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Newspaper Page TextG MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVXM 0 o McLoughlin Hoop Quints Clip Hedrick McLoughlin junior high cagers , were victors over Hedrick yes terday afternoon in the first court rivalry between the two Medford schools. Bulldog seventh grade play erg rambled to a 45 to 24 de cision while tlfe eighth managed to spurn the challenge of the Hornets 40 to 33. Jerry Anderson of Hedrick ras high man for the eighth grade struggle with 20 while Ken Durkee topped McLoughlin efforts with 14. Danny Siegs Mad 14 for the Honetseventh and Bob Quinney led the Bulldog crew with 12. LINE-UPS: McL. 8th 40 38 Hedrick Sth Durkee 14 f 2 McGill Hamilton 5 t Frohnmayer Knizht 5 O c 4 Moore Konopasek 12 g 3 Olson Allen 4 2 20 Anderson Substitutions For McLoughlin. Bennett; for Hedrick, Parsons. Dea kins, Dunn 4. McL. 7 th 46 Hamack 8 Funston 6 O Hood 8 Quinney 13 RaKsdale 5 24 Hedrick 7th 14 Siees Dawson Gastineau 4 Monroe 4 Mcintyre Substitutions For McLouRhlin, Hoots 2. Morton, Myers. Kamody, Quackenbush, Minnick 4. Randies Hoxworth. Ruhl.CLingren. Underwood Homine: fof Hedrick. Ward. Lorish, Cummings 2. Kahle. Bray 2, Emmens, Parton, Hamlin, Mills. Doao. Parton 2 1 Santee Travels Mile in 4:10.2 New York 'U.R) Wes Santee, Owho proved he's in shape for top-notch competition by run ning the fastest flat-floor mile evei seen in this area, says he isnT worried by the AAU's new Investigation of his amateur status. "I'd be heartbroken if not al-' lowed to run for the United States in the Olympics," said the Marine lieutenant last night after clocking 4:10.2 for the mile In a special handicap meet here. "But I'm not worried, because my conscience is clear," Santee said. "I never made demands on meet directors. I have always, ccepted expenses in good faith nd made full reports on them." Santee was suspended once by the Missouri Valley AAU on charges he accepted too much expense money for competing In meets in California last sum mer. 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AS LOW AS $3.00 PER WEEK i-j SHOPSEVJITH... for rT.M. reg. umm KUBBARD-WRAY CO., INC. 25 SOUTH RIVERSIDE fj f f?r,.t'$& BLOCKING DENVER University cagers out of play, Jim Hal sten (44) UCLA forward takes rebound as Bruins top Denver 68-40 in first game of season at Long Beach, Cal.( International) MEDFOtWltSTlUBUNE Willie Mays Nabs Slugger Crown of National League By FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer New York (U.R) Willie Mays, the New York Giants' brilliant centerfielder, today officially became the first player in a decade to win the National League's slugging crown two consecutive years. Figures released by the Elias Baseball Bureau revealed that the 24-year-old Mays compiled a .659 slugging percentage and also topped the circuit in total "tony PHONE 2-4011 fir- I. .tm-vfriiiiimiifiitii)ii3 Pet vertical drilling I bases with 382. Duke Snider ranked second in slugging with .628 while Ted Kluszewski of the Cincinnati Redlegs was sec ond in total bases with 358. Mays, who also led the circuit in slugging with a .667 percent age in 1954, is the first National Leaguer to win two straight slug ging crowns since Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals did it in 1943 and 1944. Other Na tional Leaguers who have won the slugging crown in consecu tive campaigns were Johnny Mise, Chuck Klein, Rogers Hornsby and the late Hans Wag ner. Mays, who played in 152 games, compiled his 382 bases in 580 official times at bat. He collected 185 hits, including a league-leading 51 home runs, 13 triples and 18 doubles. Snider compiled his .628 per centage with 338 total bases for 538 at-bats. He had 166 hits, 42 homers, six triples and 34 doubles. Kluszewski amassed his 358 total bases on 192 hits, in cluding 47 homers and 25 doubles, but failed to hit a single triple. Musial ranked eighth in slug ging with .566. His 318 total bases marked the 11th time he passed 300 in his career an N.L. record. Eddie Mathews of the Milwau kee Braves, who ranked third with a .601 slugging percentage, led in