2B Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore. Mon., Mar. 21, 1955
HIGHLIGHTS
By PETE CORNACCHIA-
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A man named Leo Durochcr. who married an actress
once and has been in several World Series while proving
Bishop Sheen's theory, once said that nice guys don't win ball
games. Now that's a rather general statement and one we're sure
Leo would amend if he knew Eugene's state basketball champions.
While we will respect ability displayed by a talented athlete,
we'll admire that individual only if, among other things, he is a
nice guy. We've never had more respect or admiration for any
team than we have for these
champions from Eugene. Coach
Henry Kuchera's talented gen
tlemen are a credit to their
school and a tribute to their
coaches and parents. . , .
It's a rather hectic scramble
for our entire sports staff to
get the state tourney finals
story and statistics, the all
state story, the individual scor
ing story, and the action and
all-slate pictures out to the back
shop before our deadline short
ly after midnight. So after
arising Sunday afternoon we
looked at the records and
found our Axemen had estab
lished S more marks in the
tourney after setting several
during the season. And they
also certainly figured in at
tendance records.
Point production is Involved
in each of the 3 new tourney
records and there's no doubt
Mike Moran is mainly rospon- lipvpv KlirilFRA
sible. The 6 8 'center showed 1 . J, "r
the McArthur Court mob his Has 1Ut Record
ricochet stuff "lay-out" but he also showed 'em he has an acute
habit of putting the ball through the hoop, a premise upon which
this bouncing ball game is predicated.
While Eugene displayed well-balanced firepower in shattering
the tournament shooting percentage mark with 97 baskets in 202
attempts for .480, Moran set individual game and tourney per
centage records as the obvious leader. He made 10 of 12 for .833
against Albany and finished his 4 games with 39 of 54 for .722
as he tallied 104 points for individual scoring honors.
The other 2 game marks involving Eugene were highest score
and highest total in the finals, when the Axemen walloped Mcd
ford, 72-56.
A crowd record was set every time Eugene played and 3 times
the Axemen triumphed before the largest throng ever to attend
a slate tourney session In Oregon. The first all-time mark tum
bled early Wednesday morning when 8,434 watched Kuchera's
lads upset Milwaukic. Previous high was the turnout of 8,285 for
last year's finals.
Again it was the largest crowd of all time when 9,141 saw
Eugene trample Central Catholic in Friday night's semifinals.
While several hundred were turned away despite the addition of
balconies this year, 11,092 made like sardines for the finals. Total
attendance for the 28 games in 5 days was 77,282, compared to
last year's previous record of 69,539.
Rebound and frrothrnws were involved in the other 5 marks
established during the 1955 show. Baker's 202 rebounds arc tops
for complete tnurnnment, while Milwaukic holds the mark for a
single game with 65 against Dallas. In frcethrows, North Bend's
Will Reeve attempted 17 in 1 game to tie a total held by 3 others,
missed 12 of those for a record all his own, and missing 18 dur
ing the tourney to equal DcWayne Hoffman's 1054 performance
for Dallas.
These records and many olhcrs.Jor this tourney and also the
all-timo marks, will be included in the booklet prepared by Art
Lilchman and (lis great staff of statiticinns. It'll also have plenty
of pictures and the whole tournament story when it comes off the
press Tuesday night.
It's a good thing for 50 cents. If you want one, just send the
4 bits to Tournament Summary, McArthur Court, University of
Oregon, Eugene, Oregon. . .
You've got your opinion, I've got mine, and . the next guy
should have his. And for that reason we developed long ago an
intense dislike for all-star teams and polls. So the 16 partici
pating coaches name the 5 boys that are the state's finest. As
always, several in the group believe that any team in the finals
MUST have a player on the all-state team.
Art Moyer of the Albany Democrat-Herald took an informal
poll of writers and their all-stale club went along with (he
coaches' lineup except in one case. While the official quintet
included Eugene's Mike Moran and Leighton Tultlc, Milwaukie's
Ted Miller for the second year, Cleveland's Dick .lolley, and Mod
ford's Larry Copplo. the writers liked Albany's Don Stamps in
place of Copple. Moran was the only unanimous choice along
press row. . .
Some other notes found in various pockets and shoes before a
trip to the cleaners:
Kuchera's learns have won 75 and lost 12, including a current
winning streak of 39 in District 6, during his dozen years at
Eugene. . . Oregon's finest basketball team is certain it has the
state champion student manager in Dill Reiersgaard, a hard
(Continued on I'odc 3 B)
Russell Voted
MVP Award
At Tourney
KANSAS CITY -Towering
Bill Russell Sunday was voted the
most valuable player in the Na
tional Collegiate Athletic Assn.
tourney. But his teammate on
the championship San Francisco
squad, K. C. Jones, was pegged a
ranking hero.
