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riCHT MEDFORD (OREGON) TORNADO SIZZLES TO 86 TO 37 OT OVER GRANTS PASS QUINT TO GAIN LEAGUE LEADERSHIP SOUTHERN OREGOV CONFERENCE STANDINGS V Med ford . 2 Ashland .. , . 1 Klamath Falls 1 Grants Pass 0 V Vet 0 1.000 1 300 1 .500 2 .000 The roaring gale, better known is the Black Tornado and ai readv regarded ' as .Medford high's best basketball aggrega tion in many, years was perched on top the Southern Oregon Con ference standings today, the only unmarred quintet in the league. Whipping up its biggest scor ing storm in many seasons, the powerful Tornado flattened the Grants Pass Cavemen for a two game series sweep Saturday. The score was an astounding 86 to 37. It made the 63 to 44 Friday night Medford hurricane seem a oaltrv breeze. So far as can be recalled,, the bulging total was largest run up in Coach Frank Roelandt's five seasons at the Medford helm and . I t L - - v.. ...... HA4 Xne Dlggest m ycaia uy ii j ford team. It was the worst pasting suffered by a Grants Pass high club in a good long time., - . Victory for Medford came as Klamath Falls was - trimming Ashland 63 to 41 to earn a series split with the Grizzlies, who won -' Friday' 49 to 48. Result was to tie Klamath and Ashland for second place in the . first week end's standings and to nush the defending champion Cavemen into the cellar. Proficient and. more than suf , ficient in most every department, Medford found the "going hard for most of one half of the Satur day encounter as Grants Pass seemed sharper than on the prev ious night. The Cavemen gaye every appearance of making it a battle all the way. Count was knotted twice and the lead switched hands three times before Medford garnered a 20 to 16 quarter lead. The Cave men were within .striking dis tance until the last two min utes of the half when jump shots, long and 'close by "Bud; Kastner, fast break -buckets by Frank Rector and -Larry Copple arid a pair of free heaves by.Glenn Pet- erson . pulled Medford, to a,15- point 42 to 27. halfway, margin. Shots Missd y' ; v Aieaiora missed a good num ber of shots in the third quarter, a number of them tip in flurries under the bucket but still had command sufficient to outscore o the Cavemen 17 to 8 .for a 59 Ft 4 Off 3 : . i 41 1 -J r . I I period. F . r , . . Final quarter 'saw, the "boiling .Tornado run up' 27. points on seven field goal's and -13 free 1 4 L "I . n J . . uui5 wmie iranis jrass got a meager : two markers on free heaves, both in the closing min utes. - Reserves of both teams Ss finished out the fracas. Med ford had four reserves in' with 4V minutes yet to play in the mix and a complete, reserve unit the last three minutes. -' Grants Pass substitutes saw "duty the last half i of the final auarter. . Fifteen Cavemert andt 12 Med- fordites played. The Tornado's ; higher. . degree of polish, great SDeedf ine ball- i in i ' , . . xidiiuiiug, snarper snooting ana control of the ball paid off in the ' triumph. Medford's fast break sizzled at times and, when Eagle Point Slaps Talent agle Point Eagle Point high basketeers evened the score for a previous setback" Saturday night with a 47 to 30 triumph over; a cold Talent Bulldog crew. . The clubs were even in back board work with 35 retrieves each but from the field the Eagles shot 20 in 51 attempts for a .392 average while Talent flipped in only nine in 50 tries for a J 80 record. Nelson was high scorer for the Eagles with 17 and Bill Cald well got 12. Jack Greb of Eagle Point and George Zickefoose and Mel Wallace of Talent each put in 10. - - in the previous meeting . at Talent in December, the Bull dogs won 