Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 16

hort Bye, Bliss, Nevada Track Team Meets Chico, Humboldt Saturday Today ROLLAN MELTON, Wolf Pack Goes to Chico, Idaho State Here Monday 6 RENO EVENING GAZETTE March 27, 1958 Nevada Plays Doubleheader University of Nevada's base Prison Team Meets Coast AAU Boxers ready this year Phil Hatch in the shot, Mike Lommori in the discus, Bill Bowser in the low sticks and broad jump, and pretty fair short distance strength. The surprise might be freshman Dave Sharpe in the distances. He had a 4:46 mile and a 10:33 two-mile in workouts last week, and can do better. Other recent trials showed both Hugh Barnhill and Sid To-leno at 10.2 in the 100, Bowser 25.5 in the lows, Harris already at 12-6 in the pole vault and Hatch out 44-3 in the shot. DOW LOSER Barnhill took a surprising win over Richard Dow in the 440 at 53.3, but Dow will head the quarter mile corps at Chico.

All this looks good for relay strength, though. Idaho State dropped here to Nevada last year on all-round strength, but has some of the same fine individual performers back. They include Buck Mac-Gillivary, a 51 flat 440 man; Enyart, a 10 flat and 21.9 sprinter; pole vaulter Jim Wag-staff who tied Harris at 13 feet last year, Bob Hodge in the high hurdles and Elain in the weights. ball team plays Shasta Junior College at the Threlkel's ball diamond Friday afternoon. It's a twin bill beginning at 1 o'clock and admission Is free.

Threlkel's park is on East Fourth street. It's the official home opener for the Nevadans although Jake Lawlor's club has already play ed one match with the Fallon Desert-Admirals. Lawlor has four reliable pit chers who will split duties. All are leit-nanaers donn iynn, Roy Kidder, Bob Snyder, and Gary Porter. Jim Gardner and Paul Skin ner will divide catcmng dunes for the non-conference double- header.

Kidder or Flynn open at first Jerry Tobin is at second, Tom Whitaker, shortstop, Fred Jesser, third. In the outfield, it'll be Bill DuBois. Snyder, Bob Ferarrl or John Miller. 49er Basketball Reno High Gym March 29 Editor Junior Skiers At Sun Valley Nevada junior skiers at Sun Valley, Idaho for the Western States American Legion Junior Championships this weekend are regarded as one of the top threats for the team title. This assessment was given to day by the Associated Press, which said that Nevada and Washington looked particularly good in practice although oth er teams on hand include Mon tana, which did well in the national junior championships, a strong Idaho team and defend ing champion California.

A total of 10 teams are enter ed from the western states, and British Columbia will enter two skiers as guests. The giant slalom is set for Friday on Baldy Mountain, the downhill will be on Baldy Saturday and the slalom will be held Sunday on Dollar Mountain. Nevada is represented by a full team composed of Marsha Frankovich, Cindy. Hart, Lee Ann Zimmerman, Linda Smith, on Madsen, Dennis Hogan, Doug Salter, Steve Walther and Craig Holliday. Gordy Wren, coach of the Ne vada skiers, and one of America's all-time grats, heads a group of coaches who have been well-known skiers themselves.

Tney include Martin Hale, Whitefish, and Dave Gor-such, Climax, both past winners in the Legion race; and former Harrinian Cup racers Gene Gillis, Bend, Walt Taulbee, Seattle, and Dave Shaw, Twin Falls, Idaho. EXPERT MISTAKE MILWAUKEE. CP) An ex cited woman called the Wisconsin Humane Society. "Send somebody quick," she said. "There's a baby moose on our front lawn." The man asked her how she knew it was a moose.

"My husband said so," she re plied. "He ought to know. He's been hunting for 20 years." The humane society man went out on the calL He found a woodchuck. University of Nevada track- men, tnwartea last weeK ry Daa A 1 1 weather as they attempted to launch their season, are sched uled to pack two meets into three days this weekend. Saturday Coach Djck Dank- worth's squad travels to Chico for the annual three-way meet with two Far Western Conference opponents, Chico State and Humboldt State.

