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9 t, : i TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE . Thursday, December. IB, 1954 St. Mary's Slates SOC Jayvee Five One prep basketball game which had been scheduled for this week end has been scratched off the slate, Coach Ed Hummel said that St. Mary's high's trip to Klam ath Falls to play Sacred Heart, which had been set for Sunday, has been postponed until after the first of the year. Postpone ment was at Sacred Heart s re quest, The Crusaders, do have one contest this week end. They play Southern Oregon college junior varsity Friday night at Ashland in the prelim to the Red Raider Oregon College . of Education varsity scrap, ' Contender St Mary's looms as one , of -the contenders in the Jackson County B League as the result of its second place finish in the Southern Oregon college invita ;tional last week but the Cru saders may be a little short on rivalry before .conference play begins. With the Klam ath trip postponed, St. Mary's has only a mix with Prospect on Tuesday, December 21, be fore the January 7 loop opening The situation at the Medford ; parochial school was on the bright side this week as Hum mel reported the Crusaders both looking better arifd running hard er. The coach reported a three- way clash for starting forward berths for the Friday game John Walsh, Bob Bobbett and Joe Hassler are fighting for the jobs. Tony Miksche likely will be at center with Laval Meunier , and Tim Dugan at guards. , Grid Sport Discontinued By Ford ham v New York (U.R) Fordham's official discontinuance of foot ball due to "continuing financial Joss" left Columbia university as New York City's lone survivor today on the major collegiate gridiron scene. The end of Fordham's 63-year competition in varsity football came Wednesday night on the heels of a disastrous 1954 season during which the Rams won only the opener of their nine-game schedule and Ed Danowski re signed after nine years as head coach. Not Hasty MedfordTribunb 4- TP-JUm' Amiwuricnii x uiu...... t Two year letter decision was made by Jack Cof- TI ati,. fey, graduate manager of athlet ics, who made public a letter on the matter from the Rev. Laur ence J. McGinley, S. J., presi dent of the university. "Our decision has been neither hasty nor casual," Father McGin ley said in the letter. "The un fortunate fact remains that, after four years of cooperative en deavors, we have run out of money for football and must bal ance our books." In dropping football, Fordham followed a pattern set by such New York City schools as New York University, Long Island University, Brooklyn College, Manhattan College and City Col lege of New York. Jess Flores Released By Portland Beavers Portland XU.R) The Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast baseball league today announc ed unconditional release of right- handed pitcher Jess Flores. Flores, a longtime veteran of the PCL, appeared in 26 games for; Portland last season, win ning two and losing seven. He finished with a 3.56 earned run average. General Manager Joe Ziegler hinted several other Beavers would ' be traded or dropped from the roster in the next few weeks but he did not identify them. Tornado Faces Eagles Friday; MB Saturday Four players who participated in a oo to 47 victory . over the Black Tornado last season likely will be in the line-up for North Bend this week end when the Bulldogs oppose the Medford high loop team, Medford is host to North Bend on Saturday night after entertaining the Eagle Point Eagles here on Friday. Both games are expected to provide good tests for Black Tornado caliber. Varsity contests are set for 8:15 p.m. both nights. Med ford junior varsity will play the Eagle jayvees on Friday and Ashland junior varsity on Sat urday in 6:45 p.m. prelims. Seeing action against Medford again for the Bulldogs may be Dick Woolstenhulme, a junior, and Willard Reeve, a senior, both two-year letterman, and Hoddy Schepman and Van Leu ven, one-year letterman senior. Hartley Tallest Tallest man on the Bulldog squad is Dave Hartley, who had two years of lettering at Nyssa before moving to JNorm hena