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SIX MEDFOHD (OREGON MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, December 26, 1954 fww i MEDFORDvlTRIBUNB Tornado Ends Pre-League Slate Against Cleveland Tuesday, Wednesday Nights The quintet prognosticates have picked as the team to beat in the Southern Oregon Confer ence against "the club heavily favored to waltz off with the Portland Interscholastic League crown That combination will provide a natural for cage fans here this week as the Medford Black Tornado winds up its eight-game pre-conference cam paign by entertaining the Cleve land high Indians. Medford and. Cleveland col lide on Tuesday and Wednesday. It's a top caliber foe the Black Tornado will face. The Indians don't have the height to match Medford's but speed and sharp shooting are their main assets. Cleveland has been flicking the net from the field at about a .400 clip. Other Tribe attributes are smoothness on defense and alertness, The qualities have helped Cleveland win its first four frays of the season in a breeze. Cleve land has averaged 64.25 points per game to opponents to 46. Coach Al Negratti has been able to subsitute freely in wins over Battleground and Vancouver, Wash., Central Catholic and North Salem. Jolley Big Gun Dick Jolley is figured to be the big gun in the Tribe's bid to move up from fourth last year to first this season in the PIL. Jolley, a 6-foot 1-inch lad, .was unanimous all-city choice last year as a junior. He paced the PIL last season with 243 points for a 17.4 per game average and had a full season total of 381. Thi3 year Jolley Is shooting for second all-time high behind the fabulous Swede Halbrook. So far he has a 63 total for a 17 per game clip and the most he's played in any one fracas is three mODWILEMfi CITY LEAGUE Darrell Miller Co. has cinched first place in the first half of City Bowling League by taking a 3 to 1 win over Red Blanket putting them seven games up on the runners up, Central Market, which won 3 to 1 over Top Notch cafe. With this week being the last week of the first half the rest of the teams will be trying to better their standings. Fred Anderson of Miller com pany took high game, 233, and high series, 631, for the evenmg, with high team game going to the Miller company, 932, Crater Electric high team series, of la. 21 28 29 30 31 32 32 . 36 Darrell Miller Co 40 .40 -.39 .38 37 Central warKei White City Sales Crater Electric Top Notch Cafe Ed s Barber Shop Boss Lumber Co. 36 36 -32 Camp wrute nfnoan Lumber Co. i 31! 36 ',i Norton Lumber Co. 25 t Red Blanket Lumber Co 24 Ind. Order of Foresters -22'a. 43 44 45 V Results: Red Blanket C. Epps J. Longan E. Hill S. Murrey B. Kimmel Handicau (1) 416 Miller Co. (3) Wilson - 511 422 421 447 415 372 2493 J. Roberts . 429 E. Lenz 525 F Anderson 631 L Webster 452 2558 Foresters " (0) Crater Elee. H. Allen L. Knapo J?. Dorff -C. Hamoson Y. Allen (4) 506 526 488 542 556 J. Lubbers 455 C. Morrison 457 V. Simmonds 419 .T tfonkle 449 H. Vessey Jr. 492 . Handicap , i' 2618 - 2446 Tiite City B. Fehl L. Smith V. Calhoun F. Knox J. Henson (3) 453 435 528 476 576 Ed's Shop F. Couch E. Paschke T. VanSickle I .Bollinger K. Johnson Handicap 459 428 477 438 509 27 2338 (3) 461 424 486 368 423 252 2434 Ross Lbr. C. Heim F. Martin Ray Wise C. Johnson B. Forrest 1 430 330 536 398 485 Norton Lbr. E. Olsen M. Morse M. Olsen P. Pfnister J. Boetcher . Handicap 2179 Top Notch H. Shaw L. Bex T. Mitchell D. Harmon (Absentee) 465 462 512 506 462 Central Mkt. B. Hay man H. Sullivan E. Sommer J. Keener G. Schulz Handicap (3 489 460 .505 493 508 84 2539 2407 Mosan Lbr. (0) F. Chapman 579 N. Henson 450 J. Veal 491 D. Chapman 361 J. Burroughs 445 Camp White R. Denning B. Findley E. Ricker J. Smith M. Ament Handicap (4 422 494 433 535 526 78 2489 2326 EVERGREEN LEAGUE With last weeks bowling