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MAIL TRIBUNE, M.dW, Ora., Jefferson to Grid Record Title Tussle Just how formidable foes re the Jefferson Democrats of Portland whom the Med ford High school Black Tor nado meet Friday night for the Oregon Class A-l football mantle? Are the Demos, as some of their supporters claim, the finest prep gridiron aggrega tion ever developed in Ore gon and one of the finest to be produced in the United States? A good number of fans out side the metropolitan area challenge these lofty claims of might. They maintain that the Demos have gained the right to defend their state title by advancing against weak com petition whereas Medford has overcome much tougher op position to reach the finals for the Oregon A-l crown. Portland fans come back with assertation that the Port land Interscholastic league has good athletic programs and top coaching and is as strong, if not tougher than any other league in the state. Speed and Power At any rate the Black Tor nado and their loyal backers Sport St7 0SCAR fraley Parade J 'SZTH Mexico City - (UPD - Fraley"s follies and the week end foot ball "winners'-straight from the burro's mouth. Game of the Week Army over Navy Navy always comes up for this one sky high and full of tricks and surprises. But an explo sive Army team which this season for a change has some new tricks of its own should pull out the service classic and rather handily. The East Penn over Cornell - Taking Bahama Fights Scales Battle Louisville, Ky. -(UPD- Yama Bahama faced a bout with the scales today before squaring off with local welterweight Rudell Stitch tonight in a nationally-televised 10-rounder. Bahama, a middleweight who normally weighs about 155 pounds, agreed to make 150 for this contest with Stitch, a normal welterweight who was expected to go into the ring at about 147. As of Tuesday, there ap peared to be some doubt that. Yama would be able to make It, at least without some dif ficulty. Manager Bobby Mel nick said Bahama weighed 153 pounds 24 hours before weigh in time, and should have no trouble. New Tradition Hope of Texas Austin, Tex. - (UPD - Coach Darrell Royal's Texas Long horns hope to start a new tra dition when they meet Texas A&M in their historic Thanks giving Day grid grudge before a national television audience. Two years ago, the thunder ing Aggies broke the spell of the Memorial Stadium "jinx" by thrashing Texas 34-21. It was A&M's first victory on Memorial Stadium turf since it was built in 1923. However, that was before the youthful Royal, a former Oklahoma great, came along and began rebuilding Long- horn football fortunes. Last year, Texas stunned the high rated Cadets 9-7 in Royal's first season as a Texas coach. 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Observ ers say that the Demos of Coach Tom DeSylvia have speed, power and explosive ness. But there is some dif ference of opinion as to how the Portlanders compare to a couple of teams which Med ford has played. One source says that Jef ferson is like Pendleton only better and with more decep tion. Another says that the Demos don't have quite the offensive trickery of the Buckaroos and meeting them will be more like playing Marshfield. There is no direct compari son in season play between Medford and Jefferson. But, for what they're worth, here are a couple of roundabout views: Jeff Established Favorite . Medford defeated David Douglas 19 to 0; Jefferson won 38 to 0 from West Linn, which beatAstoria 14 to 9, which edged David Douglas the long way home from the Canada Cup golf. Brown over Colgate - Sort of putt-ering around. Pitt over Penn State - And driving 'even shorter than usual. The South Auburn over Alabama -Like Cortez took the Aztecs. Mississippi over Mississippi State - And for the same rea son. Florida over Miami Mean ing loot. Georgia Tech over Georgia -There's one big difference. Tennessee .over Vanderbilt -It's still extortion. Clemson over Furman But the process is less pain ful. South Carolina over Wake Forest - The Aztecs paid through the nose. Richmond over W Si M You may, too. VPI over VMI - But your only bruises are on the wallet. The West Air Force over Colorado Higher than a Mexican buz zard. Notre Dame over USC -And twice as tough. COP over Fresno State -Hotter than tamales. Colorado State over Denver-Just as tasty. Utah over Utah State-More and more indigestion. The