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Rams' QB Job Still Wide Open By NORMAN MILLER UPI Sporti WriUr will all those wiseguys who said Terry Baker was just another college hot-shot who couldn't make it in the tough National Football league go soak their heads both of them. Baker, the 1962 Hetsman trophy winner, returned to his hometown of Portland, Ore., for the first time as a pro quarterback for the Los Angeles Rams Saturday night, end he wowed 'em. The 195-pound left-handed slinger, whom many figured as too frail and certainly too inexperienced to handle the job for the Rams, played the entire game and led the team to a 20-17 pre-season victory over the Dallas Cowboys be fore 29,349 fans. Only Exhibition Of course, it was only an exhibition game and there will be many hard knocks be fore Baker wins his "R" with the Rams. But at least for one night he looked great. Here's what Baker did: Completed a 44-yard pass play to Pervis Atkins on the first play of the final quarter for the winning touchdown; Found his receivers on 12 of 20 passing attempts for 192 yards-and was intercepted only once; Carried 16 yards on a run; And, according to coach Harland Svare, called "99 per cent" of the plays. In other weekend NFL ex hibition games, the Minne sota Vikings edged the New York Giants, 17-16, and the Cleveland Browns trounced the San Francisco Forty Nin ers, 24-7, both on Sunday. In Saturday night games, the Green Bay Packers walloped the Chicago Bears, 26-7; the Detroit Lions defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 22-17; the Philadelphia Eagles swamped the Washington Redskins, 41 13; and the Baltimore Colts edged the Pittsburgh Steelers, 17-14. In American Football League games, the Buffalo Bills beat the Boston Patriots, 24-14, Saturday night, and the Oakland Raiders clobbered the New York Jets, 43-16, Sunday. WHITWORTH WINNER Ogden, Utah - IUPU - Confi dent Kathy Whitworth of Jal, N.M., tucked away her fourth tournament win of the year in the Utah Women's Open golf tournament Sunday and headed for Boise, Idaho, the jiext stop on the tour. The 23-year-old Miss Whitworth turn ed in a par 71 in the final found to win the Utah crown by five strokes over Mickey Wright of Dallas, Tex. Miss Whitworth's 54-hole total of Jjl4 earned her first prize money of $1,300 and boosted her earnings for the year to above $14,000. JOHNSON WINNER - Woodburn -IUPU- J. C. John Son of Seattle pounded out a unanimous decision over Buf falo Hernandez, also of Se attle, in a 10-round middle weight fight here Satur day night. Hernandez substituted in the bout for highly regard ed Springfield middleweight J3obby Horn, who was killed in a traffic accident Tuesday night. mm 1 fin Q: TUESDAY THRU THURSDAY Special COMPLETE LUBE 4-WHEEL BRAKE ADJ. FRONT WHEELS PACKED WEDNESDAY THRU FRIDAY ONLY Complete Wheel Alignment Correct Caster Set Toe-in Adjust Steering Check All Parts Set Camber WHEEL BALANCE SEARS Baker Guides To 20-17 Nod Portland - (UPU - Terry Ba ker may not have won the starting quarterback's j o b with the Los Angeles Rams Saturday night - but he didn't hurt his chances. The rookie from Oregon State guided the Rams to a 20-17 National Football league exhibition win over the Dal las Cowboys before 29,349 persons here. It was the Rams' first victory and the Cowboys' initial defeat in three exhibition games this season. "The starting quarterback job is wide open and always has been," Los Angeles Coach Harland Svare said after the game. Svare, whose quarterbacks corps include sophomore Ro man Gabriel and veteran Zeke Bratkowski, would not divulge who would open at quarter back against the Cleveland Browns in the Rams' fourth exhibition game next week end. Called Moit Plays "It takes years to become a polished quarterback in this league but Terry was con siderably better than a week ago in part-time effort in a 27-0 loss to Minnesota," the coach added. "He called 99 per cent of the plays tonight." The victory, which came before the largest crowd ever to see a professional football game in Multnomah Stadium, was the first for Los Angeles since last Oct. 28 when it de feated the San Francisco 49ers 28-14 in a league game. It was Svare's first win as head coach of the Rams. Five other players with Oregon backgrounds also shared the spotlight. Bill Swain, former Uni versity of Oregon center from North Bend, played the entire game at middle linebacker for the Rams in place of the in jured Marlin McKeever. Winning Combination Still Being Sought For Forty Niners San Francisco - (UPI) - It was back to the drawing board today for Coach Red Hickey of the San Francisco Forty Niners, while the Cleve land Browns celebrated their first NFL exhibition win, an easy 24-7 victory over the Forty Niners Sunday. Still searching for his first triumph in three starts, Hic key had only four days to put together a winning combina tion before the Forty Niners meeet Dallas Friday night at Bakersfield. From the way it went Sun