TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Jim Funston, Tom Morris Get
Tornado Outstanding Honors
A Dair of three-vear varsitv
men have been recognized by
their Medford High school foot
ball teammates for top honors
for their play during the 1957
campaign.
The two are Center Jim Fun
ston and Tackle Tom Morris,
seniors and strong candidates
for til-conference honors. Fun
ston was named the Black Tor
nado's outstanding player and
Morri3 was voted the outstand
ing lineman.
Medford gridders completed a
nine game season last Saturday
bowing out in Oregon A-l semi
finals with a season mark of five
wins, one tie and three setbacks,
t co-title in the Southern Oregon
conference, a record of 169
points to an opponents' total of
105 and an edge in total net
passing yardage over rivals of
2,199 to 1,803.
Statistics kept during the sea
ion show performance laurels
pretty well divided.
Reich Heads Rushing
Halfback Ron Reich was the
leader in total rushing with 406
yards but Halfback Johnny
Jones with 80 carries and 337
yards and Fullback Bobby Gee
with 73 packs and 375 were
the main workhorses. Reich with
6.76 yards averaged on 60 car
ries and Gerry Lyons with 35
times with the ball, 236 total
and a 6.74, had the top per carry
marks among mail ball carriers
on the club.
Quarterback Tony Brauner
was the principal passer with
seven completions in 24 heaves
for 161 yards and he was the
team's punter with 37 kicks and
a fine 35.7-yard average. Reich
led in pass reception yardage
with a total of 106 from three
aerials. End Mike Russell also
gathered in three for a total of
81 yards. Center Jim Funston
and Quarterback Jim Clark
were the mam pass interceptors
with four and three respec
tively. Jones with 144 yards on eight
runbacks and Jerry Lyons with
140 on 12 were the punt return
leaders. They also paced the
kick-off return depart, Lyons
with 96 yards on seven runs and
Jones with 60 yards on four.
Gee crossed the rival goal line
most often with six? touchdowns
and Lyons and Skip Bennett
each had five. Tackle Mike
Murray booted 13 points after
touchdowns and Guard Tom
Merton four. Jim Funston was
credited with two points on an
Ashland safety.
Merton booted 30 kick-offs av
eraging 49.6 yards and Murray
Ricked off four times with 40
yards per kick average.
Statisticians this season for
the Black Tornado were Curtis
Cook and Ron Peery. '
MEDFORD HIGH FOOTBALL
STATISTICS:
Individual Rushing
TC
YG
337
406
236
375
208
10
29
5
207
29
IS
1
-9
4
Ave.
4 21
6.76
6.74
5.13
4.62
.38
3.62
5
3.57
7.25
8
.33
-3
1.25
John Jone
Ron Reich
Gerry Lyons
Bob Gee
Larry Brown
Tony Brauner
Dick Durante
Jim Clark
Skip Bennett
Fred Funston
Tom Hamlin
Cal Dean
John Harvey
Ken Durkee
80
60
35
73
45
26
8
1
58
4
2
3
3
3
PASSING
PA
5
4
4
PC
1
2
2
7
0
1
TY
17
83
68
161
0
6
Jones
Reich
Lyons
Brauner
Bennett .
Clark
24
2
2
PASS RECEIVING
PC
TY
106
50
25
17
81
6
0
0
PI TY
Reich
Brauner
Hamlin
.... 3
2
1
1
3
1 6
L. Dean
M. Russell
P. Rasmussen -
1
Brown 0
J. Funston 0
SCORING
TD PAT
..3 0
Jones
Reich
Lyons
1
0
.... 5
6
.. 2
.... 2
.... 5
1
.. 0
. 0
.... 0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
13
0
Brauner
Brown
Bennett
Russell
T. Merton ...
M. Murray
J. Funston .
KICK-OFFS
No.
Merton 30
Murray 40
Ave.
49.6
40
PUNTS
No.
Brauner 37
Ave.
35.7
PUNT RETURNS
No.
