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Rogue River Wins State D Title By Defeating Alsea ASTORIA, March U.-WV-The Rogue River Chieftains carried off their first state high school class B basketball title by defeating Alsea, M to M.-tiere Saturday night Garibaldi won third place, de feating Drain to 41. Prairie City claimed the consols ttion playoff fifth place by dumping Monmouth, 2 to, 45. The champions from southern Oregon had to fight off a final quarter Alsea rally. After posting a 25-1J haftime lead, the Chieftains were in front, 28-22, when the third quarter ended. But with less than two minutes remaining, Alsea's underdog Wolverines narrowed the gap to two points, 3S-34. But then they ran into a stone defense wall. Two free throws finished the vic tor's performance. Both teams collected 11 field goals, but the Chieftains had dropped 12 of 20 free throws through the basket while Alsea made good on only 8 of 20 foul line shots. anced. Forwards Gene and Glen De Puy each scored S points and The Rogue River attack was bal guards Harry Frants and Don Poi tevint had 7 apiece. Alsea's drive was a two-gun affair. Loren Sapp collected 15 points and teammate Delmar Stone had 14. Garibaldi came from behind to win third place. Drain was out front 24-21 at the half, following a 13 point second quarter spurt. But the Garibaldi defense shifted tac tics at that point. With Larry Duke and Irvin West leading the way. Garibaldi went In frooth S4-31 and moved to a 38-31 bulge. They were still ten points apart at the 4S-41 finish. Prairie City's Larry Pryse fired 21 points in leading his team to a 62-45 count over Monmouth. The Panthers were never heeded. After a 28-23 hslftime, a third quarter drive left them in front 47-34, and they cluni to the lead. Garibaldi 4S) (41) Oram I. West 10 F 11 Joslyn Archsmbsult T F ' 2 Haldeman B. West 15 C 5 B. Duncan Kingsland ( ..... G 10 Cellers Duke 10 G 12 cade Subs: Drain E. Simpson 1. Veteran Player-Coach Seem lastbolt School TUCSON. Aril.. March 11 -V- Too much scnooling, reasons eoacn Al Summons, ruins baseball plsyer. The former Philadelphia Athlet ics coach explained, "they (Rook ies) attend baseball schools and are taught how to hit by lot of old major league ball players who never hit over .250 in their lives Whatever natural ability they have is ruined by instructors who make the kids change their batting ttan cea to conform with some phony theories." Simmons, who starred in both the Americsn and National lea gues, wss one of the most unorth odoz hitters in baseball history. But "foot-in-lhe-bucket style" and all, lie held a .334 lifetime aver age for 20 years in big time ball. Portland Univtrsity Fans Sotk Funds For Football PORTLAND, March IS (P) sports-minded alumni planned to day to dig down for an estimated $25,000 to keep Portland university in the college football picture. School officials recently sn nouncesl plans to drop the sport becsuse of an expensive building program and lack of a suitable stadium. The alumni said Saturday, how ever, they would meet on the cam pus tonight to draw up plans for continuance of the pilot eleven. The shoestring financing does not comtemplate keeping Coach Har ry Wright, school officials said. Coast Training Camps (By Trt AMocUUd PrMJ SAN FERNANDO. Calif., March 13 UPt Manager Fred Haney, whose Hollywood Start dropped a to 1 verdict to a group of major league all stara yesterday, sends bis charges up against the Los An geles Angels tomorrow in another exhibition. The Hollywood! couldn't teem to solve big league pitching as they collected eight scattered hits. Dino Restelll and Roy Sievers homered for the major leaguers. FULLERTON. Calif.. March 11 t!Fi Manager Bill Kelley, who still wears a aatlstied smile over the 14 to 4 licking his Los Angeles Angels gave San Diego yesterdsy, sends his squad up against the Pittsburgh Pirates here todsy. The Seraphs collected II hits off Padre pitchers Kewpie Barrett, Red Embree and Mel Knetovich. Red Barrett and Dave Porto pitch ed six hit ball for the Angels, but they yielded home runs to Jack Graham and Harvey Storey. PORTLAND WINS ONTARIO, Calif., March 13-( The San Diego Padres take on the Portland Beavers here tomor row, and if Portland turns in a per formance like it did yesterday against Sacramento, then the Pa dres are in for more grief. Red Ada ma and Vince DiBiasi collaborated to shut out the Sacra