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o o O TWELVS MZDTOHD (OREGOW) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, November 11, 1955 Prep Football Elevens Vie in Quarter-Finals By UNITED PRESS This is the time Oregon's high school football teams from powerful Marshfield down to tiny Glide have been waiting for. The annual playoffs which will lead to state championships itart today. Four titles will be decided during action in the next couple of weeks. They are A-l, A-2, class B and six-man. The de fending champions are Marsh field and South Salem co champs in A-l, Vale in A-2, Mon loe and Union co-champs in class B and Glide in six-man. South Salem is the only team not back for a crack at its title in the playoffs. Tha Corvallis -Spartans took the district 5 play off berth in a close vote over Albany. The big unbeaten A-l powers are Marshfield, Gresham, Pendleton and Jefferson of Port land. Afternoon Gam Class A-l competition got un derway this afternoon with Washington of Portland at Pen dleton. Tonight Marshfield plays host to Medford. McMinnville travels to Gresham and Jefferson entertains Corvallis. The four unbeaten teams are favorites to win. Class A-2 schools will play three games this weekend since Dallas already has entered the semi-final3. Top contest here is the Vale-Prineville game tonight at Vale from which will emerge the favorite for the state crown. Junction City and Coquille meet tonight in Eugene, while New port travels to Tillamook for a Saturday night game. Class B has two games Friday and two Saturday. Powers met Monroe this afternoon and Ne- halem plays Siletz at Rockaway tonight. Tomorrow Moro goes to Malin and Union to Echo. Four teams are left in six-man play. Glide and Alsea play to morrow afternoon at Corvallis while Richland goes to Culver for another Saturday afternoon contest. Teams to beat Marshfield, Vale, Monroe and Glide. Costa Fights Joey Lopes New York (U.R) Chunky, baby-faced Carmelo Costa of Brooklyn may clinch a feather weight title shot tonight if he wins Impressively over light weight contender Joey Lopes of Sacramento, Calif., in their re turn TV-radio 10-rounder at Madison Square Garden. Costa, fourth-ranking feather contender, won a unanimous de cision over Lopes, eight-rated lightweight aspirant, at the Gar den on March 18. But each scaled only 130 pounds, which was the contracted maximum for that bout. However, the contracted maxi mum for tonight's scrap is 136 pounds. Lopes, a full-fledged light weight, claims he was weakened by paring down to 130 in March and that he will have more stamina and more kick in his punches tonight. Not until this new weight pro vision was made did Lopes agree to come in as a substitute to night against Costa, who originally was slated to fight Flash Elorde of the Philippines. Elorde was unable to get into "sharp" condition in time for to night's bout. MIBL Elects Phillips as President Dick Phillips, of Company A, Medford National Guard unit, was elected president of the Medford Independent Basket ball league at a meeting last night. A former league president, he succeeds Bill Singler. 5 Don Mintz, treasurer last year, was elected new secretary. Tom Rodgers is the new treas urer. Eight teams were represent ed at the session at the YMCA and majority votes set a S50 fee for participation in the MIBL and a 15-player limit for each team. Discussion concerned a possi ble jamboree and the state AAU set up for the year. The MIBL has participated in AAU district playoffs in past seasons. It was reported that the whole state set-up may be altered this year. Various leagues are being que ried concerning the proposals. Regional Tourneys i One state proposal would es tablish . regional tournaments with fewer teams to enter, the final tourney. The plan would have the playoffs on week ends to avert the work conflict that plagues players of many teams. Chere is talk also of breaking away from the AAU and setting up a state amateur association with its own rules. The state champ could play in national championships if its team in the national tourney conformed to AAU regulations. Possibilities afforded by the new National Basketball con gress were also mentioned to the MIBL group last night. Teams represented were Com pany A and Headquarters com pany of the National Guard, Butte Falls, Phoenix, Prospect, YMCA Moose lodge, Hawkinson Tireand Tread. Eagle Point and Chris Drugs of Jacksonville were mentioned as possible loop participants. Use Tribune Want Ads Low in Cost1. Medfoi .Tribune Minor Loops Forecasting Better Year By CARL LUNDQUIST New York U.R) Less than half of the teams in the big minor leagues made money in 1955, but with characteristic op timism, virtually all are predict ing things will be better next year. The optimism is