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K-fV RETAINS DECATHLON TITLE Bob Mathias of the United States is shown above taking a mighty leap in the broadjump event of the decathlon, which he won for the second time in a row Saturday by piling up a new record number of points. Math ias, the United States decathlon champ, also won the Olympic crown as a teenager in 1948. California Town Goes Wild As Mathias Wins Decathlon Tulare. Calif. (U.R) Jubil ant Tulare residents held their wildest celebration since 1948 Saturday after the number one citizen, Bob Mathias, set a new world decathlon record at the Olympics. Bedlam broke loose as the news of Mathias' triumph rip pled through the community of 12,000 persons. Excited citizens rushed into the downtown sec tion and began parading. Sirens wailed, whistles screeched and a huge fog horn was turned on full-force to noti fy farmers and nearby cities that the 21-year-old Stanford athlete had won the gruelling test for the second straight time. Bob's mother, Mrs. Lillian Mathias. who had been waiting in the Elks clubroom in a down town hotel immediately burst into tears when informed by the United Press that her son had won the event. "It's just wonderful ... I knew he would do it," she cried. I felt he would come through even if he had to do it with one leg." Mrs. Mathias was so overcome with emotion that relatives had to take her to a deserted office In the hotel as the celebration swung into high gear. "He certainly did a good day's work." declared Bob's father, Dr. Charles Mathias. "It was wonderful." It was the second celebration for Tulare residents this week. The first started Tuesday morn ing when another home town boy and high school classmate of Mathias, Sim Iness, shattered the Olympic discus record. The town's largest fire truck led a parade of several hundred cars through the city Saturday as aerial smoke bombs and fire crackers were exploded to add to the confusion and general hi larity of the occasion. Officials said the festivities did not equal the celebration held in 1948 when Mathias won the 10-event grind in London for the first time. However, Mayor Tom Drilling predicted that "we'll really let go" during a home-coming "spree" for Math ias an Iness. "All of Tulare is deliriously happy with the realization that we have two of the outstanding athletes of all time," he said. Mathias Wins Olympic Decathlon Championship With New Point Record Helsinki (U.R) Bob Mathias of Tulare, Calif., won the Olym pic decathlon championship for the second straight time Satur day. His left thigh was swathed in bandages because of a pinched muscle, but he battled his way through the 10-event grind over the two day period just as he did in the 1948 games at London. - He had piled up 7,599 points after the ninth event and then won his title in the final event the 1,500 meter run. His victory smashed the rec ord for the most gold medals the U. S. has ever won in an Olym piad. This was the 13th, and heretofore the most the Yanks had won was 12. Mathias scored a world record of 7,887 points to win. Milton Campbell of Plainfield, N. J., ranked second and Floyd Simmons of Los Angeles third. For 10 hours Friday he bat tled through five events the 100-meter dash, the broad jump, the shot put, the high jump and the 400-meter run. Again Satur day he and the 28 other hopefuls were herded from jumping pit to running track and back in the high hurdles, the discus, the pole vault, the javelin and finally the 1,500. He did the 110-meter hurdles in 14.7 seconds Saturday, the discus with 153 feet 10.20 inches, the pole vault in 13 feet 1.68 inches, the javelin with 194 feet 3.60 inches and then the 1,500 in 4 minutes 50.8 seconds. Friday he was 10.9 seconds in the 100, 22 feet 10.8 inches in the broad jump, 50 feet 2.28 inches in the shot, six feet 1.92 inches in the high jump and 50.2 seconds in the 400. Tommy Kono of Sacramento, Calif., who said "I'd promised my girl I'd win," smashed Rus sian domination of weight-lifting tdoay when he set a new world's record in winning the light weight divison championship. Kono set a world record of 257.73 pounds for the snatch exercise and set an Olympic record of 797i pounds for the overall competition. Campbell got second in the decathlon with 6,975 points. Sim mons was third with 6,788 and Vladimir Volkov of Russia fourth with 6.674. The