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EIGHT- MEDFORD (OREGON) Lions, Browns Win; Forty-Niners Nicked As Pro Races Tighten By EARL WRIGHT Uniled Past Sporls Writer Timely triumphs by the de fending champion Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns plus three upset victories by underdogs made the National Football League's division races tight as wet shoes today with 10 of the 12 teams at the halfway marks in their 12-game schedule. The leaders staggered out of the week end action with the Philadelphia Eagles, Pittsburgh Steelers and New York Giants still tied for the Eastern lead with 4-2 records. But the Browns, who started slowly in their bid to win the division crown for the fifth straight time, now are 3-2 and only a half-game behind. The Lions, seeking a third straight Western Division and playoff title, again are tied with the San Francisco Forty-Niners for the Western lead. San Fran cisco has a 4-1-1 record and De troit is 4-1. Ties don't count in the NFL. The Green Bay Packers began the wave of upsets Saturday night. They r -."-e 11-point un derdogs but th.ustied the Eagles, 37-14. The Chicago Cardinals Shaw Could Be In Spot Like Larson COAST CONFERENCE League Games W L T PP PA 0 0 181 26 UCLA Southern Calif. ..4 ..4 ..3 0 126 41 0 127 76 0 57 122 Oregon . Stanford ..2 Wash. State .2 71 98 10 54 77 06 51 67 26 146 Idaho California Washington Oregon State . All Games UCLA Southern Calif. W 7 .6 T PF PA 0 292 40 0 172 75 Oregon -..4 159 90 Stanford Wash. State Idaho ..4 ..3 ..2 ..2 ..2 ..1 S2 161 103 138 45 153 California 148 144 Washington Oregon State 65 121 33 173 By JACK HAYS Portland (U.R) Quarter back George Shaw and the Uni versity of Oregon football team are likely to find themselves in a position similar to Paul Lar son and the California Bears last Saturday when the Web foots meet the UCLA Bruins at Los Angeles this week end. The Bruins, top-ranked - na tionally allowed Larson 280 yards through the air Saturday and still beat Cal 27-6. Oregon, which is coming of age as a team has shown by its 26-7 victory over Washington last weekend, evidently has the potential to battle the Bruins but it will take more than Shaw's talented arm. OSC To Minnesota Oregon State is due for a trip to Minneapolis to meet Minne sota. After successive week ends against UCLA and USC, top teams on the Pacific Coast, the Beavers won't be scared and may put up their best effort of the season. Shaw accounted for nearly half of the Duck's total yardage in Seattle, passing for 183 yards and adding 14 on the ground. Oregon ran up 223 yards rush ing for one of its best balanced offense efforts this year. Johnson Remains Optimistic on Atheletics Deal Philadelphia (U.R) Arnold Johnson wants to confer again with his attorneys but he's "still optimistic" that he'll be able to buy the Philadelphia Athletics and move them to Kansas City. Johnson, Chicago realtor who heads a Kansas City group, made that observation Sunday before leaving here for Chicago. Johnson said he would discuss the admittedly "confused" sit uation with his attorney in Chi cago "to look over the situation and make a final decision," but he refused to outline what de cision he was considering. There were reports he is considering revising his $3,375,000 offer for the franchise. Add To Confusion "I'm not going to say any thing more now because it would just add to the confusion," said Johnson. "However, I'm still op timistic as to the future of the team in Kansas City and I still think it's the logical move." Johnson's offer for the A's al ready has been approved once by the American League, at the club owners meeting in Chicago, Oct. 12. Last week the owners, meeting in New York', refused to approve the sale of the Ath letics to a syndicate of eight Philadelphia businessmen. RYFF VERSUS DAVIS New York (U.R) Frankie Ryff , unbeaten young New York lightweight contender, meets veteran Henry Davis of Hawaii in a widely televised test fight tonight at Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway Arena. - The Plaza