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0 ' v TWELVE NEDTORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Eagle Point 34-7 Winner Over Talent Eagle Point Eagle Point high with defensive work strong er than it has been and with improved blocking, walloped Talent 34 to 7 last night in a non-league football game here. Tend of the game was set on the first scrimmage play when Enrol-Tresham burst off tackle and ran 56 yards for a touch- dawn The Eagles led 21 to 0 arhalftime and had a 27 to 0 margin before Talent came through wjm its lone TD in the third quarter. Jack Greb ran the conversion after Tresham's long run. Then in Use second period Greb romp ed land 19 yards for touch downs and John Bunker and Tresham converted. Greb's first TD came on the seventh play of a 65-yard march and a bit later the Eagles took over on the Talent 40-yard line when a Bulldog fourth down gamfaie failed. A pass, Gale Friend topHeb got to the 25. Three more plays got to the 19, setting up the TD dash. Walked Tallies Talent lost the ball on anoth er gamble on its 24 in the third quarter. Jim Walker raced 36 yards for the Talent counter af ter the Bulldogs had taken the ball on 'their own 47. Walker also bucked for the bonus. Eagle Point's sophomore club played a good part of the last stanza. They got the ball on the Bulldog 31 after a short Talent punt and ground to the goal in nine plays. Jim Stuart went across from the one and Jim Duncan converted. The Eagles ran uj 12 first downs toSalent's six. Talent got four of its first downs on one drive in the first quarter which moved the ball from their own 20 to the Eagle 32. Central Oregon Lands Opened To Either Sex Hunt Portland (U.R) The Oregon State Qame Commission today lifted its hunting ban in Des chutes National Forest and other Central Oregon lands. Hunters with unused deer tags will be permitted to take a deer of either sex through Oct. 21. Removal of the closure opened up all areas east of the Cascade summit for the either sex season, with the exception o.' Sherman county which will remain closed. Buck deer hunting season will continue through Oct. 21 in Jackson, Josephine, Douglas, Coos, and Curry counties and part of Klamath county. CARTER FAVORED New York Broadway odds makers today were quoting Jimmy Carter as an 8-5 favorite to recapture the lightweight title from champion Wallace (Bud) Smith at Cincinnati Wednesday night.. JUNIOR POSSE HORSE SHOW at Jackson County POSSE GROUNDS Sunday, Oct. 23 10 a.m Open to all riders of all ages. Hamburgers and pop will bo sold. RIBBONS GIVEN! Entries: Sat., Oct. 22 from 12 to 6 p.m.. Sun. from 7 to 9 a.m. All - 4-whee! Extra & 0 e 4-WHEQ DRIVE 505 North Central & ' f" FLOYD FLOORS ANOTHER light-heavyweight sensa tion from New York, Floyd Patterson, follows through after flooring Cal Brad for the first time in first round at Los Angeles. Floyd knocked him out cold in 2:58 of this round. The No. 1 light-heavyweight contender, Floyd was 1952 Olympic Games champion. iti,... MEDrXDjTRIBUK siPdDmTrs Phoenix, St. Mary's Eye Conference Grid Diadems Phoenix and St. Mary's high schools will strive to complete unbeaten conference slates this week end in the program of five prep football games in which Jackson county schools will participate. St. Mary's, Medford parochial academy, is host to Jacksonville in the lone Saturday night en gagement of the five. Friday games are Eagle Point at Phoen ix, Eureka, Calif., at Medford, Ashland versus Crater at Cent ral Point and Rogue River at Prospect. Phoenix has. trimmed both Crater and Illinois Valley in the Rogue League and would wrap up undisputed possession of the toga with a win over Eagle Point. The Pirates then would have only Glendale to overcome in their quest for District 6 A-2 southern sector laurels. Could Be 2 In Row The Crusaders of St. Mary's holds triumphs over Rogue River, Talent and Prospect and meet their fourth and last Jack son County B League opponent. A win over Jacksonville would give the Medford team its sec ond straight conference champ ionship. It will be homecoming for