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Tuesday. Aprn IS. 1958 EI Boxers Await Gong for Championship Bouts at Armory Wednesday M TOT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Hi HI Gl Winners of Title Bouts Get Trophies Amateur boxers from the Rogue valley, San Francisco, Oakland and Portland were to gather In Medford today and to morrow for the all-championship ring card at the armory to morrow night, starting at 8 o'clock. Winners of six of the nine scheduled matches will receive trophies In recognition of a rhnmnrnnshirj. All title fights have the sanction of the AAU and winners will be recognized by that body. The card is being promoted by the Southern Ore gon Boxing ciud. HbImv Due Today Bull Halsey, Portland Negro seeking his second straight win here, was to arrive today for his tussle with Clint Waters, San Francisco. They will mix in the main event for the Oregon-northern California middleweight championship. All title fights will be for four rounds and the other three, non-title bouts, will be over the three-round distance A match which is drawing al most as much local interest as the main event is the lightweight championship clash between Killer Dick Adkins, Griffin Creek, and John Law. flashy Oakland, Cal., Negro, who is the California champ in that divi sion. Adkins scored his 14th con secutive victory at Roseburg last Friday night and now has eight knockouts to his credit. Bob Stumbo. always a ring fa vorite here but out of action for several months because of a lack of opponents, takes on Gene Sheppard, Medford, in a south ern Oregon heavyweight title fight Carter in Comeback Byron Carter, making a come back after a considerable layoff, faces Hilton Garner, San Fran cisco. Other bouts send Dono van Wolfe. Phoenix, in with Don Harper, Gold Hill, for the ii - i:..v.t u . . . . I ouiuern uicguil iifsiii-iicovjr- weight crown; Freddie Johnson against Coe Brown, for the feath erweight toga; Darrell Johnson, Medford, against Sylvester Jones, San Francisco, for the southern Oregon-northern Cali fornia welterweight trophy; Corky King, Medford, against Joe Carothers, Grants Pass, and Bogey (the New) Bogart, against One Round Hogan. Washington Wins Track Washington overwhelmed Roosevelt and Jackson In a tri angular grade school track meet yesterday afternoon on the high school field by scoring 140 23 to 42 for Roosevelt and 37 13 for Jackson. Originally a dual meet was scheduled between Jackson and Roosevelt. The Washingtonians swept both class A, B, C and D al though the scoring in classes C nd D were close compared with the other two. The distance med ley was won by Jackson with Roosevelt second. Thursday afternoon there will be another triangular meet with Washington, Jackson and Lin coln taking part starting at 4:15 p.m. on the high school field. Last week Thursday's trian fular meet between Lincoln, Roosevelt and Washington was cancelled due to bad weather so a revision of the original sched ule was necessnrv. The trinn- ?;ular meet yesterday was slntrd o help make up for this change. Fishing at Gold Beach Reported To Be 'Good' A telegram received here to day from Lewis' Sportsmen's fishing camp at Gold Beach states that fishing is good at the mouth of the Rogue river. Dr. C. F. Bowers, Gold Beach, land ed a 39'-4 pound salmon there Monday, the telegram stated. AH Star Card! Night BOUTS START 8:30 p.m. THRILLS o SPILLS MEDFORD ARMORY TICKETS ON SALE AT BROWN'S MedforoJIvTribunk Rogues Opening Here Backed by Boosters Plans for putting on opening aay ceremonies, puiauc una wic sale of opening day tickets at a downtown booth were complet ed last night when the Athletics Booster club of Southern Oregon met at the Holland hotel for its weekly meeting. A booth will be set up near the drinking fountain on East Main street at Front street for Rogues Lose Practice Tilt Santa Barbara, Cal., Apr. 18 U.R) Santa Barbara college out slugged the Medford Rogues of the Far West league 13-10 here Monday in an error-filled base ball game. Catcher John Basslcr of Santa Barbara connected for the long est hit of the day, a triple in the eighth that scored two runs. The Rogues were charged with seven errors and the Gauchos with five. Medford 100-300-007 10-11' Santa Barbara ..120-042-Mx 13"14 ? Shotwell. Dykes 4 and CartwrhrM. Pickett. Oalley (9) and Craven. Baaa- ler (8). Big 10 Drops Television Chicago, Apr. 18 U.R Live television of Big Ten football flames will be bunned complete v In 19S0. conference athletic directors decreed today, and the boycott may lead to removal of all college football from video screens throughout the nation. The policy, adopted almost unanimously by the Big Ten de spite the loss of an estimated $500,000 for the 1950 season, was the first organized collcgi tae action to limit television. Two of the three members of the N. C. A. A. television com mittee, Chairman Tom J. Ham ilton, Pittsburgh, and Willis O. Hunter, Southern California, at tended the Big Ten discussion prior to the vote, and then con ferred