Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, November 08, 1955, Image 12

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Newspaper Page TextTWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) Saoners Move Into Top in OP Poll; Michigan Is New York 'UP) Oklahoma's slick Sooners, with a string of 26 victories and an almost cer tain berth in the Orange Bowl, replaced Michigan today as the No. 1 team in the United Press college football ratings. For the fourth week in a row." voting was close for the top three places as Michigan State moving up behind runnerup Maryland to comprise the new member of the nation's "big three." Michigan, upset by Illi nois, dropped all the way to sixth place after leading the rat ings for four straight weeks. The leading coaches who make wp the United Press rating board were sharply divided this week in the voting for the top team. Oklahoma received 12 first-place ballots, Maryland 11 and Michigan State eight. The only other team to attract first place votes was four-ranked UCLA with four. In the matter of points distri buted on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis for votes from first to 10th places. Oklahoma compiled 305, Maryland 295 and Michigan State 230. What usually comprises the United Press "top 10" became a "top 11" this week as Ohio State and West Virginia tied for the No. 10 ranking. In addition to Ohio State, this week's other newcomer in the top 10 was Texas A&M, which jumped three spots to the No. 9 rating. The teams which filled the fifth to eighth rankings in order following UCLA were Notre Dame. Michigan, Texas Chris tian and Georgia Tech. UCLA at tracted 259 points; Notre Dame 223; Michigan 117; TCU 80; Georgia Tech 74, Texas A&M 68, and Ohio State and West Vir ginia 60 each. Texas A & M's jump from 12th to ninth represented the biggest advance among this week's top 10 teams. Michigan State and Texas Christian each moved up two places, while Oklahoma, Maryland, Notre Dame, and Ohio State each advanced one spot from last week. West Vir ginia, which struggled to a 13-7 Tabu Keglers Rack Up Win At Klamath Medford bowlers won only one of four matches played Sun day at Klamath Falls. Tabu Dinner house men's won a three games and total score from Pelican Motors of Klam ath in its second try after win ning only one game of the initial series. Winema Elevators of Klamath took two games and total score from Medford Bowling lanes team and Winema hotel had the same success in a women's match with Union club of Medford. Frank Driscoll paced Tabu in its winning series with a 224 game and 604 total pin count. C. Booth had 537 for Pelican Motors. Team pin count was 2663 to 2491. B. Cox had a 230 game and 614 series as Pelican rapped JTabu 2716 to 2648 in the first match. Fred Anderson had 213 and 212 games and 604 series for Tabu. Other members of the Med , ford team were George Spaun- horst, Hugh Shaw and Ray Wise. Winema Elevators won 2609 to 2557s with Walt Schweigert tabulating' 553. Frank Chapman had high game for Medford with 212 and Les Schneider had top series with 559. Also on the Med ford crew were Ted Jant, ' Don Harmon and Bob Dyer. Hotel won 2532 to 2258 over Union club. Mary Bothwell had 212 and 210 games and a 566 series for Klamath Falls and Elsie Baker 202 and 492 scores for Medford. Others on the Union club quint were Vera Cummings, Vivian Knox, Dell Christianson and Mable Clark, Corvallis Gets Berth Salem (U.R) Coaches of dis trict 8 Monday picked Corvallis to enter the state high school football playoffs. Two ballots were taken. In the first, Albany tied with Cor vallis but the Benton county school won on the second ballot. Corvallis, Albany and South Salem had tied for the district crown. Corvallis will play Jefferson of Portland Nov. 12. Red Sox, Senators In Nine Player Trade Boston (U.R) The Boston Red Sox today acquired first baseman Mickey Vernon, pitch er Bob Porterfield and two oth er players in a big nine-man trade with the Washington Sen ators. The9 Red Sox alsoj acquired l-:fty pitcher Johnny Schmitz and outfielder Tommy Umphlett a former Red Sox player in exchange for pitchers Dick Bro-c.T-ski, Truman Clevelanger c.'