TWO MEDrORD (OBEGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Fans Await
Ghost Quint
On Tuesday
Central Point, Jan. 30
Rogue River valley basketball
fans will have the opportunity
to see in action one of the top
clowning quintets in the world
Tuesday when the famed Iowa
Colored Ghosls roll into town
for an 8 p.m. engagement at the
high school gymnasium.
One of the leading AAU fives
of the county, the Rogue River
Chinooks, will provide the op
position. Appearance of the Negro ma
plecourt circus is being billed
as the basketball treat of the
season at uernrai romi.
Harold "Speed" Williams five
pulls everything in and out of
the bag. They handle the ball
like magic and often opposing
players find the ball resting on
the top of their heads or be
tween their legs, not knowing
how it got there.
Tricks Included
The repertoire includes hidden-ball
tricks, step ladder acts,
slow-motion stunts and football
ind baseball exhibitions. The
Ghosts clown with the officials
and fans.
On the club are ''Baby
Rand, "Briefcase" Fincher,
"Pete" Hood and "Yippie" Gar
land. Last year the crew ran up
an undefeated string of 143
straight games. This year they
have won 61 of 63 games. They
keep the score at a respectable
figure and sacrifice points to put
on the show.
The Rogue River quintet won
the first half of AAU league 1.
Central Point high school is
sponsoring the tiff. Grade school
teams will meet in a 7:15 p.m.
preliminary.
Juniors to Play
Ashland Quintets
Here On Tuesday
Medford junior high's seventh
and eighth grade and varsity
(ninth grade) hoop contingents,
following clean sweep over
Roseburg Junior high quints Sat
urday night, will be aiming to
copy that performance Tuesday
on the local courts when they
clash with Ashland junior high
aggregations.
All three Medford teams were
victorious in previous series
away from home against their
Ashland rivals.
Eighth grade fives will vie at
7 p.m. on the new Junior high
gym followed by the varsities at
8:15 p.m. Seventh graders will
tangle at 7 p.m. on the girls'
court.
The Medford varsity will aim
at continuing its undefeated stat
us of the past two seasons. Sev
enth and eighth graders have
good records to date and clean
sweeps by the uuiiaog iriumvu
ate have not been unusual this
year.
Crusaders Slate
Prospect Tuesday
The twice-postponed Prospect
St. Mary's high county "B" loop
basketball encounter has now
boen scheduled for 8 p.m. Tues
day at the Medford school's
gym. It is to follow a 7 p.m. curtain-raiser.
There was still an outside
possibility that weather once
more might force postponement
of the brush but, as the season
is drawing late, school officials
reportedly will make an all-out
effort to get the game out of
the way.
Probable starting lineup for
the Jocal Crusaders is Bill Dris
roll and Jim Elbert, forwards:
Benl Tomjack, center, and Wat
Iv Long and Bob Rombach or
John Murphy guards. Paul
Read, regular forward Is still
out with a knee Injury suffered
about 10 days ago In the Gold
Hill Uncus.
Sophomores Whip
Pointers, 35-18
Sophomore basketecrs of Med
ford high school made it 16 vic
tories in 17 games so far this sea
son with a hard-earned 35 to 18
win over Central Point Junior
varsity at Central Point on Sat
urday night.
Medford led 9 to 8 after a 5
to 5 first quarter deadlock and
the third stama count was
knotted at 13 to 13. Don Spinas
paced Medford with 10 points
while Fernden potted five for
Central Point.
The game was the prelim for
the Black Tornado-Pointer var
sity tussle which Medford won
31 to 25.
Rogue River to
Oppose Phoenix
Phoenix, Jan. 30 Rogue Riv
er and Phoenix high school cng
ers will clash on the new Phoc
nix high gym floor tonight In
a county B conference game
postponed from Janunry 13 due
to stormy weather. The layvees
will play at 7 p.m. and the var
sities about 8:15.
Last Friday In conference
gHmes Phoenix high defeated.
St. Mary's of Medford 45 to 32
while undefeated Ttouc River
high slapped down Prospect 100
to 21.
Washington Slated
To Play Roosevelt
In Tie-Breaking Game
League leading Washington
plays co-leader Roosevelt in one
of two local grade school junior
vanity basketball games Tues
day at 4:15 p.m. at the Wash
ington gym. Each has won two
and lost one so far this season
The other game of the day
will see Jackson playing at Lin
coin at 4:15 p.m.
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Triple Main Event
Scheduled Thursday
Promoter Mack Lillard has
scheduled a triple main event,
the first such card to be held
here in years, for the armory
wrestling ring Thursday night.
Each match will be for one hour
duration or two out of three falls
with the first test going on at
8:30 p.m.
The feature match will be a
Demaret
Golf Champ
Phoenix. Ariz., Jan. 30 (U.R)
Jaunty Jimmy Demaret, the most
flamboyant of golf's touring pro
fessionals, said today "lady luck"
helped him win the $10,000 Ben
Hogan open.
