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irsgoii Prep Tracksters gt Sports World on Ear By HOWARD APPLEGATE United Press Sporls Wriler Portland OP A couple of young prep -athletes have set the Oregon track and field work on its ear this spring. They're already talking about a 3:50 mile in the future for one. The other is the fast est sprinter in Oregon high school history. The miler is Dyrol Burle son, a 17-year-old from Cot tage Grove high school. The sprinter is Jim Puckett, a tiny kid from a high school in east ern Oregon so small that even some Oregonians never have heard of it. Puckett did the 100-yard dash in 9- 5 twice. Coaches High on Miler Burleson, on April 25 at Corvallis, ran the fastest high school mile in history 4:13-2. This came two weeks after he ran a winning 4:16.9 against a collegiate field in the annual Willamette relays at Salem. "There's no reason why he can t be one of the great milers," says Eldon Fix, track coach at Lewis and Clark col lege here. Bill Bowerman, who has brought the Univer sity of Oregon up among the leaders in collegiate track, & i -V f..Tj;a T1" . ,. saw S' f y v, 'S 1 '4T"j 4 SLIDING INTO SECOND on a double is Los Angeles Dodg er Gino Cimoli as Pittsburgh's Bill Mazeroski waits for ball. Dodgers won 9-5 and snapped Pittsburgh's winning streak t six straight. (International Soundphoto) Fanfare By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Sports Editor 5 POTT yyTX OSCAR FRALEY Parade 'AJ-jrT por Writtr VII UUC United Press thinks the youth has a great future and is capable right now of even better than his sensational 4:13.2. Since many milers don't J reach their peak until their mid-20s, there is talk of per haps a fabulous 3:50 for Burleson some day. Puckett performed a 9.5 hundred on April 19 in a meet among small eastern Oregon schools. He did it again May 2. Not Slate Mark He attends Cove high school and first attracted Oregon in terest last year when he was timed in 9.9 for the hundred. When he was first timed in 9.5 three stop watches were on the same mark and the course was measured for accuracy afterwards. There was no wind. Pukett did 9.4 with a 15- mile per hour wind at his back. Ironically, his mark does not go down as an official Oregon prep record. They have to set the marks at state meets, under state rules. The state record of 9.9 was set back in 1934 by a fellow named Bobby Grayson of Jef ferson high, Portland, fullback at Stanford. It has been tied only since in a state meet. A complete dual track meet schedule among Southern Ore gon conference teams was sug gested Saturday at the Med Cord high-Klamath Falls en gagement. We've felt for some years that such a program would be a good one. It not only would provide another championship to seek, along with those of the Rogue relays and District 6 A-l meet, but it would help solve scheduling difficulties. If the state meet continues to be held at the end of May, where it was moved thissea on, there'll be plenty of veefc ends to run off such a late. We think the idea worth discussion next Satur day when a conference meet ing will be held at Crater High school in Central Point The meeting at Central Point will concern mostly the fall and winter sports pro gram of the league schools, particularly junior varsity and freshman slates. It is set for 10 a.m. PELS NET CHAMPS When Klamath Union High school tennis learn de feated Ashland once and Medford twice last week end, it sewed up the South ern Oregon conference championship. Attention is now focused on the district tournament at Medford this week end. EARLIER GRID PRACTICE Oregon high schools will be permitted to begin .football practice on Aug. 24 if the delegate assembly of the Ore gon School Activities associa tion approves a constitutional amendment at its spring meeting. - The amendment results from sentiment in various sec tions of the state that practice time prior to the first game of the season should be length ened by a week to enable players to get in better condi tion. Under the proposed amend ment no football game would be allowed until the second Friday in September. Under the present regulation grid practice may start on Monday of the week in which Sept. 1 occurs and the first game is allowed after two weeks of practice. The new Aug. 