St. Mary's defending district victor. B league members Prospect and Rogue River have the only other conference action. Medford will attempt to halt its' losing string to Eureka at two straight 'and Crater, which has come close but never quite made it, will still be after its first win over Ashland. Medford lost 12 to 7. to Eureka in gooey mud at Areata, Calif., last year Purpose drive 'Jeep' stamina . . . on the highway or off . SrttMly. The 'Jeep Truck shirts easily from 2-wheel tfrive for normal highway travel into 4-wheei drive when the going gets tough. Better, faster... for many jobs Hatlfltg. The 'jeep' Truck carries payfoads op to 2800 pounds and pulls heavily loaded trailers, on the road or off. TRUCK Ask for STEVENS AUTO SALES, INC. "Your Friendly Willys Dealer" Tuesday, October 18, 1955 1 while the Comets and Grizzlies fought to a 7 to 7 tie. Outside the county Grants Pass and Klamath Falls, South ern Oregon Conference mem bers along with Medford and Ashland, play non-loop rivals. Klamath Fails entertains Reno, Nev., while Grants Pass goes to Roseburg. Football Briefs TOP SHAPE Corvallis,' Ore. !U.R) Coach Tommy Prothro said today he hoped his Oregon State Beavers will be in top physical .shape Saturday when they meet Wash ington State college in a home coming week end clash. Lineman Norm Thiel and Howard Buettgenbach sat out the College of Pacific game with injuries and three other players, including tailback Joe Francis, played on bad ankles. PLAYED WELL Eugene, Ore. (U.R) Coach Len Casanova, obviously pleased said today his University of Oregon Webfoots "all played well" in their 21-0 victory over California. - Casanova said he especially liked the performance of his sec ond ur.U backs who played ex tensively for the first- time this season in the Cal game. The Ducks, who face Arizona next Saturday, ran through a brief dummy session yesterday to smooth out the few rough spots which showed in. the Cali fornia game. Truck Now t TracbeiL With its 4-wheel drive, the 'Jeep Truck climbs 60 grades, goes through mud, sand, snow, or soft earth, where ordinary vehicles can't go. Pmriflf. With powes take-off, the 'Jeep' Truck supplies power for many types of industrial or farm equipment WILLYS... world's larpst nakets a demonstration today ... Marshfield Remains Top Prep Team Portland U.R) ' Marshfield high school, although idle last week, continued to dominate the Journal Coaches' poll as the state's number one high school football team today. The Golden Pirates picked up all eight first place votss. Gresham again was the unan imous choice for second place, but Pendleton was replaced as the third-running team by Jef ferson of Portland. Pendleton was fourth and Corvallis fifth. Eugene, number 8, was the only team new this week to the top 17. The Axemen replaced Cottage Grove, which earlier handed Eugene a defeat. The standings: Team Points 1. Marshfield .'. 80 2. Gresham 72 3. Jefferson .... ...... 52 4. Pendleton 50 5. Corvallis "... 47 6. South Salem 24 7. Central Catholic 24 8. Eugene 22 9. Hillsboro ..... .'. 17 10. Vale 16 Others: McMinnville 9; Prine ville 6; Cottage Grove 2; Albany, Medford and Washington 1 each. Fans Favor Overtime Portland (U.R)' By a four to one margin, fans have indi cated they prefer the overtime playoff experiment used in the professional football game here last August by the Los Angeles Rams and New York Giants, Promoter Harry Glickman said today. The experiment called for a "sudden death" overtime in event the game ended in a tie. As it turned out, the Rams and Giants were tied at 17-all and the Rams won 23-17 in the over time. - Glickman said, however, that most fans objected to the meth od of giving a team the ball which was used here bx flip ping a coin. Most fans, he said, either favored giving each team an equal amount of time or an equal number of downs while others suggested that the team in possession of the ball at the final gun either retain posses sion or be given option of re ceiving the ensuing kickoff. Offers Submitted For Old Golf Club Portland (U.R) Owners of the old