SUNDAY. AUGUST 28, 1960
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Nitrogen Too Wins Silver Cup
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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-
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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-
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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. Dr. Rob
ert Buck. Harry Millette. Dr.
William Miller. Dr. Bruce
Stanley, John Spicer, Dr.
Dave Boals, Marvin Clark,
Jack Creager, Mrs. Maxine
Hammond and Pam Slacey.
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The blonde, pony - tailed
Miss Haydon and the four
foot, 11-inch Miss Catt moved
easily through the opening
set, which saw seven service
breaks, four straight in the
early minutes and three in a
row before the left-handed
Miss Haydon held for t h e
deciding game.
Miss Haydon and Miss Catt,
the top-ranked foreign girls,
will meet Darlene Hard and
Maria Bueno, the No. 1 Amer
ican team, in today's final.
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Portland, Ore. - IVP1I -Medford,
A-l high school
football champion in 1959,
has been picked to repeat in
1960 in the Oregon Journal
pre-season coaches poll.
Medford compiled 68
points in the balloting to
edge Maxshfield which had
66 and Jefferson of Port
land with 64 points.
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
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