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U o o o C$yt, David At Modrick This Evening Only iwo defeats in two years! That is the almost unbeliev able record of the Harlem Clowps ho play the House of David quint this evening in a tussle between barnstorming basketball teams at Hedrick Jun ior High school gym. Game time is 8 p.m. Clown record is all the more unbelievable when it is realized that the club has played almost 300 ball Barnes in the two years The Haxlems actually had a total win skein of 253 games before dropping a close contest in Can ada last season. They finished the 1955 campaign with 98 straight (vins and went on to take 143 consecutive scraps in the 1955-1956 campaign. They were beaten early in the 1956- 1957 slate. Long David History While the Clowns have a col orful history, the records of their foes dates back farther and involve baseball as well as basketball. House of David basketball originated in the 1920s in Benton Harbor, Mich., home of the David colony. Play ers of the team have a special distinction inJthat all are beard ed. Whiskers"' are their trade markThe Davids have develop ed a popular following over the years, o The Davids currently are playing a series of tilts with the Clowns. ; George Anderson is the long time member of the Davids traveling contingent. He's been manager since the 1930s. The younger hands do the playing these days. Remarkable Clown record for last season was 148 wins and two defeats. This is all the more remarkable when it is considered that the Clowns play a different team every night, often seven nights a week, and travel from 150 to 300 miles between each game. Unlike some traveling clubs that always carry their own op position, the Harlem Clowns lake on a variety of foes and some ofCJhem are very rough. Home town teams would like-l very much to beat the Clowns. With their razzle dazzle pass ing routines and comedy stuff, the Clowns often find them selves in tight situations, hav ing only a one or two point advantage with seconds left to play. A long field goal by the opposition in such a situation could easily upset the tremend ous record they have compiled. Victory is essential but not all-important to the Harlem Clowns. Fans come to see them put on a good basketball show plus a lot of comedy and the Harlem boys try their best to please. Score 188 in Game John Barber, 6-6, is the tall est of the Harlem club. He was a Los (Angeles State collegian where he once scored 188 points in a game. He was seventh rank ing scorer in the nation one sea son Snri gained All-American laurels. Next tallest is Ken Mc- Bride, 6-4, long range shooter from Maryland State. Bob Woods follows at 6-3, comic star BOWLING COMMERCIAL LEAGUE L. 21 25 26 28 30 31 36 38 28 47 Patterson's Bakery . 43 Mail Tribune 39 38 36 34 33 28 26 Quality Market Star Body Works Clave Construction Co. Cubby s Drive In Bates Candy Co Alexander & Brown Insurance 26 ..Morning rresn oreaa ii Results: Patterson's 3 (Dyer 604) 2,685; Bates 1 (Dimick 545) 2.500. Star Bodv 3 (Vessey 578) 2,482; Da vis 1 (Farrar 502) 2,419. A & B 4 (Green 555) 2.462; MF Bread 0 (Shinn 515) 2.355. Cubbv's 3 (Ramsbv 588) 2.605; Qual ity 1 (Wise 506). 2.402. Clave 3 (Clave & Chapman 493) 2.442; Tribune 1 (Anderson 532 ) 2,441. EMPIRE LEAGl'E Standings: Winnie's Style Salon NuWay Cleaners Western Thrift Drug W. 34 L. 18 33 19 3'i 20'i Hiiiyer on to. 30 22 Virginia's Big Y Beauty S'lon 26 25: 24 21 19 16 26 West Main Kent All The Village Dairy Smith Skinnjac's Buick Cadillac Jewel.jBouse Hoppe s Florist 26' 28 31 33 36 Results: Nu Way 2 (Virginia Wilson 169-465) 1304; Western Thrift 2 (Helen Paul son 196-5141 1334. Skinner s 0 (Maxine Janzen 156-412) 1167; Winnie's 4 (Jackie Wilson 173. 