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TOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) TRIBUNE
Youth Unlimited Project
Leads To Tussle Between
Rademacher and Patterson
By WILLIAM J. TUCKER
United Piesi Correspondent
Columbus, Ga. W He's
going in the light an amateur,
and he may come out one, too.
For win, lose or draw, Pete
Rademacher may not make a
nickel in his attempt to win the
world's heavyweight boxing
championship from poker-faced
Floyd Patterson.
He's the last guy on the pay
roll a payroll with a minmum
r.f S250.000. That quarter oi a
million is what his friends had
to put up to give him a shot at
boxing's greatest and richest
title.
"I didn't make this match
with an eye toward making a
profit," Rademacher explains.
'I'll be lucky to come out
even.' If there is anything left
for me it will be divided 50-50
with Youth Unlimited Inc., at
Columbus."
It's this Youth Unlimited that
makes this title fight at Seattle,
Wash., on the night of Aug. 22,
possible.
The story goes back to May,
1956.
Rademacher was a lieuten
ant in the Army, stationed at
Fort Benning, Ga.
Interested in Youth
Because he was interested in
working with youth, "to try to
get the kids off the street," he
became acquainted with M. C.
(Mike) Jennings, a youthful
looking man at 45.
Jennings came here after
World War II from Pittsburgh,
Pa., where he is reported to
have made a small fortune in
the oil business. Here on the
banks of the Chattahoochee riv
er, Jennings married the daugh
ter of Curtis Jordan Jr., a big
construction and real estate man
in this city of 80,000, and opened
& sporting goods business.
He enjoys tremendous re
spect in Columbus because he
has been on. radio and TV for
some time with outdoor pro
grams accenting youth, getting
them off the streets and into
the streams and woods.
His youth work took him to
Fog Benning one day and he
met Rademacher.
Traim for Olympics
"Pete and I talked about a
venture like Youth Unlimited
from the first," Jennings says.
"The plan evolved, and finally
Pete said when he was training
here for the Olympics:
" 'I hope I do all right in the
Olympics and meet a Russian in
the finals so I can knock his
head off. Then I want to try for
the world's heavyweight cham
pionship.' "
"At the time he made that
statement, I thought 'well, that's
a pretty ambitious program' and
sort of dismissed the idea.
'When Pete got back from the
Olympics with the champion
ship he still had that in mind
and we talked some more.
t "I told him, 'Pete, you don't
want to go into this professional
boxing if you want to continue
this youth work. You're valua
ble to people now, but if you go
into that you'll gradually get all
shaken up."
Supreme Court Reinstates
Saul Silberman License
Tallahassee, Fla. (IP) Tropi
cal park president "bet a mil
lion" Saul Silberman, who ad
mits he's a consistent loser at his
track's betting windows, won
the biggest stakes of his life
Wednesday the right to operate
his multi-million dollar racing
plant.
The Florida supreme court, by
a 4-2 decion. reinstated Silber
man's operating license for the
beautiful palm-lined track.
This upset an order April 4
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FIRMLY HOLDING $50,000 check, Dick Mayer, La Jolla,
Cal., asks pretty wife how much she expects to collect, after
winning world championship golf tournament at Niles, 111.
They stand behind trophy he alio won. (InUmatioaal
"But we kept on talking and
about May 17 we decided to try
it.
"I started moving around. I
went to New York City and met
Cus D'Amato, Patterson's man
ager. He said he wanted a S250,
000 guarantee for the fight from
Rademacher and gave me two
weeks to raise the money.
Decides to Try
Jennings flew back to Geor
gia the next day and "decided to
try it." s
'I started moving around," he
explains. "In about two weeks,
by the first of June, we had
what we needed."
The money is on deposit at
a Columbus bank and will De
forwarded to Seattle some time
before the fight.
Jennings admits he is one of
22 backers who raised that quar
ter of a million.
He said he was not "at lib
erty to identify the others" be
cause they asked that their
names be withheld. But it's no
secret here that his father-in-law,
Jordan, came up with a
healthy sum.
Jennings did reveal that the
largest contributor put up S25,
000, and the smallest, $5,000. He
admitted, too. that among them
were doctors, lawyers, stock
brokers and automobile sales
men. All are Georgians except
three one from Louisville, Ky.,
one from "some place in North
Carolina" and one from New
York.
