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r MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORiGOtf Fanfare DICK JtwiTT Mail TribniM Sports Editor ; In these days, when, fre iquently, that which is unsav- . ory in sports is in the news, .it is soul rewarding and re assuring to read and hear of the activities of the Fellow ship of Christian Athletes and its members, who are holding their western conference at , 'nearby Southern Oregon col- -lege. ' It gives confidence that, Overall, sports are in good 3iands. It reaffirms the role - rthat athletics can and should :play in leading youth to live . .their lives in the Christian jway through the guidance, ex ample and testimony of Chris- . !tian coaches and older Chris tian athletes. . The following notes wrt ' gleaned from the FCA eon- ference by Lawrence Hoi- man, Mail Tribune pholo ; grapher, who is alio a min- ister. Holman reports: I Some intimate glimpses of personalities and incidents in various sports have highlight- d the talks given this week by some of the featured Speakers at the Fellowship of Christian Athletes conference 'on the Southern Oregon col Ucge campus at Ashland. : For instance. Bob Pettit, ;who has just signed for his '10th season of professional ibasketball with the St. Louis jHawks, has accumulated more .than 125 stitches around his ;cyes and forehead during the 'past nine years. Bob does not .attribute these scars to inten tional roughness, however. 'He thinks that the intense. de sire of the pros to win is pri "manly responsible. "Profes sional athletes," he says, "are not just out there trying to ;get their pay checks. It is a .great mistake to assume this were out there for one .thing - TO WIN!" Jbussell GREATEST Some further verbal I snapshots by Pettit: "f t far as I'm concerned. Bill : Russell of lh Boston Cel I tics is the greatest player ! the game of Jaasketball has ever seen. Russell is not an outstanding scorer, but : he is so valuable because ; of his great defensive play .... Bob Cousy is the most '; spectacular player I've ever ; seen . . . Wilt Chamber ' lain is physically the ', strongest man in profession ; al basketball . . . Elgin i Baylor and Jerry West are ' both 'super players'. They ! make the L. A. club close ; to the best in pro basket- ball ... I didn't start work ing out with weights until about five years ago. It's the greatest thing I've dona to improve my performance on the basketball court ... A pet passion with me for a number of years has been to try to be the kind of per son that the parents of the boys who look up Is me would like me to be. What ever you do, someone, some where, is looking to you for guidance; and whatever you do is what he wants to do." IMPORTANT TO PLAY Gambits flavored with phil osophy, humor, and pathos abounded in Monday night's talk by Bob Richards, former Olympic Games gold medal winner in the pole vault. Some samples: "I think it is as important for a man to play as it is for him to wor ship ... I happen to believe that the sports world can do a lot for international rela tions. The sports world sym bolizes the sublimation of tre pugnacity of man into chan nels of friendly rivalry .... We live in a record - busting society. Nowadays, records are falling at the rate of our and five a week. Young peo ple are putting mind into muscle. I've been amazed to note the intellectual caliber of the great athletes . . . . Duke Snider told me last year that every time Maury Wills comes back into the dugout, he spends all his time study ing the smallest movements and mannerisms of the oppos ing pitcher. Because of this minute attention to detail, Wills was able to break a base - stealing record which was thought next to impos sible to break." LITTLE THINGS COUNT Stressing the fact that j minutiae - previously reck- j oned of no consequence - were now the determining factors in record- breaking. Richards continued in this 1 vein: "I asked the Russian j champion Valeri Brumel. how he - standing six feet one inch - had been able , to clear the high jump ' crossbar at the incredible I height of more than seven ; feet and five inches. He ; told me that in 1951 the Russians had obtained for j study slow motion films of the best American track i and field performers. Bru mel stated that in looking at these several years later ! he noticed that the Ameri- , can jumpers weren't sprint ina at the crossbar. It oc curred to him thst if he weuld sprint all the way to the jumping pit he might be Ale io compensate for his relatively short stature. Among high jumpers. Bru- mel has now been on top of for three years. Still. NO AMERICAN HIGH JUMP ER is sprinting at the cross-'' barl Unbelieveable as it sounds. Brumel can touch a ten-foot, four-inch high basketball