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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 8, 1945)
r MAT PRINCIPALS TO ASSUME RISK Y Promoter Mack Llllard an nounced today that Pete Bel castro and the Gray Mask, who clash in the headline wrestling bout on tonight's card at Med ford armory, have signed an agreement to meet at their own risk and not to hold the wrest ling commission liable for any thing that might happen to them while in the squared cir cle. The two mayhem artists will be meeting for the second time. Their first brawl ended in a draw after each bad taken a fall and tonight's encounter is expected to draw a capacity crowd to witness what' is ex pected to be one of the wildest fights seen hereabouts in a long while. Jack KIser and Harold (Blood and Guts) Davidson will be bid ding for main event rating when they clash in the middle event. Davidson ranks close to the top among muscle manglers who divert from the book of rules but the flashy grappling Riser expects to rely on his speed and skill to compensate for the ex marine's dirty work. Terrible Tony Ross will vent his vile disposition on Silent Rattan, deaf mute who is mak ing his first appearance here in several months. The card will start promptly at 8:30 p. m. Mack Main Speaker At Baseball Meet tiO Angeles, Feb. 8 U.R) Connie Mack, the white-haired baseball leader, will be the prin cipal speaker tonight when 300 baseball players and officials gather at Biltmore Bow) for the National Association of Profes sional Baseball Players' annual meeting. Charles Graham, president of the San Francisco Seals and of the National Association, will make the annual report at the business session to follow din ner. Motion 1 pictures of the World Series will be shown dur - lng the evening. TORNADO, K-MEN MEET IN BITTER HOOP CONTESTS The third chapter In the civil war basketball series between Medford's Black Tornado and the Klamath Falls Pelicans will be written here tomorrow night when the bitter rivals clash in a southern Oregon conference game on the Tornado's South Oakdale court. Medford won their two pre vious encounters at Klamath Falls in January when they downed the Pelicans 44 to 28 and 42 to 28. Press stories of the games appearing in the Klamath Falls papers weren't at all favorable to the Medford squad, referring to "dirty play ing" by Al Simpson's boys. These stories didn't set well with the local lads and Medford is going all out Friday night in an attempt to give the Pelicans a lesson in basketball. They will meet here again Saturday night, also in a conference game. Medford still leads the confer ence with seven wins and no defeats and one more victory will cinch the crown for the Tornado. Ashland dropped a 39 to 19 decision to Grants Pass Tuesday but maintained their second place spot with four wins and five losses, having played one more game than Grants Pass and Klamath Falls, tied for last with three victories and five defeats, Sports World Takes Steps To Crack Down On Gambling Chicago, Feb. 8 U.PJ Strik ing at every vulnerable - spot possible, the sports world de scended on gambling today with a vengeance unequalled since Bookies felt the wrath of he nation in 1919 after baseball's "Black Sox Scandal." Sporting interests are .doing everything in their power to block bookie operations and the gamblers may long rue Jan, 29th, the day the Brooklyn bas ketball scandal broke. Following are some of the ac tions taken or planned by the sports Industry: Major League baseball - Gambling on baseball games will be subjected to a searching investigation and steps are to be taken to ban advance infor mation on pitching selections and other inside facts' that might promote illegal practices. ft Closing time for Sunday Too lata Classify o:au aaiuraay iiernoon iase remember. 'V i ill Illtenn i v.- , :a mm Gem of I the Blends W0T$UI4ITt,"' OOODfRHAM WOST lit. FIGHTER SCORES FREAK KNOCKOUT Oakland, Calif., Feb. 8 4J.R) Ray Salas, 136, Berkeley, Calif., today was credited with a knockout victory over Mike Gamiere, 139 Vi, Cleveland, al though the' kayo punch appar ently didn't come from Salas. Gamiere last night fell- to the canvas after Salas landed a short right to the body just as the Cleveland fighter threw a left hook. An examination by Dr, John Coleman revealed a verte bra in Gamiere's neck had snap ped out of place. Ringside observers theorized the injury came either from Gamiere's fall on the canvas or that in some way his own wild punch had caused a dislocation. Coleman a examination tnnlr five minutes, during most of which time Gamiere was uncon sclous. The physician ordered the fight stopped, but Referee Billy Evans called it a straight icnocicout for Salas after a full explanation to the crowd. Ga miere was expected to undergo complete examination later to day. He responded to treatment and left the ring under his own power.. RELAYS TO 17 Chicago, Feb. 8 U.R) The ninth running of the Chicago neiays, annually one of the mid west's outstandine track will be staged at the Chicago otaamm, March 17, it was an nounced today. Invitations were sent today to lop competitors from coast-to coast, including bids to Gil Dodds, outstanding miler who nas zorsaxen tracK for the pul pit; Claude (Buddy) Young, na tional A.A.U. snrint chamnlnn and the famed Michigan distance runners, uoo and Koss Hume. PASADENA HOCKEY TEAM TIES WOLVES IN UPSET Hollywood, Feb. 8 U.R) me Pasadena Panthers last night pulled something of an up set in southern divlsinn hnrkov circles by holding the speedy nouywnoa wolves to a 6 to 6 tie despite a five minute over time period in the first half nt a double header at Pan Pacific Auditorium. BASKETBALL Br United Press Army, 71; Pittsburgh, 81. Navy, 85; Temple, 47. Louisville, 63; Morehead, 58. Oklahoma A. & M., 58; Lib eral AAF, 35. Virginia, 62; Mllllgan, 31. Cushing General Hospital, 41; Harvard, 37. Herington AAB, 64; Bethany, 34. Lubbock AAF, 64; Texas Tech., 56. Brown, 80; Mass. Institute, 58. Denison, 66; Wooster, 29. Miami of Ohio, S3; Cincinnati, 