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MEDFORDJtWTRIBUNE srPdDntnrs Phoenix Splurges In Eighth To Dump Portland Beavers United Press International The Phoenix Giants, who could stand some extra wins to beef up their slim lead in the Pacific Coast league race. get a chance tonight when they host the lowly Sacra mento Solons in the opener of a three-game series. Manager Red Davis' collec tion of fence busters stayed ahead of Vancouver by two percentage points Sunday by rallying to down Portland, 8-5. But the Mounties hung right on their tail as they de feated Seattle, 7-0, on Erv Palica's six-hitter. Other Action Other PCL action saw San Diego wallop the last-place Solons twice, 9-5 and 7-3, in the day's lone twin bill while Salt Lake drubbed Spokane, 11-0, on Fred Green's two-hit ter in a night game. Bill Wilson smashed a three-run homer in the eighth inning as. Phoenix was scor ing four times to erase Port Hitting Led By Ashburn United Press International Richie Ashburn of .the Phillies, an old hand at col lecting base hits, was the new National league battling lead er today. Ashburn, who won the crown in 1955 with a .338 mark, brought his current average to .342 Sunday when be rapped out four hits in light trips in a doubleheader (gainst the Cubs. The 31-yeaf-old outfielder from Tilden, Neb., extended his hitting streak to 10 con secutive games by connecting safely in each contest. Phila delphia won the opener, 8-2, but lost the nightcap, 12-10. Shrine Grid Drill Opens Portland iliPD Drills open today for the State and Metropolitan football squads in preparation for the 11th annual Shrine football game scheduled for Aug. 16 in Mult nomah stadium. State Coach Lee Gustafson of Salem will hold drills for his team at the University of Portland and Tom DeSylvia of the Metros will drill his charges at Lewis and Clark college. Both skippers . say twice daily workouts are on tap with body contact sessions slated immediately. Len Matthews Ring Favorite New York IUPD Light weight Lenny Matthews, Phil adelphia's young knockout sensation, is favored at 3-1 to beat Steve Ward tonight in the summer's last TV fight at St. Nicholas Arena. Matthews, 19, seeks his 13th straight professional vic tory and his 12th knockout. Only Henry (Pappy) Gault, former U. S. bantamweight champion, lasted the distance against him. Ward, of Hartford, Conn., 23, is the junior welterweight champion of New England and has faced stiffer .opposition. The largest indoor swim ming pool in Canada is at Victoria. WHAT 15 THE WORLD'S SPEEDBOAT KECDRD ? In his jet-engmed Bluebird, Donald Campbell streaked over Comston water in h"ie native England, eept. 1956, at 286 miles on hour. On his return run he dropped speed to aver age 225.63 mph to break his world record of 26. 02 miles &et at Lake Vead.Nev. TOP TI1I.S! To any reader submitting or.tiary proof. Tip Brady will send a .. sj'ieu.jjialltt-iiieu diploma. Write to: FK.XT THIS, c o this paper. Box 575, ::uito, 'ailf. Knclne.- c:f.?flrlrxed. land's one-run lead and lift Curt Barclay to his eighth victory. The blow offset a three-run circuit clout by Ed Wenciniak which had put the Beavers on too durinr the previous frame. John Buz- hardt got the loss, his 10th. It also ended the year's series between the clubs which was won by Phoenix, 19 games to a mere three. Palica, who hurled for Brooklvn a decade ago. blanked Seattle for his 13th triumph of the year. A four- run blast in the first inning got the veteran right-hander off to a good start at the ex Dense of Ted Wieand who was KO'd by the Mounties in the same inning Saturday. Owen Friend's two-run double fea tured the uprising. Palica helped himself by singling home a run in the fifth. Three Homers By Glynn Bill Glynn, another ball player who has been around, broke out of a slump to crack three home runs while help ing San Diego cruise over the Solons twice. Glynn had gone hitless in 18 trips until Sun day. Then he hit a pair of two run