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Newspaper Page Text-?- - r . . , . . ,.. 77-73 Margin Fast Trojans Defeat Ducks By DICK STRITE RrglsterGuard Sports Editor Southern California's hot-shooting Trojans, with tremendous team speed, burst Oregon's basketball bubblo here Saturday night before the largest crowd in McArthur Court this season. USC handed the Webfoots a 77-73 defeat, the first loss on the home S - r 1 7, 1 , la : :. . .' liiii-iriiii-'iii w ii '' ffi'N 1 ii 1 iMmi it mi iriil PENNY GETS THE BAD NEWS An anguished expression crosses the face of Pen ny Pitou Saturday as she hears the announcer tell the crowd at the finish line that Heidi Biebl of Germany has just finished the downhill race one second faster than Penny's time. That gave Heidi the gold medal and left Penny with the silver one. GERMAN GIRL WINS DOWNHILL Heidi Biebl of Germany zooms down the ladies downhill course on KT22 Saturday on her way to victory in the Winter Olympics event. She was timed in 1:37.6 for the mile and eighth course. LANE COUNTY'S HOME NEWSPAPER SECTION B EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1960 Axemen Keep Marshfield Whips Hopes Mve; WiUHilinchesTitle 5844 Victors District 5-A-l W L Pet. Vr PA Marahfield 11 1 .917 ' 7B4 591 Springfield ..8 4 .667 695 601 South Eugene II 4 .667 619 591 Boseburg 8 4 .667 698 687 North Bend . 6 6 .500 648 607 North Eugene- 3 9 .250 591 634 Willamette 3 9 .250 582 749 Cottage Grove 1 11 .0B3 638 849 SATURDAY RESULTS Marshfield 89, Willamette 48 South Eugene 58, North Bend 44 Springfield 75, Cottage Grove 46 Roscburg 83, North Eugene 47 By BOB MUIXIN Of the Register-Guard ( Hank Kuchera's South Eugene Axemen basketballcrs broke up a tight-checking North Bend de fense midway in the first quarter and ran their way to a S8-44 Dis trict 5-A-l victory at SEHS Sat urday night. It was South's eighth victory in 12 loop starts and brightened its hopes for a state tournament berth at McArthur Court in March. The Axemen remain dead locked with Springfield and Rose burg, both also winning Satur day night. The loss for North Bend elim inated it from the tourney pic ture. Wayne Fox's Bulldogs are now 6-6 with two games left. Sandy Nosier and Don DuShane shared South's scoring honors with 15 points but it was a fine team effort that paid off for victory. Only a 20-point fourth quarter by the Bulldogs, after they had made only six field goals and 24 points in the first three periods, kept the South margin from being greater. It took- 2:04 of the game for anyone to score. A hooker by North Bend's Mike Paine shoved the visitors momentarily in front. After two free throws by South's Nick Carter tied the score, the Bulldogs led at 4-2 and 5-4 before Bo Blair's jump shot with 2:37 left in the first period put the Axemen in front for good. Before the period ended, Dave Tobey scored on a layin, Nosier hit a jump shot and DuShane scored on a free throw to give the home team and 11-7 first pe riod advantage. Three points by Nosier at the outset of the second period pushed South ahead 14-7, before Paine tallied four points and Dave Dick added two to cut the margin to one point, 14-13. Nosler's jumper moments later Gave South two clutch points however, and by halftime it was 2515. South Eugene's fast break in the third quarter was too much for the North Benders to handle and the score grew to 41-24 at the end of the stanza. North Bend had its best luck in the fourth quarter against the Axemen reserves but never threatened. North Brnd (44) SEHS (58) fg ft tp f ft tp 3 9-11 15 Nosier Q 3-3 15 Marshfield clinched a berth in the 1960 state basketball tourna ment at Willamette Saturday night by thumping the Wolver ines 85-48 in a District 5-A-l bas ketball game. Led by Mel Counts 35 points, the visiting Pirates raised their league record to 11-1 with only two games remaining and no other team in the circuit able to reach them in the chase for the 5-A-l title. Marshfield jumped to an 18-7 