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o o TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, lWt MEDFORB MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OHE. Q Seafare Final Heat Completed But Winner Still To Be Chosen By ELDON BARRETT United Press International Seattle, Wash. -(UPD- The racing is over. Now all that's needed to find out who won the Seattle Seafair Trophy Race is a decision from the American Powerboat Associ ation. Miss Thriftway, driven by Bill Muncey, ended the event for unlimited hydroplanes late Monday by winning the de layed re-run of the final heat. But it didn't prove a thing. 'Pep Pill Charge Termed 'Sour Grapes' Roslyn, N. Y. - (UPD - A charge that United States women used "pep pills" dur ing last week's Olympic swim ming trials was dismissed Monday as "sour grapes" and "ridiculous jealousy." U. S. Coach George Haines, who is in charge of the girls who will represent Uncle Sam In the approaching Olympic games in Rome, and Al Se horn, Pacific AAU swimming commissioner, both denied the charge brought by Weikko Big Gasser Drags at White City Several of the west coast's fastest dragsters will high light competition on the com ing week end at the White City drag strip. Racing will be conducted all day on both Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 13 and 14. It will be the second annual Big Gasser under sponsorship of the Southern Oregon Timing association. The Glass Slipper, fiber glass speedster from Sacra mento, Calif, will be on hand gunning for a new strip rec ord and the $175 savings bond riding on this mark. Driver Ed Cortapassi will have to get his powerful su percharged Chevrolet-powered machine up to a speed of at least 145.63 miles per hour to qualify for the record and bond, Should he be able to do this then he must record a faster time than any of the other top contenders who may also break the existing mark. Cortapassi and co - owner Doug Butler presently hold the track record for dragsters burning special "fuel." They set a trap time of 160.87 mph through the one-fourth mile run when they were here last September. This time they will be using regular gasoline. Won at Reno Holder of many records for both beauty and perform ance, the Glass Slipper re cently won honors at the Great Western drag meet held in Reno, Nevada. The team of Cortapassi and Butler emerg ed as top gas class eliminator of the two-day silver state m-t. Keen competition for the Slipper hails from Portland, Oregon. Coming from the City of Roses to participate will be the Blanchard-Skeans quick starting "A" class dragster owned by Chuck Blanchard of Beaverton, Oregon and Wave Skeans from Vancou ver, Wash. Presently the outstanding gasoline-powered acceleration machine in the northwest, this vehicle has gained a top speed of 153 mph in just 9.4 seconds on Washington drag strips. It was Dave Skeans behind the wheel of his "A" modified roadster who outran Blan chards "B" class dragster for top eliminator laurels at the Memorial day meet held last May at the White City strip. Odell Plays Holmes, Creager Meets Butler in Club Finals Dr. Ralph Odell will op pose Alan Holmes for the will tussle Jack Creager in the senior men's finale in club championship golf matches at Rogue Valley Country ciud. Odell defeated John Spicer 2and 1 in semifinals last week. Holmes previously had beaten Phil Mongrain. Men's title match will be next Sunday. Butler was a decisive win ner over Jim aVrgo in a sen ior semi. Creager earlier made the final with a 2 and 1 win over Glen Fabrick. Butler is senior title -defender. Dr. Robert Buck and Bob Fasel will play for the men's first flight honors. Buck gain er! the flieht final by default when Lee Flink moved to Po- catello, Idaho. Fasel was a one up winner over John Jen sen. Bob Anderson won the sec ond flinht by turning back The race actually was scheduled to be completed Sunday. Two heats of the 45 mile grind were completed but the final heat, although started twice, didn't get into the record books until Mon day. It was halted both times because of accidents on the Lake Washington course. Miss U.S. 1 caught fire to stop heat three the first time. The second time, Thriftway Too blew up. Lodges Protest By Coach Ruuska of Berkeley, Calif., coach of the 1959 Berkeley YMCA women's national