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EIGHT MESrOUD (OHEOOrT) Cflacc IB At EagHe Point's yinm Eagle Point, Feb. 18 Eyei of most county Class a mgn icuuui fans, players and parents turned to the Eagle Point high gymna sium today as the first round of the county cage lournamem gui under way to last through Satur day night. Tonight's action will see Butte Fnll meet Jacksonville at t n'ninMr nnrt Roffue River, de fending county champions, take on Gold Hill at b:ju. Friday at 7 p. m. the winner of the Jacksonville -Butte Falls clash will meet the victor In the Phoenix-Prospect game played this afternoon while at 8:30 to morrow night it will be the Rnaue River-Gold Hill winner against the St. Mary's-Talent vic tor of this afternoon. While Rogue River high is strong favorite to win its sec ond county and eventually the district class B championship in a row, one or two dark horses may be in the background. Seating facilities for around 2 000 people will be available in the huge Eagle Point gym but tickets will be sold on a ursi come, first served basis. No re served seats are being sold. The ticket windows will open each night at 6:15. Band Music Sex Tonight the Phoenix high band will provide the music, Friday it will be the Rogue River high band and the final night (Saturday) the Talent high band will play. Losers of games played this afternoon and tonight will open a consolation bracket round Fri day at 2 p. m. winner of the county tourna ment which will be decided starting at 9 p. m. Saturday, will represent this county In a dis trict playoff in a Klamath coun tv evmnasium March 1 and 2. The victor in those games will go to the state class B tournament slated In Astoria. Trophies Provided Trophies will be awarded to the first, second and third place tournament teams and winner in the consolation bracket will re ceive the tournament's ball. This afternoon Talent was scheduled to play St. Mary's in the opener and Prospect was slated to take on Phoenix. Renaud Wins Eugene Bout Eugene, Ore., Feb. 18 U.R Jerry Renaud, 126, Portland, scored a knockout last night over Mel Eaglcman, 125, Che mawa, when Eagleman failed to answer the bell in the sixth round of their scheduled eight round bout. Renaud was floored by Eagle man for a nine-count in both the second and third rounds. In another eight-round bout, Dick Wolfe decisioned Jimmy Huckabay, 150, San Francisco. The Klamath Falls fighter weigh ed in at 147. Davey Ball, 150, Dexter, kayoed Johnny O'Day, 155, Klamath Falls, in the third round. Bobby Seheaffer, 150, Eugene, knocked out Kit Carson, 150, Portland, in the fourth round. Harry Hughes, 160, Drain, decisioned Dick Collie, 165, Oakrldge, In , hll four rounder. High School Scores WEDNESDAY'S RESULTS Oregon State Rooki 34, Salem 3B Klamath 02. Ettgle Point 20 Tillamook .19. MUwaukie 40 Willamette Froth 44, Sweet Home 41 Sacred Heart (Salem) 90, Star of Sen (Astoria 41 WlUametta 45, Springfield 39 Amity 33, Independence 31 (two nvertfmea) '36 95 tnclutUi N. 1 Mft tap.r ip ind l, drlv and cup ttnUrt, 3' foe plot, 13" t) wprxrt. tl mptmrt tool iwpptrt Hrwtch, ol le)l rtW(fc, n4 iplndU wrtftch. HUBBARD MAIN at RIVERSIDE PARTY AND SPECIAL TREATS vrsmir sr,- m i aa in S?ff!MP FRENCH BREAD Mid In San Francisco Large Selection of WINES and MIXERS BEER Any Kind By the case or bottle PHONE 2-4625 for Free Delivery of Beers and Mixer OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK 9 A.M. TO MIDNIGHT Bell's Beverage Shop 124 South Central Murray Bell, Owner MAIL TRIBUNE Cage !Tountiraey Full Nelson Battle Seen In Mat Tussle Tonight's tag team wrestling match at the armory could de velop into a battle of full net sons as well as decide the con troverslal question of who is the stronger Georges Dusette or the Great Atlas. Dusette pairs with Karl Grav against the Al ias and Jack LiDscomb in the one hour or two out of three fall feature match. Dusette and the self-styled greatest wrestler in the world have run up an enviable string of victories with their pet man euver and local fans have long Kahut to Ref Boxing Here Joe Kahut of Portland. Pa cific coast heavyweight boxing champion, will referee