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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, rforember 3, 1954 Crater Comet' Morale Up For Black Tornado Clash; Med ford Players Injured If the spirit the Crater highjness then because of a bad footballers have shown in the first two days of practice this week is any indication, the Med ford high Black Tornado will have a real game on its hands this Frday night when it en gages the Comets on "the Med ford field in the second "grid meeting in modern history be tween the two schools. Crater Coach Leonard last night described Crater morale as the best ever this season. Spirit was really up in yesterday aft ernoon's workout, according to the Comet mentor. The players were "really talking it up." Warren reported that the Comets are working at the whole thing" in getting ready for the Black Tornado, even going back to fundamentals, blocking and tackling. Defense is getting much attention as Crater aims at stopping the Medford backs, particularly Rocky Stone, Lorin Jacobs and Mike Hawkins. Physically Improyed The Comets are in the best physical shape they've been since the Yreka, Calif., ruckus a month ago, the coach said. Guard Jim Welch, out much of the season, first because of ill- Twelve Die From Hurts On Gridiron Los Angeles (U.R) Twelve players have died directly as a result of football injuries and three indirectly at the halfway point in the current season, ac cording to Dr. Floyd R. East wood. Dr. Eastwood, dean of men at Los Angeles State college, an nually computes football fatal ities for the American Football Coaches association. Dr. Eastwood said direct fa talities through Oct. 29 showed seven high school deaths, two college deaths, one athletic club fatality and two sandlot fatal ities. Heart Attacks The indirect deaths were due to two heart atacks and a case of bone cancer from an injury suffered last year, he said. At this time last year, Dr. Eastwood said, there were 11 direct deaths from football. He said the most disturbing increase this season was in the high school ranks, which recorded only five deaths at mid-season last year. Head injuries caused seven of the direct deaths this year, spin al injuries from head blows three more and internal injur ies the remaining two, Dr. East wood reported. ankle, may see some action this week. Back Vera Parent is still troubled with Lad ankles but is expected to see his usual amount of duty. In the Medford camp drill this week is with the anticipa tion that the Tornado "probab ly will have a ball game on its hands." Medford work, too, has reverted to fundamentals. Play ers were put through tackling and blocking work Monday. The Tornado lapsed in both depart ments against Marshfield last Friday. In addition to the contact work in fundamentals Monday, Medford began lining up its de fense for the Comets and ran through its offense. Hard scrim mage was the order of the day yesterday with both offense and defense getting attention. DeVore. Kaslner Hurt While it appeared that the Tornado will be "ready" so far as morale is concerned, the picture was "not so geod" physi cally. Both Center Mike DeVore and End Bud Kastner, two-way starters, were on the sidelines yesterday, Coach Fred Spiegel- Derg said. DeVore rehurt a knee in practice last week, had the hip banged up again in the Marshfield game. DeVore's knee is bruised and awfully sore, according to Med ford's head coach. He may not be used much against the Com ets. Gary Shaffer, 188-pound junior, may get the pivot job on offense with Jack Gregory, 158 pound junior, getting the call at DeVore's defensive guard post. DeArmond Gets Post Kastner is under doctor's or ders not to work out until his hip heals. ' Gordon DeArmond, 155-pound senior, is expected to get the bid at Kastner's offen sive flank. Both DeVore . and Kastner were looking on at the drill last night. Coach Spiegelberg indi cated, that his starting crew will be about the same as usual at the other positions Medford had its regular eve ning session yesterday, viewing movies of last year's Crater con test and having blackboard drill. Marshfield would not permit taking movies of the game at Coos Bay last week. Medford will aim Friday to even the score for .a 20 to 14 upset last year at the hand of Crater, Shaw Keeps Lead in PCC In Offense Los Angeles (U.R) George Shaw of Oregon continues to lead the Pacific Coast confer ence in total offense with 1069 yards passing and 177 rushing for a total of 1245 to .1117 for Paul Larson of California. Shaw is second to Larson in the number of pass completions with 73 to 93 for the Golden Bear ace. . Dick James of Oregon is tied for second in number of touch