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Rogue Fives To Contend Two games Friday evening wind up the schedule in the Rogue league and set the stage for the District 6 A-2 southern division tourney next week. Glendale, aiming for a sec ond place tie in the final standings, will entertain Illi nois Valley. Rogue River will vie at Eagle Point. The four schools plus loop winner Phoenix, Brookings and non-league participant Henley, wil clash in the tour ney Feb. 27 and 28 and March 1 at Southern Oregon college in Ashland. UP Assigns Sports Men Thursday, February 20, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEK Houston Links Tourney Opens San Francisco (IP) Ap Hal Wood, and Leo H. Peter Southwestern Streams Muddy Portland (IP) The weekly report on fishing con ditions prepared by the State Game commission: Southwest: If water clears by week , end in both North and South Umpqua steelhead ing should be good to fair at Idleyld park, below Winch ester, below Jackson creek and in Cleveland rapids area; all streams in southwest Ore gon high and muddy. pointment of Alex Kahn as Southern California sports editor and Scott Baillie as Northern California sports editor of United- Press was announced today by Pacific Division Manager Richard A. Litfin. The two men will as sume their new posts on Mon day, Feb. 24. As the United Press pre pared a stepped-up sports coverage of the West Coast, the two experienced reporters were put in full-time charge of sports in the Los Angeles and San Francisco areas. They will work under direction of Pacific Division Sports Editor sen, national sports editor of United Press. Kahn has been with United Press for 25 years as reporter, night manager and sports writer in the Los Angeles bur eau. Baillie has been with United Press eight years, in the New York and San Fran cisco bureaus always in the sports departments. Among the immediate du ties of Baillie and Kahn will be the day-by-day coverage of all San Francisco Giant and Los Angeles Dodger baseball home games when the regular 1958 season rolls around. Houston, Tex. HP) Golf doni's top money tournament of the winter circuit, the $30,000 Houston Invitational classic opens today with long ball hitters given the edge over the 7,200-yard Memorial Park course. San Francisco's Ken Ven turi, only double winner on the winter tour thus far, was favored in the four-day tourn ey. However, stiff competition was in store from a star-studded field. The 134 entrants included Jimmy Demaret, Jackie Burke, 1957 Houston champ-; ion Arnold Palmer, Doug! Ford, Dow Finsterwald, Mike Souchak, George Bayer, and Robert De Vicenzo, the latteri from Mexico City. BOUT RESCHEDULED Hollywood, Calif. HP) ; The Art Aagon-Chico Vejar' bout scheduled for Hollywood Legion stadium March 11 has been rescheduled for "Satur- day, March 15, but will not be televised Saturday night -bouts from the Legion Stad-; ium usually are televised over a local network. The Caroline group has has more than 500 islands. HMMto'iWM- In mi ill. rf if aaaJlW' I lifetaAMMMM IN STATE TOURNEY Coach Paul Evan sen feels the muscles of the two Medford high wrestlers who vie in the Oregon state tourney at Corvallis on Friday and Satur day. Left to right are Jim Funston, Evensen and Gary Heath. Funston won the district heavyweight championship and Heath took second in the 178-pound class. Wrestlers and coach left for Corvallis today. SPORTS Moyer Opposes Pedro Gonzales Portland (IP) Two boxers who would like crack at ex-middleweight champion Gene Fullmer mix It up here tonight in a sched uled 10-rounder. Phil Moyer, up and com ing Portland fighter, meets Pedro Gonzales, a 23-year-old middleweight from New York City who is managed by for mer welterweight champ Sandy Saddler. Saddler said he felt certain Gonzales would handle Moy er who has won seven straight pro fights. Gonzales holds a win over Ralph (Tiger) Jones who Wednesday night won a split decision in Miami Beach over Kid Gavilan. Buck Kill Count Session Subject Yreka, Calif. Members of three sportsmen's groups will meet here Friday night to complete a survey of the buck kill in Siskiyou county dur ing the past two seasons. Several weeks ago the group counted well over 4,000 tags turned in last fall and found the buck kill had drop ped about 23 per cent from the previous year. Friday night's count will be of the 1956 tags which will be compared area-by-area with those of last sea ion. The survey is expected to show a sharper decline in the buck kill in eastern Sis kiyou county, scene of the 1956 either-sex hunt which brought much criticism against the state fish and game department. The survey is believed to be the first of its kind ever made by a group of California sportsmen. It is being spon sored by the Northern Coun ties Wildlife Conservation as sociation with the Dunsmuir Rod & Gun club and Weed Gun club also taking part. hunting & Fishing Southern (Oregon By MEL REES A brief look at the trout season opening dates for 1958 brings some interesting ob servations. Many southern Oregon an glers thought that the May 24 opening on the coastal streams did not affect the wa ters in this section but that it referred to what we call coastal waters, namely the area adjacent to the Brook- ings-Astoria highway. This however, was errone ous thinking for this May 24 opening date will be in effect on all streams which empty into the ocean . and their tributaries. This means rthat all waters which drain into the Rogue and their tribu taries will not open as they normally have in the last part of April or the very first of May. The only waters which will be open on April 26 in this area will be lakes. Squaw, Willow and Fish lakes will in terest the local anglers. Le mola reservoir, which lies on the upper waters of the Ump- qua will also be open as will several lakes in the true coast al region. HOCKEY NATIONAL LEAGUE By UNITED PRESS Lou Fontinato gets the pub licity and Bill Gadsby gets the goals. That's the 50-50 agreement between the New York Rang ers' stellar defensemen or so it seems to National Hockey league opponents. Big Lou was his usual pug' nacious self Wednesday night but it was Gadsby who notched the all - important third goal as the Rangers whipped the Chicago Black Hawks, 3-2, and went over the .500-mark