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trc umroKD (obzooio mail trxbuxs Value of One-Platoon Dall To Small Schools Revealed In Week End Grid Tangles 1 I ttU V 1km a. Br johh GKirnN New York (US) One of the wackiest college football seasons in many a year may be In store for the fans this year, judging from the upset havoc produced by Jost one week end of the one platoon system. For how. asked the "experts" as they nursed king sized head aches today, can you figure out predictions after what happened to such supposed grid titans as Alabama, California, Texas, Stanford and Washington? Alabama, with a squad sup posed to be just as strong as the power house which crushed Sy racuse in the Oregan Bowl last Jan. 1, with the chief victim of the wave of upsets when it lost to Mississippi Southern Friday night, 25-19. The moaning had hardly died down from that one before Sat urday afternoon produced such shockers as Baylor's 25-0 rout of California, Louisiana State's 20-7 victory over Texas, College of Pacific's 25-20 defeat of Stan ford, and Colorado's' 21-20 de cision over Washington. The lesson seemed to be that, under the one platoon system, a small team with a handful of good players has a greatly in creased chance to upset the "big name" schools who, under the two platoon system, buried their rivals under manpower. The one platoon system con tributed directly to the Texas Aggies' 7-6 upset of 'Kentucky. Kentucky drove deep into Ag gie territory in the fourth per iod but couldn't get its kicking specialist into the game to try for a field goaL Instead they tried a fake kick and failed. According to Form All was- not lost for the ex perts, of course, for other games ran to form. In some of the big ones, Maryland came up with a 58Vi minute "Iron Man," Bernie Falonry in beating Missouri. 20-6; Duke opened the new Atlantic coast conference with an expected 20-7 win over South Carolina'; and Georgia Tech ran its unbeaten string to 27 games with a 53-0 rout of Davidson. The emphasis, once again, will be on intersections! games this Rogers Hornsby May Try New Line of Work Chicago U.fD Rogers Hornsby, a manager who can't seem to hold a steady jab, said he might like to try a new lint oi work. "I don't know much about anything but baseball," he said, "but I'd be willing to learn." Hornsby, who has been a bast ball manager more times than some players have beta on third base, was asked if be had re ceived any offers since getting fired from the Cincinnati 'Reds Thursday. "Nab." he said. "Give, 'em time." He laughed. If you 'hear anything, let me know." Hornsby, who has managed the St Louis Browns, the Chi cago Cubs, the St Louis Cards, the Boston Braves and several minor league clubs, said money wasn't the big consideration' in getting another job. OSC Loses Day For This Season Los Angeles OI.R) Coach Kip Taylor announced here that Ralph Day, 260-pound left tackle for his Oregon State college foot ball team, will be lost to the squad for the remainder of the season. Day, a transfer from East Los Angeles State, injured a right knee in practice Thursday night before the Bruin game and team physician, Dr. Waldo Ball, said he would have to rest at least five weeks. Day then decided to remain out of school and save his eligi bility for next season. WILSON GETS DRAW Boston U.B Chunky Wilbur Wilson of Boston, refusing to take a backward step, battled his way to a draw with South Af rican lightweight champion Ger ald Dreyer Saturday in a nation ally televised 10-round boxing bout at Boston Garden. Salt Lake City (U.fD Fike's Plumbers of Phoenix and the de fending champion San Pedro, Calif.. A-Stars will battle it out tonight at Derks Field here for the National Softball Congress championship. FOOTBALL SATUXDAT GAMK8 Whitworth 20, Linfiald S Pacific U 12. Wart Washington 13 (tie) College Pugct Sound 14. William ette 0 Oregon Tech 40. Olympic J. C 21 OCXT 40. SOCK 14 High School Scores SATUBDAY GAMES Fwrtland Schools Benaon 14. Grant Jefcrson 47. Franklin 7 Cleveland 12, Lincoln 7 Booaavelt 47. Washington PrincrUc 30. CoL Prep ' Other Orwogo 28. Junction City 13 lakaratw 14, aUaaaatn raDs JVs 1 week end with the long awaited clash of Notre Dame and Okla homa at Norman, Okla., topping the list Two other top intersectional games send Big Ten ' teams against Pacific Coast teams with Michigan hosting Washington and Minnesota visiting Southern California. The UCLA-Kansas fray Friday touches off the week end, and on Saturday are such standouts as Army-Furman, Colorado-Arizona, Illinois-Nebraska, Missouri-Purdue, Northwestern-Iowa State, Texas-Vil-lanova, Utah-Idaho, and Wis-consin-Penn State. And there'll be action in at least six major conferences. Gil Hodgos, Carl Furillo To Be Ready New York (U.B Outfield er Carl Furillo and firit-base-man Gil Hodges, key sluggers in Brooklyn's modern version of "murderers row" were