f EIGHT MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday. March 8. 1950
Carothers Wins Welter Title
In Amateur Boxing Bout Here
By Harry Chlpman
Kenny Carothers, Grants Pass
boxing sensation, won the south
ern Oregon welterweight ama
teur championship when he out
pointed Darrell Johnson, blond
Medford puncher, in the feature
match of the Southern Oregon
Boxing club's fistic offering at
the armory last night.
Although Carothers, fighting
at 144 pounds, made good use
of a snake-like left hand, most
of the first heat was spent in
feeling each other out but in
the second frame the boys got
down to the business at hand.
They exchanged some hefty
swats but it was Carothers who
always seemed to have a little
bit the better of the duels.
Final Round Brawl
At the outset of the third
round Johnson's nose started to
spout claret and at the end both
boys were covered with John
son's blood. Although the final
frame was a brawl most of the
way, Johnson's blows definitely
were losing steam and Carothers
was coming to the finish wire
in good shape.
It was a good fight and Caroth
ers well deserves the champion
ship. He should be a good cham
pion and an asset to boxing in
southern Oregon.
Johnson, in defeat, didn't lose
any followers and deserves lots
01 creail Dili ne was up against
a boy with too many guns.
Wolfe Gains Decision
Donovan Wolfe further en
deared himself to the , fans by
punching out a decision over
Dale Odom in the lower half
of the main event. It was Wolfe's
straight left which earned the
nod. It repeatedly found its mark
on Odom's facial features.
It was a dandy mix from the
start but Odom, at 160 pounds,
gave away a little too much
weight to Wolfe's 172.
The fans, about 500 or 600 in
number, showed their apprecia
tion of Wolfe by voting him the
card's most popular fighter. The
vote was by applause. He was
fresented a trophy from the box
ng club.
Harper Gains KO
Don Harper, the Gold Hill
flash, knocked out Russ Will
iams, Grants Pass, in a minute
and 43 seconds of the first round.
Harper, who was beaten by
Wolfe two weeks ago, started
nut determined to get back In
the win column and went after
William in killer fashion.
The Grants Pass kid was
nailed by a flurry to the hc;;d
and it was a right to the chin
which dropped Williams. His
head hit the floor with a thud
and Referee Johnny Bruce didn't
even bother to count.
Dr. W. G. Bishop, examining
physician, said Williams didn't
seem to be badly hurt and that
there were no signs of internal
injuries.
Gene Sheppard scored a third
round knockout over Bill Moore
In his top preliminary bout. They
started out like they were in
love but in the second round they
lost their affection for each oth
er and the final frame looked
like they were mortal enemies.
Moore Hits Canvass
Moore was decked by a two
flstcd attack to the face and,
although he got up at the count
of eight, he was in no shape to
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Eagle Point Baseball
Schedules Announced
Eagle Point, Mar. 0 Baseball
practice for the Eagle Point high
squad will open next monaay
Coach "Shy" Callaghan an
nounced todav as he revealed the
Eagles schedule of games in the
Southern Oregon conference and
in the J-D-J league.
He said his principal problem
will be to find pitchers with
only two or three freshmen and
sophomores available. Pat Sim
mons who played quite a bit of
Junior Legion baseball last sum
mer as well as high school base
ball, is back to steady down the
infield.
Open ai Medford
The Eagles open their season
against Medford at the Medford
high field Friday afternoon,
March 31.
Other sames include:
April Suthcrlin at Eagle
Point; April 11 At Asniana;
April 15 At Myrtle Creek;
April 18 Central Point at Eagle
Point; April 22 At Suthcrlin;
Anril 25 Medford at Eagle
Point; and April 28 Illinois Val
ley (Kerby) at Eagle Point.
Home Games Timed
Also Mav 2 Grants Pass at
Eagle Point: May 5 Myrtle
Creek at Eagle point; May ai
Central Point: May 13 At Illi
nois Valley; May 16 At Grants
Pass, and May 19 Ashlnnd at
Eagle Point.
Home games for Eagle Point
mav be Dlaved at the Camp
White Veterans center field
where most of the Eagles' foot-
continue and Bruce rightly
stopped it.
in the evening s most comical
scrap, Killer Dick Adklns, out
standing lightweight, took the
verdict over Bogey Bogart. Bo-
gart had a style all his own,
turning his head far away and
punching in the other direction.
