Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 10, 1959, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oren, Friday, April 10, 1959 Rogue Relays Add Flavor To Pear Blossom Festival SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: 1 pjn. Pole vault. 130 p-m. Discus, high Jump, hot put. 2 pjn. 440. 2:15 p.m. Two-mile. 2:20 p jn. Javelin, broad jump. 2:33 pjm. 880. 2:30 pjn. Distance medley. 3:20 p.m. Shuttle hurdles 335 pjn. Mile. Track and field Saturday will add flavor to the Rogue Valley Pear Blossom festival. Twentieth annual Rogue relays will be presented at the Medford High stadium with 150 or more athletes of six Class A-l schools expect ed to participate. Defending champion Grants Pass High, Crater, Ashland, Marshfield and Klamath Falls are entered along with host Medford. The Kiwanis club of Med ford is sponsor and provides the trophy for the winner. A Riddle Nine Reinstated Riddle, last year's champion of the Rogue Valley Baseball league, has been reinstated for the coming season, it was announced today by Harry Chipman, league president. The Douglas county team was voted out of the league last Sunday when a represen tative failed to attend a league meeting in Grants Pass. Only teams with representatives at the meeting were to have been admitted to the league. However, it was learned later that Dick James, Riddle representative, had been hos pitalized with an injury Sun day and was unable to attend the meeting. ' Chipman conducted a mail poll among the other seven teams and today had received favorable replies from four, enough to admit Riddle. OSC Stretches String to 11 Corvallis - (UPD - Oregon State's baseball victory streak stood at 11 straight today fol lowing a 9-6 victory over Portland State Thursday, Big blow for the Beavers was a three-run 360-foot hom er by Kim Bradshaw In the first inning. Gary Baker and Grimm Mason chipped in with timely doubles. Portland State outhit the Beavers 14-10 but all its blows were singles. Dennis Heath had four-for-five for the Vik ings. , . . Lefty Bill Oerding was the OSC winner, getting help in the ninth from Rod Wells and Ray Lunde. Raider Athletes Will Be Busy Ashland . Southern Ore gon college athletes will be busy this week end. The base ball team plays a doublehead er against University of Ore gon at Eugene on Saturday while the track team is at home to University of Port land starting at 1 p.m. on the same day. The net team has a Sunday match with Rogue Valley Tennis club. number of KJwanians will as sist school officials with de tails of the meet. First of the 12 events to start will be the pole vault slated for 1 p.m. Several other field tests will get under way at 1:30 p.m. and the first race will be at 2 p.m. Flu Weakens The Rogue relays are con sidered a warm-up for the Metropolitan and Class A di visions of the Hayward relays on April 18 at Eugene. Events at the Rogues are the same with one exception. The Hay wards have a high hurdles race this season. . Saturday's meet will be one of just two senior high rival ries to be contested at the Medford stadium this season. The other will be a dual be tween Grants Pass and Med ford in May. More than 150 athletes are expected to vie Saturday but most . squads reportedly are weakened by the flu bug. Med ford may. not have pole vault entries because John Harvey, Skip Bennett and Nick Lin- gren all have been ill. Har vey reportedly had a relapse from his bout with flu. Nine Relays All races plus the broad Major Leagues Have Flurry of Player Changes United Press International The New York Yankees' trade of rookie pitcher Mark Freeman to the Kansas City Athletics highlighted a last minute flurry of player changes by major league baseball clubs today in moves to get set for the start of the season. . Freeman, 28-year-old right hander who had a 13-10 rec ord last season for Denver of the American Association, went to the A's in exchange for pitcher Jack Urban, who was promptly reassigned to the Yankees' Richmond farm club in the International league. In other moves: The Los Angeles Dodgers got down to the 28-player limit by optioning pitcher Fred Kipp to St. Paul of the American association and pitcher Bill Harris to Mon treal of the International league; and the Philadelphia Phils purchased lefty pitcher Chris Short from their Wil liamsport farm of the Eastern league. Kansas City, Mo. (UPD Southpaw pitcher Hal Woode shick was optioned today, by Cleveland to Toronto of the International-, league subject to 24-hour recall. Kundla Chosen ( By Minnesota Minneapolis - (UPD - John Kundla, 42, veteran profes sional basketball coach who guided the Minneapolis Lakers to six world cham pionships, today was named University of Minnesota bas ketball coach. 