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Newspaper Page Text! r i I! 4 f ! i s US. Ski Team Rated Migh For Winter Games Squaw Valley, Calif. -CPD-Off the basis of showings in the North American cham pionships against top compe tition from Europe, all around " champion Bud Wer ner predicted today that the United States would do "very veil" in the Alpine events of the 1960 Olympic Winter games. Werner was speaking with authority because he had Just whipped some of .the finest skiers in the world. The ski master from Steamboat Springs, Colo., won the down hill, slalom and combined ti Class B, A-2 Play-Offs on SO Loop Leaders Collide Class B and A-2 basketball in this area has reached the play-off stage. In the South ern Oregon conference of A-l schools games among the top three contenders highlight this weeks action. Jackson County B schools vie starting Thursday in a run off at Eagle Point to deter mine the county representa tive in the District 5 play-off. League champ St. Mary's will tussle Butte Falls and Jack sonville will battle Talent on Thursday with the winners meeting on Friday. If the Fri day victor is not St. Mary's, it YANKS BEAT FINNS Tampere, Finland-IUPD-Two goals by Bob McVey of Ham den, Conn., led the United States amateur hockey team to a 5-3 victory over a Fin nish squad Monday night. Bob Cleary of Cambridge, Mass., Tom Williams of Du luth, Minn., and Paul John son of St. Paul, Minn., scored the other U.S. goals. 'SKINS SIGN DAVIS Washington-(UPB - Jack Da vis, former Maryland guard who played with the Hamil ton Tiger Cats of the Cana dian Football league last sea son, has signed with the Washington Redskins.' The Redskins signed Davis after getting permission from the Ti-Cats, who owned his con tract. ; IN GP BOUT Oni Wiki Wiki, above, will oppose Jerry Kozak this evening in one of the two wrestling bouts at the Josephine county arena, Grants Pass. Wild Bill Sav age and Nick Kozak are rivals in the other match. First bout is at 8:30 p.m. Shocked by gas-thirst mi Now, thousands each week switch to Rambler '59 because. Rambler savings are bigger . . . you can save hundreds of dollars on first cost alone. More miles per gallon than ever with new, advanced carburetion. Highest resale, because Rambler quality is superior. Easiest to turn, park. Inside, you get legroom, hatroom, seat-room for six 6-footers. Try Rambler Personalized Comfort: sectional sofa front seats that glide back and forth individually. Go Rambler 6 or V-8 ... see your dealer now. tles in three days of competi tion on the slopes that will host the 1960 Olympic Gam es. And, he finished second in the giant slalom. Faced Top Skiers Competing against him, aside from top skiers in this country, were the stars from Austria, Norway, Chile and Japan. Monday's downhill activi ties ended the Alpine part of thes North American Cham pionships and on Saturday starts the Nordic competition here. The National Invitation al Skating competition opens Basketball Schedule; must meet St. Mary's on Sat urday night at Eagle Point. Jackson winner will meet Merrill, Klamath county tour ney winner, the following week for the district diadem. IV. Henley Mix Illinois Valley meets Hen ley at Klamath Falls this Fri day for a berth in the District 6 A-2 play-off. This week's games in the Southern Oregon loop are Klamath Falls at Grants Pass and Crater at Ashland on Fri day and Medford at Klamath Falls and Grants Pass and Crater at Central Point on Saturday. Klamath can cinch a state tourney place by beating Grants Pass and the confer ence title by trimming both the Cavemen and Medford. The Black Tornado is still in