TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON)
Rogue Valley Retriever Field
Trial Opens Friday Morning
Judges were to go over the I -
grounds this afternoon to line
up the series of tests for the four
stakes in the Rogue Valley Re
triever club's sixth annual field
trial.
The American Kennel club-licensed
competition, which will
draw a number of the finest re
triever dogs in the United States,
will begin at 8 a.m. Friday with
the Amateur all-age stake.
First series in the stake will
be in the vicinity of either
Hoover lakes or the game com
mission management area along
Rogue river. Signs posted at
Crater Lake highway Four Cor
ners and along the route to the
site will direct spectators to the
location of the opening series in
the three-day rivalry for "work
ing" dogs and their handlers.
Both areas are in the Camp
White district north of Medford
Open Siak Last
The trial will c o n t tn u e
through Saturday and Sunday
with tests conducted from 8
0m. through 4:30 p.m. each of
the three days. Derby and
Qualifying stakes will follow the
O mateur in that order and the
open all-age stake will be the
o t of the trial
Judges for the trial are F.
oer Btcon Jr., Canby, Cal.,
Guy ournttt, Missoula. Mont.
r. C?irs Uiller, Medford
Buentii arrived here by airliner
)! :it arul Bacon was to
K$v rrid in his own plane
.Baeoi w known nationally as
outatgnding handler and
juijt in has judged in a na
tional trial. His Bakelib Donder
on th open here last year.
Burnett is well-known as a dog
handler and is highly regarded
In th northwest. His Chinky
().'On fmtteur all-age events in
two previous trials this spring.
Miller is I former president of
the Rogue Valley Retriever club.
National Champion
Derby, amateur and open
stakes will be judged by Bacon.
Burnett will judge the qualify
ing, amateur and open and Mil
ler the derby and qualifying.
Performance of Massie's Sas-
G- Boots in the open will draw
t attention of many dog fan
cier) and hunters of the valley,
he blacfj labrador, owned by
illiam T. Cline, Chicago, 111.,
ion the national championship
fri 1956.
Othr aiational qualifiers en
tered are field champion Red
39u?E ind IC Oakcreek's Fre-
dfiont owned by C. R. Tobin, San
rnc:co; Nic-O-Bets Black
CC'nd, owned by Mrs. Hugh
ihoI. Hollywood, Calif.: FC
!Bal't Spiwise Zeke. owned by
Shidler, Klamath Falls, and
7fc of Holly Lane, owned by
JPortar Sligar, Seattle.
(taal Carries
ainy members of RVRC also
$ill b running their dogs in
Ha trifls, creating an element of
Ml interest in the trial, which
K of mort than just Pacific coast
qnifictnc. The trial is one of
Bric on a circuit and will be
th only ona on the coast this
JOCKEY
ty UITED PRESS
CATIOaf AL LEAGUE
The Boston Bruins need a vic
tory over the champion Detroit
Red Wings tonight to tie the
Montreal Canadiens and bring
the battle for second place in
the National Hockey league
down to the teams' last game of
the campaign.
The Canadiens opened up a
two-point lead over the Bruins
Wednesday night when they
beat the Toronto Maple Leafs,
2-1.
The Canadiens have one game
left at home against the last-
place Chicago Black Hawks on
Saturday while the Bruins end
their season Saturday night
against the New York Rangers
at Boston.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
By UNITED PRESS
The Cleveland Barons made
good, try at postponing the in
evitable but today as expected
the Providence Reds own
their second straight regular sea
son American Hockey league
championship.
The Barons bowed, 5-1, to
Springfield, Wednesday night, to
become the final AHL team to
be mathematically eliminated
from the championship merry-go-round.
In the other game played,
Hershey edged within one point
of a second-place tie, tripping
Buffalo, 6-4.
BOXING MEET STARTS
Sacramento .U.R) The 1957
Pacific Coast Intercollegiate
Boxing Championships get
underway here tonight with
some 47 sluggers expected to
provide an exciting three eve
nings. REACH QUARTER FINALS
St. Augustine. Fla. (L.R)
Defending champion Judd Brum
ley and medalist Leon Sikes led
the way into the quarter-final
round of the American Seniors
Golf Association tournament to
day. Brumley of Greenville,
Tenn., went against Frank Ross
of Hartford, Conn. Sikes. of
Palm Beach. Fla.. met Arthur
Reed of Cleveland.
