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Newspaper Page TextTWELVE MEDrORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. January 10, 1957 Neil Plumley Selected On Wigwam Wisemen Ail-American Club Tornado Gridder on Second Team in Nationwide Poll; 10 Oregonians Mentioned Neil Plumley. Medford high's all-state and all-conierence loot- ball tackle last season, has been named to the second team in the Wigwam Wisemen of Amer ica's 10th annual national high school All-Ameri'.a selections. Names of players named to the quad were announced today by Mose Simms, chairman of the Wisemen's football committee. The national poll is sponsored by ir.e Oklahoma City, Okla., and the honorable mention list total 649 names. Sportswriters of 1,229 daily newspapers, 1,009 radio sports casters, 307 telecasters, 310 game officials and 123 talent scouts naminated 2,555 seniors from high schools in all 48 tates and the District of Colum bia. There were no players from Pacific coast states on the first team. Plumley and Mickey Flynn, Anaheim, Calif., half back, were the only far western ers named on the second team nd Plumley was the only Ore gonian to make one of the seven teams. Oregonian Mentioned Nine Oregon grid stars rated honorable mention. They were Roger Jonnson and Jack Shan ley, Marshfield of Coos Bay, Bill Bailee, The Dalles, Dick Smith, Giant Offer Spurned by J. Robinson By NORMAN MILLER New York (U.PJ Jackie Robinson rejected the highest offer of his career today and prepared to write his formal farewell to baseball. The 38-year-old Negro star, ending his career amid the same Swirl of controversy with which It began, revealed that he is turning down more than $50,000 and "other considerations" to play this year with the New York Giants. He said his formal request for voluntary retirement would be sent to National league President Warren Giles "no later than next Tuesday." Regret Expressed "I only regret this offer wasn't made to me a couple of years ago," said Robinson by way of thanking the Giants for their generous offer. "I would have jovea 10 piay ior people ukc Horace Stoneham and Chub Feeney." It was Feeney, the Giants' vice president, who made the final bid to lure Jackie back "for one more year." The offer, a con tract for more than $50,000 in 1957 and a subsequent job in the Giants organization, was made Wednesday night. News of the offer leaked out and Rob inson discussed it with report ers before appearing on a tele vision program. Robinson, whose top salary With the Brooklyn Dodgers was $42,500, said he thought "I con vinced Feeney that 1 won't be playing," and added, "I don't believe I could do the Giants any good." Marlene Hagge To Be Defender In Sea Island Sea Island, Ga. Top women professional golfers of the nation start their winter tour Friday with Marlene Bauer Hagge the defending champion and a fav orite in the 54-hole Sea Island invitational. Mrs. Hagge after winning here in 1956 went on to total win nings of $20,235, a new wom en's record. A 22-year-old veter an who has played golf since she was 34, Marlene set a 72 hole record for women of 284 in the Mile-High open at Den ver, Colo. Wiffi Now Pro A brand new pro, Wiffi Smith, will be among the 20 some pros competing to grab the honors from Mrs. Hagge this season. Purses of several of the wom en's tourneys has been upped this year and Sea Island's has been boosted from $3,500 to $5,000. With an eye on men's par the ladies PGA is arranging for course distances to be cut some 250-yards from last year for a new total of around 6.000. This is expected to make easier mens par of 72 and give the women a better break in headlines. PACKERS SIGN HOHNUNG South Bend, Ind. ;U.PJ Paul Hornung, twice an All-America quarterback at Notre Dame, was "tickled