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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, Deetmbtr 28, 1934 M MS, (DDeveDaDndl Woe tohiM Medford high basketball play-1 tradicted prognosticators by do ers, contending in their seventh U "ght for itself. ana eignm preconference con flicts of the season tonight and ' "Wednesday, are expected to be ' tip against their strongest oppon- - ent of the season. Cleveland high of .Portland is . the adversary for both occasions Starting times are set for 8:15 Here s the record: 53 to 38 over Battle Ground, Wash.; 65 to 43 over Central Catholic of Portland; 67 to 54 over North Salem and 72 to 49 over Van couver, Wash. North Salem, of course, was the only school outside the Port- o'clock on both nights following land area played. That's a reason Crater-Medford high junior var- roruana ians win nave ineir sity preliminaries. The curtain eyes on the series here. For, raisers are billed for 6:45 p.m. Members of the Portland team arrived in Medford yesterday Medford with a win over North Bend and a split with Eugene, is tabbed a team to watch this sea son. The Indians to all indications and worked out at the senior "hicrVi axrm whpre ' thf action IS :ito, nniaM a rcordinff to will give the Tornado some top Coach Al Negratti, the workout caliber competition in Medford's w a wpVottia nnp He said the si iune-up xangies Deiore . tne Indians "hadn't seen a ball January 7 Southern Oregon Con- cinco WPrtnPsHav." w e B r a 1 1 i ence openng date. While a tnintpH nut that th Portland tr"e picture will unfold only the schools are not allowed to prac- games, the only quality Cleve- tin Hi, fh first week of land appears to be lacking for Christmas vacation. v the series is height. Medford will Plasina To Watch - , - have the advantage in that de tj.- . 4 mrAtnTA I partment with a spotless record but with less same experience behind them than the Black Tornado The Tornado will find the In dians a: speedy, sharp-shooting crew, according to advance re- Four games without a loss is the Prts. Cleveland has a reputa- Cleveland record while Medford counts five victories in six regu r lar! tussles. ... . " ;. Negratti went no farther on i predictions concerning the Med ' ford series other than to com- ment that he felt Cleveland will I give a good account of itself. He ? renorted that the Indians are pleasing to watch and that they play a gooa team game, I Established as a favorite in the Portland Interscholastic League I which isn't supposed to be too strong this year, the Tribe, nevertheless, has been impres- sive in its few games. It wasn't f sunnosed to do too well outside 1 its own circuit, despite the rather high regard within, but has con- tion for smoothness on defense and alertness. Coach s Negratti has been able to substitute free ly and the Indians have still won by comfortable margins, indicat ing depth. Starters Named While the Tribe does not have height comparable to Medford's Negratti didn't figure last night to mass his tallest boys in the starting line-up. He listed -Bob Hevener, 6 feet 2 inches at cen ter, Dick Jolley, 6-1, and Hugh Springer, 6-1, forwards, and Harvey Jones.' 5-5 mite, and Eric Petersen, 5-7, guards. Hev ener, Jolley and Petersen are lettermen. Jones missed basket ball last year because of broken leg suffered in football practice. Behind the starters there are Frank Thatcher, 6-3, Jay Bashor, 6-2, Jack Bosking, 6-2, and Bill Davis, who are lettermen. Coach Frank Roelandt of Med ford is expected to call on his usual starters with Glenn Pater- son and Bud Kastner at for wards, Jerry Kalapus at center and Larry Copple and Frank Rector at guards. Tornado squad iaembers, idle since Friday, had a general loosening up drill yesterday which was harder than the usual practice on the day before game. Medfoiuv!Tribuns sipcranrs Kentucky Takes Over No. 1; MCC Second Buckeye Coach Expects Win Oyer Trojans' By NORMAN MILLER New York U.R) Unbeaten Kentucky moved up to the No. 1 spot in the United Press college basketball ratings today by , a wide margin over runner-up North Carolina State, while San Francisco and UCLA advanced Los Angeles U.R) Woody to the top 10 teams. Hayes, Ohio State's football After defeating Utah and La- coach, says he frankly expects Salle, two of their leading rivals his Big Ten