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Ezzard Plans Future Bouts Despite Loss Providence, R. I. (U.R) Former heavyweight champion Ezzard Charles, still cocky de spite a split decision loss, said today he planned to keep on fighting. Charles, seeking another crack at the heavyweight title, lost Monday night to Toxie Hall of Chicago who once put down champ Rocky Marciano during a sparring drill. "That bout didn't mean a thing," Charles said. "It could have gone either way." Tom Tannas, manager of the Cincinnati fighter, was confi dent that Charles could weather the loss. Although the decision went against the ex-champ, he looked like a winner in the dressing room after the bout. Hall left the ring with one eye closed but Charles climbed through the ropes without a scratch. Hall forced the fight in the early rounds and rallied again in the late moments of the 10- rounder at Rhode Island Audi torium to get the decision. There were no knockdowns. Hall rushed Charles from the opening bell, surprising the Cin cinnati battler with a savage at tack. The former champion looked slow in his attempts to block a rain of lefts and rights. Charles was staggered several times by Hall's looping overhand right hand punches. Charles came back in the fourth and fifth rounds but lacked the steam, to carry the fight through the closing periods. IPODIKTrS Portland, Coos Bay Prep Play-Off Sites HAS FOUR WINNERS Pawtucket, R.I. (U.R) Bobby Ussery, the leading rider on the New England circuit, piloted four winners Monday at Narra gansett Park, including both ends of a $30 daily double.. Cleveland, O. '.U.R) Defen sive halfback John Petitbon of the Cleveland Browns today was nursing a cracked rib and a slight shoulder separation. He suffered both injuries in Sun Say's loss to the Philadelphia Eagles. Oak Knoll Club Schedules Annual Dinner Thursday Ashland Oak Knoll Men's Golf club will climax an inter esting season on Thursday, Nov. 17, with its annual banquet at which awards will be presented. The event is set for 7 p.m. at Ashland Elks club. Club menv bers and guests planning to at tend have been asked to contact Charles Sullivan at the Oak Knoll links by this evening to make reservations. Persons un able to make reservations may order individually upon arrival. Latest player to be congratu lated as a champion at Oak Knoll was Bill Keenan. He won the fall handicap from Homer Sulli van in a 23-hole thriller. This was Keenan's first year of golf He showed exceptional improve ment through the summer and is expected to be a contender for further honors in the coming year. Three Tourneys Trophies will be presented for men's club championship and fall handicap tournaments and the women's fall handicap. For the club championship awards will go to Bob Rametes, champion; Bill Tallis, medalist and runner-up; Bill Pntchard, first flight winner; Bill Cannell, first flight runner-up; Bob Weav er, second flight winner; LeRoy Krieger, consolation winner. For the men's fall handicap awards winner, in addition to Keenan and Sulivan, are Carl Schmidt, medalist and low net. Women's handicap prizes go to Mrs. Bob Voris, champ; Mrs. Pritchard, runner-up, and Mrs. Cannell, consolation winner. MM wj mm FROM THE BUSINESS MAN'S WARDROBE . . . The WORSTED-TEX Flannel Suit You can wear this hand some flannel suit to the office . . . and it helps you look your business like best. Or wear it on the week-end, casually or on a datel Tailored exclusively for us by the House of Worsted-Tex of sumptuous Commuter Flannel in the new, slimming British lounge Model. We have your size in your color pre ference Nowl 0EN WEDNESDAY 'TIL 9 P.M. 229 EAST MAIN ST. MEDFORD By UNITED PRESS Jefferson and Gresham will play at Multnomah Stadium in Portland Friday night and Wash ington high of Portland will travel to Coos Bay to play Marshfield Saturday afternoon in state A-l high school semifinal playoff games. Sites and dates- for the games were picked Monday after tele phone conversations among school officials and the Oregon School Activities Association. The Jefferson-Gresham game will be at 8 p.m. Friday and the Washington-Marshfield game at 1:30 p.m. Saturday. In Class A-2, Vale will travel to Junction City and Tillamook goes to Dallas. Both games will be at 8 p.m. Friday. In 11-man B competition, Mon roe will travel to Toledo to meet Siletz Friday night and Union travel to Malin for a 1:30 p.m. Saturday game. Glide and Culver will play Sat urday at 1:30 p.m. for the six man championship at Culver. Basketball Refs Meet Wednesday A meeting of basketball referees of this area will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, November 16, at Medford sen ior high school. Commissioner Virgil Swanson said the ses sion may be the last regular one before the opening of the season with high school jam borees on December 1 and 2. KURT VON POPPENHEIM , Slates Grants Pass Bout Von Poppenheim On Grants Pass Wrestling Card Kurt von Poppenheim, the Proud Prussian, regarded as the biggest