MONDAY. AUGUST 89, 1960
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE.
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Zombie II Makes
Brilliant Debut
'Zombie' is a name well
known among drag enthusi
asts in southern Oregon. For
the past three years a com
petition coupe running under
this title has been a consistent
contender at the Medford drag
strip.
Yesterday Zombie II ap
peared at the drag race site in
White City and, before the
met concluded, had written
a new chapter into the story
of local drag racing.
On its maiden run the new
creation of the Wheelers club
SPORTS
PARADE
JACK CUDDY
Spori Writer Unltrd Press
Rome -0JP1I- Five years ago
when two-time Olympic De
cathlon champion Bob Mathi
as was on a state department
tour, he gave a clinic for some
two dozen wide-eyed young
men on the island of Formosa.
They were a silent, earnest
lot. And they listened atten
tively as Mathias gave them
tips on. the various track and
field events which compose
the decathlon and then dem
onstrated his prowess.
Until it came to the high
jump.
Mathias leaped over the bar
at six feet. So did one of the
young men attending the clin
ic. Mathias cleared it at six
feet, one. So did his observer.
Rangy Bob hitched up his
pants and cleared six, two,
the highest he ever jumped
in his career.
The young man sailed over
it easily-and went right on
sailing over it as Mathias
watched from the sidelines un
til he cleared six feet, six
inches.
Mathias Impresed
Now it was Mathias who
was pop eyed.
"Holy smokes," he told the
young man, "you can jump.
If you tried some of the other
events you'd make a terrific
decathlon man."
That was five years ago.
Today, as Mathias walked
through the Olympic village,
he said a tremendous mouth
ful. "I will bet you 5,000 lire,"
he said, tallying as if the
equivalent of eight bucks
United States wasn't a lot of
money, "that this guy wins
the Olympic decathlon. And
you can have the rest of the
field."
He wasn't talking about
world record holder R a f e r
Johnson. Nor about former
world record holder Vassily
Kuznetsov og Russia, who
generally is considered to be
Johnson's main threat in the
guelling 10-event man-killer
which runs over two days.
Picked Yang
He was picking the fellow
who beat him high jumping
that day in Formosa-fellow
named Chuan Kwang Yang.
Such a bet, naturally, was
snapped up like leaf of let
tuce in a rabbit waren.
"But don't spend it yet.
Mathias warned. "If Johnson
has one bad event and if Kuz
netsov isn't in the greatest
shane of his life, Yang will
win this thing sure."
Yang, who is known affec
tionately to his friends as
"C.K.," took Mathias' advice
and turned up in the United
States where he went to
school at UCLA. He has heavi
ly muscled legs and a sort of
sunken chested appearance
but, Mathias warns, the 27-year-old
Taiwan athlete has
been working with weights to
improve the strength in his
upper body and with the prop
.er breaks can go all the way.
Drug Given
Dane Biker
Copenhagen, Denmark-fllPD-The
Danish Road Biking un
ion has been informed that
Olympic cyclist Knud Jensen
was given a drug before his
death in Rome last Friday,
the United Press International
learned today.
Preben Z. Jensen, leader of
the Danish Olympic biking
team, reported to the Danish
Road Biking union Sunday
nieht that team trainer Oluf
Jorgenscn gave the members
of the Olympic road racing
team a drug called Ronicol
prior to last Friday's 100
kilometer 62.5 mile race in
Rome.
Jensen, the UPI learned,
revealed that Jorgensen had
admitted last Friday night
only a few hours after the 22-year-old
Kund Jensen died in
a Rome hospital after collap
sing during the race-that he
gave.Jhe cyclers pills.
NEER WINNER
Portland -flJPD- Jack Neer
won the Portland men's
singles tennis title Sunday
with an 8-6, 6-3 and 6-4 win
time
of nearly 127 miles per hour
in tne standing start one
fourth mile speed traps. This
first effort was a full 10
miles per hour faster than the
best time ever recorded by
the original Zombie on t h e
Medford strip.
Zombie II, expertly driven
by Charles (Bub) Hewitt,
made several other runs dur
ing the day's competition and
tneir greatest glory came dur
ing the elimination run
against Sands & Gegner. In
recent meets the Sands & Geg
ner coupe has been easily de
feating the original Zombie
for honors in the "A" compe
tition class and this run was
going to be the showdown.
