Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 13, 1956, Image 11

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Newspaper Page Text( Bonanza Wins In District 5B; Klamath 2nd; St. Marys 3rd Ashland Thinclads from Bonanza carried away the ma- Jor laurels Saturday flowing xne uisirici ot iratK. inugis here. The Klamath county team tabulated 100 3-4 points. Another Klamath powerhouse was runner-up in the meet as Malin counted up 85'4. St. Mary's of Medford was third with 76Vi and Rogue Riv er took fourth with 74 3-4. Other scores were 44 for Merrill, Pros pect 21, Jacksonville 20 3-4 and Gilchrist 10. Bonanza led in placing for the state meet next week-end at Springfield with eight posi tions. Rogue River got five, Ma lin and St. Marys each four. Merrill three, Prospect two and Jacksonville and Gilchrist each one. Gerald Darland of St. Mary's who won the shot put and the quarter-mile and Dick Burnett of Bonanza, who nabbed both sprints were the double winners of the day. ' Gray Stewart of Rogue River came near a double victory. He captured the broad jump and shared the high jump first spot with Don Vannice of Prospect. SM Second In Relay St. Mary's was second in the relay and Bill Carey was second In the half-mile to give the Cru saders their other two state meet placings. In addition to Burnett's win in the dashes, Bonanza's relay team was victor and Jack Horn took the mile for that school, Seconds for Bonanza were Ken Kennedy in the pole vault, Ron Ketcham -in the javeline and 440 and Ron Roberts in the low hurdles. For Malin Len Dobry won the discus and was second in the shot and firsts were tallied by Gordon Kandra in the high hurdles and Glen Steyskal in the low hurdles. Added to Stewart's efforts for ' Rogue River were, Don Hoff man s first in the pole vault and seconds by Russ Miller in the discus and Bill Weaver in the 220-yard sprint. Jack Barry won the 880 for Merrill and was sec ond in the 100-yard dash. Along with his tie for first in the high jump, Don Vannice got runner-up place in the broad jump for another state meet berth. Charles Patterson won the Landy Sets 3:59.1 Run Fresno," Calif. (U.R) Fabu lous John Landy cracked the four-minute barrier for the sec ond time in eight days as he eas ily won the Special Invitational Mile at the West Coast relays in 3:59.1 Saturday night. Landy made his remarkable run with practically no opposi tion. Ron Delany. of Villanova fin ished second about 50 yards batk. Landy running in the number one lane. Took the lead early and -held it all the way. He was clocked in 60 seconds flat for each of the first three quarters and then sprinting in the face of no opposition, finished the last quarter in 59.1 as a standing room only crowd in Ratcliffe Stadium gave him a thunderous ovation for the last minute of the run. ran ift NEVER DRlVi WITH POOR BRAKES A A 3.50 Vnlu ANT Hut's What We Do fcS CAR m Rmov Front Wheals, Impact Lining. ty Claan and Repack Front Wheal ' Bearings. 3 Inspect Irak Drams. 4 Check and Add Broke Fluid. J Adjort Brake Sheas. Carefully Test Brakes. WE HAVE IT . . . New Tirestone MRIVETIESS BRAKE LINING e NO IIVITS TO SCOM MAX) MUMS TO TS MH ejuxM suKfAa i a mvm . . usso hmhw sowbou MTOVM . . USED AS Oftl Aka HSUV CAW - . .... ON MANY 1949-S1CAD 1 firestonc 019 STORES 214 S. Riverside Phone 2-7 119 javelin for Gilchrist and Eon Muir, of Jacksonville took a in the mile to rQund out the state meet roster. CLASS B RESULTS: Pole vault Hoffman, RR; Kennedy, Bon.; Tie third Weatherby. Mai.. Han non, SM. and Moore, RR; Rajnus. Mai. Height 9 ft. in. Discus Dobry. Mai.; Miller. RR; Flakus. SM; Jansen. Bon.; Myers, Mai.; Allen. J. Distance 126 ft. 11 in. Shot put G. Darland, S.M: Dobry, Mai.: Burnett, Bon.; Oliva. Mai.; Mil ler. RR; B. Weaver. RR. 40 ft. 1 in. Broad jump Stewart. RR: Vannice. Pr.; Darland, SM: Roberts. Bon., Johnson, Mai.; Fogel, SM. Distance 20 ft. 3i. Javelin Patterson, Gil; Ketcham, Bon: Muir. J; J. Darland, SM; C. Smith. J; Dixon, RR. Distance 