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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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BIO FOUR STANDINGS
(Friday Night)
Medford .... : .
Klamath Tails
Grants Pass
Ashland . J-
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.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
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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.
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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 . .
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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
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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
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. 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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women golfers of the Rogue Val
ley Country club will open on
Thursday, March 8.
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
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ginning golfers after the regular '
players have teed off. Beginning
golfers wishing this instruction
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