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IrrfftMl Foil irnes Triumph r AAU Meet 1 )ucks Also Cop ' 80, Mile, 440 a ihtlAND University of irefon track stars shared the ooflight here with Stanford's Bob I-lias in the open division of I Northwest AAU track and , i meet held here Saturday fttnoon and evening. told seven Oregon harriers j Id first in their events, while aid Oregon graduates captured p Jionors in me uiunu jump arm wolmile run. Oregon swept the 880 with Jack utthins, Al Martin and Wayne ellr taking all three places, iifing time was 1:55. : cfll'CK MISSFELDT set a new .oJline mark in the college finals fill a 218 foot 2 inch throw. Miss U ;'s toss bettered his previous ta rd of 204 leet H inches set 1 1 )51. Bob Hall, Willamette, was hi nd with a 200 foot 8 inch irjw. finery Barnes, Oregon high jnfoer and PCC co-title holder, lirsl in nis went, ma uchl was 6 feet 2 inches. Don Jimipson, OSC, was second. 11 Fell, fully recovered from pulled thigh muscle that kept from competing in tne norm Division and PCC meets, won 100 vard dash in 9.8. Merv tk, OSC, was second and Galey Sv, Lewis and uiaric, was tnira. LL CAME in second to Brock the 220, the Beaver dashman daiing the sprint in 21.9 seconds, tartin, Oregon, won tne mile a time of 4:23, and Ted An- etlon won the 440-yard dash in I Amninf unattached, Pete Mun- tt former Oregon distance man, Ithe two mile grind in 9:59.3 tes, and Don Pickens broad ed 21 feet inch to win event. Hon Schoesler, Whit nalh, was second with a 20 foot lich leap. I a the high school division Al I Martin Pedigo of Hermiston led in a great day. Al won the i vault at 12 feet, while Mar ivon the broad jump with a 21 8 inch leap; the 220 in 23.3; the 100 yard dash in 10 sec flat. athias broke meet records in high hurdles and discus, and red in only four events, win ; three and placing second in fourth. He won the 220-yard hurdles with a time of 24.3, lob Mathias of Stanford, de- Ion titlist in the 1948 Olym- , ' set a new Northwest AAU us record with ' 161 foot 1 throw. The previous mark 158 feet 5 inches set by Bob nan of Oregon State in 1946 atnias' record throw- came ng qualifying action Saturday irnoon. athias also set a new record he 120-yard high hardies with K.4 second sprint. That broke old mark of :15.2 set in 1951 Walter Muirhead, Portland, UANE EBY, OSC, threw the t 50 feet, WA inches to win, hias was second. wo records were tied in the nr division. Allen Leinen of sboro ran the 70-vard hiih Biles in 9.5 seconds and Julkus ng, Portland, ran the 100-yard i in 1U.J seconds. raver Campbell of Portland nigh individual winner of the moon events. He won three or division finals the 180- l dash, the high Jumn and the pa jump. I ko Cal Men in In IC4A NDALLS ISLAND, N. Y. -J-nCK IViainppn nf Ww Vnrlr I'ersity successfully Hofonrt.rf 440-yard title, Bob Allison of y set a new meet record in javelin throw, and two Cali- lans srnrpH cit.n-la .14M Saturday intheIC4A track and i-uauipionsnips. mhattan Cnllnro M,ht.k ..mn IC4A indoor chammonshln six .i.mi,jr Won an outdoor uuc nv amnscmff tntnl . bfwints. siocco, one of the nation's top i-.uc,5 ior tne Olympic 400 Pr cnamoinnshin mr t. th. I' as the field swept amound . iuin ana won tne 440- "ni in 47.B seconds, "son, rated the kt wer ever riewlrmi i. k . . ,v w meet marlt of 225 - ' nicnes. ;'i'ornia's surprise winners Jack George in the 100-yard H.'u ""me Spurrier in the Bard run. Renr.. ..... rrnn Liuuncu 9 seconds as he led Manhat- I four rra.k ... i. i- I aMiniers to tne n line. W;.. IaV. v ... 1 won a turious ptty Berg ping Pace ARTSDAr.p xr i, T , "'"won ratty Berg shot la, 7, over men's par, to lead IaSt lei? nf 4V,. 4 ' .. ton', 7 """sconunentai but S ' tourn'nent Satur- h.u i ' "awls of Austin, Mnnn ?