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Crater, Grants Pass Mix in 6 A-1 Opener Grants Pass high with a much respected passing attack and greater all-around depth will bear tne favored role Friday in the opening conflict of the 1957 District 6 A-1 campaign. The Cavemen, co-favorites with de fending champion, Medford, take on Crater at Grants Pass. Game time will be 8 p.m. The home club also will car ry into the action experience gained from pre-conference tilts against overall tougher compe tition in this second fracas be tween varsity gridders of the two schools. GP defeated North Bend and Roseburg after loss by a conversion to Albany. Crater has downed Yreka, Calif., and Eagle Point and has tied Red mond. Aerial combination of Quar terback Jim Smith to End Mike Sparlin has been a big threat for Grants Pass this fall. Cra ter could counter, however, with an effective thrower, Quarter back Wayne Allen. Jack Dean and Mike Rose are the Cavemen workhorses on the ground. The Comets have Her man Bennett, Lee Gossett, Bob Fowler and Allen Barnes with which to mount a rushing offen sive. Backfield weight? appear to Foot Injury Puts Darland On Sideline Ashland Jerry Darland, end from Medford, became another member of coach Al Akins side line crew last night when he pulled all of the ligaments in his lift foot in scrimmage and will be lost to the Southern Oregon football Red Raiders for at least kur weeks of the season. The SOC gridders already re shorthanded from a rash of knee injuries which as sidelined end Norm Oliva, guard Jim Tac chini, and tackles Herb Colley and Troy Bellah. The Red Raiders gave ten yards to the weather last night as they began to put the polish ing touches on their hard hitting attack in preparation to meeting the Linfield Wildcats on Fuller field here Saturday night. SOC gridders used the new Southern Oregon gymnasium to run through defenses, and offensive patterns. The Wildcats from McMinn ville stack up as one of the toughest squads the Red Raiders will meet this season. Led by quarterback Ron Parrish, little Ail-American tackle Vic Fox and halfback Dwight Umbarger, the wildcats opened their conference play last week end as they ran over Lewis and Clark 33 to 6. The Red Raiders will be out to avenge last years 27 to 13 loss to the Wildcats when they take the field at 8 p.m. There may be some changes in the starting lineup from the SOC eleven that began the first two games for the Raiders. Delmar Brood, the Phoenix flash, may have earned a start ing berth for himself by his per formance against the University of British Columbia last Satur day when he racked up a neat nine yards per carry and one TD against the Tunderbirds. George Stavros, reserve quarterback for the Raiders also made a bid for starting honors in the UBC scrimmage gaining 117 yards in the second half and completing 8 out of 20 passes, three of them for TDs. GAMES POSTPONED Grade school football games billed for today have been post poned until Monday because of current inclement weather and wet fields. The. tussles are Oak Grove versus Jefferson and Lin coln ' versus Washington at the high school and Roosevelt at Jackson. Pirates Hosts In Rogue League Scuffle Phoenix One of the Rogue league's top rivalries is billed here Friday night when the Pi rates of Phoenix high entertain Eagle Point in District 6 A-2 southern division football. Each is the top A-2 adversary of the other. Phoenix has been girding its reserves and Eagle Point has sought general offensive polish in workouts this week. Coach Jack Woodward of the Pirates said the Phoenix aim was to create more depth in order that players may be altered more. The Pirate tutor said that his club has added a few new plays and has worked at better offen sive timing. He added, however, that' work continues with de fense. The defensive crew held up well in the first two games of the season and is being count ed upon much this time. Phoenix attitude is that Eagle Point can be expected to make a stiff fight and has a good, well balanced squad. The Pirates are considering EP a tougher club than the Phoenix three-touchdown win over Henley and the Eagle tie with the same crew would indicate. balance out fairly even. Grants Pass looks to have a heft edge, although not extreme, in the line. Crater defensive drill this week has been centered much on ways to halt the passing combine of Coach Mel Ingram's Cavemen. Comet Mentor Leon ard Warren said, nevertheless, that his club was not overlook ing the GP ability to run up the middle and he pointed out that Smith is a good runner as well as a passer. All Comets were in good shape last night with the exception of Gary Legler, all purpose reserve back. He hurt his finger yester day in a motorcycle mishap. Burns Doing Well Likely Crater starters are Paul Beach and Jerry Kime, ends; Doug Davis and Dave Brown, tackles; George Hunt and Mike Martin or Glenn Cote, guards Randy