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MedfordIITribune SrPdDMTTS m A ft" 1 it- TORNADO STAR HURDLER Wally Larson, above, is one of the Medford high track men expected to score heavily in the state A-l track meet at Corvallis. His times of :14.6 in the high hurdles and :19.3 in the lows were best prior to the Corvallis tussle. Prelimi naries in the meet were this afternoon with finals on Saturday. HOME APPLIANCE FIRM WILL PROVIDE RESULTS OF STATE TRACK MEET . Home Appliance company on Saturday will be the Medford center of information on the state high school track meet be ing run off at the Oregon State college campus at Corvallis. The firm will compile the in dividual results and team scores Ducks Win, OSC Loses In ND Tiffs By UNITED PRESS Oregon State was out to square its Northern Division baseball slate today when the Beavers met Washington. Yesterday, lefty Al Guidotti limited the Huskies to two hits in checking in with a 5-0 OSC victory over Washington. The victory brought Oregon State's season record to 6-7. ' Jerry Exley backed up Gui dotti's hurling with a double and two singles. He drove in three runs. Catcher Jack Brady was the whole show for Washington, getting the only two Husky hits. Oregon kept its title hopes alive with a solid 14-5 victory over Idaho. Idaho took an early 4-0 lead but crumbled in the eighth when the Ducks scored seven runs. The big rally came on four hits, three Idaho errors and three wild pitches. Jim Pingree's triple with the sacks loaded chased in three of the runs.,- , ;.- L as they are reported for the A-l division by Tom MacLeod, radio station KYJC sportscaster, who will broadcast the meet. Results will be posted in the window of the store at 115 East'Main st. Home Appliance company also will have a direct telephone line to MacLeod at Corvallis. Per sons vho have any questions concerning either A-l or A-2 events in the meet may tele phone the store (3-5395). The questions will be phoned to Mac Leod who will answer them on the air or by the direct line. Broadcast at 1:45 p.m. The appliance firm is sponsor of the KYJC broadcast which will begin about 1:45 p.m. and continue until the meet is over. Medford high, winner the last three consecutive years in Class A rivalry is favored to capture the bunting in A-l. The Black Tornado, a powerhouse all sea son long, qualified for 12 berths in 11 meet events and has a good chance to pick up points in all 11. Tornado thmclads have the best marks of the season in a majority of the 14 events con tested in high school track. Other schools having A-l entries from this area are Grants Pass, Ashland and Klamath Falls. In A-2 Crater, Eagle Point, Phoenix and Illinois Valley will be represented. Preliminaries were run off this afternoon. St. Marys of Medford is j entered in the state B meet at Springfield. . . - . UQ0 UCLA Threat In PCC Track Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) Southern California's strangle hold on the Pacific Coast con ference track and 1 field cham pionships is being tested here to day and Saturday by the upstart UCLA Bruins. As the PCC meet opened with preliminaries this afternoon, the Trojans were the choice but not as overwhelmingly so as they have been in the past Three top men, including shot- putter Ray Martin, distance star Fernando Ledesma and sprinter Dick Dorsey have been declared out of competition for the Tro jans. Meanwhile, the Bruins look healthy and off records posted this season have a chance to win eight first places in the meet. These are Bobby Seaman in the mile; Russ Ellis in the 440, Rafer Johnson, the decathlon champion, in the high and low hurdles and broadjump; Don Drummond in the discus and Nick Dyer in the high jump. The only first that the Tro- jans appear to have cinched is in the pole vault, where Ronnie Morris and Walt Levack should finish 1-2. Mile Feature Event While the Bruins and Trojans duel in the team battle, the fea ture event will be the mile run on Saturday, in which Oregon's Eight Horse Field Likely In Preakness Baltimore, Md. (U.R) Needles, the Kentucky Derby winner, was expected to head a small field of eight three-year-olds when the entry box closed today for Saturday's running of the $100,000 added Preakness stakes. At a cost of $500 each, Calu met Farm's Fabrus, Dino Lozzi's Count Chic, Mrs. Helen W. Kel logg's Come On Red, Winding Way Farm's Golf Ace, Daniel Arnstein's Eiffel Blue, W. E. Britt's No Regrets, and H. C. Fruehoff's Ratheram also were expected to be named for the second of the Triple Crown classics. It will cost an additional $500 to start, swelling the value of the 80th running of the Preak ness to $131,800 and the value to the winner, if other than Come On Red and Golf Ace, to S82.250. Come On Red and Golf Ace were made supplementary nominations for the Preakness at a cost of $7,500 each, making the net value for them $75,800. (3(7 8t3dw8G(2l To Trojans Encounter Jim Bailey 3:58.6, and UCLA's Seaman 4:01.5 will engage in a duel that could be the finest in American collegiate history. The 100-yard dash is expected to go to Leamon King of Cali fornia, who tied the world rec ord of 9.3 at Fresno last Satur day. There is a chance that Don Bowden, California's great young sophomore middle dis tance star, may return to action. If he is well enough to run, then he'll probably go in the 880, where he would be the favorite. Another great battle shapes up in the two-mile event be tween Max Truex of. Southern California and Bill Dellinger of Oregon. Truex has been clocked in 9:01.5 and Dellinger in 9:03.1. The national collegiate record is 8:57.7. The mile run is set for 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Softballers Vie Sunday At City Park Jackson