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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) A-2 District Toga Picture Still Cloudy Tha District 6 A-2 southern division football title situation was (till clouded this morning as both Crater and Ashland high schools sought decisions in their favor.. The muddle, of course, arose out of Crater and Ash land's 7 to 7 deadlock last Fri day night. Champ of the divi sion will play the northern win ner, probably Coquille, on No vember S lor the district toga. Dec'sion on the issue is up to the district committee, Glenn Hale, Eagle Point; Ray Karp, Myrtle Creek, and Wayne Mc Murray, Coquille, all principals of their schools. ' Ashland presented " its case Saturday , and Crater contacted the district committeemen this morning with - its contentions. Tha Grizzlies of the Lithia city seek the nod on the basis of more yardage from rushing and pass ing and on : more first 'downs. Claim of the Crater Comets is based on playing more distritt Not Bound by Statistics Roland Park, Ashland prin cipal, has pointed out that the committee is in no way bound to decide the. issue on statistics and could call for a vole by member schools of the division. The Crater contention by Prin cipal Arthur Straus is that it plays all four division opponents while Ashland has scheduled only two. At present the Ash land standing in the district is only one win and one tie while Crater has won twice and tied once. Still on the Comet slate, however, is a- fray set for next Friday with Eagle Point, a divi sion member. Ashland claims forfeits from Illinois Valley and Eagle Point, district members which declined to schedule them. Crater .feels that stand is not right. On the district minutes last year tr the year before, accord ing to Straus and Comet Coach Leonard Warren, is the stipula tion that every division team must .play every other team to be in title contention. It doesn't seem right, Warren said, that a team with only one win should represent the district . "Why should we be punished," he add ed. Countering the Ashland statistics claim, pointed out tdo that Crater threatened most in the game last Friday. : , Ashland played Phoenix in addition to Crater. The Comets have encountered Phoenix, Mi nols Valley and Ashland and have Eagle Point still on sched ule in a game which could clinch the Rogue loop toga for Crater or cause a three-way tie with the Eagles and Phoenix. Willamette, CI Remain Knotted In NW Circuit By UNITED PRESS . Willamette and College of Idaho both won league victories Saturday to remain tied for the lead In Northwest Conference play with three -wins and no losses. f -V The Willamette Bearcats downed Linfield 26-13 at Salem while C of I defeated Pacific University 20-12 in a close match at Caldwell. The two were the only conference games scheduled. Lewis and Clark college hosted Western Washington College of Education at Portland, defeating the Evergreen conference mem' ber 27-6 with four touchdowns scored in the second half. Whit' man also won a non-league vic tory, taking a 23-12 win over Eastern Oregon at La Grande. Lewis and Clark and Whit men, who have won one and lost one league game, will have a chance to scramble the stand ings next week, The Pioneers are scheduled to host Willamette, while College of Idaho travels to Whitman at Walla Walla. Linfield moves out of the con ference for perhaps the toughest gamo of the week, hosting un defeated Whltworth of the Ever green conference. Pacific plays Oregon College of Education at Forest Grove. Chico Livens Far West Loop With 40-0 Victory . By UNITED PRESS The Far West Football confer ence race grew very warm for October today as Chico State's Wildcats barked into a three way tie for first place with San Francisco State and Humboldt State. Chico walloped Sacramento State 40-0 Saturday night to rack up Its second FWC victory - against no defeats while hereto fore winesa Nevada downed the California Aggies 13-0 in anoth er league tilt. Stanford's Junior varsity de feated Humboldt State 31-13 in a non-conference game and San Francisco State was idle. RECORD CLAIMED Vienna, Austria (U.R) Ac cording to Prague radio, Russia's Vladimir Kuc Saturday broke the newly set 8,000 meters dis tance record, Kuc was clocked at 13:51.2, four-tenths of a sec ond the previous record set by Chris Chataway of England just 10 days ago. MAIL TRIBUNE Fanfare By DICK JEWETT Mail Trlbiina Sport Editor Attention of the Medford hlgn football gang shifts this week from one good mudder to an other. Striving to redeem them' selves after last Thursday's loss to Eureka in the muck at Ar eata, Calif., the Black Tornado players go out against one of