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G ITS IN STOCd C(&8 S&Cf Jack Keck Jr., is shown beside the car he'll be racing this Saturday night at the Valley View speedway under auspices of Dave and Vern Fraysher service of Medford. The program will open the season at the track just north of Ashland. Time trials are billed for 7 p.m. and the first race for 8 p.m. Cars in the races will be 1949 through 1953 models. SfQctt Cars' Racing P&y$ah Saturday Stocfc car racing for the 199 ffon opens Saturday nM, June 81, t th Valley fyiMi Speedway on mile &B& eX Ashland. then 29 cars are ex- a4 & fc in shape for the iala which will begin B nf.m. First of the races - rtart an hour later. SNci ears of the 1949-53 vintage ill race for a 5575 purse that will be split up be tween the top drivers in the final standings Races will feature such drivers as the father and son team of Jack Keck Sr. and M-W, Persons Win Sotbll League Tingles Willard Barnum and E. C. Brittsan "combined for a no hitter Monday evening as M and W Chain Saw squelched Medford Junior Chamber of Commerce 25 to 0 in a Jack son County Stball associa tion game at Camp White. Parsons Motors trimmed the Cheney Studs 8 to 1 on a one hiter by Ron Weatherford. Two games are set for Thursday at the Veterans Ad ministration diamond at Camp "VVhite.M and W will face the Bureau of Reclamation at 7 p.m. and the Rogue VSlley Dairy Maids play the Jaycees about 8:30 p.m. Chain Saw has two wins in the loop and the Bureau has won its only (?me-o M and W put over nine runs each in the first and fourth in nings Monday. Brittsan homered for M and W, Barnum had two doubles and Larry Slessler one two-baser. Jr., Louis Kurz, Ashland Fire Chief Chuck Davis, and a number of top drivers from around the area. Many of these drivers are veterans from the hard top races of years gone by. Racing of stock cars at Valley View marks the first time in a number of years that such races have been run. Stock cars have been a huge success in the Portland area, according to reports. In the time trials each car will get two laps. From them the post positions will be de termined for the various events. Races will include two or three heat races and a trophy dash in addition to the main event of the evening. Results will be figured on a point system. Points will be tabu lated for the whole season. Top point getters at the end will receive trophies. The track is located just one mile north of Ashland off Highway 99 about one-quarter of a mile. People travel ing from Medford and that area must turn left just past the weighing station on the highway. There is plenty of parking and -the concession stand will be open during the entire pro gram with a variety of drinks and food. Park of P Hoe nix Giants Possible Home of Homers By BILL McFAHLAND United Press International Phoenix, Ariz (UPI) Pa cific Coast league pitchers must wonder, when playing in the Phoenix park, if to day's "rabbit" baseballs have a homing instinct, the way they're disappearing over fences in this desert mecca. At the rate the bunny ball is sailing over the garden walls, Phoenix is making a bid in baseball's record book at the home of the homers, and not Los Angeles' Coli seum, with its short left field foul line and high screen. There isn't so short a bar rier here as in the Dodger lot. The boundary lines on the square Phoenix park run 321 feet at the foul lines and 420 feet in dead centerfield. Most of the homers here aren't dis appearing at the foul lines. Many of them are Ruthian type swats that clear tall palm trees, and sometimes the 40 foot light standards, at the 385-foot marks in left and right "center. A total of 124 homers have been hit thus far, and the sea son is onlv half over. Phoe nix has hit 68 of its 97 hom ers in the home lot and the opposition has done well here, too, slapping 56 out of sight. Sound Theory There must be a season for it, and veteran pitcher Max Surkont, traded by Phoenix ROCKY TO REFEREE Boston (UPI) Former world heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano will be the third man in the ring at Sar gent field, New Bedford, on June 23 when former feath erweight champion Willie Pep meets Pat McCoy. Mar ciano also will serve as ref eree the following night at Athol for the Gordon Parker Lou Caroma bout. Baseball Video Out of Hand, Baxasi Claims Los Angeles (UPI) Tele vising of big league baseball