The 6-10 Russell set a new 5-
game scoring record of 118
points for the NCAA tourney as
he helped carry the Dons, No. 1
ranked in the national Associated
Press poll, to a title triumph over
defending champion LaSalle 77
63, Saturday night.
Russell, scoring 23 points 18
in the first half was voted the
mn.t valnahlA nlnvor hv enmn Aft '
press and radio representatives
covering the tournament.
However, San Francisco Coach
Phil Woolpcrt said Jones' "great
job of stopping Tom Gola, La
Salle's All-America player, with
only 6 field goals, was perhaps
the deciding factor in our team's
great defensive effort."
Gola scored 16 points.
Jones, 6-1, 202-pound guard,
scored 24 points, high production
figure in the dethroning of La
Sallc's heralded Explorers.
Russell said "I played on the
greatest team in the world and
we defeated the best team we
ever played."
The all-tournament team, se
lected after San Francisco pasted
LaSalle and Big Seven champion
Colorado beat Big Ten champion
Iowa 75-54, included:
Russell and Gola, as unanimous
choices; Iowa's Carl Cain; Jones;
and Colorado's Jim Ranglos.
Ken Loeffier, LaSalle coach,
said-he was naturally disappoint
ed in his team's play, but that
"We definitely lost to the better
team."
San Francisco, rolling to its
25th straight victory, finished its
season with a 28-1 record.
The lone Don loss was a 47-40
setback by UCLA in San Francis
co's third game. Just 2 games
later San Francisco whipped the
Uclans 56-44.
HOME RUN POWER
Braves Nip Cards
On Adcock Homer
' By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS '
While everyone is talking about the Cincinnati Reds' murders
row, the Milwaukee Braves are quietly going about forming a real
muscle machine of their own.
Eddie Mathews, Joe Adcock and newcomer Hank Aaron will
strike terror into many a pitchers' heart before the season is over.
In fact, clubs that must meet the Redlegs and Braves in successive
series will have their work cut out for them.
Both the Braves and Kedlegs chalked up exhibition conquests
Sunday via the sudden-death
route in the fashion of the old1
The Braves won their third in; Lesser, Smith
n rniv hv Krisinff the St. Louis Car
dinals 5-4. Adcock broke it upD0,L I7jT-iale
with a home run over the IeftlXeaCIl 1 UlcUo
field fence in the eighth inning
Kraus Medalist
In ECC Calcutta
Steve Kraus, shooting 77-70
67, captured medalist honors in
the annual spring-handicap "Cal
cutta" golf tournament that
closed qualifying rounds at the
Eugene Country Club Sunday.
The tourney gets under way
Friday, following the. announce
ment of pairings at the regular
Calcutta stag tourney and dinner
Thursday. Players will be al
lowed 85 per cent of the differ
ence in handicaps as the strokes
fall on the card.
Tied for runnerup medalist
honors were Herb Nill, 84-1668,
and Lloyd Mattisnn, 72-4 68.
John Northam, 85-16 70, and
Ted Wood, 77-770, were next in
line and will be among the favor
ites for the championship won
last year by Hilding Norberg.
Before that Aaron slapped one
over the same wall with a runner
aboard.
HOMERS BREAK TIE
The Chicago White Sox got a
taste of the raw power generated
by . the Redlegs. With the score
tied in the ninth, tne Keaiegs
came up with four runs to break
it wide open. Wally Post hit two
home runs for Birdie Tcbbetts'
club, while Ted Kluszewski and
Gus Bell delivered run-scoring
hits in the big ninth.
The Boston Red Sox continued
to get good pitching this time
from big Frank Sullivan, the bell
wether of the staff last year as
PINEHURST, N. C. W Wiffi
Smith, 18-year-old LaCanada,
Calif, redhead, birdied the first
four holes of the back njne Sun
day to trounce National Amateur
champion Barbara Romack 6 and
5 to gain the finals of the North
and South Amateur Golf Tournament.
Wiffie will meet Pat Lesser of
Seattle, 2 and 1 winner over
Mary Ann Downey, in Monday's
18-hole finals.
Wiffie, sharpest shooter in the
field since match play began
Thursday, finished with four
threes in the last five holes for
some of the finest golf in the
sophomore. The Sox polished off history of this 53-year-old event.
tne Detroit ngcrs ju-j, wun auiu-
van hurling five innings and giv
ing up just one hit. He has not
permitted an earned run in 11
innings on the mound this spring.
HOMER BY RHODES
It was like old times in Los An
geles, where the New York
Giants continued their mastery
over the Cleveland Indians 7-3
Miss Lesser, former intercol
legiate champion who is a Seat
tle University senior, had the
better putter in her match with
Mary Ann Downey of Baltimore.
Pat parred the first hole and
birdied the fourth from 12 feet
away to go two up, but Mary
Ann got even by parring the
sixth as Pat was trapped and
Dusty Rhodes poled a pinch home Lining a 20-footer for a birdie
run with one on off Mike Garcia
a five-run seventh inning.
