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o o o o c? o o O O o o o c o o 0 Medford Host To Portland Schools Thursday, Friday A "rmatch" between the 1956.: to entertain Butte Falls on Sat Claa A-l te tournament final- ( urday. O i,ns Is the feature attraction this involving Jackaon countv high schools. And the competition will be concentrated on Thurs day aid Fridav. Franklin f Portland, the 1956 0A-1 charr,L, will be Thursday - r Jest of ?.lect)rd. the state tour- SiTient runner-up for two itr.ght sfciisons. Another Port - C land school, Cl-veland. will be entertaired by Medford's Black Tornado on frridsv in the second Ojght of action at i'edrick gym- n;oium. o Tnree Jackson. scho&I. will O take part in' a couple- hi holiday doijiTleheaders with games Thurs- 0 day at Pi-venix' and, Friday at Eagle Potnt. In the Thursday contention Douglas from outside the county will oppose- Eagle Point and St. Mary's will tussle PSbcoix. Friday "sc-uffles put Douglas against ne Phoenix crew and St. Mary's against O Eagle Point. . Crater :id Ashland travel to Cottage (trove, the Comets f CentrafcPoint playing in the.Wil lamete valjey city Thursday and P.shltnd nrwking the trip on Fri day. QOProspWciwill be host to Talent rg Fri and is tentatively set n Ashland Defeats Phoenix T6cRecord Fourth Victory Ashland Coach Earl Iba'i i liland high Grizzlies Friday O nightotook their fourth straight rffaplecSurt triumph by turning Oback Phoenix 33 to 2,3. f Ashland took the opcriirig lead Silt PUpenix deadlocked the game at 611 on Jim Stout's bucket. After Mel Dailey tiefl up the ruckus Jon Jleath came Al Williams Qualifies for Crosby3 Event A1 Williamsf professional at Rogue Vallcy-jCountry club, will lcfee ht n Jan. 6. to "partici fti in the a.-Uiual Bing Crosby Jtilf tournament. 0 The tourney will be played on the Monterey Peninsula, Cypress Poirti and Pebble Beach courses California beginning on Jaji. 11. p-Williams tied for second low O ffl qualifying Utst Monday in 3ortlsnd. He and Eddie Hogan, Riverside, Portland, hari 70s. Charlie Cowqdon, Taconia, Wasft, had a 69. WilliarhsOsaid that the Hol Qlday handicap at Rogue Valley has b$n extended through Feb. 2 because of the ccold and fog which has limited action at tfte links. Lee Flltik, with 153 points has the0best score among men who have jlayed four rounds. I.ttyd Popes 41 points are high far for one round. oHQCKEY NATIONAL LEAGUE q By United Press tightened-up defense was credited by Coach Phifc Watson CMrce York Rar.gVrs' re cent improvement. q"3J)5 Ranges cemented their hold on fourth place in th Na tional Hockey league with a 3-2 victory over tl Chicago filack Hasriday night. Gold tfiiTcHuskies Nab fwo from Rogue River Jld H. Gold Hill grade dchool Huskies delated Rogue J.e,3a to 10 in the A basket ball giime and 29 to 1o in the B cogtittt at the Hanby school g here ftt week.olt as the. first action of the season for Gold H01Q which plays Lone Pine here next on Jan. 3. Jems Netzel scored 14 points for Gold Hill in the mix. Others players wer Jack Jones. Howard Misner, Frank Balch and Arlin White. Ivid Molloy scor ed nine for the B Huskies. SPAHN NAMED VALUABLE Milwaukee0 :U.R) Warrfli Spahn, the "old pro" of the Milwaukee Braves, was named Saturday as the club's most val uable player for 1956 by the Milwaukee Basebal Writer's Assn. o Clemson Bowl This is on of a series on the teams in the major fool bl pwl games. By PAUL PHILLIPS Clemson. S. C. OJ.R) If anything hardens to quarterback Charley Bussey in or fcefore the Orange Bowl garr. the Clemson Tigers will have to give up on plans to tge even an occasional iward pass against Colorado. Frank Howard. e Clemson i coarh. simply can't risk iettint; any onr else thrv he ball. DurinCthe entire 1P56 season in j which Clemson w o n seven games, lost one and tied two. the Tigers completed only two out of 2i9passes except for the ones Bussey threw. Bussey wasn't exactly sensational but his 23 6mpletions in 60 tries at least ke-.J the opposing defenses honest ' when he was in the g.