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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (March 18, 1952)
Merchants Take Memorial Casaba Prelim Seriously Merchants' teams are ia the midst of "preparations" for their preliminary fracas at the Tubby Dean memorial basketball pro gram on Wednesday, March 26, at the senior high gymnasium. From all reports merchants are taking this "relatively min or" skirmish seriously. The following notes from the rival training camps were Cleaned by Legionnaire Bud Fisher. He reports: "Dick Finch, the East Side manager, strapped on his trusty six-shooter and took off on Old Paint to round up some of his team for a training session. His training methods are rough and unique. He routed out a contin gent of Doc Lemery; Doc Ward; Sam Gilbert of Brophy's; Morris Leonard of Leonard Electric; Sam Samson of Sam's Sporting Goods; Vic David, Restaurant Supply; Murray Bell of Bells Beverage Shop; Freddie Beck of Beck's Bakery; Shook and Britt sen of the O K Market; Jim Moore of Sherwin-Williams; Har ry and Harold of North River side Cafe; and Perk Perkins of Consolidated Freightways; and took them for a five mile train ing jaunt. Why Truck "The big mystery was why the big Consolidated truck? And why the music machine furnished by Woody Morse? Maybe Dick was confused with dancing school. .."Coach Bill Gates of the West Side has gone indoors with his training. Its new quarters is at the Union Club Pool hall. Bill says dodging pool tables is tough er training than the East Side competition will be. But Bill is complaining again. He says that he cannot keep Ben Trowbridge Lct Brothers PLAX-COTE FOR INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR FLOORS Tii toughnMS and durability of Plax-Cota was establish td by the above pictured tests. In the scrubbing test Plax Cote's beauty endured long iter other finishes had failed! Actual scuffing tests on many porch floors proved Plax Cote's ability to withstand extra hard wear and abuse. mm BIG PINES LUMBER CO. Sine 1908 6th and Fir Phone 2-6251 and the Smith-Dynge players in line. They refuse to train. v "Coach Bill has also voiced a serious protest against some of the East Side players. Since this is not a recognized league, there is no head authority and Bill threatens to take the East Side manager to court. He states that Dick has rung in a bunch of pro fessionals in Chet and Rolland Hubbard; Geo. Gates of Bates Furniture; Walt Young of Med- ford Stationery; and Doc Vogle. However Dick countered that he could pick his team from Adrl ennes, Burelsons, the Patio. Had' leys, Leon's Women's store, and the Toy House and still beat the best the West Side Mexicans can put on the floor.. Extra Linameni Lee Ragsdale, athletic director of the high school, says he is laying in an extra supply of lina- ment and bandages and has had all emergency equipment checked to care for minor in juries. Due to a shortage of am bulances, he has made arrange ments with Jack Fitzgerald to have one of the Davis Transfer trucks on hand to handle the cas ualties. There has been some specula tion down town of a frame up since Bill Barker and Larry Schade, two of the East Side players were seen in a confiden tial huddle with the West Side star. Gene Farrell of Fluhrers. "East Side manager, Dick Finch, has not announced his coach as yet. He seems to have a very temperamental team. Now he has an insurrection on his hands among the north end players. McCormick of the Big Y says he can pick a team from his section that can beat Bill 'Groceteria' Gates' team all to pieces. "In fact, Steve Stephenson of the Lumber Co.; Floyd Hart and Andy Anderson of Timber Pro ducts; Sam Buffington of O K Meats; Nave of Medco; Schoech er of Richmaid Ice Cream; Bob Dunham of the famous trading center; and Lex Weisenberger and Geo. Evans of Western Dec orating Co. have been training out at the Y club and they boast that they . have a better team than either Dick or Bill. Dick is thinking of recruiting Dan and George Haas Sporting Goods and Earl Hall Sport Shop and send ing an expedition of well armed troopers to bring the insurgents back into camp. "Just a tip to the sheriff. If there are any more mysterious explosions, better check on that angle." - Medford Black Tornado 13th in Final Battings The Medford high school Black Tornado basketball team placed 13th on the final 1952 press association survey. Med ford was given a total of six points to place behind Astoria and The Dalles in the second 10. Portland schools continued to dominate the poll as Central Catholic, Cleveland and Lincoln placed in the top three spots. Klamath Falls, rated fifth, was the only other southern Oregon team listed on the survey. JC TOURNAMENT OPENS - Hutchinson, Kan. (U.R) The fifth-Athletic Association basket ball tournament opens Tuesday afternoon with 12 teams from an