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SUNDAY. AUGUST 28, 1960 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. A 11 Nitrogen Too Wins Silver Cup T-...:. (linn XT m .1 1 t . ... Detroit-IUPD - Nitrogen Too owned by Samuel Du Pont of Wilmington, Del., and driven by Ron Musson, outran the field of seven on the Detroit river Saturday to capture the 15th running of the Silver cup. The Du Pont boat's sister racer, Nitrogen, driven by Normal Evans, swept to a tic for second with the favored Miss Thriftway, owned by by Willard Rhodes of Seattle and driven in the race by Bill Muncey. Wild Bill Cantrell driving Gale V owned by Joe Schoen- 1th of Detroit appeared to wash out in the final heat and did not finish. Gale V was In contention until the next to the last lap of the heat as Cantrell battled Muncey for second position and a shot at the leading Nitrogen Too. They appeared to be wash lng each other on the turns and in the fourth lap of the three-mile course Gale V was left dead in the water on the second turn. Miss Buffalo Last Miss Buffalo, owned by Chester Hardt's syndicate and driven by Bob Schroeder, was the final finisher as Thunder bolt, another Detroit boat owned by George Zigas and driven by Waler Kade, failed to finish. Such Crust, Detroiter Jack Schaefer's boat driven by Leo Macutza, broke down on the second lap of the fourth heat and did not run in the final. By points Nitrogen Too racked up 1100 for finishing first twice and second in her third heat. Musson posted the Southern Entries Exceed For the first time in the history of the Labor Day holi days' classic at Rogue Valley Country club here entries in the Southern Oregon Golf championship exceed the 400 mark. Co-Chairmen Darrell Miller and Bill Clark this week re ported a total entry of 418 men and women for the 32nd annual tournament. This field Includes 272 in the regular men's division, 93 in the la dies' and 53 in the senior men's. The Southern Oregon for mally opens next Wednesday, Aug. 31, with qualifying by out -of - valley contestants. Match play starts on Thurs day and continues through Monday, Sept. 5, Labor Day. Rogue Valley club members are qualifying in advance. The 418 entrant figure is not necessarily final. Dropouts could slightly cut the field. Still the Medford links event looms as the biggest, in size, golf tourney in Oregon this year. And, the field of strong contenders could make it one of the best. Visiting golfers number 313 of the overall total. Portland's delegation alone is 90, almost equal the home course entry of 95. California participants number 76 from 28 different cities. Twenty-two linksters will come from clubs in Wash- Compared with any metal roofing TWIN-RIB It competitive In first cost eliminates costly upkeep Tht first ttumlmim shut dtsfgntd tsptclslly for Mooting tni tiding. Kaiser . SEE IT TODAY AT MEDFORD LUMBER CO. 'Now in Our 51st Year" 3rd and Fir Streets Phorre SJ 37531 best lap time, 105.88, the best heat time, 103.84 and ran the final heat in 103.7 miles an hour in blazing to victory. Thriftway and Nitrogen fin ished with 925 points and Gale V, although she failed to finish the final heat, came out of the race with 700 on the strength of a first and second in the prehminarys. Thunderbolt, Miss Buffalo and Such Crust were ranked in that order on the point board SOC Schedule Adds Whitman Ashland - Last minute changes have placed Whitman college of Walla Walla. Wash, on the Southern Oregon col lege grid schedule Oct. 1, at 8 p.m. in Ashland. Moffatt Naval Air field had been the scheduled opponent for that date, but the Twelfth Naval district in California has cut the allotment for var sity football. As a result, Mof fatt cancelled all of its games for the year. Whitman is a member of the Northwest conference which includes such schools as Pacific, Lewis and Clark, Linfield, College of Idaho, and Willamette. One other minor change has taken place on