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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, May 21, IS56 Tony Trabert Learns It Takes Years To Make Tennis Champion It takes many years to make a tennis champion, and no one knows that better than Tony Trabert, world amateur cham pion, who will appear with Jack Kramer's World Championship Tennis Tour at Hedrick junior high school gym here on Mon day, May 28, at 8 p.m. Trabert will meet Pancho Gonzales while Pancho Segura opposes Rex Hartwig. Gonzales and Se gura will play Trabert and Hart wig in the doubles match. The show is sponsored by the Med ford Lions club. Tony began his tennis career at the age of six when he lived next door to some public courts and played with the neighbor hood kids. He entered his first competitive tennis tournament at the age of 10 and lost in the first round by scores of 6-0, 6-1. Two years later, however, he won this same event Not Great Junior Trabert was not a great junior player, never winning the Na tional Juniors. But no one could convince him that he wasn't go ing to be the world's greatest tennis player. His first big lift came in 1950 at the age of 19 when he defeated Ted Schroe der in the Western Champion ships. His record from there on was very spotty until 1953 when he won the United States Na tional Singles championships, defeating Vic Seixas in the rec ord time of 59 minutes. Also in 1953, Trabert married Shauna Wood of Salt Lake City, who was Miss Utah in 1953. Tony is the epitome of the big game. His great idol always has been Jack Kramer and he has tried to duplicate the Kra mer style in strategy of serve and advance to the net. Works Self to Nat Trabert has the temperament of a great player. He trains for all tournaments and is able to work himself up to the peak for the important ones.. He is invar- xm 7 A r 4 ? f frt m v&iv.'rs If I f 4 3 TONY TRABERT First Big Lift Came at Age 19 iably an excellent sport on the court at all times. Only once did he display any temperament, an incident which he still regrets wholeheartedly. He was playing the veteran, John Bromwich, in the Australian National cham pionships and allowed the enthu siasm of the gallery to irritate him. Trabert, however, apolo gized for his action to the gal lery the following year and was greeted in return with a thun dering roar of applause. He knows through first hand experience , that temperament and concentration are just as important to a tennis champion as his forehand, backhand or service. Trabert has found his foe on this tour, Gonzales, to be just about the greatest there is but Trabert never quits trying to beat his master. UCLA Captures PCC Track Mantle; Ducks Place 4th By HAL WOOD San Francisco (U.R) The UCLA Bruins won't be eligible to win another Pacific Coast con ference championship for three years but you have to admit they went out in a blaze of glory. The boys from Westwood wound up a mighty year in sports Saturday by dethroning the Southern California Trojans as the perennial winners of the track and. field title. It was the first time in his tory that UCLA had won this crown and it was the first time since 1936 that the Trojans had lost the title. Other Title On top of that, UCLA won the PCC football and basketball championships. The only major crown to escape the Bruins was baseball. UCLA had its fine all-around performer, Raf er Johnson, to thank for the track and field crown. Johnson won the low hurdles, finished second in the 100 and broad jump and third in the high hurdles. The team scores: UCLA 69 V4, USC 67, Stanford 29Vi, Oregon 21, California 17V4, Washington 6V4, Oregon State 6, Washington State 6, Idaho 2. Track nd Field Cmpionliihips: IVtile 1, Bailey. Ore.; 2. Seaman. UCLA: 3. Wing. USC: 4. Rodriguez. UCLA; 5. McLeod. USC. Time 4:06. (New PCC record. Old record of 4:09 et bv Dellenger. Ore.. 1955). 