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TEW MEDrORD (OREGOX) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. Jl7 I"5 Championship Rivalry Opens in PITA Grand Pacific at Bedford Gun Club Three visiting entres broke SO straight targets at 16-yards and George Morin, Spokane, Wash., shared top scores in doubles and handicap events"yes terday as some 50 shooters from five states and a Canadian prov ince participated in practice rounds for the Grand Pacific tournament of the Pacific Inter national Trapshooting associa tion at Medford Gun club. The battle for PITA cham pionships began today and con tinues through Sunday in the biggest trapshoot of importance in the history of the Medford club. Breaking 50 straight birds yesterday were W. W. Hileman, Cottage Grove; Walter Fisher, Wedderburn. and R. E. Lewis. Fresno, Calif. In handicap prac tice Morin and Lew Wells, Sac ramento, Cal., were top gunners with 48 out of 50 birds each. Morin and three others shattered 47 pigeons each in doubles. The three were M. W. Ray, John Day; Lewis Fisher, Eureka, Cal., and John Simpson, Portland. Class Titles Today Seven shooters busted 49 in the 16-yard event and in the handicap seven had 47s. There was one 46 and two 45s in the doubles. Shotgunners were competing in the 16-yard class champion ships today with AA, A, B, C and D crowns to be decided. It was estimated this morning that about 125 entries would fire dur ing the day. About 150 gunners are antici pated Friday for the first half of the singles slated for morning and for the doubles program in the afternoon. Second half of the singles and the preliminary handicap will be shot Saturday with the field likely to reach 173. More than 200 shooters are expected to be on hand Sunday when the Grand Pacific handi cap is scheduled. Twenty championships are being determined by the tour nament. The singles (16 yards) will settle eight of them. Grand singles championship, father and son and husband and wife lau rels will be decided by Friday and Saturday's full 200 birds. Ladies', junior, sub-junior, over 70 years and 65-70 titles will be figured from Saturday's 100. Annual Meeting Also on the program for the PITA session here is the annual meeting at 8 p.m. on Friday at the Medford hotel. New officers will be chosen and the site of next year's tournament may be set. Registered portion of the tour ney consists of 700 targets. A total of S12.070 in trophies and money prizes is offered. Oregon, California, Washing ton, Nevada. .British Columbia Game Group Slates 2nd Hunt Hearing Portland Second public hear ing on the 1955 Oregon hunting regulations will be held at 10 a.m. on Friday, July 22. The hearing will be held at the Game Commission's office' at 1634 southwest Alder street. Any changes in the tentative regulations proposed by the commission following its July 8 meeting will be discussed and the final rules adopted at this hearing. All persons desiring to be heard should submit their rec ommendations or suggestions to the commission in writing either prior to or at the time of the meeting. The synopsis of the regula tions will be available for dis tribution about the first of Sep tember at Game Commission of- nces and license agencies throughout the state. Copies of the final regula lions will be sent to newspapers and radio stations of the state, Special information sheets will be published regarding the ante lope and other early seasons. NY Giants Open Football Camp Salem CU.R) The New York Football Giants open their-1955 training camp today when 24 players, 19 of whom are rookies, report to Head Coach Jim Lee Howell and his staff. Howell and his aides, Vmce Lombardi, backfield coach; Ed Kolman, line coach; Ken Kava naugh, end coach, and Tom Landry, player -defensive back- field coach, arrived yesterday. They will look over the rookies for several days before the bulk of thfe 57-man squad reports July 25 to begin preparing for the national football . league - cam paign. ' Quarterbacks Charley Coner- ly. Bob