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c Top tBasIkdlball Teams Top Warm-ups With Victories United Press International The firit returns of the new college basketball season indicated Kentucky, Cincin nati, Kansas State and West Virginia are ready to pick up where they left off last March. Although Coach Adolph Rupp used three spohomores In his starting lineup, Ken tucky's defending champions opened their -campaign Mon OSC Tops (Oregon 68-60 Dn (Opener Corvallis-(UPI)-Guard Lee Harmon led Oregon Sate to a 68-60 basketball victory over Oregon at Gill Coliseum Mon day night in a non-conference season's opener for both teams. Harman scored 21 points, high for his career here. Ted Miller, former Milwaukie prep ace elevated to a start ing forward role, came through with 19 points. Oregon State jumped off to a 19-10 lead which the Web foots nibbled away but Har man came back with a field goal with five seconds left in the half to make it 38-36 OSC at the midway mark. Oregon at one time led 36-32. Bearers Pull Away The Beavers pulled away after intermission and at one point held an 11-point lead. Dale Herron led Oregon with 16 points and Chuck Rask came through with 14. Southern Oregon Opens Series Here Ashland - Southern Oregon college opens the 1958-59 hoop season with a two-game series against visiting Chico State college Friday night at 8 pjn. in the SOC gym. The two teams will play again Saturday evening for the sec end contest. Coach Ted Schopf has two veteran starters from last year's squad in forward Dave D Ohvo and guard Jira Mc Abee. D'Olivo Is the extent of the experienced height at 6-4 al though Schopf does have Glen Peterson at 5-6 but the tall hoopster lacks the play ing experience in college ball. Teaming with D'Olivo at the other forward probably will be Punk Biddington, 6-3, who played one year for the Raiders back in the 1955-56 season. Biddington has the jump shot along with D'Olivo and appears to be a good re- bounder. Rebounding does appear to be a problem for the Raiders though due to their lack of height but with the shooting of guards McAbee and Gordie Carrigan from the outside this problem could be cut down. Dick "Hughie" Smith will play the post position to start with and although he is only 6-3, Smith has proven to be an apt ball handler and jump shooter. Injuries Plague Injuries have played a big part in the pre-season prac tices with D'Olivio suffering from foot blisters, McaAbee and Biddington with knee trouble. Tom Bernet is out for the season with an operation coming up in January, and Dick Puhl has a broken finger. Also In the forward wall is Ashland freshman Jack Tobi asson who has shown quite well in the rebounding de partment to the extent that he will most likely see some action this weekend against he visiting Californians. Why feed the big thirst Now for 59, Rambler gives you even more miles per gallon, saves even more on first cost, too up to $214 on comparable 4 -door models. Easiest to turn and park . . . first with Personalized Comfort: individual sectional sofa front seats. Go Rambler! day night by rolling to a con vicing 91-68 victory over Flor ida State. Cincinnati, led by All-American Oscar Robertson's 41 points, breezed to a 93-64 tri umph over Indiana State; Bob Boozer totaled 45 points as Kansas State turned back Purdue, 96-83, and West Vir ginia, voted the No. 1 team in the nation by the UPI Gary Goble, the 6-8 OSC for ward, also had 14 while Denny Strickland, Oregon so phomore from Bremerton, hit a dozen counters. Oregon State hit 27 out of 63 shots for a .429 average while Oregon had .345 on 22 out of 64. THE BOX: Oregon State (SO PPT Miller 0 1-1 3 19 Goble 6 2-4 3 14 Anderson, K. 1 1-2 3 3 Harman 7 7-9 1 21 Anderson, J. 2 3-3 2 7 Flynn 10-13 2 Critchfield 0 0-0 1 0 Woodland 0 0-0 10 Copple 10-0 0 2 Johnson 0 0-0 0 0 Critser . 0 0-0 0 0 Totals Oregon (0 Strickland Herron Robertson Rask Kuykendall Andenan Kimpton 27 14-20 17 18 G . 