Southwest Texas over Texas Aggies They're crazy for football in Mexico. TCU over SMU-S ope games draw 110,000 fans. Rice , over Baylor - The "ole's" are deafening. Texas Tech over Houston Plus the "bueno's." Oklahoma over Oklahoma State-They shoot skyrockets. Tempe over Marquette - Across field at each other. Hardin Simmons over New Mexico Aggies-Making it much safer to be down on the field. The Pros Bears over Steelers-Mucho gusto. Cardinals over Rams-Muy bueno. Giants over Eagles - Grand issimo hombres. Colts over 49'ers - Bravo burros. Browns over Redskins - Indians don't have much chance down here. 6 to 0. Jefferson won 41 to 6 from Wy'east, which tied Reynolds 7 to 7, which David Douglas beat 19 to 0. Comparative scores aren't too reliable a means of judg ing relative strength, yet they would seem to establish Jeff as definite favorite in the title game. The record books of the Jefferson success story display the reason for the tremendous reputation of the Democrats. Geared by the running of Raye and Mel Renfro and Terry Baker and by Baker's passing arm, the Jeffs have run up 496 points to oppon ents 44 and gained a massive 4,666 net scrimmage yards in their 11 games without de feat. 29 TD's by Raye Two-hundred-pound Raye Renfro has scored 29 touch downs and 175 points and his brother, Mel, a 180-po under, 16 TDs and 96 counters. Other scoring has been Ranee Sproul, four touchdowns and 43 kicked conversions for 67 markers, Herb Washburn five and '30, Mack Hergert four and 26, Baker four and 24, Vic Ellis three and 18. Baker has completed 56 of 90 passes for .622 average, 1,191 yards and 20 touch downs. On 18 of the TDs, the receiver scored. The other two were pass laterals. ' In rushing Raye Renfro has carried 128 times for 1,319 yards. Mel Renfro 54 for 660, Baker 57 for 352, Hergert 23 for 170, Spraul 18 for 242 and Mike Barnes 14 for 164. Match the foregoing sta tistics against Medford's 216 to rivals' 33 in 10 games and 2,507 net yards with 1,831 rushing and 676 passing. And compare the individual rush ing with Medford totals: Gerry Lyons 124 for 498, Ron Reich 74 for 331, Skip Ben nett 104 for 330 and Ken Durkee 32 for 197. In passing for Medford Bob Pond was leader with 11 of 29 for 236. Medford will wrap up pre game practices with a morn ing workout Thursday. The team will leave for Portland by bus at 3 p.m. on Thursday, after Thanksgiving dinners and the plan is to drive straight through. Coach Fred Spiegelberg plans to. find a field or gym where the grid ders can "loosen up" on Fri day morning. The team will be quartered at the Mallory hotel. Tornado gridders went through an hour long drill on Tuesday and were to have lVfe hours of work this afternoon. They did not go out on the practice field on Monday. But had a chalk talk and went over scouting reports on Jef ferson. Cal Dean is still hobbled by an ankle injury suffered in the semi-final game and Don Peek was missing from practice yesterday because of flu. JOHNSON. KING BOUT Chicago-(UPD -Harold John son of Philadelphia has been signed as a substitute for Charles Liston in a Dec. 3 heavyweight bout against Howard King in Chicago Sta dium. Liston was forced to withdraw because of a virus infection. ROSE BOWL BOUND University of California's Jack Hart (center) makes a smooth reception of a 35-yard pass from teammate Joe Kapp (not shown) in the Big Game between Stanford and California at Berkeley. Stanford Indian Irv Nikolai (partly hidden) tried to break up the play, but failed. Backing Hart up is Jerry Lund gren (left). Califoftui won tiu game, 16to 13u MedfordTribuni SDPdDIIBTS Squaw Valley Only Small Time Stuff To Backers Of Mt. Shasta Ski Bowl By HAL WOOD San Francisco- (UPD -Squaw Valley gets all the publicity on winter sports these days -but the people in the little city of Dunsmuir, Calif., (pop. 2,500), the 1960 home of the Winter Olympic Games is strictly small-time stuff. These people are so certain that winter sports are here to stay in sunny California that Bill Wade Bidding for Pass Toga Philadelphia (UPD Billy Wade of the Los Angeles Rams is making a determined bid for the passing champion ship of the National Football league. Wade jumped from fifth to second place two weeks ago and remained in that runner up spot behind little Eddie Le Baron of Washington after his efforts last Sunday. Wade has an average gain of 8.45 yards, compared to 