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8 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford. Or. Wednesday, July S, 1959 Handicap Rating Gives Boat Race Lead to Kialoa : Los Angeles-fliTO-Kialoa, the 50-foot yawl out of Newport Harbor, Calif., held its lead in the handicap ratings enter ing the fifth day of sailing to day in the 2,225-miel trans pacific yacht race from Los Angeles to Honolulu. i At last report by radio Tuesday the 1 61-foot schooner Goodwill retained its lead of the 41-yacht fleet, but still was down in the handicap ratings. The Kialoa wasn't a con tender among the leaders of the fleet but its handicap place it ahead in the adjusted ratings based ' on size and classification of each ship. :. The Goodwill, owned by Ralph Larrabee and sailing out ' of Newport ' Harbor was .1,625 miles from, its destina tion at roll call Tuesday, 'about one-fourth of the dis tance. It led by 42 miles its nearest contender, Sally Blair Ames' 75-foot schooner Con stellation, followed by -Baldwin M. Baldwin's 72-foot yawl Escapade, E. L. Doheny's 75 foot Kamalii and Ira P. Ful mor's 60-foot yawl Criterion. Mark Claimed In High Hurdles '-(. Zurich, Switzerland - (UPD - Officials of . an international track meet here said today that . a new world record of 13.2 seconds for the 110-meter high hurdles by Martin Lauer of West Germany definitely will be submitted for official recognition. 1 The officials found that a following wind which was be hind Lauer during Tuesday's race was only 1.9 meters' per second, just within the per mitted maximum. ' Lauer clipped two-tenths of a second off the world mark held jointly by two Ameri cans, Jack Davis and Milton Campbell. In addition, Lauer returned to the track within an hour and, ran. what is be lieved to be the fastest 200 meter hurdles ever run around one turn, 22.5 seconds. .!" The world record of 22.1 seconds for the 200-meter hur dles was set by Elias Gilbert of Winston-Salem, N. C," col lege on a straight-away. Dairy Maids Play Jills Camp White-Rouge Valley Dairy Maids fill in the gap inursday night with a non league softball encounter at Memorial stadium, Camp White. They entertain the Rose- burg Lumberjills. No infor mation is readily available on that club. The Dairy Maids have a bye this week end in the North west Women's Major league. They play three ; games in Portland against American Linen the following .week end. The July 17 mix will be a non-league benefit tussle and the frays on the following two nights will count in the North west standings. Western Open At Pittsburgh Pittsburgh (UPD Pittsburgh is set today to host its second All-Star event of- the week- the $25,000 Western Open golf tournament, which opens Thursday on the 6,623-yard Pittsburgh Field club course. But unlike ; the All-Star baseball game held here Tues day, a quartet of golfdom's brightest stars will be absent from the event. Masters champion Art Wall, 1959's leading money winner from Pocono Manor, Pa., heads the group of absentees U. S. Open champion Billy Casper, of Apple Valley, Calif., was forced to withdraw earlier in the week with a back ailment. . Two aging stars, Ben Hogan and Slam min' Sammy Snead, round out the list of missing headliners But there will be, plenty of top talent in the 130-odd pros shooting for the top prize of $5,000. Arnold Palmer, strong boy from Legionier, Pa., is the early favorite but he will have tough competition from such as Cary Middlecoff, Bob Ros burg, Ken Venturi, Mike Souchak, "Doug Ford and PGA champion Dow Finsterwald. Defending champion Doug Sa"hders, of Miami Beach, Fla., is also back. SIGN AGREEMENT New York (UPD - The New York Rangers of the National Hockey league today an nounced the signing of a work ing agreement for the 1959-60 season with the Springfield, Mass., Indians of the Ameri can Hockey league. Bourne, Engelhorn Medalists in PNGA ; Sue DeVoe, Medford, quali fied for the championship flight in the women's tourney of the Pacific Northwest Golf association at Columbia-Edge-water course at Portland. She had an 88-81-169 for the 36 holes of Monday and Tuesday qualifying. Miss DeVoe, who has played little golf since last fall, entered the tourney after sharpening her game with practice in recent weeks . at Rogue Valley Country club. She has been invited to con tend in the Western Women's Invitational at Seattle. PICKS OREGON STATE Corvallis - (UPD - Harry De morest, Portland Interscholas tic leagud baseball batting champion for 1959, and a member of the state Al base- , ball champion Jefferson Democrats announced Tues day that he would enroll next fall at Oregon State. ' William E. Seward, who later became the Secretary of State responsible for the pur chase of Alaska, is said to have been the first lawyer ever to use insanity as a legal defense. Portland - (UPD - Jim Bourne of Seattle took medalist hon ors Tuesday in