homers in the opener and followed with a bases-empty clout in the nightcap. This gave him a total of five rbi's for the day. Eight pitchers ' worked in the game with Pete Wojey getting the win and Bob Ross the defeat. Then Bud Podbie lan bested Roger Bowman in the afterpiece. Dick Smith also homered for the Pads who held a 5-0 lead after two innings. Green allowed only two singles while fashioning his two-hitter for the Bees, struck out five, walked two and hit one. In the meantime, Salt Lake climbed on three Spo kane pitchers for 13 hits ana capitalized on seven inaian miscues. Kn Toothman led the at tack with three hits in five trios while Jim McDaniel hit a bases-empty homer in the third inning. t ivl'c f fin v ; - Phoenix 100 101 0418 14 2 Portland 010 000 3015 10 2 Barclay and jenKins; cuznarai. Garber 8 and Torney. Seattle 000 000 000 0 6 1 Vancouver .. 410 010 lOx 7 l u Wieand. Kennedy 8 and Bevan; Palica and White. ftst name') Sacramento 000 032 000 5 10 1 San Diego .... 010 000 53x ,ie u Watkins. Ross 7. OsenbauRh 7. Mesa 8 and Roselli: Spring. Wojey 6. Lary 8, Brodowski 8 and A. Jones. (2nd Game) Sacramento 000 102 0 3 8 0 San Diego 320 002 x 7 12 3 Bowman, Mesa 1, Kume 5 and Dalrymple; Podbielan and A. Jones. Salt Lake 001 052 210 11 13 0 Spokane .... 000 000 000 0 2 7 Green and Westerfield; Fowler, Palmquist 6, Millikin 7 and N. Sherry. Peter Collins Racing Victim Nuerburgring. Ger. (UPD Peter Collins, 27, an English auto racing driver who ranked fourth in this year's world championship standings, is the latest victim of Europe's blood-stained grand prix cir cuit. Collins died Sunday night of a fractured skull and brain injuries after his Ferrari ran amok during Sunday's Grand Prix of Germany and hurled him onto the Nuerburgring's concrete track. Britain's Tony Brooks won the race. New Subdivision Opens Up Locally Opening of the 'Bel Air Heights subdivision "on the wooded slopes east of Hill crest orchards, was announced today by A. C. Pierce and Vandagrift - Leever Whalin Realty company. The new subdivision is lo cated between Cherry lane Roxy Ann rd. This area will be one of Jackson county's, most exclu sive residential areas with tracts three-fourths 'of an acre and larger. Each tract will have views of the Rogue river valley and surrounding moun tains, according to Pierce. Greek Cypriot Killed by Gunman Nicosia, Cyprus (UPD Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a Greek Cypriot and seriously wounded another today in a new burst of vio lence in Nicosia. The shootings occurred in the Turkish quarter and brought to 10 the number of persons slain since Saturday. British troops' and police sealed off the area immediate- Dairy Maids Victors in 2 Tangles Early leads helped the Rogue Valley Dairy Maids to two week end decisions in women's Softball conflicts. The Rogue Valley aggrega tion edged the Roseburg Lum ber Jills 4 to 3 yesterday at Roseburg after trimming Shasta-Cascade All-Stars 6 to 3 Saturday night at Camp White. The action helped the Dairy Maids keep in tune for the women's state softball meet opening Thursday at Memor ial Stadium, Camp White. Tournament play will con tinue through next Sunday. Yesterday the Dairy Maids had a 4 to 0 gap after five cantos and the Jills cashed in in the sixth and seventh panels. They had a 5 to 0 jump on Saturday after four frames of the contest with the team made up of players from Redding, Red Bluff and Chico, Calif. Wall Homers Diane Wall homered, Bern ice Bigham tripled, Ellen Cal laghan doubled and Pat Bar ron hit twice in three times up for the Maids yesterday. Callaghan faced only nine batters in her three innings on the hill for Rogue Valley. She struck out six. Roseburg collected one of its four hits off Doris Hickson and three off Pat Barron. Hits by Wall and Callaghan, an error, two fielder's options and a ground out got three Maid runs in the first inning. Another scored in the second panel on singles by Pat Bar ron and Irma Penwell, a