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May Cancel Plans For Class B Northwest League Team Here Unless a volunteer who is suf ficiently well acquainted in the valley to spearhead the obtain ing of signatures on a partner ship agreement to bring Medford into the Class B Northwest bas bM league corfSes forth in the next 24 hours, probably will be necessary to call off the idea, according to Igarry Chipman, temporary chairman of the base ball committee.G Although several volunteers have been obtained to assist in obtaining the signatures, no one is willing to act as head man in the movement, it was gtated. ilnder the partnership plan, gijfners would pleS&e to assume from one to 10 per cent of the loss or profits in the proposed baseball club. Jan. 10 Deadline The league has given Medford until Jan. 10 to-make a decision on whether it will accept a fran chise. It would be necessary to obtain enough signatures be tween now and that time to' be certain that underwriting could be assured before acceptance of the jrvitation could be made, Chipwan pointed out. . A committee of seven men has spent considerable time in the past month working out the partnership agreement and mak ing plans for renovation of the Fairgrounds baseball park to make it suitable for professional baseball. The committee has found suf- WRESTLING WED. NIGHT December 21 GRANTS PASS Arena, Grants Pass Starting Time 8:30 p.m. MAIN EVENT REMATCH The First "Death" Match ever held in Oregon! No Time Limit No Disqualification Kurt von Poppenheim, 208 The Proud Prussian O "Wild Bull" Savage, 21 Chicago Whether it takes one fall or 20 this Texas style match will be ever only when one man is un able to continue. SEMI-FINAL Best 23 Falls or 1 Hour Limit Trior Hagen, 206, Minnesota Seotty Wflfca mi, 1 98, Missouri Hagen looked great last week against Perez. Refcee Alec Perez When you have to and it must G G It's never too late to get the finest and 'when you're looking for the finest whiskey of all, there is one sure choice: smooth, rich SEAGRAM'S 7 CROWN . ..the most popular whiskey in history by an overwhelming margjn. Q SEAGRAM DISTILLERS ficient interest among the "fans in the street" to assure success of an advance ticket selling cam paign but the partnership agree ment seems to be the "sticker," Chipman said. Advance Ticket Sales Cost of the club's operation for the coming season would be financed with advance ticket sales, program and fence adver tising and concession sales and little if any loss would have to be made up by the partner ship agreement signers, the com mittee believes. In fact, a pro posed operation budget and expected income actually shows a profit, Chipman declared. At any rate, partnership signers would be asked to put up no money until the loss, if any, was figured at the end of the season MedfordJTrtbune Michigan State Spartans Vow to Win in Rose Bowl (Here is another in the series on ihe teams in ihe football bowl games.) By CLAIR M. HEKHUIS East Lansing, Mich. (U.R) Michigan State's splendid Spar tans who bounced back from near abscurity to national prom inence this year are deter mined to win the Rose Bowl classic on Jan. 2 to fulfill a promise. It's a vow they've made to themselves and their "Coach of the Year," Hugh (Duffy) Daugh erty. "We're through missing the boat," said Carl (Buck) Ny strom, team captain. Nystrom predicted in 1954, at the end of Michigan State's most disastrous football season in 37 years, "We'll make the boat next year and go all the way to the Rose Bowl." When the Spartans arrived in Pasadena, Calif., Dec. 17 to start workouts, Nystrom told news men, "We came out here to win." Michigan State has the tools to win the battle of the roses: A bunch of able kids who can exe cute almost any kind of play on the books and a coach who has developed an almost uncanny COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY. BLENDED WHISKEY. 86.8 PROOF. 