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Sunday, February 26, 1950
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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.
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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.
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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.
Although defeated for first
money, the Calumet entry ran
twc-lhree-four as Ponder came
up in the stretch to finish behind
his stablemnte.s.
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