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Tuesday, March 1L IU2
Bruins Bag Coast Championship
With Victory Over Washington
Lot Angelei U.R UCLA's
mazing Bruins held the Pacific
Coast Conference basketball
championship Tuesday after
their second win in three starts
against the powerful Washing
ton Huskies, rated the fifth best
team in the country in the final
United Press poll.
The score was 60-50.
The Bruin victory was a bitter
disappointment to the tired
Huskies, who hoped to avenge
their earlier poor showing
against the underdog Uclans.
The Bruins surprised the Huskies
and every one else last Friday
night by handing them a 65-53
beating. The Huskies recovered
enough for Saturday night's
meeting to squeak out a narrow
S3-50 victory.
Meet Santa Clara
The Bruin victory Monday
night won them the right to
meet Santa Clara, in the opening
round of the four-team regional
NCAA championship tournament
March 21 at Corvallis.
The great victory evens the
count with the Huskies, who de
feated the Bruins in two straight
playoff games at Seattle last
year, for the championship.
After assuming a 6-4 lead in
the first three minutes, the
Bruins cooled off and Washing
ton dumped in eight straight
points in the next three minutes
to take a 12-6 lead, looking as
If they would run away with the
ball game.
Coma Back
But Ronnie Livingston, Bruin
ophomore guard and spark
plug of the team, put UCLA
back in the game with two con
aecutive field goals, and Don
Bragg followed with a push shot
to tie the game at 12 all.
The game was tied at 33-all at
halftime, but the Huskies folded
in the third quarter, getting only
three- points. UCLA led 47-36.
and that was the ball game. Six
Huskies fouled out in the clos
ing minutes in futile efforts to
get the ball and get back in the
contest.
Livingston hit 18 points for
the Bruins to top all scorer?.
Bob Houbregs and Joe Cipriano
had 14 each for the Huskies.
Hoppe Has Third
Victory in Two
San Francisco (U.R) Willie
Hoppe had his third straight vic
tory in the world championship
billiard tournament to his credit
Tuesday.
Hoppe defeated Jay Bozeman
Of Vallejo, Calif., 50-37, in 42
innings Monday night. Bozeman
got off to an early lead, but at
the end of 16 innings Hoppe was
in front, 18-10. He stayed ahead
the rest of the way.
Hoppe had a high run of five
while Bozeman had a high, run
of seven. Bozeman has a tourna
ment record of one win and two
losses.
Kinrey Matsuyama of Japan
won his second straight match
when he defeated Irving Crane
of Binghampton, N. Y., 50-44, in
48 innings. Matsuyama had a
high run of eight while Crane
had a high run of seven. '
Baseball Briefs
MONDAY EXHIBITION SCORES
Cincinnati (N) 10. Philadelphia (N) 4
Washington (A) 4. Detroit (A) 1
St. Louis (N) 8. Boston (N) 5
New York (A) 7. Boston (A 4
Cleveland (A) 4, New York (N) 0
Philadelphia (A) 10. Boston (N)
-B" 4
New York (N) "B" 13, Chicago
St. Louis (A) vs. Los Angeles (PCL)
cancelled, rain.
Pittsburgh (N) vs. Bollywood (PCL)
cancelled, rain.
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Johnny O'Brien Scores 21
As Seattle Loses in NIT
New York (U.R) Duquesne
tall, talented and top-seeded
takes the court for the first
time Tuesday night in the
National Invitational tournament
against Holy Cross and 'second
seeded St. Louis clashes with
Dayton in a pair of quarter-final
games.
The "Iron Dukes," guided by
"Coach of the Year" Donald
Moore, will be scrapping for
a semi-final berth opposite La
Salle, which advanced Monday
night with an upset 51-45 win
over St. John's.
And the St. Louis-Dayton
winner will go into the semi-fi
nals Thursday against St. Bon
aventure, winner by 70-69 over
Western Kentucky Monday
night.
Seattle Loses
The Crusaders of Holy Cross
must be rated as deep under
dogs in their battle with the
Two Teams
Get Western
NCAA Berths
New York (U.R) Two more
berths were filled in the NCAA
basketball tournament Tuesday
as Kansas was crowned Big
Seven Conference champion and
UCLA became the Pacific Coast
Conference ruler.
Kansas clinched its title by
whipping Colorado, 72-55, at
Boulder, Colo., Monday night as
big Clyde Lovellette sank 41
points.
UCLA won the "rubber game"
in a best-of-three playoff against
Washington at Los Angeles, 60
to 50.
These two wins complete the
entire field for the western
NCAA regionals. In a double
header at Kansas City, March 21,
Kansas will play Texas Chris
tian and St. Louis will meet New
Mexico A. and M.