BENGALS HERE And then, on Monday, the touring Idaho State track team stops off for an annual visit at Mackay Field. By the way, track fans turning' up for this meet (1:30 field events, 2 o'clock track events) will see both college and high school trackmen in action. A special event, a distance medley invitational relay, will find runners from Sparks, Reno, Lassen and Fernley contesting. The distance medley consists of 440, 80, 132d and mile legs. Dank worth- and company, minus a lot or Dig pointgeiters from last year, face a Chico team that didn't lose hardly anybody and a Humboldt team that largely an unknown quantity.

FAVORS CHICO In fact, Dankworth thinks Chico is the team most likely to wind up on top of the conference this year. As a for instance, the Wildcats are loaded in the middle dis tances, with all four members of last year's conference relay record setters back headed by Thomason, who was running un der 50 seconds in the quarter late last season. Add to that a good sprinter in Vasquez, a set of 80 grandslam- mers in last years tn-meet headed by Miller and a good distance man in Cohinka, and you've got a lot of prospective points without even talking about the field events. Nevada mopped up pretty well in the field events last year, but lost quite at bit of that tal ent. BARNUM GOOD Humboldt's strong point would appear to be a fine broad and high jumper, Barnum.

Nevada has as some top threats it's fine pole vaulter Dave Harris who also is down to 15.8 in the high hurdles al 1 1 SAM EVANS, 188 pounds, of the Nevada state prison, who Friday night joins the Prison team when it meets a team of Stockton, Calif. AAU- Golden Glove-fighters. Evans is scheduled to meet Alex Rios of Stockton in a semi-main event at the old Carson high gym. Proceeds go to the Cancer drive and bouts begin at 8 o'clock Friday evening. SEE FILMED TITLE BOUT, IT'S FREE Boxing fans who by-passed a chance to view the Ray Robinson-Carmen Basilio title fight via- close circuit television, can see the Sugar man at his 37-year-old best for free.

It'll take a bit of driving but Monday, March 31, films of Tuesday's middleweight championship bout will be shown at the Lakeside Theater, South Tahoe. In addition, films of the September bout in which Basilio took the title, will be presented. How do you get tickets? Pick them up at Harvey's Wagon Wheel, Lake Tahoe between 6 and 9 o'clock on Friday, Saturday or Sunday evenings. Ask for Lew Hardy, publicist. "You don't even have to play a slot machine to get tickets," a Harvey spokesman advised this morning.

Capacity of the Lakeside theater is 1200. There'll be three showings all Monday at 2 o'clock In the afternoon and 7:45 and 9 o'clock in the evening. 9 Harvey's is sponsoring the free films. HAMILTON COACH HAMILTON, Ontario, March 27. (JP) Jack Jacobs, former Oklahoma University star, today was named backfield coach of the Hamilton Cats in the Canadian Pro Football League.

Jacobs resigned as head coach of the London Lords, also a pro team, to take the Hamilton job. PLANNING PI ANTING? fx) 1 iMMMifiiii i.ifci.i t. ril r.i ney SACRAMENTO (Special) University of Nevada has two of its collegiate fighters in semi-finals of the national boxing tournament here as a result of first round byes. They are Joe Bliss, 139, and Dick Short, 125. Remaining two Carl Looney, 178, and Bill Short, 147 are among NCAA title aspirants battling in today's quarter-ffnels.

The three-day tournament concludes Saturday night at the Municipal Auditorium. MEETS. JIMENEZ Looney was scheduled to fight this afternoon against an old foe Joe Jimenez of Sacramento State. It's the rubber match for th year with each boy having wen a bout. Looney, 5-3 for the season, is the Pacific Coast irtf ercollegiate light heavy-v(-ht champion.

