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Bruins, Huskies Have
Rubber Fray Tonight
New York (U.R) A final
playoff battle between Washing
ton and UCLA will definitely
settle the Pacific Coast Confer
ence basketball title Monday
night, and Kansas has a fine
chance to wrap up the Big Seven
crown.
Should both league races be
decided Monday night, they will
fill two of the remaining seven
berths in the 16-team NCAA
championship tournament.
The PCC crown must go to the
winner of the clash on UCLA's
court at Los Angeles, for this is
the "rubber" game in a best-out-of-three
playoff series. UCLA
won the opener, 65-53, on Fri
day but Washington bounced
back, 55-53, on Saturday.
To Meet Broncs
The winner will meet Santa
Clara in the opening round of
the NCAA tourney, March 22, at
Corvallis, Ore.
Kansas plays its last regular
season game Monday night
against Colorado's Buffaloes on
SIX BERTHS
FOR CLASS A
Portland (U.R) Only six
teams out of 24 which will com
pete in Oregon's 1952 high
school class 'A' and 'B basket
ball tournaments remained to be
decided Monday.
Ten of the 16 class 'A teams
have won tournament berths for
the big event in Eugene start
ing March 18. And all eight class
B teams are set for their tour
nament in Salem starting Thurs
day. A. .
Class A teams holding tick
ets to Eugene include Cleveland
and Lincoln of Portland. As
toria, Klamath Falls, Marshfield,
McMinnville, Corvallis, Milwau
kie, Hillsboro and Scappoose.
Still in Raco
Svein Huse
Ski Winner
Government Camp. Ore. U.R5
Svein Huse, Norwegian ex
change student at Washington
State college, led the field in the
Pacific Northwestern ski asso
ciation championships Sunday
as an- estimated 2,800 persons
looked on through a swirling
snowstorm.
Huse recorded the longest
Jump of the day, 163 feet, to win
first place in the class "A" divi
sion. Per Skangerud, Seattle high
school student, won the class
"B" division with 134 and 114
foot jumps. Hermod Bakke,
Leavenworth, Wash., was. tops
in the senior class.
Gordy Wren, Steamboat, Colo.,
was second in class A compe
tition, and La Vern Hughes of
Portland was third.
NAIB Cage
Tournament
Underway
Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) The
14th annual NAIB basketball
tournament, which will scram
ble 32 teams from 30 states and
hand the winner a chance to be
come the U. S. Olympic entry,
began Monday at Municipal au
ditorium.
After six days the NAIB
will have found its champion
to go against the NCAA title
team in the Olympic playoffs,
to be held in Kansas City
March 29.
American Institute of Spring
field, Mass., and Montana State
of Boseman opened the tourna
ment at 11 a. m. During the
afternoon Centenary met Mur
ray State of Kentucky, James
Millikin university of Illinois
played Elon of North Carolina
and Whitworth of Washington
met Wisconsin State.
Hamline university of St Paul,
the only team ever to win the
NAIB title more than once, was
seeded No. 1 as it prepared to
try for a fourth consecutive
championship.
But there were other favor
ites, including Eastern Illinois,
which upended Hamline in the
finals of the pre-season NAIB
tourney here last December; un
beaten Southwest Texas State of
San Marcos, which slashed
through 25 opponents, and Mur
ray State of Kentucky.
Lawrence Tech of Detroit,
James Millikin, Portland Uni
versity of Oregon and Southwest
Missouri State of Springfield
head a list of other fine-record
teams.
Hamline will play its first
round game Monday night, meet
ing Tamoa of Florida at 7:30
p. m. The other night games
match Indiana State and Fair
leigh Dickenson of Rutherford,
N. J.; Southwest Missouri and
Chadron of Nebraska, and Find
lay of Ohio and Portland.
the latter's court at Boulder,
Colo. The Jayhawks have only to
win this to take the Big Seven
title and earn the right to meet
Texas Christian in the NCAA's
first round.
But, should Kansas be upset
and second-place Kansas State
win its final game of the season
at home against Oklahoma, the
Big Seven race would finish in
a tie and necessitate a playoff.
Iry Loop Unwilled
Only one other league race re
mains unsettled the Ivy league.
Princeton currently leads the
historic eastern circuit with a 9-1
record. Cornell and Pennsylvan
ia are tied for second at 8-2.
Princeton had home games left
against Columbia and Penn, and
the latter tilt on March 15 fig
ures as the key to the whole race.
