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Newspaper Page Textellinger Wins NCAA Mile in 4:13.8 ORTS IAN COIlm j HOMC NT CLASSIFIED hONC EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1954 ilson itches of Braves No-Hitter ESS WORK HOT Big Jim Wilson wipes off some of the per Hion after posting his 2-0 no-hit, no-run triumph over the Helphia Phillies Saturday. It was only the second start of season for the Milwaukee Brave righthander. Nine years Wilson's major league career was jeopardized when he was i the head by a line drive while a member of the Boston Red Sox, lontrol Helps No-No Feat HVAUKEE W-Thcre's not to the old story that no- eball pitchers don't know going on. c, I knew it all the time," i Wilson said Saturdav n in the sweltering Mil Braves clubhouse after in the National League's -hitter in two years, a tory over Philadelphia. can't help but know it." na righthander, who faced men in disoosine of the said as he accepted con ons from his mates. Crandall, who caught Wil- ra me d2-ycar-oId veteran rowing "breaking stuff all loon." J the best control I've n," Crandall said. aHriinir Jctied exactly what I called just where I called for it." ey Burgess, Philadelphia i was the onlv man tn tret in the one hour 40 minute 'astest in loaeue this sea- , 'ho admitted he was "V not" but not tired in the TO temperature, was grad uated from Seaside, Ore., high school in 1939. His 24-11 record with Seattle in 1950 earned him his current trial in the major leagues. Two sparkling fielding plays and a touch of good luck helped Wilson to his near-perfect game. Eddie Mathews came up with a sharp stop of Willie Jones' hard ground ball leading off the game and threw the Phillies third base man out. In the eighth, with two out, Wy rostek lashed a drive back through the box which Wilson failed to touch as it went be tween his legs but Logan came up with it behind third base and made the putout at first. The real thriller, as a crowd of 28,218 gasped, came in the ninth with Wilson only one putout away from the no hitter. Jones on a three-two pitch blasted a line drive over third base. The ball landed inches outside the foul line. Crandall asked about the drive after the game shrugged: "Aw. I wasnt worried, ana then slumped over in a mock faint. Veteran Halts Phils By 2-0 Tally NATIONAL W L Pet. GI1L Brooklyn r 32 21 .601 New York 32 21 .fi04 Philadelphia 28 23 .54'J 3 Milwaukee 27 24 ,52f) 4 Cincinnati 26 26 .500 5', St. Louis 26 28 .481 6I2 Chicago 22 30 .423 9ft Pittsburgh 18 38 .321 15Vz GBL IGHCLIMBER By Dick Strife 'MAHA Oregon's Pacific Coast baseball reprcsenta MUM have beaten two or three of the other clubs in M-A.Y "World Seriei" hero hut the Wrhfnnts lust don't ! enough pitchine or nower to match the top teams in this 1 "inual playoff for the NCAA pennant. . . . Defensively Oregon could stack along Wltn the best and the Webfoots were certainly good enough to have beaten Massachusetts, a team that made four errors in one inning in losing to Michigan State. The Redmen didn't make the same" mistakes against Ore gon, and the Webfoots were the ones who could have won the second-round tilt had they played as well as against Ari zona. . . . Although Johnny Keller paced the team batting with a .333 average, George Shaw was the only member of the squad who showed real class in the field, running the bases and at the plate. Keller had three hits in nine tries, but the shortstop was guilty of one of the three Oregon errors. . . . Shaw hit .286, including a one-run triple, scored three runs and handled ten chances in the outnem without an error. He made one mistake on a fly ball that was Friday's Results: Cincinnati 5, Brooklyn 1. New York 5, Chicago 0. Milwaukee 2, Philadelphia (I. Pittsburgh 4, St. Louis 2. AMERICAN W I. Pet. Cleveland . 