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Tony Trabert Clay Court Not Winner " Haverford, Pa, (U.R) Tony Trabert, who only Sunday gain ed his third straight major title in the National Clay Courts championship to boost his cam paign for world tennis leader ship, was top-seeded in the 56th annual Pennsylvania State Lawn Tennis championships starting today. . The 24-year-old ace from Cin cinnati again displayed his best form as he whipped defending champion Bernard (Tut) Bartzen in straight sets, 10-8, 6-1, 6-4 in the Clay Courts final at Atlanta. Thus terrific Tony added that national crown to the French National championship and the Wimbledon championship that he won on his recent European tour. Blonde Louise Brough of Bev erly Hills, Calif., recent winner of the women's Wimbledon championship, was seeded first here in women's singles. Second -seeded Mrs. Dorothy Head Knode, of Alameda, Calif., won the women's Clay Courts championship by upsetting top seeded Barbara Breit of North Hollywood, Calif., 6-4, 6-3. : In other Clay Courts finals, Trabert and Ham Richardson of Baton Rouge, La., won the men's doubles by beating Bart- 1 pjj:. Ifn.jlin nf Ttl. ton, N.J., 6-1, 6-2; Sam Giam mala of Houston; Tex., and Yola Ramirez of Mexico City won the women's doubles by beating Tmr Mn of Modesto. Calif.. and Janet Hopps of Seattle, 6-3, 3-6, 6-3; and Bryan (Bitsy) Grant of Atalnta won the seniors title by beating Jack Staton of St. Petersburg, Fla., 6-0, 6-4. The Dalles Takes Legi lion Mantlfe Br UNITED PRESS Urness Motors of The Dalles won the deciding game of a three-game series from Vale's American, Legion Junior base ball team , yesterday to capture the area 1 title and the right to meet either Milwaukie or Grant in a semi-final series. The Dalles came back to whip Vale 14-5 yesterday in the sec ond game at Vale yesterday aft er dropping the opener 20-6. Benny-Peterson, who pitched for The Dalles in its 7-1 win Satur day night came back to hurl Sunday's second game win. Milwaukie defeated Grant 5-2 vesterdav to oush the series into a one-one tie with the deciding game tonight Albany won the Area 2 playoffs yesterday, with an 8-6 victory over Salem. JUNIOR QUALIFYING Br UNITED PRESS Sectional qualifying . tourna ments today at Washington, D.C., Indianapolis, Detroit, Columbus, Seattle, and Milwaukee open the eighth annual battle for the U. S. Junior Amateur golf champion ship, limited to players less than 18 years old. A total of 114 youngsters were scheduled to compete in today's tourney, with only 19 of them earning bert; in the championship tournament at Purdue University's South Course, West Lafayette, Ind., Aug. 3-6. Catholics Planning Global Coordination Rio De Janeiro U.PJ Catho lics attending the 36th Interna tional Eucharistic congress met in special sessions today to plan global coordination in the far flung activities of the 31 world Catholic groups. With the congress still in its preliminary phase, today's gen eral program focused on the 'conference of the international Catholic organizations, a lay group meeting concurrently with the congress. ' Congress activities began with a colorful three-hour procession Sunday. The solemn opening, . liuwcvci , uub suimuitu un til Tuesday night when visiting cardinals take their thrones on the huge congress altar. Theyll Do It Every aenroiF MAr Z?WwmSS POTUOOKS-rfs HOT TtiAT I . uQT-rjZTh. Lcotfr TRUST XXJ.BUT WILL VOU SWE4R HIS SECRETARY ( Y?iarr to A YJORDASOUT OU2. 9MEAR TO SECRECY WHEM tfBC3CTl4TlCIS WERE UNDER WAV TOAt3ME.TWE BUSINESS Tin minutes L4TER HE WAtSELF IS BROADCASTING IT TO EVERY 60D WTTrJlhJ SHOUTING, DISTANCE XUAUt axoa-npoa- MedfordJSTribune Fred Arnberg Main; Pollard Spectacular thrills were miss ing but there was a .wealth' of hard, furious driving as Fred Arnberg won the main, Joe El lison copped his first trophy dash in two years of racing and Art Pollard shattered the track record Saturday night in hard top auto races at, the Jackson county speedway. ' r . Arneberg took the lead early in the main- and the rest of the race was pretty much like a wind-up toy although there was Fletcher Takes Pistol Diadem Portland OI.R) W. E. Fletch er, Bremerton, scored 2565 points out of a possible 2700 here yesterday to win the Paci fic Northwest Pistol, champion ship and the right to represent the region in the national pistol meet at Camp Perry, O., Aug. 29. Donald Thome, also Bremer ton, finished second in the matches which were sponsored by the National Rifle association. Defending