EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Wednesday, January 1, 1958
Diversity
Tournaments, Stadium
Boost Fan Enthusiam;
Achievements Recorded
A wide diversity of events
and activities, including
number of major tourna
ments, which stimulated fan
interest, and in some cases
created new appeal, joined
with numerous team and in
dividual achievements to
make 1957 a banner and me
morable year in Medford and
Rogue river valley sports his
tory.
First annual Oregon Water
Ski championships at Garden
er lake 16 miles northeast of
Medford was the particular
example of new enthusiasm
and appeal as hundreds of
spectators gathered on the
short for the two day tourna
ment. The women's state
bowling tourney was held
here for the first time and
with the 387 consecutive game
marathon achievement of
Dennis Dunham bolstered in
terest in the ball and pin
sport at Medford lanes.
Hudson Cup matches be
tween the top pros and ama
teurs of the northwest rival
ed the annual Southern Ore
gon Golf tournament for en
thusiasm at Rogue Valley
Country club. Interest in drag
racing continued to grow as
Southern Oregon Timing as
sociation staged periodic
events at its strip at Camp
White and climaxed with the
Northwest Gasoline cham-
e pionships and the fabulous
i Glass Slipper.
Stadium Built
In addition there was the
usual run of major tourna
ments such as the Rogue Val
lejC Retriever club field trial,
the Western Speedboat asso
ciation races at Emigrant
lake, the Southern Oregon
Bowling handicap and the
Southern Oregon Kennel club
show. Hardtop auto races con
tinued to attract although on
a lesser scale than past years
Construction of a small but
ttractive stadium at the Vet
erans Administration domicil
iary was a boost to both soft-
ball and baseball, particularly
revitalizing the Jackson Coun
ty Softball association and
providing a home for a semi
Dro baseball club and the
popular Rogue Valley Dairy-
Maids girls softball nine
Naming the No. 1 athletic
achievement of 1957 could
provoke considerable debate
It may seem that the peren
nial Success of the Medford
high track and field team is
a matter of routine. But cer
tainly the tremendous per
formance of the 1957 thinclad
squad rates with the top rank-
lgn.
With a record breaking
score, the Black Tornado won
an unprecedented fifth state
crown for Medford. The team
claimed first honors in the
Rogue and Hayward relays
and the district meet along
with victories in lesser con
filets. Welly Larson, Neil
Plumley and Jerry Close took
state meet firsts. The state
meet marked the end of Bob
Newland's Medford coaching
tenure with nine champion
ships in 10 years and left a
tremendous challenge for his
successor, Dean Benson.
Two-Man Team
;Sharing track laurels with
Mtdford were the Eagle Point
Eagles.' They won the Rogue
league and A-2 district meets
and the Little Rogue relays
and Wayne Christian and
Jack Greb scored 40 points
between them to give EP the
state A-2 title.
High individual honors went
to Howard Morris, Terry Mad
do and Neil. Plumley. Mor
ris. ex-Crater of Central
Point, won Little American,
a "first team berth as a Lin-
field college football player
Maddox. ex-Medford high,
was named second team All-
American as a University of
Oregon baseball outfielder.
Plumley, Medford high grid
tarklp was named to the
Wigwam Wiseman All-America
second team (for 1956).
Jack Morris and Norm
Cfeapman, a pair of ex-Medford
high men on the Univer
sity of Oregon team which
wen a Rose Bowl berth, were
named second team all-coast.
A-number of other athletes
from the valley made their
marks in college athletics.
Significance was the group
of athletes from this area at
ScJuthern Oregon college
vbich was on the upsurge.
Torn Findlay of the Ashland
scoool took a coast wrestling
tide.
On the prep scene Jim
Funston, Medford high center,
made two all-state teams.
Basilio Visits
Visit to Medford of a world
pro boxing champion. Carmen
Basilio, welterweignt, was
one of the big events of the
year, although his exhibition
was poorly attended. Attend
ance was better when fight
fans jammed the Craterian for
first theater television of box
of
ing in Medford. They saw Ba
silio take the middleweight
crown from Ray Robinson.
