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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MedfordITribune Crater High To Play Bn Southern Oregon Conference In '56 Portland flJ.R) The Oregon School Activities Association gaid today that it had changed some district boundaries and elevated so;e high schools to higher classification because of enrollment increases. Crater high of Central Point will play in the Southern Ore gon conference next year after passing the 500 enrollment mark. St. Helens also was upped toGl-A status. Prineville and Redmond were tipped from the A-2 Central Ore gon League to district 8-A. On tariocalso moved into A-l from A-2 status. Two new districts which go Into effect next fall were cre ated. Nyssa, Vale, Grant Union, Madras, Lakeview and Burns were combined into a single A-2 district. A new. Willamette val Russian Battle Roy; ral Scheduled As a special attraction Wres tling Promoter Elton Owen has booked a Russian Battle Royal for this Wednesday night at the Josephine county fairgrounds arena. Five men will enter the ring in the final event and battle it out until only one is left to col lect the $200 purse. Each of the five contestants will put up $35 and the promoter will chip in the other $25. The boys will get their regu lar purses for the first two matches. Contestants for the big royal are Bull Montana, Thor Hagen, Leapin' Larry Schene, George Drake and Henry (Golden Boy) Lenz The top prelim which is down for the best two out of three falls or a 45-minute limit will match Bull Montana and George Drake. Montana clobbered Scot ty Williams last week and the fans are clamoring to see him against either Poppenheim or Savage. Montana needed police protection to get to the dressing room last week. The first match also down for the best 23 falls or 45 m. will introduce Schene, Texas TV idol, against the arrogant muscle product, Lenz. Schene is rated as just as good as Pepper Go mez in Texas. Syndicate Won't Move Tigers if Sale Is Final Detroit CU.R) A member of a six-man syndicate trying to buy the Detroit Tigers promises his group won't move the club to another city. Lionel Grise, from Holyoke, Mass., says he doesn't expect the Tigers to be sold until late in the 1956 season. He says syndi cate members will meet with Tiger President Spike Briggs next month in New York City to discuss the sale. Reports said the syndicate offered $2,250,000 for the Tigers Grise says the sale price prob ably would be closer to $3,000,000. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m Monday tor Monday: other days 5:30 Drevious day 1937 to 1954 Models Reg. $89.83 Value WE WILL: Install piston rings Install piston pins Grind Valves Clean and reface rocker arms Adjust main and connecting rod bearings Clean oil pump Clean oil breather Tune motor A GUARANTEED CHEVROLET MOTOR RECON DITIONING PERFORMED BY MASTER MECHAN ICS USING GENUINE CHEVROLET PARTS. 9th and Bartlett Sts. ley district was formed from schools of district 3-A-2. The new district will include Serra, Stayton, Cascade .Union, Ger vais, North Marion, Woodburn, Mt. Angel and Silverton. Other Shifts Among the schools shifting from class B to A-2 where Philo math, Amity, Oakland, Glide and Riddle. To make room for the latter "three, all Douglas county schools, Coquille, Ban don and Myrtle Point were put into district 2-A-2 from 6-A-2. Bend, Redmond and Prine ville will compete as a basket ball sub-district with the win ner taking a state tournament berth. The OSAA set the date for the one-day state basketball . tour ney as June 2 with site to be announced later. Glendale, in southern Douglas county, was placed on "extra good behavior" after incidents involving a basketball game with Illinois Valley high, al though the board found students were not involved in any misconduct. US Ski Team To Cortina Cortina, Italy (U.R) Al though some officials were con cerned about the condition of the Olympic training slopes, the United States ski team was ex pected to leave Austria today for on-the-spot drills for the winter games. Nelson Bennett, Sun Valley, Ida., manager of the men's squad, inspected Cortina's hills yester day and was impressed by the foot of snow in most ski trails. This snow looks better than any we've found in Austria," he said. "I think I'll call in our skiers ahead of time so they can become accustomed to the lay out " The U. S. men's ski team transferred its training sjte from Kitzbuehl to St. Anton, Austria, yesterday and originally planned to remain there until Friday. The women moved on to Bad Gastien and will compete in a giant slalom championship there today. When the Yank skiers arrive at Cortina they will be joined by another body of 40 athletes who left New York by plane yester day for the Olympic site. In cluded in'the group are