for the first time since Jan. 2. They now lead the third-place Detroit Red Wings by three points with 14 games left to play. AMERICAN LEAGUE By UNITED PRESS Johnny Bower, the most successful goaltender in the American Hockey league his tory, scored his eigth shutout of the season Wednesday night as the Cleveland Barons whipped Hershey, 2-0. The victory boosted second-place Cleveland to within two points of the front-running Bears, the closest the Barons have been since the opening week of the campaign. In the only other game played Wednesday . night, Springfield moved into fourth place with a 10-3 romp over Buffalo. AIDES CHOSEN Ames, Iowa (IP) Iowa State Coach Clay Stapleton has completed his five - man football .coaching staff by naming former Maryland Ail-American Bob Ward and former Oregon State lineman Ernie Zwabieu as assistant coaches. J - FISHING PRESSURE It can be readily seen that all the fishing pressure which is normally scatter ed over much of the area will be concentrated on these bodies of water. Boats and accomodations will be at a premium and any "first-day-addict" who does not have his own boat should certainly make res ervations well in advance of the season. With only a brief two months left until this opening it might be loo late already but I rather doubt that very many an glers have thought much about spring and its fishing with all the winter we have had around. the egg or worm or what ever is offered they usually take the hook too deep for easy releasing. It should be very obvi ous that in taking these small fish during the legal trout season (even the legal ones) we have in a large way destroyed our po tential for taking large fish in the fall and winter sea son. These 4-5 inch fish if allowed to go to sea could have come back weighing 4-5 pounds or largerl To say the least this is really wastefuL NOT ENOUGH Let us consider what this late opening (May 24) will accomplish on the streams of the area. For a number of years thinking sportsmen have discussed the dwindling num bers of steelhead in our streams which once were world famous. As far as the Rogue was concerned two definite facts always came to view largely, the lack of screens at Savage Rapids dam and the open trout season. It took a long time and much work by sportsmen's groups before suf ficient pressure could be brought to bear to screen the turbines at the dam but finally the work is in prog ress and if it ever stops rain ing long enough, should be completed this year. This will take care of the estimated 100,000 plus young steelhead which have been rhewed ud each year. This should be a really substan tial saving in the fishery. But it is felt that with the heavy fishing pressure and already depleted runs of fish, this is not enough. DIE OF INJURY Most anglers realize that the large majority of the ' "trout" they catch during the open trout season on the Rogue and its tribu taries are not true native trout at all but young steel head and salmon. These small fish are downstream migrants, hungry and will ing to take anything in their fight for survival on the way to the sea. Many of these fish are in the 4-5 inch class and as these are illegal in posses sion are released. A large proportion of these finger lings die because of the in jury sustained in either be ing hooked or being re leased. This is not usually the fault of the fisherman for when these fish take MOVE WISE It is felt that with a late opening on these coastal wa ters that most of these small salmon and steelhead will have made their way to a point where the fishing pres sure is not so great and thus become a large potential in renewing our steelhead and salmon runs. An old adage says that we cannot have our cake and eat it this is just as true in fish ing as it is in eating cake! A common sense look at this present situation should prove the wisdom of such a move and I feel that most Rogue valley sportsmen will concur. Steubenyille Nabs Top Place In Hoop Ratings By EARL WRIGHT New York (IP) The Steu- benville (Ohio) Barons, who rebounds, landed on top to day in the United Press small college basketball ratings. The Barons, who boast the nation's ,top small college re- bounder in 220-pound Jim Smith of Homestead, Pa., drew eight first-place votes and 359 points. The Wheaton (111.), Crusaders, No. 1 for the past four weeks, slipped to second with 21 first-place votes and 348 points. The nation-wide board of small college coaches which rates the teams based its lat est ' ballot on games played through Feb. 15. The coaches gave Wheaton nearly three times as many first-place votes as Steuben ville. But the Barons advanc ed from second to first by scoring heavily in second, third and fourth place votes. Steubenville received 19 votes for second, six for third and seven for fourth. Wheat on received six for second, four for third and two for fourth. New York (UP) The United Press small college basketball ra tings first-place votes and won lost records through Feb. 13 in parenthese: Team Points 1. Steubenville, O. (822-1) 359 2. Wheaton, 111. (2120-1) 348 3. West. HI. (6 20-0) 281 4. Evansville, Ind. (3 17-2) 258 5. Southwest Mo. (4 18-0) 216 7. W. Va. Tech (1 24-3) 169 7. Tenn. St. A&I (22-2) 152 8. Texas South. (19-3) .'. 118 9. Pac. Wash. Luth. (15-2) 100 iu. at. t-eiers, (1 16-2) 60 Secdnd 10 erouo 11. Boston University, 32; 12, Brandeis. Mass University 1, 27; 13. tie. Belmont AODey N.C. and South Dakota. 23 each: 15 tie, Pasadena, Calif, and Montana State, 22 each: 17, Gramb- Jmg, La. 20; 18, McNeese. La.. 18: 19, Regis. Colo.. 17: 20. Louisiana xecn., 15. Panthers Have Most In Meet Corvallis (IP) Redmond qualified 15 men for the 11th annual state high school wrestling tournament here on Friday and Saturday. Grants Pass qualified 11 while Sweet Home had 10 and Klamafo Falls 9. New berg, the defending cham pion, qualified 6. Fawns are devoid of any telltale scent but the mother deer takes on an additional odor in order to lure away possible predators from her well-hidden offspring. .,y s":;-', , T'i ' 4 "t-ry-- 'r1 I t ' - . ..nr the mome ...solute Pear . if S Vu' Dew Soto fx v I f w A I f vl,ibx Ib" THE COLOR OF THIS TAG IS SUFPOSED TO BE GREEN ( Like the AAoney You'll Save) fx. 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