140 ft. 11 In. High Jump Stewart, RR: and Van nice, Pr. tied first; Sherrill. Mer.; Dye, Bon.; tie fifth Weatherby, Mai.. Kennedy. Bon., Vanscoter, RR and E. Smith. J. Height 5 ft. 6 in. MEDFOBDtSaWTRIBUNE ipaDinrs Trophy To High Overall Gunner Planned in Mail Tribune Shoot A trophy will go to the high overall shooter on the 500-tar- get program next Saturday and Sunday when Medford Gun club stages the 23rd annual Medford Mail Tribune trapshooting tour nament. Gunners will fire at 100 tar gets at 16 yards, 100 handicap birds and 25 pairs of doubles each dav of the shoot. Events are Pacific International Trapshoot ing association registered. The Mail Tribune trophy will go to the winner of the Sunday morning 16-d a y competition. Winner last year was John Wil- lener, Eugene. He is one of six men who has broken 100-straight targets to take the prize. To the top gun for B class and lower also will go the Mendenhall tro phy, E. E. Driscoll, Klamath Falls, claimed in 1955. Team Shoot Planned Lead off event of the tourney next Saturday will be the Rogue Valley Hundred, a 16-yard test. The Chester Wood handicap is billed for Saturday afternoon. The Wood perpetual purse and trophy go on the first 50 birds. First time winner gets $10 and a repeat winner $100. Sunday afternoon s program will include the $300 Medford handicap. Doubles will wind up shooting each day. A five-man team shoot will be Stars Drub Vancouver Vancouver, B. C. (U.R) A great six and two-thirds inning relief job by Fred Green stop ped the Vancouver Mounties cold Saturday as the Hollywood Stars won their second straight game, 6 to 2, and the first game of a twin-bill in Pacific Coast League play at Vancouver. Green came into the game in the third inning when the Moun ties had rallied to cut Holly wood's lead to a narrow 3-2. The tall left-hander got out of the inning without any further runs being scored, then com menced to pitch runless ball for the rest of the game. , The victory was Green's first of the season and he received most of his batting support from Hollywood's little shortstop, Dick Smith. SOC OTI Athletes Collide Monday Ashland Southern Oregon college and Oregon Technical Institute baseball and track teams vie on Monday. Baseball- ers have a nine inning mix at Klamath Falls. Trackmen col lide at Ashland. The cinder crews were to have met here Friday but the meet was post poned because of bad weather. The single baseball fray is a makeup for a doubleheader. Mickel To Coach Burns Basketball Burns (U.R) High school of ficials here today announced ap pointment of Art Mickel to be head basketball coach and Grant Budge to be football coach. Mickel has been at Granger, Wash., the past three years. He is a graduate of Florida South ern. Budge is a graduate of the University of Utah and has been at Edna, Ida., high school the past five years. HUSKY NETTERS WIN Pullman (U.R) Washington's tennis team blanked Washington State 7-0 here yesterday in a Northern Division match. HASKINS Saw Shop MACHINE SHARPENING Chain, Circle and Hand Saws Lawn Mowers and Tools 1736 No. Riverside Phone 2-8236 I2n-varrf hieh hurdles Kandra. Mai.: Sherrill. Mer.; Kennedy, Bon.; J. Darland. SM; Harmon, SM; Bond. RR. Time -.ITS. 100-yard dash Burnett, Bon.; Barry, Mer.; B. Weaver, RR, and Steyskal, MaU tied third; Hayes. SM; Elbert, SM, and Johnson, Mai., tied sixth. Time :10.6. Mile Horn, Bon; Muir, J; Fish, Mai.; Wanner, RR; Loper, Mer.; Mc Keen. J. Time 5:01. 440-yard run G. Darland, SM; Ketcham. Bon.: Eskey, SM; DrazU. Mai.; Bowen. RR. Time 55.1. Low hurdles Steyskal. Mai.: Rob erts, Bon.: Sherrill. Mer.; Vannice, Pr.; Kandra. Mai.; Fogel, SM. Time 220-yard dash Burnett, Bon.; B. Weaver RR: Johnson. Mai.: Sullivan, SM: DrazU, Mai.; Stewart, RR. Time 24.5. 