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o o G o EIGHT MEDFCTO (OREGON) Forty M Briers Trip Baltimore I tie tor Lead in Division IF.XftlE STANDING Eastfrtn Division ' x-Cleve!and 8 New Yorlc 7 Pittsburgh 5 Washington 4 Philadelphia 4 Chicago Cards S L T 9rt. 2 1 .800 0 f38 ft 0 .300 8 1 400 7 0 .364 5 0 .200 l T Pet. 4 0 .638 4 O .638 4 0 .638 0 .435 6 .433 8 0 .273 Wntern Division W Baltimore 7 San Francisco 7 Detroit 7 Los Angeles 5 Chicago Bears 5 Green Bay 3 x-CIinched Eastern division title Sunday's Results: Detroit 20. Cleveland 7 Chicago Bears 14. Chicago Cards Washington 42. Philadelphia 7 San Francisco 17. Baltimore II Los Angel 42. Green Bav 17 Pittsburgh . New Yortt 10 (Sat.) Next Saturda-'s Game Chicago Cards at Philadelphia Baltimore at Los Anelei Cleveland at New York Detroit at Chicago Bears oreen say at San Francisco Pittsburgh at Washington O 3v SARL 'WRIGHT United 9ret Vporls Writer Cleveland is ready to play the 1357 National Football league championship game but the De troit Lions, San Francisco 49ers Q and Baltimore Colts are tied for the Western division lead. It may be 1953 before they untangle and provide title rival for the Browns. Here's how the week end ac tion tave the Browns the 11th viion title in their 12-year Chlgtpry and left half the Western division clubs tied for first. The Browns, enjoying the typtr of good fortune that helped build pro football's finest record, won the Eastern crown for the seventh time in eight tries while O watching television Saturday at Detroit as the Pittsburgh Steel ers eliminated the New York Giants, 21-10. Pittsburgh did the Browns a big favor because the Lions handed Cleveland a 20-7 defeat Sunday. New York's hopes of re taining the league and Eastern division titles would have been alive if it had won at Pitts burgh. Three hours later Sunday at San Francisco, rookie John Waverley Picked At Tourney Site Portland (IB Portland's Waverjey Country club will play host tothe Western Golf associ O ation amateur championship tournament in 1959, Oregon's centennial yearvWaverley presi dent William B. Johnson said today. Word that Portland had been selected as site of the Western tournament came from Golf, 111., where the annual meeting of the Western Golf association was held last week. The Western amateur was last held In Portland in 1931. gYS LAtE CHOICE Stn Francisco (IB South pw Kenny Lane is a solid f avor tjtl to defeat Luke Easter Tues day night when they meet in a 10-round lightweight bout at the Civic auditorium. 6USTQU IV Z CIEAN - tlUABLI et Your Place and Delivery to Your locker e Aging room available. Expert edit ing, wrapping & Marking eat for locker or a freezer. e "PHONE SP 2-4219 MEDFORD ICE & STORAGE CO. Phone SIP 2-527 1 FOR reU-OX Concrete delivered on the job at the Slight Temperature for the Best Results even in Freezing Weather! dud-s? 2.5271 MAIL TRIBUNE Brodie passed 14 yards to Hugh McElhenny in the last 46 seconds to give the 49ers a 17-13 triumph over the Colts. That touchdown toss produced the three-way tie because Baltimore started the day leading Detroit and San Francisco by a game. Two also-rans who will play key roles in next Sunday's regu lar season windups scored vic tories in Sunday's other games. The Los Angeles Rams warmed up for Baltimore's visit by whip ping the Green Bay Packers, 42-17. Bears Down Cards The Chicago Bears, who enter tain Detroit defeated the Cardi nals, 14-6. Don Bosseler plunged for three touchdowns and Eddie LeBaron passed for two in a 42-7 1 XLAJ UilO SEPODimrs COMETS NICK FORTUNA HOOP QUINTET 43-40 Central Point Crater high tied the score and pulled ahead in the final minute Saturday night to nick Fortuna, Calif., 43 to 40 in non-league basketball here. Joe Teeter, who hit seven for seven from the free line, put in his last two gifters with 50 sec onds to play to deadlock the BASKETBALL SATURDAY COLLEGE GAMES Linfield 63. Lewis and Clark 61 Willamette 74, Pacific 57 Nevada 60. Eastern Oregon 52 Oregon Tech 109. Olympic JC 100 Pac. Lutheran 92. Buchan Bakers 78 Colorado 77, Montana 60 Montana St. 68. Washington St. 59 UCLA 65. Oklahoma 53 Georgia 66. Florida 60 Boston U 108. Suffolk 43 Lehigh 90. Delaware 66 Texas