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Bearcats Hold Tight to 2nd Grossenbaclier Hits 30 to Rip Whitman Willamette Shoots .447 for 89-66 Win, 4th Straight; to Play at Whitman This Weekend By A. C. JONES Capital Journal Sporti Edilor This peach-basket sport is getting to be more and more fun for the smooth Willamette university Bearcats, who have won their last four Northwest conference games on a combined shooting average of .402. The stubborn victim Monday night here was Whitman college, 88-66. That's a score that doesn't sound like the visiting Missionaries were converting anybody, but the fact is that Whitman was a pesky pursuer until the last seven min utes. Then came the deluge of free throws and goals that spread wide the gap from 68-61 to some thing more suitable for the oc casion. To Whitman for Two Willamette will return the favor, venturing into Missionary territory this weekend to play at Whitman's Valla Walla reserve Friday and Saturday, then going up the Snake River to College of Idaho for a Monday game. That should be the end of the easy pickin's, for the final three . conference games then will be against Linfield here Feb. 23, at Lewis and Clark March 1, then against Pacific here March 2. Coach Johnny Lewis' improving legions arc in the second place saddle by half a game over Pacific and is well-situated on the loss column same as Linfield's three. Linficld's remaining schedule perhaps is more favorable than Willamette's, because the Wild cats have two at College of Idaho this weekend, then one at Whitman Feb. 18 before winding up against Willamette Feb. 23, in one that could decide who takes the marbles. 30 By Grossenbacher Last night's field goal percent age of .447 was necessary, the way Whitman was slinging the ball through the ring: The 5-foot-8 Bob Becker had only to jump in some cleared spot in order to get off a two-point shot and Max Johnson, from Idaho country, had quite a beady eye, too. Heady Eddy Grossenbacher was the johnny on the spot, though, as the freshman guard from Milwau kie had the best night of any Bear cat this season 30 points. This he acomplished by shooting 20 times and hitting 12 field goals, and by getting seven free throw attempts and hitting six of them. In the first four minutes Gros senbacher shot four times and hit them all jump shots, long shots, driving lay-ins. For the half he had hit six of 10 shots and had the moral support in his daring lay-ups of Ron Taylor, Vic Back lund, Neil Causbie and Don Hoy. 19 Bebounds by Hoy For the game, Backlund scored 16, Causbie 15, Hoy 13 and Taylor 10. Hoy was the leading rebounder with 19 by cleverly positioning his 6-foot figure. Causbie snared 13. As a team, Willamette grabbed 48 rebounds to 37 for Whitman. Whitman shot .352. Whitman's last chance was at 60-53 with 11 minutes remaining. But Hoy, Backlund, Grossen bacher, Causbie made 13 free throws and four field goals to stretch it to 85-64 before the reserves came in for the kill. Masa Watanabe. starting guard, was injured near the close but was up and around soon. Whitman (66) (88) Willamette GFPT GFPT Greable 4 O 5 8 Hoy 4 5 2 13 Johnson 6 1 3 13 Bcklnd ft 6 0 16 Green 3 14 7 Causbie 5 5 1 15 Becker 8 0 216 Gsbchr 12 6 0 30 Parker 3 S 3 11 Wtnahe 0 13 1 Chrlsman 10 12 Taylor 3 4 3 10 Beck 3 3 19 Driver 0 0 0 0 Cline 0 0 10 Thmpsn 0 0 0 0 Hartley 0 0 0 0 Johns 10 0 2 Zigln.an 0 2 0 2 Totals 28 10 20 66 Totals 30 29 9 89 Free throws missed: Whitman 6, Willamette 8. Halftlme Kore: Whit man 36, Willamette 42. Officials: Mandlc and O'Neil. $200 Purse at Here in 8-Man Battle Royal A $200 purse will be at stake tonight when eightwrestlers meet in a Russian Battle Royal at the Salem Armory. Each of the eight participants will put up a $25 entry fee, and the winner will take all. Featured performers expected to be around after early elimina tions include Luther Lindsey, Gen tleman El Francis, Bull Montana, Luigi