I
(Fighting Preps Slow Viks
To 33-20 Pace in finale
If there were a playoff for de
termination and fight, Mt. An
gel's never-say-die Preps would
be listed today on the roster of
the 1950 state high school bas
ketball tournament to be held
next week in Eugene.
But the scoreboard gave the
district 11 crown to the Salem
high Vikings Wednesday night
when the final buzzer stopped
the game at 20-33. And this
gave the Viks the berth in the
atate meet.
Except for the opening mo
ments, and a point in the second
quarter when the Preps man
aged an 8-all tie, Salem held a
shaky edge throughout the game.
Mt. Angel had entered the
contest as a hopeless under
dog, but to watch them in ac
tion showed they had little re
gard for the odds. Fritz Beyer
opened the scoring for the
Preps by collecting a gift point
on a foul called on Jim Rock.
Layton Gilson put the Viks
In front momentarily with a
field goal, but the Preps work
ed back to a 3-all tie before
Salem began to move in front
A on gifters collected by Gilson
and a two-pointer by Girod.
At the quarter Salem led, 7-4.
It was 13-8 at the half and 24-17
at the end of the third period,
At the opening of the second
half, the Vikings showed some
of the fire which made them the
top-heavy favorite in the dis
trict 11 race. But after gaining
a ten-point edge, the scoring
lire burned out.
Following the game, trophies
lor the top finishers were award
ed by E. A. Carleton, principal
of Salem high.
The Viking victory puts Sa
lem in the upper bracket of
the Eugene tournament op
posite Scappoose in the first
round battle. Should the Viks
manage to scale that hurdle,
they will face the winner of
the Dallas-Jefferson (Port
land) contest.
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Birod.g 3 3 4 8 Payson.g 3 4 B 9
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Free throws missed Salem 8. Mt. Angel
IS. Halftime score: Salem 15, Mt. Angel 0.
Officials: John Kolb and Al Ltghtner.
kiU Scratched
By FRED ZIMMERMAN, Capital Journal Sports Editor
Park Improvements
In putting the field at Waters park in shape for the 1950
Western International league season, Business Manager George
Emigh learned that there was little damage from football cleats
implanted there last fall by Salem high and the Viking op
ponents. Top soil and a few pounds of grass seed have smoothed
out the few rough spots, although it was found necessary to
rebuild the pitching mound. Pulling in of the left field fence
a few feet has been completed, a condition that should prove
popular with the sluggers. The stands are being refurbished a
bit, including repainting of the womens' powder room. While
the personnel of the club will not be known until Portland
cuts loose some of its surplus, the make-up of the Solon club
is pretty well fixed. All of them
at Corvallis about March Z9.
Beaver Boosters
The mural room of the Great Western Malting company,
Vancouver, Wash., will be the location for the Beaver Booster
meeting slated for 5:30 the evening of March 16. Quite an
appropriate setting for backers of a club that has been under
the ownership of a producer of malted beverages. Tommy
Luke, chairman of the boosters, in his announcement, reports
Manager Bill Mulligan, now with the Beavers at their River
side, Cal., training camp, will fly up for the festivities.
Eugene's Big Man
No doubt Dean Parsons, Eugene's 6-foot 7-inch center, will
be one of the taller young fellows in the state basketball tourna
ment. The Eugene Axemen, after
tent start, came through in the district tournament with flying
colors. Improvement of Parsons played a large part in the up
swing. Bothered all season by unsteadiness at the free throw
line, Parsons canned 10 in 11 attempts in one of the tournament
contests. The Lane county champs lost two to balem during the
regular season, as they did also to Grants Pass and Marshfield.
So, it would seem the Axemen have a tough assignment in the
forthcoming series at Eugene.
