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i i x- ... . Jtatosmcm. Salem. Ore. Friday, Match 19. lS54(Se. IV-11 rv ni follow Iliis Qiast to fcate ""Tourney ' Is Solng Oa'anlt 67 all ' KICM - -J I - . ' .' Sea IHIon S Braves Meet Trojan Quint Explorers Collide With Penn Staters ' t By BEN PHLEGAR . KANSAS CITY l Bradley and LaSalle ruled slight favor-' ites Thursday to win the semi-final games in the National Collegi ate Basketball . Championships starting here Friday night ,- However, form went by the boards so consistently in the earli er games in the sprawling 24-team NCAA tournament that any result here1 won't really be surprising. Bradley meets Southern Califor nia in the first game, starting at 6 p.m. PST. and LaSalle faces Penn State in the nightcap. Southern California and LaSalle arrived Wednesday night The oth er clubs checked in Thursday and all four liave workouts scheduled at the municipal auditorium where capacity crowds of 9,800 plus will watch the tournament windup. The Bradley-USC encounter will be a replay of an early season game which Bradley won handily at Peoria 79-64. Both clubs have improved since then after so-so seasons. ' The Braves from Illinois have won four of their last five includ ing a crushing triumph over Okla homa A&M 71-57 in the regional finals at Stillwater, Okla. Southern California survived a double over time to down Santa Clara in the finals at Corvallis, Ore., and has taken eight of its last nine. Trojans Deliberate . Both are good rebounding teams with Southern California playing a slightly more deliberate style. Tippy Dye, coach of the Univer sity of Washington, says the Tro jans "make fewer mistakes than any other college team I've seen. They let the! other fellows bat themselves." " ; . LaSalle's biggest asset is -All-America Tom Gola, a six-seven hustler whom his coach. Ken Loef fler says may "one day be con sidered the finest all around play er ever developed." Gola can shoot from anywhere and is one of the best rebounders in the game. Penn State, which surprised it self by beating Toledo in a pre liminary game and then toppled iisiana State and Notre Dame on successive nights offers a strange combination of a pressing zone deferise. The Nittany Lions press with three men, then sink into as shifty a zone as has been around in years. Their key man is Jesse Arnelle, a six-five hook-shot specialist The final game Saturday will be televised nationally . (NBC). Cuban ' Doesn't Fear Marciano fiavilan to Seek Heavy pga--lf CAGO U) A confident Kid Gavilan said Thursday he would knock, out middleweight champion Bobo Olson " and . then ' challenge Bock Marciano for the world heavyweight title. Gavilan, current 147-pound king and Olson formally signed con tracts for their April 2 mealing Olsen Beaten Tourney Semi Slots Filled; Viks Ousted (Continued from preceding page) in a basket with 50 second left to clinch the game. - Moran, a 6-foot 7-inch junior who. usually is a substitute, was the important man for Eugene. He was high scorer of the game with 16 points, and checked Dave Gambee usually high-scoring Corvallis pivot man, to 7 points. Teddy Rally Fails Clatskanie led Roosevelt all- the way after the first three minutes. But Roosevelt, owner of a 20-3 rec ord up to the game, uncorked a furious fourth quarter offensive that sliced an 11-point Clatskanie lead tol 62-61, as the game ended. Clatskanie guard Larry Hermo, who topped all scorers with 20 points, was fouled on the last play and converted a free throw to give his team its winning S-point mar gin. Center Charlie. Geldaker flipped In nine points for Roosevelt dur ing its futile last period rally and wound up with 12. Forward Dennis Rodin was high for the Portland ers'with 16. The short but accurate shooting Madras team, which has become one of the tournament favorites, broke Benson's back with a 20 point third quarter. Center Billy Machamer, the game s high scor er with 19 points, started things off in the period with three suc cessive field goals. ' The surge increased Madras" 26-23 halftime lead to a safe 46-3S margin at the end of the quarter. Benson later cut it to 5 points but . never seriously challenged. Johnny James was high for Ben son with 18 points. Gate Now 3S.734 Thursday's attendance increased the total for the tourney, which opened Tuesday night, to 39,734, . about 1,000 more thin at the same point in the 1952 meet when the present record was established. In the day's opener in the con solation round, Ontario had little trouble in defeating Grants Pass. Except for two ties, the easterners led all the way. Grants Pass kept v close behind through the first half wjuch ended with Ontario ahead 28-26. But in the third period the winners started rolling and main tained a comfortable margin to the end. Ken Ackerman, Ontario . guard, was high point man with ' 26. Sam Dean, center, with 21, was high for Grants Pass. Beaverton nosed Astoria in the ' final consolation game. Beaver ton's Chuck Shea dropped in the , winning field goal with five sec onds left, x Gomez Seeks Stojack Mat Toga Tuesday One of the choice events of the year's local grappling schedule falls next Tuesday night at the Armory as Frank Stojack, world's light-heavy champion from Ta- coma, risks his belt against the eager and talented Pepper Gomez. . Promoter Elton Owen announ ces that Gomez must make 190 pounds by the afternoon of the match. Pepper will weigh in at Portland. The N 190-pound . figure is the official light-heavy limit, as set by the National Wrestling Alliance, r Owen reports that the title scrap originally was slated for Portland but was switched to Salem because of the consistently fine support shown by local fans. Stojack. who doubles as a