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senators Ag aim Bow ; to Eegetie Emeraldg9 f Medford Wins State Three Schools In Tie for 2d Vail Sets. Record ; Viking Relay Second CORVALL1S m Medford won ft; third straight class A high school track and field champion ship Saturday by scoring only one third point more than three schools Which tied for second. - - - Pilot Rock easily dominated the dassB division with 51 points to 34 for second-place Rogue River. Medford's total was 34 1-3 points. North Bend, Roosevelt of Portland and Eugene each had 34. A total of three records were established in class A competition. Albany's Bob Amble threw the discus 164 feet, 6 ft inches to bet ter his own record set in Friday's preliminaries by three feet. . . Jim Grelle of Portland's Lincoln High chopped nearly two seconds off the half-mile record with a time of 1 minute, 58 seconds. - St. Helens' Duane Marshall bet tered the shot-put record is Fri day's qualifying events with a toss of 58 feet, 2 Vi inches. There was a total of five records in the B division. " Moro's Harold Duncan ran the 180-yard low -hurdles in "20.8s ec onds bettering by one-tenth of a second the time he set in Friday's prelims. James Reeves of Wallowa set a mile record with a time of 4 minutes, 37.6 seconds. ' Allen Vail of Gates on the quarter-mile in 50.9 seconds. On Friday Martin Sharp, Eagle (Continued on next page) PortlandBows To Suds, 7-! 5 SEATTLE If) Seattle hung Saturday night against a deter mined Portland comeback to win a rain . - punctuated Pacific Coast League baseball game." 7-5. Seattle drew first blood, tally ing once in the second on singles by George Schmees, Lou Ortiz and Gene Verble, and again in the third when Bob Hall loaded the bases on two walks and a hit bat ter, then gave up a single to Bob Balcena. Portland opened its "scoring col umn in the fourth. Artie Wilson led off with a double and moved to third when the ball was booted while being handled in the outfield. He scored on Carl . Powis' sacri fice fly to left Elsewhere in the PGL, Holly wood defeated Oakland, 6-2, San Diego trounced Sacramento, 8-1, and San Francisco edged Los An geles, 6-5. Portland . , 000 100 4005 7. 2 Seatle 012 300 lOx 7 11 3 Hall. Waibel (4). Lint (4). Anthony (7) and Robertson:. Jansen, Ken nedy (7) and Ginsberg. Bollywood 01I120 01x 11 0 Black. Van Cuyk (5. Besana (7) and .Neal; Munger and Hall. Los Angelet . .000 230 0105 12 San Francisco 100 311 OOx 6 10 Church, Zick (4). Elston (5), Kuncl (8 and Fanning: Blackwell. Brad ford (9) and Ritchey. San, Diego .000 404 0008 0 3 Sacramento -100 000 0001 Erautt and Bailey: Cereghino. Har- rist (6), . Candini (8) and Baich. Pro golfer Ted Kroll, a former infantry sergeant, was wounded five times in Italy and France. He also took part in the Anzio beach landing. ... Sunday sorties: ' The Yale Bulldogs recently buttoned up their spring football prac tice, and the coaching staff beckoned to Herb Triplett, the former Salem High whiz who was a standout on last Autumn's Yale Fresh man team. Herb figured he was to get the ax, and that he wasn't good enough to make the Bulldog varsity. But the mentors congratu- run, handed him varsity jersey No. 42 and sent him out to have his picture taken. : He's made the ' grade, up to the present time at least, and despite being consider ably overweight at 185 pounds . . . The City of Bend gets its baseball season kicked off Wednesday night via a banquet, and going up from here to help things along will be Uncle Hugh Luby, Bill Bevans, Jack Wilson and the champeen striker-outer of the ol Western In ternational League. Vince Genna's Benders and the Senators have a bome-and-home exhibition series cooked up for later on in the sea son .. . Surprise of all surprises is the news that Einar Sorensen, one of the WIL umpires the .last couple of years is now arbiting in the Class Triple-A American As sociation. Remember him? .'