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TUESDAY. JANUARY 12. 1963 C ft v n ' IT, rr , i MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON WINS AWARD Ray Hickok, left, presents the 13th annual S. Rae Hickok "rPofessional Athlete of the Year" award to Los Angeles Dodgers' shortstop Maury Wills during Ro chester, N.Y, Press-Radio club dinner last night. (UPI) Maury Wills Honored As Pro Athlete of Year For Stolen Base Record Rochester, N.Y.-MPIHMaury Wills, all decked out in a new $10,000 diamond-studded belt, said today he might try mm Introductory n Gates new 1963 Air-Float! has premium tread design at Economy Price! Compear Ihe qunlity of lh Air-Float with the rayon tirm that com on new can! J Is premium tread dmiirn has 1L rnn-skiil rilm, fl.iXK) gripping edgea find triple traction banilH. Th double utabiliwr running ribs five improved steering and loatiabilily. r- Orae only IS SPAIR only! BUY FOURj SAVE MORE 3 1 Slit 10-15 lubt ttM blick ' piul li and o d tira eri vour 'car. otner aim and nhtlevtslls s alio taia pnead. to break his all-time record of 104 stolen bases this year. "It depends on a number of things," Wills said. "I'll have to play it by ear." The 29-year-old Los An geles Dodgers' shortstop, pre sented with the . Hickok belt Monday night after being voted the "Professional Ath lete of the Year", for 1962 by the nation's sportswriters and broadcasters, drew a tre mendous ovation at the Rochester Radio-Press Club dinner. Glossing over his 104 stol en bases last year - a total that eclipsed the previous modern one-season record of 96 set by Ty Cobb - Wills, who batted .290, said he would have been prouder had he won the National league batting crown. "If I led the league In batting, even if with only a .200 average, I would be more proud of that than I am of mv stolen base record," he sa id. Wills was a comfortable winner of the belt over golfer Arnold Palmer, who finished second, and fullback Jim Tay lor of the Green Bay Packers, who wound up third. The fleet Dodger shortstop received 56 first-place votes and a total of 231 points in the balloting to 41 first-place votes and 180 points for Palmer, who was the 1960 winner. Taylor had 12 first place votes and 96 points. Without making it sound like bragging. Wills said he could have stolen even more bases lest year but started slow. 'I had no Intention of going for the record during the early part of the season," he explained, "but I started stealing bas-cs because our at tack for a long while was poor and it became a must for me to get on bn.se, steal and score on a single." Clay Says He'll KO Powell In 3 Rounds Pittsburgh - IUPII - Casslus Clay winds up drills today for his 10-round bout with Char lie Powell then plans to relax "until the annihilation is over." Clay, who had previously forecast he Would kayo the former professional football star in five rounds Thursday night, lowered the prediction by two rounds todny because Powell "has been popping off." And the unpredictable former Olympic heavyweight champ from Louisville chose rhyme to express his views. "All clowns in three rounds," Clay quipped. Roadster Show Plans About Set Final plans are being made for the 1963 edition of the M e d f o r d Roadster show, scheduled for Feb. 9-10 at the Medford Armory. Nearly 30 of the best custom-built cars, rods, and dragsters representing four states will be on public ex hibition. Entries are coming from such distant points as Seattle, Reno, and San Francisco. Show officials estimate the total value of all cars entered will exceed $150,000. Muny of the owners have invested thousands of dollars and un told hours of work in build ing the hand-crafted cars. Among features is the na tionally famous Glass Slipper dragster from Sacra m e n t o, Calif. Another outstanding entry from California is the "Redhead" streamliner out of Redding. Just last August this sleek racer sped to more than 300 miles per hour in compe tition on the Bonneville salt flats in Utah. The Medford event marks the first time the two cars will be seen together in an auto show. A special feature of this year's show again will be a division for model car build ers. Movies of several types of auto racing will be shown. Deadline for entering the model competition is Feb. 5. Additional