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MEDF0RD3SWrRIBUXE Black-Roberts Car Eliminates Others Two local entries displayed championship form yesterday to record their fastest times of the year and wind up pitted against each other in the top eliminartor finale of the Rose burg Disaster Benefit Drag races at the Camp White strip. Noel Black in the Black and Roberts Oldsmobile-pow-ered dragster outran Harold (Pudge) Knipps in the Wheel ers A competition Zombie in the final elimination run of the meet. A near-record crowd of drag fans turned out to see stellar performances by several sleek machines in the benefit event sponsored by Southern Ore gon Timing association. Local merchants donated special prizes for winners. Elk Trophy company, Fullerton, Calif., presented SOTA with trophies for all class winners. Proceeds of the meet will go to a Roseburg relief agency. 126.76 Miles Per Hour Black also had top speed honors with 126.76 miles per hour. He raced through the timing lights several times at speeds in excess of 120 mph. Zombie, after experiencing its usual transmission troubles, performed very well and, be fore the day ended, Knipps recorded a top speed of 113.20 mph, equal to the strip mark the .machine set last Septem ber. The Buick powered Ford coupe, dubbed Zombie, is sponsored by Medford's 21 club. One of the meets most ex citing races was between two cars in the B altered class. Phil Miles, Medford, driving a Chrysler powered 34 Ford was pitted against Chuck Gil christ, Medford, and his 32 Ford powered by a Chrysler. After being recalled twice by the flagman they raced off the line in an even start and Miles pulled two lengths ahead of Gilchrist in the first Field Goals Thumped By Morris Redlands, Calif.-fllPD-Coach Sid Gillman of the Los Ange les Rams today expressed sat isfaction of the football team following its easy 34-21 vic tpry Saturday night over the Chicago Cardinals. The Rams rolled to a 14-7 halftime lead against the Cardinals with second string quarterback Frank Ryan call ing the signals. Gillman was reluctant to single any one player out for praise but of Ryan he said: "He is a National Football league quarterback. He's a real fine understudy to Bill Wade." Wade went in for the second half and led the of fense up and down the field nearly at will. The Rams presently are carrying 44 players. Under -league rules they must be down to 42 players by Sept. 8 and down to 35, the maxi mum, by Sept. 22. 15 & 26-Yard Boots . The Rams chalked up their ? i r s t touchdown Saturday 'night in the Coliseum on a Done-vard Dlunee by Ryan in pthe first quarter, then col lected their other scores on: hundred yards. Then, Gilchrist's 32 surged and pulled even with Miles midway down the strip. Both drivers shifted into high gear and raced toward the finish line. Miles gunned his 34 to a one wheel win over Gil christ as reported by the judges. Both machines had turned close to 100 mph dur ing time trials. Close Race Chuck Strawn, Medford, al most eliminated Zombie in a heat race. Strawn roared off the line and built up an early lead over the A-competition coupe. Midway down the strip Zombie came to life and started to close the gap. Zom bie has tremendous accelera tion at high speed and Knipps finally caught the sleek A class cycle just before it reach ed the finish line. Strawn lost by a wheel but had earlier turned 107.01 to capture his class trophy. Little eliminator honors went to Don Horton, Rose burg, driving a Corvette. He was victorious in edging a host of stock and gas class winners to garner the trophy. Next action on the Medford drag strip will be Sept. 12-13 when Southern Oregon Tim ing association sponsors the Oregon Centennial Gas Cham pionship drags. Many of the top cars on the coast are ex pected to participate in this meet which features awards totaling some $2,000. For the first time in the history of the strip fuel - burning dragsters are being invited to partici pate. They will run in a spe cial exhibition class and not in competition with the slower gas powered machines. Winners in the drags, with class, speed, elapsed time and make of car were: 1 Two field goals by Jack ""Morris for 26 and 15 yards, a ntwo-yard plunge by Joe Mar at t rnni tr plimav an R7 . var. "irive a nine -yard left end ) sweep by Jon Arnett, and