. . And if you like baseball tid-bits, bow abotuVuese: Les Wither spoon wat ' sold by the Lakeland, Fla., club to Portsmouth of the Class B Piedmont circuit Bob Wellman, big Vancouver slugger of 54 is now managing the Douglas entry of the Class D Georgia State League. George (Splits) Vico, star first base man of the 1946 Senators before Portland grabbed him. a now batting practice pitcher for the Hollywood Stars. Dick Sine vie, another Sen ators "ex" 'is now with Atlanta of. the Southern Association but is batting below the .260 -mark. Harry baseman is now with the Jacksonville, Fla. (Class A Sally League) club. Tommy Yewcic, best known ' for 'his footballing under Biggie Munn at Michigan State, is also in Augusta, and recently whacked his fifth home run. Chuck Essegian, with Tulsa of the Texas League,; recently smacked a .triple, double and two Singles m one game, oaiung m uie no. posiuon . . . : JndianapolU 500': it htCt-Eaty la just eight mere days 33 ynag reiti wffl pile inU their Super-Daper Specials, let fly at the 200 laps around the 2V4mile- (Continued oa next, page) Some Didn't Go Up Nor Over the Bar V 5- r I J - ' . f:i .... A, . These may not be the best of forms 1956 Olympics but they did earn Saturday. They are Brace Smith and Scott Taylor- (right). (Story Oc . I i ..,,'- .'s - ... I V -. . Dudes Nip Huskies for frock Croivn C i' : . ' :': ... .... C- c $ ": 1 "J- at" " U.S. WoIIter Teiam Snares Cup, 10-2 Matches Won ' I rir- Reiser Breaks ByCudd,Yost By STERLING SLAPPEY ST. ANDREWS, Scotland UT The United States took the Walk er Cup for the 14th time Saturday in 15 tries with an almost embar rassingly easy 10-2 golLvictory over the British. A handful of golf loving Scots huddled together in a small, wet and cold crowd as the envied cup was presented once again to the American amateurs . outside the grey, stone clubhouse of the Royal and Ancient Club. Only once before have the Amer- . (Continued on next page) . t f? " J ART ELLIOTT Delivers on' '500 Warner, last year's Senators first the Sally League as a catcher win 4 a r - i ' - ' . fi Track J V'P : .. in the high Ju mp and might even earn a disqualification in the points in the YMCA "Junior Olympics" at McCnlloch Stadium (top)', Johnny Poling (top left), Dick Brynelson (bottom left) page 9.) : - -- NOKTHWKST LEA GUI W L Pet W L Pet. Wentch 17 5 .773 Yakima 10 10 .500 Eugene 9 .600 Lewston. S 13 .381 Tri-City 12 10 .545 Spoken 9 17 3X1 Salem 11 11 .500 Saturday's results: at Eugene t. Salem 1: at Yakima 4. Lewiston 1: at Wena tehee 1, Spokane . (See page 1.) t PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W L Pet W L Pet. Sn Dief 30 16 .652 Sn Fran 22 23 .489 Seattle 27 20 .574 Oaklnd 20 24 .456 Loa Ag 24 22 .522 Sacram 29 26 .422 Fortlnd - 20 22 .476 Hlywod 18 27 .400 Saturday'! results: at Seattle 7, Portland S: at Hollywood 6. Oakland 2: at Sacramento 1. San Diego : at San fraacisco . Lo Angeles 5. AMERICAN LEAGUE x W L Pet W L Pet. Nw