65 next autumn. In comparison with Medford's previous experience in profes sional ''baseball, in the Class D Far West league in ' the late 1940s and early 1950s, Chipman pointed out that the Northwest league is two notches higher which would assure local fans of a much better class of base ball. Medford's entry in the Far West league was financed by a stock plan and was under financed from the start, which kept the club in almost constant money troubles. Visiting teams played on a split-gate plan, with the visiting team receiving 40 per cent, which worked a hard ship on towns with good gate re ceipts. In the Northwest league, each team keeps its own gate receipts. ability to spot weaknesses in the opposing team. Well-Balanced Club The Big Ten representative in the bowl is a well-balanced club of steady veterans and eager sophomores. Any member of the backfield quarterback Earl Morrall, right half Walt Kowalczyk, left half Clarence Peaks, and full back Gerry Plannutis can break up a ball game. Each 4id it at least once during the Spar tan's 8-1 season. The line is a collection of mid dleweights big enough to stand off a charge, fast enough to lead interefrence. Stormin' Norman Masters the heaviest man on the line at 225 pounds is a United Press All American tackle, a "block of granite with legs." And Daugherty calls Nystrom, a 194-pound guard, "the finest lineman I've seen in my 10 years at Michigan State." Sophomore tackle Pat Burke is another standout on the line along with guard Dale Hollern. Brilliant Ball Handlers Morrall, a senior, is a brilliant ball handler, a smart signal caller, a powerful punter and the most successful passer in find it fast. . . be the finest . . . Say Seagrams and be SVLXt itr.Mr.Miir.it. ..The finest Dick James Out Of East-West Shrine Game Eugene (U.R) Dick James qualified today as the real "tough luck" kid of sports in Oregon. James is out of the East-West Shrine game, a goal of all foot ball players, because of a broken left wrist suffered last Friday while swimming, a sport he had just taken up. An X-ray discov ered the fracture. Last year James was consid ered a possible member of Ore gon's varsity basketball squad but a broken wrist kept him out. It was the right. wrist last season. San Francisco (U.R) Half back Weldon Holley of Baylor today was named as a substitute for Dick James of Oregon on the West team for the annual Shrine East-West football game, Dec. 31. James recently broke his wrist in a swimming pool acci dent. Oregon, OS to Meet Big Ten Teams Tonight Corvallis (U.R) A sophomore dominated Oregon State basket ball team meets Michigan and Oregon plays Northwestern here tonight in the first of a two night invasion by the Big 10 teams of the Willamette valley. Oregon State, which lost prac tically all of its defending Pa cific Coast Conference cham pionship team, has won but one game in five starts. Oregon has won only one game, defeating Oregon State in a non-conference opener. The big 10 teams switch op ponents for Wednesday night's double-header in Eugene. Michigan State history. Daugherty credits his assistant coaches and the players for Michigan State's startling come back after the 1954 doldrums. "This is a team that made the coaches," he said. "And the coaches were a year older and a year smarter." Daugherty never had to work to bring the squad "up" for a game this year. He kept the first string out of scrimmage all sea son to guard ' against injuries and keep them fresh for Satur day. The team was determined to win every game, and it was turned back only once, a 14-7 heartbreaker against Michigan in which the Spartans out-did the Wolverines in everything but the score. About 16,000,000 acres of arid land in the western states still is waiting for irrigation waters. GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS. Dons Remain No. 1 Team In United Press Ratings New York 4J.P.) The United Press college basketball ratings with first-place votes and won- lost records through Dec. 17 in parentheses: Team Points 1. San Francisco.... 33 (5-0) 346 2. Utah 2 (5-0) 279 North Car, Stale (7-1) 255 (6-0) 156 (6-0) 148 (3-1) 108 (5-0) 96 (5-0) 85 (4-1) 77 (5-1) 60 Dayion Brigham Young Iowa Holy Cross North Caroline Kentucky . 