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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1962)
wyjjf.i. -i.. ,'4-- Field Trial On Sunday Annual Hoover Held trial will be conducted on Sunday, June 10, at Hoover lakes. The event is sponsored by C. C. Hoover in the interest of promoting good retriever does. It is put on by Rogue Valley Retriever club, planned with a derby stake to Open and puppy stakes are be run if time permits. Activity will begin at 7 a.m. Headquarter! will be the RVRC clubhouse on the Hoo ver property. BOWLING BEAR CREEK LEAGUE Fancy Pant (9-71 4, Herb Robbins 469; Cork Pushers i9!i-6!i) 0, Frank Henry SOl, Merry Mix-Up (9'4-i) 1. Max Lindley 494; Petlta Fours (S-101 3, Gary Couch 549. Mavericks (10-6) 3. Marshall Sel lers 480; Summer Delight (10-6) X. Dean Marcum 470. Lollipops (7-9) 0. W. H. McCaleh 434; Royal Turkeyi (9-7) 4, Bob Rudy Jr. 530. Pears'n Applet (4-12) 1, Barrel! Rowland 473; Fossil Fish (6-10) 3. Bryan Mercer 463. Wild n Rare (6-10) 1, Bob John son 446; Pear Cutters (10-6) 3, Fay Goddard 473. Bob Rudy Jr. 302. Bill Mills 201; Royal Turkeys 2883: Weekly Tro phies, Rudy 650, VI Cumminis 590. FUN ll FROLIC LEAGUE Jokers Four (11-5) 1, Ester Sy- brant 322: Hopefuls (5-11) 3. Fred Bennett 307. Whiz Banes (10-61 1, Wanda Booth 550: Hoozitl (5-11) 3, Jim Weaver 471. Gypos (9-7) 3, Moe Atterbury 535; Confused (8-8) 1, Ted Barbee 443. - Wanda Booth 194. Annie A1 rlredge 1BS, Fred Bennett 192; Hoozits 2293. Quartettes Poor Excuses (16-4) 4. Eunice Johnson 504; Whal-Nota (11-9) 0, tfody Hunter 415-.- Town Clowns (15-51 3. Lucille Cornelius 493; The 4 Squares (9-11) 1, Inez Gllnes 464. . Gad-A-Bouts (10-10) 3. VI Moore 430; Three Sisters & Lee (3-15) 1, Ethel Champion 456. - Happy-Go-Luckies (8-121 3. Joan Lamhrecht 443; Four Bees (G-14) 3, Corky Jones 409. Eunice Johnson IBS, Ethel Champion 182; Town Clowns 1830. FAT PURSE DRAWS' ; Clifton, N.J. UIPD The golfers who are expected to battle it out for the U.S. Open championship next week went after the year's largest links purse today the $25,000 first place money in the $100,000 fThunderbird golf tournament. Because of that fat purse, the lournament drew practically every top name golfer in the country. ' """51 t kV '-Mmwk I - i,tTn' W ' ' tiK"' V 3" "Wl I rrts ' " Let 1 what terrific Summer drinks whiskey can make... when the whiskey is 7 Crown! Because it tastes so good by itself, 7 Crown brings superb flavor to the classic whiskey collins or the crackling-cold Mist. And try something new: add IVj oz. 7 Crown to a tall, tinkling glass of grape juice See how good summer drinks can taste. SAY SEAGRAM'S AND BE SURE m5i.esmi!H cci'i" t.t r.itttww tiwm wnm sums. Roseburg's Legion Nine Tips Studs; CP To Oppose Medford Memorial Field, White City Roseburg Lockwood Ford Motors took full advantage of a last-inning opportunity here last night to record its third victory of the season in American Legion junior base ball over the Central Point Cheney Studs. The defending state cham pions accumulated all their markers in the top of the sev enth canto to nose the Studs 3 to 2. Two walks, two errors and Jim Beamer's double figured in the tallies. With the runs Roseburg snuffed out a lead the Cheney nine had held since CP lead off batter Mike Glines crossed the platter In the opening frame. Central Point used both miscues charged to Lockwood to gain its runs. Roseburg pitcher Tom Hobbs allowed the Studs but two hits. He struck out batters 15 times. The Cheney club will op pose Medford at this Veterans Administration ' domiciliary diamond on Friday. Game time will be 7:30 p.m. It will be the sixth game of the sea son for the Studs and the sec ond for the Medford Cokes. Glines Scores Twic Glines scored both Central Point runs. He got on base in the first inning when he socked a ground ball and shortstop Marv French's throw to first was high. Pat Pepper's sacrifice and a passed ball got Glines to third. He reached home on Lou Alvarez's fielder's choice grounder. Jeff Anhorn fol lowed up