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TEW MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, April 1, 1955 Tennis Team Will Travel To Redding Tennis players of Medford high have their first match of the season Saturday. They travel to Redding, Calif., to oppose Shasta high. Coach Warren Brenner said that the crew will make the trip with only a week of practice be hind it. Seven men from whom five will be selected for the journey were listed yesterday by Bren ner. They were Jerry Kalapus, Don Robinson, Stan Culy and Jim Gordon, lettermen, and Bill Isaacs, Bob Schmidt and Don Gordon. Fins 1954 Record Don Robinson was a member cf the district championship doubles team last year and en tered the state tourney. Kala pus went to the state meet two years ago in singles. Tornado netters have a fine 1954 record to try to match. They won 12 and lost only two matches last year. Both the team defeats were at the hands of the powerful Roseburg In dians who had run up a long string of victories over a ieriod of years. Medford won the Southern Oregon Conference mantle last year. ' Syracuse Grabs Play-Off Opener Syracuse, N.Y. (U.R) The Syracuse Nationals used an ex Indiana University player to gei the jump on Fort Wayne's "Hoosier Hotshots" in the Na tional Basketball Association's final playoffs. Rookie Dick Earley, who helped lead Indiana to the NC AA championship two seasons ago, paced the Nats to a come back 86-82 victory over the Pis tons Thursday night in the opener of the best-of-seven series before 7,500 fans. Detroit Firm Second In Bowling Tournament Fort Wayne, Ind. (U.RJ De tail Tool and Machine Co., De troit, took second place in the open division of the 52nd annual American Bowling Congress tournament last night as the standings cf the top five teams underwent an almost wholesale revision. The Detroit quint rolled a total of 3012 pins, only three short of the leading Howard Clothes team of St. Paul, Minn. Howard Clothes set an open ing night tournament record last Saturday with 3:15 points. Other newcomers to the top five were Copp Music Center, South Bend, Ind., which took third place with a 2950 score, and Vatherot's Insurance, Detroit, which moved up to fifth with 2939. Montreal Canadiens Gain Stanley Finals Montreal (U.R) The pre liminaries were out of the way and the Montreal Canadians were primed today for the main even a meeting with the red hot Detroit Red Wings in the Stanley Cup finals. The thinned-down Canadians blasted the last hopes of the crippled Boston Bruins 5-1, Thursday night in the fifth game of the semi-final round. ' Big Crowd Seen for Saturday Wrestling Bouts at Merrick's Another capacity crowd is in prospect for Merrick's arena to morrow night , when Mack Lil lard presents what appears to be another outstanding wrestling card. Gerry Hunter, who has ruled the roost among the gal grap plers for the past several weeks, faces her toughest opposition in Shirley Winters of Chicago, mak ing her first start in Medford. Unlike Hunter' other oppon ents, Winters is in the same weight class and while she pre fers to wrestle according to the rules, is more than able to take care of herself if an opponent wants to rough it up. Hunter prefers to get rough, believing that it causes her foes to make ASPHALT Driveways Mill Yards Industrial Floors Parking Areas Roads ROGUE RIVER PAVING COMPANY Phone: Medford 2-4037 or Grants Pass GR. 6-5337 Free Estimates ' O Work Guaranteed ME1)F0RI)JTRIBUNE Tornado, Grants Pass Track Meet Saturday ORDER OF EVENTS: 3 p.m. shot put, pole vault, high jump, discus. 2:30 p.m. 70-yard high hurdles. A and B. I 2:43 p.m. 100-yard dash. A and B; broad jump. . 2:55 p.m. 880-yard run. A; 660-yard run. B. 3:10 p.m. 440-yard run. A; 330 yard run, B; javelin (or right after discus). 3:20 p.m. 100-yard low hurdles, A and B. 3:35 p.m. 220-yard dash. A and B. 3:45 p.m. Mile run, A; Three fourths mile run. B. 4 p.m. 880-yard relay. A: 440-yard relay, B. , Points won't be the main idea Saturday when Grants Pass and Medford high track teams com pete on the Medford oval. That's the word from Medford Coach Bob Newland. Principal objective will be to see what each team has in the way of cinder and field talent and it's hoped to give every boy a chance to compete, the mentor reported. The crews will contend, start ing at 2 p.m. in varsity and jeyvee, or A and B, divisions. Possibly 120 thinclads will take part and it will be Medford's first meet of the year. Sickness for Medford and in juries for Grants Pass could dent the teams slightly, it was reported. Lewis Breazeale, Med- EYES SKYWARD , Salem U.R) Track officials turned their eyes skyward to day and hoped