880-yard Barry. Mer.; Carey, SM: Micka, Mai.; Horn, Bon.; Wagnerl RR; E. Smith. J. Time 2:105. Relav Bonanza (Burnett, Roberts. Ketcham, Kennedy); St. Mary (Hayes. G. Darland. J. Darland. fil berts); Rogue River; Merrill; Malin; Jacksonville. Time :1:40.1. run concurrently with the Sun day 16-yard and handicap en counters. Members of each team must be affiliated with the same club but they need not shoot in the same squad. Medford Gun club is holding a merchandise shoot today with fryers as the main prizes. Yesterday's Scores MAJOR LEAGUE RESULTS By UNITED PRESS National League Philadelphia 5 12 0 Pittsburgh 6 13 2 Roberts, Pillette (6) and Seminick; Friend. Littlefield (9) King (9) and Kravitz. WP Friend (4-1) LP Rob erts (3-3). New York 0 0 0 Brooklyn 3 6 0 Worthington. Grissom (7) and Katt; Erskine (2-2) and Campanela. LP Worthington (1-3). Milwaukee .6 13 2 Cincinnati ... ..10 13 . 2 Buhl. Johnson Mi Nirhnl t1 Trnw. bridge (4) R. Robinson (5) Jolly (7) and Crandall, Rice (4); Lawrence, Black (7) and Burgess. WP Lawrence (4-0); LP Buhl (2-1). St. Louis 10 17 3 14 15 0 Chicago .... Mizell, McDaniel (3) Jones (4) Jack. son (6) and Smith: Rush, Valentinetti (8 1 and Chitl. WP Rush (2-1); LP Jones, (0-2). American League Kansas City 3 8 0 Cleveland - 5 8 0 Herriaee. Burtsrhv (A (Znrman n and Thompson; Wynn and Hegan. WP I Wynn (4-1); LP Herriage (0-1). I """'""IB 1 O U New York 0 2 1 Ferrarese (1-1) and Smith: Tnrl.v (0-2), Berra. Chicago 7 17 0 Detroit . 6 it 1 Donovan. Pollet m FomielM IK Consuegra (8) and LoUar; Hoeft. Black o). fliasterson (7), Brady (9) and House. Wilson (4). WP Pollet (1-0); LP Hoeft (2-1). Duke Star Tops Patton, Dillard Durham, N. C (U.R) Duke's Dave Sime eclipsed the world record and set three conference marks Friday in the prelimin aries of the Atlantic Coast Con ference track championships. The carrot-topped flash ran the 220-yard dash in 20.1 sec onds, beating the mark of 20.2 set by Mel Patton in 1949. Sime's 220 time was a new loop standard. He also ran the 100-yard dash in 9.5 and the 220 low hurdles in 23.5. A week ago Sime ran the low hurdles in 22.2 breaking the world record of 22.3 establish ed by Harrison Dillard. The Duke sprinter has run the 100 in 9.4 six times in the past month. Another Life Claimed By Italian Auto Race , Desenzano, Italy (U.R) The death-toll from the April '29 "Mille Miglia," 1,000 miles auto race, rose to seven Saturday when Pietro Chione, a 57-year-old fan who was hit by a car during the running of the race, died. Pietro and two other fans were hurt when a car swerved out of the road and plunged into the crowd. The other two also died. ' all JOU do Is CALL. If you need lYiDtOEV just call COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL FINANCE. Answer a few simple questions then, chances are, you can come rigit down and get your cash I ' Loans are available from $50 to $2500 on signature, furniture, or automobile. ANDY ANDERSON COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL FINANCE Sparta Building Phone 3-4564 Jim Bailey Engagement Announced Eugene (U.R) The fastest miler in America will wed his college sweetheart. Jim Bailey, who comes from Australia and who is attending the University of Oregon, and Miss Janet Somers, his Oregon sweetheart, plan to marry, al though the date has not been set. Miss Somers, of Fall Creek near Eugene, made the announce ment of her engagement to Bailey at her sorority on the campus here Friday night. International Figure Bailey became an internation al figure in sports last Saturday when he ran the mile at Los An geles in 3:58.6, the fastest it has ever been run in the United States. Bailey plans to work In Port land this summer until late August or early September when he will leave to take part in pre-Olympic games track events. He will return to the University of Oregon for his final year next winter term. Bowling EVERGREEN LEAGUE Moore Steel Co. wound up in a first place tie with Domestic Laundry in the third round of the Evergreen Bowling League by defeating the Laundrymen 3 to 1 last week. Standings: Domestic Laundry Moore Steel Co. . Hunter and Best W. L. 34 14 34 14 29 19 27 ',i 202 26 