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Calumet Farm Horses Favored In Derby v.t 1 DERBY FAVORITES Jacklyn Love, pretty 21-year-old Kentucky Derby Festival Queen, and General Duke look each other over the Churchill Downs Race Track, Louis ville, Ky. General Duke is favored to win the 1957 Rvu for the Roses. . Louisville, Ky. U.PJ Gen. Duke and Iron Liege, Calumet Farm's powerful pair favored to win the 3125,000 added Ken tucky Derby Saturday, warmed up for America's top racing clas sic today in the 20th running of the $15,000 added Derby Trial. Only four other three-year-olds, all expected to start in the 83rd renewal of the Kentucky Derby, opposed Gen. Duke and Iron Liege in the mile race. Calumet Farm's hopefuls for a fifth victory in the Rose Run were prohibitive favorites at 2-5 to turn back Clifford Lussky's Federal Hill, Mrs. Ada L. Rice's entry of Indian Creek and Man Up Stairs, and William S. Mil ler's Better Bee. Normally the trial is consider ed an "elimination race" with owners and trainers hoping for a last-minute flash of Kentucky Derby class to warrant starting their young horses in the "big one" now only five days away. But this year it would take an extremely poor showing to elimi nate any of the Derby Trial starters from the Kentucky Derby rather than for an ex tremely good race to get them into it. The same jockeys who will ride the horses in the Kentucky Derby rode in the trial, putting jockey champion Willie Hartack and Dave Erb on the same team. Hartack rode Gen. Duke while Erb handled Iron Liege. Faster Racing Foreseen This Year at Valley View Faster racing is foreseen dur ing the 1957 season on the Val ley View track near Ashland. The track will be the scene of weekly Rogue Valley Racing as sociation hardtop auto programs again this year. First races are set for May 11. Manager Phil Bryant has been working many weeks to get the running surface in good shape. The track now looks more like an oval. Turns have been widen ed and banked and the back stretch has been moved out far ther to eliminate the previous sharp turns. Last year the track record was not broken but there is little doubt that the present mark will stand long once time trials open on May 11. Many of the hardtoppers have been working intently to have heir cars ready for the first Sat urday night action. Drivers who would like to try out their hard tops have been advised that the track will be available on Sun day, May 5. Fans who would like to watch will be welcome. Among notes of interest is the purchase by Mike Ober,' of Ober Logging, of a late model stock car. It will be entered in West Coast races with Jack McCoy as driver. Jack's first scheduled race of the season was to have been at Bakersfield, Calif, but the event was rained out. Motor Haven Keglers Cop City Association Mantle Motor Haven motel with a 2711 score won the city tourna ment of the Medford Women's Bowling association. Nelda Roberts and Gertie ! Riggs with 1157 were doubles champs and Thelma King took singles with 615. Scratch honors in all-events were claimed by Audrey Swoape with 1566. Dorothy Hopkins was tops in the all-events with handi cap competition. Her score was 1713. Members of the Motor Haven quintet are Anna Dale Bohan non, Betty Minger, Melvina Lit tle, Elsie Atkins and Eleanor Lenz. Elsie Atkins President There were 29 teams entered, 44 doubles combinations, 88 singles entrants and 82 listed for all-events. Annual meeting and break fast of the women's association was held on Sunday at Rogue Valley Country club with Elsie Atkins named as president. Oth ers named were Elsie Baker, Vice-prsident, Thelma Tolle, secretary-treasurer, and Virginia Wilson, sergeant-at-arms. Association members expressed their thanks to their many spon sors and to the Mail Tribune for HOCKEY New York (U.R) Johnny Bower, 31-year-old Providence Reds goalie, today was named the American Hockey League's "Most Valuable Player" for the 1956-57 season for the second consecutive year. Bower won the Leslie Cun ningham Trophy and a S300 league bonus by receiving 21 of a possible 30 points in voting by newspaper, radio and TV repre sentatives who covered the cam paign in the six league cities. Bower is the only goalie ever to win the lague's MVP trophy. ' The only other AHL performer to win the award twice in a row was Carl Liscombe, also of Providence in 1947-48 and 1948-49. coverage during