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Newspaper Page TextTEN -MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Cincinnati, Cards Make Hurler Trade By JOE S AEGIS United Press Sports Writer Frank Lane, famed for his . trading talent, has completed a swap -which he figures is bound to strengthen the Cardinals' bull pen, and from the looks of things, there's more coming. The trade h& made Tuesday involved righthander Brooks Lawrence and lefty Jackie Col lum.'Lane sent Lawrence, a dis appointment last year after a fine rookie campaign, to the Cin cinnati Redlegs in exchange for Collum, a hard-working little guy who figures to add balance to St. Louis' predominantely right-handed relief corps. "It's not earth-shaking," he admitted, "but it's a start." Lane may visit the Redlegs and - Chicago Cubs training camps later in the spring after those clubs have had a chance to appraise their own talent and . Gabe Paul, the Cincinnati gen eral manager, and Wil Mathews, in charge of Chicago player per sonnel, might like to make it a round robin -affair. Signing Action Brisk Meanwhile, action on the sign ine front was brisk. The Giants corralled knuckleball relief art ist Hoyt Wilhelm, who lost his touch in 1955, the Phillies bag eed four Dlayers including Richie , Ashburn, the National League's leading batsman last vear with a .338 average: the Yankees agreed to terms with first-baseman Bill Skowron; the Tigers satisfied Ray Boone, J. W. Porter and Charley Max well: the Cubs announced the signing of catcher Clyde McCul- lough, and the Orioles signed a pair of rookies and first base man Bob Boyd, up for another major league trial. Wilhelm had a 4-1 mark , in 1955, considerably under his 12 4 mark during the 1954 cham pionship year. But in four years with the club he has compiled a 38-16 record and is credited with having saved at least 75 games by the Giants. Four Agree To Terms " : y Besides Ashburn, who report edly signed for $25,000, outfield er Jim Greengrass and rookie catchers Joe Lonnett and Mack Burk agreed to terms with the Phillies. , Right-hander Charlie 'Locke, who had an 18-ft mark last year at -San Antonio, and shortstop PaFWitty Quintana, who batted nnH tiit 19 hnmpri with the same club, signed rookie con tracts with the Orioles. Elsewhere, Willie Mays of the Giants, Bob Feller of the In dians, Clem Labine of the Dod gers, Monty Irvin of the Cubs and Bob Porterfield and Mickey Vernon of the Red Sox will be among the honored guests to night at the eighth annual base ball dinner of the Union Leader Fund, Inc., of Manchester, N.H. James Keelty, president of the Orioles, has confirmed reports the club may sell its San An- iasixxu xaxixx tiuu x iuc xxgixu uuti comes along. Cisco Fights Jim Carter Chicago (U.R) Cisco Andrade risks his hopes for the world . lightweight championship to night against a three-time title- holder, but the determined 25' year old westerner was an 8 to 5 underdog for his television brawl with veteran Jimmy Car ter. "I think the fight's a stepping stone for me to the title," An drade said. "I've been told that if I beat Carter, I definitely get a "title chance against Wallace Smith in Los Angeles next. "My manager told me that, but I don't know who told him, may be ' the 1 International Boxing Club." Will To Win . Andrade, who has been beaten only twice in 34 pro fights, an ticipated that determination and "my will to win" would be enough to offset the experience of Carter, who has won 70 of 99 pro battles with nine draws. :; Carter lost and regained the lightweight title three times, but Smith took the crown from him the last time and held it in a return match. ' ' . "If I can lick him convincing ly I imagine 1 11 get a shot at the title again," Carter said. "I want to keep active anyhow be cause when you're not' active they drop you in the ratings." Andrade expected to weigh about 135 for the- scrap while Carter said he would be 136 or 137. Red Head Quint At Rogue River. . . The All-American Red Heads, women's traveling basketball team, opposes the Rogue River Merchants tonight at the Rogue Eiver high gym. A headline on yesterday's news story of the g a-Yri e inadvertently indicated the wrong day for the tussle.. Use Tribune Want Ads Just Call 2-6141 Medford High Wrestlers Subdue Eagle Point Squad Medford high wrestlers de feated Eagle Point 39 to 13 at Eagle Point last night. Tornado matmen took seven of the 12 bouts and Eagle Point three in the actual competition and Medford took two tussles by forfeit, i In the 98-pound class Dave Mansfield, Medford, took a 10 to 0 decision over Wilson.' Der win Large, 114, Medford,' won 4 to 2 from Mike Arthur and Gordon Owsley 130, Medford, pinned Arndt. Other Tornado victors were George Flanagan, 135, by 4 to 0 over Johnson; Dennis Walker, 141, by fall over Edwards;. Dick Swinney, 156, T" ' " t""' Crusader, Bulldog Chief Quintets Post B .Victories STANDINGS W. L. Pet. St. Mary"s Talent .6 0 .1.000 .833 Prospect . 