PCC Gives Athletes Financial
Break; Relaxes Stiff Penalties
San Francisco (U.FO The
Pacific Coast conference gave
athletes a break financially Fri
day after voting to make it
tougher for them scholastically.
Faculty representatives for the
nine member schools ended a
two-day meeting Friday by vot
ing to permit increased money
assistance to athletes and can
celling penalties against athlet
ic teams other than football at
the University of Washington
and UCLA.
In their first day session, the
representatives voted for more
stringent scholastic require
ments for athletes at the con
ference schools.
Casper Takes Lead in
LA Open; Burke 2nd
B HAL WOOD
United Press Sports Writer
Los Angeles UR Billy
Casper a stoutish 25-year-old
professional from Chula Vista,
Calif., stole a march on the big
names in golf Saturday as ne
fired his second consecutive
three-under-par 68 and took the
leadership at the halfway mark
in the rich Los Angeles open
golf tournament.
With a 136 total for the 36
holes, Casper had only a one
stroke lead over Gardner Dick
inson, Sanford, Fla., who also
had a 68 Saturday and a 137
score.
Eight on their heels came
smiling Jackie Burke, the Mas
ters and PGA champion from
Houston, Tex. Jackie fired a 69
for the second day in a row
proving that he is back on
his stick after an operation last
' summer.
Next in line came Mike Fel
chick of Mahopac, N. Y., and
Doug Higgins, Midland, Texas,
with a 139 and at 140 were
Charles Rotar. San Bernardino,
Calif., and Doug Ford, Maho
pac. It was a closely-bunched field
but not as tightly packed as the
opening day when four were
tied for first and five for sec
ond. There still are a lot of
good men in contention.
However, among these you
could just about count out de
fending champion Lloyd Man
grum, a home-town boy. He
tacked a 73 Saturday onto his
74 Friday for a 147 bare
ly qualifying for the final two
rounds. The bulky field was
cut to 90 and ties Saturday with
a score of 148 or better need
ed to get into the final two
days.
The tournament favorite, Dr.
Cary Middlecoff, wasn't too far
off the pace. He was even-par
71 Saturday to go with his op
ening 70 for a 141 score.
A throng of 9,200 followed
BOWLING
ROGUE ROLLERS
In Rogue Rollers Bowling
league Brooks Electric took four
games from Rogue Sportsman
and Pioneer Cafe took four
games from Tic Toe, to go into
a first place tie. Dorothy Hop
kins rolled 216 for high game
and Vivian Knox 545 for high
series. Other high game and high
series were: Vivian Knox 213,
Mable Clark 210-510, Eva Ses
sions 203-500, Dell Christianson
196-510 and Claudia Lowd 180-
523. Split conversions were
made by Vera Fmley 7-6-9-10
Leona Erickson 5-10, Vi Coats
5-7. and Judy Barnum 4-7-10
Ralph's Restaurant carded 823
and 2254 for high game and high
team series.
