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PAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1940. Sport Graphs Billy Hnlen ay: Rube Basketball Start Show Class in SOCE Struggle Laddie Gale, Wally Johansen and Bobby Anet were in town last Friday night and this writer, apparently alone of the some 1,500 casaba clients who watch' ed them perform against Jean Eberhart's fine SOCE quintet, was not a bit disappointed in what he saw when the ex-Unl-verslty of Oregon boys started firing that leather around. We have yet to talk with a Medlord fan who was complete ly satisfied with the ball game, and with the activities of the three above mentioned gents. It seems, according to the local consensus, that Gale, Johansen and Anet have gone a long way back from their college form; from the form that brought the Webfoots a national champion ship last season. It is true that the boys were probably not in peak physical condition, but what independent basketball player is? It is also true that their teamwork left considerable to be desired, but it must be remembered that the two other Rubenstein regulars; Jack Butterworth and Dave Sil ver were unable to make the trip on account of Jobs in Eugene. Naturally, the trio couldn't manufacture plays with a couple of fill-ins like they could have had Butterwortn ana Silver been present. Regardless of all ihat, and despite the fact that we were prepared to witness the acme of basketball perfection and no less, we still think the show those three gave was nothing short of terrific. Especially as concerns Gale and Johansen. Anet. undoubt edly, was tired and out of condition, but even so he dis played flashes of the form that made him the spark plug of Hobson's national title bolders. Galo, with two big SOCE guys hanging to him like a leach for the entire game, canned IB points In the second half, and all of his field buckets were made under the most extreme pressure possible. Time and again he showed why he is an all-American, faking his guards out of their shoes to score "impossible" shots. As for Johansen, his ball-handling and floor maneuvering was really amazing. If there has ever been a better passer and drib bler we would liked to have seen him. Wally had the ball probably 75 per cent of the time it was in possession of the Rubes, and it was he who set up the plays that enabled Gale to tally with that one-handed shot that made him famous. Rubenstein's failure to beat the Ashland club possibly had something to do with the dis satisfaction many local fans had with the game, and with the performances of the three for mer Webfoots. However, we be lieve that Eberhurt has welded a grout busketball team, certain ly the finest he ever has had at the Lithia city institution. This boy Marchl, from Portland's Benson Tech, Is a honey, and our prediction is that the SONS will win the state A.A.U. tour nament, college division, and possibly travel to Denver for the national tourney. In case anybody would like to get In touch with Mr. I. Pickem during the next six months, the grid prognosticator begs to an nounce the following addresses where he may be located: Remainder of January 911 Whitman, home of William J Bowcrman. February 328 Haven, home of Murray Bell. March 314 Vancouver, home of Everett H. Brayton. April 714 South Oakdalc, home of Herbert G. Grey. May 12 South Orange, home of George W. McBee. June 135 Vancouver, home of Hanson W. Webster. Note of explanation: the above named gentlemen eith er wagered on U.8.C. In the Rose Bowl or attempted to beat some seme into I. Pick em's thick skull, to no avail, and as a result they, alter taking Pickem's pocketbook to a terrible cleaning, have graciously opened the doors of their homes to the picktter and his (amily, thus saving the county the trouble of car ing lor the bereft Pickem's for the next hall year. On the other "bowl" games Pickem did fine, but it happened he didn't back his judgment with the filthy lucre. He called the West over the East, Georgia Tech over Missouri, Texus Ag gies over 'J'ulane and Clcmson over Bostuu college, and they Mehalikis - Chick E. TO THRILL FANS .El Smolinski Meets Clayton in Center Go Zimovich and Montgomery in First Bout The curtain goes up at 8 o'clock tonight in the Medford armory on Promoter Lack Lll lard's first wrestling card of 1940 and the line-up indicates one of the most exciting eve nings experienced here in many a month. In the top event Cowboy Dude Chick and Prince Mehalt kis will battle it out for an hour