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,
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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.
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on television tonight spon
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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