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Lipton Brought Cordial Note, Sportsmanship Back Into America's Cup Races By JACK V. Newport, R.I. -earl of Dunraven his Valkyrie II in FOX (CPD - The withdrew fury from the America s Cup races, charging that cheating Yan kees slipped out in the night and changed the ballast weight of his opponent, the Defender. That was Sept. 12, 1895. It marked the high point of ani mosity and bitterness stirred between American and Brit ish amateur sailors over a $500 trophy cup England has been trying to get back for 107 years. It took the Irish-born and Scotland - raised Sir Thomas Lipton to bring cordiality and sportsmanship back in the struggle for the America's Cup symbol of world yacht sailing supremacy. But such is the fierceness of competition that no one can insure there will not be some angry hassle when the British sloop Sceptre and the Ameri can 12-meter Columbia square off Saturday in the first of a best-four-of-seven races before , 50,000 racing enthusiasts on shore and off Newport Har bor. Was Good Loser Lipton gained great affec tion because he lost every match and did so gracefully. He entered the Shamrocks I, II, III, IV and V, in 18 sepa rate races from 1899 to 1930 and won only two and no matches. The hearty old gentleman always disavowed any public ity motives but if ever a brew was made famous it was the one sold by "Sir Tea." Lipton never married but he always had an eye for a eood-looking woman and it was his delight to take ladies aboard the Shamrocks to show them the "kitchen." Yachting men observed these were vir tually the only occasions Lip ton was seen aboard the sail boats, preferring the luxury ef his steam yacht, Erin, where he hosted fabulous parties. When Lipton got his last setback, the late Will Rogers suggested New Yorkers do nate $1 apiece to buy him a .cup. Within a week thousands of dollars were on the desk of Mayor Jimmy Walker and in 1930 a gold trophy was pre sented to Sir Thomas at a banquet. "I will try again," Lipton said in accepting it. Rhubarbs Aplenty But he never got the chance. Lipton died the next year at 81 and he had no children to send back a Shamrock VI. Dunraven's angry w i t h drawal in 1895 was the result of what he thought were two displays of unsportsmanlike conduct. Dunraven claimed a tender had gone out to the De fender the night before the first race and added ballast to give the American boat more sailing surface. In the the second race, an excursion steamer moved into the paths of the two yachts at the start. The racers swept around the steamer- on oppo site ends but in the jockeying for new positions, Valkyrie II ran into Defender and disa bled her. Dunraven's boat blithely went on its course and the New York Yacht club nromDtly disqualified Val kyrie. The third day, Dunraven's boat crossed the starting lines, then hauled down her sails and quit the race summarily. The earl went back to Eng land where he fired off angry blasts. The New York Yacht club then expelled his lordship from honorary membership. Canada Tried Canada is the only other na tion that has challenged for the cup twice and both times unsuccessfully. One of the more amusing incidents came in 1881 when Capt. Alexander Cuthbert challenged with the Atalanta. Cuthbert didn't get his boat afloat in Lake Ontario until September and he hadn't the time to bring her out into the Atlantic and down to New York. Instead he sailed to Oswe go, N. Y., and put the Atalan ta in the Erie canal where she was towed by mules to Albany and refloated in the Hudson river. The New York yachts men were horrified at the un dignified spectacle and were pleased to see Cuthbert sound ly defeated. British Navy Lieut. William Henn brought over his Ga latea on the next match. Mrs. Henn came along with the sa loon done up in womanly fash ion and accompanied by sev eral dogs and a monkey. The strategy was of no avail. An Inglorious End The fate of the original America was an inglorious one. Alter winning the .cup in 1851, beating 17 British yachts, the America was sold and subsequently became part of the Confederate navy, run- 2 Tourneys At RV Club Two golf competitions are set for this week end at Rogue Valley Country club: A United Medford Crusade sweepstakes is set for Satur day through the day and a Me and Mine three-ball six some is planned for Sunday with tee off at noon. The UMC sweepstakes will be 18 holes of medal play for low net and low gross honors. Entry fees will go to the charity fund. The Me and Mine is for the husband and wife crown of RVCC. Championship will be decided on a net basis but gross prizes also are contemplated. SPORTS IHiunflng & Fishing Southern Oregon Bus Depot