Macera and Will Bill Sav age. Other wrestlers, who could pro vide an upset in the Battle Royal, are Jim LaUock, Tony Morelli and Alec Perez. To be eliminated a performer fins to be thrown over the top rope of the ring and dropped on the floor. Since everything goes, there'll be no referee for tonight's clash. Four preliminaries will precede the Battle Royal. In the opener, Tony Morelli will meet Perei and in the second Savage meets LaRock. The latter wrestled on the 1952 Olympic squad and may have a surprise In store for the rugged Savage.' in the third match Luigi Macera twite viti Gentleman El Fran cs Top prelim will match Bull Mon tana and Luther Lindsey. First match start! at 8:30 p. m. NORTHWEST CONFERENCE W L Pet. W L Pet. Linfield 8 3 .127 L-Clark 6 .400 Willamet. 8 3 .667 C-Idaho 2 S .286 Pacific 8 t .600 Whitm'n 1 6 ,H3 Monday's results: ' At Willamette 89. Whitman 66: at Linfield 70, Col lege of Idaho 65. Sooners Face Rebuilding Job For Signalman OKLAHOMA CITY W For the first time in his career, .Okla homa football coach Bud Wilkin son says, he will have to dip into his third and fourth string quar terbacks for a split-T general. The 1956 national champions lost 16 seniors through gradua tion, including Jimmy Harris and his understudy Jay O'Neal. Neith er played in a losing college grid game as the Sooners built their undefeated string to 40 straight. Harris, of Breckenridge, Tex., took over in 1954 from another outstanding signal caller, Gene Calame. Ahead of Calame it was Eddie Crowder, Claude Arnold, Darrell Royal and Jack Mitchell. Despite the rebuilding job fac ing Wilkinson in the quarterback department, he declared, "we hope to do as well as we did last year." He predicted that Pittsburgh, the Sooners' first opponent of this season, would be the most formi dable foe on the Oklahoma sched ule. The Sooners meet the Panth ers at Pittsburgh Sept. 21. "There is no doubt but what Pittsburgh will be the toughest opponent we play," he said. In Big Seven Conference competi tion, Wilkinson said he considered Colorado a "serious threat." Goble's Parents Have Bad Luck All Way Around LONGV1EW UV-Hoping to sec their son play basketball for Ore gon State College, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Goblc Journeyed to Corval lis Saturday from their home at Toutle, in the Ml. St. Helens timber country. They found their tall-timber son, Gary, benched as a result of a blow to the eye from the previous night's game. They saw his team lose to California. They got back to Toutle and found their home burned to the ground. Capital Racers Meet Tonight First stock car race at Holly wood Bowl this season probably will be in April, Red Wcitman, Capital Auto Racing Association president, said today. Actual plans for the first race will be made tonight in an asso ciation meeting at the Checker board Tavern near Gervais at 8 o'clock. All racing drivers are being urged to attend so associa tion officials can get a count of the cars which will participate in coming races. Racing movies will be shown fol lowing the business meeting, Wcit man said. RACING M I A M I, Fla. Trentonian ($2.80) led all the way to outclass a field of seven rivals in winning the Year Rounders Purse at Hia leah Park. Stake Tonight JIM LAROCK , . , won't need hit medals Section 2, Page 1 FULL A. P. AND V. Not 7 Feet Tall ( M A I Dave Roy, above, Is to provide the opposition for the 7-foot-2 Ewart Potgieter at the Salem Armory Saturday night in a 10-round boxing match. Roy, some 135 pounds lighter than Potgieter, is a tough, third-ranked heavy weight in Canada. South Falls From 6th to 9th in Poll Klamath Holds to Lead; Medford Now 5lh By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Klamath Falls tightened its grip on first place in the Associated Press poll of Oregon high school basketball teams this week. Despite being idle over the weekend, Klamath Falls stretched its