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TEN MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, July 22, 1955 j Orlich, Bate man, Wilier Get Top Class Trophies in PITA Grand Pacific Trap Tourney First 100 target of lh sin glet and the full doubles pro gram were fired today in the second day of championshio rivalry in lbe Grand Pacific tourney of the Pacific Inter national Trapshooxing associa tion. The tourney will continue through Sunday at Medford Gun club. Second half ef the singles (a 16-yard event) and the full preliminary handicap are bil ed for Saturday with the sin gles in the morning and han cap in the afternoon. The Grand Pacific handicap is the Sunday event winding up the shoot. Eight separate champion ships will be determined by the singles, the top crown will be decided, of course, by the full 200 birds as will the fa ther and son and husband and wife honors. Ladies junior, sub junior, over 70 years and 65-70 cham pionships will be based on Saturday's 100. Some 20 mantles are being shot for in the tourney. Among them are all-around and high overall. All-around is based on a 400-target score and over-all on the full 700 bird registered program. Dan Orlich. John B. Bateman and W. C. Miller weathered shoot-offs yesterday to glean the top prizes in 16-yard class con tention in the Grand Pacific tournament of Pacific Interna tional Trapshooting association being conducted for the first time at the Medford Gun club layout. Orlich, Reno, Nev., ex-Green Bay Packer gridiron end, cap tured the Class AA champion ship. Bateman, Moses Lake, Wash., moved up to the Class A title after winnin" Class B last year at Spokar and Miller. Sacramento. Cali... became the new titleholder in Class B. They headed a field of more than 130 gunners. In double A, Orlich splattered 193 clay birds in regular shoot ing along with George Blum, Tillamook, Charles Conn, Mt. Vernon, Wash., and Harry Lup lier. Drain. The Nevadan crack ed 50 straight to grab the shoot off and Blum gained runner-up laurels with 47. Lupher and Conn went out on the first 25 extra with 24 and 22, respec tively. Rice Ties Bateman Ted Rice, Myrtle Creek, knot ted Bateman in the regular round of 200 targets. They each also broke 198. In the additional 50 Bateman lost only one for a 49 and Rice took runner-up with 48. Miller and E. E. Putnam. San Bernardino, Calif., shot 197s in Class B and Miller won the shoot-off 25 to 24. In Class C Lloyd Hauptman, Chemult, was victor with 191 and Matthew Miholovich, Sunnyvale, Calif., was next with 188. H. O. Hilfick er. Eureka, Calif., copped Class D with 192 and F. L. Roberts, Kerman, Calif., was runner-up with 187. Some hot shooting accompan ied the hot day and 10 shooters recorded 100 straights, six in the morning and four in the after noon. Eighteen in the field had scores of 198 or 197. Morning perfects were by Bill Doug Ford PGA Medalist; Joins Group of Favorites By LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor Northville, Mich. (U.R) Doug Ford, the 33-year-old med alist from Kiamesha Lake, N. Y., joined defending champion Chick Harbert, Sam Snead and Cary Middlecoff in the role of co-favorites today as the 64 sur vivors for the PGA golf cham pionship teed off for two gruel ling rounds of match play. Ford, who was eligible for the tournament for the first time this year and scorched the sun baked Meadowbrook club course in two sub-par rounds to win the S250 and the Alex Smith Memorial Trophy which go to the medalist, faced George Fazio of Conshohocken, Pa., in the first round of match play. Two 18-hole rounds will be played today, reducing the field to 16 players. Only one round will be played daily from Sat urday on. but the matches will be at 36 holes, making this an nual tournament not only a test of golf, but of endurance as well. Ford had the percentages go ing against him, for only twice has the medalist gone on to win the title. Walter Hagen did it in 1926 and Byron Nelson in 1945. "That doesn't bother me," Ford grinned. "No superstitions for me, I'm strictly for cash." Ford had rounds of 67 68 against par 71 for an aggregate of 19d to win medalist honors by two strokes from a group of four Snead, Middlecoff, Errie Ball and Skee Riegel. Cary Faces Toughest Test Of the co-favorites, Middle coff faced the toughest test in the first round for he was match ed against Walter Burkemo, of Franklin, Mich., who won the Ragon, Carfield, Wash.; L. A. Shepard, Ophir; R. E. Lewis, Bakersfield, Calif., L. E. Wells, Sacramento; H. B. Carlisle, Salt Lake City, Utah, and Conn. In the afternoon the straights were by Miller, Blum, John Cawrse, Remote, and Ted Welty, Grand Ronde. Yesterday was the first day of championship competition in the tournament. The event open ed Wednesday with practice rounds. Class A A Leaders: Orlich 198; Blum 198; Lupher 198; Conn 198; George Baker Portland, 197; Fred Mauser, The Dalles, 197: Wells 197; John Simpson, Portland, 197; Fred Dambacher, Walnut Grove, Calif., 197. Class A Leaders: Bateman 198; Rice 198; Lewis 197; Ragon 197; Shepard 197; George Morin, Spokane 197; Welty 197. 