Prep wrestling with Klam
ath Falls taking the toga,
started off the round of league
or area titles decided during
the year. In basketball Klam
ath Falls, Eagle Point, Phoe
nix and Butte Falls high
schools and Mutual of Omaha
independents took crowns.
Mrs. Audrey Swoape was a
local winner in the state bowl
ing meet with her third all-
events trophy. In tennis Jim
Gordon, Medford, was district
singles champion and Klam
ath had the top high school
team.
In track St. Mary's was the
county B and district champ
and third in the state B meet,
Crater was second and Ash
land third in Class A Hay-
ward relays. YMCA women
of Medford won the Rogue
Valley Volleyball tourna
ment. Studs Dominate
Baseball titles went to
Grants Pass, Glendale and
Prospect high schools and the
Medford Cheney Studs dom
inated the Southern Oregon
semi-pro scene with one of the
best teams in the state. Jack
son county softball title was
won by Parsons Motors after
Crater Lake Motors had been
unbeaten in regular season.
Great West Life beat Crater
Lake in a district play-off.
Phil Getchell. Medford,
won the Southern Oregon golf j
championship after several
years of trying; Marj Fillis.
Salt Lake City, was women's
champ, and Marv Clark,
Grants Pass, senior winner.
Sue DeVoe, Medford, set a
RVCC course record, and
Helen Davies, also of Med
ford a new mark at Reames
club, Klamath.
Rod Sampson was overall
men's winner in the Oregon
water ski tourney and leaped
a surprising 104 feet in the
jump event.
In football Southern Ore
gon added the Oregon Col
legiate conference toga to a
title in golf and second places
in basketball and baseball.
Medford and Grants Pass
hieh tied in the A-l district
titular game and Medford got
the vote as district represen
tative. Glendale and Merrill
took the other prep district
titles.
Wayne Lemley was season
points champion in Valley
ViVew track hardtop auto
racing.
JANUARY:
Medford high defeats Cra
ter twice as prep basketball
leagues open in area; Med
ford splits with Klamath
Falls, wins two from Ashland;
Grants Pass, Aashland split
and each wins two from Cra
ter; Klamath tops Ashland,
Grants Pass each twice . . ..
Klamath gains ratings as high
as second, third, Medford
fourth, fifth in Oregon prep
hoop polls . . . Southern Ore
gon college cagers split with
Eastern Oregon, Portland
State, win two from Oregon
college, lose to Oregon Tech
. . . Neil Plumley, Medford
high tackle named to Wig
wam Wisemen prep football
Ail-American second team
. . .Crater high, Grants Pass,
Klamath Falls top Medford in
wrestling . . . Frank Rector,
ex-Medford high, does well in
University, of Portland bas
ketball; Jerry Kalapus, also
ex-Medford high stars on Pa
cific university cage team . . .
Lee, Beatrice Couch win Sis
kiyou Sports Car club rally
. Bob Newland, Frank Koe-
landt, Medford high coaches,
Eldon Francis, Medford high
athlete, among nominees for
Bill Hayward award . . . Illi
nois Valley second, Crater
third in Glendale mat meet
won by Sutherlin . . . Med
ford Bowling association
champions: E. H. Mann com
pany, team; Ed Olson, Mel
Mager, doubles; Dick De
Groot, singles; Bill Blunt, all-
events.
FEBRUARY:
Women's State Bowling as
sociation tourney opens at
Medford lanes with 277 teams
and 1,264 ladies entered .,.
Medford high defeats Grants
Pass, Crater each twice, loses
two to Klamath Falls; Klam
ath Falls trims Crater, splits
with Ashland; Ashland wins
two from Grants Pass, splits
with Crater; Grants Pass, Cra
ter divide in Southern Oregon
conference basketball . . .
Eagle Point high Rogue lea
gue basketball champion . . .