Standings: W L
Brooks Electric 7 1
Pioneer Cafe iC. P.) 7 1
Economy Market IC. P.) 2
Darrell Miller Co. 6 2
Ralph's Restaurant 4 4
Chris Drus 4 4
The Hideaway 4 4
Rogue Equipment Sales . 4 4
Tic Toe Time Shop 3 3
O K Market 2 6
Bateman s Insurance Agency.... 2 6
Rogue Sportsman 1 7
Hideaway 1 Miller Co. 3
R. Shama 321 N. Roberta 390
V. Bailey 323 A. Zenor 43j
T. Farrar 413
L. Merrifield 353 P. Haven 432
V Coats 437 O. Wjatt 403
Handicap 114
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Rnrite Snorts 0 Brooks EleC. 4
J. McCreadv 455 P. Braack 356
E Johnson 421 E. Sessions 500
D Webster 3R3 J. Frohreich 427
C Ludwig 379 J. Barnum 410
D. Paul 410 E Lenz 484
Handicap 9
2048 2186
Pioneer Cafe 4 Tic Toe 0
L Robinson 463 E. Olsen 365
H. Paulson 464 S Couler 381
L. Turner 379 O. Finley 457
D. Harris 361 L. Dibble 3!) I
E. Baker 443 L Erickson 423
Handicap 102
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Batemans 1 Rogue Equlpt. 3
C Martin 366 V. Lusk 369
V. De Lisle 315 A Shreeve 367
Y Strobe! 379 Henson is) 387
C Sedev 291 E. Dickinson 426
C. Riegs 4S3 T. Ault 313
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O. K. Market 1 Economy Mkt. 3
M. Langston 450 C. Lowd 523
N. Oswold ' 426 D. Hopkins -SS
B. Mahan 443 G. Shumate 349
L. Mete 369 N Weber 319
V. Findley 395 Christianson 510
Handicap 60
2083 2249
F.al .h i Rest. 3 Chris Drnr 1
V Knox 545 E. Doty 310
M. Sullivan 380 T. Tolles 465
D. Houston 332 G. Russell 405
T Dotv 487 A. Gish 3.t
M. Clark 510 V Corby 413
Handicap 81
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The group thus relaxed the
stiffer penalties meted out last
summer to four schools for per
mitting excessive payments to
athletes and opened the way for
UCLA' and Washington to peti
tion the NCAA for simrlar action
and possibly compete in nation
al playoffs in such sports as
basketball and baseball.
USC. Cal Eligible
Southern California and Cali
fornia, the other two schools
punished last summer, were al
ready eligible for competition in
sports other than football.
California was hit with only a
monetary penalty and USC's
non-football teams had previ-
the stars around the soggy
course Saturday ana ll.y were
treated to some fine golf.
Among the better efforts was
a 32 on the back nine by Harry
Weetman, the long-hitting Brit
ish star, who eventually came
in with a 69 for a 142; and a
33 on the front side for the vet
eran E. J. Dutch Harrison, who
wound up with a fine 68 to top
a 73 Friday for a 141.
In the 140 bracket came Paul
O'Leary, Bismarck, N. D.; Fred
Wampler, Indianapolis, Ind.;
Stan Kertes, Chicago and
Smiley Quick, Los Angeles.
At 141, along with Middle
coff and Harrison were the vet
eran Paul Runyan, La Jolla,
Calif., and Marty Furgol, Le
mont, 111. One of Friday's
leaders.
Gam bee Leads
OSC Triumph
Palo Alto, Calif. U.R)
Forward Dave Gambee scored
30 points Friday night to pace
Oregon State to a 64-63 opening
Pacific Coast Conference basket
ball win over Stanford.
A final-minute basket by
OSC's Jerry Criming gave the
Beavers the one-point victory as
a desperation try at the gun by
the Indians came too late.
Stanford, trailing early in the
second half, came through to tie
up the game twice once after
five minutes of play nd again
with four minutes kit in the
game. Then the Indiims surged
ahead on shots by Bill Bond,
who had 13 points, and Haga,
who had 14. Stanford gained as
much as a four-point lead during
the second half.
Gambee was brilliant with his
hook shots, which gave him 17
points the first half and 13 in
the second. '
Medford JVs
Clip Comets
Medford High junior varsity
basketeers chalked up their
second win of the season over
the Crater jayvees Friday night,
clipping the Comets 50 to 29
Friday night in the prelim to
the Medford-Crater varsity mix
at Central Point.
The Junior Tornado ran up
an 11 to 4 margin in the first
quarter and was on top 27 to 12
at the half. After three stanzas
the bulge was 35 to 18.
Ron Peery scored 17 points
and Bob Plankenhorn 10 for
Medford.
LINE-UPS:
Medlord JV 50 29 Crater JV
Plankenhorn 10 t 6 Barnes
Rasmussen 9 8 Beach
J. Funston 2 c 7 White
Peery 17 g Burns
Brauner 5 g 4 Bennett
Substitutions For Medford. Monroe
3. Harvel 2. Barlow. Hamilton, Peter
son 2. Whalev. Freizen: for Crater.