lead over runner-up Eugene to 14 points in the balloting. Klamath is the powerhouse in the Southern Oregon Conference (district 6), where it is leading the circuit and Medford is the closest contender. Euecne was bounced out of the lead in the poll last week after losing a game. This week, the Axemen edged Springfield, 58-55, but dropped more points in tne balloting. li or lb f irsts Klamath Falls picked up 11 of the 16 first place votes by sports- writers and sport-scastcrs thus week and Eugene only 5. Central Catholic of Portland, leader in the Metropolitan league, maintained its winning pace over the weekend with impressive vic tories over Parkrose and Beaver ton and strengthened its hold on Klamath Falls Tops UP Poll PORTLAND (UP) Klamath Falls and Madras clung to top spots among A-l and A-2 Oregon high school basketball teams but the class B group had two new leaders today in the weekly Jour nal coaches' noil. Knappa, with a record of 20 straight wins, and sisters were in first place in the class B poll. Elkton, the previous leader, dropped to third. Central Catholic and Eugene fol lowed Klamath Falls in A-l while Scappoose trailed Madras in A-2. Others in the top 10 in class A-2 were Drain, Eagle Point. Cascade, Rccdsport, Dallas, Molalla, Glide and Woodburn. In class B, the leaders were followed by Wallowa, Stanfield, Jefferson, Valsctz, Helix, Harris- burg and Echo. The A-l rankings: Team 1. Klamath Falls 2. Central Catholic 3. Eugene 4. Benson Poind 75 71 70 46 46 44 22 21 12 12 7, South Sa- 4. Medford 6. Astoria 7. Lincoln 8. Hermiston 9. Pendleton 9. Grant Others: Roscburg lem 5, Albany 4, Jefferson 3, Marshfield and Beaverton 1 each Tuesday, P. W IRE, LOCAL AND third place in the poll, moving up within 16 points of Eugene. Benson, leader in the Portland league, advanced a notch to 4th place. During the week Benson whipped Washington and Wilson. Medford. holder of the No. 4 slot Inst week, fell to fifth despite lopsided weekend victories over CcntralPoint. South Salem. No. 6 last week. slumped to ninth place after be ing upset, 50-47, by Sweet Home. Astoria, No. 7 last week, took over sixth on the strength of weekend defeats of David Doug last and Milwaukie. Pendleton clung to its No. 8 po sition despite a loss over the weekend. Pendleton beat Baker, 68-67, but lost to La Grande, 49-33. Grant of Portland, which was not in the select group last week, latched onto the No. 10 place this time. Marshfield and Jefferson, ninth and 10th last week, dropped into the also-rans. The voting is based on 10 for first place, nine for second, etc. Team Points 1. Klamath Falls (12-2) 153 2. Eugene (14-2) 1.1!) 3. Central Catholic 13-2) 121 4. Benson (9-5) 104 5. Medford (11-3) 102 6. Astoria (12-3) 64 7. Hcrmiston (13-2) 3B 8. Pendleton (12-3) 37 9. South Salem (11-4) 23 10. Grant (8-6) 22 Others: Roscburg 20, Albany and Madras 11, Marshfield 9, Mc Minnvillc and Redmond 6, Lincoln and Drain 4, Elkton 2, and one each for Springfield and Myrtle creek. Tide Table TIDES FOR TAFT, OREGON (Compiled by U. ft. Cntit ar firodetie Survey. Portland. Ore.) FERRUAKY IMJ HIGH WATEHS LOW WATERS Time Height Time Height 12 turn a.m. i n 11 -36 p.m. 5 9 10 57 am. 7.7 3 54 a m 5 1ft n.m. 4 53 a rn. 2 0 S:54 ptn. -1.0 5 4H a m. 1.5 6 .IB p m. 10.5 6:42am. II 7:17 pm. -0 7 1:34 a.m. OR 7:5fl p.m. -0 2 6 26 a.m. 0 5 SHrtpm. 