champion Gertrude Backstrom, Hoquiam, placed third. Portland revolver club num ber one took the team champion ship in the .45-caliber class. The expert class" was led by Kenneth Wyatt, Lewiston, Ida. Best sharpshooter was Charles Keeler, Opportunity, Wash., and James Eokormy, Grants Pass, Ore., took marksman honors. Cary Middlecoff Gains Golf Toga Milwaukee, Wis. (U.R) Middlecoff said today he "wasn't looking forward to" the PGA Golf Tournament despite the "best 72 holes I ever played" in winning the $35,000 Miller open. Middlecoff .came home 15 un der par in 265 with a bevy of birdies Sunday to overcome a double bogie and win first prize of $6,000 and a new automobile. SWEDEN QUALIFIES Baastad, Sweden U.R) Swe den qualified to meet Italy in the European - zone Davis Cup tennis finals yesterday when it defeated Chile, three games to two, on Sven - Davidson's 6-1, 6-1, 6-3 triumph over Adres Hammersley in the "fifth and decisive match. ROWING TRIALS SET Philadelphia (U.R) The . 1956 Olympic heavyweight rowing tryouts will be held during next year's national regatta at Syra cuse, N.Y., it was announced today. MAC VICTOR . Pasco, Wash. (U.R) Mult nomah Athletic Club of Port land won the Washington State Open swim meet here yesterday by piling up 364V& points, to 174 for the Aero club, also of Portland. . . . League Leaders AMERICAN LEAGUE Player and Club G AB Kaline. Det. 86 348 Fox. Chicago 86 349 Kuenn. Det. 77 323 Smith. Cleve. 89 365 R H- 78 128 54 114 56 105 70 115 52 100 Pct .368 .327 -.325 .315 .310 Power, K. C. 81 323 NATIONAL LEAGUE Campnla. Bkn. 67 249 Snider. Bkn. 86 320 Kluzwski, Cln. 84 330 Ashburn. Phil. 78 299 Burgess. Cin. 62 222 45 86 78 104 61 107 50 97 38 71 .345 .325 .324 .324 .320 Home runs Snider. Dodgers 31: KJuszewski. Redlegs 29; Mays. Giants 27; Banks. Cubs 26: Post Redlegs 23. Runs Batted In Snider. Dodgers 93;. Jensen. Red Sox 73; Kaline. Tigers 71; KluszewsH. Redlegs 68; Musial. Card inals. 67. - Runs Snider. Dodgers 78: Kaline, Tigers 78; 'Mantle, Yankees 77; Smith, Indians 70; B niton. Braves 67. . . . Hits Kaline. Tigers 128; Smith. In dians 115; Fox. White Sox 114: Aaron, Braves 114; Mueller. Giants 111. - Pitching Newcombe. Dodgers 15-1; Donovan, White Sox 1212: Labine. Dodgers 9-2; - Byrne. Yankees -7-2; Hoc ft. Tigers 9-3; Loes. Dodgers 9-3. Time . VAtOVWjQTtiE PLANT TO NOME T-i) m , -v i i i i . n i "Wf YEP NEXT STOP.HOME THE W YZXyterJ,. : " WHOLE OUTFIT IS AtOVWS THERE V) SAV, V7 ? Nabs Hardtop Sets Mark some lapping and a few cars strewn around the track during the race. Roy Deutschman's car was blazing underneath at the end of the romp. It was Arn berg's first main victory in sev eral year's racing here. The track, soaked by the wa ter wagon before the fourth heat, was a bit precarious for a couple of races even though cars work ed the H2-0 into the dirt. But by the main the drivers had a good oval to battle on. Del Graves was second in the mam event, Bob Jenkins third and Jack McCoy, newly return ed to the oval, fourth. McCoy took over M39, in place of Bob Christie who could not be on hand. , Pollard circled the track in time trials in 19.70 seconds, shattering the record of 19.80 set last week by Johnny Boom er. Ellison's trophy was in the B event. "The A trophy went to Lou Donelan. Bud Clarke drove to victory in the B main. Jerry Jennings was second, Morrie Wood third and Johnny Jones fourth.' , Neil Wooldridge captured the first heat taking advantage of a number of spin outs and of tired cars. C. E. McGilvery was sec ond and Bill Metzger third. Cec il James was winner of the sec ond heat, and was trailed by Monte Hall and Lee Hamilton. Lou Kurz took the third heat by practically half a lap over Wayne Lemley who was second. Donelan was third. Whitey Dage won the- slippery fourth race. Pollard was second. Kurz gave a special apprecia tion trophy, to his faithful pit man, George Folck. The pre sentatien was made by trophy girl, Pat Minnis. Government Report Demands Expensive Washington (U.R) -A .Hoover commission task force said today the country could save millions of dollars and a vast amount of wear and tear and time if Uncle Sam would stop asking business men and farmers so many ques tions. As of . now'" the government makes 4700 reporting demands of industry. Cut out or simplify just 25 of them, the task force told Congress, and savings would amount to $100,000,000 a year for industry and govern ment. . Mountains of information de manded by the government nev er is used for anything,' the task force reported, and some of the questions such as how many chickens will you sell next year? just can't be answered. Nearly 1,000,000 reports are sent to the government every year reporting, the task force said, that the reporter had noth ing to report. 