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2 B ntlDAY. MAY 11. mi MEOt'ORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OHEGON Tornado Diamondor Grants Paso OtlTHIlN OBtOON CONFiaENCB STANDINGS W L ret Klamath Valla 4 - 1 400 Medford S a .714 Crater ... ,. 1 400 Ashland ...-... 1 a .J50 Crania Paaa 1 J00 i " Medord high's Black Tor nado diamond crew, spurred offensively by tha two for two hitting of three men while ill three pitchers were hold ing the opposition 'to leven bits, wrote up its fifth South am Oregon conference victory yesterday by outlasting Grants Pass here 8 to 6. The Tornadoes- ran up a six-point 8 to 2 margin then weathered a flareup of mis cues in the seventh ihnlrig to preserve the win. Sam Knudsen, Craig Laur ence and Bob Schroeder were the two for two swatters. Knudsen and Insurance each trippled. They knocked in two runs each and Schroeder push ed home, three, one on a sacri fice flyout. Errors allowed - in four of the GP runs. The Cavemen collected three of their seven hits off Medford's Herb Whee ler and two each off Bob Quinney and Stewart Young. The game represented Med ford's only varsity baseball fray of the week. It put the Tornado ahead of league-pacing -Klamath Falls in the win column but Medford has one more loss than the Pelicans. Grants Pass was left in the cellar alone. ' ...,.. Games Saturday Weather permitting, Klam ath Falls and Ashland were to make up a league scrape at Ashland this afternoon rwo varsity doublebllls are in the Saturday agenda. Ash land is to meet Crater at Central Point and Klamath a to travel to Grants Pass. )nly the first games in each ase count in the conference tendings. Grants Pass's first man to at, Gary Holmes, tallied the irst run of the conflict yes ;rday. He singled and Jack akraida sacrificed bim to :cond base. Holmes went to ilrd after the catch of Mike lineman's right field foul out nd came home on an error on lava Hauntt's ground ball. Medford got two counters l the second canto when GP larting totter Paul Blinka ave up single to Schroeder nd walked three men and hit batter. Four more were toalked up In the third stanza n back to back triples by tnudsen and Laurence, sin-. les by Jim Barry and Tim white, a base on balls an er ror and Schroeder's flyout sacrifice.. Blinka Triplet In the fifth inning for the Cavemen, Blinka tripled and got home on Quinney's wild pitch. Quinney then issued the only two walks permitted by Medford hUrlers during the afternoon. But, Medford's sec ond, double play of the game got him out of trouble. Knudsen, Laurence and Schroeder each singled off re liever Bob Varner in the fifth Inning. The hits were com bined with a base on balls and a balk for two runs. -Jim Carson. got a one-baser and Sakraida a double off the third Tornado chucker, Stuart Young; In' tha seventh inning and three Medford misplays figured in. the scoring as GP put over four markets. Gary i Reddlck with two safeties was the only player for the Cavemen with more than one bit. Sakraida drove home two runners. If",,, T" 'fVavvyys1, ,,' '"ft IN STATE TOURNEY Medford High school's District 3 champions carried the Black Tornado standard into the Oregon state tennis tournament today at CorvallLs. From left are Coach Bob Huff, John Mc- BOXi ' Oraati Pais Holme, e . ...... 2 Canon, e ............ 1 Sakraida, 9b 1 M. Mllleman, 3b 4 Hauntx, lb, p 4 Kaddlek, tt ...... 4 Jonas. If .. 4 Walker, as . -.. 0 Varnar, rf, P . Banner, rf ... 1 Da Bo, at, If ........ a Blinka, p, rf, lb .. a ABB PO A a o Total! . .It S I IS I I afedfard Ruhl, rf, e Miles, as Rasadala, ef Millar. It Quinnay, lb, p Younf, p ......... Barry, o, rf Knudsen, If ..... Naathamar, ef . Lauranoa, lb ... Bchroadar, Sb Stewart, 2b . Whaalar. a - White, lb Totals .. Oranta "aaa , Madford .... .. ABB , 3 0 PO A a o Cavemen, Tornado In Track Battle Kinley, district singles titlist, and Jim Ran dies and Gary Highland, district doubles champions. The tourney Continues through Saturday. Eight Medford girls also were entered in the tournament. State Tennis Tourney Opens Corvallis -flJPD- The Oregon state high school tennis tour nament - with 200 of the best prep players in the state on hand - opened today. The tourney runs through Saturday. Roseburg is defending champion in the boys' division and Girls Poly is the defend' lng titlist in the girls' division. ..IS S S 21 It 4 . 