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iff f Y I DRIVING KURTIS KRAFT, Pat O'Connor tops nine qualT f ierg to win cole position for IndianaDolis Motor SnppHwav 500 mile race. From left: O'Connor, Ray, Nichols, chief mechanic and Chapman Root, car owner. O'Connor's verage speed was 143.948 mph. (International Soundphoto) Hardtoppers Will Go At It Saturday Night Opening of Valley View track to 1937 hardtop auto racing is cheduled Saturday night with presentation of trophies to last year's top drivers billed along with the competition. The races, postponed because of weather on two previous week ends, will be a standard pro gram. Opening night activity will have 7 p.m. time trials and the first race is set for 8 p.m. There will be A and B trophy romps, three heat runs and semi-main ana main event. A big share of last year's Huskies, Indians In Crew Races Redwood City, Calif, Washington's Huskies end their bob-tailed crew season Saturday when they meet Stanford in a regatta which brings together two undefeated varsity eights. It will be the last 'race of the season for Washington, which is barred from making its tra ditional trip to the IRA regatta at Syracuse as a result of last year's football disclosures. Races will be held in the jun ior varsity and freshman division as well as the varsity. drivers are expected to have their cars, with more powerful engines and many with a new look, on hand to launch their campaign for points. The bigger more up to date motors and im provements in the track are fig ured to make faster races and keener rivalry this season. 12 Leaders Most of last year's 12 leading point men likely will be present to collect their trophies and a good share of them will be racing. The leading skippers and their points last year were Crock Hunter 440, Wayne Lemley 385, Bob Wilcox 337, Bob Jenkins 316, Johnny Jones 291, Rusty Phillips 274, Lou Kurz 249, Al len Bousman 213, Fred Arnberg 211, Cecil James 197, Neil Wool dridge 197 and Bob Rose 178. The weatherman indicated to day that the hardtoppers and fans finally will get a break. There may be clouds overhead but there's at present no indica tion of rain and the outlook for a warmer and possibly balmy evening is a heartening turn. The track is on Valley View road off Highway 99 some nine miles from Medford and two miles from Ashland. The track is in the vicinity of Jackson Hot springs. ... . . .- t-e Surprise your taste with this Bourbon jj straightfi nln Year Mm k . ' i Old Straight Bourbon Whiskey nt Made by Hiram Walker Makes the Difference 86 PROOF STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY . 5 YEARS OLD . HIRAM WALKER & SONS. INC.. PEORIA, ILL. MEDFORDflJkfTRIBUHI Seals Gain on Stars; Beavers Beat Angels By DON THACKREY United Press Sports Writer The Hollywood Stars are pretty far from sea-level in the' climb for the Pacific Coast league pennant, but they can still hear the Seals bark. T,he Stars preserved their posi tion as No. 1 team in the loop by taking Sacramento 9-5 Thurs day -night. But they still lost ground to the San Francisco Seals. The Seals, who have come from behind to win 12 games this year, did it again in the sec ond game Thursday night and swept a doubleheader from San Diego 5-3" and 7-3. The twin wins pulled them to a spot one game back of the Stars. Vancouver stayed tough in the race by beating Seattle 9-4 while Portland took Los Angeles 7-3. Tie Broken The Seals didn't have a chance to come from behind in the first game because they were never in that position. But they did break out of a 3-3 tie in the fourth, with a single run and added another in thefifth to hang defeat on Mudcat Grant. R. W. Smith took the win al though he needed help from Leo Kiely. In the second one, Seal starter Tom Hurd also needed help from Kiely but this time Kiely got the credit. Bill Dailey was the loser. The Seals scored two in the eighth and three on -Frank Kel lert's homer in the ninth to come from behind for the win. Bill Moran homered for the Pads in the first game and Floyd Robinson? and Preston Ward did likewise in the second. 