"None of them," Jennings re
veals, 'especially care about box
ing." But, he adds, "they are inter
ested in youth work, and some
of them donated as stockholders
in Youth Unlimited. Others are
interested only in the fight as
a speculative investment."
And for those who know box
ing best, "speculative" is a con
servative description of this un
usual venture in the world of
boxing.
Fisheries Loan Fund
Receives Extension
Washington (IP) The Senate
Interstate and Foreign Com
merce Committee Wednesday ap
proved a bill adding $3 million
to a ?10 million fisheries loan
fund which was threatened With
depletion before Congress recon
venes in January.
Sen. Warren G. Magnuson CD
Wash.), committee chairman, said
the instability of the tuna mar
ket and the small Alaskan sal
mon pack may force additional
fishermen to apply for loans.
FEWER FARMERS?
St. Paul OP) Less than eight
per cent of the rural young men
graduating from high school in
northeastern Minnesota want to
make farming a career, accord
ing to two University of Minne
sota rural sociologists. They sur
veyed seniors in 20 Minnesota
high schools. Thirty per cent
wanted to go into skilled or semi
skilled professions.
by the state racing commission
revoking Silberman's license on
the grounds that he illegally bet
thousands of dollars on credit at
his own track and permitted 106
telephone calls to be made from
his private office phone to a
known Cleveland bookie.
The high court said that while
the credit betting was "illegal,"
the commission dealt too harshly
with the balding, plump Silber
man by revoking his license.
Thuriday, August 15. 19S7
Fish Ladders
Promised
On Illinois
Cave Junction Fish ladders
at the Illinois River falls, long
sought by sportsmen's group and
the local Chamber of Commerce
are promised by the Oregon
Game commission for not later
than 1959.
This is the word from Cole
Rivers, a representative of the
commission rtationed at Grants
Pass. He was principal speaker
at the Illinois Valley Chamber
of Commerce annual picnic held
Sunday at Grayback recreation
area.
Money for the fish ladders
has been appropriated, Rivers
said, but an acute engineering
shortage makes a start impos
sible this year. The ladders m?y
be installed in 1958, he added,
but cannot be definitely prom
ised before 1959.
Good Runs Seen
The construction is expected
to bring several good runs of
salmon and steelhead to valley
streams each year.
Because the falls can only be
reached on a dirt road, and are
located in a fairly inaccessible
place, the job of getting in the
equipment for construction will
be more difficult than the job
itself, Rivers said.
In charge of arrangements
for the dinner were Casey Pil
ler and his committee, losers in
the recent Chamber membership
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Studs Bounce Drain
Black Sox Nine 7-1
Ash'.and-Talent and the Med
ford Studs will meet on Sat
urday evening at the Fair
grounds in their Rogue Valley
league baseball mix. The
fray previously had been set
for Sunday. It will be the fi
nal league game of the season
for the Studs.
Jerry Droscher, Frank Roe
landt, Ron Owings and Frank
Rector spurred a 13-hit assault
and Pitcher Jerry Bartow held
the opposition to five safeties
here last night as the Medford
Cheney Studs dumped the un
dermanned Drain Black Sox 7-i
in a non-league semi-pro base
ball engagement.
The outcome gave the Studs
a 3-2 edge in their five games
with the Black Sox this season.
Some of the luster was remov
ed from the victory, however,
by the fact that the Sox came
to Medford with just half a
squad. Only nine players made
the jaunt to the Rogue Valley.
Drain currently is vying in
the tourney of the Oregon
championship of the American
Amateur Baseball congress. Six
of the Sox baseballers were in
Portland awaiting tonight's
clash with Beaverton. Two oth
ers, including slugger Ron Bow
en, could not make the trip.
Droscher led the Medford hit-
drive. The winning team
headed by Bill Klein.
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ting with a triple, double and
a single in three batting turns.
He was credited with four runs
batted in, one on a base on
balls. Roelandt also smacked
three for four. Owings had two
doubles in four times at bat
and Rector socked two for two,
both singles before leaving the
game because of an ankle in
jury. Dan Luby, two for foiyr, was
the only Drain man with more
than one hit. Irv Roth homered
over the left field wall in the
fourth inning for the only
Black Sox run.