0 3 12:17 a.m. 6 2 11:50 a m. 7 7 12 57 am. 6 6 12:43 p.m. 7 4 1:36 a.m. 6 6 1:35 pm. 7 0 2:17 am. 70 2:30pm. 65 District Wrestling Tourney Due to Open Last of the entries are expected today in the District 6 high school wrestling tournament at South Salem high school Thursday and Friday. Harold Hauk. tournamnet direc tor, said that district members are from North and South Salem, Al bany. Lebanon. Corvallis, Sweet Home, Dallas, Philomath, Central ar.fl Santiam Union I Mill City - Gates). Each team can enter two boys in each of the 13 weight divisions. February 12, 1957 .1 VALLEY COVERAGE Linfield Retains Margin Coyotes Shaded 70-65; 22 by Machainer By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Linfield preserved its North west Conference basketball lead with a 70-65 victory over College of Idaho Monday night, while Willamette stayed in contention for the championship by defeat ing Whitman, 89-66. The outcome left Linfield with an 8-3 record and Willamette with a 6-3 count. Linfield needed a late rally to nip C of I after trailing at half time, 38-25. Vern Marshall, Bill Machamer and Bill Hughcy pro vided the scoring punch in the final minutes. Machamer ended up with 22 points, high for the evening. Willamette had little trouble with Whitman as Ed Grossonbach er showed the way with 30 points. Five players hit double figures in the scoring column for the win ners. C of Idaho (65) Merltt (3) Persklna (12) Berklan (IS) Maklnl (10) (70) Linfield (22) Machamer (12) Kofford (3) Harms (10) Riley D. Moore (6) (HI mown Sub: College of Idaho D. Acker. man 7, Laca 2, Kerfoot 10. Linfield Woods 4, Hughey 6, Hugging 2, Mar shall 0. - Two Capital Leaders See Wins Tonight Woodburn and Cascade should remain leaders of the Capital Con ference tonight after basketball games with second division clubs. Both will be on the road, Wood burn traveling to Mt. Angel and Cascade going to North Marion. Mt. Angel is winless in league play and is not expected to pro vide mucn opposition lor the strong Bulldogs. North Marion, fifth in the league on a 3-5 record, could spring an upset on Cascade, but the highly ranked Cougars remain as heavy favorites. Scrra's Sabers, tied for fifth, will travel to Silverton to meet the fourth place Silver Foxes and Stayton will entertain Gervais in other games. Stayton desperately needs to win tonight to remain on the heels of the leaders. The Eagles lost to Cascade last Friday to drop out of a first place tie. Baylor Notches 54 in Defeating Buchan Bakers SEATTLE UH Elgin Baylor scored 54 points for a new school record in leading Seattle Univer sity to an 84-70 basketball victory over the Buchan Bakers, defend ing national AAU champions, here Monday night. The Chieftain's high scoring center hit on 20 of 30 field goal attempts and 14 of 19 free throws to eclipse the mark of 51 points set by All America Johnny O'Brien against Gonzaga in 1953. Seattle, ranked fourth in the na tion, had little trouble with the amateur champs. After taking an 11-2 lead early in the first min utes, the Chiefs stretched that to 41-28 at halftlme and never were in serious trouble. It was SU's 20th triumph in 22 starts. Basketball Scores COLLEGE RESULTS Willamette fla. Whitman fifl Unffcld 70. College of Idaho AS Seattle U 84, Buchan linker 70 Hichmond 7. The Citadel 64 North Carolina 68, Virginia 59 Michigan Mute fifl, Purdue 64 Indiana 01, Minnesota 72 Alabama 66. Florida 85 Wisconsin 70. Michigan 15 IHltiof 104, Northwestern 67 Nebraska 5.1, Missouri 49 VjtfidiThllt 71. Tulane 58 K a runs State 74, Oklahoma 45 Oklahoma City 96, Western Kentucky 67 Ceorfria Tech 87, Louisiana Stile U. 60 MiMixmppI State 89. Kentucky 81 Niagara 82. Kegl 70 Tennesnee 08, Mississippi M Drake 81. Hradtey 85 Colorado 6f, Iowa State 53 Here Thursday Heighing-in will be from 11 a m to noon Thursday and drawings will be made immediately after the weighing. Weighing on Friday must he completed hy 1 45 p.m. Matches Thursday will start at 2:45 p.m. and continue throuch the quarter-finals. Semifinals will he- jgin at 2:45 p m. Friday, with li nals and consolation finals at 7.30 p.m. Friday. Winners ol championship r.. atones and consolation finals will qualify for th "" 'ourney at Corvallis the next week. a SBC to Hear Bill Brenner About Solons The February Salem Break fail club dinner Wednesday eye ing will have a baseball flavor. BUI Brenner, new Salem Sen ator business manager and field pilot, will be the speaker on the national game as It affects