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FALLING TO GROUND, Pee Wee Reese. Brooklyn Dodg
ers, nurses injured wrist after being hit by ball pitched by
Detroit's Bunning in Miami game. (International)
Bradley, St. Bonaventure
Favorites in Semi-Finals
Of National Invitational
New York U.R) Record-
busting Bradley and "hungry"
St. Bonaventure will be the un
happy favorites tonight when
the semi-final round of the Na
tion a 1 Invitation Basketball
tournament matches four teams
who were supposed to be back
home reading about it in the
newspapers.
St Bonaventure is favored by
three points over speedy Mem
phis State in the opening game
of the twin bill and second
seeded Bradley is a five-point
pick over Temple.
But seven of the eight games
Pitcher Don Larsen
Never Looked Worse
By FRED DOWN
United Presa Sports Writer
Don Larsen has made his long
awaited spring debut as a model
of deportment for the New
York Yankees and the unani
mous verdict is that he never
looked worse.
The Cincinnati Redlegs made
the World Series perfect game
hero look like nothing more
than a perfect batting practice
pitcher as they routed the Yan
kees, 20-6, Wednesday with a
barrage of 25 hits. Larsen, pitch
ing for the first time since his
Oct. 8 epic against the Brooklyn
Dodgers, retired the first two
batters he faced but then was
socked for five runs and six
hits before retiring after three
innings.
The Redlegs went on from
that point to batter rookies Al
Cicotte and Jack Urban with
an attack good for 43 total bases
and hand the Yankees what is
believed to be their worst Grape
fruit league loss since 1925.
George Crowe, Jerry Lynch and
Smokey Burgess collected a
homer and a triple each and
Don Hoak also weighed in with
a triple.
The Boston Red Sox, who
Lindsey, Savage
In Main Event
At Grants Pass
Grants Pass Luther Lindsey,
who is considered the greatest
colored wrestler in the world,
will appear in the main event
this Friday night at the Grants
Pass arena against the rough
and tough Wild Bill Savage.
Last week Savage took the
measure of Reg Parks with the
dreaded cobra sleeper hold.
Many fans have asked for a
chance to see Luther Lindsey
tangle with the Illinois meanie.
Wild Bill. Lindsey has wrestled
all over the USA and recently
grappled Lou Thesz to a draw
before 10.000 fans in Houston,
Tex. He is an accomplished lev
erage wrestler with terrific
strength and ability to absorb
punishment.
Luther is a real tiger when
aroused and he can use his fists
along with headbutts when he
has to. His pet hold is the full
nelson although he frequently
uses the suplex body drop. He is
a fabulous fisure in wrestling.
This may be the only chance to
see him here this year as he will
be leaving soon for New Zea
land. The great Lothario, a hand
some Mexican boy who comes
highly recommended by Pepper
Thursday. March 21, 19S7
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played so far have resulted in
upsets, and the dazed odds-makers
aren't sure of anything. In
tonight's first game, they're wor
ried about injuries to two
Bonnie stars and in the second
they're scared stiff on Temple
ace Guy Rodgers.
The Bonnies rely on speed and
ball-handling for their "upset
magic" and will be badly hurt if
Brendan McCann and Don New
hook aren't up to par. Ace
sparkplug McCann is ailing with
a virus; Newhook stretched a
ligament in a bad fall during
Monday's quarterfinals.
could not buy a run in the early
days of Grapefruit league com
petition, went on their third
straight scoring rampage when
they downed the Chicago White
Sox. 9-4. Dick Gernert drove
in three runs and Billy Klaus
knocked in two to lead the Red
Sox' 11-hit attack.
Clem Labine, Bob Darnell and
rookie Rene Valdes turned in
a nifty four-hitter as the Brook
lyn Dodgers scored a 2-1, 11-
inning victory over the St. Louis
Cardinals.
Harvey Kuenn and Charley
Lau knocked in two runs each
to lead the Detroit Tigers on an
8-4 decision over the Pittsburgh
Pirates, who suffered their
fourth loss in 12 games.
Richie Ashburn's bloop bingle
knocked in two eighth-inning
runs to lift the Philadelphia
Phillies to a 6-4 win over the
Washington Senators. Ed Bou-
chee's three-run homer and Bob
Bowman's solo shot accounted
for the Phillies first four runs.
The Milwaukee Braves squar
ed their spring record at 6-6
with a 3-2 victory over the Kan
sas City " Athletics with rookie
Jerry Nelson picking up the
decision.
LUTHER LINDSEY
In GP Bout
Gomez, will appear against Reg
Parks in the one hour opening
match. This stacks up as quite a
match with Parks anxious to
get back into the win column.