Ta- coma city councilman had done most of his grappling of the last few months in Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane and Boise. The champ is famed for his airplane spin, giant swing and vicious drop- kicks. Gomez's chief weapons are south and a great basic abil ity- that comes from his being an all-around athlete in his Los An geles City College days. Gomez turned in one of the neatest tricks in local wrestling history on the last Armory card with his sensational backflip off the ropes was decisive in the triple tag feature. " Owens announces that popular Luther Lindsey, the Ohio strong man, will battle John Henning of Florida in next Tuesday's 20- minute special. The remainder of the card is to be announced later. There will be no raise in prices for the program and Owens ad vises fans to make reservations early at Barb's sporting goods store. in the Chicago Stadium for Olson's 160-pound crown. . . The Cuban, expressing uttle doubt that he could finish Olson by a KO, said 'he would put up $5,000 guarantee, for. a shot at Marciano's heavyweight title. "I have no fear of Marciano, and there is no point to fool around with' the light heavyweight divi sion," ' Gavuan - told reporters. "Marciano is no Jack Johnson, Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey or Joe Louis when it, comes to boxing. "I would go against Marciano weighing 165 pounds. He swings and he don t hit me. I tie bun up and get away before he hit me. By 10 rounds his face would be like a balloon." ' i Ontario it i Ul i JO (Sih place) SBC to Fete . Viking Quint Salem High School's - basket ball team, ousted from the State Tournament Thursday by Marsh field, will be feted at Monday morning's meeting of the Salem Breakfast Club. Coach Harold Hauk of the Viks will nandle main speaking duties at the 7:0 session at the Senator Hotel Hauk may discuss some of the highlights of the many seasons he has served at the school Hauk transfers to the new South Salem plant next year. ; j Ted Ogdahl, Willamette foot ball and track coach, also is scheduled to speak , Monday morning. Leahy Accepts j Jobs With Firms TAMPA, Fla. Wl Frank Leahy, who retired as football coach at Notre Dame seven weeks ago, an nounced Thursday he will enter sales work and become president of a public relations firm. ; His mam interest will be vice president in charge of sales of ske Exothermic Alloys Sales and Serv ice, Inc., with headquarters in Chi- cago. This company is sales agent for Chromium Mining and Smelt ing Corp., which services the iron and steel industry. I! Leahy is -the new president of All Star Sports Associates. He announced the public relations firm will handle special accounts Grants Pass to Ontario 57 Frt 9:45 a.nt Minhfleld Salem 7 Manhfield 63 CONSOLATION BRACKET ' i 1 Madras 12 i I Madra54 ' ' Mas T).iDaUejS4 j ! I Benson 46 Dallas 66 Dallas 37 Fit 11 a.m. Bemrfoa Astoria 45 Beaverfon 47 fi. Pass 54 1 CUtskank 63 kYve!!59 i Ontario 55 Soostvolf 61 Gahkinie loojenJJ Salem 47 Grtsbam5! Manhrd54 Milwlcie 72 Greshan 43 Milwauklt53 Grtshan Milwiukii The Dai's 57 CHAMPIONSHIP B&ACKXT Madras I I - I i rrWJO I I 4tn placi Sat 2:45 Benson Astoria 28 Corvallis 38 Corvallis 46 Eugene 50 BWrfo 42 " 49 ComlHs Eugene i I V i l i Runnerop x ( v 3rd place , I Sat. 730 p.m. I I I I 'I U ;.j rri.145 Champ'shlp Sal. 8:45 ' - - ' Oilers Upset Victims In MU; Peoria Victor DENVER tfl Co-favorite Phil lips of Bartlesville, Okla., was knocked oyer by unseeded San Di ego, 63-58, but Peoria s defending champions squeezed through Thurs day night by "edging San Francis co's Young Men s" Institute, 56-55. The Gnhalva Buicks from Cali fornia broke out of a 54-54 tie. with minutes , to play to upset the favored 66ers. Jim Hoverder. an AAU all-Amer ican last year, drilled in 12 points in San Diego's fourth quarter surge while the t usually polished Oilers choked up in the critical moments. Peoria and San Francisco bat tied evenly throughout their pressure-filled game with San Fran cisco holding a 49-43 edge with six minutes to play. That was the big gest margin between the teams during the game. Al Lavin flipped in a one-hand-er to pull San Francisco to within a point with 20 seconds left, but Peoria controlled the ball until the final gun. last month and will be com pleted about the end of this month. On February 26, a shipment of 50,000 green winter steelhead eggs was made to the Oak Springs hatchery near Maupin where they will be hatched and raised to fingerling size. After sufficient growth has been ex perienced, they will be returned to the Alsea and Cedar Creek hatcheries for holding until their liberation. 67 Aspirants Open Vandal' prills MOSCOW, Idaho Un Sixty, seven football i candidates turned out' Thursday for the first day of spring 'practice under Idaho's new head football coach J. Neal (Skip) Stahley; . j : "That's 19 more than the 48 who Six of the eight National Lea gue shutout leaders since 1948 I have, been lefthanders. i turned out for workouts last spring. Only two of the team's 21 returning ' lettermen. Jay Buhler and, Jerry Lee. were absent from the first i sessions. Both are expected to join the squad soon. , Although it postponed the start, of practice three days because of cold 'weather, : Idaho still is the i -st Northern Division club to get its spring football program rolling. for 'United Air Lines, heavyweight boxing champion Rocky Marciano, and Ben Hogan Manufacturing Co.. Houston ' College and the Sonna- bend Hotels. Huge Steelhead Program Starts! First step in the production of one-quarter million steelhead for release in Oregon's streams next year has started by person nel of the Oregon Game Com mission. 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