television star In Port land wrestling history, will make one of his infrequent Grants Pass appearances this Wednes day night. He will oppose Luigi Macera from Montreal. The battle will go for one hour or two out of three falls. Henry Lenz, billed as the Golden Boy from Muscle Beach, and Scotty Williams, Springfield, Mo. vie in the first bout. Before his match Lenz will give a muscle demonstration. Von Poppenheim, 208, and Macera, 205, are old and bitter enemies. Both hate to lose and are jealous of their reputations. Macera is expected to resort to knee blockbusters and the Prus sian to his pet German crossbow. Lenz has been wrestling top matches in Spokane. His tre mendous physique got his pic ture on the front page of Strength and Health magazine a few months ago. Williams is a mat veteran. Senators Have First Pick In Player Draft Nov. 28 By FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer New York (U.R) The Wash ington Senators gave up their best player when they included Mickey Vernon in the recent nine-player deal with the Boston Red Sox, but can replace him for a mere $10,000 on Nov. 28 when they make first pick in the an nual baseball draft. Manager Charley Dressen warned not to forget "we have first pick in the draft" when the deal was announced and it's dol lars to doughnuts he meant the Senators will attempt to make up for the loss of Vernon by drafting Glenn (Rocky) Nelson from the Montreal Royals. Nelson, who faile&in previous trials with the St. Louis Cardi nals, Brooklyn Dodgers and Cleveland Indians, had a spec tacular season in the Interna tional League this year. He top ped the circuit with a .364 aver age, hit 37 homers and knocked in 129 runs in 153 games, and was voted the league's "Most Valuable Player." In any event, such intriguing possibilities will make Colum bus, O., the center of the base ball world's attention when all 16 major league clubs "go bar gain hunting" in two weeks. Former major leaguers re leased outright to the minors and players who have been in triple and double A classifications four years without receiving a big league trial are eligible to be drafted and this year the list includes an unusually large number of well-known names. They include such former ma jor league stars as outfielder Monte Irvin, slugger Luke Easter and pitcher Gene Bear-den. Wintry Blast Hits Midwestern States By UNITED PRESS A fast-charging wintry storm hit the Midwest today and the Weather Bureau posted warn ings of zero cold, heavy snows, and possible tornadoes. The storm skipped across the Central Rockies and raced across the Great Plains to west ern Kansas and Nebraska. The Kansas City, Mo., weath er bureau issued a warning of locally severe thunderstorms and possibly one or two torna does 50 miles on either side of a line stretching from Spring field, Mo., to Cedar Rapids, la. Icy winds mounted to from 30 to 40 miles per hour and tem peratures took a nosedive. Salt Lake City got six inches of snow and elsewhere in the snow area the fresh snow cover ranged from one to three inches. Stripper Blames Cad For Loss of Scanty Penang. North Malaya (U.R) Chinese strip teaser Rose Chan said the audience that clamored for a better view of her figure Monday night in cluded at least one cad. She told police she removed the top half of her scanty, two piece costume in response to popular demand but said someone promptly stole it. Pacific Coast League players can be drafted for $15,000, triple A players for $10,000, double A players for $7,500 and "so on down to $2,000 for a class D player. It's rare when a big league club dips below the triple A leagues for a player. Pirates Second Choice The Pittsburgh Pirates have second choice in this year's draft by virtue of their eighth-place finish in the National League and then theBaltimore Orioles are next in line. The selection continues with the world cham pion Dodgers having the 16th choice, whereupon the process is repeated, beginning with the Senators' second choice. Some of the choices could be mighty ironical. The Pirates,' for example, could obtain a fellow named Paul Pettit for $15,000 while the Cleveland Indians could acquire, a chap named Billy Joe Davidson for $10,000. Both teams shelled out $100, 000 in bonus money a few years back to take a first look at the pair. Campbell Says Boats May Hit 300-MPH Mark Las Vegas, Nev. (U.R) Don Campbell, young British speed boat king, predicted today that 300 miles an hour would be at tainable for speedboats of the future. While the world awaits his record-smashing attempts o n Lake Mead near here, Campbell is so sure that he can surpass his present mark of 202-plus miles per hour, that he already is look ing to the future. The daredevil pilot, son of the late Sir Malcolm Campbell, an other speed demon on land and sea, holds court daily at his press headquarters in the Sahara Hotel here. A half dozen English news papermen cover his every move, while newsreel and television cameramen set up their cameras every time he ventures on the lake. Tuesday. November 15. 