first quarter lead, increased this margin to 37-20 and boasted a 63-29 margin at the start of the final period. Counts hit nine of his points in the first period, 12 in the second and 11 in the third. He scored 4 points in the fourth be fore leaving the game with half of the period remaining. Ron Buck was leading scorer for Willamette with 23 points. He scored all three of Wil-Hi's first Pavne Dick 1 2-5 Johns 3 3-4 Allen 1 5-5 Leinlngr 0 5-7 Graham 0 0-9 Gould 0 0-0 Kersey 0 0-0 Yungrar 0 0-0 8 Blair ( Tobey 7 DuShan S Carter 0 Guske Jost 0 Fluke 0 Myera Dune Rbnstn Brook 1-1 0-0 5-6 15 2-1 1-4 0- 0 1- 1 0-0 1 0-1 0 1-3 0 04 0 Total! 1 14-1S 44 Totall 11 16-24 58 North Bend 7 S 9 2044 SEHS It 14 IS 17-58 JV Gaum- SKHS S3, No. Bena U TtTtuion (S) 17, caibo lb half field goals. Marshfield hit .482 during the first half to Wil lamette's .136 mark. . Marshfield's tight defense kept tne wolves irom getting in close and forced the host crew to shoot from the outside. Karl Coke was runnerup to Counts in the Marshfield scoring with 19 points. Marshfield (83) Willamette (48) fg ft tp fg ft tp UOUntS 13 9-11 35 Buck 5 13-15 23 Coke 8 -3-4 19 Haas 2 2 2 6 4 McNght 0 3-5 3 5 Dugger 2 2-2 6 1 Gilbert 0 5-6 5 4 Jensen 0 1-2 1 4 Wllkrsn 1 2-3 4 4 Reichert 2 0-0 Buries 2 1-3 Hughes 0 1-2 Harris 2 0-0 Weakly 2 0-0 McGrlff 2 00 Hndrksn 1 2-2 Larsen 1 O-O Starnes 1 0-0 Smith 0 1-1 Totals 34 17-23 85 Totall 10 28-35 48 Marshfield 18 19 28 2285 Willamette 7 11 9 1948 JV Game: Marshfield 66. Willamette 32. HIGHCLIMBER -By DICK STRITE- k Pardon our spikes! "I've never seen anyone write so much stuff about track, especially during the football and basketball season," one reader mentions. "You're getting as bad about track as The Oregonian's L. H. Gregory about baseball." Well, when you're in Rome and wouldn't we like to be there next summer. We'd even agree to act like a Roman. Although the University of Oregon is only two seasons past playing football in the Rose Bowl, track-and-field at Oregon has steadily grown in stature for a number of rea sons good home-grown tal ent, spectator interest, fine facilities for the fans, and a number of local potential U.S. Olympic squad members. During this "Olympic Year" track interest here is even greater, even without the Hayward Field schedule calling for 10 events, starting with the Northern Division Relays April 2 and ending with the Pre-OIympic train ing meet (tentative) in late July. It will feature 70 mem bers of the U.S. men's track squad who will vie in Rome and attempt to return to the United States with more gold medals than the Russians will take home to Moscow. The Pacific coast will be in the spotlight with three im portant meets in California the NCAA championships at Berkeley June 17-18, the National AAU at Bakersfield July 24 25, and he final Olympic trials at Stanford University July 1-2. . . . Then, of course, comes the National Decathlon on Hayward Field July 8-9. Oregon's entries in the NCAA will probably depend on per formances in the Northern Division championships here May 21. Almost certain to be at Berkeley will be Roscoe Cook in the 100 and possibly 200 meters, Sig Ohlcmann in the 400 and 800 meters, Dyrol Burleson and George Larso in the . 1,500 meters, Dick Miller in the 5,000 meters or 3,000-meter steeple chase. Potentials are Paul Bernick and Dee Mills in the javelin, Gene Estes and Jerry Stubblefield in the discus, and Phil Pac quin in the pole vault. if What about Otis Davis, who had the best collegiate quarter (46.2) last season? Well, the toothpick-chewing Davis may have been foaled op in his transfer from Lot An HIGHCLIMBER ' (Continued on Pajf 2B) V BILL BOWERMAN Featured in SI U.S. Women Skiers Upset In Downhill SQUAW VALLEY, Calif. Ml The Germans pulled off two up sets and the Americans took a surprising tumble in the Winter Olympics Saturday as Russia built up a substantial lead in overall scoring. The combined team from East and West Germany scored