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n G EIGHT MED0D (OREGON) o 4 At V5 THROWN FOR A LOSS is Army's Anderson, No. 21, by Navy's Jokanovich, No. 86, on a muddy field at Philadelphia. Navy won an easy 14-0 decision. (International Soundphoto) Coach Poll Already at Work In Selecting Top Ball Clubs By JOHN GRIFFIN New York OP) North Caro Olina'i "Yankee Tar Heels," who went unbeaten in 32 games last season, were picked by the United Press board of coaches Tuesday to repeat as the 1957-58 national college basketball champions. Kansas, beaten by the Tar Heels by one point in a triple overtime NCAA Tournament fi nale, again is ranked second, with Bradley, last year's Na tional Invitation Tournament champion, third. - Twenty of the 35 famous coaches who compromise the rat ing board cast firstplace ballots for each Frank McGuire's de fending champs, and they were the only team to be named on all 35. Kansas and Bradley each missed two. Tar Heels 30 Points Ahead With points awarded on a sliding scale for votes from first to 10th place, North Carolina rolled up 324 points against 294 for Kansas and 206 for Bradley. C5an Francisco, the 1956 na tional champion, almost took the third spot again in the pre-sea-son poll with 202 points. Ken tucky, reported to be another Adolph Rupp powehousre, took fifth with 171. The Wildcats were ranked ninth last season. North Carolina goes into the new season, opening with a game against Clemson Saturday, with much the same team as last year. Missing, however, are graduated All-America Lennie Rosenbluth and Joe Quigg, who scored the tourney-w inning points against Kansas but suf fered a broken leg last month. Moving up to fill one spot is a highly-touted six-seven sopho more, Lee Shaffer. One-Man Guarantee Kansas, of course, has Wilt Chamberlain and the seven footer is a one-man guarantee of a top season. Bradley has the q same young crew that "came of age" in the NIT, led by high scoring Barney Cable. Michigan State, surprise Big Ten co-champion last year, is sixth in the pre-season ratings. Kansas State, Kansas' top rival in its own conference, stands seventh. Temple again gains the highest rank given an eastern team but this time it's eighth. Notre Dame, top Midwest inde pendent, is in the No. 9 spot. Washington rounds out the top 10. Qrhe United Press college bas ketball pre-season ratings (with first-place votes in parentheses): School Points 1. North Carolina 2 .... 324 2. Kansas 11 294 3. Bradley 1 206 4J San Francisco 2 202 5. Kentucky 171 .6. Michigan State 132 7. Knasas State 1 125 8. Temple 80 9. Notre Dame 62 10. Washington 42 Second 10 groups 11, Ohio State, 36 12, Seattle, 32; 13, HOCKEY o By UNITED PRESS Jean Beliveau of the Montreal Canadiens has moved into sec ond place to challenge team mate Henri Richard for the lead in the Jtjptional Hockey League scoring race. Henri has 14 goals and 16 as sists for 30 points, while Beliveau has 11 goals and 18 assists for 29 points. A trio of rookies Bill Swee ney and Bruce Carmichael of Providence and Len Haley of Hershey posed strong thrpsts for the scoring lead today in the American Hockey League. Sweeney moved into second place in the point scoring race, cutting Willie Marshall's lead to three points. Marshall has 34 points on 16 goals and 18 as sists, while Sweeney has 14 goals and 17 assists. London (IP) Canadian light weight Armand Savoie scored a ' third-round technical knockout over Ron Richardson of England Monday night in their scheduled eiglttj-round bout. MAIL TRIBUNE JM tote JV.. .