the running for the loop mantle and GP is still in po sition to tie for the laurels. At stake among the three clubs are two A-l state meet spots as well as the conference banner. Ted Bates Gets Plaque Corvallis - (UPD A plaque honoring Ted Bates for his selection as a United Press Internation all-American foot bal player was presented to the Oregon State tackle Mon day night just before the Oregon State-California bas ketball game. The presentation to Bates was made by Willard D. Eber hart, Portland manager of UPI, on behalf of Leo H. Pet erson, UPI sports edior. A similar plaque for Oregon State college was presented to Spec Keene, athletic di rector at OSC. BASKETBALL MONDAY COLLEGE SCORES United Press International CCNY 65. Rider 63 Boston College S3, Boston U. 54 Clemson 58. Wake Forest 51 Kentucky 39, Alabama 32 Tennessee 56, Auburn 55 Georgia Tech 76, Florida 72 Vanderbilt 78, Georgia 50 Mississippi St. 65, Tulane 51 Louisiana St. 99. Mississippi 93 Michigan 87. Wisconsin 63 Iowa 66, Purdue 62 Ohio St. 92. Indiana 83 Kansas 85, Missouri 81 Northwestern 79. Minnesota 62 " Air Force Academy 87, Omaha' 66 Nebraska 62. Colorado 61 Cincinnati 92. Tulsa 69 ( Houston 77. Drake 66 Sou. Methodist 56, Arkansas 51 Texas Western 76, Arizona 51 .Montana St. 82. Seattle 74 . California 57, Oregon St. 40. of bigger '59 cars? q r w "w . i i LEA MOTORS, Bartlett at 5th St., Medford the same day. The champions crowned af ter three days of torrid bat tles on KT-22 and Papoose peaks, were: Men - Slalom, Werner; gi ant slalom, Christian Pravda of Sun Valley, Ida., and Aus tria; downhill, Werner; com bined Werner. Women-Slalom, Linda Mey ers, Bishop, Calif.; giant sla lom, Joan Hannah, Francoma, N.H.; downhill, Miss Meyers; combined, Beverly Anderson, Mullan, Ida. Top U.S. Prospect Miss Meyers emerged as the top prospect for the Unit ed States in the Olympic Games on the basis of her showings that brought her twin wins and a fifth place. She was edged out of the combined by Miss Anderson, who failed to win a title, but who put on such a great all around performance that offi cials rated her the best. She scored 3.03 points to 3.86 for Miss Meyers, with finishes of third in the downhill, second in the giant slalom and sixth in the slalom. The skier with the least points in the three events is listed as the combin ed champion. Behind Miss Meyer in the downhill Monday came Renie Cox of Port Leyden, N.Y., and Miss Anderson was third. In the men's downhill, Wer ner blanketed the field. He was clocked in 1:30.4. Sec ond place went to Ken Lloyd of Bishop, Calif., in 1:34.5. The wide margin of victory shocked Werner. Most of the top skiers head ed from here to Sun Valley, Idaho, where they will com pete in the Harriman Cup matches this week end. Squaw Valley Site Praised Squaw Valley, Calif.-IUPD-John J. Garland, U.S. dele gate to the International Olympic committee, today hailed the Squaw Valley site for the 1960 Winter Olympics as "a new departure.". He predicted that the group will be "very pleased" with a report he will make to it in May in Munich. Squaw Valley was praised by Garland because it has all Olympic facilities in one area except for cross - country events. Garland noted that at the 1952 Olympics in Oslo spec tators traveled 75 miles to see the giant slalom. At Cor tina in 1956, they twisted 25 miles over a torturous road to see speed skating, he said. FIGHTS United Press International Sydney. Australia (UPI) Jim my Martinez, 168, Glendale, Ariz., outpointed Willie Vaughn. 159, Hollywood, Calif. (12). San Francisco (UPI) Paolo Rosi. 135 Italy, outpointed Flash Elorde, 132, Philippines (10). Bologna, Italy (UPI) Charley Douglas. 