35 17 .673 Chicago 35 18 .660 'A New York 34 21 .618 2W uciroii 25 27 .481 10 Washington 22 30 .423 13 Baltimore 21 33 .389 15 Boston 19 30 .388 14 Philadelphia 19 34 .358 WA Friday's Results: New York 2, Chicago 0. Cleveland 4, Boston 3. Philadelphia 4, Detroit 2. Baltimore 7, Washington 3. By UNITED PRESS . Jim Wilson, a 32-year old "journeyman pitcher" who never has enjoyed a winning season in the major leagues, pitched a no-hit, no-run game Saturday to give the Mil waukee Braves a 2-0 triumph over trie fiuiaaelpriia Phil lies. Wilson, who didn't earn his first starting assignment of this season until last Sun day when he shut out the Pittsburgh Pirates, out- pitched Robin Roberts to achieve his masterpiece. It was the first major league no-hitter since Bobo Holloman of the St. Louis Browns pitched one in his first start May 6, 1953. Wilson's teammates rushed from the dugout to congratulate him and a crowd of 28,218 at Mil waukee give him a five-minute, standing ovation when the last Philadelphia batter was retired. In all, Wilson struck out six bat ters, walked two and faced only 28 hitters during the game. A week ago the mild-mannered vet eran of eight spotty big league campaigns probably could have been acquired for the $10,000 waiver price. Roberts, dropping his third con secutive decision, pitched a seven-hitter but two of the blows off him were homers by Johnny Logan and Del Crandall. It was the second straight shutout suf fered by the Phillies, who saw their ace right-hander's season record squared at seven victories and as many defeats. A native of San Diego, Calif.., Wilson reached the majors with the Boston Red Sox in 1945 and narrowly escaped a tragic end (Continued on Page 2-C) . (AP Wlrephoto) NCAA MILE CHAMPION Oregon's Bill Dellinger, shown at the finish of his standard winning kick in the NCAA mile race, became the Webfoot's sixth national champion Saturday when he clicked off the event in his best time of 4:13.8. Louis Olive, Army, is shown trailing in second place. Dellinger, an ex-Springfield prepper, is only the fourth Coast track athlete to win the NCAA mile championship in the 34-year history of the meet. Injury Almost Stopped Miler Oregon and Springfield's Bill Dellinger, who could possibly be come the first three-time mile champion in NCAA history, almost didn't run for the Webfoots this spring. The sturdy sophompre pulled a leg muscle before spring com petition got under way, and Coach Bill Bowerman seriously con sidered holding the distance ace out for a year so he would lose no eligibility. As a result, Dellinger missed the opening Willamette Relays meet. But Dellinger's determination to run plus Bowerman's belief that he was "too promising to hold back" combined to have the runner ready for the opening meet with Washington. And that proved to be the only time this year that Dellinger was defeated in the mile and the only time in the past three of prep, frosh and college com petition. He was edged by teammate Wayne Reiser at the tape, with both striding home cdmfortably in front. Dellinger then clicked off sev en consecutive triumphs, capped by Saturday's NCAA victory. This included wins against Wash ington State, Idaho, Oregon State, at the Vancouver Relays the Northern Division and PCC meets. His best time, prior to Satur day was 4:14.8 in the PCC action. His NCAA time of 4:13.8, was far from the record 4:03.8 set by Kansas' Wes Santee in 1953, but Dellinger still has lots of miles left in him. In Saturday's meet at Ann Arbor, Mich., the fleet flyer ran his typical race, resembling the style that made thoroughbreds Whirlaway and Native Dancer so famous. The two great racehorses had a habit of staying off the pace until the stretch and then poured it on to win with a thril ling finish. Saturday, Dellinger was dead last after the first lap and he moved up to 12th at the half-mile mark. He was still ninth after three spins, but turned on a blistering finish to nip Army's Louis Olive in the last two strides Dellinger earned foot blisters in addition to a blue ribbon for his efforts. It was so hot at Ann No Changes Likely in WIL SPOKANE (AV-Calgary and Edmonton apparently had won their fight Saturday night to stay in the Western Internation al Baseball League, but WIL dir ectors worked toward midnight ... tUn c n n L- ii n m-nhlrni Ull mv. "Ku"u - f ... A.U.. 1,. 