Small Bore Rifle Tourney
Ends Today; Etna Man Wins
Waddell Trophy Saturday
Medrord Rifle and Pistol
club's annual spring small bore
rifle tourney is scheduled to con
clude today with scope sight
firing on the day's program
which was to be at 7 a. m. at
the club range just west of Cra
ter Lake highway Four Corners.
The shoot opened yesterday
with six iron sight events. Five
actual firing matches were plan
ned today. Matches In which
aggregates of tussles are figured
will brine to 15 the total of
events.
This is the first time since the
OUT TO BREAK RECORDS The 33-car
field roars Into the first turn as the historic
500-mile auto race gets underway at Indian
apolis. Final standings at the end of the race
were: Troy Huttman, first; Jim Rathman, sec
ond; Sam Hanks, third; Duane Carter, fourth,
and Art Cross, fifth. -
Studs Tussle
At Coquille
Two clubs battling to get out
of or keep out of the Southwest
ern Oregon Baseball league cel
lar contend In afternoon game
today at Coquille.
The teams are the Medford
Cheney Studs, who up to last
night had won one game in
four tries, and Coquille, which
up to then had not won its first
league game. The two nines con
tested last night In the opener
of the two-fray series of the
week-end.
Rosier Loaded
Coquille has loaded its roster
since the start of the season to
a greater extent than the Studs,
picking up such players as Bob
by Doerr, ex-Boston Red Sox
second baseman; Alden Wilkie,
pitcher with major and Coast
league experience, and Dick
Larner, chucker with Coast and
Pioneer league background.
The Studs will play here again
next week-end, taking on Brook
ings at the fairgrounds ball park.
staffs
Legion Baseball
Tiffs Called Off
There will be no American
Legion junior baseball game
at the fairgrounds today.
Coach Alva Perkins of the
Medford team reported. .
Lakeview has forfeited the
two games 11 was io play with
Medford this afternoon, he
said. A Lakeview official tele
phoned Medford yesterday
saying that the Lake county
nine could not make the trip.
Medford's next scheduled
etion on its home diamond
is a doubleblll with Klamath
Falls on June 15.
Perkins reported that plans
re being made for games with
Myrtle Creek, Eugene and
Drain which are not In this
district.
Dead line on Classified Adi: 5:30
p.m. for following day; 10 a.m. Mon
day; noon Saturday for Sunday .m.
$230,100 Prize Melon Cut
By 33 Indianapolis Racers
Indianapolis, Ind. (U.R)
The Indianapolis speedway split
its' largest melon in history Sat
urday night $230,100 as
the payoff for the 36th annual
500-mile Memorial day auto
race.
Of that sum, Big Troy Rutt
man of Lynwood, Calif., who
Fresno Tops
Seattle Nine
Fresno, Calif. (U.R) The
Fresno State Bulldogs nosed out
Seattle university 2-1 Friday
night to move a step closer to
the NCAA district baseball
championship.
Righthander Larry Bolger al
lowed only three hits and struck
out 10. His Bulldog teammates
rapped Ernie Pastornicky for
seven blows. Outfielder Harvey
Zenimura led the winners with
three hits in five trips and fig
ured in both runs.
" Seattle tallied in the second
when shortstop Johnny O'Brien
tripled and came on in when
Fibber Hirayama, Fresno center
fielder, ran into the fence while
chasing the ball.
It was the first game in a two-of-three
series.
Sports Broadcasts
Radio station KYJC will
broadcast the Medford Che
nay S t u d s Coquille Loggers
baseball game from Coquille
at 2 p.m. today.
A TRIBUTE
TO SHUT-INS
A little girl who has been confined to her hospital bed
for seven year looks listlessly out of tho window .
and wonders what ANYBODY has to bo happy about.
Multiply her case by many THOUSANDS, and you havo
a quick picture of tho plight of this world's shut-Ins.
These bed-Imprisoned men, woman and children dream
of being like YOU: with strong, normal bodies, and
the biassed privilege of walking under the skies.
Doesn't your heart go out to thasa yearning unfortu-
' nates? Of course It does! Then do your sharo NOW .
and God blest every ono of youl
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We Salute Our Town!
Sunday, June 1, 1951
won the 200-lap grind in record
time, collected $61,743.18. That
total included $38,018.18 from
the speedway and the remaind
er in accesory and other awards,
Last year's total jackpot was
207,650 and winner Lee Wal-
lard got a pay check worth
$63,612.12.