Jones 8
Reich 2
Lyons 12
Brown 1
Brauner 1
J. Funston M
Russell
Yds.
144
54
140
3
15
3
-7
Ave.
18
27
11.66
3
15
3
-7
KICK-OFF RETURNS
No.
... 4
... 3
7
... 2
1
... 1
1
; i
Yds.
60
."6
96
3fi
18
4
10
-7
Ave.
15
12
13.9
18
18
4
10
. 7
Jones
Reich
Lyons
Brauner
Durante
J. Funston
Hamlin
Russell
OSC Beavers
$how Spirit
Corvallis. Ore. (IP) Coach
Tommy Prothro of the Oregon
State Beavers said today that his
squad is in its best condition
since early in the season.
The Beavers, still hoping for
a tie for the PCC football title,
went through a spirited work
out Wednesday in preparation
for Saturday's annual "civil
war" with Oregon. Prothro has
yet to beat the Ducks since he
has been at the Oregon State
Helm.
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TOM MORRIS
Tornado Line Standout
J I1
JIM FUNSTON
Black Tornado Outstanding Player
Many Early Home Tussles
On Dodger, Giant States
San Francisco tin The Los
Angeles Dodgers and the San
Francisco Giants, playing their
first year in the Far West, will
get to show off in front of Pa
cific Coast fans nearly every day
for the first three weeks of 1958,
National league schedules re
leased today revealed.
The Giants, who will be play
ing in Seals stadium wiht a seat
ing capacity of only 25,000, play
22 of their first 25 games at
home; the Dodgers, who may
play in either 28,000-seat Wrig
ley field or the 105,000-seat Coli
seum, will play 18 of their first
21 tilts on the home front.
At Dodger headquarters there
was great elation over the dras
tically revamped schedule.
"When we won our 1955 pen
nant we got away to a huge lead
on the home lot," said business
manager Harold Parrott. "We
had the same type of schedule."
There was equal exuberance
in Seals stadium, where publi
city director Gary Schumacher
said the schedule "suited the
Giants fine."
"It will give us a chance for
a great start," said Schumacher.
"And if we are in contention,
we have a fine string of home
games from Aug. 12 to Sept. 1
against St. Louis, Chicago, Cin
cinnati, Milwauke and Los An
geles 19 games at home in a
row."
San Francisco opens at home
with a three-game series starting
April 15 against Los Angeles.
Then the Giants go south to play
the Dodgers in a three-game
series for the "secondary
opener."
After that they come back
to San Francisco to play St.
Louis, Chicago, Philadelphia,
Pittsburgh and then Los Angeles
again before hitting the road on
May 12.
It was believed that the long
early home stands for the Dodg
ers and Giants was "weather
planning" by the schedule-makers,
who in the past oft-times ran
into rainy seasons in the East
so early in the year. There is
no rain in Los Angeles in April
and very little in San Francisco.
The San Francisco schedule
calls for 77 home games, 21
night tilts; 12 games on Satur
day and the same number on
Sunday. The only doublehead
ers are May 4 against the Chi
cago Cubs. A twin bill will be
played on Labor Day against
Los Angeles, with the first game
in the morning, the second in
the afternoon.
Los Angeles, where the tem
perature gets considerably high
Thursday, November 21, 1957
Oregon Destroys
0 Contaminated
By OSC Aggies
Eugene OP The big "O" that
used to be seen atop Skinner's
Butte here is no more.
The big wooden letter that
was returned to the University
of Oregon campus Tuesday went
up in flames Wednesday night.
Jim Lynch, Oregon student
body president told several hun
dred students who gathered to
watch the bonfire "It is contami
nated. It has been touched by
Aggie hands."
As the big emblem blazed,
chants went up: "Let's burn the
'O' and let's burn the Beavers."
The "O" which was returned
cut in sections, had been spirited
away from its position atop
Skinner's Butte here some three
weeks ago by Oregon State Col
lege students.
er in mid-season, has slated 35
of its 77 home games to be play
ed at night. The season opens
against the Giants April 18, with
Chicago, St. Louis, Pittsburgh
and Philadelphia following in
that order before the Dodgers
hit the road for the first time.
