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Dallas, Tex. W Pro ten
nis kins? Pancho Gonzales
said today he thought he
played the best tennis of the
current tour Monday night
when he defeated Lew Hoad,
6-3, 7-5 to narrow the Aus
sie's lead to 16-9.
"It was the first time I
have been satisfied with my
game since the start of the
tour," Pancho said. "I feel
I am getting stronger and my
, Speedster Planning 220
Record Smash, Marriage
. By CLYDE JABIN
United Press Sport Writer
Fresno, Calif. (W Dimin
utive Mike Agostini of Fres
no State College is planning
a permanent, calypso - style
spring into the far reaches of
Canada where a pretty blonde
is his main attraction but
he also still has his eye on a
new 220-yard world record.
Agostini, the smallest of
the current crop of "world's
fastest humans," has been
smitten by the love bug. The
object of his affection is Mad
eline Finnegan, 18, of Edmon
ton. Alta.
The couple became engaged
during the Christmas season
and Mike has applied for cit
izenship papers.
Before his matrimonial pur
suit, however, the' 23-year-old
Trinidad speedster is going to
take another crack at the
spring dash events. Mike not
only wants a 200-yard dash
record again but has a new
theory for outrunning the
pack.
"That's relax, man; you
gotta relax," says Agostini.
"And that's what I aim .to do
this season. In the past, I be
came so keyed up before some
races my legs hurt."
Run For Fun
One way the five-foot, sev
en and one-half inch sprinter
believes he can relax is "to
run for the fun of it and may
be the record time will come
along."
Mike zipped into the track
spotlight two years ago with
a record 20.1 clocking in the
220 at Bakersfield. The time
was lowered to 20 seconds flat
.by Duke University's Dave
"Sime and Mike believes a
time as low as 19.6 is possible
for the event.
Agostini, who began com-
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Hoad in
serve is as good as it ever
has been.
"I feel as though I can con
tinue cutting the gap between
us now," he said. "I've won
two of the last three matches
we've played."
Hoad, however, was a bit
gusted with his play, although
he was not disappointed.
"I don't even have to win
half the remaining matches
to win the tour," he said.
petitive sprint races at 16,
also has excelled in the 100
yard dash where he has had
an unofficial 9.3 clocking to
match the world mark. How
ever, he prefers the 220 be
cause "in the hundred I think
the distance is so short. I have
to run hard all the way."
Slowed By Illness
An attack of Asian flu last
autumn forced Agostini to
give up daily workouts for the
longest period since he began
racing. He now has started
gradual practice sessions for
his final season at Fresno
State and hopes to regain his
form. j.
Mike, who competed in the
1956 Olympics for Trinidad,
met Madeline last summer
while running in the British
Empire Games.
She is a Scottish highland
dancer. But love is not the
only reason why Agostini
wants to becsme a Canadian
citizen. He explains that he
prefers the cool weather there
as compared to the warm cli
mate in Trinidad. He also
plans to take graduate study
in Canada after getting his
degree in business adminis
tration at Fresno State.
"I'll always have a love for
Trinidad naturally," he adds.
"And I hope the island's loss
will be Canada's gain."
Program to Help
Taxpayers Slated
Salem A comprehensive
program for assisting taxpay
ers in all parts of Oregon in
filing their state income tax
returns has been scheduled
by the State Tax commisf.on
from now until the April 15
deadline, according to Com
missioner Chairman S. ' W.
Horn.
Auditors already are avail
able for such purposes at the
commission's headquarters in
Salem and at the Portland
branch office. Part-time serv
ice will be announced locally
by the commission's branch
offices in Astoria, Bend, Eu
gene, Klamath Falls, Medford,
North Bend, Ontario, Pendle
ton and Roseburg. In March
and April, traveling audit
teams will cover virtually all
other communities in the
state, Horn reported. Places,
dates and hours will be an
nounced well in advance
through newspapers, radio
stations, and by posters. ,
Taxpayers presently seek
ing assistance at the commis
sion offices in Salem and
Portland are finding little or
no delay, he said. As the
deadline nears, the waiting
lines will grow, necessitating
delays in many cases, he
pointed out.
