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SF Trades Spencer To Get Blasingame Br FRED DOWN San Francisco - (LTD - Jubi lant manager Bill Rigney of the Giants was so happy today with the acquisition of second baseman Don Blasingame that he i m m e diately announced part of his starting line-up for next year. "Well lead off with Blasin game," Rigney beamed after it was announced that the crack infielder had been ob tained from the St. Louis Cardinals for second baseman Daryl Spencer and outfielder Leon Wagner. "I'm tickled to get Don. He's real fast; he's a great fielder and a good hitter." Blasingame, 27, hit .289 for the Cards last year, including 26 doubles and seven triples- plus one home run. He also fielded .980, accepting 818 chances - second high for the league. He was in 104 double plays. The Senators, meanwhile said they had rejected the second largest offer ever made for a ball player when they turned down the Cincinnati Reds' bid of $500,000 cash on the barrel for Killebrew, who tied for the American League home run lead with 42 round trippers this year. The Pitts burgh Pirates claimed they had made a player offer that actually exceeded in value the Reds' 5500,000 offer, Nw York-CPU - The San Francisco Giants and Cincin nati Reds apparently have strengthened themselves where they "hurt the most- est" last season with a pair of surprise deals. The Giants moved to tighten up their inner defense when they obtained second-baseman Don Blasingame from the St. Louis Cardinals while the Reds made a bid for. the "big picther they needed when they acauired 19-game win ner Cal McLlsh from the Cleveland Indians. The Giant-Cardinals deal was a standard off-season deal but the Red-Cleveland transaction just beat the mid night dealine for unrestricted deals between the National and American leagues. The deal was completed just be fore the deadline and actually wasn't announced until an hour and a half after it. Rods Trad Temple To get Blasingame, the Gi ants sent infielder Daryl Spencer and outfielder Leon Wagner to the Cardinals while the Reds traded veter an second-baseman Johnny Temple to the Indians for Mc Lish, Infielder Billy Martin and 1958 Southern association batting champion Gordon Coleman. The deadline went by with out either the Yankees or Braves making their long predicted inter-league swaps .but the Washington Senators tossed a winter bombshell ; when they claimed they re jected two $500,000 offers for Harmon Killebrew. Manager Charley Dressen of the Braves, a coach with the pennant-winning Dodgers last season, said the Giants now "are the team to beat." He added that the Braves tried to obtain Blasingame but said the Cardinals "tried to hold us up." 1 ' f ' A x - -.Jar- DON BLASINGAME Traded To Giants Arizin Becomes 3rd High Scorer United Press International Paul Arizin, playing in the shadow of Wilt Chamberlain this season, reached a personal milestone Tuesday night by becoming the third highest scorer in National Basketball association history. The former Villanova star, who twice led the NBA in scoring, hiked his lifetime to tal to 11,779 points as the Philadelphia Warriors mauled the Cincinati Royals, 131-107. Arizin contributed 26 points in the Warrior spree, a surge that put him 15 over the 11, 764 tallied by the great George Mikan of the Minnea polis Lakers. Only Dolph Schayes of Syracuse and Bob Cousy have scored more points than Arizin in the NBA. Chamberlain, however, con tinued to dominate the Phila delphia