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Wcdnttdar. July 23, 1952
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American Olympic Squad
Seeks To Overcome Lead
Rolled Up by Russians
Helsinki (U.R) The Un
ited States scored a 1-2-3
sweep in ihe Olympic 200 me
ter dash Wednesday, a 1-2 vic
tory in ihe javelin throw and
alio won a rowing champion
ship as six Olympic and two
world records tumbled.
Andy Slanfield tied the
Olympic 200 meter record of
20.7 seconds, making the sec
ond Olympic record equalled
today.
Helsinki U.PJ Walt Ash
baugh. East Liverpool, Ohio, and
Jim Gerhardt, San Antonio, Tex.,
qualified easily Wednesday for
the hop, step and jump competi
tion in the Olympic Games.
Franklin (Bud) Held, Lakeside,
Calif., qualified in javelin throw.
Gearhardt reached 49 feet, 1.8
inches and Ashbaugh did 47 feet,
10.44 inches, each on his first try,
as the fifth day's Olympic compe
tition got underway under
cloudy skies that carried a threat
of rain. The qualifying distance
for the hop, step and jump event
was 14.55 meters 47 feet, 8.88
inches. Finals in the event were
scheduled for Wednesday after
noon.
Leading U.S. Hopes
Sprint star Andy Stanfield
and Navy's unbeaten eight-oared
crew carried the United States'
chief hories Wednesday for gold
medal victories that would cut
down or wipe out Russia s team
leadershiD in the Olympic games
The Soviets, who scored the
bulk of their points in gymnas
tics two days ago, carried a 21V&
noint lead in the competition
with 136V4 points to 115 for the
U. S.
In the javelin throw, Held
tossed the spear 225 feet, 1.68
inches on his second try and ad
vanced to the afternoon finals.
A distance of 64 meters, 209 feet,
11.76 inches, was required to
qualify.
Three Americans were entered
in each event.
American Wrestler Loses
The first American casualty of
the day was heavyweight wres
tler Bill Kerlslake of Cleveland,
who lost a decision to Bertil
Antonsson of Sweden, two points
to one, and was eliminated.
Cy Young, Modesto, Calif., and
Bill Miller, Phoenix, Ariz., also
qualified in the javelin, putting
all three Americans in the final.
Toivo Hyytiainen of Finland,
the favorite in the javelin, led
all qualifiers with a toss of 233
feet, 7.68 inches.
Russia went into Tuesday's
competition with a whopping 56
point lead in the team compe
tition 128 to 72 for the U. S.
the result of having reaped a
harvest of points in gymnastics.
U. S. Winners Cut Lead
However, the U. S. sliced that
down as Bob Richards, Laverne,
Calif., and Don Laz of Illinois
finished one-two in the pole
vault; Mai Whitfield won the
800-meter run, and Sam Iness,
Tulare, Calif.; Jim Dillon, Au
burn, N. Y., and Fortune Gor-
dien, San Francisco, finished
one-three-four in the discus
throw. Richards and Iness set
new records for their events,
while Whitfield equalled the
record he set in 1948.
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to the Olympic Games at Helsinki. Following close on the winner's heels is Herb McKenley (295),
second from riaht, of Jamaica, who finished second. Britain's McDonald Bailey, second from left, was
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photo of finish,
Retriever Club
Slates Workouts
At Lake Sunday
The Rogue Valley Retriever
club will conduct a workout for
Medford dogs Sunday, July 27,
at 4 p.m. at Hoover lake, mem
bers of the organization an
nounced today. Persons interest
ed in entering their dogs in the
event are invited to attend.
The Rogue Valley club has
scheduled a joint trial with the
Shasta Cascade Retriever club
of Klamath Falls here Sunday,
August 17. The joint meet is an
annual event between the two
clubs for rotating trophies. The
trials are conducted under Amer
ican Kennel club regulations.
The Klamath Falls club is ex
pected to have a large entry in
the joint trials. Members of the
local club are now working will
be dependent upon water and
weather conditions and will be
announced at a later date, club
members said.
Sport
Parade
By
OSCAR FRALEY
United Press
Sports Writer
Yesterday's Scores
AMERICAN LEAGUE
New York 7-8. Cleveland 3-1
Boston 4. Chicago 2 (13 innings)
Detroit 1. Washington 0
Pihaledlphia 3, St. Louis 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Philadelphia 14-8. Pittsburgh 4-1
New York 3. St. Louis 2
Brooklyn 7. Cincinnati 6 (10 In
nings) Boston 8. Chicago 4
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Portland 18. San Diego 3
Hollywood 11, Sacramento 4
Oakland 3-8. San Francisco 1-S
Los Angeles-Seattle, postponed, rain
WESTERN INTERNATIONAL
Salem 8, Yakima 6
Wenatchee 3. Tri-Citv 1
Spokane at Vancouver and Lewis.
ton at victoria, postponed, rain.
Coquille Has New Manager
For Week-End Series Here
The Coquille Loggers, who
will be here Saturday and Sun
day for a two game Southwest
Oregon league baseball series
with the Medford Cheney Studs,
will be sporting a new manager
and new two players.
For the first time in many
years, the Coquille nine will not
be under the direction of Bill
Fortier, who resigned last week
and turned the helm over to
Dave Douglas, fancy fielding
first baseman.
Since its last league appear
ance, the Logger club has been
strengthened by the addition of
two players from the fast Ca
nadian league. They are Don
Hlnchberger, outfielder, and
John Bilbrey, pitcher.
Douglas will draw his starting
pitchers for the two-game set
from a list which includes Aldon
Wilkie, one-time Pittsburgh Pir
ate and Pacific Coast league
hurler; Dick Gilson, Doug
Weeks, Bob Allard, Skeeter
Ellis and Bilbrey.
