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Kansas U. New U.S. United Press International Boulder, Colo. -JUPB- Kansas University speedster Charlie Tidwell set a new American record in the 200-meter low hurdles Saturday at the na- tional AAU track and field championships here in a down-to-the-wire dual with Hays Jones of Eastern Michigan university. Tidwell blazed over the dis tance In 22.6 seconds, shaving one-tenth of a second off his own American record of 22.7 and bettering the old AAU mark of 23.3 seconds set by Harrison Dillard in 1946. The world record, 22.1, is held by Elias Gilbert of the Winston-Salem Teachers col let, but that was run on the straight-away.- Tidwell's record - breaking time was around one curve at Colorado university's Folsom field here. Jones was second at 22.7 seconds, and high school ath lete Warren Cawley of Farm- ington, Mich., was third at 23 seconds flat. . Gilbert placed fourth at 23.4. 4 Other Marks Shattered Two other new AAU -records, in the 1,500-meter run and the discus throw, were also shattered here Saturday. r Oregon university freshman star Dyron Burleson shaved four-tenths of a second off the 1,500-meter record of 3:47.9, held since 1940 by Walter Mehl. Olympic gold medalist Al Oerter, former Kansas athlete, threw the discus 186 feet, five . inches. This was 4.5 inches better than the old mark held since 1953 by Fortune Gor dien. - i Perry O'Brien of the South ern California Striders set a meet record Friday in the shotput. Burleson, 19, overtook his Oregon university teammate (J$im Grelle on the final lap 0nd won going away by seven yards. Grelle's time was (8:38.4. Grelle won the NCAA mile th$ week before at Lincoln, Neb. Olympic sprint king Bobby Morrow, who finished dead last Friday in an attempt to qualify for the 100-meter dash, also had a poor showing Saturday in the 200-meter trials. Morrow finished sixth in his heat. Morrow, who suffered a muscle spasm two weeks ago at Houston, Tex., is the only athlete since Jesse Owen to win both the 100 and 200 meter dashs in the Olympic games. . ."" - Elliott Denman of the New York Athletic club beat de fending champion John W. Humcke, also of the NYAC, In the seldom-seen 3,000 meter walk with a time of 13 min utes, 52.2 seconds. Humcke Was second at 14:6.7. Takes 400 Meter Defending champion Eddie Southern of the University of Texas breezed to an easy vic tory in the 400-meter dash. . , The 21-year-old Texan cov I) BUSHELS msTua Mitchell CUSHION SPtlN SIAT Firm, yet toft cutftioru to give you that riding on air com fort. 4 colon. DELUXE TUIUIAR RAH TOP CARRIER So practical.... jo good looking! tug ged ireel carrier installs quickly and cosily: will not mar car finish. CAR COOLERS Wide Selection BOAT LIGHTS and ACCESSORIES Check Our Selection Economical Mecftord 409 N. Riverside 9 a.m. 6 p.m. Week Days Speeder Murdiels ered the distance in 46.1 sec onds, beating runnerup Dave Mills of Purdue by a good five yards. Southern ran the equivalent 440-yard at the AAU meet last year at Bak ersfield, Calif. " Southern's time Saturday, however, was far short of the 400-meter record of 45.8 sec onds held by Tom Courtney and the world mark of 45.2 owned by Lou Jones. Former Oregon university distance runner Bill Dellinger of the Air Force put on a last lap kick to overtake Lewis Stieglitz of the U. S. Navy and win the 5,000-meter run in 14 minutes, 47.6 seconds. . Stieglitz, second by nine yards, was clocked at 14:48.8. MEDFCRIvOJTRIBUNI siPdDninrs TUMBLING OVER FENCE Into Yankee bullpen, Kan sas City's Dick Williams vainly tries to snare home run by Marv Throneberry in seventh inning of N. Y. game. British tracer Forced To Quit Le Mans; France -UPD- Ace daredevil Stirling Moss was forced to quit because of an oil pipe leak and two other British drivers were injured Saturday during the first sev en hours of the 24-hour Le Mans auto classic. Moss, . one of the leading favorites in the race, rolled his gleaming car into the pit only five hours and 10 min utes after the gruelling clas sic got underway. Moss -an nounced his withdrawal soon after mechanics examined the Aston Martin racer. Britain's J. B. Taylor suf fered a broken arm and was CUSTOM TRAILER HITCH OPEN SUNDAYS CLOSED SATURDAYS Complete Stock IGNITION POINTS SET Six fat ones popular makes. REPLACEMENT FUEL PUMP Guaranteed good at original equipment. NIC-L-SILVlR