Tech 48, Hamline 48 Penn 67, Navy 64 Holy Cross 74. St. Anselm's 51 Arkansas 79. Tulsa 61 Detroit 61, Canisius 54 Dayton 58. Ball St. 41 Louisville 80, Alabama 72 South Carolina 70. Georgia Tech 64 Memphis St. 72, VM1 58 Minnesota 89, Vanderbilt 85 Michigan 81. Nebraska 57 Purdue 76, Missouri 49 Kansas St. 66. Indiana 61 Illinois 75. DePaul 70 Notre Dame 75, Wisconsin S3 Shrine Picks Grid Coaches Portland (IP) Coaches Tom DeSylvia of Jefferson and Lee Gustafson of South Salem Satur day accepted bids to be head coaches for the Metro and State all-star football teams respec tively in the annual Shrine game next August. BOWLING Standings Black Boys Rambling Rebels Myans King Pins Cutter Gang W. 18 2 15 15 14 ',i 14 13 12 'i HVa 11 L. 8'i 12 12 12i . 13 14 14i 15 In 16 17 Odd Balls Splits Pin Busters Alley Gang . t ire Bails 10 Odd Balls 1 (Spafford 214 1277; Rambling Rebels 2 (Quinney 284) 1352. Gutter Gang 2 (Huffman 238) 1325; Alley Gang 1 (Weaver 253) 1311. Pin Busters 2 (Martin 254) 1348; Splits 1 (Barry 269) 1344. Black Bovs 2 (Jones 315) 1322; Mvans 1 (James 234) 1294. King Pins 3 (Bortis 234) 1246; Fire BaUs 0 (Osborn 198) 1190. COLXRETEC? 248 E.McANDREWS RD. Monday, December 9. 1957 Washington Redskin romp against the Philadelphia Eagles. The Forty-Niners entertain the Packers next Sunday. Of the Western leaders, San Francisco appears to have the best chance in the finals. The Lions, whose Bobby Layne was carried out of the Cleveland clash with a broken right ankle bone, haven't downed the Bears at Chicago since 1953. The Colts have won only one of 11 previous games on the west coast. If all the Western leaders win next Sunday, a series of play offs will force postponement of the championship game from Dec. 29 to Jan. 5. The Browns will warm up for the title game by visiting the Giants next Sun day. game at 40-all. Then Jerry Kime hit a 12-foot jumper for 42 to 40 and Wayne Allen added a con cluding field goal. The Comets were on the short end of the count most of the way. Fortuna had 12 to 10, 27 to 20 and 34 to 30 period margins. The Calif ornians had a 10-point spread in the third quarter and led by six in the final panel. It was a battle against superior height for Crater. Fortuna's tall club had the advantage in re bound retrieving 33 to 23. The Comets took fewer field shots than the Huskies but had a bet ter average, .292 to .288. Crater high hit .678 at the gift line and Fortuna .636. Crater's next action will be on Dec. 20 and 21 at Oakridge. BOX: Fortuna Nicholl. f FO .. 2 .. 3 .. 3 2 .. 3 0 .. 0 FT PF TP 12 5 Stevenson, f Christensen. c Tompkins, g Tomasini, g Beacon . Holland- 3 2 5 5 1 0 Totals .13 14 18 40 FG . 4 5 .. 0 1 2 0 FT PF TP 5 2 13 2 4 12 12 1 2 5 4 7 4 11 2 0 2 Allen, f Kime, I Campbell, c Teeter, g wniie Totals .12 19 17 43 Ragsdale Speaker For Crater High Gridiron Dinner Gold Hill A banquet to honor Crater High football play ers and coaches of the team, will be given Wednesday evening Dec. 11, at 7:30 p.m. at Crater, according to Neil Smith, presi dent of the Gold Hill Lion's club. Lee V. Ragsdale will be guest speaker for the event. He is supervisor of health and physi cal eduation in Medford schools and president of the Oregon as sociation for Health, Physical Ed ucation and Recreation. The dinner is an annual affair and is being sponsored jointly by the Gold Hill Lion's club and the Central Point Lion's club. COPS BAMTAM TITLE Los Angeles (IP) Billy (Sweetpea) Peacock, 1113A, won the vacant California bantam weight championship Saturday night when he was awarded a technical knockou triumph over Frankie C ampos , 118, in the eighth round of their scheduled 12-round bout. Both boxers are from Los Angeles. ROSWELL. SEDGMAN WIN Sydney, Australia (IP) Ken Rosewall scored a 5-7, 6-2, 6-3 victory over Lew Hoad and Frank Sedgman defeated Pancho Segura, 6-4, 6-0, Sunday in pro fessional matches. Mistrial Declared On Murder Trial Grants Pass (IP) The first degree murder trial here of re tired U.S. Army Major Felix J. Brame, 46, of Grants Pass, was declared a mistrial Friday by Circuit Judge O. J. Millard. Brame is accused of the gun shot death of his estranged wife, Marguerite, also 46, last July 10 in front of her