Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, December 20, 1954, Image 12

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Newspaper Page TextTWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MedforivSTribune Indian Five, Tornado Vie. On Thursday With Christmas approach basketball activity quiets down this week on the Jackson coun ty high school scene. Only four games are slated involving preps in this county. One is on Tuesday and three are on Thursday. In the Tuesday scuffle St. Mary's goes to Prospect. Med ford will entertain Roseburg on Thursday and Crater will go to Grants Pass while Talent plays at Phoenix. All of the contests are non-league affairs. Medford will rule the favor ite over the Roseburg Indians on the basis of the Black Tornado's 59 to 56 win over North Bend and North Bend's 66 to 31 past ing of the Indians. The skirmish will also provide more comparison between Med ford and a Southern Oregon conference opponent, Grants Pass. The Cavemen go to Rose burg on Tuesday. Ed Furgol Gains Havana Mantle Havana, Cuba (U.R) Ed Furgol was $2,000 richer today because he saved his best shots for the last round of the Hav ana Open golf championship. The U.S. Open titleholder from St. Louis, Mo., fired a five-under-par 67 in Sunday's final round at the Havana Country club to win the championship by one stroke over Walt Burke mo of Franklin, Mich. Furgol wound up with a 72-hole total 15 N. CENTRAL PH. 2-2970 117 S. CENTRAL REG. 1.00 NECKWEAR FOR MEN REG. 1.95 CANNON TOWEL SET ' Distinctive 67c Tasteful I Fluffy towels 1.44 Decorator colors An assortment of brand new patterns and colors A gift that's sure to be appreciated by any home- in all the popular fabrics. All are full-length, maker on your gift list this bright box of ab- with wool linings for shape retention. See them sorbent terry Towels. Set includes Bath Towel you'll find Ties to delight every man on your (20x40"), Face Towel (1 5x26") and 2 Washcloths Christmas gift list. 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MAIL TRIBUNE Comets Top Rogue River Rogue River Crater high's Comets, playing their best game this season, turned a close game into a rout in the second half Saturday night as they won from the Rogue River cagers 72 to 55. It was pretty much basket for basket in the first half. Rogue River was on top at the quar ter and the Comets pushed ahead 32 to 28 by the midway signal. Crater with 28 points in the third quarter, exactly doubled its- whole first half count and was in front 56 to 44 after that stanza. Hogue Shines Jim Higinbotham, Fred Hogue and Harvey Tonn were the big guns of the assault for Crater. Higginbotham got 26 points, Hogue 22 and Tonn 16. Ted Stanfield had 18 and Gary Stinchcomb 17 for Rogue Riv er. Hogue also shone defensive ly, checking Gary Johnson, Chieftain scoring ace, and hold ing him to two field goals. Another feature was the Com ets' phenomenal free throw shooting. They made 18 out of 20 for a .900 average. Crater av eraged .375 from the field. Crater won the junior varsity mix also, 61 to 49. line-ups: Crater 72 Kelley 6 f Hoftue 22 f Higinbotham 26 c Tonn 16 g Parent 2 e 55 Rogue River 4 Johnson 18 Stanfield ,9 Daily 5 Moore 17 Stinchcomb Substitutions For Crater: Johnson. Douthit. Tidwell, Bailey: for Rogue River: Weaver 2. Morrow. of 273. At the start of the final 18 holes, Al Besselink held a three stroke lead while Furgol and Burkemo were deadlocked for fourth place. Besselink soared to 73 in the last round and wound up in a third-place tie with Shelly Mayfield of Chicopee, Mass., at 