Here Agency for OSC Grid Tickets Oregon State College, Cor vallis Greyhound Bus Depot in Medford, a local OSC foot ball ticket agency, has a good supply of reserved seat tickets left for all five Beaver home football games, the OSC ath letic ticket office has an nounced. This is one of 17 agencies throughout Oregon and south w e s t Washington handling tickets. In many cases, the lo cal agencies have better tick ets remaining than the OSC ticket office, as the latter handles both counter and mail orders in heavy volume. Games are: Sept. 27 (8 p.m.) OSC vs. Kansas in Portland. Kansas, boasting a new coach in Jack Mitchell, formerly of Arkansas, is a much stronger team than last year and is expected to finish second in its conference. Oct. 4 (1:30 pjn.) OSC vs. UCLA in Corvallis. These two teams are expected to finish 1-2 in the PCC this fall. OSC reunion classes of 1948 and 1944 will celebrate. Oct 25 (1:30 p.m.) OSC vs. Wash ington in Portland. Best seller in OSC home schedule. Nov 1 (1:30 p.m.) OSC vs. Cali fornia in Corvallis. Homecoming for Pete Elliot, former OSC coach ing assistant, now head coach of the Bears. California will remem ber tight 21-19 loss to Beavers last year. Nov. 22 (1:30 p.m.) OSC vs. Ore gon. The big game. Sales have been so tremendous that another grand stand of some 3.750 seats is being constructed in the south endzone. Reserved seats will be sold in this area as soon as the remaining 2.000 side line seats are gone. The old Rogue never ceases to amaze me! Just about the time everyone has out the crying-rags about the runs be ing all over there she goe: kicks up ner neeis and we have the best run in the river (for this time of the year) that has-been seen for some time. With the river very low and clear steelhead are being taken, that according to glow ing reports "look like the ones you get down near the ocean." The fish aren't too large but many of them skid into the 4-6 pound class which will make a nice bend in any body's rod. Of course the best time to catch these "early runs is alter the sun gets off the water and . this can be fairly early in the afternoon down in the canyon near Galice. By MEL REES THREE BAITS There are three baits which seem to do the trick. First and the most fun when the fish is on are flies. They hit royal coachman, March Brown and yellow body coachman with a sprinkling taken on mosqui tos and other brands. In case you wind your own bait there is a good producer -used by a veteran on the river and most every day he comes home closely followed by a steel head taken on this killer. Here is the recipe. Use some brown hackle fibers for the The true old-style bourbon smoother because it's slow-distilled Kentucky If OiiStsU 1 JPr. always There are less expensive ways to make bourbon but they'll never give you the smoothness of Early Times. Slow distilling is the patient, old-style way, the smooth ing way to make whisky. Next time, ask for Early Times. - O tTOC 1938 KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKY 86 PROOF EARLY TIMES DISTILLERY COMPANY LOUISVILLE 1, KFNTUCKY ning the federal blockade under the name Memphis. She was cornered by Union boats above Jacksonville, Fla., and her crew sank her.. . Later she was raised and put at the disposal of mid shipmen at the U. S. Naval academy - at Annapolis but then she was neglected again and finally was torn apart for junk. Her beautiful gold - tinted spread eagle is now on'display in the Nautical museum at Mystic, Conn. UCLA Choice In Opening Grid Clash New York -(UPD- Missouri, Texas, UCLA and Penn State were established the favorites today by the oddsmakers to win four of the big intersec tional games on Saturday's first college football week end involving major teams. Missouri was made a slim 1 -point pick over Vanderbilt for the nationally televised game-of-the-week to be played at Columbia, Mo. In the other intersectional headliners, Texas was picked by 7 over Georgia for their night game at Austin, Tex.; UCLA was 7 over Pittsburgh at Los Angeles and Penn State was 13 over Nebraska at Lin coln, Neb. Kansas State was favored by 6 over. Wyoming at Man hattan, Kans.; Oklahoma State by 7 over Denver in a region ally televised game at Denver, Colo.; Texas Christian by 7 over Kansas at Lawrence, Kans.; and Rice by 6 over Lou isiana State at Houston, Tex. night, in other intersectional games. Here are the point-spreads on otner major week end games: South: Duke 1 over South Carolina; Georgia Tech 6 over Kentucky; Maryland 8 over Wake Forest; Florida 10 over Tulane; North Carolina 13 over North Carolina State; Florida State 14 over Furman; Clemson ' 21 over Virginia; West Virginia 21 over Richmond. Midwest: Cincinnati 7 over