56 season. Portland State, member of the OCC. In the firMt foe that Oregon haa faced this year other than a Northwest college conference team. Oregon faces two Pot Hand squads In tilts this weekend. The DuckM encounter Lewis an t Clark at 2:30 Hum afternoon on the Pioneer's diamond and tan gle with Portland university's Pilots tomorrow, also at Port land. Sports Staff Desk editor: Jerry Hsmsey Staff: Jim Larimore. Terry Sherwood. Chuck Mitchelmore. Idaho State Bengals Hold Margin In NCAA Boxing Championships MADISON, Win '.V Heavily favored Idaho State maintained its edge in the NCAA boxing championships Thursday night as the meet's only two defending champions fell by the wayside. Idaho State’s Itohby Mcf'ul lom, last year's 119 pound kingpin, dropped an unanimous three-round decision to Chiken .Mike Maekaua of Michigan State In the first IhiuI of the evening. Earlier in the afternoon. Michi gan State’s George Sissmi, a per ■ petual motion machine, scored a ! split decision over Max Voshall of San Jose State, who was de fending his 165 pound crown. The Bengals of Pocatello, Idaho — the only undefeated squad in the 20-team tourna ment — ran up six points to stake iloun first place going into Friday’s semifinal round. Wisconsin was second with four points anil defending cham pion Michigan State, third with three. A crowd of 8.712 nt the Uni versity of Wisconsin flaldtiouse was treated to a pair of te< hni'al knockouts by Idaho State fight ers. They were the only fights of the 2’> bout card that didn't go th< regulation three-round dis tance. The Bengal** undefeated linger House registered the first TKO In 1:25 of the first round over Nevada'* Ijirry l»a mon in a Ift5 pound clash. House’s 147 pound teammate. Hon Hall, in his second >M>ut of the day. got the other at the expense of Virginia's William Young in the same time. Dan Axtman and Hal Eapy were the Bengal.*' other winners Thursday night. LSD", Oklahoma and Syracuse were tied for fourth place with two points each. Then came Arkansas, Cal'for nia Poly. College of Idaho, Hous ton. Nevada and San Jose State with one point each. Annual Meeting University of Oregon CO-OP STORE i Thursday, April 19, 1956 Room 207 — Chapman Hall 4:00 P. M. Nominations will be held for new members on the Board of Directors All students with memberships in the Co-op are invited to attend.
