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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON FRIDAY. JUNE 8. 1962 B 3 Keen Club Contention Likley In Spring Title Drag Races of contacting the Shoehorn team in Reno, Nevada, to challenge them. These will be in addition to the three special match races between the meets two fastest cars for the "Mr. Eliminator" Competition will be the keynote at this week end's Spring Championship drag races at the Medford Drag strip. Action gets under way to morrow at 10 a.m. with early timed runs. Highlites of Sat urday activity will be tuning and timed runs by many of the dragsters entered in the meet and a series of special "grudge" races later in the afternoon. Club contention should be very keen with several in the running for special prizes put up by Southern Oregon Tim ing association for the out standing clubs. At least five hot-rod groups will make an all out attempt to cop the honors in this division. One of the strongest clubs may be the KLAN Racing team from Springlield. Last fall this group of racftrs won top club honors with the most cars entered and also won more trophies than any other contending group. California Clubs This weekend the KLAN. will meet stiff competition from two California clubs. Coming from Santa Clara with several entries, includ ing three in the dragster divi sion, is the Coilers Racing team. Several of the cars are record holders at Bay area drag strips and are well known for putting on a good show for contestants and spec tators. Sacramento, Calif., will send a strong delegation from the Capitol Auto club, repre senting eight classes of com petition. Included in the Cap itol club's entries are several roadsters and two gas class coupes that are expected to speed to at least 100 miles per hour. Many towns and communi ties in Oregon and northern Caifornia will be represented with club entries in many divisions. SOTA has put up two spe cial prizes of S25 each to the outstanding groups of racers. Challenge Races Latest word from the rac ing camp of Skeans-Pickering in Vancouver, Wash., is that they are arranging a series of challenge races with other top entries of the meet. In a phone call from Dave Skeans yesterday he told SOTA offi cials he had already made ar-1 to start at 1:30 p.m rangemcnt for one of the I first games count races and was in the process title. Mr. Eliminator races will be run on Sunday. . Site of the races is seven miles north of Medford off the Crater Lake highway in west White City. Concessions will be available at the track. Medford, CP Studs To Tangle Tonight Medford and Central Point American Legion baseball nines collide this evening in their second meeting of the season. The two aggregations, who have a spirited rivalry, clash at 7:30 p.m. at Memorial field, White City. This tussle will find CP's Cheney Studs trying to main tain the upper hand and Med ford's Cokes aiming to even the situation for a 1 to 0 set back one week ago. Tonight's tussle is the final non-league tuneup for each team. They open Southern di vision play in Area 4 on Sun day on different diamonds. The tangle last week was a topnotch skirmish and the Studs and Cokes will try to make this one another in the same vein. Likely pitcher for Medford is Stuart Young. He took last week's loss although giving up just two hits, while the Cokes got five. Either Mike or Larry Pepper could be the chucker for Central Point. The Cokes draw their tal ent from Medford high and Central Point's Studs get their players from Crater high. Both clubs are fortified by varsity players from the two schools. This will be just the second Came of the season for Med ford. Central Point is 2-3 after contests with Grants Pass and Roseburg, as well as Medford. In the league openers on Sunday, Central Point will play the Klamath Falls Fal cons at Klamath Falls and Medford will go to Grants Pass. Doublehcaders are set Only the in the Southern division standings. STUD'S SAC KM AN Pat Pepper, above, is the second sacker for the Central Point Cheney Studs who play Med ford in an American Legion junior baseball game this evening at Memorial field White City. Fanfare By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribun Sports Editor Ladies Knotted In Civitan Golf Austin, Tex. IUPD Sandra Haynie, a local favorite, and three other professional wo men golfers took a