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EIGHT MEDF0B3 (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, February 28, 1350 Cage Tonnmammeimit ITodlay amid Wednesday MEDFORDI-TRIB'JKE TONIGHT'S SCHEDULE Middle vi. Creiwell, 6 pm. Talent vi, Cooi Rtver. 7:15 p.m. Rogue River to Play Sacred Heart for 'B' District Title Soon Rogue River, Feb. 28 AH was in readiness here today for the invasion by Rogue River high's basketball squad of Klamath Tails where the Chieftains are slated to meet Sacred Heart of Klamath in the first of a best two out of three series for the dLstrict title. , , First game will be played in Klamath Union high school gym at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday after a preliminary to be announced later. The second game is billed for Thursday at Klamath and if a third clash is necessary it will be played in some Medford school gymnasium. Psisley Loses Twice Sacred Heart won the right to meet Rogue River for the dis trict 5 championship by besting Paisley, Lake county champion, in two games last week. Jack Howard and Ralph Beard scored l Mlnta hrurin thpm to helD the Trojans to their 51 to 27 victory Saturday. The Chieftains gained the right to play for the district title plus a place in the state B cham pionship tourney by winning the Jackson county tourney at Eagle Point and by completing me reg ular county class B season un defeated. Reports here today were that Sacred Heart's crew Is small but fast and not only has topnotch talent in its first string quintet but also good players in its re serves. Trojans Listed The Trojans have Ralph Beard rion MohnnAv 0unrrl nnrl forward respectively, who were named on tne an-sinr county a Raiders Play OCE Tonight AshJand, Feb. 28 College basketball will be on the sports menu for valley fans tonight and Wednesday when Southern Ore gon college plays nost to uregon college of Education at Me morial court. The Red Raiders already have clinched the Ore gon Collegiate conference title. The games this evening and tomorrow night will be OCC con tests and Coach Ted Schopf of SOC predicts two of the toughest games of the current season. Up at Monmouth some time ago when the two teams played the Raiders broke even. Rivalry Rated Strong Intense rivalry among the two teachers' colleges alone can make this two-game series a hot one. Tonight's contest Is slated for 8:30 after two prelims with schools in the high school B in vitational taking part. The var sity tilt tomorrow is booked for 8:30 also, Schopf said. SOC expects to enter the Northwest N.A.I.B. tourney at Portland next week to piny for the right to enter the nationnl N.A.I.B. The Raiders would represent northwest teachers col leges. High School Scores MONDAY'S RESULTS Wlllametta Froth .IS. BrownsvllH 23 Odell 71. Moiler 43. Woodhurn S3. Sandv 43 Sacred Heart. (Salem) 39, Stlvarton 33. Stayton 36. Ml. Angel 34. basketball team and brother Jim Mahoncy, forward, and brother Ray Beard, guard, with Hank O'Keefe, center, usually make up the first academy team. Reserves who may see service include Hack and Bob Howard Mike Groff, Roger Dwycr and Lowell Shuck. Sacred Heart academy knock ed over Merrill, Chiloquin and Henley In addition to two over Paisley. Chiefs Gamos Listed The Chieftains have downed Gold Hill, Butte Falls, Jackson ville, Prospect, St. Mary's (Med ford), Talent, and Phoenix in class B competition during the regular season. "Dutch" Meyer of Central Point and Ed Smith of eastern Oregon will officiate. Stickel Abandons Championships; Tourney Planned Ray Stickel has given up his southern Oregon lightweight and welterweight amateur boxing championships because he no longer is living in southern Ore gon, it was announced today by the Southern Oregon Boxing club, sponsors of local amateur boxing. Stickel won an elimina tion tournament to gain' the lightweight crown and won the welter title by outpointing Bill Berry here last week. Larry Burdette and Owen Thomas, matchmakers for the Southern Oregon Boxing club, sold they would arrange a tour nament to determine new cham pions. In the meantime, they were trying to secure a foe for Kenny Carothers, Grants Pass welter weight, to headline their show on March 8. Carothers is well known as an nmntcur boxer in Josephine county, having had 12 bouts and winning all of them by knockouts. He is a brother of Joe Carothers, who lost a close decision to Dale Odom here February 1. An opponent also Is being sought for Odom for the next card, the promoters said. Willamette Wins Northwest Title Salem, Ode., Feb. 28 (U.R Willamette university won the Northwest conference basketball crown last night with a 67 to 47 victory over the Coyotes of Col lege of Idaho. The sophomore-studded Bear cats drubbed the Jdahonns in a rough battle that gave them 10 wins against three losses In the 1950 conference campaign. Col lege of Idaho dropped to third place, behind Pacific university tlnlftime score was 31 to 18 for Willamette. TITLE FIGHT SLATED New York. Feb. 28 flJ.R' Featherweight Champion Willie Pep and Raymond Famcchon of Frnnce were signed todav for a title fight March 17 at Madison Square garden. Ashland, Feb. 28 Seven games in the opening round of the annual Southern Oregon col lege invitational basketball tour nament will be