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Newspaper Page Texta iff Ma ! x J : , 1 J3 IN DISTRICT MEET One of the top contenders for Cra ter high i "le district wres tling meet here this week end is Bob Butcher, above. He will vie in the 191-pound division. v 123-POUNDER-Mike Horton, ubove, will wrestle for Med ford high in the 123 -pound class this Friday and Satur day in the district meet in Jlcdford. He has a 12-3 record in matches this season. Will Mays Signs for $100,000 By FRED DOWN UPI Sports Writer Willie Mays has a $100,000 contract today to prove that San Francisco Giant club owner Horace Stoncham made good on an eight - year old promise. "Stick with the Giants, Wil lie." Stoncham told Mays back in the winter of 1954, "and you'll earn as much as any baseball player in history." Mays saw that promise be come a reality Wednesday when lie signed a 1963 con tract for $100,000 - "perhaps n little more" - and thereby joined Joe DiMaggio. Ted Wil liams and Stan Musial as the only players in history who have earned a straight si.x liiuire salary for one year. Good Years Lcil "Willie should have three or four more good years," said manager Alvin Dark, who hold a press conference after tlio announcement of Mays' tisr.ing. "He's 31 now and a ball player really doesn't ma lure until he is around 28. Willie wil play in every game if he can make it," In his 12th season as a Giant last year. Mays batted .W4. hit 49 homers and drove in 104 runs. He tired in Sep t mbcT and collapsed on the brnch during a game in Cin cinnati on Sept. 12. But he made a major contribution in the closing days 01 the race v. hen the Giants out-lasted the collapsing Dodgers and won the National league pennant. At Builders Supply QUALITY Chimneys BLOCKS Pfcitrciied Contrett A 727 W. McAndre-l PHONE 77J-4J7S f "i 5 ' ' , V If , i I ffV-" '- p--iiim -irirr 1 GP Cavemen Defend in District Mat Meet Here Friday, Saturday One state second placer of 1962, another youth who was a district champ and three others who were rnnnersup in southern Oregon eliminations are slated to be among partic ipants on Friday and Saturday in the District 6 A-l wrestling tourney. The meet will be held at Hedrick Junior high gym here with the preliminary tussles opening at 1 p.m. on Friday. Senior high schools entered are Ashland, Crater, Klamath Falls, Grants Pass and Med ford. GP is defending district and state champion. It again is favored.' The state runnerup of last year is Medford"s' Rod Smith, also a district second placer. He contended at 98 pounds in the 1961-1962 season and has wrestled at 106 this year. Grant Humphrey, Klamath Falls, took the US -pound crown in the 1962 district meet. He has been going at 123 pounds this season. Boys back with their teams this season alter taking sec onds in district in 1962 are Ron Head and Bob Dalton, Klamath Falls, and Jerry Cole Grants Pass. They gained their honors at the resepctive weights of 130, 168 and 141. Single Elimination Cole weighs 157 now and may enter at that weight or above it. He has even faced 191-pound class foes this sea son. Head has appeared at 141 and Dalton at 168 again. The tourney will be single elimination but with a conso lation bracket. First and sec ond placers will gain the op portunity to represent their schools in the state A-l tour ney on March 1 and 2 at Cor vallis. There are 13 weight di visions and each school will be permitted to 'enter two boys in each class in district. Quarterfinals will follow the preliminaries on Friday afternoon. Semifinals are set for 7 p.m. on Friday. Consola tion bracket matches begin at Wittenberg Must Yet Prove Self New York - tUPD - Witten berg, having wound up the regular season with an 18-1 record, led the United