22 24 !i 23 "i Barber Local Pierce Freight Lines . Big Y Market Swift and Co. 23 25 Chuck's Pump 21 20 27 28 28 30 36 L. Oasis Ball Room Jackson Crek Lumber 20 Eastside Market 18 Jorgensen's Dary 12 Standings: W. INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE American Legion split two and two with I.O.F. while Sno boys took three from T.E.A.A. Friday night, resulting in a tie for top spot in the Industrial Bowling league. Bob Foster roll ed the high series of the evening with a 548 and the 208 game turned in by Earl Lenz was tops. Standings: W. L. American Legion 31 17 Snoboys 31 17 I.O.F 30 18 Richfield Oil Co. 30 18 T.E.A.A 29 19 City Appliance Co. 26',i 2114 V. A. Enginers Local 9208 . 24 24 19 29 18 30 n Jaycees Donna Timber Products 18 30 VF.W. (Central Point) 162 31 ',i Medford Steel Co. 15 33 Results- I.O.F. 2 Am. Legion 422 G. Stewart 2 454 330 438 460 470 147 2299 AC. Morrison J. D. Lubbers 427 M. Harvey B. Simmonds 451 C. Epps B. Porter 478 H. Fuller H. Vessey Jr. 516 C. Tennant Handicap 2294 Snoboys G. Russell V. Lowe J. Maclnnes E. Dwight T. Couch 3 ..T. E A. A. 533 J. Martin 474 J. Sedey 365 H. Rickman 424 R. Rogers 451 J. Strobel Handicap 1 835 407 351 431 485 24 2233 2247 Richfield G. Culy E. Kennedy G. Anderson W. Nelson D. Kreer 4 V. A. Engineers 0 513 B. Findley 480 478 B. Cody 395 B. Doran 422 R. Pettit 4SB 375 469 356 45 2223 0 544 457 422 416 335 174 2348 3 548 381 401 402 456 31 2269 538 M. Aments Handicap 2346 City Appliance 4 Local 9208 J. Monroe 468 E. Lenz G. Eads 475 R. Martin B. Thornton 521 J. Martin H. WIthrow 522 D. Kowles D. Morehouse 511 L. Brown Handicap 2497 V.F.W. 1 Jaycees A. Bohannan 410 Foster L. Carr 442 (Absentee) H. Baker 429 J. Walsh K.Christians'n 433 M. DeHeart L. Graham 451 A. Holmes Handicap 3165 Donna Tlmhr 3 Medford Steel 1 L. Dawson 351 L. Smith 438 416 B. Hopkins 387 G. Rone L. Swinney J. Monroe E. Harris . Handicap 408 D. Hawkins 393 467 L. Irwin 330 339 R. Eastgate 376 3 1984 1924 INJURY CANCELS FIGHT Toronto (U.R) Next Tues day's scheduled fight between Arthur King . of Toronto and Johnny Gonsalves of Oakland, Calif., has been called off be cause of a leg injury to King. Matchmaker Deacon Allen said he had to call the. whole fight off when he couldn't find a suitable replacement for King. 3-4564 High School Scores FRIDAY BASEBALL -- By United Press Seaside 12-5, Nestucca 1-2 Scappoose 1, WyEast 0 St. Helens 5, Clatskanie 0 Oregon City 1, Beaverton 0 ' Ashland 6-3, Klamath Falls 2-4 Gresham 2. D. Douglas 0 -Stanfield 1. Echo 0 Heppner 14. Irrigon 0 lone 6. Umatilla 0 McEwen 5, TJmapine 0 St. Josephs 6. Pilot Rock S Portland Schools: Washington 6, Jefferson S Benson 3. Cleveland 2 Lincoln -9. Franklin 0 FRIDAY GOLF Astoria 8'j, Seaside 6,4 Astoria 12, Milwaukee 6 Beaverton 10, Oswego 2 Softball Group Delays Opening Action One Week Jackson County Softball as sociation has postponed its opening activities for one week. The jamboree will be on Sunday. May 20, at Hawthorne park and the opening garnet on Monday evening. May 21, at the senior high stadium. Vice President Gary Colion said that the jamboree was put off in deference to Mother's day and thai difficulties in getting the field ready delayed start of the regular season for a week. Colton said that a league meeting has been set for Wed nesday. It will be at 8 p.m. at the YMCA. Team captains are asked to be present and to have their entry fee with them. MEET POSTPONED Portland (U.R) The Portland Interscholastic League track and field meet was postponed for a week when the event sched uled for Friday was washed out by a heavy downpour.. Use Tribune Want Ads Denman Urges Further Expansion Of Rogue Game Managemet Area Portland (U.R) The state game commission Friday ap proved more boat launching fa cilities on the Rogue and Sius law rivers and negotiations for additional lands in the Rogue valley game management area. Also approved was expendi ture of $2,600 for access road, concrete boat launching