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0 EIGHT MEDFOHB (OHZOOIf) Wolverines Eye Deadlock For 1st Spot BIG TEN STANDINGS W L Pet a o l.ooo 1 0 1.000 l o 1.000 1 1 .500 1 1 .500 1 1 J 00 1 . 1 J 00 o l .ooo 0 I .000 o a .ooo Wisconsi Michigan ... Ohio State PurduN . Mich. State Minnesota Iowa Northwestern Illinois Indiana By ED SAINSBURY Chicago-OJ.R) The Big Ten's early r&ce-setter, unbeaten Wis consin, gets a major non-conference test against Southern Cali fnrnia this week, while the pre-season title favorite, Michi gan, will have a chance to move info a first place tie with the Badgers. Michiean. also unbeaten after three games, entertains North western at Ann Aroor in a VsttlA evnprted to ffo to the tVolverines with ease. North- westerrrtias yet to win this sea son and has lost in order to Miami, of Ohio, Tulane and finally Minnesota. fThe Wolverines on the other hand tripped Missouri a"nd Mich igan State before trouncing Army decisively Saturday, 26-2. The Michigan -Northwestern scrap highlights a three game conference bill. Every other Big Ten team involved in conference play already has Deen. beaten. Minnesota plays . Illinois and Purtlue at Iowa. Non-league battles will fea ture Duke at - defending cham pion Ohio State, Notre Dame at Michigan State and Villanova at Indiana. , Marshfield Unanimous . Choice Again Portland , U.R) Marshfield high school's Golden Pirates, winners of five straight games, grabbed off all eight first place votes in the weekly Journal poll of coaches to again lead Ore gon's prep football teams. "Gratham. also winner of five In a tovffi was in second place with 72 points. following behind them were Pendleton in thirst place and Jefferson of Portland and Cor vallis tied for fourth. The standings: Team Points 1. Marshfield ; 80 2. Gretham '' .'...-....72 '3. Pendleton 57 4. Corvallis, Jefferson 49 6. South Salein 40 7. Cottage GrOY 20 8. Hillsboio L19 9. - Central Catholic -15 10. Vale . ; Others: McMinnvill 9; Eu gene and Albany 7 each; Mil- waukie 4; Medf ord 3; Washing Ion of Portland 1. THREE WINNERS Camden, N. J. flJ.R) Sam Baulmetis rode three - winners Monday at Garden State Park, including Walter M.- Jeffords' Tahiti in thofeature race. Willie Hartack 'was second in three races and had one third-place finish. ; This early 19th Indiana about tne tarn it the i'nioo Dee. 11, ISIS. viui as Indiana was the 19 State admitted to l Seagram-Distillers Company, $iufniin$ MAIL TRIBUNE . Michigan Replaces Maryland As No. 1 Team On Press Poll KEDF0BDfTRIBUIII 'iP(DH&irs Tornado J V, Crater Comet Reserves Knot at 12 to 12 Medford high junior varsity and the Crater varsity reserve football squads scrapped to a 12 to 12 draw here last night. There was no further scoring in the game after Medford's Bob Gee broke loose for a 58-yard touchdown run on the first scrim mage play of the second half. Gee also tallied the other Junior Tornado TD with a 31-yard jaunt on the first play of the second quarter. Fumbles and stout Crater line play squelched the Tornado attack the rest of the time. Comet touchdowns came one each in the first and second periods forcing Medford to come from behind twice to tie up the score. Crater was stopped on the Medford seven ' yard line early in the fourth quarter; , The Central Point crew was set up for, its first march when it recovered a Tornado muff on the Medford 41. It took the Comets 10 plays to make the distance against a slow yielding home team. Freshman Jerome McQuade went around end from eight yards out for the score. He had gone over from the two on the previous thrus but an off side infraction cancelled the try. Pass Helps March Medford took the kick-off and immediately headed for the Comet goal. Gordon Owsley had run the kick out to the 37.. One play lost to the 36 but seven more took the ball the 64 yards to the end zone. A 17-yard pass play, Owsley to Mike Russell, was the big -gain as Medford moved down to the Comet 31 by the end of the stanza. As the second period opened Gee chug ged through the line and broke free for the TD runs after a key block by Russell. It was then Crater's turn to take the kick-off and go to the pay zone. But again it was slow going as - the Comets used 14 plays to cover. 