-Te ,troke ede ,or HMO first priZe. tourn' 18 h'eS 0t th klav . Wla Be Played K atT' 4 th? Deep Dale F -. ecK, N. Y. A "nt ,.7,u i "ew York tour J ,h tournwnont sh.mpion, Beavers Edge Trojans 5-4 for PCC Crown CLASSIFIED SPORTS SECTION B LANS COUNlTf'S HOME NtWSPAPtK, EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1952 PAGE 13 6- , , : . mmMx-ii - . . ' . . . . . , 'VJ 4WW Goodbrod Bats in Winning Run In Last Half of Ninth Inning By DICK STRITE lUclitvr-aawd SBtrfa WrtUr COLEMAN FIELD, Corvallis Centerfielder Pete Good brod dropped a rainbow single over third base to score) Catcher John Thomas from third and manufacture a 5-4 baseball victory for Oregon State over USC. The 1952 Pa- cific Coast Conference pennant goes to the .beavers, who won the opener 12-10 here Friday. A crowd of 3DUU sat under threatening sKies ana occasional raindrops to watch the Beavers become the second Northern Division club in the six-year history of the playoff and avenge the 2-1 series loss suffered at the hands of the Tro jans in Los Angeles last spring. HIGHCLIMBER By DICK STRITE ir Highclimber! An unusual and unique, name for a sports column. Long-time residents of this area have become accustomed to the name, but newcomers have asked time and time again, "why the name?" Some months ago we did several "research" jobs and one of them was to find the origin of this column and also the origin of the logging terminology. . . , In the February 28, 1930 edition of this paper there appeared the very first Highclimber, edited by Sid King, former city editor, state highway travel publicist, Oregon motorassocation aid and now an assistant to Mayor Dorothy McCuliough Lee of Portland. . . . Accord ing to Sid, he and Bill Tugman, then and still editor of this paper, talked over the idea of having a byline sports column and Tugman suggested the name because a highclimber i synonymous with our timber country and the daring young fellow atop the spar tree who is capable of "looking 'em over" as a sports writer looking over his field. It was a symbol a that has stuck these 22 years. . . i sid's iirsi column was on professional wrestling and the inaugural appeared about a week after the arrival of Clarence "Doc" Spears as Oregon football coach. . . Stewart Holbrook established the origination of the highclimber in his book, "Holy Old Mackinaw" and in the chapter titled "Around the Barrel Stoves" we find, the following: Arguments as to who was the first highclimber to top a spar tree in the west have been going on for 30 years and the question will never be settled. Many hold it to have been an unnamed Fin nish sailor whom Merrill & Ring brought from Seattle to their Sno homish camp to do the job. . , . "That wa about 1902. The Finn topped the tree, all right, but that. rriBht he tnnk aboard too much 'Acquavit', proffered by the hospitable loggers, and disappeared, probably returning to Seattle. , . , "Now that the tree was topped, somebody had to climb it and hang the Block and rigging. Ben "Red" Illige, a young logger, vol unteered to do the job. He 'dressed' the tree and right then and there was the camp's official highclimber at the staggering wage of six dollars a day. (In the 1920's highclimbers were paid as much as $15 a day). He may well have been the first of his kind in the north west, although there have been a dozen claimants to the honor." fHiffhclimbers now make about $23 a day, wnicn is consiaeramy higher than the preesnt wage scale of Highclimber writers). Following King, others who have edited this column have been Roy Craft, now with a film outfit in Hollywood; Dick Johnston, presently an assistant editor for Life magazine; Malcolm Bauer, associate editor of The Oregonian; Bill Phlpps, doing public relations work in either New Zealand or Australia, and Ned Simpson, now a colonel In the