275. Present day Northern Ireland was once a part of the kingdom of Ulster. MONDAY OPEN TILL 9 Monday, Dcmbr 20, I9S4 Hoffine Gets 38 Points as Raiders Win Ashland Two conference victories tucked away, the Southern Oregon college Red Raiders wind up their pre-holi-day hoop slate Monday and Tuesday with tangles at Areata, Calif. The Raiders will be out to even the score for a pair of losses at the hands of the Hum boldt State college Lumber jacks. On Saturday night with Lloyd Hoffine pouring in-a huge total of 38 counters, the SOC quintet bounced Oregon College of Edu cation 84 to 72 at Ashland for a sweep in the two-game Oregon Collegiate conference series with the Wolves. Southern Oregon won on Friday 83 to 63. Fouls Hurt Wolves The week end scuffles were the first in the loop for both schools. SOC was in front by a slim 36 to 32 at the half. Fouls hurt the Wolves. They had 32 infractions whistled on them. Doug Zitek, F. Stanley and Dale Andrich fouled out and three other OCE men had four fouls apiece on them. SOC was charged with 19 fouls. Hal Ti tus fouled out and two other Raiders had four personals. Tiger Bob Smith of the Raid ers and Andrich got 17 points each for second high honors. Zit ek and Larry Chamberlain each had 13 for the Wolves. LINE-UPS: SOC 84 72 OCE Hoffine 38 - f 4 Adanis Springer 2 f 17 Andrich Titus 9 c 6 Janes Johnson 7 K 13 Chamberlain Smith 17 g 4 Jones Substitutions For SOC: Bates 7, Lowrance 2. Jacobson 2: for OCE: Gregory 2. Willis 3, Davis 2. Stanley 5, Vcung 5. Zitek 13. High School Scores Colton 47 Molalla B" 44 The Dalles 61 Wy'East 43 Marshfield 63 Longview (Wash.) 62 Klamath Falls 67, Redding (Calif.) 65 La Grande 48 Vale 35 Sherwood 50 Waldport 38 Astoria 60 Clatskanie 44 Baker 41 Boise (Ida. 31 Seaside B' 35 Nehalem 30 Albany 52 Prineville 35 Neah-Kah-Nie 57 Tigard 36 Star of Sea 57 Verboort 36 Halsey 62 Monroe 41 Kalama (Wash.) 59 Rainier 35 Eattle Gr'd (Wash.) 47 Hood Kiv. 35 Creswell 43 Cottage Grove 42 lone 53 Condon 47 J. (Rogers (Spokane) 63 Mac-Hi 59 Portugal has about one-fifth the area of Spain. SPECIALS EVERY NIGHT Santa Clara OSC San Francisco, Calif. (U.R) Santa Clara took a second half lead to beat the Oregon State college basketball team 56 to 45 here Saturday night. The Oregon State Beavers had the score tied twice in the first half, but after that the Broncos pulled out ahead. High point man was Sears of Santa Clara who piled up 16 points. Right behind him with 15 was Tony Vlastelica of Ore gon State. Half time score . was 22 to 19 for Santa Clara. It was the second defeat of the weekend for Oregon State who dropped one to the Uni versity of San Francisco Friday night. BASKETBALL SATURDAY COLLEGE SCORES: East Penn 73 Michigan State 67 Iowa 71 Princeton 52 Villanova 80 St. Bonaventure 64 Pittsburgh 96 NYU 76 Utah 79 LaSalle 69 Syracuse 74 Brown 60 Fordham 78 Yale 58 Penn State 106 Rutgers 69 Duquesne 82 Peoria Caterpillars 64 South (Birmingham Classic) Championship Alabama 96 West Virginia 82 Consolation Wake Forest 95 Texas 71 (Montgomery Tournament) Championship Auburn 73 Tennessee 64 Consolation Miami Fla. 80 Wash. & Lee 75 Georgia Tech 75 Sewanee 57 Kentucky 79 Temple 61 Maryland 70 North Carolina 60 N. C. State 85 Texas Tech 74 Northwestern 77 Tulane 63 Virginia 92 So. Carolina 82 Midwest (N'AIA Tourney) Championship Tenn. A & I 94 Rockhurst 72 Consolation Ark. Tech 73 Gust. Adolphus 69 Nebraska 93 Bradley 68 Cincinnati 07 Indiana 65 Dayton 73 Co. of Pacific 56 Illinois 66 Notre Dame 57 Kansas St. 81 Wash. (Seattle) 74 Kansas 100 Rice 71 Wisconsin 107 LSU 68 Michigan 