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Top Skiers To Get Preview Of Squaw Valley Olympics San Francisco (U.PJ A pre view of the 1960 winter Olympic games will be presented by the nation's top skiers this week end when they compete in the an nual national championships at Squaw Valley. For the first time in history a national championship winter sports event will be staged in California and this one has at tracted more than 100 entrants. "It will be the biggest ever held in the United States, with the exception of the world s championships held at Aspen, Colo., in 1950," according to Miss Pat Riley, Squaw Valley attache. Giant Slalom Added What makes this meet so big is the fact that the National Ski Association has added the giant slalom to the agenda for the first time, to go along with the down hill and the regular slalom. Men and women will be competing In both events. This will be the initial look at the site of the 1960 games for most of the competitors. Also, the ski runs will be looked over by Robert Faure, vice-chairman of the International Ski Federa tion's down-hill-slalom commit tee. He will come here from France to assist in technical matters. The visiting world dignitaries won't see exactly what they want for Olympic competition but it will give them an idea of the potential. "For instance," says Miss Riley, "ski racers will have a 20 minute climb above the existing lifts to Squaw Peak, top of the downhill course; and an hour's hike to the start of the giant slalom above the Flying Saucer lift. Nw Lifts Planned "Of course, by the time the Olympics come around, two new lifts will be serving these areas." The downhill, most dangerous of alpine events, will begin just below Squaw Peak's summit and drop 2500 feet to the finish gate. The first 1400 feet will be down a 60 per cent grade mak ing speeds of 75 to 90 miles an hour possible. Along with the 100' skiers, i will be about 100 officials, in cluding course packers, gate keepers, timers, starters and re corders. The events are expected to at tract the greatest spectator group in Squaw Valley's history an other important test for the Olympic games, as many are wondering what can be done about the housing situation in the Lake Tahoe-Squaw Valley vicinity. Larry Chene Puts PC junior Heavy Mantle on Line Grants Pass Leapin' Larry Chene, the Pacific coast junior heavy wrestling champion, will return this week to put his covet- i 1 Torn Hamlin Low Scorer Tom Hamlin was the low qualifier among Medford high school golfers who played two 18-hole rounds last week and in competition for team positions. Hamlin carded an 82-80 162 in the links action at Rogue Val ley Country club. Second low was Phil Mon grain with 84-83 167. Gary Harrington followed with 87 87 174. Jim Materie had 89-91 180 and Stewart Schroeder 90-93 183. Dan Christenson recorded 103-100 203. Dick Sorenson had 95 for one round and had the other yet to complete. Dick Copple had a tonsillec tomy last week and did not com pete in the weekend play. HERBIE FREEMAN Makes GP Debut ed title on the line against the challenge of the Proud Russian, Kurt von Poppenheim, at the county fairgrounds arena. Chene was unable to be here for last week because of sickness in his family. Poppenheim ac cused him of running out on the match and flemended that Chene put up the belt. Larry won the title in an elimination tourney in Portland which Poppenheim refused to enter claim to the title. This all shapes up as quite a battle for the local fans as both of these men are great competitors and they are at their best when the blue chips are down. The other one hour main event ' will introduce Herbie Freeman, from the Bronx, N.Y., against the arrogant Aussie, Irish Jack O'Reilly. Freeman is a terrific weight-lifter in addition to being a polished wrestler. He has been known to press 300 pounds. He is a big boy standing six feet and weighing 220 pounds. Freeman is highly rated in the east. O'Reilly looked impressive last week in the team match. Bill Russell Leads Stars To Victory Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) Big Bill Russell and the College All Stars established themselves as the team to beat in the Ameri can Olympics basketball tryouts last night with a 86-79 win over the AAU champion Seattle Buch an Bakers. The collegians meet the Armed Forces team, surprise winners over Phillips Oilers in overtime in the first round, at 7:30 p.m. PST tonight. The first game pits the losing AAU teams, Seattle and Phillips, against each other. Play will continue through to morrow night so that each of the four teams plays every other. Unless one team takes a clear cut championship, the winner will be determined by point spread. The college stars were slightly ragged in team play in the first half against Seattle and were behind at intermission. Starts to Click However, the unit began to click in the second half and pulled to a 10-point lead, 55-45. Seattle never gave up and had the gap narrowed to two points, 62-60, with 11 minutes left. Rus sell had 24 points. Ron Tomsic, former Stanford ace, hit 28 points for the Armed Forces but the servicemen ended up with a 68-all tie at the end of regular play. Ray Warren, formerly of Tex as Christian, and Gib Ford, Texas, hit four points each in the overtime to seal the Armed Forces win. Ford was second high serviceman with 14. Burdy Haldorson of Colorado, forward for Phillips had 22 points and Bill Hougland, for merly of Kansas, had 10. Houg land is the only one of the 56 players here who went to the Olympics at Helsinki in 1952. He was a member of Coach For rest C. Phog Allen's NCAA championship Kansas team which combined with the Peoria, 111., Caterpillars to take the crown from Russia. MedfordTribune Gallardo Wins TKO Over Cadilli San Francisco (U.R) Davey Gallardo of Los Angeles was awarded a technical decision over Gil Cadilli of San Francisco last night in the third round of a scheduled 10-rounder at San Francisco Garden. The Los Angeles featherweight suffered a cut right eye from an unintentional butt and