declared "definitely fit" today to be in the starting lineup when the Dodgers meet the Ntw York Yankees in the first game of the world series. Manager Charley Dressen, still chipper after scouting the four-time world' champion Yan kees, announced that Furillo would return to action when the Dodgers meet the Philadelphia Phillies in their final series of the season beginning next Fri day. . . And Hodges himself laughed off speculation that he might miss the big series when he in sisted he "could play today if necessary. Broken Hand Furillo suffered a broken metacarpal bone in his left hand during his celebrated "no punch" fight with Leo Durocher of the New York Giants two weeks ago while Hodges suffer ed a bruised left side when he crashed into the right field wall at County Stadium, Milwaukee, a week ago. "It can take time to get back in stride after a layoff," said Furillo, who leads the National league with a .344 batting av erage. "I'm pretty sure I'll be able to play but I don't know how well." Furillo has blasted out 21 homers and knocked in 93 'runs while Hodges has collected 31 homers and driven in 120 runs and walloped the ball at a .303 clip during the regular season. Both art eager to atone for poor showings in last year's series with the Yankees. . CPS Whacks Willamette : By TJHTTED PRJSS Willamette university, pre season favorite in the Northwest football conference, suffered .a 40-0 defeat at the hands of tough College of Puget Sound at Salem Saturday night College of Idaho, led by speedy Ted Martin who raced to five touchdowns, defeated Montana State college, 38-26, at Bozeman Saturday night to give the con ference its only win during the opening week end of the season. Pacific university, playing on its home field at Forest Grove, had to come from behind in the last quarter to tit Western Washington college, 12-12. At Spokane, outmanned Lin field was the victim of a ram paging Whitworth elevent that scored &n easy 204) victory. The games were all non-con ference. SMITH TAKES CROWN Portland OI.R) Bob Smith of Portland, who held the Oregon Senior golf crown in 1947, re captured it Saturday by conquer ing Marty Leptich, Portland, in a match that carried to the 22nd hole. . In the das AA division, Clay ton Sharp, Portland, defeated Roy Wood, Portland, 2 and 1, to take honors in the division. Standings NATIONAL. LEAGUE W. L. Pet. OR Brooklyn 102 48 .680 .597 12 a .344 20 k .537 21 .456 33 "a .436 36 j .422 38', .327 33 is Milwaukee s so St. Louis SO 67 Philadelphia 80 69 New York 68 81 Cincinnati 65 84 Chicago 62 85 Pittsburgh ... 49 101 Sanday. salts Pittsburgh S. New York 4 Brooklyn 5. Philadelphia 4 Philadelphia 3. Brooklyn 1 Cincinnati 3. Milwaukee 3 Milwaukee 3. Cincinnati 0 St. Louis 11. Chicago 6 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. New York 97 49 Cleveland . 88 61 Chicago i . 86 63 Boston 81 69 Washington 73 74 Detroit 39 91 Philadelphia , 37 92 St. Louis 53 97 Pet. CB .391 10'i J77 12 , .340 18 303 23 'i .393 40 .383 41a .333 46 8 assay's Basalts New York 10, Boston 8 Philadelphia 13. Washington Philadelphia 4. Washington 3 Detroit 8. Cleveland 6 Clereland 6. Detroit 3 Chicago 4, St. Louis 0 Chicago 8, St Louis a Monday, Uvptnabn SI 1SSS Rollie Takes Bitterness Into Scuffle By OSCAR FRA1XY New York (U.FD Rocky Marciano defends the heavy- weight championship of the world against Roland LaStarza on Thursday night and from this corner it looks .like simply a question of how long it will take the bomb to go off. Not that this won't be a good hassle, while it lasts. LaStarza has a lot of bitterness within him because his first defeat was a narrow decision loss to Mar ciano three and a half years ago and the Rock has dodged him ever since. The Man Is Mistaken But Rollicking Rollie seemsH from nere, to be making a ter rific mistake. . He has been sounding off on the theory that Marciano hasn't improved in that span at time. Ordinarily you would take that as ticket talk, designed to pro mote the magnitude of the gath ering. But LaStarza actually seems i to believe his pronounced theory. Possibly ht is giving himself a psychological lift. Maybe this purposed LaStar za disdain is designed to help him make his way unaided through the ropes Thursday night, something number of Joe Louis' rivals found impos sible. But psychology ever has been found to be a poor, cushion against a sun clout to the whis kers. For Rollicking Rollie s infor mation, Marciano has come quite a -piece since they last engaged id fisticuffs back in 1980. The Brockton Block Buster actually has progressed tremendously in the year ht has ruled the div ision. L Buchanan Triumphs in Hiimimb Honor came to Larry Buchan an, a Medford boy, trophy tri umph mounted, yesterday in the motorcycle hill-climb event spon sored by the Rogue River Ram blers when he not only won the trophy for the day's rides but also the purse of