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Wolves Hope For at Large NCAA Berth n "N p,V TH sPeucia')-Coach Bob Livingston's win-happy Oregon College baseba team nine t ,7.i,.. Capital Journal, Tues;, May 14, 1957, Sec. 2, Page ai 'i 'Form' Claims Tornado Tops Grappler In State Track this week with games against Portland State, today, and Port land University, Wednesday and Thursday, but the Wolves n0t i ?re their gear in motn balls this week, however. the Wolves are entertaining thoughts of an at-large berth in he District 8 NCAA baseball playoffs. And there's some justification for the merry thoughts. Livingston's crew, winner of 16 out of 23 contests this sea ton, has the best win-loss record of any small college team in ' : the state. The NCAA has in past f . "It f i years tendered at large berths to iianan racing Still in Doubt After Mishap ROME ui The probability loomed today that all open road automobile racing including the Mille Miglia, "the race of blood and 7,000 curves" would be pro hibited in Italy. A mounting wave of indignation was sweeping the country. Politicians, newspapers and the man in the street still were ta k- ing about the tragic accident in Sunday's Mille Miglia which took 13 lives and brought the toll of tne race to 29 dead and 30 injured in two years. While the Italian government studied what action to take, the annual Sardinian International Trophy Race, scheduled for May 26, was called off. In Sundays race, Spanish sportsman Alphonso De Portago, who has spqit his life flirting with death, was killed along with Ed mund Nelson, his American co pilot, when their Ferrari blew a tire and smashed into a crowd, injuring 10 persons fatally. They were in third place at the time. Another driver was killed in a separate accident. Newspapers throughout Europe appealed for an "end to this mass homicide," and half a dozen Ital ian deputies and senators said they would propose parliamentary law prohibiting future races on open roads. Families of spectators killed in the crash sent telegrams to Rome urging the government, to ban the race. $40,100 Pot Told for PGA CLEARWATER, Fla. MV-A pot of $40,100 will be distributed among leaders in the Professional Golfers Assn. championship tour nament this summer. Harry Moffitt, PGA president said Monday the prize money has been boosted by 65 per cent over the $24,600 awarded last year. Winner of the PGA event at the Miami Valley Golf and Country Club, Dayton, Ohio, July 17-21, will get $8,000, with $5,000 to sec ond, $3,500 for third, $3,000 fourth and $2,500 fifth. strong small college nines. The Willamette Bearcats represented uregon in 1955. TELEGRAM FROM USC OCE received a telegram from Don Richman, USC Athletic Pub licity Director, last week, asking lor miormation on the Wolves season record and standout in dividual players. OCE officials were inclined to think the query indicated that the Wolves were being considered for an at-!arge Derth, although the closest Rich- man's telegram came to inferring this was saying the information was needed for an "NCAA base ball roundup. The PSC game Tuesday will be the final Oregon Collegiate Confer ence game of the season for the Wolves, who have already clinched the title with a 9-1 mark. The Viks, who split an earlier series with the Wolves, have a 7-4 mark and can finish no higher than third. The Portland U games, Wednes day at Portland and Thursday at Monmouth, will mark the first meeting of the year between the Wolves and Pilots. PITCHERS LISTED Livingston's starting pitchers for the week's baseball activity will probably be Dwaine Brandt, Ted Owens and Kelly Hoy. This threesome has been the mainstay of the Wolfpack mound staff all season, with Brandt being the real "bread and butter" hurler on a 7-1 record. A hot professional baseball pros pect, Brandt has compiled a stingy 1.24 earned run average in h5 innings. The stylish lefthander, who pitched two seasons at Pacific Lutheran College before transfer ring to OCE wlien his family moved to Monmouth, has tossed seven complete games this jeason. His only loss was to Oregon State when two unearned runs gave the Beavers a 3-1 decision. Leading hitter for the Wolves is catcher Barry Adams, and it is his big bat that the Portland col leges will have to tame this week if they want to coDar the Wolves, Adams is batting at a .395 clip, with one-third of his 34 hits being for extra bases. OCE statistics: HITTING An n II Ave Barry Adams, c 86 20 34 .395 Dean Sorenson, ss ..... 