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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, January 27, 1956 A-l Playoffs Spurned by Two Schools Salem U.R) Two central Oregon high schools today spurned next fall's A-l footbail playoffs. Prineville and Redmond said they would not take part in a round robin schedule proposed for a nine-team league. They will play independent schedules for at least another year and will be ineligible for the OSAA playoffs this year. District members, meeting here, turned down suggestions by the two schools that two sub districts be formed, one consist in! ol Bend, 'Lebanon, Sweet Home, Prineville and Redmond and the other of Corvallis, Al bany and North and South Salem. It was suggested that the two winners meet to decide the over-all winner. James Brown, representing Redmond, said the school want ed to keep its obligations in eastern Oregon with Burns, Lakeview and Madras. Keith DeCourcey, Prineville coach, said Prineville residents there did not believe the school should play schools two to three times its size, such as Albany and the Salem schools, although it had qualified for A-l compe tition with more than 500 students. Yogi Berra Signs for $50,000; Highest Paid Baseball Catcher New York (U.P.) Yogi Berra, the American League's most valuable player, signed his 1956 contract today for approximate ly S50.000, making him the high est priced catcher in the history of baseball. Berra, who batted in 103 runs last season, hit .272 and de livered 27 homers, said he "got a good raise as usual." 'Tve gotten a raise every year since Ive been with the Yankees," he declared. "And every year it seems like it is easier to get together on my contract." Berra said he- saw General Manager George Weiss at a sports dinner on Monday night '"and he made me an offer." "I told him I'd sit on it," Berra added. "Later, I called him and we agreed on it so I came in and signed my contract." Medfords -Tribune SLPOD Hollinasworth Second in OCC Scoring Ayeraqe Portland ' (U.R) Statistics released today show that East ern Oregon, leader of the Ore gon Collegiate Conference, do minates the conference scoring statistics too. placing three men in the top 10 in scoring to date. Reading the conference scor ing parade is Eastern's Ted Schadewitz with a total of 152 points, an averaee of 25.3 per' outins. Also in the top 10 for the Mountaineers are Lowell Kolbaba with a 19.1 average and John Reinking with a 12.5 collection. Others in the top 10 for points registered fn games through January 22 are: Bill Hollings worth. Southern Oregon. 24.3;' Lloyd Hoffine. Southern Oregon. 21.5; Jack Viskov. Portland State. 18.4; Charlie Bogle, Ore gon Tech, 16.5; Ed Parker, Port land State, 14.6;- John Foster, Oregon Tech, 14.5. and Cecil Millerr,. Oregon College, 12. Tennis "great" Doris Hart, winner of both the Wimbledon and USLTAg women's singles titles, sustained a knee injury in childhood and took up tennis as a recuperative measure. TORNADO AT COOS BAY FOR SCUFFLE TONIGHT Despite a previous Medford high win over the Pirate cagers, basketball contention between the Black Tornado and Marsh field high is figured a toss-up to night on court at Coos Bay. The Tornado is making its first stand of a two-night stay in the bay area. While tonight's scuffle rates as a closey, Med ford will be favored on Saturday evening at North Bend. Medford had a tougher time with the NB Bulldogs than it did with the Golden Pirates when it whipped the two coast aggrega tions here in December. But Marshfield, just getting started at that time on the hoop floor after winning the state grid crown, has improved since and PAL Boxers On KF Card Four Medford Police Athletic League boxers will contend in bouts at Klamath Falls on Satur day night. National champ Jackie Puscas will take on Dale Nicely of Mult nomah Athletic club, Portland, and state champ Larry Lewis will battle Darrell McQuarry, also of MAC. Loren Christean fights1 Mose Martinez of Chilo quin and Bob Little goes against Bogey Gallagher of Chiloquin. It will be Puscas's first fight under the PAL banner. Lewis and Christean fought last week end in the Tacoma Golden Gloves tourney. They lost in the first round but their respective opponents went on to win the championships. Plans to 'take other PAL box ers to Eugene tonight were dropped. is, like Medford, one of the top rated clubs in Oregon. Marshfield last week end turn ed back North Bend 70 to 60. No Pushover The Tornado is expecting no pushover either night but has a more impressive record and bet ter height than the green Bull dog club. An 11-man Medford squad left this morning for Coos Bay. Coach Frank Roelandt likely will call on his usual starters, Dick Copple, Dick McLaughlin, Neil Plumley, Lloyd Cearley and Bob Tisdel with John Foust, Larry Perkins and Ed Reinking probably having top call as re serves. North Bend's possible starters are Bert Why, Jack Shanley, Sam Hyatt, Chuck Whittick and John Bloomquist.