of straight wrestling or two falls out of three. If both boys live up to their past records, the match is likely to develop into a full hour of genuine wrestling so that fans can see once more Just what the game should be like at its best. Both the cowboy and the prince are masters of wrestling, possessed of a knowledge of all the legitimate holds, clever in breaking loose from killing en tanglements, fast as lightning in maneuvering. Newcomer In Opener In the opener, a newcomer will make his bow to a Medford audience. He is Zim Zimovich, a powerful 200-pound Finn who is likely to be a favorite before he ever steps into the ring be cause of the gallantry of his fellow countrymen in warding off the Russian Invasion. Zimo vich will line up against Bob Montgomery, the Georgia boy who has been popular here in the past though of late he has shown a tendency to rough up his opponents. The middle number is sure to be dirty, for one of the con testants will be Joe Smolinski, the Polish palooka, who never uses a fair tactic if he can get in a foul one. The Palooka will have his hands full, however, for he will meet King Kong Clayton, the hefty Negro boy who can take care of himself In any kind of company. Ladles' Night The first two events will be under the Australian system of six ten-minute rounds or two falls out of three. Llllard Is holding ladles' night for the opening 1940 card. This means that anyone who buys a ticket, upstairs or down, may take in a woman companion without additional charge. JUNIORS FROM ROSEBURG. 20-18 In a tight, hard-fought basket ball game, Medford Junior high defeated the Roseburg juniors at Roscburg Saturday night, 20 to 18. Steve Dlpple, forward, led the locals with six points. Medford led at half time, 12 to 10, and never more than four points separated the two teams at any time. A large body of Junior high rooters accompanied the team to Hoseburg, including the girls' drum corps, which staged a show between halves. LEWIS AND R0DEGAARD WIN SKYLINERS MEET Mt. Hood, Ore. ,Jnn. 8. (P) Dick Lewis and Olaf Rodegaard. both of Cascade Ski club, won the Junior and senior events, re spectively, of the Cascade Ski club-Bend Skyliners meet yes terday. Lewis' time was 1.4(1.3 in the Junior race, Rodeguard's 1:43.3 In the senior. TH0RNHILL SUCCESSOR MAY BE KNOWN FRIDAY Talo Alto, Calif., Jan. 8. T) The choice of a successor to C. E. (Tiny) Thornhill as football coach at Stanford university may be mode next Friday night. Thornhill was ousted after Stanford's most disastrous sea son In years. AAU CASABA MANAGERS MEET C. OF C. TONIGHT! The final meeting of tram ; managers and representatives prior to the opening of the Jack-1 son county A. A. U. Independent basketball leogue will be held tonight at 7:30 In the Jackson J County Chamber of Commerce. All officials of teams planning to enter the loop are urged to ottend. Oranges arp the most valu able crop of Florida. were correct calls. Arizona State and Catholic university tied. In stead of the former winning as Pickem predicted. But, oh that Ro.se Bowl. Ouch: Conference Boss 1 V '3 jy V ' ' ' i - F j Edwin N. Atherton (above). former FBI agent, was appoint ed high commissioner of Pacliic coast conference for three years, in a move to enforce its future athletic policies. BEAVERS AT TOP OF CONFERENCE E By the Associated Press Those long lean men from the state of Oregon were in a fair way to dominate the northern division of Pacific coast confer ence basketball, what with one team favored in the race and the other leading it. The favored team, defending champion University of Oregon, gets three chances to live up to its reputation this week two against Idaho beginning to night and one against Oregon State, which holds the league leadership at the end of the first tweek of conference play. Idaho also gets a third chance to break into the winning col umn this week when it meets Washington State at Pullman Saturday. WSC evened its two game series Saturday with Washington, which is idle all the coming week. Saturday's games followed the pattern of pre-season pre dictions. Washington, which sur prised with a one-point victory the night before, was no match for WSC when the Cougars got their dander up. Even a Jinx which had kept Woshington Stotc in the losing column on Woshington's floor since 1920 with three exceptions wos no help as the Cougars ran up a 51-35 score. Guard Bob Olson, of Everett, with 16 points, and long Paul Lindeman, of Co wiche, with 14, kept things un der control