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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDjTRIBimB siPdDinrs Tornado Nicks Eugene To Even Hoop Series Medford's Black Tornado Saturday night spoiled the un blemished mark of the' Eugene high basketball club in its new gymnasium. The 51 to 50 de cision by the improving Tornado was the first loss suffered by the Axemen in 15 games at home since the gym went into service last season. The Tornado broke a 2 to 2 deadlock in the early portion of the contest and went ahead to stay for the rest of the night. A count of 12 to 4 at the end of the first quarter represented Medford's widest margin of the evening. Medford was on top 25 to 20 at halftime and 38 to 34 after three periods. Eugene closed in on the pear city club in the final stages of the game but two free throws by Everett Kastner gave the Tor nado Ithe padding necessary to protect its lead. Medford was outgunned from the field 21 to 16 by the host quintet but a 19 to eight margin from the gift shot line aided the Tornado in the victory. Defensive action saw the Med ford club "collapse" on the huge Axemen center, Mike Moran. The maneuver was effective in preventing Eugene passes to the 6-foot eight-incher but the tow ering Moran's height gave him big advantage for tip in shots and he made 27 points mostly on tips. Moran had 12 field goals and put in just three free shots. No other Eugene player got more than five points. Strong on Backboards Jerry Kalapus was Medford's main scorer with 14, while Larry Copple got 11 and Glenn Peter son 10. Peterson, Kalapus and Kast ner were effective on the back boards for Medford. The Tor nado had control of the boards during the first half. It was more even the rest of the way but for the whole route Med ford had the edge. In addition to the backboard work and strong defense, Medford showed better ball handling Saturday than in its 58 to 50 setback at the hands of Eugene and that factor was a big asset in getting an even break in the series with the Axemen. Coach Frank Roelandt of the Tornado said this morning that his club was up against a fine ball club and that he thinks his Medford charges are coming along well. The Saturday win was the second for Medford in three games this season. Caliber of the Tornado should ,be better known this coming week end. Medford plays two at home against Eagle Point on Friday and against North Bend on Saturday. The Eagles loom strongest among the small A schools in this area while North Bend has a potent club which appears to be one of the strong est in the state. North Bend tripped Cottage Grove 60 to 52 on Saturday night. BOX SCORE: Ilefiford Kastner. f tg tt. Pt tp 3 3 6 4 1 5 0 0 0 2 S Peterson, f Kalapus. c . 2 10 5 ..3 3 n 14 7 11 Rector, ft Copple, g Foust Tisciel 0 0 0 -70 Ccarley 0 16 19 15 51 Eugene Myers. . Powell ,f Moran. c is ft Pf tp 1 Z 2 4 1 12 Kin?, g Lain?, g Kuykendall Tuttle 2 2 2 1 0 Peter 21 8 19 50 Ellena Chosen Lineman of Year New York (U.R) Gigantic Jack Ellena, whose bone-cracking tackling helped make UCLA the team of the year, and Red Sanders coach of the year, picked up an accolade for himself today lineman of the year in the an nual United Press poll. Ellena, a 223-pound tackle who is deft despite his heft, re ceived 69 votes in the balloting by 336 sports writers and broad casters, just. beating out Kurt Burris, the Oklahoma center. who had 66 votes. Third place went to Calvin Jones, Iowa guard with 32 votes, Bud Brooks of Arkansas, also a guard, was fourth with 22 and Max'Boydston, Oklahoma's fine end placed fifth with 14 votes. All five won positions on the united Press All-America foot ball team. GARCIA FAVORED New York (U.PJ Feather weight contender Rudy Garcia of L03 Angeles is favored at ,6J2 to 5 over Gene Smith, knockout specialist of Washington, D. C, for their TV 10-rounder tonight at Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway Arena. For the other TV fight tonight the St. Nicholas Arena, where light-weight Kenny Lane of Muskegon, Mich., meets Dan ny Jo Perez of New York, the wagering