team champion. Ruuska said Sunday that pep pills were found in the women's locker room after last week's trials in Detroit. Miss Voii Saltza was ao cused indirectly of using pills when Ruuska said some of the girls "were swimming 30 sec onds faster than their best previous times." Miss Von Saltza set a record of 4:44.5 in the 400 meters. Ruuska's daughter, Sylvia, qualified for the 400-meter swim but another daughter, Pat, failed to make the team. Walt Schlueter, coach of the Multnomah Athletic club of Portland which was one of the clubs accused by Ruuska, said the charge "is simply ridiculous and silly. ' Junior Golf Sign-Ups Requested Sign-up of entries for two golf tournaments Is being urged by officials at Rogue Valley Country club. One event is the junior club championship meet and the other is the annual Father and Son tourney. Filing of entries has been slow for the junior tussle and registration at the pro shop right away is asked. The tournament is billed for Mon day and Tuesday, Aug. 15 and 16. There will be 18 holes of medal play each day. Com petition ' will be in junior boys', boys', pee wee and girls' division. The Father and Son will be on Sunday, Aug. 21. There will be a 9 a.m. breakfast. Pairings and starting times will be determined at 10 a.m. Dick and Rich Knight have taken the low gross crown for the past two seasons. Bill and Tom Clark claimed low net laurels last year. Martin To Tell Of Fistic Bout Cincinnati, Ohio (UPD- Billy Martin, fistic artist of the Cin cinnati Reds, is to meet with National League President Warren Giles today to tell his side of the Martin-Jim Brewer scuffle last week in Chicago. The Reds' second baseman, whose on and off-the-field ca pers are well known in both the American and National leagues, slugged Brewer of the Chicago Cubs, claiming Brew er deliberately threew at his head. Giles handed Martin a $500 fine and five-day suspension. Brewer suffered severe damage to the orbit bone un der his right eye and under went three -hour corrective sureerv Saturday in Chicago He is expected to be out of action about a month. Martin said he wanted to explain his case to Giles. Giles promised him a "full dress" hearing at 4 p.m. at National League offices here. Dick House 2 up after beating Jim Lowman in a semi. House had beaten Norm Hillyer. In the third flight top prize will be decided by a match be tween Dr. Dave Engleson and Bill Cowning. In semifinals Engleson tripped Barclay and 1 and Cowning won 3 and 2 from Tom Teutsch. Randall Gifford has gained a fourth flight final with Bob Lockwood after a 4 and win over Jim Dunlevy. Lock wood won from Jack Craw ford to get to the deciding match. Clark' Mears downed Dick Travis 3 and 2 for fifth flight prize. In previous tilts Travis tripped Galen Sanner in 19 holes and Mears topped Duane Lubbers 2 and 1. Bob Hart and Harry Jewett have yet to play their senior first flight semifinal. The win ner will play Bayard Getchell, The second flight finisher will Darkness prevented a third start of the final heat Sunday and sanction from the power boat association to finish the $10,000 race Monday was ob tained only on the condition that no decision nor prizes be awarded. A 13-man unlimited hydro plane commission will consid er all the facts and any pro tests and present its findings to ihe APBA for a final and ocnclusive decision. George Simon of Detroit, owner of the Miss U. S. I which caught fire during the first attempt to run the final heat Sunday, lodged an of ficial protest. Simon contended that the race had been called officially at the end of the second heat. Consequently, the decision should be based on the num ber of points each boat had collected at that time. This would give the Detroit craft first place with Miss Thrift way and Miss Spokane shar ing second place. Venezuela To Be Easier Says Davis Cup Captain Mexico City - (UPD - David Freed, captain of the victor ious United States Davis Cup tennis team, said today be believed the Yanks should have an easier time against Venezuela in the American zone final than they did against Mexico. The Americans qualified to meet Venezuela for the zone championship at Cleveland, Sept. 16-18, when Barry Mac Kay of Dayton, Ohio, defeat ed Mario Llamas, 6-2, 6-4, 1-6, 12-10, Monday to give the U.S. an insurmountable 3-1 