scoring as he netted 38 points against Cincinnati. Jack Twyman, the circuit's leading scorer, tallied 31 to lead the Royals. Bob Pettit, defending NBA sooring champion, dropped in 40 points to give the St. Louis Hawks a 119-110 verdict over the Knickerbockers in the nightcap of the New York doubleheader. Richie Guerin led New York with 30 points. BOWLING SUNDAY MIXED LEAGUE Standings: W. Resets 34 Cherry Picker 3 1 i Mix Masters 13 Eagle Eyes 28 Head Huttners 24 Loose Screws 22 Krazv Katz 22 Four Deuces 22 Team Ten 20 H & H 19 Team Eleven Team Six Gutter Bugs Team Twelve .. .17 ..15 12"i . 10 L. 10 12 i,i 13 16 20 22 22 22 24 23 27 29 3 Hi 34 Results: Krazy Katz 1 (D. Hunter 489) 1787; Mix Masters 3 (M. Stickney 474 i 1682. Four Deuces 1 (E. Flakus 499) 1666; Loose Screws 3 (C. Hampson 5291 1975. Resets 4 (A. Monroe 499) 1931; Team Twelve 0 (L. Nelson 474) 1563. Team Eleven 2 (D. Greer 479) 1696; Cherry Pickers 2 (B. Cabler 5491 1799. H & H 0 (B. Hall 490) 1670; Team Ten 4 L. Fisher 519) 1844. Team Six 3 (B. Fisher 508) 1741; Gutter Bugs 1 (J. Turk 492) 1715. Head Huttners 0 (C. Rhodes 526) 1836; Eagle Eyes (S. Callaghan 510) 1741. STARLIGHTERS LEAGUE Standings: W. Polar Cold Co 25 Tribune Headliners 25 Rogue Sportsman 24 4 Minute Maids 14 Results: Polar Cold 0 (Lou Marsh 442) 1934; Sportsman 4 (Gerry Gamier 436) 2103. Minute Maids 1 (Jan Lovett 481) 2028; Headliners 3 (Betty Minger 4821 2128. High series Betty Minger 482 Jan Lovett 481. High games Jan Lovett 190, Ann Zenor 178. Split conversion Betty Minger 5-6. MDFX)rlfV&wTRIBUli1 sipomirs Caveman Grapplers Beat Black Tornado ROXY ANN NIGHT OWLS Standings: W. La Pointes 15 Hotel Medford 15 Kim's 14 Browne's Cafe 12 Results: La Pointes 4 (L. McGIohn 445) 2623; Kim's 0 (L. Morton 394) 2347. Browns 3 (V. Hayse 5211 2682; Hotel 1 (D. Thompson 399) 2490. High games V. Hayse 196, D. Leavitt 171. High series V. Hayse 521, L. Mc GIohn 445. PACIFIC LEAGUE Standings: W. L. Western Hot Coffee 45 19 Oregon Veneer 41 23 Prospect Shopping Center 38 ',i 25 li HiWay Tavern 37 27 Beneficial Standard Life 31 'i 32 i Team Five 31 33 Harry & David 31 33 Active Club 28 36 Weisfields Jewelers 22 Team One 15 42 49 Results: Weisfield's 3 (Edwards 514) 2786; BSL 1 (Gray 487) 2662. Harry & D. 2 (R. Smith 487) 2694; Prospect 2 (Sanderson 538) 2653. Oregon 3 (Doty 487) 2732; Hot Coffee 1( Fowler 546) 2601. Team Five 4 (Baum 442) 2561: Team One 0 (by forfeit) HiWay 3( Miller 437) 2689; Active 1 (Davis 475) 2634. When it is opened in De cember, the 21-story "House of Electricity" will be the tallest building in West Ber lin. 'mew... $6'7jjm F 8 YEARSlD TARTAN LEAGUE Standings: W. Smiling Irishmen 11 ',4 Four Fifths 11 Tightwads 9 Team Five 8 'a Team Six 5 Lads & Lassies 3 L. 4 V, 5 7 7ia 11 13 LADY ELKS NO. TWO Standings: W. Hi Lo 40 Stags 35 ti Wapitis 33 Antlers 30 Cussin' Three 29 Jolly Three 29 Tornadoes 28 x Daffy Dilly 28 Doozies 23 ',i 36 ,i Merry Madcaps 20 40 L. 20 24 2 27 26 31 31 27 4 32 Results: Hi Lo 4, (Farrar 526) 1317; Doo zies 0 (Hoist 411) 1229. Cussin Three 2 (Little 518) 1370: Merry Madcaps 2 (Phillips 424) 1299. Daffv Dilly 1 (Forbes 424) 1205: JoUy three 3( E. Miller 485) 1284. stags 3 (Latham 4u) izai; wa pitis 1 (Read 491) 1205. Tornadoes vs. AnUers (postponed) High game E. Read 210 High series T. Farrar 526. M. Little 518. Split conversions Phillips 7-9, Duce 5-10. E. Miller 5-6. Miriam Ward, Triplicate Games of 145. Grants Pass high wrestling team won both the varsity and Junior varsity