an f 8-yard pass from Wade to t, Jim Phillips. j The Cards scored on a right pjend sweep by John Crowe, a 47 - yard pass from reserve u quarterback Hunter Enis to f Sonny Randle, and a one-yard plunge by quarterback King Hill. Portland Woman Reports Assault Portland-flJPB-A 47-year-old woman told police she was at tacked several times early to day by three men who .took her on a 32 hour ride. The woman said she met the men at a north end cafe and agreed to ride with them to another cafe. Later, she said, she was left at her house from where she called police. WALKER RESIGNS Toronto (OPD Dixie Walk er resigned as manager of the last-place Toronto Maple Leafs of the International League Sunday night, claim ing "it's the worst year I've had as a manager, coach or player." General Manager Rudie Schaffer said Coach Lou Kahn would take over the field manager's job foi the balance ol the season. STOCK F, 70.75', 19.40. Fred Peyton, Cen tral Point, 50 Ford; , 74.31, 1937, Charles Sinyard, Central Point, 50 Olds; D. 75.82, 18.25, Mike Rut ledge, Klamath Falls, 53 Olds; C, 84.11. 1638. Ray Bell, Oakridge, 55 Chev; B. 86.70: 1639, Carl Forsyth, Reedsport, 57 Chev: A, 93.26, 15.60, Joe Longley, PorUand. 58 Chev; SS. 96.25, 15.05. John Brown, Gr-.nts Pass, 59 Chev; SS (aut), 90.90, 15.29. Douglas Praitt, Med ford, 59 Pontiac. GAS: D, 90.00. 15.75. John McKay, Crescent City, Calif., 55 Chev; C, 92.68. 1532. Ole Olsen.- Crescent City, 59 Plymouth; B, 9259. 15.07, Ken Allison, Brookings. 58 Ply mouth; A. 93.55, 15.62, Gary Wal ler. Grants Pass, 55 Chev. MODIFIED: F. '8152. 16.73, Stan Zwan, Med ford. 59 Chev. SPORTS: E. 67.21. 19.27. E. L. Cass. Med ford, 55 Volks; B, 96.25. 15.18, Don G. Horton, Roseburg, Corvette. ALTERED B. 96.98. 14.62. Phil Miles, Med ford. 34 FordChrys. CYCLES: B. 96.15." 14.40, Cecil M. Schv, Klamath Falls; A. 107.01. 12.90, Chuck Strawn. Medford, H.D COMPETITION: A. 113.20. 13.10, Zombie. Wheel ers club, Medford, 34 FordBuick. DRAGSTERS: B. 100.67. 14.10. Wally Cannon, Ashland, Olds; A, 126.76, 1133, Black & Roberts. Medford, Olds. Top time. Black & Roberts, Med ford. 126.76 mph. . Little eliminator, Don Horton, Roseburg. 96.25 mph. Top eliminator. Black & Rob erts. Medford, 126.76 mph. Denotes new record. Joe Francis Guides GB To Victory Portland - (CPD - The Green Bay Packers rolled up 24 points in the second period Saturday night and handed the Philadelphia Eagles a 45 28 defeat in a professional ex hibition football game before 24-456 fans in Multnomah stadium. Six different Green Bay players scored touchdowns, all on the ground. Paul Horn ing had a field goal and six extra points in addition to one of the TD's. Three of Philadelphia's four touchdowns came on passes by Norman Van Brocklin. Flashy halfback Tommy Mc Donald caught two of them. Francis Sharp Joe Francis, former Oregon State star, guided Green Bay to four of its touchdowns from the quarterback slot. Hornung ran 10 yards for the " first Green Bay score. The other Packer touchdowns came on a two-yard run by Lew Carpenter, four-yard runs by Don Mcllhenny and Jim Taylor, a one-yard plunge by Howie Ferguson and a 30 yard pass interception by Bobby Freeman. Freeman also intercepted a pass which led to Mcllhenny's score. Van Brocklin's third touch down pass of the evening went seven yards to Walt Kowalczyk. The other Eagle score was a two-yard plunge by Clarence Peaks. Philadelphia led only once, 14-7, early 'in the second quarter. Green Bay promptly went 80 yards in 11 plays to tie the score and Hornupg's field goal put the Packers ahead to stay. ' Van Brocklin completed 24 out of 40 passes for 378 yards and Francis hit 6 of 8 at tempts for 167 yards. McDon ald caught 11 of Van Brock lin's passes for 193 yards. The Packers announced Saturday that Gary Raid, for mer Willamette tackle, had been released. v 50 Ducks Expected At Practice Eugene (UPD Fifty candi dates for positions on the 1959 University of Oregon football team were expected to be on hand today as Coach Len Casanova begins his ninth season at Oregon. Sixteen lettermen headed by all-coast center Bob Peter son and all-coast halfback Wil lie West will be among the 50 gridders as the Ducks be gin drills for their openning game on Sept. 19 at Palo Alto against Stanford. Two 1958 lettermen who were counted on for the 1959 