Clatterbuck and Don Heinrich: Center Ray Weitecha. and Kyle Rote, halfback and captain, from last year's team will report . with the first-year professionals. and Utah were represented at yesterday's warm-up Sixteen-yard shooters with 49s were Martin Clogston, Medford; Morin, Bill Ragon, Garfield, Wash.; Karl Swain, Vernal, Utah; H. O. Hilficker, Eureka; Run-Off Set In Retriever Competition Rogue Valley Retriever club likelv will conduct a run-off picnic trial on Sunday, August 14, to resolve deadlocks and close races for club champion ship trophies. Kip, labrador male owned and handled by Kenneth Denman, and Belle, lab. female, owned and handled by Earl Wescott, appeared to be knotted for first in the open all-age stake after the fifth local picnic trial last Sunday. Kip was victor in the Sunday event at Hoover lakes and Belle was second. Great interest was displayed by handlers in the fifth picnic affair since the race has been so close in puppy, derby and open stakes. Belle appears to have definitely wrapped up qualifying stake laurels. Dead Heat Two labradors, Chief, owned by Sid Menasco, and Lucinda, owned by Otto Spores, loom in dead heat competition for the puppy trophy. Cindy, a lab., owned and handled by Lee Skaggs, and Joe, a golden, own ed and handled by Mrs. Paul Skinner, are close on the heels of Chief and Lucinda. In last Sunday's up event, Chief was first, Cindy second and Joe third. Carl Newell handled Chief. Rip,-a lab owned and handled by Gene Hunt, looks to have slight lead over Meg, lab owned and handled by William M. Mc Allister, in the derby rivalry. However, Chief won the Sunday derby. Rocky, lab. owned and handled by Lee Skaggs. was second, Meg third and Sam, lab owned by Jack Henry. Klamath Falte, and handled by Tom Rick ard, fourth. Flash, owned and handled by Weldon Kline, and Pete, owned by Menasco and handled by Newell, appear tied for third behind Belle and Kip in the open all-age contention. Rogue Cops Stake Qualifying stake activity in the last outing was taken by Rogue, a lab owned and handled by Dr. Rambo. Second was Buck, golden, owned and hand led by Paul Skinner. Susy, lab, owner Claude Miles and handled by Newell, was third. Kline and Denman were trial chairmen for the day. McAllist er and Hunt were puppy stake judges. Smoky Middlekauf and Skinner judged the derby and Rickard and Hunt the qualify ing test. Skaggs and Charles Miller were judges for the open. Rogue Valley club will par ticipate with Shasta Cascade club of Klamath Falls and the Eugene club on Saturday and Sunday, July 23 and 24, in an annual trial at Diamond lake. A camp-out is planned at the south end of the lake on Satur day night. The trial will begin at noon on Saturday. Eugene is host and each club will furnish one judge for each stake and trophies for one stake. Culys Contend In Oqden Scrap Gale Culy, Medford, rolled a 40-game score of 7427 in the Maxie Kosof Endurance Bowl ing tournament now in progress at Ogden. Utah. Mrs. Culy had two 10-game totals of 1572 and 1650. Culy rolled his stint in 13 hours with 11 other men. Walt Coleman, DeWiston, Mont., was high for the group with 7983. High scores up to last Monday were Ludquist, Salem, Ore., 8,218, and a Texas man, 8,134. Of the 12 starting in Culy's group a number developed thumb trouble and one man was unable to finish for that reason. Leading women's scores were 1951, 1905 and 1863. . The . two . Medford people were sponsored by - Ross Lum ber Sales and Ross Lumber com pany. . . -. - LEES ADVANCES Portland (U.R) Defending champ Bill Lees wound up in the quarter-finals of the 38th an nual Portland City golf cham pionships today after beating Eastmoreland's Elmer Hanegan yesterday. Also in the running today were Ken Dougherty of Columbia-Edgewater, "Bob Mc Revnolds of Riverside, Vince Legler. Tab Boyer and Ben Hughes and Amel Pascuzzi of Eastmoreland and Dusty Woods of McMinnville. Lees, trying for his third city crown, was pitted against Boyer in today's 18-hole quarterfinals. Dr. Everett