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CRYSTAL BEACH, Oat Greta
Patterson, 14-year-old blonde
from Batavia, N.Y., grins hap
pily after completing a 15-mile
swim across Lake Erie from
Angola, N.Y, to Crystal Beach,
Ont She completed the swim
, in 13 hears and 3 minutes. (AT
, Wirephoto.)
Archers Plan
Bentl Tourney
Several Salem -archers will at
. tend the annual Oregon Bowhunt-
crs state championship field tour
nament to be held at Shevlon
Park in Bend Saturday and Sun
day. , ' . .
Signs will be posted in Bend
Co direct archers to' the course
and registration for the tourney
will close at noon Saturday at
the park. :
Shooting will begin at 1 p.m.
S'tiffday, continue through the
afternoon, then resume at 9 a.m.
Sunday. Trophies - will be pre
sented to winners following the
Sunday competition. - -
Among those attending from
Salem's Jabberwalkie Archery
Club will be Mr. and Mrs. Chuck
Anglin; Mr and Mrs. Robert
Norton; Mr. and Mrs, Nick Ben
nett; J. - J. Hauk, . and Keith
Mootry Jr. "K !
More Miles on River
Opened Up for. Fishing
PORTLAND W Twenty addi
tional miles of the West Fork of
the Millicoma River are open to
trout and salmon.
The State Fish Commission said
Wednesday a $26,000 fishway has
been completed to help fish over
Vaughan Falls in Coos County.
Golfers Paced
By Mrs. Giles
Mrs. Robert, Giles took top hon
ors in low putt competition of
the Oak Knoll Women's Golf As
sociation , Wednesday at Oak
Knoll.
ST. ANDREWS. Scotland
Three British professionals a Scot,
an Englishman and a Welshman
caught the Old Course of SL An
drews in a sunny, benign mood
Wednesday and took three strokes
off par for 69s in the opening round
of the British Open golf champion
ship. V
One of the three, Pai Rees Of
Wales, has been runner-up in the
last two British Opens.
Other 69s were shot by Syd Scott
of England and Eric Brown, a
former Scottish, fireman on a rail
way engine. Scott shared . second
place with Rees "and Bobby Locke
last year, when Australia's Pet
er -Thomson won.
The best shooter of five Ameri
cans was Ed Furgol of Clayton,
Mo., the 1934 United States Open
champion; who had 36-33 7L
Nelsra Hits
Three par 72s were shot by By
ron Nelson, s veteran Texan who is
on a sentimental journey to uie
home of golf; by Joe Conrad, San
Antonio, Tex., the British Amateur
champion; and by Jimmy McHale
of ' Philadelphia. Johnny Bulla of
Pittsburgh was high American with
a 75. -
bow MCHaja ana urnraa are n-i-:T: c:
amateurs and along with Scotland's ! Detroit Tigers 5lgn
A. M. M. Bucber lead the non-salaried
players. '
Just behind - the three lead
ers, with steady 70s were British
pros Henry Cotton. Bernard Hunt,
Frank Jowle," and Cecile Denny,
all of England ; Denis . Smalldon,
Wales, and Ian Martin, Scotland.
Low Qualifier
Jowle was low qualifier and the
man who shot the New Course in
63 on Monday.
Bracketed among - the 71s
along with Furgol and 10 others
was Thomson, the defending cham
pion. The tournament continues with
another 18-hole round Thursday.
After that trip round the 6,936 yard
hole course the field will be shaved
to a maximum of 50. Survivors wil
play two -rounds Friday, bringing
to a close the 85th British Open.
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VS. Open Champion Demonstrates Lbii
St. Paul Open Set
To Kick-Off Today
ST. PAUL. Minn. The long.
range sluggers of goirs money
wheel wade into four days of un
shackled blasting in the $15,000
St Paul Open starting Thursday
at Keller Course. ,
No needle-eye accuracy off the
tees win be needed this week at
the 6,600 yard public links, which
required four months of ingenious
Pa
the greens and nine holes were
played. Mrs. Giles scored a 15.
