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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday. Mereh 21. ItSO Kyne Seeks Portland Race Track Control Once Again Portland. Ore.. Mar. 21 U.R)- William P. Kyne of San Francis co said today ne win attempt w regain control of the $2,000,000 Portland Meadows horse racing plant which was purchased by the First National Bank of Port land yesterday at a sheriff's sale. The bank's bid of $476,092.87 was the only offer received for the plant's physical properties which were sold as a result of the bank's foreclosure of a .-o, 000 mortgage. nrriftreri bv Court The sale was ordered by the circuit court here after Portland Meadows' stockholders were de- rlnrpri tn be in default in pay ment of interest on the mort gage. Kvne. general manager and nrloinnl nreanizer of the track. said he plans to confer with bank officials in attempt to regain tun trol of the track on a lease basis Ho caiH ilia interest in re-acquir- ing the property was to protect the original Investors. However, Kyne pointed out that other racing interests also may seek to lease the plant and that the bank may get a better offer than he can submit. Knrinn Anenina Dut "Whether we get it or not, Kyne said, "I am pretty sure Portland Meadows will have a spring meeting. I have lots of faith in the track, particularly if th tax situation here can be Kyne and associates in San Francisco have raised $300,000 and stockholders have subscribed nrirfltlonal monev in their at tempt to regain control. P1nn4 Tnnlr Toll Portland Meadows originally cost $1,250,000 but capital in vestment has amounted to about $2,000,000 because of the disas trous Columbia river tiooa in 1948 which damaged most of the track's buildings. Reports that unidentiified Cali fornia racing interests wouiu for the track proved unfounded. R. R. Bullivant, representing the bank, was the only bidder among a rrnwd of 200 persons who lammed Into the lobby of the Multnomah county courthouse to witness the sale. Middlecoff Wins J'ville's Open Jacksonville. Fla., Mar. 21 U.R) Cary Middlecoff's remark able recovery of form that en abled him to win the $10,000 Jacksonville open golf tourna ment ranked today as the great est of the winter campaign. Middlecoff practically was counted out of the tournament after the second round when he stood tied at eighth place among uie za low scores in tne siar studded field. But he stuck in there and at the start of yester day's final round he was in fourth place. Then, playing his typical cool headed game, the handsome dentist from Memphis stroked out a threc-under-par 69 that brought him home two strokes ahead of the field with an aggre gate 279 for his second straight tourney win. UcncADn SI? mm S imports for the Week TUESDAY Ladies' Bowling league, t p.m. Pistol division of Mad ford Rlfla club shoot.s 7:30 p.m. WEDNESDAY Commercial Bowling league 7:30 p.m. Amateur boxing show, armory, 8:30 p.m. Mad ford Rifle club shoot, Mer rick's, 7:30 p.m. Seventh and eighth grade basketball squads banqutt. Central Point cafe teria, 6:30 p.m. Use Mill Tribune Want Adi CP. 7th, 8th Graders Basketball Dinner Set Central Point, Mar. 21 Boys who played on the seventh and eighth grade basketball teams at Central Point this past season will be guests of honor at a ban quet Wednesday, March 22, in the school cafeteria starting at 6:30 p.m. Principal speaker will be Coach Al Simpson of the South ern Oregon college athletic staff. Sports Editor Hank Green of the Medford Mail Tribune will speak briefly and toastmaster will be AAU Cagers Tournament Denver. Mar. 21 U.R) The second round of the 1950 Nation al A. A. U. basketball tourna ment here today will be high lighted by initial appearances from west coast and Texas. The 42-team field was cut down to 24 after yesterday's play. In which the first two seeded teams to see action. Phil lips Oilers of Bartlesville, Okla., and the Denver Chevrolcts, came through with easy victories. Headlining today's program are six seeded teams, including four from California and one from Washington. CUftons and the Stewart Chev rolets of San Francisco, the Blue and Gold, defending