for improved weather conditions as hundreds of athletes got ready for a pre view of the track and field sea son in tne annual Willamette Relays. The meet starts at 1 p.m. in McColloch stadium. WELL PUT Shelley May field of Westbury, L. I., kisses his plotter after -carding 64 for 36 hole total of 132 to take the lead in the $12,000 Open at Miami Beach, Fla. a mistake, giving her a better chance for victory. Yoggi Hussane, rampaging Turk, also faces a rough even ing, which will please the fans. He goes against Cyclone Cobb in a rematch of their donny brook of two weeks ago. Cobb won on a foul in their first scrap when Hussane threw him out of the ring and wouldn't let him return. Hussane insists he can legitimately beat the big Negro and has persuaded Lillard to give him a chance to prove it. Another newcomer opens the card at 8:30 pjn. He is "Champ" Thomas, a classy performer irom Denver, who goes against Buck Davidson, the "old reliable." Doors open at 7:30 p.m. 1 PAVING ford vaulter, has been out with flu for days and Dennis Mil ler, sprinter, has been sick. Larry McFarland, top GP weight man, may be out of action be cause of a wrist sprain and Lloyd Zinn, broad jumper and hurler ' has a minor ankle in jury. 1 . Top Performers . There will be some overlap ping, perhaps, of the Medford classes. However, Newland has listed some of his top perform ers. Don Crowl, Dan Morris, Bob Gould, Ken Tucker, Miller and Bron Oglesby are the sprint ers and Crowl Morris, Don Gray and Pete Kershaw the quarter milers. Half-milers are Vilcie Winchell, Jack Pool and Les Lingscheit and milers are Jeff Williams, Les Welch, Maury Butts and Glen Allison. In the low hurdles call may go to Wally Larson, Mike Haw kins, Mike Stearns and Dick Bourne. Larson and Stearns billed as top high hurdlers. Bud Kastner, Doug Clark and Bob Tisdel are listed for the high jump and those three plus Haw kins for the broad, leap. Lead ing shot putters are Mel Mor gan, Neil Plumley and Larry An derson with Morgan, Anderson and Mike DeVore shown for the discus. Eldon Francis. Gary Lewis and Morgan are main javelin throwers with Breazeale heading the pole vault if he is sufficiently recovered. Relay Teams Gould, Tucker, Miller and Oglesby may form the 440 - yard relay crew. Morris, Larson, Tucker, or Kastner, and Crowl are probables for one 880 relay gang with Gray, Lingscheit, Win chell and Pool in another. Keith Hislop, who won the high school division pole valut at 12 feet 3 inches in the AAU tract meet last year at Portland, is one -of the Cavemen's star performers. Breazeale could give him a duel if he's over his flu. Among other GP lettermen arex Jim Cattanach, sprinter; Howard Hval, half - miler, and Jim Reid, high jumper and broad jumper. Bowerman May Mot Be Runner He Used To Be Eugene (U.R) Oregon track coach Bill Bowerman said today that the person who assigns li cense plate numbers for the De partment of Motor Vehicles evi dently thinks the former Duck athlete isn't the runner he used to be. Bowerman said he received his new plates recently, num bered 4B-440. But for the past 20 years his number has been 440 880, symbolic of the races he ran for Oregon in the 1930s under the late Bill Hayward. The Oregon coach said it ap peared the department felt he is no longer in shape to run two races, v and has cut his license number accordingly. . 1 jJl Crashed I lvljJ Leathers See these smart new Crosby s'd! ' Squares in glove-type crushed , jT vyli leather. Rich and rugged ' ' looking ... yet comfortable II as a casual. Other crushed l leather types also available. 1 See them soon. KJ Sl Sfpf?t9 t!ittintftM & ill?? C" JM I " o 0 J t RECORD BREAKER Jimmy McLane from San Francisco, Calif, and former Yale star, hangs onto the lane marker to catch his breath after win ning the 400-meter freestyle at the Pan American Games in Mexico City. He set a new meet mark of 4:51.3. Cece Hodges Trainer For Eugene Emeralds Eugene ' (U.R) The Eugene Emeralds of the new Northwest baseball league today announced signing of a trainer and a young first baseman-outfielder. The Emeralds, who start training in Santa Cruz, Calif., April 6, signed Cece Hodges, former University of Oregon football fullback, as trainer. Gen. Manager Dick Richards said Manuel Romero, a 19-year-old left-handed first baseman-out-fielder, had been signed upon recommendation by the Boston Red Sox. CONDITION UNCHANGED Trenton, N.J. (U.R) Boxer Bryan Thompson, who under went two emergency brain op erations Thursday, was de scribed by officials at St. Fran cis Hospital today as "unchanged and in critical condition." He was knocked out Tuesday. 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