Information on the model division may be had by writing Medford Roadster Show, P. O. Box 1581, Med ford. Reserves Being Sold For Crater-GP Scrap Central Point - Some 40 re served seats are still available for the Crater Grants Pass high basketball game here this Saturday.. Athletic Director Don Mil ler said that the tickets may be bought at the high school office. No telephone orders will be accepted. The tickets cost $1.25. Miller reported that the GP Crater sophomore game which had been planned for Satur day night, has been reset for 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 29. Russ Werner, who coaches the Grants Pass sophs, is head track coach of the Cavemen and will take a group to the indoor meet at Portland on Saturday. BAKER HONORED Eugene -IUPU- To the sur prise of no one Terry Baker of Oregon State was named by the Oregon club Monday as the outstanding athlete who played against an Oregon var sity team during 1962. 21 -MONTH Road-Hazard Guarantee covrra ANY failure for full warranty period. Should tire fall for any reason you get a new lire, with full credit for umuerl mileaie baaed on Galea nation-wide adjustment acneHnle. Tina f MClOlf DmtllUiOl WHOtlSAlt-MTau INSTANT CREDIT NO MONEY DOWN BUD'S TIRE EXCHANGE 1600 N. Riverside 77J-7745 WILL BUY SMALL FIR LOGS 6" & LARGER DIAMETERS Especially Interested in Salvaging Timber Blown Down by Recent Storm For More Information Phone or See CHENEY FOREST PRODUCTS Phone 664-1271 Central Point MEDFOrUHSWTWBUril Southern Oregon Entertains Owls Ashland - Southern Ore gon will be host here this eve ning to Oregon Technical In stitute for Oregon Collegiate conference basketball. It will be the second of four meetings slated between the two teams this season. OTT won last week at Klamath Falls. That score was S6-82. Oregon Tech Is 3-0 in the loop and Southern Oregon 4-3. This was SO Coach Ted Schopf's comment concerning tonight's scramble: "Although we have seen a couple of defeats, including the one to Oregon Tech, we feel we are already better prepared to meet the Owli and hope to have strengthen ed our defense since we met them last week." Last week'i contest began slow but before half was over, defenses had broken wide open and the barrage of scor ing was on. 6-6 Sammie Smith was a big man on the boards for OTI, giving his team a wide margin in the rebounding. Dave Hughes, Jerry Shults and Larry Minks spurred the Red Raider cause. Southern Oregon split with Portland State at Portland last week end. Stanford Rated Top Team On West Coast This Week By United Press International Stanford's double win over Washington had the experts convinced today that the Cards were the finest basket ball team west of Arizona State. The Indians, now 12-3 on the year and 3-0 in the Big Six, were rated ninth in the latest UPI poll. Oregon State was No. 12, UCLA No. 14 and Seattle among the honorable mentions. The Arizona State quintet led all western squads with a national fifth place ranking. Stanford had dropped out of the top 10 by looking mis erable at the Los Angeles Classic tournament the final week of last year. Since then has come an Indian split with the tough Oregon State five and the sweep against Wash ington. The Cards now lead the Big Six by two full games and ap pear to have their best shot at winding up in the NCAA regional championships since 1942, when they went on to win the national title. But as Howie Dallmar. alar of that 1942 team who now coaches the Indians, said nervously Monday, "It's nine (fames and more than 700 miles to Provo. Utah, wrier the NCAA rpffinnnl. will ho held this year." Action is lifflit this week as semester finals again cut into the schedule. In one isnm Monday night, Nevada South ern made its record 13-2 with an 82-74 defeat of VrVelmin. ster at Salt Lake. Silas Stepp of the winners and Gary Bliss of the losers each meshed 20. Dick Florey Re-Elected Central Point-Dick Florey, president of the Medford Kart ways was reelected pres ident by unanimous vote at the regular meeting on Fri day, Jan. 13. Other officers elected and installed were Rick Barnes, vice president; Jim Smith, sec retary, and Bob Swindler, scrgeant-at-arms. Elected to the board were Eugene Aus tin, Art Savard and Chuncey Florey. Among matters discussed were possible affiliation