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Flaherty Paces Field for 125 Laps To Win at Indianapolis By ED SAINSBURY Indianapolis, Ind. (U.R) Treckle-faced and red - headed Pat Flaherty, racing's real-life "Huck Finn," gets a story-book payoff tonight for shaking off two crashes with the speedway wall in the past to wm the 40th annual 500 mile classic at a speed of 128.490 miles per hour. Flaherty, a 6-foot, 160-pound Chicago tavern owner, paced the speedway's, fastest field in history for the last 125 laps to earn a guaranteed purse of $39,- 200. But because the track usually throws additional money into the prize fund, the victor, who was driving in his fifth speedway chase, probably will get a larger check at the payoff dinner to night than the previous high to tal. $76,138 paid to Bob Swei kert last year. Flaherty got a break in win ning too. While he was on his safety lap, the extra tour run by each car to insure covering the full distance, his throttle linkage broke and fell off the car as he headed into the win ner's enclosure. Would Have Loit Had it happened on the prev ious lap, he would have been un able to maintain speed, and probably Sam Hanks, Pacific Palisades, Calif., who finished only 21 seconds behind, would have beaten him. Flaherty became the sixth pole winner to win the race, dupli- eating a feat performed in the past by Jimmy Murphy, Tommy Milton, Billy Arnold, Floyd Rob erts and Bill Vukovich. But when Flaherty won the pole, he did it with a record speed too,. 145.056 miles per hour for one lap and 145.596 for four. For the first few miles Wednesday,- in a race which set a track record for accidents with 11, he laid off the blistering pace of more than 142 miles per hour hung up by Paul Russo, Jim Rathmann and Pat O'Connor. usso crashed into the wall after 22 laps and both Rathmann and O'Connor were forced to make pit stops to give Flaherty a chance to move ahead after 40 laps. He stayed in front for two turns of the track and then backed off again. After 53 laps he made a 39-second pit stop and after 75 laps he went in front to stay. Freeland Placet Third Don Freeland, Los Angeles, Calif., was third, Johnnie Par sons, the 1950 winner from Van . Nuys, Calif., fourth and Dick Rathmann, Trenton, N.J., fifth. Flaherty, 30, began racing in 1946 and in 1950, in his first speedway appearance, he fin ished tenth. In 1953 after driv ing 115 laps, he crashed into the northeast wall, while in 1954, as a relief driver, he slammed his car into the wall after 110 Willie Gets Nod in Bout New Orleans (U.R) Speedy Willie - Pastrano looked more like a contender today for the coming elimination rounds for the vacant heavyweight crown after giving Chuck Spieser a bloody boxing lesson for a 10 round split decision Wednesday night. New Orleans-born Pastrano definitely put himself in the middle of the tussle for the heavyweight title with- the vic tory. Both judges saw the fight as a relatively easy victory for the 20-year-old Pastrano, but Ref eree Francis Kerscheval dis agreed, to the loud dismay of the partisan crowd. He scored it a 6-4 win for the Michigan State graduate and former Olympic boxer. Giarruso saw it as Pas trano 7-1 with two even. PICTURE TUBES REJUVENATED It your picture tube dull and weak? 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Last year he was tenth again. The winner, or for that mat ter, all of the major money win ners, probably got a break due to the swarm of accidents. The 11 pileups involved 13 cars and one of them came after the first five cars had finished. It involv ed Dick Rathmann, who spun on the backstretch after he had Medfo siPODimrs Ron Owings Red Raider Batting Toga By LEN WEBER Ashland Ron Owings, Klam ath Falls sophomore, won the Red Raider batting crown when the SOC Red Raiders finished their season last week-end at the spring tournament in La Grande. Owings posted a .411 baiting average and was pushed all the way by Vince Miller, slugging second sacker from North Bend who finished with an even .400. Taking up fourth and fifth spots in the batting race were Fred Luper, a Coquille lad with .293 average and Leroy King, another North Bender who finished with a .288 batting average. Owings and Miller were both top flight candidates for the all conference team, but ragged playing by SOC in the tourna ment hampered the chances of these 'two lards. " Ned Landers, Medford junior and Red Raider first sacker and pitcher, was the only Red Raider to gain all-conference laurels.- Landers, after a slow start, came along fast and finished 3rd in the SOC batting with an even .300. Scored 232 Runs Shortstop Owings led his team in times at bat with 56, runs scored with 23 and base hits with 23. He also paced the Raid ers with 3 home runs and 22 runs batted in. He was tied with Al Kimura and Bill Seymour in the bases on balls department with 14 each. Owings also had the dubious distinction of committing the most SOC errors with 23. Miller scored 22 runs, had 20 hits, led the team in doubles with three. Also Miller banged out two triples and two homers to lead AB 56 50 ZZZ 40 10 41 52 46 53 2b 26 10 70 36 43 17 2 R 23 22 3 12 4 12 10 8 17 4 2 3 11 10 3 1 H 23 20 7 12 3 12 15 12 13 6 2 2 6 7 2 0 Ron Owings, ss - Vince Miller. 