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PGA In Market For Tournament Manager Dallas U.B The Profes sional Golfers association was in the market for a tournament manager Saturday and the PGA executive committee will select the man for the job. The group's players commit tee held an open meeting of the tournament pros here Friday night and the men voted to hire a tournament manager and take bis salary out of their purses for one year. Burden F.lt The men who play the game for the prize money felt the burden of running the business end of the tournament was too much for the players to do themselves, and a special man for the job would be better for all concerned. An open meeting of the tour ing pros, who are here for the Texas International golf tourna ment, was held Tuesday and the idea was proposed then. The players wanted to think it over, though, for the new manager's salary would be coming out of their prize money. - Bob Toski and Fred Hawkins, co-chairmen of the players com mittee, said the purses would be cut on a percentage basis start ing with the National Open June 14-16 at Rochester, N. Y. The overall cut for the year is not to U.S. Swimmers Get Official Record Approval Lausanne, Switzerland (U.R) American swimmers George Breen and Bill Yorzyck each re ceived official approval fof two world records Saturday by the International Swimming Feder ation. Breen, a leading Olympic hopeful from Cortland, N. Y. State Teachers college, was clocked in 17:0S.9 for the 1.500 meter freestyle and was timed in 1B:40.4 for the one-mile free style. Yorzyck, who represents the New Haven swim club, set new records for the 200-meter but terfly (2:18.7) and the 200-yard butterfly (2:18.7) at Winchen- don. Mass., April 14. Other individual world rec ords set by Americans which were approved by Americans which were approved by the federation included the 100-yard butterfly (54.5), Al Wiggins, Ohio State; 100-yard women's freestyle (1:13), Mary Jane Sears of Walter Reed Swim club, and 100-yard women's butterfly (1:-04-1), Shelley ., Mann, Walter Reed Swim club. U LJ m wswm exceed $21,000. but that does not mean the tournament man ager would get that much. Inside Track No particular person was nam ed for the job, but Edwin J. Car ter, a public relations man from San Anselmo, Calif., was under stood to have the inside track among some 75 applicants. The tournament manager would move in to the locale of the tournament from a week to a month ahead and counsel and advise the sponsors and press. The pros felt that this would give the sponsors and them selves a better break and for this reason were willing to take his salary out of their own win nings for a one year trial per iod. Gold Hill Shows Well in Meet The district track meet held May 19, 1956. at Crater High was very well represented by Gold Hill: The high jump was won by Terry Cooper with a 5' jump. The broad jump was won by Chuck Turner with a 17'5W jump. The pole vault was won by James Eldred with a record 8'9". The 75-yd. dash was won by James Eldred in 9 seconds. The 350 yard dash was won by James Eldred in 17 and 1'10 sec onds. The shot put was placed with Terry Cooper coming in third with a 39'8" throw. Baseball throw, Billy Kell was second with 220'. Football throw. Gold Hill was first with Richard Jones throw ing 126'6". The 330 yard run was won in 43 seconds by Clare Huntley. Church Turner came in third in the 660 yard run. The Gold Hill relay team came in first with a 51 and 9'10 sec onds run, with Terry Cooper, Clare Huntley, Chuck Turner and James Eldred making up the team. KANSAS CITY SIGNS PAIR Kansas City ,UB Richard Rogers of Winston-Salem, N.C., a catcher, and Leroy Scercy of Kannapolis, N.C an outfielder, have been signed by the Kansas City Athletics. Rogers has been assigned to the class A Columbia, S.C., club of the South Atlantic league, while Scercy will go to the Grand Island club of the newly-organized Nebraska State league. Formerly located at "CHUCK" RISSE mm w m ri n m n r CHUCK WELCOMES ALL MEDFORTiTRIBUra SIPaDDSTS - - V--'' ' - FLASHING ACROSS FINISH LINE, Chicago's Pat Fla herty gets checkered flag as he wins fortieth running of Indianapolis 500-mile race, (International Smmdpkoto) Mantle Leads Major Loops In Six Offensive Areas New York (U.R) Mickey Mantle, a popular fellow with kids who wait outside parks for flying baseballs, leads the major leagues in six offensive depart ments. In statistics that include Wednesday's games, the 24-year- old New York Yankee star leads all big league players in batting (.425), runs (45), hits (65), hom ers (20), runs batted in (50) and total bases (135). Nearly a third of Mantle's hits have been homers. And many of his homers have been whoppers. the kind that lure fans and kids into and about the parks where he plays. Maxwell Second . Charley Maxwell of the De troit Tigers is second to Mantle in the American League batting race with a .375' average. Mickey Vernon of the Boston Red Sox, (.357), Harvey Kuenn of Detroit (.348) and Clint Court ney of the Washington Senators (.344) round out the league's top five. Rip Repulski of the St. Louis Cardinals tops the National League batters with a .391 mark. Dale Long of the Pittsburgh Pi rates, last week's leader, slipped to second with .382 but estab lished a mark for Mantle and others to shoot at by hitting homers in eight straight games. . IF. "Chuck" M RGGWIEflB TTflD . . ,Ken Boyer of the Cardinals (.368) and Bill Burton of the Milwaukee Braves (.353) are other top NL batters. Yogi Berra of the Yankees Is runnerup to Mantle in the American in homers with 12 and runs batted in with 35. . Long and Boyer are tied for the runs matted in lead in the National with 39 each. Long leads in homers with 14, while Boyer has 12. Bob Friend of the Pirates tops the major league pitchers in victories with an 8-2 record. Among the hurlers still boasting perfect won-lost marks. Brooks Lawrence of Cincinnati is tops with a 6-0 mark. Whitey Ford 07-1) of the Yankees leads Amer ican League pitchers in vic tories. BRADY LEADS BATTERS Seattle Catcher Jack Brady, just recently selected by his teammates as captain for the 1957 baseball season, led the Huskies in four departments during this year's Northern Di vision campaign. Batting num ber four in the Husky lineup, the muscular catcher from Bremerton was top margin runs (14), hits (21), batting average (.429) and two-base hits (4). He drove in 11 runs, second only to Jack Ballard. (JrinnnaC Gl HIS FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS Herb Flam, Howe, Win Barcelona, Spain (U.R) Herb Flam of Beverly Hills, Calif., de feated fellow Californian Art Larsen and Bob Howe of Austra lia downed Bob Perry of Los An geles Saturday to reach the men's singles final in the Count Godo Tennis tournament. Flam defeated Larsen of San Leandro, 6-4, 6-0, 6-2, while Howe had a much tougher time before eliminating Perry, 1-6, 7- 5, 6-3. 5-7, 6-4. Flam will meet Howe Sunday in the final. Heather Brewer of Bermuda and Barbara Scofield Davidson of Milwaukee gained semi-final victories and will meet tomor row in the Women's Singles final. Miss Brewer defeated Jenni fer Stanley Hoad of Australia, 8- 6, 6-1, while Mrs. Davidson downed Daphne Seeny of Aus tralia, 6-1, 8-6. Margaret Taylor Wins Club Match Margaret Taylor has taken top honors at the Medford Jun ior Rifle club's annual club championship match. She was the only member to fire a per fect 100 with two strings of five shots scoring 50 each. Second was Bud Goldin with a 49-49 for a 98. Phyllis Taylor also had 49-49 for a 98 b?i was outranked to take third. Firing was done on the prone position. Scores were: Margaret Taylor, 50-50 for 100, winning a gold cup; Bud Goldin and Phyllis Taylor won silver cups; fourth was Ken Kumasawa, 97, win ning a silver cup; and fifth was Jerilyn Smith, 96, winning a sil ver cup. Aylward Traded To Seattle Club San Diego (U.R) The San Diego Padres baseball club have announced the trade of catcher Dick Aylward to the Seattle Rainiers for two pitchers, Arnold Atkins and Cliff Ross. Aylward is considered one of the best defensive catchers jn the Pacific Coast League. The San Diego management has said it feels the local, club is badly in need of new blood in its pitching department. PATTERSON'S PHYSICAL MONDAY Monticello, N.Y. (U.R) Floyd Patterson will box Sunday and leave for New York Monday for a physical examination. He is in training here for his heavy weight elimination bout with Tommy Hurrican Jackson in Ma dison Square Garden, June 8. ran1 mum to SUPER SERVICE-Sixth and Fir streets Sunday, June 3, 1956 Belko Named Head Pilot For UO Basketball Team Eugene, Ore. (U.R) S t e v e Belko, 39-year-old coaching vet eran who has directed Idaho State college to four straight Rocky Mountain conference championships and four NCAA tournaments in the last four years, Saturday was named as head basketball coach at the University of Oregon. The appointment of Belko cli maxed a week of rumors that the highly successful i Idaho State coach would be named to the post to succeed Bill Borcher, who resigned earlier this year. Athletic Director Leo Harris announced the appointment to day, saying that he was pleased with the results of his two-month search for a new coach. Harris said that Belko was chosen from a list of more than 50 applicants "Belko has a wonderful record, is highly respected by his fellow coaches and comes to Oregon with recommendations from leaders in many fields other than athletics," Harris said. "It was his youth, enthus- j iasm, and personality as well as his coaching record which in fluenced my final decision." Belko has been head coach at Cougars Win PCC Mantle Pullman, Wash. (U.R) Wash ington State College catcher Bill ! Rich drove in all five of the j Cougar runs in the first two in-1 nings to down the University i of Southern California 5 to 4 and j lead WSC to the Pacific Coast! Conference championship. j Twenty-nine-year veteran Cougar coach Buck Bailey, who i had been honored with a 60th ' birthday gift in a pre-game cere-! mony, said this victory over i USC was the greatest birthday! present he had ever received, j Catcher Rich blasted out a ! 430 foot home run in the first i period with two men on base I to bring in the first three runs. In the second inning, the hard hitting catcher knocked out a double to send two more scores across the plate. Saturday's victory decided the coast championship in a best-j out-of-three series with Washing ton State taking Friday's by a 6-2 score. j Stockton (U.R) Dave Sime, the Duke Flash, equalled the world record again Saturday in the 100 yard dash as he was clocked in 9.3 in the Pacific Association AAU event here. Idaho State for the past six years, winning 108 games while losing 52. 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