lead over Mexico. The final singles match was halted by rain with Mex ico's Esteban Reyes leading Chuck McKinley of St. Louis, 2-1, in the opening set. Mex ican officials wanted the match played off today but Freed pointed out his team already had plane reserva tions for home. The Yanks Davis First In Batting San Francisco -IUPD- Willie Davis of Spokane vaulted into first place in the Pacific Coast league batting race over the week-end with a mark oi .ddo, according to statistics released today and including Sunday's games. Davis, boosting his average two points over the week-end, took over from Ray Barker of Vancouver, who dropped to second with a .336 average. Davis leads the league in hits with 165, in triples with 20 and stolen bases with 24. He is the property of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Harry Brignt, ban uane City veteran, leads in runs- batted-in with 91. Veteran moundsman Erv Palica of Seattle leads tne pitchers with an earned run average of 2.37. He has won 11, lost 7 games. Chet Nicnois of Vancouver haj the most wins with 14, but he has been defeated 6 times. He has an e.r.a. of 4.02. Stagg To Be Awarded Medal On His Birthday New Brunswick, N.J.- IUPII - Amos Alonzo Stagg will re ceive the National Football Foundation's gold medal award on his 98th birthday, next Tuesday, for his contri butions to American inter collegiate football. Stagg, known as "tne grana old man of football," will be honored at a luncheon in his home town of Stockton, Calif. The award will be presented hv Chester J. Laroche, prest dent of the National rooiuau Foundation. Previous recipients oi me nlrt medal award were Presi- F.isenhower in 1958 and r.on Douelas MacArtnur in 1959. Goda fAeir Hopes For Soviet Understanding Jerusalem. Israel - (OPD - Is raeli Foreign Minister Golda Molf pvnressed hope Monday that the Soviet government ,nuld display more "under standing" about petitions from Jews who want to emi grate from Russia to Israel, sh said that in the past five years Israelis have sent more than 9,000 requests to relatives in Russia asking them to join their tammes in Israel. The Russians re quire this procedure, but turned down all the petitions, she said. ' be between Dr. Burt Lageson who beat George Barnum 5 and 4 and Ray Wise who nip ped Wally Robinson 1 up. Berg Marten took the third flight with a 4 and 2 win over Wally Robinson. $3,000 Top Prize On points based on all three heats, Miss Thriftway collected 1,025, Miss Spokane, with a second place in Mon day's re-run, gets 925. Both boats had '625 points at the end of two heats. Muncey had no trouble in the re-run. He piloted Miss Thriftway into the lead on the second turn of the first lap and stayed there easily the rest of the way. Miss Thriftway did her five laps over the three - mile course at an average speed of 106.761 miles per hour. Miss Spokane averaged 101.963 mph. Miss Seattle Too came in third, Miss Burien, fourth, Breathless II, fifth, Kol-Roy, sixth, and Miss Tool Crib, -last. The winner of the race when a decision is finally made -will receive $3,000 in prize money. The second place boat will get $1,500: third place, $1,000: fourth, $500 fifth, $300, sixth, $200 and seventh, $100. thus forfeited the match set the ting the final score of series at 8-2. Freed said the forthcoming series against Venezuela "will be an entirely different story." We'll be playing on our home grounds, for one thing," Freed said. "I don t think Venezuela is nearly as tough as the Mexicans were. Ven ezuela doesn't have the depth that Mexico had. I'm not wor ried." Patterson Describes Obstacles New York - CUPD - Heavy weight champion Floyd Pat terson, before flying to Swe den early today, admitted there were still "a few obsta cles" to be straightened out before he could fight Ingemar Johansson in November. One of the obstacles, he told reporters at Idlewild Air port, is Johansson's reported desire to postpone the fight until next year because of his tax situation. 