'Hollywood had little trouble with Sacramento as the Stars blasted out 15 hits. Ben Wade got the win but had to have help when the Solons drove across three runs in the bottom of the ninth to close the gap. Btamon Wins Third - Portland erupted for five runs, onl one of them earned, in the second inning in beating Los Angeles. Bob Thorpe, with help from Bob Anderson, held the Angels to six hits. Both pitchers hurled for Los Angeles last year. Charley Beamon won his third without a loss as Vancouver beat Seattle, but it wasn't easy. A three-run homer by Joe Taylor tied it in the fourth and the Mounties finally untied it for good in the seventh with two runs. They added three in the eighth.. Howie Judson, second of three Seattle pitchers, took the loss. Taylor's homer was his 11th of the season and his fifth in the past six games. He leads the league in the outta-the-park de partment. T.INESCORES: (lt same) San Francisco 201 110 0 5 a 0 San Diego 021 000 0 3 7 0 R. W. Smith, Kiely (6) and Sadow ski: Grant and Averill. (2nd came) San Francisco 000 110 023 7 15 1 San Diego .... 001 002 000 3 7 1 Hurd, Kiely (7) and Tornay; Dailey. Nichols 18), Gasque (9) and Jones, Averill (9). Hollywood 200 002 1409 15 1 Sacramento .. 002 000 003 5 12 1 Wade, O'Donnell 9 and Hall; Stan ka, Boyer (7) and Barragan. Portland : 151 000 000 7 12 1 Los Angeles 101 010 0003 6 2 Thorpe. Anderson (6 and Calder one; Negray, George (3) and Tappe. Vancouver 210 001 2309 14 1 Seattle 000 301 000 4 11 1 Beamon and White; Kretlow, Jud son 2. Hayden (8) and Orteig. Relay Meet Attractions Numerous By BILL WEST Los Angeles (IP) A starstud ded field of world-famed vath letes, including most of Amer ica's Olympic games gold medal winners, compete tonight in the 17th annual Coliseum Relays, the West's blue ribbon event for track and field performers. Although the relays this year were designated as a tribute to U.S. stars in the Melbourne games, four foreigners who will compete in the "miracle mile" feature attracted the greatest at tention of a crowd of around 40,000 spectators which will view the relays. Interest centered in the mile because of the presence of four of the 11 men who have, run the distance under four minutes and who will be seeking to break John Landy's world's record of 3:58. Record Possibl The distance running foreign ers are Mervyn Lincoln, Austral ian protege of Landy; Derek Ib botson and Brian Hewson of Great Britain, and Laszlo Tabori, the self-exiled Hungarian. Hewson and Ibbotson said they would not be greatly surprised if the winner broke Landy's mark and Lincoln shrugged that the final time would be de termined by' the pace and he in dicated he would be up among the leaders. But the meet had numerous I other attractions besides the mile run. Bobby Morrow, triple gold medalist of the Melbourne games, will be running against Trinidad's Mike Agostini in the 100-yard dash to insure a top performance in that event. In the field events, six men who have exceeded 15 feet in the pole vault will be competing in cluding Olympic champion Rev. Bob Richards and new world's champ Bob Gutowski who re cently vaulted 15 feet, 8Vi inches. Duel Renewed Although competing only in exhibitions, the honeymooning Olympic hammer throw cham pion, Harold Connolly, and his Czechoslovakian bride, Olga Fikotova. both will demonstrate their skills. She won the wom en's discus throw at Melbourne. Friday, May 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE STATE PREP BASEBALL QUARTER-FINALS BILLED JOfljlVWMvisflwdSWv GRUNT AND GROANERS Leo Nomeffini, San Fran cisco 49er football star who fills off-football season with professional wrestling, flips Lou Thesz, National Wrestler Alliance champion, to. the mat during match in San Francisco's Winterland. Each won a fall before time ran out and the match ended in a draw, the second tie in four meetings between the two. Bears Swell NWL Margin To 5 Games By UNITED PRESS That's a right comfortable lead the Yakima Bears have in the Northwest league today and the way they're going it may grow bigger. The Bears blanked Tri-City 7-0 last night to move five games ahead of the second-place Braves. Last year, the Bears scooted home in first place in both halves of the split season and it looks like they're out to repeat. Home runs and the pitching of Charley Davidson got the job done for the Bears. Herm Lewis homered in the first with one aboard and Don McGinnis and Tony Cannizzo hit solo homers. Davidson spaced three hits and fanned five and walked four. Two of the blows off him were infield singles. The decision gave the Bean a clean sweep of the three-game series with the Braves. Vera Kindsfather pitched and batted Salem to a 5-4 victory over Lewiston. His single in the seventh inning sent across the eventual winning run. Kinds