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iMiwtwiiiiiiwmum .fry? tm&jf (-"- 'r::' UNITED STATES UPSETS CANADA Jubilant U. S. Olympic hockey team members mob goalie Willard Ikola of Eveleth, Minn., after dealing Canada a stunning 4-1 upset in their game at Cortina, Italy. Left to right: John Petroskie, Daniel MacKinnon,. John - Matchets, Richard Meredith and Eugene Campbell. The victory moved the U. S. into first place tie with Russia in the hockey competition. Medfoi Tribune imr Berrios Stops B. Courchesne New York U.R) Feather weight Miguel Berrios of New York, a powder-puff puncher who suddenly turned knockout specialist, was being considered for a fight at Madison Square Garden today because of his avenging technical kayo victory over Bobby Courchesne at St. Nicholas arena Monday night. Stocky Berrios, 23, may get the winner of the March 2 gar den fight between Carmelo Cos ta of Brooklyn and Baby Vas quez of Mexico City. . ' . , When Miguel stopped Cour chesne of Holyoke, Mass., at 2:29 of the fifth round in their return television fight Monday night, it was only the third kayo victory in his career of 19 bouts. But it was his second kayo in a row. Berrios' left hooks to the body were devastating Monday night particularly in the first, third and fifth rounds. They jack knifed Courchesne and left him a target for barrages of head hooks. Courchesne was floored twice for counts of nine in the fifth round before Referee Mark Conn stopped the bout, when Bobby was reeling and ready to go down again. Courchesne. scaling 131 tiounds to Berrios' 1281A, had been the favorite at 8-5 Monday; but a betting switch sent Berrios into the ring favored at 7-5. HOCKEY New York i(U.R) Zellio Top- pazzini of Providence scored only two point in tnree games last week, but maintained his 14-noint margin in the individ ual scoring race of the American Hockey league today. Tonnazzini. whose improved play this season has sparked the Reds all the way to. the top in the standings, has a total of 79 points on 34 goals and 45 assists. Closest to him are wiine mar shall of the Pittsburgh Hornets nnH Dune Fisher of the Hershey Bears, each with 65 points. Ken Wharram of Buffalo, runnerup last week, slipped to fourth with R3 nnints. Camille Henry of Providence rounds out the top five with 60 points. Marshall and Tonpazzini are tied in goal scoring, with 34 each, v.-hile Wharram is the as sist leader with 47. Montreal U.R) Jean Beli- veau, scoring five - of the seven onals Montreal registered an three sgamee last week, reclaim ed the National Hockey league onrinf leadership from Gordie Howe today, official league fig ures showed. The center scored eight of his pain's last 14 coals to boost his output to 34 and a point total of 60. two better than Jtiowe. Maurice (Rocket) Richard nirked ud three noints to remain in third clace with 53 points. Tod Sloan of Toronto record ed five noints during the week to move up a notch into a fourth place tie with New York s Andy RoVurate each with 52 Doints. Bert Olmstead, Montreal play maker, added three assists to in crease his league leading total to 41. but slipped to sixth place in the scoring, parade, a point behind Sloan and Bathgate. jgriT itesuu Bt united press New York Misuel Berrios, 128,4, ew York, stopped Bobby Courchesne, 31, Holyoke, Mass. (5). rruvjucm-c. .... . j . 28l,2. Providence. RJ.. stopped Pat larcune, I3i. tsrooKiyn, xn.i. oj. New Orleans- Joe Brown, 136. New Means, knockea out Annur .fersiey, 38, Red Cross. Ja. laj. ooke J 29, Puente, Calif- knocked ' . 11 . - ,0.4 Anv ut oanuy Aivui, " "" Interest Builds Up for Ring Card Here Saturday Interest in the Medford Po- jlice Athletic league's boxing ! card next Saturday, February 1 11, is building up as far away J as Portland. I Hugh Jennings, coach of the PAL mittmen, brought back word from Portland last week end that a number of fight fans from the Oregon metropolis in- dicated they would come here for the bouts. Main attraction will be the Jackie Puscas - Dale Nicely ruckus. Jennings said that Port landers who missed the meeting of the two glove tossers at Klam ath Falls recently can't quite figure how the Tennessee titlist beat the National AAU champ. They want much to see the two in the ring together. Nicely Victor Puscas reportedly has been working hard here in prepara tions for his chance to even the score with Nicely. An unortho dox battler, who fights out of Portland's Multnomah Athletic club, Nicely kept In tune for the Puscas rematch by decisioning Tommy Sullivan, Seattle, last Saturday night in Portland. Medford PAL will stage a 10 bout card at the St. Mary's gym. - Tickets are on sale at the po lice station, Lamport's and Sam's Sporting Goods stores, the Union and Bohemian clubs and Brown's cafe. 