day, Hickey faces a man-sized job. The crowd of 28,335 at Kezar Stadium booed the For ty Niners in general and No. 1 quarterback John tirocue in particular, long and loud. Brodfe never was able to move San Francisco past the Browns' 45-yard line in t h e first half. On the other hand, Cleve land, under new coach Blan ton Collier, appeared to have jelled in the Forty Niner game with fullback Jim Brown again showing why he is one of the game's outstand ing runners and Frank Ryan contributing accurate passing at the quarterback spot. Brown, a six-year veteran, had a hand in all three of Cleveland's touchdowns. AUTOMOTIVE SPECIALS A29 U EACH Call for Appointment 99 St .40 S01 I. Jtckion 773-6661 Opt Man. thni Fri. Till 9 p.m. FREE PARKING LA Rams Over Dallas Amos Marsh went most of the way at fullback for Dal las and gained a net of five yards on 10 carries. Mike Gaechter, formerly of Ore gon, played the entire game in the Cowboys' defensive backficld, and Sam Baker, an ex-Beaver, did Dallas' punt ing and kicked a 45-yard field goal and two extra points. Bob Lilly, who played high school football at Pendleton before starting a fine college career at Texas Christian, started at a defensive end for the Cowboys. John Pott Champion In Classic By LEO H. PETERSEN UPI Sporti Editor Akron, Ohio - IUPU - There are two things that Johnny Pott, the new champion of the American Golf classic, likes to do: Win money and beat Ar nold Palmer. He did both Sunday. Pott won the $9,000 first place money in the Classic by beating Palmer by four strokes. He shot an even par 3S-3S-70 in the final round Sunday over what the tour ing pros label the toughest golf course they have to play - the 7,165-yard Firestone Country club layout. For Pott, it was only the fourth tournament victory in his seven years on the tour. "But it was by far my great est," said the 27-year-old Pott. "When you beat Palmer, you beat the greatest." Pott, before Sunday, hadn't won a tournament since the Waco Turner in May of 1962. Before that he had won at Dallas and West Palm Beach. Denver Next Stop Now he has set his sights on this week's Denver Open. Pott, who tied for the first round lead and then led the field alone going into the third and fourth rounds picking up $2,333 in bonus money for doing it - figured when he teed off Sunday that "I had to shoot a 68 or 69 to win." His total of 276 for the four rounds tied the tourna ment record set by Palmer when he won the Classic last year. Palmer's final round 37-36-73, three over par, gav him a total of 280 - exact par for the course and increased his money-winnings to $101,555. U. S. Open champion Julius Boros, with a final round 71, finished third with 281, that boosted his money winnings for 1963 to $73,956. That is only behind Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, the Masters and PGA champion, who picked up $2,200 by finishing in a tie for fifth place to increase his official earnings to $83, 465. Young Dave Hill finished fourth with a 69 for 282. Then came Nicklaus and British Open champion Bob Charles at 283, followed by Paul Bondeson at 284 and Bobby Nichols at 285. MAC Takes AAU Swim The Dalles (UPIt The Mult nomah Athletic club of Port land rnlled un 218'a Doints to capture the 18th annual Ore gon open invitational AAU swimming and diving age group meet Sunday. The Aero club of Portland finished in second place with 212'j points in the two-day competition. Rounding out the top five teams were Boise, Idaho, YMCA with 163Vi, Parkrose Swim Club with 158'i and Tacoma, Wash., Swim Club with 99Vs. Golfing Exhibition Benefits Children Portland UP1 James Garn er and Buddy Rogers defeated Eob Hope and Helen Dettweil er 2 and 1 in an 18-hole bene fit exhibition best ball Rolf match at the Columbia-Edgc-walcr Country Club Sunday afternoon. About 2,000 persons watch ed the celebrities in the char ity match for the Oregon As sociation for Retarded Chil dren. Individually, Garner lopped the players with a one-ovcr-par 73, Miss Dettweiler had 76 and Rogers and Hope shot 80s. PRICE CHAMPION Longview, Wash. - IUPU -Dick Price of Longview fired a 72 Sunday for 145 to win the two-day. 36-holc Lower Columbia golf tournament. Don Taylor of Seattle was second with 147 and Kent Myers of Lake Oswego fin ished third with 148. koenigTll Milwaukie - lUPli - Ron Koenig, all-Metro league half back for Milwaukie last sea son, has been ordered to bed for about six weeks with mononucleosis. Koenig had planned to enroll at the Uni versity of Oregon this fall. MEDFORO FOUR-YEAR TICKETS BEING SOLD The chart, above, shows the seating plan for the west side reserved scat grandstand at the Medford high football stadium. Sale of some 300 four-year season reserve tickets is now under way. They can be obtained from the high school office for $80. The blank areas in sections C and D in the middle of the stand represent the five-year ticket seats which were sold a year ago. The cross-line area in the same two center sec tions