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m. - t 0 o o o O 0 O nluc onu lmlL, nuuuiii., mui um, unn. O B Eagle Point High Bills Rogue Tilts Eagle Point - Eagle Point high cagers this week have sought to get their fast break working, to sharpen their shooting eyes and to prime their attack to face a pressing defense. The Eagles open their Rogue league season with a two-game stand at home. They host Lakeview this evening and Henley on Saturday night. Rogue River entertains the two clubs from cast of the mountains on the opposite nights. Other Rogue league action has Phoenix against Il linois Valley at Cave Junction tonight. Dale Bates, coach of the Eagles, as an onlooker at the Lions Holiday tournament at Cave Junction last week was impressed by speed of the Lakeview Honkers and their ability to handle the ball. The Lakeview aggregation, sport ing a 7-1 pre -league mark while Eagle Point is 3-3, is small and fast. Bates indicated that Eagle starters this evening will be Dick Wilson and Mike Palm, forwards, Ron Greb, post, and Tom Perdue and Steve Gercn or Charles Pomeroy guards. Ron Weidman and Bill Mor gan have dropped from the EP squad at their own voli tion. Coach Bates has moved Bill Hoefft and Pat Meyer up for varsity play. They will see junior varsity duty then suit up for varsity contests. OSC, Ducks Have Tiffs United Press International Oregon's hot-and-cold Ducks open a two-game week end series with Idaho at Moscow tonight. It will mark the Ducks' first start since finishing fourth in the Far West Classic in Portland last week. They'll be out to improve on a 4-3 record. Oregon State, winch won the Classic championship for the fifth straight year last Fri day night, also plays its first game since the tournament. The Beavers entertain Port land's Pilots at Corvallis Sat urday night. , Oregon had a rough 'trip to Moscow. The Webfoots had ex pected to fly straight to Pull man and then work out in Ihe afternoon. But a combination of bad weather and1 motor trouble caused the Webfoots to ride five different airplanes, plus take a 35-mlle car ride from Lcwiston. Whitman Trips Bearcat Quint United Press International Willamette's Bearcats are finding out that getting a fourth straight Northwest con ference basketball champion ship won't be easy. The defending champion Bearcats dropped a 78-50 de cision to Whitman at Salem Thursday night as the confer ence got under way. And in the other conference Inaugural, Linficld was up ended by College of Idaho, 08 50. Six Whitman players scored In double figures as the Mis sionaries bounced Willamette. Gary Bogle and Mike Mona han paced Ihe winners with 14 points each. Buz Wilfort led the Bearcats with 17. Against Linficld, Daryl Hill's 32 points triggered Col lege of Idaho's triumph. The Coyoles led at halllimc, 31-28. Bill Waliin had 12 to lop the Wildcat offense. Linficld a n d Willamellc change foes tonight and Sat urday night. WIHman goes to Linficld for a pair of games and College of Idaho travels to Salem to complete Us three game road trip. Pacific and Lewis and Clark open a two-game week end series tonight in Portland. Sat urday night they meet at For est Grove. Hockey Unlltd Preji International The "long wail" may be over for Toronto Maple Leaf fans. The Maple Loafs haven't won a National Hockey league championship since the 1047 48 season and didn't figure to top the Montreal Canadiens this year. But they climbed to within two points of the first place Canadiens Thursday night when they scored a 4-1 victory over the Detroit Red Wings. The win was the fourth straight for the Maple Leafs and their seventh In a row on the road. Stan Mikila's eighth goal in six games enabled Ihe Chicago Black Hawks piace Boston B run their winni six games. WESTERN LEAGUE New Westminster, Bill McCulle.v floals as the Portia roos defeated New West minster amaleur team 8-5 i an exhibition hockey gam 10 beat Ihe last- ff- ' ,v' I ifc ti C7 i' I KHiUAY, JAnuknt b. Isol q Tornadoes o This Evening at GR Vi A lt:l hi ' -ff 'ft L.J H r rv TORNADO HESERVE Among Medford high, hoop men likely to see service at Grants Pass this evening is Bruce Bray, above. He has seen duty in all of Mcdford's eight games to date and has scored in half of them. Five-Year Sentence in Bribe Case Gainesville, Fla. -IUPU- For mer New York souvenir sales man Aaron. Wagman faced a 5-to-10 year prison term today for trying to bribe Florida fullback