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PCC Spring Grid Practice Hot Settled; Reports on Knox Due Three-Man Board Gets Loop's Okay Portland (U.R) The future of spring football practice was still up in the air today as Pa cific Coast conference leaders resumed business in the second day of a four-day spring meet ing. A conference ban on spring grid practice is due to take ef fect next year but a move was expected to try to get the rul ing reversed. Board Adopted At yesterday's opening ses sion a three-man Athletic Code Enforcement board was adopt ed. The board was empowered to do fact finding, call wit nesses and recommend action to the conference commissioner. Members of the board will be chosen later this week. One member will come from the faculty of a southern school, one from a northern school and one chosen at large. They will be elected to three, two and one-year terms. An alternate member will be named to serve in case an enforcement problem should arise at one of the three regular board members' schools. Knox Case Report Radio and television and foot ball and baseball scouting were still to be discussed and there also may be a report on the controversial Ronnie Knox case. - Knox is the California high school football ace who en rolled at California but trans ferred to UCLA after his father, Harvey Knox, charged Califor nia failed to live up to promises. At its fall meeting, the PCC ordered Commissioner Victor Schmidt to "pursue diligently" into the case and report at the spring meeting. Giants Purchase Gordon; Phillies Bob Kuzava MEDFOSDvyTRIBI New Faces Numerous On Roster of Studs; Improvements Seen Buy Philadelphia (U.R) Sid Gor don was slated today to assume an important role of pinch-hitter and general utility man which the New York Giants hope will aid them in their ef forts to overtake the Brooklyn Dodgers. The 36-year-old right handed slugger was purchased from the Pittsburgh Pirates Monday night "for an amount well above the $10,000 waiver price." He is due to join the Giants before to night's game with the Philadel phia Phils. Gordon was hitting only .170 for the Pirates but is recognized as a dangerous long-ball threat. He is capable of playing third base or the outfield well and probably could catch in an emer gency. He had a lifetime batting average of .286 and had hit 195 home runs before the season started. The Phillies, meanwhile, pur chased pitcher Bob Kuzava from the Baltimore Orioles and' re turned pitcher Lynn Lovenguth to Syracuse in the International League. Kuzava had an 0-1 rec ord for the Orioles but Philadel phia General Manager Roy Ha rney said "He should be able to help us I know there is nothing wrong with his arm." SIGNS WITH STEELERS Pittsburgh (U.R) Rookie full back Lemuel Harkeynof Em poria (Kan.) College, one of the nation's leading ground gainers last season, today signed his 1955 contract with the Pitts burgh Steelers of the National Football League. Recruiting efforts by Player Manager Clarence Mellbye and Business Manager Bill Askwith for the Medford Cheney Studs baseball squad have been aimed improving weaknesses apparent in 1954. And the two skippers are looking forward to the league season with the hope that they have a real contender in the Southern Oregon. League in place of the club which finished in the cellar last year. Medford will entertain Rose burg here Saturday night and Sunday afternoon in the opening series for both teams. Other tus sles will take Grants Pass to Drain and Bend to Corvallis. Bandon will get a bye. Askwith, in announcing the Studs' roster today, anticipated better hitting, stronger pitching and improved infield play on the part of the Cheney nine. A good number of the old hands are ticketed to return but new faces will outnumber the old on- the 17-man roster. Most of the hands had some semi-pro experience and the majority have played varsity, junior varsity or fresh man college ball. Two of the Studs active playing squad mem bers have ex-pro classification. Ex-Pro Pitcher Among new faces will be War ren Noyes, veteran pro and semi professional pitcher; Bob Selsor, infielder from University of Cal ifornia at Los Angeles; Ritchie Price, infielder from Southern Oregon college; Marv Scherpf, sophomore pitcher