the first half of the Evergreen League season drew to a close. City Hall Slickers managed to hold onto first place, although they lost all points on the last evening. Second place Tru-Mix Construction crew could have tied for first place had it won all its games, but it slipped in the last game, and lost by two pins. Bv their 4-0 win over the City Slick ers. Bel Air Chevs held onto third place over Sherwin-Williams Fainters. The latter squad took a 3-1 series from the Swift and Company boys. Rest of teams ended up the season bv trying to win more games for the point money involved rather than for the positions that could be gained. Pierce Auto Freight took First Na tional 4-0 to hold onto their .500 mark in the standings. Jorgensen's Dairy split with the Big Y Market, and moved up to seventh place over the bankers. - The Medford Barber Local 269 was quarters. Jolly has the reputa tion as a tremendous rebounder. Cleveland has other veterans. Jay Bashor, 6-2 and two-year letterman, was a regular last year as was Eric Petersen, 5-7 one-striper. Tallest on the squad is Frank Thatcher, 6-3, who let tered as a reserve in the 1953 1954 campaign. Others who got letters last as reservists were Bob Hevener, 6-2, and Bill Davies. Among those who may see quite a bit of duty against the Tornado is Harvey Jones, 5-5, who missed last year be cause of an injury. Medford Averages 57.8 In comparison to the Tribe average against foes, Medford has scored at a rate of 57.8 points per game while rivals have averaged 44.3. Two Med fordites have averaged better than 13 points per game. Larry Copple has an 83 total with a 13.8 per game figure. Jerry Ka- lapus has 79 and 13.1 counts. The Tornado didn't rest long after its Thursday triumph over Roseburg. It was on the practice floor yesterday morning. But the drill was light. Medford has only one more drill before facing Cleveland. It took both yester day and today off. Practice Mon day won't be overly strenuous but it will be heavier than the usual day-before-game workout. Medford had a hot night shoot ing igainst the Roseburg variety of Indians with 20 out of 45 for a .444 average. The Tornado in the overall picture also had ad vantage two to one on the back boards. Bud Kastner came up with his second straight fine guarding job, holding Nub Beamer to two field goals. He was previously that effective against Willard Reeve of North Bend. - . the guilty party as far as Tru-Mix were concerned, for this was the two pin game that the Tru-Mixers needed for a tie with City Hall. High effort for evening was a 247 fame Dy nai juus oi Jorgensens, landings: w. City Hall Slickers 47 Tru-Mix Construction 46 Bel-Air Chevs 43 Sherwin-Williams Paints 42 Swift and Company .40 Pierce Freight Lines ..36 Jorgensens Dairy First National Bank ..30 28 26 22 Medford Barbers Big Y Super Market Results: Bel Air A. Maggenti Bud Wilson R. Barclary E. Radsweit Doc Wilson 4) 525 548 470 464 569 City Hall (0) Buck Dow 468 E. McKinstry 364 Geo. Brown 373 Bob Duff 419 Compagnonl 465 Handicap - 333 2422 2576 Swift Co. (17 McWhorter 401 John Mathes 443 B. Friffith 454 C. Freeman 530 J. Erlandson 411 Handicap 138 2377 S-W Paint (3) Hugh Shaw 496 Lee Bex 576 Ray Tresham 504 Harvey Fields 480 Jake Olson 467 2523 Big Y Mkt. (2) Ken Berrey 533 John Davis 387 Paul McQuat 485 Jack Franz 445 Ray Speer . 528 Jorgensen's Jack Givler B. Pritchett Hal EUis J. Jorgensen H. Duncan Handicap (2) 437 369 555 375 473 147 2356 m 528 362 446 469 396 2378 Tru-Mix (3) C. Snedden . 