136 '2. New York, stopped Germano Cavalieri. 136 ii, Italy (7). New York (UPI) Chico Valez, 135 'i. Puerto Rico, outpointed Rog er Harvey, 140 li. Bermuda (10). Providerce, R.I. (UPI) Tommy Garrow, 138, Claremont. N.H., out pointed Pat O'Brien, Dublin, Ire land (10). Mobile. Ala. (UPI) Tony Du pas. 145, New Orleans, outpointed Billy De Priest. 146, Columbus, Ga. (10). I I Even better economy for '59 ! New 100-inch u uiasftr Medford Ranks Sixth In Polling Portland flJPD Jefferson of Linn county held down first place among class B high school teams today in the weekly Journal coaches' poll. Jefferson had 45 out of a possible 60 points to 42 points by second place Yoncalla. Fol lowing these two were Elkton, Merrill, Monroe, Corbett, Powers, Wheeler, Pilot Rock, Arlington and Joseph. OREGOMAN RANKINGS Class A-l PtJ. 1 North Salem (18-2) 92 2 Astoria (17-1) 91 3 Jefferson (16-2) 82 4 Klamath Falls (16-3) 71 5 Pendleton (17-3) 56 6 Medford (15-3) 51 7 Bend (16-2) 35 8 St. Helens (18-1) 17 Others: Grant (14-4). Marshfield (11-9). Sandy (17-2), Baker (16-2), Corvallis (13-6), Beaverton (12-6). Class A-2 Pts. 1 Myrtle Creek (21-1) 96 2 CoquUle (17-3) , 84 3 Stavton (14-2) 76 4 Willamina (17-2) 63 5 Seaside (16-4) 57 6 Newport (18-4) 40 Serra Catholic (15-3) 40 8 PhilomaJj (15-3) 36 Others: MvrUe Point (16-4). Juno tion City (16-6). Mac-Hi of Milton- Freewater (17-8), Willamette (15-6) Waldport (18-4). Nestucca (15-5) North Marion (14-4). Cascade. Class B Pts. 1 Jefferson (16-3) 92 2 Yoncalla (19-2) 88 3 Merrill (198-2) 74 4 Elkton (17-4) : 64 5t Monoe (18-4) 51 " 6 Powers (16-2) 47 7 Joseph (15-3) 38 8 Corbett (18-4) 25 Others: Vernonia (14-4),. Pilot Rock (17-5), Wheeler (19-2). Arling ton (15-3) Helix (16-5). Stanfield (17-4), Mapleton, (13-7). Huntington (19-2), Talent. Perrydale (14-3), Star of the Sea (14-7). St. Mary's of Medford (13-4), Mt. Vernon u 4), Adrian (18-1). RVL Seeks Two Nines . Ashland ' and Grants Pass were granted franchises and Harry Chipman of Medford was reelected president at a meeting of Rogue Valley base ball league representatives at Grants Pass Sunday. .Other teams making up the league will be Camp White, Butte Falls, Cave Junction and Riddle. It was decided to seek two more teams to round out an eight-team league. Play will begin not later than June 7, definite opening date to be determined. at the next league March 22. Directors decided to seek a championship series with the winner of the Northern California league and the Rogue Valley league, to be played over the Labor Day week end. . New York (UPD Joe Mar chiony, Manhattan college's shotput star, has a broken bone in his foot and may not be able to compete in Satur day's IC4A track and field championships at M a d is o n Square Garden. He suffered the injury last Saturday dur ing the AAU championships. Portland- (UPD- Bill Sayles, former local high school and University of Oregon pitcher, was signed Saturday as assist ant general manager of the Portland Beavers of the Pa cific Coast league. Sayles has been assistant GM at Van couver. Portland - (UPD. - Baker be came the fourth team to qual ify for the state A-l basket ball tournament Saturday night, by beating La Grande 56-44. Sandy, St. Helens and Pendleton qualified earlier. wheelbase RAMBLER AMERICAN STATION WAGON . Save $500.00 on tint coif America's lowest priced Station Wagon. $500.00 less than other leading "low priced" wagons. Based on a comparison of published man ufacturers' suggested prices. Full 5 passenger room. GBB (IgSK? MEDrXU)t&TRIBUiri SIPdDDBTFS St. Mary's Champ Of Jackson B Loop JACKSON COUNTY B LEAGUE STANDINGS .Final) W. St. Mary's .. 