champion Buckeyes for national honors, in the Ken- to whip Southern California in tcky Invitational tournament at the New Year's Day Kose novfi Lexington last week, - Coach game. . ' '-: ? ": .: I Adolph Rupp's powerhouse was Moreover. Hayes believes his the first-place choice of 26 mem- team instead of UCLA deserved bers of the 35-man Boara oi to be ranked tops in the nation Coaches, which rates the teams urimarily because "we beat sev- for the United press eacn weeK en of the fop teams in the na tion." UCLA was rated tops in United Press football coaches poll. : "In my four years in the Big Ten." Hayes told the Southern California Football Writers as sociation yesterday, "this year's competition has been' twice as tough as any we have met, fo Commtnt' But when asked if Ohio State would attempt to better UCLA's S4-0 win over SC to enhance its claims to the No. 1 .national berth, Hayes replied that the question was "ridiculous" and "deserves no comment.1 No coach voted Kentucky lower than fourth. On a point basis, the Wildcats had 337 out of a possible 350, for a margin of 123 over North Carolina State. These two south ern schools moved up to the 1-2 ratings after Illinois, Utah and LaSalle all were beaten after being ranked first, second and fourth, respectively, last week. Kentucky, which ran. its sea son record to 5-0 by winning its own sponsored tournament, is out to regain the national cham pionship it won in 1951-52. The Wildcats dropped' basketball in 1952-53 as an aftermath of the fiv scandals and were ineligible With 39 out of the 59 football jor last yeaTs NCAA tourna- writing , voting in a poll that Ohio State would win, Southern California Coach Jess Hill was not as strongly confident as Hayes in victory, but declared: "I'm not naive enough to say we're going to beat Ohio State, but I have never walked on a football field that I didn't think we ; were going to win. And when I walk out on the Rose Bowl field, I will think that we are going to win, ment because three of their stars were playing their fourth varsi ty season. LaSalle, Illinois and Dayton occupied the third to fifth rat ings in order this "week, followed by San Francisco, Utah, Du quesne, UCLA and Missouri in that order." San Francisco, the first - place - choice of three coaches after winning last week's AH -College tournament at Oklahoma City, made the biggest advance this week vault ing to sixth place Irom a tie for 23rd. UCLA the other newcom er advanced two places to ninth The two California schools mov ed up at the expense of Ohio State, beaten twice last week, and Niagara, which was idle. Others Get No. 1 Vote Single first-place votes this week - went to North Carolina State, Illinois, Dayton, Utah, Duquesne and Loyola of the South. With 10 points awarded for a first-place vote, here is how the top 10 ranked behind Kentucky: N.C. State, 214; LaSalle, 195; Illinois, 191: Dayton, 143: San Francisco, 138; Utah, 120; Du quesne, 77; UCLA, 74, arid Mis souri 73. The coaches based the ratings on all games played through Sat urday night, Dec. 25. . Niagara, ninth last week, headed the second 10 teams, fol lowed in order by Southern California, Cincinnati, Kansas, California, Alabama, Seton Hall, Holy Cross and Iowa. There was a three-team tie for 20th place among Ohio State, seventh last week, Minnesota and Louis ville. . . Willie Mays Gets Times Award; Van Also Honored BASKETBALL MONDAY COLLEGE RESULTS East Holiday Festival - - First Round UCLA 88. Niagara 88 LaSalle 103. Syracuse 54 Dayton 70. St. John's Bklyn 58 Duquesne 87. Villanova 68 - - Hofstra Tournament - First Round Delaware 79. Cortland St. 75 Hofstra 66. Lehigh 62 Queen City Tournament First Round Georgetown D.C. 71, Fordham 70 St. Bonaventure 73. Columbia 71 Canisius 81, Yale 60 - Stanford 65. Seton Hall 63 South Dixie Classic - First Round N. Carolina 87. Southern Cal. 58 N. Carolina St. 95. Cornell 61 -Minnesota 81. Wake Forest 73 Duke 92. West Virginia 79 Kentucky Invitational First Round , E. Kentucky 84. W. Kentucky 81 Louisville 108. Murray State 83 Gator Bowl Tournament Florida 82. Florida State 79 Spring Hill 78. Georgia 69 Los - Angeles- U.PJ The na tion's top athletes of 1954 last night received acclaim and tro phies for their achievements at the 12th annual Los Angeles Times national sports awards dinner. - ' The