Kunke Makes Good
We have no desire to put the whammy on Gordon Kunke,
Dallas high school basketball coach, but his achievements
with the Dragons this season should not be overlooked. It
was his first season at Dallas after a year or so with Moro
in central Oregon. With a bit more luck in a couple of key
games the Dragons could have won the Willamette Valley
league title, no mean achievement. Gordon is a graduate of
Willamette university, where he played basketball. It is the
luck of the draw that Dallas has to meet Jefferson of Port
land in the initial round, a tough assignment to say the least.
But, as has been said many times, "the taller they are, the
harder they fall."
Brackets Look Even
With Roosevelt of Portland, Grants Pass and La Grande all
located in the lower bracket, there has been a tendency among
the experts to designate that section of the state tournament the
tougher of the two. However, the upper bracket doesn't exactly
consist of eight squads of daisy pickers, since the lot Includes
Salem, Jefferson of Portland, Marshfield and Corvallis, just to
name half of them. Salem's initial opponent Scappoose comes
from a district that involves Rainier, St. Helen's, Vernonia and
Clatskanie. There might be a tendency to take the District 14
title holders a bit too lightly, but Coach Harold Hauk is too much
of a campaigner to fall for that. What most Viking fans are wor
ried about is the prospect of Salem meeting Corvallis in the
semi-finals. Of course they will have to clear Scappoose, Dallas
or Jefferson to reach that stage of competition. Whether the
Spartans could spoon out a dose similar to the one the Vikings
had to swallow a couple years ago in the final tilt is a matter
of conjecture. That year Salem
68-37 and St. Helen's 68-41 before colliding with Corvallis. The
Spartans came up to the final heat by downing West Linn, 44
35, Washington, 32-30, and Marshfield, 48-46. Then Corvallis'
slow 'em up tactics paid off to the tune of 47-43 for the cham
pionship. ' :
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Tourney Finale
Captain
Rock and Layton Gilson) await a rebound from a long set
shot fired by Ken Payseno, mt. Angel, in final action of the
District 11 tourney. Mt. Angel players in the photo are, from
left, Dave Ebner, Frances Donley and Norb Wellman. Dick
Norton, Viking guard is at far right. Inset shows halftime
entertainment offered by Viking girl tumblers. Included in
the halftime show were: Ellena Johnson, Janet Bayer, Greta
Sehresengost, Carol Russel, Kathline White, Velma Carrow,
Joyce Larsen and Joann Stark.
Busmen Take Division
Crown in Second Round
With just one more round of
competition scheduled, City
Transit Lines has annexed the
second round championship of
the National division, City bas
ketball league. The transporta
tion men beat Post Office Wed
nesday night, 39 to 28 to grab
the title.
National Guard downed Ma
rine Reserves, a to is, ana
Capitol Business College bump-
will report for spring training
shaking off a somewhat hesi-
beat Baker, 54-36, Astoria,
A four-man crew of Vikings (from left:
Daryl Girod, Doug Rogers, Jim
ed Burrough's 33 to 31.
CTL 8! tat) p0,t office
Klelnsmlth 0 p g Gardner
Blakely 6 p 6 Humphreys
Waters 10 c 3 Touchle
Clark b 3 l Lathrop
Pitsslmons 6 3 7 Albrlch
Subs: CTL Ashcraft 1; PO Lucas 2,
Moreson 1.
Halftime: CTL 18, PO 10.
National Guard (43) (19) Mar. Reserve
Young 1 p 8 West
Brown p 7 wuson
Blank 3 c 3 Jaqua
Cummings 18 o Jones
Michaels 13 G Akers
Subs: NO Hart 4; Marines Westllng
Halftime: NG 19 Marines 3.
Burrough's (31) (33) CBC
Roberts 11 p i Moon
Lee 4 p g Coats
Holman 4 c 4 skeels
Hoffert 10 o 9 Oodsey
Knedlsr o Turner
Subs: CBC Lawrence 3, Brunnell 3;
Burroughs Hastings 2.
Halftime: Burroughs 13. CBC 10.