, ' y y ' i J t i
Fanfare
School months have been
rushing by. It seems only a short
time ago that high school ath
letes were still in their football
togs. Now 1957 basketball cam
paigns for Oregon preps are com
pletely over. At hand is that
time of year when good weather
is foremost in the hopes and
desires of mentors and their
proteges. Athletic concentration
has switched from gymnasiums
to the out of doors.
At a good number of schools
both track and baseball aspir
ants have been working out for
weeks, as weather permitted.
But, the real concentration on
the sports, the final tuning for
competition, as usual, follows
the state basketball tournaments
and spring vacations.
TORNADO DEFENDS
With Hayward relay metro
politan and state Class A-l
championships won last year
in track and stale A-l runner-up
spot gained in 1956 in
baseball, Medford high's Black
Tornado will have the most
prestige to uphold this spring
in major sports.
Track defenders this season
in this area will be Medford
in the A-l district. Bonanza
in tha B district. Grants Pass
in the Rogue relays. Eagle
Point in the Little Rogues
and Rogue River in Jackson
county B. Hoping to repeat
titles in baseball will be Med
ford in the A-l district and
Southern Oregon conference
and Talent in the B district
and Jackson county league.
There will be new champs
this year in the Rogue league
and A-2 district in both track
and baseball since the 1956
victor. Crater, has moved up
into A-l ranks. In the cinder
sport Crater coach Ed Knapp
will base hopes on a good
number of performers who
did well in A-2 last year.
Comet baseball fortunes, un
der the helm of new tutor.
Albert (Bill) Piche, may rest
considerably on the shoulders
of stellar pitcher Fred Herr
mann. Crater was a state dia
mond semi-finalist in 1956.
COULD BE READY
In Eugene last week Univer
sity of Oregon coach Bill Bow
erman said he didn't know
whether Jim Bailey, the Aus
tralian and Duck thinclad who
has toured the mile in under
four minutes, would be ready
to run in exhibition at the Rogue
relays here on April 7. Bower
man said that Bill Dellinger,
the U.S. 5,000 meter champ,
wants to come. Bailey's accep
tance of an invitation to the
Willamette relays on March 30,
is a hint that he may be here
also.
Medford Kiwanians, who pro
vide the trophy for the Rogue
meet, are working on plans to
bring added lustre and stature
to the relays, first big track
contention in southern Oregon
for 1957.
SLOWER BASEBALL LOOMS
Present indications point to
the end of fast semi-pro base
ball as has been exemplified
in this section of the state in
past recent years by tha
Southwestern and Southern
Oregon leagues. Bend. Co
quille and Coos Bay-North
Bend have announced with
drawal from the Southern
Oregon circuit, which leaves
only Medford and Drain and
breaks up the loop (as such)
which three seasons back suc
ceeded the high - powered
Southwestern.
Future of semi-pro baseball
in the area hinges on a Rogue
Valley league meeting set for
Sunday. March 24, al 2 p.m.
at the Cheney Lumber com
pany office at Central Point.
Invitations have been extend
ed to both Drain and Rose
burg interests to attend tha
meeting along with repre
sentatives of last year. Rogua
Valley has been a slower
circuit than the Southern
Oregon.
Death has removed from tha
scene one of the chief figures
in the Rogua loop. President
Bill Brown.
EMPHASIS ON YOUTH
Report from Coos Bay and
North Bend is that the coast
region will go heavily for a
youth baseball program. A con
versation by Roy Helser, Drain
manager, at Eugene last week,
brought out that the same plan
may be considered in the SOL
town. That's well and good.
And, in the Rogue valley, the
American Legion junior base
ball program can stand some
strengthening. Still we dislike
to see the end of the fast semi
pro brand of ball.
MANN'S STORE SECOND
It was Mann's Department
store, instead of E. H. Mann
company, we've been told,
which took over second place
last week end in the 145 and
over average women's class in
the Albany All-Coast Bowling
tourney. And the series total
with handicap was 2713.
Members of the Department
store team are Claudia Lowd,
Audrey Swoape. Jane Kessler,
and Mable Clark.
easilio Negotiation
Report by Tommy Moyer.
Portland matchmaker, that he
sought exhibition booking in
By DICK JEWETT
Mjil Tribune Sports Editor
the Medford vicinity for Carmen
Easilio, world welterweight
boxing champ, has been follow
ed by word that such an appear
ance here is in the process of
negotiation.
