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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 23, 1959)
Big Group of Lettermen To Return for Football At Medford High School Head coach Fred Spiegel- berg, understandably, is re luctant to venture an outright forecast on the fortunes of Medford High school in foot ball this fall. But, take it from viewpoint of scribe and avid Medford gridiron fan, the outlook is beaming bright and the poten tial of the Black Tornado seems terrific. How else can it be taken. For, 30 lettermen, or more, are to return from the 1958 squad. A good half of these saw regular or heavy duty on either offense or defense, and some both ways, in the Black Tornado's platooning system. And, the head mentor thinks that "some other good kids" will be pushing the mono gram men at about every po sition. Spiegelberg, whose cohorts reached the Oregon Class A-l finals last season, has called the first 1959 workout for 10 a.m. on Monday and the sec ond for 4 p. m. in the two-per-day. The coach and his staff expect 90 or more candidates homorrow. Eighton-one were on hand to receive physical examinations on Thursday night and Spiegelberg said he knew of a dozen more who plan to turn out. Seniors Mostly Seniors predominate among the lettermen. Among them are Lowell Dean, all-state and all-conference end; Lynn Knight, tackle, and John Frohnmayer, guard, first team all-district players, and Skip Bennett, second team all-conference back. Other senior mdnogrammers are Jerry Anderson and Booth Deakins, ends; Keith Berg, Reggie Breeze and George Lindemann, guards; Cal Dean, Ken Durkee and Leonard Griggs, halfbacks; Dennis Jen sen, end and tackle; Jim John ston, Gordon Pathman and Bert Lindemann, tackles; Pat McLaughlin, center, and Ray Konopasek, quarterback. Mc Laughlin suffered a deep thigh bruise playing touch football during Beaver Boys State in the spring and Spiegelberg says he'll be miss ing two or three weeks. Doug Kliever, No. 3 center as a junior, and a letterman, is reported still debating whe ther to come out for the 1959 campaign or to give full time to studies. Juniors Listed Junior lettermen are Bill Charley, Al Funston and Dan Sieg, fullbacks; Dick Con nolly, Terry Earl and Bill Hobbs, guards; Chuck Holt, tackle; Larry Hammack, Bob Quinney and Jerry Winetrout, ends; Mike Hood, halfback, and Dick Ragsdale, quarter back. Medford drew most acclaim last year for its tremendous defense. The offense had its sparkling moments and for the most part came through when needed. Tornado attack could be stronger this year. Again, there appears to be no great backfield weight, al though it .appears better than last year. A bit more speed is likely and Spiegelberg re ports two potential backfields of about equal calibre. The tutor said that the Tornado will concentrate on offense to begin with. Again, it will be a multiple attack with probably somewhat more emphasis on the T for mation than the single wing. Just what will be used de pends on how the squad comes along. Less Platooning . Spiegelberg stated that it is questionable that the Black Tornado will platoon for of fense and defense to the ex tent that was done last year. A number of gridders are ex pected to play both ways. Among the switches slated are shifting Bennett from full back to left half where he alternated as a sophomore and moving Breeze from end to guard, Johnston from end to tackle, Connolly from tac kle to guard and Holt from guard to tackle. Johnston ac tually was playing tackle at the end of the season. Jensen is expected to see service, at offensive tackle as well as defensive end. Knight was a defensive stalwart in addition to handling the punting last year and is expected to see offensive duty, as well, this season. Ragsdale moves from left half to quarterback where he saw service last year. 