'I hope everything will be straightened out in confer ences at Stockholm or Gote borg during the next couple of days," the champion said. Then we'll all know wnere we're at." Although Floyd had been hopeful of having his "rubber match" with Johansson at Los Angeles in November, he said he would be willing to wait until January or February, but no longer than March," if Swedish Ingemar insisted upon fighting next year. Detroit-Cleveland Fans Wonder About Trading Detroit (UPD Detroit Tiger and Cleveland Indian fans are beginning to wonder if their favorite clubs have become the new "trading cousins" of the American League. Earlv in the season the teams swapped batting stars the Tigers sent Harvey Kuenn to the Indians for Rocky Cola- vito, Last week it was managers, Jimmie Dykes of the Tigers went to Cleveland and Joe Gordon reported to Detroit. Monday the teams an nounced that Tiger Coach Luke Appling has been sent to Cleveland the Indians an nounced that Coach Jo Jo White would report to Detroit. Don Bies Takes Lead In Northwest Open Seattle - (UPD - Don Bies, Seattle, shot a five-under par 67 Monday to lead in the first round of the Northwest Open golf tournament. Ron Weber of Kelso was second with a 69 while Boots Porterfield of Grants Pass, Ore., and Stan Leonard of Vancouver, B.C., had 70's. Nine players shot 71's. Dallas. Tex.-WP-"Items," a publication of the Dallas Fed eral Reserve Bank, observes without comment that "a doe can run 48 miles per hour, according to scientists, while a buck can run 49 miles per hour." BRILL METAL WORKS Commercial Industrial Rtildantlal Sheet Metal Work , Stalnltti, Galvanised and Copper Fabrication 2287 West Main PHONE SP 2-4440 siPODinrs Crater Bops In First Mix Central Point-Central Point Crater Cubs whipped Grants Pass 10 to 2 yesterday in the first game of a two-of-three playoff to determine which will represent southern Ore gon in the Oregon Junior Baseball association tourney this week end at Eugene. The teams meet again at 8 o'clock tonight at Memorial stadium. White City. Should Pin Lanes Gains Win By Default Regular schedule of the Rogue Valley Baseball league came to an unceremonious, disconcerting end last night when the Grants Pass Townies failed to show at Memorial stadium, While City, for a contest with Medford Bowling lanes. Word finally was obtained that Grants Pass could not field a team. The Keglers, who have had their 'roubles in having suf ficient players on hand, were ready and waiting with a squad of 12. They take a win by default from GP. As the result of the forfeit ure, the Medford nine, Grants Pass and Crescent City, Calif., all tied for third place in the loop - which is just a nice way of saying they wound up keeping company in the cellar. AH three finished with 4-12 records. Roseburg was the league champion with 15-1 and Ash land was the loop's No. 2 club with a 13-3 standing. There is possibility of a softball game next Monday night at White City in which a team of mainly Bowling lanes plajers would compete against the Grants Pass city champs. All-Stars Choose Team Captains Portland -(UPD- The metro politan all-star team has chos en halfback Mel Renfro and end Herb Washburn of Jeffer son high school of Portland lineman Lewis Tuttle of Bea verton as captains for the an nual Shriners hospital foot ball game Saturday night. The Metro squad will face the State team at Multnomah stadium. The Staters are scheduled to elect their captains Tuesday or Wednesday. Coach Fred Spiegelberg of the State squad and Coach Tom DeSylvia of Metro ran their teams through two-a-day workouts again Monday and plan to do the same Tuesday. The squads will taper off to singls drills Wednesday and Thursday. Etna Explosions Shatter Windows Catania, Italy - IUPII - New explosions rocked Mt. Etna Monday night, breaking win dows in mountainside villages, and smoke jetted 3,000 feet into the air above the volcanic peak. Lava has been accumulat ing in Etna's craters for more than three weeks, but so far none has overflowed. Lininger's Concrete Grants Pass of Playoff Grants Pass win, a third game will be played at time and place to be decided. The state tourney opens Friday and continues through Sunday. Central Point won the crown last year. Four Hitter Pat Pepper tossed a four- hitter for Crater yesterday while the CP nine was getting six hits off Grants Pass pitch ers who walked a total of 12. Vern Swanson belted a two run double for Central Point and Mike Glincs and John Champ each had two hits. Pepper issued three bases on balls. He fanned seven. An equal number of Crater batters went down swinging. Playing with Central Point is