57 to 37. Eagle Point also won the Sat- urday junior varsity mix, 37 to 28. tlNE-UPS: Eagle Point 47 Nelson 17 Christian 3 . Caldwell 12 Greb 10 . Tuttle ' .30 Talent 10- Zickefoose 10 M. Wallace 4 McAbee f t c K It 3 Wood 3 Thoreson Substitutions-:-For Eagle Point: Bit terling 1. Cave. Mason. Wyatt. Friend 4; for Talent: Ron Weinhold. Hoffman. Grade Leagues Open This Week Medford grade school -basket ball teams begin league activity this week. Both junior varsities and varsities will contend. Junior, varsity play, starts first with games on Tuesday. Roose velt will go to Lincoln and Wash ington to Jaekson. " c Varsity games will be on Thursday through the season. This week it will be Lincoln at Roosevelt and Jackson at Wash ington. ' Dead line for Sunday Classified lj at noon Saturday. 1 MAIL TRIBUNE the Cavemen defense was set, the pear city gang was able to hit from long range or work the ball in deftly for close in shots. Glenn Peterson witn 14 re bounds and Jerry Kalapus with 13 helped Medford clear the boards 39 to 23 and the Tornado had possession of . the ball the biggest percentage of the time. Discounting tip in misses, Med ford sans Detter tnan 50 per cent of its field shots, 31 out of 60. Grants Pass got only 14 field goals and Medford was tops at the free line, 24 to 9. Balance in scoring was an other feature. Copple got 18 and Kalapus 17. Kastner, not usual ly a heavy scorer but highly ef fective as a feeder and defender, picked up 13 counters,-as did Rector.- Raleigh Burr, more ef fective with his whirling iumo shot from -the -key than on Fri day, led Grants Pass with 12 poims ana iouiea out witn six minutes left to play. Reid scored 11 for the Cavemen. Reid got the first point of the game on a free shot but Kalapus hit close in and Rector from far out for a 4 to 1 Medford lead. Jay Reese cut it to 4 to 3 but Medford worked the ball in close to Kalapus for 6 to 3. Copple added a fielder on a break fol lowing a dump ball and Rector put in a free one for 9 to 3. urants rass tied it with a hook by Burr and longies by Reid and Don James. Rector sank a long jumper for Hi to 9 for Medford." Reid hit from far out to deadlock. the mix again. Reese got a charity1 toss for a 12 to 11 Caveman advantage but with 2V2. minutes left in the quarter- Kastner flipped in a long one-hander for 13 to 12. Medford led the rest of the way. When reserves took over in the fourth quarter it was Bob Tisdel who was the Medford cog as the Cavemen had trouble even with 'their ! free shooting. Tisdel picked up two field goals and three free shots to head the finishing crew in scoring. , Copple and Kalapus each had Red Raiders Defeat OCE By UNITED PRESS With a total of 31 points piled up by Don Porter, Linfield col lege Saturday night downed Wil lamette university 72-69 in Northwest conference basketball play. That gave Linfield a split series with the -Bearcats who won Friday night 80-69. In Caldwell, Idaho, the Col lege of .Idaho made it . two straight over Lewis and Clark in another conference game, beating the Pioneers 60-41. The College of Idaho cagers were victorious over the invaders the night before, too downing the Pioneers 84-69. - Badgers Roll On In the Oregon collegiate con ference. Southern Oregon spilled Oregon College of Education, 87- 78, for its fourth conference vic tory." In Seattle, despite a late rally Eastern Oregon College of Edu cation was taken by .Seattle Pa cific, 72-69. The unbeaten Pacific Badgers made a sweep of their Northwest conference series with Whitman in Walla Walla, Saturday, 76-64 It was their 11th straight victory of the season. Friday the Badg ers downed Whitman 