downs with eight. Bob Daven port and Primo Villaneuva qf UCLA have nine each while Jan Arnett of USC has eight. Wilhrow Tops Punters Jim Withrow of Oregon State continues to top the punters with a 41.7 average on 21 boots. James is fourth in total num ber of pass catches with 21 and Phil McHugh of Oregon is fifth with 16. Jim Hanifan of C a 1 Pleads this department with 30. James is second in punt return yardage with 132, while Sam Brown of UCLA has 235. In team statistics, Oregon leads in passing offense with 1293 yards and is fourth in rush ing and punt returns, fields led by UCLA. Oregon is second to the Brums in total defense, giv ing up 220.1 yards a game to 210.1 for UCLA. You'fl enjoy with CHATEAUX VODKA S15 ouurr eo'o? The just right ingredient to male o good martini perfect ... to bring out the best in fruit juices or soft drinks . . . with subtle distinction you'll enjoy ogain and again. ?HE CLEAR SPRING DISTILUNO CO. ClIRMONT, KENTUCKY Bobo Olson Faces Panter Richmond, Calif. ; (U.R) World middleweight champion Carl (Bobo) Olson takes the final tune-up for his Dec. 15 title de fense tonight when he trades punches with slugging Garth Panter of Salt Lake City in a 10-round bout. The fight, nationally - tele vised without a local blackout, is expected to attract about $10, 000 worth of customers into the new Richmond Memorial audi torium. Olson was expected to weigh in today at around 165 five pounds over the middleweight limit, but reputed to be his best for hard-hitting. In previous tune-up fights since winning the world crown a year ago, the champion' has won everything with knockouts over Joey Rin done, Jesse Turner, and others. Real Slugger However, in Panter he meets a real slugger. This lad has scored 40 knockouts in 57 vic tories, while losing 16 in his career. He has fought Olson be fore, too losing a close de cision to him a couple of years ago at Butte, Mont. " He holds victories over such well-ranked stars as Pierre Lang lois, Walter Cartier and Norman Hayes and definitely can be ex pected to punish Bobo at some time during the evening. The bout is slated to get un der way at 10 p.m. (EST) over the CBS network. Olson's next bout -will be the title defense against Joey Giar dello of New York. ; TO DISCUSS PAKISTAN London (U.R) Prime minis ters of the . British Common wealth may meet in January to discuss Pakistan's plan to be come a republic, informed sources said today. If agreement is reached, Pakistan would be the second republic within the commonwealth. Indian was the first to sever her relations with the crown and join the common wealth as a democratic republic. Crushed Rock Sand Gravel For Quality Use LININGER'S READY-MIX CONCRETE M. C. LININGER & SONS PHONE 2-5336 or 2-5897 Joe Ziegler Appointed By Beavers Portland (U.R) Joe Zieg ler, who last year was general manager of the Buffalo entry in the International League, last night was named general man ager of' the Portland Pacific Coast League basball team. - Clay Brown, president of the club's new board of directors, said Ziegler had been signed for one year. He did not disclose the salary. Brown said Ziegler was chosen from among 20 applicants, "many of whom were from the east. He comes highly recom mended and we feel fortunate in landing a man with his broad baseball experience." Ziegler said his plans for the team were still "a little sketchy." However, he said it would ap pear that the "crying need" of the Beavers was player person nel. He said he expected to "have the groundwork laid for the deals that will help the team" by the time the Major Minor meeting starts in December. Nagurski's Son Shows Promise As Footballer International Falls, Minn. (U.R) The most rugged compet itor football ever has known ad mitted today on his birthday he hasn't seen a college game in "four or five years" but indi cated he'll be paying more at tention next fall. It was Bronko Nagurski who was "glad you reminded me" of his 46th birthday, but somewhat at a loss when asked to com pare modern day ball with the powerhouse game of the old days. "I'm afraid you've got the wrong guy," Nagurski said. "It must be four or five years since I've seen a college game except on television." When you've played in as many games and seen as many as I have, you just don't feel like driving 400 miles to Min neapolis to see a game, the Bronk admitted. Make Difference But next fall another Nagur ski Bronko Jr., will start college, which "probably, will make a difference" , to his dad. Young Bronko, a strapping 215-pounder only .17 years of age, already has given plenty of promise of living up to bis name. Like his dad, he won Iron Range conference high school All-Star honors for