d'Doul Inks
Cap Contract
Vancouver, B.C. U.R) Lefty
O'Doul, heading toward his
22nd straight season of manag
ing Pacific Coast league ball
clubs, weni to work today to
turn the erstwhile Oakland
Oaks into a pennant contender
for Vancouver's fans.
The 58-year-old slugger of Na
tional league fame arrived by
plane here yesterday a few
hours after he came to terms
with C. L. (Brick) Laws, presi
dent of the Oakland club which
was transferred into the domin
ion at the end of last season.
O'Doul, who managed the
Oaks to a seventh place finish
in his first year there last sea
son, signed for a year at a sal
ary believed to be around
$lrjgP00. G
Although the Oaks finished
next toQast this season, Laws
Qsaid he thinks the team's recent
tieup with the Baltimore Orioles
will result in better baseball.
"Things will be a lot different
riext season," Laws said at the
Providence hospital in Oakland
where he is undergoing a check
up. "I con't expect we'll have
two or three players coming
back from last year's team."
O'Doul managed the San
Francisco Seals for 17 years be
fore taking over San Diego for
"three seasons.
Bob Baker To Go
Against Valdes
Cleveland (U.R) Big Bob
Baker of Pittsburgh will take a
million dollar gamble tonight in
his heavyweight challenger's
fight with lofty JNino Valdes of
Cuba at the Cleveland arena.
Although already in position
to press for a shot at the heavy
weight crown, Baker asked for
tonight's return TV -radio 10
rounder with Valdes "so's I can
beat him impressively this time
and clinch the title fight."
But an upset defeat by tall
Nino, the 9-5 underdog, would
blast Baker out of the running
for Rocky Marciano's champion
ship and the riches that go with
it, for there's no contract for a
return bout.
Pacific Coast Conference
Can Now Levy Heavy Fines
By KAL WOOD
San Francisco (U.R) The
Pacific Coast Conference set
the stage today for heavy-scale
fines for illegal recruiting ac
tivities with the lifting of the
$1000 maximum on penalties,
s. The conference voted yester
day in the wake of a S1000 fine
against UCLA for unbecoming
proselyting, to make future fines
"appropriate" to the infraction.
"In the future, fines may be
assessed in such amounts as the
conference deems appropriate,"
H. P. Dick Everett of Washing
ton, PCC spokesman, announced.
This apparently opens the way
for more severe financial raps
at schools recruiting outside the
conference code.
Today, the directors are ex
pected to take up the matter of
a "living wage for athletes.
Yesterday, the organization
outlined a six-point program that
it will offer to the NCAA on the
handling of television for foot
ball games.
Mainly, the proposal asks -for
Willamette Nips
Pilots in lExtra
Salem U.R) Bill Turlay
scored a field goal with only
two seconds left in the overtime
period last night to give Wil
lamette a come-from-behind 61
60 basketball victory over Port
land's Pilots here.
With 29 seconds left. Portland
led 6057 but sub Keith Driver
scored for Willamette., to make
it 60-59. Then Turlay scored the
game winning bucket.
Jack Scrivens of Portland led
scorers with 19 while Vic Back
lund hit 15 for Willamette.
J. Henning
Risks Title
John Paul Henning will risk
his n o r.t h w e s t heavyweight
championship wrestling belt
against the challenge of the
Proud Prussian, Kurt von Pop
penheim tonight at the Jose
phine county fairgrounds arena.
Promoter Elton Owen was try
ing to sign Wild Bull Savage to
meet Poppenhelm but when he
was not available, finally came
to terms with Henning for a title
defense.
Henning has tangled with Pop-
penheim before and knows that
the big Prussian is a rough one.
Poppenheim defeated Luigi Ma-
cera last week and he says that
he intends to take that title
home with him. His pet holds
are the Boston Crab and the Ger
man crossbow.
The one hour semi will match
Alex Perez, the sensational Mex
ican from El Paso, against the
greatly improved Oregon young
ster, Danny O'Rourke. Perez
outsmarted the old fox. Buck
Weaver, last week to win in a
dandy match.
