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Favored Black Tornado Squad Bound for State Track Hassle Iff Medford high in the fa vored role again as the peren nial champion Black Tornado headed for Corvallis today to defend its championship in the Oregon state track and field meet at Corvallis. A crew of 12 Tornado stal warts left Medford at 11 a.m. today. They'll begin their efforts at noon on Friday to protect the crown that Medford has cop ped for three consecutive years. Preliminaries in both A-l and A-2 state meets are billed for Friday with the finals to get underway at noon on Saturday. Medford triumphed in the dis trict meet at Klamath Falls last week end and gained 12 lspots in the state A-l struggle. Coach Bob Newland last night pro nounced his Tornado cohorts In "fine fettle" for their big as signment with the possible ex ception of Les Lingscheit. Lingscheit, who has the best half-mile time in the state this season at 1:59.6, has a pulled achilles tendon. It won't be known for sure whether he'll run at Corvallis until just about race time Saturday. Newland thinks he'll be able to go but whether he'll be able to perform up to par is something else again. The 880 man said that the in Jury probably occurred when he started into his sprint in the dis trict meet. He danced at the prom Saturday night and didn't notice anything was wrong until Sunday, he reported. Lingscheit was on crutches Monday and Tuesday to aid recovery from the ailment. Others Medford has on the state meet squad are Wally Lar son in both hurdles and the re lay; Jerry Close in the broad jump; Neil Plumley in the shot put; Dave Johnson in the high jump; Eldon Francis in the jave lin; Lew Breazeale in the pole vault; Mike Russelr- in the 440 and relay; Bilbee Lane in the 880; Hike Hawkins in the 100- yard dash and relay; Pete Ker Only 9 May Be Entered In Preakness Baltimore (U.PJ The field for the 80th run of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Saturday will comprise no more than nine thoroughbreds unless some un , decided owners have a last min-1 ute change of heart. As of today the field should be made up of Needles, the prohibitive choice, Fabius, Count Chic, Come On Red, Golf Ace, Eiffel Blue, No Regrets, Fleet Peet and Ratheram. Assorted Scratched The Llangollen Farm's Assort ed and the Christiane Stable's Ricci Tavi were the latest elegi bles to be withdrawn. Assorted, who won the Preakness Prep here on Monday, was scratched by Trainer Oscar Mackey. The colt has a bowed tendon, prob ably incurred in Monday's test, Ricci Tavi, never seriously considered a starter, definitely will not start in the mile and - three-sixteenths classic. Trainer Henry Clark said it would not be fair to put the colt up against the top three-year-olds when he wasn't in his best shape. Ricci Tavi finished second to Assorted In the Preakness Prep. GAME SOLD OUT Washington (U.R) This year's major league All-Star game is all sold out, and what's more it took only 21 hours to accomplish. The Washington Senators, who host the game this year, report about 25,000 appli cations on hand. Griffith Sta dium seats around 28,000. '56 IIILLMAIJ HUSKY Sedan and Station Wagon in ONE all-purpose car. An eye ful for a trifle. That's the new Hillman Husky for ,"56, the safest, most powerful car in its class. Backed by a strong dealer network. 1495 oo WHITE'S 36 South Bartlett shaw in the relay, and Bob Gould, relay alternate. Bert In State In eight events Medfordites own the best records in the state this year. They are Larson with :14.6 and :19.3 in the' hurdles, Lingscheit and Lane with 1:59.6 and 1:59.7 in the half-mile, Rus sell with :50.5 in the quarter mile, Lew Breazeale with 12 feet 9 inches in the pole vault, Jerry Close with 22-2 in the broad jump, Mike Hawkins, tied with Don Speights, Redmond (A-2) at :09.2 in the 100, and the relay team of Larson, Kershaw, Cavekids Capture Diadem In Freshman Track Meet Grants Pass piled up 172 points yesterday to score an over whelming triumph in the South ern Oregon Freshman District Track meet at the Medford sen ior high stadium. McLoughlin junior high ninth graders of Medford were a dis tant second with 77 and Hedrick of Medford was third with 71 13. Klamath Falls tallied 70 and Crater 29 23. The Cavekids collected five first places and tied for two other in recording the victory. McLoughlin had three firsts and a tie. Hedrick was the winner in two events and shared top spot in another. Klamath Falls was victor in one contest and knotted in one. Double winners of the meet were Terry Hamilton of Mc Loughlin, Jim Dean of Grants Pass and Jerome McQuade of Hedrick. Hamilton won the high hurdles in :09.75 and the low hurdles in :13.7. Dean took, the 75-yard dash in :08.2 and the 150 in :16.2. McQuade, who transferred to Hedrick after playing freshman and junior varsity football at Crater last fall, won the broad jump at 18 feet 6 inches. He won the discus with a 118-2 