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Lowell Dean, Griggs and Pathman, primarily offensive players in 1958, may go both ways. Defensive men last season ticketed also for of fense are Hood and Earl. Staff of Eight Anderson could see a lot of both ways duty. An offensive regular " last year, he made his defensive talent known particularly in the late part of the season. Deakins played offensive end for the varsity but got lots of defensive work with the jayvees. . Spiegelberg will have a staff of eight assistant coaches to start with. Paul Evensen returns as line tutor, Tom Marier as backfield coach and Dean Benson as end mentor. Others are Frank Roelandt, John Kovenz and Art Keith, junior varsity coaches, and Barney Riggs and Ralph (Cy) Perkins, head men at Hedrick and McLoughlin Junior High schools, respectively. Riggs and Perkins will be on hand with the Tornado until school begins. Medford will open its cam paign with a trip to Beaver ton on Sept. 11 and will meet Marshfield at Coos Bay on Sept. 19. Home slate will open on Sept. 25 against Orland, Calif. A junior varsity mix will precede the main contest. South Salem will play here on Oct. 2. Southern Oregon confer ence schedule begins at Med ford against Crater on Oct. 9 and the Black Tornado goes to Klamath Falls on Oct. 16. A non-loop game with Eure ka, Calif., is billed for the stadium here on Oct. 23 and the conference rivalry wraps up with two games at home, Ashland on Oct. 30 and Grants Pass on Nov. 6. Bend Will Have Legion Tourney Bend - Three of the out standing young baseball teams in the nation will arrive next week in Bend for the Ameri can . Legion junior sectionals tournament Aug. 28th through Sept. 1. Winners of the Northwest, Southwest and far Midwest tourney. regional playoffs battle here for a spot in the four-team national tournament as Hast ings, Nebr. At best the Bend sectionals tournament winner could wind up as the national champion junior Legion club, representing the cream of thousands of boys 15 to 17 competing in the famed pro gram. Bend Municipal baseball park has been completely re modeled, including a new grandstand, third -base dug out, concession stand, electric scoreboard and other im provements. All games will start at 8:00 p.m. in the double-elimination tourney. Teams won't be known until Aug. 26. From the Northwest will come the winner of the Re gion 11 tournament at Rose burg, where state champions from Oregon, Montana, Idaho. Washington and Alaska are battling. - Fighting for a sectionals tourney berth in the Region 12 meet are state champions i from California, Hawaii, Ne- ; vada, Arizona, and Utah. i And in the Region 10 tour- I nament, state winners from Colorado, N e b r a s k a New Mexico and Wyoming seek a spot. 'Although official Weather Bureau records date back only 70 years, precipitation figures were recorded near Harvard College as long ago as 1715 and barometric read ings were documented in Bos ton in 1725 and. 1726. . 315 Players Signed For SO Golf Tussle Another huge entry is al ready certain for the annual Southern Oregon Golf cham piosnhips at Rogue Valley Country club. Entrants for the 34st an nual tournament on the Med ford links numbered 315 actu ally signed as of yesterday. Of these, 215 were in the men's, division, 40 in the sen ior men's and 60 in the ladies'. Formal opening date of the tourney will be Wednesday, Sept. 2, when out-of-town con testants play their qualifying rounds. Match play opens on Thursday, Sept. 3, and finals will be on Monday, Sept. 7, Labor day. First round cards in men's National Amateur qualifica tion play at Portland on Sept. 1 can be counted as qualifying scores for the Southern Ore gon. Berg Marten and Eugene Ricker, co-chairmen of the Rogue Valley event, announc ed this arrangement as an ac commodation for some of the state's top .linksmen who would like to participate in both competitions. A divoter entering both rivalries, other wise, would have to make a quick trip to Medford for 18 hole play after having toured 36 holes the previous day. All 1958 Finalists All of last year's finalists are scheduled to compete. The defending champions are Lynn Creason, Las Vegas, Nev., in the men's division; Marvin Clark, Grants Pass, in the seniors' and Miss Sue De Voe, Medford, in the wom en's. Respective runners-up in 1958 were Dr. Dave Boals, Medford; Bob Henningsen, As toria, and Mrs. . Ray Scott, Eastmoreland, Portland. Other past champions now signed are Dom Provost Jr., Ashland, winner in 1954; Ed die Simmons. Aledford, six times men's titlist, and Mrs. Helen Davies, Medford, seven times ladies' champ. Simmons was sidelined by back trouble last year. Miss DeVoe and Clark will shoot for their third cham pionships. The senior portion of the tourney is entering its third year. Clark was winner in both 1957 and 1959. Rogue Valley, itself, will have a strong entry in the men's contention. Among the