father went all the way to pick up his fifth victory. Eugene took Wenatchee 8-4 and 4-2. The Emeralds won the first one with a four-run rally in the fifth highlighted by Bob Gauthier's three-run homer. A three-run rally in the sixth inning of the. second game paid off for the Emeralds. Pete Mika cich's single sent in two runs and Gauthier's single sent the third marker across. ZEBRA DENTURES Indianapolis (ff) ' A State Board of Health annual report listing cases where animals bit people today listed a surprise culprit. One person was bitten by a zebra. California's Industrial output is estimated to be three times greater than the products of the soil. Daily's. U-Drive Medford Airport By UNITED PRESS Quarterfinal action in the bat tle for the Oregon class A-l high school baseball title opens this week end. The Dalles, led by pitcher Denny Peterson, ran up against Franklin high in Portland this afternoon, while Saturday con tests send Eugene to Grants Pass and Central Catholic to Tigard. Grant will meet either Bend or Albany next. week. In the A-2 ranks either New port or Bandon will play Seaside in a quarterfinal game. Banks meets Central high of Mon mouth - Independence Saturday, Glide will host Oakridge while either-Burns or Nyssa. who play today, will travel to Woodburn. Three class B quarterfinal Other likely star attractions Include the 440 in which Terry Tobacco of the University of Washington and Canada's Olym pic team meets U. S. Olympian Lou Jones and Mike Larrabee; the 880 in which Tom' Courtney, Olympic champ, and Arnie So well renew a long-standing duel; the high jump featuring Olympic champ Charlie Dumas and Olym pic , weightman Parry . O'Brien and Al Oerter. Four relay events also were expected to be closely contested among top U. S. teams with near-record or record per formances likely. games are scheduled this week end. Lowell meets Elkins at Drain Saturday; Malin plays at Condon today, and Echo travels to Adrian Saturday. Gaston plays either St. Bonifice or Siletz. Quarterfinals in all three di visions are to be 'played by Tues day with semi-finals by next Fri day. The finals are scheduled June 8 at Multnomah stadium. Cal, Oregon Vie Thursday . Berkeley, Calif. OF The Uni versity of California and the Uni versity of Oregon will meet here Memorial Day to begin a best of three series for the Pacific Coast Conference baseball cham pionship. The two schools are the win ners in their respective divisions of the conference, A -double-header will be play ed on May 30 and a third game, if necessary, will be played the following day. The winner will fac,e the win ner of the Pepperdine-Portland University series June 3-4 with the victors of that playoff rep resenting District Eight in the NCAA championships at Omaha, Neb., June 8-13. PRO PACTS INKED Longyiew, Wash. RF) Two local high school athletes now attending Lower Columbia Jun ior college have signed profes sional baseball contracts with the Chicago Cubs' organization. They are catcher Millard Estes and George Newland an infield er. Each received a $1,000 bonus. New York City is about 2,609 air miles from this Pacific coast city. There are 2,150,000 members of 4-H clubs in the US. PACIFIC INDUSTRIAL 9 Amu. 16 S. Central PhM SP M3H IV Builders Supply QUALITO BLOCKS Bricks, Flues, Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrews Ph. SP 2-4107 HARP TOP ES SAT, MAY 25 Time Trials 7 P.M. Races 8 P.M. Valley View Speedway 1 MILE NORTH OF ASHLAND OFF'HIWAY 99 Hill Climb On Sunday Rogue River Ramblers motor cycle club of southern Oregon is sponsoring a Sportsman hill- ' climb, May 26, 2:30 p.m. on the Don Mentzer ranch, five miles West of Phoenix. , The Ramblers are a chartered club and this event is sanctioned by the American Motorcycle as sociation of Columbus, O. Members of the club have been getting the hill In first class condition for Sunday's event and have added a few extra feet at the start of the climb. The day's event will be run on a time schedule and rid ers will draw for positions. It is planned to have 'two classes of riders, a lightweight and an "open" class Trophies will be awarded to the winners of the two classes. There will be lots of parking space and a small admission fee is to be charged. Signs will be posted from the Texaco station in Phoenix on out Colver rd. to the Pioneer rd. to the entrance of the Mentzer ranch. MILES TO THE GALLON! 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