62 yards against the tough Medf ordites. , Med ford had Crater all but halted on the Tornado 31 with a fourth down. George Juveland's pass to Jerry Kime was then com plete to eat up 28 yards and put the Comets down 6n the three.. McQuade crossed the TD stripe ' from there, barging through the middle of the line. Ball Fumbled Medford opportunity in the re maining moments of the half was damaged by a fumble which Juveland recovered for Crater on the first play after the Comet kick-off. Crater took over and got nowhere, itself. That gave Medford time for one more play Seagram 7 CfoM Is American whiskey at its finest i"us is one 01 America s great wnisKey r o u uuun goes wjlooui saying inai SEACKAM's 7 crown is by far Indiana's largest selling whiskey. For wherever people really appreciate the finest whiskey flavor, 7 crows is sure to outsell all other brands. Say SlttOTamS and be $ure Hew York City. Blended Whiskey. 86.8 TuHdT' October 11. 153 and an Owsley, to Russell pass try was tocorirplete. The ; TornaHldgot the ball on its 42 as the second half started and Gee$gad run the kick-off back 20.vJr"ds., Gee then found a gap oh 'the right side of his line, fought through and free and scooted all the way. After holding the Comets, the Tornado moved from its own 37 to the same Comet line. In two plays, however; Crater threw Medford back to the Tornado 44. Then John Germann snagged a Medford fumble on the. 42. The Comets got a first down on. the 32 and a roughing the passer penalty got them another fresh start on about the Med ford 17. The Tornado held Cra ter barely short of a first down near the seven, although the Comets somehow had five tries instead of the usual four; two in the third quarter and three in the fourth. Merlon Intercepts . Rest of the game was played out mostly in Medford territory. The roughing the passer pen alty spoiled a Medford bid-to score. Tom Merton had inter cepted Juveland's throw on the play and had run from the Med ford 20 to: the Comet 25. The infractionuled out the effort. Crater topped Medford in first downs 12 to four and in net yardage 179 to. 136. Medford's team was made up of juniors and sophomores and Crater's of juniors, sophomores and some freshmen. The Comets had the service of three players who see considerable varsity duty. ' ' There Is Boxer To Beat Rocky, Russian Says London (U.R) Russia's top boxing coach said today "some where there's a fighter who can defeat Rocky Marciano." ' Is he in Russia. "Who knows?" smiled chunky Nixiforoy Denisov, who is here coaching a visiting Russian team that will meet Britain in an ama teur.boxing. tournament, Wednes day. "He may be anywhere." Denisov admitted he'd never seen the American champion in action, in the flesh or even in the movies.,.-: "But from what I hear Mar ciano's a ffhi&. pure and sim ple," he smd?2yj.nd somewhere there is auboxe'r who can" beat him. . fjj( . "Boxers,always beat fighters in the loqgTrun." . ' ,' ' the Union... Proof. 65 Grain tivra Spirits. New York (U.R) Michi gan, which soothed 10 long years of frustration by beating Army for the first time last Week end, supplanted Maryland as the No. 1 college football team today in the ratings of the United Press Board of Coaches. Coach Bennie Oosterbaan's Wolverines were the top choice this week of 20 of the 35 lead ing coaches who comprise the United Press rating board. Their 326-point total was 66 more than Maryland, which slipped to sec ond after leading the first two weeks of the season. Oklahoma and Notre Dame each moved up one notch to oc cupy the third and fourth rank ings ahead of Georgia Tech Navy and Duke were this week's newcomers among the top 10 teams, moving up to No. 9 and 10, respectively. Texas Christ ian, UCLA and Wisconsin filled the ranking from sixth to eighth, each advancing one place over the previous week. Army Only Blot In all its long and impressive football history dating back to 1879 Michigan had one blot on its record. The Wolverines had not beaten Army in five previous meeting dating back to the Blan-chard-Davis team of 1945. Mich igan avenged that with a 26-2 romp at Ann Arbor last. Satur day. The Wolverines, who earl ier had , defeated Missouri -.and Michigan State now return to an Big Ten schedule that pits them