Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 02, 1954, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextI at I k EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) UCLA Moves Ahead Of Ohio State by 17; Miami Steps Into 10th By NORMAN MILLER New York (U.fS UCLA, the Pacific Coast powerhouse which lias exceeded even the expecta tions of its optimistic coach. Red Sanders, pulled away from Ohio State and Oklahoma today in the college football rating of the United Press Board of Coaches. Nineteen members of the 35 man rating board picked the Bruins No. 1 this week, giving them a 17-point margin over Ohio State and 28 over Okla homa. Last week, when UCLA tcok over the lead, it had only eight first-place votes and only three points over Ohio State and Oklahoma, which were tied for runnerup. Two Newcomers Mississippi and Miami Fla. were this week's newcomers among the top 10 teams. Ole Miss returned to the select group after an absence of one week, but Miami made it for the first time this season. Arkansas remained in fourth p!ace, followed by Notre Dame and Army, which exchanged the places they held the previous week; Purdue and Southern Cali fornia each jumped one notch to seventh and eighth, respective Fanfare It's stretching a point here and there but the Medford-Cra-ter ruckus this Friday might be termed a southern Oregon Class A prep grid championship affair. Unofficial, of course. Medf ord won the Southern Oregon Con ference with three victories and no defeats and. Crater took the Rogue League crown with the same record. The two circuits are "the" Class A loops in this section of the state. Ashland will dispute any championship -idea concerning the game on the basis of its 7 to 7 knot wita Crater but the Grizzlies lost to Medford 33 to 7. Grants Pass will have oppor tunity on November 11 to show its stuff against Crater's Comets but the Cavemen will play minus seniors. The scrapes with Ash land form the only direct basis of comDarison between the Comets and Medford's Black Tornado. SMALLEST FOE . In taking on the Comets this week, Medford will face the smallest school on its slate this season. Crater will go against the largest school on its schedule so far. Medford senior high has 883 students enrolled in its sophomore, junior and senior classes. Frankie Ryff Shuts Out Davis New York i(U.R) Unbeaten young Frankie Ryff of New York said today, "I'm ready now to fight any lightweight in the world." And the spectators or televis ion fans who witnessed Frankie's near shutout victory over veter an Henry Davis of Hawaii Mon day night at Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway Arena doubtlessly will agree with him. It was his f5th straight win as a professional. Ryff, scaling 139V4 pounds to Davis' 135 V4, gave the Hawaiian such a thorough 10-round beat ing that none of the three ring officials voted him a round, al though Judge Artie Aidala did score the eighth frame even. Frankie's skill and tremendous speed so outclassed Davis -that when Dr. Samuel S. Swetnick examined him in his corner at the end of the sixth round, Davis told the physician, "I'm all right, but he's too fast for me." Ducks Have 5 Lettermen Out Eugene (U.R) Five lettermen were put yesterday as the Uni versity of Oregon opened basket ball practice for the 1954-55 sea son. The lettermen included Max Anderson, Jerry Ross, Ray Bell and Howard Page from last year s team and Jim Lostcutoff a regular in 1951. Non-lettermen who had some varsity action last year included Gary McManus, Kent Dorwm, Rex Davis and Bill Sherman. Thirteen of the prospects were sophomores. VANDALS SCRIMMAGE Moscow, Idaho (U.R) The University of Idaho Vandals, rid ing on a two-game win streak after dumping Utah, 14-13, rested yesterday, but Coach Skip Stah ley put them right back to work tcday. The Vandals, who have an open week end coming up, will run through scrimmage sessions one hour each day through Fri day. - , MAIL TRIBUNE ly; with Mississippi and Miami rounding out the top 