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IIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday March 17, 1952 Sdgu.eBhfer Captures" zzzi:i Toga iGii llwm Years State pop Chieftains Defeat Knappa 61-50 in Final Encounter For B School Championship Rooua Rivar The whole Iowa turned out Sunday to walcoma noma tha high school basketball taam which won tha tala B high school basketball championship at Salem Satur day night. A long caravan of can mat tha returning taam just north of Grants Pass and escorted tha quint through Grants Pass and on to Rogue River. There was a brief stop at Rogue River junction. Than tha string of cars roll ad across tha bridge and. led by tha city fire truck and a car with a public address sys tem, wove through tha town. One report described tha line of cars as "a mile long." Tha team and Coach M. C. Busack arrived here shortly after 5 p.m. Salem U.B- The Rogue Riv- r Chieftains, coached by Myn dret Busack, Monday held the Orpeon class B basketball charn pionship trophy for the second time in three years. The southern Oregon school replaced Phoenix in the top spot among state high schools in tne class B division when u aeiea& ed Knappa's Loggers 61-90 Sat urdav nieht. The hard f oueht battle In the Willamette university gym saw Rogue River ahead most of the time. Top-scoring Jim Boulter was responsible for much of his team's success with a total of 23 points. But tiny Jim Wehren and Byron Kile exhibited some unerring shooting when they eaaed 18 and 13 respectively Rogue River had 10 points in the opening minutes or tne game De fore Knappa managed to make its first score. AM-Staters Listed Two Chieftain players landed on the all-state B team Boulter and Wehren. The others are Duane Brady of Powers, Max Kelley of Knappa and Ron Ruef Ralph Kiner Inks Pirate Contract San Francisco (U.R) Home Run King Ralph Kiner will be paid an estimated $75,000 for battering National league pitch ers this season. The Pittsburgh Pirates siege gun announced Monday that he has signed a one-year contract for this sum, which calls for a reported raise of $10,000 from last year. Kiner had been ask ing for a two-year contract. The new pact makes Kiner the third highest paid player in baseball, behind Ted Wil lams of the Boston Red Sox, who reportedly will receive $90,000, and Stan Musial of the Cardinals, whose salary is $75, 000 plus : a $5,000 attendance bonus. Dusenberry Drops Grid Duty at Cottage Grove Cottage Grove, Ore. (U.R) Bob Dusenberry, football coach at Cottage Grove high school for the past seven years, has dropped his gridiron coaching job to devote more of his time to administrative duties. Superintendent of Schools Virg Kingsley said Dusenberry will be replaced by Max Mur ray, mathematics instructor. Dusenberry will stay tn as director of athletics and track coach. of Sublimity. Named to the sec ond team were Kile of Rogue River, John Tuft of Mapletou. Ward Collingsworth of Echo, Art Weatherford of Wallowa and .Ritchie Perkins of Knappa. ' Sublimity came out of the tournament with third place b edging Mapleton, 43-41 in the Saturday night preliminary and Echo got consolation by defeat ing Wallowa 50-41 in a day game. Knappa Rallies After Rogue River got its ear ly 10 to 0 bulge, Knappa rallied to go in front 13 to 12. Then the Chiefs regained the lead and were on top when the first quar ter concluded. Rogue River pushed to a 37 to 27 advantage by halftime but the margin was sliced to a close 45 to 43 at the third intermission The Chieftains gained power as they went along in the tour ney, defeating Powers 43 to 42 and Mapleton 46 to 42 to gain the finals. Boulter was close to unstop pable under the offensive boards Saturday and helped out the Chieftain cause with frequent defensive rebound retrieves. IINE-UPS: Rojue Elver SI Kile 13 f Wahren 18 f Boulter 23 e Milton 2 f Lehrman 2 C Substitutions For Rogue River, Newlen 1, Black 3; for Knappa, Hellwig. S Knappa 4 Westehn 8 Hunt 30 Kelley 3 Vlastca 17 Perkins Branca To Bear Down on Tosses To Giant Slugger Miami, Fla. U.R) Pitcher Ralph Branca of the Brooklyn Dodgers vowed Monday .to be a very tough man out there on the mound" every time he faces Bobby Thomson otsthe Gi ants this coming season. "I'll throw my arm out, if necessary, to get him out. Branca promised. I m not go ing to be a country cousin to him any longer." Branca fed up the ball which Thomson knocked out of the Polo Grounds for a home run to give the Giants the National league pennant in the third and deciding playoff game against the Dodgers. "He'll pay for it," Branca said. "Believe me. 111 really bear down against him this year." Good Player "Don't get me wrong," Branca admonished. "Bobby is a good ball player. He's hit home runs off pitchers better than I am and will continue to hit them. But no more off me, if I can do anything about it." Is he going to change his pitch ing plans for Thomson? "I can't tell you that," the Dodger right-hander declared. "All I can say is that he'll never get the same thing