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: MEDFORDtiJTMBUW SIPODHBITS Oregon Stale Battles Cougars in By NORMAN RITTER San Francisco U.PJ The fav ored horses In what promised to be the fastest Pacific Coast con ference basketball race since prewar years are off and run sing tonight ' as opens in earnest. league play . UCLA's Bruins, the choice of many to cop the crown, invade the Stanford pavilion for a two- game series with - the dark horse Indians. Johnny Wooden's boys probably rate the favor ites? role by virtue of their fine showing in the Holiday invita tional despite a loss to LaSalle and an overall 8-2 record. The Cardnals, under new Coach Howie . Dallmar, have compiled - a 6-2 mark ; against some rugged opposition -., Feature event in the South land brings California (8-3) against USC (7-4), the defending conference champ, with Bob Mc- Keen looking sharp and feeling ready, the Bears are hoping to sweep the two-night affair with OSC Coach May Not Be Picked Until February Portland (U.R) Oregon State College probably will not name a new football coach until mid February, it was reported here, Glenn Holcomb, OSC faculty representative, told the Oregon Journal from New York, that any discussion on the subject now is "nothing but rumor." . "I am not here to select a coach," he said. "My job is sim ply to talk to candidates and re port back . . . with my findings. When we have reduced the list of candidates to three or four, ve then' will recommend that these men ' be brought to the campus for an interview . . . : Illness Delays . Holcomb added that he did not expect this would be ac complished before the first week of February. He said the illness of OSC Athletic Director (Spec) Keene could delay it . even longer. Holcomb said he probably would talk to Bob Blackman, coach at Denver University before-the current NCAA meeting ends. Blackman is among sev eral persons who have been mentioned as possible candi dates to succeed Kip Taylor in the head .coaching job. UP Sports Editor For West Dies ! I San Francisco (U.R) Russell (Russ) J. Newland, veteran Asso - ciated Press West Coast 6ports editor, died of a heart attack in St. Francis hospital Thursday. He was 54. ? ; Newland had been in the hos-' pital for about a month. At his bedside , when death came were his wife Helen, his son, Grant, his daughter, Mrs. Nola Oille, all of San Francisco, and his brother, Raymond of Seattle.. -Newland was born in Tacoma in 1900. He was educated in the Washington schools but came to California 30 years ago. A veteran of World War I, New land went to work for the As sociated Press in 1923. Is That So? j "My science class has . four questions, writes Miss R. S. B. 5Which is the shortest-lived ani mal? Which the. longest? Which warm-blooded mammals have longer gestations than humans? Which the shortest pf all-' ' The shortest life span, includ ing fish, ( birds, ' snakes, insects and mammals is that of the May fly. Some May flies, once they hatch, have ; only a few brief hours in the bright sun. Some never eat in fact they haven't even got a mouth to eat with. v ; Yet each May fly knows that it must fly upstream to mate and deposit its eggs. Otherwise, year after year, they would hatch farther downstream until they gradually disappear. The palm for the oldest 'liv ing animal! goes to the giant tortoise. It's normal expectancy is over a century. In fact, some experts believe that oldsters may exceed 300 years. Let's see, that would take it back to the r'ay when Shakespeare was writ ing. ' . . i - r Quite a few warm-blooded mammals exceed the human's normal nine months' gestation or. 270 daysr the buffalo from 270 to 300; the cow, 280-285; the horse, 330; the seal, 330-365; the N D Start Forrest Twoeood's well balanced uve.-T - ' A cair of two-same series in the Northwest round out first weekend PCC olav. Washington State, which split, with Oregon in a mid-week series, that offi cially opened the 1955 season, moves down to Corvallis, Ore., for a nair with Oregon State. The Beavers made a miserable showing in nre-conf erence rlav and will be counting heavily on Wade (Swede) Jlalbrook, their 7-foot, 3-inch giant, for the shot in the arm thev need to nut them in the thick of the fight The Swede, who sat out Decern ber due to scholastic difficulties, became eligible this week. He will play but probably not start tonight. . St. Mary's Entertains Butte Falls St. Mary's high's hoopmen have been drilling to get back into the swing of things this week and Coach Ed Hummell said that "I think they'll be ready" for the