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Tornado Track Squad Dinner Thursday to Hear Bowerman Medford high school track team, state champions and best in the Rogue and Hayward re lays plus every dual meet held this season, will be honored along with the local coaching staff at a banquet in the Med ford hotel downstairs dining room Thursday evening, June 1. Sponsoring the event at which Bill Bowerman, former Medford high track and football coach, will be the principal speaker, will be t h e Athletics Booster club of Southern Oregon. Coaches At Guostl Coaches to be honored along with the boys are Bob Newland, Lee Ragsdale, Fred Spiegelberg, Frank Roelandt and Alex Mc Donald. Others invited to at tend are E. H. Hedrick, super intendent of schools: Elliott B e c k e n, assistant superintend ent, and Lester Harris, senior high principal. A telegram received last week from Bowerman said "Am hon ored to accept your (the club's) Invitation." The dinner will start at 7 p.m. and in addition to boys on the track squad, coaches and other guests, those attending will in clude Booster club members, fa thers of track squad boys wish ing to attend and a limited num ber of others. Tickets on Sale Tickets for the dinner may be purchased in advance at any time at the main desk at the Medford hotel. Seating will be on a first come, first served basis, however. Coach Bob Newland indicated that 45 boys would attend as all members of the 1950 track squad are invited whether they be state champs or just the youths who made the best work hard to get there this season. Other Speakers Too It was not known Saturday afternoon just when Bowerman would arrive or how long he would stay. His talk will be the principal one of the banquet and others who will be called on to speak will include Ragsdale, Hedrick, Beckcn and Harris. The banquet will be a "stag" affair. Booster club members said. They explained that it was impossible to sell tickets far in advance or make reservations as the banquet was suggested just last Monday and plans were com pleted last Friday. LA GRANDE COACH LEAVES La Grande, Ore., May 27 U.R) Ted Wilson. La Grande high school coach since 1947, an nounced yesterday that he will take over the head basketball coaching job at McMinnville high school next fall. SHBS MOVING? Save by Renting a BEE HIVE U-DRIVE Vans Stakes and Pickup Trucks JIM'S TEXACO STATION 6th t Gr.pe Phone 3-9174 High School Ball Results Albany, Ore., May 27 (U.R) Only the year seemed to change here in the class A finals for the Oregon state high school base ball championship as Roosevelt high of Portland, defending champion, and Eugene, 1949 runner-up, prepared to meet for the 1950 title here tonight on Me morial field. The B title will be at stake in tonight's curtain raiser at 7:30 when Amity meets Drain, de fending champion. Roosevelt conquered Albany 13 to 1 and Eugene whacked Hillsboro 17 to 5. In the B divi sion. Drain scored a 19 to 0 shutout over Union and Amity turned back Aumsville, 4 to 3. BOWLING MATCHES HERE TODAY Medford men and women bowling teams will compete against similar groups from Klamath Falls. Ashland and Crescent City today, at the Med ford Bowling lanes starting at 2 p.m. During the afternoon an exhi bition on bowling will be given by Larry Laurent, Klamath Falls, who has put on the demonstra tions in the past for the Ameri can Bowling congress. CITY BOWLING LEAGUE Jim Morgan took high indi vidual game and high individual series honors with 256 and 635 respectively when the City Bowl ing league closed its season last Thursday night at the Medford Bowling lanes. The second half finished the season. Southern Oregon distributors took high team game and high team series with 917 and 2,638 re spectively. CITY LEAGUE FINAL SECOND HALF STANDINGS Trams W L SOD.I S6 28 Teamsters Unton 31 33 Harold Brown Agency 48 36 E. H. Mann Company 47 37 Copco .....45 30 Mail Tribune 40 41 Edjterton Motors 28 B6 American Legion 25 SB Medford Golf Results Here Mr. and Mrs. Al Littrell tied with Mr. and Mrs. George Har rington with the best marks in the first two-ball mixed golf Norm Hillyer Plunks Hole-in-One at RVCC Norm Hillyer plunked a hole-ln-one yesterday during an afternoon foursome. He turned the trick on the 145 yard No. 12 hole. Playing with Hillyer were Frank Rowe. Orville Shut and John Easly, foursome tourney of the season Friday evening at Rogue Valley Country club. Each couple had a net 33. In second spot were Mr. and Mrs. Bob Ryan with a 35. Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Simmon knotted with Ward Hammond and Helen Thompson for third with 36s. Locked at fourth with 37s were W. W. Davies and Mrs. Belle Schenck, Larry Jollev and Mrs. E. G. Bunch. Norm Worth ley and Mrs. Ralph Odell. Dr. Ralph Odell and Mrs. Norm Worthley and Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Edgerton. The winners get temporary possession of the Winetrout tro phy. Next mixed foursome is set for June 16. Twenty Rogue Valley club men will vie in a team match to day at Grants Pass. Scores Yesterday NATIONAL LEAGUR Chicago 7. Pittsburgh S St. Louis 9. Cincinnati 1 Philadelphia 8. New York 3 Boston 7, Brooklyn 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE Chicago S. Cleveland 1 Philadelphia 6. New York 1 Detroit 8. St. Louis 6 Boston 4. Washington S (first game 10 Innings). PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE AFTERNOON GAMES Seattle 4, San Francisco 3 PORTLAND 4. Los Angeles 1 Hollywood 8, San Diego 4 Pointers Take County Grade School Honors Gold Hill, May 27 Central Point took first honors in the annual Jackson county grade school track meet here Saturday afternoon by piling up 8 1 V points in combined classes A and B as about 150 boys from five schools took part. 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The safety guard ond splitter are olwayt in line with the taw ond provide protection regardless of the degree of tilt. At leosl on. kick pawl is in contact with the work af One Demonstration will convince ycu Call us today. Results Opening Four Events in District Track BY DICK JEWETT Southern Oregon high schools led Portland schools 27 to 17 at the end of the first four events in the Inter district track meet Saturday night at the Medford high grounds, Medford, Ashland, Klamath Falls and Grants Pass represented this part of the state. First four results: Shot put Longer, Ash land), Farr (Franklin), Schu bert (Klamath). Holigang (Klamath). Distance 46 it.9"- in. High hurdles F. Morris (Medford), Corkery (Klam ath), Arnold (Klamath), War ren (Lincoln). Time 15.6s. ...100 J. Morris (Medford). Anderson (Roosevelt), Baker (Grant), Cook (Jefferson). Time 10.2s. Mile Heller (Franklin). Book (Klamath), Gill (Jeffer son), Hobbs (Medford). Time 4m 41.3s. Stranahan Takes Top Golf Honors St. Andrews. Scotland, May 27 U.R) Frank Stranahan, the To ledo. O., muscleman won the British amateur golf champion ship for the second time today when he crushed Dick Chapman of Pinehurst, N. C, 8 and 6. on the rugged royal and ancient club course. Stranahan, winner in 1948, easily ruined Chapman's fifth bid for the title. The Toledo strong boy lost only two holes, the first and 18th. After that, he consistently outdrove and out putted the former U. S. amateur champion. Stranahan was 7 up after 27 holes and closed out the match on the 30th. Huskies' Crew Winner Crew Race at Seattle Seattle. May 27 (U.R) Wind-whipped waters on Lake Washincrtnn tnHnv cuiamnal o University of Wisconsin eight oared crew and the University of Washington was declared the winner after the race' had been previously ruled "no contest." Referee Ed Taylor awarded the race to the Huskies after Coach Norm Sonju of the Badg ers ordered his crew to stop at me mree-quarter mile mark Sunday, May 28, 1950 MEDFORD (OREGON) TRIBUNE THREE Trojans Win but Ducks Steal Track Spotlight Berkeley. Cel., May 27 U.R University of Southern Califor nia powerful cinder squad won its 10th consecutive Pacific Coast conference track and field cham pionship today as it snowed un der the other nine schools in a lopsided meet. Led by the great hurler, Dick Attlesey and a big Indian, Don Newcomb, each of whom scored double wins, the Trojans ran up Chez Losing Pitcher, 3-2 Pullman. Wash.. May 27 (U.R) Washington State college today won the Pacific coast NCAA baseball championship by defeating Stanford univer sity. 8 to 5, in the second game of a two-out-of-three playoff here. Pullman, Wash.. May 27 (U.R) Washington State college and Stanford squared off again to day in the second game of the best of three series and a cougar win would give the northern di vision team the Pacific Coast conference baseball champion ship. Washington State racked up two home runs Friday to edge the Indians 3-2. Third Baseman Don Paul belt ed a 360-foot homer over the left field fence in the second inning for Washington State's first score. In the sixth, Rightfielder Gordon Brunswick sent another home run over the same spot with one man aboard. If Washington State wins to day's contest, the Cougars will have a chance to play in t h e N.C.A.A. playoffs at Omaha next month. A Stanford win today would compel a third contest Monday. Salem, Ore., May 27 U.R) Viesko and Post of Salem were low bidders at $141,500 for con struction of a new stadium for