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Newspaper Page TextEAGLE COG - John Linder, above, is a guard for the Eagle Point high hoop team which takes on Oakridge at Eagle Point on Friday and Satur dy nights. He has put in 38 points in four games, coming into his own when he tallied 19 in the contest with Glide last week end. Eagle Point Tuning for Oakridge Eagle Point - Eagle Point High Basketball Coach Dale Bates declared that he has been pleased with drills this week as the Eagles tuned for Friday and Saturday night home stands against the Oak ridge Warriors. The Eagles are working hard and "not looking too bad,'1 Bates remarked. He re ported spirit high with a lot of hustle and desire and said that he looked for two fine ball games. One of the practice concen trations has been at moving the ball against various zone defense. The Eagles also have worked toward improvement of their free shooting. Look Sharp Looking particularly sharp In workouts have been guards Duane Whaley and John Lin der. They likely will start Friday along with Charles Pomeroy, Richard Short and Wilbur Boatwright. Oakridge is from the Em erald league and Bates ex pects the games to give a f.iir indication on huw his ilngun loop team measu-cs ud against that circuit. The Warriors don't have great height but rely on average altitude, speed and good depth. They hhve five lettermen from the past season. . Possible Oakridge starters are John Nelson, Dennis By erly, Terry Frost, Lynn Schroeder and Wilbur Mar shall. Warrior players will stay with members of the Eagle Point squad. PILOT FROSH WIN Vancouver, Wash.-WPH-The University of Portland Fresh men outscored the strong General Sales AAU team of Portland 76-65 Wednesday night in a basketball game here. Guard Ken Falkner from Chicago led the Frosh with 23 points, but four oth er, players aisos cored in double figures. Eugene -0JPH- All-America quarterback Terry Baker of Oregon State has been named as the outstanding foot ball player to compete against Oregon during the past season. The selection was made by the Oregon Club. Deluxe GUN CABINETS For Happy Hunters Skier's Special ! STRETCH PANTS Men's & $1I95- ,W Women s I T pr. Open lilt 9 P.M. each nilt Ihit week SAM'S SPORTING 32 SOUTH CENTRAL MEDFORD jHtribunb nD(U)MT: Green Bay Packers Pace Pro Grid Loop Statistics New York -iUPI)-The Green Bay Packers wound up the season as statistical cham pions of the National Football league and set a new record for lirst downs that attested to their reputation as masters of ball-control. Green Bay finished first in 15 categories of team statis tics, according to statistics re leased today by NFL head quarters. The Giants, who meet the Packers in the title playoff, Dec. 30, led in three categories, all on offense. Amui 281 First Downs During the course of the 14-game schedule, the Pack ers amassed an all-time high title of 281 first down?. This is clear-cut evidence of how well their methodical, ground- hugging offense controlled the ball en route to a 13-1 rec ord. That total was three high er than the old mark set by the Los Angeles Rams during a 12-game 1950 schedule. Here are the 10 other of fensive categories in which the Packers were tops: first downs rurhing (145), net yards rushing (2,460), average yards per rush (4.7), pass comple tion percentage (60.1), total touchdowns (53), TD's run ning (39), extra points (52) and total points scored (415), fewest passes intercepted (13) and least yards on intercep tion returns against them (122). On defense, the Packers led in these four phases of football: fewest points allow ed (148), the fewest first downs by passing (94), the least net passing yardage al lowed (1,746) and most inter cepted passes (31). Giants Lead in Passei The Giants, defensive chain--pions of 1961, did not lead in a single defensive category this season. They were tops, however, in overall net yard age gained (5.005), touchdown passes (35) and least yardage lost attempting to pass (139). Baker Will Start for OSU Quint Lexington, Ky. - UTIi - Ore gon State coach Slats Gill plans