Hunt. Eureka, and George Bronson, Grants Pass. With 47s in handicap were Weldon Kline and Clogston, Medford: Ken Skoglund, Spo kane; Hilficker; Ray; Hileman; Lewis Fisher, and Simpson. SIPCDDRirS RV Golfers Eye 2-Ball, Team Tiffs Participants are still being sought for a mixed two-ball golf tussle Friday and a men's team match Sunday at Rogue Valley Country club. Men and women of the club will vie at 5 p.m. Friday in a four-ball eightsome. Drawing for partners will be at tee-off time and each team will have three golf clubs. Entries can be called to the pro shop. RVCC men will face a Klam ath Falls team here on Sunday morning. The local divoters may sign up at the pro shop or phone in their entries. A junior match play tourney is now in progress. In the boys division Tom Hamlin has de feated Pet Rasmussen and Bob Emmens has won from Steve Summins by default in the sec ond round, according to avail able scores. Hamlin Victor In theopening round Hamlin turned back Mark Temple 5 and 3, Rasmussen beat Jim Emmens 1 up over 19 holes, Bob Emmens downed Mike Monroe 3 and 2, Cummins had a bye, Jim Town tipped Stan Dowson 2 up, Gary Harrington had a bye. Tony Monroe bounced George Schuler 3 and 1 and Bruce Rinehart had a bye. Rickie Gilchrist beat Rich Knight 3 and 2 in second round matches played in the pee wee group while Chris Rasmussen won by default from Lee Wim- berly. In the only first round hassles Gilchrist got by Nick Rasmussen 1 up and Wimberly edged Larry Berg by the same count. Mary Samuelson tipped Susan Baker 1 up on the 11th hole in the girls' third round. In the second round Pam Stacey beat Sherry Lambert 5 and 4, Judy Lambert trimmed Dianne Gil christ 4 up, Miss Baker won from Sue Knight 4 up and Miss Samuelson defeated Susan Schu ler 5 and 4. In the only first round fray Miss Stacey won from Judy Christensen 7 up. Snead Takes Lead in PGA Qualifying . By LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor Northville, Mich. (U.R) Sammy Snead, happy with a new putter that "works like magic," held a one stroke lead today as the field teed off for the second and final qualifying round of play in the PGA golf championship. Using the putter for the first time in championship play, Snead who has lost a lot of big ones because of trouble on the greens, needed only 29 putts as ne toured the 6,701-yard Mead owbrook Country Club course in a five-under-par 66. He had seven one-putt greens. Snead, one of the co-favorites for the title along with defending champion Chick Harbert and Cary Middlecoff, had a hot back nine with four birdies, dropping putts of seven feet on the 10th, nine on the 11th, 18 on the 14th and 12 on the 18th. He also dropped one of two feet for a birdie on the seventh. Needed 12-Footer He had to can that 12-footer on the 18th to take over the lead for Skee Riegel of Ithan, Pa., and Jack Burke and Doug Ford, both from Kiamesha Lake, N.Y., had come in with four-under-par 67s. Trailing them by a stroke were Errie Ball of Oak Park, 111., and Don Fairfield of Casey, 111.' Both Riegel and Ford are com peting in their first PGA, . for this is the first year they have been eligible for it. Riegel had an unusual round nine birdies, and two double bogeys and one bogey. In all, 17 pros in the field of 134 broke Meadowbrook's 35 36 71 par, and there were 61 golfers with scores of 73 or bet ter, indicating that the low qualifying score might be as low as 146. The low 63 and Harbert qualify for match play beginning Friday. The proton, a unit in the nu cleus of all atoms, is about 1,800 times larger than an electron. 1 Swain had a 46 in the doubles while Ragon and John Bateman, Moses Lake, Wash., had 45s. In the 44 bracket were Hileman, Murray Laidlaw, Vancouver, B.C., and George Blum, Tillamook. Bisplinghoff Western Am Golf Leader Rockford. 