Tuesday. Aprn IS. 1958
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Boxers Await Gong for Championship Bouts at Armory Wednesday
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
The surprising Portland Bea
vers, picked for a cellar spot
but currently doing battle in the
first division, will play at Oak
land against the disappointing
Acorns.
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