-n-.e. O Cleveland will stop off at Grants Pass for a Thursday mix and Franklin, en route home from Medford. will stop off at the CHmate for a Friday encounter. Bjarne Jensen. 6-9 all-stater, is 1 the main attraction of the Frank- lin club. The Quakers also have ; regulars Glen Hutton and Jack ; Luhrs back from their state title ' club, j Medford's Tornado hoopmen drew a rest yesterday after a hard workout on Friday. Coach Frank Roelandt indicated that he would give his charges heavy drill both Monday and Wednes day with lots of running. Defense is to get more atten tion in drills this week. The men tor indicated that the Tornado will work mostly on straight de fense but will also prep on measures to hold down the tow ering Jensen. A good share of the Medford squad had a late start at basket ball because of the long football season but Roelandt said that the crew is starting to "shape up." He reported, "We're coming along and ball handling is much more consistent. By the time we open up in the conference, we should be irl top shape." back with a Pirate bucket that tied up the clubs at 8-each at the quarter. The Grizzlies went on top for keeps with' free shots by Jack Tobiasson and Jack Eberhart. Three long push shots by Mark Fitch and a free toss by Eber hart helped Ashland to a 17 to 13 halftime margin. Ball control style by the Ash landers limited the Pirates to a pair of charity tosses in the third quarter and Ashland lengthened to 26 to 15 in the period. .Stout was high point man in the game with nine. Harvey Sorenson tabulated eight for the unbeaten Ashlanders. Ashland was 45 to 23 victor in the junior varsity starter. r ist-ips: Phoenix 23 45 Artiland f 6 Eberhart 1 6 Dailey c 1 Tobiasson K 6 Fitch e 2 Hartwell or Phoenix. Fay Tavor. Waldron C. Sinimotids 4 .James 2 Witle 2 Heath 4 StOLrt 9 Substitution tinner,. Douirherty, Blunt. Wallace. Schlcish; for Ashiand. Bu-sch, OUon 4. Sorenson 8 Indorf Example of Sophs Who Put Colorado in Bowl (This is another of a series on the teams in the major 1956 football bowl games.) By GENE MEAKINS Boulder, Colo. UJ.PJ Half back Ellwin Indorf carried the football twice for six yards this season and never scored a touch down, but the 172-pound sopho more put Colorado in the Orange Bowl. Iudorf, who transferred from Colorado A&M to Colorado and was a wrestling star at St. Fran cisKan., booted 16 of 19 points after touchdown. He kicked the netessary point to beat Kansas, 26-25, and booted two in the last half as Colorado came from behind to tie Missouri, 14-14. Had Indorf missed on any of these, Colorado's entire football squad with wives would not be flying to Miami today for the New Year's Day game against Clemson. Indorf is just one example of how Coach Dallas Ward's sopho mores "came through" this sea fon to win seven games while losing two and tying one. .It was in the backfield where the sophomores had to come throifgb or it would have been just another season at Colorado. Eddie Dove, who took over the wingbatk spot in Colorado's single wing, gained -374 yards running and was especially bril liant on reverses. Howard Cook, who alternates with junior Bob Stransky at tail back, gained 396 yards and was a briliant punter and fair passer. Boyd Dowler, quarterback or blocking back, completed 13 of 26 passes and punted 41 times for a 42.1-yard average. Those three teamed with sen ior fullback John Bayuk, 220- Chances Depend on Wells Bussey was handicapped much of the time by an injured hand, .bit in the last two games - he appeared to have recovered. "If Bussey 's hand is well like it was in those two last games we played, we probably will do more passing than we did during the earlier part of the season," Howard said. "We definitely