the ama teur ring card of the Southern Oregon Boxing club at the arm ory on February 22, it was an nounced today. Promoters Owen Thomas and Larry Burdette said they wished to secure a referee who knew nothine about the past matches of Ray Stickle and Bill Berry, principals in the main event, so that each contestant could be as sured of an impartial deal. "That has no reflection on lo cal referees," they pointed out. "We just wanted to be sure." Following completion of the amateur program, Kahut and Burdette will lake part in a three-round exhibition bout, which will be refereed by Jack (Ginger) Snapp, northwest mid dleweight champion. Although the session will be strictly an exhibition, it will give local boxing enthusiasts a chance to see In action one of the world's top-ranking boxers who is being groomed for a summer shot at Ezzard Charles' world champion ship. Bauers Still Golf Pacers Palm Beach, Fla., Feb. 16 (U.R) Marlene Bauer, the Mid land, Tex., golfing marvel, hoped to celebrate her 16th birthday today with a victory in the semi finals of the Everglades invita tional mixed foursome tourna ment. Miss Bauer and her partner, Reginald Boardman Jr., of Palm Beach, advanced to the semi final round with a 3 and 2 tri umph and faced Pat Devany of Grosse Isle, Mich., and Lynn Crenson of Hnrrisburg, Pa., to day. Marlcne's 22-year-old sister Alice, teamed with Clarke Hard wick of Bel Air, Cal., played Betty Bush of Hammond, Ind., and Robert Sweeny of Palm Beach in the other semi-final. OSC WRESTLERS VIE Corvallis, Feb. 16 Oregon Slate's powerful wrestling team will host Vanport college of Portland in a return meet in the men's gym here Saturday afternoon. HOMECRAFT 10-inch Lathe Here'i a sturdy, popular-priced lathe built by Delta ex pressly for the home shop. With it, you smoothly turn wood, metals, and plastics. Features include heavily rihhed cast-iron bed , . . hcadstock with built-in indexing mechanism ... spindle carried on oil-impregnated bronze bearings . . . eaiily-locked tailstock . . . Vs" bole through apindle permits repetition work and use of long-ro4 stock. It's a machine you take real pride in owning. Come in to see this Homecraft 10-inch Lathe soon. Mffuoffri Ht Wodwtrltino SuoofJi BROS., Inc. PHONE 2-6189 FOODS FOR SPECIAL DINNERS Thursday. February IS. 1150 nrr 777" been desiring to see them in the same ring at the same time. Last week the Atlas roughed up Gray before applying his nelson and later in the dressing room Gray called the Atlas a few ungentlemanly names and Dusette immediately sided in with Gray. Lipscomb, himself an uncouth gladiator, joined the Atlas and when Pro moter Mack Lillard entered the dressing room he found the four going at it in a barrage of name calling. After considerable per suasion he convinced them to settle it later in the ring where they would get paid for it in stead of in the dressing room. milliard will present newcom er Arne Skaaland in the 8:30 p.m. opener. The young Norwe gian tanes on Pierre LaBelle in another one-hour tussle. Skaa land has been wrestling for some time in mldwestern rings wnere ne has chalked up an en viable record. He was introduc ed from ringside last week and received a good round of ap plause from the gathering. Graders Play Saturday Eve Sports fans going out to the senior high school gym Satur day night will be seeing four games instead of the usual two or three, it was revealed this morning with the announcement that the four local grade schools will take part in a game of two five-minute periods. Also due to see action are the Black Tornado varsity against the Illinois Valley (Kerby) in a Southern Oregon conference district 4 encounter, and the jun ior varsity teams of the respec tive high schools. The grade school games will take place during the half pause of the varsity basketball game. Lincoln will play Roosevelt on one cross-court floor and Jackson Is slated to meet Wash ington on the other cross-court. Roosevelt and Lincoln are run ning close In the local grade school league. State AAU Cage Tourney Slated McMinnville, Ore., Feb. 16 (U.RI The 1850 Oregon AAU basketball tournament will be held in McMinnville's 