pink" today about his three year contract with the Green Bay Packers, even though he turned down a "real fabu lous offer" from Canada. Horn ung signed the Packer agree ment, for an estimated $15,000 per year. Glide, Jack Temple, McMinn ville, and Paul Bauge, Baker, backs, and John Willmant'., La Grande, Bob Lilly, Pendleton, and Ted Hutchinson, McMinn ville, linemen. The 2,978 prep football pick ers turned in the most complete coverage ever made in high school football. Simms and the football selecting committee traveled over 30,000 miles, watched some 1300 teams play in the 1956 football season. The opinions of prep talent scouts for colleges, football officials, and especially sports writers were sought, which was a great help in charting the 1956 squad. Thii made the job of paring the list down to seven first teams much easier than has been the case in the past. Every game played in the nation was taken into consideration. The 10th Annual Prep All America Football classic will be played the last part of August, 1957, in Crump Stadium, Mem phis, Tenn. AH the boys named to the first seven teams and those on the honorable mention list are eligible to play in the game provided they meet the requirements of the selecting committee, the East and West coaches and have graduated from high school or have com pleted .their high school football eligibility. Notified of his selection last night, Plumley said, "I'm really surprised." He remarked, "It's quite an honor. It's quite a deal." Asked if he would go to Memphis to play in the all-star game, if invited, Plumley agreed that ac ceptance or rejection might rest on whether he is chosen for the Oregon Class A Shrine All-Star game. FIRST TEAM: C Bob Daniels 200 Wichita (East) Kan.; G Chuck Dostal 196 Cedar Rapids (Rov'elt) Iowa; G Clarence "Bo" Strange 195 Baton Rouge, La.; T Bert Wilder 215 Greensboro (Sr.), N. C; T Bichard Davis 225 Memphis IMessick) Tenn.: E. Gary Trout 213 Schenectady (Mt. Plea). N. Y.; E Henry O'Steen 20O Anniston, Ala.: Q George Johnson 187 Sonora. Tex.; H Murray Hall 189 Greer, S. C: H Ron Hartllne 197 Lawton. Okla.; F Robert I Red Worrell 208 Centerville. ra.; Aux-Back Walter Roecker 193 Cin cinnati (Beacon). Ohio. SECOND TEAM: C Ronnie Slack 200 Palm Beach. Fla.; G Richard Synng 192 Bay City. Mich.: G John Necessary lye Mot Springs. Ark.; T Nick Maravich 245 Pittsburgh. Pa-: T Neil Plumley z.iu Medford. Ore.: E Richard Price 204 VIcksburg. Miss.; E Jack Park 200 Atkins. Minn.; Q Ronald Grimsley 175 Canton, Ohio; H Mickey Flynn 175 Anaheim. Calif.: H Fred Hecker 190 Sioux Falls. S. D.; F Myron Pottios 209 Charleroi. Pa.: A-B Bobby Saund ers 175 Manassas. Va.. THIRD TEAM : C George Ethier 245 Newport R. I.; G Charles Boatman 220 Alice, Tex.: G Oscar Hauer 203 Hamilton, Ohio; T George O'Brien 205 Denver, Colo.; T Frank Piscal 215 Jersey City, N. J.: E John Halstead 200 Bay City, Mich.; E Stan Chappie 201 Seattle. Wash.; Q Porter Shreve 190 Washington, D. C; H Randy Meadows 165 Downey, Calif.: H Lome Johnson 190 Lynn, Mass.: F Chick Granning 200 Chatta nooga. Tenn.; A-B Marvin Tibbeta 170 Atlanta, Ga. Stanford Break From PCC Urged Stanford, Calif. (U.R) An editorial in the Stanford Daily urged the school Wednesday to quit the Pacific Coast confer ence if the present athletic code remains in force. The editorial, by David Scott, an associate editor, said: "The Pacific Coast conference is going professional and Stan ford is the only school that seems to be worried about it. "In its meeting last week, the conference opened the door to unlimited financial aid by adopt ing its grant-in-aid for subsis tence. The pressure from Fred Fagg of USC and Raymond Allen of UCLA and the worry of drop ping nine out of 10 bowl games to the Big Ten have been too much for the rest of