54 8 17 .315 Wally Ramsey, If 60 17 18 .300 Wayne Osborn, lb . ... 64 8 19 .294 Dwaine Brandt, p-of 74 19 21 .284 Ron McKichan, rf 46 11 13 .283 Darol Woolsey. 2b ..... 70 14 19 .271 Ed Zurfluch, 36 78 10 19 .244 Ted Owens, p-of 45 6 10 .222 Larry Buss, cl 47 9 10 .213 Oregon State's John Witte will make his last local wres tling appearance here, to night, when he teams up with Luther Lindscy in a semifinal team match at the Armory. They will meet Don Kindred and Bull Mon tana., Bill Savage and Lulgi Macera are in the main event, Ed Francis and Jack Bence meet in a special $200 purse match, while the Her bie Freeman-Karl Gray match opens the action. Yamhill Tops Dayton, 16-2, Hopes for Tie YAWAMA LEAGUE W Philomath Banks S Yamhill Sheridan ...... 4 Willamlna . 3 Dayton . 3 Salem Academy 2 Amity 1 Sherwood 1 Pet .857 .833 .750 .571 .500 .375 .286 .167 .143 YAMHILL (Special) By scor ing in each of the last four innings, Yamhill registered an easy 16-2 Yawama League victory over Day ton here, Monday. Gary Mallory pitched the victory, giving up two hits and fanning 12. i Vmce Bernards paced the win ners with a triple, double and two singles, while Mallory contributed a double and two singles. The vic tory kept alive Yamhill's hopes for a title tie. Dayton 100 010 2 2 7 Yamhill 008 13416 12 6 Nuttbrock, Wlllard (31, Walthere 15) and Walthers: Mallory and B. Meadows, ivagiey fl). OCE totals Opponents Shoot Scheduled The Jabberwalkie Field Archery Club Of Salem will Stage a shoot Cordon Detzel 2 on Sunday. Target or field arrows SX"o -ir I will be used during the competition Ted Owens 3 which starts at 11 a.m. at the Bat- w"k - -J. tie Creek Road range. Totals 16 .699 137 191 683 79 146 Pet. 1.000 .875 .600 .500 .500 ERA 2. 1.24 2.15 3.79 4.37 Salem Statistics As the Salem baseball team opened Hi second road stand of the Northwest League season, only three regulars were over the .300 mark In hitting. These Include' Jack Dunn at .362, Ray Steele at .339 and Karl Kuchl at .321. Dunn, however, won't play during the Wcnatchee series, his spot to be taken by Jerry Gregg, who has a fat .563 mark in 16 at bat. Dunn and Bobby Duretto share the run lead with 13 each, while Steele has the most hits, 20. Ted Rhodes, despite a .229 average, has the most runs batted In, 14. In the pitching department, the Salem staff has compiled a fine 4.44 earned run average, led by Vern Kindsfather's 1.58. Kindsfather has a 4-0 mark, and also leads in Innings pitched, 34, complete games, 4, and strikeouts, 35. In 16 games, thus far, Manager Bill Brenner hat received a com plete mound performance In exactly half of them. This has helped keep (he Senators in the upper half of the race, as the team batting mark is only .267, with but 25 of the 137 hits going for extra bases. Complete Senator statistics: OCE Golfers Tip Linfield MONMOUTH (Special)-Oregon College finally entered the winner s circle in collegiate golf Monday afternoon, turning in t'A to SVi win over Linfield College on the Salem Golf Club links. The OCE divot diggers had gone through 7 previous matches with out a victory, their best effort being a 9-9 tie with Lewis and Clark early in the season. Gary Campbell, ex-Salem High golfer, copped medalist honors for the day with a 75 in turning in a 2l-,,2 win over Dave Lum. Med alist for Linfield was Bob Morton who fired a 77. Linfield had blasted the OCE links squad last week, 15V4 to ',4 on the Riverwood Golf Course at McMinnville. The Linfield match was the final dual match of the season for the Wolves, who play host to the Ore gon Collegiate Conference medal play tourney this Friday at the Salem Golf Club. The conference tourney will be a 36-hole affair. Results: John Hugging (L) def. Russ Baglien, 3-0; Bob Mortoji (L def. John Mihelctch, 3-0; Gary Campbell def. Dave Lum, Z'a-ti; John Hum phrey (OCE) def. Dave Sears, 3-0; Harley Willis (OCE) def. Ed Smith. 