Pro Football Drops
Bonus Choice Plan
Philadelphia W The
National Football league's
bonus plan which gave each
team a free pick of the best
college talent once during the
past 12 years was a thing of
the past today following its
abolishment at the league's
annual meeting.
The bonus pick was kicked
out of the window Wednesday
night in a drastic move after
the owners could not agree
on a substitute for the draw-from-the-hat
plan which Con
gress intimated was a lottery
at Washington hearings last
spring.
It had been a happy spread-the-talent
plan. Instituted in
1947 on the premise that the
top teams never had a chance
at the standout stars because
they selected last in the play
er draft. The originator was
Curly Lambeau, then coach of
the Green Bay Packers.
A team was eliminated
from future draws ohce it
drew the lucky number from
the hat. The 12-team span was
completed last Sept. 2 at the
league's early draft when the
Chicago Cardinals, the only
non-winner to that point,
chose quarterback King Hill
of Rice.
hunting & Fishing
Southern Oregon
By MEL REES
The official opening for the
1958 trout season on the coast
has been set for May 24 de
spite the vigorous protests by
a number of coastal organiza
tions. This follows the usual
procedure by most game com
missions in adopting the rec
ommendations of their biolo
gists and disregarding the
wishes and arguments of the
sportsmen.
what the biologist said and
10 per cent on the opinions
and finding of the sports
men. He further stated that
as far as he was concerned
he would make it 100
per cent for the biologist.
This is the same as to say
that if he were running a
large business, he would de
pend entirely on education
and none on experience.
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Crater Lions Sports Fair
Scheduled for April 12-13
The 1958 Crater Lions
Sports Fair is scheduled April
12 and 13 at the Medford Na
tional Guard Armory-
About 17 sports clubs will
have exhibitions or demon
strations at the fair, accord
ing to club officials. The event
will be the largest of its kind
EP, Phoenix
In Crucial
Rogue Tilts
Eagle Point apd Phoenix
highs, just a game back of the
' leaders, will attempt to fight
to the front of the pack in
games this week end but one
can spoil the hopes of the
other.
On Friday Eagle Point is
host to Brookings and Phoe
nix meets Illinois Valley at
Cave Junction. Then on Sat
urday Eagle Point goes to
Phoenix.
Glendale is at Rogue River
for a Friday scrap and other
Saturday games are Brook
ings at Glendale and Illinois
Valley at Rogue River.
Phoenix is favored over IV,
having downed that club
three times, twice outside the
circuit. Eaigle Point, previous
10-point loser at Brookings, is
expected to make it tougher
on the Bruin on the EP floor.
The up and coming . Eagles
have a league triumph over
the Phoenix after dropping
two pre-conference frays to
the Pirates.'
Glendale is the choice to
whip Rogue River and faces
a real crucial when it meets
Brokings since it is tied for
the lead with the Bruins.
Brookings handed Glendale a
trouncing last time out but
the Douglas county team is
expected to provide stiffer
opposition Saturday.
in southern Oregon, accord
ing to Frank Wilson, pres
dent of Crater Lions.
He said Crater Lions are
sponsoring the event to pro
mote- sportsmanship and
sports attractions in southern
Oregon. The recreational
value of sports also will be
stressed, he added
Boats of all sizes, outboard
and inboard motors, camping
trailers and sports cars will
be on exhibit, Wilson said
About 30 booths are planned.
he said
Door prizes of an outboard
motor, boat and rifle will be
offered. All proceeds from ad
mission fees will be put to
wards the Crater Lions club
sight and blind funds, offic
lals said
Pilots Eye
Cage Upset
By UNITED PRESS
The University of Portland
Pilots hope to pick up tonight
where they left off last week
against Bradley when they
meet Elgin Baylor and comp
any at. Seattle.
The Pilots scored a stun
ning upset when they drop
ped the Braves, lOth-ranked
nationally at that time, on
their barnstorming tour of the
Midwest after barely losing
an overtime decision to strong
Depaul.
Although Portland has al
ready been battered twice this
season by Seattle with
Baylor pouring through 48
points in one contest coach
Al Negratti figures his Pilots
have finally "jelled" and are
ready to give anyone a tussle.
Whether they have jelled
enough to stop the Baylor-led
Chieftains is another question.
But the Pilots' defeat of
Bradley on the Braves' home
ground and the fact that
Portland and Seattle are "tra
ditional" rivals would seem to
indicate that this one won't
be another march to the
slaughter house.
Company A
Gains MIBL
Third Place
Company A of the Nation
al Guard wrapped up third
place in the final standings
of the .Medford Independent
Basketball league last night
by edging Eagle Point 52 to
50.
Ted Yarnell's two free
tosses in the closing seconds
were the margin of triumph
after nip and tuckfinal min
utes.