509) 1254. West Main 4 (Janice Frohreich 170 484 1260: Jewel House 0 (Judy Bar num 150-400) 1190. . iJ M H 3 V tl Cll.' rill..,, t tju ..Li I X l J J t 1 . .11. J miuiu I 1 11..1 . ... w w 405) 1098. Hillyer Oil 1 (Eva Sessions 184-446) 1271; Virginia's Big Y 3 (Bernice Haz lett 171-469) 1310. High Game High Series, Helen Paulson 196-514. Split Conversion. Judy Barnum 5-7. LADIES' CLASSIC LEAGUE Standings: Ross Lumber .. Crater Inn Motel : Union Club W. 37 33 30 29 29 27 27 26 26 22 15 11 L. 15 19 22 23 23 27 27 26 26 30 37 41 Hawkinson's Paulsen's Thrift Wooden Shoe Jack's Drive Up Trail Creek Lumber Jorgensen's Motor Haven Motel LiUies' Silver Dollar Results: Ross Lumber 1 (D. Christianson 506) 2314; Wooden Shoe 3 iL. Learning 513) f06. if Jack's Drive Up 3 (D. Wolff 582) S44; Hawkinson s ' Tire 1 (V. Knox 0) 2305 O Trail Creek Lmbr. 3 (V. Blunt 474) (an 7; LUlle's Health Salon 1 (V. Lusk 428) 2001 Jorgensen's 4 (J. Wilson 513) 2195; Silver Dollar 0 (H. Poulson 457) 2049. Union Club 2 (V. Cummings 464) 2154; Motor Haven 2 (Z. Brandon 444) 2084. Crater Inn Motel 2 (G. Riggs 483) 2247; Paulsen's Thrift 2 (F. Doty 4d3) 2203. High games. D. Wolff. 200-204. P. Gardner 200: High series 582. D. Wolff. Split conversion, Z. Brandon, 5-8-10. Quints Vie from Modesto Junior college. Even 6-footers are Fred Pear son, dribbling star and former Illinois Normal player, and James Sessoms, from Winston Salem Teachers college. Emory Luck, 5-11, comedian from How ard university rounds out the roster. The Davids list plenty of al titude: Bob Morooski. 6-7, Pete Linbeck, 6-6, Vince Stankewitz, 6-5. Ed Grecius, 6-3, and Carl Litke and Harold Wheeler, each 6-2. Frank Crcsetti is 5-10. HAPPY-GO-LUCKY Emory Luck, above, is a fine floor man and long shot artist for the Har lem Clowns who meet the House of David here this evening at Hedrick gym. Game time is 8 p.m. There will be no prelimi nary. Luck is a participant in the Clown comedy routines. Pilots Rep Sacramento Portland (IP The University of Portland Pilots got back on the winning track Wednesday night by walloping touring Sac ramento State 71-49 as Jim Arm strong bucketed 28 points. The Pilots lost two straight to Oregon State last week end. Portland was ahead 27-15 at the half and walked with the game in the second half. Dick Jolley followed Armstrong in scoring for ' Portland with 9 points. HOCKEY AMERICAN LEAGUE By UNITED PRESS Little W a 1 1 y Hergesheimer still hasn't lost his scoring touch. Hergesheimer, whose career in the National Hockey league was cut short when he broke his leg, came through with a pair of third-period goals Wednesday night that helped the Buffalo Bisons to a 7-5 victory over Providence. The victory enabled the Bi sons to move into a tie for third place with the Reds. Both teams now trail second-place Cleve land by four points. The Springfield Indians de feated Hershey, 4-3, to climb out of the American Hockey League cellar in the only other game scheduled. LINKS' TOURNEY STARTS Sanford, Fla. (IF Windy sub-freezing cold posed the big hazard today when a field of 151 teed off in the first round of the $15,000 Sanford Open golf tournament. Raccoon Program Ended in Wisconsin Madison, Wis. (IP Raccoons, becoming a nuisance in Wiscon sin, will no longer get propaga tion benefits from the State Con servation commission. The game management divis ion of the commission announc ed it has ended its raccoon stock ing program with the release of 227 raccoons who will have to make the best of it. The legislature repealed a law requiring tags for raccoon hunt ers this year, and the commis sion felt that further artificial propagation was unnecessary. The commission said hunters will save $12,500 a year in rac coon tags, and it will benefit by a reduction in manpower needed to maintain the program. NATURALLY Providence, R.I. HPi The fi nance director of this city is John J. Cashman. SPORTS BASKETBALL WEDNESDAY COLLEGE GAMES By United Press East Army 64. Lehigh 51 St. Francis 91, St. Joseph's 86 Cornell 71. Colgate 56 West Virginia 84. Tenn St. 50 Harvard 89, Wesleyan 41 Georgetown 73. St. Mary's 69 Connecticut 73. Rutgers 63 Syracuse 55. Columbia 50 Boston College 95. Northeastern 82 Albright 75. Seton Hall 68 Boston U. 67. Massachusetts 46 Navv 61. Delaware 50 LaSalle iPa.) 82. Lafayette 74 Pennsylvania 98. Swarthmore 53 Holy Cross 55, Amherst 52 South N. Carolina St. 86. S. Carolina 73 Mi3mi (Fla.) 73, Louisiana St. 65 Wake Forest 68, Texan A&M 46 Midwest Michigan 95. S. Dakota St. 55 Miami (Ohioi 63. Dayton 59 Illinois 91. Butler 75 Washington (Mo.) U. 61. Arizona 52 Southwest Texas Tech 95. West Texas St. 73 West Denver U. 72. Colorado Mines 57 Oregon 62. San