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I 1 MEDFORD FACES ASHLAND IN CAGE FRACAS TONIGHT After two week-end battles in which they broke even, the Medford high basketball team, leading the Southern Oregon conference, will go against Ash land on the Medford high court tonight in a non-conference game. f Medford won a league mix from the Grizzlies in Ashland Friday night after halting an Ashland rally in the fourth per iod which brought the score to within eight points of the win ners. The Tornado will likely miss Glenn Bostwick. who became in eligible after Saturday night's game with the Oregon Frosh. Bostwick is a midterm student, graduating this week. His place will be taken by Carl Reich, a capable guard but he lacks Bost wick's playing experience. Coach Al Simpson said the red and black were, consider ably bruised following the rough skirmishes over the week-end and had only light drills slated for the team last night. They were pretty stiff and sore last night, the coach said, but will be ready to go again tonight. The league leaders will get back In the conference harness Friday night when they travel to Grants Pass for a circuit clash. They meet the Oregon State Hooks in a return game at Corvallis next Tuesday and Klamath Falls here a week from Friday and the Oakland Boys club here Feb. 9. While at Cor vallis the team will see the COM' M r,oVO "f: U ..ufu 11 V J . N EW W'",, iJ r FOR .1 1 i t g.oJtTTfH"jrTf rill j i IilUliY'l'l Washington-Oregon State game. Simpson sam tonight s lineup likely will be Jerry Ross and Bob Watson at fnrwarrlc Tlnr. rell Riggs at center and Jim cave ana carl Reich at guards. TO SPEED GAME Phoenix, Ariz., Jan. 29 (U.R) As the nation's leading profes sional golfers moved across the state to prepare for the $7500 Tucson open, tour manager Fred Corcoran of the Professional Golfers Assn. warned today that the customers will lose Interest if they don't speed up their play. Corcoran's warning came in an interview after Ben Hogan, Hershey, Pa., shot a thrce-under-par 68 to defeat Herman Reiser, Akron, O., in an IB-hole playoff for first prize money in the $7500 Phoenix Open yesterday. Hogan's 35-33 round gave him the $1500 top money while Reis er, with a one-under 84-36-70 wound up with the $1000 second purse. Keise'r led by one stroke at the end of the first nine. But he fal tered with two bogies on the re turn trip while Hogan was scor ing a pair of birdies. Fur Buyers Shell Out Record Price For Beaver Pelts Portland. Jan. 29 Fur buy ers paid an average of $53.40 for 606 beaver pelts offered for aa1 i-r-ant1v hv thp flrPffdn state game commission. The sale established a new record tor fur that first hroueht white men to Oregon. Highest bid for a single Diannet was sou. Under the new plan of dis tributing the sale price, one third goes to the owner of the land on which the beaver were trapped, one-third to the Inde pendent trapper working on contract and one-third to the state. Landowners desiring to par ticipate in the income from furs chmilri contract with the com mission which agrees to prevent damage to ineir lanas oy remuv- tna oti.,n rnrfanfc hv mntrollinE the population at a point where watersheds are proteciea. Bishop Little Help To Cougar Quintet As OSC Wins 50-48 Pullman, Jan. 29 U.R) De spite the return of Gail Bishop, the nation's leading scorer last vear, to the Cougar lineup. Washington State college drop ped a 50-48 decision to the Ore gon State Beavers in a northern rtivUinn Pacific Coast confer ence basketball game last night. The Cougars took an early lead and hung on until less than seven minutes before the final gun. Then the Beavers took over for keeps. Bishop was held to eight points a pair of field goals and four free throws. BOWLING In Classic league last night Signal Oil won two out of three games from Domestic Laundry (White 541 -Gardner, Bradley 561), Hi-Way Club took three straight from Hawkinson Tires (Cannon 491-Jonnings 508), Beck's Bakery won two out of three from Valentine's Cafe (R. Pruitt 566-Eads' 632), Maid-Rite won two from American (Green 620-Wood 538). YOUR DRIVING SAFETY 1, W Will Bp Tour PrMnt Smooth ' Tim for Winter Driving Safety 2. Whan Wew Firestone De Lata ' Chvnjrtone Are ATUbl to Too Wo Will Equip Tour Cur and Bay Tow Xocoppod Tint Drlva In Today E FOR WRESTLING IS SET AT 8:45 Starting time for tomorrow night's wrestling card at Med ford armory has been moved to 8:45 to allow fans to attend the infantile paralysis benefit has ketbal game at the high school court "and still get to the armory in time to see part of the pro gram. Mack Lillard has an nounced. Two new faces will feature the offering. In the semi-windup Chester Hayes, all-service cham pion from the Hawaiian islands; will take on rough and tough Jack Lipscomb in his Oregon debut. Hayes is a clever and fast workman but how he will stack up against a man of Lip scomb's type remains to be seen. Pierre LaBelle also will make his first local appearance when he collides with Herb Parks. Canadian champion, in the three round opener. A match that fans have been waiting two weeks to see is the six round main event between Pete Belcastro and Joe Lynam. Belcastro claims Lynam is a "cheese champ" and demands a title shot. Lynam says Belcas tro's record is too spotty to qual ify him for the chance at the crown. Hot words Were ex changed between them in the dressing room following last week's matches and Lynam fin ally agreed to a non-title match. If Belcastro can win that he will be considered for a title shot. Navy Quint Thumps Mobilgas To Grab Loop's Top Place Camp White Navy moved into the lead over the Idle Ashland Elks in the Southern Oregon Independent basketball league when they handed a 49 to 38 trouncing to Mobilgas on the Jackson school floor last night. Navy's record is now four wins against no losses while the Elks have won three and dropped none. Mobilgas. with Ellwood Web er pacing the attack, came from a 26 to 17 halftlme deficit to within three points, 