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TWO MTDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBTJlfE Gavemen To Oeadloek Pelicans and ISampaign IP PCL Clubs Do Lining Up Farm Systems By HAL WOOD San Francisco U.R) Pacific Coast league baseball clubs, tak ing their first wobbly steps in the "open" classification that eventually will lead them into major league status, have done a good job of lining up farm systems, a United Press survey showed Friday. Nearly every team in the loop owns outright or at least has a loose working agreement with teams in lower classification. . "That is the' way we do our long-range building," says Paul I. Fagan, : president of the San Francisco Seals and one of the league's leading proponents of a major league status. Seals Biggest The Seals probably have the biggest farm system of any non major league team in the coun try. They own outright the Yak ima franchise in the class A Western International league. They have close working agree ments with Twin Falls of the class C Pioneer league; Phoenix of the class C Arizona-Texas league; and a loose arrangement with Amarillo, Tex., of the class C Big State league. Right now, the Los Angeles Angels are the only club owned by a major league interest In this case, Phil Wrigley and .the. Chicago Cubs. However, Wrigley is a strong backer of the "major league for the west" program and already has agreed to make the Angels an inde pendent team when the time comes. Draw on Cubs The Angels do not have a farm system of their own, but draw directly on the Cubs' pro gram. The San Diego Padres, who used to have a tie-in with the Cleveland Indians, have joined L For Grassland Farming m iti - -- Msssv m N. ioa TtM Trader; 70 tw. kit hollaed 7r ABTtUATIC IALIR Check these exclusive New Holland features: Bales held un der compression while they're tied. Special Straw Baling Springs work with the Uni formatic Bale Control to pro duce heavier straw bales. High Capacity up to ten tons per hour. Faster Baling ties up to seven bales per minute. Deaver Tractor and IMPLEMENT COMPANY 634 North Central Tip Over for Big Good Job the trend and now are strictly on their own. The Sacramento Solons will farm out their surplus talent to Idaho Falls of the Pioneer league, while the Portland Bea vers have a loose working ar rangement with Victoria of the Western International. Billings Stock The Hollywood Stars who re cently sold 16 per cent of their stock to the Pittsburgh Pirates, own stock in the Billings, Mont., club of the Pioneer league. The Oakland Acorns, who al ways have spent a lot of money buying ex-major . leaguers, are building with farm clubs at We natchee in the Western Inter national and Albuquerque, N.M. of the class C West Texas-New Mexico league. The Seattle Rainiers have no specific tie-ups, but have a flex ible working agreement with Vancouver, B.C., of the Western International Romack Wins Way to Finals; DeMoss Loses Ormond Beach, Fla. (U.R) Freckle-faced Barbara Romack of Sacramento, Calif., Saturday shot her way into the finals of the South Atlantic Women's golf tournament. The 19-year-old long-driving Californian scored an easy 5 and 4 victory over Jane Cram Cov ington of Orangeboro, S. C. In the other semi-final match, 21-year-old Edean Anderson of Helena. Mont., defeated Grace DeMoss of Corvallis, Ore.. 3 and 2. Miss Anderson meets Miss Romack in the 36-hoIe finals to day on the swank Eleanor Vil lage Ocean Front .course. J Quality-Quilt SPREAD CIS light In Draft . . 1 D9EAIr9C iff Heavy on Performance! Get full value from every load of manure with a NEW IDEA Spreader! Big steel-framed, wood-lined flared bed is easy to load, non -choking cannot rust or corrode. Wider upper cylinder lightens draft, inereasea shredding and spreading efficiency. Handy conveyor-speed controls. Quick, easy hitch. Rugged, durable, dependable. Lime spreading attach ment available. Look them ever seen! aaJ -1 saves you dough' SAVES FltTIUZIK SAVES SIEB $ SAVES TIME 4 LAIOR Hit BkU Slm Jfmi Phone 2-6425 i Saaday, Maxeh cl: 1M1 CUedford Four BIO FOUR STANDINGS (Friday Night) Medford .... : . Klamath Tails Grants Pass Ashland . J- W L Pet. .8 3 .727 .8 3 .727 .5 .455 .1 10 .091 Klamath Falls Ashland high's cagers played control ball against Klamath Falls here Friday night and the tactics almost paid off. Klam ath slipped by the Grisslies 26 to It after leading by only 18 to 17 at the third Inter mission. ' -Grants Pass high hoopmen Friday. night lived up to their threat to throw the Southern Oregon conference Big Four chase "into a turmoil." The steady, sure -playing Cavemen did it by shading Medford 45 to 44 here. Coupled with Klamath Falls' 26 to 18 decision over Ashland, the Grants Pass triumph threw Medford and Klamath Falls back into a first place