Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 09, 1955, Image 13

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Newspaper Page Texti IteiroaDitTEiB UKE Oregon Staters Lick WSC, Huskies Rap Idaho in ND; Trojans Subdue California CorvalHs U.R) Oregon I nink, whose 25 points were high State; revitalized by . the first appearance this season of seven- foot, three-inch Center Wade "Swede" Halbrook, opened the , defense of its Northern Division basketball crown here Friday night by defeating Washington State 70-58. The Beaven trailed the visit ing Cougars until Halbrook's en try midway through the first period. The all - coast center quickly sank a field goal to put Oregon State ahead 24-23. The Beavers increased their lead, and were ahead 29-24 as the half ended. The second half was much faster than - the first as the 'coaches of both teams used two platoons. The OSC lead was kept near the 10-point margin during much of the period, but was lowered to as little as three points through the fine shooting of Washington State's Ron Ben- Ml BL Slates Seven Tilts During Week MIBL STANDINGS Yellow Cab Andy's Jewelers , YMCA ...... w. -3 5 Campus Five , prospect I. Pet. 0 1.000 1.000 .730 Earfe Point ' Skinner's Buiek .Company A (NG) .tieaaauar Hawkins on Tires luarters Co. (NG) Burelson's (C. Pt. Sacred Heart Church .750 .800 JSOO .333 .250 .250 .250 .200 .000 , There'll be encounters three nights this week in the Medford Independent Basketball League with contests set for Tuesday, .Wednesday and Thursday eve nings. Seven loop games' are on the slate. Monday's activity is at the Junior high with YMCA op posing Headquarters company of the National Guard in , the early brush and Burelson's run ning into Hawkinson Tires in the nightcap. . Three tussles are on Wednes day. Sacred Heart church meets Company A of the National i Guard and Yellcw Cab takes on i Skinner's Buick on the Medford ) court. Andy's Jewelers go to Prospect. 'a - Thursday's games are both in Medford. Headquarters company goes against Hawkinson' s and YMCA is the rival of Andy's. There'll be a non-league scrap on Saturday J topping off "the week The Cabmen will be host to the strong Martin Brothers Sign company, Eugene. Game site will be the St Mary's high gymnasium. Martin Sign won the state AATJ title last year playing under the Everybody's Drug banner. for the game. Oregon State, leading 64-56, stalled through the final two minutes of the contest Halbrook was ineligible for pre-season play for scholastic reasons, but appeared in good shape. He scored 13 points dur ing the half game he played Forward Tony Vlastelica scored 14 to lead OSC scoring. By UNITED PRESS The Pacific Coast Conference basketball season got off with a bang last night with division winners from both the North and the South grabbing wins, but they can look for competi tion before the season is over, Southern California's defend ing champions downed the rug ged California Golden Bears, 63 to 56, but the victory came at the free throw line. The Bears outscored the Trojan? from the floor, 24-19, as California's all American center Bob McKeen hit for 30 points. The Trojans maintained ball control most, of the game and were able to score from the free throw line as they were given 39 free throws of which they made 25 good. At the same time, the Washing ton Huskies and Stanford In dians were serving notice that they will be contenders when the chips are down. The Huskies - used ; height speed and good shooting to bat ter the University of Idaho Van. das, 8153. in a game that Washington controlled from the beginning, Dean Parsons,, Washington's 6-foot, 8-inch center, poured in 32 points and cleared off 19 of Washington's 51 rebounds. Guard Bill Bauscher led Idaho scorers with 15 points. Indians Down Bruins ; , Stanford's Indians, meanwhile