Yrk 21UMWshgtn 1418.438 Clevlnd 21 12 .636 Boston 15 21 .417 Chicago 19 12 .613 Kn City 13 20.394 Detroit 19 15 .559 Bltmore 10 23 .303 Saturday's results: At-Chicago 7, Kansas City '4: at Detroit 3. Cleve land 2: at Washington 1, Boston 0; at New York 9, Baltimore 4. NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pet W L Pet Broklyn 26 8 .765 MlwaUk 17 18 .486 NwYrkl914 -.576 Cincinn 1418 .438 Chicago 2015 .571 Pitsbgh 1122 .333 St Lou 15 15 .500 Philadel 10 22 .313 Saturday's results: at Brooklyn 6. Philadelphia 4; at Pittsburgh 2. New York 3; at Cincinnati 9. St Louis 6; at Milwaukee 1. Chicago 2. 'Yak' Homers rones YAKIMA (JU Two timely hom ers good for four runs gave Yaki ma a 4-1 Northwest League base ball win over Lewiston Saturday night to even their current series at 1-1. The first -homer came in the fourth inning off Dennis Luby's'bat after Gene - Jacobs - had singled. Jacobs then homered in the sixth after Bob Nard got on on a fielder's choice. i i. Lewiston's lone tally came in the eighth on - a 4 double by Mack Schmidt and a triple by Joe Riney. Senator Swat: Topple B . (Last night's game "not Included.) ab h 2b 3b hr rhi pet Robinson 61 23 1 2 4 10 J 77 Tanselli 73 27 S . 4 20 J70 Frailey .14 26 1 2 27 .351 Krause 48 16 2 1 10 J33 Txaversl 49 16 9 1 .327 Steinagel 74 25 8 1 2 16 .338 Agosta 84 25 2 2 0 10 98 Siiiekts . 27 8 1 1 - I t, 3 96 Dunn : 39 10 9 2 .256 Luby ; 14 4. 1 6 I .236 Koepf 19 17 3 I. 1 II.- Helden 9 9 I 1X00 Pitching:' t f ip w 1 1 so bb er Walsh 10 23 2 i t 14 14 S King S 16 1 8 4 19 8 Wortham r 4 lit 19 4 Whitaan 4 .23 'i 1 1 13 22 21 Dials t 41 3 (4 26 IT 19 I Francis '. 1- i 1 13 23 11 Crown 2-Mile Mark SEATTLE tf - Ken Reiser gal loped to a two-mile mark and two other Oregon athletes tied meet records as Oregon won its second straight Northern Division, Pacific Coast Conference track champion ship Saturday. The final decision went right down to the relay. A Webfoot vic tory by a narrow margin over Washington in the windup event gave Oregon 53 points and left Washington second with 'SO'i. Washington State was third with 39V4 and Oregon State and Idaho had 11 .points each. Reiser won the two-mile by 35 yards in 9 minutes 11.3 seconds, erasing the mark of 9:22.5 set in 1953 by Denny Meyer of Washing ton. Bill Dellinger tied the mile standard of 4:12.2, set back in 1940 by Phil Leibowitz, The Oregon runner, with a fat lead over Neil Rader of Washington State, coasted the last few yards. ' ' Bailey Equals Mark The transplanted Australian, Jim Bailey, turned in a 1:51.5 half mile to tie the mark set in 1937 by Vic Palmason of Washington. Bob Gary of Washington and FDean Singer of Washington tied for high point honors. Gary won (Continued on next page) " 0 $ Not for iil DOUGLAS McKAY .... . 510 N. Commercial St S ($. 1) Statesman, Sakm, Hit tilt; Hacker Take LeagueJjead By JACK HAND .. " The Associated Press . Warren Hacker of the Chicago urday when Milwaukee's George Crowe hit a pinch homer with one oat in the ninth inning. . Breezing into the ninth, Hacker appeared ready to duplicate the Whitman Wins Track Crown Benson Tops Marks In Hurdle Events WALLA WALLA UFi Whitman, paced by Harold and Edgar Par- rott, won the Northwest Confer ence track and field champion ships here Saturday. The Missionaries, coached ! by Bill Martin, rolled up 76 1-5 points. Defending champion Lewis and Clark had 671-10. I Linfield tied Willamette for, third each with 51 3-5 