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ediford, IHloop Quints Mix fin Loop Tonight Lone leadership in the young 1960 basketball cam paign of the Southern Oregon conference will be determined at Hedrick Junior high maple- court here this evening. The fracas matches Crater and Medford Senior high teams at 8:15 p. m. A tangle between junior varsities at 6:30 p.m. will serve at the curtain lifter. Varsity contention will match a pair of clubs which have shown qualities of ag gressiveness and hustle. Each wor its opening league game last Saturday. In wins and losses for all games played this season, Cra ter has a record of 6-1 com pared to Medford's 4-3. The Black Tornado of Medford, however, is the favorite for tonight. It appears to have more offensive punch. Cra ter's Comets with the poten tial for their best District 6 A-l hoop season, so far, will be shooting for upset. And, the Tornado is mindful of past challenges by underdog Com et cagers. Winner of tonight's tussle here will have a 2-0 record in the Southern Oregon circuit Hold Light Drills Coach Frank Roelandt is expected to call on a starting combine for Medford of Jerry Anderson, Bob Quinney, Lo well Dean, Ken Durkee and Dick Ragsdale. They were in the opening lineup Saturday when the Tornado whipped i defending champion Klamath Falls. ' For Crater Coach Lloyd Hoffine may pick Earl Coop- " er, Dave Sharp, Chuck Turn Church Cage Loop Starts Medford YMCA Church Basketball league play open ed last night with three games in the High School circuit. . In the opening games the : Presbyterians trounced the ' First Methodists by 42 to 38, ' St. Marks took the First ! Christian 33 to 31, and the First Baptists edged out the Sacred Heart church team 39 to 31. There are three church basketball leagues this season. The Junior High loop is to be contested on Thursday nights at Roosevelt school and the Men's league is set for Thurs day evenings at McLoughlin Junior High school. Both loops are to open this Thurs day. In the Men's games First Christian will meet First Bap tist at 7 p.m., Sacred Heart will play the Methodists at 8 p.m., and Presbyterian No. 1 will meet Presbyterian No. 2 at 9 p.m. Nazarene has a bye. More Entries Needed Additional entries are still sought in the Junior High league and that slate is not yet drawn up. Four teams ' are entered so far, Presbyter ian, Nazarene, Methodist and Christian. ' There are nine teams in the ' High School loop, First Meth odist, St. Luke's Methodist, First Baptist, First Christian, First Presbyterian, St. Mark's Episcopal, Sacred Heart Cath olic, First Nazarene and Zion Lutheran. Mike Head was high point man of the game for the Pres byterians with 14 points and Jack Joyce scored 10 points to lead "the First Methodists. Doug Kliever was high point er for St. Marks with 12 and George Lindemann top man for the First Christians with 11 points. Don MacPherson was leading scorer for Sacred Heart with 18 points and Dean Goddard top scorer for the First Baptists with 15 points. BASKETBALL l' tilted Press lnternationl South Wake Forest 77. Clerrtson 62 Maryland 103. Yale 80 Louisiana St. 81. Georgia 77 Mississippi St. 85. Alabama 56 Tulane 1. Florida 55 Mississippi 64. Auburn 56 Midwest Detroit 94. Creighton 78 Iowa 71. Wisconsin 64 Northwestern 61. Indiana 57 Kansas St. 57. Nebraska 53 Iowa St. 47. Nebraska 53 Ohio State 97. Illinois 73 Utah 78, Montana 62 Southwest Houston 68. Tulsa 62 Oklahoma St. 51. Missouri 42 West UCLA 55. Washington 54 California 60. Southern Cal 45 Stanford 43, Oregon State 38 Lovola 54. Cal at Santa Barbara 49 -Pac Lutheran 66. San Fernando St. 55 Oregon 62. Washington State 48 KLINE SIGNS FOR '60 St. Louis (UPD Pitcher Ron Kline, who posted an il-13 record for the Pittsburgh Pir ates last season, signed his 1960 contract' Monday with the St. Louis Cardinals. Kline went to the Cardinals in a trade for outfielder Gino Ci moli and pitcher Tom Cheney. Crater er and Loyal Higinbotham with the fifth man to be chos en from among Tom White, Bill Anhorn and