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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) Torrid Tornado Whistles st :. Grants Pass, Pa CM 1 Fer Bent of Shots , Medford high's torrid Black Tornado made it an auspicious beginning in the quest for South ern Oregon Conference basket ball laurels Friday night, living up thoroughly to its label as the "team to beat" as it thundered convincingly over the Grants Pass Cavemen, 63 to 44. It was a blazing, terrific first half which enabled the high geared Tornado, playing on its home floor, to rumble over the defending champions. Medford took a few minutes to warm to the task but once the fast-breaking gang got rolling, it out gunned the GP crew, outfought it under the backboards and ef fectively stymied its offense. Sureshooting Larry Copple along with Frank Rector pro vided most of the firepower and all hands, Johnny Foust, Jerry Kalapus, Glenn Peterson, Bud Kastner, Copple and Rector, contributed to the stifling de fense and rebound control. Already established as a re lentless driving aggregation in preconference play, the Tornado was at .a hard-running, passing and smooth operating peak dur ing the time it built up its lop sided advantage. Medford hus tled to a 21 to 9 spread -in a first quarter more fiercely con tested that the score indicated. And in the second panel the count was lengthened to 40 .to 28.. . . Breeze Slackens The bis breeze slackened In the second half but not before a 25-point 50 to 25 bulge had been run up. Grants Pass perked up and out-scored Medford 15 to 14 in the third quarter which ended 54 to 33 in Tornado favor. And the Cavemen had the point making upperhand again in the final quarter 1 1 to 9. Medford never was in serious danger despite the GP edge. Three minutes into the last stanza the Cavemen had sliced their deficit to 16 points at 56 to 40. That's as close as they got. The Tornado turned to ball control in the final stages and went 22 points in front, 62 to 40. Then a complete team of reserves took over to play out the remaining short span. Twelve Medfordites got into the fray. Grants Pass led only once and briefly during the evening. Cop ple had sunk a field shot from the corner for Medford when the scrape was only 30 seconds old. Mel Drews put in .one free heave for Grants Pass and Don James followed with a pair of gifters at the two-minute mark for 3 to 2 GP margin. Ten sec onds later Kalapus put in a couple of free ones. That made .it 4 to 3 and Medford was in front, to stay. Kalapus with seven more points, Copple with six and Rector with four round ed out the scoring for Medford In the opening quarter. Grants Pass managed only two fielders in the period, by Reid and Burr while Medford rolled up seven. The Tornado picked up an other eight field goals in the third quarter through efforts of Peterson, Rector, Copple, Kast ner and McCullough while James hit two and Jay Reese one for Grants Pass. James Spearheads After Medford gained its 25 point advantage it was James with seven points who spear- pushed in close and stole the ball for a two goals and picked up three counters at the free line. Bob Erickson. got three markers, Reese two free shots and Reid a fielder in the brief rally while Rector, Copple and Peterson hit a goal apiece for Medford. Copple, who does everything so easily, was high scorer of the night with 25 points. His guard mate, Rector was next with 14 and both turned in stellar floor games. Kalapus was third high for Medford with 11. Seven were from the gift line whejre he made every chance. James ran un-13 for Grants Pass. Johnny Foust drew his first tartini " assignment for ; tne Black Tornado and came through with flying colors in a booming aggressive pertorm- ance. He shared with Kalapus the rebound retrieving honors each picked off seven as the Tornado outfought the Cavemen 2 to 1. Kastner, a cog in the fine Medford teamwork with num- prous assists, and Peterson came next spot with five retrieves and Copple got four. TJutT Limited Kalapus and Peterson, feet Vz inches . each, proved their worth under the hoop but.eacn saw onlv about a half-game of duty. Kalapus was pulled out with less than a nau-nunuie played in the second quarter when he was cnargea wiui u fourth foul. He started the sec- ond nail iouiea ui ".,'' mtnutes left in the third canto. In all he was in action just 15 minutes of the 32 route. Peter MAIL TRIBUNE son, weakened by a cold early in the week, did not start but was in the game about 18 min utes. Keeping the area well jammed around the bucket, the Tornado held the Cavemen's a usually high scoring