Bryan Winner in Death-Marred
500-Mile Race at Indianapolis
BY ED SAINSBURY
United Presi International
Indianapolis (UPI Speed
way winner Jimmy Bryan
Saturday night took home an
alKtime record $105,564, his
principal loot for coming
home first in the 42nd annual
500-mile Memorial Day auto
race.
The cigar-chewing Arizona
cowboy received the lion's
share of $305,217 also an all
time high at the victory
dinner.
IN DRAG RACES TODJY Gerald Fan
ger, in the driver's seat, and Noel Black are
shown with the Swiftens' dragster which
they operate under sponsorship of OK Rub
ber Welders. The speedy machine will be
among entrants today in the Southern Ore
gon Timing association drag races at the
SOTA Drag
Race Today
Drivers under 21 years of
age who plan to enter the
drag races at Camp White
strip today are reminded that
they must have waivers with
"them which release Southern
Oregon Timing association
from financial responsibility
in case of accident.
Statements to the effect,
signed by parents or guardi
. ans, will be sufficient. I
SOTA's first drags of the
season are scheduled with
time trials between 10 . a.m.
and noon and the first race
a short while later.
Races are open to the pub
lic for an admission fee. A
concessions stand will be in
: operation.
The strip is seven miles
; from Medford in west Camp
White. Signs will mark the
way from the highway "Y" in
the north part of Medford,
Oregonian
Top Skipper
Victoria, B.C. (UPI) The
. 47-foot sloop Buccaneer of
Vancouver, B.C. took an early
lead today in the annual In
ternational Swiftsure Yacht
race.
R. W. Baker sailed the sloop
. up the Strait of Juan de Fuca
Friday night and was widen
ing her lead by the house.
The Buccaneer's closet riv-
. als were the Seattle yacht
Strada, followed by Kate Tw
and Diamond Head.
The boats were expected
to round the Swiftsure light
ship this morning and return
to the finish line here late
: this afternoon.
: Last year's winner, the Se
attle yawl Maruffa, which had
been favored to repeat, made
a poor start and was far be
hind the leaders.
Oregon Boat
Wins Race
Provo (UPI) Rocky
- Stone cf Willamina, skipped
' his hydroplane and runabout
- over choppy waters of Utah
; lake here Friday to take three
T first places in the annual Me-
- morial Day regatta.
- The event is sponsored by
the Provo Boat club.
; Hundreds of spectators lined
. the shore alcng the racing
; course despite threatening
"weather, which unleashed a
rain and wind storm midway
' through the seven-event re
gatta.
Weather also forced officials
to exchange the mile-long
plotted course for a quieter
one within the Provo harbor.
Other first places went to
Harold Hurley, Idaho Falls,
Idaho, crackerbox class; Wil
liam Wallace, Seattle, Wash.,
D runabouts; and D hydro
planes stock; Gary Peterson,
Salt Lake City, B hydro
planes. Pilots Capture
Tennis Diadem
. Portland (UPI) Umver-
f PnrtlnH won the Dis-
B1.J . . -
trict 2 NAIA tennis cham
pionship here Friday by post
ing a straight set win over
Oregon College. Lewis and
Clark and Portland State fail-
ed to sena iccuua uc uicci.
The previous record was
$300,252 last year, of which
winner Sam Hanks got
$103,844.
This year's total jackpot in
cluded $193,667 from the
Speedway, $53,550 in acces
sory awards, $30,000 lap
prizes and $28,000 in entry
fees.
Bryan's total included $60,
849 from the management and
$20,850 in lap prizes, he led
139 of the 200 laps.
Race Driver Charged
With Bad Judgment
Indianapolis, Ind. (UPI)
Driver Ed Elisian was sus
pended from competition in
the United States Auto club
sanctioned races today for
"bad judgment" in connection
with a 16-car collision which
killed Pat O'Connor during
the first lap of he 500-mile
race which Jimmy Bryan
U.W. Crew
Sprints to
Clowe Win
Seattle (UPI) The Uni
versity of Washington varsity
crew, stroked by John Sayre
edged out the University of
British Columbia in a thrilL
ing 2,000 meter duel on Lake
Washington today with a time
of 6:05.6.
