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Nation's High Point Dog In Retriever Trial Here High point dog in the na tion during 1960 will be among those entered in this week end's field trial of the Hogue Valley Retriever club. The dog is Dairy Hill's Nightcap, owned by A. A. Jones, San Mateo, Calif. RVRC's 10th annual trial opens Friday at 8 a.m. and will continue through Sunday. It is licensed by American Kennel club. Rogue Valley Game Management area and Hoover lakes property will be used as trial grounds. Nightcap took part in 14 open all-age stakes last year and collected a total of 32'j points. The dog took five firsts, two seconds, one third, one fourth and one certificate of merit. It is an amateur field trial champion and a field trial champion. Nightcap was third in the open here last year and ran in the amateur national. Winners Back All of last year's stake win ners in the local trial will contend. Shoremeado Tide water, owned by C. R. Tobin, San Francisco will be defend er in the open. Baron's Tulle Tiger, owned by Mrs. Walter S. Heller, San Rafael, Calif., will try for a second straight first In the derby. Jibodad St. Louis Pulls Even United Press International The St. Louis Hawks are all even with the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basket ball association's Western di vision playoffs because they had the bench strength to off set another brilliant perform ance by Elgin Baylor. Baylor, who has averaged 40 points a game in seven playoff games, tallied 35 Wednesday night but the Hawks nevertheless downed the Lakers, 121-106, to even the series at one victory each. The teams play again in Los Angeles on Friday and Satur day nights with the winner going on to meet the winner of the deadlocked Eastern di vision series between the Bos ton Celtics and the Syracuse Nationals. The Celtics, seeking their third straight NBA title, are favored to take a 2-1 lead in that series when they play Syracuse at Boston tonight. NIT Stages Semifinals New York (UPD Providence and Holy Cross carry their "family" fued into Madison Square Garden tonight to the accompaniment of blaring bands and boisterous fans, with the winning team as sured a berth in the final round of the National Invita tion Tournament. In the other semi-f i n a 1 match, Dayton will attempt to overcome the smart defensive tactics of St. Louis and its own combinaion of height and shooting ability. The two New England teams met a couple o weeks ago at Worcester, Mass., Holy Cross coming out on top, 77-72. Baseball Clinic Here Saturday First of two baseball clinics will be held from 9 a.m. to noon at Wilson Elementary school on Saturday, March 25. All boys fifth through ninth grades are invited. If weather is wet, the clinic will be con ducted in the Wilson gym nasium. Russell Carr, Wilson coach, will be in charge. The schedule includes 9 to 9:15 a.m., warmup; 9:15 to 9:45 a.m., throwing and catch ing fundamentals; 9:45 to 10:30 a.m., sliding funda mentals: 10:30 to 11:15 a.m., batting fundamentals and bai ting practice, and 11:15 a.m. to noon, intrasquad game. Velvet, owned by Dr. Charles Versteeg, Cave Junction, which won the amateur all age last year and ran in the amateur national, will con tend this time in the open as will Manzanel Flint, owned now by Bill Bryant, Ashland, which took the qualifying stake. Flint ' will be in the amateur. Webb Holes, St. Cloud, Minn., former national presi dent of the Field Trial Club of America, will run two dogs in the trial. Labrador, golden and Ches apeake retrievers wilPbc run in the trial which will begin with the amateur stake on Fri: day and continue with the derby, qualifying and open stakes in that order. Entries number 117. Series of tests on land and in water will be con ducted for the dogs. The public is invited to watch the dogs inaction. Signs from the Y in North Medford will mark the way to the trial grounds. A snack wagon will be in operation. SECTION D PAGES 1 to 8 ME IBUHI spflDmnrs MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1961 Diamond Veterans Join MH Black Tornado Squad Dinner Will Honor MHS Hoop Squad A "testimonial award" dinner, honoring the Med ford High school basketball team will be held on Wednesday, March 29 at Rogue Valley Country club, it was announced today. The dinner is set tor 6:30 p.m. It will be open to the public but attendance will be limited to the first 250 persons who buy tickets. Tickets are on sale at Barker's Men's store. North's Chuck Wagon and the country club. Deadline for purchase is Tuesday, March 28. The dinner will cost S3. 