defeated the pre-season favor ites from UCLA. 61-56, and broke an eight game drought against the Bruins that extended back to 1952. x Stanford's Ron Tomsic tallied 21 points to keep his 21-points- per-game average, while Willie Naulls led UCLA's scoring with 13 points. Tops High Crater Medford 42 Hamlin 16 Funston S -Kussel 2 Brauner-9 Bergman 2 substitution: Twenty-one Medford junior high ninth grade hoopmen got into action Friday afternoon as the Bulldogs defeated the Crater high freshmen 42 to 24 at Central Point Medford took a 13 to 8 com mand in the first quarter and was in front 19 to 12 at the end of a low-scoring second period. The Bulldogs were ahead 30 to 16 at the end of the third canto. Tom Hamlin of, Medford was main scorer with 16 markers, followed by his teammate Ted Brauner - with . nine. Lyman St'ubbs with seven collected most for Crater. All three Medford Junior high teams play Eagle Point Monday here. . Seventh graders play at 4 p. m., eighth graders at 5 p. m. and ninth graders at 6:45 p. m. LINE-UPS: X Crater . f . , Parker t 6 Kime c . . 4 Cochran g - - . 7 Stubtu g Estramada 1 or Medford.' Bolde- . now 3. Bowling. Harrington 2. undel cl. Shaw. Niles 1. Albert. McMasters, Green. Ackley. Easterly, Bacon 1. Per ry. Anderson. Foote. Berteau; for Cra ter. Morton, Shipley- Chartier 2, Stallsworth 4. Govenor. Courtney, South 1. BASKETBALL s FRIDAY COLLEGE GAMES East - '-. T- : Buffalo 83. Collate 70 Rhode Island 89, Maine 63 South Davidson 87. Citadel 68 - Florida St. 73. Florida 69 Georgia 90. Mississippi State 75 ' South Carolina 112. Newberry 63 West - Hawaii 34. Los Angeles State -48 . r Washington 82, Idaho S3 Oregon State 70. Washington St 58 ": Seattle 96. Republic of China (For mosa) 66 - , . - r, Stanford 61. UCLA 58 . Southern California 63, California 56 ' San Jose State 52. St. Mary's 48 College of Pacific 55. Santa Clara 53 ' Eastern Oregon 97. Seattle Pacific 95 Sacramento , State 54. Humboldt ' State 51 San Francisco State 79. Nevada 74 Santa Barbara 75. Cal Poly 69" : ' Peppexdine 83. Whittier 69 Idaho St. 79. Montana St 72 ; Pacific 68, Whitman 55 - College of Idaho 84. Lewis and Clark 69 , Willamette 80. Linfield 68 Oregon State Rooks 59. Lower Co- lumbia JC 53 , Southern Oregon 70. OCT 56 - Oregon Tech "2. Shasta JC 62 Olympic 79. Everett JC 61 Puset Sound 63. British Columbia 48 Idaho Frosh 68. Washington Freeh 53 Pacific Lutheran 61, Western Wash ington 49. box: osc Dean f Vlastelica f . Whiteman f Jarboe f Allord f Shandoin c . Halbrook c . Robins g FG FT PF TP .4-15 9 Halligan g Fun dings land g Toole g - ... , . Faulus g 6 O 2 ,.1 1 6 5 . 2 . 1 . 1 . 0 2 O 0 3 0 1 0 5 . 0 0 0 14 0 4 3 2 13 10 9 2 2 0 Ashlanders Nudge Pels Quint 49-48 Ashland Ashland high hopes in the Southern Oregon Confer ence basketball race were boost ed Friday night by a 49 to 48 nod over the Klamath Falls Peli cans. Gene Parent's free shot with three seconds to play pro vided the margin. The Grizzlies were never be hind in the tense tangle but they were tied , three times 23-all at half time and 46-all and 48-all in the closing moments. Ashland's widest margin was six points. First quarter tally was 11 to. 9 and after three chukkers it was i l XO 34. D'OUvo Knots Tussle A field shot by Dave D'Olivo knotted . the fray at 46 each. Jerry Mickle put Ashland back in front 48-46 with two gift tosses." Then D'Olivo came through again. Parent missed the first and made the second of two free shots in the final seconds. Ashland defense was Jtough and Klamath did not hit well from far out The Grizzlies themselves did not do too well on outside shots until the last half. It was actually free shots, however, which won the com' bat. , Klamath outscored Ashland from the field 20 to 14. Parent, high scorer with 16, got 10 at the free line. -:- Jim Sutherlin was the back