.d Al Curtis and outfielders Karl Olson and Neil Chrisley. MAIL TRIBUNE victory over weak George Wash- ... .1 ington Friday night to remain undefeated and untied, dropped two places, while Georgia Tech, held to a 7-7 tie by Tennessee, fell one. Three Garnet Left Oklahoma, which sweeps aside its outclassed opponents with ease, has only Iowa State, Ne braska, and Oklahoma A & M left on its schedule. Maryland has games remaining against Clemson and George Washing ton. Both these top teams have won the national championship MEDFORD RATED NINTH PREP COACHES POOL Portland U.R) Marshfield high school remained the state's number-one ranked prep football power today in The Journal coaches' poll, again picking up all eight first place ballots. Following Marshfield were Gresham, Pendleton, Jefferson of Portland. McMinnville, Al bany, Corvallis, Vale, Medford and Eugene. Vale is the only class A-2 team in the top 10. Hillsboro and Cen tral Catholic dropped off the top 10. All the teams except one who will compete in the state A-l Chuck Taylor Rates Oregon As 'Greatest Test So Far' By SCOTT BAILLE United Press Sports Writer San Francisco (U.P.) Stan ford may have stunned South ern California with a 28-20 up set last Saturday but Indian Coach Chuck Taylor rates the forthcoming game with Oregon as "our greatest test so far." The red-headed mentor fig ures that this one will indicate whether the Indians might be caught dreaming over the vic tory in Los Angeles. "I don't know what the USC win will do to our kids," Taylor told the Northern California Football Writers Association yesterday at DiMaggio's Restau rant. "We're concerned about the Oregon game and that fast back- Giovanelli Beats Perez New York U.R) Welter weight Danny "Giovanelli of Brooklyn, fresh from his second TV victory in eight days, said today he would be ready to fight lOth-ranking Chico Vejar at St. Nicholas arena on Nov. 21 "if Chico will take the match." Lanky Giovanelli substituted for Vejar Monday night at St. Nick's and again beat Danny Jo Perez of New York. This time it was by a unanimous 10-round decision over Danny Jo, whom he had stopped in the sixth round on March 2, 1953. Vejar Slated Vejar, of Stamford. Conn., had been slated to fight Perez Mon day night but he suffered a split lip in training. Promoter Tex Sullivan was trying today to match Chico and Giovanelli for the 21st. Giovanelli had but a week's rest since he outpointed Paolo Melis of Montreal at St. Nick's on Oct. 31. Giovanelli threatened to du plicate his 1953 technical kayo over Perez Monday night. In the early rounds he inflicted four cuts about Danny Jo s left eye Thev bled persistently, but Dr Alexander S c h i f f examined them twice and permitted the bout to continue. Giovanelli, scaling loOVz pounds to Perez 151. was favor ed at 9-5. He won the lively bout with long left jabs and straight rights against his speedier op ponent. The vote was 7-3, 7-3 6-3-1. The United Press agreed 6-4. You'll Always Find Reliability Uniformity Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE Tru-Mix Concrete Co. FAST. PROMPT DELIVERY McAndrews Ro?d Phone 2-5271 Tuesday, November 8, 1955 Spot 6th before, Maryland in 1953 and it. -l n r if it Oklahoma in 19o0. If they re main undefeated and finish the regular season in the 1-2 spots, the Terrapins and Sooners un doubtedly will stage a showdown in the Orange Bowl. Navy, held to a 7-7 tie by Duke, dropped out of the top 10 into the No. 11 ranking. For the third week in a row, not enough teams received votes to comprise a "second 10." Following Navy came Auburn, Mississippi, Illi nois, Stanford and Duke, with Mississippi State and Yale tied for 18th place. playoffs were in the top 10. Left off was Washington of Portland. The standings: Team Points 1. Marshfield 80 2. Gresham 68 3. Pendleton 61 4. Jefferson 58 5. McMinnville 39 6. Albany 38 7. Corvallis 24 8. Vale tie 24 9. Medford 19 10. Eugene 10 Others: Prineville and South Salem 6 each; Washington and Cottage Grove 3 each; Milwau kie 1. field trio of Jim