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Hillsdale Maturity Race Victor Arcadia, Calif. -41TD- Most of the top handicap horses that have been eating Round Table and Hillsdale's dust at Santa Anita get together dur ing the week in the San Pasqual handicap while the fillies and mares stage their big race Saturday. Heading Wednesday's San Pasqual field is the consistent Terrang, winner of eight stakes at Santa Anita and is seeking his ninth in the mile and a sixteenth race. The $50,000 Santa Margar ita at a mile and an eighth Saturday brings out the C. V. Whitney team of Bug Brush and Gleaming Star; Two Cent Stamp, surprise winner of the Santa Maria Handicap; defending champ ion Born Rich, Milly K. Ballet Kahl, Galarullah and Well Away. But the talk of the Western racing world today still cen tered around Hillsdale's vic tory Saturday in the $177,150 maturity for his sixth straight stakes win and fourth at the meeting. Although he won the mile and a quarter race by three quarters of a length, Hillsdale had to be whipped hard to hold off the closing challenge of Royal Living, a colt that scored its maiden victory only three weeks earlier. John Thomas Clears Seven in High Jump Boston -CPU- Steel-springed John Thomas will be back in his own backyard Saturday when he renews his high jump rivalry with Olympic champion Charlie Dumas in the BAA meet at Boston Gar den. Thomas, a 17-year-old Bos ton University freshman, was on home territory when he set V Vote Puts Wheat in Fame Hall New York -(UPD- Outfielder Zack Wheat, generally re garded as the outstanding hit ter in Brooklyn Dodgers' his tory, became the latest entry into baseball's Hall of Fame today as the 11th player ever to be voted in by a special "old-timers committee." The 70-year-old Wheat, one-time idol of all Flatbush fans said he was "tremen dously honored and delight ed" at his Sunrise Beach, Mo., home when informed of his election by a unanimous vote. Wheat compiled a lifetime average of .317, batting over .300 during 14 separate seas ons, while starring in Brook lyn's outfield from 1909 thru 1926. He wound up his major league career with the Phila delphia Athletics in 1927. The popular left-handed hit ter led the National League in hitting with a .335 figure in 1918 and then compiled identical marks of .375 in 1923 and 1924, only to lose out to Rogers Hornsby. 1-3059 V "AAO&T EDUCATED" BIG LEAGUER.? Edward Marvin Reulbach, who pitched for the Chicago Cubs from tq05tol3i3 i studied engineering at Notre Dame 19OI-04-, med icine at the University of Vermont l3O4-05, Industrial mCitagement at the Uni versity of Rochester in 19182nd law at Columbia in 1922. TOP THIS! To any reader submitting contrary proof. Tip Brady will send a siirned, wallet-sized diploma. Write to: BEAT THIS, co this paper, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Enclose self-addressed, stamped envelope. a world indoor record of six feet, ll3i inches two weeks ago in the Boston K of C meet. Jumping John bettered the mark with an even seven foot leap in the Millrose Games at New York last Sat urday. The tall Negro now is reach ing for the combined world outdoor and indoor record es tablished by Russia's Yuri Stepanov with a jump of 7 feet, 1.2 inches, July 13, 1957. Med une SIPflDn&TTS 3-Point Basket Shooting Tried Albany, N. Y. -(UPD-Th'ere fcere mixed feelings today on me practicability of permit ting three points for Wy basket scored from behind a 23-foot arc. Sienna and St. Francis of Brooklyn played an experi mental game here Sunday, and while each team gave the plan a fair trial, neither was able to score with any degree of consistency. St. Francis, which won the game, 67-50, attempted the long shot six times and. only made good on one. Sienna, bowing to the wishes of the crowd, which kept yelling for the long shot, tried nine, but also scored on only one attempt. WRESTLING TOMORROW NIGHT Grants Pass v ' " f'" Karl Von Himmler DOUBLE MAIN EVENT Best 23 falls or 1 hr. limit. Nick Kozak, Vancouver, B.C. vs. Karl von Himmler, Ger many. Kozak, a big hit last week, asked for a shot - at the big German. FIRST MAIN EVENT Gentleman Ed Francis, Northwest Champion, vs. Don Manoukian, ex-Stanford football great. Tuesday 8:30 p.m. Josephine County Fairgrounds Arena ELTON OWEN, PROMOTER San Diego Title Won By Furgol San Diego, Calif. - (UPD -Marty Furgol, a 