the Red Raider grid chart and that is the game time of the SOC-Oregon Tech battle. The classic had been set for 1:30 in the after noon, but the kickoff has been moved to 8 p.m., Oct. 15. Little more than a week sep arates the Raiders from their opening day of practice for the 1960 grid season which begins Sept. 6, at 9 a.m. with the initial meeting in the gym. Oregon ington. Largest single club representation will be from Oswego which has 24 men and women registered in the tour nament. Coos Bay will have 22 players here. Twenty will come from Eugene. The huge field includes 68 men, five of them seniors, with four-stroke or under han dicaps. There are 14 women with handicaps under 10. Heading a group of six scratch (no-handicap) contest ants is Dick Yost, Columbia Edgewater, Portland, a Walk er Cupper and ex-Oregon and Pacific Northwest open and amateur titlist. Others are Bob Atkinson, Portland Golf club, Oregon and Southern Oregon amateur champion three times each; Gene Maid ment, Colwood, Portland, re cent participant in the Nation al Public Links tourney in Hawaii; Jack Mattison, Eu gene; Charley Siver, Colum-bia-Edgewater, and Phil Un derwood, Waverly, Portland. Pre-Qualifying Pre-qualifying by all men and women entrants residing in the Rogue River Valley will conclude on Tuesday, Aug. 30. Valley participants, both RVCC member and non-members must qualify by that date. High handicappers of the area have through Monday, Aug. 29, for their 18-hole prelimi nary rounds. Players aspiring for championship flight posi tions must qualify on Tuesday and are instructed to contact the pro-shop for starting times. No Jackson or Josephine county residents have been Robert Bennett New SOC Coach Ashland - Robert Bennett has been named to the 1960 Southern Oregon college coaching staff to assist in foot ball and head the wrestling team after having served in coaching capacities at Coe col lege and Auguslana college. Bennett, 33, earned his B.A. degree from Augustana col lege in Rock Island, 111. in 1952 after graduating from Rock Island High school. He later gained his Master's de gree from the University of Colorado in 1954. Bennett's football and wrestling back ground has been star studded since it be gan at Rock Island High school. His wrestling career has been by far the most prom inent with the state champion ship crown and a Pacific AAU championship trophy to his credit. He was also a three time winner in the Whcaton Invitational tournament. Besides assisting in football and coaching the grapplers at SOC, Bennett will also teach some newly inaugurated gym nastics classes in the continu ally expanding SOC physical education department. Oswego - (UPD - Elmer Han egan of Royal Oaks of Van couver, Wash., scored a 4 and 3 victory over Lou To bin ef Columtoia-Etlgewater 9t Portland hee Ffiday to win t'ha waatal Junior-Seniors Gel association champion- MEDroRrvj&s.TKrBUNE cxji i tin n 53 r n ffsj m Ba una ifi Aussies Assured of Net Tourney Grown Chestnut Hill, Mass. - IUP1) -The powerful Australian teams of Neale Fraser and Roy Emerson and Rod Laver and Bob Mark turned the 80th National Doubles tournament into an all-Aussie final Sat urday by defeating American tandems in semi-final play. Defending champions Fra ser and Emerson defeated the stubborn team of Mike Franks of Los Angeles and Don Dell of Bethcsda, Md., 6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 10-8. Laver and Mark, national champions of Australia, need ed only 72 minutes to dispose of Wimbledon doubles champs Dennis Ralston of Bakersfield, Calif., and Rafael Osuna of Mexico. 