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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 1942. PAGE TWO Czar Atherton Seeks Showdown on Future in Coast Conference Boxers Take a Nosedive v CxA-1 i lit -'-y , 1 LL,pi Bom power wn bthlnd the punch by Private Charlie Bowl ing of Camp Hobltuon that landed on Charles Thaxley of England. Ark. Thaxley took not dive through th ropoi onto a tablo and Bowling, hlmtalf. couldn't itep. Ha dived through tha ropat a law loot behind. Latar Bowling won a knockout In tha match In tha novice clan of tha Arkansae A.A.U. alimlnatlona at Llttla Rock. ICE HOCKEY TOGA The Medford Bom ben clinched tha city lea hockey championship at the arena Fri day night by whipping tha Log far. 8 to 4, in the flxth game of tha two teams' seven game aer ies. Tha Bombers had won the first three games, the Loggers tha next two. Tha losers were handicapped by the absence of Goalie Clint Balfour and were "unable to halt the red-hot of fense of the youthful Bombers. CRATERS CASE UP LEGION VICTORS IN TITLE TILTS Kansas City. March 21. UP) Stanford's giants put up a puncture-proof defense tonight to master Colorado's high scor ing mountain boys, 46 to 35, and win the western N. C. A. A. bas ketball championship before 0, 000 spectators. Denver, March 21. Towering Bob Cruenlg. most dangerous scorer In A.A.U. bas ketball, powered the Denver American Legion team to the national championship tonight by routing Phillips 60 Oilers of Oklahoma. 45 to 32. Legion has been tha "hot" team of the 35th national tour nament, but few expected their hot shooting streak would carry them to such an explosive tri umph over the powerful Oilers from Bartlesville. Denver won because It had such - a marvelous scorer as Gruenig, the grasshopper-like veteran center from Chicago, and a defensive player of such talents as Jack McCracken, poker-faced guard for Oklahoma who tonight completed play In his 13th national tournament. Gruenig was unstoppable, pouring eight field goals through the netting, chiefly with his un canny hook shot, and tacking on four tree throws for a great night's work of 20 points. At the same time the best the op posing center, John Frelberger from Arkansas, could do was two lonesome baskets. Albany, March 21 AP Oregon state baseball league managers will decide here to morrow whether to eliminate Medford and Klamath Falls from the circuit this year be cause of travel restrictions. Elimination of the two teams would reduce the league to Bend and Willamette valley entrants. Closing tlm for Oludfled Ads a. m Too lata to Cliulfj U:30 p. n. RACING Miami, Fla.. March 21 AP) Charles S. Howard's Mloland, who has had the mo.i successful winter season of all the big name horses on the Florida tracks, won the 37.300 added Coral Gables handicap at Tropical park today. Tha big bay horse, brought here from California, scored a smashing five lengths victory and trimmed three-fifths of a second off the track record of 1 minute SO 2-5 seconds for the one mile and an eighth. The old record was set by The Thrust In 1940. BARKERIZE AND FEEL WONDERFUL i Style Note for '42 CLOTHES WILL STILL BE WORN THIS SPRING THERE'S a lot of talk about shortages, curtailments und restrictions. Some ol It's confusing. There are so many things we can't buy , , , probably more will be curtailed later. But we're certain that clothes will still be worn this Spring! And to prove It we Invite you to preview our extensive suit selections. If tha fashions, patterns and new shadea that are crowding our racks don't make you eager to wear one ... one of us should consult a doctorl Next Fall the picture may not be so rosy. We have already been told that no worsted yarns will be available for civilian consumption after mid-Summer. The "vested Interests" will be minus the vest on all double-breasted suits . . . coats will have pockets but the pockets no flaps. Pants will be cuffless. pleatleta, nar rower and shorter and two-trouser suits will be strictly taboo. All on account of shortages. This means the value of our present stock has already skyrocketed but not tha prices. So while we'll have no hand In hoarding It will be wise to stock up with an extra suit or topcoat while the stocking's good. And how are you fixed for garters and suspendersT You know what the O.P.M.'e dene about rubber, so wa suggest you Include these elastic Items on your purchase order. Now Is tha time te buyl L- AFFECT PAY; MEET WILL OPEN TODAY Many Problems Confront Frosh Status Among Them Sked Revision. By Call Fowler Portland, Ore., March 21 (AP) What's to be done about Atherton? Perhaps nobody wants to know the answer to that ques tion more than Edwin Atherton, Pacific coast