members of the figure skating and ice hockey teams. Predict Russia in Olympic Games By UNITED PRESS Leading sports Writers in Europe predict Russia will win the Winter Olympics by a wide margin. They figure the United States will finish fourth in the unofficial team standings. The' winter games start Jan. 26 in Cortina, Italy. The United Press polled 22 sports writers on the scene and found they expect Russia to take most of the hon ors. They. figure second place a toss-up between Austria and Fin land. Then come the Americans. WE FURNISH: Piston rings Piston pins Distributor points Condenser All gaskets valve, head and pan 5 Quarts oil Medford Tuesday, January 17, 1956 Policemen, Firemen Vie In MOD Fray Plans are now underway for the second annual basketball tussle between the Medford city police and city firemen. The fracas has been set for Wednesday, January 25, at the senior high gymnasium and will be the first portion of a March of Dimes benefit double header. Hawkinson Tire Tread of the Medford Independent Basketball League, will skirm ish Yellow Cab in the 'second fuss. Firemen won the game last year and, while there's a spirit of friendly and harmonious co operation on the hoop court, the policemen are reportedly intent on evening the score on the maplecourt. The enforcers of the law are reportedly practicing hard to get in trim for the ruckus. Capt. Dale Davis is in charge of the firemen's team and of game arrangements. Sgts. Theo dore Whisler and Rollie Pean are co-captains for the police. Hawknson's has switched its league trip to Butte Falls to January 27 in order to take ad vantage of the chance to meet the Cabbies. Pacific Beats College of Idaho By UNITED PRESS College of Idaho's string of 23 straight Northwest Confer ence basketball victories was at an end today. Pacific Badgers, the last team to beat the Idaho club in confer ence action, turned the trick in Forest Grove last night by an 84 79 count in overtime. Pacific had beaten C of I 91-70 in Febru ary of 1954. In the other conference game last night Lewis and Clark drub bed Whitman 83-67 as Hal Ad rian put on a 29-point perform ance for the Pioneers. Ed Ramsdell sank two free throws for Pacific to tie the game at 69-all in regulation time. Pacific went ahead 81-74 with only 55 seconds left in the over time, but College of Idaho fought back to 81-79 with only 15 seconds left. But a lay-in by Jerry Kalapus and. a free throw by the same lad sewed up the game. Ramsdell led the scoring with 24 points while R. C. Owen and Max Sanchez hit 19 each for C of I. College Basketball East Villanova 95, Brandeis 83 Duquesne 76, Bowling Green 54 Steubenville 78. American Univ Northeastern 74. Tufts 58 56 Ursinus 73, Philadelphia School of .Pharmacy 60 Adelphi 76. Rider 74 ' Fairfield 82. New Britain Tchrs. Moravian 88, Lincoln (Pa.) 46 South Georgia Tech 79, Mississippi 58 Tennessee 91. L.S.U. 82 North Carolina 64. Maryland 55 Miami (Fla.) 85. Stetson 79 Vanderbilt 69. Mississippi State 49 William & Mary 66. Virginia Tech 57 Virginia 73, Washington & Lee 71 Georgia Tchrs. 104, Florida South' em 58 Wofford 88, Newberry 72 Hampden Sydney 76. Roanoke 60 Bethune Cookman 76, Tuskegee 64 Morris Brown 70, Florida A&M 65 Atlantic Christian 100, High Point 92 Florida Southern 85, Loyola (La.) 75 Miami (tia.) Bo, stetson 79 Kentucky Wesleyan 36, Centre 65 Midwest Bradley 93, Detroit 85 Illinois 92. Purdue 76 -Indiana 79, Michigan State 70 Kansas 63,, Iowa State 63 Wisconsin 69, Michigan 58 Nebraska 83, Missouri 77 Notre Dame 86, Northwestern 72 St. Vincent 70, Youngstown 64 Kalamazoo 87. Illinois Tech 73 Washington (Mo.) 71, Loyola (111.) 63 (-reignton vi. soutn uaKota 54 Paul Quinn 69, Butler 48 Southwest Arkansas 98. Texas A&M 66 Rice 83. Texas 58 . Centenary 69, S. F. Austin 63 West Utah 89, Montana 60 Pacific 84, College of Idaho 79 (overtime) Lewis and Clark 83. Whitman 67 CIALI Easy Credit Terms Arranged! FIX YOUR CAR NOW AND FIX US LATER! Phone 2-6115 t - WZ, Sill -a f -W S-'S&x S.' 5s f 1 v - i'1' -ssav HERMAN Trotters' Herman Taylor Proves Self As Globetrotter Dribbler One of the greatest dribblers basketball has produced in years, Herman Taylor is pro viding valuable service for the Harlem Globetrotters, who bring, their basketball magic to Crater high school gym on Thursday, Jan. 26, when they top a gala program against the bewhiskered House of David. Starting time will be 7 o'clock when the Yellow Cab faces Medford YMCA in a preliminary game. Besides his dribbling finesse, a show-stopping feat' in itself, Taylor is a good, solid perform er who can be depended upon to function smoothly and effi ciently. He's an inch over six feet tall and comes from New York City where he played basketball three years for Commerce high school and two years for Long Island University. Playing with