award of player of the year in baseball was bestowed upon Willie Mays star outfield er of the world champion New York, Giants. His manager, Leo Durocher, and teammate, pitch er Johnny Antonelli," received special awards. Yogi Berra of the Yankees won the only non- Giant baseball award when he was awarded a special trophy for. being the most valuable player in the American league, In college football, UCLA and Ohio State divided the regu lar awards. UCLA Coach Henry (Red) Sanders was named coach All-American Tournament . First Round ...... Cincinnati 78, Mississippi 70 Evansville 96. Denver 81 Tennessee State 106. Dillard 58 ' Xavier La. 60, Grambling 59 "-'' mm west t First Round Oklahoma 73. Colorado 71 Missouri 75. Nebraska 58 Motor CityTournament First Round Wayne 71. Penn State 66 Detroit 76. Toledo 58 Motor City Tournament First Round Wayne 71. Penn State 68 ' Detroit 76. Toledo 58 Pentaris Downs Procita After Losing Earlier Chicago (U.R) George Pen taris, Greek billiard champion defeated Joe Porcita, Los An geles, 50-46 yesterday after los ing to the Californian in an ear lier encounter. The match lasted 56 innings and, although Pentaris scored 16 points from the 19th to the 24th inning, he was pressed by Procita all the way. The 400 point match will be concluded Thursday night. Pro cita led 100 to 85, at the end of two blocks today. : , Beloit 75. San Jose State 88 -Northwestern 81. Butler 74 Southwest Southwest Conference Tournament Fim Round , , Alabama 70. Baylor 67 " ' Texas A&M 66. Texas 61 : Arkansas 73. Rice 66 Texas Christian 74, SMU 71 " FIGHTS By UNITED PRESS New York: CHir Brinn Sn.1 irn. tine, outpointed Dan Bueceroni. 19S W Philadelphia 10. Brooklyn: Billy MeNem Ifl.V T1 in N. Y.. outnointed Bohhv DvVn lfiir. Miami. Fla. 10. Tulsa 71, Arizona 49 West f College of Pacific 67, Fresno State I 63 i Seattle -University 88. Arizona t. Tempe State 80 - . . - . . . . . .. Providence. R.I- Curlev Mnnriw 139. Worcester. Hin.. outnnintorf Rocky Sullivan. 138 Boston 10. - Dead line Sunday Classified fat at noon Saturday : 10 a.m. Mondav for Monday; other days 830 previous day. ofjhe year .while Howard (Hop- along) Cassady, star halfback of the Buckeyes, was named play er of the year. A special award went to the entire UCLA foot ball team, ranked tops in the na tion in the United Press football coaches poll. Van Honored , In professional, football, Los Angeles Ram quarterback Norm Van Brocklin was honored. Tom Gola of LaSalle college was selected as the outstanding basketball player of 1954 for leading his team to the national championship last winter. Ron Bontemps of the Peoria, 111., Caterpillars won the, award for A-A.U. competition. ;'... Ed Furgol, winner of the 1954 national "golf open, received the award as the top professional in the country while Arnold Palm er, winner of the national ama teur, was honored as 1 the top simon-pure golfer. 'The " award " for 'theutstand ing woman golfer went to Babe Didrikson Zaharias, famed wom an athlete, who won this year's women's national open 10 months after winning her battle against cancer. Barbara Romack," winner of the women's national amateur, also received a golf award. ' I lSloNr "I BATTLES INDIANS Larry Copple, above, smooth shooting Medford high guard, likely Will be in the starting line-up tonight when the Black Tornado opposes Cleveland high of Portland here. Copple with 83 points in six games for a 13:8 per game aver age is the Medford scoring lead er. Medford ana uieveiana piay here on Wednesday,- also. . ; IJ.S. Daicties i George Shaw Wins Pop; Warner Cup Palo Alto, Calif." (U.R) George Shaw, Oregon's versatile quarterback, was named today as the sixth winner of the Pop War ner Memorial Award as the most valuable senior college football player on the Pacific Coast for 1954. ,: ' Shaw, who was the top col legiate .total -offense leader, this year, won the honor by the nar row margin of six votes over Paul Larson, quarterback for the University of California. - It was the closest vote in the six year history of tne award with more than 350 sportswrit- ers, sportscasters and coaches taking part in the balloting. Terry De Bay of UCLA fin ished third in the voting. Shaw will be the guest of hon or at a banquet here next month sponsored by the Palo Sports Club. At that time he will be presented