- Marshfield may open with Hardy Spurgeon, Sandy Fraser, Barry Bullard, Roger Johnson and Denny Baker. The games this week fill in during a three-weeks pause in Southern Oregon Conference play for Medford. Angling Hearing Scheduled Today Portland (U.R) The final public hearing on 1956 sports fishing regulations for Oregon was held here today. Tentative regulations set two weeks ago called for a general trout season from April 28 to Oct. 31 with national forest lakes opening May 26 to Oct. 7. Final regula tions will be announced tomorrow. 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It was the first maplecourt stop of the Trotters in Jackson county in six years or so but they had not been forgotten by valley hoop fans. The Crater gym was crowded to capacity with a paid admission of more than 1,300 persons. And those who were not turned away at the gate for lack of seats and standing room more than got their money's worth. Four Hour Show It was a four-hour program of basketball, music and feats of acrobatic and juggling skill. There were five variety acts. The Globetrotters, in a game in which the show was the thing and the scoring a side issue, "defeated" the top David club ' to play in the Medford vicinity : in a number of years, 65 to 59. i But, while the bearded club was i good, the Trotters gave the im-: pression that with their court ; magic they could have made scoring more onesided. In another conflict in which any comedy, contrary to the main event, was purely coinci dental, the Yellow Cab crew downed YMCA 53 to-37 in a scuffle of Medford independents. With the Davids as straight' men for the show, the Harlem hoop kings, put on a perform ance of which included fancy and comic dribbling, sharp shoot ing, sleight-of-hand, fast, fancy and baffling passing hidden ball plays, and practical joking of which their own referee, Gene Moyes, as well as the Davids, was the stooge. Odd Balls Used They had him running all over the court to retrieve the ball and interfered with his offic iating with their jumping jack antics at the free throw line. The clowning Trotters tossed into the contest a weighted ball and a de flated one. And Chico Burrell, principal comic of the night used a ball attached to an elastic cord for shooting a free goal. As usual the Trotters came up with a football formation and dropKicK and a baseball game J with beefing over umpires calls and a fancy steal home. Herman Taylor was the fancy dribbler of the unit practically lying down on the floor on one occasion but slickly keeping the ball away from a David player. Taylor of the colored gang and Beck of the bearded club were the long range shooting artists.: Burrell came up with some circus ball handling and passing along with mirth producing passing. Mastery in the tussle was in dicated by early scores. The Trotters had leads of 23 to 12 at the quarter and 42 to 26 at the half. ! Amazing and wowing the uugc ljuwu win men peiiuilll- ances were the Havana trio; Ray Wilbert, hoop artist; Jim and Yvonne Garner, trampolinists; and Elimar, juggler and slack wire artist. The trio, displayed balancing acts which required timing, strength and great coordination and the two men of the act shone on the teetering roly poly with one man doing a handstand j on the head of the other. Elimar j did some of his skillful juggling ! while on the slack wire and Wil bert made his amazing acting hoops do tricks like jumping from one long cord to another and circle a cage before enter ing it while, rolling on the floor. Accordionist Gene Giusio, opened the show. Yellow' Cab busted open a tight game early in the second half. YMCA led 22 to 20 after a nip and tuck first half. Don Wendt scored 21 points for the Cabbies and Roland Thompson got i: for Y. LINE-UPS: Trotters 65 Green 10 f Kline 13 f Burrell 10 c Taylor 9 g Williams 7 g Substitutions For Globetrotters, Harrison 8. Coffey 4. Sam Wheeler for Davids, Ingber 6. .Sheary 7. 59 Davids 7 Greicius 14 Keller 6 Mqroski 15 Beck 2 Tamulis 4: Schmidt 2 Yellow Cab S3 Newton 7 Wendt 21 Stacy 7 McLean 4 Werner 10 37 YMCA 5 Smith 8 D. Wooton 2 R. Wooton Rodgers 11 Thompson Substitutions For Yellow Cab, Ef fenbeck 2, Craig, Ayers 4, Knutson 2; for YMCA, Singler 1, Niles 2, Davis 6, Weber 2. Decision Day For CherbergAt U of W By BILL McFARLAND Seattle, Wash. (U.R) Today was D-for-Decision Day on the University of Washington campus where football Coach Johnny Cherberg was on the spot to prove he had regained harmony on his squad. Cherberg, whose alleged "tyr annical tactics" as a coach caused 70 per cent of the squad to rebel Lee Flink Heads Holiday Handicap Holiday handicap golf tourney play winds up this week end at Rogue Valley Country club and a March of Dimes sweepstakes is planned also Saturday and Sun day. The holiday period affair has been underway since Thanksgiv ing day and is based on a point system which takes into account a player's four best rounds. Lee Flink is leading with 164 points. Dick Travis has 160 and Larry Butler 156. Next tourney at the club will be the spring handicap for which qualifying play is slated Febru ary 4 to March 4. against him and demand 'his ouster last November, was to meet today with athletic director Harvey Cassill. Cassill, who has the power to fire Cherberg should provide the answers that will settle, finally and conclusively, the football sit uation here." 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