Martin Contends
oney Due Him
On Tiger Trade
Kansas City, Mo. OP) Billy
Martin, chagrined at the trade
that switched him from the Kan
sas City Athletics to the Detroit
Tigers, said today the deal
should include some money for
Martin.
Describing the trade as one
that "got everybody happy but
me," the infielder admitted it
was "great to be a contender
again" but insisted that .the
Athletics should "fork over
some dough to me."
"This may be a pretty strong
talk for a .251 hitter," said Mar
tin, "but they say six clubs were
after me and if that's so, I must
be pretty valuable."
The fiery Martin, once Casey
Stengel's "boy" of the New
York Yankees, declared "every
body in the majors is worth at
least the S10.000 waiver price
and if I was the key man in the
trade that's made everybody
happy, I think I ought to get
something, too."
George Selkirk, the A's play
personnel director, said the club
was under no obligation to pay
Martin in the trade.
"It's in his contract that he's
got to play in any town he's con
tracted to," said Selkirk.
Knickerbockers
Subdue Lakers
By UNITED PRESS
The New York Knickerbockers
will seek a second straight vic
tory over Minneapolis tonight
while the Detroit Pistons take a
crack at ending Boston's 11-game
winning streak in a National
Basketball Association double
header in Detroit.
The Knickerbockers were
fresh from Wednesday night's
105-101 victory over the Lakers
and needed a win to go into a
tie for third place with Phila
delphia in the Eastern Division
of the NBA. The Warriors bowed
to Cincinnati, 99-89, Wednesday
night despite the return of Tom
Gola.
SPORTS
OSC-Oregon
Game on TV
Los Angeles 'IP The Pa
cific Coast conference regional
television game of the day on
Saturday will be the Oregon
Oregon State clash al Eugene,
the National Broadcasting Co.
announced today.
Telecast time is 1:30 p.m.
(P.S.T.) preceded at 1:15 p.m.
by a pregame show featuring
Red Grange and Lindsay Nel
son, NBC said.
Kid Gavilan
Wins Bout
Chicago (IP) Former wel
terweight champion Kid Gav
ilan , avenged a defeat with his
105th professional triumph, but
his unimpressed victim discount
ed the outcome because "he's
going down hill."
"He's a better fighter than he
was when I beat him a year
ago," Boston's Walter Byars
said, "but he's still going down.
He's better just because of de
termination to prove to himself
that he's not washed up."
Byars, who lost a 10 round
decision to the former cham
pion Wednesday night, said he
thought "I won the fight, but
the judges I guess didn't go to
the same school I did, so he got
the decision.
"I proved I'm a better fight
er now," Gavilan said, "But it
wasn't a good fight. I know
when I fight a good fight, and
this wasn't. He kept covering
up so I couldn't hit him.
UO Gridders
In Top Shape
Eugene, Ore. (IP) With the
exception of center Norm Chap
man, Oregon's Ducks were pro
nounced in top shape today for
Saturday's showdown battle
with Oregon State.
Chapman broke ' a leg in the
Washington State game a month
ago. Tackle Jerry Kershner, who
suffered a thigh injury against
USC last week and reserve
guard Larry Newsom, who has
been out of recent games, were
both said to be ready for action.
Joe Caffie
Bat Champ
Montreal (IP) Outfielder
Joe Caffie, now with the Cleve
land Indians, today was certified
as the International league bat
ting champion for 1957 on the
strength of his .330 batting
average with the Buffalo Bisons.
Although Caffie led the league
in hitting, veteran Luke Easter,
also of- Buffalo, paced the cir
cuit in runs batted in, home runs
and total bases, according to
figures released by the IL of
fice here.
Despite his .279 average,
Easter drove in 128 runs, .clout
ed 40 homers and hit for 300
total bases. Big Luke also drew
the most walks, 100, and was
high man in strikeouts with 140.