Campbell, center; Wayne Allen, quarterback; Bob Fowler, left half; Kerman Ben nett or Lee Gossett, fullback, and Allen Barnes, right half. Looking good in practice and in a jayvee game this week has been John Burns, who has been alternating at right half with the first string group. Possible starters for Grants Pass on offense are Sparlin and Paul Lindquist, ends; Paul Sla ven and Jerry Putnam, tackles; Wendell Winterbottom, and Ben ny Dean, brother ' of Jack, guards; Dick Caldwell, center; Smith, quarterback; Dean, left half; Don Lewellyn, right half, and Rose, fullback. Dick Baird, Ollie Woolsey and Ron Atterberry are guard al ternates and Merrill Nay and Dewain Gurule see duty at the tackles. Gurule is the club's placekicker. Bill Dolodge is a defensive end and Richie Con dray a linebacker. Jacksonville Aims To End Loss Habit .Jacksonville Coach Bill Seymour took steps this week with Jacksonville footballers to "break this bad habit of losing." The Redskins aim to get back on the win trail when they op pose Chiloquin at 2:30 p.m. here Friday. Seymour sounded a warning to his squad that things would be different and the heavy work out this afternoon instead of the usual light one on Thursday was indication that the mentor meant business. Another move he made was to select John Win ningham and Dave Rasmussen, backs, and Al Chaboude, tackle, co-captains for the Chiloquin mix. The selection was in re" ward for playing the best games against Merrill. The three have supervised some of the practice activity this week. A change in the Jacksonville line-up puts Clint Whitney at right guard. He replaces Gary Smith who has dropped from the squad. Seymour also announced the loss of Frank Plant, line backer and guard because of a wrist injury and illness. The Redskins are still trying to de velop an offense that will pro vide a scoring punch. CARR STARTER Seattle, Wash. (IT) Coach Jim Owens of the University of Washington is hoping for dry weather Saturday so his re grouped Huskies will not be handicapped in their game with Ohio State. Luther (Hit and Run) Carr was moved into the start ing left halfback spot Tuesday and apparently filled it well. Owens made no changes in his starting lineup Wednesday. Wyoming has about 20,000 square miles of coal deposits. To Eagles Probable starting offensive team for Phoenix is Bill Dillree and Don Korth, ends; Stan Zwan and Jack Rinn, tackles; Jim Waldron and Jack Ho'ff buhr, guards; Ron Daugherty, center; Dennis James or Jim Heath, quarterback; Gary Sim monds, left half; Fred Faytinger, right half; Don Wallace, full back. Earl Dillree, Marvin Frazier and Larry Kidwell may be in the line on the defensive club and Jim Stout, regular right half on defense may see a lot of offensive play at tailback. Eagle Point end Wayne Chris tian suffered a knee injury in the Henley mix and may see only limited service, Coach Tom Van Etten, reported. Another hobbling player, with an ankle ailment, he said, has been Dale Casey, a guard. Those who may open for the Eagles are Christian and Bill Hubbard, ends; Jim -Bunker and Bob Greb, tackles; Mack Lem- mon, and Casey or Cliff Blaine, guards; Steve Charters, center; Doug Chamberlain, quarter; David Huffman, left half; Gary Mendenhall, quarter, and Gary Kaiser, right half. SPORTS Left Flank Of Ducks Hit By Ailments Eugene (IP) Flu struck the University of Oregon foot ball team today as it neared completion of preparation for its game with UCLA in Portland Saturday night. Four tackles and Dave Grosz, sophomore quarterback, all re ported attacks of the flu Wed nesday. The tackles affected were Jerry Kershner, Gerald Aschbacher, John Willener and Milt Blevins. Their status for Saturday right is doubtful. Larry Newsom, sophomore left guard from Salem, has a knee injury and is probably out of the game along with Alden Kimbrough, who also has knee troubles. J. C. Wheeler, starting left end, was released from the in firmary Wednesday but he, too, was on the doubtful list for Sat urday. University of Oregon, Eugene Oregon's fortunes against the surprising Bruins of UCLA this Saturday at Portland may rest with the speedy recovery of a pair of ends who didn't see prac tice early this week. J. C. Wheeler and Alden Kim brough, numbers o ie and two on the left side of the line have been bedded down wih an assort ment of ills, and it appears doubtful that Kimbrough "will see any action at all against Red Sander's unbeaten Bruins. Kimbrough, a sophomore per former from San Diego wrenched a 'knee against Pitts burgh last Saturday, after giving a sparkling exhibition of defen sive and offensive work against the rugged Panthers who edged the Ducks 6-3. Head Coach Len Casanova confirmed the report Monday that Kimbrough is on the doubtful list for playing time at Multnomah stadium, Oct. 5. Wheeler, the starting left end and another fine defensive Duck, succumbed to an attack of the flu Sunday, and was sent to the infirmary