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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1952)
'mdi Cafe p'si Hie,3ff 50-Lap Main Event Slated 22-Car Field Seeks Honors at Holly-Bowl Hoping for sunny skies, 12 stock cars, piloted by the top drivers In the Northwest, will start the 1952 Salem racing sea son off with a bang this afternoon as they vie for honors in a packed program, topped by a 50-lap main event run. Promoter Mike Carty of Valley Sports announces a delectable side feature for the fans in a demonstration by two of the new and unique polo cars, to be a regular part of future programs. This afternoon's meet opens with 1:30 time trials. Also in cluded on the card in addition to the 50-lap mainer, are a three lap helmet dash and three eight lap heat races. Included in the field are four brand new cars a 1952 Oldsmo ble, to be piloted by Johny Kie per; a 52 Henry J., with Wild BiH Hyde "up"; a '52 Ford, driven by Len Sutton and a '52 Hudson Hornet, with Jimmie Wilkeson at the wheel. Sharp Drivers Listed Amonj the drivers who should be particularly tough today are Hyde, Sutton, Floyd Trimble, Bud Emra. Hershel McGriff, Don Nel son, Ray Elliott and Bill Weiman. The complete field for today, listing number, car and driver: No. 1. 52 Olds, Floyd Trimble; No. 2. '51 Olds, Hershel McGriff; No. 4. '49 Ford, Bill Weiman; No. 5, '49 Olds, Royce Hagerty; No. 6, 49 Plymouth, Bill Amick; No. 8. 49 Olds, Armond Millen; No. 9, 49 Olds, Bud Emra; No. 10 Wal 1v Gervais; No. 12, '51 Ford, Jeff Bell; No. 17, '52 Henry J., Bill Hvde; No. 18, Chick Lalonde; No. 19. '51 Mercury, Don Walker; No. 21, '49 Ford, Johnny Harp; No. 24. 'SO Plymouth. Don Crockett: No 27. '52 Ford, Len Sutton; No. 33 '48 Plymouth, Art Watts; No. 34. 'W Plymouth, Merv Straley; Ne 41, 51 Atlantic Austin, Si Binker; No. 44, 50 Chevrolet, Don Nelson; No. 54, '49 Plymouth, Ray Elliott; No. 57, '52 Hudson Hor net, Jimmie Wilkeson; No. 87, '48 Plymouth, Hank DuBose. Churches Open Sof tball Play The Church Softball program gets under way Monday, with six games on tap involving teams in the Junior and Senior circuits. This year's program includes 22 teams from 15 Salem churches. Co-sponsors are the YMGA, the churches and the public school recreational program. Monday's openers at Olinger and Parrish fields in the Junior League find Kingwood Bible meet ing Keizer Nazarene, 1st Presby terian vs. 1st Methodist, 1st EUB vs. Jason Lee and 1st Christian vs. Englewood EUB. Action in the Senior League puts 1st Methodist against Calvary Baptist and the Nazarenes against 1st EUB. Oualitv Rollers Duckpin Champs Tbe Men's City Duckpin League wound up the season this week at i B and B Bowling courts, with tne Quality Used Cars entry taking the top spot with 92 wins and 40 setbacks. Second was Davis Oil with a 89-43 mark and third was Capos Used Cars with 82-50. Capps had high series and game for the season with 2505 and 963 and four men had top individual averages of 156. They are Norman Potter, Al Kenfield, Arnie Meyer and Emil Scholz. Pair's Mix Highlights Tuesday Armory Card Vengeful Roy Ready for Wallick Mat Scrap - An irate Frenchle Ry. badly battered by Lee Wallick la their scrap en the last armory mat card, seeks re- fj rense and a let of it Tues day night when he tangles with the rowdy Wal lick in the one hour main event of Match maker Elton Owens weekly mm Olienng. GEORGE DU8KTTE Wallick. returned to the local wars after a long absence, notch ed a win over Freachle last time out after disabling the man from Quebec with a pelverizing pile driver hold. Just before the end both gladiators had piled oat of the ring to highlight some of the