Oregon's powerhouses this Fri day night when they travel to Coos Bay for a game with Marsh field high. And take it from Medford Jay- vee Coach Frank Roelandt, Who saw Marshfield lick Eugene at Eugene 30 to 13 last week end, the Golden Pirates run good in the mud, too. "They looked like they owned it," Roelandt re ported. He said that the Pirates have a heavy line and that left halfback Johnny Johnson pro vided the spark. ., . TITANIC CLASH - Madford and Marshfisld, a pair of titans, .will engage in on of the highlight struggles in the state on Friday with their rankings of No. 1 and No. 3, respectively, in Oregon last week. Those positions, however, may be changed at least slightly when coach and sportswriter poll results are revealed Tuesday. Marthfield's stock rose considerably with tha convincing decision over the Axemen. Medford's defeat by the Californians had no bearing on the Oregon scene but seems almost bound to have some affect on the poll ing. . VORNADO NOT UP The Black Tornado setback at the hands of Eureka can be at tributed to a big extent to over confidence. Then, the Loggers were fired high for the game both from the fact that they were out to dump Oregon's No. 1 and that they eye an unbeaten season as a retirement award for Coach Jay Willard, who quits after this season, his 29th. Med ford Just wasn't up for the fray, according to Coach Bob New land. The Tornado was just out played.. WORST WEATHER The Loggers had some pre vious experience with wet weather this year while the Tornado had not but Willard told Newland that nothing the Loggers had faced this season had been as bad as conditions on the Areata gridiron. New land passed along a comment by Medford Halfback Rocky Stone who said that after the first three minutes of the game one couldn't tell who was 'blocking and who was tack-, ling. Rocky said one play he was expecting a block from a player and that man tackled him. RESERVES SHINE The backfleld mentor reDortod that reserve Linemen Bill Dyer and Dave Peterson played fine ball and that Back Mike Haw kins was a pillar on both offense and defense. Eureka "played Stone strong," and were shoot ing two linebackers, Newland re ported. HARD WORK AHEAD While the Black Tornado strives to get back "up" for the Marshfield mix, there's plenty of herd practice in store. Monday workouts are usually light but Head Coech Fred Splegelberg indicated that the Medtordites will go at It heavy today with contact work planned. The Tornado, having played on Thursday, of course got an extra day of rest over the week end. It was a day spent in traveling, how ever, as the club returned to Medford. ; LARSON SCAMPERS Inadvertently claved down In Saturday's mad rush of prepar ing me Sunday sports page was Wally Larson's 80-yard-run for a touchdown for the Medford jun ior varsity against Ashland. It was one of the week end grid highlights in this area along with LeRoy Johnson's 80-yarder ior xne junior nign against Klanv ath. Johnny Bratton Tussles Varona New York U.R Johnny Bratton will try to prove tonight that welterweight champion Johnny Saxton was solely re sponsible for the worst fight in TV-boxing history at Philadel phia last 'February. ., " - Bratton, who once held the National Boxing association's version of the welterweight title, make his first comeback start to night since his historically hor rible fiasco with Saxton last Feb. 24. His opponent Is sluseor Chico Varona of Cuba, fifth -ranking welterweight contender. Their 10-roundcr at St.'Nicholas arena will be televised.' Tonight's test performance Is doubly significant because of the accusations made by Kid Gavi lan against Saxton after last Wednesday night's pathetic Phil adelphia title fight in which Cu ban Gavilnn lost the 147-pound crown to New Yorker Saxton. It was the first "bad" fight ever turned in by the Cuban ' Kced. He blamed dullness entirely on Saxton'a bulling, clinching and wrestling tactics. Monday, Ociobat 25. 1954 Nine Major Teams Stay v Unblemished ... - By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer It's another Monday of head aches and hangovers, today for several of the nation s highest- rankr, iutball teams, but the beginning of another bright and shiny new week for those rapidly-rising grid titans Ohio State, UCLA, and Army. - Those three were the biggest winners of an upset-ridden week end that saw no less than 29 teams blasted from the perfect- record list, including four mem bers of the country's "top 10" Wisconsin. Mississippi, Minne sota, and Colorado. A total of 81 teams still are unbeaten and untied, including Just nine major teams. Ohio State came through with one of the weekend's most im portant triumphs by rising out of its No. 4 national ranking to upset second-ranked Wisconsin, 31-14, and move a long stride nearer a Rose Bowl berth, Wis consin had a 7-3 halftime lead but the Buckeyes took the lead on an 88-yard touchdown run and then smothered the Badgers with three touchdowns in the last period. . , UCLA Rolls On Third -ranked UCLA, which last week handed Stanford its worst beating in history, 72-0, followed up by handing Oregon State the worst beating in its history, 61-0, and moved a long stride nearer the other berth in the Rose Bowl. The Bruins rolled up nine touchdowns, starting 2V4 minutes after the opening whis tle. .