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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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