qualifying for the 58th annual Pacific North west Golf association cham pionships at the Portland Golf club With a two - under - par 142. He carded a' 73 Tuesday to go with Monday's first round of 69. Another Seattle golfer, Erv Parent, was second with 74- 69-143. ' Three strokes' back of Par ent, each with 146, were Bob Roos Jr., San Francisco; Joe Jeroski, Vancouver, B. C, and Bill Langley, Portland. Match play began today, with the championship to be decided Saturday. ... In women's action at the Columbia - Edgewater golf course, favorite Shirley Engle- horn, Caldwell, Idaho, left the field behind with 150. The Oregon and Idaho champion shot a 78 Tuesday to go with Monday's 72. Eight strokes off the lead at 158 was Elaine Porritt, Eu gene. Knotted at 160 were Mrs. Pat Lesser Harbottle, Ta- coma, and Mrs. Richard Borst, Portland. i 9 ' M . . K if j SWEEPING OUT OF CONTROL after blackening more than 3,000 acres of valuable timberland, blaze climbs Sierra Nevada ridge in Tahoe National Forest north of Truckee. High winds have complicated work of fire crews. MEDFCWUlt&TWBUMl SIPCDDBITS , ft. 3 in. srt 1 - "I J Sr;- I ..( 1 X. 4 ' -" Mm '-f 1 I 4 .'- - 1 m town . pi - READY .FOR TITLE FIGHT, Alphonse Haliml, Algeria, world bantamweight champion and Joe Becerra Mexico, complete training in Los Angeles. Halimi has record of only two losses in 28 bouts. Becerra lost two of 64.' Alphonse Halimi Defends Bantamweight Ring Toga Los Angeles- (UPD -Durable Alphonse Halimi - of France tonight puts up his bantam weight crown as""the prize for challenger Jose Becerra's best shots in their 15-round "title bout. , The championship fight is being telecast nationally but is blacked out in ! southern California which was expect ed,, to provide most of the 16,000 or' more fans expected in the new Sports Arena. The 7 p.m. (p.d.t.) bout is Track Tiffs r This Week Track and field re-enters the Rogue rivep. valley spot light this week end" with ;two : meets slated. " One, sponsored by the Ash land city recreanon program, is set for Friday night, July 10,' at Southern Oregon col lege, Ashland.. The other, also an amateur all-comers affair, is billed for Saturday morning and evening at the Medford Senior High stadium. It is sponsored by the Oregon AAU Olympic Development program and the city of Med ford. Ashland's meet, open to male participants, -will have field events "starting at 7:15 p.m. and the first race at 7:30 p.m. Junior events at Medford get underway at 10 a.m. and high school and open division rivalry is planned for 5 p.m. In the meet here competition is offered in junior classes for girls as well as boys. Events for older girls could be added on demand. AAU membership is re quired for the Medford meet. Membership cards can be ob tained and dues paid at the time of registration and pay ment of the small entry fee. Western Writer Not Anxious for Ride Hollywood-IUPD-Frank Gru ber, the country's most proli fic writer of westerns-book, movie and TV-has declined with regrets an invitation to become an honorary member of the Texas of California. - "It would be a question of my getting sore at the sad dle," be said on learning that his initiation would , have meant riding horseback from the San Fernando Valley to Ventura, Calif. "I'm moreo at home in planes." NEW 'GREAT WALL London-IUPD-Moscow Radio reported Tuesday that Soviet scientists had discovered a "great wall of central Asia" similar to the Great Wall of China. The broadcast, heard here, said it had been estab lished that the wall was "built over 2,000 years ago and ex isted i . . on the territory of present-day Uzbekistan, Ta jikistan and Turkmenia." the dedicatory event , in the six million dollar structure on which workmen are still applying the f ,i n i s h i n g touches. Becerra is the second Mex ican to try to lift Halimi's title. Raul Raton Macias made the first attempt Nov. 6,, 1957, here in Los Angeles. Becerra was on the same card and suffered a crushing defeat- knocked out in four rounds by Dwight Hawkins, a defeat he later reversed. .Halimi, the 27-year-old French-Alegerian of Jewish ancestry, probably will try to put on the same type of fight against Becerra that he did against Macias with the hope for the same victorious result. The bull-shouldered champion shoots for points with, a powerful body attack and after he has weakened his opponent sufficiently eith er continues on for a decision of 'then tries for a knockout. Becerra, 23, on the other hand, is a strong puncher when he is fresh. He will be shooting for a quick knockout and his ability to go 15 rounds is untested, never having gone that route. Suds Nick Beavers With 2 in Eighth United Prats International Seattle scored two runs in: the eighth inning to nick Port-' land 2-1 Tuesday night behind Jay Hook's four-hit pitching in a Pacific Coast league series opened here. - Successive singles by Hal