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yWO MEPFOHD (OHEGOW) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday, February g, 1950 AAU Basketball Tilts Slated Monday Night; District Tourney Set . . . n.-l.ll.nll The local aau bs""" league schedule lor this week opens at the local Junior high gym Monday with American Fruit trading baskets with Crater Lake Lumber at 7 p.m. followed about 8:15 when Brownies Plumbing and Heating plays Mobilgas. A victory for the Mobilgas quintet in this game will almost assure it of at least a tie for the AAU league's second half title as the gas station men have but two games to play and are undefeat ed four games this half so far. Big Gam Tuesday AAU league action Tuesday at the junior high gym will see but one on the schedule although another may be moved up to take place of the originally scheduled Medco-Phoenix game that was . j Th nnp came Scheduled so far is Mobilgas against Green's confectionery, i A win for Mobilgas In this me definitely will assu " ?. i uw twin onH n lame tne seconu imn - - ,v crowd is expected out for this tilt slated xeniauvcy Green's won the first half title With Mobilgas second. Basketball Commissioner Hank .. & All announced Saturday that the district cham- te onship lournaiiiciiv ..... -field February 21 and 22 with the first round at a Medford gymnasium and the final round at Grants Pass high. Green's 1949 Winner ; Last year the district cham pionship finals were held at St. Mary's high gym in this city with Green's confectionery cap turing the title. ..... . Winner of the district toga will represent Jackson, Jose phine and Curry counties In the late AAU basketball tourna ment In Oregon City starting February 25. ' ' Entry List Explained Playing in the tourney this year will be the full year champs from league 1 and league 2 in Medford and one representative from Josephine county. If there Is a tie between two teams in junior High Game Change Two changes In the local' jun ior high basketball schedule were announced Saturday after the local eighth and varsity game with Klamath Falls had been postponed due to bad road conditions over the Green springs. Mcdford's two older Junior high teams hnd been scheduled !n.. 4UA Dal lunlnf hltfh bnvs in Klamath Falls Friday after noon but the trip was canccm-ii when stale police advised the ichool snow was drifting badly over the mountain as early as that morning. , The two changes In schedule will send the local seventh, eighth and varsity (ninth grade) teams to Grants Pass for games t 3 p.m. on February 14 and on February 25 the eighth and var ily go to Klamath Falls for two games starting at 3:30 p.m. Klamath Is scheduled to play here in two games February 17. High School Scores riUIIAY'S RK.sm.T8 Hoonevelt 91, Franklin 3B Jefferson 53. Llm-nln 32 Cleveland 47. Warhinffton 37 Grant 41). Benson 45 Ml. Angel 33. OnlliiH 30 Medford SB. RoNchurn 33 Fnrcit Grove 51, West Linn 40 Tigard 45, Ncwhcrt! 43 MilwMikie 77, Ooncordln 43 LaCrandi 63. Milton-Frerwater 44 Ashland 52. E:iRle Point 37 Coquille 54. Myrtle Point 52 Eugene 59, Bend 42. Myrtli either local league a tie playoff may be made part of the district tournament. Money received from proceeds of the Harlem Globetrotters vs. AAU all-stars game Thursday will help defray expenses of a Medford team going to the state tournament. If a Josephine coun ty quintet goes the money will go into the Medford AAU league 1950-51 fund. Pointers Top 4 e Creek Mvrtlc Creek. Feb. 4 Central Point high gained its third vic tory against one loss in the JDJ league here Friday night by clubbing the Myrtle Creek hoop men 40 to 26 in a mix that saw only eight personal fouls called. The Pointers piled up a 24 to 10 halftime margin and coasted the remainder of the way with reserves. First quarter tally was 14 to 6 and the third period dif ference was 34 to 16. Six of the Infractions called were charged against Central Point. Llncupe: . Crnlral Point 40 JS Myrtle t reek Anhorn B I 8 Burnett H. Traulman 8 f Wilder fnllAV -i c Rice McadoWH 1 Koup