Steeiheading
Getting Better
Portland (IP) The weekly
report on fishing and hunting
conditions prepared by the State
Game Commission:
Southwest: Angling in upper
Umpqua still slow but a few
steelhead starting to move over
Winchester dam; South Umpqua
is roily; some silvers taken near
head of tidewater in Smith river;
steeiheading should improve in
Sawyers Rapids area of Ump
qua; silvers and chinooks being
taken in fair numbers on eggs in
Coquille river below Myrtle
Point;
Rogue steeiheading improving
as waters recede; best angling
expected from Grants Pass to
Robertson bridge.
Waterfowl hunting poor in
Coos Bay Coquille valley area
but should improve.
Central: Duck hunting good
on both upper and lower Klam
ath lake; Klamath management
area fair; goose hunting mostly
poor in Klamath basin but good
on Sprague river on Indian res
ervation. Robinson Meets
With Tax Men
Chicago (IP) Former middle
weight champion Sugar Ray
Robinson was scheduled to meet
federal tax officials in Washing
ton today in hopes of settling in
come tax problems, it was
learned.
Truman Gibson, secretary of
the International Boxing club,
said Wednesday night that Rob
inson had received S107.000 of
his purse for the recent fight in
which he lost his middleweight
crown to Carmen Basilio.
Settlement of the tax problem,
Gibson said, might clear the way
for a Robinson-Basilio title re
match. Robinson's entire purse had
been tied up by a federal tax lien
until Wednesday, Gibson said.
Comets Eye
Opening of
Hoop Season
Central Point With the first
game just two weeks away, new
Coach Don Anielak is still drill
ing his Crater high basketball
aspirants hard on fundamentals.
Anielak, who came here from
St. Louis, Mo., to take over the
Comet hoop post, is currently
working with a squad of 15
players, among whom are five
lettermen. He said he'll carry
a varsity aggregation of 12 cag-
ers through the season.
Letterman back are. Jerry
Kime, Randy Campbell and Joe
Teeter, seniors, and Wayne AI
len and Bill White, juniors
There are one senior, four jun
iors and five sophomores among
the 15 still scrapping for the
varsity berths.
Short on Height
The 1957-1958 edition of Com
ets will be short on height. White
and Campbell are the only
6-footers. White is 6-3 and Camp
bell 6-1. - ,
On the squad now in addition
to the lettermen are Jim Estre-
mado,' senior; Kerman Bennett,
Paul Beach, Doug Daviss and
John Burns, juniors, and Dave
Sharp, Dennis Pfaff, Bill An
horn, Chuck Turner and Herschel
Mack, sophomores. .
Anielak is waiting until the
season starters against Eureka
and Fortuna, Calif., before
letting fandom in on the style
of play the Comets will employ.
He has indicated, however, that
he is trying to develop a hard
running team.
Eureka on Dec. 6
Crater will meet Eureka on
Friday, Dec. 6, and Fortuna on
the following night. Both games
will be at Central Point. The
California schools play at Ash
land on the opposite evenings.
Anielak coached two seasons
at Duchesne high at St. Louis
before coming to Central Point.
He is a 1954 graduate of South
west Missouri State college
where he was named to the
Helms Foundation and National
Association of Intercollegiate
athletics All-American first
teams for the 1952-1953 season.
He was with the professional
New York Knickerbockers one
season but saw action only half
the campaign because of stomach
and leg ailments.
Season reserve seat tickets are
now on sale and offer fans a sav
ing for the full 12-game home
slate. Seats in the middle sec
tions on both sides of the floor
are being reserved.
Don Dollah, from Linfield col
lege, is tutoring the junior var
sity and now has 11 hoopmen
on his squad.
Muiflur Out
At Portland
Portland (IP) Bill Muiflur,
assistant general manager of the
Portland baseball team of the
Pacific Coast league, was hand
ed his walking papers Wednes
day. Muiflur was informed in a let
ter signed by President Arch
Kingsley that his services would
be terminated as of Dec. 1, Mui
flur filled in last season as act
ing general manager after Joe
Ziegler was dismissed in August.