Shanley, Dick James and Jack Morris." Taylor said that we got a lot of good breaks against Southern Cal which always help." Defense Praised Lynn Waldorf of California praised the defensive work of tackle Ron Wheatcroft and guard Nick Poppin during Sat urday's 20-6 beating of Wash ington. ' Kaiph Hoffman also did a good job at quaterback, using a great choice of plays and com pleting passes at critical mo ments," Pappy continued. "Don- nie Smith and Nat Brazill, our 140-pounders, also were spark plugs at the halfback spots. They earned jobs there and are real, all-around -players." Waldorf said that Oregon State, whom the Bears face at Berkeley Saturday, are a "good well-knit team." Bob Bronzan of San Jose State warned that Washington State will be pointing for its second win of the year when it hosts the Spartans at Pullman "I don't know what we should expect in the way of weather up there, either," Bronzan said. Tremendous Game Jack Myers of College of Pa cific said that his line played a tremendous game" against powerful UCLA. "Neven Hulsey Gene Cronin and John Nisby can go against anybody and all probably will become pros Myers said. Myers dismissed claims voiced in a Los Angeles newspaper that his team engaged in unnecessary roughness against UCLA with the assertion, "Maybe some peo ple disagree with what I call hard football." Football Game To Last Minute, 49 Seconds Middleton, Wis. (U.PJ Middieton High school meets Fort Atkinson High school to day in a football game that will last one minute and 49 seconds. A night game between the two schools was called with less than two minutes to play when a pow er failure plunged the field into darkness on Oct. 28. Fort Atkin son takes over on the Middleton six-yard line, trailing, 13-7. US WINS, 6-4 Stockholm, Sweden (U.R) A United States amateur boxing team defeated a Swedish-Finnish squad Monday night, 6-4, for its first victory on a European tour. Football Briefs Moscow. Ida. U.P.) The in jury-plagued Idaho Vandals ran through another long workout today but avoided any contact work as they prepared for the Brigham Young game Friday at Provo, Utah. Halfback Mel Schmidt and quarterback Howard Willis were still sidelined with injuries and were doubtful starters for the BYU game. OFFENSIVE DRILLS Pullman, Wash. (U.R) Washington's battered Hus kies concentrated on offense maneuvers today in the hope Ihey can get their attack go ing when they meet the pow erful UCLA Bruins Saturday, The team went through light workouts yesterday, but Coach Johnny Cherberg prom ised his gridders hard work during the rest of the week. GOOD PHYSICALLY Corvallis, Ore. U.P.) The Oregon State football squad came out of the Idaho contest in the best physical condition in weeks, but tailback Joe Francis was still on the "maybe" list for the Beavers' tilt against Califor nia Saturday. Tackle John Witte, who suf fered a hip injury in the Wash ington game, was still sore, but trainer Bill Robertson said he should be ready for the Cal game. SHARPEN PASSING Eugene, Ore. (U.P.) The Oregon Ducks worked today to sharpen their passing attack after hearing a scouting report on the Stanford squad. The Webfoots, who meet the Indians at Stanford Saturday have won their last four games and Coach Len Casa nova said the team "played about its best defensive game of the season" in shellacking Washington State 35-0. READY FOR OS Berkeley. Calif . '(U.P.) Can- tain John Carmichael and quar terback Ralph Hoffman were expected to be ready for the Oregon State contest Saturday despite shoulder injuries ' that kept them benched durine rjrae- tice today. The Bears ran through a rug ged session of Dunt nrotection yesterday to counteract Oregon btate s eifective punt blocking and punt returning. GREAT TEST Stanford, Calif -tU.P.) The Stanford Indians ran through a long workout today for Sat urday's game against the Uni versity of Oregon, which Coach Chuck Taylor describes as "our greatest test so far." The team watched movies of Saturday's upset victory over Southern California and heard a scouting report on Oregon after a light workout yester day. No major