to put All-American football player Terry Baker in his starting lineup here Friday night when the Bea vers play West Virginia in the first round of the Ken tucky Invitational tourna ment. Despite the fad that Baker has had only six days to prac tice, Gill said Wednesday he will be in the starting lineup at guard, along with sopho more Jim Jarvis. Gill said he plans to go with his "short" starting lineup. He'll use seven - foot Mel Counts, surrounded by Jarvis at 6-0. Baker at 6-3, Frank Peters at 6-2 and Steve Pauly at 6-4. Peters was moved to for ward from guard this week when Baker turned out, and Gill said he "has done fine." Gill said Counts and Pauly will have to do most of the rebounding, because he in tends to pull the other three back to stop West Virginia's touted fast break. GOODS PHONE 77I-S841 49 Jfk 4 The team passing champion ship went to the Philadelphia Eagles with 3,385 yards; while the Detroit Lions won the overall defense crown with a total yield of 3,217 yards, as well as the rushing defense title with a yield of 1.231 yards. The Chicago Bears had the top pass defense percentage (46.8); the St. Louis Cardinals lost the most fumbles (21); the Bears were the most penal ized team (776 yards) and the Pittsburgh Steelcrs the least penalized (427) and the San Francisco Forty Niners won the punting championship with an average of 45 6 yards for 48 kicks. Jim Burris Sees Loop Comeback By GENE MEAKINS Denver - WPIi - As far as Jim Burris is concerned his beloved American association is not dead. It's only "tempor arily inactive." "I think we will come back, and probably in 19(i4," said the 40-year-old Burris, who spent 13 years working for the association, including the past two as president. "A lot of people say this is wishful thinking, but with the death of the Three-I league, the American Association and the Southern Association, there no longer is any base ball league in the middle of the United States." Burris, who nurtured the league as a one - man office staff to keep it in the black on the financial ledger, fought hard for the survival of the Association at the minor league convention in Roches ter, N.Y. But he agrees the final plan drafted on the last day of the convention, Nov. 29, was "the only plan which there seemed to be any senti ment for.' Wiped Out As adopted, the plan estab lished two 10-team Triple-A leagues, the International and the Pacific Coast, and wiped oul the American association. "If we'd left the convention with the Association down to five clubs and the Pacific Coast league down to seven we would have jeopardized the player development con tract, which was being set up for the improved financial benefit to all the clubs," Bur ris said. But he hasn't taken down t h e American association shingle from his Denver of fice, which he now uses in his new position as baseball com missioner Ford Frick's liaison man between the minors and the majors. According In Burris. t h e "temporary halt" of the 61-year-old association c a in e about because of three things: big league expansion, short age of Triple-A players and the 6-club setup in the Asso cialion last season. "We were nol losing any money in this office." he said proudly. Jack Faulkner American Loop Coach of Year By NORMAN MILLER Now York-'ITI'-Jack Faulk ner, who made a .success of the Denver Rrnnt-n.s mi the field and al the box office in his first season as coach and general manager, has been named 1862 American Foot ball league coach-of-the-year by United Press International. By virtue of good player deals, by installing his pet theories about sound defense, and by boosting the morale of a team that had been an AKL patsy for two years. Faulkner led the Broncos to a second place finish in the Western di vision. The Broncos' 7-7 record this year equalled their combined total for 'their first two sea sons in the league They won four games in 11)60 and only three last year. A panel of 1!4 AFI. writers f3 from each league city) gave Faulkner 14 votes, mmpared to 6 for runnerup Mike Hol ovak of the Boston Patriots. Hank Strain of the Dallas Texan received votes and Lou Saban of the Buffalo Bills one This wa the fust head coaching job for the pleasant. 