28-25, but the sailors found the range and pulled away to lead 37 to 28 at end of the third period. Chris Barker, Mobilgas cen ter, was high point man with 15 points, 13 of them in the first half. Kluba led the Navy with 14. r Tall, High-Scoring Marines Clash With Elks Wednesday Coming fresh from a 31 to 27 victory over Willamette univer sity which was their 11th straight basketball victory this season, the Klamath Falls Ma rines will meet the Ashland Elks in an infantile paralysis benefit game at Medford high school Wednesday night. A preliminary between Groce teria Gold Bars and Medford high junior varsity will start the program off at 7 p. m. with the main game to follow immedi ately after.. The Gold Bars and JayVces, members of the South ern Oregon independent league, will be gunning for their second and first league wins, respec tively. Donate Services The leathernecks, donating their services for the game, have dropped only three games this season; two to the University of Oregon and one to the Astoria Naval Air Station, whom they later defeated. The Elks, like wise donating their services, have lost one game, that to Rogue River after scoring a lop sided victory. Referees, also working with out pay, are Norm Worthley and Bill Bowerman. Worthley is a Southern Oregon conference of ficial and Bowerman, director of athletics at Medford high school, is a "B" league official. Tickets, on sale by Lions club and Rotary club members and at the sports desk of the Mail Tribune, were donated by Com mercial Printing company. Med ford high school is donating use of the floor. Lanky Center Lanky Ernie Semsky of Kel logg, Ida., plays center for the Marines. He is a high-scoring pivot man, measuring six feet, two inches in height. Six-foot Paul Adams, guard, is captain of the leathernecks. He is a superb defensive ball player whose scoring potentialities lie in a spot back of the free throw circle from where the Buckeye Marine is automatic with a set shot. He will get a starting call against the Elks. Art Verment, five feet, eight inches tall, is a native Ore gonian who could easily be classed the "star" of the Klam ath quintet. The diminutive for ward hails from Wcstport where he played on the state champion ship team of 1942. The follow ing year he played at Linfield college at McMinnville and was second highest scorer of the con ference. A favorite with all fans, he constantly heckles the opposition with his ball stealing habits. He wears unprotected I glasses in every game and a QUALITY IS ALWAYS WORTH WAITING FOB Blitz -Wei nhx-d beer does, fa troth, stand oat. The consistency and quality of its goodness are certain as spring. That's why people who really know taste enjoyment would rather wait for Blitz-Weinhard ... the beer so good it's guaranteed satisfying. lfe-lflmhii!!ifi . Guaranteed BlITZ. IINHARD COMPANY f O I T I A familiar sight Is to see him scurrying around the floor look ing tor nis glasses alter par ticularly rough scuffle. Averages Eight Points With a season average of eight points per game, Alvin Zautcke. 19-year-old Wisconsin vnntli has been responsible for several of ine marines recent victories. He provides much of th tram's spark and consistently rings the noop irom under the basket. He is six feet, one inch tall. Jack McNeill, recently return ed from overseas, holds down a starting berth at ennrri Ho ( six feet tall and hails from Hampton, la., where he was vot ed an "All-North rwitini r. ference" star. He later attended AUllsap college in Mississippi where he was a valuable asset to the team. Mike, as he is known to his fellow Marines, plays a hard fast game and is a whiz on defense. Holding down the starting center berth is 21-year-old Jim "Schnoz" Lambert, a six foot speedster from Idaho. He Is the key man on plays close In and, although not a high scorer, is repeatedly scoring when sur rounded by several opponents. Perfect 300 No Help To Bowler In Tourney Race Chicago. Jan. 29 (U.R) A Chicago bowling alley proprietor has won a niche In bowling's hall of fame. But it hasn't helped him much in the Peterson indi vidual bowling tournament. Al Kebec bowled a perfect 300 game last night In the Chicago tournament. He did it in the seventh contest of an eight-game series. How ever, his other games weren't up to par and his to tal score for the tourney was only 1452, a mark far behind that of the . tourna ment leader, Frank Sospi rato of Cleveland. Sosplrato has a score of 1627. HINKLE'S PARCEL . DELIVERY DAY or NIGHT Phone 4956 . Prompt Courteous Service T. D. Hinkle W; H. Judy Satisfying BEER t 132lsssslfcrj-" tJ3BJi-Vr'"ij1-- DISTRIBUTED BY SNIDER DAIRY 5k PRODUCE COMPANY K. FALLS BERTH Al Simpson, Medford high school athletic coach, today denied he has applied for the football coaching job at Klamath Falls high school. An Associ ated Press dispatch from Klam ath Falls said Simpson was among the applicants for the job when Arthur (Snowy) Gustafson and Frank Ramsey resigned. Simpson, whose Tornado grid squad won the 1944 state prep championship and was a strong contender for the 1945 crown, said he had been approached re garding the job and was asked if he was interested. Simpson said he is looking for a football job and was open to offers but had made no application. Bill Bowerman, now director of athletics at the high school, will take over the football Job here next September. Simpson was substituting for Bowerman when the latter was in the army. TO COACH AT KANSAS Lawrence, Kan., Jan. 29 (U.R) George Sauer, one of the great est backs ever to play in the Big Six conference, today ac- SON-IN-LAW AND DAD ARE REGULAR No More Constipation Now Thex Eat Famous Cereal Constipated? Harsh laxatives got you feeling down? 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Qulgley, athletic director, announced. ffll'HilTfff rnona dhb Doiween p. m. ana 1U p. nu every evening excupt. Sunday. Medford Dance Studio BLOO. Phone 88M aeaasHTSBD SUTIirTINQ SERVICE STORES 214 S. Riverside Phone 4757