HONOR FOR LEAGUE
Southern' Oregon Confer
ence schools all can take pride
in the fact that two players
from the circuit made the
Oregon Class A-l basketball
tournament all star team.
Glenn Moore and Butch Kimp
ton, Klamath Falls, were de
serving choices to the first
quint. That two players from
a fifth place club would get
high recognition seems un
usual. But tha Pelican club
rolled on impressively after
dropping its first tourney
game. On tha basis of their
last three games, the Pels
showed that they can't be con
sidered entirely the tourney
"bust" this department in an
earlier writing made them out
to be.
BORSCH TAKES POST
We note that Fred Borsch
steps into the shoes of Bob
Swan and takes over as the
Portland Oregonian's writer of
high school sports. Just where
Bob moves, we haven't heard.
It wasn't mentioned in our con
versations with Bob at the state
hoop tourney.
Swan sums up his four years
of high school athletics cover
age in a final "Prep Patter"
column. He names Neil Plum
ley, Medford. at tackle on his
football all-star team over that
period.
KALAPUS SHOOTS .415
Further information on col
legiate basketball play by
Jerry Kalapus. ex-Medford
high, comes from his school.
Pacific university. The Badger
release points to a full 15
game season for the North
west conference co-champion
club by Kalapus. who averag
ed 15 points a contest and
shot .415 from the field. He
was sixth in the conference
scoring chase with 225 points,
was - fourth In rebounds and
was named to the all-league
second team.
At Portland university over
the past season. Frank Rector,
ex-Tornado teammate of Kala
pus, had 92 points and a 3.5
per game average. He shot
.360 from the field. Both Rec
tor and Kalapus are sopho
mores at their schools.
HAVE PATIENCE
Have heard complaints that
not enough baseball was includ
ed in the sports section earlier
this week. Have patience. Give
us a chance. Baseball news soon
will be coming in overdose pro
portions. PINSETTERS
Installation of automatic
pinsetters, valued at $92,000,
on the 10 new alleys at Med
ford Bowling lanes, is to start
around April 3.
Less Free Shots
Could Be Result
Of Rule Changes
Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) Col
lege basketball today appears
headed toward less free throw
ing. The nation's top coaches con
vened here to discuss rules
changes for the game and top
item on the list was the disliked
one-and-one free throw system.
Reports from a rules commit
tee meeting was that most
coachs are unhappy with the
current rules, and would like to
switch to a system tried on an
experimental basis this past sea
son in the Big Ten.
Under the Big Ten system, the
one-and-one does not apply to
the first six fouls in each half.
But outside of that lone confer
ence, a fouled player trudged to
the line in most cases knowing
that if he could make his first
shot, he would get a "bonus" try.
Cooper, Burkemo
Tie in Seminole
Fort Lauderdale, Fla. (U.R)
A $27,500 week of golf moved
here to the $5,000 Coral Ridge
Pro-Amateur torunament today
with Pete Cooper and Walter
Burkemo leading the touring pro
fessionals. Cooper, of Lakeland. Fla., and
Burkemo of Franklin Hills,
Mich., each earned $1,400
Wednesday for their tie victory
in the $10,000 Seminole Pro-Am
tournament at Palm Beach.
Cooper and Burkemo topped
a blue ribbon field at Palm
Beach by finishing the 36-hole
route with six-under-par 66s and
139 totals.
The formidable Sam Snead
and Ben Hogan finished at 141
in a third-place tie.
Lunedin, Fla. U.R) Doug
Ford, 34-year-old Mahopac, N.Y.,
pro who has collected in every
tournament he entered this year,
leads golf's money winners so
far this year with $13,848.55 in
winnings.
Hallendale, Fla. (U.R) Nee
dles and Fabius, the horse that
kept Needles from winning the
turfs "triple crown" last year,
are likely to match strides again
this Saturday in the $100,000
Gullstream handicap.
MOYER TO FIGHT GREEN
ON PAL SATURDAY CARD
M 7
JOHNNY GREEN
Foe of Denny Moyer
Johnny Green, Roseburg, will
be the opponent of Denny Moy
er, Portland, nationally rated
150 pounder Saturday night in
the special event of the Med
ford Police Athletic league bene
fit boxing card at Hedrick Jun
ior High school gymnasium.
The big card of possibly as
many as 18 bouts features Dick
(Geronimo) Lopez, 185, Medford
Lightner To Ref
At Kansas City
Salem (U.R) Referee Al
Lightner, who was involved in a
controversy with Oklahoma City
University officials following a
playoff game last week end, left
here today to officiate in this
week end's NCAA basketball
finals at Kansas City.