- Army, ranked ninth, gave Columbia one of the worst lick ings in the Lions' history, 67-12, and thus improved strongly its changes in emblematic of East ern gridiron supremacy. Boston University, which led the Lam bert balloting last week, was one of the major upset victims, bow ing to Holy Cross, 14-13. Mississippi, ranked fifth, was upended by Arkansas, 6-0, when the Razorbacks scored with three minutes to play on a 66- yard pass play from Buddy Ben son to .Preston carpenter, xne game was counted as a South eastern Conference game for Mississippi, by special permis sion of the leegue to fill out the Rebels', schedule, and the loss cost them their leadership of the league. Minnesota, ranked sixth, was crushed by an aroused Michigan squad, '34-0, as injuiad Tony Bianoff cama off the bench to spark the Wolverine attack and scorn one TD. The stunning win catapulted Michigan into the Rose Bowl picture with a 3-0-0 Big Ten record compared to pace-making Ohio State's 4-0-0. Colorado Looses Lead Colorado, ranked 10th, was dealt a 20-6 beating by Nebraska that cost the Buffaloes the lead in the Big Seven race. Oklahoma, the nation's No. 1 tram, punched stolidly to a 21-0 decision over Kansas, adding little luster but showing some mercy by sticking mostly to ground plays and staying on the road to an unbeaten season. ' Notre Dame, ranked sixth, was the only team in the "top 10" to remain idle but must have received plenty to worry about with the news that Navy, the Irish foe this Saturday, had bounced back from its upset by Pittsburgh to swamp Pennsyl vania, S2-6. George Schneiter Nabs Golf Crown Sunnyside, Wash. (U.R) George Schneiter of Salt Lake City won the annual Banana Belt Open golf championship here yesterday with a nlne-under-par 207 for the 54 hole test. Second place went to Ken Towns, Ft. Lewis, Wash., pro who carded a 211. Joe Steiger of Eugene, Ore., finished with a 213; John Lang ford, Portland pro, and Ralph Dlchter, Astoria amateur, both got 218s. Harold West of Eugene scored a 219 and Bill Walton of Pendleton got a 222. GRIDDERS PLEAD INNOCENT Seattle (U.R) Two Univer sity of Washington football play ers, charged with having sex relations with a 15-year-old girl. pleaded innocent in Superior Court yesterday. The players George Strugar and Bert Wat son, both 20, were suspended from the team and participation in other university activities. FOOTBALL SATURDAY COI.I.EOR GAMES UKt It Clark 37. Wntern Waah. 8. Oresnn Collectt S4. Southern Ore gon IS. Pacific Lutheran 25, Eastern Ore gon is. ureg-on -rern n, Portland state IS Puset Sound 8. Central Waah. O Whltworth 37. BrIUlh Columbia 8 Waah. Staia Frrxth 44. Centralis J 17 pomona-ciaretnont 14, occidental 7 Eastern Montana 13. Mont. Mlnea 0 Punet Sound 8. Central Waah. 0. McMtirray 4. Calif. Poly i4 Utah State 20. Colorado A AM 14 l;.V.lail. 34, Laverr.e 0 Fresno Slate 36, Santa Barbara. 30 Willamette 2S, Linfield 13 Collene of Idaho 30, Parltla IT. 1 Stanford Bravea 31, Humboldt St. 13 Kardln-Slmmona 13, Ok la. AIM 7 Arizona Tempe 31, W, Texaa St 14 Arltona 41. New Mexico T San Dleno Mar. 33. N. Mex. AfcM 7 Montana St. 27, Weit. Colo. St. 6 Colorado St, 14, Colorado Coll, S, MEDFORDwlTRIBUNE SIPODJFITS n aaaaaaaaaaiaaiaaaaM aa aaa gMl i n arilli m KHfrtlilW "" CHIN UPI Stanford fullback Bill Tarr seems to be getting his face lifted as he is hauled down on theme-yard line by Husky Bill Albrecht with a chin grip. Giving him a big helping hand is Husky Corkey Lewis. Stanford won the game at Palo Alto, 13-7. Forty-Niners Smash Detroit Lions 37-31 By FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer The most devastating ground attack the National Football League has known in more than a decade enabled the San Fran cisco Forty-Niners to take over first place in the Western Di vision today and take a giant stride toward ending the three year reign of the world champion Detroit Lions. With Hugh McElhenny. Joe Perry and John Henry Johnson tearing the massive Detroit line virtually to' ribbons, the i'orty Niners downed the Lions, 37-31, Sunday and