41-year-old golfer from Lemont, 111., head ed for Phoenix and more com petition today after captur ing the 520,000 San Diego open Sunday. Furgol fired rounds of 70-71-64-69 to win the tourney by one stroke with a 72-hole total of 274-1 4-under-par for the Mission Valley Country club. There was a five-way tie for second place at 275 among Mike Souchak, Gros singer, N. Y.; Bill Casper, Apple Valley, Calif.; Dave Ragan, Chattanooga, Tenn.; Joe C:npbell, Knoxviiie, Tenn., and Bo Wininger, Odes sa, Tex. Bob Harris, Winetka, 111., came in with a final round of 69 for 276. And there was a five-way tie at 277 among Bob Roseburg, Palo Alto, Cal if.; Fred Hawkins, El Paso, Tex.; Doug Sanders, Miami Beach, Fla.; Bob Duden, Os wego, Ore., and Jackie Burke, Houston, Tex. Each collected $756. Art Aragon's Purse Held Up Los Angeles - (UPD - Wel terweights Art (Golden Boy) Aragon and Charlie Sawyer have to wait until Saturday to learn what action - if any -will be taken against them for their disputed bout of Saturday night. Immediately after the fight in Hollywood Legion Sta dium, the California Athletic commission announced it was upholding the purses for the pair. Aragon, taken to court once before on. charges of trying to doctor a fight, had Sawyer on the floor five times-four in the first round-before he decked him for good in the fourth of their scheduled 10 rounder. Secretary of the commis sion, Clayton Frye, told United Press International "There was enough informa tion on display there in Saw yer's action during the fight to justify the action taken by the commission." Sawyer "was trying to go down ... it was obvious," he said. SWEEPS WOMEN'S EVENTS Orange, N. J. -(UPB- Carin Cone of Ridgewood, N. J., swept all three women's events for the second straight year in Saturday night's Met calf Memorial swim meet. Miss Cone, national back stroke champion, won the 100-yard backstroke, 100-yard butterfly and 100-yard free style. GUNNARSON NAMED Portland -iUPD Carl Gun narson, former Western Inter national league pitcher, and trainer at Salem, has been named trainer and road secre tary for the Portland Beavers. MOYER TRAINS Portland (UPO Denny Moy er, unbeaten young welter weight, opened heavy train ing today for his Feb. 17 fight with No. 7 ranked Vince Mar tinez. . Bill Dellinger of the Uni versity of Oregon, now in the Air Force, finished second to Delaney. Medford Y Nat Crew Tops Rivals Medford Y swimmers re turned from Portland . late Saturday night after winning a triangular swim meet with the Neighborhood House and the Longview YMCA. Final scores for the after noon meet were 226 for Med ford, 120 for Neighborhood House and 79 for the Long- view team. Interesting side light for the meet was the fact that the Longview team beat the Neighborhood House two weeks ago by 30 points. Medford swimmers had a field day as far as individual events went, capturing 28 first places out of 39 events. Linda and Bruce Hess were top scorers for the meet, with eight first place ribbons apiece: Out of 19 sfvimmers making the trip for the Med ford team, only four swim mers failed to capture a first place. Fifteen year old Linda Hess came within seven-tenths of a second of knotting the nation al record for the 40-yard free style in her age group with a jime of 21.8 seconds. The next meet for the Med ford swimmers is scheduled for Feb. 7 against a strong team from the Portland NE YMCA. Chiefs Nab Two From Pilot Quint Portland -4UPD- The Seattle Chieftains bounced the Uni versity of Portland Pilots here Sunday night, 80-76, to take both ends of a two-game series. Seattle defeated the Pilots Saturday night, 85-76. Charlie Brown led the way for the Chiefs with 25 points although Portland's Jim Arm strong took high honors with 26. Francis Saunders collect ed 20 points for Seattle and Wally Panel was second-high for Portland with 22. The Chieftains were never behind, and shot .484 from the field. Portland hit .346 and out-rebounded the visi tors, 54 to 47. In Saturday's game, Ogor ek scored 27 and Brown 25. Armstrong was high for Port land with 21. BASKETBALL SATURDAY COLLEGE GAMES United Press International East Fordham 93. Seton Hall 69 Princeton 75. Rutgers 48 Navy 66. Temple 53 Army 101. Columbia 80 Niagara 99. John Carroll 89 Dartmouth 71.' Brown 59 Pennsvlvania 73. La Salle 70 NYU 64, Holy Cross 62 St. Francis (Pa.) 56. Dayton 53 Yale 