68-55. . BASKETBALL SATURDAY COLLEGE GAMES: East Temple 58 Lehigh 43 . LaSalle 102 Brandeis 56 Pennsylvania 83 Princeton 75 Dayton 59 Villanova 52 Niagara 85 St. Bona venture 61 Notre Dame 93 NYU 74 -Boston Univ. 73 Army 70 Holy Cross 102 Boston College 63 Harvard 59 Brown 55, Colgate 77 Hobart 63 Columbia 72 Yale 56 - Cornell 70 -Dartmouth 66 St. Francis Pa.) 82 Duquesne 72 l Fordham-71 Rutgers 65 . Penn State 84 Navy 64 Seton HaU 84 Loyola (Md. 71" " Manhattan 84 St. Peters 75 Syracuse 92 Sampson AFB 77 South .. .. Georgia Tech 59 Kentucky 58 Alabama 70 Mississippi 59 - .Carnegie Tech 70 West Virginia 69 .- Maryland 71 Clemson 63 N. Carolina State 96 Duke 91 Tulane 35 Florida 74 Furman 154 The Citadel 67 . Richmond 72 .George Washington 67 lieorgla 76 LSU 70 North Carolina 95 Wake Forest -78 Vanderbilt 73 Tennessee 69 - Virginia 106 VMI 84 Western Kentucky 71 Murray St 70 Midwest Marquette 97 Bradley 73 . Kansas State 78 Iowa State 77 Minnesota 81 Iowa 80 Michigan 88 Ohio State 81 Missouri 69 Nebraska 57 . ." Purdue 78 Northwestern 77 Detroit 62 Oklahoma A&M 5 . Southwest Wichita 78 Houston 67 - Texas-A&M -62 Arkansas 59 - - -- - -- Southern Methodist 76 Rice 67 ' . Tulsa 71 Oklahoma City. 68. . . . Colorado 61 Oklahoma 55, . . . Utah 69 New Mexico 39 Baylor ,85 Texas 67 ' . ' J ' West Brigham Young 90 Denver 68 Idaho 52 Washington 44 Colo.-Western 85 Colo.Coll:-53 Idaho State 71 Montana State 57 UCLA 91 Stanford 75 USC 81 California 65 : Pepperdine 95 Portland 74 " Oregon State 56 Wash, State 52 Wyoming 65 Utah State 60 Colorado St. 92 Colo. Mines 43 Colorado A&M 75 Montana 58 Col. of Ida. 60 Lewis and Clark 41 OSC Rooks 70 LCJC 53 Linfield 72 Willamette 69 Pacific 76-Whitman 64 Oregon -Teeh - 50 Shasta JC ' 45 - - S. Oregon 87 OCE 78 Seattle-Pacific 72 OC 68 - Monday, January 10. 1955 eight, field goals for Medford, Copple getting his on a variety of fast break, hook, long and jump - shots. Kalapus potted three on feeds, three on tips and one on a pusher. Rector, like Copple gox his six with variety. Peterson put in seven out of 10 free shots. .. While to some fans the GP victories could have seemed the Tornado ultimate; Coach Roe- landt indicated that the Med fordites will .work on continued improvement. Defense work this week will be toned toward meet ing Ashland's anticipated of fense. The Tornado goes against Ashland here Friday, and there Saturday.' . -, BOX: Medford fg Kastner. f v4 Foust, f .... . . 1 Kalapus, c x . ... 8 L Copple. z 8 Rector, g .. 6 Peterson . 1 ' McCull'ough i 0 McLaughlin . ... 0 , ft pf tp a 1 1 2 1 : 7, 2 3 13 0 2 4 2 1 0 1 1 0 1 2 0 Tisdel . 23 Cochran 0 0 Ueakins Reinking ... 31 24 86 Grants Pass Reese, f Drews, f fg ft pf tp 2 .... 0 .. 5 .. 4 1 2 1 3 0 2 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 5 1 3 2 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 Burr, c . Reid. g James, g Eriekson Mendenhall .' Hayes 1 Winger Bernet : , Davis , .. Nevi Henderson Hermann ... Brickel 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 9 21 . 37 Trojans Eye Tiffs With UCLA Crew By NORMAN RITTER United Press Sports Writer Southern . California looked forward to a rugged series with UCLA and Oregon State started preparations for Washington, to day, after an opening weekend of Pacific Coast Conference play that saw both defending division champs make strong bids to re peat in 1955. - 'Forrest Twogood's Trojans, last year's; NCAA reeional champs but only mediocre per formers in preseason play this year, started fast with a pair of wins over highly rated Califor nia. They move into Westwood's roundly criticized "crackerbox" Friday for a crucial series