Jose State 53 Portland 71, Sacramento State 49 Oregon Dental 73. Oregon Frosh 72 New Mexico A&M 76, COP 74 Portland 71. Sacramento State 49 Yanks Hear Warning of Lawmaker Washington (IP) Baseball has been warned that any at tempt by the New York Yankees to bar the switch of a National league team to New York City could lead to congressional ac tion. ' 'Self-serving efforts to main tain a baseball monopoly in New York City is proof positive that Congress must curb the powers of these baseball magnates," Chairman Emanuel Celler (D N.Y.), of the House anti-trust subcommittee said Wednesday. The Yankees, citing the terms of their original American league charter, have claimed the entire New York area becomes their territory with the transfer of the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers to San Fran cisco. Another Team Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick, on the other hand, has expressed the belief that the way should be kept open for another team to move into New York. The matter came up at the re cent major league meetings in Colorado Springs but was post poned until the next joint meet ing on Jan. 25. The city of New York has ap pointed a four-man committee to investigate the possibility of lur ing another team to New York. However, the committee is hold ing off direct action until the territorial status is cleared up. Junior High Hoop Tussles Slated McLoughlin Junior high bas ketball team have games here Friday.with Grants Pass. Ninth and seventh graders mix at 3:30 p.m. and eighth grade teams at 4:30 p.m. Hedrick quints will vie against Roseburg here on Saturday. Sev enth and eighth grade games are at 1:30 p.m. and the ninth at 2:30 p.m. Central Point and Ashland seventh and eighth grade clubs mix at Ashland this evening while Crater freshmen go to Ash land on Friday. McLoughlin wrestlers go to Grants Pass Friday atfernoon. Morris on USC Opponent Team Los Angeles OP) Fullback Jack Morris and guard Harry Mondale of Oregon and tackle Ted Bates of Oregon State were named today to Southern Cali fornia's 1957 all-opponent foot ball team. Unusual Rainfall Boon in Midwest Chicago TP) Unusually heavy rainfall this year has been a boon to midwestern farmers, but it may cost industry thous ands of dollars because of rust. A study by the Foundation for Management Research, (under taken for Rust-Oleum Corp.), said that the nation's annual rust loss of 71 2 billion dollars "may show a decided increase." The foundation said unusually heavy rainfall occurred over in dustrialized western New York, western Pennsylvania, Ohio, In diana, Illinois, Missouri and Ken tucky. Th& rate of industrial rust is determined by metal test panels placed at factory sites. The study showed that rust loss in Ne England for the first half of 1957 was below normal. But corrosion reports from Buffalo, Detroit, Cleveland, Youngstown, Toledo, Akron, South Bend, Gary, Grand Rapids, Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Pittsburgh and other industrial areas in the Great Lakes, Mississippi Valley and Ohio River regions indicate high er than usual rust damage. Burlington, Vt. (IP) An ad vertisement in a Vermont news paper read: "Grow rich with poultry! Immediate action advis able as the opportunity may not exist after the next winastorm." Raiders Will Battle Linf ield Contingent Ashland A rugged early sea son test is anticipated by the Southern Oregon college Red Raider hoopsters this Friday and Saturday night. They are hosts in their spaci ous new gymnasium to Linfield college. The Wildcats are defend ing Northwest conference cham pions and brag two loop all-stars in Bill Machamer and Jack Riley. The Red Raiders of the Rogue were to have a light drill today as they tapered off for the two game stand. They scrimmaged last night, runing what is expect ed to be Linfield's offense against their own defense. Probable Starters There were indications that Jim McAbee and Ron Maurer, a pair of rugged guards will get the assignments of guarding the 'Cat one-two punch Machamer and Riley. Other probable start ers for SOC are Norm Oliva and Dave D'Olivo, forwards, and Bill Hollingsworth, center. Cliff Sutherland, tall freshman who did fine backboard