County Softball asso ciation will give a preview to the public Sunday. A jamboree is scheduled for 1:30 p.m. at Hawthorne park inaugurating play for 1956. Loop play is to begin on Mon day at the senior high school field, marking the return of formal competition in softball here after a year of inactivity. League officials have an nounced that every one of the 10 members of the association is to see action for two or three innings in the Sunday jamboree. A tussle among old-time soft ballers of the vicinity is contem plated along with appropriate ceremonies. Details had not been announced today. Members of the league are Bill's 99 Chevron Service sta tion, YMCA Wisemen, Medford Auto Upholstery, Company A of the National Guard, DeMolay, 20-30 club, Walt's Lithia Motors of Ashland, Chris Drugs of Jack sonville, Courtesy Chevrolet and Southern Oregon Equipment. Walt's and 20-30 meet in the 7:30 p.m, loop starter on Monday with DeMolay to face Southern Oregon Equipment in the second game. HOGLAND .TRADED San Francisco (U.R) Doug Hogland, veteran offensive line man, has been traded by the San Francisco Forty Niners to the Chicago Cardinals for an un disclosed draft choice at the next National Football League meet ing. the new JB CRAWLER TRACTOR LINE Omaha Fox Not To Run In Preakness Omaha Fox, the Medford owned thoroughbred horse which was nominated for the 1955 triple crown, will miss the Preakness at Pimlico track. Baltimore, Md., this Saturday. The three - year - old, owned by Pete Logan, Dark Hollow rd., has recovered from the illness which kept him out of the Kentucky derby. However, knobs formed on the horses' knees. It was necessary to burn the knobs off and Omaha Fox was sidelined by that opera tion. Logan reportedly Is now aiming to have the horse ready for the Belmont stakes in June. Omaha Fox is now at Baltimore and Mrs. Logan is there now. Pete, a nation ally known rodeo announcer, is currently with a show at Las Vegas. Prior to the derby Omaha Fox developed a high fever, ' presumably picking up a virus infection from another horse. He was thrown off his train ing schedule for a month by' the sickness. x Omaha Fox is the son of Omaha, winner of the Triple Crown in 1935. Omaha was the first horse Logan ever bet on. Explosion Shatters Brewery in Montreal Montreal (U.R) An explos ion early today shattered the $4,000,000 cooling plant of Mol- son's brewery. One man was killed and another injured. Company officials said the blast apparently was caused by an ammonia leak. It wrecked the 14-story plant near the waterfront, blowing out its east wall and leaving big holes in three others. The dead man was identified as Paul Cheess, who was in charge of the plant. Use Tribune Want Ads For a GUARANTEED GOOD USED CAR Before You Buy Be Sure To Look the Lot Over at . . . MORSE MOTORS 1201 N. RIVERSIDE 0 8 ' Come see the BONUS POWERED ig Red Internationals on display in our showrooms. Friday, May 18, 1958 MAIL TRIBUNE TO START ON Biggest shoot of the year at Medford Gun gets underway Saturday morning and it will continue through Saturday. The club is host for the 23rd annual Medford Mail Tribune Trap shooting tourney. The affair also will be the last big shotgun competition of the year at the local traps. - Sixteen - yard, handicap and doubles events are scheduled each day with 500 targets pos sible for each shooter who par ticipates in the full program. A trophy will go to the high overall man for the two days and awards are offered for the six different events. Team com petition also will be featured. 'The Rogue Valley hundred, 16-yard shoot, will open the tournament Saturday morning. This will be followed by the Chester Wood handicap. In addi tion to the trophies for winner and runner-up on 100 targets, the Chester Wood perpetual purse and trophy is offered on the first 50. A first time winner receives $10 and a repeat win ner $100. Twenty-five pairs of doubles concludes the day with shooting in two classes. Mendenhall Trophy Mail Tribune trophy goes to the winner of the Sunday morn ing 16-yard shoot. Another prize in this event -is the Mendenhall trophy for high gun among Class B shooters and lower. There will be trophies for high lady and high junior. John Willener, Eugene, broke 100 straight last year for the newspaper hard ware. E. E: Driscoll, Klamath Falls, copped the Mendenhall award. The $300 Medford handicap and 25 pair of doubles finish up Fight Results By UNITED PRESS Philadelphia Artie Towne. 168 'j, New York, outpointed Charles Chase, 171, Montreal (10). Houston. Tex. Paul Jorgensen. 130. Houston, Tex., outpointed Lulu Perez. 129. Brooklyn. N.Y. (10). o o o You'll be glad you did. CENTRAL POINT . i MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN SHOOT SATURDAY the day. Team competition will be de-J termined by scores in Sunday 16-yard and ' handicap tussles. Teams will be made up of five shooters affiliated wth the same club and: each club may enter as many teams as it wishes. The shoot is registered by the Pacific International Trapshoot ing association. Lunch will be available at the grounds. rSi Jwi4f fig 4 A This new packaged structural framing with glued laminated members is the answer to the need for per manent commercial and farm buildings at a cost you can afford. Thoroughly engineered with rugged strength for generations of use, Tim-Frames give you Fully usable space Fast construction with no posts,knee braces precision fabricated or bottom chords. parts. Guaranteed sotisf ae ' tion. See us today for complete information on Tim-Frame buildings. No obligation. Free estimates on the build ing you need. Timberrib Construction 1502 N.W. 6th St., Grants Pass, Ore. 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