deadlock. The Pels and Black Tornado each had eight wins and three losses in loop play after the Friday tangles. Medford had lead Klamath by a single game going into the week-end series. Regularly scheduled Big Four play concluded last night with Medford at Grants Pass and Klamath Falls at Ashland. Final whistles of both games were anxiously awaited by . Pelican and Black Tornado followers. Possible Results These were the possible re sults: Victories by both Medford and Klamath, or losses by both, would maintain, the deadlock and necessitate a play-off; A Medford win and a Klamath loss would give Medford the crown without an extra game. Or a Klamath decision and Med ford defeat would hand the Pels the trophy. The Friday night encounter had another of those whirlwind finishes that have marked many Medford games this season. Dick James was the hero for the Cave men. He got 20 points for Grants Pass and his last bucket with 1H minutes to go was the one that brought the victory. Grants Pass stalled the rest of the time. Dick Atterbury of Medford got one unsuccessful try at the hoop before the final buzzer. - The Cavemen went into the final quarter with a 36 to 31 lead. They had a 41 to 34 ad vantage midway in the period. Two 'buckets by Ed Bingham of Medford, one on a steal, cut the gap to 41 to 38. Jack Board man connected and the count was 41 to 40.. Dennis Conner fol lowed to hand Medford a 42 to 41 edge. But James ' gave the leader ship to Grants Pass again, 43 to 42. With two minutes left Derald Wooton put Medford on top again, 44 to 43".. Then James came " through with the game winning goal. ',' Tornado Leads Although Medford playing was erratic and many shots were missed, the Tornado ap peared headed for victory in the first quarter. Grants Pass just couldn't put in a -field goal in the stanza and Medford was in front 13 to 8 at the. intermission. It was in the second period that the Cavemen quieted the Tornado, outscoring Medford 20 to 8 for a 25 to 21 Grants Pass halftime margin. Shorty Dick James and elongated Sam Dean spurred the second canto Cave man splurge with three field goals each. Medford tied up the game 28 to 28 and 30 to 30 in the third chukker and lead briefly 31 to 30 on Bingham's free toss. John Harbour hit from the field to put Grants Pass back in the lead. Caveman Steadier Grants - Pass throughout the tussle outsteadied the pressured Black Tornado. The Medfordites appeared tired and, except for the final moments, lacked their usual hustle and alertness. Med ford sank only 29.1 per cent of its field goal tries, 16 out of 55. Grants Pass put in 11 of its 13 free throw chances and Med ford 12 of 21 attempts. In the junior varsity prelim Medford finished strong but not strong enough and Grants Pass won 95 to 47. LINK-UPS: Grants Pass 4S 44 Msdferd Harbour 11 f IS Bingham Bsese f S Spinas Norrick e 10 Wooton Robertson 4 .. g 4 Conner James 20 g B Atterbury Substitutes Tor Grants Pass. Schwsinfurt. Hedgepeth 4. Dean S, Pepper: for Medford, Board man 3, Thompson 3. Sport Bulletin - Maw' York (U.F9 Reecoe Browne of the New York Pioneer Club west the invita tion MO-yard sua at the Knights of Columbus track and field meat la Madison Square Garden tonight, spoil lag second place Don Behr maaa's hopes of a "double" la the half-alle and mile. Hoop 45 to 44 Tornado in Diadem Fanfare By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Spent Ed iter LaVere Herrmann, the hard est worked pitcher, of the Med ford Rogues during the 1950 and 1951 baseball seasons, heads for Texas this month. Herrmann, a Central Point resident and ex high school athlete there, was ticketed for tryout with and pos sible sale to Yakima, Wash., of the Western International loop this spring. Someone slipped up in the formalities, however. Came the draft and Abilene of the West Texas-New Mexico league (Class C) snatched the chucker. . Herrmann hopes to leave by train by March 12 for Texas. He will be accompanied by his wife and son, who probably will stay with Mrs. Herrmann's brother at Houston during the spring train ing. The hurler has been em ployed by Richard Danielson, contractor, this winter. EX-ROGUES TRAIN Several of the boys who : performed for the Medford Rogues last year have been mentioned in San Francisco Examiner stories concerning training sessions of the Coast league Seals. Chuck Malm--berg, Les Maddox, Jim Clan cy, Frank Lucchesi and Gene Howard have been listed in inter-squad lineups. Jack Thompson is also at the work outs at Seals' stadium. Lucchesi figured in the scor ing in one game. Here's com ment by Harry Borba in the Examiner about Maddox: "Les Maddox, Negro right fielder from Medford, almost stole the show from Bill Reed er and Bill Bradford, giant hurl ers, as the Orteigs won their third straight intra-squad