unex pected successes in the women's downhill ski race and the wom en's 500-meter speed skating. The Germans upset Russia in the for mer and the United States in the latter. But both the Soviets and the Americans found consolation in other events. The Russians swept the first four places in the women's 10- kilometer (6.2 mile) cross-country ski race. Carol Heiss of Ozone, Park, N.Y., gave America a solid lead in women s figure, skating. East and West Germany, divided their conquests. Heidi Biebl, an 18-year-old skner from the West, won the downhill race in 1:37.6 beating glamor girl Penny Pitou of Gilford, N.H., by a full second, In women's speed skating an event the Russians were expected to dominate Mrs. Helga Haase of East Berlin took the gold medal with an astonishing time of 45.9. This was nine-tenths of a second faster than she had skated before and was only three-tenths off the world record. Natalija Donchenko of Russia was second in 46 flat and, in something of a surprise, Jeannie Ashworth of Wilmington, Mass., finished third in 46.1. In the cross-country ski race, Marija Gusakova, a 29-year-old dressmaker from Leningrad, led the Russian sweep. Her time was 39:46. There wire no U.S. entries in the event. With five events completed, the Russians were leading in un official scoring with 38V4 points figuring 10 points for a first place finish and 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 for the next five. Germany was second with 28 points. Sweden had 19, Canada and the United States 13 each, Italy 5, Austria 4, Finland and Japan 2 each, and Poland . Saturday's crowd was estimat ed by Olympic officials at 32,000, It was the first turnout of the games that approached earlier crowd forecasts of 35,000. The weather was near perfect sunny and not too cold. Miss Pitou was not the only American disappointment in the downhill ski race. Her roommate, Betsy Snite of Norwich, Vt. also regarded as one of the world's top women skiers fell and was helped off the course, She was not hurt. Miss Heiss had an aggregate of 262.8 points after two com pulsory figures were completed in the women's figure skating event. Her arch rival, Sjoukje Dijkstra of Holland was in second place by virtue of her ordinal placings. She had a total of 32.0 and 244.5 points, which put her ahead of Barbara Roles of Tem ple City, Calif., who had 26.5 ordinals and 246.5 points. This event will end Tuesday with the free style skating. Causes 14 Spills Skiers Come to Grief On : ' Airplane Turn By JERRY UHRIIAMMER Or the Register-Guard VALLEY, Calif. , Penny said she caught an edge of her ski on this turn and al most fell. "But it was the Olym pics and I decided I d have to stand up," she added. The 5-5Vi, 135-pound blonde said she be lieved she lost at least one second during this momentary trouble. But this same "airplane turn' spelled more than momentary trouble for 14 of the 42 women skiers who started the race. These skiers including three of the SQUAW That airplane, turn was the toughest part of the course. That is whore I lost all my speed and lost the. race." , Speaking was 21-ycar-old Penny Pitou, America's blonde 1 rocket who won. a second-place silver medal Saturday in the ladies' downhill race at the VIII Winter Olympic Games here. Penny whizzed down the high speed trail from the peak of KT- 22 mountain in one minute, 38 and six-tenths seconds to win the silver medal the first time an American woman alpine skier has won a medal since the 1952 Olym pics. But exactly one second ifastcr was Heidi Biebl, a 5-foot, 3-inch brown-haired mite from Oberstau- fen, Germany, who celebrated her 19th birthday Wednesday and to her went the coveted gold medal, Penny , was obviously disap pointed but tried to appear happy as she talked to friends and newsmen about the airplane turn a sharp 90-dcgrce curve. at the lower end of the trail. It was the third from the last turn before the girl racers crossed the electric eye finish line. court