mento Solons, t to 0, Sunday at Glendale. Adams twirled six Inn ings of hitless ball and DiBiasi gave up only two hits the rest of the way. Joe Polich and Joe Brovia hom ered for the Ports. Brovia was hit in the knee by a pitched ball, how ever, and will be sidelined for sev eral days. EL CENTRO, Calif., March 13 UP) The San Francisco Sesls and the Seattle Rainiert renew hostili ties here tomorrow, with the Seals still smarting over the 14 to 3 drubbing they took from Seattle yesterday. The Rainiera amassed five runs on five hits in the third inning, then caved the roof in completely with a aix run tirade in the sev enth. Seattle garnered 19 hits to only aix for San Francisco.' Jack Tobin homered for the Seals and Ralph Atkins poled one out of the park for Seattle. ..iff : 1 M vrioH; a - aW 4lallf 1 0 Inslall a fOWLlR for conomhal gqji I i I in Long-Deptndabit HOT WATER FOWLER Servci... Due to long-life black heat elements. Fowler Electric Water Hesters sre setting new service records. The non-immersion Fowler element surrounds' the tank, requires no entries which cause trouble from lime and scale deposits. Operating it black heat over a wide area instesd of at intense red heat, the element is insured longer life. High efficiency insulation and an aluminum reflector reduce heat loss to a minimum. Dependability and economy of Fowler Electric Water Heaters have been provea over mree decades of constant service in Amer csn homes. Every water heater is backed by 20-year replacement guarantee is buitt for efficiency snd enduring service by the world's old est makers of electric water heaters. cm 12 FOWLlR FIATURIS Pi 14 best LajotM mmMmmX Aait. Law fMvadas NO DOWN PAYMENT ON FOWLER . WATER HEATERS "i Truman, Dusette Win Wrestling Team Matches By CHUCK PLUMMER. Andy Truman and George Du sette defeated Tony Ross and Leo Wallick in a wild team wrestling battle at the armory Saturday night. Ross took most ot the beating, aa when he got into trouble and went over to hia corner to tag Walicik, Wallick wouldn't tag him. After the match, Rosa went after Wallick and the two had a fight outside the ring, with Wallick ap parently winning. Referee blton Owen tried to pull Wallick off the bloody Ross, but Wallick then went after him and another fight atarted. Ross snd Wallick took the first fall as Ross applied his backbreak- er to Dusette snd pinned him af ter the two had taken turns hit ting him. Dusette got revenge in the second fall, as he slugged Ross all over the ring, then tagged Tru man, who won the fall with tus famous rolling leg aplit and press. Ross had to fight nearly all of the final fall and waa in plenty of trouble all the time, but Wallick wouldn't help him out at all. Eventually Ross had been beaten so much, he couldn't take more, so Dusette won Die tall with a full-nelson. In the two 20-mlnute one-fall opener. Truman and Ross fought to a draw, and Wallick pinned Du sette with falling hangman's holds and a press. Washington Athletic Club Swimmtrs Defeat U Of W SEATTLE, March 11 (Jft Washington Athletic club swim mers, psced by Lanky Dick Elliott, squeezed out a narrow 56-53 win over University of Washington tsnkmen Saturday in the Pacific Northwest AAU men's and wo men's swimming championships LUiott was the meet s only two- event winner, capturing both the 100 and 220-yard freestyle races. Peter Vsn Dyk, touted Un iversity of Oregon ace. was able to finish only second in the 190 and third in tne 200. He swam unittsched. - - Portland's Cosmopolitan club finished third in the team event with 31 points, followed by the Vsncouver, B. c. Amateur Swim ming club 23; Washington Frosh 19, and H ghline high school 1. College Basketball IHy TIM AaMrlstad Piwl N.l.T. Teurney (First Reund) CCNY 65, San Francisco 46. Syracuse SO, Long Island Uni versity 52. La Salle 72, Arizona 66. Western Kentucky 79, Niagara 71. if Seven Oklahoma 32, Kansas 41 (Over time). Kansas State 63, Nebraska 60. Missouri S3, Colorado 49. astern "Ivy" League Princeton 60 Pennsylvania St. Yale 56. Harvard 55. . Cornell 56, Dartmouth 43. DiMagojo's Heel Blisters ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 1 Joe DiMaggio has heel trouble again but it'a not serious this time. The slugging New York Yankees' outfielder came up with a blistered right heel the same one which gave him so much trouble last spring and wss excused from the world champions' exhibition game with the St. Louis Cardinals yes terday. Yankee Trainer Gus Mauch listed the case a minor one. Even Casey Stengel, the bombers' manager, is not worried. "He could play tomorrow if It was improved, but naturally we're not taking any chances," Stengel said. Doctors said DiMaggio would be back in action within two days. The Yanks won 7-1, Two Drain Basketeers On State B Selections noiviwn, ... 