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o MEDFORD$tS&TRIBUKI Offense Emphasized By Comets, Tornado Oitense i getting the main attention of each school this eek as the Medtord Black Tor nado and" Crater high Comets gird for their third annual foot ball skirmish. And thatf shows possibility that there may be a wide open scoring fray like last year when Medford won 41 to 19. The scrap Is billed for 8 p.m. Friday at the Me3ford stadium. Medford will go in to the game the favorite after its 7 to 7 knot with Milwaukie last week and Crater's humiliation 31 to 7 at the hands of Phoenix. But the Tornado still Is expect ing a hard battle and Coach Leonard Warren of Crater has stated concerning his Comets, "I think they'll, be a different ball club Friday." Crater as of last night was in tact physically while Medford had Halfbacks Gary Riley and John Hawley on the sick list and Guard Gary Guss disabled with a knee injury. However, Halfback Mike Hawkins, who played half the time on offense against Milwaukie, may be able to go full time against Crater. Hawkins hurt his ankle in the season opener against Cleveland and missed the Gresham and Roseburg frays. The Black Tornado .got lots of work done Monday and Tues day but took it light in contact. There was no scrimmage as the club recuperated from its week end bruises but there was lots of running and drill on timing and plays. A nul blast scrim mage was slated today. Pass de- fene is getting attention. Warren allowed Crater play ers, who so desired, to go hunt ing on Monday and only 23 boys were out for practice. Offense is getting work to click effec tively against Phoenix after getting less attention than de fense in last week's arms, ine Crater mentor said that im provement in downfield block ing and quicker charging in tne line is being sought. Warren also said there may be some changes in first team sDots. mostly in the backfield. Duane Goyette is a back who has been looking good, showing well in blocking. End Carl Koellner is expected to be back in action for the Comets on Friday. He turned an ankle in the Yreka fracas and has been hobbling for two weeks. This week he has been working out hard on the ankle for the0first time since the injury. Notre Dame Given Slight Edge in Miami Encounter By JOE SARGIS United Press Sports Writer :A. couple of intersectional games, involving three of the top 10 ranked teams, feature this coming week-ends college football program beginning with the Notre Dame-University of Miami clash Friday night. The Irish, ranked fifth and nursing a 10-game winning streak carrying over from the 1954 season, are only two-point favorites oyer the Hurricanes, who are banking on a win to gain national recognition. Michigan, ranked second be hind Maryland, meets sixth-ranked Army in the second big inters sectional game of the weekends. The Wejverines, leading con tenders for Big Ten honors, have never beaten Army and the game is rated a tossup. SMU Over Missouri In three other Interesting Veteran Sportswriter, Stan Baumgartner, Dies Philadelphia (U.R) Stan wood (Stan) Baumgartner, 60, Veteran sportswriter and one time major league pitcher, died at his home Tuesday after an Illness of more than a year. Despite failing health, Baum gartner continued his coverage of the Philadelphia Phillies until last July. Baumbartner was a three- sport athlete at University of Chicago before he hurled for the Philadelphia Phillies from 1914 to 1922 and later played with the Philadelphia Athletics under Connie Mack from 1924 to 1926. In the 1913-1914 collegiate year, Baumgartner played on Chicago teams which won Big 10 titles in football, basketball and base ball. Un Mall Tribune Want Ada Dead line Sunday Classified la at noon Saturday: 10 ajn Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 orevious day games Friday night, the odds makers have installed SMU a 14 point choice over Missouri, pick ed Houston by six over Detroit in a Missouri Valley Conference game and made UCLA's Bruirls, the defending national cham pions whp' currently are ranked eighth, solid 27-point favorites over Oregon State in a Pacific Coast Conference game. In games which will be tele cast regionally there'll be no national telecast of any one game the odds makers look at it this way: Holy Cross and Colgate, strong Eastern candidates, are rated even; Wisconsin, which moved up from 14th to ninth in the rankings this week, is a seven-point pick over Purdue, ranked 18th, in a Big Ten game, and