3.000-seat capacity armory February 25 through 28. The dates were set here by state AAU officials and repre sentatives of the McMinnville Kiwanis club which is sponsor ing this year's tournament. Sixteen teams will be entered. Winner of the tournament will represent Oregon at the national tourney at Denver, Colo. Tournament officials said there would be no registration from district 11, so district 8 (Linn, Benton and Lincoln coun ties) had been granted an addi tional entrant. Conference Eyes Track And Baseball Schedule Track and baseball schedules for 1950 were the subjects of major discussion today as coach es and other representatives of schools in the Southern Oregon conference met here. There prob ably was also some talk of the football season and the still go ing on basketball season. Announcement of the baseball and track schedules will be made late this week. Bob New land of the Tornado coaching staff is among those attending. DOUIRS 1 you don't fill H ONCt A MONTH not even 3 rmts A Guaranteed in Writing DISTRIBUTED BY Pacific Wood Products Co. Box 647 Grants Pass, Ore. Phone 4578 Beavers Top Idaho Quint Score 60-46 Corvallis, Ore., Feb. 16 (U.R) Oregon State's Beavers strength ened their position in the north ern division standings last night by defeating the Idaho Vandals, 60-46. to sweep a two-game Pa cific Coast conference basketball series. Shooting accuracy told the story of the game as the Oregon Maters made Zi out of 50 shots, while Vandals were hitting 17 baskets on 60 tries. Beavers Dominate The Beavers dominated In all phases of the game and were particularly outstanding on floor work. OSC held a 27-23 halftime lead, but quickly widened the gap after the intermission. individual scoring honors went to OSC's Bob Payne with 17 points. Bob Pritchett topped the Vandals with 14. Idaho plays Oregon in a two- game series this week-end, while the Beavers are idle until Febru ary 24, when they met Orgon. Morris Tops Scoring Race Jack Morris who dumped 38 points into the bucket for the Black Tornado last ween-ena, including 25 in one game, today leads the district 4-Southern Oregon conference scoring race with 85 points in seven games or an average of 12.2 per game. Morris not only has scored the most for any player taKing pari in but seven games but nas me best average. Next to him. according to un official statistics, is lorn ocnu bert (Klamath) with 97 in nine games or a 10.8 average. Pat Ford of Grants Pass who was first last week sunk to third this week with 73 in seven games and a 10.3 average. Bob Shores (Medford) Is fifth with 70 in seven games or a 10 average. Fourth man is Dick Smith (Ashland) with 101 points in 10 games, sixth is Pat Simmons (Eagle Point) with 68 in seven, Jerry Langer (Ashland) is sev enth with 90 in 10, Bill Toole (Klamath) is eighth with 81 in nine and Vern Craft (Grants Pass) 62 in seven in ninth. SOC Cagers Play California Town Ashland. Feb. 16 Southern Oregon college cagers go to Cal ifornia Friday for games against Cal Aggies Friday and Saturday nights in the Far Western con ference race. Cal Aggies cur rently are in second spot in the standings and the Red Raiders rest in third. Official statistics from Chlco, Cal., reveal that Captain Keith Wade of the Raiders is still in sixth place among the 10 high scorers with 111 points In eight games. He ranks fourth In aver age of points per game with 13.9. Bill O'Neal of the SOC cage crew is 10th in the scoring race with 80 points in eight games for a 10 average. Hockey By United Press The Los Angeles Monarchs routed the invading Victoria Cougars 7 to 1 last night In their first Pacific coast MocKey league game under a new coach. The game marked the debut of John Mitchell as coach of the third-plnce Los Angeles club. At San Francisco, the southern division-leading Shamrocks and the Fresno Falcons battled to their third tie in the last four times they have met. The final score last night was 1 to 1. Seattle Goalie Jerry (Jotnoir Daved the way to a 3 to 1 north ern division win over Portland as he made 35 net saves. The Ironmen scored In every period, while Portland managed to get by Cotnoir only once In