Littler Fires 69
For Las Vegas Lead
By HAL WOOD
United Press Sports Writer
Las Vegas, Nev. g.R)
Blond Gene Littler, who plays
the best in the gambling town
of Las Vegas where the stakes
are big, vaulted into the lead at
the end of three rounds in the
rich tournament of champions
Saturday as he fired a three-under-par
69 for a 215 total.
Going for his third straight
victory in this classical and ex
clusive tournament, where first
place pays off with a jackpot of
$10,000, Littler went out in 33
and came back in 36 as he suc
cessfully battled 25-mile-an-hour
winds and cold weather.
But even with that brilliant
shotmaking, Gene was only one
stroke in front of Friday's lead
er, Don January, who had a 73
for a 216 total; and two in front
of such young stars as Dick May
ec and Billy Casper.
"Guess the best shot I made
all day and the one that put me
in the lead, said Littler, "was a
64-foot putt for a birdie-two on
the 11th hole. I would have been
glad to get down in two on that
one."
Littler now has rounds of 73-73-69.
Gene hadn't won peanuts on
the tour since winning this event
Sport fib.
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New York (U.PJ The spit-
ball issue is before the baseball
court again today, and as usual,
the only thing which will hap
pen is that everybody will get
so dry arguing that nobody will
be able to throw the pitch for
a few days.
The man in the diamond dog
house is Lew Burdette of the
Milwaukee Braves. When he
beat the Cincinnati Redlegs for
the eighth straight time, man
ager Birdie Tebbetts screamed
that he could have done it only
by using the illegal spitter.
Which isn't exactly news.
Mayo Smith, the pilot of the
Philadelphia Phillies, made the
same observation but in a quiet
er tone, just last July.
"It is unbelievable," quoth
Mayo, "what Burdette gets away
with."
Flicker of Fire . v
Considering all the smoke,
there has to be a flicker of fire.
Yet among baseball men it is
no secret that there are a num
ber "of saliva specialists in the
big leagues. And it might be
added, always have been.
Preacher Roe, hinting strong
ly that he had company in Sal
(The Barber) Maglie, admitted
in print after his retirement that
he "juiced it up" from 1948
through 1954. Naturally, when
ever accused during that period,
he made a blanket denial.
Other noted pitchers of the
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9th and Bartlett Sts.
last year.
But since turning profession
al a few weeks before this event
two years ago, he has won twice
and now stands to make it three
in a row.
In the gallery following him,
as usual, was singer Frankie
Lane, who won more than $110,
000 in Calcutta Pools (net) on
the last two triumphs--and owns
his again this time. Victory this
time in the Calcutta Pool is
worth a net of about $80,000.
January Erratic
January played well again
Saturday in the high winds, but
he was so erratic that he prob
ably felt lucky to come in with
one-over-par. On the front nine
he had only two pars all the
rest were bogies, birdies and an
eagle. He has rounds of 78-65-73.
Mayer had a 78-70-69 and Cas
per 75-70-72.
In the 218 mark came Dow
Finsterwald with 75-73-70 and
the veteran Jimmy Demaret, who
has 73-72-73. Demaret chipped
into the cup on the 18th hole
from about 30 feet before the
5,000 spectators.
The 219 bracket included Billy
Maxwell (69); Ed Furgol (70) and
Arnold Palmer (74). Dr. Cary
Middlecoff had a 73 for 220.
spitter in recent years were Joe
Page, who pitched the Yankees
to a pennant with it, and Hugh
Casey, who lost the Dodgers a
World Series game with it. It is
recorded in the baseball history
books that Mickey Owen missed
a "low curve" which would have
been a game-ending third strike
against Tommy Henrich in 1941
and the Yanks went on to win
the ball game.
Owen's Eye Instead
"Casey aimed at me," Hen
rich says in vivid explanation,
"but he spit in Owen's eye in
stead." Many baseball men feel that,
in an era where everything is
designed to aid the hitter, the
spitter should be brought back.
Such a move has support in high
places, being backed even by
Commissioner Ford Frick.