most braising action seen hero la a long while. Frenehie requested the re match with Wallick and Leo . sickly agreed. Wallick figures if be can dispatch Roy In the Tuesday mainer hell be In line for a crack at the Masked Mar Tel, Coast Junior heavy king. Frenehies main weapon against the Detroit ruffian is his pet corkscrew toe hold, which al most put Leo away last time. More crowd -pleasing action is in store in the half -hoar eeml windup as popular George Du sette, the canny guy from Mon treal, tangles with that hairy and burly geat from Bulgaria, Steve Nenoff. Dasette will bo pressed to the limit by Nenoff. and Is expected to go all oat with his feared fail nelson the weapon which took care of Kurt Yon Poppenheim in last Tues day's main event. Poppenheim, the proud and ar rogant Prussian, finds himself demoted this week as he goes against Kay Wilson, fast-improving, youngster from Utah, in the S opening special event. Wil son should prove a tough test for Poppenheim, whoTl doubtless pull all stops In an effort to get back into main event status. Bob Cummlngs will handle referee ing chores Tuesday night. To Graduate, Hazel Green Statesman News Service HAZEL GREEN Commence ment plans for the largest class ever to graduate from Hazel Green .according to available rec- ROedford Haywaird Womioneir Generals 2nd, Vikings 5th EUGENE (AVMedford bounood back to its accustomed domina tion of Oregon Class A high school track competition Satur day, winning its eighth Hayward Relays championship. Nosed out by Klamath Falls last year, the Medford team easily outdistanced Klamath Falls this time, and then outlasted a challenge by Grant ol Portland to win the crown. Medford finished with 63 points, followed by Grant 59, Grants Pass 45 Mi, Jefferson of Portland 24 V, and Salem 24. It was not decided, though, un til the final event, the mile re lay. Medford went into that event with a 53 Vz to 51 lead over Grant. A win for either team meant the title. The Medford quartet of Dennis Davis, Warren Lunquist, Dennis Kittle and Don Spinas responded, winning the relay. Grant was second. Two Firsts Taken I and tied for first in still two more events. Ed Bingham won the javelin contest with a toss of 166 feet. Vi Inches. Dave Newland of Medford and Lyle Waggouer of Roosevelt, Portland, tied for first in the pole vault at 11 feet, 11 inches. Medford and Grants Pass tied in the 880-yard relay. Grant won first places in the shot put and 440-yard relays. Io records were set in this 15th running of the relays. A crowd of 1,500 watched on a cool after noon. It was cloudy with only occasional bursts of sunshine. Rain fell Friday night, but there was none during the meet, which was run off immediately preced ing an Oregon-Washington State meet here. Team Points: Medford 63, Grant 59, Grants j Pass 45!, Jefferson 24V. Salem 24, Bend 16, Marshfield 15, 1 Lincoln 14. Eugene 13, Spring-j field 11, Roosevelt luvs, orvai lis 10, Klamath Falls 8, Mil waukie 5 and Franklin 4. 1st Conference Loss learcats (Defeated S-5 v Pioneers' Hall Club Willamette University's Bearcats dropped their first Northwest Conference game of the season Saturday afternoon at Bush field as they bowed to Lewis and Clark's Pioneers by an 8-5 count. Coach John Lewis' Bearcats outhit the Pioneers but some wildness on the part of Pitchers Mike Glenn and U0 Thinclads Nose Cougars EUGENE UP) - Washington Stat made it dose, bat A vored Oregon won its seotjd straight Northern Division track meet of the season here Saturday. 