Cornell plays Columbia Monday
night.
The remaining four berths still
unfilled in the NCAA are those
to be awarded by a selection
committee to "members at large"
from the East.
UNDECIDED
TOURNEY
Still in contention for other
berths are La Grande and Vale
in District 1; Th Dalles and
Pendleton in District 2; Red
mond and Bend in District 3;
Eugene, University High and
Junction City in District 6;
Salem and Stayton in District 11,
and Central Catholic and Gresh-
am in District 13.
Class 'B' teams whb head for
Salem this .eek are Wallowa,
Powers, Westport, Sublimity,
Rogue River, Echo, Culver and
Mapleton.
Seattle Vies
Tonight in
Invitational
New York (U.R) St. Bona
venture and St. John's, a pair of
seeded teams who drew first
round byes, make their debut in
the National Initiation Tourna
ment Monday nigh t and both ap
pear to be headed for plenty of
trouble.
St. Bonaventure 19-5 is match
ed against tall, tourney-testd
Western Kentucky 26-4 in a
quarter-final game. That starts
a triple-header at Madison
Square Garden.
St. John's 22-3 goes against
La Salle 21-5, the team that has
become the fans' "darling" with
its color, dash, and scoring
punch, in another quarter-final.
And unseeded teams Holy Cross
23-3 and Seattle 29-7 clash i the
night's final game, a contest
which completes first-round
play.
O'Brien Homecoming
Seattle brings to the tourney
one of the nation's most talked-of
players in five-foot, nine-inch
Johnny ""rien, first college
player in history to score 1,000
points in a single season. For
jolting Johnny, it's a homecom
ing, because his home is in near
by South Amboy, N. J.
O'Brien, who now has 1,030
points, has a fighting chance for
another record he needs 12
more field . Is to tie the sea
son record ol 354 set byGeorge
King of Norris-Harvey in 1950.
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20 Colleges, 100
Entered In Willamette Relays
Salem A total of 100 high
schools and 20 colleges" and uni
versities more than 2,000 ath
letes in all will compete in the
second annual Willamette relays
track carnival set for McCulloch
field Saturday, April 5.
Athletic Director Chester
Stackhouse, of Willamette uni
versity, founder and guiding
hand of the huge cinder extrava
ganza, now rated as one of the
biggest on the entire coast, has
released the entry list which in
cludes eight high schools from
Duquesne Tutor
Mentor of Year
New York U.R) Donald
Moo:.., whose Duquesne Dukes
are the top target in this week's
National Invitation Basketball
Tournamen, has been voted the
United Press coach of the year
i j a nationwide poll of 205 sports
writers and radio broadcasters.
Moore, now in his fourth sea
son ut Duquesne after spending
11 years as a Western Pennsyl
vania high school coach, guided
the Dukes to 21 victories in 22
g:mes and the top-seeded berth
in the annual NIT competition.
Husky Natators
Win ND Meet
Corvallis (U.R) University
of Washington's Huskies held
the Northern division swimming
title again Monday.
The Huskies rolled up 137
points to 105 for second-place
Washington State in the annual
two -day conference swimming
meet here. Oregon was third
with 69 followed by Oregon
State with 23 and Idaho with 11.
Hunt, Noe
Pace Ducks
In Scoring
Eugene Capt. Ken Hunt and
Chet Noe, a pair of talented re
serves from the 1951 Oregon
basketball team, stepped in this
year to capture the Duck North
ern division and total season
scoring titles.
Hunt became the highest scor
ing "little man" in the history
of the league when he tallied
218 points and his season's work
vaulted him into second place
in the all-time Oregon scoring
records behind Roger Wiley who
tallied 235 points in 1949.
High Overall
Noe's 376 points over the en
tire season was tops for the
squad and his 195 conference to
tal ranked him as the fourth
highest scorer in Duck history,
trailing Wiley, Hunt, and Dick
Wilkins. The big center was fol
lowed by Hunt with 363 points
and Bob Peterson's 352. Peter
son also ranked third in confer
ence play with a 170 total.
Ken Wegner, sophomore guard
from Portland, led the regulars
in accuracy from the field, hit
ting .367 in league action and
.368 for the entire season. Anoth
er sophomore, Bob Hawes of
Bend, led the free throwers with
.781 in the division games and
.750 for the season.