sac rifice by Nadine Brood and a steal home by Barron. In the fourth the Rogue Valley nine used safeties by Brood and Penwell and an error for score No. 5. Shasta-Cascade crossed the plate twice in the seventh in ning on a base on balls, two misplays and two fielder's op tions. The Maids picked up their last counter in the eighth' on singles by Callaghan and Bernice Bigham and a sacri fice flyout by Doris Hickson. Shoop tripled and Mary Fish singled for a ninth-frame Cali fornia counter. Five Hitter Barron gave up five hits to the visiting club. She struck out nine and walked three. Elsie Edwards yielded eight hits to the RV Maids. She is sued no free, passes and struck out no one. Callaghan and Penwell each had two hits for Rogue Val ley. Three double plays helped keep the Maids out of trouble. The California club loaded the bags with one out in the fourth inning. Barron struck out a batter and catches Jean Main and third basewoman Wall teamed to catch Dale Eades, who left third appar ently thinking the side had been retired on the strikeout. LINESCORES: Shasta-C'cade 000 000 201 3 3 3 Dairy Maids 310 100 Olx 6 .8 6 Edwards and Jones; Barron and Main. Dairy Maids .... 011 020 O 4 7 2 Roseburg 000 002 13 4 1 Callaghan. Hickson (4). Barron (6) and Main: Leonard and Dailey. Royals Increase International League Margin United Press International Relief pitchers Jackie Col lum of Montreal and Bobby Tiefenauer of Toronto may hold the key to this year's In ternational league pennant winner. Collum, ace trouble-shooter for the league-leading Royals, received credit for two more saves Sunday as Montreal downed Richmond twice, 7-2 and 2-0. Tiefenauer, relief specialist for the Leafs, -had only one chance to disDlav his talents Sunday as he set down a late Columbus rally enabling second-place Toronto to whip the Jets, 7-5. Montreal's twin sweep in creased its lead over the Leafs to a game-and-a-half. In other Sunday action, the last-place Buffalo Bisons won their sixth straight with an 11-2 thumping of Havana and Rochester set back Miami and Satchel Paige, 5-1. Joey Jay Gets Vote Cincinnati IUPD Pitcher Joey Jay, the one-time Little Leaguer now making it "big" with the Milwaukee Braves, today was named the Na tional league's "Player of the Month" 'for July. The strapping, 22-year-old r i g h t-hander currently is nursing a pulled tendon in his elbow, but there wasn't a thing wrong with him in July. His overall performance last month was such that he earn ed a clear-cut majority of votes from the 40 baseball writers and broadcasts who make up the selection com mittee. Jay received a total of 19 votes to 10 '2 for runnerup Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs. Fame Hall Tilt Today Cooperstown, N. Y. IUPD The Washington Senators and Philadelphia Phillies meet to day in the annual "Hall of Fame" exhibition game in this lakeside town where Gen. Abner Doubleday is said to have founded baseball. Usually the game 'between big-league teams follows in duction ceremonies for the Hall of Fame. But there are no players to be inducted into the hall this year. The annual vote by members of the Baseball Writers Assn. of America failed to give any individual the required percentage of ballots necessary for election. PLANE CRASH VICTIM Lausanne, Switzerland IUPD Gaston Mullegg, 68, Swiss industrialist who head ed the International Rowing Federation for the last 12 years, was killed Sunday in the crash of a three-seater plane. The sun has a magnetic halo for storing cosmic rays produced by solar flares, giant tougues of gas exploding from the sun's surface with the vio lence of millions of hydrogen bombs. Overall Ski Honor Won By Skinner Lon Skinner, Medford, loomed among top contenders for western regional honors when' he took men's overall laurels in the Northwest Sea- fair Water Ski tournament Saturday and Sunday at Se attle. The regional meet of the American Water Ski associa tion is slated Friday through