of the club with International Kart Ways associati.n. Fu ture races with other clubs, safely rules, and the recent invitation extended the club to participate in racing the karts on ice at Hyatt lake. Thus ice racing has been con ducted by clubs in the eastern part of the country for some time. Following the business meeting, Dick Florey showed movies of recent races con ducted by the club. Trophy winners in Sunday races were; Second claw Rick Barnes, ftritj Ted Jenaen. Happy Camp. Third claaa Ben Nora. Ilrat, Shady Cove; Clarence Stiver, Rose burn, second. Fourth c I a s f Shirley Ralnev, ftrst: Wayne Maxey, Roaeburg, second. Boya Junior division Dous Jo. hannaon. flrat: Gary Austin, second. Ted Jensen, president of the Happy Camp club, drove Sunday with the Medford club. Meanwhile, latest Big Six scoring figures showed a tight race with Gordy Martin of USC in the lead. He has hit 74 points in four games for an 18.5 average. Stanford's Tom Dose (17.6) and Don Clemetson (16.3) and Washington's Ed Corell (16.1) and Dale Easley (13.8) are not far behind. The West Coast Athletic conference was idle last week so smooth Steve Gray held his huge lead. The St. Mary's ace has hit 52 points in two games for a 26.0 average. Pep perdine's Bob Warlick is a dis tant second with 33 points in two contests for a 17.5 mark. Prep Cage. Teams Vie This Week Grants Pass, Klamath Falls and Crater each see service twice this week end and Med-1 ford and Ashland each appear on the mapleboards once In Southern Oregon conference basketball. The Rogue league will have a slate of six games. Crater will go to Ashland and Klam ath Falls to Grants Pass on Friday in the Southern Ore gon loop. On Saturday Med ford eoes over the humn in Klamath Falls and Grants Pass meets Crater at Central roint. Rogue leaffue FriHav frames are Lakevlew at Henley, Rogue River at Sacred Heart and Eaele Point at St. Marva Saturday schedule is Sacred Heart at Lakevlew, St. Mary s at Illinois Valley and Phoenix at Rogue River. Class B Schools On the Class B from Butte Falls Will be at Culver nn Friday and at Sisters on Sat urday. Prospect will entertain the Phoenix junior varsity on Friday. Action this evening is 10 be Butte Fails at Eagle Point against the End reserve. and Prospect at Grants Pass in opposition to the Caveman Junior varsity. Ashland fresh men were scheduled for Eagle Point this afternoon. Thursday frosh games will be Joseph Lane, Ro?eburg, against Crater at Central Point and Eagle Point at Phoenix. On Friday the Hed rick ninth, eighth and seventh Red basketball clubs go to Ashland and McLoughlln Black seventh vies at Hed rick Green. Crater freshmen are scheduled for Klamath Falls on Saturday. . Drews' Cagers Trim Glendale SOIBL Club Drews' manstore defeated Glendale In a Southern Ore gon Independent Basketball league game at Glendale on Sunday. Score was 82 to 76. Jim Allen, Glendale had 25 points. For Drews' Dave Gra ham totaled 18, John Payne 17 and Mike Hood 14. Major league-Baseball Newt Roundup Morning Coffee Helps Vic Power Agree To Terms With Twins; Others aign too Br MILTON RICHMAH UPI Sports Writer Ever notice what that morn ing coffee does for some peo ple? Changes their personality completely. It worked wonders Monday for club president Calvin Grif fith and first baseman Vic Power of the Minnesota Twins. Shortly after both had their coffee at a civic group break fast in Minneapolis, Griffith, feeling In a much better mood, jokingly told the gath ering he wasn't sure how to introduce Power because he still hadn't agreed to terms. "I guess I'll just have to say, 'Here is Vic Power'," said Griffith. Whereupon the Minnesota first baseman leaped up from his seat and said; "Okay, I agree to terms, but give me a good Introduc tion." The obliging Griffith got up, made the introduction all over again and really poured it on. That did It. And all It took was that morning coffee. Power, who, batted 290 last season, hit 16 home runs and drove in 63 runs, was given a raise that boosted his sal ary in the neighborhood of S30.000. To the vrctors belong the spoils, but those Los Angeles Dodgers "losers" aren't doing too badly, either. Relievers Ed Roebuck and Ron Perranoski, two of six Dodger players to sign, re ceived "substantial increases" and none of the