Denny Ed wards. The Comets won Sat urday from Grants Pass. Both Crater and Medford had light drills yesterday in preparation for the scrap which will be one of three in the league this week for Med for and one of two for the Comets. The Tornado will play at Ashland on Friday and entertain Grants Pass here on Saturday. Crater has a Friday tilt with Klamath Falls on Friday. Ashland opens conference rivalry tonight at Grants Pass and goes to Klamath Falls on Saturday. Red Raiders Will Go to La Grande Ashland - Southern Oregon college hits the trail to La Grande and a two-game series with Eastern Oregon college to open the 1960 Oregon Col legiate conference action Fri day and Saturday nights. The Red Raiders of SOC sport two starters in center Glen Peterson and forward John Payne who stretch the height tape to 6-5 which gives the Raiders some much needed height that has been missing in the past few years. SOC's second forward will be either Tom Bernet or Don Vannice who are 6-even. Raider Coach Ted Schopf, who still has a cast on his ankle from the auto wreck last month, figures his team will be in the running for the OCC crown and that most trouble should come from Portland State. Narrowly missing the trip to Kansas City for the NAIA finals last year, the Raiders feel if they make the district tournament they will be in strong conten tion for the finals. Carrigan Averages 15.1 All-conference guard Dordy Carrigan continues as leading point getter for the Raiders through eight pre-conference games. Captain Carrigan has averaged 15.1 points per game. Payne is the only other starter scoring over 10 points per game. He has a 10.5 mark and a similar rebound record. Dick Puhl or Dick Lillebo will appear at the other guard with Carrigan when the Raid ers open Friday. Puhl is aver aging 4.5 points and Lillebo in limited action is averaging 3.0. Schopf feels the biggest surprise of the year is the im provement of center-forward Dick (Hughie) Smith. Smith at 6-3 has been playing with the second unit and pulling over six rebounds a game off the boards in addition to scor ing 5.5 points per game in limited duty. Scoring by the -Raiders is Carrigan with 121, Payne with 84, Peterson with 47, Smith 44, Puhl 36, Vannice 35, Ber net 15, Lillebo 12, Dave Gard ner 9, and Brad Flanary 8. Welterweight Fights Slated New York -flIPD- Two wel terweight fights, both on TV, feature this week's light box ing schedule. Rudell Stitch, Louisville, Ky., ranked fourth among 147-pounders, is favored at 2-1 to spoil the TV debut of Philadelphia's Carl Hubbard at Louisville Wednesday night. Hubbard is unrated. Their 10-rounder will be tele vised nationally by ABC. At Madison Square Garden Friday night, Stan Harrington of Honolulu makes his east ern debut in a 10-rounder with Mexican Gasper Ortega Neither is ranked among the welterweight contenders, al though Ortega formerly was high up. Ortega is favored at 8-5 over Harrington for their na tionally televised and broad cast bout (NBC). The week's boxing schedule also includes: Tuesday Los Angeles Olympic - Johnny Handen vs. Bobby Sand. Thursday Los Angeles Olympic - Danny Valdez vs Billy Thomas. ECAC NAMES TEAM -New York -fUPD- Russ Gor don of Temple, Bob Milkvy of Pennsylvania, Doug Critch field of Massachusetts and Tom Stith of St. Bonaventure were named today to the first of the weekly all-East teams of the Easteren College Athletic conference. NAME UNITAS TOPS - Philadelphia (DPD Quarter back Johnny Unitas of the Baltimore Colts has been nam ed America's No. 1 athlete by the-Philadelphia Sportswriters association. Unitas will be honored at the writers' 56th annual dinner Jan. 25. Medfcriv&Tribumi "Tiff JQJgP?' i'?Wi 1 4. " UP. UP AND IN! Denny Strickland, University of Oregon guard (No. 30), left the floor to lay the ball in during last night's game at Eugene between the Ducks and Washington State university. WSU's Terry Ball (No. 15) looks on help lessly. U of O captain Chuck Rask (No. 23) watches from the background. Oregon won 62-48. (UPI Telephoto) Oregon