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.
The field was
Thursday when
ness winner, was listed as the
New York - il'PD - Dick
Weber of St. Louis and Shir
ley Garms of Chicago will be
honored with "Bowler of the
Year" awards by the Metro
politan Bowling Writers as-
narrowed sociation at its annual dinner
Roman Line 'June 10.
I ner, 9-2; Admiral's Voyage
1 8-1; Vimy Ridge 12-1, and
David K., 20-1.
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