Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 04, 1954, Image 13

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Newspaper Page TextCalifornia On Way To Pass Record 'New York CU.R) California, on its way to an all-time major college record for pass comple tion average, must have a now long has this been going on?" feeling about the whole thing. For years and years, Califor nia was one of the most stub' bornly earthbound teams in foot ball, win or lose. Only last year, when Paul Larson moved to T- quarterback, did it start throw ing as often as other leading aerial teams. Now NCAA Service Bureau - statistics show that the Bears have completed 101 out of 159 for a 63.5 per cent completion average. The record is 60.7 per cent, set by Alabama in 1945 with 71 out of 117, so even if California falters in its last three games, it has shown a re markable talent for accuracy. On the usual basis of yards gained per game, California ranks second. Oregon has made 184.7 a game, California 117.4, Purdue 168.8 and Washington 163.4. Oregon has thrown the most, 180, but California has most completions and Purdue one of six teams that have not yet been scored on by a pass leads in touchdown passes with 13. Other Passing Leaders Cincinnati, Arizona and Okla homa also have top spots in passing. Unbeaten Cincinnati has suffered only one intercep tion in 98 attempts. Arizona is averaging a first down, 10.2 yards, for every pass thrown and Oklahoma 22.4 yards for every pass completed. Alabama and Cornell are sec ond to Purdue in scoring passes with 12 each. In pass defense, the official leader is Detroit, which' has held its opponents to 223 aerial yards or 37.2 a game. Alabama with 38, Richmond with 38.7, Wyom ing with 40.3 and Iowa with 43.7 fellow. ' Purdue, with 129 thrown against it, has done the best job of keeping its end zone clear. Others unscored upon overhead are Detroit, Alabama, Kicn- mond, Arkansas and Florida. Al together, UCLA is most passed against, 178 times. Navy has in tercepted 18.3 per cent of its foes' passes 17 out of 93, while Brigham Young hasn't intercept ed any, with 47 tried against it. Drake and Villanova have given up most aerial touchdowns, 12 opiece. New Mexicans Top Puniers . In punting, New Mexico took the lead by pushing its aver-age-per-kick to 42.8 yards, while Pennsylvania, even though it raised its average.. to 41.7, fell to second. Victoryless Villanoya has had to- kick most often, 47 times, unbeaten Cincinanti least often 15. N.C. State has had four kicks blocked. Boston College and Oregon have blocked four each. . Wichita and Illinois have the best punt return averages with 29.6 yards and 28.6 respectively, but they've had only eight and five run backs. UCLA, on 22 re turns, is third at 21.9. Defense against punt returns can be measured different ways. Army has allowed an average gain of only 4.3 yards on seven enemy runbacks. But Notre Dame, kicking 23 times, has giv en up only 26 yards on run backs, or 1.13 yards per kick. Each average is the .country's best. Arizona is averaging 31.5 yards per kickoff return to Syra cuse's 26.3, Wichita's, 25.8, West Virginia's 24.7 and Texas Chris tian's 24.6. Iowa State has been most effective in preventing this sort of thing, holding its foes to 12.2 yards per return to Army's 12.7 and Iowa's 12.8. Philadelphia (U.R) The Philadelphia Athletics, an insti- PHILADELPHIA ATHLETICS FINALLY SOLD TO JOHNSON tution set up by Connie Mack here 54 years ago, was sold to day to Chicago realtor Arnold Johnson for transfer to Kansas City. Earle Mack, with tears in his eyes, came out of a morning session at his father's apartment "we lost out." Asked if the club had been sold, Earle said, "yes." "It was a tough decision," Earle added as he walked through the doorway of the ap artment house with his attorney Alfred Luongo. Johnson had left the apart ment sometime earlier and an nounced