The New York Yankees and
Brookly Dodgers, who appear to
be trying to set a record for over
time exhibitions, played their
second extra-inning game in less
than 24 hours. The Brooks won
this one 9-8 in 10 innings. Rookie
Dodger shortstop Chico Fernan
dez got three hits, including a
double in the 10th. He then scored
the winning run on a single by
Sandy Amoror.
The Pittsburgh Pirates clipped
Pedro Ramos, a Cuban right
hander, for two runs in the 13th
to outlast the Washington Sena
tors 4-2. Kansas City A's edged
Baltimore 3-2.
on eight. Each was out in 39,
Mary Ann's best front nine of
the tournament.
Pat quickly took charge, win
ning 10, 12 and 13, two with
birdies. On the long 10th she
needed only a two-footer and on
13 a seven-footer. A par gave
her the 12th as Mary Ann was
trapped. The Baltimore girl
three putted 11 to lose a chance
to draw even.
Pat was even par on the back
nine, finishing two over tor ii
holes.
Padres 10, Stars 8
SAN DIEGO, c'alif. ( San
Diego beat Hollywood 10-8 to
sweep a three-game Pacific Coast
League exhibition series, after
pitcher Bill Thomason's timely
single for two runs brought the
home team from behind in the
sixth iniung Sunday.
Salem to Host
Pro7 Grid Squad
NEW YORK Ml The New
York Giants professional football
squad will train at Salem, Ore
again this summer, it was an
nounced here Monday.
Bob Dailcy, publicity director,
said the Giants will begin train
ing on the Willamette University
campus July 25. The practice
session will last about six weeks.
Exhibition games have been
scheduled against the Green Bay
Packers in Spokane Aug. 14, in
Seattle against the San Francisco
49ers Aug. 21, and in Portland's
Multnomah stadium Aug. 28
against the Los Angeles Rams.
Hebert Edged
By Middlecoff
In Pro Open
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Wl
Jay Hebert, the handsome Louis
iana pro who says "it takes guts
and a good grip" to be a winning
golfer, learned from veteran Cary
Middlecoff in the St. Petersburg
Open Sunday that it also takes
something else tournament
nerves and experience.
. Middlecoff calmly worked his
way from a five-stroke deficit to
a two-stroke victory over Hebert
and $2,200 first prize.
Middlecoff, the Memphis den
tist who now plays out of Kia-
mesha Lake, N.Y.. posted a 5
under-par 67 for a 72-hole total of
274. Hebert, who registers out of
Woodmere, N.Y., took 74 for 276.
Another veteran of the golf
trail, Art Wall Jr., Focono Manor
Pa., made a great stretch drive.
shooting the day's best round of
60 zoom up from 11th place into
third with 277. -The
32-year-old Hebert, who"
had both the good grip and guts,
held a three-stroke lead going into
the final period.
But Sunday Hebert was edgy
nd uncertain. Middlecoff was
cool and methodical.
The Louisiana golfer, who plans
only a few of the winter tourna
ments, missed a two-foot putt on
the first hole. He booted five more
putts of less than three feet. '
By the 10th Middlecoff had
caught up with him. At the 15th
hole, Middlecoff went ahead with
a par 4 when Hebert missed a
short putt for a bogey. Middlecoff
dropped in a 30-foot putt on the
18th for the winning two-stroke
margin.
Finishing in a tie for fourth
were Billy Maxwell.-Odessa, Tex.,
and Ed Furgol, St. Louis, with
178s. They collected $910 each.
Leo Biagctti, Sandusky, Ohio,
and John Barnum, Grand Rapids,
Mich., were next with 179s and
checks for $690.
Julius Boros, Mid Fines, N.C.,
Bo Wininger, Oklohama City, and
Mike Souchak rounded out the top
10 with 280 cards and $493 each. -
Red Wings Blank
Montreal 6-0
DETROIT (!H The Detroit Red
Wings turned hockey's "Game
of the Year" into an avalanche
of goals Sunday night to trounce
the Montreal Canadiens o-u, ana
clinch their seventh straight Na
tional Hockey League championship.
A capacity crowd ot 13,383 saw
the game. i
A corps of 70 policemen more i
than twice the usual number
was sprinkled throughout the
stands to prevent a repetition of
last Thursday s ugly riot in Mon
treal Forum..
Despite the presnce of the men
in blue, the crowd had some fun,
but all of it was harmless. In
the second period a live baby
octupus was tossed onto the ice;
someone else set off a string, of
firecrackers.
It was small solace to the Can
adiens but ithey left the ice with
one honor.. Bernie Geoffrion fin
ished as the league's scoring
champion with 75 points, one
more than teammate Maurice
"Rocket" Richard, whose suspen
sion last week touched off one of
the most heated controversies
the game has ever known.
Richard was not with his team
as it suffered its most humiliat
ing defeat of the season.
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