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T Johnson Stops Clay In Light Heavy Championship Clash Philadelphia (UPD Harold Johnson's two-round demoli tion of vaunted Von Clay made him a hot heavyweight prospect today but the Na tional Boxing association . champion wants undisputed leadership of the 175-pound class before taking on the big boys. Jubilant over the success ful defense of his title with a three - knockdown automatic kayo Monday night, the vet eran Johnson preferred to bide his time before re-entering heavyweight competition. "I would like to take on all the contenders in the light heavyweight division before I tackle such guys as Ingemar Johansson, Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson," he said. The 32-year-old Johnson may get his first opportunity to start cleaning up his 175- Mongrain, Robinson In Finale Phil Mongrain and Wally Robinson are the finalists in the spring handicap golf tour nament at Rogue Valley Coun try club. In semifinals Mongrain won 1 up from Dr. D. C. Boals, a co-medalist and Wally Rob inson defeated Bob Fasel on the extra 19th hole. Finals in six tourney flights are to be completed this week. There were several extra hole matches in the semifinal round. SEMIFINAL RESULTS: First (light c: A. Holmei def. Paul Sparso 10th; Warren Baylls def. Bob Elliott 6 and S. Second (light George Barnum, def. John Nulch loth: Carl Kellen berKer def. Bob Johnson 10th. Third (light Bill Deatherage def. Dr. Abner Clark 2 and 1; Jim Quincy def. E. W. Peterson 2 and 1. Fourth night Bob Van Duker def. Harold Smith 5. and 4: Dick Knight def. Dr. Robert DeLorme. Fifth night Jim Gill def. Ben Taylor 2 and 1; Joe Moore def. Bill Jennings 4 and 3. sixth flight Ray Mencke def. Rny Sorenson 3 and 2; Duane Lub bers def. Darrell Miller 10 holes. THERE'S AN EASIER WAY TO GET EXTRA 'IUI SEE COMMERCIAL CREDIT PLAN Why do it the hard way? Call on the Commercial Credit Plan whenever you can use extra cash. Our loan service is fast, friendly and convenient. 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Olivleri said that if a sub stitute for Moore is needed, Johnson would be available for 40 per cent of the purse and $5,000 for expenses. . "We wouldn't give anything to Moore," Olivieri said. "Ar chie's been giving Harold the run-around for years." Hungry Harold, who has been boxing for 16 lean years, picked up more than $12,000 for less than six minutes work against Clay. After a tame opening min ute, he went to work, almost dropping Clay to his haunches with a left hook to the jaw. A long overhand right bounced Clay across the ring for a count of two .as the bell sounded. In the second, cooly biding his time, Johnson crossed two quick rights which pitched the challenger face forward to the canvass. Clay got up grog glly at nine and was maneu vered into his own corner, where the champion battered him to the floor again. Clay took a mandatory eight count. Johnson then set him up with a short right and let fly with a series of punches which flattened Clay for the third time in the round. Referee Dave Beloff waved halt. Under Pennsylvania rules a fighter is awarded an automatic : TKO when he scores three knockdowns in any given round, even in a championship bout. Golf, Net Teams Vie Medford High golf and foes tennis teams encounter for the second time this sea son in matches on Friday and The Black Tornado links- men, with live straignt wins after beating the Oregon State college Rooks last week end, tussle Roseburg on Fri day and Marshfield on Satur day. .Both sessions will be on opponent's courses. Tornado netmen take on Southern Oregon conference rivals. They go to Klamath Falls on Friday and entertain Grants Pass on Saturday. Medford is 5-5 on the tennis courts, 5-6 if a fracas with Southern Oregon college jun ior varsity is included. Medford golfers downed Marshfield 425 to, 455 and Roseburg 393 to 524 in pre vious matches at Rogue Valley Country club. Tornado players in tennis won 7 to 0 in their earlier tiff, with Klamath Falls. Grants Pass holds a 5 to 2 win over Medford. West Side Wins Rogue Valley League Crown West Side tucked away the Rogue Valley league cham pionship in Medford district grade school baseball yester day by beating Lone Pine 15 to 2. The victory gave the West Side club a 5-1 standing in the circuit. Lone Pine finished 3-3 as did Lincoln which con cluded with an 11 to 7 win over Ruch. Record for Ruch in the circut was 1-5. West Side had a 14 run second inning when it took 19 turns at bat. The Siders had advantage of 11 bases on balls and one hit