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'Olmedo Incident' Is In Committee Hands Hurls Shot Put To Pace U.S. Team Philadelphia - (UPD - Parry O'Brien, that colossus from California, hurled the shot to a world record 63 feet, 2V4 inches Saturday to pace the United States to a 59 to 47 lead over Russia at the half way mark in their two-day track and field struggle. As expected, world record holder Vasily Kuznetsov, 27-year-old Moscow teacher, took the half-way lead in the de cathlon with 4,625 points - 50 points ahead, of his record pace at Moscow in May. With former world. record holder Rafer Johnson of Cali fornia on the sidelines because of auto accident injuries, Mike Herman of N.Y.U. held second place against the 100 meters, broad jump, shot put, high jump and 400-meters with 4,391 points. Oregon's Dave Edstrom held third place with 4,346 points and Russia's Igor Ter - Ovanesyvan was fourth with 4,338 points. Greg Bell of Indiana shared top honors with O'Brien. The handsome two - time Olympic champion, as he sped down the broad jump runway and hurled himself to the second best leap of all time - a 26 foot, 7 inch jump which was just one and one quarter inches shy of the fabled Jesse Owens' 24-year-old record. The Americans blasted into their lead on the strength of one-two finishes in the 100 meters, 110-meters hurdles, 400-meters run and the shot put while the Russians scored only two such doubles by tak ing win and place in the 20 kilometer walk and the 10,-000-meter run in which blond Bob Soth of Drake collapsed in 83-degree heat with less than three laps to go. Russians Score Upset Russia's biggest upset was cored in the hammer throw where, on his last toss, 28 year-old Vasily Kudenkov, a Moscow metal worker, hurled the ball and chain 219 feet to beat Olympic champion and world record holder Hal Con nolly of Boston. The Russians also took third place as Mik- hail Krivonosov surpassed Tufts' Bob Backus. Connolly couldn't do better, than 216 feet, 7 inches. O t h 'e'r American wirhers under a blazing sun were Ray Norton of San Jose State, who took a hair decision from teammate Bob Poynter in a 10.3 finish in the 100 meters; Hayes Jones of Eastern Michi gan with an eyelash (with a 13.6) win over Olympic cham . (ion Lee Calhoun in the 110- fcieter hurdles; Eddie- South ern of Texas in a blazing 46.2 runaway in the 400 meters; ; Don (Tarzan) Bragg of Villa- nova with a 15 feet, 23A inch ; pole vault and the Yankee - 400-meter relay teanf. 'r - -The Russian women swept through their events with only ; one first place loss. That came ' in the 100-meter dash, which was won by Barbara Jones of Chicago, a sophomore at Ten nessee State, in 11.7 seconds. The meet winds up today with 11 more events in the men's division, plus com pletion of the decathlon's final five" events, and five more women's events. SIPdDffiTTS Dairy Maids Will Play Champ Girls Team Here A winning season in each of their 12 years of competition. That's the fine record of the world's champion women's softball team, the Raybestos Brakettes, who will be seen in a doubleheader on Thurs day, July 30, at Memorial sta dium, Camp White. The Braketttes, of Strat ford, Conn., coming to Ore gon for Centennial Softball Attractions, will meet the Rogue Valley Dairy Maids in one game and the strong Erv Lind Florists of Portland in the other. Over the 12-year span of 1947 through 1958 the Ray bestos club has won 378 games and lost 76. -Best season was last year with 52 victories against only five losses. In the world title season the Brakettes were led by players as Mickey Macchietto Mary Hartman, Bertha Ra- The South Kootenay Pass, ancient Indian route across the Rockies, has an elevation of 6,903 feet. . U.S. Men, Women Lead Track Meet Philadelphia -(DPI) Igor Ter- Evanesyan, substituting in the decathlon, sprinted to 10.7- second victory in the 100 me ters of the 10 event contest Saturday to open the United States - Russian dual track meet. , . The long-legged Igor led Mike Herman of Brooklyn, N. Y., over the line by better than a yard. World decathlon champion Vasily Kuznetsov was third and Dave Elstrom of Sherwood, Ore., fourth; The winning time equaled that of Kuznestsov when he set his world's mark in the decathlon. U. S. Womu Take Lead The United States women took the lead in their meet with Russia when Barbara Jones of Chicago, a sophomore at -Tennessee State, repeated her triumph of one year ago at Moscow in the 100-meter dash. Miss Jones outlasted Soviet champion Vera Krepkina in an eyelash finish in 11.7 sec onds. Galina Popova of Rus sia was third and Wilma Ru dolph of the U. S., pulling up lame in the last 20, was fourth. It gave the American wom en a 6-5 lead on the basis of 5-3-2-1 scoring. The American men's team also go off on the right foot when Ray Norton of Oakland, Calif., and Bob Poynter of Pasadena, Calif., finished 1-2 in the 100 meters with the winning time 10.3. It gave the American men's team an early 8-3 lead. BYU WINS ZURICH MEET Zurich, Switzerland .