from Linfield college; Jim McAbee, catcher for the strong Talent high crew; Jim Kelly, sophCmore twirler at Santa Clara university, and Bill McLean, outfielder with col lege and semi-pro experience. Likely infielders for the Swaps Top Entry In $25,000 Race Inglewood, Calif. (U.R) The powerful Rex C. Ellsworth entry of Kentucky Derby winner Swaps and Bequeath, victor in Saturday's Debonair Handicap, today topped a list of 13 nomi nations for the $25,000 added Will Rogers Stakes to be run at Hollywood Park Memorial Day. It will be Swaps' first start since he upset Nashua fn the run for the roses. Other nominations included Golden Land, Beau Busher, Sullivan, Guerro, Noir, Jack Bezaha, Guilton Madero, Mr, Magic, Money Order, and the Buddy Hirsch-trained entry of Hickory Stick and Bisco. Frank Good Named Oregon City Coach Oregon City (U.R) Oregon City high school's basketball coach next season will be Frank Good, who has coached for the last two seasons at Filer, Ida. Good replaces Len Rinearson, who resigned after last season. Before coaching at Filer, Good was coach four years at Minot, N. D., high school. (K) I'm thinking about how sweet my Chevrolet runs on entirely new grade Mobilgas 8 out of 10 owners of pre-1955 Chevrolets and many other cars get smooth, knock-free mileage when they use new grade Mobilgas which sells in the price range of regular. Look for this sign. " Studs are Mellbye at third base, Selsor at shortstop. Price at sec ond base and Jack Cooney at third. Mellbye is a veteran with the Studs and manager for the second year. He may pitch in a pinch. Selsor played for Brook ings in the league last year and was the leading hitter in the circuit. He could also see some third base and relief pitching duty. Price played for Hilt, Calif., last season, and two years ago was a slugger for Brookings in the former Southwestern Oregon League. Cooney is a Studs per former back after absence last year. He played for the pro Med ford Rogues in 1950 and in 1951 at Muskogee, Okla., was top hit ter in the Western Association. McCullough on Squad Ed McCullough, who finishes Medford high this spring, will De a utility infielder as well as possibly seeing some outfield and pitching duty. Harvey Tonn, Crater high with the Studs last year, is utility first baseman. Me Cullough has American Legion junior background. McAbee will join the club fol lowing the state B baseball tour ney. He has had American Le gion junior baseball experience with Medford. Slated also as reg ular catcher is Howard Morris, a regular with the Studs last year. He is doing well as a Linfield college jayvee and will join the club following school exams Frank Roelandt, ex-Stud who is to go to North Dakota in June, will catch the Roseburg series, Askwith said. As for pitchers, Noyes, a Seattlite, comes well recom mended. He pitched for Troy, Mont., in the American Baseball congress tourney last year, los ing 1 to 0 in 10 innings to Nor gan's Beavers, Portland, with a four-hitter. The righthander counts four years of pro ball, two with Boise in the Pioneer League and two in the Western Inter national with a Washington team. He pitched for Blaine, Wash., last year and for several years with Everett, Wash., and has seen action in the semi-pro tourney. He can also see outfield service. Maddox Back Another righthander will be Terry Maddox, Studs' vet, who for University of Oregon this season has been the top pitcher in the Northern Division with an impressive record. He'll be counted upon in the outfield, also. Kay Kelley, from Crater high, is also a rightie. A lefthander is Scherpf, who cpmpiled a 4-0 record for Lin field last year as a freshman and won the Wildcats final game of the year after having been laid up with an ankle sprain. Out sider Jim Kelly reportedly is doing well for the Broncs in col lege. He was at Brookings last summer and is ex-St. Mary's high here. McLean, who has played for Southern Oregon college and for Brookings, is expected to be in center field with Maddox in right when not pitching. Larry Bigham, jayvee player at Lin field, Carrigan on the Oregon State college Rooks crew and John Niles, who has played ball for Southern Oregon college, are left field contenders. 