Bevan and Carroll Hardy along with a Portland error sent the winning runs across. George Brunet, Portland starter, suffered his eighth de feat against one victory. For Hook it was the ninth win in 16 decisions. Portland threatened in the ninth as Bob DePietro. and Charlie Secrest hit singles with one out, but Hook got the next two batters out. The lone Beaver run came in the third when Milt Graff was safe on an error by Bobby Adams. Graff scored from first when Dave Melton doubled to the left field cor ner: . -: I,:. jffhf Vancouver - Mounties have finally broken " away from the pack in the Pacific Coast league and are pressing the Sacramento Solons for the lead. . The Mounties rang up a double win over Spokane by scores of 1-0 and 7-3 Tuesday night to move within two games of the Solons. And the Mounties are now three and a half games ahead of third place Portland. Sacramento Wins In other PCL action Tues day night, Sacramento cashed in on a pair of home runs to wallop San Diego 8-4 and Phoenix defeated Salt Lake, 5-4. Len, Tucker was the Van couver hero. He tripled home the only run of the first game and doubled in what proved to be the winning tally in the second game. ' Wes Stock struck out ten as he 'pitched, a three hitter to gain the win for the Moun ties in the 7-inning opener. The loser, Chris Nicolosi, gave up only four hits. rr Chuck Estrada stPuck out 11 of the free swinging In dians in the second game. Brooks Robinson led the Van couver attack with a 400-foot homer and a single. Estrada had a shaky start but went the distance, giving up seven hits. Barry Shetrone also homered for the Mounties. Connie Grob was charged with his sixth loss against 10 wins. LINESrOBRS- (lst game 7 innings) Spokane 000 000 0 0 3 0 Vancouver 000 100 x 1 4 1 . Nicolosi and Sherry: Stock and White. (2nd game) Spokane 030 000 000 3 7 0 Vancouver ....001 005 Olx 1 8 0 flt-nVl 13aTn.lr k 1 T- . - . v-.. v u r anu a) ci 1 1 rf tl 1 1 , Estrada and Pagiaroni. White (4). . - Portland ......001 000 000 1 4 2 seatue . ooo 000 02x 2 s - l Rriinpt McMinn ( Ol j T- .. 1 U OIIU 1U1UIU, Hook and Bevan, Jenkins (8). Fighters Continue To Drill Lightly Portland -(UPD- With heavy 1 15 minutes beginning at 4:30 drills behind them, both World Welterweight Cham pion Don Jordan and chal lenger Denny Moyer today continued to tune up for their Friday night title fight at Portland Meadows. v- Some roadwork and light bag punching were on the training slate for both fight ers as they concluded sparring sessions Tuesday. Each scrapper expressed confidence that he would win, but neither would: predict a knockout victory for himself Tuesday as they met with the press. Consider Request Today the Portland Boxing Commission was scheduled to meet for a discussion of Jor dans request for f'outside" of ficials. Predictions ' were for fair weather for the nationally-televised title scrap and a crowd of about 10,000 persons was expected at the Portland Meadows. . 'Special' bus service from downtown Portland ttf Port land Meadows has been an nounced by Rose ,City Transit company. A company spokes man said buses will leave S.W. 6th and Yamhill every APPROPRIATE GESTURE . Rutland Vt. -(UPD- When Swift and Co. opened a new meat plant here, Mayor Dan J. Healy sliced .two' yards of bologna instead of cutting the traditional ribbon. The Deluxe Anglia New English-built Ford ONLY $ (5)00 per month 35 Miles Per Gallon CRATER LAKE MOTORS Main at Fir MEDFORD Highway 99 CENTRAL POINT p.m. Fight time will be 6 p.m with a 5:30 p.m. four round preliminary and a pair of four-rounders and an eight- round scrap after the title bout. Ring Bout Won By Phil Moyer Richmond, Calif.- (UPD -Portland's Phil Moyer was award ed a technical knockout over Tony Dominguez of Oakfend after six rounds Tuesday night in the Richmond auditorium main event here. . . The ring physician ordered the middleweight scrap stop ped after the sixth when Do minguez was unable to con tinue because of a badly-cut right eye. Moyer, employing snappy left jabs and a wicked body attack,' was well ahead on points when thev bout was stopped. He repeatedly rocked Dominguez' head with rapid combinations. Cabin Still A BOURBON . MAN'S , BOURBON YEARS OLD '86 PROOF AVAILABLE IN FIFTHS PINTS KENTUCKY STRAIGHT SOUR MASH BOURBON WHISKEY Distilled and Bottled by STITZEL-WELLER DISTILLERY Louisville, Kentucky m San rjiesrn nnn iAi nnn a a t Sacramento ..021 000 14x 8 8 2 roaoieian and Jones; Osenbaugh and Dalrymple. Salt Lake 300 001 000 i 9 1 Phoenix 000 300 002 5 6 1 rerez, umuncht (9) and Wester feld: Barclav. Hvmnn ai litz. - Bolin Fans 22 For NW Record United Press International Bob Bolin really had his fast ball hopping Tuesday night. Bolin set a new Northwest league strikeout record by fanning 22 Salem Senators to lead the Eugene Emeralds to a 2-0 victory. 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