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TWO MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. Dee. U. 1944 BYRNES PUIS BAN AS E Action Comes As Surprise ! As Many Tracks Prepare !; for Season. ! Washington, Dee. 23. (U.B , Sports suffered Its heaviest blow i of the war today when War Mo bilization Director James H. JJyrnes requested that all horse, harness and dog racing tracks close by Jan. 8 to conserve man power and transportation facili ties. Although there was scattered criticism of his action, racing spokesmen Immediately an nounced that they would com ply with his request. Some fear was expressed that the ban may be extended to other sports, but thera was no official indication of It. The order came as racing was about to begin its winter season, Fair Grounds at New Orleans having -opened today. Tropical Park wags scheduled to open Mon day and Santa Anita at Arcadia, Cal., wag preparing to open Deo. 30. The order also followed what was racing's banner season in 1944, so far as attendance and betting waii concerned. . In disclosing that racing was willing to eomply with the re quest becauiia the "war comes first,"' hope- was expressed that the war situation may be such M to permit ' resumption In the spring in time for such fea tures as the- Kentucky Derby, the Preaknesa and the Belmont Stakes. Byrnes Issued his statement from the White House and re-! I vealed that his action had been approved by President Roose velt. He requested the closing of horse race tracks only, but his office explained that it included dosf racing tracks. Charles S. Howard, on of America's leading turf men, said the request was "disappointing." He added, however, that "all owners and track operators agree that the war effort is para mount." TROJAilGAGE IN HARD TUSSLE Los Angeles, Pec. 23. U.R) The University of Southern Cali fornia Trojans today engaged In their hardest ore-Rosa Bowl game workout, a scrimmage be tween the first and second teams climaxing a three and -one-half hour practice session. Dave Lavelle, second string guard, suffered a pulled muscle that will keep him out of prac tice for four or five days, but otherwise the Trojans, came through intact. HRISTMAS lj -1944 I mgP J wjW-C.'! " sincere wish AWa $SS?y that th Vuletlda brings sjVJM southern Ortgon. Jov -a. AVv'l M hope, too. that the New Hv J 4 Year will see America's Vf ' 2? "ultimate triumph" over 7"3 thj Axis foes, and an a v J . early return of the men 1 V who have fought gal- a4 lantlr for liberty an f , t Jih I decency. i f Hill J WESTERN THRIFT 30 North I A field goal by Jerry Ross In the closing seconds of a thrilling basketball game gave Medford a 38 to 39 victory over North Bend here Friday night. With I V4 minutes to play in the final quarter, Medford was trailing by five points, but three quick Tor nado baskets, the last one scored just before the game ended, gave Medford its second victory of the season. The Tornado scored the first basket of the game on the open ing tip-off and went on to run up a 10 to 0 lead before North Bend could find the range. End of the first period saw Medford with a 10-9 bulge. In the second quarter North Bend's offense began to click and ran up 10 points to Medford's 8 for an IB to 19 Medford lead at halftime. The third period saw the vis itors, except for a brief part of the quarter, dominate play on the backboards and creep to within one point of the Black Tornado, who led at the end of the quarter, 28 to 27. In the final period North Bend took the lead for the first time in the game and the lead changed hands several times until Med ford opened up with three crip ples under the basket In the clos ing 1V4 minutes to gain the vic tory. According to the official time keeper, the game ended just as Ross sunk the winning basket, but the crowd was In such a frenzy no one heard the final buzzer. North Bend took the ball down the floor and tried a cripple, which was missed, be fore officials could stop the game, Noel, North Bend ' forward, who was leading scorer in his league last year, was held to three points In the first half, but rang up 12 in the final half to lead all scorers. Ross was high for Medford with 10. Twenty-five fouls were called, 13 of them on Medford end 12 of them on the visitors. Summary: Medford FO FT PF TP Hayes, f. ..2 1 1 8 Ross, f, .mm Riggs, c .. Fawcett, g Watson, g 5.... ... 1 4 4 0 0 Stelle, s Bostwick, s North Bend FQ FT PF TP 7 1 2 19 Noel, t Frye, t 3 Sandersr c Jansen, g Hagen, g . Johnson, Wilson, . .... 0 Officials F. L. Fllnk, Med ford, and Don Faber, Central Point. ' . : NO A AO MEET Portland, Ore., Dec. 23 (UP) Ray Brooks, chairman of the AAU basketball committee and director of Portland park depart ment sports, announced today that there will be no Oregon AAU basketball tournament next spring. Central Ave. Tl NORTH BEND FIVE BY 43-29 COUNT Dick Fawcett Leads Winners With 13 Points for third Straight Win of Season Medford's Black Tornado an nexed their third straight win of the season last night when they took the second game of a two-game series over North Bend by a 43 to 29 score. Dick Fawcett paced Medford to the victory, scoring 13 points from his guard position. Hagen led for the losers with seven, Fawcett started the scoring spree when he sunk the first basket after about a minute of play had elapsed. Darrell Rlggs added a free throw and Larry Hayes sunk