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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) Band Given Shrine Trip Permission Portland (U.R) The Oregon School Activities association Sat urday approved movement of Beaverton and Hillsboro high schools into the Valley Coast League and took under advise ment other redistricting prob lems. The OSAA also decided to hold the Class A and A-2 track meet at Corvallis on May 18-19 and the B title on the same week end at a site to be named. The group agreed to change the dates for the Class B basket ball tournament at Baker to March 8, 9 and 10 to avoid con- flict with A and A-2 tourneys. Protest Disallowed A protest by Madras claiming unsportsmanlike conduct by Prineville in a football game was disallowed because of insuffi cient grounds. - Medford and Klamath Falls bands received permission to at tend the East-West Shrine game in San Francisco. Ray Osburn of Elgin was elected board of control presi dent. MIBL Quintet's 1955-1956 Slate Begins Tonight Two games tonight open the Medford Independent Basketball League season. Company A of the National Guard opposes the Moose lodge in the 7 p.m. first game at the McLoughlin junior high gym. Prospect will tackle YMCA in the 8:30 p.m. mix. On Tuesday Headquart e r s Company of the Guard plays Hawkinson Tire Tread at 7 p.m. and YMCA and Moose meet at 8:30 p.m. There will be a small charge of admission for the games. Sooners, Terraps Head Final List Of Perfect Clubs New York (U.R) Oklahoma and Maryland, the Orange Bowl opponents, head the final list of 21 unbeaten-untied college foot ball teams in the nation today. Oklahoma wound up its reg ular season Saturday with a 53-0 win over Oklahoma A&M to keep the number of perfect record teams" at 21. The other 20 schools completed their sea sons earlier. Northern (SD) Teachers went undefeated in nine regular-season games but bowed to Kear ney (Neb) Teachers, 34-13, Thanksgiving Day in the Botany Bowl game at Shenandoah, la. The perfect record list: School Ten Victories Oklahoma A Maryland PF PA 54 57 13 96 96 42 19 59 34 31 60 98 53 32 64 97 66 21 54 .365 ..211 Mne ictorles Coll. of Emporia (Kan.) 257 Heidelberg (Ohio) 253 Miami (Ohio) 253 Northern (SD) Tchrs. 224 Maryland Slate 198 Southeast (Mo.) State 176 Whitworth (Wash.) 175 Ktcht Victories Shepherd (W. Va.) State ... 299 Muskingum (Ohio) 291 Coe I Iowa) 275 Centre (Ky.) 245 .luniata (Pa.) 240 Parsons (Iowa) 215 Stevens Point (Wis.) 205 Drexel Tech (Pa.) 198 Alfred (NY.) 190 Seven Victories Trinity (Conn.) 233 Weiland Named Walton League Vice-President Bend (U.R) An initiative petition which would close all Oregon streams south of the Columbia river to commercial netting of salmon and steelhead had the support of the Oregon iza-.k Walton League today. The league, which closed its annual convention here yester day, took no action on a similar measure at the last general elec tion. Rollin E. Bowles of Portland was elected president of the state division for 1956. Wade Hall, Enterprise; Dr. I. A. Cal houn, Tillamook; Henry Knees, Portland, and Paul Weiland, iUeclford, were named vice-presidents. A resolution supporting any efforts to improve access routes into state and federal lands was passed as was one supporting any changes in the laws to elim inate siltation in streams caused by mining or dredging. NY Conference Rules Out Post Season Frays Portland (U.R) The North west Conference at its fall meet ing Saturday ruled that member schools can not represent the loop in post -season football games. However, the ruling does not halt post-season games if the contest is a part of a school's schedule when the season starts and if it meets other NCAA requirements. i The grants-in-aid to athletes funds were cut from 80 to 75 per cent of tuition but this was eased by a ruling which lifted the limit on the number of ath letes under the program. Use Tribune Want Aca MAIL TRIBUNE Ik "TT 1 DUCKING UNDER roundhouse left, Gene Fullmer of Utah takes cover as terror of Argentina, Eduardo Lausse, wins unanimous 10-round decision in New York. (International) Medford and Klamath union high school bands may go to the Shrine East-West all-star football game ai San Francisco on December 31 as result of action of the Oregon School Activities association delegate assembly last week end. The exact nature