Working Agreements Seen
In Big-Time Boxing Set-up
New York, Jan. 24 (U.R) A I
long-sought working agreement
between the National Boxing As
sociation and the New York
commission will be signed soon,
President Abe J. Greene of the
N.B.A. intimated last night at
the annual boxing writers' din
ner. Greene of Faterson, N. J., said
that several recent conferences
with Chairman Eddie Eagan of
the New York commission were
so successful that they pointed
toward "an important announce
ment" soon.
Under questioning later,
Greene admitted that he had
been referring to a working
agreement the first ever to be
made between the two organiza
tions. He explained that state
statutes prevented the New York
commission from becoming a
member of the N.B.A.; but that
the two organizations would be
able to co-operate "in every re
spect" through an official work
ing agreement.
An important result of such
an agreement, he emphasized,
would be the prevention of. title,
disputes and dual "champions"
In any division. He added, "The
matching of Bob Montgomery
and Ike Williams to clear up the
lightweight title dispute at Mad
ison Square Garden on March 22
did not come about by chance.
And the present negotiations for
a fight between Willie Pep and
Sal Bartolo to clear up the title
split in the featherweight divi
aion are not the result of an ac
cident either."
Football Coach
Asks For Job At
Women's College
Denver, Jan. 24 (U.R) The
students at MacMurray Col
lege, Jacksonville, 111,, were In
tissie today.
Handsome Larry (Dutch)
Schults, 200-pound former AH
American end at Centre Col
lage, admitted rather shame
facedly that he had applied
for a coaching job at Mae
Murray. The football star, now sta
tioned at Lowry Field and
waiting discharge from the
army, said he had just found
out that MacMurray was a
girls' school.
BY
New York, Jan. 24 U.R) The
latest riddle in the metropolitan
baseball scene today was "Did
the Brooklyn Dodgers buy an
other negro baseball player or
didn't they?"
Branch Rickey, Jr., head of
the Dodger farm enterprises said
that the player in question, Roy
Partlow, a negro pitcher from
Ponce, P. R., had been in and
out of the Brooklyn offices but
that he was just an interested
onlooker who might go south to
spring training in Florida for a
tryout.
But in Puerto Rico, the news
paper El Dia at Ponce said it had
learned that Partlow, who has
been in the United States for
about two weeks, definitely had
signed a Dodger contract and
that he had exhibited it to sev
eral people. Partlow, according
to the newspaper, indicated that
he would be farmed out to Mon
treal to play with Jackie Robin
son, negro infielder, who was
purchased last fall from the Kan
sas City Monarchs of the Negro
National league.
Rickey said that "Insofar as I
know, Partlow has not been
signed to a Brooklyn contract
and that would include all of our
farm clubs."
BOWLING
In Commercial league last
night Pepsi Cola took one game
and total pins for two points
while Fluhrer Bakery took two
games for two points (Bower
527-Eads 550). Daniels-Robinson
took two games and total pins
for three points from 3ilver Dol
lar Grill (Shantol 551-Whelan
505), Henry's Drive-In took two
games and total points from Litt
rell Parts (Swanson 505-Guin-otte
443), and Montgomery
Ward made a clean sweep to
take four points from Firestone
(Timm 609-Orndoff 472).
10 LOOP CLASH
With another big weekend of
basketball on their schedule,
the Medford high school Black
Tornado Is pointing to their
Southern Oregon conference
clash with Ashland on the
Grizzly floor tomorrow night.
It will be the third league clash,
without a defeat, for the Red
and Black. Grants Pass and
Klamath Falls have fallen be
fore the onslaught of the Tor
nado In other loop skirmishes.
It will be the farewell con
ference appearance for little
Glenn Bostwick who is due to
graduate this semester.
Ashland's basketball record
is not too bright this season,
largely because the Grizzlies
got off to a slow start. Ham
pered by flu, they played for
nearly a month with from one
to seven of their first ten men
ill in bed. But they are expect
ed to be at full strength for the
Medford clash which is the first
of a four-game series between
the bitter rivals.
With the game with Oregon
Frosh here Saturday night not
to be forgotten in the heat of
preparations for the Ashland
tiff, Coach Al Simpson drilled
his club hard last night and
after a 35 minute scrimmage,
said they would be ready to go
full tilt for both games. Jerry
Ross' infected throat has not re
sponded too well to treatment
bue he is expected to see some
service in both games, Simpson
said.
Plans for Simpson's starting
linuo remain unchanged today
and likely will see Bill Singler
and Bob Watson at lorwaras.
Darrell Riggs at center and
Jim Cave and Bostwick at
guards.
Crusaders To Face
Central Point Five
In 'B' League Play
St. Mary's of Medford will try
to stop the league-leading Cen
tral Point high school basketball
team when they collide at Wash
ington school here Friday. Cen
tral Point is on top of the divi
sion two heap and heavy favor
ites to lick the Crusaders.
Other division two games send
Eagle Point to Rogue River in
what promises to be a classic and
Kerby faces Talent at Talent.
In division one Prospect goes
to Butte Falls Friday night and
Phoenix to Jacksonville tonight
Gold Hill draws a bye.