throw. Winningham of Grants Pass won the javelin with 165-6 and tied with John Harvey of Hed rick at 10-3 in the pole vault Other GP victors were Simmons with 3:26.5 in the three-fourths mile, Wilson with 1:31 in the John Saxton Wins by TKO Over Turner Chicago (U.R) Middle weight Gil Turner lost his own fight when he was brash enough to tell how he could beat welter weight Champion Johnny Sax- ton, the happy victor said today. "He said Til beat Saxton, if he don't run'," Saxton said, "So I just stayed in there against the ropes and ducked and blocked the, punches he threw until he got tired, and then I moved around and went to work." Saxton's battle plan worked so perfectly that he gained a tenth round technical knockout vic tory over one of. the four men who have beaten him in 58 pro fights, avenging his defeat by Turner with a split decision June 15, 1953, a result which ended Saxton's string of 39 wins and a draw which began his pro career. The bout was stopped by Illi nois Boxing Commission physic ian Irving N. Slott, who refused to Jet Turner come out for the tenth. "When he took out his mouth piece," Slott said, "he brought up about a cup of blood." Turner earlier was bleeding from a cut on the right eyebrow. which he suffered in the ' first round, and in the ninth he began to bleed from a slash on the point of his nose as well as from his mouth. Slott found tonsil lacerations on Turner, as well as some pin point abrasions, in an examina tion after the fight. Turner's manager, George Katz, com plained bitterly about the result of the battle, claiming the bout was stopped by "incompetents." When the bout ended, with Saxton's 51st victory, he was ahead on the card of Referee Frank Sikora, 87-85, and on the card of Judge Marovitz, 87-84 while Judge Frank Clark had Turner the leader, 88-86. It was Turner's 11th loss in 62 pro bat-ties. Scatterguners of Area Eyeing 23rd Annual Mail Tribune Shoot - Trapshooters of the area will compete for the Mail Tribune trophy in the Sunday morning 16-yard event of the annual Mail Tribune Trapshooting tourna ment at- Medford Gun club. Any amateur is eligible to compete for the trophy and any one winning it three times be comes permanent owner. A Mail Tribune trophy has yet to be re tired. Dick Skeeters and George L. Jantzer, both of Medford have won the event on two occa sions each. The 23rd annual tournament begins Saturday morning with tea Rogue Valley Hundred, a Russell, Hawkins with 1:31.3. Plumley has second best ef fort of the season in the shot with 55.2. Hawkin's :22.3 in the 220 is second best on record and Francis with 182-5 has the third best javelin heave publicized. From southern Oregon, Grants Pass, Klamath Falls and Ash land athletes will join Medford in A-l at Corvallis. Crater, Illin ois Valley, Eagle Point and Phoe nix will be represented in A-2. In the B meet at Springfield, St. Mary's of Medford, Rogue River, Jacksonville and Prospect will have entries. 600-yard run and the relay team, Armstrong, Gordon, Sturgill and Dean with :47.3 in the relay. Bar rett deadlocked with George Koch of McLoughlin and Bob Drace of Klamath in the high jump at 5-2. Mike Murray put the shot 57-2 for a McLoughlin win and Car dell Matthews took the 330 in :38 flat for the KF team. RESULTS: High hurdles Hamilton, Mc: Win ningham. G; Thumler, C; Hawley, K; Monroe, H. Time :09.75. 75-yard dash Dean. G: Peek, H; Storey. K; Funston, Mc; Bennett, C. Time :08.2. Shot put Murray, Mc: Dean, G: Montgomery, G: Perkins, K; Doan. H; Funston, Mc. Distance 52 ft. 7 in. Three-fourths mile Simmons, G; Norton, H; Coffman. K; Johnson. Mc: Spencer, G; Hlginbotham, C. Time 326.5. High jump Koch, Mc, Drave, K, and Bamett. G, tied first; Wilson. G: Hamilton, Mc; McQuade, H. Burns and Surgeon. C. tied sixth. Height 5 ft. 2 in. 330-yard dash Matthews, K: Stur gill, G: Armstrong. G; Byers. C: Fun ston, Mc; Turner. Mc. Time :38. Low hurdles Hamilton, Mc: Clark, G; Thumler, C; Emmens, H; Smith. K. Time :13.7. Javelin Winningham, G; Priest. K; Putnam, G: Harvey. H; Greer. Mc; Clark, Mc. Distance 165 ft. 6 in. 150-yard dash Dean, G; Priest, K; Peek. H; Barnes, C. Time :16.2. 660-yard run Wilson, G; Reich, Mc; Kaye, Mc: Winterbottom, G; Kranen burg, K; Burns. C. Time 1:31. Pole vault Winningham. G. and Harvey, H, tied first: Berrow, G, and Maurer. H, tied third: Schefers, Mc; Schultz, Mc. Height 10 ft. 3 in. 440-yard relay Grants Pass (Arm strong, Gordon, Sturgill, Dean); Klam- atn rails; riedrick: crater. Time :47.3. Broad jump McQuade, H: Sabin. G; Sturgill. G: Storev. K: Bvers. C: Mat thews, K. Distance 18 ft. 6 in. Discus McQuade. H; Putnam. G; Montgomery. G: Connollv. Mk Davis. C: Matthews. K. and Murray. M tied sixth. Distance 118 ft. 2 in. Red Raiders Contend in OCC Scuffle Ashland Southern Oregon college Red Raider track team heads for La Grande this week end to defend the Oregon Col legiate conference champion ship which it won last year at Klamath Falls. i