Butte Falls Log gers. . , The Crusaders and Butte Falls scramble at the St. Mary's gym nasium here tonight. Varsity contention is billed for 8 p.m after a 6:45 p.m. prelim, between junior varsities. Tonight's activ ity launches Jackson County B League play. " St. Mary's goes into the con f erence encounter with a record of five wins and one loss in warm-up tangles. One victory was a 74 to 41 verdict over the Loggers iri the Southern Oregon college tournament. The Crusad ers won twice over Prospect, B loop member and lost to Talent, league favorite. -They defeated the SM alumni and the Southern Oregon college junior varsity. One decision over Prospect was lopsided, the other was fairly close.. It's been 17 days since . the Crusaders have had a game. Their last was on December 21. Coaches Hummel and Dino Obisso were absent during the holidays but the players worked out almost every day under su pervision of -NeiL.Murphy,. Hummel listed no in3uries or sickness, among the Crusaders. Likely starters are Bob Bobbett and John Walsh, forwards; Tony Miksche, center, and Tim Dugan and Laval Meunier, guards, with both Richard Paup and Joe Has sler possibly seeing quite a bit of reserve action. ; , , BASKETBALL THURSDAY COLLEGE SCORES East Pennsylvania 54, Harvard 52 South (Senior Bowl) Consolation '. ' ' ' ' ' Springhill 78. Mississippi Sou. 58 Fort Valley St. 59. Xaiver (La.) 53 Sewanee 67. Georgia Tech 66 West Virinia 98. Virginia Tech 82 Wash, and Lee 84. Roanoke 72 Maryland 78. Virginia 65 , Midwest Xavier (O.) 67, Cincinnati 64. . DePaul 101. Elmhurst 60 - ,. St. Louis 85, Houston 84. Loyola (HI.) 93. John Carroll 85 Southwest " - - Brigham Young 92. New . Mexico 62 West Utah St. 85. Colorado A&M 65. Utah 82, Denver 58 - . Montana 44, Wyoming 42 San Francisco 75. Sequoias 42 -' Ventura 55, Modesto 53 ' San Diego State 82, Portland Uni versity 60 y Eugena Burnt Hangar-Naturalist comparatively small fisher, 338 to 358; the walrus, 330-360; the whale 360-420; the Brazilian tapir, 390-406; the camel, 390 406; the rhinoceros, 530-550. But that isn't the longest. That honor goes to the African elephant. Papa has to twiddle his 'trunk for 607 to 660 days before he knows , whether it's going to be a boy or a girl. The shortest gestation belongs to our opossum, a marsupial, which : carries its young after birth In" a pouch. Yaung 'pos sums, are born from 10 to 14 days after mating, usually 12 days. - Tiny, ; blind, immature, naked, they nonetheless make their own way, unassisted to the mother's pouch, knowing that they must climb against the bias of the fur.' Once in their snug incubator, they latch on to a teat and remain attached for over a month. The mother mean while goes about her business which includes taking care of the housecleaning duties in the pouch. ; (Released by McClure Newspaper SynMeaie) Free: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclo pedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader.- who . sends . me the best question' on nature and wild life a complete 30-volume set of this world - famous reference work in a handsome Sealer aft binding: Each week, new ques tions will be considered.' Sorry, I simply can'i answer your many friendly letters. Please address your questions lo: IS THAT "SO! care Medford Mail Tribuna. box 475, Sausalito, Calif. Faofaire Head Football - Coach Fred Spiegelberg this week received a (Schedule confirmation which has some significance and which should meet with considerable approval on the part of Medford high fans. ; '. Grid date agreed upon brings Grants Pass to Medford next fall on November 4, last Friday of the regular season. Result is an end to an unsatisfactory ar rangement which existed for several years. . Medford in recent seasons has had, to meet Grants Pass and Klamath Falls on its home field both in the same season and during the following years has had to travel to both of those schools. Grants Pass had the same situation and only Klam ath Falls played one of the so- called "big games" at home and the other away during each sea son. Now each of the three schools will play one "big game at home and' the other on the road. ' ' The Black Tornado's 1955 meeting with Klamath Falls had been scheduled, already, for Oc tober 14 at Klamath Falls. BIG GAMES AT END While Medford's grid slate for next fall is not yet com plete, there's another good feature so far as Spiegelberg has been able to go. The Tor nado's Southern Oregon Con ference and District 6 tussles will all be at the end of the season, a factor which should help build up interest