teams like the New York Renaissance and Har lem Yankees around his native city gained him the experience that was to stand him in good Crosby Golf Meet Slated Pebble Beach, Calif. (U.R) The $15,000 National Pro-Am ateur Golf Tournament annually sponsored by Bing' Crosby will be held here again this year, it was disclosed here today. The tournament has been ten tatively scheduled for Oct. 19-21. It will follow the Seattle Open. Oct. 4-7, and the $25,000 West ern Open in San Francisco Oct. 11-14. Crosby and Ray O'Brien, tour nament manager for the Na tional Professional Golfers assoc iation approved the dates yester day. The switch came about be cause of the rains that usually take place here in January. A total of 858,000 will go to various charities supported by Crosby enterprises as a result of last week end's stormswept tour nament. The amount was S2000 under last year's figure. Meanwhile, the prize money breakdown in the tournament was announced after the final two foursomes completed their rounds which were interrupted by darkness Sunday. REALLY ANGRY Lincoln, Neb. (U.R) Police hauled an irate pedestrian to jail after he: (1) angrily kicked dents into a woman driver's car fenders; (2) hopped onto the hood of the car; (3) got down, reached into the window and be gan beating the drivers. ' ' "'" LOSING BALL in collision with USF's Hal Perry (in white), Santa Clara's Boudreau' fails in scoring try during game in San Francisco, won by title-holding USF 7i-oQ.(IiUer)iational) TAYLOR Dribbling Ac stead later as a Globetrotter, and, at the same time, brought him to the attention of Abe Sap erstein, the Trotters' head man. Saperstein decided that Tay lor could be developed into a fine all-around player and has been grooming him for several seasons. Now both he and Tay lor feel the Easterner is ready for big things. Tickets are on sale at Bark er's Men's store and Lamport's Sporting Goods store. There are no reserved seats. , Crackdown On Training Violations By UNITED PRESS Oregon Collegiate conference basketball coaches today crack ed down Non players for viola tion of training rules. Coach Wally Palmberg of Oregon Tech arinpunced that Johnny Foster and Charlie Bogle, the team's two top scor ers, had been dropped from the squad for breaking training rules in La Grande last week end. Foster was an all-state forward at Central Catholic high in Port land in 1952 and Bogle is a transfer from San Mateo, Calif., Junior College. Dr. Robert Livingston, head coach at Oregon College of Ed ucation, said two lettermen had been suspended from the team for Violating training rules. He said Bob Janes, tall center, had been dropped from the squad and that Von Summers, a guard had been suspended for a week effective yesterday. William Goldin Expert Rifleman Washington, D. C. The ex pert rifleman medal, second highest award in American jun ior shooting has been won by William Sidney .Goldin, 15, of 2933 Lone Pine rd., Medford, Ore., the National Rifle associa tion announced. Shooting several hundred tar gets in the last few months the new expert marksman fired his way through 13 lower NRA qualifications to achieve his new high rating. With one more set of targets to fire the . new expert will up his rating to dis tinguished rifleman, the select top rating for the junior shoot ers of the nation. The new junior expert at tends, Medford high school and is a member of., the Medford Junior Rifle club. Bucky Harris Batting Power Washington (U.R) Bucky Harris, who served nearly as many terms in WashingtQn as FDR, borrowed the watchword of another Roosevelt today for his 1956 Detroit Tigers speak softly and carry a big stick. Baseball's ageless "boy won der" isn't claiming a pennant. But he is quietly, though hap pily, contemplating the power- packed in the big sticks carried by his big six, led by the best American league batter of them all-Al Kaline. "Get me a couple more bats in there," Harris mused, "and it would be interesting. Maybe we could do it. You never can tell." Accent on Youth Harris talked his favorite sub ject as he relaxed in the lobby of a plush apartment building, where he and Mrs. Harris are visiting with friends. "This year, as last," he said, fingering a gold basketball bat YMCA Hands Phoenix Loss YMCA, behind the 22-point scoring of Smith, handed Phoe nix a 65 to 48 defeat in Medford Independent Basketball, league play last night. Hite was high scorer for Phoenix with 12 points, while Thompson .' and Denman contrib uted 13 and 12, respectively, to YMCA's total. In the other game last night, Company A defeated Hawkin son Tire 55 to 54 on two free throws by Higinbotham. . Company A was leading 28-27 at half time, but Hawkinson pull ed ahead 54-53 with a few sec onds left. T. Colley and Parent, each with 13 points, led Com pany A scoring, while Bob Scrak tallied 24 for Hawkin son. Butte Falls will play Moose Lodge at 7 o'clock and Hawkin son Tires will meet YMCA at 8:30 o'clock tonight in MIBL encounters at McLoughlin junior high gym. On Wednesday Head quarters Company and Company A of the National Guard will vie in the early game and Phoe nix Merchants will play Moose in the nightcap. LINEUPS: YMCA G5 48 Phoenix Smith 22 f 12 Hite Denman 12 f . 