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f TO D it TWO MEDFOHD (OHEGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, February 26, 1950 IPr? EMU CMfo Sngmis Sns Mope Mayers Baseball news of particular In terest to fans of this area was made known Saturday when Business-Manager Mel Carpenter ol the Medford Rogues in the class D Far West league announced that LaVerre Herrmann of Cen tral Point had signed as a local pitcher. The former Central Point high school hurler joined the ranks of at least five oilier players to ink their contracts for a season with the local professional ball club. Hurls For Craters Herrmann went south with the Nuggets last season and spent two or three weeks with that team before being released. He finished the 1D49 baseball sea son as hurler for the Medford Craters in the semi-pro Southern Oregon league. Carpenter said In announcing Herrmann's signing that the lo cal pro club has "great confi dence in him as a pitcher" and predicted the youth would do well in his second attempt at pro ball. Other players signed up in clude three youths who per formed for the Nugs last year, hey are Donald Gcrsbach, 22-year-old pitcher from Clackamas, Ore., who was with the Nuggets a brief time in 1949 before a needed operation kept him out for the rest of the season. Lohbeck Signed Up Mike Lohbeck who played in the outfield toward the end of last year, is a Seattle ball club employee assigned here. He suf fered a charleyhorse last season that seemed to bother him, but apparently he is ready now. He is rated as a good hitter. The third ex-Nuggets player Is Ralph Dykes who won six and lost 11 last season. He showed food prospects and many observ ers believe this year will show improvement. Two new players assigned to the Rogues Include Charles "Bud dy" Closs from Greenville, of the Alabama State league. He is 18 years old, six feet four Inches tall and weighs about 200 pounds. Closs is a right handed pitcher signed in 1949 with Bartlcsville. Clou Texas Boy Tom Downey signed Closs from Bryan high school in Texas after seeing him pitch a one-hit game and striking out 14 men in a Legion baseball tourney. Last season with Bartlesville of the KOM league Closs won 2 and lost 1. Another youth assigned by the Riiuues is Robert Schwartz who will come to the Medford club from Sweetwater of the Long horn league. He Is right-handed pitcher standing six feet tall and weignmg 178 pouncl. The 18-year-old was assigned by Seattle. It, was also learned thai Bob Harkins who played first base for tht Medford Craters two years ago and was one of the best seen In semi-pro baseball around here, had Inquired about Joining the Rogues. SfKfS' 'i4 t'.l.& ' -. 1 W'V.-i r ... ,'J If w :At r.'j -A I ''cS- Cavemen Top Pointers By 59-34 Score Central Point, Feb. 25 Grants Pass high ran away after a fairly even first quarter here Saturday to drub Central Point 59 to 34 in a Southern Oregon conference basketball class. The loop leading Cavemen held a 12 to 8 span at the quar ter mark but limited the Point ers to two counters in the sec ond stanza as they rambled to a 27 to 10 halftime lead. The third quarter difference was 45 to 23. Grants Pass used 15 men dur ing the battle and the tallies were spread out among 12 of them. Milo Trainman, a roinier nopp sler earlier this season, topped the Cavemen scoring with eight and Buster Kenncr and Don Jac obsen each got seven. Merle Anhorn with 12 and John Bigham with 11 were main Pointer scorers. Lineups: Granu Pasi S9 H Central Toinl rentier 7 f f 11 Bi(ham Jacnbsen I t 12 Anhorn Hackenburi 2 c 3 Colly Anwnurv 8 ff 5 H. Trautman M. Trautman 8 S 2 Meadowi Substitutions Grants Pass. L'ratl 6. Flanntsan. Miller, Brouen 3, HcrUe- licth, Koi'h 3. Ford 3. Parsons 3. Vos trn 3. Stangpr 5; Central Point, Rupp Findley. Walker 2. Great Atlas And Ross Seeking Team Match' The Great Atlas yesterday no tified Promoter Mack Lillard that he has secured Tough Tony Ross, the Salem terror, as his partner and is issuing n chal lenge to George Dusette and Pierre LaBelle for a tag team match in the armory wrestling ring Thursday night. The Atlas is still Irked over LaBelle acting as Dusette's sec ond last week when the New Yorker and Dusvtte went to a fall-apiece draw. LaBelle advised Dusetle throughout the match in French, a language which the Atlas cannot understand. The Peacock of the Ring pro tested that LaBelle taking over for Bill McCart. regular second, was against the rules and there fore theoretically made two sec onds for Dusette. even if McCart was inactive. "If they want to he palsy walsy, Mr. Ross and I, the world's greatest wrestler, will be happy to take them on in a team match." the Atlas said yes terday, Lillard said he has dispatched a telegram to Dusette and La Belle and should have a reply trom them by the first of the week, at which lime the remain der of the card also will be an nounced. SPORTS BULLETINS Mc Minn Till.. Feb. 25 Fleiichman's Lumber com pany team. Grants Pats, lost out