Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 23, 1950, Image 11

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Newspaper Page TextTWELVE MEDFORD (OREOOW) MAIL TRIBUNE Thuriday, February 23. 1950 Stickel Wins Nod In Local Armory Pure Boxing Card Bw Hirr ChlomBIl Hay btickel made it two out of three over Bill Berry in the main event of the Southern Ore gon Boxing club's amateur card at the armory last nigni uuu uj taking the decision won the southern Oregon welterweight Although Berry fought the best fight he has put up here in a long time, it wasn t the scrap fans had been led to be lieve it was going io ue. - initial round was devoted entire i.. rAnlmrt nut nrocecdinKS with neither pug anxious to do anything toward making a fight of it. . ri'L rarj a fail) AVPhflnffM in the second round with Berry content to back-pedal ana coun ter punch and a good Job of It he did but Stickel aggressive ness gained the round for him. Last Round Best The last frame was by far the best of the encounter and brought the crowd to attention when Berry got caught in a cor ner three ditlerent times and re ceipted for a few lusty whacks. Stickel caught a few good ones himself but his punches were the harder and he rightly dc served the nod. The mix between Joe Kahui and Larry Burdette was billed as an exhibition and that was strictly what it was. Burdette, always anxious to stay a little more than at arm's length, caught Kahut several times with left jabs to the face but the foxy Portlander made him miss badly when the going got a little tough. The third round saw some good mixing and once Kahut let go with a roundhouse to the head which, had it landed, would have propelled Burdette clear out. of the building. After that Burdette got in close and stay ed there so Kahut couldn't get another such punch started. Raf.rta In Way At one point. Referee Jack (Ginger) Snapp got in the way ot a right hand aimed at Burdette and a half hour after the match was still complaining of a sore car. One of the card's biggest sur prises was Donovan Wolfe's split decision win over previously un defeated Don Harper of Gold Hill. Harper, up until last night, had won all of his fights by knockouts. , In the second round Harper took a no-count trip to the can vas when hit while going away and at the end of the round he went down again when he miss ed a wild swing at the Wo fo x In (hn Inct rnnnrl Wolfe Uainnr mica RPVOrul tilTlCS while himself landing some good puncnes. It was a dandy fight and if Wolfe can repeat in a rematch, which is now in the making, he Buy Tickets Now K I WAN IS KAPERS 8 P. M. FRI.-SAT. Mnior m Auditorium mil Burgeti Paint & Wallpaper Store flr7fl 11 r ' MEDF0RD5gaTRIBUNE Eagles, Pointers At Home. Friday Eagle Point and Central Point high school gyms will be scenes for the only Southern Oregon conference-district 4 basketball games in this area Friday as Med ford travels to the Eagles gym and Grants Pass plays at the Central Point gymnasium. Recently the Black Tornado put on one of its best games of the 1949-50 season to wallop the Eagles on the Medford floor but the boys coached by "Shy" Cal laehan are always tough on their own floor and could give Med ford a rough evening. Cav.m.n Favorites The Cavemen are expected to have little trouble in subduing the Pointers with Grants Puss having an undefeated record in district and conference panics. Both Medford and Central Point are out of any mathemati cal chance to win the confer ence-district championship but the Tornado In particular is giv en a good chance to knock over Eagle I'oint and men go ao-.vn will be a definite favorite with local 'fistic followers. Hamilton Wins Nod Another close one was Johnny Hamilton's split decision victory over Corky King. King shed a lot of blood from tne nose in every round but he never once gave up his boring in tactics. It would nave made a dandy draw if AAU rules would allow a knotted count. Kil er Dick Adkins stepped another notch toward top billing when he won a unanimous nod from Frank Larson, Portland. Adkins gave the UDstater a thor ough going over in the last round but the big city Kid hung tough and wouldn't go down. Other matches saw Tommy Thomas lose h is first ring ap pearance to experienced Eddie Conrad. Darren Johnson louna Chief Super an easy victim al though Super kept coming in all the time and always was a threat to the curly haired Jonnson. Moora Scores KO The