conference athletic commissioner, and Atherton said today he Intended to pop the question at the conference facul ty meeting opening Sunday, The faculty representatives of the 10 schools, comprising In ef fect a supreme court on athletic policy, will have to wrestle with co-related problems while figur ing out an answer for Atherton. For Instance, if schedules are curtailed or cancelled, and should it be decided not to con tinue football if the army's ban on crowds of more than 5,000 Is not relaxed, the conference na bobs will have to decide whether to continue the annual 320,000 appropriation for Atherton and his office. Atherton receives 510,000 a year, and an additional 510,000 to operate his office. His present contract terminates Dec. 31 1942. "I'm going to ask the faculty representatives to clarify my po sition and its future," Atherton said. "I'm not worried about this year particularly, but I cer tainly would like to know what the future holds, so I can plan accordingly. Atherton will be sitting In with the faculty representatives, meeting In one group, and look ing In on the graduate managers and athletic directors, meeting in another group, starting to morrow afternoon. Among matters to be discus sed, and possibly settled. Inas much as this meeting is supposed to button up the unfinished bus Iness of last December's meeting and to take care of Items which otherwise would have been put over to the June meeting, are: 1. Whether to make freshmen eligible for varsity athletics. 2. Whether to split the con ference into northern and south em divisions for the football sea son. 3. Whether to continue the round robin, which this fall In cludes Idaho and Montana on a full participation basis. 4. How to revise schedules to Include games with service teams. In this respect It Is un derstood Washington, Oregon and Stanford tentatively have arranged for service games, probably with the new naval air. training station being establish ed at St. Mary's. LOUIS IMPRESSES IN WARM-UP FOR BOUT WITH SDN Ft. Dlx, N. J, March 21 VP) .loe Louis, preparing for the defense of his heavyweight box ing crown against Abe Simon In the army emergency relief show Friday, was most impres sive In his workout today. The speed he exhibited and the manner In which he slapped his spar mates around bi ought plenty of applause from Mme 500 soldl.us. Ha warmed up against George Fitch and then really went to work on Eddie Blunt and George Nicholson, rocking the latter several times. When he finished his day's work, Joe tipped tha scales at 209 pounds. Tha champion plans to box -tlx rounds again tomorrow and limit his work to four rounds for tha next three days. Summit, N. J., March 21 (IP) Gen. John J. Phelan, chairman of the New York state athletic oommission, and Dr. William H. Walker, commission physician. made an official vist today to see Abe Simon work out for his heavyr'elght title fight with Champion Joe Louis Friday at Medlson Square Garden. They watched "Ample' Abe .par two rounds each with -Johnny Shkor of Boston and Joe Baksl of New York, after which Dr. Walker applied his stethoscope to Simon's 50-lnch chest and said he was In very good physical condition. Abe scaled 246 Vs pounds after the workout. RICE STAR WINS Chicago, March 21 AP) Greg Rice and Cornelius Warm erdUm were the darlings of the crowd of 10,000 at the sixth an nual Chicago relays, but to Fred die Wolcott, undisputed master of the hurdle field, went the hon or of making the greatest assault on the record book. Wolcott, former Rica star now competing unattached out of Houston, Tex., swept the hurdle series including 40, SO and 60 yard high sprints and bettered one world record and equalled two others. The 40-yard race Wolcott won In 5 seconds, breaking the old record of 5.1 seconds which Al lan Tolmich of Detroit establish ed In the Chicago relays In 1939 Warmerdam, after making a vault of IS feet 2 Inches look easy, barely missed at IS feet 9 inches, brushing oft the bar on his third attempt. nice made It a one-man race over the two-mile distance and won going away In 8 minutes S3 seconds, less than two seconds over his own world record. Gil Dodds, the Boston divinity stu dent, finished half a lap behind.. WON CONQUERS Sacramento, Calif., March 21 P) Hectjr Anton, a surprise ackage from tha University of California at Los Angeles, up et the dope here tonight when he scored a decision over Bob Webber, defending 120-pound champion from San Jose State college. In the semi-finals of the 1942 Pacific coast Intercollegiate boxing tournament. Anton, aggressive and rugged, threw too many punches for the defending tltleholder and walk nose In the last two rounds from ed off with an