1 i 11.. 1.11.1 Roy Hotchkiss, owner ot tnc "1""' "c isiuj '" "- Snokane club, said in a statement he can't afford to operate after Sunday, and also announced lie had turned down a $150,000 to sell. "It isn't near enough," he said. The directors of the 10-man class A circuit sat down at 11 a.m. Saturday to consider the financial troubles facing almost every club in the league, and were still at it 12 hours later. There wore demands that Cal gary and Edmonton be dropped hceause names there represent costly road trips the other clubs can't afford in view of poor at tendance. Gordon McFarlanc, business manager of the Calgary team, nd John Ducy, tne tamonton wnuldn t ers which may hamper mm Tuesday in the PCC Big Ten meet. The terrific heat also con tributed to the generally slow times in the NCAA meet. Lou Zamperini, running for USC in 1937 and 1938, is the only NCAA two-time mile champ, and Bill has a good chance to equal or better this with two years left. Washington's Bill Ri ser, who won in 1928, is the only other Coast NCAA mile cham pion. Dellinger's time Saturday is also the second best in Oregon history behind Ralph Hill's 4:12.2 of 1930. He becomes the sixth Webfoot to win an NCAA Imbros Wins Rich Purse INGLEWOOD, Calif. Wl Ken tucky Derby champion Deter mine took his first swing at the older horses Saturday and gave a fine account of himself, but it was left to his stablemate, Im bros, to lead him to the wire in the $121,400 Californian Stakes at Hollywood Park. The speedy Imbros tied the world record for a mile and one- sixteenth held by Count Fleet, as he beat the little gray dandy, Determine, by a little more than a length. Imbros was clocked at 1.41.00 in a wire to wire triumph. It was another big payday for Andrew J. Crevolin, a wealthy California automobile dealer, with his two Kentucky horses. Imbros picked up a net $75,300 for first place and Determine add ed $20,000 more for his second. GB 7 . m VA 8 HI i 11 Beavers Trip Rainiers 9-2 COAST LEAGUE W L Pet. Hollywood .-. 43 25 .632 Oakland 37 33 .529 Seattle 34 31 .523 San Francisco 36 33 .522 San Diego 35 33 .515 Seattle - 33 32 .508 Sacramento 32 36 .471 Los Angeles 28 38 .424 14 Portland 26 40 .394 16 Portland 25 41 .379 17 By UNITED PRESS Portland pitcher Bob Alexan der limited Seattle to two singles while his hit-happy Beaver team mates blasted out a 9-2 victory in Pacific Coast League baseball action Saturday night. In the other night contest, San Diego blanked Sacramento 8 0. In afternoon action," Hollywood toppled Los Angeles 8-6, while San Francisco downed Oakland 4-1. Alexander gave up both Seat tie runs in the second inning on three walks and Gene Bearden's single. The Beavers moved ahead for keeps with three tallies the fourth as Don Eggert doubled in one run, and Joe Rossi singled in another pair. Eddie hit a bases-empty homer for Portland in the seventh inn ing. B H E San Diego 120 113 000 8 16 1 Sacramento 000 000 000 0 3 1 Wight and Pocckay; Clotte, Gables (6) and Partee. Seattle 020 000 000 2 2 2 Portland 100 300 14x 9 13 0 Bearden, Wldmar (41, Klndsfathcr (8) & Ortelg; Alexander & Rossi. Hollywood 021 001 220 8 13 0 Los Angeles 000 100 040 5 11 1 Walsh, Main IS), Donoso (9) & Ma. lone; Molsan, Jones (8), Pyecha (9) & Pramesa. Oakland 000 000 001 1 10 1 San Francisco 010 110 lOx 4 8 0 Gettcl, Nicholas (8) Ic Neal; Chand ler & Donahue. USC Captures Crown, Oregon Finishes 10th ANN ARBOR, Mich. (VP) Southern California's power packed Trojans overwhelmed all their opposition Saturday to win their sixth straight NCAA Track and Field Cham pionship with 66 1720 points. Illinois, with three winners, was second with 31 1720 points, but the Illini didn't have the overall strength of the Trojans. California had 27 points, Michigan 17 