Phoenix high District 6 A-2
southern division hoop titlist
, Butte Falls Jackson Coun
ty B league and subdistrict 5
cage champion . . . Lloyd
Pope wins Rogue Valley
Country club holiday golf
handicap . . . Klamath Falls
leads, Medford alumni form
Thirty Stater club here with
ctivities Helps Make
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STATE TRACK CHAMPIONS Wayne
Christian, left, and Jack Greb, scored all 40
Murray Dumas president ,
Southern Oregon colleges win
one, loses one to Oregon Tech,
splits with Eastern Oregon
Oregon college, Portland
State, takes second in Oregon
Collegiate conference basket
ball; Oregon Tech OCC titlist
. . . Oregon Sportsmen club
of Jackson County formed
with Bill Pelsery president;;
club wants doe deer, cow elk
seasons halted ' while herd
control study made . . . Mu
tual of Omaha Medford Inde
pendent Basketball league
winner . . . Glenn Cunning
ham, ex-U.S. mile champ, ad
dresses Medford high stu
dents . . . Pear Pickers of Med
ford Oregon junior bowling
champions . . . First Baptist
Medford YMCA Church lea
gue basketball first half win
ner . . . Klamath Falls wins
district prep wrestling crown
with seven individual champs
. . . Fred Spiegelberg, Medford
high coach named coach of
State team for Shrine all-star
football game . . . Bert Peck
re-elected Medford Gun club
president . . . Rogue Valley
Quarter Midget association
holding auto races at Jackson
Hot springs .. . . Lee Flink,
Medford, named state A-l
prep cage tourney referee . . .
Great Western Life Insurance
Klamath Falls AAU district
hoop victor . . . Norm Oliva
sparkplug of Southern Ore
gon college through basket
ball season . . . Seven Medford
Police Athletic league boxers
win Roseburg -matches . .
Bill Esselstyn named Rogue
Valley Basketball Referees
association president.
MARCH:
Klamath Falls wins two
each from Grants Pass, Ash
land; Medford splits with
Ashland, cops two from
Grants Pass in basketball;
Klamath champ Medford run
ner-up in Southern Oregon
conference basketball . .
Medford high cagers lose to
Eugene, Albany in state tour
nament; Klamath takes fifth
in A-l tournament . . . Glide
wins District 6 A-2 play-off
from Phoenix high, Malin
beats Butte Falls in District
5B play-off in basketball .
Southern Oregon college
downs Lewis and Clark, loses
to University of Portland, in
NAIA district basketball tour
ney . . . Neil Plumley, Dick
McLaughlin, Dick Copple,
Medford high, named to State
Shrine all-star grid squad .
McLaughlin, Copple plus
Glenn Moore, Butch Kimp
ton, Klamath Falls, Mel Dail-
ey, Jack Eberhart, Ashland,
on Mail Tribune's All-Southern
Oregon conference bask
etball team . . . Oregon State
Woman's Bowling association
tourney ends at Medford
lanes; Class A winners: Luc
ca Lounge, Klamath Falls
team; Mrs. Audrey Swoape,
Medford, all-events; Artice
Wilson, Carol Duzan, Prine
ville, doubles; Helen Rozman,
Eugene, singles; Waneta Ball
new association president . ,
First Methodist Senior church
league champ, second in Eu
gene YMCA tourney . . . Jer
ry Kalapus, Pacific univer
sity, ex-Medford high, on the
Northwest conference all-star
second team . . . Tom Findlay,
Southern Oregon college, 167
pound Pacific coast wrestling
champ . . . Norm Oliva,
Southern Oregon, on Oregon
Collegiate conference all-star
first team . . . Archie Has-
kins, Ashland, tops Medford
Rifle and Pistol club section
al rifle tourney . . . E. H.
Mann company, assumes sec
ond in class in Albany All
Coast bowling . . . Harry Chip
man given Medford profes
sional wrestling, boxing fran
chise, also new president of
Rogue Valley Baseball league
. . . Ed Hogan, Portland, wins
three-city pro-am golf tourn
ey ending at Rogue Valley
Country club . . . Crater high
trackmen beat Ashland . . .