500 Butte Falls .2 .333 333 Rogue River Jacksonville .-2 ....0 Tuesday night activity brought only slight change in positions in the Jackson County B league basketball standings. .: St. Mary's maintained its un- marred lead by outlasting Pros pect 65 to 56. Talent kept a game behind in second place by trouncing Butte Falls 67 to 37 and Rogue River moved into a tie for fourth by downing Jack sonville 61 to 44. , The Crusaders of Medford took a wide command in the second, quarter and, while Pros pect had the better of it in the final 'half were not severely threatened by the Cougars. . Tal ent caught Butte Falls cold and held down high-scoring Bill Ir win to take a substantial lead and keep it. Rogue River pulled away in the third quarter to trim Jacksonville. Four Lead Changes The lead switched four times in the SM-Prospect game before the Crusaders took it for keeps. Medford's parochial quint had a 7 to 2 early bulge but Prospect went on top on a pair of gif ters by Don Vannice. Laval Meunier scored on a fast break tfor a 9 to 8 SM edge but Lyle Pope tal lied off. a rebound for 10 to 9, Prospect leading. A pair of free shots by Dick Paup made it 11 to 10 for the Crusaders. ' St. Mary's went on to an 18 io 10 quarter margin. Outdriv ing, outhustling and outshooting the Cougars, busting up the Prospect attack time and again and outfighting the Prospect club under the backboards, the Crusaders built up a 41 to 20 spread. They led 41 to 23 at the half. - In the third period, which ended 54 to 37, Prospect out tallied SM 14 to 13 and in the final stanza the Cougars had a 19 to 9 edge. Closest Prospect got to SM in the final quarter was eight points at 64 to 56. Coach Millard ; Webb of the Crusaders used several combina tions in the final half but the Medford team never got back its second quarter efficiency. Pros pect, which missed a lot of early shots, in the meantime got more and better shots and made them more consistently. Meunier got 19 points for SM and Gerald Darland collected 16 and played a great game under the boards. Dave Gardner potted 16 and J. Daniels 14 for Pros pect. Talent ran up 31 field goals to nine by Butte Falls. The Bull dogs had two men on the" Log ger s' Bill . Irwin . much of ! the time and held him to two points during the first three quarters. Irwin had 10 for the game. The victor club had 13 to 4, 28 to 12 and 53 to 20 leads. Gary Combs headed the Bulldogs with 18 counters and Bob Hoffman got 14. Pat Conley scored 13 - for Butte Falls. 'Skins Head Chiefs Jacksonville led Rogue River Chieftain Player Now at Medford Bilbee Lane, who has been a regular on the Rogue River high basketball' team and . who -was a football halfback for the Chief tains, has transferred to Med ford high. ... He reportedly is out for the Black Tornado " junior varsity hoop squad. . Tornado varsity players re sumed maplecourt drills today after a two-day lay-off following their week end trip to Coos Bay and North Bend. Coach Frank Roelandt indicated that this aft ernoon's drill would be fairly vigorous. Medford will play Roseburg here on Saturday night, Feb. 4. Both varsity and junior varsity tangles are slated. Frays with the Indians are make-up affairs. Roseburg postponed its sched uled Dec. 23 trip to Medford because of bad weather and un certain highway conditions. Wednesday, February 1, 1956 oy 39 to 13 by pin over Nelson and Gary Safely, 166, by fall over Brad shaw. For Eagle Point Minter, 105, pinned Stu Schroeder; Jackson, 122, decisioned Fred Baker,. 13 to 9, and Bunker, heavyweight, pinned Frank Williams. Ray Hilton, 147, and Tom Morris, 176, were awarded the forfeits. Medfordites won the exhibi tions, Sam Jennings pinning Esp and Don Hampton pinning Phill- ber. The Tornado squad will go to Roseburg Friday. Coach Paul Evensen said 28 or 29 grapplers will make the trip. 12 to 9 at the quarter and the score was deadlocked 26-all at the half. In the- third quarter the Chieftains rolled up 20 markers to Jacksonville's six for 46 to 32 advantage. Harold Moore had 18 points and BilL Weaver 16 for Rogue River and Jack Daley 14 for the Redskins. In junior varsity prelims St. Mary's won 83 to 42 as Jack Birmingham of the Crusaders and Leo' Daniels of Prospect each scored 20, Rogue River nipped Jacksonville 55 to 54 at the buzzer and Talent won 52 to 38. LINE-UPS: St. Mary's 65 56 Prospect Walsh 12 f - 4 Pope G. Darland 16 f - 14 J. Daniels Flakus c 9 Vannice Paup 10 g 16 Gardener Meunier 18 g . 