35 and Purdue 17. Among Northern Division teams, Washington State placed ninth with 14, Oregon 10th with 12 and one winner, while Oregon State wound up in a four-way tie for 33rd place with four points. PCC champion Bill Dellinger of the Webfoots won the mile in 4:13.8, using his regular style of coming out of no where in the last 100 yards to overhaul Lew Olive of Army and Bill Squires of Notre Dame, Squires later was disquali- lied lor an intraction on the iirst Rollins Edges Spartans 5-4 OMAHA m Little Rollins Col lege moved into the fourth round of the NCAA college baseball world series Saturday night as the only undefeated team by whipping Michigan State 5-4 on Del Helms sharp single into right in the 9th inning. The same two teams will meet Sunday night in the double elimination tourney. Rollins had trailed from the first inning on until the last ditch rally in the 9th. Art Brophy pinch hitting started off the raHy by drawing a walk from Chuck Gorman. Ho was sacrificed to second and scored when Fred Talbot singled. Talbot took second on the throw in to the plate. Michigan then lifted Gorman in favor of sophomore star Ed Hobaugh. Hobaugh purposely passed Connie Butler, top hitter tor Koums who had gone hitless through the game. Helms then swung futilely at one pitch, watched another go by for a ball and then fired his game-winning single into right ueld. In the first tourney game Sat urday night, pitcher Tom Bor land sent a hard single into center field in the last of the 14th inning to give the Oklahoma Aggies a 5-4 victory over Arizo na. The defeat eliminated Arizona from the double elimination tourney and put Oklahoma A & M into the fourth round Sunday at 2 p.m. (CST) against Missouri Mich. Stats 200 002 O0O-" 8 Rollins 010 001 012 5 8 2 Gorman, Hobaugh (9) and Ycwctc Tauscher and Flnncgan. , R H E Missouri 010 411 100 a 12 1 Massachusetts -- 000 000 001 1 5 2 Cook and Glcason; Tarpey and Wisniewski. R H B Arizona .. 010 120 00O 000 0O1 9 1 Okla. A-M 101 020 000 000 015 14 S Rlncon. Thomas (4) and Z!vko vlch; Kinnamon, Borland (6) and Bunyard. Bolt, Mayfield Tie For Virginia Lead VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. UPI Shelley Mayfield, the handsome blond from Chicopee, Mass., shot a four-under-par 65 Saturday to tie Tommy Bolt of Houston, Tex., for the 54-hole lead in the $15,000 Virginia Beach Open Golf Tour riShlont. Mayfield and Bolt move into Sunday's final 18 holes with 194's, a new competitive record for the par 69 Cavalier Yacht and Coun try Club layout for 54 holes. turn and Lowell Zellers of Indi ana was awarded third place. The other Oregon points cam in the two mile when Wayna Riser captured a fifth place. Ki kuo Matyia of Wheaton, 111., a Japanese coached by Gil Dodds, won the event in a slow 9:22.7 by beating out Gene Matthews of Purdue at the tape. GARY GAINS POINTS Matthews had run 8:58.8 a week ago in the Central Collegiate meet. Iowa's Rich Ferguson, de fending two-mile champion, drop ped out of the race at the on and one-half mile mark. Sprinter Bob Gary picked up the W9C points with a second in the 220 and a third in the 100. Jerry Church accounted for Ore gon State's total when he threw the javelin 198' 314" for a fourth place. Coach Jess Mortensen's USC outfit was led by high-jumper Ernie Shclton, who missed three tries at the fabled seven-foot mark by ,a whisker, and Jim Lea, a Trojan from Seattle, who won the 440 for the second straight year. Shelton's winning mark was 6 feet 1014 inches, and an inch and a quarter under the world record of 6-1114, held by Walt Davis. But the dramatic moment of the two-day meet came when the of ficials raised the cross bar to seven feet. Three times Shelton tried and three times he barely ticked th bar. "I'll never make it now,"he said sadly later. He will get another try next week in the National AAU championships in St. Louis. LEA ROMPS TO WIN Lea ran just as he pleased to win the 440. He won in 46.7, just seven-tenths of a