season will not turn out this season. ' Quarterback Sandy Fraser has told Coach Casanova that he plans to skip football for work this year, but plans to return for the 1960 season. Halfback H e r m McKinney will miss this season due to scholastic reasons. MacKay, Fraser Vie In Net Cup Decider By CONNIE RYAN Forest Hills, N. Y. (UPD Barry MacKay, celebrating his 24th birthday, could make a present of the Davis Cup to the United States if he de feated Australia's Neale Fraser today when the two tennis stars resumod their de cisive singles match in the 1959 challenge round. Each won one set on the center court at the West Side Tennis club Sunday before darkness forced them to halt. Their match, now reduced to a best-of-three struggle, re sumed this afternoon. MacKay, on leave from the U. S. Air Force, admitted a victory over Fraser would be "the biggest birthdav Dres- ent I could ask for." How ever, the Dayton, Ohio, iant was pitted against an eauallv powerful swinger who is the No. 1 player in tennis mad Australia. Australia started Sundav's final two singles matches in the best-of-five series with a 2-1 lead, but Alex Olmedo, the lean, moody Peruvian wno won the cup for the U.S. last year, regained enough of his form to beat left-handed Rod Laver in a record 66 game four sets, 9-7, 4-6, 10-8, 12-10. That match took 3 hours and 25 minutes, and it was after 6 p.m. when Mac Kay and Fraser took the court. Fraser took the first set, 8-6, but MacKay won the second, 6-3. Aussie team Cap tain Harry Hopman had been confident Fraser could win, explaining that "Barry never will break Neale's service, but Neale will break Barry's." In the first set that pre diction held up well. Fraser held service easily for the most part, while MacKay was spotty. But Fraser quickly got into trouble in the second set and committed two double-faults as he was broken in . the second game. Barry never let him recover. REGAL So. Riverside & Central STATIONS Jackson & Central Check Pontiac Tickets MOW FREE PENS With 10 ss Stamps Packers Lick United Press International ( Wjjen the Green Bay Pack ers went to training camp, new Coach Vince Lombarai claimed his biggest problem would be to conquer the "at titude of defeatism I know is here." However, one look at the Packers this summer would indicate Lombardi has licked the problem and is ready to pull a couple of surprises once the season gets underway Sept. 27. Win Second Straight With six different players sharing in the scoring, the revitalized Packers rolled to their second straight victory Biggest Trouble in three exhibition starts j Saturday night by whipping t n e Philadelphia Eagles, 45-28. The Forty Niners, led by veteran quarterback Y. A. Tittle and rookie Tommy Davis, handed the Cleveland Browns their third consecu tive defeat, 17-14; the Los An geles Rams stopped the Chi cago Cardinals, 34-21; the Giants shutout the Detroit Lions, 38-0; the Bears crushed the Pittsburgh Steelers, 54-17, and the Baltimore Colts downed the Washington Red skins, 23-10, in other week end action. Portlander Hurt By Large Crane Portland - (LTD - Wayne Chamberlain, 56, a construc tion worker, was injured ser iously today in an accident at the Exposition - Recreation center here. Chamber lain suffered a pelvic injury when he was crushed in a crane accident. Co-workers said he had just finished repairing the motor of a 20-ton crane and was standing on a platform behind the cab when the crane hous ing swung around, crushing him in a small space. ' GETS TITLE BACK Philadelphia (UPD Karen Hantze, top-seeded contender from San Diego, became the first girl to ever regain the U.S. Girls Lawn Tennis cham pionship when she turned back second - seeded Nancy Richey, San Angelo, Tex., 8-6, 6-1, Sunday. U.S. WHIPS AUSSIES The Hague, Holland - (DPD -Tony Trabert of Cincinnati and Pancho Segura of Los Angeles scored victories Sun day over Australia opponents in Jack Kramer's professional tennis tournament here. Tra bert beat Lew Hoad, 6-2, 6-4, and Segura downed Ashley Cooper, 6-3, 6-1. Rain, Dusf Cause Power Outages s Portland -(UPD Rain falling on power transmission lines which had collected dust dur ing prolonged dry weather re sulted in numerous power out ages here today, power com pany officials reported. 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