111. (U.R) A 20' year-old Florida linksman led the field into the final round of medal play in the 53rd Western Amateur golf tournament today. Don Bisplinghoff of Orlando, Fla., boasted a comfortable four stroke lead with a-71-68-67 206 seven under par for the sun baked Rockford Country club course. Low seven scorers at the end of today's round will join with defending champion Bruce Cudd of Portland, Ore., in match play starting Friday. Bisplinghoff, North - South Amateur titlist birdied two holes on Wednesday's front nine and eagled the par five 460-yard 10th. He parred the other 15 for his four under 67. Trailing Bis plinghoff at 210 were Robert Brue, the 20-year-old ex-caddy from Milwaukee, and Eddie Mer- rins, of Meridan, Miss. Pressure Mounts The pressure mounted for those coveted seven spots with three tied at 211 and five others, three of them Walker Cup stars, knotted at 213. The 211 threesome included Jim Blair III, Jefferson City, Mo.; Rex Baxter, Amarillo, Tex., the opening day co-leader, and Alex Welsh, the golfing Rockford attorney, who led at the halfway point. Knotted at par 213 for the 54 holes were Walker Cuppers Jim Jackson of Glendale, Mo.; Dale Morey of Indianapolis, Ind., and Don Cherry, the golfing crooner from Wichita Falls, Tex. Also at 213 were Hillman Rob bins of Memphis, Tenn., and Har old Brink of Grand Rapids, Mich. Cudd had 216, 10 strokes off the pace although he automati cally qualifies for match play. Tied with him was Pat Schwab of Dayton, Ohio. Rogue River Fishing Good Portland (U.R) The weekly fishing report of the Oregon State Game Commission: Southwest: Fair salmon Win chester Bar, mostly "chinook. Trout slow perch excellent Tenmile Lake. Good evening fly fishing Loon Lake. ' uooa iisnmg Kogue river above Robertson bridge, and be tween Gold Hill and Rogue Riv er. Good catches upper Rogue and Union Creek last week end Fish Lake in Jackson County producing well. Willow Creek reservoir mostly fair with some excellent catches. Trout slow North and South Umpquas, fair summer steelhead North Ump qua. North Umpqua clearing, South Umpqua muddy. Good numbers . of shad taken main Umpqua. Fame Hall Honor For Bob Grayson Portland (U.R) Bobby Gray son of Portland, former all- American fullback at Stanford, is due to be named to the Na tional Football Hall of Fame the Oregonian said today. Grayson led Stanford into the Rose Bowl three times in the 1930s and earlier played at Jef ferson high here. SEMI-FINALS SET Everett (U.R) Ann Quasi Everett, met Mrs. Robert Ihlan- feldt, Seattle, and Ruth Jessen, Seattle, teed off against Jo Anne Gunderson, Seattle, in a pair of semi-final matches in the Wash ington women's golf tournament here today. You'll Always Find Reliability Uniformity Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE Tru-Mix Concrete Co. FAST. PROMPT DELIVERY McAndraws Roa Phona 2-5271 LEGION NINE IN PLAY-OFF SERIES Central Point-Med-ford American Legion junior baseball club, above, completes state quarterfinal play-offs with one or two games today at Roseburg. The local aggregation, sponsored by Myers-Holland Legion post, Central Point and by businessmen, won the dis trict championship with a 10-2 record. It has lost only to Klamath Falls and to Roseburg. Left to right, front row, are Roseburg Legion Tips CP-Medford in Series Starter Here, 7 to 4 Three runs in the fifth extra inning yesterday gave the Rose burg American Legion junior haseball nine a 7 to 4 verdict over Central Point-Medford in the first fracas of a two out of three play-off in state quarter final eliminations. Fred Hargis led off the 12th inning of what had been sched uled as a seven inning mix oy socking a triple for the Umpqua post team. Bill Oerdmg scored Hargis with a single. Then Bill Rudzik blasted a home run into th tennis courts back of left field to climax the surge. Yesterday's contest was on the Medford high diamond. The clubs moved to Roseburg today for the one or two games nec essary to complete the series. Action was to start at 5:30 p.m. In addition to the 12th, Rose burg threatened in two other of the last four innings but tne CP-Meds, southern Oregon dis trict chammons. managed to weather those storms. Opportunity Fizzles Central