12 L. Daniels Substitutions For St. Mary's, J. Darland 6, Pruitt 2. Birmingham;, for Prospect, Bean 1. - Rogue River 61 44 Jacksonville Moore 18 t 8 Guches Towse 6 f Branson Weaver 16 c 4 Smith Stinchcomb 11 e 14 Daley Elledge 4 g 7 Heuners Substitutions For Rogue River. Wagner; Vanscoter, Phillips 4, Wil liams 2, Wilson, Beck, Stewart; for Jacksonville. Buir. McKeen 2. Pawlow- ski 9, King. . , . Talent 67 37 Butte Falls Barrett 8 ' t 10 B.Irwin Ray Weinhold 15 f 13 P. Conley G. Combs 18 c 6 Mattern Wallace 8 g 3 J. Irwin Hoffman 14 g SM. Conley Substitutions For Talent. Hazelton. P. Combs 6, McGarity 4, Thoreson 2, Helm, Ron Weinhold 2; for Butte rails. Smith. Hens haw. Ramsen. E. Ellis, Sheppard. SPEEDS TO VICTORY Nor way's Hallgeir Brenden as lie won the 15-kflometer men's cross country ski race of the Winter Olympics at' Cortina, Italy. Soviet hopes of domi nating the event were smashed as Brenden and a NSwedish entry finished ahead of a third-place Russian. Vikes Better 100 3rd Time in Row Portland XU.R) For the third successive time ' out, Portland State's Vikings turned'in a bet ter than 100 point performance as they romped to an easy 101 to 62 win over Oregon College of Education here last night. The Vikes had a pair of Jacks in the hole for this one, Jack Parker and Jack Viskov, to be exact. Parker chipped in with 22 points td - lead the game's scoring while Viskov added an other 17. The win put the Vikes more securely in first place " in the Oregon Collegiate conference with a counting record. of seven one and one lost for the year. Read and Use Classified Ads The Community's Biggest Marketplace Buy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Flues Drain Tile T27 W. McAndrews Phone 2-4107 I Guard, Tire Five Tussle Tonight For 3rd in Ml BL Company A of the National Guard and Hawkinson Tire Tread will collide about 8:30 o'clock this evening at Mc Loughlin junior high gym for third place in the Medford In dependent Basketball League. The teams ended their regu lar seasons knotted , for the spot. Winner of tonight's game will get the MIBL's third posi tion in AAU subdistrict play offs. Two ether MIBL tussles will be contested this evening end ing the regular season slates for all members of the loop. . Moose lodge and Headquarters Company of the National Guard will have their finale preceding the third place play off, meeting at 7 p.m. at Mc-Loughlin-. Butte FaHs plays at Prospect. ." Company. A and Hawkin son's wound up their 14-game MIBL regular schedules with 9-5 records. In a non-league game Mon day YMCA of the Medford loop lost io the Ashland Raiders 58 to 41. Mikan Spurs Lakers' Win By UNITED PRESS - A The Minneapolis -Lakers' slow comeback, since George Mikan returned to the squad, moved them within a half-game of sec ond place in the Western Divi sion of the National Basketball association today on another vic tory sparked by "Large Jarge." The Lakers downed second place Rochester, 92-86, at St. Louis Tuesday night in the first half of a twin bill. The second game saw the St. Louis Hawks score 63 points in the first half as they trounced the. Boston Celtics, 114-91. And the league's only other action saw the New York Knicker bockers down the Philadelphia Warriors, 105-95 at New York. Go Ahead The Lakers trailed, 84-83, when Mikan sank three straight free throws to put them ahead with four minutes to play. They never fell behind again as Mi kan scored . 19 points and Clyde Lpvellette 20. Paul Arizin '. scored 38 points for the Warriors' at New York but the Knicks won as they cele brated "Dick McGuire Night." Playmaker McGuire reaped the evenings honors as fans paid him rihno -fnr cpttpii vpnTfl nf Star ts- J- u w i. ..w J - J dom with the Knicks. The form er St. John's star received many presents, including a car, and gifts from the Warriors and the Celtics. Coach Resigns At Wake Forest Wake Forest, N. C. U.R) Wake Forest's college's athletic problems were back today after the sudden resignation of. Base ball Coach Taylor Sanford. Sanford, who coached the de mon Deacons to the college "wold championship" last sum mer, quit Tuesday