only knockout on the show saw Bill Moore stop Jerry Sparling In a minute and 20 sec onds of the third round. There was more wrestling than boxing in the get-together and it lacked the thrills of their previous mix. Freddie Johnson got back in the win column by scoring a unanimous verdict over Kit Chavez in the opener. A packed crowd of Close to 1.000 persons witnessed the show, the second promoting ven ture of the Southern Oregon Boxing club. to Grants Pass and defeat the Cavemrn there Saturday night. Medford high's cagers have been working this week as if they still had visions of a cham pionship, evidently in the hope that they can end the season in some kind of glory by walloping both Eagle Point and ,Gra:it Ppss over the week-end. Local Boys Drill Coach Frank Roclandt of the Tornado continues to drill his boys in smoother passing, sharp er shooting and a better all around offense. There has been steady improvement all the year in these departments as Medford has had to learn new tactics from a new coaching style. Eagle Point is currently un defeated in the J-D-J league and has all but clinched the con ference title. Prelim gaVics will be played at both Eagle Point and at Cen tral Point tomorrow at 6:45 p.m. with the varsity tilt billed at both gymnasiums for 8:15 p.m. Ski Meet Slated For Mount Hood Timberline, Ore., Feb. 23 (U.R) The national four-event combined ski champions open on Mount Hood tomorrow with the cross-country race, under spon sorship ofthc Cascade Ski club. The field of entrants included several American stars and two European competitors Fritz Schannen of Switzerland and Karl Martitsch of Austria. At the close of the national tournament Sunday, a Rroup of lump experts will compete in an invitation contest. Leading con tenders will include Norwegian exchange students Gustav Haaum, Jan Kiaer and Gunnar Sunde of the University of Wash ington, and John Lie of the University of California. Basketball WEDNESDAY'S RESl'l.TS Army 50, Colgntu 48 Navv 57, Rutffers 48 Cnrncgie Te-ch 6fl. Pittsburgh 59 Villanova 80, Hawaii 50 GeorRPtown 78, Penn 73 Penn State 66. Temple 61 Princeton 51. Yale 4!) Florida 59. Tampa 52 Georgia Tech 61, Auburn 53 Mississippi 61, Alabama 52 Tex us Tech 67, Texas Western 49 Arizona 71, New Mexlro (12 Los Angeles 50, Occidental 39 Vanport 82, Eastern Oregon 81. Dead line on Classified Ads: 5:30 pin for following day; 10 im Monday for Monday, noon Saturday for Sunday a.m. I I'll take the SttW Road DIRECTIONS: Follow Route 7 all the way. It'i the shortest... SUREST... most satisfying road to the place where perfect drinks come from a bottle of 7 Crown. ..Seagram's finest American whiskey I gf? Seagram's aid ' 6& S wxt Seirnn'l7Crmn. Blended Whiskey. 86.1 Prool. 65X Gtiln Neutral Spirits. Sognm-Dutillm Corp., Chrysler Buildlnj. N.Y. Dusette and Atlas Vow To Gain Win Georges Dusette, ordinarily just about as complacent as they come, came to town this morn ing and announced that he will pull out all the stops when he poes against the Great Atlas in the feature match of tonight's wrestling card at the armory. "I've been waiting for a long time for this chance and I don't intend to muff it," the smiling Frenchman said. "I haven't been happy over the way that guy has used the full nelson to dis able his opponents and I would like to see if he can do it to me," Dusettc's pet maneuver also is the full nelson. Atlas Expects Win The Atlas, on the other hand, is certain of victory and the self-styled superman made it plain that he considers Dusette Just another evening's workout. Although the semi-windup is drawinyalmost as much interest as the main event, the princi pals aren t using words to feed the flames of battle. Jack Lipscomb gave Karl Gray quite a beating in a tag team match last week and Gray in tends to use tonight's middle spot to get even. The opener sends two classy grappling artists together in the persons of Pierre LaBelle and George Strickland. They go to the mat at 8:30 p.m. Morris Tops Loop Scoring Unofficially Jack Morris, Medford high's all-around athlete, continues to pace the Southern Oregon con ference basketball scoring race with 107 points in nine games or a 11.9 average, just .1 point un der what it was a week ago, un official statistics revealed here this morning. That average tops the whole conference although Morris has played in one or two less games than some of the other leaders. Next to the