Jon MacBcth to shave points in the Florida-Florida State football game Sept. 24. Wagman, 27, once a $75-a- week concessions man at Yan kee Stadium, received a five- year sentence outright, plus a $10,000 fine which calls for an additional five years if he can not pay it. He was released under $20 000 bond after sentencing Thursday by Circuit Judge John' A. H. . Murphree. Mur phree denied a motion for a new trial. Wagman's attorneys field an appeal in the first dis trict court of appeals. Wagman admitted giving MacBcth $1,500 to hold down Florida's margin over Florida Stale to less lhan 13 points. He said he also gave Philip Sil ber, 10, also of New York, a fraternity brother of Mac Both's at Florida, $1,25'0 to help him in approaching Mac Beth. Silber is awaiting sentenc ing afler pleading guilty to a charge of conspiracy lo bribe Wagman was convicted Nov, 17. i Fish Regulation Hearinq To Be On January 13 roruand - Oregon sports men are reminded that Ihe sport fishing rules for the 1061 season will be open for discussion and lenliilive reg ulations set al a public hear ing Friday, Jan. 13. al the game commission's Portland office, 1034 S.S. Alder. The meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. During the hearing, winter and summer rules for all game fish will he covered. Following a two-week inter val and publication of. the lentalive rules, a second hear ing will be called on Jan. 27. At the second hearing the game commission will adopt the final regulations for the 11)111 season, All persons are invited lo the hearing, Waterfowl Hunt Season To End ' Portland - Oregon scatler gunnois are reminded that this week end will wind up Ihe general waterfowl season throughout the state. The sea son will officially end al sun down on Sunday, Jan. a. Waterfowl hunters may still continue to hunt for one mem ber of the waterfowl family, the black brant, afler I h'e close of the general season. The season cm black brant is scheduled lo run' through Jan. ;u with the hag limit set at throe per day or in possession. Gunners m.r cautioned that the brant goose is a salt-water bird found In Oregon only along the coastal bays and in lets. The black brant is not found Inland. The small cack ling goose or the lesser Can ada found in central and east ern Oregon are n o I black brant and should not be con fused with it. The statewide season on all geese, except the black brant, closes Jan 8 r .? ,'... ;.-m iiv Action Southern Oregon confer ence Basketball makes its 1881 debut at Grants Pass to night when the. Cavemen en tertain defending champion Medford high On the basis of previous performances against c o m- mon foes, Medford's Black Tornado rates the edge for the .contest. The Tornado holds victories over Marsh- lield and North Bend which subdued Grants ' Pass and romped over Ashland by a more decisive margin than did the Cavemen. However, GP aggregation has more overall veteran strength and better front line height and is an improving, good ball-handling club that could catch its shooting eye when it faces the Medford ad versary. The Cavemen, too, are ambitious to gain maple court victory over the Torna do after four losses at the hands of the Big Wind last season. The fracas will be the only one of tile week end for Med ford which draws a bye in the Saturday conference round. Grants Pass has a jaunt to Klamuth Falls tomorrow eve ning lo meet the club which is favored in the league. The Cavemen enter this evening's skirmish with only one league fray behind it while Medford will engage in its third game in the circuit. Medford's Coach Frank Roelandt has indicated a start ing crew consisting of Bob Quinney, Jim Barry and Dick Ragsclale, his only veterans, plus Scott Eaton and either Mike Hood or Stan Dowson. For Grants Pass, Coach Gordon Prchm is expected lo call upon Jim Hamilton and Jim Davis at forwards, Clyde Murray at center and Larry Jansscn and Bob Lcwellyn at guards. Dave Hauntz and Jim Blacksmith are listed as first line GP reserves. Davis, Murray and Hauntz are all 6-4 in height as is Medford's Quinney. Al Staley, getting over an ankle sprain, and Lee Burton, recovering from a cold, are reserves who likely will have just limited work for the Cavemen. the two clubs have the best defensive for the full season, among clubs of the confer ence. Medford has allowed 322 points in eight games and Grants Pass 353 in seven. The Tornado is leader in total scor