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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 5, 1963)
Jam " jerry waggoner Track! What It it? It's defined In the dictionary ai athletic events performed on a track. But It In more than that Track li an individual sport which pits one human being's skill, timing, speed, strength and, above all, determination And wilt to win. against anotlur human being. It Is an individual thing which no one else can do for you. You do It yourself and can be proud or dls appointed because it Is an indi vidual effort. Track also is a sport which supplements all other sports, nol matter which one is picked. It is a great body conditioner and a conditioner for other sports such as football, basketball, and such This is one reason there are several persons in this city and surrounding areas which are in terested in getting a program started this summer under the banners of the newly - formed Klamath Basin Alhletic Associa tion. The first effort of this club will he seen June 1 at Modoc Field when the KBAA will hold its first sponsored and orgjnized track and field meet More on this meet w ill he published after plans are final ized. It should be a good one with a lot of local talent taking part. The first and prime objective of the KBAA Is to get Interest aroused In the sport of track and field to help build the sport around this area. It also Is (or physical conditioning. This isn't a program for Just young people. It Is a pro gram for anyone that wishes' to compete. And this Includes girls as well as boys. And the KBAA doesn't plan to back only track and field. It has hopes of branch ing out to help some top athletes to the bigger meets. The first such example of this is that Oregon Tech's Willie An derson is going to the highly-regarded Kresno Belays under the colors of the KBAA. He will run the MO-yard dash or the inter mediate hurdles and broad jump for sure. He may enter other events. He probably Is one of the finer short distance runners and hurdlers in this part of the coun try. He recently ran the 330-yard intermediate hurdles in 39 flat, partially against the wind and on a long track. The national leader has a 36.2 clocking. That leader is Jim Miller, an athlete we wrote about when he was in high school at Palmer High at Colorado Springs, Colo. He is only a sopho more in college. Another objective, although yet a little distant for the neophyte KBAA, is to bring in some of the top track and field participants in the nation for special events. This isn't impossible, cither. In fart, one of them will be here Friday. Dyrol Burleson, brother of OTI track rtk.-li Larry Burleson, will he here Friday to run a special half mile In the Oregon Tech Southern Oreryin dual meet He Is on his way to 1-os Angeles where he will compete In the Coliseum Relays the following weekend. Perhaps you say this Is a little far fetched dream. You've got to have dreams to get through life. Dreams, or goals, must be at tempted or what is a goal worth That is why the citizens of this city, county and Basin area should pitch in a helping hand to make this a worthwhile club. The pri mary goal Is to help the kids of the area and the ultimate goal to bring in big name athletes. When the big names (notice when, not if, was used) come to town do people to see them. Coming with the people -is money and a little economy crowd) . Something like this certainly couldn't hurt the city. So we ask the people of Die community to help. Help the kids grow physically, montally and w ith some pride of sportsmanship. Help the community to grow eco nomically and with considerable more pride than most cities of this size who wish they had such a program. This program is going to lake many things. First of ail it will lake some money, but doesn t ev erything these days. It will take the work of a lot of people, who incidentally, already iiave begun and it will take cooperation. But most of all it will take some civic- pride. We haven t lived in this com munity long. But we did see when we first came that the elvlc pride was somewhat lagging. Then came the fund drive for the hos pital and all that tarnish was wiped off the civic pride and be came so bright that it pushed the goal far, above the first estimate and even on past the second goal which was set and Is still gyring. HERALD AM) XKtVS, Klamath Falls, Oregon Sunday. May 5, 1W3 We got a note the other day from David Saks, a former Peli can and Legion baseball player. He is catching at Lewis and Clark. He said that they had Inst only two of their games (to Linficldi. He is batting .357 in the confer ence with five hits in 14 at bats and with six runs-battcd-in. He