M. Traulman II 1 " Gillespie Suhitltutes Centrnl Point. Robin oii 2. BlRhnm 4. Walker, Flndley 2. Myrtle Creek, McDaniel 2. Grizzlies Down Eagles 52 To 37 Eagle Point, Feb. 4 Eagle Point high's cagers Saturday were nursing their second defeat in the Southern Oregon conference-district 4 race after Ash land high had pounded the Eagles 52 to 37 at Ashland. Eagle Point lost four or five of its key players on fouls in the last quarter and this hurt what chances they had for a vic tory Friday night. Ashlnnd led at the first quar ter 14 to 12, at the half 28 lo 19 and at the third quarter pause 30 to 24. Lineup: , , Aahland St II EaiU Point Landlni 8 t 5 Slmmone Laner 12 t t Mulhollen Sinllh 11 c 8 Dnherty Davta 2 t Cahall Wlnea 2 g , Substitution! Ashland, Fowler 3, Enirel 3, GroMinan 8, DeeU 9; Eaglci Bradihow 1, Tyaer 1. Selbert 7. Big Game Hunters Have Better Luck In Forests Washington, Feb. 4 IU.R Big game hunters are having bet ter luck in the national forests. The forest service reported today that one out of every four hunters "got his quarry" during (he year ending last June 30. It estimated 1,210,000 big game hunters bagged 318,000 animals. That compares with 279,000 animals taken by about the same number of hunters the previ ous year. Bob Hope Gets Champ Sportsman ABC Award Washington, Feb. 4 (U.R) Movie Comedian Bob Hope was presented witli the first annual "champion sportsman of the year" award tonight by Harry Wismer, American Broadcasting company's director of sports. Hope was chosen by a nation wide poll of ABC sportsensters and ranked over such stars as Joe DiMaggio and Joe Page of Ihe Yankees, Leon Hart of Notre Dame, Doak Walker of Southern Methodist and Jackie Robinson of the Dodgers. i GDGQIiniQJDQQID if KM -I WITH THE FAMOUS ZF Fl SPREADS ANY FERTILIZER IN ANY CONDITION IN EXACT AMOUNT! BROADCAST SPREADING OR 4-ROW APPUCATIONI DRILLS OR BROADCASTS SMALL GRAINS . . . ACCURATELY UNIFORMLYI SOWS LEGUMES AND GRASSES (EVEN BROME GRASS)! i 'iJAAaiiijidiijiAidasmii'i.'i.i.'r.iii j im Watch for Demonstration Dates in Your Neighborhood DEAVER TRACTOR and IMPLEMENT COMPANY 634 North Central Phone 2-6425 Rogues, B. F. Continue To Lead League Butt Falls high kept lti county clan B conference rec ord unblemished Friday night by defeating Prospect high on the Prospect floor and there by the Loggers remained In th running with Hogu River high for th conference title. Many phon calls to Pros pect and Butt Falls Saturday could not learn th scor ex cept that th Loggers won by 3 points. It was Butt Falls fifth win against no lonei. Gold Hill, Feb. 4 Six points was all that separated Gold Hill high from a tie game and a pos sible major upset in the county class B conference Saturday but that half dozen points proved enough to give undefeated Rogue River high a 44 to 38 victory. It was a hard-fought game for both quintets, always rivals In any sport, with the margin one way or the other seldom large. Both teams were all out for a victory. Each team lost two boys via the personal foul route with the Chieftains dropping Jacobs and Purrier late in the fourth quar ter to hurt their scoring chances. Gold Hill lost J. Morgan and B. Morgan who also had helped their team. In the prelim the Gold Hill freshmen pulled a major upset by handing the Rogue River re serves their second loss in four seasons, by the score of 29 to 23. Gold Hill showed good ball-handling which overcame much of what they lacked in height. Varsity lineup: Koine River At 31 Gold Hill Jacobs 4 I 3 Eskew dene Depuy 0 f 0 Pnlmer Furrier 7 c 12 Smith Frantz BIB Schava Poitevant 10 g 3. Morgan Substitution! Rogues, Martin 1. nouiier 3; uold tun, fl. Morgan 3 Newland 1. Talent, Feb. 4 Talent high was pointing to its third win in five county B conference games today alter walloping St. Mary s high of Medford 62 to 33 on the local floor. Rollie Hartley slapped in 22 points Friday night to help the Bulldogs down the Crusaders with ease. Talent led at the First quarter 15 to 6, at the half 27 to 14 and at the third quarter pause it was 43 to 23. It was St. Mary's fifth loss against one win this year. Talent 6! 