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Top talent of the Northwest plus
come formidable -competition from
Mather Air Base, Calif., will com
pete in the two top features of Sat
urday's fourth annual Willamette
Relays—the college invitational
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for—including themsel\es.
ICs a good thing the webfeet
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to waddle.
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zoning plan in the air.
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120 high hurdles and the college
invitational 100-yard dash.
Director Ted Ogdahl announces
that six men will compete in the
high hurdles, headed by Kenneth
Miscliall of Mather, who has done
:14.3 in the event. That's easily the
best any of the six entrants have
accomplished. Herb Beck, anothei
Mather nu»n, has chalked :14.8 and
Don Chambers of Oregon State,
who won the affair last year, has
a best mark of :14,9. Others en
tered in the high sticks are Mad
ris Peterson, Seattle Track and
Field club (;15.0); Bob Leadbet
ter, University of Washington
(:15.0) and Larry Standifer of
host Willamette with a best time
of :15.1.
Blight entires are listed for the
invitational century event, with
Pacific University's Bob Gaytas a
top threat on paper with a best
time of 9.8. Walt Hill of Seattle
Pacific and Caley Cook, the Lewis
and Clark flash, have :9.9 'marks
in the 100 and other entries in
clude: Bruce Springbett, University
of Oregon (:10.0): Don McKenzie,
OCE C10.0); Bill Van Horn, Wil
lamette (:10.0); Fred Flowers,
Portland University, (:10.0) and
lob Zoelch, Willamette (:10.1).
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t ruck and Held coach, will take
hi* team to Salem Saturday aft
i ernoon to compete in the unnual
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Bobo Defends
Boxing Crown
The middleweight boxing cham
pionship of the world will be at
stake tonight, Friday, in Chicago
• when champion Carl “Bobo” Ol
son trades punches with challen
j ger Kid Gavilan from Cuba. The
bout will be televised nationally
starting at 7 o'clock PST.
Olson, who won the middle
weight title a few months back by
decisioning Randy Turpin, will go
' into the fight as about a 7-5 choice
to win. It is quite possible that the
odds could drop down to almost
even-money by the starting time
because Gavilan, the current wel
terweight kingpin, i3 highly re
spected in boxing circles and is
given a very good chance of up
setting his more experienced op
1 ponent.
Both boys have indicated that
they are confident that they can
win. Olson plans to use his box
ing skill and experience to out
point the challenger and will be
shooting to win the decision in the
15-round bout. Gavilan, on the
other hand, believes that he will
have to shoot for a knockout if he
is to win. The “Kid” has openly
stated that he has little respect
for the champion’s reputation and
that he is quite sure that he can
floor Olson for the ten count.
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By Bob Robinson
|m»r*ld Sportt Editor
This year's Oregon 11 in’ll School State Basketball roumament
probably offered one of the most embarrassing situations in his
tory for Portland's proud entries in the prep classic. 'The two
“Rose City” participants. Roosevelt’s Teddies and Henson’s Me
chanics. both suffered defeats to schools with enrollments about
one-tenth their size.
The high-flying Teddies, champions of the Portland Inter
scholastic League, won their initial tourney encounter from On
tario but ran afoul in their second fray of a fired up C latskanie
five which completely humiliated them with a 63-61 win. It
wasn't a fluke, either, because the underdog Tigers led all the
way, most of the time by an eight to twelve point margin. Only
a last minute rally by Marv Rasmussen’s Roosevelt quintet made
the score as close as the finish as the final tally indicates.
Madras Surprises Benson
The other Portland five, second place Henson in the PIL, suf
fered a similar fate as Roosevelt in the second round when they
were beaten by little Madras.
This double trimming of the Portland schools by Clatskanie
and Madras furnished interested basketball fans with many day.->
of conversation material. Roosevelt and Benson both went into
their second round games as high favorites to come out on top
and were both definitely surprise to come out with such shocking
defeats.
To the Portland fives’ credit it should be mentioned that they
both recovered gamely after their initial losse- and won their
next tilts so as to earn the right to tangle with each other for
the fourth place trophy in the tourney. Roosevelt came out on
top in this one, 60-57.
Poll Not Too Accurate
Another thing which the past tournament proved is that the
well-known Associated Press basketball poll, which ranked the
high school teams as to their court prowess throughout the sea
son, isn't too good of a guide as to the true power of basketball
teams throughout the state.
Although the poll is supposed to represent voteof knowing
persons from all over the state it scenic to favor team- from the
Portland area and the Big Six League. Maybe it just seems that
way to us but the fact that such cage squads as those from Mad
ras, Clatskanie, Ontario, and Dallas were given hardly any men
tion at all seems significant to us. Backers of the poll must have
been quite embarrassed when the highly ranked teams were
knocked over by the unknown in the tourney.
The AP ditl name the top team in the state in the Milwaukic
Mustangs and came close by naming runner-up Eugene third in
their final poll of the season but outside of these two the poll was
quite a ways off pace.
Such teams as Corvallis, Salem, and The Dalles, all rated in the
top ten, hardly lived up to their rankings. Corvallis and The
Dalles were especially ineffective, considering their supposedly
hig potential.
All-State Team?
As long as we are bringing out our gripes concerning the tour
nament we might as well attack the coaches’ all-state five while
we are at it. hor those of you who have forgotten just how the
first team read we will refresh your memories. It included Don
Ainge of Eugene, Norm Willoughby of Eugene, Hill Frederick,
of Milwaukie, 'led Miller of Milwaukie, Lew Ilarrison of Ciat
skanic, and Bill Machamer of Madras. Of these we think that
Machamer, Miller, Willoughby, and Harrison were all well
named.
As to Fredericks, he played well in the tourney and showed
that he was an all-around good ball player. But it didn't seem to
us that he was nearly as outstanding or as important to his team
as rugged center, “Red” Bloedel. Blocdel, although many people
failed to realize it, was the true backbone of the Milwaukie team.
Bloedel, one of the best high school rebounders we have seen
in quite some time, made life miserable for all Milwaukie oppon
ents around the backboards and also demonstrated a deadly
shooting eye in many of the games. Bloedel showed his true value
in the Mustangs’ championship game with Eugene. When Mil
waukic’s leading scorer, Miller, fouled out early in the third quar
ter, Bloedel took over the scoring reins and poured in 22 points to
lead his team to the title.
Wiiy Ainge?
Ainge, the slender Eugene forward, has been a top notch play
er for the Axemen for three years, now. That must have been
whv lie was named to the all-state team, because, his perform
ance in this year’s tourney was far from spectacular.
Miggest slight on the all-star teams was to Dallas’ sparkplug,
■ 1 b Brandli. Brandli, a consistent scorer, was second only to
Madras’ Machamer in pointmaking for this years’ classic. The
co- hes must have forgotten all about him.