10. Aside from UCLA, four other teams had first-place votes. Ohio State received 10, Oklahoma four, and Purdue and Miami one each. The Bruins, with seven straight victories and a scoring pace of more than 41 points per game, have made a sound prophet of Sanders, who departed from the coaches' . "crying towel'' tradi tion and tabbed his team one of th& best in the country before the start of the season. UCLA Needs Two More UCLA needs two more vic tories its unbeaten and untied objective, but both are against upset-bend PCC rivals. The Eruins meet Oregon next Satur day and after an off-Saturday close their season against South ern California, Nov. 20. With points distributed on the basis of 10 for a first-place vote, nine for a second and so on down to one for a 10th place ballot, here is how the teams were aligned after UCLA: Ohio State 305, Oklahoma 294, Ar kansas 200, Notre Dame 155, Army 125, Purdue 120, South ern California 101, Mississippi 65 and Miami 58. By DICK JEWETT (tail TribuiM Sports Editor while Crater, a four-year school, counts an enrollment of about 505. Adding 332 stu dent in the ninth grade of junior high, Medford high en rollment would be 1195 on a four year basis. Crater in size is comparable to Ashland, a longtime Medford athletic ri val. The Lithia city school has around 560 students. MORE SENIORS Seniors more than likely will predominate in the Medford high backfield in the tussle with the Comets. Crater may open with only one senior in the line along with four or five juniors. At least one lineman and, perhaps two will be a sophomore. As high as three seniors may be in Crater . backfield at one time but several juniors and at least one sophomore are expected to see a lot of duty. WEIGHTS COMPARED Crater's possible starting of fensive line, according to cal culations taken from weights on programs, will average 2Vz pounds heavier per man than Medford's, 177!2 to 175. But, its Guard Lyle Yocom of the Comets who makes the dif ference. He's listed at 223 pounds. Next heaviest among the Comets' likely starling linemen is End Gordon Tid well. 178. The Comet aver age will go down IV2 pounds if Carl Koellner, 153. starts at an end and go up somewhat if sophomore Tackles Dick Dav is, 190. and Dave Parker. 185, get into the line-up. Medford's heaviest offensive line regu lar is Center Mike DeVore, 194, and Tackle Ken Piland, 190, is next. Guard Paul Eck el follows at 178. CRATER BACKS LIGHTER Medford's backfield shows an average of 167 while Crater's may be about 156 and even lighter when Don Goyette, 127, is in tne contest. ON PAR WITH COLLEGE Alton Slone.'s 102-yard pass interception runback for Med ford high in the Grants Pass game this year ranks with the best college runback on rec ord on the Pacific coast. Rec ords kept by George Berts, sports editor of the Oregon Journal show the top college runback as the 100-yarder by Jim Jurkovich in the California-Southern Cal game of 1940. ANOTHER STEP Crater high takes another step toward bigger time football when it plays at Grants Pass on Veterans day, November 11, ev en tnough it will meet a water ed down Caveman team. A Grants Pass reDort is that Crater likely will be on the ree- ular Grants Pass schedule next fall. The A-2 Comets may have to be playing in the A-l brack et oeiore long. It was thought last year that this school year's enrollment would make Crater A-l by the fall of 955. But freshman enroTSmpnt tho -fo-n fell short of expectations.' Cavemen missing from the GP-Crater mix will be six cur rent offensive starters. Vic Bart- lett, Mel Drews, Don James, Jay Keese, Dale Tripp and Lloyd Zinn; two defensive starters. Tom Cudd and Jim Reid, and reserves Bob Gay, Gary Gan oung and Bob Hissong. Crater and Grants Pass will split the gate 50-50.