3-0; Denny Helser (L) def. Dewey Tuttle, 2-1. By BOB ROBINSON Capital Journal Sports Writer Aoonrrfino in fnrm. it will be Medford all the way and then some. That's the story o the coming state high school track and fiejd meet in a nutshell. ; A check of district, subdistrict and other times and marks available show that the Black Tornado just has too much class for the rest of the field. The form chart, which was fairly accurate in the recent District 8 A-l meet, shows that Medford will roll up a total of 84 points. t The chart says Grant of Portland will finish second best with 39 counters and Cottage Grove will be third with 31. South Salem's Saxons, the District 8 champ, and Grants Pass are figured to pick up 28 points each and tie for fourth place in the meet. The North Salem Vikings, who will have seven men competing in the meet, will get ll.points for 14th place if "form" is accurate. Tornado Highly Favored in 6 Events Medford is favored to win six events in the Corvallis affair. Mike Russell heads the 440 list with a district winning time of 50.3. Wally Larson looks tobe the class of the hurdlers with times of 14.6 in the highs and l.3 in me lows. Neil Plumley of the Tornado has the best shot put ejfort, a heave of 57-11 V. Jerry Close, the defending state champ, is picked to take the broad jump. He won in District 5 with a leap of 22-3. iufnrH'c nnn varrl relav nuarlet has by far the outstand ing time for that event. The classy Tornado foursome has chalked up a brilliant time of 1:29.7. That's 1.5 seconds under the existing state record. r.... ie fanroH in three events. Junior Dyrol Burleson has the top marks in both the mile and the 880 and discus thrower Don Martin looks like the states best in that event. . . .. Grant's Jon Abraham has recorded the top sprint umes in district competition. Abraham won the Portland Interscho lastic League title with marks of 10.1 in the 100 and 22.3 in the 220. , Grants Pass to Score in Pole Vault Grants Pass' Phil Paquin is the choice of the pole vault Hardy Spurgeon of Marshfield is the pick in the ave in and North Bend's John Bloomquist has the top district leap in the high jump. ' South Salem's P?inU, accoraing j J"""" come irom a secona piate m u, " --- -- - irm v third in the low hurdles by Jack Scott, a F ourt h in the 100 by Scott a fifth in the broad jump by Scott, a sixth by Loren B?aco in the mile, a sixth by Bob Sterett in the 880 and a third place finish by the Saxon relay team. 1 ... r - :flU Kit Tialo North Salem's 11 points woum come iron. Drake in the 440, a sixth by Herb Graves in the 220, a fourth Colin Morse in the pole vault and a fourth place finish in the relay. See complete results in the form cnan on una Vw " State Track Chart 10ft Jon Abraham fUTami, iy.i, , -h-r-ir fBeav- on), 1932, and Lesuo (itiamaui lum, Church League Junior B League; Trinity Meth odist 5. First Presbyterian 0 (for feit): Kelzer Community 7, St. Mark's Lutheran 1; Calvary Baptist 12, First Baptist 11. Today's Senior League schedule at Olinger Field: Calvary Baptist vs. Free Methodist: First Christian vs. Grace Lutheran: Highland Friends vs. Frultland EUB; Trinity Meth odist vs. Englewood EUB. b 19 BATTING Cress, of Neal, p J Dunn, cf .......... 47 Steele, 2 51 Kuehl. 1 56 Campbell, 3 .... 49 Walker, p . . 7 Hanttle, e-3 17 Kindsfather, p 13 Rhodes, If 48 wnretto, rf 55 aursen, ss 44 Knoner. of .... 10 Brenner, p 11 Rolln. p Koepf. c - 45 Georee, p 11 Matile, ss 14 h 9 3 17 Z 20 9 IS 11 14 7 rbi 2b 3b hr sb sh hp to 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 10 1 3 0 1 0 0 0 bb pet 2 .583 0 .375 10 .362 9 .339 35 19 .321 119 8 .288 19 0 .3KS 0 9 .235 15 1 .231 2 9 .229 23 11 .211 28 7 .205 24 1 .200 9 .12 1 0 .167 1 8 .131 I0S .100 0 JM 24 0 2 .77S 3 0 1.000 2 0 1.000 35 14 .857 f 3 .977 17 2 .946 0 1.000 11 4 .855 2 .133 0 1 .958 1 1 .967 43 1 .965 1 1.000 3 1 .800 3 0 1.000 1 .992 4 0 1.0O9 f 1 .933 Totals PITCHING Kindsfather Neal George Rolln Brenner Walker - Skideel Totals . 514 2 ( 2 1 2 ' M 137 71 20 3 1 T 17 4 79 101 .26! 