Inverness Golf Club site in northeast Portland yesterday submitted two offers to Murray Kemp, president of the Multno mah Kenett club, which is con sidering the site for a new dog racing track. G. A. Sterns, partner in the firm which owns the land, said the entire 237-acre site had been offered for $355,000, or the first 50 acres north of Northeast Sandy boulevard had been of fered for $250,000. Negotiations on the sale were stalled earlier by confusion about the purchase price. Portland Beavers Buy Shortstop from Pueblo Portland (U.R) General Manager Joe Ziegler said today the Portland Beavers have pur chased Clarence Moore, 23-year-old shortstop from Pueblo of the Western League. Moore led the loop with 12 triples during the past season and was second in stolen bases with 17. He hit .320, driving in 80 runs. ' mailable with power brakes. ' af 4-wbeal inn vehicles Phone 3-3655 COWBOY BRADLEY Midget on GP Card Midgets Wrestle At Grants Pass Wednesday , Grants Pass Extra special attraction on the Wrestling card at the Grants Pass arena this Wednesday night will be four midget grapplers in an Austral ian tag team match. The rivals will be the Brown Panther, 92, and Cowboy Brad ley, 95, against Major Tom Thumb, 95, and Otto Bohman, 98. Main event will match Luigi Macera, 205, Montreal, against Johnny Demchuck, 200, Los Angeles. It will be for 45 min utes or two out of three fals. Semi-final will match Thor Hag en, 204, Minnesota, ' with Jim Hady, 200, Cleveland, O. It will go 30 minutes for two out of three pins. The midgets will be making their only appearance in Grants Pass this fall. They work fast and furiously and never fail to wow the crowd. There are 40 midgets wrestling in the United States. All are jealous of their reputations. They give each oth er, a beating and that is the secret of their success and pop ularity. , Macera got a technical de cision here against Bull Savage last week while Demcheck was holding Buck Weaver to a draw in the Josephine county fair grounds ring. Hagen and Hady are newcomers. Hagen has been making quite a name for himself In "Northern Oregon. Hady has a good reputation in the mid west. The fray will 'be a clash of scientific grapplers. Doors at the arena- open at 7:30 p.m. with the first bout at 8:30 p.m. Classic Ski Tourney To Be Revived in 1956 Bellingham, Wash. (U.R) The Far West Kandahar, a classic ski tournament which has not been held since 1947, will be revived at Mount Hood in 1956. The class A and B men's and women's giant slalom will be held March 31, 1956 at the Ore gon winter pports center. The announcement was made at the 25th annual convention of the Pacific Northwestern Ski association here Sunday.. Among officers elected yester day were Marion Whiting, Port land, treasurer; Maryanne Law. ton, Portland, secretary, and Don Peters, Lakeview, Ore., delegate at large. " MAIN AT CENTRAL w "S. MEDFORD, OREGON Michigan, Terps And Socners Cling To Three Top Positions New York (U.R) Michigan, Maryland and Oklahoma, which weathered the wave of weekend upsets, clung to the top three United Press college football ratings today, but a shakeup of the remaining places in the top 10 vaulted Navy into the No. 4 spot. Michigan State, Auburn and Southern California all ad vanced to the select group as the ratings underwent their biggest scrambling of the season thus far. Notre Dame, one of the fbur major powers upset, dropped six places to 10th. The 35 leading coaches who comprise the United Press rat ing board divided all their first place votes among the four top teams. Michigan received 18 two less than last week; Mary land had eight, Oklahoma six and Navy three. . Point Distribution Close However, the point distribu tion for the three top teams was comparatively close, Michigan attracting 315 points, Maryland 289 and the Sooners 286. Southern California, which de feated Wisconsin 33-21 - Friday night, jumped 10 notches to ninth place, regaining a place in the select group after drop ping out for Georgia Tech, vaulted nine places to the No. 8 ranking, while Michigan State, conqueror of