Hotel at San Juan Bautista, built in 1856, was a popular hospice for stage travel ers and visitors to California in pioneer days. - MAIL TRIBUNE were Sunday's biggest underdogs 20 points but edged the Steel ers, 17-14. Hill Scores Four Several hours later at San Francisco, Harlon Hill snared his fourth touchdown pass of the day with 25 seconds to go and the Chicago Bears 10-point un derdogs handed the Forty-Niners their first 1954 defeat, 31-27. At Los Angeles, 74,342 fans saw the Lions show how and why they have dominated the league the last two years. The champ ions made every break count and came from behind twice to edge the Rams, 27-24. At Cleveland, the Browns re covered a New York fumble early in the third period and turned it into the decisive touch down in their 24-14 victory. The Redskins also furnished a mild surprise in Sunday's other game. They were seven-point underdogs at Washington but posted their first 1954 victory by edging the Baltimore Colts, 24-21, on Vic Jannivicz' first NFL field goal. Hill, a six-foot, three-inch rookie end from Alabama Teach ers College, put on the week end's top individual performance as the Bears downed the league's only remaining undefeated team before 53,000. He scored on 47, 20 and 12 yard passes from George Blanda before Ed Brown threw him the 66-yarder that beat the Forty-Niners in the clos ing seconds. . McElhenny Injured Only 36 seconds before the gun, Gordie Soltau had given San Francisco a 27-24 lead with a 24-yard field goal. Besides the loss, San Francisco suffered an other hard blow when halfback Hugh McElhenny, the circuit's top ground gainer, suffered -a shoulder separation late in the last quarter. Doctors said he probably would be out for the rest of the season. . The Lions scored their de cisive touchdown when Bob Hoernschemeyer ended an 80 yard march with a 28-yard dash in the. final period. Each team scored three TDs but Doak Walk er booted field goals of 33 and 24 yards while Les Richter kicked only an 11-yarder for the losers. Leon Hart, 265-pound end, stole the ball from Skeet Quinlan and dashed 22 yards for Detroit's second touchdown. Ollie Matson scored on a 91 yard kickoff return and on an 18-yard pass from Lamar Mc Han and Pat Summerall kicked a 24-yard field goal as the Card inals upset the Steelers. The game drew 18,765 fans at Chi cago. Otto Graham scored twice on quarterback sneaks and threw a 16-yard TD pass to Dante La velli to lead the Browns to vic tory before 30,448 fans. Tobin Rote fired three scoring passes to end Max McGee as the Packers surprised the Eagles be for 25,378 fans at Philadelphia. The Bears and Packers now are tied for runner-up honors in the Western race with 3-3 records. Biggest Blow Detroit and Cleveiand have played five games apiece. The other clubs have played six. Biggest blow to the Forty Niners, even more than Chi cago's win, was the injury Mc Elhenny received when "he was tackled late in the final period. Doctors at Palo Alto hospital said the separation would almost certainlv prevent McElhenny from playing again this year. They said he would be operated on toaay. The former University of Washington. ail-American has been the sustaining force behind the Forty-Niners running attack and the outlook was gloomy for San Francisco's remaining ix games. There was the barest chance McElhenny would be back be fore the end of the season, but team physician William O'Grady said he was "only being realis tic" in predicting no more games for the halfback this season. CI Coyotes Left In NW Loop Lead By UNITED PRESS Willamette was bumped from the top of the Northwest Con ference standings Saturday after noon, leaving the league leader ship in the possession of College of Idaho. C of I, which eased by Whit man 14-7 at Walla Walla Satur day night, now has four confer nce wins and no defeats. Willam ette fell 23-13 to a fired-up Lewis and Clark team for its first con ference loss. Other conference members had a 50-50 week end in non-league games. Linfield was crushed 41-13 by Whitworth of the Ever green