Long Gone
Could the quick - starting
Sands-driven machine edge
the new Wheelers club entry?
Alter a false start both
sleek coupes were together
on the starting line ready for
ine Dig race. Flaeman Dale
Carter dropped the standard
and both machines leaped for
ward. After a few feet the
Sands-Gegner entry bogged
down as the engine missed a
few times and Hewitt in the
new Zombie II was long gone
for the class trophy.
tteturning once more the
crowd saw the top eliminator
race of the day staged be
tveen the victorious coupe
and fellow club member Jim
Wilson of Grants Pass. Wil
son's Chevrolet-powered drag
ster broke an axle coming off
the line and like Sands was
never in the race.
And so it was, that Zombie
II on its initial appearance.
cleaned up the top awards of
the meet and also copped the
top time of the affair with
an official mark of 126.93
mph.
Crew members Gary Crou-
cher, Bob Aldredge, Cliff Pe
derson and Bub Hewitt plus
other members of the club
had worked hard for two
weeks getting the new Zombie
into running condition. They
were well rewarded for their
efforts.
Wolffe's Time Low
Low elapsed time of the
meet was recorded by Lou
Wolffe of Ashland in his
feather light fuel burning
dragster powered by a Ford
flathead engine. Wolffe pow
ered through the timing
clocks at a top speed of 121.62
miles per hour in 10.34 sec
onds, the best recorded yet
by him.
A fuel injected Chrysler
powered dragster from Eure
ka, Calif., showed promise of
being a real contender in com
ing meets. Although the Lor
ing & Peterson machine was
having considerable trouble
with the fuel injection they
still made several runs in ex
cess of 120 mph.
Middle eliminator honors
were taken by Phil Miles of
Medford in his "B" altered
coupe. Miles won his class
and then sped past all comers
in the middle eliminator divi
sion for the double win. Miles
runs under the flag of the
Rogue Racing team and the
only other trophy the team
copped yesterday was in the'
"B" competition class where
Chuck Gilchrist emerged vic
torious. Following are the official
class winners showing class,
speed, elapsed time, winning
contestant and winner's car,
in that order:
STOCK
SS. 94.24. 15.10. Doue Chamber
lain, Medford. 59 Pontlac; SS (null.
yo.72. 15.75, Dnrrel Lltwlller, Kose
burg, 60 Plvmouth;A, 87.54. 15.88,
Bclden R. Webber, Talent, 58 Chev.;
A (autl. 90.45, 15.48, Raymond J,
Haag, Eugene, 59 Pontine; B, 90.09,
15.56, Bill Eubanks, Crsccnt City,
Calif.. 59 Pontiac: B (autl. 86.53.
16.45, Tom Radzwcit. Medford. 58
Chev.; C, 75.56, 17.99, Gary Ehr
mantrout, Klamath Falls, 56 Chev.;
C (autl, 89.96. 16.78. Robert McKee.
Medford. 55 Olds.; D, 80.50, 17.13,
oary Halovsek, Malin. 60 Pontlac;
E. 74.07. 18.40, Frank N. Bell, Eu
Bene. 54 Ford: F. 71.37. 19.42. Ger
ald Schloesser, Anderson, Catif., SI
rord.
SPORTS
BMod. 99 00. 14.43. Lee O. Hirn,
Roseburg, 60 Corvette; D, 95.64,
15.10. Jerry Copley, Grants Pass,
59 Corvette; E, 91.37. 15.86. Wendell
White. Grants Pass. 59 Corvette;
G. 71.42. 19.06. Marvin Acrex, Med
ford. 60 Volvo; H. 62.89, 20.66.
David Vincent, Klamath Falls. 60
Fiat; I, 63.38, 21.15. Don Roufs,
Klamath Falls, 58 Flat.
GAS
C. 83.17. 15.88. Bill Henderson.
Medford. 34 Ford; D. 90.72, 15.80.
Bill Skillington, Klamath Falls. 55
Chev.
ALTERED
B. 108.69, 13.43. Phil Miles. Med
ford. FordChrys.; C. 94.14. 14.72.