484 J. Cummings '518 J. Burroughs 537 Jim Baize 447 Vera McCall 466 Barbers Joe Clark O. Hamer T. Brown F. Kirk B. DeGroot Handicap 153 2355 2452 Pierce Freight (4) 1st Natl. Bank (0) Dick Miller 428 H. Sturges 378 R. Bobbins 307 G. Shuler 409 S. Larson 594 Gene Doyon H. Hawley L. Negles H. Vallee 477 352 387 452 Bob Lane 479 Handicap 80 2262 2091 ROGUE VALLEY LEAGUE Standings: Continental Lumber Co. Royal Club W. -.43 41 .40 -.36 34 32 L 25 27 Lamports 28 Star Body Works Hocper's Radiator Service , 32 34 36 36 39 39 44 Lorenz Co. Kom-Pak Trailers Pine Tree Market 32 -30 -29 -24 Shoe Dogs State Forest Patrol Results: Shoe Dogs E. Eberius Dick Kline Ed Floate 1 483 425 466 411 Lorenz Co. 3 C. McWhorter f 76 John Mathes 544 D. McCormack 448 W. Gottfried 402 Burr Tye 378 Absentee D. Wunderlich 502 Handicap 54 2341 2348 Forest Patrol 1 Bud Van Hoy 442 Homer Smets 391 H. Stripling 486 Hooper's 3 Absentee 441 Dave Burns 509 Bernal Slead 536 Jerry Hooper 461 Herb Vallee 452 D. Stockton: 442 Ted Maul 458 Handicap . 129 2348 3399 Pine Tree Lee Bex Ray Wise Sam Mallon Absentee Dave Kreer 1 Lamports 3 Sll Bill Meyers . 449 598 Bill Piche 443 370 Bill Coy 420 444 Sam Van Dye 577 454 Jim Farrar 529 Handicap 3 2377 2421 Royal Club - 3 Bill Fehl 497 Star Body Wks. ' 4 T. Mitchell 504 H. Geener .418 Cecil Emery 428 Dale Graham 392 Lee Graham 457 Handicap 129 2328 Lin Smith ' . 398 Cot Hamoson 529 Ira Bollinger 429 Frank Knox 525 2378 Continental 4 Hal Allen 482 KomPak 0 Andy Andrew 464 Jim Henkle 427 B. Thornton 365 J. Adams 519 Buck Field 444 T. Van Sickle 483 Ed Isaacs 438 Vera Allen 486 Lloyd Knapp 458 Handicap in 2219 West Coast Teams Lead Defensively Portland (U.R) Defense, on the West Coast at least, would not appear to be an art lost in present-day basketball, on the basis of statistics released by the NCAA. The first four defensive teams in the nation are located on the Pacific Coast, and six out of the first 10 defensive aggregations are from this region. Southern California, defend ing Pacific Coast Conference champion, leads the nation with a defensive average of 49.4 points per game in its seven con tests. San Francisco is second and Oregon State third. The powerful UCLA Bruins rank fourth. Other West Coast teams among the 10 best defensive quintets are Santa Clara, eighth, and California, ninth. The region does not do as well in the offensive depart ment. University of Portland, with an average of 85.2 points per game, leads the Coast in scoring but ranks only 24th in the nation. Portland's Bv'k Bar- tel is ranked eighth hi. free throws, with 44 Out of 50, while Oregon's Jim Lostcutoff is 16th in rebounds. New Orleans Awaits Bowl New Orleans (U.R) Sugar Bowl fever gripped this queen city of the bayou land Saturday as the day neared for the mighty battle between eastern power house Navy and the rebels of Mississippi. The two teams will meet in Sugar Bowl stadium next Sat urday before a capacity crowd of 82,000 persons. Tickets for the struggle, rated by many as the best bowl game in the na tion, were sold out long ago. The, Middies, coached by Eddie Erdelatz, will arrive in Moisant International Airport aboard a commercial airliner to night. The 37-mah squad will take up residence at a newly- completed dormitory on the Tu lane University campus close to the stadium. . Mississippi also will be on the move today. Coach Johnny Vaught has ordered his South eastern Conference champions to report at the Gold Coast city of Biloxi, Miss., Monday for a final series of workouts before the New Year's Day classic. The 37 team members are expected to arrive here Dec. 31. Observers here contrasted the f ired-up emotions inspired by the Navy-Mississippi match with the indifferent attitude of last year when Georgia Tech walloped West Virginia. Orange Bowl Clubs Arrive Miami (U.R) The DuIcp nine Devils and Nebraska Cornhusk- ers flew into Florida Saturday fired up to prove they're not "third-rate" choices for the 21st Orange Bowl football classic New Year's Day. Balmy weather sunshine will greet Duke's play ers ana assistant coaches who are due to arrive first. Coach Bill Murray is making the trip by train. An 80-man contingent' of play