remained the league's only undefeated team. The victory was San Francisco's 16th in a row and, marked the end of Detroit's string of 16 straight games without a loss. The Forty-Niners' trio of 200. pound linesmashers gained a to tal of 2U0 yards in 31 tries tor an amazing average of 8.4 yards per crack at Detroit's 245-pound de fensive line, to offset the Lions' 349-157 yard advantage in pass, ing. McElhenny. who sparked a 17' point first period with a 60-yard touchdown dash, gained 126 yards in seven tries, Perry picked up 51 yards in 13 carries and Johnson hammered out 83 yards in 11 assignments. McElhenny, with 457 yards; Perry with 407 and Johnson with 284 now have gained 1,148 yards rushing In five games more than the rushing total of any other team in the league. Sparked by these three great runners, the Forty-Niners gained 1,224 yards on the ground for a game average of 245 yards that would enable them to surpass the league mark of 2,885 yards rushing set up by the Lions in 1938. , . . Tittle Supplements Trio Quarterback Y. A. Tittle sup plied the "cight-yard-a-crack trio" with the air arm it needed, completing 13 of 25 passes and throwing two touchdown passes to end Billy Wilson. The Lions, sparked by Bobby Layne, rallied for 17 points in the second and third periods and then scored 14 points in the final session after Tom Dublinskl took over the passing. Layne was forced out of the game with a head injury during the third period one of numerous injuries suffered by players of both sides in the bruising contest. The New York Giants moved Into a three-way tie for first place In the Eastern Division via a 24-7 triumph over the Wash ington Redskins, while the Los Angeles Rams out-scored the Chicago Bears, 42-38, the Cleve land Browns crushed the Chica go Cardinals, 35-3, and the Green Bay Packers shaded the Baltimore Colts, 7-6, in Sunday's other games. The Pittsburgh Steclcrs beat -the Philadelphia Eagles, 17-7, on Saturday night setting the stage for the three way tie at the top of the Eastern Division standings. Quarterback Norm VanBrock lin completed 16 of 24 passes and received powerful running support from Deacon Towler ond Paul Yminoor a thc Rams re placed the Bears In third place in the Western Division. Younger gained 186 yards in 27 carries and scored two touchdowns and Towler gained 123 yards in 15 tries while scoring three touch downs to help offset a brilliant ;Wi(itiiliiiMftMrwiii)iitiiwH exhibition by .Chicago's George Blanda, who completed 28 of 46 passes for 338 yards and four touchdowns. Graham Sparks Browns Otto Graham sparked the Browns with 16 completions in 24 attempts for 182 yards and now has a season's record of 61 completions on 93 tries for a .656 percentage second highest in the history of the league. Gra ham scored twice on quarterback sneaks and passed 26 yards to Dante Lavelli. Charley Conerly threw three touchdown passes to lead the Giants to their fourth victory in five games but the result was in doubt until midway in the final period when Eddie Price took an underhand toss from Conerly and dashed 26 yards for the clinching touchdown. The loss was the fifth straight for the Redskins who took advantage of a Giant fumble on the 33 to score their tuochdown in the third period. Breezy Reid plunged over from the two-yard-line to give the Packers their victory after the Colts fumbled on the seven. DYKES VS. DURANDO Milwaukee U.R) Veterans Bobby Dykes and Ernie Duran do will meet tonight in a middle weight bout which may give the winner a crack at Bobo Olson's title, but the referee for another fight on the card took the spot light away from them. Heavy-' weight Champion Rocky Mar ciano makes his first official Milwaukee appearance to referee a six-round, scmi-wlndup be tween lightweights Norman Johnson, Milwaukee, and Ralph Cervantes, Rockford, 111. THE TRUCK THAT CAN GO WHERE OTHERS CAN'T WIWS CHEAT STAMINA MAPI 539 NOW HAS Will get sand, ice, This is 113 HP, gine that Koktr-WHytSJn WvWea, WIUYI STEVENS KAISER-WILLYS, Inc. 505 North Central Medford, Ore OCE Wolves Humble SOC Eleven 34-13 . By UNITED PRESS The Oregon Tech Owls soar ed into the lead in Oregon Col legiate Conference ' standings Saturday by their whopping 54 18 victory over the Portland and State Vikings at Klamath Falls. The Owls remained the only undefeated team in the confer ence with two wins when Ore gon College knocked Southern Oregon from the unbeaten rolls with a 34-13 win Saturday night. Eastern Oregon, in a 'non league game, lost 'to the Whit man Missionaries, 23-12. Oregon Tech takes a confer ence breather .this weekend, travelling . to Olympic Junior College. Oregon College ' plays Pacific at Forest Grove in