Fowler 2. Clark. Black 2. Mack 2.
Davis 2. Day.
Aussie Scores '
Tennis Triumph
Tampa. Fla. U.R Don
Candy of Australia scored a
smashing upset over top-seeded
Eddie Moylan of Trenton. N.J.,
in a five-set marathon Saturday
6-3, 7-5, 3-6. 5-7, 6-4, to enter
the final of the Dixie Interna
tional tennis championships.
Candy, consid6red an out
standing prospect for the Aus
tralian Davis Cup team, ob
viously wilted under the warm
sun in the three hour match
but had enough to stave off
Moylan's bid for victory.
In women's play top seeded
Karol Fageros of Miami
breezed into the final with a
6-0, 6-4 victory over Martha
Hernandez of Mexico. In the
other women's semi-final, Rosa
Marie Ryes of Mexico trimmed
Evelyn Cowain of Covington,
Ga., 4-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Pairings Listed
For Crosby Event
Pebble Beach, Calif. OI.PJ
Pairings for the annual Bing
Crosby S15.000 national pro
amateur golf tournament Jan.
11-13. were .announced Satur
day with stars from the world
of golf, movie, television, foot
ball and baseball featured.
The top pairings, with the
ISPORTS
ously been okayed by the con
ference. The new financial assistance
code adopted in principle Fri
day is based on the extent of an
athlete's need although he is
required to put in a certain num
ber of hours on on-campus work.
It also made it possible for an
athlete to receive a grant with
out working for it if his need is
great enough.
Under the present assistance
program an athlete is limited
to earning $100 per month on
on-campus jobs.
Greg Englehard, California
athlete director, said the new
assistance provisions will "go a
long way toward eliminating under-the-table
payments."
Extent of Need
Under the new code the ex
tent of need would be determin
ed by an independent agency
such as the college scholarship
service which would use a for
mula provided by the conference
and based on a standard cost
for each campus.
The code also specified that
all forms of assistance shall be
administered by the university,
a move seen as a blow to alumni
groups.
The vote on the liberalized
assistance program was 7-2 with
Oregon and Stanford opposed.
The vote was 5-4 on each res
olution asking relaxation of re
strictions against teams other
than football at UCLA and
Washington. These two schools
were joined by USC and Ore
gon State on both votes with
California voting for UCLA and
Washington State voting for
Washington.
The conference put off until
its spring meeting at Spokane,
Wash., May 19-23, consideration
of points involving policing of
the money assistance program
and penalties for violators.
The presidnts of the confer
ence schools H st month proposed
that offending coaches be fired
and athletes Use their eligibility.
Harry Weetman of Britain Scares U.S.
Pro Golfers in
By HAL WOOD
United Press Sports Writer
Los Angeles U.PJ Harry
Weetman, a chunky, jut-jawed
golfer from the British Isles, is
scaring the daylights out of the
American professionals in his
first crack at U. S. money on
the winter tour.
Weetman has been hitting
such prodigious drives that the
other golfers are standing
around staring in amazement.
"I played ahead of him the
other day," said professional
Shelley Mayfield, who is no
short hitter himself. "I hit my
second shot and walked about
30 or 40 yards and then a ball
came trickling by my feet. It was
Weetman's tee shot.
Siraighler Than Baer
"He must be the longest hitter
to come along since George
Baer."
Jackie Robinson to
Retire, Magazine Says
New York (U.R) Jackie
Robinson, who was traded to the
New York Giants Dec. 13 by
the Brooklyn Dodgers, will an
nounce in a copyrighted article
in Look magazine's Tuesday is
sue that he is quitting baseball,
the magazine announced Satur
day. The magazine said the article,
written by Robinson, would be
entitled: "Why I am quitting
baseball."
"I'm through with baseball.