rim with his right kneel" COEFFICIENT CHANGED "Several years ago, Austra lian swimmers began to de feat their American oppon ents with alarming consisten cy," Richards reported. "We found they had been shaving their forearms. This material ly changed the coefficient of friction and gave them the needed margin for victory . . . . Twenty gold medals were won at the Rome Olym pic Games with a margain of victory of less than one-fourtn of an inch!" ULTIMATES "In the 1930s. University of California track coach, Brutus Hamilton, listed the 'ultimates' to be expected in track and field perform ances." Richards said. "Who's surpassing these marks today? I'll tell you HIGH SCHOOL and JUN IOR HIGH studentsl In the 1920s Johnny Weissmuller held 24 world records in swimming. Today. THIR T E E N - YEAR - OLD GIRLS are breaking these records!" ATTITUDE IMPORTANT The Rev. Donn Moomaw, Presbyterian pastor who was a grid great for UCLA, made these comments before the conference: - "Your attitude toward a task is all important if you're going to do your best . . . . The guy who loses the game is the one who doesn't know where the goal is " Zaharias Memorial Golf Slated The annual Babe Didrikson Zaharias Memorial Golf tour nament will be held at the Rogue Valley Country club on Aug. 15, 16 and 17 under su pervision of Mrs. Belle Schenck and her committee of Mrs. Sam Prough, Mrs. Bob Hart, Mrs. Howard Scroggins, and Mrs. H. E. Nulton. Prizes will be awarded for each day's play - gross score and net in all divisions for both ladies and men. All pro ceeds will be turned over to the Jackson County unit of the American Cancer society. Last year 270 golfers entered and $300 was turned over to the local unit. Babe Zaharias was an out standing athlete in many sports and was 21, when she won her first golf tournament. Cancer struck in 1953. She made a comeback and went on taking trophies but cancer struck again in 1955. She was only 42 when she died in 1956. In 1955 Babe and her husband, George Zaharias, set up a cancer fund to help others win the battle she lost and a year later it became the "Babe's memorial fund," with proceeds to be used' in the research, education, and service programs of the Amer ican Cancer society. Emeralds Rude To Salem Again United Press International Those Eugene Emeralds of the Northwest league con tinue to be downright rude to the Salem Dodgers. Eugene tripped Salem again Tuesday night by a 5-2 count to shove Salem 1 Mi games back of first-place Yakima. Yakima upped its lead with a 5-1 decision over Wenatchee and Lewiston thumped Tri City 11-1 in the other games. Jim Lynn of Eugene tied the game 2-2 with a two-run double in the seventh. Then Dennis Lundgren wrapped it up for the Emeralds with a three-run homer in the eighth. Don Hagcn was the winner in relief. Musial To Retire At End of Season By LEO SOROKA St. Louis, Mo. -0IPII- This is the final season for Stan (The Man) Musial. Musial, one of the greatest hitters in baseball history, an nounced Monday night he will retire as an active player at the end of the current season. The 42-year-old Musial, who spent a quarter of a cen tury in the Cardinal organiz ation as a player, will contin ue to work for the Red Birds in an executive capacity. When the Cardinals retire the familiar No. 6 this fall it will complete the longest playing career of any major leaguer with one team. The lithe, slightly stooped slugger, with t h e unique "corkscrew" batting stance, will bow out with complete or partial ownership of 58 major league. National league and All-Star records. The surprise announcement at a Cardinal picnic at the pa latial home of club owner August A. Busch Jr. came only a week after Musial said he would not make a statement concerning his retirement un til the end of the current sea son. Indication Indication that Musial's re tirement was imminent came when his batting average con tinued to tumble this season. Musial went for a week at a time without being in the lineup, then when he was put in he would be lifted often for a pinch-runner or defen sive replacement. Asked if anything particu lar made him decide to quit, Musial said: "I just think I've had enough, regardless of what kind of year I've had. I'll be 43 next winter, and by next baseball season I'll be heading for 44." Musial, who said he expects to be a grandfather before he retires officially on Sept. 29 in St. Louis, established or tied 17 major league records, 30 National League standards and nine All; Star Game marks. He helped the club win four pennants and three world championships. The left-handed slugger has captured seven batting titles, was chosen the National league's most valuable player three times and appeared in 20 All-Star games. Musial's greatest