Point-Medford failed to get a hit off visiting pitchers, Dick Smith and Bill Oerdmg, in the concluding six innings but they did have one big scoring opportunity in the 11th inning which fizzled. Dick McLaughlin walked to start that batting turn. Francis got on board the bases on an error and Laval Meunier's sacrifice moved the two base runners to second and third. At that point, CP-Med put on the squeeze. Fred Herrmann bunted and Pitcher Oerding's throw home caught McLaughlin In the excitement, Herrmann had moved but little distance down the line toward first base, He. was easily thrown out to re tire the side. After the big Roseburg 12th CP-Med batted three up and three down to end the scuffle. Each team eot a run-in the third inning. Roseburg used an error, a sacrifice by Smith and a single by Gene Polley for its marker and a double play ended further damage. A walk, a field er's option a stolen base by i,ar ry Perkins and Ed Reinking's hit did the trick for ClMVieuiora. The locals took a 4 to 1 ad vantage in the fourth inning with a three-run splurge. Paul Eckel, Meunier and Perkins collected hits in the frame. McLaughlin sacrificed. There were two walks and a fielder's option. Roseburg came back for two. in the fifth. The Douglas county ; club made use of two walks, a , fielder's choice, a flyout and i hits by Hargis and Oerding. The j visitors tied up the affair in the sixth on a hit by Jerry Droscher, two errors and a single by Allen Lindbloom. The Umpqua Legion post nine put men on third in the ninth canto and in the 11th Shortstop Gordon Owsley's throw to the plate on a ground ball prevent ed a Roseburg run. Duane Sides started as pitcher for Medford. He yielded eight hits over 10 innings, walked five and fanned five batters. By j Legion rules he had to be re- j lieved after 10 innings and Herr-; mann went to the hill. But it wasn't Freddie's day. tie gave up four hits in two innings, hard hit and three of them hurting. Herrman struck out one and walked one. Smith of Roseburg whiffed nine batters and walked five. He eave up all of Medford's hits. Oerding, replacing Smith for the same reason Sides gave way to Herrman, walked one and whiffed none. If Central Point-Medford wins both games today, it will play in state semi-final eliminations Saturday night and Sunday at Albany. MNESCORE: Roseburg -....001 021 000 003 7 11 1 CP-Medford 001 300 000 000 4 8 5 Smith. Oerding (1) and Rudzik; Sides, Herrman (10) and Meunier. Medford Cubs Defeat Ashland CUB STANDINGS: W. 2 2 . 0 Pet. Grants Pas Medford 1.000 .667 Ashland .000 Medford kept its lone hold on second place in Southern Oregon Junior League Cub baseball yes terday with a 20 to 6 decision over Ashland, pushing the Lith- ians deeper into the cellar. The Medfordites amassed hits in the encounter. 21 SHORT SCORE R H E Medford . 20 21 3 Ashland 6 6 7 Allen and Pond; Stemple, Mc- Kinnis (6), Woodell (6) and P. Simpson. BOWLING Medford Bowling lanes re opens today with the completion of alley refinishing work. Summer leagues are to bowl at the regularly scheduled times. There are reportedly openings in fall leagues for both men and women. ODESSA FRANCHISE IN Odessa, Tex. (U.R) Poor home attendance has caused the owners of the Odessa Baseball club of the Longhorn league to drop the club out of the circuit. The club's general manager said the franchise will be turned over to the league. Meanwhile, the league's president, W. J. Green, expressed optimism that "some thing probably can be worked out" so that the club can finish out the season. GET IN PRACTICE For New Fall Season Starting Soon Medford Bowling Lanes Opoon With Newly Refinished Alleys If you wish to join a Fall League, come in. We have openings for both men and women. Free instructions for beginners. Modtford losing Lai: 821 NO. RIVERSIDE Jim Putney, Eldon Francis, Laval Meunier, Ed Reinking, Ron Pruitt, Larry Perkins and Gordon Owsley. Standing in back row, from left to right are Manager Alva Perkins, Coach Cliff McLean, Dennis King, Dick