biggest surprise Saturday however, came when Bob Me Millen of Los Angeles pulled up a surprising second to Victor Joseph Barthel of Luxembourg in the 1,500 meters the metric mile. Both were clocked in the new Olympic record time of 3 minutes 45.2 seconds. Portland Women Lose In Olympics Swimming Helsinki (U.R) Two Port land, Ore., swimmers failed to qualify Saturday in semi-finals of the 200-meter breaststroke as the swimming part of the 1952 Olympics got underway. Judy Cornell of Portland fin ished fifth in her heat of the event while Mrs. Delia Sehorn, also of Portland, was sixth in another. Bevos Top Pads In 12 Innings San Diego (U.R) The Port land Beavers used three pitchers to down the San Diego Padres, 6 to 5, Saturday in a hard-fought 12-inning game to clinch the series. The Beavers, who got off to a slow start while the Padres rolled up three counters in the first two innings, tied the battle in the seventh at 3 to, 3. They pushed across three more runs in the 12th inning and then held the Padres to two runs in the last half of that frame to take the win. The victory went to Hurler Royce Lint who collected his fourth win over the Padres. San Diego jumped into the lead in the first inning when Jack Tobin singled and scored on Herb Gorman's double to left field. The Padres further saddened the Beavers by making it 3 to 0 in the second when Lon Summers doubled, Lou Stringer walked and Whitey Wietelmann singled to load the bases. Pitcher Theolic Smith's infield force out scored Summers and Tobin singled in Stringer. Portland scored in the third when Aaron Robinson hit his first home run. Jackson County Gridders Slate Practice tor B All-Star Game Four Jackson county high school youths will participate in the first annual Oregon Shrine East-West Class B foot ball game to be held at Pendle ton on August 30. They are Junior Taylor, Jack sonville: and Leo Schmelzer, Keith Bayne and Max Hite, Phoenix. Jack Woodward, Phoe nix coach, who was slated to be an assistant on the Western coaching staff, will be unable to participate. Ticket sales for the first foot ball meet of the B schools were high last Friday, according to the Pendleton Chamber of Com merce, with nearly all of the Standings w. .5 L. 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Talent, and Phoenix Admission: . . Adults $1.00-Children (under 12) 50c 5,000 grandstand seats gone. Some 10,000 bleacher seats will be available at the game, how ever. A pageant is planned both be fore and after the game with the newest program addition being the army drill team from the 89th Squadron at the Portland air base. Practice for the coming con test is scheduled to begin about two weeks before the game with the eastern squad working out at La Grande and western squad on the Pendleton Round-Up field. Nege Sailors Union Dispute otiations Continue San Francisco (U.R) Rep resentatives of the AFL Sailor's Union of the Pacific and the Pac ific Maritime Assn., were con tinued joint negotiations Satur day in an effort to halt the 60 day old West Coast shipping strike. At the conclusion of Friday af ternoon's five - hour session Fed eral Conciliator Omar Hoskins reported "very slight progress." Hoskins said special attention had been given the "scope of work" issue. US Davis Cuppers Defeat Japanese In Zone Matches Cincinnati (U.PJ The U. S. doubles team of Gardnar Mul loy of Coral Gables, Fla., and Billy Talbert of New York elim inated Japan from 1952 Davis Cup tennis play Saturday when they scored a 6-2, 3-6, 6-3, 6-2 victory over Jiro Kumamaru and Fumitero Nakano. The United States team won the first two singles matches of the North American zone com petition yesterday when Art Larsen of San Leandro, Calif., beat Kamamaru and Vic Seixas of' Philadelphia defated Atsuki Miyagi. Mulloy and Talbert, four-time national doubles champions, ex ploited Kumamaru's strained left Achille's tendon to win de cisive points throughout the match. At no time, however, was the American team able to dom inate the experienced Japanese pair. A crowd of 1,500 saw the matches in 90-degree heat at the Cincinnati Tennis club's clay courts. Sunday, July 871952 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE Karpel Scheduled to Start On Mound Against Coquille Herb Karpel, veteran major and Pacific coast league, left hander, will be making his first Medford start today since join