67 H to 3Vi- Oregon piled up pouts early, and was able to coast through the dosing events as Washing ton State closed the gap. The Oregon regulars did not even appear for the final event, the mile relay. Washington State won the event against Oregon reserves. One record was cracked. Al Fisher of Washington State winning the two-mile run in 9:35.2 minutes. The old mark was 9:43 minutes by Dick Paeth of WSC in 1949. 561 to 1 Shot Winner In British Turf Race NEWBURY, England (P)-Di-strette, a two-year old winner of a five-furlong race Saturday, paid odds of just over 561 to 1 on the totalizator Bettors of two shillings (28 cents) stake received $157.44 in return. Bookmakers paid out 33 to 1 on the winners. The payment is the largest since horseracing was re sumed on a normal scale after World War II. HUSKY NETMEN WIN SEATTLE ("-University of Wash ington racket welders breezed through Oregon State Col lege, 7-0. Saturday. Table of Coastal Tides Tide for Tart. Oregon. April, 1.952 compiled by L' S Coast and Geodetic Survey. Portland. Oregon). Pacific Standard Time HIGH WATERS LOW WATERS Aonl 21 22 Time a m 24 24 2 s n 9 58 10:14 10:33 11 .16 11 07 12:11 11 :41 102 12 14 1 52 12:48 2 40 1:22 3 Jl p.m am p.m. a.m. p.m p.m. p.m D m. am p.m. a.m. p.m. jn. PJTl. Ht. 5.5 K2 5.5 6 6 5.4 6 9 5 4 7.0 5.2 70 5 0 6.9 4 9 6.7 4.7 Time 3:25 a.m. 3:33 p.m. 4 :22 a m. 4:18 p.m. 5:11 a.m. 5 00 p.m. 5:57 a.m. 5:38 p.m. 6:40 ajn. 6:18 p.m. 7:23 a.m. 6:53 p.m. 8:04 a.m. 7:32 p.m. 8:47 ajn. 8:12 p.m. Ht. 16 0 3 0.8 0 7 0 0 1.1 -0.fi 16 -1.0 2.0 IJ2 2 4 -1.1 2 7 -0 8 3 0 Rooks Scissor Vik Net Skein Del Ramsdell's Salem High net squad saw its seven-game winning streak stopped Saturday on the Olinger courts as the Oregon State Rooks took a 6-3 decision. The Vikings had stretched their string with a 7-0 win over McMinnville Friday. Results of the Rooks match: Singles Bob Chambers 0 over Merle Baumgart S -2. 6-1: Herb Leupold (O) over Lynn Hardy (Si 6-2. 6-1; Bill Clum JO) over Dick Wilson iS) 7-5. 6-1: John Minlfle (Si over Randy Byerston (O) -4. 11-13. 6-3: Mel Williamson (S over Schaff (Oi 6-2. 8-6. Doubles Chambers and Schaai (Oi over Baumgart and Berg (Si 6-4. 3-6. 6-2; Crum and Leupold (Oi over Hardy and Wilson S 4-6. 6-3. s-3; Williamson and Minlfie (S) over Byer son and Cox iOI 6-3. 6-1. Reliability Run By Sports Cars The Sports Car Club of Oregon will hold a reliability run today, starting from the fairgrounds. The winner will be determined by the j best marks for maintaining a pre- i determined average number of j miles per hour for the approxi-1 mate 100-mile course. All state i and city traffic regulations must be observed by the contestants, as I their averages will be checked at : various points along the route. A j trophy will be awarded the win- j ner at a dinner meeting in Salem : Saturday, May 3rd. j All participants in today's run j are asked to meet opposite the : fairgrounds entrance at 11:30 a.m Idaho Ovalists Trim Beavers CORVALLIS -Oregon State broko three meet records here Saturday, but lost out to Idaho's over-all strength in a Northern Division track mest, 74 1-6 to 56 5-6. Bruce Sweeney of Idaho got in to action to turn the tide. He won three events, the broad jump and both huftile contests, to lead the Vandal point-makers. Oregon State's record perform ances were in the pole vault, shot put and javelin. Lyle Dickey set the pole vault mark at 13 Vi feet. Duane Eby heaved the shot 48 feet 14 inches. Stevens of OSC set the former record of 47 feet 11 inches in 1946. Ralph Sutton threw the javelin 201.8 feet to eclipse the record of 194 feet, IQVi inches set by Johnson of Idaho in 1938. Dave Gray and six WU errors more than offset that advantage. Lewis and Clark wrapped up all the runs they needed with three in the first frame and three more in the fourth. The