ing with 4110 points and Grants Pass fourth with 380 However, GP is third in scor ing average with 54.3 per game to Crater s 40.2. Quinney with 130 points is high scorer in the season for Ihe Black Tornado while Jansscn heads Grants Pass with 74. The varsity scrape is set for 8:15 p.m. with junior varsity games at 6:30 p.m. Sopho more clubs will collide at (1:30 p.m. in the girls' gym. Stilt Scores 56 Points Again United Press International It's obvious that Dr. James Naismilh didn't visualize Wilt Chamcbrlain when he launched the game of basket ball many years ago or he would have moved his peach baskets about 15 feet hlghcr- or maybe given up the whole idea. ' The rafter - grazing Cham berlain scored 56 points for Ihe second lime in four days Thursday night as his Phila delphia Warriors beat Syra cuse, 130-127, in Philadelphia and stayed right on the heels of the Eastern division-leading Boston Celtics. in other National Basket ball association games, Bos ton beat the Cincinnati Roy als, 125-107, despite- Oscar Robertson's 311 points for the losers, New York defeated Detroit, 104-102, at the Phila delphia doubleheader and Los Angeles downed Ihe St. Louis Hawks, 110-06, in Los An geles. , Groups Bidding For Cleveland Cleveland, Ohio -IW!- A re port that the Cleveland Browns already had been sold for $4 million lo a group head ed by a New Yorker, was em phatically denied by Paul Brown, coach, general mil li nger and a vice president. Brown, In Miami preparing his charges for a meeting with Detroit in the runnerup bowl Saturday, Thursday night de nied the sale, but did admit mat at toast two groups were bidding for the purchase of the club. sftifJw a-cai MEDF0RDtiTRIBUNB Tornado, Cavemen Clash In Matches Here Tonight Medford will not lack for prep sports activity this eve ning. The Black Tornado wres tlers will take on Grants Pass at the senior high gymnasium here. . Preliminary encounters are to get underway at 6:30 p.m. Opening varsity contest is to go to the mat at 8 p.m. Varsi ty bouts are slated in 13 weight classes. Spirited scuffles are antici pated since Grants Pass will aim to make up for a 31 to 18 setback at the hands of Med ford last month. The result snapped at 15 a string of GP Sunday Entry Deadline For SO Autorama Here Sunday, Jan. 8, is the dead line for entry in the third an nual Southern Oregon Auto rama. The show, featuring person alized automobiles, will be held Saturday and Sunday, Jan. 14 and 15 at the Medford armory. Entries can be mailed to Mike Batinich, route 1, box 1020, Grants Pass. Cars in the autorama will be judged for beauty, construc tion and originality. Winners in each classification will be presented impressive awards, Batinich has announced. Any automobile builder, owner or. driver is eligible to enter one or more cars. While competition is for individual cars, additional awards will be made to organizations repre sented. Car sponsorships are permitted, subject to special approval of the show management. Ducks Conduct College Mat Meet on University of Oregon, Eu gene Oregon will be host to the second annual state colle giate wresting tournament at McArlhur Court Saturday with more than 100 wrestlers representing eight schools ex pected to compete. In addition to the Ducks. Oregon State, Lewis and Clark, Portland State college, Oregon college, Southern Ore gon college, Pacific university and Clark college will be on hand. The tournament is designed for individual competition and awards will be made to the champions in each of the 10 weight classes. No team scores will be kept. The af fair is the kickoff for the win ter season for most of the teams. Nine of the 10 champions who won here last year wilt be on hand to defend their lilies. The list includes Olym pian Fritz Fivian, the OSC 177-pounder, and NCAA semi finalists Autry Ehlcr of Port land Slate at 167 and heavy weight Garry Slensland of ITRU-MIX I Rental Equipment Water Pumps ' IIS Air Compressors Cement Finishing Machines H Electric and Gas 111 Cement Vibrators jll Roller Water Wagon I WITH OPERATOR j 4 Cranes Si Back Hoe Drag Lines 2 Graders Shovel Tractor with Bulldozers, pi Ripper or Carryall fm Gunite Machine with Mobile pi 600 cu. ft. Compressor YEtii-im I fCOKCBETECPp ' I 248 E. McAndrews Rd. F triumphs over Tornado mat- men. Medford is 3-0 in matches with conference schools while Grants Pass is 1-1. Each has a victory over Ashland and Medford has also