work against Humboldt State, and Chuck Crandall, hard-working guard, probably will see much duty. Russ Koffard, Carl Goetz and Dick Brown may round out the Turkey Shoot This Sunday Medford Gun club will hold the first of two pre-Christmas turkey shoots on Sunday, Dec. 15. Effort will be made to have all shooters participate in their respective classes. Events also are planned for non-shooters. Hams and bacon will be prizes as well as turkeys. Traps are scheduled to open at 9 a.m. The club grounds are west of the Crater Lake highway Four Corners. Fanfare Larry Copple, all-state hoop ster for Medford high in 1955, has been the talk of the town in Corvallis this week. Copple is a junior at Oregon State col lege. As a sophomoer he did not see action on the OSC varsity last season and this year he wasn't particularly being count ed. But in three games the ex Tornado has picked up 22 points to rank third in scoring on the Orange squad. Beaver fans are hoping that the previously unsung reserve will continue to show accuracy, thereby bolstering the depth of the OSC roster. All of Larry's points have been on field goals. MORRIS HONORED AGAIN Howard Morris, Ihe Linfield college gridiron guard who was a prep star for Crater of Cental Point, continues lo collect honors. His latest achievement is selection to the Williamson rating system Lit tle All-American. Previously he was named to the Asso ciated Press Little All-America and to All-Coast and con ference and northwest all-star teams. Morris was starter in every game for Linfield throughout his four-year 'col legiate grid career. JACK GREB STARS Jack Greb, ex-Eagle Point high all-round athlete, was top scorer with 10 touchdowns this fall for the Yuba Junior college football team at Marysville, Calif. Yuba was the Golden Val ley conference, titlist this fall. Greb is currently on the Yuba basketball roster. ON ALL-TIME TEAM Ken Williams, Grants Pass, has been honored by the St. Louis, Mo., chapter of the Baseball Writers association. He has been named leftfielder on the writers' 50th anniver sary all-time St. Louis major league all-star team. Williams will be recognized for this honor at a dinner on Jan. 20 at St. Louis. Other players chosen were Bob O'Farell and Hank Se vereid, catchers; Grover Alex Remember in December HFC makes seasonal loans 1 OUSEHOLD FINANCE 128 E. Main PHONE: Linfield ODeninz five. The Wildcats rallied to defeat Oregon college last Tuesday. They have won from Lewis and Clark and lost to Willamette. Southern Oregon opened the sea son last week by defeating Hum boldt in a two game series. Yanks Grab Zone Tennis Encounters , Brisbane, Australia (IP) Jit tery Herb Flam, who turned ti ger in the face of defeat, and poised Vic Seixas, who ignored the taunts of the crowd, scored wins today that virtually put the United States into the Davis Cup challenge round against Australia. Singles victories by the two Americans in man-killing 100 degree heat at Milton Courts gave the United States an almost unbeatable 2-0 lead over Bel gium in the interzone cup finals. Flam, brooding and nervous for the last two weeks, forgot his cares and rallied to beat Bel gium's Jacques Brichant, in a 6-3, 4-6, 1-6, 6-3, 6-3 battle that lasted one hour and 12 minutes and broke the Belgians' hearts. Seixas did it the easy way, overwhelming 33-year-old Phil ippe Washer, 6-0, 6-3, 6-4, in the last of today's two matches. Now all the United States needs is a doubles victory Fri day by Seixas and Gardner Mul Ioy against Brichant and Washer to clinch this series and with it a berth in the challenge round against cup-holding Australia at Melbourne, Dec. 26-28. Even if they lose their dou bles test, the Yanks still would need to win only one of the con cluding pair of singles matches on Saturday. By DICK JEWETT Aail Tribune Sports Editor ander, Urban Shocker, Dizzy Dean and Jesse Haines, pitch ers; George Sisler, first base; Rogers Hornsby, second; Frank Frish, third; Marty Marion, shortstop; Terry Moore, center field; Stan Mu sial, right field; Red Schoen dienst, utility infielder, and John Tobin, utility outfielder. FRONT OFFICE STYMIES Bobby Gene Smith, ex-Hood River high star, and rookie out fielder on the St. Louis