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i North Salem to Leave Tuesday for State Class A-l Play ' . i, ! "N Vikings Vs. Ontario How Complicated State A-l Tourney Ladder Looks 1956 Champion Not Around for Defense In 1st Round Game ??!r "rm Lineup Revealed . For 10:15 A.M. Wednesday By A. C. JONES Capital Journal Sporls Editor Ten eager North Salem Vikings will leave Tuesday noon for Eu gene to bunk for a couple nights or more where they can be handv for the state Class A-l basketball tournament. This young assemblage coached by Ward Paldanius fought its way horn near the bottom of District 8 to take one of two state berths allowed. They defied predictions that next year, not this one. was ."their season," and will venture onto the McArthur Court on at least even terms with Ontario. Ontario, another Cinderella team, will meet the Vikings at 10:15 Wednesday morning, the win- , Iter to go against the Marshfield- , Klamath Falls victor at 4:15 p.m. Thursday. The losers of the two first round games will meet at 9:45 Thursday morning. Paldanius Mil Trip Paldanius will be making his sixth visit to the state tourney with a team, for at Astoria he took the Fishermen five of the six years, meeting in a game that decided fifth place in 1952, his team finishing eighth." Now, at North Salem, his team has made it the first season with only two seniors. The youth corps Includes two sophomores and six juniors, but they love playing at - collected gallop and can rebound with the best when determined and "hungry." Hoy, Grossenbacher Rate 2nd All-Star '5 'The Northwest conference bas ketball all-star team for 1957 bracketed the field. . Co-champions Linfield and Pa cific placed two players each on the vote of the six coaches and cellar-dwelling Whitman provided the fifth member. Willamette university rated two M the second team two re markable players who represent the old and the new senior Don Hoy and freshman Eddie Grossenbacher. Grossenbacher, guard from Mil weukie, topped Willamette scoring and Hoy, forward from Newberg was second. 2 Bearcats Mentioned : . .Gaining honorable mention from :. Willamette were Neil Causbie, sen- ; Player Bill Machamer Ron Barcndse Tom Bourgeois Jack Riley - Bob Becker Don Hoy Max Johnson Jerry Kalapus Duane Brady " Honorable Mention . 'Neil Causbie and Vic Backlund, Willamette; Loren Michclsen, Lewis and Clark; Don Adams and Bob Gehrts, Pacific; Mike Berklan and Don Moore, College of Idaho. History Full of Big Upsets By Unranked Teams in State By CHUCK BOICE Capital Journal Special Writer It's a little difficult to know exactly what to say to the North Salem Vikings who will be de parting Tuesday for Eugene and the state A-l basketball tourna ment. Other teams have all the high rankings in the polls. In fact, the Vikings would be unseeded if that was the way the show was or ganized. In addition to that, their gymnasium, the old Vik Villa, tells the story of many a top ranked Viking team of the past. But most fans who are a few - years out of school can recall ' t,i many Instances when ranking did n't mean much. A number of out atanding Salem teams fell before some super-charged so - so outfit and there were times when the Vikings weren't on top of the heap and yet came through with npset wins. That happens in tour naments. 1928 Tourney Recalled . For example m the 1928 tour nament, Salem was trailing As ' toria In the opening game by 10 points, and that was ,some lead m those lays. Led by Tom Duffy, Salem somehow managed to win, 16-34, and went on to capture the third place trophy. The next year Salem was riding high over everyone that passed their way 39-6 over Albany, 43 t U and 31-6 over Eugene and two I (olid wins over Chemawa. It was t decided there should be a district t (layoff for the right to go to the r, ttate tournament. Result: Chem wa 26. Salem 23. In 1930 no one could touch the Astoria Fishermen but Salem got dose enough to take the second place trophy as the result of a thriller. In the semifinals, power ful Commerce of