with the Bruins, who split with Stan f ard over the weekend. Feature Engagements . The feature engagement in the Northwest finds . Oregon State hosting the dark horse Huskies Friday and Saturday in Gill Coliseum. The tall Beavers, with Wade (Swede) Halbrook back in action but scoring only modest ly, appeared to. have recovered from their disastrous Decem ber as they hammered, out a twin win over Washington State in their inaugural loop series. Huskies-Idaho Split The Huskies have a 1-1 league mark after splitting with, Idaho. Other PCC action this week end finds Stanford and Califor nia in a two game home-and-home series " that opens . Friday in Berkeley and Oregon at Idaho. - .- , A fast week of California Bas ketball Association play begins tonight with St... Mary's, " loser in two league starts, tangling with Santa Clara (1-1) in the San Jose Auditorium, and University of - San Francisco playing San Jose State in San - Francisco's Kezar Pavilion. -". : - Court May Rule Today on Boxing . Washington ' (U.RX.-- The Su preme Court may decide today whether big time boxing can' be regulated by the federal govern ment; ::..,.v-;i.. The high court meeting at noon,- (EST) after a one-month recess, may hand down a ruling in the government's anti-trust suit against the International Boxing clubs of New York and Chicago. Boxing czar James D. Norris, Arthur M. WirtzY and the Madison Square Garden Corp.,. own 80 per cent of the two clubs. -; - . The ruling would decidewhe- uier Doxing. uniiKe nroiessionai baseball is in ' interstate " com merce and, subject ... -to federal laws against monopoly and re straint of trade. High School Scores SATURDAY GAMES: , Central Catholic 55 Lincoln 38 " Wy'Sast 51 White Salmon 35 Klamath falls 63 Ashland 41 . Culver .60, St. Marys (The, Dalles) 47 . Roseburff 49 Reeds port 42 Richland 38 Huntington 26 Moro 47 Cascade Locks 38 ' Tillamook 58 Parkrose'50 ,vV Stanfield! 60 Pilot Rock 43 : Hood' River 66 The Dalles 65 : Medford 86 Grants Pass 37 La Grande 34 Mac-Hi 25 v Trout Lake 65 Condon 60 - Bend 51 Madras 40 Burns 72 Grant Union 67 . Bandon 69 Pleasant Hill 65 Harrisburg 41 Monroe 40 . Sisters 48 Maupin 35 ' North Bend 64 Marshfield 57 . Lakeview 70 Alturas. Calif. 37 ---Springfield 60 St. Francis-54 ' St. Helens 75 Franklin 68 K. Salem 52 Cleveland 60 MEDFOaiviiTRlBUMI SLPCDDBTTS OSC Sweeps WSC Series; Webfoots Take on Cougars Eugene u jj The Univet- sity . of Oregon takes on Wash ington State's ' Cougars tonight in their first meeting of the 1955 Northern division basketball season at McArthur court. The two teams will meet again to morrow night. , Washington State took a two game beating by Oregon State Friday and Saturday nights and Oregon earlier split with .the Cougars 1-1 at Pullman. . t . Corvallis -4U.R) The ; Oregon State Beavers pulled a close game out of the fire in the sec ond half Saturday night to de feat the Washington State cage squad 56-52. That made it , two in a row for the Beavers who Friday night had a ; 7058 edge over the Cougars. The Cougars had the defend ing Northern : Division champs tied up three times in the' first Collegians Thump Pros In Hula Bowl Honolulu OJ.R) - The all around performance of Colora do's winged footed Carroll Hardy received most of the cred it today for the College football All-Stars surprisingly easy 33 13 victory over the pro-studded Hawaii All-Stars in the - ninth annual Hula bowl. Carroll gave way to his back field ' mates in the scoring de partment. But his faultless run ning "through the weak Hawaii line and his long range punting, which averaged more than 50 yards in four boots, earned him the Governor's