BATTERIES $15.95 exch. ' 12 Volt THIS IS THE PUCE 1 Grants Pass 237 Hiway 99-S. 3" WJ5 Sets Record Max Truex, of the Southern California Striders, and win ner of Friday's 10.000-meter run, was third at 14 minutes, 50.2 seconds. . Russia's Vladimir Kutz holds the world record - 13 minutes, 35 seconds. Burly Bob Backus of the New York Athletic club had little trouble defending his 56-pound-weight title, heaving the ball 44 feet 3Vi inches, Harold Connolly, also of the Striders, who won Friday's hammer throw, was second at 43 feet, 7 inches. The top three performers in each event qualify for the U.S. team at the Pan American games, at Chicago Aug. 28 Sept. 27. "rrin in hi w J trr taken to a hospital when -his Austin Martin plunged off the track about four and a half hours after the race began at 4 p.m. (11 ajn., EDT). Jim Russell, another Brit ish driver, was seriously burned about, "an hour later when . his Cooper 1964cc plowed into a-Stanguelli NR 56, a French-driven car. Rus sell's nylon suit was ignited and doctors at St. Geniere hos pital said he had a broken leg and burns on his, body al though his life was not in danger. Philippe Faure, the French driver, suffered only superficial injuries. Lead 42 Cars Jean Behra of France and co-driver Dan Gurney of Riv erside, Calif., driving a red Ferrari, led the 42 cars still in the race. They were roaring around the 8.36-mile Le Mans circuit at about 120 miles an hour. Among the cars abandoning in the early going were the Ferrari driven by Brazilian ace Mano da Silva Ramos and his British cp-driver Cliff Al lison and the Osca driven by Mexico's teen-aged Rodriguez Brothers. 4 . A- total of 53 cars started the snake-like run through the flat farmlands of this slum bering northwest community which' hit world headlines in 1955 when a series of crashes resulted in the deaths of 83 persons, most of them spec tators. - Victory is computed on the basis of the highest number of laps covered during the 24 hours. Prizes also are award ed for the best performances in relation to2 engine size. PHOTO FINISH. Albany, N.Y. -diPD Attend ance at New York State's thoroughbred racing .tracks and the amount of money wagered were almost exactly the same in .1957 and 1958. The State Racing Commission reported attendance was 4,717,105 in 1957 and 4,736, 309 in 1958. Mutuel betting was $416,941,870 in '57 and $415,684,906 in '58. 5 If! SAVE AT CLOWER'S GOLDEN EAGLE . Phoanix 3c Discount on Gas ; or Triple Silver Dollar Stamps Tennis Star Gets Upset In London London (UPB - Ramanathan Krishnan, India's 22-year-old Davis cup star, scored his sec ond major upset in the Lon don grass courts tennis tour nament Saturday when he de feated Australia's Neale Tras- er, 6-3. 6-0 to win the men's j singles title. ! Yolanda Ramirez of Mex ico rallied after a poor start to win the women's singles title with a 2-6, 6-1, 6-3 vic tory over Christine Mercelis of Belgium. Beverly Baker Fleitz of Long Beach, Calif., and Eng land's Christine Truman; who are the number three seeds for the women's doubles at Wimbledon, won the women's doubles title here by defeat ing Jean Arth of St. Paul, Minn., and Darlene Hard of Montebello, Calif., 7-5, 6-1. Win Doubles Title The Australian team - of Frank Gorman and Bob He witt won the men's doubles title when they beat Kurt Nielsen and Joergen Ulrich of Denmark, 6-3, 6-4. Krishnan eliminated Wim bledon favorite Alex Olmedo, the Peruvian studying at the University of Southern Cali fornia, in the semi-finals Fri day. Fraser is second seeded for the- Wimbledon tourna ment which gets underway here Monday, while Krish nan is unseeded. Krishnan was perfectly re laxed and put on a near fault less display of championship tennis. He always seemed to be at the right spot at the right moment. He was extremely deft with his backhand which forced the more experienced Fraser into frequent errors. Fraser was under such pressure that he made numerous service errors. In fact, -the Aussie held service only once throughout the match. Fernandez Halts Redl in Seventh New York - (UPD - Unbeaten Florentino Fernandez, a rangy but bull-shouldered Cu ban welterweight who punches like a heavyweight, earned another TV fight at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 7 by stopping Germany's Stefan Redl for the first time Friday night in the Cuban's U.S. debut. .. - However, 