conference, the only unde feated college team in the North west. Pacific defeated Oregon College of Education 19-6. The week end's conference slate takes Whitman to Portland for a game with Lewis and Clark. The league's cellar dwellers, Lin field and Pacific, will be matched at Forest Grove. College of Idaho will host the Seattle Ramblers in a non-conference go, and Willamette takes on College of Puget Sound at Salem. - , . Monday, November I, 1954 Tough Game Still Ahead For Uclans By FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer There's clear sailing in the offing for three of the nation's six unbeaten and untied major powers but the worst is yet to come for UCLA, Ohio State and Cincinnati. Barring upsets that would riv al anything the topsy-turvy sea son already has offered, Okla homa, Arkansas, and Miami (Fla.), should continue unscath ed past teams which have a combined season's record of 36 wins and 30 losses. Only one of the trio's 11 future opponents have escaped with fewer than two losses and two of the teams are under .500 for the year. Oklahoma, which beat Colo rado, 13-6 for its sixth straight victory on .Saturday, meets Iowa State (3-4) next week end and then goes again Missouri (3-3), Nebraska (4-2) and Oklahoma A and M 3-3-1 on successive Sat urdays. Arkansas, still unbeaten after a 14-7 triumph over Texas A&M, takes on Rice (4-2), SMU, (3-2-1), LSU (2-5) and Houston (3-2), while Miami, which butchered Fordham, 75-7, Friday night, meets Auburn (3-3), Alabama (4-2-1) and Florida (4-3). Betting on any of those underdogs would be like risking money on Army's black and blue Knights of the Hudson against the Detroit Lions. No Soft Touches There are no such soft pick ings in prospect, however, for UCLA, Ohio State and Cincin nati, whose combined opponents have a season's record of 41 vic tories and only 13 defeats. , UCLA, 27-6 victor over Cali fornia last Saturday, shouldn't have too much trouble next week end. with an Oregon team which has lost three of its seven games. But then the Uclans run into a real tough one 'on Nov. 20 when they take on Southern California (6-1), the Pacific Coast conference's likely repre sentative in the Rose Bowl. Ohio State, which downed Northwestern, 14-7, for .victory No. 6, still 'must hurdle upset conscious Pittsburgh (3-3), in ad dition to such Big 10 powers as Purdue and Michigan. Pitts burgh has beaten Navy, North western and West Virginia in succession while Purdue is 4-1-1) and Michigan (4-2) for the sea son. . Cincinnati, which slipped by College of Pacific, 13-7, for its seventh straight, goes on to play Arizona State (4-2), Wichita, (5-1) and Miami of Ohio (6-0). Fred Conrad Golf Leader Fred Conrad now has the lead in the men's fall golf handicap tourney at Rogue Valley Coun try club. He put together nets of 76, 65, and 71 for a 212 total for the 54 holes of play and heads three others by one stroke.' Those who completed their three rounds with 213s were Norm Hillyear, Ron Gandee and Paul Meyers. Bud Garfield with a 69 and 72 for a 141 net for two rounds is still in contention for the mantle. ' About 50 men are entered in the tourney. Dead line for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. 7 sponsors say will jY 'p DISCIPLINE FIRSTIt must have been tough but Georgia Tech's head coach, Bobby Dodd (right) blew the whistle which ended the playing days of his star halfback, Bill Teas (left). Teas was benched, along with three other Tech players, for violation of training rules. In last week's game with Kentucky. Teas moved to within two yards of the all time Tech rushing record of 1795 yards. MedforM SIPOTITS Crusaders 33-20 Victors Over Crater High Jayvees St. Mary's high's tricky dou - ble wing offensive carried it to a 33 to 20 decision over the Crater jayvees here Saturday night as the Crusaders played their last contest before enter ing the district play-off. The Medford parochial school touchdowned first in the fracas but the Comet gridders came right back in the first quarter to mske it 6 to 6. In the second quarter the