two years. The junior edition was the mainstay at tackle in Interna tional Falls high school's unde feated season this year and he made the All-Conference team last year as guard. But whether young Bronk will follow his Dad to Minnesota where the elder Nagurski won All-American honors in 1928-29 playing offensive fullback and defensive tackle, still isn't decided. Silver Salmon Released In Willamette Branches Portland (U.R) Some ,120,500 silver salmon finger lings have been released in three Willamette River tribu taries duping the past two weeks by the Oregon fish commission, according to Irvine French, di rector of fish culture. French said 50,000 of the four inch fish -were released in the Yamhill river, 45,500 in the Tua latin and 25,000 in the Molalla river. The f ingerlings are the offspring of 225 adults salvaged at Oswego creek last winter. . BM Mail mtiiH Want Ads i END ZONE SWIPE University of Washington quarterback Bob Cox (right) leaps high to intercept pass in the end zone in tended for Oregon's left halfback Dick James (left). Cox ran it back to his own 20 yard line in the game at Seattle. Oregon won, 26-7. ' SIPODIMFS Larson on Shaw's Heels In Total Offense Battle New York (U.R) Oregon's George Shaw and California's Paul Larson, a pair of senior T quarterbacks, head in to the fi nal three games of the season far ahead of the field in the indi vidual total offense race, with defending ohampion Larson streaking desperately to over take Shaw. NCAA Service Bureau major college statistics showed today that Shaw is still well ahead with 1,245 passing-plus running yards to Larson's 1,117, but that Larson cut 62 yards from Shaw's lead last week. The Cal ifornia star, who is the country's top passer by a wide margin, did it the hard way, piling up 259 yards against unbeaten UCLA Sanders Chosen Coach of Week By CARL LUNDQUIST New York U.R) When he described his team's "offense as "a horse and buggy with a tele vision set in the dash board," his boys didn't exactly like it. Using his old-fashioned single wing with a balanced line, they went out and ran up slaughter house victories of 67-0, 72-0 and 61-0. Against sterner opposition they met the challenge again and proved their right to the No. 1 national ranking. Then they asked him, "How do you like our horse and buggy now?" He's the United Press Coach of the Week, Henry (Red) San ders of those unbeaten, untied, unmerciful UCLA Bruins. Using his "conservative" of fense with a little dash of modern technique to streamline it, UCLA has piled up 292 points in seven games while yielding only 40 to lead the nation in scoring. Sat urday's triumph over a fired-up California eleven, in a tradition al rivalry by a sizeable 27-6 mar gin, convinced all the skeptics that Sanders had a truly great outfit. while turning in the best passing performance of the season 25 completions in 38 tries for 280 aerial yards. Now Shaw must face UCLA this Saturday. Great Defense Larson is making an even greater run in defense of his crown than he did last year in his come-from-behind victory. Then he made 616 yards in the last three games. In his last three up to now, he has made 679. He's trying to become the third man to win two .offense titles. Only Oklahoma A&M's Bob Fenimore in 1944-45 and Drake's Johnny Bright in 1949 50 have done it. And as a passer, Larson has a shot at a completion average record and already has complet ed, in seven games, more than twice as many passes as any other player in California's earth-bound history. Until he himself completed 85 last year, no Bear passer ever had more than 46. Now he's No. 1 man, with 93 completed in 142 tries for 65.5 per cent. The record for a minimum of 150 attempts is 60.1 per cent, set in 1950 by Don Heinrich of Washmgton. Shaw is second in comple tions with 73, but first in at tempts with 150. Larson has most yardage through the air, 1,125, to Shaw's 1,068. No one else has 1,000. San Franciscans Favor Ball Park San Francisco (U.R) San Franciscans have voted in favor of major league baseball for San Francisco. Final election returns today snowed tne voters overwhelm ingly approved a $5,000,000 bond issue to build a new ballpark. Backers of the measure said con struction of the municipal stadi um was the "first step" toward bringing a big league ball club to the city. GOES WHERE OTHERS CAN'T all-steel body 4-VHEEL-DRIVE STATION WAGON HOW with 53 MORE POWER WIUYS DUAL-PURPOSE carries BOTH passengers and cargo. Made to fight through mad, sand, ice or snow. Makes its own roads. Can master 60 grades. Made by Kaiser-Willys, die r I world's largest makers of 4-Wheel-Drive Vehicles. EafcaMMyt SJt DMaea, WILLYS MOTOtS, MC C0IE IN AMD SEE THIS