Portland was leading by a po'nt with seconds t go. Substitute Wilson Siegmund came onto the floor and let go : Cat, last second howitzer. It was The ntit year Salem lott to tAaadlctoa la artrttmt la the ttamploBihlp grjne and thea bt North Salem finished with a 15-7 record, winning 10 of its last 11. Losses were to Albany twice, South Salem, Vancouver and McMinn ville. Albany and McMinnville , al so will be at Eugene. Starters Listed Paldanius has listed his starting lineup and it sharply resembles the one used in the closing stretch: Forwards: Kent Lammers, jun ior, and Homer Wood, sophomore. Center: Grant Harter, . sopho more. ... Guards: Dennis McKee, senior, and Bob Reaves, junior. Allowable reserves wilr be Jim Litchfield, junior, and G r r r y Kanz, senior, forwards: Bill Low- cry, junior, center; and V a 1 Barnes, junior, and Dale Drake, junior, guards. . , Student managers are Sid Stein bock, Lannie Ecoy and Don Har Ontario won its position in last-gasp district playoff game over favored Hermiston. The Ti gers from Malheur county were state class A-2 runnersup last year, moving into the A-l class under the stress of growing en rollment. All over 500 average daily attendance are ranked A-l, Few Tigers Return Leading the Tigers is Gary Blacker, who rated honorable men tion on the 1957 All-State team an nounced yesterday by the Oregon ian. Bill Jarrctt is Ontario coach, replacing George Keil, who be came coach at Nampa, Idaho, this year. Blacker, 6-foot-2 senior forward played only a few minutes of last years state tourney and is one of only three back from that squad. ior center from Albany, and Vic Backlund, junior forward from Bandon. Backlund and Hoy were first and third in the conference in free throw shooting accuracy and Causbie was third in rebound ing. Bill Machamer, 7-2 Linfield for ward, was the only unanimous choice. He was miles ahead of the field in scoring with a 25.4 aver age. Tom Bourgeois, Pacific, and Bob Becker, Whitman, each re ceived votes of five of the six coaches. There are no repeaters from last season. Ron Barendse, Pacilic, is the only senior, and Jack Riley, Linfield, is the only freshman. The all - conference selections: FIRST TEAM School Height Class Home Town Linfield 6-2 Junior Madras Pacific 6-3 Senior Aurora Pacific 6-3 Sophomore Springfield Linfield 5-7 Freshman' Portland Whitman 5-8 Junior Walla Walla SECOND TEAM Willamette 60 Senior Newberg Whitman 6-2 Sophomore Nampa, Ida Pacific 6-5 Sophomore Mcdford Lewis and Clark 6-0 Senior Powers Willamette 5-11 Freshman Milwaukie 32 came the Fishermen again. They had all sorts of trouble, what with the great Wally Palm berg, the OSC All-American and present OTI coach, being stamp ed ineligible early in the season and right in the middle of the tournament. He was cleared of being 21-ycars-of-age instead of the legal age of 20 of those days and sparked the Astorians to a 32-29 victory over Salem in the finals. In fact, the whole mess spurred Astoria to great heights, seemingly, as along the way they managed last LOU BECK , upset by Vikings second, one point victories over favored Medford and Hobby Hob son's Benson Tech team. Vlkuigs I'psel Beck's Team In 1940 Harold Hauk's Vikings were up aearast a leal tough Pen delton outfit in the finals. The Buckaroos had a pair of All-State guards in the great Lew Beck and Johnny Eggers but the Viks put new twin on the nressunzea win by holding Pendleton scoreless in the last five minutes and com-1 mg out on top. 36-30. I The next year Salem had enough boys back to be favorites nut As- toria showed up again. During the regular season Salem had thumped Astoria, 53-19. But, In the finals, Roy Seeborg hit a free throw for the Fishermen with 10 seconds to go and Astoria woo in overtime. f , ri fice J :v m 1 Constat Series Ri i . Molalla, Cascade Cougars-Scappoose Game Booked 8:45 WVL Indians to Meet Dram's High Scoring Merrill at 7:30 in A-2 State; 2 Afternoon Games Drain and Scappoose, two of Oregon Class A-2 basketball tournament, will face a pair