Overcomes WSU At Eugene -(UPD Oregon scored 44 second half points Monday to overcome a Washington State halftime lead and win its 10th game of the season, 62-48. Four Ducks scored in double figures as Oregon again play ed without its 6-7 center Glenn Moore, out with an in jured ankle. Oregon trailed 22-18 at half time but finally caught up with seven minutes gone in the second half and went ahead for good on Stu Robert- Medford Ranks 3rd In Prep Caqe Foil Portland -flJPB- Marshfield's Golden Pirates, with seven straight victories under their belts, were rated the number one high school basketball team in Oregon today. Marshfield picked up all eight first-place votes in the inaugural United Press Inter national prep board of coaches poll. Neighboring rival North Bend, also with a 7-0 mark, was ranked second just ahead of Medford and Klamath Falls. Defending state cham pion Franklin was fifth. One coach from each of the eight A-l districts is included on the board. They will pick the top teams each week until the state tournament in March. Voting will not neces sarily be limited to A-l schools. Coaches Listed The coaches include Glen Kinney, Bend; Mel Krause, North Eugene; Jerry Mosby, Astoria; Don Peterson, Frank lin; Eldor Baisch, McMinn ville; Frank Roelandt, Med ford; Herb Booth, Parkrose, and Dick Ballantyne, South Salem. Points are awarded on a 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5-4-3-2-1 basis. Marshfield, led by 6-9 Mel Counts, had 80, while North Bend had 54, Medford 50, Klamath Falls 49 and Frank lin 42. The second five included Hermiston, Jefferson, Lincoln, La Grande and Cleveland. 29 Football Deaths Noted New York (UPD Twenty- nine football fatalities were recorded last season for the highest total since 1947. Dr. Floyd R- Eastwood of Los Angeles State College, who has been investigating football deaths since 1931, re ported to the National Col legiate Athletic association to day that football was directly responsible for 18 fatalities and indirectly charged with II others." The all-time record ed was 49 in 1931. There were 30 in 1947. " Nine of those in 1959 were in sandlot football, three in semi-pro"," '13 ' in " high 'schools and four in college. "Four deaths indirectly due to football resulted from heat exhaustion," Eastwood re ported. Half. 6 son's free throw at 28-27. The Ducks kept adding to this lead and with three min utes to play had a 60-43 edge. Washington State suffered the loss of Charlie Sells with 8:42 left to play in the second half. Sells sprained his ankle after going up for a shot. Chuck Rask paced the Ducks with 14 points followed by Robertson with 12, Dale Herron 11 and Charlie War ren 10. Sells was high for Washing ton State with 11. The rankings with won-loss rec ord in parentheses: Team Points 1. Marshfield (7-0) 80 2. North Bend (7-0) 54 3. Medford (4-3) 50 4. K. Falls (6-1) 49 5. Franklin (4-0) 42 6. Hermiston (7-0) 38 7. Jefferson (4-0) 33 8. Lincoln (4-0) 17 9. Tie La Grande (6-0) 13 Cleveland (3-1) 13 Others: David Douglas 10; Rose burg and St. Helens 7; Astoria and Central Catholic 5; Sandy and Grant 4: Crater, Springfield and South Salem 3; and South Eugene 2. BOWLING CLASSIC LEAGUE Standings: W. Edith & Henry's Drive-in 24 Hight Real Estate 20 "i Oak Knoll Golf Course .. 18',i Sewing Machine Center .. 17 Morse Motors 17 Trail Creek Lumber Co... 16 Lamport's Sporting Goods 16 Oak Street Tank & Steel.. 16 E. H. Mann Co 14 V2 Sam's Sporting Goods 12l,i Hillyer Oil Co n South. Ore. Construe. .. 9 L. 8 11 Vt 13 'i 15 15 16 16 16 17 'i 19 ',t 21 23 Results: E. H. Mann Co. 3 (Forrest Lid dell 582) 2694; HUlver Oil Co. 1 (Norm Hillyer 581) 2688. Sewing , Machine Center 3 (Ray Wise 580) 2678; Southern Oregon Construction 1 (Ken Bowser 554) 2668. Hight Real Estate (H. A. Green 595) 2759; Lamport's Sport ing Goods 'i (Vem Allen 575) 2581. Morse Motors 3 (Garv Couch 555) 2590; Oak St. Tank & Steel 1 (Gene Morris 518) 1702. Sam's Sporting Goods 3 (Wilton White 557) 2641; Trail Creek Lum ber 1 (HaiTv Goode 577) 2634. Oak Knoll Golf Course 3 (Bill Luman 571) 2781; Edith & Henry's Drive-In 1 (Bill Howell 582) 2759. MAJOR LEAGUE Standings: (End of First Half) Team w. Team No. Five 51 Pin Ups 38 Keglers 37 Va Bowlerettes 35 L. 21 34 34 Vi 37 Channel Cats 30 'i 31' Gutter Balls . 