Press International small college basketball ratings again to day and now must beat some backyard rivals to prove its claim to the national cham pionship. With two weeks remaining before the final ballot of the season, Wittenberg was com fortably on top for the sixth straight week; Evansville moved up one notch to third, and Fresno State made its wav back to the top 10. Wittenberg defeated Otter- bein and Mount Union, two Ohio Conefrence rivals, last week to close out the regular campaign with a string of 13 straight victories. Tonight coach Eldon Mill er's Tigers meet Ottcrbein again in the start of the Ohio conference's 16-team post-sea son tournament. This tourna' ment is played in two sec tions, with the first two teams in each group qualifying for the finals at Columbus, Ohio, March 1 and 2. W i 1 1 e n b e r g's toughest threat in this tournament ap pears to be Akron, which moved uo one place in the UPI ratings this week to the No. 6 spot. New York (UPI 1 The United Press International small college haskpth&n ratines (with first-place t,ninm anrt u-nn.ldii rerorris throush Feb. 16 in parentheses!: Team i-uniu, 1. Wittenberis 26 (18-1) 327 2. Grambiing (21-21 -....263 3. Evansville 3 118-3) 248 4. S E. Missouri 2 119-1) 234 5. Tenn. Slate 1 121-4) 194 6. Akron 119-21 110 7. Prairie View (IS-81 83 8. Southern Illinois (13-71 .... 66 !). Fresno State 1 117-5) 52 in. Westminster (Pa ) (11-5) 47 Second 10 teams 11. University oc California at Santa Barbara 35: 12 Hnfstra, 32: 13. Southeastern Oklahoma 28: 14. Aussbure ( 11.22; Smith Dakota State (1), 18; 16. In diana Slate (Ind.i. 17: 17, Lamar Tech. 16; 18. Reeis. 12: 19. North eastern. 9; 20. Arkansas tSate, B. Rizzuto Recuperating From Hand Surgery Elizabeth, N.J. HOT The word from Phil Rizzuto's hos pital bed is, "Don't worry fellas, I'll be in shape for the next old timers' game." The former New York Yan kee shortstop's right hand was still swathed in bandages following Tuesday night's three-hour operation to save three fingers from amputation but the little "Scooter" was in good spirits. He got out of bed briefly Wednesday and was described by nurses as "smiling and wanting to know when he will go home." Doctors said the 44-year-old one-time most valuable player of the American League will remain in the hospital for "several days." Rizzuto's right hand was badly mangled Tuesday in an accident which occurred while he was running a snow blower outside his Hillside, N J , home. 1 p.m. on Saturday with con solation finals getting under way at 6 p.m. and champion ship finals at 7:30 p.m. The championship bouts will be contested on one mat. Three mats will be used for competition up until that time. Records Listed Adult admission price will be $1 for Saturday night and 50 cents for each of the other sessions, btudents will be ad mitted for 25 cents to each of the sessions. Smith with 12 wins and 2 losses for the season paces the Medford Black Tornado. Oth ers with 12 wins are Mike Horton, 123, who has had 3 and Terry Winetrout, 178, who has had 5 setbacks. Records of other Tornado wrestlers wins-losses - draws) are: 115-pounder Mike Orr 10-5-1; 136-pounder Tom Ow ens 8-8-1: 168-pounder Tom Metz, 11-2-1; 191 -pounder GRANTS PASS MATMAN David Vancil, above. Grants Pass high will contend in the 98-pound class for the Cave men in the District 6 A-l wrestling tourney here on Firday and Saturday. He is unbeaten in dual meet com petiton. Wheeler's, GP Victors In SOIBL John Wheeler Logging took over lone leadership in the Southern Oregon Indepen- dent Basketball league here j lats night by downing Drews" j Manstore 84 to 71. I The two clubs had been j tied for first. Wheeler s is ; now 8-1 and Drews' 7-2. In the other game Grants ; Pass won 71 to 52 over Sam-; bo's restaurant at GP. Bob Hokanson had 18 points and Dave Hughes 14 for Wheeler's and Craig Gard ner 1' for Drews'. The GP Merchants (5-4) ral lied after Sambo's (2-8) led 29 to 27 at the half. Larry Stevens had 19 and Jim Davis 14 for Grants Pass and Dick Griffin 14 for Sambo's. LINEUPS: Samho'i 52 Wcddle 4. McCay 11, Clearwater 10. Serak 4. Grlllin 14. Battistone 5. Welier 4. Wooton. Grants Pass 71 Stevens 19. D. Rees.e 4. Lavasseur 8. Davis 14. J. Allen 8. Blevins 8. B. Allen 4. Mc lntire 6. Wheeler's 84 D Olivo 4. Copple in Vinohs 14. Twiichell 3. Dick- erson 9. Dunson 9, Munson 2. Batea 4. Frank 2. Johnson B. Hokanson 18. Vannlcc 1. Drew's 71 Payne 11. Aitcnno fen 11. Henncn 4. Munyon 1. Gra ham 5, Louk 5. Gardner 15. Olson 5. Hood 9. McKinley. Murray 5. Girls Participating In Volleyball Play Lone Pine - Fifth and sixth grade girls of Jacksonville Oak Grove, Griffin Creek Westside, Lincoln, Washing ton and Lone Pine schools are participating in volley ball games. This gives girls an oppor tunity to participate in sports and visit other schools. Mrs. Jeanette Thompson is super-: vising the girls at Lone Pine. The first play is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 28, when Howard is at Oak Grove. Grif fin Creek at Westside, Jack sonville at Lone Pine and Washington at Lincoln. On Feb. 28 Lone Pine will be at Griffin Creek, Westside at Howard, Lincoln at Jackson ville and Oak Grove at Wash ington. Lone Pine fifth and sixth grade boys will play their final basketball game on Thursday, Feb. 21, at Ruch. So far, all league games they have played, have been won. INDIANS SIGN Spokane. Wash. - a'Pt -Twenty-seven members of the Spokane Indian baseball team of the Pacific Coast league have returned contracts for the 1963 season in what Gen eral Manager Spencer Harris called "the fastest I've seen contracts signed." MEDFORD Mike Mayfield, 10-4; and un limited man Jeff Hardrath 9-2-2. Medford as a team won seven matches, iost four and tied one. It took second in the Reedsport tourney. Statistical leaders for Med ford and Metz and Winetrout, 19 takedowns each; Metz, 12 escapes; May field, 14 revers als; Mike Orr, 8 predicaments; Orr, Owens, Winetrout, May field, 6 near falls each, and Winetrout, 7 falls. MEDFORD ROSTER: 98 L i n Casciato; 106 R a d Smith and Rick Orr: 115 Mike Orr and Russet Smith: 123 Mike Horton and Mike Miller; 130 Tomlinson Leader in Score Race Crater high's Howard Tom linson is back on top in the Southern Oregon conference basketball scoring race. Tomlinson collected a bulg ing 46 points in two games for the Comets last week end. That makes his total 265 for 17 games. Jack Forde, the immediate past leader, put in 12 points in Medford's single court ap pearance last week and is sec ond with 254 for 17 engage ments. Lou Alvarez, Crater, is third with 241 and Mike Glines, Crater, fourth with 236. Jim Pippin, Grants Pass, is the other over-200 man with 220. Tomlinson bolstered h i s free shot leadership with 18 of 23 in his last two games and has a 105-point total on gifters. Glines has taken the field goal lead with 101. Forde and Alvarez are close behind with 9 9each. Tomiinson's per game scor ing mark of 13.6 points is best. Statistics are compiled by Jerry Acklen, Grants Pass Courier sports editor. CONFERENCE STANDINGS W L Pet PF PA Crater 7 4 .638 678 666 Grants Pass 7 4 .636 641 527 Mediord 8 S .545 688 588 Klam. Falls 8 8 .500 640 527 Ashland 2 S .183 533 65? SEASON STANDINGS w l Pet rr PA Crater 13 4 .765 1108 343 Klam. Falls ,.12 8 .667 961 832 Medford .....II 8 .647 1033 803 Grants Pass ..11 6 ,647 B74 "01 Ashland 8 B .471 854 8S8 TOP 20 SCORES i ti FT-A IP Ave, Tomlinson, C. 80 105-127 265 15.6 Forde, M 09 56-94 254 14.9 Alvarez, C 99 Glines, C 101 Pippin, GP .. 