against Northwestern, Minneso ta, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio State. Maryland, which breezed to its fourth straight victory by whip ping Wake Forest, 28-7, attract ed seven first-place votes and a total of 260 points. Notre Dame was the No. 1 choice of three coaches, Navy had two first-place votes, and Oklahoma, Georgia Tech and Wisconsin one each. Oklahoma Rates Third With points awarded on a 10- 9-8-. . . down to 1 for votes from first, to 10th place, her is how the teams were aligned in the top 10 after Maryland: Oklahoma 236, Notre Dame 227, Georgia Tech 184, TCU 150, UCLA 140, Wisconsin 133, Navy 105, and Duke 51. Every team in the top 10 is undefeated and untied except UCLA,: Navy and Duke moved into the select group this week at the expense of Army and Southern California. - Michigan State headed the sec ond 10 group with 34 points, one more than the Washington Husk ies. Army and Rice came next in that order followed by a tie for 15th between West Virginia and Purdue and another tie for 17th place between Ohio State and Auburn. Mississippi, Miami (Fla.) Southern California and Colora do were tied for 19th. Officials Warn Of Lime Burns On Ball Fields Portland (U.R) Reports . that several high school football play ers in Oregon 'have suffered lime burns this fall prompted the Portland Football Officials asso ciation today to warn against its possible effects. ' .. The group plans to send let- terest to schools where its offic ials work and 'also to other of ficials gr oups recommending similar action. r The Wy east football team was reported to have had 11 players treated as of . yesterday and burns also were reported at the Taft-Nestucca game in Clover- dale and by Astoria players after the Gresham game. Bud Monnes, athletic director at Gresham, said lime no longer ' would be used to mark fields there. The Taft-Nestucca gam. was halted at half time. Leo May Return To Baseball Job Knoxville, Tenn. U.R Leo Durocher's eventual return to baseball was predicted today by Eddie Stanky, new manager of the New York Giants Minneap olis farm team of the American Assiciation. "I played for Leo for six yean and I think he is a great indi vidual," said Stanky. "He has contributed a lot to baseball and I think he'll be back in some ca pacity after a good vacation and an opportunity to be with his family." Durocher recently retired from baseball after li years as manager of the Giants. Bill Rig- ney, who managed Minneapolis last season, has replaced Duro cher as Giant manager. Stanky, released in mid-season this year as manager of the St. Louis Card inals, will succeed Rigney in Minneapolis. 21 GARDEN GAMES New York (U.R) The New York Knickerbockers will play 21 of their homes eames at Madi son Square Garden during the 1955-56 National Basketball as sociation season, vit was nounced today. an- SCOTTY WILLIAMS In Grants Pass Bout Macera, Savage On GP Ring Card Grants Pass Two matches slated for two out of three falls or a one-hour time limit are the attraction Hhis Wednesday night in the' second wrestling card of the season - at the Grants Pass arena at the Josephine county fairgrounds. Main event matches Luigi Macera, Montreal, 205 pounds, against Big Bull Savage, Chi cago, 215. In the semi-final, Buck 'Weaver, 204, from Indi- anaf opposes Scotty Williams, 198, Springfield, Mo. The Macera-Savage affair is a challenge match. Savage is a rough, aggressive battle and ex ponent of the suplex slam. Ma cera is a dynamo with fire and punch in the clutch. . It - will be a battle matching men .of both speed and experience - when Weaver and Williams go at it. Weaver is known for a tricky and mean style of grappling. First bout is set for 8:30 p.m. Opponent No. 1 Team of Michigan Ann Arbor, Mich. (U.R) Coach Bennie Oosterbaan ex pressed unconcern over the Uni versity of Michigan's No.: 1 rating among college football teams today, stating that he has "too many other No. 1 worries to think about it." Michigan, 26-2 victor over Army last week, headed the list of the United Press Board of Coaches today. "We have always considered our next opponent as the No. 1 team," Oosterbaan said. And we have too much of a problem right now to be concerned over our national standing. . He