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12 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Friday, November 14, 19S8 Conference At Stake in Banners, Collegiate Bowl Bids Games B7 JOE SARGIS United Press International Conference championships and bowl berths dominate Saturday's college football program with top-ranked Louisiana State and Okla homa heavy favorites to land . the lucrative New Year's Day assignments in the Sugar and Orange bowls. LSU, one of only two major - perfect record teams in the country, is a solid 15-point favorite to whip Mississippi State in a night game at . Jackson, Miss., while Okla homa, ranked sixth, is a 16 . point favorite to whip Miss- ouri at Norman, Okla. Victory over Mississippi ' State would all but clinch a Sugar Bowl berth for the Bayou Bengals since their chief rivals for the Southeast ern Conference title Au burn and Mississippi are either out of the running or about to be. Auburn is in eligible for bowl competi tion and Mississippi already has lost to LSU. Oklahoma and Missouri are tied 4-0 for first place in the Big Eight and Saturday's meeting will resolve that race. The Sooners, 6-1 over all, will be shooting for their 70th straight conference vic tory in this one. Missouri is 5-3 overall. Bears Face Huskies Clemson, another team with an eye on a bowl berth is in a strong position to land the- assignment alongside of Oklahoma if it beats North Carolina State, while Califor nia, which has the inside track to the Rose Bowl berth against Iowa, can begin get ting ready for the New Year's Dav festivities if it defeats Washington. Coach Frank Howard's Clemson Tigers are only seven-point favorites over N.C. State, a team which lost to Mississippi Southern, the nation's top-ranked small col lege team, in a tradition-laden game at Raleigh, N.C. Clem son is 5-2 overall, while State is 2-5. If Clemson loses then the race for the conference "title won't be resolved until next week pending how North Carolina fares against Duke and the Tigers against ur man. California (4-1) is favored over Washington in their Pa- by "Chuck" Batten ,4ni "Those are the FIRST SQUAWKS Chuck ever had on his Chevron service." If you have reason to squawk about our service, it will be be cause it's TOO GOOD! ! 99 Chevron Station We Give S&H Stamps Phone SP 3-6673 816 North Riverside Chevron Supreme Gasoline cific Coast game at Seattle, but Washington State (5-2) and Oregon State (4-2) are in contending positions if the Golden Bears falter. State plays outside opponent Col lege of Pacific, while Oregon State meets Stanford. Situation Muddled The situation in the South west conference and , Ivy league is somewhat muddled, but only the Southwest race involves a bowl berth. Texas Christian and Rice are tied for first place with 3-0 records and more than likely will still be tied when they meet next Saturday. Fri day TCU plays Texas and Rice meets Texas A&M. In the Ivy, where they play for kicks rather than post season berths, Dartmouth (4-1) and Cornell (4-1) meet in the day's top game. However, Princeton also (4-1) meets a soft touch in Yale, so it may be another week before this championship is resolved. West Virginia can clinch the Southern Conference title by defeating William and Mary and possibly gain a lesser bowl berth - Tangerine, Cigar or Sun - while Rutgers, the nation's only other perfect-record team, plays the Quantico Marines with an outside chance of accepting a bowl assignment although it appears unlikely due to man power shortages involving other sports. Pitt Meets Nebraska Then there are Pittsburgh and Syracuse, the two strong est independents in the East outside of Army, with bowl aspirations. Pitt, winner over Notre Dame last Saturday, has a relatively easy opponent in Nebraska, while Syracuse tangles with Colgate. Army, the nation's third- ranked team, which already has anonunced it will not consider any bowl invita tions, plays Villanova and Navy, which would gladly grab at any post-season in vite, plays soft touch George Washington. Elsewhere around the na tion, the boys will be playing strictly for exercise although there are a number of inter esting pairings involving old rivalries. East Boston college vs. B o s t on university, Penn sylvania vs Columbus, Penn State vs Holy Cross. Midwest -Second ranked Iowa vs Ohio State, Kansas State vs Iowa State, Michigan vs Indiana, Wisconsin vs Illinois, Okla homa State vs Kansas, Michi