also has scored four times. He is second in batting average and leads the team in II His. One portion of the Fellowship of Young Christian Athletes will be held this year in Ashland. It will be one of three places in the United States where the meeting will be held. Eight KU athletes have been nominated to take part in the six-day meeting, although not yet chosen. for sure. The eight nominated are Bill Mills, Mike Hitching. Steve Camp bell, Lanny Guver. Mike McKlb ben, Terry Christiansen, Walt Smith and Vera Petrlck, The hpys will be expected to earn enough money to match the funds allo cated for the trip. The Pelican Booster Club also Is Interested In helping sponsor the boys. This is a big thing and a great opportunity for a boy. There will lie athletic clinics and Inspiration al clinics. Some of the biggest names in the athletic world and business world will be there to talk to the boys. The first half of the day w ill be inspirational and the second half perspirational. The second half will include athletic clinics. Kpme of the big names to be there will be: Bob Richards, for mer decathlon champion; John Woode. baseball coach at UCLA: Mllo (Mike) I.ude of Colorado State; .Bob Pcltlt, St. l-ouls Hawks; Jim Owens, Washington football coach; Brbe l.ee, athletic director of Kansas Stale; Deacon Dan Tnwler, former l.os Angeles Kam; Don Moomaw, former CCI.A All-Amrrlcn and pro font bailer: Gary Drinarrst I'ti.A hasehallrr; Trx Winter, Kansas Stale basketball roach: Ted Wle- man, former athletic director at Denver Vnlvrrslty; Bob Covey, track assistant at OSU; Dirk Harp, basketball at Kansas; and James Jeffery, hiiklnevman from Fort Worth, Texas. There will be others, too. 1 j 'tJw (A'X i thru VijeSaf vt.v f ii ITf L J , Jnia ''WiWsaf-jj satst- ARMS AND LEGS FLAIL AWAY High hurdlers from Medford and Klamath make their way over the first hurdle on their way to a good 15.4 clocking against the wind in fhe dual meet at Modoc Field Saturday. Medford't Don Driscoll (far right ) won the event with Medford's Dave Durant I second from ieftl second. Klamath's Don Graham (second from rigbt with tongue hanging out I was third. Fred Kelley (behind Driscoll) didn't finish in the money. Oregon Tech Performances Off In Triangular Meet Yakima Wins Northwest Game; Borrows Gear Northwest l-eague Standings Ily tnltrd Press International W, L. Pet. till. WVnalchce 2 -m Snlcm 3 .W7 1'i wistnn a 4 .600 3 Yakima 5 4 .X J's Tn City S 7 .300 5 Kugcne 0 8 not) 7 Friday's Results Yakima Salem 2 Ix-wistnn 6 Tri-City J Wcnatchec ut Kugenc, p)d. Those Yakima Beats of the Northwest League had to borrow a lew duds to piny Salem in Fri-, day night's Northwest League ac tion but they had base hits to spare. Tie uniforms and equipment o( tlx Bears was lost in a bus (ire "riday hut they borrowed, ami iMuight enough unilurms to show up and thump Salem D-2. 1 is- lon took Tri-City J In the only oilier game. Wenalchec at Eugene was called oil because ol wet grounds. Maicial Allen collected three singles to pace Yakima's attack The Bears sewed It up with three in the filth Inning and added live more in Hie ninth to make sure Hon Tnmkins spaced seven hits and whillcd 10 in.lwistnn's win The Hroncs won it with three in the fourth on tun-run triple by catcher John Stutz and a run- producing single by Jim Prlsroll MONMOUTH -The Oregon Tech Owls, outnumbcrd 8-1 and 6-1 In tlie triangular meet, with conference mate Oregon Col lege of Education and non member Linficld, made a good showing in the track meet Fri day. The Owls, now named the "Sturdy Six" because there are only six members on the team, racked up their share ol the victories despite heavy odds, a very long rip and weather which wasn't the best. "The long trip hurts us I think," said Coach Larry Burle son. "We went up and came back in one dny. Some of the guys were tired from the ride and didn't have good days. Ed Cecil and Norm Johns had be low average meets." he staled. The Owls were going against Linfield, which had about 40 members, ani OCE, which had about 30, in dual meets. The final results found Linficld in first with 94 points. OCE with 38 and OTI with 31. Ed Cecil, who usually leads the Owls, had an off day. He got a third in the shot with a below par 39-10 toss. He was third in the javelin, also, ith a heave ut IHi feet. Bob Chard, Cecil's teammate, won the jav lin with a toss of 168-6. Cecil captured the 220-yard dash in the slow time of 23 flat but on a slow and appar ently long track. He w-as second in the 100-yard dash to team mate John Maricich who won it with a clocking of 10.5 which is far below average. Maricich was second lo Cecil in the 220. Wayne Dennis copped second in the