local player is Tom Schubert (Klamath) with a 10 8 average or 108 points in 10 games, followed by Dick Smith (Ashland) with 10.1 average, Bob Shores (Medford) 10 average and Jerry Langer (Ashland) who was fifth with 9.6 average. Pat Ford, Grants Pass, who paced the conference for much of the season, is sixth with 77 points in eight games. Pat Simmons and Lloyd Hale, both Eagle Point are 11th and 12th respectively with 8.5 and 8.1 average each, Bob Dohertv of the Eagles is tied with Herb Collcy (Central Point) for 15th with a 6.3 average each. Chieftains Eye Klamath Games Klamath Falls, Feb. 23 Sac red Heart high, winner of the Klamath county class B basket ball tournament, will meet Pais ley tonight, Friday and Saturday if necessary at the Sacred Heart gym here for the right to meet Kogue rtiver of Jackson county in the district playoffs. ihe Trojans of Sacred Heart are small but fast with good tal ent in the first team and better than average on the reserves list. Sacred Heart has knocked over Merrill, Chiloquin and Henley in games this season. Paisley is said to be small. averaging not over five feet nine inches tall. Bly of Klamath coun ty beat them twice but other than that little is known about the Lake county team. Rogue River high will meet the winner of this week-end playoff in Klamath county next Wednesday and Thursday. Boxing Tonight At S.O.C. Gym Ashland. Feb. 23 Southern Oregon college boxing team will face Chico State college leather pushers in an intercollegiate team match here tonight about 8 o'clock in the SOC gym. Coach Jack "Ginger" Snapp of the SOC boxing team has brought his charges quite aways since the Red Raiders lost a card to Chico in California earlier this season. Medford boys taking part will be Bob Rupp, Ken Lindley, Bob and Bill Boyer and Don Butter. Eleven bouts will be held to morrow with Coach Fred Spirg- elberg of the Medford high box ing team and former outstand ing intercollegiate boxer, as ref eree. OSC SWIM TEAM Corvallis. Feb. 23 An Ore- enn State swimming team faces some more rough going when it concludes its dual meet cam- oaisn against perennial M) champion Washington here Fri day at 1MU p.m. High School Scores wroNrsnw's rfsvi.ts Willamette 57. Junction City 41 Columbia Prep 42. Concordia 31 McMinnville 57. Beaverton 33 Siuslaw 3. Roseburit 38 Sutherlln 35. Myrtle Creek 20 Oak Grove Basketball Games Slated Tonight And Others On Friday TONIGHT'S SCHEDULE Howard VI. Shady Cove, f p.m. St. Mary's vi. Weft Side, 7 p.m. Lone J'lne VI. Appleeate. 8 p.m. EAKI.Y 'PHIDAV Kt'MKUUI.E firlrfln Creek VI. Klk-Tral). 10 a.m. Wagner Creek vi. Oak Grove-Sami valley famo winner, n a.m. Three games in the Oak Grove invitational basketball tourna ment for non-high school districts will be played tonight on the Grovers' floor and seven more Friday starting at 10 a.m. and PCC 'Likes' Present Rose Bowl Layout San Francisco. Feb. 23 (U.R) Pacific Coast conference athletic officials made no secret of the fact today that they like the present Rose Bowl arrangement with the Big Ten and want it continued. Their comments followed an other blast by Dr. J. L. Morrill, president of Minnesota, against the Big Ten-PCC agreement. Morrill announced yesterday that his institution will spear head opposition to a proposed 10-year extension of the pact. H. P. (Dick) Everest, PCC president, said he did not be lieve Dr. Morrill's statement "will have any bearing on the situation as it now stands." "His is just one man's opin ion." Everest declared. "He has been fighting the PCC-Big Ten tieup since its inception and 1 do not see that he has said any thing new." Everest, of 'the University of Washington, also is chairman of a committee exploring a con tract renewal. He said his group has held one meeting and plans another in the near future. The committee's report is due to be presented to the conference for action some time this year. Pro Boxing Scheduled Next Tuesday Evening, Auditorium, Portland Portland, Feb. 23 A coterie of lightweights will swing into action here at the Auditorium Tuesday night, February 28, highlighting a double main event on Promoter Tex Salkeld's box ing card. Salkeld has signed a "big name" opponent for Don Rogers, budding Portland lightweight prospect, in Jock Leslie, of Flint, Mich. The two will meet in the top 10-roundcr. In the supporting "tencr" Frisco Baracao, the flashy Filipino-Hawaiian lightweight who is the hot topic