78, Harvard 65 i earn work Pays Off for Celts United Press International The Boston Celtics remain top dogs in the National Basketball association's East ern division because they know a good team effort can overwhelm a rival star's per formance. The Celtics, with five men scoring in double figures, nullified Dolph Schayes' 50 point personal-high perform ance Sunday to gain a 139-137 overtime victory against the Syracuse Nationals. Schayes' previous top in the National Basketball asso ciation was 47 against Phila delphia two years ago. The St. Louis Hawks, led by Bob Pettit's 40 points and a .543 shooting percentage from the field, swamped the Detroit Pistons, 130-96. Andy Johnson, used spar ingly, came into the game with about three minutes to go and quickly scored six points to give the Philadel phia Warriors a 113-105 de cision over the New York Knickerbockers. Presbyterians Tip Nazarenes Presbyterian turned back First Nazarene 39 to 24 Satur day night in a YMCA men's Church league basketball game. Curtis Cook put in eight points for Presbyterian and John Bodenstab six for Nazarene. FIGHT COST S750 Stockholm, Sweden - (UPD -Swedish travel agencies and newspapers have esti mated that it will cost a Swedish fight fan about $750 to see Ingemar Johansson try to win the world heavyweight boxing championship from Floyd Patterson. The estimate of $750 was made on the as sumption that the bout will be held in New York and in cludes the price of a plane ticket, two days' in a hotel, meal bills and a ringside seat. It will cost about S200 more if the bout is held in Los Angeles or Colorado Springs. ' IBC DISSOLUTION New York -(UPD- Truman Gibson was slated to arrive from Chicago today for con ferences that wilt - dissolve the International Boxing Club of New York. Gibson is pres ident of the IBC of New York, and he was president of the IBC of Illinois, already dis solved according to the gov ernment's anti-monopoly decree. Eugene-OiPD-Oregon State's varsity wrestling tm defeat ed Oregon 22-5 Saturday. The Rook wrestling team won from the Oregon Frosh, 16-1. Elite Cage Clubs Have Full Week United Press International Then nation's top - ranked college basketball teams swing into their first- full week of activity in almost a month this week and all figure to come out unscathed un less hit by the same bugaboo that floored St. John's in its annual tour of the Midwest. Five of the elite get things rolling to night when third ranked Kansas State (15-1) plays Nebraska, fifth-ranked Cincinnati (13-2) meets Tulsa, seventh - ranked Michigan State (11-2) tangles with Big Ten rival Wisconsin, eighth ranked St. John's (12-3) in vades Notre Dame, and ninth ranged Bradley (14-2) hosts Wichita. Kentucky's top- ranked team, which didn't take time out during the annual Jan uary lull, doesn't play until Saturday - meeting Mississip pi. The Wildcats rewarded Coach Adolph Rupp with 3 victories last week, including the 600th of his career, while pushing their victory record to 17-1. All of the other top 10 play at least two games this week. Second - ranked North Caro lina (12-1), which picked up two victories last week, may find a stumbling block i.n Duke on Friday, while fourth ranked N. C. State (14-2) has what amounts to a pair of set ups in Virginia Tuesday and South Carolina on Saturday. Tough Week Cincinnati, trying, to crack the grip Kentucky, North Car olina, Kansas State and N. C State has held on the top four spots in recent weeks, has a relatively tough week ahead. The Bearcats, who romped over Wichita Satur day, 95-87, with national scoring leader Oscar Robert son netting 44 points, play Dayton on Wednesday and then hook up with Temple on Saturday. Auburn, ranked sixth des pite an unbeaten record in 14 games and the nation's longest winning streak of 25, plays Georgia Tech Tuesday and Georgia Saturday. The Tigers had a bad scare from Vanderbilt, the only team to beat Kentucky, Saturday, but kept their streak alive with a 64-66 victory over the Com modores. St. John's, though, wasn't quite as fortunate. The Brook lyn Redmen, who conclude their tour tonight, took a 12-1 record to St. Louis on Thurs day and lost to the Billikens. Then they fell in double over time to Loyola, 111., Saturday, 95-85, despite a 38-point ef fort by Alan Seiden. South Duke 75. Pittsburgh 66 No. Carolina 62. So. Carolina 50 Kentucky 94. Florida 51 Tennessee 66, Georgia 60 Missi. St. 78. LSU 71 No. Carolina St. 60. Clemson 54 Auburn 64, Vanderbilt 61 Miami (Fla.) 109, Kentucky 95 Midwest Ohio St. 84, Minnesota 80 Michigan St. 81. Northwestern 72 Toledo 58. Duquesne 56 Iowa St. 48. Oklahoma St. 47 Indiana 75, De Paul 69 Cincinnati 95. Wichita 87 Marquette 66, Louisville 62 Nebraska 91. Detroit 77 Lovola (111.) 