100 010 4. . 024 030 X S Rum batted In Sakraida a. KnueUen 3, Laurence 3. Schroeder Two baaa Bits oanraiaa. inree baat hita Blinka, Knudaan, Laurence. Sacrifice hlta Sakrai da. Sacrifice fly Schroeder. Double p i a y a iuranc io Schroeder to Quinney, Mllea to Bchroadar to White. Left on base Medford t, Oranta Paaa t. Strike out By Wheeler a. by Quinney a, by Blinka a. Baaea on balls Off Quinney 3, off Blinka 4, off Varnar 1. Three hlta and 1 run off Whael- In 1 Innlnn: 1 hlta and 1 run off Quinney In 3 innings; s nita ana 4 runa off Younl in 1 inning: a hlta and t runa off Blinka in 3 in nings: s nils ana a runs on varner in s imnga. Barnea runa Meaiora S. Oranta Paaa a. Hit by pitched ball Daao iby wnaeiarl. Knuasen (by Blinka). Wild pitch Quinnay. Balk Varnar. Winning pitcher eulnney. Losing pitenar aunaa. umpiree awanaon ana Monroe Sun Club Conducts Annual Trapshoot It's two big days and one fening of trapshootlng at ledford Gun club this Satur y and Sunday. The occasion is the 28th an nal Mail Tribune tourna ient,. , ' A program "of 500 targets, SO of them under Pacific In rotational Trapshootlng as Klaltion - registration, will s offered Saturday morning, ternoon and evening and unday morning and after- oon. ' The tourney will open with 100-taiget 16 yard affair at 9 a.m. Saturday. It it the ogue Valley Hunded with -ophles for A, B, C and D lasses. At t p.m. Saturday ill be the 100-blrd Chester rood handicap with a per- etual purse to be allotted on ta first 80 pigeons. Trophies ill go to the first, three laces. Other prizes include fits, wrist watches, Jet ader, a portable radio, an ectrlc fry pan and an elec- ic toaster. A non-registered 1 80-blrd ndicap will be fired at 8 m. Saturday The event for which the iurney ig named Is set for t m. Sunday. Gunners will mg away at 100 targets at I yards for the Mall Tribune ophy. There will be tro- llet in tour classes, for Jun r, sub-junior, high lady, teran and 65 and over. The andenhall trophy will go to e high gunner in B class or wer. At 1 p.m. Sunday the Jim orris Memorial handicap ek Grovtj Thincladi iz Howard School A . substantial margin In aat B made the difference ineeday when Oak Grove cled Howard 108 18 to if) t3 in trade school ft meet, v- - 1 J. award won two Classes of e meet, A with 3 to 84 and with 33 8-3 to 281-3 but e Orovers took Class B 41 30. Phil Taylor took four firsts Class A for Oak Grove, nning the shot put, the in Jump the pole vault and 0-yard runs. Taylor's shot t of 38 feet 4 inches and the 11 effort of Ricky Fhor ich, Howard, each were bet - than the shcool district ass A record of 38-10V. will be fired. Belt buckles go to the top three placers. Con cluding event will be 25 pairs of doubles with awards in two classes. There will be a high over all award on six events and high all-around trophy for the Rogue Valley hundred, Ches ter Wood, Mal Tribune tro phy and Morris memorial events. A smorgssbord Is planned at the club at 7 p.m. Saturday. Crater Jayvees Nose Out Eagles Eagle Point - Crater High school junior varsity track men barely nosed the Eagle i-oint varsity 61 Mi to 60V4 in a Tuesday meet. Eagle Point won eight of the 14 fusts and Tom Hudson in the half-mile and mile was double winner for the Eagles. Sherm Kiger nabbed the 100-yard dash and the oroad jump for Crater and Bruce Martin took the high hurdles and Vole vault for the comets. Coch- Oeren, tT.t a- Brent! Huh hurdles Martin r ito nirer, t: uei terson. Mr. :I0.. Mile Muriann V V . 11- Askwith. C. S.OST Broadjump Ki(er, C: Itveraon, C: tie second. Boa and Kun r ll-t. Hi ah Inmi llttlHi. wm. Vaughan a. P.; tie thlnf. Beman S and Hudson, IP. ft. , 440 Oeren. l.P.j Ryaraon, C: Cockran. C. :flt J. ,J-ow hurdle Charters, tr.