Speedway owner Antone Hul-
man, Jr., doubled the guaran
teed prize fund from $75,000
to $150,000 to make the giant
jackpot possible. In addition,
the management paid $5,500 in
qualifying prizes and added
$13,800 from the entry fees to
boost the speedway's part of
the record total to $169,300,
Ruttman, at 22 years, the
youngest and at 245 pounds the
biggest of the 33 starters, would
have eclipsed Willard's record
purse had he picked up more
lap prize money. Ruttman led
for only 43 laps and got
$100 for each lap while Wal
lard picked up $15,900 in lap
prize money.
Jim Rathman of Chicago,
runner-up in the 500, collected
a total of $24,368.18; third-place
Sam Hanks, Glendale, Calif.,
pocketed $14,768.18; Duane
Carter, Culver City, Calif., the
fourth finisher, $11,818.18, and
Art Cross, Morristown, N. J.,
in fifth place and the top rook
ie got $7,418.18."
All 33 drivers shared in the
prize kitty with Andy Linden of
Los Angeles, who placed last,
collecting $2,217.19.
Hard-luck Bill Vukovlch of
Fresno, Calif., who led 150 of
the 200 laps, but careened into
the wall while leading with only
eight laps to go, got a pay check
of $18,693.18 the third largest.
Los Angeles Tops
Seals by 8 to 6
San Francisco (U.R) Cat
cher Les Peden's three-run ho
mer in the seventh capped Los
Angeles come-from-behind vic
tory over San Francisco Sat
urday as the Angels won 8-6,
before 1,380 fans.
Los Angeles, behind 3-0 in
the fifth, got to Seal starter
Bill Reeder for a pair of tal
lies in that panel and for two
more -in the sixth. The Angels
never looked back again as
Peden's four-master in the sev
enth shot them farther ahead.
Reeder, who started the sea
son auspiciously by pitching a
two-hitter opening night, re
ceipted for his seventh straight
lacing. Fred Baczewski, a tall,
trim southpaw, was bothered by
wildness but staggered the dis
tance to pick up his first win
of the season.
Baczewski walked three men
in the first inning, - forcing in
one run and giving up another
on Biu McCawley s tremend
ous single to the left center
field fence. McCawley lost cred
it for an extra base when he
and Joe Grace both wound up
perched on second base.
Peden's homer came off Matt
Zidich, a relief pitcher who had
replaced Reeder in the same
frame.
war that the spring tourney has
been a two-day affair.
George V. Hendricks, Etna,
Calif., won the Waddell trophy
for metalic sight aggregate at the
Medford May Rifle tournament
at the Medford Rifle club on
Saturday.
Hendricks led yesterday with
1,586 out of a possible 1,600 in
the master shooters' class. Wil
liam F. Schlitzkus, Springfield,
Ore., had 1,581, and Lewis E.
Brentlinger, Eugene, had 1,580
Leading the second class
match was Charles Cunningham,
Corvallis, with 1,569, and Guy
Pool, Willows, Calif., was second
with 1,568,
Hugh M. Washburn, Klamath
Falls, headed the sharpshootlng
class with 1,567 while Orel E
Lewis, Ft. Jones, Calif., carded
a 1,557,
In the marksman class, Steve
K. Washburn, Klamath Falls,
copped a 1,539, and Jean E. Pri
vat, Springfield, garnered 1,523
Individual winners were Hend
ricks for match 1 (50 yards),
Match 2 at 50 meters and Match
5 at 100 yards; Adrian Land-
berg won Match 3 (three posi
tions 'nternational meter) and
also Match 2 of the internation
al aggregate with 652; and Betty
Landberg, Willows, Calif., won
Match 4.
Thirty-five Oregon and Cali
fornia shooters participated in
Saturday's shoot. '
Sport Bulletin
Prestwick, Scotland U,R)
Harvie Ward, a 28-year-old
ex-U. S. collegiate champ
ion from Tarboro, N. C, ov
ercame a case of first round
putting jitters Saturday io
crush veteran campaigner
Frank Stranahan, 6 and 5, and
win the British Amateur golf
tournament by the second big
gest margin in 18 years.