44C 1, Lnrrabee, USC: 3. Ellu, UCLA: 3. Stewart, Cal.: 4. Ki'chen. USC: 5. Carne. UCLA. Time :47.9. Shot Put 1. Butt. Cal.. 57 feet 87, inches: 2. Vick. UCLA. 57 feet 4 58 inches: 3. Cheney. Stan., 53 feet 4'4 inches; 4. Kahnert. Cal., 53 feet l' inches: 5, Pulford. Wash., 50 feet 8T inches. 880 1. Seaman. UCLA: 2. Kirkby, USC; 3. McCulloch. Wash.: 4, Johan son. Ida.; 5, Coburn, USC. Time 1:522. 220 1, Coyle. USC: 2. Larrabee. USC- 3. Saras. Stan.; 4. ElUs, UCLA; 5, Kobel. Wash. Time :21.9. U1M LI r. 1 . lin.ir.u, .J . ' . - -.- - - incesh: 2. Drummond, UCLA. 178 feet li inches: 3. tgan, usl. i ieei x inch; 4. Vick. UCLA. 172 feet 5 inches; ' Broad Jump 1, Knaub. UCLA. 24 feet 10'i inches: z. Jonnson. n-Lft, 24 feet 3'i inches: 3. Herrmann. Stan.. 24 feet 2 inches: 4. Merchant. Cal.. 24 feet 'i inch; 5. McClure. Ore.. 23 feet 7? inches. Graves. Stan.: 3. Truex. USC: 4. Aiidtoo. vvasn. 01.; a, xiouse, ii. tune 220-yaTd Low Hurdles 1, Johnson, UCLA: it SWllineim. UBt; .-Morris, Ore.: 4. Cobb. Stan.; Bail, UCLA; Time :23 4. 100-Yard Dash 1. Coyle, USC; 2 i i . r i . . 4 11- 1 c- 4. Swiffhelm. USC; 5, Morris, Ore. lime iu. 120-Yard High Hurdles 1. Nelson Old i: , 4. , Dan, uvijn! o, tfuuiiauu, UCLA; 4. Cobb, Stan.; 5, Lawson, USC. Use Tribune Want Ads How does the '56 Buick compare with Chrysler, Olds, Nash? Get the amazing new Free 44-page book with all the facts on all leading cars. FREE 1956 CAR X-RAY AT YOUR NASH DEALER LEA MOTORS BARTLETT AT FIFTH Mtdford 2-6185 Javelin 1 Voiles. USC. 218 feet 9 inches; 2. Pearson. Wash. St., 205 feet 11 ',2 inches; 3, Bignam, ure., ti feet 5'i inches: 4. McCrea, UCLA. 201 feet inch: 5. Roldan, Stan., 198 feet 7 inches. High Jump , Miller, UCLA, 6 feet 5 inches: 2, tie between Vehlen, Stan., Dyer, UCLA, and Moss. Ore. bt., 6 leei 4 inches; 5. Stewart, Stan., 6 feet 2 inches. Mile-Relay 1. USC (Quigley, Co burn, Kirkby and Larrabee); 2. UCLA; 3. Oregon: 4, California; 5, Stanford. Time 3:13.1 Pole Vault 1. Morris. USC. 14 feet 8 inches; 2, Levack, USC, 14 feet; 3, tie between Flint, Stan., Anderson, Cal.. Kell. UCLA,, and Hilton, Wash., 13 feet 6 inches. STANDINGS PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W L . 24 15 Los Angeles beattle Sacramento San Diego Ssn Fraa Cisco portiano Hollywood Vancouver 25 16 20 17 21 21 . 20 21 . 18 22 17 21 Pet .615 .610 .541 500 .488 .450 .447 3 4',i 5 6'i 6- 14 26 .350 10 li Sunday's Results Hollywood 4-3 Los Angeles 1-0. San Diego 10-3 Sacramento 5-0. Seattle 6-3 Vancouver 1-8. San Francisco 12-1 Portland 6-2. NATIONAL LEAGUE W Milwaukee Brooklyn . St. Louis ... Cincinnati Pittsburgh New York ... Philadelphia 9 Chicago 7 -L . Pet U 13 8 .619 16 11 .593 17 12 .586 16 12 .571 15 12 556 .. 13 15 .464 18 .333 18 .280 GB 1 3Va 7 8 Sunday's Results Brooklyn 5 Chicago 3 (1st) Brooklvn 5 Chicago 3 (2nd) New York 2 St. Louis 0 (1st) New York 5 St. Louis (2nd) Cincinnati 5 Philadelphia 1 (1st) Philadelphia 6 Cincinnati 4 (2nd) Pittsburgh 6 Milwaukee 3 (1st) Pittsburgh 5 Milwaukee 0 (2nd) AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pet GB New York j 21 10 .677 Cleveland 18 11 .621 2 Boston . 16 12 .571 3'.2 Chicago 12 13 .480 6 Baltimore 15 17 .467 6',i Detroit 12 17 .414 7 Washington 12.18 .400 8'i Kansas City 10 ' 18 J57 9,2 Sunday's Results , New York 4 Kansas Citv 2 Boston 12 Chicago 5 (1st) Boston 2 Chicago 1 (2nd) -Detroit 4 Washington 2 (1st) Detroit 7 Washington 1 (2nd) Cleveland 8 Baltimore 1 (1st) Cleveland 5 Baltimore 1 (2nd) NORTHWEST LEAGUE Eugene Yakima w 13 . 13 14 10 Wenatchee 0 Salem 7 Spokane 5 Tri-City Lewiston Pet .684 .650 .608 .526 .428 12 .368 15 .238 L 6 7 9 9 12 GB Sunday's Results Wenatchee 15 Yakima 2 (first game) Yakima 9 . Wenatchee 3 (second game) Lewiston 10 Spokane 0 (first game) Lewiston 16 Spokane 15 (second game) Eugene 7 Tri-City 6 COLLEGE SCORES (By United Press) Saturday Baseball Oregon 4 Washington State 2 Seattle U 8 U of Portland 4 (first game) U of Portland 3 SeatUe U 0 (second game) Portland State 2 Oregon Tech 1 Portland State 7 Oregon College 3 Southern Oregon 8 Eastern Oregon 2 Oregon College 11 So. Oregon 3 Saturday Track UCLA 69!