points. Then came Pacific with 34 and. College; of Idaho with 4. Harold Parrott repeated his vic tories of last year in the mile and half-mile. He broke his own con ference-record with a time of 1 minute," 58.7 seconds in the half mile, i His brother, TSdgar, won the two- mile in 10 minutes, 36.3 seconds. Other Whitan firsts were con tributed by Dave Wheeler, the 220, and Gary Fowler, the 440. f Caley Cook, Lewis and Clark s track star, was held back by; a pulled leg muscle. He managed on ly fourth in the broad jump, failed to place in the 100-yard dash and didn't even try the hurdles. He won all these events last year. Dean Benson of Willamette broke the conference high hurdles and low hurdles records. - j Benson's time in the highs was :14.4 and in the lows :24.2. Larry Thompson of Willamette won the pole vault with a leap of 12 feet, S inches. He also tied for second in the high jump. , Dale Hartman of Willamette took sec ond in the 880 behind Harold Par rott' s new NWC record time. j 100-yard dash Bob Gatyas. Pacif ic: Dave Wheeler. Whitman: Pete Hopkins. L&C: Sid Tate. Whitman; Bob Zoelch. Willamette. .-9.9. i Mile run Harold Parrott. 'Whit man: Edgar Parrott. Whitman: Rog er Cosner. Pacific; Dick Miller. Lin field: Don Miller. Willamette. 4:32.2. High jump Al Tarpenning, Lin field; Tie between Owen Stockard. Pacific, and Larry Thompson. Wil lamette: Tie among Tom Voigt of Willamette, Bob Walker of Whitman. Bob Chiodo of L&C. Kay Garrison of Linfield, and Dave Bird, Whitman. 6 feet. j Shot put John Martin. L&C; Lary Klang, Linfield; Ron Stone. C. of I.; Ozzie Ray, Pacific; Gary SchmaUe, Willamette. 44 feet 4', inches. 120-yard high hurdles Dean Ben son. Willamette; Clarence Duke, L&C: Tie between Don Ward. L&C. and Ron Craig. Pacific: Sam Stew art. Linfield. :15.4. 880-yard run Harold Parrott, Whitman; Dale Hartman, Willamette; Bob KiekeL Willamette: Roger Coi ner. Pacific: Clarence Heinrich, Lin field. 1:58.7. Two mile run Edgar Parrott, Whitman: Dick Miller. Linfield: Don Miller. Willamette; Gordon Stavig, Whitman; Dick Powell. Whitman. 10:36.3. Pole vault Larry Thompson. Wil lamette; Gar Conner, Pacific; Tie be tween Claris Poppert and Volney Sig mund. Willamette; Tom Garrett Whitman. 12 feet Inches. 220-yard low hurles Dean Benson.: Willamette; Clarence Duke. L&C: Sam Stewart. Linfield; Den Mock, Whitman: Tom Garrett Whitman. --24-2. (New conference record. Old mark 24.3 set by Caley Cook, L&C. 1954). ' i Discus Loren Michelsen. L&C: Carl Reynolds. Linfield: Ken Wil liams. Linfield; Chuck Greenlee. Wil lamette: Ron Stone. C. of I. 141 feet inches. (New conference record. Old mark 139 feet 9 inches, set by Pat Adams. L&C, 1954). ': j (o)oo for a business coupe, but this full-size C-passenger Ore, Sunday, May 22, 1955 MissesNo Yankees Cubs just missed a no-hitter Sat May 12 no-hit feat of teammate Sam Jones against Pittsburgh. He had faced just 26 men one over the minimum when Manag er Charlie Grimm sent Crowe in to bat for pitcher. Chet Nichols. His homer over the right lield fence was his first of the season. Hacker finally won 2-1. Hacker's one-hitter was the fourth of the season. Brooklyn's Don New combe held the Chicago Cubs tq a single hit, May 10. In the American League, Bob Turley fof the New York Yankees one- hitted Chicago. April 26 and. Bob by Feller of Cleveland did a one hit job on Boston, May 1. Washington won a 12-inning 1-0 decision over Boston in the only night