home players will be Jim Sheldon, Dr. Ralph Odell, Alan Holmes, Dr. Robert Buck, Dr. Bruce Stanley, Clayton Lewis, Justin Smith Jr., Clayton Lewis and Stew Schroeder. Sheldon took the RVCC match play champion ship last Sunday and Odell claimed the Ashland city tour ney title. Holmes and Buck tied for low card in 1958 southern Oregon qualifying with Holmes winning the play-off for the take home trophy. Cicrich Entered Out-of-town contenders will include George Cicrich, East moreland, the 1959 South western Oregon champ; Bob McKevitt, Ocean Lake; Red McLean, Coos Bay; Ron Mitchell and Vic Santa Maria, Chico, Calif.; Ed Kovacovich, Eureka, Calif.; Jack Matte son, Eugene; Gordon Marlatt, Eugene and Southern Oregon college; George Parsons, Seat tle, Wash., and Larry Hirons and John Kerr, prep stars from Eugene. Kerr, who for merly attended St. Mary's High here, was an all-stater this spring for St. Francis of Eugene. Ted Porterfield, Grants Pass, and Dr. Arnie Inches, Columbia - Edgewater, Port land, are among senior con tenders. ' While the tourney is to get Into full swing on Sept. 2, lo cal participants will have ad vance qualifying. High handi cap golfers not trying for championship flight berths will play their 18-hole rounds from Aug. 25 through 31. Lo cals aiming for title flight spots will qualify on Tuesday, Sept. 1, when any senior play ers who wish also may play their prelim rounds. 64 in Top Flight The low 64 qualifiers in the regular men's class and the low 16 in the seniors' and women's will form the cham pionship flights. Balance of the flights will be of 16. Con solation play is slated in all flights. An enlarged kitchen and BRILL METAL WORKS Commercial Industrial Residential Sheet Metal Werk Stainless, Galvanised an4 Copper Fabrication 2287 West Main HON I SP 2-4440 dining room and increased parking facilities plus added help will enable the country club to handle the large num ber of people expected dur ing the tournament. Two dance bands will play nightly, one in the Crest room and the other in the main dining hall. It was stressed that the Sat urday noon women's luncheon will be for lady contestants and the wives of men players in the tourney: Of the 315 players regis tered, 100 are from Jackson county, 125 from elsewhere in Oregon, principally from Portland and Eugene areas, 75 from California and 15 from Washington. This total does not include Creason whose formal entry is not in but who has given. his word he'll defend. Boys Take Bike Trip to Caves Ten youths made a YMCA bicycle trip to Oregon Caves last', week; leaving here on Thursday and completing the jaunt on Friday. Participants were Curt Salt marsh and Jerry Smith, lead ers, and Pauly Jenny Jr.; Darryl Stockton, Mike Gil housen, Ken Rodgers, David Jones, John Foster, Jim Lonz way and Jim Dunnington. They, visited points of in terest . along . the way and swam in ' streams along the route. - Some food was pre pared on open fires and some bought in restaurants to keep bike packs light as possible. Rand Captures Junior Crown Norbeck, Md.- (LTD' Judy Rand of Aurora, Ohio, -.the new national junior girl's golf champion, now aims for the United States "women's ama teur title next week at Wash ington, D.C. . Judy, 16, easily won the junior crown Friday with a 5 and 3 triumph over Marcia Hamilton of Evansville, Ind. ! MARVIN CLARK To Defend Senior Tiila Seattle, Florists, Regional Softball Portland -UPD- irst rouna wins were taken here Friday in the three-day Northwest Regional Women's Softball tournament at Normandale park as the Seattle Ramblers downed American Linen 3-1 and the Erv Lind Florists crushed the Oregon state champion Salem Shamrocks 10-0. In a third game Salem blanked American Linen in 16 innings 1-0. Seattle posted a pair of runs in the sixth inning to break a tie and win. The defeats eliminated American Linen from the tourney. Louise Mazucca pitched a one-hitter for the Florists, who got 11 hits and scored six runs in the fourth inning. Hap Piper's homer was good for three of the runs. In the third game, winning hurler Marian Kozak scored on a single by Salem's Sue Hendric. 