is getting out of hand, in the opinion of E. J. (Buzzy) Ba vasi, vice president and gen eral manager of the Los An geles Dodgers. Speaking of the flood of Na tional league games that are being beamed into New York from Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and St. Louis since the Dodg ers and Giants have moved to the Pacific Coast, Bavisi de clared: "It's now a beer war back there. And it's not a healthy situation. "I'm not against the tele vising of a limited number of games. It always has been our attitude that the home club should do what it wants with television. "But I never thought we'd go this far. You are giving your show away for nothing when you over-televise. You are making it too easy for people to see ball games for free." "TV has its place. It makes fans and, in that respect, helps baseball. But you can't af ford to saturate the market," he said. to Seattle earlier in the year, has a pretty good theory. Max says it's not the light air or the fences in Phoenix that make the curve balls hang fbr the hitters to blast, although the lighter air of fers lees resistance to a hard hit ball. My curve broke well at Phoenix, but 1 think the key factor for the homeruns in Phoenix is the baseballs," said Max. "They're drier in Phoenix "Because there is so little humidity, and the tempera tures go so high," adds Max, "the baseballs dry out and become harder than other places. Those dry, hard balls leap off bats faster and far ther in Phoenix than any- wheae else I've pitched." Statistics Add Proof Surkont's theory is well borne out by the statistics provided by Coast league headquarters here. That Phoenix total of 124 homers far outdistances the rest; but Salt Lake, another desert area city, is second, with 60 homers hit there, 30 by the Bees and 30 by the opposition. Another dryland club, Spokane, is next in line with 37, 19 by the Indians and 18 by the opposition. San Diego's mark is 35, with 22 by the home club. Only 22 have been hit out of Mult nomah Stadium in Portland, whale 31 have been lost at Sacramento and 30 at Van couver. Seattle, right in the middle of the Northwest mois ture belt, has had the least lost fair balls seven by the home team and 17 by the opponents. At the rate Phoenix is go ing, it looks like a cinch to break the Coast league rec ord for homers in a season 202, set by the Steve Bilko led Los Angeles Angels in 1958. SPORTS Jim Foxx Happy At Minneapolis Minneapolis (UPI) Jimmy Foxx, the hall of fame member the Boston Red Sox hired last winter, is hap py as a rookie with his job with the Minneapolis Mil lers of the American associ ation. Foxx, 50, has been under a doctor's care the past few weeks with "fluctuating blood pressure." : "It's not being back in uniform, though, that's rais ing the pressure, it'a" hered itary," he said. "I couldn't be happier with my work." And his bosses are well pleased with the famous slug ger in his new role as hit ting coach and goodwill man for the Millers, the Red Sox' Triple-A farm club. Foxx was invited to join Salt Lake Top Hitter San Francisco (UPI) Car los Bernier, fleet Salt Lake City outfielder, batted exact ly .368 his season's average in seven games last week to retain the Pacific Coast League hitting leadership, ac cording to statistics released today and including Sunday's games. Bernier has appeared in 58 games, collected 81 hits in 220 trips to the plate. He has clout ed eight homers and knocked in 41 runs. Team-mate Dick Stuart leads in homer with 26 and runs-batted-in with 69. The pitching leader, On an earned-run average, is Gordon Sundin of Vancouver, who has allowed only .209 runs per nine innings while winning four and losing three. Seven wins have been post ed by four hurlers: Dick Hsn lon, Spokane; Art Ceccarelli, Vancouver; and Don Zanni and Ernie Broglio of Phoenix. Marshall Bridges of Sacra mento leads in strikeouts with 82 in 88 innings. DODGERS SIGN THREE Los Angeles (UPI) The Los Angeles Dodgers an nounced Tuesday that they have signed three college players catcher-outfielder Conrad Munatones and Ernest Rodriguez, from UCLA, and outfielder Ron Cutter, from Wilmington, Ohio, college. Kid, Yama Vie This Evening Miami Beach (UPI) For mer welterweight champion Kid Gavilan is favored to whip tough Yama Bahama, the Bimini slugger who is out to kill the "keed's" comeback hopes in tonight's nationally televised 10-rounder. The odds