cup as the game's outstanding player. Larson' Pilots California's 7 stellar : quarter back, Paul Larson, piloted the collegian attack and accounted for three touchdowns to lead the scoring parade. He set up another touchdown with a 40 yard pass to Berkeley teammate, Jim Hanifan. UCLA's Primo-Vil- lanueva ploughed over from the three for the score. .Dick Moegle of Rice put the college stars out in front in the opening period with a -"scoring plunge from the one yard line. The play was set up by a 24 yard run by Hardy. - - Villanueva scored in the sec ond period and then Larscn took over. ; SNEAD TRIUMPHS Miami Beach, Fla. i (U.R) , There was bad news today for all the . professionals on golf's tournament trail . Sammy Snead's back is better. The veteran'White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., long-ball hitter proved it by winning first prize in the one-day McNaughton Pro-Ama- ture Golf tournament Sunday. ; PATTY WINNER Paris, France (U.R) Budge Patty of Los Angeles turned back Wimbledon champion Jaro slav Droby of Egypt, 11-9, 6-2, 12-10, yesterday to win the men's singles crown in the Pierre Gil- lou tennis tournament. Angela Buxton of Great Britain defeat ed France's Susan Chatrier, 6-4, 6-1, in the -women's final. 6,000 AT HOOD ; Government Camp (U.R) More than 6000 snow enthusi asts enjoyed the clear skies and two inches of fresh snow in the Mt. Hood winter sports area for the second straight weekend, ac cording to Forest Service Rang er, Jim Ralph. . ' , Bowling ROGUE VALLEY LEAGUE Standings , W Royal Club ......... 3 Hoopers Radiator Service 3 Star Body Works . 3 Shoe Dogs 3 Lamport . 2 Continental Lumber Co. 2 Lorenz Co. j Pine Tree Market 1 Kom-Pak. Trailers 1 State Forest Patrol ' 1 L 1 1 1 1 2 ' 2 3 3 3 3 Shoe Docs 3 . W Eberius 443" D Kline . 413 B Wright ...; 360 E Floate 460 D Wunderlich 473 Handicap 135 2284 Kom-Pak I A Andrew .. 388 C Birchfield ..532 B Thornton 365 L Moser 401 H Frye 559 2243 Forest Patrol 1 B Van Hoy 376 H Smets 378 H Brock 466 J B radish 436 T Maul 411 Handicap 141 Star Body J T Mitchell 557 H Gegner 468 C Emery . 452 D Graham 441 L. Graham 453 2198 2371 Pine Tree 1 L Bex F Martin J Henkle S Mallon D Kreer Handicap Royal CIna 3 . B Fehl 553 L Smith . . 440 C Hampson 549 I Bollinger 442 F Knox 419 501 , 441 383 390 474 .141 .2330 2403 Hooper's D Lewis D Burns . B Slead G Dayoa H Vallee . Lorena c. 1 , - 454 C McWhorter 452 - 462 J Mathes 464 - 441 ! W Gottfried 338 -- 523 D McCormack. 502 - 571 B Tye 408 Handicap 144 2451 ; . 2308 Lamport's 2 B Piche .., 567 B Meyers 493 B Coy . 442 S Van Dyke ..473 J Farrar - 480 Continental 2 ; H AUeri 486 - S Van Sickle 506 - E Isaacs . 437 L Knapo 504 . V Allen 479 Handicap -..-.-9 3435 half and worked up a lead which they kept until half time when the score stood at 31-26. Cougars Lead'" .' 4- 'v-'. Starting the secopd half, the Cougars piled up a 38-30 lead when Ronnie Bennink made two free throws on a foul by . Jay Dean. Then Oregon State start ed whittling : down the margin and finally took the lead, 46-45, when Larry Paulus " went ." the full length of the floor for a lay-in. " High point. man for the game was Washington State's Ronnie Bennink with 14. He was fol lowed by Oregon State's tall Wade (Swede) Halbrook with 13. Gene Littler Triumphs in LA Golf Open Inglewood, Calif. U.R) Little Gene Littler, voted by fellow professionals as "the man most likely to succeed," today credited exceptional luck with his chipping irons for his vic tory Sunday in the $32,500 Los Angeles open golf tournament. .. Gene, 24-year-old former na tional amateur champion from Palm Springs, Calif., whipped the