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TWO MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday. March t. 19 JO t,J - ' f ' ' u V Till ( i m . " , ' L in munii tfTir 'fifhirtifriir'tlff'n'f ininri sWhnAf -fifrifHf - tAcmt Ttlephotol I THE 'PITCH' To Yankee rookies from the West Coast, Jackie Jensen (left) and Al Martin (right), get the "pitch" on spring training from fellow West Coaster Joe Dl Magglo sis the world champion Yanks began their training for the 1990 base ball race In St. Petersburg, Fla. MEDFORDvvTRIBUNE ID IS 13 Teams Qualify For State Tourney Br United Press Thirteen high schools today were qualified for the 1950 sea son class A huh school basket ball tournament at Eugene March 14-18. The remaining three tourney berths were to be decided this week Six teams were added during the) week-end. La Grande won the district 1 title with a 54 to 52 triumph over Vale Saturday night. It was La Grande's second district win over vale. In district 2, Mac hiuh of Mil ton - Freewater walloped the Hood River Blue Dragons, 68 to 90, at Hood River, and Bend toppled Remond, 44 to 32, in dis trict 3. Qualifying Play Slated Qualifying piny to determine flights for the annual men's spring golf handicap at Rogue valley country club will com mence Saturday March 1 1 and continue through Sunday, March 19, Club Pro Hugh Starkweath er announced this morning. The qualifying round will be 18 holes. Ivan Harrington Is defending champ. He beat Paul Tlmm in last spring's finals. Tlmm and Dirk Slceler were co-modalists last year with 67 nets. Starkweather said that Junior classes will start at the club on Saturday, March 18. Instruction will be for both boys and girls. It will be principally for begin ners but Is not restricted thereto. Eddie Waitkus Finds Regaining Of Berth Tough Assignment Clearwater. Kin., Mar. 6 (U.R) Although Eddie Waitkus seemed in fine condition in his attempt to regain baseball stardom with the Philadelphia Phils, It was ap parent today that he will have a tough Job to win back his old first base Job, Waitkus, out of action since he was shot by a demented girl fan in mid-season last year, belted two singles and a double in a practice game yesterday, but Dick Sisler, who finished out the year at first, also hit two singles. Sacramento Whips Portland, 7 To 1 Anaheim, Cal., Mar. (I (U.R) Dick Conger. Dill Evans and Gene Roenspie will pitch for Sacramento today In an exhibi tion game against the Los An geles Angels. The Solons successfully op ened their exhibition game sea son yesterday with a 7 to 1 vic tory over Portland behind the Miree hit hurling of Merle Krick, Glenn Herman and Jess Dober nic. The Solons got Ihrce runs on five hits off Portland's John Tieiney In the third to wrap up the game. J will u STAUFFER PASTE Marshfield of Coos Bav enter ed the state tournament for the fifth straight year by submerg ing little Siuslaw, 80 to 5 in dis trict 5. Corvallis, 1948 state cham pion, won the district 7 crown with a 37 to 29 win over Sweet Home. Hillsboro annexed the dis trict 9 title by defeating Banks. 45 to 28. Already qualified for the state tourney were Grants Pass, dis trict 4: Eugene, district 6; Sea side, district 10: Central Catho lic of Portland, district 13: Scap- Pooso, district 14: Roosevelt of ortland, district 15, and Jeffer son of Portland, district 16. Dallas and Dayton will meet Tuesday night for the district 8 championship. Dallas stopped Newberg, 54 to 48, Saturday night at Salem in a semi-finals game and Dayton stopped Salem Academy, 37 to 29. In district 11, Salem. Wood burn and Mt. Angel remained to battel it out this week for a tournament spot. Salem beat Woodburn Saturday night, 58 to 40 and Mt. Angel downed .Stay ton, 37 to 18. It was Stavton's second defeat in the double elimination tournament. Milwaukie To Play Milwaukle and West Linn meet tonight for the district 2 title. In the state class "B" tourna ment district plnyoffs, Mon mouth defeated Sublimity, 47 to 38, in finals of the district 2-B tourney, and Union nosed out Wallowa, 53 to 60, in district 8 B finals. Already quntiifed for the "B" tourney at Astoria March 0-1 1, arc Alsea, district 3: Rogue rtlv. cr. district 5, and Prairie Cltv, district 7. The district I B title will be determined Monday night at As toria in a game between Tilla mook Catholic and Garibaldi The Tillamook team beat Gari baldl Saturday night. 