Fanfare
Medford high has been fair
ly lucky in the past so far as
travel for sports playoffs has
interferred with school work.
But, the full impact of the con
flict between school and trav
el school classes could hit the
Black Tornado this week.
The Tornado baseballers left
yesterday morning for their
game this evening at Pendle
ton in the state Class A-l
semifinals. If they win to
night, they'll play on Thurs
day afternoon and evening in
the state final at Portland and
not return to Medford until
Friday. There are 11 seniors
on the diamond squad and fin
al exams for seniors begin to
day. WORKS A PROBLEM
Originally planned for
Saturday, June 1, depending
on availability of Mullnomah
stadium for that date, the
Class A-l, A-2 and B baseball
title tripleheader was moved
to Thursday, Memorial day,
because the stadium was not
available for Saturday.
Such a jammed up playoff
schedule as encountered this
spring is no handicap for
schools of the metropolitan
area but it does work a prob
lem for those who have to
travel long distances. We
don't know whether the avail
ability of other facilities were
looked into so that the games
could be on Saturday. But, it
seems that other fields could
be available, particularly if
the games were played singly
rather than as a triplebill.
And, there isn't any absolute
need to keep the champion
ships a lriplcheader.
Also the holiday scheduling
doesn't necessarily mean a
good crowd.
LITTLE FANFARE
The Memorial day plan for
the finals, it seems to us, was
given little fanfare, although
it was down in black and
white if you knew where to
look and looked. If you didn't
look, it sort of sneaked up.
Some of the north schools
adapted their quarter and
semifinals to the change.
GREAT SPRING
This has been a great
spring for Medford high in
athletics with District honors
in all four spring sports, a
stale doubles championship
and Oregon second place team
finish in tennis, a third in
stale in golf, a lie for fifth in
track and the baseball team
slill in the running for state
honors.
CONVERSATION SUBJECT
IV does no good to fret
about what might have been.
But, sometimes it remains
good subject for conversation.
In Ihe wake of the state A-l
track meet, Medford high
track fans can discuss what
the Tornado's track chances
would have been had sprinter
Jim Hill been healthy for the
district and stale meets and
had Doug Brown not trans
ferred from Medford to South
Salem high. Hill on the basis
of season performances cer
tainly would have helped
Medford to points in the dash
es, hroad jump and relay.
Brown won the high jump for
South.
And here's an additional
touch of irony:
Two years ago Jim Hat'jh
was a sophomore hurdler for
Medford Coach Dean Benson.
Now. Jim has informed Ben
son that he won the Wyoming
state prep meet high jump
this spring along with taking
second places in both the high
and low hurdles.
HOPE FOR 1964
The past can't be done over
again but there is hope for
next year. All three of Med
ford's slate meet placers, Mike
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Deibele in ihe dashes, Steve
Toews in the half-mile and
Don Driskell in the high hur
dles are juniors and should
bulwark the Black Tornado
bid in 1964.
QUALITY IMPORTANT
They talk about depth be
fore a state track meet in try
ing to prognosticate the out
come. But it's been proved
again quality is quite impor
tant. Jefferson of Portland
won the state A-l title with
a six man squad and Myrtle
Creek won on the efforts of
three in A-2 - Ross Barkhurst
in the 100 and 220-yard dash
es, Ron Salmon in the high
jump and Ed Cadman in the
mile.
Creswell took fourth In the
A-2 tussle strictly on the
three first places of one man,
Allen Fowler and Rogue
River was fifth with the work
of three men, Don Salyer,
Jack Salter and Chris Jones.
HAMILTON ELECTED
Robert Hamilton, ex-Med-ford
high trackman now a
junior at Dartmouth college,
has been elected secretary of
the Dartmouth rugby club. He
has been playing on ihe first
team. Mike Milleman, ex
Grants Pass high has been an
infield regular for the Dart
mouth freshman baseball
team and has served as its
captain.
KOCH. HOUT GET AWARDS
George Koch, ex-Medford
high, has received his third
awards' in basketball and
track at University of Port
land and Roger Hout, ex-St.
Mary's, his third award in
track at the same school.
MAIDS ADD PLAYERS
Two players have been add
ed to the roster of the Rogue
Valley Dairy Maids Softball
team. They are Sherry Larson
and Maureen Larson of
Klamath Falls. Both previous
ly played for Eugene McCul
loch Chain Saw. They are
sisters-in-law. Maureen will
be remembered as Maureen
Schollian. Sherry teaches at
Grants Pass.
Marichal Or
Fisher To
Start For SF
Cincinnati. Ohio (UPD The
San Francisco Giants opened
a 15-game road trip tonight
when they risked their two
game lead in the National
league against the Cincinnati
Reds.
Either Jack Fisher (3-4) or
Juan Marichal (6-3) was slated
to open against the sixth
place Reds, who have had
trouble this year getting
many hits.
Manager Fred Hutchinson
was expected to counter with
Jim O Toole (7-3), the nifty
southpaw who bested the
Giants earlier this year and
has an 8-9 lifetime mark
against them.
Fisher has no decisions
with Cincinnati. Marichal
owns a 4-5 career mark
against the Reds. He turned
them back with six hits ear
lier this season.
San Francisco closed out
a home stand Sunday by los
ing to the Los Angeles Dodg
ers, 4-3, in the 10th inning
as the result of shortstop
Jose Pagan's third error of
the game.
The defeat ended a five
game winning streak that
helped the Giants to post nine
wins in 12 games for the last
dozen played at Candlestick.
After three tilts at Cincin
nati, the club moves on to
St. Louis for another three
with the vastly-improved Car
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Released Steelhead Show
Portland - On July 10,
1962, the game commission re
leased into Medco pond in the
upper reaches of the Rogue
river just over 161,400 sum
mer steelhead fry that had
been hatched and fed for a
period of four weeks at the
commission's Butte Falls
hatchery.