73 Washington (Mo.) 58 Niagara 80 Toledo 61 Southwest Baylor 67 Brigham Young 66 Oklahoma A&M 62 Minnesota 54 Montana State 95 Ricks 79 Ohio State 102 Oklahoma 84 Wyoming 74 St. Louis 68 TCU 84 Howard Payne 61 West San Francisco 56 UCLA 44 Stanford 85 Hawaii 55 Loyola (La.) 80 St. Mary's (Cal.) 71 Arizona 81 Colorado A&M 59 Idaho 100 Montana 70 Southern Cal. 103 New Mexico 39 California 59 Colorado 46 Santa Clara 56 Oregon State 45 Wash. State 66 Eastern Wash, 56 Pepperdine 81 Arizona (Tempe) 74 Dead line Sunday Classified im at noon Saturday : 10 a.m. Monday for Monday, other days 5:30 previous day PHONE 2-6241 Wally Moon Top Rookie New York (U.R) Wallace Wade (Wally) Moon, who broke into the St. Louis Cardinals' lineup last spring because he was "in the wrong place at the right time," today was acclaim ed the National league's Rookie of the Year by the Baseball Writers of America. The lean, bushy-browed center-fielder from Trumann, Ark., attracted 17 of a possible 24 votes in the annual balloting of a special committee, which was made up of three writers from each league city. Ernie Banks the Chicago Cub's young Negro shortstop, finished second in the balloting with four votes. Gene Conley, the Milwaukee Braves' gangling right-handed pitcher, received two votes while outfielder Hank Aaron, also of Milwaukee, pick ed up the remaining vote. Moon wasn't even on the St. Louis roster last spring when the Cardinals started training at St. Petersburg, Fla. He was supposed to report to the Roch ester farm club at Deland, Fla., but turned up at, St. Pete in stead. "Fortunately they, held me over in St. Pete to work out with the Cardinals," . Moon ex plains, "eventually I found I had won a major league job. So, you see, it' sometimes pays to be in the wrong place at the right time." OLLA FAVORED New York j(U.R) Substitute Paul . Pender, Boston middle weight, has a chance to smash back into the "big time" tonigjit in a television 10-rounder with unlucky Ted Olla of Milwaukee at Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway arena. Pender got tonight's TV chance whery Walter Cartier of New York withdrew because of illness. Olla is favored at 2-1 be cause he has been boxing stead ily although not impressively. TO FOR UNCHANGING Ask for jR Bruins, G. Shaw Offense Champs Los Angeles (U.R) UCLA's national champion football team and Oregon University's George Shaw won team and individual total offense honors in final sta tistics released by the . Pacific Coast conference. The commissioner's office an nounced yesterday that the Bruins ground out a total of 3299 yards rushing-and passing in 561 plays to take the team title, while Shaw passed and ran for 1536 yards to win the player title. BOWLING ROGUE VALLEY LEAGUE Standings V L 25 26 27 29 32 33 35 36 36 41 Continental Lumber co. 39 RoyaL Club , 38 Lamports 37 Star Body Works 35 Kom - Pak Trailers 32 Hoopers Radiator Service -.31 Lorenz C. . 29 Pine Tree Market 28 shoe Dogs 28 State Forest Patrol .23 Results: Pine Tree Hooper's 4 D Lewis D Burns B Slead .... J Hooper .. H Vallee ..... L Bex ..476 S Mallon 303 F Martin 450 C Curl ....433 ...444 ....507 ....461 ....519 .-.470 D Kreer 454 Handicap 81 2197 2401 Lorenz Co. 1 Kom - Pak 3 A Andrew 477 B Thornton 516 I Allen 430 L Moser 460 E Page 516 Handicap 81 2340 C McWhorter ..487 J Mathes 431 D McCormack 503 W Gottfried -.427 F Kunz .. 473 2321 Continental 3 H Allen 543 T VanSickle ..509 E Isaacs .425 Lloyd Knapp ..486 V Allen 502 Star Body 1 T Mitchell 548 H Gegner 411 C Emery 434 Absentee :.426 L Graham 390 Handicap .. 