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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.
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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
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'Stuff For Seattle
Palm Springs, Cal., Feb. 28
(U.R) Manager Paul Richards
again put his pitchers and
catchers through a stiff work
out as he prepared to welcome
the rest of the Seattle Rainier
squad to camp tomorrow.
Pitcher Paul Spurlock, 23-year-old
rookie from East Los
Angeles Junior college, was
particularly impressive in yes
terday's drill, showing a hop
ping fast ball.
Robinson Suffers Low
Blow But Takes Battle
St. Louis, Feb. 28 4U.R) An
overweight Ray "Sugar" Rob
inson proved to St. Louis boxing
fans that he still is king of the
welterweights as he pounded
Jean Walczak, 151, French cham
pion, in a 10-round non-title bout.
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.
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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. "sanity
code" on sports indicated today
that It will continue to violate
the code.
The college announced it had
sent a letter to the National Col
legiate Athletic association say
ing that it is "unable to comply"
,with the NCAA ruling against
outright scholarships to athletes
and is "most unwilling" to
change Its policy.
The letter said that Villanova
"is most unwilling to discrimi
nate against a student enjoying
a full scholarship by barring him
from participation in intercolle
giate athletics."
Ex-Oregon U. Pitcher
Looks Good At Drills
Riverside, Cal., Feb. 28 (UB
Manager Bill Sweeney takes
charge of his Portland Beavers
again today after missing the
workout yesterday while in Los
Angeles on business.
Pitcher Dick Waible, who quit
the University of Oregon to fol
low a pro baseball career, looked
sharp in drills yesterday and
Coach Art Mills said the young
righthander "showed lots of
promise."
Basketball
MONDAY'S RKSl'I.TS
NYU 116. Notre Dame 63.
Ohio State 6!). Michigan 58.
Toledo 32. Oklahoma City 43.
Bradley 57, Tulsa 56.
Indiana 80. Illinois 66.
Wisconsin 67, Northwestern 53.
Kansas State 74, Colorado 49.
Indiana State 83. North Illinois 30.
Utah State 53, Colorado A&M 48.
NA1D Tournament
Southeastern Louisiana
western Louisiana 53.
Willamette 69. College of Idaho 47.
Linfield 58. Whitman 55.
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