Winning over the sprint dis
tance meant the Huskies will
travel to England to compete
in the Royal Henley regatta
against some of the world'
finest racing crews. Husky
Coach Al Ulbrickson had
promised to take his varsity
to England if they were vic
torious in all regular season
contests. Ulbrickson has
tabbed this year's crew as
among the best in Washing
ton's long rowing history, and
he wanted to take his rowers
to England because Washing
ton is ineligible for NCAA
competition.
The Oregon State College
shell, stroked by Carl Mohr
who was flipped from the boat
when he caught a "crab" near
the end of the varsity race.
finished well back of the two
pace-setters.
The winning time was well
off the course record of 6:00.4,
but the race was rowed with
a headwind in choppy waters
over the first half of the
course and the finish line had
been extended so that the race
actually was a . little more
than 2,000 meters.
How Now In
Second Win
Inglewood, Calif. (UPI)
Speedy How Now scored his
second straight stakes victory
of the Hollywood Park meet
ing Saturday, capturing the
$27,950 Hollywood Express
by better than a length as he
came through on the rail to
find racing room.
The five-year-old Texas-
bred gelding ran down the
pace-setting Betty Rose, only
filly in the five and a half fur
long speed test and pulled
away as he approach&l the
finish.
The victory came two
weeks after How Now won
the $50,000 Los Angeles Hand
icap for his biggest victory
and the son of Beau Max
proved that victory was no
fluke by coming back with his
win today.
How Now raced the short
distance of the Hollywood Ex
press in 1:03 35, more than
a second off the track and
world's record of 1:02 25 set
last year by . Porterhouse in
the same race. The aging Por
terhouse made his first start
since last winter Saturday
but finished out of the money.
Indianapolis, Ind. (UPI)
The worst start in "500" his
tory preceded the worst
smashup the event has ever
had, and national driving
champion Jimmy Bryan rode
the middle of the whirlwind
through both of them to win
the richest race of them all.
Bryan's victory came be
cause of his relentless pace,
mostly over 140 miles per
hour, for the last 180 laps af
ter the field was slowed to 107
miles per hour for 20 laps due
SOTA strip in west Camp White. The drag
ster turned better than 132 miles per hour
at Redding, Calif., recently and exceeded
128 mph last Sunday in a practice run.
Time trials today start at 10 a.m. and first
race is to be around 12:30 p.m.
won.
Duane Carter, director of
competition for the USAC,
announced Elisians suspen
sion pending action of the
board of directors. Carter said
in his opinion Elisian was
"guilty of bad judgment" at
the ice's start. The suspen
sion implied that Elisian was
responsible for the crash, at
least in Carter's eyes.
Elisian said he was not in
formed of the suspension. He
said the wreck "could have
happened to anybody."
Mourn Death
Bryan won the Indianapolis
Speedway's richest race in
history while drivers mourned
O'Connor's high-spedQL death
and sponsors of the race con
sidered disciplinary action
against Elisian and two other
heavy-footed pilots.
Bryan's triumph was con
firmed in official statistics
posted this morning at the
track where joy mingled with
gloom because O'Connor was
killed and many cars were
disabled on the first lap of the
most violent race in 42 years
of Memorial Day classics, o
Chief Steward Harlan Fen-
ler of the United States Auto
ub, official sponsor of the
race, said he is considering
discipline for Dick Rathmann
Ed Elisian and Jimmy Reece
because their front-row cars
in the 33-car starting field
went ahead of the pace car.
"I have to get all the infar-
mation first and investigate
before I'll come to a decision,
Fengler said. However, he ab
solved Elisian of blame in the
connection with the multiple-
car crash.
"The man had a Tight to
race ancFapparently thought
he could get by Rathmann
when the unfortunate acci
dent occurred," Fengler said,
O
Trouble Seen
On Park Site
NEW YORK (UPI) A Los
Angeles civic official who was
one of the prime movers in
inducing the Dodgers to move
to California was quoted Sat
urday as saying that Walter
O'Malley faces "nothing but
grief" in his efforts to acquire
Chavez ravine as a ballpark
site.
The New York. Daily News,
in a dispatch from Los An
geles by baseball writer Dick
Young, quoted Kenneth Hahn,
a member of the county board
of supervisors, as saying that
even if the Chavez ravine ref
erendum is approved in next
Tuesday's voting, further ob
stacles lie ahead for O'Malley.