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In the broad jump, high jump and shot put, the best distances or heights of three men for each school, will be totaled to determine the plac ing for a school. Scoring will be 10, 8, 6, 4, 2, 1 for relay events and 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 for the discus, javelin and pole vault. MEDFORD ROSTER: , Javelin George Koch, Gordon Pathman; discus J o h n Connolly, Larry Nored, Mike Murray; pole vault Possibly no entries; shot put M u r r a y, Nored, Tom Bortis, Lynn Knight; broad jump Koch, Leonard Griggs, Bill Charley. Phil Humphreys; high j u m p Koch, Shults, Bob Mclntyre, Walt Ayres. 440 Don Peek, Humphreys, Kent Blew, Griggs, alternate Dick Gor don; 880 same as 440, alternate Ron Reich; two-mile Ray Smith, Bob Rix; Glenn Kaye, Steve Drew or Bill Dahlstrom; distance medley Mark Norton, Ron Reich, Bob Hill, Roger Johnson, alternate Kaye; shuttle hurdles Bob Hamil ton, T. Funston, Charley; mile Rix, Kaye, Elvin Hood, Reich. CRATER ROSTER t Pole vault Jim Eldred; Durand Waller; javelin John Burns, Wal ler; discus Glen Cote, Darrell Wil liamson, Clare Huntley; shot put Williamson, Mickey Clark, Mel Smith, Al Minnick; broad jump Dick Woods, Dennis Edwards, Clark Cutting, Kerman Bennett; high jump J. Burns. Roscoe Day, Jerry Michael, Don Garrison. 440 Cutting, Edwards. Don Gil laspey. Woods; Two-mile Nathan Parrish, Don Ryon, Tom White, Earl Cooper: 880 Eldred, Wayne Mar tin, Cutting, Bennett; distance med ley Don Ryon, Cote. Bob Morris, Parrish; shuttle- hurdles Martin, Bob . Bruton, Eldred; mile J. Burns, Woods, Gillaspey, Bennett. Huntley. Race alternates Rick Burns, ASHLAND ROSTER: Discus Art Kiser, Jim Stubble field, McCartney; shot put Kiser, Lee Scott, Don Woods, Glenn Ta bor; broad jump Steve Gray, Braehm Woodell, Forrest Farmer, Dick Clemence; 440 Bob V o r i s. Farmer, Clinton. Gillespie, Gray; two-mile Don Winner, Ron Kir sher, Gordon Self, Ken Fletcher; 880 Farmer( Clemence, Gillespie, Gray: mile Voris, Fletcher, Woo del. Winner. Pilots Shut Out Webfoots 6-0 Portland -(UPD- University of Portland blanked Oregon- 6-0 in a college baseball game Thursday as righthander Joe Etzel held the webfoots to five hits. It was Portland's seventh victory against two defeats. Oregon gave pitcher Denny Peterson poor support,' mak ing seven errors. All the Pilot runs were unearned. Peterson also gave up only five hits and struck out seven. Etzel fanned three. Oregon now is 7-6 for the season. Rosi Encounters Ryff Tonight Syracuse, N. Y.-UPD-Italian-born Paolo Rosi seeks his ninth consecutive victory and a lightweight title shot at Joe Brown when Jie meets Frankie Ryff of New York tonight in a 10-round nationally tele vised and broadcast bout. Rosi, who now makes his home in Brooklyn, was a 9 to 5 fa vorite for the bout at War Memorial Auditorium. CONLEY SWITCHES Philadelphia-(DPD-The Phil adelphia Phillies announced today their newly acquired pitcher, Gene Conley, who helped the Boston Celtics take their second straight NBA championship, will report to one of their Florida training camps Sunday. Quinn said the six-foot, eight inch righthand er will report to Leesburg, Fla., Sunday to begin 10, days or two weeks of training to get his pitching arm in condition. r jgr 1 , T- IN SHOT PUT RELAY-Mike Murray, above, will be one of the Medford High entrants in the shot put relay event of the annual Rogue relay track and field meet Saturday afternoon at the Medford stadium. Mur ray was A-l district champ and second in the state in the shot last year. He has put the iron ball 58 feet 9 inches un officially this year. The shot put is set for 1:30 p.m. Hill Climb On Sunday Rogue Valley Riders will have a motorcycle hill climb on Sunday on Applegate hill between the communities of Applegate and Ruch. The climb will strart at 1 p.m. and there will be six trophies among six classes. Pointers Beat NGP Trackmen Central Point Central Point seventh and eighth graders both won from North Grants Pass in a track meet here yesterday. The Pointer eighth won 80 to 33 and the seventh 40 to 37. Vern Swanson took the high hurdles and 330-yard runs for the Pointer eighth. He tied for first in the high jump and was on the winning relay team. Pat Pepper won the shot put, javelin and discus for CP. Gary Wald was first in the 75 and 150-yard dashes and ran on the relay team. Swanson's :10.5 in the hurdles and Pep per's 47 feet 4 inches in the shot and 108-8 in the discus are school records. CP won 10 of the 13 events and tied in another. Welcome and Snyder tied in the pole vault and O'Leary took the broad jump for the Grants Pass Wins. Central Point's seventh grade relay team of Schroe der, Ryerson, Summerfield and Faulkner was victor. The event decided the outcome of the meet. Grants Pass copped four seventh grader events