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X EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Pros, Ams Tee Off Thursday li Annual Crosby Clambake By HAL WOOD United Press Sports Writer Pebble Beach, Calif. IP The Crosby Clambake, once a neighborly little $2,500 golf tournament down at Rancho Santa Fe near San Diego, joins the big leagues Thurs day when the world's great est professionals tee off with amateur partners in the chase for $50,000 in prizes. This sometimes is the zan lest tournament on the cir cuit, but nobody ever has doubted its worthiness. In the 16 years It has been staged, Bing has been able to turn over to charity about $350, 000. And he has shelled out more than this himself in prize money and expenses. But what makes the tourn ament different from the others in which the pros com pete is the make-up of the amateur partners. All Walks Of Life From all walks of sporting life they come to help out Bing and his charities. From the movies, television, radio, baseball, basketball, football, boxing, hockey and what-have-you. Some of the pros used to look down their noses at this event because they did not care to be playing with amateurs, such as Bob Hope who might be asking the au dience: "Wonder what the political situation is in Pata gonia?" while the pro is at tempting to sink a putt worth $2,000. Mostly, however, the ama teurs from other field take the game just as seriously as the professionals. The Monterey area, in which Pebble Beach is locat ed, is a hotbed of golf. There are five courses within walk ing distance of each other and the Monterey area peo ple probably know more about golf etiquette than any place this side of St. An drews, Scotland. But the fans who come from San Francisco, Oakland and other cities 100 miles or so away aren't exactly golf bugs. The Others Some of them are from the boxing world and they come cut to see how far Jimmy Mc Larnin can belt a ball; or they TENSE MOMENT Gay Brewer relaxes after sinking a 15-foot putt on the 18th green for a birdie and a one stroke lead at the end of the third round of the $40, 000 Los Angeles Open Golf Tournament He fired a one under par 67 to take the 54 hole lead with a total of 207. Pettit- Ailing Bur SL Victor By UNITED PRESS Bob Pettit of St. Louis is finding it hard to score with a cast on his broken left hand, but the Hawks are roll ing along the victory trail. The six-nine Pettit, whose best shot is a one-handed jump, is experiencing diffi culty maneuvering the ball with the cast extended over the palm of his left hand. He managed -only 11 points against the New York Knick erbockers Tuesday night, but his teammates accounted for enough points to beat the New Yorkers, 114-112, in the night cap of a National Basketball association doubleheader at Madison Square Graden. The victory was the Hawks 25th in 36 games played thus far and kept them nine full games ahead of the second place Cincinnati Royals in the Western Division race. The Royals defeated the slumping Minneapolis Lakers, 114-99, in the opener of the twinbill before a crowd of 8,239. DRIVE-IN PHONE Syracuse, N.Y. ff Keith S. McHugh, president of the New York Telephone Co says a coming develop ment is a drive-in telephone booth for busy motorists. vfc ,a J - 3 J may be stage-struck young sters who want to see Hoagy Carmichael or Dennis O'Keefe in action; or baseball fans who want to see if Ralph Kiner can clout a golf ball as far as he used to hit base balls. So very often they talk or laugh while the players are lining up a tee shot; or they ' , 5 - . : . : . ; ' - j QUICK CLICKS Smiley Quick of Los Angeles tips his hat to the gallery after holing out on the 18th green to take the lead in the opening round of the $40,000 Los Angeles Open Golf Tournament He finished the round with a four under