2b .... Ray Thiess. p Ned Landers, lb-p Lloyd Hoffine. p .. Fred Luper, If Leroy King, rf Ted Landers, 3b Dick Nix. cf Morrie Churchman, Corky Ellis, lb Hank Smith, p Al Kimura, If Bill Seymour, c Larry Maurer, lb .... Harvey Tonn, Ut-in Team Totals 511 145 142 PITCHING RECORDS: Ned Landers Hank Smith Ray Thiess Lloyd Hoffine CUTTING another notch in bat is Dale Long, Pittsburgh ' Pirates, who set new record by clouting eight home runs in eight consecutive ball games. (International) finished the grind. Only three drivers were hurt, none seriously. Jimmy Daywalt suffered a broken leg, head and arm injuries and friction burns after his car collided with the wall and spun, while Tony Eet tenhausen suffered a shoulder injury from a similar accident. Rathmann also was injured slightly. ffiUNE Captures SOC the team in extra base blows. He was second in RBI's with 20. Leroy King was third in hits with 15 and also pushed across 15 runs, as well as topping the team in strikeouts with 14. Southern Oregon will only lose two players off this years third place OCC team. They are Corky Ellis, first baseman from Klamath Falls, and Lloyd Hoff ine, veteran righthand pitcher from Coos Bay. Both are four year lettermen in baseball. Hoff ine during his four years cf pitching for the Raiders com piled a won-lost record of 11-6. .277 Team. Average The Red Raiders as a team fin ished the season with a .277 bat ting average. They banged out 142 hits in 513 times at bat. They hit 15 doubles, nine triples, and eight homeruns. SOC batsmen walked to the bases 93 times, struck out 107 times and were guilty of 65 miscue3, breaking last years record of only 30 er rors. 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He hasn't the showmanship of a Dizzy Dean or the wild exuber ance of a Willie Mays. No ne, least of all Mickey, claims him to be a great brain. His personal life is so formal as to be almost dull. But any awkwardness that clings to this stocky 24-year-old off the field is whisked away the moment he steps to the plate. The sight of Mickey Mantle hit ting a homerun produces that chill of excitement at greatness in the happening-that so very few ever achieve. All American Boy The story of Mickey Mantle reads almost like a deadpan par ody of the red-blooded, All- Mo oik JLcm know how it is. i Anyone who drives a car these days must sometimes drive in crawling, slow moving traffic where it's stop-and-go or spurt-and-slow. ' . , .. And if you're used to a car that handles such traffic with a continuous series of upshifts and downshifts even automat icallythen maybe you think that's the best you can have. But it isn't. 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As of last weekend, Mantle led both leagues in every de partment of batting average .426, runs, runs batted in, hits. He is the terror of every pitcher in the American League. In one game last week he went to the plate six time, got five hits and was walked. Ahead of Ruth But it is in homers that Mantle is creating the greatest drama. He is well ahead of the pace that Ruth set in 1927 when he chalked up the record that is probably the most sought after in baseball, 60 homers in one season. If Mantle can beat that, it will be like breaking the four minute mile, only more so. The authority for the claim that Mantle may be the greatest of all hitters is Bill Dickey, the Yankee coach who was a con temporary of both Ruth and Lou Gehrig. "Take it from me," next time you're in heavy traffic - .'"C is so smooth ssBjmfflmv - CHECK ACCIDEWS- 143 SOUTH RIVERSIDE Thursday. May 31, 1958 Cheney Colt Crew Dumps Ashland Lithians 12 to 1 Eight was the magic number for the Cheney Colts yesterday afternoon. They collected eight runs off eight hits in the eighth inning to thump the Ashland Lithians 12 to 1 in the semi-professional baseball fuss at the fairgrounds ball park. There was no loop signifi cance in the scramble between the two Rogue Valley league members but the outcome indi cated that the Colts, despite a loss to Glendale last Sunday, still must be considered strong contenders in the pennant chase. The Colts loomed stronger than they appeared in their RVL opener. They had some new hands in the line-up. One or two of the players may go on up to the parent Cheney Studs and a couple of others may not be av ailable for regular league games. The Colts, nevertheless, appear ed on the upgrade and may have several more players on hand when the college year is over. In yesterday's eighth frame Dickey says, "Mantle hits a ball harder and farther than any man I've ever seen." Yankee Manager Casey Sten gel doesn't want the boy's head to get big, but even he can't dis guise his awe and admiration. "The only question in my mind," Stengel says, "is whether he's a greater hitter righthanded or lefthanded. In the other de partments no one's better. Who can run with him. Who can field with him. And who can outthrow him?" vrtmmfflissioB v 1 Here you have absolute smoothness under every road condition and traffic ' pace with no lags or bumps to mark upshifts and downshifts because no gears ever shift in Dynaflow. It's the only transmission on the Ameri- . can scene today where flowing oil does the work of gears every step of the way and where smoothness is constant, absolute and infinite. . So maybe you ought to sample a new . 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It it standard on Roadmaster, Super and Century optional at modest extra cost on the Special. BUM BUICK WIU BUILD THEM ' PHONE 2-6265 don Davidson gave up a pair of walks in the canto and yielded a hit to Phil Sword. There was one fielder's option. Drives In Three Runs - Davidson was touched for two hits in four innings on the hill. He gave three bases on balls and struckout two. Ned Land ers who followed permitted five hits over five innings. He whif fed six and; walked one. In his 14-hitter Berg walked one bat ter and hit another. He had seven strikeouts. Churchman drove in three Colt runs and LaBeau, Gatlin and Ned Landers each two. Gat lin was two for two at bat and. Serak and Tonn two for five. The triples hit in the eighth in ning all went about the same di rection to right center field. The Colts return to RVL play at the fairgrounds Sunday at 2 p.m., meeting Eagle Point. Medford Cheney Studs go into action for the first time next Wednesday, June 6, playing Yr ka, Calif., here. 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