1 1 j i. Threa members of the class B Oregon high school basketball champion team from Rogue River wera lined up by tournament coach vote In the ten member all-state team. The team: Forwards Gene and Glen De Puy, Rogue River; Earl Winebar ger. Prairie City. Centera Pete Purrier, Rogue River; Barry West, Garibaldi; Lar ry Pryse, Prairie City; Norm Hendrix, Alsea. Guards Delmsr Stone, Alsea: Jerry Cadt and Bob Celler of Drain. West wss the sole unanimous choice. Winebarger was the tour nament's top individual scorer with 54 points in three games. Yoncalla Civic Clubbers Plan New Development Plans wr fnrmnUlMl in t- velop a part of the city just west 01 lown mis spring at a meeting of the Yoncalla Civic club, last week. Committees for this project will be announced later. April hat been set as the month for a clean UD dav for the tun pAmatariii a day will be selected later for com munity unrlr Tha naul fna. .., water system was discussed at lengtn, ana it is the hope of the entire community that something can be worked out, whereby an adequate water aupply can be ob tained for Yoncalla and vicinity. BASEBALL PLAYOFF SIT WICHITA, Kas.. March 13 -tm Winners of the Washington and Oregon atate semi-pro baseball tournaments this year will play off for the right to enter the national tournament, officials of the Nation al Baseball Congress announced yesterday. The nation wide meet will be held here Aug. 18-31. Phony Bid For Tariff Huddle ' Turns Faces Red GENEVA. Switzerland CD United Nations officiala here, their faces a bit red. would like to get their hands on the guy who nomi nated the town of Piffelheim as the site of a world tariff confer ence. The officiala duly considered the nomination and circulated the nom inating, telegram aa an official doc ument. Then they tumbled to it: There Isn't any Piffelheim, any more than there is a consul general namerf "Rntt" In .M.lr !- it - a famed watering place called . O I f 1 ,, The officials had been assigned tO Birk a ait flip tha tariff nw( ence. Nominations came on behalf 01 lorquay, England, which was finally chosen, and a number of other towns. Ahnut 1 AAA H,l.l., from 40 nations will attend next aepiemoer. Thia was the telegram, from 'KOtt- COnKlll ffPftni-al " whi-M tka U.N. officiala circulated aa an offi cial document here: "On behalf my secretary foreign affaire propose Piffelheim aa aite 1950 tariff nominations. "Piffelheim has unususl quali fications, namely no officea also nO bftlrMmi Thia kaa nm.ul effective. Sinr Urnrlr it Anm i- open air thia improving delegates' ir.iui. neceni conierence on wom en's rigtits greatly stimulated by long walka in forests. "Also draw attention neighboring spa called Bad Odor whose waters VrW atffantiva, tit r-aliavincT Mw.li. pated protocols. With dismal cli mate, extortionate costs and pre- nistoric amenitiea, ritfelheim of fers every inducement to complete conierence rapiaiy. Piffelheim got no votes. Methodists Date Speaker For Fund Raising Banquet rv Northwest Trapshooters Win Honors In Nevada RENO, Nev March 13 CP) Northwest marksmen mopped up in the weekend southwestern mid winter chain trapshoot. ' Arnold Riegger, Seattle, won the 21-25 yard handicap yesterday af ter a shoot oft with Urlie Mingley of Csstle Rock, Wash., esch broke 93 x 100.- then Riegger cracked 23 x 25 targets in the runoff to nose out Stmgley by a single bird. The Seattle shooter also won the 200 target event Friday and the doub les Saturday. Stingley won the class A, at 16 yards, with a perfect 100. Everett Armstrong. Eugene. Ore., broke 96 x 100 from 20 yards to win the 17-20 yard group. MARSHFIELD WINS PORTI.AN!n M,nh 11 TT Marshfield grade school captured me cnampionsnip ot ine 50 an nual invitational basketball tour nament at Hill Militarv araHamv here Saturday. i he Loos county boys defeated Vemonia, 36 to 28, in the final. La Grande won third place by de feating lone, 37 to 23. YAKIMA WINS TITLI WALLA WALLA, March 13-f) Yakima won the Northwest jun ior YMCA basketball title here Sat urday