The 15-man Los Angeles
council passed a proposal last
year to turn over 300 acres of
Chavez ravine to O'Malley in
exchange for Wrigley Field
and other future concessions
in the ravine. However, pub
lic opposition developed and
now the proposal is up for
referendum on June 3.
England's Severn River,
flowing 210 miles to the Bris
tol Channel, is linked by can
als with the Thames and the
Mersey.
Seagulls that swoop down
and carry off golf balls cause
trouble at a golf club in Eng
land's South Devon.
SPORTS
to a 16-car collision in which
eight cars wer eliminated and
driver Pat O'Connor was
killed.
Bryan will receive his re
ward for his daredevil driv
ing tonight at the annual vic
tory banquet and he'll prob
ably pick up about $110,000
to exceed the previous roccrd
purse for the winner.
Bryan rode home in front
in the same car in which Sam
Hanks won last year. It was
the fourth time a vehicle has
triumphed two years in a
row.
Had Fierce Competition
Bryan led the race for 139
of its 200 laps, including the
final 75 despite a hard chase
by runner-up George Amick,
Venicle, Calif., and Johnny
Boyd, Fresno, Calif. Boyd
trailed by less than a second
at one point, but a 24-second
pit stop for a tire and fuel left
him too far behind.
Bryan averaged 133.791
miles per hour, Amick 133.517
and Boyd 133.099.
Every one of the leading
sextet was involved in the 16-
car crash, which came on the
northeast turn on the first lap.
None of them was a factor in
the race.
The start was horrible.
The field had been sched
uled to make two pace tours
of the 2V-mile oval track be
fore the signal to race. In
stead, Dick Rathmann, Ed
Elisian, and Jimmy Reece,
ran away from the field on
the first lap.
Start Was-" Ragged
Before the pack was even
together to start, the three
front - runners had gone
around four times and the 30
other cars three times. They
got away to a ragged start
with hardly any alignment.
Rathman said he was lead
ing into the turn when Elisian
moved inside of them, then
spun outward to whip both
cars against the wall.
The combined wreckage re
bounded onto the track as
Reece whacked into it. O'Con
nor, riding iiuthe second row,
zoomed over the pileup into
the wall, then bounced back
upside down and skidded
down the track in flames.
The 29-year-old North Ver
non, Ind., driver, who last
year won the pole position for
the race, was dead when he
was removed from the3 car,
the 11th driver to die in the
500 mile race.
He was the first fatality
during the race since 1955
when Vukovich, who has won
the previous twoyears, was
killed in a similar crash.
Tony Bettenhausen, Tinley
Park, 111., was fourth, Rath
mann, Miami, Fla., finished
fifth.
Sporis Bulletin:
Modesto, Calif. (UPI)
University of California's
sprint medley relay team,
anchored by the great Don
Bowden, set a new national
record Saturday night in
the sprint medley relay
with a time of 3:18.8 at the
California relays.
Webb Gets
Split Nod
Miami Beach, Fla. (UPI)
Middleweight contender Spi
der Webb, who won a split
decision over Jimmy Beecham
Friday night, said today he
would go through with a Lon
don fight June 24 despite a
more attractive offer.
Webb's manager, Hector
Knowles, rejected an offer to
meet second - ranking Joey
Giardello at San Francisco,
June 30, in order to carry
out the Spider's London con
tract for a fight with Nigerian
Dick Tiger.
In Friday night's TV 10-
rounder at the Miami Beach
Auditorium, upright Webb of
Chicago set a fast pace
throughout; but the low-
bobbing Beecham of Miami
Beach gave him an unexpect
edly hard fight.
The Spider, weighing 160
pounds to Beecham's 161, won
the votes of the two judges
on a 10-point basis; but. Ref
eree Cy Gottfried had Beech
ira ahead, 98-95. Judge Carl
Gardner favored Webb, S'S-94,
and Judge Gus Jacobs agreed
9 V-95. The United Press Inter
national liked Webb, 97-94.