in the first round of the state AAU basketball tourney here Saturday night when the 1949 champions. Portland Outdoor store, defeated It 19 to 42. The lumbermen who won the district 10 AAU title by downing Green's confection ery of Medford, were behind 37 lo 22 at the half. Neil Schrimpf netted 11 and AWin Boyar and Sherman Heater each nine to lead Fleiichman's scorers. County Grade Tourney Set Central Point, Feb. 25 The official Jackson county grade school basketball tournament for both high school and non-high school districts will open in the Central Point gym March 8 and continue through March 11, Di rector "Dutch" Meyer announced here Saturday. Schools entered Include Jack sonville, two Central Point teams, Phoenix, Eagle Point, two Rogue River teams, St. Mary's of Medford, Gold Hill, Shady Cove, West Side, Sams Valley, Howard, Griffin Creek and Lone Pine. Phoenix drew a bye in (be first round ort March 8. The tourney has been divided into A and B classes with non high school teams plus second teams from Central Point and Rogue River playing in class B and the high school district quin tets taking part in the class A. Six trophies will be furnished in each section. The awards will be made Saturday evening, March 11. SEE OSC-DUCKS PLAY Don Gray, 832 Dakota avenue, and Sports Editor Hank Green of The Mail Tribune were among those seeing Oregon State col lege defeat University of Oregon 52 to 41 at Corvallis Friday night, in basketball. EXPERT TYPEWRITER and ADDING MACHINE . REPAIRS YOUR OFFICE BOY IIS West Mala St. PHONE 2-6119 FOR TOWING or WRkCKIR SERVICE ROGUE SERVICE and Supply Co. Anywhir Anytime Norwegian Paces Mi". Hood Skiiing Government Camp, Ore., Feb. 25 (U.R) Jon Lie. Norwegian exchange student from, Univer sity of California, after three events with the jumps to go led the field tonight in the national four-event ski championships be ing run off on Mt. Hood. Lie, who placed fourth in yes terday's grueling cross-country in wet snow, won the downhill race and placed second in the slalom today for a combined point total of 296. Lie. an excellent jumper, was now favored to sweep the cham pionships when the final test is held tomorrow on Multorpor hill. Karl Stincl of the Seattle club was second with 280 3 points, followed by Alan Fischer, Sun Valley, Ida., 272.7: Karl Mar- titreh, Austria, 266.2 for two runs. Lie was only 0.6 seconds slower, as runner-up. Local Dogs Show Today A picnic trial will be held to day at the Table Rock Estates near Tolo, starting about 8 a. in., under sponsorship of the Rogue Valley Retriever club anil the Shasta Cascade Retriever club of Klanuitii Kalis. This type of trial, local club ctficers explained, is to prepare the dogs that will be running in the west coast circuit next month. The public will be welcome at today's trial which will open witli the N:in Winne stakes at 8 a. ni. and the open nil age trial will be run liils afternoon. California harvests approxim ately 3 1 a billion board feet of lumber annually. MEDFORD ROGUES MANAGER Tommy .Nelson, above, will be playing-manager of the Medford Rogues, local pro baseball club in the Far West class D league, when the season onens at Pittsburg, Cal., on April 26. He is a former infieldor for the Bos ton Braves and several minor league baseball clubs. Chiefs Play Sacred Heart Rogue River high's basketball' team, champions of Jackson county's B conference, will meet Sacred Heart high of Klamath Falls, champs o." the eastern area of this B district, at Klnr.alh Union high school gym Wednes day ard Thursday this week Sacied Heart earned the risiht to play the Chieftains for the district title and the right to lake part in the state B rage tut.rncy at Astoria when it dumped Pais ley high 51 to 27 Friday night. This was a playoff between Lake and Klamath counties, Rogue River and Sacred Heart will play a best two nut of three scries with two games at the Klamath gym and ,i third one, if necessary, in a Medford gym to be announced later. Chairman A. B. Mckvold said Saturday. The Chiefs won the right to play in the district totirniinient by not only going through the 1U4U-SU season undefeated among B schools but also by winning the Jackson county tournament held at Eagle Point. JOHNNY BRUCE LOSES Johnny Bruce, local boxer. was knocked out with a right uppcrcut to the jaw in the fourth round of a bout with Georgie Price, Merrill, at Klamath Falls, Friday night. Noor Winner Santa Anita ' Arcadia. Cal., Feb. 25 !U.R Charles S. Howard's English bred Noor defeated the great Ci tation by a length and a quarter today in the $100,000 Santa An ita handicap. In a thrilling drive down the stretch, Noor passed the front running Two Lea and then with stood a closing surge by Citation to win in the amazingly fast time of 2:00, a new track record. . The imported fjvc-year-old horse carried 22 pounds less than Citation, who went to the gate with 132 pounds on his back compared to Ntmr's 110. 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