with a 42-40 verdict over Walla Walla. Seattle defeated As toria, Ore., 41-31 for third place and Ellensburg bumped Everett 37-31 for fifth place. The volt, measurement of elec tricity, is named for Alesaandro Volta. Italian physicist, who died in 1827. ST i:Mttia. $ 'AM MiatkaBaa3stUriBM DISSTON-MERCURY CHAIN SAWS One and Two-Man Units Certified Sales and Service Also Axes Wedges Sledges Handles Hard Hats and Hat Bands Scale Sticks, Tapes, Etc. Dealer (or Cox Chipper Chains nd Edwards Wire Ropo For Rent 12 H. t. Saws by the day or week CARL J. PEETZ LEFT-HANDERS TO VIE TACOMA, March 13 (.P The annual 36-hole northwest left handers' golf tournament will be held on the Fircrest golf course here July 27, it was announced here Saturday. Rev. Laurence Nye, above, pas tor of the First Methodist church of Portlsnd, will be guest speaker at the second annual 15 banquet ot the Roseburg Methodist church, to be held in the church social hall Thursdsy, March 16, at 6:30 p.m. According to Rev. W. A. Mac Arthur, pastor of the local church, the banquet will be the official "kick-off" function for the fund drive to secure $100,000 for a new educational building to house the church school. In addition to an informal ad dress by Dr. Nye, a program of music has been scheduled. Mrs. Paul Geddea will offer aeveral ae lections on the Hammond organ, loaned for the occasion by the Ott Bjcketts Music store, Mrs. Myrtle Burr will combine talent with Mrs. Geddes for several piano and or gan duets. Warren Mack, tenor so loist, will offer two numbers. Mas ter of ceremonies for the function will be Rev. Mr. MacArthur. Emmet Meek at Barnes' barber shop is in charge of ticket sales. Tickets for the affair may bo pur chased from him or from any of the Methodist men. The public Is invited to participate in the pro gram but la urged to secure reser vations before Tuesday evening to assure seating. Mow., Mor. 11, 1950 The Notla-Rtvlaw, RoMburi, Ore. 7 Man, Married 3 Weeks, urns To Death At Mill OREGON CITY. March S -) Reuben Robert Hildebrandt, 41, sawmill worker who was mar ried only three weeka ago, burned to death Friday night in hia cabin near a sawmill five mile from Molalla. It waa Clackamas county's ninth fire fatality in three daya. A family of eight perished at a sawmill camp near Sandy Wednesdsy. The mill owner, George Lindsay, saw the blsie and tried to rescue Hildebrandt, but was unable to brave the flames. Coroner Ray Rilance ssid Hildebrandt apparent ly fell aaleep while smoking. Hildebrandt's wife, a Canadian, had juat left for New Westminster, B. C, to obtain papers for perma nent reentry into this country. Her maiden name was not available. Church Youth To Present 3-Act Ploy Here March 25 A group of young people of the Mutual Improvement Assn. of the Springfield Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints will be in Roseburg March 25 to present a three-act play, "Conventions Go Hsng," at the Rose school audi torium. The play will start at S p. m., and is sponsored by the MIA of the local church. The group ia making Roseburg one of aeveral stops throughout the state where the program will be presented. There will be no chsrge for the performance, but a collection will be taken. Miaa Donna Kitchin. ac tivities director, is in charge of local arrangements. Janice Plummer Tapped PORTLAND, March IS. (Spe cial) Lewis ana . Clark college freshman music major Janice Plummer waa ne of 43 women pledged by campua sororities dur ing rushing Isst week. Miss Plummer pledged Theta Kappa, a local non-resident social group. She ia the daughter of Mr. and Mra. Earl C. Plummer. 1051 Win chester street, and ia a graduate ol Koseburf high school in IMS. Elssrost By MRS. THELMA HANSON Robert Dempaey, son of Mr. Minnie Dempaey, haa returned to school after recovering from third degree burna suffered while work ing oa his ear. Paul Backlund viaited hia par ents, Mr. and Mra. Carl BacsSlund, over the weekend. Merland Hanson of Ukiah, Calif., visited last week with his mother, Mra. Mary Hanson, and other rela tives of Elgsrose. Dirk Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Brown, is convaleacing at the Roseburg sanitarium with a faco infection. The Orinoco River system cover much of centrsl Venezuela. II, j Boswell Mineral Baths Chiropractic Physiotherapy Clinic Lady Attendants , 1 Mile S. ot Drain. 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