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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, September 13, 1957 Husky Mr Coach m Says All adly Wanting, Positions I Thi it the fifth of a series on the outlook of Pacific coast football teams for the coming season. By RAY ANDREWS United Press Sports Writer Seattle. Wash. iU Washing ton's Huskies have the power to mush on the ground but their air attack is as cold as an Eski mo'i nose. Last year the Huskies were a sad last in passing in the Paci fic Coast conference and one of the worst in the nation. Jim Owens, new Washington coach, has the "help wanted sign out for a quarterback who can sling the ball and put some spice in hi3 split-T attack. Owens regards his air arm as something left over from the Wright brothers. "The passing was pretty bad," he says of a recent scrimmage. "No, let's be frank. It wasn't bad; it was awful. We re going to need more work than I had thought in that department." The man most likely to step into the cockpit is Al Ferguson first string quarterback who missed several games last sea son due to an injury. Good Possibility Ferguson has the equipment. He turned on the after-burner at Palo Alto last year when the Huskies pounded favored Stan ford, 34-13. He completed five passes out of five attempts for 141 yards and passed to Luther Carr for one 38-yard touchdown. Stan ford's John Brodie, the nation's leading passer in 1956, never had a chance to rev up his motors. If Ferguson can make the passing game click and Washing ton's running backs come through as expected, the Hus kies can be as tough as some predict. They are ineligible for the Rose Bowl but they could wreck a lot of dreams. Owens has the backs, Mike SPORTS McCluskey, Dick Payseno, Carr, Hill Howard, Don Millich, Jim Jones, Kirk Wilson, Bobby Dunn and others can move the ball. The line is another matter. Owens feels he does not have the necessary depth. "We drop off pretty sharply," he says. The Linemen Dave Leland, a retread guard, Reese Lundquist, Rene Bertheen and Jerome Morgan are battling for the center post. Marv Berg man is due back in action short ly to further complicate mat ters. At end, Owens lists eight play ers as contenders, Bruce Clar idge, Duane Lowell, Rich Brandt and Dick McVeigh, all letter men, and Ed Peasley, Carl Mor gan, Gary Eilers and Chet Har vey are fighting it out. Don McCumby, Dick Day, Jim Heck, Jim MoCarter, Paul Wall rof and Bob White will whittle it down for the tackle spots. Whitey Core, Don Armstrong, Dave Enslow, Jack Walters, Kurt Gegner and Bob Echols are guard candidates. "Every position on the team is open," says Owens. "It's up to the players to decide who will be in there for the kickoff against Colorado on Sept. 21." Including, Owens, hopes, some one who can throw the ball. The Schedule Sept. 21, Colorado; Sept. 23, At Minnesota; Oct. 5, Ohio State; Oct. 12, at UCLA; Oct. 19, Stanford; Oct. 26, Oregon State; Nov. 2, Southern California; Nov. 9, Oregon at Portland; Nov. 16, at California; Nov. 23, Washi ngton State. 7 HARDTOPPER ON THE WALL Johnny Jones' M-5 is shown hung up on the wall after a mishap in hardtop auto races last Saturday at Valley View speedway near Ashland. M-5 climbed the barrier after rounding the fourth turn. Similar action is anticipated this Saturday when the drivers go at it again in one of the last competitions for track points this year. Time trials will be at 7 p.m. and the first race at 8 p.m. There will- be four heat races, two trophy dashes and a main and semi-main. Wayne Lemley is still well ahead in points with 486 and Croch Hunter is-the only other driver over 400. He has 419. Other leaders are Ray Asher 363, Bob Wilcox 336, Bob McGilvray 333, Elmer Sisemore 297, Wally Cannon 257, Louis Kurz 247, Bob Jenkins, 241, Jones 225, Jack Keck 223 and Lee Davis 190. ! (Birchfield photo) Fanfare By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Sports Editor If I 1 I I W H- H Qt. University of Oregon will get the biggest snare, although not a majority of athletes who fin ished Medford high careers last spring and who plan to go on to college. Gathering the information on the future plans of the most re cent Tornado grads has been a bit more laborious this time through difficulty in getting in touch with a good number of them and the survey has re quired a number of weeks, mixed in with routine work of this department. On a few there have been only indireet reports. It's possible others have been missed. We'd like to hear from them. U OF O BOUND Planning io enter Univer sity of Oregon this fall , are Bob Apple, footballer; ' Jim Gordon, district tennis champ; Wally Larson and Jay Mullen, track men, and Larry Perkins and John Payne, baseball players. Jerry Close, stale . broad jump titlist, is reported headed for the Webfoot cam pus. Earl Knight, football man, may start the second term at Eugene after finishing a course in air line person nel work at Kansas City, Mo. He goes to Kansas City in Oc tober. Les Lingscheit, half miler, has hopes of going to U of O in another year. Mar ried, he is working on the Big Bend dam project on Klam ath river. Gordon Owsley also is out for football at SOC. He was a gridder, wrestler and baseball player for Medford high. Baseball man Steve Wisely also plans to enter Southern Oregon and Butch Graff , and Dean Rickard, gridsters might attend there. Dick Swinney, Tornado football center, is planning Southern Oregon college entry. ' TO OREGON STATE Dennis King, baseball and footbay. man, Dick McLaughlin, football, basketball and base ball player, Neil Plumley, state shotput champ, football Ail American and basketball man, Gary Safley, wrestler and foot baller, and Jay Walker, track and football participant, plan to go to Oregon State, Safley is married. Grid tackle Larry Cranston may choose between OSC and Shasta Junior college. FRANCIS AT SOC Eldon Francis, javelin throwing All-American as a sophomore, football back and semi-pro baseballer,- is out for football at Southern Oregon college after considering en rolment at a California school. COPPLE ENROLLS AT