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O O Roy Harris Doesn't Take Kindly To Getting Beat; Wants Toga Mighty Bad Until he was 18 years old Roy Harris, now 25, fought barefooted and mostly for the fun of it in and around gut 'N Shoot, Texas, a town of 192 souls. Now he has won 22 straight profes sional fights as a heavy weight and on Aug. 18 will meet champion Floyd Pat terson for the title in Los Angeles. This is the first of three dispatches in which Roy tells hit story, includ ing why he thinks he can become the world's heavy weight champion.) By ROY HARRIS (Written Expressly for United Press International) Cut 'N Shoot, Texas UP& Can I lick Floyd Patterson? J honestly think so or I would n't be going in there to fight him for the heavyweight championship. None of us Cut 'N Shoot folks, and particularly the Harrises, ever took kindly to getting beat at anything. And I want that title mighty bad Let me tell you a story about my brother, Tobe, who Television of the Roy Harris - Floyd Patterson heavyweight bout will be presented on Aug. 18 at Cra terian theater here. Tickets are now on sale at the Ca-lerian. is two years older than me, It may help explain how much I want to be heavy weight champion. Tobe has quite a reputation around Cut 'N Shoot because when he was only 14 he went back into the swamp alone nd caught the biggest bull alligator anyone ever saw in captivity in these parts. This fellow was 14 feet long and weighed about a ton. Tobe's big and strong, was even then. He looped a rope argund that 'gator's jaw, flung the other end ground its tail, and tied it so that the more the 'gator threshed about, the tighter the rope O got. The 'gator overturned his boat and dragged him ashore, but he fastened the big ugly thing to a tree and marched out to get help lugging it home. From Fighting Stock To me, I guess the heavy weight championship is like that bull gator. I've been fist lighting since I was knee q hiijh to a puddle duck, and now I've got a chance to make my dream come true. I come from fighting stock. My dad, Big Henry, licked Ed Dunnaway, the heavyweight champion of the South, a cou nle of times back in thf '20V Dacf and my uncles, Jack and Bob, were known as about the roughest guys to tangle with in ogr whole area what we cll the "Big Thicket." And they didn't usually Mother to put on boxing jloves in those days, either. I guess I first started box igg when Tobe traded some ducks for a set of boxing gloves. We set up a home made ring in the yard and vnt at it day and night. When we got tired of belting each other, we'd take on oth er guys from all over the Thicket and even some loud mouths Dad used to haul back from the honky-tonks in Con- What's your batting average in the income circuit? If it's a little low this season, invest a few minutes reading our new booklet 'We're Putting Part of Our Pat Check w Stock Every Month.' It tells about the Monthly Investment Plan for purchase of common stock in American busi nesses for as little as S 10 every three months. This interesting new booklet is free. Just mail the coupon below or droo in at our office. roe, the nearest big town, just for laughs. Tobe turned pro and won 24 out of 27 bouts. Then he fell off a horse and hurt his shoulder and had to quit. Our younger brother. Little Hen ry, is a good prospect, too. He's playing high school foot ball now and has won a lot of amateur fights. One day, he even knocked me down when we were working out. Proud of Trophy I had 80 or so amateur fights and won the Texas Golden Gloves championship four times middleweight and light heavy. I got to the finals of the Chicago tourna ment one year but had to withdraw because I caught a virus. I got a sportsmanship trophy, though, and I was proud of that. Another thing that happen ed in Chicago, I was on the Dave Garroway show. He liked the name Cut 'N Shoot so much it got so that, when he announced the tempera ture in various places in the country, he'd say "Cut N Shoot" instead of Houston, 50 miles away. That's only the beginning of how I hope to put Cut 'N Shoot on the map. It's only got a population of 192 a school, a couple of churches, a sawmill, a service station and a grocery store. But I don't guess anyone had heard much about Manas sa, Colo., either, until Jack Dempsey came from there. Being from a Small town didn't keep Dempsey from be coming heavyweight champ, and like I said, that's what I want more than anything. (Next: Roy's family) Everybody Happy in