a basket to give Medford a 5 to 0 lead before Sanders, North Bend center, made a free throw and followed it up with a basket to make it 9 to 3. Hayes got one from the corner and Watson rang up a long shot to extend, their lead to 9-3 before Sanders again got one under the basket. Fawcett added two baskets and Frye got one to give Medford a 13 to 8 edge at the end of the first quar ter. As the second quarter started Fawcett and Glenn Bostwick collected gift tosses and Fawcett dropped in a nice long shot to extend their lead to 17 to 8 Johnson of North Bend got a free throw, Frye added a basket and Wilson dropped a free throw before Jerry Ross sneaked in under the basket for a shot making it 19-9, Johnson then got one from un der the basket, Fawcett added, a free .one and Watson made a field goal. Jansen hit the hoop for North Bend as the half end ed with Medford ahead 22 to 13 Rlggs opened the second half with nice field goal and then Frye and Noel hit for North Bend to move the score up to 24 to 17. Fawcett got a gift shot, Rlggs made a cripple and Ross broke away to score from under the backboard and Noel got two quick buckets to bring the count to 29-21 for Medford. Ross and Fawcett each hit for Medford as the third period end ed with the Tornado enjoying a 33 to 21 margins Bostwick added two points mi assay "' ' ssssssssssassysairBr aagp'''''''P'wmw i .s- "v . : , -rTdr - - , and Hagen made free throw and a basket to move the score up to 35-24. Ross and Jim Cave each scored two points and Frye sank a donation shot to make it 39-25 for Medford. Watson, -then ' collected two more points end Bostwick added one from the free throw line for a 42 to 25 lead. Hagen then contributed four points with two baskets and Earl Stelle gathered a free throw to end the scoring for the evening. It was the last home game for Medford until January 8 when they open the Southern Oregon conference against Ashland here. They meet Albany at Albany next Thursday and Salem at Sa lem Friday and Saturday, Lineups: Medford pos. , N. Bend Hayes, 4 t Noel, 6 Ross, 8 ' f Frye, 6 Riggs, 5 c Sanders, 4 Fawcett, 13 g Jansen, 2 Watson, 6 g Hagen, 7 Stelle, 1 s Johnson, 3 Bostwick, 4 s Wilson. 1 Broedlow a Cave, 2 s Weatherford s Eatherton Officials F. L. Flink. Med- ford, and Virgil Swanson, Med ford. ATM ROYAL TO Promoter Mack LIHard will present a Christmas present to Medford Armory mat fans next Thursday night when he will of fer a six-man battle royal fea turing some of the top men on the coast. Those taking part will be Gust Johnson, Pacific coast junior heavyweight champion, Jack Ri ser, Pacific coast Jight heavy weight champion, - "Gorgeous" George Wagner, self-styled toast of the coast, Bulldog Jackson, Terrible Tony Ross and Milt Olson. Lillard said Jackson has posted a forfeit to guarantee his appearance. . The wrestlers will meet in the free-for-all as the opening fea ture on the card. The first two eliminated will collide In the first regulation match of three ten-minute rounds, the second pair out will meet in the second bout of four ten-minute rounds and the last two left will meet in the one-hour top main event. Closins time for Classified Ads U a. m. Too Lata to. Classify 13:30 p. m. It' a very pleasant, cheering; custom to renew friendly associations during the Yuletide by extending to you our sincere wishes for a HAPPY CHRIST MAS. Along with this wish is our hope that 1945 will bring Victory and Peace to our nation and that next Christmas will see the reuniting of family circles and the return of good, old fashioned PEACEFUL Christmases. EATHERTON FARM STORE 808 SOUTH RIVERSIDE V BQUDREAU LEADS AMERICAN LEAGUE AS HITTING ACE New York, Dee. 23 U,R Lou Boudreau, playing manager of the Cleveland Indians who had more trouble with his own pitching staff than he did with opposing hurlers, hit the ball at a .327 clip during the 1944 sea son to win American League bat ting honors, official figures re leased today disclosed. Boudreau, in his third full season at the helm of the tur bulent Tribe, suspended and traded one of his pitchers dur ing the year and announced that he would like to trade another. His managerial troubles made his batting feat all the more re markable inasmuch as his five year Major league batting aver age, prior to this year, had been but .278. The 27-year-old shortstop, re cognized as one of the best de fensive lnfielders In the league, played in 150 games while pilot ing his team to a tie for fifth place and got 191 hits in 684 of ficial times at bat in compiling the lowest league leading aver age since 1908 which was won with .324. Bobby Doerr, Boston's bril liant second baseman who left the team in September to enter the army, trailed Boudreau by two points with a .325 average in 125 games for second place Another point behind in third place was Doerr's teammate, out fielder Bob Johnson. George (Snuffy) Stirnweiss of the New York Yankees was fourth with .319. Another Boston outfielder. Pete Fox, followed with .318; Stan Spence of Washington was sixth with .313; Dick Siebert of Philadelphia hit .308; Mike Kreevich of St. Louis had .301 and Johnny Lindell of New York had an even .300 and Bob Estalella of the Athletics was 10th with .298. SEEK MISSING GOODS . Sacramento, Dec. 23 (U.fi) State Adjutant General iVctor R. Hansen is to start an imme diate inventory of state guard property to determins what hap