'Besides s a Vi n g everybody's money, the report added, a dras tic slash in 'the "wilderness of reports, forms, and question ings"" would be' a welcome 're lief to the persons who have to cope with them. Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) Right hander Marion Fncano was re called by the Kansas Citv Ath letics today from Indianapolis of tne American Association where he compiled a 3-3 record since being farmed out by the A's in May. Portland (U.R) Matchmaker Tex Salkeld said todav that to- night's scheduled heavyweight iignt here between Johnny Ar thur and Bob Dunlap had been postponed indefinitely " because of the death of Dunlap's father in Oklahoma City.- By . Jimmy Hatlo ALlTUlll V I EVER DICTATED WAS W KEN STRICTLY I', CONFIDENTIAL., MR. BIGDOME OF Camp White Loses Fray To Glendale Two runs in the 11th inning yesterday spoiled Camp White's hopes of a second Rogue Val ley baseball league victory over loop leading Glendale. A hit, walk and error in the second extra, panel gave ' Glen dale an 8 to 6 verdict. Camp White led 6 to 5 going into the ninth but a couple of errors enabled Glendale to knot the fray and send it into over time. Duane Miller, Glendale chucker got stronger as the tussle progressed and held Camp White hitless in the last five in nings. Before that he yielded a home run to Don Mintz. . SHORT SCORES: R H E Glendale .J :... 8 13 6 Camp White 6 7 5 Miller and Munyon; McLaugh lin and Garner. ' Bob Baker Picked Over Rex Layne West Jordan,' Utah (U.R) Bob Baker of Pittsburgh was a 7 to 5 favorite to defeat Utah's Rex Layne tonight in their 10 round heavyweight fight. " Both are expected to weigh in at about 205 pounds. Baker, the second ranking heavyweight challenger behind Archie Moore, was shooting for a repeat of his victory over the Utah boxer at Brooklyn's East ern Parkway arena. Layne's best chance appeared to rest on Baker suffering a re currence of old hand injuries. New York U.R) Welter weight Pat Lowry of Detroit is favored at 9-5 to beat Sugar Al Wilson of Englewood, N.J., to night in their TV 10-rounder at St Nicholas arena. r Harbert, Burkemo Eyed In PGA Titular Play Northville, Mich. (JJ.E) Golf's top play for pay boys started a mass migration, to the Meadowbrook Country, club to day, determined to crack Michi gan's two-year , stranglehold on the PGA champions. The 37th annual PGA gets underway, on Wednesday with Chick Harbert and .Walter Bur kemo, ' a couple of local pros, marked men. . . Harbert and Burkemo are but two of the 142 who will tee off in the gruelling seven-day event. GET TOP With western sales up 38 over last j year, we've scrapped our objectives and doubled ouroal! We're upping our orders in every popular Mercury series for a volume drive that beats anything in history! The lid goes off on trade-in offers! If you can afford any new car', you can step up to big-car luxury in the handsomest Mercury ever built! Drive a Mercury Custom 2-Door for less than' the cost of many models in the low price field. Or pay a few dollars more and own an advance-styled Mercury Monterey with dual exhausts as standard equipment You'll even get tremendous savings on die new 198 h.p. Montclair series . . . Mercury's lowest CP-Med Legion Slaps Ashland Fifth Time First foe of Central Point-Med-ford in interdistrict play-offs in American Legion junior baseball was still in doubt today. ; The locals will meet the victor of the. Roseburg-North Bend best two of three series. Roseburg took the first mix in that play off 4 to 1 over the week end. The two clubs play . twice at Roseburg today. ' ; Should Roseburg take the NB series, it will come here for a Wednesday game and the CP Meds will travel to Roseburg Thursday for two or ; three games. If-North Bend wins the two today, Central Point-Med-ford will go to the coast town for two or- three scuffles Wed nesday and Thursday.. Victor in the play-off involv ing the locals likely will play Albany in state semi-finals. Central Point-Medford surged for four runs, including Paul Eckel's tremendous homer, in a big fifth inning to defeat Ash land 6 to 3 in a non-district Am erican Legion - junior . baseball hassle at the fairgrounds yester day. - The CP-Meds overcame a 1 to 3 deficit with the splurge and