anoth er league game, and Eastern Oregon plays Portland State at Portland in the only UUU game scheduled. Southern Oregon is idle. , :. . . . . -i . , OCE 21-6 at Half Monmouth The Oregon Col lege of Education Wolves scored in every quarter Saturday night to club the southern uregon col lege football aggregation 34 to 13 and knock the Red Raiders out of the Oregon Collegiate Conference leadership. The Wolves headed 21 to 6 at halftime. Larry Buss tallied ' for the Wolves on an 18-yard run in the first quarter. Don Lumgair rac ed 85 yads in- the second canto for a TD and Bill McHenry ran 19, yards for a score. Chuck Christensen touchdowned from one-yard out in the third panel and took a pass interception 40 yards for a TD in the fourth. A 25-yard pass play, Bill Sey mour to LeRoy Springer, got a Raider touchdown in the fourth period. Jim Wright crossed the goal in the second quarter on two jaunts of 11 yards. Southern Oregon was tops in statistics with 15 first downs to OCE's six and 182 net yards to 169 rushing. The Raiders passed 26 times with 16 completions for 160 yards. The Wolves connect ed on three of six tosses lor zi yards. Papers Signed For A's Transfer Philadelphia (U.R) The papers transferring ownership of the Philadelphia Athletics to the new group of eight Philadelphia businessmen were all signed to day and ready for inspection by the American League. - One of the Mack family's at torneys was scheduled to take the papers to Chicago today to place them before league Pres ident William . Harridge. The actual transfer of the purchase money from the syndicate to the Macks was. expected to take place late today. Part-owner Roy Mack com pleted the signing of the papers at about 12:05 a.m. EST when he added his signature. The other Macks, and all eight mem bers of the syndicate, had signed Sunday to wind-up a week's work on the papers by attorneys for both the syndicate and the Macks. , - Although the Macks' Intention to sell their stock to the group, which will keep the club in Philadelphia, was announced last Sunday, official league approval of the action has sa far been withheld.' Harridge explained on Friday this was' so because Roy told him, "the proper time" had not yet arrived. High School Scores ' SATURDAY GAMES Klamath Falls IS. Reno. Nev. 7 . Knappa 31, Naaaelle, Waah. 8. ' ONI TON 4-WHEEL-DRIVE TRUCK HO. POWER your payload through mud, snow and up 60 grades. the great NEW 6-cylinder, Super-HstmVeMf L-Head en. NOW gives the Willys Truck luvjrui rower. COME IN ANO Sn THIS GREAT WIttYS TRUCK MADE IT THE WORLD'S URGEST MAKER 0E 4-WHEEl-DRIVI VEHICLES MOTOII, INC" Furgol Chosen' Golfer of Year Chicago (U.R) U. S. Open winner Ed Furgol, who made himself a golf champion despite a crippled left arm, has been named 1954 professional golfer of the year. , : Furgol, of St. Louis, beat out young Bob Toski, the year's leading money winner, 417V4 to 367 V4 in voting by 802 of the nation's pro golfers, newsmen and golf officials. The Profes sional Golfers association an nounced the results Sunday. , The honor went to Furgol largely on his victory in this year's Open, the climax of a long career of following the PGA tournament circuit. Toski's top performance this year was his victory In the Tarn O'Shanter "World Championship of Golf." He has pocketed $65, 891.24 this year and won three other tournaments besides the World." PGA champion Chick Harbert was third in the balloting with 30 votes. He was followed by in Coming Soon... Cobksey Motor Co. STUDEBAKER-PACKARD dealer v vSl (f. CeVERYONE READsi) ILff AND USES f r1 THE LOW COST WAY TO ACTION and PROFIT Phone iFrnm Frvinn Pm' a - - J 3 Mil .. Info Fire This Week for OSC Portland U,R) It's out of the fire and Into the frying pal, for Oregon State college this week, while the University of Washington Huskies should find themselves in the same predica ment against the Oregon Ducks. Oregon State, lucky to by alive after being broiled 61-0 by the powerful UCLA team at Corval lis Saturday, are matched against the Southern California Trojans . this week end In the Los Ange les Memorial' coliseum. , Both the Trojans, who are urn defeated in PCC play this year and the ' coliseum, which carl hold a sizable portion of Ore gon's population, should be more than a match for the Beavers. Gene Littler, Sam Snead, Gene sarazen, Dutch Harrison, Walt Burkemo. PGA President Hitn. Smith, Jerry Barber, Marty Fur gol, Lloyd Mangrum and Ben Hogan. . A few line In the classified d lection of this newspaper can turn spare room into extra income, or will help you sell items you no longer need for quick cash! Phono in your WANT AD today. 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