pened to approximately $102,000 worth of equipment shown to be missing by a finance department audit, state officials said tonight. The asphalt roofing Industry uses approximately 23,000 tons of roofing rags each month, War Production Board said. $f J 1$ sntitt&i Simpson Termed 'Coach of Year By L. H. Gregory L. H. Gregory, sports editor of The Oregonian in his Sat urday column nominated Med ford's Al Simpson as Oregon's "coach of the year." The honor, declares Gregory: certainy belongs to AI Simpson of Medford high, and not just for that school's state high school football championship, either, for ' as coach at Ashland high last spring, his boys there also won the state basketball title." Last year at Ashland Simp son's basketball team lost eight games near the begin ning of the season then started a winning streak at Roseburg which carried them' to 16 straight games. His two wins at Medford this season make his hoop record now 18 straight , , His football team at Ash land won seven and lost two and copped 10 straight at Med ford. His football record If now 14 straight victories. EAST TEAM OPENS GRID DRILL FOR SHRINE CONTEST San Francisco. Dec. 23 U.B The East entry in the 20th an nual Shrine game here on New Year's began to take shape today as co-Coaches Andy Kerr, George Hausman and Bernle Blerman ran their men through paces In a regulation scrimmage. Still without the services of Les Horvath, Ohio State All American, who will arrive to morrow, the first string back- field today again was made up of Frank Dancewlcz, Notre Dame, at quarter; Bob Kelly, Notre Dame, right half; Dick Flanagan, Ohio State, left half, and Vic Kulbitskl, Minnesota, at full. . . , . In the front line were Jack Mead, Wisconsin, and Jack Bres lin, Michigan State, ends; George Savitsky, Pennsylvania, and Tom Houghes, Purdue, tackles; Frank Clolll, Indiana, and Bill Hacket, Ohio State, guards, and Frank Szymanski, Notre Dame, center. The bdys went through exten sive passing and punting drills and the coaches found that they had a half dozen youngsters who could handle both chores accep tably. Earl Girard, the 17-year- ...-i. .JL -1 lift- , , tala, old Wisconsin freshman, was particularly adept in the aerial department and may do quite a bit of the flinging, according to Kerr. However, the two Irish first stringers, Kelly and Dance wicz, stood out in every depart ment, too. Meanwhile, the West took to the field today under a brilliant sun and got their first real, stiff scrimmage since arriving. TIBETTOGGEDIN STATE ANNUALLY OVER SIX BILLION By Eric W. Allen. Jr. "' United Press Correspondent Salem, Ore., Dec. 23 (U.R) Six and a half billion board feet of merchantible timber were logged as a yearly average dur ing the two years ending in June, Nels Rogers, Oregon state forester, revealed in his biennial report to the governor, this week. This heavy cut, demanded by war production, co-ered 350,000 acres each year, ' gers said, and predicted that -re will be little if any reduction in demand dur ing the post war reconstruction years. - However, the forest lands of Oregon, which have the largest stand of timber of any state in the country, will not be serious ly depleted if all forest lands are kept productive. Great strides have been made in protection of the trees, which are the state's greatest natural resource, since the 1930's, when the- disasterous Tillamook and Wolf Creek fires destroyed so much lumber. The annual aver age cost of state and cooperating agencies in fire prevention is $1,500,000, Rogers said. Five recommendations for the further protection and expansion of the industry were included in Rogers' report. Statewide protection should be made mandatory for all lands between forests and cities, he said. He recommended a zoning act, to include three zones, two to Include all non-urban terri tory, which would be placed un der the protection of the forestry department and the state fire marshal. The ."Keep Oregon Green" program, which has been so suc cessful during recent years in ERE k A begin to bring you the many good wishes which we hold for you and your family. As a tiny token of our high regard for your patronage snd friendships during the past year, snd as s renewed (pledge of the service which we constantly strive to offer, may we take this occasion to send you our very best wishes for a happy Christmas and s New Yesr filled with sll the good things of life. GLENN "MEN'S bringing attention to the ata of forest lands, "Is a most effec tive medium in educating the public in matters pertaining to the Oregon forest conservation, end should be adequately sup ported by public and private agencies," Rogers said. The report advocated contin ued and intensified efforts to have general forestry become a required subject in Oregon schools. Students are entitled to the "best Instruction in regard to the industries and resources of the state," it said. . , Vital war material has been flown from India to the United States in 60 hours. Foreign Eco nomic Administration reported. DO YOU WANT TO SEIJL YOUR MR? Set Us Top Priest No Delay Kay Make or Model Skinner's Garagt 143 S. Riverside Ph. 2740 T FREE ESTIMATE Body and Fender Repairs Complete Car .Painting We repair those fenders and make your car LOOK LIKE NEW Good Work Good Service Let Us Do It Now Jackson SI. Garagt 120 E. 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