champions from Oakland and the Golden Dukes from Santa Maria, Cal., will be taking to the floor of the Denver auditorium for the first time since the week-long tourney started Sunday. Also making debuts will be the strong Alpine Dairy of Se attle and the Caterpillar Diesels of Peoria, 111., the other two seeded teams. Basketball MONDAY'S RESULTS Bradley Sl. Kansas S7 I playoff for NCAA district s representation). National AAU at llrnvrr, Colo. Laramie S3. Amarlllo 63. Ada 37, Seattle U. S3. Phillips Oilers B2. Cedar rails (la.l Anivets 33. Bradford Clothiers 00. Kings Mo tors 78. Inland Empire se ers nooKers Vandemrlft 39, storkman'a Billings 47. UKianoma Baptist 44. Jamro Sioux City SO, Riggles Plan Bowl 33. Nehroksa Wesleyan 73. Colorado College 31). lies Moines B7, St. James IB. Denver Chevrolcts 86. Shearer Mo tors 3D. Arkansas State 79. Hastings Col lege 66. Metr. Servlco 81, National Cash Register 64. , Mo.) Women's AAU (St. Joseph's ukmuigee an, tsucKltn in. Wavland Colleee 33. Hardin County All-Stars 30. Regal Beer 33. Mrsqulta High 13. Hudsimettes 40. Sleamfltters 31. YWCA Drugs 32. Iowa Wesleyan 49 Atlanta Blues 28, Little Dixie 28. Kansas Dons 26. Iowa Success 23. Harvlll Bird 29. St. Francis Xav- lar 9. Reynolds 27, Frlgldalres 23. Commercial Extension 34. 8101- tones 10. Nashville 46. Green Waves 21. BRAVES DROP SEVENTH Brarienton. F a.. Mar. 21 (U.R) The Boston Braves' pitching corps had another dismal day yesterday, losing to the Cincin nati Hcds. 12 to 7. for the sev enth straight defeat. Use Mat TTioune Want Ada All Star Card! WEESTTLHKIG Night Dm ITC CTADT 8:30 p.m. p? THRILLS o SPILLS MEDFORD ARMORY TICKETS ON SALE AT BROWN'S TELEPHONE 2-6735 '"Dutch" Meyer of the Central r-oint grade school. Oihar Guests Listed School board members Invited to attend are Chairman Don Burleson, Don Patterson and Ot to Bohnert. Other guests will Include School Superintendent H. P Jewett, High School Principal Alton Schopfer, High School Coaches Cecil Warner and Clar ence Melbye and Grade School Coaches Al Gaspee and Harry Tonn. Tickets for the event have on sale at several business houses here. Players As Guests Players who will be guests of honor include Bob King, Corr don Carrigan, Art McGonagle, Marvin Bohnert, Alvin Paudois, Edwin Erickson, Edward Erick- son, Allen Harris, Lloyd ftlc Quade, Vern Parent, Harry Tonn, Sonny Hanson, Don Medley, Fred Hogue, Donnie Burleson, Robert Geyer, Melvin Harsh. Ed Squires, Darrell Greb. Harold Lefler. Harry Mallon, Lenny Brenner and Bob Hill. Managers invited to attend are Lyle Yocum and Arthur Hover. NBA Playoff Due Tonight . Br United Press That soring madness known as the National Basketball associa tion playoffs gets rolling tonight on three fronts. The Washington Capitols open the eastern division playoffs by entertaining the New York Knickerbockers in the first game of their best-of-three scries. In the western division playoffs, Sheboygan opens against Indian apolis on the latter's home court and Anderson plays host to Tri nities. Also scheduled tonight is a special "playoff before the play off" involving the Minneapolis Lakers and the Rochester Roy- Is. who meet at Rochester to determine the regular season champion of the central division. The teams wound up the sea son Sunday in a flat-footed tie. U. S. Hockey earn Wins Over Switzerland, 10-5 London. Mar. 21 (U.R) The United States scored six goals in the final period to trounce Swit zerland, 10 to 5, today in the World Amateur Hockey tourna ment at Empress hall. The victory was the third In four games for the U. S. in the final round-robin pool and kept the Americans in second place behind undefeated Canada. BOWLING MAJOR LEAGUE Cliff Proctor rolled high in dividual series and high indiv idual game with 666 and 246 re spectively when the Major Bowl ing league held its weekly com petition at the Medford Bowl ing lanes alley last evening. High team series and high team game of 2,769 and 973 re spectively went to Charles Bar ber shop five. MAJOR fCAOl'E STANDINGS Tsams W. L. Valley Music Company 24 12 W H Mann Company 22 14 Chalkers 21 15 Charles Barber Shop 19 17 Walker Real Estate 17 I" Domestic laundry 