of the action taken by the OSAA has not yet been reported here but it is known that the bands have permission to go now. They were barred from the trip under a rule existing prior to the session of ie delegates. Jack Morris, ex-Medford high grid great, who has made good as a University of Oregon full back, got some national publicity out of the recent snow that cov ered the state. A press service photo of Morris and' Jim Shan- ley, Di ck halfback, in grid re galia but wearing skis was sent out. A letter from Gene Thanos, Medford man attending Syra cuse university, enclosed the picture clipped from the Syra cuse (N.Y.) Herald-Journal. LOOKS FORWARD TO RETURN Thanos, who used to provide the Southern Oregon college sports news for the Mail Tri bune and after that taught school at Talent . and Ruch, writes: "I thought you would enjoy knowing that there are some people (not very many) who happen to know that there is a state of Oregon ... I thought it (tho picture) was interesting to ba in a paper this far away from home." Thonos continuei: "Have had many interesting experiences since arriving in the East last June. However, I am looking forward to the day when I will return to Medford and the 'good old' West Coast. One certainly has the pick of ath letic contests to attend pro viding he has the money to pay the admission price. Prices are usually higher for all types of events than at home." WEST STARS DO OKEH The Medfordite has seen sev eral professional basketball games and remarks that the boys from iut west are doing all right. He reports that Red Rocha is a big favorite in Syracuse and that Bob Peterson and Ken Sears are going great with the Knick erbockers. Bob Houbregs and Ceorge Yardley are the big guns for Fort Wayne, Thanos stated. Thanos said that he saw bouts between Hurricane Jackson and Ez Charles and between Carmen Basilio and Gil Turner. He calls Basilio a "truly great fighter." He also reported sitting through a continual downpour at Michie stadium, at West Point, to see Syracuse upset Army 13 to 0. Commenting on Maryland, which licked Syracuse 34 to 13, Thanos said that the Terrapins have "the best balanced team I have ever had the opportunity to watch . . . ' Thanos adds the warning to "ivach out for Syra cuse next vear ..." " i CASANOVA KICKS OFF The typographical error in our recent Southern Oregon Conference all-star football story which mentioned a line average of 792 pound per man. instead of 192, was quickly brought to our attention. We didn't feel so bad, however, after reading the Portland Oregonian's play-by-play ac count of the Oregon-Oregon state football game. In the fourth quarter summary it staled: "Coach Len Casanova kicked off into the end lone. SEEKS BASEBALL JOB Don McNeil, Jackson County Chamber of Commerce manager, telephoned the other day and mentioned a fellow how has his bid in early to say the least. Monday. November 28, 1955 By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Sports Editor The fellow sent a letter from Atlanta, Go., asking Don to pass it on to the proper baseball people. He's after the job of managing the Medford team in the Northwest Baseball League. Whether Medford will be in the circuit is still uncertain but word surely has traveled far and fast that a team is bein'g discussed. Milt Martin, catcher for Med ford teams in the former Far West League, reportedly is another interested in the man agerial job should this city ent er the Northwest circuit. Martin has been with the Portland Beavers in the Coast loop, with Victoria in the now defunction Western International loop and with Tri-City in the Northwest. He resides at Vancouver, Wash. NOTES ON HOOPMEN Notes on members of Med ford's great 1955 basketball team who are now in college. Bud Kastner is doing well on the University of Oregon Frosh squad. The same for Larry Copple and Glenn Peter son on the Rook's roster at Ore gon Slate college. Jerry Kala pus is a promising freshman at Pacific college and Frank Rector is a good freshman prospect at University of Port land. TORNADO TOUGHEST FOR PIRATES After the Marshfield-Medford high football game two week ends back, Coach Pete Susick of the Coos Bay club reportedly remarked that Medford's Black Tornado was the best club the Pirates had met or "we're going to meet this year." Don't know, definitely what Susick's