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Mantle Gaining In Batting Race l»> IIKN OI.AN NKW YOKK <*l By lust hciiMon'» atandurd, Mickey Man tle la having a poor aeaaon. But ’ how long will they be able to keep the New York Yankee*' alugger from challenging for the hatting, home run and runa bat ted in lead* ? Mickey In gaining ground faat In all three categorlea. I .a at week he moved Into third place In both the batting and homer competition. He collected aeven hits in 15 times at bat (a .107 pm ei and the output alao in « lulled two home runs und five ItBl a. Kor 'll guinea. Mantle allows a Inviting mark of .S5W, aeven circuit Mows and 15 ItBla. In as many 1050 games, the Yan l»eea' alar hall a league-leading .100 average (40-for-IOO), 15 limners and had driven hoine 77 runners. Mantle'a faat start carried him to the triple ermv n. Mickey mI111 has to go some to overtake Boston's Ted William* nod Detroit's Reno Brrtola tu the batting race. William* la the top American L>engue hitter with .394 followed by Bertola's .364 Both slumped In hurt week'* ac tion. William* dropping 36 points mill eight safeties In 25 trip* and IJertoia lo*ing eight point* on 7-for-21. William* remained on top In home run* with nine followed by I'.oy Sli ver* of Washington with eight Sievcr* has the mo*t runs batted in. 26. Hank Aaron, unlike Mantle, I* off lo even u better begin ning than be had laat sear. The Milwaukee outfielder, who won the '56 twilling title, leads the National la-ague with a .366 average, II ho (nr run* and 29 run* tattled In. in ?8 games, Varon haw 45 hit* In 123 at liat*. In hi* first 28 games last sea son, Aaron was fifth In batting with a .352 mark l38-for-l08i. He had only six homers and 13 RBIs. Aaron's closest batting coin petltoi * are Frank Robinson, George Crowe and Iron Moak, all of the league-leading Cincin nati Redlegs. Robinson, at .361, tailed off 37 {xnnts laat week Crowe collected 13 hit* in 25 official effort* and boosted his mark from .299 to .359. Hoak, second a week ago. fell 26 points to .356. Duck Golf Coach Takes Local Title The coach beat his pupils Sun day at the Uaurelwood golf course as Oregon golf coach Sid Milligan parred the sudden death playoff hole to edge golf team member Bob Brail and ex-team member Don Kreigor for the "Champion of Champions" golf title. The trio finished the regula tion 36-hole tourney in even par at 142 which forced the playoff. Piall shot a 72-70 for the two rounds. Kreiger scored a 70-72, and Milligan carded a 73-6J). but it was a birdie and an eagle by Kreiger and Trail on the par five 18th hole that sent the match into a playoff. Milligan Is an ex-Webfoot golf er who took over the reigns of coaching in 1947. Since then, his teams have won ten Northern Division dual-match titles and three ND tourney victoiies. Milligan will be pulling for Prall and his VVebfoot team males in the ND tourney Friday and Saturday at Pullman, but he gave the lessons Sunday. IM Track Slated Today The final Intramural corripetl-1 I lion of the year geta underway thin afternoon when the IM track ! and field He a ho n openH a three day Htanc!. PrellminarieH In the field ev ent* are due to begin at 1:30 p.m. ' today with the running eventa i highlighting the ahow Thursday, The finals are on tap for Tues day, May 28. Twenty-alx teama are slated to take part In the festivities which include the ahot put, pole vault, high Jump, broad jump, 75 yard da ah, 330 yard run, % mile run. 3 x 75 shuttle relay and 70 yard, ! 3U inch hurdles. Scoring is on a 10-8-6-4-2-1 bams with no single competitor: eligible for more than three ev ents. Last year Phi Delta Theta won the crown. Legal Eagles Win IM Tennis Crown The Legal Eagles won the in tramural tennis championship on the Alder St. courts Monday by edging Sigma Nu, 2-1. The Ea gles easily won the first two matches in two sets before los ing the finale in three. OLD GOLD ANNOUNCES 1st PRIZE (All-expense, 40-day tour of the world for two or $5,000 in cash) DAVID L. HENDRIE University of Washington Washington 2nd PRIZE (10-day all-expense paid trip to Paris) JOSEPH LEONARD Lehigh University Pennsylvania 3rd to 6th PRIZES (7-day all-expense paid trips to Bermuda) D. RICHTER Univ. of North Carolina MARTIN H. HACKER Northwestern Univ., Illinois RICHARD PRAIRIE University of Chicago RICHARD D. POMERANTZ, JR. Cornell Univ., N. Y. 7th to 16th PRIZES (RCA Hi-Fi sets—MARK IV) JAMES MARTIN Univ. of IVLr.nl DONALD Y DAVIS Univ. of lluruis T. NEIL DIVINE Mass. Institute of Tech. JANE SPAETH Mi.liilt'imry Coll., Vt. WILLIAM T SMEL8KR Univ. of Celifornis HAROLD I LBVINE Univ. of Chicago RAMON JIMENEZ UCLA. CHARLES HAMIWRG Temple Univ., Pa. PETER S. HOCKADAY Yale, Conn. PETER OSTRANDER Columbia Univ., N. 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