ers coaches and managers is due to land from Lincoln, Neb., three hours later. Murray of Duke nnd roach Bill Glassford of Nebraska have scheduled few contact drills during the before-game week. They will. spend most of the workouts in perfecting play timing and acclimating their squads to Miami's humid, warm weather, a strength - draining thing on- the walled-in Orange Bowl turf. Duke, as winner of the At lantic Coast Conference, was in stalled as an early 13J4 point favorite to beat the Nebraskans who lost four of their 10 games this season. The Blue Devils lost only to Army and Navy and were tied by Purdue in 10 con tests. Because of the teams' records, the Orange Bowl committee drew sharp criticism for sticking by its pact for the Atlantip Coast and Big Seven Confer ences to furnish the Jan. 1 foot ball contestants. But bowl of ficials predicted a hard fought and close contest between the two teams which have no na tional rankings to preserve by cautions play. Both coaches promised to de liver. Despite the criticism, tickets for one of the 69,000 seats in the bowl are as hard to get as ever. INK DIAMOND PACTS New York U.R) The world champion New York Giants and the Brooklyn Dodgers demon strated they're both tops in Christmas - spirit with the an nouncements t ha t outfielder Monte Irvin and pitcher Carl Erskine had signed their 1955 contracts. The Giants indicated that Irvin would receive a du plicate of his $27,500 contract of last season while the Dodgers indicated Erskine received $25,- 000 about the same amount he received in 1954. " ' rv fir" i , K i :yiOiJm-:rt 1 k$ C v -;NJ IP If H (I' nwiITk cm L- J ,jf 43 SWANS HAVE BEEN KILLED in the Lower Klamath lake area this year, according to game enforcement officials, and at least seven have been wounded by careless hunters. In an effort to prevent the killing of these protected birds large silhouettes have been erected and an intensive education campaign is under way by federal game management officers, fish and wildlife per sonnel and both Oregon and California game officers. Here (top) is a comparison of actual birds, snapped at the Lower Lake ref uge area by photographer Don Kettler. Left, Thomas Garratt, U.S. Game Management agent, holds a typical snow goose, showing the black wing tips, while Jim Savage, U. S. Agent (right) and Gene Branson, assistant manager, Tulelake Wildlife .refuge, dis play a mature whistling swan shot down by a hunter. The educa tional silhouettes, the brain child of Johnny Johnson, Tulelake refuge patrolman, are shown below. The big figures are mounted on posts at points of entry in the open shooting areas, the snow goose bearing the legend "OK to Shoot" and the swan being lettered with a warning "Do Not Shoot." Officials feel that these silhouettes have helped materially in cuitting down on the whistling swan cases this year. Last year over 100 swans had been killed by hunters at this same time, It is the belief of obser vers that 80 to 85 per cent of the hunter hours in thf basin this year were used by non-resident gunners, sportsmen from the Bay. area, from Portland, the Willamette valley and other spots in the surrounding states. Many of these hunters are not familiar with the swan as a bird and consequently, officials feel, mistake him for the common snow goose. ' - . . - . . Actually the difference is easy to mark. Your whistling swan is a huge bird, averaging a wing spread of six feet or better, twice that of the snow" goose. The snow goose has plainly marked black wing tips, the swan has no black on him at all except for ms DeaK ana leet. rne swan has a flutelike, musical call that can be heard for miles over the marshes and grasslands, while the snow goose calls in a harsh, discordant manner. The wing beat of tne swan can oniy oe aescribed has the quicker beat of the average goose. To date