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Marshfield, Vale in Magic Circle Br UNITED PRESS Marshfield, Medford, Vale and Tillamook moved into the magic circle in state high school football action last night leaving only three class A-l and A-2 titles undecided throughout Oregon Marshfield, the state's top ranked team in the coaches' poll, won its annual "civil war" tus sle with North Bend by a handy 32-0 count to nail down the district 5 crown. Medford came through in an other backyard battle to defeat 0 Grants Pass 14-7 for the district title. The only undecided playoff spot in the class A-l is in district 8. Albany downed Corvallis 19-7 and South Salem defeated North Salem 21-7 to throw the race into a three-way tie to be decided by a vote. Albany, Cor vallis and South Salem now have 5-1 district records. The big' battle in A-2 ranks last night was in eastern Ore gon where Vale and Ontario col lided. The two teams were un beaten going into the fray and Vale came out on top by the odd score of 9-8 to capture the district 7 A-2 title. Tillamook edged St. Helens 12-7 for the district 1 A-2 crown. Dallas Victor , Undecided playoff spots In A-2 competition are in district 2 where Newport, 13-0 winner over Siuslaw Friday night, and Reedsrjort. 50-0 victor over Taft, are tied. Coquille and Phoenix Hoop Drills Will Start For Tornado Varsity basketball practice will get underway Monday at Medford high school. Coach Frank Roelandt said that the first week of workouts likely will be limited to juniors and seniors wishing to try out for the team. Sophomore pros pects may be called out the fol lowing week. Five lettermen return from last season's crew which won second place honors in the state tournament. But, with such regu lars as Larry Copple, Frank Rec tor, Everett Kastner, Glenn Peterson and Jerry Kalapus graduated, Roelandt faces a con siderable rebuilding job. football Delay Of the lettermen only three re expected to report for the first drills, John Foust, Lloyd Cearley and Bob TisdeL Dick McLaughlin is still playing foot ball and Ed Reinking, who suf fered a broken ankle in grid practice, still has the ankle in a cast. Several other top cage pros pects are still with the football club and will not report to Roelandt for the hoop sport until the grid season is over. The mentor said that, despite the fact ihese players will be delayed in their maplecourt turnout, he hopes that the Black Tornado "goes all the way in footDall." He pointed out that success in the grid game builds up the school's athletic morale for the rest of the year. Roe landt's main aim is to be ready by January 6 for defense of the Southern Oregon Conference crown. HERE TODAY! 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Earlier, Jefferson and Wash ington of Portland, Gresham, McMinnville and Pendleton had nailed down A-l playoff berths and Prineville, Junction City, Dallas and Central had copped A-2 district titles. It was a night of traditional games throughtout the state. Be sides the title-counting games the fur flew elsewhere as Eu gene downed Springfield 20-7; Prineville took Bend 27-19; Mil waukie drubbed Oregon City 40-0; Astoria blanked Seaside 27-0; Pendleton remained un beaten by taking MacHi 41-7; Silverton took Mt. Angel 32-0: Klamath Falls edged Ashland 25-21 and Gresham kept its slate clean with a 18-6 win over Bea verton. Vancouver, Wash., outscored Central -Catholic of Portland 39-27 but little Alsea ran up the biggest count, clobbering Shedd 73-27 in a six-man game. Wildlife Service Reports Only 13 Whooping Cranes Washington The U.S Fish and Wildlife service, its fingers crossed, reported Satur day that only half of the last surviving flock of whooping cranes has arrived safely at its Texas wintering grounds. A spokesman said the majest ic whoopers usually reach the Arkansas Refuge on the Gulf Coast of Texas by late -October. But he- pointed out they are sometimes a little late. A final count will not be made until some time in December. The service's . latest count shows that 13 whoopers, includ ing four