'Big Pitch1 Pops Up Unexpectedly Washington (U.R) Presi dent Eisenhower may disclose his decision today whether he will throw out the first ball of the 1956 Major League season April 16. Some baseball fans awaited the verdict as eagerly as the nation anticipated his "yes" or "no" . about a second term. The question involving the "big pitch" popped up unex pectedly yesterday when the Washington baseball club an nounced routinely that its open ing game with the New York Yankees has been advanced one day to April 16. It said only that it wanted the change so it could get a one-day jump on the other big league inaugurals. The announcement promptly set off talk that the change was made to accommodate Mr. Eis enhower so the first pitch cere mony would not conflict with bis annual April vacation trip to Augusta, Ga. Two Fayored In Palm Beach Meet Palm Beach, Fla. (U.R) Joanne Goodwin of Dartmouth, Mass., and Anne Quast of Marys ville, Wash., were co-favored in the field of 78 today when the 38th annual Palm Beach Wo men's Golf championships got underway.' The field will be cut to 32 in an 18-hole qualifying .round to day with match play over the swanky Palm Beach Country club scheduled . from tomorrow through Saturday. Miss Goodwin defeated Miss Quast in a 27-hole match play in the recent TJoherty Tourna ment but Miss Quast teamed with Ruth Jessen of Seattle to win Sunday's Hollywood Four ball tournament Other stars competing include Mary Ann Downey and Mrs. Maurice Glick of Baltimore, Dorothy Kirby of Atlanta and Grace DeMoss Smith of St. Aug ustine, Fla." Snider Signs With Bums For $42,000 By FRED DOWN United Press Sporis Writer The major leagues biggest stars are signing so fast that there may not be a single major holdout when the March 1 spring training deadline arrives. . With three weeks still to go to the deadline, the big league magnates already have snared most or their key men. Almost invariably this means that the little fellows will fall meekly into line. Take a look at the list of big names already signed: Willie Mays, Don Newcombe, Roy Cam panella, Jackie Robinson, Gil Hodges, Peewee Reese, Yogi Ber ra, Mickey Mantle, Stan Musial, Ted Kluszewski, Ernie Banks, Larry Doby, Minnie Minoso and Ted Williams. Snider Signs Duke Snider is the latest of "super stars" to sign on the dot ted line, the Brooklyn Dodgers' slugging centerfielder agreeing Monday to a pact estimated at $42,000. Snider said he was "tickled to death" with his new contract but did not reveal "how whopping a raise it was." Likewise, club Vice President Buzzy Bavasi re fused to disclose whether Sni der or' Campahella will be the Dodgers' highest paid player in 1956. "I'm not going to set up any competition between my ball players," Bavasi said. "All I'm going to say is that Duke got a very fine raise. He's very happy about it and so are we." The New York Giants, mean while, announced they have signed catcher Ray Katt and pitchers John Windy McCall and Jim Constable. Katt hit 215 last season, McCall had a 6-5 record in relief and Constable posted a 12-9 record for - Minneapolis in the American Assn. Pitcher Bill Harrington be came the 28th member of the Kansas City Athletics to agree to terms. The 24-year old right hander had a 3-3 record and 4.09 earned run average last season. SIGNS CONTRACT Philadelphia ttJ.R) John Bredice, an end from r Boston university, who was the ninth draft choice of the Philadelphia Eagles, has signed a 1956 Na tional Football league contract with the Eagles. Bredice, six: one, weighs 200 pounds and was second in the nation among col lege pass receivers last year. Dupree Poe Fails In Freedom Attempt Salem (U.R) Dupree Poe, noted for his escape attempts from the Oregon State penitent