with the third member, Ralph Furey, Columbia. Hamilton said the Big Ten meeting was "very informative." but added the committee hoped to get additional information from other parts of the country before preparing recommenda tions for the next N. C. A. A. convention in January. OSC Defeats Idaho 9 to 4 Corvollis. Ore.. Apr. 18(U.R) Oregon State college came from behind yesterday to defeat the Idaho Vandals 9 to 4 in a north ern division Pacific Coast con ference basebnll gnme. Ray Snyder slummed two home runs and Gene Tanselll hit another to provide the big blasts for the Beavers, who were trolling 4-1 after two innings of play. Snyder s three-run homer in the third inning sparked a five-run rally. Eleven errors by both teams contributed to the scoring. The two teams play again this afternoon. The city of San Francisco was Incorporated April 15, 1850. sales to open Saturday morning. Girl usherettes at the Medford Far West league baseball games will handle the sales. Flans also call for a parade Tuesday afternoon, May 2, with the Medford Rogues players in the line of march plus a school band, a murine color guard and possibly the high school base ball squad included. Monday evening, May 1, the booster club will sponsor a din ner for the Rogues players, club members and guests at a place and time to be announced. President Les Stamper of the Booster club said that more than 100 men and women had joined the organization up to last night. Membership cards at a nominal fee are on sale at Lamport's Sporting Goods store as well as from members of the club. Auto Cards Given Placards designed and execut ed by Fred Lawrence, local sign painter, were distributed. These advertise the Rogues opening day on May 2 against Marysville at the Fairgrounds. They are to be placed on autos and trucks. Club officers pointed out that most oi the players on the Rogues squad will be strangers in Medford and said that the din ner for them May 1 will be an opportunity to welcome them to the valley and help make them feel at home. The booth in downtown Med ford will sell opening day, seas on and other kinds of baseball season tickets and also member ships in the Booster club to those interested. ABC Tourney Scores Here Columbus, O., Apr. 18 (U.R) Mike Liebcrati of Binghamton, N. Y., and Walt Thoren of Brooklyn. N. Y., moved into a second piace tie in the singles division of the American Bowl ing congress today with 677 totals. John Strobel of Milwaukee, Wis., continued in first place with a 679 scries. Thoren had games of 212-265-200 yesterday, while Licberati compiled his to tal with a 241-207-229 scries. The doubles standings also were changed when Mike Cor disco and Ellis Klepfcr of Bing hampton vaulted into third place with a 1.224 total. Ed Johnson of Brooklyn post ed the best game in the young tournament when he started with a 151 and then rolled eight straight strikes to finish with a 275. He had a 649 total. Meeting Slated Friday team captains and sponsors wishing to play in a proposed Medford Softball IcaRue this sum mer will meet Friday night in the new chamber of commerce rooms on South Riverside ave nue. Secretary Herb Vesrey of the Medford Softball association announced today. i Howdy, Pardner! Enjoy... 5 m Sunny Brook . the whiskey that's f Gneerfu mn. 1 is. r -j' 1 &s its I . : ,i i i mj f -T wailing for you in every drink of fllPi n I ( ljJr Sunny Brookl It's Kentucky-bred yfMfl I ! V :"fJf whiskey finest brand on th Lll W 'flO " Jw range. And mellow! like a prairla I i&f 'Wt. iM-miH V"""""" ,un,e,l Treat yourself lo a real nW v NpSsL tfjT-' round-up of drinking pleasure 1 f CSlwTl KOy Sarnie NMKXXtHMt XA BUND Jtmer . W m Hmm gims..iTiomi.KmLm mqd.comltj Loggers Stop Crusaders By Score, 17-7 St. Mary's suffered its third straight defeat in league play yesterday when Butte Falls swamped the Crusaders 17 to 7 on the joggers' field. This game was postponed from April 7. On the mound for Butte Falls was Irwin who was credited with three strikeouts and six walks. Moore took over in the fourth inning to give up three walks and failed to strike out any. Elbert did the hurling for St. Mary's giving up four walks and two strikeouts. Gleason came in during the second inning, only to walk one. Vorbeck took over In the fourth, striking out one and walking two. The sixth in ning saw Kelly step in the pitch er s box to walk one and strike out none of the Butte Falls team. Seven St. Mary's Hits St. Mary's had a total of seven hits and 15 errors. The errors were due to an extremely weak infield. Butte Falls had seven hits and seven errors. The Loggers scored two runs in the first inning, three in the second and eight in the third, three in the fifth and one in the sixth. St. Mary's made five hits in the third and one each in the sixth and seventh. Poole for Butte Falls made three hits in five times at bat and a triple in the first. Bartlett made a double in the fifth. Glea son got a three base hit in the third for the Crusaders. Sack raida made a double in the fifth and stole