the schools." Actually PCC teams have lost 10 out of 11 bowl games. Lovellette Spurs Minneapolis Win By UNITED PRESS The Syracuse Nationals fig ured out how to stop big Clyde Lovellette for three periods Wednesday, but until they dis cover how to do it for four periods they are going to find it tough to beat the Minneapolis Lakers. The Nats bottled up the huge center for three periods, permit ting him but one basket, but Lovalette led a fourth-period Minneapolis surge to beat Syra cuse, 98-86, in the only game played in the National Basket ball association. Lovellette canned 12 points in the final session to wind up the game with 14, considerably be low his average, but enough to help the Lakers snap a six-game losing streak. LOLLYPOP TROUBLE Hamden, Conn. U.R) Bea trice C. Leonardo sued the New Haven Water Co., for $50,000, claiming she slipped on a lolly pop and was injured while walk ing down the stairs at its building. if ' f - hji ji-zx. T J .. y i' . I.- . i. . " ft'- - 1 ' - . ' . ' - V. "-f r , .... t . lv i - i. ' . . ' " r ' "- r " 1 i ' 1 . ' 4 ... '. t" ' NEIL PLUMLEY Gigman Wiseman All-American MedfordTrib une Ed Bingham Sidelined by Foot Bruise By UNITED PRESS A 12-man University of Ore gon basketball squadv minus one two-year letterman, left for Berkeley today for a week end series with the powerful Cali fornia Golden Bears. Oregon State, meanwhile, pre pared for an invasion by the Southern California Trojans Friday and Saturday nights in Gill Coliseum. Coach Steve Belko of Oregon left Forward Ed Bingham of Medford behind. Bingham suf fered a foot bruise a week ago. The Ducks are strengthened by the return of veteran Phil Mc Hugh to the team. California currently leads the PCC with three straight vic tories. Coach Slats Gill indicated he would go along with the same quintet which started against Stanford last week when the Beavers split the series. This in cludes Bcb Allord and Dave Gambee at forwards, Gary Goble at center and Jerry Crimins and Ken Nanson at guard. Elliotts Shake Off Suggestions On Coaching Jobs St. Louis (U.R) The Elli otts, Pete of Nebraska and Chal mer (Bump) of the University of Iowa staff, have shaken off any suggestions today that they presently are the "hottest" coaches in the new job market at the 51st NCAA convention. Pete Elliott, who has a $1,500 a year arrangement at Nebraska for the next three years, and his brother. Bump, are pupils of Oklahoma's Bud Wilkinson. This is why they are hot. But Pete had "no comment" on reports he is about to sign a contract, possibly for $17,000 a year, at the University of Wash ington. Bump said he had nothing to say, chiefly "because I have talked to no one." He has been mentioned as a possible choice to fill the head coaching vacancy at California, vacated by Lynn Waldorf. Bump also was report ed in line for the Iowa State and University of Missouri posts. Generally, both coaches and athletic directors are saying nothing about negotiations. There are reports George Briggs, athletic director at Washington, has made an "attractive offer" to Pete Elliott, but Briggs wouldn't admit as much here. An average American eats 160 pounds of meat per year. FOR SALE 1956 LINCOLN PREMIERE COUPE Your Opportunity to Purchase One of the Finest Cars in Southern Oregon at a Very Fair Price. Only 6700 Miles.. Full Power Coral and White. See This Beauty At GRATER LAKE MOTORS - Medford HOCKEY NATIONAL LEAGUE By UNITED PRESS Ted Kennedy took a dim view of his own comeback chances to day but insisted the Toronto Maple Leafs "should beat out the New York Rangers for a Stanley Cup berth with or with out me." "I think the Leafs are strong er than the Rangers and I think most of the other teams believe so, too," said the 31-year-old vet eran after Wednesday night's 4-3 triumph