Lightner was chosen as the
Far West representative. He is
scheduled to work Friday night's
game between Michigan State
and North Carolina.
PLENTY OF PELLETS
Joan Michaels is trying to
estimate how many golf
balls will be needed by the
24 pros competing in the
5th Annual Tournament of
Champions at the Desert
Inn Country Club in Las
Vegas, April 18-21. The tour
nament is the second rich
est in the U. S. with $38,
500 being divided by the
golfers.
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PAL, against tough 190-pound
Don Hawley, Burns in the main
event. Larry (LiT Tiger) Lewis,
Medford PAL, encounters Willie
Ira, Portland, national AAU fi
nalist, in a bantamweight semi
final whing-ding.
Green was champion in the re
cent Golden Gloves tournament
in his home city. He's regarded
as aggressive, tough and daring
with dynamite in his right glove.
The Roseburg battler has met
Moyer before. While Dazzling
Denny has taken the verdicts.
Green is confident, according, to
his coach, Dick Gilman, that he
can land his Sunday punch. His
ability to accomplish his re
solve is the question mark of
the tussle.
In the Lewis-Ira go, fans will
see a rematch. Lewis took a
closey from Ira in the North
west Golden Gloves this year.
The bout was rated the most ex
citing and action-packed of the
tourney.
The supporting card is packed
with Golden Glove champs in a
wide variety of weight classifi
cations. PAL club officials em
phasized that the big card with
many bouts will be run off with
clock-like efficiency. First bout
will begin promptly at 8 p.m.
Tickets are now on sale at the
Medford police department,
Sam's and Lamport's Sporting
Uoods stores, the Union club and
Brown's cafe. Police officers will
deliver tickets on telephoned re
quest. Big League Ball
Another Business
To Revenue Men
Washington U.R The inter
nal revenue service said today
that big league baseball "is just
another business to us."
The government's tax attitude
toward baseball came up in the
wake of the Boston Red Sox
million-dollar offer for Cleve
land fireballer Herb Score. The
Indians admitted they were awed
by its size.
An internal revenue spokes
man said major league baseball,
under tax laws, is treated the
same as any other big corpora
tion and is required tt pay a 52
per cent corporate tax on profits
of the teams. Under a 1922 Su
preme Court decision, baseball
enjoys exemptions from the anti
trust laws.
The Internal Revenue spokes
off the price tag on Score from
the Cleveland viewpoint. He said
if the Indians, usually a ' big
drawing team in their mammoth
Municipal Stadium, can break
even on operating expenses this
year then the offer for Score
would be classed as a profit if
they made the big deal.
This would mean that after
uncle Sam took his tax bite, they
would receive only $480,000 for
the strike-out king or the sale
price, less the 52 per cent cor
porate tax.
The Red Sox, on the other
hand, could charge off the entire
one million as an operating ex
pense for this year.
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Rogue River
Meet Friday
Rogue River Rogue River
high, defending county B cham
pion, has its first track .meet
of the season on Friday.
The Chieftains meet Illinois
Valley, an A-2 school, at 2:30
p.m. here.
Coach Tinker Hatfield has
been working with a squad of
19 aspirants, including 10 letter
men. The Chiefs have been
hampered, like everybody, by
the weather and this early in
the season Hatfield is hesitant
to consider any of his squad top
flight performers.
However, there are three men
who have lettered three years.
They are Lawrence Wagner,
miler; Fred Bond, broad jumper
and low hurdler, and Larry El
ledge, half-miler. All are seniors.
Other Lettermen
Other lettermen, all one-year,
are Fred Bowan, senior, quarter
miler; Gary Moore, sophomore,
pole vaulter; Bill Morrow, sopho
more, half-miler; Russ Miller,
senior, discussman; Don Hoff
man, junior, pole vaulter; Allan
Steinhardt, sophomore, miler,
and Bill Dixon, sophomore jave
lin thrower.
Hatfield considers his club
weak in the sprints, high jump,
high hurdles and shot put.
The Chieftains were eighth in
the state B meet in 1956 and
fourth in the district.
Other meets eyed by Rogue
River are:
March 29 Phoenix at Hoeue Riven
April 3 At Glcndale: April 6 LitUe
Roeue at Phoenix: April 12 Havward
relays at Eugene: April 17 Glendale
at Rogue River; April 26 at Eagle
Point; May 3 or 4 County meet; May
7 At Douglas: May 11 District met;
Bay 17-18 state meet.
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