par 67. Rigney Sees Improved Over Past Year (This is Ihe last of 16 dispatches on the off-season outlook of a c h major league club for 1958, writ ten by the managers of each club.) By BILL RIGNEY Manager of San Francisco Giants Written for the United Press Walnut Creek, Calif. itf) I don't go for making predic tions but I'll venture this one the San Francisco Giants will be a much Improved club over last year's sixth-place New York Giants and there are at least two reasons why. For one, the entire team could catch fire with renewed fan interest setting the spark just as the old Boston Braves did after moving to Milwau kee. And if either Orlando Ce peda comes through at first base or Willie Kirkland in the outfield, we'll be even tougher. They are our top rookies. Sure, there is a hole at catching. That was created when Wes Westrum became one of our coaches. We have some deals in the offing but mentioning names isn't a part of my policy either. Overall, I'd" say our pitch ing should be better next sea son, the infield seems solid and we have an old guy named Hank Sauer in left field who also may have a top notch season now that he is playing in a cooler climate. As for Willie Mays, he is going to get a lot more extra base hits In Seals stadium than he did in the Polo Grounds where much of his power was swallowed up in left center. Now let's talk about the pitching. There's no reason why Johnny Antonelli should not bounce back from last season's disappointment when he finished with 12-18. He's only 27 and a good, strong guy. Ruben Gomez had a fine season and should win 20 next year. He has all the abil ity in the world. And I'd like to see Marv Grissom have one more good year such as the last one. Among the kids, I'm pretty enthusiastic about lefthander Mike McCormick and Curt Barclay. McCormick still has a year to stay with us as a bonus player although he might just as easily stick around because he earned it. Barclay had a fair year with us as a freshman and owns a fine sinker. Another guy with ability is Ray Crone, who is always tough against the Dodgers. As for catching, although we have deals in the fire, we also have a fine youngster in Bob Schmidt who was with Minneapolis last season. You may be hearing a lot about him next season if he lives up to his potential. We also Wednesday. January 8, 1958 may tramp through a sand trap while hurrying to get a closer glimspe of a cinema star. But all through the tour ney good humor prevails with Hope and Crosby daily putting on an act that night clubs would pay big money to corner but which they do nate in the intrests of charity. Giants Much have Velmy Thomas and he got as many key hits for us last year as any other guy on the club. One thing is certain about our infield I want Darryl Spencer in there some place. He's my shortstop but might go over to second base if we shuffled Danny O'Connel to third. Cepeda hit .309 last year at Minneapolis and may give us the youth and power we need at that position. He is big weighs about 200, and he can hit to either field. Three Dropped From OCE Club Monmouth (W Three var sity basketball players were declared ineligible at Oregon College of Education Tuesday because of scholastic difficul ties, Registrar Jack Morton said. They included Bob Woods, DeWayne Crabb and Todd Sloan. Four players also were dropped from the JV squad. OCE opens conference play against Southern Oregon here this weekend. Hart, Baker Vie In 10-Rounder Chicago (IB Garnett (Sugar) Hart and Larry Bak er, a pair of welterweights dissatisfied with their last outings, meet tonight in a televised 10-rounder at the Chicago stadium. Hart, a 20-year-old Phila delphian, ruled a slight favor ite to defeat the 26-year-old New Yorker and move up a notch in the NBA ladder. The January ratings put Hart in