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Coast League Bills 'Rugged' Set of Games PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE " 1. Pel. GB nnilVUmnri An Los Angeles 19 n Ban Francisco 18 14 Vancouver . in 14 f ltle ia 15 17 J-oruana a 17 .583 .563 Sacramento . .500 Vi o 11 23 .358 12 By UNITED PRESS Everv team in llm D, :c.. Coast League will have to tight ior 115 victories this week, be cause the schedule isn't giving away a thing. League leading Hollywood en tertains Seattle, which is in titth place but still only three games behind the Stars. Los Angeles', trailing Hollywood by half a game, will have to beat the San Francisco Seals to stay near the top. And the Seals, only two games behind the Angels, will have the advantage of their own field. RUGGED GAMES The competition will be rugged In the basement, too. Portland, Beavers Sell Jack Littrell To Chicago '9' PORTLAND (UP) The Port land Beavers Monday sold short stop Jack Littrell to the Chicago Cubs in return for the contracts of ex-Beaver first baseman Ed Mickelson and ex - Los Angeles shortstop, Ed Winceniak. The Beavers also got two pitch ers, one on option and the other via San Diego. Dave Hillman, who has worked primarily with the Cubs as a re lief pitcher was optioned to the Beavers and John Carmichael, an other right-hander, came from the San Diego Padres in a three-way deal. Carmichael comes to the Bea vers in exchange for outfielder Bob Lennon who was optioned by the Cubs. Portland got Carmichael with the undcrstandnig it would be given the opportunity to buy his contract. Littrell left Monday night for Chicago where he is expected to be in the lineup tonight against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Winceniak and Hillman were expected to Join the Portland club In Sacramento for tonight's game with the Solons. Mickelson is expected to drive from Chicago with his wife and be in Sacramento later .in the week. Carmichael flew with the Bea vers to Sacramento today. with an 8-21 record, visits cellar dwelling Sacramento, whiclv has the same number of wins, but two more losses. Vancouver and San Diego start ed their series in the Northwest Monday night only one game apart, but the Mountics length- enea tne aillerence to two games by downing the Padres, 9-1. Southpaw M o r r 1 e Martin al lowed the Padres only seven hits as he struck out nine and walked only one. Center fielder Lennie Green sparked the Vancouver 11- hit attack with a perfect four-for-four to give him a total of eight hits in his last 11 official' trips. CASQUE STARTS Eddie Casque started for the Padres, but lasted only a frac tion more than two innings as he went down to his first defeat. The Mounties belted him out with a three-run splurge in the second frame and another three-run out burst in the third, with five of those initial six runs charged to him. Vancouver added two more runs in the fifth and one in the eighth. , All the Padres could manage was a lone score in the fifth in ning when third baseman Eddie Kazak homered 350 feet over the left field fence with nobody on. San Dlcno 000 010 0001 7 1 Vancouver ....033 020 01 9 11 1 Gasque, Nichols (3), Lombardl (6) and Avcrill; Martin and White. Doping Horse Brings 'Ban' LOS ANGELES Wl Reggie Cornell, one of the leading thor oughbred trainers in the West, is under suspension through July 24 in a horse doping case. The California Horse Racing Board set him down through the balance of the Hollywood Park Meeting ending July 23 and the first day of the Del Mar meeting, after a day-long hearing Monday. Cornell was charged with re sponsibility for the alleged stimu lation of Drifting Abbey, 2-year-old winner of the first race at Bay Meadows April 23. Suspended with Cornell through July 24 was Jerry Williams, Drift ing Abbey's groom. The Bay Meadows stewards sus pended Cornell two- days after Drifting Abbey, owned by Tom Ross and Phil Klipstein and rid den by Willie Shoemaker, won the six-furlong race. The racing board extended the suspension. Cornell denied any knowledge of the doping. Shrine Links Tourney Set For June 1-2 The Salem Shrine Club golf tour nament, an annual affair here, will be held June 1-2 this spring. George Alexander is again chair man of the tourney, which in the past two years has sent more than $5,000 into the Shrine Hospital for Crippled Children at Portland. Heading the barbecue ticket sales will be Tom Mosher and Doug Campbell. Bernard Donaldson will be in charge of a group arranging for dozens of merchandise prizes the golfers will win in the two-day event. Six major prizes will be offered fflP thp mPdtn (toon froora mtrin erator, stove, dryer, washer and television set. The toiirnnmpnt tn hn hnlH ot fha Salem Golf Club, will be open to an male amateur golfers with handicaps and trophies will go to winners in the championship and six other lesser flights. A four man team trophy will also be at stake. TTnfl-U tan tnr Mia .'11 l.