So the argument continues,
year after year, and so does sur
reptitious use of the spitball.
Morrow to Run
In Drake Relays
Des Moines (U.P.) A Olympic
sprint king Bobby Morrow will
lead a mass assault on track rec
ord books next week end at the
48th Annual Drake Relays.
Morrow and his speedy Abil
ene Christian teammates were
aiming at three Drake marks.
Morrow, winner of three
Olympic gold medals, had his
sights on the 100-yard dash mark
of :9.4 set last year by Dave
Sime of Duke. His chances may
well depend on the wind. He
has run a pair of windblown 9.3
victories this spring and the
event will be run "with the
wind" here again this year.
Atterberry Sets
World Record
Columbus, Ohio. (U.R) Wil
lie Atterberry, a Michigan State
freshman from Detroit, Saturday
broke the world record for the
600-yard run at the annual Ohio
Relays.
His time was 1:08.5. The mark
was seven tenths of a second
betyer than that set by Ben East
man of Stanford in 1933.
Atterberry, 23, is a recent ser
vice returnee who missed mak
ing the 1956 Olympic team when
he finished fourth in the final
trials of the 400-meter hurdles.
Greg Bell, Indiana's Olympic
and Big Ten broad jump champ,
set an Ohio stadium record for
that event with a leap of 25
feet, eight and one-half inches.
The record jump was an inch
more than the mark set by Jesse
Owens of Ohio State in 1935.
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Rogue Sportsman 17
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G. Ludwig
E. Johnson
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J. McCready
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Handicap
1 Pioneer Cafe
441 L. Patterson
335 H. Paulson
377 L. Turner
52S D. Harris
466 H. Culy ()
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419
505
419
452
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301
398
412
401
246
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E. Doty 360
T. Tolles 401
MageenU (S) 385
A. Gish 451
V. Corby 419
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Batemans
C. Martin
J. Williams
Y. Strobel
C. Sedey
G. Riggs
Handicap
1
334
302
338
297
518
Economy Mkt. 3
J. Lovett (S) 368
D. Hopkins 452
E. Garrison 372
N. Weber 313
Christianson 482
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ABS.
T. Farrar
L. Merrifield
V. Coats
Handicap
1 Brooks Elec.
401 P. Braack
285 E. Sessions
400 J. Frohreigh
385 J. Bamum
405 E. Lenz
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426
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M. Langston 450 V. Knox
N. Oswold 368 M. Sullivan
A. Mitcheltree 363 D. Houston
L. Mete
368 F. Doty
V. Findly
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463
414
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S. Coulter
J. Buchman
V. Miller
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Handicap
2 Miller Co.
410 N. Roberta
387 A. Zenor
311 G. Hayes
467 P. Haven
409 O. Wyatt
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Weter and Olson 15 9
Westside Merchants .. 14 10
State Farm Insurance 13 11
Southern Oregon Moulding 13 11
Central Market 13 11
First National Bank 11 13 '.'4
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Independent Order For. 10 14
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394 Hamer
460 Shultz
549 Speer
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Sommer
Keener
Schulz
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425
512
414
500
481
63
2395
4
548
420
516
431
477
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428
434
443
452
454
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Colley
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Withrow
Langston
McWhorter
3
495
494
517
475
425
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Simmonds
Porter
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476
438
477
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445 Pope 369
506 Barker 482
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MEET STOPPED
West Los Angeles U.R)
Showers resulted in postpone
ment of Saturday UCLA-Stanford
track meet. It was resched
uled for Monday afternoon, and
the Stanford squad was to re
main here in hope of clearing!
weather.
DEL GRECO TRADED
St. Louis 4J.RX The St. Louis
Cardinals Saturday announced
that outfielder Bobby Del Greco
has been traded to the Chicago
Cubs for outfielder Jim King.
The trade was made by General
Manager Frank Lane of the
Cards and John Holland, vice
president and treasurer of the
Cubs.
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2 State Standards Bettered
As Tornado Cops Rotary Meet
Two Oregon prep records
were bettered and most times
were sizzling despite a stiff
breeze in the faces of runners
yesterday afternoon as the rip
roaring Medford high Black Tor
nado won the Rotary club track
meet at Grants Pass.