board workhorse for the Grizz lies, helping the Ashlanders much , against the tall Pelican crew. LINE-UPS: Ashland 49 Baker 2 Parent 18 Sutherlin 8 Mickle 9 v Johnson 6 f 1 c g At Klamith Fans 12 Munsell 5 Yarnell . " 11 D'Olivo Sunitsch 3 Pepple Substitutions For Ashland. Sword 0, Carter 2. for Klamath. Lows 2, Causey 7, Todd 5. Barker 4. Cleveland Cagert Snap Maroon Victory String Portland (U.R) Cleveland High school snapped a 19-game winning streak of state cham pion Milwaukie last night with a 64-59 victory despite a 29-point performance by the losers all state, Ted Miller., BOWLING City League - t City Bowling League got off to a good start on the second half as Red Blanket Lumber Co. took the lead with a 4 to 0 win over Ross Lumber Co.,- Crater Electric took second place with high game of 912 and high series 2553 over Norton Lumber Co. Bud Wilson of Darrell Miller Co., had high individual game of the evening with a 228. Karl Johnson of Ed's . Barber Shop with a 604 high series. ADD CITY LEAGUE Standings: Red Blanket Lumber Co. Carter Electric : Top Notch Cafe W. L. WSC Bennlnk f Beck f Kamps i . King f Nelson Render c . Olson e Klock g . Perry g Foisy sT" Garton g . 29 12 15 70 FG FT PF TP .7 11 . 2 25 2 2 0 0 6 0 1 3 0 1 - 22 ; Halftime score: Oregon Washington State 24. 14 11 State 3 4 0 0 14 0 6 6 0 2 58 29, WSC BILLS SPARTANS ' San Jose, Calif. ' (U.R) Wilbur V. Hubbard, San Jose State athletic director, announ ced today his . school will play Washington State college in Pull man next football season. Hub bard said, that a contract had been signed ; marking the first football meeting between two schools. The game will be played Nov. i2. . . ; High School Scores FRIDAT GAMES By UNITED PRESS Cleveland 64. Milwaukie 59 Medford 63. Grants Pass 44 Pendleton 65. La Grande 56 North Bend 62. Marshfield 57 -Ashland 49. Klamath Fall 48 Redmond 39. Bend 28 South Salem 61. Benson 48 Gresham 55, Roosevelt 39 ' Central Catholic 77. Grant 69 Columbia Prey 54.' Orwego 47 ... t Concordia 49. Hood River 46 . Eugene 46, Albany 42 -.' McMinnville 63, Tigard 26 " Beaverton 60. West-Linn 39 Cottage Grove 64. .Springfield :62 .' Hillsboro 41. Newberg 24 TReedsport 53. Taf t 50 - ".r ., . U; Junction City 71. Willamette 42 Tillamook 49, Central Union .41 i . 'Mac Hi 44, Baker 37 v Warxenton 53. Rainier 40 . - i Jewell 50. Tillamook Catholic 34 - Nyssa 37. Meridian 53 Mosier 71,-Maupin 65 -. Vernonia 69, Scappoose 61 . Oregon City 62. Forest Grove 58 - Ciatskanie 57. Neahkahnie 47 s ; Heppner 62. Ruf us 25 McKenzie 62. Lorane 32 Sweet Home 41. Lebanon 34 - Gaston 42. McLaren 37- - - Dallas 49. Mt Angel 43 Waldport 55. Toledo 42 St. Mary's of Medford 48. . Butte Falls 37. . Talent 70. Jacksonville 37 North Marion 40. Sheridan 33 Newport 43. Siuslaw 32 . Scio 53. Sublimity 45 . i St. Helens 52, Seaside 51 . Harrisburg 62. Brownsville 43 Molalla 64. Woodburn 36 Prairie City 52. Dayville 30 Prineville 43, Madras 41 Lakeview 81. Burns 80 Cascade Union 64. Gervais 61 Y Jefferson 51. St. Paul 47 Rogue River 57. Prospect 41 -1 Stayton 56. Salem Academy 32 Chemawa 70. Detroit 55 . Moro 79. Dufur'51 ; Mapleton 42. Coburg 41 Condon 63. Arlington 50 Alsea 59. Falls City 32 Heppner 62. Kufus 25 Canny 70. Stlverton 58 Dayton 66. Yamhill 36 Kermistoa 58, The Dalles 53- Shedd 64. Halsey 60 .- u . .. FOOTBALL : Senior Bowl at Mobile, Alabama Scuth 12. North 6 Ind. Order of Forresters Ed's Barber Shop Darrell Miller Co. Morgan Lumber Co, Central Market White City Sales Camp White 3 2 2 2 Norton Lumber Co. Ross Lumber Co, Results: LMiller Co. B. Wilson J. Roberts E. Lenz . B. White L. Webster (2) 577 467 470 384 384 1438" Ed's Shop (2) F. Couch- 465 E. Paschke 434 T. VanSickle 490 I. Bollinger 462 K. Johnson 604 Handicap 12 V 2467 Camp White E. Ricker : B. Findley :. R. Denning ; R. Ruf fin ; M. Ament Handicap (1) 401 458 392 , 509 523 : 18 2301 Foresters (S) J. D. Lubbers 520 C. Morrison - 490 V. Simmonds 440 J. H. Henkle 465 H. Vessey Jr. 440 2358 Red Blanket C. Epps M. Harvey. J. Longan . S. Murrey G Stewart Handicap.. -' . (4) 492 327 356 451 '429 387. 