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEM (Vodka in orange juice) fgj B3 It leaves you breathless mirnoff tfie qrtaiest -name vuurtft 80 proof . Mide from 1 00 grain ncutril spirit. Sre.PicrreSmirnorlFU. Inc.. Hartford, Coon. Sport Parade By OSCAR FRALEY , United Press Sports Writer New York (U.R) You can't blame Eddie Erdelatz, the Navy football coach, for trying to get all the acclaim possible for his Georgie Welsh by calling him the best quarterback in the land, but you can suspect his choice of Columbia's Claude Benham of Columbia's Claude Benham over Notre Dame's Paul Hornung. "Benham is the best quarter back we have faced all season," Erdelatz asserted after his Mid dies snowed under the tattered Columbia Lions, 47-0. Yet Eddie was hard put to back up his reasoning. "If you want to face facts, it's simply a tactical maneuver aim ed at getting All-America recog nition for Welsh. Navy lost to Notre Dame, 21 to 7, at a time when Welsh was winging along out front in the race for A-A honors. After the Middies were torpedoed, Horn ung took over the lead. This diversionary action, you might assume, would let the palpitating voters know that Hornung was not even as good as Benham, who wasn't as good as Welsh. Asked to compare Benham and Hornung, Erdelatz was a master broken field runner. Lacked Big Line "I don't want to cut any one man down," he explained. "But Benham didn't have a big line in front of him and, although he was rushed, he passed well and handled the team nicely." He also made some reference to "a 190-pounder who hands off to another 190-ponder, who in turn runs behind a line that av erages from 205 to 215 pounds." "There are two differnt type of quarterback," Erdelatz assert ed. "Comparisons are difficult. But I do know that when they compare coaches, they say, 'how many did 'he win'?" So, if that be the case, Horn ung must not be third best. Columbia has lost seven games and won one. Navy has won five, lost one and tied one. Notre Dame has won seven and lost one. Benham is the nation's lead ing passer. The five-foot, nine inch pitcher from Portsmouth, Va., has completed 87 of 180 for 978 yards and seven touchdowns. Welsh, the Coaldale, Pa., chuck er, who is roughly the same size, has completed 76 of 122 for eight touchdowns. There is a saying that a pass ing team is not a winning team, which Hornung, using the air as an adjunct, still has done all right. He has completed 30 of 71 for 376 yards and seven touchdowns. Pro Quarterback Erdelatz made a point of the fact that "I don't know what the pros look for in a quarter back." Jim Lee Howell of the New York Giants told him. '.'We want the biggest, strong est thrower and runner who can handle the ball." Using that as a yardstick, you can't put Hornung below Ben ham at least. Louisville Paul is six feet, two inches and weighs 205 pounds. Nobody can fault his ball handling, or the pitching he finds necessary to spread the defense. He also has carried the ball 75 times'for 343 yards. Com pare that with Welsh's 49 car ries for 20 yards and Benham's 58 carries for minus one yard. Benham is victimized, to a cer tain" extent, because he gets a running subtraction when he is snowed under passing, and that happens a lot. But as an all around operative, it is difficult to concede Benham an edge. All of which simmers down to an All-American pitch for Welsh. RUTGERS SCHEDULE New Brunswick, N.J. (U.R) The Rutgers University football team will nlav a 10-game sched ule next season for the first time since 1933. The Scarlet will open its season against Ohio Wesleyan, Sept. 22, and wind up against Columbia, Nov. 24. Fight Results By UNITED PRESS New York (St. Nicks) Bobby Courchesne. 128, Holyoke. Mass.. out pointed Miguel Berrios, 128, Puerto Rico, (10). Providence. R. I. Toxie Hall, 1944. Chicago, outpointed Ezzard Charles, 197, Cincinnati, Ohio. (10). New Orleans Charley Cotton, 148, Toledo, O., outpointed Andrew Brown, 148. New Orleans, (10). Skeeters Takes 3 Birds at Shoot Dick Skeeters and Ray Cole man were top prize winners Sun day as some 50 turkeys "went" in shoot competition at Medford Gun. club. Skeeters took home three tur keys and Coleman two. About 100 persons were on hand during the day for the first of four fall turkey events. Central Point Lions club op erated the lunch concession and will do so for other shoots. Another pre-Thanksgiving af fair is set for next Sunday, Nov. 20, regardless of weather condi tions. Two December turkey shoots are planned.. A new case of tuberculosis is reported in the United States at the rate of every fifth minute. HOOVER LAKES CLOSED TO HUNTING C. C. Hoover & Sons TRUE MILEAGE THESE SHOES ARE ABOUT GONE BUT A CAR CAN BE ALL SHINED UP TO LOOK LIKE NEW. "GET THE USED CAR HISTORY ONLY AT . See Our Ad on Page 4, Section 2 DEAN & TAYLOR iTIAC 6th & Grape Phone 2-5241 The Oregon payroll of Consoli dated Freightways exceeded $7,000,000 in 1954. 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