6-2, 8-6, 6-2. Fraser and Emerson meet , Laver and Mark in the final at Longwood Cricket club to day, insuring Australia the doubles crown here for the ninth time in the last 12 years. British Wightman Cuppers Ann Haydon and little Deidre Catt gained the women's final by beating Janis Hopps of Seattle, Wash., and Gwyneth Thomas of Shaker Heights, Ohio, 6-2, 12-10, in a 70-min-ute match. paired for Wednesday qualify ing play because the large contingent of divoters from outside the valley will fill the Medford course at capacity on that day. To help relieve congestion on the links, all visiting golf ers who can are being asked to qualify ahead of Wednes day, even though they have been given pairings and tee off times for Aug. 31. Southern Oregon entries who will lake part this Mon day in National Amateur qual ifying play at Portland may, if they wish, declare their first 18 hole scores as a qualifying round for the Medford tourna ment. Most, however, are ex pected to waive this option and play their prelim rounds here. Low 64 qualifiers in the men's division and the low 16 each in the senior men's and women's will bo in champion ship flight contention. Lower flights in all divisions will be of 16 players each. Defending titlists are Bob Prall, Salem, in the men's, Karl Bennett, Grants Pass, in the seniors, and Miss Betty Martin, Longview, Wash., in the women's. Strong contenders from among the visiting delegations included Ron Mitchell, Chico, Calif.; C. L. Brown Jr., Coos Bay; George Cicrich, East moreland, Portland; Tom Shaw, Portland Golf club and University of Oregon; Lou Stafford, once a National Pub lic Links finalist, Sam Cavalli, Jim Snider, and Verne Per-! ry Jr., Columbia-Edgcwaler; Joe Hallmark, Roseburg; Glen Scharback, Oswego; Roy Mor gan, Royal Oaks, Vancouver, j Wash., and Dave Munro.Wav erly. I Among the visiting ladies will be Miss June Robinson, Albany, 1960 Oregon Coast j champ; Miss Shirley Sieg mund, Eugene, runner-up, in the same tourney; Mrs. Tom Harrison Jr., Waverly, runner up in the 1960 Pacific North-! west Amateur; Mrs. Ed Wheel-, ock, Columbia -Edge water; Mrs. Ray Scott, Eastmoreland; Miss Marilyn Leggett. Port- land Golf club, and Mrs. H. Dugan, Fortuna, Calif. Dr. Ralph Odcll. Larry But ler and Mrs. Helen Davies, RVCC men's, senior men's and women's club titlists, respec tively, lead the home club tourney crew. Other top home i entries are Eddie Simmons, ! six times champ, Alan Holmes, Jim Sheldon. 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Other teams expected to be among the top 10 are South Eugene, South Salem, Pendleton, Beaverlon, Dav id Douglas, Lincoln and Wilson of Portland. Mt. ANGEL. SALEM WIN Salem - iUPII - Ml. Angel and Salem posted victories in the Oregon slate men's Softball tournament here Friday. Mt. Angel defeated Tri-City, 3-1. and Salem came up with a 3-2 victory over Albany. Milwaukee - (DPI) - Red Schoendienst, pronounced fit after a routine checkup, is expected to rejoin the Mil waukee Braves Monday. The second baseman had been out of action last season with tu berculosis. GO! FORDS & FALCONS! Ventun Holds Lead In Milwaukee Open Milwaukee, Wis. - (I'Pb -Ken Veuturi, Palo Alio, Calif., shot his third straight sub-par round Saturday to take the lead in the $30,000 Milwaukee open with an sight-undcr-par 202 for 54 holes. Venturi, who won the Mil waukee open in 1957, finish ed with a two-undcr par 68 to go with previous rounds of 65, and 69, which had been good for three-way ties for first Thursday and Fri day. The third highest money winner in pro golf this year has had only one bogie in the three rounds at North Hills Country club and has missed the green with his approach shots on only four holes. Venturi's performance put him two strokes ahead of the rest of the field, but it was still anybody's golf tourna Your Medford Ford Dealer MAIN AT FIR . . . SP 3-4547 700 BiDDLE ROAD . ..SP 2-6446 Both Lots Opie-n Till- -:0.O- p'tm ment as a host of competi tors were looking over his shoulder going into the fi nal round tomorrow of the 72-hole event. John McMullin, 25, of Fail Oaks, Calif., zoomed past many in front of him with a five-under-par 65 to go into a four-way tie for second place at 204. 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