turned back the Ashlanders for the fifth time; this season. All of the runs in the big in ning effort were unearned, how ever, and came with two men out. Larry Perkins drew a base on balls off hurler Dale Walter. He stole second and went to third on a wild pitch. -In the meantime, Gordon Owsley, had flied out. Then Ed Reinking flied to left field. Little Fred Helm made the catch and threw to. Short stop ' Jim McAbee, - whose relay home was in time but Catcher Phil Sword dropped the ball when Perkins, slammed into him. The Medford runner was safe on the error. That launched the run parade. Next came Paul Eckel's round tripper,, a towering blast over the left field fence and one of the most tremendous hits which has been seen at the fairgrounds. Dick. McLaughlin was hit by a pitch and scored on a twoj-bag-ger by Eldon Francis. Laval Meunier then singled .. Francis home; ". ; V Eckel also swatted a triple in the first of .three official batting turns. It drove in Reinking who got on base on an error in the DOLLAR FOR YOUR PRESENT CAR WHILE OUR Monday, July 18. 1955 third canto. Back-to-back doubles by Duane Sides -and Perkins in the sixth inning brought in the final CP-Med. tally. Ashland Scow , Ashland got its first run in the second inning as Ray Weinhold singled and Pete Cotton sacri ficed. Second Baseman Perkins made the putout and threw to I second but there was no one on hand to take the toss.. Wein hold scored on the error. . The Lithians reached Pitcher Henry Putney for three extra base hits in the third inning for two runs. Mark Fitch and Ron Weinhold tripled and Jim Mc Abee doubled. Ashland made only one other serious, threat in the contest. That was in the fifth inning when Gordy Thore son singled, stole second and1 went to third on an error. How ever, Sides,: CP-Med.'s second pitcher of the day, fanned the next two batters and the next flied out,. -: , - Putney, Sides and Fred Herr man each pitched three innings for the home club. Putney gave up four hits,' fanned three and walked two. Sides was reached for only one hit, whiffed three and walked two. Herman yield ed a lone hit, struck out four and walked none. Perkins for CP-Med. and Mc Abee each hit two for four. Rein king made a sensational catch for a '. putout in centerfield. Gordy Thoreson's fly looked as if it woufd drop in for a hit but Reinking made a diving, tumbling snag at shoestring lev el. ' r . .- , BOX: 0 Ashland ab r h- po a Thoreson. 2b, ss 4 0 114 Ron Weinhold. 3b 3 1 ' 1 O 1 McAbee. ss. p 4 0 2 -2 .3 Sword, c 3 0 0 0 Ray Weinhold, rf . Cotton, cf. 2b' Eberhart. lb. If Helm. If. cf Fitch, p .... Walter, p. lb 31 1 24 13 3 ab r h po a CP-Medford . Perkins, 2b Owsley, ss - Reinking. cf Eckel, df King, rf .: McLaughlin, lb Francis, If . Meunier, c . J. Putney. 3b H. Putney, p 4 1 2 3 11 I - 2- 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 If 0 6 1 0 1 10 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1 sides, p Herrmann, p 30 6 7 27 13 2 012 000 0001 3 . 001 041 OOx Ashland CP-Medford Runs batted .in McAbee. Ron Wein hold. Eckel 2. Francis, Meunier. Per- .9 Patera Chosen For All-Star Mix Chicago US0 Guard Jack Patera of the University of Ore gon today was named a member of the college all-star football team which will meet the pro champions Cleveland . Browns August 12. kins. Two-base hits McAbee. Francis, Sides. Perkins. Three-base hits Fitch, Ron. Weinhold. Eckel Home run Eck el. Stolen bases Thoreson, McAbee. Perkins, Owsley. Sacrifice hits Cot ton, Eberhart. Owsley. Left on base Ashland 6. CP-Medford 10. Bases on balls Krff Putney 2, off Sides 2. off Fitch 3. off Walter 1. off McAbee 3. Strikeouts by Putney 3. by Sides 3, by Herrmann 4. by Fitch 4, by Mc Abee 2. Hits off Putney 4 in 3 in nings; off Sides 1 in 3 innings; off Herrmann 1 in 3 innings: off Fitch 1 in 4 innings; off Walter 4 in 1 plus innings; off McAbee 1 in 3 innings. Runs off Putney 3. off Fitch 1. off Walter 5. Earned runs CP-Medford 1, Ashland 2. Wild pitches Fitch. Walt er, McAbee 2. Passed balls Meunier, Sword. Hit batters Eckel (by Fitch); McLaughlin (by Walter). Winning pitcher Sides. Losing pitcher Walter. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday; 10 mm. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day. immM-7 CAR COOLER naA9n Fits all makes. 6 volt or 12 volt. With addition of transformer may be used v VlJ as room copier. CARRY COOLER Beautiful cabinet. Extremely portable. Handle for easy carrying. 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