GREAT WIUYS STATION WAGOI STEVENS KAISER-WILLYS, Inc. 505 North Central ' Medford, Ore. California Fans Can't Be Pleased By HAL WOOD San Francisco (O.R) Time changeth all things! The complaints now pour m that Coach Lynn (Pappy) Wal dorf is using "too much pass ing" and that he is attempting to be too spectacular. Well, sir, it was only a year or so ago that some of the men connected with the football world were charging that Wal dorf's offensive was so stereo typed that everybody knew what was going to happen next. In fact, after Waldorf lost three Rose Bowl tilts in a row to the Big Ten teams the rea son was given that f'Waldorf didn't use any imagination" in his offensive plays. Now I see where he is being charged with not building a running attack and using too much of an aerial circus. No Alibi Without attempting! to alibi for Pappy, it seems to me that the man once known as "The Wise Walrus of Strawberry Can yon" is being second-guessed more than somewhat. wnen waiaorf naa sucn ime running backs as Jackie Jensen, Jack Swaner, Pete Schamarum and Jim Monachino and winning 80 per cent of his games, he was accused of sticking too close to the ground when he was los ing one or two games a season. Now, with one of-the greatest passers in the history of the Pacific Coast Conference in the person of Paul Larson, there is the complaint that he never thinks about running. I can remember, too, when Waldorf was first hired: one of the "musts" the alumni demand ed was that a T-formation coach be hired to succeed Frank Wick- horst after his disastrous 1945 season. Wickhorst coached the wing system. Made The Change So Pappy, an old single-wing coach himself, converted to the T." Then the complaint was that, with his fine running attack Waldorf should be using the single-wing, because the T-for mation primarily was for a pass- mg attack. . Along about the time Bob Ce leri, the "mad engineer" was playing quarterback, Waldorf had a pretty well balanced com bination passing and running at tack and still the club lost on occasions. Coach Jess Hill of unbeaten UCLA praises Waldorf for hav ing the finest T-formation at tack in intercollegiate football today. ! Now some of the same pun dits who charged "sterotyped offense" claim there is too much dipsy-do. Which proves, of course, that the guy who said "you can't please all of the people all the time" was more than right. Crusaders Stress Conditioning In Practices for Chiloquin Fray Conditioning is something Coach Ed Hummel has stressed all season for the St. Mary's foot ball team and the Crusaders were getting more of it this week as they girded for the District 5B championship play-off. The Crusaders, Jackson coun ty champs, oppose Chiloquin at Merrill . this Saturday afternoon for the pennant and the right to enter the sate B championship quarer-finals. Coach Ed Hummel said today that he has been running his crew a lot to get it in better shape" for playing at the higher altitutde of Klamath county. COMPLACENCY FEARED Los Angeles (U.R) Southern California Coach Jess Hill cracked down on his Trojan charges today as he said he feared his players might be get ting complacent about meeting Stanford. His uneasiness prompted him to put his team through its hard est Tuesday workout of the sea son yesterday a rough half hour of scrimmage and then 90 minutes on blocking. The coach reported the Cru sader squad in "pretty, good shape" physically. A doctor last night banished fears that a knee injury suffered by Halfback Stan Bead might deter the SM club in the district titular scrap. Read get the knee bruised a bit in the Crater jayvee game Satur day night. It bothered him some in practice Monday and he laid off yesterday to see the doctor. The Crusaders may leave .Fri day for Klamath county, have a workout there and stay over night at Klamath Falls in order to get accustomed to the higher elevation. JOHN HANCOCK MUTUAL Life Insurance Co." Has an opening for . an agent in the Medford, Area Address Inquiry to: . Win. E. BRUGMAN, Genl Agt. 626 American Bank Big. Portland, Oregon FIGHTS Washington, B.C.: Willie Troy. 164, Washington, stopped Tommy Thomp son, 1G9, Quantico, Va. 6. Miami Beach, Fla.: Paul Andrews, 184, Buffalo. N.Y stopped Bo Willis, 187. Miami, Fla.. 2. BARKER'S FOOTBALL CONTEST INSTRUCTIONS: Check the team you pick to win. If you pick a tie game, check both teams. All slips must be at the store by 5:30 Friday evening. NOVEMBER 6, 1954 Texas at Baylor (TV) California at Washington Duke at Navy Nebraska at Kansas Washington St.' at Michigan State Oregon State at Minnesota Oregon at U.C.L.A. Southern California at Stanford . 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