Mike Barnes from the Med ford Cub team. LINESCORKS: CP Crater 121 130 a 1(1 Grants Pass ....000 003 0 1 8 I Penrjer and Ilarnes: Thompson, O'Brien (5) and Peters, Ktesecker (4). Turf Greats Chosen For Hall of Fame Saratoga, N.Y. -(UPD- Native Dancer and Tom Fool have been selected to racing's Hall of Fame along with jockey Ralph Neves and the late Wil lie Molter, trainer. Walter M. Jeffords, presi dent of the National Museum of Racing, made the an nouncement Monday after nationwide polling of sports writers, turf writers, radio and television announcers, racing officials and Thorough bred owners, breeders and jockeys. Native Dancer was the top selection, receiving 266 votes Tom Fool had 205 votes to edee Nashua by four. The 41-ycar-old Neves, wno did most of his riding on the West Coast, earned the nick name of "Portuguese Pepper- pot," for his daring style of racing. Molter. whose top horse was Round Table, saddled the most winners from 1048-48 He died of a heart attack on April 2, 1960. Four Capture Batting Togas Bruce Bertrand, Ken Eckel, Mike Neathamer and Dan Miles were crowned Medford team batting champions fol lowing the completion of Southern Oregon Junior Base ball league play last week. Bertrand compiled a .455 mark with the Wildcats and Ken Eckel a .375 with the Tigers. Both clubs were in the pee wee league. Mike Neat hamer led the Medford inter mediates. He hit .454 for the Yankees. Dan Miles had a .434 mark with the Cub team. Trophies were donated by Medford Rotary club. G eorge Logan Wins Unanimous Decision Boise, Idaho - (UPD - Boise heavyweight George Logan used a strong left hand and an aggressive style Monday night to pound out a unani mous 10-round decision over Willi Besmanoff, Seattle, be fore an outdoor crowd of 3,850. When You Order you get . . . Cleaned Sand and Gravel Washed and Rewashed Before Batching Controlled Mixing to Give Added Strength RADIO DISPATCHED TRUCKS To Glv Prompt Delivery I Lininger's For the BEST in Concrete SP 3-7555 MU 5-8121 NO 4-1217 White Sox As Billy Pierce Practices Defeating By GARY KALE Billy Pierce, passed up in the White Sox' World Series tarting rotation last season, is developing a mastery over the Yankees in the hopes of rea lizing a lifelong ambition in this year's classic. The Chicago southpaw de feated New York for the sec ond straight time Monday ight, 9-1, to move the White Sox to within a half game of Umpires Careless' Says Casey Chicago -(UPD- Major league umpires are careless in call ing bails and strikes, Man ager Casey Stengel of the New York Yankees charged today. "I'd like to see them lake movies of the pitches, lie said, "and at the end of the season, check them over just to see how accurate they are. I'll bet they'd know then which were good umpires and which weren't. Stengel, whose team Mon day night lost 9-1 to the White Sox, wouldn't recommend use of an "electric eye" for spot umpiring during a game. But he said the American and National leagues should get together to straighten out the interpretations so that both loops would have the same kind of umpiring. We play all season in the American League with the umpires working behind the plate, and we get in the World Series and the All-Star games and get National League umps who work , at the side of the plate. If they work one place or another in the minor leagues and come up, then they've got to change. I should think that somewhere in baseball there'd be somebody smart enough to straighten this out so we all have the same um piring," ho said. BOILING SUMMER MITFTTS Standings: W. The Four Bees IS Flat Tires 15 Alley Dusters 14 Four Scores 13 The Hot Shots 11 The M.P's 1(1 The Oo-ers 10 Tigers 1 High games Men, Chuck Hendry 203, David Baylor 11)0; women, Charlene Stephenson 201, Shirley Baylor 1S2. Enjoy The Rich : Kentucky! Ctraiohi Excep tionally light Bourbon i Kentucky Whiskey ! taste $A60 A qt. k fSjsS 7 X BJ2 SUNNY ! i.VSSiSS BROOK ' STRAIGHT BLEND Jl IHl UB SiiNNI BftOOK CO., LOUISVim,lY. ttMIUaT :IRAICIH BOIUBOM WHISKIt 90 PEittf lUIIiCKT Narrow First Place Yanks the first place Yankees in the American league. Pierce's newly-attained su premacy over Casey Stengel's crew gave him an 11-7 record for the season, a big improve ment on the 14-15 mark of 1959 that failed to impress Al Lopez in his choice of start ers in