Eastern Oregon college, which the Raiders upset last year to win the championship, is favor ed to take the crown this time. Southern Oregon college is fig ured to give the closest opposi tion. The Red Raiders do not have the first place strength that they had in winning last year, when they set six conference records. Only returning winner in last year's meet is Chuck Crandall in the 880, and his best time is not as good as some others in the conference. Best chances for wins by the Raiders are by Earl James, Bill Hollingsworth and Dick Gustaf son. James has the best times in the conference in the 100, 220, and 440, and whatever events he runs in he should win. Bill Hol lingsworth set a new school rec ord in the pole vault this week with a 12 foot mark, and could win that event. He may also sur prise in the high jump where he has consistently been clearing 6 feet, and should go higher. Gustafson could surprise in the distance races, where he has already set two new school rec-, ords. The Red Raiders' main strength is jn depth. By picking up enough seconds, thirds and fourths, they may give the Mountaineers of Easter Oregon a close battle. Last Monday the Raiders clos ed out their dual meet season with an easy win over Oregon Tech, beating them 85-46. James and Hollingsworth and Dick Smith were double winners for the Raiders, as was Andrews for the Techmen. Bill Hollings worth set the record in the pole vault in clearing 12 feet, break ing his old record set earlier this year at 11 feet 9 inches. 16-yard shoot. Also on Saturday will be the Chester Wood handi cap and 25 pairs of doubles. Fol lowing the 16-yard action Sun day will be the $300 Medford handicap and another 25 pairs of doubles.' ' A trophy will go to the high overall shooter on the two day's 500 targets. There will also be a five-man team shoot with scores taken from Sunday 16-yard and handicap competitions. The Mail Tribune trophy was placed in contention in 1930. No shoots were held in the war years 1942 through 1945. " Kit-.- ,, i ..ummmmmm il t i4:fi i mi fiti':iiii,J SEEK B TRACK LAURELS This group of trackmen will carry the St. Mary's high of Medford colors into the state B meet at Springfield Friday and Saturday. Kneeling are Ramon Elbert, left, and Jim Darland, relay runners. Standing, from left, are Pat Sul livan, relay alternate; Bill Carey, half-mile and relay entry, and Dick Hayes, relay man. Not pictured is Gerald Darland, quarter miler, shot putter and rela man. He was on the crippled list early in the week. MEDFORDsjTRIBUNE WEATHER MAN EASES MIND OF RAY ROBINSON . Los Angeles (U.R) The weather man today promised Sugar Ray Robinson some relief from the heat when he climbs into the ring about sunset Fri day to defend his middleweight title against Carl (Bobo) Olson at Wrigley Field. "Cooler but no rain" was the Weather Bureau's forecast for the fight-of-the-year. Sugar Ray has a horror of heat because of. his collapse in the 14th round on June 25th, 1952, while trying to take the light-heavyweight crown from Joey Maxim. The temperature that night in Yankee Stadium was 104 degrees. ' , The 35 -year -old champion, who scurried out of his camp at San Jacinto, Calif., Wednesday because of the baking heat, was relaxing today at the home of friend Bill Townsend in cooler Brentwood, a suburb of Los An geles. -' . , - Co-manager Ernie Braca ex plained, "It was in the mid-90s at San Jacinto yesterday." San Jacinto is 80 miles southeast of Los Angeles. Ironically, the tem perature here at Wrigley Field at noon Wednesday was 99, a record breaker for May 16. Meanwhile Robinson continu ed a 13-10 betting favorite to win the nationally televised and broadcast 15-rounder, and he was favored at 2-1 in a poll of 24 sports writers who will cover rM",KX(-mf'rfit-f i mm m r m Here comes excitement ... the car you've dreamed of, priced to make dreams come true! It brings you new beauty Hudson's new V-Line styling; new 2- and 3-tone exteriors; new color-matched interiors. And under the hood.. . . the all-new Hornet V-8 Special engine. Jet-age dash 505 the fight. Sixteen picked Sugar Ray; eight, Olson. Applegate River Cletir Portland (U.R) The week ly report on fishing conditions prepared by the State Game commission: Southwest: South fork of Co quille river poor to fair; trout angling on middle fork of (Co quille river fair; east fork good to excellent; north fork poor to fair; Coos river fair. Lower Rogue was poor for Salmon this past week but has improved past few days; trout fishing mostly poor in Sixes riv er, Hunter creek, Pistol river and Winchuck river; Elk and Chetko rivers and Floras and Garrison lakes most promising. Applegate river clear and should be good. . Road to Fish lake is repaired and traffic going through to re sort; road from Butte Falls to Fish lake still impassable; Lake of the Woods road open from both Klamath side and Ashland side of Dead Indian. 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