U. S. Army. ... We have written some 3750 of these columns during the past 15 years following a couple of years "prepping" at the old Eugene Morning News. if Paul Johnston, director of athletics and physical educa tion for the Springfield schools, gave us a "Cook's tour" of the new Springfield High athletic field and stadium, now under con struction. . . . Present plans call for a 3000-seat concrete stadium, a fine turf football field, and a 10-Iane track and battery of pits, etc., for field events. ... As we mentioned to Paul, it seems a" shame, from the spectators' standpoint, that separate track and grid units cannot be built giving the fans a closer and mucn Detter view oi the football playing field. . . . Even so it is going to be superb lay out and Johnston has gone to great pains in seeking the advice of aXntiau4 M page lit ltllli: . . f- , Photos by HIse Studioi, Corvallla. Wiltshire Engravings) FIRST RUN. IN THE FCC baseball playoff at Corvallis with OSC beating USC two straight for the title, was scored by Shortstop Chuck Fisk of OSC in the opening game of the series, won 12-10 by the Beavers. OSC won the second game 5-4. Fisk, who had tripled, scored behind Danny Johnston's single. Batboy Billy Van Balin got into the play, partially blocking out a camera view of Catcher Lou Bishara. Fisk, the key man for the Beavers, also was in another action shot of the game, sliding into third after he had stretched a sixth-inniwr single Into a double and advanced when the outfield er tossed to second rather than third. Shortstop Hal Charnofsky of USC Is shown relaying the throw toward Thlrdbaseman Gary Killingsworth. imS. HI S STEWART HOLBROOK Hiffhclimber Origin Beavers Upset Padres, 9-0 COAST LEAGUE San Diego Hollywood - -nnkland . Los Angeles San Francisco - Portland Sacramento Seattle L 22 26 26 29 32 32 3S 24 Pet. .639 .559 .352 .50B .467 .439 .417 .414 SAN DIEGO (U.R) The Port land Beavers upset the league leading San Diego Padres 9-0 Sat urday by stretching two big in nings into their total score for their second win of the Pacific Coast League series. si Portland 004 005 000 13 1 San Diego -000 000 0000 6 3 Lint and Gladd; Olson. Dollaghan (3) and Sommers. Angels 8, Seals 6 SAN FRANCISCO (P) Catcher Less Peden's three-run homer in the seventh capped Los Angeles' come-from-behind vic tory over San Francisco Saturday as the Angels won, 8-6, before 1, 380 fans, R ft E Los Angeles ... 000 022 301 S 15 1 San Francisco .210 000 1028 12 1 Baczewski and Peden: Reeder, Zidioh (7), Clough (9) and Ortelg. Stars 8, Oaks 0 HOLLYWOOD (U.R) The Hol lywood Stars replaced Oakland in the number two spot of the Pa cific Coast League Saturday as they trounced the Acorns 8-0. BE Oakland 000 000 0000 5 2 Pirates, Chisox Win Major Games 17 18 13 10 -25 22 21 L 10 10 IS 20 20 22 22 L 17 17 17 17 19 24 19 . 25 Pet .730 .722 .590 .487 .450 .450 .371 .233 Pel .595 .564 .553 .514 .537 2'.1 .455 S .441 6 .324 10!4 10 10V4 13 20 GB NATIONAL New York Brooklyn - Chicago - Cincinnati Philadelphia St. Louis Boston Pittsburgh AMERICAN Cleveland - . Boston - Washington - . New York 18 Chicago 22 St. Louis 20 Philadelphia 15 Detroit . 12 Combined Wire Services NEW YORK (U.R) Sam Mele, who couldn"t find the range with the Red Sox, personally lowered the boom on Boston with a pair of resounding home runs Satur day that helped the climbing Chi cago White Sox to a 7-3 victory over his one-time teammates. Mele, originally discovered by the Red Sox, blasted his fifth Homer of the season in the fourth Skyline Eight Tightens Rules DENVER (U.R) The Skyline Eight Conference Saturday night Hollywood 1103 0OO 04X-8 9 "". Gcttel, La. (St and Neal: Woods and code banishing the athletic schol arship as such and imposing Rainiers 5, Sacs 3 SACRAMENTO, Calif., OI.RV- Last place Seattle