game. The lone run scored after Pedro Ramos walked and went to third on a single by Juan Delis. Yanks Take Lead ' In the excitement over Hacker's brilliant pitching, it was easy to (Continued on Page 10.) Davis Named Viking Coach PORTLAND I) Ralph S. Davis Jr. Saturday was named head football coach at Portland State College. He replaces Joe Holland who will devote his full time to the position of athletic director. Davis, a former Oregon State football star, coached at Sheridan, Newberg and Jefferson 'High schools before coming to Portland State last fall as Holland's assist ant -' -- ! Niday Paces '500' Racers INDIANAPOLIS - Cal Niday of Pacoima, Calif., one of the coun try's top auto race drivers in spite of an artificial , leg, set the pace Saturday in the third qualifying session for the 500-mile race May 30. Holding up the tradition of such past one-legged racers as Al Miller and the late Bill Schindler, Niday was the fastest of 12 qualifiers with a 10-mile run at 140.302 miles an hour. Eight cars qualified last week end, leaving 13 positions in the starting field to be filled in final trials Sunday. Nobody was hurt in three minor accidents. Niday, driving the Indianapolis D-A Lubricants .Special, was one of the five drivers who passed 140 miles an hour, but they didn't ap proach the qualifying record of 142.580 set last Sunday by Jack McGrath of Inglewood, Calif. AIR-VENT ALUMINUM AWKIKG5 Porch Hoods . . Patio Covert Custom Made la Oar Shop For Everything far Tour Window SEE El If ED THE o o LLPILK BLIND MAN Free Estimates Day or Night Ph 3732S (Terms) Ztlt Center St. Salem Delivered Price Includes Direction Sig nals, Electric Windshield Swipes, 12 V. Electric System Spare Tire, Etc -v r v - ' -' " : ' .' 'ClVROLEI Phone 33175 Leaves OCE - V "A BILL McARTHUE Going back to school. Leave Taken Chamberlain to Head Wolfpack Grid Scpiad By AL LIGHTXER Statesman Sports Editor Bill McArthur, for eight years head football and track coach at Oregon College of Education in Monmouth, will take a one-yar sabbatical leave at the. conclus ion of the current school term. McArthur will spend the year attending the University of South ern California, where he will seek his doctor's degree in physical ed ucation. Taking over the Mon mouth grid reins in McArthur's absence will be John Chamber lain, who has been line coach of the Wolfpack teams the past seven seasons. Chamberlain will name his assistant later. Spectacular Record Since going to Monmouth in 1947 McArthur has compiled a spectacular football record. His teams have won 38 games, lo6t 14 and tied 2. He has had two un defeated seasons and in the six year history of the Oregon Colleg iate Conference the OCJ elevens have won the championship every year. In fact, the Wolves lost their very first OCC game last season, to Portland State. McArthur was a former Santa Barbara College star in both foot ball and track, and later played iooiDau in tfie Air Forces and professionally. He and Chamber lain have formed a very success- nil coaching team at Monmouth. and on many occasions their un derdog. Wolf pack: teams have scored upset victories. Had Many Stars . McArthur has developed such OCE stars as Harry Russell. Gus Langley, Gale Davis, Corky Van Lieu,Marv Hiebert, Roger Dasch, Kobm and Paul Lee. Hank Decker and many, others who are now in the state prep coaching field. The departing mentor, who hopes to be back again in the Fall of 1956, has for some