he would make a state ment within an hour. There was no official state ment other than Earle's admis sion of the sale. It came as a Philadelphia purchasing group waited in the lobby of the big apartment house. Billy Smith Rated Top Contender New York (U.R) Board walk Billy Smith's remarkable comeback paid off today when the 33-year-old jail guard was ranked first among light heavy weight contenders in The Ring magazine's monthly ratings. Smith was boosted from fifth to the top because of his sur prise second- round knockout over Philadelphia's Harold John son on Oct. 8. Johnson was rated No. 1 at the time. With seven straight victories under his belt, Billy is now in position to challenge 38-year-old Archie Moore for the 175-pound crown. This year Smith registered three straight kayoes, over Gene Jones (3), Willie Bean (5), and Johnson (2). Johnson dropped to fourth place in the ratings. Kid Gavilan of Cuba, who lost jiis welterweight crown to Johnny Saxton of Brooklyn last month on a very questionable decision, is now ranked as top contender. Carmen Basilio of Syracuse, N.Y., dropped to sec ond place. Del Flanagen of St. Paul, Minn., tumbled from second to sixth among the welters because of his upset by Maurice Harper of Oakland, who broke into the ratings at the eighth rung. Football Briefs Seattle, Wash. U.R) The University of Washington Hus kies romped through the frosh squad yesterday in the same style that they hope to use when they tangle with the California Golden Bears Saturday. The freshmen spent most of Tuesday learning the California style of attack, and then Coach Johnny Cherberg matched the two squads in their first scrim mage of the season. COUGARS LIMP Pullman, Wash. -4U.R) The Washington State Cougars will meet the Spartans of .Michigan State in their last intersection game of the season Saturday but they won't be at full strength. Fullback Duke Washington is favoring a bad ankle, and Coach Al Kircher said quarter back Frank Sarno suffers a bad knee and back Bob Miller has a shoulder separation. The Cou gars leave for East Lansing to day. BEAVER BACKS LEFT Corvallis, Ore. (U.R) The Oregon State Beavers left fir Minneapolis today for Satur day's game with high-ranking Minnesota, but they left a com plete backfield unit and an end at home with injuries. Coach Kip Taylor said co-captain Wes Ediger, veteran right end, and quarterback Ray West fall, left half Willie Kealoha, right half Ernie Zwahlen and fullback Vern Stewart were in no shape to make the trip. BOWLING COMMERCIAL LEAGUE With the Commercial League season being broken into three parts this year, the C & C Log gers have cinched the top spot in the first round by their 3-1 se ries over the Morning Fresh Bakerymen. This dropped the Bakerymen out of second spot, leaving Alex ander and Brown Insurance as runner-up, but with no chance of taking over first place with only next week's position night left in this round of games. Alexander and Brown took a 3-1 series from the Domestic Laundry. Jim Knapp rolled a 542 for the insurancemen, and Gordon Schulz with a 535 top ped the laundrymen. The im proving newsmen of The Mail Tribune stayed in fourth place with a 3-1 win over the Quality Market squad, Table' Rock Lumber clung to fifth place by the Vz game mar gin and their 2V4-1V& ;win over the tail-ender Valentine Cafe. Ray Wise and Clarence Freeman had 551 and 589 for the lumber men," and Les Schneider and Stan Straus had 548 and 551 for the cafe team. High series for the evening went to Table Rock with their 2563, and high game also to them with a 914 score. Darling Real Estate slipped badly, and Bates Candy Company finished the evening in sixth place ahead of Darling by virtue of their 3-1 series over the realtors. . Crater Lake Motors fell to the inconsistant First National squad by the same 3-1 series that marked most all the series of the evening. Nels Florey had 544 for the high series in this battle for the lower positions in the stand ings. Standings: ' w. L. C & C Loggers 34 10 Alexander & Brown Ins. ....29 lo Morning Fresh Bakery 27 17 Medford Mail Tribune 31,i 18 'z Table Rock Lumber V222 21 i Bates Candy Company 22 22 Darling Real Estate 21 23 Crater Lake Motors 19 25 Domestic Laundry 18 25 li First National Bank 18 26 Quality Market 17 27' Valentine Cafe ; 10 Vi 33', '2 Results: C & C Loggers 3 Joe Cabler Jim Cabler C. Tennant Jack Cabler Bob Cabler 539 466 443 500 565 2519 Morning Fresh 1 Ralph Doty 448 Dick Spain . 