MSfmfin DaIlas h'Sh school's wrestling team that will take
v part in the state meet at Oregon State Friday and
Saturday. Kneeling, left, to right, Roy Stevens, manager,
Allan Hendrickson, Earl Curtis, Don Earl, Ron Heckathorne,
manager. Top row, left to right: Don Pycatt, Marvin Dixon,
Ron Rcgehr, Ray Friesen, Jack Seibert, LeRoy Stepper, La
mar 'Tilgner, Vern Buhler, Dick Abel, Don Jackson, Coach
Thomas in the center.
National Leaders Suffer
Upsets from Outsiders
(Br the Associated Press)
Holy Cross, Duquense and
Syracuse, all tournament-bound,
took It on the chin last night
in college basketball.
Holy Cross, district one's rep
resentative in the NCAA play
offs, was upset by Yale, 66-62,
at New Haven, Conn.
Duquense and Syracuse, both
in the national invitation tour
ney, were beaten by Villanova,
68-52, and Canisius, 65-64, re
spectively.
Yale, behind at one time by
10 points in the second half, put
on a great rally to whip Holy
Cross on two field goals by Stan
Peacock in the last 90 seconds.
It was the second straight
defeat for Holy Cross after
29 straight victories! includ
ing a carryover of three from
last year.
Villanova, out in the cold
for a tourney bid because of
difficulties with the NCAA,
plastered Duquense as Paul
Arizin tossed in 30 points to
Luscious Luke
Assigned Second
Team With Tribe
Tucson, Ariz., March 9 (U.R)
Luke Easter, Negro power hit
ter was assigned to the second
team in the Cleveland Indians'
final intra-squad game today.
Mickey Vernon will play first
base for the regulars and Bob
Kennedy will play right field,
Manager Lou Boudreau an
nounced. Veteran Ken Keltner
also was assigned to play third
base for the "regulars" while
Rookie Al Rosen was shunted to
the Yannigan squad.
Turner Church
Defeats Dallas
Turner Turner Church of
Christ basketball team defeated
Dallas Church of Christ. 39 to
33. Turner led at the half, 14
to 11.
Turner 130) (33) Dallas
Standley
10 Sfirfl
Davenport 3 . .
R. Me.shelle 12
Weinart 8 ....
,.F,... 2 B. Dornhecker
,.C. 8 Keith
.0 2 Harold
Mashelle lfl
II C- Dornlieprror
boost his season total to 735.
Canisius, knocked out of a
tourney bid by losing to Niagara
last week, led Syracuse at the
half, 39-26. The Orange rallied
to go ahead with seven minutes
left. Canisius tied it at 63-63,
then went ahead to stay on two
free throws by Frank Pleto and
rBob Stoetzel.
Pennsylvania drubbed Duke,
of the Southern conference, 68
50. Columbia whipped Harvard,
71-60, in an eastern "Ivy" lea
gue behind Norm Skinner's 20
points.
Rutgers salvaged something
from a poor season by beating
Colgate, 67-57. In other eastern
games Rhode Island State trim
med Brown, 67-53, and Siena
took Williams, 46-34.
Indiana State, Eastern Illinois,
Missouri Central, Kansas Wes
ley an and New Mexico A&M
qualified for the NAIB tourney
in Kansas City opening next
week.
This makes a total of 25 teams
certified for the 32-team tour
ney, Including Hamline, last
year s winner.
Monmouth Hoopers
Give B-2 Trophy
To School at Meet
Monmouth A student body
assembly was held at MHS when
Ralph Thompson, captain of the
basketball team, in behalf of his
team presented the student body
with the district 2-B trophy won
by the team Saturday night. Ron
Zimmerdahl, president of MHS
student body, received the trophy.
The volleyball letters were also
presented. Gins receiving their
letters were: Dolly Heide, cap
tain, Wonda Nelson, co-captain,
Margaret Stump, Elizabeth
Gunn, Delpha Owens, Patsy Par
tridge, Joan Fisher, Joanne Da
vis, Donna Comstock and Bar
bara Benscoter, manager.