the No. 9 spot and Baker at No. 8. People say HFC's money service is outstanding One friend tells another about Household's prompt, courteous and businesslike service. In fact, 2 out of 3 new cus tomers are referred to HFC by old customers. You may borrow up to $1500 with confidence from America's oldest and most experienced con sumer finance company. Modern money service backed by 80 gears of experience OUSEHOLD FINANCE 128 E. Main St., 2nd Floor PHONE: SPring 3-5301 Smart Sets Point Pace In PC Loop Los Angeles (IP) Doug Smart, 6-foot, 7-inch center for Washington, today led the Pacific Coast conference in scoring with an average of 19.5 points in two league games. The 21-year-old junior, a one-year letterman from Seat tle, topped the league scoring statistics released by the PCC office with a total of 39 points in two games. Little Monte Gonzales, sharpshooting sen ior guard from the University of Southern California, led the league in total points with 51, but they were spread over three games. He had a 17- point average. Smart was trailed by Ore gon State guard Jim Ross, 18.5 in two games; UCLA cen ter Ben Rogers, 17.5 in two games; Oregon State forward Dave Gambee, 17 in two tilts and Gonzales. So far this season Gonzales has attempted 41 field goals and made 20 of them for a .488 average, while Smart had made 15 of 34 attempts for a .422 mark. Burk Tops Average Oregon State's guard Burke, who hit 8 of 15 tries for field goals, led the PCC with the best average of .533, followed by Washington State's Dick Axelson, Stan ford's Dick Haga and Idaho's Hal Damiano, who hit half of the time. Ken Nanson of OSC had a nearly perfect free-throw mark, making 11 of 12 at tempts for a .918 mark. Paul Neumann of Stanford was next with .889, and Oregon's Charles Rask followed with .833. Gary McEwen, senior guard from Idaho, topped the PCC standings with 36 rebounds recovered with a .219 - per centage. Next was forward Dave Gambee of OSC with 31 and a .214 mark, trailed by center Hal Duffy of Ore gon, 17 for .207, and Smart, 25 for .169. In team statistics, Idaho was the leader in scoring with an average of 72 points in two games. Southern Cali fornia, the PCC leader with a 3-0 record, was second with 70 points. Washington State was next with a 64.5 average, follow ed by UCLA, 62.5; Oregon State, 61.5; Oregon, 58; Stan ford, 55; California, 50, and Washington, 49.5. Joseph Stops Gipson in Bout Portland (IP) L o u Joseph of Kent, Wash., knocked out Ernie Gipson of Seattle in the second round of a scheduled eight-round televised fight here Tuesday night. In other bouts Billy Cox, Vancouver, knocked out John ny Green, Portland in three; Billy Millstein, Seattle, knocked out Harold Nelson, Portland, in four; Johnny Wright, Portland, decisioned Joe King, Seattle, and Harvey Burk decisioned Hugh Wil liams of Portland. Bowling VICTORY LEAGUE Standings: W L Hearin Lumber Co. 4 0 Clave Construction Arthur Murray's Studio Quality Market E. H. Mann Co. .. Pick's Apparrel Rogue Sportsmen Sewing Machine Center . Pioneer Club U. S. Bank Davis Transfer 6 Earl's Eastside Union Station 0 Results: Hearin Lumber 4 (Eva Sessions, 485) 2205; U S. Bank 0 (Liz Under bill. 442) 2036. Clave Construction 4 (Doris Hick son. 497) 2184; Davis Transfer 0 (Edith Redfield, 463) 2014. Arthur Murray's 4 (Helen Paul son. 464) 2054; Union Station 0 (Zoe Brandan, 436) 1942. Quality Mkt. 3 (Loris Hay, 448) 1982; Pioneer Club 1 (Alice Monroe, 388) 1821. Mann Co. 2 (E. Lenz, 497) 3033; Pick's 2 (Vi Coats. 419) 2008. - Sewing Center 2 (Dorothy Smith. 