Grants Pass home. The mistrial ruling came after a motion charging that a woman juror had discussed the trial with her husband and another person was filed by Josephine County District Attorney Max McMillin. Washington (IP) Deputy De fense Secretary Donald A. Quarles said Saturday night the failure of the Vanguard test sat ellite Friday has "no bearing" on the U.S. military missile pro gram. He said the latter is mak ing "satisfactory progress." Ashlanders Drub Eureka Quint 61-47 Ashland Ashland high's Grizzlies recorded their second verdict of the season Saturday night, drubbing the Eureka, Calif., cage quintet 61 to 47. The Lithia city team put its fast break to good use, got good shots and hit a good percentage of them. It also turned in a good job of breaking up the Logger attack in fashioning the tri umph. Leo Daniels headed the Griz zly scoring with 30 counters and Jack Tobiasson, Kip Lombard and Albert Hartwell combined for effective work on the back boards. Larry Krupka was high tally man for Eureka with 17. Ahead at Quarters Ashland had the lead at all quarterly breaks, 16 to 8, 33 to 23. and 43 to 29. The Grizzlies had a torrid field-firing second half putting 13 of their 19 tries through the hoop. The Grizzly junior varsity won 45 to 30 over the Eureka lightweights. Games at Redding, Calif., with Shasta high are set for Coach Earl Iba's Ashlanders next Friday and Saturday. Fureka FG FT PF TP Crichton, f 3 0 4 6 Parker, f 4 119 Krupka, c 7 3 4 17 Brown, g 2 8 16 Saunders, g 0 0 2 0 Daly 10 12 Taggert 2 0 2 4 McFarland 0 0 10 Halvorsen 1113 Totals 20 7 17 47 Ashland FG FT PF TP Daniels, f 14 2 4 30 Lombard, 1 0 4 3 4 Tobiasson, c 2 3 17 Hartwell, g 3 4 3 10 Peterson, g 5 0 0 10 Johnson 0 0 10 Watrus 0 0 10 Totals 24 13 13 61 Races Take Two Lives Agoura, Calif. (IP) Two men have been killed and a third was near death today as a result of three spectacular racing acci dents during the Paramount Ranch sports car races here. James Firestone, 29, of Mont erey Park, Calif., was killed in stantly Sunday in the wind-up main event of the two day rac ing card when his Frazer-Nash spun out of control and crashed into an embankment. George Sherrerd III, 23, Palo Alto, Calif., died at nearby Northridge hospital Saturday after his Jaguar smashed into a guard rail in an earlier event. The injured driver, Hugh Woods, 43, Borrego Springs, Calif., remained in critical con dition at the hospital. He lost his right leg in the crash Sunday in a preliminary event. Ryff Favored Over Ippolito New York (IP) Lightweight Frankie Ryff is favored at 7-5 to win again over Frank Ippo lito tonight in their return TV 10-rounder at St. Nicholas arena. Ryff, 25, won a decision over Ippolito, 23, at St. Nick's Oct. 22, 1956. It was a good fight in which each suffered cuts about the eyes. Knickerbockers End Hawk String By UNITED PRESS The St. Louis Hawks' eight game home winning streak was at an end today and their lead in the Western division of the National Basketball association was down to one game. The Hawks' skein was snapped by the New York Knickerbock ers Sunday, 113-110. Meanwhile, the second-place Cincinnati Roy als picked up ground by going on a third period scoring splurge to defeat the Philadelphia War riors, 99-88, at Cincinnati. REFUGEE WINS TITLE Chicago (IP) John Macy, 26-year-old Polish refugee who at tends the University of Houston, won the senior AAU 10,000-meter cross-country title Saturday with a time of 31 minutes, 12 seconds. The New York Athletic club won the team title in the race for the eighth straight time. . Klamath Man Missing In Vicinity of Worden Klamath Falls (IP) Wal ter W. Watkins, 50, foreman at a ranch located near Lower Klamath lake east of Worden, was reported missing today. State Police said Watkins left the ranch Saturday evening to drive to his home in Klamath Falls. A wide search Sunday fail ed to locate him. ' Bay At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Flues, Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrews Ph. SP 2-4107 Red Raiders Subdue Humboldt Five 61-52 Ashland Southern Oregon college made a clean sweep of its season starting basketball se ries by whacking Humboldt State college 61 to 52 in