is at "even money." MAIL TRIBUNE Avila, Doby Gain 3 Top Bat Honors Chicago U.R) Cleveland's gifted pitchers were the key men in ending the New York Yankees' five-year reign over the American league this year but the Indians also swung some mighty big bats. Official figures showed that Bobby Avila and Larry Doby of the Indians walked off with the three most important indi vidual batting titles while the ex-champions were all but shut out of honors. Avila, 28-year-old native of Vera Cruz, Mexico, became the Indians' first batting champion in 10 years by compiling a .341 average that was 21 points supe rior to the .320 figure of runner up Minnie Minoso of the White Sox. Avila, who collected 189 hits including 27 doubles, two triples and 15 homers, is Cleve land's first champion since Lou Boudreau won the title with 327 in 1944. The 30-year-old Doby annex ed both "power titles" by pound ing out 32 home runs and driv ing in 126 runs. Doby's home run total exceeded runner:up Ted Williams' total by three and his RBI total was one more than that accumulated by " catcher Yogi Berra of the Yankees. Yanks Outhomered In addition, the Indians out did the Yankees in another of their specialties when they out homered them as a team, 156- 133. The Yankees managed to win the tem batting title with a .268 average and Mickey Mantle was credited with scoring the most runs 129. Otherwise, the fig ures showed the Yankees played with popguns in the house that Ruth built. Minoso, Chicago's most valu able player, popped the . circuit with 18 triples and also accu mulated 304 total bases to round out his best campaign with two individual titles. Harvey Kuenn of the Tigers and Nelson Fox of the White Sox tied for the most hits 201 each; Mickey Vernon of the Senators led in doubles with 33 and Jackie Jensen of the Red Sox led in stolen bases with 22. Rosburg Victor In Miami Open Miami, Fla. U.R) An or dinary looking putter that can be bought for $12 in any pro shop brought young Bob Ros burg a check of $2,000 today for his victory in the Miami Open golf tournament. "I never putted better In my life," said the jubilant, 28-year old San Franciscan Sunday after coming in with a final round five-under-par 65 that gave him a 72-hole total of 273 and a nar row one stroke victory over Bo Wininger of Oklahoma City, Okla. Defending Champion Doug Ford of Yonkers, N. Y., wound up third with 27d while brack eted for fourth place With 276 apiece were National Open Champion Ed Furgol, Pete Coop er of Tampa, Fla., Ted Kroll of New Hartford, N. Y., and Julius Boros of Mid Pines, N. C. Grant High Takes 4th Straight Swim Diadem Eugene (U.PJ Grant high school won its fourth straight James O. Reed Memorial swim ming meet here Saturday with a total of 56 points. The meet is emblematic of the Oregon swim championship. Second was South Salem with 22 points. St. Helens scored 21, Lake Oswego 18, :Lincoln 12, Jefferson and Washington 10, Cleveland 8; Benson 8, West Linn 4, Beaverton and Junction City 1 and North Salem 0. APPLICATION REJECTED Portland U.R) An appli cation 'by Greyhound Park of Eugene to conduct dog racing in Lane county was disapproved 'by a 2 to 1 vote of the Oregon Rac ing Commission here Saturday. Dr. Frank R. Menne, commis sion chairman, said the vote was based on recommendations by the Eugene city council and Lane county commissioners against dog racing in or near the city. FRY TOP CANDIDATE Portland, Ore. (U.R) A Portland newspaper, The Ore gonian, said today it had learn ed that Wes Fry, backfield coach at the University of Cali fornia, and Herm Meister, Cal ifornia line coach, had become leading candidates for the vacant coaching job at Oregon State college. Monday, December 13, 1954 High-Ranked Teams Bow On Courts By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer It was a week end of horror for the high-ranked basketball teams as no fewer than nine of the top 20 went crashing in de feat, and three of them hit the comeback trail tonight to start a week that seems loaded with more trouble. Four of the nine big-game los ers bowed to teams that