-. Whipple. S r.; MarUn, C. :3. I P McOrath, C. 3SO Petenen. IJj Beman, C; Henry. I P. :2) s. Shot put Burns. C; Hanson. I P : Harris, C. 3S-1S.I Dlicus Stock. !P.: Burns, C; Harris. C. 111-10. .110 Hudson, IP,; Hlckaon. C; Sherwood. IP t:l.t. Javelin Muller, C; Harris, C; Hoelfl. I. 143-10. ' "'y lagla Point (Charters. nMHPw. r wmi wmn, wnni, s:aa, Detroit -flirt- Two 700 Plus aeries wore rolled In the Amerlcsn Bowling Congress tournament Thursday, mark ing the first time this year this feat had been accomnllsh- ed in the tournament having oniy nine days left to run. Tim Karbler, of Sandusky, Ohio, shot 700 even In regular division singles to take third place early Thursday and Charles Maher, of Beldlng, Mich., had 704 in the regular division team event Thursday night, Southern Oregon's top dual track meet of the season is scheduled Saturday when the Cavemen of Grants Pass High and the Black Tornado of Medford vie at the Medford stadium. The meet will get under way at 1 p.m. when contention opens In the javelen, shot put, high jump and pole vault, First race, the high hurdles, will be at 1:30 p.m. ' Medford and Grants Pass meet headon. They have been foes in other tussles this sea son. But, this time there will be no other schools to take some of the points. The Tor nado will challenge the GP claim to No. 1 track po.wer in this section of the state. GP has finished ahead of Medford In the Rogue relays and the Grants Pass Rotary meet. The Tornado outscored the Cave men at the Hayward relays. There will be stiff compe tition In a number of the con tests and meet records could fall and even district marks could be excelled. One of the top battles should be between Medford's Bob Mclntyre and GP's Al Staley In the quarter-mile. Mclntyre and Humphreys will face a challenge from the Cavemen's Ray Meek in the 100-yard dash and Humphreys and Meek will collide again in tha 220. In the low hurdles it will be Grants Pass' Gil Smith facing Medford's Mike Hood, Scott Eaton and Dick Andrews. In the highs Hood and Walt Ayres oppose Ron Cowln, Dannie O'Leary and Smith. In the mile Medford's Hi Martin, Dennis Brumback and Bill Dahlstrom may lace Uf s Ken Marshall, - Montgomery and Dennis Alertis. Coach Dean Benson will have Humphreys, Eaton and Hood in the broad jump and will try for a sweep there. Jay Hushes, Dave Ricks and Vic Van Koten give GP strength in the pole vault and the Cavemen have a pair of top high jumpers In Bob Shep- pard and Clyde Murray. in the discuss Grants Pass has Mike Curtis who has heaved the platter over 180 feet twice. Challenging . him will be Wayne Cowan of Med ford who has reached 149 feet so far this season. Saturday will mark Med ford's second and last home appearance. High hurdles :15.3, Hood, Med ford, I960; 100 :10., Peek, Med ford. 1839, and Meek, Grants Pass, 1960; mile 4:36.7, Simmons. Grants Pass, 1999, and Smith, Med ford, 1960 Shot out 56-2. Murray. Med ford, 1999: Javelin 196-3, Win nlngham. Grants Pass 1960; 440 :91.7, Staley, Grants Pass. 1960; low nurdlea :2UJ, Hooa, Meaiora I960: hlih lumrj 9-8. Koch. Med ford, 1999, and Mclntyre, Medford, iubu; uku vtiA, uriggs, meaiora, I960: 880 2.-03.3. Armstrong, Grants Pass, 1999; broad Jumf 21-74, Griggs, Medford. 1999; 880 relay 1:32.8, Grants Pass, 1039: ole vault 13 it., noimes, urants 'ass I960: Discus 149-6, Hoatson, Grants Pass, I960, Bulldog Netters Top Ashland JV ' In a match played between showers Wednesday afternoon McLoughlin Junior high ninth trade boys tennis team defeat ed Ashland senior high jun ior varsity 5 to 0. The tussle between No. 1 singles players, Craig Savage, McLoughlin, and Ken Mitch ell, Ashland, was stopped be cause of rain and called a tie. The No. 1 doubles fracas was not played at all because of wet courts. Bulldog victories were Paul Jenny over Dean Luehrs, 6-3, 8-4, Bob Walker over John Wacker, 6-4, 6-0. Mike Naumes over Dennis Elder, 6-0,' 6 0, Ronnie Grimes over Charles Calhoun, 6-0, 6-0, and Walker and Naumes over Wacker and Elder, 8-2. No-Hitter Win Hurled By Gardiner Prospect - Craig Gardner threw his second no-hit, no- run victory of the season yes terday when Frospect Hign baseball - team beat Rogue River here 9 to 0. Gardner walked four bat ters, hit one and whiffed nine. He ran into trouble in the sixth inning when he yielded two bases on balls and hit a batter to load the sacks. Steve Simer of the Chiefs came home when a pitch got away from catcher Richard Betts. But, the runner missed the plate, Gardner called it and tagged the plate and Simer was ruled out. Cliff Chapman homered and Gardner and Bob Scott each had two hlta for the cougars. L1NESCORE! Rogue River ....000 000 O A 0 ProHDect 400 131 x 9 8 Kite ana cooper; uaraner ana Betta. Summer Activities Of Medford Y