injuries were reported on the squad. WILL PLAY HARD Los Angeles U.R) Coach Henry (Red) Sanders said today his fourth-ranked UCLA Bruins will "play as hard as we can'' against the Washington Huskies, four-touchdown underdogs for their Pacific Coast conference game here Saturday. The Bruin reserves scrim maged yesterday while players who started or saw much action against College of Pacific went through a one-hour passing drill. Team doctors said it was doubt ful that fullback Bob Davenport would be able to play Saturday because of his injured knee. DAY OFF Los Angeles (U.R) The Southern California varsity, which does not have a game scheduled this week end, yes terday was given the day off from practice by Coach Jess Hill. The SC Spartan ineligibles. drilled on UCLA plays io work against the varsity in drills later this week. HARKEY TO 49ers San Francisco (U.R) Halfback Lem Harkey, released earlier this season by the Pittsburgh Steelers, today was signed by the San Francisco Forty-Niners as a replacement for injured John Henry Johnson. - swimming your pool can be completed within one week's notice! At this time the best of skilled labor is available, back ed by 20 years of pool experience. We are now be ginning another group of pools for spring completion. Our pools are equal to the finest in the nation at a lower cost to you! NORTHWEST SWIMMING POOL COMPANY O Phone 3-4340 Oklahoma Given Go Ahead To Arrange Orange Bowl Plans By UNITED PRESS The streak-riding Oklahoma Sooners are "in" as far as the Orange Bowl is concerned, but it looks like the Texas Aggies may be "out" of the Cotton Bowl. Reaves Peters, commissioner of the Big Seven conference, con firmed Monday he has told Okla homa to "go ahead and make plans to compete in the Orange Bowl" as the Big Seven repre sentative. Maryland, current Flink Victor In Handicap Golf Tourney Lee Flink, last man to enter the fall golf handicap at Rogue Valley Country club, was crown ed champion in the tournament Sunday. , No. 48 on the entry list, Flink didn't play the first of his three rounds in the 54-hole tour nev until last Thursday. He made the other 18-hole laps on Friday and Sunday and collect ed net scores of 69, 70 and 69 for a 208 total. Playing with an 11-stroke per round handicap, Flink had gross counts of 80, 81 and 80. The champ led the field by three strokes. Dick Travis, a darkhorse, with 211 was second. Leader in midweek last week was Ivan Harrington with 215. Frank Allen and Bob 'Johnson were rated a good chance to beat him out for the toga. They did beat him but took third and fourth, respectively, while Har rington was fifth. Allen, who had a 139 for two rounds, car ded a net 73 the third time for a 212 figure. Johnson, with 138 for two tries, had a 75 on his last round for 213. Travis had 143 after 36 holes and got a net 68 on the final 18. Larry Butler and Ward Sam uelson trailed Harrington with 215 scores. Southern Oregon To Meet OCE In Homecoming Sat. Monmouth The Oregon College of Education Wolves wind up their 1955 football cam paign Saturday, Nov. 12, when they meet Southern Oregon Red Raiders in an Oregon collegiate conference game at Ashland. The 2 p.m. contest will be part of the SOCE's Homecoming festiv ities. The championship of the OCC hinges on the outcome of the game for both teams. OCE is unbeaten in conference play and SOCE has lost one, as has East ern Oregon. If the Red Raiders win, the conference title would be shared by OCE, EOCE and SOCE, all with 3-1 won-loss rec ords. A win for the Wolves would give OCE the championship. Coach John Chamberlain's grid ders shared the title with OTI last year and won it four prev ious years. HARTACK LEADING Laurel, Md.