Medford high drops baseball
opener to Yreka . . . Ed Rupp
president of new Southern
Oregon Boat club . . . Rogue
Valley Retriever club field'
MEDFORDOMlttBUNE
ft. 1 TTnT IN TTT rfTiA. 1
w rl m.H-l.
trial winners: Devilkin, own
ed by Claude Miles, Medford,
qualifying stake; Peter Pan,
owned by Anthony DiPangra-
zio, Seattle, derby; Atom Bob,
owned by J. C. Lundy, Boise,
amateur; Craigmar Dustrack,
owned by Forrest Flashman,
Seattle, open stake . . . Sev
en Police Athletic league
members win on local ama
teur boxing card ...Bob
Newland, Medford high track
coach, to become vice princi
pal of new North Eugene high
school in September . . .
George Harrington, RVCC
manager, leaves to take sim
ilar post at Arizona Country
club, Phoenix . . . Eagle Point
high tips Medford in tennis
. . . Southern Oregon college
beats Oregon Tech in base
ball . . . Medford high and
strong inn on-scoring track
meet with Crater, Ashland
. Ed Badley, Grants Pass
wins .Black Hear Bowman
shoot . . . Margaret .Taylor,
Central Point, second overall
in national junior sectional
rifle shoot . . .
APRIL
Medford high track team
wins Rogue relays, metro div
ision of Hayward relays,
Grants Pass Rotary meet,
downs Ashland, Crater . . .
Medford wins six events, sets
five records in Haywards;
half mile relay team betters
state record twice: Wally Lar
son, Medford, betters state
mark in hurdles; Bilbee Lane
sets Medford school half-mile
record; Mike Russell, Med
forC runs sub :50 quarter-mile
. . . Bill Dellinger, American
Olympic team member, runs
4:09.5 mile on Medford track
. . . Eagle Point wins Little
Rogue relays , . . Grants Pass
wins Southern Oregon fresh
man relays . . . Crater sec
ond, Ashland third in Class
A Haywards; Wayne Christ
ian, Eagle Point, sets two
Class B Hayward marks . . .
Medford high baseballers split
with Klamath Falls, loses two
to Ashland, beat and tie Rose
burg, loses to Grants Pass,
wins two from Crater, ' lose
two to Springfield, drop one
to University of Oregon
Frosh; Crater wins two base
ball games from Ashland, one
from Eagle Point, two from
Klamath Falls; Klamath wins
two from Ashland . . . Med
ford high golfers second in
Albany tourney, beat Corval
lis, lose to Oregon State col
lege Rooks, beat Roseburg,
second to Marshfield in three
way meet, beat Marshfield in
dual . . . Medford high tennis
team loses to Springfield, Eu
gene, Roseburg, Ashland, Kla
math Falls, beats Yreka, and
Eagle Point . . . Gordon Mil
ler, Drain, Martin Clogston,
Medford, high overall in
Southern Oregon zone trap-
shoot, Medford Gun club . . .
Ted Novi, Dick Pharis, Lou
Wheeler, Albany, Paul Wood
ruff, Harvey Reinke, Salem,
Ned Collett, Eugene, winners
in Western Speedboat associ
ation regatta . . . Eagle Point
high tennis team downs
Grants Pass, loses to Ashland
Bill Irwin, Butte Falls,
Don Vannice, Prospect high,
toss ' no-hitters in Jackson
County B Baseball league . . .
Tinker Hatfield, Rogue Riv
er high coach, to take job at
Shedd high . . . Jack Morris,
Jack Moad, Ed Bingham,
Jeff Williams, ex-Medford, on
University of Oregon track
team . . . Cliff Cordy, ex-Cra
ter, Don Cla, ex-Jacksonville,
on Oregon State college track
squad; Cordy sets school half-
mile record . . . Southern
Oregon college baseballers di
vide with Humboldt, Oregon
Tech twice, lose two to Ore
gon college . . . Southern
Oregon track team . beats
Shasta JC, third to OTI and
points between them to give Eagle Point
high the Oregon A-2 track championship.