24 48 Results: v Bowlerettes 1 (I. Schroeder 516) 1478; Team No. Five 3 (C. Lowd 511) 1486. Pin Ups 1 (E. Baker 512) 1519; Keglers 3 (S. Daigle 565) 1534. Channel Cats 2 (W. Winkler 484) 1439; Gutter Balls 2 (A. Bohannon 5011 1438. High series S. Daigle 565. Winkler 200. High series S. Daigle 5656. Split conversions Anna Dale Bohannon 5-8-10. - ROXY ANN MAJOR LEAGUE Standings: W. L. 7 8 8 8 8 9 10 11 12 12 12 15 Asko Supply Western Oil Allison Const. . Kachina Room Donna Timber Rotary Club Medford Tire Desert Service Mail Tribune K-Dove . Country Club Cal. Ore. Ranches . 13 12 12 12 12 11 10 9 8 8 8 5 Results: Asko Supply 4, Desert Service 0. Rotary Club 3, Cal. Ore. Ranches Western Oil 3. Medford Tire 1. Allison Construction 3, Mail Trib--- une 1. Donna Timber 3, Kachina Room 1. K.-Dove 2. Country Club 2. High game Clarence Wilson 225. High series Don Turner 571. City Pin Tourney Scheduled January 16 is the deadline for filing entries for the an nual Medford Bowling asso ciation tournament. The men's city champion ship contention will be staged on four week ends. Team bowling will be on Jan. 30 and 31 and Feb. 6 and 7 at Med ford lanes. Doubles and sin gles will be rolled on Feb. 13 and 14 and Feb. 20 and 21 at Roxy Ann lanes. With the competition on Saturday evenings and all day Sunday, the tourney will not interfere with league play on other days of the week. Entries may be turned in to Jerry Burroughs, association president, or Paul Dimick, secretary-treasurer, or may be left for them at either one of the lanes. Top Rookie Named for NFL New York-(UPD-Boyd Dow ler, young star for the most successful Green Bay Packer team in 15 years, today was named the National Football league's top rookie of 1959 in the annual United Press In ternational poll. Dowler, former University of Colorado quarterback who played offensive end for the Packers, won by one vote in balloting by 31 sportswriters who covered the 1959 cam paign in the 11 league cities. Only two votes separated the top three players in the poll. Dowler received seven. Nick Pietrosante, Detroit Lion full back from Notre Dame, was second with six. Billy Stacy, Chicago Cardinal safetyman and kick runback specialist from Mississippi State, was third with five. Tommy Davis, San Fran cisco Forty-Niner place-kicker; John Lovetere, Los An geles Ram defensive tackle; J. D. Smith, . Philadelphia Eagle offensive tackle, and Richie Petitbon, Chicago Bear defensive back, each re ceived two votes. Olympic Shot Put Champion Aiming At Unprecedented Third Los Angeles -(UPD- Parry O'Brien, 27, two-time Olym pic games shot put champion, today was embarked on a campaign he hopes will lead to an unprecedented third gold medal in his event at Rome this Summer. The Sullivan Award win ner for 1959 as the nation's top amateur athlete disclosed his plans and preparations Monday at a meeting of the Southern California Track McGrew Top For Medford Eddie McGrew outshot 29 other shooters to win the Medford Rifle and Pistol club annual junior rifleman cham pionship match at the club range Monday. Dropping only 4 points in the 20 shot prone match, Ed die compiled a score of 196 of a possible 200. He captured the silver trophy presented by Syracuse Rated Top Grid Team New York - (UPD - Syracuse, which capped the only perfect-record season achieved by a major college in 1959 with a 23-14 Cotton Bowl vic tory over Texas, was named the No. 1 football team of the country today by a committee representing the Football Writers Association of Amer ica. - s The five - man committee gave Syracuse three first place votes and two for sec ond for a total of 13 points. Mississippi, Sugar Bowl con queror of Louisiana State, ranked second with 11 points followed by Washington with four points and Texas and Georgia