IJ1 Short gets into action to night, meeting Jim Keyes of Washington State. Keyes. the PCI champion, beat Short in the opening round of the Pacific coast matches last weekend in Reno. It was a close fight. Two favorites in the lightweight class, Joe Bliss and Wel-vin Stroud of San Jose State, drew first round byes.

Bliss fights Friday night against win ner of tonight's Larry Largent- William Hartz bout. Largent is from Washington State, Hartz from Virginia. Dick Short fights Friday evening against winner of the 125-TJound fight between Idaho State's David Abeyta and Ha waii's Danny Kosora. 'A feature bout on today's schedule matches 1957 heavy weight king Hal Espy of Idaho State against top challenger Archie Milton of San Jose. Luck of the draw matches the pair the first day.

A stunner to Sacramento State title hopes and to admir ers of Terry Smith was the ruling yesterday that Smith is Ineligible. He was declared out of the tournament because of a transfer rule an athlete loses a year's eligibility and must wait out a year when he trans' fers. Smith fought for Gonzaga University in 1951, left school, entered the air force, and enrolled at Sacramento State last Fall. Sacramento State officials believed Smith's eligibility was all right since he had been In the service during the intervening time. A dinner banquet at George Johnson's Del Prado officially! kicked off the tournament yesterday.

Coaches, tourney officials and boxers attended, boxers were introduced and presented white sweaters complete with the NCAA emblem. I. F. (Crip) Toomey, NCAA tournament chairman, was introduced and received a standing ovation. Toomey was onetime grid star of the Cal "wonder team" that was unbeaten over four years.

He has made a complete recovery from an illness that last year resulted in loss of a lei-Eddie LaFond, chairman of the NCAA rules committee, commenting on the PCI tournament held in Reno last weekend, said: 'The boxing I saw in Reno was far above the caliber I have seen in college' boxing for at least the last six years." Here are ticket prices for the tournament: Ringside S2.50 and $2 and $1.75 dress circle; $2 and $1,75 first balcony; second balcony, $1.50 and $1.25. Nineteen bouts are scheduled today and several defending champions are scheduled to fight. One of them is an Idaho State battler, David Abeyta, 125, who last year beat Nevada's Sam Macias for the 119-pound crown. The Bengals from Pocatello, Idaho, are favored to beat 13 other team entries for the crown. Eight fights, with the top bouts featuring big boys, have been scheduled for the Carson grammar school Friday night at 8 o'clock for the benefit of the Ormsby vounty Cancer Crusade.

Bay area, Reno and Nevada state prison fighters will appear on the card. Headline bout will match light heavyweights John Balla, the Pacific AAU-Golden Gloves combined champion, and rugged Lester Astor of the prison team. Balla, who will fight in the Boston nationals next month, may find stiff competition in Astor, a knockout puncher who is undefeated in amateur boxing. A semi-windup bout features Alex Rios, 192, a finalist in the recent Bay Area Golden Gloves tourney, taking on Sam Evans, 191-pounder from the prison. Another top bout should be between Stockton's Henry Perez, known as the "Mexican Whirlwind," and Glen Bell of the prison, who is highly touted by Warden Art Bernard as a tough battler.

These boys are 140-pounders. Appearance of the AAU fighters was arranged for by Jack Tighe, Nevada AAU commissioner. Chairmen of the Ormsby cancer drive are John Laxalt and Harley Carter. Stan Hill Tops Novelty Shoot Stan Hill won "the top prize in a successful novelty smallbore rifle shoot sponsored Sunday by the University of Nevada Rifle and Pistol Club. The novelty shoot at the university range was an experiment, was so well received that it is expected to become an annual Spring activity.

