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0 B MEDFOHD MAIL TH13UNE. MEDFORD. ORE. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 19B0 Autos Race Saturday At Ashland Super-modified autos make a return appearance at the Ashland Speedway Saturday night, Aug. 13. Since ' their last perfor mance here several oi the modified drivers have won major races. Ed Brown, the last main event winner here, has taken the Southern Ore gon championship in an event held at Klamath Falls. Last weekend he also won a main event at Chico, Calif. Art Pollard, a popular driv er at the Ashland speedway, had his car figure in a very spectacular fire at the cham pionship race in Klamath Falls. It was repaired and he won the main event at Port land last week end. Dale Hankins of Klamath Falls is finally getting the bugs worked out of his super charged car. Dale drove to third place money at Klam ath Falls while partially blinded by dirt that got under his goggles. This week's race at the Ashland track again will have some of the top drivers on the west coast gunning for the $1000 guaranteed purse. Time trials start at 7 p.m. First race will be at 8 p.m. Pocatello, Idaho - (UPB -Riverside, Calif., and San Jose, Calif., fresh from re gional championship victories here, now go to the Colt league world series beginning Friday at Ontario, Calif. WILLIAMS TIES OTT Ted Williams, right, and Boston Red Sox Manager Mike Higgins hold sign saying 511 after Williams belted a fifth inning home run at Cleveland against the Indians yesterday in an American league baseball game. Williams thereby tied with Mell Ott for' third high among the list of major league home run hitters. (UPI Telephoto). Crater Gains Berth In Junior Tourney Central Point - Central Point Crater Cubs will repre sent southern Oregon in the Oregon Junior Baseball associ ation tourney which opens Friday at Eugene. The defending state champs qualified last night by de feating the Grants Pass Cubs 12 to 7 at White City. This was the second straight play off win for Crater over GP and ended a two-of-threc series. The Central Point team won 10 to 2 on Monday at Grants Pass. A six-run surge in the sixth inning sewed up last night's contest for Crater. The mark ers were on singles by Darrell Summerfield, Scott Eaton, Louis Alvarez and M ik e Glines, two fielder's options and five bases on balls. " Central Point has the use of 12 walks in the fracas SPORTS Floyd Will Not Waif Forever Stockholm, Sweden (UPB Heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson let it be known to day he doesn't intend to wait forever for lngemar Johans son to make up his mind about a third bout. Patterson arrived here Tuesday for an exhibition boxing tour and was surpris ed to hear Johansson had flown to Switzerland the same day. "I'm ready to fight Inge mar this week or next year or any time," said Patterson. "It all depends when he wants to fight me," the cham pion added, "But I don't want to wait too long for the next match, and absolutely not for a year like the last time." while GP batters drew free passes on seven occasions. The Crater crew had to come from behind to win. Grants Pass put over four runs in the third inning to as sume a 5 to 3 advantage. Cen tral Point got one run back in the fourth frame and went ahead 6 to 5 with two in the fifth. A Climate city rally was halted after two runs crossed the plate in the seventh canto. Buffalo Best Prepared For Major League Ball, Survey by UPI Reveals 2 8 LINESCOnES: Grnnls Pass ....104 000 2 7 Cralcr 300 126 x 12 8 3 O'Brien. Mllleman (31 and Klo- secker: Barnes. Glincs (3) and Sum merfield. By TIM MORIARTY New York-(UPD-New York and Minneapolis-St. Paul are the strongest contenders but Buffalo is the city best pre pared for admission to the ma jor leagues, a United Press International survey has re vealed. A city-by-city check of the eight bidders for the four open berths in baseball's ex pansion program also showed that Toronto and Atlanta presently lack adequate ma jor league stadiums while Denver's chief drawback is its comparatively sparse popula tion. Here is a rundown of the franchise seekers: New York- Presumably can't miss as a new National league entry. If team is grant ed a franchise for 1961, it will play its games in Yankee Sta dium. Hopes to play in new city-built stadium on Long Is land in '62. Minneapolis-St. Paul-A sol id bet to win an American league franchise . . . the Twin Cities have a combined popu lation of 1,477,080. The re cently - constructed Minneapo lis Metropolitan Stadium has 22,000 seats but can be ex panded to 40,000 . . . both cities drew well in American association last season. Buffalo - Branch Rickey claims this community-owned team is "The most ready" for major league baseball. Owns 14 players outright. 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Metropolitan population is 1,490,200. Team uses Maple Leaf Stadium, built in 1926 and seats only 18,000. Most city fathers against financing new sta dium. Atlanta - Present team in Southern association using a stadium with only 13,500 seats. A stadium authority was set up by the legislature with the right to issue bonds for construction of a new field but no solid action taken. Metro politan area population is 1,015,000. Houston -Two groups bid ding for franchise. Present stadium seats 11,500 but plans are drawn to increase it to 30,000. Revenue bonds have been voted for $20 million coliseum and park on 250-acre site already chosen. Present team in American association drawing less than 2,000 a game but fans crying for ma jor league ball. Dallas-Forxh Worth-Principal backers are J. W. Bate son, owner of a construction firm, and newspaper publish er Amon Carter Jr. They pres ently own Twin City team in the American association. Plans for new 40,000-seat sta dium located midway between the cities have been drawn. FAME HALL PROPOSED Canton, Ohio - (UPD - This city is making an all-out ef fort to sell the National Foot ball league on the idea of es tablishing a professional foot ball "Hall of Fame." To prove its sincerity it recently held a contest for architects to sub mit designs for such a struc ture. It picked the winning design last Saturday. Dallas population is 932,680; Fort Worth, 353,388. Denver - Backers are the present management of the Denver Bears in the American association. Bob Howsam is chief stockholder, president and general manager. City population is only 415,786 but metropolitan area is 776,060. Bears Stadium seats 19,000 but is being expanded to 27, 000. Biggest attraction is it would be an ideal stop-over for NL teams. Portland Holds Baseball Month Portland - (UPD - Mayor Ter. ry Schrunk has decreed Aug ust "Baseball Month" in Port land. 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