shows the scats to be sold under the four-year ar rangement. All seats have backs. Included in the four-year plan also are a few seats in sections G and K on the roof. Buffalo Has Potential To Make Serious Run for Eastern Diadem in AFL (Editor's note: This is an other in a series of dispatches siting up the prospects of pro football teams for the 1963 season.) By MARTIN GLEASON Buffalo. N.Y. - IUPU - Lou Saban sidesteps all references lo an American Football league title being just over the horizon, but he concedes his Buffalo Bills have the po tential to make a serious run for the Eastern division sweepstakes in 1963. The 41 - year - old Saban, starting his second season at the Buffalo reins, had the most feared team in the league during the stretch drive a year ago. Led by former San Diego quarterback Jack Kemp and the record rushes of 243-pound fullback Cookie Gilchrist, the Thund ering Herd reeled off seven victories and a tie over the last nine games after absorb ing five straight losses. Saban refused to stand pat for 1963 because "the league is getting stronger every ytar." He was productively active in the trading mart and corraled a host of promising rookies from the draft. The yearlings, described by Saban as the "best crop of rookies I have seen in four years," are headed by center tackle Dave Behrman of Mich igan State, the top draft choice, and 265-pound defense tackle Jim Dunaway of Mis sissippi, the No. 2 pick. Others Also Impress All - American fullback George Saimes of Michigan State and "darkhorse" Ed Rutkowski of Notre Dame have impressed in training and Saban rates both as ver satile enough for double duty. Saimes will be relief man for Gilchrist as well as a defen sive safety. Rutkowski is a defense corner back and a running back. Another Irish star, quarter- Happy Camp Club To Hold Kart Races Happy Camp, Calif.-; Clubs of Redding and Yreka, j Calif., Medford and Grants j Pass will be participants in the annual Labor day holiday Kart meet of Klamath Kart Klub on Sunday and Monday, Sept. 1 and 2, at the club's 1 new black-topped track. Time trials are set for noon on Sunday with the main j event immediately following. Monday races are set for 1 ; p.m. j The meet is open lo all ! karters. There are camping fa-; cilitics next to the track and ; Happy Camp has several mo- tels. ! Information may be obtain-1 cd from . Ted Jensen, club ; president, by addressing a let ter to PO Box 511 here or by j telephoning GYpsy 3-2656. j NBA To Televise 1 1 Regular Games New York -IUPU - The Na tional Basketball association (NBA) will televise 11 regular season games and its annual All-Star game on a special ' coast-to-coasl network next season. The announcement nf the planned "Game of the Week" television series was made to day al the conclusion of '.lie NBA s annual summer meet ing. The games will be telecast on 11 consecutive Thursday nights starting Jan. 2, 1964. They will be televised into all nine league cities, with the ; local site blacked out, and will be made available lo tele-: vision station in other areas. I MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ' u c u ""0 nffli 1 iff If . i u , " t i iiinr i Jill Tr p!fM 1 1 rnini, ' j pil nm ;; , 1 1 L 11 1 it :i: ;L, gj ; m flfk :iH :3 : .ffiffffi 'Vfl-i back Daryl Lamonica, has made such a strong showing that he has cost veteran War ren Rabb his job as Kemp's understudy. "Daryl learns fast and is a real hard thrower," says Sa ban. "We think he will make a great one." The Bills obtained 254 pound offensive guardtacklc Dick Hudson from the Charg ers in exchange for the rights to the nomadic Tobm Rote. Saban bought proven line backer Harry Jacobs from Boston and signed three-year National Football league vet eran Jim Leo for defensive end work. "These fellows will give us depth," Saban said. May Prove Vital Three other moves may prove vital this year. The Bills acquired second - year end Bill Miller from the Kan sas City Chiefs, and the for mer Miami (Fla.) ace imme diately took over the tough split end position from Glenn Bass. Saban has switched Bay lor's Tim Mintcr, a rookie dc fender last year, lo flanker back on offense "and the ex periment has been a tremen dous surprise. Minter has made a speedy transition." Ken Rice, who sat out the 1962 season with a left knee injury after showing great promise as an offensive tackle two years ago, has stepped in as a defensive end. Saban has coaxed onetime Georgia halfback Fred Brown out of retirement and the speedster will fight rookie Roger Kochman of Penn State for the outside running slot that has been a debit in past campaigns. Saban feels the league is gaining in stature. "This is due to the better caliber of players. It is no longer a cake walk. We will have to earn every win." Hi WfiiT everyone 6esr deal of the year fSEB0OV mven now' . - mm-t given now MEDFORD MOTORS 225 So. Riverside Phone 772-6157 ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft OREGON The tickets can be bought