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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.
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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.
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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.
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(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'
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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.
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High School Scores
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Scan Wlc S, St. Heir tin 4"
Mi. Anrrt 35. Stavton 1
MtHon Frerwnter Hfl. Hood River 50
:nLrm sb, oodhurn 40
Davtnn 37, Rnl-m Academy 39
Da 1 1st S3, Newhrrg 48
lllllfthoro 45. Ran kit 28
Bn1 44. Hedmond 32
Monmouth 47. Sublimity 3R
Corvnlln 37. Sweet Home 39
Anillv 52. nerval 37
Toledo 31, Tnrt 28
Ttllnmook Cuthnlic 50, Garibaldi 4J
(.a Grande 62, Vale 54
Marshfield B0, Studaw 55
Union 53. Wallowa 50
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