From now on, I'll be just anoth- j
er fan, a Brooklyn fan," Robin-:
son wrote, Look said. "I'm
through with baseball because I .
know that, in a matter of time,
baseball would have been j
through with me."
S. O. Shapiro, a vice president
of Look magazine, said Robin
son's article will say:
"I want to explain just how ;
it happened because some peo- j
pie may now feel I haven't been j
honest with them these past few i
weeks when they asked me j
about my plans. I've always 1
played fair with my newspaper
friends, and I think they'll un
derstand why this was one time
I couldn't give them the whole
story as soon as I knew it." j
Shapiro said that Robinson !
had decided to quit baseball
prior to his trade to the Giants. I
He broke major league baseball's !
unwritten "color line" when
professional listed
Dean of baseball
Ellis; Coach Red
UCLA and Harry
last: Dizzy
and Wesley
Sanders of
Todd; Gen.
Omar Bradley and Fred Wemp- !
ler; Bob Hope and Mike Sou- 1
chak; Phil Harris and Gene !
Littler: Gen. Bob McClure and
Joe Moore Jr.; Lex Barker and
Dick Turner; Dcik Arlen and
Chuck Congdon; Guy Madison
and Don Addington; Bob Lem
on and Mike Dietz; Otto Gra
ham and Don Fairfield; Free
man Gosden and Ronnie Nicol;
Ralph Kiner and John Bar
num: Dean Martin and Ed
(Porky) Oliver; Bob Crosby and
Ted Margolea; Dennis O'Keefe
and Bud Hofmeister; John
Weissmuler and Jimmy Clark.
McCormick '
First Winner
Of Babe Cup
Chicago U.PJ Mrs. Pat
McCormick, two - time double
Olympic diving champion, will
be honored as the first winner
of the Babe Didrikson Zaharias
trophy at a presentation dinner
here June 26.
The event, originally sched
uled for Jan. 15, was changed
to June 26, the late Babe's
birthday on which the Zaharias
award to the top amateur wom
an athlete will be made annual
ly. Announcement of the date
change and Mrs. McCormick's
selection was made jointly by
George Zaharias, husband of the
famed woman athlete, and Bob
Russell, Chicago Daily News
sports writer, general chairman
of the trophy organization.
Zaharias said that with ,more
time for planning, "we can
give Pat McCormick the kind of
reception that a great woman
and a great athlete deserves. We
know the Babe would have
wanted it that way."
Babe and her husband estab
lished the trophy to stimulate
more feminine interest in ama
teur athletics before she suc
cumbed in her battle with can
cer last year.
Two Washington Nags
Win at Santa Anita
Arcadia, Calif. U.R) The
state of Washington, which us
ually has little to cheer about
in horse races, Saturday sent
off the winners of both the
Stakes at Santa Anita as Battle
Dance won the $27,000 San
Pasqual handicap and Sir Wil
liam captured the Los Feliz
stakes.
Battle Dance, claimed for
$17,500 last summer, staged a
front-running victory over
Honeys Alibi while the favored
Porterhouse was third on a
slightly off track which he dis
likes. Race For Tour
Weetman has played in the
United States before with the
British Ryder Cup team. And
even then he was outhitting the
American stars.
But now he is even longer off
the tee and much straighter
than Baer.
"This man is bound to win
some money in America," says
Ed Carter, tournament bureau
director for the PGA. "He's a
real good player." '
Carter revealed that the PGA
had received a letter from Weet
man asking how much money he
would have to have for entry
fees to play from Jan. 1 to April
7, which would include the
Masters Tournament.
In the slightly more than
three months of the swing, the
pros will be playing for a stag
gering total of $240,000 so
Branch Rickey brought him up
to Brooklyn in 1947 and sparked
the Dodgers to six pennants dur
ing his 10 seasons with them.
According to Shapiro, Robin
son will say in his article:
"Late one evening, Mr. Stone
ham (Horace Stoneham, presi
dent of the Giants) telephoned
to ask me how 1 felt about the
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By UNITED PRESS
The Oregon Collegiate Confer
ence basketball season opened
Friday night with Oregon Tech
trouncing Portland State, 91-65,
and Eastern Oregon edging
Southern Oregon, 72-71.
