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R. HEYSEIX CHAIRMAN
FOR OREGON GOLF OPEN
Russ E. Heysell will be gen
eral tournament chairman for
the host club for the Oregon
Open Golf championship event
to be contested next March at
Rogue Valley Country club here.
Whitfield
Top Athlete
During 1954
New York (U.R) Mai Whit
field, the track star who sets a
goal for himself each year,
achieved one of his highest ones
today when he was named win
ner of the James E. Sullivan
Memorial Trophy as the coun
try's outstanding amateur ath
lete of 1954.
Ironically, the fastest half
miler in track history was a year
behind his own "target" date in
landing the top honor that can
be bestowed on a U.S. amateur
athlete.
For Whitfield who never has
lost a championship race at his
distance and who smothers his
opposition with some of the most
graceful strides ever displayed
tried to win the Sullivan trophy
in 1953. He said he would per
form such feats during that
campaign that he could not fail
to become the first Negro to re
ceive the award.
He set five world records in
1953, two outdoors and three in
doors, but was excluded from
the final Sullivan balloting be
cause he was being investigated
for alleged violations of amateur
rules. He was cleared and won
the 1954 award with a total of
1,639 points. '
The 30-year-old runner was
the first choice on 252 of the 657
ballots cast by the nation wide
.tribunal of sports authorities.
Five points were given for each
first-place vote, three for a sec
ond place and one for third
place.
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His co-chairman will be Rob
ert Temple.
The appointments were an
nounced today by members of
the executive committee for the
tournament. Other committee
chairmen also were revealed.
Tourney dates are March 25,
26 and 27. The event will be
held under the joint sponsorship
of the Medf ord club and the Ore
gon division of the Northwest
section of the Professional Golf
ers association..
Good Response
The program committee re
ported good response and co
operation from businessmen in
connection with advertising for
the 50-page pictorial program to
be published, making the adver
tizing part of that project 87 per
cent complete. The booklet will
publicize Oregon and southern
Oregon in particular.
Plans are underway to pro
mote the entry of a contingent
of professionals and amateurs
from the San Francisco bay
area.
Bruce Cudd, Portland ama
teur,, is defending champion.
Eddie Hogan and Johnny Lang
ford knotted for pro honors.
Committee listed were:
Executive committee: Dr. Paul
Walker. president of Roeue Valley
Country club; Robert McKendricks,
president of Oregon division. Profes
sional Golfers association; Eddie Hogan
tournament chairman of Oregon Fua;
Harvey Bunn. secretary-treasurer of
Oregon PGA; Jack D. Wood, tourna
ment chairman or kvju: tuss tiey
sell. general chairman for host club;
Robert Temple, co-chairman for host
club; George Eertz and Dale jonnson,
publicity directors for Oregon PGA;
Al Williams, pro of RVCC: George
Harrington, manager of RVCC. J
Committees and chairmen: Dick
Jewett. publicity: E. J. DeVoe: Har
rington and Walter Erittan. finance:
Ron Gandee. program: Temple, regis
tration; Glen Fabrics: and Hogan,
pairings: Joe Hearin, starting; Tom
MacLeod, scoring: Kay tnsme. mar
shalling: Jim Dunlevy. presentations:
Dr. Walker, hospitality; Jack Walker
and Dunlevy, entertainment: Dr.
Bruce Stanley and Mrs. Ray Mencke,
social: Justin Smith Sr.. rules: Larry
Butler, greens; Al Dumas, locker
room: Robert Corbin and Mencke,
hole-in-one; Brittan and Bob . Woody,
special events.
Pro-Amateur committee: Everett
McGraw, chairman; Smith, scoring:
Hearin. starting; Fabrick. Robert
Lockwood. Eddie Simmons.
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Duquesne Vie
In Garden
New York (U.R) Dick ick
etts and Si Green lead defending
champion Duquesne against Tom
Gola-sparked LaSalle tonight for
the Holiday Festival basketball
title and the clash of these three
stars is expected to produce an
18,000-plus sellout at Madison
Square Garden.