411 159 31 .945 IP 25 V4 . m, ' i4 o prt. 1.000 1.000 .467 .131 . .250 .000 h r 25 10 17 19 20 IS 18 11 40 23 15 8 I er so bb wp li 35' 18 2 I 13 15 1 31 17 II 21 1 2 0 ( 12 1 2 0 0 4 1.58 3.94 2 8.04 1 4.19 1 111 0 3.24 0 0.00 SIGN FOR FIGHT WASHINGTON (UP) Virgil Akins of St. Louis and Randy Sandy of New York have been siened for a 10 - round middle weight fight. 220: Jon Abraham . "' . ........ (nJ.rffni.Hl. 22.3: 3- (Grant), .m.j; , Ml: 6-Mlnor (La- NrV8' (North Saiemt, lUauj. 0: 1 Mike Husseu, imuiu.uj; 51.7: Vermillion 50.3; 2 Poindexter (Eugene), BU: 6 DuFresne 1940 J. IPaTkrolie), 52.7. (State record: 40.3, ischelt (Mcd- irnfitsi. 2:01.3: (State rceord: 3 Miller (Jefferson), (Norm saiemj, w.a; Johnson (Medford) 880: 1 D.vrol I inrai. 2 iuo j ci.iou. K-Lw irox (Lebanon). 2:02; B-siereu lauuw. Ue"os?.tJ":B..corsoll?hn i-"(State record: 44. rLffi'SraX cXnpVlngfe.dVBS TslaU Urd! .4.4, T. 58-2'.. Marshall (St. Helens). 1955). .wma Irl inn-Si'.: 3 Hov uaKeri, in.-,-,a, 7.:.r . Pattlnson (Lebanon). 179: 6-Balme (Grant), noli. "" Mlssfeldt (Milwaukle), 1948). Simons (Albany), 1049). rr HIGH JUMP! I-John Bloomquist (North Bend), 6-1: 2-""?" 'Cor- 1945L' . -.,.t-e. -n.ic.nil Kirahaw. Larson) KJ.LiA : J meaiuru .-....."-"' V " . V,Ju e,u 1.19 a' !7aveertnri:33. '"FINAL SCORING: Medford 84: Grant 3; Cottage Grove 31; South Salenl S. Or ntt TPaS 28. Jefferson "22. Eugene 20. Marshfield 20, Beaverton io North Rend 18. Lincoln 14, Lake uim.o ij, ... .. Salem 11, Minn vllle La Grandi (State record: 211-1, (South 1:28.7: n.nrt la Lincoln 14. Lake Oswego 13. Keomona n, norm L OreSon city 10 CrU.r 8 Baker 8. Ashland 8 Corvallis B Mc le 6 Parkrme 5. David Douglas 5, Lebanon 4, Ontario 4, Benson 4, ide'2, Pendleton 1. Springfield 1, Tlgard 1. Bailey May Quit After PCC .541 136 9 68 108 91 7 ( EUGENE, Ore. (UP) Jim Bailey, the Australian Olympic miler and member of the Univer sity of Oregon track team, may quit the track after the Pacific Coast Conference track ichampion ships this weekend in Eugene. Bailey came back from the Olympics last year with a dis placed bone in his foot and treat ment has not healed the foot enough for Bailey to come close to his record time of 3:58.6 in Los Angeles when he beat fellow countryman John Landy. The foot hurts Bailey when he runs and only last week he placed second to Oregon teammate Jim Grcll in the Northern Division track championships. Bailey, who is accustomed to running on a grass track, only runs on the cinder track when he SCORES BASEBALL Lewis and Clark 8. Willamette 3. Whitman 7, Pacific 4. Linfield . College of Idaho 4. Washington 3-9, Seattle Unlveralty Oregon it Idaho, postponed, wet grounds. GOLF British Columbia 11 'St. Western Washington 3'.j. Seattle University 12, Puget Sound is runninu in competition. Another reason for Bailey's con sideration of giving up the sport is his age and other responsibili ties. ' married, and resides in Vhen he graduates in June .. Oregon he will no longer have any competition to run against. Track and field clubs are not prominent in the North west and Bailey wishes to remain in Oregon and raise a family. Besides the PCC track cham pionships coming up. Bailey may give the mile one last whirl and enter the NCAA meet at Austin, Tex., June 14-15. Breakfast Club Slates Final Meet The final meeting of the season for the Salem Breakfast Club will be held Wednesday night at 7 at the Senator Hotel. Jerry Long, program chairman, has lined up a movie. "49er High lights." (or the evening high point. The film features the San Fran cisco 49er football team in action. JOE PALOOKA -By Ham Fisher tLJ'-ak ' l;i W pv.t lor. IIhke'Sa T rr's a T was th' tanks per th'SK-gar, pally...! K$fg& rf , Ul? ImS' 6s!0 JlVMAC.' I CHEwvA BIO OW3HTTA CHARGE YA A HEAU'r -COWARO.r) llfTOIMN'.? CHECK K V f4 TH' SAP CHAW 9 vK"fi? rM STAVIW AK IfX V J THE MOTEL j 1 MIS MINO . ,H TELL JOEY JUSTTAKE e, HERE UNTIL - . iT V, J2J Lb it tSaT 41 JH,S "00 i M "THE WHALE GETS INTO TROUBLE ONLY WHEN HE BLOWS." DON'T WAIT UNTIL YOUR OLD WORN TIRES "BLOW" AND BRING TROUBLE . . . YES, EVEN DEATH ... TO YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES. 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