Cardi nals ball club during the past season, was the subject of this comment recently in the Hood River News: "In a typical rookie year, his star burned bright early in the season, then faded to ob scurity due to the kind of front office strategy you can always criticize but never accurately second guess." Smith was the victim of line up shuffling and changes which had him playing in spots as a utility man on a team which couldn't find a regular outfield combination. However, he seem ed to get into televised games which were beamed to the Hood River area. Among his ardent fans is a Medford resident, Mrs. Homer Hylton, 315 Laurel street. She is a sister of the Car dinal player. THREE 1955 ALL-STATERS More about Larry Copple: He's one of three 1955 Oregon all-state prepsters on the Ore gon Stale squad. The others are Leighton Tutlle, Eugene, and Ted Miller, Milwaukie. GIANT PELICANS Klamath Union high's height in basketball is even more tre mendous this season. All-Stater Glenn Moore is 6-8. Dick Niles, former junior high player in Medford, is 6-6, Dave Robinson is 6-4 V2 and Bob Peterson is 6-4. A big question is whether the Pelican short men will measure up to last year's guard duo, Lee McGill and Butch Kimpson. Tom Ankeny, Smiley Herrera and Don DeLap are main scrappers for the two spots. In contrast to Moore, Herrera is only 5-5. If end of the year expenses are piling up, you'll appre ciate HFC's 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. St., 2nd Floor SP 3-5301 Thursday, December 12, 1957 Muniing and Fashing Southern (Oregon By MEL The question has often been tossed about as to just how lucky is a "lucky" sportsman. By lucky angler or hunter I refer to those who seem to get the game they go after when the average fail. How much then, of this success is luck? Several years ago in Portland there were two or three men who were eliminated from the salmon derbies due to their un canny ability to bring in the largest fish year after year and thus "hog" the contest. More recently in Klamath Falls a boy in his late teens was pointed out as being able to bring in the ducks "when there weren't any." Luck? I don't think so. It is understood readily that there is an element of chance in anything and two men of equal skill could be in equal spots as afar as possibilities were concerned and the one find a greater concentration of game than the other. It would be hard to find two equal sections of the river for the schools of fish do move upstream and more are sometimes found in one place than in the other, but I would like to discuss the average over all picture. KNOWS HABITS Generally the "lucky" sports man is ihe one- who has made a study of the game he seeks. He knows the feeding, sleep ing and moving habits to such a degree that he is able to pre dict with reasonable accuracy where the game will be under given conditions and relates himself to these. For instance, ihe irout fish ermen knows that in ihe early morning and late evening the trout will be feeding at the very tail end of the pool and thus he carefully approaches and drops his flies near the break in ihe very shallow wa ters. During the middle of the day when ihe irout are in the deeper waters or hiding near obstructions he ignores these shallow portions entirely. The good duck hunter knows that water and food are first io be considered. A band of ducks that swarm into a cer tain field in the late evening will return at the break of day to ihe same field unless a full moon has allowed them to feed all night in which case ihey usually go back to water in the early dawn and skip their morning flight. DUCKS HAVE HIGHWAYS The ducks usually fly into or directly away from a strong wind, not quartering. When the wind changes so does the hunter because he knows that the flight will shift with the wind. Ducks have "highways" to and from their feeding grounds and many times these will pass over hills especially through gas or saddles. On a windy or foggy day when they have to fly "instruments" the thinking hunter hies himself to these spots and has a real ball. FINDS PATHS Migratory fish have definite paths they follow upstream and the successful fisherman learns io find these places