Meet Between U.S. and Russia Moscow (UPD East is east and west is west, especially when it comes to figuring out who won the dual track and field meet between the U. S. and Russia. In the aftermath of the his toric two-day athletic compe tition everybody was official ly happy. The Americans were happy because they won the men's meet against a strong Soviet squad by 126 points to 109. The American women were happy because they won four out of ten events against the "invincible" Russian ladies and only lost by 44 points to 63 although they feared they might be swamped. Reds Are Happy The Russians were very happy indeed because by add ing up men's and women's scores they found they had beaten the U .S. 172 points to 170. Not even this quaint claim by the Russians, ' who pre viously had promised the American team in writing that it would regard the com petition as two separate meets could erase smiles all around. "Let them claim it if they want to," said U. S. Coach George Eastment. "What's the difference? We aren't going to make an issue of it," said Dan Ferris, honor ary secretary of the Amateur Athletic Union. A few American eyebrows shot up when the electric scoreboard in the efficiently- run 103,000-seat stadium be gan to lump men's and wom en's scores. But the Russians have gone out ol their way to be help ful, friendly and hospitable and officials of the American team decided to let them "have their fun." "We know who won," Medford Cubs Ice Tie For Championship The Medford Cubs shut out the Ashland Cubs in the Southern Oregon Junior base ball league Cubs division Mon day afternoon to insure them selves of at least a tie for the league championship. , The victory boosted the lo cal club's record to five wins and no losses during the sea son. Doug Kinney pitched two-hit, ball for the winners as they won 10-0. He also col lected two hits at the plate. Art Ruhl proved the leading hitter when he collected three for four and batted in two runs. ' ' ' Leland Johnson picked up two for three at the plate for the winners including a dou ble with the bases loaded. Next Monday the Medford nine will . meet the Grants Pass Cubs at Grants Pass to determine the league victor. If the Grants Pass nine wins the two clubs will be co-victors. If the Medford club wins they will be undisputed league champs. LINESCORE: Ashland Cubs 000 000 o 0 2 2 Medford Cubs 200 143 X 10 11 1 Doster and Allen: Kinney and Ruhl. t . Holmberg and Olmedo Victors In Tennis Philadelphia (UPD Ale jandro Olmedo of Peru and Ron Holmberg of Brooklyn, N. Y., won the men's doubles title at the Pennsylvania Lawn Tennis championships Monday by defeating Mai An derson of Australia and Gard- nar Mulloy of Denver, Colo., 16-14, 4-6, 6-3. Olmedo, 22, the University of Southern California star who recently won the nation al intercollegiate title for the second time, did not suffer a service break in the well played match. Each of the others lost his service once. Althea Gibson, Wimbledon and U. S. champion from New York, won the women's sin gles final Saturday and teamed with Karol Fageros of Miami to win the women's doubles crown. 3 l-by PRESERVES "AMATEUR" STATUS Only the fact that Pete Rademacher accepted money for his appearance in the ring against Zora Folley in Los Angeles, earned him the questionable distinction of being classified as a pro instead of an amateur. He was floored four times before the referee finally took mercy on the fans and called a halt at 1:15 in the fourth round of their scheduled 10 round bout Here Pete is shown after Folley dropped him for the fourth and last time. MedfordWTribune Bureau, Loggers Grab Softball Victories The Bureau of Reclamation and the Butte Falls Loggers turned in victories Monday night at Memorial Stadium, Camp White, in Jackson coun ty softball league games. The Bureau turned back the Cheney Studs 9-6 behind the homer un hitting of Al Dover and Rich Hagen. Winning pitched Les Booth also helped the cause with a triple. With the Bureau nine lead ing 5-4 going into the bottom of the sixth inning Steve Wiesley - smashed a two-run homer for the Studs to put them back in the lead. The B Address I I CrrT I Please send 'Wi'u Pumnc Past or Otm Pat Cbick n Stock E est Mokth" to: Name Foster & Marshall MEMBERS NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANOl formerly HOGAN-ROWAN & CO. 8 S. Cen. Medford SP 3-5353 ieattie 'vgene Portland Yakima Spokane Olympia Tom Heath Leaves Bed Portland (UPD Tommy Heath, Portland Beaver gen