in those games. Ashland will come here on October 28. An A-2 competitor in past season, Ashland undoubtedly will be in A-l ranks next fall and the Medf ord-Grizzly mix will be for district as well as conference honors. SEVEN LINED UP Spiegelberg now has seven of the nine dates filled on the Tor nado slate. Medford will start out - again : with Cleveland of Portland. The game will be on Saturday, September 10. The fol lowing Friday, September 16, is still open. Medford will go to Roseburg on September 23 and September 30 is yet open. Crater will be a Tornado rival again and the scrape has been set tentatively for October 7 at Medford. Following the Klamath trip will come Eureka, Calif.. here on October 21. QUESTION MARKS Springfield and Marshfield. Tornado opponents last year Furgol, Zaharias Will Be Golf Day Players Chicago (U.R)--Ed Furgol, Na tional Open Champion, and Babe Zaharias,' National W o m e n's Champion, have consented to compete in the 1955 National Golf Day Tourney, June 4. The pair will play in a foursome in San Francisco," and their scores will be judged against the other entrants who will play on their home courses throughout the na tion. . ; VIKINGS NOW HOME ,Portland (U.PJ Portland State's . basketball team, arrived home by air from a month-long tour of the Far East today where the Vikings won 14 out of 19 games. ." We had a grand time and we enjoyed every minute of it,' said Coach Sharkey Nel son. Portland State played in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur in the Malayan Federation, Hong Kong, Manila and Tokyo. SPORTS ARENA SLATED Los Angeles U.R) Kenneth Eiahn, president of the Los An geles Coliseum Commission, said today official action has start ed on the building of a six mil lion dollar sports arena. Con struction on the arena, which would handle track, basketball, hockey and boxing, is scheduled to get underway by the end of the year. GRIM INKS PACT , New York U.R) Bob Grim, the American League's most val uable rookie in. 1954, has signed his 1955 contract with the New York Yankees. Grim, who won 20 games and lost six in his first year in the majors, was under stood to have received a sub stantial raise in pay after turn ing down the Yankees' first of fer. MAY PROBE BOXING Washington, D. C. (U.PJ Sen. Warren G. Maguson, (D-Wash.) incoming chairman of the Sen ate Commerce . Committee, said today his group may investigate possible racketeering in boxing. Magnuson said the committee was qualified .to investigate the sport because of the large num ber of bouts being televised, v tu la Mb?, (b t' 'tin stj y By DICK JEWETT; tua Tribune SporfiTCditar are still question marks so far as 1955 is' concerned. It's a matter of dates and schedul ing with other foes on the part of the Millers and Pirates. Marshfitld slated Grants' Pass for September 23, a big factor in Grants Pass' willingness to play at Medford next fall after having come here in 1954. The Cavemen have a home game against an adversary of rec ognized stature in their mix with the Pirates. - , , Grants Pass next fall will Play North Bend as well as Marshfitld and Long view (Wash.), Roosevelt (Portland) and Roseburg are clubs round ing out a good schedule. SPIEG SHRINE COACH Spiegelberg will go to Port land on January 15 to assist .with the selection of players for the annual Oregon-Portland all-star Shrine football game. Spieg, along with Dutch Kawasoe, Vale, will be assistants to Lee Gustaf- son, South . Salem, who - will coach the state team. BOWS OUT - Cottage Grove has disquali fied itself in . football District 5 A-l by not scheduling Marsh field and Roseburg. School of ficials said a number of factors were involved but small size of the school compared to oth er district members was one reason. That. action may have opened the way for the Marsh-field-GP tussle. ' STATE CHAMPS COMING , Oregon State AAU basketball champions for two years run ning, playing under a new ban ner this year, will make a Med ford appearance on Saturday, January 15. The. team, Martin Brothers Sign . company of Eu gene, will play :. Medford's Yel low Cab. Previously, the quint played under - the Everybody's Drug banner. Bob Hamilton, ex Medford high mentor, is coach of the Eugene team. ; Slips, 'we hope, don't count. Jack Boardman scored 15 points for Andy's Jewelers the other night in a hoop fray. We credit ed them to a teammate. ji!a mm A l " Tcr -r- v i r h Have you taken note of how the change in automobile freight charges has upped your purchasing power? . ' Do you know that for less than you had to pay for one of the