will do a lot of running against Colorado be- cause we have the backs to do i that and block." During the linemen who can the season Clemson gained a total of 2,511 yards but only 346 were On passing, which puts a heavy burden on halfback Joel Wells, the key runner in the ground attack. Out in front of the runners will be a mammoth line, averag ing 200 pounds a man and spear headed by tackle Bill Hudson, a i 245-pounder. I 1 - '. ; :m .v$'.t I .;ts . J0 r.,.. : X1J.: SNOW PRINCESS-Marilynn Booth, Medford, at right, was elected snow princess to represent Southern Oregon college at the intercollegii te winter carnival Jan. 26-27 at Timberline lodge, Mt. Hcod. Her rivals for the honor were, from left, Sandra Qualman, Coos Bav, Barbara Wright, Bandon, Sheyla Thompson, Medford, and Marjorie Osgood, Ashland. Crater High Romps 51-39 Over Eagle Point Quintet Central Point The Crater high Comets made it two vic tories this season over the Eagle Point basketball quintet with an impressive 51 to 39 decision here Friday night. Snappy passing, which set up numerous field goals, adept shot blocking on defense and a con siderable edge in rebound re trieving under the backboards were combined by the Comets in fashioning the victory. Crater built up a 42 to 25 spread by the end of three quar ters. Comet reserves played throughout the entire rough fourth stanza. It was one of Crater's best showings in the young season. Dick Davis and Craig Cochran turned in effective offensive per formances with the playmaking of George Juveland and Wayne Allen and Fred Herrmann worked with Davis and Coch ran in yeoman service under the backboards. Jack Greb sparked the Eagles with his rebounding, Ron Veach with his scrappy per forming and the two headed EP in the scoring. EP Has Lead Eagle Point held the lead only once in the contest. That was in the opening canto when Gary Foran's two free heaves made it 6 to 4 for the Eagles in the slow starting affair. Davis drove in after a feed by pound bulldozer who gained 659 yards to lead the team, and jun ior tailback Bob Stransky, who gained 548 yards and proved he can pass in the clutch. Ward believes Clemson's J "principal threat" is halfback Joel Wells. He calls him a "ter rific back." The Colorado coach believes the Orange Bowl game will be played mainly on the ground. He points out that neither Clemson nor Colorado pass much. Ward prefers to send Bayuk up the middle time and again until a weakness develops or the defense switches. Then one of the fleet wingbacks or tailbacks might take off on a buck lateral or double reverse. The pass is used mainly to support the ground attack. Bearcats Romp Over Chico State Salem (U.R) Willamette wal loped Chico State, 83-63, here Friday night in the opener of a two-game basketball series. The first half ended with Wil lamette barely ahead 39-35. But irt the second half the Bearcats opened up and rang up 44 points to 28V for Chico State. Ed Grossenbacher led the Wil lamette attack with 23 points. John Wagoner was high for Chico State with 14. TULANE UPSETS BUCKEYES Columbus, O. U.R) Scrappy Tulane urvived a second-half rally by Ohio State Saturday to upset the 11th ranked Buckeyes 75-71 in a regionally televised in tersectional basketball game. Clemson will be anxious to get back in the good graces of the Orange Bowl people, who weren't too anxious to have them for the New Year's Day game after they suffered a 14-0 loss to Miami in the same sta dium earlier in the season. That was Clemson's only defeat. Other post-season bowl trips have been successful ones for Clemson. The Timers beat Boston College 6-3 in the 1940 Cotton Bowl, downed Missouri 24-23 in the 1949 Gator Bowl, and edged Miami, 15-14, in the 1951 Orange Bowl. Despite the fact neither Clem son nor Colorado is rated a top flight team, the oddsmakers have tabbed their game as like ly to be the closest. Colorado