Road Knight, Ashland, Ford'Chev.
B. 93.26. 14.74. Jim Downs. Med
ford. Harlcy; C. 84.03, 15.35. Pearl
Nason. Klamath Falls, 60 BSA
COMPETITION
A. 126.93. 10.85. Zombie II.
Wheelers Club, Medford. Blown
Chrysler: B. 106.76, 13.83. Chuck
Gilchrist, Medford, FordChrys.
DRAGSTER
C, 117.18. 11.86. Jim Wilson,
Grants Pass. Chev". Dragster.
Little Eliminator C O. Wrleht
Crescent City, Chevrolet-powered
nciiry j. JU4.U4 mpn.
Middle Eliminator. Phil Miles
Medford. Chrysler-powered 34 Ford
COUDe. 108.69 mnh
lop Eliminator, Zombie II. wneei.
ers Club, Medford, Blown Chrysler
powered Fiat. 126.93 mph.
Top Gas Time. Zombie II, 126.93
mpn.
TOD Fuel Time l.fti, Wolffe. Ash
land; Ford flathead dragster, 121.62
mpn.
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SPORTS
Golf Tempo
To Increase
On Tuesday
Pre-Southern Oregon Golf
tourney tempo is expected to
pick up Tuesday at Rogue Val
ley Country club.
Rogue Valley residents try
ing for the championship
flight, all seniors who wish
and some of the out-of-valley
participants will qualify to
morrow and a good number of
the visiting players will en
gage in practice activity.
Formal start of the tourna
ment is on Wednesday with
qualifying by visitors. Matches
open on Thursday and con
tinue through next Monday,
Labor Day.
High handicappers of the
home club not trying for title
flights and the Rogue valley
n general were to wrap up
their qualifying today. A num
ber of the Southern Oregon
entrants were taking part to
day at Portland in National
Amateur qualifying rounds.
These included Dr. Ralph
Odell, this year's RVCC club
champion, and Dr. D. C. Boals,
who was runner-up in the
Southern Oregon in 1958.
Top practice effort at the
links here Sunday was turned
by Ron Mitchell, Chico.
Calif. He had a one-under-par
71. Jim Sheldon, Medford,
shot a 74. Mrs. Helen Davies.
Medford, seven times SO
women's victor, had a 78.
which is two over ladies' par.
Miss June Robinson, Al
bany, Oregon Coast tourna
ment winner this year, shot
an 84.
Moore Retains
Feather Title
Tokyo-(UPD - Featherweight
champion Davey Moore re
tained his title today by gain
ing a unanimous decision over
Japanese challenger Kazuo
Takayama in in their 15-round
title match.
Moore punished Takayama,
the ninth ranking contender,
severely with terrific left and
right punches to the body but
was unable to score a knock
out.
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Dick Lines Shines
In Relief for Bees
By ROY WEBSTER
United Press International
August appears to be the
favorite month of 22-year-old
Salt Lake City hurler Dick
Lines.
For the second straight
night Sunday, Lines came on
in relief for the Bees and won
the ball game, both on the
mound and at the plate
against the Tacoma Giants.
Sunday night he pitched
two and two-thirds innings of
scoreless ball and smashed a
12th inning solo homer to give
Salt Lane a 3-2 decision. Sat
urday night, Lines hurled five
and one-third innings of score
less relief ball and bunted in
the go-ahead tally for the
Bees.
In August, 1957, Lines' first
year in pro ball, he came
within one pitch of a perfect
game while throwing a no-hit,
one-run contest for Clinton of
the Midwest league. August
17 is Lines' birthday.
Any month during baseball
season seems to be popular
with Spokane's Indians who
downed Portland, 15-0, in the
first game Sunday night and
then came back for a 2-1 sec
ond game win. Sacramento
took a shutout over San Di
ego, 4-0, and Seattle was rain
ed out at Vancouver.
At the end of nine innings,
Salt Lake and Tacoma were
2-2, with one of the Giant
tallies coming on Dusty
Rhodes' 21st homer of the
year in the eighth frame. Dur
ing the final five innings of
the game a steady rain fell on
the diamond.