local baseball plans this summer. With him In this first public appearance wilt be Carl Gunnar son, his business manager. Both moved here recently from Se attle. The meeting Is to start at 7 o'clock at the Senator hotel with a morgasbord bill of fare, open to Interested men. Membership in the club Is not required. Belko Selects 10 Best PCC Hoop Players EUGENE Ul Steve Belko, coach of the University of Oregon basketball team, told a luncheon group Monday that if he could pick 10 players in the Pacific Coast Conference for use on one team, two would be from Califor nia and two from Washington. The other teams of the confer ence, except Idaho, have one player each ho would pick. His choices: Doug Smart and Bruno Boin, Washington; Larry Friend and Earl Robinson, Cali fornia; Dave Gambec, Oregon State; Larry Beck, Washington State; Bill Bond, Stanford; Dick Banton, UCLA; Danny Rogers, Southern California; and Charlie Franklin, Orcgom FEARLESS TURING . THE TIRE DOCTOR SEZ: YOU CAN'T BUY A LIFE! BUT YOU CAN BUY SAFE TIRES! National Statistics reveal that over 40,000 people were killed on the highway during 1 956. Mechanical failures caused thousands of these fatal accidents and over 50 of the mechanical failures were traced to tire troublel Trade Close out on ture Sealing 90). YOU OWE IT TO YOURSELF! 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Russell has a 16 points a game average and Moore 13, and both lead the team in every depart ment. Starting in Russell's place at center will be Wayne Robinson Moore at forwards. The other starters will be Ed Lewis at forward, and Bob Trel stad and Jerry Coon at guards. Milwaukie will pin its hopes on whether or not Con Pckkola, the 5-6 guard, Is hot. Pckkola has close to a 20 points a game, but in the previous meeting between the two clubs, Trclstnd held Pck kola to four points. The Mustangs took a pair on Your Unsafe Tires Nov;! EASY BUDGET TERMS S cs OTHER SEE FEARLESS SUPER SAFETY SPECIAL! a Few Sets of Premium General Silent Safety Punc- Tires. (This Tire Replaced by our Amazing new Dual BE OPEN EVERY NIGHT UNTIL 9:00 TIRE SERVICE St.-Across from KENT I.AMMKItS junior Viking forward the nose over the weekend and are out of the Metropolitan league title picture. It will be a rare occasion when Milwaukie won't be at Eu gene for the state tourney in March. The Saxons fared little better as the Sweet Home Huskies surprised the Saxons Friday night and came out with a 50-47 win behind Royce McDaniel's 31 points, South re turns to district action Friday in a game at Corvallis. The Spartans aro winless In district games and lost to the Saxons, 57-46, in January. lb &. MANY SPECIALS! BEFORE YOU BUY! Elks Lodge-Phone 2 Viking Sophs, 2 Juniors in Lineup You can't say that Coach Ward Paldanius Isn't looking toward next year as he starts two sophomores, two juniors and only one senior tonight here against Beaverton. At that, the North Salem basket ball coach isn't having such a bad season with all those youneun's nn the court. They are in third place m the district and have a pleasant six-game victory streak going. Tonight the opposition will b difficult and stubborn when Bcnv erton brings its good team here. The Beavers are led by 6-fooM Steve Pauly, who thrives on bas ketball and almost pulled the ear lier game out of the fire when North won, 53-52. Pauly roams thither and yon doing his damage with an assort ment of shots. The Beaverton post man also is 6-4. Paldanius said that he will start Homer Wood, soph forward; Kent Lammers, junior forward; Grant Hnrtcr, soph center; Dennis Mc Kce, senior guard; and Bob Reaves, junior guard. The 6:30 preliminary will match the two junior varsities. As yet no team has bested the North Salem jayvces but they have had a cou ple close ones. Tom Wilson of the Los Angelei Rams led the National Football League in kickoff returns in 1956. He carried 15 returns for 477 yards. 5 P. M. EM 2-2459