high jump at 5-10 and Bob Bryant was third at 5-8, below his best. Norm Johns lost his specialty, the discus. He was favored to take the discus but threw only 134 feet to come in second to OCE's Bartlett. Bry ant finished fourth in both the 440-yard dash and 8X0. Willie Anderson, running for the Klamath Basin Athletic As sociation, set a new field record with a broad jump of 22-i1', his best jump of the year but below his beil jump ever. He also won the 220-yard low hur dles in 25 flat. He will represent the KBAA in the Fresno Belays soon. Chard finished third in the discus with a toss of 132 feet. Maricich was second in t h e broad jump with a jump of 20-8 and Bryant third at 20-4. The Owls will be at home Friday when they host the pow erful Southern Oregon Red Haiders in a dual at 7 p.m. That meet aiso will be high lighted by a special half mile race with Dyrol Burleson, the famous ex-Oregon runner, set ting a hot pace for the SOC ami OTI runners. Grelle Upsets Beatty In Record Time In Pan-Am 1500 Meter Run SAO PAULO. Brazil (LTD - Slim Jim Grelle upset famed Jim Beatty to win the 1,500 meter run record time and a U. S. quartet apparently survived a protest to win the 1,600 meter relay Saturday as the United Slates swept seven out of eight track and field gold medals in the Pan-American games. The stunning finish in track gave the U. S. team a rich haul of 1(13 gold medals in the games with night competition still to come on the final lull day ol action. White Sox Tap Senators CHICAGO (UPD-Dave Nichol son drove in three runs with his filth and sixth home runs Satur day to pace the Chicago White Sox to an 8-1 victory over the Washington Senators in a soggy rain-delayed ball game. Nicholson, w oo leads the White Sox in strikeouts with 35, found the range in the lourth inning when he hit it short into tlie left field stands with the bases empty. The lormer Baltimore outfielder hit his second after a double by itwkie Pete Ward during a live- run Sox outburst in the seventh Grelle's victory over Beatty. the 1962 Sullivan Award winner as America's top amateur ath lete, in meet record time of 3:45.3 was the competitive high light of the day. But that was al most overshadowed in the dispute that blew up over the 1,600 meter relay jinish. The V. S. team finished first hut then runner - up Venezuela protested the third Yank runner. Ollan Casscll, had run out of his lane. At lirst it was announced ol licials had allowed tlie protest and disqualified the U. S. team hut then it was announced the protest had been turned down. Finally, officials said tliey were turning over the Venezuelan pre lest to the Pan-American jury (or final 'ruling. Tlie jury had left tlie arena by that time, and apparently it would ie some lime until it could be reassrmblcd to consider the protest. Pending that, however, tlie Yanks had wound up track and field in a blaze of glory, al though just a trifle short of the Gold Modal figures they posted in tlie same sports in the last Pan American games in I939. This lime the Yanks won 17 out of 24 possible Gold Medals in men's events as against 19 the last time, and 6 out ol 10 women's events as against 8 the last time. Other U. S? track wins Satur day were scored by Dan Studney ol San Jose Calif., in tlie javelin throw. Bill Sharpe in the hop- step-and-jump, tlie men's 400 meter relay. Jo Ann Terry of Indianapolis in the women's 80 mcter nurldes. and the women's 400-meter hurdles. The only track event in which a Yank did not finish first was the coveted marathon, won by Mexico's Fidel Ncgrctc. Bald, 34-year-old Pete McArdle winner of the 10,000 meter run earlier this week in one of the big upsets of the games, made a courageous effort to win the marathon, too. as he duelled with Negrete for the first 22 miles of the 26-mile. 385-yard grind. But then the New York bus mechanic ran out of gas and he dropped back to finish third behind team mate Gordon McKenzie of Great Neck. N. Y., as Negrete wun by over a half-mile in 2 hours. 