EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Friday, September 13, 1957
Husky Mr
Coach
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Says All
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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.
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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
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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.
Fight Results
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New York OP) A New York
builder, who tried during the
last month to buy both the Giants
and Cincinnati Redlegs, today of
fered to construct a new sta
dium for the Brooklyn Dodgers
"at cost" in order to "keep Na
tional league baseball in this
city."
Samuel J. Lefrak, 39, presi
dent of the Lefrak Building
Corp., said he hoped the offer
"will help put the city of New
York in a position to make the
best possible deal" for Dodger
President Walter O'Malley. Le
frak's offer came on the eve of
today's special private meeting
of the New York City Board of
Estimate.
Lefrak made his position
known in a telegram to Nelson
A. 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.
Although Sandy is the 8-5 fa
vorite, the 25-year-old German
promises to give him a rough
battle in the televised fight at
War Memorial auditorium.
New Yorker Sandy, 26, badly
needs the win to offset losses
this year to Joey Giardello and
Spider Webb. Sandy's record is
18-7-1.
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