matches against . Medford here last night. GP varsity defeated the Tornado 32 to 17 and the Caveman junior varsity won 69 to 30. In the main scuffle the Cavemen won eight tangles with four decisions and four pins. Medford won five con flicts and four decisions and one forfeit. In the JV meet the Cave men won 17 bouts. They gain ed nine decisions, and eight pins. Tornado juniors won six times .getting four decisions and two pins. There were four draws. Medford's next action is in a tourney at Eugene Friday and Saturday. The event will be at South Eugene high. VARSITY MATCHES: 97 Desantis, GP, forfeit to Jim Spitz, M. 105 Jim Trotter, GP, dec. Clay Varney. M. 7-6. 114 Lee Roley, GP. Dec. Denny Pugmire, M, 3-1. 122 Bob Lacombe. GP, dec. George Chambers, M. 2-1. 129 Sunny Leffler, M, dec. Mc Intire. GP. 4-2. 135 wavne Fields, M, dec. Gary Holmes, GP, 3-0. 140 Ray Smith, M, dec. Bill Bramble, GP, 6-4. 147 Gary Stevens. GP, dec. Larry Gunn, M. 3-2. 156 Ken Rhodes, GP, pinned Charley, M. - 167 Ron Fry, GP, pinned Lee Cook. M. 177 Dick Shorb. GP, pinned Bob Rix. M. 190 Chuck Shaw, M, dec. Bob Boyce. GP. 2-0. Heavy Bill Cole, GP, pinned Stan Hobbs. M. JUNIOR VARSITY: 105 Pat Nicholson, GP, dec. Gary Fields. M, 6-2. 144 Dave Baker, M, and Bill Amberg, GP, drew. 122 Dave Middleton, GP, dec. Art Bassett, M, 2-0. 144 Jim Berg, M, dec. Gail Mau rer, GP. 7-6. 122 Jack McKay, GP, dec. Bill Owens, M. 3-2. 122 Bill Holbrook, GP, dec. BUI Dames, M. 4-0. 129 Denny Miller, GP, dec. Jim Burke, M. 5-0. 129 Mike Blanchard, GP, dec. Don Weter, M, 17-6. 135 Jim Newell, GP, dec. Bill Hogue, M. 10-0. 140 Mike Ralph, GP, dec. Hiram Martin, M, 2-1. 140 Bob Walker, M, and Joe Swallow, GP, drew. 147 Les Holbrook, GP, dec. Tim White, M. 4-0. 156 Rod Cockran, GP, dec. Gary Manson. M, 16-1. 156 Eric Koellner, M, pinned Walt Packard, GP. 156 Brian Howard, GP, pinned Carl Washburn. M. 156 Gary Schmidt, GP, pinned Chuck Stokes. M. 156 Dan Carlson, GP, pinned Russell Robertson, M. 177 Bob Fandler, GP, pinned Brent Mitchell. M. 177 Chuck Holt, M, dec. Harry Graham. GP. 4-0. 190 Terry O'Sulllvan, M. dec John Morris. GP. 4-0. Heavy Bob Shour, GP, pinned Montv Janes. M. 114 Elgia Oldham, M, pinned Bill Elmore. GP. 129 Steve Benson, GP, pinned Leland Worth. M. 140 Kenny Johnson, M, dec Allan Barney, GP, 7-2. SPORTS PARADE OSCAR FRALEY Sport Writer United Press V5 1 y Brown, Conerly Leaders In Pro Grid Statistics Philadelphica-fUPB - Jimmy Brown, the bundle of muscle of the Cleveland Browns, and Charley Conerly, the bundle of years from the New York Giants, won the National Fpot ball league rushing and pas sing championships for 1959. Brown, carrying the ball for a single season record 290 times, won the rushing title for the third straight year with 1,329 yards. His total carries broke the former mark of 271 set by Eddie Price of New York in 1951. Conerly, once hooted by New York fans during the Gi ants' lean years of not too long ago, took over first place last week, and then won his first passing championship in 12 years in the league with an average of 8.79 yards gain ed for every pass thrown. ' Conerly completed 113 of 194 tosses for a 58.2 percent- ROXY ANN LEAGUE (Medford lanes) Standings: W. Pacific Motor Trans ..15 Larry's Richmaid 14 Baker's Moulding 14 Taylor Salade Ins. Medford Plywood Squirt Coca Cola Hopkins Richfield Groceteria Graham Electric Team Four Harrison Electric 14 10 10 9 9 .. 7 6 6 6 Results: Sauirt 4 (Barlow 521) 2802: Gra ham 1. 