Ricketts and Green posted the
finest individual performances
of their careers to put Duquesne
in the final at the expense of
Villanova and Dayton. Gola,
everybody's All-America, led La
Salle's advance past Syracuse
and UCLA.
Springy Legs
Green, whose springy legs
probably make him. college bas
ketball's tallest 6-foot, 2V2-inch
player, collected 38 points
against Villanova for his best
single-game total. He made 30
points in the second half, the
best 20-minute scoring spree ever
produced by a college player in
January first Is our birthday . . . and we wish one and all a very
healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. We wish to take this
opportunity to gratefully thank you for your generous support which
has made 1954 so successful for us. It is your support which made
it possible for us to enlarge our store in order to serve you better. We
genuinely appreciate your friendliness and patronage and we will
strive more than : ever to merit your fine support. We are also
. determined to offer the most friendly, courteous, efficient service
that is humanly possible in 1955 as we have in the past eight years.
We will offer every day the very lowest prices possible consistant
with quality. So again we say "Thanks a Million and a Very Happy
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Speegle Hopes to End
Aggie Gridiron Drouth
Stillwater, Okla. (U.R) Cliff
Speegle, who started a three
year contract as Oklahoma A and
M college's head football coach
today, said he aims to make
Oklahomans "understand there
are two football teams in the
state."
Speegle, 37, Thursday took
over a team that has not been
a major threat in 10 years and
more often than not has ended
the season with a win-loss deficit.
He comes here from an assist
ant's post with the Edmonton,
Canada, Eskimos professional
tem.
the Garden. Ricketts bettered
his own previous single-game
high ranked Dayton, sinking 19
of 19 free throw tries.
Going into the title game,
Ricketts leads Gola in the tourna
ment's individual scoring race,
63-60.
The Duquesne-LaSalle game
climaxes a triple-header in
which St. John's meets Niagara
and Dayton plays UCLA in con
solation games.
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Areata Rally
Tops Phoenix
Acata, Cal. Arcata's bas
ketball crew gained a series
split with an invading Oregon
high school team last night,
turning back the Phoenix Pi
rates 49 to 46. Phoenix won
Wednesday 45 to 42.
The Pirates went into, the
final quarter out in front 36 to
32 but Areata put on a big rally
marked by nine free throws in
11 tries to salvage a victory.
Phoenix also headed at the
other intermisisons, 7 to 6 at the
quarter and 24 to 18 at the. half.
E. Dimmick of the host team
was high scorer with 22 while
Ron Bean had 14 for Phoenix.
ONE-UPS:
Areata 49
J. Dimmick 8 f
Johnson 2 f
E. Dimmick 22 c
Carlson 6 g
Armstroni? 11 g
Substitutions For
Forbes; for Phoenix,
4, Brood.
4G Phoenix
14 Bean
11 Madden
. 3 Vreeken
6 Korth
2 Kelsoe
Areata. Brittain,
Wall 6, Oldham
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Friday, December 31, 1954
Talent Falls
To Powers;
Mix Tonight
Talent Cruiser Freshman
Punk Smith's free throw.with
22 seconds left to play bowled
Talent from the unbeaten bas
ketball ranks here last night as
Powers high nicked the Bulldogs
41to 40 in a ding dong see saw
skirmish.
It was Talent's first setback in
nine games this season. Powers,
beaten 36 to 35 by Sutherlin on
Wednesday, recorded its seventh
verdict in eight tussles.
The clubs scrap here again
this evening following a prelim
between the Talent and Ashland
Freshman. '
Lead changed hands several
times during the close, tense
fracas. Talent went into the last
period with a 32 to 31 edge "but
Powers pushed ahead 37 to 32.
Then the Mulldogs fought back
in front 38 to 37 with two min
utes remaining. . ,
Tall Richard Spitznass . got a
free throw and field goal for a
40 fo 38 Cruiser lead. George
Zickefoose tied up the fray with
37 seconds to play. Then J.