21-year-old Flor entine's elation at his 20th straight victory and 18th knockout turned to grief later when Manager Higinio Ruiz informed him that a brother had died a few days ago in Cuba. The news- had. been kept from him until after the fight.. ' Brother Roberto, 28, sec ond oldest of six brothers, died Tuesday of a heart at tack. Before the beak-nosed belt er flew back' to Havana Sat urday matchmaker Teddy Brenner offered him a fight with Caspar Ortega of Mex ico, eighth-ranking contender, on Aug. 7 and Manager Ruiz accepted. Fernandez floored Stefan with a left hook in the sev enth round. Redl rose at the count of nine, but his legs were so rubbery that the referee stopped the bout. Red Hat Days Leaders Picked Salem (UPD-Gov. Mark Hat field today announced ap pointment of a state commit tee to coordinate Oregon's 1959 "Red Hat Days" observ ance. Named were: . Ed Coles, secretary, Oregon Cattlemen's association; Irvin H. Huiten, public affairs man ager, Weyerhaeuser Timber company; Roy Beadle, Editor, editorial page, Oregon Journ al; George Brown, political education director, Oregon AFL-CIO; Gerald Detering, president, Oregon Farm Bu reau federation; Madison Smith, Izaak Walton league; and Francis Stokesberry Ore gon Wildlife federation. The first meeting of the committee is scheduled for June 22. The group hopes to promote safety in the woods. Red Hat Days was initiated in 1953 in an effort to mini mize conflicts between sports men and landowners during hunting seasons, reduce fatali ties and eliminate fires. " . Gold Ray Fish Count WEEK ENDING JUNE 20: Chinook salmon - 1,776 (including 25.5 per cent jack salmon). Summer run steelhead-7. FULL SEASON: Chinook salmon - 1 1.3 1 4 (includes .13.4 per cent jacks) since April 9. Summer run steelhead 68 since April 30. Disadvantage In Weight Not New to Floyd Floyd Patterson has given away weight to every heavy weight -title opponent he's ever faced, and Ingemar Jo hansson, whom he meets Thursday, June 25, at Yankee Stadium in New York, will be no exception. The husky Swede, who ex pects to weigh about 198, may have an advantage of 15 pounds or more for the bout, which, will be seen in Med ford via closed-circuit TV at the-Craterian Theater. j The greatest weight dis parity between Patterson and an opponent was in his most recent title defense against The greatest weight dispar ity between Patterson and an opponent was in his most re cent title defense against Brian London May 1 at In dianapolis. London, whom Patterson kayoed in'the 11th round, weighed 208 to Floyd"s 1821,4. Here's how Patterson stacked up against each of his other championship foes: Nov. 30, 1956, Chicago -Patterson, 18214, Archie Moore, 187. , July 29, 1957, New York -Patterson, 18 4, Hurricane Jackson, 1922. Aug. 22, 1957, Seattle-Patterson, 187 14, Pete Rade macher, 202. Aug. 18, 1958, Los Angeles -Patterson, 184V2, Roy Har ris, 194. Johansson weighed 202V2 when he ' decisioned Archie McBride on Dec. 13, 1957. In his three 1958 bouts, he weighed 197V against Joe Erskine on Feb. 21, 'l7Vi' against Heinz Neuhaus on July 13, and 198 against Ed die Machen Sept. 14. TAX MARTYRS " Castile, N. Y. -WPD- Mayor August P. Neff and four members of the Castile, Vil lage Board slashed their own salaries by $100 each in order to avoid a community tax in crease. Neff had been earning $400 a year and the board members S300. All white mileage. BARGAIN Only 11000 BARGAIN " " weeeeeBBeeeBeeeeeeie f'''" fig iMCEC lgilg r s i L 143 South Riverside Mickey Walker Impressed by Swedish Boxer Grossinger, N. Y. - One of the most durable men in the history of the ring believes ingemar Johansson of Swed end has more than an even chance to dethrone Champ Floyd Patterson June 25 at Yankee Stadium. Mickey Walker, the Toy Bulldog, watched the unde feated European champion go through his paces at Grossing er's famed Catskill training camp of champions and said: "Let's start with condition. This big Swede is the hardest working heavyweight I've ev er seen - and I can see he is in top condition. From there on in, it depends on how hard he can punch and how he can take it." Walker, like most experts, avers that Johansson is not unlimbering his heavy artil lery during the training rou tine, "other than on the heavy bag." - The fight, televised via a closed-circuit theatre and are na network throughout the United States but not