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The first of the 32 first round matches paired Brien Charter of Janesville, Wis., against Jim my Johnson of Detroit, at 9 a.m (EDT). Middlecoff, who shot a second round 68 in the qualify ing play to go with his first round 69, and Burkemo, with a qualifying score of 144, were scheduled to start at 11:15. Jack Fleck, the National Open champion of Davenport, Iowa, who shot his best round Thurs day a three under par 68 since he won the title at San Francisco last month, was pair ed against Joe Zarhardt of Grennsboro, N. C, while Ed Furgol, the U. S. Open champion in 1954, faced Jim Gauntt of Oklahoma City. Few Name Players The two rounds of qualifying play saw only a few name play ers eliminated, among them two former PGA champions, Chandler Harper and Jim Tur nesa. It took an aggregate of 147 to qualify, and only 7 of the 11 players who turned in that total made it for there were 56 who had aggregates of 146 or better. So the 11 had to go into sudden death to decide the last seventh berths. As defend ing champion, Harbert quali fied automatically, but he com peted in the qualifying play any how, winding up with a 139. Marty Furgol of Lemont, 111., and Pete Cooper of Birmingham, Mich., finished with totals of 138, one behind Snead, Middle coff, Ball and Riegel. At 139 along with Harbert were Wally Ulrich of Rochester, Minn., and Lew Worsham of Oakmont, Pa. Ulrich had the hottest nine in the qualifying play, shooting five birdies on the front nine for a five under par 30, but he bogeyed two of the last three holes to wind up with a 38 for a 68. Ulrich met the veteran Dutch Harrison in the first round today. Magazine Gives Lesson on How To Watch During Baseball Game Washington, D.C. (U.R) i is almost the only way you can You want to get your money's i be aware of little developing worth out of the baseball ticket i climaxes and significances. Hardtoppers Run At Ashland Oval Again Saturday Ashland The familiar sound of racing autos will dominate the vicinity at the Ashland speedway Saturday night when hardtoppers go out again in the oval. From all indications a record number of hardtops will appear for the evening's racing. It is anticipated that a full 40 car program will be in store. Through the cooperation of several Ashland merchants and the management, an added $100 has been donated for this weeks race. The following merchants have put up extra money; Bry an't Shell Service, Ideal Mar kets, Groceteria Meats, Ken Tay lor's 99 Wreckers and Selby Chevrolet. With the added money being put up, hardtop fans can expect some top-notch racing for this week end. As the result of a A-main win in the last race held at the Ash land Speedway, Wayne Lemley pilot of Bryan't 57 will be out to try and hold this honor at this weeks race. With the added purse anything can happen and probably will, and not until the checkered flag has been dropped will the lead car have the race in the bag. Another man to keep an eye on this week will be Joe Ellison in A-24. Ellison took the B tro phy dash at the Medford track last week and hopes to follow through this week at the home track. Several new cars are in the making and could be on hand for this race. Several drivers have indicated that they will be changing their cars from the B class to the A class. The races at the Ashland Speedway are for both the A and B cars and consist of two trophy dashes, four heats, and two mains. Time trials are at 7 p.m. with the race starting at 8 p.ra. , you buy, same as anything else, j don't you? Of course, if you're the type of fan who can (and does) quote Hornsby's lifetime average and recite the Cubs' 1935 batting order, this will be old stuff. But if you're just an average journeyman home-town rooter, or one of the