Others helping with the vol
leyball games were: LaDonna
Breon, storekeeper: Earlene
Conkey, linesman; and Karleen
Evans, timekeeper.
LOCAL UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS AND FEATURES
FAN FARE
Dallas Tournament Bound
After Waiting 12 Years
By WES SHERMAN
Dallas The first Dallas high
school basketball team since
1938 to make the state tourna
ment will be Eugene-bound
Tuesday under the leadership of
Coach Gordon Kunke, who is
completing his first year here
with a district 8 championship
five.
The boys play their first game
in the tournament Wednesday
morning at 9 against Jefferson
Dragon Wrestlers
Enter State Mix
Dallas All but three mem
bers of Coach Jess Thomas' Dal
las high school wrestling team
will be entered in the state tour
nament at Corvallis Friday and
Saturday as a result of their
showing in the recent district
tourney at Albany.
Participating in the district
tournament were Salem, Alba
ny, Jefferson, Lebanon and Dal
las. The Dragons gained five
first places, three seconds, two
thirds and two fourths. LeRoy
Stepper will be unable to com
pete because of a back injury.
Pelicans Favored
To Win Wrestling
Crown in Tourney
Corvallis, March 9 VP) T h e
Klamath Falls Pelicans are fa-
vored to win a third consecutive
state championship when wrest
lers from high schools of four
districts compete here Friday
and Saturday.
ine Pel jeans are sending a
21-man team to the tournament,
almost the maximum of two en
tries for each of the 12 weight
divisions. They will be among
192 who qualified in district
matches.
Other district title schools In
clude Canby, which will send 16
wrestlers; Salem 15 and Oregon
City 13.
Wolfe Whips Ball in Main
Event; Ed Kahut WinsTKO
If Dave Ball hasn't learned by
this time that Indian Dick Wolfe
is his master, then Davey is a
hard lad to convince.
Wolfe decisively defeated Ball
in Wednesday night's main ev
ent of the V.F.W. fight card. It
was their fourth meeting with
the redskin coming out on top
in each instance.
Wednesday night it was
more convincing than ever
that Wolfe is the better box
er, has more stamina and is
tops in every department ex
cept courage. Ball has plenty
of that. He had to, to remain
in there and take the pasting
dished out, particularly in the
late rounds.
Always in superb condition,
Wolfe was going strong at the
Salem, Oregon, Thursday, March 9, 1950
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high of Portland. While they are
not too optimistic about the out
come, they are determined to
give all they have to win.
As Captain Ray Olson stated
Tuesday night at McMinnville
when he accepted the district
trophy, "We are going to do
our best for district 8."
The Dragons won three con
secutive games to take the dis
trict title, defeating McMinn
ville, 43 to 37; Newberg 53 to
48; and Dayton, 45 to 33.
Coach Kunke's squad was
the first Dallas club to make
a state berth since Coach
Dwight Adams' team went in
1938. They fell before Sandy,
27 to 24.
First Dallas team to go to the
tourney was Coach Dave
Wright's great team of 1930. This
quintet played four games be
fore being outsted although it
lost the opener to Pendleton, 22
to 30. The squad then dropped
Redmond, 29 to 20, and North
Bend, 18 to 7. Finally, it was
pitted against Pendleton for a
second time in the double elim
ination and lost by one point, 18
to 17.
In 1934, Coach Oramel Shreeve
guided the Dragons into the big
event. They were immediately
beaten by Astoria, 47 to 20. In
the second round they came back
strong and dropped Jefferson of
Portland, 33 to 28. Columbia
Prep sent the boys home with a
27 to 21 defeat.
