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10 MAIL TRIBUNE. Medford, Oregon, Friday, Mireti , 193 Merrill Trims St. Mary's 59-49 in District Play-Off Klamath Falls-Merrill hign staved off a threat at the fin ish here last night to upend St. Mary's 59 to 49 in the opener of a playoff series for the District 5B basketball championship. The clubs clash again to night at Oregon Technical in stitute. If St. Mary's wins to even the series a third game will be necessary here on Saturday. Winner of the playoff will represent the district in the state B tourney next week at Bend. Merrill led by 43 to 35 go ing into the final period last night but the scrappy and de termined Crusaders cut the gap to 47 to 42 midway through the panel and score was 51 to 46 with less than three minutes to play. Bruce Brickner and Bud Maupin then combined as the Huskies pulled away. Miller, Score Mound Rivals Phoenix, Ariz. -CPD- Mana ger Bill Rigney today nomi nated the soft-throwing Stu Miller to start on the mound when the San Francisco Gi ants open their 29-game exhi- b tion season Saturday against Cleveland. Rigney said that he would follow Miller with Joe Ship ley and then let Dom Zanni hurl the last three innings. The Indians, meanwhile, have named the dazzling Herb Score to start against San Francisco. This news caused Rigney to announce an all right-handed hitting line-up for Saturday's battle. The tentative batting order: Jim Davenport, 3b; Felipe Alou, rf; Willie Mays, cf ; Ray Jablonski, lb; Daryl Spencer, ss; Bob Schmidt, c; Don Taus sig, If; Miller, p. Maupin led the individual tabulations with 23 points. John Haskins had 14 and Brickner 13 for Merrill. Bob and Dick Evans and Roger Hout each had 11 and Gary Miksche 10 for St. Mary's. The Huskies had margins of 18 to 9 at the quarter and 30 to 22 at the half. Almost perfect shooting at the free toss line aided the Huskies as they hit 13 for 14 in gift tries. SM shot 11 for 22. Merrill had 23 field buck ets and the Medford team 19. LINE-CPS: 59 Merrill It Mary's 4S T 14 H. Haskinj Yate 6 F 5 Fields B. Evans 11 C 13 Brickner Miksche 10 G 23 Maupin Hout 11 G 2 Salvadori R. Daley Substitutions For Merrill, D. Haskins 2; for St. Mary's, D. Evans 11. Shasky. Practice Underway In Track, Baseball For Medford High EDSTROM OUT Eugene ITJPD Dave Ed strom, ace decathlon and hur dle man for Bill Bowerman's University of Oregon track team, underwent an operation for appendicitis Wednesday and will be out of track com petition for at least a month. The 19-year-old junior, one of this country's leading decath lon prospects for the 1950 Olympics, will miss the meet with Fresno State March 28, according to Bowerman. A good number of athletes who'll bulwark the Black Tornado in spring sports are still cavorting on the basket ball court, but preparations for Medford high baseball and track campaigns are other wise well underway. Coach John Kovenz has had some 35 -to 45 baseball aspir ants drilling this week and Coach Dean Benson reported that 40 to 50 boys have been working at getting Into shape for the cinderpath and field event season. Workouts in the two sports formally have been in pro gress for about three weeks, although some athletes have been at it longer. Kovenz said that first two weeks of diamond drill was for some 15 varsity candidates not out for basketball. First full turnout was last Monday. Around nine youths expected to bolster the baseball crew were still out full or part time for varsity or jayvee basket ball. Players Listed Among the 15 on hand over the last three weeks have been Dennis Barr, Tom Laurance, Pat McLaughlin and Herb Wheeler, pitchers; Bob Pond and Ken Jensen, catcher-outfielders; Frank Peterson, Wayne Thompson, Mike Par son, Tom Turpin and Jerry Fields, outfielders; Ray Kono pasek, second base, and Bob Steele, third base. Jensen, who'll likely be a utlity man, and Wheeler, a fine sophomore prospect, were still devoting time to junior varsity basketball this week Baseball varsity men of last season yet out for varsity basketball are Jerry Ander enjoy the true old-style Kentucky Bourbon smoother I KdStyU i . always because llTSjWjjf it's slow 1TS distilled It's the extra care and attention of slow-distilling... the patient willingness to take twice as long... that gives Early Times its full, gratifying flavor. Making whisky this old-style way costs more, but" we think you'll agree it's son, pitcher, first baseman and outfielder; Lowell Dean, first baseman; Cal Dean, shortstop; Ken Durkee, third base, and George Ice, outfielder. Yet to report from the hoop jayvees are three pomising sophs, Bob Quinney, outfielder and first baseman; Jim Barry, catcher and outfielder, and Dick Ragsdale, an all-around infielder. Much Depth The baseball picture adds up to a lot of depth and Ko venz feels that, with the right combination, the Black Tor nado win oe tougn. mere is a good nucleus from the 1958 season. At times last year, Ko venz fielded an all sophomore infield. A good share of those who have turned out or will come out played American Legion junior ball last sum mer. The Black Tornado, keep ing up to date, has a pitching machine for the first time this year and is using it for bat ting practice. Some of the trackmen were busy during the cross country season last fall and some after a lay-off have been working since around Dec. 10. A year around practicer and report ed the most determined and