this season after 10 straight wins. A "Dad's Weekend" crowd of 6,248 shook the rafters of the Igloo dome as coach Steve Belko's Oregons battled back repeatedly and with less than seven minutes remaining had a 58-57 lead. Oregon, one of the top defensive teams in the land, was unabla to detend against a .491 UaU shooting percentage and the out side scoring of Jerry Pimm, a 5-11 senior. He collected 23 points and hit 9 for 16. Most of his fielders were from behind the key, near the sidelines or the corners. While Belko is still looking for his first win over his old Idaho coach, Forrest Twogood, the loss Saturday night does not eliminate Oregon from a possible first- round at-largc berth in the Far West Rcgionals. Oregon State s 65-52 loss to Washington at Corvallis Saturday night kept the books open and the final series between the two cross valley foes will be for the blue chips. The first OSC-Orcgon game will be at Corvallis March 4, and a re turn meeting will be at McArthur Court the next night. In the meantime Oregon must meet and beat Idaho's Vandals here next Saturday night. Saturday s game might not have produced the best basketball of the year, but it was in that classi fication and by far and away the toughest test the Webfoots have faced. NO BOYS ALLOWED It was no game for the weak- at-heart. It was a contest between matured collegiate basketball men and no boys allowed. USC, with four seniors in the starting lineup, had all the ex pcrienced Trojans could handle and Oregon's sophomores played with the poise of veterans. There was no reason for any Web foot to hang his head In shame It was a terrific tilt. Oregon could not afford to make many mistakes against a team that holds the only victory Huskies Trim Oregon State By62-52Tally CORVALLIS, Ore. Wt The Unl- versity of Washington led handily all the way here Saturday night in taking a 62-52 basketball win over Oregon State College. OSC lost the game at the free throw line, scoring two more field goals than did the Huskies, but making only 10 and 26 free throw attempts. Washington made 24 of 33. Midway through the second half, Oregon State pulled to with in four points of Washington, only to see Clint Names score sev en straight points for the Huskies in two minutes. That gave Wash ington a lead it held easily all the rest of the way. Three Washington players fouled out in the rough and loosely played contest. They were AI Murphy, Lyle Bakken and John Douglas. Names was high for the game with 16 points, 14 of them in the second half. Jay Carty led OSC with 12. Washington had an edge in shooting, making 19 of 44 field goal attempts. Oregon State made 21 of 60. The victory brought Washing ton up to 12-12 for the season. OSC is 13-9. first seeded racers and three out of the four U.S.A. competitors over California's NCAA champ! were unable to hold the giant ons this season and the Web-1 turn and crashed. foots were guilty of losing the One of these was blonde Betsy baU on Dad Passes or violations Snite from Norwich, Vt., who with Penny, Linda Meyers of Mammoth Lakes, Calif., and Joan Hannah of Franconia, N. H., made up, one of the strongest and most powerful female contingents ever to race under U. S. colors in the Winter Olympics. Betsy explained later that al though she was only the sixth racer down the course it had already become slightly rutted. "I got on the wrong ski, bounced ' SHARP TURN (Continued on Page 3B) Millers Post 75-46 Win Over C. Grove By JIM CROWELL . KeglsterGuard Correspondent Bill O'Neal's Springfield Mill ers kept pace with South Eugene and Roseburg in the scrambled District 5-A-l race, posting an easy 7546 win over the Cottage Grove Lions at Springfield Sat urday night. O'Neil, . substituting by pla toons, twos, threes and singles, saw his club simply outman the Lions in a ragged contest that saw a total of 47 fouls called, 29 of them on Springfield. The Lions, who were badly beaten on the boards, simply were not in the game after ' the first quarter. Leading only by two, 10-8, Springfield s second string pushed out to a 14-8 first period lead. Then, with the help of the first unit who reentered the game midway in the second quarter, the Millers full-court pressed their way to a 33-23 halftime margin. But it was a big third quarter, a 27 pointer, that really put the game on ice for Springfield. Stocky Steve Clark got things go ing with a jumper then 64 Jack Matthews started on his 10 point third, period scoring spree. Cottage Grove collected only 1Z field goals against the pressing Miller defense and managed but 22 out of 41 free chances. Bill Roe was the only Lion offensive threat, getting 16 points, eight on free throws, for high point honors. Springfield was led in its bal anced scoring by Matthews who had 14. Mike McMahon and Clark followed with 11 and 10 respec tively. Center Jerry Shepard trailed Roe in the Lion scoring column with 11. CG(45) f ft tp gpf(7S) fir Shoberg 1 2-4 4 Matthe 9 Gibson 0 2-3 2 Karp Shepard 4 3-8 11 Willis nae Hanson Mancw Dalley McCrea Estes Early 8-10 IS McMah 2-8 2 Dennis Clark Serosa King Davlsso Ebbert D.Herm C.Herm Lohn ft 4-5 0- 1 1- 1 3- 4 1-1 4- 8 0- 1 1- 1 1- 2 2- 3 0-0 0-0 0-1 Totals 12 22-41 48 Cottase Grova ... Springfield 14 1 27 1878 Totals 29 17-28 75 8 15 11 1246 only four times to 14 by USC. The Trojans and Webfoots shifted two-point advantages fre quently in the first five minutes USC then went on a hot shooting streak and scored 12 points in less than three minutes while the Webfoots went scoreless. Oregon missed three good scoring chanc es while the Trojans moved from a two-point deficit to a 10-polnt lead; 24-14 with 9:22 showing on the first-half clock. Until that point USC had hit .455 from the field Chuck Rask and Denny Strick land rallied the Oregons and closed the margin to three points on two occasions. USC bounced back for a seven-point margin, but then Glenn Moore connected for five points and Rask two and shaved USC's lead to 35-34 with less than three minutes remain ing in the half. 39-34 HALFTIME Jim White hit one of two free- throws and Jerry Pimm was awarded a field goal on an Ore gon goal-tending violation to give the Trojans a 39-34 halftime advantage. USCs first-half shooting per centage was .424 and Oregon was a miserly .276. Rask, on a high pass from Glenn Moore on a low-post play, scored in the opening 23 seconds of the second half. After a momentary 41-40 lead, the Ore gons gave way to Pimm's scoring for a five-point USC advantage. Oregon battled back again. Dale Herron took a low bounce pass from Rask and scored to put Ore gon in front 53-52 with 10:56 showing on the clock. The Web foots moved three points ahead, but Pimm, on the second Oregon goal-tending violation of the night, was awarded two points and a 57-56 USC lead Wally Knccht, playing the post with Moore at a forward for the first time this season, connected with two frccthrows to put Ore TROJANS (Continued on Page 3B) Washington (62) FG Murpny 3 Nlva 4 Hanson . 2 Names 7 Bakken 2 Grant 0 Rclten 0 Douglaa . 1 Danlela 0 , FT 2-4 4-5 7-11 2-3 2-2 6-7 0-1 : l-l 0-0 PF TP 5 8 12 11 16 6 S 0 3 0 Total! 19 24-34 21 62 Oregon State (52) FO Nllos 1 Carty 4 Anderson . ... 4 Wold 1 Woodland 3 Jacobaon 1 Patterson 2 Stafford 0 Flynn 0 Crltchflcld 2 Campbell . 1 Johnson 0 FT 0-1 4-8 2-3 0- 1 1- 4 0- 2 1- 3 2- 5 0-1 0-0 0-0 0-0 PF TP 2 4 12 10 4 7 2 S 2 0 4 2 0 Total! 