the dedication conflict for the new Red Raider gymnasium Satur day night. The Raiders had inaugurated use of their spacious court Fri day by clipping the HSC Lum berjacks 64 to 49. In the Saturday contention Southern Oregon took the lead in the opening moments and kept in front all the way. The Ashland collegians had good margins at times but were fre quently challenged and pressed by the 'Jacks from Areata, Calif. And statistics gave evidence of a fairly even battle -except at the gift toss line where the Raid ers picked up their victory bulge. Midway through "the final half the Raiders had a 14-point 44 to 30 spread but Humboldt, in a surge sparked by Jerry Hatha way, whittled down the gap to four counters at 52 to 48 with just 3 13 minutes left in the fracas. Threat Stopped Bill Hollingsworth then got a free shot for SOC, Dave D'Olivo put in a jumper from the arch back of the free throw line and Hollingsworth tallied on the fast break for a lead of 57 to 48. Larry Taylor hit for HSC from far afield and Joe Miller got two charity throws for 57 to 52 but Hollingsworth put in two gifters and D'Olivo a rebounder to round out the scoring. Taylor was high point man for the tussle with 18 counters. His long shots were a big factor in keeping the 'Jacks in the game but at the same time indicated SOC defensive strength close into the hoop. Hollingsworth had 15 points and D'Olivo 14. The clubs came out even in the rebounding department. D'Olivo with 18 and Cliff Suth erland with 14 headed the Raiders while Warren Baker pulled off 13 for Humboldt. Although Southern Oregon was more accurate shooting from the field, with .322 average to Humboldt's .266, the teams tied in field goals with 20 each. How ever, the Raiders made 21 of 31 tosses at the gift stripe while the Lumberjacks had 16 chances and made 12. The Raiders put In seven points before HSC scored land the closest the 'Jacks, got at any time during the evening was L aPtp ftiisL, TLX ot rnEMi0ALNvSUNIlYnTlROi,i( DCDnM,frANY' WUISVILIE, KENTUCKY.-DISTRIBUTED BY NATIONAL DISTILLERS PRODUCTS COMPANY . BOIH 86 PROOF . KENTUCKY BLENDED WHISKEY CONTAINS 65 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS four markers. Halftime standine was 26 to 14. 15-Point Spread Widest SOC advantage of the evening was 15 points at 33 to 18. The Areata, Calif., club cut it to an eight span at 33 to 25, 35 to 27 and 37 to 29. From there the Raiders gained their 44 to 30 edge. Hathaway collected nine points in the rally that enabled Hum boldt to press the Raiders in the closing moments. Ed Thomas and Taylor both goaled on steals in this last big Lumberjack effort. Members of the 1936-1937 bas ketball squad and their coach, Jean Eberhart were special guests at the game and gym dedi cation. Dr. Roy McNeal,. SOC professor of geography and one time coach at the school, gave the dedication address. Dr. Alex Petersen, assistant professor of physical education, was master of ceremonies. Frank Van Dyke. Medford at torney and president of the Western Interstate commission for Higher Education, introduced the honor team which played the first game in the former gymnasium which is now the Britt student center. Dr. Elmo Stevenson, president of South ern Oregon college, was also a speaker. BOX: Humboldt FG Robinson, f ... 1 Baker, f 4 FT PF TP 113 0 2 8 4 4 12 2 0 18 13 3 0 2 0 2 12 2 5 4 0 1 2 0 10 12 20 52 FT PF TP 4 2 14 0 2 4 9 3 15 4 5 12 117 113 2 14 0 0 2 21 15 52 Hathaway, c 4 Taylor, g 8 Evans, g Erhart Miller Lawson Thomas Caver Totals .. . 1 . 0 . 0 .. 1 . 1 . 0 .20 SOC FG D'Olivo. f 5 Oliva. f , 2 Hollingsworth, c 3 McAbee, g 4 Maurer, g 3 Sutherland 1 Love 1 Crandall . 1 Totals . 20 Trampoline Act To Be on Video Members of the Yreka, Calif., High school girls' trampoline team will perform in a show on television station KBES on Tues day from 5 to 5:30 p.m. The team has 18 members with Trudy Swain and Sherry Mor ford as stars. Ed Loudon is coach. The girls have performed on numerous occasions in northern California and southern Oregon IN HOLIDAY GRACIOUS When you give or serve Old Sunny Brook, you're offering a great Kentucky bourbon cheerful and delicious! 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