tiary, apparently has failed in his latest bid for freedom. Saturday Poe filed a petition with the state supreme court asking that he be released on the grounds that he was born in China and should not be de prived of his citizenship in that country. A check by state officials yes terday revealed that Poe was actually born in Mt. Vernon, Tex. . He is serving a life sentence in the state penitentiary for the 1932 slaying of a Silverton policeman. Buy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks. Flues Drain Tile 127 W. McAndrews Phone 2-4107 Hard, Diligent Research Brings Results For TRPB San Francisco (U.R) Detec tive stories don't show up very often in the sports world, but the Thoroughbred Racing Pro tective bureau is out with a booklet that tells of some dan dies in the battle against crook edness in horse racing. The TRPB is the protective agency for 40 race tracks in America and it engaged in some real cloak-and-dagger adven tures to get the job done. But mostly its sensational cases are exposed by good, old fashioned hard labor and dili gent research. Crooks Attracted Due to the possibilities of get ting rich quick in horse racing, every crooked brain in the country, it seems, turns toward the race track at one time or an other. And it is the former FBI men who run the TRPB who work around the clock to keep the sport honest. Take a look at some of the cases: 1 William Stemmel, a Cali fornia breeder, was suspected of falsely registering a foal, with Ortello, a famous Italian-bred stud, as the sire. After weeks of research, the investigators fi nally found out that Stemmel had made 17 false registrations in one year and attempted six the following year. So hectic had been StremmeFs activities that one year he had four foals left without any dams to regis ter them from. Stremmel was ruled off all jockey club tracks. 2 The TRPB got a tip that a jockey named Nick Restivo was going to stimulate a horse named King Eric. They set up an agent, dressed as a groom, near King Eric's stall. Watching through a mirror, he caught the jockey redhanded and Restivo was given an 18-month suspen sion. Bookie Connection 3 Then there was a horse named El Mono, a fine stakes campaigner who whipped As sault and Armed at the peak of their careers. El Mono was owned by a shoe manufacturer named Daniel Lamont, or Dona to La Marte. The TRPB got a tip that Lamont was connected with the bookie business. After a long period of investigation, he was barred from the tracks. Later Lamont was arrested for being the "money man" in a college basketball fix. According to Spencer J. Dray ton, head of the organization, which draws $500,000 a year to operate, in the past 10 years the TRPB has had 85,000 racing personnel finger-printed; 11,000 cases investigated; 54,000 horses tattoo branded; and looked into 130,000 inquries from state rac ing commissions, stewards and members. INVITED TO U. S. New York (U.R) John Landy of Australia, world record hold er for the mile run, has been invited to compete in five U. S. track meets by Dan Ferriss, secretary-treasurer of the National AAU. Landy set the world mile record of 3:58 flat on June 21, 1954 and has run the mile in less than four minutes on two other occasions. Tuesday, February 7. 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVIN If , CHAMPION OF CHAMPIONS Toni Sailer, 20, of Austria swoops downhill to complete the greatest ski performance in Olympic history , by winning his third gold medal of the 1956 winter games in a nightmarish race down the icy Tofano slide at Cortina, Italy. Several of the star downhill ski racers in the event were sent flying off the beaten track by huge bumps and a 40-mile-and-hour wind blowing off the Dolomite Mountains. . Maximum Term Meted Would-Be Holdup Man Salem (U.R) Grady Wil liam Cope was sentenced to a maximum ten year term in the Oregon State penitentiary yes terday in Salem circuit court. Cope, 52, shot and wounded Gene "McFarland during an at tempted holdup and robbery in the Keizer area of Salem a few weeks ago. Mrs. McFarland and a neigh bor subdued the gunman at the time of the holdup. Cope alsc had admitted attempting to stage another holdup in Salem earlier. 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