21, 10-26 25 51 Washington ,23 37 62 Oregon Stat. 20 32 82' North Downed By Roseburg ROSEBURG Roseburg's In dians kept pace with South Eu gene and Springfield In the rel hot race for District 5-A-l's sec ond state tournament berth here Saturday night by handing North Eugene an 83-47 defeat Roseburg, South and Spring field are now 8-4 in district play, three games behind leading Marshfield. Mel Kranse's Highlanders made it close in the first half, but the home team, hitting .500 of its shots, couldn't be stopped. Roseburg guards Jim Jarvis and Lynn Baxter scored 21 and 16 points respectively, while Bob by Bruns led the losers with 11. NEHS (47) fg fanscU 3 Hlatt 1 Krani 1 Bruns S Olscn Mycrf Garner Gordon Campbl Kraus Faust t 2-2 2 0-1 0 2-2 1 1-3 1 O-O 1 1-2 Roseburg (S3) tp fg ft 7 Roberta 2 0-0 Palm 2 1-1 Mundt 4 5-5 Baxter 5 6-8 Jarvis 10 1-1 Lorenzn 1 0-0 Hlnk 2 3-5 Rrundge 4 0-0 French 2 24 Miller 0 1-5 Withnll 0 0-0 Totala 17 13-20 47 Totals 32 1947 83 NEHS 13 13 7 1247 Rosehurg 21 18 16 3083 JV Game: North Eugene 51, Rose burg 34. Oscar Held to 14 But Cincy Victor HOUSTON (AV- Oscar Robert son was held to 14 points Satur day night but Paul Hogue, 6-9 sophomore, came through with a surprising 22 points to lead Cin cinnati, the nation's No. 1 team, to a 5747 Missouri Valley Con ference victory over Houston. Hockey New York 3, Montreal 1 Detroit 4, Boston 1 Toronto 3, Chicago X Pro Basketball Syracuse 126, New York 121 Cincinnati 110, Detroit 107 Philadelphia 122, Minneapolis 101 St. Louis 11, Boston 105 Thomas Clears 7-2 Dellinger's Mark Falls New AAU Indoor Records Set NEW YORK W John Thomas,, Boston University's fabulous sophomore, gmashed his own world high jump record Saturday night when he cleared 7 feet 2 inches in the National AAU in door track and field champion ships. A Madison Square Garden crowd of 13,567 let out an ear splitting roar when Thomas soar ed over the crossbar breaking his three-week old mark of 7-1 Va. But he wasn't the entire show this time. He had to share the spotlight with three other rec ord breakers. 1. Little Al Lawrence who chopped the world indoor three mile record down to 13:26.4. 2. Bo Roberson, who erased the oldest mark on the books with a 25-9V4 broad jump. - 3. Hal Connolly, a 28-year-old school teacher from Santa Monica, Calif., who broke another "im possible" barrier when he got off a mighty heave of 71 feet 2V4 inches in the 35-pound weight throw, Thomas had not been prac ticing much all week and his coach, Ed Flanagan, didn't ex pect him to do anything sensa tional. But he went over 7 feet on his first attempt like he was stepping over a pebble. Lawrence, who attends the University of Houston, but is an Australian and will run for the Aussies in the Olympics, went around and around the Madison Square Garden saucer first lap ping one opponent, then another. He made the circuit 33 times and when it was all over he had cut a fantastic 10.6 seconds off the world record of 13.37 set by Bill Dellinger of Oregon In this same meet last year. t Only a week ago, Lawrence gave some indication of his ulti mate aim when he was clocked in 13:38, just a second over Del linger's mark. Lawrence hit the mile in 4:26 and the two miles in 8:57.1. Lew Stieglitz of the U. S. Navy was second in 13:58.8. Alex Brccken ridge of the Marines was third. Roberson smashed Jesse Owens' quarter century-old world indoor broad jump record of 25-9. It was set In this same meet on Feb. 23, 1935 and has withstood the chal lenger of the years until now. But Roberson, an ex-Cornell football player and now officer at Fort Lee, Va., has a long way to go before he can challenge Owens' outdoor record of 26-8V also set in 1935. Bo made his record-breaking jump on his first try in the final round. Three of .his jumps were over 25 feet. Mike Herman of the NYAC was third at 24-8ft behind Ralph Boston of Tennessee Ail, Connolly, the Olympic hammer throw champion competing for the Southern California Striders, set his record on his second try in the qualifying round. The listed world record of 66-2 set in this meet last year by Bob Backus of the NYAC. Backus was second this year at 62-8. Hayes Jones of Eastern Michi gan barely edged Olympic cham pion Lee Calhoun of Gary, Ind., to win the 60-yard high hurdles in 7.1. Jones was oft like a flash and barely managed to hold off the onrushlng Calhoun. Parry O'Brien of Los Angeles, who holds every shotput record in the books, captured his specialty with a heave of 61 feet, 8 inches RECORDS (Continued on Pag SB) V