of Willam ette Valley teams, Molalla and Cascade, tonight at South Salem's gym nasium to close out the tourney's first round of play. Doors to the gym will open at 6:30 p. m. and the Molalla-Drain game will come an hour later, at 7:30 p. m. The Cascade-acap- poose mix is slated for 8:45 p. m. These will be the third and fourth games in the tournament, Madras played Glide and Dayton went against Keeasport in open ing clashes this afternoon. Merrill Averages 29.9 Molalla, Willamette Valley Lea gue champion, will seek to con tain the player carrying the high est average into the three-day tournoy. He is Drain's Virgil Merrill, senior center who has compiled a per game average of 29.9 points while leading the Warriors to a season record of 20 wins and four losses. The Indians of Molalla have on their roster an ideal man to throw against Merrill. Gerald Parker, six foot five Molalla cen ter, may be able to stop the Drain high scorer. Parker, a sec ond team all-state selection last year, averaged 15.1 points for the season. In 1947 one of those "nowhere' teams rose to heights. Heavily favored Salem led Newberg by seven point with less than three minutes to play. It wasn't enough and A kid by the name of Don Hoy dropped In the win ning field goal to cap an amaz ing rally. Salem won the title in 1950 when it blasted Grants Pass off the court in the first quarter and coasted in, but earlier in proceed ings there'd been a squeaker. A tip-in by sub Dick Norton with only three seconds to play sent the Jefferson game into a vic torious overtime for the Vikings. Astoria Pulls Upset The impossible one occurred in 1951. It was against Astoria but hardly one of their great teams. In fact, the outfit looked to be one of their poorest representa tives. Salem led, 27-15, at the half. Astoria began clicking in the last period but the Vikings still held a 42-31 margin with only 2:45 to play. At this point a spindly legged Astoria substitute whose record shows nothing before or since pro ceeded to go crazy. The kid, Paul Gauthler, came Into the game and hit one basket after another. In all, the Fisher men hit their last five quirk ef forts from the field and 11 of their last 15 In a 22-point fourth quarter. Final: Astoria 49, Sa Irm 44. It was the rally and upset of them all but doubtless will be topped one of these days. This sort of thing probably was going on when Bill Reinhart and Spec Kecne were playing back before World War I. Certainly it was the case in 1920 when Slats Gill missed a free' throw in the last minute w ith Salem trailing Lincoln, 10-11 only to have brother Gene Gill tip in the miss lor the first official state cnampinnsnip It's been happening since then and right up to the time Dennis McKee hit that basket with two seconds remaining to beat South and give the Vikings the win they needed for a ticket to Eugene. I OvajC m mm mV tS4 TlOft. - H - 00 AM the highest-ranked teams in the Scappoose, last team to gain a tourney berth, carries a record of 21 wins and three losses to the state meet, and will be slightly favored over Cal Hersey's Cas cade Cougars. PIN PA TTER By FRANK Capital Journal Mr. Average Bowler of Salem to shoot, all on a handicap basis. state bowling tourney at Cherry City the first weekend of the city cham pionship tourney with the woman's city meet to follow in April. Jay Gould, men s city associa tion secretary for the fourth and possibly last year, reports, an in crease in entries for the city shoot from last year s 87 to 95 and pos sibly 100 this year. And the in crease could have been larger had some of Cherry City's neophyte league teams been more eager to compete in the handicap fray. saicm'i Mirer bowlers this weekend Invaded the Mcdford alleys where the women's state bowling tournament is In ses sion. Most rode a chartered bus to Mcdford .where they bowled Saturday and Sunday. Part of their trip, they hoped, was to bring to Salem next year the women's alate bowl- -Ing tourney. Their campaign funds came from check booth dalles at the recent