26 minutes, 5 6 seconds, faster than the 1959 winning time of John Kellev of the I'S. Dyrol Burleson To Run In OTI Meet Friday Dyrol rjurleson, world famous distance star, will highlight the first annual Klamath Basin Track Invitational Friday night at Mo doc Field. The meet is co-spon sored bv the new Klamath Ba sin Athletic Association and the. Oregon Tech Track and Field team. The main feature of the evening will be a dual track meet be tween Oregon Tech and Southern Oregon, one of the most powerful small college track teams in tne Northwest. SOC is the defending conference champion and will fieftl several of the top trackmen on the Pacific Coast. The meet's outstanding fep''ire will be the open 880-yard run. Dyrol Burleson, former University of Oregon distance ace. will com pete in this event. Burleson is the, former American record holder in the 1300 meters 3:40.9', the mile 13:57.61 and two mile (8:42.5) He is a three-time winner in the NCAA mile. The slender 23-year-old athlete has a best time of 1:48.22 in the . This time is the record at the University of Oregon. Dvrol. who was a member of the U.S. Olympic squad in 1960. is preparing now for the 1954 meet in Tokyo. The week after he ap pears in Klamath Falls he will travel to Los Angeles for the famed Coliseum Relays. In this race Burley will meet the world's best distance runners. Peter Snell. Jim Beatty. and Jim Grelle. Bur leson is planning to prepare for this race by posting a good time at the Klamath Falls meet. The meet will be held on Modoc Field at 7 p.m. Tickets are $1 for adults and 50 cents for children. This promises to be the finest sports attraction this spring in the Klamath Basin Burleson will be running against all the Southern Oregon half mil ers and Oregon Tech's Bob Bry ant in the special half mile race. Burleson's run could push the col lege lads to a very good clocking. Southern Orccon is loaded with good track men. "They certainly will have the advantage ol num bers over the "Sturdy Six" of Oregon Tech. Some of their bet ter cindermen include Doyle Bransom in the 100 and 220. He has a 9.9 and 22.2 clocking. Oyler is the top man in the two mile with a time of 9:48.1. Bill White tops the league's high hurdlers with a 14.8 clocking. Hanby leads the OCC vaullers with a leap of H I1). Mike Hoods the top broad jumper with a jump of 21-2. Hood also is tops in the 330-yard Inter mediate hurdles- in 38.8. Thomas tops the trip'" jumpers with a leap ol 45-3 and they have several- WINS GUINEAS STAKE NEWMARKET, England i L'PI Hula Dancer, a French-bred undefeated 2-year-old filly owned b y American sportswoman Mrs Gertie Widener. won her fifth successive race Thursday by ral lying in the stretch to take the 1.000 Guineas Stake by a length athletes placing second in events, a rough time for the fu st places The Owls nave several good although after that things will be times also and figure to give SOC thin. -V'. - - - WMMBtajiH T t:--.- I i'Ci DYROL BURLfeSON To Run In Klamath Friday Baeza Ecstatic After Derby Win LOUISVILLE, Ky. 'UPl'-Tall, taciturn Braulio Baeza is from Panama and proud of it, but that old Kentucky home was looking mighty good to him. too, after he won the Kentucky Derby Saturday on Chateaugay. "I have wanted to win this race all my life, since I was a little boy." sa.d Baeza, who con ceded that wasn't so lon ago. "I'm 23, but right now I teeli like I'm about 12." I Baeza' calm manner contrast ed with the enthusiasm of his slightly accented words as he said, "I have been high on this horse since I rode him at Ilia- leah...He does everything like a champion." And he grinned. "I have two children at home in Miami, but today I have three Chateau gay is my baby." j Baeza is tlie second foreign- born rider to win a Kentuckv Derby. Johnny Longden. who; won in lf43 on Count Flee!, was! born In Indon, England. 1 Among those who greeted Baeza in the steaming jockey room after the victory as Aquilino E, Boyd. Panama's am bassador to the L'niled Nations, who conveyed the congratulations of his country to the smiling win ner. Baeza had a word of gratitude to Fred W. Hooper, for whom he is a contract rider. Hooper's Admiral's Voyage was running Saturday in the Carter Handicap at Aqueduct, but he gave Baeza permission to take the derby ride on Chateaugay, and bis blessing. It all turned out well, since Ad miral's Voyage also won his race. Baeza said the rare didn't go quite the way he planned it he was hoping to he a little closer to the pace and when Gray Pet ducked in on him a little at the three furlong pole, he took Cha teauay outside. It turned out to be a good move. "I hit him three or four times in the first quarter and he re sponded with just about every thing he had. He may go a mile and a half later, but not today. But he is easy to handle. ..He is very kind to me today. ..Some days he do not like the whip," Raeza said. Cubs Whip Braves With Aid Of Five Called Balks, 7-5 MIUVAircrE (ITU - Major league balk records continued to fall Saturday, with seven of them five on Braves' pitclier Bob Shaw-called in a 7-$ Chicago Cubs victory over Milwaukee. Shaw's total set record for major league pitchers, and it might have been more had not "fhV Milwaukee righthander been thumbed from the game in the sixth Inning for protesting a call by plate umpire Al Barlick. 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