77 Chamb i d, KF 72 Kclley, KF .. 69 Hutchins, GP.. 67 Lamh, A 52 Miles. M 69 Hill. M 67 Scott. KF 5!) Pepper, C 59 H. Holman. KF 46 43-59 241 14.1 34-52 238 138 68-108 220 12 0 47-72 191 10.6 37- 52 175 9.7 38- 62 173 133 65-103 169 9.9 28-84 168 9 7 29-64 37-59 35- 51 52-72 36- 62 23-38 40-59 44-70 37- 81 33-50 163 10.1 135 81 153 144 128 127 124 122 121 115 90 8 4 7.5 7.4 7 3 7.2 6.7 S.7 Tepper, A 46 pariin, ur .... a Shepard, GP .. 42 Bess, A 39 Dann, Kr 42 Pierce, A 41 Pioneer Plays C of 1 Tonight United Press International Lewis and Clark's powerful Pioneers, who are three wins away from clinching their sec ond straight Northwest Con ference basketball champion ship, entertain College of Ida ho at Portland tonight. Second -place Pacific piays host to Whitman at Forest Grove. Lewis and Clark, which defeated the Badgers in a key game last week end, has a 10-1 record in the confer ence. Pacific is 9-3. Lewis and Clark plays host to Whitman and Pacific en tertains College of Idaho Fri day and Saturday nights. Lin field meets Willamette Fri day night at Salem and Satur day night at McMinnville. The Pioneers, who have roiled up nine straight wins, face Linfield at McMinnville next Tuesday night in the finai conference game. Jungle Jim Trimble Coach of Aiouettes Montreal -fliPIt- Rough and ready Jungle Jim Trimble, the newly signed coach of the Montreal Aiouettes, said to day he and the Canadian Foot bail league team have a "very bright future ahead of us." The onetime boy wonder of the National Football league with the Philadelphia Eagles U952-55) and seven-year vet eran of the Hamilton Tigcr Cats, signed a long-term con tract with the Aiouettes Tues day. MAIL. TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. Steve Hall and Larry Simmond: 136 Tom Owen and Qann y Schmatl; 141 George McNair and Bernard Szymaniak: H8 Fred Graten and Tom Gilman: 157 Ray Lauritzen and John Pierce; 188 -Tom Mats and Tim Brown; 178 Tcny Winetrout and Brian Peter son; 191 Mike Mayfield and Jim Janet; heavyweujht Jeff Rardrath and Larry McCimmen. CRATKR ROSTER: 98 John Engeit: 106 Dave An derson; 13 Dtahon Olson; 130 Clint Gibson and Gary Vincent: 138 David LaFever; 14i Joe Mc Caly and Doug Moore; 148 Don Klrkham and Gordon Banry; 157 Steve Jorde and Jim Pitts; 168 Ron Boe and Frank Armstrong; 178 Gary Gidney and Dean Pur dy; 191 Bob Butcher and Mel Johnson; heavyweight J a b R Harris. CAVEMAN GRAPPLER Jerry Cole, 157-pound s. above, is slated to aid Grants Pass high in its District 8 A-l wrestling title defense on Fri day and Saturday at Kedrlck gym here. He has a 7-0 sea son record and has contested in a number of matches in weight classes higher than his own. Haytcher Paces In All-Events Buffalo, N.Y. -flJPB- Atlantic Seaboard quintets join mid- western fives and e few area representatives lor another as sault on the pins today in the 80th annual American Bowl ine congress tournament. They'll center their sights on the 2,947, leading score in the regular team division achieved by Byrn's Sporting Goods of Auburn, N.Y,, on Tuesday. Only one leader was top pled in Wednesday's bowling. Dick Ward of Carey, Ohio, was forced into third place in the all events as Bernie Hayt cher of Ashtabula, Ohio, took the lead with 1,885 and John Ignizio of Rochester, N.Y., moved into second place with 1,874. Ward, now third, had 1,860. Haytcher scored two highs for the tournament in advanc ing to first place in the 9-game count - a 290 first game in team play and a 708 series. Steelheading Good In Galice Area Portland - fflPJ - The week ly report on fishing conditions prepared by the State Game commission: Southwest! Angling should be fair to good in upper limp qua