95. St. John's 85 (D-OT) Iowa 78, Michigan 74 Purdue 102, Illinois 81 St. Louis 71, Houston 47 Southwest Texas Tech 57, Texas A&M 46 TCU 72. SMU 60 Baylor 64, Arkansas 58 Oklahoma 40, Air Force 39 . West Montana St. 68. fdaho 66 Colorado Coll. 74. Colorado St. 69 Colorado St. U 78, Wyoming 60 Washington 75, Stanford 52 San Fran. St. 49, Humboldt 41 Seattle 85. Portland 76 Oregon State 58, Oregon 57 (OT) Oregon Tech 58, OCE 49 Portland St. 41. EOC 39 Linfield 73, Pacific 65 Whitman 81. Coll. of Idaho 68 Oregon Frosh 58. OSC Rooks 54 P. Lutheran 91, Puget Sound 69 Ducklings Beat Rooks By 58-54 Eugene -(UPD- The Oregon Frosh downed the Oregon State Rooks 58-54 Saturday night. It was the ninth straight win of the season and he second in a row over the Rooks for the Ducklings. Charlley Warren with 16 and Mickey Sinnerud with 13 led the Frosh. SUNDAY COLLEGE GAME Seattle 80, Portland 76 STREIT-JOHNSTONE WIN Hollywood, Fla - (UPD -Mar- lene Stewart Streit of Toron to, who scored only one major U. S. golf victory last year, already has two such tri umphs to her credit this year. Mrs. Streit, a veteran on the U. S. ladies golf trail, teamed with Ann Casey Johnstone of Mason City, Iowa, Sunday to defeat Mrs. William Hartson of Piedmont, Calif., and Frances Rich of Bainbridge, Ga., 3 and 2, and win the 14th annual Women's International Four-Ball tournament. I Com I Cards Obtain Billy Harrell ' St. Louis (UPD The St. Louis Cardinals today had more infield insurance in the person of Billy Harrell, for mer utility man for the Cleveland Indians. General Manager B i n g Devine said Sunday he ob tained the big right-hander in a straight cash deal. Harrell, 30-year-old Negro, hit .218 and had 12 stolen bases in the 100 games he played with the Indians last year. COURT ORDER ASKED Chicago -(UPD- Charles Co miskey was expected today to seek a court order barring his sister from selling any of her Chicago White Sox stock to Bill Veeck. A source close to the club said. The petition to be filed with pro bate judge Jerome Dunne would be a three-pronged ef fort to keep Dorthy Rigney from turning over her con trolling shares in the club. CASE NEARS JURY Newark, N. J. -(UPD- The trial of Cincinnati Redleg's pitcher Don Newcomb and his two brothers charged with beating a former East Orange patrolman was expected to go to the jury late today. Ulysses Ross, 36, has charged that Don, Norman and Har old Newcombe threw him out of their Newark tavern Dec. 22, 1957, and that Harold had threatened him with a gun. Crosby Perjury Trial Under Way Washington -(UPD- The per jury trial of Oregon Team ster leader Clyde C. Crosby got under- way today with a prosecution statement outlin ing the charge against him. Government Attorney Phil ip T. White told a jury of seven women and five men that Crosby lied when he tes tified before the Senate Rack ets committee in March, 1957. The Senate committee, headed by John L. McClellan (D-Ark.), was investigating al leged efforts of certain indi viduals to seize control of or ganized vice in Portland. Crosby is charged with ly ing to the committee when he denied taking part in a meeting at his office in No vember, 1954, with James (Big Jim) Elkins and Thomas Sheridan, the latter a former official of the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. J MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, February X 195 GETS ENGLAND TRIP . Dunedin, Fla. -(UPD- Veteran golfer Willie Goggin of San Jose, Calif., will shoot for a senior's grand slam when he competes in England against the British champion in April. Goggin, 53, won the trip to England and a $1,200 purse by firing a par 72 Sun day to capture the 20th an nual PGA Seniors Golf Tourn ament by a stroke. He finished the 72-hole event with a 284. FULL CIRCLE ACHIEVED Eastleigh, England (UPD Owners of a carnival adver tising for a "human ape" have received 600 applications for the job, carnival secretary Jack Jenvey said today. 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