On the same night in Corvallis,
Ore., UCLA will clash with San
ta Clara and Wyoming will play
Oklahoma City. The two Kansas
City winners will meet in a semi
final and the two Corvallis win
ners will meet in the other, both
March 22. The western finals will
be at Seattle, March 25.
Only three of the eight teams
for the eastern regionals already
are picked Kentucky, North
Carolina State and Illinois.
tourney's No. 1 rated team, for
they will be coming right back
after a gruelling 77-72 win over
Seattle in the third game of Mon
day night's triple-header.
Holy Cross got a bad scare
against Seattle, a team that was
extended its tourney bid chiefly
on the strength of Johnny
O'Brien's personal scoring rec
ord and which was expected to
prove an easy mark.
Chiefs Rally
Instead, the scrappy Chief
tains, first team from the Pacific
Northwest to appear in the NIT,
rallied time after time from ap
parent disaster and tied the count
at 50-50 going into the last pe
riod. It wasn't until only four
minutes remained that the Cru
saders took charge for their
24th win in 27 games.
The Crusaders held O'Brien,
only man in history to score
1,000 points in a single season,
to three field goals but they
lost two men fouling out against
him and he added 15 free throws,
a tourney record, for a total of
21 points. The five foot nine inch
whiz thus finished the season
with 1,051 points but he fell
nine field goals short of the all
time season record.
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Resting After Relapse
Riverside, Calif. (U.R) Port
land Beaver Boss Bill Mulligan
was confined to Community hos
pital here Tuesday after suffer
ing a relapse in his convales
cence from pneumonia last
winter.
Mulligan, general manager of
the Beavers, was ordered by bis
attending physician to take a
complete re5t.
Portland Pilots
Take Close Win
In NAIB Tourney
Kansas Cit, Mo. U.R) Port
land and Whitworth, the Pacific
Northwest's two entries in the
National Association of Intercol
legiate Basketball tournament
here, came through with open
ing round victories Monday.
Whitworth downed White
water State of Wisconsin 71-60
and Portland edged Findlay col
lege 84-82.
Milton Harvest McGilvery
canned a last minute tip-in to
give Portland its win over Find
lay. McGilvery also paced the
Pilots' scoring with 22 points.
Andy Johnson hit 18 for Port
land. ,
Jim Doherty with 25 and
Ralph Poison with 20 led Whit
worth to its win over Whitewater.
Raider Boxers
Lose to Chico
Ashland Chico State college
boxers drubbed Southern Oregon
college boxing team 7V4 to Vi
point in a Far Western confer
ence match held at Chico this
weekend, Coach Bill Abbey re
ported yesterday.
Jim Mullin, SOC bantam
weight, was the only member of
the Red Raider squad able to
hold his own against the vastly
improved Chico club. Mullin
made up for an earlier loss to
Nues Endsley by holding the
Calif ornian to a draw. The Raid
ers lost all other matches..
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Joint Steadium for Oregon, OSC
Urged by Med ford Board Member
Portland (U.R) Construction
of a joint stadium for Oregon
State college and the University
of Oregon was urged here Mon
day at a State Board of Higher
Education meeting.
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Board Picks
Kentucky U.
As Top Team
New York (U.R) The United
Press board of coaches Tuesday
chose the powerful Kentucky
Wildcats as the national college
basketball champion for the sec
ond year in a row.
Illinois' Big Ten champions
were second and Kansas of the
Big Seven conference was third
in the final weekly ratings for
the 1951-52 season.
By winding up as the best in
the land. Coach Adolph Rupp's
men fulfilled the pre-season fore
cast of the 35 leading coaches
who make up the United Press
rating board.
Duquesne (21-1). was ranked
fourth with one first place vote
and 17d points, while the Wash
ington Huskies (25-5) just edged
Kansas State (18-5) for the next
spot.
After them in order came: St.
Louis (22-6), Iowa (19-3), St.
John's of Brooklyn (22-3) and
Wyoming (27-6).
Rubber Footballs OKd
For Oregon Conference
Portland (U.R) The Oregon
Collegiate Conference voted
here, Monday to make the use
of rubber footballs for league
games optional and to use them
if asreed upon by respective
coaches.
Dr. Stephen Epler, president
of Vanport College, was re
elected president of the confer
ence. Other officers included Dr.
Winston D. Purvine, president
of Oregon Technical Institute,
vice-president, and Joe Holland,
athletic director at Vanport,
secretary-treasurer.
TO COAST LEAGUE
Mesa, Ariz. (U.R) Andy Var
ga, 21-year-old southpaw pitch
er, was assigned by the Chicago
Cubs to their Los Angeles farm
club in the Pacific Coast league
Tuesday.