- (UPD - Brigham Young University's track team won eight of the 11 events it entered Saturday in an international meet. Un usually hot weather drove most sport fans in the area to the teaches and only 350 watched the Americans dom inate the competition on the Letzigrund track. gan and Joan Joyce, Macchiet to, catcher, swatted. 326 last year while Hartman, outfield er, had a .319 average and eight home duns and five tri ples in the 52 games. Ragan pitched 24 triumphs and did not suffer a defeat. Joyce had a 17-3 hurling mark. The teams 1958 batting average was .282. Raybestos won the East Coast crown in 1948. It has been regional champion eight times and National Girls league winner on a number of occasions. The club reached the world tourney quarter-final in 1953 and the semi-finals in 1956. The Lind Florists them selves have a national repu tation and several All-Americans. They won 1944 and 1953 world diadems. Recognition came to the. team recently when it was selected by the Department of the Army to tour Japan and other Pacific islands. The team will leave the United States in. Septem ber. Eagle Point Lions club is sponsor of the Camp White appearance and is in charge of ticket sales. Raybestos will meet the Florists in other games in Portland. Tiger Doesn't Like Decision Syracuse, N. Y. -(UPD- Rory Calhoun of White Plains, N.Y., who sparred his way through 10 undistinguished rounds with Dick Tiger of Nigeria to earn a split and. much dis puted decision Friday night, agreed with most ringsiders who called the televised bout a real loser. "I know the fight didn't make me look good but it takes two to make a bout and I was the only one fighting," Calhoun said after the boring return match, . Tiger, 29 figured, as ex pected, that he was robbed and his handlers said "never again will we. come to Syra cuse. The officiating was terrible." Scribes Agree Sportswriters tended to agree with the loser's corner. Six boxing writers gave the verdict to Tiger, middleweight champion of the British em pire., Calhoun claimed that his first go. with Tiger had made the Nigerian cautious and un willing to try topress the fight. But Tiger was courage ous enough to get in close, re peatedly during the fight to score well with short jabs to both the head and body. Gold Ray Fish Count WEEK ENDING JULY 1 S. Chinook salmon (546 (in-, .eluding 41.9 per cent jack salmon). Summer run sleelhead- 124. FULL SEASON: Chinook salmon 13.734 (including 18.6 per cant jacks) since April 9. Summer run . ifeelhnad 484 since April 30. Nalu II Wins Race; Portland Ship Silent Br ROBERT C. MILLER Honolulu-(UPD-Peter Grant's 46-foot sloop Nalu II emerged today as the overall winner of the annual Transpacific Yacht race Saturday with more than half of the 41 en trants across the finish line. Grant's Balboa, Calif., boat made a roaring spinnaker run down the Molokai Channel to take both the handicap fleet and the Class C. trophies. The only boat which had a chance to take the fleet handicap hon ors was the San Francisco sloop Debit, but she lost out when she failed to cross the finish line by dawn Saturday. All but one of the class championships were settled with 25 yachts across the fin ish line. Class A honors went to Sally Ames and her 75-foot schoon er Constellation from the West Coast Yacht Club in Los An geles. The Los Angeles Ketch Kamailli was second and Baldwin M. Baldwin's Esca pade,1 from Newport Harbor, Calif., was third. Arnold Haskell's trim yawl Chubasco out of Newport Har bor easily won the . Class T3 trophy and was second in the handicap fleet competition just three hours behind Nalu II. The Seattle yawl Maruffa, owned by John Graham was second, and Bob Roberts' Los Angeles cutter Nam Sang was