6 5 3 3 3 O O r 0-2 6-9 2- 3 3- 7 3-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 P 3 3 3 5 3 0 0 s 0 Newton 0 Total 22 16-25 IS 0 Laval Meunier, letterman Dave Lowe, and Chuck Nevi round out the guards in addi tion to forwards Don Vannice, Puhl and Phil Sword. Meunier and Nevi are ball handlers and do not shoot too much but Vannice appears to have a good jump shot and Sword has his best point get ter in a hook. Love is a reserve of last year's squad and his speed has proven to be an aid in the fast break. Each of the two varsity games will be preceedea by junior varsity contests begin ning at 6:30 p.m. These will be the only two games the Raiders will play at home before January 2 and 3 when they tangle with Ever ett JC. Following the Chico series, the following week the Raiders will journey to the Bay area to encounter San Francisco State and Saqra mento State before they play in the Far Western tourna ment at Humboldt Sate col lege December 18-20. U. of O. Guard Gets 4th Choice PhUadelphia-DPD-Bob Grott kau, University of Oregon guard, was picked by the De troit Lions as a fourth-round choice Monday in drafts by the National Professional Football league. He was the only player selected in the first four rounds from the Pacific Northwest. Two other players from the West Coast were selected in the first four rounds. They were Dick Bass, College of Pacific halfback, who goes to Los Angeles, and Southern California tackle Monte Clark, drafted by the San Francisco 49'ers. of bigger '59's? See 1 nMMuiAM Even New 100 Inch jjom LEA MOTORS, Bartlett at 5th, board of coaches at the end of last season, opened with a 76-67 victory over Furman. Rupp Not Pleased Kentucky got off to a slow start against Florida State but managed to open a five-point lead at halftime and then smothered the Sem moles in the second half. Johnny Cox, the lone hold over from last season's start ing five, led the Wildcats with 27 points. Rupp, who admitted he did "a poor job of substituting in trie first half," wasn't too pleased with Kentucky's de but. "We didn't play nearly as wen as we are capable of, said the Baron. "Our defen sive work was bad and our offense wasn't too solid." Cincinnati ran up an 11-1 lead in the first six minutes against Indiana State. The Bearcats held a 45-31 advan tage at halftime and led by 30 points throughout most of the second half. Deadly Free Throws Purdue outscored Kansas State from the field. 31-27. but was unable to halt Booz er, who dropped in 11 baskets and 23 of 26 free throws. The entire Wildcat team was deadly from the free throw line, converting $2 of 56 at tempts. West Virginia also won its opener on charity shots, dunk ing in 22 of 32 while Furman converted 13 of 23. The Moun taineers trailed 65-60 with three minutes remaining but rallied to win behind the shooting of Jerry West, who wound up with 29 points. Kansas, playing without two-time All-America Wilt Chamberlain, who turned pro at the end of last season, un veiled a new fast-breaking of fense in whipping Rice, 65-49, Ron Loneski paced the Jay hawks with 22 points. Indiana Not Impressive Indiana and Temple two other top-ranked teams last season weren't as impressive in their debuts. The Hoosiers, defending champions of the Big Ten, pulled ahead in the second half to defeat Drake 68-59, while Temple turned back Gettysburg, 60-53. Michigan swamped Pitts burgh, 75-55, despite a 28 point effort by the Panthers Don Hennon; Northwestern set a school scoring record in downing Western Michigan, 102-60; Iowa gained its 80th consecutive home victory over non-conference foe by downing Colorado, 67-46, and Steubenville, last season's UPI small college champions, dumped St. Michaels, Vt., 81- 63, for its 24th straight vic tory. In other major games, Jackie Moreland scored 39 points to lead Louisiana Tech to a 77-59 victory over South eastern Oklahoma State; Fred Edmondson's 23 points spark ed Georgia to a 76-59 triumph over Clemson; The Citadel de feated Richmond, 55-45; Ore gon State whipped Oregon, 68-60, and Stanford coasted to a 57-40 victory over San Jose State. , DeVoss Named Waltonian Division Vice President , Henry (Hank) DeVoss, elected vice-president of the Oregon division of the Iaaak Walton league, is a special education instructor in Medford senior and junior high schools. He teaches remedial reading and read ing acceleration DeVoss, who lives near Talent, is a senior pilot for the Civil Air Patrol, a lieutenant Junior grade in the U. S. Naval Reserve and an ar dent fisherman. the Compact New More Economical for 1959! wheeloase RAMBLER AMERICAN $1835 SoonM dtlmrad trkt at Kanoiha. Woconsm, for-door jgdan it lalt Stata and local taits, H any, automatic trarts mmm and optional aquipment, aitra. Medford MECF0RlUiTRIBUKl Pirates, dodgers Start EBig Boom Dn Player Swap Washington-(DPD-There was a sudden boom in baseball's trading market today with the Pirates and