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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Rizzuto was given his release
so he could have an opportunity
to obtain some other position in
baseball, the Yankees announc
ed. If he decides that he wishes
to remain in the Yankee organ
ization later, the Yankees said
they would be happy to find
"some place for him."
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