in the New York area, is the biggest international heavy weight fight since the Joe Louis-Max Schmeling title battle. It will be broadcast domesticallv and abroad to more fight fans thanJ ever before in history. Ring Champ's Susceptibility To Rights Noted It is Floyd Patterson's sus ceptibility to right hands, and the possibility that as he tries to duck under them he will become a target for Ingemar Johansson's uppercuts, that makes a ; heavyweight title bout between them a poten tially good fight. Boxing writer W. C. Heinz made that estimate of' the sit uation today after "A Visit With Ingemar Johansson", as reported in the current (June 20) issue of The Saturday Eve ning Post. " In training and in the movies of his Machen fight," Heinz relates, "Johansson giv es evidence that he cannot match Patterson's speed afoot, hand speed or ring inventive ness. "He is more methodical, however, and sets himself bet ter in throwing punches. In his right hand- he has more single-punch power than Pat terson has in either hand. 1 "Johansson's hones rest, in his right. His left jab is best described as-lazy'. It is not a hurting offensive weapon . . ." Buy that car you've been looking for now during your Buick dealer's fabulous Bargain Days. You'll save money on these specials and get a quality used car. 1955 Cadillac Coupe DeVille, Fully Equipped The cleanest '55 Model to be found anywhere. 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" The thoughtful ex-champion says also that Patterson show ed all his old faults against England's Brian London in their Indianapolis fight re cently and that London should not have lasted more than two rounds. He thinks that the champion's overall pattern of fighting is so cautious as to deny him control of the. ac tion, allowing Johansson to make his own opportunities. As for the challenger's training methods Tunney was interested in the amount of roadwork and his bag-punching. Hitting Bag Belter "If he does six or seven miles a day, he'll have endur ance," he believes. "Hitting the big bag is a much better way to develop body punching than hitting sparring part ners." 4, Patterson Spars For Big Fight Chatham, N. J. -(UPD-Heavy- welght' champion Floyd Pat terson continued his sparring preparations Saturday for Thursday's title defense: against Ingemar Johansson, i He plans to box Sunday : also and perhaps on Monday; if Manager Cus A'Amato per-; mits. Jack Dempsey, ex-cham- j pion, said Friday he thought j Floyd was exactly ' "sharp enough" and might go stale unless he tapered off on his work. Dempsey, very impressed with Patterson's speed and power during four rounds wit power during four rounds with four mates here at Eh san's Camp Friday, "he's ter rific." LIONS OBTAIN CENTER Detroit (UPD - John Allen, a 250-pound center, was obtain ed by the Detroit Lions Satur day in exchange for one of the Washington Redskins' 1960 draft choices. BARGAIN Very low $RQA50 w7 $RilR50 Four Door BARGAIN 1 9QR00 ImU 1 Owner. BARGAIN 1955 Ford 4-Door Wagon Standard drive BARGAIN DAYS SPECIAL Only SP' (M (3UnCC-CAID!L(LAC Johansson Chance of C o n c e r ning Johansson's knockout of Machen, he com mented: "Prior to the fight ev ery one thought Machen was a first-class fighter.". From that showing. Tunney felt Johansson must -have more ability than' he's been given credit for. Tunney's observations of Patterson were less kind. Thej ex-champion thinks Patterson never has fought enough good men to get the necessary ex perience. He pointed out that against London, Patterson missed some of his punches by two feet. He could not un derstand how Patterson fail ed to take London out quick er. He said: "He has a good left to the liver, it's very effective .And he makes good combinations of it with an overhand right to the head. , But he faulted the cham pion on his tactics: - "He starts almost every THEATRE THURSDAY JUNE 25 PATT.EB HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP FIGHT ON CLOSED CIRCUIT TELEVISION ' - . No Home Television ' TICKETS HOW Oil SALE PRICES Loges & Center ...... ... 5.00 General Admission . ..... 3.00 GET TOUR'S EARLY Don't Be Shut Out 1958 Plymouth feelveder 4-Door Hardtop V-8, Torqueflight, power steering, power new whitewall tires. DAYS SPECIAL. Dow 1957 Cadillac Coupe DeVille Power throughout luxury at its finest. 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