421) 1839; Rogue Sportsman 2 (Kay Smith, 416) 1993. Judy Barmum picked 6-4-7 split. SPORTS WITH GENERALS Bill Scott, above, is one of the mainstays with the Washing ton, D. C, Generals who will oppose the Harlem Globe trotters at Hedrick Junior high gym on Friday night, Jan. 17. Scott, a guard, is six feet, two inches tall, weighs 180 pounds and played bas ketball at Western Kentucky University. Tickets are on sale at Lamport's in Medford. Seaftleites Keep Spots St. Petersburg, Fla. HP) Two Seattle, Wash., players led the way into the' third day of the West Coast Tennis championships today as all seeded players easily main tained their positions. Bill Quillian, second seeded in the men's division, and Janet Hobbs, first seeded in the women's division, both from Seattle, posted easy vic tories Tuesday. Quillian defeated Jim Vuil- le of St. Petersburg, 6-0, 6-1, and Miss Hobbs defeated Vuille's wife, Janet, 6-0, 6-1. Third seeded Armando Vie ra of Brazil eliminated George Lyttleton-Rogers of Los Angeles, former Irish Cup player, 6-1, 6-3. Tony Vincent of New York fourth seeded, downed Elon Ekman of Sweden, 6-4, 6-3. Jack Frost of Monterey, Cal., fifth seeded, defeated Thomas Hallberg of Sweden, 6-0, 6-2. In the women's division, second-seeded Louise Felix of Boston defeated 10-year-old Gloria Jean Sullivan of St. Petersburg, 6-0, 6-0, and third seeded Maria Bueno, an 18-year-old Brazilian, downed Stella Cunningham of St. Pe tersburg, 6-1, 6-1. PHYSICAL FOR KLTJ Pittsburgh (IP) Ted Klus sewski, one-time Cincinnati slugger acquired recently by the Pittsburgh Pirates, will undergo a complete physical examination sometime next week. Kluszewski has been suffering with an ailing back for the last year and a half. Oklahoma Tips Kansas Sans Stilt By FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer Wilt Chamberlain's groin injury is supposed to be minor but it has his Kansas team mates hurtin' all over today for the second time in a week. The Jayhawks suffered their second straight defeat since the great seven-foot star was sidelined when they bowed to Oklahoma, 64-62, Tuesday night. The loss hurt Kansas even more than last Thursday's 52-50 setback by Oklahoma State because it was the opener of its Big Eight schedule. But, once again, a defeat demonstrated graphically just how much Chamberlain does mean to Kansas. The figures tell the story. Wilt scored 30 points when Kansas beat Oklahoma State, 63-56, Dec. 2. Without Wilt, Kansas bowed to the same team by two points Jan. 2. And, on Dec. 26, Chamberlain poured in 41 points and grabbed 20 rebounds as Kan sas whipped Oklahoma, 68-50. North Carolina's third ranked Tarheels whipped Wil liam and Mary, 79-63, and Texas Tech beat Texas Christ ian in a key Southwest Con ference game, 83-70, in other top games Tuesday night. Rice's towering Owls made good on seven free throws in the last, three minutes to edge oui Southern Methodist, 78 74, in another Southwest con ference game at Houston, Tex. In other games, St. John's of New York remained un beaten with an 87-64 triumph over Rhode' Island, St. Peter's of New Jersey downed St. Francis of New York, 92-66, Richmond edged out The Cita del, 54-50, Virginia beat Vir ginia Tech, 80-65, LaSalle de feated Muhlenberg, 67-61, and Texas A&M scored a 71-50 victory over Texas University. Crater Frosh Rap Rogue River Central Point Crater high freshmen tumbled Rogue River 73 to 36 last night in a basketball fracas. The Comet five had 22 to 12, 40 to 20 and 56 to 28 leads at the quarters. Gary Romine had 15 points and Dennis Edwards and Loyal Higinbotham each 14 for Crater and Laws 14 for Rogue River. Crater headed backboard retrieving 59 to 20 with Bry son LaCasse getting 20 and Edwards 1 rebounds. LINE-UPS: 73 Crater Rogue River 36 F 6 Foote Laws 14 F 8 White Gail C 12 LaCasse Irwin 7 G 14 Edwards Combe S G 14 .Higinbotham Archer 2 Substitutions For Crater, Ro mine 15. Fisher. Nielson, Allen, Martin. Hoeue: for Rogue River. LRoss. Van Dorn, LeRoy 2, Dennis 4, FUTURE UNCERTAIN Philadelphia API The annual football series between