OGA Preparations Nearing Completion;
Former AAU Boxing Champion Turns Pro
Jack Puscas
Makes Debut
In Portland
Jackie Puscas. 24, the 1955
national AAU lightweight box
ing champion, will make his pro
fessional debut in Portland next
month. That was the report Sat
urday from his manager and
trainer, Hugh Jennings.
Puscas. who has lived here
and fought under the Medford
Police Athletic league banner
since last January, will have his
first pro battle on Oct. 4 on the
card featuring ex-world champ
Bobo Olson and Sam Walker in
a light-heavy-weight encounter.
Matchmaker Tommy Moyer is
looking for "a suitable opponet."
Portland appearance of the
lightweight battler, known
throughout the northwest for his
hard, lethal walloping, will
write finish to a colorful am
ateur ring career of more than
six years duration. Major
achievements for the ex-Eugene
lumber mill worker during the
1956 boxing season were the
Oregon and Seattle golden
gloves championships. He did
not seek to defend his national
honors this year because of fin
ancial and family considerations.
Puscas has appeared in the
ring 128 times. He has 107 vic
tories, 87 of them by knockouts.
For three consecutive years.
1952, 19o3 and 19a4. he was
named the outstanding boxer of
the Oregon AAU. Those same
years he won the Canadian na
tional Diamond Belt champion
hip in his division. In 1954
Puscas was runner up for the
national AAU featherweight
title. He has won other Seattle
and Tacoma, Wash., tourneys
Favored In Europe
Last fall Puscas's ability gain
ed further recognition. He was
named to a team of United
State's amateur boxers which
made a European tour.
When he came to Medford last
winter, Puscas stated that he had
no interest in professional box
ing. Since then he has had num
erous offers to fight for pay. The
latest was in connection with
the Carmen Basilio-Johnny Sax
ton fight at Syracuse, N.Y. Sept.
13. Since making the decision
to turn pro, Puscas is a deadly
serious boxer and has become
changed and much improved.
That is the report from Jennings.
In spurning previous offers,
Puscas has felt he owes his climb
in boxing to the Oregon AAU
and should maRe his debut for
money in Oregon where he got
his start.
In Medford Puscas is working
as an apprentice painter for J.
Fred Paint and Wallpaper store.
He displayed ability in a sport
other than boxing this summer
by pitching for Courtesy Chev
rolet in the Jackson County
Softball association.
Puscas and his wife. Chloe,
have an 8V-months old son,
Jimmy.
JACKIE PUSCAS
To Become Pro
SPORTS
UCLA Nicks
Utah 13-7
Los Angeles OJ.R) UCLA,
nearly crippled by Pacific Coast
conference penalties, opened the
West Coast football season Fri
day night with a close 13-7 vic
tory over Utah before 37,083
fans in Memorial Coliseum.
The team that beat the Utes
was a shadow of the once-mighty
Bruin elevens that dominated
PCC football during the last half
dozen years under the tutelage
of Coach Henry Sanders.
The Bruins clearly showed
the effects of a PCC crackdown
on pay to athletes which re
stricted senior members of the
football team to only five games
for the season.
Utah's inability to put on a
sustained drive may have been
the only thing that saved UCLA
from defeat in the non-conference
season opener.
UCLA's two touchdowns came
in the first quarter on a Utah
fumble and in the second quarter
on a 77-yard drive, sparked by
senior tailback Doug Bradley
who used up one of his five al
lotted games.
Fumble Recovered
Bruin Center Jim Matheny re
covered halfback Karl Jensen's
fumble on the four-yard line
after Utah had been pushed back
to the six on a Bradley quick
kick and penalized to the one
for clipping. Bradley ran the
ball over from the two.
UCLA's only sucessful scoring
drive was featured by runs of
12 and 19 yards by Tailback Don
Duncan. Tailback Ed Griffin
plunged over from the one-yard
line.
Utah's touchdown came in the
fourth quarter when the Utes
took over the ball on the Bruins'
28-yard line after a three-yard
UCLA punt.
A Bruin holding penalty
moved the ball to the two where
Stuart Vaughan circled left on
the fourth down to score.
Fast Slope
Waits Cycle
Competitors
A fast, dust free hill awaist
the motorcycle slant hill artists,
who appear today to 'try and
take home one of the trophies
being put up by the Rogue Riv
er Ramblers club.