0 (Baker and Wall 445) 2581. Taylor 3 (Lilly 541) 2906: Team Four 1 (Carr 507) 2757. Med-Ply. 3 (Fischer 546) 2874: Coco Cola 1 (Atkinson 497) 2822. Baker's 3 (Baker 565) 2815: Har rison 1 (Gammelguard 506) 2639. Larry's 2 (Petersen 513 ) 2632; PMT 2 (Coghill 472) 2670. Groceteria 2 (Van Ausdal! 460) 2746; Hopkins 2 (Rohlman 492) 2733. WOMEN'S CLASSIC LEAGUE Standings: W. Jorgensens Dairy 3d'2 Union Club 33 2 Cummins Diesel 32 ',4 Medford Cleaners 32 Hawkinson's Tire 31 Pick's Apparell 29 Ross Lumber 28 ',4 Wooden Shoe 28 Beck's Bakery 26 Rogue Distributing Co. 22 Crater Inn Motel ..; 19 Crater Logging 19 L. 204 224 2314 24 25 27 27 !4 28 30 34 37 37 ALWAYS BOTTLED-IN-BOND Choose the slow-made sour-mash Bourbon of the world's most partic ular distiller ... in a new Decanter whose crystal-cut elegance promises matchless quality . . . delivers it in the memorable flavor of Bonded Old Frrz. This year ... for gifts, for guests, for yourself! N-14 In Luxury Gift Wrap or Diamond Decanter at no extra cost. Mellow 100 Proof Kentucky Straight Bourbon Distilled and Bottled by America's Oldest Family Distillery Stitzel-Weller Distillery, Established Louisville, Ky, 1849 Results: Hawkinson's 3 (L. Cornelius 603) 2558; Cummins 1 (S. Daigle 539) 2452. Rogue Dist. 1 (G. Ludwig 490) 2355; Union Club 3( V. Cummings 536) 2450. Wooden Shoe 4 (E. Tuttle 560) 2496: Picks 0 (V. Coats 488) 2397. Joreenson 4 (R. Barr 580 1 2486: Crater Logging 0 (V. Blunt 501) 2410. Crater Inn 1 (D. Paul 487) 2353; Beck's 3 (G. Riggs 532) 2383. Medford Cleaners 4 iM. Clark Pilot Project Set for Pupils Portland - Do Oregon stu dents have an understanding of the broad principles of natural conservation? Just how much do they know about soils, water, plant life, and wildlife? How about the young people on a national scale? These questions and many more may soon be answered with a random sample of Or egon high school students scheduled to participate this winter in a pilot project. aimed at testing their conservation reasoning. The test is designed to determine how much un derstanding high school stu dents have of conservation princples and problems and to show at which grade level students begin to develop such understanding. The test was designed by the Conservation foundation of New York and the Educa tional Testing service of New Jersey. The state department of education and the Oregon game commission are cooper ating in the Oregon pilot proj ect. Coordinating the testing program in Oregon is Austin Hamer, education supervisor for the game commission. age mark. He gained 1,706 yards, threw 14 touchdown passes, and had only four in tercepted. Brown, batting 1,000 with three rushing championships in three NFL seasons, finish ed 293 yards ahead of J. D Smith of San Francisco. Ollie Matson 863 of Los Angeles was third and Tom Tracy 794 of Pittsburgh was fourth and Bob Mitchell 743 of Cleve land was fifth. Conerly, a venerable 38, led some distinguished company in annexing the passing title. Earl Morrall of Detroit was second, Johnny Unitas of Baltimore third, Norm Van B ro c k 1 i n of Philadelphia fourth and Billy Wade of Los Angeles fifth. 