third. : : Only the Class D champion ship was still in doubt. The times placed Echo, Debit and Sayonara all in contention: Class B Boats At the 5 a.m. h.s.t. 8 a.m. p.d.t. roll call this morning, Dr. Glen Harmon's Echo from Elkhorn YC at "Moss Landing, Calif., was leading the pack with the Stillwater Yacht Club's Sayonara, San Fran cisco Bay, second and Ted Stephens' Stockton sloop Deb it, third. , The remaining 16 yachts in the race are expected to cross the Diamond Head finish line during the week end. The first of the Hawaii yachts, Frank Rothwell's No BuHu, arrived at 10 a.m. pld.t. to accompaniment of hun dreds of firecrackers to cele brate the event in typical Chi- Braves Climb From Cellar By United Press International The Tri-City Braves are out of the Northwest league cellar Saturday, thanks to steady Ted Edmunds.- Edmunds tosd an eight hitter at Eugene Friday night to allow the Braves to change places with the Emeralds. It wasEdmunds' 14th win of the season against eight defeats. Tri-City won it in the top of the sixth. Dan Holden and Harry Dunlop walked. Both advanced on a sacrifice and Holden scored on an infield out, moving Dunlop to third. Dunlop raced home on a sin gle by Harvey Jones. In other action, Yakima belted Lewiston 14-5 and Sa lem grabbed a 4-3 squeaker from Wenatchee. ' . Japanese fishermen catch almost a half-billion pounds of tuna a year. CO 2101 West Main Phone 3-4428 or 3-4110 After 5:00 P. M. 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Bill -Forrest, skipper of the Patroniall, said Friday night that he talked to the Janie four days ago. He said the sloop's skipper, Don Schafer, reported that everything was "going okay." Schafer said he was having radio trouble and was getting a shock everytime he tried, to transmit. Forrest estimated that, the Janie would not ar rive here before early Sunday. The Coast Guard said a pre cautionary search of an area 180 miles at sea would be made in an attempt to locate the missing yacht. A routine flight failed to spot the Janie Friday night in the area where most of the yachts were sail ing at that point. River Forest, 111. -(UPD- The National Clay Courts tennis championships Saturday put the , "Olmedo' incident" into the hands of a committee and paired ' defending champion Barnard Bartzen of Dallas against South African Abe Segal in a semi-final contest. Both are conquerers of Alex Olmedo, the top-seeded Peru vian who war kicked out of the tournament for not try ing in a semi-final match. Segal, the South African southpaw, was the winner in straight sets over Olmedo, and- Bartzen shared the dis tinction of beating the tem peramental Peruvian by elim inating him in a second round match in last year's tourna ment. J The winner of the Segal Bartzen duel will face Whitey Ford, the 26-year-old national collegiate champion from Al ameda, Calif., for the clay courts crown Sunday; The first Girl Guides patrol in this country, a forerunner of the Girl Scouts, had . 11 members. - MAIL TRIBUNI, Mdford, Or. Sunday, July 19, 1959 9 The U.S. Army abolished flogging punishment in 1861 after public protests. Joe Gordon, Minoso Are Penalized Boston - (UPD - Manager Joe Gordon and left-fielder Min nie Minoso of the Cleveland Indians were given three-day suspensions and fined $200 each by American league President Joe Cronin yester day. The ruling, first major crackdown by Cronin since he took office early this year, was ordered by telegram and came as a consequence of ac tion by Gordon and Minoso, in Cleveland's victory over the Red Sox Friday night. . Both were ejected from the game by umpire Frank Umont after a fiercely disput ed interference call. Rec League BB Results Given The results of Recreation league baseball games for July 13-17 have been announced: July, is Washigton Panthers IS, Jefferson Colts 7 Jefferson Cubs 17. Washington Bulldogs 9 Hawthorne Bombers 12', Hoover 11 July 14 : Jackson 6, Jefferson Tigers 8 Wilson 33, Hawthorne Hawks 3 July IS Jefferson Cubs 14, Jefferson Colts -9 Hawthorne Hawks 18. Hoover 6 Hawthorne Bombers 16, Washing ton Panthers 6 July 15 Wilson 22, Jackson 6 Jefferson Tigers 20, Washington Bulldogs 21 . July 17 Hoover 7, Washigton Panthers 4 Jackson 1, Hawthorne Hawks 0, forfeit LEAGUE STANDINGS Jefferson Cubs Wilson . Hawthorne Bombers Jackson Washington Bulldogs . 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