It was the Tech Owls first win
over Portland State since early
in the 1953-54 season.
The Owls were led by Ted
Fischer, who scored 26 points,
and Jerry Fasteen, who got 21.
Johnny Winters scored 27 for
the Vikings but his effort wasn't
enough to off-set the strong Ore
gon Tech offense. Tech led 38-31
at halftime.
At Ashland, forward Earle
Smith hit a jump shot with 33
seconds left to give the Moun
taineers their razor-thin victory
over the Red Raiders in a real
rouser. Southern Oregon, trail
ing by eight, 36-28, at halftime,
came back to take the lead, 71
70, with 1:44 minutes to play.
But Smith's shot clinched it for
Eastern Oregon.
Larry Howard of Eastern
Oregon led the scoring with 20
points. Bill Hollingsworth, Norm
Oliva and Chuck Crandall all
got 14 for the Raiders.
HOCKEY
By UNITED PRESS
Bronco Norvath, considered
too lackadasical to play for the
New York Rangers looks like
the spark today that will fire
the Rochester Americans into
the American Hockey League
playoffs.
The 27-year-old forward,
shipped to the minors about a
month ago, led the Americans
to a 6-3 win over Buffalo, Fri
day night. The victory sent
Rochester into fourth place and
dumped the Bisons to fifth.
In the other AHL game play
ed Friday night, two streaks
were stopped. Cleveland top
ped Springfield, 5-2, ending its
four game losing streak and
snapping the Indians four game
win skein.
Money
Weetman was told for entry fees
alone he would have to bring
along $240 (or $1 for every
$1,000 he competed for).
Ouihit Middlecoff
Weetman was paired with Dr.
Cary Middlecoff, the National
Open champion, in the pro-celeb-rites
tournament, and was 10 to
20 yards ahead of the champ
off the tee.
Comedian Bob Hope also was
playing in the foursome. Every
time Weetman addressed the
ball, Hope would kiss the ball
goodbye, then add:
"Goodbye old ball, you're
going for a long ride out of
sight."
However, like most visiting
professionals, Weetman had the
putting jitters in his first round
of the lucrative Los Angeles
Open and came in with a two
over par 73.
trade. I had to tell him that I'd
be glad to play with the Giants
if I decided to play at all. I
said I had some tninking to do
and would give him a definite
answer in a few weeks. I could
not tell him then I was through
with baseball forever because I
agreed long ago to write this
story, when the time came; ex
clusively for Look magazine. As
a matter of fact, I was working
on this story when Mr. Stone
ham called." v
Robinson reportedly was en
route to New . York from the
west coast Saturday.
AAIX
CONCRETE C?
243E.McANDREWS RDL
Sunday, January 6. 1957
Billy Martin
Sighs Pact
New York U.R) Infielder
Billy Martin agreed to terms at
the earliest date of his six sea
sons with the New York Yan
kees Saturday when he returned
his signed 1957 contract from
his home in California.
Martin might just as well have
brought his contract with him to
New York, since he now is here
for a visit.
The 28-year-old infielder, the
third Yankee to sign for next
season, batted .264 in 121 games
in 1956, being sidelined twice
because of injuries. In the field,
he had a .680 average which was
second only to the "White Sox'
Nellie Fox among American
League second basemen. His 10
errors were the fewest commit
ted by a regular second baseman
in the league.
Yogi Berra and Whitey Ford
are the other Yankees who have
agreed to terms for 1957.
Martinez
Upsets Ike
Washington, D. C. (U.R)
Featherweight Isador Martinez
of Panama was "ready for all
comers" today but his latest vic
tim, Ike Chestnut, conceded, "I
never want to see him again."
