Prep Gang Slates
AAU Meet Trip
Medford will be well repre
sented when High School Track
Coach Bob Newland takes a crew
of 10 thinclads to Portland for
the AAU track and field meet
Saturday afternoon and evening.
The aggregation will be made
up largely of sophomores. Among
them are Eldon Francis, state
javelin champ; Wally Larson,
hurdler, and Neil Plumley, shot
putter, all members of the state
prep championship squad.
Other sophs will be Les Ling
scheit, miler; Pete Kershaw,
quarter-miler; and Jerry Close,
broad jumper. Lew Breazeale,
vaulter, will be lone junior on
the squad. Ninth graders slated
to go are Mike Russell, hurdler
and quarter-miler; Terry Berg
man, high jumper, and Tom Mer
ton, discus thrower.
Breazeale, Larson and Fran
cis will vie in the high school
division, Plumley in both high
school and junior divisions and
the others in the junior bracket.
Gals' Night Set
At Ashland Track
Ashland Ashland Speedway
will again be the scene of some
topnotch stock car racing when
the hardtops report for duty Sat
urday night.
With a layoff from racing last
week, many of the drivers may
be a little throttle happy this
week. This indicates thrill-packed
racing. The oil track proved a
hit with fans in the last race.
Several gallons of waste oil have
been put on the track, eliminat
ing dust considerably. The track
should be in excellent condition.
The management has an
nounced that Saturday will be
ladies night. All 'adies will be
admitted free.
Hardtops als- lay a part in
the Elks parau4 which will be
held Saturday afternoon. All
drivers who appear in the parade
have been invited to attend the
buffalo barbeque feed of the Ash
land Elks during the state con
vention at the athletic field.
Crock Hunter, winner of the
last main event, will be out to
chalk up his third win of the
season. Ed Butler, who rolled his
car May 18 has his car in tip
top shape and reports he will be
out to win.
RACERS EYE EMIGRANT REGATTA Out
board motorboat skippers of Oregon and
northern California are awaiting Sunday
action in the annual regatta at Emigrant
lake southeast of Ashland. Shown above are
two boats in a previous race, Carl Riiho,
Coquille, leads Pete Mobley, Eugene, around
a buoy in a B utility event. Riiho was one
of last year's winners. This week end's
regatta, sponsored by the Western Speedboat
association and Medford Junior Chamber of
Commerce, will feature eight events. There
will be two contests for fishing boats and six
for the speedier racing hulls. Fishing boat
contention starts at 11 a.m. with speedboats
to take to the water at 1 p.m. Bill Barnes,
Mel and Jerry McGrew and Dick Schauble
are among local racers entered.
Salmon Fishing
Slow on Rogue
Portland (U,P.) The week
ly report on fishing conditions
prepared by the State Game com
mission: SOUTHWEST: Tenmile lake
fair on spinners and worms;
Loon lake good with 'a few bass
also being taken; Smith river
slow; a few salmon in at Win
chester bay; Coquille river fair
to good; south fork of Coos riv
er fair to good; shad fishing on
Coos excellent; red headed fly
and orange bead with silver hook
best for shad.
A few chinook and some large
halibut taken just over Coos
Bay bar.
Lower Rogue slow for sal
mon; trout fishing good on Chet
co, Winchuck, Pistol, Elk and
, Sixes rivers, and fair on Floras
and Garrison lakes; spinners and
worms best.
Chinook fishing slow on mid
dle and upper Rogue; Shady
Cove fair to good for trout; Up
per Umpqua river areas slow;
salmon season closed through
out the system above Highway
38 bridge at Scottsburg May 31.
Roberts on Way
To Big Season
Philadelphia (U.R) No
pitcher ever has won 30 games
for a second- division team but
don't put it past Robin Roberts
of the Phillies.
Roberts scored his eighth win
of ' the season ' Wednesday night
when he hurled the Phillies to
a 3-1 decision over the Cubs.
In 1952 when he won 28 games
Roberts didn't score his eighth
victory until June 20 when he
made his record 8-5. His current
mark is 8-3.
Harris, List Take 4th
Spot in ABC Tourney
Fort Wayne, Ind. (U.R) A
fourth place change in doubles
competition marked the first
major shift in nearly a month in
standings at the American Bowl
ing Congress tournament.