bets conditioned runner for the Tornado is distance man Roger Johnson. He was third in the prep class of the Oregon AAU crass country run last fall and mentor Benson stated that Johnson is doing real well right now. Murray Tuning Among those who have been getting into condition are Mike Murray, second in the state shot put last spring; Mark Norton, miler; Leonard Griggs, sprinter; Skip Bennett, pole vaulter; Bruce Hill, half miler; Fred Funston and Rob ert Hamilton, hurdlers, and Terry Ryan, quarter miler and javelin thrower. Ray Smith is expected to strength en the squad in the mile and half-mile. Ryan is temporarily out of action because of a popped blood vessel. Among top sophomore pros pects are Bob Rix, half-miler; Walt Ayres and Bill Charley, high jumpers; Al Funston, Jerry Winetrout and Tom Bor tis, shot putters, and Phil Humphreys and Dan Sieg, sprinters. Sieg currently has an ankle sprain. Mike Hood, sophomore and all-around trackman, is a question mark because of a knee injury suf fered, in wrestling. Those expected to report from varsity basketball to track are George Koch, broad and high jumper and javelin man; Jerry Shults, high jump er; John Harvey, pole vaulter, and Don Peek, sprinter. WHAT ANCIENT EECDED WAS BROKEN I N PBO FOOTBALL PLAWF ? itohn Unites, Mimore Colts quarterbadc.toased forward passes that gained 349 yards against the New York Siartte.The od record was 555 ards made by 6ammy Baugh f Washington in 1331 against the Chicago Bears. TOP THIS! To any reader submitting contrary proof. Tip Brady will send a signed, wallet-siied diploma. Write to: BEAT THIS, co this paper, Box 575, Sausalito. .Calif. Enclose self-addressed, stamped envelope. Cal Wins Over Huskies Hay Prove Difference in Chase By MIKE HUDSON United Press International The two-team dogfight in the Pacific Coast conference basketball race comes to an end this week end, and chanc es are that the double defeat California handed Washington early in the season will prove the difference between tne two squads when the final whistle has sounded. Before the season began, PCC coaches predicted a tightly-packed race in which a 10-6 or 11-5 record would prevail. But the Bears and Huskies have dispelled that MedfordTribuni SIPODIKTrS Big 10 Has Bow! Vote Madison, Wis. - (UPD - The Big Ten was to vote today at its winter meeting on whether it wants to continue playing in football's post - season classic, the Rose Bowl, each New Year's day at Pasadena, Calif. The conference group votes in the face of stalemating cir cumstances, most important of which were the West Coast's failure to make a proposal for the Big Ten to continue com peting in the bowl, the disso lution of the Pacific Coast con ference and. the absence of any obligation on the Big Ten to continue playing. There was no indication which way the vote may go but, even if the group favored continued Big Ten Rose Bowl teams, the faculty members of the conference's schools must vote on the big issue and one objection from them would force a re-vote at the Big Ten's May meeting. Mickey Wright Links Leader Jacksonville, Fla.-ttJPD -Vet eran Mickey Wright was on her way toward a hoped-for third tournament crown in the $6,000 Jacksonville Wom en's Open golf championship, boasting a one-stroke lead over her nearest rival. The 24-year-old blonde from San Diego, Calif., fired a two-under-par 70 Thursday in the opening round. Close behind Miss Wright, who won the tournament in 1956 and 18957, was Bonnie Randolph, Naples, Fla., with a 71. Betsy Rawls, Spartan burg, S.C., was third with an even-par 72, while three were tied for fourth place with 73s; Maureen Bauer Hagge, Del ray Beach, Fla.; Betty Bush, Tequesta, Fla., and Fay Crock er, Uruguay. Field Increased For Grand Prix Pomona, Calif. - (LTD' - The field for the featured 150-mile race of the first international Grand Prix Saturday and Sunday was increased to 53 today with the entry of one of Lance Reventlow's Scarabs in the name of a Chicago in dustrialist. John Stephanie bought the car for a reported $17,000 and assigned Jim Jeffords, na tional production car cham pion, to drive the car with which Chuck Daigh won the Riverside Grand Prix last fall. Top Shot Put Men in Meet East Los Angeles, Calif. -(UPD- One of the top shot put fields in the country was as sured for Saturday's Southern Pacific AAU relay meet when world's champion Parry O' Brien definitely announced today he would compete. Dallas Long, sensational freshman from University of Southern California, is also entered in the shot, but in the frosh flight. Others compet ing will be Dave Davis, who has bettered 60 feet, and Charley Butt, who has come close to that mark. Woods, Water, Wildlife By Hank DeVoss The 1958-59 steelhead sea son ended with a disgusted grunt from most anglers who were out after fish the last day. The Illinois river gave up an average of about one fish to ten fishermen and some of the best anglers went home without a strike all day. The Applegate river was slow with a couple of hot spots that gave up fish to the lucky few who were fishing those par ticular areas. Mouths of Wil liams creek and Slate creek seemed to slow down a few fish enough so that these areas produced fish fairly consist ently throughout the season. CONSOLATION HOPE The only consolation to the fisherman after a sea son like the one just past is that there ought to be a good year ahead when all those fish that got