unseeded field of 16 sched uled to see action within a com plicated double elimination bracket before day's end. ' V AM HOLY CROSS ELIMINATED Lanky Dick Ricketts (12) of Da quesne leaps high for a shot during National Invitation Tournament game against Holy Cross in Madison Square Garden at New York. Jumping with Ricketts is Dave Nangle (24) of Holy Cross. Others are Jim Dilling (14), Holy Cross, and Jim Tucker (4) of Duquesne, The favored Duquesne eliminated Hot Cross, 78 68. MEDFORIVtJ&TRIBUNl mm State Basketball Tourney Opens Tonight at Eugene Eugene (U.R) Astoria and Hillsboro launch Oregon's big gest annual basketball show Tuesday night when they meet in the University of Oregon's Mc Arthur court in the first game of the 1952 class A high school tournament. Cleveland of Portland and Mc- Minnville meet in the only oth er Tuesday game. The other 12 teams in the 16- team field will play Wednesday. Championship game is slated Saturday night. All 16 teams have represent ed their districts in the state play offs in the past. Favorites this year for the final trophy are the three Portland entries Cleve land, Lincoln and Central Cath olic. But Portland teams have garnered championship honors only six times in 33 years. Klamath Falls, McMinnville, Marshfield and Salem were ten tatively billed as the four teams likely to give the metropolitan schools their toughest competi tion. Central Catholic enters the tournament with the best win- less record of the lot. It has 24 victories to its credit against one loss, that 1o Klamath Falls, Games Wednesday are Marsh- field against Scappoose: The Dalles-Central Catholic; Klanv ath Falls-Bend; Lincoln-Salem; Corvallis-University of Eugene, and Milwaukie-La Grande. I? I aFUU FLAV0R OF, OLD KENTUCKY NATURALLY GREAT SINCE 1888 , ouUKBUN WHISKE Y 4 YEARS OLD . Rookie Third Sacker Rage of Yankee Camp St. Petersburg, Fla. (U.R) Rookie Andy Carey was the rage of the New York Yankees camp Tuesday and one big reason why manager Casey Stengel believes the world champions may not be hurt by the loss of Billy Martin during the first few weeks of the American League season. Carey stretched his hitting stream to seven games with two singles as the Yankees beat the Washington Senators, 8-5, Mon day. MAC-HI COACH QUITS Milton - Freewater, Ore. (U.R) Gene Holweger, head basketball coach for MacLoughlin Union high school here, said Tuesday he is resigning effective at the end of the current school year. Holweger, a former prep star at Portland's Franklin high, said he hoped to get post nearer Port land. TWO PLAYERS HURT Tampa (U.R) Pitcher Niles Jordan and outfielder Wally Post of the Cincinnati Reds were side lined Tuesday with minor In juries. Jordan was struck by line drive off Ferris Fain's bat in Monday's 6-5 victory over the Philadelphia Athletics' A-team while Post was hit in the face by a thrown ball in pre-game prac tice. Man Gets Stolen Car Back; Paint Job Added North Guilford. Conn. (U.R) James H. Sandbergh isn't too sorry that his "plain blue" auto mobile was stolen by a 18-year- old youth. wnen ine machine was re covered, Sandbergh hardly rec ognized it. It had snappy two- tone paint job and was equipped witn numerous uasny accessor ies. In addition, some dents In the fenders had been ironed out. the oil was changed and new anti-freeze had been put in. The improvements cost the thief about S200. Sandbergh figures if the youth had kept the car a bit longer he might have had the engine ever- hauled. Free Yourself from laxative slavery Try this delightful family break fast treat! Zat a generous bowlful (about cup) at crisp, toaaty KellOgf 'S ALL-SKA !l With SUfSX SQd cream. Drink plenty of liquids. ALL-Aif is the natural laxative cereal that may help you back to youthful regularity, lost because of lack of bulk in your diet. It's the only type ready-to-eat cereal that supplies all the bulk you may need. High in cereal protein, rich in iron, provides essential B and a vitamins. Not habit forming. Why don't tou try M KeUogf's is so sure youH Uke au-saAjr that if you're not eom pletelw satisfied, alter 10 dan. send empty carton to Kellons. Bsttle Creek. Mich., and set Giant Pair Hurls No-No Ssn Bernardino, Calif. CU.B A no-hitter in the spring doesn't win a pennant in September but it was enough Tuesday to make Leo Durocher of the New York Giants look forward confidently toward the defense of the N tional League title. Jim Hearn and Monte Ken nedy, appropriately both of Irish descent, authored the no-hitter against the Chicago Cubs, 10-0, Monday on St Patrick's dsy. Hearn, a 17-game winner in 1M1 who could be the Giants' best pitcher this yesr, pitched the. first five innings, walked two and struck out four. Kennedy, who won only one game last season, picked up from there and allowed three walks while striking out three re mainder of the way. 4 Comet Cagers Top 200 Points Central Point Crater highs basketball quint, in winning 16 and losing five scuffles in prep competition this year, scored 1007 points to 863 by the oppo sition. Punk Monroe was top scorer with 222. Three others tallied more than 200, Gordon Carri gan 213. Larry Bigham 202 and Herb Weber 201. Others among the top Comet scorers were Bill Boye 67, Bob King 55 aha Rocky Spence 22. Crater beat St. Mary's of Med ford, Phoenix, Eagle Point, Suth erlin and Illinois each twice, won three out of four with Ash land, topped Coquille, split with Rogue River and Myrtle Creek and lost two to Eagle Point NICHOLS READY St. Petersburg (U.R) Chet Nichols, the National league's earned run leader in 1951, ap peared Tuesday to be ready just in case. The young Boston Brave southpaw showed excellent form as he faced only 12 batters in four innings as the Braves beat the Red Sox, 2-1, Monday. Seattle (U.R) Light-heavy-weights Abel Fernandez of Los Angeles and Eddie Cotton of Se attle tangle Tuesday night in the 10-round main event of a box ing card here. Cotton is a slight favorite. Toeaiay. March It. ISIS MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEYKtT Fabulous Buried Treasure Spurs Searchers in Japan Tokyo (U.R) To paraphrase R. L. Stevenson: Fourteen hundred and 71 men on a dead man's chest, Yo ho ho and a bottle of sake. One of the century's greatest searches for hidden treasure Is on in Japan, near the foot of majestic Mount Fuji. The object Is the fabulous buried wealth in gold coffins, chests of gold coins and jewels of Japan's last great feudal lord, the Shogun Togugawa. Legend values the treasure at more than $20,000,000. The director of the search, 62-year-od Hidemori Kawahara, insists he is working from factu al records, not legend. He al ready has poured 10,000,000 yen (about $30,000) into an elaborate excavation program, using min ing rigs and derricks and a gang of laborers directed by a mining engineer. He reported exciting progress. The diggers reached the crum bling remains of human skele tons, a clue that convinced Ka wahara he was near his goal. Laborers Slain There must be the bones of 1,471 laborers who were mas sacred after burying the Toku gawa's wealth, to insure secrecy of the plot, he told Japanese newsmen. Three sets of "documents" handed down to Kawahara by h's grandmother, the mistress of a Samurai warrior in the serv ice of the Tokugawas, are the key to the search. When the power of the Sho- gunate began crumbling in 1863. the loyal Samurai, who served as the Shogun s treasurer, pre pared for trouble. He foresaw the coming revolt against the Tokugawas and the drive to .westernize Japan, but he was convinced it would not last According to the documents, he made elaborate preparations to protect the wealth of his mas ter, Generalissimo Yoshinubi To kugawa, and prepare for a come back. Vaults In Caves He built vaults In csves near Mount Fuji and slowly moved the entire wealth of his feudal1 lord some 5,000,000 oval-shap ed gold corns, gold bullion, gem studded swords and other jewels in gold coffins from the Edo castle in Tokyo to the secret cache. Five years before the Shogun finally was overthrown and the emperor Meiji was restored to the throne in 1868, the work was completed. With diabolical method, the Samurai then poisoned an entire battalion of 1,471 laborers who had worked on the project, the story goes. The excavation site has been put under guard and further pro tected at night by a big flood light. The treasure-seekers, believing the goal of their quest was near, began erecting a reception hall to handle the crowd when the golden fortune is brought out. Laborers on the job were re lieved by Kawahara's plans for publicity. They remembered the fate of their 1,471 predecessors. CONTACT AFTER 72 YEARS Pemberville, O. (U.R) Seventy-two years, two generations and two wars after leaving Ger many, Mrs. Fred Nolte has re established contact with her sis ter, Charlotte Wamker of Osna bruck, Germany. Mrs. Nolte lost track of her sister after leaving Germany to come here. A grand son, Donald F. Rahe, now of the U. S. Army in Germany, suc ceeded in finding his grandmoth er's sister. HOLDS HIS 'BURGER Kalamazoo, Mich. U) For several years a restaurant's offer of free hamburgers for anyone who could eat IS at one sitting was ignored. Then John Carey, 21, came in and qualified.. Three cups of coffee and two glasses of water aided him. Dead Una on OaaaUted Ads: S3S pjn. tor toiiowinj day, 10 aja. Ma day: noon Saturday for Sunday am ANOTHER CLUCt SUM keeps ynstodtrb Watch for Slim Tomorrow Medford Milled Feeds Field Seeds Fertilizers MORTON MULLINQ CO. 10 Watt Jackwn Stiart You'll Always Find Reliability Uniformity Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE FAST. PROMPT DELIVERY Tru-Mix Concrete Co. 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