two-stroke lead into today's second round of the $7,500 Austin Women's Civitan golf tournament. Miss Haynie, 19, who went to high school in Austin but now lives in Fort Worth, shared the lead with a 69 total with Gloria Fecht of Los Angeles, Mickey Wright of Dallas and Jackie Pung of Daly City, Calif. Ray Smith, ex Medford high distance runner who last week won the Skyline con ference mile championship for Brigham Young univer sity, is looking forward to a month-long jaunt through Eu rope this summer. He will travel with the BYU track team. Ray, who is home fol lowing the Skyline meet. which came after his school was out, said that the Cougar trackmen will fly out of New York on June 28 for Helsinki, Finland. The team will have meets at Helsinki, Oslo, Stockholm and Brussels, on the Riviera, in Zurich or West Berlin and in London. Two meets are scheduled on the Riviera and in London. Twenty to 22 ath letes will make the trip and will be back home around the first of August. Smith's best mile time has been 4:10 recorded this year in the dual meet with Univer sity of Oregon. He reported that running in the higher altitudes of his conference area is harder and his times have ranged around 4:14. That was his mark in the Sky line meet which BYU won with 77 points to second place New Mexico's 44. Ray said that he ran the three-mile a couple of times but without impressive times. Smith is studying toward a teaching degree in physical education and is also going into pre-physical therapy studies. EMERALD GAMES HERE Arrangements have been completed by the Eugene Em eralds with the Veterans Ad ministration domiciliary and two service clubs to play four oi their Northwest league baseball games at Memorial field. White City, this turn' mer. First tussle will be with the Salem Dodgers on Wed nesday, June 25. Eugene will meet Salem again at White City on Aug, 2, will play the Lewiston Broncs on Aug, 13 and will face the Tri-City Braves on Aug, 27. Central Point Junior Cham ber of Commerce will spon sor the June 25 and Aug. 13 games and Medtord Lioni club those on Aug. 2 and Aug. 27. Proceeds netted by the jaycees will go to the Crater high stadium fund. Tickets for the June 25 tan gle were to be available to day at Barker's Men's store and the Bohemian club in Medford, the Central Point pharmacy, Pendleton's Mobil gas in Central Point, Foster's pharmacy in Jacksonville, 01 sen's confectionery at Eagle Belmont Shapes Up As Wide-Open Race Point and the Shady Cove tavern and cafe. RAGSDALE HONORED Dick Ragsdale, ex-Medford high three sport man. was one of three young men named freshmen athletes of the year at Stanford. The others were Marty Hull and Paul Schlickc. Ragsdale was cited for his play in football and basket ball. In football he paced the Papooses in rushing, passing and scoring and displayed great punting and defensive talent. His teammates voted him the Murphy award, em blematic of the frosh griddcr with the most varsity potential. In basketball Dick was the No. 3 guard. He averaged 4.3 points per game, hitting 48 per cent of his shots. Hull was honored for wa ter polo and swimming and Schlicke for cross country and track. Schlicke was Wash ington state high school mile champ in 1961. He has run 4:10.6 mile and 1:53.3 in the half-mile this season. The three were recognized as the best among a bumper crop of athletes. YREKA PROUD He's not with a California team but residents of Yreka, Calif., have reason to be proud of Dennis Bennett, rookie pitcher with the Philadelphia Phillies. Bennett, a former Yreka high twirler, chucked the four-hit, 11-strikeout shut out last Saturday which end ed the 13-game winning streak of the Los Angeles Dodgers. New York -ATI)- The 94th . and Daddy R. were with-, 5-2 favorite in the latest ad-1 running of the $125,000 added drawn. Roman Line had fin-vance line, followed by Jai-j Belmont Stakes Saturday "" in "ie ivemucKy ; pur, me jersey LierDy winner, shapes up as a wide-open race j ness stakes between Greek Money, De- Greek Money, the Preak- Derby and third in the Preak-, at 3-1; Crimson Satan 7-2: De- ! cidedly, Kentucky Derby win- cidcdly, Jaipur and Crimson Satan. Admiral's Voyage, Vimy Ridge and David K. also are expected to compete in the tough mile and one-half grind, third leg of Thoroughbred rac ing's Triple Crown for 3-year- olds. 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