It made a hard target for Ad
klns to hit but he managed to
floor his adversary once in the
first round and twice in the
third.
Bogart pinch-hit tor Chief Su
per, who was unable to fight
due to a hand injury.
Conrad Gets Decision
Eddie Conrad had too much
experience for Hugo Vernon and
easily took the decision. Ver
non's nose bled in the second
and third stanzas and he wasn't
offering too much resistance in
the final stanza.
Kirl Aincham, Medford cab
bie, reversed a previous loss to
Barney Harrie by outpointing
the Fort Jones Indian in the
opener. The bout replaced a
scheduled duel between Corky
King and Johnny Hamilton when
Hamilton was unable to appear.
ball games have been played.
Tuesday and Friday games will
start at 3 p.m. and Saturday
tilts at 2 p.m.
Peterson, Kahut
Battle March 14
Portland, Ore., Mar. 9 Bill
Peterson and Joe Kahut will
punch for the Pacific Northwest
heavyweight championship in a
15-round fight here at the Civic
auditorium Tuesday night,
March 14.
Tex Salkeld, matchmaker for
the National Boxing club, signed
the title bout after months of ne
gotiations. Petersen agreed to
defend the crown after the Port
land boxing commission issued
an ultimatum that he do so or re
linquish the title.
Petersen won the champion
ship from Kahut in May, 1948,
when he copped a 15-round split
decision after one of the greatest
heavyweight fights ever staged
in a local ring.
He has defended it successful
ly against the challenge of Roy
Hawkins, whom he knocked out
twice, and Hardrock Gordon,
whom he stopped last fall.
Duck Frosh Basketball
Team To Help Varsity
Eugene, Ore., Mar. 9 One of
the best freshman teams in Ore
gon history might furnish the
material needed to revitalize the
varsity squad for the 1950-51
basketball season. The Ducklings
won 18 and lost one to rank
high in the record books with
previous top freshman teams.
only the i3o team, which as
seniors won the NCAA champi
onship in 1939, which won 19 and
lost one. and the 19J8 club.
which won 17 straight, hod bet
ter victory production than the
1950 Duckling squad.
Adair Area Taken
For State 'Bird Farm'
Portland, Ore . Mar. 9 (U.R)
The game commission said form
er army Camp Adair, north of
Corvallis, will be converted into
a state game bird farm.
The Camp Adair tract will be
developed in place of the Eugene
game farm operation, which is
to be closed down after the 1B50
pheasant chick crop is distributed.
Camp
WILLY BEAN WINS NOD
Oakland, Cal., Mar. 9 lU.Rl
Willy Bean, 206. Los Angeles.
out-pointed Al Hoosman, 2Z'i
San Francisco (10).
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Releasing Legal
Trout In Coast
Streams, Lakes
Early releases of legal-sized
trout from state game commis
sion hatcheries, for the trout sea
son are well under way. Lakes
and streams along the Oregon
coast have been stocked with
82,000 yearling cutthroat.
The big fish trucks are operat
ing at the Butte Falls hatchery.
10 meei ine increased produc
tion of the fish hatcheries, the
game commission now has six
fish liberation trucks, three of
them new, and seven portable
fish tonks, five of them new. The
fish tanks were designed and
built by game commission per
sonnel during the winter
months.
Planes to Fly Fish
As soon as winter releases its
grip, a specially equipped plane
will fly fish to the back country
lakes of the Cascades and the
Wallowos. Mules will be em
ployed to pack the smallest
mountain lukes.
Yearling fish now being re
leased run from five to nine
inches in length. Robert Hollo-
way, of the game commission,
said in most streams many more
fish reach the anglers' creel
when yearling instead of finger-
nng size lisn are stocked.
The liberation of yearling
fish will continue through the
summer along with thinning out
plants of small fish.
FW Training
Sires Picked
San Francisco, Mar. 9 OJ.PJ
Pre-season practice sessions will
soon open throughout the west
for a flock of minor league base
ball clubs.
Most class B western interna
tional clubs open their training
camps the last week in March,
with the loop schedule set to
open on April 18. The class C
California league will report the
week starting March 24, as will
the class D For West league.
The teams and their training
camD sites include:
Far West league (class D)
Pittsburg at Richmond (tenta
tive); Willows at Fullerton;
Marysville at home; Redding at
home;' Medford, Ore., at Santa
Maria, Cal.; Klamath Falls, Ore.,
at Lodi, Cal.: Eugene, Ore., at
Monterey, Cal.; Reno, Nev., at
Yuba city, cal.