Sunday, Aug. 9 through 10, at Gardener lake northeast of Medford. Skinner, topping a field of 51 at Seattle, was third in the slalom, third in tricks and ninth in the jump. . A good number of the entries in the Seafair event will be here for the regional. They were using the Seattle meet as a warm-up for the regional. Among those coming here will be Eric Giese, Seattle, and Mark Taggart, Denver, Colo., first and second in the slalom; Bill Barlow Jr., Pied mont, Calif, first in tricks; Knut Hauge, Denver, first in jump and second in tricks, and Rod Sampson, Seattle, second in the jump. Sampson Close Skinner nosed Sampson out 1998 to 1987 for overall. Tag gart was third with 1949 and Hauge fourth with 1890. Mar vin Rothenberg, Denver, 'who will also come here, was fifth with 1605. ' Sampson won men's overall at the Oregon water ski cham pionships held at Gardener lake last year. His fourths in the slalom and tricks made him a close second to Skinner in overall at Seattle. Giese is an 18-year-old who has been at water skiing just a year and Hauge is a Nor wegian performer. Colleen Dodge, Sacramento, Calif., who took junior girls overall, at Seattle, will be another entry in the region- als, as will Martha Ann Wil liams, Long Beach, Calif., who was first in the slalom and first in tricks. Miss Dodge won the jump and was runner up to Miss Williams in the slalom and tricks but her con siderable margin over the Long Beach girl's second in the jump gave her overall. Skinner, who is heading up preparations for the meet here for Crater Lions club and Gardener Lake Water Ski club, said that entries now actually on. file total 40. Entrants in the men's class require an expert rating and those in others need a first class standing to enter the regional. Skinner said today that reports that placings in invitational meets qualified skiers for the regional are correct. - Skiers not now eligible may ski for qualification on Thurs day at Gardener lake. Warsaw (UPD The touring U. S. track and field team, which has scored victories in men's events over Russia and Poland, was scheduled to leave today for Budapest for a two-day meet against Hun gary's top athletes on Tuesday and Wednesday. The Americans, traveling in three special Polish planes, will compete in a 90,000 seat stadium against Hungary. OLD ME 0. IfflU KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY YEARS OLD $35 I 6 J VsQT. M M OLD HERMITAGE BRAND XENTl'CKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKfY KmrtiT In 0i HsiKiriti Com iouisau m $2 80 PINT to find a greater'bourbon anywhere 1 THE OLD HERMITAGE CO.. LOUISVILLE, REDISTRIBUTED BY NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS COMPANY. 86 PROOF Nulton-Williams '" Take Low Gross in Three-Ball Tourney Mrs. Mrs. H. E. Nulton and Al Williams with a 39 card for nine holes were low gross yesterday in a mixed three-ball sixsome golf meet at Rogue Valley Country club. Mrs. Bill Kalibak and Ed Gordon won out in a close contest for low net with 344 on a 47 gross and 12 stroke handicap. Mrs. Rose Bunch and Mahr Reymers were second low gross with a 40. Other top finishers in net were Mrs. Al Williams and Russ Heysell 47-12V6-34V4, Mrs. Ed .Hall and Larry But ler 43-8 35 and Mrs. Ted Sickels and Jay Brown 42-6 35V4. Mrs. Maxine Hammond and Ray Frisbie won low handi capper long drive awards and Mrs. Sickels and Gordon nab bed the drive prizes for high handicappers. Prizes for the closest to the pin on No. 7 green were awarded to Mrs. Dick Knight and Butler. Eighteen couples took part. CJ, Riddle Knotted in RV League Cave Junction knotted with Riddle in the Rogue Valley Baseball league Sunday by de feating Butte Falls 9 to 4 at Butte Falls. Riddle, which was idle, and Cave Junction each have five wins and one loss in the league. The Camp White-Prospect game was postponed when Prospect could not field a club because players were fighting a forest fire. 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