- Tuesday. November 2, 1954 Duck Coach Say! s anocic Due Bruins Eugene (U.R) Webfoot Coach Len Casanova said today the UCLA Bruins may get a surprise Saturday when the Ducks tackle the nation's top-rated football team in Los Angeles. Casanova said "somewhere along a 10-game schedule, even the best teams run into a sur prise." He added that "just be cause they're big, bad Bruins of UCLA we're not going to go down there and roll over and play dead." But the Oregon mentor warn ed it would take the Webfoots' best kind of ball to slow the UCLA machine. Two years ago Oregon lost to UCLA by one touchdown and last year it was 0-0 going into the fourth quarter when the Bruins managed to salvage a 12-0 victory. Scout Bill Hammer predicted the Saturday game would be a "fairly high scoring affair." "There are certain things I think Oregon can do successfully against them," Hammer said, "but you've got to figure UCLA to score at least three times they'll do that much against any one." Skeet Shoot Postponed Medford Gun club's annual skeet touranment, which was set for November 7, has been post poned because the skeet set-up is being overhauled another field being added. , No new date has been set for the tourney. There will be 16-yard and handicap practice this Sunday and turkey shoets on November 14 and 21. George Jantzer, Ted Jantzer and Charles Bendell broke 50 straight targets last Sunday in 16-yard practice. Arrfbng winners in the merchandise shoot , were Bendell, Floyd Young, Lyle Russell, Everett Gibson, W. E. Richardson, Martin Clogston, Ed Pease, Emma Jantzer and Hen ry Niedermeyer. Lefthander Golf Tourney Slated At Rogue Valley Play in a Rogue Valley Coun try club lefthanders' golf tour nament will open Wednesday, November 3. The 36-hole medal play ev ent will conclude on November 18. Play will be with handicap and prizes will be offered for low net and low gross. Parti cipants are asked to sign up at the pro shop and declare them selves before starting on a tour ney round. Among lefthanders who may enter are Ray Menke, Morris Leonard Sr., Bob Corbin, Ken Teeter, Seth Bullis Jr., Joe Rafke, Dutch Oakes, Carl Bro phy, Jim Shaw and Paul Mey ers. Justin Smith Sr., a righthand er, is chairman for the tourna ment. Dupas Hopes For Ryff Bout New Orleans U.R) Young Ralph Dupas hoped for a New Year's nationally televised fight with unbeaten Frankie Ryff to day on the basis of his seventh round technical knockout of Carlos Chavez, Los Angeles. A probable bid to a nationally televised fight from here in con nection with -the Sugar . Bowl sports program hung on last night's fight and Dupas gave it all he had and a vicious fifth round attack of lefts and rights to the head opened a bloody gash over Chavez' left eye. Dupas then pecked away at the eye until referee Francis Kercheval stopped it with 1:44 gone in the seventh round of a scheduled 10-round bout. Manager Discussed at Bevos Meet Last Night Portland U.R) Sale of stock, operation of the ball park and informal discussion of applica tions for a general manager oc cupied the attention of tempor ary directors of the Portland baseball club at a meeting here last night. Clay Brown, president of the group, said the field of candi dates for the general manager ship post was narrowed but he would not disclose the number remaining in contention. You'll Always Find O Reliability Uniformity Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE Tru-Mix Concrete Co. FAST, PROMPT DELIVERY McAndrews Road Phone 2-5271 ' MedforiUTribune gTOIHflr& . -' wmmZmSmmil&mmmmmmmmmmm i mi man SLICK THEFT California's quarterback Paul Larson (12) man ages to steal this pass right from the hands of UCLA halfback John Hermann (33) in the second quarter at Berkeley. The Bruins went on to down Cal, 27-6. Jess Hill Favors Sending Top Pacific Coast Club to Bowl Los Angeles (U.R) Southern California coach Jess Hill today favored sending the best Pacific Coast Conference team to the Rose Bowl, even if it means his team might lost the chance to play. UCLA, the nation's top rank ed football team, is barred from the New Year's day contest be cause it renresented the PCC last January and the PCC-Big Ten agreement allows a team to go to the bowl only once in two years. Hill, wh,ose Trojans