driver, Reid to just two field goals. The other GP guard, James got four goals. One was from far out and another was on a steal, when the hoop was unprotected. Raleigh Burr, GP, giant on the floor at 6-534, got only two field buckets. Medford shot better than 51 per cent from the field, 24 out of 47, making a good number of shots on its fast break. Rugged Mel Drews of Grants Pass .fouled put just before Kalapus was banished and Burr and Kastner each had four in fractions. Coach Frank Roelandt praised his Medford club for a "terrific NCAA Picks TV Group New York (U.R) Five new members were chosen Saturday by the NCAA council to serve on the 12-man 1955 television committee that will tackle the controversial problem of a col lege football TV program for next season. The newcomers to the com mittee, selected as the NCAA wound up its week-long meetings here, were: Warren P. McGuirk, University of Massachusetts (Dis trict 1); Max Farrington, George Washington (District 3); Doug Mills, Illinois (District 4); Earl Fullbrook, Nebraska (District 5); and Ted Harder, Santa Barbara, (small colleges). The delegates voted Friday empowering the new TV-com mittee to continue last season's game of . the week" arrange ment, whereby only one game is shown each week (with a few exceptions) .on a coast-to-coast network. , " : ' The new committee will not be bound by this vote, but will use it as a guide in its consider ations. There is a chance the group may recommend a more liberal program than last year's whereby the nationally-televised game could be decided upon as late as five days beforehand, instead of many weeks as here tofore. There also could be a provision for one local appear ance on TV for each team, if in the opinion of the NCAA no damage to other schools would result. " Golden Abbey Wins Handicap Arcadia, Calif (U.R) Gold en Abbey, ridden by the canny Johnny Longden, showed his heels by. nearly three lengths Saturday to a field of nine California-foaled horses in the, $28, 000 Santa Catalina handicap at banta Anita, as the even money favorite, Correlation, finished out of the money. The five-year-old son of Kine's Abbey, a three to one second choice of 45,000 racine fans. laid well off the pace for nearly a mile of the mile and an eighth race but closed in the stretch to open his big lead over Blue Trumpeter. Ole Travis was third and CorresDondent was fourth. . In the co-featured $22,750, Las Flores Sprint handicap, Calumet farm's great four-vear-old fillv. Miz Clementine, raced to a half length victory over her old rival. Alibhai Lynn, while her stable- mate, Lap Full, was third in the field of 10 fillies and mares. SATURDAY SCORES COLLEGE BASKETBALL: Boston University 73. Army 70 Williams 84. Bowdoin 56 ' Michigan State 94. Wisconsin 77 St. Michaels 96. St. Lawrence 82 Michigan 88. Ohio State 81 (over time) Findlay 113. Odarvilla 61 -". Xavier (La.) 75, Tuskogee 68 Pennsylvania 83, Princeton 75 . William and Mary 78, Washington and Lee 73 -Niagara 85. St. Bonaventure 61 Miami (O.) 89. Bowling Green 55 Temple 58. Lehigh 43 . Colgate 77. Hobart 63 Marshall 79. Western Michigana50 Goodyear 98. Detroit Tech 55 American International 82. Provi- dence 70 Kent State 82, Akron 60 Minnesota 81. Iowa 80 Millersville 80. Lockhaven Stat , Teachers 58 - Georgetown (DC) 79, American University 65 North Carolina State 96. Duke 91 Highpoint 75. Catawba 58 Franklin Marshall 88. Dickinson 66 - Cornell 70. Dartmouth 66 Capital 67. Heidelberg 65 (overtime) Carnegie Tech 70. West Virginia 69 Richmond 72. George Washington 67 Ashland 93. Fenn 63 Penn State 84, Navy 64 Cincinnati 79, Toledo 66 Geneva 81. Juniata 67 ' Syracuse 92. Sampson AFB 77" Furman 154. The Citadel 67 -Xavier (O) 76. Louisville 70 Purdue 77. Northwestern 76 :" Youngstown 92. St. Vincents 70 Vanderbilt 73. Tennessee 69 Fordham 71. Rutgers 65 Columbia 72. . Yale 56 NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION RESULTS: Boston .117. Philadelphia 10S Sunday, January 9. 1955 3-44 team job.' He echoed the feel ing of players and fans alike in expressing the hope that the Tornado can keep up the pace all year. Medford plays Ashland here next Friday and at Ashland on Saturday. Medford FG FT PF TP Kastner. f 1 0.42 Foust f 0.2 2 2 Kalapus. c 2 7 3 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 11 25 CoddIc - 11 Rector. K 6 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 . 14 6 Ppterson McCulloujfh McLaughlin Tisdel Cochran Deskins Reinking ! 