Dodgers huddling over a prospective Frank Thomas - Johnny Podres deal and the Giants making a strong bid for second baseman Don Blasingame of the Car dinals. All the trade talk wasn't confined to these four clubs, however. Here are some of the other deals being handled about in the corridors and hotel lobbies of this smoke filled major and minor league convention: -The White Sox are offer ing Billy Goodman and Bub ba Phillips around for "a first class relief pitcher." -The Yanks have renewed their efforts to get either Pedro Ramos or Dick Hyde from the Senators. -Boston is after Vic Wertz; Cleveland is listening but in sists upon Jim Piersall in re turn. -Gabe Paul of the Redlegs says "we'll trade anyone but everybody keeps asking about Johnny Temple and he comes very high." -The Phillies have offered the Dodgers a list to choose from that includes Willie Jones in return for rookie sec ond baseman George (Sparky) Anderson. Thomas Deal Hottest The hottest deal at the mo ment, however, appears to be Army Wins Grid Trophy 7th Time New York - (UPD - Army re ceived all but one first-place vote to win the 1958 Lambert Trophy, symbol of Eastern major college football su premacy. The Cadets, who finished an undefeated season by whip ping arch-rival Navy last Sat urday, received 9.9 of a pos sible 10 points in the final balloting by a 10-man selec tion committee of coaches, sports writers and broadcas ters. It was the seventh time since the trophy was initiated in 1936 that Army was named No. 1. Syracuse (8-1) the only oth er team to receive a first-place ballot, finished second in the voting with 9.0 points. Navy, last year's Lambert Trophy winner, placed third this season with a 6-3 record and 7.2 points. Penn State (6-3-1) was fourth with 6.95 points and Pittsburgh (5-4-1) was fifth with 6.55 points. Eugene-fiJPD-The Izaak Wal ton league meeting here Sat urday put its weight behind a proposal to make steelhead a game fish. The Walton league wants the steelhead to have full blanket protection in Oregon, saying its value as a game fish far exceeds its value to commercial, fishermen and that it is primarily a trout and entitled to classification of a game fish. Resolution , The league also passed a resolution that the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service should investigate sites in the central Willamette valley. for a mi gratory game refuge. Another resolution, like the steelhead measure sponsored by the Jackson County chap ter, was approved asking the federal power cominission to refuse to grant the Coos- Curry Electrical Cooperative permission to construct a high dam on, the Illinois river at Bald mountain. Luhr Jensen Jr., H oo d River, was elected state divis ion president of the league for 1959. Elected vice - presidents were, Allen Kelly, Portland; Ivan Masterson, La Grande; Henry DeVoss, Talent Ted Turel, Eugene; Don Stotler, Portland, and Tom Thayer, Madras. Jim Handy, Ashland Young Outdoor Oregonian, was one of the speakers at the Satur day night joint banquet of the league and its youth affiliate. St Andrews, Scotland-TOPD- The local town council has granted the Royal and An cient Golf club permission to stage the 1960 British Open championship on the old course in celebration of the famed tourney's centenary. the one involving Thomas and Podres. Pittsburgh long has been after a standout left handed pitcher-and the one who appeals to the Pirates most is Podres, who had a 13-15 record with the seventh place Dodgers this year. The Pirates believe that a southpaw like Podres would give them a pennant-winning pitching staff along with 22 game winner Bob Friend, Ronnie . Kline, Vern ' Law, George Witt and Curt Ray don. Pittsburgh feels it can sacrifice some power and would be willing to let Thom as go. Thomas, a right-handed swinger who hit 35 homers and drove in 109 runs while hitting .281, would be right at home with the short left field screen in the Los Ange les coliseum. Spurned in their efforts to obtain Temple from Cincin nati, the Giants have turned toward St. Louis in the hope of landing Blasingame, who hit .274 and played brilliantly afield. The Giants are dang ling shortstop Daryl Spencer and first baseman Bill White at the Cards. Al Lopez of the White Sox says simply, "I've got to have a relief pitcher," and he'll give up Goodman or Phillips and perhaps even both to get the man he wants. He had his eye on Don Mossi and Ray Narleski