for rest. His action Saturday night will depend on a quick recovery. The Ducks Host UCLA in their second PCC contest, and the duel should be as thrilling as the Pitt contest. Coach Jerry Frei who scouted the Bruins against Illinois, noted that they "are as good a ball club as they always have been, except they have no outstanding backs." Leading the Bruin attack this fall will be a sensational punter, Kirk Wilson, the defending NCAA kicking leader with a 49.3 average in '56, and junior end Dick Wallen, who caught 23 passes in 1956 for two touch downs and 308 yards. Coach Sanders also returns the Bruin's leading rusher of last fall, Barry Billington, who aver aged 3.7 yards per carry in 106 tries. He gained 415 yards from his fullback slot. The Webfoots can match the Bruin running attack with Jim Shanley, who has lived up to early season expectations with a pair of fine performances against Idaho and Pittsburgh. The run ning of Shanley plus some more fine passing by quarterback Jack Crabtree will give the Ducks a one-two punch against the color ful Bruins. Crater Frosh, McLoughlin Vie Central Point Coach Bill Piche reported his Crater high freshman football club "ready to go" for its 3:30 p.m. hassle on Friday against McLoughlin ninth grade on the Bulldog field in Medford. He said probable starters on offense are Dow Bowles and Dave Foote, ends; Bryson La Cass and Howard Twidell, tackles; Byron Von Buskirk and Larry Ryerson, guards; Gary Garrison, center, and Mike Nolta, Wayne Martin, Tom White and Loyal Higinbotham, backs. On defense Dennis Edwards may be at an end, Ken Mainwar ing at tackle, Jack Jones at a guard, Jim Allen in the line or at linebacker and Harley Blan don, Dick Huckaba and Glen Gahnke, backs. Eagle Point Graders Bow to Ashlanders Eagle Point The Eagle Point elementary football team ven tured to Ashland last week and was defeated 28 to 0. Remaining games are: Talent there Oct. 10; Central Point, there, Oct. 17; Phoenix here Oct. 24; St. Mary's here Oct. 31. Following are the players on the squad: Steve Geren, captain; Don Higday; Richard Hertager; Denny Chamberlin; Ronald An derson; David McLarty; Dick Ayres; Gary Sheldon; Dale Vaughan; Sam Charters; Carl Johnson; Charles Pomeray; Duane Whaley; Dick Short; Rob ert Henley; Oren Pollock; Don Charley; Greg Hooper Esp; Rusty Clave; Bill Reed; John Linder; Richard Cowden; Wesley Cowden; George Adams; Billy Ayres; Richard Anderson; Jerry Moore; Ronald Blaine; James Cheek. High Cascades, Siskiyous Could Be Best Hunt Areas Portland IP) The weekly hunting report prepared by the state game commission: Southwest: Deer number ex cellent in Douglas county; best hunting in Jackson and Jose phine counties should be in high Cascades and Siskiyou ranges; many good areas not hunted on opening week end; Coos and Curry county hunting fair to good and prospects good. Central: Hunting has been average in Mt Hood national forest with pres sure lighter than usual; successful hunters have had to root the deer out of the brush patches; very few deer at lower elevations. Hunting in more open country in Wasco and Sherman counties and along breaks of the Deschutes and John Day river producing good num bers of large deer; hunting conditions excellent in central Oregon; some nice bucks being taken in the China Hat area, Lapine. upper Deschutes ad jacent to Wickiup, and Wanoga butte; some nice bucks being taken in Ocho cos around Mount Pisgah and steep north slopes of the main Ocjboco; hunting pressure hasn't been too heavy; all portions of central Oregon hunting and Fishing Southern (Oregon By MEL Probably no hunting season in history has opened with such confusion as the present deer season. To the thousands of hunt ers who normally head into the woods from a few days to a week ahead of the season in order to make a permanent camp and enjoy the thrill of camping out in autumn, it was a terrible disappointment. It was no less confusing to the mill workers and employers, many of whom close down for the first week of the season. I don't think that anyone was disturbed by the original post ponement, for any thinking per son knew that with the woods as dry as tinder it would be foolish to risk another major fire by letting thousands of campers into the forests. The dis turbing thing was the "off again on again Finnegan" type of re ports issuing from the governor. It is highly doubtful if even the game wardens knew which days the grouse and mountain quail seasons were open due to the repeated openings and clos ues. It is this type of thing that is confusing and most sportsmen hope that in the future some more sensible way can be de vised to prevent this mixup. NICE STEELHEAD With the hunting season in full bloom, interest in fishing is at low ebb' but there are some nice steelhead being taken in the Galice area. A couple of local men combined hunting and fishing the other day and went home with two bucks and two