10. Marquette Second 10 teams 11 George Washington, 46; 12, Southern Methodist, 41; 13 tie, St. Louis and Illinois, 21 each; 15, Louis ville, 20; 16 lie. Temple, Duques ne and Ohio State, 19, Vander bilt, 16; 20, Indiana, 14. New York (U.R) San Fran cisco's demon Dons, defying col lege b a s k e t b al l's traditional away-from-home "jinx" to run their winning streak to 31 games, again were the over whelming choice of the United Press Board of Coaches today as the nation's No. 1 team. Utah and North Carolina State maintained their No. 2 and 3 ratings, respectively, while North Carolina and Marquette were this week's newcomers among the top 10 teams. The West Coast Dons were the No. 1 choice of 33 of the 35 outstanding coaches who com prise the United Press rating board. San Francisco's total of 346 out of a possible 350 points has been topped only once since the United Press ratings . were inititaed in 1950. Superb defense and an all star cast headed by All-America center Bill Russell were the big factors that enabled Coach Phil Woolpert's Dons to beat Mar- Ameche Is Pro Rookie Of The Year New York (U.R) Alan Ameche, former Wisconsin All America fullback whom some coaches and scouts rated "too slow" for National Football League play, today was named the pro circuit's Rookie of the Year in the annual United Press poll. Ameche galloped 79 yards for a touchdown the first time he carried the ball in a regular sea son NFL game for the Baltimore Colts. He went on to become the first rookie to win the league's ball-carrying title since 1943, gaining 961 yards on 213 tries. That showing in the rugged play-for-pay competition enabled Ameche to win Rookie of the Year honors easily in voting by 30 sports writers who covered the 1955 NFL campaign. The 21-year-old Ameche re ceived 17 votes. His closest com petition was furnished by his teammate, quarterback George Shaw. Shaw, a first-year pro from Oregon, received five votes. Waller Next Ron Waller, rookie halfback from Maryland who starred for the Los Angeles Rams, was next in the balloting with four votes. Rick Casares, Chicago Bears halfback from the University of Florida, received two. Two Washington Redskins rookies, tackle J. D. Kimmel and halfback Bert Zagers, split the' other two votes. Kimmel played college football for Army and Houston, while Zagers played for Michigan State. Ameche, who averaged 4.5 yards per rush, scored nine touchdowns. His -54 points en abled him to tie end Harlon Hill of the Chicago Bears for 10th in individual scoring. The 217-pound Ameche also caught 29 passes for a total of 152 yards. Jim Mutscheller, a second -year pro - from Notre Dame, was the only Baltimore player who caught more passes than Ameche. Mutscheller caught 34. Ameche rounded out his first pro campaign by running back four kickoffs 60 yards for a 15 yard average in that department. Basketball By UNITED PRESS East Manhattan 85, Connecticut 82 Alabama 89. Holy Cross 84 Massachusetts -91, Boston. Coll. 73 South Carrousel Tournament Tennessee 80. Boston 77 (1st round) Clemson 94. Florida St. 76 (1st rnd.) Wake Forest 95, Miss. State 68 (1st rnd.) Colgate 86, Davidson 51 (1st rnd.) Xaxier (La.) 90. Georgetown. Ky 52 Vanderbilt 85. Georgia 61 Florida 74. Miami iFla.) 69 Ohio State 72, Tulane 66 Midwest Indiana 80. Cincinnati 61 Wisconsin 71, Nebrasla 52 Duquesne 71, Loyola. Calif., 55 Missouri 81. Idaho 57 Illinois 97, DePaul 79 Southwest Rice 75. Kansas 66 Kentucky Wesleyan 75, N. Mexico 55 West Idaho St. 77 Montana Western 51 Iowa St. 72, Colorado A&M 60 Utah St. 64, Montana St. 59 Others Linfield 81. St. Martin's 66 Willamette 67, Western Washington 62 Fresno State 72, Eastern Washington 62) Seattle U. 73. St. Mary'i 54 Southern Oregon 69. Humboldt State 57 Seattle FTOsh 88, Olympic JC 73 Tuesday, December 20, 1955 quette and DePaul last week end in winning the Chicago Stadium Invitation Tournament. Road Trip Continues But the hazards of a road trip are not yet over for the Dons. They play Wichita tonight, Loy ola of New Orleans Friday, and then visit New York for the Holiday Festival at Madison Square Garden, in which such powers as seventh-ranked Holy Cross, Duquesne, UCLA, St. John's of New York and Syra cuse are entered. Utah received the two first place votes that did not .go to San Francisco. The Utes' 279 point total cut the Dons' lead from 99 to 67 points. North Carolina, undefeated in five games, made the biggest jump of the week, vaulting all the way to the No. 8 ranking from a tie for 26th last week. Marquette jumped three places to 10th. Duquesne and Alabama, beaten twice in road games, dropped out of the top 10. Dayton advanced one notch to fourth place and Brigham 3 . -, . vj-uuiig juuipea xour places xo fifth. Kentucky at New Low Kentucky, the perennial pow er house which