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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1942 TIGERS TO OPEN T Weed Bringing Strong Quint For Friday Night Game Locals Show Promise. By Jimmy Tucker Medford hlgh'i Black Tornado opens the basketball aeaion Fri day night againit an invading Cougar team from Weed, Calif. Not great deal li known about the Weed quintet, but Informa tion received from that achool reveals that the '42-'43 Cougars are expected to be the strongest Weed team In years, this sea son's squad is made up almost entirely of seniors, who last year gave the California school the strongest team tn ZO years, and won for them the title of cham pions of the northern California district The Medford Tigers have been practicing since December 1, and are beginning to show pro mise in the workouts, but the loss of such fine players as Bill Wall, Hank Herman, Lee Rey nolds and R. B. Webber will be keenly felt by the team. There are six returning lettermen from the Tiger team that won the district 4 title and placed sixth in the state tournament last season Don Fawcett, Dar rell Montieth, Jack Kresse, Dale Nledermeyer, Bill Bayllss and Al Weir. These, with the other men showing up well In prac tice, Bud Nordwick, Doug Plum ley, John Ousterhout, Dick Mc Elhose, Herb Edwards, Hob Deuel and Bob Weisenburger will compose most of the play ing force of the Tiger casaba squad. , All Berths Opea At the present time no one has any position on the team cinched, and all berths are wide open. Don Fawcett, a guard last year, has tentatively been moved to a forward position, teamed with Montieth. Nledermeyer, center, and Weir and Edwards at the guard posts have been seeing a lot of action in scrim mages lately. However, another team of Kresse and Nordwick forwards; Plumley or Ouster hout at the center berth, and Deuel, Weisenburger or Bayliss at guards, has also been show ing up well in practices, and wUl see lot of action. BUI Bayliss is still hindered some what by a charley-horse from football season and has been fairly slow in rounding Into condition. The preliminary game will be a tiff between Norm Worthless freshmen from Junior high and Alex McDonald's sophomore squad. All preliminary games throughout the basketball sea son will start promptly at 7 p. m., with the varsity game be ginning at 8: IS p. m. ODT Head Not Pushing Division Of Big Loop Clubs To Save Travel Washington, Dec. 17 (U.FO A suggestion that the major base ball leagues be divided into east ern and western divisions to cut down travel is not being "pushed" by ODT Director Jo seph B. Eastman, it was revealed today. A spokesman for the Office of Defense Transportation said that If the suggestion Is consid ered "feasible" the ODT would be "willing to talk It over with the league heads" but that East man "didn't originate the idea and Is not pushing it." The ODT said it expects the major leagues to submit sugges tions soon after Jan. 1 for fur ther travel-saving revisions in their 1943 schedules. Eastman then will make recommendations in time for the leagues to com plete plans at their February meetings. DEL BAKER WILL FREEZE PRICES BOWLING, POOL AT MARCH LEVEL Washington. Dee. 17 flJ.R) Price Administrator Leon Hen derson today cut the cost of bowling to 16.000,000 pin fans and froze maximum charges for billiards and pool at levels pre vailing In March. He said the regulations would Insure that members of the armed forces and war workers, who find relaxation and recrea tion in these pastimes, are not overcharged. They become ef fective December 23. The new bowling price ceil ings are based on September 1841 ceilings plus an allowance for recent increases in cost. Tbey represent a national average cut of one cent for every three games of league bowling and one-half a cent a game in open oowiing. in the case of all three games, proprietors are required to continue special prices for dif ferent classes of players. The new OPA order stipulates that the highest price for league bowling shall be that charged for each price classification in September 1841, plus 10 cents in the case of duck and candle pins, and seven cents in the case of ten pins, for each group of three games. The maximum price for open bowling is fixed at the highest charge for each classification in September 1841, plus four cents In the case of duck and candle pins, and three cents in the case of ten pins. - Cleveland. Dec. 17. (U.B Delmar (Del) Baker, former manager of the Detroit Tigers, has signed a one-year contract as a coach with the Cleveland Indians, Vlca President Roger Pecklnpaugh of the Cleveland club announced today. The salary to be paid Baker was not disclosed. Baker, a coach at Detroit un der Mickey Cochrane until he became manager in 1838, suc ceeds Oscar Mellllo, who has resigned. Camp White Exchange Main orrioe Excellent Positions For Women and Girls In Cafe Fountain Dept. Camp White Exchange Oood working conditions and opportunity for ad vancement. Apply PERSONNEL DEPT. Bldg. 3582 Any Day between IOiOO a.m. and 3:00 p.m. BOWLING Sport Graphs o Billy Hulen Says: Basketball and Hockey to Fill Sports Program Commercial leafue rwults last nliht: Crawr Lake Lumbar t. McDon aid Candy company 1; Tour Office Boys 4, Valentine's Oaf 0. Seoraa follow: C. Lake Lmbr.l Insllah 430 Pinch 470 Queen (ab.) 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Franks, for mer athletic director of the Col lege of Puget Sound, providing the coaching brain work, an all- camp casaba crew will engage college and university quintets of the state and some of these games, undoubtedly, will be played here. . Franks oughta be able to create a whale of a basXetball team from the material at his disposal. There are thousands of young men In their athletic prime now stationed at the military base and many of them are former college and high school stars. A real "big time" team appears a certainty. Right now scores of outfits are battling for berths in a forth coming tournament which will determine the camp champion ship, and lt is from those teams that Frank will select his all camp squad. It should be a hum dinger. Then there Is this Ice hockey league which opens Its sched ule next Saturday night at the i Medford Ice Arena. With four clubs entered three to be composed entirely of camp sol diers and the other, sponsored by the USO, to draw its play ers from camp and civilian cir clesthe loop will bring to Medford fans a real iaite of the fastest game in the world. Last winter Denny Edge, man ager of the