Swishing to first places in 10
of the 14 events, Tornado thin
clads ran up a total of 94 Vi
points. Grants Pass took the oth
er first and compiled 81 for
second spot in the scoring. Crater
was third with 22 Vi and Rose
burg got 5Va counters.
Medford's blazing half-mile
relay team and Grants Pass pole
vaulter Phil Paquin turned in
the performances better than the
state high school standards. The
combination of Lorin Christean,
Mike Russell, Pete Kershaw and
Wally Larson blistered the track
with a 1:30.4, which is .8 of a
second under the official state
mark of 1:31.2 and .1 better than
the Medford school record of
1:30.5. Paquin, vaulting into the
wind, crossed the bar at 13 feet
3 inches, IVs higher than the
best Oregon state meet height on
record.
New School Records
Both performances established
records for the respective schools
and are thought to be all-time
southern Oregon bests.
Larson and Christean were
Oidtsmers Making Good in PCL
By SCOTT BAILLIE
United Press Sports Writer
San Francisco U.R) Bill
Voiselle . . . Gene Bearden . . .
Eddie Kazak . . . Milo Candini
. . . are just a few of the names
which once sparked in major
league box scores and only can
be found today amid the rush
of Pacific Coast league results
where the veterans still grind
along.
Take the San Francisco Seals,
for instance. There you have
four ex-major league hurlers
who presumably are finished in
the big top but are giving fits
to kids on the way up. Harry
Dorish, formerly of the Red Sox,
has given up one run in 18 in
nings and opened the season
with a four-hit shutout against
Portland. Walter Masterson, an
other former Red Soxer and
Senator, also hurled a four hit
Ducks Down
Oregon State
Corvallis (U.R) Oregon de
feated Oregon State, 8-4 here
Friday in the opening Northern
Division baseball game for both
schools.
Corvallis (U.R) Oregon de
feated Oregon State, 17-10, in a
Northern Division golf match
Friday at Corvallis Country
club.
Texas University
Sprinters Set Record
Lawrence, Kan. (U.R) Tex
as University's great sprinters
flashed the 440-relay in 39.9 sec
onds Saturday to break the
world record during the 32nd
Kansas Relays. The team also
broke the relays 880 mark.
With the weather ideal and
track fast, 14 meet records were
revised in this track and field
classic.
The team of Wally Wilson,
Hollis Gainey, Olympic hurdler
Eddie Southern and Bobby Whil
den was pushed by a speedy
Houston University team in the
quarter-mile but zoomed to a
10-yard margin at the finish to
shave three-tenths of a second
from the world standard of 40.2.
NO HITTER THROWN
Mohawk U.R) Dennis Stiers
pitched his second non-run, no
hit baseball game here Friday as
Lowell High school walloped
Mohawk, 19-0. Stiers struck out
10 batters and walked seven.
Park Employees Gel
Service Awards
Two Crater Lake National
park employees received nation
al park service awards last week
for superior accomplishment and
practical suggestions in connec
tion with their work, according
to Tom Williams, park superin
tendent. Rex Truelove, equipment op
erator, received a $175 award
for directing a paving area pro
ject at the Oregon Caves in
which he helped save the gov
ernment $10,000 in reduced con
struction costs, Williams said.
Roby (Slim) Mabery, district
ranger, received awards of $25
for devising a first aid kit that
can be carried around the waist
and $65 for devising a cardboard
leg splint that allows the leg to
be x-rayed without removing the
splint, according to Williams.
The awards were presented by
Williams.
Granting awards to park ser
vice employees was establish
ed by the department of inter
ior to stimulate individual par
ticipation in improving methods,
Williams said.
double victors for the Tornado.
Blond Wally skimmed the 120
yard high hurdles in a fast :14.9
and sailed over the 180 low bar
riers in :20.1. Powerful striding
Lorin won both sprints, zipping
the 100-yarder in :10.2 and dash
ing the 220 in a speedy :22.4
to beat out Crater's George
Juveland.