Ray Semproch was the
pitching star of the first Spokane-Portland
game as he
limited the Beavers to five
hits and took the shutout vic
tory. However, at the plate
Semproch was the only In
dian to go hitless. Charlie
Smith led the hitting attack
for Spokane with five, one a
double, and had three RBIs
In th" nightcap, Bill Bethel
follow- Semproch's lead and
hurled a two-hitter but lost a
shutout on a first inning walk
and infield out. Ramon Conde
homered for Spokane to knot
the count in the second and
Willie Davis romped home in
the third with the winning
marker. He had doubled
Bring your asbestos gloves -these year-end
deals on remaining '60 Valiants are hotter than
a tamale in Death Valley at high noon. Out
goes every Valiant we have -along with the
shirts off our backs. You'll really save yourself
DICK
aboard and came in on Smith's
two-bagger.
Winston Brown struck out
four and walked only one to
take a three-hit shutout over
San Diego as his Sacramento
teammates struck for three
runs in the sixth and one in
the seventh. A two-base error,
sacrifice, a fielder's choice
and four singles provided the
three sixth frame tallies.
(12 innings)
Salt Lake 200 000 000 001 3 8 1
Tacoma 100 000 010 000 2 13 2
Gross, Gicl 5. Lines 10 and bll-
vera; Fisher and Reveira. Haller a.
(1st game)
Portland 000 000 000 0 5 1
Spokane 273 111 OOx 15 21 0
.Mickeisen. uriiun .:. vaienum-iu
2. Mason 3. and Websterfeld; Sem
proch and Sadowski.
(2nd game)
Porlland 100 poo Ol 2
CnnUnnO Oil 000 X 2 5
Bvrd and Gongola; Bethel and
Brumley.
San Diego .... 000 000 0000 3
Snr-rnmcnto .. 000 003 10X 4 7
Reed and uarreon; crown ana
Roselli.
Ken Venturi
Golf Victor
Milwaukee - (UPD - Ken
Venturi, the man who always
plays to win, was the winner
today with $4,300 in first
place money from the $30,000
Milwaukee Open golf tourna
ment. Venturi, 29, Palo Alto, Cal
if., posted his fourth straight
sub-par round Sunday in a
consistent golf performance
unmatched by any of the 150
pros and amateurs who start
ed the four-day, 72-hole event.
His cards of 65-69-68-69 for
a nine-undar-par total of 271
gave the four-year veteran his
second tournament victory of
the year and boosted him past
Dow Finsterwald into second
among the top money winners
this year with $41,820.
Eleven competitors were
within six strokes of Venturi
going into Sunday's 18 holes,
but only four of them could
break par and it was a 68 by
Billy Casper Jr., Apple Val
ley, Calif., that was finally
good for a 273 total and a sec
ond place prize of $3,000.
Ties for third were Bob
Goalby, Crystal River, Fla.,
and Arnold Palmer, Ligonier,
Pa., at 274; and tied for fifth
at 275 were Fred Hawkins,
El Paso, Tex., and Mason Ru
dolph, Clarksville, Tenn.
OE THE
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Junior High
Grid Exams
This Week
Medford junior high school
boys planning to play football
are to have physical examina
tions Uiis week.
They will be given at the
Medford Clinic. 1025 East
Main st. McLoughlin players
are to report for physicals at
7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 30,
and Hedrick gridders at the
same hour on Friday, Sept. 2.
Each boy playing football
must have a physical exam
and return the form signed by
a physician. Signature of the
parent or legal guardian.
granting permission to play
should be on the form before
it is returned to the school
office, where it will be kept
on file.
A nominal fee of $1 will be
charged each boy for the
examination and each boy
should have the money with
him when he is examined.
Lee Ragsdale, Medford
school supervisor of health
and physical education, said
that coaches of the teams will
be on hand at the clinic to
supervise the squads and help
the doctor by recording exam
results.
Boys, who wish, may have
their exams by Uieir personal
physicians. In such cases, they
must secure exam forms from
the school office. A boy will
be responsible for paying
whatever fee is charged by
his doctor.
