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Portland U. Overpouers Hamline QuinM in XJAIB Upset Pilots Stun Pied Piper Gang 75-65 Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) A harp-shooting Portland univer sity team replaced Hamline, the eliminated defending champion, as the favorite Friday to win the 14th annual NAIB basketbalj ti tle and contend for the U. S. Olympic berth. But three other strong semi finalists, all slated for action Friday night along with Port land's Pilots, gave the NAIB the certainty that its champion will be a classy rival for the NCAA winner in the Olympic show down here March 29. The others are Murray (Ky.) State, Southwest Missouri State and Southwest Texas State, the latter a team that has not been beaten this year. Pilots Vs. Murray Semifinals will start with the Southwest Missouri - Southwest Texas game at 8 o'clock, fol lowed by the Portland-Murray clash at 9:30. Some 7,500 fans had difficulty believingHheir eyes as Portland made a shambles of Hamline's prestige. The Pilots, paced by a trio of Negro stars Andy John son, M. H. McGilvery and Jim Winters, ran up a good lead and then toyed with the Pied Pipers In the closing minutes. The fi nal result was a stunning 75-65 Portland win. Fourth-seeded Murray downed unseeded Whitworth, Wash., col lege, 81-69; third-seeded South west Texas of San Marcos bumped Lawrence Tech of De troit, 65-57, and Southwest Mis souri of Springfield beat Morn ingside of Sioux City, 87-74, in other quarterfinal games. LETTERS AWARDED Salem Coach Johnny Lewis announces awarding of basket ball letters to eleven players and Manager Erwin Weber for uccessful 1952 campaign. Four players have earned their fourth hoop letter, Doug Logue, Long view; Ted Loder, Milwaukie; Lou Scrivens,' Portland; and Dick Brouwer, Portland.. A three-year award went to Hugh Bellinger, Salem, and Larry Smith, Vancouver, got his sec ond letter. Bellinger and Smith are seniors, along with Logue, Loder, Scrivens and Brouwer. One-year hoop awards went to Daryl Girod, Dick Mase and Bob Shepard, all of Salem; Dick Hoy, Newberg and Bob Smith, Burns. MedfordTribuni mm TRACK SCHEDULE SET Salem Coach Chester Stack house's Willamette university cinder team will engage in five dual meets this season plus ac tion in the April 5 Willamette Belays and the Northwest con ference tourney at Walla Walla on May 17. FOR 1952 OniyDOLEHS Powr-Ho DeLvx M .Gorda Tractor r '5 Extra Vakm row to d' 'jitters Jobs Faster and Easier Tlot it to yoarself. The Boitaa ; Powcr-Ho DeLuxc is superior to mmf dwr garden tractor, k ddimi sice, faster operatic sad aaor iU-roaod uwriilnf m. Only Bolina, vtbe garde tractor piooccr.cati otm ! ockorve fcatarca, C.ltW.tla Com iii Today CULLEN & CURRY, Inc. 123 S. Riverside Medford Telephone 2-71 15 WILD MELEE features closing minutes of Dayton-St. Louis basket ball game during National Invitation Tourney at New York's Madison Square Garden. Legs and arms Interlock as Bob Koch (24) St. Louis, Pete Boyle (35) Dayton and Ray Sonnenberg (45) of St. Louis tangle. Dayton won semi-final event 68-58. (International) Huskies Account for Five New Cage Marks in North Division Los Angeles The ing University of Washington Huskies led the assault on North ern division basketball records during 1952, accounting for five of 11 new marks, final statistics from the office of Pacific Coast Conference Commissioner Victor O. Schmidt revealed today. Center Bob Houbregs was re sponsible for one and also cap tured honors as the leading scor er and top marksman. Houbregs missed three games because of injuries but scored 251 points in his 13 contests for an average of 19.3, to top the old Division rec ord of 19.0 points a game set by Jack Nichols, Washington, in 1948. Nichols, however, retains the season scoring record of 265 points. Houbregs also averaged 45.5 per cent on floor shots to lead in that department while Danny Johnston took top honors at the free throw line with 77.4 per cent. Bob Peterson of Oregon broke his old Division record of 183 rebounds for the season by grab bing 223, an average of 13.9 a game. Teammate Ken Hunt post- high-scor-1 ed a record by registering 58 as sists, a