4 Games in 5 Days Carrigan and Bigham are ex Crater high. Both were with the Studs last year, Bigham in the early part of the season. Niles is ex-Medford high and has played in the Rogue Valley League. Cliff Piland and Askwith will be coaches. The Studs on Saturday begin a stretch of four games in five days. After the Roseburg series, they go to Yreka, Calif., for a non-loop tussle on Monday, Me morial day. On Wednesday, June 1, they tackle Yreka here. Since college exams won't be out of the way, a number of the Medford players won't be on hand this week end. The line-up for the Roseburg series will be announced later this week. PCC Track Meet At UO Opens Friday University of Oregon, Eugene The country's finest collegiate track and field championship will be staged at Hayward Field next Friday and Saturday when the nine teams of the Pacific Coast Conference hold their 25th annual meet. Southern California is again the heavy favorite to win the title, but the battle between UCLA and Stanford for second place should be a hot one and the individual championship scrambles rate among the best in the meet's history. Preliminaries are set for 3:30 p.m. on Friday in the field events with running events set for 30 minutes later. The same schedule will apply for the finals on Saturday. There will be no admission charge for the pre liminaries. Reserved, general ad mission on Saturday tickets will be sold Saturday. Leo Harris, director of the meet, said both dashes Aid the hurdles races will finish on the east side of Hayward Field and the 440, 880, mile, two mile and relay will end on the west side. Tickets may be ordered by writ ing to McArthur Court and ap plicants should specify which finish line they prefer in or dering reserved seats. The mile run is certain to excite considerable local interest as Bill Dellinger, a surprise win ner of both the PCC and NCAA championships last year as a sophomore, faces some of the best milers in the country in the defense of his crown. Southern California's Marty Montgomery and Sid Wing have both bettered 4:12 this season and Bob Seaman, the sensation al UCLA sophomore, has run 4:10.7 in his first varsity cam paign. Dellinger has been coming along slowly and has a best time of 4:12.2, but his backers point out he did not run his best races last year until the last three meets. Southern California will also bring Ernie Shelton, the one shoed high jumper, who has been consistent at 6-10 all season and is considered to be the best threat in the world to the legen dary seven-foot mark. MHS Third With 310 Portland (U.R) Eugene high school held a five stroke lead today as the state high school golf championships went into their final day at Glendoveer course here. Eugene, with Leighton Tut He and John Masterson shoot ing 73's, had a learn count of 300 to 305 for second place Franklin. Medford was next with 310. Jefferson and Grant 315. Pendleton 319, and Cor vallis and Milwaukee each 320. Gary Havl of Franklin shot a 70. Medford indiridual scores: Warren Deakins. 74; Larry Copple, 77; Dick Copple, 78; and Dick Shepard. 81. Only One Day Game Set on Anniversary Of First Arc Tilt New York (U.R) There was only one afternoon base ball game scheduled today on the 20th anniversary of night baseball in the majors. That was in Chicago where the Cubs play the Cardinals at Wrigley Field, the only park in the majors not equipped with lights. There won't be a night game at Cincinnati, where on May 20, 1935 the Reds defeated the Phils, 2-1, before 20,422 fans. President Roosevelt pushed a button in the White House which turned on the lights at Crosley Field and started a new era in the national past lime. The reason Cincinnati is'nt observing the anniver sary is because the Redlegs are at Milwaukee for a game at night, of course. Centralia Hires Mart Pavalunas Centralia, Wash. U.R) Ap pointment of Harold Schrupp as football coach and Matt Pava lunas as basketball coach of Cen tralia high school was an nounced today by Hayes Hol man, superintendent of schools. Pavalunas was a member of the 1939 Oregon NCAA cham pionship basketball team. TO MEET RUSSIA New York (U.R) A United States chess team, headed by Samuel Reshevsky of Spring Valley, N.Y., will meet Russia in a fourrround match at Moscow starting June 28, it was an nounced today. Tuesday, May 24. 