Players must have obtained
student body cards before
practicing. Players are cov
ered by insurance when the
student fee is paid. Ninth
grade workouts will start on
Sept. 6 and seventh and eighth
grade drills after school opens,
Browns Train
At Forest Grove
Forest Grove - IUP1I - The
Cleveland Browns set up train
ing camp here today for Sat
urday night's game with the
San Francisco 49ers at Port
land Saturday night.
The Browns flew into Port
land Sunday from Los Angeles
where they dropped a game
Saturday night to the Los An
geles Rams, 22-17.
Observed Cleveland coach
Paul Brown: "We played pret
ty good football at Los An
geles Saturday night but some
rookie mistakes cost us
chance to win."
KEN WHO SEU.
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Green Bay, Dallas
Keep Up Grid Pace
By JOE SARG1S
United Press International
Maybe it's time to start tak
ing the Green Bay Packers
and Dallas Texans seriously.
The Packers, their five-year
plan running far ahead of
schedule, ripped off their
third straight exhibition vic
tory during the week end,
beating the Chicago Bears,
35-7.
The Texans made the Den
ver Broncos their fifth
straight victims, 48-0, to take
the favorite's role in the new
American Football league.
When Vince Lombard! took
over as general manager and
head coach of the Packers
before the start of the 1959
NFL season he vowed that
Green Bay would be a con
tender within five years.
So far, they've made the ex
perts look good, beating the
Pittsburgh Steelers and New
York Giants before crushing
the Bears. Bart Starr and La
mar McHan, Green Bay's two
quarterbacks, completed 16 of
34 passes between them for
312 yards to make a shambles
of the Chicago defenses.
With a partisan crowd of
35,118 looking on at Milwua-
kee, Starr connected on a 41
yard pass to Jim Taylor and
on a 23-yarder to Max McGee
to build up a 17-7 halftimc
lead and the Bears never re
covered.
The Texans finally had to
call on their reserves to keep
from running up the score
against the Broncos (0-4) with
a crowd of 5,500 looking on
at Little Rock, Ark.
Before they did, however,
Cotton Davidson, former Bay
lor star, and Jack Spikes, the
former Texas Christian full
back, led an attack that at
times appeared unstoppable.
The Los Angeles Rams (2-1)
treated another big crowd in
the Coliseum (48,175) to a
good show by defeating the
Cleveland Browns (2-1), 22-17;
the Dallas Cowboys (1-3) beat
the Giants (0-3), 14-3, before
a crowd of 10,636 at Louis
ville and the Philadelphia Ea
gles (2-1) Vhippod the Wash
ington Redskins (0-3), 24-6, be
fore a crowd of 21,000 at Nor
folk, Va., in other NFL games.
In the only other AFL
game, the B6ston Patriots (4
enough to write home about if you surrender to
Valiant now. Like today, Dad, before they're all
gone. We're making room for the '61s, so hotfoot
it down to your corner Valiant man -and fire
ball out in a red-hot 1960 Valiant this instant!
PtlUOOIH-VAUAKI
1) defeated the Oakland Raid
ers (2-3), 28-14, before a small
turnout of only 3,500 at Am
herst, Mass., on Sunday after
noon. Herrmann
Hurls Win
For Drain
Wichita. Kan. - UTII - The
Drain, Ore., Biack Sox won
their second straight victory
in the National Semipro
baseball tournament Sun
day night, handing Tooele.
Utah, an 8-1 defeat.
Fred Herrmann, a right
hander, held the Utah
champs io three hits and
struck out 14 batters.
Left fielder Larry Peter
son led Drain at bat with
two doubles in three trips,
while first baseman Jim
Hollister had three runs bat
ted in on sacrifice flies.
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Los Angeles - (UPD - The Im
proving Los Angeles Rams,
bragging about the running of
rookie Dick Bass from College
of the Pacific, returned to
practice today to prepare for
next Saturday's game against
Dallas in Pendleton, Ore.
Bass, who might combine in
the Ram backfield with Jon
Arnett and Ollie Matson for
quite a running triumvirate,
was one of the best perform
ers Saturday night when Los
Angeles defeated Cleveland's
Browns, 22-17, in a National
Football league exhibition
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While Arnett was catching;
six passes for 41 yards and a
touchdown, and Buddy Hum
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