513) 2354; Ross Lumber 0 (D. Chris tenson 210) 2279. High games L. Cornelius 201-202-200: M. Hennebeck 212; V. Knox 212: V. Cummings 202; R. Barr 205: J. Wilson 200; E. Session 202: D. Christenson 210. High series L. Cornelius 603 M. Hennebeck 526; S. Daigle 539; V. Cummings 536. E. Lenz 526; E. Tuttle 560; R. Barr 580: J. Wilson 551: H. Clark 529; G. Riggs 532. Split conversions V. Cummings 3-7-10; J. Lovett 4-7-9; M. Clark 6-7-10. Guard Nips Y Quintet National Guard nosed out Big Y Market 80 to 79 in an overtime Southern Oregon In dependent Basketball league game here last night. The victory was the first in the loop for the Guards men and the second setback for Big Y. Other contest slated for last night was forfeited to Hawk inson Tire Tread by Grants Pass. Hawkinson's plays Big Y at the McLoughlin Junior high court here tonight. Score at the end of the reg ular playing time in the Guard-Y fray was 72 to 72. National Guard jumped to about a five point lead in the extra and held off a Market eer bid to overtake it. Big Y had to overcome a five to seven-point deficit to catch up by the end of the regular playing time after having led 32 to 29 at the half. Wayne Allen put in 33 points and Phil Swisher 23 for the Guard and Bill Wed- dle 28 and Ted Yarnell 21 for Big Y. Butte Falls was 65 to 57 winner over Glendale in their Sunday game. FIGHTS United Press International Buffalo. N.Y. Rocky Fumerelle, 155, Buffalo, outpointed Joe Mi- celi, 151, New York (10). Hartford. Conn. Billy Lynch, 150, Hartford, stopped Lino Rinne on. 156, Cuba (10). Manila Flash Elorde, 135 ,4, Ma nila, outpointed Bert Somodio, 13314, Japan (10). Los Angeles C h a r 1 i e (Tomb stone) Smith, 148, Los Angeles, out pointed Ray Greco, 147, Los An geles, (10). P 1 M TOOT EDFORD UFFLER HAPPY ,nA new CHRfSTITlflS - year TO ALL OF OUR CUSTOMERS from Co. 1130 N. Riverside Ph. SP 3-4184 S Till March 1st our mufflers and tail pipes installed FREE. Spend 5 minutes with 3 u and have your exhaust system inspected FREE MAY SAVE ONE'S LIFE. T5fO!OfOfO!Of$fO!OfO!fO!OfOfOf0f!Ofl!$!O!O!O!0!OfOfO!O!O!OfO!0! o s. o - o m Tokyo (UPD The Yankee collapse of 1959 was "just one of those things," joltin' Joe DiMaggio asserted Tuesday, and the Bronx Bombers will be back at the top of the base ball heap next season. "It happened to us in 1940, after we had won four in a row," explained the one-time Yankee clipper as he made a tour of U.S. military bases in the Far East. "They were all screaming 'break up the Yankees' and then we blew it, for no obvi our reason. But we came back too, just as they'll do next season." What happened to the Yan kees last season is the question most asked of DiMag as the former Yankee hitting star makes a tour of military in stallations. Asked About Williams "I guess that the second most frequently asked ques tion is whether Ted Williams will play next season," smiles the handsome Hall of Fame outfielder who retired after the 1951 season. "All I can say is that any body's guess is as good as mine" DiMag adds. "But I would have to guess, as a for mer ballplayer and thinking as a former ballplayer, that he will decide to give it one more try. "He couldn't want to quit a loser and, after all, he's en titled to one bad year. You can bet he'll be better this time around and then, prob ably will call it a career." DiMaggio, who came out oi San Francisco to become one of baseball's greatest players, isn't sorry he decided to quit even though he could have continued several more years at a salary of $100,000 a year while calling his own shots. Enjoys Work "I'm enjoying the work I'm doing even though it calls for a great deal of travel," said DiMaggio, whose once-coal-black hair now is flecked with gray. DiMag is a field man for the V. H. Monette and Company, which services military instal lations with canned and frozen edibles. As their field