3 0 0 0 0 0 24 15 18 63 FG FT PF TP GranU Pass , Reese, f M. Drews, f . Burns, c Reid. g : James. g Erickson Mendenhall Hayes Henderson 3 2 3 4 0 5 3 0 0 0 5 4 0 2 0 2 1 1 13 18 17 44 Rogue Snowmen Hope for Big Day At Crater Lake Members of the Rogue Snow men ski club anticipated an 'ex tensive" operation today at Crater Lake National park. The club members ski on Garfield slope.- - Snowmen President Bill Brooks said Friday, "I think the big tow is already to go." That will give the club a 25 horse power tow as well as 'the 7 Vz horse facility which has been used in the past. : A good turn out of skiers is expected today. Good skiing was foreseen. Club members have invited the public to use the tow. today. Brooks pointed out that the Rogue Snowmen, a non-profit group, assumes no responsibility for accidents on the hill or the tow. : . Membership applications will be available at the slope. ' To Wolves Monmouth (U.R) Southern Oregon downed Oregon College of Education 70-56 here Friday night in the first game of a two game Oregon Collegiate confer ence basketball series. Keith Johnson and Lloyd Hof- fine of the winners, and Larry Chamberlain of OCE all had 14 points. Seattle - (U.R) Forward Ken Westenskow sank two free throws in the final seconds here last night to give Eastern Ore gon a ' 97-95 basketball victory over Seattle Pacific college. ' Eastern Oregon led 50-37 at the half with the aid of a 24 point first-half scaring splurge by high scoring Ted Schade- witz. SPC made its bid in the final minutes of the game after Schadewitz, who ended with 28 points, had fouled out with four minutes left, but could never quite overtake the mountaineers. Larry Pryse of Eastern Oregon led all scorers with 33 points while ; Loren Anderson's 24 points topped SPC. Klamath Falls (U.R) Ore gon Tech, led by Gordy Fahl- gren's 21 points, defeated Shas-J ta JC 72-62 in a basketball game here last night. Injured Boxer Said 'Holding His Own' Abilene, Tex. (U.R) A 16-year-old. lightweight boxer who was critically injured in .a YMCA fight Friday, night was reported "holding his own" Sat urday. Physicians at Hendrick me morial hospital in Abilene said Friday night Donnie McNeal of bweetwater, Tex., had only a 50-50 chance to live. But Satur day they said he has a better than even chance. He suffered a cerebral concus sion when he was knocked out by a left in the second round thrown by Jim Horrell, 16, of Abilene, Tex. Teams from Abi lene and Sweetwater were com peting in the YMCA show. Sports Bulletins Miami (U.R) Wallace (Bud) Smith of Cincinnati, C and Johnny Gonsalves of Oak land, Calif., battled lo t draw here Saturday night in a 10 xound (nationally- .televised) bout at Bayf root auditorium. Lexington, Ky (U.R) The Georgia Tech Engineers broke first -ranked Kentucky's 32 game win streak last night with a 59-58 victory at Me morial .coliseum on a one hand push shot by guard Joe Helms . with three seconds to play. - Greenville, S.C. (U.R) Furman university set a new; national scoring record for ma jor colleges last night by wal loping the Citadel, 154 to 67. MEDF0UjT!lIB sipcranrs BATTLE FOR BALL Jim Reid Peterson (15) of Medford are shown tussling for the ball in the Friday night Southern Oregon wteen the two schools. Edging Laughlin (11). Two Grants Pass Reese (9) look on..;.', . Badgers, Coyotes, Bearcats Victors In NWLoop Tifs By UNITED PRESS Pacific, Willamette" and Col lege of Idaho racked up opening game victories as the Northwest conference basketball race got underway last night. Pacific won its 10th straight of the season by downing Whit man 68-55; College of Idaho walloped Lewis and Clark 84-69, arid Willamette controlled the backboards to hand Linfield an 80-68 loss. Pacific, co-champ with Whit man last year, same from be hind ' to beat Whitman. The Badgers trailed 37-30 at the half, but Norm "The Hawk" Hubert took command in the. second half by scoring 15 of his . 21 points. - - y: ' Baylor Scores 38 At. Caldwell, Elgin Baylor scored 38 points and grabbed 27 rebounds : for College of Idaho as the Coyotes downed Lewis and Clark. R. C, Owens had 26 rebounds for the winners but was held to nine points. Lewis and Clark missed the services of starting guards Gary Jackson and Duane Brady. Jackson has a bad ankle and Brady the flu. Willamette's taller - Bearcats took command in the second half against Linfield . after . the score was knotted at 36-all at halftone. Don Porter of Lin field led the scoring with 21 while Dave Gray hit 17 for Wil lamette. TO GET HELP Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) The Kansas City Athletics will help Columbus "field as good a team as possible" for its new role in the International league, officials of the A's said today. Columbus, which