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r TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, Auguit 25, 1957 Biggest Southern Oregon Golf En Slastory Scheduled at Rogue Tourney Valley ? ML, - A ' V .-1 I- ,J S ' 1 : f:.. - , ., hi - I - , I- r I I SO CONTENDER Bob Prall. Frail, above University of Ore gon hnksman who hails irom Salem, is one of the leading contenders for honors in the 29th annual Southern Oregon Golf tourney th week at Rogue Valley Country club. He won th 1S55 and 1956 Oregon Golf association medal play champ ionships. " "Y l ft SEEKS SECOND TITLE Sue DeVoe, above, Medford, will seek second championship In the Southern Oregon Golf meet which opens Wednesday and continues through Sept. 2 at Rogue Valley Country club. She claimed the 1954' diadem. Sue recently captured the RVCC club championship. Trout, Steelhead Catches Reported On Rogue River Upper river residents along the Rogue offered further evi dence yesterday that steelhead and trout are being hooked and landed on that section of the stream. 4 They indicate good fishing in the area from Shady Cove, five miles upstream. Clyde Stafford, Trail, report edly" landed one steelhead Fri day and hooked three and land ed" two of them the day before. Weights of the fish were listed at three and four pounds. An other resident of the Joe Chevi gney had three steelhead on his line and landed a three pounder using a fly. Catches of a 5Vi pound steelhead and a jack sal mon were reported for Al Rodg ers. Gordon Ross and two sons, of Los Angeles, didn't have much luck on their first tries at stream fishing but given a few tips caught 12 trout of nine and 10 inches Friday. That's being tak en as an indication that fish can be taken by those who have the know how. The Rosses used eggs and small spinners. Chuck Workman of Rogue Ri ver lodge said that anglers can stop at his place or at Cove hard ware in Shady Cove for infor mation on where there is good fishing. He has sought to dis count reports that Rogue angling has been poor. The Dalles Picks Noel Aronson The Dalles W Noel Aronson, Whitman college graduate, has been named head baseball coach at The Dalles high school for next year, school superintendent David Bates said Friday. The Dalles also named Dick Yecny, a University of Oregon graduate, to its athletic staff. He formerly assisted new football coach Keith DeCourcey at Prineville. Alfred LaVick; Valley City. N.C.. will take over as athletic director and probably help Ted Sarpola in basketball. Biggest tournament in the his tory of the Southern Oregon golf championships at Rogue Valley Country club is assured. Spark ling competition among the host of talented entrants and strong support by sports enthusiasts throughout this section of the state can serve to make it the best in the 29 years of the Labor day holiday evysnt. Tourney play is formally bill ed for Wednesday, Aug. 28, through Monday, Sept. 2, Labor day. However, advance qualify ing by RVCC members and oth er Rogue valley residents enter ed is now underway. Ivan Harrington and Jack Mitchell, co-chairman of the tournament, stressed that the public is not only invited and welcome but is urged to turn out and follow the players during the days of the tournament. There is no charge for joining the galleries of spectators. A maximum field of 352 en tries is foreseen by tournament f f i c i a 1 s with 224 in men's flights, 80 in the women's divi sion and 48 in the new senior di vision for men 50 years of age and over. A number of dropouts may reduce this total but the entry list still wfll far exceed the 272 overall figure of 1956, previous record high. Oak Knoll Play The field is so large this time that two rounds of play, Thurs day and Friday, of the men's ninth, 10th and 11th Eights, and of the women's eighth flight will have to be contested on Ash land's Oak Knoll course, which will be a sort of RVCC "annex" for those two days. Oak Knoll is reported in its best condition ever. All qualifying will be at Rogue Valley Country club. Residents of the Rogue valley not seeking championship flight spots in men's and women's play will finish qualifying on Mon day. Valley residents after title flight berths and seniors qualify on Tuesday. Out-of-towners on Wednesday have the rounds which determine