twice from me. Ana it he gets a nit on me, brother, he better look out the next time up." - Did that mean he was going to dust him off'? "Of course not," Branca said, adding with a smile, "that's il legal. "But it could be I will pitch him pretty tight." The jumping shrew df South Africa sometimes curls up and rolls itself along instead of leap ing kangaroo fashion. mwn " m r -a XI ABSORBING HARD LEFT ON MOUTH, Luther Rawlings (right) counters with right to head of Lightweight Champion Jimmy Carter in Chicago fight. Carter took split decision, getting nod from two judges while referee thought Rawlings had edge. (UUmUional Soundphoto) IfEDFOl .Tribune Tutor Lauded for LaSalle Victory in Garden Tourney New York (U.R) Scholarly, iovial Ken Loeffler, coach of those amazing LaSalle Explorers who stunned experts and NCAA alike by winning the National Invitation Basketball tourna ment, was showered with praise Monday for his artful coaching. And Loeffler, in turn, credited the surprise triumph to "a bunch of skinny kids and a flash pivot offense." " The guiding genius of the small, balding Loeffler was greatly overloked while the Ex plorers were sweeping through four of the toughest teams in the nation, led by froh whir Tom Gola and "whirling dervish" Norm Grekin to gain a place in the Olympic tryouts, starting March 29. Gola and Grekin were jointly voted the "most valuable player award. Greatest Praise But as coaches and experts sized up LaSalle's triumph they paid the greatest amount of praise to the red-faced little man in the brown suit. "They were beautifully coached," admitted chagrined coach Tom Blacktyirn, whose Dayton Flyers lost in the title game to La Salle, 75-64, on Sat urday. "They knew how to take advantage of every opportunity." Blackburn's words were an echo of the moan of coach Dudey Moore, after his top-seeded Du quesne team was routed by La Salle in the semi-final "they only had one advantage over us, a height edge in the third man, but they knew how to exploit it perfectly." Best Team To all this praise, Loeffler re sponded with a modest tribute to "the greatest college team I ever coached." He pointed out that his players "skinniness" gave them speed that paid off in rebounds and loose balls. Then he elaborated on his new-fangled idea of a basketball attack, which may revolutionize, the present coaching method. The system was perfectly shown m the finale, as the Explorers scored consistently while bot tling up Dayton's high-scoring Divot man, six-foot seven-men Don Meineke. "Meineke plays a set pivot," explained Loeffler. "That means he remains more or less sta tionary. We don't like to do that, because there are too many ways such an attack can be stopped." Meineke Stopped The Explorers stopped Mein eke by swarming around him on defense. The Flyers simply could not get a pass through to Big Don, and unfortunately for them they kept trying and trying and losing the ball. "No," said Loeffler. "Instead we like to play a flash pivot.' That means each of our men slides through the pivot post for just a few seconds. We get more scoring opportunities that way and find it's much harder to stop.' When asked if many other teams use this system, Loeffler answered with a twinkle, "no, but I think they will when they see the success we have had with it, Field Under Water Handicaps Beavers Riverside, Cal. (U.R) With just a little more than two weeks remaining before the Pa cific Coast league baseball sea son starts, Portland Beavers Monday were confronted with a field one to three feet under water. The Beavers have already lost six practice days and don't ex pect to be able to get on their field here again until Wednes day. Meanwhile, ' Manager Clay Hopper announced he has ob tained Clint Conatser, right hand hitting outfielder from the Pittsburgh Pirates, on a "30 day look." AAU PREL1MS TODAY Denver (U.R) More prelim inary elimination games were on tap Monday in the National AAU basketball tournament be fore the big-name quints of the National Industrial Basketball league open fire. VXt as East is East Oh east is east and west is west. But the two very certainly meet Both call far drinks made with the best. The whiskey that can't be beat! and West is West For east and west, in city and town, North, sooth end everywhere, YouH bear men call for Seven Crown, The Seagram's 7 Crown. Blended Whiskey. 86.8 Proof. 65 Grain Neutral Spirits. Seagram-Distillers Corp., N.Y. Basketball NATIONAL CATHOLIC TOURNEY, (First ronnd) Scranton 85, St Mary's (Minn.) 78 overtime St Francis (Pa.) 68. Loyola (Md.) 52 NATIONAL AAU TOURNEY (Preliminary round): Jussell Electric (Denver) 81, Cas per. (Wyo.) Bluebirds 38 Coors. (Greeley, Colo.) 58. Kelbos Barbecue (Los Angeles) 44 San Diego Marines 70. Voorhies Grain (Voorhies. Ia.) 57 Grlhalva Motors (San Diego) 56. Jeffries Truckers (Oklahoma City) 43 McPherson (Kans.) American Le sion 68, Memphis Air Force Base 58 Panelshake Siding (Portland. Ore.) 72, One-Day Cleaners (Spring field. 111.) 