Willamette university, the board of trustees announced Friday. when Washington was leading by four lengths. Taylor's decis ion came after a conference with the coaches and three judges 30 minutes after the Huskies paddled leisurely across the fin ish line. 62 15 points compared with the meager second-place total of 42V j for Stanford. No Records Broken In the finals today. In which the sprinters had to face a 10 mile wind, there was not a sin gle CC record tied or broken. However, the competition was keen all the way through. Three meet records were cracked in the preliminaries yesterday and one other tied. Other team scores: California 35; Oregon 31 15; Washington State 13; Washington 12; Oregon State 11 15; UCLA 7 15; Idaho 6, and Montana 5. A vastly underrated Univer sity of Oregon team almost com pletely stole the spotlight from the stars that had been highly touted before the meet. Fell Wins Close Bill Fell, the Webfoot's fine 100-yard dash man, won the cen tury by inches from favored Don Anderson of California. The time was a slow 9.9 seconds, but thn runners raced into a ten-mile an hour wind. The Oregon school scored an other upset in the 440-yard dash when Dave Honthorne came fly ing down the stretch to catch and pass Pitch Johnson of Stanford at the tape in a :48.7 race. Marysville Sale Denied by League San Francisco, May 27 (U.R) The Far West league offices de nied today rumors of a sale of the Marysville baseball club. League Secretary Len Monhei mer added that Frank Burrell of San Jose was recently made gen eral manager of the Marysville club and had been voted a league director. Monheimer said that the Brooklyn Dodgers have promised to help supply players to the locally-owned Marysville team. He said that opening day at tendance on April 26 was the best in the league's three year history, with official paid admis sion figures as follows. At Pittsburg, Medford: 914; at Willows, Redding: 1,118; at Reno, Eugene: 1,712, and at Marysville, Klamath Falls: 1,300 (approximate). Tornado Golf Team Second Medford placed second to Corvallis in the annual Wil lamette valley high school in vitational golf tournament at Corvallis Friday and Saturday. Eddie Oldfield with 78-77 155 for the two days had the best Medford high card, fol lowed by Phil Getchell with 77 79156, Justin Smith 84-82 166, Bob Shepherd 85-83168 and Bill McAllister 84-86170. Corvallis was first with a 398 toal Friday and a 405 Saturday, Medford had 407 each day, and Uni (Eugene) carded 410-424. Al Mundell of Uni high had 75 78 153 for medalist honors. WANTED Beef Cattle Any Quantity Arrow Cattle Co. P.O. Box 469, Medford Phone 2-8549 or 2-8008 MECHANIC WANTED Only EXPERIENCED MEN NEED APPLY Crater Lake Motors, inc. 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High Jump Slallsworth (RR) Boye (GH) and Phelps (CHI, Sparks (EPl and McGonagle (CP) tied fourth. Height it 8 in. Broad Jump Pelper (RR). Belter (CP), Gillespie (EP), Bell (GH). Dis tance IS ft 8 In. Relay Central Point first. Rogue River second. Gold Hill third, Eagle Point fourth. Time 94 3s. Low hurdles Beggers (RR). Bell (OH), Parker (GH), Corrigan (CP). Time 16 8s. 7.1 Stallsworth (RR) first. Minter (EP), Cameron (GH), Bell (GH). Time 9.6s. lOOO.yard West (GH), Young (CP). Wardlaw (RR), rarrell (GH). Time 3m 2s. t 330 Phelps (GH). Beider (CP), l Pelper (RR). Harsh (CP). Time 41s I 150 Gillespie (EP). Beggers (RR). Cameron (GH), Phelps (GH). Time 17 Ss. ! 660 King (CP). Rosecrans (GH). Millard (CP), Fuller (RR). Time lm 38s. CLASS B Low hurdles Hansen (CP), Harsh (CP). Tresham (EP), Demmer (EP). Time 1J Is. JO Millard (EP), Greb (EP), Beck (EPl, Todd (GH). Time T 3s. 330 Govette (CP). Crossman (CP). Towse (RR) and Truehlood (GH) and Twest (RR) tied fourth Time 52s. 150 Beck (RR), Mitchell (GH). Mc Quade (CPI. Demmer (EP). Time 20.5s. ; Relay Won by Central Point. Eagle Point second, Rogue River third, Gold ; Hill fourth. Time lm 3s. : Pole vault McQuade (CP), Henson (CP), Wledman IEP), Savage (RR). i Height 7 ft 6 In. . High Jump Hen-ton (CP), Webb I (RR) and Greb (EP). Millard IEP). ' Louder (CP) and Davis (GH) tied fourth. Height 4 ft 1 in Broad Jump Millard (EP). Whipple (EPl. Towse (RR), Morris (RR). Dls- tance 13 ft l' In 75 Millard (EPl. Mltrhell (GH). Greb 'EPi. Hicks (RR). Time 10s. ujalken I Turner! Hubbard-Wray Co. 25 South Riverside Phone 2-4011 Good-Will Machine Works General Machine Work and REPAIRING PORTABLE WELDING Sawmill Equipmtnt Mininf M chifitry and SuppliM Sptcial Mi chitiflpy Pabrieatinf All Kind af W.ldini. JOHN BREEZE, Owntr Phone 2-4124 NIGHTS MoSt 303 S. Gripe Servlnt te. 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