36-ycar-old Faulkner, who is a protege of Sid C.illman, present San Diego Chargers coach. Faull'.ner developed his effective defensive theories while serving under Giilman at the I'niverr-ity of Cincin nati, with the I.os Angeles Ram of the NFL. nd with ' the Chargers MEDFOHD Basketball UKDNKSltAY COLLEGE RKSl'LTS EAST Army 72, Georgetown fin Princeton R4. Ru(tri 6f Westminster 71. Carnegit Tech 68 Temple 56. Navv 55 laSalle 105. Maryland 74 SOI Til Auburn 71, Sprinjt Hill 51 Wake Forest 85, Maryland 74 MIltWKST Evansville 87. Loi Angeles St. 67 Wisconsin 76. Marquette 58 Loyola ill) i 106. Indiana 94 Michigan 66. San Jose 52 Xavirr R6. St. Bonaventure 77 SOTTHWEST Tex. Western 37. Oklahoma St. 47 WEST Weber 92. Gonzaga R2 Shu Kran 73. Santa Barbara 58 Portland BO. Carroll .Vt Western Wash. 77. Pacific 47 Arizona 57. Idaho Slate 51 U, Pacific 100. Fresno St 82 Puget Siund 74. Portland St. 59 San Diego St. 65. Regis 64 io.t.) Tennessee St. 97. Hawaii 85 Western Washington 77. Pacific 47 Portland Frosh 76. General Sales HOCKEY WESTERN" l.EAGt'E I'nited Press International Southern Division T IMl OF G A 1 37 lOfi 73 (1 .12 112 94 ft 30 87 63 1 27 78 89 Portland San Frn, Los Ang Spokane Northern Division W 1. Scat I If 15 12 Vancouver 14 10 PIS OF G A 31 8R 95 30 R7 80 Edmonton 1 1 Calgary 7 22 9R 124 20 1 IS 72 10 Wednesday's Results San Francisco 6. Seattle 3 Spokane 5. Vancouver 2 Portland 3, Edmonton I NATIONAL LEAGUE T PU OF G A Chicago Detroit . Toronto Mtmtrral 15 7 37 84 72 35 72 63 74 12 79 69 90 9fi 75 119 New York 10 Boston . . 3 Weilneiriay's Results Chicago 3, Boston 1 Only game scheduled. STANDINGS Prn Basketball) NATIONAL ASSOCIATION I'nlted Press International W. L. Pft. Boston 21 8 .724 Svracuse 17 12 .621 Cincinnati 17 14 .538 New York 11 22 .333 Western Division W. L. Prl. Los Angeles 24 fl .727 St. Lmiut 20 14 .388 Chicago 12 23 .343 San Francisco 10 11) 34.1 Detroit II 22 .333 Wednesday's Results Cincinnati 129. Syracuse 120 Detroit 115. Chicago 113 Los Angeles 135. St. Louis 106 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Prt. Kansas City 18 7 .720 Long Beach 14 6 .700 Pittsburgh 3 f -500 Philadelphia 8 13 .381 Oakland 7 12 .368 Chicago 7 lfi .304 Wednesday's ResulU Kansas City 117, Philadelphia 82 Game Booklets For Rose Bowl Again Available Pasadena. Calif. The of ficial program for the 1963 Rose Bowl game, which matches Southern California and Wisconsin, the nation's number 1 and 2 teams, will again be available to the gen eral public prior to New Year's day. This unique program serv ice, offered to the public for the tenth straight year, has become popular with radio and TV fans across the coun try. Those viewing the game can have the same program as will be sold at the Rose Bowl in their front rooms lo refer to during this colorful game. Orders for the program are now being accepted, and will be filled and the program air mailed to the purchasers when the book conies off the presses about Dec. 24. Past history has shown thai the Christinas mail rush is over by that time and purchasers have no trouble getting their programs by New Year's day. New Format The 1963 program will fea ture an entirely new format from previous Rose Bowl booklets larger sized pages, 32 additional pages and a new style of presentation and will sell for one dollar. It will contain all of the usual game information such as team ros ters, players' photos, campus scenes and statistics, plus many stories and pictures fea turing the granddaddy of all the bowl games. To order the Rose Bowl pro gram, fans arc asked to send $1.60 per program to Official Rose Bowl Game Program, Pasadena 1, Calif The addi tional fit) cents includes 56 cents airmail postage. No Linebacker Meeting Friday There will be no meeting of the Medford Linebackers club this week or next week because of the holiday season. Next meeting of the boost ers club will be on Fridav, Jan 4 Linebackers were hosts last week to the state cham pionship .Medford high foot ball team. Guest "speaker" was Mel Gustafson. Eugene. He posed as Dr Orvan Torulnd. a touring professor from Swe den Gustafson is a brother of Oliver Gustafson. Medford The banquet, at Norths Chuck Wagon, was conducted as a fun affair MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFOHD. Sonny Lisron-Harold Johnson Fight Negotiations Underway Philadelphia -a;P!