13 21 Bates Candy Company 13 2:1 Morning fresh Bakery . Music Co. I Powell Brock MrGraw Cannon F.ads : fl -''I : XX i tew I V 1 Tony Ross, shown here, will face Char ley Carr in the middle match o n Thursday night's wrest ling card at armory. The feature strug gle pits Frank Stojack against Georges Dus sette while Danno McDon ald and Lee G r a b 1 e lock grips in the opener, start ing at h:3U p. m. Earl Yoak- ley will referee. Opponents Found For Don Harper, Wolfe Matchmaker Larry Burdette of the Southern Oregon Boxing club today announced completion of the double main event for to morrow night's amateur ring card at the armory and at the same time announced several changes in the preliminary matches In the feature match. Don Har per, flashy Gold Hill kayo artist. will don gloves with Bull Halsey, Portland. Burdette has been hav ing considerable difficulty in finding a foe for Harper because of his string of knockouts but in Haisev he feels that he has se cured an opponent wno win give Harper an interesting evening. Halsey was runner-up in a recent AAU tournament in Portland. The other half of the twin main event will send Donovan Wolfe, popular Phoenix fisticuffer, against Les Offard, Redding. Wolfe has five straight wins to his credit and although Offard is unknown here, word comes from Redding that he is a clever boxer who could upset the favored Phoenix kid. Bradley Vs. UCLA Friday Evening Kansas City, Mo., Mar. 21 U.P.) Bradley university, whose revenge express was almost de railed before it got started, was matched today against U.L.L.A. in the opening round of the N.C.A.A. basketball tournament here Friday night. me other semi-final win oring together Baylor, champion of the Southwest conference, and Brig ham Young, kingpin of the Sky- ine six. Bradley's Braves, trying to fight their way back to a rematch against the City college team that beat them in the National Invitation tourney, first had to gain a berth in the N.C.A.A. west ern regionals. City is entered in the eastern starting Thursday. Mrndley earned that berth last night; but only by a 59-57 score in a playoff game against an aroused University of Kansas team. RAINIERS VS. BEAVERS Palm Springs. Cal., Mar. 21 U.R1 The Seattle Rainiers, their batting eyes sharpened by a 15 to S victory over Sacramento, play host to Portland here today. Chief Super, Fort Jones In dian, sent word that he would not meet Dick Adkins as previ ously announced. Adkins gave Super a good beating in Yrcka last fall and the Indian has dodged further efforts to get them together. Barney Harrie, who has seen Adkins fight several times and who is a pal of Super's, asked to take the match with the promise that he will give the Griffin creek fistic hero the "licking of his life." Franklin Haynes. Happy Camp, will take on Super in one of the preliminaries. Other matches, with the first one to start at 8:30 p.m., will send Corky King against Johnny Hamilton, C. W. Lacy against Eddied Conrad and Bogey (Cir cus) Bogart against One Round Hogan. Burdette and Co Promoter Owen Thomas announced that, with this card, a new policy is in effect. Top matches on each card will pit out-of-town fighters against local competition when ever possible. The past three cards have been a sort of elimi nation to determine which local boxers would be capable of hold ing down top places, they ex plained. Preliminaries will continue to pit local fighters against each other in many instances with pre liminary boys given every chance to rise to semi-windup and main event ranks. The carp, a freshwater fish, introduced into America from Europe is a valuable food fish. Medford Rogues Box Seats Put On Sale Box seats for home games of the Medford Rogues (Nug gets) in the class D Far Wast Baseball league ara on sale at the office of the local club. 242 South Central avenue. Busi ness Manager Mel Carpenter announced this morning. Prices this season will ba slightly higher than last year because the local team play ing 70 home games instead of 63, Carpenter said. The league is playing 140 games Instead of 126 as last year. Holders of box seats last season had first choice this year. 13 Rates 0 52! Haien 90S Ml Ott 410 B24 Flndley sol 443 Moore 42 538 Dixon SDR 2557 lisrbsri i Barr f7 1 Tennant 529 Utile sot Morgan 502 Proctor S6S 27S9 34SD Laundry 6 Paske John Kantor Bnhltnf Johnson Anderson I Mann's I Oreella l.an(riale j Mann ! Klatt I Mills sr M4 4SS 4!2 45U SS7 S47 S4! 