9.02 for the Red skins' quarterback. Le Baron has tossed 110 passes, completing 59. for 992 yards and nine touchdowns. Wade has thrown 262, clicking on 140 for 2,214 yards and 13 touchdowns. . Jimmy Brown of Cleveland made his poorest showing last week, gaining only 66 yards, but increased his record total to 1,229 yards. The perform ance dropped his average to 6.2 in 199 attempts. Alan Ameche, the Baltimore Colts powerhouse, continued to trail Brown with 607 yards as Joe Perry of San Francisco moved from fifth to third place with 567. Retzlaff Sets Pace Palmer Retzlaff of the Phil adelphia Ea'gles, who caught only 10 passes last season, is setting the 1958 pace with 43 snares for 600 yards and two touchdowns. Del Shofner of Los Angeles grabbed eight aer ials last Sunday to ease into second place with 40. Ray 'Berry of Baltimore slipped from second to third place with 39. Brown failed to gain a point last week but still has a 30 point edge over Lenny Moore Of Baltimore, 102 to 72. Willie Galimore of the Chicago Bears is third with 66. Sam Baker of the Redskins improved his punting average slightly and now has a 45.9 norm, tops in the league. Don Chandler of New York is sec ond with 44.4, followed by the 43.3 average of Green Bay's Max McGee. Jon Arnett of Los Angeles held his lead in punt returns with a 14.1 average. Bob Mitchell, Cleveland, was sec ond with 10.4. Leonard Lyles is first in kickoff returns with a 40.8 average, while a 101-yard re turn by Ollie Matson of the Chicago Cardinals last week pushed him from ninth to sec ond with a 31.1 average. Andy Nelson of Baltimore and Jim Patton of New York are tied in pass interceptions with eight each. they've invested two million dollars in a winter and sum mer sports playground that they claim is situated in the biggest, most beautiful and highest ski area in the coun try. It's the Mt. Shasta ski bowl and it has a run on it where by a skier can coast 14 miles downhill without a stop. That certainly must be a down-hill record. One of the leaders in the development of the bowl is Chapman Wentworth, editor and publisher of a little week ly at Dunsmuir. A'Lillle Drive "We are sold on this be coming a great sports place," says Wentworth. "The people in our city all have invested in it. We have 1,483 stock holders. We put on a little drive and in 10 weeks we had pledged $500,000. Two weeks later we had the whole half million dollars in the bank." How can this site, whieh is 260 miles north of San Fran cisco support an investment of two million dollars? "We don't expect any trouble at all," said Went worth. "We have one of the few ski bowls with chair lift that is right on a major tour ist highway. There are 500, 000 tourists use this highway every year. The lift will run the year 'round. If we do $300,000 of business each year, we'll be okay." The heights for the area could make one dizzy. The lodge is at 7,850 feet; the top of the current ski lift is 9,388 feet; and a new one, to be built, will go up to 11,150 feet. SnOw Or Water At the same time there is snow on Mt. Shasta, water skiing fans can cavort On smooth waters right beside the highway. "I don't think there is an other place like it in the world," says Wentworth. But one of the major at tractions may be that 14-mile slide down the hill. It is not a difficult ski trip, but it is not for novices, either. Cincinnati Ends Knick Streak United Press International Like all good things, an eight-game winning streak by the New York. Knickerbock ers and the St. Louis Hawks' perfect record under new coach Ed MacAuley, came to an end Tuesday night. Cincinnati, which had won only two of its previous 13 games, put the brakes on the Knicks' winning streak by beating them, 115-113, while Philadelphia handed the Hawks their first loss under MacAuley, 106-105. The Minneapolis Lakers de feated the Detroit Pistons, 98 90, in the only other sched uled game. BUFFALO GETS TROPHY New York-ttJPD-The Univer sity of Buffalo (N.Y.) today was named winner of the sec ond annual Lambert Cup, em blematic of the small college football championship of the East. The 10-man selection committee of coaches, sports writers and broadcasters gave Buffalo 8-1 9.5 out of a maxi mum total of 10 points in its final balloting. HOOP PLAY STARTS ' Portland-(UPD-The local col lege basketball season got un der way Tuesday night as the Oregon Dental School defeat ed