eral and field manager was released from Good Samari tan hospital Sunday. ' Doctors said Heath will have to wear a brace for at least two months to prevent re-injury to his back. His back r was hurt when he fell down a flight of steps at a beach cot tage. Arch Kingsley, president of the Portland club, said Heath won't be back at .work for some time yet. Heath may go to his home in Sacramento for a couple of weeks in an attempt to regain his strength, but Heath added that his doctor would have the final say. DiBiase Wins TV 10-Rounder New York (UPD Welter weight Tony DiBiase today credited "shadow-boxing on the road" for the improved left hook and greater stamina that enabled him to turn the tables on blood-smeared Jim my Archer in their return TV 10-rounder at St. Nicholas Arena. DiBiase, weighing 151 pounds to 149V for his fel low New Yorker, won the un animous 10-rounder Monday night with a booming left hook and a strong finish. Archer bled so profusely from cuts at the corner of his right eye and on his left brow and from the nose that he will be suspended automatically for 30 days to let his wounds heal. DiBiase, 22, won on a rounds basis over 23-year-old Archer: 6-4, 5-4-1, 5-4-1. Big Name Golfers Start Tourney Today Chicago (UPD A field of big name pros including Sam Snead, Dow Finsterwald and the Hebert brothers tee off today in a $2,500 prel ude to the Chicago Open golf tournament. The two-day pro-amateur prelude to the tournament, opening Thursday, was - ar ranged after John E. McNulty president of the Gleneagles Chicago Open Committee, cancelled qualifying rounds for the big event. McNulty's gesture for the Chicago Open, first of its kind, automatically made all the 170 players entered eli gible for the 72-hole open. one-run margin proved insuf ficient however when the Bureau came back in the sev enth with four runs. The Loggers outlasted the Jaycees 10-7 in the second tilt. After the losers jumped off to a four run lead in the top of the first they were, held scoreless until the fifth. In the meantime the Loggers, who sprang back from a 3-2 loss at the hands of Parsons Motors Thursday, collected two runs in the second and three in the third and one in the fourth to go ahead for good. LINESCORES: (first game) Bureau of Reclamation .i.000 212 i 9 9 1 Cheney Studs ..003 102 0 6 12 2 Booth and Bishop; Tonn, Amison (4) and Green (second game) Junior Chamber of Commerce 400 010 2 7 7 4 Butte Falls Loggers 023 113 x 10 12 3 Keys and Gilbert; Eirwin and Ferguson. Camp White Nine Slates Two Games The Camp White baseball team will host the Butte Falls nine in a non-league encoun ter at Memorial Stadium, Camp White Wednesday eve ning at 8 o'clock. Friday eve ning the Camp White club will travel to Klamath Falls to take on the Cubs of the Northern California league in another non-league game. York Harbor, Maine (UPD Harold C. Richard, 73, of New York, a banker and industry alist who served as chairman of three companies, died Mon day at his summer home. Hunt America Time Plans Outlined by Waltonians M smiled Eastment. Gavril Korobkov, the Rus sian coach, evaded a direct reply to a question of the scoring dispute. "It would be better for American development for the next Olympics," he retort ed, "to adopt joint scoring as we do to encourage their women." The two countries clash in a return match in Philadel phia in July, 1959 j The incomparable Rafer Johnson set a new decathlon mark of 8,302 points break ing the old record of 8,014 in the ninth event. If the Russians have any regrets at all it is that Rafer is a Californian and not a Russian. Water Ski Entries Mounting A number of entries for the Western Regional Water Ski championshis have been filed with Crater Lions club of Medford within the past sev eral days. The Lions 1 are sponsors of this regional event of the American Water Ski associa tion and it will be held Aug. 8, 9, and 10 at Gardener lake northeast of Medford. Entries include those of Bob Norris, San Diego, Calif., national veterans trick cham pion, Chuck Stearns, Los An geles, 1957 United States ov erall champ, Vicki Van Hook, Los Angeles, last year's jun ior girls overall victor, and Martha Ann Williams, 1957 second in tricks in the nation in junior girls rivalry. Others are Floyd Vance, Sacramento, Calif., vets class world jump record ; holder, his daughter, Vickie, the Ab ben family Of Sacramento, Gloria, Garry and-Philip, Lance Lenbeck, . San Diego, Calif., and Larry Penacho and Bob Penterberry, San