young, have arrived at the Texas refuge from their summer nesting grounds in the wilds of Canada. The whoopers, about five feet tall with a wing spread of sev en feet, were down to 21 adults when they came south last year and when they went north this spring. There are conflicting reports as to whether four, five or six additional young ones were sighted by the Canadian Wildlife service this fall. Notre Dame Rallies To Beat Perm 46-14 Philadelphia U.R) Notre Dame recovered from an early surprise from a fired-up Penn sylvania team Saturday to roll to a 46-14 televised victory over the Quakers before 44-226 fans at Franklin Field. Penn rocked the heavily fa vored Irish on their heels by springing loose Frank Riepl for a 108-yard touchdown run with the opening kickoff. At the half, Penn had Notre Dame at a 14-14 stalemate, but Irish ' power as serted itself in the second half. ' HEADS FIELD . Phoenix (U.R) Jimmy Bryan, 1954, AAA national champion, heads a field of 30 drivers en tered for today's 100-mile Bobby Ball memorial big car race at the Arizona State fairgrounds. The New 1956 i BUILT BY I PACKARD CRAFTSMEN COOKSEY MOTOR GO., Knox Leads UCLA To Win Over Pacific Stockton, Calif. (UP.) Con troversial Ronnie Knox Saturday engineered UCLA to a 34-0 victory over College of Pacific club. Knox scored one touchdown, passed for another and set up a third with a sensational 87 yard kick. Some 26,000 fans sat in warm, almost summer-like, weather as UCLA rolled up a 20-0 halftime lead and watched a hard-fighting COP team fall apart. Despite the 20V) halftime score, COP was in the ball game for the first 30 minutes. Both UCLA and COP had seven first downS in the first half, while COP had a net yardage of 96 to UCLA's 97. The bad breaks which upset the COP club came in the second quarter. The big one was a blooper by Referee Joe Zigna. Zigna lost the ball on the tricky ball-handling of COP Quarter back Junior Reynosa, and whistled the ball dead at the line of scrimmage while Reynosa was completing a 30-yard pass to the UCLA 36. One the next play, a much-ired COP team lost its running spark when ground eating Halfback Ken Swearingen went out of the game for the day with a leg injury. ' Services For Cy Young By HASKELL SHORT United Press Sports Writer ' Peoli, Ohio 1U.R) Denton (Cy) Young, regarded by many as the greatest baseball pitcher who ever lived, will be buried beside his wife Monday in a little church cemetery he was able to see from his nearby farmhouse window. Masonic services for Young, who died here at the age of 88 Friday, will be held at 7 p.m. (EST) Sunday while the Elks will also hold services for the baseball Hall of Fame one hour later. Regular funeral services are scheduled for Monday after noon in Newcomerstown, Ohio, and later at the Peoli Methodist Church. Young, who won 511 games and lost 315 while appearing in 906 major league games from 1890 through 1911, died sudden ly Friday while sitting in his favorite rocking chair. Death was attributed to a heart attack. Born in nearby Gilmore, Ohio, Young, whose nickname was a contraction of "Cyclone," spent most of his major league career with the Cleveland Nationals. He pitched for the St. Louis Cardinals in 1899 and 1900, then with the Boston Red Sox until 1908. He returned to Cleveland in 1909 and was traded to the Boston Braves during 1911, quitting at the end of that sea son to retire to his farm here. JAPANESE ENTHUSIASTIC . Honolulu, T. H. (UP.) Del Webb, co-owner of the New York Yankees claims that "Japan has the most enthusiastic baseball fans in the world." Webb, who accompanied the Yankees on their tour of Japan, says the tour was "one of the best things I have ever seen for cementing international relations." Dead line for Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday. MEDFOiUVSTTOBUNl Pro League Heads Toward Fourth Attendance Season By EARL WRIGHT United Press Sports Writer ' The National Football league, rolling toward its fourth straight record season attendance, began the second half of its 1955 cam paign last night with the