with one each. Syracuse will be presented with the sixth annual Grant land Rice award by Look magazine. The award was won by UCLA in 1954, by Ok lahoma in 1955 and 1956, Ohio State in. 1957 and'Iowa in 1958. Huskies Given Loud Welcome Seattle -(UPD-A presidential candidate would give his eye teeth or his upper plate for the kind of support given the returning University of Washingotn football team here Monday night. It was Rose Bowl hysteria all over again in a tumultuous celebration which made New Year's Eve quiet by com parison. -. Cheers from more than 5,000 fans cut through the 34-degree mist at the Seattle Tacoma Airport to greet the Huskies who conquered Wis consin, 44-8, in the Rose Bowl Friday. Sears and Silo State Triumph in Cage Contests United Press International It took California's Golden Bears only 48 hours to wipe out the memory of one of their saddest basketball de feats. The second - ranked Bears did a slow burn when South ern California snapped their 25-game victory streak last Saturday night but they start ed a new string by trampling the Trojans, 60-45, Monday night on the same Los An geles court. Darrall Imhoff, the hero of California's victory over West Virginia in last year's NCAA championship game, missed most of the second half be cause of an injury and wound up with only four points. However, he still managed to grab 12 rebounds as the defensive-minded Bears limited Southern Cal's starting five to 13 points. Bill McClintock picked up the scoring slack for Imhoff as he totaled 16 points, four more than : teammate Tandy Gillis. Chris Appel, who play ed a key role in Saturday's upset, led USC with 17. Sophs Run Wild Three slick sophomores ran wild in the Big Ten Confer ence. Jerry Lucas scored 30 points as fifth-ranked Ohio State opened its title bid with a run-away 97-73 victory over Illinois; a 27-point barrage by newcomer Bill Cacciatore car ried Northwestern to a 61-57 upset over Indiana, and Iowa turned back Wisconsin, 71-66, behind Don Nelson's record breaking free throw shooting. Lucas and Larry Siegfried totaled 37 points between them in the first half as Ohio State hustled to a 51-36 ad vantage. When the Illini fell farther behind in the second half, Coach Harry Combes cleared his bench in disgust. Siegfried wound up with 26 points while Govoner Vaughn led Illinois with 16. Cacciatore, a 5-11 guard who was promoted to a start ing berth only last week, scor and Field Writers Association, O'Brien said his first com petition of the year would be In the first Los Angeles Invi tational Indoor Track and Field Meet Jan. 22 at the new Sports Arena. Sees Long Career O'Brien said he hoped to be able to compete in weight events until he is 40 if he can continue training and also his job as a bank executive. Currently O'Brien said he Shooter Juniors the Medford Rifle and Pistol club and the annufil junior rifleman championship medal presented by the National Ri fle association. Les Little with 194, Jim Shaw with 192, Ed McGinty with 190 and Larry Poling with 188 followed in that order and will receive bronze trophies. Kathie Heidenreich, 180; Andre Bessonette, 179; Ron Caulkins, 179; Rodney White, 179; and Gregg Schmidt with 177 completed the first 10 shooters. Next Friday at 7:30 p.m. the first of a series of Friday night classes in pistol shoot ing will be held at the club range. Instructor is Lt. Col. Frank D. Graham USA (ret.) formerly team coach of the U.S. Army pistol team. All in terested in participating are invited to attend. Sunday, Jan. 10, the club will hold its monthly pistol match with firing scheduled to start at 1:30 p.m. The fol low Sunday, Jan. 17, the monthly rifle match will be held with firing starting at 1 p.m. All shooters are invited to attend these matches. TRACK STARS ACCEPT New York -(UPD- Sweden's Don Waern, a sub-four-minute miler, and Stig Petterson, who has cleared six feet, 11 inches in the high jump, have accepted invitations for meets in the United States this win ter, it was announced by the national AAU. Los Angeles -(UPD- Defensive halfbacks - Charlie Britt of Georgia and Don Ellersick of Washington State have signed with the Los Angeles Rams of the National Football league. Bay At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Drain Til Bricks, Flue 727 W. McAndrews Phone SP 3-4575 or SP 2-4107 ed nine straight points mid way in the second half to give Northwestern a 50 - 44 lead The Wildcats hung on gamely the rest of the way to hand Indiana its second straight up set defeat. Breaks Field House Record Nelson canned only four field goals but he broke the Wisconsin Field House single game records for free throw attempts (20) and successful free throws (14) as Iowa re bounded from its week end upset by Minnesota. Marty Gharrity, another soph, led Wisconsin with 17 points, in cluding 14 in the second half. Sixth-ranked Utah rallied in the second half to down Mon tana, 78-62, Kansas State op ened defense of its Big Eight Cincinnati Get Top New York - (UPD - Oscar Robertson and his Cincinnati Bearcat basketball mates to day topped United Press In ternational's major college ratings with 346 points, the second highest total ever re corded in the voting. The only higher total re corded during the 10-year his tory of the ratings was the 348 count collected by the Bill Russell - sparked San Fran cisco Dons on Dec. 27, 1955. The maximum possible score is 350. Each of the 35 leading coaches who rate the major schools for UPI selects 10 teams in the order he ranks them nationally. The points are awarded on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis for votes from first through 10th place. Win Holiday Festival Cincinnati, with Robertson setting single game (50) and tournament (122) scoring rec ords, won the Holiday Festi val last week in New York Gold Medal was working out three days a week for an hour or two weight lifting and three days putting the shot. O'Brien said he intended competing, in three indoor- meets, the invitational here Jan. 22, the Los Angeles Times meet next month and the National AAU meet in March. Herschel Smith, director of the invitational meet, said plans for the first such meet to be staged in Los Angeles were progressing well, thanks to an assist from Milwaukee. While the newly built Sports Arena eventually intends to have its own indoor track, it could not get it ready for this season. But Smith was able to borrow the board track used by Milwaukee annually and it will be the surface for both his meet and the Times next month. Indians ip OSC By 43-38 Corvallis (UPD Stanford's defense minded Indians throttled Oregon State 43-38 here Monday. The loss was only the sec ond for Slats Gill's Beavers. Gill was hospitalized with the flu and Paul Valenti handled the Beavers. Stanford led all the way in the first half and fell behind only once in the second half 30-29 with five m i nju t e s played. The game was tied four more times from then on until Jim Windsor hit two fast bas kets to push the Indians in front 39-35. Oregon State managed to cut the margin to one point twice more before the final buzzer. John Arrillaga paced the In dian attack with 16 points. He was the only Stanford player in double figures. Jay Carty had 14 to pace Oregon State. 3 HERTZ TRUCK RENTAL Available at HOPKINS RICHFIELD SERVICE McAndrews at Court Phone SP 3-9068 conference championship with an easy 69-37 victory over Colorado, and llth-ranked Wake Forest downed Clem son, 77-62, for its fourth straight Atlantic Coast Con ference triumph. Al Bunge set a school rec ord of 43 points in sparking Maryland to a 103-80 triumph over touring Yale; Duke roll ed to a 72-36 victory over Bucknell; Jeff Cohen's 22 points helped William & Mary down Davidson, 72-64; David Fedor total 28 points and 28 rebounds as Florida State rip ped South Carolina, 93-75; Houston out-lasted Tulsa, 68 62, as Gary Phillips tallied 24 points, and a last-minute field goal by Kent Miller earned UCLA a 55-54 squeak er over Washington. Bearcats Rating . and downed Dayton Saturday night to boost its season rec ord to 10-0. This