second off Herb McKenley's world record for th distance. Willie Williams, Willard Thom son, and Joe Corley, all scored victories for Illinois and all three gave impressive performances for the sweltering crowd of 8,000 at the University of Michigan's Fer ry Field. Williams was squarely on the spot in the 100-yard 'dash. He had been beaten twice in big meets this year by Dean Smith of Tex as. Iv.f Willie, tli' defending chart' ion, outncid all his op- Erf-iion to win in 9.7 seconds. I homson won the 120 high hur dles in 14.2 and Corley was the victor in the 2'u-yird low hur dles in 22.6, which equaled Joss Owen's field record. GOOD 880 TIME The expected assault on th world half-mile record failed to materialize. Slim Arnold Sowell of Pitt raced the distance in 1:50.5, to take the measure of (Continued on Page 2-C) High Gun Captures Belmont Stakes NEW YORK W - The King Ranch's High Gun outfought game little Fisherman in a tor rid stretch drive Saturday to capture the richest of all Belmont Stakes by a neck and give the state of Texas a one-third share of the turf's triple crown. Califor nia's Correlation finished out of the money. This 86th Belmont, run without the presehce of Kentucky Derby winner Determine and Preakness winner Hasty Rpad, was a real horse race all the way as the larg est field since 1887 fought for the record purse which grossed $125, 100. The crowd of 36,482 which turn ed out in 80-dcgree, humid weath er, established Correlation, owned by Robert S. Lytle of Los Angeles, the 17-10 favorite but for the third time in the triple crown scries (he lanky West Coaster couldn't title, the others heine Mack Rnh inson (220) in 1938, Bob Parke ''n tile job imiuuiflmnari JMlto) in I934, Les Steers. He was sixth in the derby and iht that thPv'(hiKh jump) ln 1847 and 1948. second president, said they ciropoui. inta Miii- " ' (hiRh jump) in 1947 and 1948. second in the Preakness last reports saturuaj mg..i Chuck Missfcldt (javelin) in 1951: month, both limes the favorite mo "" " . anri Emrrv Barnes (tie hiah LCWISlon, iuan, . .... k ana;' r' GEORGE SHAW In nlav at Calgary next W( reportedly will make the trip now although dead set against it earlier in the week. The Spokane Indians, wno set minor league attendance record in 1947 with 287,000, arc due to open in Edmonton Tuesday. Hotchkiss said they wouldn't, as far as he's concerned. Hotchkiss, who left the mcct- ino late Saturday afternoon ana Dellinger, a state cross country champion, moved to Springfield from Grants Pass in his sopho more year and promptly fin ished sixth in the state mile. In 1951, his junior year, he was fourth, and he closed out his High Gun, who missed both the Derby and Preakness was clock ed in 2:30.8 on a fast track, com pared with the stakes record of 2:28.2 set by Count Fleet in 1043 and equalled in 1948 by Citation. Jrish-bred Limelight, owned by Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Hoffman Jr., of Ventura, Calif., was third, five prep career in 1952 by winning! lengths back of Fisherman and individual honors at the state i three lengths ahead of the Green meet. He captured the mile in tree Stable's Palm Tree. 4:28.5, the 880 in 2:01, was Class The winner, who was coupled i Wveral Zl ' Dut manaKert ,t0 sna? onenan, ,u " ,?n m the ball park where Spo-lA individual high point man, as an entry with the King Ranch ih ,1.? nthe" extremely well and had one great throw went bju p. MmA ....,, (ha Vere Winrln0ln fillv RlveiW was the second - "irt, r it .fr .... , ,. .... .,,r .Mar in itfflnP 1M1-" oaimi, . -- .... wi , , ,;.n,.H .i nn v 4 k . troonv Bivcn to me urney, (Continued on Page 3 C) said he'll "lock up" after Sunday. champion. Kivcrina, was the second half-mile choice and returned $8.90, $4.20 and $3.30. (AP Wlrephoto) mr. in? C. V. Whltney'a Fisherman, ridden by Hedlcy Wnodhouse, to the finish tine in the 86th run ning of the Belmont Stakei, Saturday. High Gun won by a neck In this third of turfdom't triple crown.