Humboldt, loses to Chico, but
Gary Lewis, ex-Medford high,
sets SOC javeline record . . .
Bob Killium wins Rogue Val
ley Riders motorcycle hill
climb .. . . Redding, Calif.,
defeats Rogue Valley Country
club in gof . . . Medford Rife
club team second in state
shoot . . . Bob Watkins, Med
ford, president of new Ore
gon State Skin Diving associ
ation . . . Terry Maddox, ex
Medford high, captains, stars
for University of Oregon in
baseball . . . Frank Roelandt
to manage Medford Cheney
Studs baseball nine . . . Jim
Sheldon, Medford, wins Cali
fornia association of collec
tors golf tourney . . . Larry
Copple, Warren Deakins, ex
Medford. high, on OSC golf
team . . . Warren Dunlap's
"Butch" Southern Oregon
Hound Owners field trial
winner . . . Medford Wom
an's Bowling association win
ners: Motor Haven, team:
Gertie Riggs and Nelda Rob
erts, doubles; Thelma King,
singles; Audrey Swoape, all-
events, scratch; Dorothy Hop
kins, all - events, handicap
Elsie Baker new association
president . . . Veterans of For
eign Wars Bantam league
bowling champ . . . Glendale
high clinches Rogue league
baseball crown . . . Medford
PAL boxers win eight bouts
in Talent Youth Center box
mg starter . . . Mike Murray
sets Medford high sophomore
shot put record . . . Dick Tra
vis spring handicap golf
champ at RVCC . . .
MAY:
Medford track men down
Klamath Falls, win fifth
straight district and state
championships, ninth state
title in 10 years; Neil Plum
ley, Medford, puts shot 60
2 and 60-3 V . . . Eagle
Point wins Rogue league and
A-2 district and state track
BREAKS BARRIER Neil
Plumley, Medford high, broke
the 60-foot barrier in the 12
pound shot put, won the state
shot title and was named to
the Wigwam Wisemen foot
ball All - American second
team. The grid honor was for
the 1956 season.
tiles; Wayne Christian, Jack
Greb score all Eagle points in
state test ... St. Mary's of
Medford Jackson County B
and B district track champ
and third in state . . . Pros
pect high wins Jackson B
baseball toga, loses to Malin
in district play-off . . . Med
ford high baseballers beat
Klamath Falls twice, down
Yreka, split with Ashland,
Crater; Grants Pass diamond
ers beat Crater in two (Jim
Smith pitches no-hitter in one
to cinch Southern Oregon
conference title) lose to Med
ford; Crater divides with
Crescent City in baseball, de
957
feats Ashland as Fred Herr
mann hurls no-hitter; Klam
ath Falls beats Ashland base
ballers twice . . . Medford
high tennis team downs Ash
land, Grants Pass; Jim Gor
don, Medford, singles, Don
Finney, Jim Hines, Klamath
Falls, doubles, district tennis
champions . . . Grants Pass
freshmen, district track cham
pion . . . Grants Pass downs
Crater, Ashland in three-way
track meet . . . Southern Ore
gon college wins three base- i
ball games from Portland
State, scores fourth win over
Oregon Tech, tops Eastern
Oregon on no-hitter by Duane
Siaes, ex-Medford high, takes
second in Oregon Collegiate '
conference . . . Carmen Basi- j
lio, world welterweight box- j
ing champion, in exhibition j
at Hedrick Junior high gym
. . . Gene Hunt, Medford
wins Mail Tribune trophy in
trapshoot, Harry Lupher,
Drain, high overall for two
days . . . Derald Wooton, ex-
Medford high, making pro
baseball comeback try with
Macon Dodgers of the Sally
league . . . Southern Oregon
OCC golf champ . . . Bill
Blunt has near perfect game
with 299 at Medford Bowling
lanes . . . Medford YMCA
women win Rogue Valley
Volleyball tourney . . . Wash
ington grade . school track
champion . . . Medford high
seventh in state golf meet .
