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Bannister performed a feat for the ages, one which will be re called long after most of the others have been forgotten, when he became the first man to shat ter the four-minute mile barrier. That 3:59.4 mile at Oxford was a historic milestone in muscular endeavor. Even the fact that Aussie John iLandy since has lowered it to 3:59 was strictly anti-climactic because it' was Bannister who pierced the mental as well as the physical barrier. Every sport had its standout, and from this corner they were: Baseball Willie Mays: The "Say Hey": kid of the Giants stepped into a class by himself as he paced the New York Giants to the world championship. Baseball players on the whole have be come a lackluster lot but the amazing Mays brought back gobs of glamor and the old excitement generated by such as Babe Ruth and Dizzy Dean. Last spring I snickered at the buildup and la beled -mm the "greatest -.270 hitter in baseball history." Well, he sure is, and I'm still a bum. Boxing Rocky Marciano: Finally proved to a lot of doubters, in cluding Old Fearless, that he was a fine heavyweight cham pion. The Rock displayed an amazing new poise and polish as he twice defeated former champion Ezzard Charles and indicated completely that it's go ing to take a fine fighter to de? throne him. In earlier fights Old Fearless was doubtful and crit ical and wrong again. lEd Furgol: Down and nearly out after nine unfruitful years, the man with the withered left arm came out of nowhere to win the U. S. Open. It was one of the year's grittiest feats, and the best in golf. Doris Hart: Five times she had been beaten in the national fi nals. This time she faced and fought off three match points, and then crashed through to a long-sought and much-deserved victory. Willie Shoemaker: , He fol lowed up his world's record of 485 wins of 1953 with a leading 370 victories by early November and then went on vacation to give the rest of the lads a shot at the loot. Mrs. Pat McCormick: An old acquaintance at the Helsinki Olympics, who continued to prove her excellence with five new U. S. titles. Mrs. Mildred Didrikson Zahar ias we all knew that the Babe was one of the greatest. And, one year after a cancer operation fol lowing which her doctor said she'd never play golf agaiq, she waltzed out there and. won the U. S. Women's Open. All in all, a crew for the ages! OSC Representatives To Attend Meetings Corvallis (U.R) Oregon State will be represented by three of ficials at next week's NCAA meetings in New York. They are Glenn Holcomb, faculty athletic representative; Ralph Coleman, baseball coach, and Kip Taylor, football coach who has resigned effective next July 1. , . Athletic Director Spec Keene. who was hospitalized with a slight heart attack last week was reported "improving" but he will not make the trip. Ski Party Finds Garfield Slope To Be Unskiable A small group of skiers from this area battled the . cold and found Garfield slope at. Crater lake unskiable but had a fair time on their slats Sunday after setting up the Rogue Snowmen's tow on a slide area which had about 30 inches of powdery snow. - President Bill Brooks of the Snowmen reported about 15 to 18 skiers at the lake. Medford people in addition to Brooks, where his son' and daughter, Charles and Linda, Mr. and Mrs. Eddie Simmons, Hal Todd and his mother, Carlyn Quaikenbush and Howard Duggan.. There were others from Pros pect and Grants Pass and even from Los Angeles. The group reportedly enjoyed itself despite a lot of loose snow. Weather was "sunny although there were a few clouds but the temperature reportedly was cold. Brooks said that one real good snow storm is still needed to make Garfield slope right for skiing. ' i . Charles Brooks is home on va cation from Whitworth college where he is a chemistry major. Durando Given Slight- Edge Milwaukee, Wis.-MU.R) Ernie Durando, of Bayonne, N. J., was a slight ' favorite ' over Peter Mueller of Cologne, Germany, in a 10-round middleweight bout here tonight. The Bayonne veteran, , who has been knocked out only once in his 12-year ring career, con centrated on . powerful right handed punches in his workouts here. Durando is. relying on his powerful punches to overcome Mueller's advantage in speed. Mueller's record includes only two knockouts in 79 professional Use Mail Tribune Want Ads IBil (Halter J .lOOMOOf 1 3 100 PROOF PREMIUM QUALITY 0 STRAIGHT BOURBON $415 2 3Qt. 70 Pint wmm. ; : ; : '. w. a haller corp., phila., pa. ASK FOR "COUNTY. FAIR" AT YOUR FAVORlTEBAR, CyjQ. HOTEL MEDFOM)TRIBUNB PCC Future Said Bright By HAL WOOD San Francisco CU.R) The long hoped for goal of parity with the Big Ten failed to arrive on the Pacific, coast during the 1954 football season, but, as usual, the future looks bright. The UCLA Bruins, ineligible to go to the Rose Bowl, won just about every other acclaim. They the country's "Coach of the Year." On top of that, tackle Jack Ellena was rated the outstand ing lineman of the year, by Texas Christian, UCLA and were rated the No. 1 team in the nation by the United Press board of coaches; and their own coach, Red Sanders, was voted Notre Dame, backed into the Rose Bowl to play undefeated Ohio State. In inter - league competition Southern California, beaten But while UCLA had a banner year, with an unbeaten record, Eagle Cagers Go on Road ;. Eagle Point Eagle Point high basketball team members will leave Wednesday morning on a two-day jaunt to central Ore gon. They will play at Prine ville on Wednesday, and at Red mond on Thursday! " Coach Jerry Mosby said that all varsity hoopmen but two will make the trip. Frank Reich and Ed Abernathy ,are the boys re maining at home. Reich is still shelved by an operation on a hand hurt in football. Abernathy has had flu for a week. Making the jaunt will be Har vey Nelson, Jerry Cave, Bill Caldwell, Jack Greb, Carl Chris tian, Ken Bitterling, Jerry Tut tle, Bill Wyatt, Gale Friend, Jerry Eastgate and Eldon Mason. Caldwell will continue to wear a brace through the season be cause of a bad knee, Mosby re ported. The knee was injured in football and rehurt in basket ball and is now. in about the same shape as before recent reinjury.