the second period. JACK ORR REMEMBERED Corvallis. Feb. 16 Jack Orr, Grants Pass sophomore who made such a sensational varsity basketball debut for Oregon State in the recent Washington j series with 23 points in two j games, was leading point maker I for the classy 1949 Beaver fresh-1 man team with 164 points in 15 I games. J . . YlAKl for 25 full Montht Only $1496 Grovp X HH Mori Con Gold Hill Grade Team Shows Successful Year Gold Hill, Feb. 16 The Gold Hill grade basketball team has had a successful season to date this year, having won 9 out of 11 played. Robert Sage is coach for the teams. Monday even ne thev went to Jacksonville and won the game 20-14. Dick Maksell was high point man with 12. There was a preliminary game, won by Gold Hill with a score of 16-8. Leonard Hartford was high scoring man. Wednesday night the teams played postponed games with Eagle Point at Gold Hill, and on Monday night, February 20 will Junior High Plays Here On Thursday Merifntvl tunlnt. ViinL. a,.uu and ninth grade basketball teams win iaKe on similar quintets frnm Klamath Valla jtmlnn KtnV. on the local school's floor Friday starting at 3 p.m. ine Meatord seventh grade quintet will take on the com bined Eaelp Point wupnth an,l eighth graders at 3 p.m. in the sins gym at me local Junior high. Unofficial records reveal that by virtue of the local varsity (ninth) team losing to Grants Pass ninth graders this past Tuesday evening, the junior Cavemen and Bulldogs are not tied for first spot with four or fire wins and one loss in confer ence cage contests as Grants Pass has claimed. A victory for the local varsity tomorrow afternoon would give Medford a conference lead. THfi lnral niuhth vrnrln nulrt. - u . .!... suuv. iu..r tet has not been as consistent in winning as the varsity had been but it too is one of the top teams in tne conference. The eighth graders won ther game with Grants Pass Tuesday. Official Pistol Shoot Slated Here On Sunday A registered pistol shoot in which teams from as far away as Oregon State college will take part, will be held in Merrick's indoor range Sunday, February 19, starting at 9:30 a. m., it was announced by the Medford Rifle club's pistol division. mere will also be a pistol team from Rogue River and Med ford taking part as well as in dividuals from those communi ties plus others from Vancouver, Wash., Berkeley. Cal.. Yreka and Grants Pass. The OSC team is headed by a former local club member. 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STS. play a postponed same with Tal- ent. The dates of the county tournament will be March 9- 10-11. In the other games played this season the local lads lost to Eagle Point 21-20 and to Rogue River 38-32. Other teams played and scores were: Gold Hill 21 Phoenix 16; G.H. 24. Talent 16 G.H. 23. Central Point 14: G.H 45, Howard 12; G.H. 37, Oak Grove 14: G.H. 17, Jacksonville 14; G.H. 39, Phoenix 31. First string players are Dick Maksell, Don Phelps, Johnny Cameron, Phillip Thompson, Bil ly Boye, Virgil utt. Don Mar- rington and Jim Smith. Dick Maksell is high point man so far this season, averaging about 16 points per game. Members of the second string are Kenneth Bailey, Richard Farrell. Leonard Hartford. Clif ford Smith, Don Parker, Jerry Bowen, David Parker, Jay Dil lon, mcnard Davis, Leslie walk er, Ralph Todd, Jimmy Nickle, Larry Kell, Donnie Kell. Richard Farrell is high point man of the second group and Kenneth Bailey is second. BOWLING COMMERCIAL LEAGUE W. Wright rolled high indiv idual series with a 582 pintail and J. Clyde was credited with high individual game with his 236 when the Commercial Bowl ing league held its weekly com petition last night at the Med ford Bowling lanes alleys. Team high series honors went to Saylor's Barber shop with 2,478 and the same team also took high team game with 908. COMMERCIAL STANDINGS Teams W L Werner' Bricklayer. 19 9 Savior Barber Shop IS 10 Pepsi-cola - 16 12 Eagles Lodge 14 14 Ellis Grocery 14 14 Medford Motors - 13 13 Henry's Drive-in 11 17 California-Pacific 7 21 Werner's 4 W. Knapp 431 Lawrentz ...... 416 J. Knapp 38 1 Kurth 473 Robinson 473 3436 Hrnry'i Inn Weber 446 Huston 423 Cummings 458 Schultz ........ 