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EIGHT MEDrORD (OREGOW). MAIL TRIBUNE V Tuesday, July 29, I9S2 Marciano Tops Challengers After 2-Round Matthews KO By JACK CUDDY New york (U.R) Chall enger Rocky Marciano, who knocked out Harry Kid Matth ews with three explosive left hooks, looked forward with rel ish Tuesday to his battle for the world heavyweight champ ionship with Jersey Joe Walcott probably in New York on Sept. 24. "I believe I can lick Walcott or any man I step in with," said the jubilant still unbeaten block buster from Brockton, Mass. who belted out Matthews of Seattle at 2:05 of the second round be fore 31,188 in Yankee stadium Monday night. Walcott, 38, who saw the 27-year-old challenger blast Matth ews to the canvas for the full count in his own corner, said, "that Rocky will be a terrible, terrible tough opponent." Disappointing Gate Promoter Jim Norris, disap pointed somewhat at the gate of $215,707, said he would make the September match as soon as possible. It will be staged at a New York ball park if Wal cott's manager, Felix Bocchic chio, can get his New York lic ense renewed. Rather than see the fight go out of the state, Chairman Bob Christenberry of the Boxing Commission may grant renewal despite his objec tions to Bocchicchio's back ground. Meanwhile, Marciano will rest for at least two weeks at Brockton and then return to his training camp at Greenwood Lake, N. Y., and begin prepar ing for his attempt to wrest the heavvweight crown from Wal cott. $52,000 for Rocky . The swarthy challenger will receive about $52,000 for reg istering his 42nd consecutive victory as a professional and his 37th knockout. Handsome brown haired Matthews will also get about "52 grand" for suffering the fourth defeat in his career of 106 fight.s and his second knockout. He hadn't been beat en in his last 70 bouts. Each will get 30 per cent of the net gate. Rocky proved he could take it, as well as dish it out. He received a thorough trouncing during most of the first round. Boxer-puncher Matthews though out - weighed 187 V pounds to 179, repeatedly knocked short armed Rocky back onto his heels with long left jabs. And he countered Rocky's wild right-swing misses with beautiful straight right counters to the head. One of those right counters nailed Marciano so ter- MEDF0RDjf&TRIBUrfS Moore Wins Hardtop Run Don Moore drove to victory in the hardtop main event last Friday at the Medford Speedway in a racing night marred by many aocidents. Moore was trailed by Frank Danley, Bernie Miller, Morris Woods and Herb James. He turn ed the tables on Danley, who finished ahead of him in the sec ond heat. x ' Danley had a better - than-av-erage evening though. He fin ished first in the three-lap trophy dash and in the six-lap final heat. Moore was third in the final heat. Other heat winners were Rusty Phillips, Bernie Miller, and Herb James. The special event was won by Tuni Bulis. Four cars crashed through the fence during the evening. A fifth lost a wheel and drove into the pit. rifically on the chin that it seemed Rocky must go down. But he just kept marching in. Near the end of the first round, he landed several left and right smashes to Matthew's bodys. Kid Takes First The first round was Matthew's by a wide margin, and Rocky returned to his corner with a large mouse under his left eye and his nose bleeding freely. Rocky, the 11-5 favorite, con tinued his bobbing and weaving attack in the second session. Early he landed a left hook that staggered in the scientist from Seattle. Matthews fought back until a minute later Rocky sud denly caught him with another left hook to the head that stunned Harry in his own corn er. With lightning sequence, two more left hooks landed on Matthews' chin and dropped him to his haunches in the corner. He slithered onto his back and tried gamely but unsuccessfully to rise as referee Ray Miller counted him out. Dead line Sunday Classifieds is at noon Saturdays. Sport Wty By - StSTK OSCAR FRALEY Pa ra d e rSsif eUn,,ed PreM yrVL Sports Writer Helsinki (U.R) The Olympic ideologies had another black eye Tuesday and so did basketball referee Vince Farrell of Newark, N.J. Farrell was. the "cause cele bre" and the principal target in the Olympic basketaball tourna ment Monday when what must have been the Uruguayan boxing team found itself dressed in bas ketball togs. The result put the long-awaited U.S.