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Calumet Farms Entries One-Two
In $28,950 Hollywood Feature
ingiewooa, cam uj.kj me. lengths; a Gleam set
Devils red and blue silks of
famed Calumet farm flashed
one-two Saturday as A Gleam
and Two Lea finished first and
second in the $28,950 Milady
handicap at Hollywood park.
And not only was the race
for the top money between the
two Calumet runners, but the
jockeys were an entry, so to
speak, as brothers Pete Morena
was up on A Gleam and Henry
Moreno on Two Lea. Spanish
Cream was tired and her stable-
mate, Special Touch, was fourth
in the 11-horse field.
In capturing the Milady handi
cap by the two-and-a-h all
Hollywood Takes
PCL2i.il Place
Hollywood j(U.R) The Holly
wood Stars replaced Oakland in
the number two spot of the Pa
cific Coast league Saturday as
they trounced the Acorns 8 to 0.
In his second shutout and
fourth consecutive win, Holly
wood moundsman Pinky Woods
went the distance to hold the
Acorns to five hits. A severe cold
has kept Woods on the sidelines
since last May 18 when he shut
out Portland 3 to 0.
Oakland threatened only once.
They loaded the sacks in the
fifth inning with only one out,
but Woods pulled himself out
by snagging a grounder by
Johnny Bero in time for a dou
ble play.
Carlos Bernter opened the at
tack for the Twinks by slamming
the second ball pitched in the
contest for a 360 foot drive over
the left field wall.
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TOURNEY AT OEARHART
Gearhart (U.R) The Oregon
Public Links Golf association
will hold its annual 36-hole best
ball tournament here Sunday.
Bill Lees and Virgil Mitchell,
both of Portland, will be on
hand to defend their class A
crown as will Class B titlehold
ers Gordon Fleming and Earl
Newton.
FISHING
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PREFER PICKS SCHOOL
Portland (U.R) Bob A 1 te n-
hofen, Central Catholic's star
basketball player, said Friday he
plans to enroll next fall at Notre
Dame, South Bend, Ind. The 18-year-old
hoop ace was one of
three players ever selected three
years in a row to the all-state
basketball team.
PRISONER ESCAPES
Salem (U.R) Warden Vir
gil O'Malley said Saturday that
Ernest Farrel, 41, a trusty at the
state prison farm, escaped late
Friday. Farrell had been serving
a seven-year sentence from Lane
county for forgery.
a new
track record of 1:21 35 for sev
en furlongs, cutting a fifth of
a second off the mark set in
1947 by Honeymoon.
In the second half of the dou
ble stakes program witnessed by
44,241 racing fans, King Ranch's
Haunted scored her fourth
straight victory in the $26,440
Cinderella stakes for two-year-old
fillies. She defeated So Re
gards by three lengths.
: Calumet Farm entered a triple
entry in the Milady, with Wist
ful the third one of the - group.
The Calumet group went off at
three to five odds and returned
$3.50, 2.90 and 2.20 for winning
and placing, while the entry
headed by Spanish Cream paid
$3.60 to show.
A Gleam, winner of the Prin
ces Pat at Washington Park last
year, earned $16,600 for her
stable in winning the Milady
while Two Lea got $5,000 for
finishing second, making it
profitable day for Calumet
Farm.
Haunted raced the five fur
longs in :58 15 and paid $10.60,
4.60 and 3.40.
It was the King Ranch filly's
first stakes win. The victory
was worth $17,050 to her own
ers. Fleet Diver was Installed
the favorite in the race but fin
ished last in the field of eight.
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COMPETING IN FIRST FOREIGN TOURNEY, Maureen Connolly,
San Diego, Cal., gains semi-finals in Surrey grass-court tennis
championships by deleaung Angela Morumer, lunjuay, jmib. o-i,
6-4. Steady game of U. 8. national champ paid off. fntemotionai;
Fishermen, Landowners,
Public Relations Said
Better Along Deschutes
Madras (U.R) Better public
relations were noted Saturday
between fishermen and landown
ers in the Mecca and Gateway
areas along the Deschutes river.
No grass fires caused by ang
lers have been reported to tho :
Oregon State Game commission
in the area. The fire danger in
the canyon of the Deschutes re
mains high because of tho pro
longed dry weather.
Cooperation Asked
The commission is erecting
signs asking the cooperation of
fishermen in preventing fires,
banning the use of firearms and
controlling activities of dogs.
The actions of irresponsible
persons who started range fires
have closed the lands along tho
Deschutes in past years.
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