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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) FOLLOWING THROUGH with left tc chin Percy Basset (left) eocks right as Redtop Davis winces. Davis won in Garden 12-rounder to make him featherweight title contender. (International) Redtop Day is Contender 1 New York (U.R) Persis tence had its reward today when Teddy (Redtop) Davis of Hart ford. Conn., was ranxed JNo. 1 imone the world's feather weight contenders in the Ring magazine's latest ratings. Thirty- one- year- old Davis, beaten 47 times along the bumpy trail to the top, earned the first rating by outpointing Percy Bassett, of Philadelphia at Madison Square garden last Friday night. Bassett, top man when they went into the ring, dropped back to second rung. Among the many changes in the ratings are two. new world champions: Lightweight Jimmy Carter of New York and fly weight Pascual Perez of Argen tina. Carter recaptured the 135 pound crown by stopping Paddy DeMarco of Brooklyn. Perez won the 122-pound title by out pointing Yoshio Shirai of Japan. Baker Moved Up ' In the heavyweight division, Bob Baker of Pittsburgh rose from sixth to fourth because of his easy triumph over, Jimmy Slade of New York, who took another licking from lightheavy weight contender Floyd Patter son of Brooklyn and dropped from fifth to eighth berth. Pat terson advanced a notch to No. 4 among the 175-pounders. Young Patterson is now one step above Paul Andrews of Buffalo, N.Y., who sank from third to fifth because of his de-1 feat by second-ranking Joey Maxim, ex-champ. Among the lightweights, un beaten Frankie Ryff of New York replaced Arthur Persley of Red Cross, La., at No. 5. Persley fell to sixth because of his kayo by Wallace (Bud) Smith of Cin cinnati, who moved from 10th to ninth. Al Andrews of Superior, Wis., ninth among the welterweights last month, put on pounds and shifted into the middleweight division, where he now is 10th. Newcomers to the ratings are heavyweight Johnny Williams of England, 10th, and light heavy Marty Marshall of Detroit, 10th. Younce Pushed For Grid Post Corvallis (U.R) Athletic Director Spec Kenne said to day he doubted if any move would be made toward naming a football coach to succeed Kip Taylor at Oregon State until he returned from an NCAA meet ing in New York in mid-Janu ary. . Keene said letters were con tinuing to arrive at his office. including applications. Meanwhile, a group of form er Oregon State athletes is push ing Len Younce, the resigned line coach, for the head coaching job. Johnny Leovich, former OSC baseball star, said "his ap pointment would mean a steady stream of athletes at Oregon State and revival of interest among the alumni who are ex athletes." Shaw, Patera Selected Oh Trojan's Foe Eleven Los Angeles (U.R)" The University of Southern Califor nia football squad, the. coast's Rose Bowl representative, pick ed three California players on its all-opponent team. Notre Dame, Oregon and UCLA each placed two men on the team, and Texas Christian and Oregon State placed one player. The team includes: Dan Shan non, Notre Dame, and Jim Hani fan, California at ends; Jack El lena, UCLA, and Ron Asch bacher, Oregon State, at t?.ckl;; Jim Salsbury, UCLA and. Jack Patera, Oregon, at guard: Matt Hazeltine, California, center; md Paul Larson, California, Ralph Guglielmi, Notre Dame, George Shaw, Oregon, arid Ron Clinkscale, TCU, as the back field. - MAIL TRIBUITO . Black Tornado Ready for Starting Medford high school's bask etball aggregation is "ready to go lor its opening action 01 tne 1954-55 season, Coach Frank Roelandt has reported. The latest version of the Black Tornado goes ' under .fire for the first time Friday night when it ; participates in ' ; t h e Otta Graham Close To Van In Pro Race Philadelphia (U.R) The Cleveland Browns are surgirjg and quarterback Otto Graham is putting-the pressure on Norm Van Brocklin for. the passing championship in .the National Football league. -Graham, the defending cham pion slipped into the No. 2 spot behind Vsm Brocklin as . the Browns took a aVfc-game lead Sunday in the loop's Eastern division. And with three games to go, the Brownies' passing wiz ard might overhaul the Los Angeles Rams ace. Van Brocklin holds the lead ership with an average gain of 10.34 yards for each pass thrown. Graham, who was fifth last week, has an average of 8.15 yards for every chuck. Van Brocklin has two games left to play- Joe (The Jet) Perry of the San Francisco 49ers retained first place in rushing and Bobby Wal ston of the Philadelphia Eagles went back into first place in scoring with five conversions and two field goals for a season total of 98 points. Doak Walker of the Detroit Lions is second with : 91 points. Burk Heads in TD's Adrian Burk, of the Eagles, who threw : five , touchdown pass es against Washington on Sun day, , is leading the touchdown parade with 19. Perry, with 870 yards in 135 rushes, holds " a commanding 236-yard lead over teammate John' Henry Johnson, in second place with 634 yards. Billy Wilson of the Forty-Nin-ers. stayed in first place in pass receptions with 49, followed by Pete Pihos of the Eagles with 47. Harlon Hill of the Chicago Bears leads with 10 touchdown receptions and Boyd is tops in yardage with 1,023. Horace Gillom of the Browns, who boots them a mile, took over in punting with a 43.5 yard average for 35 kicks, with Pat Brady of the Pittsburgh Steel- ers second with a 43.2 average for 51 boots. ' ; 11 - Dick Lane of the; Chicago Car dinals leads in interceptions with eight while Herb Johnson of the Giants is first in punt returns and Billy Reynolds of Cleveland first in kickoff returns. LaStarza Rated Edge Over Norkus Tonight Cleveland, O UR) Roland LaStarza of New York ruled a slight favorite to defeat hard hitting Charlie Norkus tonight in the , 10-round main event at the annual Christmas Fund box ing show in the Cleveland arena. The battle promises to be a test of LaStarza's ; technique against Norkus' knockout pow er. LaStarza, one-time student at City College of New York, is recognized as one of the heavy weight devision's most skilled practitioners. The LaStarza-Norkus fray shares top 'billing on the card with a 10-rounded between middle-weights Rocky Castellani, Cleveland, and " Moses (No Clinch Wardof Detroit. Wednesday, DoemTr 1, 1954 Fray Southern Oregon Conference jamboree at Grants Pass. Med ford will see only three quar ters of action on the Caveman court. Its . first full-strength struggle will be against Eureka, Calif., here Saturday night. Roelandt said that the Tor nado has rounded' pretty well into shape for its starters. The club is in good physical condi tion. He stated that there are a lot of things the crew needs to brush up on but those that need the most - attention likely won't be known until after the Tor nado has played a few games. Real Unveiling ' In the jamboree Medford will face Ashland, Grants Pass and Klamath Falls each one quarter. The jamboree is a preview of conference foes but results may not be too conclusive , as to how the quints stack up against each other. Medford, while it will be out to do its best, will concen trate on experimenting rather rather victory at' Grants Pass: The Eureka Logger fracas will be the real unveiling of the Black Tornado. "We'll be out to win that one," Roelandt stated. About 15 players may . make the trip to GP, while some will be in the action more than oth ers, every boy who makes the jaunt likely will get a chance to play. The tall boys of the club, Glenn Peterson and Stan Kala pus, will see the heaviest duty and Roelandt plans to use them together much of the time,. Frank Rector, Everett Kast- ner, Larry Copple, Ed McCul- lough and Lloyd Cearley are hoopmen who'll probably be on the court ; a big share of the time. : ." ' On Saturday night the Eur eka lightweights and the Med ford junior varsity will provide the 6:45 p.m. preliminary activ ity. ; ; Tulsa Football Staff Gets Boot Tulsa, Okla.-4U.r3 Tulsa University-football Coach Bernie Witucki, whose teams could win only three games in two "years, was out of a job today, and he said he hoped his successor would "have the good Lord on his side." . ,. Y .' Witucki, who took over the reins of the Golden Hurricane, two years ago after a successful career as an assistant coach at Tulsa, watched the team lose all 11 games this season. His contract had one year to go, but Tulsa's school officials gave him the boot Tuesday, along with his four assistants, and said satisfactory financial settlements would be made. 1 OSC Quint Faces Hawaii Tonight Corvallis 4U.R) Oregon- State meets University of Hawaii here tonight at. Gill Coliseum in its 1954-55 . basketball season opener. On Friday night, OSC travels to Eugene to play j California while Oregon meets Santa Clara. Saturday night Oregon and OSC switch opponents and play here. Sleep Well Kklk HOTEL Broadway at Washington IN DOWNTOWN PORTLAND Omaha Eyes Jump Into Higher Class '. By ED FITE Houston, Tex. U.R) Fran chise problems were still the big news , around . the minor league convention side rooms today al though the convention proper centered its attention of the fi nal day of the draft involving the little minors. Focal point of the , franchise switch talk was Omaha, the am bitious Nebraska metropolis that is waging a prolonged battle to iumn from the Class A Western league to the Class AAA Ameri can association. . v But there were several other cities whose situations were just as clouded if not as well publi cized. - Omaha lost out to Denver, Colo., also of the Western league in the bid for the ' association franchise vacated when Kansas City moved into the American league, but still hopes that the St. Louis Cardinals will come to the rescue. ... -. - The draft took some of the edge off the franchise battle Tuesday as clubs in the four top minor league classifications Open, AAA, AA and A laid out $123,750 for 31 players. TV-at Ta Continue Tnrtav .the Class B and C leagues get their chance to se lect some promising taieni uui ing the morning. A delayed draft during the afternoon will give those clubs which lost play ers in the main draft a chance to recuperate. - The Western league,, mean while, went on record as decid? ing not to "select" an eighth city to replace Denver because it didn't want to "hurt" any other club or league at this time. The International league, rec ognizing its problem at Ottawa, a Kansas City Athletics farm club, appointed a committee to look into possible replacement sites and said Miami, Fla., would hp visited ''immediately" after the close of the convention. The Eastern league, which has aMp . franchises at Al- bany and Wilkes-Barre, delayed until today any , action on lamns rArl a cements from such a field as Johnstown or: Sunbury, Pa., and Springfield, Mass. i. All Interested Persons Invited : To Mat Clinic All persons interested are in vited to attend the wrestling clinic Saturday, Debember 4, at the Medford senior high school gymnasium, v. : , r,; , ! Bill Hammer, University of Oregon grappling instructor, will conduct the clinic with members of his Webf oot squad assisting. - The- affair is mainly for coaches and their wrestling squads and other interested stu dents in this area. .The Medford school has sent out invitations to 21 schools in southern and southwestern Ore gon. Sessions will be from 9 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 5 p.m. Paul Evenson, Medford high wrestling instructor, and Ditch Simons, Klamath Falls tutor, will give talks. -1 : Medford high began wrestling workouts Monday with a turn out of about 45 boys. Among re: turnees are Ray Williams, Les Walch, Paul Eckel, Bill Dyer, Harley Davidson, Larry Fraser, Ron Lindgren and Ray Hilton. Coaches Agree Bowl Rule Poor ' Sacramento, Calif. - (U.R) Coach Red Sanders of UCLA and Jess Hill of Southern Cal ifornia have agreed that the Pa cific Coast Conference and Big Ten rule prohibiting teams from going to the Rose Bowl twice in a row is a 'poor one." ' , Both coaches told a banquet group here. Tuesday night, that they thought the, champions of each conference should go to the Rose Bowl every year. : UCLA won the PCC title this year but USC will be in the Rose Bowl because Sanders' team was in the Rose Bowl last January. "I don't believe it's a good rule," said Hill. "The best team in each conference should be in the Rose Bowl every year. I think, it's a poor rule, myself" "I don't know anyone who's for it," Sanders chimed in. "I'm not saying I endorse any post-season games," the coach of the unbeaten CLA team said. 'But my own personal belief is that the best team' in the Coast Conference should play the best team in the Big Ten." Hill told the group of players j and Sacramento high school football players that he had no doubt that ..his USC Trojans "are the second best team in the conference." at the Card Completed For PAL ing Show Additional oouts were an nounced today for the Medford Police Athletic League boxing show slated Saturday night, De cember 4, at Merrick's arena here. The tussles complete the card. ' " .' Some of the -top amateur box ers from Eureka, Calif.; Seattle, Wash., Portland and Medford are to be on the 15-bout card-PAL club promoters of the fights feel that the benefit program will provide one of the largest and most select boxing shows to be staged in this area. In the curtain-raiser, Rodger Haupt meets Jimmy McCabe. Both are from Medford. These are 90-pound lads with hearts of lions and fine boxing skill for such little fellows. In the other early bouts will be Billy Wright, solid-punching 140 pounder against : Tucker Spot, Eureka; Lester Laudin, 119, "Eu reka, versus Medford's aggres sive Don Wolf; Herb Walters, MIBL Frays Will Begin On Monday Medford Independent Basket ball League will start play at 7 p.m. Monday at the junior high school gymnasium, League President Bill Singler has an nounced. " Opponents in the first nights action will not be known until Thursday night. Singler has called a meeting of loop officers and team managers that evening at the YMCA to draw up the schedule. The session will be at 8 o'clock. . Generally, MIBL games will be scheduled at the junior high Monday through Thursday each week of the season. The gym will not be available December 15" through January 3. Arrange ments to ; play elsewhere are planned and some of the con tests likely will be played on courts of MIBL members from towns outside of Medford. .;.tv'. . Southern Oregon college stu dents will serye as referees, Sing ler reported. 