but that was before Cleveland dealt them to De troit. -Nats Want Howard ' Cookie Lavagetto, Washing ton's skipper, says the Yanks can forget about Ramos or Hyde unless they are willing to talk about Elston Howard. That doesn't sit so well with Casey Stengel, but the Yanks are still trying. Frank Lane of the Indians has been busy outlining a new draft proposal so he hasn't had too much time to talk trade. But he'll take Piersall from the Red Sox if they keep wanting Wertz so badly. Milwaukee persists in its el- forts to get Temple as a re placement for hospitalized Schoendienst, but Birdie leo- betts will have to come up with more than he's offered so far to get his former em ployee in a Braves uniform. Manager Eddie bawyer ot the last-place Phillies blandly owns up, "we're looking for everything. I've talked to everyone, but so far no dice. The Phillies are hot after young Anderson who hit .278 aj Montreal last season and supposedly "does everything well." The list of availables Phila delphia offered the Dodgers for Anderson included Stan Lopata and Jack Meyer as well as. Jones. The Dodgers are in no hurry to get rid of Anderson, however. Give. ..serve ...enjoy Kmtuekp sends its lest fir tfalwlidap Star Defense Man Quits Pro Football Washington-flM-The Wash ington Redskins got the bad news today and the rest of the National Football League got the good news-Joe (Scoot er) Scudero announced he is quitting football. Scudero; brilliant two-way halfback for the Redskins over the past five seasons, couldn't overcome the handi cap of a pulled leg muscle ,that has sidelined him peri odically over the last three years. "I'm not use to the team and the leg will never be entirely well," the Scooter said. "I may as well call it quits and go into my other profession." That "other profession" is acting. Scudero has been a Hollywood stunt man, appear ed in television dramas and movies, and is anxious for a stage career as well. Last year he was a villain on TV's "Gunsmoke" and he was test ed for the role of Rocky Graziano when the latter's autobiography "Somebody Up There Likes Me" was made into a movie. No Name "They finally decided to get a 'name' actor for the part," Scudero mourned. "I just never became well-known enough in football to qualify as a 'name.' " The reason Scudero has been an unsung player is a story in itself. Ninety per cent of his time with the Red Two Tilts Tonight Open High School Basketball Season Basketball takes up this week where football left off last week end on the Oregon High school athletic scene. Two conflicts tonight lead off the season for southern Oregon schools. Twelve games are billed for this week with Jackson County B league members beginning confer ence play. Class B Jacksonville meets Riverside Will Tangle in Bowl Bakersfield (UPD Riverside City college Tigers, undefeat ed in nine games this season, were selected today to oppose Bakersfield College in the 11th annual Shrine Potato Bowl football game Saturday Riverside was champion of the Eastern conference, roll ing up 300 points to 68 by opponents this season. . Bakersfield was runner-up in the Metropolitan confer ence, losing only to Santa Monica City college which was selected for the Junior Rose Bowl game! 1 NAMED WESTERN COACH Los Angeles (UPD W e e b Ewbank, coach of the Western division champion Baltimore Colts, has been named coach of the Western representative for the ninth annual All-Star National. Football league pro bowl game Jan. 11. -SOUR MASH KCILlL"1 raHL TASTES SO RICH... SWALLOWS SO SMOOTH Long the favorite Bourbon of many of your h&t friends, Hill and Hill is now handsomely gift . wrapped to he douWy welcome at Holiday time. Kentucky Bourbon at its Best Truly American Wb iskey skins has been spent on de fense, a chore which won him the respect of every NFL scout but not many headlines. "He could have been one of the finest offensive backs in league history," backfield coach Mike Nixon declared. "But we needed him more on defense and he never griped, never complained and never gave us anything but 100 per cent effort." As a defensive back, Scu dero was a deadly, vicious tackier who hit low and hard. "Without taking anything away from Jim Brown of the Browns," Washington Coach Joe Kuharich said, "I wonder if Jimmy would have broken the league's rushing record a couple of weeks ago if Scu dero hadn't been injured and unable to play. The only way to stop Brown is to hit him low and hard around the ankles, and that's the way Scudero loves to tackle." The player who will miss Scudero the most is little Ed die LeBaron, Joe's closest friend on trie squad. The two room together on road trips. "We're losing a great play er," Eddie commented. "A greater player than most peo ple think. 