Demaret collected $2,000 first
place money yestordiiy after he
carded his fourth straight sub
par round for a 261) total, one
stroke o(f Bobby Locke's tourna
ment record set in 1948 on the
Phoenix country club course.
The colorful Ojal, Cal., profes
sional also won the event last
vear in a playoff with Ben Hog
an, namesake of this year's
event.
Hogan finished far down
among the winners, coming in
with a 283 total which gave him
$18.66. Ben started off with a
five 65 but then carded succccd
Iiib rounds of 73. 73 and 72. The
Texas Bantam indicated he was
not yet strong enough lor me
tournament grind after being out
of action for almost 11 months
as a result of a near-fatal high
way collision.
Sports for
the Week
MONDAY
Rogue River high at Phoe
nix (conference): lint game, 7
p.m. Junior Rifle club, Mer
rick's, 7:30 p.m Malor Bowl
ing league. 7:30 p.m. AAU
basketball games (two), ju
nior high 7 p.m. and at Pros
pect 8 p.m.
TUESDAY
Seventh, eighth and varsity
vs. Ashland. Medford jun
ior high, 7 p. m, Colored
Ghoili basketball team at Cen
tral Point, 8 p. m. Ladiot'
Bowling league, 8 p. m.
Pistol division, Medford Rifle
club, Merrick's, 7:30 p. m.
Prospect high at St. Mary's
(conference postponed from
January 13) 8:15 p. m. Grade
school junior varsity basket
ball (Roosevelt at Washington,
Jackson at Lincoln), 4:15 p. m.
Hockey
Coat I.Mgui
Srattle 3. San TVancllco 3
l.na Anitelea S, San Diego 1
National Lraiur
Toronto 4. Chicago 0
New York 2, Montreal 0
Boaton Detroit 1
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TO SEE ACTION Joe Car
others, left, Grants Pass, will
clash with Dale Odom, above, on
March of Dimes amateur ring
card at the armory Wednesday
night. Seven other matches are
scheduled and will feature some
of the best simon pure talent in
southern Oregon.
return fracas between Buck
Davidson and Jack Lipscomb,
signed at the incessant demands
of Davidson, who lost last week's
mntch to Lipscomb when the
latter pulled a double cross.
The middle bout will pit Lee
Grable, who made a big hit in
his initial stop here last week
by going to a draw with Georges
Dusette. against the Great At
las, self-styled greatest wrestler
in the world. Atlas has Just re
turned from a grappling jaunt
Into southern California where
he reportedly outfitted himself
with a wide selection of gaudy
ring jackets.
Dusette will face a newcomer
to southern Oregon, Ted Bell,
clrssy New Jersey gladiator, in
the first match. Bell is said to
be fast and clever and the match
could very easily steal the show,
Lillard said.
Oregon Bowling
Champs Named
Portland. Ore., Jan. 30 (U.R)
Laurie Redifer of Portland and
Arline Cundcll of Bend are the
men's and women s class A sin
gles bowling champions of Ore
gon.
Redifer took the men's honors
at the windup of the state tour
nament yesterday with a total
640. although ho was outscored
by class B contestants, A r 1 o
Jackson, Riiseburg, 648, and Bill
Whaley, Bend, 647
Men's class C singles winner
was Ted Bender, Eugene.
A Eugene team, representing
Jim the Shoe Doctor, topped the
souad play among some 1200
bowlers from 44 cities with i
total of 2773.
The Bend women's singles win
ner scored 600. including the
highest sinse 234 game in the
tournament.
Alberta Thompson, Salem, won
(he class A singles with 556 and
Pauline Necly. Vernonia, took
488 for class C honors.
Basketball
PROFESSIONAL
Sunday Scorn
Ft. Wavnr 02. Nw York 70
Mlimcnpolis 88. Wwhlngton 0
Svrncuse 8S. Slwhoymtn 70
ChtmRO flfl. St. l-mits St
Trl-City 85. Waterloo 70
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Huturdjiy SrorM
Ptu-iric 04. WlUamctt 4
Lewis 9t Clnrk 49, L.nfteld 4"
I.ovoln 81, Arizona 64
lift A sSO I'nl tlv HR
KMrn Oregon 61, Northwest Na
nrtMit 48
CiiWornta flfl. Snn Francisco u 44
uri..iiinr rul An St Mnrv'8 4t
rranplrn 73 Villi llholdt Stilt 5
Northern Idaho M. Coltme of Idaho 53
Kaslcrn Wash. 74. Whitman 43
PiiRft Sound S2, Pacific Lutheran 45
l hico Male M, 5oinnrrn urrsjvu
Ore son Frosh 54. Vanport u
High School Scores
SATURDAY HHSl'ITS
Central Catholic Hi. Concordia 41
Salem 44. Aitorla 32
Sweet Home 34, Toledo 22
Oreiton City 35, McMlnnvllle SO
Grama Past 39. Roaeburg 34
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Stars Picked
To Oppose
Trotters
The all-star team from the
Medford AAU league that will
meet the Harlem Globetrotters
on the senior high floor Thurs
day evening will include several
of the more outstanding former
Medford high and ex-Southern
Oregon college players still
around this valley area.