the fastest ride over the top of the hill. Buchanan's ride on the hill on the Walker ranch in the Sams Valley district was spectacular from the start He rode his ma chine standing on the foot boards and with his front wheel raised off the ground for at least 30 feet. The hill was one which the promoters considered tough and they doubted that the top would be reached. Floyd Young, Talent, was sec ond, and Don Sample, Medford, third. Penty of ThrOls There were plenty.of thrills in this hill-climb with several of the riders looping' their equip ment on the hill, only to have their machines come rolling down the steep bank. One rider, not only lost control of his ma chine but he also somersaulted along in the air with the cycle. Immediately after the hill climb the spectators were asking for more, so some qualifying heat laps were taken on the race track - with lap money posted. This event brought out some riders who did not enter the hill climb. Sample won this event closely followed by Chuck Krause, Medford. Next event was the popular "dig-put" It called for speed shifting, acceleration and horse power. Sample, who was riding a 74 Harley-Davldson road ma chine, won this event along with a very good cash purse. The Rogue River Ramblers are planning another event before winter, a motorcycle round-up, with all cycle events, such as hill-climb, field meet and race to be in the program. ECHOLS VICTOR Richmond, Calif. flJ.PJ Wes Echols, young San Francisco middleweight decisioned Russ Gillan of Los Angeles in a fast 10-round middleweight match at the Richmond auditorium Satur day. Echols, 157, outboxed his foe to score his 17th win in 18 professional fights. TRABERT TO MARRY Los Angeles (UJ0 U. S. Na tional tennis champion Tony Trabert will marry Shuana Wood, Miss Utah, in Salk Lake City Oct 28. Announcement of the impending wedding was made yesterday at the finals of the Pacific Southwest tennis fi nals here. CHEMICAL TREATMENT Portland flJ.R) The State Game Commission said that Elk and Dunlap lakes, north of De troit in the Willamette National forest would undergo chemical treatment next week to remove an undesirable population of bullhead catfish. TOSSES NO-HITTER Miami (U.PJ John Skolnicki pitched the first no-hitter of the World Softball Tournament here last night and drove in the winning run at Midland, Mich., defeated the Elmendorf- Air Force team from Anchorage, Alaska, 2-0. Ik If . . WOLFE SCORES KAYO Indian Dick Wolfe, left, is shown scoring a one-punch knockout ovefhla hapless foe in a recent match at Klamath Falls. Wolfe posts his northwest middleweight championship against the punches of Josa Aguilar in the 10-round main event at Merrick's arena tomorrow night. Three other matches complete the card with the first one going ringward at 8:30 p.m. ' Q " - Fumbles, Interceptions Hurt SOCE Loses to OCE By UNITED PRESS Oregon Tech and Oregon Col lege of Education, only two Ore gon collegiate conference teams to open the football season last week end, posted convincing vic tories in non-league games. The Oregon Tech Owls, paced by Odle Canada and Len Gene tin, rolled over Olympic JC, 46- 21 at Klamath Falls Saturday night OCE trounced Southern Oregon College of Education, 40-14, in a Shrine benefit game at Coos Bay. Fumbles and interceptions were costly to the Red Haiders of Southern .Oregon in their scramble at Coos Bay. The first fumble was on the Aussie Notion Win From Yanks Los Angeles U.R) Ken Rose- wall and Lewis Head, Austral ia's teen-age tennis stars, today were causing United .States ten nis adherents to wonder if the U. S. would ever regain world tennis supremacy. The speculation began after the Australian duo defeated the United Etates' top tennis stars Vic Seixas and Tony Trabert in the men's singles and doubles championships at the Pacific Southwest Tennis Tournament yesterday. Rosewall performed the big job of the day when he defeated Wimbledon champion Vic Seixas 6-4, 1-8, 3-8, 6-1, 8-4 to win the men's singles title. He had de feated U.S. national champion Tony Trabert to enter the final round play against Seixas. In the doubles play, Hoad join ed with Rosewall to beat Seixas and Trabert in straight sets 17- 19, 6-3, 6-2. BULLHEAD THREATEN Portland U.R) The State Game Commission 'said that the presence of young bullhead cat fish in Detroit reservoir, newly created impoundment on the north Santiam river, posed a threat to future angling possi bilities there. The Commission said it was "anyones' guess" as to how they got there. The reser voir has been stocked with small rainbow. Dead Una for Sunday Classified is at nooa Saturdays. UNION . Sid Rivmida Special NOW GIVING GREEN Featuring . . . TRY US for Excellent Servicel opening kick-off which OCE re covered on the Raider 18-yard line. Chuck Pinion plunged over the goal a short time later and kicked the extra point. OCE also recovered the next