473 Chuck Shinn 443 Fred Beck 456 Al Sacchi 564 Handicap 27 - - 2411 Bates Candy 3 Darling 1 C. Thompson 500 Jake Olsen Pat Grant 493 .X). Coneland Lee Gustison 421 LeRoy Boyd Bill Newland 389 Sandy Clave Hunter Dixon 492 O. McNeel Handicap 45 454 459 414 476 513 2340 Crater Lake 1 Hal Vessey Nels Florey Bill Royce Jim Farrar (Absentee) 517 544 384 532 495 2472 First Natl, Paul Dimick Wes Nissen Ed Bennett Larry Clark Bob Lane Handicap 2316 S 502 501 468 454 531 93 2549 Table Rock Jack Gardner 484 Ray Wise 551 Bob Finnell 435 C. Freeman 589 H. Schroeder 504 2563 Valentine 1J4 Ray Klepper 433 Dick Lehman 334 Art Marineau 449 Les Schneider 548 Stan Straus 551 Handicap 138 2513 Mail Tribune 3 F. Anderson 512 F. Liddell 424 Bud Casey 461 Bob Monsey 490 G. Spaunhorst 510 Handicap 18 2415 Qnality X D. Lubbers 506 Wayne Kyker 482 Wayne Ratty 456 Loyd Huston 462 Al Henderson 460 2366 Domestic Lndry. 1 Jack Weber 491 Ernie Olson 408 Joe Kantor 431 Dave Johnson 485 G. Schultz 535 Handicap 111 2461 A B 3 Frank Boone 455 Ed Guldan 496 Bill Meyers 44 Lee Bex 533 Jim Knapp 542 2470 Cats, Brazil Favored in Hoop Tussle Rio De Janeiro, Brazil U.R) The United States and Brazil, both undefeated and tied for first place were heavily favored to score victories tonight and set up an all-important meeting with each other Friday night in the world "amateur basketball championships. The U.S. team the Peoria, 111. Caterpillars of the National In dustrial league was matched against Israel, while Brazil fac ed Uruguay. Both co-leaders were idle Wednesday while the other six teams in the round robin final round competed. The only other game tonight senrJs Canada against France. The tournament concludes Fri day night when, in addition to the all-important U.S.-Brazil game, China plays Israel and the Philippines plays Uruguay. The Philippines clinched third place in the final standings Wed nesday night defeating France 66-60. Canada, which had been scrapping for that position, saw its chances wiped out by a sur prising 74-61 loss to China. In the only other game, Uruguay defeated Israel, 89-74. BOWLING LADIES CLASSIC LEAGUE Jorgensens Dairy and Elk Lumber are tied for first place in the Ladies Classic Bowling League. Vivian Knox of the Fashionette had high scores this week, 581. Fashionette had high team game, 765, and also high team scatch series 2296. Standings: Jorgensen's Elk Lumber Anderson Thrift McDuffies .- Fashionette .'. Medford Feed & Seed W. ..27 Crater Inn Motel Morning Fresh Bakeries Marys Casa Cralerian Beauty Shoppe - Kachena Room 16 Trail Creek Lumber 16 ...27 ..25 ...24 -.24 -.22 -.21 ,21 ..19 19 Results: Elk Lumber 4 H. Norwod 383 Royce 377 V. Florey 364 A. Tammey 473 D. Christ'nson 523 2120 Marys Casa Piatt Floate Tolle Wright Blum Handicap L. 17 17 19 20 20 22 23 23 25 25 23 28 0 443 303 347 381 441 84 1939 Anderson's 3 N. Littrell 491 B. Hamm 375 A. Carbiener 364 (Absentee) 357 N.Hollenbeck 427 Handicap , 159 2143 Morning Fresh 1 J. Lone 358 S. Beck 418 F.Gasen 392 V. Bateman 521 (Absentee) 417 2096 Kachlna Room 4 R. Lane 455 R. Shama 395 B. Doyon 361 A. Monroe 419 L. Ericson 458 Handicap 147 Cralerian Beauty V. Cummings 474 R. Eberius 377 E. Straus 393 M. McCaU 436 E. Ludwie 2235 453 2018 Fashionette V. Knod P. Mathei D. Klein L. Rudy E. Baker Handicap 4 Crater Inn 0 581 L. Meech 346 403 J. Hampson 39a 382 T. Farrar 454 508 G. RigKS 468 422 C. Teter . 