best, the world has to offer in. the way of golf competition as he shot his, third consecutive sub-par round Sunday and came in with a 276 total for 72 holes. "I chipped in three shots from as far away as 60 feet during this tournament," said Gene. "That's more than I chipped in all last year." Kroll Second , How important those . chips were is shown in the final stand ings: Gene - won by only two strokes over veteran Ted Kroll of Bethesda, Md. 1 Following Kroll in the money standings came veteran Johnny Bulla of Pittsburgh, Pa., who made one of his best showings as he came in with a.279. Kroll collected $2780 for second and Bulla S2100 for third; There was a three-way tie for fourth place at 280 between Ul rich, Rochester, Minn., Johnny Palmer, Charlotte, N.C., and Doug Ford, -Kiamesha - Lake, N.Y. They each collected $1,300. Los Angeles: (U.R) Ore gori's amateur entries in the Los Angeles Open golf tournament finished well down the line with a 76 yesterday for a total of 307. ::r'--:-i,y,::.,. Ralph Dichter of Gearhart wound up with a 308. JV Cagers Skid By GP Junior varsity ' hoopmen of Medford high still had their un blemished record intact today but - only after a " close call at Grants Pass Saturday night. The junior Tornado which had sailed over the Grants Pass jay- vees with comparative ease on Friday, found the going rough er Saturday and skidded by with a 30 to 26 decision in the pre liminary to the varsity battle in the climate city. It was the 10th victory of the year for the Med ford quintet. Stalling Helps Medford utilized a stall the last five minutes of the mix-up to stabilize and achieve the win. The jayvees from Medford had a 24 to 20 margin at one time but saw GP pull in front 26 to 24. Richard Puhl put tnrougn a shot that knotted the game. Larry' Gober put Med ford on top 28 to 26 and, after the Tornado had lost the ball once and then recovered, Puhl passed into Larry Perkins who dunked in the clincher. - urants Pass was on top at half time 16 to 15. Charles Inskeep and Gober for Medford and Brown for Grants Pass each got seven points for the scoring honors. LINE-UPS: Medford JV 39 -26 G. Pass JV D Copple 2 f ' 7 Brown Inskeep 7 f 6 Haugen Slessler 2 e - 5 Weller Puhl 4 g 3 Cannon Perkins 4 g 5 Taylor Substitutions For Medford. Hawley 4. Gober 7; Sides; for Grants Pass: Green. USE THE SERVICES OF "Safe Repair Experts and Consultants" The Portland Safe Company 332 S.W. 11th Ave., Portland Will be doing bank work here SATURDAY, JAN. 8th Through TUES., JAN. 11th Contact: Mr. Clifford Hunt, eo First Nat. . Bank of Port land, Saturday and Sunday. Either new or old branch. Monday and Tuesday, old branch only! - -" .--. Rogue Loop Will Start This Friday i Play opens this week in south ern Oregon's newest high school basketball conference and con tinues in two others. It's the Rogue League- 'which has its inaugural with Illinois Valley at Phoenix and Eagle Point against Crater at Central Point on Friday; Crater will go to Eagle Point on Saturday while Phoenix travels to Cave Junc tion to meet Illinois Valley again. , . . , The " four schools were mem bers of the JDJ league which disbanded at the end of last school year. Myrtle Creek and Glendale, JDJ members, went into the Umpqua league. Eagle Point . is-the favorite as the Rogue circuit opens. Crater, Il linois -Valley and Myrtle Creek knotted for the JDJ toga last year.: - '" Schools of the' Rogue league technically are members of the Southern Oregon conference which includes the Big Four, Ashland, Medford, Grants. Pass and Klamath Falls. All eight plus Henley and Brookings are in Class A, .District 4. Rogue loop tussles, as