Plumley, Mike Murray, Wal
ly Larson, Medford, win state
AAU track events . . . Dean
Benson, ex - Willamette uni
versity, chosen Medford high
track coach . . . Ron Owings
top hitter in Southern Oregon
college baseball; Owings, Ned
and Ted Landers, ex-Medford
high, and Dick Nix, of SOC
team, on OCC all-star .
Bud Cook wins main in hard
top auto raee opener at Val
ley View track . . . Miller-
Rudig dragster sets Camp
While strip record in South
ern Oregon Timing associa
tion drags . . . Tom Hamlin
wins Junior Chamber of
Commerce golf tourney here
. . Fishing poor as season
opens at rehabilitated Dia
mond lake; thousands try
luck . . . Jim Darland hon
ored as St. Mary's most val
uable and best all-around ath
lete; Ron Pruitt gets spirit
award . . . Larry Perkins in
hitting, Dick McLaughlin in
defense pace Medford high
baseball team . . . New Veter-
ants Administration domicil
iary stadium dedicated at
Camp White; VAD defeats
Medford Cheney Studs .
Bowling league champions
Cummins Diesel, Senior-Jun
ior; Morse Motors, Classic
league; Shrine Club, Crater
Lake; Mail Tribune, Com
mercial; Tru Mix, Evergreen
JUNE:
Tom Van Etten, Gail Schop
pert replace Stan Smith in
Eagle Point high coaching;
Smith takes Baker post .
TERRY MADDOX
Baseball All-American
Other coaches named: In
Jackson County B league,
William McKibbin, St. Marys;
George Bray, Butte Falls
high; Millard Webb, Talent;
Dan McCluskey, Prospect;
Delmar Sandgren, Charles
Peil, Rogue River; at Medford
high, Tom Marier, assistant;
Jim Nau resigns at Crater
high for China Lake, Calif.,
post . . . First National bank
City Bowling league winner
, . Medford Cheney Studs
sweep through Rogue Valley
Baseball league games, down
Drain twice, Yreka once . . .
Terry Maddox, University of
Oregon, ex-Medford high, on
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MARATHON BOWLER Dennis Dunham, Grants Pass, brief
ly held the world title for consecutive games by rolling 387
straight at Medford Bowling lanes. Here he was congratulat
ed by his mother, Mrs. Clint Dunham, after bettering former
record.
collegiate All-America second
team, on Northern division
all-star, on Pacific Coast con
ference scholarship honor roll
. . . Rogue Valley Country
club eighth in Alderwobd In
vitational golf . . . Charles
Beck, cycle, Miller - Rudig
dragster top eliminators in
Southern Oregon Timing as
sociation drags ... Ed Gor
don, RVCC, nets 57 on Na
tional Golf day . . . YMCA
church softball league opens
. . . Jackson County Softball
association has Dairy Maids
as lone women's team; Ron
Weatherford, Chuck Halcom
hurl no-hitters in loop . .
Lon Skinner, Medford, tops
Sodabay water skit meet . ,
Dom Provost Jr., Bill Knope,
RVCC two-ball golf cham
pions . . . Medford American
Junior Legion baseballers win
two ' each from Lakeview,
Klamath Falls, lose to Rose
burg ... Dairy Maids win
two of three from Eugene,
McCulloch saw, down Chico,
Red Bluff, Calif. . . . Tom
Hamlin, Pam Stacey, Med
ford, Oregon Golf association
junior tourney semi-finalists
. . . Sports Illustrated uses
cover photo by Fred Chez, ex
Medford athlete . . . Chuck
Dorn wins Rogue Valley Rid
ers cycle field meet and hill
climb Harry Millette, Pro
vost, Harvey Woods Jr.,
RVCC play on upstate team
in OGA senior tourney warm
up; Millette wins OGA open
ing match; Sue DeVoe, Med
ford goes to OGA semi-finals
. . . 250 boys in the Medford
schools baseball program . . .
Rod Sampson, Elva Swoffer,
Floyd and Vicki Vance, Gary
Eames class overall winners
in first annual Oregon Water
Ski championships; Sampson
Jumps 104 feet; Lon Skinner
runner-up to Sampson and
wins men's slalom.