Notre Dame, moved up five places to No. 6. Navy advanced from ninth to fourth place; UCLA moved up two places to fifth, and Duke three rankings to seventh. Here is how the teams lined up behind the first three: Navy, 218 points; UCLA, 170; Michi gan State 160; Duke, 139; Au burn, ' 71; Southern California, 68, and Notre Dame 50. Face jTough Going iach of this week's "Big Three" may be in for some tough going next Saturday. t-oach Bennie Oosterbaan's top ranked Wolverines face Minne sota, a traditional Big Ten rival: Maryland plays Syracuse, a win ner over Army last week; while Oklahoma meets 17th ranked Colorado, regarded its biggest tnreat for Big Seven subremacv. In other games that may pro duce changes in the ratings, Notre Dame plays 16th ranked Purdue and UCLA entertains 1th -ranked Iowa.- , -. ' West Virginia moved up to ON WAIVERS - Philadelphia (U.R) The Philadelphia Eagles today placed halfbacks Don .Tnhn enn and George Taliaferro, on the waiver list. Johnson joined the Eagles as a rookie in 1953, while Talia ferro, a six-year veteran in nro fessional football, was accmired as a free agent before the start ot the current season. HOLLINGBERRY QUITS Spokane (U.R) Orin E. Babe Hollingberry announced his plans last night to resign as pres ident of the Northwest Baseball League. Hollingberry said he will continue in the post until November.- He gave health and other personal considerations as his reasons for resigning. Jeri Wright Winners! 10 CORRECT So again we are awarding an "HONORARY SECOND PRIZE " to the group that picked 9 correct Hugh Coleman Sylvia Kramer . John Zeleznik ; head the second 10 group, fol lowed in order by Georgia Tech, Texas A&M, Texas Christian, Wisconsin and Purdue. Iowa and Colorado were tied for 17th, Baylor was 19th, and Southern Methodist and Washington tied OUTRE ACHING WISCONSIN defender . Pat Levenhagen (41), Chuck Leimbach (82) of Southern California tries to take pass as Jim Haluska waits to make tackle. USC upset Badgers 33-21 before 75,000 fans in Los Angeles.(lnterna,tiotud) Beavers Incurred $57,539 Loss In First 11 Months PortlandT-!U.R) The Portland Beaver . baseball team incurred an operating lo"ss of $57,539 dur ing the first 11- months of the club's fiscal year, stockholders were told last night at a meet ing herer ' ' '.' ''' The loss was blamed partly on ' inclement weather which washed out -15 home games, in cluding a possible $20,000 opening-day gate. Operating expenses also were high. Joe Ziegler, gen eral manager, said the front of fice still had "a long way to go" before assembling a top-flight club. MANAGER SIGNED Pasco (U.R) Don Pries has been signed to manage the Tri City Braves of the Northwest Baseball League for a second year, Fred Huber, president of the Tri-City Athletic association, announced yesterday.': 3 FOOTBALL INSTRUCTIONS: Check the team you pick to win. If you pick a tie game, check both teams. All slips must be at the store by 5:30 Friday evening. OCTOBER 21-22, 1955 UCCA vs. Iowa Arizona vs. Oregon California vs. So. California Michigan State vs. Illinois - Minnesota vs. Michigan Oklahoma vs. Colorado Penn vs. Navy Purdue vs. Notre Dame Texas vs. Rice - Washington vs. Stanford ' Wisconsin vs. Ohio State Medford vs. Eureka 'denotes Friday nite game. 1 st team is home team A NECKTIE GIVEN EACH WEEK TO . EVERYONE IN THE GROUP PICKING THE MOST WINNERS! There are eleven weeks of play. $50 in merchan-" dise for. the highest score for any ten weeks. $30 in trade for second place and-$20 for third. Prizes are to be split in case of ties. , Each week everyone in the group picking the most winners wins a $1 .50 necktie. ONLY ONE ENTRY PER PERSON. Nzme.., Address.... Television at Tonight "Lets Kick It 'With Tom MacLeod Dick and Jack for 20th. For the second straight week, only 22 teams received points. The last team ranked was Yale, the Ivy League leader, which had a single point. rxtU JBSEQSffll (Vodka in orange juice) Fet . It leaves you breathless tniwofif 80proof.MdefromlOOgninoeutrtlniliat Ste.PicncSmiiaoSFls.Inc.Hutfard.Coaa. , CONTEST Seven Around"