record earn ed the Bearcats 32 first-place votes, two second-place votes and one third-place vote. The coaches based-their ballots on games played through Satur day night. California, which defeated West Virginia in the Los An geles Classic last week before being upset Saturday night by Southern California, replaced the Mountaineers in second place. West Virginia slipped to third. Bradley, beaten only by Cincinnati, advanced from seventh to fourth. Ohio State. beaten last week by Ken tucky, slipped from fourth to fifth. Utah was sixth. Southern California, tied for 18th last week, advanced to seventh. Georgia Tech, 17th last week, moved to eighth. St. Louis dropped from sixth to ninth. Texas A & M, winner of the Southwest Conference tourna ment, advanced from 12th to 10th to become the third new comer in the top 10. Southern California, Geor gia Tech and Texas A & M re placed Indiana, Illinois and New York University in the select group. Wake Forest headed the second 10 group. It was fol lowed in order by North Caro lina, Indiana, Villanova, Iowa, Iowa State, Utah State, South ern Methodist, St. Joseph's, Pa., Kentucky and Illinois. Kentucky and Illinois tied for 20th. Shoemaker To Ride Arcadia, Calif.-(UPD - C. W. Smith's Hillsdale, the star of western racing last season, had a new rider today for his 1960 campaigns with the na tional riding champion, Wil lie Shoemaker, agreeing to handle him all year. Shoemaker replaced Tom my Barrow who won . iu stakes with Hillsdale last sea son and brought the horse within nodding distance of "horse of the year" honors. The Detroit industrialist telephoned his decision to switch from Barrow to Shoe maker at Santa Anita Mon day at Hillsdale drew top weight of 130 pounds for his winter debut Saturday in the $50,000 San Carlos Handicap. IT NOW! THE NEW 1960 MIIJMMEIH1 Super Snipe Hemispherical Combustion Engine Power Steering and Brakes Automatic All-Leather Interior Also ... at Waifs Lithia Motors . . . See the all-new I960 SUNBEAM and the Brilliant 1960 Hillman OYIKIflA S13(D)TOS On the Plaza Ashland 9 Tuesday, Jan. S, 1960 Red -Blue Trapshoot On Sunday Annual Red and Blue team shoot of Medford Gun club will be held on Sunday, Jan. 10. Dr. Arthur Anderson will captain the Reds and Jack Porter will head the Blues. All paid up members will be eligible to participate on one of the teams and the cap tains will pick their teams from among members present. Losing team will have the "privilege" of serving dinner at the annual membership meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 13. The 7 p.m. banquet at the gun club will be preceded by a social hour. Dinner will be free to paid up members. Three directors will be chosen at the meeting which follows the dinner. Terms of John Deaver Eugene Hunt and Everett Gibson expire. Holdover directors are E. W. Pease, Martin Clogston, Don Petersen, Loyd L a n g s t o n, Charles Skeeters and Bert Peck. A movie of "Champion ship Flyer Shooting at Monte Carlo" will be shown. Big Y Team Drops Gut Big Y Markets team has dropped out of the Southern Oregon Independent basket ball league, it was announced today by Bill Weddle, man ager. Weddle said lack of play er interest was the reason. The team, scheduled to play at Butte Falls last night, for feited the game when an in sufficient number of players were available for trip. Other teams making up the league are Southern Oregon college junior varsity, Haw kinson Tire, Andy's Jewelers, Medford ' National Guard, Butte Falls, Grants Pass and Glendale. A game originally schedul ed for McLoughlin Junior high gym tonight between SOC JV and the National Guard has been switched to the Southern Oregon college gym Ashland, according to Harry Chipman, league presi dent. How to Gef from your Airline ticket to EUROPE For full details, call or visit George Lewis ROGUE TRAVEL SERVICE We Reserve and Sell Airline and Steamship Tickers PHONE SP 2-6779 111 E. 8th 4 - door Sedan Transmission ALPINE SPORT ROADSTER MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. I