Frank Van Dyke of Medford
questioned the wisdom of the
two schools in considering the
construction cf million - dollar
stad;ums at this time.
UO Wants Funds
The University of Oregon re
quested the board purchase
property at a cost of $55,000 to
add to the site of its proposed
stadium.
Other board members said the
joint-stadium idea had been rais
ed before with locations varying
from Junction City to Albany
and Salem.
"It has been explored over a
period of years," said R. E.
Kleinsorge, "and there never
was a solution."
Alumni Money
Edgar W. Smith, board presi
dent, said stadiums are built
with alumni money and "we
can't say where alums spend
their money."
"If the stadium issue has been
settled," Van Dyke said, "I don't
like it. I think times change. I
may be alone here but I'm not
alone in my part of the country.
I think there should be one
stadium."
The joint stadium was talked
down by the board and the re
quest for the $55,000 was held
in abeyance.
Seventh Graders
Win 13, Lose.
Medford seventh erade basket-
bailers outscored the opposition
471 to 247 in compiling a record
of 13 wins and one loss during
the season just finished.
The youthful Bulldoss aver
aged 29.7 points per game to
rivals 17.6.
Dick McLaughlin led the
squad in scoring with 95 ooints.
Eddie Murray was second high
with 5b.
The lone defeat suffered by
the seventh graders was at the
hands of a club using eighth
graders, Oak Grove. Score was
46 to 40. Record of the Medford
ites included two wins each over
St. Mary's Grants Pass, Ashland,
Crater and the Phoenix eighth
grade varsity and junior varsity
and one over the Shady Cove
eighth grade. ;
Coach Niles Smith had a squad
of 18 players. Dick McLaughlin
and Larry Perkins were honor
ary captains.
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Hoop Tournament
Ashland More than 200 prep
school basketball players, their
coaches and fans will invade
Ashland Thursday for the open
ing of the 22nd annual invita
tional B school basketball tour
nament, according to Daniel
Bulkey, tourney director. Seven
teen schools will participate in
the meet.
Two of the original 19 schools
entered in the meet were forced
to drop out at the last minute,
Bulkey reported. Powers won
the district title in regular play
this past week-end and will
enter the state B tournament.
Glendale asked to cancel its
entry late Monday afternoon.
Play will start at 9 a. m.
Thursday and will end Saturday
night with championship games.
The tournament is a modified
double elimination contest with
the four top ranking clubs elig
ible for awards. As in past sea
sons, the outstanding player in
the three-day meet will receive
special commendation.
To speed up tourney play and
relieve congestion at Memorial
Court, arrangements have been
made to play six games at the
Ashland Junior high school gym
nasium, Bulkley reported. Two
matches are scheduled there
opening day and an additional
four on Friday.
Schools entered m the tourna
ment include Canyonville, Mc
Kenzie, Coburg, Elkton, Talent,
Valsetz, St. Mary's of Medford,
Prospect, Coos River, Bandon,
Port Orford, Oakland, Jackson
ville, Butte Falls, Paisley, Lor-
ane and Mowhawk.
Basketball
Columbia 67. Cornell 46
Kansas State 79, Oklahoma 58
Kansas 72, Colorado 35
NIT at New York
Holy Cross 77, Seattle 72 (first
round)
La Salle 51, St. John's (N. Y.) 45
(quarter-final)
NAIB at Kansas City (First Round)
Montana State 82, American Inter
national (Mass.) 66
Murray (Ky.) State 72, Centenary 46
James Millikin 101, Elon College 69
Indiana State 79, Fairleigh-Dickin-son
72
Whitworth 71, Wisconsin State 60
Hamline 91, Tampa 65
Springfield (Mo.) 87, Chadron (Ueb.)
66
Portland 84. Findlay 82
NBA
Baltimore 91, Milwaukee 80
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To Score 1,000 Points in Year
Portland ' U.K Johnny
O'Brien of Seattle university
may not be the only basketball
player in the Pacific Northwest
to score more than 1,000 points
this season.
A bJg high school kid in Port
land is nearing the four-figure
goal. Wade "Swede" Halbrook
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of Lincoln high has1 scored 869
points in 23 games. His phenome
nal rise to stardom has made him
probably the most sought-after
prep player in Oregon's history.
Halbrook stands 7 feet V inch.
He's simply too big for.other high
school players to stop and his
Lincoln teammates feed him con
stantly. "The Tower cf Lincoln," as he
is called, has the Oregon State
tournament in Eugene left to try
for the 131 points he needs to
crack the 1,000 mark. If Lincoln
wins twice, as expected, it means
Halbrook will play in four more
contests. All he has to do is main
tain his season's average of 37.78
points a game and he's "in."
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