24 starting date would refer to any school activity practice. MOST VALUABLE Jack Brown, now pitch ing baseball for Southern Oregon college, won most valuable player honors sev eral years back while com peting for Sturgate Air Force Base in England in a basketball championship play-off. There were 40 Army and Air Force teams entered in four leagues and the top team in each league vied in the titular tourney. Brown's learn was runner-up. NILES PICKS OSC Bob Niles, who was captain of Klamath Union High school's state championship basketball team this year, has announced he'll attend Oregon State college. Bob, who now stands 6 feet 6 inches, attend ed Medford schools through the ninth grade. Two stellar Grants Pass high trackmen, Jim Maryott and Chuck Rembert, said re cently that they had OSC in mind for collegiate careers. TRIPLE PLAY John Kjos, first baseman for Wilson high in the Port land Interscholasxic league, came up with one of those real rarities last week. He made an unassisted triple Play. HEART OPERATION ON TV New York TP) New York ers will see a heart operation on television tonight spon sored by the Nw York Heart association. The operation will be performed on a Chinese American girl, Mabel Chin, 31 2, who was born with a de fect which makes her heart pump harder than normal. Boy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Flues, Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrews Ph. SP 2-4107 Women Molested On Portland Streets Portland (ffl Three women were molested in the southwest district early today and police said the descrip tions given by all three women matched a description of a purse snatcher reported Mon day night. Mrs. Hazel Stevenson was robbed of her purse as she was getting into her car at Southwest Fourth Avenue and Mill Street. The three women who reported they were mo lested frightened their assail ant away with screams or auto horns and were not harmed. The first cigar factory in the United States was opened in 1810 In Suffield, Conn., by Simeon Viets. owling ELKS BOWLING LEAGUE . W. L. Alley-Gators 42 26 Lively Five 41li 262 Miss. Fits 40 28 Go-Boys 37 31 Gypos 36 32 Medics 34 34 Adairs 32 36 Cementers 31 37 P.ER.'s 29,i 38li Wallflowers . 17 51 Results: Cementers 0 (McCall 526) 2116; Miss. Fitts 4 (Gardner 547) 2504. Adairs 4 (Barber, Dick 533) 2314; Pi.R.'s 0 (C. Norris 494) 2168. Gypos 2 (Chase 488) 2036; Go- isoys (Morgan soi) 2137. Wallflowers 1 (Erickson 443) 2037; Medics 3 (DeLorme 450) 2080. Alley-Gators 3 (Veal 526) 2358: Lively Five 1 (C. Proctor 526) 2144. CLASSIC BOWLING LEAGUE w. r. Oak Knoll Golf Course 47 21 E. H. Mann Co 41 27 Morse Motors 38 30 Trail Creek Lumber Co. 36 32 Hight Real Estate 34 34 Sam's Sporting Goods 31 37 Lamport's SporUng Good? 30 38 Hillyer Oil Co 28 40 Henry's Broiler 28 40 Sewing Machine Center 27 41 Results: Hight Real Estate 3 (Bill Meyers 655) 2682; Sam's Sporting Goods 1 (swede parson obu) 25bi. E. H. Mann Co.-3 (Andy. Ander son 616) 2789; Hillyer Oil Co. 1 (Frank Knox 606) 2670. Trail Creek Lumber Co. 3 (Ted Jantzer 631) 2791; Oak Knoll Golf Course 1 (Marsh Ramsby 607) 2687 Lamport's Sporting Goods 3 (Sam van Dyke 56B) 2592: sewing Ma chine Center 1 (Dick Weber 592) 2490. Morse Motors 3 (Frank Dris coll 559) 2662; Henry's Broiler 1 Bill Blunt 520) 2515. Two men hit better than 250 Monday evening. Bill Meyers. Toll ing with Hight Real Estate came up with a big 289, the biggest game of the year in the Classic League. Chas. McWhorter of E. H Mann Co. hit a big 257. Meyers had high series for the evening with a baa. PILOTS POST VICTORY Tacoma (IP) University of Portland's strong golf team made it 11 straight Monday by defeating College of Puget Sound 15-3. Vince Altenhofen again was the Pilot medalist with a par 72. By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer New York API It was a medical consultation in a cem etery. This was the room, still decorated with mementoes of the past, from which the desti nies of the Brooklyn Dodgers were guided for so many years. Only now two solemn doctors sat behind the desk once occupied by a pair of beaming baseball barons named Branch Rickey and Walter O'Malley. And neither of them gave Roy Campanella much chance of ever walking again. "Total recovery would be very unusual," said one as they