McLaughlin. Duane Sides, Henry Putney, Fred Herrmann and Paul Eckel. (Brainerd photo). Cheney Studs Crush Mt. Shasta Nine 23-5 Medford's rejuvenated Cheney Studs found the offerings of Mt. Shasta, Calif., Eagle chuckers to their liking here last night. With Derald and Dick Wooton and Jack Cooney heading the slugging and with Medford Hurl er Jim Kelly holding the Eagles to five wallops, the Studs swamped the Shastans ?3 to 5 in a non-league semi-pro base ball scuffle at the fairgrounds. Derald Wooton smashed a ter rific homer off the left field fence and got two singles. Dick Wooton slammed two triples and a single and Cooney cracked three two-baggers in an 18-hit barrage. Bob Selsor also tripled and Ed McCullough, Terry Mad dox and Ron Maurer contributed twin-basers as 10 Medford raps went for extra sacks. It was Medford's seventh win in eight games against California teams. One game was tied. The Studs nipped Mt. Shasta 4 to 3 a month ago. . Seventh Only Scoreless Medford tallied in every bat ting turn but the seventh last night, pushing over five runs in the first inning, four in the sec ond, three in the third, two in the fourth, one in the fifth, three in the sixth, and five in the eighth. The Studs got six hits in the big first frame and three safeties in the second. Bob Stockton re tired from the mound after being tagged for two hits in the second panel and Rickie Palfini threw the rest of the way, giving 10 hits. Two hits, an error, a fielder's option, a base on balls, a wild pitch and a sneak home made up the third inning scoring. One hit, one walk, -an error and a field er's miscue figured in the fourth Derald Wooton's tremendous clout in the fifth panel matched a sock by Paul Eckel in a Legion fracas last Sunday and was the first hit over the fence for the Studs in their , home park this season. Shastans Tally Three hits an error and a stol en base got the markers in the sixth. There were two hits, two misplays, two wild pitches and two bases on balls during the eighth Medford batting turn. Mt. Shasta combined an error a walk and Palfini's single for a third inning score. In the eighth the Eagles collected four runs. The tiring Kelly yielded a triple to Ron Brooks and singles to 3 vmTmni6wam :iivi nan Enjoy America's No. 1 sport with the whole family. Everyone, regardless of age or physical condition can learn this popular sport. Gene English and Ronald Gas pari. An error and a walk helped out. Kay Kelley was on the hill for the ninth inning for Medford and the side was retired in order. Jim Kelly whiffed eight batters walked only two. Kay had one strikeout. The Studs next action is here against Grants Pass on Sunday. On Wednesday and Thursday next week Medford is host to the potent Coos Bay-North Bend Lumberjacks. LINESCORE: Mt. Shasta .001 000 040 5 5 8 Medford 543 213 05x 23 18 3 Stockton. Palfini (2) and Brooks; Jim Kelly. Kay Kelley and Dick Wooton. San Diego Star Joins Redlegs Philadelphia (U.R) Milton Smith, Pacific Coast League's second leading hitter with a .338 batting mark, joins the Cincin nati Redlegs tonight. Smith, a Negro, played third base for San Diego and is expected to be in the Redlegs' starting lineup to night when they play the Phila delphia Phillies. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other dy 5:30 previous day. Do You Like Waxing & Polishing YOUR CAR? If not SILVER LADT CAR WASH & POLISH has a pleas ant surprise in store for you. Silver Lady Car Wash leaves a wax like coating on paint and chrome, that dries and shines as beautiful as the finest wax job. Gives better protection and lasts longer than wax. Exhaust fumes and salt air does not penetrate this film, thus giving perfect protection to paint and chrome. The glass dries as clear as crys tal. : Cars washed with Silver Lady, never need waxing. , Silver Lady is safe to use on other polishes and will magnify and beautify them. Ask your grocer about SILVER LADY CAR WASH ft POLISH All Summer leagues will bowl at their regular scheduled time. PHONE 2-2682