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN Don Sample Cycle Field Meet Victor Don Sample, Medford, took main laurels in the motorcycle field meet held at Copper on Sunday, 22, with an easy score of 24 points. His two closest competitors tied for second place with a total of 12. They were Sid Knox, Ash land, and Floyd Young, Talent. Each event was a fast moving, competitive duel. There were a few minor spills but nothing amounting to more than a few scratches, bruises and some twisted cycle forks. Main attraction of the day was the ten lap "scrambles" run which took the riders around an oval track, into a very sharp corner, around some trees then back onto the oval track. The oval became very dusty as the spring rains had not penetrated the surface very deep. Contest ants were hampered by the con dition. This event was also won by hard-riding Don Sample. Second place winner was Jerry Neitzel, Central Point, who was making his debut on a race track. Third position went to Bud Reynen, Ashland, who also set a good pace throughout the event. Rogue Ramblers Motorcycle club expressed their thanks to clubs and spectators for their participation in making the day a successful one. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Mondav: other days 5:30 previous day. Jim McAbee Gets Three Top Awards at Talent Assembly Talent Jim McAbee re ceived outstanding football, basketball and baseball player awards at Talent High school in the school's annual awards as sembly today. Awards also were made to athletic letter winners for sports Williams Fires 146 Portland (U.R) Eddie Ho gan, with a 36-hole score of 141, won the Northwest PGA Championship a t Waverly Country Club yesterday. Joe Steiger of Spokane was next with 143 while Bob Lit ton of Vancouver, Wash., was next with 145. Five men tied at 146 Al Williams of Med ford; Dick Haskell of Seattle; Bunny Mason of Salem; Joe Greer of Yakima and Dave Killen of Portland. The lourney was a qualifier for the national PGA event in Detroit July 20-26. Hogan and Steiger won the first Iwo spots but Litton declined so a playoff was held among the other five. Greer won. ' REACHES 3002 Chicago (U.R) Jockey Johnny Adams' career record today stood at 3,002 winners. The 42-year-old reinsman, who reached the 3,000-mark last Saturday, rode two more winners Monday at Washington Park. participation during the school year. Football Awards Those receiving football awards were Jim Wallace, Lyio Tychsen, Don Coghill, Don Rey nolds, Jack Barrett, Jim Walker, Ray Weinhold, Gordy Thoreson, Ron Weinhold, Mel Wallace, Dick Bradford, Bob Messenger, Jim Spangler, Dick Henry, Frank Tycksen and team man agers Dave Spangler and Paul Conner. v Receiving basketball awards were Loyd Wood, George Zick efoose, Jim Wallace, Jack Bar rett, Gordy Thoreson, Ray Wein hold, Gary Combs, Fred Holm, Ron Weinhold, Harold Bartol, Mel Wallace and Bob Hoffman. Baseball Awards Baseball awards went to Don ald Coghill, Dale Walter, George Zickefoose, Fred Helm, Bob Hoffman, Gordy Thoreson, Ron Weinhold, Ray Weinhold, Gary Combs, J. Loyd Wood, Jack Bar rett and team managers Jim Spangler and Robert Messenger. ANNOUNCING the addition of BILL HILL to our staff SUNWAY AUTO . BODY WORKS 2898 So. Pacific Hiway K V 2-Ball Tourney Pairings Listed Pairings were listed today for the third round of play in the men's two-ball golf tourney at Rogue Valley Country club. Except for three first flight matches the second round was completed last week end. Losers in both championship flight and first flight last week were bounced out of the tour ney running. Play continues in only the two flights. 3 THIRD ROUND PAIRINGS: Championship flithts Morris Leonard and Ed Hall vs. Al Althena and Ward Samuelson: Andy Anderson and Larry Butler vs. Brad Broyles and Ted Groomes; Ralph Pierce and Paul Lacanette vs. George Harrington and Ray Wise; Bob Sleeter and Royal Bebb vs. Charles Mclntyre and Emmet Bullard; Frank Allen and Carl Schmidt vs. Lee Flink and Jack Walker: Al Servold and Russ Heysell vs. Bob Corbin and Norm Hillyer; Ward Hammond and Bill Hartman vs. Bob Hinman and Bill Thomdike; Bill Blackledge and Norton Smith vs. Bud Spencer and Bruce Stanley. 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