4 5 (1st Game) American Linen 000 001 01 Seattle Ramblers 001 002 x 3 9 2 Barrett and Lindsay; Hoidal and Prentice. Salem Cop Encounters Salem 000 000 0 0 1 S Erv Lind 102 601 x 10 11 1 Hurley, Nybakke (4) and Man tyla; Mazucca and Wadsworth. (3rd Game) American Linen 000 000 000 000 000 0 0 7 4 Salem 000 000 000 000 000 1 1 13 2 Carlson, Barrett (12) and Chur chek; Kozak and. Mantyla. GRID SLATE ANNOUNCED Caldwell, Idaho (UPD A 10 - game football schedule that includes five home con tests has been announced for the College of Idaho. The slate begins Sept. 19 in Che ney, Wash., where the Coyotes will meet Eastern Washington college. Other games include: Sept. 26, at Eastern Oregon; Oct. 3, at Lewis and Clark; Oct. 10, Linfield; Oct. 17, Willamette; Oct, 24, Pacific University; Oct. 31, Idaho State: Nov. 7. Oregon Tech; Nov. 14, Whitman; Nov. 21, Westminster of Salt Lake City. Salem-OiPD-Vern L. Hill, di rector of the Oregon Motor Vehicle Department, has been appointed to executive com mittee membership of the American Association of Mo tor Vehicle Administrators. E ini Each day, during the balance of August A & W DRIVE-IN Will feature SURPRISE HOUR During Which Mugs of Good A&W ROOT BEER Will be given absolutely 4 In addition, during this hour Each day you may purchase 1 Gallon of delicious A&W for only . A New "Surprise Hour" will be chosen every i -. Come in, you may enjoy your ROOT BEER FR ! A&W DRIVG-IN JACKSON and RIVERSItZ lul Shift Eyed to Strengthen Crater High in Backfield MAIL TRIBUNE, Medforel, Or. 11 Senear, Au9. 23. 1959 11 Central Point-A bit of ex perience in the line may be sacrificed to provide more strength in the bacsfield for the Crater High football club. Coach Leonard Warren has indicated that Tom White, who lettered at. end as a soph- Von Clay Stops Ray in Fifth P h i 1 a d e 1 p h i a-UPD-The wheels were in motion today to give Von Clay a bout with Yvon Durelle here Oct. 9 as a reward for his surprising fifth-round TKO over six-rank ed Sonny Ray of Chicago in their nationally televised bout Friday night. , In the event the .negotia tions fall through, Tony Grazi ano, Clay's manager, is willing to settle for bouts with Tony Anthony, Jesse Bowdry, and in the far future, champion Archie Moore. Clay, shrugging off a cut he suffered above the left eye in the third, gashed Ray's, left brow in the fourth and then floored him for a nine-count in the ebbing seconds. He com pleted the demolition at 56 seconds of the. fifth. Ray was a helpless, bleeding wreck when referee Zach Clayton halted the fight. omore last year, will be shift ed to the backfield. Warren has just four letter men who were Comet backs last year. Six other returnees, including White, lettered in the forward wall. Graduation of Wayne Al len, Kerman Bennett and Al len Barnes has taken from Crater three-fourths of what was regarded, generally, as the best backfield combina tion in the Southern Oregon conference last season. Backs who'll carry on are Loyal Higinbotham, Jim E 1 d r e d, Dean Lamp and Don Gillas pey. Line lettermen include Har old Twedell, end; Darrell Wil liamson, Glen Cote and Bry son LaCasse, tackles, and Lar ry Ryerson, guard. The . Cornets open practice Monday along with many Ore gon preps. Workouts are set for 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. . Crater's first game is here against Cottage Grove on Sept. 11. TULSA TOPS PORTLAND St. Joseph, Mo. - (UPD - Tri state Insurance of Tulsa, Okla., defeated Barnard Mo tors of Portland 7-4 Friday in an opening round baseball game of the first annual Con nie Mack world series here. Drain Trips Dairymen Wichita, Kans. - OJPI)-The defending champion Drain, Ore., Black Sox scored six runs in the top of the ninth inning to defeat the Cale donia, Mich., Dairymen 13-10 in the National Baseball con gress tournament Friday night. Threatened with becoming the earliest eleminated de fending titlist in the torney'a history, the Black Sox cam up with a five-hit attack mix ed with three walks and an error in the final inning. Lon Smith, Ellis Olson, Ray Stratton and Jim Pifher hit home runs earlier to drive across five of Drain's first seven runs. Shasta College Drill To Start Redding - The Shasta col lege Knights will begin foot ball practice at 8 a.m. Fri day, Sept. 4, head coach Bill Rhyne announced. The start of drills will co incide with new student regis tration at the junior college campus. Rhyne's KnigUls won six of nine starts in 1958: See the Pafenfecf SIEGLER now at VM PHONE SP 2-2939 225 WEST MAIN Let us show you how you can M l , WM,M,-Mj y, , - , nj' New! 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