ing the Cheney Studs earlier in the season, according to Manag er Paul (Hoosier) Hoffard. The Studs will meet the Co quille nine at 2 o'clock this aft ernoon at the Medford fair grounds park. The local men will be attempt ing to break into second place currently held by Coos Bay North Bend team by the slim margin of eight percentage points over the Studs. Karpel has delivered his styl ish offerings in the uniforms of the New York Yankees of the American league and Hollywood and Seattle in the coast league. His specialty is good control alt ered with a knuckle ball that is "full of stuff." Also playing in his first league series before a home crowd is Outfielder Don Fawcett, ex-Med-ford high school ace. Fawcett was a star player and team cap tain on the school's basketball team during 1942-43, and held down second base on the baseball team. He joined the team Dodgers, Yanks Face Chance Of Losing Big League Leads New York (U.R) The Brook-. lyn Dodgers and New York Yankees, who only recently were thinking in terms of run away pennant races, were faced Saturday with losing streaks which were mounting to serious proportions. The St. Louis Cardinals again dumped the Dodgers, 5 to 3, sending them down to their fourth loss in five games while the Detroit Tigers on the wings of Steve Souchock's grand-slam homer, beat the Yankees, 10 to 6, in 11 innings and tagged them with their fourth consecutive defeat. The Yankees thereby equalled their longest losing streak since Casey Stengel be came their manager four years ago. The New York Giants, strug gling to remain within striking distance of the Dodgers, took advantage of the Cardinal vie tory by beating the Cincinnati Reds, 7 to 2. As a result, they moved to within 41, games of the leaders. The Yankees, however, main tained their four-game edge over the Red Sox when the St. Louis Browns beat Boston, 7 to 2. Dave Madison, a former Yankee, scored his third victory of the Los Angeles Rams Lose Valuables to Thieves Redlands, Calif. (U.R) Players on the Los Angeles Rams professional football team were robbed of several thousand dol lars in rings, watches and cash when a thief raided their lock ers at the University of Red- lands football field. Tex Schramm, Rams official, said the theft occurred while the gridders were in a practice session. season for the Browns all three of which were over the Red Sox. The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Chicago Cubs, 7 to 2, and the Pittsburgh Pirates downed the Boston Braves, 6 to 4, in other National League games while the Washington Senators out scrambled the Cleveland Indians, 11 to 10, and the Chicago White Sox defeated the Philadelphia A's, 9 to 3, in other American League games. There were no night games scheduled. Solons Bounce Hollywood 4-1 Hollywood (U.R) The Sacramento Solons put another dent in Hollywood's Pacific Coast league lead Saturday when they bunched seven hits to crush the Stars 4 to 1. The Sacs, anchored to the league's cellar, took their sec ond win of the series to trim Hollwood's already precarious lead over second - place Oak land. Sacramento opened the scor ing in the third inning When Richie Myers singled to left and scored on Bob Dillinger's double to right field. Gino Restelli blasted a four staffer over the left field wall in the sixth for the Solon's sec ond tally. In the seventh, Eddie ' Bock man and Jim McKeegan reach ed base on singles, advanced on a sacrifice by Pitcher Glen El liott, and Bockman scored on a wild throw to third by Holly wood Hurler Larry Shepard. McKeegan brought in the fourth run on Bob Dillinger's fly to center. Eddie Malone saved the Stars from a shutout in the final frame when he connected for a home run and Hollywood's only score. after the end of the school term at Kansas City, Mo., medical school where he is enrolled. In his initial fray last week against .Roseburg. he connected at the plate with seven for nine and displayed fielding knowhow. Coquille is currently in sixth place in the Southwest Oregon league, with a hefty lead over cellar. - dwelling Brookings. The two teams met last night under the lights for the first of the two game series. Eel's Fatal Itinerary Causes Snarl of Traffic Newbury, Mass. (U.R) The fatal itinerary of an 18-inch eel caused a 20-minute traffic snarl on the Newburyport Turnpike. 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