A member of the team's
board of directors said that Bill
Garbarino, former general man
ager and now in the restaurant
business here, was a possible re
placement to return as an assist
ant to Tommy Heath, newly
signed field and general
manager.
Saddler Will Be
Handler Friday
New York (IP) Sandy Sad
dler, former featherweight cham
pion, will return to the ring Fri
day night as a handler.
Sandy has obtained a second's
license to work in the corner
with middleweight Rudy Sawyer
of New York, who fights Charley
Cotton of Toledo, Ohio, in the
10-round semi-final at Madison
Squar Garden.
Middleweights Rory Calhoun
of White Plains, N.Y., and Bobby
Boyd of Chicago meetn the TV
radio main event.
Saddler, 31, gave up the 126-
pound crown and retired last
March because of an eye injury
suffered in a taxicab accident.
"Make
mine
7 Crown"
iUGfUtf-DlSTiUiU COMMIT. Lit BIBBED
WRAPPED UP IN HIMSELF Welterweight Peter
Schmidt of New York looks like he's trying, to knock
himself out as he misses with a haymaker he threw at
his unseen opponent, Danny Russo of Brooklyn. Russo
decisioned Schmidt in their 10 rounder at St. Nicholas
Arena in New York. Schmidt was a last minute substitute
for the ailing Eddie Lynch.
Drake Plays
in Sun Bowl
El Paso, Tex. Drake Uni
versity's once beaten Bulldogs
today accepted an invitation to
play in the 22nd annual Sun
Bowl football game Jan. 1.
Drake's opponent was not ex
pected to be named for another
week, but more prominently
mentioned as likely candidates
for the berth were Detroit, Bos
ton College, College of Pacific
and Virginia Military Institute.
HOCKEY
NATIONAL LEAGUE
By UNITED PRESS
Goalie Terry Sawchuk must
have the New York Rangers'
number.
Every other net minder in
the National Hockey league has
had trouble handling the high
flying Rangers this season but
not Sawchuk, who has limited
New York to five goals in four
games.
The veteran Detroit Red
Wings' goalie thrilled a crowd
of 12,628 at Madison Square
Garden again Wednesday night
in holding the Rangers to a 1-1
deadlock.
Second period goals by Bob
Pulford and George Armstrong
enabled the Toronto Maple
Leafs . to defeat the Chicago
Black Hawks, 2-1, at Toronto.
The game was witnessed by
members of Russia's touring
amateur hockey team, who
termed the play "unnecessarily
rough."
AMERICAN LEAGUE
By UNITED PRESS
The Buffalo Bisons, aided by
the goal-sniping of three ex
National Hockey league players,
have climbed into third place in
the American league race.'
Wally Hergesheimer, former
ly of the New York Rangers,
Larry Wilson ex-Red Wing and
Dick Gamble ex-Canadien each
scored a goal Wednesday night
in leading the Bisons to a 5-1
victory over the Providence
Reds at Buffalo.
Willie Marshall broke out of
a two-week scoring slump by
whipping in two goals in pacing
the league-leading Hershey Bears
to a 6-2 victory over the Spring
field Indians at Hershey. The
Bears now lead second place
Providence by 13 points. ,
Portland (IP) Discussions
are under way to bring the San
Francisco Giants and the Los
Angeles Dodgers to Portland
next summer for exhibition base
ball games against the Portland
Beavers, team officials said.
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Auburn Allows
No Touchdowns
Through Line
New. York (IP) If undefeated
r.nd untied Auburn can hold its
final two opponents Florida
State and Alabama scoreless, it
will finish the season with the
best defensive record in 18 years
among major college football
teams.
Auburn has allowed only 21
points in eight games, National
Collegiate Athletic bureau statis
tics showed today, and if it can
blank its final opponents, its
points-allowed total will be the
smallest in 18 years. It also will
be the only team in the past dec
ade to go through the season
with no touchdowns allowed
through its line. It has allowed
three touchdowns, two on passes
and one on a pass-interception
runback.