with a gold wrist watch and a trophy by Ernie Nevers, all-time football great. Nevers will take over the pre sentation duties which were per formed by the late Pop Warner until his death last September, Past winners of : the Warner award: v 1949 Eddie LeBaron, Col lege of Pacific; 1950 Russ Pom eroy, Stanford; 1951 Ollie Mat- son, University of San Francis co; 1 952 Jim Sears, University of Southern California; 1953 Bob Garrett, Stanford. By ERIC RIEL ' Sydney, Australia (U.R) America's "five, year quest for the Davis Cup, symbol of world tennis supremacy, was crowned with shining success today when Vic, Seixas and Tony Trabert scored a clinching doubles . tri umph over an outgunned pair of young Australians. " j A capacity, record tying crowd of 25,578 at White City Stadium saw the two confident Ameri cans whip 20-year-old Aussies Lewis Hoad and Ken Rosewall in a tension packed drama, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 10-8. , The 106 minute victory, cou pled with singles yesterday by the same stars, gave the United States an unbeatable 3-0 lead in the best-of-five challenge rounds and an unshakeable hold on the cup Americans have sought ever since they lost it to Australia in 1950. 'Too Good for Us" So clear was the Yanks' sn. jperiority that even Harry Hop- man, aour manager of the Aus sie team, was forced to admit, "there was a very simple reason for our loss, they were just too good for us." ' - - Trabert, ignoring the pain of a badly cut racquet hand, and Seixas, frisky as a new colt de- avis Snap MlflesOToim WEATHER By United Press - - Northern California: Fair ex cept high cloudiness north por tion; light rain near Oregon bor der; slightly warmer central por tion.' 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Rosewall banged across a hard service but caught it on his forehand and sent the ball rocketing into the corner just fair by inches. Coast Loop Election Set San Francisco (U.R) The Pacific Coast League directors, completely ignoring the fact that this is "bowl time," meet here to elect a new president. . : The No. 1 candidates right now appear . to . be Jerry Dono van, the efficient head man of the very successful Class C Cali fornia League; and Torchy Tor rence, energetic vice-president of the Seattle Rainiers. But do they want another headache? ; That's about all there will be in it for the new man, unless there is some way to still re peated rumors that the majors are going to Invade Los Angeles and San Francisco; and that every club in the loop is losing money, or at the best, breaking even. If the majors are as close to invading the west coast as some persons claim, then all the credit the new president will receive Is that of disbanding the league. ; What with the majors cutting into the triple-A cities; and tri-ple-A leagues carving out chunks of Class A and AA loops, the business of running a profes sional baseball loop has become mighty precarious. The new style, it would ap pear, is that every time a team loses money, the : franchise should be shifted to a new loca tion. There was a time when the same eight teams played in the same leagues year after year. Four.years of frustration van ished with that spinning shot. Seixas leaped into the air, shout ing in glee, and started pound ing Trabert on the back. The crowd shattered' its tense silence and, with : fine, sportsmanship, roared an ovation to the two Yanks who had just taken the cup away from this land. "Thrown to Wolves" ' y-: '- Hoad and Rosewall sped to the net to congratulate their con querors and on the sidelines Hopman hurried; to shake hands with Billy Trabert, captain of the U. S. team whose training and tactics . paved the way : for victory. . . . '' : Hopman, under fire in Aus tralian' newspapers for some time for his rigid training meth ods, commented later he expects Aussie papers now will demand "I be thrown to the wolves." ' Today's victory made tomor rows' pair of concluding singles matches meaningless, since they can't change the outcome of the series. Trabert had been sched uled ; to play Rosewall in the first, but Trabert said Ham Rich ardson, Rhodes - scholar from Baton Rogue, La., might replace Trabert because of Tony's hand cut and because "I would cer tainly like to see Ham in there." 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