approximately a aozen cases oi swan Killing nave been brought into courts, where fines average a trifle over $100. At the present time there are some 2500 swans using the lower Lake and Tule areas and spread over certain other popular feeding and resting grounds in the Klamath basin. (Courtesy Klamath Falls Herald and News) - : . O'Brien Chosen Athlete of Year For California Los Angeles (U.R) Parry O'Brien Jr., the only man in the world ever, to toss the shot beyond 60 feet, today was named Southern California Athlete of the Year for 1954 by the Helms Athletic foundation. . 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McAnirews . 5 5 15 as stately, while the snow eoose other top stars of 1954 Inter national Diving Champion Pa tricia McCormick; Bob Lemon, star pitcher of the Cleveland Indians; Quarterback Norman Van Brocklin of the Los Angeles Rams and Jack Ellena, ; All American tackle on UCLA's na tional championship football team. - , -. - O'Brien set the world's record for the shot put of 60 feet, 10 inches on June' 11, one of three times he sent the iron ball" be yond the 60-foot mark, - Mosf Sporfs.Writers Favor Delay in Issuing All-America Selections Los Angeles U.R) A nation wide survey has indicated most sports writers and publications favor a delay in issuance of All American, All-Regional and All Conference football selections until the end of December. ; The poll was ' conducted by Wilson B. Heller of Los Angeles, head of ithe College Survey bu rau, who took a survey of sports writers, colleges, players and publications as well as a sam pling of fans. ' End Build-ups Heller said those queried in dicated they would favor release of conference ; and regional all star, teams after Dec. 20, while All-America and ; All-Pro teams would not be named until after Dec. 30, , " The benefit of later selections, according to those polled, would be to end pre-season and early season building up of players on the basis of their previous year's performance. ; " ' ( .. TO SELL CONTRACT New-York : (U.R) Manager Angel Lopez indicated that his contract with former welter weight champion Kid Gavilan "will go to the highest "bidder." Conceding ' that the "Cuban Keed" and he have had a falling I out, Lopez said: "I'll tftrn over his contract to someone else but only if my price is met. ; 117 ; S. Central GUARANTEED 2 YEARS Full 100 ampere-hour capacity 45 thick, heavy-duty plates . Equals national brands costing $15 Equals or exceeds original equipment : , long-life plastic separators Shock-resistant rubber case Fanfare -Among the many ex-Medford high athletes home for the holi days is Gary Boshears, now a student at far off Yale univer sity. Boshears, lightest man on the team, was regular center and co-captain of the Branford eleven which won the Yale inter-college football champion- - .1 ft!. 1 .1 1 . snip msi zau. xiis ciuo -men lost to Harvard university's champ Dunster college, in the annual rivalry which pits the 10 intra mural teams of each school against each other the day be fore the traditional varsity con flict between Harvard and Yale. The grid program of the two schools had a two-page spread in the December 13 issue of Sports Illustrated. READ 4 SPORT ATHLETE , Medford high gained a four sport athlete . with the trans fer of Stan Read from St. Mary's parochial school. Stan who played in his first basket ball game for the Black Tor nado on Thursday, was a standout in football, basket ball and track at St. Mary's. With a minimum of training Read won the broad jump, . took second in the 220-yard dash and grabbed third in the 100-yard sprint for the Cru saders last spring in the state B track meet. He transferred to Medford high because of the parochial school policy of not permitting married stu dents to attend. ' AWAITING MORE SNOW Rogue Snowmen have been awaiting one more good