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O TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, December 8, 1955 C Average Set for PCC Transfers San Francisco !U.R) The Pa cific Coast Conference wound up its winter meeting today after taking action to raise en trance requirements for athletes transferring from other schools. In a move apparently aimed at Washington, Washington State and Oregon State, the PCC ruled yesterday that all JC transfers must have, or attain a C average if they want to take Fft in athletics. Most of the nine conference 'schools have that rule. However, the three northwest schools have special advisory boards under which 'certain students can gain admittance with a lesser aver age. H. P. Everest of Washington, PCC spokesman, emphasized that athletes with a lower than C average may still transfer to inference schools. Green Case Cited "However, they cannot com pete in athletics until they have a cumulative C average, includ in their JC schooling," he said. Everest cited the case of Cre- dell Green, sensational Washing ton junior football player, who transferred this year from West Ccra Costa JC in California with less than a C average. Un der the new rule, he would be ineligible to compete. The conference also: 1. Appointed a special com mitti of four to study the ad visability of putting into effect the "letter of intent" rule now prevailing in the Southwest Con ference. 2. Set the next conference meeting for Victoria, B. C, May 18-23. 3. Set the conference baseball playoff for June 1-2 at the site of the northern division winner. 4. Continued its study of the "cost of living wage" for athletes. i MedforivTribune - - ... - in Partners Baseball Sought for Pro Club Operation Here; Need Signers Soon Given Dull Boxing Bout Cleveland (U.R) That "Dance of the Elephants" staged Wednesday night by Bob Baker and Vino Valdes seemed today to have boosted another guy Young Floyd Patterson,, of Brooklyn into a June shot at the heavyweight crown. Baker of Pittsburgh, won an other decision over Valdes of Cuba in the Cleveland Arena, but the fight was such a boo provoking farce that both were eliminated as potential chal lengers. The cat-calls anoP strains of "Let Me Call You Sweetheart," had scarcely echoed away in ,the arena's girders, when it was learned reliably that 21-year-old O Patterson, top contender for the light heavyweight crown, has now become the man most likely to challenge Rocky Marciano for the heavyweight championship in June. Fights Slated Patterson is slated for an im portant bout tonight inos An geles against Jimmy Slade, a "spoiler" who once wrecked the hopes of Tommy (Hurricane) Jackson. Bak second-ranking heavy contender and Valdes, number three, not only eliminated them selves Wednesday night, but came close to being tossed out of the ring by Referee Tony La Branche. "I threatened to throw them out a couple of times," said La Branche, who provided most of the action during the dull 10 rounder that topped the 30th an nual Cleveland Christmas fund show. He was persistently cir cling them like a terrier and yelling: "Get in there and light. Come on, you two, fight." Backers of a plan to bring professional Class B baseball to Medford set out yesterday on the task of obtaining signatures for a partnership agreement to finance the proposed team. Those behind the venture feel that the amount of signatures obtained in the next few days will determine whether or not Medford will field a team. It would be in the Northwest league, which includes Salem and Eugene in Oregon, Lewis ton, Ida., and Spokane, Wenat chee, Yakima and Tri-City in Washington. A meeting of league directors will be held in Yakima next Sunday at which time . Jim Fleishman, league president, has asked Medford to give an an swer to an invitation to join the circuit. Under the partnership agree ment, signers will share in the profits or losses of the enter prise to the extent not to ex ceed 10 per cent. No one will be permitted to sign for more than that amount, it was pointed out. Each signer will be asked to select his' own percentage figure below the maximum. Partners To Operate It will then be up to the part ners to select a committee to handle financial operation of the club and to select a general manager, who will oversee the entire operation. Selection of a team manager will hinge largely on ability of the committee to obtain a working agreement with a Pacific Coast league or TORNADO TO START HOME HOOP SLATE AGAINST AXEMEN FRIDAY major league club. Some teams desire to name a team manager when giving a working agreement, it was pointed out, while others ask only to approve the manager who will direct young players being sent on the agreement. After the partnership agree ment has been signed and entry of the Medford club assured, a pre-season ticket campaign de signed to provide immediate working capital will get under way. It was stressed that signers are not