at Madison Square Gar den. The victory enabled the Maple Leafs to take a two-point lead over the Rangers. Rain May Bring In Steelhead In Rogue River Portland (U.R) The weekly report on fishing conditions pre pared by the State Game Com mission: Northwest: Water low in most streams along north coast; new rains needed to start steelhead movement; Trask river fair and a few spring chinooks taken; Wilson and Nestucca rivers only fair. Southwest: Steelheading fair in lower Umpqua but rains may change picture; angling general ly poor throughout central Doug las county streams. North Umpqua clear and South Umpqua slightly cloudy, both are low; Tenmile lakes out let and Smith river slow; both forks of Millicoms should be good as well as main river. Rain may bring in steelhead in the Rogue river in Agness area and in the Illinois river; middle section of the Rogue and the Applegate not open to steelhead until Jan. 15. Northeast: Fishing fair on lower Umatilla river and a few steelhead picked up on the John Day river, south fork, below Highway 395; fishing below Mc Nary on the Columbia on fair. Lloyd Pope Leads Holiday Handicap With a four-round total of 157 points, Lloyd Pope is leading in the holiday golf handicap at Rogue Valley Country club. The tourney ends in February. Lee Flink and Dick Travis have 153 points each. Players total their best four 18-hole rounds in the winter play get one point for a bogey, two points for a par, three for a bird, four for an eagle and 10 for a double eagle. Travis with a 42 count has the best round single round tabulation. Pope has picked up 41 each points on two rounds. Basketball Scores WEDNESDAY COLLEGE SCORES By United Press (East) St. Joseph's 97, LaSalle 83 Lafayette 100, Lehigh 59 Yale 91, Brown 67 Dartmouth 88. Springfield 69 Syracuse 93, Fordham 76 Rutgers 86, Johns Hopkins 63 Geneva 78, Carnegie Tech 69 Amherst 68. Army 55 Pennsylvania 77, Cornell 72 Penn State 62. Temple 53 Marshall 77. Ohio University 71 (South) Kentucky State 92, Rio Grande 74 Louisville 93, Memphis State 71 Furman 104. Davidson 85 Navy 82. VMI 57 (Midwest) Wichita 69. St. Louis 64 Xavier (Ohio) 88, Cincinnati 62 (West) Air Force Acad. 82, Kan. Wes. 43 San Francisco CC 39, Santa Rosa 32 Oakland JC 67. Col San Mateo 44. Col. of Marin 51, American RW 44 Pacific Lutheran 68. Puget Sound 39 Whittier 71, Occidental 65 Sacramento JC 57. Stockton JC 50 Modesto JC 59, Contra Costa 49 R. Johnson Ail-American By UNITED PRESS Roger Johnson of Marsh field and Neil Plumley of Med ford today topped a list of Oregon prep football stars selected for ail-American men tion. Johnson was the only Ore gon player honored by Scholastic magazine when it chose a 78-man honor squad. He was one of 15 halfbacks. Plumley was given a sec ond team tackle berth on the 19th annual Wigwam Wiseman of American team. Slauqhter Signs For 17th Season By UNITED PRESS Enos (Country) Slaughter, baseball's old warhorse who in sists on kicking up his heels like a young colt for the world cham pion New York Yankees, is all set to play his 17th season in the big leagues at the age of 41. The Yankees announced to day that the hustling outfielder has agreed to his 1957 contract estimated to call for a $20,000 salary. Slaughter, who will reach his 41st birthday on April 27, just after the season opens, sparkled for the Yankees in the 1956 season. His two-run homer prov ed the winning blow in the third game of the World Series, turn ing the tide in favor of the Yan kees for the first time when Brooklyn seemed on the way to the title. Follev Awarded Slit Decision Syracuse, N.Y. (U.R) Prom ising young heavyweight Zora Folley, who got up off the can vas to win his second split de cision over Wayne Bethea Wed nesday night, today was prom ised a match with the winner