-. USC 67. Stanford 29. Oregon 21, California 17',j, Washing ton 6'i, Oregon State 6, Washington State 6. Idaho 2. Lewis and Clark 771. Whitman 622. Willamette 542. Linfield 46 5t6. Pacific 40 5' 6, College of Idaho 156. Eastern Oregon 66 13. Oregon Col lege 36 16. Southern Oregon 29 13. Portland State 22. Oregon Tech 10 1 6. Read and Use Classified Ads Softballers Open League This Evening Jackson County Softball asso ciation opens regular league play this evening with a pair of twilight tussles. Walt's Lithia Motors meets 20-30 club and DeMolay plays Southern Oregon Equipment company with simultaneous ac tion at the Medford senior high school stadium. Game times will be 6:15 p.m. The loop, successor to the for mer Medford Softball association returns formal play to Medford after a lay-off in 1955. Clubs of the league began the season yesterday with a jam boree at Hawthorne park in the three inning actions National Guard tripped Courtesy Chevro let 3 to 1, Waifs Lithia Motors of Ashland beat Southern Ore gon Equipment 3 to 0, 20-30 club trimmed DeMolay 6 to 2 and Medford Auto Upholstery blanked Bill's 99 Chevron serv ice 8 to 0.- Two other teams of the loop, the YMCA Ysmen and Chris Drugs of Jacksonville did not play. This week's schedule. May 21 Walt's Lithia Motors vs. 20-30 club, DeMolay vs. Southern Oregon Equipment company. May 23 Courtesy Chevrolet vs. Chris Drugs, YMCA Ysmen vs. Bill's Chevron service. May 24 Medford Auto Upholstery vi. Company A of National Guard, .Lithia Motors vs. SO Equipment. Bo Wininger KC Champion Kansas City, Mo U.R) Bo Wininger, who won top prize money in the $22,000 Kansas City Open by the narrow margin of one stroke, said today he had a "feeling" he was due for a win. "The feeling came even be fore the tournament started," he said, "but I wasn't sure it was right until that last putt dropped." Wininger played a steady, cautious game on the last nine holes to defeat " Fred Hawkins, El Paso, Tex., and Bob Ros burg, San Francisco. Wininger, 34, of Oklahoma City, came back with a second round of 34 and a total of 273 in the 72-hole affairs. Hawkins and Rosburg each shot 274. Ted Kroli; Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., took fourth . place and $1,500 with a 276 total. Dow Finsterwald of Bedford Heights, O., shot a 278 total. Tied with him were Gene Lit tler, Singing Hills, Calif., and Stan Leonard, Lechute, Canada. SAILING CHAMP Kings Point, N.Y. (U.R) The United States Merchant Marine academy won the Greater New York Sailing championship Sun day by totaling 58 points during the two-day week end meet Webb institute was second and Hofstra finished third. Medfo UNE SLPODIFLFS Mail Tribune Trophy Goes To Walt Fisher Walt Fisher of Wedderburn won the Mail Tribune trapshoot ing trophy at Medford Gun club yesterday but he had to bust 200 targets to do it. Fisher and Gordon Miller, Drain, knotted with 100 straight in yesterday morning's 16-yard competition of the two-day 23rd annual Mail Tribune tourna ment. In the shoot-off Fisher shattered another 100 while Miller, high overall shooter for the two days, was right behind in the extra with 99. Miller, a top shooter in the Saturday contention, had a 479 score for 500 targets for the two days. Medford gunners won the team event with 961 total in rivalry with Klamath Falls and Yoncalla. Klamath had 948 and Yoncalla 947. Scores of the local team members were Ray Cole man 198, George Jantzer 195, Jim Horn 193, Henry Neider meyer 189 and Ed Pease 186. Fisher's triumph yesterday gave him the Class A trophy also at 16 yards and Miller got the runner-up laurels in the Class. Jantzer Gets Award Jantzer collected the Menden hall trophy for Class B and lower in the Mail Tribune spe cial. He won the Class B shoot ousting Coleman 75 to 74 in a shoot-off after both broke 99 in the regular. , Winner in Class C was C. G. McCully of Gold Beach, and Don Buffington, also of Gold Beach was