Texas A&M is the only major
team which has not allowed a
touchdown via a pass. Overall,
Georgia Tech has the best pass
defense, allowing only 37.1
yards per game, the best figure
in 10 years of national statistics.
Entrant Sought
For Junior Bowl
Pasadena, Calif. (IP) Spon
sors of the Junior "Rose Bowl are
... ..... :
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the Dec. 14 classic.
Members of the Junior Cham
ber of Commerce announced
Wednesday that sample con
tracts had been mailed to 11
schools, including Arlington, ,
Tov - C o t a url-iinli Tact voar i
whipped Compton College, 20
13, in the event.
The eastern representative will
be announced Dec. 1. The west
ern team will be named the next
day. So far Santa Ana, Calif.,
Junior College is the leading
western candidate.
Others besides Arlington to
receive contracts included: Boise,
Ida., Junior College and Olympic
J. C. of Bremerton, Wash.
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Juan Pizarro
Sets Record
San Juan, P.R. (IP) Juan Pi
zarro's record 19-strikeout per
formance in the Puerto Rican
winter baseball league provided
the Milwaukee Braves with
strong evidence today that the
20-year-old speedballer may be
a powertui member ot their
mound corps in 1958. -
Pizarro, who had a 5-6 rec
ord in 24 games for the world
champions this year, set the new
Puerto Rican league mark
Wednesday night while pitching
Caguas to a 1-0 victory over
Ponce. Pizarro fanned Carlos
Bernier four times and yielded
two of the three hits he gave up
in the ninth inning.
Pizarro's performance eclipsed
the league strikeout mark set by
the fabled Satchel Paige 20
years ago and equalled in 1954
by Bob Turley of the New York
Yankees. The major league rec
ord of 18 strikeouts is held by
Bob Feller and the National
League mark of 17 is held by
Dizzy Dean.
Governor Holmes
To Be Neutral
Salem (IP) Gov. Robert
D. Holmes said today he-would
stay "above partisanship" for
the annual "Civil War" clash
between Oregon and Oregon
State football teams this Satur
day. The governor, who has an
alma mater allegiance to the
university and an official al
legiance to both state schools as
the chief executive of Oregon,
will maintain his position of
"neutrality" by sitting high
above the partisan crowds in
the director's box atop the
grandstand.
Following the game, the gov
ernor will lead dedication cere
monies ' for Oregon's state-owned
television channel, KOAC
TV. Line Pressure
Helps Baltimore
Baltimore, Md. (IP) How does
a team that had one of the weak
est pass defenses in the National
Football league suddenly develop
a strong air defense?
The Baltimore Coltff inter
cepted five passes by the Chicago
Bears last Sunday, one for a
touchdown while another led to
a touchdown. But secondary
coach Charley Winner said "we
didn't change our pass defense
in the least."
Winner said the best pass de
fense in pro ball is only as good
as the pressure put on the passer
by the defensive line. Baltimore
had that pressure against the
Bears and the receivers were
Johnny-on-the-spot when the
Bears hurried passers threw the
ball.
Winner said the best example
was on the first of two intercep
tions by rookie Milt Davi
"Harlan Hill had Davis beat,"
Winner said, "but Davis took the
ball right out of Hill's hands.
Our line made that possible. The
Bear quarterback didn't throw
m- . 1 1 1 1 iim luauc . i . .i
angle-out move. Our line caused
that delay and when the quarter
back did let go, Davis had re
covered and was in position to
intercept.
Someone Collects Money
For Penguin Feeding
Portland (IP) City Commis
sioner Ormond R. Bean, in
charge of the city's park and
zoo properties, said today that
somebody apparently has been
going around collecting money
for a fund to feed the city's new
penguins. '
Bean said no such fund Is au
thorized and that perpetrators
will be prosecuted if caught.
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