was without a ball club after its American Association team was transfer red to Denver, obtained the Ot tawa franchise in the far-flung Triple-A league by paying the A's $50,000. W'JACK FMSTIH'' 5 :f-j"HSHPr4 f WJI4iiii f Blocks shrug off freezing colds. Blocks have structural qualities that' resist . extremes of weather. Prolong the life of your new horn'. find out how YOU can be seeing us TOD AYI Phone 2-4107 lUHILIIDISM SUPPLY 727 W. McAndrews . ". (8) of Grants Pass high and Glenn Conference hoop engagement be- in is the' Tornado's Dick Mc men, Raleigh Burr, (16) and Jay r (Brainerd photo) Monti Holds Inglewood, Calif. (U.R) Eric Monti, the non-touring prof es- sional from Pasadena, Calif., tanked five putts of better than 15 feet Saturday for a third con secutive sub-par round in the third-day leadership in the $32, 500 Los Angeles golf tournament, Monti, who is 36 years old and hasn't been on ' tour since 1950, fired a 69 Saturday to add to earlier scores . of 69 and 67 for a 205 total and one stroke leadership over Gardner Dickin son, of St. Andrews, 111. Monti and Dickinson had been tied at the end of 36 holes. Louise Suggs, Atlanta, Ga., sank an 11-foot putt on the first hole of a sudden-death playoff with Beverly Hanson, lndio, Calif., to win the 54-hole wom en's championship. She had a 224 total for the distance, same as Miss Hanson. , The "big time" professionals still were in contention in the mens division although some of them were quite a ways back. Pro Bowl Game Fever at LA Los Angeles (U.R) Pro Bowl fever has struck Los Ang eles with the first skull practice of the West team held Saturday. Coach Back Shaw, formerly of the San Francisco Forty Nin ers, set up headquarters Friday at the ' Hollywood Knickerbock er hotel, while the eastern con tingent, headed by Philadelphia Eagle Coach Jim Trimble, check ed in at the Ambassador. . It was announced that Frank Giff ord, former Southern Cali fornia tsar and now with the New York Giants, will replace former UCLA star Paul Camer on in the East lineup. Cameron was ordered to Ft. Ord, Calif., this week for military service. The game will be held Jan. 16 in the Los Angeles coliseum. AIN'T FUM QM HOCK HOUSES Eidom Aids to Win In Senior Mix Mobile, Ala. (U.R) Husky Frank E i d o m, hard - running Southern Methodist halfback, powered the South to two second half touchdowns Saturday and a come-from-behind 12-6 victory over the North in the sixth Sen ior Bowl game before 34,000 fans. Eidom paced Dixie drives of 76 and 63 yards to overcome a six point North lead registered m the second quarter largely on the work of Dick Young, a Chat tanooga Choo-Choo running on the wrong track for the Yankees. Bobby Freeman, quarterback of Auburn's Gator Bowl champ ions, fed the ball deftly to Eidom in the South's scoring - efforts and picked up valuable yardage himself on keep plays to main tain the Dixie momentum. I The Southerners' victory in the annual professional preview for graduating collegians evened the record at three and three for the series. The winners picked up checks of $500 each and the losers $400 apiece as ; the- all- stars got their first taste of pro gold. Charles. Sheppard Will Be Speaker At Walton Meet Charles Sheppard, Oregon State Commission game biologist in this area, will be guest speak er on Monday, January 10, at a meeting of the Jackson county chapter , of . the Izaak Walton league. ".. The meeting will be at 8 p.m. in the Pioneer room of the Jack son hotel. Sheppard will present, his an nual report on the current game situation . and program. He also will give the results of this past hunting season. :" First reading of the national Izaak Walton league s land restoration and price support program , will be ' made. The chapter will be asked to present its views on the program before the - national convention on March 31. Future meetings of the Jack son County chapter will be held on the second Monday of each month. "They have been on the second Tuesday. ; Col. Paul H. Weiland is new president of the Jackson coun ty chapter. Vice-presidents are Ken Wonderly, for soils; John E. Gribble, for woods: Edwin C Hansen, for water, and Tom Rickard, for wildlife. A. Norton Smith is ! secretary and Hank DeVoss, treasurer.