steelhead. River" guides say that there are a plenty of fish in the river and as soon as this pres ent murkiness clears the fish ing should be good; Now that the water has been released from Savage Rapids dam this situation should improve rap idly. Hotshot lures and the weighted spinner Moto have been the best producers so far with single eggs paying off for some shore fishermen. GOOD DUCK HATCH On a recent trip into the Klamath basin I found that there has been a good hatch of native ducks but most of the natives "MV UOLKSM CUTS COSTS IN I IMF!" "My Unique Laundry route is located where there is much climbing and winding around to do" says Harold Lang of the Unique Laundry Co., Santa Monica, California. "This runs up the operating expenses of a vehicle. Since using a Volkswagen, I have cut my operating expenses in half. "The ease of driving is another feature I like. I sit up plenty Test-drive a have received varying amounts of moisture. Northeast: Success for deer has been fair to good: rain fell which will im prove conditions; better success was had in the Imnaha and Chesnimnus areas of Wallow county and foothills areas of the high mountains; Baker county was good; Eagle creek country produced many deer as did upper Catherine creek; Umatilla county good in upper Butter creek area. Battle mountain burn, and on upper East Birch creek; in high country areas best hunting was near the Forks guard station on the breaks of the north fork of John Day river; suc cess fair to good on Arbuckle moun tain. Rhea creek and Baldy mountain: Morrow county fair; deer scattered in Grant county. Southeast: Hunting only fair opening weekend; if weather clears and roads dry, conditions should be good for weekend. Northwest: Buck deer hunting fair north coast area: of 20 bucks checked opening weekend, 14 were 3 or 4 pointers; prospects fair; deer hunting in north Willamette district expected to be best in Tillamook burns areas of Washington and Yamhill counties: in Marion county deer most plentiful in Abiqua and Silver creek drainage; deer in Clackamas county scarce in higher country: Polk. Benton and Linn counties should be better this weekend. REES agree that the big northern flights have not moved in as yet. On the Upper lake there are quite a few honkers but are scarce enough to make them a prize bird. Every duck hunter knows that for the past fe years the hunt ing hasn't been up to par. Some frame it on the extensive grain planting in the refuge area which makes it unnecessary for the birds to leave as they have plenty of water and feed there. Others say that the main flights are missing this flyway entirely. Some say that the birds are going by to the West and others to the East, but all agree that whichever side they are miss ing us. v It is possible that this is true for a couple of years ago the commercial fishermen reported that enormous flights of birds were flying over the ocean about 15 to 30 miles from shore. Whether these were our main flight or not is anybody's guess. It is true that in areas which enjoyed excellent hunting each year have been very poor for at least three or four years. Whatever the answer most water fowlers hope that this year will be the year and that the birds will find the "slot" again and come pouring through. Flu Cancels Talent Game Talent Talent high's football game at Merrill scheduled for Friday has been called off at the request of Merrill because of the many cases of influenza among students at that school. Dick Thorpe, coach at Talent, said that the game will be made up only if it has bearing on the District 5B race or if neither school is in play-offs at the end of the regular season. A report from Merrill said that about two-thirds of the stu dents were out of school because of flu. Only two of the regulars on the football squad had not come down with the illness. Talent is now idle until next week end when it is host to Ma lin. new VOLKSWAGEN at your MORSE MOTORS Thursday, October 3, 1957 Tornado Squad Picked For Trip to Coos Bay Coach Fred Spiegelberg has named a 38-man squad to make the trip Friday to Coos Bay where Black Tornado footballers will try to wrest there first tri umph from 'the Marshfield Pi rates since 1951. The game is of no significance Wood Picks Bruins To Ruin Ducks By HAL WOOD United Press Sports Writer San Francisco (IP) You can't win 'em all and there's proof of that in this pigskin picking department. - As a matter of fact, last week we were barely able to break even. Such stupid choices as Cal ifornia over Washington State, Denver over San Jose State, Ida ho over Arizona Tempe State, and Illinois over UCLA obvious ly were the work of a person with a sub-normal I.Q. This week, with the help of one of those electronic brains we come up with some atom crack ers: Michigan State over Cali fornia: Well, now, nothing sur prising about this pick. In fact, I could have done it. By 27. Stanford over Rice: Did some body