defeated Crater; There will be a nominal charge for admission to the matches this evening. Crater high has wrestling action on Saturday with a trip to Roseburg. Ninth graders of both Med ford junior highs had wres tling engagements away from home . this afternoon. Mc Loughlin was at Klamath Falls and Hedrick at South Grants Pass. Cars entered must be brought to the armory not later than 10 a.m., Saturday Jan. 14. The show starts at noon and runs until 10 p.m. that day. On Sunday of the show hours are noon lo 8 p.m. Sweepstakes trophies will be for best rod, best custom and best local (from within 75-mile radius of Medford) entries. Trophies also will go for best engineering, best up holstery and people's choice. There will be three trophies for club displays. With exception of best cus tom, best rod, local sweep stakes and people's choice win ners, any car entered which appeared in the second Med ford show must have at least two noticeable changes before it will be accepted for the new show. Space will be available for commercial exhibitors. Saturday Oregon. The other returning winners are Don Conway of OSC (191), Gary Hoagland of Portland State (130), Ron Fin ley (137) and Doug Rambo 0157) of Oregon State, and Don Hoiness of Oregon (137). Competition in the first found will begin at 10 a.m. and the busy schedule con tinues at 1 p.m. in both the championship and consolation brackets. The final session opens at 7 p.m. and the cham pions will be named after the final rounds. , , RR Freshmen Down Glendale Rogue River -Rogue River high freshman turned back Glendale 36 to 24 in basket ball action here last night. The Chieftains had 8 to 7, 18 lo 12 and 28 to 16 gaps at the quarters. Galen Knight led Rogue River scoring with 13 markers and Redfield had nine for Glendale. Cisml Game Saturday Miami - illPD - Paul Brown hates to lose, for money, mmr bles or chalk, and nothing points it up like preparations for Saturdays first annual pro playoff between the Na tional Football league's two divisional runnerup teams. Brown has been driving his Cleveland Browns through scrimmages and putting a ban on extra curricular activities as he readied his five-point favorites for their Orange Bowl bout with the Detroit Lions. The Browns weren't even allowed to play in the first annual NFL players' golf championship. . George Wilson, coach of the Lions, on the other hand con ducted limited practice and encouraged his behemoths to play golf and otherwise forget football and enjoy themselves unlil game lime. "We've played them enough lo know their personnel and what they do," he said of the game to be televised national ly over CBS. "We'll be ready for that 1145 kickoff and-1 think a little relaxation will sharpen up my guys after a long season." No Trouble For Cuban Baseballers Havana - (UPD - Minnie Minoso, Camilo Pascual and other Cuban baseball players who make their living in the United States during the sum mer received official assur ance today they will have "no trouble" joining their Ameri can clubs. A high ranking official in the Cuban foreign ministry said the government would not interfere with ball play ers leaving for the U.S. "We will do everything pos sible to solve your problems," Ihe government official told the players. "This is a special case and we are going to work it out with acting foreign min ister Carlos Olivars." The announcement was made as approximately 60 Cuban baseball players, in cluding Minoso of the Chicago White Sox and Pascual of the Minnesota Twins, were sweating out getting visas to the U.S. in the aftermath of a break in diplomatic relations between the two countries. Now at... Johnston Men's A. Black Only Reg. $14.95 NOW ONLY B. Black or Brown Reg. $12.95 NOW ONLY C. Black or Brown Reg. $15.95 NOW ONLY Tabe Advantajfa of These Lew Price Howl & STEWART SHOE DEN FOR MEN Central at Main hzMmi Biffs KF, Crater Hoop Frays Ashland Ashland High school's Grizzlies find them selves a bit better fixed in manpower this week for a pair of Southern Oregon con ference hoop scuffles than FACES ASHLAND -Jeff An horn, a Comet regular this season, probably will see a good share of duty against Ashland Saturday night when the Crater high hoop club op poses the Grizzlies at Central Point. Anhorn, 5-8, has done some effective rebounding for the Comets with 48 retrieves in eight games. He has col lected 23 -points. St. Mary's Cagers Go To Riddle St. Mary's high