Diego, No. 1 and No. 2 contender, re spectfully for the junior boys' honors. Trophies On Display The meet is expected to at tract more than 100 . expert skiers in 11 western states. Sixty trophies for the tour ney are on display at Law rence Jewelers. The San Francisco office of the AWSA has sent, to 100Q of its members, notice of the time and place of this year's tournament. Don McNeil, manager of the Jackson Coun ty Chamber of Commerce, en closed pamphlets describing Southern, Oregon and what to do, where to go, and places to eat and sleep while visiting here. Lon Skinner, chairman of the water ski meet and president of the Gardener Lake Ski club, delivered these pamphlets, questionnaire forms and invitations to the San Francisco office for dis tribution. As the forms are being re turned, official entry blanks are being sent out with a brochure about the meet and directions for registration. The sun shines in San Francisco 66 of every possible 100 hours, according to the San Francisco" Chamber of Commerce. Finest m. Rum m For jjp You erton$cav"Rgn, 80 PROOF ScbiefMia I Co, New York CRATER LAKE f MOTORS' I A SAVE $250 on English Fords! NEW ANGLIA TUDOR ONLY 53(5)00 per month 35 Miles Per Gallon CRATER LAKE MOTORS 71 Chicago A campaign lo help America's 12 million hunters upgrade the 'standard of hunter conduct afield and win the confidence of the na tion's farmers and ranchers was announced today by The Izaak Walton League of Amer ica, national conservation org anization. ' Titled the "Hunt America Time" program, the campaign will attempt to get the na tion's hunters to sign a card pledging observance of a three-point "Hunt America Time Pledge" to be law abid ing, lo respect the rights and property of others and to be careful with fire and firearms. In a letter to outdoor writ ers, farm editors and key con servation officials acrqss the country accompanying a de tailed description of the proj ect, League executive director Frank Gregg explained "Hunt America Time" as three im portant and related things: a season when hunters go afield to enjoy their heritage of pub lice hunting; a program de signed lo perpetuate lhal her itage by raising Ihe standard of hunter conduct afield; a pledge offered lo America's hunters" to prove Iheir ability lo conduct themselves in a sportsmanlike manner. Gregg said that most chap ter programs are expected to get under way in mid-September, but that dates will vary with local hunting seasons. The campaign will be held annually, according to Gregg, "because each year hundreds of thousands of young people hunt for the first time without adequate instruction in their responsibilites; and because education of adult hunters is a continous job." The 1958 theme is "Respect Private Property Save Hunting!" The IWL with financial aid from the National Sporting Goods association will provide state and local League units with complete kits of materi als. The program is described as successor to Red Cap Month, a hunting safety and manners program sponsored by the League nationally in 1957, and in turn derived from a similar successful program initialed by Oregon Izaak Walton lead ers as Red Hal Days. A state ment in the "Outline for Ac tion" explains that the title was changed in recognition of research findings that yel low is a better hunting safety color than the traditional red, and because Hunt America Time more accurately de scribes the scope of the pro gram than the old title. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, Jul 29, 1958 7 Washington (UPD Brig. Gen. Joseph W. Beacham, 84 U.S. A. (Ret.), President Eisen hower's football coach at West Point in 1911, died Monday, after a long illness. A football player at Cornell University where he received a law de gree, Beacham coached at West Point from 1908 to 1911. He enlisted in the Army in 1898 and retired in 1938 after serving in the Philippines and during World War I. ARRESTED Buenos Aires (UPD Police reported today that 337 per sons were arrested last week end in connection with, the sixth anniversary of Eva Pe ron's death. Police had banned a Peronist demonstration hon oring the former wife of ex dictator Juan D. Peron. More than 400 tear gas bombs were used to bring the Peronists under control after they ignored the ban. The great bourbon off the Old West . ttxysu brook 1 1 For richer teste! NO INCREASE IN PRICE! OLD SUNNY BROOK COMPANY. LOUISVILLE, KY., DISTRIBUTED BY NATIONAL! 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