of discussion in local boxing circles, will clash with Juan Cortez, an importec from Mexico City. Corvallis, Feb. 23 College wrestling will be on display in the men's gym here Saturday at 2:30 p.m. whqn Oregon State's undefeated mat squad tangles with University of California. The tourney will close with games being played in the con solation bracket Saturday morn ing, the fourth place team game at 6 p.m., consolation round championship tilt at ( p.m. ana the tourney championship clash etnrtina nr R n m. Opened This Afternoon This afternoon Oak Grove and Sams Valley were scheduled to open the tourney with a 2 o'clock 8Friday evening tilts will find winner of the Howard - Shady Cove game playing the victor in u WAct.CiHn -St Marv's Clash at 7 o'clock, and an hour later the winner in the Lone Fine- AlrtQtA noma will tnWf On the Griffin Creek Elk - Trail team victor. Game tomorrow anernoon ww put the losing teams in the Lone riiic-iipi'.ih,.. - - 4u ni-Taii.r:iffin rvppk los ers to open the consolation round at 1 o clock. Other consolation round games tomorrow will put Oak Grove vs. Sams Vallev losers against the losers in Friday's 11 a.m. game with the consolation slated for 2 p.m. and the Howard vs. Shady Cove losing team will meet the West Side-St. Marys losers at 3 p.m. Wagner Creek Bye Wagner Creek draws a bye in the first round and that is why it is not scheduled until Friday morning. Trophies will be awarded to the tourney champion, second place or runner-up team, conso lation champion, fourth place winner and the consolation run-ner-UD. A small charge will be made for all students of junior high age at all sessions and adults will be admitted for a sliehtly 1 ...... nmiecltn Thr fllfr- leaders from each school will be admitted free to alt tourney ses sions. VOLLEYBALL TONIGHT Volleyball games in the YMCA sponsored league tonight will send Lumbermen against the Fruitmen at 7 o'clock and Air Base vs. Businessmen at 8:30 ai V CTvmnnsinm. Over in the senior high eirls' gym Teachers will meet Bankers ai i ana Camp While vs. Lawyers at 8:30. Buy Tickets Now KIWANIS KArcKa 8 P. M. FRI.-SAT. Senior Hi Auditorium P MiJt5 hi mi 1 El Buy Tickets Now KIWANIS KAPERS ft p u W 0 FRI.-SAT. Senior Hi Auditorium Southern Oregon Dist., Inc. The TOGGERY'S RED TAG SPECIAL DURA6AB Slacks Wrinkle It . . . Crush It . . . It REMEMBERS and returns to its orig inal shape! Durable M-oi. 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The handsome, brown-haired Texas youngster, who had been "rookie of the year" for 1947, had been in such "very bad con dition" earlier today Dr. Vincent Nardiello feared he might be come the fight game's first fatal ity of 1950. 19 Died In 1949 Last year, 19 amateur and pro fessional boxers died throughout j the world as a result of ring in juries. Nardiello, a boxing commis sion physician, said 24-year-old I Roach had suffered a "severe brain contusion." He described the contusion as one accompanied j by the tearing of the brain tis- i sue. ! Tearing of the tissue caused a ; "sub-dural hemorrhage." The liamnrrligaa uiac Htcntnco1 hv x-rays and by specimens of his spinal fluid, Nardiello explained. HERMANSKI SIGNS UP New York, Feb. 23 (U.R) Gene Hermanski, who bore the odd title of "part time regular" in the Brooklyn Dodger outfield last season, signed his 1950 con tract today for an estimated $12,000. Paul Arizin Averages 24.8 Points Per Game New York, Feb. 23 (U.R) Pitchin' Paul Arizin planted himself solidly in the ail-American picture today as his Villan ova Wildcats began to look more and more like a tournament bound basketball team, shot, ran his season's scoring total to 595 points last night by popping in 37 points as Villanova trounced the University of Hawaii, 80 to 56. Since he's play ed in 24 games, that makes his per-game average this year mere 24.8 points. It is estimated a total of 38 billion kilowatt hours of low cost electric power flowed from government plants during 1949. Buy 'aTA". BUILUtKi SUffLT eleT Quality Pumice) BLOCKS - BRICKS' FLUES 727 W McAndrewi Rd. PHONE 2-4107 Buy Tickets Now KIWANIS K A r I- K I o r . m. tr FRI.-SAT. Senior Hi Auditorium Southern Oregon Title Co. Bill Peek (fit atlfls. m WESTERN AUTO SUPPLY CO. Saje with Safety rT Off JQ. BATTERY Wheel Cover Reg. 49c 39' Fits snugly on steering wheel . . . has elastic back to prevent slip ping . . . 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