While the AAU all-stars do
not expect to defeat the famous
clowns of basketball they be
lieve they can give the Negro
quintet a strong battle from
start to final whistle.
Lee Flink who has been se
lecting the AAU team at the re
quest of the local leagues has
come up with eight definite
players as of today with another
four or six to be selected before
Thursday s opening whistle.
Former SOC players include
Snuffy Smith, Tex Gatlin,
Chuck Jandreau and Barney
Riggs, while Bill Single'r is an
ex-Black Tornado court per
former. Others mentioned to play on
the all star team to face the
Globetrotters are Chuck Stacy
and Lee Reynolds. Stacy is one
of the top scorers in the AAU
league this season.
This game from which pro
ceeds after expenses will be di
vided between the AAU league
fund and Rogue Valley Base
ball. Inc., which sponsors the
Medford Nuggets of the Far
West Baseball league, will start
at 8 p.m., following a prelim at
at 6:30.
The preliminary will see the
Talent and Phoenix town teams
of the AAU Basketball league
piay their league game that had
been scheduled for Monday
night at the Junior nign.
American
Play 204
New York, Jan. 30 (U.R)
Once again there will be a rec
ord number oi nigni games in
the American league next sea
son with 204 out of a total of
618 to be played after dark, the
official schedule revealed today.
The season, which gets under
way on April lo, nnas tour
clubs, the Washington Senators,
St. Louis Browns, Philadelphia
Athletics and Cleveland Indians
increasing the number of night
dates. The Senators will play 43
out of the 77 games on their
home schedule at nlgt, while
the Browns will have 38, the
COAST CONFERENCE
NORTHERN DIVISION
The standings:
W L Pet.
Washington State . 6 3 .667
Washington 5 3 .625
Oregon State 4 3 .571
Oregon .... 3 4 .429
Idaho ......0 5 .000
Friday games:
Washington at Oregon State.
Oregon at Idaho.
Stewart Chevrolet
Scores Ninth Victory
San Francisco, Jan. 30 (U.R)
The Stewart Chevrolet basket
ball team scored its ninth con
secutive victory Saturday night
by defeating the Denver Chev
rolcts, 53 to 49.
VINES' FATHER DIES
Seattle. Jan. 30 (U.R) Fu
neral services will be held to
morrow for Henry Ellsworth
Vines, father of the famous
golfer.
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League To
Night Tilts
Athletics 32, and the Indians 29.
Sbv Ta Plav 20
The Chicago White Sox will
play 20 games at night while
the New York 'Yankees. Detroit
Tigers and Boston Red Sox will
stick to the formula they have
had in effect since installing
lights, 14 night games or two
with each club. '
In Washington, Philadelphia
and St. Louis where week-day
afternoon baseball probably
would be eliminated entirely
from the schedule except for the
protests of visiting clubs, most
of the day-time baseball will be
on Sundays and holidays. The
Browns have only eight week
day games scheduled, the Ath
letics 10 and the Senators 11.
In contrast, the Tigers have
35 week-day afternoon dates,
the Yankees 33, and the Red
Sox 30.
142 Games on Sunday
A breakdown of the 616
games on the schedule shows
that 142 games are listed for
Sunday afternoons, 26 for holi
days and 77 for Saturday after
noons. The Browns and Sena
tors even scheduled Saturday
night games, seven for Wash
ington and three for St. Louis.
However, they are not permit
ted to schedule Sunday double
headers after those games be
cause of a rule established sev
eral seasons ago. by the players'
"vigilante committee."
In the season openers. Phila
delphia will play at Washington
for the traditional presidential
"curtain raiser" while St. Louis
will be at Chicago, Detroit at
Cleveland and New York at
Boston. In the oast, the Wash
ington opener usually has been
la day in advance of the others
but tnat practice was noi ioi
I lowed this year.
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Final Round -
Miami, Fla., Jan. 30 (U.R) A
deadly putter and the know-how
of experience today ranked Polly
Riiey of Fort Worth, Tex., the
top woman golfer of the winter
season.
Miss Riley, who won the Tam
pa open last week, moved ahead
of 15-year-old Marlene Bauer of
Midland, Tex., on the 11th hole
yesterday to win the Helen Lee
Doherty tournament final, 4 and
3. She methodically sank putt
after putt between 15 and 20
feet for her triumph in the sched
uled 36-hole match.
EUGENE GETS TOURNEY
Portland, Ore., Jan. 30 U.P9
The Oregon Golf association's
1950 state championship tourna
ment will be held at the Eugene
country club during the week of
July 10, Secretary Rege Ott said
today. .-
WEATHER
By United Press
Northern California Occa
sional snow or rain Eureka and
Red Bluff northward early to
day but otherwise fair today;
generally fair tonight; cloudy
northern portion Tuesday; con
tinued cold; northwesterly winds
10-15 MPH off coast.
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what elements the substances
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