59 to 43. to give each team three wins and one defeat in the double elimination tourney. Locals Whip Redding Medford bowlers whipped Bas sctt Bulck company, Redding, Cal., Sunday in three straight matches with total pins of 2714 to 2650, 2682 to 2565 and 2833 to 2603. E. Sims had high single game and single match scores of 236 and 644 for Medford and Dick Porterfleld led Bassett's with a 211 game while McDonald of Redding had a match score of 563. Since the Redding bowling al ley burned year and one-half ago, the Buick five has been traveling to different cities on week-ends and have traveled more than 5.000 miles this sea son. Porterfield Is formerly of Medford and started bowling here. Results: MrdforA (l'O Cnd) (Ird) Burr SfiS S41 334 Haunt S48 508 HlirroiiRht S7fl Andrrson S71 A43 A7U Morgan .131 .US SOI Sinn 408 948 644 3714 3883 3833 Rrdrllns (III) (!nd) Cirri) Portfrdeld SS.1 S07 4IIIV MrRne ,H 4S7 Sol) Lorn . 408 S.18 .1.18 MrDnnalct S03 .149 .117 Flstori 518 484 506 36.10 3.16.1 3603 COAST CONFERENCE FINAL BASKETBALL STANDINGS Southern Division Team W L Pet. UCLA 10 2 .833 USC 7 4 .583 California 4 8 .333 Stanford 3 9 .250 Northern Division: WSC II S .688 Or.qon State 8 8 .500 Washington 8 8 .500 Idaho 7 9 .438 Oregon 6 10 .875 Great Atlas To Grapple With Dusette Promoter Mack Llllard an nounced today that he has pur suaded the Great Atlas to meet Georges Dusette again on the triple main event wrestling card at the armory Thursday night. Each match will be for 45 min utes or two out of three falls, and a coin will be tossed to de termine position, on the card. It will be the second time the natural enemies have met in the local ring in an individual match. They have clashed twice here in tag team matches. In their first individual get-together they went to a fall-apiece draw in a hectic skirmish. Pete Belcastro. the wild Weed Italian, returns to the rin; wars to face a tough customer in Frank Stojack, former coast champion and airplane spin ar tist, In another match. The third bout sends Tough Tony Ross, the Salem terror, against Karl Gray, MiiwauKce trial horse. The first match will go on at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are on sale at Brown's cafe, 101 East Main street, or may be obtained at the armory Thursday night. TO START ACTIVITIES Ashland. Mar. 6 The Kiwan-is-sponsored Ashland Boys' Ath letic club will resume its activ ities at 7:30 p. m. today in the gymnasium of the Briscoe school. Col. Ben Waterbury is director of the group. urn , ". 'Ill -A.'- "rf W" '''? - '; FA I; ., V ' T- ? K fiii imifilii'fififiYitiiir T iIiTiii Hi nfttJ Hockey (SUNPAY SCORES) Pacific Coast l.racut Los Angeles 6. San Dlcdo 3 New Westminster 6, Seattle 3 National League Boston 11. Chicago 4 New York 5. Toronto 3 ODOM TO BOX Dale Odom, above, will punch with Dono van Wolfe, popular Phoenix fis ticuffer, in the lower half of the double main event on Wednesday night's amateur boxing card at the armory. The seven-ply pro gram will be topped by the southern Oregon welterweight championship between sensation al Kenny Carothers, Grants Pass and unbeaten Darrell Johnson, Medford. The first bout goes on at 8:30 p.m. Basketball PROFESSIONAL (NBA) (Sundiy Sror Svrnru.tr 84, Minneapolis 75 Rochester fl.l. Ft. Wayne 80 Tri Cities 91. Denver 80 Anderson 89. Chicago 73 St. Louis 71, Philadelphia 67 Indianapolis 92. Sheboygan 6. COLLEGE' i Saturday Scores) - Washington .17. Oregon State 94 San Francisco 61, Loyola 60 WSC Plays Bruins For Coast Title San Francisco, Mar. 6 !B.R) The big battle to decide the Pa cific Coast conference basket ball championship Comes up this week-end in Los