JULY:
Medford Cheney Studs roll
on unbeaten in Rogue Valley
Baseball league; beat San
Francisco Presidio, Klamath
Falls, Dunsmuir split with Se
attle Studs, lose two to Drain
. . Rogue Valley Country
club golf juniors beat Klam
ath Falls team . . . Fred Dorn-
an, RVCC assistant, takes
Olympia, Wash., golf pro job
. Roseburg American Jun
ior Legion baseballers bop
Medford three times, take dis
trict title; Medford Legion
beats Klamath Falls twice.
Union Creek once . . . Doug
Kinney hurls no-hitter for
Medford team which wins
Southern Oregon Junior Base
ball intermediate league;
Jerry Anderson tosses no-hitter
for Medford Cub team;
Bill Anhorn, Central Point,
Bob Jacobs, Talent, have no
hitters in same intermediate
game; Mike Glines no-hits for
Medford Wildcat pee wees . . .
Dairy Maids defeat Myrtle
Creek, Chico twice, Salem
Shamrocks Orland, Calif., lose
to Portland Lind Florists, di
vide with Eugene McCulloch
. Derald Wooton, Medford,
pitching regular for Macon
Dodgers in Sally league . . .
Sue DeVoe, Medford, wins
opening match in Pacific
Northwest Golf association
meet . . . Southern Oregon
Bowling tourney winners:
Business Men's Assurance, I
Roseburg, Wooden Shoe, Med-1
ford, teams; Bruce Williams,
Ann Price, singles; Marshall
Brown and Harry Frye and !
Sally Moreno and Amta Nich-.
ols, doubles; Frye and Moreno, j
all-events ... Charles Beck ;
top eliminator Southern Ore-:
gon Timing association drag i
races . . . Dan Murphy wins 1
VOLKSWAGEN" J
SMARTEST
INVESTMENT
Sports
sc. 3
Medford Rigle and Pistol club
outdoor pistol shoot . . . Tom
Hamlin, Mike Monroe, Pam
Stacey, Richie Knight South
ern Oregon Golf champs . . .
Claude Miles' Boots open win
ner at Diamond lake retriever
trial . . . Gross 75 by Helen
Davies, Medford, women's
course record for Reames golf
course, Klamath Falls . . .
Harry Millette, Rogue Valley
Country club, gains Oregon
Coast Golf tourney quarter
finals . . . Dove hunting to
be permitted in Jackson coun
ty alter game commission
first proposes ban; hunter,
farmer controversy; Oregon
Sportsmen club hunter choice
deer, elk season but game
commission cuts only slight
ly .. . Fred Spiegelberg, Med
ford high football coach, has
close call when tractor and
combine roll down hill . .
RVCC wins team golf match
from Eugene . . . First Bap
tist, Medford Nabarene top
standings at end of YMCA
Church Softball league round
robin . . .
AUGUST:
Medford Tiger pee wees,
Grants Pass Cubs take South
ern Oregon junior baseball
mantles . . . Studs unbeaten
champs of Rogue Valley Base
ball league, beat Klamath
Falls Kubs, Drain Black Sox,
end season with 21-4 record;
Butte Falls, Grants Pass drop
from RVL before season ends
. . . Harry Millette Rogue
Valley Country club golf
champ; Sue DeVoe women's
champ; Bill Catey senior
titlist; Stewart Schroeder
caddy winner . . . Robert
Duane and Bill Ivey win Sis
kiyou Sports Car club rally
. . . Rogue Valley Dairy Maids
beat Astoria, lose to Forest
Grove, Albany in women's
state softball tourney, defeat
Red Bluff, Calif. Sue DeVoe
shots 72 for women's non-competitive
golf record at RVCC,
wins three matches in wom
en's National Amateur . . j
RVCC juniors win team golf
match with Klamath Falls . . .