appear an almost cinch to go to the Rose Bowl even if they lose to UCLA, said "the best team in the con ference should go to the Eowl, no matter if it has been there the previous year." But Southern California ath letic director Bill Hunter told Southern California football writers yesterday there wasn't a chance of any such change in the "one-in-two" rule between the PCC and Big Ten. Meanwhile, Hill disclosed that the coast conference is starting Drenarations for the . New Year's Day classic" by sending scouts to the games of leading Big Ten teamsJ with Southern California taking over the scout ing assignment against Ohio State. The football writers voted to make Paul Larson of California and UCLA tackle Jack Allena their top choices in the all-Amer- U.S. and Brazil Tied at Tourney Rio De Janeiro, Brazil (U.PJ The United States and Brazil, both undefeated in seven games, stood tied for the lead in the round-robin final round of the world amateur basketball cham pionships today with two games left to play. v The U. S. team, the Peoria, ill., Caterpillars, kept its perfect rec ord intact by romping to a 72-28 victory over China Monday night, while Brazil responded to the wild cheers of an enthusias tic home crowd to wallop France, 49-36. In the only other game played, the Philippines upset Canada 87-83-r-the third defeat for the Canadians, wiping out their title hopes. . FIGHTS By UNITED PRESS Brooklyn: Frankie Ryff. 139!i. New York, outpointed Henry Davis. 135 U. Hawaii 10. . New York: Bobby Jones. 155V2. Oakland, Calif., outpointed. Moses Ward. 159 ,i, Detroit 10. New Orleans: Ralph Dupas, 137,2. New Orleans, stopped Carlos Chaves. 139. Los Angeles .7. ica balloting, with two UCLA men named as runners-up, guard Jim Salsbury and fullback .Bob Davenport. 117 S. Central AUTO ACCESSORIES SALE ' SAVE BY DOING IT YOURSELF WITH WARDS LOW-PRICED PARTS YEAR ROUND LUBRICANT 10 ts. Reg. .59 Wards All Season Oil flows freely in sub-zero temperatures will not thin put in the . heat. 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"But we're going to get ready for Pitt just as if it was a Big Ten game, and we know we've got two tough ones ahead, Pur due and Michigan." Marshfield Rated No. 1; Tornado 3rd Portland (U.R) Marsh field's Pirates were the number one ranked high school football team in Oregon today. The Pirates, who walloped Medford last Friday, were giv en 73 out of a possible 80 points in the Journal coaches' poll to wrest the lead from South Sal em, tied 6-6 by Corvallis, Med ford remained in third place, while Jefferson, the Portland champ, moved up to fourth pos ition. ' . The Ratings: ' Team Points 1. Marshfield 73 67 59 50 45 40 39 19 13 13 2. South Salem - 3. Medford . 4. Jefferson 5. Grants Pass ... . 6. Pendleton . 7. Milwaukie . .. 8. Prineville .. 9. Lincoln ... 10. Beaverton Others: Vale 5; Eugene and St. Helens 4; Corvallis 3,- Gres ham 1. . Dead line for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. 4.23 Tax' Incl. '10 NOT BOTHERED BY 'JINX' It just happened that both Purdue and Michigan stacked up as logical upsetters of the Buckeyes, particularly because Purdue boasts a top passer in Len Dawson and Michigan might be eligible for a return Rose Bowl trip, should it finish the season without another defeat, thereby tying Ohio State.. - "This league is even enough that anybody can beat you, if you let down a little bit," Hayes said. "Look at what happened to Michigan Saturday, and Wis consin. "We know we can't let down. We played our poorest game of the season against Northwestern, and Northwestern was five times GREAT STAMINA MADE GREATEIt 3 DO POWER" iTiTrjr7r7riTry VVJLJUJLULkJ THE TRUCK THAT WILL YOU THROUGH Kaktr-WSys So.l Dmtxxv WIUYS - MJE3M A 53 II v i II 'VI Stevens Kaiser-Willys, Inc. 505 North Central Medford, Ore. 6 W better than it was last year, and we just got through. v "But I guess a good test for a team is if it can come through when it's having a bad day." 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