now set up, have no bearing in the district title race. A Little Six tourney, in cluding Brookings and Henley, and set for March 24, 25 and 26, will determine the division winner which will play the Big Four champion. Details of the Little Six play-off are to be set up at a meeting Wednesday at Central Point. J '. Crater, idle since December 30, warms up for the conference with a non-league game against Rogue River at ' Central Point on Tuesday night. The Comets won 'an earlier, fray from the Chiefs. ; In the. Southern Oregon con ference Big Four this week end Medford s powerful Black Tor nado plays Ashland. Tussles will be here on Friday and at Ash land on Saturday. Grants Pass will go to Klamath Falls, i . Jackson County B- league struggles are Prospect at Jack sonville, St. Mary's at Talent and Butte Falls at Rogue River. Ashland Ashland's Grizzlies without the services of back board ace Jim Sutherline were a match for Klamath Falls for only one quarter Saturday" night and the Pelicans won the South ern .Oregon , conference-. . prep hoop encounter 63 to 41 to split the series. The Grizzlies won 49 to 48 oh Friday. . -.. ";-' Sutherliri suffered a locked knee - getting up off a daveno Saturday afternoon and was un able to 9 play; He was at ; the game on crutches. : Without him the Ashland defense couldn't stand up to the Klamath attack. ; The Pels had quarterly: spreads of 17 to 16, 30 to 20 and 48 to 32. LINE-UPS: Klamath 63 Munsell 16 YarneU 2 D'Ollvo 20 , Sunitsch 8 ' Causey 8 . 41 Ashland 6 Baker 2 Sword 12 Parent 9 Johnson f f c K g 4 Mickle Substitutions For Klamath: Todd 4. People 1, Perkins 2. Blanchard 2; for Ashland: Carter 2, Schultz 1. Lemley 6. GARCIA FAVORED New. York (U.R) Muscular Rudy Garcia - of, Los t Angeles, fourth -. ranking"; featherweight contender, ; starts his drive - to night for a 1955 shot at the 126 pound crown by meeting slick Bobby Bell of Youhgstown, O., in a TV 10-rounder at Brook lyn's Eastern parkway arena. . Green Bay, Wis. U.R) Clay to n - Tonnemaker,, 1954 Green Bay ' Packer captain and line backer, has retired from professional ball. (pro) DDdD l-DD Kentucky V Streak Ended By Upstart Georgia Tech By JOHN GRIFFIN United, Prfss Sports Writer To a . basketball world com pletely flabbergasted by Ken tucky's streak-smashing loss to Georgia Tech in one of the great est upsets of all time, ; disap pointed Coach Adolph Rupp ad mitted today, "It was no fluke." Nothing could have amazed court fans any more than Sat urday night's final score at Lex ington, Ky. Georgia Tech 59, Kentucky 58.- Joe Helms, smallest man on the Tech team, pulled the trig ger on the upset when he stole the ball' with only seconds left, dribbled in and let fly with a push shot that swished through the basket with three seconds left to play. At one stunning stroke, the basket smashed Ken tucky "records of 32 straight vic tories over a two-year span, sev en short of the all-time record; 129 straight home victories over an 11-year span; and an unbeat- Yellow Cab; Trims Yreka 74-61 Medford's Yellow Cab bask etball quint, " with some . scoring zip at the finish and much need ed at that, defeated the Yreka All-Stars 74 ; to 61 in an inde pendent scrap Saturday night at the St. Mary's gym here. The Cabbies were ahead at every intermission but their margin was only a slim 60 to 59 at one time in the fourth quar ter. Then Ed Hummel, Don Har ris and Johnny Foster clicked to help the Medford team pull away. . The members of the Medford Independent league hope to ex tend their conquests further to night at Myrtle Creek where they plav the Firmco team. Yel low Cab has a league encounter with Skinners here on Wednes day night and next Saturday will vie in what may be the top scuf fle on the local independent scene this season. Martin Bro thers Sign, company, . Eugene, will meet the Cab team at the St. Mary's gym.