Detroit Lions playing host to the Balti- Bobby Boyd Scores TKO Chicago '(U.R) A "sucker punch" in the first round elim inated George Johnson's ability to fight, and Bobby Boyd, a dyn amiting Chicago middleweight, took full advantage of the break to score an eighth round techni' cal knockout and boom into the top ten ratings of the 160 pounc ers. Boyd, the Illinois middle weight champion who scored his 36th win in 44 pro battles, of fered no apologies for his oppon ent. "He never hurt me," Boyd said, "even when he had me down in the sixth. I knew he hit me, and knew I was down. But I heard the first count and knew I had to get up. "So I did." Operation No Hindrance Johnson, son of a full - blood Seminole Indian, who weighed 157, was making his eighth start since an appendectomy opera tion "It never bothered me," he said. "It wasn't the operation. or no training. I don't know what it was." Boyd weighed 160Vi for his victory. Johnson, who was ruled off at 2:55 of the eighth, said he be lieved he could beat Boyd on another chance. "I wouldn't fight him the same way.. I'd be moving in on him all the time and he'd never get to me." It was Johnson's seventh loss in 39 outings and his second loss since his operation. GRIZZLIES WIN TBozeman, Mont. (U.R) The Montana Grizzlies defeated cross state rival Montana State 19-0 Saturday behind the effective passing arm of Sophomore Half back Norman Kampschror. The 180-pound back from Glendive, Mont., figured in every scoring play and threw two other end zone passes that didn't count. BEAR VS. CAR Strawberry Valley, Calif. (U.R). Mrs. Ray Tretzel was driving along a road in Plumas county when a bear, apparently frightened by a nearby blasting, ran blindly at full speed into the side of her car. The bear was momentarily stunned by the impact, but shook itself and ambled off into the woods. The side and door of the auto were wrecked. A bee can sting only once be cause it loses its stinger. How ever, you may get a repeat per formance from wasps, . hornets, and yellowjackets. Inc. more Colts and the Pittsburgh Steelers visiting the Chicago Cardinals. The other clubs play today. The San Francisco Forty-Niners (3-3) are IV2 point choices against the Rams (4-2) at L6s An geles; the Bears (3-3) are 10-point favorites to whip the Green Bay Packers (3-3) at. Chicago; the Browns (5-1) are favored over the New York Giants (2-4) by 10 points at Cleveland; and the Philadelphia Eagles (2-3-1) are seven-point choices against the Redskins (3-3) at Washington.. Charlie Trippi, the veteran back who suffered severe head injuries in an exhibition game with San Francisco, may make his first appearance of the sea son for the Cardinals. He has been fitted with a special pro tective mask. Pittsburgh is in pretty good physical condition . and has strengthened its kicking depart ment by signing little Tad Weed, place-picking specialist from Ohio State who sparked the Col lege All-Stars to their upset win over the Cleveland Browns last August. Rams Hit by Injuries The" Rams will be minus full back Dan Towler and end Bob Boyd but Skeet Quinlan, an of fensive back who has been out with a knee injury, may be ready to go against the Forty Niners. The champion Browns will play New York with safetyman Tommy James and rookie line backer Sam Palumbo on the sidelines. The' Giants are in good shape. Cleveland has the longest current winning streak in the league, capturing five straight since dropping its open er to Washington. The Bears also are hot. They dropped their first three games but defeated Baltimore, San Francisco and Los Angeles in their last three starts. The Pack ers defeated the Bears last month 24-3, but figure the Chi cago bruisers will be as tough as usual on their home field. - Philadelphia will be out to avenge a 31-30 loss to Washing ton last month. 