because "I was given no assurance that I will have a job here after June 30."; : He called a team meeting to announce his decision which he had reached "only a couple of days ago," and then handed a formal letter of resignation to Dr. Harold W. Tribbl.e president of the Baptist institution. It was the third blow-up in the Wake Forest athletic depart ment since the Dec. 3 resigna tion of Athletic Director Pat Preston and Head Football Coach Tom Rogers. : Last week the college hired former Army assistant Paul Amen to replace Rogers and named FBI agent William H. Gibson athletic director. Gray Quits North Salem Salem U.R) Al Gray said today he has resigned as foot ball coach at North Salem high school. Gray played college foot ball at Oregon State. No suc cessor has been named. EAGLE POINT SURPLUS Has Now MOVED TO Table Rock Roa d At Four Corners Across from Midway Auction Co. Come on Out and Look Around! San Francisco Takes Front Place In CBA By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer Those amazing San Francisco Dons turned their attention away from record-busting today and started looking for a ticket into the NCAA post-season tour nament. The league title in the Cali fornia Basketball association is the item that will admii the Dons to the tourney and Tuesday night they took over first place in the loop by romping to a 67-40 victory over San Jose State at San Francisco for their 41st straight triumph. Although San Francisco set a major-college record by winniny its 40th -in a row last Saturday night, San Jose State actually had been in first place in the league with a 4-0 mark to the Don's 3-0 until Tuesday 'night. The ranks of the major college "perfect record" . teams re mained intact at three with this victory by San Francisco and a 92-82 victory posted by St. Fran cis of Brooklyn (14-0) over St. Peter's of New Jersey.-The third unbeaten outfit, Temple (13-0), shoots for its 14th victory tonight against Muhlenberg. " SMU Takes Lead 1 Tuesday night's action also saw Southern Methodist seize undisputed first place in the Southwest Conference and North Carolina State, ranked the No. 4 team in the nation by the United Press Board of Coaches, try to battle back into , the Atlantic Coast Conference race. ' SMU sank a phenomenal 60 per cent of its; shots in fceating Baylor, 92-72, to push its con ference record to 5-0 for a half game lead over idle Arkansas. North Carolina State gained a tie for third place in the ACC by crushing Virginia, 39-54 one of the most lopsided games in that league's history. The national invitation tour nament announced the accept ance of its second team Seton Hall (14-2). Previously named was defending champion Du- quesne. Other Top Games In other leading games: Kansas nipped Oklahoma A&M 56-55, to give Coach Forrest Phog Allen a 17-16 edge over Henry Hank IBA in their personal duel the game ending with Mel Wright of the Aggies sinking a basket that officials ruled came a split- second after the gun; Hardin- Simmons trounced Arizona St Tempe, 94-72, in the Border Con ference; Western Kentucky downed Middle Tennessee, 86-78; and Xavier, O., routed Spring Hill, 70-47. In addition to Temple's bid for another win, tonight's excellent Tornado Sixth In Cage Ranking Medford's Black Tornado ranked sixth this week in the Associated Press prep basketball rating poll after being rated third the previous week. ; Eugene high moved into first place in the rankings with Jef ferson of Portland dropping to second. Franklin of Portland was voted third and Marshfield, which defeated Medford last week end, rose, from fifth to fourth. South Salem is in fifth spot ahead of Medford. North Bend, which overcame the Tornado also last week end, is still among the also rans in the poll. ' " Points 154 139 137 94 85 1. Eugene (12-2) J 2. Jefferson (11-2) 3. Franklin (11-2) 4. Marshfield (10-2) . 5. South Salem (12-3 . 6. Medford (12-4) 7. Milton-Freewater (12-2) 54 . 