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Eagles Trim IV Cougars KOGLE LEAGUE SIANDIVGS: W L Pet. Crater 2 0 1 000 Eagle Point 1 1 500 Illinois Valley 1 1 -500 Phoenix 0 2 .000 Eagle Point Taking com mand with a three run surge in the third inning, Eagle Point high downed Illinois Valley 7 to 1 Saturday in a Rogue league baseball hassle at Cave Junc tion. While Hurler Dennis Boren held the Cougars to Ihree hits, the Eagles got 11 swats of their own. Dean Tibbe's slammed out two triples in four times at bat. Monte Axtell hit two for two, Boren two for three and Larry Dodenhtfff two for five. Andy Mellow doubled for IV. Boren whiffed eight of the IV batters and gave three walks. Next Rogue league action for EP will be against Phoenix on April 20 and 21. Track gets the main emphasis for the Eagles this week end with entry of a team in the Hayward relays. I.INESCORE: Eagle Point 003 110 27 11 0 Illinois Valley 100 000 01 3 4 Boren and Tresham; Carothcrs, Bur dowi (6) and Mellow. Philadelphia NBA Champ Philadelphia (U.R) The Phila delphia Warriors were hailed today as the National Basket ball Association champion after defeating the defending titlists, the Ft. Wayne Pistons, four games to one in a best of seven series. The Warriors wrapped up the ti'le Saturday night in defeating the Pistons 99-88. The victory wag shared by a veteran NBA star, Joe Graboski and a rookie, former La Salle Ail-American Tom Gola. Graboski lost scoring honors tc the Pistons mainstay, George Yardley, the former Stanford star who had 30 points. Gra boski netted 29 points, Gola 16. MEDFORDItj&TRIBUNE SIPCIDMTg J I 4 t 9 r $ fiT'i " f & ft . V 'SJiti TO PLAY HERE Pictured above is Julius Boros, golf pro fessional, who'll perform in an exhibition and clinic at Rogue Valley Country club on Thurs day, May 3. He won the World Champion tourney sponsored by the George S. May company at Tarn O'Shanter, Chicago, last year, and finished tied for 15th with 303 yesterday in the Mas ters tourney at Augusta, Ga. Jackson County Chamber of Commerce is local sponsor of Boros appearance. f ' & 'k fit r Roseburg Scattergun Team Triumphs Here OFF TO FAST START California amateur Ken Venturi ' hits from the rough during Master's Golf Tournament at Augusta, Ga. Ken waded his way over the rain-sodden Augusta National course to a record opening day of 66, six under par. The stunning performance gaVfe him a good chance to be the first amateur ever to win the event. Larsen Top Skipper In Emigrant Regatta Roseburg gunners blasted 949 out of a possible 1,000 targets to win the five-man team shoot which highlighted ' Sunday ac tivity in the two - day Pa cific International Trapshooting association registered southern zone tourney at Medford Gun club. Klamath Falls placed second with 947 and Medford took third with 944. Yoncalla scored 940 and Chemult 947. There were seven teams entered. Ken Gilkeson, Roseburg, won Class A at 16-yeards, was the only gunner with a perfect 100 yesterday but Gordon Miller, Eu gene, took high overall honors for the day with 242 birds out of a possible 250. Miller fired a 99 in 16-yard shooting yesterday to break his Saturday deadlock for Class AA laurels with John Simpson, Portland. Both had 100 straight on Saturday and Simp osn broke 98 yesterday. Harry Lupher, Drain, was the other 100 shooter Saturday and was high overall for that day with 240. Other 99 Lewis Fisher, Eureka, Calif., was runner up in Sunday Class A with 99. Ray Coleman, Jack sonville, and E" W. Willette, Cot tage Grove, each busted 99 in Class B. Gene Hunt, Medford, won Class C with 96 and L. J. Allen, Sutherlin, followed with 93. Cecil Palmer, no town given, copped Class D with 95 and Lloyd Prock, Klamath Falls, was next with 91. Larry Horn, Grants Pass, with 95 was high junior and Emma Jantzer, Medforu", with 85, high lady. Jack Culver, Sutherlin, and Bill Davis, Klamath Falls, had 99s in the handicap. Miller and Forrest Soloman, Winchester, each shot 46s in the Class I doubles. In Class II George Jantzer. Medford, broke 43 and Harold Wooley, Drain 43. Medford shooters turned in a perfect 75 score in the Oregon Journal telegraphic trapshoot. George Jantzer, Henry Nieder- meyer, Gene Hunt, Jim Horn and Floyd Young all had 25 straights and three of them were combined for the wire affair. No scores were available on Medford's foes, Coos Bay, Clackamas, Corvallis and Cottage Grove. Monday, April 9, 1S5S MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Grade Trackmen Vie on Tuesday First grade school track meet of the season is slated Tuesday when Jackson and Washington thinclads compete. The meet will be at 4:30 p.m. at the high school stadium. Two junior high meets are set for Thursday. Hedrick and Ash land ninth will contend here and McLoughlin seventh, eighth and ninth will travel to Grants Pass. Wyoming was the first state to grant women the right to vote. The first territorial legis lature adopted a woman's suf frage act Nov. 30, 1869. Use Tribune Want Ads BIG CHANGE Jiro Naga sawa of the Japanese Swim ming Federation hits the shower after setting a new world record of 2:19.4 for the 220-yard butterfly at New Haven, Conn. Earlier, Nagasawa finished a disap pointing third t in the time