Navy and the University of Pennsylvania will be con tinued through 1960 at Frank lin field but arrangements after that are contingent on mutual scheduling problems, it was announced Tuesday in a joint statement by Jerry Ford and Capt. Slade Cutter, athletic directors of the two schools. PRICES START AT PAL BOXERS OPPOSE TYC TEAM TONIGHT The weatherman has fore cast favorable conditions this evening for fight fans who wish to motor to the Esquire theater for the Medford Po lice Athletic league boxing card. A 12-bout program begin ning at 8 p.m. is planned in PAL's fistic show of the new season. PAL boxers will square off against rivals from the Talent Youth center. It will be a rematching of the two clubs who met last month in a card at Talent. Box office at the theater will open at 7 pjn. Both re served and general admission seats are being sold. A num ber of choice reserve seats were left this morning. Doublet Main Bob Little of PAL and Dave Parker of TYC will be foes in one of the double main event attractions. The other top-placed tussle will put Bo Brown of PAL against Talent Stays Unmarred; Loggers Need Overtimes JACKSON COUNTY B LEAGUE STANDINGS W L Talent : 5 0 Butte Falls 4 1 Jacksonville ... 2 3 Prospect o 4 St. Mary's 0 3 Pet. 1.000 .800 .400 .000 .000 Unmarred Talent , claimed its fifth straight victory in the Jackson County B Basket ball league in a romp last night but Butte Falls high had a much harder chore in main taining second place in the Talent's Bulldogs thumped Prospect 73 to 33. The Log gers of Butte Falls required two overtimes to get by Jack sonville 41 to 39 for their fourth league verdict. Dean Smith's 10-foot jump er two minutes into the second and sudden death extra period was the margin of Butte Falls decision. The game came close to being a Jacksonville triumph. The Redskins were on top with 37 to 35 with just seconds in regulation playing time remaining but a Mike Conley shot for the Loggers tied up the contest. Ken Per reard of Jacksonville and Conley put in buckets in the first overtime. Combs Scores Jacksonville headed 6 to 4 at the quarter. Then Butte Falls fought to a 20 to 12 spread at half time, widest gap of the night. The Redskins put in 10 straight points while holding BF scoreless in the third panel to go on top 22 to 20. Jacksonville had a four point lead in the third session and was on top 28 to 26 at the end of the period. Jim Irwin recorded 19 points and Conley 14 for Butte Falls and Perreard 14 for Jacksonville. Talent had 21 to 7, 35 to 23 and 51 to 23 quarterly edges. Phil Combs with 30 Presidio Clips OTI Owls Again Klamath Falls (IP) The Army's Presidio team of San Francisco held Oregon Tech to only 8 points in the second half Tuesday night to rack up its second straight win over the collegians, 51-28. The Presidio used a full court press and ball control to win easily. Don't sign the dotted line until you've driven a Plymouth Dick Knight Co. 33 $1998.00 WITH $498.00 DOWN Jerry Loper of TYC. Both are return matches. The seating at the Esquire theater on Main at Bear creek bridge recently was adjusted for boxing and wrestling presentations. TONIGHT'S CARD:.. 126 Bobby Little. PAL, vs Dave Parker. Talent. 150 "BO" Brown, PAL, vs Jerry Loper, Talent. 150 Buddy Smith, PAL, vs Jerry Loper, Talent. 150 Johnny Imus, PAL, vs Dick Bates, Talent. 126 George Aoki, PAL, vs Rollie Welburn. Talent. 120 Johnny Little, PAL, vs Dave Grimes, Talent. 110 Harvey Pamplin, Talent, vs Doug Batten. PAL. 105 Billy Thomas, PAL, vs Dave Westfall. Talent. 60 Danny Taylor, PAL, vs Ivan Lockwood, Talent. 85 Mike Rogers, PAL, vs Skip Moore. Talent. 85 Brian Young, PAL, vs Dick Jennings. Talent. Curtain Raising Bouts: 75 Bill Batten, PAL, vs Jerry Cutbirth, Talent. 70 Joe Bill Cowan, PAL, vs Les lie Tycksen, Talent. 