runner-up with 93. W. E. Willett of Grants Pass won the D group with 96 and Ray Billings of Klamath Falls was next with 89. Coleman took the $300 Med ford handicap yesterday with a 99. Jack Culver of Sutherlin won a shoot-off with 49 out of 50 for second. He tied with Vera Solomon, Winchester, Fish er and E. E. Driscoll, Klamath Falls with a 97. Horn and Solomon had 46 out of 50 each in doubles to win Class I and II, respectively. Jantzer followed in Class I win ning shoot-off with Vern Moore, Klamath Falls. They Ijad 45s. Miller and Pease had 45s also in Class II doubles with Miller taking No. 2 honors in an extra. UCLA Bruins Slapped With Stiff Penalty Victoria, B.C. U.R) Every member of the 1955 UCLA varsity and freshman football squads today was penalized one year of eligibility at the California school. By BILL McFARLAND Victoria, B. C. (U.R) Pa cific Coast conference schools and their coaches have been warned to live by the conference athletic code or face the dire punishment received by UCLA and Washington. The Bruins were put into deep freeze for three years Saturday by conference officials, who charged school Chancellor Ray mond B. Allen, Athletic Director Wilbur Jones and football Coach Red Sanders with condoning and even participating in the grant of illegal financial aid to ath letes. As a result, there'll be no Rose Bowl games for UCLA for three years, no recognized cham pionships in any sports for the same period, no participating in post-season NCAA playoffs, no flirting with prospective ath letes and no share of Rose Bowl receipts. UCLA Punished Heavily It was the toughest penalty ever slapped on a college or university for violation of the athletic code. Its severity caus ed strong speculation that Allen, Jones and Sanders are on the hot seat, and their jobs may be in jeopardy. Allen Also Fined Washington, earlier this month, was handed a penalty League Leaders (Bv United Press) NATIONAL LEAGUE Player and Club G AB R H Pet Repulski. St. L. . 25 85 19 35 .412 Long, Pitts 29 108 21 43 .398 Bruton, Milw 18 66 15 26 .394 Bailey, Cin 22 67 10 26 .388 Boyer, St. L. 29 114 24 43 .377 AMERICAN LEAGUE Player and Club G AB R H Pet Mantle. N. Y 31 118 33 47 .398 Maxwell, Det :.24 74 17 29 .392 Vernon. Boston ..23 78 14 29 .372 Bovd, Bait. 28 70 10 25 .357 Berra, N. Y 30 116 22 41 .353 Home Huns: Mantle. Yankees 15; Berra, Yankees 12: Post. Redlegs 11; Long. Pirates, Boyer, Cardinals, Jab lonski, Redlegs, all 9. Runs Batted Ins Berra. Yankees 34; Mantle, Yankees 32; Long, Pirates 29; Bover.- Cardinals 28; Jablonski, Red legs 27. Runs: Mantle. Yankees 33: Boyer, Cardinals 24; Yost, Senators 23; Lopez, Athletics 23: Moon, Cardinals 22: Ber ra. Yankees 22: Bauer, Yankees 22. Hits: Mantle, Yankees 47: Boyer. Cardinals 43; Long, Pirates 43: Berra, Yankees 41; Goodman, Red Sox 40; Kuenn. Tigers 40. Pitching: Ford, Yankees 6-0: Lawr ence. Redlegs 5-0: Pierce. White Sox, Wynn, Indians. Wilson, Orioles, Brew er. Red Sox. all 4-1. almost identical to that put on UCLA, but for a two, instead of three, year period. Conference Commissioner Vic tor O. Schmidt presented "evi dence, not denied and admit ted by UCLA," to the effect that Allen, Johns, Sanders and the athletic department "have for several years known of the furnishing of aid to student ath letes in a form not sanctioned by the conference code and have cooperated with the booster club members or officers actually ad ministering the same by refer ring student athletes to them for such aid." The school also was assessed $15,000 because Allen "denied the commissioner the opportun ity to conduct, an on campus investigation of 'the financial aid to athletes." - . .. ; , Women's Golf Lady golfers of Rogue Valley Country Club will be hostesses to the Grants Pass Lady Golfers on Thursday, May 24. Play will be medal for 18-hole and 9-hole players. All ladies wishing to be pair ed with Grants Pass players are asked to be at the pro shop be tween 8 and 9 a.m. Thursday