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.
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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.
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SIPaDDSTS
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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.
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,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.
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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.
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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.
He is a graduate of Gary, Ind.,
high school and played his col
legiate basketball at Compton
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Junior college in California and
at the University of Idaho where
he was a three year letterman.
The appointment announced
today has been approved by Uni
versity President O. Meredith
Wilson and is now subject to
final sanction by the State Board
of Higher Education.
Belko is expected to join the
Oregon staff about July 1.
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