men's tourney. MANY TO TRY ALBANY'S A large nercentage of Salem's bowlers will try their bowling skill on the Albany lanes where the All cenlly. Mrs. Don Nomeycr. wile with a woman's team the same night her husband bowled with his Crescent City men's team. Albany manager Toye Lindblad scheduled out-of-area bowlers according to convenience; and the Crescent City wives, wno iouowea nusbanas on their teams. The latest tournament idea to west summation Bowling Championship tournament being sponsored locally by all three Salem houses. The tourney, so far too complicated 10 nave arawn many entries goes Local bowling houses around the Northwest have entries shoot qualifying scores. The 15 top entries then bowl against each other In the local house. Of these 15, two are selected to bowl In quarter finals each month. Other areas send their representatives to quar ter finals. From the quarter finals, top candidates then bowl In the semi-finals shoot and a championship match finals round at some houses In the Northwest. Each month a then champion for the month It named. (Continued to page 2. columns 7 and 81 "All Kinds of INSURANCE and SURETY BONDS" aauvtwiiti J21 No. HIGH Frioai z:oo: Oianip Series rgsjj? r foes'" - " i F?MV V.15 . -TK'11 i r ' The Scappoose Indians slipped by Hood River, 46-45 to gain the tournament while Cascade edged Woodburn, 57-55, to qualify. Cascade Is no slouch when it comes to good season records, The Cougars have won 17 games and lost only two during the sea son in winning the capital con ference crown. . High scorer for the Cougars was Jim Uhrhammer, who averaged 19.2 points per game. High for Scappoose was Bob Powell, with a 15.6 average. Tuesday at 2 p. m. losers of to day's opening games will meet in consolation playoffs, and at 3:15 p. m. losers of the Molalla-Drain and Cascadc-Scappoose clashes will meet, also in the 1 o s e r ' bracket. Opening round winners play Tuesday night at 7:30 and 8:45 p. m. Consolation finals, for fifth place in the tourney, will be at 2 p. m. Wednesday, and games for third place will be Wednes day night at 7:30 and 8:45 p. m. WALTON Sports Writer has quite a variety of tournaments Recently concluded was the men s Bowl. Next weekend will mark RICH STAUDINGER i . . has 20 200 gnmes - Coast tourney got under way re of new U-Bowl proprietor, howled tourney trips, banded together for strike local alleys is the new North something liko this. PH. EM 4-3333 W" IK' )w - W-V. y '..W- sat. ' V FRII- Tttn, -.'i ' . . .. i .': . rani r-rv m X- ' : V A ' Underdogs' Sec. 2, Page 1 Mon., March 11, 1957 Full A.P. and U.P. Wire and Local Coverage Senators Try Angle To Get Andy George Salem Could Get Hurler With Option Fortunes of the Salem Senators' baseball team took another up ward swing last weekend as gen eral manager Bill Brenner an nounced the hiring of two more in- fielders and bared his plans for getting pitcher Andy George into the fold. Signed by Brenner were Bob Schuler, shortstop who played In the Class C Texas League, and Walt Tyler, first baseman who played last year at Yuma, Ari zona. Andy George previously had told Brenner he was retiring. But when George asked for a hike In salary before he would return, Brenner set about working at it from an other angle. Invited to Camp The result was a possible chance for George to sign up with the Seattle Itainiers of the Pacific Coast League. Seattle has invited George to spring training camp, and if he makes the grade there he will receive a contract then be optioned to Salem. 