Lewis Jantzer Bowser Handicap
Victor; Ted Jantzer Breaks 100
Central Point Ted Jantzer,
Trail, fired the f'-st 100 straight
at a Central Point Sportsmen's
club shoot since its organization
in 1940 when he won the Class
B shoot yesterday.
Lewis Jantzer, Prospect, won
the major event of the day, the
Bowser handicap by blasting 48
birds out of 50.
In the other class shoot? at 16
yards Dick Skeeters, Medford,
took the A group with a 99 and
Hugh Brown, Grants Pass topped
the C gang with 91. George
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High Schools
the state of Washington plus
several colleges from Washing
ton and Idaho.
100 Races
Stackhouse announces that the
mammoth show will include 100
races every one a final. That
means that 100 athletes will
wear first-place ribbons, and in
addition there will be a big field
for the field events.
Colleges entered are Central
Washington, College of Idaho,
Eastern Oregon, George Fox,
Lewis and Clark, Linfield, Olym
pic Junior college, OCE, Oregon
State, OSC frosh, Pacific, Uni
versity of Oregon, Oregon frosh,
Portland university, University
of Washington, Vanport college,
Western Washington, Whitworth
and Willamette.
Few are the high schools in
Oregon not entered in the meet.
They total 92 in all.
B CHAMPS CROWNED
Tacoma (U.R) The powerful
Monroe Bearcats Monday ruled
as the new Washington state
class B hoop champions after
knocking off Eatonville 51-31
Saturday night in the windup of
the small school playoffs.
Cleveland Tips
Lincoln Quintet
Portland Cleveland high de
feated Lincoln 38 to 36 Saturday
night on Jimmy 'ark's field
goal with 30 seconds left in the
game.
The win gave Cleveland the
District No. 15 berth in the state
hoop tourney and Lincoln Dis
trict No. 16 spot. The clubs are
still city cochamps.
Cleveland, which trailed 21 to
16 at half time, held seven-foot
Swede Halbrook to 19 counters,
his lowest in city play and
blanked him from the field in
the third quarter.
High School Scores
SATURDAY GAMES
(District 2 Playoffs)
The Dalles 58. Pendleton 56
(District 4 Playoffs)
Klamath Falls 53. Crater 29 (title).
(District 5 fiayorrs)
Marshfield 67. Reedsport 34.
(District G Playoffs)
Eugene 62, Oakridge 57
University 57. JuncUon City 39
(District 7. Playoff)
Newport 36. Toledo 19 (consola
tion).
Corvallis 63. Albany 51 (titie)
(District 8 Playoffs)
. McMinnville 46. Taft 30 (title).
Dayton 69, Willamina 42 (consola
tion)
(District 10 Playoff)
Astoria 53. Seaside 47
(District 11 Playoff)
Salem 57. Stayton 28
Bend 58. Prineville 44
(District 2B Playoffs)
Sublimity 66. Valsetz 56 (title).
Fall City 44. Mill City 42
(District 4B Playoffs)
Powers 40. Elkton 35 (title)
Drain 36, Brookings 35 (consola
tion) (District SB Playoffs)
Rogue River 59. Bonanza 44 (title)
(District 8B Playoffs)
Wallowa 76. Elein 44 (title)
Halfway 35, Adrian 33 (consola
tion).
a tourney" opens"
Seattle (U.R) Basketball-
crazy fans from all corners' of the
state got ready Monday to fol
low their favorite teams to the
28th annual class "A" high
school tournament which opens
here Wednesday. Wasmngton
state's sixteen top prep quintets,
including four-time champion
Walla Wall, stand ready to start
shooting for the title left vacant
by Highline, last year's winner.
Bronson, Grants Pass, and Ted
Jantzer knotted with 43 out of
50 each in the 25 pair doubles.
Buddy Shoot
The buddy shoot was won by
Jim Ross and Harry Elden with
a combined score of 90.
Yesterday's shoot was Ameri
can Trapshooting association
registered and drew participants
from as far as Yoncolla, Rose
burg and Brookings. Forty-three
shooters took part.
Another registered shoot is
set for April 6.
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I Baseball Briefs
San Francisco (U.R) Man
ager Tommy Jeath expressed
satisfaction Monday with a pair
of rookie pitchers who displayed
their talents in a San Francisco
Seals intra-squad game.
Hurlers Ken Wright and Bill
Bradford caught Heath's eye as
the Orteigs downed the Tornays,
3 to 2, before 6,000 fans in Seals
Stadium Sunday. Wright gavi up
three hits in four innings, and
Bradford allowed only five in
six frames.
