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Hunting and Fishing Southern Oregon ISPORTSl By MEL BEES ers of last week end combined into a deluge that spoiled some of the best fishing of the year. Both the Rogue and Illinois were in excellent shape by Friday. Saturday morning the fishing was tops right up to noon when the mud and high water took over. The large group of Medford and Grants Pass anglers at the falls on the Illinois had their limits and were on their way home before the raise came but some of the late corners had their fun cut real short. The fish in both the Illinois and the Rogue were in prime shape and fresh run. There were three types of fishing that paid off, cluster eggs, Spin N Glos and Little Oakie drifters. The Applegate continued too low and clear for good fishing. There were several limits taken during the first few days but . most of the fish had been in tne river for some time and were pretty dark. Applegate Cleared The Applegate has cleared now for fishing and the high water should have put a fresh Iowa State Shooting for Tie in Big 7 By UNITED PRESS The Iowa State Cyclones, who blew away Kansas' perfect rec ord last week in the basketball season's biggest upset, hope to add to the damage tonight by tying the idle Jayhawks for first place in the Big Seven Confer ence. Coach Bill Strannigan's crew, ranked fourth in the nation with an overall 11-2 record, plays host to Missouri, the league's tail-ender, in the fea ture game of a slim national schedule tonight. A victory would give the Cy clones a 3-1 record identical with that enjoyed by Kansas. Iowa State, led by little Gary Thompson, frankly admits this is probably its "best team ever" and is shooting for its first Big Seven championship since 194.5. Other Feature A Missouri Valley Conference clash at Stillwater, Okla., be tween Oklahoma A&M. the na tion's 18th-ranked team, and Wichita is the other feature game tonight The rivals are cur rently knotted in a three-way tie with St. Louis for second place in the league and the winner will move imo unaispuiea pus session of that rung with a 4-1 record, right below Bradley's 510. In the top games on Wednes day night's skimpy program, Ni agara romped to a 100-49 victory over Toronto and Mercer beat Georgia, 91-71. Hay ward Trophy To Be Awarded For Ninth Time Portland Former winners of the Bill Hayward trophy, em blematic of Oregon's top sports achievement during the year. represent a variety of sports en-deavor. This year's winner will be the ninth since the banquet was in augurated by the Oregon Sports writers and Broadcasters in 1949. The list includes names of those active in AAU, semi-pro baseball, swimming, football, golf, track and basketball. Those whose names are en graved on the huge revolving . i : , 1 y-il 1 T T 1 1 xropny inuiuut? ncnt?3 nunv way, AAU; Morrie Rogoway, AAU: Nick Skavone, semi-pro baseball: Delia Sehorn. swim ming; George Shaw, football: Bruce Cudd, golf: Bill Bower man, track; and A. T. (Slats) Gill, basketball. The 1957 banquet will be at the Columbia Athletic club. Tuesday Feb. 5. Dinner will begin at 6:30 p.m. after which 12 finalists will be announced for the top award. A committee of 50 judges then will ballot se cretly for the Hayward winner. A coach who has achieved re markable success in Big Ten coaching circles, Hugh Duffy Daugherty of Michigan State university, will be principal speaker on this occasion. Tickets for the annual affair are avail able from members of the Ore gon Sportswirters and Broad casters organization and the Portland Baseball club. run in it. Barring another de luge it will be good for the week end. The Illinois was fishable by this week with the water tem perature at 43 degrees which, according to our fish biologists, will put the fish on the move again. The weather prediction is for a few scattered showers and colder weather. If the tem perature of the water goes down the fish will "keg up" where it catches them. If this happens the best fishing will be in the pot holes below the falls and the various other deep waters downstream in the gorge. Anglers who like to fish the long runs downstream may find it pretty slow with colder water, especially in the shallower runs. The deep holes below Briggs creek should be tops. For the newcomer, this trip into Briggs creek necessitates either a hike or a jeep for the "road" is that way. It is about two miles from Oak Flat which is the end of the Illinois road over the hill to Briggs and the fishing ranges anywhere from this point to four or five miles down stream. Must Cross River A large number of the better fishing spots down here are on the