not unfound ed, either. Because of long range planning which has in volved franchise shifting, more lively promotion, and in some cases shifting to. new parks, the minors in 1956 could enjoy their best season since the lush post war years. In the Pacific Coast League, Seattle, Hollywood, Los Angeles and San Diego operated in the black in 1955, while Portland, San Francisco, Sacramento and Oakland lost money. The Oak land situation was so serious it necessitated transfer of the fran chise to Vancouver, B. C. The American Association had its best year attendance-wise since late in the '40's but para doxically only two clubs, Den ver and Omaha, made, money. They were new entries which drew big at the gate to offset ! apathy elsewhere. Irr the International, dean of the big minors, Rochester, Co lumbus, O., Toronto and Havana had successful years but the sit uation was bleak at Montreal, Richmond, Va., Buffalo and Sy racuse. When the minor leagues hold their annual meetings late this month in Columbus, O., some clubs may undertake complete reorganization under new own ership, others will seek civic support and still others will at tempt to strengthen with new major league affiliations. o Lhe situation by league in cludes: Pacific Coast Most prosper ous franchise is Seattle where the standing gag is that the club is healthy because the owner is "sick" Emil Sick, a prosper ous brewery owner and an ag gressive promoter. Club makes money even when it finishes in second division and last year with a pennant it drew 342,101 fans, tops in the league. Los Angeles attendance and profits from own concessions plus percentage of admissions from nearby Hollywood under territorial rights rules. Holly wood, a contender as top affil iate of Pittsburgh Pirates, has broken even or made money in recent years despite small 11,-000-seat park and indemnity pay ments to Los Angeles. San Diego operated "complete ly in the black" and expects to s do Tjetter next year under new ownership by a tuna cannery and home run hero Ralph Kiner as new general manager. S.F. Dark Spot San Francisco is the dark spot with $200,000 in debts and with officials seeking new support, possibly from the Milwaukee j Braves. Portland lost S57.000 but General Manager Joe Zieg- j ler attributed it to bad weather. ! He thinks shift of team from ancient Vaughn Street park to O modern Multnomah Stadium in 1956 will help. Sacramento lost STS.ODO but made up most of it on the sale of two players to the Cubs and General Manager Charles Gra ham thinks the gate of 166,672 wasn't bad for a last place club. Vancouver has enthusiasm for its new franchise which Brick Laws brought up from Oakland, and there is optimism for 1956 despite tiny 6,600-seat Capilano Stadium. If the plebiscite ending ban on Sunday sports passes on Dec. 14, it wjll be a big boost. SWIVEL HIPS Los Angeles Rams fullback Paul (Tank) Younger (35) swivel hips around left end for 19 yards be fore being stopped by Dicky Moegle (behind 80) of the 49ers at the Colliseum in Los Angeles. Ram end Tom Fears (80) attempts to block Moegle. The Rams won, 27-14. Red Raiders Aim for Loop Tie in Saturday Contest Against GCE at Ashland Ashland Al Akins' South ern Oregon college footballers have been working hard this week in preparation for their most important game of the sea son, to be played against Ore gon College of Education Sat urday night on the SOC field. The Red Raiders must defeat the Wolves this week end to gain a tie for the Oregon Colleg iate conference championship. A victory over the defending champions from Monmouth will put Southern Oregon college in a three-way tie for the OCC crown, along with the Wolves and Eastern Oregon college. In previous games this season, EOCE downed the Red Raiders 21-20, and OCE beat Eastern Oregon 20-19. If SOC should de feat Oregon college, each of the three teams will have three wins against one loss." Building Season If the Raiders should lose the contest, they will sink into third place in the conference, and end up with a season record of three wins and six losses. A win will put the record at four wins, five losses, and a -fair average for a building season.' Adding incentive for the SOC team will be the return of old grads for Homecoming. The cel ebration of which the SOC-OCE contest will be the hiehlisht. The alumni may expect to see a wide-open contest, as the Raid ers will be going all - out to scalp the Wolves for the first time in three years. Other OCC teams meet non- confernce foes. Eastern Oregon tangles with Carroll college of Montana at La Grande. Port land State plays host to the Seat tle Ramblers and Oregon Tech travels to Longview to meet Lower Columbia JC. Art Ramponi Awarded Decision Over Hall Eureka, Calif. 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