Abel Uglow, star guard of
the 1930 team, holds an honor
that may never be equalled by
another Dragon athlete. In the
1930 tournament he was
awarded the trophy for Indi
vidual achievement, an award
based on playing ability, value
to his team and all-around
sportsmanship. He was also
chosen on the all-state team.
Members of the tourney teams,
many of whom are still Dallas
residents are as follows: lu.iu
Eldon Vaughn, f; Leander Quir
ing, f; Dwight Webb, c; Bob
Griffin, g; Abel tlglow, g; Irvin
Plett, f; Dutch LeFors, f; Dave
Moser, g.
1934 Bill Fisher, f; Henry
Kliever, f-c; Willard Petre, f;
Burrell Webb, c; Glen Jones, g;
J. C. Pleasant, g; Ed Hamilton,
f; Lloyd Hunter, f-c; Andy Dem
bokski, g.
1938 Warren Bennett, f; Joe
Williams, f; Lloyd Jackson, c;
Mike Peters, g; Mel Dornhec-
ker, g; Al Kroeker, g; Don Low,
Arnold Peters, Kenneth Kliever.
Making the trip with this
year's aggregation will be the
following: Captain Ray Olson,
center; Wes Ediger, high scor
ing forward; Don Fischer, for
ward; Larry Cook, guard; George
Clark, guard; Bob Besc, Bill
Read and Jake Janzen. Three
men are battling it out for two
other places on the reserve list,
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end. For that matter, Ball in
dicated that he had put in his
best licks training for the bout
when he staged a furious rally
in the ninth, backing Dick into
a corner and whaling away for
all he was worth. The effort was
too late and Ball knew he was
beaten without waiting to see
his opponent's arm hoisted by
Referee Packey McFarland.
Eddie Kahut didn't get too
much of a test in his initial
professional appearance. He
stopped Dick Collie after 35
seconds in the second heat.
McFarland halted the bout
when it was apparent Collie
could offer no resistance to
the smooth working Kahut.
Brother 'Tony was in the
Woodburn boy's corner.
Page 15
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COURT
Bill Wickersham of Vancou
ver, decisioned Al Cliff of Port--land
in six rounds. Wickersham '
was visibly tired after the third
round but Cliff, staging one of
his poorer exhibitions, didn't -seem
to know how to take ad-:
vantage of the situation. Even!
at that, a draw wouldn't have
hurt either contender. '.
"Lucky" Johnson, Portland,
evidently left his horseshoe '
or rabbit's foot in the dress- '
ing room for he was the vie- i
tim of a second round kayo by ;
Bobby Schaffer of Eugene.
Bill "Kit" Carson of Portland
and Jimmy Huckaby of San "
Jose went four rounds to a
draw. j
Attendance was much "better -than
for previous cards, due in
part to lower prices and in part
to Eddie Kahut.
Webfoots' Urban ;
Voted to North
Division Stars
Los Angeles, March 9 (IP) .
Two Washington State college
stars and one man each from
Washington, Oregon and Idaho
comprise the coaches' all-northern
division Pacific Coast con
ference basketball team.
Three of the team members..
announced yesterday by Com
missioner Victor O. Schmidt.
were unanimous choices Ed"
Gayda and Gene Conlev of WSC.
and Washington's Louie Soriano.
Gayda is the long repeater
from last year's all-star quintet. "
He also is the only senior.
Pairing with Gayda Is Ore
gon's Will Urban. Idaho's Bob
Pritchett teams with Soriano at
the guard post.
Second team choices, includ
ing ties, were: Forwards, Leon,
Mangis, WSC, Ladon Henson,
Washington,' and Bob Payne, Or-"
cgon State; center, Duanc
Enochs, Washington; and guards,'
Frank Guisness, Washington,
Dick Geisler, Idaho, Jack Kel
ler, Oregon, and Dick Ballan
tyne, Oregon State.
Three players were given hon
orable mention: Tom Holman
and Jim Nau of Oregon State,
and Bob Wheeler of Idaho.
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