department in which sta tistics were not previously com piled. Other records were: Most free throws made 80, Eric Roberts, Washington State (old mark, 77, Nichols, Wash ington, 1948). Most points 1030, Washing ton (968, Oregon State, 1947, and Washington 1951). Most field goals 370, Wash ington (365, Washington, 1951). Best field goal percentages 35.8 per cent (370 of 1030) Wash ington (35.6 per cent, 365 of 1020, Washington, 1951). Most free throw attempts 481, Idaho (440, Oregon, 1951). Most free throws made 300, Oregon (282, Oregon, 1951). Most personal fouls 372, Ore gon State (367, Oregon State, 1950). Fewest personal fouls 275, Washington (300, Oregon State, 1948). Meeting Slated This Evening on March 26 Tussle Representatives of the Med ford school system, Medford high school and the basketball quint will convene at Bud and Lucille's cafe this evening to map the school's part in the Tubby Dean Memorial Basket ball games slated for March 26. The March 26 program will feature contests between high school squads and between the east and west side merchants. Purchase of a share in the A. Z. Dean memorial scoreboard for the football field will admit spectators to the game. These tickets or shares may be obtained from business houses and professional men including Ward's . Dental Laboratories, Red Top Cab, Feldman and Ol son Electric, Brophy's Jewelers, Lantis and Wilson Shoe store, Mann's Department store. The Toggery, Barnard's Floor Cov erers, Hubbard Brothers Hard ware Burelson's Ready-To-Wear, Medford Service station, Snider's dairy. Peerless market, Hunt's Ice Cream store, Green Lantern, 'Leonard's Electric, Frake and Smith, Harold Brown Insurance, Barnes Chevrolet and Gates Furniture. Hockey NATIONAL LEAGUE By United Press Each Montreal player could almost count that $500 bonus Friday as the Canadiens took a five-point lead over the Toronto Maple Leafs in the National Hockey league's second place struggle. The Canadiens whipped the Leafs, 3 to 1, Thursday night at Montreal. In the other game, the Boston Bruins came from behind to tie the Chicago Black Hawks, 3 to 3, and take a one-point lead over New York -in the tussle for fourth place. Dead Una on Classified Ada: 9:30 pjn for following day; 10 ajn Monday for Monday: noon Saturday for sunoay BUILD WITH LININGER'S READY-MIX CONCRETE MASON'S SAND - SAND - CRUSHED ROCK GRAVEL . CRUSHED GRANITE CALL- M. C. LININGER & SONS PHONE 2-5336 or 2-5897 Dayton Faces LaSalle Five In NIT Final New York (U.R) It will be veteran Dayton, led by "power tower" Don Mineke, against La Salle's young but canny Explor ers Saturday night in a surprise, all-unseeded windup to the Na tional Invitation Basketball tour nament. The Dayton Flyers will be appearing in the finale for the second straight year, seeking to atone for their 1951 defeat by Brigham Young. For La Salle, playing in its fourth NIT in five years, this will be the first time it will play for the top prize. Shunted aside by the seeding committee at the start of play, both classy teams proved to be rich and deep in talent and their battle before an expected sell out throng of 18,500 at Madison Square Garden looms as strictly a pick em affair. La Salle, the crowd's favorite from the opening round with its dazzling shotmaking, showed in Thursday night's surprising rout of top-seeded Duquesne, 59-46, that it is now playing at the very peak of its game and owns a real star in six foot five inch Norm Grekin. And Dayton, posting an easier- tnan-it-sounds e-ez win over third-seeded St. Bonaventure as the marvelous Mineke hooped 25 points, ran its awesome win ning streak to 20 games. REPLACEMENT SOUGHT Eugene U.R) Coach Don Kirsch of the University of Ore gon baseball team sought a new third baseman Friday to replace injured Ron Phillips. The reserve infielder suffered an ankle injury during basket ball season and has not respond' ed to treatment PRESIDENT NAMED Kansas City, Mo. U.R) W. B. "Red" Reese of Eastern Wash ington ruled as the new presi dent of the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball Thursday following his election during the annual NAIB tourney here. 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