Multnomah Junior College 64-47. BASKETBALL TUESDAY COLLEGE GAMES Lon Morris 112, Texarkana 58 AtL Christian 88, Camp Lejeune 72 Tex. Wesleyan 75, How. Payne 70 Lamar Tech 71, N. Eastern La. 69 fikp lnt "iuw uiaiiLLiHG CO., INC. !'Jp 'ft WHAT IS THE OWDEST WORLD TfcACK. FIELD AAACtC? On Way lb, 1935, JCMie Owens of Ohio State broad jumped 2& ft. Snetes.Tht closest approach to that mark wa made by Sreg Bell of Indiana, who taped 26 ft. 7 inches in 1957. TOP THIS! To any reader submitting contrary proof. Tip Brady will send a signed, wallet-slied diploma. Write to: BEAT THIS, eo this paper, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Enclose self addressed, stamped envelope. Phil Tops Rowlings Portland-(UPD-Phil Moyer of Portland won a split decision over Chicago's Luther Rawl ings Tuesday night in a mid dleweight fight here. Moyer, weighing 153, over came an early Rawlings lead to win the last five rounds by wide margins. Rawlings, 151, continually punched Moyer with sharp lefts but the 20-year-old Portlander connected with solid rights to the head in the later rounds to win the 10-round decision. Moyer had Rawlings spew ing blood from the mouth from the opening round and also opened cuts in the sev enth and tenth rounds. Paul Dietzel Coach of Week By BRYCE MILLER Baton Rouge, La.-(UPD -He was a student of three of the most famous coaches in foot-ball-but he refused to imitate any of them and his "be your self" planning has produced this season's only major per fect record team. He found a way to make boys proud of the fact they're on the third team rather than the first team, and he credits their spirit with helping car ry the squad to a berth in1 the Sugar Bowl. He is Paul Dietzel of Louisi ana State, honored today as the United Press Internation al "Coach of the Week" in the wake of State's 62-0 rout of Tulane to cap a perfect 10-0 campaign and nail down the bowl berth. Fourth Year Dietzel, 34-year-old native of Mansfield, Ohio, brought Louisiana State to the pigskin pinnacle in his fourth year at the helm, the first in which he could call on experienced players (juniors) that were his own recruits. And Skipper Paul com mands a crew especially high spirited because of the way he has assembled them. Diet zel doesn't have "first, second and third" teams. His best players are on the "white" team; of the 22 squad mem bers left, the 11 best at of fense play on the "go, go, go" team; the remaining 11 be come defensive specialists nicknamed "the Chinese ban dits," because Dietzel once heard that Chinese bandits are ferocious. SHRINERS BID COUGARS Spokane -(UPD- Washington State football stars Bob New man and Bill Steiger have been invited to play in the East-West Shrine game in San Francisco New Year's Day. Steiger and Newman will play in the Shrine contest un less WSC receives a bid to play in some other post-season game. The Cougars are shop ping for a berth in either the Sugar or the 'Gator bowls. W A Proof i mm New York Pekin, HI. Sausilito, Calif. Banks Earns National! Loop's Most VaDuabBe Player Award By BOB SALMON B o s t o n (UPD Shortstop Ernie Banks of the Chicago Cubs, a rawboned home run specialist today joined a se lect and starry group of Ne groes who have dominated the National league's Most Valu able Player award over the past decade. The 27-year-old'' Banks did it in grand style, winning the annual balloting by baseball writers announced here Tues day in runaway fashion. Banks polled 283 points, highest total in four years. Outfielder Willie Mays of the San Francisco Giants was 98 points behind in 'second place. Hank Aaron of the pennant-winning Milwaukee Braves, was third with 166 points. The long, lean Banks, a 6-1, 175-pound spindle of sinew, was the sixth straight mem ber of his race to win the league's highest award. Since 1947, when Jackie Robinson became the first Negro to play major league baseball, Ne groes have won the MVP award eight times. Tribute To Negroes Robinson captured it in 1949. Roy Campanella won it in 1951 and again in 1953. Since then, it has been Mays, Campanella, Don Newcombe, Aaron and Banks a remark able record and a tribute to Negroes the world over. "Ooohhh, man!" exclaimed B a n k s jubilantly when reached at his Chicago home with the news. "Isn't that something! I'm tickled to death." His manager, Bob Schef- Bobo Olson Halts Paddy Oakland, Calif. -(UPD Come what may in Bobo