Bartow struck out batters
eight times and issued a base
on balls just once, pitching care
fully and not giving Roth any
thing good his next time to the
plate after swatting the round
tripper. Medford received five bases
on balls off two of the three
Drain pitchers. Studs were
strikeout victims only twice.
Kovenz Drives In Two
Singles by Rector, Roelandt,.
John Kovenz and the three-baser
by Droscher brought in three
Medford runs in the first in
ning. Kovenz drove in two run
ers and Droscher one.
Back to back doubles by Ow
ings and Droscher picked up a
marker in the third inning. Ow
ings doubled and Droscher
singled for a fifth inning coun
ter. Two runs crossed without a
hit in the sixth panel. There
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Pendleton Seeks To
Keep Prices Stable
Pendleton m The board of
directors of the Happy Canyon
night show backed a proposal to
day to keep food and hotel prices
in line with regular prices dur
ing Round-Up time here.
The president of the Happy
Canyon board, W. M. (Whitey)
Breaid, said the board agreed
to approve the stand taken this
week by the Pendleton Cham
ber of Commerce to keep prices
in line with hotels and restau
rants and not "gouge" out-of-town
guests during Round-Up
time.
The Happy Canyon said it
would cut down the 1 parking
fee to 50 cents for both the
Happy Ganyon and Round-Up
show.
were four bases on balls, a field
er's choice1 and an error.
Noel Aronson pitched the first
five frames fort he Sox. Jerry
Pflug went to the hfll in the
sixth, issuing the four bases on
balls and yielding the two runs
before the veteran Ray Strat
ton, manager of the Sox, went
to the hill and whiffed Ed Rein
king for the third out. Stratton
did a creditable job over the
next two innings.
Pflug came in from right
field to relieve Aronson and
Stratton played third base be
fore shifting to the mound.
LINESCOUE:
Drain 000 100 000 1 5 2
Medford 301 012 OOx 7 13 2
Aronson. Pflug 6. Stratton 6 and
Roth; Bartow and Roelandt.
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St. Margaret's BayT England
(IP) Michael Cox, 11, and 13-year-old
Victor Leonard were
on vacation from the Cockney
district of London and they did
not know too much about the
movements of the sea.
"Coo wot's this," they asked
when a rising English Channel
tide trapped them at the foot of
a cliff.
Pals turned in the alarm and
38-year-old Albert Steed led a
rescue team to the top of the
cliff.
A helicopter was sent out
from the U. S. air base at Man
ston, about 10 miles away, and
the Dover lifeboat headed for
the scene.
The boys' pals shouted down
Two Trail Crews on
Smokejumper Detail
Cave Junction Two trail
crews of four men each aVe on
a special smokejumper detail on
the Gold Beach forest service
district this week.
The men and their supplies
were parachuted in to the re
mole area Monday. After main
taining and cleaning the trails,
they will hike out to Bear Camp
Friday, where they will meet a
truck for the trip back to Cave
Junction.
On the crews are Jack Hartcr,
Bob Berry, David Arnold, Larry
Wright, Ken Rosenberg, John
McDaniels, Wayne Schrunk and
Ron Nelson.
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to the bottom of the cliff that
all this was happening and MiK3
and Victor looked forward with
pleasure to their forthcoming
rescue.
Then came disillusionment.
Steed lowered a rope ladder and
climbed down to hoist the boys
to safety.
"Blimey," one of them said,
"Yer call this a rescue?"
"Oi, guv," the other said,
"wot abaht the lifeboat and the
'elicopter?"
Steed said he was sorry.
Western Boy Scouts
Leave for Amsterdam
London (IP) A group of 160
Boy Scouts from America's Far
West left for Amsterdam today
and ' the beginning of a 12-day
tour of Europe that will take
them to 10 cities and five coun
tries. The group attended the inter
national Bpy Scout Jamboree at
Sutton Coldfield, England, Aug.
1-12.
The leader is John G. Triplelt,
of Corona Del Mar, Calif. Trip
lett's boys from Scout Region
12 come not only from his home
state but also from Arizona,
Nevada and Utah.
SOCIALIST DIES
New York (IP) John Lyons,
75, a member of the National
Executive Committee of the So
cialist Party-Sociril Democratic
Federation, died Wednesday.
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