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GAME MAN RETIRES Bert Peck, above, retired Saturday
after 17 years with the Oregon State Game commission. He
has been a foreman of the commission's fish screen construc
tion plant at Central Point for eight years and is shown here
inspecting a screen at the plant. Peck has been a resident of
Central Point since 1917. N
Camp White
Down Riddle
Clash at Prospect Today
Memorial Stadium, Camp
White Camp White, tuning
for rivalry in the Rogue Val
ley Baseball league, disposed
of one member of the circuit
in Friday night exhibition
and played another league en
try in a practice game on Sun
day. The Veterans Administra
tion domiciliary sponsored
crew blanked the newly-organized
Riddle aggregation
12 to Oin the fracas here. It
will travel tcrProspect for the
2 p.m. Sunday tussle. Formal
league play begins next Sun
day. 1
Pitcher Don Sanford twirled
twirled a 15-strikeout five
hitter and yielded only one
walk in tossing the VAD vic
tory on Friday. His teammates
went errorless in eight of nine
innings in the field Manager
Pete Hale slapped three hts,
two of them doubles in five
times up and scored three
runs for Camp White. Don
Wendt and Clyde Smith each
hit two for three and Smith
crossed for four runs. Chuck
Mairchant and Don Sanford
also had two hits apiece.
Almost Homer
Wendt smashecLthe ball to
deep left field forvhat would
have been a home run had he
not stumbled on his way be
tween third base and home
plate. He was tagged out as
e lay on the ground
Camp White started off
with three runs in the first
Preps Can Open
Gridiron Drill
On August 25
Corvallis (UPI) QOre
gon high school football
practice will start one week
earlier this year, on Aug.
25, as a result of a unani
mous vote here Friday by
the delegate assembly of
the Oregon School Activi
ties Association.
Schools may play their
first game this year on
Sept. 12.
The assembly also set
sites for the state basket
ball tournaments next year.
The A-l tourney will be
held again at MacArthur
Court in Eugene while the
A-2 contests will be held
at South Salem. The assem
bly will decide the locale
of the B tournament at its
meeting today. Both Bend
and Baker want the meet.
Bend, Redmond and
Prineville will form a new
subdivision from District 8,
A-l, into District 7.
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Dick James nad two hits in
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Pete Groce
Driver for
Thrill Show
Leaping motorcycles
through space, crashing them
through flaming board walls
at 60 miles an hour, and driv
ing cars at high speed in two
wheel ramp races, is all in a
days work for Pete Groce,
one of the dozen stunt-stars of
the Joie Chitwood Thrill
Show, which will appear at
Valley View Speedway at 8
p.m. on Wednesday, June 3.
Pete, who calls Columbus,
Ohio, his home, is a veteran
of 10 years with eastern thrill
shows, and this year is mak
ing his debut with the world
famed Chitwood organization.
Formerly a top A.M.A.
champion, he still holds many
track records for motorcycle
racing. He was the first rider
to leap a 'cycle from ramp
to ramp through a " flaming
loop.
Manages, Also
As though performing in
the show were not enough,
Groce also acts as track man
ager, seeing that the. show
moves along at just the right
pace, that the ramps and
other equipment is set in its
right place, and that the driv
ers and stuntmen work to
gether as a team.
In addition to all this, he
trains new members of the
troupe in the art of "hell
driving." The fact that the
two hour long Chitwood pro
gram is performed as though
by clock-work, without a lull
part due to the work of Pete
Groce.
Twenty-seven action-packed
events, ranging from the
"Slide, for Life" to the fea
tured 100-foot ramp to ramp
leap of a new 1958 car, per
formed by Miss Pat Jones,
should make up a thrilling
package for spectators
Wednesday.
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No-Hitter
By' United Press International
. The Yakima Bears are glad
Charlie Drummond has come
to town.
Drummond, a big fast-ball-er
recently sent to Yakima by
Pacific Coast League Vancou
ver, fashioned a no-hit, no
run' game Friday night as the
Bears won a 2-0 victory over
Lewiston in the second game
of a Northwest league double
header. Drummond fanned nine in
the nightcap after Yakima
had lost the first game 6-5 to
the league-leading Broncs. He
walked four.
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(UPI) Tim Holland, a 27-
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Rockville Centre, -N.Y., was
listed as the favorite today
for the British amateur golf
championship which gets un
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on Monday.
Although he never has won
a major title, Holland made
the biggest impression on the
canny and knowledgeable
Scotsmen, who has watched
all the practice rounds dur
ing the week.
Holland, one of 14 United
States golfers in the 200-man
field, first drew their atten
tion when he went around
the old St. Andrewscourse in
one under par 72 on Thurs
day. Just to prove that was
no fluke, the Long Island
champion then toured the
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