'Joe's a real pro and if he had played offense, we would have been the talk of the league." Scudero, a doe-eyed Italian, played for Kuharich when the latter coached the University of San Francisco. A-2 Illinois Valley at Cave Junction this evening while Butte Falls, another B school, opposes A-2 Rogue JSiver at Rogue River. Talent and Butte Falls in augurate the Jackson County B loop slate Thursday at Butte Falls. On Friday in the circuit Prospect vies at Jack sonville. Crater Plays Three members of the A-l Southern Oregon conference have non-loop openers this weeks. Crater of Central Point plays at Roseburg on Friday and Saturday nights. Ashland will be at f ortuna, (Jam., on Friday and at Eureka, Calif., on Saturday. Grants Pass also has a California trip, meeting Yreka on Friday and Weed on Saturday. Phoenix, A-2 subdistrict de fender, follows Grants Pass to Yreka, with a Saturday non. counting mix against the Min ers. Eagle Point, just through with its A-2 football slate, goes to Myrtle Creek on Sat urday after just a bare week on workouts on the maple court. Medford, which played In the class A-l football semi finals last Friday, won't have basketball contention . until Dec. 12 'and 13. It meets Marshfield and North Bend here on those respective nights. St. Mary's of Medford begins its campaign on Dec. 9 as host to Jacksonville. 86 PROOF- MAIL TRIBUNI. Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, December 2. 1?t Sport OSCAR FRALEY I Parade 'aS&c $pcrt wrim yT7l United Press Reg. U.S. Pat. Off. By PETER UEBERSAX United Press International Frankfurt, Germany - (UPD - When Vladimir (The Sailor) Kuts announced his retire ment last month, Russia lost most than its top athlete. It lost a fine sportsman as well a performer who was dif ferent from the unsmiling type of Soviet athlete. Stomach ulcers have side lined Kuts, Olympic 5,000 and 10,000 meter champion, for good, a recent Moscow an nouncement said. The end of his sports career came at SI at an age when his idol, Emil Zatopek of Czechoslova kia, still had many years of great running ahead. With his whipping, blond mop of hair bouncing as he ran, Kuts dominated interna tional distance running for three years. He set Olympic records in the 5,000 and 10, 000 meter races and also holds the world marks for those events. Remains "Nice Guy" But as Soviet sports outhor ities marked his records by heaping decorations and titles on him, Kuts remained what can best be described as "a real, nice guy." He. was frank and relaxed during in terviews even with report ers from Western nations. He preferred to talk about his hobbies books and mu sic. He is the only Soviet ath lete who ever showed this re porter pictures of his wife and baby. Kuts probably will be re membered by most track fans for his victory over Britain's Gordon Pirie in the 10,000 meter irace at the 1956 Olym pics in Melburne. Pirie, then at the height of his career, doggedly kept on the Rus sian's heels. There wag a tre mendous roar from the crowd of 100,000 when the Briton once overtook Kuts briefly. 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Read UJX's up-to-the-minute dispatches in MEDFORD that Pirie had "switched off' his power. He hadn't. Kuts was just running that much faster. Politics Were Out While Pirie faded to finish a demoralized eighth, Kuts crossed the finish line smiling and waving to the crowd. He appeared fresh as a daisy and trotted on for a full lap while his opponents struggled home one by one, completely ex hausted. The most impressive thing about Kuts' brilliant Olympic triumphs was the way he took them. Soviet officials spared no efforts to present him as a genuine product of their "superior" system but Kuts never tried to bring poli tics into running. "The medals are for my little son," he pointedly told reporters. He brushed aside with a contemptuous smile sugges tions from reporters from Communist nations that Pirie had tried to spike him. Like Zatopek, Kuts be lieved in the type of training which few Western athletes have the time or energy to follow. 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