Salem High Enters 'A'
Class State Cage Play
Salem, Ore., Mar. 9 (U.R)
Salem's Vikings today were the
last team to qualify for the Ore
gon state class "A" basketball
tournament which opens next
Tuesday at Eugene.
The Vikings defeated Mt. An
gel 33 to 21 last night in the
finals of the district 11 playoffs
at Salem.
BOWLING
COMMERCIAL LEAGUE
A. Huntemann rolled a 545
for high individual series and B.
Watkins was credited with a 217
for high individual game when
the Commercial Bowling league
held its weekly competition last
night at the Medford Bowling
lanes alleys.
Eagles lodge recorded high
team scries and high game with
2,615 and 906 respectively.
COMMKHCIAI. STANDINGS
Trams , W 1.
Pepsi-cola 27 1.1
F.nnles Lodge 24 Hi
Werner's Urlcklnyers 23 17
Snylor'a Bnrfocr Shop .. ....21 19
Kilts Grocery 20 20
Henry s Drlvc-ln ..... 1 21
Callfornia-Pae-lllc 13 27
, Medford Motors 13 27
Saylor'i 0
Llles 331
Watklns 531.
D. Lubbers .... 461
Clyde . 435
Cam .... 46B
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Kklund 40B
Huntemann .... 543
Shaw 4rtfl
Somervllle .... S21
Rice 399
2339
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Culley 46S
Tripp 4liS
Milter .. 420
Moser ... .117
Mann 841
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Kiln Gror. 4
Ellis ...... 4f.fi
Rase 318
Nordstrom 44R
W. Smith 500
Wood 468
2341
Med. Motori 0
Bnrnum 46?
Latham .......... 472
Clark 459
Farrar 45B
Vrlgt)t 533
2387
Werner'! 0
W. knnpp .... 37i;
Absentee 450
J. Knapp 332
Kurth 444
Robinson 449
2233
U.P. Selects
North, South
All-Star '5'
Los Angeles, Mar. 9 (U.R)
Washington State and UCLA,
each a division champion, land
ed two men each on the Pacific
Coast conference northern and
southern division all-star teams
announced i o a a y py rue
coaches. ,
WSC placed Forward Ed Gay
da and Center Gene Conley on
the northern team, while the
Bruins placed Center Karl
Kraushaar and Guard George
Stanich on the southern quintet.
Other members of the northern
team were Will Urban, Oregon
forward; Bob Pritchett, Idaho
guard, and Louie Soriano, Wash
ington guard. Gayga, the lone
senior on the club; Conley and
Soriano were unanimous choices.
In the south. United Press sec
ond - team All American Bill
Sharman of Southern California
teams with Stanford's George
Yardley at forward. California's
Bob Matheny holds down the
other guard spot.
Sharman, Yardley and Stan
ich were unanimous choices,
Gems Seeking
More Money
Klamath Falls, Ore.. March 9
(U.R) Bond sales and pledges
totaling S22.000 have been made
by Klamath Falls residents to
support spring training expenses
of the Klamath Falls Gems of the
Far. West league, Business Man
ager Dick Maguire said today.
The club needs $35,000 to cov
er early season expenses.
"There's no indication the mon
ey won't be raised," Maguire
said, "and once we have that
amount, the club will be operat
ing in the clear."
The bond campaign began
only two weeks ago. Except for
the new Eugene, Ore., entry to
the league. Klamath Falls is the
only Far West team that owns
its "ball park. The last debt on
the field was paid off after last
year's profitable season, Maguire1
said.
In paying off the debt, the
Gems used money that was to
have covered spring training ex
penses. So far, $12,000 worth of
bonds have been sold and $10,
000 in pledges have been made,
Maguire said. -
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Picks Losers
New York, Mar. 9-UU.P.) You
can change that old saying to
read, "There is no fury like a
basketball team scorned."
For that's the situation in the
college cage ranks today as three
teams who got nothing but icy
stares from the post-season tour
nament committees unleashed
their rage on three teams already
picked for the classics and gave
them an unlovely belting.
Holy Cross, first team to be
picked for the N.C.A.A. Lamor
Whirl, got the business from
Yale, 66 to 62, and Yale was just
an Ivy league also-ran.