other four, Bob Miller, Joe Moeller, Phil Ortega and rookie Bill Sing er, were asked to take a cut Roebuck agreed for an esti mated $20,000 and Perranoski for approximately $18,000. General manager Buzzie Ba vasi said the club was pursu ing Its policy of rewarding players who had good sea sons, and since the Dodgers enjoyed their greatest attend ance in history last year many of the raises are good-sized ones. The Chicago White Sox also signed six of their play ers and now have a total of 16 under contract. Latest slgnees were catchers Sherm Lollar and Camilo Carreon and pitchers Mike Joyce, Dom Zanni, Andy Rubilotta and Jim Norris. Donovan Rewarded Dick Donovan, a 20-game winner, agreed to terms with the Cleveland Indians after receiving a sizeable pay boost, while veteran southpaw Don Mossi, who won 1 1 games last year, signed his 1963 contract with the Detroit Tigers. Donn Clendenon, expected to be Pittsburgh's regular first baseman', returned his signed contract to the Pirates as did pitcher Bob Veale, who set an International league record with Columbus last Aug. 10 by striking out 22 batters in a game against Buf falo. The Pirates have satis fied 18 of their, players so far. ' Infielder Wayne Causey be came the seventh member of the Kansas City A's to okay terms, and the Washington Senators corralled three rookie pitchers - Jim Hannan, Jack Jenkins and Jim Duckworth. Pittsburgh (UPD Danny Murtaugh sees the St. Louis Cardinals as the darkhouse in the 1963 Notional league pen nant race. The Pittsburgh Pirate skip per held forth at a luncheon Monday and opined that the Cardinals' hitting could squeak them into the winner's circle. "This is a good league," Murtaugh said. "Any team can win it If a couple players get hot." . "The Cardinals are going to have a good hitting ball club," he said, adding that their flag chances hinge on the recovery of pitcher Bob Gibson from an ankle injury. The team to beat, Mur taugh said, is the San Fran cisco Giants. He said the Cin cinnati Reds and Los Angeles Dodgers "are right up there with them." REDS HAVE PITCHING Huntington, W. Va. -lUPB Phil Seghi, farm director of the Cincinnati Reds, said Mon day night he feels his club will be a strong contender for the 1963 National league pen nant because of its strong pitching staff. Seghi made the observation during an address at the 18th annual West Virginia Sports writers Association's Victory Awards Dinner. Football great Red Grange also addressed the dinner, which honored West Virginia's outstanding figures and teams. Seghi said the return of third baseman Gene Freese, who suffered a broken ankle last year, would help the Reds. However, he said Tommy Harper of San Diego may give Freese a run for the third-base position. STADIUM CONTROVERSY Pittsburgh - OJPD - The con troversy over a proposed $23 million municipal stadium was in a state of suspension today despite a pledge by the Pittsburgh Pirates that they are capable of meeting their financial obligations. - A meeting between skepti cal Allegheny County Com missioners and directors of the Allegheny Conference on Community D e v e 1 o pment, wht planned the project, was at least two days off. The stadium issue has be.! come a torrid topic here in: the past three days since a' suggestion by Democratic' Pnmmissinnpra Willln- - McClelland and John E. Mc-i Grady that other methods of' financing be explored. . The county has been called upon for $5.7 million to help! underwrite the project, which' will cost a total of $45 million including land acquisition. '. McClelland and McGrady" said they had misgivings: about the plan and wanted to be certain the stadium's' operators, the Pirates, would be able to meet rental and bond payments. They alsoi wanted assurances the club' would share with the city' and county any excess In pro.! fits over what is now antlcl-: pated. - Loyola Squeaks By Ohio University By 80 to 72 By United Press International Those breathers can some times become exhausting for that high-scoring Loyola of Chicago basketball machine. Loyola, second-ranked team in the nation, had a country wide best average of 99 points a game going into Monday night's seemingly easy en counter against Ohio Univer sity and had all it could do to gain an 80-72 victory and preserve the Ramblers' per