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Crowds are expected to total more than 70.000 for the five-dav playoffs at McArthur Court, the 10,000 - seat. University of Oregon Pavilion. The first round schedule: Tuesday 7:30 p.m. Lincoln vs. St. Helens; 8:45 p:m. Astoria vs. Benson. Wednesday 9 a.m. Marsh field vs. Klamath Falls: 10:15 a.m.. North Salem vs. Ontario: 1:45 p.m., Grant vs. McMinnville; 3 p.m., Central Catholic vs. Red mond; 7:30 p.m., Eugene vs. Medford: 8:45 p.m. Albany vs. Pendleton, Astoria Has Won 6 Astoria is credited with being the most tournament - wise team, the Fishermen having won s i x championships and placed in eight other tourneys. North Salem has played in only one tournament, losing two and winning no con tests, but before the Salem split to Norm ana south saiem, t h e capital city school amassed a record of seven state champion ships and finished as runnerup on eight other occasions. Among this year s entries will be Eugene, with three state titles. Others who have won titles have been Lincoln (t, Marshfield (2), Medford . (2),-, Klamath Falls and Pendleton. Albany's beat record has been a fouth place, Benson a third, Central Catholic a second, Grant, Ontario, Redmond and McMinnville unplaced, and St. Helens a third. Last at Salem In 1946 Albany, i Astoria, Redmond and St. Helens were not in the tourney last year, but were entrants the previous year. Benson and Ontario were m the playoffs in 1954. Grant has not played in the tournament since 1926. The tournament was inaugu rated hero at the old Men's Gym when Lincoln ot Portland defeated Salem, 27-14, in the finals. Moving to Salem's Willamette University gym the next year, the tourney was again shifted to McArthur Court in 1947, and has been played here since, this being the lltn year. Although Central Catholic has for MEN only stag golf luncheon dele - Friday, March 15th lime 12:00 noon place euditorium second floor FEATURING! deliciout steak or salmon lunch golf Instructions what's new In golf clothing and equipment $1.25. All for reservations: caU EMpire 3-2211 Ext 344 or register at Information desk, street floor limited teatlnf . . so don't delay! M STORE HOURS: . I I MONDAY: 12 NOON TO 9 P. M. 1 FRIDAY: 10 A. M. TO 9 P. M. 1 1 OTHER DAYS: 9:30 A. M. TO 5:30 P. M. SBSK been established as the favorite, other strong contenders are ex pected to be Lincoln, Klamath Falls, and Eugene. The field of 16 teams Is believed to be the best balanced in years, with a darkhorse quintet more than likely to cop the crown In Satur day night's finals. Only I Stan Return There can be only three repeat ers for all - state honors Roger Johnson of Marshfield (Coos Bay), Dick McLaughlin of Medford, and Charley Warren of Eugene. The others have either graduated or their schools failed to qualify. The heavy tournament schedule will inclule eight championship games Wednesday, following Tues day night's doubleheader. Thurs day there will be four champion ship and four consolation games. Friday will be featured by the championship semi finals and four consolation tilts. Besides the title contest Saturday, there will be consolation games for third, fourth and fifth positions. Linfield Falls To LA State LOS ANGELES (UP) Linfield dropped its NCAA small college basketball playoff to Los .Angeles State 85-74 here Saturday night. Coach Roy Helser's Wildcats trailed 40-32 at the half and were unable to catch the host school in the second half. Jackie Riley of the Oregon school salvaged scoring honors with 26 points while Bill Macha mer hit 19. Basketball Scores OREGON PBEP RESULTS Class B Tournament Elkton 85, Echo 40 (championship) Jefferson 57, Sisters 44 (third plan) Knappa 48, JUalln 39 (consolation) - COLLEGE RESULTS Oregon 69, Oregon Stat II California 89. USC 83 Washington 78, WSC 66 Wisconsin 60, Iowa 59 Xavler (Ohio) 70, Tempi! B9 Prlnceotn 72, Penn 67 Kansas 78, Colorado 63 Columbia 89, Brown 72 Nebraska 67, Iowa State B6 Yale 79, Harvard 78 Dartmouth 56, Cornell 48 NCAA SMALL COLLEGE TOURNEYS (second round results) Loa Angeles Stat 85, Linfield 74 Buffalo 77, EvansvtUe 75 niria.. an c, miinai'. t,t a Ml. St. Mnry's 106, North Carolina College 88 Kentucky Wesleyan 84, East Ten . nessee State 73 Wheaton 77. Belott 75 San Dlcgo State 81, Denver Regta 7B ATLANTIC COAST TOURNEY North Carolina 95, South Carolina 75 (finals) SOUTHERN CONFERENCE TOURNEY West Virginia 67, Washington t , Lee 52 (finals) NBA ' - SI. Loula 97. Fort Wavne t Syracuse 104, Boston 102 person t ii ri i; i i;' i' ; i i i. 'f !fi