arena, attempted to make Medford hockey conscious with a two-team circuit composed of the Bomber and the Loggers, but the effort met with not much success. The game Just didn't catch on with the majority of the local sport fanatics, due probably to the fact there weren't more teams In compe tition and to the rather decided superiority of the younger Bomb ers, led by Ashland's Mark Mar quess. Incidentally, the Ashland boy will play for tha USO team. The picture will be radically changed by the formation of the four-club wheel. Many of the khaki-clad lads stationed at Camp White hail from the mid dle west, where kids grow up with a hockey stick In their hands and a pair of skates on their feet. Some of them played on college hockey teams before entering the service, and the brand of play expected from the new league is considerably high er than that displayed last win ter. The rivalry should also be far more Intense, for the teams will be battling for the honor of their respective units. Completing the winter pro gram oi spectator sports will be the operations of the Medford high basketball team, which, we Dcueve, is due for a great sea son. We pick the Tigers to re peat for the district 4 champion- snip, as a matter Of tact, the team, on paper, looks to this de partment like one of the best to be developed here In several seasons. a Vindication notet Following the stste basketball tourna ment in 1940, when Medford lost to Salem In the finals, we wrote a piece denouncing the pickers of the all-state team for failing to give the Tigers a single berth on the first quin tet and only one position Bob Newland at guard on the sec ond team Especially did wa yelp at the ballot-result that placed Pete Suslck of North Bend on the first team Instead of Newland, who. we firmly believed, was so much better that it wasn't even close. Well, that column brought forth more than one "Hulen, you bum" letter, some signed and some anonymous. Their content was mostly along the line that we were a poor sport and were so bitterly disappointed over Mearord's loss to Salem In the title game that we had to knock something, so hit upon the All State selections to vent our 111 feelings. , Wrathful out of all reason was one letter from a gent who was put out because all season we had given Newland more credit for the success of the Tigers than this fellow's favorite. He even went so far as to ask: "What has Newland got on you, anyway, Huien7 We take a great deal of delight In pointing out that events since that tournament certainly leave little doubt as to which of the two players was the better. New land, in his freshman year at the University of Oregon, led the team in scoring. Last, year illness prevented him from playing reg ularly but not from winning his varsity letter. This season he is a first-string guard, probably Hobson's best shot and all in all a full-fledged regular. Suslck? Well, he failed to even make the University of Washington freshman team in his first year, and so far as basketball Is concerned has not been heard from since. So, y'see, even a dumb sports writer Is right once in a while, and can enjoy the last laugh as well as the next guy. i Baseball's 'Clown Prince' . Invents Training Snowball By Jack Cuddy (United Press Staff Correspondent) New York, Dee. 17 flJ.PJ Al Schacht, tha "Clown Prince" of baseball the right-handed pitcher who always thinks left handed was having difficulties with the help at his 52nd street tavern tart night It seemed he had locked himself In the pan try to work unmolested on his latest Invention. with aid from the fire depart-1 ment and insurance patrol, Schacht finally was shucked out of his pantry retreat. And be bellowed, "why can't you leave me alone? I have Just perfected a machine that will build the perfect snowball for baseball teams that can't go to Florida for the training season because of transportation difficulties. YThis training snowball of mine will conserve unlimited rubber that might be used as a core for baseballs. It also will conserve Balata," Schacht said. "You've cot to watch Balata be cause ha always pitched himself out in the exhibition season." Schacht Is very proud of his snowball-making machine. But this strange and large-nosed man gets even greater satisfac tion from tha success he has had In training a squad of large and liquid-eyed St. Bernard dogs. owned by a friend, who will serve baseball players condi tioning in the north. . "Just as In Switzerland." Schacht says, "these St. Ber nards will set out with their little casks of giggle soup be neath their furry necks to lend succor (and I don't mean sucker) to the snow-bound infielders and outfielders. I am training those dogs to help the game that has been so good to me. And if those dogs carry, in their little casks, what I think they will, I'll be only too glad to serve as guide for the canines on their routes." In making his plans for the approaching training season, Schacht figures that most of the major league teams will be con ditioning at Lake Placid, N. Y., instead of Florida. This is be cause of the transportation dif ficulties raised by Washington. "Third base normally Is known as the hot corner," Schacht said. "But when our athletes are training on snow mantled fields, I am confident that bonfires will be built above every base, so that the runner coming in' on skis or skates can distinguish the bag." BEAR FLANKMAN NAMED 1942 HONORARY LEADER Berkeley, Cal., Dec. 17 U.PJ All-Coast End Johnny Ferguson, of Whlttier, Cal., today was elect ed honorary captain of the Uni versity of California football team for the past season. Ferguson previously had been chosen "most valuable player" of the 1942 Golden Bear eleven. He will go on active duty as a second lieutenant in the army next February. TJae Kan Tribune Want Ada. BY 'PASS, 26-25 . In the first game of tha sea son for both teams. Ruse Wer ner's Jacksonville high Red skins traveled to Grants Pass last night and were nosed out i by the class A Cavemen, 28 to j 25 in a battle that saw the lead change hands over a half dozen times. Halitime score was 13- 13. Johnny Gray led the district 4 Cavemen with nine points, while Dick Rlans scored eight for the class B Redskins. The quints will play a return en gagement at Jacksonville De cember 29. - In tha prelim, Jacksonville re serves beat the Grants Pass sec ond stringers, 13 to 11. Safety Deposit Boxes For Your Bonds At Lawrence's Former Jackson County Bank Vault S. & H. Green Stamps HI! 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