referred to star end Ron Kramer, who was confined to a university hospital bed for treat ment of chest injuries. "We have to play Northwest ern without Kramer's help next Saturday, and so right now, Northwestern is the No. 1 team with us," the coach said. At Seven j Tdnight! i Medford High Players I IN PERSON ON "Let's Kick It Around" With Tom' MacLeod DICK AND JACK . .... . -t -i '" T " "' ' I District 6 A-l Schedule Opens on Friday First contests of the year in District' 6 A-l top off the high school football . bill-of-f are. this week end in southern Oregon. Nine preps of Jackson county will be involved in six games Thursday and Friday. Two of the skirmishes will be in District 6 A-l which is also the Southern Nationwide Olympic Day October 22 New York Nationwide plans for 1955's National Olympic Day. Oct. 22, are now virtually com plete, it has been announced by Kenneth L. ("Tug") Wilson, Pres ident of;, the United States Olvmnic committee. , .. . With only three fnonths re maining before tne U. S. team goes to Cortina, Italy : for the Winter Olympic Games, there is unusual interest in Olympic Day this year and in our plans for the fall Olympic fund drive which will start on that date,' Mr. Wilson said. . On Saturday, October 2nd, col lege football games all over the country will highlight the Olym pic drive, permitting collections in grandstands and through band formations and other student events. Wilson said that the 800 colleges of the NCAA and NAIA are cooperating through their Olympic committees, headed -by Willis O. Hunter, director ot athletics, University of Southern California (NCAA) and Al Duer, athletic director of George Pep- perdine college (NAIA). Collection efforts at the col lege games are being coordinated with local junior chamber of commerce chapters throughout the country. Olympic day will also be featured over television through the NCAA "Game of the Week" telecasts. Olympic Sports Carnival Highlighting Olympic Day ef forts in the New York area will be an Olympic sports carnival at Madison Square Garden on Thursday evening, Oct. 20, Wil son said. Proceeds will go to the U.S. Olympic committee. The event will feature exhibitions by scores of national and poten tial 1956 Olympic champions in track, figure ..skating, fencing, weightlifting, wrestling and gym nastics. . Another Olympic Day high light event is scheduled for Tues day-evening, October. 18th, , in Southern : California. A 1000 plate, $100 per plate dinner at the Moulin Rouge Club in Holly wood will fete many 1952 Olym pic stars as well as future cham pions. The proceeds will go to wards financing our Olympic ef fort hul956, Wilson said. Other cities in various areas of the country have also sched uled Olympic activities on or near National Olympic Day, Wil son indicated. Most committees will use Olympic Day to launch local Olympic fund-raising drives lasting throughout the fall. For Action, Use Tribune Want Ads ltsitsviaiuii i y i "V . MAIN AT CENTRAL . "V X,. MEDFORD, OREGON . Prep Grid Oregon Conference. Two frays are set in the Jackson County B League and one in the Rogue League. Medford goes to Klamath Falls and Ashland entertains Grants Pass in Friday's openers in the big school circuit.. Crater will be host to Illinois Valley at Central Point on Friday in the Rogue League. Talent plays Jackson ville at Central Point on Thurs day in the B loop and St. Mary's travels to Prospect on Friday. The one non-league fracas on Friday will take Rogue River to Phoenix. Eagle Point is idle on the week end but will be host to Talent in non-loop activity on Monday night; Tornado Chances Good Among the A-l schools Kla math Falls and Grants Pass were top rated when the. season be gan. , But as the . season has progressed -the possibilities of Medford's Black Tornado repeat ing as champion have loomed much' more hopeful. Ashland, an old member of the conference, is new in A-l classification this season, rising from the A-2 ranks. Crater is given the prognostic cator's nod over Illinois Valley in the Rogue circuit but the de cisions by Phoenix, 31 to 7 over Crater and 39 to 13 over IV, in dicate that the Cougars of Cave Junction could give the Comets a troublesome night. St. Mary's also rules as favor ites