Russell toured the quarter
mile in a scorching :50.3, finish
ing some 10 strides ahead of the
second place effort of teammate
Kershaw.
Other Tornado stars who cop
ped their specialties were Neil
Plumley, Jerry Close, Bilbee
Lane and Larry Slessler. Plum
ley took the shot put with 55-1 V4
and Close the broad jump with
21-5. Lane romped through
the half mile in 2:01.8, finishing
three or four strides ahead of his
running mate, Les Lingscheit.
Slessler took the discus with
129-2.
Boatman Victor
In addition to the" pole vault
the GP Cavemen garnered firsts
in the javelin, high jump and
mile. Terry Boatman covered the
mile in 4:37.8 and Fred Thomas
took the high jump with 5-10.
Spear tossers threw with the
wind but it did not help a lot.
Glen Winningham won with
179-2i.
Grants Pass took the first
triumph his first time out.
Duane Pillettef who served on
several big league teams, won a
six-hitter in his inaugural.
Konslanty With Seals
Behind them towers Jim Kon
stanty, now 40, who is counted
on to help the Seals in relief as
he did the pennant winning
Phillies of 1950.
Voiselle, former Giants speed
baller, can talk over plenty of
old times now that he is at Van
couver and on the same team
with playing-Coach Johnny Jor
gensen. The latter, Brooklyn's
utility infielder in the late 40's,
still delivers the low ball and
plenty of savvy when either is
needed.
Kazak was hot during the
1949 season as the Cardinals
third baseman, then slipped into
obscurity when a broken ten
don failed to mend properly.
But he still plays good third
base with San Diego where he
also hits over .300. And on the
same club is the much-traveled
George (Catfish) Metkovich, a
man about the majors who bat
ted a good .294 at Vancouver
last year before getting hurt.
Beardon Solon Ace
Sacramento's pitching staff
banks heavily on Gene Bearden
and Candini, two American
league standouts of the last dec
ade. Bearden achieved stardom
at Cleveland in 1948 after an
apprenticeship in the PCL. Now
he is back at the same old work
bench, and usually a winner out
here. Candini, whose eight year
span in the majors ended back
in 1951, has stayed on since as
the Solons' ace reliever.
Red Munger and Larry Jan
sen of Seattle also are back in
their old league after second
chances in the big wheel. Mun
ger, a former Cardinal favorite,
had a 3-4 mark at Pittsburgh
last year following four seasons
at Hollywood's top chucker.
Jansen, the Giants meal ticket
once upon a time, was good
enough at Seattle last year to
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three spots in the vault. Stan
Lewman cleared 13 feet for sec
ond and Mike Sparlin 12-3 for
third. Medford tripled in the
broad jump. Duane Poff was
second with 20-2V&, his farthest
leap in competition. Johnny
Jones took third with 19-9V&.
In all Medford captured three
seconds, five thirds, two fourths
and five fifths and two men in
a four-way tie for a fifth.
While not winning an event,
Crater collected five second
places, one third, two fourths,
a fifth and a tie for fifth. .
The state 880 relay mark bet
tered by the Tornado quartet
yesterday was set by a Medford
crew of Rich Riggs, Jim Worth
en, Bob Shangle and Bud Tim
mons in 1948. It was equalled in
the 1950 district meet by a Med
ford combine of Bill Bucking
ham, Bill Pruitt, Lou Bittle and
Jack Morris. That foursome set
the previous school record in the
event the same year.
ITovice Events Held
The state vault mark was set
in 1954 by Sam Whitney of Ben
son of Portland.
Only standards set in the state
meet are recognized as state
standards.
Novice division events were
held during yesterdays meet but
no official score was kept of
events, however, indicated a bat-
rate a call for Cincinnati's vain
pennant drive. He had a 2-3
mark with the Redlegs and has
returned.
Black After Magic
Joe Black is only 33 but it
seems like ages since he helped
pitch Brooklyn to the 1952 pen
nant with a 15-4 record. Now
he is just another guy in Se
attle's staff, still trying to re
gain the magic touch of that one
season.