Brazil is the world's second
largest corn grower, the U.S.
ranking first.
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6:30 p.m Glendale vs. Rogue River
7:45 p.m Eagle Point vs. Henley
9:00 p.m Illinois Valley vs. Brookings
SATURDAY
9:30 Championship Game
Closing
Matches
With a fourth of the tour
completed, Hoad could win
onlv 35 of thp remaining
matches and still dethrone
Pancho.
In Monday night's matches,
Pancho s big service carried
him to the two-set match win.
He broke through the Aussie's
serve in the sixth game of the
first set, and again in the
third game of the second set
In the 11th game, with
Hoad serving, Gonzales won
a love game, then went on
to take the 12th also.
In the Dreliminary match
Tony Trabert stretched his
lead over Pancho Segura to
6-5 with an 8-5 win. In the
doubles nightcap, Gonzales
and Trabert beat Hoad and
Segura, 6-4, 7-5.
Oregon Frosh
Post 11th Win
Eueene (IP) The Ore
gon Frosh bounced Grays
Harbor junior college, 88-61,
in a preliminary basketball
game before the California-
Oregon tilt in McArthur court
Monday night.
The Frosh amassed 58
points in the second hi If, to
post their 11th win in 14 sea
sonal starts this year.
Frosh forward Denny
Strickland took game honors
with 22 points. Guard Den
nis Stepp was high for Grays
Harbor with 18. The Duck
lings led at halftime 30-27.
BEAVERS SIGNS PACT
Portland (IP) Ollie Brant
ley, right-handed pitcher who
won 22 and lost 15 for Eugene
last season in the Northwest
league, has signed his 1958
Portland Beaver contract.
Truman Not To
Criticize Ike
New York (ffl Former
President Truman said today
he would not criticize Presi
dent Eisenhower for taking
Mrs. Eisenhower on a government-paid
trip to Arizona,
"even though some people
think Mr. Eisenhower went
too far out of his way."
"Whatever the President
sees fit to do for the welfare
of his family he should be
allowed to do without a lot
of people jumping on him,"
Truman said. "I remember
when I used to go home to see
my mother on her deathbed,
some unfair newspaper pub
lishers screamed at me and
said I was wasting the tax
payers' money.
"I don't believe in attack
ing a man through his family.
They could say what they
wanted about me when I was
president but when they at
tacked my family they knew
they'd better look out."
Truman spoke to newsmen
at his hotel here before leav
ing for .the airport and a
flight to Washington.
COW HAS TRIPLETS
Maryville, Tenn. HP) An
Ayrshire cow beat the 100,-000-to-one
odds Monday by
giving birth to triplet calves.
She did not overcome the
400,000-to-one odds against
the calves being identical,
however. They , were merely
similar.
A slope from the head to
the foot was a feature of beds
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PRE-SEASON SWEAT Milwaukee Braves
pitcher Bob Trowbridge tries out the sweat
box with a towel assist from Don Kaiser
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Yost, Erskine Show
Way in Spring Camps
By UNITED PRESS
Eddie Yost and Carl Er
skine, a pair of 31-year-old
veterans who had it tough in
1957, are showing the rookies
what hard work means this
spring in an effort to reestab
lish themselves as stars.
Yost, told he'll have to bat
tle Harmon Killebrew for
Washington's regular third
base job, checked in at the
Senators' camp Monday and
gave a sparkling exhibition
around the hot. corner.
"This is the first time in
four years I'm reportong with
no aches, pains or lingering
illnesses," he said. "I think
my physical troubles are be
hind me and I'm ready to go."
Erskine Pitches
Hrskine, a sore-arm case
who only had a 5.-3 record
with the Dodgers last season,
delighted Manager Walt Al
ston when he pitched batting
practice for the first time.
"He was only pitching
about half speed," comment
ed Alston. "But he was
throwing better than he. did
at any time all last spring."