Dayton; Xavier 14 over Kent State. Southwest: Arkansas and Baylor, even; Texas A and M over Texas Tech; Tulsa 7 over Hardin-Simmons. Pacific Coast: California 8 over College of Pacific; Wash ington State 8 over Stanford; Oregon 13 over Idaho; Wash ington 15 over San Jose. Steelhead Fish Luck Now Slow (Portland (UPD The weekly report of fishing , conditions are prepared by the state game commission by regions: Southwest: Trout fishing is fair on, the North Umpqua river. Catfish angling at Ten mile lake is very good. An gling for silver salmon re mains good at Winchester Bay. Salmon angling at Coos Bay bar is good for silvers. Coos river striped bass angling is slow and is fair between bay bridges. i Steelhead fishing has slack ened in the Grants Pass to Ga lice section of the Rogue river. Only a few fish are being taken in Squaw lake and catches are intermittent at Willow creek reservoir and Fish lake. Salmon angling on the lower Rogue is fair. Central: The Deschutes riv er in the Maupin area has been producing good catches of rainbow on worms and eggs. Steelhead fishing on the lower Deschutes has im proved. The main Hood river has been producing good catches of small rainbow. Frog lake has been stocked with legal rainbow and is ex pected to produce excellent catches up to 14 inches in length. Wickiup reservoir is fair to good on trolling flies or spin ner and worms. Late evening fly fishing is also fair to good on trolling flies or spinner and worms. Good catches of large rain bow have been taken at Crane" reservoir on worms or spin ner lures. tail, brown floss body spiraled with gold tinsel. The hackle is brown and a white bucktail completes the job. Our lucky neighbor likes to tie his flies on double hooks in size 10 or 8. This time of the year pays, to use smaller flies than a little later. Small hooks have a tendency to come out so the double hook in the small size is a good bet. WEIGHTED SPINNERS A lot of these early fish have been taken on Nips, Mo- tos or what do you call yours! These weighted spinners al low the angler to cast and sink a revolving spinner with out the necessity of attaching a chunk of lead. These spin ners worked over the reef rocks or at the tail end of the slack water just before breaks over the riffle can produce some amazing re suits. Brass or nickel and you have a choice. The three largest cities in Germany are Berlin, Ham burg and. Munich. FULLBACK QUITS Moscow, Idaho -(UPD- Hopes for a successful grid season at the University of Idaho went reeling today after news that senior fullback Dick Pickett had quit the squad and that quarterback Gary Farnsworth was shelved by injuries for a few weeks. Pickett, who re turned to the squad after four years in the Marine Corps, said he needed to devote more time to his studies. - HOTSHOT FAVORED A perennial favorite for the boaters is the Hotshot. , This little lure that looks more like a pelican without wings than anything I know of has filled many a fish box with fish Recently Bob Pritchard, through to the coast river guide fishing a party of tour- isters, took six fish on the "brake of dunn" with these little 500 hotshots. The hotshot is an ideal boat lure for it floats and has a ter rific action even when the water is fairly slack. What the fish think they are getting when they grab a snoot-ful of this little wiggler is anybody's guess but it works and has been working ever since it was introduced some years ago. EIGHT-DOLLAR PRODUCES The pigeons came in! Eight- Dollar mountain has produced some excellent shoots during the past week and longer; Having heard ' that the boys were "into 'em" out there took a short safari out that way Friday morning and al though I got there about 30 minutes late had no trouble in limiting in an hour. Eight-Dollar is peculiar in one way. The birds are not feeding there but use that side hill for a pass from where they are -roosting to where breakfast is. Most of them are. hungry and in a hurry so the shooting is tricky and interest ing. One thing is sure no mat ter how high you climb or where you pick to shoot there will always be birds fly farther up the mountain and farther below you! With a good flight of birds in the area some of the other pigeon-spots should be getting good now. There is plenty of grain and berries in many sec tions of the two counties and it won't take the birds long to find them. I still maintain that you can get more pigeons if you use low base shells and fine shot! IBC HEAD VISITS Portland TDPD- International Boxing club President Tru man Gibson visited Portland Wednesday to watch the Jor dan - Ortega television bout. While here he discussed future fights with promoter Tommy Moyer. Gibson promised that