- Christian t had flu over the week end but is expected: to be able to go. Likely Eagle starters are Nel son and Cave, forwards, Cald well, center,, and. among Greb, Bitterling and -Tuttle, :guards. 4 NW Teams Meet Tonight Seattle (U.R) Northwest bas ketball fans will get some idea of what to expect in the coming Northern Division race tonight when four teams begin a two night stand of doubleheaders at Edmundson pavilion. , - Oregon State and Washington State, get the holiday hoop show on the road in the first game to night at 7:30. Washington goes up against Idaho in the second game. 1 . Tomorrow night Washington State meets Idaho in the opener and Washington and Oregon State clash in the second game. OSC will be competing with out the services of 7-foot, 3-inch Wade Halbrook who has been sidelined . because, of scholastic difficulties - but is expected to win the battle of the books in time for conference play. Grove Resigns WSC Position -Pullman, Wash. (U.R) Roger Grove, Washington State college backfield coach since 1952, has resigned Effective Feb. 1, Ath letics Director Stan Bates an nounced yesterday. Grove said he planned to enter private business, but declined to say what business or where. There were, however, indica tions he would remain here : Bates said Grove's position on the staff of Football Coach Al Kircher "might not be filled." He said a reduction in freshman schedules would free frosh Coach Dan Stavely for more work with the varsity. He added that "budgetary problems' also were a consideration on the possibility that the Cougar coaching vacancy may not be filled. . Brion Upsets Dan Bucceroni New York (U.R) Cesar Brion Argentina's awkward but armor plated heavyweightt sought a match with a ranking contender today as his reward for unex pectedly ruining Dan Bucceroni's comeback. Unranked Brion, who won an upset split decision over Phila delphia Dan in their TV . 10 rounder at St. Nicholas Arena Monday night, asked today for a fight with 10-ranked Charley Norkus or : fourth-ranking Bob Baker. "" ' " "We prefer Norkus,'' said Man ager Hymie Wallman, "because Norkus - won a decision over Cesar early in the year. But if we can't get Norkus, we want Baker." , there were some other disap pointing records. ' Foremost among these were Oregon and California, both rated strong pre-season threats for the Pacific Coast Conference championship. Cal So-So California, despite having the great Paul Larson leading the country in pass completions, lost three out of its first four games and finished with a so-so 5-5 record. Oregon lost four, won six. with the Big Ten, the Pacific Coast conference clubs won only two out of six, scored only 49 points against 149 for the oppo sition. While UCLA stole all the headlines, there were many in dividual stars up and down the coast. These were topped by El lena, Larson, George Shaw- of Oregon ; and Jim Salsbury ; of UCLA. Another west coaster, end Jim Hanifan, California,: led the nation in pass receiving. Tuesday, Dectmber 28, 1954 v r - t i - t MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN UCLA Aces Out Niagara " New York U.R) UCLA was the " sentimental choice in the Holiday Festival, basketball tournament' today but the ex perts remained divided among the three other semifinalists, Duquesne, Dayton and LaSalle. UCLA captured the hearts of the 9,245 fans who witnessed the opening double-header . at Madison Square Garden Monday when it wiped out an 18-point deficit to defeat Niagara, 88-86. LaSalle, on the other hand, won acclaim from court savants when it set an alltime Garden scoring record in swamping Syracuse, 103-54. - UCLA will meet LaSalle . in one of : the semifinal games Wednesday . while Dayton . op poses Duquesne. The .winners meet for the tournament title Friday. , . TOO COLD . Anchorage, Alaska (U.B It's so cold here-these days you can't ski or ice skate. Temperature of 38 degrees below zero froze the motor of the city ski tow and cracked all the .ice on the Municipal Skating Rink. NAMED PRESIDENT ' Portland -(U.R) Dean Bry son, former state senator,' yester day was named president of the Oregon Association of Trade Ex ecutives at a meeting of the group here. - Portland -"(U.R) "" Appolnt ment of Maj. Gen. Frank S. Bres son, Jr.; of Portland, as assistant chief of staff for logistics in the European theater has been re vealed by the Department of Defense.- - MAIN AND RIVERSIDE MEDFORD Wednesday & Thursday December 29 & 30 In Case of Emergency Call 2-6189 Dead line Sunday Classified to t noon Saturday: 10 ajn. Monday for Monday; other days 5,30 previous day. . (Only 5 Left) mm TV 127 North Central oo o Medford's Exclusive HOTPOINT Dealer rv rvn rra 0 0 mi Across From Penney's Phone 3-5743 ti, yj- xhm -55.- -"S-" iuiir. TSinni The newspaper is the basic advertising medium because it always is there to be read at your convenience -- as you are doing now. Medford Mail Tribune