played starting at 8:43 Wednesday morning in Memorial court at SOC Tdurn ament Director Al Simpson an nounced today. Actually the tourney gets un. dcrway tonight when two games are played at prelims to the sou vs. Oregon College of Education title slated for 8:30. Wednesday's Schedule Wednesday's opener will see vaiseiz meet Lorane at 8:43 a.m. as 18 class B high school teams from as far away at Westport on the Columbia river in addition to Jackson county schools start off the tournament with Talent high as defending champion. Other first round games slated tomorrow will put Bandon against Butte rails at iu a.m.; Gold Hill vs. Elkton, 11:45; Oak land vs. Prospect, 1 p.m.; Paisley vs. Brookings, 2:15; St. Mary's (Medford) vs. Westport, 0 p.m. and Phoenix vs. Jacksonville, at 7:15. In addition there will be on second round tourney tilt Wed nesday and also a consolation bracket game. The fact 18 teams are entered instead of a "work able" 18 In making up tourney brackets, makes it necessary to schedule a second round game Wednesday, Simpson said. Second Round Game The director said he sent out 40 letters to B schools in Ore gon inviting them to take part. Two or three of the schools which entered had to wait until this past week-end to be sure they were not entirely out of their district title. Second round game tomorrow will put the winner of the Tal ent vs. Coos River game against the victor of the Riddle-Creswell game at 3:30 p.m. These first round games are slated tonight. Continues To Saturday The first consolation round game tomorrow will send the losers in these games being played tonight against each oth er at 5 p.m. The tournament will continue with morning, afternoon and evening games scheduled Thurs day and Friday as well as Wed nesday and the final champion ship, third place, fourth place, and consolation round champion games will be played Saturday night. Church Hoopsters Playoffs Slated First round playoff In the local Church Basketball championship tourney will be held Wednesday in the YMCA gym and the finals are slated for Saturday evening at the same place. St. Peter's Lutheran will meet Foursquare Gospel in the 7 p.m. opener tomorrow while St. Mary's Catholic will take on First Presbyterian about 8 p.m. in the first round. Winners in this first round will piny for the league title at 8 p.m. Saturday after the lasers have played a consolation game at 7 p.m. Pointers Slated Gold Hill Games Wednesday Central Point, Feb. 28 Cen tral Point seventh and eighth grade fives will contend with Gold Hill here Wednesday night in their final games before the county tournament. The seventh grndes will tussle at 6:45 o'clock. Last night at Phoenix the Pointer seventh graders plas tered the home quint by a lop sided 49 to 2 count. The Pointer eighth graders walked over Phoenix 43 to 11. Gordon Car rignn with tl and Bob King Willi 10 sparked the victors. I; - . . . " IT"""? ON MAT ' . j shown nere, win .-! team with the Great Atlas against Georges D u se 1 1 e and Pierre LaBellc in a tag team wrestling : match at the ar ; mory Thursday night. It will be a grudge affair ; between the At las and Dusette with the other two thrown in for good meas ure. The tussle, expected to be one of the best , p a r t n e rship duels here this year, is set for j one hour or two out of three falls. Lee Grable and Karl Gray , meet in the op ener. School Track And Baseball Squads Informal Practices Track and baseball practice formal, that is await the end of the basketball season at Med ford high but still about 100 youths have been running around tne local tracK to loosen up and another 40 or so have snown Interest in 1950 baseball, the coaches reported today. Coach Alex McDonald of the baseball squad said about 40 bovs met recently when he called for an indoor meeting of those in terested and that already sev eral prospective pitchers and catchers are working out the kinks in their arms and legs. Newland Coaches Two The Tornado track squad s for mal practice has awaited the end 'si M1 j KRM-GLO la a miracle lustra finish. 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Robinson weighed in at 157 pounds but was the master of Walczak from the opening bell last night. Robinson was knocked down with a low blow in the fourth round but came back strong. Dead line Sunday Classified U at Noon Saturday. of the cage season when Coach Bob Newland can take formal command. Newland is coach of the Tiger Cubs basketball team as well as the track squad. He said that around 100 boys are out anyway. Formal drills for boys in both sports are expected to start the end of this week or early next week. The basketball season for Medford ends tonight when the Tornado plays at Illinois Valley. Prospects for a good season in both track and baseball are rat ed pretty good by observers who point out that the thinclad squad of last season which won the state championship lost but three top men. Those graduating were I Jerry McGrew, Rich Riggs and Loren Carter. Baseball Experience j McDonald has practically his whole 1949 baseball squad back for this year and equally impor tant several of those who played last year and showed good pros pects have come back with more experience gained in Junior Le gion baseball last summer. A full roster of