21 2230 2465 Forest Patrol 1 B Van Hoy ....444 H Smets 338 H Brock .353 D Stockton 427 Ted Maul 533 Handicap . 87 2182 Shoe Dogs 3 W Eberius "L...483 D Kline 517 B Stewart 365 E Floate 422 D Wunderlich 437 2224 Lamport's 0 B Meyers 431 Bill Piche 458 B Coy 333 S VanDyke ....476 J Farrar 510 Royal Club 4 B Fehl 511 L Smith 486 D Uchytil 441 I Bollinger 450 F Knox 553 Handicap 9 2450 2208 IP O O O VII AM! J&.. .for unchanging MH Jayvees Beat Ashland Medford high junior varsity racked up its fifth win against no losses Saturday night by turn ing back the Ashland jayvee hoopsters 44 to 30 in the prelim inary to the Medford-North Bend varsity skirmish. The Medf ordites accomplish ed victory by holding the Ash landers to just two 'field goals in the second half. At the mid way halt the junior Tornado was ahead only 21 to 19. The pair of fielders plus seven free shots gave Ashland an 11-point total for the second half while Med ford was picking up 23. Final score represented the Medford team's lowest total of the season. Dick Puhl and Charles . Inskeep of Medford, with 13 and 12, respectively, were high point men. LINE-UPS: Medford JV 44 .30 Ashland D Copple 2 f 2 Moores Inskeep 12 f 1 Gray Gober 6 c 3 Green Perkins 6 g 8 Locke Puhl 13 g 3 Woods Substitutions Stearns 2. Hawlev. Plumley, King, Slessler. Morris. Fran cis. Sides 2, Larson 1, Black: for Ash land: Alley 4, Fitch 7, Cotton, Clem ens, Eberhart 2. FORT SILL CHAMP San Diego (U.R) The Fort Sill Army team of Oklahoma reigned today as the unofficial armed forces football champions after crushing Boiling Air Force base of Washington, D.C., 27-6, in the third annual Poinsetta Bowl game. USC DRILLS IN SECRET Los Angeles U.R) The Southern California football team, with six of its allotted 16 practice days gone, began ultra secret drills today for their Rose Bowl clash against Ohio State New Year's day. BUCKEYES WORK Los Angeles "(U.R) The Ohio State football team began rug ged workouts today in prepara tion for the New Year's Rose Bowl game in nearby Pasadena against Southern California. - BOURBON Ml Today as in the past, Ancient Age remains the supreme luxury in bourbon . . .distilled and aged a full six years by the same company that offers it to you. NEW LOW PRICE MAKES NEWS! Now with'its wonderful price reduction, the superb quality of Ancient Age can be enjoyed by more people than ever before. Next time you buy bourbon, choose Ancient Age. You'll be glad you did. ,.. "Double A" luxury! Talent 7th Straight Talent Unbeaten Talent, the District 5B defending hoop champion, made it seven straight victories in pre-conference act tion Saturday night , with a52 to 30 verdict here over Phoe- nix. The Bulldogs headed at all period breaks in the hard-fought, cleanly played game, 15 to 10, 29 to 17 and 39 to 22. J. Lloyd Wood of Talent was principal scorer with 16 markers. Jack Barrett, Bulldog forward suffered a bad knee' injury at the end of the third quarter and had to be carried from the floor. Talent also was victor, 65 to 27 in the junior varsity curtain raiser. The schools meet again at Phoenix on Tuesday. LINE-UPS: Talent 52 30 Phoenix Barrett 10 f 10 Bean Zickafoose 6 f 2 Wall McAbee 11 c 4 Vreeken Wood 16 g 9 Korth M Wallace 4 g 2 Kelsoe Substitutions For Talent: G Combs. J. Wallace. Bartol. Thoreson 4, Ron Weinhold 1: for Phoenix: Dahl. Mad den 2, Brood. Cocks 1. A person's mouth is about the same width as the eyes. AMERICA'S ' LOWEST PRICED STATION WAGON Availab'e in 2 or 4 Door Models SEE THEM NOW AT Medford Hudson, Inc. NEW HUDSON DEALER FRONT & JACKSON Phone 2-6281 LUXURY!