-J w- iS7-SXr,Ys . S.'Sj SjZZ -nir ii miiii mi linn i i in iBm.ni i i mi , i iir" JB UCLA, 30; 14, Indiana, 29; 15, Oklahoma State, 23; 16 (tie), Rice and Utah, 18 each 18. St. Louis, 13; 19 (tie), Duke, Mem phis State and Illinois, 9 each. Others Cincinnati and Wash ington State, 6 each; St. Bona venture, Yale, Iowa State and Football League Meets Grid Group Demands, Finish Annual Drafts By RUSS GREEN Philadelphia (IP) The Na tional Football League, with a gentle nudge from Congress, had all of the demands of the league Players' Association in its books today ahead of a deadline of a $4,200,000 suit threatened by the players' counsel. The concessions included a $5,000 minimum salary for play ers selected from the college rolls, payment of $50 for exhi bition games and an injury clause in the contract protecting players hurt in the performance cf their services. Commissioner Bert Bell who made the recommendations and who announced that the league owners adopted them unani- Pilots Open Year, Dump Portland St. Portland (IP) University of Portland opened its basketball season Monday night by trounc ing Portland State 84-54. Jim Armstrong and Dick Jol ley paced the Pilot point parade with 21 and 17 respectively while freshman Jim Altenhofen had 11 and veteran Frank Rector 10. Don Bridges led Portland State with 11. Red Bloedel grabbed 18 re bounds for Portland and tallied nine points. The Pilots, who shot .554 from the field, jumped off to an early 17-5 lead and were in command all the way. Red Raiders Set Plans for Meet With 1936 Club Ashland Coach Ted Schopf's Southern Oregon College hoop squad moved into high gear Mon day in preparation to meeting the Humboldt State Lumberjacks in a doubleheader, this Friday and Saturday. Saturday night's en counter will mark the dedication of Southern Oregon College's new gymnasium. Halftime activities of Satur day nights game will see the members of the SOC team of 1936-37 introduced to climax the dedication ceremonies for the new gymnasium. Members of the Alumni team include: Clifford McLean, Ashland; Howard Scrog- gins, Medford William Hoxie, Medlord; Robert Hardy, Ashland; Darrell Leavens, Medford; Jean Eberhart, Ashland; Arba Ager, Portland; Kenneth Schilling, Hillsboro; Leonard Patterson, Portland; Parker Hess, Ashland; Clyde Dickenson, Eugene; Walter Sether, Rochester, New York; and Coach Ted Schopf, of South ern Oregon College. Game time for both the Friday and Saturday night games will be 9:00 pan. Pointer7 Hornet Quintets Play Hedrick Junior high basket ball clubs swing into action this week in games at Central Point. The Hornet ninth plays the Crater freshman at 7 p.m. onj Thursday. Seventh and eighth graders vie at 3 and 4 p.m. on Friday. Tuesday, December 3, 1957 Oklahoma City, 5 each; Oregon State and Maryland, 4 each; Vanderbilt, Iowa, Minnesota and Southern Methodist, 3 each; Xavier (Ohio) and Louisville, 2 each; LaSalle, West Virginia, DePaul, Dayton and Wichita, 1 each. mously, admitted freely they grew from suggestions made by Rep. Emanuel Celler (D-N.Y.) and members of Celler's Con gressional committee. The owners will toe the line so gently thaf beginning next year, the "draw from the hat" for the bonus, choice will be dropped on the premise it smacks too much of a lottery. Bell will recommend at the mid-winter meeting that the lowest team in the percentage list any team which had the bonus choice. Creighton Miller, counsel for ; the players, had no comment when told in Cleveland that the player demands had been met. The Chicago Cardinals, the last of the 12 teams to get. the "draw from the hat" bonus, and the lowest team percentagewise, took King Hill of Rice, the 210 pound jack-of-all-trades quarter back, as its bonus pick. Here is the player selection list by teams the first four rounds today. The remaining 26 selections by the league teams will be made at the NFL mid winter meeting. Because of earlier trades of draft choices, not all teamst se lected the same number of play ers today. Los Angeles Jim Phillips, end, AuBurn; X.ou Michaels, tackle. Kentucky; Clendon Thomas, back Oklahoma; Jim Jones, back, Washington; Urban