Alston also said that John
Roseboro, one of three top
contenders for the stricken
Roy Campanella's catching
job, "is responding to special
batting instruction." Rose
boro, 24, hit .273 in 48 games
for Montreal last season but
only .145 in 35 games for the
Dodgers.
Manager Al Lopez wasted
no time putting his high-salaried
pitching staff to work
when trie Chicago White Sox
officially opened camp at
Tampa, Fla. Early Wynn, ac
quired from Cleveland, was
the first to work, followed by
Billy Pierce, Dick Donovan,
Jim Wilson, Bob Keegan and
Bill Fischer. All 43 White Sox
players participated in the
drill.'
i Ruben Gomez was the eye
opener at Phoenix, Ariz.,
where the San Francisco Gi
ants began training, Gomez,
15-13 last season, breezed
through his first mound chore
and won, the comment, "He's
ready right now" from Man
ager Bill Rigney.
Oregon Maternal
Death Rate Low
Portland (IP) The State
Board of Health said today
provisional figures showed
Oregon last year continued its
record as one of the world's
safest places to raise a fam
ily.
Only eight deaths were re
corded from causes stemming
from pregnancy or childbirth
for a rate of 0.2 deaths per
1,000 childbirths, placing
1957 in a tie with 1955 for
the second-lowest number of
maternal deaths in Oregon's
history. All-time low was the
five deaths and rate of 0.1 re
ported in 1951, when Oregon
set a new national record for
safe childbirth.
Dr. Harold M. Ericksbn,
state health officer, said only
one mother died last year for
each 4673 deliveries, com
pared to one per 1000 deliv
eries a decade ago and one
per each 167 deliveries in
1930.
INVESTIGATE EXPLOSION
New Delhi, India (IP) In
dian Defense Minister V. K.
Krishna Menon planned a
trip to Pathankot today to in
vestigate a railroad yard ex
plosion which killed 30 per
sons and injured 15 others.
Civilian laborers and military
personnel were among the
victims. The blast occurred
Monday 350 miles northwest
of here.
Notes from other camps:
Manager Fred Haney had his
world champion Milwaukee
Braves bunting early and of
ten at Bradenton, Fla., but
General Manager John Quinn
is still having his signing
trouble. No less than 13
Braves were unsigned. . .Ken
Lehman, slender lefty who
had an 8-3 record last season,
signed with the Baltimore Or
ioles for an estimated $4,000
raise.
Dick Drott, who won 15
games and struck out 170 bat
ters as a rookie last season, is
expected to report to the Chi
cago Cubs at Mesa, Ariz., to
day. .. .Outfielder Lou Skizas
agreed to terms with the De
troit Tigers, . leaving only
Charley Maxwell unsigned.
. . .Pitcher George Susce Jr.,
was placed on the Boston Red
Sox' holdout list but showed
up a few minutes later with
his signed contract in his
pocket.
The New York Yankees'
holdout list was reduced to
six players today with the
signing of pitchers Bob Grim
and Johnny Kucks.
R. F. GUGGENHEIM,
Business Executive, San
Francisco, Calif. "I've
never before felt, such
comfort and pride of
possession."
The trend is
after the two hurlers arrived for spring
training at Bradenton, Fla. Kaiser recently
was traded to the Braves by Chicago Cubs.
Youth Burned As
Rocket Explodes
Portland (IP) Allister
MacPherson, 20, a young
rocket fancier, was severely
burned Monday night when
a military rocket he was un
loading exploded. and burned
in the basement of his south
west Portland home. The
house was damaged by fire.
He suffered burns over
much of his body and was
taken to a hospital.
MacPherson said he was
not certain what caused the
explosion. It might have been
the result of a spark or fric
tion.
The home was filled with
acrid smoke and firemen
wore masks in combating the
resulting basement blaze that
caused an estimated $75000
damage to the house.
A friend, John Robinson,
said MacPherson had obtain
ed a box of military rockets
from a surplus store in Olym
pia and was taking the pow
der out of one to render it
harmless for a rocket lecture
he had been invited to give.