Colorado is a seven-pomt pick over Oregon in a tussle which can be seen in the Rocky Mountain and West Coast areas. Here's how -other leading games figure, according to area: East: Perm State 13 over Virginia; Dartm6uth and Brown, even. Harvard seven over Cornell, Princeton by 13 over Pennsylvania and Yale by 13 over Columbia in Ivy league action; 12th ranked Navy by seven over Pitts burgh, and Syracuse by 13 over Bos ton University. Midwest: Cincinnati by six over Xavier; Minnesota by six over North western, Ohio State by seven over Illinois and Iowa by 13 over Indiana in Bis Ten games; Kansas by seven over Iowa State in a Big Seven game; and Michigan State by seven over Stanford in an intersectional clash. South: Maryland by 21 over Wake Forest in an Atlantic Coast Confer ence game; Auburn by seven over Kentucky, Mississippi State by seven over Tulane and Georgia Tech. rank ed fourth, by 10 over Louisiana State in Southeastern Conference meetings; Georgia by six' over North Carolina; Florida by 14 over George Washing ton and Duke, ranked 11th. by 19 over William and Mary. Southwest: Baylor by seven over Arkansas in the Southwest Confer ence Oklahoma A&M by seven over Wichita in the Missouri Valley Con ference, and Oklahoma by seven over Texas; Rice by seven over Clemson; Texas A&M by seven over Nebraska and Texas Christian by 14 over Alabama. West: Southern California by seven over Washington and California by 19 over Washington State in the PCC and Wyoming by seven over Colorado A&M. St. Mary's-Talent To Be in Medford Second change in plans for the St. Mary's-Talent high school football tussle was announced today. Coach Millard Webb of the St. Mary's Crusaders said that the contest will be on the Medford senior high field at 8 p.m. on Saturday. The fracas originally had been slated for Friday at Talent but had been reset for Saturday afternoon on the Bull dogs field. The night scuffle will still be considered a Talent "home" game. Battle Saturday night will be for lone leadership of the Jack son County B League and the new time will permit more fol lowers of one win and no losses in the circuit. St. Mary's will go into the mix as favorite -despite some injuries to top men. However, Talent, hampered in early games by in ability of a few of its better players to be at practices regu larly, will be stronger for this week's engagement. Quarterback and Halfback Bill Carey, Guard Francis Murphy and End Gerald Darland are the Crusader cripples. Carey hurt a shoulder and Murphy suffered a vertabrae injury in the Grants Pass game last Saturday. Dar- Stanfordites Top Offense In PC League Los Angeles U.R) Stanford, wmcn bounced back from a sur prise loss to Oreeon State with a major upset over Ohio State, leads the Pacific Coast Confer ence in total offense and is No 2 defensive team, statistics showed today. The Indians have averaeed 340.3 yards a game and are tops in Doth passing offense and de fense. Quarterback Jerry Gus tafson's passing has helned Stan ford pile up a 143.3-yard average in that department while the In dians have held opponents to 43 yards a game by passes. Washington's Huskies, who face Southern California Satur day in a major PCC game, are tops in total defense, yielding an average 182 yards per contest. Ranking behind the Huskies are Stanford, 198.3; UCLA 203; Southern California, 205.7. OSC Tops Rushing Southern California is second in total offense with a 332-yard eame averaee. Other total of fense leaders are Oregon State 321; Washington 306; and UCLA 285.7. Oreeon State's sumrisine Rea vers, who seek to upset UCLA naay night, are tops in rushing with a 254-yard game average. Southern California ranks sec ond with 223.3-yards per game on the ground. The Trojans also are second in passing behind Stanford with 108.7 yards per game. - - Other department leaders were: Interceptions Southern California. 7 for 100 vards and one touchdown. Punt returns So. California, 8 for 244 yards and a 30.5-yard average; Kickoff returns Oregon State, 2 for 78 yaras ana a d-yara average. Frank Lane Discusses Card Managerial Post St. Louis U.R) Frank Lane, a mani without a job, was to meet St. Louis Cardinals boss August A. Busch today with the club s general managership at stake. The 59-year-old former gen eral manager of the Chicago White Sox was expected to win the position, a matter both he and the Cardinals said depends on "terms and conditions." mm wo Worthy of YourTrust j! ssFIFTH v7 worthy of you? 