their flight as signments. Matches begin on Thursday. Sixty-four men and 16 each in the seniors and women's fields will be in championship flights. While there will be a host of fine divoters here, the Southern Oregon tourney is to a great ex tent a social event and ne partic ular effort " has been made to toughen the course. Tees have been moved up for qualifying and will be moved back as rounds of match play progress. Contestants are expected as us ual to find the RV greens tricky. Four Past Champs Men's fiel$ in the Southern Oregon will attract four past champions and runners-up of the past three years. Three champs of former tournaments will vie for women's division honors. Ther3re no ex-titlists in the senior division since this is its first time. While thjre is no defender in the men's contention, Carole Jo K a b 1 e r, Sutherlin, northwest crown-holder and semi-finalist in last week's national amateur, will try for her third consecutive Southern Oregon mantle. Other ex-champs among the ladies are Mrs. Helen Davies, seven times winner until dethroned in 1954, and Sue DeVoe, the 1954 winner. Both are home course favorites and Sue is the reigning RVCC club titlist. Most recent champion among the men will be Bob Atkinson, Columbia-Edgewater, Portland. He has won three of his four times entered, the last time in 1955. Eddie Simmons, Medford, is a six time victor in the classic at Rogue Valley. George Har rington, manager of Arizona Country club. Phoenix, Ariz., and former RVCC manager, cop ped the prize in 1950. Dom Pro vost Jr., former member of the Medford club and now playing out of Columbia-Edgewater, took the trophy in 1954. Creason, Bailey Play Recent runners-up entered are Lynn Creason, Harrisburg, Pa., Pennsylvania Open champ, and finalist last Labor day, Dick Bailey, Redding, Calif., loser to Atkinson in 1955 finals, and Phil Getchell, Medford and ex-Stanford university, who bowed to Provost in the 1954 concluder. Among the men there will be a host of strong challengers from other links. They include Bob Prall, Salem and University of Oregon? Bob Norquist, Portland and ex-U of O; Wayne Sabine, Redding: George Parsons. Seat tle: Woody Ball, George Cicrich. Biff Lovett, Vern Perry and Bill Wittenberg, Portland, and Gor- MEDF01 UNE fee EYES CROWN HERE Dick Bailey, above, Redding, Calif., is due back this week for an other try for the Southern Ore gon golf title at the Medford links. Bailey was runner-up for the toga in 1955 and is an ex Northern California amateur champ. He'll be among those qualifying this Wednesday. , don Marlatt and Keith Gubrud, Eugene. Home links hopefuls include Alan Holmes, who knocked At kinson out of the running last year, Jim Sheldon, Harry Mill- ette, the club champ, Clayton Lewis, Warren Deakms Jr., Dr, William Miller and Dr. Brue Stanley. Senior Contenders Among the senior contenders from the local links are Bill Ca- tey, the new senior club cham pion; George Stacey, runner-up to Catey, and Marvin Clark, the 1956 oldster titlist and Grants Pass resident. In the ladies field are Mrs, Marge Fillis, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1956 champ in her state; Shirley Siegmund and Elaine Porritt, Eugene; Mrs. Ray Scott Portland; Mrs. L. E. Tripp, Os wego; Susan Rafferty, Astoria; and Donna Sproat, Klamath Falls, and Mrs. Maxine Ham mond and Mrs. Belle Schenk, Medford. Men's championship and fifth through 11th flights, women's championshipi second and eighth flights and all seniors will have first round matches on'Thursday. All men's flights are in action on Friday. Women's fourth and sixth flights vie but the other ladies are idle. Senior will have no matches on Friday. Consolation Matches Championship through fourth flights in the men's division play on Saturday. All seniors' and women's brackets have quarter finals. On Sunday men's champ and first flights have both quarter-finals and semi-finals while all other Southern Oregon par ticipants have semis. There will be 36-hole finals in men's and women's championship flights with 18 hole wrap-ups in other brackets. Senior finalists in the title flight play 18 holes. Consolation play is billed for first round losers. Tour nament committeemen met at a no host dinner on Fri day evening for reports and con sutation. The chore of