season was in 1948 when he batted .376-his ca Rodriguez Bills Dennis Moyer New York - UPD - Luis Rod riguez and Denny Moyer, who lost world titles this year, will fight in a national ly televised 10-rounder at the Miami Beach Auditorium Sat urday night. Cuban Rodriguez of Miami, 26, outpointed New York's Emile Griffith for the wel terweight 147 - pound crown at Los Angeles, March 21, but lost it back to Griffith at Madison Square Garden on a decision, June 8. Moyer of Portland, Ore., 24, lost the junior middle weight 154 - pound title to Ralph Dupas of New Orleans in New Orleans, on a deci sion, April 29, and failed to recapture it in their return match on June 17. Because of his aggressive ness, speed ana durability, Rodriguez will be favored at about 2-1 over baby-faced Denny. Hunter Safety Classes Start Medford Rifle club has an nounced that hunter safety classes will begin Thursday. Aug. 15. at 7:00 p.m. at the Medford Rifle club range on Vilas rd. and west of Crater Lake highway. This will be the only hunter safety class sponsored by the rifle club this summer. Boys and girls 17 years of age and under must have hunter safety instruction be fore they can obtain hunting licenses. STOP THAT DUST NOW! ROAD OIL 100 Ft. x 16 Ft. Only $24.00 Stops Dust 0 Firm Roads Cheaper Driveways Industrial Yards 0 Stops Dust logging Roads Instantly! We have the equipment the product and know how See or Phone Us Western Oil & Burner a Mum COMPANY Pliant 772-526 reer high - knocked in runs, hit 39 homers and sco 135 runs, i 131 red If'-,. ! 1 JO STAN MUSIAL Will Retire Dan Miles Gets Praise ' Portland -HPI- State Coach Fred Spiegelberg said today he was pleased with the work of quarterbacks Paul Brothers and Dan Miles and also with his interior linemen. The State team meets Metro Saturday night in the annual Shrine game here. Spiegelberg named Doug John of Roseburg and Russ Packer of Ontario as tackles; Larry Zeller and Howard Phillips of South Salem as guards and Dan Clark of North Salem as center. Legion Regional Opens Thursday Roseburg - IUIMI - Tom Park er pitched a three-hitter as Fort Richardson, Alaska, de feated the Roseburg 'B' team 7-3 in a practice game Tues day night in preparation for the regional American Legion Junior baseball tournament. The six-team, double-elimination tourney gets under way here Thursday night. Jerome Getting Back in Shape isn nis engibiity at Oregon next spring. He did not com pete last season...! , WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 14. 1913 Eugene-lUPI) - Star sprinter Harry Jerome of Canada is working himself back . into shape while recovering from a serious leg injury suffered last year. University of Ore gon track Coach Bill Bower man said today. Bowcrman said that Je rome, who will be a senior at Oregon this fall, has com peted in the 440-yard dash in two all-comers meets here this summer. He finished sec ond in each race in 54.1 and 51.1, respectively. "He wasn't trying to win," Bowcrman said. "He was just striding through the race to see how it feels. After all, one leg is six months behind the other in condition." The 22-year-old Canadian injured his leg while com peting for his country in the British Empire Games at Perth, Australia, last Novem ber. He was opcraitMl on al his home city of Vancouver, B.C., following the accident and spent nearly a month in the hospital. He had his leg en cased in a cast for 4',i weeks and was on crutches for an other several weeks. Jerome is expected to fin- Baker Suggestion Rejected by Coach Orange, Calif. - (UPD - Los Angeles Ram coach Harland Svare said today he will start quarterback Roman Gabriel against the Minnesota Vikings Saturday night. Svare refused to have any thing to do with a suggestion that he scree to start Terry Baker if Viking coach Norm Van Brocklin would agree to start his rookie, Ron Vander. kclcn. "Van Brocklin can start anybody he wants to," said Svare. "I'm going with Ga briel." Baker is expected to start a week from Saturday in Portland when the Rams meet the Dallas Cowboys. BEAVERTON WINS Portland illPD Bcavtcrton defeated PACC 8-6 and Grimms of Vancouver downed Forest Grove 4-2 in 12 in nings Tuesday night in Amer ican Amateur Baseball con gress state tourney play here. B 3 nD0DiMr The World's Finest Bourbon since 1795 lAMl lira ss3 IP Elnjiuii $510 Pint 86 PROOF KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY DISTILLED AND BOTTirn , BY THE JAMES B. BEAM DISTILLING CO., CLERMONT, BEAM, KENTUCKY r ' " I M.MSIIWi'iftWi'aliii.r.(rilii., The Spirit 0 America is a superb product of three years of development. The 3-ton racer is powered by a J-47 jet engine and rides on the 600-mph Goodyear tire.. ffif LA 407;Rfl.P. 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