expected to be asked to finance any part of the opera tion until the losses, if any, are figured at the end of the season. Persons desiring to become partners in the venture may telephone Harry Chipman, at the Mail Tribune, 2-6141. Unless sufficient signatures are obtained by the end of the week, it is doubtful that a pro fessional team will be fielded here this year, it was stated. The committee which drew up the partnership plan, the same one used successfully at Eugene last year, consisted of Hale Greenman, Buzz Davies, Frank Buchter, Bill Askwith, and Chipman, who has been acting as temporary chairman. Coach Frank Roelandt dis-1 plays the 1955-1956 model of the basketball Black Tornado before hometown fans on Fri day night. The Medford high basketball team opposes Eugene in the first of eight games which will help gird it for defense of its 1955 Southern Oregon Conference championship. Friday's encoun ter here will be the first' of a two-game series. Tornado and Axemen go at it again on the senior high court on Saturday evening. Medford aims . for victories over the defending state cham pion school took an upward lift with the report that Center Dick McLaughlin's ailing leg is much better. Roelandt said that Mc Laughlin, who missed the con- LUTES TRIUMPH Tacoma (U.R) Pacific Luther an of the Evergreen Conference downed Pacific ofthe Northwest Conference 84-66 fn a basketball game Srere last night. Ron Ba rendse led Pacific's scoring with 14 points while Chuck Curtis, a freshman from Richland, hit 23 for PLC. i Junior High Hoop Quints Vie Friday Medford junior high schools swing into basketball contention on Friday afternoon. McLoughlin's ninth, eighth and seventh graders all will see action. They will go to Grants Pass. Only the ninth graders of Hedrick play this week. They will meet the Crater freshmen at Central Point. Coach Mel Boldenow of the McLoughlin ninth said his prob able starters are Bill Turner and Bob Plankenhorn, forwards; Dan Cuthbertson, center,- and Fred Funston and George Koch, guards. Terry Hamilton, Ron Reich and Frank Peterson are boys who may see a lot of duty. The Bulldog ninth is on the short side this year with Cuth bertson of the likely starters. tallest at a shade under six feet. However two men on the squad, Ernie Pathman and Dwight Friesen. are 6-1 or better. Bill Shepherd is tutor of the eighth graders and Chick Quin owski, student at Southern Ore gon college, handles the seventh grade squad. Seventh and ninth grade will play Grants Pass at 3:30 p.m. with the eighth grade mix an hour later. Lack Shooting Hedrick's ninth goes into ac tion with only five nights of shooting practice because there are no permanent baskets yet in the Hornet gymnasium. The club has shot one at Lone" Pine and twice at Roosevelt school and last night fired at a basket set up temporarily on the stage of the auditorium-gym. One other bucket was to be in service to night. Possible starters for the 3:30 p.m. scrape are Pete Rasmussen, center; Don Peek and Bill Maur er, forwards, and John Harvey and Tony Monroe, guards. Coach Barney Riggs said that Gary Winetrout could work in at either forward or center. He re ported that Monte Whaley has developed into one of the best defensive players on the squad. The Hornets will play cagers who were coached at Central Point last year by Riggs. Bernie Averill is eighth grade coach and Bob Work is seventh grade mentor. Waterfowl Hunt Conditions Still Poor in Valley Portland (U.R) The weekly report on hunting conditions pre pared by the State Game Com mission. SOUTHWEST: Rogue valley waterfowl hunting remains poor. CENTRAL: Duck and eoose hunt ing should be good in northern Sher man and Wasco counties if snow re mains; Pleasant Ridge controlled deer season opens uec. ii ior pernui holders only: prospects very good; all of the deer are down around wheat fiplris but will move to the west alter several days of shooting: best results expected within two miles of the east ern boundary and along Eight-mile and Fivemile creeks. SOUTHEAST: Summer lake man agement area waterfowl shooting poor; water partly frozen over; about 359 honkers and 4000 ducks in area; Snake river fair to good in Malheur county for jump shooting and fair with decoys in early morning or late evening; goose shooting in Jordan val ley fair; Harney county poor for waterfowl. -:-T ERICAS riNE STRAIN!? BHRBO THIS CANADA DRY WHISKEY IS REALLY SOMETHING SPECIAL! America's Finest Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 6 Years Old 86 Proof Distributed by: Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc., New York Fishing Hindered By Roily Water Portland (U.R) The weekly report on fishing conditions pre pared by the State Game Com mission: y Southwest: Some steelhead be ing taken in Tenmile lake; west forks of Millicoma river fair to good when water clear; Isthmus slough fair to good for striped bass. Coquille river good for steel head when water clears; Illinois