Astoria Upsets Defending
Champion Vikings, 49-44
6 The News-Review, Roieburg,
Everybody's Drug Booked
Against Denver Chevrolets
In Stiffening AAU Rivalry
DENVER VP) Fast-breaking
collegians who've been zippuiii
through the nalional AAU basket
ball tournament run into tough
complition toUay and it may be
their last fling in this tourney of
polished, veteran teams.
Competition today will trim to
eight the original field of 41 teams
from Zi stales. The eight winners
meet in tomorrow's quarter finals.
Th collegiate teams playing
for fun under the names of busi
ness firms are sentimental fav
orites with the crowd. But It'll
take more than the fans' cheers
to get them past the giants of
AAU ball.
Texas Collegians Play
Southwestern college stars play
ing under the banner of Vantlegriff
Motors of Dallas, Tex., have I
tough foe in the Oakland, Calif.,
Blue 'N Golds, the team rated
most likely to upset the defending
champion Phillips 6Cers of Bartlcs
ville, Okla.
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Maurice La Chapped vs. Danna McDonald
SEMI-FINAL
Yellow Mask vs. Eddie Williams
MAIN EVENT
Soldat Gorky vs. Rufus Jones
First Match Starts 8:30 P.M.
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Ore. Wed., March 21, 1951
Oregon collegians performing for
Everybody's Drug slore of Eugene,
Ore., meet the Denver Chevrolet.
Colorado university players, en
etred for Luikett-Nix of Boulder,
Colo., slam up against Stewart
Chevrolets of San Francisco.
Colorado A it M's college team
entered by l'urdre Valley cream
cry of Fort Collins, Colo., collides
with the Kable Kolts of Mount
Morris, 111., which pulled the big
gest surprise of the meet. The
Kolts knocked the seeded Holly
wood Fibber McCee and Molly out
of the running Monday, 74-63.
Aggies Show Bail Chance
The Aggies look like the college
team with the best chance of going
into quarterfinals. They romped
over Natchitoches, I.a., yesterday
83-51. The Agfiies have two classy
6 feet 4 inch players in Bill Gossett
and Glen Anderson.
The Phillips 66cr opened de
fense of their crown last night
with a 95-5.1 frolic over Mchse
Baker of Laramie, Wyo., a team
of Wyoming university freshmen.
The Kelbos of I.os Angeles, who
rely on 41-year-old Frank I.ubin
for most of their steam, will try
to atop the champs today.
Second-seeded Oakland had a
frightening time gelting by Mc
Pherson, Kans., last night 62-57.
San Francisco Chevrolets were
scared too before edging Graham
Hoeme Plow Co., of Amarillo, Tex.,
67-55.
Medical Arts Lab
Keglers Top Loop
Medical Arts I.ab howlers con
tinued to walti blissfully far ahead
of the pack In the Wnmen'i league.
Runnerup Umpqua cleaners didn't
lose any ground this week, but still
ran seven games off the pace.
The runnel. sup did, however,
boast the high individual winners
for the night. Dell Mix rolled a
walloping 220 game for one of the
best of the season. Evelyn Finger
loa had a high series of 513.
WOMEN'S LEAGUE
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Medical Arts 53 25
(imp. Cleaners 46 82
Myrtle Creek 31) 3!)
Itoy Young s 38 40
K and J 29 4!)
Shalimar 28 50
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Eugene Clips
Newberg Team
By 60-40 Tally
EUGENE VP) It was certain
today that a new Oregon Slate
class A basketball champion would
be crowned at the end of the five
day tournament that opened here
last night.
That is because Salem, the de
fending champ a id No. 1 team in
final Associated Press poll, was
the victim of a startling upset at
the hands of Astoria last night,
49-44.
The Fishermen, No. 10 in the
poll, staged a rousing fourth quar
ter rally to come from behind in
I he last minute and a half to over
lake the favored Vikings in the
second game of a double-header.
Eugene won the opener from
Newberg 60-40 to advance to the
second championship round.
Gauthi.r Sparks Upset
Paul Gauthier, at 5 feet 9 inches
a virtual midget in this era of
string-bean players, was the bright
est star in the Astoria victory.
A substitule guard, he scored a
free throw and three field goals in
the last three, minutes of the game
to give the Fishermen the win.