misguided millions who can't see why peo ple get excited at ball games, here are five tips, from the edi tors of Changing Times, th Kiplinger Magazine, on how to watch a ball game. 1. Keep an eye on the news: Spend a few minutes everyday with the sports page of your paper. You see a lot more if you know who's who and what's what. Instead of a miscelleanous collection of players, you will be watching for the pitcher just up from the minors, the team with the six-game winning streak go ing, the league-leading batter, the base runner who drives pitchers frantic. Many Fine Points 2. Watch the defense: That's where you will find many of the fine points of play, maneuver ing, a clearer picture of the play as it develops. And check the scoreboard outs, balls and strikes before each pitch. You would know for instance, whether the opposition infield is playing in close, or playing back and gambling that they would come up with a game-winning double play. You would note how the outfield is playing the batter. 3. Use your score card: If you know how to keep score, do it. If not, get someone to explain it to you. This will help keep your attention concentrated. Scoring 4. Get your eyes off the ball: j If you follow the flight of a fly ! ball, you will miss the play of, the outfielders that are after it. Watch a batted ball just long! enough to mark its direction. Then shift to the defensive play-; er who will take it, to the spot where it will arrive next, and so on. Watch base runners out . of the corner of your eye as the ; play starts. 5. Know as much as you can about the game: strategies, per- j centages, rules, plays. You see in full the situation that each : team faces, the choices open to them. You know when a team is gambling, playing safe or trying to cross up the opposition with the unorthodox play. You spot' the mistakes, the spectacular successes. Four PAL Boxers On Klamath Card Four Medford Police Athletic league boxers are slated to com pete Saturday night, July 30, in a card at Klamath Falls. Larry Lewis, Oregon AAU fly weight champion, will be one of the headline performers. Bobby Little and Jimmy Evans, 100 pounders, will see action. They were semi-finalists in this year's AAU action. Fourth PAL scrap per is Loren Christean, 175 pounder. Moose lodge is sponsor of the fights. Lou Jones is matchmaker for the lodge. Tickets are on sale at the Dick Reeter store for men in Klamath Falls. Portland PAL is expected to have entries on the program, including Phil and Denny Moyer. Sport Parade By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer New York (U.R) Swaps and Nashua are slated today to match strides in a long-anticipated match race at Washington Park on Aug. 31 "if" both are fit and it's a long-shot proposition. Match races, of course, stir the public imagination. They were "the thing" before the turn of the century and since then there have been nearly a half hundred. Yet only a half dozen of the latter captured the national fancy and only one of those was a ding-dong horse race. That was the nose-and-nose battle between Alsab and Whirl away at Narragansett Park in 1942. It was a drive from start to finish with Alsab winning in a thrilling photo. The other big ones were be tween Armed and Assault, Zev and Papyrus, Man O'War and Sir Barton and, in the Pimlico Special, between Seabiscuit and War Admiral in one and Capot and Coaltown in another. On the whole, they failed to live up to their billing. No Close Races Back in 1923, they put Zev, the Kentucky Derby winner, on the track against Papyrus, the Epsom Derby winner, and the American colt romped in by five lengths. Man O'War dusted off Sir Barton by seven lengths; Armed walloped. Assault by eight lengths and Capot annihi lated Coaltown by 12 lengths. Excuses always are made for the loser. Papyrus lost because he wasn't accustomed to the mud cleats they put on him. War Ad miral wasn't "ready" and As sault was "off," etc. Which proves one infallible point. . . It is virtually impossible, at the end of a hard summer's cam-! paign, to get two horses "up" and j ready at the same moment. Thor oughbreds actually are fragile racing machines and they easily lose condition or suffer injury. Dancer Sat One Out Just two years ago there was much talk of a match race be tween Tom Fool and Native Dancer. They were expected to meet in the Sysonby Stakes at Belmont's fall meeting. 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