opinion was after Marshfield beat Gresh ah 19 to 0 Friday night for the state crown but we have a good idea that the statement of two weeks ago still holds. Medford bowed to the Pirates 20 to 6. SHEPARD CONSIDERED Larry Shepard, pilcher and manager of the Medford Dodg ers pro baseball club in 1948, is said to be seriously consider ed for the. post of manager of the Hollywood Stars of the Pacific Coast League. Webfoot, Beaver Players Receive Mention in Poll New York (U.R) No player from the Pacific Northwest was named to the first three United Press All - American football teams announced today. John Witte, Oregon State tackle received 328 votes and wound up as the ninth best vote getter among tackles in the country. Others receiving honorable mention included end Phil Mc Hugh of Oregon; halfback Dick James of Oregon and halfback Joe Francis of Oregon State. CHURCH LEAGUE MEETING The YMCA church basket ball league will hold a meet ing at 8 p.m. today at the Med ford YMCA. A change in rules will be a principal item on the agenda. Use Tribune Want Ads WANTED! . MEN TO TRAIN FOR REAL ESTATE APPRAISERS Age 21 to 60. Must be residents of this county two or more years. Competent appraisers receive $325 to $400 per month. Farm experience valuable. Write Box 695D, Mail Tribune Marshfield Places Three on Prep All -State Football Aggregation Portland (U.R) Three play ers from Marshfield high school's class A-l state cham pions were named to The Ore gonian's all-state football team Sunday. They included backs Sandy Fraser and Denny Baker and center Bob Peterson. Others on the first team were ends Dick Woolstenhulme of Roseburg and Russ Simonis of Gresham; tac kles Arnold Slaven of Grants Pass and Ken Mundt of Albany; guards Modesto Jiminez of Klamath Falls and Bob Wallace of Pendleton and backs Stinette of Corvallis and Bruce Ridinger of Albany; Named to the second team were ends Gene Bates of Vale and Ron Anderson of Bend; tackles Barry Bullard of Marsh field and Gerald Rogers of Mc Minnville; guards Paul Bernick of Gresham and Ted Henry of Prineville; center John Hinds of Dallas and backs Dave Powell of Eugene, LaMoyne Mapes of MONTE HOLST On State Third Team GARY RILEY Gains All-State Mention Billy McNeece Favored To Beat Tony Johnson New York (U.R) Light heavy weight Billy McNeece of Central Islip, N. Y., is favored at IVz to 5 to beat Tony Johnson of New York tonight in their return TV 10-rounder at St. Nicholas arena. They fought to a draw at Eastern Parkway Arena on May 9. Each is a willing "club fight er" who appeared to be moving ahead until he ran into hard luck this year, in which both were comparatively inactive and neither won a fight. Five Pioneers On Northwest's All-Star Team Portland (U.R) Five Lewis and Clark and three College of Idaho football players were nam ed today to the 13-man all Northwest Conference team. Coaches , selected just one team and an honorable mention list of 13 players. Only repeaters on the list were Jim Johnson, quarterback, and Earl Engebretson, fullback, of Lewis Clark. But Engebret son shared fullback honors with Gary Collins of College of Idaho. Other Pioneers making the first team were Mike Clock, tackle; Dean Soule, guard, and Mel Gillette, freshman halfback. Tackle J. C. Kenney and half back Ed Lodge completed Col lege of Idaho's berths. Men from other than the 1955 co-champion squads included end Jerry Fowler and guard Ted Hansen of Whitman; end Vic Backlund, Willamette; guard Vic Fox, Linfield; and center Jerry Adam, Pacific. Howard Morris, Linfield guard (ex-Crater high), received honorable mention in the All Northwest Conference poll. South Salem, Joel Crouch of Gresham and Sam Haynes of Pendleton. On the third team were ends Roger Johnson of Marshfield and Greg Altenhofen of Beaver ton; tackles John Wilcox of Vale and Jim Lockman of Corvallis; guards: Monte Hoist of Medford. SIPdDErRTTS Vale, Malin Capture State Football Championships Vale football fans and just about the whole town turned out were beaming today after their high school team romped easily to its second consecutive Oregon Class 2-A championship. The Vikings swamped Dallas, 45 0, in Vale Saturday night. Malin high took the Class B football crown over the weekend by downing Siletz 26-12 with the help of a key performance by senior tailback Glen Steyskal. Passing Potent