is listed as only a two point favor- ite. Allen to knot the tussle. Allen with an assist from Juveland sank a driver, Davis took a pass from Juveland got another close in shot and Allen put in a gift toss for 11 to 6 for Crater at the end of the quarter. Two free heaves by Wayne Christian cut the score to 11 to 8 but that was the closest the Eagles were to get to the Comets. A Davis jumper, Herrmann drive bucket, Joe Teeter free throw and two long range goals by Cochran for Crater while Greb got an eight-foot shove for the Eagles made it 20 to 10. That was the widest separation of the first half. Score at midway break was 24 to 17. Comets Boost Margin Greb's long pusher cut the score to 24 to 19 as the third quarter opened. But the Eagles then went scoreless for almost 4Vi minutes. In the meantime, Davis and Cochran hit for a pair of field buckets, Allen for a driver and Juveland for a gifter to make a 16 point bulge at 35 to 19. Veach put in goals from the side and back of the free line for EP while Davis got a free toss to cut the gap to 11 points at 36 to 25. Herrmann and Randy Camp bell picked up two gifters each and Juveland a 10-foot shot on a recovery for the 42 to 25 third stanza total. Jerry Kime's free throw put the count 18 points apart, the most of the night, at 43 to 25 as the fourth chukker started. From that point the game turned rough and tumble, foot ballish. The Eagles trimmed their OSC Gridder Said Jittery Pasadena, Calif. U.R) Ore gon State college's Frank Negri is probably the most "jittery" player on Coach Tommy Pro thro's team as it tunes up for the home stretch practice drive against Iowa in the Rose Bowl, New Year's day. Negri, from California's sprawling San Fernando valley, has reason to be as nervous as an expectant father. He's going to he one, and Frank says "I want a little boy." The 21-year-old senior, who coach Prothro describes as the top replacement behind starting right end Bob De Grant, has been a versatile player during the past two seasons with the Beavers. Negri has played tail back, wingback, fullback and blocking back but finally wound up as end. Mrs. Negri doesn't plan to make the trip to Pasa dena. She'll remain in Corvallis. Tru-Mix Concrete Co. and Medford Concrete & Construction Co. will bs CLOSED MONDAY DECEMBER 24th to enable their employees to enjoy a Three day holiday Best Wishes to a Merry, Merry a Happy New Year! F$!f$f0ff0f$!0f0r0!$!0!e!0!0!0r0!0ff0!t!$S SPORTS 29 Football Players Get SOC Letters Ashland Twenty-nine mem bers of the Southern Oregon college 1956 football squad have been awarded varsity letters by Coach Al Akins. The number is the same as issued by Akins last year after his first year at the Red Raider helm. The list is headed by three seniors. Bill Seymour, quarter back. Hank Smith, reserve tackle, and Ray Thiess, center. Seymour and Smith are four year monogram winners and re ceived a blanket with block "O." Graduation of Seymour, first team Little All-Coast and Ore gon Collegiate all-conference choice this season and Little Ail-American mention last year, will give Akins his most serious replacement problem in building this 1957 club. Thiess received OCC honorable mention. Three Year Men Three-year lettermen along with Thiess are John Garrett, guard and All-OCC, Herb Col ley, tackle. Bill Stewart, center, and Chuck Crandall. halfback. Second year mongram-wear-ers are Don Korns. OCC all star fullback, Dick Smith, end. Jim AUeman, tackle, Chuck Romine, second team all-conference guard, Don Dickson and Tom Findlay, guards, and Ted Tenney, Ralph Clarno, Larry Mauer, Andy Travis and Bill Rush, backs. Receiving their first letters were Norm Oliva, Gerald Dar land, Norm Hedgepeth and Larry Schweinfurt, freshmen ends; Jim Bird and Marion Jack, sophomore tackles,' Jim Tac hinni, freshman tackle, Modesto Jimenez, freshman guard; Mike Crabtree, freshman