Crusaders took com mand and had a 20 to 6 half time advantage. St. Mary's took a 26 to 6 lead in Ihe third quarter but that stanza wound up 33 to 13 and the Comets tallied again in the final panel. The s Crusaders showed a fine ability to take advantage of the breaks A. long drive after the kick pff got the Crusaders' first TD and Laval Meunier scooted the last 11 yards. Crater got its touchdown "on recovery of a fumble in the end zone. George Juveland passed to Carl KoelL ner who fumbled as he was tackled. The ball bounded across the goal and a Comet fell on it. Read. Scores. in the second a 25-yard pass play, Jim Jones to Stan Read, and a 12-yard run by Read gained the touchdowns. Read and : Meunier ran the conver sions. Pass interceptions by Tim Dugan and Meunier set up both goals. Meunier scampered 37 yards for one third quarter score. The Crusaders had recovered a fum- are affected u be affected .Tribune ;ble on yard line. Crater marched right down the field 59 yards after the kick off. Juveland went the last foot on a keep play and repeated for the extra point. St. Mary's hiked also 59 yards after the Crater kick with Jones spinning the final four and Meunier running the bonus for the 33 to 13 bulge. Crater moved from its own 36 foi the wind up score after SM had been penalized for catch in its own punt. The Comets went down the field in eight plays. Don Goyette went across the goal from six yards out. The conversion buck was good. . The Crusaders, Jackson Coun ty B League champions, en counter Chiloquin, Klamath co titlist, for the District 5B place in state championship quarter finals. The clubs will collide next Saturday afternoon at Mer rill. Baseball. Damage Suit Filing Set Portsmouth, Va. (U.R) Frank D. Lawrence, owner of the Portsmouth Merrimacs " of the Class B Piedmont league, said he expects his huge dam age suit against the National League and baseball Commis sioner Fork Frick to be filed today n Washington, D.C. Lawrence said the amount of damages he will ask will be de termined after a conference! with other minor league owners, but This is how much of the salmon resource "7" sponsors claim will be affected faid AoV, Oregon Salmon Conitrvarion Itogut, Frank 81 Keglers Turn Back Bend; Ladies Lose x Medford men's teams won over Bend quintets in matches at Med ford Bowling lanes on Sunday but the Bend women, aided by a high handicap, took the meas ure of the local ladies. A Medford club made up of Duane Lubbers, Nels' Florey, Travis Mitchell, Hal Schroeder and Bill Hawley, took two games and total pins from a Bend quint in each of two series. The Tally Ho crew won a game and total pins in one series and two games and total pins in the other against the Bend Snoboys. Bend women won both series from Medford. The first Medford men's five won 2783 to 2703 in the initial match. Total pins in the second were not listed. Florey had high series with 579 and 560 in the two contests. Schroeder had high games of 213 and 211. Bill Kol ler rolled a game and series of 249 and 604 in the opener while Ray Wise had 228 and 623 for Bend in the second. George Spaunhorst, Harry Goode, Karl Johnson, Buzz Green and Fred Anderson com bined for series of 2763 and 2773 for Tally Ho to 2757 and 2696 for the Snoboys. Dan Musgrave for Bend had high series of the day with 640 in the first match and Johnson had a 236 game and 613 series' and Green a 595. Green led Tally Ho with a 585 in the second time around and Spaunhorst had a 213 game. Paul Selvy had a 213 game for Bend. Claudia Lowd had 517 and 521 series and one 201 game to head the Medford women. Boots Musgrave had one 558 for Bend and 220 high game. O'Doul Quits At San San Diego, Calif. (U.R) Lefty O'Doul, who quit as man ager of the Pacific Coast League pennant winning . San Diego Padres, said today he "has a few things in the fire" but that they. do not include a possible job as a field manager of the Philadelphia- Athletics. "Those people seem to be much more up in the air than I am," O'Doul, 57, said. The veteran of 20 years in the PCL has been