Henry, tackle, Georgia Tech; John Grazik, guard, Pittsburgh; Frank Kyan, back, Rice. Philadelphia Walt Kowalczyk, back, Michigan State: Proverb Jacobs, tackle. Califor nia; Frank Rigney, tackle, Iowa. Chicago Bears Charles Howley. guard. West Vir ginia; Willard Deuveall. end, Southern Methodist: Ed Cook, end, Maryland; Don Healy. tackle, Maryland; Erich Barnes, back, Purdue. Pittsburgh Larry Krutko. back. West Virginia; Bill Krisher, guard, Oklahoma. San Francisco..,. Jim Pace, back. Michigan; Clrarles Krueger, tackle, Texas A & M; Bob Newman, back, Washington State; Bob Hoppe, back. Auburn; John Va rone, back, Miami, Fla. Detroit Alex Karras, tackle, Iowa; Wayne Walker, center, Idaho. Baltimore Leonard Lyles. back. Louisville; Bob Stransky. back, Colorado; Joe Nicely, guard. West Virginia; Les Wal ters, end. Penn State. New York Phil King, back, Venderbilt; Frank Youso, tackle, Minnesota; Don Cara way, back, Houston. Cleveland Jim Shofner, back. Texas Christian; Charles Mitchell, University of Flor ida; Mel Guy, tackle, Duke: Jim Ni nowski. back. Michigan State. Chicago Cardinals Bonus choice King Hall, quarter back. Rice; John Crow, back, Texas A&M; Jim McCusker, tackle. Pitts burgh; Bobby Jack Oliver, tackle, Baylor; Larry Cowart, center, Baylor. Green Bay Dan Currie, center, Michigan State; Jim Taylor, back. Louisiana State; Dick Christy, back. North Carolina State; Roy Nitschke, back, Illinois; Jerry Kraemer, guard, Idaho. Washington Mike Sommer, back, George Wash ington; Stan Flowers, back. Georgia Tech: Bill Anderson, back, Tennessee; Dan Nolan, back, Lehigh. Armstrong Posts 13th Win in Row New York ftP Unbeaten Gene (Ace) Armstrong clicked off his 13th straight victory Monday night against middle weight Reybon Stubbs, but Stubbs made such a good show ing that each will get another TV fight at St. Nicholas arena next month. Armstrong, who won a unani mous 10-round decision at St. Nick's over Stubbs of Pitts burgh, must wait until Jan. 20 for his next bout because he suffered a slight cut at the edge of his practically closed left eye in the 10th round. MedfordWTrlbune SLPODIFirS High School Launch Schedules Tonight High school basketball for Rogue valley teams opens this evening and will roll into stride by Saturday evening. In this evening's contests Butte Falls plays at Eagle Point and Rogue River at Talent. Illinois Valley goes to Myrtle Creek. Two of Jackson county's Class A-l schools entertain California rivals on Friday and Saturday while four of the five Jackson Couaty B league clubs tussle in a Fnday night jamboree. Ashland will be host to For tuna, Calif., and Crater to Eure ka, Calif., on Friday and the two Southern Oregon conference clubs trade Bear state quints for their Saturday night conflicts. The B jamboree will be at St. Mary's gym in Medford. En trants will be Butte Falls, Pros p e c t, Jacksonville and St. Mary's. Each club is. to go against each other club for eight minutes. Phoenix, A-2 subdistrict de fending champ, also has Cali fornia opposition in its starter, meeting Yreka at Phoenix on Saturday evening. Other Satur- Cougars Gird For Opener Prospect Dave Gardener Is the lone letterman on the Pros pect high basketball squad which is prepping for a season opener game with Rogue River on Saturday evening at home. Gardener is a 6-1 senior center and one of the two men over 6 feet listed on the varsity roster by new Coach Dan McCluskey. Another center on the squad is Kern Grieve, 6-2 sophomore. . Forwards listed are Tom Da vidson, junior; Herb Wheeler, freshman; Jim Valentine, junior, and Norm Jantzer, sophomore. Guards are Mickey Ring, junior; Dick Robinson, senior; Floyd Scaife, sophomore, and Craig Gardener, freshman. Wheeler is an even 6-footer. The Cougars were one of the top teams in the Jackson County B league last season. McCluskey is new as coach at