468 Mlnger 474 S271 Saylor's 3 Liles 358 K. 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This change was made so that the winner of the Klamath coun ty class B high school tourney can play Paisley of Lake county for the right to take part in the district playoff. Earlier It was thought Paisley was not Inter ested. The district playoff will be a best two out of three series be tween the Jackson county cham- fiion to be determined this week n the tourney at Eagle Point, and the victor of the Paisley vs. Klamath county winner. Game Near K. F. First two games of the dis trict playoff will be played in or near Klamath Falls and if a third game is necessary it will be played on a neutral Jackson county gym floor. District 5B consists of Jackson, Josephine, Klamath and Lake counties. Since Illinois Valley (Kerby) became a class A school, however, there have been no class B teams from Josephine county. Jackson county has the most B schools in the district with eight. Winner of the district tourna ment will represent the district in the state B high school tour ney at Astoria scheduled to open jnarcn ana continue tnrough March 11. Last year Rogue River high won the Jackson county championship and then- took the district title also. USC Bill Sharman Now Leading Both Scorinq Divisions Coast Looo Los Angeles, Feb. -16 (U.R) USC's brilliant forward. Bill Sharman. leads both divisions of the Pacific Coast Basketball con ference with a 23-point average scored in six games. The Trojan ail-American can- ''Mnte rlrnnnpd tn An tn(c lcf week-end to bring his total to 138 points, giving him a com fortable bulge over runner-up George Yardley of Stanford with 101 points and a 16.8 average. Towering Gene Conley of Washington State has averaged 14.5 points in 12 games to lead the northern division scoring pa rade. Washington's sensational sophomore, Frank Guisness, holds down second spot with a 13R averag". 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LININGER and SONS CORNER HAMRICK ROAD MEDFORD PHONE 2-5336 Sports for the Week THURSDAY County class B basketball tourney. Eagle Point high school gym, 7 p.m.-City Bowl ing league, 7 p. m. Volley, ball league games at senior high girls' gym and YMCA. 7 p. m. All-star wrestling card, armory, 8:30 p. m. AAU Basketball league games (two), Junior high, 7 p. m. Central Point Athletic association an nual meeting. Legion hall t p. m. FRIDAY Senior high at Ashland (conference-district); prelim 6:45 p. m, County B high school tournament. Eagle . Point Junior high eighth and vr. sity vs. Klamath junior high, Medford gym, 3 p. m. Grlf fin Creek at Oak Grove school, 7 p. m. Southern Oregon col lege at Cal Aggies Mixed Bowling league, 7:30 p.m. Sev enth grade i n Eagle Point, Medford junior high gym, 3 p. m. Pels Defeat Eagles 62-20 Eagle Point, Feb. 16 Klam ath Falls high walloped the Eagle Point quintet 62 to 20 in a Southern Oregon conference district 4 game at Klamath Falls last night for the Eagles' worst drubbing of the season. Coach "Shy" Callaghan of Eagle Point said today that his team just couldn't hit the basket for points although it had enough shots to make 40 points on aver age. The Pelican.- led at the first quarter 12 to 6, at the half 30 to 15 and at the third quarter 46 to IB. Lineups: Klimith (I Metier 4 Overon 2 Holzgang 2 Barnell 5 Carlson 7 20 Easles Simmons 1 Mulhollen 2 Doherty 4 Cahail 8 Hal Substituuons Klamath. Schubert 11, Lowell 6. Doege 7, Tooie S, Olson 4. Carroll 4, Bell 2, Zarosinskl 3; Eagles, Seibert 3. Frank Rush Scores 387 For Tops In Shooting Frank Rush topped all scoree for the 1949-50 shooting season in the Medford Rifle club with a score of 387 in the regular weekly shoot held in Merrick'i basement last night. This score is also the highest one ever made by anyone in the local club in the positions of 10 shots prone, 10 sitting, and 20 off-hand. Previous high score this year was held by Jim Bol ton with 386. Other high scores were made by Max Terzenbach 380, Bol ton 378, Lew Conger 377 and Marion Smith 374. (Additional Sports on page 7) READY MIXED CONCRETE for Uniformity end EndunnoT Strength m m mm-. V