445 78 2374 ' 2008 Jorgensen's C. Lowd I. Forga J. Wilson . " F. Willet P. Gardner 3 Trail Creek 1 508 M. Mathieson 377 362 D. Jantzer 376 498 T. Bevens 402 . 465 M. Langston 327 418 E. Goode 335 Handicap 274 2251 2141 Medford Feed L. Sacchi- - 419 M. Tennant 441 J. Russell 418 H. Faye 382 R. Barr 460 2120 McDuffie's I. Schroeder 447 V. Corby 399 A. Wilson 356 N.- Keith 321 N. Burroughs 406 Handicap 91 2020 Odds Heavy For Top 3 Grid Clubs New York (U.R) The na tion's top three teams UCLA, Ohio State and Oklahoma were made heavy favorites by the Minneapolis odds making syndi cate today to extend their un beaten and untied football rec ords Saturday. UCLA, ranked No. 1" nation ally by the United Press Board of coaches, was a 19-point choice over Oregon; Ohio State's Buck eyes were tabbed to win by 14 points over Pittsburgh, and Ok lahoma was a lopsided 28-point choice over Iowa State. ; Ignoring the national rankings, however, the odds-makers in stalled 13th ranked and twice beaten Rice a three-point favor ite over fourth ranked and un beaten Arkansas in a game to be played at Little Rock, Ark. TV Game Rated Close The nation's television audi ence is in store for a close game this weekend, with Baylor a one point pick over Texas for their Southwestern Conference tussle at Waco, Tex. Rated as "pick 'em" or even games were the Big Ten clash between seventh-ranked Purdue and 12th-ranked Iowa at Iowa City, and the Big Seven skirmish between Colorado and Missouri at Columbia, Mo. ' Marquette was a six-point se lection over Boston College at Milwaukee in Friday night's in tersectional contest, while in Sat urday's intersectional clashes, Michigan State was favored by 19 points over Washington State; Notre Dame 33 over Pennsyl vania; Minnesota 27 over Oregon State, and West Virginia 19 over Fordham. Notre Dame was the only visiting team favored in the group. Cornell Over Syracuse In the East, Cornell was rated one point better than Syracuse; Princeton six over Harvard; Dartmouth 13 over Columbia; Penn State over Holy Cross; Army 20 over Yale; and Boston University 21 over Villanova. In the South, Duke was tabbed one point better than Navy; Mi ami, Fla., six over Auburn; South Carolina' six over North Caro lina; Georgia Tech seven over Tennessee; Kentucky 13 over Vanderbilt, and Alabama 19 over Tulane. In the Midwest, Michigan was seven over Illinois; Oklahoma A and M seven over Detroit; Indi ana 14 over Miami, Ohio; Wis consin 14 over Northwestern; and Nebraska 19 over Kansas. In Southwest games, Southern Methodist was 13 over Texas A and M; and Houston 14 over Tulsa; while in the Far West, California was 13 over Wash ington -and Southern California 14 over Stanford. BEARS BLOCK Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) The University of California Bears went through a heavy blocking drill yesterday and should be ready to meet the Washington Huskies Saturday if there's any of them left after this week's practice sessions. Guard Don Gilkey suffered a broken bone in his left foot dur ing practice Tuesday and will be out for the season. Tackle Ken Schwocho hurt his shoulder in yesterday's scrimmage, and Coach Pappy Waldorf said he may miss the tussle with the Huskies. BOWLING LADIES VICTORY LEAGUE Standings: W. L. U.S. National Bank 23 13 Davis Transfer 1914 1614 Trowbridge & Flynn 1914 16', 2 Keith Bros 19 17 pA4tv je. iurfrmi0fil - 18 18 Picks Apparel 17 4 18 '.4 lowne ueauiy anop id -a -.2 Stark Finance 11 24 Results: M. Klatt C. Rotnbach M. Howe J. Runtz V. Corby Handicap 449 398 Pick's 0 S. Puett 34R M. White 369 F. Maggenti 434 J. LeCuyer 16 J. Wilson Handicap 2012 359 368 343 230 470 37 1857 T F 3 B & M 1 H. Frve 419 A. Harris - 460 R. Blaylock R. Dean L. Schlachter 299 J. Russell 473 Handicap 312 . 