repre sentative he has in the last six weeks appeared in Honolulu, Guam, Okinawa, Hong Kong, Taipei, Manila and throughout Japan. The chief other interest of the rangy, fit man is his son, Joe Jr., now 18 and a student at Lawrenceville Prep school in New Jersey. "He's a big boy," Joe glows, "and while he doesn't seem to show too much interest in baseball, he's a bearcat in football. Plays center on the football team, y'know, and is kicking specialist on points after touchdown and field goals. The kid is doing real great, I'm happy to say." -rift mmwmmm NEW COBRA MISSILE A U.S. Marine at Quantico, Va., moves into position with the Cobra, new anti-tank missile soon to be evaluated by the Marine Corps. The wire-guided weapon, weighing 20 pounds and measuring 30 inches in length, is said to be capable of knocking out any tank in existence. It was developed in West Germany. (UPI Telephoto) MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. 1 O Wednesday, Dec. 16, 1959 1J SP Moves To Close Brownsville Agency Brownsville-UPD-The South ern Pacific Company Tuesday launched its case before two Public Utility Commission ex aminers on its application to with draw its Brownsville agency. SP proposes to conduct fu ture business through its agents at Springfield and Lebanon. A PUC spokesman predicts the hearing, held in Browns ville city hall, will take three days. Portland Boy Named As Page in Senate Portland -(UPD- The appoint ment of Douglas Schwab, a junior at Cleveland high school here, as a U.S. Senate page boy was made by Sen. Richard Neuberger Tuesday. Schwab is a member of the Cleveland high school chapter of the National Honor Society and has been active in school activities. Home at Oswego Destroyed by Fire Oswego (UPD The home of Roland Davis here was de stroyed by fire about midnight Tuesday. Oswego Fire Department of ficials said the house and all contents were estimated at $50,000. Cause of the fire was not immediately determined. 3 s4 y F . V j 1 GUESS WHO? Pieces of confetti cling to President Eisenhower's head during ride to U. S. embassy in New Delhi, India. The chief exec utive is making a 11-nation goodwill tour. Jefferson Welfare Appointment Told Salem (UPD Jack Thomas of Madras Tuesday was ap pointed to the Jefferson Coun ty Public Welfare Commission by Gov. Mark Hatfield. Thomas replaces Walter Mc- Caulon, Madras, who resigned. Quick-Spreading Fire Destroys Ranch Home Silverton (UPD T h e E. A Culley ranch home was all but destroyed Tuesday by a quick spreading fire. Culley and his wife escaped the burning home without injury. Damage estimates placed loss at more than $10,000. CRASH KILLS PILOT Farmingdale, N.Y.-(UPD-An experimental version of the F-105 Thunderchief jet fighter-bomber crashed in the At lantic ocean 10 miles south west of Montauk Point at the tip of Long Island Tuesday. The Republic Aviation Corp. test pilot, Martin J. Signor elli, 31, was missing and be lieved killed. Here's Your Happy-go- Litrrell Santa with Christmas Lists for Water Skiers! Skis For adults, children or slalom ski enthusiasts. Ski Ropes Complete with floats and handles. Ski Harness Adjustabit ro fit all weights and sizes. Ski Belts Adds much to joy and safety of skiing. Glad Handles New safety grip can't slip never tires the hands. Life Jackets Essential can be becoming, too. This is Santas idea of a Sea Horse. LITTRELL'S MARINE DIVISION 6th & Bartlett "'!WW'WM,W,lli,v,flBflriw wmmmmm NOW! 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