ellinger Wins NCAA Mile in 4:13.8
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EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1954
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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
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(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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.