4S7 47.1 527 2553 Walker's t Vessey 502 Learning 507 Llttrell 509 Saerhl 505 Green 5B.1 asoti fhalksrt I Rertor J. 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WINNIR I OARAOt L C TAYlOt COMPANY Ne Previous Arrangements Necessary Retrievers Trial Here April 1, 2 Rogue Valley Retriever club has scheduled American Kennel club sanctioned trials for April 1 and 2 at table Rock estates. The trials will be the second and final ones of the local club before the fall point trials. At the sanctioned meet points will be offered toward three tro phies. One is the Alport-Schmidt open all-age trophy for the out standing retriever in Pacific coast trials. The others are the James McCool award for the out standing retriever in AKC sanc tion trials in Oregon and the Oakcreek Pacific coast derby and junior stake trophy. Among entries slated nere are Brignall's Gringo, national field trials champion and Oakcreek Sir Dorchester. Gringo, owned and handled by Cliff Brignall. Long Beach, Cal., won the open all-age event last Sunday in trials at Klamath Falls. Sir Dorchester, owned and handled by James Stillwell. of Klamath Falls, was second in the event and first in the non-winners' stake Friday. Tar Baby of Holly Hill, owned and handled by Edward L. Min oggie, Portland, is a possible en try here. It was second in the junior stake at Klamath Falls Saturday. Rogues List New Player Exhibitions Addition of one more Ditcher to the staff of the Medford Rogues' (Nuggets) 1950 roster and scheduling of four exhibi tion games during spring train ing were announced today by Business Manager Mel Carpen ter of the local club. Latest player to join the Rogue valley club is Phillip D. Smith, a righthander, who stands six feet one inch tall and weighs 170 pounds. His home is in Portland. Ore. Smith was assigned here by the New York Giants with whom the Rogues have a work ing agreement. Exhibitions Scheduled The Portland youth makes the 16th or 17th player to sign a lo cal contract or be assigned here by the Giants or Seattle, with whom Medford also has a work ing agreement. Exhibition games have been scheduled with Visalia on April 15 and 16 and with Santa Bar bara college on April 19 and 20. Carpenter did not say where thev would be played. The Rogues open the league ; season nt Pittsburg, Cal., April i 26, and start at home against i Marysville May 2. i Angels Drop Decision j To Cleveland Indians j Ontario. Cal., Mar. 21 (U.R) i Bob Muncricf and Pete Mallory ; will take the mound today when the Los Angeles Angels return to PCL competition against San Diego here. The Angels closed their sched-; ule of tussles with major leaguers yesterday by dropping a 7 to s decision to tne Cleve land Indians at Fullerton before 2.600 fans, largest crowd to wit ness a pro practice game in southern California. seme iHcpiiuw TURNABOUT DP on his toes. Rex Layne sails a right-hand over the head of Dave whltlock in a sellout battle at the Civic Auditorium in San Francisco. Layne. a Lewiston. Utah, boy, dropped the de cision to Whitlock. although he beat the San Franciscan three weeks ago at Salt Lake City. MITCHELL PAINT SHOP SAME LOCATION SINCE 1925 For Guaranteed, Most Beautiful and Durable CAR REFINISHING. STEAM CLEANING Cars, Trucks, Machinery, etc. ALSO REFINISHING Office Furniture & Refrigerator Dial 2-2745, 608 S. Riverside Dead line on Classified Ads: S:3i Dm (or following day: 10 a m Mon day noon Saturday (ot Sunday a m PARTY FOODS AND SPECIAL TREATS FOR SPECIAL DINNERS 1 GENUINE OLD STYLE SOUR Made in San Francisco FRENCH BREAD Large Selection of WINES and MIXERS BEER Any Kind By the case or bottle PHONE 2-4625 for Free Delivery of Beers and Mixers OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 9 A.M. TO MIDNIGHT Bell's Beverage Shop 124 South Central Murray Bell, Owner THE MIRACLE LUSTRl V j V WALL. 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