opposite side of the river. Of course, this calls for a rub ber raft or the like. Both the Smith and the Chetco suffered from high wa ter over the week end. They were both in excellent shape until late Saturday with a num ber of fine limits being netted. The Smith is OK now but the Chetco will take until probably Saturday of this week to be clear enough to fish again. The Smith clears rapidly for it never gets really muddy just chalky. The Chetco on the other hand, due to so much log ged off land and logging oper ations, muddies real nicely and clears leasurely. The Umpqua was also in top shape but the south fork is real muddy now and probably will not clear in time for the week end. The north fork should fish by Saturday or Sunday at the latest. A large number of Grants Pass and Medford anglers have been missing a good bet by not fishing the UmpqUa. It has one of the largest runs of the larg est ,fish in the state and is so accessable. The season does not close like the Rogue and Ap plegate but continue through to the last of February. Winchester Good It is possible to drive right to the best fishing spots, in fact it is possible to fish sev eral places in a single day and all of them good. One of the best places is right at Winches ter. On either side of the river are about six or seven real good drift holes, in fact one of the best is right under the highway bridge. From here it is only five miles to the Cumming hole and only 12 to Cleveland rapids, both terrific producers. This chain of easily accessible fish ing spots continues right down the river to the coast. With an excellent highway be tween here and Roseburg, this would be a great bet when eith er our streams are closed or unfishable due to water conditions. A word of warning be sure and punch those steelhead tags. The gendarmes are having a field day with unpunched cards. It is difficult to make a book keeper out of a fisherman but its cheaper than the $29.50 which the assessments seem to run so don't forget to punch them! Elliot Brings Nebraska Aides Berkeley, Calif. 0J.P Dee Andros. 32. and Gene Strauber. 35. assistant football coaches at Nebraska, today were named as sistants to newly appointed Cali fornia head coach Pete Elliott, head man at Nebraska last sea son. The appointments were an nounced by Athletic Director Greg Englehard. Official ap proval of the appointments, a mere formality, will be made Feb. 5 at the" next associated students executive committee meeting. Ortiz Posts 20th Straight Victory Chicago OI.PJ Carlos Ortiz, an unranked but unbeaten light weight, was marked up today for a bout with third ranked Larry Boardman in his next outing, but his manager, Ed Fer guson, wasn't disturbed by the prospect. Ortiz, a Puerto Rican who has lived in New York for the last 10 years, earned the chance with a 10 round decision over Chi cagoan Bobby Rogers Wednes day night on television for his 20th straight pro victory. "I didn't think he should have been in the top ten rankings be fore last night," Ferguson said. "But after beating Rogers, who was a good tough kid, and con sidering -who is in the top ten I think he ought to be now." Needed Two More Pounds "We'll take the Boardman fight, if we can get it," Fergu son said. "Carlos' best fighting weight is 136 and he only weighed 134 last night. He picks up a lot of punching power with two more pounds." Ortiz himself complained about the light weight and said "I was sloppy. If I'd weighed a couple of pounds more, I would have taken him out of there. But I just felt weak." Rogers, shaking his head aft er the defeat, his third in 15 pro fights, said however, that Ortiz never hurt him. "I'd like to fight him again," he said. Celtics Incease Lead With Near Record Score By UNITED PRESS A scoring spree that missed the National Basketball associa tion record by a single basket helped the Boston Celtics boost their Eastern division lead in the pro loop today to five full games while the Minneapolis Lakers gained a tie for first place in the West. The Celtics settled for a team record in 140-108 rout of the Syracuse Nationals at Boston Garden Wednesday night, just missing the NBA record of 142 points set by Philadelphia in. a game against Boston last year. Seven Score Double Seven of the 10 Celtics scored in double figures, led by Bill Sharman's 22 points and Frank Ramsey's 20, but Togo Palazzi of the Nationals, an ex-Celtic, gained game scoring honors with 25 points. Boston held a 64-41 half-time margin and then roar ed home with 76 points in the second half. Minneapolis downed Roches ter, 107-99, to tie for the West ern lead with Fort Wayne, which lost to St. Louis, 