8. ' Milwaukie (8-4) 26 9. Pendleton (9-3) 22 10. Bend (10-5) 20 11. Beaverton (9-2) 20 Others: Lincoln 18, Molalla 9, Cottage Grove 6, .St. Francis of .Eugene 5, Albany 4, Grant and Klamath Falls 3, North Bend 2, North Salem and Roseburg 1. GOLD HILL VICTOR Gold Hill Gold Hill Huskies scored their eighth win by downing .Talent grade school Friday on the Talent floor. Ex cept for the first quarter which closed with a tie score of 8, the Talent team trailed by a few points throughout the game. Use Tribune Want Ads 1 schedule will see: Arkansas try to tie SMU for the Southwest Conference lead by beating Tex as Christian; Dayton, the No. "2 team nationally, try to rebound from its overtime loss to Louis ville against Loyola, 111.; ninth ranked Kentucky meets 11th ranked, Duke; and 15th-ranked Holy Cross hosts Creighton. Ex-Chicago White Sox Player Dies Chicago U.R) George (Buck) Weaver's dream of clearing his name may come true some day. but it will be too late. Weaver, 64, once a famed third baseman with the Chicago White Sox, collapsed suddenly and died Tuesday on a South Side street not far from his home. He apparently suffered a heart attack. Weaver was one of eight mem bers of the 1919 White Sox team charged with . "throwing" the World Series of that year to Cincinnati in the famed "Black Sox" scandal. The eight were barred from baseball. But Weaver throughout the years maintained, his innocence and made several efforts' to re turn to basebalL Once 30,000 persons signed a petition asking for his reinstatement. Landis Firm Baseball Commissioner K. M. Landies, who barred the players, remained firm. In effect, Landis blamed Weaver for.' not .report ing overtures made to him to the proper authorities. Weaver broke in with the White Sox in 1912 and was a star almost immediately. Always known as a great fielder, he hit .300 in 1917 and .296 in 1919, both Sox pennant years. He hit .333 in 1920 before the scandal broke. . With professional baseball closed to him, Weaver played semi -pro baseball for many years in the Chicago area. In re cent years, he had been a.mu tuel clerk at Chicago race tracks. Basketball TUESDAY COLLEGE SCORES N. Car. St- 99, Virginia 54. ' Kansas 56, Oklahoma A&M 55. Hamline 83, St. Thomas 74. Hardin-Simmons 94, Arizozna (Tempe) St. 72. SMU 92, Baylor 72. Colo. Western 79, Montana St. 78. San Fran.S7, San Jose St. 40. Laverne 64, California Tech 59. . Portland State 101, Oregon College 62. ... - Clark JC 74,. Lower Columbia JC 56. 'Dr. Christian', Recovers From Surgery Hollywood (U.R) Actor Jean Hersholt, famed for his screen and radio portrayal i of "Dr. Christian," was recovering today from major surgery. . Doctors' said the 70-year-old actor would be able to leave St. Vincent's hospital in ' about a week. They did not give details of the operation which Hersholt underwent yesterday. . Sure means fair weather i ff , - i - .y.fr.y.y.y..-..yA Say Seagram' and be.Sute Seagram -Distillers Company, New BOOSTS U. S. OLYMPIC HOPES World figure skating champion Tenley Albright of Newton, Mass., is shown as she competed in the compulsory figures phase of the Olympic figure skating event at Cortina, Italy. Miss Al bright gave American Olympic hopes a lift with a fine performance in the event, opening a big lead and seem ingly Certain Of winning. : OSC's Dave Gambee Heads Coast Conference Scoring Los Angeles (U.R) Statistics showed today why UCLA and Washington will be battling for the Pacific Coast conference basketball leadership in their two-game series here this week end. v UCLA, undefeated in four games, leads the conference in total offense and rebounding. Washington, tied with Southern California for second place with a 5-1 mark, tops PCC teams in total defense, free throws and field goal defense. SC is top ranked in the sixth team statis tical department field goal ac curacy,, the PCC commissioner's office reported. In' individual scoring, Dave Gambee of Oregon State is the leader with 139 points in eight games. He is followed by Larry Beck, Washington State;' 119; Bill Bond, Stanford, 119; George Selleck, Stanford, 115; and Mor ris Taf t, UCLA, 105. Taft has the top game average, however, getting his points in only four contests for a 26.3 average. Bruins Average Best UCLA has averaged 87.8 points in each of its games, well in front of Southern California, 68 points, and Stanford, 66.5. In rebounding, the - Bruins have grabbed 224 rebounds ' to their opponents' 139' for 61.8 per cent. SC Jias a 54 per cent rebounding mark and Washington 53.3. : Washington has held oppon ents to 53.3 points a game, fol lowed by SC's 55.2 defensive average and Stanford 57.4. The Huskies' tight defense is demon strated by thev fact that their op ponents . have hit on only 30.3 per cent of their field goal at- as this .this means American whiskey i at its finest ( Only the finest is fine enough for America. That is why, year after year, Seagram's 7 Crown is America's largest selling whiskey . . . the favorite of . millions by millions of bottles ! ' k "A York City. 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