con test from the Graces, 2-1. "Maddox drove in the Graces' one tally in the first with a siz zling double. He smashed a sin gle past second in the third and pilfered a base. Then, when Herman Lewis, hungering for the kind of base hits he made in the Mexican Pacific league, lar ruped a line foul in the sixth, Maddox draped himself over the bleacher wall and speared the swift-traveling pelota." SUCCESS WISHED We wish American Legion members speedy success in their efforts to provide a much needed electric scoreboard for the high school football field and. to establish a fitting momoaial to the late A. Z. (Tubby) Dean. Legionnaires ' have under taken a project supported last fall in this column. The score board would bo a welcome replacement for the present manually operated device. The electric board fits in mora with the attractive stadium which Dean had a hand in pro viding. Legionnaires state that the scoreboard was one of Dean's pet projects and that they are just finishing a job left undone by his death. SHARES BEING SOLD . Many merchants already have been asked to purchase blocks of scoreboard shares and to make them available to their patrons. Sale of 1,800 shares is the goal and the aim is to place them in the hands of 1,800 people. The dollar shares are good for ad mission to the basketball extrav aganza on March 27. Because of the manufactur er's work schedule, there is need You're Entitled Outsanding If You .MUPS0M Pont Bt Satisfied with Less "BRING IT BACK TO JACK" If It Isn't Up to Snuff JACKSON MOTORS, Inc. JACKSON l FRONT STREETS Your HUDSON Pealer Grade School Basketball Tourney Will Commence Grade schools of eight Jackson county non-high school districts will participate this week in the second annual basketball tourna ment held for them by Medford high school. The tourney opens Thursday at 4:30 p.m. on the senior high school floor. , Howard and Evans Valley vie in the first tussle. Other first round conflicts are Lone Pine versus Shady Cove at 5:30 p.m., Griffin Creek versus Oak Grove at 7:30 p.m. and Elk Trail versus West Side at 8:30 p.m. The tourney will be single elimination with consolation brackets for third and fourth places. Trophies will be awarded for the first four places. Sudden Death Games will have six minute quarters. Overtime irays will be decided by the sudden death method (first team to make two points). Officials for games will be Chicago Ace TaKes Title Hamar, Norway (U.R) Un concerned by one false .start. Ken Henry of Chicago streaked to the world 500-meter speed skating championship while Norway's meteoric Hjalmar Andersen set a new meet record in winning the 5,000 meter title Saturday. These were the same men who snared victories in the winter Olympics. Henry won the sprint Satur day in 43.4 seconds. Andersen, breaking his own record, won the 5,000 meters in 8 minutes, 16.8 seconds, six seconds off his Olympic record. Johnny Werket of Minneapolis was second in the 500-meters in 43.8 seconds with Masanori Aoki of Japan a surprising third in 44.1 seconds. Don McDermott of Englewood Cliffs, N. Y., was fourth in 44.5 and Pat McNamara of Minneapolis seventh in 45.1. Lassi Parkkinen of Finland was second in the 5,000 in 8:25.1 with Kees Broekman of Holland third in 8:25.5. Royals Downed In PCHL Upset By United Press The lid blew off the Pacific Coast Hockey league Friday night. The cellar-dwelling Vic toria Cougars scored a stunning upset by overwhelming the league-leading New Westminster Royals, 7-4, at Victoria. Vancouver Canucks fell 2-1 be fore Seattle Ironmen in a hard fought game at Vancouver. Saskatoon beat Edmonton, 7-3, in the only other league game. CLINIC COACH Eugene Coach L. R. "Dutch" Meyer, veteran of 18 years as head football coach of the Texas Christian university Horned Frogs of the Southwest confer ence, has been named as the visiting coach for the Univer sity of Oregon summer coaching clinic, July 14 through 18, it was announced by Dean Paul Jacobson, director of the sum mer session. Coach Meyer, di rector of the famed TCU "spread" which took the Horned Frogs to the conference cham pionship last season and an ap pearance against Kentucky in the Cotton bowl, has been asso ciated with TCU athletics as a player and coach almost tinuously since 1917. con- WOLVES GAIN TIE By United Press Oregon College of Education's Wolves gained a first-place tie with Vanport Friday night by handing the Vikings a 55-52 de feat at Portland. Each team now had eight wins and three losses in conference play. for a hurried up campaign if the scoreboard is to be ordered, built and in operation by next fall. Chairman Bud Fisher has asked friends of Dean, who wish to participate but were overlooked in the mail appeal, to contact him at Bud and Lu cille's cafe (phone 2-9293). To . . Performance