for the visitors. Ore gon State, in winning 42-38, had more trouble with Idaho than in Friday's victory but stayed in front after the first 10 min utes of play. Iduho substitutes staged a last-minute rally to bring the final score to close figures. The team standings: W. L. Pet. Oregon State 2 0 1.000 Washington State 1 1 .500 Washington 1 1 .500 Idaho 0 2 .000 Oregon 0 2 ...... LAW TO RAISE MARRIAGE FEES Indianapolis, Ind. (U.R The cost of matrimony for Hoosier ncwlyweds will take a sudden Jump March J, 1940, when the new anti-syphilis marriage law takes effect. The law, approved by the 1939 legislature, provides that each applicant for a marriage license must take a physical ex amination, including a standard serological test. Then the marriage license cannot be issued unless both applicants are free of the dis ease, or if infected, do not have it in communicable form. All blood tests must be made In the state board of health laboratory, or In laboratories that meet standards of tho path ology department of the Indiana university school of medicine and approved by the state board of health. Subway-riding Now Yorkers' spend two to three weeks a year underground. I r. i Open WEBFOOTS MEET IDAHO TONIGHT IN L00P0PENER John Dick Lone Returning Regular of Defending Champs; Hobby Confident Eugene, Jan. 8. (P) The University of Oregon's basket ball team opens its defense of four championships here tonight when the Ducks meet the Uni versity of Idaho quintet before an expected crowd of 4,000 in the first of a two-game series. The Webfoot-Vandal game will send the last of the north ern division contenders into league action Oregon State col lege holding top position after sweeping its two-game series with Idaho at Corvallis last week-end. Washington and Washington State split their opening battles at Seattle. Won 9 of 15 Howard Hobson's hoopsters, an aggregation the youthful coach believes 'capable of de fending at least its northern crown, have won only nine of 15 pre-season contests. But five of the defeats were suffered at the hands of top-flight colleg iate opponents during the 7,500 mile holiday barnstorming jaunt to the nation's hoop capitals. The other defeat was registered by Rubenstein's Oregonians, a team composed of ex-teammates that had been beaten on two previous occasions. Hobson will have but one starting member of the 1939 team in his lineup tonight John Dick, six-foot-four forward who has been shifted to center to fill the gap left by the grad uation of "Slim" Wintermute. At the forward positions will be Ted Sarpola, Laddie Gale's un derstudy for the past two seas ons, and "Red" McNeely, a re serve on the four-ply champ ionship squad. The guard posts will be taken care of by Matt Pavalunas, Bobby Anet's first line reserve for two years, and Vic Townsend, a transfer from Campton Junior collage who will fill the vacancy left by the graduation of Wally Johansen. Oregon meets Idaho again to morrow night and completes a busy week against the undefeat ed Oregon State college Beavers here Friday night. E PERILS REIVED Washington (U.R) The food and drug administration of the department of agriculture re ports that enforcement of the food, drug and cosmetic act of 1938 drove several dangerous cosmetics, drugs and devices from the retail markets during the past year. Quick action was directed against the widespread sale of dangerous eyelash dyes, "slen derizing" preparations and many misbranded medicines. The administration reports that its investigators seized the products of several eyelash dye manufacturers and that tests made of many warranted prose cution. Some were found to contain dangerous ammonlacal silver salts, pyrogallol and para phenlyenediamino. As It had given advance warning of its attitude toward sales of "slenderizing" prepara tions containing dlnitrophenol or equally dangerous dlnitro cresol, the administration was unable to find any Interstate traffic in the sale of the com pounds. The report points out that since the 1938 act provides for the investigation of applications for all new drug products be fore they are offered for sale, there will be no re-enactment of the tragic "elixir of sulfani lamide" case. Its manufacturer pleaded guilty In two federal courts to charges that it was poisonous and was fined a total of 528.100. In Its report, the administra tion states that the only proved cases of botulism were traced to under-processed, home-canned foods. Poisoned food cases in creased only slightly over the preceding year, and canners were more careful in labeling goods that failed to meet stand ards of quality, as only 60 seiz ures were made, compared with 153 for the previous year. Innovation of airplane travel aided administration inspectors to check the Aloska salmon in dustry more closely and the re port concludes that the weather was ideal during the salmon season and the industry was free of all spoilage. 