has not looked too impressive against so-so op ponents fell three places to ninth. This was the lowest week ly rating the Wildcats ever have held since the United Press rat ings were initiated in 1950. With points distributed on the basis of 10 for a first-place vote, down to one for a lOth-place vote, North Carolina State re ceived 255 points, Dayton 156, Brigham Young 148, Iowa 108, Holy Cross 96. North Carolina 85, Kentucky 77 and Marquette 60. George Washington moved up five places from 16th to top the second 10 group. Southern Methodist was 12th, with St. Louis and Illinois tied for 13 th place. Following Louisville in 15th there was a three-team tie for 16th among temple, Du quesne and Ohio State. Vander bilt and Indiana completed the second 10 group. r RCA Victor 21-Inch A Now RCA Victor brings you rich Provin cial cabinetry with all the charm and authenticity that only master craftsmen can create. But the new 21-inch RCA Victor Chalfont Deluxe gives you far more than beauty. You get new"4-Plus" performance for the brightest, clearest picture in TV! New two-speaker Balanced Fidelity Sound re-creates in your home the entire range 95 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN St. Mary's Scuffles at Jacksonville Tonight will be the heaviest night of basketball this week for the high schools of Jackson county. Five games are on the agenda for the evening. While the Medford high Black Tornado is at Roseburg the city's other prep, St. Mary's, will also make a trip a short one to Jacksonville. Other combats will take Eagle Point to Talent and Butte Falls to Prospect, while Rogue River is host to Illinois Valley-. " With the exception of the Roseburg-Medford outing, all of the games are return - engage ments. Victors first time out in the pre-conference tussles were St. Mary's, Eagle Point, Prospect and Rogue River. Junior Highs Play Hedrick junior high has three tangles with Eagle Point teams this evening. Seventh graders play at 6:30 p.m., eighth graders at 7:30 p.m., and the Hornet ninth grade and Eagle Point Freshmen at 8:30 p.m. McLough lin junior high seventh and eighth will vie at 3:30 and 4:30 p.m., respectively, at Central Point. Whitman Sold To San Jose of Cai Loop Portland (U.R) Dick Whit man has been sold by the Port land Beavers of the Pacific Coast -League to San Jose of the class C California League where he will be playing man ager. Whitman, who is 35 years old, hit .304 in 141 games for Port land last season. Connie Mack to Leave Hospital Today Philadelphia (U.R) Connie Mack will be discharged from Presbyterian Hospital today and will spend the Christmas holi day at the home of his son, Roy, in Bryn Mawr, Pa. The former president and manager of the Philadelphia Athletics will be 93 Friday. PROVINCIAL DISTINGUISHED PERFORMANCE! ' THE SUPERB 21-INCH CHALFONT DELUXE Chalfont Deluxe, luxurioui mopU finiih. Mod of sound sent out by TV networks. Even tuning is easier... new "High-Side" Tuning lets you dial standing up while you watch the picture! The new "Front Window" VHF Channel Indicator has illuminated ' king-size numbers you can read clear across the room. Truly the new Chalfont Deluxe is an achievement in television de sign. ..inside and out! See it today. 535 DOWN $15.50 MONTH 1st Payment in March Charles Skeeters Wins 4 Turkeys ' Charles Skeeters was the big winner Sunday at the fourth and final turkey shoot of the 'year at Medford Gun club. Skeeters was the winner of four turkeys. Ray Colematj fol lowed with three. ' More than 50 hams and turk eys went. A medium-sized but lively crowd wase on hand for the shoot. The club will be closed on Sunday, Christmas, but will be open on New Year's day for practice shooting. The annual Red and Blue team shoot and the annual meeting are events of January. Machamer Scores 37 In Linfield Victory , McMinnville (U.R) Bl (Hinges) Machamer poured Hi 37 points last night to lead Lin field to an 81-66 basketball vic tory over St. Martin's. The former Madras star scor-. ed on 15 out of '24 field goals. and 7 but of 13 free throws. Skip Olson led St. Martin's in scorinjj with 18 points. ' ; Y "1 mm So smooth it leaves you breathless mirnoff tu maiest name J -VODKA 80 proof. Made'from 1 00 grain neutral spirits. Su. Pierre Smirnoff FU. Inc.. Hartford, Conn. CABINETRY - 349.95 21D647. 1 M1. M