those out in both sports will be published later when formal drills are started. Eagles Host CP. Tonight Locals Away Two Southern Oregon confer ence high school basketball games will be played tonight with Medford high's Black Tor nado traveling to Cave Junc tion to take on Illinois Valley (Kerby) and Central Point play ing at Eagle Point. The Pointers vs. Eagles game will also decide whether Eugle Point will be undefeated in Jui'k son - Douglas Josephine tJDJ) league competition this year or whether the Pointers can win and thereby tie the Eagles for the league leadership. A victory f"r Eagle Point would give it the JDJ title and also complete an undefeated cage season. The varsity tilt is billed for 8:15 following a 6:45 prelim inary game. Over at Cave Junction not much will be accomplished by a win for either team although the Black Tornado is expected to have little trouble with the boys coached by Wes Peters, ex SOC cage star. The varsity game at 8:15 will follow a preliminary scheduled at 6:45. Champion Given Unpopular 'Nod' Seattle, Feb. 28 tU.PJ Ike Williams. 143, lightweight cham pion of the world, was awarded an unpopular split decision over John L. Davis, 137V4, virtual un known boxer from Oakland, Cal., who carried the fight all the way here last night. Williams failed to live up to nHvnmn nntiros ns Davis, boring ill from the opening minute, kept l no cnnmpion dbck-pcobuihb i" defense most of the way. Wil liams' lightning fast jabs, which l,.i b,,Mt thrMu'ino intn Davis' face, piled up points he obvious ly neeaea wnen ine lmui u-- rang. Williams tnnk the onening rounds ns he danced in and out, throwing left jabs into uavis '!.'. lint lln rtiilflmiH hiUU'flll lr...t l,rtii,,rt l clmlritlif ntf IllP effectiveness of most of Williams' punches and landing teuing blows of his own. Hockey Seattle, Fob. 28 (U.R) Larry Silvestri of San Francisco is leading the scoring race in the southern division of the Pacific Coast Hockey league by 11 points, while Bobby Balance of Vancouver holds a one-point margin in the northern sector. The northern division scoring race changed hands several times, but Balance retained his one-pointed lead in the end. Mel Read of Tacoma still has the most assists with 58. while Doug Adam of Tacoma is top goal- maker with 47. Among the north s goalkeep ers, Seattle's Jerry Cotnoir low ered his average to 3.09 to stay on top in that department. Dead line on Classified Ads: 5:31' p m for following day; 10 a.m Mon day noon Saturday for Sunday am Oregon Golf Dates Listed Tacoma, Feb. 28 .U.PJ Dates and sites for the 1950 Oregon open golf tournaments were an nounced here after a meeting of the northwest group of the Pro fessional Golfers association. The Oregon open will be held at the Tualatin Golf and Coun try club April 24 to 26. The Pacific northwest open this year will be held in Astoria on August 21 to 23. National Tourneys Qualifying rounds for the na tional PGA tournament will be held at an as yet unnamed Seat tle course May 22. Qualifying rounds for the national open will be held May 29 at the Port land Golf club. The Oregon state professional golfers tournament is the first on schedule this year with the date set for March 27 at Port land's .Waverly Golf and Coun try club. Bradford And Pearson Play Final AAU Game McMinnville, Ore.. Feb. 28 (U.R) Bradford's Clothiers of Portland and Pearson's Tavern of Oregon City play tonight for the Oregon AAU basketball championship. The Portland team made the finals by dropping the Portland Outdoor Store 63 to 60, and Pearson's Tavern downed Sa lem Page Woolens of Salem 48 to 42 here last night. Two-Ball Foursome Set For Women On Thursday A two ball foursome at 1 p.m. is slated when women golfers of Rogue Valley Country club re sume regular weekly play on Thursday. ' A luncheon and business meet ing will be held at 12 noon at the club with Mrs. Robert Shep herd presiding. Awards will be made to winners of the winter ladder tourney. Three College Quints Chosen In NIT Tournev New York. Feb. 28 IU.R) Now that the ice has been brok en for the National Invitation Basketball tournament by the se lection of the first throe teams officials promised today that the remaining nine spots will oo filled rapidly. Duque.tnc 22-l. Bradley (25 3. and St. John's (21-4) wore awarded the first throe spots. There still was a good possibility that Duquosne and Bradley would also receive a bid to the N.C.A.A. tourney. The N.I.T. starts March 11, the N.C.A.A on March 23 Local Hunters Thanked For Bird Band Report Clark Anderson and Bob Gil strap of Medford have received a note from the U. S. fish and wildlife service identifying a bird they shot last November 5 near Klamath Falls as being banded at the Tule Lake National Wild life refuge. Cal., on Oct. 12. 1949. The wildlife service explained that by banding birds they can learn the migrations and life histories of them in North Amer-1 ica. When a bird with a band i on its leg is shot the killer is re quested to notify the service and send the band to it. Dead line Sunday Classified Is ai Noon Saturdays. Villanova Stays Out NCAA Ranks Villanova, Pa, Feb. 28 (U.R) Villanova, one of the "sinful seven" colleges cited for viola tion of the N.C.A.A. 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