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CREAM OF PREP
TEAMS CLASH IN
Eight class "A" basketball
teams, representing the cream of
Oregon'! prep crop, and four
"B" schools, champion of their
districts, are poised at Salem to
day in preparation for the 26th
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annual Oregon high ichool bas
ketball championships, which be
gin at 8 p. m, today when Wash
ington of Portland meets Eugene.
Other first round gamea pit
Newberg against Baker at 4: IS
today with Medford and Ver
nonla set to open evening play
at 7:30. Hlllsboro and Oregon
City play at 8:45 tonight.
The Mail-Tribune office will
be open tonight from 8:30 to
8:30 to answer telephone calls
about the results of the Med
ford game. If Medford should
win tonight, they will play
Friday night at 8:4S against
the winner of the Hlllsboro
Oregon City game. The Tri
bune office will be open from
9:45 until 10:45 Friday night
for calls on the outcome of
that game.
Finals Saturday
Championship finals will be
played Saturday night at 8:45
with semi-finals losers clashing
at 11 a. m. Saturday for third
place. Consolation finals will be
played Saturday morning at 10
o'cloelc.
The "B" tournament gets un
der way Friday afternoon at 3
o'clock when Grant Union plays
Clatskanie. Reedsport and Ar
lington play at 4:15 Friday. "B"
championship will be played
Saturday night at 7:30 with con
solation finals slated for 9 a. m.
Saturday. '
In Portland press releases to
day Washington and Medford
were rated as favorites to win
with Eugene given an excellent
Mack Llllard has arranged
strong supporting card for to
night's Medford armory wrest
ling card, which will be topped
by the Gray Mask, whs meets
Terrible Tony Ross.
Pete Belcastro, dynamic
Weed, Calif., bone-crusher will
be back in the lineup again
meeting Gust Johnson, clever
junior-heavy champ, In the four
round special event. This bout
Is capable of holding main event
booking In any mat center but
Lillard put them in the second
ary spot to make room for the
Mask-Ross encounter.
A fine wrestling contest looms
In the opener when Jack Kiser,
light-heavyweight claimant to
the coast belt, goes against
Georges Dusette in the curtain
raiser, beginning at 8:30. Both
are fast and clever pachyderms
but Dusette's terrific full nelson
hold makes him the f.ivorite.
Considerable Interest is show
ing up in the main go since Ross
has been given an excellent
chance to upset the hooded
monster if he works like he did
in last week's battle royal.
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GETS BIG CROWD
A near-capacity crowd wit
nessed the annual Junior high
school smoker held last night at
the school gymnasium. Fifteen
acts of tumbling and 11 boxing
bouts made' up the program
with an intermission of several
pillow fights, staged with the
participants riding poles. The
boys dove over obstacles, over
poles, and dove for distance
among other acts of clever tumb
ling.
Those who participated in the
tumbling were Bill Arnold, Tom
Mottern, Treve Neff, Dick Frank,
Alford Gleason, Lee Neider
meyer, Curtis Richmond, Don
Henderson, Bob Ellis, LeRoy
Sutton, Darryl Johnson, Jack
Johnson, Dick Leever, Wallace
Gideon, Glenn Glover, Bob Dun-
nigan, Darrell Smith, Curtis
Garrison, Harlan Bosworth, Ken
neth Miksell, Dick Hawkins.
Charles Hackett and Leonard
Stollsworth.
Boxing Results
Results . of the boxing bouts
follow: Darryl Johnson decision
ed Harlan Bosworth, Curtis
Rich drew with Leonard Stolls
worth, Ardell Meyers drew with
Ray Early, Cap Perkins drew
with Charles Bray, Glenn Yost
declsioned Vern Nlkodym, Bill
Harris drew with Jim Hersh
berger, Gary Early drew with
Alford Gleason, Ronald Nutting
declsioned Lloyd Tlmmons. Bill
Arnold drew with Raymond
Marlon, Lee Neldermeyer drew
with E. C. Brittson and Tom
Mottern declsioned A r m 0 n d
Meyer. . '
Earl Yockley refereed the
matches, donating his services.