and Crater three. There were ties in two others. CP sixth grader Danny Mainwaring ran an exhibition 660 in 2:04.1. Winners for Central Point eighth included Rivenburg in the low hurdles and Cochran in the 660. Bonzon of NGP and Purdy of Central Point tied with Swanson in the high jump. Rivenburg and Glines teamed with Wald and Swan son in the relay. Grants Pass seventh grade firsts were Van Koten in the 75 and pole vault, Packard in the 150 and Peterson in the shot put. For CP Ryerson won the 330 and Summerfield the broad jump. Wymer of NGP and Henney and Kimbrell both of CP knotted in the high jump and Twedell of CP and Hopper of NGP in the -hurdles. New York -(UPD- No tennis player ever has made a suc cessful defense of the United States indoor championship since Gregory Mangin won in 1935 and 1936. CHAIN SAW DEALERSHIP AVAILABLE A dealership for Pioneer Chain Saws, a product of Outboard Marina, makers of Johnson and Evinrude motors, is available for the Medford area. The Pioneer Chain Saw has fewer parts to wear out, has greater cutting and lugging power, and is fast becoming the first choice for both professional logger and handy man. Our distributorship is set up to help you get started as e dealer with ample availability of parts, advertising and merchandising help. If you now sell and service small engines or logging supplies or have experience in this field this may be the opportunity you have been looking for. For all details and infor mation contact: Northern California Pioneer Company, 529 Broadway, Eureka, Calif. Medforiv&Tribuni sipcddrtts Phoenix High Host In Saturday Relays SCHEDULE OF EVENTS 150 p.m. Pole vault, shot put, discus, high jump, broad jump. (Javelin is scheduled after discus is over.) 2:30 pan. Distance medley. 3 p.m. 440. 320 pjn. Sprint medley. 4 p.m. Shuttle hurdles. 4:30 pjn. Two-mile. Phoenix Field events will be launched well ahead of the first track contest here Sat- 15 Tornado Baseballers On Jaunt A squad of 15 Medford high baseballers headed into the Willamette valley today for four games in two days. . The Black Tornado vied at Springfield this afternoon and meets North Eugene in the Emerald city on Satur day. Doubleheaders were the order in each case. Coach John Kovenz indi cated that Dennis Barr would get the call in the first game today with Tom Laurance to toss the opener on Saturday. Second game chores were to be handled by Jerry Ander son and Pat McLaughlin. Anderson was to have the call today if sufficiently! over a bout with flu. . Others making the trip are Bob Pond and Ken Jensen, c a t c h e r-outfielders; Lowell and Calvin Dean, Ken Dur kee, Ray Konpasek and Dick Ragsdale, infielders, a n d George Ice, Mike Parsons, Frank Peterson and Bob Quinney, outfielders. Ander son also is an outfielder. urday in the fourth annual Little Rogue relays. The jumping, throwing and vaulting action is set for 1:30 p.m. beginning with the first running event planned for 2:40 p.m. Phoenix is host to Eagle Point, Rogue River, Illinois Valley and St. Mary's of Med ford for the meet. The Pi rates also are defenders of the relay crown. Six field events and five relay races make up the afternoon program. Tunc for Haywards All entrants in the Little Rogues will be tuning for contention in the Class B and C Hayward relay opposition on Friday, April 16, at Eu gene. Schools are being limited to three participants in each of the field events of the meet here. A competitor can enter a total of four events and not more than two relays or more than three field events. Lions club trophy is the prize for the championship. It must be won three times for permanent possession. Eagle Point has two legs on the trophy and Phoenix one. IFefchick Leads In Greensboro Greensboro, S. C.-(UPD-Mike Fetchick, 36-year-old Yonk ers, N. Y., pro who has been in the PGA cellar since 1956, led a field of 125 golfers into the second round of the Great er Greensboro Open tourna ment today with a five-under-par 66, Fetchick, who carded a 35-31-66 on four birdies, an eagle and a bogie, was one up on Billy Maxwell of Odessa, Tex., who came in with a four-under-par 33-34-68 on the Starmount Forest Country Club course. FIGHTS Los Angeles (UPD Gil Cadilli, 131, San Francisco, drew with Er nesto Figueroa, 130, Mexico. (10). Oakland, Calif. (UPI) Johnny Gonsalves, 136, Oakland, decisioned Bobby Scanlon, 135 ',a. San Fran cisco (10). Beaumont, Tex.-(DPD-Louise Suggs of Atlanta led 30 wom en into the S6.000 seventh an nual Babe Zaharias Women's Open Golf tournament today. Miss Suggs, the defending champion in the 54-hole tourn ament, was expected to have trouble with Marlene Bauer Hagge, , Betsy Rawls, Mickey Wright and Ruthie Jessen, all winners on the 1959 tourna ment trail. 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