1940 Wrestling Apostoli Out-Punches Bettina for Nod V Melio Bettina (right), former light heavyweight king, waded in with royal courage In the early rounds of his fight with Fred Apostoli, former middleweight rulor at New York, but the Pacific coast boy carried too many guns for Bettina who lost the 12-round decision. Dizzy Dean's Holdout Howl Not Echoed by Other Stars By Judson Bailey New York, Jan. 8. (P) Dean's sonic holdout squawk slumbering baseball fans to again. In the next week or two the I documents with the dotted lines will have been mailed to just about every eligible major leaguer, but that chant of "Oie Diz" isn't likely to get much of a chorus. For one thing a lot of players, including several perennial members of the "beef" trust, already are signed. Championship clubs are pop ularly supposed to face the most trouble ' rounding their players into line, but the Cincinnati Reds at this early date have 14 under contract for 1940 and the New York Yankees, who won't put their papers into the mail till next week aren't expecting much fuss. That world series bonus every year seems to keep the Bronx bombers happy. The first of the Reds to sign up was third baseman Bill Wer ber, who has a pretty practical opinion of his own value, and one of the first was Paul Der ringer, the big pitcher who used to be quarrelsome about his figures. Pitcher Bucky Walters, the National leagus' most valuable player, and first baseman Frank McCormick slapped their names on two-year contracts without the slightest hesitation. Paul Woner, the Pittsburgh Pirates' persistent holdout, jumped to terms last November after conferring briefly in New York with President William E. Benswanger and his new man ager, Frank Frisch. This action wasn't because Waner had no talking point, for he batted .328 last year and ranked fourth in the National league. The Cleveland Indians have Bob Feller, Mel Harder and Jeff Heath signed and sealed and they were about the only three that might have been expected to give the tribe trouble. Fel ler was reported to have been given $25,000. Whatever it was caused President Alva Bradley to remark he didn't know whether "we signed Feller or he signed us." The Boston Red Sox gave Joe Cronin another five year player manager contract last Septem ber and followed up this coup by signing Ted Williams, Jim mie Foxx, Bob Doerr and Jim Tabor, four better than fair faces, for the 1940 campaign. FIVE OF FAMILY KILLED ON RAILROAD CROSSING Alexandria, La., Jan. 8 UP) Five members of a Lake Charles. La., family were killed yester day in a collision of their auto mobile and a southbound Mis souri Pacific passenger train at a grade crossing, 30 miles north of here. The dead were Robert M. Hereford. 39; Mrs. Hereford. 35: their sons, Randolph. 11, and Robert. Jr., 13. and Hereford's sister, Miss Elizabeth Hereford. 25. In 1939, 27 local governments consolidated, extended or adopt ed civil service provisions for their employees, according to the Civil Service Assembly of the United States and Canada. Cash farm income in the United States in 1938 was ap proximately $7,632,000,000. ("Waster Like a siren of spring, Dizzy over the week-end aroused the fact contract time is here 54-HOLE SCORE OF 212 GIVES HEAFNER LEAD IN LOS ANGELES OPEN Los Angeles, Jan. 8. (fP) Clayton Heafner and the rain god hold the key to the cham mionship of the 15th annual Los Angeles open golf tournament. The Linevllle, N. C, pro stood at the top of a brilliant array of golfers today going into the final round of the meet, with a 54-hole score of 212, two strokes in front of his nearest foe. But more important to the golfing clan was the weather. Rain by the bucketsful soak ed the Los Angeles country club late yesterday and continued to fall this morning. Heafner took 73, three over par, finishing before the worst part of the storm set in, and was glad to get it. With his previous rounds of 71-68, his achievement was good enough to hold the leadership. Two strokes back was Johnny Dawson of Hollywood. Three very potent contenders, Mark Fry of Oakland, Cal., Ben Ho gon of White