bases on balls with 109. Richie Ashburn, the league's bat ting champion, ranked second with 105, while Kluszewski's 25 intentional passes were tops for that department. Central Pointer Clubs Post Wins Central Point Central Point junior high hoop quintets swept a pair from Grants Pass here last night. Seventh graders won 33 to 23 and eighth graders 28 to 19. The seventh grade club head ed 7 to 5, 17 to 9 and 22 to 17 at the intermissions. Loyal Higin botham counted up 18 points. Harris was high for Grants Pass with nine. Eighth graders romped to an 11 to 2 spread at the quarter and were in front 18 to 6 at half- time. Third quarter marginwas 22 to 12. Glen Coty led the Point ers with 11 and Ripley headed Grants Pass with eight. lEtttuiwJi ! Whisuv I 1 1 f- i YOU AND YOUR GUESTS WILL LOVE THIS CANADA DRY WHISKEY! AMERICA'S rlNb" BOlRBO America's Finest Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey' 6 Years Old -86 Proof Distributed by: Canada Dry Ginger Ale, Inc., New York Independent Loop Will Halt Action During Holidays MIBL STANDINGS W. Pet. 1.000 .833 .600 500 .500 .333 .333 .000 Prospect YMCA . Phoenix Merchants Hawkinson Tire Tread Butte Falls Company A (NO Headquarters Co. (NG) Moose Lodge - - Medford Independent Basket ball League contention has come to 'a virtual halt until after the holidays. ' Only a single hassle is set for next week. Phoenix Merchants will play at Butte Falls on Mon day. After that league action rests until January 3. Christmas season., activities and the vacation period make the McLoughlin junior high school gymnasium unavailable. Prospect still rules the roost in the circuit with an unblem ished record ' after . narrowly evading defeat at the hands erf Hawkinson Tire Tread cfi Wednesday. YMCA is just a haM game behind still -in the thick of consideration. ' LINE-UPS: Butte Falls 61 SI Company. A J. Moore 5 f 7 J. Burns Brown 11 f 10 Trautnian Snoich 2 c 7 Spence Abbott 15 ft D. Burns Coolev 5 g 14 Mcintyre Substitutions For Butte Falls, Bartlett 4, D. L. Smith 2. Henshaw 2, D. Moore 13. Tysart 2. Dillard. Cajsey. Crammer: for Company A. Carrigan 4, Saxbury 9. Van Horn. Grambling Cager Hits 3,000 Mark New York (U.R) College, bas ketball today hailed a ner all time high-scoring champion six-foot, nine-inch centefc Bob Hopkins of Grambling college of Louisiana. Hopkins became the first play er in history to score mone than 3,000 points in his college career during the past week when he scored 18 points in Grarabling's 78-58 victory over Wiley college. He tallied 51 points the next night againsj the same team to run his all-time total to 3,062 points in 103 games. The Grambling ace already had passed the all-time record of 2,959 points, set by Oarl Hart man of Alderson-Broac&dus in a four-year career ending last year. Hopkins' 168 points In five games through Dec. 10. puts him atop this year's small-college race, with an . average of 33.6 points per game, in small -college statistics released today by the NCAA. He's closeJfcr followed by Chester Webb f Georgia Teachers with 31.8, Ail Meyer of Illinois Normal with. 31.3, and Joe Girlando of Case Tech with 30.0. Sports Broadcasts Radio stations KYJC and KMED will broadcast Ihe North Bend-Medford high bas ketball game tonirjht and ihe Medford-Marshfield game Sat urday at 8 p.m. both days. Station KWIN wil carry the Southern Oregon College-Yellow Cab mix ionictfht and the Ashland-Bend high, fray Satur day both at 8 p.rra. Television station KBES will present the Washington-Illinois cage tussle at noon on Saturday. Reese Receives Boost in Salary Brooklyn, N. Y. (U.R) The- Dodgers may not play in Brook lyn forever, but it's starting to look as if Pee Wee Reese will be the Dodger shortstop that long. Kentucky's "Little Colonel" from Louisville, who found a home in Ebbets Field in 1940, be came the first member f the world champions to fall in line for the 1956 season today, and he got a husky raise that boost ed him into about 540,000 in sal ary. The coming jear will be Pee Wee's 14th in the majors, all with Brooklyn, for he spent three seasons ih the Navy dur ing World