batter. Spence Webber singled and doubled and Mike Offard hit two singles. WS pitcher Ernie Dawson hit a batter but walked just one other. He picked two Lone Pine runners off first base. David Frost socked a solo homer for Lincoln and David Sparling aided the cause with two spectacular catches in center field. Rametes tripled and Eek doubled for Ruch. Jefferson in the National league wound up the season with its only victory, a 5 to 0 triumph over Roosevelt. In other National league action, Washington whipped Jackson 5 to 3 and Wilson topped Hoover 6 to 5 in an extra in meet in a playoff for the loop crown Thursday at 4 p.m. on the Hawthorne Park diamond. The clubs are tied for first with identical 4-1' marks. In the American league, Oak Grove whipped Howard 17 to 6 and Griffin Creek shut out Jacksonville 6 to 0. The win advanced Griffin Creek to second in league standings, game behind league leading Howard. ' KLAMATH FISH TAGGED Have you caught a fish with jaw tag? Trout are being tagged in the Klamath river by Arthur Gerlach, fishery biologist of the Oregon game com mission. Purpose of the program is to determine the extent that resident trout move upstream and downstream in a river system. Anglers who have tags from the fish in the Kla math river are asked to mail them to PO Box 1063 at Kla math Falls. They are asked to include with the tags informa tion on the approximate location in the river in which the fish were taken (such as one mile below Big Bend dam), size of the fish and date taken. The information also can be telephoned to Klamath Falls TUxedo 4-9100. On receipt of the data, a reply will be sent to the angler telling him the date the trout was tagged and the location of the tagging site. (Game Commission photo) MEDFORDbsTRIBUNB siPCDmnrs Baseball Hits Peak in Area ' A full week of prep base ball in this area of state hits the peek of intensity Friday when six games are on the schedule. In afternoon Southern Ore gon conference contention Crater plays at Grants Pass and Medford at Klamath Falls with doubleheaders contem plated. Butte Falls is billed at Prospect in the Jackson County B league. Grants Pass meets Crater at Central Point and Klamath Falls plays at Medford in junior varsity ac tion. A night game Friday will CP Club Invites Public To Hunter Safety Class Central Point Final lesson in the spring class of the Cen tral Point Sportmen's club's juvenile hunter safety course program will be conducted on Thursday night, April 27, in the Crater High school li brary here. Members of the sponsoring club have Invited the public to the session in order that people of the area can be come familiar with the pur- VIRUS KAYOES HADDIX Pittsburgh -IUPII- The Pitts burgh Pirates sent pitcher Harvey Haddix home Monday night when he reported ill. Outfielder Bill Virdon missed his second straight game be cause of a virus, believed to be the same type that struck manager Danny Murtaugh and pitchers Fred Green and Tom Cheney earlier this sea son. LINESCORES: Lincoln 713 II 3 1 Ruch 061 7 2 3 curl and Grlndstail; EeK, Kam- say (1) and Rogers. Lone Pine 20 0 2 3 1 West Side 1(14) x 15 7 3 Clark. Jahn (2) and Moycr: Daw son and Culbertson. Roosevelt 000 00 0 2 3 Jefferson 300 2x 5 2 0 Rudy and Polski: Barnes and Hess. Jackson 003 0 3 1 3 Washington 302 x 5 2 8 Bigger, Beach (3) and Jones; Hickey and Landis. Wilson 311 18 3 3 Hoover 131 05 0 2 Hackworth and Zimmerlee; Lee ver and Cunningham. Grlffln Creek 032 2 6 1 0 Jacksonville 000 0 0 1 2 Carney and Kellingsworth; Davis and Iverson. Oak Grove 4(1211 17 3 2 Howard 3 2 1 6 3 6 Thompson, Collins (2) and Hum phreys; Frohreich. Martin (2), Wea ver (3) and Smith, NCAA Proposes Limiting All-Star Competition Washington - (UPD - Each year there are more and more college all-star basketball and football games, and they've been taking too many athletes away from college classes. This is the reason the Na tional Collegiate Athletic as sociation council moved Mon day to regulate college all-star games for the first time since it started enforcing rules nine years ago. The proposed regulations mostly would affect compet ing athletes. They would limit all-star games to college sen iors who are academically eligible for sports under the rules of their schools, would confine all-star game dates, practice periods and traveling time to vacation periods when no classes are being held; ( MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Intensity on Friday have Illinois Valley at Eagle Point in the Rogue league. Ashland varsity plays at Medford on Saturday after noon and