gan State vs Minnesota, Pur due vs Northwestern. South Duke vs Wake Forest, Au burn vs Georgia, Georgia Tech :vs Alabama, Mississippi vs Tennessee. Southwest -SMU vs Arkansas. Far West Oregon vs UCLA, Air Force vs Wyoming. MEDFORDvTRIBUNl gipqpmrirg Calif ornians Aim To Avert Collapse Pros Slate Early Draft Philadelphia -(UPB -The Na tional Football league will hold its early player draft here on Dec. 1 with each team selecting four players from the current college crop. There will be no bonus se lection this year. The pick from the hat was dropped at the winter meeting last Jan uary because of its lottery aspects. By SCOTT BAILLIE United Press International Washington State, battling to overtake California in the Rose Bowl stampede, gets a tough test of staying "up" Saturday night when the Cougars have to play at Col lege of the Pacific in a non conference game after Cali fornia has faced Washington. A win by the Bears, who are six-point favorites for the Seattle tilt, would give them a 5-1 record and a half-game lead over second place Wash ington State. Then battered Stanford, currently 2-6 on the year, would have to upset California the following Sat urday while Washington State was defeating Washington if the Cougars wanted to grab first place. And Coach Jim Suther land's troops were not the only contenders. Oregon State and Southern California hung a half-game off the pace with 4-2 conference marks at game time. The Beavers were pre ferred by seven points over Stanford in a regionally tele vised tilt. Southern California had an open date. Trojan and Beaver Hope A collapse by the Bears and California would leave Ore gon State and the Trojans both very much in the driver's seat for the invitation to Pasa dena. And all four teams are eligible, just to keep the pot bubbling. Another good Saturday game finds Oregon at UCLA where the Bruins are six point favorites while Utah State was at Idaho in a non-league fuss. The air was thick with tradition at San Jose where the Fresno State Bulldogs moved in for their annual noc turnal feud with the Spartans. Dick Bass of College of the Pacific figured as the man of the hour this week end. Rampant Dick , the nation's leading ground gainer, had rolled up 926 yards in 129 carries and needed only 74 more to hit 1,000. But Coach Jack Myers of COP warned that his men were facing "the best team in the Pacific Coast Conference" and Suth erland had worked out several plans for stopping Bass. Whose at Quarterback? An interesting situation also had developed at Pullman where quarterback Bob New man, the erstwhile passing great, was struggling to win back his job from Dave Wil son. The latter had directed the Cougars to four wins in their last five games while Newman was injured. California, expecting to play on a damp field which could hobble quarterback Joe Kapp's rollouts, also fought to keep from looking past the Huskies to Pasadena. Wash ington, 3-5 on the year, was trimmed by Stanford this sea son. But efforts by local photographers to mug Coach Pete Elliott of the Bears in the act of smelling roses had fizzled. "We must beat Washington, who will be tough," Elliott intoned. Coach. Tommy Prothro of Oregon State arrived at Palo Alto worried about his pass ing. The Beavers didn't com plete one last Saturday while getting upset by Washington State, 7-0. Stanford, accord ing to knotholers, is primed to hand the Beavers their sec ond straight reversal. Third Big Circuit Could End PC Loop Sans Francisco-JUPD-The 55- year-old Pacific Coast league1 probably would be dealt the final death blow if a third major league involving West coast cities is formed, a sur vey by United Press Interna tional revealed today. The three largest fran chises in the league were killed last year when Los Angeles and San Francisco went into the National league, eliminating these two cities, plus Hollywood. Now Seattle, Portland and San Diego, three of the larg est remaining cities, would be interested in joining a big time circuit. San Diego moved into a new baseball stadium this spring. It has a seating capa city of 8,500 but is so con structed that it easily could be enlarged. The metropolitan popula tion of San Diego is 1,100,000 including Tijuana, 14 miles away in Mexico. Portland has the largest seating capacity of any club in the Pacific Coast league Multnomah stadium with 30, 000. The metropolitan popu lation 'is. about 700,000. Seattle, largest of the