preparing pairings and assigning starting times for Wednesday qualifying by out-of-towners was accom plished last week by Glen Fab rick, pairings committeeman. It was announced that radio station KMED will make the first live broadcast in the history of the tournament. HOST CLUB WINS Seaside HP) Vancouver, B.C. and Seaside, host teams in the Northwest Connie Mack baseball tournament being played here, both recorded wins Friday night to advance to the semi-finals. Vancouver recorded a 9-5 win over Seattle. Wash., and Seaside dumped Parkrose, 9-4. LET'S GO OCEAN FISHING On the it I Blue Soaf UNDINE II Salmon Trolling Bottom Fishing TWO TRIPS DAILY 7:30 AJW. and 1:30 P.M. or ALL DAT CHARTER TOMMY'S SPORT FISHING .- Entrance to Citizen's Dock Rt. 1. Box 972 Crescent City Phone 4561 Musial Sidelined For First Time In Six Seasons Philadelphia IW Stan Musial looked back without regret at the snapping of his National league record for consecutive games but looked ahead to re joining the St. Louis Cardinals for their chase of the league leading Milwaukee Braves. "Maybe I'll be back in four or five days," Musial said. "I hope so, but I guess I have to take it easy." Musial, who chipped a bone and tore a muscle in his left shoulder Thursday night against Philadelphia, was out of uniform for the first time in six seasons Friday night as the Cards bowed to the' Phils, 3-2. Bradford Cops 2 Legion Frays Portland (IP) Bradford Clothiers of Portland defeated Seattle 6-4 after taking the open er from Lewiston, Idaho, 6-1, in an American Legion northwest regional junior baseball playoff doubleheader at Sckavone field here Friday night. Lodi, Calif. (IP) Phoenix got only one hit last night but cap italized on three walks and an error to defeat Oakland, Calif., 4 to 2, in the winners bracket of the American Legion Region 12 Junior Baseball tournament. Og den, Utah, eliminated Reno, by defating the Nevadans, 6 to 5. Hossegor, France W Aus tralia's Lew Hoad continued his winning streak against America's Jack Kramer and fancho Se gura defeated Aussie Ken Rose wall today in professional teni nis matches. Hoad came from behind to beat Kramer, 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, while Segura took Rosewall in straight sets, 6-2, 6-4. OFFICIAL WELCOME Horace Stoneham (left), president of the New York Giants, re ceives an official welcome to San Francisco by Mayor George Christopher (center) and City Supervisor Francis McCarty, as the owner of the National League baseball club arrived to inspect his team's new home. 1 Giants Batter LA Ram Eleven Los Angeles HP) The Nation al Football League champion New York Giants battered their way through the Los Angeles Rams defensively and offensive ly to down the 2Vz point favor ites, 24-7, Friday night in an ex hibition professional football game. The pre season test of strength before , 60,094 fans in Memorial stadium revealed Giant halfback Frank Gifford, a former Univer sity of Southern California Tro jan star, as a shining light on of fense while the Giant's forward wall reduced 4he Ram attack to confusion. Veteran 'Ram quarterback Norm Van Brocklin was throt tled so effectively in the first half that more than half of his passes went awry and two were intercepted. AF Officer Wins Interservice Title Parris Island, S.C. ItPI A hang ing putt that, refused to fall in the cup for Army SP3 Ray Moore on the first hole of a sud den death playoff gave Air Force 2nd Lt. Hillman Robbins of Memphis, Tenn., the open divi sion title in the 1957 Interservice Golf tournament today. Three strokes down with just two holes left in the match, Rob bins, stationed a t Blythville AFB, Ark., dropped a 35-foot birdie putt on the 17th while Moore missed his short putt for a par. Moore, from Beaumont, Tex., and Ft. Bliss, Tex., parred the 368-yard 18th hole. Robbins, who needed, an eight-foot birdie putt for a tie, took his time and sank the putt, knotting the score at 290. The state song of New Mexico, "O Fair New Mexico," was writ ten by Elizabeth Garrett, whose father, Sheriff Pat Garrett, shot and killed Billy the Kid. IRRIGATION PUMPS to 60 H.P. r $0050 From J M up Vi H.P. SHALLOW WELL $3950 Vi H.P. DEEP WELL $900 iff CT . 1 Siskiyou Hardware Ph. SP 2-2939 22S W. 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