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Utah Champ, Provost Entered In SO Golf Tourney at RVCC Two more (teller linkstars have been added to the field of strong contenders who'll head the scrap for the Southern Ore gon Golf championships at Rogue Valley Country club. Mrs. Marge Fillis, Salt Lake City, Utah, will be one of two out-of-state standouts who'll pre sent principal challenge to wo men's champions of former years. And Rogue Valley com mitteemen announced that Dom Provost Jr., Ashland, will be one of three past titlists who'll op pose a host of stern competitors when the 28th annual Medford links classic opens with a prob able record-shattering field. Qualifying rounds for entrants from out-of-town formally launch the Southern Oregon on Wed nesday, Aug. 29. Matches begins on Thursday and finals will be on Monday, Sept. 3, Labor day. 296 Entered A total entry of 298 men and women were reported yesterday by Rogue Valley club commit tees headed by Ray Mencke. the general chairman. The count Includes 228 men and 68 ladies. A few dropouts may occur but the list of participants still is expected to exceed last year's total of 282 when qualifiers fin ish their 18 hole stints on Wed nesday. Sixty-three women and 219 men qualified in 1955. J ttfiSffiKG- TO8.AWAY? If you need money for ANY purpose (from paying past due billi to making your vacation dreams come true) call us collect or come in . . Phone 3-4564 Mrs. Fillis is the Utah state and Salt Lake city champion. She and Mrs. Edean Anderson Ihlanfeldt, Seattle, will be strong bidders for the women's trophy won last year by Carole Jo Kabler. youthful Sutherlln star. Miss Kabler will come here to defend after playing in the Mile High tourney at Denver, Colo. She recently saw action In the contention at Tarn O'Shanter at Chicago. Other pact SO champs making a try for the 1956 laurels are Mrs. W. W. Davis, Redding, Calif., and Miss Sue DeVoe, Medford. Mrs. Davis, formerly of Medford, took the trophy seven straight times and Miss DeVoe won in 1954. Atkinson Defends Provost wa3 the Southern Ore gon champion in 1954 and will be among the many carrying the standard of RVCC in thie year's tournament. Back to defend his 1955 honors will be Bob Atkin son, Columbia-Edgewater club Portland. He is just out of the Air Force. Atkinson also took the championship in 1951 and 1952. The other titlist of former years in the men's rivalry will be Eddie Simmons, Medford. He has captured six southern Ore gon championships. Champion in another big Ore gon tourney this summer will be entered. He is Marvin Clark Grants Pass, who copped the Southwestern Oregon mantle at Coos Bay. He is a Rogue Valley Country club member and vied in the finals yesterday with George Stacey for the club's senior toga. There'll be plenty of competi tion for the 1956 title from among the host club member ship. Looming as contenders are Phil Getchell. Justin Smith Jr. Bob Rector, Alan Holmes. Harry Millette, Clayton Lewis, Dr. Bruce Stanley and Harvey wooas jr. Oetchell was medalist last year, setting the course competitive record, and was runner-up to Provost In 1954. Smith, who played on the Uni versity of Oregon varsity, is the reigning club champion, defeat ing Rector in finals. UO Players Some strong opposition should come from among Smith UO teammates. Art Abrahamson, Everett, Wash., Bob Prall, Sal em, and Bob Norquist, Columbia- Edgewater, Portland. Prall Is ex pected to defend his Oregon Golf association medal play diadem here In October. Among top lay contestants will be Mrs. Maxine Hammond, Medford; Mrs. Ray Scott, Top O'Scott, Portland, and Miss Shirley Siegmund and Miss Elaine Porritt, Eugene. Miss Siegmund was medalist last year. Sixty - four opening round berths will be occupied in the men's championship flight with 16 spots for both men and wo men. There will be consolation play in all flights. All but men's flight seven and up will have matches on Thursday. There will be Friday action for all but the men's second through sixth flight. Only the women will have day of rest on Saturday. Men's quarter and semi-finals in the champion ship and first flights are set for Sunday with semi-finals for all . other men's and women's brackets. Finals on Sunday will be 36 holes in the championship matches and 18 holes in other flights. To relieve conjection on the links RVCC players are qualify ing ahead of Wednesday. High handicappers not gunning for the championship handicap must play their qualifying rounds by Monday night, Aug. 27. Low Aug. 28. f r it 1955 CHAMPION Miss Carole Jo Kabler, outstanding young Sutherlin golfer, will defend her 1955 women's toga in the 28th annual Southern Oregon Golf tourney at Rogue Valley Coun try club. The Medford links classic formally begins Wednes day, Aug. 29, when out of town entries qualify. Match play opens Thursday and concludes on Monday, Sept. 3, Labor day. .jsssaujiuieililii in Tn i " '-aimiiMiin iimt m "nwr SO DEFENDER Bob Atkinson, above, Columbia - Edgewater, Port., will seek his fourth crown in the Southern Oregon Golf tourney starting this week at Rogue Valley Country club here. Atkinson defeated Dick Bailey, Redding. Calif., in last year's finale after taking the title also in 1951 and 1952. Al Williams Is Tied In Match Portland Medford's Al Williams and Jim Russell of Walla Walla, ended their match with C. H. Weston Jr. of Portland, and Harry Giban of Seattle, deadlocked with 151 at the end ef 18 holes In the Hudson Cup Golf matches at the Portland Golf club Saturday. SPORTS St. Mary's Footballers Will Report St. Mary's high of Medford, twice in a row Jackson County B legaue football champion, will begin workouts Monday in prep aration for its title defense. Millard Webb, starting