mention the Indians were going to make pudding out of Rice. And Chuck Taylor tests his aerial defense. By six. Peculiar Talent UCLA over Oregon: The sen iorless Bruins ruin the Webfoots, who have a peculiar talent for getting the bad breaks. By one. Southern California over Pitt: The electronic brain comes up with an upset special. The Tro jans haven't won a game yet and Pitt is tough; But this could be it. By seven. Ohio State over Washington: The Buckeyes were beaten by Texas Christian in their opener, but not as badly as the Huskies by Minnesota. By six. Oregon State over Northwest ern: Coach Tommy Prothro prob ably has the best football team on the West Coast again which may not be saying too much. However, the Wildcats could be just barely better than weak In diana this year. By 13. Iowa over Washington State: Cougars whipped California and Nebraska, but they are running into the Big Ten champions. The Hawkeyes are a bird of another color. By 10. Idaho Choice Idaho over Utah: Vandals have fairly solid small-time team, but have been beaten in first two outings. This may be the week. By one. Arizona (Tempe) State over San Jose State: A Saturday night tilt that could be a hum-dinger. Sun Devils by six. College of Pacific over Tulsa: Another Saturday night game. Tigers unbeaten, Tulsa losers of two straight. But the visitors are supposed to be fully recovered from the flu. By 19. Also: Humboldt State over San Francisco State, Pepperdine over Los Angeles State, Chico State over Nevada, Cal Aggies over Long Beach State, San Di ego State over Cal Poly, Red lands over Laverne, Occidental over Santa Barbara State. " Trypan M N2.ifel'i-,W' $-t'fiZz X high, giving me an excellent view of traffic. My Volkswagen truck actually handles better than my own car. "I am truly sold on the Volkswagen as a number one truck in any field. With its endurance, versatility, good mileage, and sleek design, I don't see how anyone could go wrong buying a Volkswagen" authorized dealer today: 1201 North Riverside Phone SP 2-7154 MEDFORD (OREGON) so far as league or state title laurels are concerned. But it is mighty important in the matter of prestige and will find the Tor nado attempting ' to put a stop to long domination by the Buc caneers on Oregon gridirons. Marshfield will carry into the action the exalted spot of No. 1 in state coaches and sportswrit ers and sportscasters polls. Med ford on the other hand has been given a 10th ranking by the mentors while newsmen and broadcasters rate it fifth among the state's preps. Both aggregations, playing in the shadows of great teams of 1956, are out to make names in their own right. Tactics Change Marshfield will present some what of a change in offensive tactics to fans who go from here to make the trip. Last season the Pirates depended much on the breakaway abilities of Roger Johnson and Jack Shanley. With them gone, the Marshfield gang of Coach Pete Susick has based its hopes on the power punching of 204-pound fullback Hardy Spurgeon and halfback Wally Hunter, a hard runner at 167 pounds. But the Pirates also have a breakaway threat in Gary Kvalheim. Like Medford, passing with the Pirates is more a weapon of surprise. The Tornado will take to Coos Bay its multiple attack with T and sinale wine plays. It has scatbacks in Johnny Jones, n x ! j r.i: t-i Vjterry joyous ana dciuicu and plungers in Bob Gee, Larry Brown and Fred Funston. Spiegelberg today indicated no .change in the status of his sauad. Tackle Frank Albert, re cuperating from an ankle sprain, will be in uniform but may not play. It's still a toss up between Dick Sorenson and Gary Wine trout over the starting assign ment at the tackle spot. The Tornado drilled inside on defenses yesterday and then went onto the practice field for work on their attack. TRAVEL ROSTER: Ends Pete Rasmussen, Lowell Dean, Jim Johnston, Tom Hamlin, Frank Peterson, Mike Bussell. Tackles Jim Funston. Don Harri son, Monte Penwell, Frank Albert, Dick Sorenson, Mike 'Murray, uary Winetrout. Tom Morris. Guards John Frohnmayer, George Ice, Keith Berg Jim and Dick Corum, Tom Merton. Don Mann. Centers Jim Funston, Dennis Barr, Pat McLauehlin. Quarterbacks Bob Pond. Tony Brauner. Jim Clark. Tony Monroe. Fullbacks Bob Gee, Larry Brown, Fred Funston. Halfbacks Lynn Knight, Dick Du rante, Calvin Dean, Skip Bennett, Ron Keicn, jonn Jones, uerry .Lyons. Fight Results Chicago Yama Bahama, 154, Bahamas, outpointed Del Flana gan, 153, St. Paul, Minn., 10. MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEE Denial Issued By Warren Giles New York (ff) President Warren Giles of the National league confirmed today that he believes the Dodgers will leave New York, but denied that he said the league will have a re placement for them in New York in 1958. "I guess what I meant to say was that there will be a Nation al league club in New York eventually," he said. 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