KEEP NAME SECRET-
Frankfurt,. Germany (111
Prince Rainier and Princess
Grace of Monaco have chosen
the name for their expected
second child but are keeping
it a "state secret," Mrs. Mar
garet Kelly of Philadelphia
said today. Mrs. Kelly, moth
er of Princess Grace, arrived
Monday from Monaco for a
10-day visit. Her parents
were born in Germany.
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Willamette Narrows
Gap in NW Circles
By UNITED PRESS
Willamette closed the gap
in the Northwest Conference
basketball race Monday night
by trimming Whitman while
Linfieid was losing to College
of Idaho.
After the eastern invasion
in which both Oregon teams
lost two out of three games,
Bonneville, Copco
Make Power Pact
Richmond, Va. Arrange
ments have been completed
whereby Bonneville Power
administration will transmit
over its lines power supplied
by California Oregon Power
company to the Reynolds
Metals company aluminum
smelting plant at Troutdale,
Ore.
Reynolds has become the
largest industrial user of pri
vate power in the area. The
contract between Bonneville
and Copco makes available
for purchase by Reynolds 65,
100 kilowatts of firm power
with the amount to be in
creased on July 1, 1959 to 95,
200 kilowatts. The contract
extends until June 30, 1973.
Bonneville will continue to
supply additional power to
the Troutdale plant and to a
similar facility operated by
Reynolds at'Longview, Wash.
Debbie Reynolds
Has Second Child
Hollywood (IP) Actress
Debbie Reynolds was "doin'
fine" today at St. Joseph's
hospital in nearby Burbank
where her second, child, a
son, weighing 8 pounds and
7V& ounces, was born Mon
day. Her husband, singer Eddie
Fisher, was so confident the
child would be a boy he sent
a box of "It's A Boy," cigars
to an NBC rehearsal stage
while he waited for the
birth.
Fisher had been forced to
miss rehearsal for his show.
The boy was born shortly af
ter noon. The couple has a
daughter, Carrie Frances, 1.
GENERAL WEDS
Santa Barbara, Calif. (IP)
Gen.' Ear le E. Partridge, com
manding general of the Air
Defense command, Colorado
Springs, Colo., was wed here
Monday to Mrs. Elizabeth
Cowles.
BETTY M. HARRIS,
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Tenn. "Drives and
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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN"
Liiniieia suu noias a narrow
half-game lead with a 9-4
mark to 9-5 for the Salem
team.
Willamette, with one con
ference game left, just about
had to come through Monday
night. And the Bearcats did
that by downing Whitman 85-
75 as they sank 31 out of 44
free throws. Willamette's Vic
Backlund led all scorers with
24 while Tom Johns had 23.
Linfieid took a 93-86 beat
ing from College of Idaho
which hasn't lost on its home
floor in a conference game
this season. Bill Machamer.
who had 38 points against
Whitman Saturday night, had
just 8 Monday night. Jackie
Riley had 22 for Linfieid
while Don Moore hit 21 for
the winners.
HABITUAL GENEROSITY
Towner, N.D. (IP) An
empty cream bottle was left
on the counter of a store here
for about 24 hours. When a
clerk noticed it, he found it
jingling with almost a dollar
in "contributions." The bottle
has gone back to the cream
ery; the change went to the
March of Dimes.
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Man Arrested for
Theft of Speaker H
Ashland Bert Leroy John
son, 20, of 120 Jeannette st
Medford, was arrested by;
Ashland city police earlj;
Sunday morning on a charge
of petty theft. -?
Johnson, who was turned
over to Jackson county sher
iff's officers, is charged with
the theft of a speaker from
Lithia drive-in theater last
year.
Poughkeepsie, N.Y. (IP)
Dr. Ervin S. Acel, a United
States Olympic fencing tearm
member in 1928, died Mon--day
at the age of 69. He was
president of Ervin S. sAcel.
Inc., an advertising firm ift
New York City.
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