It was his free loss that tied
the score at 42-all after Astoria
bad trailed sometimes badly,
earlier. He whipped in the basket
that put his team out front for the
first time 44-43. He got another
goal to put Astoria ahead a second
lime after a basket by Larry Schee
liir had given Salem a momentary
lead. Gauthier then staged his
most spectacular play of the night.
He stole the hall from a Salem
player, dribbled the length of the
floor and scored to make the count
48-44. Walt Jacobson's free throw
completed the scoring.
Apparently Coasting
Salem appeared to be coasting to
victory until the last quarter. The
Vikings were ahead 16 6 at the end
of the first quarter, 27-15 at the
half and 37-27 at the end of the
third quarter. But the Fishermen
never quit until victory was
achieved.
Eugene had comparatively easy
going in turning back Newber;,
holding a 10-7 first quarter ad
vantage, a 27-15 halflime lead and
a 47-27 edge at the end of the third
period.
Don Parsons, high scoring Eu
gene center, didn't get a field goal
until 41.) minutes of the second
quarter were go;ie. He ended the
game with 14 points, considerably
under his more than 20-point-a-game
average.
Eugene meet Astoria Thursday
in Ihe championship bracket, while
Salem and Newberg play the same
day in the consolation round.
The remaining 12 teams get into
action today with four day games
and two night games on schedule.
Bear Gridiron Great
Accepts Idaho Position
MOSCOW, Mahn t.V) Univer
sity of Idaho Football Coach Dixie
Howell will have a California grid
iron "great" as an assistant next
season.
University President .1. E. Bu
chanan announced Monday John
"Nik" Nikcevich, 27, will replace
Gene Harlow on Howell's coaching
staff. Harlow is now on the staff
at the University of Oregon.
HOLMES AT HELM
BRA DENTON, Fla. t.rt Bos
ton Braves outfielder Tommy
Holmes, one of the most popular
baseball players in club history,
is the new player-manager of the
Tribe's Hartford, Conn., farm club
in the class ' eastern league.
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Women Start
Golf Season
Mrs. Sheppard Wins
Class A Competition
With the coming of spring
weather, the women golfers of the
Roseburg Country club took the
wraps off their best woods and
irons Tuesday for the inauguration
of the golfing season.
Following a brunch, the women
limbered up for the first competi
tive aciivny tor urn. Mrs. Roy
ShepparU won the class A sweep
slakes competition. The class B
event was taken by Mrs. Clyde
Knight and Mrs. Roy SmIUi
walked off with the class C event.
Turnout Urg.d
A spokesman of the club pointed
out that all members of the Coun
try club interested in golf are
urgeu 10 turn out each Tuesday
for regular women's competition.
She said beginners are encouraged
to contact Norm Tauscher, t h e
club s professional if interested in
taking lessons.
Next week's event will be blind
bogey. Tee off time is set at 1
p. m.
Nineteen women took part in
Tuesday's competition. They
were: Mrs. Roy Sheppard, Mrs.
G. W. Marshall, Betty Svarverud,
Mrs. Roger Gee, Mrs. M. E. Ul
schaffer, , Mrs. Walter Brytlges,
Mrs. James Hughes, Mrs. Frank
Bistak, Mrs. Emily E. Judd, Myra
Kelly, Mrs. Kenneth Quine, Mrs.
R. D. Bridges, Mrs. Alfred C. An
derson, Peggy Ann Knight, Mrs.
Roy F. Smith, Mrs. Eugene Krew
son, Mrs. Ben Martin, Mrs. Herb
Weisgciber, Mrs. Edward M u r
phy. ,
Beavers Defeat
Seattle Rainiers
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. VP)
Bob Drilling gave up six scattered
hits yesterday in pitching the Port
land Beavers to a 3-1 exhibition
game win over the Seattle
Rainiers.
Drilling, a righthander, went the
full nine innings for the Beavers.
Marv Grissom, righthander from
Detroit, and Mickey Haefner, who
relieved Grissom in the eighth,
yielded a total of eight hits to
the Beavers.
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BOUDREAU SHIFTS TO WILLIAMS Ted Williams shows Ms
celebrated grip to Lou Boudreau at Sarasuta, Fla. Bovdreau. r.ow
a candidate for a regular job with the Boston Red Sox. originated
the famous shift against Williams while managing the Cleveland
Indians, played the slugger for. the pronounced . ;'- f-H pull
hitrer he is. (NEA)
Vikings Take Top Honors In Final
AP Poll Of Oregon
By The Aiiociattd Preu
I The Salem Vikings entered the
annual state tournament at Eu
gene last night as Oregon's top
j basketball team in the weekly As-
sociated Press high school poll. It
took a long time, but Srloin finally
I stepped into first place this week.