by come back again. Next time they should be much bigger, harder fighters and provide some real sport. (I've been waiting for some fish so long they must be monsters or have died of old age.) SOME SPOTS OPEN For those anglers who find it hard to give up there are a few spots still open where fish can be found. The Klam ath river is open for almost its entire length and has rain bow trout to offer those who manage to push through the snow in the Keno area. Those who want steelhead and have a California license can choose between the Klamath below Copco dam No. 1 and the Smith river below the 101 highway bridge. Both rivers have late runs of winter steel head in them now. DON'T KEEP SPAWNERS One difficulty with late fishing is the chance of picking up spawned out fish heading back to the ocean instead of a bright new comer going upstream. A spawned out fish is hardly edible and should be re turned to the river, but many anglers find this hard to do. The spawners don't provide the sport of fresh fish and if they are re turned to the water there is a good chance they will come back to spawn in the river again. The change is necessary be cause without it the State Water Resources board can not set up a program for the Rogue whereby a minimum flow can be established. Though the conservationists aren't satisfied with the mini mum flow presently set up by the board, we still will have opportunity to convince them of the error of their ways. prediction with healthy win streaks which are still going strong. Now, Washington faces its toughest test since the Cal ser ies. The Huskies (11-3) journ ey to Los Angeles to meet rug ged UCLA (9-6) tonight and Southern California (7-8) Sat urday. Huskies Chances Slim Washington's only hope to defeat California is to win both of these games while California drops its final con test, a Saturday night tussle with Oregon State (7-7). This would leave the two teams tied for first and force a play off game. In other coast action, the Beavers face Stanford 9-6 to night. Third place will be de cided by the results of " this contest and UCLA's game with Washington. A couple of battles between Northwest also-rans round out the PCC schedule. Oregon (3- 10) is at Idaho (4-10) tonight and Washintgon State (2-13) Saturday. Huntington, Ore. -!OT)- Jos eph won a berth in the state class B high school basketball tournament starting in Bend next week by defeating Hunt ington 51-49 here Wednesday night. TOURNEY DELAYED New Orleans - (UPD - With one eye cast to the sky, 156 pros and amateurs prepared to tee off today for the open ing round of the 20,000 Greater New Orleans Open SHOULD KEEP GUARD UP Those who opposed the original bill should not low er their guard yet because rumor has it that an at-, tempt will be made to amend the bill to again in clude 'industry' while in committee before it is in troduced to the floor of the House. There is not much chance of that happening because the Speaker of the House is recommending that the bill be passed in its present form. Let's hope it does. Redl Favored To Beat Jordan New York - (UPD - Irish Eddie Jordan, unbeaten young Brooklyn welterweight, gets his big chance tonight in his first Madison Square Garden main event, as a substitute against Germany's Stefan Redl of Passaic, N.J. Stocky, brown-haired Redl, former amateur champion of Germany, is favored at 7-5 to tag slender, far-haired Jor dan with his first defeat. 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The hunters who wish to keep their shooting eyes sharp will find the wily crow well worth their efforts. One of the worst habits of the crow is its raiding of bird nests. Upland game bird popula tions are held down when Mr. Crow goes egg hunting. Right now the best spots for finding crows will be along the river bottom where they feed on lizards and frogs and the bugs from adjacent farm lands. CHANGE IN BILL 183 Senate bill 183 has had so much opposition that those who handled the bill decided to try for its passage with the word 'industry' taken out, which passed the Senate yesterday and goes to the House, would change the pres ent law to include fish, wild life and recreation as uses of water of the main stem of the Rogue. This is a change which should have the backing of all the sportsmen and con servationists in the state be cause it proposes to give fish a water right. (This is some what ironic: to give a right to those that used the water first.) DON'T SHOOT, PLEASE Crow hunters are caution ed to avoid shooting short eared owls and mash hawks which are found in the same areas as crows. Both birds are mousers and are protected by law. The mild winter has left a high popu lation of field mice and these birds are necessary for rodent control. The short eared owl is about the only owl which flies during the day and the marsh hawk is marked by a white rump patch. Don't shoot before you look. THE OPTIMIST'S CORNER Die-hard fishermen with California licenses might try the Klamath river near the Hornbrook area for steelhead. Reports from last week end say there were quite a num ber of fish showing but they didn't want to bite what was being thrown at them. Maybe they will have changed their minds by this next week end. GOOD LUCK! In February, 1947, it was 82 degrees below zero as registered at Snag airport in the Yukon, one of the lowest marks in North American records. 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