Coach Norman Sting was highly
praised for the program, which
showed evidence of thorough
coaching for all events.
KEARNS HELD ON
CHARGE OF FRAUD
Chicago. March 15 (U.R)
Jack Kearns, who made and
spent a fortune while mansKino
such fighters as Jack Dempsey
and Mickey .Walker during box
ing's most lucrative era, was un
der Indictment today charged
with Promoting a phoney fire
extinguisher.
Kearns, now 62 and promot
ing secondary rjrizefishta in Chi
cago, was arrested lata vpitpr.
day, along with Harry (Packy)
Lennon, 44, a former boxer.
Athletics To Be
Threat In League,
Connie Mack Says
Frederick, Md March 15
(U.R) Connie Mack, venerable
manager of the Philadelphia
Athletics, today Issued his an
nual "warning" to the American
league with a prediction that his
team had a "fighting chance for
the pennant," and would finish
in the first division.
Mack, oldest man and mana
ger in baseball, both from a point
of service and years, said he
was satisfied with his infield,
pitching and catching, but that
the "A's" could use another outfielder.
The Athletics' manager, who
missed the opening day of spring
training for the second time in
his 51 years as a manager, pick
ed the St. Louis Browns and
the Detroit Tigers as the teams
to beat for the 1945 pennant.
COOPER TAKES EXAM
St. Louis, March 15 (U.R)
Pitcher Mort Cooper of the
world champion St. Louis Cardi
nals was undergoing his second
physical examination today to
determine his fitness for mili
tary service. He was classified
4-F a month ago.
Sport Chips
BY
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Harry Chipman
Mail Tribune Sports Editor
Earl Rogers, Ashland high
school principal who was in
charge of the recent district
four basketball tournament at
SOCE gym in Ashland, this
week released a financial report
of tournament receipts.
The tournament drew 1971.05,
which, broken down, showed ad
vance sale of tickets at Grants
Pass, 13.15; Klamath Falls,
$5.85; Ashland, $69.25 and Med
ford, 186.10. Receipts at the
gate totaled $806.70. Receipts
were the largest in the history
of the district tourney.
The committee spent $30.53
for advertising and $33 for first,
second and third place trophies.
Federal tax on admissions took
$155.37 out of the receipts.
Tournament programs sliced off
$5.40 and gym rental for the
two nights totaled $20. . Five
dollars was spent for the public
address system and ball while
another $41 went out for labor.
The coaches' luncheon, includ
ing a $1 tip for the waiter, came
to $10.15.
Chappie King and Don. Mc
Pike, referees imported from
Portland, cost $190. Telephone
calls amounted to $18 and dec
orations for the student dance
totaled $4.40.
Team expenses were listed as
none for Ashland, Grants Pass,
$17.20: Klamath Falls, $127.90,
and Medford $5.20. Disburse
ments totaled $663.15, leaving
$307.90 to be divided between
the four competing teams.
Grants Pass, Medford and Klam
ath Falls took $76.98 while
Ashland took $78.98.
While on the subject of sta
tistics, the Oregon High School
Activities Association recently
released dollar and cents fig
ures for the state football cham
pionship in Portland, in which
Medford defeated La Grande 14
to 0. The game was played in
Multnomah Stadium before a
crowd of 7,776 which paid a
gross of $7,525.20.
For rental of the stadium for
the one game, Multnomah own
ers picked 25 of the take, or
cool $1,562.75. Traveling ex-.
penses, federal tax, etc.. took
another $3,435.05. The final
split between Medford and La
Grande was made on $2,528
figure but the OHSAA grabbed
50 of that, Jeavlng Medford
end LaGrande a measly $632
each.
Champion Extends
Lead Over Hoppe
v New York, March 13 J.PJ
World three cushion . billiard
champion Welker Cochran of
San Francisco, assumed a 348 to
306 lead over Challenger Willie
Hoppe of New York today in
their cross country challenge
match as the seventh block of
play opened.
Cochran increased his lead
last night when he defeated the
former champion 60 to 45 in
33 innings. Cochran had a high
run of eight and Hoppe had one
of five.
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