Referee Fred Apostoli stopped the bout. The decision was awarded to Gallardo, who was leading 11V6 to 10 Vz points in the first two rounds. Cadilli seemed to have the edge in the first round, but Gal lardo moved ahead in the sec ond with superior infighting. Gallardo weighed 130, Cadilli 129VS. PAL Announces Officials For Saturday Boxing Card State Policeman Don Cain will be referee Saturday night, April 27, for the Medford Police Athletic league's boxing show at the St. Mary's school gymna sium. The card will be the last of the season here for PAL. And club officials indicated that they have gone all out to make the affair a well-balanced program. Fifteen bouts have .been ar ranged with fighters ranging from mites to heavyweights. PAL sponsors said that State Police Sergeant C. R. Borgman and Jack Barr, both of Grants Pass, will be judges. Other offi cials for the bouts will be Bob Kyle Jr., timekeeper; Ben Fa gone, ringmaster, and Paul Hav iland, announcer. Puscas Battles Jack Puscas, 135, Medford, and Cliff Sams, 138, Burns, will head the fistic presentation. Puscas won the 1955 National AAU lightweight crown, and Sams is a former National AAU semi-finalist. Semi-main hassle matches Larry Lewis, 114, Med ford, 1955 State AAU flyweight champ, and Lloyd Louie, 115, Burns, Northwest Golden Gloves finalist. Mites will be seen on the card when Randy Jones, 58, Klamath Falls, scraps Bobby Raspone, 59, Ashland, and Arnie Gallagher, 57, Klamath Falls, meets Dean Patterson, 58. The antics of Jones and Gallagher have wow ed fans here in the past. Heavyweight contention will be provided in two bouts. Loren Christean, 180, Medford, will battle Del Smith, 182, Burns. Dick Lopez, 179, Medford new comer, will battle Mose Marti nez, 178, Chiloquin. Tickets are on sale at the Medford police station, Lam port's and Saint's Sporting Goods stores, the Bohemian and Union clubs and Brown's cafe. Only Three Show Up At Softball Meeting Only three persons showed up last night at a meeting called to organize the Medford Softball association for this season. President Herb Vessey said that he planned to call another meeting in possibly two weeks and that he intended to make some personal contacts in order to get some attendance at the next session. Troutdale U.R) Hundreds of smelt dippers quickly filled their 25-pound limits today as a 24-hour closure on the Sandy river ended. Some 1200 persons lined the banks at midnight. Limits were being taken in 20 minutes. isar P i Tuesday, April 3, 1938 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN LOREN CHRISTEAN In Saturday Bout S ma I! wood Hands Ortega Defeat New York-4U.R) Hardy (Ba zooka) Smallwood, upset victor over Gasper Ortega in a bout that had more wild pitches than a spring baseball game, now would like to settle accounts with unbeaten Rory Calhoun. Smallwood, a 2-1 underdog from Brooklyn, outlunged Mex ico's Oretga v,o take the unani mous decision in Monday night's widely televised bout at St. Nicholas arena. In his dressing room, Small wood said his No. 1 objective remains to get another bout with Calhoun, the hard-hitting young middleweight who has won all of his 19 bouts. Calhoun handed Smallwood a defeat in Bazooka's third pro bout. As for Ortega, who stands 5-10Vi but weighed only 152V4, to Smallwood's 157, Monday night's loss convinced him he shouldn't fight middleweights. Through a trainer who acted as interpreter, Ortega said he is a natural welterweight and from now on will mix only with men in the 147-pound class. Warriors Meet Pistons Tonight Philadelphia U.PJ ne Phil adelphia Warriors and the Fort Wayne Pistons, each angry over losing to the other, clash at Convention hall tonight in the third game of the best-of-seven series for the National Basket ball association championship. The Warriors vowed to take a 2-1 lead in the series' and claim ed they were "robbed" in the second game when Fort Wayne beat them, 84-83, Sunday night But the Pistons, looking forward to a "soft touch," at their home court Thursday night, figured a victory here would put them in the van for the title. The confident Pistons had only to look at the Philadelphia record of two victories and 20 defeats on the Fort Wayne floor since the teams began meeting in the NBA. The last Warrior victory on the Pistons' floor was in 1952, but Sunday night's set back was as close as the Phita delphians could get without win ning. Hal Perry of San Francisco netted only one basket for two points. Use Mail Tribune Want Adi REDUCE STAFF Sarasota, Fla. (U.R) The Bos ton Red Sox reduced their pitch ing staff to 12 men by selling Bill Henry outright to the San Francisco Seals of the Pacific Coast League. Henry, a 28-year-old left-hander, had a 2-4 record with the Red Sox last season and a major league mark of 15-20 since he first joined Boston in 1952. SCHALLOCK SOLD Scottsdale, Ariz. (U.R) The Baltimore Orioles sold Art Schal lock, a left hander who had a 3-5 record with them last year, to Seattle of the Pacific Coast League today for an undisclosed amount of cash. Globe Trotters Beat All-Stars Boston (U.PJ The Harlem Globe Trotters, taking advan tage of Tommy Heinshohn's fouling out, came from behind in the last period last night to rack up a 90-83 victory over the College All-Stars at Boston Gar den. It was the Trotters' third straight win over the colleg ians. The All-Stars led 69-61 when Heinsohn, Holy Cross' brilliant player, left the court on fouls with seconds left to play in the third period. The Globe Trotters outscored the All-Stars, 20-14, in the final quarter as the All-Stars' offense and defense lapsed sadly. Until he retired, the 6-10 Heinsohn had scored 19 points and, more important, looked tremendous in his rebounding play. Scoring honors for the game went to Andy Johnson of the Trotters, who pitched in 33 points, nine from the foul line. Heinsohn led the All-Stars' point-getting, while Si Green of Duquesne had 16, Joe Holup of George Washington 15 and dim inutive Robin Freeman of Ohio State 14. 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