101-78, in a Senior Church Games Tonight Three scuffles are billed this evening at McLoughlin Junior high gym in the YMCA senior church basketball league. Two will be contested on cross courts at 7 p.m. The frays match St. Peter's Lutheran against First Baptist church and St. Mark's Episcopal against First Presbyterian. Medford Nazarene and First Methodist contend at 8 p.m. - Sacred Heart Catholic church has a bye. John Witte Has Canadian Offer Klamath Falls (U.R) John Witte, all-American tac'sle at Oregon State, said today he had received an offer to play football for Saskatchewan of the Western Interprovincial Football union in Canada. However, Witte, who is a draftee of the Los Angeles Rams, said he had not made a definite decision. He indicated the Ca nadian team had offered him more money than the Rams. Witte was honored here last night at a hometown banquet. game played in Charlotte, N. C. In the other game Wednesday night, Philadelphia took second place in the Eastern division away from New York by beating the Knicks, 99-93. Organized Effort Lured 'Stilt to KU, Life Says New York An army of re cruiters was used by the Univer sity of Kansas to obtain 7-foot tall Wilt (The Stilt) Chamber lain, the nation's top college basketball player, it is disclosed today in the current (January 23th) issue of Life magazine. Sought after by a hundred col leges, the onetime schoolboy whiz from Philadelphia's Over brook High school, was lured to Kansas by a highly organized effort utilizing influential Kan sas Negroes,-educators and busi nessmen. Commanding the oper ations to secure the talents of the basketball prospect of the cen tury was Dr. Forrest C. (Phog) Allen, longtime Kansas basket ball coach. When asked by Life what he used to recruit Cham berlain, Allen replied:' "Of course, I used everything we had to get him. What do you think I am, a Sunday school teacher?" Successful Kansas Negroes Coach Allen admits that what proved key to getting Chamber lain away from other basketball famed colleges, notably Indiana, was showing Wilt "How success ful the Negro in Kansas was." Extremely helpful to Allen in the recruiting efforts were prom inent Kansas Negro graduates Journalist Dowdal Davis, Gen eral Manager of the Kansas City Call; Concert Singer Etta Mot- Thursday, January 24, 1937' VEJ5FORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN CUBS PICK KLOSE Chicago (U.R) The Chicago Cubs today selected William Klose, one of their oldest and most devoted fans, to throw out the first ball before the opening game against the Milwaukee Braves on April 16. Klose, 81, first saw the Cubs play in 1886. ten, and Businessman Lloyd Ker ford. In the spring of 1955 a stream of letters, visitors and phone calls flowed into Phila delphia telling Wilt that the Uni versity of Kansas was the place for him. Finally, Phog Allen him self showed up to charm Cham berlain's mother. Often rumored the donor of cash, under-the-table deals and trust funds to Wilt and his fam ily to get Chamberlain to Kan sas, Allen says: "Let's be realis tic. Until 1946 I never had any help. Then alumni started to sweeten the pot. Well, I heard that another coach charged us with giving Wilt $5,000. Well, if he charges $5,000 and he's sore about it why then that must mean someone was dickering for less." Life says, Wilt openly gets standard athletic help free board, room, tuition and books, plus $135 for selling football pro grams and sweeping the sta dium. He majors in business ad ministration and is an average student. His faculty advisor says his only problem is "too much publicity." March of Dimes Event at RVCC A March of Dimes golf sweep stakes will b held Saturday and Sunday at Rogue Valley Country club. Prizes will be donated by Club Pro Al Williams .AH entry fee money will go to the fund to combat polio. Dick Travis is still leading the holiday handicap with 43- 42- 38-37 for 160 points for four 18-hole rounds. Lloyd Pope has 43- 41-39-36157. Lee Flink 39-38-38-38 153, Ward Samuelson 38-36-35-35 144 and Claytor Lewis 39-35-35-35-35144. The handicap will end on Sunday, Feb. 3. Tussle Planned Portland (U.R) Ewart Pot gieter, a seven-foot three-inch boxer from South Africa who weighs 335 pounds, arrived here by plane last night. Promoter Tommy Moyer indi cated Potgieter would b matched in Oregon soon. 6 ATERFILL HAZIER THE WvNlM OF 0 KENTUCKY BOURBON A since 1810 .a(L 86 Proof C'54 WATEIFIU AND FRAZIEl DISIILUIT COMPANY. JAIDSTOWN. KENTUCKT ... more than a. car ... more than a truck ITS.THE;NEW-F0 1 " 'C--'" : HAULS LIKE A TRUCK! No need to hold back on load. 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