home to bring in the last run of the ball game. National Gd. Rifle Shoot Units of the First battalion, 186th infantry, national guard, in Roseburg. Myrtle Creek, Grants Pass and Medford are competing for a battalion trophy for high scoring team in rule matches. The trophy, known as the bat talion commander trophy, is be ing provided by Lt. Col. Robert L. Irving, battalion commander, and will be awarded during sum mer camp to the unit whose rifle team makes the highest score in the competition each spring. This competition consists of four matches, two using .22 cali ber rifles on the indoor range and two using .30 caliber Ml rifles on the outdoor range. Company "A" at Medford is winner of the first .22 caliber match and Company "D" of Roseburg won the second .22 caliber match. Reports on the first .30 caliber match are now being received with the winner still undetermined. The final match will be fired during May. To win the trophy a team has to win a majority of the four matches. Redding Defeats Reno In Practice 15 to 10 Redding, Cal., Apr. 18 (U.R) The Redding Browns apparently like a lot of light when they play baseball. They made five errors and gave up eight runs in a single inning of a Far West league ex hibition game against the Reno Silver Sox last night when a power failure caused the lights to he dimmed. But when the lights came back on, the Browns blasted out 15 runs in three innings for a 15 to lu victory. PCL President Heads For North Conference As Teams Shift Sites San Francisco, Apr. 18 (U.R) President Clarence (Pants) Row land visited the Pacific north west today in an attempt to get the remaining Pacific Coast league teams to join the rest of the circuit in forming a solid front in its draft battle with the majors. Rowland has been making a tour of the circuit to get the sig natures of the eight club presi dents on a petition asking the WIL to Open 1950 Season This Evening Tacoma, Apr. 18 (U.R) The class B Western International baseball league begins its 10th season tonight with eight teams set to square off in Spokane, Wenatchee and Kennewick, Wash., and Salem, Ore. Some 17,000 fans are expect ed to check through the turn stiles for the opening games with Spokane, hosting Victoria, B. C, anticipating a crowd of 6,000; Wenatchee and the title holding Yakima Bears, 4,500; Salcm-Tacoma, 4,000; and Tri City and Vancouver, B. C, 2,500. Each team is scheduled to play 151 or 152 games by the time the circuit season ends Septem ber 9. WIL President Robert Abel of Tacoma said indications point to the league's best season. With a break in the weather, he predict ed the eight teams would draw more than 1,000,000 customers during the season as compared to last year's total of 880,000. Few changes have been made In the league since last season. The biggest change came when Bremerton gave up its franchise and Tri-City of the Pasco-Kenne-wick-Richland area was added. BOWLING MAJOR LEAGUE George Eads with 581 and Fred Anderson who was credit ed with 589 took high individual series for first and second shift respectively last night when the Major Bowling league held its weekly competition at the Med ford Bowling lanes. George Barr won high indivi dual game in both the first and second shifts with 224 in shift one and 242 in shift 2. Valley Music company took high team series in shift one with 2.687 and Charles Barber shop won the same in shift 2 with 2.648. E. H. Mann company scored a 957 for high team game in shift one and Charles Barber shon and Vallev Music each got 925 in shift two. Al Zimmerman Paces OGA Golf Eugene. Ore.. Apr. 18 (U.R) Amateur Ron Clark, The Dalles. nd Al Zimmerman. Portland professional, led their respective ranks Monday in the Oregon professional golfers organization sweepstakes here. Clark and Zimmerman each carded two-undcr-par 70s. In a record-breaking field of 100 entrants. John Prince of Bend held low net honors with a 72 with a four-stroke handicap for a 68. majors to eliminate or at least revise the draft in the PCL. He already had the signatures of the club presidents in San Diego, San Francisco, Sacramen to, Los Angeles and Hollywood. He hoped to get Seattle and Port land. Showdown on May 4 The showdown in the draft battle comes in the office of Commissioner A. B. (Happy) Chandler in Cincinnati, May 4. Chandler previously promised the PCL "full consideration" in its demands for easing the draft. Meanwhile, the clubs shifted to start their fourth series of the young season tonight. Hollywood will take on cellar-dwelling Seattle in the south. The red-hot battle between the Stars and Padres for the loop leadership will be the feature of the week's competition. Padres Vs. Angels While the Stars are entertain ing what appears to be a hap hazard Seattle outfit, the Padres draw another inept crew, the Los Angeles Angels. Sacramento, which, like a lot of the other clubs in the loop, is having all "good hit, no pitch," entertains San Francisco in the capital city. 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