54 Sheridan Exporters (Billings. Mont.) 79. Towers Hardware (Jackson ville. Fla.) 63 Soell Ford (St Louis) forfeit over Gering (Neb.) Merchants Interstate Gas (Colorado Springs) vs. Graham Plowboys (Abilene, Tex.) postponed. BASEBALL SUNDAY EXHIBITION Philadelphia (N) 8. Philadelphia (A) 0 Phila (A) "B" 3. Baltimore Int t Brooklyn (N) 7, New York (A) 5 Boston (A) 10. CincinnaU (N) 6 Washington (A) 6. Detroit (A) 4 Boston (N) 3, St Louis (N) 2 Cleveland (A) 4. Oakland (PCL) 0 Cleveland (A) 4. San Francisco (PCL) 3 Chicago (A) 3. Sacramento (PCL) 2 Pittsburgh (N) "B" 3. SeatUe (PCL) 0 Pittsburgh (N) 7. Oakland (PCL) 4 Redskins Win SOC Tournament B y 39-27 Victory Over talent Two players each, from Talent and Bandon and one each, from Jacksonville and Elkton were named Saturday night to the Southern Oregon college invita tional basketball tournament all star first team. Those named were Rollie Hart ley and Larry'Quakenbush, Ta lent; Wimp Hastings and Ronnie Haga, Bandon; Ron Craig, Jack sonville, and John Beckley, Elk ton. Haga and Quackenbush knotted for the fifth spot on the team which was picked by the coaches. The second squad also includ ed six boys. They were Don and LeRoy Clay, Jacksonville; Mark Head and Otis Burchell, Valsetz; Lyle Beecroft, Oakland, and Dick Manwarren, Canyonville Bible academy. Exhibition Played Jacksonville woo the tourna ment, defeating Talent 39 to 27 in the Saturday finals. The Can-" yonville quint took consolation honors with a 47 to 36 win over McKenzie. Valsetz, a pre-tour- ney favorite ousted by Talent, downed Oakland 53 to 39 in a Saturday night exhibition. The taller Redskins, winners Class A Basketball Meet Opens Tuesday Eugene (U.R) Sixteen schools . Monday were on the register nere tor the 34tn an nual Class A high school basket ball tournament which will be gin Tuesday. Two veterans on the tourney list are the Salem Vikings, mak ing their 30th visit and shooUng for their eighth crown, and the Astoria Fisherman, who had traveled to the tournament 27 times and won six champion ships. . Three Portland schools are en tered city co-champion Lin coln, the Cleveland Ghosts - in their first appearance in 22 years, and Central Catholic. Bend became the final team to qualify by beating Redmond 46 45 Saturday night. Curtain-raisers Tuesday night GAIN SKI TITLE Government Camp, Ore. (U.R) John Boucher of the University of Portland and Audrey Baxen dale of the Mt. Hood Associated Women Skiers Sunday won the combined titles of the Pacific Northwestern Ski association's Class C Alpine championships on Mt. Hood. will be the Astoria-HUlsboro fray followed by a battle be t w e e n Cleveland and Mc-Minnville. Qualifying Time Lengthened for Golf Handicap Qualifying play for the men's spring golf handicap at Rogue Valley Country club has been extended one week in an at tempt to gain a much larger field of entries, it was announced to day. Deadline for qualifying will now be Sunday, March 23. First round of match play will open on Monday, March 24. So far 42 men have qualified and H. E. Nulton is low with a net 66. Club Pro Al Williams has 'an nounced a ball sweepstakes for men on Saturday and Sunday, March 22 and 23. The first mixed foursome competition of the season will be on Sunday afternoon, March 30. . : Dead Una on Classified Ads: 5:30 pro for following day: 10 IB Monday tor Monday: noon Saturday for Sunday, am twice over Talent ia Jackson county B league play, appeared the superior club from the start in the championship game. How ever, Talent put up a stubborn fight In the opening quarter. Tha period ended 11 to 8 in Jackson ville's favor. Second quarter action determ ined the outcome. Jacksonville pulled to a commanding 29 to 15 lead by halftime. Each club scored five points In the third period for a score of 34 to 20 at the intermission. Talent out scored the Redskins 7 to 5 in the final canto. Talent's Rollie Hartley, named the tourney's most valuable player was held to five points for the evening. The Bulldog ace accumulated three fouls in tha first quarter and was charged with his fourth in the second period. He fouled out in the final quarter after his teammate, Larry Quackenbush, was chased from the fray for five infrac tions. Count early in the contest wai knotted at 2 to 2. Don Clay's free bucket made it 3 to 2 and Jacksonville stayed on top the rest of the distance. LINE-UPS: Jacksonville 39 Nolan 11 D. Clay 7 Craig S L. Clay 8 Taylor 5 St Talent 6 Straus 3 Ellis 8 Zumwalt S Hartlev 4 Quackenbush Substitutes For Jacksonville. Wlolr. sten 2, Souza. Misner. Cabler 1. Wo. mack, Maddox, Greene; for Talent; Blair, Tyckson. McAbee. Two Portland Players On NAIB Second Team Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) Port land's Pilots won fourth place in the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball tour nament here after dropping 78-68 decision to Southwest Tex as State Saturday night Springfield of Missouri won the title with a 73-64 win over Murray State of Kentucky. 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