from Yeiiow creek to forks; lower river will be slow; Coos river improving steclhead; Rogue has been good in Galice area; Elk and Sixes in good condition. Slop-O-Mitif Bnks Ltnmj In stilled on all 4 Wheels WHILl YOU WAIT! fair Itim. Brake Specialist (or ii yttn. Phen 779-5966 NATIONAL BRAKE CENTER 12U North Court ' f. . Mr "What Prices! I960 CHEVROLET f MP ALU K'SISTSsOO LEA RAMBLER iWi mi artle fhene 7?i-m OREGON sv; - TrV- EYES DISTH1CT HONORS - Rod Smith, above, Medford high wrestier in the 106-pound class, will aim for another state tourney trip in the Dis trict 6 A-l tournament this week end at Hedrick gym here. Smith was both a dis trict and n state second place taker last season. He has a 12-2 season mark. Linebackers Convene On Friday at Noon Frank Roelsndt and Dick Paup, coaches, respectively, of ihe Mediord and SI. Mary's High school basketball teams, will be on the program of the Medford Linebackers on Fri day. The Linebackers wiii have their regular noon luncheon ai North's Chuck Wagon. It it hoped, also, to have torn of the coaches present from teams which will lake part in the district wrestling tournament her. MOVER RICHER Honolulu - fflTJ - World junior middleweight cham pion Denny Moyer of Port land was $8,805,71 richer to day after receiving his share of the receipts of his bout with Honolulu's Stan Harrington. 1 tvti- ,Witt BllllliiSlIlililllM TIME SERVICE CUAKAKTEE If lire falls dwrint; the monthly farntrs wrfd, vr. Hill, at our option, eilitrr re. pair it without cost or in carliancr. for ilia oM tire, five yott a tvplatrmrnt tire or s refund, t-hsrgtnj: only for tlio jvriod of ownership, Oterk before you imy. All adjustments meile hy retail stores ere Prorate! at tlie regular retail twice ploa edewl iseise Tax, irss irafie-ift, at tiie time ef retam. Attention Truckers Seer hit e complete selection of ALLSTATE truck ret end tube. NEW 4-PLY NYLON TIRES NO MONEY DOWN ON SIASS f ASY PAYMENT PLAN SEARS MEDFORDvatSTSIfiUSB SIPflDIffiTS Chips Down for 2nd In Rogue Cage Loop Chips are down for second place this week end in the Rogue league basketball cam paign with Eagle Point, Illi nois Valley and Lakcview in the running. And, wisether the chase will be over this week end or will be prolonged with a playoff couid hinge on a single game on Friday night. In llsat battle Eagle Point 9-3) opposes Illinois Vaiiey 7-4) at Cave Junction. The matter will be settled if the Eagics down the Cougars. An IV win would place. Sat urday conflicts in focus. Eagle Point is slated against Sacred Heart at Klamath Falls and the Cougars meet St. Mary's in Medford. Lakcview 8-5) which still has opportunity to tie for sec ond is at Sacred Heart on Friday. Other league games Friday are Rogue River at Phoenix and Heniey at St. Mary's. Rigue River entertains Suth erlin in a non-league game on Saturday. The week end tussles wiil end the regular slate for the Rogue schools except for an IV -Sacred Heart game which may have to be made up. Henley has already won the Rogue league championship. Why is second place sig nificant? It is important be cause the No. 1 and 2 teams from the league gain berths in the District 8 A-2 cham pionship playoffs on March 6 and 9. IV and Eagle Point have split in tussles played this season. Eagle Point, Lakcview and IV all have defeated Sa cred Heart with little trou ble, Illinois Vaiiey previously beat St. Mary's by a wide margin but the Crusaders are flrtrn diHB GemH car Our Lowest Prices Ever I I oij U ia i i an rTWwi S1 Site e.7SslS 7.eo i 5 5 i 4.79siSj 7.S0sU M0!S 8.0014 7,3aiS ,50st soi . jetkwm Shop at Open Merid.y I Fridey Tif THURSDAY, FEBRUARY , 1SS3 considered capable ot spilling the Cougar hopes. 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