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Tornado At GP On Medford's Black Tornado goes t9 Grants Pass high on Tuesday afternoon for a Southern Oregon conference varsity make up baseball game. Tornado Coach John Ko- Drag Strip Will Open On May 13 The Medford drag strip at White City is scheduled to open Sunday, May 13, for the 1962 season. Drag races, sanctioned and sponsored by Southern Ore gon Timing associa ion, will be held on seven week ends during the summer months. Rain date for the May 13 meet is May 27th. Race dates after May 13 in clude June 9-10 (Spring cham pionship) July 7-8 (Worlds Fair meet), July 28-29 (Na tionals sponsorship), August 12, Sept. 1-2-3 (Sixth Annual Northwest Gas & Fuel cham pionship), and Sept. 23 (An nual Charity meet). Some 150 entrants are ex pected to be on hand for the May 13 opener, vying for a reported $100 in cash prizes and a host of trophies and special awards. Racers are ex pected from throughout Ore gon & Northern California gunning their powerful accel eration machines to speeds of near 160 miles per hour on the one-fourth mile track. Many hot rodders of the area have been busy building new cars during the winter months and are eager to try them out for the first time thi season. All entrants must go through a stiff safety in3pec tion before being allowed to compete. In the main Nation al Hot Rod association rules will be used to govern the safety of the cars. Gates open rit 8:30 a.m. with times runs being made in the mornir - ' elimina tion heats set for 1 p.m. The drag strip is located seven miles north of Med ford off the Crater Lake high way. Anyone wanting additional information about the races may write: Southern Oregon Timing Association, P. O. Box 1581, Medford. BOWLING INIIUSTWAI. LEAGUE (End o! Jrd Round) ,-,,. (There was a lie between Olson Lawyer Lumber and Driv e -In C?e"ners lor first. It wa played off and Olson-Lawyer won and will meet Southern Oregon Trophy (or first in the season playoffs. Huffman Truck. Eagles and Drive in Cleaners will play off for third. The other teams will have sweep er. Friday night.) Olson Lawyer Lumber (33-151 1 D E Stone 507: Pattersons 127-21) 3, Bob Meyer 491. Drive-In Cleaners (33-151 3 Cot Brown 558; Coca Cola (24-241 1, Gale Kimball 603. Southern Oregon Trophy (30-18) 4 Wendel Panter 570; Whitelaw Candy (20-281 0. Jim Casey S04 Jubilee Club (28-201 3, Carl Wil son 580; Eagles (19-29) 1. Harold HUFyr-Fyters (26-221 3. Jack Monroe 490- Huffman's (23-25) 1, George CCountr4y6Club ,17-311 3. Floyd Hollowav 510; Tru V Boats (8-401 Wilson 220. Wendel Panter 220. Cale Kimball 244. PAC1FIC LEAGUE Lininger's (46-221 I. Lj Cnff 532- United Grocers (40-28) 3, fcd ,7 toCoas. Store. (42-26, 4. GaMU? VZSSSZ KiVn 48Baumer-s Sheet Metal 136-32) t. Don iNledermeyer 498; PuWlc Hca"h (28-40) 3. Keith Sherer 504. Wen's Alignment (35-331 3 Don Stone? 560: Rogue Vending (22-46) 1, Johnnie Truly 512. Delta Pet Ranch (30-381 3. DICK Walls 530: Oregon Veneer (26-42) 1. LY"en Gascon 204. Frank Boon. 204. Don Stoner 201. ROXV ROLLERS "AGUE Woodland Heights Market (25 Marilyn Werner 388: Ead s Van Lines (17-19) 0. Louise Bohl 33ltickley Masonry Contractor (19 ni 3 Harriet Sherman 465; The 5je.t M.rt (17-181 1. Cl.r. Torrey 4Oregon Bookkeeping llJ-" Ruth Johnson 431; Park Motor. (16 20) 0. Jean Peyton 323. ,,. stones TV (16-201 1, Maggie Navlor 328; Forest Chief Boot Co. n-21) 3 Denise Armstrong 3.4 "b Johnson 167. Harriet Sher. man 165. M.rg Peterson 161; Suck ley Masonry 1375, PORTSMAN'S LEAGUE Brookhurst Subdivision won the championship of the SPormn. League in a five-game P aof! with Butte Fal s General Store. Tro chlea were awarded the sponsor Kd each member of the winning "In the sweeper. Kline Logging wo? first place with . score of 2873- Hillver Oil was second w h lift- Butte Fall. Shell third wi h 28(18; and Brecount Brothers fourth W'l'Ud?v'idual trophies were .ward ed to Rov Wilkes, high season average: Burell Facey high series Icratch Boh James high series with handicap. Wilkes, high game scrstch and Otto Nahnert. high ffame with handicap. Dan Aberge received the .w.rd for most Improved bowler Officers elected for the following v.ar were Bruce Ptn.Ie president. Bill Rodgers. vice-president. nd Ray Lawless, secretary RAINBOW BOWLING l.r.AOl'F Mone Motors jjf.