Salem's added support came just
in time for the final poll of the
season.
The Salem crew replaced Cen
tral Catholic of Portland as the
leader, after Central was No. 1
for weeks.
Salem, defending state cham
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from 10 of 21 sportswriters and
spoitscasters who voted. Central
won nine ballots for top spot. The
Vikings amassed 197 points, Cen
tral 183.
Klamath Falls edged into the
No. 3 spot ahead of Lincoln of
Portland. The Pelicans got 2 first
place votes and 157 points. Lin
coln ?ot 144 points and fourth place.
Marshfield is No. 5 with 100
points, followed by La Grande in
No. 6 with 96 points.
Lebanon, Eugene and GranU
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Top Cage Quints To Vie Thursday;
Western Playoffs To Start Tonight
By WILL CRIMSLEY
NEW YORK tP) Four mem
bers of college basketball's elite
top ten Kentucky, St. John's,
Illinois and North Carolina Stale
will square off at Madison
Square Garden tomorrow night in
liir semi-finals of the NCAA east
ern eliminations.
Kentucky, No. 1 nationally, will
face a tired St. John's team, No.
9, Illinois, No. 5, will oppose North
Carolina State, No. 8. Illinois and
N. C. State are expected to play
the tirst game.
Those four powers moved for
ward last night in opening skir
mishes at Madison Square Garden
here and at Raleigh, N. C.
Meanwhile, the western NCAA
will start catching up with the east
tonight, staging the first two quarter-final
games at Kansas City.
Brigham Young, winner of the
niational Invitation tournament
last week, will take on little San
Jose State whil eKansas State will
face Arizona. KState and Arizona
play first. ,
Aggies Favored j
Oklahoma's Aggies, favored to '
win the western title and play
heavily-supported Kentucky lor I
the title at Minneapolis March 27, '
will open their bid tomorrow
night against Montana State.
Washington, Pacific Coast cham
pion, will oppose Texas A. and M.
in the other game.
Kentucky had its troubles for a
while at Raleigh last night t but
brought its class to the surface in
lime to trounce a fired-up Louis
ville team, 79-U8. N. C. State, play
ing without three of its stars,
thumped Villanova, 67 02.
At Madison Square Garden, be
fore 17,107, Illinois' Big Ten cham
pions shattered Columbia's un
beaten record the only one left
I, 79-71, while St. John's d i s-
' posed of little Connecticut, 63 52.
I Until they ran up against Illi
nois' Ted Beach and Don Sunder-
, lage, Columbia's Ivy league titlists
had piled up 22 straight victories
this year and 31 over a two-year
span.
j Beach Leads Rally
Columbia led 45 to 38 at the half.
But Beach popped in seven out of
eight long one-handed set shots in
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eisht minutes just before the end
of the half. Then Sundeiiage went
on a one-man scoring spree to
catch Columbia, 57-57, with ten
minutes to go and send Illinois out
front to stay.
St. John's, looking a bit weary
from its recent invitation tourna".
ment grind, rolled up a 25-point
lead early in the last half against
little Connecticut and then almost
let the game get away on a strong
rally sparked by Vince Yokabas
kas and Bill Ebel but lime ran out. ,
A capacity crowd of 12,400 saw
the two-game show at N.C. State a
coliseum in Raleigh and almost
tore down the house when Bill Ku
koy, subbing for All America Sam
Itanzino, led the Wolfpack to its
unexpected victory over Villanova.
The Gary, lnd., sophomore popped
in 27 points. .
DUCK GRID PRACTICE
EUGENE -(.Pi Spring foot
ball training will begin at the Uni.
versity of Oregon next Monday.
Head coach Jim Aiken said he
expected the new line coach, Gene
Harlow, to arrive toda. Other as.
sistants will include John McKav,
backfirld coach, and Norm Van
Brocklin, coach of quarterbacks.
VOLLEYBALL SLATED
All men in the, Roseburg area
are invited to participate in the
YMCA volley ball program Tuesday
and Thursday starting at 5 p.m.
in the Roseburg armory.
Participants are asked to bring
their wn towel and sym shoes.
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