Bob Harris and Fred List, San
Antonio, Tex., put together a
1293 tally yesterday for a spot
in the top doubles bracket. List,
29, had a 713 series for his fifth
ABC tournament. It was the third
try for Harris, 34, who turned in
a 580 series.
MedfordWTribune
sipoDimrs
Bisplinghoff Defeats Cudd
In British Amateur Hassle
St. Annes, England (U.R)
Walker cupper Bruce Cudd of
Portland, Ore., lost out today
in the fifth round of the British
Amateur Golf tournament to a
fellow American.
Cudd dropped a 4 and 2 de
cision to Don Bisplinghoff, a
20-year-old player from Orlan
do, Fla. Earlier today, Cudd
defeated Arthur Walker of
South Africa. 1-up.
St. Annes, England (U.R)
Nine American golfers, led by
Billy Joe Patton and Don Bis
plinghoff, swept in the fifth
round of the British amateur
championships today by winning
their morning matches.
Only two of the 11 Americans
who gained the fourth round
yesterday were beaten this morn-
MEDFORD GUN CLUB SHARES
ROLE OF CONVENTION HOST
Medford will share some of
Ashland's role of host this week
end for the Oregon State Elks
lodge convention.
Elks will hold their state shoot
at Medford Gun club on Satur-
RVCC Linksmen
In Open Play-Off
Pairings nd tee-off times for
11 Rogue Valley Country club
representatives have been set
for the play-off to determine Ore
gon entries in the U. S. Open
Golf tourney at San Francisco
June 16, 17 and 18.
Oregon linksmen will contend
on Monday at Waverly Country
club in Portland for seven berths
in the national.
Listed from Rogue Valley for
the play are George E. Harring
ton, Alan Artach, Clayton Lewis,
Dr. Bruce Stanley, Ed Simmons,
Ed Terrell, Harry Millette, Vince
Aleksa, Al Williams, Larry But
ler and Carl Schmidt.
DALLAS OWNER DIES
Gladewater, Tex. (U.R) Fun
eral arrangements were expected
to be announced today for R. W.
(Dick) Burnett, a ruddy, one
time country boy who enjoyed
dabbling in baseball as much as
he did in building up oil for
tunes. The portly 57-year-old
Burnett, who paid an estimated
$600,000 for. the Dallas Texas
League franchise and then
poured nearly that much again
into the club, died unexpectedly
of a heart attack in a Shreve
port, La., hotel room Wednesday.
Catcher Ron Bottler
Suffers Arm Fracture
Portland (U.R) Ron Bottler,
the promising young catcher who
was farmed by the Portland
Beavers to Columbus, Ga., of the
Sally League, has suffered a
broken left arm, Bevo General
Manager Joe Ziegler said today.
Bottler was hurt on a play at
the plate. Ziegler said Bottler,
who had become the team's No.
1 catcher, would remain in the
South while the arm mends.
Ron Aschbacher Signs
Forty-Niner Contract
Corvallis (U.R) Ron Asch
bacher, all-coast tackle at Ore
gon State last fall, yesterday
signed a contract to play pro
fessional football with the San
Francisco 49'ers.
Deai line Sunday Classified la at
roan Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday tot
Monday: othsr days 8:30 previous day.
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Saturday, June 4
Posse Grounds
MEDFORD
Time
Trials
7 P.M.
Races
8 P.M.
A Thrill
a Minute!
Loads of
Excitement
for All!
Sponsored By
Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce
day and have been invited to
compete in the annual Mail
Tribune trapshoot on Sunday.
Shooting in the Elks rivalry
will begin at 10 a.m. Saturday
with 100 targets at 16 yards, 100
handicap birds and 25 pairs of
doubles. Five-man teams will
battle also for the various lodges
with scores to depend on per
formances in the 16-yard and
handicap individual events.
Klamath Falls perpetual trophy
goes to high team in 16-yard
firing.
For individuals in 16-yard ac
tivity there will be trophies to
winners in each class. In the
handicap a trophy will be pre
sented to winner and runner up
while high gun gets doubles
hardware. There will be a high
overall award.
The Mail Tribune shoot will
be registered under the Pacific
International Trap shooting as
sociation. Shooters will vie for
the Mail Tribune trophy in the
100-yard 16-yard shoot. Trophies
go to winners and runners-up in
each class, to high lady and high
junior. The Mendenhall trophy
is awarded to high gun for Class
B and lower.