of the bout between ranking heavyweights Bob Baker and Harold Carter. The 25-year-old Folley, of Chandler, Ariz., apparently was startled into a strong finish aft er Bethea dropped him for a nine count in the seventh round of their televised 10-round match at War Memorial audit orium. Bethea, 24, of New York, car ried the entire fight to the slick punching Folley, but folley piled up the victory margin in the first four and 10th rounds. See The All-New 1957 Today! NEW STYLING NEW ROOMINESS NEW PERFORMANCE 30 Miles Per Gallon Longer, Lower, Smarter Powerful Valve-in-Head Engine SPORTS CAR FEEL EASY TO PARK PHONE 3-4381 Vfhlt'S 36 SO. BARTLETT Three PCC Schools Denied Leniency by NCAA Officials By CHARLES NETHAWAY St. Louis (U.R) The Na tional Collegiate Athletic asso ciation faced almost no battles today as it approached its an nual floor session which will end all but minor business of the 51st convention. There was an outside chance three Pacific . Coast schools Washington, Southern Califor nia and UCLA may appeal to the convention for leniency in their probation cases. They have been denied it by the BOWLING SENIOR-JUNIOR LEAGUE Last week in the Saturday Senior-Junior Bowling league Bob Corbett picked the 6-7-10 split. Cummings agency had high team game with 706. The Fyr Fyter team had high team series of 1364. Dexter Staniforth had high game of 161 and high series of 307. Bob Corbett was next with a 141 and 280. Delores Wil liams was high for the girls with 156 and 293. Janice Mathews came second with 140 and a 254. Standings: W. L. Cummings Agency ...32 16 Hawthorne Market 29 19 Chevron 99 28 20 Veterans of Foreign Wars 26 22 Medford Paint & Wallpaper 26 22 Rainbow Cafe 24 24 Fyr Fyter 22 26 BOWLING STDG HED CRATER LAKE LEAGUE Standings: W. L. Barco Supply 191a 8'., Medford Post Office 19 9 Medford Shrine Club 19 10 Desert Service 1714 1014 Ellis 'Market 17 11 Haupert Tractor 17 11 Your Office Boy 16 12 Prospect Shopping Center 16 . 12 OK Market 10 18 Mechanics Laundry 7 21 Medford Auto Upholstery 7 21 Team Twelve - 4 24 Team Twelve o Desert Service 4 D. Allison 430 W. Beard 453 VI. Ritchie 453 G. Quinney 506 R. Eastgate 433 L. Kula 456 L. Chriss . 432 F. Kirk 491 C. Ericson 403 M. Hadlev 494 Handicap . 18 2241 2418 Office Boy 4 OK Market - S. Colton 462 R. Mete 376 F. Conrad 393 D. Mitchel 470 T. Groomes 377 J. Niehaus 313 R. Sterton 503 D. Drlscoll 334 D .Lambert 421 R. Anderson 363 Handicap 90 2156 - 1946 Shrine Club 3 Ellis Market 1 O. Hanson ' 438 B. Ellis 409 N. Spencer 421 R. Kline 474 G. Schuler 406 R. Hart 428 R. VoegUy 442 O. Norstrom 413 R. Rice 485 H. Ellis 506 Handicap 159 2351 2230 Prospectors 1 Haupert Trax. 3 W. Fehl 539 L. Heidem n 506 D. Moore 426 C. Owsley 434 J. Hollenbeck 464 W. Newland 485 J. Slack 340 G. Haupert 482 J. Paul 479 D. Fosbury 494 Handicap 27 2275 2401 Auto UDholsterv 1 Barco Supply 3 B. Robert 468 R. Swan 485 R. Steffens 325 L. Penderg t 378 W. Schroeder 410 H. Wyatt 486 B. Albright 422 R. Schlach'r 553 R. Breedlove 324 W. Judy 479 Handicap 336 2283 2381 Mech's Laundry 1 Post Office 3 R. Travis 456 R. Adams 445 K. Shockley 389 B. Kline 421 C. Wieskamp 396 J. Watson 386 F. Price 363 L. Hubler 519 (Absentee) 405 L. Nelson 454 Handicap 207 2216 2225 FREEMAN STUDIES Columbus, Ohio (U.R) Robin Freeman, devoting most of his time to his law studies at Ohio State, has decided to abandon plans to play basket ball. The former All-America who lost one finger in a wood chopping accident last year, ..as slated to play for a local team in the Columbus league. SALES PARTS NCAA executive council, but that group could be overruled by the open convention Friday. Ethics among coaches were discussed by the American Foot ball Coaches association. The group said a coach facing a ma jor schedule and forced