Prospect, coming here after two years at Gates. He is a Univer sity of Oregon1 graduate. New Coach Rebuilding College Station, Texas IIP) Paul (Bear) Bryant, resigned his $15,000-a-year post as head at Texas A&M Monday to go back to his alma mater, the Univers ity of Alabama, and take over the job of rebuilding its football fortunes. Bryant, a tall, stern football taskmaster who pulled the Ag gie up from the Southwest Con- Casanova Has No Plans to Resign, Says PCC Official San Francisco (IP! Leo Har ris, athletic director at the Uni versity of Oregon said today that a report that Len Casanova planned to resign as head foot ball coach after the Rose Bowl game was 'completely without foundation." "So far as I know Casanova is happy at the University of Oregon and plans to remain there as head football coach," said Harris, who is attending a PCC meeting here. Harris also denied there had been a policy disagreement be tween . Casanova and Orlando Hollis, Oregon's PCC faculty representative. Jack Rickard, sports editor of the Corvallis Gazette-Times, said in a story Saturday Casanova would resign after the Rose Bowl game. He said he based his information on persons close to football coaching circles in the state. Casanova said earlier he had no intention of leaving Oregon. He went to San Diego Sunday and was to go to New York later this week. The Ducks resume practice for the Rose Bowl Dec. 16. OREGON. OSC TO MIX Eugene CIPt Oregon and Ore gon State basketball teams open their 1957-58 seasons in Mc Ar thur court tonight in a non-conference game. METAL WORKS Commercial Industrial Residential Sheet Metal Work Stainless, Galvanized, and Copper Fabrication 2287 West Main' PHONE SP 2-4440 Cage Quintets day contests are Jacksonville against Illinois Valley at Cave Junction and Rogue River at Prospect. St. Mary's entertains Sacred Heart of Klamath Falls on Sun day. Refs To Convene For Assignment Basketball referees of the area will receive their first two weeks of assignments Wednesday at a meeting of the officials association. The ses sion will be at 7:30 p.m. at Medford Senior High school. Discussion of rules also will be conducted. Laugh Provoking Clowns To Face David Five Here Runt Pullins is bringing his hilarious Harlem Clowns to Medford. They play the equally well known House of David quint at 8 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 12, at Hedrick Junior High school gym. Local share of the proceeds will go to the Medford Senior High school athletic fund. Advertised as the funniest basketball team in America, the Harlem Clowns are a combine of Negro basketballers who tour the country making people laugh. Entertainment When the name "Harlem Clowns" is mentioned, hoop fans get ready for an evening of en tertainment. The fans come out to see a fancy exhibition, razzle dazzle ball handling, intricate routines, both planned an im promptu comedy and all sorts of shenanigans. The Clowns never try to run up a huge score against oppon ents It has been their policy to keep the game even, devoting much of the time to comedy stuff and ball handling routines. And Manager Pullins remem bers the line someone once said: "A real pro will never make you look bad." Plans of Alabama ference cellar to national rank ing in four years, became the second coach to leave a South west conference team since the end of the season. Only last week personable Jack Mitchell of Arkansas resigned to take over as head coach at Kansas. President T. M. Harrington of A&M announced the school would release Bryant from the final seven years of his 10-year contract "with regret," but no official word on the hiring of Bryant has come from Alabama as of yet. Alabama President Dr. Frank A. Rose said at Lexington, Ky., that Bryant's announcement had come as a surprise to him. He said he hoped to talk to Bryant sometime late .Monday night or early today about suc ceeding Alabama coach J. B. (Ears) Whitworth. Bryant's request for release from his contract asked that it be effective Jan. 1, 1958, four days after he leads the Aggies for the final time in their Gator bowl clash against Tennessee. Crater Gridiron Dinner Postponement Reported Gold Hill Crater High school football banquet has been postponed and no definite date has been set, Nell Smith, presi dent of Gold Hill Lions club, has reported. The dinner originally was set for Dec. 5. Gold Hill and Central Point Lions are sponsors. Remember in December HFC maLs seasonal loans! OUSEHOLD 128 E. Main St., PHONE: 2 Regulars Hoop Nucleus For Ashland Ashland Four lettermen and a lot of green kids is the general description of the material from which Coach Earl Iba is develop ing an Ashland high basketball aggregation. The Grizzlies lost a number of players by graduation. But a promising jayvee squad bolster ed hopes for the 1957-58 slate. The bright outlook suffered a blow when several of the jay vees moved other communi ties. But Ashland in turn re ceived some athletes by transfer who may offset the loss. Only two regulars from last year are among the lettermen, Jack Tobiasson, post man, and Albert Hartwell, guard. Both are seniors as are the other letter winners, Scott Peterson, a guard, and Kip Lombard, a forward. Three Transfers Peterson and Lombard saw some junior varsity duty last year and other players with jay vee backgrounds are Bill Maur er, junior guard and forward; Jim Bjork, junior forward and post player, and Hank Hampton, senior guard. Ben Watrus is a senior on hand who has had freshman experience at Ashland and Doug Forrest is a sophomore guard. Transfers are Leo Daniels, senior forward and post alter nate, who was a Prospect main stay last year; Bob Johnson, a lefthander, forward and center and junior with some experience at Borden, Wash., and Clark Smith, 6-4 junior from Hot Springs, Mont. Smith is tallest on the squad. Tobiasson is 6-3. The Grizzlies meet Fortuna, Calif., here on Friday night and Eureka, Calif., on Saturday. Players lost by transfer were Ron Mickle, who moved to Sa lem; Doug Fitch, who went to Colorado, and Don Taylor, who went to Idaho. Basketball Scores New York (IP) George Yard ley of the Detroit Pistons finally took over the National Basket ball Association scoring lead this week. He racked up 158 points in games during the past week. He has been scoring an aver age of 28.0 points per game ac cording to official league statis tics announced today. The only thing that was holding him back from the overall point lead was the fact that Detroit had played fewer games than any other team until this week. Adolph Schayes of the Syra cuse Nats was third in scoring with 419. Ed Mac'auley of St. Louis has scored 10,393 points in his NBA career to date, while Schayes now has 10,392. College Results By UNITED PRESS East Millersville 90, LaSalle 80 Buffalo U. 57. Oswego 56 Springfield 68, MIT 67 Connecticut 84, American Int. 55 Temple 83, Delaware 38 Midwest Lovola, 111. 90, Ripon 72 DePaul 71, Neb. Wesleyan 45 Wisconsin 63, S. Dakota 56 Kansas 63, Oklahoma State 56 Evansville 92. Louisville 82 Bethany 60, Western Reserve 58 Purdue 79, Miami, Ohio. 66 Mich. State 74, Butler 55 Ohio U. 76, Indiana 68 Iowa State 62, Drake 55 Northwestern 97, West. Mich. 78 Minnesota 66, Southern Meth. 52 Illinois 100, Marquette 90 Nebraska 64, S. Dakota State 53 South The Citadel 60, Newberry 46 William & Mary 73, Virginia 69 Wake Forest 68, Davidson 61 Phillips Oilers 93, Richmond 76 Tennessee 84, Furman 61 Kentuckv 78, Duke 74 Florida St. 74, Tennessee Tech 71 N. Carolina St. 72. Atlan. Christ. 