cities, already has a fine stadium seating better than 15,000 and it easily could be enlarged. There was some clamor to get this city v into' the National league when Los Angeles and San Francisco went in. If two or three of these cit ies went into a third major league, the cities left in the PCL would be Vancouver, Spokane, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, and Sacramento. All came into the league within the last three years with the exception of Sacramento. If the league attempted to continue its operation, new cities that could be consid ered as possibilities are Fres no and Stockton, Calif., Boise, Ida., Ogden, Utah, and Tuc son, Ariz. Anthony, Ray Have Ring Tiff New York - (UPB - Light heavyweight contenders Tony Anthony and Sonny Ray risk their winning streaks and their ratings tonight in a fight at Madison Square Garden. Their 10-rounder will be televised and broadcast na tionally by NBC at 7 pjn. (p.s.t.). Top-ranked Anthony of New York is favored at 3-1 to register his seventh straight victory and to snap Chicago Ray's string at nine bouts. The tall, slender New Yorker is favored because of his punch and skill although he has a "china chin." ' New York Official Proposes Third Major Baseball League ON YOUR MAIL TRIBUNE SPORTS STATION FBfflTB FRIDAY COACH'S REPORT 7:30 P.M. MEDFORD-MARSHFIELD 8:00 P.M. SATURDAY OSC-STANFORD 1:15 P.M. EAGLE POINT-OAK RIDGE 8:00 P.M. SUNDAY 49'ERS-LIONS 10:35 A.M. SINK THE PIRATES CBS RADIO FOR SOUTHERN OREGON 12 31 By FRED DOWN New York -(UPD- Rep. Eman uel Celler (D-N.Y.) warned or ganized baseball today to ac cept a proposed third major league as "free and equal" but baseball men stressed "order ly expansion" as opposed to the formation of an outlaw circuit. "Organized baseball must accept any new leauge or be branded a monopoly under federal anti-trust laws," said Celler after a New York City baseball committee announced plans to form a third major league 'inside or outside' the current structure of organized baseball. "I applaud such ac tion although I expect teams like the New York Yankees will attempt to veto the plan." Baseball officials, from Commissioner Ford Frick to executives of teams mention ed in the possible now league, however, sought to head off a "war" such as rocked baseball when the Federal league was formed in 1914 and plagued pro football when the All America conference was cre ated' in opposition to the Na tional Football league in 1946. Frick Favors Franchise "I have long been in favor of New York City obtaining another major league fran chise but am not prepared to comment on the possible raid ing of existing teams' play ers," said Frick. "I can't con ceive of players joining a third league considering their current pension and other ad vantages. And I can assure you, baseball is not going to be sledge-hammered into any thing." National League President Warren Giles said he hoped New York would obtain a new franchise but "it will, not be accomplished by threats" and Branch Rickey, reported in some quarters to be behind thenew league, stressed that expansion "should be accom- I plished with the help and su- pervision of the National and American leagues." I Other sentiment, including I opinions expressed by execu- lives in xsauaa, xiuuaiiui, i uit Worth, Seattle, Portland, Mi ami, San Francisco, Los An geles, Detroit and Milwaukee, was also cautious. Most agreed that any "war" would prove detrimental to all organized baseball and should be avoid ed at all costs. , Other Cities Interested j The sensational proposal to I form a third major league j inside or outside the current ! structure of organized base ! ball was made Thursday by William Shea, chairman of the New York City mayors' baseball committee which has been working to obtain a fran chise since the Giants - and Dodgers left town., Shea said Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Atlanta, Denver, Toronto, Mi ami, Minneapolis-St. Paul, De troit and several. West Coast cities were interested in a Jeff Cinder Coach Quits Portland- (UPD -Track Coach Bill Sorsby of Jefferson High school has announced his resignation, Principal C. I. Jones said today. Jefferson won the Hayward relays in Eugene last spring. third league "provided New York is the leading member." - "If we can proceed under the umbrella of currently or ganized major league baseball, that would be fine," Shea said. 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