-Russia contest completely in the shade. Too Many Toots Basketball has been warned for a long time that there is just too much whistle blowing. It is believed that Farrell now goes along with that theory. His little whistle touched off a minor riot in the basketball arena appro priately known as "Messu-halli." It sure was. Vince blew so often that the indignant South Americans found themselves with a four man team as they played the French. The whistle screeched again, and now there were only three. Players Blew Back Then the Uruguayans blew. One named Wilfredo Palaez, who looked like a first class middleweight, looped a round house right to Farrell's kisser. Not to be out-done, a frustrated wrestler named Carlos Rossello clamped a rear throat latch on Farrell and body-slammed him on the nice shiny hardwood floor. Farrell lay there stunned and let that be a lesson to basket ball referees and baseball um pires all over the land. All of this the resultant boos of the French fans in the aud ience was too much for a very brave young man named Garcia Otero. I don't know whether there are any more at home like him, but if there are, every fight manager in New York is prob ably on his way to Uruguay right now. For Garcia, tragedy and fierce desire to get into the act stamped clearly on his face, charged the stands and started to work his way right up through the entire assemblage. His left hook needs polishing, but the lad has a fine right cross. It Took 4 Cops Four cops found that out. And it required all of them to drag him from the hall. The Russian-American game which followed had all the fierce flavor of four o'clock tea. You will get more action in a long distance telephone argument and more thrills riding an oxcart. The Americans poured it on and kept pouring it on. When the whistle finally blew maybe the guy was aervous it was Old Glory over the Hammer and Sickle, 86 to 58. Real Chummy There was more handshaking than at a political convention. A lot of "old palsy" hamming for the cameras and everyone was so intent on preventing an "inci dent" that they looked almost apologetic every time they dropped in a field goal. One thing sure, from now on the Uruguayans get all my bas ketball business. Never could stand all that whistle blowing, myself. Coast Star Returned to White Sox Chicago (U.R) Outfielder Jim Rivera probably will 'start in center field against the New York Yankees Tuesday night for the Chicago White Sox, the team which brought him to the major leagues and then sold him down the river to the St. Louis Browns. Browns. Rivera, who won virtually ev ery honor, including Rookie of the Year, in the Pacific Coast League last season, was shuffled off to the Browns in a Decem ber deal to bring Catcher Sher man Lollar to the White Sox. In complicated maneuvering Monday the White Sox sent Out fielder Ray Coleman to the Browns on waivers and sold Catcher J. W. Porter, reported ly a $65,000 bonus player sign ed to the Memphis farm team, from the Colorado Springs, Colo., farm team for an undisclosed sum. For these men, the White Sox received Darrell Johnson, hitting .282 in 28 games with the Browns this year, and Rivera, who batted .255 in 95 games with S. Louis. Both came on waivers. Raniers Trounce WIL Cousins 7-4 Vancouver, B.C. (U.R) The Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League walloped their farmhand cousins of the West ern International League 7-4 be fore 6,000 fans at Vancouver Monday. The Rainiers handed Paul Calvert the exhibition victory as they exploded for four runs in the first inning and coasted home. Calvert allowed only five hits while his mates nicked Capilano pitchers Paul Jones and Van Fletcher for 13 blows. Vico Doubles Seattle put together their four run barrage with a base on balls, George Vico's towering double, another walk, an error and Maddern's double. Catcher Claude Christie was big bat for Seattle going three for five and driving in four runs. Vancouver tied the ball game up 4-4 in the third with two runs after they had added two in the second but Calvert hung on and blanked them the rest of the way. Seattle scored their winning run in the fifth when Al Lyons singled, stole second and came home on Christie's single. Standings W. L. Pet. G.B. Brooklyn . 61 28 .625 New York 57 32 .640 4 St. Louis 55 41 .573 S',i Philadelphia 49 46 .516 15 Chicago 47 47 .500 16 'j Boston 40 53 .430 23 Cincinnati 39 57 .406 25 V2 Pittsburgh . 27 71 .276 38 ',s AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. G.B. New York 57 40 .588 Cleveland 54 43 .587 3 Boston 52 42 .553 3,i Washington 51 45 .531 5i Chicago 51 48 .515 7 Philadelphia 44 45 .494 9 St. Louis 40 59 .404 18 Detroit 34 il .358 22 Dead line Sunday Classifieds is at 5:30 p.m. for following day; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; noon Saturday lor Sunday a.m. In Your House? Now's the Time INSULATE A L ItAHia lCtM t r e wail iiiaixs jvhi iiviii mm v Cooler in Just 2 Hours f EKERSON S 38 So. Barrier Phone 3-3631 You'll Always F Reliability Uniformity Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE FAST. PROMPT DELIVERY MeAndrev Road Phone 2-5271 Tru-Mix Concrete Co. OLYMPIC RECORD Cy Young of Modesto, Calif., hurls the javelin at Helsinki to set a new Olympic record for the event. He tossed it 242 feet 0.S4 inch to give the United States its first javelin victory in history. Hornsby Gets One More Chance; Takes Reds1 Post New Yor k (U.R) Seven weeks after he was ignominously fired by the St. Louis Browns, stone-faced Rogers Hornsby re turned to the big leagues Tues day as the Cincinnati Reds' new manager. Same 01' Rajaw And it was the same old Horns by unyielding in his demands on his players and brooking no interierence