out ranked them. But the other five defeats were by unrated teams and there were some real "shockers." Iowa, ranked second, bowed by 97-94 to the same hot-shooting Missouri team that previous ly beat Indiana; Duquesne, ranked third, was tumbled by George Washington, 71-64, in the finals of the Steel Bowl tour nament at Pittsburgh; and Holy Cross, last season's National In vitation tournament champion now ranked eighth, took a 93-73 walloping from St. John's in a game that set two Madison Square garden scoring records. LaSalle Wins Thriller Also bowing to unranked teams with 13th-rated St. Louis, 91-86 to Ohio State, and . 16th ranked DePaul, 94-84 to Minne sota. Losing to higher-ranked teams were: lOth-ranked Niagara, bow ing to first-ranked LaSalle, 76 75, in an overtime thriller; lltb ranked Notre Dame, which dropped a nationally - televised 73-70 decision to Indiana; 17th- ranked Oregon State, beaten for the second straight night by 15-ranked Southern California, 55-35; and 17th-ranked Okla homa A&M, beaten 59-53 by sixth-ranked Illinois. Iowr. tries to get back on the winning trail tonight by playing host to St. Mary's of California in an intersectional tussle, while Notre Dame seeks to "get well" against Loyola of Chicago and the Oklahoma Aggies face a dangerous assignment in Texas Tech. Lanqlois Comes Out of Seclusion San Francisco (U.R) Pierre Langlois, French challenger for the middleweight crown worn by Carl , (Bobo) Olson, opened the doors of his training quar ters today for the first time since he went into seclusion last week. - The Gallic boxer, who, aspires to be the first Frenchman to hold a world title since Marcel Cerdan, has spent almost as much of his time meeting social obligations as he has in the gym since he arrived here 10 days ago. Sunday he was" the guest of Paul Vervier, owner of the sel ect department store, City of Paris. The Frenchman and his entourage journeyed to Vervier's country home north of San Francisco for a day of relaxa tion. Workout Slated Kantor said the challenger would work out with his stable- mate, welterweight ' Pierre Her- nandes, today. He said Lang lois manager, Jean Bretonnel, would also climb into the ring to help the Frenchman sharpen his infighting technique. Meanwhile Olson has kept up his daily schedule. A workman like champion, he has gone in for no extra publicity or frills, but has concentrated on getting in shape for the Dec. 15 bout that will be his third title de fense in eight months. Medford Independent League Games Tonight Skinner's Buick meets Com pany A of the National Gnarrl 1 7 o'clock, tonight in the first game oi a Medford Independent Basketball League twinbill at the junior high school gymnas ium. The 8:30 o'clock match will be between Burelson's of Cen tral Point and the YMCA. Two games are slated for Tues day with Yellow Cab playing Hawkinson Tires in the early mix and Sacred Heart Church opposing National Guard Head quarters Company in the con cluder. , VOTE ON WARNER AWARD 'Palo Alto, Calif. KU.P.) Some 400 coaches and sportswriters vote this week for the man who will receive the Glenn (Pop) Warner Memorial Award for the most valuable senior football player on the Pacific Coast this past season. The winner will be presented with a gold watch and trophy next month at a ban quet sponsored by the ' Palo Sports Club of Palo Alto. BASEBALL TACTICS Northwood, - N. H. (U.PJ Arthur Wheeler of Northwood Ridge wounded a deer Sunday with his last shot. When the 120 pound buck charged him Wheeler felled the animal base ball style by breaking the stock of his rifle on the animal's head. Victoria, largest of the African lakes, is almost as large in area as Lake Superior in the U.S. and Canada. Four-fifth of the. U.S. shrimp catch annually comes from the Gulf of Mexico. ' ' & ' W ifi - rill ( " Xljls ' w. . -i - i ALL SIGNED UP Veteran Brooklyn catcher Roy Campa nella (left) smiles as he and rookie hurler Karl Spooner ink contracts in New York. Roy signed for $36,000. Spooner, 'who joined the team in final week and struck out 27 , patters in two games, was signed