center, and Lance Locke and Willie Jones, freshman backs. In the two seasons in which 58 men have lettered in foot ball for the Red Raiders just two have been freshmen. deficit down to 11 points at 44 to 33 but the Comet reserves worked to 16-point margins of 49 to 33 and 51 to 35 before EP put the tally at its final standing. Veach Totals 14 Veach was high scorer in the ruckus with 14 points. Greb and Davis had 13 each and Cochran got 10. Crater outrebonded EP 43 to 22 but Greb was the top indi vidual with 12 retrieves. Davis got 10 and Herrmann eight. The Comets hit 20 of 53 tries from the field for a .377 average while Eagle Point was cooler with 14 of 51 attempts for .279. The Comets beat Eagle Point 46 to 42 in the earlier game of the season. Eagle Point won the junior varsity mix Friday 56 to 41. Bill Turner scored 22 for the Eagles and Allen Barnes 14 for Crater. Crater will go to Cottage Grove Thursday for its last game of the pre-conference slate. Eagle Point will vie in holiday double bills, playing Douglas at Phoenix on Thursday and St. Mary's at Eagle Point on Friday. LINE-UPS: Crater 51 Herrmann 6 Davis 13 Cochran 10 Joveland 5 , . 39 Katie Point f 13 Jack Greb f 2 Christian c 7 Foran t 14 Veach It Boren Allen 3 Substitutions For Crater. Green 1. Teeter 1. Smith 2 Kime 1, Goyette 4. John Greb. Campbell 5: for Eaele Point, McDonald 3, Brown. Clement, Hanson. Use Tribune Want Ads Dead Une Sunday Classified u at noon Saturday- 10 a.rn Monday for Monday: other davi 6:30 orevious day o 4S- ... O C5- Everyone for Christmas and Sunday, December 23, 1958 George Halas Cardinal Boss Chicago U.R) Chicago Bear owner George Halas lashed out Friday night at Walter Wolf ner, managing director of the Chicago Cardinals, in the latest of a series of verbal blasts rock ing the professional football world. "Mr. Wolfner has never been more wrong," said Halas in a statement issued in reply to a charge by Wolfner earlier in the day that National Football league Commissioner Bert Bell was guilty of "unfair tactics and censorship." Wolfner blasted the commis sioner after he cancelled a sched uled television showing set for this afternoon of the Cardinal Bear game of two weeks ago. Bad Officiating Charged The showing was built up as an attempt by the Cardinals to show the public what Card offi cials have called bad officiating and unfair penalties in the rough and tumble battle which they lost 10-3 to their crosstown ri vals. Wolfner said Bell called earli er in the day to notify the Cardi nals they could not run the film with re-runs, or stop it to point Russell Makes Professional Debut With Celts Boston (U.R) Big Bill Rus sell made his professional de but Saturday, scoring six points and demonstrating his great de fensive strength as the Boston Celtics nipped the ' St. Louis Hawks, 95-53, in a National Basketball association thriller at the Garden. The 6-10 former All-American from the University of San Fran cisco had time for only three practice sessions with the Celtics before Saturday's nationally tele vised game. Three times Russell went high into the air to block shots by St. Louis' Bob Pettit. The 6-9 Pettit is generally considered as the NBA's top big man. Russell and Boston Center Arnie Risen combined to hold Pettit to only eight points during the first half. Pettit tallied 20 in the second half, during which time Russell was used only sparingly. Russell had three floor goals in 15 shots but missed all four of his free throws. He played a to tal of 15 minutes and 30 seconds during the past-paced game. MINOR TUNE-UP THIS MONTH ONLY o '49 to '56 Ford Passenger Cars and Light Trucks We will check COMPRESSION YOU'LL GET BACK THAT NEW CAR WITH THIS FORD ENGINE TUNl-UP tS5i THIS CR ATER LAKE M Main & Fir Sts. f52 "WHERE GOOD SERVICE JS Lashes Out at in Grid Fuss out violations or show still pic tures. "Although the Bears were al