Hill, who shoots with the Nevada Air National Guard rifle team, won a rifle scope given by The Rifleman. Other prizes were won by Elwood Block, Bert Moncrieff and Clinton Block, and were donated by Nevada Sporting Goods, The Sportsman and Block S. For this shoot, each of the 10 points of the range was adapted to a different novelty shooting target. For instance, on point one the object was to extinguish a lighted candle; on point number two the object was to drive a nail through a board; on point number three a signal device became operative when the rifleman cut an elastic band, and so on. Each contestant paid 20 cents for three shots at each target, and for each successful shot at any target he was given a card.

ftM Fig TODAY'S SCHEDULE AFTERNOON BOUTS 125 Bill Maloney, Washington State, vs. Fred Norvelle, Virginia. 125 David Abeyta. Idaho State, vs. Danny Kcsora.

Hawaii. 147Walt Halley. Cal Poly. vs. Sherald Haynes, Michigan State.

156 Ed McFarland. Idaho State, vs. Gene Hellar. San Francisco. 165 Jack Cooltdge, San Jose State, vs.

Don Adams, Cal Poly. 178 Terrance Halllnan. California, vs. Gordy Martinez, Cal Poly. 178 Carl Looney.

Nevada, vs. Joe Jlmlnez, Sacramento State. EVENING BOUTS 139 Larry L'Argent, Washington State, vs. William Hartz, Virginia. 138 John urye, Wisconsin, vs.

tay Almeida. Hawaii. 147 Bill Short, Nevada, vs. Jim Keys, Washington State. 147 John Eagan, college or laano, vs.

Walt Sheperdson, Idaho 156 Robert Epperson. Michigan State, vs. Charles Mohr, Wisconsin. (Semi Finals) 119 Thomas Wong. Hawaii, vs.

Nick Spanakos. College of Idaho. 132 David Nelson, San Jose State, vs. Harvard Lancour. Michigan State.

132 Dick Rail, Washington State, vs. Frank Reynoso, Sacramento State. 165 Jim Flood. Sacramento State vs. John Gehan.

MichlgarState. Heavy Don Tessier, Cal Poly, vs. Ron Freeman, Wisconsin. Jim Flood, 165, of Sacramento State, a favorite to win the middleweight crown, meets Michigan State's John Gehan, and Dick Rail of Washington State, defending 132 pound titlist, meets Frank Reynoso of Sacramento State whom he defeated at Reno last week in PCI semifinals. Airmen Seek Newest Title DENVER, March 27.

UP) The 51st national AAU basketball tournament swings into the quarterfinals tonight with defending champion U. S. Air Force and co-favorites Wichita, and Bartlesville, still in the running. The airmen, presenting an almost entirely new lineup for 1958, smacked Los Angeles, 72-56, in skipping through yesterday's second round. Bob Jeangerard, ex-Coloroda, with 23 points and UCLA's Eddie White with 19 paced the Fliers.

The Air Force meets Denver a 75-68 winner over Browns-town, Ind. Denver built a 25-point lead midway of the game but it faded before Indiana's second-half comeback. Browns-town drew within five points before Denver staggered through to victory in the closing minutes. Denver's Harv Schmidt with 20 points, topped the scoring. Dan Swartz canned 23 points in leading Wichita to a 107-69 victory over Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

That was the only score of the tourney to top 100. The Kansans, co-champions with Bartlesville of the National Industrial Basketball League, are matched against Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. The Missourians overcame a 16-point deficit and fought through overtime to a 74-69 victory over San Francisco. YESTERDAY SECOND ROUND RESULTS V.

B. Air Force 72. Los Angeles 56 Denver Brownstown, Ind. 68 Wichita, Kan. 107, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 69 Bartlesville, Okla.

75, TJ. 8. Marines 50 Seattle 85, Philadelphia 66 Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. 74, San Francisco 69 (OT Lake Charles, La.

72, Akron. Ohio 66 Peoria, IU. 94, U. 8. Navy 58 TODAY'S QUARTERFINALS PAIRINGS (Eastern Standard Times) 7:30 p.m.

Wichita vs. Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. 9:00 p.m. Seattle vs.

Bartlesville, Okla. 10:30 p.m. U. s. Air Fores vs.

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