to break "unrealistic rules" set up by his school and conference should have the support of the membership, since the rules often make his position "unten able." In another direction, however, the coaches revealed they have installed a system, of disciplin ary action, ranging from proba tion to reprimand, against indi vidual members of the AFCA. Missouri athletic director Don Faurot stole Wednesday's play by naming and parading his suc cessor as Tiger coach, young Frank Broyles, backfield coach at Georgia Tech. Broyles won a three-year contract. His sal ary was not announced. Rule for Gophers The executive council for 1956 ended its affairs with the Pacific Coast Conference action and one favoring the University of Minnesota. In the latter case, the council ruled Minnesota was innocent last June in using Bill Horning, a professional baseball player, in winning the "College World Series." It took no action against the Gophers. Horning signed with Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1950 but played no pro ball and drew no compensation. The PCC schools are on pro bation for under-the-table pay ments to football players. They held sports aside from football should not be affected, but the council said the ban was a blan ket affair, except in the case of Southern California where it ap plied to all sports only for the first year of a two-year proba tibnary period. Basilio Seeks Postponement Cleveland, Ohio flJ.R) Wel terweight champion Carmen Ba- silio was scheduled to face the doctor today on his request to have his Jan. 18 title defense against Johnny Saxton post poned because of a hand injury suffered in training. Dr. J. W. Lambright Jr. who pronounced Basilio "fit after a surprise examination last Sun day was. to take a closer look at the right hand of the champion from Chittenango, N.Y. Matchmaker Larry Atkins of the Cleveland arena said Basilio has asked for a two-week post ponement but, because of Gold en Gloves bouts in the arena dur ing the latter part of this month no re-match would be made pos sible before Feb. 8. NEGRO CADDY PLAYS Charlotte, N.C. (U.R) James Williams, an 18-year-old Negro who caddies at the East wood Golf club here, became the first of his race to play Char lotte's Bonnie Brae course and he made the event even more memorable by firing a one-over-par 37 for nine holes. Williams showed up at about 9:35 a.m. Wednesday and played the nine holes by himself. TOO ANXIOUS Rochester, England (U.R) Pa trolman Douglas D. Kent, who said he was anxious for promo tion, began a two-year prison term today for robbing stores so he could be credited with report ing the thefts. SERVICE HOT Z1GGITYI Doug Ford of Mahopac, N. Y. dances a jig on the 18th green after sinking final putt for a 230 and winning the Los Angeles Open tour nament His first place . money netted him $7000. Phoenix Host Of Brookings Phoenix Phoenix High will play only one game this week with the Brookings basketball crew. The tussle will be on Fri day night here. The original schedule called also for a Saturday night hassle but that brush reportedly has been cancelled by mutual con sent. Only one game will be played when Phoenix makes its trip to Brookings at the first of February. Coach Jack Woodward has his club working this week to improve its offense against man-to-man defense. Pirate teams have been set 'em up crews for several years but the club now is drilling a lot on the fast break. Woodward may have Jim Heath and Jim James starting at forwards, Doug Witte at cen ter, and Gary Simmonds and Jim Stout at guards. Don Wal lace and Les Schleigh should see considerable duty. Jim Wal dron, alternate at center, is on the injured list and may not be able to play this week end. FREE Turkey Dinner SEE THE Groceteria. Ad On Page 6 Hillman