The well-backed Vikings lead 30 to 0 at half time and blasted out three more TD's in the third period. Their passing attack up set Dallas completely and gave Jim Lounsberry Mentor of Year On West Coast By HAL WOOD San Francisco (U.R) His team has won 18 straight vic tories and 26 out of the last 27 games but he doesn't expect a bowl bid. His club is the only unbeaten four-year school team on the West Coast this year. He is the United Press Pacific Coast coach of the year. So meet Jim Lounsberry, head mentor of little Whitworth col lege in Spokane, Wash. At 38 he is the most success ful college coach in the West and for his four years as head coach, probably has the finest record in the country. During that time he has won 28, lost four and tied one. Whitworth college plays in the Evergreen Conference that in eludes schools in the Pacific Northwest. With an enrollment of only 850 students, less than half are boys, it is the second smallest in the loop. Six of the schools have from 1,000 to 1,500 students each. The last two seasons in a row, the Whitworth club has won the conference crown without a de feat. The team has a 9-0 record this year; 8-0 last year and 7-1 the previous season. OSC Assistant Football Coach Enters Air Force Corvallis (U.R) Terry De- Bay, young assistant football coach at Oregon State, has left for duty with the Air Force. Head Coach Tommy Prothro said it was understood that when DeBay, 22, accepted the job he might be called by the military at any time. DeBay holds a lieu tenant's commission. Use Tribune Want Ads Just Call 2-6141 Extra Hauling. The pulls heavily 4-WHEEL DRIYE 505 North Central All-Purpcse fflii-. and Keith Harris of Jefferson, center Phil Sword of Ashland, and backs Herman McKinney of Washington, Dale Shumway of Prineville, Tater Smith of Vale and Marlin Marsh of St. Helens. Honorable mention included: Back Gary Riley of Medford. Derald Swift, Gene Bates and John Wilcox opportunities to stand out. " In the Malin encounter, tail back Steyskal who was just con verted from a fullback last week, scored three touchdowns and passed for another. In sparking the Malin victory he picked up 223 yards rushing and passed for another 72. PLAYER OF YEAR Richmond, Va. (U.R) The Southern Conference Sports- writers Assn. has voted Bruce Bosley, West Virginia's tremen dous 220-pound tackle, as South ern Conference player of the year. Bosley, a three-time selec tion in the all-conference team, is the first tackle to win the award since it was set up in 1948. 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"Your rFiendly "Willy Dealer" Pro Baseball Discussion Set Tonight Interest being shown indi cates a'good-sized turnout to night at a meeting to discuss the possibility of Medford en tering a team in the Class B professional Northwest Base ball League. The meeting will convene ai 8 p.m. in the Pioneer room at the Jackson hotel. Various industrial and busi ness firms cf the Medford vicinity have been contacted during the past week and a big share of them have said they will be represented at the meeting. Matters of league and club operation and team finance mostly will be ' dis cussed. The meeting tonight may well determine whether Medford will have a club in the pro circuit in 1956. Two men from Eugene are expected here to provide in formation both on the league end on the Emerald club of the NWL. They are Don Hus band, attorney and a partner in the backing of the Emer alds, and Dick Strife, sports editor of the Eugene Register Guard. 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JONES JC CHOSEN Pasadena, Calif. (U.R) Un defeated Jones Junior College of Mississippi was officially no- tmed today that it will repre sent the East in the 10th annual " Junior Rose Bowl game Dec. 10. Bowl officials yesterday named Jones Jaycee, Ellisville, Misg., as the East representative for the nation's top junior college clash. is expected tonight. If Medford goes into the NWL, it will become an eight team league. Other clubs re portedly are much interested in Medford entry. Use Tribune Want Ads At my myself possible. the estimates out. Vfhen be d layed j turned in model used car. 16th and by settled and I Kenney niiyht and the . . - rnv to g company. ... ..0,tmfint iderate ,i claim serv1C.. K A 1 1 i V. " ' V ti.vlB. Given Policy No. 2020069 t Phone 3-3651