11 Thompson Wooton 9 c 9 Fenton Thompson 13 g 4 Furry Davis 6 g .8 Yarnell Substitutions For YMCA, Rodgers. 1, Soderlund 2; for Phoenix, Bertrand 2, Madden 2. Company A 55 Hawkinson 54 Nolan 5 f 7 Cavanaush Trautman 4 f 2 Johnson Higinbotham 12 c 24 Scrak Burns 0 g 8 Broadman Parent 13 g 2 Wallace Substitutions For Company A, Spence, T. Colley 13. H. Colley 6. Mc Intyre. Stubbs 2, Spry; for Hawkin son, Nickols 4, J. Johnson 3, D. John son 4, L. Johnson. Basketball Officials To Meet Wednesday Basketball officials will meet at Hedrick junior high school Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.. it was announced today by Virgil Swanson, commissioner of officials in this area. Swan son said all officials who work out of his office are requested to attend the meeting. BeUU of American wLiskey at its finest in 1956 Contemplates In 56 Team tie clasp, "the accent will be on youth with some aging influ ence in the pitching, depart ment." Harris has a two-platoon clas sification for his pitching staff. Here's what he calls his "big three of youth" Billy Hoeft, Frank Lary and Bob Miller "who looks like he's going to do it this year." And there's his "big three of experience" Virgil Trucks, acquired from the Chicago White Sox in a trade for outfielder Bubba Phillips; Steve Gromek and Ned Garver. Harris said he "could stand more strength in the infield and outfield." Classy Infield The left side of his infield- shortstop Harvey Kuenn and third-baseman Ray Boone is the class of the league. Earl Tor geson, who did "pretty well" last year, is at first; Fred Hat field at second. Kaline and Bill Tuttle give the Tigers a one-two punch in the outfield. The other outfield spot is a tossup. Harris was impress ed with Charley Maxwell's per formance late last season. Behind the plate is young Frank House-who, says, Harris, has improved tremendously." House is a big stick man along with Kaline, Kuenn, Moone, Tut tle and Torgeson. Harris also is trying to convert outfielder J. C. Porter into a catcher.' Player Draff- In NFL Starrs Today Los Angeles (U.R) The' Na tional Football League is ex pected to open its player draft tonight at its annual mid-winter meeting in Los Angeles. Yesterday the league turned down two proposed rule changes. One would have prevented a punter from standing more than 10 yards behind the line of scrim mage. The other would have made the clock on the stadium wall the official time-piece. Montana Drops Sixth Straight Game, 89-60 Salt Lake City 4J.R) Mon tana University absorbed its sixth straight Skyline Confer ence loss last night, 89 to 60, to league leading Utah university. The Utes rolled to their fifth conference win by playing . a tight defense with a fast break scoring. MOTOR We Precision Rebuild Any GAS or DIESEL COMBUSTION ENGINES Padgett Auto Parts 345 North Central - Phone 3-5363 SEASMM-DlSilUERS fiOWPANY, SEW YORK CITY. BLENDED WHISKEY. 86.8 PROOF. 65 GRAIN fiEUTRAL SPIRITS. Tornado Is Rated Second In Prep Poll Portland U.R) Jefferson high of Portland was the state's top - ranking . prep basketball power today in the Journal coaches' poll. Coach Johnny Neeley's Jeffer son team picked up 77 points to 70 for second placed Med ford. Defending champion Eu gene was in third place with 59 points. The ratings: Team Points 1. Jefferson .... 77 2. Medford 70 3. Eugene ... 5f 4. Milwaukie 41 4. Marshfield (tie) 41 6. Franklin . 39 7. Milton-Freewater 30 8. Klamath Falls ', 19 9. Lincoln . ; 11 10. Corvallis . 9 Others: Beaverton and Pen dleton, 7 each; Bend 6; Albany, South Salem, Astoria, 3 each; Cottage Grove, Dallas, 1 each. DOG RACING DATE . Portland U.R) The State Racing commission said today that tentative date for opening of dog racing in Multnomah county this year was July 9 with the season to run 55 days ex clusive of layoffs for county and state fairs. The date is contin gent upon completion of a plant. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads WRESTLING CARD GRANTS PASS ARENA WED. NIGHT, JAN. 18, 1956 EXTRA SPECIAL ATTRACTION!!! "RUSSIAN BATTLE ROYAL" WITH S200.00 TO WINNER CONTESTANTS: Bull Montana Thor Hagen Leapin' Larry Schene George Drake Henry 'Golden Boy" Lenz Prelims: Both Best 23 falls or 45 minute limit Bull Montana vs. George Drake Leapin' Larry Schene vs. Henry Lenz Schene is a big Texas TV star and rated as good as Pepper Gomez. 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