Second event Sunday will be
the $300 Medford handicap.
There will be hardware for win
ner and runner-up in each class
of the doubles.
Shooters will be competing
for the 22nd time for the Mail
Tribune prize.
ing.
Patton. the Walker Cup star
from Morganton, N.C., led all
the way while ousting England's
Jackie Jones, 5 and 4. Bispling
hoff, a husky 20-year-old from
Orlando. Fla.. co-favored with
Patton for the title, trailed John
Niven of England by three holes
after the 13th but swept the last
five to win, 2 up.
Bruce Cudd, the 21-year-old
Walker Cupper from Portland,
Ore., was the other U.S. winner
who had to sweat out his victory
on the Royal Ltham and St.
Annes course. Cudd had to play
20 holes to defeat Arthur Walk
er of South Africa, 1 up.
Conrad, Jackson Din
Lt. Joe Conrad of San Anton
io,T ex., and Jim Jackson of
Glendale, Mo., two other Walk
er cuppers, won easily.
Jim McHale of Wynnewood,
Pa.; Cpl. James Bernard of West
bury, Mass.; George Coleman of
Miami, Okla.; and Barton Bridge
port of San Francisco were the
other Americans who won their
morning matches.
Three Americans were elimin
ated in the second round Wed
nesday morning and eight in the
third round in the afternoon,
two of the latter group by fellow-Americans.
Among the most
prominent U.S. casualties of the
Wednesday firing were Frank
Strafaci of Mineola, N.Y., seven-time
metropolitan New York
amateur champion, and Charles
Chick Evans Jr., of Chicago, for
mer U.S. Open and Amateur
champion.
' Thursday, June 2, 19SS
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUrTB THIHTEEK
Rogue Valley QTs
Play Rose burg Here
On Night of June 16
The Rogue Valley QTs, girls
Softball team from Eagle Point,
will play the Roseburg Lumber
jills at Fairgrounds park here
on Thursday night, June 16, it
was announced today.
The game, to start at 6:30
p.m., will be a preliminary to
another girls' game pitting Erv
Lind Florists of Portland and
Klamath Falls, Oregon girls'
champions.
The Lumberjills finished
fourth in the state softball tour
nament for the past two years,
and along with the Rogue Val
ley team, are again strong con
tenders for the championship.
The Medford game will give fans
an idea as to how the two clubs
will stack up in tourney play.
The Lumberjills boast several
all-state players who are dia
mond veterans. Last year the
QTs won two out of three games
from the Roseburg team.
Local fans will have an op
portunity to see the top two
Oregon girls', teams in action
when the Florists and Klamath
collide at 8 p.m. The Florists
are former world champions and
are regarded as having an ex
cellent chance to regain the title
during the world tournament at
Portland later this summer.
Klamath Falls, which won the
state championship last yeax, is
given an excellent chance to re
peat this year.
HOGUE OPTIONED
Pittsburgh (U.R) The Pitts-"
burgh Pirates today sent-righthander
Cal Hogue to Williams
port of the Class A Eastern
League on option. Hogue had
just rejoined the Pirates Wednes
day from Hollywood of the Pa
cific Coast League, where his
record was one victory and no
defeats.
MOORE CONFIDENT
Summit, ,N. J. (U.R) Light
heavyweight champion Archie
Moore, in training here for his
title bout with Carl Bobo Olson
in New York's Polo Grounds,
June 22, said today he is con
fident he . "can lick Olson."
Moore did not box Wednesday
but plans workouts for the next
four days.
Tests Show Stimulant;
Race Couple Suspended
Portland (U.R) A Portland
couple has been suspended from
racing mounts at Portland Mead
ows as a result of tests which
showed the presence of a stimu
lant in one of their entries. Sus
pended were Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Leigh of Portland. The trainer,
Ed Crosson, also was suspended.
Cecil Edwards, presiding stew
ard for the Oregon State Racing
Commission, said tests on Pic
nicker, winner of the fourth
Memorial Day race, showed def
inite evidence that the horse had
been stimulated.
Dead line Sunday Classified 1 at
noon Saturday : 10 ajn. Monday for
Monday: other days 5:30 oreviousday
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land exposition-recreation com
mission is studying a proposal to
buy Portland Meadows and the
speedway as a possible addition
to the Vanport recreation site.
Saturday, June 4 .
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