- $4. A committee started taking registrations lor the event Mon day at tne tourney Headquarters, 167 S. Hieh St. or Post Officn Roy 230. Threc-and-under handicap play ers will be in the championship flipht. Thncp with A.R will ha (;-- flighters, 7-9 second, 10-12 third, 13-16 fourth, 17-21 fifth and 22-25 sixth. Krause Paces NW Batsmen PORTLAND (UP)-A .414 mark compiled by Eugene's Mel Krause on 12 hits in 29 times at bat paced Northwest League hitters in games through May 7. uon Lundderg, Wenatchee, had the mqst hits, 19; Herman Lewis of Yakima the most doubles, 7; Zeke King, Eugene, the most triples, 4; and Ellis Burton, Tri City, the most stolen bases, 4. George Huffman and Ted Tappe, both Wenatchee, were knotted in homers with 3 each but Huffman was all alone in total bases with 32. Don McGinnis, Yakima, led in runs batted in at 19. Chuck Lybeck of Wenatchee led the pitchers with 3 victories, in innings pitched with 28 and in complete games with 3. Carl Mays Named Scout on Coast For Indian Nine BEND (UP) - Carl Mays, who spent 16 years as a major league pitcher, said today he has been named Pacific Coast scout for the Cleveland Indians. Mays, 65, said his territory would include Oregon, Washing ton, Idaho, northern California and British Columbia. Just Wait Till He Grows Up LOS ANGELES Dave Davis, a fresh man at University of Southern California, already is tossing the shot farther than most varsity competitors. In the meet be tween USC and UCLA Davis tossed the Iron ball 56 feet 4 inches to establish a new national freshman record. The world record holder Perry O'Brien's best mark as a freshman was 53 feet 10 inches made in 1950. The first two meets this season Davis' best mark was 52 feet, show ing an Improvement of better than 5 feet in just a few weeks. (AP Wirephoto) AAUTrack Team May Go To Moscow By UNITED PRESS The National AAU hasn't an nounced whether it will accept Russia's bid to send a 70 - man team to Moscow in July for a dual track meet, but some of the crack Yank runners proved dur ing the weekend they are in fine form. Here's what happened Saturday night at Fresno, Calif., in the Fresno Relays: Abilene Christian, with Bobby Morrow running the anchor leg, equalled the world record of 39.9 seconds for the 440-yard relay. Max Truex of the University of Southern California won the 5,-000-meter run in 14 minutes, 14.5 seconds, fastest time ever posted for that distance .by an . American. In the Southwest Conference meet at Austin, Tex.: The Texas foursome which set a world mark of 39.9 seconds in the 440-yard relay around one turn in the recent Kansas Relays, set a world mark of 40 seconds for the event around two turns. The fast times were recorded on a track dampened by morning and afternoon rain, indicating the Americans could be counted on for some sizzling efforts if turned loose in Moscow's New Lenin Sta dium July 12-14, The AAU has a formal invita tion to send a team to Moscow for a three day meet with the Russians picking up the tab for the stay and the return trip. Rain' Stops Ducks MOSCOW, Ida. (UP) Oregon and Idaho were to meet in a Northern Division baseball double- header today. Rain forced post ponement of . Monday s scheduled game. Capital Journal, Tues., May 14, 1957, Sec. 2, Page I Top Hurdlers Set to Race In PCC Event EUGENE (Special) Four ofi the top collegiate hurdlers in the country, including Oregon's Jack Morris, will meet here Friday and Saturday in one of the many top events looming in the annual run ning of the PCC track and field championships. Morris, who clipped off a rapid 23.3 in the lows last weekend at the Northern division meet in Pull man, will have to duplicate or bet ter that mark when he runs against one of the toughest low hurdle fields in several years. Chuch Cobb of Stanford has al ready turned in a 23.1 and USC's Bob Lawson clipped off a 23 flat earlier this season with an aiding wind. UCLA will be banking on its decathlon star Rafer Johnson, who is defending champion of the lows and is now approaching top form after recovering from a leg operation. The Webfoot's hope in the high hurdles, Doug Basham, is also fac ing a tough race, running against Stanford's Bernie Nelson, the de fending champion. Dean Singer of Washington, Johnson, Cobb, Law son and Ken Thompson of UCLA. LAWSON FASTEST Lawson also has the best time this season in the highs, a 14 flat, while both of the Northern division hopes, Basham and Singer, are capable of 14.4 or better. With large fields in sight for both hurdle events, preliminaries will be scheduled Friday to cut the field to six before Saturday's final. Among the red-hot battles In the field events will be battles in the shot put and discus. UCLA's Don Vick has a mark of over 57 feet this season, but must beat off the challenge of five other performers, all over 54 feet so far this season. Among these is WSC's Burl Grin ds, the Northern Division record holder, Washington's Larry Pul ford, Chris Plain of Stanford and Ray Martin and Dick Bronson from Southern Cal. DISCUS OUTLOOK In the discus ring, Vlck and tha Trojans' Rink Babka will fight it out, with Babka hitting close to 180 feet this season while Vick, Jack Egan of USC, and Fred Pet ers of Stanford are all close to 170. Tops in the Northern Division this season have been the Huskies' Pul- ford and Oregon's nnnlinmmA 11mA Estes, both hovering around 160 PCX! TTlPPt TM-nrri tn thm Mah hurdles in 14 flnt hplri hv n n!' of Trojans, Dick Attlesey and Jack uavi5. in ine tows me conference standard is also owned by Attlesey, a 23.1. Two more Trojans, Perry O'Brien in the shot with 58' JV4" and aim mess in the discus with 183' 514", hold the conference meet records. The Hayward field shot put record is definitely out of danger, with the same O'Brien tossing tha ball 62' 6 " here last year, while TnfH. rilnPlla nwrirri la tha aama Both field hurdle records held by uavis, couia oe cnangea however. Vandals Seek Tilts With AF MOSCOW, Idaho Ufl Robert Gibb, athletic director at the Uni versity of Idaho, said Monday night the Vandals are trying to arrange a football series with the Air Force Academy Falcons. Gibb said he was "very hope ful" of arranging the series, which he said could be initiated as early as 19jP. Gibb made the comment when asked about a suggestion by Haw ley Atkinson of Boise, state com mander of the American Legion, that the Vandal football squad in vite either Army or Navy to play Idaho in 1963. 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