lowed to show their films with stills and comments, the commis sioner now gives specific Orders that if we go ahead and show our films, we are subject to fine or suspension," said Wolfner. Halas said Bell had merely ordered the Cardinal brass to refrain from, publicly criticizing the officials and to observe league rules. Bears and Giants Clash Next Week New York U.R) The Chi cago Bears and New York Giants, bitter old rivals who have watched Johnny - come latelys rule the National Foot ball league in recent years, clash for the 1956 championship next Sunday at Yankee Stadium. Neither team has appeared, in the title game since 1946, when Sid Luckman led the Baars to a 24-14 triumph over a Hew' York team split by a scasdal that rocked professional foot ball. An attempt by gambfers to "fix" the. game, with two New York players involved, s revealed shortly before that Polo Grounds contest." The 1956. title game, whigh may provide record shares of more than S4.000 for eac,h plac er on the victorious team, will be televised (10;45 a.m. PST) and broadcast nationally by 5l.B C. The Bears, wtio rallied to ,play a 17-17 tie'with the Giants earli er this seftson, are 34 pint favorites. Ev&shevaski Has Iowa Scrimmage Pasadena, Calif. U.R) Coach Forest EvashevsVi sent his Iowa squad through a full-scale scim mage Friday in preparation for the New Year's Day Rose Bowl game. The first and second strings romped over the third and fourth squads by a score of 52-0 in thec Hawkeyes first full-scale scrim mage since arriving here. Righ half Bill Happel and halfback Mike Hagler scored three touchdowns each. Quarter back Randy Duncan threw a pass to fullback John Nocera for ine seventn score, ana too t-res-cott kicked a 21-yard field goal. "The timing has improve," Evashevski said after the drill. FIRST-thenifOK- Install New Poins and Condenser Scope Distributor Set Timing 3 O Adjuct and Clean Plugs 0 o Adjust Carburetor o Adjust and Check Fan and Generator Belts o Clean Fuel Pump Bowl o Check Batter and Cables ALL Use Our Easy MEDFORD (OREGON) M$IL TRIBUNE NINE Portlcnders ; Nip Nevada Portland (U.R! The Univer sity of Portland eked out its sixth straight basketball win over upset-miied Nevada. 69-67. Hire Friday night, after leading throughout the first half. Poland went into a see-saw battle in the second half with, the Wolf pack, which saw nine tics Did 12 changes of the lead. Jack Scgvens, Portland Pilot seSiry co-captain. pg'Ied Port land out of a 65-65 tie with six minutes and 13 seconds to go on a solo dash which netted him lay-up Sad a free throw. - eWith the pilots ahead 68-64, Stan Summers brought the Wolf RaWt within one point with two free throws, with three minutes and fve seconds to play. The pilots then controlled the ball, losing i? wit)15 seconds to play. But Scrivcs was fouled, hit one free throw end the final score rea j 69-67. q Sum?ners. 6-8 junir center for Nevada, waj higliQscorer of ths game with 30 points. High man ff?r Portland was Dick Jolley with 19. o 1 Talbert Hopes For Net Upset Adelaide. Austral (U.R)- Captain Bill Talbert and his Jnited tates Davis Cup team? perhare the biggest und erdogs in the chajy?nge round's 56-year his?ory, hope Australian overconficfrn'ie and Stesension will help5 them pull off a smash ing upsetnext wtS-k. q WhiJ 3,000 mans applauded Talbert's men HJinday forQthe besto strokes they have show gt Adelaide, three former Davis Cup stars picked Ken Rosewall and Lew Hoad to keep the cup for Australia jjj shutting out the United States, 5-0. "I don't like to say this but you , can't figure it any other wav than a clean sweep for fload and Rosewall." said Jack Kramer, the Los Angeles pro tennis promoter who helped whip Australia in the 16 and 1947 challenr. rounds. "It figures to be 5 Australia but don't sell our American boys too short. 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