scored four runs in the third inning Saturday night, then depended upon southpaw Jim on recruiting stern hand coaches. Tho new code, a powerful de emphasis on sports, was described as "history-making" by Confer- trouble in the ninth inning and post a 5-3 victory over Sacramen to. SSI Seattle 004 000 001 S 15 0 Sacramento 100 000 002 3 7 1 Davis and B- Wilson; Elliott, Pallet (7), Barelew (9) and McKeegan. Davis to pitch his way out of ?"0' Commissioner E. L. "Dick" numeny ana pernaps tnw must comprehensive yet drawn" by the college presidents who drew it up. The code abolishes, as such, the "athletic scholarship" and the "grant-in-aid," which in the past have been awarded to youths with outstanding athletic ability. Henceforth, such awards will be given only for "demonstrated ao ademic ability." In addition, such scholarships and grants-in-aid will, after the freshman year, be either on a se mester or quarter basis and kept in effect with a grade average of at least "C " or better. This action eliminates a full year of free schooling in return for playing football for one quarter. The code specifies that ns coach or official school representative shall solicit attendance at his in stitution of any prospective stu dent with an offer of financial aid off fnjutvtlaat toduewMctaV Necciai Hero Again .. .. BURLINGTON, N. C. OP) Rocket Ron Neoclai, yearling strikeout specialist, made a highly successful Claaa B base ball debut In a relief role Sat urday night aa he earner credit for Burlington - Graham's 10-9 win over Reidsville. Necciai entered the game In the seventh inning, fanned sev en, allowed three hits and bat ted in the winning run in the ninth inning. The Pittsburgh Pirates, minor league strlkout artist arrived here only Friday night. . frame and then hammered his sixth round trip wallop in the sixth. While Mele was busy bombing Boston, White Sox pitcher Marv Grissom, A 34-year-old Pacific Coast League import, struck out eight batters, allowed only five hits, including Walt Dropo's hom er, and gained his second triumph of the year. CHICAGO CLUBBED Ray Scarborough, Randy Gumpert, Ivan Delock and Bill Wight for a total of 12 hits, including four singles by Chico Carrasquell and a double and two singles By fleuie Fox. The Pittsburgh Pirates defeat ed the Philadelphia Phillies, 5-3 in the Majors' only other day game. LEFTY JOE MUIR, who balked at being sent to the Minors, gained credit for his second victory. Muir was forced to leave after five inn ings because of a blister on his pitching hand. Forrest Main fin ished up. Willie Jones provided the Phils with a 2-0 lead when he homered in the third with Connie Ryan on base. The Pirates took the lead for keeps with three in the fifth against Lou Possehl. Three hits and a walk did the trick. Tne Hues added another run in the sixth and sewed . it up in the seventh when Ralph Kiner smashed his sixth home run of the season. NATIONAL LEAGUE Philadelphia 001 00 1003 4 3 Pittsburgh . 000 031 10X 5 10 I fosseni. Konsianiy 'ni. nansen n, Rlrizik 4R1 and Burgess: Muir. Main (6) and Garaglola. Cincinnati at Chicago, postponed, AMERICAN LEAOUE Chicago J 000 1 05 0107 1 2 0 Boston .. 000 020 100 3 8 1 Grissom at Lollar: Scarborough. Gum- per 161, Delock 101, Wight (0), Wllber. Cleveland at New York, postponed. Detroit at Washington, postponed. SU Louis at Philadelphia, postponed. Coach Ralph Coleman's Orange men now play for the right to en ter the NCAA "world series" at Omaha and will meet either Fres no State or Seattle University in a three-game series here, starting next Friday. The PCC winner has always done well in the NCAA, California and USC winning the national championships the first two years, followed vby USC's third-place team in 1949, WSC's runnerup club in 1950 and the third-place finish for