REFEREES TO MEET
A meeting of basketball ref
erees will be held at 7:30 p.m.
this evening at Hedrick junior
high school.
Mre Control
more regional control, more reg
ional games and fewer national
"Game of the Week" programs
in the West.
"We feel that the conference
involved should have the say
on whether a game should be
blacked out in any certain area,"
said Al Masters, Stanford grad
uate manager and PCC televis
ion chairman.
In other business, the confer
ence voted to crown a champion
in football, baseball, basketball
and track. There never has been
an official champion in the past.
In the future, trophies will be
given for team titles. Cita'tions
will also be given to athletes
maintaining a "B" average; and
plaques will be awarded to play
ers making the All-Conference
football team picked by the
coaches.
Welsh Tops
Sn Offense
New York (U.R) George
Welsh's gallant efforts weren't
enough to provide 'Navy with a
victory over Army this year but
they earned the 164-pound Mid
die quarterback the major col
lege total offense crown.
Official figures released today
by the National Collegiate Ath
letic Bureau revealed that the
185 yards Welsh gained against
the Cadets gave him a season
total of 1,348. That total was
just 35 yards more than was
gained by Art Luppino of Ari
zona. Jim Swing, Texas Christian's
brilliant halfback, ranked third
with 1,283 yards while Paul
Hornung, Notre Dame's junior
quarterback, was fourth with
1,215 yards.
Honus Wagner Services
Will Be Held Friday
Pittsburgh (U.R) Three gen
erations of baseball fans today
mourned the passing of John
Peter (Honus) Wagner, the great
est shortstop of all time.
The 81 -year -old . "Flying
Dutchman" of Pittsburgh Pirate
fame died in his sleep Tuesday
morning at his home in nearby
Carnegie, Pa. Old Honus in
jured his hip in a fall last Sep
tember and was bed-ridden the
final days of his life.
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HIGH AND MIGHTY Bill Russell, USF's Ail-American cen
ter drops in two points against Chico State while Ken Piery
goes through motions of trying to block. Dons opened defense
of NCAA title with 70-39 win in San Francisco. (International)
Wednesday, December 7, 1955
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEft
Psychologist Cracks
Video Quiz Show for
Top Prize of $64,000
New York (U.R) Psycholo
gist Joyce Brothers, 101-pound
blonde boxing expert, with a
heavyweight wallop, clobbered
the clock and a seven-part ques
tion Tuesday night to win
$64,000 on a TV show.
The trim PH.D., bolstered by
guest "expert" Col. Eddie Eagan
and her mother's lucky charm,
became the second contestant to
romp off with the whole gackpot
on "the $64,000 question."
On Sept. 13, Marine Capt.
Richard McCutchen also won
$64,000 by answering a difficult
question on exotic foods.
Siill Shaking
Mrs. Brothers, the author of a
scientific paper on "Anxiety,"
said after the show: "I'm still
shaking. I know now what in
dividuals undergo in an anxiety
experience.
"My mother sewed a lucky
charm inside my dress I
couldn't possibly show it to you,
I just wasn't taking any
chances."
All told, the program was
tapped for $104,00 Tuesday night
by thrjee contestants, the largest
loss by a single program in the
history of TV.
Electrician Moves Up
Stanley Skeens, an electrician
for a coal mine in Barrat, W. Va.
pushed his way to the $32,000
level, by answering a multi-part
question on the Bible. Skeens, a
native of Danville, W. Va., will
be back next week to tell wheth
er he, too, will shoot for top
money.
JOYCE BROTHERS
Jackpot Winner
Another contestant, mailman
Roscoe Wright, of New York
moved to the $8,000 point by
answering a series of questions
on poetry.
Drunken Driver
Passes Own Sentence
Chicago (U.R) Fred J. Estra
da, 20, on trial on charges of
drunk driving was asked by
Judge Joseph J. Butler "Do you
know what they do to drunken
drivers like you?"
"They get a year in the coun
ty jail," Etranda said.
"You have just passed your
own sentence," the judge said,
The location of the nesting
grounds of the whooping crane.
North America's rarest and tall
est bird, is stUl a mystery despite
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