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Girls' Champ Beats Rita I
Thursday. Jan. 24, 194B
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUHE CTVH
The old saying that gentlemen
prefer blondes took quite a kick
ing around at Medford armory
last night when Clara Morten
son, world women's champion,
took two out of three falls from
Rita Martinez in the special
event of the weekly wrestling
card.
Clara, the blond, was very un-
lady-like as she pulled hair,
slapped, slugged and bit her
fiery Utile opponent to come up
with the first fall in nine min
utes with a body press after tos
sing Miss Martinez around the
ring by the hair.
Disposition Ired
Rita's Mexican disposition was
well worked up and she used
just one minute to even the falls
with a body press. She slammed
the champ from post to post be
fore falling on her in the middle
of the ring. Clara, amid lusty
boos from the over-capacity
crowd, complained loudly to
Referee Wally Moss that her
shoulders were not pinned and
acted like she was going to
"climb his frame" for a minute
but the arbiter grinned and
walked away.
After a wild exchange of fists
and a few wrestling holds, Rita
had Clara backed up into a cor
ner where Moss tried to separate
them. The champ pushed Rita
backwards over the referee and
fell on her for the winning fall.
Time was five minutes.
Signs Autographs
Miss Martinez was swarmed
by autograph hunters as she
started to leave the ring and
held up the main event about 15
minutes while she signed auto
graph books, sheets of paper and
almost anything her fans could
get her to sign.
Joe Lynam, coast junior
heavyweight champion, gave
Jack (Buck) Lipscomb a thor
ough going over to win the main
event by two straight falls. The
first came on a foul when Lips
comb refused to release a hold
and th. second came via a body
stretch. Lynam was so ired by
Lipscomb's dirty tactics that
Moss had great difficulty stop
ping him when the match was
over.
1,000 Turned Away
Leo Mortenson didn't fair as
well as his sister when he
dropped his match to Pete Bel
castro. Mortenson took the first
fall but Belcastro's surfboard In
the third round left him in no
shape to come back for the last
spill.
Herb Parks, Canadian cham
pion, bested Bulldog Jackson
two out of three falls In the
opener.
An estimated 1,000 people
were turned away from the up
town ticket office and the. arena
because of lack of seats.
VOTE-GETTERS IN
STAR SELECTIONS
St. Louis. Mo., Jan. 24 (U.R)
Pitcher Hal Newhouser of
the world champion Detroit
Tigers and first baseman Phil
Cavaretta of the Chicago Cubs
were the two leading vote-getters
on the 1945 all-star team
released by the Sporting News,
national baseball weekly.
Newhouser was named on
206 of the 215 ballots cast by
members of the baseball writ
ers' association of America in
the Sporting News' 21st annual
poll. Cavaretta received 201
votes.
Three Cub players won plac
es on the honorary team and
the National league In all over
shadowed the American league,
capturing seven of the 11 spots.
The selections:
Outfielders Tommy Holmes.
Boston Braves; Andy P a f k o,
C h 1 c a g o Cubs: and Godwin
Rosen, Brooklyn Dodgers.
First base Phil Cavaretta.
Chicago Cubs.
Second base George Stirn
weiss. New York Yankees.
Shortstop Marty Marion, St.
Louis Cardinals.
Third base George Kurow
ski, St. Louis Cardinals.
Catcher Paul Richards, De
troit Tigers.
Pitchers Hal Newhouser,
Detroit Tigers, Dave Ferrlss,
Boston Red Sox, and Hank Bor
owy, Chicago Cubs.
Rogues Squelch
Redskin Quintet
Rogue River, Jan. 24 The
high school quintet overwhelm
ed Jacksonville Redskins 59-23
in a hoop clash here Tuesday
evening. Dick Huntoon of the
Rogues flipped in 33 points and
sank nine out of 12 foul attempts.
His teammate Bruce Davidson
tallied 11 counters. Jackson
ville's seconds thumped the
Rogue reserves 25-12.
Closing tlmff for sundny Too Late
to Clawffy 4 00 Saturday afternoon
Please remember.
HOGAN GOLFER TO
BEAT AT PHOENIX
Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 24 (U.R)
Little Ben Hogan of Hershey,
Penn., looks like he's going to
be the man to beat In the $7,500
Phoenix open golf tournament.
About 200 players have en
tered the pro-amateur tourna
ment and another 170 are in
the open itself. The pro
amateur event will be played
today.
Hogan, the money-m a k 1 n g
golfer, took on three pretty
good players yesterday in a
practice round. Hogan's score
was a sub-par 68, one stroke
ahead of Jim Demaret and Tony
Penna.
JUNIORS DEFEAT
I
Medford Junior high basket
eers remained on top of the heap
in the Southern Oregon confer
ence today by virtue of their
30 to 28 conquest of Ashland
yesterday. Medford, with four
wins and one loss, is in first
place, Grants Pass is second with
two wins and two losses and
Ashland in the cellar with one
victory against four defeats.
Lineups:
Medford Pos. Ashland
Richmond 3 f Hull 2
Reich 13 f Carlson 11
Neidermeyer 5 c Ellsworth 2
Riggs 2 g Graham 5
Brewer 5 8 Starnes 8
Cramer s Hile
Sherman 2 s Montgomery
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