War II. No other National Leaguer has been at his post that long. $YAQ TONIGHT December 16th Eagle Members and Men Guests COMMERCIAL LEAGUE Commercial League teams had varied fortunes this week. Qual ity Market, with a 1022 game and a 2756 Series, still took only a 3-1 series from Crater Lake Motormen. Al Henderson was big gun for the Marketeers with a 587 series. Olsen's took a 3-1 series from Morning Fresh Bakery, on aid of McNeel's 636 series topped by 247 game. Al Sacchi had 573 for the Bakery jnen. Mail Tribune and Table Rock Lumber had a tie game but the Newsboys had the extra pins to take the series. A 231 game by Forrest Liddell was top for the match. Dad's Hideaway took a 3-1 series from Courtesy despite a 590 series by Doc Wilson of the Chev. men. Bates took their 3-1 this week at expense of A and B Insurance. White City Sales took the first game by 203 pins and held on to take total pins for their 2-2 split with Valentine Cafe. Standings: W.L. Olsen's Eagle Point 14 6 Table Rock Lumber 12 Vi 7ii Morning Fresh Bakery 12 8 Mail Tribune ll'.i 8'.i Dad's Hideaway 11 9 Quality Market 11 9 Valentine Cafe 11 9 Bates Candy Co 11 9 Crater Lake Motors 9 11 Alexander and Brown 8 12 White City Sales 7 13 Courtesy Chevrolet :. 2 18 Results: A and B Boone Guldan Speer McWhorter Knapp (1) 435 474 481 515 507 2432 Bates Candy (3) ' Weber - 496 Dimick 498 Grant ' 450 Garrett 543 Dixon 571 2558 Total 01sens Straus Allen (3) 581 487 385 471 636 2560 Morning Fresh (1) Beck 456 Ratty 461 Chinn 465 Spain 5u2 Sacchi 573 2547 Olsen Clave McNeel Total M. Tribune Anderson Liddell Table R. Lbr (l') Gardner 519 Forney 537 Neece 456 Freeman 552 Schroeder 473 2537 537 519 450. 526 548 2580 Mathes 1 Monsey Spaunhorst Courtesy Chev. (1) Dad's Hdeaway(3) Joe Cabler 504 Jim Cabler 500 Christianson 527 Jack Cabler 567 Bob Cabler 517 (Absentee) 438 443 464 509 590 Fetherston Wilson Maggenti Wilson Total 2354 Total 2612 Quality Mkt. (3) Lubbers 526 Huston 567 Kyker 512 Henderson 587 Wise 564 C. Lake Mtrs. fl) Vessey 530 Lane 503 Royce 483 Farrar 494 Absentee) 440 2756 2480 (2) 445 539 Valentine's White Carr Brooks Florey Schneider (2) 512 370 479 505 531 2397 White City. Smith Feehl Bex Knox Henson 528 554 508 2574 EVERGREEN LEAGUE There was not much change in the top positions of the Ever green League this week. Big Y Market took a 3-1 series from Hunter and Best sawmill and exchanged spots in the standings with Jackson Creek Lumber which lost series 4-0 to Medford Barbers. Barbers had the only 800 game, or 854. Domestic Laundry managed 3-1 series against Jorgensen's Dairy. However, Del Schrier rolled a 218 to salvage the third game for the Dairymen. Oddity showed four men on the Laun dry squad with two games..each the same score, and 3 of the 4 men were rolling the third game with a possible triplicate score in sight. Two men had 15 and 9 pins too many, and one rolled 2 pins short. Standings: ' W. Swift and Co i 15 Big Y. Market 14 Domestic Laundry 14 Jackson Creek Lbr 12 Chuck's Pump Service 11 Medford Barbers 10 t. 5 6 : 6 8 6 10 11 Hunter and Best. Sawmill Oasis Ballroom Moore Steel Co Jorgensen's Dairy Pierce Freight Lines 9 11 8 12 7 13 4 16 Results Chuck's Pump (3) Swift Co. McWhorter 468 Anderson fl) 447 384 464 410 462 84 2251 (11 476 389 360 381 Coeeins. Sr. 428 Hjorten 395 Griffith 564 Messelbeck Boner Handicap Coggins, Jr. Parker Total Big T Mkt. Franz Pickell Withrow Booker 3312 (3) Hunter-Best 405 Russell 444 Sorber 496 Croucher 382 Absentee Friday. December 16, 195S McQuat 403 Wicksten ' 467 Handicap 24 2230 2097 Jackson Creek (0) Barbers (4) Glover 456 Boone 469 Fenton 396 Braaten 487 J. Kantor 499 Hamer 376 Lewis 400 Absentee 474 Kantor 426 Speer 584 Handicap 120 2307 2390 Moore Steel ' (0) Oasis Ballrm. (4) Lugnet 335 Williams 401 La Fon 3B2 Wadlow 405 Monroe 317 Burton 340 Kravig 427 Wilson 425 Edwards 370 Spain 522 Handicap 249 2080 . t 2193 Eastside Mkt. (3) Pierce Freight (1) Harger 353 Dicker man 487 Neathamer ; 497 Martin 406 Morris 419 Larson 432 Fluck 479 Negles 434 Orr 411 Vallee 494 Handicap 201 2360 2253 Domestic Ldry (3) Jorgensen't (1) Knox 511 