this year. He is 6 feet 3Vfc inches LeRoy King, a senior, and Jack Shanley, a sophomore, are other lettermen on the North Bend roster Van Leuven and Wool stenhulme are next in height to Hartley at 6-2 each and Reeve is 6-y2." North Bend statistics show Reeve as the all-around stand out for the Bulldogs. i-.ast year s records show him topping re turnee in both total points and rebounds with 304 of each. His 205 pounds indicate his rugged ness. Schepman scored 237 points last year and had a shoot ing average of .430. woolsten hulme scored 149 counters in the 1953-1954 season and followed Reeve in rebound effectiveness with 210. Kine is listed as an agile play er with plenty of speed and drive. Shanley was a regular guard last year after good work in pre-loop play as a jayvee. E. P. Experienced Eagle Point has three-year lettermen in Carl Christian, Frank Reich, Bill Caldwell and men are Harvey Nelson, Ken Bitterling and Jerry Cave. Reich is out of action because of a hand operation. Caldwell hurt his knee in the Rogue River fracas Tuesday and may be on the sidelines Friday. In North Bend the Tornado will meet a gang unbeaten in three games. The Bulldogs have STENOGRAPHER ACCLAIMED Columbus, O. Stenographer, a three-year-old ', trotting filly which won 23 of her 32 starts to collect $65,137.39 this year, was acclaimed jtoday as the Harness Horse of the Year. (Vodka in orange juice) It leaves you breathless i i ! d3 mimpff tiGe qrtaies t name vuuna J0proof.MidefromI00ff2inneutrlspirit. Stc. PierreSmirnoffFls.Inc.Hartfofd.Conn. Native Dancer Horse of Year Baltimore (U.R) Native Dancer was named Horse of the Year today in an annual poll rnnHneted bv the Turf and Sport Digest. Alfred G. Vanderbut s gray colt, now at stud on a Mary land farm, nosed out King Ranch's High Gun by two votes in the balloting of 174 sports writers and commentators. BOWLING LADIES VICTORY LEAGUE Standings W. L. U. S. National Bank ..34V2 25 x Davis Transfer 33 "i 26 t Towne Beauty Shop , 33,2 26i,i Trowbridge & Flynn 31'2 28 ',2 Keith Brothers 31 , 29 ' Picks Apparel 27 32'2 Beatty and McDougal 25,2 34 2 Stark Finance .......,..x 23 36 - Results: Towne Beauty 4 B and M ' M. Klatt 380 A. Harris C. Rombach 412 L. Vbjrel M. Howe 361 J. Dean J. Runtz 406 D. Pfaff V V. Corby - 488 L. Cabler Handicap ' " 2047 9 473 327 323 351 346 24 1844 Keith Brothers 3 U. S. Nat'I. Bank L. Andrews M. Herman C. Lowd J. Crosby , N. Keith 428 I. Schroeder 410 313 G. Ingle 375 410 J.Offenbacher 373 409 J. Inele 369 419 P. Gardner 430 Handicap 12 1979 1969 T and T 2 Pick's Apparel 3 H. Frve 398 M. Puett 359 R. Blavlock 266 S. Puett 380 R. Dean 267 T. MagBenti 346 S. Hardwick 263 J. Le Cuver 320 J. RusseU, 412 M. White 315 Handicap ' 102 t 1708 1720 Davis Transfer 3 Stark Finance 1 B. Chase 338 V. Knox 474 J. Mahonev 392 J. Howard 334 W. Jenkins 374 E." Corliss 330 D. Plumley 425' M. Simmonds 316 D. Huston- 302 I. Carr S90 Handicap 69 1900 beat Roseburg 66 to 31" and Cot tage Grove 60 to 52 and have a win over Reedsport. Eagle Point has a record of four wins and one loss. The Eagles beat Oak- ridge and Rogue River each twice and Talent once. The Medford aggregation. was scheduled to have lighter work today after two days of rugged practice. Tornado players had two solid hours of hard going yesterday and the five who may start against the Eagles on Fri day displayed quite a bit of scoring drive. The combination of Everett Kastner, Glenn Peterson Jerry Kalapus, Frank Rector and Larry. Copple .ran up a good count on the opposing unit in a hard-running 10-minute period, quadrupling the score of the other quint. : . Mays Most Valuable in Senior Loop By MILTON RICHMAN New York 4U.R) Amazing Willie Mays, already on his way toward becoming one of the New York - Giants' -all -time greats, .today was voted the Most Valuable Player in the Na tional League for 1954. - The spectacular, 23 - year - old centerfielder, now playing win ter ball in Puerto Rico after winning the National League batting title- and helping the Giants to a world championship, captured the MVP award with a total of 283 points out of a possible 336 , Mays, putting m his first