'frusfftr 160 yeats Beam old Miioned Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whfetey fc f dishllcd and aged under Q fbrmuh passed on from generation to , generation (jp for ow 160 jj years: Only BEAM iaste lite BEAM. Only REAM Ms so good 1 IPTUCjffJTRAM B..BEAM DISTILLING CO.. CliRMQNTTUCKX. Grid Battle Saturday Night land hurt his hip in practice. But Coach Millard Webb said concerning his battered players, "If tape holds them together, we'll be going." Conditioning and fundamen tals continue to get a lot of at tention in Crusader drills. Chavez, Flanagan Tangle Tonight Richmond, Calif. U.R) Ed die Chavez and Glen Flanagan, two of the nation's more-durable lightweights, clash in a nationally-televised 10-round fight to night with the winner hoping to step up a notch in the world rankings. Flanagan, a top-rank battler for 10 years, is substituting for Cisco Andrade, who came down with a strep throat Tuesday and had to cancel out. NY Dream Track Step Nearer To Realization New York (U.R) The movement to bring New York its long sought "dream track" moved a step closer to realiza tion today with the announce ment that the Greater New York Racing association, incorporation has completed purchased of the four major tracks in the area Belmont, Aqueduct, Saratoga and Jamaica. The association now becomes the sole active thoroughbred racing association in the state. HARTACK TOTALS 333 Mays Landing, N. J. (U.R) Willie Hartack, the nation's lead ing rider who is enjoying a fine stay at the Atlantic City race course, booted home two win ners on Tuesday's card to run his 1955 victory total to 333. Hartack scored on Play Fiddle and Girder. ROOKIE FOR ROOKIE ' Green Bay, Wis. (U.R) Rookie fullback Bob Clemens of Georgia, has been released by the Green Bay Packers to make room for another rookie Al ton Romine. an offensive end and defensive fullback from r lorence uoiiege (Ala J wno was released recently by the Chi cago Bears. Football Briefs Seattle, Wash. U.R) Coach Johnny Cherberg of the Univer sity of Washington Huskies is concentrating on defense to see if his squad can stop Southern California's 37-points-a-game of fense when the two teams meet this week end. COUGARS DRIVEN UNDER COVER Pullman, Wash. U.R) The Washington State Cougars were driven under cover by heavy rains yesterday and had to prac tice for Saturday's game with the California Golden' Bears in the fieldhouse. Halfback Floyd Richmond, who was injured Monday apparently is not in as bad condition as was originally believed. OSC AT TOP STRENGTH Corvallis, Ore. U.R) The Oregon State Beavers should be at full strength for Friday's en counter with the rugged Bruins of UCLA and Coach Tommy Prothro figures they'll have to be. Prothro said the Beavers had a chance to get in shape as a re sult of last week s open date, but he didn't want to make a prediction about the UCLA game. He rated the Bruins as even stronger than last year and praised Ronnie Knox as one of the finest passers in college football. JOHNSON OUT Eugene, Ore. U.R) The Ducks of the University of Ore gon may have to go up against unbeaten Colorado here Satur day without the' services of 223- pound tackle Harry Johnson, who it still on the injury list. But Coach Len Casanova hopes that his squad can bounce back from the defeat they suf fered at the hands of the Wash ington Huskies last week end. INDIANS STRESS DEFENSE Standford, Calif. (U.R) The Stanford Indians stressed de fense in a rugged scrimmage session yesterday designed to find ways of stopping Michigan State's versatile attack both T-formation and single wing. FIGHTS FOR JOB Los Angeles U.R) Southern California co - captain Marv Goux, who amazed doctors by recovering fully from a serious back operation, today fought for his former first-string job on the Trojan line. Goux returned to pontant work Monday after a layoff since last spring because of the Injury. REGAIN RATING Los Aneeles U.R) A red-hot battle for the starting UCLA quarterback and left end posi-. tions today found two former regulars regaining their first- string ratings. Coach Henry (Red) Sanders announced John ny Hermann will open at left end in place of Johnny Smith while Bruce Ballard will start at auarterback instead of Bob Beredahl. Smith and Beradahl started for UCLA against Wash ington State last week. Gustafson Tarr Lead In Offense Los Angeles (U.R) Quar terback Jerry Gustafson and fullback Bill Tarr, key players in Stanford's 6-0 upset over Ohio State, are the Pacific Coast con ference's