in its effort at Prospect to clinch at least a tie for the coun ty B mantle. Prospect," however, on its home field could prove dangerous .particularly, if the Crusaders have not overcome the sluggishness displayed last week end against Talent. Return of Black Bill Carey and End Ger ald Darland, out Saturday with shoulder and ' hip injuries, re spectively, is nevertheless ex pected to liven up the Medford parochial eleven. Talent is picked to roll over Jacksonville. Teams Improved' The Phoenix - Rogue River scrape matches, a pair of clubs which have . flashed much im provement in their recent games. They have met one common foe, Jacksonville. Phoenix whipped the Redskins in its first mix of the year by 41 ;to 20. Rogue River smeared Jacksonville 44 to 0" last Friday. On the college front Southern Oregon faces Humboldt State at Areata on Saturday. Medford junior teams will be busy . On Friday the McLough lin ninth grade will go to Grants Pass and Hedrick will oppose Ashland here. The local eight grade clubs play here Saturday. McLoughlin will meet Central Point in the morning and Hed rick tackles Grants, Pass in the afternoon. J In the city grade school loop on Thursday Lincoln takes on Roosevelt and Jackson battles Washington. WEED FIELD GETS LIGHTS Weed, Calif .(U.R) Long-Bell Lumber company linemen are speeding up ''Operation Flood- lights" to complete the mount ing of lights on 70-foot poles in time for Weed High school's first home game of the season Oct.. 14. California Oregon Pow er company crews are also aid ing the project. FOOTBALL INSTRUCTIONS: Check the team you pick to win. If you pick a tie game, check' both teams. All slips must fee at the store by 5:30 Friday averting. October 14-15, 1955 So. -California vs. Arkansas vs. Texas - ' Idaho vs. Washington St. Illinois vs. Minnesota Michigan . St.: vs. Notre Dame V Oklahoma vs. Kansas ; Oregon vs. California . , Col. of Pacific vs. Oregon. St. ' -: ' ' .Stanford .vs. UCLA ' . rr ' Texas Christian vs. Texas A&M' 7 '" Washington vs. Baylor ' '.- i ' Klamath Falls vs.' Medford ;- denotes Friday nit gama - lit team , is homa team A NECKTIE GIVEN EACH WEEK TO EVERYONE IN THE GROUP PICKING THE MOST WINNERS! There are eleven weeks of play. $50 in merchandise for the highest score for any ten weeks. $30. in trade for second place and $20 for, third. Prizes are to be spite in case of ties. Each- week everyone in the group picking the most winners wins a $1.50 necktie. ONLY ONE INTRY PER PERSON Address LAST WEEK'S WINNERS 11 outef 12 KENNETH HULBERT JR. 542 Haven ' . C.T.RYKKEN P.O. Bex 64, Ashland New Cardinal Manager Eyes Player Trade By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer Fast dealing Frank Lane, whose mammoth player trades built the Chicago White Sox into a pennant contender, is shooting for his first swap as the new gen eral manager of the St. Louis Cardinals. ' . Lane, hired by the Cardinals . last Thursday,-was scheduled to confer about a possible player deal today with Gabe Paul, gen eral manager of the Cincinnati Redlegs. The Cards' new front office boss has tabbed "pitching, adequate catching, and a regular first baseman" as his team's most pressing needs. . " Cincinnati could be In a posi tion to supply some of these, needs. In particular, the Redlegs have a solid three-man catching staff in Smoky Burgess, Hobie Landrith,. and Matt Batts and might be persuaded to part with any of the three. Lane is expected to announce the Cardinals' 1956 manager Wednesday, and it's reliably re ported that "the man" will be Freddie Hutchinson, former man ager of the Detroit Tigers. Hutch inson, present Manager Harry Walker, and a third unidentified man are the candidates under consideration, but Hutchinson . reportedly has the inside track. BEARKITTENS WIN Salenw-(U.R) Touchdowns by Warren Walker and Rex Domas chofsky gave the Willamette Bearkitten a 13-0 victory over the Linf ield Junior Varsity Foot ball team yesterday. "' WED, NIGHT OCT. 12 Grants Pass Arena GRANTS PASS, OREG. Starting Time 8:30 p.m. MAIN EVENT Lugi Macera MONTREAL VS. Big Bull Savage CHICAGO SEMI -MAIN - Buck Weaver , INDIANA ' VS. Scotty Williams MISSOURI MatehM undw the stiMmtioa ( the Grants' Pas WrMtHna Comm. CONTEST Wisconsin Wrestling 3