lull season in, the majors, received his strongest competition from Ted Kluszewski, Cincinnati first baseman, who was runner-up in the balloting with 217 points. Mays received 16 votes for first place while Kluszewski received seven. Sodthpaw Johnny Antonelli, the Giants' 21-game winner, wound up third with 154 points, followed by Dodger outfielder Duke Snider with 13o points and Giant shortstop Alvin Dark with 110 points. Brilliant Season Dark received "the only other first-place vote cast by the spe cial 24-man committfe of the Baseball Writers Association of America. Three writers from each city in the league were on the committee. A first-place vote counted 14 .points a second place vote nine points, a third- place vote eight points, and so on down to one point for 19th pace. For Mays, who batted' .345, drove in 110 runs and smashed 41 homers the award climaxed a brilliant season during which he starred consistently from the moment ' he returned to ' the Giants from the Army last soring. - ; ' His backhanded catch of .Vic Wertz' 420-foot wallop in the first game of the World Series was generally regarded as the outstanding play of the- classic and Willie still is wowing them in Puerto Rico where he currently is playing for the San turce Club and leading the league with a .429 batting- av erage. . . . ,: BLASTING DOWN court like' fullback, Mike Diaz (4) of Cali fornia, collides with COP's Nick" Romanoff in double overtime cage contest in Berkeley. Tigers beat Bears, 82-77. (International) Bobo Retains Mantle; Fight Stopped in 1 1th By HAL WOOD San Francisco (U.R) Carl (Bobo) Olson, king of the middle weights, can look for new worlds to conquer today. ' ' He finished off the .last of the top foreign contenders Wed nesday with, an 11th round tech nical knockout over the unhap py Frenchman, Pierre Langlois. He already has defeated the top British contender, Randy Turpin, and the leading Cuban threat in Kid Gavilan. ' His next foe, if everything goes well, probably be an Am erican Joey Giardello. In any event, the Hawaiian- born battler still is ready for all comers. He was able to take home a check for well, over $50,000 to day for his fight with Langlois. The promoters had anticipated a crowd of only about 11,000 and a $100,000 gate. But at the last minute a rush Vancouver Eyes Coast Loop Spot Vancouver, B. C. (U.R) A final decision on. whether this city will win a Pacific Coast League berth for 1955 may be made by next Tuesday. The , Sacramento Splons hold an executive meeting in the Cal ifornia city on that day to con sider the future of the .club. Lead ing stockholders of the Solons offered their shares for sale re cently in an effort to keep the team in Sacramento but General Manager . Eddie Mulligan said "there hasn't been a nibble." Coley Hall, organizer of th movement to win Vancouver a PCL franchise, warned Mulligan a jdecision,would have to be made soon' on-, an offer to move the team to this city or supporters here would forget about the PCL 1844 until 1956. White Sox Had Stoutest Defense Chicago (U.R) The Chi cago White Sox boasted the No. 1 double play combination and the best . all-around defense in the American: League this year. Official figures disclosed that the White Sox compiled a team fielding average of .982 and that shortstop Al Carrasquel and second , baseman Nelson Fox formed the league's best key stone combination. Carrasquel committed only 20 errors in 792 chances for A .975 average while Fox committed only nine errors in 801 chances for, a glittering .989. In addition the pair shared in 102 double plays the most of any com bination in the circuit. Second Shared The Cleveland Indians and New York Yankees shared sec ond place in defense, with .979 averages, followed by the De troit Tigers with .978 ; and the Washington Senators . with .977 Rounding out an infield of the league s leading defensive play ers were Mickey Vernon of the Senators, who led the first base man with a .992 average, and Grady Hatton . of the Red Sox, who led the third baseman with .969. BASKETBALL WEDNESDAY GAMES East Massachusetts 104, Boston IT. 80 Rhode Island 51. Brown 48 CCNY 