unquestioned de cision. Webber bled frdrn the Anton's telling Jabs. A crowd of more than a thous and fans turned out for the final night in the big far western col legiate glove tossing carnival. FLORIDA FINALS St. Augustine, Fla., March 21 (AP) The defending cham pion team of Sam Snead, Hot Springs. Va.. and Wilford Wehrle, Racine, Wis., advanced ! to the finals of the national amateur-professional golf champion ship today when they defeated Chandler Harper, Portsmouth. Va., and Sam Bates, Virginia Beach, Va., one up. In the other semi-final bracket Bill Nary, Rancho Sante Fa, Cal., and his amateur partner, Freddie Haas, New Orleans, defeated the medalist team of Al Brosch. Farmlngdale, N. Y., and Harry Offutt, St. Petersburg, Fla. Nary and Haas won one up In a match that carried 37 holes. Snead and Wehrle led two up at the end of the 18 hole morn ing round, while Nary and Haas were even with their opponents at the turn. The finals of 36 holes will be played tomorrow. First money for the winning pro In the final round will be 51.000. The pro of the losing team will get 5500. Harper and Brosch received 5200 each for reaching the semi-finals. TOUGH RUBIO GO New York, March 21 iJP Ray Robinson, the welterweight walloper from Harlem, Dwns the longest winning streak In boxing today but he had to unlimber a'l the artillery at his command to stop Norman Rublo and keep his record clean In Friday night's punching party at Madison Square Garden. For six rounds the crowding crouching Rublo took every thing Robinson had to offer and reciprocated with an equal dose of dynamite, although he injured his left hand In the opening frame and an X-ray examination later disclosed a fractured metacarpal bona. Then came the seventh, and Rav burled tha Albany. N. Y MAC-HI COACH QUITS Mllton-Freewater, March 21 i Rufiu Fox. McLouahlin . . , ..... high school basketball coach for clouter under a barrage of lefts nn. J."--, j he would resign at the end of the school year. He did not disclose future plans. and rights that sent him down for count of nine. He was staggered again by a terrific eft hook a split second betore the end of the round and the bout was stopped. Tha victory was tha 29th In a row for Robinson since ne turned pro after winning all cf his 89 fights as an amateur HUSKY SKIERS WIN Seattle. March 21 W Two freshman Jumpers gave the University of Washington a commanding lead In the opening lay of tha Pacific coast ski hampionships by finishing one two in tha opening event. Phone 4112 for Doors Windows Screens Largest Stock la S. Oregon Medford Millwork Co. THE GLASS HOUSE 10th and Grape Invest In Savings &Loan DIVIDENDS ARE LIBERAL f SAFETY IS CERTAIN Your account Is INSURED by an agency of tha Federal Government. AVAILABILITY IS ASSURED By membership of the Association la tha Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation. BUY DEFENSE BONDS and STAMPS HERE Jackson County FEDERAL SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION 126 East Main GILL. ROOK COACH Corvallis, March 21 tJP) Oregon State college nimed Amory T. 'Slats" Gill, basket- oall coach, to take on the fresh man baseball coaching Job yes '.erday, replacing J W. Forrester who resigned recently. Yakima. March 21 (AP Yakima eliminated Salem from the Northwest Y. M. C. A. bask etball tournament S6-37 today. ciosini tlm for Cluilflxl Ads t a ro Too an to Classify 13 so p m. For LIGHT la Your Extra Room Call OLSON ELECTRIC Dial 2840 5 N. Centra KUPPENHEIMER and TIMELY CLOTHES 527 to 55 ARROW SHIRTS KNOX HATS Cooper Underwear Janticn Sweaters And a Host Of Other Accessories BARKER'S GREEN LARGE 300 CUBIC FOOT LOAD E SLABS Fill your car er trailer at our yard en McAndrews Road, West of tha S. P. Tracks Timber Product Company Just Why Have We Taken The Lead In This Move To Better Serve Camp White Workers? OSome folks might wonder why we've pioneered this plan of staying open evenings. Frankly, it IS Inconvenient and more expensive, but herVs tha way wa feel about lti Hundreds of workers and their families have come to Medford to build a great and much needed army camp. We're determined to serve them while they're here and do a good Job of it. "Business as usual" Is OUT for tha duration and we're going to fit our store hours In the future to best meet the shopping convenience of our friends at Camp White and here at home. WE'RE OPEN EVERY WEEK DAY NIGHT UNTIL 8:30 These hours will also enrble us to serve our old and valued cus tomers and give to thera the same courteous, prompt, friend ly service they've been accus tomed to receive 1 ere. U f '71 7i GLENN H. UTZ "Men's Wear" Phone 2S01 Phone 2123 End North Central BARKERIZE AND FEEL WONDERFUL r 206 East Main