50 per plate. Arrangements are being made to bring a special speaker here for the event. The Black Tornado cagers and their coach, Frank Roelandt, will be honored for their strong season finish and iremen d o u s tournament play which earned them state runnerup laurels. All hands were on deck in the Medford high baseball camp yesterday when Dick Dagsdale, Bob Quinney and Jim Barry, from the Black Tornado's slate runnerup bas ketball crew, reported for the diamond sport. All three were members of Mcdford's state squad last year. ' Coach John Kovenz report ed that the three played a lit tle catch and took turns at the batting tee. Bob Schroeder, a member of the basketball squad, turned out for baseball Tues day. Kovenz indicated that the squad has had a couple of good workouts this week. He remarked that "things started to brighten up Tuesday." Slate Roseburg Medford is scheduled to meet Roseburg Saturday aft ernoon in a double header here. "We're going to need dry weather to play the game, the mentor said. The club will play its home games at the high school diamond, accord ing to Kovenz. There had been talk 'of using Cheney field at the fairgrounds. The prep layout has a layer of top soil spread in the out field area, resulting in a muddy condition in rainy weather. Kovenz said that it not now planned to seed the area this spring. Veteran Herb Wheeler may 6 Baseball Lettermen At Ashland Ashland Ashland high hopes in baseball this season are built around a nucleous of six lettermen and around transfers and boys up from the junior varsity ranks. Lettermen returning to Coach Bill Leybold are Steve Harris, first baseman; Larry Johnson, second baseman; Jim Doster, third sackcr, Galen Roberson, catcher; Jerry hauck, catcher and outfielder, and Bob King, pitcher. At shortstop leading candi dates are Jerry Dickerson, up from the jayvee, and Larry Pierce, transfer from Port land. Pierce also is a pitcher. Among top outfield prospects are Dallas Branson, Sid De Boer and Rod Fuller, all with jayvee backgrounds. Among other leading pros pects are Rick Pierce, second baseman, transfer from Port land, and John Mott, pitcher, transfer from Idaho. The Grizzlicrs were to meet Crater high at Ashland this afternoon if weather permitted. Crater High Diamonders To Encounter Del Norte r.nimi Pn! ii t C.ra tor hlnh bnseballers are scheduled for their first doublebill action of the season here Friday. They arc to be hosts to Del v,i'n( frosncnt Citv. Calif.. if weather permits. A trip to Yrcka. cam., is on mil- for Saturday. The Comets of Central Point and Ashland were to have vied here yesterday but wet grounds prevented it. This tussle was moved to to dayagain, weather permit- timJ- . . , , Comet Coach Bill Piche In dicated that Doug Pfaff may pitch the Friday opener against Del Norte with Pat Pepper or Darryl Summer field seeing hill duty in the second match. First game lineup may have Ed Allen, catcher; Jim Allen, first base; Pat Pepper, second bae- Louis Alvarez, short stop: Mike Glines. third base and Summcrficld. Loyal Hig inbotham and Jeff Anhorn. er for the second game and, if so, Don Pfaff or Neil Riven burg, could take an outfield spot. If Pat Pepper is on the hill Sieve Isaacs or Summer field could go to second. A non-lettcrman pitcher, I Bill cnase, nas Deen iosi 10 the Crater squad because of a job commitment. A transfer from Grants Pass is a pitcher, John Harris. He is a brother of Roy Harris, who was a varsity hurler for the Cavemen. BRILL METAL WORKS Commercial IndinlriJl Retidcntill 5Se Metil Work Srainleil, Gilriniztd jnd Copper FabricJtion 2287 West Main PHONE SP 2-4440 go around five innings Satur day for Medford with Steve Ray and Stewart Young like ly to do the rest of the pitch ing. Hurler Quinney, of course, is not ready. Kovenz hopes for a good day in the middle of next week when Quinney can throw for two or three innings in a workout. He would like to have him ready for some service against Klamath Falls in the conference opener on April 1. A player with pitching pro mise is sophomore Larry San der. Kovenz stated that San der is young and green but has good size and wants to learn. Berkeley, Calif.-lliPD - The Oregon Stale-California col lege baseball game was can celed because of rain here Wednesday. The Beavers and Golden Bears attempt to play another single game today. FREE! Three 28-Page Auto X-Ray Books That Compare All Popular '61 Cars Can Save You Hundreds of Dollars in the Purchase of Your Next Car. COME IN TODAY! SUPPLY LIMITED! LEA MOTORS 5th & Bartlctt SMOCS A I ARC rrtg J SHOW! I Jumping Jacks come in fashion right styles to fit every occasion. Exclusive "snug hug" heel and extra widths to fit every child. A. B. Scuff proof toe Size small 6 thru large 4. 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