first-frame flur ry came on one hit, a hit batsmen and two costly errors. Two mar kers resulted from a muffed out field fly. A walk and three hits brought the three in the fourth for the Portlanders. The Bearcats nicked Len Zim merman, who went all the way for the Pioneers, for a run in the fourth on Cliff Girod's double and Dick Brouwer's single and went to town for four In the eighth via singles by Girod and Perlman, a double by John Markoskie, a two base error In the L-C outfield and a long fly-out. The Pioneers picked up an In surance marker in the seventh via an error and a pair of hit batsmen and John Gordon accounted for their final run in the eighth with a homer over the cerrterfield fence. Willamette plays Pacific at For est Grove Tuesday in conference action. The Bearcats now show a 1-1 mark in the 1000 and 4-4 for the season. (J) WUUaaett B H O A SIC Eteassr.m 5011 1 4 Oi Girod J 4 0 0 7! Perlman J 111 Stkfarkski.r 0 0 OtBrouwerJ Lewis Clark (I) B H 6 A Gordon.! MartU.c Dan ids .3 LewU.1 Rdkvch.r Jacksn.m Zimrmn.p 2 1 Ecklmn.J 4 1 Tyderanj 3 Sheprd.r 0 Brown, 1 Koepf.c Bates. Glenn, p Gray.p Shield x Hande.c Jones-i BEAVER GOLFERS LOSE SEATTLE (JP)- Washington's golfing Huskies trounced Oregon State, 22-5, Saturday at Seattle's Inglewood course. Husky Don Rus suell was medalist with a 2-under-par 71. Totals 33 7 27 12 Totals 37 9 27 13 x Grounded out lor Koepf in 8th. 7. Grounded out for Gray In th. Lewis-Clark . 300 300 1108 7 1 Willamette 000 100 403 9 6 Pitcher IP AB H RKRSOBB Zimmerman 9 37 9 5 3 4 0 Glenn 34 17 S 6 3 1 1 Gray 5'j 16 2 2 2 1 9 Wild Pitch: Glenn. Loser: Glenn. Left on bases: Lewis-Clark 10. Willam ette 8. Errors: Radakovich, Elsasser 2. Bates 4. Home run: Gordon. Two-base hits: Girod. Markoskie. Runs batted in: Gordon, Martell. Jackson 2, Eck te rn an 3, Markoskie. Brouwer 3, Brown. Stolen bases: Lewis, Jackson. Double play: Glenn to Brown. Umpires: West over and Howell. Time: 2:15. Vandals Top Huskies SEATTLE (yP)-The Idaho Van dals committed 10 errors, but they used 13 hits to advantage Satur day to square their two-game baseball series with the Washing ton Huskies, winning 9-5. Wash ington took the opener Friday, 14-8. SKI TITLE WON GLEN BROOK. Nev. (JP)- John Gianotti, of Scotia, Calif., won the Norweigian Ski Federation's an nual trophy by finishing the eight mile Snowshoe Thompson Memor ial run Saturday over White Hills in 52 minutes, 21 second. BUILDING? Composition Roof Shingles Asbesios Siding New Piclnre Windows per. sq $575 $10.50 $8.00 C. G. LONG & SOU Opening Race of the 1952 Season Sun., April 20, 1 :30 psn - STOCK GABS - AH Late Models All the Leading N. W. Drivers See the new and sensational demonstration oi the Auto Polo Car (The can that turn on a dime) Auto Polo (he gamo that young red blooded Americans are going for in a- big way ords, are nesting cooletion. Tbar artvlf stodeftts in tie class. The speaker st the exercises on May 22 will be Carl Aschenbrenner of Parrish Junior High School, Salem. Clifford Wacken will be valedictorian and Darlene Lester, salutatorlan. The annual school picnic will be held on the day foi'o the grad uation and school will close on May 28. The three teachers, Mrs. Cora-Clark, Mrs. Mary Harrison, and Mrs. Esther Franz, Principal, will return next year. Tho-Srortoemasuem, Oregon, Sunday. April 2W2-lii Farm Bulletin Dated 1750 B.C COLUMBUS, O. (V American archeolo gists in Iraq have un earthed what is probably the old est "farm bulletin ever found, the Ohio State University Agri cultural Extension Service re ports. The bulletin, dated around 1750 B. C, i printed on clav tablets. 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