WSC Dick Copple, all stater in football and basketball and golf man, 'will enter Washington State college. Larry Slessler is out for football at College of Idaho. He lettered in track and basketball as well as the grid sport for the Tornado. Football er Gary Riley plans to play at Oregon Technical institute where Harold Knips, another gridder, also will attend school Mike Stearns, football, basket ball and track man, will enter Willamette. Basketball regular Dick Puhl is to study at Pacific. Gridman Bruce West and pos sible gridder and track man Pete Kershaw are enrolled at Lewis and Clark college al though Kershaw may go to OSC. Track miler Phil Austin has been managing Weed Golf club in California but may enter either Southern Oregon or Chico State college at the win ter term. CHRISTEAN IN MARINES Lorin Christean, football back and track runner, is now in the Marine corps. Ernie Tyler, base ball pitcher, intends to enter the military reserve under the six months training program. Gary Guss, grid lineman, is undecid ed between college and entry in the service. Steve Shorey, base ball outfielder, has no college plans. He's working for the county road department and is a member of the National Guard. 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Rockefeller in which he said, "Let's keep our home club at home if the stadium is all that's keeping this back, I'll build New York a stadium." Tickets Going Fast for Fight On Television About 500 tickets were sold on the first day of sales for the television showing of the Car men Basilio-Ray Robinson mid dleweight championship fight at the Craterian theater on Mon day, Sept. 23, Robert Corbin, theater manager, said today. Corbin said every seat in the theater will offer a good view of the fight on the large screen. There will be no home television showing of the fight nor will it be carried on radio. The theater manager said the fight was being brought to the Rogue valley on n experimental basis, the first such closed cir- Rams-49ers Play Tonight Los Angeles (W The Los Angeles Rams get their stiffest test of the pre-season competi tion tonight when they battle the undefeated San Francisco Forty Niners at Memorial Coliseum. More than 60,000 fans are ex pected to see the two bitter rivals fight it out. Despite drop ping one game in four starts, the Rams have been selected as 6-point favorites. The Forty Niners have defeat ed New York, 24-15; the Red skins, 27-20; the Browns, 21-17; and the Cardinals, 27-21, in the pre-season play. On the other hand, the Rams conquered the Redskins, 45-14; lost to New 63-21; and downed the Browns York, 24-7; topped the Cards 20-14. Unlike previous years, the Rams are expected to base their hopes on a strong running attack. The Forty Niners boast a pow erful passing game ,with Y. A. Tittle in the starring role. Coach Sid Gillman said the outcome of the game may indi cate whether his Rams have a chance to take top honors this season in the Western Division of the National Football league. Both the Rams and Forty Niners are .up to near top strength for the clash. cuit television show to be tried here. If the public shows an in terest in this type of program, ethers will be brought in the future, Corbin said. Tickets may be purchased only at the Craterian theater box office, from noon to 3 p.m. and 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. daily. Those in the Ashland area may reserve tickets at the Varsity theater and in Yreka at the Broadway theater. Prices are $4 for the center section and lo'ges and $2.50 for the sides. WaBEcer Cuppers Dn U.S. Amateur Semi-Final Matches By LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor Brookline, Mass. (IP) Four Walker Cuppers met in the semi fonals of the U. S. Amateur golf championship today with Dr. Frank Taylor facing Mason Ru dolph and Hillman Robbins playing Rex Baxter. Survivors of a starting field of 200 in this six-day match play grind, the four - members of America's victorious Walker Cup team gained the 36-hole round by winning four of the closest quarter-final matches ever seen in this 57th annual tournament. Taylor, a 40-year-old dentist from Pomona, Calif., who took care of President Eisenhower's teeth while stationed in the Euro pean Theater as an Army colo nel, beat out his golfing buddy, Gene Andrews, a 44-year-old Los Angeles insurance salesman, 2 up. He had made the quarter-finals by winning his morning fifth round match against Jim Tom Blair, son of the governor of Missouri, by the same margin. Yost Eliminated Rudolph, a 23-year-old Army private from Clarksville, Tenn., shot two under par to eliminate Dick Yost, a 27-year-old school equipment salesman from Port land, Ore., 1 up in 19 holes, after having eliminated Larry Cook, the cross-handed playing deputy sheriff from Wrightsville Beach, N. C, 4 and 3 in the morning. Robbins, a 25-year-old Air Force lieutenant from Memphis, Tenn., knocked out 46-year-old Dick Chapman, who had won this tournament 17 years ago, 3 and 1. He had gained the quarter-finals by turning back Tom Holland, 28-year-old exec utive from Rockville Centre, N. Y., 1 up in the fifth round. Baxter, the 21-year-old NCAA champion from the University of Houston, nosed out his college roommate, Phil Rodgers, only 19, 1 up in 21 holes. He had gained the round of eight with a 5-3 morning round win over Alex Sott, the 33-year-old factory in spector from Bridgeport, Conn. For the day's two rounds, Tay lor was even par, Rudolph was three under, Robbins was two over and Baxter was one undea In the morning fifth round, Andrews beat British Walker Cupper Alan Thirlwell, 4 and 2; Yost defeated John Penrose of Miami Beach, Fla., 1 up in 19 holes; Chapman eliminated 21-year-old Eddie Meyerson of Los Angeles, 2 and 1, and Rodgers knocked out Chuck Kocsis of Royal Oak, Mich., last year's runner-up, 5 and 4. Randy Sandy Favored Tonight Syracuse, N. Y. OP) Randy Sandy, the middleweight with the musical name, is favored to beat out a 10-round victory to night against stubby German Frank Szuzina. 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