and lower Rogue roily and best fishing several weeks away: many steelhead in main stem of Umpqua but fishing slow.. ference jamboree, is a possible starter against the Axemen. He pulled a muscle or cord in the lower leg and has it "taped up like a mummy." Starters Tested The head mentor listed prob able starters on Friday as Mike Stearns or McLaughlin, center; John Foust and Dick Copple, forwards, and Lloyd Cearley and Bob Tisdel, guards. Among the reserves Neil Plumley and Larry Slessler, the tallest play ers on the squad, are coming along very well, as is Larry Per kins, Roelandt reported. The Tornado went through anther hard . scrimmage last night and again worked at its pressing game. Offense got some more tuning and Roelandt said that the club also drilled on HAUNTING MEMORIES Middleweight champ Carl (Bobo) Olson will climb into the ring in Chicago Dec. 9 the favorite for the first time in his third tilt with the former champ, Sugar Ray Robinson. The first time, in Philadel phia in October, 1950, Bobo wound up flat on his back (bottom), being counted out in the 12th round. The second time he did a little better at San Francisco in March, 1952 (top), going the full 15 rounds, but dropping the decision. This time, as . champ, he figures to remain so against a , Sugar Ray past his peak. "some stuff we may encounter" against. Eugene. A possible starting combina- tio of Hank Kuchera's Axemen includes Don Lawrence, Dave Powell, Charles Warren, Doug Lundstrom and Melvin Olsen. Lawrence, Powell and Olsen were listed on the varsity ros ter last year along with another returnee, Craig Bushman. War ren is a sophomore and Lund strom is up from the junior varsity. Of the varsity holdovers, Law rence saw the most duty last year. Moran Gone The latest version ' of the Eu gene Axemen is minus a tall man like it had in the person of Mike Moran on last season's championship bunch. Medford also lacks the height it had on the club which was runner-up to Eugene in the Class A. tour ney this year. Both aggrega tions, right now in the shadow of great clubs, both possess a quality of speed, however. The Axemen come here with victories recorded over Benson of Portland and Albany while Medford has been tested under fire only in the jamboree with one-quarter each against Klam ath Falls, Ashland and Grants Pass. Medford and Crater high ju nior varsities will be opponents in the preliminaries. Jack King High In Ashland Shoot Ashland Jack King with a score of 771-50x was high aggre gate winer Sunday in the Ash land Gun club's fourth annual indoor rifle match at the Arm ory. Archie Haskins with 771-47x was second and Lewis Conger with 769 third. Rose Van Bus kirk totalled 758 for high la dies' laurels. Jean Busenbark was high junior. She fired a 706' count. Other top prizes went to How ard Trivelpiece, high master, 766; Edwin Crabtree, high ex pert, 769; Ernest Brazil, high sharpshooter, 753, and Ted Smith Jr., high marksman, 722. Ashland Team Victor Ashland's No. 1 crew won the team match with 3063. Conger won the prone match with 200-20x and the kneeling event with 195. King was victor in the sitting position with 200. Elmo Bron shot 185 standing to take that match. There were 47 shooters from southern Oregon and northern California with 15 juniors tak ing part. Twenty trophies were presented. Rogue River Victor Over Tornado J V Rogue River high varsity splurged for 14 points in-a three minute overtime last night to turn back the Medford high jun ior varsity 68 to 57 in a basket ball fracas at Rogue River. The Junior Tornado fought to a 54 to 54 deadlock with, the Chieftains in the regular playing time of the fast moving mix but folded and put in only three points in the extra session. The Medford club had a 43 to 37 margin going into the final quarter. Rogue River caught .up midway in the period. Each club had several opportunities in the final moments of the regular time to win the fray at the free tlirow line but could not make the shots go in. Rogue River was on top 14 to 12 at the quarter and Medford led 28 to 26 at the half. Bilbee Lane of the Chiefs rolled in, 31 points and his teammate, Gary Phillips had 14. Tom Hamlin had 14 for Medford and Jack Poole 12. BASKETBALL WEDNESDAY COLLEGE GAME! East Villanova 100. St. Francis (Pa.) TT Army 93. Ithaca 47 Boston College 97. Stonehill 41 Boston Univ. 79. Suffolk 48 Cornell 82. Colgate 76 Dartmouth 70. Vermont 37 Brown 58. Tufts 56 Yale 92, Connecticut 87 Pennsylvania 72. Swarthmore 60 St. John's (N.Y.) 89. Roanoke 62 Temple 74, Gettysburg 53 Midwest Cincinnati 109, Tennessee 82 Dayton 73, Miami (Ohio) 50 Kansas 56. Wichita 55 Notre Dame 85. Loyola (111.) 