The contest wound up regu
lar season play in the loop
except for possible make-up
action between Big Y market
and Eagle Point and possible
replay between EP and Hawk-
inson Tire Tread. Whether
these games will be staged
depends on AAU district play
off plans which are yet to
be learned from Carl Beng-
ston, Grants Pass, district
commissioner.
Spots in Question
Fouth and fifth places in
the MIBL are still in doubt
between Eagle Point and
Hawkinson's. If four teams
from the MIBL will be in the
play-offs, no deciding action
within the loop will be re
quired since second spot My
ron Root company had de
clined to participate. How
ever, if three teams are to be
entered in district run-offs,
the question between the
Eagles and Tiremen must be
settled.
Scorebooks differed after
the completion of the Eagle
Point and Hawkinson mix on
Monday.
Yarnell paced the Company
A decision last night with 21
markers. The Guardsmen led
at the half 24 to 21.
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52 Compagy A Eagle Point
F 10 Weddle Moore
F 8 Parent Irwin
C 7 Nolan Nelson
a. R Burns ClarK
G 21 Yarnell Schoppert
FOUR MISTAKES
Augusta, Me. (IP) The
"deer kill" during Maine's
1957 hunting season included
two cows, a prize bull and
a bull calf, all mistaken by
hunters for deer.
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2
4
Eagle Point substitutions Dan
iels 3. Van Etten 8, Austin 2. Sim
mons, Copeland 3.
Junior High
Fives Scrap
Three 'McLoughlin Junior
high basketball teams vie at
Grants Pass on Friday after
noon. Ninth and seventh grader
games are at 3:30 p.m. and
Eighth grade clubs meet at
4:30 p.m.
Hedrick ninth will be host
to Klamath Falls on Satur
day with game time set for
1:30 p.m.
It would seem that the onen
mpptines hpforp the tentative NUMBER TOO SMALL
reeulations are set. are Home- There are no doubt expert-
what of a farce because in enced biologists in the field
most instances these hearings Dut tneir number is too small
are only opportunities for the to Prevent the many mistakes
sportsman to blow off made fey the trial and error
steam then be ignored.
ADMITTED WRONG
Two years ago a Califor
nia biologist who was born,
reared and educated in the
East, recommended a eixher-
sex deer season in the
northern counties at a time
when the resident sports
men knew and pointed out,
that he deer would all be
down from the high country
and therefore very vulner
able.
No amount of pleading
veered the commission from
accepting the recommenda
tion of this man who may
have known the habits of
eastern deer but decidedly
knew very little of our Pa
cific coast. Thousands of
gunners hauled them out by
the fender load does.
fawns and some old bucks
who had survived many
normal hunting seasons.
With a decimated deer
herd, this biologist finally
admits that he was wrong,
but this admission can't
correct the damage that has
been done.
boys,
Final proof of the mis
management of game in our
state is its dwindling supply
and this is not due entirely to
hunting pressure Pennsyl
vania brought theirs back
after they had lost it by
good management.
A game commisison re
gional director was attempt
ing to point out to me about
two years ago that we had
more game now than ever be
fore. He said that our deer
herds east of the mountains
were at an all time high. I
disagreed with him and asked
him if he had been over there
"No," he replied, "but that's
what I hear!" I advised him
that he would have a difficult
time feeding that line to the
sportsmen who hunt there
each year or to ihe men who
own the land.
I don't know too much
about why our coastal cousins
didn't want a late trout open
ing but I'll lay odds that if
they took the trouble and
time to go to Portland to com
plain about it they had some
basis for their contention
CLAIMED OUT OF KILTER
Two or three years ago a
biologist in the Steen moun
tain area recommended a doe
season after his survey of the
ratio of bucks to does in the
fields adjacent to the rough
country convinced him that
this ratio was out of balance.
Residents of that area and
veteran hunters tried to point
out to him that at the time
when he was making his er-
ronius deductions, most of the
bucks were back in the high
country and offered to -pack
him back to these places so he
could see for himself he re
fused to go! They managed to
forestall a doe season for that
year but they had one the
next!
SEEMS STRANGE
Very recently biologists
recommended an extended
pheasant season and
raised bag limit when all
reports from the major
pheasant hunting sections
of the state indicated that
due to a very wet spring
there had been a poor hatch
and consequently many less
birds than normal.'
When I pointed out this
fact to one of these men I
was told that the "winter
kill" takes more birds than
do the hunters so n o t
wanting the birds to go to
waste they extended the
season and raised, the limit
to compensate.
This seems strange indeed
when one considers that the
first pheasants in America
were released in our own
Willamette valley and that
they survived the winter
well enough to increase to
such an extent that within
a few decades the state of
South Dakota could boast a
pheasant take for one sea
son of over a million birds.