11 St. Mary's Cowdry B f 4 Driscoll MonlKoniery 11 s Tomlack Nichols 8 e a Elbert Hartley 22 g e Long Combs 8 t 3 Murphy Substitutions Tnlent, Parrent 3, iicury t ai. Marys, Kontbach 7, Glcason 1, Sakralda 1. Jacksonville, Feb. 4 Fans in Jacksonville were still recover ing Saturday from the effects of seeing the J'ville high basketball team play a close game. The Red skins look a 25 to 23 thriller from Phoenix hieh at Phoenix for the second or third close game of the year. Two free throws with about half a minute to play in the fourth quarter by Substitute Don Clay gave Jacksonville the coun ty blass B conference victory Friday evenine. The score had been tied at 23 to 23 with a min ute to play in the game. rnoenix led at the first quar ter whistle 13 to 6, and at the half 17 to 12 but the Redskins put on a tight defensive game to noia fnoenlx scoreless in the third period while It scored scv- Oregon State Defeats Huskies; Ducks Losers By United Press The northern division basket ball race of the Pacific Coast conference started to boil Sat urday. Oreuon Stale displaced Wash ington in second place standings handing the Huskies a 56-46 de feat. Idaho, winless for five games this season, stunned Ore gon 62 to 44. Tiaht Game Seen The Beaver-Husky affair got off to a tight start with the lead changing hands nine times until the last ten minutes of the first half. Then State gained an 18 to 15 advantage and remained ahead the rest of the game, work ing up a 31-26 halftime lead. At Moscow, Ida., Dick Reed, a skinny, bespectacled junior, the smallest man on the Vandal squad,, scored 17 points as he stole the ball countless times and often seemed to be on the spot to take backboard rebounds. Dick Gcisler canned a free throw 10 seconds after the game started and from there on Idaho outplayed the Ducks. The half time measure was 23 to 18. Coach Chuck Findley had his squad stick to a man-to-man de fense on Oregon and the Van dals would not be shaken. Ore gon, shooting many times in sheer desperation, made only a 17 per cent average from the field. Idaho'compiled a 36 per centage with 24 baskets out of 66 tries. The Washington-Oregon Slate affair saw Frank Guisness, one of Washington's "forward guards," steal high point honors for the night with 18. Louie Soriano, who usually makes a bumper share of Husky tallies, was held to a niggardly five. Forward Jim Pad g e 1 1 and Sophomore Guard Jack Orr Swayze, R.R. Win In AAU Crazy-Swayze quintet and the Rogue River team in the local AAU Basketball league captured victories in games played Friday night at the junior high gym. Both games were close with the Swayze outfit winning 44 to 32 over the Jacksonville town team 44 to 32 after leading but 21 lo 18 at the half. Apetz and Campbell with 18 and 14 points respective led Swayze. Kitchen and Sanford were high for J'ville. Rogue River took a thriller from Timber Products 40 to 38 in a game that was close in the final half after the Rogues held a 25 to 15 lead at the halftime buzzer. Huntoon poured in 15 points to lead the Rogue River quintet to victory while Gentry got 10 to lead the timbermen. en and took a 19 to 17 third quar ter whistle lead. Jacksonville 3 23 Phoenix Hardy VI I 8 Furry Palowski 3 I Hllc Ditto c 8 Thompson Greenameyar g 4 llolloway Taylor 3 g 4 Bacon Substitutes J'ville. L. Clay 2, Mc Belh 3. D. Clay 2; Phoenix, Williams 1 scored 15 and 11 points respec- tiuolir trt nar'B tho Raavpr flf- fense. OSC's average was lower, .3Uo to .oiu xor vvasmngion oui the Orange Shirts would not let the Huskies shoot often. Nugs,AAU Receive $172, Trotter Game Checks of $172.57 each were presented to Rogue Valley Base ball, Inc., and the Medford AAU Basketball league Saturday as their portion of proceeds from the baseball club's sponsored basketball game last Thursday night at the senior high when the Globetrotters played. The amount the basketball league and the baseball club re ceived was half the net after 25 per cent of the net had been paid to the senior high school and 50 per cent of the net had gone to the Harlem Globetrotters. 