Plains, N. Y., and Al Krueger of Beloit, Wis., were but three shots behind the fly ing Heafner. Out of the running entirely was Marvin (Bud) Ward of Spo kane, national amateur cham pion. He missed qualifying for the final round by one stroke. He took "8 to total 230, and the limit was 229. u S. LINER RELEASED BY BRITISH CONTROL London, Jan. 8. OP) The United States liner Manhattan sailed today toward Genoa after being released yesterday from overnight detention by the Brit ish contraband control at Gibral tar. The United States Lines, Man hattan's owners, were said to have agreed that If the British found any contraband in the ves sel's manifest, it would be placed at British disposal in Genoa. The Christian Endeavor has 80,000 societies throughout the world. YickSoHerbCo. Hourt 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. Monday, Tuesday, Wednes day Only Chinese hrb rem edies are very won derful for tumor, drops?, piles, rup ture, stomach ulcer. luiv. heurt, liver, itomach. kidney, -sTf' jh Madder troubles. iC&jftft stomach b asthma, irumi blood. gallstones, re How fever, epi lepsy, rheumatism Hrrballit. M Vran and female plaints. com- ti"Ti. CU1 or wth. Jackson Co. Bank Bldg. Central and Main. Medford, Ore. Season Fred Erickson became the new chairman of the Medford boxing and wrestling commis sion at its annual year-end meet ing and banquet in the Hotel Medford Saturday night. He succeeds P. C. Bigham. Elected to the vice-chairmanship by members of the com mission, who are appointed an nually by the city council, was Larry Schade. Dr. A. F. W. Kresse was again named com mission physician; Joseph F. Fliegel, secretary and Vivian Beach, timekeeper. Bigham was elected assistant-secretary. There was no change in the personnel of the commission. GIRL BASKETEERS TO DRILL THIS EVENING The Girls' Community club basketball team will practice to night as usual in the Lincoln school gymnasium at 7 o'clock. All players are requested to be on hand for the workout. Dry fall weather is bound to curtail the famed Missouri strawberry crop next spring, re ported Alfred C. Brittain, state agricultural statistician. Dse Mail Trlbun want ada. Errands that arc performed by telephone save clothing and health in unruly weather! A telephone costs little. Our business office will gladly arrange for service to fit your particular needs. THE PACIFIC TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY West Eth Slrec;. Telephone 172. Tonight I ON Tl CAGE SCHEDULE Medford high's basketball cagers, in good condition follow ing their two-game split with University high of Eugene over the week-end, will undergo stiff workouts this week in prepara tion for their invasion of Klam ath Falls for a pair of games next Friday and Saturday nights. The Klamath Falls series will inaugurate Southern Oregon conference action for the Tigers, the first tilt being of loop cali bre and the second a king's-x affair. Coach Russ Acheson said today the entire squad was in excellent shape, and that work on the fast break would take up much of the practice periou, this week. Rodney Stead, tiry guard, will not be available for the Klamath games as he won't b eligible for conference or dis trict competition until the sec ond semester, which starts Jan uary 15. However, Billy Piche, regular on last year's state title runners-up, will be ready to play if needed. Piche, in con trast to Stead, becomes inelig ible with the start of the second semester. Medford's next home games will be against Salem high's state championship Vikings Jan uary 19 and 20. Pomona Grange Pomona Grange Jackson County Pomona Grange will meet at Roxy Ann Grange hall on Spring street, just outside Medford, January 27 at 10 a. m. The January Pomona meeting is always the largest attended of all meetings of the year and we trust this meeting will be no exception. Names of the 1940 commit tees will be published as soon as received, and each commit tee member will be notified. Sympathy of the entire Grange is extended to Past Po mona master, Roscoe Robert, and family, in the loss of his mother, Ada M. Roberts, Po mona member, on December 31 last. Billfolds In Mail Boxes St. Louis (U.R) Empty bill folds figure prominently among non-mail matter emptied from mail boxes by postmen here. Postal authorities say it appar ently is a professional touch of pickpockets to place the pocket books in the boxes after remov ing the money but leaving iden tification cards. Closing time for Too Late to Clas sify Ads la 1:30 p. m.