the tally with a single but a flyout and a groundout ended the inning. In the fifth inning the Studs made it 2 to 0 when Glines three-baggered and tabulated on catcher Beamer's throwing miscue on a pick off try. Larry Mason, pitching for Central Point, allowed five hits to Roseburg over the first four innings. He kept the 'VI is Ot. Code 2658 $000 J Pint Code 245C M Lockwood team hilless in the fifth and sixth cantos. But, it was apparent that he was tir ing in the sixth. He issued a walk to the first batter he faced and followed a flyout '!l''w", spn . in. IN LEGION LINEUP - Don Anderson, above, is slated to be at first base for the Med ford American Legion junior baseball team when it plays Central Point at 7:30 p.m. Fri day, at Memorial field, White City. Anderson lashed two doubles when the teams met last week. with a strikeout. Then, two walks filled the sacks. Coach Bill Askwith called time out to talk things over but left the pitcher in. Mason got Hobbs to watch a third strike go by. Beamer Blasts Phil Thurman also was out on a called third strike to start the last inning. Gordon Avery drew a free pass and both runners were safe when shortstop Lou Alvarez fum bled after taking a bounder from Doug Coplin. Dennis Arana walked to fill the bases. The count went full to three and two on Beamer but he blasted the next pitch far out into right field for his double. This brought in Avery and Coplin with the tying runs. The ball got by catcher Anhorn on the throw in and Arana crossed the plate. Mike Pepper came in re lief to fan Fortune and get French to line out. Hobbs struck out the side in the bot tom of the seventh to give Roseburg the verdict. The Roseburg pitcher walked only two batters. Ma son, in a sixth hitter over 6 13 innings, fanned three, walked six and hit one bat ter, yielding only two of the free passes before the sixth inning. Beamer, with a single and two-baser, was the only player with more than one hit. Cen tral Point had one double play when Glines, the third baseman, fielded a ground ball, tagged a runner and threw to first to stop a Rose burg bid. Twedell Throw Good The Studs snuffed a Rose burg try in the second canto when Beamer singled and went to second on Fortune's sacrafice. Beamer attempted to score on Bob Manning's hit but leftfielder Dave Twe dell's throw reached catcher Anhorn in plenty of time for a putout. Coach Askwith reported that either Mike or Larry Pepper may get the pitching call against Medford on trl day. Stuart Young, who chucked a two-hitter against the Studs in a losing cause last Friday, is Medford Coach Cliff Mc Lean's choice to pitch against Central Point tomorrow eve ning. McLean reported that he has done considerable work with the Medford pitchers during the past week. Medford first baseman Don Anderson and outfielder Wayne Couch will be missing for a period after Friday's games. Anderson will attend the two-weeks session of the Junior Engineering and Sci ence Summer institute at Cor vallis, then will be on a fam ily vacation. Couch will be on a vacation trip. Either Scott Eaton or Jim Calhoun will likely take over at first base with the other probably play ing in the outfield. une score: Roseburg 000 000 33 . 2 Central Point 100 010 02 3 3 Hohbs and lf.aner: Mason, m. Pepper '7i end Anhorn LEE ALLEN VICTOR New York -WPD- Defending champion Lee Allen of the Multnomah Athletic Club of Portland captured his first two matches in the National AAU freestyle wrestling championships here Wednesday. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON PITA STATE SHOOT BEGINS ON FRIDAY Scatterguns start blasting Friday morning in this state's biggest trapshoot event of the year. It's the Oregon State ihoot of the Pacific International Trapshoot ing association. Scene will be the Medford Gun club on East Vilas rd. west of the Crater Lake high way Four Corners. The Oregon Class cham pionship will lead off the tour ney at 9 a.m. tomorrow. This 100-targct, 16-yard event will initiate three days of titular shooting at local layout. It will serve also at the first half of the state singles champion ship. At approximately 1:30 p.m. Friday the 100-target Medford handicap will follow. Twenty five pairs of doubles will con clude the day. Other Events ' Last half of the 200-yard singles rivalry will be con tested Saturday morning with the Jim Morris Memorial handicap and state doubles championship billed for after noon. Oregon state handicap championship Will be settled Sunday. The foregoing program will give each of those who take part in the complete tourney a chance to blaze at 650 clay pigeons. Anticipated entry in the 1k J " Y If1 ?Tk a- ' j A, SHOEHORN TO CONTEND Featured en try in the gns division of competition at this week end's Spring Championship drag races at the Medford Drag strip will be the 'Shoe horn' dragster from Reno, Nev. This super charged rear-engined speedster holds, records here and at several California and Nevada SOTA Drag Races 'Mr. Eliminator' To Be Determined A special feature of this week end's Spring Champion ship drag races at the Med ford drag strip at White City will be 'match' races between the meet's two fastest gas powered cars. Three of these match races will be staged with a special honor going to the winner of the series. Driver and car that come out top in this contention will assume the SOTA Mr. Eliminator No. 1 spot. Holder of the No. 1 position must ac cept a challenge for his honor within at least 60 days after winning the spot. Fast Cars Southern Oregon Timing as sociation officials have estab lished the rules for the spe cial competition among the regions fastest cars. Each time a set match races is run the winner will be awarded $100 and sponsored back to the SOTA drag strip to defend his title. Keen Interest shown in the special races by the contest ants indicates they may be come highly popular Detore the conclusion of the summer racing season. Top Contenders To contenders for this week end's feature attraction are the Skeans-Pickering dragster from Vancouver, Wash., and the Welsh-Butler "Shoehorn" acceleration machine from Reno. Nev. Both cars have been outstanding performers on the Medford drag strip in past years and both have been rebuilt during the last winter with nromise of even faster speeds. The Sheans machine is a national chBtnpion and the Reno enlry holds records at many of the larger California drag strips. Both are expected to record speeds of near or over 160 miles per hour on the local one-fourth mile speed track. Officials expect some 300 entries during the two days of action. Competition will be SIGN SCHOOL STAR Washington - (UPD - Rn Clod felter, who batted .440 for Mooresville, N.C., High school this year, has been signed by the Washington Senators. He will report Immediately to the Senators' Middlcsboro, Ky., farm rlnh in the Class D Ap palachian league. tournament is 400 shooters. Many of them were on hand this afternoon for registration and practice shooting. Sev eral western states and pos sibly British Columbia will be represented. This is the Medford Gun club's first state tourney since 1958. Class Winners Titles may not be defended in all portions of the to'urney but a good number ot last year's winners are expected to be on hand. Here are the shooters who won 16 -yard class honors in 1961: AA - Ado Elliott, Portland; A - T. M. Bennett, Wallowa; B - Joe Coburn, Sprague Riv er; C - J. B. Conway, Port land; D - Ross Langlitz, Port land; out-of-state-George Wil liams, Vancouver. B.C. Bennett and Williams each broke perfect 100s. Trapshooting Is largely a participant sport but Medford Gun club members pointed out that spectators are encour aged and welcome to watch the shooting. It is expected that some 100,000 clay targets will be thrown by 10 traps at the club this week end. The state shoot offers $1,700 in perpetual purses, $1,800 worth of trophies and $5,000 in added money. held In both the gas and fuel divisions. Two In Fuel At least two sleek dragsters will be entered in the fuel di vision. One is coming