- Negotia tions for the "battle of cham pions" between heavyweight Sonny Liston and light heavy weight Harold Johnson were progressing rapidly today. Jack Nilon, Liston's wealthy advisor, disclosed that the pro posed date and site are Mon day, March 18, at Baltimore's new civic auditorium. Pat Olivtcri, manager of Philadelphia's Johnson, said, 'Harold could -weigh about 185 pounds lor the Liston fight - and be at peak speed and strength. That's only four pounds less than Floyd Pat terson weighed in Septem ber." Patterson of Yonkers, N.Y., lost the world heavyweight crown to Liston of Chicago at Chicago's Comiskey Park on a first-round knockout, Sept. 25. Patterson and Liston had a return title-bout con tract, providing for Floyd to Westminster Still on Top In Rating Poll New York -fUPU- Westmin ster College's basketball Ti tans, unbeaten in five games, solidified their grip as the na tion's No. 1 small college team today in the weekly United Press International board of coaches ratings. The Titans, defending na tional champions who were picked to win the title a sec ond straight time in the pre season ratings, drew 2'. first place votes from the 35-man coaching board. It marked the most solid support any team has received thus far in the ratings this season. In addi tion to their 23 first - place votes, the Titans were named second by seven coaches, third by one, and fourth by three and seventh by one. Southern Illinois, second b week ago, held on lo that spot but by a scant point over Tennessee Slate, which won two of three games on the West Coast last week. South ern Illinois, like Tennessee State beaten in only one ol five games overall, drew five first place voles to Stale's two. New York (UPli The United Press International small college basketball rating (with first-place votes and won-loit records In pa renlhrsen Team Pnlnls 1. Westminster 23 i.vn .T-ifi 2, Southern 111. 5 (4-1 1 22A 3. Tennessee St. 2 (4-li 223 4. Prairie View AM 1 (6-0) . 20fi .V GrambliiiR 2 t.Vt, ... Ifi7 fi. wittenherg (!t-0i Ufl 7. hvansville I (2-3) Ill 8. Hnfi-lra (5-2i . . f)7 f Mt. SI Mnrvs (Mrl.l d-a, .. .11 in. Smithrnst Ok la. I 7-1 1 4.1 Second 10 groupiiiR II. Frmno Mate 41; 12. Norlhein Michigan .'10; 13. Pacific Lutheran 25; 14 Hie,. Cannon. I. a mar Tech and Southeast Missouri 22 each: 17. Sacramento Statr lil; IB. Ken tucky Weslcvan 1.1; lit. Ball State 14: 20 (tie). Indiana (Pa ) Stale and Orange State 13 each. Branch Rickey Turns 81 Today By RUDY CERNKOVIK Pittsburgh -IIIP1I- The calen dar says Branch Rickey turn ed 81 today but baseball's patriarch ignored the date be cause he has a formula for slipping off the years. "Talk to me about the ex pansion of the major leagues and I'm 40 again," said Rick ey. "And when you get me on the subject that professional baseball should awaken to Its challenge, I'm 35. Get me lo discuss the future of baseball in America and I'm wear ing a uniform once more." Rickey had just returned to his home in suburban Fox Chapel from a trip to St. Louis where he serves as an advisor to the Cardinals. "I ignore birthdays now," he said. "A. A. Slagg said 10 years ago on his flllth birthday that very few people die after they reach 100." Rickey said he was still working "on my darn book." "I write and write. Then I read it over the next day and toss it in the wastebas ket," he said. "I write copious ly but not well." fie said he planned to put his house up for sale and move back to St. Louis eventually. SALE WILLARD BATTERIES 14 la 41 Mi. Guirantta Imllllid Fro Dry Charitd N SMI Aeifit Aod ntMt4 E-Z Fir Ttrmt GENERAL TIRE SERVICE 1112 Court Street 773-1255 OREGON pick the site, date and pro moter. "But