trials of the National AAU swimming championships at Yale's Payne Whitney Gymnasium. The oil industry has managed to find 1.54 barrels of new re serves for each barrel of oil pro duced during the past 22 years the champion of liberal protection . . . You pay much lets for good. a uuuu auioMiumie insurance wncn l I you buy from your own Oregon I m Stale Motor Association. Yet, you il,. receive the most liberal protection available. It's a real saving for our member. Automobile insurance to fit your needs at the price you wish to pay from your own AAA Motor Club. Oregon AAA offices are located at . . . Portland, Astoria, Salem, Eugene, Coos Bay, Medford and Klamath Falls. Protect yourself on the highway Join THE OREGON STATE MOTOR ASSOCIATION AAA Bldg..6()0 S.W. Market St. Phone CA 8-5255 Portland 1. Oreeon MAIL TODAY The Oregon Suit Motor Association 600 S.W. Market Street. Portland 1 .Oregon Send me more information about the Oregon State Motor Association. O I'd be interested to talk with your 6eld representauT. Name Address Civ ..Oregon Absolutely no obligation Bill Larsen Jr., Delake, pick ed up $65 in prize money with one first and one second place and Ned Collett, Eugene, cap tured the Ken Pellett perpetual trophy yesterday as outboard motor boat racers from Oregon, California and Utah performed before a record crowd in the annual Western Speedboat asso ciation regatta at Emigrant lake. Larsen nabbed the B utility runabout race and took second to Dick Pharis, Albany, in the R hvdrorilane run. Collett took the Pellett prize with a victory in D hydro. The race drew one contestant from Salt Lake City, Utah., Wal ter Dansie, who won the F hy dro and rjlaced third in D hydro. Other winners were H. J. De Martin, Crescent City, Calif., in D utility and Rocky Stone, wu lamina, in D service runabouts. Races were held before a crowd of at least 1,200 paid ad missions. There were many oth ers wh.o watched the races from the highway end of the lake. Others made brief stops near the lake during the afternoon. The area was jammed with cars. WSA officials reported a to-, tal of 53 entries, necessitating eliminations in B utility and B hydro. Four extra heats were urn. Racers had smooth water on the sunny day and only one spill occurred. Havey (Doc) Reinke, Salem, was the unlucky skipper in B utility. Races were almost routine. RACE RESULTS: D Hvdro Winner Ned Collet, Eu gene; Les Manasar. Crescent City: Walter Dansie. Salt Lake City. Utah. First heat Collett, Manasar, Dansie. Second beat Same. B Hydro Winner Dick Pharis. Al bany; Bill Larsen Jr.. DeLake: Bob Defenbaugh, Brookings. First heat Pharis. Larsen. Defenbaugh. Second heat Pharis, Larsen, Richard Cassa dv. Crescent City. T Hydro Winner Dansie: Jerry Mc Grew. Medford: Manasar. First heat Dansie. McGrew. Manasar. Second heat Dansie, John Hartley, Coquille. Manasar. D Utility Winner, H. J. DeMartin, Crescent City: William Sample, Cres cent City: Jack St. Clair. Salem. First heat DeMartin. Sample, St. Clair. Second heat DeMartin, Rockv Stone, Willamina, Paul Woodruffe, Salem. Utility Winner Larsen; Sam Koontz, Albany; A. K. Nicalet, Red ding, Calif. First heat Larsen, Koontz, Hilbert Pluvoy. Klamath. Calif. Sec ond heat Larsen, Koontz. Nicalet. D Service Winner Stone: Pharis: Collett. First heat Stone. Pharis, Col lett. Second heat Stone, Collett, Pharis. I - J?' VVt: " i . . -v . -1 Globetrotters Nudge All-Stars Cincinnati (U.R) The Harlem Globetrotters today, held a six to three margin over the College All-Stars following the Trotters 63-61 victory last night. In one of the tightest games played to date the 19-game cross country series, the two clubs were never more than six points apart. With Ohio State's Robin Free man and the Trotter's Sweet water Clifton battling for scor ing honors, the lead changed hands no less than eight times. Clifton edged Freeman in the scoring column 22 to 21 points. University of San Francisco's star guard Hal Perry did not play in last night's game as the All-Stars used only seven of its 12-man squad. In Saturday night's game, which saw the All-Stars emerge the winner 65-61 in a game at St. Louis, Perry played briefly and scored only one point. Pacific Names Vic Adams Coach Forest Grove Vic Adams, basketball coach at La Grande high school for the past five years, Saturday was named as head coach at Pacific university here. Adams will take the post left vacant by the resignation of Harvey Roloff earlier this year. Water Resource Board Will Speak Tonight at, Izaak Walton Meeting Three officials of the Oregon State Water Resources board will be discussion participants this evening in a panel at the meeting of the Jackson County chapter of the Izaak Walton Lague. The three are Ted Watson, Sa lem, and Robert Root, Medford, board members, and Don Lane, Portland, executive secretary. The meeting will be at 8 p.m. in the Pioneer room of the Jack son hotel. AMAZING NEWS Conni Venturi can hardly believe her ears as she gets telephone call in her San Francisco home from husband. Ken, telling her he shot a 69 in the Mas ter's Tournament second round at Augusta, Ga. The amaz ing amateur shot a 66 for the first round, sis under par. 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