-12. 3 Glen Cerr.rd 491: U S B,nlt 121-10' 1 Garv Lewis 4P3. sieve Wil.on Lumber '26-14. 3. "to Wlrth 532: Keep Oregon Green IIW1I I Bur Moran 487. J 0;iue Valley Creditors (24-16. 3. lke Ei.enstein 513: H.rrv and Da vid (20-zn, I. i,f"c n..-.-.. r.-tn. Pacific W-2' 3. Clar. Hoot uwl Lrsms '.vj - y. , w,.n a HM TOiai. 1 ne IWO 8150 rv:.-.'-'n"i.. lie axici-in ."JT. ,.,,..Ji"h'..r, i "' went 1 and 2 respectively in: covering 1.500 TWA pil Rnru. Vailtv Hho.pitai i2J-i (J;ne high almiround competi was reached early Sunda ?"b. "T. "'i.;..r .Ti I tion as Orlich posted a 3RB our shortly after a strike dea fie. f-i CrsT.r LVt Mach T S & L i Uir f.. Q Contends Tuesday venz indicated that either Steve Ray or Craig Laurance will be called on to pitch. Grants Pass Dill choice likely will be from among Jim Thompson, Jtrry McCormack and Dave Hauntz. Medford and Grants Pass split in an outing here in early April. The Tornado won the league counter 11 to 3 and Grants Pass the non-conference second fray 4 to ?!. The Tuesday game makes up for April 28 rain-out. Both Ashland and Crater have non-league action on Tuesday. Ashland entertains Yreka and Crater meets Del Norte at Crescent City, Calif. Crater JV Outscores Ashlanders Central Point - Pilfered bases in the first game and a grandslam homer in the sec ond were features here Satur day as the Crater high junior varsity tripped the Ashland jayvees 5 to 1 and 6 to 4 in baseball. Harold Allen, Dave Twedell and Don Patterson stole home for the Comets in the first game and John McNichols squeezed in Roger Neufcld in a contest which saw the Comets do a lot of bunting. Twedell for the Comets and Don Baker of Ashland each doubled. Larry Mason hurled four hit ball for Crater, walking four and whiffing five. John Rhodes fanned two, walked one and hit one in a three hitter for Ashland. Dan Cesaro topped a six run surge by Crater in the second game with a grand slammer. The ball was hit into the new high school ad dition back of left field. Harold Allen had two hits for Crater. John Bush, tossing a two hitter for the Central Point school, struck out six and walked four. Ron Goodpas ture of Ashland fanned one and walked one while allow ing five hits. Ashland 100 000 0 1 4 fi Crater 110 120 x 5 3 I Rhodes and DcBoer; Mason and McNichols. Ashland 010 03 4 4 3 Crater floo Ox 6 5 t Goodpasture and DeBoer; Bush and Blancher. OSU Scores 6th Verdict In Division United Pres. International Hard-hitting Oregon State is pulling away in the North ern division baseball race. The Beavers won their sixth game in seven ND starts by walloping Washington 13-3 at Corvallis. The victory gave Oregon State a 21-1 record for the season. Doug Stahl and Brian Bail ey sparked the Beavers' 13 hit attack with three hits apiece. Stahl drove in three runs. Al Lehrer added a pair of doubles for the winners. Jim Falk, a junior left-hander, limited the Huskies to five hits to register the win. Mel Erickson was the losing pitch er. Oregon was scheduled to play Washington today at Eugene. Viks Take Doublebill United Press International Lewis and Clark moved into a first place tie with Linfield in the Northwest con ference baseball race by de feating Willamette 4-2 and 6-1 in a doubleheader at Salem Saturday. Linfield split a twin bill with Pacific at Forest Grove. Pacific won the first game 3-2 and Linfield took the second contest 12-2. LC and Linfield lead the way with 8-1 records. In the Oregon Collegiate conference, front running Portland State swept a dou bleheader from Oregon Tech at Klamath Falls 8-4 and 15-0 for its fifth and sixth wins in as many starts. Southern Oregon topped Eastern Oregon 11-4 and 6-1 at Ashland in another twin