Sponsors of this event on the
hill west of Phoenix hope for
a large number of riders from
the visiting towns as they claim
the hill to be in perfect condi
tion. It will be the last major
event of the club this year
where outside competition has
an equal chance with local
members. Other events will
cater to organized members who
have worked throughout the
year.
First rider of the days event
will try to negotiate the hill at
exactly 2 p.m. Only one ride is
necesary unless that qualifiers
time is beaten or tied. There
will be three rides allowed for
each contestant, however. John
Wenker of Ashland was the pre
vious winner.
The hill may be reached by
turning west at the Texaco
Station in Phoenix and follow
ing the markers on out past the
Coleman creek and Pioneer
road intersection.
Eagle Point
Raps Talent
Crew 50-0
Talent Eagle Point high's
strong A-2 football eleven over
powered Talent of the Class B
ranks 50 to 0 here Friday night.
The big Eagle club, with Errol
Tresham and Jack Greb, as
usual assigned to the ball toting
roles, held intermission advan
tages of 13 to 0, 26 to 0 and
38 to 0.
Tresham ran 37 yards for the
first Eagle Point touchdown
Greb went 25 yards for the
next and Norm Hooper passed
to Greb for the extra. Greb went
across from the 18 in the sec
ond quarter and Tresham scored
from 13 yards out with Hooper
hurling to Greb for a bonus.
In the third quarter Eagle
TDs were on 14 and 28 yard
runs by Tresham. Greb ran 25
yards to tally in the fourth
quarter and Ralph McClure got
the last goal on pass intercep
tion and eight yard dash.
Eagle Point had 11 first
downs to two for Talent for the
game.
Golf Event
Begins At
RVCC Oct. 5
Preparations are nearing com
pletion for the annual Oregon
Golf association men's medal
play championships. The tour
ney is slated for Oct. 5, 8 and 7
at Rogue Valley Country club,
giving Medford its second major
links event of the late summer
and fall.
The tournament will be open
to all men belonging to OGA
member clubs and to invited
guests. There will be a senior
division for entrants 50 years
of age and over. Seniors entries
will not be required to belong
to the Oregon Senior Golfers
association.
Gross and net prizes in both
divisions will be offered.
No Handicap Limitation
There will be no limitation on
handicap for entrance in the
tournament.
Entries are to be in by Oct.
3. Competition will be over 54
holes, 18 holes per day. Golfers
will play in threesomes. Be
cause the senior division play,
there will be no effort to tough
en the course by letting the
rough grow. The course will
measure about 6.450 yards the
first day, 6.680 the second and
6,900 the third.
Greens have been fertilized
and top-dressed. They will be
verticut on Oct. 1.
Prall To Defend
Bob Prall, Salem, has said he
will be on hand to defend his
1955 title. Another entry will be
George Harrington, Medford,
1953 champ, and 1955 runner
up. Dick Bailey and Wayne
Sabine will come from Redding,
Calif., Bailey, former northern
California amateur and open
champ, was runner-up in the
1955 Southern Oregon tourney.
Ron Krieger, Portland, the
OGA match play titlist, has said
he will be here and Harold
Weston, Portland Go.'f club, Ore
gon Coast tourney champ, has
made a commitment. Marvin
Clark, Grants Pass, Southwest
ern Oregon .tournament victor
and RVCC senior champ, is an
entrant.
The OGA medal event will
get a boost when an RVCC team
plays at Eugene next Thursday
and on Portland links on Fri
day, and Saturday and Sunday.
STANDINGS
Sunday. September 23. 19S6
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEH
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn ...
Milwaukee
Cincinnati .
St. Louis
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh ..
New York ..
Chicago
. 87
. 73
. 98 90
Prt. GB
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Saturday'! Results
New York 2 Philadelphia 1
Pittsburgh 5 Brooklyn 1
Cincinnati 6 St. Louis 4
Chicago 5 Milwaukee 4 110 innings)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
X-New Yofli . 94
Cleveland 85
Chicago 82
Boston - 80
Detroit 77
Baltimore 64
Washington 58
Kansas Citv 49
X Clinched pennant
Prt. GB
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.574 9 It
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541 14!,
.524 7
.435 30
.392 36 'i
333 45
Colleg Park. Md. (U.R)
Maryland halfback Howie Dare
was stricken with yellow jaun
dice Friday and is lost to the
Terrapins indefinitely. Univer
sity officials said Dare would be
sidelined at least two weeks and
might be out the entire .season.
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choice next year." . i
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