1.533 View Game Total admissions paid were 1,533. including 1,015 adults and 518 students. Expenses totaled $121.63, in cluding referees, posters, ticket takers and the like while the federal tax was $239.69. The high school received $115.04 as 25 per cent of the net. The Globetrotters received $581.80. The gross take was $1,403.50. The AAU and the baseball club received equal amounts. HUSKIES GRID COACH Toledo. O., Feb. 4 (U.R) J. Neil (Skip) Slahlcy, head foot ball coach at the University of Toledo, resigned today to be come backfield coach at the Uni versity of Washington. Basketball SATtmnAY'8 SCORES: Amherst 40. Army 44 Cornell 34. Penn 35 Yale S3, Dartmouth 5t Florida A&M, 74. Alabama State 33 Ohio State 81, Wisconsin 47 Tennessee 69, Georgia Tech 58 Florida State 50, Howard 39 St. Johns 75. Temple 61 Purdue 69, Michigan State 33 FRIDAY'S RESULTS: Denver 62, Utah 37 Chico 61, San Francisco State 41 San Jose 40, Bowling Green 48 Peppcrdlno 54. Cal. Poly 41 OSC 56, WSC 46 Gmuagu 71, Portland 50 Pacific Lutheran 33. Whitworth 48 Llnflcld 60. Pacific 43 Idaho 62. Oregon 44 Brigham Young 46. Colo. A&M 4 C P S. 54, W. Washington 43 UCLA 03. Fresno 43 St. Martin's 66. British Columbia 3D Eastern Washington 72, Central Washington 60 Oregon Tech 56. Vanport 31 Olympic JC 78. Clark BO OCE Jvs 49, George Fox 39 Santa Clara 33. Loyola 30 Stanford 55, St. Mary's 36 Montana S. 82, Idaho S. 62 Eastern Montana 60. Carroll 38 W. Montana 83, N. Montana 60 Humboldt 42. Cal Aggies 30 Rhode Island 75, Rutgers 8S North Carolina 69. Maryland 36 Wake Forest 67, Richmond 34 South Carolina 45. Clemson 40 Citadel 41. Davidson 34 Alabama State 55, Xavier 47 Loyola (south) 47, Louisana 36 Arkansas 51, Texas 37 Texas A&M 56, Baylor 43 Texas Christian 51, Southern Meth odist 45 North Dakota 81, South Dakota 64 Senior High Wins Easy Victory Over Roseburg Roseburg. Feb. 4 Everybody got into the act for the Medford high Black Tornado here Fri day night when the Rogue val ley boys invaded the Umpqua valley to battle the Roseburg Indians in a non-conference game for both quintets. Medford came out on the long end of a final 56 to 33 count in a game that saw the boys coached by Frank Roelandt lead all the way with everyone on the squad taking part. Roseburg never even came close to threat ening as Medford ran well and played the game hard. Tornado Boys On 'All-Star' Portland. Ore., Feb. 4 Five southern Oregon high ichool boys have been chosen to play for the Oregon all-stars football team in the annual Shriners' hos pital benefit game in Multnomah stadium here in the fall, it was announced today. Two of these five are from Medford. another pair is from Grants Pass and the fifth i Klamath Falls youth. From the Black Tornado will be Tackle Leo Parker and Half back Jack Morris, from Grants Pass will be End Don Hcdgpeth and Halback Vernon Craft and from the Pelicans will be Center Keith Donahoo. Others On Squad Others on the Oregon all stars who will face the Portland all-stars in the game and who are remembered by Medford fans are Tackle Jim Docrfler (Albany), Guard John Freulich, Quarterback Franz Haun, Half back Charles Brackett and Full back Wayne Berry, all of La Grande. An alternate on the Oregon all-stars, will be Quarterback John Spreen (Albany). W.I.L. 1950 Year To Open April 18 Tacoma, Feb. 4 (U.R) Direct ors of the class B Western Inter national Baseball league have ap proved a 150-game schedule to begin April 18 and end Septem ber 10. The league's new entry, Tri City, joined Spokane, Wenatchee and Salem as a host club for season's openers. Tri-City faces Vancouver, Victoria is at Spo kane, Yakima at Wenatchee and Taeoma at Salem. On April 25 the other four clubs play their first games at home with Spokane at Tacoma, Wenatchee at Vancouver, Tri City at Yakima and Salem at Victoria. San Francisco's civic center comprises approximately eight city blocks. 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