bill. ORLICH HIGH GUNNEH Reno. Nev. - (l'H - Dan Or lich of Reno broke 872 of a possible 900 targets in seven events Sunday to capture the high ovg-all trophy and high light the finals of the Golden West Grand American tra?' shgnt. Orlich edged out scat tergunner Don Hackman, Liv ermore, Calif., who finished of 400 and Hachman tallied 1385. SPORTS Rogue Valley Race Group Meets Tuesday Rogue Valley Racing asso ciation wll meet on Tuesday. May 8. The session will be at 8 p.m. at Carter's Tuneup, 2752 North pacific Highway. McLoughlin Victor Over KF Frosh Bill Enyart and John Tun gate of McLoughlin and Ter rfy Eccles of Klamath Falls were double winners Satur day when the Medford ninth graders won 66 to 55 Vi from the Klamath frosh. Enyart was victor in the shot put and high jump and Tungate in the javelin and discuss. Eccles won the 75 yard sprint and the broad jump. Mac team members won first in eight events and Klamath Falls in five. McLoughlin will oppose Hedrick at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday at the senior high track. RESULTS; High hurdles Anders. M; Sand meyer. KF; Krieger, M. 10.7 75 Eccles. KF; DeGroot. KF; Warner. M. 8.2 1320 Scholl. KF: Eakin. M: Sneak. KF. 3:35.7 330 Howard, KF; Guendet, KF; Wyatt. M. 38.8 Shot put Enyart. M; Tungate, M; Wooton. M. 54-9',. Low hurdles Young. M; Dorsey, M: Anders. M. 15.1 Javelin Tungate, M; Thurman, KF; Dippel, M. 121-8',2 150 DcGrool. KF: Lee. M. How ard. KF. 16.0 High Jump Enyart. M; Eccles, KF: Baker, KF. 5-6 Relay Klamath Falls (Eccles. Cucndet, DeGroot. Howard). 47.0 Hole vault Hupp. M; Thurman. KF; tie third, Lummus, KF, and Conners. M. 10-4 Broad iuinD Eccles. KF: Lee. M: Toews M. 18-2 i Discus Tungate, M: Warner. M; Brown. M. 114-4'.a MH Jayvee Nine Splits With Pels Medford h i g h's baseball junior varsity earned a split at Klamath Falls on Satur day. The home club Pelicans won the first fracas 4 to 0 and the Medfords rallied to cop the second hassle 5 to 4. KF chucker Jim Coon held Medford to two hits, by Jim Allen and Larry Godley in the first conflict, while strik ing out six batters and walk ing six. Rick Horn homered for the Pelicans and Denny and Cun ningham each doubled. Three-hit relief pitching by Allen served Medford in good stead in the second fracas. Medford lagged 2 to 0 after the first inning then picked up one run in the second frame and four in the fifth. Larry Godley highlighted the big splurge with a three-base knock. Ron Edmonds and Ken Phipps singled and were two walks in the inning. Godley had one other hit from Medford. l.INFSCORES: Medford 000 000 0 0 2 3 Klamath Fulls . 011 200 x 4 6 0 Forde and Phipps; Coon and Pet rick. Medford 010 04 5 fi 3 Klamath Falls .. 200 024 3 1 Sander. Allen (1) and Phipps; Crow and Johnson. Bob Duden Heads Field Tualatin -IUPI)- The 72-hole Oregon Open golf tournament got under way here today with a field which included seven former champions. Bob Duden of Portland, a three-time winner, headed the field. Bill Eggers of Portland, the defending champion, was not included. Eighteen holes were sched uled today. Another 18-hole round is set for Tuesday and 36 holes are scheduled for Wednesday. Don Krieger shot a 146 to win the Oregon Golf associa tion's Champion of cham pion's tournament Sunday al Cornelius. Medford pros Ron Caperna and Gary Parker, Rogue Val ley Country club, and Clark Good, Cherry Lane Park, are entered in the Oregon golf open. CRAMER CLEARS MM Pullman - IUPU - Washing ton's junior pole vaulter John Cramer soared to a meet rec ord of 15 feet Vi inch here Saturday, but his Husky team mates dropped a dual track and field meet to Washington State university, 80-65. Cra mer's jump broke his own meet mark, set last year, by one-half inch. GET WAGE BOOST Wa?,tigt -0'IW - Trans World Airlines pilots will re ceive an 8 per ccn' wage in crease under a new 18-month agreement negotiated by the firm and the Air Line Pilots ent ots y d- I line. The pilots now average about SITrpOO