84 West LA. City Col. 88. Santa Monica 47 Baylor 62. Oregon State 57 -Eastern Oregon 78, Whitman 72 Pacific Lutheran 84, Pacific 68 Clark Junior College 88. Monterey Peninsula 63 LINE-UPS: Rogue River 68 57 Medford JV Towse 6 f 15 Hamlin Moore 11 f in Mullpn Wilson 3 c 10 Russell Phillips 14 g 4 Bergman Lane 31 g 12 Poole Substitutions For RnmiA fliupr Stinchcomb 3, Stewart, Vanscoter; for Medford. Funston 3. Berteau Rrau. ner 1, Payne 2. Medfordite Takes Part In Sooner Girls' Game Norman, Okla. Jackie Cal lan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Callan. Medford. Ore.. was a participant last Saturday in a girls' football game at Uni versity of Oklahoma. She was a member of the Pi Phi squad which played the Gamma Phi Beta team in a Christmas bene fit affair for the Cerebral Palsy institute children. Tough tackle rules were followed. Use Tribune Want Ads Oregon First To Take Positive Step on Plea ' For Physical Fitness Portland Oregon is the first state to take positive action in responding to President Eisen hower's request for improve ment of the nation's physical fitness, according to Dr. H. Har rison Clarke, research professor of physical education, Univer sity of Oregon. Clark explained that Oregon's recent establishment of a phy sical fitness testing program has gained for it nation-wide prom inence. He was the keynote -speaker for last Saturday's (De cember 3) banquet of the Oregon Association for Health, Physical' Education and Recreation. One hundred seventy-five Ore- ' gon educators attended the 38th. annual convention of the asso-' ciation at Seaside. Those participating included: From Jackson county Ted Schopf , Beverly Bennet, Ruth Bebber, Alex Petersen and Dan Bulkley, Southern Oregon col lege; Lee Ragsdale, Medford; Lewis Bertrand, Phoenix; Dea. Cox, Jacksonville, and Vem Bonebreak, Eagle Point. Use Tribune Want Ads Webfoot Squad Headed for Utah Eugene (U.R) ' Oregon's Ducks left here by plane today for Utah where they meet a Brigham Young's strong bask etball team in games at Provo Friday and Saturday night. Coach Bill Borcher will take an 11-man traveling squad. GRAHAM QUITS Brooklyn, N. Y. (U.R) Frank Graham Jr., publicity director for the Brooklyn Dodgers since 1952 and a former sports writer for the New York Sun, is resign ing his post with the baseball team to take over as assistant managing editor for Sport magazine. Danny Kidd. Successful In Orient Toga Defense Manila (U.R) Danny Kidd of " the Philippines, successfully defended his flyweight champ ionship of . the Orient Wednes day when he scored a 12-round decision over the rugged Vitich ai Kunoi of Thailand. Kidd scaled 111 pounds to his op ponets 109. OCE COACH CALLED Monomuth OJ.R) Darrell Davis, assistant football coach at Oregon College of Education, has been called for induction into the Army. Davis was a three sport letterman at OCE before assisting Head Coach John Cham berlain last season. Gun Club Turkey Shoot on Sunday Rain or shine, there'll be shooting open to all scatter gunners Sunday at Medford gun club. The occasion is the first of two pre-Christmas turkey shoots. The event will last throughout the day with hams as well as turkeys to be prizes. Participation is planned also for non-shooters. Lunch will be available at the grounds. Central Point Lions club will have lunch concessoin. The gun club is on Central Point Market rd. just west of Crater Lake highway Four Corners. I SAIUTI - - JACKSON COUNTY Occasion of THE FARMERS of Upon the FARM The prosperity of a nation, a county and a community springs f,rom the soil. We, here in Jackson County, owe much to the farmers for their major contribution to the sound economy of this area. We, here at Hubbard-Wray, have many contacts with Rogue River Valley farmers. We recognize and appreciate their part in making this a prosperous, growing community. Farm Bureau Week, now being observed, affords us an opportunity to the important role of our farmers in building a bigger and better Jackson Countyl iUilAU HUBBARD-WRAY C 0., Inc. 25 South Riverside Medford WE GUARANTEE OUR SHOP WORK! INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER Company, Located in Cullen Building, 2232 Biddls Rd. Forty million dollars worth of naval stores, such as turpentine and rosin, are produced annual ly in the United States. Pre-Christmas TURKEY SHOOT Sunday, Dec. 11 RAIN OR SHINE Medford Gun Club Crater Lake Hiway at 4 Corners , TURKEYS - HAMS - BACON, Etc. Visitors Urged To Attend TRAPS OPEN 9 A.M. LUNCH SERVED ON THE GROUNDS By the Central Point Lions Club T Tro ways io ive a mm 13 ....V " us $430 45 QUART This year Calvert offers you two ways to give one of the world's , two most popular whiskies . . . the ' famous Calvert bottle or the new golden-capped decanter, designed by Russel Wright to sym bolize Calvert's superb smoothness and deeply satisfying quality! . Whichever you choose, you will find Calvert again tops the field as the season's most appreciated whiskey gift I For, just as it says on tie label, Calvert is "the choicest you can drink or serve." Calvert Reserve The choicest you can give or serve! CALVERT DISTILLERS CO., N. Y. C BLENDED WHlSKEY-86.8 PROOF-65 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS
