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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.
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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.
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Thanks Indirectly to the war,
sports In Medford and vicinity
should flourish this winter in
unprecedented fashion. Athletes
from Camp White will be cavort
ing all over the landscape.
With Lt. Leo J. 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.
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