117 S. CENTRAL v. Sunday, November 6, 1955 Frank Rector Top Prospect At Portland Portland Frank Rector, all state second team performer from Medford's high school basketball team last season, is a leading candidate among 15 freshman prospects who initiated basketball practice this week at the University of Portland. Rector, 5-foot 11-inch guard hopeful shows promise according to Al Negratti, new Portland coach. Because members of this sea son's 15-man squad have indi vidually compiled glittering prep records, Negratti hopes for the strongest first year team in Pilot history. However, the coach fre quently stated in pre-season talks that high school press clippings won't win games, so he's anxious to see the team operate under actual playing conditions. Other candidates from Ore gon towns with the Pilot frosh are: Elmen Bloedel of Milwau kie, Larry Walsh of Eugene and Johnnie Westermann of McMinn ville. Portland city students turning out are: Dick Jolley and Harvey Jenes. Out-of-staters at the Portland campus are Jim Armstrong, Abe Brooker and Wally Panel, Chi cago; Art Bull, Vancouver, B. C; Jerry Hummell, Billings, Mont.; and Frank Weber, Jersey City, N.J. Post Season Game Is Called Off At Bend La Grande U.R) Plans for a t post-season benefit football game at Bend between Willam ette and Eastern Oregon College have been called ofi, it was an nounced Saturday by Frank Bennett, president of EOCE. The game ' was called off by mutual agreement between the two schools. It was found that NCAA regulations prevented such a contest. Willamette is an NCAA member. Bennett said it is hoped "that such a game may be possible next year earlier in the sea- UTAH STATE VICTOR Provo, Utah (U.R) Utah State, refusing to yield to a fired up Brigham Young eleven,' par layed a staunch defense with a versatile scoring punch to hand the undermanned Cougars a 47 21 Homecoming loss yesterday before 12,000 fans in BYU stadium. 2.98 RAYON SHIRTS. Skill fully woven, washable viscose rayon challis. Novel print be decking cool pastel background, MEN'S 98e UNDERWEAR. Combed cotton T-Shirts. S-M-L Sanforized broadcloth Shorts in boxer, yoke styles. 30-44. ' MEN'S 69e ARGYIES knit of soft-spun combed cotton. Vivid 4-diamond patterns look hand framed. Heather tones; 10-13. THOM MeAN'S In the popular plateau style. Just one of many "7 Q that is so right for dress or busi- ness wear. Brown. Sizes 6-12. MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN McLoughlin Ninth Beats Hornet Club McLoughlin ran away from a tiring Hedrick football team in the fourth quarter to pile up a 34 to 0 victory Friday as ninth graders of Medford's two junior high schools wound up their seasons. The Bulldogs found it tougher going against the outmanned Hedrick eleven for most of three quarters. Halftime score was 8 to 0 and after three periods the margin was 15 to 0. McLoughlin turned breaks into three of its touchdowns. The others came on a long run and drives. Gerry Lyons ran 30 yards for the opening score after a drive had moved the ball from mid field. The Bulldogs worked down to the Hedrick three yard line at the end of the third quarter. They were penalized back to the eight and lost the ball on a fumble on the 12 at the start of the second period. But the Hornets fumbled, too, and Lyons recovery gave McLoughlin the ball again on the eight. Hedrick stopped McLoughlin on downs on the one but two plays later the Hornets Bill Maurer was caught in the end zone for a safety. Lyons Goes 11 Hedrick lost the ball on downs on its own 29 in the third quar ter. In four plays Lyons crossed the final line from 11 yards out. Mike Murray booted the con Pre-Thagiksgiving TURKEY SHOOTS NOV. 13 & 20 Medford Gun Club Crater Lake Hiway at 4 Corners TURKEYS - HAMS - BACON, Etc. Visitors Urged To Attend TRAPS OPEN 9 A.M. LUNCH SERVED ON THE GROUNDS I Buy Brent for Style ... . Value! NEW DIME-ROUND SPREAD COLLAR MANY PASTELS MEN'S REG.. 2.98 DRESS SHIRTS fine combed broadcloth with the new dime round spread col lar. Choose from pink, blue, mint, or white. 3 days only! 2.67 84 54 version. In the fourth quarter Lyons intercepted a Maurer pass and ran the ball back about 23 yards to the Hedrick three. Fred Funs ton cracked over from there to make the score 21 to 0. 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