morning. Pairings will be made at the table. Ladies not playing with a Grants Pass woman are asked to make their own groupings and plan their play after 9 a.m. Luncheon will be served at 1 p.m. Women contact either Merle Nulton (2-7809) or Evalyn Tamney (2-9659) regarding the play for the day. RIDDLE TO SCOUT Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) Elmer Riddle, former major league pitcher, today was signed as a scout by the Kansas City Ath letics. He will cover Florida, Georgia and Alabama for the A's. How does the '56 Ford compare with Chevy, Plymouth, Rambler? Get the Free book that rates all the low-priced cars. 36 pages! Authentic! Ask for it today! FREE 1956 CAR X-RAY AT YOUR NASH DEALER LEA MOTORS BARTLETT AT FIFTH Medford 2-6185 Long's Heavy Slugging Boosts Pittsburgh Close To Top in FJL By MILTON RICHMAN United Press Sports Writer .. Strapping Dale Long had the kind of weekend all hitters dream about and because of it, the amazing Pirates were sail ing along on Cloud Eight to dayonly one game out of first place. Long capped his spectacular one-man slugging show by driv ing in a total of seven runs against the Braves Sunday to help the Pirates sweep a double header, 6-3 and 5-0, before 32, fans, Pittsburgh's largest home crowd in five years. The 30-year-old six-foot-four first baseman really treated the crowd to an explosive exhibition. He smashed a three-run homer off Ray Crone in the opener, then drove in four more runs with his ninth homer and a single in the nightcap. The Pirate first sacker now heads the National League with flyiyjijiiiflyijvm MILD MELLOW MAGNIFICENT 6 yrt. old Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 86 proof WORTHY OF A GREAT NAME . Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc, New York, tL Y. $450 45 QT. K AMERICA'S IVXtSt StraigH BOfJRBOS L Ez Choice Over Bethea New York (U.R) Ezzard Charles, who won the vacant heavyweight - crown once and hopes to do it again, is favored at 8-5 to beat young, unranked Wayne Bethea of New York to night in their TV-radio fight at St. Nicholas Arena. After a dismal campaign on the come-back trail last year, 34-year-old Ezzard of Cincinnati will try for his second victory of 1956 against comparatively inexperienced, but strong and tough Bethea. . 29 runs batted in and is second best in hitting with a .398 aver age. Slose N.L. Race When all the shooting was over Sunday, the Braves still were in first place by 26 per centage points and only one game separated the first five clubs in the standings. Brooklyn bounced back into second place by beating Chicago twice by identical 5-3 scores. Duke Snider broke a 3-all tie with a two-run homer off Jim Brosnan in the seventh inning of the frist game and Sandy Amoros also snapped a 3-3 tie with a two-run triple off Turk Lown in the eighth ining of the nightcap. Rookie first baseman Bill White was the standout as the Giants took both ends of a twin bill from the Cardinals, 2-0 and 5-2. White connected for a hom er and a single in the first game and cracked out three hits while driving in the tie-breaking run in the second game. Reds Split Two Eighth inning homers by Del Ennis and Willie Jones power ed the Phillies to a 6-4 victory in the nightcap of a doublehead- er after the - Redlegs battered Robin Roberts for a 5-1 triumph in the first game. In the American League, Cleveland swept its first double header of the season by beating Baltimore twice, 6-1 and 5-1. Bob Lemon scattered seven hits to rack up his sixth straight vic tory in the opener as Bob Avila and Vic Wertz each homered. Preston Ward, making his first start for Cleveland after being acquired from Pittsburgh, col lected three hits in the opener and singled with the bases full in the nightcap to spark a three run seventh-inning rally. Yanks Down Athletics Home runs by Hank Bauer and Andy Carey gave the first place Yankees a 4-2 decision over the Athletics. 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