- Directors are the retiring president, William Thorndike, Duke Guile, Chester Irish, Col. Frank D. Applin and Dr. C. H. Paske. Guile is state director.' Ski Conditions Skiing conditions at Crater Lake National park are good. the park rangers' . office re ported yesterday. Snow was falling lightly at the park in the lata afternoon. Warming hut at the park will be open today, weather ? permitting. Highway 62 through the park . was open yesterday but chains .were advised. The road from Annie Spring to the rim was open but chains or snow tires were required. Up to 91 ' mere starting traction Up to 39 mere stepping traction ; Mere rubber on the ; . read for' quieter opera tion longer wear , This sensational traction is yours for only $1.00 DOWN PER 01 123 South Riverside Floyd Patterson Stops Will Troy In Five Rounds New York (U.R) Young Floyd Patterson of Brooklyn, who stopped Willie Troy in the fifth round, will be ready for a light heavy weight title shot "within the year," Manager Cus ter D'Amato admitted reluctant ly today. D'AmatO, the fight game's most cautious pilot, was practi cally forced into that admission of his fighter's prowess by Pat terson's smashing victory over knockout specialist Troy of Washington, D. C. at Madison Square Garden Friday night. "Yes, he'll be ready for a .shot at Archie Moore before the end of the year," D'Amato said. "He proved for sure last night he's got plenty of steel in his chin." Troy had knocked out 23 of his previous ;32 opponents. ' To Face Grant But, meanwhile, Floyd will engage in his first scheduled 10 round bout on Jan. 17, against Don Grant of Los Angeles at Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway Ar ena. "Just how many 10-round- ers he'll need after that, before tackling Moore, I don't know," said the wary mentor. Scaling 166 pounds to Troy's 162, rangy young Patterson gave 22-year-old Troy such a merci less battering that Dr. Vincent Nardiello, Referee Al Berl and Troy's manager, Al Weill, agreed Willie would be unable to come out for the sixtn rouna. TDClub Hosts Men Washington (U.R) The Touchdown club honored many of the nation's football greats last night and treated them to dinner attended by Supreme Court Justices. Senators, Con gressmen, and others who had $15 to spend for a ticket. ' The civic and sports leaders ot Washington who make up the Touchdown club, presented- 10 awards to various top flight foot ball players and coaches at the organization s 20th annual ban quet. Players honored were Ralph Guglielmi, Notre Dame; Ronnie Beagle, Navy, Max Boydston Oklahoma; Norm Van Brocklin Los Angeles Rams; and Tommy O'Connell. Boiling Air Force Base. ... Coaches at the dinner includ ed- Bud Wilkinson, Oklahoma Jess Neely, Rice; Woody Hayes, Ohio State; Frank Moseley, Vir ginia Tech; Jim : Tatum, Mary land; Eddie Erdelatz, Navy; Terry Brennan, Notre Dame; Murray Warmath, Wisconsin; Red Sand ers, UCLA; and Buddy Parker, Detroit Lions. Ty Cobb's Wife Files Divorce Suit in Reno : Reno, Nev. (U.R) Mr s Frances F."Cobb, has filed suit for divorce in district court' from Tyrus Raymond Cobb, baseball', immortal Georgia Peach, it was disclosed Saturday. Harlan . L. Heward,- Mrs, Cobb's attorney, said he filed the action by number only earl ier in the week in order to en able him to serve divorce papers upon Cobb.. The ? papers were served late Friday and the action was made public. ; . 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In two seasons Robinson's team won 10, lost 1Q and tied one. -Wyatt is one of the most suc cessful young coaches' in the oa . tion. The 38-year-old native of Kingston, Tenn., last year sur prised the football world by leading Arkansas to the South western conference champion ship.'; Wyatt was the personal choice of Neyland, the Tennessee Ath- -letic director. Neyland, who es tablished one of the country's finest coaching records at Ten nessee, wanted a coach who could continue the traditional Tennessee ' single-wing. Arizona Back Gets Nelson Cup Boston (U.R) Art Luppino, Arizona wingback and the na tion's top grid scorer, Saturday received the eighth annual Swede Nelson award for sports manship. The sophomore star from Phoenix, Ariz., received the trophy at the annual dinner of the Boston Gridiron club. ' At tending were his coach, Warren Woodsom, and Nils V. (Swede) Nelson, the man the trophy was named for. ' - - . The trophy is awarded annual ly to the college gridder who 'demonstrates a high esteem for the football code and exempli fies sportsmanship . to an out standing degree." ' STONEHAM HONORED New York (U.R) Horace C. Stoneham, president of the New York Giants, has been vo ted the New York Baseball Wri ter's William J. Slocum award for 'long and meritorius service to Taaseball," it was announced today; '..I.:-:- - BUY THE NEW HUDSON RAMBLER PRICES START AT lOOC Delivered 1 773 Medford - Includes Heater and . .'.. Direction Signals Medford Hudson, Inc. FRONT & JACKSON Phone 2-6281 Phone 2-6314 ''''-33".