"I'll take on anybody includ
ing Sandy Saddler," said Marti
nex after his unanimous, upset
10-round decision over Chestnut
in Friday night's nationally tele
vised bout. "I intend to stay in
the United States and maybe be
come a citizen. Chestnut was not
too tough."
Martinez made an impressive
U. S. debut as he bobbed and
weaved through 10 rounds that
had the lOth-ranked feather
weight contender thoroughly
confused. The shifty Martinez
paused at various times to wink
and smile at Chestnut to the de
light of the Capital Arena crowd.
GOLF COURSE OPENS
Borrego Springs, Calif (U.R)
Southern California's newest
golf course, the De Anza Coun
try club, opneed Saturday at
this desert community. Because
of rain, many of those attend
ing the opening spent the day
in the nearby desert club in
stead of on the fairways.
More than 2,000 varieties of
apples are known and cultivated,
and about 1,000 kinds are grown
in various sections of the U. S.
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World's No. 1 Sports Fan,
Paul Helms, Dies of Cancer
Los Angeles (U.R) Paul
Hoy Helms, the world's No. 1
sports wan who gave more than
a million dollars to a foundation
honoring the world's athletes,
died of cancer Saturday at his
apartment here. He was 67.
Helms had been a prominent
figure in the sports world since
the 1932 Olympics in Los An
gels when he decided to make a
hobby of sports.
He set up the Helms Atheltic
foundation as "an investment in
youth" in 1936, handing out
trophies and giving lasting rec
ognition to athletes the world
over.
Helms Hall in Los Angeles is
the only privatelyrowned sports
museum in the world. Open to
the public, it contains trophies
and equipment donated by top
athletes such as uniforms, glov
es, bates, helmets, and other me
mentoes of sports.
"Maybe these things will be
an inspiration to other kids to
try for greatness," Helms had
said at dedication ceremonies.
Helms did all he could to help
promising youngsters toward
stardom. He discovered and en
couraged Duke Snider. Jackie
Robinson and Ralph Kiner to
baseball immortality through
subsidizing them. He also was
an early supporter of football
stars Glenn Davis and Frankie
Albert and track star Mel Pat
ton, among others.
Hedrick Jr. High
Defeats Crater
The Hedrick Junior high
school eighth grade boys basket
ball team defeated their opposite
numbers from Central Point Fri
day afternoon, 34 to 31, but the
Hedrick seventh graders were
defeated by the Central Point
seventh grade team, 27 to 12.
The games were played on
the Hedrick floor.
The eighth graders from Hed
rick led throughout the game,
with quarter-scores of 13 to 6,
23 to 17 and 31 to 21. High scor
er for Hedrick was Sieg, with 13
points. Higginbotham was high
for Central Point with 12.
The Central Point seventh
grade team led 5 to 0, 9 to 2
and 2 and 25 to 4 at the quar
ters. Champ and Cavin tied for
CP high-scoring honors, with 10
each. No Hedrick player garn
ered more than 2.
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GOOD SERVICE IS
One unit of the Helms found
ation honors each year the fore
most amateur athlete of each of
the six continents of the world.
The multimillionaire sports
figure participated activelv in
civic welfare activities and was
president of the Southern Cali
fornia committee for the Olym
pic games which annually stag
es the Los Angeles coliseum re
lays, a major track and field
event.
Helms was born at Ottawa,
Kansas, and attended school in
Buffalo, N.Y. after the death ft
his mother when he was three,
he went to live with his uncle,
William E. Hoy, a top baseball
player of the 90s and toured the
old National Leauge circuit with
him, sitting quietly in the dug
out during games.
He yearned to be a sports hero
like his uncle, but his fragile
physique limited him to being a
coxswain ori the Syracuse uni
versity crew.
After graduation he went to
work for a Cleveland ' baking
company then moved to the
West Coast to start his own bak
ery business. His contract to pro
vide bread for the 1932 Olym
pics from his tiny bakery was '
the beginning.
Today it Is the world's largest
home-delivery bakery.
Helms is survived by his wid
ow. Pearl.
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