4; ; ' Singler was named Monday to succeed Ardis Warren as presi dent. Other officers are Loren Soderlund, vice-president; Don Wendt, secretary, and Don Mintz, treasurer. 'A .). ; Mickelson Choice Of Beavers in Baseball Draft Houston. Tex. (U.R) : Ed nrif Vpisnn. rieht-handed first baseman for the Shreveport club k Tpvas ' leaaue." was the first choice of the Portland Bea vers of the Pacific Coast league vesterday . as the minor league riraft sot underway. v The Beavers were last place finishers in the league this sea son and had first choice in xne draft. Mickelson hit .335 this vpar and banged out 192 hits, including 43 doubles, 11 triples, anrJ 17 home runs. He drove in 139 runs ' , '.7 Mickelson was one of the most sought-after players in the draft. He stands six-foot, four-inches, and hats as well as throws rieht-handed. : 7 - Los Angeles announced that Bill Sweeney had been signed for another (Season as manager, Eddie Erdelatx Coach of Week By CARL LUNDQU1ST New York (U.R) H y" want to put him on the defen sive just call him a "defen sive coach." He refers to his boys as "A Football Team Named Desire," a team that likes to run and take chances, with a will to win and an urge to score from, any spot on the field. Nevertheless his boy have run up the best defensive rec ord ' in collegiate football and when the going - was toughest last Saturday, , they dug in and upheld that reputation. He's the United Press Coach of the Week, Eddie Erdelatz of those nifty Navy midshipmen. And as far as his boys are concerned, even without that 27-20 . victory over-Army, he's the coach of the 1 century. Sel dom in the college ranks, and particularly in the regimented atmosphere of a military . acad emy has there . been ?. a closer bond between a coach and his players and associates. I:. : .6 : , MOVING? Save by Renting a , BEE HIVE . U - DRIVE o Vans o Stakes and Pickup Trucks ; Also Avis RENT - A - CAR JJIIMPS SIGNAL TUNE-UP & REPAIR 6h & Grape " Phone 3-3261 on Saturday 150, against Bob Hammy, the Portland Ramblers club; Maxie Green, 135, Eureka, versus Wally Poston, Vancouver; and Manny Hernandez, 135, Eureka, versus Chick Masters, Portland Air Base. Crippen: In Main Headline attraction pits Med ford's blasting Steve Crippen against Phil Mover of Portland. Moyer is the current Northwest Golden Glove welterweight champion. He has recently de feated the All-Canadian welter weight champ. Phil is considered" to be one of the finest AAU wel terweights in the entire nation. " In the semi-windupv : Denny Moyer, ; 140, Portland will meet Eureka's best 140-pounder, Jim WilsOn. Wilson is a solid belter with either hand while Denny is a boxing master. Featured preliminary battle brings together Medford's knock out sensation, Junior McDonald" against hard-hitting, smooth box ing Marion McCovey, Eureka. This affair could prove to be the outstanding mix of the evening. Bobby Lyons, state champion, of Medford, meets the Blue Leke, Calif.,, speed merchant, Blaine Laudin. Two Whirlwinds Larry Lewis, Medford's Little Dempsey is to meet Portland's 109-pound hunk of dynamite, Mike Rader. These two young whirlwinds have met before and virtually walked off with everv cheer in the house. Lewis camel out winner by a very narrow margin. In a " battle of 130-pounders, Bob Apple,. Medford, will swap punches with Dick Westrup, Se attle, Wash. ; Fans will see two of the hard est hitting 145-pounders on the coast when Bob Obie, of Hoopa, Calif.; crawls through the ropes at Merrick's Arena against Tom my Thomas, -Portland Air Base. Both have records of many knockout victories. 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Other; top J players in the trophy voting were three other Ail-Americans : center Kurt Burns of : Oklahoma : with 838, halfback Howard Hopalong Cas- sady of Ohio State with 810, and quarterback Ralph. Guglielmo of Notre Dame with 691. TXevr York (U.R) George Shaw of Oregon was the eighth ranking college football player in the nation in voting for the Heisman trophy, won by Alan (The Horse) Ameche of Wiscon sin. Ameche won ; with 1068 points. ) Shaw had 182 points. Back Paul Larson of California was fifth with 271 points and Tackle Jack Ellena of UCLA sixth with 193 pcLits. : - ' Beginner of Last Year High in Pistol Shoot Darrell Payant, beginner last winter, has made remarkable progress and was in second place last night t the regular pistol shoot of Medford Rifle and Pis tol club with 266 out of possible 300. Roy Hewitt was first with 279, Jim Bolton had .243, Bernice Hewitt, the only woman shooter so far this year was in'the fourth place with 212 and J. C. 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