In his last league start, Wilkie
set the Roseburg nine down with
one run and five hits. He need
ed only 80 pitches to rack up the
victory.
Rounding out the probable
starting lineup are Roy Harring
ton, catcher; Douglas, first base;
Lee Wert, second base; Ament,
shortstop; Taylor, third base,
and Joe Marchand, Hinchberger
and Humble in the outfield.
Douglas, Wert and Humble
are the team's leading hitters.
Douglas is currently leading the
league's first basemen in field
ing with a flossy .996 average,
compiled on 254 putouts and 12
assists and only one error. '
By OSCAR FRALEY
Helsinki U.R) The Tulare,
Calif.. Chamber of Commerce
had better get on the ball, be
cause it has an unknown cele
brity on its hands today and a
chance to become the largest
city in the United States.
The magnificent nonentity is
a courteous young giant named
Sim Iness. All he did Tuesday as
the shadows settled over Helsin
ki was to break the Olympic
discus record with seven
straight throws and boost the
mark to 180 feet 6V2 inches.
Everybody in sports knows
that Bob Mathias, the Olympic
decathlon champion, hails from
Tulare. Sim, in case you haven't
heard, and you probably haven't,
also is from that village of
vitamins.
Two Lovable Monsters
But of even more import to
the average father in the United
states are the vital statistics on
these two lovable monsters. Ma
thias is a well publicized lad of
six feet, three inches and some
220 pounds. But get a load of
this Iness lad. He's six feet, six
inches and scales 245 dressed for
the discus market.
Any spot which produces
prize packages of this calibre for
doting fathers who dream of
junior's future athletic exploits
is a double-dyed cinch to be in
undated by dreaming daddies
with their entire families in tow.
And it's a cinch that Sim's
daddy is just about delirious
Wednesday. For the big guy was
better than sensational tossing
the steel-rimmed platter.
Shattered Record
All he had to beat was Adolfo
Consolini, the overstuffed Ital
ian who held the Olympic rec
ord, burly Fortune Gordien the
world record holder from the
United States, and just about
every other great discus jockey
in captivity.
Consolini's Olympic record
was 172 feet, 13A inches. So
Iness stepped out there before
50,000 fans and broke that mark
on each of his seven throws. The
best was 180 feet, 6V inches
eight feet 434 inches better than
the old mark and four feet, 1V
inches better than the second
place Consolini could do. "
Talking later, the 22-year-old
Sim became Tulare's best real
estate salesman since the days
when the Spanish land grants
were voided. For he disclosed
that at 13, when he entered high
school he was six feet, two inch
es tall and weighed 210 pounds
At 18 when he graduated from
high school, he was six feet, six
and weighed 230 pounds.
Piano Toler
So I can tell you right now
that I'm taking my little bruiser,
all nine months old of him, and
heading for Tulare. Sim has
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I'm dealing with Mathias to tote
our four trunks and six suit
cases. There's just one question I
want the Tulare Chamber of
Commerce to answer:
How do the fathers go about
the difficult business of repri
manding sons like those? That
could b'e a real problem.
Southern Oregon
Junior Baseball
The Ashland Pee Wee baseball
team ran wild over the Medford
Pee Wees here Monday to chalk
up a 23 to 2 win. The Ashland
nine outhit Medford by only a
7 to 1 margin, but took advan
tage of 10 Medford errors and
numerous passed balls to run up
the score.
First Inning Single
Ruins No-Hit Effort
SHORT SCORE:
Ashland 23 7 2
Medford 2 7 10
M. Fiteh and Watrus; Albert. An
derson and Barr.
The first dark horse presiden
tial candidate to be nominated
and elected was James K. Polk
in 1844.
By UNITED PRESS
It took only one pitch, the
first one he threw, to ruin his
no-hitter, but Virgil Trucks, the
fire-ball guy of the Detroit Tig
ers, was happy Wednesday to
settle for a one-hit, 1 to 0 victory
over the Senators that almost
matched his no-hit effort against
them last May 15.
There were no dreams of
matching the record of Allie
Reynolds of the Yankees, only
pitcher in American league his
tory to hurl two no-hitters in a
single season. Because Eddie
Yost spoiled that with a leadoff
single on Trucks' first pitch.
Faced 29 Batters
Thereafter, though, the right
hander was magnificent, walk
ing only three batters and retir
ing two of them on double plays.
Only 29 men came to bat.
What was especially remark
able about Trucks' performance
was that he had been out of act
ion since July 11 with a recur
rence of his old shoulder injury.
It was only his fourth victory
against 11 defeats, but it also
was significant that in addition
to his no-hitter and one-hitter
against Washington, he turned
in a two-hitter against Philadel
phia. Big Walt Dropo, hitting
safely in his 11th straight game,
drove in the winning run with
a first inning single and collect
ed two of the four hits off of
Walt Masterson.
Yanks Win Pair
Trucks' tremendous showing
overshadowed the onward
march of the Yankees, who top-j
ped the Indians twice, 7 to 3 and
8 to 1 ,to move five games ahead
of the Red Sox, who defeated
the White Sox 4 to 2 on rookie
Dick Gernerfs two-run, 13th in
ning homer, as Mickey McDer
mott won his sixth game in a re
lief role.
Bitsy Bobby Shantz Of
Athletics scored his 17th victory
against just three defeats 3 to 2
over the Browns on Joe As
troth's two-run tying homer and
Billy Hitchcock's single which
drove in the winning run in the
ninth.
William Howard Taft polled
3,484,956 popular votes in 1912
and got eight electoral votes. In
1936, Alf M. Landon polled 16,
679,583 popular votes and alsa
the i got eight electoral votes.
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