so-called "low-price three" last year, you now can buy a new Buick like the one shown here? The fact is a new pricing structure of reduced freight charges to the Pacific Coast area puts this big and brawny 1955 Buick Special 2-door,-6-passenger Sedan into a new low budget bracket. Delivered and ready to roll, this beauty is now yours for fewer DRIVE FHOM FACTORY SXVEUPTo'SfgQOO See Your DUICK Dealer Wining er Heads Pros In LA Open Inglewood, Calif. U.R) The three-ring circus known as the Los. Angeles . Open golf tourna sent, played in the city of Ingle wood on the Inglewood, Country club course, goes into the second round today with the shotmak- ers hoping that Mr. Weatherman will take a hike. . i. Playing through rain and wind Thursday these stars emerged as iirst aay leaders in the four day $32,500 event: Men professionals; Bo Wining er, Oklahoma Citv. with a thro. under-par 33-35 68. Mrs. Bowman Leader '";,v..Vj- Women professionals: ' Carol Bowman. Richmond. Pali , with a three-over-par 36-38 74.. Men amateursGene Andrews, national Public Links champion from Los Angeles, with a 35 3570. -. ; Of the three, onlv Andrews COllld be considered a serious championship threat prior to xnursaay s scores. Wininger hasn't won a major tournament in recent outings. Mrs. Bowmnn. who joined the touring circuit circuit just iasr summer, hasn't come' close." although she has done well enough . to pay ex penses. z. ;. v. ' Inglewood. Calif. j.R) die DraDer. Seattle. Wash was trailing National Public Links champion Gene Andrews in first round amateur play in the Los Angeies Open golf . tournament here yesterday. Draper, with a 36-3672. was just two Strokes off Andrews' pace. Andrews fired 35-3570. Two other Pacific Northwest amateurs were in strone eonten. tion. Ralph Dichter, Astoria, Ore.; shot a, 74, and Jack Walt ers, Tacoma, Wash, was in the vo Dracget. Hermiston Gets AAU Hoop Tourney Again T. J. .1 ft Mk a - t-oruana kum uregon AAU basketball officials said this year's state AAU tourna-. ment would again be held at Hermiston. Dates will be March d-8. ' - - Nov you can for loss than you used Friday, January 7. 1955 Senior Bbwl On Saturday Mobile, Ala; (U.R) A ca pacity crowd of 36,000, plus a nationwide , television audience, was expected to view 'the sixth annual Senior Bowl"game"here ssaturaay netween a hand-picked team of football seniors from the South and a similar eroun from the North. ; Althoueh the Northerners are three-point underdoes. Coarh Paul Brown, who recentlv sfiiid- ed the . Cleveland Browns to a pro title, is hooeful that his team. led by Alan Ameche, Wiscon sin's All-American, could make the Southern charges give ground. Brown's predictions have been gloomy, however. ." - Brown stressed wide sweens and cutbacks outside the ends in Thursday's drills while in the aouin camp here, Coach Steve Owen, former New York Giants mentor, emphasized the "quickie" plays, r Whitworih Suspends Star Hoopman Jordon Spokane, Wash. (U.R) Whit- worth College, minus its fabu lous center, Phil Jordan, still managed to take advantage of superior height to defeat the National team of China 85-73 in a basketball came here last night. ; Jordan, who had scored 28R points in 19 pre-season games, was suspended from school . yes terday for "infractions of school policy." School officials declined to comment further, but said .Tor. dan would be allowed to take his final semester examinations. but otherwise was through as of yesterday. PILOTS BEATEN San Diego (U.R) San Diego State gained revenge for an earlier controversial loss to Port land University last- nieht by walloping ; the Northwest visi tors, 82-60. 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I The Medford Navy recruiting office reminded young men to day that they may enlist in the Navy and still receive- benefits from the GI bill of rights, pro vided they .join the service be fore Feb. 1. . - -A- recent proclamation by President Eisenhower - cut off many wartime veterans benefits for men joining the service on or after that date. LEAHY HAS CHECK-UP Chicago - (U.R) Extensive tests began in Fassavant hos pital today to determine whether former Notre Dame football coach Frank Leahy has any seri ous ailment. Leahy, who resign ed as the Irish coach last Janu ary, was hospitalized for a "gen eral checkup," even though he felt "real good." - CARTER SIGNS Boston (U.R) Lightweight Champion Jimmy Carter of New York and Tony De Marco of. Boston have signed to meet in a 10-round non-title bout here, Feb. 11.' 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