89. Hunter 77 Perm State 110. Colgate 75 ' Duquesne 74, College of Pacific 52 Columbia 72. Yale 50 Holy Cross 96. St. Anselm's 58 LaSalle 76. Lafayette 60 Seton Hall 72, Scranton 55 N. C.' State 91-55. fsmlin. ct . Midwest . ' Missouri 77, Arkansas 58 ' Illinois 97, Miami (0 72 Marquette 83, Michigan 78 . St. Louis 82, Mississippi 68 ' Purdue 78. Notr nrr. so Southwest Wvomintr 50. Oklahnma A . it At West. . iTi ' Eastern Washington 84, Cal Poly 75 Olympic. JC 69, Linfield 63 Dead line for Sunriav r-ls.rifi. . at noon Saturday. at the gate sold out the huge Cow Palace and 16,543 came through the turnstiles and the gross gate was $107,660. Net Gate, after taxes, was announc ed at $93,369. ' ' Claim Doctor Won Fight The Langlois camp claimed after the battle that they had lost the fight to Dr. Robert Lad don, state Athletic commission doctor, who stopped the bloody brawl with Langlois bleeding heavily from his mouth, his nose and his eye. It was a cut eye that halted proceedings. ' "We lost the fight to the doc tor," claimed George - Kanter, American representative of the Frenchman, "when he went to look at that eye cut, he pulled it wider apart." , , ; . Dr. Laddon claimed this charge was nonsense. "Langlois could have suffer ed, severe, permanent, impair ment to his eyesight if the bout had continued," he said. Actually Pierre put up a fine battle but he just wasn't in Olson's class. The officials were nearly unanimous in this. Two of them "gave only one round each to the French challenger; the other gave none. On the point basis used in California Referee Ray Flores and- Judge Jack Downey each had it 59V-50VV while Judge Vera Bybee had :it 59-51 for the : champion. United Press gave a little "more of a break to the challenger with the count 57Vi-52i2 for Olson. Bruising Contest It was a bruising contest all the way, and although the fans knew that Olson was winning easily, they booed lustily when the doctor ordered the bout stopped. There were no knockdowns, but in the third round and again in the eighth, Olson battered Langlois around the ring. The challenger went into a shell and when it appeared he must fall to the mat from the battering, he gamely , came back and re sumed punching. j : For that, he got a tremendous handwhen he left the ring. Langlois said later. that, '.'al though he probably was behind in points, he still had a lot of steam left. "I was saving a lot for the last four rounds,'! he said, "and I was - going to step up the speed." It was too bad for the crowd that the fight was stopped because that is just about the same statement that came from the Olson camp. . -The victory was the 18th in a row, extending back to 1952, for the ; champion. It was ' his seventh bout this year and his third title defense. He will have his next bout early in 1955 but on the basis of past efforts there don't appear to be many around to give him much opposition. Raiders Tackle OCE Friday In OCC Basketball Opener Ashland Southern Oregon college bows into Oregon Col legiate Conference basketball ac tion Friday night when it enter tains the Oregon College of Edu cation Wolves. And there's every indication that the Red Raiders wll have their hands full. Friday s fray will be the first of a two-game series. The clubs meet again . Saturday. Jayvee prelims are plianned on" both oc casions: at !6:30 pim. with .the main attractions at 8:05 p.m. Raider jayvees will oppose' S. Mary's high of Medford on. Fri day. ; ",- Oregon college gave evidence of being a fighting quint Tues day night when it lost to an all around taller club of Willamette university 52 to 56. The Wolves do have a 6-foot 5-incher in Bob Janes but the crew- is reported relatively... inexperienced with Larry Chamberlain the only let termen among starters. Cham berlain was high: scorer in the mix with Willamette with 21 points. . OCE'a line-up will include Ron Jones, freshman guard, from Marshfield." - At Southern Oregon this week Coach Alex Peterson reported that things are picking up a bit. He said the Raiders, the past couple of nights have looked the best they have all year.' 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