the center of many hot stove league rumors during the past weeks Sunday, Padre President Bill Starr an nounced O'Doul had quit. The parting was a friendly one, Starr said, and added that he would not name a new man ager until after the minor league meeting in Houston, Tex., early in December. - O'Doul had been rumored as Philadelphia field manager and also as leader of the PCL's Oak land Acorns, who lost Charlie Dressen to the Washington Sen ators early this fall. . A likely successor to O'Doul appeared to be Bob Elliott, a veteran of 13 years in the ma jors. Contacted at his home, El liott said he would welcome a chance at running the .Padres. might run as high as $50,000, 000. The Portsmouth owner said he will charge that radio and television broadcasts of major league games into the Ports mouth area had hurt the attend ance at his team's games. Law rence claims the major league clubs have thus violated their agreement to protect the "terri torial rights" of minor league teams. ' . - ; THIS MUCH OR. MORE WILL ACTUALLY BE LOST 4,000,000 POUNDS ANNUALLY L Mooct, Chsrnanj leutt , Iw 200, landon, 0g . Tornado Host This Friday To Crater Comet Gridders Football season is over for varsities of half of Jackson coun ty but the other half will be participants in four games this Friday and Saturday. Two of the conflicts will be for district diadems while the other should have considerable fan appeal. Medford's Black Tornado will be host Friday to the Crater high Comets, the upstart eleven which humiliated it last season. St. Mary's of Medford tackles Chilo quin at Merrill on' Saturday for the District 5B bunting and Ash land will entertain a strong Co quille crew Friday in the play-off for District 6 A-2 honors. Rogue River concludes its sea son with a trip to Glendale on Friday. Grid play is over for Eagle Point, Phoenix, Talent, Jacksonville and Prospect. They will turn to basketball soon. Medford, its prestige battered FOOTBALL SATURDjr COLLEGE GAMES Portland State. 27, Eastern Oregon 13 Pugct Sound 46, British Columbia 6 Central Washington 27, Eastern Washington 13 Whitworth 41, Linfield 13 Santa Barbara' 32, Cal Aggies 0 Pomona-Claremont 60, Cal Tech 6 Redlands 21, Occidental 13 Fresno State 20, North Texas State 0 Arizona 48. West Texas State 12 Arizona (Tempe) State 14, Hardin- Simmons 13 , West. Colo St. 43, Colorado Coll 0 Colorado Mines 18, Colorado St. 6 Los Angeles St. 13, Laverne 7 Pacific Lutheran 7, West. Wash. 6 Pomona-Claremont 60, Calif. Tech. 6 Whitworth 41. Linfield 13 Redlands 21, Occidental 13 Pacific U. 19. Oregon Coll 6 Chico St. 18, Humbold State 7 College of Idaho 14, Whitman 7 . Pepperdine 22, Whittier 6 FlYltlG UEATMG OIL TIDE WATER ASSOCIATED Oil COMPANY A MEDFORD FUEL COMPANY YOUR FLYING HEATING OIL DISTRIBUTOR SINCE 1937 MEDFORD FUEL COMPANY COURT & Me AN DREWS PHONE 2-2111 "7" sponsors claim Oregon would save money . . . FACTS show you would lose at least $3,200,000 in payrolls idle $11,680,000 in , equipment take away at least 25 of new money coming into Oregon for salmon each year by the Marshfield Pirates last week end, will have revenge in mind when it meets the Comets on Friday. Crater, making its gridiron bow against a "big time" foe, clipped the Tornado 20 to 14 last season. The Tornado will have the role of favorite again this time. It is stronger this season while Crater hasn't quite the club it had in 1953. Overconfidence had much to do with the Medford loss last sea son but the Tornado should go into the fray this time with a lesson learned. The game is one both teams and fans of both com munities have looked forward to. A good showing is a "must" for Medford this week if the club has in mind to get itself "up" for lowing week end when it likely will get a second chance at Marshfield. Season tickets will be good for the Crate'r-Medford mix, High School Principal Lester Harris said Saturday. . VOTE FOR DON HANSEN For City Council WARD 2 Pd. Political Ad. Hansen for Coun cil Comm. Al Bradford, Chr. - Double-action additive prevents sludging anti-rvtinq gDogodd