year. MEDF0HD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON Cyeloi.es Subdue Salem's Pin Team Medford Cyclones bounced the Sam Valley Victors 11 to 9 at Salem on Sunday to take over the frontrunner spot again in the Oregon Pro-fc-ional fowling league. The Cyclones took a 6 to 2 jump in the team event half of the contest then sur vived a bonus bid by the Victors in the singles as Sa lem's Frank Evans and Ray Kronser rolled respective games of 234 and 221. Victory gave the Medford team a 6-2 record In the stand ings and dropped Salem to second with 6-3. Bob Dempsey, Charles Mc- GP Downs Ashland in Track Tilt Ashland-A 6-foot 334-inch high jump by Bob Shepard and a 12-11 pole vault by Gary Van Koten were track meet highlights here Saturday when the powerful Grants Pass Cavemen won from Ash land 952 to 26. Unless marks were improv ed on elsewhere in the state over the week end the two efforts rank as second best in the state this season. Cavemen took 13 of the 14 firsts in the meet yielding only the 220-yard dash, which was won by Ashland's Gary Wal lace. Three St. Mary's trackmen took places in the meet but their efforts were not includ ed in the scoring. Paul Elliott of the Crusaders was second in the high hurdles and third in the lows, Allen Wruck was third in the half-mile and Jim Calhoun second in the javelin. RESULTS: High hurdles Wilson np- Ham ilton, A: Covey. CP. 14.8 100 Patterson. GP: Hull np, Boyce, A. 10.4 Mile Montgomery. GP: nrnivn A, Waterman, GP. 4:38.7 440 Ireland. GP; Wallace. A; RoberU. GP. 52.0 Low h u r d I Smith np. O'Leary. GP; Hamilton, A. 20.0 mi wauace, A; Llndqulst, GP; tie third, Ferguson, GP, and Boyce. A 233 880 Lyons, GP; Doyon, GP: Woods. GP. 2:03.3 Relay Grants Pass (Christenson, White Clark and Perry). 1:35 Javelin Ausland, GP; Jackson, A; Bauer, GP. 176-61 Broad jump O'Leary, GP; Hess, A; Ireland, GP. 21-5 Shot out Graham. GP: Bauer. GP: Dorband, GP. 49-11 High jump Shepard, GP; Lamb. A: lie third, Paulus and Hutchins, GP. 6-34. Pole vault G. Van Koten, GP; V. Van Koten, CP; Mclntlre. CP. 12-11 Discus Bone, GP; Curtis, GP; Polk, A. 141-5 OUTSTANDING ROOKIE Seattle -IUPU- Jimmy Baird, Vancouver's classy leftwinger, today was named the out standing rookie for the 1961 62 Western Hockey league season by sportswriters and sportscasters. Whorter and Fred Anderson collected match and bonus points for the Medfords in the team affair and Dempsey and McWhorters in the sin gles. Dick McKenzie was a singles winnc. for the Cy clones. Three Bonuiet Evans got his match mark er and three bonus points in the singles against Fred An derson's 193. Kronser rolled his 221 for a match and two bonuses against Harry Goode's 136. Medford's sin gles wins were McKenzie 175 to 167 over Don Lebold, Dempsey 217 to 156 over Tony Vittone and McWhorter 214 to 182 over Bill Amen. In the team e ent Dempsey downed Vittone 219 to 197, McWhorter beat Lyle Ander son 217 to 181 and Fred An derson won from Evans 211 to 180. For Salem Lebold trimmed McKenzie 203 to 192 and Amen heat Sam Sor ensen 196 to 175. Medford had six match points to four by Salem and each team had five bonus tal lies. The Cyclone manufactured a margin of 1,969 to 1,917 in total pins on strenpi - of a 1,034 to 957 gap in the team event. Salem out-scored Med ford 960 to 935 in singles. SIGNS WITH PATRIOTS Boston - IUPU - Brian McNee ley, 24, younger brother of heavyweight boxer Tom Mc Neeley, has signed a 1962 con tract with the Boston Patriots of the American Football league. He will be utilized as a defensive linebacker and of fensive center. KUNKEL TO PORTLAND Kansas City-IUPII-The Kan sas City Athletics Sunday op tioned pitcher Bill Kunkel to the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast league. Kunkel appeared in three American league baseball games and was involved in no decisions. His earned run average was 6.75. TV spend the coming long, cool evenings . . . shopping for graduation gifts WE'RE OPEN EVERY NIGHTl Main at MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Al