Medco pond is an artificial
rearing impoundment which
is designed for the experi
mental natural production of
young salmon and steelhead.
This old 70-acre log pond was
leased to the game commission
PBA Adopts
New Rules
For Keglers
Akron, Ohio - A new for
mat and scoring system which
may revolutionize bowling
competition nationally has
been adopted for all tourna
ments of the Professional
Bowlers association.
Announcement of the new
system was the highlight of
the PBA executive board
meeting held in Akron recent
ly. It will be put in effect
immediately, according to the
PBA's executive director, Ed
die Elias.
Under the new system, qual
ifying scores of the 16 pro
finalists will be carrier over
into the head-to-head matches.
In the 16 match games, where
each man bowls every other
finalist, plus the final posi
tion round, each victory will
bo worth an additional 50
pins.
This method of computation
represents a simplified com
promise between the standard
total pinfall system and the
spectator oriented but highly
complex Peterson point sys
tem. Spectator Aided
The bowling spectator ap
pears to be the big winner
in the new PBA format as
total pinfall scoring can be
dull to watch whereas the
Peterson point system with
its fractions, decimals, and
won and loss records frequent
ly confuses all but the most
knowledgeable bowling devo
tees. Under the old system, which
up to this time was used in
all major tournaments, the
pins knocked down in quail
fying rounds were eliminated
and the 16 finalists started
their head-to-head competition
all even.
This penalized the qualify'
ing leader in that he might
have finished several hundred
pins ahead of the 16th man,
and then faced elimination
from the tournament three
games later.
The new formal is also fair
to the 16th man because of
the 50 point premium award
ed for each game won. A
streak of victories for the man
in the head-to-head competi
tion would enable him to
move far up toward the lead
ers, and he could conceivably
still win the tournament.
Elias declared that the new
system is the greatest forward
step the PBA has taken in
the five year history of the
nation-wide 900 member organization.
MEDFOHD
by the Medford Corporation
and rebuilt to provide perma
nent water controls and fish
trapping facilities.
For a full year these young
steelhead were tended care
fully by fishery biologists of
the game commission's re
search division, who made
constant checks for disease,
parasites, growth and mortal
ity. The young fish were not
fed in their man-made envir
onment, but were allowed to
grow and forage on what the
impoundment would produce.
This was done to simulate a;
near as possible the wild con
ditions which these fish would
encounter throughout their
lives.
Fish Clipped
On May 6, 1963, Medco pond
was drained and 127,500
healthy young steelhead from
the original plant, now aver
aging around five inches in
length, were tallied on their
seaward journey through the
counting station. All of the
young summer steelhead were
marked by clipping the adi
pose, the right pectoral and
the left ventral fins before be
ing released into the Rogue
river.
Phil Schneider, state game
Trust
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director, said that the total
of young steelhead released
from this rearing impound
ment represents a 79 per cent
cent survival from the time of
their introduction to the pond
to their release in the Rogue
system. This excellent survi
val, according to Schneider,
is the highest recorded since
the game commission began
its impoundment rearing pro
gram several years ago.
Such survival can be con
sidered nothing less than ex
ceptional when compared to
reports of other fishery agen
cies which have embarked on
this relatively new method of
salmon and steelhead produc
tion. According to the 1961
annual report of the Wash
ington Department of Fisher
ies, a pioneering agency in
impoundment rearing, the
highest survival that year at
six of its rearing impound
ments where actual tallies are
made reached the 40 per cent
mark.
Thirty-eight per cent sur
vival was recorded at a second
impoundment. Five additional
impoundment tallies showed
survival ranging from about 8
per cent to 17 per cent. This
is survival from the time the
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youngsters are placed in the
rearing impoundment until
they are released to make
their way to the sea.
Fair Results
In this respect, Schneider
said, the commission can also
point to fair results at its sec
ond rearing impoundment,
Whistler's Bend on the North
Umpqua, where survival this
spring of steelhead yearlings
released into the Umpqua
system was just over 38 per
cent of the initial number
stocked in the impoundment.
The primary changes that
influenced the exceptional
survival at Medco were sev
eral, according to Schneider.
Young fry slocked were re
ported to be of the best qual
ity and in good condition. In
addition, the diversion of
Daily creek around the pond
with numerous points of
water introduction permitted
control of temperatures and
dissolved oxygen at all times
and throughout the impound
ment. Last year, Schneider said,
the first year Medco was put
into production, the research
division was plagued by a
heavy population of bullhead
catfish which prayed on the
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young steelhead as well
competing for available food
supplies. Survival of young
Trophies Are
Awarded At
Crater Event
Paul Bransom received the
decathlon and high point man
trophies at an awards assem
bly held recently at Crater
High school.
Other track awards were
made to Gary Wald, outstand
ing performance; Jim Ask
with, outstanding effort and
good sportsmanship; Gary Be
rentson, most improved track
man.
Les Dewey received an
award for most valuable ten
nis team member.
Mike Glines received out
standing senior baseball
award and a special award
KOIN Athlete (Crater nomina
tion). In other awards made 107
boys received letters or num
erals for participation in var
ious sports.
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steelhead last year was low.
When the reservoir was
drawn down last spring,
Schneider said, the commis
sion treated the sump area
with rotenone eliminating this
problem. Competition and
predation were reduced to
almost nothing resulting in
excellent growth of young
steelhead this past year.
Schneider advised that the
results of this method of na
tural rearing of steelhead, and
salmon s well, still remain to
be seen. The return of marked
steelhead in the Rogue and
Umpqua river systems in the
spring of 1965 will determine
the success of these impound
ment rearing ventures.
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