his second season as head coach of the Crusaders, has set practices for 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. daily at the Medford high field. Grid aspirants have been instructed to report for at least one drill per day and both if possible. A num ber of the grid candidates are presently holding down jobs. Webb has indicated that he expects 28 men to join the squad. Most of the players have drawn equipment already. Open ing game of the season will be on Saturday, Sept 8, against Sacred Heart of Klamath Falls. Whie a number of top players from the 1955 crew are gone because of graduation and other reason, a good number of boys are back from last year's squad. New Athletic Director Among those expected to turn out are John Brunk, Jim Darl and .Terrv Flakus. Rodney Read and Michael Feiss, ends; David Hartley, Dennis Duggan ana Alson Geren, tackles; Francis Murphy, David Espey, Jack Rel ling and Eddie Fogel, guards, and Dick Hayes, Ron Pruitt, nnrf Garv Kell backs, and Gary Miksche. Its possible that Webb will have Darland, Espey. l ogei and Read in the backfield this fall. The Rev. John Ilg, a newly nrriaineH rjafttor from Spring field, will replace the Rev. Rob ert J. Tomisser as director oi athletics at St. Mary's. Ilg will handle the athletic post in con nection with Sacred Heart church parish duties. Father Tomisser uriu loav Mnndav for Eugene where he will have an assistant pastorate at St. Mary's church. Th. rrnuders' end schedule is: Sept. 8 Sacred Heart here. Sept. 14 Illinois Valley at i-ave Junction. Sept. 28 At Jackson ville. Oct. 13 Prospect at Med ford. Oct. 19 Talent at Med ford. Sept. 26 At Rogue River. Butte Falls, Colts Tussle Mrffnrrf Oienev Colts tussle nntt. Fall in a Rogue Valley league baseball game at the fair grounds here today. iame time is 2 p.m. TTrtl ki rhamnlonshiO Tlay-Off action in the RVL should be scheduled for the Medford field, tndav'n brush will be the last one of the season here. A rhann in eame site will hiv Cave Junction playing Eagle Point on the Veterans Ad ministration domlcilary field ai Camp White. The Camp White team goes to Ashland and will picnic in the park there after the tussle. Grants Pass travels In Glendale on this the last Sun day of the regular RVL schedule. GP, CJ, the Colts and uien rials will engage in champion ship play-off Sunday and Mon day, Sept. 2 and 3. Seixas And Richardson Top Aussies Chestnut Hill, Mass. (U.R American aces Vic Seixas and Ham Richardson recovered from a sluggish first-set loss Saturday to beat Aussies Mai Anderson and Roy Emerson, 8-10, 6-3, 6-4, 6-4, in the semi-finals of the Na tional Doubles championships and set up a possible Davis Cup preview with the top Australian team. The Philadelphian and his new partner from Westfield, N. J., secondseeded, qualified to meet the top-ranked and favored Aus tralians, Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall, in Sunday's final at the Longwood Cricket club. The latter two bested countrymen Ashley Cooper and Neale Fraser, 10-8, 6-4, 10-8, in one of their typical battles of mechanical and brilliant tennis before some 5,000 fans. The favored two teams in the women's division also were vic torious Saturday, which meant defenders Louise Brough of Bev erly Hills, Calif., and Margaret Osborne Du Pont of Wilmingttn, Del., were again in the finals. The 10-time champions defeat ed the third-seeded team of Janet Hoops of Sattle, Wash., and Di- Sunday, August 28, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Don January Leads Open St. Paul Minn. (U.R) Don January, a tall, easy-going Tex an, blistered the Keller golf course again Saturday with a three-under-par 69 to take a two stroke lead at the three-quarter mark in the $20,000 St. Paul Open. January, of Lampasas, Tex., had a 54-hole total of 202, four teen strokes under par. The soft-spoken 27-year-old shotmaker who is playing his first year of professional golf sank three birdies and an eagle to move two strokes ahead of Big Paul Harney of Bolton, Mass., Bill Nary of Wayne, Mich, and little Jerry Barber of Los Angeles. Slamming Sammy Snead had putting troubles again and had to settle for a 71, one under par, on one of his favorite courses. ane Wootton of Santa Barbara, Calif., 6-3, 6-2. In the other semi-final, Shirley Fry of St. Petersburgh, Fla., and Betty Pratt of Jamaica, playing together for the first, time in a major tourney, defeated the fourth-seeded tandem, Darlene Hard of Montobello, Calif., and Mrs. Richard Buck of Manches ter, Mass., 4-6. 6-4, 6-3. Snead said "I played bad golf. I seemed to do everything wrong," he missed a four-foot putt on the fourth hole and had trouble getting the putts under 10 feet that would have put him further up among the leaders. Snead, who has won over $11,000 in St. Paul opens, was the leader at the end of 18 holes with a 66. His 54-hole mark is now 206, ten strokes under par. Four were tied for fifth place. Ernie Vossler of Midland, Tex., Babe Lichardus of Hillside, N.J., Harold Henning and Johannes burg, South-Africa, and Bob Rosburg of San Francisco, all had 205s, eleven under par. George Bayer, a long ball hit ter from Grossingers, N.Y., tied a Keller course record with a 10-under-par 62. Swaps Falters To Come In 7th Chicago U.R Mahan, an English -bred entry of Hasty House Farms, Saturday won the $54,950 Washington Park Arch Ward memorial, completely eclipsing the favored Swaps who wound up seventh in an eight horse field. Phil Rizzuto Is Released New York (U.R) The New York Yankees gave veteran shortstop Phill Rizzuto his un conditional release Saturday to make room for veteran outfield er Enos (Country) Slaughter, acquired from the Kansas City Athletics. 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