Told; Will Begin June 12 Summer activities at Med ford YMCA will start on June 12. There will be swimming plus other type of activities for the whole family. Activities will include swimming for children ages 6 to 16; swimming for women and men; mom'n tot classes, where the mother helps in struct her child to swim un der the supervision of a qual ified instructor: Iad'n dad, recreational swimming; in structional swimming for the whole family, family night swims; lite saving courses; Softball for women, college, and high school girls; church Softball league; trampoline, and adventure ontings to Mt. Ashland, Squaw lakes, and Oregon Caves, The YMCA will have larger and better program than it has ever had, officials main tained. Each class will be un der the supervision' of a qual- lified instructor. Persons interested are ad vised to register now. Eagles Face Henley in Rogue Mix Eagle Point and Henley col lide Saturday for the Rogue league and District 6 A-2 southern division baseball championship. The single game will be on the Southern Oregon college diamond at Ashland at 1 p.m. The Eagles of Coach ken Vannice are winners- in the Rogue league western division with a 4-0 mark and are 8-4 for the season. Henley is one of two schools in the eastern sector and is 7-3 for the year. It's only losses have been to Merrill, the unbeaten Klam ath county B gang. Vannice, who pointed to bugaboo of bad weather which has hampered EP prac tices, indicated that Tom Per due will be his Ditchine choice. Hornet mentor Len Weber may choose from among a half-dozen mounds men. They include Bert and Earl Alibritton, Glynn Black- mon, Larry Lugo, Ray Brown and Uarry Bebber. .The Henley club has some hefty sluggers. Among them are Blackmon with a .484 av erage, Danny Barrett with .461, Lugo with .430"and Joe DeGrande With .424. The Hor nets show a .332 team bailing mark. Sutherlin and Riddle are re ported the teams in conten tion in the northern division of District 6. North and south playoff for the full district banner. TO REMAIN Portland - (UPD - Hal Laycoe. head coach of the Portland Buckaroos of the Western Hockey league, will remain in Portland next season. The announcement was made Thursday by Portland Gen eral Manager Harry Glick man, who said Laycoe would get a raise. Laycoe, who came to Portland this year from Victoria, was prominently mentioned as a candidate for the head coaching position of the New York Rangers of the National league. Rogue League Track Meet at SOC Field nnriFR or EVENTS: 10 a m Javelin, pole vault, high Jump. IU:3D man nuraic prciuninann. 10:49 100-yard dash prelimi naries; shot put, oroaa jump. 11 Low Hurdle preliminaries. 11:30 320-yard dash prelimi' narles. 1:30 p.m. mgn nuroiea. 1:49100. 1:99 Mile. 3:10 440 3:30 Low hurdles. 3680. 3:19 Relay. With Phoenix the defending champion the Rogue league holds its annual track and field meet on Saturday at Ashland. The event will be on South ern Oregon colleges ruuer field. Competition will begin at 10 a.m. The Pirates of Phoe nix will try for a fourth suc cessive championship. This will be also the Dis trict 6 A-2 southern division meet with the first three plac ers in each event qualifying for the full district meet on the following week end. St. Mary's Cindermen Top Ashland St. Mary's mgn scnooi or Medford, which will aim for a fourth consecutive District SB track crown on Saturday, warmed up for that track and field test by defeating Asn land high 65 to 57 at Ashland yesterday. The Crusaders, evening the situation for a previous dual meet loss to the Grizzlies, gained first points in nine of the 14 events. Bob Voris collected three of the five Ashland firsts. He won the high and low hurdles in the fast times of :14.9 and :19.6 and also took the broad jump. Alex Mete of St. Mary's hit the tape first in the 100 and 220-yard sprints and Dick Evans claimed the half-mile and the high jump for the Crusaders. Bonanza Threat St. Mary's, state B cinder crown winner in both 1898 and 1960 wil face Klamath county schools in. its district defense. The meet Saturday will be at Klamath Falls. Strongest opposition to the Medford schol may come from Bonanza. The Antlers last Fri day won the Klamath County championship. They took five first places. Participants in the Klamath meet included Class B schools and A-2 Henley, which was second. Bonanza scored 58 points, Henley 48 and Chllo- quin 42V3. Malin was fourth with 23V4. First and second placers in the district tussle earn state meet berths. St. Mary's Coach Bill Mc- Klbbin said that a crew of some 17 Crusaders will go to' results: H ah hurdles Vorli. A: Elliott. SM; Hamilton, A. :14.9. 