for $7500. , Lions, Browns To Vie For Pro Grid Title By EARL WRIGHT United -Press Sports Writer The Detroit Lions and Cleve land Browns, two of the most successful teams in National Football League history, close the season against each other in a "nothing" game Sunday and open fire in earnest Dec. 26 when they clash in the cham pionship game for the third straight year. Both games will be played in Cleveland, but that's the only advantage the Browns will have when they try to crack one of sport's biggest jinxes. Detroit defeated Cleveland in the last two championship games, won its only previous regular season game with the Browns and never has gotten worse than a tie in exhibitions between the two clubs. Postponement of their Oct. 3 game because of the World Series forces the Midwest power houses to play back-to-back con tests although they have clinched the respective division titles. Cleveland climaxed its finest comeback Sunday; by crushing the Pittsburgh Steelers, 42-7, for its eighth straight victory and fifth straight Eastern title. No other NEL club ever won more than four straight division crowns. Lions Without Layno Detroit, which clinched the Western title and a chance for a record third straight league championship last week, played without star quarterback Bobby Layne and bowed to the Chicago Bears, 28-24.- All the clubs except Detroit (8-2-1) and Cleveland (9-2) ended their campaigns during the weekend. While the Bears (8-4) clinched second place in the Western Division, the Philadel phia Eagles (7-4-1) took runner up honors in the East by beating the New York Giants, 29-14. The Los Angeles Rams (6-5-1) de feated the Green. Bay Packers, 35-27, and the Washington Red skins downed the Chicago Cardi nals, 37-20. The San . Francisco " Forty Niners (7-4-1) finished with a 10-7 Saturday triumph over the Baltimore Colts (3-9) on Gordie Soltau's 10-yard field goal. Browns' Defense Tough The defensive unit, which limited the opposition to an aver age of .7.2 points per game dur ing Cleveland's streak, set up or scored the four first-half touch downs that softened the Steelers (5-7). Halfback Ken Konz inter cepted a Jim. Finks pass, middle guard Mike McCormack recov- SAVE MONEY! DO IT YOURSELF! RESTORE BEAUTY TO YOUR . 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Sanders, 25 -year -old 1952 Olympic heavyweight champion from Los Angeles, died Sunday at a hospital 19 hours after an 11th round knockout by Willie James of Boston at Boston Gar den. j 'The quiet-mannered young Negro died of the same type of injury that took the life of Ralph Weiser of Klamath Falls, Ore., Saturday after a Friday night fight. ' ' A third fighter died Sunday in Montreal, Johnny Greco, for mer Canadian welterweight champion, was killed when his automobile went out of control and hit a tree.. He was starting a comeback after holding the title from 1946 to 1953. Nat Fleischer, editor of Ring Magazine, said "Incomplete rec ords for 1954 indicated Weiser and Sanders were the first pro fessionals to die of ring injuries this year in the United States. He said the total of all ring deaths this year : was five as compared with the all-time record of 21 in 1953. . Weiser, a 26-year-old Klamath Dublinski, subbing for the in jured Layne, threw- two TD passes to Jug Girard and one to Jim Doran, all coming in the final quarter. . Dan Towler scored three of the Rams' touchdowns against the Packers (4-8) before 38,839 fans at Los Angeles. " Elroy Hirsch, star Ram end, played his last NFL game and raced off the field in his shorts after souvenir-happy fans ripped off his uniform. (P. O O O Villi w ' 4" :4st . y-. jl- ' - Falls fighter, refused to take a break offered him in the first round. It would have given him the fight. Five hours after the bout ended in a knockout in the ninth round, Weiser died of a brain hemmorhage. The Klamath Falls boxing commission concluded after ' a hearing Saturday that the death was not due to any lack of pre caution on the part of the com mission or ring officials. 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