12 Jacksonville - -11 Talent 9 Butte Falls 8 Prospect 0 Pet .750 .688 .563 .500 .000 St. Mary's of Medford wore the 1959 Jackson County B league basketball mantle af ter defeating Prospect high 61 to 43 at Prospect last night. NBEToShow TV Fights Chicago - (UPD National Boxing Enterprises, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chicago Stadium . Corpor ation will take up where the International Boxing club left off in promoting the Wed nesday night television fights. Formation of the NBE was announced Monday by Arthur M. Wirtz, chairman and presi dent of the Chicago Stadium group. Wirtz, James D. Nor ris and Truman Gibson will serve as directors of the new organization. , BOWLING Medford Kiwanis Junior high bowling team defeated Grants Pass 2567 to 2396 Sat urday in a match at Grants Pass. Mike Davis and Kent Blew, Medford, had high se ries with 424 and 423, respec tively, and Danny Gillis was high for GP with 391. Junior Bowling is a new program at Grants Pass this year and this was the first match game for the young Climate city keg- lers. MATCH SCORES: Grants Pass Medford L. Hassett 355 P. Wilson 387 D. Gillis 391 K. Blew 423 D. Barker 318 D. Guches 367 J. Mahaley 316 G. Offord 401 J. Joiner 368 M. Davis 424 1748 . 2102 .. 648 Handicap 465 Handicap 2396 2567 CLASSIC LEAGUE Standings: Edith & Henry's Drive In.. 25 Oak Knoll Golf Course 20 Hillyer Oil Co 19 Hight Heal Estate 16 Sewing Machine Center 15 Sam's Sporting Goods 15 Lamport's Sporting Goods 13 E. H. Mann Co 11 Morse Motors . 10 Results: Edith & HenTr's Drive In 4 (Ernie Tyler 623) 2663; Trail Creek Lum ber Co. 0 (Harry Goode 400) 2368. Sewing Machine Center 3 (Walt Daigle 607) 2643; E. H. Mann Co. 1 (Andy Anderson 567) 2598. Oak Knoll Golf Course 3 (Buster Forney 605) 2603; Morse Motors 1 (Frank Driscoll 568) 2493. Sam's Sporting Goods 3 (Paul Morgan 587) 2650; Hight Real Es tate 1 (Jim Knapp 547) 2525. Hillyer Oil Co. 3 (Ralph Brock 560) 2675; Lamport's Sporting Goods 1 (Jim Morgan 582) 2638. VICTORY LEAGUE Standings Clave Const ...... Trowbridge V Flynn. .. U. S. Bank Hearin Lbr. Hillyer E. H. Mann Co. 1 Jackson Co. Federal Pioneer Club Sewing Machine Center Baker Mldg. Co Quality Mkt Rogue Sportsman W. 22 21 19,i 17 16 16 16 14 14 L. 10 11 12 y2 15 16 16 16 18 18 19 13 12 20 20 ',4 Results: Trowbridge & Flynn 4 (E. Dick inson 511) 21?4; Baker Mldg. 0 (M. Maker 404 1860. Jackson Co. Federal 3 (D. Stone 443) 2012; U. S. Bank (G. Ingle 442) 1918. E. H. Mann 3 (E. Lenz 562) 2124; Hearin Lbr. 1 (E. Sessions 483) 2118. Rogue Sportsman 1 (D. Webster 440) 2010; Hillyer 3 (H. Clark 3 543) 2184. Clave Const. 3 (D. Hickson 516) 2090; Quality Mkt. 1 (H. Culy 485) 1981. Sewing Mach. Center 1 (Y. Stro bel 383) 1976; Pioneer Club 3 (D. Harris 457) 2042. Split conversions D. Hickson 4-7-10, G. Russell 6-7. E. Doty 3-7. High game H. Clark 214, D. Hickson 209. High series E. Lenz 562, H. Clark 543. KIWANIS JUNIOR LEAGUE Standings: Johnny Rebs Gutter Gang Ronchv Rollers The Heads Question Marks Alley Rats . Pin Stealers Rough Riders W. . 10 10 . 10 . 8 7 . .7 6 . 2 Results: Gutter Gang 3 (Kent Blew 286) 1407; Question Marks 0 (Dennis Salyers 270) 1330. Pin Stealers 2 (Mike McCoy 302) 1414; Alley Rats 1 (Phil Wilson 287) 1314. Rough Riders 0 (Tom Ginn 270) 1331; Joh-iny Rebs 3 (Mike Davis 365) 1391. The Heads 1 (Gene Offord 245) 1388; Ronchy Rollers 2 (Roy Nor cross 286) 1394. Splits Converted Clifton Roberts 3-10, Alden Stewart 2-7. High Game Mike Davis 216. ROGUE ROLLERS Standings: OK Market W. L. '21 7 20 8 18 10 16 12 15 13 -15 13 14 14 12 16 11 17 9 19 9 19 .