Lloyd Wood ofuled Smith, who
made one of his two tries., Tal
ent put the ball in play and lost
it when a Jim McAbee pass to
Wood went astray. Powers then
controlled the ball. "
The Bulldogs were on top at
the .quarter 11 to 7 and the
Cruisers at the half 21 to 20.
Powers had the rebounding mar
gin but McAbee picked off 13
and Mel Wallace nine for Talent.
Talent defeated Eagle Point
44 to 38 in the junior varsity
preliminary.' '
LINE-UPS:
Powers 41
Warner 8
Hess 2
Spitznass 15
Goodman 10
40 Talent
7 Zickefoose
4 M. Wallace
8 McAbee
9 Wood
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Brady 3
12 Thoreson
Substitutions For Powers. Wood-
ring. Grove 2, Smith 1; for Talent,
Ron Weinhold. , f .
Gun Club Will Hold
Practice This Sunday
Practice shooting is scheduled
Sunday at Medf ord Gun club.
There will be skeet, 16-yard,
handicap and doubles activity,
Shooting will start at 10 a. m.
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MEDFOBD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE
Grants Pass Licks Crater
Central Point Grants Pass
high's Cavemen, who to all ap
perances know the meaning of
the word hussle, combined that
quality with alertness and rug
ged play under the backboards
last night to outplay the Crater
high Comets .58 to 51 in a bas
ketball tangle here.
It was the second win of the
season for- Grants " Pass over
Crater and - more decisive than
the 49 to 48 count a week ago.
The Comets showed streaks of
scrap and were fighting hard at
tho finish but were outhustled
moi-i of the time by the Cave
men who usually got the jump
in recovering lose balls. Rugged
work by Mel Drews and Ra
leigh Burr, ball stealing, tactics
of Don James and Jim Reid and
Reid's shooting were factors in
the Cavemen's win.
Two free shots by James after
ZVi minutes of the first quarter
put Grants Pass in the" lead 5
to 4. The Cavemen1 stayed in
front from then on. First quar
ter score-was 13 to 10. At . half
time the standing was 27 " to 20.
Deficit Cut -
Grants Pass pulled to a 13
point 41 to 28 margin in the
third quarter, but Crater cut the
deficit to 43 to 37 by the end of
the canto. Fred Hogue's long
shot made it 43 to 39 a- half
minute into the final stanza but
three tip in shots put the Cave
men back out of danger'.
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Drews got the first one with
a slight assist by Crater's Hogue
under the bucket. The GP for
ward got the credit for the next
but Jim Higinbotham of1 the '
Comets appeared to give the ball
the tip that plopped it accident
ly in the bucket. Then Drews
was swarmed under the basket
and it seemed a held ball should
have been called but he shook
free and got rid of the ball. A -:
shot went-up and Burr plunked
in the rebound for a 49 to 39
GP count. Grants Pass then. '
built a 56 to 40 lead and closed
out with reserves.
Reid was high scorer with 21
followed by Harvey Tonn of "
Crater with 16 and Hogue with
14. . - r
"Grants Pass copped the jun
ior varsity opener 44 to 36. Half- :
time score was' 21 to 17 and GP ';.
was on top only 28 to 26 once :
in the last half. Brown and Can- .
non each tallied. 11 for Grants i
Pass and George Juveland and .
Don Goyette each for Crater. '
UN'E-UPS: - t -
Grants Pass 58 51 Crater .
Reese 4 f ,14 Hotrue "
M. Drews f 4 KeUey Tf
Burr 10 c 3 Higinbotham 'I
Reid 21 g 16 Tonh "
James 12 - g ' 5 Parent--
Substitutions For Grants Pass, r
Erickson 2, Hayes, Henderson. Uavis,
Winger. Bernet. Nevi; for Crater. Tid-
well, Johnson 5, Gray 4. Von Buskirk. -
FIGHTS
Minneapolis: Lauro Salas. 131, Lo
Angeles, stopped Mickey Zielke. 136, '-
La Crosse. Wis. (6).
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