Duncan 381 Lane 495 Givler 448 Coats 400 Jorgensen 312 Liddell 450 Sebrein 512 Colley 525 Ellis 568 Handicap 102 2381 2323 ROGUE VALLEY LEAGUE Andy's Jewelers took over the lead in the Rogue Valley League Thursday night by tak ing four games from Lorenz Co. while the Seven Up squad drop ped one to State Forest Patrol, Vern Allen bowled high series with 577, and Neal Dow turned in the best game with a 213. Standings: W. L. Andy's Jewelers 37 Vi 26 Vi Seven Up 37 27 Forest Patrol 34 30 Star Bodv Works 34 30 Kliever Machine Shop 34 30 City Hall 32 i 31 i u. s. National au 31 Darrell Miller Company 29 35 Lorenz Co. 28 ...24 36 40 Pine Tree Market Results: Star Body 2 Pine Tree B. Jenkins D. Chapman S. Mallon F. Chapman D. Kreer A. Bohannan 520 480 B. Graham 384 447 C. Emery 458 444 513 442 B. Thornton D. Graham Handicap 462 541 75 2440 2326 4 Lorenz Co. 0 C. McWhorter 463 D. M Cormack 470 ' B. Tye 413 H. Arant 365 J. Mathes 485 Andy's E. Float D. Kline D. Johnson T. Anderson C. Ericson Handicap 423 498 419 480 511 105 2196 2436 Miller Co. 1 Kliever 1 C. Cox 423 W. Eberius 520 D. Tremblay 459 M. Jacobson 418 B. Kramer 446 E. Isaacs 451 H. Wvatt 396 T. Van Sickle 427 J. Haven 434 N. Allen 577 Handicap 198 2356 2393 City Hall 3 U. S. National 1 O. McNeel 563 S. Doty 431 N. Dow 505 E. Humphrey 410 E. McKinstry 417 G. Rader 388 R. Duff 417 F. Eastwood 373 J.Compagnoni 503 P. Shafer 440 Handicap 1 159 2403 2201 - 3 365 443 488 390 465 9 2160 Forest Patrol 1 Seven Up B. Van Hoy 445 K. Shaw H. Smets 381 428 D. Coates G. Dayon J. Bradish D. Stockton T. Maul 446 J. Morgan 433 D. Swan Handicap 2133 TO DISCUSS BAN Chicago U.R) The executive committee of the National Box ing association will discuss New York's ban on the Boxing Mana gers' Guild at its meeting Jan. 14, President Lou Radzienda said today. "Until then nobody can speak for the NBA," he added. Use Tribune Want Ads QUICK and EASY! Johnson Sea-h America's most beautiful outboard motors NOW ON DISPLAY We are pleased to announce our appointment as a Johnson dealer. No other outboard motor is built like a Johnson Sea-Horse. Nona! The manufacturer who has built more motors than anyone else has more experience in building them better. That's Johnson! ' ' Come in and See the New 1956 Models t Styled in brilliant Holiday Bronze Give a Johnson Sea-Horse for Christmas 1A0 lU0 A Gift that will SPORTING GOODS 32 So. Central Ave. Medford, Ore. Siegrist, James Nominated for Warner Award Palo Alto, Calif. OJ.R) Thirteen football players from 13 West Coast colleges have been nominated for the seventh an nual Glenn S. (Pop) Warner Me morial award. The winner will be presented with a trophy and wrist watch by the Palo Alto Sports Club next month. Nominted were Wilbur Gari, Idaho; Ron Siegrist, Oregon State; Orlando Ferrante, South- em California; Julius Dominic, Fresno State; Gene Cronin, Col lege of Pacific; Steve Dimiff, California; Burt Watson, Wash ington; Bob Davenport, UCLA; Dick James, Oregon; Perry Jeter, Cal Poly; Tony Teresa, San Jose State; Bill Tarr, Stan ford, and Vaughan Hitchcock, Washington State. WHAT A. VALUEl T "JA.V. YOU CAKi HE ILEDSEVIOBDILE SEE YOUR NEAREST OLDSMOBILE DEALER SEMPE For Particulars inquire Office Post Office fo orses nfHAfM Low monthly paymenls UvVV N Up fo 1 8 months to pa Up to I o bring pleasure to all members of the family Les Combs Buys Nashua Lexington, Ky. CU.P.) Nash ua's new owner, Leslie Combs II, indicated today he is mapping a busy 1956 racing campaign for the champion colt. The prominent Kentucky breeder-owner purchased Nashua Thursday for A record price of Sl.251.200 from the estate of the late William Woodward Jr. "Primarily we bought him (Nashua) as a stallion because I wanted his cross in our breed ing lines," Combs said. "Of course, he might pay out as a racehorse before, we retire him, and we certainly wouldn't ob ject to that." Combs added that "two or three others went into this thing with me, but I'm not at liberty to say who they are." (jy AFFORDI 1 2 fFjj5Errsf NOW! Join the Va I Rogue Leathernecks at Marine Corps Recruiting Building Medford, Ore. months to pay