kick-off to the Ashland eleven. The Wolves took over on the SOC 34 and a few plays later Kaye Booth went oyer from the three. Pinion again booted the extra point. In the third ' quarter the Wolves added their third touch down on a 15-yard run by Booth. The Raiders came back to score twice in that period on plunges by Len Heston and Ken Kimura bounced to both extra counters. During the fourth quarter OCE drove 62-yarda for one TD and pass interceptions set up two o tners. Bruises Retire Dancer For Year New York U.PJ Some New York horsemen were whispering today that Native Dancer may have run his last race, but the gray champion's trainer doesn't think so. The nation's most popular race horse was retired for the year Saturday because of an out cropping of new bruises on his left forefoot ruining any plans for a . match race between the Dancer and Tom Fool during the 1993 campaign. Williams Cards 292 in Reno Test Reno (U.PJ Eric Monti of Los Angeles picked up $1000 prize money today for his victory in the $7500 northern California- Reno golf open which he won with a 15-under par total of 273, Bob Duden of Portland was amone the leaders with 283. Al Williams of Medford trail ed the leaders with a 292. He shot a 73 on the final day. .Berseem Sprints To 'Gate' Record Albany, Calif. XU.R) Abe Hirschberg's Berseem ran the fastest six furlongs ever credit ed to a three-year-old, 1:08 4-5 Saturday, to win the $15,000 Berkeley Handicap at Golden Gate fields. 1 CMS' SERVICE - Mwim 3-91 9 STAMPS 7600 Gasoline Royal Triton Oils Stop Wear Lubrication U. S. Tires Indians Next. On Tornado Game Slate Work, work, work, is in store for the Medford high school Black Tornado this week as it preps for its first game, away from home this season. The Medford gridders play at Roseburg. this Friday. It will be the first of four straight contests on rival fields. Next appearance of the Tornado on its home turf will be against Eureka, CaL, on October 23. Weekend reports indicated that .the Medf ordites came through last Friday's clash with Crater in good shape physically, with nobody badly banged up. Bui, as sometimes happens, an ailment could come to light 4n the first turnout of the week. Medford was missing one tad in the Crater fray. Gary Strong who bruised a thigh muscle last week, suited up but did not get into action. The Tornado squad probably will bet a good review of most all points of the game in prac tices this week. Coach Frtd Spiegelberg said that a lot of attention would be given- to downfield blocking. The .Roseburg fray will be the first showing to the Black Tornado what it can expect in Medford's A-l district Klam ath Falls, Tornado conference and district foe, trimmed Rose burg 24 toxO on Friday, Com parative scores art not always reliable but Medford's perform ance against Roseburg should give at least some idea of what it will be up against when it travels to Klamath Fall on Oc tober 18. Sports Writers Pick Brooklyn Mew York 'U.PJ The Brook lyn Dodgers may not be the fa vorites with the bookmakers, but they're the choice of the major leagues' sportswriters to beat the Yankees in the World Series. Out of 147 writers who partici pated in the annual United Press p re-World Series survey, 78 picked the Dodgers to win and 69 liked the Yankees. There wen 40 who liked the Dodgers in six games and 38 picked the Yankees in tlx. In a sevengamt series, 23 liked the Yankees and 20 voted for the Dodgers. 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"Winning 20 games gave me a bigger kick that those two no hitters I pitched last year," beamed the Jubilant 34-year-old righthander after scattering five hits and beating the Browns, 5-2, in the nightcap of a double header yesterday. - Rookie Bob Keegan limited the Browns to three hits as the White Sox also captured the op ener, 4-0. Southpaw Whitey Ford of the Yankees beat the Red Sox, 10-3 for his 18th victory. Billy Mar tin's three-run homer proved the clincher in the sixth. Garde's Ifth . , Mike Garcia of Cleveland also registered his 18th victory of the season with a seven-hit 6-3 tri umph over Detroit in the night cap after the Tigers had taken the opener, 8-6. The Athletics swept a twin bill from Washington, rookie Bob Trice gaining credit for the 134 conquest in the opener and DO YOU Ml... 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Milwaukee's final home date at tracted 36,011, giving the Braves' a new National league home at tendance record with a total of 1,826,397. Home runs by Stan Musial and Al Schoendienst helped Gerry Staley to his 18th victory as the Cardinals cuffed the Cubs, 11-6, while Cal Brams of the Pirates smashed a grand slam homer off loser Ruben Gomiz to give his team an 8-4 decision over the Giants. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 am. Monday tor Monday: other days 5 JO previous day. Optional Equipment Extra PHONE 24241