the year and during the state tournament. TOP SCORES: Teams Motor Haven 2711: Union Club 2679; Pick's Apparel 2668; Skinner's kuick 2641; jorgensens Dairy ZbJJ; Ross Lumber company 2611; Hawk inson Tire Tread 2595; Trail Creek Lumber 2590. Doubles Nelda Roberts and Gertie Riggs 1157: Dorothy Hopkins and Helen Poulson 1124: Elsie Atkins and Elea nor Lenz 1087: Claudia Lowd and Jackie Wilson 1082; Audrey Swoape and Jane Kessler 1081; Thelma Ault and E. Dickinson 1081: Ethel Goode and Vera Blunt 1078; Edith Redfield and Eleanoj McCray 1077; Betty Knapp and Jan Lovett 1073: Teddy Farrar and Sandy Kessler 1071; Elsie natter ana ueil inristianson lUba; Ann Wilson ana trma Jones iub7. All-Events Dorothy Hopkins 1713: Erma Jones 1651; Louise Patterson 1648; Maxine McCall 1647; Elsie Baker 1645; Vi Coats 1537; Virginia Wilson 1635; Claudia Lowd 1615; Ruth Shama 1613; Thelma Ault 1613; Irene Schoe der 1612; Ethel Good 1606: Wanda Booth 1601; Anna Dale Bohannon 1601; Elsie Atkins 1596: Thelma King 1595; Sandv Kessler 1594; Fred- ene Doty 1593; Helen Poulson 1591; Edith Redfield 1591. Sincles Thelma ICing 615: Audrey Swoape 595: Ruth Shama 582: Dorothy Hop kins 580; Louise Patterson 576: Max ine McCall 573; Helen Poulson 571; Erma Jones 570; Betty Minger 566; Virginia Wilson 560: Jane Kessler 558; Matale Clark 554: Vera Blunt 551: Janice Frohreich 549; Irene Schroeder 545: Fredene Doty 544; Frances Willett 541; Wanda Booth 540: Claudia Lowd 536; Vi Coats 535; Vivian Harris 535; Jo Russell 533; Vivian Knox 531; JoAnne Phillips 531. MedforDvjSWTribune SLPCDLOTg Oklahoman Line Coach Clinic Guest University of Oregon, Eugene Gomer Jonesv coach of the great Oklahoma lines, has been named as the guest football coach at the annual Oregon Coaching clinic, it was an nounced here by Dr. A. A. Ess- linger, dean of the school of health and physical education. The clinic begins June 11 and closes June 16. It will also fea ture basketball, track, baseball, wrestling and training. Jones has directed the power ful Sooner lines for a decade as Oklahoma has swept to national championships and the longest winning streak in the history of college football. The guest coach has developed some of the finest linesmen in college football and has aver aged one All-America lineman each of th seasons he has been at Oklahoma. In that impressive list were included guard Tom Catlin in 1952, tackle Jim Weatherall in 1951, center Kurt Burris in 1954, guard J. D. Rob erts in 1953, and guard Bo Bol linger in 1955. Develops Fine Units The greatest contribution Jones has made to Oklahoma's brilliant winning streaks is his ability to develop fine units as well as outstanding individual players. Jones was a standout center for Ohio State and was gradu ated in 1936. He played one sea son of professional football with Cleveland and then joined the staff of John Carroll University for the 1937 season. He shifted to the Ohio State staff for three seasons in 1938 and then coached the Martin's Ferry high school team in 1941 and 1942 before entering the service. He was one of the coaches of the St. Mary's Fre-fligiit team for two years and after his dis charge in 1946 he was an as sistant at Nebraska for a single year. He then joined the Okla homa staff and has remained there over the last 10 years. Red Raider Grid Slate Announced Ashland Southern Oregon college's 1957 football schedule is all set with the final signing of the Seattle Ramblers at Ash land for November 9. This will be the second meeting between Southern Oregon and the Ramb lers, who won the first contest in 1955. Coach Al Akins, who will start his third year as head foot ball mentor at Southern Oregon, has lined up nine games for the Red Raiders, five at home and four to be played on the road. Night Games Southern Oregon will play all its games at night this year, with possible exception of the Oregon College game which may be the homecoming contest. The Red Raiders- will host two new foes this year, Moffett Air Force base and the University of British Columbia. Portland State, Ore gon College, Oregon Tech and Eastern Oregon will make up the Oregon Collegiate Confer ence schedule. The complete schedule for 1957 as announced by Coach Al Akins and the administrative heads of Southern Oregon col lege is: September 21 Moffett Air Force Base at Ashland; Septem ber 28 University of British Columbia at Vancouver; Octob er 5 Linfield at