232S ( Ross Lbr. - (6) C. Heim 490 ' F. Martin - 434 D. Gilchrist 399 R. Wise 539 ; B. Forrest" ; 425 2307 Morgan Lbr. F. Chapman B, Dyer. J. Veal ... D. Chapman J.: Burroughs 471 2) 525 503 430 411 Central MM. (2) ; B. Hayman - 407 -F. Keierleber 366 X. Sommer J. Keener O. Sehulx Handicap Top Notes' H. Shaw -L. Bex . . T. MltcheS D. Harmoa J. Laden 444 - 515 523 619 ,528 S52 Norton 1) H. Allen . - 634 L. Knapp 489 P. Dorff - : 448 C. Hamnson 489 V. Allen . 593 ' - 2553 ' 390 - 433 ,.033 168 2298 ; 460 498 BOO 463 sie 73 2509 Crater Bee. 3 H, Allen 534 L. Knapp ' '. 489 P. Dorff 448 C. Hampsoa , 489 Alien. S93 3SS3 White City B. Fehl U Smith V. Calhoun Knox J. Hensoa Handicap LADIES CLASSIC LEAGUE First half of the Ladies Clas sic Bowling league has ended: with Elk Lumber company in ' first place. Jorgensen's dairy, ; Anderson Thrift market and the ' Fashionette tied for second. Max-' ine McCall celebrated her last '' night of competition for Crater- ' ian Beauty shoppe with a 213 f game and . 560 series, high in ! both departments for the final j round of the half. She is moving to Billings, Mont. Crater Inn mo tel with 856 had high team game. . .. First Halt Standings (Final) w. i 46 36 40 32 40 32 40 32 38 ?4 334 37 35 35 37 35-37 Medford Feed tc Seed - ... . 34 : 38 Morning Fresh Bakeries... 29 43 Train Creek Lumber ' 28 ' 44 - Kachina Room - - 26 . 45 Elk Lumber , , Jorgensens Dairy Andersons Thrift Mkt. Fashionette Crater Inn Motel Craterian Beauty Shoppe McDuffie Coffee Pot Marys Casa Dead line Sunday Classified Is at Cnwl.w t n . w Mondays ether days BdO previous day. Jqyvees Nab 9th in Row - It was . nine . straight victories for the Medford high junior var sity basketball, crew after Fri day night. ' - -', - ; 'The junior Tornado blasted the Grants . Pass jayvees 43 to 23. Medford piled up a 25 to 7 halftime? lead, jand the .third quarter standing was 35 to 14. Larry Perkins was high point man for the Medford team with 11. Brown got 1 0 for ; Grants Pass. Thirteen players got into the fracas for Medford. U " LINE-UPSr-VM -r 'J"-..-' Medford JV 43 23 Qranto Pass jy D. Copole 3 - f ; 10 Brown Im keep 8 . ' - 'f - ' ' "' " 2 Haugen Slessler 6 c 3 Weller Puhl 5 - g , 3 Cannon Perkins If" ' g 5 Taylor Substitutions For Medford. Haw ley 4, Gober . 4, . Francis. Plumley, Black, Sides 2. doe; for Grants Pass, Tompkins, Thomas. Austin. Sunday, January 1, 1155 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRI3U!fETinRTE2N OSC Rooks Win; No Free Throws j Corvallis U.R) - Oregon State's Rooks, led by Frank Zan iker's -14 points, downed Lower Columbia JC 59-53 here last night in a game played under an experiment which eliminated free throws and gave an auto matic point on each foul. - The experiment shortened the game considerably. The fouled team was awarded the ball out of .bounds after each foul. The banning of- players after - five personal fouls also was elimin ated with: two points to have been awarded after a player had five fouls. No one had more than five, however. ; , Sioux " City, Ja.U.R) George R. Meierstein, 76, Sioux City, former world bicycling champ ion, '- died early. Saturday in a hospital. , .. .. St, Maiy Cop JacEison B League Baskefball Sarfers Jackson - romrrr B LBAGUSi STANDINGS St. Mary's laienx Rogue River Butte Falls Jacksonville . nospect W. 1; 1 1' 0 0 Pet. 0 1.000 0 1.000 0 1.000 1 : -ooo ;1t r .000 1 .000 Potent Talent kigh rolled as expected and St. Mary's of Med ford and ; Rogue River posted teiumphs ' Friday 'night asj the Jackson v County B Basketball League began its 1955 