Klamath varsity and jayvee are to vie against Cra ter rivals at Central Point. Ashland will vie at Prospect on Wednesday afternoon. On Thursday Eagle Point is to play at Rogue River. There were four games on the late for this afternoon. Varsity brushers were Cra,ter at Medford, Yreka at Ashland and Prospect at Butte Falls. Medford and Crater junior varsities were to vie at Cen tral Point. poses and progress of the pro gram. The class will begin at 7 p.m The final ' instruction will be a review of four lessons which total eight hours. Ralph McKinsey is head instructor and is assisted by Jack Burns, Howard Patterson and Chuck Taylor, range instructors, and Mike Teeters and Merv Glea son, registration and technical helpers. ' Special Speakers Special speakers Thursday will be Robert Maben, Ore gon game commission agent for this area, and Frank Baum, state police officer. Maben will show slides and talk - on game identification and habits. Baum will discuss game seasons, bag limits, types of legal weapons to use and sportsmen-landowner re lationships. The course is recognized by the National Rifle association and promoted by the game commission who furnish the materials necessary for the training. . In the near future the Sportsmen's club will spon sor an instructor's class. In terested citizens will be wel come to join it to become qualified instructors for the juvenile hunter program. Those interested are asked to contact Gleason at 237 Pine St., Central Point, for registra tion. The Oregon ' State Legisla ture has passed House Bill 1479, making the juvenile hunter safety course manda tory for anyone under 18 who wishes to obtain a hunt ing license. As soon as this bill becomes law, each locality is expected to be flooded with appliancts to take this course in order to secure licenses. This makes it necessary to have enough qualified instruc tors ready. would restrict each college athlete to participation in one all-star game per season; and would curtail expense and en tertainment allowances. Promoters of all-star games would have to get their con tests certified by the NCAA special events committee, and net proceeds of the game would have to go to charity. The proposed regulations, after a final drafting, will be submitted to a vote by the 565-membcr NCAA at its con vention next Januaryi POISON OAK BOTHER YOU? WORRY NO MORE Use B & H Poison Oak Lotion. Satisfaction Guar anteed, al your favorite Drug Sloro. Beavers Down Tacoma With Help of Unearned Markers By United Press International Vern Benson, manager of the Portland Beavers, would just as soon see his team earn its runs but he's not one to look a gift horse in the mouth. The Beavers used three un earned runs to edge Tacoma 3-2 in Pacific Coast league play Monday night. In other games, Vancouver took San Diego by the same 3-2 score, Hawaii won over ReSoader Crew Bolsters First Sct in Shoot Dick Woodcock's Rcloaders took all the top points aqain Sunday in the Elk's lodge trapshooting tournament at Medford. Gun club. The Reloaders added 20 points to their score for a to tal of 58 after three week ends Woodcock's crew had top at tendance of 10, high total score with 380 and high five with 223. Other scores now are Bob Duff's Busters 23, Larry Duff's hits and misses 30 and Max Westons Hot Shots 12. The Busters added nine points to their previous score, the Hit and Miss team 11 and Hot Shots four. 325 Second High Hit and Miss had second high total score with 325, Busters shot 301 and Hot Shots 136. Busters had 222 high five and Hit and Misses 219. Weston's team had the 136 for three men. There were eight Hit and Miss gunners, seven Busters. Henry Niedermeyer, Myron Andrews and Harry Tonn turned in 47 out of 50 scores. There are two more Sun days left in the contest. A spe cial event will follow. ENGINE CATCHES FIRE Atlanta -flJPIt- Thirty-seven passengers were safely re moved from a Delta Airlines DC8 Monday night when one' of the plane's four engines caught fire as it prepared to take off for Birmingham and Dallas. The blaze was ex tinguished on the runway by automatic safety devices on the engine. teiiMriulrtV - - f - '; i 1 !' if1- - p Paul Lea says your reception of this offer was so good that he will extend it through, Satur day, March 29, or. as long as current stock lasts. Buy a new RAMBLER or METROPOLITAN at Lea's Motors and receive a FULL YEAR supply of gas (based on national average of 7,500 miles per year) at the SERVICE STATION OF YOUR CHOICE. HIGH TRADES P Three Spokane 3-1 and the sched uled Seattle-Salt Luke game at Salt Lake City was post