that contract has been broken in at least a dozen places,'' advisor Nilon charg- d today. "Sonny hasn't been paid for the Patterson fight yet. Besides the government is suing Championship Sports, the promoters, for taxes and charging them with using a stooge corporation for theater television, and so on." Nilon denied vigorously the persistent report that Liston will defend against Patterson at Las Vegas, New, in April. Basketball Road Wins Come Hard United Press International Basketball wins come lough n the road - as a group of touring West Coast teams will testify. Los Angeles State Wednes-' day night tried its luck at Evansville, a perennial pow erhouse among the nation's 1 smaller schools. Evansville 1 breezed to an 87-67 win. San Jose State was at Michi gan and gave the Wolverines a good fight before falling ti6 52. The Spartans closed '.lie I gap from 37-23 to 37-34 but ! ran out of steam when Michi- gan center Bill Buntin found the range. He ended the night with 26 points. Idaho Slate was at Tucson and was cooled off by a hot Arizona team, 57-51. Idaho Stale's Art Crump, number seven scorer In the nation, was held to 15 points. Larry Har-1 ris topped Arizona with 12 points. I USF Coasts The Wildcats, now 5-2, won the game on the boards where they outrebounded Idaho1 State, 53-30. Soph Al Johnson i pulled down 21 rebounds fori the winner. But the most jinxed road team of the night was Regis I of Colorado, which had to work hard to lose to San Diego State, 65-64 in overtime. j San Diego State got the win when Jack Shawcrofl hit 1 three foul shots with one sec ond to go. The third shot was technical foul call. Shaw- i croft tallied 23 points for the night. USF entertained Santa Bar- j bara and breezed to a 73-58 victory. Soph cenlcr Ollie Johnson led the Dons with 21 ! points and hauled down 16 rebounds. UOP Looks Good University of Pacific, which had lost three straight and seen coach Van Sweet hanged in effigy, entertained Fresno State. The Bulldogs were rid ing a five-game win streak and were 11th ranked among the nation's small colleges. The Tigers led 40-39 at half and then exploded to win 100 82 in their best game of the year. Bill Wilson had 28, Leo Middleton 21, and reserve guard Dave Balsley 20. Fres no's Tony Burr led everyone with 30 points. Portland Wins Over Carroll Vancouver. Wash. - lUPft - Portland's Pilots got their best scoring performance of the season from junior college transfer Tom Nichols Wednes day night to beat Carroll Col lege 70-59 in a basketball game here. Nichols scored 23 points and 6-8 center Steve Anstett added 20 as Portland led all the way, except for a six second period at the end of the first half. Ron Darcy his a 20 - foot field goal with six seconds left to give the Montana team a 30-29 halftimc lead, but Nichols scored six points and Anstett three as soon as play resumed to put the Pilots ahead again. Carroll closed the margin to 57-55 with six minutes to play, but could never catch up. Dean Morigeau scored 12 points, Darcy 1 1 and Dick Sirokman 10 for Carroll, which now has won four games and lost three. Port land collected its third win in eight games. Ai Lew As 995 Papular Si ltfl Lakers Retain Narrow Lead United Press International The Los Angeles Lakers managed to hold onto their slim lead as leader of the Na tional Basketball associations Western division by beating the St. Louis Hawks 1:15-106 Wednesday night in the Los Angeles Sports Arena. Elgin Baylor and Dick Bar nett racked up a total of 64 points. Jerr West, who had been backing up Baylor in the scoring department, was idle because of a bruised left kneecap. The victory was the Lakers' sixth consecutive win and the second straight defeat for the Hawks. Bob Pettit scored 29 points for the losers. mmmt& - . ......jr.'lV '. . MEDICINE RANGE HOOD 30" Coppertone Air King No. KN 30 With Fan and light. LIST $31.00 S1C95 SALE PRICE i If.'.. : j I BPnilHimii:i(H;lC" YOUR Pull Downs From $5.95 AM-FM TRANSISTOR INTERCOM With 4 SPEAKERS Deluxe Red $8.95 mm saw THURSDAY. 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