Duquesne, hit with the blind
staggers just about the time it
got tapped for the National In
vitation tournament, was pasted
with its third straight defeat, 68
to 52. by Villanova.
And Syracuse, another N.I.T.
team, was dumped by Canisius
an upstate New York rival which
was passed over by the commit
tee, 65 to 64.
OSC Track Look
Mot Too Bright-
Corvallis, Mar. 9 Grant
"Doc" Swan is off to an early
start in building his 1950 Oregon
State track and field team. The
thin-clads are running through
daily outdoor workouts and
should be in good shape for their
opening meet in April.
With two standout aces miss
ing from last year's team, pros
pects for a strong squad this
spring are Just fair. Although
strong in certain events, present
indications are the Orange will
lack balance. It will be hard to
replace Bob Laidlaw. star broad
jumper, and Jerry Cole, speedy
sprinter and low hurdler.
Oregon State's greatest
strength will be centered n the
distance races where, unfortu
nately, most of the other north
ern division schools also are po
tent.
mm
One of the more pleasant as
pects of sports writing is attend
ing banquets or similar affairs
for athletic squads and last Sat
urday we had the pleasure of sil
ting in one one of the bes we
have ever attended.
Over at the junior high school
basketball squads of the seventh,
eighth and ninth grades dined
as guests of their dads and moth
ers with about 100 people pres
ent. There was nothing unusual
about the banquet, the
speeches or the program that
followed. It was what one
might call "routine" as such
affaire go but the enthusiasm,
interest of parents and teach
ers and fellowship marked it
as a highlight of the "knife
and fork" circuit.
Incidentally, one of the most
pleased persons we have seen in
a long time was Mrs. Maude Rob
inson, scorekeeper for junior
high eighth and ninth grade
teams for four years.
When Bon Cordier of the ninth
grade squad presented her with
an "M" in appreciation of her
work, Mrs. Robinson was so sur
prised and pleased she needed a
few moments to think of some
thing to say. Then she made
about the best talk of the eve
ning. We'll wager that the "M" and
the significance of its being pre
sented to her a non-player and a
non-student, pleased her more
than did the broach presented at
the same time.
Before the dinner several of
the basketball players asked
Principal Glen Linn if it would
be all right to give Mrs. Robin
son the letter and when he gave
his approval, the presentation
was the next step.
There Is good possibility
that eoftball will join semi-pro
baseball on the discharge heap
as far as local players and fans
are concerned.
While it is not official, it
seems probable that the local
Softball league will not have as
many teams in it as last year and
unless more interest is shown
among sponsors as well as play
ers there may not be any such
league at all.
Semi-pro baseball was aban
doned for Medford when money
could not be raised to support
the sport. Result is that youths
wanting to play this summer
will have to go to Central Point,
Ashland or perhaps to northern
California.
Softball team sponsors are
scheduled to meet Monday eve
ning, March 13, to discuss the
coming season, elect officers and
plan a schedule.
Both semi-pro baseball and
Softball have declined In popu
larity as far at fans and play
ers are concerned in recent
years but for those who love
both games and want to play
it is rough to think either or
both may be abandoned this
year.
Track and baseball prospects
at the local high school are about
the best the Tornado has seen in
recent seasons. Medford lost but
three top trackmen from gradu
ation last June and a well-balanced
squad is working out each
afternoon this year.
Experienced high school base
ball players are so numerous
that there is little chance for
anyone else to play in 1950.
HOCKEY LOOP ROOKIES
Seattle, Mar. 9 (U.R) Pete
Tkachuk of San Diego and Lar
ry Reardon of Vancouver, B. C,
have been named "outstanding
rookies" of the Pacific Coact
Hockey league season, League
President Al Leader announced
today.
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Jim Bolton led thirty shoot
ers with a score of 382 at last
night's gallery meet at the Med
ford Rifle club held in Merrick'
basement. Other high men were)
Frank Rush 382, Marion Smith
379, Clyde Richmond 378, Lew
Conger 378.
New shooters present for last
night's competition were Mar
garet Darby, Marge Walker, Max
Becker, Dean Coe, Vera Rush,
Bert Reibe and Wayne Darby.
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Bob Hamilton, former Med
ford high basketball coach and
University of Oregon cage star,
is a visitor in Medford for a few
days after finishing the basket
bail season in Canada where he
played and coached a semi-pro
team this last winter.
Yesterday he visited for
awhile at the high school and !
has been calling on friends :
throughout the city. While here .
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