announced that the for mer Dodger catcher, para lyzed in a January 28 auto accident, had been transferred from a suburban hospital to a New York rehabilitation center. Three Months Long "Three months is a long time," he added. "If he re gains no more function than he has now, he could never walk again even with braces." It was a somber setting. Rain beat a dull dirge against the windows of the office on Brooklyn's Montague Street. The large, glass-topped desk was barren of the little per sonal items it bore in the days when the loquacious Rickey and the smiling O'Mal ley held forth from behind it. There were a lot of ghosts in the room as the doctors told softly how Campanella, 1 three months after his injury, j still can move only his shoul ders, elbows and wrists. This was the room where roly-poly Roy's voice squeak ed high and merry every time he held court at contract-signing time. This was the room where he cried when Rickey told him, back in the long ago, that he was being returned to the minors to break the color line in the American Associa tion. "There is no way to tell how far back he can come," the doctors admitted. Roy came back when Rick ey sent him out. Came back to play a major part in five Brooklyn pennants and its only world .championship. The gold-embossed ceritfi cates which proclaim those triumphs of the past still hang behind the big walnut desk even though the Dodgers are 3,000 miles away in Los An geles and Campy lies motion less in a hospital bed just across the East River in Man hattan. Even If . . . But, they hinted, Roy will be a long time coming back this time if he ever does make it. , "Ten years ago he would have spent the rest of his life in bed," one of them injected a hopeful note. "But now we will work out self-help de vices for his hands so that possibly he can feed himself and maybe, eventually, even type and live a useful life." There's a long fight ahead of him, longer and harder than any he ever faced at SPORTS nearby Ebbets Field, now an other empty monument to the team which made him a na tional figure. They'll brace his neck and shoulders and put him on a tilt board to try to get him on his feet. "But there is no muscle function below the shoulders and he has sensation only in termittently as far as the groin," the doctor warned. Not a very bright picture but, knowing Campy, there is always hope. Not too much, possibly, and yet he has a chance. That's all he ever asked in this room filled with spectres or anywhere else. Huskies Drop Ducks Out of First in ND Eugene nn The Wash ington Huskies knocked the Oregon Webfoots out of the top spot in the Northern Di vision baseball race Monday with an 8-3 thrashing here. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, May 6. 1938 7 Posison ivy's clusters of waxy white fgruit, resembling bayberry, provide food for more than 50 species of birds. There are about 38,000 va rieties of mushrooms, which about 1,000 are fit for human consumption. Local Men Top Jaycee Links Tiff Glen Keyes and Alan Holmes, Medford, took team low net honors, Holmes the low gross prize and Bob Shan gle individual low net Sunday in the Oregon State Junior Chammber of Commerce Golf tournament at Rogue Valley Country club. Keyes and Holmes netted 157 and Shangle 73. Holmes had a 79 gross. Other team scores were Ken Jenson and George Gant 163 and Chuck Robbins and Jim Lawrance, Lake Oswego, 180 net. , Huskie hurler George Krit sonis scattered 10 hits for his second victory of the season against no losses. Ron Whit taker gave up most of the 11 hits to Washington and took the loss. The Webfoot defeat slipped them half a game behind Ore- j gon State, now in first place. Idaho defeated Washington I State 5-3 in another Northern j Division game Monday. The victory was Washing ton's third in eight games. The Huskies started off with two runs in the first inning, including a triple by George Grant. He stole home. They added four more in the fourth with Floyd Harl ington hitting a two-run single and Don Daniels hom ering with one man aboard. Oregon finally scored in the seventh after a double by Jim Rice and a triple by Ed Grier. Larry Hughes capped the Huskie scoring in the eighth by doubling in two runs. Watch For ... 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