- - -l :1 A good many, fans here saw the Eugene crew win the state AAU title two years ago when it carried the Everybody's Drug standard. The club successfully defended its title last year. , Playing before a crowd of 80 to 100 people, Yellow Cab had margins at the quarters of 13 to 6, 33 to 23 and 48 to 43 in the Yreka brush. MacGregor of Yreka piled up 32 points. Fost er , got 22 and Hummel 21 for the Cabbies. LINE-UPS: Yellow Cab 74 Hummel 21 Foster 22 . kV-1 Stacy 4 Wendt 11 1 Yreka f , t c . 5 Clark Bradbory 10. Sherman 32 MacGregor g Z Werner 2 ' snaveiy Substitutions For Yellow Cab: Hite' 5. Johnson. Harris' 9. Bernheisel, Moore: for Yreka: Parham.14. Faso- letti, Hodsen. r -. Northwest Loop Now Organized Yakima (U.R) The North west Baseball league, successor to- the defunct Western Interna tional league, has been officially organized. The league was tentatively or ganized Saturday -as a seven- team circuit. 'President Arthur H. Pohlman of : Wenatchee was instructed to attempt to obtain an eighth team within the next two weeks. ' ; r Opening date of the Northwest league is scheduled for April 26 to run through Labor day. . Teams in the league include Wenatchee, ' Yakima, Tri-City, Salem, ' Lewiston," Ida., and Eu gene. -, ATT HTHIIE LLfL en string of 70 games over a 15-year span at home against Southeastern conference foes. Tech Record Poor : The Engineers had a 2-22 rec ord last year, 2-4 this year, and only two nights before had been . beaten by Sewanee. Moved Jo Early Lead Kentucky moved to an early seven-point lead but Tech caught up at 16-16 and led at halftime, 26-23. Tech led through most of the second half but Kentucky gained the lead with less than two minutes to play, setting the stage ' for the stun ning climax. Kentucky's downfall over shadowed two other surprises that would have been "shock ers" on another night Duqwes ne's 82-72 loss to St. Francis of Pennsylvania,,: and Richmond's 72-67 triumph over George Washington. v Kentucky's 1 o s s also stole the - headlines from Furman's 154-67,- victory over Citadel believed by the NCAA to be the greatest score ever run up by one; major, college against an other. Darrell, Floyd, Furman's "new Frank Selvy," scored 50. ix Tips Rogue River Phoenix Phoenix high scored its second verdict of the season', over the Rogue River high basketball club, tripping the Chieftains 50 to 43 here Sat urday. The . Pirates had won -a Tuesday tilt 56 to 50. It was a slow starting game and both teams shot poorly. Phoenix was in front throughout with quarterly spreads of 10 to 6, 29 to 19 and 43 to 30. Charles Wall, a led "without a great deal of experience, play ed an outstanding game for Phoenix. Clete Daily stood out for his rebounding; ;andi floor game for the Chiefs and'; Ted Stanfield and Gary" Johnson came through in good style, al though Johnson -was . rather ef fectively guarded by the Pirate's Jim Korth., ; . ,- - Phoenix shot at a .211 average from" the field and the Rogue River mark was 1245 I LINE-UPS: : Phoenix 51 Bean 10 ,. Madden 10 43 Roma River 12 Stanfield : - 9 Johnson - 10 Daily " Stinchcomb r f c Z' I Wall 11 Dahl 6 ' Korth 9 z 3 Moore Substitutions -For Phoenix: Oldham 2, Cocks. Vreeken 3: for Rogue River: Tweist 8. Morrow, Phillips. Glass Co. CX$)V (fit i ' Windshields curved & flat Plate Glass Window Glass - We Accept Insurance' Claims - i . . . -. 303 N. Bartlett DRIVE-IN SERVICE Phone 3-3613. r J 2421