poned because of rain. Dick Hughes, Portland pitcher, was rapped for 11 hits but struck out eight hit ters and just would not crack when Tacoma made a threat. Larry Stubing nudged him for a solo homer in the second for the game's only earned run and the Giants added an other in the third but that was it. Portland collected two un earned runs in the third when a miscue in the Giant infield with the sacks full allowed one run to trickle in. Duke Carmel's sacrifice fly plated the other. The Beavers got the even tual winning run in the fifth when Phil Gagliano doubled and scored from second when Stubing, Tacoma first sacker failed to complete a double play. Hawaii Wins Hawaii's Dave Thies pick ed up his second victory of the year as he set Spokane down on eight hits. He fanned five, walked one and got trou ble only from Tom Harkness who clipped him for a solo homer in the second. A two-base outfield error aided Vancouver in edging San Diego. Tile Padres' Har ry Simpson had tied it with a solo homer in the fourth and San Diego got another marker in the seventh to lead 2-1. However, Jack Littrell hit for the pitcher in the Vancou ver eigth and doubled. Noel Mickelsen ran for him and scored on a single by Ed Charles which got through centerfielder Mike Hershberg er for two more bases. With one out, Jim Dyck plated the winning run with a sacrifice fly to center off relief hurler Ben Wade that scored Charles. LINESCORES: Portland 002 010 000 3 7 I Tacoma 010 001 000 2 11 2 Hughes and Katt; Perry. Da vlnult (7), Jones (0) and Orsino. LP Perry. WP Hughes. Vancouver ....010 000 020 3 , 4 1 San Diego 000 100 100 2 7 2 Singleton, Rnymond (8) and White; Peter, Wnde (8), Horlcn (0) and Napier. WP Singieton. LP Peter. Spokane 010 000 0001 8 3 Hawaii 011 100 OOx 3 5 1 Harris, Bcssent (7) and Frlel: Thies and Parks. WP Thies. LP- Harris. Seattle at Salt Lake, ppd, rain. - ' OFFER. EXTENDED! P JnVfP F ai A (ft World standard of compact car excellence Softballers Will Meet Tonight A meeting of Jackson County Softball association will be held at 8 o'clock to night at the Medford city hall. Plans for the 1961 season will be discussed. All per sons interested are invited. All groups, organizations and firms which plan to sponsor teams should be represented, according to Dual Track Meets Set Class A-l high schools of the area have dual meets on Saturday this week while the smaller senior highs will be busy on the cinders and field on Frday. Medford's thinclads will go to Roseburg on Saturday, while Crater will travel to Ashland and Klamath Falls to Grants Pass. Eagle Point on Friday will ROYALS OWNER DIES Cincinnati, Ohio- (UPD -Thomas E. Wood, a Cincin nati sportsman, died of a heart attack in Philadelphia Monday. Washington (UPU President Kennedy will not hold a news conference this week. White House Press Secretary Pierre Salinger said the President had a heavy schedule this week, Including speech-making trips to New York on Thursday and to Chicago oh Friday. ( PORTLAN-SEATTLE vf $CO60 , 4tmV kJw Plus Tax UJCR I 'Fast growing with the West" . L . - FOR OKIE FULL Y TUESDAY, APHllj Willard Barnum, who has managed the league for a number of seasons. Barnum has reported in creased interest in Softball this season. He said that the league may have 10 to 12 teams, and possibly more, this year. Three new groups contacted him yesterday. There were eight clubs in the league last year, when be host to a fellow A-2 school, Phoenix, and to Class B St. Mary's of Medford. Illinois Valley will be at Rogue River for dual contention. Junior high track conten tion will see Hedrick and Mc Loughlin seventh and eighth graders contend at the Med ford high oval on Thursday afternoon. Friday ninth grade meets are Ashland against. Crater at Central Point and South Grants Pass and Mc Loughlin at Medford. Klamath and GP ninth meet in con junction with the varsity clash of the two schools on Satur day. Klamath' Falls defeated Ashland 77 to 45 Saturday in a snowstorm at Klamath Falls. The Pels of KF won nine of 14 events. Charles Richey was a double winner for Klamath taking the 100 yard dash in :10.2 and the 220 in :22.9, Bob Voris, Ash land, ran a :15 flat high hur dles race. i 5TH AND 12TH AND SPring 28. laws the entry of the Medford recreation department bol stered the sport. It has been reported that the senior high stadium will not be available for sofiball this summer and that games are planned for the Vete rans Administration domi cil-iary field. White City, and the fairgrounds ball park. a? 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