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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.
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Berrios Stops
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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.
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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.
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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
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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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WEDNESDAY NIGHT, FEB.
MAIN EVENT
Best 23 Falls or 1 Hour Limit
BULL MONTANA, 207
The Toledo Terror
. vs.
"WILD BILL" SAVAGE, 218
Chicago '
Hold on to your seats, this is a real
natural. v
SEMI-FINAL
Best 23 Falls or 1 Hour Limit
RITO ROMERO, 200
Mexico
' vs.
THOR HAGEN, 208
Minnesota
Romero Is rated as good as Cheno
and has been on lots of TV film.
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