fect record. The score was the second lowest of the season for Loy ola and could have meant the end of a 16-game streak if the Ohioans didn't run out of gas in the late stage., of the Lavorante Gets Wheelchair for Rehabilitation Los Angeles - (UPD - Injured Argentine heavyweight Ale jandro Lavorante, still in a coma four months after being knocked out in the boxing ring, has been given a special $700 wheelchair to help in his rehabilitation. The firm of Everest-Jennings donated the chair, tai lored especially to fit t man of Lavorante's size and in cluding special features to as sist him. Attendants at California Lutheran hospital said the 26-year-old fighter has 'n re cent weeks been able to sit up, work occasionally on parallel bars and eat despite the serious brain damage that left him in a coma. His doctors explained the actions are by reflex rather than conscious effort. Lavorante, who has under gone three brain operations since the Sept. 21 bout in which he was floored by Johnny Rlggins of San Fran cisco, never regained consci ousness from the knockout. DEATH TAKES WRESTLER Los Angclcs-lllPD-Gus Pap pas, 81, middleweight wres tling champion from 1916 to 1922, died Sunday. Pappas began wrestling in 1910 and won the championship from Lonney Ajax six years later in Chicago. The first South American country to build a railroad was Chile which opened a line for service in 1832. METAL WORKS BRILL Commercial Industrial Residential Sheet Metal Were Stalnleaa, Galvanised nd Ceeeet FekricitiM 228? West Main PHONI 772-4440 "Do It Yourself" STEAM (LEANING (Anything yeu can bring in) By the Hour -7 Days a Week By Appointment Everything Furnished SOUTHERN OREGON DRY KILN WHITE CITY, OREGON Phone 824-2711 - 826-9161 game. Ohio U, trailing 39-36 at halftime, caught up to Loyola with 14 minutes remaining at 52-all. But the Bobcats faded at this point and the Ramblers scrambled back in front for good. Jerry Harkness, Loyola's leading scorer, tallied .20 points. Stacy Bunton paced the 'Cats with 16 points. Iowa, a surprise winner over Ohio State Saturday, notched its third straight Big Ten Conference triumph by edging Michigan' State 60-39, and Notre Dame breezed past Purdue, 96-86, in the only other major games on a slim schedule. Glendale Edges Sambo's 71-69 In SOIBL Tilt Glendale edged Sambo's in a close Southern Oregon In dependent league basketball tilt at McLoughlln last night. The score was 71 to 69. Jim Allen of Glendale was high point man of the game with 21. Jack Berline had 17 for Glendale, Glen Blevins 16 and Brock Lewis 15. High scorer for Sambo's was Dick Griffin with 18 points. George Clearwater had 14. Sambo'a (69) Wooton 2. Clear water H. Amerde 7. McCay 8, Waddle 7, Serak . Harper. Grif fin It. Puhl 7. Glendale (711 Allen 11. Blevins IS, Lewis 19, Berline 17. Steer saa, Allen 2. GURNEY TAKES RACE Riverside, Calif. -flIPD- Dan Gurney-ex-motorcycle racer, Grand Prix sports car driver, and Indianapolis 300 driver -finally won a big race in his old hometown in a stock car. Taking a 1963 Ford around the curvy, 2.7-mlle Riverside Raceway at the average speed of 84.96 miles an hour, Gur ney won the $66,243 River side 500-mile stock car race Sunday. RENT a Herlz Truck WEEK, DAY or HOUR A. B. Scarlett licensee Medford Agent CHUCK RISSE RICHFIELD SERVICE 9rh ft Central HONE 772-56J8 Slep-O-Matie Brake Lining In stalled en all 4 Wheeli WHILE YOU WAIT1 Eaiy tarmi. Brake Specialist for 23 years. Phone 779-1966 MATinim ki BRAKE CENTER ,J 1216 North Court LININGER'S Construction Equipment RENTALS Backhoes Road Graders Motor Cranes to 30 Tons D-4, D-6, D-8 Cats Pulls Air Cnmnreccnrc Phone JGER'S 773-7555 EXCITING STORIES AND FEATURES FOR EVERYONE jF&mily Wi&elcly JANUARY 27TH Weekend Issue VAUGHN MEADER: He'd Rather Be a Riot V 3 Than President J?k One smash-hit record, and sud denly a young comic has a host eLttMBeeaaaaBBBBBi f)f fans inplnrlinor tTa Tfonnorlva ''ft v.. -w....-.; who are the subject of his devastating impersonations. J. EDGAR HOOVER tells of his "Appointment with Destiny" Corruption was rampant in the Bureau of Investigation in 1924, when its 29-vear. old assistant director was summoned to a fateful interview with the Attorney General. Recipes Riddles Humor Games: Next Weekend with your copy of the K L Medford