36. .Western Intercollegiate Con ference basketball' games must be played on school campuses unless the athletic directors give a member school permission to play elsewhere. All advance in formation on athletic teams must be held to a minimum. National Collegiate Athletic Association all member schools should instruct athletes, coaches, officials and publicists not to give out information on teams or players. The N.C.A.A. na tional and sectional tourna ments may be played on a member school's campus next year. 1 Boxing Illinois and New York boxing commissions have issued notice to promoters to increase police details at fights in order to keep gamblers, out and generally keep gambling at a minimum. . Officer Freed In French Fraud Case Paris, Feb. 8 U.R) Lt. Ariod Dal Porto, Tracy, Calif., the second officer of the U. S. 716th railway battalion to be tried in connection with the mass looting of American supply trains by CI black marketeers, was acquited by a court-martial yesterday. Dal Porto, former southern Pacific railway engineer, was cleared on specific charges of neglect and stealing clothing and 50 pounds of beet rations from a military supply train. Thursday. Feb. I. 194$ MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE FIVS He denied the charges and de fense witnesses testified that he was an "honest but not clever" officer who was given his com mission only because of the ur gent need for experienced rail road men. GETS JUDICIAL HINT Washington, Feb. 8 (UP) Sen. Pat McCarran, (D., Nev.) said today the possibility of a federal judgeship has been sug gested to him by "people in high places." FACES SENTENCE New York, Feb. 8 U.R) The threat of jail hung over football coach Lou Oshins of Brooklyn College today because he refused to divulge the source of his report that police had tapped wires to trap the five basketball players from his school who were involved in a bribery deal with gamblers. Oshins, who appeared yester day at the office of Assistant District Attorney Edward A. Heffeman, was asked to elabor ate his story that "the police knew all about this basketball deal because they had been tap ping wires to discover other matters." He said that according to his source of information, the police could have "involved other players, but cracked down on these boys because they had them cold." Although questioned . two hours, he would not say where he had received the informa tion, other than to reveal ' that lt was from "someone attending Brooklyn College. Heffornan warned him that "the grand jury will be callad Into session again on Friday and you will be subpoenaed for an appearance before it. - "If you persist In your refusal to disclose the Identity of the one who gave you the informa tion, you may go to jail," Hef feman said. . AID 1R.RELIEF Chicago. Feb. 8 U.R) During three, wartime baseball seasons, the Major leagues have raised $2,630,460 for war re lief, the American League office reported today. The American and National leagues contributed $851,405 in 1944 to go with the $1,053,951 raised in 1942 and $725,104 con tributed In 1943. War relief games have been the Major league's chief source for contributions. During the three-year span, the American league had raised $595,384 from the games, while the senior- loop has obtained $565,784, BOWLING In City league last night Of fice Boys won two out of three games from Henry's Drive-in (Klatt 225 ColtoA 570), Union Oil defeated State Police two out of thfie (Weisenburger 220- 573) and Firestone beat PMT two to one (Learning 191-499). VISITS LEGISLATURE Salem, Ore., Feb. 8 (U.R) C. E. Wallerstedt, consul gen eral for the kingdom of Sweden, whose station is in San Francis co, was a guest of the Oregon legislature on Tuesday. FANS APPROVE OF CHANGE IN RULES FOR BASKETBALL New York, Feb. 8 U.(9 Early returns were in today on basketball's most revolutionary experiment the awarding of extra points for long range shooting. Fans indicated they liked it, but coaches, players, and officials awaited . further tests before committing them selves. ' - Columbia won the game 73 to 58 under the new scoring and would have been a 59 to 44 vic tor over Fordham under the con ventional -rules. It was regarded significant that the margin of difference was the same in both cases 15 points. Changes provided that all field goals scored outside a 21 foot arc counted three points and that fouled players had an option of taking their : free throws from 21 feet for two points or from 15 feet for the regular one point. A third change, with which coaches and officials found least complaint was widening of the "antl-loiter-ing" lane under the baskets to 12 feet instead of the regulation six. A player with the ball could not remain in the lane more than three seconds, y - A tabulation of votes by spec tators showed from 60 to 70 per cent favored flat approval of each of the three changes, indi cating that the. new game was more ''spectacular and provided a greater element of chance. The fans favored the longer field goals 148 to 105, the optional long three throw 135 to 85 and the widened three-second lane 152 to 65. MONTGOMERY' ARRIVES FOR L A. RING MATCH Los Angeles, Feb. 8 (U.R) -r- Bob Montgomery, N.B.A. ver sion of the world's lightweight titlist, was scheduled to arrive here today from his Arizona Army Air Field station for final .training before his 10-rbund bout Feb. 13 with Cecil Hudson, a local battler. UNITED FILES TO CUT ALASKA TRAVEL FARES Washington, Feb. 8 U.F United Air Lines said today it had filed with the Civil Aero nautics. Board, preparatory to a hearing Feb. 13, proposals for cutting air travel, fares from Seattle and Tacoma to Alaska nearly In half. NEWS FREEDOM URGED New York, Feb. 8-The office of war information last night began broadcasting throughout the world a message of news freedom by Hugh Balllie, presi dent of the United Press. WASHING MACHINES ' REPAIRED Parts fc Service on Alt Makes B & B Washer Shop 406 E. 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