USC last season. Had OSC failed to deliver in the last of the ninth here Saturday and USC had managed to win in extra innings, a "rubber" game would have been necessary 1 which has been the case in two previous PCC playoffs. NORB WELLMAN. a big right hander sophomore from Mt. Angel with lots of poise, won his fourth game against one defeat in con ference play going the route de spite a three-run, four-hit barrage by the men of Troy in the eighth inning. Jack Schlarb, veteran righthander who chews plug as well as he throws a baseball, gave Wellman quite a mound battle until he was lifted for a pinch hit ter in the seventh. The previous inning the Beavers had clipped him for three hits and as many runs in breaking a 1-1 deadlock. After the Trojans had tagged Wellman for three runs in the eighth for a 4-4 tie, Wellman looked stronger, and in the ninth set down the top of the batting order 1-2-3, OSC had a chance to break the tie in the bottom of the eighth when Dave Cesca opened the inn' ing by walking Chuck Fisk, who advanced on Danny Johnston's sacrifice bunt. Jay Dean gained first on an error at short. Dwane Helbig, who had previously walk. ed three straight times, smashed a liner to Thlrdbaseman John Stevenson, who doubled Fisk off second to end the threat and the inning. It was USC's third double play all started on line drives, Bud Shirtcliff, who had gone hitlesL in the series after hitting .667 in the 1951 USC series, open ed the last of the ninth with a hit to right-center a good double. Either ho over-estimated his prowess or the thirdbaso coach made a mistake because the po tential winning run was cut off at third bya fine fielding effort by rightfielder Warner Boone and sterling relay by Hal Charnofsky. WITH ONE AWAY, John Thomas rapped a single through short. Tom Lovrich, losing hurler Friday, took over for Cesca and promptly hit Cub Houck. Both ad vanced when Wellman bounced a grounded to the mound for the second out. It was then that Good brod, a lefthanded hitter, looped one over third with Thomas scoring from third with ease for the winning run and the cham pionship. USC broke the scoring ice in tho top of the fourth when Hal Char nesky hit to right and the ball rolled for a triple after Shirtcliff failed on an attempted shoestring catch. An infield single to short by Boone brought in the run. In the bottom of the fourth, Fisk opened by stretching a Texas-leaguer to a double. He went to third after Dean's centerfield out and scored on Schlarb's wild pitch. The three OSC runs in tho sixth came when Goodbrod led off by beating out a bunt down the third base line. Fisk's second double sent the runner to third. After Johnston had fanned Schlarb's seventh strikeout Dean slashed a triple down the firstbase line to score both runners. Helbig was given an intentional walk and then Shirtcliff flied out to left. Dean came home after the catch, but Stevenson, who was then playing left field, rifled perfectly to the plate. Dean crashed into Catcher Lou Bishara, who drop ped the ball for the only unearned run of the ball game. Fresno State Pastes Seattle FRESNO, CALIF OP) Fresno Stat? lambasted Seattle Univer sity 20-4 Saturday to earn the right to meet Oregon State next weekend in West Coast playoffs for the NCAA collegiate world series at Omaha. OSC downed Southern Califor nia 5-4 at Corvallis Saturday to win the Pacific Coast Confer ence ohamplonship In two straight games. Fresh fiom a 2-1 win over the Chieftains Friday night in the first game of a best two-out-of-three series, Fresna State out hit, outpitched and outflelded their hapless rivals Saturday. Four Seattle pitchers inducing basketball ace Johnny O Btien, who went in twice walked 15 men and gave up 15 hits. O'Brien was the only Seattle ' player getting two hits a dou ble