Oaks Win
Modesto (U.R) The Oakland
Acorns chalked up their first
spring exhibition series, two
games to one, Sunday by down
ing the Sacramento Solons, 7
to 4. Both teams scored three
runs in the first inning.
Beavers Triumph
Riverside, Calif. (U.R) The
Portland Beavers scored on three
errors in the ninth inning of
their first Pacific Coast league
exhibition game to take ( 1 ti
0 decision from the San Diego
Padres. Third baseman Don Eg
gert was the only Beaver to
make the round trip in the game
Sunday.
Stars Lose
Hollywood-U.R) The Holly
wood Stars did double time on
the practice diamond Monday to
polish up weak hitting which
became evident in dropping an
exhibition game, to the Pitts
burgh Pirate B team, 14 to 5.
Angels Red Hot
Fullerton U.R) Stan Hack's
Los Angeles Angels were off on
a "red hot" start Monday with
two exhibition game wins al
ready to their credit. Bill Swee
ney's Seattle Rainiers were the
Angels' second victims, falling
Sunday 8 to 7. The Rainiers took
a first inning lead, but relin
quished it in the third and then
regained it in the fifth.
BASEBALL
SUNDAY EXHIBITION
Cincinnati "A" N 1. Detroit A 0
Philadelphia "A" N 13. Boston A 4
St. Louis N 3. New York A 1
Philadelphia "A" A 4. Washington
Boston N 6. Brooklyn N 2
Cleveland A 5, New York N 4
St. Louis A 11. Pittsburgh "A" N 5
Chicago A 3, Chicago N 2
Philadelphia "B" N 12, Cincinnati
"B" N 5
Pittsburgh B" N 14. Hollywood
Pacific 5
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Fairbanks, Alaska U.R)
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Alaska, Monday was holder of
the North American dog racing
championship. Smoke Sunday
r..cei his team of ten malamutes
and huskies around a 30-mile
. js country course in two hours
and 20 minutes to win the title
sought by 18 other contestants.
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Pelicans Gain State Tournament
Berth by Whipping Crater 53-29
Central Point Klamath union
high looked forward to its sec
ond consecutive jaunt to the
state Class A basketball tourney
today and the Crater high Com
ets turned their attention to
spring sports as the aftermath of
Klamath's 53 to 2S triumph over
Crater Saturday night.
Victory gave the Pelticans the
District No. 4 diadem.
The Pels, Big Four titlists, hit
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of accuracy, simply had too
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58 to 42 loss to Klamath Friday
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Saturday's tangle quickly re
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quint that couldn't seem to miss
and another that just couldn't
find the range effectively.
Crater connected on only 13
per cent of its shots, three out
of 23, in the firrt half. The Com
ets failed to score a field goal
from late in the first quarter
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the fourth. They hit better after
that and had a 23.8 percentage
for the evening.
Alert, cagy Klamath helped
its own cau&. along by blocking
Crater shots and breaking up the
Central Pointers passing attack.
The Pels took an 11 to 2 lead
and were on top 15 to 7 at the
quarter. Ralph Carroll, the tow
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in the second period as Klamath
gained a 33 to 11 half time lead.
Reserves Take Jver
By the five-minute mark of the
third quarter Klamath had
amassed a 41 to 14 spread. At
that point Coach Paul McCall
placed a complete quint of re
serves on the floor. They fin
ished the game.
It was a more interesting tus
sle after that for Crater fans.
The Comets outscored Klamath
15 to 12 in the remaining part
of the contert. Klamath's lead .
was 43 to 20 after three quarters.
Punky Monroe and Bill Rnv
of Crater Xouled out in the
fourth quarter.
KlamaUi Falls 53
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Horton 6 f
Carroll 18 c
Johnson 6 g
Cilmore 5 c
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TO BE AT CLINIC
Eueene UCLA's Cnur. inhn.
ny Wooden, winner of four suc
cessive Southern divisinn rhm.
pionships, will be the visiting
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University of Oregon summer
coaching clinic, it was announc
ed by Dean Paul Jacobson, di
rector of the summer session.
Wooden will hp
campus from July 7 and will re
main durini? the first half k
two-week clinic. The guest foot
ball coach for the 1952 session
will be L. R. "Dutch" Meyer of
icxas nnsuan, who announced
his acceptance last week.
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