Angeles when the Washington State Cougars play the UCLA Bruins in a best two-of-three game series. The Cougars gained the north ern division title their first since 1941 Friday night with a 39 to 34 victory over University of Idaho. The Cougars bowed, SO to 45, Saturday night in a triple overtime thriller, but by then it didn't matter. First Game Friday The first clash between the Cougars and the Bruins takes place Friday night. The teams meet aeain Saturday and a play off will be held Monday in case each team wins a game. In the northern division, WSC's Ed Gayda. all-Coast for ward, tied the division scoring record for a four-year point to tal of 643. The mark was set by Oregon's Dick Wilkins, who ran up his record In 1945-48. Washington State Wins Northern Division Swim Championship Pullman, Wash., Mar. 6 (U.R) Washington State college was proud possessor today of its first northern division Pacific Coast conference swimminE champion ship. K The Cougars tallied an even 100 points to beat the favored Washington Huskies who ended the two-day meet with 88 points, Oregon was third with 34 fol lowed by Oregon State's 21. Ida ho's nine and Montana State university's four. K. Wade Lands 1 Far Western All-Star Berth Chico, Cal., Mar. 6 Keith Wade was the lone Southern Oregon college player to be named to the Far Western con ference all-star basketball first five, according to Mackay G. Martin, conference statistician. John Earger and Bill O'Neal of the Red Raiders of the Rogue were selected for the second quint and Baldy Foster of SOC gained honorable mention. Others chosen for the first team were Jater Cowan, Vere Butler and Lyle Olsen, all of Chico State college, and Grant Braun of the California Aggies. Second quint choices included Jim Wong and Robert Crawford of San Francisco State college and Hal Sconyers and Harold Nelson of the Aggies. Branch Rickey Offers Johnny Jorgensen In Trade For Pitcher Vero Beach, Fla., Mar 6 !U.R) Brooklyn's Branch Rickey, who has been trying to steam up a trade for a pitcher, threw an other log on the fire today with the announcement that Third Baseman Johnny Jorgensen is on the trading block. "I don't want to trade him," said the Dodger president today. "He is a fine little fellow and a real major-leagucr." "But I am afraid that Jorgen sen is surplus on this club with all the good young men we have," Rickey said. "I am afraid his arm isn't quite right, yet. If his arm were sound, well, I'd pick him for our regular third baseman, but as things are, I'm afraid he's surplus." Jorgensen is 30 years old, while his Dodger third base riv al Billy Cox is 30 and Rookie Bobby Morgan Is 24. Three-Year Cruise In 33' Ft. Ketch Planned Wilmington, Cal., Mar. 6 (U.R) Four young college students and a merchant seaman will leave next Sunday for a three -year cruise halfway around the world in a 38-foot ketch. Seaman Neil Harrington, 24, is the only member of the group who has been to sea before. He will serve as engineer. Other crewmen will be Cope Borden, 24, Don Buekner, 28, Harry Tay lor, 21, and Forest Strayer, 27, all students at the University of Southern California. Their friends gave them a par ty yesterday, bringing canned goods and other provisions for the galley of the ketch "Mari nero" which they and two other boys who cannot make the trin bought for SI 1,000. The ketch will head for Pana ma first, then down the east coast of South America and across the Atlantic to Europe. They will visit Mediterranean ports before heading north to Scandinav';. ' BEST DRESSED American women as a class are today generally conceded to be the best dressed women In the world, according to the U. S. department of commerce. WEATHER By United Press Northern California: General ly fair today but scattered snow flurries in high mountains: fair tonight and Tuesday: cooler south interior today and slightly cooler in valleys tonight with lo cal frost; northwest winds 10-20 mph off coast. DEPENDABLE Oil. 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