Portland will continue to have televised- boxing and added that when the E-R facilities are available other big attrac tions will be booked. LASORDA GIVEN AWARD Montreal-(UPD-Tom Lasorda, who capped an 18-6 season for the Montreal Royals by win ning two games in the semi final playoffs, has been named the- International League's most valuable pitcher for 1958. VIRTUOSO VISITS BONN Bonn, Germany-flJPD-Famed Spanish cellist Pablo Casals, 82, today makes his first ap pearance in Germany since before World War II. He will play for the "Beethoven House Society" of Bonn. COMPLAIN ABOUT RENT Bonn, Germany - (UPD -The Russians complained today the -West Germans want too much rent for quarters sought for a new Soviet embassy in nearby Cologne. 39,585 Total Attendance at Games at VAD Camp White Total esti mated attendance at softball and baseball games at Memor ial stadium, Camp White, dur ing the past season was 39,585, according to Banks I. Paul, acting manager of the Veter ans Administration domicil iary. Rogue Valley Dairy Maids women's softball team was the biggest attraction in the mid May through August season. The Maids drew an estimated 20,760 for 30 games. This total includes play four nights dur ing the women's state tourna ment, which Rogue Valley ladies won, but does not take in their games in the Jackson County Softball association in which the Maids were the only feminine members. The softball association had an attendance of 8,130 on 17 nights and the' Camp White semi-pro baseball nine had an aggregate of 9,105 for 18 games. Thirteen pee wee and intermediate junior baseball games were contested in the stadium, drawing 1,590. The Oregon women's tour ney attendance was figured at 9,050 with domiciliary mem bers numbering 3,425. Domiciliary members ac counted for 21,590 of the total estimate. - Ninety-five games were played with 71 of them at night. There were 30 double headers with the softball asso ciation providing 17, the Dairy Maids eight and 'the junior baseballers five. 2.000TH WINNER Mays Landing, N.J.-(UPD-At the rate he is traveling, Wil liam John Hartack Jr., is a cinch to continue rewriting racing's record books. Willie, the nation's leading rider the past three years, reached an other milestone Wednesday at the Atlantic City race track when he booted home the 2,000th winner of his career. mmm. - " "; .fi'Li TEAM CANCELED Little Rock Central High School's Tigers get the word from their coach that football practice and games have been discontinued, with the closing of the school. The Tigers, one of the nation's top schoolboy teams, had been riding a winning streak of 34 straight games, and disappointment was keenly felt. MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Ore., Thursday, September 18, 1958 IS NW Conference Crews Will Vie In Non-Loopers United Press International The fall season of football in the Northwest conference opens Saturday night with all six member teams engaged. All contests will be non-conference. The Saturday night sched ule includes: Lewis and Clark vs. Portland State; Linfield vs. Oregon College at Mon mouth; Pacific vs. Chico State at Forest Grove; Wil lamette vs. Whitworth at Salem; Whitman vs. Eastern Oregon at La Grande; Col lege of Idaho vs. Humboldt State at Areata, Calif. TROJANS PICK CAPTAINS Los Angeles -(UPD- The Uni versity of Southern California Trojans have selected center Ken Antle and tackle Monte Clark as co-captains for the 1958 football season. The Tro jans open against Oregon State Friday night in the Col iseum. The Beavers were due here today. ...... Weiss Will Probe Yank Celebration New York (UPD General manager George Weiss is ex pected to demand a full report today on the New York Yan kees' off-the - field exploits which reached a climax in a victory - party 'tiff between pitcher Ryne Duren and coach Ralph Houk. Manager Casey Stengel branded reports of a fracas between Duren and Houk as i lotta bunk" but Weiss won't be satisfied until he has the complete story from pri vate detectives who shadowed players on the club's last west ern trip. Newsmen with the club SUNSET VICTOR Beaverton, Ore. -(UPD- Sun set High school played its first football game Wednesday and defeated the Jesuit high junior varsity 39-0. Only freshmen and sophomores are attending Sunset High this year. agreed an incident had taken place. The only disagreement was over the seriousness of the affair. ' The New York Post said it was "a bloody and bitter fight." Other writers present ed a much watered-down ver sion. The Yankee writers agreed not to report the story but it "leaked" anyway. All said the victory party "was quiet I as those things go." 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