100 Mete. SM: Heis. A: MeGee. SM. :10.3. Javelin Ca houn. SM: Hull. A: Jackson. A. 199 It. Mile Buell. A; Way, A; J. Lu cas. SM. 4:91. 440 SUnson. SM; Wallace, A: Self. A. :94. Shot put F. Lucas, 8M; Mills, A; McGee, SM. 49-11. Low hurdles Voris, A; Elliott. SM; Farmer, A. :19.6. 320 Mete. SM; McGee, SM; Hess. A. :22.8. High jumi Evans, SM: Ue for second among Elliott. SM, and Hedges. Lamb and Farmer, all Ashland. 9-6. Pole vault Kaiser, SM: tie sec ond Lewis and Colwell, A. 11-6. 880 Evans. SM; Ford, A; Aus tin. SM. 2:07.4. Relay St. Mary's (McGea, SUn son. Elliott. Mete). 1:3. Discus McCartney, A; P Lucas, SM: Barnett. A. 142-4. Broad iumo Voris. A? Evans. SM; Farmer, A. 20-9. 7 0 TESU 3 0 .0 NOW OPEN FOR BUSINESS! DAVIS AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION 216 East 4th, Medford W 8pcitlii in all transmission, clutch and drive lint troubUt, If you don't too us first ( ui last. Downtown at 4th and CantraUPhono SP 3-4447 Concrete 0 for every concrete need u uCtin.JuA' Concrete & Equipment ' Division ai CSC (Concrete Steel Corporation) 248 E. McAndrews Road SP 2-5271 S7 Field event preliminaries and finals and hurdle and dash prelims are slated for morning. Race finals get un derway at 1:30 p.m. For a number of past sea sons five schools have been rivals in the Rogue event. This year the number is in creased to six with the addi tion of Lakeview. Other schools include Rogue River; Eagle Point, Henley and Illi nois Valley, plus the defend ing champion. Lakeview pre vious to last December was'in another district. Ducks Oppose Alumni Eleven Eugene-rtlPD-Oreaon's "new look" football Ducks meet the rugged Oregon Alumni in the second annual varsity-alumni game here Saturday. The Ducks, with three- quarters of last season's start ing backfleld lost to gradua tion, will be out to avenge a 13-12 defeat to the Alumni last year. Veteran Oregon Coach Len Casanova, who guided the Ducks to the Liberty Bowl last season, opposes former Duck star Norm Van Brock lln, who will e o a c h the Alumni team. Bill Urges Anti-Trust Equality Washington - (UPD - Congress has been urged to equalize the antitrust restrictions on professional baseball, football, basketball and hockey and clarify confusion caused by conflicting court decisions on the sports. Sens. Kenneth B. Keating, (R-N.Y.), and Philip A. Hart, (D-Mlch.), introduced a bill Thursday to end pro base ball's special -exempt status under federal antitrust laws. It also would legalize the con troversial reserve player clause and pro football's play er draft. The Supreme Court has ruled that, without a con gressional decision, baseball is exempt from antitrust prosecution on the theory that it is a sport, rather than a business. Other major professional sports have been omitted from the immunity given baseball. Maids Dill Salem Nino White City - Northwest' Women's maor league sets' ball makes Its debut here Saturday. Rogue Valley Dairy Maids will- be hostesses to the Salem Shamrocks ai Me morial field. - A day-night divided N doubleheader is scheduled. . One game will be at 2 p.m. ' and the other at 8 p.m. Pat ' Barron and Ellen Callaghan are expected le -do the pitching for the Maids with the one not loss- lng seeing duly in center-4 field. At the other positions may- be Jean Main, cateheri Doris Hlckson. .first baser" Jan Baieman, second baser Evon Mclver, shortsiepr rlelen Wolgamott, third base; Ton! Owens, left field, and Clenda Hull, right field. SAINTS SIGN ESTES San Francisco - (UPB - The San Francisco Saints of the new American Basketball league have signed rebound ace Gene Estes of Tulsa uni versity. Estes led the Mis souri Valley conference in ca roms last season, averaging 14 a game. .' SPECIAL TIRE SALE Tonight 6 to 9 p.m. V PRICES DRASTICALLY . REDUCED 'OR THIS SALE r FIRESTONE STORES . . 214 South Riverside Don Stathos, msuror MALL BLDG. 1005 E. 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