snow before beginning their skiing season at Crater lake. Up until two days ago there reportedly Paul Meyers Has High Score in Golf Tournament Paul Meyers with 162 points is current leader in the holiday handicap golf tournament at Rogue Valley country club. Larry Butler is now second among the 35 entries with 150 and Clayton Lewis with 141 is listed as fourth. The tournament concludes on January 2. Winner of the meet will be decided on the highest total tabu lated from the best four rounds entries, turned in. Then points are being awarded for a double eagle, five for an eagle, three for a birdie, two for a par and one for a bogey. Players are per mitted 85 per cent of handicap. Meyers picked up point totals of 44, 40, 36 and 42 on his rounds. : Parry O'Brien Helms Winner : Los Angeles U.R) Parry O'Brien Jr., former southern California shot-put -star, was named Southern California ath lete of the year Saturday by the Helms Hall of Fame board. O'Brien; -who is the only man in history to put a shot more than 60 feet, beat out such heralded performers as diving champ Pat McCormick, " Cleve land pitcher Bob Lemon, Los Angeles quarterback Norm Van Brocklin, and UCLA's all-Ameri canJack Ellena. T The award winner is In the Air Force and will receive the award in nearby Santa Monica when' he returns home next year. ' , ' : ETC THIS YUM- Reg. 14.45 Types 1-21 Plino1dboH9ryln .eyeAanat. httalkd, FITS MOST POPULAR 6-VOLT CARS By OICK JEWETT tfua TribuM Sperk Uitw were less than two feet of snow at the lake, ' an inadequate amount. Nighttime freezing and daytime thawing have made the snow surface poor for skiing. Snowmen say , that depth of about five feet is needed for skiing. . . Activities of the local club are on Garfield slope at the lake. A group of Snowmen went to 4.1 11 a. a me laxe roaay xo maxe prepara tions for he season. President Bill Brooks said the club's small tow likely will be taken. A more nOWPrfiil tnnr is nlanncxt this year. The present small one is 7li horsepower and one person capacity. The new one will be 25 horse. It is hoped it will haul four people. . EARTHQUAKE CASUALTY Center Hal Titus .was the only casualty on the . South ern Oregon college basketball squad which was at Areata, Calif., last week . when the earthquake struck thai area. He slipped on glass which broke out of a window and . fell and cut his thumb. Coach Alex Peterson of the Raiders said that the Areata hotel in the two-minute jolt. Peter sen, shaving with a double edged razor, when - he jolt came, didn't get cut. He said" half the water sloshed out -of the bowL The coach found a spot under an archway in a move to seek a safe spot. Petersen said that the peo ple who stayed in the build ing generally escaped injury. It was the people running out side who got hurt. Glass re portedly piled up IV2 feet deep in the aisles of the Areata liquor store. -Ashland high thought It had won a basketball game last week-end then learned in the dressing room that it was the loser. When the final gun sound ed, the scoreboard showed 51 to 50 in Ashland's favor. Recheck of the scorebook gave Bend the victory 52 to 51. In Southern Oregon college's recent 84 to 71 verdict over Ore gon College of Education on the hoop court, the Red Raiders got more points from the free line than they did from the field. They flipped in 20 field goals for 40 points but at the free stripe, where buckets count only a single point, they sank the huge total of 44 thanks to the new bonus free shot rule which allows a second shot if the first is made. Lloyd Hoff ine, who got 38 points for SOC, got 18 of them on gifters. He shot 20 times from the charity spot for an accuracy average of .900. MOVING? Save by Renting a BEE HIVE U-DRIVE O Vans Stakes and Pickup Trucks Also Aris RENT-A-CAR SIGNAL TUNE-UP & REPAIR 6rii & Grape Phone 3-3261 Phone 2-6241