time been planning to return to school to work on his doctor's degree. Buckeyes Victor . CHICAGO Ohio State won the Big Ten baseball title Satur day and the right to represent the Western Conference in the NCAA playoffs by taking a doubleheader from Michigan, 13-4 and 5-1, while Minnesota split a twin bill at Northwestern.. By McArthu JIM'S GOING OUT Fox BUSINESS! SPECIAL ON CORDOVAN SHOES HURRY! Just 36 Pairs to B Sold at This Low Pricr ... All JIM'S FAMILY SHOE STORE 1295 S. 12th St Open Every Nite Til t LOADS OF FREE PARKING PENNY SAVES STAMPS ' o o o . - V HodgesHurls Four-ffitMix Dials Victim; Foes Play 2 Games Today i By AL LIGHTXER Statesman Sports Editor BETHEL PARK.-Eugene Spe cial) Lefty Berlyn Hodges follow ed up Friday night's two-hit shut out by George Storti with a four hif er Saturday night, and the Eugene Emeralds took another Northwest League baseball game from the Salem Senators, this- one by a 7-1 count Thus the Eugenens took a 2-0 lead in the series. The foes play a doubleheader, Sunday at 1:30 p.m. . Hodges was scored upon only in the fifth inning, and this tally tied the score at 1-1. But the Emeralds bounced away from the tie with : five runs in the fifth, knocking Bill Dials from the box, and this was the ball game. The Senators' lone run came via a single by Catcher Harvey Koepf, a sacrifice and a throwing error by Hodges. The league's leading hitter, Ron ny Jackson, paced the Eugene club at the plate. He had three hits, one a triple. Catcher Dick Hayes, subbing for Manager Cliff Dapper who was benched with a split finger, open-' ed the third for Eugene , with his first hit of the season, a single to left. Hodces was walked bv Dials and both runners held as Jackson flew out. But on a fly by Ted Hesse the runners ad vanced, and then - Hayes scored , when Granny Gladstone singled to " lett. . . After Salem tied it in the. fifth. Hodges again walked, Jackson sin gled, Hesse singled, Gladstone walked, which forced in a run. Ron King took over for Dials on the Salem mound, George Huff man was safe on an error bv Mel Krause, on which two runs scored, Hal Toso singled and Whitey Thomson flew out The five runs were more than enough. Hodges walked only one batter. King in the eighth. Eugene scored another run in the eighth when Hodges, a distinct pain to the Senators all night, doubled to center, Jackson singled ana Hesee new out to center. The win was the fourth straight for Hodges, who was with Vic toria last season. The loss was Dials' fifth, against three wins. The only Salem hits were by Koepf and Gene Tanselli, each with two singles. Jackson was of course Eugene's top batter in an eight-hit attack. Emerald-ized: Sales (1) ab Dunn m 4 Krause 3 4 Shields 1 4 Tanselli s 4 Steinagel r 4 Agosta 3 3 Koepf c 3 Traversi 1 2 Dials p 2 King p 9 (7) Xvgene r h ab r n O O Jackson , I 3 0 9 Hesse 1 3 19 0 0 Gladstn m 4 11 0 2 Romero r 3 19 9 Huffmn 3 3 9 9 0 0 Toso 1 4 0 2 1 2 Thmpsn s 4 9 0 0 Hayes e 4 1 1 9 0 Hodges p 2 2 1 0 0 1 4 Total 33 7 1 Total Salem Eugene 30 000 010 0001 4 1 001 050 Olz 7 t 1 ip ab h r er so bb Dial . 4x 17 S i 3 4 4 King . 4 IS 3,2 1 - f 1 Hodges t 9 30 4 1 0 7 1 Winner Hodges, Loser Dials. Left on base Salem 4. Eugene 8. Errors, Krause, Hodges. 3 base hits. Jackson. 2 base hits. Hodges. Rbi., Gladstone 2. Hesse, Romero, Hayes. Sh. Traversi Hesse (fly). DP Huffman, to Jackson to Toso. Umpires: Bergman and Bogle. Time 1:58- Attendances 1.900. Sizes mm