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" 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.
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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.
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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.
The kvci balks called n both
teams is believed lo lie a maim
league record set earlier this
year. Shaw also broke a record
for balks In a season, eight, and
tied a mark lor balks in a tingle
inning, tluec.
IN THE FAMH.V
BALTIMORE, Md It PI' -
Chick l.ang, America's leadmj
jockey in 1031. won the l!W
Walden Stakes at Pimlicn with
Heigh Count. His son t'huk Lang
-lr now is director of racing at
the Uack.
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