- 8 20 Skeeters Desert Service . Kim's Elk Lumber Henry s Kachina Room . Harry & David Economy Market Chucks Market Twin Plunges First National Bank . Results: Harrv & David 4 (Marsh 411) 1843: FNB 0 (Metcalf 315) 1636. Kim's 0 (Morton 425) 1898: Elk Lbr. 4 Petard 453) 2019. Henrys 0 Hopkins 446) 1963: OK Market 4 (Findley 498) 2242. Desert service 4 (Minger 443) 2065; Economy Mkt. 0 (Legg 421) 1817. Twin Plunges 0 (McNeal 396) 1865; Skeeters' 4 (Smith 481) 2018. Kachina Room 3 (Patterson 433) 2042; Chuck's Mkt. 1 (Shama 430) 1977. Split Conversions: Pat Swanson 7-4-10. Agnes Gish 4-7-9, Aria Shreve 5-10. Gwenn Caster 5-8-10. The Crusaders, who falter ed after setting an unbeaten pace in the early loop cam paign, wound up a full game in front of second place Jack sonville in the final standings. Nevertheless, St. Mary's faces a play-off for the District 5B western division toga starting this Thursday at Eagle Point. Jacksonville, Talent and Butte Falls in the subdistrict tourney. Last night St. Mary's was in control at the end of every period, 18 to 12, 30 to 20 and 40 to 28. Al Yates was the SM scoring leader with 20 counters. Bob Fitch had 11 for Prospect. Prospect with Charles Poole putting in 17 points won the junior varsity game 55 to 32. The St. Mary's Prospect scrap was the final game in regular Jackson B league play. - LINE-UPS: 62 St. Mary's F 2 D. Evans F 4 B. Evans C 8 Miksche B 6 R. Daley .. G Hout .. Substitutions F o r Prospect 42 Chapman 7 Hall 4 Davidson 9 Fitch 11 Scaife 6 St. Mary's. rrazier 2, Shasky Cooper 4, H. Daley; Sweat 4, Getchell 2. 5. Yates 20. for Prospect, Church Quintets Stay Unbeaten First Baptist and First Christian continued undefeat ed in the Medford YMCA senior church basketball league Saturday night. The Baptists licked Phoenix Nazarene 60 to 40 and the Christian churchmen tipped Methodist 54 to 50. Presbyterian thumped First Nazarene 64 to 28 in the oth er game. Your favorite auto dealer will know how to help you get some First National money so you can use it to buy one of his shinyS automobiles. Ask him about SDdllrk. HXliAXlUlXlg. rXtJ 11 OglCC US Fishermen On Top in Coach Poll ' Portland -fCW) Astoria's Fighting Fishermen moved into first place today among class -1 high school basket ball teams in the weekly Journal coaches' poll. As toria has a 17.1 record. North Salem was second and Jefferson of Portland third. Klamath Fills and Pendleton followed the leaders. Myrtle Creek ranked in first place among class A-2 teams. It was followed in order by Coquille, Siayton. Willamina, Seaside, N e w port, Serra and Philomath. THE- A-l RANKINGS: Team Points 1. Astoria ... ...... 74 2. North Salem ............ 73 . 3. Jefferson .: .. 66 4 Klamath Falls 54 5. Pendleton . 36 6. Tie) Bend 35 . Medford ; 35 8. St. Helens 21 9. Grant .... 17 10. (Tie) Baker 7 Sandy 7 Corvallis 7 Others: Marshfield , Cleveland 2. Beaverton 1. SOC Closes In League , Ashland - Southern Oregon college goes to Klamath Falls Wednesday night to close out the Oregon Collegiate confer ence basketball season against the Owls. A win for the Raiders would assure them at least a tie for the OCC crown. Currently the Raiders are first by a full game. RETURNS TO DUKE Durham, N.C. - (UPD - Theo dore (Ted) Youngling of Free port, N.Y., an assistant coach at Duke university in 1952-53 has rejoined the Blue Devil football staff, replacing Tom O'Boyle, who quit to take a job as line coach at the Uni versity of Miami, Fla. AU. f FOR AM V v j PURPOSE! J VSiS V ...use it lo buy a car, j MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford", Oregon, Tuesday. 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