SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday, Deetmbtr 28, 1934
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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
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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
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spite his 31 years, flashed
through the first set in a stun
ning 19 minutes with their "scis
sors formation" and signal call
ing, stumbled briefly in the sec
ond set, and then came storming
back to take the third set in 21
minutes and outlast the desper
ate Aussies in the nerve-stabbing
fourth set.
Four times in the 10th game
of that fourth set Hoad and Rose-
wall fought off match point to
tie the set at 5-5..There was only
one service break in the whole
set and that came at match point
against Rosewall's service in the
18th game. 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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