Olson's at tempt at a comeback, one thing definitely was settled to day he still carries too many guns for Paddy Young. Both "oldtimers," each 30, met again Tuesday night after a five year lapse and Olson stopped the courageous New Yorker in six rounds. Things were different when they first tangled in 1953 with the American middleweight crown at stake. Young lasted the 15-round distance in that one but lost the decision. Ol son went on to beat Randy Turpin and take over the va cant 160-pound title. Olson, who weighed 174 to Young's 170, knocked Paddy off balance twice in the first round with right jolts to the face and never lost control of the situation. After six rounds, Young had cuts around both eyes from a cease less barrage to the head and his corner decided that was enough. Under California rules, Olson was credited with a technical knockout in the sixth of the scheduled 10 round bout. Packers Tussle Detroit Lions Detroit - (UPD - Only 1959 draft choices are at stake in Thursday's annual Thanksgiv ing Day game between the last-place Green Bay Packers and hobbled Detroit Lions. The team that finishes low est in the National Football League standings gets first pick of the collegiate crop and the Lions also have a bundle of top picks due to trades with Baltimore, New York and Pitsburgh. Green Bay, with only one victory and a tie in nine games, has the poorest record in either division. The Lions have won only three .while losing five and tying the Packers. C HABflNOBOSHI fing, said from his Phoenix, Ariz., home that "they picked the right man. I wish I had eight more like him." Scheff ing added that Banks, who has belted more home runs than any other shortstop in National ' League history, "still hasn't reached his po tential as far as hitting is con cerned. I'm for him all the way. He never gives anybody trouble." Banks was on a fifth-place-tying club last season but his hitting and fielding exploits could hardly be overlooked. The Dallas, Tex., native set a major league record for short stops with 47 homers, collect ed 193 hits for 379 total bases, drove in 129 runs and batted a cool .313. Excellent Fielder Banks led the league in both home runs and runs bat ted in. His fielding, often overshadowed by his slug ging, was considered excel lent.. Some experts compared him with Marty Marion. Oth rs mentioned the unassuming Banks in the same sentence with the immortal Honus Wagner. Banks garnered 16 of the 24 possible first place votes, each worth 14 points in the balloting by the Baseball Writers Association of Ameri ca. He drew four votes for second place,, one for third and one each for fifth, sixth and seventh. The other eight first-place Last BARKER'S FOOTBALL CONTEST INSTRUCTIONS: Check the team you pick to win. If you pick a tie game, check both teams. All slips "must be at the. store by 5:30 Friday evening. November 29th Army vs.. Navy Georgia Tech at Georgia U. Miami vs. Florida Mississippi at Mississippi U. Notre Dame at So. Cal. Rice at Baylor . S.M.U. at T.C.U. Tennessee at Vanderbi't Marquette at Arizona State Colorado U. at Air Force . Texas Tech at Houston Medford Games Friday Night A NECKTIE GIVEN EACH WEEK TO EVERYONE IN THE GROUP PICKING THE MOST WINNERS! There are eleven weeks of play. $50 in merchan dise for the highest score for any ten weeks. $30 in trade for second place and $20 for third. Prizes are to be split in case of ties. Each week everyone in the group picking the most winners wins a $1.50 necktie. ONLY ONE ENTRY PER PERSON. Name Address- Last week's winners! Bob Butler Bob Holmes Tom Dwyer Beverly Hugdahl Frank Durante STATE FOOTBALL TITLE MEDFORD vs. JEFFERSON 7:30 p.m. Coach Spiegelberg 7:45 p.m. Medford-Jef ferson KVJC votes were divided by Mays (3), Frank Thomas of Piits burg (2), and Warren Spahn of the Braves, Bill MazeroskI of the Pirates and Bob Skin ner of the Pirates, one each. SAVE 5 00 ON ANY COMPLETE Brake Refine Rivetless Brake Lining Bonded To Tour Shoes GUARANTEED for 30,000 ALLCARS Firestone Brake Special! A 3.50 T119 vgiiub.... ffereVirfcrt WeD LI ANY CAR 1 ttwuii Fmrt WhMla, lisfU LinSna. Clean ami Repack Frmt Wheal Bearings. J Inspect rak Brvm. 4 Chock mm AM Irak FIhhL 5 Mit Bralra Shoes. Co re folly Tost Brakem, Finest Equipment,' Shop and Best Trained Mechanics Tirettpfie STORES 214 So. Riverside Ph. SP 2-7119 Ueek! 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