Second was Mrs. Elmo Bennett
with an 18; third, Mrs. Ted Kerr
with a 19. ' i . '
Today, Oak Knoll ladies are to !
travel to the Woodburn Golf
Course to play there with the
Woodburn women. Some 18 to
20 Oak Knoll ladies are expected
to be on hand for the 9 a.m. tee
off. Next Thursday, j Woodburn
women" "will travel to! Oak Knoll
for a game there with Oak Knoll
women.
Determined Linksman
TACOMA " W- Wilson F. Wil
ton is a determined man where
golf is concerned.
Last January he slipped walking
down the elevated 14th green at
the Brookdale course ' here and
broke his back.'
This week, wearing a brace, Wil
son returned to the Brookdale lay
out for the first tune since his ac
cident and used a six' iron to dunk
hole in one on the 130-yard 15th
bole.
GOLFERS TO PLAY
PORTLAND UFi VThree Portland
golfers Roy Atkins, " Bob Parry
and Gene Maidmont wfll play in
the National Public Links tourna
ment opening July 11 at Indiana
polis.
Walet Grabs
Sailboat Win
PORT TOWNSEND. Wash. trV
Eugene Walet, 20-year-old New
Orleans, La., skipper, outran the
field in four out of five scheduled
races Tuesday and Wednesday to
win the Dragon Class Olympic
Games sailboat trials.
Walet amassed 3,715 points in the
first four heats of the race for the
29-foot racing sailboats and the
fifth heat was called off. Judges
said he couldn't be beaten by runner-up
P.S.. Padelford of Seattle
even if he sank. Padelford had 2,
460 points. ;
Walet took three firsts and a
second in the four beats in Port
Townsend Bay. He wfll represent
the United States in the Olympic
Games races at 'Melbourne, Aus
traliajjext year. ,
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Team'Backed
, NEW YORK W Harry Hop
man Wednesday figured the Aus
tralian Davis Cup team is an even
bet against the United States right
now and might even have an edge
by the time the challenge round
is held at Forest Hills, Aug. 25-28.
The Australian team captain
bases bis optimism xn a "much
more relaxed and settled" Lew
Hoad and a couple of new doubles
combinations including the win
ning team at Wimbledon in Hoad
and Rex Hartwig. The other team
is made up of Ken Rosewall and
Neale Fraser.
. Hop man spoke freely at a press
conference for the Australian team
and Bfll Talbert, the U.S. captain.
Hopman arrived from London
Wednesday with Hartwig to join
his other players, RosewaH, Fras
er and Ashley Cooper. Hoad will
fly directly from London to Chi
cago in a few days, said Hopman.
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outdoor sports, says OBC, if you'll common sense
and courtesy, , .
Ex-Baltimore Pitcher
DETROIT n The Detroit Tig
ers Wednesday signed righthander
Joe Coleman, recently released by
the Baltimore Orioles. ;
Coleman had an 0-1 record with
the Orioles and had been hampered
by arm trouble.
in respectable bounds.
Scorched by the sun for three
weeks, Keller's rough has been re
duced to harmless stubble, no prob
lem at all for pro golf's muscle-
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More Amiable
The conditions promised to make
Keller's par 72 even more amiable
than usual and automatically made j
title threats of such maulers as;
Mike Souchak, the season's lead
ing money winner, Sam Snead,
George Bayer and others.
Grouped with them as firm con
tenders were Tommy Bolt, Dow
Finsterwald. winner of the British
Columbia Open last week, Billy
Maxwell, Bob Rosburg, Bud Holsch-
er, Doug Ford and former Nation
al Open champion Julius Boros.
Many of the pros were predict
ing a winning 72-hole total of 263,
or 20 under par. The course record
of 266 shared by Lloyd Mangrum
and Cary Middlecoff was consid
ered within reach. .
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MILWAlKEE, Wis Jack Fleck, the new U.S. Open champion.
demonstrates the long iron technique which he considers one of
the strong points of his game. Straight left arm, pivot, weight
shift and high, wide follow through with a "number two Iron are
illustrated in this sequence camera series by AP Photographer John
Lindsay. Fleck is to play in the Milwaukee Open here soon.
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