2040 211 L. Cabler 336 J. Dean D. Phaff V. Knox 406 346 302 477 1991 U. S. Bank 3 Stark's 1 I. Schroeder 413 R. Vessey 387 G. Ingle 360 E. Carliss 253 V. Cook 321 J. Howard 313 I Ingle 365 M. Simmonds 253 P. Gardner 468 I. Carr 333 Handicap 216 1927 1760 Keith Bros 3 Davis Transfer 1 L. Andrews M. Herman L. Keith J. Walton N. Keith 444 B. Chase 379 J. Mahoney 357 W. Jenkins 485 D. Plumley ' 363 D. Huston Handicap 2028 367 317 423 380 252 75 1814 Dead line Sunday classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. You'll Always Find o Reliability Uniformity Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE Tru-Mix Concrete Co. FAST, PROMPT DELIVERY . Mc Andrews Road Phone 2-5271 Rogue River At Glendale Rogue River Rogue River high's Chieftains will seek to establish a "winning" season Friday when they play Glendale at 2:30 p.m. at Glendale. The Chiefs now own a record of four wins and four setbacks for this fall and the Glendale match will be their finale. Twelve seniors will play their last contest on the gridiron for Rogue River and 10 of them may be starters. Coach Tinker Hat field listed his probable opening eleven as Bill Weaver and Clete Daily, ends; Truman Drew and Don Doolittle,. tackles; Del Mc Kenzie and Walt Johansen, guards; Lloyd Morrow, center, and Jack Herburger, Ted Stan field, Bob Hoover and Gary Johnson, backs. Weaver is the only junior. Other seniors on the squad are Don Martin and Don Doolittle. All seniors are physically able, Hatfield reported, but sopho more backs are ailing. Fred Bond hurt an ankle last week against Oakland and Bill Head rick has been out because of flu. Thursday, Novmbr 4. 1954 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN Marble statues in Sutro Gar dens in San Francisco came to the city as ballast in ships from Belgium and other parts of the INDIANS EYE UPSET Stanford, Calif. (U.R) Coach Chuck Taylor sent his Stanford Indians through a light scrim mage in the rain yesterday and expressed confidence that they had a "very good chance" to up set the Trojans of Southern Cal ifornia Saturday. Taylor said that second string quarterback Jerry Gustafson has recovered from injuries and will definitely see action against the Trojans, but four Indians will be definitely out of action. DUCKS AIR THREAT Eugene, Ore. (U.R) Coach Len Casanova indicated today that the aerial threat of quarter back George Shaw would be Oregon's principal weapon when the Ducks meet powerful UCLA Saturday. The Ducks were at full strength yesterday as they work ed to polish their passing and running attack for the game with the No. 1 team in the nation. BRUINS FEAR SWITCH Los Angeles (U.R) Powerful UCLA, fearing that Oregon may pull a switch Saturday and launch a ground attack, today worked on defense against Web foot running plays. Coach Henry (Red) Sander's team, top-ranking in the nation, rates as a solid choice over the Oregon squad, but recognizes the fact that Webfoot passing star George Shaw also is an im pressive gunner. Middletown, Conn. (U.R) Before Mayor Stephen K. Bailey resigned as a Wesleyan Univer sity professor to take a job at Princeton University he made a "farewell speech" to his stu dents which he entitled "The swan song of a lame duck." STRESS PASS DEFENSE Los Angeles (U.R) Southern California Coach Jess Hill stress ed defense today, indicating the Trojans expect underdog Stan ford to take to the air in Satur day's game at Palo Alto, Calif. Hill yesterday had ends Chuck Leimbach and Chuck Green wood rushing the passer with Lindon Crow a roving pass de fense back on the alert for in GIVE AND TAKE : Richfield Springs, N. Y. (U.R) Mrs. H. Leslie , Baker regards Uncle Sam as an Indian giver. In 1949, the government gave her $75,000 for informing on a corporation that wasn't paying its taxes. The next year the gov ernment asked for $45,000 back. Hunting Party Shoots 4 Bears Near Fish Lake ' . A local hunting party, guided by L. L. 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