top offensive stars aft er three weeks of play. Statistics released by the PCC commissioner's office showed Tarr topping total offense and rushing while Gustafson leads the passers. Other individual PCC leaders are Jon Arnett of Southern Cal ifornia, the No. 1 scorer who also ranks first in kickoff and punt returns; John Stewart of Stanford in pass receiving; Joe Francis, Oregon State for inter ceptions, and Howard Willis, Id aho, punting. Tarr, the 1954 rushing champ ion who gained 102 yards against Ohio State, has piled up 289 yards net on the ground which gives him the leadership in both rushing and total offense. Gust afson has completed 23 of 36 passes for 225 yards and three touchdowns to lead the passers. He has a total of 285 yards gain ed, including 60 on the ground, for second-place honors in total offense. Shanley Second Oregon's speedy Jim Shanley is second in rushing with 264 yards gained and third in total offense. Shanley's average is 9.1 yards a carry, more than double the 4.1-yard average of Tarr. Arnett has scored 44 points on six touchdowns and eight of nine conversion tries. The star SC halfback returned two punts for 113 yards and four kickoffs for 138 yards for averages of 56.5 and 34.5, respectively. Stewart has caught 13 passes for 145 yards. Arnie Pelluer, Washington State, has nine re ceptions for 106 yards. Willis punting average is 40.9 for 10 kicks, a shade better than the 40-yard average by Francis on seven kicks. Francis has three pass interceptions which he re turned 27 yards, tops in that department. SHOEMAKER TO RETURN San Mateo, Calif. (U.R) Willie Shoemaker, the national riding champion in 1953 and 1954 who trails Willie Hartack by nearly 60 victories in their two-way battle this year, will return to Bay Meadows Satur day. A 10-day suspension handed down in New York terminated Tuesday but Shoemaker said he wouldn't return to the track un til Saturday. . . ... . . '. Wednesday, October 3, 19SS v . MEDFORD (OREGON) MAILTRIBUWE ELEVEN lMilMi'liilMi! " 1 . IKE NEWS RELEASED Reporters break from the press conference room in Denver's Fitzimons Hospital to get to phones after Press Secy. James Hagerty reported that President Eisenhower appeared tired and did not feel quite as well as usual. , Use Mail Tribune Want Adi Junior Highs, Graders Launch Football Play - Junior high and grade school football clubs in Medford begin their regular seasons Thursday. Eighth grade gridders .start within the school district as Coach Karl Kahle takes his club from Hedrick junior high against Coach Bob Williams' Mc Loughlin eleven at the Mc Loughlin field. Game time is 3:30 p.m. In elementary contests Roose velt plays Washington and Lin coln goes against Jackson in 4 p.m. scrambles at the senior high practice field. Junior high ninth graders play Friday and Saturday. Barney Riggs' Hedrick team is host to Grants Pass on the McLoughlin field at 3:30 p.m. Friday and Mel Boldenow's McLoughlin club en tertains Crater at 1:30 p.m. Sat urday. Grade coaches are Loren Sod erlund, Washington; Morris Ji minez, Lincoln; Cliff McLean, "Roosevelt; Tom Newton, Jack son, and Ronald Weatherford, Jefferson. This season Jefferson, with a small enrollment, is not participating in regular league action. GREER TO DEFEND Pendleton U.R) The ninth annual Pendelton open golf tour nament opens here Friday with some of the Northwest's . best professionals entered. Joe Greer of Yakima, Wash., is the de fending champion. Central Point, Talent Grid Slate Reversed Central Point Central Point junior high seventh and eighth grade footballers will play Tal ent at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 6, at Talent. The Pointers will be hosts to Talent on Octobe 20. Schedule reversal was made because of lighting difficulties at the Central Point field. Use Mail Tribune Want Adi -Dead line for Sunday Classified U at noon Saturday !T Csildsrs Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Floes Drain Til V21 W. McAndrews Phone 2-417 FALL SALE Seat Covers 9 !2 95 INSTALLED AND UP ATTENTION LOGGERS! Truck and Tractor Cushions, in any condition. Repaired and Recovered Like New Medford Auto Upholstery 303 N. Bartlert Phone 2-2119 Onnnr? r? It I Specials for This Week '54 FORD 4-DOOR Heater . This ear ts perfect throughout. Se it today. Only $535.00 Down Bank Terms '54 CHEV. 4-DOOR Tuton paint. Rtally a nica car. For Only $1495 '53 CHEV. BELAIRE 4-Door Thi$ is a local one-owner car. 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