(U.R Willie Har tack has ridden 10 winners dur ing the last two racing days at Laurel and now has 372 to his credit this year. Willie Shoe maker, the defending national champion who resumed riding Monday at Laurel, has 293. . THIRD WIN McMinnville (U.R) Linfield's junior varsity football team blanked Willamette's JVs 14-0 yesterday for its third victory in four starts. IN OLYMPICS ' Cortino d'Ampezzo, Italy (U.R) The United States will compete in all but two events in next year's winter Olympics, it was announced today. Pools Now is The Time to install the gunite structure of your pool, giving you plenty of time to re-plant the sur- I? rounamg area, men nexr spring 712 South Grape St. Evenings 2-9967 leader of the Atlantic Coast Con ference, looms as the Sooners probable rival in a meeting of teams now ranked No. 1 and 2 nationally. Oklahoma became the first team in the nation to land a major bowl berth when it wal loped Missouri Saturday, 20-0. Here's why the Sooners have clinched: The only team that can beat them out for the Big Seven crown is Nebraska, and the Huskers are barred from the Orange Bowl because they played in it last year. The only other team that can at least tie Oklahoma is Colorado, and the Sooners beat them earlier this year which eliminates them. Hopes To Meet Maryland George L. Cross, president of Oklahoma, said he hopes Mary land will be the Sooners' bowl rival because "naturally we would want to play the highest ranked team possible." But the situation was far from sunny for the Texas Aggies, who are leading the Southwest Conference race that normally leads to the role of host team in the Cotton Bowl at Dallas, Tex. The Aggies currently are under a two-year conference probation period that banned post-season competition. In Bryan, Tex., Paschal Price, sports editor of the Bryan Daily Eagle, questioned whether this ban was "legal" under confer ence by-laws. Price quoted a section- of the by-laws which reads "the conference football cham pion shall play in the Cotton Bowl game, and permission of the conference is not necessary." Section Never Amended Price claimed that, since this section never was amended on May 14 when the conference put the Aggies under probation, that the conference has no "legal" power to keep the Aggies out of the bowl. But Edwin D. Mouzon of Southern Methodist, president of the Southwest Conference, took sharp issue . with Price and in sisted that "the action barring the Aggies superseded anything previously in the by-laws. He said that it was his idea which has not yet been approved by the conference that, should the Aggies win the title, the runner-up team would get the bowl bid. If there is a tie for second, the team which defeated the other would get it. If the Aggies should tie for the title, the other co-champion would get it. Officials of the Cotton Bowl game, other than league offic ials, had nothing to say about the dispute. Fight Results New York (St. Nicks) (U.P.1 Danny' Oiovaneli, 150 Vs. of Brooklyn, outpointed Danny Jo Perez, 151, New York, (10). Providence, R. I. (U.P.) Charlie Slaughter. 134 Newark. N.J., out pointed George Collins, 137 '; New York, (10). New Orleans (U.P.) Kenny Lane, 138 Vi. 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Grants Pass tallied its touch down in the third period after recovering a fumble on Med ford's 10-yard line On fourth down, Grants Pass scored on a pass play, but the kick for the extra point was no good. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads ELMER DONAHOO 53 Rose Street LAST'S WEEK'S ONLY WINNER TONIGHT LISTEN TO TOM MacLEOD On Our "LET'S KICK IT AROUND" Over Television at 9:30 annHiiiiiinra" New York City. Blended Whiskey. 86.8 Maderos Out of 49ers Lineup On 3-Game East Trip San Francisco U.R) The San Francisco Forty Niners will have to make their" three-game tour of the east without the ser vices of rookie left-linebacker George Maderos, who injured a leg against the Los Angeles Rams Sunday. It was not known whether the sensational former Chico State college star would be in condi tion for the Forty Niners' final two games at Kezar stadium. Maderos was injured on a play that proved very costly to the San Francisco professional team. He was hurt while throw ing a block for John Henry John son, who had just intercepted a pass. On the same play Johnson, a workhorse on both, offense and defense, suffered a shoulder sep aration and will be out of action for the rest of the season. ; MAIN AT CENTRAL Seagram's Proof. 65 Grain Neutral Spirits.