from Vancouver and the other from Sacramento, Calif. Both will gun to exceed the present strip fuel record of 176.10 miles per hour, Stock cars entered in the meet on Saturday will be able to compete in special races at 4 p.m. that day with trophies going to the winners. The powderpuff division of competition will be run off Sunday afternoon following stock-car eliminations. Action gets under way at 10 a.m. Saturday and 7 a.m. Sunday. Deadline for all stock car entries is 9 a.m. Sunday and the deadline for all other entries is noon on Sunday. The Medford drag strip is located seven miles north of Medford off the Crater Lake highway in west White City. NCAA ENTRY Eugene -(UPD- Homer Jones, Texas Southern sprinter who won the 220 over Bob Hayes of Florida A&M last week in the NAIA finals, will compete in next week's NCAA track and field meet here. Meet of ficials also said Bob Boyd of Oregon State had qualified for the steeplechase. He is Or egon' State's 12th qualifier. NAMED FOR ATHLETE Jim Thorpe, Pa. -IUPD-Jim Thorpe, the county seat of Carbon county, Pa.; originally was two towns-Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk, from the Indian Machk Tschunk, meaning "bear mountain." The two communities consoli dated in 1PS4 and assumed the name of the immortal Indian athlete. Thorpe's grave here is marked by a 20-ton mauso leum. Buy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Chlmntyi fHONI 77J-457J fj,""TrT I Chf mntyt f J . I Prtttrttted I - M - .Cencreta f'i P 727 W. McAndrtwt J TITO1 TRAPSHOOT VETERAN - A longtime participant in trap shooting is Ed Pease, above, of Medford. He is a past presi dent of Medford Gun club and of the Oregon Stale Trap shooting association. The as sociation is conducting the an nual state shoot of the Pacific International Trapshooting as sociation here Friday through Sunday. . tracks. Top lime recorded by owners Warren Welsh and Bill Bullcr has been 169 miles per hour with an elapsed lime of 8.98 sec onds. This machine is but one of some 20 dragsters entered in this week end's affair. (Simonson-Walker photo) Safes Up on Rocking Chair Pads, Cushions New York -(UPD- Everytime President Kennedy is pictured in a rocking chair he sends reverberations through the household section of the no tions industry. The National Notion asso ciation said that such pictures cause increased sales of rock ing chair pads and cushions. LONG STEALS Baltimore - (UPD - Dale Long, who hadn't stolen a base for three seasons and had but four in his eight-year major league career, Wednesday night stole his fourth base of the season for the Washington Senators in a game against the Baltimore Orioles. Don't miss th precision-built DATS UN for Savings When You Buy ...Datsun's low pries tag delivers a big, four door, ; passenger value pecked sedan ... road ready with lull synchro mesh transmission, fac tory undercoat, heater, defroster and 12 month 12,000 mila warranty. 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Miss Burget says she hayn't the time nor the patience to pamper an automobile or to i worry about getting stuck on ! snow-covered roads in 60 be low zero weather. So she tra vels between job and home by dog sled. She has mushed to work and wherever else she has had to go during the past three winters. No worries about gas bills, mechanics, wrecker tow bills or other winter driving bugaboos. All she has to do is go out in her back yard, hook up her black Chesapeake team and mush off. A trail over the hills leads from her home to the university two miles away. The dogs are kept in a shed at the school while she works. Miss Burget isn't the only one who uses this mode of transportation. During the winter here, it's not at all un usual to see both faculty members and students come SAVE AT GENERAL TIRE SERVICE SPECIAL PURCHASE AND GENERAL GUARANTEED RECAPS IfkeeI (GENERAL) WwinlJ mi NATIONWIDE GUARANTEE 12 MONTHS OR 12,000 MILES 1112 Court THURSDAY. JUNE mushing onto the campus. 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