season. ' - Talent zoomed out after, .a close iirst quarter to shellack Jacksonville 70 to 87 at Jack sonville. St. Mary's turned bick Butte ; Falls at Medford 46 to 37 and Rogue ' River whipped Prospect 57 to '41 at Prospect First quarter coujnt at Jack sonville favored the Bulldogs by a scant 14. to 12 as the home club Redskins worked the ball well. But the Jacksonville pace fell off in the second quarter and Talent had a 33 to 18 first half lead. The count was stretched to 59 to 29 in the third quarter. Jim McAbee was high scorer for Talent with 20 markers, fol lowed je by George Zickefoose with 16. Bob Gamaehlich and Harold Jordan .were tops for Jacksonville with 10 apiece. J. Lloyd Wood and Gordy Thore son got .the same number for Talent.- Zone Broken , : St.- Mary's, principally with corner' -blocks, shattered the Butte Falls zone defense, in .the second , half . . and superior v" ball handling by. Laval Meunier and Tim Dugan helped out. Butte Falls-had: leads of 8 to. 6 -at the quarter-and 20 to 19 at the half but the Crusaders pushed o& top 39 to 30 in the third panel. John -Walsh and Bob Bobbett tallied 12 and 11 points, respect ively for St. Mary's and Conley picked. up 40 for the Loggers. Rogue River headed at every intermission over Prospect with advantages of 18 to 8, 35 to 17 and 43 to 27. - Clete Dailey was high man in points for the Chief tains with 16. Ron Couser of Prospect was tops for the game with 20. . In junior varsity preliminaries Talent won 56 to 33, Prospect 46 to 40 and Butte Falls 38 to 35. Darwin Bean had a 20-point effort for Prospect. Prospect made only one out of 12 free shot tries and Rogue River 15 Small A Schools To Hold District, League Sessions letics at small Class A high schools in this area are sched uled on Wednesday. . Schools in. District 6 A-2, set up for baseball and football, are to have .representatives at an afternoon session at " Myrtle Creek. . A' Rogue league basketball District 4 Little Six division meeting will be, held in the eve ning at Crater high in Central Point. Crater, Eagle Point, Phoe nix and Illinois Valley are Rogue league members! They and Hen ley and Brookings make up the Little Six. , " out of 22. St Mary's 41 Bobbett 1 Walsh 12 '-: Miksche 8 Meunier 8 ' Dugan 6 e g 3T Butte Falls 9 Irwin - 8 Ellis 10 Conley v 8 Abbott u. . smitn g Subrtitutions Fop St Trv P itn 2. Hassler 2. Darland; for Butte Falls, D. R.-Smith 2. . Talent T Zickefoose 18 M. Wallace S McAbee 20 Wood 10 Thoreson 10 f f e 31 JackiOBvUIa - 8 Sanford 8 H. Heuners j 10 Gemaehlich .- ' , Mclntvre 10 Jordan Substitutions F o r Talent. Rav Weinhold 3. Ron Weinhold 2. Combs 4. Bartol 2: -for 'Jacksonville. Daly 2. G. Heuners 1. Guches, Bishop. Rogue River 57 Johnson 10 Daily 18 Weaver 8 Stanfield S - Morrow 8 41 Prospect :. Pope 3 J. Walls 12 Peterson Artmire 20 Couser Substitutions For - Roane River. PhiiUps 2, ThoreU 2. Moore X Tweist. Sfinchcomb 8; for Prospect. Talent. Ring. Oswald 1, Andresen 2. D. Bean 3. EMERALDS SIGN WEAVES ; Eugene UJD Dick Weaver, former Eugene high school pit cher, has been signed by the Eugene Emeralds of the new Class B Northwest League, - it was announced today. Weaver signed with the Brooklyn organ ization in 1953 but did not play because of a bad back. -,: NOVJ-i : $5CASH IN JACKPOT No Purchase Needed To Win FORTU N E S. CENTRAL A S. RIYCtSIDE . I have sold my Interest In the;EIIIott Truck I Aut Company to HAAS BROTHERS and have acquired the Security Chevrolet Company of Moscow, Idaho, hand ling Chevrolet and Oldsmobile franchises in that area. I wish to take this opportunity to express my sincere thanks for your generous patronage during the past years and urge you to extend the same friendly sup port to the new owners, Haas Brothers. ' Dan Elliott Now! 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