and a single. ' The winner had scoring drives of four runs each In the first two innings off Seattle starter Bob Ward and reliever John ' O'Brien. The big Fresno inn ing came in the seventh when Shortstop Bob Donkersley trip led to score two runners, and pinch - hitter Bob Johnson smacked a homer over the right field fence for two more runs. Llnescore: gealtla 004 000 000 4 8 1 Fresno 440-010 74x 0 IB 6 Ward, I. O'Brien It), Msnea (3). J. O'Brien (8) and Clark. Garay (3)1 Wil lis. Warren (3), T. Clevenger S and Bennett, B. Clevenger (8). THE USC EIGHTH and OSCJ ninth-inning scoring followed. Fisk can be tabbed as the real hero for the Beavers, although ha failed to charge the ball on several grounders Saturday, A fine jump ing catch of Hal Charnofsky's lin er in the fifth with men on sec ond and third and two out was an extremely vital play. He also started three double plays in Fri day's game and hit a cool .625 for the two games to bring his FCC batting average to .488. Hal Char nofsky, USC shortstop who cams here with a .409 average and ths Southern Division batting crown, dropped to .395 with a three-for-ten performance. The Charnofsky twins (Stan plays second) com pleted their 23rd and 24th double plays of the season Saturday and proved themselves top-flight ball players. Behind Fisk, Helbig held his season's average to .417. Goodbrdd had a .400 average for the Bea vers. Don Herman hit .800 in tha series for USC, Boono .600. and Stan Charnosky .455. Box score: use (4 AB stavenson. if-s s a. unarnorsKy, a . H. nhamntskv. as . Klllingsw'th, 3, 1 4 Boone, rf 4 Lamont. 1 .' 4 Zimmerman. It ft Bishara, c . 4 Hertel. ot 2 Simpson, of 2 Schlard. p 1 Herman - . 0 Cesca. p 1 Louricn, b o B H n 9 I'! 1 I 0 0 0 0 P 4 s Totals 37 ( Two outa when winning run i (') Walked tor Schlarb In 7th. nsc m ab Goodbrod, of . 5 FlSk. SS 3 Johnston, 3 - 3 Dean. 3 . 3 Helbig. M 1 Shlrlcllfr. rf 8 Thomas, o 4 HoueK, 3 1 Wellman, 9 4 H PO 3 2 3 1 0 1 1 9 0 2 1 ? 0 0 0 0 Totuli .-.-.a7 ft 7 t I vsc OSC . 1)00 100 0304 000 103 0015 RBI Boone 2. Lamont. Bishara, Good brod. Dean 2. 2B Kill inns worth, Fisk 2. 3B H. Charnofsky, Boone, Lamont, DcAn. Sac Shirtcliff, Johnston. SH Boone, S. Charnofsky, DP H. Charnofsky, S. Char nofsky, Lamont, Stevenson, Lamont. LOR USC ft, OSC 8. ER USC 4. QSC 4. Runs, hita off 4 and 4 off Schlarb In 6 innlnRs: 1 and 3 off Cenca In 2'i, 0 and 1 oft Lourieh In 'a. Loser Cesca. Struck out, by Schlarb 7. by Wellman 7. Walks oft Schlarb 8, Seca 3, Wellman 2. HPS Houck by Lovrich. WP-Schlarb. Um pires Archie Campbell, plate; Jack Pnw ell, 1st base; Ken Wetitover. 3rd bate. Time t:0B. Attendance 3500, Connelly Wins Title SURBITON, England, (U.RV women's tennis champion, com pleted her first European tourna ment Saturday by rallying twice to defeat her California team mate, Pat Todd, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, in the finals of the Surrey Grass court championship. Mrs. Todd, a veteran campaig ner, appeared ready to hand the San Diego lass her first defeat abroad when she took a 5-1 lead in the first set. But Miss Connol ly once more pulled out the deep court smashes that won her the U. S, title at Forest HiUt. M. Y.. iet SsOftMfabM, DID YOU KNOW That last Saturday during tho PCC track meet here in Eugene a new American college record was set in the Discus 183' SV4". In the same meet in 1926 one new national record was also aet. In what now, would be a rather commonplace Jump, a new pole rault record wai set at 13' 8". DID YOU KNOW With Farmers Insurance you ean pay for your FIRE INSURANCE ONE YEAR AT A TIME and have a standard form, non-assessable policy on a "continuous" basis like life insurance. Why pay more? Investigate. No obligation. See . . . , GEORGE B. SCHWIEGER, JR. AGENT 882 Pearl St. 4-5269 feM "jijyjf1