the World Series against Los Angeles. Pierce was ad mittedly disappointed that he did not start a game. Fourth Straight Victory Chicago won its fourth straight and evened the series at 8-8 with New York as Pierce scattered four hits. Minnie Minoso and Jim Landis were the big guns in the White Sox' 14-hit attack against loser Whitey Ford and reliever Ralph Terry. Each collected three hits, Mi noso driving in three runs. Minos6 drove in his first run with a single in the open ing inning and pushed two more across in the fifth with a bases-loaded single. Nellie Fox hit safely in his 13th straight game as the White Sox won their fourth in a row against Ford. The Yankee southpaw lost his sev- STANDINGS NATIONAL. LEAGUE W. I,. Pet. GB Pittsburgh 63 40 Milwaukee .17 44 St. Louis 5B 4 .612 .564 5 .558 5',i .545 7 .500 111', .438 18 .404 21 'i Los AhkcIcs .... 55 46 San Francisco.. 51 51 Cincinnati 46 5(1 Philadelphia .... 43 62 Chicago t 30 63 .382 231a Monday NlKht Results Cincinnati 4, ban Francisco 3 Milwaukee 7. Los Angeles 6 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. I Pet. .5B4 GB New York 50 42 Chicago .. 61 .574 ",4 .506 1 .510 714 Baltimore til) Cleveland 51 Washington ...... 50 Detroit 46 Boston 44 .4U.1 1U .455 13 .431 1511 Kansas City .... 39 .386 2U Monday Night Results Chicago 8, New York 1 Washington 10, Kansas City 7 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet OB Spokane 70 47 Tacoma 116 S2 .508 .550 4 i Salt Lake 02 S3 .330 7 .504 It Sacramento 59 nn Seattle 59 SB .504 11 San Diego n:i iffl Vancouver 51 ft7 Portland 47 67 .400 18 V Monday's Results Salt Lake 5, Portland Seattle 7, Tacoma 0 NORTHWEST LEAGUE Yakima 2t 17 Pet. .sos .901 .500 AOS .450 .431 Trl-Cllv 24 19 Lewis ton 22 22 Eugene 20 23 Wenatchee IB 22 Salem 18 25 Monday's Results No games played. Great Whiskey of Kentucky Straight or Kentucky Sunny Brook tastes better, richer than any other whiskey I Prized and favored as the finest of Kentucky whisktes. Sunny Brook rolled westward with the settlers of th 19th Century. Today its popularity is higher than ever. $60 Its smooth, superb Kentucky taBte truly has no equal. Lead enth game against seven vic tories. Washington whipped Kan sas City, 10-7, in the only oth er American League game. Braves Beat Dodgers National League play was limited to Milwaukee's 7-6 victory over Los Angeles and Cincinnati's 4-3 ninth-inning win over San Francisco. Harmon Killebrew and Earl Battey broke Washington's three-game losing streak as a c h collected four hits gainst Kansas City pitching. Killcbrew's 14th homer of the season with a man on In the ixth iced the game for the Senators. Battey drove in four runs with a bases-loaded double in the fifth and a single in the sixth. Rudy Hernandez, who re lieved starter Hal Woodeshick in the A's two-run fifth, won is third straight game. Dick Williams' five hits and Norm Siebern's four safeties led Kansas City's attack. John Tsitouris was defeated in his first start this year. Come From Behind A three-run homer by pinch hitter Wes Covington in the eighth inning enabled Mil waukee to overcome a five- run deficit and move to with- five games of first place Pittsburgh in the National league. Los Angeles, which dropped seven games on tne pace, quickly ran up a 6-1 lead, but the Braves made a 6-3 in the fifth on Eddie Mathews' 23rd home r. Covington's blast capped a four-run Milwaukee rally that gave reliever George Brunet his second win. Ed Roebuck, who served up the home run ball, lost his third game. Ed Baileys ninth-inning homer off Mike McCormick sent San Francisco reeling to its fifth consecutive loss and eighth defeat in the last nine games. Ed Kasko, Vada Pin son and Gordon Coleman each had two hits in the Cincin nati triumph. Willie Kirkland hit his 12th homer for the Ul ants, but it failed to help Mc Cormick, who lost his seventh lame. Jim urosnan iimsneo. .412 aiiSlup for Red starter Claude Os teen and won his fifth game. Dumbarton, England - (UPD Jolin Collins pleaded guilty Monday to driving across a double white line because 'my wife agrees with the of ficer." In fining Collins $14 the magistrate observed: "He seems more scared of his wife than of the court." the Old West WINNING THE WEST "Jtolintf Ibc Bufitth CHerd" Blend . . . lUNOa WHUKET K PKK)F,tS MAW MCUIU1 STItia