Drirt a . PHONE 2-6281 Here on Thursday those of the Medford grade school league. Roy Rogers, Tom Rodger, Bob Walker, Jerry Perkins, LeRoy Pyle and Jim Holloway. - There will bo small admission charges. Any net proceeds will be divided among competing teams. - - Eagles End Season With 47-40 Win Eagle Point Eagle Point high wound up its basketball campaign Friday night by de feating Illinois Valley 47 to 40 The win was the fourth straight for the Eagles. Three of those victories have been over teams that previously beat Eagle Point. Illinois Valley led 12 to 9 at the quarter and 27 to 21 at half time. The Eagles held the Cougars to a single tally in the third period and were in front 30 to 28 by intermission time. Bud Lucas was high man for Eagle Point with 15. Wayne Gil laspey followed his teammate with 11. Jim Wright headed the Cougars with 10. Eagle Point posted nine wins and lost 10 games during the season. LINE-VPS: Eagle Point 47 Kimmel 3 Cattanach 7 Fricke Barritt 2 Pettegrew 40 nilnoU Valley 7 Lewis 4 Barton 8 Wieler 8 Preston 10 Wright Substitutes ror tagie point. Lucas 15. Gillasoey 11 Reich 6. Johnson 3. Tycer. Bubb. for Illinois Valley. Martin Eccleston; 2. Pickle. Jones, cook. Halftime: Illinois Valley 27, Eagle Point 21. Huskies Roll Over Cougars Seattle (U.R) Bob Houbregs and Frank Guisness, the north ern division's deadliest scoring combination, led Washington to a brilliant 75-57 victory over cross-state rival Washington State here Friday night before 10,800 fans. Cougar forward Eric Roberts gained a share of the division's free throw record to salvage some WSC prestige. Roberts' six free shots gave him a total of 77 for the season, tying Jack Nichols' mark set in 1948 for Washington. Breaks Open The game broke wide open in the second quarter after a tight first period in which Wash ington led 14-9. Then Houbregs and Guisness went to work. First Houbregs would hit, then Guisness. Hou bregs scored 20 points and Guis ness 16. Houbregs' total put him within 27 points of a new con ference scoring record for one season. WELL. 7 HOURS ANYWAY Boston (U.R) Sign on a Charlestown quick-cleaning es tablishment: "Five hour service. In at 10, out at 5." sjg . .BSSSW Texas Field; Duden Third Baton Rouge, La. (U.R) Tommy Bolt, a 41-year-old tem peramental Texan, shot a weak one-under-par 71 Saturday, but his round was good enough for a two-stroke lead at4he 54-hole mark of the $10,000 Baton Rouge Open Golf tournament. Bolt, who has been a profes sional only four years, toured the chilly wind-swept country club course with a 37-34 7L which gave him a three-round total of 208, two strokes in front of fellow-Texan, Jackie Burke Jr. Trailing Bolt by one stroke with a 138 at the start of the third round, the 29 -year -old Burke, who is from Houston, ran into trouble with his wood shots and had to settle for an even par, 38-36 72. Three strokes back of Burke was Bob Duden of Portland, Ore., who fired the best round Saturday with a four-under-par 34-34 68. He was seven strokes behind at the end of the second round. At 214 were Shelley May field, Cedarhurst, L. I., and Fe lice Torza, St, Charles, 111., Earl Stewart Jr., of Dallas, Tex., and Bill Nary of Albuquerque, N. M., ended third round play with 215s. . Cary Middlecoff of Memphis, Tenn., was tied at 217, one over par for 54 holes, with Dick Mayer of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Johnny Palmer of Badin, N. C. WEATHER By UNITED PRESS . North California: Partly cloudy through Sunday; scat tered showers Saturday; occa sional rain north of Ukiah and Red Bluff Sunday; strong north west winds north interior Satur day; northwesterly winds 35 MPH with gusts to 50 off coast diminishing by night. 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After the noon luucheon, mem bers will make their own pair ings or get their pairing at the pro shop for the play. Play for the day will be blind bogey. . Mrs. Francis Cheney, tourna ment chairman, will be in charga of the play for March. Al Williams, golf pro, will con duct free group lessons for be ginning golfers after the regular ' players have teed off. Beginning golfers wishing this instruction are requested to register at the pro shop. - Waiihts WHEEL BALANCING The FIRST shop in Mod ford to do wheal aligning and balancing. Depend able service tine 1915.. YOUHG'Q Service Shop 116 North Front . Phone 2-4756 T CONTROL WHITE SCOURS with SULMET SuHamtfhatin Your cIvr we ie com cane dsaaer of whaM scours infection. Be resdr to SMet ibis timet with UdrrU; SUUKT. which acts rapidlr '"olw sod (void KriM ster-eSectsvf the dieue. Jltdmt whitt stem m ytur SotsT Pmta rir hrtiuri pnfim I mm.9. a. rn.ee. TOE DRUG CEM WAMPUM GREEN STAMP! Call 2-9407 Lumber Co. 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