70 Keenan Smith, PAL, vs Ken ny Kerrs. Talent. 60 Jimmy Jones, PAL, vs Danny Grimes, Talent. points and 17 rebounds, al though he sat out part of the game, was the big gun for the Bulldogs. He fired 10 for 20 from the field and 10 for 13 from the free mark. Three other players hit in double figures for the Bull dogs, Buzz Heard 14, Mel Gin gerich 11 and Jerry Baer 10. Dave Gardner had 12 and Mickey Ring 10 for Prospect. Talent had 34 to 14 advan tage in rebounds, shot .456 from the field and had an .808 free toss average. LINE-UPS: 41 Butte Falls F 6 D. Smith F 14 Conlev C Abbott G 2 Cavin Jacksonville 39 Winningham 2 E. Smith 8 Do well 11 Davis 2 G 19 Irwin Perreard 14 Jacksonville substitution Whit- ney 2. 73 Talent Prospect 33 F 11 Gingerich Davidson 3 F 6 Welburn Wheeler 2 C 30 Combs D. Gardner 12 G 14 Heard Ring 10 G 10 Baer scaite s Substitutions For Talent. Con ner. Lilja, Toll, Walls 2. Snyder, Butler; for Prospect, Grieves 1, Jantzer. Big Y Five Rambles On Big Y Market continued its undefeated status in the Med ford Independent Basketball league last night by crushing Hawkinson Tire Tread 83 to 50. ' Eagle Point pulled into fourth place in the loop with a lopsided triumph over Headquarters Company of the National Guard. Exact score was not revealed. On Monday Myron Root company held off its nearest challenger for second posi tion with a 55 to 53 nod over Company A of the National Guard. Eagle Point downed Standard Stations 65 to 30. Ron Van Dolah spurred Big Y with 22 points while Wheeler had 17 for Hawkin sons. LINE-UPS: 83 Big Y F 22 Van Dolan . F 10 Helm C 6 Newton Hawkinson'f 50 F. Johnson 2 D. Wheeler 17 - Clark 6 G 10 Bates , Thompson 5 G 13 Johnson McCay 8 Substitutions For Big Y, D. Spi nas 9, Mod. Jimenez 6. Mo. Jimenez 7. McGill: for Hawkinson's. Young 3. Harris 4, D. Johnson 4. 1957 Coach Prize Goes To Woody ' Philadelphia (IP) Vice President Richard M. Nixwn was guest speaker at a lunch eon today at which the Scripps - Howard newspapers presented a coach of the year award to Wayne Woodrow (Woody) Hayes, of Ohio State. The presentation to Hayes, who engineered Ohio State to a 10-7 victory over Oregon Mate in the Rose Bowl on New Year's day, was made by Jack Howard, president of the newspaper group. The luncheon was SDonsor- ed jointly by the SeriDDs- Howard DaDers and the Am- erican Football Coaches as sociation meeting here in con nection with the 52nd annual convention of the National Collegiate Athletic associa tion. Coach (Bud) Wilkinson nf Oklahoma succeeded Leftv James of Cornell as president of the RAFCA at the func tion. A reDort to the. NCAA hv the committee on infractions said that member schools and coaches appear to be cooper ating to a higher degree with NCAA regulations and en forcements. The committee', headed by A. D. Kurland, faculty repre sentative at the University of Kentucky, felt it "significant" that the past summer was the "quietest" since the inaugur ation of the present NCAA enforcement program s i x years ago. "By quieted, I mean that there were fewer complaints of alleged violajions filed with our committee . . . and those complaints ... for the most part, alleged less critical vio lations," Kurland said. The committee said it be lieves that penalties to be im posed for violations should have a "bite" to them since experience has shown that modest penalties are not ef fective deterrents. Locked-in Driver Causes Traffic Jam Philadelphia (IP) Horn honking autos were in a mile long traffic jam Tuesday night before someone got out and investigated the empty car at the head of the line. The driver had crawled into the car trunk for his tire chains and the door had closed, locking him in. There were 42 keys on the chain in the car's front seat. The 38th one got him out. 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