44 Miami, Fla., 89, Jacksonville 87 Alabama 86. Jacksonville T 31 Vanderbilt 91, Sewanee 53 Loyola, La., 94. St. Mary's 63 Florida 97, Jacksonville Naval 56 South Carolina 95, Georgia 87 Southwest Oklahoma City U. 85, Houston 75 Rice 72, New Mexico A&M 45 Oklahoma 64, Arkansas 52 West Standard 77, Coll. of Pacific 61 Colorado St. U. 64, Colorado 55 Portland 84, Portland State 54 Idaho 64, Montana 56 Gonzaga 71, College of Idaho 37 San Francisco 74, Chico State 31 Pacific Lutheran 76, Buchan Bakers 65 Whitman 89, Eastern Oregon 54 Oregon Prep . VBend 43. Corvallis 34 PIRATES DRAFT THORPE Colorado Springs (IP) Bob Thorpe, right - handed pitcher who won 7 and lost 15 for Port land last season, Monday was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pi rates of the National league. If end of the year expanses are piling up, you'll appre ciate HFC'b friendly, effi cient, one-day money serv ice. At Household you may borrow up to $1500 and choose your own terms up to 24 months to repay. HFC is America's oldest and largest consumer fi nance company. For money service backed by 79 years' experience, phone or visit HFC today. FINANCE 2nd Floor SP 3-5301 APPEARING ANYTHING BUT A WINNER is Los An geles middleweight Willie Vaughn as his face twists under a hard right by Ralph "Tiger" Jones in New York. Jones lost unanimous decision. . (International Soundphoto) SIX TORNADO PLAYERS ON KF ALL-STAR CLUB Klamath Falls Six members of the Medford High school foot ball aggregation were named to the Herald and News and Radio Station KFLW Southern Oregon conference all star football team. Center Jim Funston and Guard Tom Merton were unanimous selections. The other four were Tackle Tom Morris, End Tom Hamlin and Backs John Jones and Bob Gee. Grants Pass placed four and Klamath Falls one on" the first team. End Mike Sparlin and Qaurter back Jim Cmith were unanimous picks from Grants Pass and the other Cavemen were Guard Dick Byrd and Back Jack Dean. Tackle Dave Vinson was the Klamath Falls selection. Coaches Vote Casting votes in the poll were the five conference coaches, Floyd Wynne, KFLW sports caster, and Jim Crow, Herald and News sports editor. On the second team were: Ends Paul Lindquist, Grants Pass, and Jan Cox, Klamath Falls. Tackles Jerry Putnam, Grants Pass, and Paul Slaven, Grants Pass. Gaurds Don Alt, .Klamath Falls, and Gerald .Troxel, Ash land. Center Charles Carlson, Klamath Falls. Backs Wayne Allen, Crater; Ron Reich, Medford; Jerry Stub- JlffM Genuine Copper Distilled Kentucky WeatberBipened mm M XL 1 blefield, Ashland, and "Mike Rose, Grants Pass. HONORABLE MENTION: Ends Paul Beach, Crater; Pete Rasmussen, Med.; Mike Russell, Med.; Gary Kranenberg, KF; Jerry Kime, Med. Tackles Doug Brown, Crater; Dick Sorenson, Med. Guards Glen Cote, Crater; Tom Winterbottom, Med.; John Hancock, KF. O Centers Dick Caldwell, GP; Randy Campbell, Crater. Backs Tony Brauner, Med.; Skip Bennett. Med.; Steve Grav. Ash.; Don Simpson. Ash; Frank Ballard. KF; Allen Barnes, Crater: Al McKinnis, Ash. Church League Hoop Meeting Thursday Night A Church Basketball league meeting will be held at the Med ford YMCA at 7:30 p.m. Thurs day, Doc. 5. Gordon Williams, Y physical director, said that all churches interested in entering teams are invited to have representatives at the meeting. Organization for the year and drawing up of schedules will be items on the agenda. Junior high, senior high school and adult leagues are planned. FIGHTS By UNITED PRESS New York Gene (Ace) Armstrong, 158. Elizabeth. N.J.. outpointed Rev bon Stubbs, 15fi'i. Pittsburgh. Pa. (10). Providence. R.I. Steve Ward, i45'3. Hartford. Conn., outpointed Gene But ler. 143 'i. Boston (10). London Armand Savoie. 146. Can ada stopped Ron Richardson, 141, England (3). M . Bourbon Man's Bourbon $4.90 Fifth i in the COPPERSTILL DECANTER 5 YEARS OLD i 1-30 Kentucky Strqight Sour Mash Bourbon 88 Proof Distilled, Aged and Bottled Only By Stitzer-Weller Distillery. 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