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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 15, 1945)
BIT MEDfORD MAIL TRIBUNE Trmrsdsv, Mirefc 1S H4ii ehanee to trptet TTashlrigton fhlf CREAM OF PREP TEAMS CLASH IN Eight class "A" basketball teams, representing the cream of Oregon'! prep crop, and four "B" schools, champion of their districts, are poised at Salem to day in preparation for the 26th SOUND TRUCKS and Public Address Systems FOR RENT! Any Place Any Time Any Occasion FIDLER NEWS AGENCY Phont 4034 or 6038 122 No. Riverside, Medford New Management Finer Service 99 MOTEL TEXACO SERVICE 826 N. Riverside annual Oregon high ichool bas ketball championships, which be gin at 8 p. m, today when Wash ington of Portland meets Eugene. Other first round gamea pit Newberg against Baker at 4: IS today with Medford and Ver nonla set to open evening play at 7:30. Hlllsboro and Oregon City play at 8:45 tonight. The Mail-Tribune office will be open tonight from 8:30 to 8:30 to answer telephone calls about the results of the Med ford game. If Medford should win tonight, they will play Friday night at 8:4S against the winner of the Hlllsboro Oregon City game. The Tri bune office will be open from 9:45 until 10:45 Friday night for calls on the outcome of that game. Finals Saturday Championship finals will be played Saturday night at 8:45 with semi-finals losers clashing at 11 a. m. Saturday for third place. Consolation finals will be played Saturday morning at 10 o'cloelc. The "B" tournament gets un der way Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock when Grant Union plays Clatskanie. Reedsport and Ar lington play at 4:15 Friday. "B" championship will be played Saturday night at 7:30 with con solation finals slated for 9 a. m. Saturday. ' In Portland press releases to day Washington and Medford were rated as favorites to win with Eugene given an excellent Mack Llllard has arranged strong supporting card for to night's Medford armory wrest ling card, which will be topped by the Gray Mask, whs meets Terrible Tony Ross. Pete Belcastro, dynamic Weed, Calif., bone-crusher will be back in the lineup again meeting Gust Johnson, clever junior-heavy champ, In the four round special event. This bout Is capable of holding main event booking In any mat center but Lillard put them in the second ary spot to make room for the Mask-Ross encounter. A fine wrestling contest looms In the opener when Jack Kiser, light-heavyweight claimant to the coast belt, goes against Georges Dusette in the curtain raiser, beginning at 8:30. Both are fast and clever pachyderms but Dusette's terrific full nelson hold makes him the f.ivorite. Considerable Interest is show ing up in the main go since Ross has been given an excellent chance to upset the hooded monster if he works like he did in last week's battle royal. MONT90MIRY WARD I j . V-l ,Tf ;J FINE HATS FOR YOUR EASTER OUTFIT Try cn a BRENT and tee the) splendid Improvement It makes lrr your appearance! 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Those who participated in the tumbling were Bill Arnold, Tom Mottern, Treve Neff, Dick Frank, Alford Gleason, Lee Neider meyer, Curtis Richmond, Don Henderson, Bob Ellis, LeRoy Sutton, Darryl Johnson, Jack Johnson, Dick Leever, Wallace Gideon, Glenn Glover, Bob Dun- nigan, Darrell Smith, Curtis Garrison, Harlan Bosworth, Ken neth Miksell, Dick Hawkins. Charles Hackett and Leonard Stollsworth. Boxing Results Results . of the boxing bouts follow: Darryl Johnson decision ed Harlan Bosworth, Curtis Rich drew with Leonard Stolls worth, Ardell Meyers drew with Ray Early, Cap Perkins drew with Charles Bray, Glenn Yost declsioned Vern Nlkodym, Bill Harris drew with Jim Hersh berger, Gary Early drew with Alford Gleason, Ronald Nutting declsioned Lloyd Tlmmons. Bill Arnold drew with Raymond Marlon, Lee Neldermeyer drew with E. C. Brittson and Tom Mottern declsioned A r m 0 n d Meyer. . ' Earl Yockley refereed the matches, donating his services. Coach Norman Sting was highly praised for the program, which showed evidence of thorough coaching for all events. KEARNS HELD ON CHARGE OF FRAUD Chicago. March 15 (U.R) Jack Kearns, who made and spent a fortune while mansKino such fighters as Jack Dempsey and Mickey .Walker during box ing's most lucrative era, was un der Indictment today charged with Promoting a phoney fire extinguisher. Kearns, now 62 and promot ing secondary rjrizefishta in Chi cago, was arrested lata vpitpr. day, along with Harry (Packy) Lennon, 44, a former boxer. Athletics To Be Threat In League, Connie Mack Says Frederick, Md March 15 (U.R) Connie Mack, venerable manager of the Philadelphia Athletics, today Issued his an nual "warning" to the American league with a prediction that his team had a "fighting chance for the pennant," and would finish in the first division. Mack, oldest man and mana ger in baseball, both from a point of service and years, said he was satisfied with his infield, pitching and catching, but that the "A's" could use another outfielder. The Athletics' manager, who missed the opening day of spring training for the second time in his 51 years as a manager, pick ed the St. Louis Browns and the Detroit Tigers as the teams to beat for the 1945 pennant. COOPER TAKES EXAM St. Louis, March 15 (U.R) Pitcher Mort Cooper of the world champion St. Louis Cardi nals was undergoing his second physical examination today to determine his fitness for mili tary service. He was classified 4-F a month ago. Sport Chips BY lM Harry Chipman Mail Tribune Sports Editor Earl Rogers, Ashland high school principal who was in charge of the recent district four basketball tournament at SOCE gym in Ashland, this week released a financial report of tournament receipts. The tournament drew 1971.05, which, broken down, showed ad vance sale of tickets at Grants Pass, 13.15; Klamath Falls, $5.85; Ashland, $69.25 and Med ford, 186.10. Receipts at the gate totaled $806.70. Receipts were the largest in the history of the district tourney. The committee spent $30.53 for advertising and $33 for first, second and third place trophies. Federal tax on admissions took $155.37 out of the receipts. Tournament programs sliced off $5.40 and gym rental for the two nights totaled $20. . Five dollars was spent for the public address system and ball while another $41 went out for labor. The coaches' luncheon, includ ing a $1 tip for the waiter, came to $10.15. Chappie King and Don. Mc Pike, referees imported from Portland, cost $190. Telephone calls amounted to $18 and dec orations for the student dance totaled $4.40. Team expenses were listed as none for Ashland, Grants Pass, $17.20: Klamath Falls, $127.90, and Medford $5.20. Disburse ments totaled $663.15, leaving $307.90 to be divided between the four competing teams. Grants Pass, Medford and Klam ath Falls took $76.98 while Ashland took $78.98. While on the subject of sta tistics, the Oregon High School Activities Association recently released dollar and cents fig ures for the state football cham pionship in Portland, in which Medford defeated La Grande 14 to 0. The game was played in Multnomah Stadium before a crowd of 7,776 which paid a gross of $7,525.20. For rental of the stadium for the one game, Multnomah own ers picked 25 of the take, or cool $1,562.75. Traveling ex-. penses, federal tax, etc.. took another $3,435.05. The final split between Medford and La Grande was made on $2,528 figure but the OHSAA grabbed 50 of that, Jeavlng Medford end LaGrande a measly $632 each. 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