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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
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' 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
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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. ;
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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
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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 "
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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
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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
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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. The Aztecs, defeated
by the Pilots in early season in
a game loaded with fouls.1 led
throughout the entire non-conference
game, scoring 41 points
in each half. They led at half
time, 41-30. ..
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Enlistment Deadline
For Benefits Feb. 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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