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TWELYE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. October 24. 1958 MHS Preps For Ashland Mix Friday A number of Medford High footballers have ailments but the Black Tornado should be at near full strength for its Southern Oregon conference date at Ash land on Friday, head coach Fred Spiegelberg indicated today. Only player among Medford's top line talent expected to miss the Grizzly fray is guard Dean Rickard. who suffered a knee ligament injury against Eureka. Fullback Loren Christean and tackle Bruce West have missed practice because of colds. Half back Cordon Owsley was hospi talized Monday night, yesterday and last night for treatment of boils. The Tornado wound up its drill last night with about a 20 minute scrimmage. It worked on defense with much attention on pass defense since Ashland has done much throwing in recent games. Individual work is on the agenda tonight with tackling drill, blocking for linemen and pass defense for backs. Workout Monday was light and was hampered somewhat by the absence of nine players who were attending the regional con ference of the Oregon Associa tion of Student Councils. Fans Stay Away; Bout Cancelled Phoenix U.R A scheduled 10-round bout matching heavy weights Zora Folley, Chandler, Ariz., and Joe Sandell, Los An geles, was cancelled Tuesday night because of the absence of spectators. Only about 150 showed up for the fight program last night t Phoenix Madison Square Garden. Promoter W. T. Washington also said some of the prelimi nary boxers also didn't appear. GOING OCT IN BLAZE OF GLORY, Nashua wins Jockey Club Gold Cup race at Bel mont Park, N. Y., with Jockey Eddie Arcaro up. Riley is second, followed by Third Brother. Nashua also set new track record for two miles in 3:20 2-5. ( International) Gresham Rises In Gridiron Poll Gresham high moved up to third place this week in the Assocated Press Oregon foot ball poll but Marshfield and Medford continued to head the ratings. Eugene, which had been No. 3, dropped to fifth place. Benson of Portland moved up into the top 10. replacing Springfield, which was tied for ninth last week. THE RATINGS: 1. Marshfield, 6-0-1 2. Medford. 6-0-1 3. Gresham. 6-0 4. McMinnville, 6-0 V Eugene, ti-0 6. Beaveron. 5-1 7. Albany. 5-1-1 8. Astoria. 6-1 9. Grants Pass, 5-2 10 Benson. 5-1 Others: Pendleton. 20; lem. 12; Parkrose and Portland. 3; Oswego. The Springfield. 2, Corvallis view. 1. Points 168 145 122 96 96 75 59 35 . 34 South Sa Lincoln of Dalles and and Lake- tlH Tribune Want Ada In 1955, retailers and packers spent a total of $100,000,000 in meat advertising. JOHNSON TRUCK LINES PHONE 2-6022 has available Lumber Trucks and Trailers Vans and Flat-Beds Heavy Hauling Equipment Irregular Service Oregon and Interstate Authority Medforjv: SIPdDMTTS Football Briefs Seattle Wash U.R) Coach Darrel Royal has juggled his University of Washington var sity lineup again in order to come up with a winning combi nation against the University of California Bears Saturday. So far, he has made five changes in the varsity lineup, including the move of Mike Mc Cluskey from the right half spot to left half. Bobby Herring, the regular left half, still was shaky from a rap he received against Southern California last week end. WALDORF BOOSTS Berkeley, Calif. (U.R Half- back Jack Hart, a sophomore ! who scored one touchdown against UCLA and two against Oregon State, has been moved into the first string of the Uni versity of California Bears by Coach Lynn Waldorf. Fullback Herb Jackson was .out running on a gimpy leg on , Tuesday, but team spokesmen said it was doubtful he would see much action against the 'University of Washington Sat urday. Jerry Drew, who broke into the lineup for the first time last week, was expected to car ry the load. Fanfare Br DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune. Spprrs Editor TAYLOR OPTIMISTIC Stanford. Calif. OJ.P.) The Stanford Indians staged a long, hard contact drill Tuesday and Coach Chuck Taylor made his usual optimistic prediction that his boys would defeat the South ern California Trojans when the two teams meet Saturday. However, three men will see only limited action. They are tackle John Kidd, suffering from a back injury; end Joel Freis, slowed up by a bad leg, and tackle Steve Docter, who has a hurt knee. DEFEND AGAINST PASSING Los Angeles (U.R) The University of Southern Calif ornia continued to stress pass defense today in preparation for Saturday's crucial game against Stanford. The Trojans also ran through offensive plays in their daily drill session. Halfback Jon Am- MAKE THAT SPARE I . . . then make yourself a memorable drink! OLD BRAND and "M 3Ih3 wsrS j la &saw great (5 years old Pint $35 45 Qt. ;UM1TO0Pi3 OLD HERMITAGE BRAND KENTUCKY STRAIGHT j Ifcffi BOURBON WHISKEY j U3 - tomsoit , ill ilfj i The Oib Hekuitagi Comm THE 010 HERMITAGE CO- ClVtSION Of NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS CORPORATION. FRANKFORT. KENTUCKY. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY. 86 PROOF. t Southern Oregon , conference schools, which have been play ing a 12-game slate in league basketball, swing to a 16-tussle schedule in the 1957 season. Rea son, of course, is the elevation of . Crater high to Class A-l, making the conference and Dis trict 6 a five school circuit. The plan of four games for each member school against each other member schools. Crater has not had all four of the other Southern Oregon conference schools, Medford, Ashland, Grants Pass and Klam ath Falls, on its schedule on a regular season basis since around 1950 when it was still Central Point high. However, it has kept up a regular rivalry with Ash land and Grants Pass and has met Medford, Grants Pass and Klamath Falls in district playoffs. talked of player in the state. The Tornado beat the" Quakers with Jensen in the line-up in the 1955 state tourney and again here last December but lost to that club in last season's state A-l finale. JAMBOREE DEC. 1 The expanded loop schedule permits the conference schools only six regulation games in which to warm-up for the regular campaign. Medford has been used to having at least seven. Medford, Ashland. Grants Past and Klamath Falls, however, each will see the equivalent of three quar ters of a game here on Dec. 1 in their annual jamboree. Each school will play each other one quarter. Oregon School Activities association regula tions limit prep action to 22 games outside of district play offs and state tournament participation. PLAY AT EUGENE Medford high's slate of full length hoop games opens with a trip to Eugene on Dec. 7 and 8 The Black Tornado, runner- up for state championship laurels two. years in a row, op poses Marshfield here on Dec. 14 and North Bend here on Dec. 15. Franklin and Cleveland of Portland come to Medford on Dec. 27 and 28, respectively. Scheduling of the Portland schools here on successive nights is a departure from last year's plan where the metropolitan teams engaged in a twinbill here with Medford and Grants Pass one night and all four schools moved to 5P action the follow ing night. This year Cleveland will stop at Grants Pass on Dec. 27 and the Cavemen will be hosts to Franklin on Dec. 28. Star of the Franklin Quakers is Bjarne Jensen, 6-foot 9-inch first team all-stater and most Red Rocha Sold To Fort Wayne Syracuse (U.R) Red Rocha, former basketball star at Oregon State, yesterday was sold by the Syracuse Nationals of the Na tional Basketball association to Fort Wayne. Secret Drill Pays Off For Green Bay Packers Green Bay, Wis. (U.P.) Here after, when the Green Bay Pack ers practice in secret rival Na tional Football league coaches had better be prepared for the unexpected. For the firsf time in three years as head man, Lisle Black bourn barred the public from drills last Thursday and Friday. The Los Angeles Rams found out why on Sunday. Quarterback Tobin Rote drop ped back a yard or two as if to pass, then shoved a lateral to halfback Jack Losch. The rookie swung wide as if to run, then stopped and threw a perfect pass to end Billy Howton, alone in side the Ram 15. Howton scored easily and the Packers had a 14- point lead. LEADS HOCKEY FIELDING Montreal (U.R) Stingy Jac ques Plante, hockey's top goal- tender last year, has picked up right where he left off and leads all National Hockey league back stops with an almost near per fect "fielding average" of .975, after the first two weeks of the new season. HOCKEY ARENA New Haven, Conn (U.R) Yale university announced today that it will begin construction next year on a S750.000 hockey arena to be named the David a Ingalls rink in honor of the pub lisher of the Cincinnati Times- Star and his son. Both Ingalls captained the Eli freshman and varsity hockey teams at Yale. ett worked with the team but Drecautions were still being tak en to prevent re-injury of a hip joint suffered last Saturday. BRUINS SCRIMMAGE Los Angeles (U.R) Coach Henry (Red) Sanders held : closed two-hour drill Tuesday in which the UCLA Bruins engag ed in a brief scrimmage and worked on pass defense. The Bruins meet Oregon Sat urday at Corvallis and despite the possibility of a wet field, Sanders paid special attention to pass defense. Blocking back Don Shinnick was briefed again by coaches for his first game of the season as a senior playing the final five games of the sched ule. TWO-WAY CHASE The 1957 championship race in Southern . Oregon confer ence basketball is figured to be a two-way race between Klamath Falls and Medford. Klamath finished second to Medford last season and both clubs entered the 'state tour ney. Much of the Klamath hope will be based on two tall boys, Glenn Moore and Cliff Sutherland. Both are re ported to be around 6-8 now. Medford will have - height in Neil Plumley, around 6-6, Mike Stearns and Larry Sless ler, 6-3, and second team all stater Dick McLaughlin, 6-2. Basketball Referees Clinic Here Tonight An Oregon School Activities association clinic for basketball referees will be held at 7:30 p.m. today in Room 4 at Med ford Senior high school. Hoop officials of the area also will take the opportunity to organ ize for the season. Election of a commissioner of referees is planned. EAGLES INK SMITH Philadelphia (U.R) The Philadelphia Eagles signed form er Cleveland Browns' back Bob Smith today after making veter an halfback Jim Farmer a scout. Smith averaged 3.8 yards with the Browns last season. Parmer was the last of the 1948 Eagles team -which won the National Football league title. BETTER LATE ... Salt Lake City U.R) Utah does pay its bills, but sometimes it takes a while. The Denver Fire Clay Co. received a check from the state for S972 a year and a half afer it was mailed. The envelope bore a postage meter stamp with the original mailing date and a Salt Lake City postal cancellation. on top dated 18 months later. UNWELCOME GIFT Millbury, Mass. U.R) Someone donated a, huge wood en box to a Boy Scout auction here and the Scouts have de cided it isn't always the "best things" in life that are free. 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