Ashland; Oct ober 12 Portland State at Portland; October 19 Oregon Tech at Ashland; October 26 Oregon College at Ashland; No vember 2 Eastern Oregon at La Grande; November 9 Seat tle Ramblers at Ashland; Nov ember 16 Humboldt Slate at Areata. Bonus Baby Gets PCL Batting Lead San Francisco (U.R) Marty Keough, a bonus baby from the Boston Red Sox now playing for the San Francisco Seals, took over the Pacific Coast League batting leadership today with a .377 mark for games through Sunday, April 28, it was an nounced today by William Weiss, statistician. Keough, playing in 17 games, was at bat 61 times, collected 23 hits, drove in six runs and has one homer. Joe Taylor of Seattle, Frank Kellert, San Francisco, and Jim Marshall, Vancouver, are tied for the most hits with 24 each; and Dick Stuart of Hollywood leads in homers with six. Mar shall tops the loop in runs-bat-ted-in with 19. Mel Held of Vancouver, with a perfect 3-0 record, leads the pitchers. He also is tops in the earned-run section, with one run rjer nine inninas. I Art Ceccarelli of Vancouver leads in the strikeout depart ment with 17. Tuesday, April 30. 1957 Detroit To Fill Post Wednesday Detroit U.R) Detroit Ti gers President Harvey R. Hansen will announce the new general manager of the club Wednesday. Since Hansen " has stated the appointment will fall on some one now in the Tiger organiza tion, the choice seemed almost certain to b Johnny McHale, 35, now director of player person nel and the man who has han dled trade talks for the new owners-since last fall. Herold Muddy Ruel, former general manager of. the Tigers and now assistant to the presi dent, has asked for a year s leave of absence, starting in June and there is no sign he has changed his mind about taking it. The post was vacated last Fri day by the resignation of Walter O. Spike Briggs, son of the late Tigers owner W. O. Briggs Sr., and until the club was sold by the Briggs estate last fall, the president of the Tigers for five years. MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN Weight-lifting Contest- Planned class hours. Age limit is l u 17 years. Heuer said that, even if boys are a few days late in entering the contest, they still have a chance to win. Medford YMCA is giving boys of the area an opportunity to get in shape for the beach this summer and win a trophy in doing it. Chance to build a muscular body with weight training is be ing offered between 4 and 6 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays ana Fridays. First, second and third prizes will be given for best weight ' and muscular gains in a contest running between May 1 and'31. Those interested may see Fran cis (Lucky) Heuer, weightlifting instructor at the Y, during the Milwaukee (U.R) The Mil waukee Braves announced to day they wil conduct a three-day baseball clinic at Nassau in the Bahamas, May 17-19. Montreal (U.R) Stocky Andy Hebenton today salvaged some prestige for his New York Rangers, winning the National Hockey League's Lady Byng Memorial Trophy as the most "gentlemanly" player during the 1956-57 season. Hebenton also picks up $1,000 in bonus money from the league, in addition to the trophy. The 26-year-old Winnepeg, Man., native, third in the mid season balloting for the award, beat out two former Byng win ners Detroit's Earl Dutch Rei bel and Toronto's Sid Smith. Hebenton polled 45 of a possible j 180 points in the overall double voting system employed by the hockey writers and broadcasters in the six NHL cities. Hebenton, a right wing, came on fact in the second half of the season to finish with 21 goals ! and 23 assists for a total of 44 ! points. I Contact Sports May Be Taken Out of Olympics New York (U.R) Elimination from the Olympics of physical contact sports and sports de cided entirely by human judg ment was suggested Monday night by Dr. William Stevenson, former Olympic athlete and now president of Oberlin Ohio Col lege. ". . . National prejudices and perhaps even hatreds governed the conduct of some competitors and officials at the 1956 games," he told the annual dinner of the Metropolitan Amateur Athletic Union. "Apparently unsports manlike occurrences are more likely in those types of compe tition where bodily contact is in volved, or in which the outcome largely depends upon the indi vidual judgment of the of ficials ... "I would rather see such sports eliminated if their contin uance engenders