and when fishing he concentrates in working his bait only in these places. The average fish erman sees the river and all that nice water and plunks here and there at random then wonders why he doesn't catch fish. When he does he calls it luck and that is what it is. KNOWING BOTTOM R A D I O D I S P A T C H E D IF WE MIX IT, YOU CAN'T Got a Fluid Driveway? (and a shiftless husband?) Got a Party Planned? (and wall-to-wall mud?) Give Dear Old Dad a Concrete Walk or Driveway (we'll bill him after Christmas) Listen To Our Rewashed News 7:30 AJA. - KBOY MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN REES IMPORTANT This knowing the bottom is especially important in steel- heading because they are very strict in their adherence to fol lowing certain well defined routes. There are a couple of methods of learning where the steelhead run. One is to study the currents of top water which tell a tale of what is underneath and the other is to map it with the sinker. I shall take up these two methods in detail in next week's column. NOT HAPHAZARD Today I would like io em phasise that hunting and fish ing is not a haphazard pursuit but one that will pay divi dends if one loves it enough to study and what an inter esting study ii is. I believe that much of ihe so-called luck is not luck but planned action that ultimately yields success. Someone has said that in order io train a dog you must know more than the dog; this works the same way in pur suing game. Redding Trip For Ashland Ashland Ashland high's basketball varsity has been working its offensive patterns and has been trying to improve its free shot accuracy this week as it girds for a week end trip to California. The Grizzlies play Shasta high at Redding on both Friday and Saturday nights. Coach Earl Iba said that he'll take nine varsity players and six junior varsity hoopmea for contention in . the two games each night. The tutor said that Shasta reportedly has "a good bunch of kids" on its roster. The Wolves held Enterprise, Calif., to 17 points the other night, in dicating defensive strength. Shasta has an all-conference cen ter in 6-5 Urban. All over the nation bourbon drinkers are saluting today's COUNTY FAIR -lighter in taste, lighter in flavor, lighter in body than ever before. Go right.. go light.. go COUNT YKAIR! Hallcr 44SQT.l 2 (95 PINT LI'L.OIE WHIRLY-BERT, MIXER-MASTER READY LUX SPring 2-5336 SPring Good Chance Norm May See Action Eugene (IP! Coach Len Casa n6va said today his Oregon foot ball team was in fine condition despite a layoff of more than two weeks. The Ducks opened drills Wednesday for the Rose Bowl game against Ohio State New Year's day. Casanova said halfback Leroy Phelps and guard Larry New som still were nursing regular season injuries and couldn't play "tomorrow" but are expected to be ready for the Buckeyes. Norm Chapman, the regular center who broke an ankle in the Washington State game, is now doing some running and ha is given a good chance to see action Jan. 1. The Ducks fly to Los Angeles Dec. 21 after term exams next week. Racehorse Play Wine for lllini By UNITED PRESS Illinois' sophomore-reinforced sharpshooters are shaping up as a solid contender in the Big- Ten with a racehorse strategy that lets the rebounds fall where they may. The experts say . the lllini can't go very far because they lack an essential good big man. But they're averaging 88.6 points for their first three games and Wednesday night they scored a 91-75 triumph over a Butler team that conquered Big Ten powerhouse Ohio State. The lllini beat Marquette, 100-90, and DePaul, 75-70, in their first two games. Mannie Jackson, 62Vi lllini forward, canned 13 field goals for 26 points while guard Bob Plump of Butler was game high scorer with 31 points. PHILLEY BECOMES PHILLIE Philadelphia OP) Dave Philley, veteran outfielder-first baseman who has seen service with five major league clubs, was acquired today by the Phil adelphia Phillies from the De troit Tigers. General Manager Roy Hamey said he would be used principally as a pinch-hitter. the lightest Comity Fa if ever distilled! BOURBON tmttii IIUIEI CM in m a mmi er.. wwaim . BEAT IT! H O T W A T E R T O O by LIIIIIIGER'S 2-5897 MUrdock 5-8121 O r