RAIN PLAGUES
Rain and more rain con
tinues to plague the late
steelhead season. The rivers
just about get in shape and
"here she comes again!" In
between times the Apple
gate has produced fairly
well, the Rogue just so and
so and the Illinois hasn't
had a real good day yet.
according to reports.
The Chetco hasn't been
loo good and Oregon angl
ers fishing the Smith
haven't broken any springs
hauling home fish to dale.
It is true thai there have
been a good number of fish
hooked in the Smith but
the landing ratio is about
the same as this writer's of
last Sunday one for fivel
As for predictions it all
depends on which happens
first old Jupiter Pluvius
running out of water or
Feb. 281
Cousy Rolls Up
39 for Celtics
By UNITED PRESS
The' opposition still hasn't
found a way to stop "little"
Bob Cousy and as a result,
the Boston Celtics are shoo-in
favorites to win their second
straight Eastern division title
in the National Basketball
association.
The six-one Cousy, one of
only four players ever to
score more than 10,000 points
in the NBA, tossed in 39
Wednesday night as the Cel
tics rolled to a 111-101 win
over the St. Louis Hawks,
whom they'll probably meet
in the play-offs at the end of
the season. The win widened
Boston's lead over second
place Syracuse to six and one-
half games.
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QUESTIONS PREMISE
I lived in this Willamette
valley, spent my boyhood and
youth there. I saw it rain
from September to May, snow
two feet on the level and the
birds survived. I hunted
pheasants in the Walla Walla
country where the thermome
ter dropped to 20" below zero
and the pheasants were
thick. I have heard of the low
temperatures in the Dakotas
but they have the finest
pheasant shooting in the
world.
I don't know what the book
says but every veteran hunt
er knows that the above pre
mise is wrong.
LET US GIVE
YOUR ENGINE A
Green
,!IesL.
EXPERIENCE HELPS
It is of general knowl-'
edge that when a person
finishes college, it lakes
some lime for him lo gather
enough experience to prop
erly correlate his "book
knowledge." Now if this is
true in the ordinary walks
of life such as business and
science why doesn't this
also hold true for game
management.
It seems that a biologist
would welcome the advant
age he could have by utiliz
ing the experience of the
thousands of sportsmen
who are happy lo help pre
servale fish and game.
Just a few years back, in
a committee meeting in Sa
lem, a game management
official staled thai the de
partment depended for its
decisions on 90 pet cent of
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2 Welters
To Ignore
Ring Draw
New York (IP) A split in
the welterweight title was
threatened todav as the Na
tional Boxing association and
contenders Isaac Loeart and
Vince Martinez prepared to
ignore next Monday's draw.
ordered by the world cham-
pionsnip committee.
Virgil Akins, the other sur
viving contender in the world
committee's tournament for
the vacant welterweieht
crown, said he would abide by
Monday's draw and fight ei
ther Loeart or Martinez, "or
both." for the title.
Thus, Akins, of St. Louis
the top-ranked contender
might claim the 147-pound
title, at least, as the final sur
vivor in the world commit
tee's tourney. Meanwhile, Lo
gart of Cuba and Martinez of
Patterson, N.J., are negotiat
ing for a "world title fight,"
Muddy Water
In Rogue River
Hurts Fishing
Portland Iff) The weekly
report on fishing conditions
prepared by the State Game
Commission:
Southwest: Steelheading in
North Umpqua . only fair;
main Umpqua below Cleve
land rapids fair to good;
Umpqua system streams high
and muddy due to recent
rains; striped bass fishing fair
to good for boat anglers in
Isthmus slough.
Rogue, Applegate and Illi
nois rivers high and muddy.
sanctioned by the NBA.
Julius Helfand. nresident of
the world committee and
chairman of the New York
state athletic commission, or
dered the draw "Wednesday to
be staged at New York offices
of the Ring magazine at noon
ivionaay.
Thursday, January 30, 1958
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN
B Schools
Vie Friday
Jacksonville challenges the
unblemished status of Talent
high and St. Mary's attempts
to gain ground on second
place Butte Falls in Jackson
County B Basketball league
games on Today night.
Scenes of action will be at
Talent and Butte Falls.
St. Mary's on Saturdav will
make its second jaunt of the
week to Prospect.
Talent has won two carries
from Jacksonville, trimming
the Redskins 44 to 31 and 26
to 23. Butte Falls on its home
court edged the Crusaders 44
to 40 but SM later downed the
Loggers 55 to 39 in Medford.
As the loop stands now Tal
ent needs only three more vic
tories in six remaining games
to cinch the toga. It has a four
game lead over Butte Falls?
FEWER DEPUTIES
Auburn, N.Y. (IP) Cayuga
County Sheriff Willard Wil
cox said there were just too
many "special deputies" and
ordered the county clerk's of
fice to chop 3 00 from the list.
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