hostilities and bad feeling which endangers the whole Olympic program." Buy At Builders Supply Pi 2! QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Flues, Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrews Ph. SP 2-4107 Lewis and Clark Near Idaho Team By UNITED PRESS Lewis and Clark was only half a game behind front-running College of Idaho in the North west Conference baseball race today after taking a twin bill from the Coyotes at Caldwell Monday. Dick Stephens pitched Lewis and Clark to a 12-0 victory in the first game and the Pioneers came back to win the second 12-3. Willamette suffered a double defeat at the hands of Whitman, 7-6 and 5-4 to drop into a third place tie with Pacific. Bob Watkins Heads Skin Diving Group Bob Watkins has been elected president of the locally organ ized Oregon Skin Divers club. Bob Roberts is vice president, Mrs. L. A. (Eyya) Wilson secre tary-treasurer and Steve Crip- pen Jr. sergeant-at-arms. The club will meet each Sun. day at 2:30 at Jackson Hot Springs. Pool there will be avail. able for club activities on Mon day afternoons and evenings. Ac- tivitives include practice, tests and classes. Officers of the club said there is a need for more experienced skin divers and for for experi enced swimmers who wish to learn the art. The non-profit club is organ ized to conduct classes for men and women 15 years of age and over to assist in rescue and sal vage work in the area. L,ater on excursions are planned to the ocean and to lakes and streams. Middleweight Title Bout Tops Weeks Program rev, York (U.R) Former w iter 'eight and middleweight champion Sugar Ray Robinson gets an unprecedented fourth and probably last shot at the middleweight crown Wednesday night in Chicago against champ ion Gene Fullmer in the week's top bout. On the same night in Essen, Germany, light heavyweight champion Archie Moore, who has yet to commit himself on a title defense, warms up against Germany's No. 3 heavyweight, Hans Kalbfell, while on Friday night, former light heavy king Joey Maxim, who is staging a comeback, meets Eddie Machen in Louisville, Ky., in other top bouts. Bosox Swap 3 For Pair Washington (U.R) The Bos ton Red Sox, who had only one left-handed pitcher on their staff, obtained lefty Dean Stone and right-hander Bob Chakales from the Washington Senators Monday in a straight player swap for shortstop Milt Boiling, outfielder Faye Throneberry and pitcher Russ Kemmerer. Boiling and Thorneberry were utility men for Boston last sea son, but were expected to be regulars with Washington. The Red Sox, with Mel Par- nell on the disabled list, had only one left-handed pitcher, rookie Jack Spring, and Stone, who had a 5-7 record last year and was used as a relief pitcher by Washington this season, was expected to win a starting job with Boston. College of Idaho has a 6-3 record to 5-3 for Lewis and Clark. Paccific is 3-3 and Wil lamette 4-4. DUO CD 1 Dust Palliative Oil Road Mix Hughes & Dodd Co. Phone SP 3-4221 San Francisco (U.R) The San Francisco Seals optioned Roy Tinney, a 25-year-old left- handed pitcher, to Indianapolis of the American Association Monday. A's Get Bids For Series Kansas City, Mo. (U.P.) The Kansas City Athletics, obviously bidding for the title of "base ball's most optimistic club," said today the team's improved play this season already has prompt ed ticket for the 1957 World Series. A club spokesman said the George Washington Post of the American Legion in Washing ton, D.C., has been granted an option to purchase two World Series tickets if the Athletics play in the classic. The As finished last in the American League last season, 45 games behind the pennant winning New York Yankees. HARD GAINS ROUND Bournemouth, England (U.R) Darlene Hard of Montebello, Calif., gained the second round in women's singles at the British Hard Court Tennis champion ships today by defeating Miss S. M. Hannah of England, 6-1, 6-1. Lincoln, R. I. (U.R) Law rence Adams had a big day at Lincoln Downs Monday when he rode four winners, including Wing Again in the featured Cape Cod purse. Oscar OH I says: Don't be fooled by the "Suede-Shoe Boys"; fast talking salesman now at work in Medford, who will try to sell you Home Improvement products and services, many without a guaran tee. KNOW YOUR DEALER! Look for OSCAR OHI and the Operation Home Improvement Crest FIRST! 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