on a time arrangement of $10 down and $5 per month. Blank areas of sections B and E indicate one-year season tickets sold last year. The long crossed portion of section B is reserved for visiting fans. Entire grandstand is reserved. Tickets may be purchased from Ralph Hale in the activities office. He said that the sale has been going well but that there are a good many seats left. Persons who had reserved seals last year can pick up tickets for their same scats from Hale, if they have not already been mailed. MEDFORDcaWTRIBUNI SLPdDMTTS Daylight To At Rogue Valley Links A week of daylight to dark golf activity at Medford's Rogue Valley Country club got under way this morning. The occasion is the 35th an nual Southern Oregon Golf championships. Qualifying play was in full stride today and practice rounds increased traffic on the course. This was the last day for qualification lours by local linkstcrs not trying for cham pionship flight berths. Local divoters aiming for title spots play their rounds on Tuesday. Also, all oul-of-town seniors who wished could play. Qualifying concludes on Thursday with rounds by vis iting linksmen. Matches open on Thursday and run through Monday, Labor day. Milletle Has 70 Rogue Valley Pro Ron Caperna anticipated thai 350 men and women will be on the course on Tuesday, using all 27 of the competition holes for qualifying and practice play. The tourney will have a full field of 432 men and women. Yesterday's practice saw Harry Millette, Rogue Valley member who lives at Yreka, Calif., shoot a two under par 70. Dr. Ralph Odcll of the home club had a pair of even par 72s for 36 holes and Clay ton Lewis of RVCC had a 73. Ron Mitchell, Chico, Calif., a past finalist, carded a 72. Lynn Crcason, Talioe, Calif., 1958 champ, shot a 67 once last week and has been close to par in other practices. & ft ft k comet take notice! MERCURY'S COMPACT 4 DR. SEDAN V 7 Dark Play Tim Berg of Rogue Valley figured as one of the top con-1 tenders this year was in Port land today for qualifying play for the National Ama teur. Also, involved in that play was Bob Smith, a Porl lander who is a Southern Ore gon entrant. Smith was run nerup to champion Tom Shaw last year. The tourney has men's, sen ior men's and women's divi sions. Ferguson Celebrates Birthday United Press International Vince Ferguson celebrated his 24lh birthday by doubling in the winning run in the 12th inning to give Yakima a 5 to 4 win over the Salem Dodgers in Northwest league play Sunday night. The win sent the Bears two games in front of Salem with only about a week of baseball left to play. Dave Eilers scored Hie win for Yakima, his 15th against three defeats. At Lcwislon, the Eugene Emeralds handed the Broncos an 8-2 loss, and dropped third place Idaho 2Vi games behind the league leaders in third place. The big blows for Eugene were a three-run double by Dennis Lundgrcn and a three- r u n homer by Bill uarra clnugh. r ft ft ft situp and C 2299 MONDAY. AUGUST Golfers Join Court Play at White City Senior and junior golfers from the Rogue Valley Country club have highlighted the pitch and putt course play at the Veterans Administration domiciliary here in recent days. First came the men along with Al Williams, former golf professional at the Rogue Val ley Country club, who brought along his successor, Ron Caperna, at the club. Carl Schmidt, Jim Seldon, Allan Holmes, Max Pierce and John Nuieh completed the group which played and held a golf clinic with dom iciliary members. Seven juniors accompanied Williams the next week in cluding Jimmy Woods, Tom Clark, Mike Miller. Greg Mil ler, Doug Olson, Mike Nuich and Kent Clark. Doug Olson, prominent local junior along with his group, all topflight golfer, is the 1963 junior slate champion. Mrs. Rose Bunch, who along with Williams repre sents the United Voluntary services in southern Oregon and northern California, has also brought some 15 women players from the Rogue Val ley club to participate and aid the golfing activities here, ac cording to Paul C. Bethel, rec reation chief, and Al Birman, sports head here. Mrs. Bunch and Mrs. Al Open To Serve You 8 A.M. to 6 P.M. Except Saturday Till 5 P.M. 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This interest extends further into the gal leries watching the Wednes day afternoon and evening matches between members and the Medford participants, according to the domiciliary officials. The donation of an approp riate trophy by Mrs. Ruby Schneider, ardent booster and golfer here with the United Voluntary services, with the name inscription of the mem ber who shows the most im provement during the year. -NOT SORRY all this: By Appointment Only Call 772-7119 today! muf CAR Safety Checked many if you Get this nationally recognized Car Safety Sticker for your windshield 26. 1963 NEW TREADS APPLIED ON SOUND TIRE BODIES OR ON YOUR OWN TIRES TUBELESS WHITEWALLS (Narrow or Wide) FOR ANY SIZE 4949 Plus tax and 4 recappable casings. to GEU eIWJISIlI3D,