Nippy Jones at Sacramento,
Eddie Erautt and Vic Lombardi
of San Diego, Grady Hatton
with the Seals, Jack Lohrke and
Howie Judson at Seattle . . .
Those are other prominent
names from yellowed newspaper
clippings older men battling
to dress in big time flannels just
once more.
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CELTICS WIN
Spokane, Wash. (U.R) The
World Champion Boston Celtics,
paced by Bob Cousy, Bill Shar
man and Bill Russell, squeezed
out a narrow 113-111 victory
over the National Basketball as
sociation All-Stars in a double
overtime here Friday night. The
Celtics took a 3-2 edge in the
17-game tour with the All-Stars.
TAKES CORBETT POST
Bend U.R) Buck Monroe,
football coach at Culver High
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tie chiefly between Medford and
Grass Pass thinclads.
Terry Hamilton was victor for
Medford in both novice hurdle
races. Tony Brauner was tops in
the javelin. Ron Reich had the
fastest 220 yard time, .1 sec
ond better than Bobby Gee. Jay
Mullen won the 880 and Med
ford's team won the 440-yard
relay.
Fred Warner of Crater had the
best novice broad jump and
John Burns of the Comets the
top jayvee high jump.
With Crater, Medford and
Grants Pass contending the meet
gave some idea of what may hap
pen in the district eliminations.
But the picture was not entirely
a true one since winners in the
dashes and hurdles were deter
mined strictly by the timing of
runners in heats. No final heats
were run.
CHAMPINSBIP RESULTS:
120 high hurdles Larson M; Kat
zenbach G; Rembert G; Close M;
Stearns M. Time :14.9.
100 dash Christean M; Juveland C;
Jones M; Klett G; Poff M. Time :10.2.
Shot put Plumley M; Murray M;
Rose G; J. Funston M; Allerheilegan
G. Distance 53-1 ,i.
Mile Boatman G; Cougle G: Austin
M: Anderson G; Norton M. Time
4:37.8.
440 dash Russell M; Kershaw M:
Loper G; Holyroan G; Lindquist G.
Time :50.3.
Javelin Winnjngham G; G. Smith
C: Francis M; L. Smith C; Baggerly G.
Distance 179-2i.
180 low hurdles Larson M: Katzen
bach G: Close M; Fray R; Gossett C.
Time 20.1.
Broad jump Close M; Peff: Jones
M; Lindquist G; Fray R. Distance
21-3',i.
220 dash Christean M: Juveland C;
Klett G; Strunk: Poff M. Time :22.4.
High jump Thomas G; Davis C;
Fowler G and Skeels R tied third;
Cook G: Burnett C; Rassmussen M and
Koch M tied fifth. Height 5-10.
880 run Lane M; Lings
Morrison G; Wilson G; J
M: Lingscheit
M;
organ G
rime z:ui.b.
Pole vault Paauin G: Lewman G
Sparlin G; Goyette C; Harvey M.
Height 13-3.
880 relay Medford (Christean. Rus
sell. Kershaw, Larson); Grants Pass;
Crater. Time 1:30.4.
Discus Slessler M; Rose G; Plum
ley M: Watson G; Connally M. Dis
tance 129-2.
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PAP WINNER
Los Alamitos, Calif. U.R
Donald K. Brokaw's Pap won
the richest race in quarter horse
history Saturday, the $22,000
Pacific Coast Quarter Horse
Racing association derby, before
8510 fans at Los Alamitos Race
Course in a rodeo race in which
two of the first five finishes
were disqualified by the stewards.
ALLEN RAMS COACH
Los Angeles (U.R) George
Allen, coach at Whittier, Calif.,
college for the last six seasons,
has signed as a coach with the
Los Angeles Rams of the Na
tional Football league.
NAMED TIGER PREXY
Detroit (U.P.) Harvey Han
sen, 61, Detroit lumberman and
a follower of the Detroit Tigers
since 1911, is the new president
of the American league baseball
team, its third in less than a year.
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