Lakeview defeats Medford Mc
Colluch Chain Saw for state
softball tourney spot . . . Six
records fall in Southern Ore
gon Timing association drags,
Miller - Rudig dragster top
eliminator . . . Bill Seymour
named Jacksonville High
coach . . . Mel Boldenow re
signs at McLoughlin junior
high for Corvallis coaching
position . . . Dick McLaugh
lin, Neil Plumley, Dick Cop
ple, Medford, play in Oregon
Shrine all-star football game;
Plumley in Wigwam Wiseman
all-star game . . . Larry But
ler, Medford Ingram, Ercel
Kay low gross in Oregon Sen
ior Golfers association sweep
stakes here . . . First Baptist
YMCA Church Softball league
champ . . . Marj Fillis, Dr.
Robert Buck, Larry Butler
medalists in Southern Oregon
Golf tourney at RVCC; Bob
Norquist fires hole-in-one in
match . . . New leagues added
at Medford Bowling lanes . . .
Dove population in area be
low normal . . . Don Anielak
Hubbard
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Crater high basketball coach
. . . Central Point Junior
Chamber of Commerce sells
Coca Cola in drive for Crater
high football scoreboard ...
SEPTEMBER:
Phil Getchell, Marj Fillis,
Mary Clark, Southern Oregon
golf champs . . . Crater Lake
Motors loses to Lakeview in
play-off for state tourney
berth, ends Jackson County
Softball association regular
season unbeaten but Parsons
Motors wins play-off for toga
. . . Magic Fame, poodle of
Marguerite Tyson, Minden,
Nev., best dog in ' Southern
Oregon Kennel club show . . .
John Reed, Carlyle Dean,
named head football, basket
ball coaches, respectively at
McLoughlin Junior high . . .
Glass Slipper top eliminator
sets record 134.23 miles per
hour in Southern Oregon Tim
ing association Northwest Gas
oline championship auto races
. . . Jack Morris, Norm Chap
man, ex-Medford high, Uni
versity of Oregon football co
captains; Howard Morris, ex
Crater, in fourth year on Lin-
field college grid varsity; play
ers from this area many on
Southern Oregon college grid
MARJORY FILLIS
SO Golf Champ
roster . . . Medford high loses
to North Salem, beats David
Douglas in football; Crater
beats Yreka, Eagle Point, ties
Redmond; Ashland loses to
rresnpnt f!itv Ttnsphurff. hpats
I lifted ii
Yreka . . . Southern Oregon
college gridders down Moffett .
Air Force base, British Colum- :
bia . . . John and Jack Kerr,
father-son golf champions at
Rogue Valley Country club;
Mr. and Mrs. William Clark
husband-wife champs . . . W.
B. Hunter, Delmar Sandgren,
president, secretary of Rogue
league U.-2 high schools) . . .
Jim Standley wins Main in
final hardtop auto race of -Valley
Vieiw track season,
Wayne Lemley season points
champ . . . Top pros and top
amateurs of northwest tie in
Hudson Cup golf matches at
RVCC . . . Sellout crowd
watches Carmen Basilio-Ray
Robinson title boxing bout on
Craterian theatre screen; first
theatre television of fight in
Medford . . . Medford sixth in
Oregon Journal football rat
ing poll . . . Medford high
second to Grants Pass in cross
country run . . .
OCTOBER:
Several football games can
celled by flu . . . Medford high
football team defeats Crater,
Klamath Falls, Eureka, Calif,
loses to Marshfield; Grants
Pass beats Crater, Ashland,
Klamath Falls; Ashland tops
Glendale high beats Phoenix
to cinch Rogue league grid
crown . . . Southern Oregon
college nips Portland State in
football, beats Oregon Tech,
Oregon college, loses to Lin
field . . . Phil Moyer downs
Roy Ray in main event of
professional boxing card here .
. . . Swiftens' dragster top .
eliminator in United Medford
Crusade benefit races . . .
Norm Chapman, University of '
Oregon center, ex-Medford
high, lost to Ducks for season
with ankle injury . . . Mrs.
William Miller wins fall golf
handicap and women's trophy
at Rogue Valley Country club
. Virgil Swanson elected
president of Rogue Valley
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