eager start the new year off tonight with a trip to Riddle for a non league game. They'll be without the serv ices of one of their cogs, Mike Austin. Coach Bill McKibbin said that Austin suffered an ankle injury in practice this week. The ailment is thought to be a bad sprain which will keep the hoopster sidelined for some time. With Austin out, McKibbin indicated that he likely will give Fred Burich a starting assignment at forward and shift Aundre Knutson to guard. Other probable start ers are Florian Shasky at center, Dick Evans at for ward and Jim Calhoun at guard. Jayvees as well as junior varsity will make the trip lo Riddle. r,Y ";y?r rx'f & Stewart SHOES $199 $10" they were for a brace .of con flicts a week ago. They play the No. 1 ranked team in Oregon, Klamath Falls, at home tonight then go to Central Point Saturday night to battle Crater. Jay vee prelims at 6:30 p.m. will precede the main attractions. The Grizzlies are bolstered bv the return of Stewart Hedges from a holiday trip to Kansas. At 6-3 he gives Ashland more height than it had on the opening week end and a bit more depth in num bers. Coach Earl Iba said that the Grizzlies have been working on their patterns and on im proving their passing game. Last week the tutor suited down just eight players for varsity duty. This week he plans to have 14 or 15 boys at hand, bringing up players from the jayvee squad with the aim of giving them some varsity experience. Iba is expected to name his starters from among Hedges, toallas Brownson, Larry John lion, Jerry Hauck, Syd DeBoer and Gale Tepper. The choices of Klamath Coach Dean White may be Gary Patzke, Ray Taylor, Bruce Brickner, Wally Palmberg and Fred Biehn, At Central Point, Coach Lloyd Hoffine said that Cra ter's Tom White has missed drills this week because of a bad cold. Hoffine will choose starters from among Jim Al len, Jeff Anhorn, Bryson La Casse, Loyal Higinbotham, Dennis Edwards and Louis Alvarez. Crater has only the one game this week end. The Comets did not schedule prac tice today because of fresh man and grade school games on Central Point courts. Ole Miss Rated Tops New York-(llPII-A six-man committee of the Football Writers Association of America today named Mis sissippi's --unbeaten, once tied Sugar Bowl champions as the nation's leading col lege football team of 1960. Mississippi, 14-6 conquer or of Rice in the Sugar Bowl game Jan. 2 following a 9-0-1 regular season, will be pre sented with the seventh an nual Grantland Rice Award by Look magazine. 1 A. B. r Phoenix to Tussle IV Cougars Phoenix T"Effons to offset rival full court press defence and to sharpen offense against zone defense in Ihe front court have taken up a good share of time this week t Phoenix High school varsity basketball practices. The Pirates go to Ca'e Junction tonight where they meet Illinois Valley in the Rogue league opener for both schools. Phoenix and IV spilt a season opening non-loop, se ries and IV downed Lakeview last week after the Honkers had beaten the Pirates in the first round of the Lions Holi day tourney at Cave Junction. Pirate mentor Eldon Dur ham said that the team this week will be without tho services of Tom Johnson who is recuperating from illness. Johnson has taken a week tir so off from basketball to shake off flu and colds and will not make the trip. Possible Phoenix starters against the Cougars are Gary Colfax, Mike Consbruck, Dave Johnson, Gerald Sloper and Othar Richey. Durham reported that John Morrison likely will alternate with Richey. ' Elks Lodge Free Toss Final Set Finals for the Medford lodge area of the annual Elks free throw contest are sched uled for Hedrick gym on Sat urday, Jan. 14, during the halftime of the Medford-Cra-ter high basketball game. The contest is open to boys through the eighth grade in the area. Schools of the vicin ity are conducting their own contests with winners enter ing the finals at Hedrick. In dividual school victors are lo be present at Hedrick by 8 p.m. on Jan. 14. The Elks association con test is statewide. Winners in the various lodge areas wilt contend in the Oregon finals on Saturday, Jan. 21, at Cor vallis and will get to see the Oregon State- Washington State basketball game. Portland -0JPII- Roscoe Cook and Harry Jerome of the Uni versity of Oregon will com pete irt Ihe 60-yard dash here Jan. 14 at the first annual Oregon indoor invitational track meet. ' Thursday night. - ?rf"V
