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.
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