from the front of fice, j "I didn't tell Hornsby much about the team," Cincinnati Gen eral Manager Gabe Paul ad mitted as he announced the man agerial change. "I started to but he cut me short. He said, "never mind, I'll wait and see for my self." Ex-Bevo Runs Reds Hornsby will take command of the Reds when they return to Cincinnati on August 5 from their current Eastern swing. Un til then, he will continue his scouting trip while one of the coaches, probably Earl Brucker, runs the team. The signing of Hornsby as tounded the baseball world be cause the one-time great slugger apparently had been "black balled" as a manager when the Browns dropped him on June 10. Brownie President Bill Veeck announced then that the players had presented him with a placque calling the, firing of Hornsby "the greatest play since the Emancipation Proclamation. ' Veeck "Happy" In St. Louis, Veeck said Mon day night that he was "happy to hear that Hornsby had been hired and wished him luck." Paul, in his first year as gen eral manager, said Hornsby's contract runs through 1953 and strongly indicated that Rajah's uncompromising attitude toward the game the reason he was fired by the Browns was the very reason he was hired by the Reds. "He is baseball through and through, and he has demonstrat ed that winning is paramount with him," Paul said in a joint statement with club owner Powell Crosley. U. S. Hookers Score 103 Points in Olympic Runaway Helsinki (U.R) The Unit ed Stales upset Japan to win Ihe Olympic 800-meter relay swimming championship Tues day. The Yanks set a new Olym pic record of 8 minutes 31.1 seconds. It was 14.9 seconds under the 1948 record set by the U.S.. but also broke a mark set .by the Japanese in the 1952 trials. The Japanese" established themselves as firm favorites when they set a new Olympic record of 8 minutes 42.1 sec onds in the semi-finals Mon day. But the Yanks rated as No. 1 challengers with second best qualifying time. Today -he Yank quartet scored the upset that Uncle Sam sorely needs in his race to catch up to Russia's point total. Dead line Sunday Classified la at noon Saturdays. Y OLD ilERMMGE BRAND BRAND "mJCKySTRAlC 8CRB0NWHISIY 5VI10 45 Qr. PINT A . .9 86 PROOF THE OLD HERMITAGE COMPANY, FRANKFORT, KY. By LEO H. PETERSEN Helsinki (U.R) Ttfe powerful defending champion United States basketball team ran up the largest score of the Olympic tournament today by beating Chile, 103-55, for its fourth straight victory, while three American swimming stars quali fied for the 400-meter free-style final. j Ford Konno of Ohio State and Wayne Moore and Jim McLane, both of Yale, were the three American swimming stars quali fied for Wednesday's 400-meter freestyle final as Jean Boiteux of France set a new Olympic record of 4 minutes, 33.1 seconds. Best Time Konno's Another new Olympic mark was set in the women's 100-meter backstroke trials by Geertje Wielema of Holland, who swam the distance in 1:13.8. Konno had the third fastest time of the eight 400-meter free style qualifiers, winning the third heat in 4:38.6. Moore won the second heat in 4:42.0, while McLane just qualified with a 4:42.2 clocking. Boiteux splashed home inches ahead of Per-Olaf Ostrand of Sweden as he won the opening heat and broke the one-day-old record. Miss Wielema led eight quali fiers into Wednesday's 100-meter backstroke semi-finals, bettering the old Olympic standard of 1:14.2 set by Karen Harup of Denmark in the 1948 games at London. Californian In Barbara Stark, Berkeley, Calif., was the only U.S. entry to qualify for the semi-finals, barely getting under the wire with the eighth fastest clocking 1:17.9. Mary Freeman of Wash ington, D.C., and Coralie O'Con nor, Worcester; Mass., failed to make the grade for the semi finals. - Six-foot, nine-inch Clyde Lov- elette, the University gf Kansas All-America center, led the U.S basketball team to victory by stationing himself near the Chilean goal and flipping in 25 point over the heads of the South Americans In women's snrinsboard div ing, Patricia McCormick, Los Angeles, led the field after the first three dives with a total of 42.50 points. Zoe Ann Jensen, LISTEN, YOU! New York Yank ees' Casey Stengel, backed up by Yogi Berra, tells umpire Bill McKinley they don't like his deci sion on a play in the second game of a doubleheader with the Indi ans at Cleveland. Yanks won both games, 7-3, 8-1. OSC Grid Star To Face LA Rams Corvallis (U.R) John Thom as, captain of last year's Oregon State Football team, has been added to the list of college all star players who will meet the world champion Los Angeles Pams in Chicago August 15. Thomas, who also played catcher for two years on the OSC baseball team, is the sec ond Oregon Stater on the all star team. Jim Clark, big guard from Honolulu, was selected ear lier this year. Thomas said he would not play professional football this fall. Instead, he plans to return to Oregon State to complete his last year of baseball eligibility. CAR OVERTURNS A car driven by Melvin R. 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