ramp and parking area on the Johns tract near Tiernan on the Sius law river. The Lane county court noti fied the commission that it has agreed to maintain the Siuslaw fishing access point. :sj ''WflMMiti Mratft,,Tsm -"Ybu get theT 'Mbes trade in town . . . ). WL C on "the best tire in JS 'fMj -lZ r -i .s Green m "Qg 3-T ISSy Ion Cord Q)(!JJ Sunday, May 13, 1956 Erskine Pitches 2nd No-Hitter Brooklyn (U.R) Carl Ers kine, the Brooklyn Dodgers' scrappy little right-hander fight ing to overcome an arm ailment, slow-balled his way to the sec ond no-hit,, no-run game of his career Saturday in beating the New York Giants, 3-0. The 29-year-old "veteran from Anderson, Ind., used a blazing fast ball to no-hit the Chicago Cubs back on June 19, 1952. tiis speed was gone today, but his , guile and courage carried him through. A crowd of 17,395 at old Eb bets Field watched in tense silence as Erskine muffled the Giants' bats inning after Inning with his tantalizing slow curves. Five balls were hard-hit against him, but two were foul and bril liant fielding by Jackie Robin son, Carl Furillo and Pee Wee Reese prevented the others from becoming hits. Seals Down Angels, 7-3 Los Angeles (U.R) Bob Di Pietro led a San Francisco red hot batting attack with two singles and a double Saturday to pace the Seals to a 7-3 win over Los Angeles in a Pacific Coast League game before 2,665 fans at Wrigley Field. The Seals evened the series at 1-1 by collecting 17 hits off four Angel hurlers. It was the most hits San Francisco has collected this season and the most hits off Los Angeles this season. The Seals socked three homers and six doubles. Boat launching ramps will be built at two Josephine county parks, Schroeder and Upper Ferry parks above Robertson bridge. Commenting on rapid develop ment of the Upper Rogue valley, Commissioner Kenneth Denman of Medford said: "We'll be lucky to have even a spot to shoot a planted-pheasant in 15 years." He urged further development and expansion of the Rogue val ley game management area lo cated on the old Camp White site. sssBsKMssssss mm w DLL IE No other tire compares with the Double Eagle for all around satis-' faction. Goodyears exclusive Triple Tempered 3-T Nylon Cord and Grip-Seal construction provide an extra margin of blowout and puncture protection. You get superior traction and mileage with deeper, tougher Resist-a-Skid tread . . . plus unequalled beauty and comfort. Come in and trade your old tires now! MORE PEOPLE RIDE ON GOODYEAR TIRES THAN ON ANY OTHER KIND 123 South Riverside MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN STUDS PRACTICE Tune-up for the semi-pro base ball season here starts today, weather permitting. Practice is planned for the Medford Cheney Studs, and the new farm club the Cheney Colts. A call to all players interested has been is sued and drill will begin at 2 p.m. at the fairgrounds ball park. Jack Cooney will skipper the Studs in the Southern Ore gon league and Harry Tonn will manage the Colts in the Rogue Valley league. COLLEGE BASEBALL Seattle S. Portland 3 Oregon State 7, Idaho 5 Portland State 4, Lewis 4c Clark 3 UCLA 5. California 4 Sid .-in riter and Vacation Time Is Here! Let Parsons Motors Help You Get More Tire Mileage and Driving Comfort Cy . Here's What We Do . . . Align Front-End Balance All Wheels (Weights included) Clean, Check and Pack Front Wheel Bearings Rotate Tires Including Spare. Parsons Motors DODGE-PLYMOUTH HEADQUARTERS 315 E. 5th Next to Greyhound Phone 3-3687 dHjrr-r" r htn 43 Tubeless HLLL! Webfoot Golfers Defeat Beavers Corvallis (U.R) Oregon, with an advantage in the indi vidual matches, defeated Oregon State here Friday 14V4-12i,4, in a Northern Division golf match. The Beavers won the best-ball matches, 5-4, but faltered in Indi vidual play. Sharing medalist honors were Ray Linquist of Oregon State and Barry Ott of Oregon with par'72s. i Use Tribune Want Ads FRONT-END and WHEEL Alignment Phone 2-6314 All This For ONLY Dime. .