Holmes RV Titlist In Handicap Alan Holmes won the men's spring golf handicap cham pionship at Rogue Valley Country club. He defeat,) Wayne Chit wood 1 up yesterday in the title flight finale. Holmes medaled a three-over-par 75 and Chitwood shot an 85. Since Holmes had a two handicap and Chitwood a 14, Holmes gave strokes on 12 holes. Matches are underway in the men's best ball partner ship golf tournament at the club. First round is to be com pleted by Sunday, May 13. Thirty-two two-man teams are participating. Each man gets his full han dicap. The take hole is then decided on the net best ball between the partners. FIRST ROUND PAIRINGS: Don Wendt and Jerry Cottlng ham vs. Randall Glfford and Dave Lawrence; Malcolm Stlne and Ed Milne vs Galen Sanner and Leo Vilarkno; Jack Brown and John Hoogerheide vs. Howard Cuslc and Ray Soreson; Bill Marshall and W. W Williams vs Dick Finnell and Waliy Robinson: John Nuich .nd Dr. Gene Cossette vs. Jack Daugher ty and Walt Shaylor; John Gustaf son and Ota Binegar va. Forrest Casey and Max Larson; Houston Pitts and Joe Sayer vs. Bob Fasel and Dick Watson; Bud Parsons and Robin Binna vs. John Jensen and Paul Sparso. Ray Lindquist and Dick Knoll v.. Max Millhollin and Fred Conrad; John Linn and Jim Dunlevy va. Bob Johnson and Fred Holmes; Miles Doran and E. K. Ricker vs. Jack Mitchell and Ken Peterson; Jim McCoy and Al Dumas vs. Maury Isted and Tom Tubbs; Carl Kellen Kerger and Berg Marten vs. Bob Voegtly and Karl Clinklnbeard; Wayne Chitwood and Bill Walker vs. John Landers and Bob Lock wood. John Moffat and Sam Prough vs. Carl Schmidt and Larry Horton: Earl Tichenor and Jim GUI vs. Tom Teutsch and Paul Selby. Gold Rey Fish Count: WEEK ENDING MAY S Chinook salmon-264 (in cludes 7.2 per cent jack sal mon). Winter run steelhead-103. FULL SEASON Chinook ialmon-322 (In cludes 5.9 per cent jack sal mon) since April 17, Winter run steelhead 10.972 since Nov. 16. Central Shag Thomas Tito Kopa of0 Argentina In Thursday Mat Opener Shag Thomas, 230-pound roughneck from the midwest, will meet Tito Kopa of Ar gentine in the opening match of Thursday night's profes sional wrestling card at Med ford armory. They will take to the mat at 8:30 p.m. Thom as won AU-Amerlcan honors with the Ohio State Univer sity football team and joined the mat circuit immediately after his college career. Kopa, bald with long hair covering most of his body, was born in Poland but went to Argentina with his parents at an early age. He is an ex pert linguist, speaking five languages, which stand him in good stead as his wrestling EYES RECORD Seattle - IUPD - Bill Munccy expressed confidence today that the unlimited hydroplane Miss Century 21 will set a new straight-away mile rec ord for propeller-driven boats at Lake Chelan in June. Mun ccy will make his speed trials June 27-29 under sanction by the American Power Boat as sociation in an effort to top the mark of 200.416 miles per hour set last month in Ala bama by Roy Duby in Miss U.S. 1. HUSKIES VICTORS Corvallis - IUPD - Washing ton's No. 3 varsity crew rowed to a lVfc-length victory over Oregon State in a race on the Wiillamette river here Satur day. 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B 3 PLAYERS SHIPPED Portland OJPD The Port land Beavers have shipped out pitcher Ted Thiem and infielder Herb Newman. Thi em, a 25ear-old right-hander, was sent to Albuquerque of the Texas league and New man, 22, was sent to Lewis- ton of the Northwest league LARGE FIELD COMPETES Chicago -IUPII- Fields of 128 men and 64 women will com pete in the sixth World Invi tational Match Game bowling championship in McCormick Palace, Nov. 15-25. Purses to taling $48,240 will be put up for the championships which were won last year by Don Carter and Marge Merrick. 1RI l"V than you'd think! New Norelco Sportsman Rotary blades. Works on 2 flashlight batteries. Reeoif cord and mirror in case. 'FHp'top' cleaning. Th fabulous thavtri you have seen demon strafed on TV I lit C&sfr&m&t?? Jt : O o o io a CO
