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.
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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.
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telltale scent but the mother
deer takes on an additional
odor in order to lure away
possible predators from her
well-hidden offspring.
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