were about 12-5 for the Cuban bolo puncher, but were expected to change before fight time at the Miami Beach auditorium. Mike Monroe Ousts No. 2 OGA Qualifier San Jose, Calif. (UPI) -A lone bandit robbed the First National bank of San Jose of $4,000 to $5,000 Tues day after handing teller Shir ley Reese, 26, a note reading Have gun, will shoot." the organization after it was learned he was out of a job and nearly destitute. "After the story about my financial problems I got a few job offers. Maybe I could be making more money," he said, "but just being back in baseball is good enough for me." --S2 o -0-7C7' J '' ,V" " ' 1 XyTty Indutlry't motkmiteoi j ' ' """ ' K Sy V. V Nk. Vj i hi ,r-imsd " j00Sj& Tri-Power tarburttion for tu Like to Corral Engineering's Hottest Advances? o . N ear in America offers so many "firsts" bold ideas that you'll soon sea influencing cars! Pontiac has them perfected for jrou now! But Pontiac engineers aren't satisfied x with being the newest. Even a casual inspection will show you quality and appointment details that peg it as today's biggest money's worth! ' surround you with Cvviw mf Steel a mil tinted model. Getitlie FA'CTS and You'll Get a PONTIAC America's Number (T) Road Ctr I trfHy Ptatt Glatt in iw) window " SEE YOUR LOCAL AUTHORIZED POWTIAC DEALEf - DEAN & TAYLOR PONTIAC CO . Portland (UPI) Two fa rorites lost out Tuesday in the opening round of match play at the Oregon Junior Golf championships. Mike Sweet, Nampa, Idaho, 1957 semi-finalists was upset by Kick Swan of Vancouver, Wash., who missed Boys' me dalist honors by one stroke Monday, was ousted by Mike Monroe of Medford., Jim u looie, meaaiist in the Junior division, barely got by Scott Bennett of Rose City, 1-up. Fred Taylor, the Boys' medalist, won on the 20th dale from Ken Huth of Oswego. Doug Olson Wins Defending Fee wee champ Mike Soran of Klamath Falls lost to Mike Truax of Salem on the 11th hole. Doug Olson of Medford, the Peewee me dalist, won his first match, 2 up over Charles Milne of Sa lem. Treasure Sullivan of Ash land, the Girls' medalist, de- Kcn Rosewall Faces Harrwig Forest Hills, N. Y. (UPI) Little Ken Rosewall of Aus tralia will be battlinc for the lead in the $15,000 tennis tournament of champions when he takes on fellow-coun tryman Rex Hartwig under the lights tonight. Rosewall currently i tied with defending champion Pan che Gonzales in the race for the top prize of $3,000." Each has won three straight with out a defeat. Gonzales is not scheduled to play tonight. Rosewall and Gonzales each picked up important victories Wednesday night. Rosewall defeated Frank Sedgman in one of the finest matches played to date. 6-4. 2-6. 6-3. while Gonzales gained his tri umph with a straight-set tri umph over Red Hartwig, 6-3, 6-3. feated Carole Hendrickson of Astoria, 4 and 3. Lynn Yturri of Ontario, turned in the hottest Boys' di vision round. He defeated Mike Cherry of Baker on the 11th hole and played the round out for a 69. Biff Lovett of Portland, 1957 Junior runner-up, was three under par in defeating Bob Hermanson of Vancouver, Wash., 6 and 5. Results of Rogue Valley Country club players m state junior tourney included: Juniors Stew Schroeder def. Stan Meussle, Portland, 2 and 1, championship flight; Tony Monroe def. Bob Cone, Vancouver, Wash., 7 and 6, second flight; Gary Miksche def. Joe Gilbert, Tualatin, 1 up, sixth flight. MAIL TRIBUNE, MeeW, Ortn, Weintder, June II, ItSt Boys Charles Allen lost 3 to 2 to Chuck Allen, Rose burg, championship flight; Stan Dowson lost to Dick Hop por, Portland, second flight; Steve Cummins def. Doug Morton, Portland, 3 and 1 in second flight; John Hamlin lost to Robert Lyman, La Grande, 5 and 4, fourth flight; Dick Knight lost to Bud Wed in, Chehalis, Wash., 2 and 1, s?xth flight; Larry Berg lost t Rich Hood, Vancouver, Wash., '3 and 2, 10th flight. Girls P a m Stacey def. Judy Casiato, Portland, 4 and 3. 1 WHO WAS OLOSST OXIN CHAMP? The oldeat boxer to hold a world champoi"Hip wat Robert Frometheu (Bob) FitzVimmon who held his J$htheavywight title un til t was 43 yotx 6 months ptd when h was defeated December 20, 1905. TOP THIS! T any reader mbmfttttii contrary proof .Tip Brady will send a signed, wallet-azeo diploma wrae ui DrlT TUIQ n thia naner Rax 575. Sauaalito. Calif Enclose aalf -addrae4. stamped envelope. CLEAN...CLEAN... 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